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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. INDISTINCT PRINT