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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY, APKIL. 11, 1882
WORK IN WASHINGTON.
PROGRESS OF BILLS INTERESTING
TO GEORGIANS.
JUTorta of Georgia*. Reprea<*ntatlaea—The Condition
of til a Blvar and Harbor BUI—Changes In tfca
Cabinet—Tha South Carolina Squabble
—The New District Court.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Washington, April 2.—The house commit
tee on commerce is preparing the river and
harbor bill as fast ns it can. This is always a
troublesome work. Custom bos fixed the
maxiiim appropriation at about ten millions.
Ten times that sum is usually asked, and
liow to scale down the supply to meet the
demand is a perplexing question. Everybody
knows how unjust the distribution of this
money has been, even under democratic con
gresses. Hope of a fairer apportionment is
not bright now, but the southern men are
muking honest etlorts to get tiie'r deserts.
Georgia lias never made sueli a determined
effort in this direction as Senator llrown and
Representative Black lmve made for Savan
nah. The report in favor of the improve
ments of the harbor to cost $*>50,000 could
not have been stronger. If the engineers
were given the money to distribute to the
best advantage they would attend to Savan
nah among the very first points of operation.
Though $1150,000 is asked for Savannah, and
petitions from every city in the siateliave
imeked the request, the otiier Georgia inter
ests are not being neglected. Brunswick is
presented for ils share of attention. With a
harbor of superb natural advantages, it has
never been a burden to the government. A
small appropriation would do the little work
needed, and justice demands it.
The upper Savannah, the Alta mall a the
Ocrnulgec, the Chuttuh jochee, the Coosa, the
Oconee, are all to be urged by the Georgia
delegation as worthy of consideration, I have
no idea 8avanu:ih will get the $550,000 or the
rivers what is asked for them, hut tlie delega
tion none the less deserve credit for the ener
gy displayed in their eflorts in this direction.
We will fare better than we would with a less
faithful set of senators and representatives.
.Senator Brown has succeeded in getting
four life-saving stations for the Georgiu
const. In the treasury is now lying
$00,000 to lie applied for light houses at thu
Savannah harbor as soon as suitable locations
can Is* obtained at reasonable figures. Now
if we can get a just appropriation for our
rivers and harbors we will have to thank the
government for more than it has yet done for
us. The committee is not constituted of very
libera) men us a rule, but UandaU’s fixed up
committee of the last congress was about as
bud.
CHANGES IN THE CABINET.
The general comment here is that Arthur
lias gotten pretty hard up wiien he comes to
Teller and Chandler for his cabinet. They
will complete the worst wornbination any
president ever sat in the middle of. Tender
footed, old-maidish Frelinghuysen, with his
milk-and-water foreign jioliey; bland old
Folger, with everything negative except a
look out for what is to come after the treas
ury portfolio; Boh Lincoln, living on his
father's fame, and vindictive Brewster, will
find in t'*e stupid Teller and the frisky Bill
(.'handler no inlluence to di turb
the peaceful mediocrity of their high council.
In Kirkwood the most highly respected man
of the present cabinet goes out. Mr. limit's
probable departure is also regretted partly
because lie is personally liked and because of
his well known preference for remaining.
There are some hints that don't knock a man
down, and Hunt will resign. Teller will be
promoted to strengthen him at home where
the other faction is crowding him. Ilis pres
ent term expires in 1885, ami lie wants anoth
er. By giving the remainder of his present
term to secure some permanent home inilu-
cnee, and by the prestige and patronage of
the interior department lie may come back in
’88 to make, for another six years, the answer
easy to the conundrum, ‘‘Who is the bore of
the senate?” Chandler and his friends are ad
vertising liis public services to prove his fit
ness for the management of our mythical
uavy. One amusing thing about
these circulars is that, though
they luxuriate in rhetoric like a circus poster,
they omit all mention of Willie’s heroic
service*; in Florida. Though he stands con
fessed the champion ballot box juggler of
the age his achievements in this line are mod'
cstly eliminated from the list ot his vir
tues.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA SQUABBLE.
We have promise of some lively talk when
Senator M. C. Butler returns from South Car
olina. Before he left he offered a resolution
asking that Attorney General Brewster fur
nish the senate a copy of his correspondence
in reference to the prosecutions begun to day
against certain citixens of booth Carolina for
alleged violations of the election laws. A
few days ago the correspondence was trans
mitted" to the senate but Butler had gone and
General Hampton wanted to wait until his
colleague could come back before a con
certed arraignment of Brewster should
begin. Butter and Hampton arc both
indignant at the charges made against their
constituency in the attorney-general's in
structions to the Philadelphia lawyer lie has
sent to aid in the prosecutions. They propose
to say something in reply. Han Vooruees has
takun up the cause too, and is primed for a
speech in bis Inst vein of satire. Mr. Mor
gan. of Alabama, is also booked for a raid on
the new attorney-general, tubers may come
in on thc-attuck, and there will be as much,
probably, to l>c said on the other side. This
discussion, wherever the responsibility for its
origin may lie, will he unfortu
nate. It will necessarily take
sectional tinge, and revive the
hitter feelings that a year ago were ratnpuni
in the determined dead lock. Among the
most disagreeable probabilities looms the grim
visage of Dawes contorted in the agony of a
four hours’ harangue oti "a free ballot and a
fair count.” Manone might furnish his as
sailants with one of his sp ismodic etlorts if he
eottUl protect his friends from the same itillie-
ion. Everybody lias grown weary of the old
rimination ami recrimination such a discus
sion is bound to bring about. As the eases
will not amount to much in the courts,
why. not let the thing show itself
up as a farce and pay no attention
to Benny Brewster's splenetic epistles.
Some democrats from South Carolina say they
are very glad this tiling has happened, "it lias
solidified every element in the democratic
party of the state and hushed the rising clamor
for a "new departure." An injudicious agi
tation by southern men in the senate would
not enhance this benefit, and might more
than offset it by injurious impressions in the
north. * ■
THE NEW JUSTICE.
Judge Bla tell ford was sworn in to-day and
took liis seat next to Stanley Matthews, on
the extreme left of the chief justice A great
many people p ip in to look at the august
court a moment, but the crowd was much
larger than usual to day owing to curiosity to
see the new man lie is a
dry looking old gentleman, about the
most commonplace figure in the illustrious
nine. He sat reading, seemingly as uncon
cerned us if he had been there ten years. The
court had eight judges present, something
that lias not happened for a long time. Mr.
Harlan alone was absent, and lie was at work
on the circus:. A year ago there was difficul
ty in getting u quorum. Tiie court is chang
lug very fast. It seem only a few days ago
when Judge Words was appointed and the
Atlanta bar was wining him over the honor.
Yet Justices Matthews, Gray .>ud Biatchford
all have come sine,. Judge Woedshas moved
up a file on the right, giving the end seat to
Bachelor Gray with his enormous bald head.
The guide " who takes gtcen visitors
with plenty of money through the vast area
of marble under the roof ot the capital al
ways dilates on the historic memories of the
court room. It was the old senate chamber
where most of the school-boy speeches of the
day were forged, and where many of the an
ecdotes of the great men of the ante helium
days did not occur. The place must have
been uncomfortably close and small for the
senate, for in the famous picture of Clay ad
dressing liis peers, liis tall form seems to go
half way to the little gallery, and his long
arms give him the appearance of patting his
distinguished friend* in any part of the house
on the head in liis easy style of oratory.
The glory of the old room has departed
so far as "the general public is concerned.
Business and curiosity alone attract to it liow.
Noliody expects to be entertained, for the
.■‘[leeches made there are the perfection of re-
lined dullness. The orators are generally con
versational in manner and the great judges
not infrequently look sleepy. The marble
bus.s of dead chief justices around the wall,
the thick carpet, the heavy red cushioned
benches, and the pompous old negroes who
swing the noiseless doors for your entrance
and exit—all aid in the general effect of
solemn quiet and your first impulse when
you get outside is to yawn and shake yourself
to the friskiness of ordinary mortality.
OI P. NEW DISTRICT.
The bill to give Georgia a new United States
district court with complete equipments is
now only waiting for the house to adopt the
brief form the senate agreed on. Con 'Tess
in* n Hammond lias worked with great energy,
and will not relax his efforts until the hill "is
finally [Hissed. The only difficulty now is to
get it'uji—a very hard thing to do in the
crowded condition of business before the
house. Butitwill be done soon. Then will
come the fun of filling the new places. At
lanta is to get the new judge while Savannah
has the new murs'ial, clerk and district attor
ney. Whether we shall say Judge McCay,
Judge Printup, Judge Atkins or Judge Some-'
bodyelse, does not yet appear. Atkins has
the "lead now. He lias very strong republican
indorsements, and- they are the only
indorsements worth handing in to our model
president. Mr. Atkins’s friendssay be has had
enough legal experience to make a judge. He
has been waiting ever since Garfield was iu
augn rated for some nice place and has been
more of a Warwick than any other Georgian
until Longstreet loomed in the calcium light
of the coalition. Atkins having taken care of
liis friends ami carefully surveyed the field
will now, says rumor, retire from the fret of
politics to tiie dignified calm and lifelong
alary of district judge. Some of the colored
politicians are in for claiming a share of the
new judicial offices in Savannah, but the ad
ministration lias strained to the last notcli on
this line in Georgia and no colored republican
need apply.
THE VETO MESSAGE.
Immediately after the reception of the
iresident’s message vetoing the anti Chinese
fill, at 1:15 o’clock, the president, pro. tern.,
suspended the operation of business to lay
the communication before tiie senate, and di
rected it to be read. Tiie reading of the mes
sage by the secretary w«.s listened to with
marked interest and attention by the entire
senate. The vital objection of the president
is to the twenty years suspension of immigra
tion, which he construes is virtually prohibi
tory, and therefore violative of the spirit
f not of the letter of the negotiation on
which the treaty was based, ami as a breach
of national faith. The message calls atten
tion to the proposition made by the United
States commissioners on this point, the coun
ter- proposition on the part of China to show
the understanding of the latter country in
the agreement which was ultimately made,
that immigration would be limited or re
stricted to a reasonable period. The presi
dent then points out other features of the act
which, in liis opinion cannot be modified to
advantage. Tiie system of personal registra
tion and passports is specifically men
tioned as undemocratic, and hostile to
our institutions, and he alludes
to tiie omission of the act
to make any provision for the transit to Chin
of Chiucse subjects now residing in foreign
countries, to which subject tiie president adds
his attention lias been called by the Chinese
minister. The message refers to the alleged
benefits to its industries derived by the Pacific
slope from the presence of the Chinese. Ho
therefore expresses apprehension of the inju
rious effect upon American commerce >viih
China of legislation of the character proposed,
unless carefully guarded, and without naming
any specific period of suspension lie suggests
that the length of the term should be experi
mental. The piessage and the bill were tem
porarily laid upon the table and ordered
printed.
ROSECRAXS, rAGE AND MILLER.
General ltosecrans claims that the veto as
sures the democrats the control of the next
house. The republicans will not, he thinks,
even attempt to contest the congressional
elections in California, Oregon and Nevada,
while the labor interest from one end of the
country to the other will be arrayed against
the president's party.
Mr. Page expresses himself as disappointed
and disheartened. He had prepared himself
foi a qualified veto, but the document is
scarcely that, it being probably impossible to
frame a bill which would be effective to ex
clude the Chintse and nut be open to the ob
jections fouud by tiie president to the present
bill. Mr. Page does not expect to pass the
bill over the veto, because tne democrats will
now refuse to help. He means, however, to
put them on record if possible. He is sure
tliat all the republicans in the house wtio
voted for it origiually will vote to pass it over
ttie veto if they have a chance.
Senator Miller, of California, thinks the
[‘resident made a grave political mistake,
which would weaken the administration ail
over thecauntry by arrayingthelaboriuterest
against the republican party.
republican defeat acknowledged.
San Francisco, April 5.—The Alta Califor
nia comments bitterly on tiie action of the
president in vetoing t he Chinese bill, and says
the veto appalls every republican in the state,
aud proves that tiie president is the slave and
not the master of eastern bigots and scared
New York merchants. He reminds us of our
insignificance at the east, and that the wants
of Californiaare nothing to Mas.-achusett.sand
New England. Thereto means the loss tothe
republican party of California, Nevada, Ore
gon. Dakota, Arizona, Utah and Wyoming,
and the demoralization of the party of the
Rocky mountaius. We acknowledge the bit
terness of defeat, but we do not give up the
fight. ,
THE HOOP-JOINT SNAKE.
tion from a hoop snake was to get behind a
tree or stnmp on the opposite side front the
one it was coming, we took a position behind
an old stump and awaited developments. It
was not long before the head came slowly and
cautiously through the crack of the fence,
raised itself to an angle of forty-five degrees,
looked in every direction and then com
menced the work of rejoining its body
and tail to its head. This was soon done.
Its next movement wus to rear itself up per
pendicularly, or in other words, to stand on
its tail. As" the head went up we distinctly
saw that each joint possessed India rubber
qualities, for as it went up each joint became
extended until, when the perpendicular posi
tion was attained, the head was entirely out
of sight. By a mathematical calculation we
ascertained "its head to be a little less than
five miles high when it passed out of sight.
Having taken its bearing, it gradually con
tracted to nine feet. It then made a circular
dart for its tail, and without more ado rolled
off rapidly in the direction of Atlanta.
AN UPRIGHT OFFICER.
RAISING CORN
AND PROVIDING AGAINST THE DE
MANDS OF THE WEST.*) r Jtti
A Tew More Georgia F.rmsra Wao Have Solved the
Problem of Sacoet*. and Know How to Make
the Old Bed Hills Pax—Xhe Smokehouse
at Home With Plenty In It.
Itemtnlaernemof Commodore Joelnb Tatnallsnd III*
Integrity.
Editors Constitution: Seeing how very
oiten committees are appointed at Washing
ton to investigate the different departments,
when charges of dishonesty have been alleged;
particularly in connection with the contin
gent fund, under Mr. Sherman's administra
tion, has led me to contrast the conduct of tiie
present officers, wilit those of the old school,
in former years, -and to show how great is
that contrast, as to honesty. Allow me to
mention two incidents occurring during the
war between the states. Commodore Josiah
Tatnall, was in charge of a station where I
was naval store keeper. One New Year’s day
we paid the old hero calls, as was our duty
as officers in the navy. It was a very cold
day and the old gentleman was suffering
with his wounded arm, and his servant was
endeavoring to make a fire with some green
pine poles, the only fuel he had. His family
was without wood "or fire. (Fuel was very
scarce and difficult to get.) I went to the
navy wharf, (where I had several hundred
tons for the use of the different gun-boats,)
and ordered a ton of coal taken to the com
modore's residence. with instructions not to
let him know it, but he happened to be in
the yard when the coal arrived, and asked
the wagoner who sent it. He said I had, and
in a very pre-emptory manner he was order
ed to take it back. Tiie next day he called
at the store to see me, and demanded by
what authority I had sent public stores to
his house. I endeavored to explain and re
ferred to his suffering for wail t of wood and fire,
and concluded to send him some coal for the
comfort of himself and family. "Well, sir,
I appreciate your kind feelings for me and my
family, but if you ever attempt such a thing
again I will have you dismissed from the ser
vice. I would freeze to death before I would
touch an ounce of coal belonging to the gov
ernment.” On another occasion I was receiv
ing a large quantity of navy bread. It was
very fine. The commodore saw it, and said:
T wish you to loan me iif y pounds of that
bread until I can get a baker to return it.” I
sent it to hint, and as soon as he could get the
flour he got a baker to bake and return the
bread.” Again I had received some old rye
whisky from Pensacola navy yard made inl830.
The oid gentleman liked liis dram, but never
to excess. I knew he would like some, and
I said to him, "you aregettingold and feeble,
and if you will take some of this good old
whisky it will benefit 3’ou ” "No, sir," said
he, "not a drop goes down my throat; it be
longs to the government, not to tne. I will
issue an order for it to be sent to the different
hospitals for the sick and wounded.” I had
near 2,000 gallons, but not a drop would he
touch or allow any one else to, except upon a
requisition from a surgeon, and 1 ant
sorry ((to say officers and doctors
got sick very often after that, until it was all
sent off. What a contrast between Josiah
Tatnall, of the confederate states navy, aud
John Sherman, secretary of the treasury of
the United Sta es, if the report of the com
mittee in his case be true
I was associated with Commodore Tatnall
intimately several years during the war, and
I do say, without reserve, he was the most-
honest, truthful man I ever knew. I believe
he would have died before committing a dis
honest act. I aut afraid we have but few
suen in official position in this country left.
Peculation and down-right stealing seeuts to
be the order of the day, particularly at Wash-
ngton. Ex-Naval Store-Keeper.
The Terrible Reptile fern by the Red Eye el a Fi
•jth t utility Editor.
From the Cummlug Clarion.
In our boyhood we often heard of a hoop
snake, one iliat. bringing its head and tail to
gether, rolled over and over like a wagon
wheel. It was said that this snake did its ex
ecution with its tail, that being pv-inted like a
needle. We never had the terror of seeing
one of them, but did, when about eight years
old, see a jointed snake. The joints were
about six inches long. When alarmed the
snake fell to pieces, the head joint darting off
like an arrow to a place of concealment.
That was the last snake of the kind we ever
saw until quite recently we saw a hoop-
jointed snake. We were walking
leisurely one day through our field
close to"an old fence "which was near a small
branch and marshy swamp. Thinking of no
evil, but rather imagining that on that piece
of ground we could make a bale of cotton to
the acre, which would buy twice as much
corn as the land would make, all of a sudden
we were startled out of ourself by something
rolling by us w hich looked like tiie rim of a
buggy wheel without tiie spokes. When it
had passed about ten steps beyond us, in
making an effort to turn, it accidentally
struck the eud of a projecting rail. This
must have alarmed it for all at once
it fell to pieces and the head joint
darted through a crack of the lence
and into the swamp as quickly as possible.
Remembering tiie jointed snake of our boy
hood, aud that our garndfather had told us "if
we would watch we would see the iieud return
for the joints left, as badly as we were scared
we determined to watch and wail tiie head’s
return. Not unmindful that we liad been
told by them of old time that the only protec-
Gwinnett County, Ga„ March 21, 16S2.—Editor*
Constitution: The cotton exposition is over, but
cotton manufactories and cotton seed oil mills are
on & boom, and other enterprises are springing up
all around. It is said agriculture is the founda
tion of aU these things. If that be so. it is very im
portant that it should be properly conducted.
About a year ago I wrote a short article for The
Constitution, giving a statement of my experi
ments for three or four years in cotton rows three
feet and four feet wide. I will not repeat the state
ment here,but just say that cotton nlan ted four feet
wide made as much ns that planted three feet. I
am so well confirmed in the fact that I have no in
tention whatever of planting any more three feet
rows. We, the farmers, are admonished on every
hand by writers on the subject to raise more corn".
Of course that fed to hogs would give us-more
meat, and in order to do that plant less cotton. All
of which appears very well, but let us try to be con
sistent iu our conclusions as near as we can. W'e
are inviuting capital amongst us to build cotton
factories, and insisting that our people should en
gage in the same Pursuit. Where would the profit
be on capital invested in that way, if we were ab
ruptly to break off making cotton" and raise grain
entirely? Of course no one is thinking of that, but
from the statements I see about the prosperitv of
the grain raisers, it would seem that we" all
should turn our attention that way.
But let us examine into the condition of thing* a
little. W’e would say that;all the cotton that has
been produced fora series of years has been seeded
to run the cotton factories and more are being
built. We suppose they will need the same amount
hereafter at any rate, aud we all know that we
need more corn in Georgia than we raise. 1 just
mention Georgia. The other cotton states are iu
tue same condition to a greater or less extent.
Now. how shall we manage to produce the same
amount of cotton and increase the production of
corn? It seems to me that something might be
done in this way. One hundred thousand acres of
cotton in four feet rows would require no more
hoeing than 75,000 acres in three feet rows. Well,
we will take the 100,000 acres. It wilt take one-fourth
longer to put in the fertilizer in 100.000 acres
than the 75,000. Then in the 100,000 acres four feet
wide aud the 75,000 aeres three feet wide there
would be the same number of rows aud the 100,000
acres could be planted in the same time that the
75.000 acres could, aud all the balance of the culti
vation would be done in the same time except
when the middles would be plowed out, then it
would take one-fourth longer to plow 100,000 acres
than 75,000. To moke allowance fortheextra plow
ing, we would say that it would take the same time
to cultivate 80,000 acres three feet wide that it
would 100,000 four feet wide. Allowing the same
yield per ae-e (say a half bale) the result would bo
40,000aud 50,000 bales; so we seethe same labor iu
four feet rows will make 10,000 bales more The
10.000 bales at $10 a bale would be $100,000. We
eould invest that iu cotton factories, and if they
made money the dividends would be among our
selves, and our material prosperity would be ad
vanced that much. Now,' if we only waut 40,000
bales, plant the rows four feet wide on 80,000 acres
and four-fifths of the labor will make it, aud we
can devote the other one-fifth to cultivating corn.
Now, if this one-fifth of labor makes $100,000 in
cotton, how much will it make in corn? I suppose
that cannot be so easily determined, but say $200 000
worth of corn, and we would have that much
amongst us, and would noi have toseud west for it
Any one can see the benefit in that. Now, if the
whole cotton region of the United States were to
adopt that manner of planting cotton and raising
com the profits to us would oe immense. Let the
subject be taken Into consideration bv the cotton
planters, and each one experiment for himself in
that way and thev can soon find out the facts in the
case. Respectfully, J. R. Jackson-
HOGAXSVIU.E HAPPY.
Hogansville, t'roup County, Ga., March 30,1882.
—Editors Constitution: Some time since you wrote
me to ascertain the successful farmers of this imme
diate section, their system of farming, etc, which I
wrote you aud wus published: and now I wish to
inform you of their present condition aud prospects
Water P O: J J Adams, Cold Water PO: Alexander
Hall, Hard Cash P O: Henry K Deadwiler, Davis
Creek; Joseph P ferdwilcr.
NO WESTERS PRODUCE WANTED
Conyers. MRich 21.—Editors Constitution: We
give our farmers one more year to get clear of the
west for com, flour aud hay. Our merchants arc
not selling one-fourth as much provisions os last
year, and if we have anything like a fair crop this
season we will want no western produce for Rock
dale next Our farmers are determined to raise
their ewn supplies If "cotton Is king.” P. F. J.
THE END OF CORNELIUS.
Vanderbilt** Eccentric Bon Withdraw* From the
Scene* of Lite.
New York, April 3.—Cornelius J. Vander
bilt, brother of William H. Vanderbilt, shot
liimseif in the Glenham hotel, on Fifth ave
nue, yesterday afternoon at two o’clock and
died from the effects of the wound at six
o’clock. From the time of the shooting until
liis death. Vanderbilt was unconeious. Many
friends of the dead man and members of his
family were present when he passed away.
The motive for the act as given by his friends
is, that it was the result of mental derange
ment brought on by years of suffering from
epileptic fits. No other reason could be given,
as his financial affairs were said to be in- a
most prosperous condition.
New York, April 5.—There were some distress
ing developments to-day which threw consider
able light on the causes which led to the suicide of
C. J. Vanderbilt, at the Glenham hotel, Sunday
afternoon. It was learned that within a few
months he had indulged largely in gambling, aud
his losses had been heavy. He had also been hur
rahed by importunities from persons claiming he
owed them money for services which are believed
to be connected with games of hazatd. Added to
the worriment over these matters was the anxiety
which he expressed in regard to the litigation with
Scott Lord, one of his counsel in the con test over
the will of the late commodore. His depression of
mind, caused by a severe epileptic attack two days
before his death, wasaggravated by an unfortunate
Indulgence in his greatest failing the night before
the suicide. This is believed to be the primary
motive for the act.
"Lizzards."
Iu the trial at Decatur of Henry Cato, a col-
ered man, charged with the larceny of live
rough planks, George Patterson, also colored,
was placed on the witness stand. Colonel
Candler, in a serious manner, said to George:
“George, what was the matter with you
when I met you a few* days ago with your
head tied up?”
"Some un done played a trick on me.”
"What sort of a trick?”
“A inity bad trick; dey put insects inter
me.”
“Insects? What sort of insects?”
“Dese yer lizzuds an’ seeh; dey crawls all
’cross me an’ inter my head.”
"How did it all happen?”
"I dunno, tuassa, but deyer in me, slio', an’
I’m ’feared dat dat niggah Cato done it. He
a rni’ty bad niggah, an’ I b’lieve he stole dat
plank. I aint had no lizzuds ’twelll bin befo’
de gran’ juery, an’ tell ’bout Catostealin’ deni
plank. Den he run ’way, an’ I got better er
de lizzuds.”
“Did that cure you?”
"Not dat; den I went ter a cullud doctor,
an’ lie done sump’n er n’er, an’ gun me some
tea. Dat made tne a ieetle better but not
well. Den w’eu Cato, he come back I got bad
wid de insecks ag’in. He a mi’ty bad niggah.
I bin pisened once since lie come back.”
“That is a bad character you give Cato. I
thought he belonged to the church?”
"He don’t ’long ter our chu’cb. I don’t
know he can put lizzuds in folks; bjit w’en
he done gone ’way I gets lots better.”
Auraria Mining News.
From the Dahloutga Mountain Signal.
The writer has had but little time this week
to gather mining news, but understands tiiat
at the < hicago and Georgia they made the
best clean-up ever obtained at that mine. S.
Vance, president of the Auraria mine is here
and looking as jolly as ever. He seems well
pleased with the working of his mine. Tiie
Wells mill made a list run on some ore this
week, with very satisfactory results. They
are still experimenting with their ores in
New York. The Dana mine has been de
tained. waiting for some portion of the ma
chinery, and did not get started as expected
last week. They hope to start their wheel
this week. Success to them. John Weaver,
at the Cleveland, reports everything lovely,
with a good clean-up.
English Sparrows in Athens.
Front the- Athens Banner-Watchman.
These feathered pests are about taking Ath
ens by storm. They first appeared here about
three* years ago, and no one knows from
whence they came. These sparrows are never
seen in the country, lint live in cities and
build their nests around the cornices and fin
ishings of buildings. Hundreds of them in
habit the ivy in the campus, and breed under
the eaves of" the o 'liege, while another large
army lias taken up its headquarters at the in
surance building, and every nook and corner
of fancy work around the building is tilled
with nests. They lay and hatch all the year
round, and so multiply rapidly. They are a
game little bird, x.io, aud have desperate
fights every day.
Insane for Thirty Years-
At the trial of .NathanielCato on a writ ot
lunacy before Councilman Calhoun a day or
two since, it was developed that Cato had
been insane for thirty yean*. He is sixty-five
years of age, and for thirty years has been al
lowed to go and do as be pleases in the ni igh-
Lorhood in whicli be lives, a few miles from
the city iu Stone's district. He was regarded
as harm less, but lately he ^ias grown worse,
and be is to be sent to the asylum.
How it Feelft to Fall Sixty Feet.
From the St. Louis Republican.
Dick Sullivan, who fell sixty feet from the
roof of the Visitation Con vent"at the fire a few
weeks since, was down town yesterday, and
while still using a crutch, he is able to get
around. He said that when first he lost his
foothold on the roof he fell forward on his
face and commenced to slide down. There
was nothing to catch to, but still there was
hope. Every obstacle was grabbed at. When
the tin guttering was reached Mr. Sullivan
made a desperate effort to hold on to it, but
it gave way. Then he knew no more, and
was instantly crushed on the brick pavement
below.
Mr. Sullivan says that when he was sliding
down the roof he never expected to again see
the sun shine or hear the voice of a friend,
and during the time he could not help think
ing of what a horrible death he would meet.
This feeling was but for an instant. Unless
something unexpected occurs Mr. Sullivan
will be at his post—pipeman of No. 6 engine
house—in a few weeks.
lor this year's crop. etc.
will si
say after visiting several farms
la gather by ob-
First, then,
in person, and from All that 1 cou
servution passing from one to anotherr that I "have
never witnessed such efforts as are at present going
on to improve, In every way possible, both die con
dition of the soil and yield of crops.
Old and poor lands are being terraced, deeply
plowed and highly fertilized, wherever cultivated
at all, while the better quality of lands are being
managed so as to retain its virtues, and at tiie same
time care is taken to increase its production
by scientific management. We now
have a stock law, which is just
going into effect, and on account of its
anticipated benefits, most excellent stock pastures
'Are being prepared, and fewer, but better cattle
and bogs, are being brought in to take the place
of common, and to a great extent, worthless herds.
Our people, as a general thing, are much elated
with th« new law, and great good is expected to
reiultfromit.
Such a crop of small grain, especially wheat and
early sown oats, was never before known by out
oldest citizens. Wheat will soon be in full head,
and if no frost comes to kill it in April, the yield
will simply be enormous; while the good of It is
that there is great deal more titan a usual cron
sown. We have whole erops of wheat here that
bids fair to yield from twenty to thirty bushels per
acre.
in this immediate neighborhood can be seen en
tire lots of land solidly seeded in wheat and oats
Taking into consideration tho prospect for wheat
and the preparation for corn, liugunsville will
make, bake and eat herown Johnnycake at home,
hereafter. Onr people having mostly seen the folly
of an all cotton system, have fairly commenced to
diversify their crons, aud again establish their own
corn cribs and smoke-houses at home, having, as iu
olden times, regular hog-killing and mill-days.
Five years ago some of our best farmers com
menced by reducing their firms, to improve their
lands, take better care of their stock of all kinds, use
etter and improved varieties of seeds of every
roduct! and to-day we boast of the * tve.it yield • f
cotton from the fewer number of acres, abo corn,
wheat and oats, than any oth-r locality iu the
state, with similar lands and conveniences. Twen
ty miles by eight delivering 10,000 bales here at
our depot annually. Within hauling distance of
seed cotton to Hogansville, was ginned iu town by
Messrs Sykes & Thompson, 15 i 7 bales, aud within
five miles of town by other public gins, 2050. Be
sides making this cotton, some-of our farmers sell
annually hundreds of bushels of wheat, corn and
oats. We have a small grist mill In Hogansville,
operated by Mr. a. H. Thompson, which I visited
tnls evening, where I saw over 500 bushels of coin,
awaiting its turn to be ground. Every one is not
yet raising tbeir own grain but all are expected
to fall into line another year.
We have a farmers' club that meets every first
Saturday in each month, well organized and con
siderable interest being taken by every member.
Such nu organization brings the farmers together,
and as we have no patent ideas, all that Is known
or being learned is freely given from one to an
other once a month. We hear from the prospeots
of each olhe's crops, and more animation is
created than one could expect that has never wit
nessed such benefits. In fact each and every mem
ber is aU the time striving to excel his neigh
bor, and, as is at once seen, unknown benefits is
certain to be the result and great good permanently
established, the effects of which we can never
hope to lfve to see die out
Nothing would create more interest and be of
more good to our agricultural world than to have
In every community well organized clubs of farm
ers, accepting as a worthy lesson that a multitude
can accomplish more than a single individual.
J. F. Jones.
GOOD FOR PIERCE COUNTY.
Schlatherville, Match 30.—E.i.ors Constitu
tion : I s**e in your paper account- of many coun
ties about farming. as yet 1 have seen no account
of Pierce county, therefore I will say a few words
with yoar permission, and in so doing I will con
fine myself to my immediate neighborhood.
Within a few miles of my house there live several
very indepe.-dent farmers who plant mostly com
and very little cotton If any They sell com
bacon, laid, potatoes aud syrup the year round
They always have plenty of money and cau
loan you a few hundred dollars at any time,
they have fat horses, fine common breed cattle,
plenty of hogs, etc. They all have large families,
some of them havt ten or twelve children and
they are all fat aud hearty One of those gem le-
men who has teu children sail to me the other
day that he never had a doctor in his hou-e. to
see one of his family. The best is yet to be told
AU these bountiful crops are made by the family
and not a darkey is employed in the field or in
the bouse at any time. That is what I call indi-
pendence even if you do not belong to the inde
pendent party. Yours. F. H. Maiaon
A WORD FROM ARKANSAS:
Hickory Plai.ne. Prairie county, Ark.. Match
2G. 18*2.—Editors Constitution: Being a subscriber
to your paper I will send yon a few item, from
Arkansas. I like to read about the corn raisers of
Geonzia. I lived in Georgia before the war, and
was living in Columbus when the war commenced.
I enlistea in Captain G. W. Atkinson’s company
aud served in the 9th Georgia battalion of artil
lery commanded by Colonel A. Leyden of your
city. 1 would be glad I wo- living in Georgia now.
1 like to read the letters of Bill Arp; there isa good
deal of sound doctrine in his wriliug. 1 here are a
few farmers in my section of country that raise
thler own supplies at tome, but they are few and
far between; the majority of them are all cotton
men aud all under mortgage.
Yon etc T. F. TURNAGK.
HEY RAISE IT ALL.
Cold Water. Maine »>. i»z.—Editors Constitu
tion: Below you can see the names and address of
successful farmers, afl of whom diversify their
crops, raise their own meat, corn, wheat, osts—buy
notniug scarcely iu the way of supplies: L M Ad-
Imitators of Sullivan and Ryan.
From the Selma, Alabama, Times.
A curious and fierce combat was witnessed
yesterday between a blackbird and a wood
pecker. The quarrel was for a large worm
that the red-lieaded bird had secured but
dropped in his eagerness for mastication of it.
No sooner had it touched the ground than the
sable-hued garden destroyer pounced on it
with the historic vigor of a duck on a June
bug. Blackbird and woodpecker reached the
prey near the same time and each was bound
to secure the prize. They fought with the
skill and motions of thoroughbred roosters
and so intent did they soon become that both
could have been captured. The fight lasted
fully ten minutes and appeared to he a draw.
Both birds flew away from the battle-gronnd
with weighty wing and feeble stroke and
seemed not over inclined for any more. They
were both satisfied.
Where Most of the Punched Coin Goes.
New York Letter in the Troy Times.
Since the general refusal to accept punched
coin the latter has become a mere article of
merchandise. Calling at a specie house, I was
informed that the colored people are in the
habit of punching coin in order to wear the
pieces as ornaments. When compelled by
necessity they afterward pass them at the
stores. Among the lot was a large number of
mutilated nickels, which are worthless. The
greatest amount of punched coin at present is
of this character anti origin. The spring trade
is bringing an immense quantity of worn-out
money to the treasury for exchange, and often
$10,000 is received in a week. This money is
packed in pasteboard boxes, carefully scaled
and sent to Washington, where it is destroyed.
A Marine Phenomenon.
From the New London, Conn., Day.
A strange phenomenon was observed on
Wednesday at Bartlett’s reef light ship, off
Saybrook, which resembled a tidal wave on a
circumscribed scale. The vessel was lying
perfectly still on a sea as calm as a mill-pond
and not a breath of wind stirred the atmos
phere, when all at once an area of about a
quarter of an acre was lifted out of the depths
to a height of 25 feet, churned into foam, and
and iu a second threw the light ship on her
beam ends, almost swamping her. The phe
nomenon subsided as quickly as it appeared,
but the billowy roll continued fora long time
afterward. Captain Edwards, who was on
board at the time, states that he saw a similar
occurrence about the same place nearly 16
years ago.
Why Young GnrOeld wu* Not Suspended.
Springfield, Mass . April 5 —Among the thirteen'
students suspended from Williams college for five
weeks on account of trickery at tiie recent examina
tion, the following are prominent: H D Rockwell,
field. Young Garfield was not successful in secur
ing the examination papers and escaped suspen
sion.
Iteutli of a Maine lardy at the Ace of 102,
Portland, April 5.—Mrs. Daniel Deshon died in
this city to night, aged 102 years. 8tic has been
three times married. 8he was never sick uutil
1876, when she had a severe attack of typhoid pneu-
moi ia. A bout sixteen months ago she was paral
yzed from the waist down. She was probably the
oldest person in the state.
The New* from Senator Hill.
Philadelphia, April 5.—Senator Hill, of Georgia,
continues to improve. It was his intention toleave
iu the early part of this week for the south, but he
has concluded to remain with his physicians unti
next week.
PRESENTIMENTS.
An Inveottcatlon of the Canoe* ot Tho*e Dark Fore-
bodelne* which Make Powerful Men Weak.
From the Golden Rule.
Much apprehension has been occasioned
throughout America from the announcement
made by Professor Proctor tiiat the return in
nineteen years of the great comet of last sum
mer will cause the destruction of the earth.
But while people are becoming so strangely
exercised over this announcement, an event
of far more serious importance, which is tak
ing place to-day, seems to be almost wholly
overlooked. The nature of tills most vital
subject can be best explained by relating the
following experiences:
Bishop E. O. Haven, known to the entire
land, was unaccountably awakened one night
out of a sound sleep, and lay awake until
morning. His mind seemed unusually active,
and he not only reviewed his past life, which
had been an eventful one, but laid extensive
plans for the future. He did not feel especially
ill. but could not account for the unusual ac
tivity of liis brain, nor for the restlessness
which seemed to possess him. In the morn
ing he had but little appetite, but was appa
rently well in other respects. In a few days,
however, he began to feel restless and morbid,
although lie tried earnestly to overcome the
feeling which had taken possession of him.
But try as he would the shadow of some evil
seemed to follow him. and he was conscious
of a gradual sinking and wasting away of all
his physical faculties. He had been an earn
est and diligent worker, and in his zeal fre
quently over-taxed his strength, and being
absorbed in his duties failed to observe the
common symptoms with which he was af
flicted, thus permitting the work of destruc-
ams, tr, Cold Water P 6; IVn Jl Adams, Cold i tion to go on unheeded. But the end finally
came in a most peremptory manner. Shortly
before his death he wrote a letter—the last
one lie ever indited—in which he speaks as
follows: “A belief that death is near affects
different minds differently, but probably all
who are in a fair condition of physical and
mental strength instinctively shrink from it
with an indefinable dread and horror. A dy
ing man is no more able of himself to foresee
his own destiny or tiie destiny of those he
leaves than he was before he began to die.”
The recent sad and sudden death of Hon.
Clarkson N. Potter is one of the most serious
warnings ever given in the long list of innu
merable cases of fatal neglect. It is not suffi-
cient to say many other brilliant men, iu-
cluding Everett, .Sumner, Chase, Wood, Wil
son and Carpenter, were swept away by the
same fatal trouble. The question is, was
these men sufficiently careful of their health,
and could they have been saved? The Al
bany Argus, in speaking of Mr. Potters
sudden illness and death, says:
"One of the physicians who attended Mr.
Potter here was interviewed last evening.
He stated that Mr. Potter’s inability to con
verse had for some time served to baffle the
physicians in their efforts to determine the
root of his illness. It seems, however, tiiat
Mr. Potter, some two years ago, suffered a
Slight attack of kidney disease. Unwise de
pendence upon a robust constitution and
naturally perfect health, and neglect of pro
per clothing, doubtless sowed the seeds of a
disease that needed but some such personal
neglect as that of Tuesday morning to de
velop. From the symptoms at first shown,
it was thought tiiat liis only troub’e was
nervous prostration; but his long continu
ance in a semi unconscious state led to the
belief tiiat his illness was seated in a chronic
difficulty more mysterious and dangerous.”
Up to the latter part of last year Mr. Ed
ward F, Rook, a member of the New York
stock exchange, was doing business in Wall
street, New York. He had everything to en
courage him. and make life happy, but was
the victim of unaccountable uneasiness. His
experience as described by one who knew,
was as follows: “At unexpected times, and
on occasions when lie had the greatest reason
to feel joyous he was irritable and haunted
with strange feelings of discon tent. He en
deavored to check these feelings and appear
pleasant, but it required a great effort to do
so; after which he would again relapse into
his former morbid mood. This feeling con
tinued for a number of months, when he be
came conscious of an added sensation of lassi
tude. He was tired even when resting, and
although experiencing no acute pain, had
dull, aching sensations in his limbs and vari
ous parts of his body. Shortly afterward his
head began to ache most frequently and his
stomach failed to digest properly. Beiqg
told that he was suffering from malaria he
consulted an eminent physician, who ill;
formed him that his kidneys were slightly ef
fected, and gave him medicine to restore them.
But he grew worse instead of better. He then
consulted other eminent doctors of another
school and was informed that he had a brain
difficulty somewhat in the nature of a tumor,
but in spite of all efforts to the contrary he
continued to grew worse. At this . time his
condition was terrible. What were at first
simple symptoms had developed to terrible
troubles. He was flushed and feverish, con
stantly uneasy, and yet always weary. He
had an intense appetite one day and very lit
tle the next His pulse was irregular, liis
breathing labored, and every moment of ex
istence was a burden. These disastrous symp
toms continued, his face and body became
discolored, his heart was irregular in its
action, and his breath came in short, con
vulsive gasps. He grew constantly worse,
notwithstanding the utmost precautions of
his friends, and finally he died in the greatest
agony. After his death an examination as to
its actual cause was made, wh«n his brain was
found to lie in a perfect condition, and the
reason of his disease was of an entirely dif
ferent nature.”
The experiences which have been cited!,
above all had a common cause and were each
the result of one disease. That disease, which
so deceitfully, yet surely removed the people-
above mentioned was Bright’s disease of the
kidneys. In the case of Mr. Rook the exami
nation after death, whileshowing the brain tp
be in perfect condition, revealed the terrible
fact that he was the victim of a slight kidney
trouble, which had gone on unchecked, until
it resulted in acute Bright’s disease. The
leading physicians and scientists of the world
are fast learning that more than one-half the
deaths which occur are caused by this mon
strous scourge. It is one of the most deceitful
maladies ever known to the human race. It
manifests itself by symptoms so slight and
common, as to seem' unworthy of attention^
and yet these very insignificant symptoms
are the first stages of the worst complaint
known in the history of the world. Thou*
sands of people have died from troubles that
are called heart disease, apoplexy, pneumo
nia, brain fever and similar diseases, when it
was, in fact, Bright's disease of tiie kidneys.
The ravages of this disease have been greatly
increased from the fact tiiat until recent
years no way was known to prevent its begin
ning nor check its increase when it had be
come once fixed hpon the system. Within
the past two years, however, we have learned
of more than four hundred pronounced cases
of Bright’s disease, many of them much worse
than those above described, and most of
whom had been given up by prominent phy
sicians, who have been completely cured.
The means used to accomplish this end lias
been Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure,
manufactured in Rochester, N. Y., a remedy
th t has won its way into the confi
dence of the public solely upon tlic reinarkar
ble merits it possesses. As a result, it is more
widely used and thoroughly praised tlian any
medicine wliicli has ever been before the
American public. Indeed there is not a
drug More in the entire land .where it cannot
be found.
Although Bright's disease is so common in
cities, it is still more prevalent in the coun
try. When eminent physicians in the largest
cities are not able to recognize Bright’s dis
ease, it is only natural that in the country,
where there are few physicians of any kind,
and those few so unacquainted with the dis
ease as to call it by some other name, it
should rage terribly and yet unknown to the
ones who are suffering with it. Thousands Of
people can look back and recall the death of
friends from what was supposed to be some
common complaint, when it was really
Bright’s disease, and no one knew it. The ter
rible plcuro-pneumonia, which has been so
dreadful, is usually the resultof uremic or kid
ney poison. Lung fever can be traced to a simi
lar source. Most cases of paralysis arise from the
same difficulty, as well as innumerable fevers,
lung, throat, head and bowel troubles. A
vast number of ladies have suffered and died
from complaints common to their sex called,
perhaps, general debility, when, could the
real cause have been known, it would have
been found to be Bright’s disease, masquera
ding under another name. In marked con
trast to the sad cases which have been above
described are the experiences of many promi
nent people who were as low as any of the
persons mentioned, but who were remarkably
restored to former health and vigor by this
same remedy. Among this number are the
following prominent names: Colonel John CL
Whitner, Atlanta, Ga ; B. F. Larrabee, Bos
ton, Mass.; General C. A. Hackman, Phillips-
burg, N. J.; Itev. D. D. Buck, D. D., Geneva,
N. Y.; Dr. F. A. McManus, Baltimore, Md.;
Edwin Fay, Davenport, Iowa; Rev. A. C.
Kendrick, LL. D.. Rochester, N. Y.; J. 8.
Matthews, Portland, Mich.; C. W. Eastwood,
New York; Dr. A. A. Ramsay, Albia, Iowa;
Chancellor C. N. Sims, D. D., Syracuse, N.
Y.; Dr. S. P. Jones, Marienette, Wis.; T. 8.
Ingram, Cleveland, O.j Henry T. Champney,
Boston, Mass.; Elder Janies 8. Prescott, North
Union, O., who is a prominent member of the
Shaker community, and many others.
To all candid minds the force of the above
facts nni3t come with special power. They
show the importance of promptness and at
tention to the first symptoms of disordered
health before disease becomes fixed and hope
departs. They show how this can success
fully be done, and that the dangers which
await neglect can only with difficulty be re
moved.