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TITE "WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, NOVEMBEIi 1, 1881.
IN ROME.
EETING FAMILIAR FACES IN ST.
PETER'S.
The Stars and Stripes Floating Over a Peanut Stand
in Nap] s-The Perplexities of a Consulship???
The Heavy Debt of Italy and High Taxes
???The Church Property Question.
Special Correspondence Constitution.
Home, Italy, August 27.???One notable inci
dent I have overlooked in iny letter relating
to Naples. Those really useful, but not much
criticized, public servants, the American con
suls, are not as hearty in the recognition of
their countrymen as the traveler feels to be
right anil natural in itself. Travelers are not
always reasonable beings???indeed many of
them are exceedingly unreasonable and trou
blesome???and 1 do not blame the consul who
trembles at the appearance of an American
face in his office. It is usually the harbinger
of woe to his good nature, his time, patience
and purse. So many have become ???short???*of
friends, applied to the consuls, and broken
faith with them afterwards, that I think those
officers are justified in manifesting a rather
reserved attitude to the traveling colonics that
are constantly going and coming alioiit them.
Knowing this state of tilings, I have not in
any plucc sought to find out the consul, ex
cept in Naples, and he was absent from home
at the time.
Not quitemal apropos are these reflections,
for 1 was in this train of thought on my first
evening in Naples, as 1 was walking up the
fumotis Toledo street, when my eye caught
the sight of our national Hug???the "stars and
stripes"???unfolded and kissing the cool breezes
from the bay of Naples. It was the lirst time
] had seen my country???s flag in real bunting
since I landed iit> Europe. The feelings it
awakened only an American in a distant land
can conceive or realize. I was some distance
away, on the lower side of the street, before
the steep plane which leads to the royal pal
ace. Moreover, the flag was in motion, but
slowly, as if the bearer was carrying it at the
head of a procession. A variety of conjectures
entered my mind as to the meaning of this
proceeding, and I hastened, as much as the
throng of men, women, children, dogs, goats,
carts, wagons, omnibuses, carriages and pack-
luules would allow me, to overtake the bearer
of the American banner. He was moving
slowly, for the pavement is steep, and yet it
took me some time to overtake bin). At the
rounding of the street, on the inner side of
the piazzetta, or small square, 1 overhauled
my national Hag, and found it proudly waving
over a peanut stand!
.Shades of the iieroes of war, and the sages
of peace! Has it come to this? Is the ground-
pea the associate of the American ensign in
foreign lands? Is it the one distinctive pro
duct of the United States that deserves to he
considered truly national? On board the
"Batavia,??? in linen pouches resting ui>oii
sterling silver dishes, I had seen roasted
ground-peas brought in at the finale of every
dinner on board the ship. That was the first
time I had ever seen the peanut introduced
at the table, although I may say, that bein
native of 8avannali, Ga., I bail from the land
of the goobers. To make them tiie crownin;
dessert on board a British ship was liigl
honor, but to Imve the goober exalted to the
lofty station occupied by it in Naples, and to
see a Hag seven or eight feet in length hoisted
over the peripatetic box of roasted peas is a
sublimity of grandeur which 1 never expected
to lie reached by the products of the sandhills
of Georgia!
I had some conversation with the ground
pea vender; but he was too busy in measuring
and weighing Ids peas to the hungry crowd,
and 1 could only extract from him???the fact
that he had never been to America, and knew
no more about the United States than he did
of the land of the /ulus. My readers can
draw their own conclusions as???to the signili
cance of this event. I am confident that night
and day, so long as that trader lives in Naples;
the "stars and stripes??? will botli shelter the
goobers and tlieir friendly folds, and invite a
wondering multitude to invest a few pennies
in the great American luxury, roasted pea
nuts
How pleasant is the sight of an old friend
in a foreign land! I am not now alluding
the ground-peas, hut to a very different sub
ject. Yesterday morning 1 was taking down
notes of the measurements of the great
churches in the world, recorded and marked
by brazen stars on the floor of St, Peter'
church, when 1 saw a group of gentlemen ap
proaching me with extended hands. They
were Rev. Drs. Potter, Calloway and Andrews
together with the son of Dr. Calloway???three of
them from Georgia, and the other???from Ala
bama. We had been in the city, not more
than ten minutes' walk apart, for nearly two
days and knew nothing of the fact that we
were near each other. In the evening I spent
several hours whh these gentlemen, recount
ing our several experiences of travel. It was
to me a most refreshing interview. For more
than a month 1 had been alone, meeting no
one I had known in other days, and for three
successive stoppages it was my???fortune to occn
py a hotel as the one solitary guest! In Flor
ence, Naples and in Koine f have been alto
gether alone. This is not the season for travel
in Italy. The king, Humbert, his family and
court, are away among the northern lake???s and
Austrian hills. Everybody that "summers
it??? in the cool groves and shady walks of
mountain retreats is gone from Koine, and
outy the ordinary traffic in small and trifin,,
goods engages the attention of resident mer
chants. Palaces are closed???the owners are
away. The [>oj>e is in a sour humor, foment
ing thereby a public opinion that will make
itself known by no uncertain sounds before
many moons have passed.
So, solitary as 1 have been, the encounter
with my Georgia and Alabama friends was an
oasis in the desert here. For the time our
native land and its associations came back to
me in refreshing force, and I parted from
them with regret. To-day they take the
journey over which I have already passed,
and. Providence pemitting, we shall meet iii
London two weeks hence.
1 know not whether a detailed description
of the sights and scenes in Home would inter
est the readers of The Constitution. We are
all so familiar with them, from books of
travel, that they require a facile pen to make
themattrativenow. Fortliepresent.tlien.I will
give attention to some matters that relate to
the kingdom ??.f Italy, and to the political for
tunes ot the dethroned potentate that declares
liimself a "prisoner??? in the Vatican.
There can be no question that tbe union
the Italian states under one head is a blessing
to these lands. In former ages the oppression
of the people kept up petty royalties in ex
pensive and luxurious state, without any
compensating advantages. The existence of
little uioniuchies side by side was the occa
sion of endless strife and disastrous wars.
K??<-!i dukedom and principality had its army
and some of them a navy, and all the expen
ditures were paid by a people wiio had little
cause for promoting industry, and hoped only
to secure the necessaries of ???life. Out'of tli???e
soil comes, at the last analysis, the wealth
n nation???and the soil of Italy is not rich
fertile. No motives to skilled agriculture ex
isting, tiie land did not. and does not now.
produce a fair reward for labor expended on
At last the states of Italy have become one
kingdom. The history of the events leading
to this great result forms some of the highest
-chapters in t^ie records of the nineteenth cen
tury. To favour, the statesman of Sardinia,
the great success is justly regarded as a per
sonal triumph Aided by a wise and patriotic
king, the whole ot Italy was eventually em
braced under the a-gis of a common Hag
and a uniform administration. The difficul
ties in the way were far greater than those
confronted Bismarck in tiie unification of the
German people. Above all was the shadow
a great spiritual empire, claiming to hold
divinely given possession the keys of do
minion oil earth and in heaven. Iii spite of
remonstrance, threats, denunciations, bulls
and ex-communications, the royal band held
firmly the reins of the advancingjehariot, anil
drove it at last in triumph to Koine, the capi
tal of Caesars. Public opinion was prepared
for the event, and no mere words ot mortal
man, be he "infallible,??? or otherwise, can af
fect tbe present status. A wise pope, advised
by sensible cardinals, ???would accept the situa
tion??? and move on with the current of the
times. But Leo the Thirteenth is not a wise
pope. Neither has he advisers who read the
signs of the times to profit by them.
The creation of the new kingdom was inev-
tably attended by the creation of a great debt
hiuh Italy is poorly able to pay. Confronted
by sea and land with hereditary enemies, she
compelled to support an army of 2.30,000
men. This immense expenditure is only a
small part of the public burden, which indus
try must carry. As a consequence the taxes
are high. There are murmurs of complaint
by tiie people of Turin and of Florence. In
the latter city the municipal government, on
the removal af the capital to Florence, incur
red a vast debt in improvements which adorn
and beautify the city, but the king and the
government removed to Home, and left Flor
ence with a depleted population and an over
whelming debt. Tbe national government
is not able to pay it, and the Florentines must
doit. My guide informed me as we drove
through the beautiful park on the bank of
the Arno, that real estate was
taxed fully forty per cent at the present
time! I thongbt???tlns an error, but he gave
me the figures and assured me that he was
correct. Whether lie was or not, there is no
doubt that the whole of Italy is subject to
severe taxation. The exports are increasing
and will continue to inweasc, but this, an
apparent benefit to tbe whole country, is a
great hardship to the laboring classes. The
export of products of the soil increases the
cost of living and bears hardly ujion the poor.
If the national exposition at Milan shall
eventuate in the introduction of improved
implements of husbandry, this evil will be
partly remedied. But improvements are not
readily adopted by Italian farmers. They
are as slow to perceive tbe advantages of deep
blowing, the use of fertilizers and many
ibor-saving tools, as some of the old time
farmers in America. But the age is one of
progress. Irrigation of the soil, properly eon
ducted, would more than double tbe products
of many miles of Italian territory.
But the great problem that confronts tiie
government now, is the status of the church.
The question of the temporal power of tiie
jope is no longer a debatable one. That issue
i s settled. The pope of Kome will never he a
temporal prince again. No congress of nations
could force such a state of tilings upon a peo
ple who have once enjoyed the benefits of
far superior system of government. About
the worst establishment that ever bore the
name of sovereignty, was the papal dominion
in the states of tiie church. It crushed out
very aspiration of the people and came very
near making the whole territory a desert.
It is not now an issue whether the pope
shall be a temporal prince. Enthroned ut
the Vatican, as a spiritual lord, if lie were
wise he might remain the head of a church,
hut not the ruler of a i>eople. But the con
stant antagonism of busy partisans, the irrita
tion consequent upon appeals to the super
stition of the so-called "religions,??? and tiie
incendiary opposition to the civil rulers???all
these, anil more influences have created a
powerful party, already in the ascendant,
and destined to shape the policy of the gov
ernment. This party calls fertile withdrawal
of tiie immunities granted to the pope. The
civil jiower lias tendered him enougn to sup
ply every want, and every ambition of a
reasonable head of a church. _ This, Pio
Nono spurned, and liis successor is following
in Ids footsteps. Tiie hostility recently mani
fested against the dead pope has been followed
by occurrences that have a prophetic outlook.
Oil the walls of one of the churches I read,
this morning, an appeal from one of the car
dinal officers of the papal establishment. In
it is recounted, in the most bitter language,
the dishonor and outrage perpetrated against
the Virgin Mary by an assault and indignity
to one of lier shrines on the morning
of the third of August. The particu
lars of this outrage I have not seen
but the fact is significant. A people whose
genius is demonstrated in works of science and
art, like the Mount C-enis tunnel, is not to be
kept in leading strings like the intellectual
pigmies of the dark ages. They cannot re
turn to a religious system which differs from
the Roman faith of Augustus Ctesar, only in
the change of the names of patron saints, and
titular divinities. Baptized heathenism can
not hold its own against the progress of the
nineteenth century. Even the guides, who
attend visitors here, smile as they recount the
traditions, and legends, and absurdities which
have been cut in marble, and painted by tiie
master hands of other days. Anachronisms,
incongruities, falsehood, ???palpable and inde
fensible, must give way to truth and reason.
Not only is there a demand for the abroga
tion of the papal guarantees, but it is follow
ed by another more far-reaching in its results.
It is???tlie secularization of the property of the
church. Many millions of dollars are sunk
buried, to all intents and purposes, in gaudy
exhibitions in the churches. These may re
main, for they attract a profitable stream of for
eign travel. But there are ??? vast
properties which produce nothing-???are
useful in no way to state or people. These
lauds and properties, as in other Roman Cath
olic countries, so in Italy, are needed by a
starving people. The church must give them
up, sooner or later, with a good grace or an
ill grace, but give them up she must. The
glory of ??????the church??? may be lessened, but
the welfare of the people will be advanced,
There are many thousands of the male popu
lation that arc utterly worthless as citizens of
the state.
In northern Italy there are signs of thrift,
energy and comfort. Now and then, in Tu
rin. Milan and Venice, I saw a priest in his
forbidding and ungraceful garb on the streets,
In two days, in Naples, I saw a greater num
ber, three??? times multiplied, of these black-
habited gentlemen than in all Italy besides.
There, too, I saw what I have seen nowhere
else in Italy,Rome excepted???barefooted friars
and begging monks. This fact is eloquent in
itself. No man proposes to disturb the pro[>e
relation between the ministers of religion and
the people served by them. But the multi
tudes of men, in some cases a fourth or fifth
part of the male population, are not needed
in any reasonable system of religious faith.
Tlieir lives are indolent, when not pernicious
as reactionary agents employed to overturn
the government of the country.
As an economic question, then, the church
property issue is l<efore the Italian people,
and they will settle it precisely as it has been
settled elsewhere. The heart??? of Romanism
is dead; its pulse beats at intervals only as
spasmodic galvanism furnishes a muter which
popular faith can never again keep in vigor
ous action. The government of Italy is as
conservative as it edn be. witli an ???intense
popular pressure behind it. Slowly, tfUt
surely, the government moves forward.???whilst
the pope, shut up in tiie Vatican, refuses to
come out and show himself to his Hock,
Perhaps the most irritating object now in
the papal household is the Swiss guard. These
soldiers in their showy picturesque costumes,
represent a state of tilings which cannot be
reinstated On entering the puiacc of the
Vatican, yon see them in their brilliant uni
forms, kjoking with a melancholy expression
upon the few visitors who are passing by them.
They have been the pretorian guard, the
janissaries of the pope, but now that he is
merely a subject and a citizen, they are ab-
surdly out of place. Once a menace to tbe
populace of Rome, they are now a subject of
intense hatred, mingled with scorn on the
part of those who would toss them into the
Tiber, if they opposed for a moment the popu
lar will.
King Humbert is personally popular, and
much of the honor and affection felt for his
father has been transferred to the son. By
those who know him well, he is said to be a
man of rather indolent habits, but amiable
and honorable in all tbe relations of life.
Tbe queen, judging from tbeportraitsof her in
the shops, is a woman of remarkable physical
beauty, a truly Roman matron, as one con
ceives that character belonging to the golden
age of history. The whole royal family has
tbe respect and esteem of the people???, and
their presence in Rome has given a new life
to the eternal city. In external Hnish tiie
new buildings exceed, of course, the venera
ble piles of ancient Rome. Tokens of prog
ress, of trade, of pros[>erity appear in a large
number of new and costly buildings now be
ing erected. One of the finest modem fronts,
not yet completed, has the rather singular
announcement in large letters on the wall:
"Old England will open here on the first of
October proximo.??? I suposed this ???Old
England??? was a grand hotel in process of
erection, but my guide informs me that it is
only a mercantile establishment for the dis
posal of English goods of a .-pedal character.
The paper of largest circulation (13,000
copies daily) is the Popolo Romano, which
contains, in tiie issue of to-day, two columns
of editorial iu reply to the Voce della Verita
(the voice of truth). This latter paper, I pre
sume, for I have not read it, is advocating the
cause of the [>opc against the king and people.
The Roman People gallantly defends the spirit
of progress, and affirms that the pope is as
free to write, print and publish whatever lie
wishes as any man in Italy???that he receives
any communication sent??? hint from any part
of tiie world. No constraint is placed* upon
his personal movements. He can go and
come whenever and wherever lie pleases. No
attempt has been made to put any kind of
constraint upon him, and, in a word, if he is
a prisoner, he is his own keeper, and his own
Swiss guard are the only soldiers that stand
between him and the world outside. With
his spiritual jurisdiction no Interference of
any kind has been thought of, and he is to
day as free a man as Gregory the Thirteenth
or any other of iiis predecessors, except in the
single fact that, as a temporal prince, he has
no longer the power to oppress his people.
The tone of this article is manly, candid and
cogent.
The paper itself is a curiosity. Tiie print
is very poor, and the paper dingy and coarse.
In the matter of advertisements it has a little
more than one column. An eighth part of
these are called ???Correspondence,??? but are
similar to tbe ???Personal??? column of the New
York Herald. Eight notices of places are
???for rent,??? and the remainder are of a mis
cellaneous character. The telegraph items
are moderately full. Sad intelligence, dated
Washington, August 26, at 9 p.m., last night,
appears here. The president is reported to be
no better, and the worst fears may be realized
at any moment.
By the way, an odd story was told me in
Florence. The morning after Mr. Garfield???s
assassination the American consul in Florence
hung out tiie black Hag from his consulate,
and the whole city was soon aroused to know
the meaning of this strange ensign. The idea
of putting his office in mourning for the sup
posed death of the president was natural
enough, but a black Hag seems to be a strange
method of expressing the feelings of the con
sul. I give tiie story as it was told to me at
the hotel hard bv the consulate.
* W. I??. H.
Malaria In Any of Its Form**,
chills and fever, congestive chills can be pre
vented or cured by the use of Simmons Liver
Regulator, a purely vegetabte medicine, supe
rior to calomel and quinine.
Genuine prepared only by J. H. Zoilin <fc Co.
AFFAIRS IN GEORGIA,
VS REPORTED BY THE CONSTITU
TION???S CORRESPONDENTS.
The Besult of the Talbot County Fair???A Collection of
Natural Curiosities Embracing Over Twelve
???Hundred Specimens???The West Georgia
Fair at LaQrange???Press Clippings.
Herr vox Bismarck, son of (lie German
chancellor, will, it is reported, be appointed German
minister at Washington.
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint.
Is it not worth the small price of 75 cents to free
yourself ofceverv symptom of these distressing com
plaints. If you think so call ut our store and get a
bottle of Shiloh???s Vilalizcr, every bottle has a printed
guarantee on it, use accordingly and if it does you
no good it will cost yon nothing. Sold by all drug
gists. 502 julyl7???d6mcow tues thur sat&weow
Vineland, N.
burial association,
funerals.
J., has started a reformed
to cut down the expenses of
The poor and humble, alike with the rich
and powerful, find in Dr. Bull???s Cough Syrup
a true, tried and trusted friend. Price 25 cents
a bottle.
At the recent election in Iowa not a single
democratic vote was east in Dickinson county.
Forty Yearn* Experience of an Old Knme.
Mrs. Winslow???s Soothing Syrup is the prescrip-
Uon of one of the best female physicians and nurses
in the United States, and has been used for forty
years with never-failing success by millions of
mothers for their children. It relieves the child from
pain, cures dysentery and diarrhiea, griping in the
bowels and wind-colic. By giving health to tiie child
it rests the mother. Price '25 cents a bottle.
mar26???dly sat snn wed&wly
An heiress can afford to wear any tiling, from
a hateful frown to a love of a bonnet. ???
BURNETT???S COCOAINE
PROMOTES A VIGOROUS AND HEALTHY GROWTH OF
THE HAIR.
It has been used in thousands of cases where
the hair was coming out, and has never failed
to arrest decav. Use BURNETTS FLAVOR
ING EXTRACTS???the best.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague has returned to
Washington.
Ited Lip* and flony Cbcekn.
Wheeling, West Virginia, May 30, 1881.
I am an old physician, and have lost many
of my youthful prejudices. Learning of the
great???good done by a certain remedy in re
storing to robust health a former patient of
mine who suffered severely from several
chronic ailments resulting from weak pul
monary, digestive and urinary organs, and
whom I was unable to benefit with my most
careful treatment, I determined to prescribe
it. I have done so, and the results have in
variably been most satisfactory. Under its
use the??? blood becomes richer, the digestive.,
urinary and pulmonary organs are made
strong and perforin their natural functions
readily and without pain; all decay seems to
be immediately checked and the progress of
the disease arrested; tiie pulse becomes fuller
and stronger, the lips red and the cheeks rosy
tiie temperature increased and more uniform,
the action of the heart regular, and the mus
cular strength greatly invigorated. In justice
to the inventors, I will say -this remedy is
Brown???s Iron Bitters; it is a preparation of
iron and vegetable tonies; contains no alcohol
and is the only preparation of iron in a per
fectly assimilable form and that does not
blacken the teeth. I have never known it to
fail to give permanent strength to every part
of the body, or to injure the most delicate
constitution. I have known it to assist in
curing manyfdironic diseases when all other
remedies ha???d failed.???M. D. octSOd&wlw
President Pro Tem Davis denies that he
contemplates a southern tour. He says that as soon
as the senate adjourns he will go to Illinois, to re
main until the regular session of congress.
The highest hopes and interest of the race
rest on the purity, health and strength of
womanhood. We take pleasure in referring
our readers to the remarkable efficacy of Lydia
E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound in??? all
that class of diseases from which women suf-
er so much. oetlO dlw fri sun&wed
???Senator McPherson, of New Jersey, has bought
the Marry mansion, facing LuFayette square,
in Washington.
We are strongly disposed to regard that per
son as the best physician who does most to al
leviate human suffering. Judged from this
standard, Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, 233Westeru
avenue. Lynn, Massachusetts, is entitled to
the front rank, for her Vegetable Compound
is daily working wonderful cures in female
diseases. Send for circular to the above ad
dress.
oct9 dlw sun weil fri <fc wlw
Senator Bayard???s wife is an invalid and
rarely receives or makes calls.
By Mail pun Wire to The Constitution.
Griffin, October 29.???Spalding county took
another stride last Wedesday in the right
direction, and by a vote direct from the
mouths of the people, blew a blast which
swept the question of ???fence??? years to the
rear. It took considerable nursing and coax
ing to get the matter down fine enough for
all classes to see it. but thanks to the energy
of such men as S. W. Bloodwortli, S. H. Wil
son, H. Padgett, and other sold men of the
county, this was at last accomplished. To
Mr. M. G. Dobbins, also, of Bartow county,
is due much of the credit for the hard work
of canvassing for ???no fence.??? Mr. Dobbins
lias convincing proofs that there???s
money saved in keeping stock enclosed, and
is doing valued services to the state by his
efforts to abolisli the old time and proverbial
snake fence. The vote was much stronger
Wednesday than was anticipated, and out of
over 1,000 ballots, fully tliree-fourths were for
no fence.??? The full returns are not yet in
r I would state it accurately. Men who
claim to know say that Wednesday???s work
increased the value of property in Spalding
twenty-five per cent; so that if we were
worth??? two millions then, we can sing
now to tiie tune of two and a half
millions. If this be true, and 1 do not
pretend to doubt it, it is a snug sum and well
worth the walk to the polls it took to get it.
At another time 1 propose to give tiie readers
of The Constitution some very valuable fence
statistics compiled by Mr. W. J. Kincaid,of this
itv, which contain some very pertinent as
well as startling facts. Griffin was thrown
into quite a fever of social agitation this week
over a most unexpected marriage by which
we lost one of our most lovable and brilliant
young ladies. Professor J. E. Withcrs[>oon,
formerly of Athens but now of Valdosta, was the
gentleman who did tiie surprising, and Miss
Will Ora Randall, tiie young lady whom lie
claimed as a bride. The affair was totally
unexpected by any one here. They were
married quietly at the residence of the young
lady???s mother by llev. M. McN. McKay, and
that afternoon, Wednesday, left for Valdosta.
Mr. William T. Logan, of Boston, Mass.,
after an absence of over seven years, is on a
visit to his father???s family here. Tiie offi
cial vote on the fence question, as handed by
Ordinary Hammond,is as follows: Fence. 264;
no fence, 662; majority for no fence 398.
One of the most remarkable cows in the
history of the bovine race has just come under
the observation of your reporter. Her cowship
is owned by Mr. S. B. McWilliams of this city.
She is just like any ordinary cow with
an exception which I shall name witliin a
few lines. She gives her two gallons of pure,
ricli milk twice every day and goes about her
business without saving a word. The strange
history connected with her is that she lias
had eleven [.airs of twins and every mornin
when sent to the pasture carries in her wake
the twenty-two calves. There is no myth
about tliis*story but it is vouched for by some
of our best people.
IIawkixsville, October 27.???Tiie steam saw
mill of Messrs. Sikes it Knight, about three
miles east of Hawkinsville, was destroyed by
fire last night, with about six thousand feet of
lumber. The shed covering the mill was en
veloped in Hamcs when discovered, but they
succeeded in saving the bulk of tlieir lumber.
Tiie loss is about two thousand dollars, and
tiie mill is supposed to have been tired by an
incendiary. With their characteristic energy
these young men have gone to work to replace
tiie mill, which is indispensable to our
rapidly growing town. At tbe same
mill, on yesterday, one of the
hands, Kirk Daniels, colored, was killed
while using the "cant hook??? in rolling a log
to the saw the hook slipped, throwing him
backward, his neck striking tiie edge of a sill
and breaking it, which resulted in his death
a few minutes. Mr. Frank S. Merritt
died at tiie residence of his brother-in-law
Captain 11. W. Anderson, on Monday night
last, after a brief illness. This noble young
gentleman returned about a month
since from Atlanta, where he had been at
tending eomroeeial school, and where he
made many friends, who, with his comrades
here, will regret to learn of his death. His
mother, who was at the time of his death vis
iting relatives and friends in Connecticut,
was telegraphed on Monday of his serious ill
ness, and on Tuesday of his death, and his
bodv was embalmed to await her return for
burial. He was a son of our venerable friend
Air. Simon Alerrttl, and brother of our clever
young merchant, Ras Merritt. 1 should
have given you a notice sooner of the
marriage of Judge Hiram Dennis, of
Troup county, to Airs. Saliie B. Oliver,
of our city, which occurred on tiie 8th in
stant, at tiie bride???s residence. Judge Deunis
is one of Troup's most- honored citizens, and
by the way a staunch friend and regular sub
scriber of The Constitution. Alore sick
ness prevails in our community than has been
known forscveral years. General O. C. Howe,
Captain J. B. Mitchell, Air. L. J. Rivers, of tiie
Joiner house, and Mr. J. S. Willis, I am
pleased to state are convalescing. Air. Eugene
Pound, recently from Barnesville and a com
positor in tiie Dispatch office, is quite sick.
George Word has another heir which he
has christened ???Bold-Faced Brevier.???
delegation from this association to the
cotton growers .convention on November 2d,
???'ill be heard from. The census department
rote Air. Whitaker to have them apiniinted.
We expect some ??????exposition??? people here.
B. F. Avery it Sons gave us eight fine plows,
worth $70.00. They are liberal gentlemen,
and have tiie finest lots of such tilings in the
south. A whipped quilt, 70 years old, a
miniature spta>l with thread No. lot) twenty-
five years oid, two hundred bird eggs from
LongTslami, a barrel chair and a wood chair
of Geireral Evans, deceased, 130 years old,
once owned by George Washington arc among
the curiosities. The veritable hatchet with
which George cut the cherry tree is looked
for, and it is said one of tiie directors saw
George ???a chopping??? on it. Doubtless true.
Decatur, October 29.???On last Tuesday Jack
Moore, Elijah New, and a colored mail named
Jesse Smith were returning from Atlanta on
tiie Flat Shoal road. When about four miles
from Atlanta tiie mules commenced to run
down the hill at Sugar creek, and Moore at
tempted to jump from the wagon ami fell on
his head. His feet caught???and lie was dragged
several yards. He was so badly injured that
he never spoke after he fell, and died yester
day morning. He was a well known citizen
of I???anthersville district, in this county;
about 59 years old, and has many friends to
mount liis death. Hon. William Smith, a
son-in-law of Robert Jones of this place, and
member of the legislature from Titus county,
Texas, passed through Decatur yesterday on
his way to Buford, Ga. He was accompanied
by his family, and will prabably make Buford
his future home.
Albany, October 26.???The dwelling of Air.
A. B. Weslow, on Fine street, was totally con
sumed by fire at 7 o???clock tliis morning.* Tbe
furniture, much of which was costly, was
mostly saved in a damaged condition??? The
building was insured in tiie Southern Alutual
of Athens for $1,100. .The furniture was also
insured in another company. Tiie active ex
ertions of our colored firemen fortunately [ire-
vented tiie spread of the Haines to any of the
adjoining buildings. Aiany of tiie" private
residences in Albany are mere tinder boxes,
and there is very little hope of extinguishing
a fire once fairly started. Tiie fire in tliis case
was caused by a stove in the dining room.-
Uool weather has returned again, but still no
rain.
Decatur, October 27.???Airs. William Hud
gins, who moved with her family to this
county last year, from Westminster, South
Carolina, and has since lived at the Davis
homestead, about five miles east of Decatur,
died tliis morning, after a lingering illness of
several weeks. She was about sixty years old.
???Aliss Lizzie Bryce, of Brandy Branch, and
Alisses Fannie and Katie Dupray, of Baldwin,
Florida, are spending si few weeks at the
pleasant home of Judge John Bryce, near this
dace. I)r. Joseph Green, a highly respecta-
de young physician, and graduate of the
Atlanta Southern medical college, left yester
day evening for Bastrop, Alorehouse parish,
Louisiana, where lie expects to make his future
home.
Talrottox, October 28.???Among tiie exhib
its at our county fair was the private collection
of natural curiosities, minerals and relies of
Air. J. W. T. Jones, a worthy gentleman of
this county. ITis collection embraces twelv
hundred specimens and is perhaps the largest
private collection of the kind iu the United
States. He has been twenty-
five years getting it together.
^Jr. S. B. Owen, an old citizen of the county,
was found dead in the public road between
this place and Geneva on Alonday evening
bust, lie had started to the pine forests below
here on a hunting expedition, and died sud
denly of heart disease in his buggy on the
way. The saddest death we have had in
many a day was that of our sheriff', Air. Jame;
A. Foster, on the 14th of this month. He
died of typhoid fever. He was only 28 years
old, and one of the most popular young men
ever raised in the county. Air. John W.
Parker, of Prattsburg, one of the oldest and
wealthiest citizens of our county, died at hjs
home yesterday morning. He was about
years ???old. -Air. B. J. Blanton, one of
Talbot???s worthiest citizens, had h
right arm terribly lacerated in
steam gin on Alonday last. The under or
fleshy part of tiie arm was tom to pieces from
the liand to the shoulder, and there are fears
that amputation may be necessary. Airs.
Virginia Gardner, a most estimable lady and
sister * of Hon. Henry Persons, died in this
city on Tuesday morning last of consumption.
LaG range, Octolier 28.???This place is all
ablaze witli tiie West Georgia fair. By ten
o???clock yesterday Secretary Whitaker and his
assistants were hard, at work. The agricultu
ral, ornamental, poultry, cattle and fine art
departments are very popular. The ???best set
of men??? in this section of the country are the
officers of the fair. Some young men run the
delicately difficult parts of its machinery.
Best of all, her big farm display is to be ship
ped right to your exposition. Alessers. Thorn
ton, Reid, Fannin, Rachels, Jones and Swan
son will require space in your spacious halls,
for they are invincible farmers. Look out for
Troup.* Some "git up and git??? races yester
day tested speed and money. For to
day Gray Eagle, Duster, Hood and
Baugh???s Firefly are entered. While
Blackbaze, Quickstep, Reids and Loyd'
Zollie K and Lovett???s Ringleader are to
trot Also fine races to-morrow. ???Forfeits
are up.??? Harris and Aloriwetlier counties
have fine delegations here. Hogatis-
ville is also visiting us. The
Dr. ,T. LEO AIINGLE, of Newburytown,
Pa.,-says: "Liebig Go???s Coca Beef Tonic lias
given me more thorough satisfaction in my
practice than any tonic which I have [ire-
scribed. It is u???nequalcd as a nerve tonic,
etc.??? Beware of worthless imitations. Un
scrupulous tradesmen imitating it will be
prosecuted. oct28 dlw fri sun we&wlw
Warwick castle Has been holding high fes
tival uu the occasion of the heir anil his bride ar
riving there. Lady Wur.viek was "at home??? to 7,-
000 lK.ol.Ic.
Oil, What u Cough!
Will you heed ihe warning. The signal perhaps of
the sure approach of that most terrible disease eon-
sumption. Ask yourselves if you can afford for the
sake of Hiving 30 rents, to run the risk and do noth
ing for ii. We know. from experience that .Shiloh???s
Cure will cure your Cough. It never fails. This
explains why more than a million bottles were sold
the past year, it relieves Croup and Whooping
Cough at once. Mothers, do not be without it. For
Lame Hack, Side or Chest use Shiloh???s Fonts Plas
ter, Sold by all druggists.
502 julyl7???dCmeow mes thur satitweow
Secretary Hi nt will not be relieved front
the care of the navy until a soft spot is fixed for him
to fall for the rest of his life.
A YVooill-rfill KuiIncH Growth.
Tiie history of the widely known house of
Joseph Burnett A Co., of* Boston, shows a
large and flourishing industry, which has
grown from small beginnings. The ex. ensive,
business of tliis house, which has extended to
nearly every civilized country in the
world, had its origin in what might
be called an incident, or an acci
dent, some thirty years ago. At that
time Air. Joseph Burnett, the founder of tiie
house, was doing a large apothecary business
on Treinont street, opposite the Boston mu
seum.
A lady who had lived in Franeeand become
accustomed to French methods of cookery,
came into Air. Burnett???s store one day and
asked him if lie could not make a decent Fia-
oring Extract for her, as she found those in
common use abominable. She wanted an ex
tract of vanilht. This was made, which
pleased tiie lady very much, ami from tliis
simple beginning lias grown a business, one
single branch of which now consumes one-
fourth tiie entire Mexican product, which is
the only recognized best quality of Vanilla in ???
tiie world.
It may be here remarked that an extract of
the Tonka, or ???Snuff Heap,??? is largely made
and sold for Vanilla Extract, though tiie fla-
vor of tiie Tonka is no more to be compared
with the Vanilla than a buriloek is to a rose.
Some fifty persons are now directly employed
by tliis concern in the varied work of bot
tling, labelling, [lacking and boxing their va
rious Flavoring Extracts and Toilet Prepara
tions. all of which are of an altogether supe
rior nature.
Burnett???s Coconine is a remarkably tine
preparation in liquid form of deodorized Coco-,
anut Oil, for promoting the growth of the
hair and beautifying it, and it is generally ac
knowledged to produce a finer effect than
any other hair dressing.
Burnett???s Kaliiston sis a wash for the com
plexion, to allay irritation of the skin and
scalp, and for the bites of insects, stands un
rivalled among the preparations of the day.
Lately anil by accident it was discovered to
he ail almost sovereign remedy for itching;
piles.
Burnett's Cologne is really Cologne. The-
oil of lavender commonly used to make co
logne water with costs about $1.75 a pound,
while the Mitcham Oil of Lavender, used
by the Burnetts, is imported at a cost of
$26 a pound. Everything used in the Burnett
preparations are of the very best. The spirits,
used ate made specially for their use, and are
tiie purest product of the still that can be pro
duced. It is Air. Burnett???s pride to feel that
he is giving n%inferior article to the confid
ing public who patronize him. lie has asso
ciated with him ill his business two of liis
sons, whom lie has brought up in tiie way of
fair dealing, and the spirit of pride in the???pro-
duetion of superior goods which he has made
the system of his life, and they will no doubt
continue tiie business in that way when lie
shall have retired from its active pursuit,
which will not be in a few years, tor Air.
Burnett is a bale, young looking man at the
present time.
???The room wherein Garfield so lone lay ill in
the white house lias been freshly tinted, and the-
discolored sjiots made by the splashing of the medi
cines have been obliterated. It has not, however,
been refurnished.
Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound
will at all times, and underall circumstances,
act in harmony with the laws that govern the
female system. Address Airs. Lydia E. Pink-
ham, 233 Western avenue, Lynn, Alass., for
circular. oct30dl\v sun wed fri&wlw
The upper Alississippi is humping itself to
reach the high-water mark of 1851.
Air. Aliehael AIcCann, a well-known and
popular manufacturer, of Syracuse, New York
writes: "I felt generally debilitated and my
health failing me. I longed and prayed for
an iron constitution, that I might be rid of
the many annoyances of ill-health. But dys
pepsia and urinary troubles, attended by ner
vous prostration, had gotten hold of me* and
I felt my time had come. Nothing seemed to
give me any permanent relief. Finally I liap-
J iencd to see an advertisement of Brown???s Iron
titters. ???Bless me,??? says I, ???that???s just tiie
medicine for me precisely.??? And so it was.
By the powers of old Ireland, it has cured me
of all my troubles and given me a constitution
of iron.??? oct30d&\vlw
tl???Mark the aristocratic upstarts who talk of
???blood.??? Their ancestors were probably nothing
but hard working butchers.
MERCHANTS
Visiting Atlanta during the exposition will
find it to their interest by calling on Atkins,
AIcKeldin & Co., 35 Peachtree street, exantin
ing their stock of hats and caps and boots and
slioes before buying. They buy direct from
the manufacturers and can and will duplicate
eastern prices.
1153 oet25???wky tildee!5
???Among the visitors at the Y???orktown centennial
wus an old gentleman living SIX 1 miles from St.
Louis, He says that he is not remarkably patrioitc.
but that his grandfather participated in the siege oi
Yorktown, and he wants ???to see where the old man
tit.???;
HorsfordV Acid Phosphate
IN LASSITUDE.
I have used Hosford???s Acid Phosphate with
good success in lassitude and innervation.
Venice, 111. C. S. YOURKEE, AI. D.
???Jim Keene is said to have lost a half a million a
week by grain and stock speculations. Fast horses
cannot make this deficiency good.
See Here.
You are sick: well, there is just one remedy that
will cure you beyond possibility of doubt. If it???:
Liver or Kidney trouble. Consumption, Dyspepsia,
Debility, ???Wells???s Health Itenewer??? is vour hope.
$1. Druggists. Depot, Lamar, Itaukin ik Lamar,
Atlanta.
The first national college for tiie education
of females in France has been opened by M. Ferry,
iu person, at Montpelier.
???We have a speedy and positive cure for Catarrh,
Diphtheria, Canker mouth and Headache, in SHI
LOH???S CATARRH REMEDY'. A nasal injector free
with each bottle. Use it if you desire health and
sweet breath. Price 30 cents, a Sold by all drug
gists. 591 julylT???dr,meow tues thurs satAweow
???The approaching census of St. Petersburg will
he preceded by a systematic enumeration of the
houses as well as of each separate tenement in the
city and suburbs. In 18C9 the inhabitants amounted
to 900,000 souls.
Labor Saving.
The demand of tiie people for an easier
method of preparing Kidney-Wort has in
duced tiie proprietors, tiie well-known whole
sale druggists. Wells, Richardson & Co., of
Burlington, Vermont, to prepare it for sale in
liquid form as well as in dry form. It saves
all the labor of preparing, and as it is equally
efficient it is preferred by many persons.
Kidney-Wort always and everywhere proves
itself a perfect reni???edy.???Buffalo News.
???Thirty thousand copies of the Christmas num
ber of Har[>er???s Magazine will be sent to England.
Indulgent parents who allow their children*
to eat heartily of high-seasoned food, rich
[lies, cake, etc., will have to use Hop Bitters
to prevent indigestion, sleepless nights, sick
ness, [*ain, and, perhaps, death. No family is-
safe without them in the house.
Buffalo Rill is anxious to [day Hamlet. Hamlet
witli Indian attachment wouldn???t be so very bad.
The l!c*t VrooV or 3Icrit
Is unifoim success, and on this basis Warner???s- j
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure is without doubt Y
one of the greatest remedies in the land.
octl6???d2w sun wed&frnt\v2\v * :; Jp
???The will of Mrs. Alice U. Sehoonmakcr, of Pitf;;w '
burg, bequeaths $50,0001 > found a hospital for u/,
tured and crippled children.
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To PROMOTE A VIGOROUS GROWTH Of tllC lljjiWijjiv"
use Parker???s Hair Balsam. It restores t n
youthful color to gray hair, removes dandru .
and cures itching of the scalp. '-???H
sepl7???dim tues thursntAwlmsdp
???A Pittsburg man intends to build a house f .y|
glass bricks. He will be obliged to refrain from v
throwing stones.
Ask the man who lues suffered with Piles-
what lie most values. Undoubtedly lie will
say Tattler???s Buckeye Pile Ointment.
Oct29 dlw sat tues thurWkwlt
???The arrests the past year for depredations upon
the mails were 4G1, of whom 110 were in the j>ostaI !
service.
All forms of impaired vitality, mental ex
haustion, weakened digestion, etc., etc., radi
cally removed by using Brown???s Iron Bitters.
oet30d&wlw
???A seven-year-old boy in Harrisburg, Penn.,,
while ???playing circus??? a few days ago, stood upon
his head so long that lie was attacked with brain
fever and died in a few hours.
Opinion of a Rnltlmorcan.
I have used Dr. Bull???s Cough Syrup for some
time in my family and found it the best reme
dy for coughs, colds, etc., I ever tried.???Louis-
Bruning, 26 Caroline street.
???M. Zolas has no patience with his critics and in
cessantly chafes under their strictures, lie declare-
that he is going to gather all the abuse hcajred on
him iu print and publish it in one volnme entitled
???Their Insults..??? This, he says, will be his apolo-
HOSTETTEU???S BITTERS.
ONE OF THE REASONABLE PLEASURES
Of life, a properly cooked meal, affords little or no??
present enjoyment, and much subsequent torture-
to a confirmed dyspeptics. But when chronic in
digestion iscombated with Hostetler???s Stomach Bit
ters, the food is eaten with reli???li, and most import
ant of all, is assimilated by and nourishes the sys
tem. Use this graud tonic and corrective also???to
remedy constipation, biliousness, rheumatism^
fever and augue.
For sale by all Druggists and Dealers
generally.
novi???dim tues thur sat &wkylm lix rd mat
HEALTH IS WEALTH!
D r. E. C. WEST???S NERVE AND BKaRT
Treatment; a specific for Hysteria, Diz
ziness, Convulsions, Nervous Headache, Men
tal Depression, Loss of Memory, Spennator
hroea, Impotency, Involuntary Emissions, Pre
mature old age, caused by overexertion, self-abuse,
or overinduigtnce, which leads to misery, decay
end death. One box will cure recent cases. Each
box contains one month's treatment. One dollar a
box or six boxes for five dollars; sent by mall pre
paid on receipt of of price. We guarantee six boxes
to cure any case. With each order received by us
for six boxes, accompanied by five dollars, we will
rend the purchaser our written guarantee to return
the money if the treatment does not effect a cure.
Guarantees issued by LAMAR, RANKIN ?? LA
MAR, wholesale and retail agents, Atlanta and
Macon, Ga. Orders by mail will receive prompt at
tention. aprlo dJcwly