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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. . a 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