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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, OCTOBEIl IS, 18S1.
AT THE EXPOSITION.
FACTS AND INCIDENTS OF THE DAY
NOTED.
The Beginning of the Second Week of the Ex
position???-The Paascnger Agents in Force???
v Features of Attraction???The Opin
ions of the Frois Expressed.
S'- a general rule, the eastern states are host rcpre-
iterf oil by their manufacturers, and the southern
and western by their native ores, woods and agricul
tural implements.
The Arkansas and Texas sections, which are com
bined. are very interesting in their display of
woods, some of vast diameter, and muny specimens
that take u polish as fine as mahogany. Texas also
displays beautiful marble blocks???white, variegated
and flowered. Some of it is from the mine from
which is obtained tlic marble with which tlic state
cupit/il of Texas is being built. Arkansas furnishes
gmnitethntudmits a nnootness and takes a polish
equal to tine marble; also pine bark. tlircc inches
in thickness. There is nowhere to be found liner
eausimere cloths than Uiose sent from the mill at
Ntw llrounfcls, Texas. It is from the finest of
wools, of silky fibre and lustre, fleeced from sheep
of that state of the ln-st breeds, and appeurs to be
tlic perfection of woolen fabrics.
The state of Kannul has ndt only the most attract
ive agricultural collection so far, but great ingenui
ty is displayed i:i grouping and cutwiuing it. It is
woven into letters, columns, arches, iKillustrades,
furniture, etc. A crowing cock, natural as life In
appearance, is made chiefly of wheat straw and
beads.
A chair, made entirely, except its cushioned seat,
of finely polished horns, is exhibited in the Texas
and Arkansas section, and attracts much attention
by its beauty and ingenuity of construction.
per and gold ore, iron pyrites', manganese, cuoliu. j the figures for my crop of three years ago and esti-
corundmn, graphite, epsoin salts, asbestos, magnetic j mated the cost. They figured it at 21?? cents a
At the Ground..
Yesterday the grounds were visited by
many ladies and gentlemen. The trains and street
???sirs from early in the morning to dark ran at fre
quent intervals and carried good crowds. It was
the liveliest day since the opening ami hv all
odds the most interesting us the exhibits ore fast
getting into shape.
Yesterday marked a great Improvement over last
week in every respect.
The main building Is now almost completed and
it shows a wealth of exhibits which would make
the exposition a success if there were not mother
building on the grounds.
The three great engines turned yesterday with a
viui and the long lines of shafting set thousands of
wheels whirling in tlic busy exhibition of the great
industries of the country.
The railroad building also made great improve
ment yesterday in every respect. All the lines
represented are making excellent ilisplaysof what
minerals and woods arc along thcirlincs.
One of the finest displays in this large building is
that of Kansas, with its wheat and corn, so rich as
to make a Georgia farmer thiuk he stood in
fairyland ns he views its tail, beautiful growth.
Texas luis a line showing, too, of h??r grain and
mineral wealth.
North Carolina w ill let the world know what she
has to offer, and will adorn the exposition with one
of its most extensive displays. In woods her show
ing is to bo especially tine.
Florida has a house of her own, in which the rich
fruits and lovely products of her soft clime will be
shown to great advantage.
There are also many exhibits from Alabama,
.South Carolina, New Mexico, California and other
Males. Indeed it is no exaggeration to say that all
sections of the country will have u showing of their
special products, which will make the exposition a
kind of bitri???soyo view of the resources of the entire
continent.
SOt rll KANSAS.
In the eentte of the building is the exhibit from
south Kansas, made by the Ateliison, Topeka
and Hunt a Ke railroad, and is under the
management of Mr W U J.inn, the traveling agent of
the line. It is now lielngarranged and will bceom-
Pletcil in a few days, when it will present a most
attractive appearance. Exactly in the center is con
structed a large connicnlly khaped affair which
readies to the top of the building nnd is tastily or-
nameuted with grains, grasses, corn and other farm
products. On ouch side is un artistically made
rooster who stands about half way up the side. This
nffnir is surrounded by a succes
sion of arches ornamented with grain,
and on the top of the arches
a minalure railroad has been constructed of corn
stalks and several trains constructed of wood, but
covered with shelled grain, are in sight. At each
comer of the three thousand feet of space occupied
by the exhibit stands an obelisk, one covered with
wheat, another with seeds, another with com and
a fourth with apples. The whole presents a picture
far more striking than a written description would
suggest, and it must be seen to be appreciated. Yes
terday a representative of The Cossmtiyiox took a
walk through the building and in conversation
with Mr I.inn, that gentleman said:
"The exhibit which I have here is from south
western Kansas, nnd will surpass any exhibit of
like character which this country has ever seen. At
tlte centennial our exhibit was the chief attraction
outside of the main building, and we will make a
finer display here than we made there. When we
sent out circular a year or two before the centen
nial asking for specimens of grian.thc farmers sent
u< olsmta bushel of grasshoppers with a note which
simply read, ???Yield one hundred bushels
per aere.??? Tlic next year, however, we had
fine crops and made a creditable exhibit.???
???How much will this exhibit cost your road????
"Not less than ten thousand dollars. Uutcome
here and let me show yon a curiosity.. That,??? said
Mr. I.inn, pointing to a peculiar looking specimen
of the vegetable creation, "is a species of cactus.
It came from Doming, in New Mexico; you see it is
about sixteen inches in diameter. The flower
grows directly upon the top and the plant, if we
may so call it. is found in an almost rainless re
gion. Toople frequently ask me why I do not wa
ter it. The fact is that growing in a desert it needs
no water. Here isattolher curiosity???some Egyptian
rice com. It yields from forty to eighty bushels per
acre and can hardly bo injured by a drouth. We
have si'tee very fine Indian com here also, and are
detotmined that our exhibit shall lie complete, and
worthy of the section it represents."
On each side of the door leading to the main
building is the exhibit made in the name of Texas
and Arkansas by the International and Great North
ern. the Texas Pacific and the St Louis, Iron Mono-
tand and Southern railroads. The exhlbt is very
line and is in the care of Mr 11F Yookmin, travel
ing agent of the International and Great North
ern railroad. The display is very complete
and is arranged handsomely. On
each side of tlte door leading to the main building
the exhibit is artistically displayed. On both sides
is au arch made of oats, millet and wheat. In the
center of each arch are the words, ???Texas and Ar
kansas." Below the arches are horseshoes mude of
car com. Under one arch is a star made of millet
nnd other grains and across the center is the word
???Texas.??? With the exhibit is a great variety of
field products and minerals, embracing fifteen
hundred specimens. * The exhibit of woods
and timbers is very fine and in the
collection is a very unique ???library of timber" from
Arkansas. Tlte exhibit is gathered from
all the counties through which the roads iwss and
makes a highly creditable showing. A stalk of cot
ton w ith 320 matured bolts and a chair made of ox
horns are part of the exhibit. There is also some
cotton seed oil and cake, great quantities of which
is now manufactured in Texas. On yesterday Mr
Turkman received a hale of cotton which will be
on exhibition until the close of the exjiosHion when
it will la* sold for the benefit of the Michigan suf
ferers. It came from the citizens of Leon county.
THE GEORGIA PACIFIC.
Tlte exhibit made by the Georgia Pacific is one of
the most interesting in the hall. The collection
* from the Georgia counties was made by Mr N P
rmlt, who lias Georgia well represented. The ex-
Jiibit embraces some fine specimens of marble, cop-
iron, coal and other leas valuable miner
als. In conversation with Mr Pratt, Tits;
CoNSTrnmoN was made acquainted with the details
of the immense wealth that lies bnried in the coun
ties from which Mr I???ratt collected the specimens
which are displayed as the exhibit of the Georgia
Pacific. With the exhibit is a map of the territory
through which the Georgia Pacific is to pass. This
map was made by Mr S Heed Store', and shows the
mineral and agricultural belts of the country from
Atlanta to the Mississippi river.
THE WESTERN AN1) ATLANTIC.
The Western and Atlantic railroad has a fine col
lection of minerals and woods, collected by agents
sent to the seventeen counties tributary to the road.
It embraces such specimens as those just enumer
ated as collected by the Georgia Pacific. Dr IIB Lee
has charge of the exhibit.
THE OTHER ROADS.
The Cincinnati Southern has a fine exhibit of
woods, minerals and farm products which are un
der the care of Mr Cottingham, of that line.
The ltiehmond and Danville makes u flue display
of the resources of the section through which it
passes. This exhibit is managed by Major McFail.
The Alabama and Great Southern also will
make a fine exhibit, and altogether
the railroad building will be one of unusual interest
The cost necessary to the collection of the various
exhibits will not fall far short of fifty thousand
dollars.
Some Stutl.tlc of I tie Exposition.
Some idea of the vast and comprehensive charac
ter of the International cotton exposition may be
had when we state???
That the actual floor space covered by exhibitors
amounts to twenty acres of ground, and that every
foot of this is covered, and that more could be cov
ered if it was possible to gel it.
That tlic circumference of all the buildings is
eleven miles. That is if a person were to walk
. around each one of the buildings lie would have
to walk eleven miles before he was through.
That there are six miles of steam pipes that ere
used to heat the various buildings, etc.
That there are five miles of sewerage pipes used
to drain the buildings and grounds.
That there are eight million feet of lumber used
in the erection of all the buildings on the grounds.
These facts will suggest to the most unwilling
observer that the Atlanta International cotton ex
position is a big thing in every sense of the word.
The Moss Hose Candles.
Mr William II II Phelps, formerly of Columbus,
but now a large candy manufacturer of New York,
husan interesting exhibit at the exposition. IIehas
a candy factory in full blast in the main building,
and adds an interesting feature to the sights to be
seen. Mr Phelps makes the famous ???Moss Rose.???
absolutely pure candies, which have gained a na
tional reptation,
A Miniature Tea Plantation.
A new attraction has been added to the Ile-No
Tea Hong in the art building. Thistime,a miniature
tea plantation constructed by the side of the hong.
A stream of water runs down botween gentle hills
and emjities into a twin lake in which beautiful
Chinese fish arc sporting. These fish are
of a bright red eolor, have three
tails. and are great curiosities. About
the lake, aud up the stream a plantation of live
hundred tea plants is created, giving the visitor an
idea of the appearance of the tea-growing country
of China. The tea hong is attracting great atten
tion, and from to-day on to the close of the exposi-
tidn each visitor will he treated to a cup of pure
iced tea. No one should fail t6 visit this rare and
beautiful exhibit.
Walter Taylor has a nice exhibit tastily arranged
by Major .1 H Morgan.
Among the Exhibit*.
On yesterday there entered The Constitution
office a sturdy, prosperous looking farmer who is
doing more for Georgia in a practical way than per
haps the entire legislature did duringits last session.
We refer to Major J F Jones, of Troup county, who
lives near Ilogansvillc, and is one of the best farm
ers that the stute has ever had. Mr Jones will make
an exhibit at the exposition that will go very far to
wards redeeming the failure of the legislature to
provide for an exhibit. lie has lioncy.chufas.ground
nuts, sugar cane that is 16 feet high, wheat,oats, rye,
com that is 1SJ-; feet high, cottou in the seed as lint
nnd in the bale, all grown on his own place and all
of the very best quality. In size of grains and
in yield and height of stalks the com will com
pare favorably with, if it does not surpass anything
shown by Kansas or Colorado. We ??.o not believe
that there is a single exhibit that will attract so
much attention as tlte individual exhibit made by
this Georgia farmer who runs a three-hor-e farm.
The success that has attended Major Jones's farm
ing of late, and the radical reform that he has
brought about in his neighborhood, will have so
much interest that we give a short interview had
with him. lie said:
"The whole secret of success in Georgia farming
is to cultivate less land and cultivate it better.
There is nothing that ean be raised on any land that
we cannot raise successfully and profitably in mid
dle Georgia if we only cultivate it right. Our farm
ers have always believed that it was their duty to
plow every aere of land that had cleared.
As a consequence they have cul
tivated loosely, wastefully nnd with poor
results. Whenever they reduce the amount of land
and intensify the cultivation the state will be en
riched as few men believe to be possible.???
"Have you done this yourself????
???Yes, sir, and I am willing to givc.mv own expe
rience in order that you may see how it works.
After the war I had some money and considerable
property nnd hired every negro that I could get my
hands on: bought stock and commenced farming
on a grand scale, cultivating every acre that I
had and doing everything loosely. In
.a few years 1 had nothing but my
land and was seven thousand dollars in debt. I
then went to Dr Moreland, told him my condition
and said I must have seven thousand dollars. He
agreed to lend It to me and advised me to buy more
mules and hire more labor and cultivate more land.
But I had seen the folly of my ways, and changed
my farm from a twenty-five horse farm to a two
horse farm and determine to cultivate what I did
cultivate in the best style. I planted about twenty-
five acres in cotton and made it average over a bale
to the aere I commenced raising my own com,
wheat, rye, oats, etc, and improving the little laud
I had reserved."
???What was the result of this????
??????It was that in three years instead of losing mon
ey, as heretofore, I had improved my place and had
paid back almost the whole of the ??7,000 that I had
borrowed. This is my fifth crop since I reduced my
farm and I am now entirely out of debt, have im
proved my home and buildings and farm and when
this crop is marketed will have a comfortable sur
plus. There Is no trouble in making money in
Georgia if the farmer will only work intelligently.???
"You may say that you averaged more than a bale
of cotton to the acre????
???Yes. my entire crop averaged that. Last year I
made within two bales of a bale and a half to the
aere. This year I will average nearly a bale and a
half to the acre. Here is a certificate from two re
sponsible gentlemen show ing that on three acres of
land I have this year raised eight bales of cotton,???
and gathered in their presence 2,302 pounds
of cotton per acre, and had already gath
ered 1.600 pounds per acre, making up to date 4,102
pounds. This cotton wa?? weighed with not even
dew on it, and 1 have got 270 pounds of top cotton
per acre, as they estimate, in addition to what I
have gathered, and could make every acre that 1
have planted in cotton this year yield the same
amount per acre as this patch of three acres. I was
not able to give it all the same cultivation, but
shall increase my intensive farming over more acres
every year.???
"Your cotton then must cost you much less than
nine cents a pound, which it is estimated it costs to
raise cotton in.Georgia????
???It cost me less than three cents a pound. Comp
troller-General Goldsmith and some gentlemen took
pound. I am satisfied that I have not raised any
cotton since I reduced my tarm that cost me over
three cents a pound.???
???We should like to have all the details by which
this is done.???
???Well, the crop Toi last year was based on
twenty-one? acres. The labor used was three
boys valued respectively at sev
enty-five dollars a year and board for one and
forty dollars a year and board each for the other
two, together with seventeen dollars worth of day
labor???two of the boys being too young to do good
plowing. The total cash cost of labor was ??172. This
includes the labor of my sons. The land was ma
nured with a ton ami a half of Ktiwan dissolved
bone composted with domestic manures and cotton
seed. The cost of the dissolved bone was ??90, of the
cotton seed which were used at the rate of SO
bushels to the acre, ??63; the compost nothing, mak
ing a total expense for manure of
??133. Besides the labor in making the
crop, I had to pay for picking half
of it at the rate of seven dollars a bale, amounting
to ??9S.. The three !>oys did extra jobs about the
house, did the milking, and it may be estimated
that their board was worth, outside of this, ??30 or
??108 for the three. The total cost of the crop there
fore on the 21 acres was S3S1. Off of thi land I
gathered 14,401 pounds of cotton, or 2$ bales of 318
pounds each, making the cost of cultivation 2%
cents per pound. J held this cotton until the
spring, and sold it at, ten cents a pound
to B G Swanson, of La Grange, making ??1,448 or
??917 net profit, or about ??13 per aere. Besides this
the hands that cultivated the cotton made 190
bushels of wheat of which I sold 100 bushels at
??1.27, 300 bushels of com and about 3,500 pounds of
fodder. 300 bushels of oats. I hired some labor to
harvest these crops.???
???Has your example been followed among your
neighbors?"
???Yes. Quite largely. Experience is the only teach
er that farmers listen to. As soon as I was
satisfied that we had all been making a mis
take, I tried a new rule of the .small farm,well tilled,
and miring my own provisions aud making my
cotton crop a surplus one, and there were others
who followed.???
???What has been the result????
???Just as it is with me. I know some cases where
they have even beaten my figures, and 1 ean give
you the names of numbers of men who raise 8,000
bushels of com besides and one thousand pounds of
cotton per acre on from two to three horse
farms aud make bigger crops at better prices than
they formerly made on the twelve nnd eighteen
horse farms. Mr. W. J. Hicks, who formerly ran
twenty-five horses, now runs two and makes thirty-
five bales of cotton. He makes a bale per acre. He
raises all his com and provisions, and is making
money. Mr. Henry Brazell, who ran twenty-five
horses, now runs six horses and makes 112 balwof
cotton, and over a bale an acre aud plenty of pro-
visiuus. Mr. W. W. Covin, who ran thirty-five
horses, now runs eight, and averages
a hale of cotton to the acre. These men, as well as
myself, used to make, on the same land, from a
quarter to a third of a bale an acre, and lost money
at it.???
???What has been done with the surplus land????
???It has been rented to small croppers or sold off.
We organized a few years ago a grain club, and
determined to raise our own grain and com. This
club has done more for our neighborhood than all
the political clubs ever organized. If the
farmers of Georgia will only reduce their farms
from twelve or fifteen horses to two or three, culti
vate thoroughly, use the best seed and raise their
own provisions, instead of barely holding their own,
as they do now, they will soon be rich and prosper
ous. My farm is called ???Farm Independence,' and
I want the name to signify that I ean raise on it
everything that is needed for my eomfort and fur
nish food and clothing for many a man beside.???
This talk of Major Jones presents some startling
facts and it is worthy the consideration of every
fanner in the shite of Georgia. It is on the line,that
behind in arranging the almost innumerable arti
cles which have been received and arc daily arriv
ing. The piles of ores, cool, coke, woods, grain,
marbles, and everything else of material wealth,
with which the country through which these great
ine?? of traflie and travel ntn, give promise that it!
a few days such an exhibition will bo present
ed as will be eminently creditable to
them and the gentlemen who have the work in
hand.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail
road exhibit, in the main railroud building, will bo
peculiarly rich in the fine ores and the unrivalled
variegated marbles of that section, and though
small, will he of great interest.
From the Macon and Brunswick connection of
this road u display of tropical fruits and plants will
be made, which will lend additional interest to it.
Itarlicd IVI pc Making.
One of the most interesting exhibits in the main
building is that made by the Washburn A Moen
manufacturing company, of Worcester, Mass. This
company is the largest establishment on the conti
nent for the manufacture of iron and steel w ire and
barbed wire for fences. The exhibit consists of two
machines for the manufacture of barbed wire,
and they are kept constantly at work
for the amusement of sight-seers. They are com
plicated little affairs, built with great strength en
tirely of iron, and when started need no attention
of consequence, the wire passing in from three coils
and coming out of the machiues made into barbed
twisted win*, already wrapped like a coil of rope,
ready for shipment. ' The process is exceedingly in
teresting. and great crowds of people are always
found wacthing the machines. The wire, as it en
ters the first machine, is the plain straight w ire, nnd
two pieces go in side by side. About
half way through the first machine
these wires encounter a third which is fed automat
ically from the side, ami which iscut into hits,
sharpened at both ends and quickly wrapped
around one of the wires, forming the barb The
second machine then takes up the wires and twists
them securely into one, forming the barbed wire
such as we see along the railroad lines and in other
places every day. This is the best barbed wire ever
manuiaetured, and lias come to be so recognized.
The works of the Washburn <k Moen manufactur
ing company. of Worcester, Massachusetts,
cover about ten acres, and the company employs
over two thousand men. Thirty-five machines like
the one on exhibition are used turning out an end
less quantity of wire. Nearly a million feet of the
barbed wire is manufactured by this company ever
twenty-four hours. The exhibit is under the man
agement of Mr C S Davis, a gentleman who is well
informed on such matters, and will take great pleas
ure in showing the mysteries of the barbed wire
machines to all who call to see his exhibit. The
barbed fencing made by the Washburn & Moen
manufacturing company is used by .nearly all the
railroads throughout the south, and is sold by the
leading merchants in every southern city. This
St Louis exposition closed on Saturday last, and
some of its exhibitors are no doubt already on the
way. The Yorktown centennial will close next
week, and we may reasonably expect that a number
of its participants, both American and European,
will improve the opportunity to repair to Atlanta
and see here the greatest exposition of the year. We
exjiect the steady augmentation of onr exposition,
for some time to come, by the accession of exhibits
tad visitors now detained elsewhere.
BREVITIES.
A lady of Pekin. 111., has given birth to a
boy on every fourth of J uly during the last lour
years.
The conversion of Senator Voorhces to the
theory of a protective tariff is exciting some atten
tion in Indiana.
ITik army retired list is limited to 400.There
are at present only seven vacancies, while fifty otK-
- rsare eligible to retirement.
The widow of ???Jim??? Fisk is. it is reported,
living in comparative poverty at North Hatfield.
Mass, dependent for her living upon the bounty of
sister.
A very shrewd business man in active trade
states that he does not think the trade ever sold so
many goods' in September us they did during the
mouth just closed.
Senator Hen Hill is in the city and at his
old quarters in Grant place. He looks thin and pale,
but is gradually gaining strength and is able to be
about, as usual.???Washington Republican.
Lady Frances Evelyn Bertie, the young
est daughter of the carl of Abingdon, lias entered a
convent. Ritualism educated her to Romanism.
Lady Frances is a relative of Sir William liar-
court.
What???s in a name? Of fifty-eight cans of
milk condemned in a single night by aa inspector
in the New 7'orlt health department, and poured
into the gutter, forty-five belonged to the ???Fanners'
Creamery Association.???
Whenever you see a woman with a great
deal of Italian sunset in her hair and considerable
aurora borealis in her cheeks and nose, you w ill ex
perience less stormy weather if you let her alone
than if you don???t.
The interesting fact about. John P Green,
now running for the Ohio legislature in the county
of Cuyahoga, is that he is a "nigger,??? ana that there
seems to be a fear that some republicans will refuse
to vote for him on that ground.
The red and yellow banana are not different
species. AU bananas arc naturally yellow, aud are
made red by grafting. The effect ot the graft runs
out it?? seven years, when we have sometimes bananas
that are red, spotted and streaked with yellow.
There are forty or fifty varieties of this fruit.
The rise in confederate bonds in England is
caused by the effort of some of tlte bondholders to
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to say of Major Jones's exhibit as soon as tip build
ing is ready and it is unpacked and put in position.
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The Department or Minerals and Woods.
A reporter of The Constitution, in his rambling*
yesterday among the numerous buildings at d ex
hibits, eucountered Colonel J B Killebrew, thevhief
of the department of miuerals and woods, and\n a
brief interview ascertained that he was in high
spirits and vary confident of the entire success of
that portion of the exposition committed to his
care. Railway hall, with its two annexes, Is con
nected by a platform with the main building, and
is occupied entirely by displays gotten up by the
various lines of railroads in the south. These ex
hibits consist, for the most part, of the rough and
crude wealth of the sections through which the roads
run, such as minerals, woods, building stones, mar
bles, fertilizers, clays, sands, agricultural products,
everything, in fact, of utility to man. from forest,
field, mine and farm. Indeed, in this department
is represented everything that gives employment to
human labor and human intellect; fojr the display
here made will prove of no less interest to the man
of science and tlte political economist than to the
worker???the man of brawn and muscle, whose mis
sion it is to work out the hidden wealth that grows
on top of and underlies almost every foot of our
favored land. The gold, silver, copper, iron, lead,
and mauy other minerals both useful and orna
mental, including many precious stones, are
here displayed in profusion, nnd we predie
that when all these things are in place in railway
hall that it will be the chief point, of attraction for
those who are looking up and calculating the solid,
enduring resources of the south. The display of
woods aud forest products in this department is the
fullest, most complete and varied ever before made
in the world???s history. No where else on the globe,
to-day, can be shown, for size, variety and useful
qualities, any collection of timber woods at all com
parable w ith those now and soon to be on exhibi
tion at our international fair. The com, wine, oil,
the marbles, the stones, tire clays, the sanas. the
soils, even the very weeds which grow so luxuri
antly in our rich virgin soil, and all here represent
ed, and so artistically arranged as to afford
a most pleasing picture to the eve.
as well as to convey information to the mind. The
educatirual advantages afforded by these displays
to our own people, and particularly to the young
men and women of our immediate section, and
even to the ???children of larger growth??? among us.
to say nothing of the effects produced upon visitors
front the northern and eastern portions of the
country, will be of infinite ^benefit, and result in
great good. Comparatively speaking, very few of
our own people are aware of the vast capabilities of
the south, and need to be educated to a realization
of the wealth they possess, and which is their own
if they will but streteh forth their hands nnd appro
priate it.
These and many other thoughts upon the railway
displays aud the effect they are calculated to produce
were conveyed to us in the brief interview we had
with Col. Killebrew. He is an eminently practical
man, well suited to the position he has been chosen
for. There is nothing in his department to dazzle
the eye but much, very much, to strike the mind,
and engage the thoughts of all sensible, progressive
earnest men of this progressive, practical age. Let
no one who visits the exposition fail to spend a por
tion of his time in the railway buildings. 7Ve are
assured that in a week's time no more attractive
place can be found, and from what is now in sight,
we are certain this will be the case.
The Tennessee Railroads' Display*.
No larger or more interesting display will be
made at the exposition than those now being ar
ranged in the new annex to Railway hall by the
agents of the Louisville and Nashville and Nosli-
\jille and Chattanooga railroads. Owing to the de
lay in the completion of theaanex found necessary
for the display of these roads, they are somewhat
the south ami is sure to revolutionize tlte fence
question throughout the whole southern country,
as it is much cheaper and better than the old heavy
and awkward timber or Virginia fence common to
this country. Barbed wire does not bum, cannot
be blown over nor washed away, and it saves much
labor.
Wtint Qie Papers Say.
Nashville Banner.
It is essentially a world???s fair, and is destined to
work a great influence on that state.
Detroit Free Dress.
The Atlanta cotton exposition opened yesterday
grandly. The south shows what she lias done in
industry, in spite of republican obstructiveness and
carpet-bag misgovemmeut. She has done enough
to be proud of.
Columbus Times.
Though the crowd in Atlanta is growing larger
and larger, we hear no late wails of want of accom
modation and extortionate charges. The fact is,
Atlanta is a wonderful place to spread, and now
that-she has the fever on her there is no telling to
what dimensions she will reach.
Charlotte Observer.
One of Garfield???s s-tvings was, ???A pound of pluck
is worth a ton of luck,??? and this was never more
aptly illustrated than in the success whielt has
crowned the efforts of tire men of Atlanta in their
exposition enterprise. There we have a little city
of less than forty thousand people, nearly one half
of whom are eolored, undertaking and succeeding
in establishing one of tlte grandest exhibitions of
the industrial arts ever w* iii this country, com
paring favorably in some respects with the world's
centennial exposition at Fhilauelphia. It must be re
membered that there were no millionaires to back
this enterprise; tl*at they were without
a dollar to start with, and all the
money necessary had to Ire raised by
contribution. Tire start was made. Tire citizens
took a personal interest in it. They contributed
rcely. Atlanta???s pride was aroused. Committees
vere appointed to arrange for and superintend the
efci;k. Other committees were appointed to visit
The Constitution has been urging for years.,' Otic .... ... .
, , > wrck. other committees were appointed to visit
larmcr like Major Jones, however, ean do ncore to oth*r states and enlist the interest and co-operation
it this reform than a hundred ncWsr^J of people there. It took, moved, and grew as
if thev are as earnest aud sinecrCJn iROved. The effort of the men of At-
ll tne> are as tamest auu sincere "fahhiYvas warmly responded to by the men of the
7\o shall hare more north led west, and what was originally intended
m a nujre exhibition of cotton machinery, grew into
ran ill world's industrial exposition; grew beyond
toe ori'/imil design or the anticipation of its promo
ters an Pi most zealous advocates. And now Atlanta
smndscnnd wonders at Iter own achievement.
Tlnyre are gathered thousands of machines of all
descriptions, used by men in weaving the various
fabrics, in cultivating the field, in carrying on the
shop; displays of the products of these machines
directed by the educated skill of men; vast varieties
of farm products; tributes of mine, quarry and
forest; the work of the geniusof tire inventor, of the
cunning of the artisan, of the energy of the miner
and of the industry of the farmer, all centered there
to be seeu and stuuied as well as seen; there to give
a good lesson to him who will learn, and teach how
patienec, perseverance, energy and pluck win suc
cess when intelligently applied.
Wc speak thus not for the purpose of flattering
Atlanta for the triumph she has won, though she is
entitled to all praise, but to show what may be ac
complished by a determined people even when the
odds seem to be oil against them. There is perhaps
no other city in the soutli which would Imvc at
tempted so much, with so little to start upon, and
yet there are other cities in the south which
might have succeeded as well if the etl'ort were
made and the same untiring energy evinced. But
when only the difficulties are considered, and diffi
culties deter, but little is ever accomplished aud
little may be expected.
In her success in this respect Atlahta has set a
good example to other southern cities and to the
south generally, which in the past has been content
to repose at her ease, so to speak, without an effort
to assert her capacity in a productive way, or present
her resources to the world. Her modesty, or indif
ference, whichever it may be called, has been a ser
ious disadvantage to her, and has kept her in the
background while other sections less favored have
shot forward in the march of material progress. She
was not even known to the people of states border
ing upon her territory, for she told not her own
story but let unfriendly tongues and pens tell and
write it. For a generation she has been the subject
of the grossest misrepresentation without any par
ticular effort on her part to eorreet that misrepre
sentation. But this day nas passed, we are glad to
believe, and a new era arrived when she will enter
upon the competitive trial with other sections, in
which she commands the sympathy and good will
of those with whom she competes. In that race she
will win for she has advantages that no other section
possesses; heaven has enriched her as it has en
riched none of them; nature has been kinder to her
titan to any of them, and her people have industry,
energy ana talent equal to any wlien they choose to
exercise them, and the vigor to accomplish great un
dertakings when they resolve to do so. We regard
tlte Atlanta exposition its an undertaking pregnant
with great results, and accord to the plucky men
who conceived and carried it out to a suwessful
issue tlie full meed of honor to which they are so
justly entitled.
exposition notes.
???The Cincinnati excursion has been postponed
and will not reach Atlanta until next week.
???The Georgia press will attack i! to-day.
???The three big engines work beautifully.
???Major Nash says that in practical benefit it will
beat the centennial.
???Atlanta is humping herself, so to speak.
???There were some of the railroad commissioners
out yesterday.
???The management appears to be perfect.
???Cincinnati is coming in strength on the 19tli.
???The visiting editors are studying the show.
???AU is peace on the grounds.
???Florida is preparing to splurge.
???Tire shrubbery grows well.
???Some of the finest cotton ever grown is entered
for the big prize.
???The railroad building is already enough to
study a week.
???Fire department complete on the grounds.
???The police are getting used to their riggings,
???Sharp competition among the spool cotton men.
???Tlie "Little World??? attracts great admiration.
???Everybody says Atlanta has a right to blow her
horn.
???Crowds expected next week.
???Excursions to the Macon fair at low rates next
week.
???The successive closing of the St Louis and Cin
cinnati exjiositiens, and of the Yorktown centen
nial celebration, will be followed by a rush of their
exhibits and visitors to our International cotton ex
position. The Cincinnati board of trade, which
will arrive thiseveuing, wiU no doubt be so weU im
pressed as to make reports highly favorable. The
That gold, of course, belongs to our government
and it has been drawing interest for about eighteen
years.
Rosa Bonhf.uk is said to he still failing in
health, although she is still this side of sixty. Site
is no longer the great name that she once was, but
her claims to recognition were fair at tlte time, and
if she does not hold the place her admirers once as
serted for her there is little to regret in that. In her
day and generation she did good work.
The Rev. Dr. Stuart Robinson,of Louisville,
was buried on Friday. He was a versatile man, who
took a lively interest in practical affairs, was a sharp,
ready debater, and had a curious dislike of the title
???Doctor.??? After his controversy with I??r Robert J
Brecker.ridge the latter exclaimed: ???There will
never be peace among the Presbyterians of Ken
tucky until t go to heaven and Stuart ltobiuson goes
back to Ireland."
GriTiur???s fatal shot was rather expensive
to the country regarded purely from a financial
l??>int of view. In addition to the Garfield fund of
about ??400,000, the expenses of the funeral at Cleve
land were about ??2.30,000, the expenses at Washing
ton and Long Branch between the wounding and
death of Garfield are not less than 8100.000.of which
tlte doctors' bills are estimated at ??33,000, and it will
probably cost ??10,000 to try and hang the murderer,
tlie whole footing up about ??730,000.
Since the death of Dean Stanley innumer
able stories of Westminster Abbey have come t<
light. Here is one of the best: ???A gentleman pass
ing through the Abbey observed an apparently de
vout person on his knees. It is true no service was
going on, blit the occupation was a quiet and harm
less one. A vergersoon took note of the irregularity
and touched tue kneeleron the shoulder, informing
him that praying was against the rule. ???Why, sir,'
exclaimed the verger, with genuine disgust to a by
stander, 'if I let ???em, we should soon have ???em
praying all over the place!' ???
Solitary confinement is being successfully
experimented with in various parts of Europe. For
this purpose cells of sheet iron are being construct
ed that are somewhat in the nature of cages. Over
the door and overhead there is a net work of heavy
wire. A number of these cells are plaeed side by
side in one large room of a prison. The inmates
can see nothing of each other, and uo conversation
is permitted. Youthful prisoners a re especially sub
jected to this mode of confinement at night and
during other non-working hours, tlie object being
to prevent the .demoralizing influences resulting
from imprisonment in common. This plan is pur
sued at present in Belgium, Italy aud Ireland, and
is to be introduced in Hungary.
A MILL ON FIRE.
MNKHAM???S VEGETABLE COMPOUND
HRS. LYDIA E. PINKHAM, OF LYHH, MASS.,
A Terrible Scene In a Philadelphia K.tublt.hmcnt.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
Philadelphia. October 12???Charles H Landen-
berger's mill, owned by Joseph Harvey, at No 1711
Randolph street, burned to-night. The fire
broke out about 9:43 o???clock. An offi
cer noticed that there seemed to be
something peculiar about the electric lights, and
in another moment the three upper floors seemed
to become suddenly a mass of flame. The neigh
bors rushed to the building and saw tlie operatives
at the windows on the third and fourth floors.
They called to the girls not to jump, as a ladder
would be brought, but several of
tire girls sprang from the window,
Mattie Coulau, Frederick Kech, George
Dougherty, Henry Mormon, Joseph Reynolds and
an unknown girl were badly burned about the face
and arms, and were taken to St Mary???s hospital,
where their injuries were pronounced dangerous,
the patients, without exception, having suffered
internally. Nine others are injured more
or less severely, but were taken home. Joseph
Glazier is missing. There was a double stairwity
hack and iront, but no fire escapes. Tire loss is es
timated at ??70,000; insurance ??30,000. At
midnight the lire was under control.
The two girls at St Mary???s hospital *are likely
to die before morning. The shrieks of the poor
creatures in the building when their escape was cut
off were heurt-rcnding. Most of them jumped
to the sidewalk below, and a few escaped by the ele
vator rope. There wore thirty-five persons in the
building at the time, of whom twelve were females.
It is believed that some of the operatives are
burned in the ruins.
AY hut It Costs In New York.
New York World.
Now that the season of fashionable city weddings
is once more upon us it may be interesting to know
that some enemy of the humau race has prepared
and printed the following table of the average ex
penses of such a festivity:
For a wedding of l.oOO guesses, with ushers and
bridesmaids, exclusive of bridul dress and trous-
seau.
Matrimonial undertaker..
from
Dinner given by groom....
Bridesmaids??? dresses
from
from
Miscellaneous
from
??200 to
100 to
12 to
20 to
100 to
27 to
30 to
400 to
500 to
.70 to
300 to
30 to
100 to
.??330
21X1
42
coo
1,0110
fioo
loo
200
Total from ??1,887 to S3.492
People about to incur such an outlay may either
take Punch???s advice or imitate the Wall street bear
who recently caused a friend to put his intended
son-in-law up to eloping with his daughter on the
express ground of economv.
A Dying Governor.
New Oeleans, October 10???The Democrat says:
???Wcare constrained, by our sense of duty to the
people of this state, to say that the governor of
Louisiana, Louis Alircd AViltz, is on his death-bed.
He is beyond the reach of all human aid, and is
slowly but surely passing away. The governor has
really been dying for months, and there is nothing
in his eventful career that has more strikingly illus-
struted the true heroism of his character than tlie
superb courage with which he lias met the advance
of death.
Small Farms.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Small farms have always been the rule in the
north, because they are an incident and a guanuitv
of freedom. The only force wotking against them
is the accumulation of great wealth in few hands,
it is not apimrent that this has gone so far as to be
dangerous, while it is plain that the distribution of
the soil among many owners is a safeguard against
the encroachments both of capital and communism.
Against American Park.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
Pestii, October 12.???'The commission of experts
appointed by the government has decided in tavor
of maintaining prohibition against importation of
American pork.
LYDBA E a PBra&frlAfW???S*
VEGETABLE COMPOUND.
Is ft Positive Cnro
for all (hone PntnlYsl Complaint* nnu WcnlmcMe*
t.o common to our bent fcmnlc population.
It will cuits entirely the worst form of Fcinalo Com-
plaints, nil ovarian troubles, Inflammation nnd Ulcer??,
tiots, Falling and Displacement*, and tho consequent
Splnol YTcnkncss, and La particularly adapted to tha
CkaiiS?? of life.
It will dissolve nnd crpcl tumors from the uterus iu
an early Ftnge of development. Tlic tendency to can
cerous humors, there is 'lic^fced very Fpccdlly l;y its use.
It removes faintness, flatulency, destroys all craving
for stimulants, and relieves weakness of tho stomach.
It cures Bloating, Headaches, Nervous rrortratlon^
General Debility. Sleeplessness, Depression and Indl-
Cesticn.
That feeling of hearing down, enuring pain, weight,
and ba-kache, is always permanently cured l y its use.
It will at ell times and under all circumstances net la
harmony with t,hclaws that govern tho fcir.clo system.
For tho euro of ICldnry Complaints of either eexthio-
Compound Is unsurpassed.
LYDIA E. PINKIIAM???S VEGETABLE COM
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Lynn, Hass. Price 0L Six bottles for $3. Sent by malt
in the form of pills, also in the form of lozcnn*, ??n??
receipt of price, $1 per box for cither. Mrs. rinkham-
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No family should bo without LYDIA E. PINKHAIT??
LIVER PILLS. They ??? cure constipation, biliousnaas.
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M. Ac-urnlgis. Toothache, r-aceuchn 2.7-
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JO. Dyspepsia. Bihious fctomach 2.7
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24. Jrrviui Debility !.??H>
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