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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1882
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ATLANTA, GA.. MAY 9, 1882.
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Romk wants tc annex De Soto, the pretty
little suburb over the river, and Forrestville.
There is really no good reason why it shouldn't
be done, and it ought to be a good thing for
both places.
There arc few towns in the United States
which can show a growth in population of
over three hundred per cent. Hawkinsvillc
may, therefore, well be proud of her record;
based as it is on the substantial foundations
of manufacturing and agriculture. Resides
these two strong elements a new and success
ful cite—that of wine making—has been in
troduced and is rapidly growing stronger.
Lieutenant DeLono's death and the de
struction of the Jeannette are told of in de
tail to-day. The antithesis is fitting. The
ship and her commander are both taken leave
of in Arctic regions with regret for and sor
row at the ending of so brave a struggle in so
pitiable a manner.
Mb. Stephens introduced by unanimous
consent, last Wednesday, a bill to transfer
certain counties from the southern to the
northern judicial district of Georgia, and to
divide the northern district into two parts, to
be known as tlie western and eastern divis
ions. The bill was referred to the judiciary
committee, and ordered to be printed. When
a copy of the bill comes to hand we will be
. able to state its terms more distinctly.
The fatality which accompanies Arctic ex
plorntion is again evident in the death of
Lieutenant. DcLong and the party with him.
So ends the voyage of the Jeannette. The
vessel is crushed in the ice and sunk in the
Arctic ocean. Her commander is dead, hav
ing lost his life in the endeavor to reach shel
ter. What Arctic expedition, from
Franklin to IleLong, of which this is not
wholly or in part true? They died like brave
men, but no one can help feeling that life lost
under such circumstances is life wasted, for
after all the question arises, what good is it
all? The valne to science, art, commerce,
industry, socicto, anything, is but little, even
if the pole is found.
Sobghum Sugab has been laughed at by
newspaper paragrapliers for some years; and
to those who only remember the greenish,
black syrup of the war, there appears reason
enough why it should be laughed at. In
another column will be found the well-known
■ Chemist Professor Silliman's opinion on, and
summary of Dr. Collier's long continued
experiments in sorghum sugar making.
This report is made in connection with the
work of the National Academy of Science,
which appointed a committee, of which Pro
fessor Sillimnn is chairman. The facts pre
sented ure very important, and show greater
possibilities than have generally been sup
posed to exist. The full reports of Dr. Collier
and of Professor Sillimnn will be attended
With the greatest interest.
WANTED—STATISTICS FOR GEORGIA.
Georgia needs a pamphlet of statistics as to
the resources of the state—neatly bound, for
free distribution, and to send to persons who
make inquiry on special points with a view of
finding homes here.
The Constitution is daily in receipt of let
ters of inquiry. Long after special editions of
the paper containing articles that are wanted
is exhausted, the lettere continue to come.
The members of The Constitution staff re
ceive *ich let ters individually, and frequently
strangers looking for homes drop in and ask
for information. It is manifestly impossible
tor us to at rawer these letters. They cover so
much groun.»l that it would require pages to
each letter. -The editions of the
admirable spt cial publications at the
state department ot agriculture are
exhausted. Mr l 'ontaiue’s book, which is
the best compilation ever made U , 3 . about
Georgia, which was P rinted with his own
money and never paid . f ° r the state, has
long since been exhausted an no a caa
he had. There is no bom < ? any sort-net
even a circulator shcet-thv U ™ «“_«? to ,
send ih answer to inquiries 1 ',
not giving an answer to men
information can be easily und **•
those who wrjte to ask partic.uk needed
such immigrants as vfe want.
is an edition of ltX),000 pamphlet ^ C».^ re u *
prepared and furnished to till who t •Ht» i ^ ree
to distribute them. %!
will not be lairty measured until they have
been in operation fora year or two. To noth
ing does Atlanta owe so much of her present
activity as to the growth in her manufac
turing interests. Every mill, shop, factory
or forge that is opened here riieans increased
population, and that means increased demand
for building lots.
The most iiajiortant indication of the cno
mous sales this spring is that there will be an
unusual amount of building this summer.
The general tendency of the sales for the sea
son has been to cut large tracts into small
lots and sell to people who wanted to build
homes for themselves. Already the contrac
tors have their bands full of work—the archi
tects. offices are full of plans and estimates—
and hundreds of lots are sold weekly as build
ing sites. We shall have a booming summer.
THE NATIVITIES OF GEORGIA.
Bulletin No. 289, just issued from the cen
sus office, shows where the people of Georgia
were bom. In a total population of 1,542,180
all were born in this country except 10,564.
Ireland furnished 4,148; Germany, 2,956:
England, 1,444; Scotland, 895; France, 295;
Canada. 291; Sweden, 138; Africa, 129; Switz
erland, 107; Italy. 82, and all other countries
879. We add a table showing the source of
the native-born:
White.
Georgia- - 717,276
Sooth Carolina 33,901
North Carolina 1J,093
Alabama - 10,806
Virginia 3.392
Colored.
677,938
16,294
7,063
6,203
11,214
1,345
2,362
81
762
855
926
Tennessee - 9,372
Florida 3,478
New York 2,489
Mississippi - 751
Maryland. 601
All other natives 7,-10S
While this table shows that we have gained
people freely from the two Carolinas, Alaba
ma and Tennessee, yet the full returns will
show that more Georgians are living in other
states than all our accessions from surround
ing states number. For example, the bulle
tin before us states that there are 32,601 Geor
gians in Florida, and 15,172 in Louisiana,
When the table of nativities is completed for
each state, we can readily see how the bal
ance stands. The chances are that we have
lost thousands and tens of thou
sands who, if they had staid ii
the old state, would have contributed
largely to her growth and prosperity. This
outward tide has been greatly lessened of late,
and our people are discovering that we have
opportunities that are quite as good as those
to be found in any other state. The land of
Georgia is in great part unimproved, and her
mineral wealth and timber wealth and almost
innumerable water powers afford a field for
the more enterprising and ambitious. Im
proved agriculture always brings good returns
in Georgia, and no state offers better
inducements to those who want to
engage in manufacturing or mining
enterprises. The truth is, Georgia has not
been fully appreciated by her own people, but
all this is changing, now that her mills bring
in handsome dividends, her mines respond to
intelligent outlays of capital, and her agricul
ture is invariably remunerative when con
ducted on a common sense basis. The old
state is emphatically looking up, and her peo
ple are reasonably prosperous, and content to
stay at home instead of looking for lands that
have no hallowed associations and that con
tain at their best a very considerable admix
ture of evil.
The result of
who write for
-stood. And
ATLANTA REAL ESTATE.
‘ Atlanta dirt is worth its weight in g '®M”
—or something like it, as the sales of the \ '* i »t
week demonstrate.
Daring the past month $425,000 worth o f
real estate changed hands through the real
estate dealers ol the city. On yesterday over
$50,000' worth Of property—all building lots or
surburbnn property—was sold, the most of it
at public outcry. One lot of this property,
the Ormond grove, was offered the day before
the sale at $19,000 and was refused. It
brought over $29,000 under the auctioneer's
hammer. In almost every instance and in
almost every quarter of the city, property out
sells the value set on it.
It is hardly fair to say that the influencing
cause of this “boom” in property is the fact
that three nett- railroads arc now being rapid
ly finished into the city. The quickening
efiect of the Air-Line on Atlanta was not felt
until months after its completion, and lasted
for three or four years. The effect of our new
roads, while it ntay be felt incidentally now.
MR. STEPHENS AND THE GOVERNOR
SHIP.
We print this morning a verbatim dispatch
from Mr. Stephens. We prefer to let our read
ers put their own construction on such parts
of the dispatch as may appear doubtful in
their meaning or purpose. There are some
points that call for discussion at our hands.
In saying specifically that he would “cer
tainly accept the democratic nomination if it
were tendered him,” Mr. Stephens becomes,
whether he wishes it or not, a candidate for
that nominalion. Presuming upon his words,
his friends will attempt to secure that
| nomination for him. As long as these words'
stand Mr. Stephens is a candidate for the
democratic nomination—and as such a candi
date the party has a right to ask his fullest
fealty and the frankest expression of it. The
public journals have the right to discuss his
position, comment on his attitude and his ut
terances. We frankly say we believe Mr.
Stephens is with the organized democracy of
the state in this fight, and that-die will stand
by its decrees. He certainly occupied this
position some weeks ago, and certain lines in-
his interview justify the belief that he has not
changed. In this spirit, then, we renew
discussion of the coming race.
We say to Mr. Stephens, with the utmost
respect, that he ought not to receive the nom
ination of the democratic party if he compro
mises with its enemies. There is no man no
matter how bright he may be, who can carry the
standard of the democratic party of Georgia, if
he comes to its convention bearing the stand
ard of the coalition. Mr. Stephens may flatter
himself—obsequious friends may lead him
into the belief—that, indorsed by the coali
tionists lie may override the democracy and
beat down its chosen leaders. He may do
this. But in doing it, he will not conduce to
the harmony he now so earnestly invokes.
On the contrary he will intensify the bit
terness of the inevitable struggle,
by lending t” the coalition the prestige of
great name, and giving it a strength it could
not otherwise command. As matters now
aland, there is no division in the ranks of the
Georgia democracy of which Mr.
Stephens is an honored and illustrious
j^-der. It was never so solidly united as
. , since the days it turned from power
ti > g^niO enemies that, under scarcely a veil
■ K lissiuiui at ion, confront it to-day. Mr.
~ ins has but to look, and he will see
wood and Colquitt factions shoulder
ler—the “organized” and “independ-
1 in hand after years of strife and
If left to itself, the democracy will
separation. . d j date the coalition puts up by
, at '0,000 votes, and we shall once
from ,000 to - a j iarmon i OU3 and solid.
SC f. e °f 8L , '* his influence to this petty
Mr. Stephens lend. dign Vfy into a contest
be a walk-over, and
, . ,nd lasting feud what
prolong unto a bitter a. h the idesof 0ctober .
would otherwise end wit. n0 ion orliaste ,
We write these words in i sincere
They are our deliberate am lf the s5taation
tions born of patient study c does not M
The aggression and hostility who left
with the democracy. The men.
gf-vV
the
to sheaU
ents” bant
faction, he will
what would otherwise
ranks have unceasingly denounced the party,
its leaders, its methods and purposes and
planted themselves squarely on a platform
that demands its destruction. They have
struck hands with its traditional enemies and
joined in the leadership of their crusade
against its citadels—such men as Farrow,
Longstreet and Atkins. The Arthur admin
istration indorses it with its full support. The*
negro republicans in convention unanimously
agree to give it their solid strength. All the
anti-democratic elements are united, and with
but one object—one incentive—one battle-
cry and that—“Death to the Democracy!”
It is now proposed that ttiis coalition shall
its June meeting propose the name of a
candidate—and that man one whose name hes
been standing at the head of its leading organ
for months; that this man shall accept the
nomination of this coalition, and that the
democracy when it meets in convention shall
ratify the suggestion of the coalitionists,
Why, Mr. Stephens himself would despise such
cowardice on the part of an individual, much
less of a great party. He has already led
one campaign against his own party, when it
accepted the candidate that a combination
convention called in advance of its own had
suggested.
We understand that our advice upon
these points may probably lead the
party into a desperate battle. We
underrate in no sense Mr. Stephens's hold on
the people in any event, and the strength he
would rally about him if he should conclude
to oppose the party that has honored him so
repeatedly. We understand-all these things,
and understanding them speak all the more
plainly. We are ready for conflict, when
peace can only be purchased by submission
We do not shrink from defeat, when victory
demands dishonor as its price.
THE LUSTY GOURD.
There are few of our readers whose memo
ries antedate the war who ‘will not join us in
sympathizing with the movement which has
just been organized hereabouts for the pur
pose of stocking the markets of the world
with the gouid. It is a movement which is
not without its patriotic impulses, and those
who are familiar with this lusty fruit of the
vine which it is proposed to propagate will
bid the projectors Godspeed.
Speaking of memories that extend back
into the past, it is wonderful how large a
ariety of gourds one small recollection will
cover. Far be it from us to throw even a
small drop of cold water upon the project, the
details of which have been set forth in these
columns, but an active memory compels us
to state that- the gourd cannot be in
troduced into good society until the frosts of
winter have shorn it of its pungency. When
the luxuriant guord-vine, flourishing in some
sun-smitten spot where no other vegetation
will grow, climbs up on the fence and gets
astraddle of it, and crawls along thirteen or
fourteen panels, it is needless for any one in
the settlement to protest. It seems to be ab
solutely necessary that the average gourd-vine
should see more of the world than any of its
neighbors.
The story of Jonah’s gourd is probably not
exaggerated in the slightest. One small gourd-
ine properly let alone will climb over a
negro cabin and crawl all over the fence in
one night, and the whole atmosphere will be
filled with an odor, the pungency
of which may be briefly alluded to,
but not adequately described. f One
tolerably fair specimen of a gourd-vine, grow
ing near by, has been known to destroy the
flavor of the fruit of an entire watermelon
patch, and this too without any apparent
effort. The yellow blossoms are attractive to
the bees, and a half dozen of these insects can
carry enough gourd pollen into a watermelon
patch to destroy a crop. We mention this as
a fact for Editor William Moore and our other
Augusta friends to bear in miml.
It will be observed that while all our pre-
dileotions are in favor of the gourd, neverthe
less we deal fairly by such of our readers as
are unacquainted with the characteristics of
this product in its green state. It is very, very
rank—too rank indeed to carry around in the
pocket-handkerchief. But when the fruit
has been properly seasoned, and cleansed,and
made into the form of a dipper, nothing im
parts a liner flavor to the water. Indeed, it is
questionable whether water drank from tin
or cocoanut dippers can be called pure; and
even if it is, its purity is not of the sort famil
iar to us all when, in the old times, we gulped
it from the gourd that hung on the stick near
the spring—or from the gourd that lay on the
well. And there will positively never be
such another gourd as that which the boys
were in the habit of handing to the girls in
school because there was a leak in the handle.
A gourd in those days was a friend to all,
kissing the mouths of ail who might be
thirsty. Feople not only had their favorite
gourds, but favorite methods of drinking.
We have all heard of that fastidious stranger
who called at a country house and asked for
water. Taking the gourd in his left hand he
placed his mouth near the handle, but was
struck dumb when one of the children
screamed out: “Mister, that's granny's
corner!” All this was long ago. The new
boom in gourds, like the so-called aesthetic
movement, is merely an effort to return to
the comforts of the good old people who
lived in the good old times.
THE SMALL POX.
The Cane* Developed Saturday—The llUtory of the
DUcane ta Atlanta aud Other Matter*.
There were six eases of small-pox Saturday not
heretofore reported. There were seven cates offi
cially reported, but one of them, Henry Beckham,
at 51 Foster street, was announced in yesterday’s
Constitution asoue of the cases of the previous
day, and properly speaking, therefore, there were
only six new cases yesterday. The cases of yester
day, as'de from Beckham, were Mary liardy, Ella
Ryan and D. W. Ryan, who were taken from
Lynch's alley: Emma Montgomery, at 1S1 Butler,
Sam Harris, who lives on Harris street, near Fort,
and O. S. Thomas, who was taken from the Willing
ham building. All the cases were negroes, aud all
were sent to the hospital except Harris, who will
be sent out this momtug. Last night.there was
case of varioloid reported on
Eillmore street, near the Fifth Baptist church, but
it was too lace to make an investigation, aud it will
not be known until to-day whether or not the report
is true. The city is more quiet than on Friday.
The work of looklug iuto the supposed cases aud
fumigating rooms and quarantining the exposed
persons progressed as usual. Vaccination continues
as lively as ever, every man seeming to be alive to
the fact that he is his own keeper, and that he must
see to it himself that he is protected.
A 1USTOBY OF SMALL-rOX IS ATLANTA.
The reports of the extent of small-pox in At
lanta which have gate out have increased in
size as they went until -very few people
outside ot the city kuow the real situation. The
Constitution lias presented the facts fully, and has
kept its readers informed as to every ease that has
occurred. It is now just a little more than a month
since the first case was developed, aud below is
presented a short but complete history of the career
of the disease in Atlanta up to date:
The first case that occurred was that 91" Myra
Tate, a negro girl, who was taken in the Beaver
Slide, and who died a few days after at the hospital.
The Beaver Slide was burned and everything grew
a uiet, but, as was anticipated, about two weeks after
te first appearance of the disease there were sev
eral cases developed, all traceable directly to con
tact with the Beaver Slide ease. There was a lull
for a week, and last Sunday, the time for the
third crop, a case was developed, aud
since that time the readers of
The Constitution’ can remember the number of
eases that were reported each day. Since tne first
of the disease every man, woman aud
speak tome, aud give me a hope, one little three-
for-five oents hope?”
The eirl raised her face to his. The happy, care
less. are-you-go.iig-to-the-ball-this-eveniiig expres
sion that had marked its every feature before George
spoke the fateful words with whieh this story opens
wa* gone, and in its place there dwelt a stony, al
most concrete, look, that told more eloquently than
could words oi the terrlb e struggle that had taken
place in the mind oi this beautiful, striped stock
inged girl. No word came from the ashen lips
from whieh the red blood of youth had uown, but
the wistfully fear-hauuled expression of the dusky
brown eyes told all.
“He has got a dbg, then?" asked George, his voice
quivering with excitement as he spoke.
“Two.” murmured the girl, while a storm of sobs
shook her form—“and,” she added, speaking the
words with a tender grace beyond compare, “they
are both on the kite.”
THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.
The Total Kellp*** of the Sun on May 17, lSSSi
April S3, 1846, and May *8. 1900.
From the Boston Daily advertiser.
On April 25,1816, there was a large eclipse of
the sun in the United States, etc., by which more
than half of it was eclipse at Boston, and nineteen-
twentieths at Key West.at the extremity of Florida.
The central line passed for the most part over
water (the Pacific and Atlantic oceans); but it
also crossed the island of Cuba. As the apparent
diameter of the sun on that day, as given
by the" tables, was some seconds larger than
that of the moon, the central eclipse, at
places were the sun was quite low, was annular:
but at those, where it was rather high, the diameter
of the moon was rendered by its altitude apparetlv
the larger, and the eclipse was total: at no place,
however, longer than a half of a minute. This was
the case in the island of Cuba, where the greatest
obscuration took place about eleven a.m., but at
only one town, viz: Sagna la Grande, where, as was
afterwards ascertained, the duration of the total
eclipse was nearly half a minute, and the with of
the moon’s shadow about twenty-live miles
As eclipses return, uuder several quite similar
its
NEWS FROM SENATOR HILL.
There is nothing very decided in the past few days
from Senator HiU. A short time ago a letter received
here stated that all the liquids swallowed by Mr.
Hill, he being unable to eat solid food altogether,
issued from the wound in his neck, and really was
not swallowed at aU, Under this statement, ap
prehensions were felt that there might
be definite news Uj follow very quickly. On
the next day a letter to Mr. Edgar Thompson from
Ben Hill, jr„ stated that his father was very much
brighter and more cheerful than when they ar
rived, that he was comfortably fixed and that he
intended to stay in Eureka all the summer. The
writer added that he would remain with his father
for several weeks at least As he feared when he
left Atlanta that his father would not be alive
when he reached Eureka, these statements
seem to imply that he was much
stronger than when he had left him at Washington,
or than he had hoped to find him in Arkansas. He
stated also that there were many miraculous cures
effected at the springs, and that many of these had
been brought to his father’s attention, and that
they had given him much hope. A later letter
stated that Mr. Hill was sitting up for the
first time since his arrival on the
day the letter was written. We heard last
night that he was not doing quite so well.
Wc print this information pimply that the people
may understand the situation as far as possible.
There will prayers ascend for our noble senator's
life from thousands of hearts in Georgia this Sab
bath day. May they be answered.
appearance of the disease every man, woman aud
child who has been exposed .has been vaccinated
aud put under quarantine. In some of the cases
the vaccination came too late to keep off the dis
ease, but considering the large number who were
exposed and afterwards put under quarantine, it
is regarded as a matter for congratulation that so
main- have escaped. Of the scores who have been
sent’to the quarantine camp only twelve have
taken small-pox since their arrival there, and all
of them are doing well with one exception. There
have been some cases of varioloid, but nothing
worthy of mention has grown out of them ex-
ceot the moral which each case teaches, and that is
to'“get vaccinated.” Yesterday a representative of
The Constitution went out to ilie quarantine
camp and had a long conversation with Dr. Nathan
Harris, who has charge of the hospital. The doctor
is shut off almost entirely from communication
with the outside world and is taking things quietly
with his patients. He says that m nearly every
death that has occurred the patient was sent out in
almost a dying condition. Since the first case in
the Beaver Slide, and including that case, there
have been up to date fifty-one eases. Three of
those cases were allowed to remain in the city, aud
IkS “remises were guarded at the expense of
the patieli!*.- They were William Ivie, on Col
lins street; Neville Mower, on McDonough street,
and a man named Guess Oil i>ir street. The two
former died. Guess was repotted as doing very
well yesterday. The other cases which were de
veloped in the city and sent to the hospital arc as
follows: Myra Tate, Rachal Seagraves, .Willis
Sorrell, Jake Barnes, Aaron Johnson, Carrie
Williams. Sam Logan, Johnson lew-, Thomas
Lewis, J. A. Lamar, Mrs. Dyer, Morgan Frix, G. II.
Holmes, Jamison Harris, John Rainey, Willie
Carter, John Trice, Elizabeth Davis, Albert Martin,
Stephen Turndec, George Robinsou, Anna Jackson,
Henrietta Jackson, Charles White, Maria Foster,
Bettie Davis, Eugene Booth, George Lee, Flemming
Parks, Henry Beckham, Mary Hardy, Ella Ryan,
D. W. Ryan, Emma Montgomery, Sam Harris, and
Thomas.
The cases which developed among those who were
quarantined are as follows: Lula Jones, Henry
Sorrells, Pierce Sorrells, Blanche Sorrells, Jarret
Henderson, Sarah Henderson, Manda Cater, Jose
ffiene Cater, Homer Cater, James Gardener, Mattie
Cobb, Lou Maun.
Those who have died at the hospital are as fol
lows: Myra Tate, Rachel Seagraves, Willis Sorrells,
Jake Barnes, Aaron Johnson, Carrie Williams, Sam
Logan, Johnson Pew, Thomas Lewis, James A. La
mar and Mrs. Dyer. It is proper to say that Willis
Sorrells, who is putin the above list, died herein
the citv, hut he was buried at the hospital.
There have been four cases only among white
people.aThev were as follows: Willie Ivie, Neville
Mower, Mr, Guess and Mrs. Dyer. Mrs, Dyer was
sent to the hospital wherel she was given a special
tent, The others remained in the city. All have
died except Guess.
It is definitely settled that the following cases
will recover, the patients being already out of dan
ger: Morgan Frix, G. H. Holmes, Lula Jones,
Jamison Harris, John Rainey, Willie Carter, John
Trice, Henry Sorrell, Sarah Henderson, Manda
Carter, Josephine Carter, and Mattie Cobb. There
are. of course, other cases that will recover, hut
these are out of danger and are waiting for the scales
to get off their faces before returning to the city.
To sum it up there have been fifty-one cases, of
which thirteen have died, leaving thirty-eight cases
now on hand, of which twelve are already safe.
This leaves twenty-six doubtful cases, nineteen of
which have been developed within the last week.
Those who are now in a critical con
dition are Elizabeth Davis and Henry Beckham.
There are now only about twenty persons at the
quarantine camp. The accommodations at the
camp, both for those under quarantine and the pa
tients, are in every way satisfactory. Dr. Harris is
much pleased with the tents for the patients, ity
their use the patients are riot crowded into one or
two rooms, and can, daring the day, have a plea
tiful supply of fresh air. Everything seems to be
working In a most satisfactory manner at the camp,
and the reporter, who was there yesterday, saw
nothing that could be complained of. Officers
Parish and Christophine, of the police force, are
still guarding the quarantine camp.
VACCINATION IN THE CITY.
Vaccination in the city is progressing in a veri-
satisfactory way. It is estimated that from a thou-
smd to twelve hundred persons are vaccinated
daily. Many of these vaccinations are upon per
sons whoalready haveseares, but prefer to test the
matter as to whether or not they are fully pro
tected. Dr. Logan, who has charge of the city vac
cination office at the police headquarters.gives it as
his opinion that fully thirty thousand out of the
estimated population of forty thousand in Atlanta,
are absolutely protected against small-pox.
Vaccination is going on in the wards by
specially detailed physicians, who report
an average of one hundred vaccinations
in each ward daily, making 500 in the city every
dav for the five wards. I)r. Martin is vaccinating
in his rounds from 50 to J00 daily, and other physi
cians are doing lively work in their private prac
tice. Dr. Logan, at the free office, has vaccinated
as follows since the office was opened: April21th,
40 whites, 50 colored: April 25th. 17 whites, 74 col
ored ; April 26th, estimated 100 whites and colored;
April 27th, 29 whites, 141 colored; April 28th, 39
whites, 159 colored; April 29th, 38 whites, 93 col
ored; May 1st, 25 whites, 58 col
ored; May 2d, 56 whites, 65 col
ored: May 3d, 70 whites, 37 colored;
May 4, 49 whites, 81 colored: May 5th, 48 whites, 63
colored; May6th, 65 whites, 120 colored.
This shows an average of nearly two hundred
daily since the office was opened. Dr. Logan thinks
that 85 percent of those who are vaccinated by him
are already protected. There is plenty of virus in
the city and there is nothing to prevent every man
in Atlanta from being now protected against small
pox.
THE CHANCES WE TAKE.
From the Chicago Tribuue.
‘‘Does your father keep a dog?”
As George W. Simpson spoke these words in the
earnest, tender manner that ever characterized his
demeanor towards the gentler sex. Aphrodite Mc
Guire gave nu upward glance, half shyly, half won
deringly, and then the beautiful brown eyes Were
again turned away, and the little dimpled hand;
that had been clasping a pillar of the vine-clad
porch on which they were standing this beautiful
June morning, fell listlessly by 4»<?r side.
For a moment neither spoke.
The sun glints iluttered erratlcallvdown between
the bright green leaves of the maple trees, the hnm
of insects filled the air, aud the pleasant lowing of
the cows as they roamed contentedly among the
succulent grasses of the meadows was borne up ou
the lalmy breath of the early summer to those two
f.. ,..t. r. ilaol w*omt\linnc rcl m nitm
the apparent diameter of the sun on that d»y t* ten
seconds less then on the 25th of April, the eclipse
will be total everywhere where it is central. It will
begin or reach the earth at sunrise in Africa, in lat
itude 10’degrees north, longitude 3 degrees west,
thence pass across upper Egypt, the two bays at
the northwestern extremity of the Red sea and the
peninsula of Sinai, thence to Teheran, the capit.il
of Persia, thence to the place where it will be cen
tral at noon, with a duration oi totality of a minute
and a half, in latitude 39 degress, longitude 64 de
grees east, then moving in an east by south direc
tion. and a few miles' north of Shanghai, it will
leave the earth at sunset in latitude 25)4 degrers
north and longitude 139 degrees east. This eclipse
along the central line and near the Red sea, the pe
ninsula of Sinai and to Teheran (places of easy ac
cess) will be very tine, and it is probable we shall
be iuformed that many European astronomers, and
perhaps a few from th'e United States, took favor
able positions along this line for the purpose of ob
serving the magnificent spectacle. This eclipse
will be large in the southern part of Europe and
the greater part of Asia (not in America), but after
another interval of eighteen years and eleven days
it will again return on ilay 25.1900, and be total on
its centralwhich will pass from very near
New Orleans to Norfolk, and it will be the only
eclipse in the United States, in the remainder of
the nineteenth century, that will be total- The
central line will begin at sunrise, in lat IS’’ llorth,
long. 117’ west, thence pass in a northeasterly
direction, very near New Oilcans and Norfolk to |
lat. 45° and long, 45° W on the Atlantic ocean,
where it will be central at noon, and the
duration of totality upwards a minute and a
half, it will then take an east to an east-
southeast direction, and reach Portugal in
lat. 41, long S)4° W a few miles south
of Opoito, thence passing across Portugal and
Spain it will leave Europe at Alicante, cross the
Mediterranean and the northeast of Africa, and will
have the east at sunset in Egypt in lat. 25 N, long.
32 E. The width of the moon’s shadow near Nor
folk will be about sixty miles, and the length of
totality about a minute and a third. A total eclipse
of the sun at any particular place is a phenomenon
of sucli rare occurrence that it is believe 1 there has
not been even one at a large part of our principal
cities and townssincc the settlementof the country.
As, therefore, Norfolk is so accessible, and the time
of totality (about 9 amt.) so convenient, it is proba
ble that not only nearly all our astronomers but
many who take only a general interest in astrono
my willproceed to the vicinity of thatcity, on May
28, 1900 to behold the phenomenon, whieh, if
seen, will not soon be torgotten. This eclipse
will of course be only total within the limits of the
central line, a narrow strip about sixty miles wide,
yet it will be very large and striking in all our At
lantic states, and at the cities of Washington, Balti
more, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Portland,
etc., quite eleven-twelfths of the sun’s disc will be
obscured. The longest possible duration of a total
eclipse of tbe sun is seven and a half minutes, but
such an one piobably has never occurred, and the
longest observed duration of any eclipse at any
place was quite half a minute less. On the eighth
return of the eclipse of May 22,1724, (the last total
eclipse in Great Britain), on August 18, 1868, the
duration of totality in Asia, with the sun and moon
in the zenith, was 0 minutes, 56 seconds—the long
est certainly in this century. The longest
the United States was, we believe,
in that grand eclipse so carefully ob
served by our great astronomer, the late Dr. N.
Bowditeh. which took place near noon at Boston
on June 16,1806, viz., 5 min. 10 sec. and the width
of the moon’s shadow on the central line between
Albany and Boston was 150r,-.iles. At Boonborough,
Iowa, the duration of totality in the fine eclipse
there of August 7, 1869, wa* 3 min. 58 8 sec. At
Beaufort, South Carolina, on November :!0,1834, the
duration was 1 min. 49.6 sec. (a beautiful ecltpse),
while on Jamiarv 11.1880, at the station Sycamore,
on the Southern railroad, about 200 miles south o
Sail F'rancisco, the duration was only half a minute
(30.8 sec.) as the sun was. very low.
The next annular eclipse of the sun visible in
the United States will take place on March 16th.
1885, when the central line, coming across the Pa
cific in a northeasterly direction, will reach the
northwest corner of California in latitude 41 de
grees, longitude 122 degrees, and thence pass across
Jregon, Montana, the extreme northern part of
Manitoba to the centre of Hudson’s bay, where it
will be central at noon in latitude 56)4 degrees
north, longitude 91J4 degrees west, thence passing
in a northeastern direction it will leave the earth at
sunset in latitude 71)4 degrees north, longitude
15 degrees west. This-is the third return of tire
annular eclipse of February 12th, 1831, so satis
factorily observed at a lighthouse off Chatham,
tape Cod.
IN NORTHERN SEAS.
in whose hearts the first promptings of
Cook county love were being felt.
The man was the first to speak. Bending over
the little form that stood beside him, he looked with
his clear blue eyes upon the coronal of golden
locks that crowned Aphrodite’s head, and then his
eves wandered to the invisible net which kept the
coronal from slipping off when the breeze hit it.
"Mr darling!” he whispered softly to himself, “God
has'made us for each other, and we must never be
parted. Without you my life would be as desolate
as the subscription book of a MiUwaukee paper,
my whole existence a horrible dream from which
therewas no awakening.” And clutching nervous
ly at his I’ll-be-better-in-the-spring mustache with
o‘ne hand he gently placid the other upon Aphro
dite's shoulder.
The girl did not move.
Again he touched her, but there was no response,
SflU George suspected nothing. Who can blame his
pure innocence.
The dress was .padded. •,
“Aphrodite,” he said, in a low, mellow tones,
—almost mellow enough to pick, “Will yon not
The Story of the l*o«t Je»nnctte und the Dead DcLong.
New York, May 'The Herald publishes the
following: “Irkutsk, May 5, morning.—The fol
lowing dispatches have just been received here by
g special courier from Mr. Jackson, the Herald cor
respondent, on his way north to the mouth of the
Lena:.
Dispatch No. 1.—Deer Station, Kcmurach, in the
district of Verchuarausk. April 10, 1882.—A rumor
is current among the Turgus natives that five men
have been found by the Tungus at the mouth of
the Lena. They describe one os wearing a gold
faced uniform. Nera tells me that Captain DcLong
wore his uniform coat under his ulster at the time
of the landing. I give this as a rumor, but it is re
markable that news spreads among the Tungus with
great speed. Jackson.
Dispatch No. 2.—Forty miles beyond Kelarach,
April 12,1882.—The Cossack Estafette, special ex
press, has just arrived here with dispatches, bring-
ng news that the bodies of Captain DcLong and
ten men have been found all in one spot. He takes
the sealed dispatches which you will receive with
this. Jackson.
THE WKECK OF THE JEANNETTE.
Tlie Herald also publishes lieutenant Danenhow-
er’s description of the last dav in the ice, when the
final separation took piace: “We were all very glad
when Melville got back, for the ice had commenced
to swing around the comer of Henrietta island very
rapidiy, the land to the westward of Bennet head
lands coming out rapidly and keeping
Collins and Newcomb busily sketching as the view
changed. The ship continued drifting to the north
west rapidly until June 10th. During this time the
ice in which she was imbedded began to crack and
the area of the piece was decreasing rapidly. We
knew that the important moment was coming when
the Jeannette would be liberated fromthiscyclopean
vice and that her future would be more hazardrous
than while in tlie monster’s grip, for; it was
impossible to shape a course and she
would be momentarily liable to be crushed
by the impact of the antagonistic ice floes, which
sent the immense masses cf ice into the air, and
among which the Jeannette would be like a glass
toy-shir in a railroad collision. About 11 p. m.,
June 19,1 was awakened by the ship’s motion. It
sounded as if she were sliding down hill or off the
launching ways. I was frightened for an instant,
but immediately recovered and jumped out of bed
for my clothes. 7 he ship had slid on her tied after
the ice on the port side had opened with a loud
crack. There she floated calmly on the surface
of the beautfful blue water, « ® * but of course
could not proceed, being hemmed in on all sides by
almost limitless masses of ice in close contact, and
having only a small pool in which she could bathe
her sides. The starboard half of her old cradle re
mained, so she was hauled into it and secured with
ice-anchors on the bow and quarter to await her
chance to escape. The rudder had been previously
shipped and the screw-propeller had been found to
be undamaged, so every preparation was made to
move at a moment’s notice. On June 11 Henrietta
island was seen for the2first time to the southeast
of us.
THE FINAL MOMENTS SKETCHED.
I will now describe the supreme and final mo
ments in the life of the Jeannette. At this period
of the cruise I was able to spend one hour on deck,
three times a day, for exercise, the last relapse of
my left eye having taken place a month previous.
I went on deck at 1 o’clock in the afternoon and
saw the hunters start ont. The day was clear and
beautiful, there was u ligtii wind In.iu ilie north
east, and in some quarters of the horizon it was
mistv and very much likcin the trade-wind regions
of tlie Pacific. A large- party was sent out to get
seals and guilemots if jiossible. My hour Wns
up and I still lingered on tlie quarter deck, ( ur
the ice on the port side, some li> yards distant, had
commenced to move toward us, and I was fas.
ciliated by the dangers of the situation. ih e
captain was ou deck and immediately hoisted
the hunters’ recall, which was a big black. cylinder
at tl:e main truck. They began to come in one ,,y
one, and the last ones were Bartlett and Anoquiu
wno were dragging a seal w ith them. At ’he lime
o: their arrival, the ice was in contact with the port
side of tbe ship, and she was heeling about twelve
d'-grees to starboard, with her port bilges heavily
pressed. The two hunters approached on the port
side, passed their guns to me and came up bv a
rope's end that 1 had thrown to them. The pres.,,
ure on ’he ship was terrible, ami we knew that she
must either lift aud be thrown up bodily upon the
ice or be crushed During the whole cruise, pro
visions, tents and boats with sheds were kept ready
for immediate use, a d at this time every step was
taken for the impending catastrophe.
JAMMED ICE.
About 3 p.m. Maciibiisl Lee reported the ice
coming through the bunkers, and the captain im
mediately ordered. "lower away!” men having
been previously stationed at the boats’ falls and
ome provisions put on the ice. Melville inunedi-
tcly contradicted the report, and the captain ic-
aved the order. Thus the ship lay for two hours
and a half, the pressure of the Ice relaxiug at times
and the ship almost righting. Then again she
would hover over to 23 degrees, and wo felt sure
there was no longer any hope for her, for she
would not lift. There was nothing in the
world to bo done to assist her at that
time. We had to depend upon her shape,
I have forgotten to tell you that she, of course
floated much higher than when we entered the
pack, and that led us to hope that she would lift
easier in the nip, for the pressure of the ice would
be below the point her sides commenced to tumble
home. On the starboard side while she was heeling
the nip was felt on her timber heads, whieh were
the weakest par.s of tlie frame, buton the port side
she was pressed below the turn of the bilge. Her
fate was practically decided the moment tve found
she would not lift, and a large amount of provisions
and clothing was then placed on the ice in readi
ness for the catastrophe.
THE LAST SUITEIt.
One watch went to supper at half-past five, and
the officers hau bread ana tea in the cabin at six.
I was on the sick list, with eyes bandaged, but told
the doctor that 1 could get charts and instnimet ts
together and be of assistance. He said he would
ask the captain. Each oatcer kept iiis knapsack in
his room, and most of us thought it was time to
have them on deck: bat we would not make the
move until ordered for tear of attracting the atten
tion of the crew, who were at work on provisions
and boats. While I was taking tea t saw Dunbar
bring his knapsack up and put it in the cabin.
F’eeling that the moment had arrived I went for
mine, and at the head of the ladder ou my return
he doetor sai d tome, “Dan, the order is to get knap-
sacks.” It seems that he had stepped below and
found water in the ward room, which he reported to
tlie captain, and the order was then given to aban
don the ship. The national ensign was hoisted at
the mizzeu and Captain De Long was on tbe bridge
directing the work. Lieutenant Chipp was con
fined to his bed. I threw my knapsack over the
starboard rail and returned for clothes,but on slee
ping iuto water when half-way down the ward
room ladder 1 realized that the ship was filling
rapidly. The doctor and I then carried Chipp's be
longings out, and I was told to take charge of the
medical stores especially the liquor. The ship in
this condition was like a broken basket, and onlv
kept from sinking by the pressure of the ice, which
at an v moment might relax and let her go to the
bottom.
CAPTAIN I>E long's LAST LOOK,
While waiting for coffee, I walked over to the ship
to take a final look at her, and found the captain,
Boatswain Coles and Carpenter Sweetman on the
port side looking at her under-water body, which
was hove well out of water. I observed that the
shiii's side between the foremast and smokestack
had been buckled in by the pressure, aud that
the second whaleboat w’as hanging at the
davits, and also that the steam cutter was
lying on the ice near by. Coles aud Sweet-
man asked the captain if we could lower
the second whaleboat, and the captain said “No.’
Tlie three boats, however, were considered enough
aud while journeying on the ice we afterward found
Chipp’s boat to be the favorite with all hands be
cause she was considered .short and i.andv, with
sufficient carrying capacity for eight men. I then
suggested to the men to return to the camp, for the
captain doubtless wished to bo alone with the
Jeannette in her last moments.
ABANDONING TOE SHIP.
When the order was given to abandon the ship
her hold was full of water, and as she was heeling
23 degrees to starboard at the time the water was ou
the lower side of the spur deck, and I hope that our
friend, the London tnudard, will not now think
that we deserted her and left her adrift in the Arc
tic, as was stated in one of the issues of that paper.
We had a large quantity of provisions on the ice
about 100 yards from the ship, but Sir. Dunbar,
who was alive to the occasion, advised the shifting
of these to an adjacent and more favorable floe
| >iece. It took us till 11 p. m. to effect the removal.
iVe also had three boats—namely, the first cutter,
second cutter and the whaleboat. As soon as Dr.
Ambler had looked out for Chipp he relieved me at
my post and I went to work with No. 1 sled party,
which I had been detailed previously to command.
The order was given to camp and get coffee, so we
pitched our tent abreast of the whaleboat, and I set
about fitting it up for the retreat.
We three returned to the camp together, having
to jump across numerous wide cracks and from
piece to piece, and soon after the watch was set nnd
the order given to turn in Most of us obeyed the
order promptly, and were just getting into our bags
when wc heard a crack and a cry from some one hi
the captain's tent. The ice had cracked immedi
ately under the captain’s tent, and Erickson would
have gone into the water but for the mackintosh
blanket in which he and the others were lying, the
weight of the others at the ends keeping the middle
of it from falling through. The order was imme
diately given to shiit to another floe piece which
Mr. Dunbar selected for u=. ThFs was about 300
S ards from the untenable ship. After about two
ours’ work we succeeded in shifting ail our goods
and our three boats to it. We then turned in.
BELOW THE SUEFACE.
About 1 o’clock I was awakened by Seaman
Kuehne calling his relief. Fireman Bartlett, who
was in our tent Kuehnccallcd to Bartlett that the
ship was sinking, and the latter jumped to the tent
door aud saw the spars of the Jeannette after the
hull was below the surface. We heard the crash,
but those were the only two men who saw the ves
sel disappear. It was said that the ice first closed
upon her, then relaxing allowed her to sink; tlie
yards caught across the ice and broke off, but
being held by the lifts and braces were carried
down—depth, :i8 fathoms, as I remember The
next morning the captain and others visited the
spot and found only one cabin cliair and a few
pieces of wood—all that remained of our old and
?ood friend, the Jeannette, which for many months
had endured the embrace of the Arctic monster.
The Jeannette sank about 1 o’clock in the morning
ot Monday, June 13th.
BEST HE COULD DO.
From the Detroit Free Press.
It was a Michigan man riding through West Vir
ginia on horseback, and one afternoon as he came
along to a settler’s cabin on the mountain road he
asked of a man leaning over the gate:
“Can you tell me how far it is to tbe town
ahead?”
“I reckon I kin, stranger. You’D have to peg
along fur about nine miles yit.”
“But it is nearly dark. Is there no tavern on the
road?”
“Never heard of any, and I’ve backed my corn-
meal over this road risin’ of twenty years.”
“Bnt perhaps I could put up somewhere?”
“P’raps ye could. There’s steve Taylor’s down
about four miles, but he'd beat ye blind on old
sledge. Tnere’s Mose Smith, a mile nigher. but
Mose would feel offended if ye didn't trade him
thathossfura stub-tailed mule. Might put upat
Green's, but there's lots of rattlesnakes around his
place. Kurnel Johnson is down about six miles,
but tlie Kurnel would turn ye all out doors at mid
night if he found that you didn’t vote his way.”
“But what am I to do?”
r a st i uar ’ man, stranger, aud tlie best
1 Kin do is to ax ye to "top here with me, an’ to tell
ye before hand that if ye ar' awakened in the night
by shingles bein' ripped off and logs pulled down
it won’t bean avalanche nor a cyclone, hut only
" lea -’n the old woman W-tryin’ for the two hun
dredth time since the war to see who handles the
m ”ney when I sell two coon skins fur a dollar!”
f—I guess I’Ugo on,” faltered the rrder.
Ke-rect, stranger! The last man who stopped
Here said he wished he'd have run the chances
with the snakes down at Green’s, an’ I gin him my
hand when he rode off. I’msquar' up and down,
as I told ye, and Green’s is the third cabin on this
sidearter ye cross the creek."
THE JASMINE WREATH.
Jasmine with gillyflow’rs I wreathe,
Mv lips his name oft fondly breathe,
O crimson gillyflow’rets sweet.
O'er which the wanton zephyrs blow,
Bright tokens my true love to greet.
Tell him e’en thus my heart doth glow.
O jasmine, pure as virgin snow.
Thy sweetest perfumes o'er him breathe,
Say, like thy petals I am pale.
And. yearning, ever weep and wail—
Jasmine with gulyfiowTs i wreathe.
A thousand blossoms, gemmed with dew,
Now 'neath the venial sun are born,
All rich in perfume, gay of hue—
Alas! their beauty will be gone
Ere doth arise another morn.
Tell me, my fragrant jasmine wreath.
Tell me O gillyflow’rets red.
Is love's bloom, too. so quicky shed .*
My lips his name oft fondly breathe.
—From the Spanish of Don Manuel del Rio.
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