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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.
F.VYFTTEVIIiLK O.Y
l.hdriggs
VOLUME XIV.
TUESDAY MORXIXGj. MAY 16, 18S2.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
THE WEEK EPITOMIZED
NABnATINGTHE HISTORY OF SEV
EN DAYS.
Szo«e<ttn*» •» Hem* ud Abroad—Tbe Polities sad
Ferveitltiee *1 «W Old World-The Ways of
tbe rsopls st XU me. end the Crimes and
Amusements la.Wbleh Tb*y Indulge.
I)r. T. C. Weir, of Mississippi, was heartily in
favor of five or six bishops and as his reasons urged
four points:
1. The Episcopal office was the grand tie holdiug
the organization together and unless it was
strengthened there would be danger of disintegra
tion.
2. A larger number of bishops was needed for per
sonal presence and supervision.
3. A smaller number than six could not meet the
demands of the office.
4. The church was able to support even more than
six.
Dr. Shaw favored the election of six, that the ar
gument of high chiirchbm was more dangerous
with a smaller number of bishops Uiau a larger
number: the cost of the additional bishops should
TJir PLFF.INO JEWS.
Vienna, May 11.—*Tlie New Free Tress says
there are 7.000 Jewish refugees in Brody. .
About 200'arrive there every day, while only I not be taken into account aud the assertion that
500 leave weekly. Their misery is indescrib | six good men could not be found In the Methodist
a l,le | church wmw thout foundation; he thought that
i Ti>nm. rrcniutu I if neces-ary fifty men could be found who could
- TfcRn “WMW4W0H. an( , would mHko Bood btsliops, and then tney were
B " 1 needed at the head of educational institutions:
Dr. Kelly, of Nashville, urged the nee 1 of bishops
in the western country and Mexico. In the first
direction there was a cri-is coming upon Method
ism. That field belonged to Methodism, and the
question for them to consider was whether they
would take their own or relinquish the field tooth
era.
TUB TEMfEEANCE QUESTION.
The committee on temperance submitted rules to
London, May 11.—Reports have been re
ceived of a terrible explosion of tire damp in
the Pluto mine at Bachum. West Philadel
phia. The bodies of fifty-six victims thus far
Lave been received.
HOW TO MAKE A VERDICT.
Galveston, May 8.—The News’ Dallas
special says: The jury in the case of It. E.
Cowart for killing J. M. Thurmond, ex-mayor
and prominent lawyer in the court room I he placed in the book of discipline, “bet the preacn-
nbout two months u.-o arrived at n ve«lirt. liv 1 ere “ nd members observe the general rules which
U.111.L f° rt, !d drunkenness or the driuking of spirituous
adding the number of years each juror I liquors, unless in cases of necessity. In cases of
thought the prisoner should serve and divid- | drunkenness lei the discipline be administered as
ing the same by 12. Cowart was sentenced |
to two years.
Cowart's counsel moved for a new trial,
which was sustained and a new trial granted
on the ground that the verdict was not in ac
cordance with the evidence. The audience
att -nipted to applaud,but were suppressed by
thi court.
THE BAPTIST CONVENTION.
The Baptist convention is in session in
Greenville, South Caolina. Rev. R. H. Mell
was re-elected to preside. Home and foreign
missions reported progress. A resolution was
In cases of immorality. 'Let our preachers and
members abstain from the manufacture or sale of
intoxlcatiDg liquors to be used as beverages, aud if
any shall engage iu such manufacture or sales iu
such case let the discipline be admiuistered as In
cases ot imprudent or improper conduct.”
THE CUPPlEs RECEPTION.
Whut the Soother* Methodists of St. Louis Think
or the Conference I it realign lion.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. .
An old feud in the Methodist Southern Church in
this city seems to have broken out again with all
passed proposing a Baptist translation of the I the acrimony that it has at any time possess
Bililc. Groyernor Brown, of Georgia, spoke I Among the delegates from the Missouri conference
to the general conference of that church, now iu
session at Nashville, Tenn., Is Mr. Samuel Cupples,
on the mission question.
MU. HILL.
The report* from Mr. Hill, who is now at
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, are very gloomy.
It isudmiited that his days are but few.
SHE SOUTHERN METHODIST CONFERENCE.
The committee on Episcopacy recommends
the election of six new bishops. The confer
ence refused to join in it petition to congress
regarding Sabbatli observance because it bad
an appearance of going iuto politics. A
a respected member of St. John’s church, aud a
well known business man of this city. The tele
graphic dispatches from that place yester
day bronght word that “a committee
of * investigation had been appointed to inquire
into the report that Samuel Cupples, a lay delegate
from the EL Louis confercuce, had, since hi* elec
tion, permitted dancing in Ills house.” A matter
of so grave Importance us tills naturally gave rise to
considerable comment on the part of members of
greater part of the week was taken up in the I ssl Join-'s church as well os of other enurches of
discussion between Dr. Bedford and the book I the same denomination iu the city, and a reporter
committee without any definite result. The I,of the Globe-Democrat had conversadbns with
q, ln ,i,., I quite a number on the aspect iu whieh dancing in
Sunday-school cause is reported as progressing I g( . neril i is held by the Methodist church and with
finely. Church membership lias increased I regard to' ■ -
the ease of M r. Cupples iu particular.
Among the persons seen, was Dr. J. U. McLean.
Though not at present a member of St. John's
church Dr. McLenu is an intimate friend of all t e
parties concerned. He was present at the reception
I given by Mrs. Cupples^last Iiecember, at which
largely. Bishop Payne was allowed to retire
from active labor on account of age. Suitable
resolutions were adopted on the death of Rev.
T. O. Summers, secretory of the conference.
federal POLITICS. I dancing is reported to have laken place, and says
The president lias signed the tariff comniis-1 there is no doubt hut such v» the ease. There
-l m i.ili «i 1P neu-Chinese hill A hill fnr I was nothing harmful ubout st, however, and he
won hill and tue new Linnese dhi. a mil lor f ., )nsid( . rcd t, n very wro „g io stir the matter up.
the establishment of intermediate courts of .. WhelI youug p / op ie ge t together they will do
appeal lias passed the senate. A bill has been I 8U ch things, and Mr. Cupples ought not to be held
introduced in the house to appropriate $1,000,- I re*poiisible. There is no harm iu that sort of thing
000 a year for five years to purposes of educa- I anyway when pjoperiy eondpeted. Why, I have
tion. The river and harbor lull lias been re- | ^r for rehea^l amf *
WIND UP WITH A DANCE
ported to the house. If gives Savannah $200,-
000 and Brunswick $10 000.
MR STEPHENS.
and Jolly good time. This whole utfair comes from
an unfortunate division m the church, and a quar-
On going up the steps of the capitol last I rel which has beeu going on for years. 1 told'Mr
fednesdav Mr. StcnhenssliDnedand fell, sus- I Guppies when lie was nominated for delegate
"Wednesday M r. Stephens slipped and fell, sus
taining some painful bruises. He is confined
to his room, but nothing serious is appre
hended.
INSULAR INCIDENTS.
The damage to the New Orleans custom house by
Che fire is now estimated at 300,00*.
Fatsry Devine, who murdered Aaron Goodfellow,
at illoomington, ill., was hanged a. Clinton. 111.
T he Traders' national bank, uf Fort Worth, Texas,
tcptti i : -■ I-—/ t-~r- t<cvu authorized to commence
business.
Forty houses were destroyed, two persons killed
and thirteen injured, at Cherokee city, Indian Ter
ritory. l>y the cyclone on Thursday.
Hon John F Darby, one ol the oldest and best
known residents of St Louis, died Tuesday at his
daughter's residence at Pendleton, Warren county.
Mo. He w«> born in 1800.
__ to the
conference that it was an unfortunate thing for
him. It wouldn’t do to resign, and acceptance has
• roughl this trouble on. V bis whole fuss is one of
the most foolish things imajinable.
Rev Dr Bounds, pastor oi the st Louis avenue
church, said that dancing was a diversion that
could not be taken iu "the name of the laird.” aud
all Methodists were consequently prohibited from
engaging iu iL He considered it positively sinful,
though, as iu the case of murder, there might be
different degrees of punishment, according to the
nature of the offense. Any member of his church
known to engage in dancing was disciplined, and
the rules rc.,tiiic3 that iu other -atuenea an Wei
ll was a worldly practice, contrary to the teachings
of the Sciipiure* and could not be condoned. This
was the first time, however, that a conference had
undertaken to pass on the morals of iu members,
aud he could uot understand their gruuuds for so
doing. The action of the church ought to have
been taken and been considered final.
Kev. Dr. Miller, of the Hrot chuich, said that
lancing under all circumstances was considered an
KOCH’S THEORY.
EXPERIMENTS OF THE GERMAN
COURT PHYSICIAN.
He Traces the Origin,. Growth and Transmission of
Inberonla Troubles, end Diao.vers that as In
Eruptive Fever*. They are Due to the
Growth of BaoUll on tne Lungs.
nentlv on the occasion ol parties, eu-. Many of
lem "also go to theaters aud other places
of amusement. Had it been left to the
London. May 13 -Iroquois has ruptured a blood was notnot tolerated by the
rT^ n in , b.in^'c^* <m * UDM!beta * h ° cCrert’su“ d c£5 the^tor^m^p&ml
Via gain b« seen on the course, I comrn itt ee- examine the offending party and bring
New Orlf.ans. j.a> 12.—a special to the Times I charges if they thought there was suffitientgrouuds.
.ay8: the venerable Archbishop Perehe, of the I He concluded that the performances at Mr. Cup-
Jtomnn-Catholic diocese, is dangerously ill and it is I plea’s house were not deemed of sufficient impor-
not believed that he can live many days. I tancc for bringing charges. That dauciug was for-
Raleioh, May 13.—Four United States prisoners I bidden was clearly stated in the bishop's letter pub-
in jail at Asheville, for terms of ten, six and three I fished 1 ' ' ’
years, have madeiheircscnpc and gone lopartsun- I would
known. . I which ... ,
Galveston, May IS.—The secretary of the treas- I An influential member of SL John s church, who
ary,of .Mexico, lias authorized the customhouse I wishes his liume withheld, says that the present
authorities ulNucvuLoredo to allow the imports- I difficulty is a part of the old Logan D. Damerou
tion an<» exportation of goods by railway, subject I trout lea, aud the result of petty jealousies which
to custom regulations. I have been growing for years. Inere isnoooubt
her 117. which are distributed as follows: Eastern
states 17, western 40, southern 3*. middle 10, Pacific
B^lklTn rtWA *£tt W Jl2 r «c a n y 0Wd I ^pples'Tbut^lhe
2^nfizter , *tobacTO e and 4 SeSz - b^wer R * idWhiCh Ghitafian Advocate has been attackFug Mr. Guppies
f^r.rDh^^o”^: n c»Uo^ Wer - of conferences ‘ftSulirfj
New York, May 12.—The Herald says: The rot- I have been manipulated iu op|>ositiou to Mr. Gup-
ton exchange has received a letter from Oldham. I Dies. au d ihis induence is undoubtedly working
England, intimating that the explanation that sand I against him iu the general conference. The only
found in American coltown was blown there by I thing iu the power of the conference is to refuse
wind is not satisfactory. I Dim his seat as an incomneteut menfber.
New York, May 12.—George A. Hewlett, formerly I Tne Methodist church doesn't jhave
of New Orleans, and well known there, having I ,j t cH straight-laced ideas
once ran for state senator, was to-day convicted of I as many seem to imagine. Mr. Guppies undoubt-
hignmy In the court of general sessions, aud sent to I ed i y had dancing at his house, and so dia many
state prison for fifteen months. In 1868 Hewlett I olbera and where was the harm of it? This Whole
married Sarah A. Haywood, of Brooklyn, and on I attack on Mr. Cupples is a piece of personal jeal-
Mayll.1881.be married Clarissa L. Williams, of I ousy and spite.”
this city. He denied his first marriage. I Tne matter was first taken up by the Christian
Jersey City, May 12.—This morning, Edmund Advocate In January last, and a number of quite
Klngsland, treasurer of the provident institution I bitter articles appeared in it at the time. Thechatge
for savings, shot himself, in his office in the bank, I a ™ n st Mr. Cupples is b*sed on the following pas-
and died in a few minutes. A hasty examination I {j ra ( i etler 0 f me bishops of the church: “Amoug
of the affairs of the bank indicated that everything I me Indulgences that cannot stand this solemn tes
was as it should be, aud no cause cau be assigned | (done in the name ot the Le d) is the modem dance.
for the suicide.
Klngsland is not yet dead, though a.bullet ot
large sue went through his head behind his eyes.
He was trustee for several estates, the heirs of one
of which was endeavoring to force a settlement. A
run on the bank began to-day and amounts almost
to a panic.
A Pit sboro, Mississippi, special says that Henry
Fleming, who was to have been hanged for the
murder of a man named Graham, in Yalobusha
county, in June last, was respited uniil the fall
court of the supreme court. He was about being
’ led to the gallows when the respite was received,
THE METHODISTS.
New
The Dlsensslsa Coa.taueS on the Proposed
Bishops.
Nashville, May 13.—The debate on the question
of electing additional bishops continues to attract
much attention. Dr. Mahon, oi the Texas confer
ence. favored the election of five additional bish
ops. lie bad come to Nashville thinking that four I u^‘and accept hint" (without' pretest) io si tin the
or five would be needed, and, although the college 1 highest councils ot the church,to enact la ws and elect
of bishops In their address recommended but three, I - uun ?° the episcopacy. ,w ' Tnn ’" 1,1 '•<*«*"»*
both in its private and public exhibition, as utter
ly opposed to the spirit of Christianity as taught by
us. When persisted in it is a justifiable ground of
judicial action by the church authori
ties.” Upon this interpretation of the
geueral rules, says the Advocate,
our preachers have administered the disciDliucof
the church; and hundreds of members have beeu
expelled lor persisting in dancing. Yet this one
member—this official in the church—this delegate
elect to the general conference—would set aside the
authorities of the church, reverse their decisions,
and with impunity violate its general rules. In
view of the fact that Mr. Guppies is a delegate to
the general conference, it is the prerogative of any
one of his constituents to note publicly any partic
ular iu which he mav violate the law of the church,
or publiclv criticize any views that
he may hold contrary to her doctrines
and politv. It is only through his pastor
that proceedings to d iscioline him can be instituted;
but the pastor’s failure to act on this justifiable
ground of action is certainly no reasou Vhy the
euiirc church should wink at this man s irregulari-
_ Much more in the same
he believed five could be used' toadvanrage'by I Sue shows'thi way that dancing and the oflbuse of
the church. One. he said, could be stationed on I Mr. Cupples is , c, I 'st* s ‘-‘red b> tuejedrior und pub-
the Atlantic coast, another at Richraond'or Balti
more, a third at St Louis, a fourth in Texas and a
fifth on the Pacific coast. Two or three might serve
the church iu presiding over the annual confer
cnees, but they b%d other duties besides appoint
ing tmvefin.jprearhers and presiding at annual con
ferences. He thought five would he necessary to
the work which the bishops ought to attend to.
Before Dr. Mahon had concluded his remarks, Dr.
Adams, of Georgia, called the attention of the pre
siding bishop to the rule of the conference limiting
the time of speakers to fifteen minutes each. Dr.
Mahon yielded two minutes of his time to the next
SP DrB r Cravcn. of North Carolina, believed that the
annual conferences were not held as they ought to
be. for the want of time for the bishops to remain
among the church members, and the slight visita
tion of the bishops iu the district conferences is
noticeable Besides, the bishops ought to give some
time to the causa of education and the commence
ment sermons should be preached by the bishops.
Since 1S70 the church had crown more than the
-work of any one bishop coum attend. An increase
fisher of the Advocate, from whom the opposition
to Mr. Cupples is now supposed to come.
Mr. acruggs, of Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney,
was seen, but he declined to talk on the subject,
not knowing anything ubout it. Another member
who visited the reception at Mr. cupples’s house,
which gave rise to the present unpleasantness, says
that he came away before dancing began, but he
understands that not only square dances, but even
waltzes, were indulged in. On the vyhole there
seems to be considerable division of opinion as to
the wit keduess of dancing, especially when applied
to Mr. Cupples’s case.
OUR GROWING CROPS.
The Max Report ot the Department ef Azrlestisrc.
Washington. May 12.-The May report of the
agricultural bureau contains the following cotton
returns, representing 81 per cent of th(! proposed
area planted on the 1st of May, against S3 per cent
last year. Planting is more advanced than usual
from VirgtuUto Florida, and more backwards in
all other states, especially in Mississippi, Louisiana,
either four or five I Arkansas and Tennessee. in consequence
additional bishops. 1 of the overflow the proportion planted in Mis-
Dr. Long, of Alabama, moved the previaus ques- sissippi is 53 per cent, instead of 8xia the average
Hon but subsequently withdrew his tnotloa. } year; U in Louisiana. insteadofS9;76inArlran-
Dr J. B. McFerrin. of Nashville, moved to amend ! sas. instead oTS3, and << iu Tennessee, iustead of
the report by elecUog four additional bishops, in- j SO per cent. The deficiency on the first of May ap-
atead of six as recommended by the committee or, 1 proximau-s half a million acres, with planting still
three as proposed by I>r. Blue. i° progress.
of three bi&n ops would not supply the deficiencv.
and he favored the election ol eitl
Professor John Tyndall to the London Times.
On the 24th of March, 1882, an address of
vtry serious public import was delivered by
Dr. Koch before the physiological society of
Berlin. It touches a question in which we'
are all at present interested—that
of experiment physiology—and I may,
therefore, be permitted to give some account
of it in the Times. The address, a copy of
which has been courteously sent to me by its
author, is entitled “The Etiology of Tuber
cular Disease.” Koch first made himself
known by the penetration, skill, aud thorough
ness of his researches on the contagium of
splenic fever. By a process of inoculation
and infection he traced this terrible parasite
through all its stages of development and
through its various modes of action. This
masterly investigation caused the young phy
sician to be transferred from a modest coun
try practice, in the neighborhood of Breslau,
to the post of government advisor in the im
perial health department of Berlin.
HtS G REATEST TRIUMPH.
Front this department has lutely issued a
most important series of investigations on
the etiology of infective disorders. Koch’s
last inquiry deals with a disease, which, in
point of mortality, stands at the head of them
all. If, he says, the seriousness of the malady
be measured by the number of its victims,
then the most dreaded pests which have hith
erto ravaged the world—plague and cholera
included—must stand far behind the qpe now
uuder consideration. Koch makes the start
ling statement that one-seventh of the deaths
of the human race are due to tubercular dis
ease, while fully one-third of those who die in
active middle age are carried off by the same
cause. Prior to Koch it had been placed be
yond doubt that the disease was communica
ble; and the aim of the Berlin physician has
been to determine the precise character of the
contagium which previous experiments on
inoculation and inhalation had proved to be
capable of indefinite transfer and reproduc
tion. He subjected the diseased organs of a
great number of men and animals to micro
scopic examination, and found, in all cases,
the tubercles infested with a minute, rod
shaped parasite, which, by means of a special
dye, he differentiated from the surrounding
tissue. It was, he says, in the highest de
gree impressive to observe iu tiie center of
the tubercle, cell the minute organism which
had created it.
REPRODUCING THE DISEASE.
Transferring directly, by inoculation, the
tuberculous matter ftom diseased animals to
healthy ones, lie in every instance reproduced
the the disease. To meet the objection that
it was not the parasite itself, but some virus
in which it was imbedded in the diseased or
gan, that was the real contagium, he culti
vated his bacilli artificially, for long periods
of time and through titauy successive gener
ations. With a speckjof matter,for example,
from a tuberculous human iuug, he infec.ed
a substance prepared, after much trial,
by himself, with the view of afford
ing nutriment lo the parasite. Here he
permitted it to grow and multiply. Front _
iiits net!' generation took a ininuio sanipiefT***'-'
and infected t erewith fresh nutritive mat
ter, thus producing another brood. Genera
tion after generation of bacilli were developed
in this way. without the intervention of dis
ease. At the end of the process, which some
times embraced successive cultivations ex
tending over half a year, the purified bacilli
were introduced into the circulation of
healthy animals of various kinds. Iu every
case inoculation was followed by the repro
duction and spread of the parasite and the
generation of the original disease.
EXPERIMENTS WITH THE PARASITES.
Permit me to give a further, though still
brief and sketchy account of Koch’s experi
ments. Of six guinea pigs, all in good health,
four were inoculated with bacilli derived
originally from a human lung, which in fifty-
four-days had produced five successive gener
ations. Two of the six animals were not in
fected. In every one of the infected cases the
guinea pig sickened and lost flesh. After thir
ty-two days one of them died, and after thirty-
five days the remaining five were killed aud
examined. In the guinea pig that died, and
in the three remaining infested ones, strongly
pronounced tubercular disease had set in.
Spleen, liver and lungs were found filled with
tubercles', while in the two uninfected ani
mals no trace of the disease was observed.
In a second experiment, six out of eight
guinea pigs were inoculated 'with cultivated
bacilli, derived originally from the tubercu
lous lung of a monkey, ‘bred and rebred for
ninety-five days, untii eight generations had
been produced. Every one of these animals
was attacked, while the two uninfected guin
ea pigs remained perfectly healthy. Similar
experiments were made with cats, rabbits,
rats, mice and other animals, and without ex
ception, it was found that the injection of
the parasite into the animal system was fol
lowed by decided and, in most cases, virulent
tubercular disease.
THROUGH THE EYE.
In the cases thus far mentioned inoculation
had been effected in the abdomen. '1 he place
of inoculation was afterward changed to the
aqueous humor of the eye. Three rabbits re
ceived each a speck of bacillus culture, de
rived originally from a human lung affected,
with pneumonia. Eighty-nine days had been
devoted to the culture of the organism. The
infected rabbits rapidly lost flesh, and after
twenty-five days were killed and examined.
The lungs of every one of them were found
charged with tubercles. Of three other rab
bits, one received an injection of pare biood
serum in the aqueous humor of the eye,while
the other two were infected, in a similar way,
with the same serum, containing bacilli de
rived originally from a diseased lung, and
subjected to ninety-one days’ cultivation,
After twenty-eight days the rabbits were killed
The one whien had received an injection of
pure serum was found pertectly healthy,while
the lungs of tiie two others were found over
spread with tubercles.
INHALING INFECTED AIR.
Other experiments are recorded in this ad
mirable essay, from which the weightiest
practical conclusion may be drawn. Koch
determines the limits of temperature between
which the tubercle-bacillus cau develop and
multiply. The minimum temperature he
finds to be S6° fabienheit and the maximum
104°. He concludes that, unlike the bacillus
anthracis of splenic fever, which can flourish
freely outside the animal body, in the tem
perate zone animal warmth is" necessary for
the propagation of the newly discovered or
ganism. in a vast number of cases Koch has
examined the matter expectorated from the
lungs of persons affected with phthisis and
found in it swarms of baccilli, while in
matter expectorated from the lungs of persons
not thus afflicted he has never found tiie or
ganism. The expectorated matter in the
former cases was highly infective, nor did
drying destroy its virulence. Guinea pigs
infected with expectorated matter which had
been kept dry for two, four and eight weeks,
respectively, were smitten with tubercular
disease quite us virulent us that produced by
fresh expectoration. Koch points to the grave
danger of inhaling air in which particles of
tiie dried sputa of consumptive patients
mingles with dust of other kinds.
T. TUB MORAL OF TUB DISCOVERY.
It would be mere impertinence on my part
to draw the obvious moral front these experi
ments. In no other conceivable way than
that pursued by Koch could the true charac
ter of the most destructive malady by wiiich
humanity is now assailed be determined.
And, however noisy the fanaticism of the
moment may be, the common sense of En
glishmen will not, in the long run, permit it
to enact cruelty in the name of tenderness, or
to debar us from the light and leading of such
investigations as that which is here so iniper-
ftSCtly described. Your obedient servant,
John Tyndall.
Hind Head, April 20.
THE DISCOVERY COMMENTED CTOS.
From the Loudon Times.
The direction of modern experiment has
tended strongly to the belief that the com-
nmn eruptive fevers are due to tiie growth
with in the body of minute parasites, geiteric-
aSjy termed bacilli; ami at this point Profes
sor Tyndall’s version of Dr. Koch’s discover
ies come to show that the formation of tubercle
is also due to bacillus. We have here, there
fore, a remarkable testimony to the profound
sagacity which enabled Dr. Budd to see the
essential similarity between tubercle and the
fevers in question, notwithstanding the enor
mous superficial unlikeness which distin
guishes them; and, if Dr. Koch’s investiga
tions and conclusions should be confirmed by
further experiments, we shall he able to en
tertain a reasonable hope that an antidote to
consumption and to tuberculous diseases gen-
efally may at no distant date be brought
within our reach. It is characteristic of many of
the disease producing bacilli, and probably of
all of them, that they can be so altered by
cultivation as to produce a mild disease in
stead of a severe one, and that the designed
communication of the former will afford pro
tection against the latter. Pasteur has lately
shown how completely this may be accom
plished in the case of the bacillus which
causes the splenic fever of cattle; and vacci
nation itselt is now regarded merely as inoc
ulation with the small-pox bacillus, after this
lias been modified in its character by being
cultivated in the bodies of the bovine race.
The experiences of Dr. Koch, in so far as Pro-.
rt-Vsor Tyndall describes them, seem as yet to
have been carried no further than to the re
peated cultivation of the tubercle bacillus in
its original virulence; but they will speedily
bo followed, as a mat ter of course, by attempts
at cultivation in diminished intensity.
A MEDICAL INDORSEMENT.
From the Medical News,
The evidence thus seems conclusive: itonly
remains to develop, from the cultivated para-
tite, tubcrculois in man to complete the cycle
of evidence and to establish Kock’s discovery
among the great facts of medical science.
Professor Tyndall maintains the genuineness
of these observations, and is fully alive to
their transcendent importance. a * *
-No one can fail to be profoundly impressed
with the painstaking skill of the discoverer,
and the far reaching consequences of the dis
covery. In the fuels laid before our readers
1 my be the solution of tiie problem so long
r -garded an insoluble—the cure of tubercu
losis. If Pasteur’s culture experiments have
led to the discovery of a method by which
the poison of splenic fever is rendered harm
less, and the disease prevented by the timely
inoculation of the modified virus, may we not
Lope that the time is not distant when the
ravages of consumption will be prevented by
i te inoculation of a modified bacillus. The
medical profession of the whole civilized
world will now await with the keenest inter
est the development which may be expected
f uni further study of the bacillus tubercu-
Jbis. ’
D 1CN1CS AND SMALL-POX jf 1 d r e T tfi, ";\ ireofspe<H:h ’ No. I don’t want
x I to die of small pox no more than Eugene
Harris did of a snake bite when he said, “Oh,
TbrCRUdren AM Bundling Vp for tRe Fiosic—Tbs
Bide and the Scenes on the Grounds—Girls ar.d
Their Beaux—An Atlanta Negro in the
Country—Harris’s Shake Bite.
A Terrible Situation on u Kansas Train—A Connec
ticut Ruu.
Parsons, Kansas, May 12.—While the engineer
and conductor of a train on the Missouri, Ka
and Texas road were iu the telegraph office at Os
wego, Kansas, for orders their engine and caboose
started off without them, bonnd north. The train
had several hundred persons on board, members of
the Missouri press association, their families and
friends on an excursion to Galveston. The en
gineer of the incoming train saw the wild train in
time to stoo his own and leap from the engine. The
wild train was going over forty miles an hour.
When they collided both engines were totally
wrecked. The postal clerk on the passenger traiu
is the only person injured. The passengers all es-
catied unhurt, aud after the track was cleared aud
a new engine procured they proceeded on their
journey.
AN ENGINE’S WILD CAREER.
Hartford, Conn., Mas 12— A switch engine
crossing the Connecticut rarer.bridge as a freight
train was entering upon the main track of the New
York and New England railroad, strtick and partly
detailed » freight engine switch, then ran wild
about two miles and dabbed iuto the engine depot
aid, tearing away the tender. The engine ended
ts wild career by crashing iuto another engine in
the yard, when both were badly wrecked.
THOUGH LOST TO SIGHT.
TWO WILD TRAINS.
A Few of the Men Who Are Nominally Culled States
Senators.
Special to the Courier-Journal.
Washington, May 9.—There areseve*al senators
who would excite commcLt were they to be seen in
their seats. Mahoue, of Virginia, has been in his
about forty-eight hours all told during the session;
Cameron has been out of his seat nearly all the
time; Lamar is home with his sick wife; Logan is
at the Hot Springs with his lame back; Edmunds
has been away with a sick daughter, and Garland
has been much in his own state. Hill is said to be
uot so near death us reported. His doctor says that
if he had abstained from too free use of Ms mouth
iu eating and talking, and so given his wounds a
chance to heal, he would not hare been sent back
to bed. He is now uuder treatment to keep him
quiet, with some hope of recovery. His colleague,
Mr. Brown, is reported very ill, but it is thought
not dangerously so Speaking of bim in the room
of the sergeant-at-arms to-day, one senator said:
"He is the sort of man who will get sick and drop
out of public life, aud, after everyoody has forgot
tea him, there will appear a uotice uf his death at
ninety-two years, with the explanation that he was
once governor of his state and a senator."
THE EGYPTIAN COMPLICATION.
Arab! Hey Declares That There Must be iClrll War.
Special Dispatch to the Constitution.
Cairo, May 12.—The notables have unanimously
refused to assemble unless legally convened. When
Arabi Bey hc-ard of their decision he exclaimed
Then we shall have civil war.” Arabi Bey has
manifested an intention to depose the khedive
by an array of force without the formality
of obtaining tiiaassaiit of the cnamber of notables
tjtoue pacha has resigued, not desiring to violate
his oatb of allegiance to the khedive. A milita-y
demonstration is momentarily expected. It is ru
mored that Arabi Bey cannot rely ou the support
of all the troops. One regiment, it is said, remains
faithful to the khedive
A LADY AND HER ALDERNEYS.
Banksion Farm, Near Griffin, May 12.—Editors
Constitution: Mrs. Camp's experience with nine
scrub cows”emboldens me to give you ahint of ray
experiment with four milkers from November to
March first. Two were one-half Aldemeys with
first calves—very much reduced in flesh when
bought them, and giving bnt little milk. The
quantity gradually increased with kind treatment
aud regular feed,"until they, with two “scrub*,”
furnished me with sufficient milk aud butt-r for
family use—11 pounds of butter per day, besides
selling enough to buy feed for eleven cows and
calves, when peas sold at $1.50 per bushel, bran $1.50
and $1.60 per hundred. In addition to this, my
milk money paid for the hire of a man. wlio*e
wages were fifty cents per day, kept milk wagon
in repair, and left a email margin each week. I
nm convinced that with proper care, comfortable
housing at night and iu stormy weather, dairymen
accomplish as much on Georgia soil ns on the
far-famed ranches of the golden west. Successive
grass pastures can be readily obtained by good
management, sowing barley in August and spotted
medick about same time, will ensure a rich yield
of such nnlk and butter as will remind one of the
land ot ‘‘Goshen.*’ and put a dairyman on a bet
ter footing financially (for the outlay) than an all
enffou grower will find himself at the end of the
year, Respect!-’’*, Mrs. H. R. Bakes.
ISCUSSED FROM WILLIAM ARP’S
STANDPOINT.
iy country, itist to think that for 45 years
have braved death and the devil and wars
and battles and conscription,and have now got
to die from a darud snake.” No, 1 wouldn’t
like that.
Written lot The Constitution.
It looks like that when young people get
their heads set on a frolic everything has to
give way to it, and so I was gently persuaded
stop the plows and rig up the band wagon
and the farm wagon, too. and join Kabor
Freeman’s and Kabor Dobbin’s and Nabor
Aubrey’s and Nabor Murray’s folks in the
procession and spend the day is a fishing
frolic at Stamp Creek. The young folks at
ruy house get mighty sweet for a day or two'
before sncli excursions and I can- hear ern
telling one another what a good old pap they
have cot—the best pap in the world, and other
mellifluous expressions, and I never could
fortify myself against the like of that, but
always surrender, for I like it, and so if I have
few dimes about nte I distribute em
around, and so as we was pretty well up-with
the crop, and one day wouldent sacrifice any
thing much, I concluded to join Gideon’s
band and look after the children, and be tne
aged patriarch cf the concern. Carriages and
buggies were on hand to carry all the sweet
iina delicate females, and I piled the yearlin
boys and the baskets of good things, and the
fishing poles, and feed for the stock in the big
wagon, and took a seat up tbere myself as-
driver, and brought up the rear of tiie caval
cade.
on THE WAY.
The road was pretty rough, but we only
broke a pickle jar or two and three jars of
peaches and three or four goblets and flatten
ed out the lemon pies a little flatter than usu
al, and when we got within a mile of the
place tiie customary shower of rain overtook
us and wet the table cloths and napkins and
made every lung juicy and interesting. This
wasall.mighty bad on me, for they thought I
could have covered it all up with my hat as
they hud carried off all the umbrellas, and
hat made it worse was that some nice young
gentlemen from your town had couie up a
purpose, and tiie girls wanted to show off a
little and let the Atlanta boys see the best
side of country life.
ON THE GROUNDS.
But Mr. Couper, who runs the furnace up
there, is a genial gentleman and opened wide
his hospitable doors and hunted up a good
old-fashioned country tiddler and soon got
everybody in a good humor, and then the
table was spread and tiie good things fixed up
and a bucket of lemonade made, and by tlu
time we hud all comforted ourselves the sky
was clear and the ground dried off and they
played base and romped around amazing
until it was hard to tell whether the girls
wore white dresses or colored ones. But la
me that don’t make any difference. They
know that their meek and patient
parients will grunt round awhile and
scold a little bit andget emsotue more. Well,
think that about one frolic a year of that
sort will do me, considering age and infirmity,
for fifteen miles of jolting over a rocky road
and getting wet besides lias lost all its poetry,
but the young folks are ready to go again
right now, which would seem strange and pe
culiar if I had no memory and couldent re
call the time when I would drive ten miles
late in the evening after a' girl and bring her
to a party and take her home again about
midnight and then drive back again—making
forty miles on a stretch—and then luxuriate
for a week over the good time I had.
A WORD ABOUT THE GIRLS.
A nice, pretty, sweet girl can toll a man a
long ways off sometimes, and make him sac
rifice a power of time, and comfort, and
money, and horseflesh, and when she does it
all a purpose and then throws him off, I shall
always think she liadent orter. I never was
in favor of a young girl turning-up her nose
at a clever feller who was raised in her nabor-
hood and running off after an airy chap from
away yonder; but when be does come I think
she ought to let bim go back quick and cheap
or take him. lve always noticed that when
ouug men go slippingaway to parts unknown
for a wife its because those girls he was raised
with know him too well and dont want him.
dident go a half-mile for
my pard and that showed my good sense, and
she dident go no further than I did and that
showed hern, and if l was a sensible young
girl and was a waiting for a husband I woulc
set my cap for somebody I had known a long
time, but if I was a young fool I wouldent
The happiest marriages I know of are those
where the folks know’d all about one another
for a good while and nary one was fooled.
Romance in love affairs is mighty pretty, and
a solitary horseman getting tlirowd from his
horse in front of the house is just splendid
but all this plays out in a few months and
then comes the facts—tiie hard pan. The
earth that is earthy, and the heavenly van
islies, and the baby lias to be nursed of nights,
and the sugar gets low, and the dianion wed
ding ring won’t bring color to the poor wife’s
cheeks, ana she is away off from her mother
and wants sympathy und love and kind at
tention, ana a good deal of it. As Mr. Long
fellow said:
Life is real life is earnest,
And the baby wants a nurse.
FROM ONE “TAKING” SUBJECT TO ANOTHER.
Jesso.
But the small-pox is the biggest thing at
our house just now. When I vaccinated the
familv, a few weeks ago, some of it took and
sonte'of it didn’t, and so I had it all to do
over again yesterday.for Mrs. Arp.rny wife.sees
it slicking out in the passing traveller and
snuffs it in the breese, and yesterday, when a
darkey woman came here to hire fora cook,
and set on ihest.-ps Isays, says I: “Where
did you come from?” and she says: “I come
from Ailanty yestidy," and my wife she sud
denly departed these coasts, and I heard her
voice from the rear instructing the colored in
dividual to depart, depart quickly and in
haste, for she just knew she had the small
pox. and was an escaped convict from a pest
house. We heard yesterday that there were
2,000 cases in Atlanta and 200 in Cartersville
and a vast number at Rockmart and several
cases over at Dr. Shepherd’s farm, close by us,
and its all uigger news, but Mrs. Arp says a
nigger can' tell the truth as well as anybody
when a nigger tries; and so here we go and
there we go, and the girls have gone off to an
other picnic to day down on the river, and
there is just a lot of small-pox down there
a hiding out, and it will be brought back
certain, and the children will all
have it and be pock-marked and
spoil their beauty, and that will be tumble,
tumble, won t it? She wants me to be vacci
nated, but I won’t, for you see I am right
smartly neglected and imposed upon gener
ally. and so I want to take it to see who wil-
siand by ine and nurse me, and, as the lawf
f ers say. I want to make a test case of it. It
was shore of getting through safe I wouidenl
mind taking it. Sorter like the feller who
wouldent volunteer to fight under a banner
that said “Liberty or death,” but said if they
would get up one with “Liberty or Crippled’’
on it, he would wadejin. A man wants to die
decently when he dies. He wants his
friends to gather around him and not
run away from him. When Mr. Bryant
wrote his pretty piece about wrapping tiie
Drapery of a couch about him and lyingdown
io pleasant dreams, lie wasn’t thinking about
gmall-pox. That idea would have provoked
Bill Ari\
WHOSE BULLET?
An Important Decision ta the Koastrec Case.
From the Athens Watchman.
A reporter of the Ban-ner-Watchman yes
terday had an interview with Solicitor-Gen
eral Mitchell touching the death of Walter
Rountree, mention of which was made lit the
columns of this journal yesterday morning,
and the report that said shot was fired by
Bartow Rountree, and in substance gave the
following account of the affair;
THE DIFFERENCE IN TH E BALLS.
At the time this difficulty occurred I was
absent at Banks court. The coroner's jury
ascertained that the caliber of pistols used
was the same, and the ball was not obtained
supposing that it would not aid in determin
ing who fired the fatal shot. After reaching
home and beginning investigation of thecase
it was found tliat.wliilc the caliber was the
same, there was a decided difference in the
two balls, the one used by Frank Johnson was
a rim-fire cartridge, and that used by Bartow
Rountree was.a center-fire cartridge. The dif
ference in the balls is, the rim-lire cartridge
has three rings around it and the base of
the ball is solid; whereas, the certer-fire
lias a concave ball with one ring around
the ball, so you see it was a very easy matter
to tell who fired Ithe fatal shot. During the
investigation of the case I ascertained that
tiie line of defense would be that Frank John
son did not fire the fatal shot,a ndas I knew
that the difference in the balls would give a
quietus to this question if produced in court,
1 consulted with my assistant counsel, Golo
pel Pope Barrow, and he agreed with tue tha
it was the duty of state’s counsel to produce
the ball. To this end, with the sanction of
Ordinary Jackson edict and Camp
bell were furnished with letters to Mr. Daniel
Rountree, brother of the deceased, and sent to
Quitman last Wednesday for the purpose of
making a post mortem examination and find
ing the ball.
THE BALL FOUND.
“The examination was made Friday night
by consent of t he family. The ball was found
lodged in the spinal column, witli spinal cord
completely severed, and was evidently fired
by a center-fire, 32 caliber pistol. 8inee the
return of the gentlemen with the ball thor
ough experiments have been made. A car
tridge containing a ball, exactly like the one
producing the death of Mr. Rountree, was
tried on the pistol used by Frank Johnson
and would not enter the cylinder, the shell
being somewhat larger than tiie rim-fire slielL
in the pistol used by Frank Johnson were
three cartridges, which had been snapped, but
not fired. One of. these cartridges wtts taken
from the pistol, the ball taken out, and it
S roved to be sol : d base as the rim-fire before
escribed, and altogether unlike the ball
taken from Johnson’s pistol. The one pro
duced by the doctors were weighed on drug
gist’s scales by Dr. Benedict, and a difference
of about ten grains in weight was found.
WHAT THE EVIDENCE DEMONSTRATES.
“Taking all these facts into consideration,
together with some additional evidence ob
tained within the last few days, that a rim-
fire pistol will uot explode a center-fire car
tridge, and vice versa, and other facts ascer
tained. regarding the rencountre itself, that
while Johnson and Echols were the originator*
of the difficulty and the cause of Mr. Roun
tree’s death, the evidence demonstrated that
the fatal shot could not have been fired by
Frank Johnson, and therefore he cannot, un
der the law, be guilty of murder, but both of
the defendants, in my judgment, are clearly
guilty of an assault with intent to murder,
and an indictment for that offense was return
ed by the grand jury yesterday. The case
against them will be called for trial next
week.”
THE STATEMENT CORROBORATED.
Drs. Benedict and Campbell werealso inter
viewed and corroborated tbestatements given
above. The above statement of Solicitor-
General Mitchell, will, no doubt, he read with
interest by all lovers of law and justice, and
we will only add that the only object had in
view by the solicitor, his associate counsel,
and the friends of the prosecution was to as
certain the whole truth in the matter. So
licitor-General Mitchell also stated, that if he
had been in the city at the time, he would
have produced the ball before the coroner’s
jury. .
THE TRIAL
Counsel for the colored prisoners, Frank
Johnson and Enoch Echols, applied to the
court to bail their clients, as the true bill
for murder was quashed, and they were only
indicted for at? assault with intent to murder.
The judge passed an order to allow bail on a
$3,000 bond being given. The trial, will take
place on Monday.
SPECIMENS OF INDUSTRY.
From the Covington Star.
Wheat harvesting will begin in some sec
tions of our county this week.
From the Athens Banner.
There has been fifty acres of watermelons
planted around Athens for supplying the
market.
From the Eamtsville Gazette.
Reaping has begun in some localities in
this community. Much grain will soon take
on the golden yellow for the harvest.
From the McDuffie Journal.
Sep Watson, by mistake, took fifteen Tutt
pills last week, and for two days he was the
must industrious man in the settlement He
is better now, but is as thin as Tom Miles’ ar
gument on the fence question.
From the Calhoun Times.
Dr. Reeves has upwards of thirty bee hives
—a nice apiary, and will this fall planta large
vineyard. That is excellent. The most money
is not made in raising corn and cotton alto
gether. We want to see our agricultural de
partments conducted more a la Vermont-
BIPED AND QUADRUPED.
From the fcaudersville Mercury.
The mad dog question is all the rage in this
section.
From the Americus Recorder.
Judge J. M. D. Green, of Lee county, pos
sesses a duck which, next to the goose that
laid the golden egg, is the most remarkable
and eccentric in the egg business on record.
A purple egg was found in the nest of this
duck last week with the initials of his son’s
name clearly marked in white.
From the Berrien News.
Bheep owners, just at this time, seem to
have a good deal of wool on the brain, and
expect shortly to have some greenbacks in
their pockets.
The range in this part of the country is re
markably fine, and cattle are looking fat and
sleek.
Captain Austin purchased a fine looking
cow a few days ago, to which he took quite a
fancy, having the marks of a good milker. It
took six horsemen to drive her home and
with the aid of a bull dog and three of his
neighbors he does the milking.
The Beak ef Eiflisi.
Special Dispatch to 2 he Constitution.
London. May 12.—The weekly statement of the
bank of Kugland show* a decrease in bullion of
£368.0GO. The proportion of the bank reserve to its
liabilities which lost week was 43 per cent is now
42^4 per cent.
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