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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION JANUARY 3, 1882.
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ATLANTA, GA., JANUARY 3,1881.
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Don’t wait for the time to
expire and then miss Important
issues. Send in your subscrip
tions at once.
The new leaf is turned.
The Christmas headache is prevalent.
The "00 seem to enjoy all the benefits of
r, uilean’s act.
Several incendiary tires have occurred in
Georgia during the past week.
The first train on the Southern Pacific, for
New Orleans, will leave San Francisco next
Friday.
The interest charge of the United States
1ms decreased nearly $18,<XJO,000 during the
dosing year. _
Senator Hoar is now willing to pay such
southern claims as may he presented to his
committee by republicans.
The iron trade is declared to he unusually
active, and orders are so heavy that they can
not he immediately filled.
The live stock exports front the port of New
York, for the year ending November 30, rep
resent a value of $10,5.13,8011.
Gold coin and bullion to the value of $415,-
000 was brought to San Francisco from Aus
tralia by the steamship Australasian.
The grain export* for the past year were
valued at $200,033,71-1; the cotton exports,
$247,005,746; and provisions, $151,528,268.
Lieutenant Sciiwatk a proposes a balloon
voyage to the north pole. He thinks the cut
ting breezes less dangerous than the crushing
ice.
A G.YKii of New Mexican train robbers has
been placed under padlock, where it is ex-
jicctcd that the prisoners will reflect over their
misdeeds.
The organization of the John P. King man
ufacturing company, in Augusta, was per
fected on yesterday, with a capital of one
million dollars.
,A New ORLEANS mother was tired with the
desire that her four-ycar-old child should
excel in the use of firearms, and she paid the
penalty with her life.
Tea culture is tq ho added to the pf.-n'tlea-
hililicsm Florida. It is claimed that the
climate of that state hclotv latitude 28 is per
fectly adapted to such an industry.
The Mississippi river is now open for navi
gation as far north as St. Paul, and Lake Pe
pin is entirely free from ice; something never
before known at this season of the year.
A Vermont girl, less than fifteen years of
age, has been locked up in a New York jail
on a charge of bigamy. Senator Edmunds
should look after this phase of Mormonism.
The widespread prevalence of sinall-pox is
arousing vigilance in every section of the
country. The federal health authorities have
at lust been moved to take precautionary
■steps.
You no ladies should beware of the fascina
tions of egg-nogg. A Washington belle sipped
at the house of a friend, and found herself
unable to finish the journey home, had it not
Won for the friendly aid of the gentlemanly
}K>liceman. .
At last Judge Cox has come to the conclu
sion that the assassin is the villain and not
the hero of the trial, and respects public de
cency by putting the prisoner in the dock,
where lie should have been all the time.
German immigration during the year 1882
is to be greatly increased. Vessels from Bre-
nicn and Hamburg are laden with the Teu
tonic home hunters, who seek liberty and an
escape front disagreeable military exactions.
/ • •
The story of the disposition of the confed
erate treasure is told again this morning by
ottcof the officers whose duty it was to di
vide it out among the troops. Like all the
versions preceding it, it entirely vindicates
Mr. Davis.
Small-vox has reached an adjoining state.
Fifteen eases are under treatment at Milan,
Tennessee, and notwithstanding the precau
tions taken it is likely to spread still further.
It is, therefore, incumbent upon the people
to use every means necessary to prevent the
appearance of the pest in our midst.
The reign of blood during the past week,
which was so general as to be confined to no
section, furnishes a most convincing temper
ance lecture. That the festivitiesof theseason
should lead to dissipation, and dissipation
to murder, is not strange. Until men can
enjoy themselves in a rational way, little is
to be hoped for in the way of improvement.
It is gratifying to the pride of Georgians to
see that the slight placed upon Mr. lllount,
by the stalwart speaker, in not giving him
the proper committee recognition, is resented
hv all the reputable papers in the country.
Blount, Holntan and Randall are regarded as
the three most able guardians of the treasury
in the present congress.
There are, no doubt, many animal sto
ries and family legends which have not
yet Won gathered by “Uncle Remus," and
some of these must he familiar to the readers
of The Weekly Constitution. We would be
glad to have brief outlines of such as have
not already appeared in these columns. If
any of our readers know of such stories or
myths, they will greatly oblige us by sending
them to Mr. Joel C. Harris, care of TheUon-
stitution.
Of the 2,150 bills introduced in the house
during the two days or which hills were re
ceived, Alabama presented 29; Arkansas, 30;
California, 45; Colorado, 2; Connecticut, 21;
Delaware, 1; Florida, 8; Georgia, 24; Illinois,
141; Indiana, SI; Iowa, 62; Kansas, with
only three representatives, 131; Kentucky,
98; Louisiana. 80; Maine 48; Maryland, 56;
Massachusetts. 53; Michigan. 99; Minnesota.
43; Mississippi, 33; Missouri, 119; Nebraska,
14; Nevada, 3; New Jersey, 42; New York,
143; North Carolina, 133; Ohio, 150; Oregon,
17; Pennsylvania, 184; Rhode Island, none;
North Carolina, 16; Tennessee, 91; Texas,
73; Vermont, 24; Virginia, 56; West Virginia,
00; Wisconsin 38. The territories presented
bills as follows: Arizona, 2; Dakota, 21;
Idaho, 9; Montana. 8; New Mexico, 3; Wy
oming, 2.
• TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.
Within the next sixty days the subscription
of thousands of our weekly subscribers will
expire.
We hope that they will all find it conve
nient to remain with us during the opening
year. We have borne company with them
through many serious struggles—through
storm and sunshine—through victory and
defeat—and have come to have a sympathy
and friendliness for them, as a class and sin
gular. We have labored earnestly to make
The Constitution a welcome visitor to the
firesides of the farmers—intersting to all
who gather around their hearthstones.
We have endeavored to send it out freighted
with all the news, with practical suggestions,
with sound and wholesome advice, and with
good cheer. We have labored to help build
up the material interests of the state and assist
in the grand development if our resources
that is now going on.
The opening year will he one of the most
interesting in our history. It will witness
the progress of the grand indus
trial improvement that lias seized
our people. It will witness the canvas# for
govern >r and for congressmen, and will see
what will conic of the threatened dissolu
tion of par ies. We will endeavor to keep the
readei sof The Constitution thoroughly posted
on all that is passing, and advised as to all
that is being done. We have several features
that will add to the interest of the paper and
increase its value as a family journal. Send
your name in through your club agent, or di
rect to us at Atlanta. We wish you all a
happy and prosperous new year!
THE CLOSE OF THE EXPOSITION.
When Governor Colquitt yesterday touched
a valve and silenced the pulsations of the en
gine that gave life and vigor to the musical
tumult of the machinery, the most impor
tant event of the year, or of any year, so
far as the south is concerned, was brought to
a graceful and fitting close. Within a
few days the buildings, which have
been for many weeks filled with vast throngs
of spectators, will be stripped of their ex
hibits, and the greatest show of Ameri
can products ever gathered together in this
country will be a thing of the past.
We need not dwell here and now upon the
part taken by Atlanta in this event. It is
sufticieht to Say that until our citizens under
take something of more importance the cot
ton exposition will be referred to as
the crowning triumph of theif foresight,
their energy and their enterprise. It assumed
larger proportions than they dreamed of, but
they fitted themselves to these enlarged pro
portions, and they have the right to plume
themselves somewhat on the result of their
efforts.
But is the exposition really closed? The
machinery is silent, the gates are shut, and
the exhibits will soon be dispersed, but the
effects of the enterprise will be felt for
years to come in the impetus which it is
sure to give to the material development and
the industrial improvement of Georgia and
the south. The great success of the exposi
tion lies not in the fact that it enabled onr
people to witness the highest and most per
fect industrial development of other sec
tions, hut in the fact that it has
enabled everybody (our own people included)
to realize the nature and extent of the vast
material resources of the south. Wc believe
that the.information which lay heaped up in
the exposition building in great piles and
pyramids, has been given an advertisement
which will result in incalculable benefit to
our own section, and, relatively, to all sec
tions of the country.
The exposition had a definite and a practi
cal purpose, and we believe this purpose has
been carried out. In this event, the most
defiant pessimist cannot counteract, nor the
most genial optimist calculate, its beneficent
results. 4
MR. HAMMOND’S EMERGENCY BILL.
The fact that Congressman Hammond has
introduced a bill providing for the election of
three vice-presidents lias already been men
tioned in our news columns. The purpose of
this bill is to fit an emergency such as threat
ened to arise a few months ago, and which
might arise at any time. When
Garfield died there was no president
of the senate nor speaker of the house of rep
resentatives. Had the vice-president also
then died the United States would have been
without an official head. If the vice-president
had been alive, hut lingering from the effects
of disease or wounds when the senate met,
what a struggle might there not have been for
the office of president of the senate, the next
in succession under the act of congress of 1792.
Divided as was the senate, months might have
been consumed in the struggle. Millions
would have been lost by the feverish excite
ment and public confidence in our govern
ment would have been shaken by the suspi
cion that corruption might decide the contest.
Suppose the president of the senate install-
ed and acting as president—when the next
senate elected its president, would he oust the
former? Does the incumbent hold because
he happened to he in office when the succession
fell, or does the new one hold by virtue of his
office?
In the emergency suggested, suppose the
vice-president had died pending that struggle,
but after the house had elected its speaker?
Under the act of 1792 he would be required
to act as president. Suppose the senate then
elected its president, would he oust the
speaker of the house? Or, if not, would the
speaker of the next house oust him? Sup
pose that neither of these officers has the age,
nativity and citizenship required by the con
stitution for a president, what ttyen? Can he
act as presidem?
Is the act of 1792 constitutional? The con
stitution demands an "officer" for the succes
sion, and it seems he must be an officer of the
United States. The senate has .held that the
president of the senate is not an officer of the
United States, and the same reasoning covers
the speaker of the house.
If an election must he held, as stated by the
an of 1792, will the elected president begin a
new term, or fill the balance of the old term
only? If the former, how will we adjust a
new term beginning and ending in the midst
of a congress?
Each man may answer these questions sat
isfactorily to himself, but can he satisfy ail
others? Can congress remove the difficulties
by changing the success.on?
For obvious reason^ it would not do to take
the head of the army. It would confound
the executive and judicial departments in a
measure by casting it upon the supreme court.
The successsor might preside at the trial of the
acting president whose removal from office
would confer upon his judge his grand power
and dignity. To put it on the cabinet might
allow one removed for a crime to be succeed
ed by the instigator of or participator in'the
crime.
No uncertainty should hang about this
evil. The constitution provided a
vicc-presidnet with no function
but to preside over the senate and give a
casting vote. and. when occasion arise, to act
as president. Mr. Hammond’s bill proposes
to have two other vice-presidents to nil the
gap made by the want of the former vice-
president. The vice-presidents need not have
any salary unless called upon to act. The
high dignity would find willing holders with
out other reward than the compliment and
prominence given by an election.
AVr. gather from Dr. Felton’s interview that he
proposes to make independent democrats ot the re
publicans. Ii this plan fails, then he proposes to
gallop along with the republicans after the manner
of Mahone.
The Georgia independents have discovered that
the republican vote Is a very big thing in an elec
tion. They hone and hanker after it.
Last year will be chiefly known to fame by its
connection with Atlanta and her cotton exposition.
The candidate for governor on the Mahone dem
ocratic republican programme will probably be
nominated by Jack brown. Jack shines as a mas
ter of ceremonies.
Southern men who have claims against the gov
ernment will please file their political pedigrees
with the Hon. G. Frisbie Hoar.
Rossi is of the opinion that there is too much cer
emony on our southern railways with respect to
the baggage of tragedians. The railroad commis
sion should look into this.
AYr. call file attention of Albert Lamar to the fret
that Colon; ! Jack Brown has read Mr. Speer out of
the new independent republican party. Would it
be going too far to claim this as a victory for Colonel
Marfellus TllprU'.QB?
Colonel Jack Brown is merely the bill-poster of
She proposed Mahone movement in Georgia, butbe
gives scale interesting facts. _
From the Cracker City primer—This is an Atlanta
Maa discussing Politics in a Street Car. In a mo
ment he will ask the Driver’s Opinion about the
size of the Cotton Crop. He will Likewise tell you
that North America is in Atlanta. And i3 it really
True that North America is in Atlanta? Yes, In
deedy.
There is a fortune in lying iu wait for the indi
vidual who will invent a stove from which a grown
man can get alight without burniug his fingers or
cracking the lid.
The fact that Grant recently changed his religion
has not, as yet, occasioned much comment. But a
right smart uproar is gathering on the horizon. The
old man is evidently of the opinion that he ha
worked the northern Methodists for all they are
worth, and now he has taken his contribution plate
into another congregation. The future historian,
after taking a chew of tobacco and reflecting over
it awhile, will come to the conclusion that onr
North American civilization is capable of produc
ing but one Grant.
"OLD SI.”
lie lias Some Peculiar Notions About the Play or
“OthoUo.”
Old Si came in at a late hour, took a chair by the
fire and after punching that inoffensive element
vigorously, turned around and remarked:
"Dat’s de trufe, now, an’ I’m ’spousibul fer hit!”
"Whatis tlie truth?"
“W’y dat de Lawd nebber ment fer fokC3 ter mix
de breeds whar he 'stablished hisse’f.”
“Nod-, what has set yon off on that subject?”
"lVell, l’se bin ober dar ter de theater ter see dat
Italium man play ‘Offello,’ an’ 1’se seed mo’ trub-
ble in de fambly, an’ mo’ ’sassinashun an’ sooycide
dan dis heah paper cood publish in er week, er de
Nunited States cote regerlate twix now an’
nex’ Chrismus.”
"AVhat Is the objection to the play?”
“Dar ain’t none et all wid me—1’se fer de play!
But de lack dat I’se retchin’ fer is dis: Yer kin mix
de cullurs dat goes on de outside ob de house berry
well, but yer kant mix dem whar’s got ter go inside
an’ lib dar.”
“In other words, you are against miscegena
tion?”
“I aint agin Miss anybody; I jes’kno’Miss Des-
dymony foun’ herse’f in hard luck w’en she mar
ried dat nigger! An’ so'll ennybody whar tries
hit, ’kase er nigger's mighty ’spishus an’ er white
’Oman’s naughty flirtational. De cross-rodes an’
wah aint fur ahed ob ’em w’en dey tries ter trabbel
tergedder—don’t yer kno’ hit aint?”
“No doubt of it.”
“Yas, sah! De niggers an’de white fokes kin
trabble on de same kyars wi’dout fitin’, and buy
lickerat the same bar widoutgittin’ drunk terged
der, an’ vote at de same poles widout b’longin’ ter
de same gang ob theeves—but w’en hit eums ter
mixin’ up on de same marridge stifficate dat’s
whar do cullur line’s gotter be draw’d wid a red
pensil and er wide mark!”
After which deliverance the old man went down
to wake up the mailing department.
He Opposes Some A'lews to the Mother Shtpton Proph.
eey.
Old Si put bis feet up on the brass fender, leaned
back in his arm chair, knocked the ashes off his Sa
vannah cigar, and smilingly said:
“I sorter ’gin ter feel safe fer enudder yeah now.”
“In what way?”
“ W’y ef dat ole Mudder Shiffton’s gwine
ter 'gin her ’struckshun ob dis wurl’
dis yeah presint she’d better tetch off her dynimite
moughty suddint, kase I smells New Yeah all
’roun’ ebery town kitchindat I goes ’bout!”
“Then you don't fear the old lady's prophecy?”
“I'se alius skeer’d tell de danger’s done pas’, but
I'se put hit down dat de ole ’Oman wuz slightually
offen her base w'en she rit dat jedgment on dis
heah yeah!”
“What do you think about the end of the world,
anyhow?”
“I aint pesterin’ ’bout hit myse’f, kase I aint
gwine ter be heah w’en hit heaves in site: but dis
much I’se boun’ ter beleebe, dat beins de Lawd
tuckseben days fur ter make dis wurl’ in, an’ fawty
days fer ter drown de wickid w’en de poppylashun
wuz skase. He’s gwine ter take plenty er time and
lots, er pains ter win’ up de affa’rs ob
de mighty nashuns ob de yearth dat de’s ’lowed
ter grow up down heah!”
“That is a rather comforting view of the case.”
? “AVell, dat's my 'pinion, euuyhow; kase w’y. I
kno’s fokes right heah in dis town dat hit’ud take a
day er piece ter ’spose ob, ef dey got jestice ah’
had jedgment on all dere meanness!”
And thereupon theold man sunk into the peace
ful slumber of a man fearlessof the second advec ( .
A GREAT FIRM,
AND VV H AT IT HAS DONE FOR AG- j
PICULTURE.
Some Beautiful and Practical Machinery that is On
Exhibition ot the Exposition—One Boy Doing
the Work of Four Men—The Grand Prize
—What Sulky Plows Can Do. Etc.
Ot all the firms that have exhibits at the
cotton exposition, and these embrace 2,000 se
lectedfrom the strongest houses in the coun
try, none are entitled to a higher place than
the Furst & Bradley manufacturing company,
which lias an exhibit in Agricultural hall
under the care of Mr. S. K. Cromwell, the
southern agent of the company. While this
firm has made no fuss and no extra display,
but has simply put iis gp»ds before the peo
ple, not gilded for show, but shown as sold to
the public who called to see them, its exhibit
lias attracted universal attention, and every
article that it has within its space lias con
veyed some useful lesson to the southern
farmers who have visited the exposition, and
as the exposition is closing, a short sketch of
the exhibition made by this modest, but
great and famous firm, will not be #ut of
place.
The firm of Furst A- Bradley was established
by David Bradley, who began plow making in
1833—nearly half a century ago in the state
of New York. From New York ke was sent
to Chicago, and there assisted in establishing
and operating the first foundry started there,
which was devoted principally to the manu
facture of plows. The firm of* Furst & Brad
ley was established in 1854, and continued for
eighteen years, in which the members made
reputation and ntsuey. In 1872 it was incor
porated as the Furst & Bradley manufacturing
company. It still holds this name, although
Mr. Furst has sold his interest in it to Mr.
David Bradley and his sous, Mr. J.
Harley Bradley, tlie present secretary and
treasurer, and Mr. Byron C. Bradley, the
superintendent. These three gentlemen own
the entire stock, and as they have ever since
its incorporation been identified with the
active practical and business management of
its affairs, looking after not only its financial
management but the details of'tlie manufac
turing of the goods, it may beexpected tonot
only maintain its high position, but to in
crease its reputation. With their ripe expe
rience, sagacity and ample capital, it lias been
the aim of the Messrs. Bradley to collect in
their manufactory every invention, improve
ment or suggestion that would tend to perfect
in durability, adaptability and finish. They
have succeeded in tills so fur that
throughout the entire northwest, south
west and most of the south, their name
is a household word and their goods are used
in every country and commended wherever
used. It has bevn the jmyiUft of this Jiousc
that not the slightest article should be sold
bxcept on absolute guarantee and consequent
ly wherever they have secured a patron they
have found a friend.
The exhibit of this firm at the exposition
consists of a great variety of agricultural im
plements fitted to almost any use on the farm,
such as harrows, cultivators, rakes, plows,
scrapers, etc. The main article, however, to
which we wish to call attention is the Furst
and Bradley wrought frame sulky riding
plow, which took tlie first premium at tlie
eotton exposition, which was an “especial
mention” of commendation by the judges’ as
no medal was offered. Their walking culti
vator also took the first prize, “especial men
tion,” as no medal was offered, and other
articles did the same but their sulky riding
plow is the article to which we were most at
tracted.
On day before yesterday Mr. S. K. Crom
well, the agent of this company who has rep
resented it throughout the south, at the re
quest of many farnters gave tlie second exhi-
tion of its powers. We unhesitatingly state
that it was the most remarkable display in
plowing that lias ever been seen in this
state, and its performance was noted with the
highest commendation by a large crowd of
farmers. By an ingenious patent which is
used on this plow alone the powerof the team
is made available for lifting the plow out of
tlie ground when it is desired, or by changing
the depth at which it is plowing. All that is
required on tlie part of the driver is to press a
lever so that tlie friction band will tighten
when the power of tlie horses lifts the plow
from the ground anti thus obviates a great
objection to sulky plows in general which is
the inability of the driver to manage them
without straining or stopping tlie team.
In all respects tlie plow acted to perfection,
and was voted the favorite by all who wit
nessed it.
One of the executive committee of tlie ex
position stated that had he known what this
plow was capable of, that lie would have had
the committee arrange witli Mr. Cromwell
for an exhibition of farmers’ tools on two
days in the week during the entire exposi
tion, as their’s is a most instructive, and
shows more improvements in implements
than any other made at the grounds.
The main points of excellence about this
plow may he summarized as follows, and the
summary may be preceded with tlie state
ment that wnen combined they make the
best sulky-riding plow sold in this or any
other country.
1. The amount of leverage required to lift
the blade from the ground or to lessen or in-
crettse tlie depth of the furrow. All sulky
plows are supplied with a lever by which the
rider can pull tlie share from the furrow or
guage its depth. But m all eases except in
the Furst A Bradley sulky plow, tlie lever
moves only in response to a heavy pull. An
old man or a child, or indeed one who is not
possessed of great strength, cannot operate
many of tlie sulky plows for this reason. The
leverage in the Furst A Bradley plow is,
however, so admirably adjusted* that the
plow can be lifted or dropped by the slightest
pull of the finger. A boy or an old man can
handle it with the slightest difficulty or with
out the slightest- strain, while even the
strongest man riding any other plow
complains at night of a strained shoul
der and arm. At a trial made at the
grounds yesterday in the presence of a large
crowd of people an old man of grey
beard and grey hair, operated the lever with
out the slightest trouble and lifted or dropped
the plow in the furrow without any trouble
at all.
2. The quality of the steel used iu this
plow and all connected with it. It is not gen
erally known, but true, nevertheless, that
there are grades in steel just as there are in
timber. There is a bass wood steel and the
hickory steel, just as there are bass wood or
hickory in timber products. It is equally
true that the best quality of steel israrelyput
into southern plows or implements for the
farmer, whose unskilled eye cannot detect the
difference between the best and the medium
grades, and less frequently is the best steel put
in implements intendad for the southern
farmer, who has to take what he can get, and
he is usually provided with goods that will
not sell elsewhere. Messrs. Furst & Bradley
put in their sulky plow, as in
everything else they make, tlie very
best grade of steel that is used in
agricultural implements of the same grade
anywhere. Their tempering processes for
tempering the steel are peculiarly their own
and are a part of their determination to pro
duce the best goods manufactured. Their
plows have won the reputation of being the
best tempered of any manufactured and can
really be relied on in soil where others fail to
scour. ^
As tlie plow is made entirely of wrought
iron and steel, except the eveners, tlie impor
tance of good steel will be readily seen. The
breakages liable to occur with cast-iron or
poor steel are avoided. In consequence •■{
this their plow points anil the steel parts in
general will outlast those of any other plow
that is made, and will last three or four times
‘as long as the most of them.
3. The superior workmanship of the plow,
outside and beyond the incomparable patents
of which it is made up. Every piece of goods ;
that leaves the immense factory of Furst A ;
Bradley goes out with the guarantee of the j
firm that it is of the best quality, the best j
workmanship and tiie best material. in j
nothing do they take so much pride as in i
their sulky riding plow, and the farmer who ;
buys one of these may rest perfectly assured ;
that he has a piece of the best workmanship j
that ingenuity and ‘ "
THE LAST DAY.
THE GREAT EXPOSITION
INTO HISTORY
PASSES
As the Grandest Industrial Exposition Ever Held-
The Closinit Exercises oa the Grounds-ad-
dresses by Colonel Breekenridne, Gov-
4. The amount of work that it will do. Mr. j
Cromwell, the southern agent for this plow, !
who is well known throughout the south as a
man of reliability and character, says licit he
will guarantee to take one of Furst A. Brad
ley's sulky riding plows and put on it a hoy,
hitch to it three mules, and do more work
than four men could do with four mules with
small plows, thus saving to the farmer the
wages of three men, putting a boy into
the place of the fourth man, and saving
the keep of one mule, besides giving him
much Setter work than he could get with the
increased labor and expense with other plows.
A gentleman farming near Columbus wiio
bought two thrcc-liorse sulkey plows and four
two-horse cultivators from Fur.-t ‘A Bradley,
says that the additional work done by them
in one season more than paid for the tools,
and this work was accomplished with half the
labor that had been used the year before.
This is the testimony of thousands who are
using this plow throughout the country. It
must be understood, too, that there is no
ground too hard for this plow to work. It has
itself a weight of about 500 pounds that
presses directly upon the blade. To this
weight must be added the weight of thedriver,
which gives about GOO pounds heft that is
resting upon the plow and still running as
lightly as a walking plow of the same size. It
can be adjusted to run as small a furrow as is
desired, bur when it is put out to its full ex
tent it leaves a gash in the ground that is
simply marvelous. The use for deep and
thorough plowing can only be comprehended
iuliy by those who know how the south has
been cursed with shallow and inefficient
plowing; and by no other machine that is
offered to :he American public can thorough
plowing be secured so certainly and at such
low costas by the use of the Furst A Bradley
sulky plow.
5. The wheels are always opposite each
other, whether in or on the ground, and thus
the difficulty inseparable from the crank
axle sulkies is avoided. With crank axles one
wheel is certain to be thrown forward and au-
oth?r backward when the plow is lowered into
theground, and the direction of the plow is
thus instantly changed, always inclining to
wards the opposite side from the forward
wheel. With the Furst A Bradley sulky-
plow with its steadfast axle the plow always
goes into the furrow true, and when plowing
i n uneven ground which in the crank axle
sulky always causes the plow to wabble and
change direction, its steadfast axle holds the
plow perfectly true and straight.
0. The main lever is locked to the plow
and not to the frame or pulley, as on other
plows, The advantage of this feature is pos
sessed by no other plow is that it leaves the
frame and pole as free as on a wagon.
7. In plowing over corn hills or cotton beds,
where there is a very uneven surface,the Furst
A Bradley will leave the bottom of tlie fur
row more level than any other sulky made.
8. Changing old grounds for breaker bot
toms, and vice versa, can be done in five min
utes, and a perfect lit is certain at all times.
The body can be changed by the operator as
lie sits on his seat, without stopping the ma
chine, by means of a stiff clevis,
and the evener is held up so
that horses do not get entangled in the traces
when turning around. A new feature is that
the hub is drilled, and runs upon sleeves
which are stationary upon the axle, and which
when worn out can be replaced at a trifling
cost. The hubs and axles arc in this way kept
intact.
The Constitution has taken an active in
terest in the exposition, and in nothing has
it been so much interested as in the agricul
tural department, the great school-room
ill which our farmers are to learn what sci
ence and invention and capital had done for
their benefit within the past fifty years. It
was acknowledged that under this roof the
farmer would find garnered and exhibited all
the improvements and progress made in
farming machinery and agricultural imple
ments, and it was this that made us most en
thusiastic about the exposition and most con
fident as to the good it would do. After a
careful survey of the field and a careful in
spection of nearly every agricultural exhibit
there we are frank to say that we saw nothing
that we think promises more for the farmer
and will do more to advance the interests of
good farming that the sulky-riding
plow of Furst A Bradley. Our
lands are rich enough to produce the
best of crops, but ther fertility has been badly
impaired by slovenly cultivation and expen
sive and inefficient plowing. With this sulky
plow on the farm the farmer is compelled to
do his plowing thoroughly, to llave his
ground well broken and the subsoil turned
up to the sunshine and the rain. Good plow
ing is_ the best of good farming, and by no
machine that has been invented can farming
be made successful unless there is good plow
ing. _ With no machine on exhibit can good
plowing be made so certain as by the machine
which we have been describing.
As for tlie rest it gives us pleasure to repeat
here what has been said before of the Furst
A Bradley manufacturing company, namely
that it is a company of the highest character
and integrity. It has a reputation for making
only tlie best goods that is guarded jealously
and that is wortli more to it than
any profits from turning out imperfect goods
could be. It is a conservative and reliable
firm, doing only the best work, and charges
for the result only a reasonable and fair profit
We unhesitatingly recommend it and its
goods to our farmers, and feel sure that those
who buy of them either the incomparable
sulky riding plow, or anything else, will
thank us for the recommendation. There is
no better manufactory of agricultural imple
ments in America and this means in the
world.
The Furst A Iiraniey manufacturing com
pany print a ban<some illustrated catalogue
of their goods which should be in the hands
of every southern farmer. It contains illus
trations of the Bradley walking cultivators,
their garden city gang plows, their self-dump
rakes, sulky rakes and their harrows, their
wood and iron beam double shove’s and single
shovel plows, read scrapes, field rollers, etc.
These illustrated circulars, with full explana
tions of the way to set up and operate anv of
their machinery, can be had by addressing
the firm at 53 North Desplainesstreet,Chicagt*,
111., or at either of their branch houses 916
North Second street, St. Louis, Mo., or 117
Fast Washington street, Indianapolis, lud.
It is one of thi most agreeable signs of die t
throughout the southern states that an active
maud for mechanics and artisans just now are
at nearly all the business and manufacturing
tors—the outgrowth, to rente extent, of tlie cc
exposition at Atlanta, which has imparted an
mease impetus to many important branches o
dustry. The demand, we are told, comes not
from those who are engaged in cotton manufar
f.ud cotton production, but from the mac
shops, the farmers, blacksmiths, carpenters, tai
etc. -
The Modern Country Man,
New York Herald.
The streets were full of country people yester
as they always are on the day after Christmas
the visitors differed greatlv in appearance i
those of twenty years ago. in old limes a corn
man could be distinguished while vet a block s
by bis odd dress and manner; but that era is g
Clothing ready made and according
the latest fashion:—clothing made in
large cities, in fact—is now on
in everv country town at prices re low that
E eopie find u cheaper than suits that ate mat!
ome or by local seamstresses. The countrvm
manner has improved too. He knows more of v
is going on in the world than lie used to do.
multiplication of railroads and cheapening of i
brings bun to town oftener, anti carries eitv pec
with their ways, to his own neighborhood. ‘ He
not be greatly the better for the change, bu
certainly cuts a better figure anti gets more of
respect that always was due him, but which
quentlv was denied because of his odd appear:
and comically awkward ways. 1
Yesterday closed the International cotton
exposition. A runnihg history of this, in many
respects, the most remarkable exposition ever
held will not be uninteresting.
To begin with, it is the first world’s fair
ever held within one year front the time it
was first suggested, the usual time taken be
ing five years. In the second place it is the
first time that a world's fair was ever held in
a city of less than 50,000 people—the smallest
city ever attempting such a thing before hav
ing more titan a half a million people. In
the third place it was the finest and com
pletes* exposition of American industries
ever held anywhere.
THE EXTENT OF THE EXPOSITION.
The exposition covered twenty-one acres of
floor space; around tlie buildings and through
tlie aisles was eleven miles. There were six
miles of steam pipe and six miles of sewer
age. The power was supplied by three en
gines in the main building and one in the
agricultural machinery annex.
THE EXHIBITS AND EXHIBITORS.
There were over eighteen hundred exhibits
made, comprising every tiling within the range
of American industry from an anvil to a
piano, and fr0in a knife sharpener to tlie au
tomatic mule. The first entry made was that
of J. Smith Barnwell, of Darien, Ga., who
displayed imitation asphalum. The second,
the Binghampton oil refining company, of
New York, and the third was J. T. Wilder, of
Chattanooga, Tenn. Probably tlie largest ex
hibit was that of the Willinutntie thread
company, which, however, comprised several
exhibits under one entry. The fullest line-
of exhibits was in agricultural implements,
carriages and buggies, cotton gins and presses
—agricultural implements leading them all.
the three test points of thii exposition.
The three points that the exposition was
expected to develop in cotton machinery
were these: First, the production of agin
that working under the roller principle would
equal tlie saw gin. Second, the production
ota machine that would thoroughly clean
cotton and send it to the bale without any
dust or dirt; and, third, a press cheap enough
and simple enough for farming use and yet
with enough power to compress a bale so that
the lint would be impervious to dust, rain or
dirt.
Whether or not the exposition settled these
three points, it certainly went a great way
towards it. There wCRi produced at least two
seed cotton cleaners that worked to perfection.
Both were backed by the recommendations
from hundseds of farmers that by tlie use of
these cleaners they had advanced tlie grade of
storm cotton or dirty cotton to where it would!
bring from one to three cents per pound move
than before tlie cleaner had been used. The-
planters generally saw these machines, ap
proved them, and the result is that they are
being very generally bought. Tlie Clarke
seed cotton cleaner company, of this city, it
is said, took orders for 1,500 cleaners for deliv
ery next year. As to presses, several were-
shown that had sufficien t power, but none that
were £chcap enough for general use upon
tlie farms. One press was shown that
compressed cotton to about forty- pounds to
the square foot, giving it tlie density of elm-
wood, but it is not cheap enough for-
very general introduction. As to titer
cotton gins that are exhibited it must be con
fessed that they are a disappointment. While
one at least made better speed than has ever
before been attained on a roller gin none of
them approach near enough to the saw gii^B^
quantity to justify a belief that -they—
generally used.
A BIG BELLING EXPOSITION.
Outside of these three points, however, the'
exposition did a vast amount of good in the
direction of improved agriculture throughout
tlie south. The amount of sales made of im
proved machinery was simply marvelous.
The exhibitors all agree that tiiey never saw a
better selling exposition. There is scarcely til
neighborhood in tlie southern states into
which an improved stump puller, post hole
borer, plow, cotton planter, manure distribut
or, sulky plow, cultivator or barrow has not
gone and whicli when introduced will induce
the purchase of others. The benefits whicli will
come from tlie sale of improved machinery
may- be accounted among tlie very best bene
fits to be derived from tlie exposition.
The Flounce* of the Exposition.
TIIL CROWDS AND ATTENDANCE—AN ESTIMATE OF
siuipiy me lntormation that we t
as journalists as to the probable outcom
It is known that tlie iota! amount of c
11 * it, by subscribers j s about
put
000, the amount received
entry ices will be about $;
anu from miscellaneous sources abou
thousand. This is the capital, or about
000 tout was available to the committee
SI^000 ,O Tlri« U;e l V, *r k - ?“° buil,li,, f
$140,000. rills includes tlie putting
everything—in lighting, heating sew
etc., and for the decoration, grading at
rangement of the grounds. It mav be
$150,000, as this estimate is only intend
cover round figures. For advertising
xng, expenses of various kinds up to the
ing, we may add $50,000 more, so tiiat t
U P to the day of opening were
$201),000. Ul this Only about $130,000 ha<
paid in, as some of the privileges, etc
not paid at that time. Tlie expo:
£«***«• #I n ne< l lts Kates with a tit
something like $,0,000. The trca.sur<
advanced about $25,000 on account of t
position ami some fifteen members (
committee had given their individual
J® J ,rot . ect hun agaiust loss on tli
30 the guarantee as a
her of the committee
^ e3tin i^ tliat would take
|o00 a day or $.*>,000 tor tlie 90 days, as c
°* ,en . ed the gates, made it
delation rC ‘ C(i, P‘ s to Fe $120,000 to bri
association, out even and
leges and uncollected 6 duST*?? is°d“
lf ten thousand dollars was received
be rehed o C n S toi 0 r' hat - lhc « ates would h
tha^they-^dute* but *t is safe'
«H.» to .qn,
be naid t n f i,„ . , , lou before a cei
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Fundings will bring betweenXrty and