Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

\ '■ "j -r-1 \etteville ga 1Sg» 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:sSSiS”£SSSiT , *^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,