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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, OCTOBER 25, 1881.
THE CONSTITUTION.
Entered at the Atlanta Port-office a* second-class
matter, November 11.1878.
considerable hesitation lie" has resolved to
resort to force, and having so decided he can
not well lie otherwise thdn very firm in his
treatment of the leaders of the ^eague. It is
too early to say that a majority of the ten-
rkly con??niut!or, price *1.50 per annum. I ants are ready to stand up to Mr. Parnell???to
nubs of twenty, *20, and a copy to the getter up of pay no rents while lie is in prison, and to do
the club. I no act without league authority.
WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, SIX MONTHS, *1.00. The ^ f 1>Ubr ' n
1 may not have been tenants at all; they proba-
imporinnt. I bly were not. It will be a sad day for Ireland
We rend The CossTnTTios and Cultivator to one I when the tenants themselves refuse to accept
address for *2,50. This does not apply to post mb tire lienefits of the act that Mr. Gladstone at
acription. Both subscriptions must be made at the j.crsonal risk wrung front parliament,
same time. I They should make the most of the act, ant
then begin an agitation for still better terms.
| The Parnell policy is the reverse of this, and
will, if widely adopted, bring to the unhap
py island only woe and bloodshed. We still
hope that when the noise in the streets of the
one, and the following table is needed to ex
plain its extent and distribution:
Alabama... J l.OM.OOSlf,,977,04 s 1,529.657
Arkansas .... 731,736 13,382,145; 1,269,730
Georgia , 2,127,017 17.646,459
Kentucky 5,728,704 50,091,006
Louisiana... 9,906 7,596,628
Maryland i 5,774,503 11,701,817
M ississippi.. i 274,479115,637,316
Missouri 14,315,926 66,034,075
N. Carolina.. 2,859,879(18.454,215
8. Carolina _] 783,610 7.614,207
Tennessee.6,188,916 11,343,614
Texas { 415,112120,554,538
Virginia i 7,398,787 17,649,301
W. Virginia 1 2.4X3,54:; 8.197.865
3,159,771
11.356,113
5,034
8,004,862
218,890
24,966,627
3,397,393
962,358
7.331,353
2.567,760
7,822,501
4.001.711
ATLANTA, G A ..OCTOBER 25, 1WJ^
Tire annual Mississippi flood is approach
ing.
Judge Cox, of the district supreme conrt,
has decided that Guiteau???s witnesses shall be | towns subsides, the people for whom the land
paid by the court.
act was intended will have the good sense to
test its terms with a view of working it for all
it is worth. Fairly enforced and honestly ac
cepted it will certainly give the tenants se
curity of tenure and freedom from extortion.
GOVERNORS??? DAY.
It is now ascertained beyond question that
governors??? day at the exposition will he a
"A gentleman who lias known the United I grand occasion and our people should see to it
???States senate since the war??? predicts in the tliat the projier impression is made on the
Washington Post that Governor Brown will vast crowd that will be in attendance on that
he the leader of the democrats in less than I day
two years. If this prediction is verified, the | a telegram received from Governor Hovt
days of blunders in the old party are number- I of Pennsylvania, last night, assures us that he
Mr. Benjamin Richardson, of Philadelphia,
claims to have in his i>osscssion the carriage
in which General Washington made a tour of
the southern states in 1791. He has invited
the foreigners participating in the Yorktown
celebration to inspect it.
1870.
Wheat. Com.
1SS0.
Wheat. Com.
ton these many years, but never within his. ecollec- tcwslmn church ? Mose duu struck de rock.and
tion have there been so few office seekers at the d.> wntorrnm W.wr> lie is do man Glorv,
SlS.???ST'-
j dared to enter that elxureh, for the fates and
run of luck
???J5.451.27s I Senator Jones???s guest, but employs his own servants } dared to enter that church
24,150,417 and pays all the expenses of the house in Washing- 1 manifest destiny and the
3,174,224 I ton in whieh he is now living. It is owned bv Gcn-
25.202,018 eral Butler.
<???i'uoo???is"i I The Tombstone (Arizona) nugget has been
15 sis'3X51 informed that the late President Garfield, about
21340 800 I two yea??? since, invested in Arizona mines, and at
I the time of his death was the possessor of about
"siin'tS'i I L000 shares of Silver King stock. This, of course,
11 707 090 will revert to Mrs. Garfield, and, at its present priee,
fi2,7tvi',420 I There is a movement on foot at Cincinnati
29,065,172 I to erect a suitable memorial over the grave of Wil-
29,106,661 I iinm llenry Harrison, the first president from Ohio,
14.090.609 I whose remains are buried at North Bend. It is nro-
T _ - ., - ,, , . , I posed that the memorial shall take the shape of a
In Georgia the j tcld of wheat per aere was I church to cost 510,000. It is high time something
G.64 bushels; in Illinois it was nearly 16 bush- I fitting was done.
els an acre. Georgia, however, did as well as I Lord Cornwallis, who lived to his sixty-
,, . , , , . ??? , I seventh year, was a hardy old soldier, and iu his
any ol her neighbors, for in Alabama the pro- J later days was much exercised by the effeminate
use of the umbrellas, which came into fashion
duct per aere was less than six bushels, and
in South Carolina it was nearer five than six
bushels. The yield per acre in Tennessee was
a trifle less than in Georgia.
In the production of com the southern
states do not compare well with the western
states. The
11.0 bushels
12.5 bushels to an acre, while Ohio comes up I knows who Mr. Walton is, but a good many checks
1 were drawn on Saturday in his favor. Another
about the time of the first American war. To a ser
vant who, ou a rainy day. officiously held one over
Cornwallis???s head, '-stand aside, man!??? he angrily
exclaimed. "I'm not made of sugar." one suspects
this may have been true in more senses than one.
Mr. Walton, of the.St. James hotel, New
| York, is figuring in London as the great turf-
plunger and has cleaned out a good many of the
product per acre in Georgia was I<ondon sporting youths of all their spare cash. He
??? T,.1 ... , , , took every bet that was offered against Foxhall,
, in Iowa 4..b. Alabama >lelded nnd netted a clean *100,000. Nobody in London
mysterious winner on Foxhall is Mr. ???Swindell
said to be a disguise assumed by Mr. Keene him
self. It is a queer name to take, but he carries off
about *150,000.
IN GENERAL.
will he on hand. Governor Bigelow, of Con
necticut, is now en route to Atlanta. Gov
ernor Jarvis, of North Carolina, Governor
Haygood, of South Carolina, Governor Black
hum, of Kentucky, and others will he present.
Never before in the history of the state have
til.
The Ball Mall Gazette very sensibly inti
mates that even Ireland can not live on poi
son always, and that if the land act fails it
will he the duty of the government to give
Ireland such a government as will bring . ,
nlK.nt pacification. Evidently home rule is 90 sovereign heads of so many states
Iwdiind all this. been gathered together m Georgia, ar.d thou-
??? : I sands of people will flock to Atlanta on that
The potato crop, like tlie other staple agri- day> \\??? e understand that the executive coin-
cultural products, is reported to be cut greatly I m ;ttee met on yesterday and arranged a most
short by the drouth. The general estimate I .ic-liglitful programme for the occasion. This,
now is a crop of 66 percent, and making al- I however, is merely official and cannot have
-owance for some increase of acreage, this t ] ie c j, arm that comes from private
would produce an aggregate yield of 125,000,- and spontaneous hospitality and
000 bushels???the smallest since 1878. heartiness. The visiting governors.
Senator Hill was sharply rebuked by his tlieir friends and our guests generally should
physician for sjieaking in the caucus, and al- I find in Atlanta, as they certaiiny will find,
though he strongly desired to speak last | that warm reception for which Georgians
week in the senate lie prudently kept liis seat.
Our senior senator can well afford to remain
silent until the work of healing is complete.
Georgia will lie content with silence and an
assurance that recovery is possible. Every
day now makes complete recovery more and
more probable.
have become proverbial. They should find
our homes open to them and all that we have
at their disposal. Care should he taken to see
that they get such information as they will
wish, and that they are put in possession of
such facts as will enable them to make a
proper estimate of our resources, motives and
possibilities. Beyond tlie desire that every
The appointment of J udge Henry B. Tonip- gp n tlenian feels to have his guests feel at home
kins, as judge of the Eastern circuit, in place and wt ,j comed ; t j s n)0 re than important, for
of Judge Fleming, resigned, will undoubtedly l , ua ^ er j a ] reasons, that the distinguished men
give satisfaction to tl.e people and the bar of wh(( v , sit Atlanta on the 2 6tli and 27th of this
that circuit Judge Tompkins was appointed month , h(ml(1 leavc Atlanta with the favora .
jiulge of the Eastern circuit, in 18i5, and re-1 j, npress ; on that they cannot fail to have
signed in March, 18i9. He will return to the I j ( - t j lev arc me t j n the proper spirit and put
bench with larger experience and more disci
plined energy. His commission takes effect
on the 1st of November.
proper spirit and put
in iKissossion of tlie proper facts. We call at
tention to tlie programme of the coni'
liiittee, and urge upon our people to take
Judge Jemison, of the criminal court of such steps among themselves as will insure a
Chicago, came very near saying that tlie get- I befitting, spontaneous and hearty reception
ting up and holding of corners in the market I to our visitors. In many respects, the 27th
was highway robbery, in liis charge to tlie | may he accepted as a critical point in the his-
grand jury tlie other day. What lie did say tory of our great exposition on which we have
was that ???the thing which we know as a cor-1 staked so much and from which we have ex'
ncr in the market might he briefly described | pectedso much,
as a process of driving unsuspecting dealers
in grain, stock and the like into a corral and
relieving them of their purses.???
Boston lias raised $50,634 for Michigan.
The nut-gatliercrs are taking their au
tumnal tumble.
The republicans of Ohio have elected one
colored man to the state legislature, and his name
is Green.
smiling with an average of 34.9 bushels;
South Carolina made 10.5 bushels, and
Illinois 36.1 to the cultivated acre.
These figures are not discouraging; they are
simply interesting and valuable. They point
to the need of better farming; but they give
no just idea of tlie resources of tlie states.
For in Illinois wheat and com are the agricul
tural reliance, whereas in Georgia a better
cash crop is grown than either of these cere
als. But this fact should not deter our farm ,
ers from an effort to increase an acre???s produc- last* yea** EffivSV new^sdbSfi hoS
tion both in wheat and corn. 1 was 81,559,6/
In tlie matter of production Illinois leads Lovers should he warned against bringing
all the states in wheat, corn and oats. Of the {^'^^l^by ton^^he 0010^!^
first the product is 51,110,502 bushels; of the ???You arc weak,??? said a woman to her son
second, 325,792,481; of-the third, 03,189,200. i who was remonstrating against her ma.-rying again.
... . T r ,, ... . , I ???5es mother,??? he replied, ???I uni so weak that I
Ohio, Indiana. Iowa, California and Wtscon- I can???t go a step-father.???
sin, as wheat growers, follow in the order here I There will he decidedly more fun in visit-
nained. The producers of corn, Iowa, Mis-I * n S the battlefield ut Yorktown this week tlian was
. , .. I experienced by those who went there one hundred
soun, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Pciinsyl- I yearsngo.
vania, have their rank similarly indicate^, I ???The constitution of Maryland makes min-
flimiHi it varies from vear to ve*ir with the I inters and preachers of the gos; el or of any religious
inougn 11'anes irorn j ear to j ear with tne creed or <lenoralnation i??? e Figible to seats in either
vicissitudes to which crops are subject. I branch of the state legislature.
We add a table showing the rapid increase | Sydney, New South Wales, is to have the
of production in this country in three de
cades:
- Ind. Com.| Wheat I Oats. I Bariev.
592.071,1041100,4S5.944i416.58-l,179 5,167,015
In 1850.-.
Ill 1860...
I11 1870...
Ill 1SS0...
Georgia is now testing the efficacy of hemp.
It has been claimed that there is a good deal of gen
uine reform in a judicious use of hemp.
WE are particularly pleased to hear of tlie
fine display of agricultural products at the
Georgia state fair, held in Macon. The long-
continued drouth created a fear tliat the ex
hibits in this line would he rather poor; hut
we now have evidence that sonic favored lo
calities escaped the parching blight that has
Ik-oii so severely felt in other localities. There
is truly "life in the old land yet,??? when Geor
gia can, under such unfavorable circuit' tan-
cos, make ail exhibit of agricultural produc
tions as creditable as that at Macon is repre
sented to be.
GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF RAILROADS.
It will be remembered that during the ses
sion of the national convention of state rail
road commissioners, which assembled here re
cently, a series of resolutions, appertaining to
the question of government control of rail
roads was offered for adoption and rejected.
These resolutions provided for the appoint
ment of a committee of five commissioners to
report at a future national convention of
railroad commissioners whether a general law
for tlie regulation of railroad transporta
tion can he so framed as to apply to
the states, and if so, to report a
draft of such a . law at said meeting.
But, if the committee found after consultation
and investigation that such a law could not
be framed, then they were to report whether
largest electric light in a light house in the world.
The merging beam is said to have a luminous in
tensity exceeding 12,000,000 caudlc3.
A man ill Massachusetts has refused to fulfill
his promise to give 51,000 to the Baptist church in
Dedham because 1m thought he discovered in the
pastor's sermon upon the death of President Gar
field a tendency to man-worship.
The city of Cleveland, Ohio, is asked to
raise 850,000 of the 5200,000 desired for the monu
ment to President Garfield, and a strong effort is
being made to obtain the subscriptions.
Nashville got up a corner on peanuts and
some New York chaps are said to be enginifering a
comer on chickens. When the first big frost comes
look out for a corner on tlie persimmon market.
Two women have been arrested, with tlieir
husbands, in a wood at Vincennes on a charge of
fighting a duel. The husbands acted as seconds
and both women were wounded. They all belong
to the lower classes and were in tlie habit of attend
ing fairs.
Lazy Mary Ann Dees
Never dotted her i???s nor crossed her t???s.
So the letters resolved they would give her no c???i
And they fed her on pods without any p???s.
And frightened her well with a swarm ofb???s,
And at lust they banished her over the c???s
To the kingdom of fogs that is known as Queen V???s.
Philadelphia is said to contain more Pres
byterians than any other city in tiie United States
???20,516. Next come New York with 18,155, Brook
lyn with 11,159, Chicago with 6,241, Newark with
4,765, Cincinnati with 3.886, San Francisco with
3.788, Pittsburg with 3,777, Rochester With 3,085,
Cleveland with 3,350, and Baltimore with 3,258.
Twenty-seven thousand baby carriages were
manufactured in one Massachusetts town last rear,
and the manufacturers could not not fill all their
orders.???[Exchange.] The manufacturers can hard
5Vf. have no doubt that President Arthur feel. I ly be expected to fill 27.000 baby carriages, and be
5Ve believe that dueling will become popular in
all portions of tlie country when the people gener
ally discover what an amiable amusement it is. It
is neither as dangerous nor as exciting as a red-hot
game of base-ball.
against him, hut lie told Aunt Dinah tliat "de
Lord didn't make it rain for Mose, for dc
Lord was no respecktable pusson.???_ Finally
he moved away and Mose had things _ in a
swing. One night he put something in a
swing tliat didn't belong to him, and swung
round into the chain gang, which was bad,
very bad, and the old woman said, ???de debil
was at de bottom of it,??? and I reekon lie was.
I believe in the power of prayer to bring us
closer up to heaven and to duty, and to en
large our charity-und cut down ourself love
and to reconcile us to affliction and misfor
tune and enable us to suffer and he strong,
but I don???t believe it will change the course
of nature any more. A man ought to love
liis Maker and honor Him just like a good
child loves and honors his parents, and that???s
enougli religion ib do the most of us.
And now they say the suefcus is coming. My
little chaps have mentioned it to me several
times, and I reckon it is a coming, for tlie
show pictures are stretched all over the town
and they have seen ???em, and the little boy
spelt out the name C-o-u-p, and called itscuni,
which is according to nature, and they verily
believe that big lion is going to tear that rhi
noceros all to pieces and that everything on
the pieters will happen and more too, and
they all know that money is scarce and times
are hard, and they don???t beg to go, hut some
how they arc mighty good and sweet and
affectionate these days, and 1 haven???t tlie heart
to tell ???em they can???t go, and sour up tlieir
little souls, and so 1 reckon they will have to
jo, and though its a great sacrifice on my per
sonal dignity, I reckon I will have to take ???em
myself for fear of accidents and so forth.
Thes# Yankees are always sending down some
thing to suckus, and somehow they manage
to get all we make one way or anotiier
and bring us in debt besides.
do hope to goodness our Atlanta
brethren will pay cm back one time with the
exposition and 'sorter shift the balance of
trade for a month or two. I want them peo
ple up north to come down and see us. I met
one of em the other day on his first trip and
he was selling safes and looked like he was
afraid something would fall on him every
minute. He saw a little nig earryinga pail of
water on her head while she was making a
crow???s nest on her fingers with a string as siic
walked along and it did, tickle him atnazin.
???Well I vow,??? said he, ???I never see the like
of that before.??? When she came up heasked
her how she did that and she said, ???dunno
sir, ges does it.??? Then he asked her if she
went to school and she said, ???aint gwine
now,??? and he wanted to know if we sent the
colored children to school. Not much said
???school ruins them. They was made for ser
vants, not schools. Work makes em happy
and books makes em fools. And from the shy
way he looked at me I know lie takes me for
one of the heathen.
Well, I suppose the feller who made up that
lie about Mr. Cole???s road has had to swallow
Nobody believed it hut them who wanted
to. Up here at Taylorsville they put up a fu
neral, notice 011 a cg-oss-tic and llung crape all
over it, and some native poet, who was made
and not horn, wrote an epitaph in scandalous
rhyme. If I can find him, I???m going to whip
him???tliat is, when my back gets well, which
I???m afeard will be a long time, for it???s power
ful weak. Bill Arp.
Of the thirty-six petitions for divorce recently
filed in Cumberland county, Maine, ten are based
on habitual drunkenness. The question now arises
does prohibition prohibit? And if so, how?
Queen Victoria has sent Alfonso, of Spain, a new
garter. If the gift had been accompanied by a pair
of home-made socks, it would look more like busi
ness.
The ???chiv.??? business in Virginia seems to be run
ning down nt tlie heels. There was a time when
dueling people got shot in the neighbothood of the
stomach, but that time is past. They how make
themselves ridiculous in the eyes of sensible people.
Louis A. Wiltz, governor of Louisiana,
died on Sunday morning. His death was I they deemed it advisable for congress to regu-
caused by consumption, and it came to the 1 late railroad transportation between the states,
people of liis state without surprise. Mr. and, if so, to report, with their reasons, a draft
Wiltz was one of tlie best known and most I of a law to be submitted to congress regulat-
jHtpular men in Louisiana. He had tlie sup- J ing transportation as between tlie states only,
port of the people almost as soon lie was of I leaving to the several states tlie regulation of
age. He was first elected mayor of New Or-1 rates upon railroads within their
leans, and afterwards lie was speaker of tlie I boundaries not extending into other
house, lieutenant-governor, president of the states. These resolutions were offered by Mr.
constitutional convention and governor. His j. Fletcher Johnston, chairman of the railroad
loss will be deeply mourned in all the south-1 commission of Kentucky, for a purpose, but
tliat purpose was misunderstood, and the res
olutions were rejected. It was his purpose to
show liow, by putting in motion machinery
analogous to our system, to place the reguia
tion of railway transi>ortation between the
states under government ^control, and thus
obviate any objection that might be made on
tlie score of state rights.
Mr. Johnston hasj embodied liis plan
in an interesting letter to Major
Campbell Wallace, of tlie Georgia commission.
This letter will be found printed elsewhere,
and we commend it to the attention of our
readers. The plan he suggests is simple as
common sense can make it, and it is in no
way obnoxious to tlie charge of centralization.
He proposes that congress shall place the
whole matter in the hands of a commission
composed of the chairmen of state boards.and
that from the decision of a com mission so in
stituted, there shall he no appeal.
Apart from the simple solution of
government regulation, which Mr.
Johnston???s programme embodies, it is highly
suggestive. It gives a hint of how the states,
instead of fearing the encroachments of the
general government, may use that government
to tlieir own advantage in all things by put
ting in operation sympathetic machinery.
There is no inter-state problem that cannot
he reached and solved under our system hv
means in thorough sympathy with that sys
tem.
west.
GEORGIA CEREAL PRODUCTION
An extra census bulletin shows the cereal
production of each county in tlie United
States???crop of 1879. In Georgia the leading
corn-producing counties were Burke. 505,290
bushels; Gwinnett, 470,409 bushels; Washing
ton, 411,499; bushels; Uobb, 406,730 bushels,
and Floyd, 405,290. The product of the state
was 23,202.018 bushels from 2,538,733 acres of
land.
Of oats Brooks produced 163,862 bushels;
Thomas, 158,467; Wilkes, 133,277; Houston,
I'M,261; Coweta, 106,331; Lowndes, 102.276.
The product of the state was 5,548,743 bushels,
and the acreage 612,788.
The production of rye in the state was
small, although well distributed, nearly even-
county adding something to the crop. Union,
contributed 9,132 bushels, Fannin 8,050, Ra
bun 6,811, Towns 6,669, Washington 5,456
and Wilkinson 3.790. In tlie state 101,716
bushels were grown on 25,854 acres.
The banner wheat county of the state in
1879 was Bartow. Her product was 131,935
bushels. Then come Gordon with 113,222
bushels; Cobh, 86,617 bushels; Coweta, 77,075;
Carroll, 74,826: and Gwinnett 74,795. Tiie
state produced 3.159,771 bnshels. The acreage
was 475.684, showing an average yield of less
than seven bushels an acre.
THE IRISH CRISIS.
The arrest of "the Irish leaders has thrown
the Irish towns into a state that borders on
revolution. Tiie Irishmen in England and in
t liis country are also deeply moved. In Ireland
itself mobs fill the streets of tlie larger towns,
and collisions with thetroopsand police are fre
quent nnd bloody. Let us hope that these out
bursts of fun- arc the worst that the times have
11 store for a suffering people. Mr. Gladstone
has plainly decided tliat tlie land league
shall not he permitted openly at least to ren
der the land act abortive and nugatory. After
THE PRODUCTION OF CEREALS.
Elsewhere in this morning's Constitution
will be found a table showing tlie production
of leading cereals in each county of the state
in 1879. This table will he found useful, not
only to people at home but to those who,
living in other states, desire to understand
the agricultural resources of different sections
of Georgia.
Tlie growth of cereals is steadily increasing
in all the southern states. In some of the
states the upward movement has been a rapid
safer now than at any time rince he took the oath
of office. No president ever had such a set of bull-
works, so to speak, as those which have been 'pro
vided in the election of your Uncle David Davis as
chairman of the senate.
The Elmira Free Press kindly informs oid man
Hannibal Hammcrlin that the angels do not wear
swallow tails. If Mr. Kammerlin???s attention is
called to this, he will probably astonish the natives
of Spain by dancing the carmagnole in a cut-a-way
jacket.
A young man of Boston had his knee knocked out
of joint the other day by falling from a bicycle. We
look to see the Virginia duel supercede bicycling as
cheap and innocent amusement.'
We are glad to observe that there are other papers
besides The Constitution that are at tiie mercy of
unexpected typographical arrangements. The
Philadelphia Press has this: ???The Pall Mall Ga
zette calls Wallaek a ???pornographic novelist.??? ??? The
sides their customers might prefer to fill a few for
themselves. Some folks are particular that way.
A witty New York society woman was
standing before Zola???s greatly admired picture of
Lot and his daughters. ???Oh!??? remarked a friend
dolorously. ???What do you suppose Lot thought
when he beheld his poor wife turned to a pillar of
salt???? ???Isuppose,??? repliedourwit with admirable
gravity, ???he thought how he could get himself a
fresh one."
A boarding house at Floyd, Ind., is kept
wholly for the accommodation'of persons residing
there for the purpose of obtaining divorces. It now
bus twenty-nine inmates. I11 sevrnl eases marriages
have grown out of companionship in this house. A
wedding was lately held an hour aftr r the couple
concerned had received the decree legally separat
ing them from their former marital partners.
WILLIAM ARP
Indulges In n Few Itcmurkn on Various Subjects.
Written for the Constitution.
The rain has come at last and everybody
feels better. The fact is some of us old people
Press is no doubt thankful that the name of the Pall I were about to cave in from the long drouth
Mall Gazette is correctly given. and tlie beat and tlie dust and it did look like
We have not heard of any attempt on the part of I we couldent stand it much longer, When
the colored brethren to slip Bruce into the new cab- I few wagons were passing to market the dust
inet. It is to be feared that the colored brethren I they raised looked like old army times in Vir-
have lost their cud. | ginia, when you could stand on a hill and
trace tlie caravan or the cavalry for miles and
None of the quarreling doctors desire to be called I - 011 wuhrent tell a nigger from a white man
1 nor a rebel from a blue coat when you met
, . t , . , ??? , , * 1 em. But its all right and it come as soon as
to have an opportunity of showing tlieir lack of I it emlld according ?? to nature. I don???t believi
knowledge. # tliat human prayer will remove mountains
They say that a can of custard placed upon the now-a-days, nor change the fixed laws of na
stage where Muss Mamie Anderson is making love tur t K1, J ah for ram , a P d lt ????ne hut
. ??? , , . . 0 we have no prophets now and the age of mira-
will develop into the nicest kind of icecream. I c!es ] 1!ls ceased. If a man had that sort
South Georgia will visit the exposition in No
vember. Atlanta has been trying for years to im
press south Georgia favorably, and if she desn???t suc
ceed this time, there is positively no hope.
of faith???yes, if???but lie .hasent. If he had
the will power to wrestle with tiie angel of
God and throw him like Jacob did, but lie
hasent.
A few years after the war there was a long
,ent White, of Cornell, lias been made to speB in these parra and the crops were
. . . I suffering and the branches dried up and the
d that he Rill keep out of political office I n :,,,.,. rs l, e ld shouting meetings and nr.iveil
President
give bond thame wm Keep out 01 pouucai omcc . niggers 'held shouting meetings and prayed
for four years. As \\ hite is a practicing republican, I ;ln ,[ groaned to the Lord for rain. Old Jas'per
perhaps an affidavit, in addition to the bond, is I was the preacher and he was a iKilitician, too,
necessary. However, if the gents composing the and had changed the name of the church
famous Cornell boat-crew are satisfied, no one else I from the Baptist church to tlie Constitutional
has the right to complain. | Union church, and Mose was another preach-
. . ??? . 17??? ,J er, and Mose was opposed to tiie new name,
Sowing the wind in 5 irgmia. the republicans of alld sonle of the bredren went with him and
tiie north may as well put their houses in orderto j it made a big split and Mose was ruled out,
reap the whirlwind. We mention this in order to j and every Sunday lie would set on the door
be ahead of our esteemed contemporaries in the I step and hear Jasper preach, but he wouldn???t
matter of predictions. I go in. By and by tlie drought got worse and
Jasper prayed louder and longer and the wo-
PERSONAL. I nien shouted and sweated and perfumed
1 tiie atmosphere amazin. hut no rain come. At
??? ??? _ . __ 1 last an old woman, who was on Moses???s side
The Rev. Dr. Tyng, of New York, lost his 0 f the war declared in meeting that tlie Lord
valuable theologR-af library by the Morrell fire war mad w ith llro Jasper fof changing the
The widow and daughter of 4 ???Stonewall?????? 1 name and that Mose must come baeic to tlie
Jackson went to Yorktown under escort of Senator pu i pit aml de r;1 i n would come shore, and so
Wade Hampton. the case was so desperate they took a vote on
Of the forty-<?ight members of tlie 1_ nited n aiH | voted Mose back and carried him up to
m Jul ' v ??? ls01 ??? at lcast twen ' tlie pulpit and Mose he began to pr '
??? _ , , *, ??? , , 4 | to liowl and take on awfully and by and by
Arthur
tips the beam at 360.
Mr. Scoville, eouneel for Guiteau is really
in a pitiable condition. To defend a man absolute
ly without a friend is a hard bisk.
Queen Victoria???s children stand in great
awe of her. They were on far easier terms with
their father, whom they adored.
1 a - L iea .y,'??? n \'i 1 i St a a ,K?? n ' ??? Presl . < J?? n t the niggers heard something a wav off like
iyy!i hs * f -.^ poUudSaud the 'ice-president | b]ast of ??? owd( . r in a rock and they all picked
up their ears and looked at one another.
Mose he dindent seem to hear it, but
went on with liis sermon. Suddenly there
was a low rumbling sound of distant thunder,
and the old woman who was Moses???s friend
threw up her arms anil shouted glory, hut
Mr. Henry Garfield, oldest son of the late went on exhortin and got hila'rious,
president, has been chosen vice president of the alll j the tmuuier got heavier and the clouds
freshman class at Williams college. gathered and the air got dark and the big
Senator Brown, of Georgia, lias taken pos- drops fell upon the roof, and all the niggers
session of the desk formerly occupied by David gDt to shouting anil hugged one another and
Davis. He has a smallerchair, though. ' I run up in the pulpit.and gathered Mose and
The newspaper men of Boston have had a j wallowed all over him and such a scene of
rifle match. The target is uninjured and will do frantic jubilee was never seen in that house
for many years to come.???New Haven Union. I before. ???I tole yer so, I tole yer so,??? shouted
General McClellan and Jeff Davis found I tlie old woman. ???Jasper,??? I tole yer de Lord
themselves on opposite sides of a table at Paris, and I mad wid yer. Glory, hallelooyer. Mose
had a visit. ???J he Keneral is the object of much at-I is de man. Mose de Lord'
tention from the Orleans princes.. . I man. Bless de Lord, dis is de Baptist
???Peeley??? lias known the city of Washing-1 church. Jasper, oh! Jasper,wliar is yer contsi-
FANNY???S WARDROBE ATTACHED
The Process Served nt ?? Brooklyn Theater In n
by Anna !>!cktason.
New York World.
At the conclusion of tlie performance of
Nancy Sykes by Miss Fanny Davenport on
Saturday night at tlie Novelty tlieater,???Brook
lyn, her wardrobe was attached at the suit of
Miss Anna Dickinson for a small balance of
royalty on ???American Girl,??? which Miss Da
venport had disputed. When tlie deputy
sheriff was asked why he selected this, her
last night and on thp eve of her going to
Boston, when she had been two weeks in the
city to receive progress, he pleasantly said lie
was obeying instructions from Miss Dickin
son. Arrangements were immediately made
to litigate the matter. Mr. Edwin Price, the
husband of Miss Davenport, on being asked
about it yesterday as they were on their
way to tiie grand central 'depot, laughingly
said: ???Why, don???t you know that Miss Dick
inson lias announced she is to play male
characters, and this was a sort of a rehearsal
of Shyloek, which I am sure she can imper
sonate admirably. She had had her pound of
flesh, and now she wanted blood money.
But it is amicably urranged. Although we
have overpaid her, this is the compromise: I
am to be allowed to play Pauline to her
Claude Melnotte and Ophelia to her Hamlet.
Be. ween us we shall make the eo:i4tg bur
lesque a pecuniary success, which is sill she
wants.??? ???In other words,??? added Mrs.
Fanny Davenport Price with a merry laugh
???Miss* Dickinson not only wants her price,
hut my Price too. I wish I had tithe to tell
the story, and yet trying lawsuits in newspa
pers is a poor business.???
A Wedding la Wyoming.
Oil City Derrick.
Camping near the town, we secured our stock
and went in. Entering the lending store, I intro
duced myself to Mr .Stiles, one oi tlie proprietors
and the postmaster.
???It is now 2:30 and at 3 there???s to be a wedding
down the street at Jonas Burton???s. Old Jonas is a
rough old coon that we elected justice of the pence
about a month ago, and, as this will be bis first at
tempt at a marriage, I think we will see some fun
Come and go down with me.???
We went to the old squire???s cabin. We found
him poring oyer a large volume of the statutes of
Wyoming, sweating like a horse and looking terri
bly anxious. After greeting us he said:
???Styles, the durned galoots thet got up these laws
hadn't gumption enough to last???em overnight.
I???ve run through the blamed book a half a dozen
times, and can???t find a dod blasted word about
matermoney, or how the hitchin??? process is pro
ceeded with. I???ve just got ter put the clamps on
this couple, hit or mis-???, an??? ef I don't voke ???em u
legal I can???t help it.???
???Oh!??? said Stiles, ???just do tlie best vou can. Any
kind of a ceremony will do iu this" country for
people???U never question the legality of the thing.
I ll post you us well as I can.???
Stiles then explained to him about how he should
proceed, and the old man tinallv thought he could
worry through in tolerable shape. Ere long the
couple appeared, followed by a crowd of the citizens
of the camp. The candidates stood up before the
???squire, who began:
???Fellow citizens, this ???yar man and this 'var w.,
man have appeared before the court to be ???hitched
in the legal bonds of wedlock. If anv galoot in
the mob knows of anything thet mou't block the
e ime ef tuck to a higher court, let him now toot
is bazoo, or else keep his jaw to himself, now and
forevermore. All in favor o??? me percecdin' as or-
thorized by the law, say ???I,??? ???
Everybody said 4 1.???
???Contrary ???no.??? ???
Nobody said ???no."
???The motion's carried unanimouslv, and the
court rules that thar haiu???t tmthin??? to "pervent the
tryin??? of the ease. Grip ver fins.???
The candidates joined hands. ???Amos Pcahodv
do you solemnly swa???ar that ye'll freeze to ???Mnndv
furever an??? ever? That ye???ll love ???er, an??? purvide
fur ???er an??? treat 'er squat an' white, accordin' to
the rules an??? regulations sot down to govern sich
cases iu the laws o??? the United States, so help ver
God????
???Yaas, sir; I do, sir.???
???That fixes your end o??? the bargain. 'Maudy
Thomas, do you solemnly swa???ar that ye???ll hang on
to Amos for all cornin??? time, that vou???ll uuss him in
sickness, that ye???ll always be to him a good true
honest, up-an???-up wife under the penalties pre
scribed by the laws for the punishment of sich of
fences; do you swa???ar this, so help ver God?"
???I swa???ar I will.???
???Then, by the power iu me vested as justice o???
the peace, in an??? furtfcis precinct, I pronounce you
Amos Peabody, husband, an??? vou ???Mandv Thomas
wife, and legalizes ye to remain as sich now an???
furevermore.a'.??? ye???ll stand committed till the fees
an??? costs lie paid in full, an mav God have mercv
on voursoul an??? bless this union with his heftiest
blessin's.???
The fees and costs were adjusted, and, after re
ceiving the congratulations of the assemblv the
newly made husband and wife denarted for 'their
cabin up the creek.
Room Enough. 1
Columbus Times.
According to the prophetic vision of some of these
seers, New York is now a small place to what At
lanta will be in the future. Atlanta is fortunate in
one thing???she has land enough on every side to
spread without encroaching on any other town
DOWN IN DIXIE.
Baltimore???s ???Oriole??? was rather a failure.
Typhoid fever is prevailing in Lancaster countv,
C.
New buildings are going up rapi#ly in Sherman,
Texas. ^
Memphis, Tennessee, is building her first cotton
factory.
There are 1,236 convicts in the Tennessee peni
tentiary.
Texas sells annually fourhundrei) thousand head
of cattle.
A number of farmers are gathering com in north
Alabama.
A large quantity of sorghum is being made ???i
Kentucky.
Charleston, South Carolina, is to have a barrel
factory.
Lumrer at Laredo, Texas, is selling at $60 per
thousand.
Tiie Coosa river in Alabama is lower than ever
before known.
The railroad land offices of Arkansas are doing a.
large business.
The Raleigh, North Carolina, fair, held last week,
was a success.
The university of Alabama, has one hundred and
forty students.
Fohepaugh???s circus carried 51,000 out of GBcs
county, Tent:.
The greeubaekers of Texas are organizing tx
some counties.
A Spanish daily paper is now published in San.
Antonio, Texas.
North Carolina fanners are greatly troubled,
with squirrels.
There is a demand for 200 dwelling houses iis
Lexington. Ky.
Jessamine county, Kentucky, produces nine-
pound radishes.
Two hundred pupils attend the public schools o??
Chattanooga.
Crops in middle Tennessee are better than nt one
time counted on.
In Ulvalde county, Texas, thirty-four men own.
,000,000 sheep.
Some persons in Lancaster,S. C.,are carrying water
a quarter of a mile.
Diptheria is prevailing to an alarming extent ii>
Memphis, Tennessee.
Cap Webb, of Talladega, Ala., realized from four-
acres of cabbages 5750.
The Greenville, (S.C.)fomale college has one hun
dred and forty students.
At Gadsden, Alabama, new coru is selling at
eighty rents ]ier bushel.
The cotton crop of Arkansas will turn out better
than was anticipated.
Tui: state college at Lexington, Ky, has 223 stu
dents in attendance.
Allen county, Ky., lias a citizen who kicks tke-
beain at .500 pounds.
Lexington, Ky., people ???hello??? one another
through 160 telephones.
The Tennessee Baptist state convention will meet
in Nashville November 10.
There are 6,300 pupils in attendance upon the-
city schools of Nashville.
Point Coupee, La., planters estimate their cotton,
crop at about a bale an acre.
The Tennessee historical society meets on the-
second Tuesday in November.
The merchants of Lexington, Kentucky, nrc-
mnkiug up n board of trade.
The Autaugaville (Ala.) factory, will shortly start
50 looms and 1,800 spindles.
A Bussell county, Ala., man will make eighty-
bales of cotton on fifty acres.
The water famine in Yorkvillc, S. C., is becoming
serious. Many wells are failing.
No new bar-rooms will be licensed in Greenville*.
S. C., during the present year.
A party at Memphis were poisoned from eating
Corned ueef tongue on the 15th.
There are ninety-two students at the Baton,
Rouge (Louisiana) university.
Louisville. Kentucky, has, according tothelast
census, a population of 123,6(5.
The cotton crop of St.??? Helena parish, Louisiana
exceeds the hopes of the planters.
Natchez and Vicksburg, Mississippi, have been,
put in telephonic communication.
Colonel Cole has paid 542,000 for the old bask oS???'
Nashville, which was built in 1838.
Eight hundred barrels of fish are caught and,
packed annually at Anelote, Florida.
The citizens of Columbus, Miss., are being called
on for subscriptions to a cotton factory.
Tuskai.oosa county, Alabama, farmers have-
raised large crops of pumpkins this year.
The colored Baritists of Lynchburg, Va.,l:nvc put
up a handsome church at a cost of 822,000.
A Daviess, Kentucky, county cat measures 49J4
inches from the nose to the tin of the tail.
Mrs Wm Cook, of Milton, Florida, last week t.ivc-
birth to twins, one of whom had two teeth.
JL Sears, of Boyne county. Texas, has a plow
that turns under fifteen acres of land per day.
The Colonel Bernard, who is making fame as an.
Indian fighter in Arizona, is a Tennessee boy.
The grand lodge of Kentucky independent order
of Odd Follows, meets 111 Louisville October25.
The product of the gold, silver and copper mines,
of the south promises to be 820,008,(wo this year.
Mr De Bardleben lias sold tlie Pratt co.il mines-
of Alabama, to a northern company for 51,000,000.
The Texas lunatic asylum is full, and there arc-
lunatics couliucd iu every esunty jail in tlie state.
A farmer of Tuscaloosa county, Ala., has saved
100,000 pounds of hay and pea vines and is still at it.
There are fourteen colored jurors sett ing at tlie-
present session of tlie federal court at Huntsville,
Ala. v
A. E. Jones, of Sand mountain, DeKalb comity.
Alabama, shows a sample of ore rich in copper and
stiver. *
There is land enough iu Texas to give four acres-
to every man, woman and child in the United
States.
William Conner sold at Nashville to Milton
1 oung, of Henderson, Ky, the horse Glenarm. for
S2.O0O.
The present Is one of the most prosperous vears-
the business men of Fort Worth, Texas, have'ever
known.
There are 5676,000 in the San Antonio National
bank deposited by individuals and subject to-
check.
M. K. Young, of Pennsylvania, has paid 510.000
cash for u gold mine prospect in Goochland county,
\ a.
IJkv.'K. H. Gilliam, an Episcopal clergyman oi
"Orth Carolina, has been forinallv deposed by the-
bishop.
Senator George, of Mississippi received 700 let
ters nnd postal cards from his constituents iu two
weeks.
At the_Gibson county (Tenn.) fair tlie gamblers
oflered 8700 for the privilege of operations on the
grounds.
The five principal roads for vehicles leading out
of Memphis are to be macadamized for a distance
of live miles.
Colored women nt Anderson, South Carolina,
have formed a union and will not work for less titan
56 per month.
Mr R R Abrams, of Greene county, Ala. made-
eight bugs of cotton, and 1,000 bushels of corn, and
runs only three plows.
The wild yellow jessamine which usually blooms-
n Columnia. South Carolina, is in full bloom the
g???coud time this year.
Governor Koueuis, of Texas, has written and>
just published u book about the state over whose
fortunes he presides.
Grevson county, Texas, receives a larger share of
the state school fund than any county in the state
???her share is 514,147.
In Marion county, Fla., orange groves near line??
of transportation are valued for taxation purposes-
at 5500 mi acre.
Last week at Elba, Alabama, on account of the
extreme heat. Judge Clayton held court under the
lurge oaks 011 the square.
A convict In Walker county, Texas, jail, has to
work out a lineof 5141, and he has been hired out to
a fanner nt 50 cents per month.
ill: T A Jf.br, of Buffalo, New York, has paid 570,'
000 for three acres of ground at Hot Springs, Arkan
sas. and will put up a hotel.
Hale county, Alabama, has a man 74 years old
who has never taken a drop of liquor, or cup ot
coffee, and never has smoked or chewed tobacco.
Seventy-Five immigrants from the west have-
just arrived in Hillsborough county, Florida. They
traveled ull the way from the west bv private con
veyance.
Me. JonN Steele, oi Oconee county. South Caro
lina, owns a cow which recently gave birth to three-
calves, she gave birth to tw ins some three months-
since.
Asiirurnham. Mass., January 14,18S0.???I
liave been very sick over two years. They all
gave me uji as jiast cure. 1 tried tlie most
skilful physicians, hut they did not reach the
worst jiart. The lungs and heart would till
up every night and distress me, and niv throat-
was very bad. I told my children I never
should die in peace tintil I had tried Hop
Bitters. I have taken two bottles. They
have helped me very much indeed. I am now-
well. There was a???lot of sick folks here \vln>
have seen how they helped me, and they used
them and are cured, and feel as thankful as I
do that there is so valuable a medicine made*
Mrs. Julia G. Cushing.