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9 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 WARNER???S SAFE CURE. gAFfg Is made from a Simple Tropical Leaf of Rare Val ue, and is a POSITIV E REMEDY for all the dis eases that cause pains iti the lower part of the body- ???for Torpid Liver???Headaches???Jaundice??? Dizzi ness, Gravel, Malaria, aud all difficulties of the- Kidnevs, Liver, nnd Urinary Organs. For FEMALE DISEASES, Monthly Menstruations, and during Pregnancy, it has no equal. It restores the organs that MAKE the blood, aud hence Is the best BLOOD PURIFIER. It is rtie only known remedy that on res- BRIGHTS'S DISEASE. For Diabetes, use WAR NER'S SAFE DIABETES CURE. For Sale by Druggists and Dealers at S1.S5 per bot tle. Largest bottle in the market. Try it. H. H. WARNER & CO., Rochester, Y febl???d<fcw24m sun wed f-i nx rd mat top col style of fencing is very rapidly making its way in I hold of the ??ll,tXH),00t* deposited years ago by the south and is sure to revolutionize the fence the confederate government in the bank of England. bring about pens. even efforts as The Constitution. to say of Major Jones's exhibit as soon as tip build ing is ready and it is unpacked and put in position. / 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 POUND is prepared at 203 and 203 Western Avenue*. 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- freely answers all letters of inquiry. Send for pamph let. Address os above. Mention this Paper, No family should bo without LYDIA E. PINKHAIT?? LIVER PILLS. They ??? cure constipation, biliousnaas. flLTAd torpidity of the liver. 25 cents per box. D3" Sold by all Drugeists. *51 june26???dly Run wed r &wly nxt rd mat HUMPHREYS??? SPECIFICS. ??????THE MILD POWER CURES.??? H UMPHREYS??? OMEOPAIHIC SPECIFICS. In uKe??}yenrs.Tj-2ach number the ipcclnl pre scription of an eminent pliys cbin.???I ho only Bimptc*. S.ifennd Sure Med ciuesfortho p*opIe- UST PniNCXPAX, NOS. CUHE8. pnrnr I. Fevers, Congestion, Inflnmations 25' 2. Worms, Worm l ever, Worm Collo... .2.V 3. Crying Colic, or Teething ot Infants .2.7 ???t. Diarrhea of children or Adults 27 ???7. nysentnry. Griping. IMI1 ious Colic,.. .23* f>. Cholera Morbus, Vomiting, .2.7, 7. Coughs, Cold. Bronchitis M. Ac-urnlgis. Toothache, r-aceuchn 2.7- 9. Headaches,Nick Headaches, Vertigo .2.7 JO. Dyspepsia. Bihious fctomach 2.7 !!??? Sunpressed or Painful Periods .25 li. AVIiltes, too Profuse Periods,. .25 14. Croup. Cough, lMmcuit Breathing,... .2* I t halt Hheuni, Erysipelas, Krr.i'tions, .25- | *7. Rheumatism, Hoeutnatlo Fains.. . .25 3t??. AVIi-ioping Clinch, violent coughs... ,.7t?? 31- General Debility. Physical Weaknov...7ff 27. Kidney Disease Q(, 24. Jrrviui Debility !.??H> 30. JMuary Weakness, Wetting the bed .50 .Diseaseoftlie ifenrt. Paipl ation. 1.00 '??? J i'. rt0 *???'i.'* 1 r "???/d CntnIo FREE* d ^' 3 ??? Hnraohrevs??? ffoin-otmti.'e Med icine Co., ??09Fulton Stre et, New York, Then. Schumann, Lamar, Rankin <fc Lamar, Dan iel <k Marsh, Pemberton, Pullttm A Co., AY. A. Tay lor, B. 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