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IE WEEKLY f CONSTITUTION.
VOLUME XXV
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIX. 25, 1882.
PRICE 5 CENTS
THE WEEK EPITOMIZED
narrating the history of sev
en DAYS.
?ioa*edl»g* at Horn* ■>« Abroad—Th* ToMtloa ao4
RrifralUM et the OM Warld-Tha Waya of
tba Mopk at Hama, and iba Ortm** and
amuHusu la Wtdoh They Indole*
London, April 20.—Charles Robert Darwin,
the celebrated scientist and author, died to
day in the seventy-fourth year of his age. He
was bom at Shrewsbury, February 12, 1809, of
a family long celebrated for its high intel
lectual standing. Between the years 1831
and 1836 he accompanied Captain
Fitzroy in the Beagle, in a voyage around
the world, the result of which he
gave to the public in his ‘‘Voyage of a Natu
ralist.” This work won for him the atten
tion of the bestscholars of Great Britain, and
is a masterpiece of landscape description and
geologic research. In 1839 he published fur
ther results of bis travels under the title of
"Journal of Researches into the Geology and
Natural History of Countries Visited by
H. M. 8. Beagle.” A remarkable
work whicn excited much com
ment, was his “Monograph ef the Family
Ccrapedia,” published in 1851. The work,
however, by which he is best known; and
which is regarded as the Darwinian theory, is
his "Origin of Species,” which finds readers
noton’v amone scientists but among the
general circle of students. Many other works
attest the fertility of his pen.
MR. STEPHENS.
Mr. Stephens is now steadily engaged read
ing the proof sheets of his new history of
the United States. No man living has the
history of our last half century so vividly
pictured in his brain. Himself one of the
most active figures of this period lie lias
known the initiation and ripening of its ev
ery movement, the conflict of its opin
ions, the struggles and triumphs and failures
of its mighty men. His work will be of
great value.* He admits as his last ambition
ita completion and full finishing and when
he has done with it much will
bo expected. His marvelous capac
ity for work is demonstrated every day,
-when most of the public men in Washington
:arc snoozing to the lazy hour of a fashionable
breakfast, the bright eye and patient face of
tills weak old man are bent over manuscript
or proof-sheet, or he is busily preparing for
the work of the day in the house.
DAMAGES FOR KILBOUKNK.
In the case of Hallet Kilboume against J.
O. Thompson, ex-sergeant at arms of the
houseof representatives," for damages claimed
to have been incurred by the defendant ar
resting him (Kilboume) in 1876, and taking
him to jail, where lie was confined for forty-
tlve days till released under a writ of habeas
•corpus, the jury this evening rendered a ver-
-diet for the plaintiff of $100,000 damages.
THE SIN ATE BIB1.E STOLEN.
The Bible used in the senate for swearing in
senators lias been stolen. It has been in use
for fifty-three years, and every senator admit
■ed in that period was sworn in on that Bible
and bad kissed it. The supposition is that it
was taken by somebody as a relic.
Ijb-BOyi.NO THE MISSISSIPPI.
The president lias sent a message to congress
-recommending the appropriation of $10,000,-
<100 for the build'ugttf levees and the preven
tion of Hoods in the future. This is in addi
tion to the regular annual appropriation
determined effort is being mude by the mein
hers from the Mississippi valley to fasten upon
the general government the erection and care
of the levees. It is urged os a great national
work.
THE STRIKES.
The additions to the lists of the strikers
last week were large cnongh to be significant
The entire milling and spinning business
seems to be at a very low ebb—the millers
claiming that they arc paying all that their
profits will admit of, white the operatives de
clare their inability to live on the wages cur
rent. The iron industry seems to-be the next
most deeply affected, both in mining and in
manufacture. A general advance has been
granted painters and other house-workers in
New York.
UTAH IN CONGRESS.
The efTort of Mr. Cannon, the delegate
from Utah, to get possession of his seat in the
house of representatives, has been unsuccess
ful. The house is determined in its opposi
tion to polygamy.
known u the Lyons house block. The loss is esti
mated at *25,000. partially Insured.
Springfield. 111*., April 21 —The congressional
apportionment bill, prepared by the republican
caucus, par.-ed the senate to-day by a vote of 30 to
14. It was then sent to the house. The senatorial
apportionment bill passed by the same vote. The 1
house had made both bills the special order for
Tuesday next.
An aged and eccentric German, Dr. Gust, com
mitted suicide iu number ten township. Cabarrus
couuty, North Carolina, by taking morphine. 1la [
bad spoken of his intention to commit suicide be
cause be had seen enough of the world and was
tired of it. For fifteen years he had an extensive
practice at Charleston.
Memphis. April 21.—Reports from Haywood, Tip-
ton and Iauderdale counties, Tennessee and Mis
sissippi, and Crittenden county, Arkansas, have
bsen received here to the effect that the frosts of
Friday. Saturday and Sunday nights killed all the
cottou in those counties, necessitating replanting,
and setting the iarmers bock about two weeks.
It began to rain suddenly about 7 o'clock Satar-
GRADY’S GOSSIP
ABOUT MEN AND THINGS IN THE
STATE OF GEORGIA.
General Indifference to PoUtios-THe Gubernatorial
Queatlon—What Governor Brown Think* About
the Timing of the Coalition—Scuta Geor
gia Summed Up—The Bee Hunter.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
On the Train, April 21.—1 never saw the people
of Georgia so far apart from politics as at present.
In a trip of over ten days in which I have met all
sorts of folks there is but one feeling, and that is
perfect indifference towards all things political.
The truth is the people are contented and pros-; •
porous. They are enthusiastic over the material
growth and are giving it all their attention. It is
hoardings of twenty years, and yields 18 to 20 gal
lons of strained honey of good flavor and quality.
It commands 00 cents a gallon iu barrels. Homer-
ville is the great shipping point for wild honey
and its trade is considerable. A gentleman rejoic
ing iu the vague name of Limber Jim Tompkins,
who lives on Billy's island, iu Okeefenokee, is the
greatest honey hunter in the state. During his
hunting trips he “marks" all the bee trees he sees
and in the later season robs them.
governor brown And ms condition.
I left Governor Brown at Macon. He was off for
Indian Springs and I for Atlanta. He spent Satur
day iu Milledgevilie, and is to leave a special train
for Indian Spring Sunday night. He will spend a
week at that place if the water is not bad on his
feI^J1l:sSSiSӣSSSiT , *^S:
- - • ----- - ... . ~ . . 1 the new political movement. The people are called
on to revolt—to cry out and kick out and
stones ir. abundance, and the size of pigeons’ eggs,
demolished the window-glass in the Green houses,
and the French plate glass, a quarter of inch thick,
was broken by the icy pellets. The atmosphere re
mains sultry.
New York. April 21.—The failures|for the week
as reported to R G Dun A Co number 1st, which is
about the average number for the past five weeks.
The eastern states contributed 17, the western 40,
the southern 32, the middle 21, the Pacific states
and territories 9, and New York city 5. The fail
ures In the south show a steady dlmunition as tlia
year goes on. Thiugs there will soon return to
their normal condition.
New York, April 21.—The board of managers of
Of Grandparents; What They are Usds for sod How
They Should Act—Him Anecdote of Ctemndfsttser
lfoble. of Borne, and What He hmato do—
A Bit of Autotlourmphy—Crop*.
fight out—when they are really satis
fied with things as they are. You can’t have a re
volt unless the people you want to got up the revolt
j are mad—and if I ever saw a people less mad and
I less disposed to tear their shirts off than the people
of Georgia are now, I do not remember It.
There is no sentiment developed on the guberna
torial question. The people haven’t thought about
it. Wnen I asked them they would show rj *
round to the artesian well or talk turpentine i *
the cotton exchange to-day made a report in answer 1 me. There is some talk in Albany of putting Colonel;
to a letter from the Liverpool brokers’ awociation, 1 - - - - - - — — —
complaining of the manner in which American
cotton is adulterated with sand. The report Is
quite lengthy, and enters into many explanatory
statements, accounting for the saudy condition of
U19 cotton for the past twelve seasons. Copies of
the report were sent to the stale department at
Washington and to the National cottou exchange of
New Orleans.
The report sets forth that the sand is blown by
the wind into the cotton while being picked, and
also during the various processes it goes through
before being shipped. In regard to the poor quality
of cotton, the report says that is due to the drouth,
some planters allowiugtbe cotton to remain in tho
fields until January before being picked.
FOREIGN FLASHES.
The St. Petersburg Zeiiung states that Admiral
Jaucrs, the new French ambassador to Russia, has
been intrusted with special powers in connection
with the eastern question.
Political massacres have commenced in Manda
lay. King Theeb&w has put to death his inferior
wife, two half sisters, the chancellor of the ex-
cheqnerand others.
The Goins says in consequence of the recent re
port of the minister of justice, the emperor has or
dered that the trials of all persons accused of out
rages against the Jews shall lie treated as urgent,
and be taken up without regard to their order on
the list.
It is understood that the state will not contrib
ute towards the expenses of making an inland sea
of the desert of Sahara by cutting a canal
through the neck of laud dividing the gulf of
Uabe from the desert, but will appeal to private
capiulists for funds for the project.
Mr. Smyth, member of parliament for Tipperary,
iu reply co a vote of censure passed on him by the
■riests of iipperary for not supporting the laud
ieague, violently denounces the league and de
clares that until Us conspiracy Is demolished root
and branch Ireland will nave no peace,
The Standard confidently asserts that there is no
foundation iu the international law for suggesting
that the British government has-exceeded its right
in regard to the imprisonment of American sus
pects. or that the United States have the shadow of
Tete Smith forward, and in Thomasville of sending
up some delegations for Colonel McIntyre. Beyond
these local preferences, however, noth
ing is definite* In the congressional
races Turner will probably have a walkover in the-
second for a renomination. His late speech came
in good time to save him from the criticism of inac
tivity. In the first Mr. Block will have plain rail
ing if he gets well, it is said, though several gentle
men had brushed up their clothes In expectation
of a sudden call to Washington. In the third Gen
eral Cook will have a sharp straggle with Judge
Crisp—the feeling as to which is the strongest, very-
ing with locality. It is said there will be a popular
independent candidate iu the second, two promi
nent democrats being named by rumor. In the
first Aaron Collins, the dispossessed collector ol
Brunswick, is announced as a straight republican
candidate.
The leaders ol the new movement have their vic
tory yet to win. as far as fltis section is concerned.
The democracy was never so thoroughly united as
It is In south Georgia to-day, and the free-lonW
crusaders have made no impression on the phal
anxes.
His health was improved, he hopes, by his trip
His cough is less aggressive, aud his geueral condi.
tion steadier. He is in a precarious condition. His
left bronchial tube is clogged and inactive to such
extent that it fails to supply the lung with air,
threatening to effect It seriously if it has not already
done so. He appreciates thoroughly the dangers of
his cose, and will not return to Washington until
the weather is thoroughly warm, it then.
Touching any further resigning of office on his
part, I can add a bit of casual conversation that
may be apropos. Said he:
“The most dangerous thing that an| elderly man
can do is to change his habits for health’s sake.
Especially is this true in regard to men who have
had the strain of public life on them. I warned
Judge Warner that if he resigued the bench, in
stead of improving he would break down—as he
did, I urged Mt. Stephens to remain at his post,
stating that he would find it dangerous to his
health to retire to quiet lile. He replied that he
should go to his historical work, and keep up his
meatal nerve. He said that he had fully deter
mined never to accept another office.”
Apropos of this Mr. W. T. Trammell is quoted
as saying “Mr. Stephens told me a few days since,
that he thought no person had the right to decline
a call of his people.”
Ifas Mr. Stephens changed his mind?”
H. W. G.
AN EXCITING NIGHT.
W
A. Band of Lynchers Met and Btiuinaded From Their
Undertaking.
. .From Athens, Ga., Banner-Watchman, April 22.
Several days since the authorities of Athens
received reliable information that an attempt
would be made by gentlemen from adjacent
counties to lynch the murderers of young
Rountree, and that Thursday night was set
for the purpose. But the matter was kept
quiet, not exceeding a dozen persons in the
city being acquainted with the facts.
Prompt steps were taken to avert the trouble.
Extra police were selected to guard
the city, while the original force, com
prising seven men under Chief Davis, were
armed to the teeth, each having it Winchester
sixteen shooter anil three pistols, and Station-
Commenting on this fact made itself appa
rent everywhere, Governor Brown said:
“There’s a great deal in ’timing’ a thing right. I
never saw a thing ‘limed’ worse than the coalition
movement If its leaders had sprung it iu the heat
7 h n‘ lh0 r:° pl n?ed on top of the jail, where entrenched be-
might hat e. ad a big tall}. But they pitched it ,, a wa \\ brick thev could resist an army.
Iiflli thp Twvmls wsrfi * .. i It .* * w >
Pommllr Xewn.
John Cruikshank King, the Boston sculptor, is
dead.
Governor Holden, of North Carolina, continues
to improve slowly.
The body of 8. L. Randlett, who has been miss
ing since Wednesday, has been found in the bayou
near New Orleans.
Rome, April 22.—The ex-syndic of Palermo, who
was abducted by brigands, was liberated after the
payment of a ransom of £2,000.
Milwaukee, Wia, April 22.—Specials from the
peninsula of Michigan state that the heaviest snow
storm of the season has prevailed in that region all
day.
Boston, April 19.—Charles Francis Adams, since
his adventure with the bunco men, bas given
the entire control of his business affairs to his son,
John Quincy Adams.
The Protestant Episcopal conncll of Mississippi,
owing to the ill healih of Bishop Green.'of that
state, ha* elected Bishop Wingfield, of California,
to be assistant bishop oi Mississippi.
Calcutta, April 22.—Political massacres have re
commenced in Mandalay. King Theebaw put to
death an inferior wife, two half-sisters, tho chan
cellor of the exchequer and fifty of their relatives.
The nenriette mine in Colorado, owned by
Tabor, Blaine, Chaffee, Moffatt, Wilson and Vass-
ler. has been sold to English and French capitalists
for SI,•’<00,000. The valure of the ore in sight is said
to be 3700,000.
San Francisco, April 21,—Later advices from
Eagle Creek, Arizona, leave little doubt of the
massacre of till the white*, and a number of Mexi
cans by the Indians. Twenty persons are reported
killed at San Carlos.
Plymouth, Mass., April 22.—Miss Sarah Bradford.
Aged over 99. the oldest person in town, died this
morning from injuries received from a fall a few
days ago. She was sixth in direct descent from
Governor William Bradford.
New Orlf.ass, April 21.—The Times-Democrat’s
Morgan < liy special says that the steamer Tom
Parker, which left this port for Sabine Pass on the
10th ha* not resulted tier destination. She was
probably lost in the storm of the 12th.
Robert Clarke, a merchant of Albemarle, Stan
ley county. North Carolina, was recently found ty
ing dead in bed. He had been drinking to excess
for several days, and it was found he had taken
henry dose of morphine to take his life.
Claremont, N. H., April a.—The boiler of the
Sugar river poplar mill exploded to-day, destroyiu):
the building, killing one man. injuring sever*
others and causing a los* of S2u0.00u. The boiler
was blown 300 feet and fell in the river.
San Francisco, April 21.—The Oregon republi
can state convention met to-day and nominated a
candidate for congress and a full state ticket. Their
E latform bewails thereto of the Chinese bill and
egs for the abrogation of tho Hawaiau treaty.
London, April 21.—The Manchester Guardian’s
commercial article says the position of the market
is one of suspense. The great bulk of buyers aud
sellers refuse to do business except oq terms which
preclude the possibility of large transactions.
Richard C. Badger, of North Carolina, ex-l*nitcd
States district attorney and an influential republi
can politician, son of Judge George E. Badger, for
merly senator aftd secretary of the navy, died in
Raleigh on Saturday after a lingering illuess, aged
forty-six years.
rofGHKEErsjE, April. 21—Fou< Swedes and two
Finlanders, railroad construction laborers on the
West Shore railroad, undertook to cross the Hudson
river in a row boot while the wind blew a gale. The
boat capsized and foufwtdhe party were drowned.
‘The others were rescued.''.-
A fire at an eAriy hour Saturday morning 'n the
vicinity of the Lyons house. Lake City, Minnesota,
near the river, swept back diagonallv through the
■city, destroying every business block except that
a ground for addressing eithercomplaintor remon
strance in regard to their imprisonment to the min
isters of the crown.
A dispute to the Times from Constantinople says
Hr. Fosto; director of the Ottoman bank, who has
been conducting negotiations
subject of tbc Turkish botj *
the question of tbe position
indemnity is to occupy with
Is not solved before his departure for London on
the 27th instant, he will advise his government to
insist upon the creation of an international finan
cial commission as recommended by the Berlin
•ongreas
How Longfellow Won Hi* Wife.
From the Boston Fast
lit 1842 Mias Frances Elizabeth Aapleton was
traveling with her father in Europe. In the same
year Professor Longfellow was ui Germany. He
was then tnirty-five years old, professor in modern
languages aud belles-lettres in Harvard university.
He had married very early in life, aud soon lost a
beloved wife and infant child, whose memory he
cherished to the last, but he was not unsusceptible
to new love, and he became deeply enamored of
Fannie Appleton. Mr.'Longfellow was a man of fine
Iiersoual appearance, with rare attainments in Euro
pean culture, to which he had devoted several years
of travel and study, aud he had already a fame as
a poet not confined to America. But still his suit
did not thrive, if not absolutely rejected, he was
not an accepted lover. Both returned to America.
Mr. Longfellow published his romance of “iiy-
>crioii,” iu which he told the story of his love
te being his own hero, uuaer the name
of I’aut Flemming; tne heroine, Mary
Ashburton, being Miss -Appleton. it is iu
this romance that the song, "l snow a maiden fair
to see," occurs Hie professor followed the lady to
her summer home, in Pilislieiil, and no lady who
has read "Hyperion" aud "Kavanaugh” will olame
the heroine uiat she then yielded to so passionate a
lover. Much of the scenery and some of the story
of "Kavanaugh" Is derived from Professor Long
fellow's wooing aud marriage, although not so
closely as in "Hyperion." Tne Pitisneld scenery is
easily recognized.
right in the dead of winter when the people were
not thinking of politics. They issued their mani
festoes and mude their speeches, aud printed their
letters—and they fell fiat. The people were busj
I at something else, and didu't partake of the exi
| citcment. So the thing started out with a blight on
it, and many people who might have gone iu un
der more favorable circumstances, shied off, seeing
that nobody else seemed to be takiug hold. The
Summing up the observations oi a ten day’s trip
through South Georgia, 1 can only say that the pro
gress, prosperity and enterprise shown in this mis
understood section was astonishiug. 1 do not think
there is a county iu the stato to equal Thomas' iu
prosperous farmers; none to surpass Dougherty iu
fine plantations; no towns that show moie growth
than Albany aud Thomasville. Mr. S. T. Kings-
berry, with whom we traveled pleasantly for a day
or two, reports the same state of things at Quit-
n.
‘We have one truck farmer,” he said, "who
cleared 38,M0 on his farm last year. His name Is
George W. McBree, and he has made a large fortune
principally out of fruits and vegetables.”
A v*ry important item for the pine belt extend
ing from Eastman through Jessup, Quitman aud
Thomasville, and stretching up to Albany, will be
the northern visitors who seek health
amid its forests. Ten years ago this strip of coun
try. really the sanitarium of the south, was com
paratively unknown. There were a few invalids
at Aiken, the head of this belt, but its southerly
extension, warmer and more salubrious, was
terra incognita. The tide worked through it, il
limitable groves and spent itself in Florida. Of late
years, however, this has changed.
The northern invalids who wintered in thepine reg
ion this year was fully double what it was last year,
and the happiest results are reported. Several hotels
have been built, notably the Mitchell at Thom
asville, aud the Upland at Eastman, that charging
33.50 and 34 dollars a day, equal in menu,style and
luxury to the best New York houses. A dozen
such hotels located at Cochran, Hawkinsville,
Albany, Quitman, and about, would be filled next
winter and alter.
There is one thing that needs correction. At theho-
telsi noticed “New York beef'on all the bills. Upon
The Lack of Healthy Women.
Dr. AdalinaS. Whitney’s Vassar Lecture.
The lack of strong, healthy women among us is
noticeable. Much of ibis constitutional weakness
is inherited, but it is in the power of the majority
of young girls to make themselves phyicatiy what
they will. Give to the muscles as scientific ami
thorough a training as mathematics gives to the
brain, and there will be a cor
responding increase in physical capacity.
Life in the open air is of first importance. > igorous
aud absorbing games should be encouraged among
girls. Mental aud physical culture should be as in
separable as miud aud body. The principal causes
which destroy health are, neglect of proper physical I inquiry I found that the beef was actually shipped
About midnight, when these officers invaded
the jail, the prisoners took them for a ntob
and expressed great fear; but upon learning
their names quiet was restored. It was fear
fully cold upon the tin roof, and the guard
suffered from its effects, but they nobly kept
their post.
But in the meantime a delegation of our
best citizens had gone out to meet the parties
Who come to lynch the prisoners and do all
guard, comprising about one hundred and
fifty men, armed to the teeth and each man
carrying a breech-loading Shot-gun. They
stated tiiat six hundred more recruits were
coming on behind, many of them having
ridden fifty miles or mote to lend their aid
The situation in Athens and the wishes
our. people were explained'
these gentlemen by the committee of citizens.
They were told that while our people were as
much incensed as they at the brutal murder,
it was the unanimous wisii that the law be
allowed to take its course. There was no
necessity for mob violence, as we had a fair
and just court, which would meet to the crim
inals their just deserts. The party stated
that they did not come to override the will
of our people, but rattier to lend their aid
to avenge this inhuman butchery
that had aroused the white men of Georgia
from the mountains to the seashore. They
knew the gallantry of the men of Athens,
and at the same time recognized the fact that
it would not do for them to take tbe law in
their own hands after the prisoners were
placed in the charge of legal officers. They
respected the law abiding sentiments, and
would quietly disperse at their request, as
they had corne not as enemies to thb whites,
but as their friends and helpers. Anil
they further stated, that should their
services be required to quell any further dis
turbance they would march several thousand
strong into the city at short notice, as they
were thoroughly prepared. This large body
was composed of the best men in the various
sections from which they hailed. They were
not a desperate, hot-headed mob, but quiet,
determined citizens, who had come boldly
and undisguised to the redress- of a great
wrong. Upon learning the wish of our people
they quietly returned home.
exercise and recreation during youtfi, our imiom-
plete, one-sided methods of euucation, a want of
steady employment, and petty forms of indiscre
tion in regard to the rules of hygiene on the part of
young women themselves. A radical
change will come when popular sen
timent require that girls shall grow
up strong and well developed. Tight clouting
should be discarded, that the exercise of the organs
of motion may not be impeded. There should be
in every school a system of physical education un
der the direction ol a qualified teacher. Daily mus
cular exercise will bring better mental work. There
might be a physical as well as a mental standard
winch a girl must reach before entering college,
Flowers in tbe Drawing Hoorn
From Our continent.
All flowers become the drawing-room; the finer
and the more choicely selected the varieties the
more elegant the decoration. Roses are the richest
aud dressiest of all blossoms; orchids are excep
tionally choice, and lilies are the most effective.
The tendency in dressing a parlor with flowers is
to overdo, aud to fill in places high or somewhat
out of sight with inferior bloom. The fashion of
swinging nondescript designs between doors aud
over mirrors is bom <d poor taste. Flowers loose
their effect when tied on sticks aud woven into
in refrigerators from Fulton market, for use in the
best grazing country ia tho world. So with the
mutton and the ham. Much of the butter used in
tbe hotels, if not all of it, came from New York.
At the Mitchell house canned turkey and chick
en—delicious it was too—was used, being brought
2,000 miles. There were canned peas on the table,
canned corn, and canned peaches, all imported
from New York. There was canned tongue and
canned beef likewise imported. At one hotel I no
ticed condensed milk wasjused. Now*why should
not Thomas county supply all of this, to th<* profit
of the country, the saving of the hotel keeper and
the pleasure and health ol the guests. But we can
go no further. The boxes , in which strawberries
were shipped come from Maine. The pear crates
come from Portland. The turpentine barrels come
from New York. In ail of these small things, this
section, accounted self-supporting, to an unusual
degree, pays tribute to the north. These facts
beat argument and discourage even suggestion.
silly mottoed balls, knots and arrows, small flower J xs to the condition of the crops there wa s no va
glasses should contain but one long-stemmed rose, I , . .. . .. . _
a spite of orchid or a spray of lily. Vases demand riation in the general cheerful outlook. Everywhere
careful arrangement. Callas aud* eupuorbia japou- 1 there was larger area ingrain and less area in cot-
iea combine well in these, but callas are more ef-1 ton This was backed by economy in purchases for
ave with their q|yn tohage simply, and should _ .... ,
rer, in our opiniim, be in coxnpauy with bios- j and family, and restriction of credit.
fective
uev _
soms unless related to their family. The same is
applicable to lilium lougiflorum, candidutn or the
gotgeous-tbroated amaryllis, which are misused
when placed among a conglomeration ot bloom.
To see any flower iu its enure beauty iu foliage
must remain undisturbed.
From Puck.
Tbere is nothing in the wide world that makes a
young man crazier than, after arriving at a party
with a young lady, whom he has got there at con
siderable expense, to have some old baldheaded in
dividual get her off into a corner and talk to her ali
the evening on the peculiarities of the gulf stream.
;Twecty-One Widows Slandered.
Unprincipled Exchange.
On last Good Friday, as on every Good Friday for
four hundred years, twenty-one widows visited an
ancient tomb in the church yard ot at. Bartholo
mew’*, in London, and picked up twenty-one six
pences which had been scattered there according to
the will of a ticnefactor of the church, whose name
has been forgotten, although the cu«-on survives.
The point oi this story is, that the sixpences have
tbe virtue of keeping the masculine sex at a dis-
and that there were twenty-one women
At Jesup which, by the way, is a place where you
always lay over. Deputy Sheriff Austin told me of a
queer local industry—that of hunting bee trees. In
the cypress aud pine trees of the swamps the wild
bees were hived, and immense stores of
honey are found in the hollows. The bee-
hunter goes into the woods with a rude gourd filled
with syrup or some sweet stuff. He puts this in
some conspicuous place and waits for a bee that is
out with empty honey-sacs. When snch a one
strikes the gourd and loads himself, he strikes
“bee-line" for his tree. The hunter follows him
over hill and dale, through creeks aud brambles,
for on the vauiMtlng speck in the blue of the sky
depends his daw^fearnhjgs When the little wan
derer gets home, the bee-hunter has him spotted.
He summons his family, fells the tree, stupefies the
bees with sulphur fumes amplifies the shattered
trunk of • its sweets. The honey is usually
UbCC, nuu uwi uicic HViC snvutj-um; "utucu i « -
found who were willing to accept the sixpences on I strained by the wives of the hunters and the
such harrowing terms. 1 w ax sold separately. One tree often represents the
GRANDFATHER BILL
iP TELLS ABOUT THE TRIALS
AND TRIBULATIONS
Julian Paschal's Mule.
From the McDuffie Journal.
Julian Paschal is almost as eccentric as Doc
Sutton in his notion about live stock. Several
weeks ago he traded for an ignorant, super
stitious, bigoted country* mule, of the sorrel
persuasion, who was entirely unacquainted
with the society and customs of town, and
stubbornly refused ’to adapt himself to circum
stances. He wouldn’t drink at the town well
and turned in disgust from corn and oats, but
loose shavings, waste paper and scrap iron filled
ltis inwards with delight. Last Thursday*
morning he waked up before day anil
bellowed outrageously. Then he ended him
self around, banged a hole through the stable
door and walked out for a stroll.. He saun
tered around the depot, picking up stray cot
ton and sampling guano sacks .till the ap
proaching down passenger train attracted his
attention, when he stepped out on thq track
to see what it meant. . Here the cow-catcher
to kliim iff charge, wolloped him over in
front, dragged him about fifty yards and
pulled seventeen loaded cars'and a sleepy
conductor right over his bigoted fool carcass.
When he got up he was a dead mule.
When folks that spring from a numerous
family become numerous themselves and the
first children marry off before the last are
bera, the children and grandchildren and
uncles and nephews aud cousins get nil mix
ed up together so that a man can’t tell tother
from which, hardly. About this time of year
they begin to congregate at my house and
take charge of the premises—for p boy soon
learns that grand parents wasent
made to wallop grandchildren but was creat
ed especially to take their part and pet em
and wait on em and when these little chap
come from the town where they live in a
half.acre lot where thev cant throw a rock,
more than ten feet without breaking some
body’s window or falling on a green-house,
and can’t squeal nor squall for fear of wa _'ng
up somebody’s baby, they, feel like they have
ust got out of the penitentiary, and so they*
>egiu right straight to make up for lost time.
They have mixed up with mine now and put
their devilment together, and it keeps me
u trotting to keep the gates shut and the draw
bars put up, and hunt up the digging hoe that
they carried off to dig bait, anti go after the
pan that they* salted the colts in, and knit on
more fish hooks for em, and ever and anon
they get clear off, and after Mrs. Arp has
called em in alto and contralto and any other
“to” about 13 times and they don’t answer, I
know what’s coming and so I just start after
em without any instructions. But
I’VE got em trained
a little now. The have to come at the blow
ing of the horn, whether they hear it or not,
or go without dinner or- supper, for the little
rascals have got to playing off and making
out they don’t- hear when they do. Linton
says he can’t hear at all when the fish are
biting. They are breaking the colts now
about half the time, and the poor brutes have
just surrendered and let ’em do as they please
tor they found it was no use in trying to out
do a parsel of boys that was bent on a pur
pose. We used to larrup our first children
right smart, and .they throw it up to us yet,
for the last ones get nothing but promises,
but I reckon that was right, for if tiie first
ones are made to behave and do right their
example is enough for the younger ones or
at least it ought to be. Then again it must
not be forgotten that the oldest ones had the
best time and the choice and pick of every
thing, and they get the young ones off some
times and give em a licking aud then hire em
not to tell whett they get home, and the
younger ones have to wear the second hand
clothes and wait for the second table when
company comes, so I reckon the average is
about right after all. I wasent the oldest boy*
myself, and I know how it is. When there is
only one or two the parents strain a point to
set em up and adorn em and take ein
to all the shows, and if they
slump a toe they send for a doctor;
but after while when 8 or 10 come along chil
dren get sorter monotonous and parents let
’em rip along and grow up of their own ac
cord, and the more children the less the doc
tors, bills, and fine clothes a.int as necessary as
they used to be, for the fact is it takes all sorts
of economy and contrivance to raise ’eth at
at all in hard times or soft times either, Oc
casionally I see my old coats and pants spread
out on the floor and ripped up and the little
patterns laid on the pieces to see if they will
do, and the first thing anybody knows Mrs.
Arp has a little chap all rigged out in a suitas
good as new. It gives a man
A PATRIARCHAL FEELING
To see these grandchildren increasing
around him. Old Father Noble limps about
the streets of Rome and passes his own poster
ity* every day and don’t know em, and when
a little chap salutes him with “howdy grand
pa,” or “howdy great-grandpa,” he has to
stop and look and say, “whose child are you,
sonny,” for he had twelve of his own, ant.
they have married and multiplied amazingly,
even down to. the fourth generation. It is
astonishing how fast they do multiply if they
get an early start, for a man told me be knew
of an old lady in South Carolina who was 104
years old and was said to have over a thous
and descendants. There’s nothing improba
ble or impossible about that for she was
married at fifteen and had ten girl children
before she was thirty and they all married
early and multiplied and replenished and
there were sixty grandchildren when the old
lady was fifty years old, and lots of great
grandchildren. If folks generally hod pos
terity after that fashion, 1 wonder how long
it would take the world to fi}l up and run
over, and something serious aud peculiar be
come of us all. A power of folks have lived
and died, but life is a gaining on death all the
time, and it’s curious to contemplate how
thick the people will be a thousand years
hence, and where they will all get food and
clothing. Some big thing is bound to happen
after while if not sooner.
THE CROPS.
Crops are not doing much good in this re
gion. TUe early plauting of corn aud cotton
looks puny and chilled, and already 1 hear
of various insects and vermin foragingaround.
Last spring the tiles dident come about until
June, but they are very numerous and disa
greeable now, and can light oftener on a
man’s head where the hair is parted in the
middle than I ever knew em, especially when
he wants to take a little evening nap on the
parlor sofa. Snakes are slipping anti sliding
around. The minks have been stealing our
chickens, and so we set the children to find
their dens, and they found it in a hole
in the sill of the stable and
got four young ones out and the old ones
dodged all'about, but the dogs couldn’t catch
’em. and they never stayed anywhere long
enough to get a shot at ’em, and so we got a
steeltrap and set it, but we havent caught ’em
as yet, aud' I think they have moved their
quarters. The mocking birds and humming
birds have come, hut 1 haven’t heard a whip
poorwill as yet, and that’s a sign, they say,
that more -cold weather is still ahead. Never
theless, we are all hopeful and will have
spring lamb and green peas for dinner to
morrow. ‘ Bill Arp.
N. B. DreWry, J. H. DeVotie, A. L. Moncrief,
Joel Aycock, J. \V. Dunbar, L. F. Blaelock.
Friendship—B. W. Bussey, B.M. L. Binoin,
G. F. Cooper, J. H. Corley, J. H. Cawood, B.
W. Davis, A. J. Hat-rev, T. J. Bell, R. A. J
Powell.
Georgia—P. H. Mell, T. B. West, B. M.
Callaway, S. G. Hillyer, J. H. Fortson, H. M.
Adams, H. D. D. Stralon, J. H. Kilpatrick,
K. It. Carswell, Jr., W. A. Overton.
Appalachee—J. II. Harris, J. F. Edens, G.
Sellman.
Bethel—W. W. Flemming, I>. K. Butler,
W. H. Cooper, R. T. Hauks, J. L. Under
wood, W. M. Speight, B. B. Burnett, T.
Muse.
Bowen—R. H. Harris, J. A. Smith, H. V
Golden, G. H. Cliett, X. R. Terrell, Asa
Joiner.
Carrollton—W. W. Fitts, W. W. Merrell.’
Cave Springs—R. D. Mallary. .»
Central—B. W. Clarke, A. J. Bock.*
Hepzibah—W. L. Kirkpatrick. J. j" Davis,
L. D. Hilyer.
Houston—W. R. Steeley,
Mercer—E. Z. F. Golden, E. B. Carroll, A.
W. Grower, R. I. Denmark, J. M. Rushcn, W.
B. Bennett, J. G. McCall.
Middle—J. M. G. Medlock. .
Middle Cherokee—J. G. RySte.
Mt. Vernon—J. J. Hyman, P. J. Pipkin, J.
. Donaldson, Geo. Garbutt. '**
To Be Illustrated.
From the Albany, Ga., New*.*-,
A little negro stole a bushel or two of corn
from Nevel Ragan Monday and was caught.
Nevel gave him the choice, of<j*oing to jail or
taking a whipping. He chos<vthe latter, and
Nevel thereupon drew the -little coon across
his lap and operated with a barrel stave. We
understand a sketch of the scene has been
sent to a northern illustrated paper, and it
wiU be pictured soon.
How Colonel Herman Runs.
From the Hawkinsville, Ga., News.
Colonel Elias Herman, of the Cochran fire
company, puts on more style while running
than any fireman we ever saw. We might
nse the language of a celebrated turfman and
say that the colonel “comes to the scratch
With head up and tail over the dashboard.”
A Gander Beat* a Cow.
From the Athens Banner,
THE BAPTISTS
tVR Are Assembled at Americas Georgia.
Special Correspondence of The Constitu cion, Ameri
cus, April 20th.
The Georgia Baptist convention met in
Americus to-day, 20th, at 10 a.rn. Rev. R. H
Harris preached the introductory sermon
from the text: “The law was given by Moses,
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.’’
Alter the sermon the moderator, Rev. Dr.
P. H. Mell, called the convention to order,
and after the appointment of Rev. W. A.
Overton, chairman of committee on creden
tials, with D. E. Daniels. C. D. Campbell, J.
H. Cawood and E. M. Hootcn as members of
the committee, the convention adjourned for
dinner.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
After prayer by the Rev. H. Hatcher, of
the Virginia convention, the comniitte on
x , ,, credentials reported following delegates pres-
\esterday there wqs a fight between an old ; t-nt:
gander and a Jersey cow, on Dr. Hamilton';
lot, when the bird came out victor. It flew
M ,
New Ebenezer—P. A. Jessup^
New Sunbury—J. E. L. Holm«s, D. G. Dan
iel.
Weston—J. H. Hall, U. B. Wilkeraon. F.
M. Brantley.
From societies and churches—E. B. Barrett,
J. H. Campbell, Geo. F. Cooper, A. J. Cobb,
A. D. Freeman, W. B. Orr, G. R. McCall, T.
C. Boykin, W. R. Raymond, S. T. Jenkins, S.
P. Richards, W. L. Slaton, W. C. Wilkes, D.
R. Butler, D; W. K. Peacock, E. R. Carswell,
Jr., W. H. Stark, G. A. Nunnally, A. J. Battle.
These are the delegates now present, but
many more are looked for to-morrow, when
doubtless the convention will be full.
Rev. Dr. P. H. Mell was re-elected modera
tor, and lie vs. G. R. McCall and E. R. Cars
well were-elected clerk and assistant clerk by
acclamation. The usual order of business was
then adopted, and Mell’s Parliamentary Prac
tice was adopted for the government of the
body. Rev. 13. W. Bussey, pastorof thechurch
with which the convention meets, then deliv
ered a short but beautiful address of welcome,
and in reply the president said: “We all feel
very much at home with you.” Rev. Dr. E.
W. Warren asked leave to add that he hoped
the delegates would so act that they would
jeave behind them very pleasant and salutary
impressions. The secretary read a communi
cation from the Home Mission society of
northern Baptists, expressing fraternal greet
ings, and asking the appointment of a com
mittee of five to represent this convention in
their semi-centennial celebration on the 2:;d
of May, in New York.
Referred to a committee of seven.
’ „ SECOND DAY’S SESSION*
Rev. P. R. McCall read the report of the
board of trustees of Mercer University,
whieh brought out the facts that
there has been no falling off in the
attendance upon the university front hard
times, but that the school keeps abreast with
the other colleges of the state. She had twen
ty-five graduates last year, and has an invest
ed endowment $9S,1(J0, which does not in
clude the value of its real estate and notes
tine hut uncollected. These doubtless would
swell the amount of endowment to $200,000.
Mercer has Crawford high school, Dalton, Ga.,
under its general supervision, and this feeder
is in a flourishing condition and offering
splendid opportunities to the young men of
north Georgia to prepare for a college course.
Dr. J. H. DeVotie, secretary of the mission
board of the state of Georgia,- read his report,
bringing out the following facts. The board
lias employed 28 missionaries, whose labors
were equal to that of one man for twenty
years, resulting in 2,094 sermons, 4,484
addresses, 292 baptisms, Sunday-schools
organized 97,_ scholars added 1,279,
churches oiganized, 7. It ought to be under
stood that many of the converts from the
preaching of the missionaries were baolised
by pasters and were not reported.
The venerable Rev. J. H. Campbell, of Co
lumbus, Ga., offered’the following resolution:
Resolved, That the state mission board be in
structed to pay its missionaries definite and uncon
ditional salaries.
This is an effort to change the policy of the
state mission hoard to pay the missionaries
salaries varying according to the variations in
the receipts of the board. This resolution was
elaborately and ably advocated by its author.
Dr. DeVotie explained that the system was
adopted by the board before he became its
secretary, but that he was in favor of it. The
rule keeps the board out of debt, and is the
only way to avoid debt and unpleasantness.
The resolution was ruled out of order, and
discussion was estopped.
_ The committee on the report of the execu
tive committee made its reporton the work of
Mercer university, in the department of min
isterial education, showing that there are fif
teen young ministers at the institution, who
are doing a good work n d only in Mercer, but
in Macon, where they preach and hold mis
sion prayer meetings. The report was dis
cussed by Dr. E. \V. Warren, who urged sys
tematic? and increased liberality in its support
of these young men, and the cause of minis
terial education. Rev. J. L. Underwood
ntade the point that it is not unministerial
for ministers under necessity to engage in
secular business. Dr. Warren explained that
it was the policy of the committee to avoid
educating men, who would not avow
a purpose to spend the whole of life in the
ministry. Adjourned for preaching.
Sir William Arp and Blackberries,
ar ien Letter in the Savannah News.
The blackberry season has opened in the
best of taste—full, rich, juicy fruit; no half
castes. In northeast Georgia they used to
turn their backs on blackberries 'before the
war, except for wine-making, because they
grew plentifully in fence corners and old
fields at will and without culture, but to-day
so many corners have crept to the center, and
so much crudeness sits beside culture, that
“Biff Arp’s” philanthropic efforts in behalf
of this ignored son of the soil are crowned
with delightful success, and with us now the
blackberry ranks with the blueberry, without
distinction of class, and rather overtopping
the latter in flavor. Thus, iu grateful appre
ciation, we lay our sword on the knightly
shoulder of the Georgia humorist, who pre
served the record of the State archives and
made so many waste places to smile when
weeping was the readier expression of the
times, that we, who were young then, owe
him and the blackberries more than this gen
eration can understand.
upon the head of tbe cow and gave her such a
beating with its beak and wings that tbe ani
mal ran bellowing off!
Columbus Association—J. H. Campbell, S.
MaxwelL
Ebenezer—B C. Green, F. W. Dupree.
Fairbum—D. A. Brown, W. T. Glower.
Flint River—G. R. McCall, E. M. JJauicu,
An Important Question,
From the Toccoa Hews.
As summer approaches the question arises
as to whether or not the council will have the
hogs penned. So far as we are concerned the
hogs may run at large provided they pen the
ubiquitous flea.
ESTRANGEMENT.
From Tfie Century for May.
The path from me to you that led.
Untrodden long, with grass is grown.
Mute carpet that his lieges spread
Before the Prince ObliVion
When he goes visiting tbe dead.
And who ate they but who forget?
You, who my coming could surmise
Ere any hint of me as yet
Warned other ears and other eyes.
See the path blurred without regret.
But when I trace Us windings sweet
With saddened steps, at every spot
That feels the memory in my feet.
Each grass-blade tnms forget-me-not,
Where murmuring bees your name repeat.
- James Rcsbell Lowxll,
