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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY, MAY 30,1882.
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NEW SWITZERLAND.
THE SWISS COLONY NEAR MOUNT
AIRY, GEORGIA.
Twenty Familial Already Thera—They Brought from
(3,000 to ,19,000 Btoh and Bavo Eirended
(00,000 Already—A 8wlaa Dinner—
iTeo CUaa of Immigrant*.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
New Switzbki.and, Ga., May 21, 1SS2.—
The traveler on the Air Line railroad has re
cently noticed a beautiful Swiss cottage on
the leftside of the track going north about two
miles and a half from Mount Airy in Hab
ersham county. This building was erected
by the Uichmond and Danville company and
is intended as an ‘'immigrants home.” The
cottage is a beautiful structure, built after a
miniature model owned by one
of the Swiss colonists who brought
it over from the old country. It
is thoroughly Swiss in every detail and is said
to be the handsomest depot between Atlanta
and New York. On this point, however, I am
not posted, though I know I never saw a pret
tier building. In the absence of any infor
mation as to technical names for this style of
architecture, I will state that it is a frame
building with the weather-boarding put on
the inside, the beams and braces, uprights
and all being nicely bevelled and finished in
the best p*«ssible manner. The house is
painted a very light tint of green, while the
framework is in a darker green, with the
edges a pretty red. There is any quantity of
scroll saw work all over the roof, under the
eaves and around the verandahs,which makes
the entire effect very attractive indeed. The
place has been christened New Switzerland*
in honor of a colony of Swiss people who
have settled here. At present the place is
lonely enough, and this morning when I got
off here and looked around for the sight of a
familiar or even any kind of a face. I found
noliiing hut this depot and another frame
cottage a little distance from the road. To
this latter place I went at once. It was the
only sign of an habitation I could see. Ar
rived at the gate. I saw a foreign looking gen
tleman at the window engaged in writing at a
desk. In a moment he saw me and came out
to give me welcome.
“About $ip,000 or $00,000.”
“How n,imy acres does each family ownT
‘‘They will average 1G0 acres to the farm.
This, course, to them, is considered an
enormous tract of land. In the old country a
farm of from one to five acres is an average,
while a man who runs a forty-acre farm is
looked upon as one of the big individuals of
the country."
“What is considered a sign of wealth
among the Swiss farmed?”
“Well, a man over there worth $100,000 is
thought to be exceedingly wealthy. There
are not many farmers worth even $10,000,
THE COLORED BROTHER
SS UP AT NASHVILLE AND
SPRINGFIELD.
Bishop Eilacj of the Colored Mo hodlat Episcopal
Church In America—The Northern Presbyteri
ans* Beport on their Work Amcnc the
Freeomrn—How Bishops are Paid.
Is this the Swiss colony?” I asked, when
we had shaken hands.
“Ya,” he replied, in awful English.
“Well, I want to see the head man of the
colony. Where does he live?”
'•I’m a bootcher.”
“1 know; but Tiie Constitution wants to
know something about the colony. Where is
it?”
“Milder Peidermann ras tier agent,” he re
plied in the worst broken English I ever
heard. At first I didn’t know what lie meant.
Then I asked again, “Where does lie live?
“About a miles.”
'•What direction from here?”
•‘About u miles.”
“Yes; but which way?”
“About a miles,” he answered, in the same
unaltered, honest disaffected monotone, point
ing down the road, which led off at right
angles from the depot. Bidding him a ready
adieu, I started off to find "Mr. Piedcrmann
I walked for half an hour, I suppose, and the
only sign of life I saw was what I heard, and
what I heard was the tinkling of sheep hells.
At last I met a horse in the road, loose. Then
I knew an habitation must be near. I had
concluded that “a” in German must mean
“three,” for it seemed that far to the
agent’s house. 1 found Mr. Beidermann at
home. His place impressed me before I readi
ed it. A large barn, good orchards, a nice
dwelling and well built out houses, white
washed fences, and all showed a thrift that I
knew meant a little more than is generally
accomplished by the average Georgia farmer.
The owner of this place is Mr. C.
A. Beidermann, :t gentleman
most agreeable manners and possessed
of more than ordinary business sagacity. In
the yard, as I entered, I saw two other Swit
zers' young men who assisted Mr. Biederumnn
on the farm. When we entered the house 1 was
presented to Madame Biedermau, a lady of re
tincment and education, and whom many
people in Atlanta will remember on account
of her thorough business ways, she having
visited the gate city on a number of occa
sions. Madame Biederniann does pretty
much all the managing of her husband's bus-
ines-, while his time is occupied giving the
colony his pcrsonul attention.
A SWISS DINNEB.
Being somewhat afternoon when I arrived
I was invited to dine at Mr. Biedermann’s
where I had a regular Swiss dinner, consisting
of very fine pea soup, fish, t’ en vegetables,
mutton—very* good mutton, too —peas,
bread, plums, and as fine
coffee as I ever tasted. They live
well and have as fine butter and milk as one
would want to see. Dinnerover, I commenced
to put the probe to mine host concerning the
colony and all they were doing.
“How many families are there here?'
asked.
“About twenty in all.”
“Do you look for more soon?”
“Yes, I look tor a family to-morrow, and
others this month. There are now about
eighty people in the colony, and I presume
fifty more will be along soon.”
“'You have only recently returned from
Switzerland, I believe; did you accomplish
much over there?”
“Well, not as much as I would have de
sired. I lacked money and could not work
against the dozens of emigrant agents who are
always there from the western states. I was
sent out by the Air-Line people, but they did
not give me enough means to work as I could
have clone. I did the best I could, however.
What I needed was a good, well illustrated
German pamphlet to spread among the peo
ple. I had only 4,000 of these which I wrote
myself and had printed in Germany, hut they
were only a handful compared to' the hun*
drecls of thousands sent over there by the otli
er states. They send over whole ship loads of
printed matter, have well paid agents to dis
tribute th-iu and consequently it is a difficult
task to work up an emigration scheme to
Georgia. These pamphlets contain the most
exaggerated accounts of the different point
along the lines of the western
railroads, and it is an easy matterto influence
foreigners to accept the so-called wonderful
otters.
“If Georgia would give me a little en.-m:r-
agement 1 am sure I could soon work up a
showing for the state that would greatly ben
efit us." The south has been grossly misrepre
sented abroad. We ought to commence to
spread more about our resources. This state
ought by all means to do something in this
matter, 'and ought to do it at once.”
"What class of people have settled here?”
“Only the very best. I have been particu
larly careful about selecting people. I re
fused hundreds of applications in Switzerland
because they were not the class of people
wo wanted.' We don’t want a horde
of mechanics; we want good
farmers. I would like a good
blacksmith and wagon maker, but aside from
these we do not want any but farmers. We
have no use for shoemakers and others here—
we can buy such things. Now our butcher is
a necessity. He is doing a good business
already and is shipping beef and mutton al
most every day to Atlanta.”
“Do you intend making cheese?”
“No, we cannot afford to do that when we
can get thirty-five cents for a gallon of milk.
What we shall do will be to establish a cream
ery here witn a branch in Atlanta. We can
then send all our butter and milk down on
the early morning train.”
"How'much money did each of these fami
lies bring with them?”
“They brought, in actual cash,
from $2 000 to $5,000 each. As I have said, 1
only brought and sought the most solid peo
ple. These who are here are uood, honest
tamers who understand just what to do to
enrich the soil and make it produce the best
results.”
“How much have they spent here?"
Nashville, May 23.—The general confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal church
though, so you can see that we have here | south, elected to-day the following board of
only the better class of people.” I managers of church extension: President,
“| e something you are doing here.” j amea Lithgow, Louisville; vice-president,
We all strive first for good land. This brs , .*> _ . ... ’ . ,.. T ,
cost us about three and four dollars an acre. Presley Meguiar, Louisville, treasurer, J. A.
Then we want good cows and we always have Proctor, Danville, Ky.; secretary, David Mor
them. We have a number of men who are J ton Louisville; managers, Messrs. J. G. Car-
£r 6 o!r‘sT srs: <-.<»■*-*.*»«»». >■«■*•«*■■? «•
sheep grazing, and will make money I C. Settles, Louisville; J. C. TVoodward, Lex
by it. This same man brought out ington, Kv.; I. D. Carroll, Parkersburg. W.
$5,000 with hint and has really a fine place V a.;G. D*Shand, Sciiatoba. Miss.; C.T. Van-
started. He herds his sheep regularly, gives i , ’ ’ , „
them the best grazing lands, and gets the best deventen, St. Joseph, Mo., C. E. Brown,
prices for his mutton. We think these hills Texas; W. Farris, Brownsville, Texas; W. F.
furnish as good grasses for sheep as any in the Compton, White, California; Joseph Emory,
world, and I know England never produced Corrallis, Oregon; Joseph J. Carlisle, South
better mutton than we can raise right here.” Carolina.
b people pleased here?” I At the session of yesterday Bishop Parker,
ittioutany exception. They are not one 0 f t he new bishops, presided for the first
used to as big a country as this,and tiie sight time, and was extensively congratulated. The
of so much land, all their own, naturally I report of the committee on episcopacy was
makes them bobyant and hopeful.” ] interesting as showing the manner of raising
“Do they employ any outside aid in farm- f utu ] s f or t !, e support of the bishops, and the
ing?” ... , . efficiency with which the fund is collected.
“Yes, some white labor, hut no colored The amount assessed for the support of the
hands are wanted. Somehow, they don't like bsshops during the last four years was$95,300,
darkies. They are poor hands at using an ax. Q f $88,772.46 was collected as follows:
and have to get these mountain people to aid Total enactions reported May. 1879 .821,589 88
them m building their fences. One peculiar' - ■ -
thing about this peculiar section is that there
is not much bottom land. There are probably
200 acres around here, but it is scattered. We
like the climate and country, but it takes a
certain time to get used to the American style
of working. We farm, of course, on a differ
ent plan altogether. We are used to
small farms. If a man lias
fifteen acres, he keeps it in a high state of culti
vation and makes it produce as much as fifty
ordinary acres here.”
What do you plant here?”
We plant grain, corn and wheat, princi- I f u ]( salary of Bishop Keener 4
pally, while fruits will form a part of our I years 12,000 00
crops. This being a high country fruits will Full salary of Bishop Wightman
thrive here as well or better than almost any ’SSS^SSSSxSSi
dace you can find. We plant potatoes, also, years...... ' . 7,50000
M>th kinds, ami expect to make a good paying Full salary of Mrs. D'^gett' iyj
eron out of them.” years ..j. 2,250 00
A hide Through the cottoNY, [Full salary of Mrs. Marvin 4
After completing the above conversation, L? 1 ' 1 ”*----; 0,000 00
Mr. Biederniann took me on a drive througii > ,aid ,....$S7,-o0 00
the colony. I was surprised to find such won- The balance to the credit of the bishops’
derfal improvements going on as were fund after full settlement for the four
everywhere visible. The sheep raiser years - 1,022 46
was building barns, clearing land, while his This balance is now in the hands of the
entire place was inclosed in a substantial wire bishops.
fence. Another man who brought $5,000 has | Dr. Wiley introduced Bishop Halsey, of the
mate nor any one else noticed it. A few
minutes later, however, all hands felt it. I
threw the lead first from one side then from
the other, and found 5 fathoms (30 feet) of
water. I was perplexed, and asked myself
what it could fliean, when the same voice
sang out, ‘Throw the lead ever the stern?’ 1
did so, and to my dismay found only 13)~j
feet. (The ship drew 14 feet.) -I immediately
set the mizze'n topsail and spanker and
backed her clear of the reef, against
which she sheered every time
she brought a strain upon her chain. The
danger was past; the ship rode clear of the
reef, and sustained but little damage where -
she struck. A ship which spoke me in tiie
early part of the evening, and whose captain
was not familiar with the Bahamas, said that
he would follow me, and for this purpose I
hung a light over my stern. Watching my
movements closely, he rounded to almost as
soon as I did. and' thereby saved his vessel.
No doubt the norther had shallowed the
water on the banks, and if we had continued
in our course we both might have been
wrecked. Will those who assume that the
spirits of our departed friends do not take an
interest in us please explaiu? What I have
stated is true. It was the spirit of a departed
friend, Captain John Barton, well known as
one of the best shipmasters in the country.
He commanded among others the ships Tal
leyrand aud Superior, and was esteemed by
all who ever knew him. My voyage in the
Harry Booth was entirely successful.”
FIERY OLD CERRO GORDO.
THE GEORGIA FRUIT CROP.
1880. 22.179 97
18S1 21.707 60
1882. 23.295 01
Total collection....™ $88,772 46
This money was disbursed according to the
following itemized statement:
Full salary of Bishop Paiue 4
years $12,000 00
Full salary of Bishop Pienee 4
years 12,003 00 ,
Full salary of Bishop Kavanaugh
4 years 12,000 00
Full salary of Bishop McTyerie
4 years 12,000 00
really a beautiful home, and is going to make Colored Methodist Episcopal church in Amer-
a specialty of fine cows. He has a Jersey j ica, to the conference, who was received by
bull, and' lias built every convenience for the conference standing. The bishop said
keeping milk and butter as cool as a refriger- that lie was glad to have an opportunity of
ator could make. There is another Switzer appearing before this general conference as a
who lias built a house that cost $1,200. He representative of the Colored Methodist Epis-
has also invested in a mill, and will run it in copal church of America. The name was a
connection with his other interests. little long, but it was the best they could get.
points. An effort was made to get a shorter one, hut
As soon as Mr. Biederniann can get a lit- it failed, and they had to go to the Southern
tie aid, he wants to liuish the church Methodist church for their name. His church
already started at the depot here. These has a noble ancestry, and as he was not
people are in a strange land, and ashamed of it, he hoped the southern Metho-
niust have someplace to meet every Sunday, dists were not ashamed of them. [Applause.]
The railroad has builta fineimniigrant’s hoine9 The time was coming when they would own
and that is their share. A subscription has the colored church. [Applause.] When his.
been spoken of, but no definite plans have church set up for itself in 1870 lie was not
been taken to complete the church. As soon “set off,” but “set up.” His church did
as the people here can write and assure those 1 not intend to he set off from the southern
at home that there is a bona tide place to I church, and _ would not be. [Applause.]
worship Sundays, a fine depot, a store and all I He had copied the southern church un-
tne requisites to a community, others will luckily once or twice, but he was making
commence to flock here. an effort to follow them. Continuing, Bishop
There lias been no more important step Halsey said: When you broke down in your
taken than that of introducing this colony of class meeting service, we did also; when you
honest workers into our state. It ought broke down in your publication interests,
to he Lulled with delight by every true we did so too. [Applause.] Weioveyouas
Georgian w ho feels an interest in the develop- our friends id this country, and we believe
inent of ihe country. ' that time will demonstrate that you are our
Madame Biederniann's industrious life friends. Our people are beginning to feel it
should he a lesson to many of our indolent more and more every day. We are beginning
women who think being a lady is the acme to feel a nearness to you. Through the provi-
of tinman happiness. I dence of God we were made slaves; we could
The immigrants’ homo is pvouounqpd by not help that, but slavery has been overruled,
every one to he a most beautiful building. Its and it has been the means of the civilization
novel construction makes it very attractive to | of the African people. He could not
Blackburn and Williams, tl:c Kentucky Congressman
and Senator, Quarreling About a Letter.
Washington, May 18.—There is alleged
blood on the moon.” Dramatic personte,
Senator Williams and Congressman Black
burn, of Kentucky; cause, Frankfort public
building bill recently passed by congress. The
Kentucky newspaper called the Yeoman lav
ished praises on Blackburn for his effective
■service in securing the passage of the bill in
questioa. In consequence thereof Cerro
Gordo Williams wrote a letter to one Leonard
Heard, the rival of Blackburn as candidate
for congress In that letter Cerro Gordo inti
mated that the Yeoman was unduly lavish
of its praises, and that Blackburn was taking
unto himself too much credit in securing
the passage of the Frankfort
bill aforesaid. The letter was
displayed miscellaneously, and met the eye
of agossipper, who informed Blackburn of
what Cerro Gordo had .written. Blackburn
thereupon addressed a note to Cerro Gordo,
asking the latter whether he had written the
letter. Cerro Gordo replied, intimai ing that
whether he bad written such a letter was
none of Blackburn’s business, or words
to that effect. Cerro Gordo took Blackburn’s
letter to Senator Hampton as friend and coun
sellor. Mr. Blackburn took Cerro Gordo’s
letter to Congressman Carlisle as adviser.
Blackburn subsequently wrote another letter
to Cerro Gordo, in which he averred that if
G. did write the Leonard Heard letter lie
stated what was untrue.
In the meantime Hampton and Carlisle,the
respective seconds of the belligerents, have
had a consultation this evening, and they
have succeeded in arranging that the letters
written by the respective injured parties shall
be withdrawn, leaving Blackburn, however,
in a position to begin de novo. Blackburn is
to meet Cerro Gordo to-morrow and face to
face politely request a retraction, but it is
feared that the old soldier Cerro Gordo, who
has been through three or four wars in the
country’s history, will not be in a mood to
retract. Tiien we shall see what we shall see.
That is the outlook at midnight. It is the
prevailing opinion that under the circum
stances the code will notbedefinitelyiesorted
to till after the conclusion of the horse races
this week at National park iu this city.
WHAT WE EAT.
the eye.
C. T. L.
HOW HE BLUFFED CONSTANCE.
From the Chicago Tribune.
“1 prithee do not go.”
Reginald Muleahoy turned as these words, spo
ken in tones that were tenderly thrilling, fell upon
his good right ear and advanced slowly up the plank
sidewalk that led from the porticulls to the front
steps of the terraced castle of Ethelbert McMurtry,
eighth duko of Blue Island avenue.
“I thought you would speak to me, Lady Con-
stance,” he said to a tall, shapely maiden of nine
teen summers, who stood on the verandah of the
castle. ‘T thought you could not send me away
forever without one word of hope—one little, tiny,
Democratic-vote-ln-Iowa hope. I know full
well that In the dreary, dismal New York
Post editorial future which rises up be
fore me like a black-winged specter of the
night, there can be naught in my life but desolate
days whose hours shall pass with leaden feet, and
black.bitter nights when I shall toss around restless
ly .n a pokor game, thinking only of the love that
has gone from me forever. We may never meet
again, Constance—probably never shall, unless I
begin going to matinees—but I should like to feel
that, although you can never love me again, never
let me buy candy for you. there is still In your
heart a kindly feeling, a tinge of pity, for one to
whom your sweet face has so many, many years—
way back before the White Stockings won the
championship—been a beacon-light to guide him
safely o’er the wind swept sea of north side life.
Am I hoping for too much?” and the beautiful
brown eyes that had witched so many hearts from
behitid the ribbon counter, looked into those of
Constance McMurtry with a wistful, pleading, dou’i-
untie the-dog-if you-love-me look that would have
melted a heart of Chicago beelsteak.
For an instant the girl did not reply. A look of
pain, as if some sad memory had been recalled by
Keginald’s words, or a corset steel got loose, pass
ed over her face, and then, regaining her compo
sure by a mighty effort, she placed a tiuy gloved
hand on the young man’s shoulder, and spoke in
low. measured tones that showed, far more than
! could any words, the terrible Intensity of theagony
tunt tub separation was causing her.
“For two years. Reginald.” she said, “I have
loved you with a deep, passionate, all absorbing
love that would make your head swim if you only
knew about it. . nave looked iorward with price
jo.i iu toy giribu innocence and enthusiasm to
the oay wh.-n you shiuld lead me to th j nuptial
mtar and crown the sweet springtime of my life
with the golden glory of a love that should last for
ever. I had whi-peredto mysetfthatl shouldmske
you a faithful, loving, a’.wa; s-have-breakfast-iu-
timo wife. There hr s e, -no to mo often a visiou of
a happy home, where I should passmy da; s in hap
piness and stocking-mending, nut the vision has
gone, file beautiful blue sky witn its fringe of rose-
tinted clouds has passed away, and in its place 1 see
au angry firmament, across which drift the leaden
clouds of despair. And so it is better that we should
part now, before supper, and let the dead past be its
own undertaker.”
Reginald saw that all hope was gone, that he was
certain to be left on third base. “Good-by, Con
stance,” he murmured, “1 must go now, because I
want to stop on my way over town aud buy my sis
ter a sealskin sacque."
The girl turned quickly and looked at him ear
nestly. "Do you mean what you say?” she asked in
hoarse, anxious tones.
• I do,” was the reply.
“And would you buy your wife a sealskin
sacque?"
"Certainly,” said Reginald; “two of them, if she
liked.”
but believe that they were made slaves
by hands of providence. We need
help to educate our ministers. In
starting out for ourselves our church
had but a stinted outfit, and, being set apart,
the churches had worked against each other.
Disintegration and alienation are the mon
strosities of modern Methodism. [Applause.]
We have reached a period when we are inde
pendent and look forward to a better day.
While the colored ministers of other denom
inations had gone off to politics, he was glad
to say none of their preachers had. He be
lieved in letting people act as they saw fit
in that regard, but preachers should be holy
men, with the principles of truth and right
eousness.
Rev. W. H. Potter has been elected editor
of the Wesleyan Advocate, the price of which
has been reduced to $2 per annum.
CAPTAIN DRISKO’S GHOST STORY
Ilow the Good £hlp Hurry Booth, of New York, iru
Suved from Wreck.
From the Boston Traveller. May 18.
At a meeting of religious reformers held in
the house of Mr. William H. Banks, East
Boston, a few evenings since, Captain C. P.
Drisko, who is well known as an able and ex
perienced shipmaster, spoke in substance, as
follows:
“In the winter of 1865 I commanded the
ship Harry Booth, bound from New York for
Dry Toitugas, with a cargo of government
stores and 200 mechanics and laborers to be
employed on the fortifications in the course
of construction. When the ship reached the
vicinity of Abaco the wind blew a fierce
norther, with heavy rain; the sun had gone
down, and the weather soon became quite
dark. To haul off was impossible, the wind
blew too fresh to carry sail, and the only
rational course left was to incur the risk of
crossing the Bahama banks. The ship drew
fourteen feet, and I could not expect that
there was much more than fifteen feet of
water on some parts of the banks. A foot is
very little to spare under a ship’s keel; but I
resolved to take the chance, and accordingly
squared away, that is, put the ship before the
wind, and took my departure from Berry
island. Having seen everything
order on deck, I left the chief
mate, Mr. Peterson, a careful and
trustworthy officer, in charge, and went be
low for a little rest. At 10:50 o’clock I heard
a voice, clear and distinct, say: ‘Go on deck
and anchor!’ ‘Who are you? 1 I demanded,
and sprang on deck, for I was not a man to
take orders from atiy one. I found the ship
going along her true course, and everything
as I could wish. I questioned Mr. Peterson if
he had seen any person enter the .cabin, but
neither he nor the man at the wheel had
either seen or heard any one. Thinking
may have been hallucination, I went below
again; about 11:50 a man with a gray great
coat and slouched bat entered the cabin, and,
looking me straight in the face, commanded
me to go on deck and anchor. He left the
cabin deliberately. I heard liis heavy tread
as he passed before me. Once more 1 sprang
on deck and found the ship all right Sure of
Ahappy smile spread over the girls face. Twin- I m I “J 1186 ’ ? wa f n ° l deposed even with this
ing her arms around Reginald's neck, she placed | second warning to obey any man or anythin
her tiny head on hi* shoulder, and then the little 1 else, no matter what appearance
rosebud month puckered up with a sweet beatific I it might put on. Again 1 went below, hut
pucker, as she said in tender tones: 1 - - - - - - - - -
“You may call again this evening. Heaven in
tended us tor each other."
What Riley Doaalson Found.
From the Meriwether Vindicator.
Mr. Riley Donalson. of Gill’s district, cut
into a tree the other day for a rabbit he chased
into a hollow. His search was rewarded bv
finding two rabbits, two squirrels, a nest of
owls and a swarm of bees. The honey taken
from the bees, after being strained, amounted
to nine gallons. Who can beat this find?
not to sleep, for I had everything on ready for
a spring on deck. At 12:50 a.m. the same
man entered the cabin, and more imperiously
than before said: ‘Go on deck and anchor"’
I recognized at a glance that the speaker w:
my old friend. Captain John Barton, with
whom I had sailed when a boy, and who
treated me with great kindness, 'l sprang on
deck, rounded the ship to, and anchored her
with 50 fathoms of citain. Ail hands were
called and the sails furled. Shortly after
ward I felt the ship touch, but neither the
A Glance at the Atlanta JULnrkct and What I* There to
he Secured.
Mulberries are in the market at ten cents a
pint. They are miserable looking little ber
ries, and have a poor sale. They are in
striking contrast to the bright, red strawber
ries which sit alongside of them on the fruit
and vegetable stands. The strawberries are
about as cheap as the mulberries are, being
from twenty to twenty-five cents a quart.
While the berry subject is up it may not be
out of place to mention that blackberries will
soon he here. Dewberries have already been
in the market. Peaches are expected soon,
and some few favored ones have already had
watermelons. Almost before we are aware of
it we will be in the midst of the fruit season.
As for vegetables, that man fares best who has
his own garden. Vegetables such
are offered for sale now are
unbearably had. There lias not
been a tempting array of vegetables on the
stalls in the memory of this reporter. There
are sotpe Irish potatoes that sell at fifty cents
a peck, and a few other vegetables at prices
that have not changed for a week or two.
There arc plenty of eggs at from 15 to 20 cents
and chickens at from 25 to 40 cents for hens
and 20 to 30 cents for young chickens. Butter
is more plentiful and sells at from 25 to 40
cents according to quality. Very fair country
butter goes at 30 cents, but the best canuot he
bought for less than forty. In the fish mar
ket yesterday there was nothing of any consc
ience. A few barrels of whiting and black
sh comprised the stock. It was a bad week
for fish and next week promises to be no bet
ter. In fact the situation calls for a full play
of the powers of the good housewife.
THE GEORGIA REPUBLICANS
Decide to Convcao in Atlanta—The National Green
back Committee—Virginia CouauUation.
Richmond, May 23.—Upon invitation
Congressman Dnsendorf, a number of repub'
licans from different parts of the state, iu
eluding General W. C. Wickham and other
leading members of the party, held a confer
ence here to-day. Measures were adopted for
the assembling of the republican state central
committee in this city on the 8th of June next,
for the purpose of perfecting the organization
of the party, and with a view of making an
effort, at the next election to increase the re
publican representation in congress. Among
those present were several who supported the
coalition movement in Virginia last fall.
St. Louis, May 23.—The national commit
tee of the greenback labor party met this
morning at ten o’clock. Jesse Harper, of
Illinois, was chairman. Foarteen members
and twenty-eight proxies were present. West
Virginia was tne only state not represented.
It was moved and carried that a committee
be appointed to formulate an address to th
people, of which two million copies should
be printed.
Macon, May 23.—The state republican cen
tral committee met here to-day and elected
John H. Deveaux, of Savannah, chairman
ever H. P. Farrow. A resolution indorsing
Hon. Alex. H. Stephens for governor was ta
bled. The convention for the nomination of
state officers was called for August 2d in At
lanta.
Mr. JoHfk M. Ilrowo, General Freight A scut of the
State Road, on the Situation.
The attendance on the fruit growers convention
called for next Thursday promises to be very grati
fying. Representatives will be here from nearly
every city in Georgia, and they will bo met by rail
road and express officials, representing the main
tines from Georgia to the north and west. A large
amount of information is already collected for the
use of delegates, aud the chances are that the com
ing convention will be one of the most efficient and
useful ever held in the state. ,
MU. JOSEPH M. BSOWS, OF THE STATE ROAD.
Mr. Joseph M. Brown, the general freight agent,
of the btate road, says:
“I have about concluded the schedule rates for
cars to the western ciUes. The rate on a car from
Atlanta to Nashville will be $40. The price will
will range from this to $65 to Chicago.
As a car ought to carry about 250 bushels of fruit,
ihe price per bushel will be about twenty-six
cents, the rates to the other cities in the west will
be $50 to Louisville, Evansville and Cincinnati
and S60 to SL Louis and Indianapolis and the rate
per bushel will be in proportion to these figures es
timating about tiro hundred and fifty bushels for'
each car. These rates we consider very low in
deed, but they are made in order to develop the
busiuess. if the fruit is worthless on. arrival at
its destination the shipper loses his goods and the
whole line is to lose its freight charges. Mr. E. >\
Wilson, general freight agent of the Cincin
nati Southern railway agrees to this
for himself and his connections at Cincinnati in
the territory east of St. Louis and south of Chicago
and w-st of Pi tsburg, Pa. Mr. Knox, of the Nash-
ille, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway, and Mr.
Culp, ot the Louisville and Nashville, have written
me that they will require that the freight charges
be guaranteed; but 1 have no doubt but that when
the situation is made clear to them they will co
operate heartily, as they did lost winter in like
shipments of Florida oranges to the northwest. So
I think there will be no trouble on this score. The
time to Cincinnati, Louisville and Evausville will
be about fifty or fifty-four hours, to SL Louis about
three duys and a half, and to Chicago fourdaysand
a fraction. While we can't guarantee this latter
every time, yet we feel reasonably certain that thes
figures will, on an average, be main aiued.”
“This does not provide for refrigerator cars?”
“No. but I am in correspondence with refrigerator
ear companies aud will very soon know what ice
will cosl I am satisfied that such rates will be se
cured os will add very little to the cost of carriage.
I don’t say positively, because I have not the fig
ures yet in baud but I think it probable that fruit
may be shipped by quiek schedules from Atlanta to
Chicago in refrigerator ears for something like fifty
cents a bushel. It seems to me that this is as low as
the fruit growers could desire. With refrigerator
curs it does not matter how long the fruit is en
route, as it will be perfectly preserved. We will
make, however, a quiek schedule and can land
the fruit in any city of the west in a very short time
after it leaves tiie tree.”
“You can say further,” said Mr. Brown,
that I am now arranging for a regu
lar fruit train, or fruit cars, that will
leave Atlanta on two or three days of the week and
stop at every station, big and little, along the line
of our road, to take on wbat fruit is gathered there
for it. Announcement will be made as to when this
fruit train will roach each station, so that the fruit
powers can be ready for It. As soon as a car is filled
it will be closed ana pushed on to the west by the
quickest possible freight, in this way wc hope to
encourage the local fruit grower* on our line to
bring their fruit to the station and thereby get a
large market and lucrative prices. 1 will be ready
to give to the fruit growers’ convention the most
detailed and definite information upon this anp
other points connected with the transportation of
fruit as far as our line is concerned.”
MISPLACED ZEAL.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
We been havin’ some more trouble into our
church,” remarked a Queens county farmer, as he
drqpped in at the office for a copy of the Eagle, and
fell into conversation with the cashier.
“What is the matter this time?” was the sympa
thetic inquiry.
“Ye see, our pa’son took a notion to go fer the
sinners, bruisers, cockfighters and them, and he
preaches a sermon fer ’em, and wants ’em fer to
come to the metcy seat and lay hold. They were
all there, and he made a powerful impression.”
“Caught some of them, eh?”
“Ketched ’em all. They rallied right up aud con
fessed. Well, then the pa’son he says they must
prove their faith by their works, and do su’thiu’ fer
the kirk afore they backslided. And that’s what
made tne trouble.”
“Wouldn’t they do it?”
“’Deed they would! They wanted to do Ball!
The pa’son he said they would have an entertain
ment, and each sinner must tell what religion had
done fer him and what he was willin’ fer to do fer
religion. The night came around and the wimmin
cooked some cake and they had clam chowder
and a grab bag. Some of the gals squeezed lem
ons in a was tub and started a well, and others
humped around with chances for rings in pies and
one thing another. They had singin,’ and Bub
Foos squirted wind into his flute and a girl read a
poem on anethergirl that got ketched in the snow
and froze stiff before they could get her out Oh!
they had it bigger’n a wolf.”
‘Well, whatdid the converted do?”
“Hold on till I tell yer. Alter the godly had got
through prankin’, the pa’son gits up and allows
that it is good to be there. Then he piles on what
the Christian’s duty is, and fetches up against the
toughs, and says that he hopes his new friends
haven’t forgotten the Lord and the mortgage, and
wants their subscriptions. Then up jumps Jim
Feely and Hen Frisbee and says they’re willtn fer
to chip in with the reBt, aud they fetches out a
couple of piller cases with gamecocks in. The fight
is to be fer the benefit of the church.”
“What fight?”
“The cock fight! They proposed to fight -he
hickens and the crowd to bet. one-half the win-
nin s fer the kirk and one-half fer the owner of the
winnln’ cock. That fetches out Lump Bennett and
Jerry Watson, and they sav they are willin’ fer ter
fight four rounds, Markis o’ Queensbury rules, the
gate money to go to the mortgage and ten per cent
of the side bets fer the church!”
“How did that take?”
"That isn’t all. Ed Berry got on a chair and al
lows that he had opened a faro bank in the bible
class room and was willin’ to play agin’ anybody
that wanted to drop a chip for the cause. Bill Mc-
Feeters brought in a keg of bier and other fixiu’s,
and announced that he would make a deduction to
Ch istians and charge nothing for the pa’son!”
“Did you bounce them?"
“Not us! They was all in earnest, and Bennett
says he was willin’ to do a wind up with the parson,
leltlu’ him use his bare hands and Bennett put on
the gloves. Berry allowed that Bennett didn't dare
make him that offer, and that led to words. Mc-
Feeters stiffened Bennett with the sign of ‘God
Bless Our Home,’ and Watson drove Mac outen the
edifice with ‘Suffer Little Children to Come unto
Me.’ That riled Frisbee and he goes for Feeley
with ‘Peace on Earth,’ and somebody fires the
pa’son through ‘Gird on yer Armor.’ It was an a -
ful racket The roosters had got at one another in
the meantime and was goin’ it for greens. The
boxin’ gloves was pitched in the lemonade well
along with a couple o’ head of girls, aud Berry had
hid his faro lay out behind the sign of ‘Love One
Another,’ while he spangled Steve Williams with
‘Keep My Commandments.’ itwasawfu*!”
“How did it end?”
“It ain’t ended yet! The case comes up Monday,
and I understand that the mortgage is to be fore
closed next week. The toughs talk of buyin' it in
and startin’ a theater witit a moral show aud two
matinees, but 1 guess nothin'll come if iL”
“How did you come to know so much about it?
Were you there?”
The old man paused a moment and looked at his
interlocu.or.
“I’m a deacon in that church,” said he, “and If
you was to come to that trial Monday, and look
around, ye’d think I’d been in the.vicinity any-
VANDALISM IN COLUMBIA.
Special Dispatch to The Constitution.
Columbia, S. C., May 22.—The residents of
this city are very much excited and highly
indignant on account of the desecration of
the Jewish cemetery. The situation is in the
corporate limits of Columbia. This afternoon
a merchant, who had been arranging for the
interment of an infant, went to the Jewish
burying ground to select a grave. Upon en
tering the inclosure, which is surrounded by
high and strong walls, he was horrified to see
that the holy place had been desecrated by
miscreants. * Twenty tombs were demolished,
and fragments of broken marble are strewn
about the ground. Borne of the mausoleums
contained the bones of old and respectable
citizens who had helped to build Columbia,
and were sacked aud the ornamental work
broken and defaced. No reason can be given
for the piece of vandalism, because the spirit
of Jewfsh persecution has never shown itself
here, and the Jews of Colombia are prover
bially a quiet, law-abiding and inoffensive
people. The municipal authorities are taking
way.
A NEGLIGENT CONDUCTOR.
From the Detroit Free Press.
When the train going west over the Detroit,
Lansing and Northern railroad had pulled out of
Howell the other day, the conductor discovered
that a man who should have stopped off there was
still on board.
“Didn’t you hear the brakeman call out your sta
tion?" he asked.
“Yes, I heard him call Howell, but how did I
know it was the Howell I wanted to get off at? I’ve
never traveled over this road before.".
“Well, we don’t have but one Howell on this
line.”
“Then why didn’t you come to me like r. man
and say so? I’m from Nova Scotia, aud how was
I to know but that your country was full of
Howells?”
“Passengers should know where they want to get
off,” muttered the conductor.
“So they should, sir, aud if you had kindly come
to me and notified me that this was the only Howell,
ana that tills was ihe Howell where my aunt lives,
I should not now be here, sir. I shall now decline
to get off this train until I have the advice oi her
majesty’s consul at Detroit!”
Death of Ceaerul Ramsey.
Washington, May 24.-Brevet Major-General
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