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Newspaper Page TextTHE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. FAYETTEVILLE GA . LBGnggs C. VOLUME XIV TUESDAY MORNING APE XL IS, 1882. PRICE 5 CENTS THE WEEK EPITOMIZED' NARRATING THE HISTORY OF SEV EN DAYS. Frooeedlngs it Home and Abroad-Tha Politic, and Par.er.lUM of the Old World-Tie Wap. of tie people at Hone, and the Crime, and Amtuement. la WhlehThey Indulge. London, April 11.—Professor Goldwin Smith writes to the Tiroes that if the British legislature and people would handle the Irish question with vigor, their determination would be applauded by nobody more than the great mass of the American people as distinguished from the politicians. Mr. Smith recommends the abolition of jury trial in agrarian cases, the collection of fair rents by aummaiy process; a suspension of the repre sentation of rebel districts; the suppression of the murderous press, and special legisla tion concerning foreign emissaries, they and their governments being given to fully under stand their position and the liabilities they incur. SECRETARY LINCOLN. The Critic says that Secretary Lincoln is the only member of the cabinet appointed by President Garfield who will remain fora short time longer and then lie superseded by some oue more in accord with the present adruinis- trutidn. A KNOXVILLE BANK. The comptroller of the currency has author ized the Mechanics national bank of Knox ville, Tenn.,with a capital of $100.0(10, to com nience business. THE NAVAL DEPARTMENT. Mr. Hunt, secretary of the navy, having been sent as minister to Russia, lion. W. EJ Chandler, the evil genius of the Hayes elec toral frauds, has been nominated and con firmed as secretary of the navy. PARNELL ON PAROLE. Very unexpectedly, the British government released Mr. Purnell from prison on parole, presumably to attend the funeral of a sister's child. Immense rejoicings took place ih all parts of Ireland in consequence. The out rages throughout the country continue, how ever, and more repressive measures are urged. CAPTAIN HOWGATE. Captain Ilowgatc, who has for some time occupied quarters in the Washington City prison, charged with huge peculations on the government, has escaped and cannotbe found, THE APPROACH INI. END. 'Washington has never known a gayer win- ^>r. The contrast of the long, dnll days will l.'C Striking, lor this is not a de sirable summer' renuenol, L't/pgress shows a disposition to hurry up witu business, expressing more impatience than usual with the inveterate talkers who clog the progress of either house. An adjournments fixed by general consent between the ‘mid dle and last of June, with, of Course, the average number of private and special bills stranded between the senate ana house or entirely untouched. THE ENGLISH IDEA. ‘The Times, in a leading article, says that Chili lias 6tuck its talons deep into the body of Peru, and cannot disentangle them. The conquest and corporation of Peru straight way in the victorious republic would, in the interests of one as well as the other, be prefer able to the intolerable relation which now binds them together. AN EMPIV COMI'Umenu Special Dispatch to The Coii-lltutjoUv / Tho Czar, in order that Poland may be ■ represented at his coronation, 1ms appointed ten Polish district marshals. The rank of district marshal iia-s not existed in Poland Since tdiw.' * Elemental Schools the Great Need of the Day—The Necessity of National Aid Set Forth—-The Atti tude of Southern Congressmen—A Trip Through the Southern States. from Moscow report that eighty workmen employed on the Uspanslri cathedral were ar rested on Holy Saturday in consequence of the discovery of a mine under that edifice, in which it is intended that the ceremony of the coronation of the czar shall take place. HOME KCLE IN EGYPT. The Teiups publishes a letter from Cairo, which says that war is openly declared against all Europeans engaged in official functions in Egypt The Arab papers advocate the abso lute expulsion of Europeans from the public service. Domestic Doll. Guiteau has grown nervous end desperate. Scarlet favor is raging at rottsville, Pennsylvania. Mis. Horace Grcely Smith, daughter of the late Horace Giee’.y, Is dead. A Washington, Pennsylvania, bank cashier Is a defaulter for over $60,000. Dorsey, the chief of the star-routers, has forfeit ed his bond by failing to appear tvheu his case was called. A dispatch from Victoria, B. C., announces that twosteamers with 3,000Cbintse, sailed from Hong Kong for Victoria on Monday last. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Ladusch found her grand child, named Gagel, eating a white power. She tasted of it to see what it waa It proved to be a patent rat poison, and both persons died. One of the female camels of Forepaugh’s show, now in exhibiting in Baltimore, gave birth to an infant camel, which was viewed with great inter est. Cleveland, April 15.—Mrs. Alfa Boynton, moth er of Dr. 8. A. Boynton, one of President Garfield’s physicians, mid only sister of Grandma Ga> field, died to-day at her home in Hiram, aged 75. The schooners Thomas Parsons and Clayton Bell collided in Lake Michigan on Wednesday. The Bell sank, and her captain, a French cook and two of tire crew were drowned. Rev. H.8. DeForrest, president of Talladega col lege. Alabama, addressed a large congregation in DeWitt Memorial church, New York, Sunday even ing on the condition and prospects of the College. The Virginia legislature hss passed a resolution putting the care of the confederate gravesat Hollys wood cemetery iu care of convict labor, and ha- uccaeioncd much indignation. Jumbo, the largest elephant in captivity in the world, and for fifteen years past the pride of the Loudor. geological garden, was landed on our shores Sunday from the steamship Assyrian Mon arch. It G Dun & Co report that for the ast seven day there have been 12 failures, distributed as follows: Southern states, 33; western, 34; middle 19; east ern 22; Pacific and territories, 8; and New York city, 6. There are now advertised at Hong Kong, and en route to the Pacific coast, all due within the next ninety days, eight steamers and nine sailing vessels with coolies, besides the regular steamers of the two China lines. Two men were arrested on Sunday in New York having in their possession $100,000 in St. Joseph 1 per cent bonds, which they were trying to negotiate. The bonds were abstracted from tho register's office at St. Joseph, Mo. The Kings couuty grand jury of the court of ses sions has returned an indictment against ex-tiov- - ernor Franklin J. Moses for false pretenses in j Over With these $VKtenCCS of progress.” having obtained S175 from Freeborn J. Smith under I . _,. v , pl'ci»i! sc that he was a brother of Governoj Cpl- J . - national aid, MAYO ON EDUCATION. HOW the work is progressing IN THE SOUTH. ‘‘The great need of the south, overshadow ing all others, is elemental education.” Thus Dr. A. D. Mayo, of Massachusetts, whose name is so well known in connection with educational subjects, expressed himself in answer to a question on the subject. A DRAWBACK POINTED OCT. ’ ' “The drawback to education, as it has man ifested itself to me, is that in the south there are a vast number of colleges and academies. These have often from 200 to 300 pupils, drawn from every section of an extended territory’. While they have a course of study in keeping with their titles, the fact is that they do not rank with an elemental school.” “Why is this?” “In the various sections from which the pupils are drawn there are no primary schools. When a child, therefore, reaches the age of fourteen or thereabout, instead of being ad vanced to that stage necessary for the academ ical course, the pupil goes to the academy ashamed to begin at the bottom, and wasting time in looking over studies for which the preliminary preparations were not made. Hence we see schools turning out pupils with the most shallow veneeriugof instruction,’in troduced to the world as a graduates, and yet lacking the true basis of education.” THE REMEDY SUGGESTED. “How would you remedy this?” “By the establishment of elemental schools, the oojeet of which should be to prepare the child under fourteen for the higher studies. To this duty the south is not at present equal. The great object, then, of the south ern educators and legislators should be to favor the establishment of such schools at the county seats. The county seat are the keys to the situation. From such schools others, perhaps not quite so pretentious, will in lime be established. Smaller towns, seeing the advantages of education, will soon take up the idea and vote a tax on themselves for their own credit. From these schools, constantly increasing in numbers, will go forth scholars prepared to take up the academic course, and in a shorter time than you dream of, the south will be dotted all see l -ithing but hope for Georgia in the fu ture.'* ' THE COLORED SCHOOLS. ‘\ nat is the condition of the colored schools?” “Uvery southern state, with creditable spirt, is doing its full duty in regard to the colored race. They have everywhere their full proportion; in fact, I can recall some in stant es where they have the advantage. The colored people, in turn, fully appreciate the necessity of education, and their schools are always well attended.” “From whom do you receive the strongest evidences of sympathy?” “My reception everywhere has been so gen erally courteous that it would be invidious to make any distinction, but there can be no impropriety in my saying that I find the ex- confeaerate officers, who went into the army as young men, most enthusiastic and zealous advocates of progress. They have set their facet toward the east. Cast among the young people as I have been, receiving their confi dence and listening to their expressed hopes for the future, a side of the picture with whtsi politicians are not familiar, I am filled with bright anticipations for the future of the southern people. Let us secure national aid for elemental education, and the rest will take care of itself.” GOVERNOR COLQUITT _ A FATAL EXPLOSION. CnAUtV^’mfc, April 13.—The steamer rL«nter, from this port, exploded her boiler ibis lumring just after leaving the dock. Jake Washington, a colored deck hand, was scalded to death. L. S. Bosang and W. T. Hat*, mate and engineer, both white, were seriously scalded. Two colored men were ’sMghtly injured. The Planter had a cargo of 'merchandise and about twelve cabin passen- •gers. None of the latter are injured. The vessel and cargo are but slightly damaged. The vessel was ’.owed back to the pier. THE IMVRISONED SUSPECTS. The official list of suspects detained in prison on April the 1st j daces the number at oil, of whom 28 are reasonably suspected of murder as principals and 7 as accessories; 11 are charged witli treasonable practices and 24 with shooting with intent to murder. The others are held for arson, intimidation, un lawful assembly, etc. CHOSEN BV THE CLERGY. The clergy of Meat h held a meeting yester day and selected Edward Sheil, home rule member of the last parliament, for Athlone, as aeandi-late forthe vacant seat in the house of commons. It is believed that the name of Captain Ilugmore, the land league candidate, who has just been sentenced to six months imprisonment, was rejected because of objec tions existing to throwing away the vote by electing a person in prison. A CLERICAL MANIFESTO The Catholic clergy of the dioceses of Cashel and Emly have passed resolutions pledgin; themselves to exert all their influence to pre vent outrages, demanding a cessation of coer cion aud the eviction of tenants for rent, and also pledging themselves to co-operate with the people’s representatives with the object of securing a large amendment to the land act. THE DIFFICULTY TO SOLVE. Mr. O’Donnell, member of parliament for Dungarovon, publishes a long letter headed, “The care of the Irish difficulty,” in which he maintains that the question to which all men responsible for the government of Ire land ought jo turn their special attention is the arrears of rent. If the arrears difficulty, he says, is solved, every difficulty will be solved. If it is neglected, then farewell to all hope of. peace, progress and contentment, ALL ARRANGED. YOU KNOW. A marriage lias been arranged between Rev. Edward Carr Glynn, vicar of Kensington, and Lady Mary Campbell, youngest daughter of the Duke of Argyle. ROYALLY CONNUBICATED. The Princess Therise Von Lcichtenstein and Prince Franz Joseph Arnulph, of Bavaria, were married yesterday in Vienna. Varnell’s return. A dispatch from Paris states that Mr Par nell intends to return to Ireland almost im mediately. -y TWELVE THOUSAND JEWS FOR AMERICA. Special Dispatch to The Constitution. The Golos reports that M. Olipliant, the re presentative of the committee to aid the Rus sian Jews, arrived at Lemberg to-day, inter viewed the governor and afterward went to Brody to make arrangements for the emigra tion of 12,000 Jews to America. MURDERING ENGINEERS. Parsons, Kansas, April 15:—The Indians in the territory have been very much dissatisfied because Jay Gould has secured the St. Louis and San Francisco line.ruuning through that country, and have heretofore vowed ven geance. Monday, March 27, a brakeman, who was on the top of a car, was shot by several bul lets while the tram was going through a rav ine, near Muscogee. A few days after, an other brakeman shared the same fate. Sher iff Williams, who went to hunt the offenders, has not been heard of since the 16th inst.,and he is believed to have been .murdered. Yes- -uilt. ^ in Hamil'on, Ohio, Sunday night, destroy ed a livery stable, the Hull agricultural works, with a number of steam engines owned by Nash ville parties, O’Brien’s wheel works, Black & C’low- ssu’s warehouse,and the city building. Loss about $19,000. A wind storm, unexampled in violence, swept over Vaneovcr’s island on Sunday. Several ships riding In the outer harbor, dragged their anchors, and were in exrreme peril. A boat’s crew, consist ing of six men, wliiie attempting to board one of tho ships, were all lost. * Work on the Columbia, South Carolina, canal has Decn begun with sixty convicts. The event was celebrated by an artillery salute and other demonstrations, inspired by the magnitude of the enterprise. Colton factories will be iu operation Within the next year, and 11,000 horse power will developed. ...... Senator Ilill, of Cleotgta, lei. Philadelphia on Wednesday to spend a week or ten days at Atlantic City, whence he will probably go to Old Point Com fort, Va. His physicians say he is getting along well, aud they do not apprehend that he will have any further tumble with his throat, The dead body of a little girl, five.years old, an- ellKtVtiun oi tho Golcett City disaster, was recov ered at Star landing, thirty miles below Memphis, It is either the daughter oi Captain L. K. Kotins, of of W. IL Stowe. The remains are slightly burned on the back. Captaiu Scoville departed this after noon to identify the remains ana bring the body here for in term enL The post-office department is in receipt of advices from the postmaster at New Orleans that the Mor- :an line of steamers, which carry the mailsbetween lavatia and New Orleans, have been withdrawn. This will necessitate the sending of correspondence intended for Cuba in the mails made up at New York. No cause has as yet been assigned for the withdrawal of the steamers. The New York assembly, by a vote of 98 to 14, laid aside the order of business and took up the resolutionscallingforan investigation of theomcial acts of Judge Westbrook and Ex-Attorney General Word, in connection with the Manhattan Elevated railroad suits. After a lengthy aud animated dis cussion, the original resolution was amended to extend thescopc of the inquiry to the receivership, and was adopted by 104 votes in the affirmative to six in the negative. Foretj-n Flashes. The queen is still at Mentone. Denis Florence McCarthy, the poet is dead. The Russiau army is to be reduced 37,000 men. The king of Wimc-mberg has become a Catholic’ Several Irish prisoners have been released from prison. Twelve thousand Jewish refugees are on their way to America. Peace has been reestablished in the disturbed portions of Spain. The German reichstng has been ordered to con voke on the 27th. The death is announced of Charles Alfred Ber- tand, member of tne French senate and author of several works on legal subjects. A report was current iu Shanghai on March the 4th that the emperor of China had died. The mAvs Is not confirmed, but serious intrigues have been discovered. The Count Totffe, president of the Austrian council and minister of the interior.has issued pos llivc orders forbidding all meetings avowedly for the purpose of anti semetic demonstrations, and maintaining the duty of the government to protect the rights of every subject regardless of his polities or religion. The London Observer, referring to the case of Dr. Larnson, says: If the'Americans are to ask a re spite For Dr. Lamson because there is evidence iu America proving his insanity.che English govern ment mignt, with equal justi e, demand a respite for Guiteau, on the ground that certain Densons in England are convinced that he is not responsible for uie crime be committed. Shop Girls and Domestics. From the Philadelphia Times. America raises many shop girls, but few domes tics. There is a strange prejudice against the work of the kitchen, and rather than do it thousands of young women, who are compelled to do something toward their own support, rush into the drudgery of the shop or the store Domestic service is not necessarily menial; it does much to fit young wo men for the duties of married life. Perhaps if more women were skilled in the work of the kitchen there would be more marriages. How Babies Might Talk. From the Boston Post. A prominent physician says that if mothers did not take up the senseless prattle of babies and hurl it back at them under the plea that it is “baby talk,” children would learn sooner how to talk plain. They repeat the jumble of syllables that they first bear. That’s the idea! Instead of saying of soapy water: “I doesn't fink it tastes flood,” you can just as well have Mr. two-year old observe: “Tne taste of soap combined with aqueous fluid is not agreeable to me.’’ Black Lace Stylish. From the Philadelphia Times. Durit g the spring the fashion will continue of wearing olaek lace ana frills of black lisse for the throat and wrists. Young ladies wear double ruffs of black Spanish laee round their throats, two of the rows being turned each way, the ruffs fastening iu front with a cluster of loops of narrow s.tin or moire ribbon. Lappors of real black thread lace or of Spanish blonde are worn with the dresses that are open and pointed in front, and have no white tucker added. How They Rate Beauty in Texas. From the SL Louis Republican. “Front what source, besides local taxation, may we expect assistance in this work?” “It is a work of great national importance, and I am, therefore, strongly in favor of con gressional aid.” “What particular measure do you favor?” “I think the Teller bill is decidedly the best bill before congress. It aims at a direct ap propriation from the treasury, distributed on the basis of illiteracy, and to be expended in the support of such elemental schools as I have just described to you. Of course, the communities will be expected to contribute liberally in order to secure the benefit of this governmental assistance.” “What are the chances of the passage of the bill?” “None of the bills have as yet been advanc ed in congress. Several weeks since 1 was in Washington, and I made a fair test of congres sional opinion,” “Whitl conclusious did you reach?’ “That some one of the law, if SiOt this 1 session, next. The members from the north and west are generally convinced of the necessity of snch a measure, and will unite in its pas sage. The only opposition I find to it is from tlie members of some of the strictly rural states—such for instance as New Hampshire. These gentlemen come to Washington with high notions of economy. Senator Hoar, I believe, will advocate the bill.” “How do the southern members stand on the question?” “Almost a unit in favor of it—in fact, I know of but one southern congressman—Sen ator Vance, of North Carolina—who is affected by the states rights view of the case. You may depend upon it that when the bill comes up’it will not be defeated by southern votes ” “What is the principal difficulty in the way?’ “The great number of bills on the subject. It is a foregone conclusion that the measure will become a law. Hence every ambitious member is anxious to he the originator of the successful bill; but I am satisfied that the Teller bill will be the one adopted, because it is the best and most practicable. THE PEABODY FUND. “What of the Peabody fund?” “It is doing an excellent work in preparing teachers for the duty of instructing the rising generation. A better man than Dr. J. L. M. Currie.could not have been selected to carry on the work. He is zealous and eloquent, and devotes his entire time to the interest of his charge.” public opinion guaged, What have been yonr means of guaging public opinion in the'south?” “I have visited every section of the south by invitation of its best citizens. I have been taken into their homes, and conversed familiarly with them on every phase of the question, and I have foand the desire univer sal to extend the benefits of the school into every corner of the country. The want of f unds has been the only drawback, THROUGH THE STATES What is the condition of education in the various states?’ “Virginia, I think, is the most advanced of southern states. Almost all the towns have local charters for school purposes, and there is considerable rivalry among them for the mastery in excellence. Besides this influence, the country schools are kept rutming five months in the year, which is a much longer term than any other southern state affords. Next after ’ Virginia; I have found re markable progress in Nortn Carolina, where the towns have also taken up the idea, and some of them have systems of schools such as would, for discipline and thoroughness of instruction, surprise you. South Carolina was a revelation to me. The white people I found working with wonderful zeal and unity. Charleston, for its population and wealth, has done as much as any city in the union. The governing’ influence in South Carolina is its young men. They fill almost all the offices, and are looking strictly to the future as the last means of retrieving the past. Spartanburg, Greenville, Anderson, and many other towns are earnestly enlisted in the cause. Looking at the history of South Carolina it is perfectly natural that her people should make their 'mark. The fact that, before the war, with a white population no greater than that of the city of Boston, she should have wielded such an influence in national affairs, is proof sufficient of the high standard her people attained. It does * Tell* of Ilia Visit to the West, and ot the Slater Fund Governor Colqiiitt, after several weeks’ ab sence at the Hot Springs, of Arkansas, has retv.’ned to the city and expresses himself as being highly pleased with his trip, as well as much improved in health. Traveling he found very much broken up onaccountof the great floods along the river bottoms. “The land is magnificent,” he said, “but when your immense crop of the last year, as well as yonr improvements of years preceding, are 'swept away by the swift current of the floods, of what service cau such crops be to you? Poorland in Georgia,where you are sure of what you have got, is worth much more than rich land in Arkansas, where all your accumulations may he swept away by a sin gle tain.” “Are the floods receding?” “Not to the extent that has been represent ed in the newspariers, though I have great re spect for them. 1 went,, up the St. Francis river over one hundred miles, and found the entire country to be an inland sea. And even if the waters did recede, there are difficulties insurmountable in the way of raising a crop.” “What are they?” ‘ rite greater part of the live stock has been drowned. Such mules as have been saved fro n the wreck are starved and unfit for work. Plows, cultivators, implements of all kir.ds, have been earned around by the waters until it would be impossible for a man to attempt to gather his own uniin.” , ‘ Have the people no hope ahead of them, til* 11?” “But one. In the rich alluvial lands along tin? rivers but little, if any, plowing is neces- If the waters would recede in time to BILL ARP IS MAD BECAUSE THE OLD SOW OF GATES. And Hoes Come Three-Quarters of a Mite to Fester Him—One of the Boys is Siek and the Other Railroading, and Mrs. Arp is Qetiing to be Mighty Particular. Written for The Constitution. The more a man does the more he can do, especially if there is a gentle pressure behind him which says, don’t stop, keep moving, here is another little job for you to do. A farming man may map out his work for to morrow ever so carefully, but it is mighty hard to work up to it, for the first thing he knows the plow points are too dull or a single-tree breaks in the new ground, or a nabors hogs, that have got no pasture but the big road, have broke through the water gap, aud it takes an hour to run ’em out again, for a hog wont go out at the same hole he came in. These hogs that pester me so come three quarters of a mile every day to peruse my premises, and they have lived on me all win ter, and I’ve dog’d cm pretty bad, but they come back again next day and lie round a-watching, and water gaps and gates are no protection, for they are educated hogs. Cobe told me to catch oue and mash his tail on a rock, but it did no good. I can fix a gate that that old sow can’t root open, but I’m not going to do it, for she has no right to put her nose under it and shake it and rock it and lift it until she gets it open; and I’m not going to stake down my water gap on the lower side either, for the creek rises rapidly, and some times in the night, and brings the rif-raf down, and the gate must be free to rise with it. The fact is, nobody has any right to keep such hogs unless they keep em at home, and I’ve borne with it until patience is exhausted and I’ll have to stand by my arms. Why, last Sunday we all shut up the house and went up to spend' the day with our married offspring, aud when we come back in the shank of the afternoon the old sow and all her shoats were under the house and had broke up two hen’s nests, and when 1 made war on her in my wrath she actually showed fig.-it aud kumblumoxd at me like the prem ises were her’s. THE FENCE LAW AND THE HOGS. The fence law as it is gives these hogs a pas ture in a lane nearly a mile long and open at both ends, and they have got to forage on somebody or meat will be scarce next fail. There is a power of work to do now and it looks like my share of it is bigger than usual for one of the boys has gone to railroading and another is puny. Well he is not down in bed sick but he is not able-bodied enough to do hard work and keep at it, but just feeble enough to go a-fishing and set on the bank and. gift VUe biggest bites and sstich the smail- Mrs. Arp is mighty sa;y, admit of it, the plan is to drop the cotton seed in |ast year’s futrow, and trust to the I est full in tiie Week. ^ su- ceeding rains to beat it into the soil so particular about her children when their eves tli.'tit might germinate. Reasonable crops look hollow and they complain of pains have been made in this way.” and she is a mighty good doctor, but THssr.ATKB FUND. she knows I have no time to get Governor, you have been named as one of s ; ck . an( i so it’s William this and William t:,': trustees ot the Slater fund. Who is Mr. that.'and the other*dav she called me a Guar s’ ’.ter?” 'Mi'. John F. Slater has been identified with the business interests of Norwich, Con necticut, since 1840, and is a director in sev eral banking, railroad and manufacturing en- that, and tiie other day she called me a quar ter of a mile off, and when 1 came a puffin’ and blowin' she said the winder curtain had fell down and wanted me to fix it. Some more new dirt was wanted for the flower pots and boxes, and I had to bring her samples te -prises. He Is very wealthy, and has one of f rom seV en fence coi ners before I got the right tic finest estates about Norwich. His father, kint t and the big old fish geraniums that Jjhu. came from Derbyshire, England, with don’t sme il g00 d nor look pretty had to be mi brother Samuel, in 1806, established the divided and set out in the grounll, and the and zeal. I have never met him personally.” I cnd the new borC dueki had to have their “What do you know of Ins project and of (ads cut Q ff and the peas were to his objects?” stick and the little ' chaps are always “He donates a fund of one million dollars say i ng papa this and papa that, and yester- for the purposed' advancing the educational day I had to take a basket and a digging hoe interests of the colored race. This fund he and g0 way down In the meadow, aud on the places in the hands of a board of trustees to c ,- eeki an ct dig up lillies, and violets, and all serve without compensation, as has been pnb- sorta 0 f w ild tiowers for them to plant in their lished. The fund is to be used in the discre- little flower garden, and they had to have tion of the board, eitherfor the establishment hen’s eggs, and pigeon eggs blowed out to of normal schools for the education of colored pa i, lt an d dve and fixup for Easter, and I teachers, or to aid in elevating institutions I j ia d to make ’em a draft-board, and saw already established, probably a little of both, j 8poo i s j n two for draft men, and dye half of None of the money, however, is to be used in > em w y,h j nk an d it’s some new thing everv buildings or other property—it is to be de day to do, and it is a good thing for a family voted entirely to tuition. The board of trus- to p ave a willing horse to work in any sort of tees will meet as soon as incorporated, and harness and though I say it myself ,1’m that take the necessary steps for carrying out Mr. sort 0 f a horse, aud I think it suits me, for it Slater’s views.” 1 j s a varygated labor and less monotony in it “Are the trustees hampered by any condi- t j ian a il-d a y work at one thing, and tions?” it changes the muscles and lets one set rest “None whatever. Tiie donor leaves the ab- | w hile another set is at work, and so a man The young men nave a way in- Texas of rating terday the engineer on the train from Mus- 1 the girls as they do cotton. If only moderate iu i.eonria-- cogee'reported attempts to wreck his train a^d laid- “While, of courae/ Atlanta is one of the and the bring of several shots into the engine, aiing: but if superior in all the graces and charms, most prominent cities in the south in its edu- example one of the districts. But first let me say what information it is that we wish to obtain. We want the maximum temperature and the minimum temperature, and the rain fall reported once every twenty-four hours To get this there are twelve districts, each dis trict. being supplied with a central office, at which the information for the entire district is consolidated and telegraphed to Washing ton. To proceed. This is tiie central office of the Atlanta district. We have what you might term sub-observers in nine towns who telegraph us at five o’clock p. m., the weather news that we want.” “What towns are they?” “The towns in this tlistrict at which the stations are located are: Newnan, West Point, Gainesville, Toccoa, Spartanburg, Cartersville, Calhoun, Dalton and Griffin. The men at these places take the observation at 5 o’clock in the evening and telegraph ns in cipher the result, which I publish in your paper and send on to Washington. The next morning my assistant goes up to the cotton exchanges and on a blackboard map which is there writes in every district the consolidated or mean report for the district. I also pub lish, as you will see by reference to the paper, the consolidated report for the entire cotton belt.” “Then a man can get a very good idea every morning by glancing at the paper of the tem perature ana rainfull of every section of the south?” Yes.” Are the sub-stations arranged with refer ence to the states?” “Not at all. You will see that I have Spar tanburg, S. C. The stations are made up with a view to covering the territory well and con veniently.” “How many districts are there in this state?” “Three: Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta.” “What instruments do tiie men have?” “Each observer is supplied with an instru ment shelter, a maximum self-registering thermometer, a minimum self-registering thermometer and a rain guage. The shelter is put on the north side of a building, is kept securely locked aud not tampered with except by the authorized person, whose duty it is to attend to it.” “Through how many months do you con tinue this?” "From the first of April to the first of November. I returned about two week ago from a tour through my district. I had been out putting the instruments in position and instructing the observers. We were ready on the first and have been working nicely since that time.” “What is the object in making these re ports.” It is done for the benefit of the cotton in terests. By these reports it will not take much practice and observation for one to ob tain a very accurate idea of the condition of the crop. I forgot to say that I make the Atlanta observations.” CONFEDERATE BONDS. men. as m his judgment, were competent for j feel to -night like I was a hundred years old in ~ * the back . but Arp got me up a good supper, for site knew I’d come a grunting, and besides I brought her some sweetshrubs and white honeysuckles from the woods, and these were her favorites in the days of auld lang syne, and yesterday I cleaned out the old rubbish in the flower-pit for her, for she said she knew there was a snake in there some where and I dideut find the snake but found two eggs in a nest and she wasent right suie “I am decidedlv in fevoroTthenroiect of ! the >' wasent snake eggs until the old hen applying the proceeds of the sales P 0 f public come cackling out of urerettos morning, lands to educational purposes. The money But my work won - t compare with her’s by tints obtained will come m in the regular or- no mean J s for there’s all eV erlastin sight of der oi business, it will add nothing to the gen- sewing and patching and darning going on all eral taxation, and it would be a most holy the ti ® ie al f ds h e never gets done aud every use of the money. Still, if _ we cannot get j week ’ s cashing is to look over and sort out the work, and with them he leaves the re sult.' “Will Georgia or Atlanta he benetitted by this fund?” They will get their due proportion of at tention, of course. You may always depend upon it that Atlanta knows how to push her claims when she goes to work.’’ PUBLIC AID TO EDUCATION. “Governor, what are your views ou the policy of national aid to education?” such a hill through, I would not refuse to take a direct appropriation. The people must be educated, and it takes money to do it.” and the missing buttons to sew on and the rents to close up and the churning to do and sometimes the dasher goes iiippity flop for two hours before tiie butter will come, and now she is teaching the little chaps to write little letters, Love at First Sight. From the Philadelphia Times. „ . .... The marriage of Sir Sidney Waterlow and and when they get into mischief and have to and Miss Margaret Hamilton was announced come lo headquarters, they come a little the recently in a cable dispatch from Paris. The nighest of getting a whippin of any children bridegroom is a wealthy printer of London, in the world, only they don’tquitegetit, and I formerly a member of parliament, and in havent kept any book account, but my opin- 1373 lord mayor of tiie metropolis. As evi- ion is that not less than 1,700 whipping have dences of his immense wealth it is mentioned 1 ’“ m •“ "" that he has 25,000 tenants in London and that he once spent $250,000 from hi3 private f urse for the entertainment of the shah of ersia. He passed some time in Philadel phia as one of the British centennial commis- been promised ’em, and are now due and un paid. I overheard a voice say the other day, “now, Carl, I will whip you for that,” and I echoed in gentle accents, “about what time," but Carl got it on a credit as usual. Nabor Dobbins had eleven sheep killed last sioners and afterward came to America to I Sunday by the dogs. I bring mine up to the visit General Williams, Charles Crocker and fold every night, but still I’m on the expecta- other friends in California. While | tion all the time, and still 1 wonder if there approaching Mr. Crocker’s house is no remedy and never will be for these sort lie met a voung woman with whom of disasters—these little troubles that exasper- he fell in love at first sight. The young wo- ate a man and make him grow old before his man proved to be Miss Hamilton, the daugh- I time. Life is full of em and I reckon they ^ , ter of a widow in comfortable circumstances are sent upon us to make us get tired of life some day they will be worth dollar for dollar. and at that time a guest at the Crocker man- and the better to fit and prepare us for heaven. J I hope so. Bill Arp. A New Demand and a Slight Kite In the Prteeorthe Honda. “What are you paying for confederate bonds now?” asked a Constitution rejtorter of Mr. Haas, of Haas & Co., brokers, yester day. “We are paying three dollars per thonsajul for tiie bonds. There has been a slight rise in the price lately. The bonds have been as low as a dollar a thousand.” “When did the recent rise take place?” “The orders under which wo are now buy ing came about a week ago, and of course that unexpected demand made the price go up.” “What is the highest figure at which the bonds have sold?” “They have been as high as eleven dollars per thousand, and many expected that they would go still higher, but they have never gone above that figure.’” 1 * “Where does the demand come from?” “From Europe. The last orders came to us from Frankfort-on-the-Main. I don’t think that there are any persons in this country buying the bonds with a view to holding them.” “Do you understand tiie cause for the de mand?” “No good reason for the demand has been given yet. We receive orders for the bonds from responsible concerns and we go in and buy and deliver them. As far as I am con cerned I would not give ten cents for ten millions of them as an investment. Probably the best solution of the matter is this: About thirty years ago some speculators bought a Spanish bond that was considered worthless, and after sometime the bond was paid and every holder was made immensely rich. Since that time there has been a ;reat mania for speculation in cheap aonds. These bonds are certainly cheap enough at three dollars a thousand. It would take comparatively little moaey to buy up the entire issue. Another theory is that some man or set of men have a large quantity of these bonds and have started the boom by offering to buy and when the market is up they unload on some innocent lamb.” When did ttie demand first begin?” On the second of last July, the day on which Garfield was killed, a cousin of mine, Mr. Joseph C. Haas, of Montgomery, while stopping here on his way home front a busi ness trip, astonished me by saying that he had received an order from a Frankfort capi talist for some confederate bonds. He quietly set to work and bought many of these bonds at 50 cents a thousand, and sold at from three and a half to seven dollars a thousand, easily clearing five thousand dollars. Some of the bonds were bought for him by a Richmond concern at twenty-five cents a thousand. The same man sold him half a million bonds.” I think that it was a good chance for you to have made some money.” “I made some.” “How many of the bonds have you handled?” “About four millions, I suppose, altogether, but fourteen thousand will cover all the bonds I have on hand now.” “What classes seem to have the bonds mostly?” t “All classes. It is surprising. A few days ago I bought ten thousand dollar-.’ worth of bonds that had been doing duty as wall papea They were still covered with paste, but I bought them and the man got enough money for them to have more than papered his room in the most esthetic style.” “Do the owners of the bonds sell them readily?” “Some hesitate, but most of them are glad enough to sell. There is a man down at Grif fin who has several millions of bonds and money that he will not sell, believing that sion. Miss Hamilton was witty as well as handsome. She went horseback riding with the baronet and beat hitn at billiards every time. Her charming manners and other ex cellent qualities so impressed Sir Sidney that at a dinner party shortly after the first meet- ! ing he proposed marriage. Miss Hamilton, THE COTTON BELT How the Condition of the Weather lo Recorded and Consolidated* ^ Put me offion the fifth floor,” said a Con- accompanietllTy Mrs. ‘ilearet, of’Ga^ Francil- | sthttio-n reporter last n.ght to the young co.went to Europe and lived for some months iuan Tjf? 0 en 8 ,ne ® rs the Kimball house eleva- . , with various members of the Waterlow fami- j tor * J 1 was hurely a minute later belore tne low, so that thev might become acquainted reporter was in the weather observer s office, j with her, and, journeying to Paris the other a to fY room away up above the rest of the surprise me, therefore, that the sons of such d av married her millionaire lover. world, with a front to the east and a side to people should so successfully grapple with ’ • the north. -■ -- --— —^ act Through to Knoxville. “Mr. Hall, said the reporter as the man- Colonel G. J. Foreacre is full of hope for ager of the weather turned in astonishment his new railroad, striking out for Knoxville | upon the intruder, “I have taken a run up by way of Rabun Gap. He sees a magnifi cent! here to get you to give me a good little inter opening for it in the railroad combinations of j view explaining the system of collecting the the future. In answer to a question he said weather reports in the cotton belt.” the road would certainly re eh Knoxville in- “It is a veiy perfect system, but it is very side of two years, as everything was ready for j easily explained,” replied Mr. Hall. “We the rapid prosecution of the work. 1 the situation, and come again to the front as their fathers had done before them. Tennes see has also made tine progress.” •What of Georgia?” WHAT MB. JAMES SAID. Mr. James said: “Y’es, I paid seven dollars for some, and the bonds even went to eleven dollars, but I am paying only three now. That is more than the bonds brought a short time ago. They have been as low as a dollar a thousand.” “Where does the demand come front?” “From Europe. I get orders for the bonds and buy and sell them to these men.” “What do they want with them?” “I haven’t the slightest idea what‘their scheme is." “Is there any demand for the money?” “No; the money is utterly worthless.” Century Plant in Athens. From the Athens Banner. Two century plants now stand on each side of Dr. Hamilton’s front gate in two urns. This flower blooms every one hundred years, and resembles a chandelier. The bush then an explain it more easily by taking as an dies ith the bloom, that lasts three months.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly constitution. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1881-1884, April 18, 1882, Image 1