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THE WEEKLY dOXSTITTJTIOX, OCTOBE1! 11. 1S8I.
THE CONSTITUTION.
Entered at the Atlanta Post-office as second-class
matter, November 11,1878.
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ATLANTA, GA.,OCTOBER'11, 180.
A bow tlierntnmctcr threatens us front the
north. We arc used to the cold shoulder front
that quarter. ???
I/inn IIuffkrin lias induced the porte to
scud a medical commission to examine into
the causes of the plague along the route to
Mecca.
THE CONSTITUTION OF WEDNESDAY. I over a joke which he probably heard away off
The Constitution of Wednesday consisted I in the woods? Have you observed that the
of 32 full pages, and was the largest paper ever I cows start home earlier, and that they have
printed in the southern states, and probably I acquired a habit- of looking back over their
the largest ever printed in America. 1 shoulders in an inquiring way? Has it oc-
Tlie New York Herald???s greatest achieve- curred to you that the horses and mules which
ment in the line of extra sheets was a septu- I look at you from over the lot fence have a
pic number of 2d pages or 108 columns. Of more critical expression than of vore? Ilere-
tliese 102 were advertising columns and Of I tofore they have had the non-committal aspect
readingcolumns. Wednesday???s Constitution I of those who would like to inquire the time
was ail octuple sheet of 32 pages and 10G I of day in a disinterested way; but now it is
columns. Of these there were aiiout 151 solid I difficult to predict what comment they will
columns of advertising and 42 columns of make when you are out of hearing. The un
reading matter. The white paper used in this I certainty is uncomfortable, especially to a
one edition was over8,000 pounds ormorc than practical man. Have you noticed that the
4 tons, more than twice as much paper as is I pigeons have a tendency to fly higher
used in a single edition of the London Times. I than ever, and that the ground-squir-
In this paper there were 1,274,000 ems of type, I rel is pretty certain to be sunning
or 2,584,000 pieces of type if set solid in non- I himself on the fence when the clock
pariel as it is measured. There were in this strikes four? /We make these iwj^uiries not
one day???s issue 700,000 separate pages or 350,-1 witli the hope of eliciting any reties, but in
000 separate sheets. These sheets placed end- I order to call your attention to somt/i of the
wise to each other would stretch out 700,000 I practical affairs that mark the culiaflation of
feet, 230,000 yards, or over 104 miles, lining the seasons. The phenomena whiojr wc have
the entire distance from our office to that of 1 indicated are well known to practical men
the Macon Telegraph with Coxsrmrnoxs of I and children, and those who have not ob-
year, accompanied by one of his daughters, he
spent a couple of months in Colorado.where he pur
chased a huge sheep ranch (some 30,000 acres) (or one
of his sons, whom lie placed on it. The young
man???s health had not been good, and the lather
thought that the clear, pure, bracing air of Colorado
would be just the thing (or him. This summer the
earl came again, with ills oldest son and hereditary
heir, laird Ogilry. He visited the Tennessee colony,
and then travelled to Colorado to insjiect the estate
there. On his return to England, last year, he pub
fished n series of papers in the Nineteenth Century
on the agricultural resources of our western
country.
IN GENERAL.
Ox to ???Atlanta??? and ???Yorktown,??? is now
the cry from Maine to Mexico. It heralds a I one day???s printing and still having a mile or served them and turned them to good ao
movement in which patriotism and practical! so to spare with which to tic a knot at each I count, are the veriest dreamers and vision-
jHilitics are delightfully mixed. National joy
at Yorktown and national development at
Atlanta.
The cold wave from the north created fros
as far south as North Carolina, and on the
mountains even into Georgia. The Blue Ilidge
was frosted from end to end. Considerable
damage was done to the tobacco in Virginia,
and the late cotton of the Piedmont region is
reported to be injured.
It was a common remark that we bad no
spring this year???that we jumped at once out
of the frosts of winter into the heat of sum
mer. The latter part of the year promises us
be equally remarkable. October finds to
prospering with midsummer heat, and craving
ice water at a season when we usually have
our first frosts. The phenomena indicates
sonic derangement of the forces of nature.
Ur to October 1 the number of immigrants
lauded at Castle Garden this year was 342,010,
an increase of about thirty per cent over last
year. These immigrants soon acquire politi
cal power, and in this respect it might be
better to say that three congressmen have
come over the seas this year and located in
the northern states. And yet there are people
who say that the soutli can get along without
immigrants.
The pope has expressed satisfaction over
the Irish land act. This together with the
action of the Catholic bishops of Ireland
ought to have and doubtless will have great
weight with the Irish people. The era of vi
olence has probably been passed; and if the
suffering people will go to work to get all the
relief they can from tlie land act, and to bring
out all the capabilities of the green isle, peace
and prosperity may yet he in store for them.
They certainly deserve both, and Mr. Glad
stone has as certainly tried to place both with
in their reach.
The reports from the United/Statcs circuit
and district courts now in session'in this city
show many convictions for illicit distilling or
removal of spirituous liquor. Conviction
seems to be the rule, and acquittal the very
rare exception, in cases of this character.
This faet ought to convince offenders against
the revenue laws of the certainty of punish
ment, now that the government has evidently
an effective system of espionage and appre
hension. It is to be hoped that they will take
warning from the almost uniform result of
these trials. At the same time we trust that
the president of the United States will, in
generous response to the petition of the legis
lature of Georgia, extend executive clemency
to the unfortunate men under sentence.
Tins is about the only civilized country
that insists on making the farmers fence
against their own stock. The folly of this
plan Is shown in a recent census bulletin.
Tiiis bulletin shows that the cost of maintain
ing and repairing fences in Georgia in the
year 1873, amounted to $1,823,052; in Ala
bama to $1,402,009, and in South Carolina to
$917,000. These figures represent the annual
lax that is levied on account of fences. The
fences cost more than the state governments.
The value of the fences in Georgia is put at
$18,250,230. We have no data to hand to
help us out. hut we hazard nothing in saying
that the cattle, horses, mules, sheep and
swine of the state are not worth the amount
it costs to restrain them. We need all the
live stock we have and much more, hut there
is certainly no need of the fences that have
nothing to commend them cxceptjcustom.
It is really of little consequence whether a
democrat or a republican is elected president
pro tempore of the United States senate, so
far as a possible succession to the presidency
is involved; for existing statutes of the United
States provide that a president protein.of the
senate, if made president of the United States,
shall lioUl the office only until a president can
he chosen at a special election, and provision
is made for the holding of the sjiecial election
at an early day. If, therefore, the democrats
of the United States senate have the strength
and determine to exercise their right to elect
the president pro tern., the choice should be
made rather with a view to liis capacity as a
presiding officer than to his claims to a con
tingent succession to the presidency of the
United States for a brief period.
There is talk of a conflict of claim between
tlie United States and Great Britain in regard
to what has heretofore been known as Wran
gle Land, which lies away up between tbe
75th and SOtli degrees of north latitude. It is
probably not as valuable as Alaska, the value
of which, like its climate, is about one hun
dred degrees below zero. Nevertheless a dif
ficulty about the ownership is reported to be
brewing. Captain Hooper lias hoisted the
United States flag on it and taken possession
of it in the name of our government. Great
Britain has heretofore set up a claim on tlie
ground of its discovery many years ago by
Captain Wrangle, of tbe British navy, after
whom it was named. But it is said that
Wrangle never even saw the land, much less
did he ever take possession of it. He had
reports and found indications of its existence
but couhl not reach it. Subsequently Captain
Kennett, also of tlie British navy, saw it, but
did not land on it. Captain Hooper has given
it the name of New Columbia, but if any
trouble grows out of the conflicting, claims,
the old name would seem to be more appro
priate.
end. If the cylinder of our press which print- aries that walk the earth. They should be
ed this vast edition had been rolled in a con-1 captured, labeled and put on exhibition at
tinuous line, it would have passed beyond the fair grounds.
Chicago Iieforc it had finished its work. Vhe unitie^hld not fie preserved if the demo
rhcHe are some statistics of our jwij>erj of I eratic* faiiletl to fall into a jower over the
Wednesday. Better than all otiier calculations | proper course to pursue in organizing the senate,
we calculate that it was entirely worthy of At
lanta, and of the day that it commemorated.
THE FIRST WEEK OF THE EXPOSITION.
The exposition has had three days of trial.
While it is entirely incomplete as yet, enough
has been seen to demonstrate that it will be
a brilliant success when it is fairly under way.
It has been shown that Atlanta can accom
modate all the crowds that can be expected,
anil so easily that there will he no chance for
extortion, even if there were a desire to prac
tice it The inevitable quarreling with the
exhibitors over space, power and terms has
been gone through with, and only two exhib
itors have withdrawn in disgust, and their
places have been easily filled. Everything is
adjusted smoothly now, and exhibitors and
officers are working together with a will to
prepare everything for tlie public eye as
rapidly as possible.
As for the attendance, there need be no
fears upon that point. Next week will show
great improvement in attendance, and af
ter that we shall have the deluge. An expo
sition that covers 20 acres of actual exhibition
space, that has buildings that consumed eight
We never know how exact a science medicine is
until a half dozen doctors are locked in a room to-
. ,, , , , gethcr. It is only possible to get in all the returns
million leet of lumber, and the aggregate eir- by callingin the
cumfcrenco of which is eleven miles, cannot I
fail to attract an enormous crowd, especially A CLEVFXANDpoficeman shoo???d Hayes off the
, ..... . , I grass and compelled him to walk on the pavement,
wlicn tlie exposition is of uni,pic mid special Erldently tho poi^, waS inclined to be lenient.
character. I
All that is needed is the time for the expo- I lT is understood that a squad of federal troops has
... , . , , , . *. 1 been sent to the great state of Ohio to protect the
sit,on to get Its finish and completeness. This grave of th0 late prcsident . To mT not hing of the
ill take but a few days. In tlie meantime I implied insult to Ohio, it is in order to ask what
it is probably fortunate for Atlanta that tlie particular class of office-seekers Mr Garfield???s gray
isitors liave not poured in at tbe expected [ Is to be guarded against?
rate durin:
the past week. It will be unfor
tunate for tlie visitors themselves if they do |
not pour in during tlie next few weeks.
The cockroaches which have taken practical pos
session of the white house are an essential part of
the republican party.
The induction balance may now be considered
out oi politics.
Evidently Mr. Colliding has heard the republican
???squinch-owl??? holler.
Mr. Blaine is at his home in Maine making ar
rangements to return to public life.
Dorsey always manages to make himself con
spicuous. He is to be tried alone. Ifc has this
consolation, however, that if he i3 convicted he will
not go to jail alone.
The Georgia chain-gang system doesn???t commend
itself to republicans abroad. Is this because it is a
system that really punishes crime?
Celia Tiiaxter bitterly denies the statement
that she is an atheist No denial is necessary. No
genuine spring poet can afford to he an atheist.
Tiib latest charge against tiuiteau is to the effect
that he was a member of Brother Beecher's church.
It is painful to dwell upon these things, but when
a man once gets down, everybody seems to take a
.pride in pelting him.
ABOUT SOME PRACTICAL, MATTERS.
Tiie St Lonis Globe-Democrat may ns well get its
tow-line greased. Tlie old man has come to the
irout once more.
The woman question???To lioop or not to
hoop?
Kalakaca???s kingdom has a population of
60,000.
The public debt decrease for .September is
317,483,611.
All sorts of furniture are now made out of
paper.
The Yorktown celebration occurs on the
ISth. Going?
The Homan Catholic church claims to have
409,000 converts in China.
Thirteen traveling dramatic 'comi>anies
have already disbanded this season.
The Baltimore American says that the third
tenn idea was never weaker than it is now.
The flag of the Alabama is On exhibition in
Boston. Its possessor says that he values it at 810,-
000.
The revised New Testament is said to be in
regular use in at least twenty of the leading New
York churches.
It is fashionable notv to have little hoys and
.iris following bridal couples. Fashion and nature
are much alike in this respect.
The Boston Post hopes that nothing serious
wifi come of the fact that for the first time in twen
ty years an eastern man is president oi the Uailed
States,
Three weeks from next Friday, that is Oc
tober 2S, the French chamber will convene, and
then we shall soon get a hint as to Gambetta's real
policy.
???Honesty is the best policy.??? But you have
o pay the premiums in this world and realize on
your insurance in the next.???Elevated Kailway
Journal.
The number of insane persons in the United
States is put down by experts at 100,000, and the
same authorities say that from 10 to 20 per cent are
curable by present methods.
The, estimated cost of operating the public
schools in New York City next year is S3,ski,725,
S-l???Jti.'.KX) of which amount is set apart for sites, school
furniture, new buildings, repairs, etc.
The Custer monument lias been erected on
the battle-field upon which the daring general fell.
It is of granite, in the form of a low obelisk, it bears
the names of all who died in Custer's fight.
One of the highest tributes (although paid
unconsciously) ever paid to the Irish race was the
recent declaration by a Mormon bishop that there
are no Irish men or 'women among the Mormons,
Joaquin Miller told a Hub interviewer
that??? everybody in New York is selfish and jealous, "
but in Boston ???he finds refinement even among
bootblacks." A certain polish, perhaps, but hardly
refinement.
An observer who considers kissing an es
thetic pleasure says that negroes, as a rule, never
indulge in it, has heard that Indians never do, and
says that among the lower classes of while women
it is a rarity.
W. A. Croffut was shocked at the nudity
which he saw in Naples, and he is a newspaper
man who always hail free passes to every variety
show that came along. It must be awful over
there.???Detroit Free Press.
O. 11. Potter has subscribed $2,000 as tlie
nucleus oi a fund to secure the publication of Gar
field's writings, addresses and opinions on civil
service reforms. The matter is in the hands of
George William Curtis and E B Wheeler.
In fixing up the white house and preparing
for its occupancy, one of tlie greatest diflicullies ex
perienced is in cleaning out the roaches and other
The views of Senator Voorhccs on protection will
. interest the country. We have long ago come to the
It is doubtful whether people who arc cn- I conclusion that those manufacturers of the cast who
gaged in a struggle for bread and meat, or I thought they needed protection, but who have flow
money and reputation, really know anything I discovered thtlr mistake, have got themselves into
about tbe practical affairs of this world. The I permanent trouble.
exposition, reaching as it does, far into the Tiie defeat of the stalwarts in New York state is
future is rather practical; but there are other calculated to put the new administration on its
intensely practical matters that demand and guard,
deserve attention. It is comparatively an ???The colored brethren of Chicago,??? says the Bos-
easy task to accumulate money or to win j ton Herald, ???are making themselves disagreeable,
reputation, but how few know whether their I They want office.??? Why should their desires in
dreams arc based on Tennessee beef or Clii- this direction be disagreeable to the republicans?
, ??? , I Considering the fact that the colored brethren don t
cago bulk meat. How many pcop e are prai- get Qny offlces> lhe wbite republicaus ought to look
tical enough to inquire whether the color of I U po n their demands with good-humored indul-
the nightmare which seizes upon them in tlie I gence.
small watches of the night is cream-ami- ^ JOJfES of Nevada> is M protld of thc
chocolate, or cake-and-cidcr. \\ c run on in I turn affairs have taken that he follows Arthur all
pursuit of visions anil leave practical matters ur0 und with a wisp broom. He???doesn???t want an
to take care of themselves, until pres-1 office or anything else. He just wants the privilege
ently everything is swallowed by oblivion. I of hanging on the outskirts oi the new president.
How supremely silly tlie old saving that I Let us aU hope that Arthur will treat Jones kindly.
bird in thc hand is worth two in thc bush! I The guano dealers have suddenly risen into prom*
This is tbe formula of a visionary, and it is I inence. The fanners in various portions of the
accepted by people who dream that they arc j Mato are holding county meetings to discuss them,
practical, it never was, and never could be ??? these dealers had any political ambition some oi
true. There was never a bird in thc hand ' " ouW run *>rcongress.
that was not crippled, or crumpled, or | general Grant will discover, before he lives in
wounded in some shape???such environment j North America many years, that the biggest politi-
being fatal to the real attractiveness of all cal blunder ever committed, so far as the stalwarts
birds. Near by are three wrens that will flit are concerned, was thc murder of President Gar-
, - ,, . , . , ,, , - 1 field by a stalwart. We mention this because the
m and out of the nest wliicn they arranged m | .... , ,,
oi* u,. j o I subject for the evenings debate is political blun-
tlie early spring and which they have never j ders .
surrendered. Their eyes are bright, their I .... , ,
, . I The Cincinnati Enquirer says the Indians who kill
plumage is perfect, and all their motions in I ... , . , ; , ,., .
1 . ?? . . I white people ought to have cold lead. This is the
ported accord with that poetry of nature j ^jy republican idea???but what is to be done with
which all recognize, hut which has never yet j the white people who have been swindling and out-
found an adequate interpreter. It is easy I raging the Indians under the auspices of the gov
ernment for twenty years or more? There are two
very large sides to this question.
enough to capture one of these birds. They
flit about tbe verandah with impunity. A
little patient coaxing would induce them to
eat crumbs from the children???s hands, so
that the oldest boy could put into ex
ecution a long-cherished project of sprinkling
PERSONAL.
Sunset Cox is in Constantinople examining
thc architecture of the harems.
, . . .. * The Siamese princes, before leaving Paris,
alt on their tails, hut imagine one of these I bou! . bt ;sio pianos lor the harem of their august
poor little wrens in the hands of its captor - I brother.
Its beauty and its grace would instantly de- I General Francis A. M alker has been
. , . , .. . .. . . I asked to accept the presidency of lhe world???s fair at
part, and even though it were immediately I Boston.
set free, hours???perhaps days???would inter- The subscriptions to the Mrs. Garfield fund
vene before the qualities that made it attract- in New York vesterday amounted to Si,103.60, mak-
ive could be restored; and it is questionable I ln ?? C ?? . ??? ??? , . ???
whether^they e\ er \\ ould be restored. The I to hold 55,000.000 worth of stocks in the various corn-
pretty way in which these birds elude tlie I panies formed to introduce his incandescent light.
children now seems nothing more than a de- I The night before his wedding the duke of
. . , .. , i. I Argyll sat out a debate, and drove to the train at
lightful species of coyness, and if absolute da yj, rea v. His wife is but little older than her
fright should take its place, it would no long- I step-children,
er be a pleasure to watch their antics. Be- I Mlle Coiombiee???s story of ???Bernhardt in
* ... , . , . America??????Anil soon be forthcoming. Itwillprinci-
lieve ns, to a practical person, one bird in the la ]i y relate to playing to empty honsesat the ex-
bush is worth'ten thousand in tbe band. It pense of ticket speculators,
is well enough for dreamers to believe other-
wise, but such a monstrous belief should not | located as a popular conRregationalist pastor. In
be permitted to go unchallenged. hlr???veddSg f forty ^
There are other matters which, at this season j jj.arry Garfield, the late president???s oldest
of the year, ought to attract the attention of I sou, wifi, after graduating at Williams, gotoCleve-
practical people. Have you observed the ring
around tlie moon? Have von noticed that I especially watches over her closely, and his mother
... , . ???. , I savs that this has always bem his way.
one of tbe moons of Jupiter can be seen 1 - . , , , ???,
??? I It is related of Bernadotte that when he was
through an ordinary opera glass. Have you | a corporal in the French army he proposed marriage
beard tbe curious complaints of a number of to a peasant girl, who, bv the advice of her friends,
, , , .... , . rejected him because he was a poor soldier. After
woodpeckers that concluded to have their nap b e became king of Sweden she wrote to him and
out when their friends and relatives took I the washing of the palace, " hich he
wing for a more solid south a few nights ago. ' Edwin Booth was so delighted with his
and so were left behind? Have vou noticed glimpse of the Co-operative dress association the
that til* rooster ermvs a litt'e earlier in tlie other evening, that he lias become a stockholder,
xnat in. rooster crows a uu.e earner in we i j made already several purchases. Miss
night than he did a few weeks ago, and that Genevieve Ward has given to the association the
the interval elapsing between the flapping of j^Lewfs* 1 tVh^fieW? Afiindtauiwif 5 ^fint??toa
liis wings and liisi ringing challenge is longer thorough success for the essotiation, which owes so
. . , ... .. .??? i much to Miss Kate Field???s tact and energy,
than ever before? Has vour attention been | , .. , "
, . , , .. , , 1 The earl of Airlie, who died recently m
attracted by thc tact that the screech-owl I Denver, had visited this conn try several times, first in
which comes into the back porch after 1*1, when he made a trip with a laigo Chicago jiarty
* 1 over the Union Pacific railroad, as faras it was then
insects. They infest the house in myriads. All
kinds of roach and other insect destroying powders
are being used in the house.
The wife of the bonanza monopolist of Cal
ifornia rides in a carriages in Paris that cost S30.000
and requires an annual outlay of $2,000 for repairs.
Like the lilies of thc field, she toils not, neither docs
she spin; yet Solomon in all his glory didn???t ride in
so gorgeous a conveyance.
Bismarck knows bow to deal with Mormon-
ism. He sends all thc Mormon missionaries out of
tlie country under police escort. If other foreign
countries would do likewise fewer people would lie
deluded by the false representations of these emis
saries front Utah???Boston Globe.
Mr. E. G. Booth, a wealthy Philadelphian,
and a native of Virginia, is creetiug a handsome
villa on tlie bluff at Yorktown, Virginia, at a cost
of 810,000, for tlie use of President Arthur, nt the
coming centennial celebration, lie has alsooft'ered
to erect such stands along the bluff for the benefit
of prominent visitors as might be required.
A race between'Mr. Lorrillard's Iroquois
and Mr. Keene's FoxhaK is suggested, and would
undoubtedly be interesting. But Americans gen
erally wifi agree with Mr. Keene that it is better for
these two American horses to devote their energies
to bcuting thc foreigners. When they have no
more victories to win abroad, then it would be a
good thing to see which is the better horse of the
two. But then the race should by all means be run
on this side of the water.
The sole survivor of eleven hundred men
Is living at the Fifth Avenue hotel. New York. Gen
eral Daniel Tyler was a first lieutenant of the first
artillery, consisting of 1,100 men in 1S21, when the
regiment received Lafayette at Yorktown. Every
member of the regiment is said to be dead except
General Tyler. Tlie latter resigned from the army
in ISM, and was until the rebellion a finding civil
engineer. In the war he served with distinction
until the death of his wife, in 1861, which so shock
ed him that he was incapacitated for any duty and
resigned.
Another of tiie great patent monopolies of
the country???the McKay leather sewing machine???
has expired, having been in operation since I860.
The number of pairs of shoes made In America by
this machine is estimated at 500.680,000 and of late
years nine-tenths of all the shoes made in the
United States have paid tribute to this patent, the
jorsonal income of the inventor of the machine
taring been about $1,000,000 yearly. In no country
are inventors so fully given the benefit of their
labor as in America.
She stood npon the beach and watched in awe the
storm-tossed ocean,
And in her large and melting eyes there gleamed a
strange emocean.
Were those wild glances born of fear or rapturous
devoccau?
About her feet the wild waves broke and made a
strange comoeean???
She stooped and filled a water jail, and then wc had
a noeean
She???d got the rlieumatiz and used salt water as a
laecan.
equalled by any paper in the south, and asan honor
to southeni enterprise and American progress.
Columbus Times.
Tiie Constitution???s exposition edition was a
???whale.??? It came out on the ; >th with tnirty
two pages of six eolurns each, making l???J-columns.
Of course most of the contents are advertisements
and some of the healthiest looking ones that w e
have ever seen published in a Georgia paper. It
was a ???big thing??? and the proprietors are to ik
congratulated.
Philadelphia Press.
It Is designed to enlarge the Interest in cotton, as
to methods of raising, handling and manufacture.
It will stimulate a fine of agriculture of tlie largest
???jossible importance to the country. It will illus^
irate economies that will save or utilize a hundred
millions a year, now wasted or lost. It will cause
the nation to appreciate one of its noblest interests,
and by fusing the north and south in the cultiva
tion and manufacture of cotton add a thousand
millions a year to our national wealth.
New York Commercial Bulletin.
The Atlanta exposition, if we are not misin
formed, will be a new revelation. In any event, we
have no doubt the many visitors from this jmrt of
the country wifi find much to repay them for a
journey thither. The steamboat and railway facili
ties are ample, and as the period covered by the
exposition, from now until the close of December,
is the most charming season of the year in that
region, nature we may be certain wifi not be be
hind iu contributing to the common attraction.
Cincinnati Gazette.
The Atlanta exhibition, which is soon to open its
many and long continued attractions, will be inter
esting in itself, and doubly so as the most import
ant enterprise of the kind ever undertaken in the
south. It wifi bear evidence to tlie wonderful and
as yet very imperfectly developed resources of the
section, and also to the new fife which is making it
self apparent there. No better location could be
found than the enterprising capital of Georgia, and
its railroad connections with Cincinnati give our
citizens {special reasons to hope for the complete
success of the undertaking.
Nashville World.
Georgia, a state which has been ridiculed for its
barren soil, and put down as the leading gooberpea
state, has been setting a good example for ner
southern sisters. Possibly ??? no state in the south
since the war has grown more rapidly or shows a
higher appreciation of the importance of manufac
turing enterprises. Since tlie war small country
villages have grown into prosperous and flourishing
manufacturing cities. The rapid growth of Atlanta
Has been a surprise to other cities in the south.
This exposition is much to her credit. It should
put to shame the cities In the great Mississippi val
ley that in all these years have done so little
to advertise its splendid resources. The faet that
the south is making an effort to show her chief com
modity, and the north comes in to show the world
how to utilize it, should put capitalists in this sec
tion to thinking.
New York Tribune.
Yesterday was a red-letter day in the history of
the new south. The exhibition at Atlanta, an affair
which has stimulated enterprise and awakened a
deep interest throughout the cotton states, was
opened with interesting ceremonies. At first the
exhibition was planned for an exclusive display of
cotton, its products, and the implements and ma
chines used in its culture and manu
facture, but the general demand fora representa
tive exhibit of all southern industries wasso strong
that the managers greatly enlarged their original
design. From the accounts already published the
fair promises to tie exceedingly creditable ami in
structive. It will unquestionably afford an oppor
tunity such as has never been available before of
studying the present condition and recent progress
of all the chief industries of the southern states.
Held at a season of the year when southern travel
is most agreeable, it will be sure to attract a large
number of visitors from the north.
Charlotte Observer.
The Atlanta exposition opens to-day. It wifi be
a big day for Georgia and aoigday for the south.
It is the opening of the door, as it were, to show tlie
world what we have inside, and while everything
there will not be of southern origin, there will be
enough to show what the south has never shewn
before, a collective exhibit of her products. People
who know little of her will learn much by what
they witness there and will be able to form
some intelligent conception of tlie land which
has heretofore been comparatively a terra incognita
to the thousands even among intelligent people
who have not been brought into contact with her.
She has been so misrepresented for political and
other reasons that the most erroneous ideas prevail
about her among the people of the north. Nothiug
cures these errors ns soon and as effectually as per
sonal experience and observation, and hence we
look for the best of results from this exposition, not
simply because it wifi bring under the eyes of vis
itors many samples of southern products, but be
cause it will bring the people of different sections,
representative-people, together in intelligent inter
course and pleasant business contact.
. New York Herald.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Trade Issue.
Columbus Enquirer.
The Atlanta Constitct!on exposition issue
reached ns on Wednesday. It is a mammoth edi
tion of thirty-two pagesy and is a general index to
southern commercial houses, besides giving inter
esting information about thc state and the gate city.
It is a fair specimen of the vim and enterprise of
that journal.
SmaU Farm*.
Selma Times.
Small farms are becoming the rule in the south.
The change from the immense plantations to small
farms is going on and the work will be accomplished
before a great while. There are still many of the
large plantations remaining pretty much as they
were twenty years ago, the main difference being
they are not half worked; much of the land is lying
idle and growing up in bushes.
The Exposition. T3
Cincinnati Gazette.
Our citizens who can spare the time should visit
the Atlanta exposition.
New York Star.
The Atlanta exposition is the cradle of a marvel
ous development and prosperity.
Washington Post.
The Atlanta cotton exposition was formally open
cd yesterday. It is going to be a grand success.
Clark County, Ky., Democrat.
It would yield an immense dividend to ship some
of our fogies to Atlanta, and pay the expense out of
the state treasury of opening their eyes to what is
going on amongst a five people. ???
Utica Herald.
It is fitting that this first great exhibition ever
held in the south should be in Georgia and should
be at Atlanta. It is in the midst of the cotton re
gion and is the center of what is best in the new
south.
Befiton North Georgian.
The Atlanta Constitution of yesterday was a
???whopper.??? This paper is always full of enterprise
but webadn???t calculated on the getting out of thirty-
two pages in one issue. Atlanta is a great place
and The Constitution is its sign-board.
Savannah Times.
We congratulate The Constitution on its great???
triumph as a most successful advertisement for
Tiie great cotton exposition, which opened nt At
lanta yesterday, Is) it will be seen by our dispatches,
successful iu every resjicct. Tens of thousands of
visitors from all parts of the state and the south
filled the streets of the famous Georgia city, mani
festing the greatest interest ami showing in every
way possible their belief in the ideas underlying
the movement. Thc exhibition is one of the very
many hopeful signs of the growing industrial
strength nml importanceof the south that have been
witnessed in recent years. The ageof imaginary chiv
alry has passedaway in that section.and it is begin
ning to be understood thal when a man becomes
a worker lie does not cease to be a gentleman. Thc
contrary opinion unfortunately prevailed down
that way some years ago, and it finally brought a
deluge of almost the greatest calamities that ever
foil upon ?? people. The future of the south is as
sured. It has within it all the elements of empire,
all the conditions; material and physical, that go to
make up a great and prosperous nation. If its jkio-
pk- do not succeed in building up a prosperity
which will be second to none in the world it will lie
their own fault.
Boston Advertiser.
There is a peculiar propriety in the choice of At
lanta forthis exhibition. No othercity in the south
Is so progressive. No other so represents tlie growtli
which the south from \ irginia to Texas professes to
desire. Atlanta has grown in twenty years from an
obscure town of less than 8,000 inhabitants toa city
of more than 37,000 souls, outranking Springfield,
Portland and Manchester, among New England
cities, and passing Savannah, which has always been
the chief city of Georgia. Enthusiastic residents o f
Atlanta adopt a tone in speaking of its future which
reminds one of the sanguine expectations of the
dwellers in Chicago. Toledo, or Kansas City. And
they are right. With such a spirit as animates the
citizens of Atlanta the city must grow largely in
numbers, and much more largely in comparison
with other southern cities.
It is certain that this fair win do great good,
will help Atlanta, but that is the smallest benefit to
lie expected from it. As a southern enterprise it
will be visited with pride by thousands of southern
men, who will acquaint themselves with new
methods of treatment of various materials, and
thus a more energetic and thrifty sys
tem raay be introduced. The meetings oi northern
and southern men, the general intermingling of all
the visitors, and the great interests that wifi lie
found to exist iu common, will have a most whole
some influence, it can hardly be doubted that an
important result wifi lie to give a fresh impulse to
cotton manufacturing at the south, which is greatly
to be desired on every account.
BILL ARP???S BUDGET
Of Rural Observations uml Homes jura llumor.
Written for the Constitution.
The earliest fires of thc fall
Have brightened up the room,
Thc cat and dog and childcn all
Have bill old winter come.
The wind is running at the nose
The clouds are in a shiver;
Bv day tve want more warmer clothes,
At night wo want more kiver.
Persimmons and possums are getting ripe. The
May-pops have dropped from the vines. Chesnuts
and chinkapins are opening and walnuts are cov
ering thc ground. Crawfish and frogs have gone
into winter quarters???snakes and lizzards have bid
us adieu. All naturrfis preparing fora winter???s
sh op???sleep for the trees and grass and flowers. I
like winter; not six long months of snow and ice and
howling winds, but three months interspersed with
finny days and Indian summers. North Georgia is
the place for me* the region of mild and temperate
climate, of lofty mountains and beautiful valleys
and fast flowing streams. The region where the si
moon, nor the hurricane ever comes, and streams do
not become stagnant, nor the musqtiito sing his
little song. I don???t want to lie snow bound in win
ter, nor to fly from a fiery hurricane in summer,
and it???s curious to me that our northern brethren
don???t bid farewell, a long farewell, to such a coun
try and settle down in this pleasant land. I know
iiere is no place like home, and it???s home where
the heart is. The Eskimo loves his snow house, and
the Mexican his hashiander, but there is reason in all
things, and if this ain???t the best country on the con
tinent there's no sense in reason or philosophy. But
I'm sorter glad we have had it to ourselves this
long???I???m glad our people are getting strong enough
keep it for tlieir children???that is, a good share of
... I don???t want cm to sell tlieir pleasant homes for
even a big pile of money unless they have got all-
other one in view. There is plenty of room for all
who want to come, and money will turn a wilder
ness into a garden. Thousands of them are looking
this way now for deliverance from hard winters or
for profitable investments, ami this exposition is
going to gentle???em and take the scare off, and
-Alley will dare to look round, and will
price our lands and analyze our min
erals and inspect our water-power, and
peruse our forests, and while the north is frozen up
they wifi bask in our sunshine and wonder that
there was such a blessed land so near and so un
known. The exposition is going to be a migluy
lmrmonizer. It will got up a union of sentiment
and social feeling. Our folks always did appreciate
northern intelligence and northern energy. Long
before the war when these educated girls used to
come south to teach school our boys married ???em na
fast as they come, and put ???em to raising children,
and they made good wives ami good mothers. Well,
the war made the yankeys so sick and our people so
l>oor tlieir girls quit coming, but of late they are
summering it down here, and our bojs are begin
ning to pick ???em offliko they used to. They go for
???em quick, and it???s a pretty fair bargain.for there is
money on one side and rebel blood and independ
ence on tlie other, and that???s a good compromise.
A clever girl was picked up the other day by a vouug
man of my acquaintance, lie was good looking ami
jioor ami proud and she was a little over age and
undersize, nml not altogether ns beautiful as the
Lord might have made her if he had wanted to, but
she was rich. Well, he took her in out of solitude,
amt she took him iu out of tlie wet, and it???s all right.
I reckon it???s all right, and I hope they are happy.
When a fresh married woman gives her feller a
check for twenty thousand dollars next day, and
has plenty more behind, it???s a sign she is satisfied
with him. and if he niut satisfied with her I shall
always think he ought, to be.
I liavent seen the exposition as yet. I???m waiting
until it gets in full blast, and then Umgoingto take
tlie family down in small detachments. It???s our
show and its a cheap show, considering, and may
be it won t happen again for many years to come
and I think everybody in reach of it ought to
go, csj>cciafiy the women and children???
the women for pleasure and the children for in
struction. I think thc railroads ought to reduce
the fare to otic cent a mile for tlieir sakes. They
wouldent lose by it for twice as many would go and
it would make the little folks so happy. Its uo
pleasure to me to see a big thing and go home and
tell about it. 1 always feel a little mean if Mrs Arp
alnt along or some of the children. When King
Cole???s railroad is finished I want him to furnish u.
long tndn of palace chrs and give us a free ride
from Home to Brunswick and furnish us with fish
ami oysters when we get there and let our children
see tlie ocean and look and gaze and won
der. He can do it and make so
many people happy. Bet MrSeney will, if he takes
a notion, or gets on another spree.
Henry Grady invited me to a reception last night,
I hail a headache but 1 thought maybe it would
hope me to be received and so i took the street ear
and went out, and shore enough he received me
and mixed me tip with a goodly company of elegant
gentlemen and he made everybody feel at home in
his new and splendid mansion. There???s more rooms
and snuggeries and dodging places than I ever saw
in a house of its size, and all the devkorationsare
beautiful and everybody so fine and new, I was
afraid to stand up or set down, but I watched How
ell and done as he done and Howell he wanted to
open a window but was afraid of the trigger for
he said something might fall on him, and Tasked
Dr Lawton what was them verses high up on thc
wall in the dining room and he said he reckoned it
was thc bill of fare but liowell said it was some
lines from Burns altotit???
Catches his hens and puts ???em in pens,
Some lay eggs and some lay none;
Wire, briar, limber lock.
Throe geese in thc flock.
O-U-T spells out anil tiegone.
Well, there was ncwsp??i*er men from Boston to
Galveston and all along the country between, ami
the}??? look smart and thoughtful, and I couldcu;
help but ponder over the power of their pens and
the responsibility that was on ???em to influence
peace in the land and good wifi among our people.
Long life and health and happiness to Henry and
his family. I didn???t look in all the closets butt
hope there is no skeleton there. Bill Arp.
CONTENTMENT.
A BRILLIANT FLAME.
Fifty Oil Cars Catch Fire and Make a Blaze.
Port Jervis, N Y, October 5???An oil train num
bering fifty cars, on the Erie railroad, took fire to
day at the Delaware iron bridge, near Port Jervis.
Thirty-five cars were cut loose anil saved, but the
remaining fifteen burned so fiercely that it was im
possible to approach them. The tanks exploded
from time to time, and portions of tlie
boiler-iron, of which they arc constructed,
were blown across Delaware river. The bridge over
Delaware river will probably lie saved, but track
for several hundred yards wifi be destroyed. The
danger of approach is so great that nothing can l>e
done but to let the fire exhaust itself, which will
be late to-night. The telegraph wires beside the
road have -been melted down. Traffic on the road
will be interrupted until to-morrow.
Nathaniel J. llammond
Macon Telegraph.
Mr Hammond would represent Georgia in the
senate with great credit to himself and hia constitu
ents and find few men there standing on a higher
plane of intellectual force and practical capacity to
ably serveand illustrate his state and constituents.
Compared with some whose names have been sug
gested as Mr Hill???s probable rivals, Mr Hammond
certainly isasa hyperiun to a satyr. We have no hesi
tation in saying here and now that we should record
Mr Hammond???s promotion with profound satisfac-
faction. The only point against him is his geograph-
??? ical locality, and that is one the people seem to re
gard as a matter of small moment. We neither
know nor care who are candidates for Mr lull???s suc
cession, and we neither have nor name anv favorite
for thal race???we simply say that Mr Hammond Is
equal to all the requirements of that or anv other
position the people could give him.
The Old Man???s Troubles.
Washington, October 3???In the Christlancy
divorce case, to-day .John C Eicholtz, brother-in-law
of Mrs Christianev, testified that Mrs Christiancy
was of a nervous and sensitive temrieRiment and
had a kind-hearted and affectionate disposition. He
aLso testified that in June, 1876, Christianev came to
him and said his wife was pregnant, and he wished
an operation performed. He had given her some
medk-ir.esent him by a friend in Michigan, but it
had failefT to produce the desired effect. He was
in public life, uml it would not do for him to make
inquiries about such things, and wished the witness
tosee some doetor in this city and get it done. The
witness declined to have anything to do with the
matter. Eicholtz aLso corroborated the statement of
other members of the family that Mrs Caristiancv
Inscribed to tlie Hon ???Bill-William Arp,??? who iu
one of his recent philosophical letters on the condi
tion of the country, thus solemnly avers??????my wife
and my children are well???nr cattle are fat??? mt
corn is pretty good???my burn??? is full of hay???my
neigh lairs are kind, and Sunday* comesoncoa weei
???so let him rip??????<i e Arthur.) Bill???s sentiments
arc interpreted in the following verses:
Thc world may roll on with the changes that fall
To nations, to kings, and to men:
God rules the round bull with His sccptcro???er all.
And I???ll trust to His love, and His ken;
With a home of my own???tvife, children and friend*
On my farm???hay, cotton and corn???
I???ll store in my barn whatever God sends.
And never say???Bill is forlorn.
???Uneasy thc heads Hint are wearing tlie crowns,???
Convulsions are shaking all climes.
Corruption is rife, and a righteous God frowns???
Rebuking the crimes of the times;
I sigh fh: the czar???for our president weep???
God save tlie great men, aud thc state!
Content on my farm, i???ll plough, sotv and reap.
And Bill wifi still ???labor and wait.???
Vlas for thc parties, their greed and their spoils
Are bringing down curses and woe;
And Death and the Devil are spreading their tdis*
In council with Ileil and Guiteau:
God???s fires are sweeping the towns of the west???
He sends us floods, cyclones, and drouth,
But plenty and peace are yet mine, and I???m blest
With my farm and ???sweet home??? in the south.
God pity thc reckless, and poor suicides
Going down ???neath thc ills of these days!
Dissipation and debt are the billows and tides
Adverse to their plans and their ways:
Avaricious of gains???the conscience has stains
Corroding all pleasure of wealth:
Be mine, on my farm with economy???s pains,
To keep soul and body in health.
v.
I cannot devise what tho morrow may bring???
???Sufficient the evils to-day!???
But I know, on my farm I am rich as a king,
And if any be happy???I may;
" hh my six days of toil, and my Snbbathof rest,
And my wife, and my children, and friends.
With my cattle all fat and my bams filled???]
blest.
And I???ll take whatever God sends.
. . .**,-*. , I over the Union Pacific railroad, as faras it was then triumph as a most successful advertisement for was at home on Christmas, 1870, when the alleged
water is inclined to laugh rather boisterously completed, which was nearly to Cheyenne. Lost itself, and as an exploit in journalism hitherto un- adultery with Giro was committed.
f
vi,
Let Arthur do ill, or Artherdo well???
Let Conkling stay out, or come In!
W hat policies rule???from heaven or hell??? .
What parties may lose or may win???
Be mine???while Omnipotent God reigns above.
To trust to my plough for good ends;
And to stick to my farm, and the woman I love,
Aud to cherish Bill Arp and his friends;