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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, NOVEMBER 1, 1881. ce of nings irts of vo no THE CONSTITUTION. Entered nt the Atlanta Post-office aa second-class matter, November 11.1878. Weekly Con.tltntlon, prle* *1.50 per annum. Clulm of twenty, 820, nnd a copy to the getter up of the club. WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, SIX MONTHS, 81.00. important. We rend Titr. Constitution aud Cultivator to one the time of Its collapse, had some seven millions of dollars (or pounds, for the reports vary,) on deposit in the Bank of England, for which the government of the United States has made an unsuccessful demand, and which may possibly be obtained by legal proceedings I bv the bondholders. The other reason, or PERSONAL. The president of the French republic re ceives a salary of 8200,000 per annum. Senator Hill, of Georgia, lias taken a honse at No. 918 Farragut square, Washington. Battle cry of freedom: Sweet Evelina from the suffocating embrace of her lover cried out: ??????Give me liberty or give me breath.??????Boston Corn- conjecture, is that the belief prevails in mcreial Bulletin' Europe that either the United States govern- At the Yorktown celebration Ilr. James ment or those of the southern states will ulti- r:???enu;r W BUt*bunCs1{Sff Uie???age of eight??v matelv consent to pav at least a percentage on 1 he was married to a lady who was onlv eighteen, address for 82,50. This does not apply to past sub the bonds, and that the growing obliteration andhe now l ??? sa son seventeen years old. scription. Both subscriptions must be made at the | of sect j onal bitterness in this country is a | mart^few^rii Louisville. A miniature Alabama made of flowers was among the decorations of the church in which the ceremony took place. ATLANTA, OA- NOVEMBER 1,1881, Guitp.au???h trial has been postponed to the Hth of November, and the case will doubtless Ire taken up nt that time and pressed to a harbinger of that ???good time coming.??? We consider the first-named reason the most plausible of the two, though still very unreliable one. The confederate SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. December, aud fifteen representations at St. Peters burg between the 16th and 31st. She Is to have flftv- five per cent of the gross receipts, the other forlv- hve per cent to go to the Russian administration.' It was generally remarked by the ladies at A orktown that President Arthur was a very hand- . , , ,. , | some fellow. His jaunty Prince Albert coat was ???ovemnient may have had the money on de- I buttoned closely, amt his hands carefully gloved. verdict." Tile" qtiestion'of jurisdiction Tins I an<1 a deman<1 for il >>>' ^United I Jhe_ French guestT^irded him admiringly as he lieen waived, and the question of insanity ??? tates ??? a y ,lav ?? been refused. >ut it by no Sabaii Bernhardt is to give eight repre will doubtless be relied on to keep the assas- means M 10 ??? that the landholders can get it. | sentations at Moscow between Urn 6th and llth of . , ., ??? If the United States lias once demanded it, it sin front the gallows. . ... ??? still has a claim on it, and the claim is one The railroad commissioners of Connecticut that the power of the claimant, as well as the . have prohibited the use of locomotive wills- political relations between the United States I (hariesF^anfonlHof theNew YoJ^u^rio/e^L Ues within city limits, and especially in the and Great Britain would not allow to be were ven-much like tliose attending the final ill- making up of trains. An application of a easily set aside. The bank would of course I made ante-mortem vacancies'hard'to fidh'and both duplicate of the Connecticut rule to Atlanta resist the claim of the bondholders, and the die victims of increasing labor in their profes- would fit very hundsomely, the city authori- grea t argument of public policy would be Mr. David Davis is described as a man of ties beiiiK ailtogetlier unequal to a suppression I ^ronglv urged against the tinal defeat of the I such perfect equanimity that he has written some of of tiic nuisance. | daim Jf the United States, now held in abey-1 wi\???t???m^ The paralune is tl^ame of a new French ??nce. We are strongly of the opinion that if m'^mra/niifio^aud rfgg 2re invention or fashion. It is something like a tlicre is any such money on deposit there by posed to amount to 82,000,000. parasol and is carried by ladies at night to the confederate government, it will long When Governor Wiltzdied he left his farm protect'them from thc rays of the moon, which remain there, as many other dei??osits in dis- K'hofi^which ImJSWtobySS arc said to be deleterious to the complexion. p??te have remained for many years???some some time ago, and which is valued at SiS.ooo. A . .1 .1 q wnttirv nr nmr-> I meeting of his frieuds has been held aud 36,000 The paralune is of thinner texture than the 1 to* a century or raor*.. subscribed to a fund for liis wife, and committees l??irasol, and colors that give the most charm- 1 The second ??? reason seems ridiculous I appointed to solicit further contributions, ing tint to the complexion of the bearer are I to us, in view of the constitutional provis-1 ^ Nast lias invested $10,000 in a silver mine, chosen. Thf. loss of a steamboat on a river hundreds of miles from thc sea, and that too witli a city on either bank, is something new in river navigation. Thc ill-fated Gilchrist went down in sight of the people of Davenport and ions, both federal and state, forever barring I the payment of confederate debts. But we he found that he had invested iu an open quarry have in a number of instances seen liow difti- mu ??ige engraving'of N^U^ngdown^theiiole cult it was for Europeans to understand our I for his ??40,otx) would make a striking picture, complex system of government and the sta bility of our fundamental laws. Not under- . standing them, they may conclude that- a Ihn:k Island, and out of about forty persons c j, an g C G f administration or a revolution in on U.nrd less than ten escaped death, and still t , R . sentiment of the pcople G f the United fewer mutilation from thc scalding steam. gtates lead to a settlement of tlii And yet thc boilers did not explode. on | )xs j s j ust as j, uc |, a revolution might Information comes to us to the effect that I affect similar debts in European countries. I Miss Lotta and Mr. Edwin Booth are said Mr. George I. Seney, whose noble bequests to | The hope is a vain one, as we all know, for | profession. Theformer^S^worffi half amilffoiuand education in Georgia have made prominent throughout the country miserable by hundreds of begging let tera from I plate the payment ot u.ose ueow as cu.cr ue- . ^ jJhn G iibSr t and???^rai'^???other??? wcTl-known the south for all sorts of things, many beg-1 sirablc or possible under any political contin- I memliew of the profession are also well ott??? in ging for individual help to pay debts. We gcncies. worldly possessions. Mn. J. Iv. Keene, tlie owner of Foxball, I fancied, said Senator Williams, of Ken tucky???or ???Old Cerro Gordo," as he is affectionate ly eahed at home???to a group of friends the other evening, "that when I came to the senate I should be able to say something on any topic that came up with which 1 was familiar, but the diguitv, courte sy, frigidity and stupidity of that body has frozen all the eloquence there ever was in me. and I couldn t get up now nnd say a word unless 1 cram med for it to sa ve my life.??? Maiione???s personal organ refers to General Early I *! a . s ma,,e fam ??. a ??? d fortune on the European turf 1 this season. His horse has won more money and more great races than any horse ever did in the same time. Mr. Keene bags over ??200,000 and one of his friends is^rieher by 8100,000 on account of the great racer. FoxhaU has no further engagements this year and retires for the season the uneonquered horse of the English' and French turf. ???How did you like Lawrence Barrett in ???The Man o' Airlie???? ??? inquired one lady of another yesterday as they met on the street and exchanged the theater experiences of the previous night. ???Oh! he was splendid, and I had such an elegant time. Why, after thc first act I cried all the time, and in the night I woke up and thought of it and cried some more. It was perfectly delightful.??? Such is the superior susceptibility of woman; several men ???smile??? between the most as ??????Old Jube.??? This would seem to indicate that at some period of his really picturesque career, thc old man has really had little Billy across a barrel. But let us not dwell upon_these painful thoughts. It is useless for the organs of the late administra. tion to kick. Sooner or later they will have to swal low Coukling, and they might as well prepare the seasoning. No thoughtful Georgian eaa visit the exposition without regretting that the state is not represented by an official exhibit. regret that these letters are mostly from the south???wc regret, indeed, that we should be called upon to aid in putting a stop to such a shameful exhibition of shamelessness. The boef-loving Englishman is rejoicing in the success of thc experimental trip of the steamship Orient, which has arrived from Australia, with a cargo of fresh meat preserved by refrigeration on the vessel. The magnifi cent steamer, registering 5,886 tons, made the trip in 39 days, and the meat was in a fine state of preservation. The refrigeration was kept tip by a machine which generated cold | several anonymous hotel clerks have placed air, thus producing dry refrigeration instead I theirpctdiamondsoncxhibitionatOgicthorpcpark, of the moisture caused by ice. A temperature They ought to be labeled as low as (it) degrees below zero could be pro-I Variovs circuses arc parading around through _ __ _ _ ____ _ ^ ^ duced by the process, though 22 degrees above the country advertising two, three and even four I son-in-law out of the room. rn???anagcd^the 'whole zero was deemed sufficient. The juices of tlie rings. In respect of this feature, however, they will 1 makmeHre^dau'-htersp'n C11I>1> V{! meat were of course frozen, and thc meat was nevcr b?? ???hie to compete with the republican party, 1 j cav ing all the' Booth property to tlie Mcwckara congealed almost to the hardness of stone. which has two hundred and sixty-nine rings, and Women arc coming to tlie frontas American ?? ??? ?????? 7- I all under one tent???with David Davis as a side show I dramatists. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the Thf. truth nliout tlie crops begins to appear. I his well-known specialty ol the lat boy and the I novelist, has written a play of North Carolina life It is now well established that instead of a boa constrictor. . ???m??????nu???mUic MadiKmareffiS famine weAvill have 151,000,000 of bushels of Iss , T u a ut tle singular-to say thc lcast-that ? f hara ^?? r J s it"SXf?? 1 $ p lS ater ??,t the wheat beyond all probable consumption; and nearly every Georgia man who has visited Wash- I ???Clarice,??? hi which Katharine Rogers* 1 !* starring! it is somewhat doubtful whether Europe will 1 ington recently corroborates certain statements I It is described as a drama of great originality iuiu- A Lucky I. unary for thc People of thc South. Charleston News and Courier. The operations iu confederate securities have been quite active among the Charleston brokers during the past week, and immense amounts have been bought in this market at prices ranging from $2.50 to $5 a thousand. The demand continues good and tlie brokers generally have entered tlie market and arc buying all tlie coupon bonds that arc offered. They are acting under instructions from New York houses, who' in turn arc buying on ac count of tlie English holders of confederate securities. Major E. Willis lias made the largest pur chases in this market. He began operations on last Friday, and has bought more than five- million dollars in confederate bonds sixes and eights, with tlie coupons of 1805 at- taclii'd. Yesterday lie purchased about one million and a halt' of these bonds, which find ready sale at frnt $4 to $5 a thousand, aecord- to quantity. The confederate sevens rate at $3 to $3.50 a thousand and find slow sale. Mr. E. M. Moreland has bought in small quantities about $1,500,000 of sixes and eights, K. M. Marshall & Brother have bought a few hundred thousand, W. S. Hastie & Son have made small purchases, and so with other brokers in tlie*city. Tlie sale of tlie bonds lias put forty or fifty thousand dollars of good money in circula tion in tills city. Some of the buyers fear that any publication of the ready sale of tlie bonds wilt have a tendency to ???depress tlie market,??? while others think that the large holders of the securities will stand back for better prices. The cotton bonds are thc only securities that are regarded by the brokers as of any in trinsic value. Colonel K. J. Moses, a promi nent lawyer of Columbus, Ga., is acting for thc American holders of the confederate bonds who intend to get the confederate deposits in thc Bank of England by litigation or compro mise. Colonel Moses is a relative of Mr. Judah P. Benjamin, one of the old confederate cab inet, who lias been retained in this suit. It was rumored on the streets yesterday that an enterprising New England firm, as soon as the demand for tlie bonds sprung up, started a factory for the purpose of manufac- uring them in order to supply our English cousins with all tlie article that they want. The rumor could he traced to no authoritative source, but it is remembered that during the late war, out of which the confederate bonds sprang, our brethren at tlie north supplied us with even a better article in tlie shape of con federate currency than we were able to man ufacture at home, and so there may be some thing in the rumor after all. the confederate bond boom explained. Tlie following advertisement from tlie Lon don Times of the 8th throws some light upon the otherwise rather unintelligible boom in the confederate bond market: The Confederate States of America loans (dollar and cotton bonds).???Notice: A11 holders of dollar and cotton bonds of the various series issued by the Confederate States of America, from 1861 to 1X61 in clusive, willing to co-operate with and entrust their interests to thc committee appointed in pursuance able representatives of the Willimantic, have shown themselves leading spirits in pushing the success of the exposition, and their novel method ot enter taining the vast crowd of Thursday entitles them to the thanks of every one who has tlie interests of the great exposition nt heart. INTERVIEW WITH PARNELL. It is said that Mr. Booth's mother-in-law is I at the bottom of all his troubles. There is no scan dal attached to thc separation of the actor from his wife. Mrs. McViekar, tlie aforesaid mother-in-law, took her post by her daughter???s sick bed, run her 5n t,. p (Vvmmmnv in rerrnrd in events I cidcnts, but remarkably witty, well-constructed and made in Tiie Constitution in regard to events interesting. Mrs. John C. Freement is said to be at there, and enlarges upon thc comments wc felt it - - - ----- want nil this surplus. The corn cro I > ' s short, but the latest figures show that we will have enough for all home needs, and can sell to other countries as much as we ever exported in a single year. The size of tlie cotton crop is still in dispute, and we will doubtless know more about it as we grow older. All of these groat staples arc in demand at fair prices, nnd the producers arc not altogether unhappy. Tlie country is farther from ruin or panic than ever before. AVERY SERIOUS MATTER. Wc challenge tlie production of a single ad verse criticism to the International cotton cx- | Bill ARr suggests a Georgia eoloncls??? day at the position since thc exhibits have been put in I exposition. V.'illiam should boar in mind that At om duty to make on the conduct of some of the self-constituted leaders of thc democratic party? Speaking of the new fashions, an exchange says: ???The ladies wear their hair tangled.??? This is a | much more harmless fashion than that which al lows the men to go around with their legs tangled. Vennor says the winter will be a mild one. Really Vennor appears to be growing conservative. Whisky was SI a drink in Yorktown. This was not owing to the intrinsic value of thc liquor, but to the demand. iuterestiiiL work on a tragedy which John McCullough mav appear in. IN GENERAL. lunta has made no arrangements to entertain every male citizen in the state at one time. But if they will come in squads of ten or seventy-five thousand they can be accommodated. shape. Not one single deprecating remark lias been made to temper tlie enthusiastic aj>- proval of each and every visitor. Mon from tlie north, men from tlie south, men from tlie east, men from tlie west, men from tlie city, men from tlie coun try, men' who have traveled, men who have stayed at home???I There is a growing rivalry between the judges all have united in declaring that tlie exposi- and oolouelsof thc country. Even Connecticut has lion, as at present organized, is the best show J uoloaels. Uttle Biilv Chandler is a colonel, of American industries ever made iu the] Mr. Miller, of the New York Times, who is now world. It is a better school for an American | in the city, is preparing a treatise on the Georgia Chicago women who have heretofore been specu lating in cotton are now speculating in grain. This shows how complete our civilization is. farmer, the merchant, manufacturer and eiti- ox-yoke. He thinks it quite an able yoke, zen than even the centennial itself. This I jj r Vanderbilt???s recent visit to Ohio was not admitted on all sides goes without saying. I unattended with peril. When a man crosses the While the crowds have now increased until bonier of that state there is always a danger that ho they are satisfactory to the management of will issue forth a raging politician. Business en tbeexposition and to the merchants of Atlan- P*R??menLs. however, compelled Mr. Vanderbilt to payers at the hub. 1 .... leave hurriedly. ???Ah. dearest, signed tlie young man, ta tt cannot lie demon that tlie exposition lias I * m I kneeling at the feet of hisowuest own, ??????dost thou thus far failed to meet the original | It is not improper to suggest that, with the ap- Uct^???? 11 ???^tlly. X repuST???ffiuUf TnE Canadian beavers are building for a s vere winter. Tun Qrcat Eastern was sold for $150,000. What modern Noah is about to start for Ararat???? New Haven Register. Oris ancestors, the monkeys, were not so ignorant after ail. They were all educated in the higher branches* The Baltimore American asks tlie public to paste iu its hat the prediction that Mr. Blaine will be elected president in 18S4. There are only 100 Modocs left. They are fanners. The squaws split wood for the kitchen fire with the ancestral tomahawk. It requires twenlv years to thoroughly sea son saddle trees; and Loudon houses keep" their stock labeled with the date of placing in store. The fox-hunting expenditure of Ireland is reckoned as amounting in the aggregate to about ??2,500,000 a year. This Mr. Parnell has now stopped so lar as he can. Boston is growing rapidly. It is a rich city. And people who are wise enough to look ahead de mand that parks shall be laid out. Parks pay for themselves is as true a saying as the Boston Herald tver uttered. Mr. E. A. Freeman says tlie only word he; has heard since coming to New England* which was at all unintelligible to him, is the word ???rare??? as applied to meat not sufficiently cooked. On speak ing of it, a Bostonian convinced him that it had the excellent authority of Dryden. Last year there were 1,394 persons in Boston who paid taxes on over ??1,000,000 worth of property, and of these ???203 were women. From this ft will be seen that about 15 per cent of the taxpayers of Bos ton who pay on over ??1,000,000 are women, and it is estimated that there are altogether 3,000 female tax- of the resolution passed at tlie meeting of t!ic bond holders, held on the Slst day of May, 1S81, at the Cannon street hotel, are requested to send in their bonds to the office of the committee, No. SO Coleman street, London, for the pur)wise of being stamped and registered in view of the proposed ne gotiations by the committee for mi equitable ad justment of tlie debt represented by tlie bonds to be registered. A sum of Is per $500 or ??100 nominal value will be charged as a resignation fee, and must accompany the bonds sent in. Checks to be crossed Martin & Co., the llankers of the committee. Forms of memorandum to be signed by the holders on registering their bonds may be had at the commit tee's office. By order of the committee. David B. Lindsay, Clerk, No. 80 Coleman street. London, E. C. Southern Railroad Earnlnss. Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer. The southern corn crop will not amount to more than one third of that produced last year, and thc whole south will require of northern corn enough to feed its working stock until another crop can be made. It is estimated that it will take twenty mil lion bushels of corn to make the meal required by the clusses who subsist ou com meal and [airk. it is also estimated that it will require eighty million pounds of foreign tiork to feed tlicsame people. Re duce these quantities to car-loads, nnd we have seventy-six thousand car-loads of provisions which will have to be transported an average of three hundred miles in tlie southern states east of the Mississippi river. From this source alone the railroads of this section will derive a revenue of nearly ??1,000,000. Conse quently wiiat may be the misfortune of the planter turns to the advantage of the railroads. Practical railroad managers,such men ns General E. P. Alex ander, Colonel E. \V. Cole and Senator Brown, of Georgia, believe from the evidences now in sight that the year ending September ::o, 1882, will be the most profitable railroad season tliut the south has enjoyed since the war. But if next year should be one of short crops, the year 188;; will be a hard one on thc railroads of the south: but such a trouble need not be borrowed at tills date. The southern lumber trade has grown from nothing in the past ten years to the most gigantic proportions. Flor ida, Georgia and Alnbama alone exported ??21,000,- 000 worth of timber and lumber, and yet the busi ness is only in its infancy. As the planter enters upon new fields, the railroads give him a market for the pine and cypress timber, which only a few years ago was burned in the clearings. I saw to-day ten car-loads of cypress piles en route to Chicago for frame bridges on the New York, Chicago ami St. Louis railroad. Superintendent O???Brien informed mo that there is now in the woods, along the line of the Macon and Brunswick branch of the East Ten nessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad enough tim ber to furnish the road with two thousand car loads per vear for the next ten years, and that as fast as a car load of lumber was hauled away its place on the ground would be occupied with cotton or some other agricultural product. Ills View of the Arrest*??????X?? Rent??? Munifo-to. Dublin Siioeial to New York Herald. Subsequent to tlie adoption of the ???no rent" manifesto the Herald correspondent had an interview with Mr. Parnell at Kil- mainham. This is the imprisoned leader???s sole public statement regarding that extraor dinary step. The correspondent asked: ???What effect will your arrest have on the policy of the league7???- Mr. Parnell???Taken alone my arrrest would not have necessitated any change in the pol icy laid down by tlie national convention, as I had been able to perfect the machinery for carrying out that policy; but thc subsequent arrrest of tlie leading members of tlie execu tive and of tlie leaders in tlie country practi cally deprives us of tlie power of carrying out tlie resolutions of tlie convention, as the details necessary would have required the greatest care and attention ^>f tlie different heads of de Spartments of the central executive. The s gentlemen being how imprisoned it is impos sible to supply at short notice successors to them who are capable and experienced enouglt for tlie difficult and complicated task of testing tlie land act. The executive, there fore, felt obliged completely to abandon that portion of tlie resolutions of tlie convention which directed them to make this test, and instead of a more moderate policy the execu tive were construed to adopt the oft-recom mended and bolder one of a genera! strike against paying rent. Correspondent???You are accused of having incited the people to acts of intimidation. Do you object to answering this charge? Mr. Parnell???The charge is false. I was always very careful to avoid anything which could be construed into an incitement to acts of intimidation or violence. It is somewha remarkable that according to tlie warrants these offenses charged against me must have been committed in Dublin and must have been contained in tlie speeches delivered by me at the weekly meetings of tlie league. The speeches were by far the most moderate of any 1 have delivered since thecomnionceinent of the movement. The principle on which the government is proceeding seems to be this??? that any advice or recommendation given by me or other leaders of thc movement to tlie tenant farmers or laborers is intimidation. In other words, tiie way in which they are now putting tlie coercion act in force is a most absolute abrogation of the right of free dom of speech, discussion and meeting which ever obtained in any country. In taking this course tlie government lias practically ren dered it inijMissible for the farmers either to test, or with safety to use, tlie land act. I had always been one of those who believed it pos sible to use the act in such a way as to secure substantial benefits for tlie * agricultural classes of Ireland. I opposed the" more ex treme league party, who desired to reject tlie act entirely at the recent convention, but I was firmly convinced that the act could only be used safely in an organized and systematic fashion, and that if thc farmers were left without organization or assistance in advance, the result would he, as in the case of the act of 1870, a disappointment. of travel until it lias become the main reliance of the companies. At the same time, the net earnings of the lines have gained steadily. The reports of thc last quarter from the principal lines leave no room for doubt that low passenger fares are profit able iu Kugland. An increase of about ??150,000 is shown by comiwrison for the corresponding three mouths of two years. This was the period of holi day and tourist traffic, when Englishmen of moder ate means were trying to secure tlie greatest sum of enjoyment for their money. But the. rule works well in all seasons, and is as applicable to tiie United States as to England. DOWN IN DIXIE. Nashviiar, Tenn., wants a boulevard. Kentucky can take the palm on dog lights. Louisville is threatened with a coal famine. Coal is seven dollars a ton at Selma, Alabama. San Antonio, Texas, has a Spanish daily paper. A ri.ast furnace is to be erected at Austin. Texns. Great complaint of poor gas in Huntsville, Ala bama. I???ettv pilfering from farmers is going on all over Texas. Some $75,000 is necessary to keep up the Nashville streets. Sweetwater, Tenn., is preparing to erect a cotton factory. UflfE a number of persons are leaving Tennessee for Texas. A live baby weighing ten ounces is a product of Maryland. Clark county, Ky., has a turkey hen that lavs two eggs a day. An artesian well at Hope, Arkansas, has been sunk 800 feet. Thf. South Carolina suite fair meets at Columbia Novembers. Five hundred and sixty convicts in the Arkansas penitentiary. Tobacco land iu Harrison county, Kv??? is rented at ??25 per acre. North Carolina is third in the list of copper producing suites. * Bears arc appearing on Waldron's ridge, in Bled soe county, Teun. The Nashville, Tenn., grand jury has indicted thirty pool buyers. The work of improving Galveston, Texas, harbor is going ou rapidly. Five hundred and sixty convicts are in the \r- kansas penitentiary. Texas will raise more wheat next vear than she ever hits produced. Tennessee will only produce 100,000 bushels of peanuts this season. HOW FASTTHEY WORKED. Tlie crowds in attendance have been almost entirely made up of northern visitors, and tlie southern people, and especially Georgians, have remained away. Gould will hardly fail to send in his congratnla- ] tions. heiress at Saratoga had the bad taste to say to her that, as far as money went, if she accepted him, the match would not be so very unequal, as he had quite a fortune of his own. She crushed him with me answer. ???My g->od sir, I have money enough now. What I am looking for is a man with brains.' Mr. Waltf.r Page, of the New York World, wll Thc reason of this un- 1 ?? n S??se largely next season in rairing cotton plants natural state of things is perfectly plain. Tlie ,mdcr R,ttss and transplanting from the plates to I Atfrlljke that deserves to be rich. . fc , , , , . . j the field on the turn oi the moon. Mr. Page is in-I Man is a gudgeon, railroads have not rc< uce< ie oca ares to Lj ucef j to enter this promising field on suggestions purh figures as would justify the people iu I mR( *, e by Mr. l??amard, the able editor of World s coming. Special trains are run from Chi-1 Work in Scribner. Cincinnati and elsewhere cairo, ???.... _ a cent a mile each way. but pcople living The complaints in regard to the delay in the ar- ... , , , . . I raagement of the exposition show are not well along the lines of the roads m the state are | j oull( j e( j Before the opening we flattered ourselves forced to pay 2!?? cents a mile. As long as j that it would be a bigger thingjthan our owa pcople tliis state of tilings exists there will be 119 dreamed of. Aud now the whole south ought to I or for certain trains on each day. the roads j Atlanta confidently invites the people of the will he put to their very utmost to haul tlie south to come forward and examine the largest and Woman is the line That dangles o???er his head??? And hooks him every time; She baits the hook and holds the pole; But the minister is the man That flops him from eternal peace Into the frying pan! ???Saakspeare. A scientific journal explains in a long arti- ,le ???how thunder storms come ap.??? We haven???t read the article, but we know how they come up. Thev wait until the Sunday-school picnic reaches more than ten minutes to come up iu the neighbor hood of a picnic. After tlie experience that many American small-pox. Gradual Spread of the Dreaded DImcuac. Memphis Appeal. Small-pox, which appeared in this country for tlie first time after a considerable interval in New York and San Antonio in 1S79, has gradually spread throughout tlie northern states, until it has assumed epidemic propor tions in many places. In its onward march it has at last reached tlie Ohio river, and it is feared will extend southward during tiie coming winter. Already Cincinnati, Covington and Newport have been invaded by the loathsome pes tilence. What precautions are our health authorities taking to avert it from this com luunity ? We have had no cases of tlie disease since 1873, and during this time a large unpro tected class has accumulated among its. Com petent authority estimates at least 20,000, out of our total of 35,000 residents, to be suscep tible to the disease if exposed to its contagion. Of tills number, two-thirds, or over 10,000, would, in the light of previous epidemics, be attacked beforethe scourge hail run its course. In Philadelphia, a recent epidemic, in which tlicre were 25,000 cases, has been shown to have cost the city $21,848,750, or an average of about $874 each. Tlie conditions of the two cities vary materially; but it will not he out of tlie way to assume that a case of small-pox in Memphis will cost at least half as much as one in Philadelphia. If this be Correct, then l(i,000 cases spread over the next twelve or eighteen months means a loss to this city of nearly seven million dollars. The ounce of prevention was never more sorely needed than in this case, and could never hope to be more strikingly valuable. Five thousand dol lars judiciously expended within the next 30 days would make tins community small-pox- proof. Has the sanitary association???if???not the board of health???no duty in the premises A POET???S MAIL. Large quantities of fodder are throughout Kentucky. being shipped Somerset, Kentucky, will ship $60,000 worth ot dried apples this season. Some very good salt wells have been opened in hurnuer county, Tenn. Tennessee marble is supplanting Italian in many sections of the country. Culpepper county, Va??? shipped a huge quantity ot chestnuts last season. J A plate glass manufactory in Louisville Kv is doing a good business. *??? The Alabama river is so low that boats will rim no higher than Selma. A State woman's suffrage association has just been formed in Arkansas. J They are sinking an artesian well, now 800 feet deep, at Hope, Arkansas. c convenes in The north Alabama conference Huntsville November Aid. Tiie crop of peanuts in Tennessee is inferior; The nut is small and liuttv. roads do this? We say frankly that they have the oyster. never had such an opportunity to do tlie state | Tte rhiliu}elphia chronicle-Herald, alluding to finished, and Bennett street rents have gone up since traffic was opened on wood. A society paper also savs that ???it seems a thousand pities that. a service as at present, and on the other hand | The constitution's suggestions in regard to the | Jh e* West Ft Id ^the vi ty aut horities are' 1 busj-??ex te u!b the large interests of thc state have never I u umber of Jonahs in the democratic party, asks been so fully in their power as at present, why wc don't whale 'em. Is it reasonable to sup- Tlic matter is with them and there we are pose that our stomachs are stronger than the diges- forced to leave it. I Uve a PP anUus oi ?? h ?? ori e inal " hale * THE CONFEDERATE BONDS. j Mr. Nelson, of the Boston Post, is laboriously Two reasons are assigned for tlie recent de- working his way to Georgia. He has been on the 1 ??? r i. n j i'???r lu-tn.lu road a week, and when last heard from was resting mand. coming from from England, tor bonds ^ charlolle An admiring cin;le o{ friends ^ of the late comederate states of America. ^ interest the howdy bulletins from Mr. Kelson, One is, that the confederate government, at and anxi^giy await his arrival. It is seldom that anything attracts as widespread attention iu this section as wasjcalled up by the unique feat of tlie Willimantic linen company in the manufacture of tho two suits of clothes on gov ernors??? day. Everybody had something to say of the wonderful exhibition of the fnst machinery. There was nothing ou the grounds that was consid ered half as interesting, and the great space occu pied bv the company presented a. scene of great life and activity throughout the entire day. Since governors??? day tlie feat has been universally discussed, and will afford a lively topic for months to come. A de scription of this fast machinery would prove of great interest were it possible to give it. But the intricacies necessary to secure the degree of perfec tion that has been attained, render a description wholly impossible. Nevertheless the actual time occupied with each machine cannot fail to furnish an artit le that will be filed away for the remem brance of a great day at the exposition. At an early honr the eotton was picked from a patch on the grounds belonging to Mr. D. U. Sloan of Xorcross. The cotton was of the variety known ns the Ozier silk cotton and was pronounced as fine short staple as was ever seen in this country. At seven o???clock it was ginned in a twinkling aud at once started upon the journey which was to end so quickly, and in such an astonishingly changed apj>earan'ee for the cotton. The ginning of the en tire lot required less than twenty minutes. It was then taken at once to the picker where it spent half an hour. The crowd that was watching the process of manufacture had grown to considerable proportions, and as thc cotton passed from machine to machine the enthusiasm was intense. After leaving the picker, the cotton went to the cards. These beautiful and remarkably perfect pieces of mechanism were watched with'the greatest admira tion. In half an hour it left the slubber, and in thirty minutes more it was being spun into the fill ing. In twenty minutes move it was going to the loom. As the Compton loom, which was the one iu use, started with its energetie clatter, there was enthusiasm enough to give a rousing three cheers. The material for the vest began to make its appearance at 9 o???clock and that for the coat and pants emerged ail honr later. The cloth came through rapidly, and at half-past twelve the first piece of goods for file suits was taken to Thom as???s dye-house, and in twenty-seven minutes had been dyed, diied and was ready for the tailors. This quick work was done by Mr. M. Henry, who represents N. spencer Thomas???s dyeing processes. The manipulation of the loom was done underthe direction of Mr. J. A. Clark, who is with the Comp ton display. At 12:55 thc eotton that less than six hours before was hanging upon the stalk was hand ed to Mr. Grosse, the tailor, to be cut out. The sewing was done at the Wheeler & Wilson exhibit. At five minutes Hfter 6 the suits were completed, and at 7 o???clock Governor Bigelow was encased in one, receiving a delegation from the Atlanta uni versity at the residence of Director-General Kim- baU, while Governor Colquitt, at the executive mansion, wasadmiribg the fcrst walnut picker coat that had ever fallen to his portion. The trial had been made and the fast machinery and improved methods of thc Willimantic had tri- iug tlie use of asphalt east of Temple Bar.??? Word comes from Memphis that sheet-iron islikelv to find a new use on an extensive scale in its application to the covering of cotton bales. The present hemp covering is used solely because of its cheapness, but. as it admits moisture and sand, it enure-* a considerable waste of cotton. A number of heavy cotton dealers have therefore written north forquotations on No. 30 sheet-iron. If it is adopted it will have an enormous sale: each bale will require a sheet 76x44 inches, and weighing tvventv-two pounds, and. as the annual crop of cot- andimpr .... , ton is 6,060,000 bales, it would take 66.000 tons of umpheil. The event will be long remembered, sheet-iron to cover them. Major Barrows and Mr. Allison, the courteous and Four letters and a paper; this one. showing A careless liana, is from my cousin May, Ten pages long, and full to overflowing Of beaux, aud belles, ami balls and all things gay. And this one: well, I cannot quite discover Just what tli??? indefinite writer does intend: He???s quite too frankly cordial for a lover, Ana much too lover-like for just a friend. And here a sister poet tells her fancies, ??? . Merry or sad, just as her humor is; Weaving a web of mnny-hued romances, Out of the soberest realities. And here is one in marvelous superscription: I make it out by guessing at a part??? tell tlie truth without a spice ot fiction??? I tear it open with a fluttering heart. Two cabalistic words here greet my vision??? Two simple words, expressive and defined. And yet they crush me with their curt precision, Their most polite ???Respectfully declined.??? I take up tenderly my little verseling. That 1 bud written with such loving care; I feel as does a mother when her nursling Is called by others neither sweet nor fair. I rail against the man who so decrees it. And like the world-renowned worm I ttini; ???He does not know a poem when he sees it, Elesewisc my genius would he quick discern.??? Or else he wants to crush out my ambition. To keep from me my due of fame or pelf; Or else, 0: most judicious, sage decision, It may be he writes poetry himself. If that be true then may the muses flout him, And play upon him all unworthy pranks. Mav every editor in the country scout him. And all his poems be ???declined with thunks.??? And now I read again the little verses I thought so periect; it must be confessed This line is bad, and that one surely worse is. And this thought is certainly ill-expressed. It may be that my vanity deceived me; It mav be neither jealousy nor spite Inspired the critic who so sorely grieved me; It may be, after all, thc man was right. _ ???Carlotta Perry. Clicap Travel. New York Journal of Commerce. The railroad war waged in passenger rates last summer did not turn out disastrously. Though fares between thc principal cities east and west reached the lowest point ever known, thc earnings of the competing lines from this source were not unsatisfactory. This question still remains to be solved???to wiiat extent can fares be reduced so as to increase the volume of receipts on that account more than the consequent expenditures? This will be determined, not by tierce competition, where each rival is trying to injure the others, but by careful tests made for the sole purpose of get ting at the truth. Thc English railroad companies are now deriving the bulk of their increase from the third-class or cheapest travel. This com prises 63 per cent of all their passenger receipts, naving grov.-n to that proportion from 27 per cent in 1850. In other words, the effect of low third-class rates has been to increase the volume of that kind John Stewart, aged 102, the oldest man in Ala- bama, died a few days ago. Josiah Sparks of Kentucky, aged 85, has wed Miss Helen Joseph, agtd 18 New counterfeit five dollur gold pieces are being circulated in Nashville, Tenn. ??? Lexington, Ky., boasts of a seven-pound potato of the Southern Queen variety. * Twelve miles of water pipe is now in use by the Houston, Texas, water company. Only eight men have died in the Kentucky peni- eutiary within the last two years. 1 Messrs. HAMH.TON, near Mt. Sterling, Ky., are now handling .>,000 breeding ewes. Streams in Middle Alabama are aotv dry that never were known to go dry before. Two French gentlemen are going to manufacture native 1 exas wines at Sail Antonio. A farm in Bourbon county, Ky., containing 140 acres sold recently at 8140 per acre. Tiie groves of E. K. Highlcy, of Lake Geotfce, Florida, will yield 300,090 this winter. Norfolk, Virginia, is soon to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of its settlement. A child was recently bom in Pendleton countv. Ky., with twenty iingersund twenty toes. A Germ a n agent is in Kentucky prospecting for a sue for ii colony of Khiuish wine-growers. ??? - -r-*?. Six thousand four hundred nnd twenty-seven dogs ure listed in Barren county, Kentucky. Lexington, Ky., is afflicted with 40odd candi dates for the various city and county offices. Rope and yam mills at Tuscaloosa, Ala., have been exempted from city taxes for ten years. Warren county. Kentucky, has tliirtv represent atives in the lunatic asylum at Hopkinsville. A bill-poster for Coup???s circus died with typhoid fever at Cleveland. Tennessee, u few days ago. Charleston, South Carolina, is to have a paid fire department, at a cost of ??35,000 per nminm. Frank Lebocaught 275 mullet from 7 to 10o???clock near Drayton island, Florida, witli a small net. Coal oil is oozing up in an eiglity-one feet deep well near Rellcbucklc, Bedford county, Tennessee. S. I>. McIntyre, of Trimble county, Ky., sold over ??7,000 worth of peaches from hLs orchard this season. The first manufacture of translucent porcelain in the l nited Stales was established in New Orleans hist spring. Water is so scarce in Lawrence county, Alabama tnat washer women complain, and boiled shirts are hard to get. ??? Lemons are being shipped north from the Like Weir, Marion county, Fla., neighborhood, in large quantities. Dr. Roberts, of New Orleans, is introducing the eotton seed butter. He says that it i.s superior to toe Cow i??ro<lu??:t. White county, Tenn., during the last three years, has realized to owners a quarter of a million of dol- lars in timber. Colonel H. P. Holcombe and wife, of Selma, Ala., recently celebrated the sixiy-third anniversary 01 their marriage. Some cotton fields in Gonzales county, Texas???! will mikcagood toperop of cotton while the worm; have Liken others. During the fiscal year 473,000 acres of public lands in Arkansas have been disposed of by tiie United States government. Colonel Milton Young, of Henderson, Ken tucky, thc nice horseman, won at the spring and fall races ??37,485 net. A Whitley county,Kentucky, girl committed sui cide because her sweetheart gave his pants to another girl to mend. A Memphis, Tenn., painter, who moved to I.cad- ???Vilie, Colorado, a few years ago, is now the owner of a mine worth ??1,0U9,000. Allf.n, West & Bush, of New Orleans, are the largest cotton receivers in the world. Last season they received 143,000 bales. The Pullman palace car company has been sued for S1>0,000 worth of taxes owed to the state of Ala bama and county of Montgomery. Reverend T. C. Dudley is ninety vears old, is in Kentucky, and is preaching to a congregation that he has been pastor of for sixty years. Mil Hull, of Greene county, Alabama, says he has been farming forty years and never before this year got his cotton crop gathered in October. Two pauper inmates of the Aiken poor house were married on Sunday last. The groom is seventy years o.d, while the bride is only thirty-three. Richard Monoque, of Nicholas county, Ken tucky, is sixty years old. Iiis grandfather died at the age of 120, and his grandmother at the age of Ponder on These Truths. Torpid kidneys, and constipated 1 rowels, arc tlie great causes of chronic diseases. Kidney-Wort lias cured thousands. Try it and you will add one more to their number. Habitual costiveness afflicts millions of the ???Anjerican people. Kidney-Wort will cure it. Kidney-\\ ort has cured kidnev complaints of thirty years standing. Try it. See adver tisement. Senator David Davis lives in a beautiful home just on the outskirts of Bloomington, Illinois, it 1* one of the finest residences in the state, and is presided over by a niece of the late Mrs. Davis. His friends think the senator has resigned forever all ambitious for the presidency. Colonel John C Whltncr, Of Atlanta, Georgia, says lie owes his life to 5\ amer s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. oetlO???d2w sun wcdA-fri <fc \v2w Tiie snuff box which Andrew Jackson, Y i??L k ??? - II is ma de of tortoiseshell, silver-lined and bearing several inscriptions.