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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1882.
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Commissioner Orb’s speech at Saratoga is as
strong a disciple of Calhoun as is to be found,
but his words are sincere and will be re-echoed
l>y every sensible man in the south, and are,
as he says, those of the best men as well.
Our Home correspondent’s very interesting
interview with Colonel Graves on the war in
Egypt is of much service in making clear the
necessarily brief and disconnected telegrams
from the seat of war. It will be seen that
Colonel Graves confirms Consul General
Wolfs statement as to the sincerity of Arabi’s
cry of “Egypt for the Egyptians.”
A ritETTV bad botch of it has Commodore
Shufeldt made of it in the far east. It is
with the countries on the Pacific that our
commercial future lies, and every help or
hindrance now will he increased a hundred
fold as time goes. The worthy commodore
builded worse than he knew, for he has suc
ceeded in pleasing no one, but in offending
all, and in doing his country no good. All
commodores arc not Perrys.
In Tennessee there are now 105,050 farms.
In 18G0 there were only 82,308. Of the entire
number there are only 1,0S0 that contain
1,000 acres or over, and the larger part of them
are less than 100 acres in extent. 108,454 are
occupied by owners, 19,200 bring in a fixed
money rental, and 37,930 are rented for shares
af products. This increase in holdings and
in ownership is extraordinary and one of the
best proofs of prosperity that could be
•(forded.
Texas contains 47,ICS whites and 14,239
blacks who were born in Georgia. The emi-*
gration movement from Georgia will soon be
ascertained, und when it is it will be seen that
there are a great many Georgians who do not
live in Georgia. And if the truth were known
comparatively few of the number have bet
tered themselves by removal. Thy-enre 61.407
Georgians in Texas, and probably not one in
ten lias done better than he could have done
in his native state.
Two instances of what can be done with
Georgia land are given in two extracts from
tate papers. One acre in southwest Georgia
—and poor land at that—has returned a profit
of eighty dollars already this year, and bids
fair to make fifty dollars more; while on one-
eighteenth of an acre in Washington enough
strawberries were raised and sold to make
$51.89, besides supplying a family. With such
evidence as this of the possibilities of our
land no one need seek further for prosperity.
Commissioner Henderson’s July report
shows that the oat crop is tiie must abundant
ever harvested; the com crop is fourteen per
cent above the average, and wheat eleven per
cent. Sugar cane, rice, hay and sweet pota
toes are above the average; while cotton and
melons are below. The weather is quoted as
• cause for the falling ofT in cotton, but the
Acreage—some 20 or 25 per cent extra—de-
tot ed to cereals should be a satisfactory reason
bowing that mixed com and cotton crops
ave been largely raised.
There were one hundred and seventy-nine
deaths from excessive heat in New York on
Tuesday last. The thermometer stood at
ninety-four degrees. From all accounts the
•ir was oppressive and difficult to breathe.
It was hot enough here to make impatient
persons fretful, but on reading such accounts
of prostration and exhaustion it is a cause for
thankfulness for Atlanta’s perfect climate
with its cool breezes.
A i.exanuria has been burned for the thiid
time since the Greek emperor founded it
2,214 years ago. It does not yet appear how
complete the destruction of the city has been
but there is little doubt that between the
Arabs, the bombardment and the British but
little will be left. Aribi Bey played a heath
en Chinee ganfe in using a flag of trace to
cover his retreat. The seat of action is now
changed from sea to land, and here the Arab
forces of Arabi will show their effectiveness
against the British.
Attention is called to a blaek list of so-
called democrats who disgraced themselves
by voting for the infamous £ecor Robeson’:
new scheme of naval plunder. To the dis
grace of the south it must be noted that seven
of the ten are southern representatives. In
the interest of accuracy and justice it should
be noted that the Sun is wrong in including
Ross, of New Jersey, for he voted against the
bill, as appears from the Congressional Record
The effort to compose the differences of the
republicans of Pennsylvania bos failed. It
never bad much gum in it. Both sides are
putting out propositions for a settlement, but
they do this as parts of their respective cam
paigns. They are fighting for position. Each
wants to be able to say that it did all it could
to restore harmony in the party, but the
other side was pig-headed and wrongly-dis
posed. The people will settle the matter in
November by an .impartial defeat of both
factions.
Virginia elects this year on a general ticket
nly a congressman-at-large, and the dernc
rats have decided to make no nomination
is understood that they will support Mr.
obn E. Massey, who is self-nominated. Mr.
iassey is the father of readjusterism, but he
..insiders the readjuster programme com
pleted. But whether it is completed or not,
be considers Mahoneism a delusion and
snare. He repudiates the entire concern be
cause it is now simply “an alliance with the
republican party and a plan for handing the
state over to Arthur in exchange for the fed
eral patronage in Virginia." He calls upon
ill “Virginians and democrats” to rally about
the standard of peace and conciliation and to
put down the coalitonists. The indications
are that they will, and that Mr. Massey’s
election will be followed by the collapse of
the Mahone movement in all parts of the state.
MATRIMONIAL INSURANCE SWINDLES.
Considering the tendency of our native
American sharpers toward invention, it is a
little singular that the marriage insurance
business has not been brought to the atten
tion of a gullible public long ago. We do not
make this statement in the spirit of com
plaint, however. During the few months these
insurance swindles have been in operation
they have been driven out of several northern
and western states, including even New Jer
sey, but they have taken up their abode in
the south, and now have footholds in Louis!
ana, Mississippi, Alabama and other states.
If we are not mistaken they have
extended their operations to Geor
gia. The nature of the swindle was
promptly exposed in Pennsylvania, where the
insurance commissioner denounced them.
They have also been vigorously denounced
by the insurance commissioner of Michigan.
Tue swindles were utterly routed in the courts
of Pennsylvania, Judge Henderson, of the
twelfth judicial circuit, saying, when asked
to issue a charter for one of the concerns:
We are not satisfied that these associations
are not injurious to the community. They
are not calculated to inspire confidence in the
marriage relation. Its purity is the rockbed
of society. Neither the welfare of the state or
the community demands such benefit or en
couragement as is here sought to be given to
the individual. It does not add to, but takes
away from the sanctity of a holy ordinance
As a civil contract, the highest consideration
should be mutual love and affection. It is
degraded by any other, and the idea of mu
tual benefit and protection in the mode pre
scribed by certificates of (Membership and as
sessments upon the members, is, in our opin
ion, altogether chimerical. No practical or
beneficial result can flow from it. A premium
upon marriage may be the price of virtue.
Neither the wants of community, the good of
society, or the welfare of the individual re
quire any such organizations. On the con
trary, we believe that in the end they will
prove subversive of virtue and good mor
als.” '
Notwithstanding the publicity that has
been given to the various exposures of these
swindles, they appear to flourish in the south
especially in the southwest, where the papers
teem with advertisements calculated to meet
the eyes of fools who are always ready te be
lieve that something can be made out of
nothing. As it is the duty of the comptroller
general of Georgia to keep an eye upon the
insurance companies of the state, it may be
that any serious swindle in this latitude will
be prevented. Meantime, we desire to warn
our readers against all such concerns.
hole in Harris county through .which
the series of cyclones that made Geor
gia and a number of newspapers
reporters famous. Just where they came
from, nobody has ever been able to discover.
It might naturally be supposed that they
rossed the Alabama line into Harris county,
and thus made their way across Georgia, but
nobody ever heard of any damage that was
done in Alabama. While everything was
perfectly serene in that state, a roar would be
heard in Harris county, a rustle in Talbot, a
rattle in McDuffie, and the cyclone would be
gone. But where? Nobody has ever been able
to say. Issuing from their breeding place in
Harris county, they would either cut a
wide swathe of destruction through the
state, or break up .into smaller
storms and make their dreadful influence felt
far away from the true path of the disturb
ance. In Harris and Taj hot, and right across
the state, the track of these storms is marked
by a series of caves dug and fitted up as places
of refuge by those who had experienced the
terrors of,a genuine atmospheric disturbance.
This fact ought to be borne in mind by
posterity, for it may happen that some scien
tific expert, nosing around, will discover that
the people of this age were'fcaye-dwellers.
We have already printed in The Constitu
tion many curious facts relative to these re
markable storms, and we allude to them here
merely for the purpose of .introducing some
interesting figures compiled by the signal
service bureau. This bureau has examined
the records of six hundred tornadoes durin
the past eighty-seven years, and these records
show that the most destructive disturbances
take place most frequently in June. The
records also show that while tornadoes occur
generally between 5 and 0 p.m., no hour of
the day is entirely free from them. Each
storm-cloud travels from 12 to 60 miles an
hour, the average of the path of destruction
being 1,085 feet. The wind within the vortex
sometimes reaches a velocity of 800 miles an
hour, the average velocity being 392 miles.
Tornadoes always move eastward, but may be
swayed from side to side during their progress.
The states in which these storms have been
most frequent, according to the records
referred to, are named below:
State. Period. Toma- State. Period. Torna
does does.
WAR IN EGYPT
The duel between the English ships and
the forts of Alexandria has begun. The
English fleet at Alexandria will act with
out the aid of the vessels of France or of any
other country. England has, however, more
guns in the harbor of Alexandria than all
the other nations combined, and it is be-
lieved that her fleet will be able to silence
the forts and land a storming party of ma
rines, who will occupy the city until-the
military expedition arrives. The city lies
low and exposed to the English
guns. It is a cosmopolitan town
of about 250,000 people. Before the exodus
began it contained 00,000 Europeans. The old
port is the principal harbor, and English en-
gineers have given it good fortresses and
fitted its points with lighthouses. The
foreign vessels are, or rather were, in the new
port. The European quarter of the city is on
the new port side, and in this quarter is the
square of Mehemet Ali, which was the scene
of the recent bloody riot. This part of the
town will suffer most when the cannonade be
gins.
When the British guns have silenced the
guns of Alexandria, and the city is at
the mercy of the marines, then will come
Sir Garnet Wolseley at ' the head of
15,000 men, and Sir Herbert Macpherson
from Bombay, who will have under him about
1,800 British and 5X00 Indian soldiers. The
latter will be landed at Suez, and the two ex
peditions will act in concert. Sir Garnet
Wolseley is the hero of several African cam
paigns, and he is regarded as England
greatest soldier. .Sir Herbert Macpherson
commanded with distinction a brigade in Af
ghanistan. Opposed to these two commanders
and their 20,000 men will be Arabi Bey at the
head of all the army that Egypt can -muster.
Popular feeling runs strong in the valley
of the Nile against foreign aggression,
and it is thought that Arabi Bey will be
able to put 50,000 in the field, although the
regular army of Egypt rarely numbers more
than 20,000 men. Arabi Bey enters upon this
war full of spirit and self-confidence. All
Egypt is at his back—there is no doubt about
that; and it may be that he has assurances of
support in some form from the sultan, who
recently conferred upon him the medjidie
decoration, and possibly the hope that Ger
many and Austria and Italy will stand
between him and rain. The Egyptian
army will fight under him
Egyptians have not fought in modern times,
and England, therefore, has no holiday task
before her. Still the result of a contest be
tween Arabi Bey and his new levies and the
military and naval forces of Great Britain
scarcely one of doubt If no complications
ensue the brave Egyptians will be compelled
to choose between English domination and
the desert that lies below their traitful val
ley.
STORMS AND. TORNADOES.
At one time it was supposed by those who
are in the habit of standing up stiffly in be
half of matters Georgian that the empire
state of the sunny south was a little ahead of
her sister states in the matter of windstorms,
cyclones, tornadoes and such things, and
there were good grounds for such a supposi
tion. There are few readers of The Constitu
tion who do not remember jthe remcrkable
disturbances that made Georgia tbe theater of
their performances several years ago. It ap-
Georgia 1851-1881
Illinois 1854 1881 51
ndiana 1852-1880 27
Iowa 1854-1881 31
Kansas 1859 1881 62
Missouri 1814-1881 44
New York...l83l 1881 35
Ohio =18.3-1881
This table shows that within 67 years 8
states have suffered from 310 tornadoes, or
more than half of the entire number recorded
during 87 years. It also shows that Georgia
is not at the head bf the list.
INDUSTRY AND ECONOMY.
A gentleman passing along an Atlanta thor
oughfare recently saw an old acquaintance
sitting on an elevated step. It suddenly oc
curred to the gentleman that his old acquain
tance was sitting withing a few feet of the
spot where he first met him in 1854. There
was little or no change in the old acquain
tance. Perhaps his hair had bleached a little,
but not enough to make the fact striking.
His coat was a little shiny, his hat was seedy,
and a heavy walking cane curled lovingly
over his arm. His movements were alert
and energetic, and his conversation was car
ried on with an emphasis that seemed to sug
gest considerable will power. The gentleman
called his attention to the fact mentioned
above, and the old acquaintance immediately
became voluble. *
“Lord,yes; that was nearly thirty years ago
Well, well, well! And I ain’t changed much,
I reckon; but there ain’t no reason why I
shouldn’t change. I haven’t had easy times,
let me tell you. I’ve had hard times, and the
worst of it is, men would come into this town
entire strangers, shake hands with me, and
pick up a fortune right under my chair. It’s
been done time and again. I’ve always
thought my time would come next, but it’s
always been the other fellow. If this ain’t
hard lines, I should like to know what you
call hard lines. I wouldn't mind it so
much if, it was home folks
but here comes a man from East
Tennessee or North Carolina and walks
into a pile of money, then here comes a Mas
sachusetts yankee and finds a gold mine right
under my nose, and then one of these Eye-
talians from across the water hangs a bunch
of bananas over a cellar door and in a month
or two he is putting money in (he bank.
Luck is a big thing in this world.”
The gentleman who related this incident
and gave the conversation which we have
'quoted, thought that perhaps his old ac
quaintance was typical of a large class of peo
ple in this section who, both before the war
and since, have been waiting for something to
turn up. We hope - not, and yet we fear
the surmise is true. There are many
pitiful and distressing reasons why, to a cer
tain extent, it should be true; but these
reasons are losing much of tlieir potency and
patlios. There is no such thing in this wide,
wide world as luck. He who would thrive
must strive. The lesson our people must
learn is the lesson of industry and economy;
they must learn the lesson of patience and
pru.dence. There is not a brick or a stone in
the city of Atlanta that is not an eloquent
example of the potency of tireless industry
and pinching economy.
The Georgia and Tennessee crackers who
have built Atlanta and made the city
what it is had no luck to aiS them;
they bad the will to work and the
nerve to drop a thrip in their stockings,
whenever they had a thrip to spare. The
yankees who have come here didn’t come to
play; they came backed by generations of the
most extraordinary efforts to save and econo
mize. The Italians, with their bananas,
know what poverty is, and they are afraid of
it; they are compelled to save money.
This is the lesson that the bricks and mor
tar of Atlanta teach, and those who run may
read. Hard work; busy days and toilsome
nights; hard, pinching economy. Herein are
the germs of progress and civilization, of
wealth and comfort.
SANDY COTTON.
Recently The Constitution contained some
editorial comments on the foreign and domes
tic charges circulated in the newspapers to
the effect that the southern planters were
flooding the markets of the world with falsely
packed and sanded cotton. We took occasion
at that time, while warning the southern
planters against carelessness in the matter, to
protest against the implication that there was
in a majority of cases, any intention of fraud.
The Financial Chronicle of a recent date
packing of cotton which is of substantial in
terest to both producers and consumers. The
writer shows that while there are occasional
cases of intentional fraud, the great bulk of
badly packed cotton is the result of careless
ness and inattention. Intentional fraud can
be prevented if the consumer who buys a
falsely packed bale will take the trouble to
send to the place of production the
evidences of wilful fraud, so that
the perpetrator may be confronted with them
before his own people and in his own county.
The Constitution endeavored to show that
the planters lose’more by bad packing and
the indiscriminate packing of cotton of vari
ous grades than the consumers do. In point
of fact, it is stated on good authority, and the
figures are given in the communication to the
Chronicle, that of all the cotton bought by the
most skillful and careful buyers in southern
cotton markets after October 15th in each
season, 15 per cent of the bates, and after 15th
of November 25 per cent, are rejected as
mixed packed. When rejected, these bales
fall in value to the price of their poorest part.
At this reduction of price they are sold for the
producer as mixed-packed sales. As a rule
they are not then branded unmerchantable,
as they ought to be, but may, and often do,
pass at a low price to some unscrupulous
operators, who start them, or the
best of them, for another market as
‘straight cotton;” and the fact that they are
mixed bales once rejected is not discovered
until they have reached some mill through
careless or incompetent buyers It is a fair
estimate that while 400,000 bales of mixed
packed cotton go to the mills in their true
character in a season, as many more’rejected
“mixes” go to the mills at hotae and abroad
as “straight” cotton, besides some that es
capes tbe scrutiny of the most careful buyers.
The planters have once suffered for this por
tion, and then the factories take their turn.
But the planters suffered the depreciation on
all the 800.000 mixed bales discovered, and
the mills only upon the portion palmed off
upon them as uniform in grade. The writer
of tbe communication adds to this:
English sj inners, through United States Consul
Shaw, of Manchester,.have made bitter complaints
of falsely packed cotton, in« hiding in that descrip
tion bales th •( are pervaded throughout with sand
or dust, us well as bales packed to defraud, and
mixed bales. Sandy cotton (hales with a mass of
sand bidden in the center—a- stones, iron, etc, are
hidden for a cheat—are riot technically “sandy cot
ton”) is very rarely false in any respect. Us char
acter is discovered by sampling. They who buy
sandy cotton do so at their peril. Caveat emptor.
The Oldham spinners who exhibited piles of sand
said to have been paid for as American cotton fibre,
ought to hare named the price they
paid for it per pound. Many thousand
bales out of the best staples from Texas and the
Mississippi valley in the cop of 1880-1 were s->ld at
prices ranging from 2d to 3bd per pound in Liver
pool (wheu clean middling cotton of equal staples
was worth 6d to 6J^d) because it was low in grade,
trashy and sandy, if any Oldham spinner paid the
price of clean cotton, f ee of sand, for his sandy cot
ton, either he was a fool or employed a fool for a
buying broker, or both. If he paid the low and
sandy price for Ills sandy cotton, he is something
worse than the poor white man ornegro who leaves
the sand in his cotton (by taking the cleaner off the
r.ln) and sells the sandy cotton as such, because the
spinner would cat a reproach upon one whodoes
not deserve it, himself profiting by what he con
demns.
who will enjoy its benefits—in the name of
the university and of enlightenment, we thank
Governor Brown for his princely gift. It has
more than balanced the account between
Georgia and himself even if he-had worn all
the honors she has heaped upon him, so wor
thily that his record repaid for his advance
ment. By the stroke of his pen in signing
away this fortuue to the youth of Georgia, he
has done more to settle the question of higher
education in our state than all the laws ever
passed or all the theories ever formulated.
A postal card correspondent protects against the
candidacy of so many colonels for oue thing and
another. Very well. If a man doesn’t want to be
a colonel, the remedy is simple—let him move out
of Georgia.
The color line has been drawn between R. R.
Wright and Edwin Belcher, of Augusta. Wright is
black and left handed, and Belcher is nearly white.
The difficulty between them can never be composed.
An exchange calls Robeson “the father ol the
American navy." If this be true, he has not on!y
committed infanticide, but has sold the remains of
his child to a lot of medical students.
The people having spoken'in such unmistakable
terms,there is no reason why Mr.Stephensshouldn’t
be nominated by declamation. This will prob
ably be the upshot of the matter.
Mrs. Scoville offers to sell Guitean’s remains to
the highest bidder. This shows that her grief at
the death of the great young republican chieflaiu
was indeed bidder.
egram came about 1:30 a m.,andat that hour it
was after 7 a. m. at Alexandria. It isa little rough,
of course, that the sun should get up In the besotted
land of Egypt before he does in our own glorious
republic, but he aoes—and what's more h«’s been
doing it for years. It is a discrimination in favor
of Egypt that can’t be prevheted by an act of con
gress.
AN UNSATISFACTORY PICNIC.
In the article from which the foregoing ex
tract is taken a table is given representing tbe
average cost and value qf many thousands
bales of such low grade and dirty cotton laid
in during tbe six years from 1876 to 1881 in
clusive, compared with the cost and value in
yarn of middling cotton of equal staple at the
same dales severally when the low cotton was
bought. The figurus are taken from mill re
cords and show that the. mills make a profit
of from 1.6 to 3.35 cents on low grade sandy
cotton
The point that The Constitution desires to
make in this connection is that the profit of
1J4 to 4J«c. a pound of gross weight of bales
ought to reside in the pockets of the planters,
and to this ought to be added the increased
profit of two cents a pound that would be
commanded by cotton properly- cleaned,
graded and packed. Such savings as might
here be made amount, in the aggregate, to
many millions of dollars each year.
It is thought that Mr. Stephens will enjoy better
health in the executive mansion, on Peachtree
street, than in the malarious atmosphere of Wash
ington.
Perhaps Professor Huxley can tell us why the
red-bug always attacks a man in his weakest places.
If Professor Huxley can, it is difficult to see why he
doesn’t. Dr. Darwin would unhesitatingly trace
the problem to natural sclectio 1, but l)r. Darwin is
dead. Under all circumstances, if Professor IIux
lex doesn’t upand tell us. we shall put the question
to his Uncle John Tyndall.
Two votes were cast for Bacon in the Fulton pri
lurries, and the county will probably appear in the
estimates of our anti-Stephens contemporaries 2 for
Bacon.
The two-thirds rule may be a very good thing or
a very bad thing, but it should be discussed in the
light of facts. Since the war no governor of Geor
gia has been nominated under its operations.
We warn Colonel Arabi Bey, of Egypt, that if he
endeavors to trample on the North American navy
there will be bloodshed. Let him seize the British
lion by the tail if he will, but the pinions of the
bald-headed American eagle bird must not be ruf
tied. ■
The first number of the South Georgia Clarion,
published at Camilla, Mitchell county, has been re
ceived. It is edited by . Mr. John L. Underwood
and Mr. E. D. Byan. With the perversity of a man
whose children are all girls, the editor is opposed
o Mr. Stephens. Considering this fact and the fur
ther fact that it isa first number, the paper is sur
prisingly good. It is neatly printed, and Mr. Un
derwood writes with theaese and vigor of a veteran.
Admiral Nicholson, of the United States mud
tub, now at Alexandria,is a desperately brave man.
Knowing that the concussion from his ship’s guns
would promptly send her to the bottom, he has
warned the Arabs that if thcyshoo.t at him he will
return the salute. Long may the old flag wave.
peared" to the casual spectator that there was prints a communication in relation to the bad
A SUPERB GIFT.
Senator Joseph E. Brown is nearing the end
of a long and illustrious life; but lie has
never done anything that will carry.his name
to posterity so gracefully and so surely ss the
magnificent endowment he has just made to
the Slate university, and which is described
in our special from Athens. He has served
his state honorably, but he has never done
a greater service than this. He has worn her
ermine and her toga and occupied her execu
tive chair, but in this one act he lifts the man
above tlie official, and gilds his name with a
glory beyond -the fame that is held for it in
the archives of the state.
It is hard to compass the full effect of this
gift. It is a fund of $50,000 that is to be in
vested in the securities. It ought certainly to
yield $3,500 per annum, which sum i3 to be
devoted to paying the board and expenses of
young fellows who want a college education,
but are not able to pay for it. It is safe to
say that $150 a year is enough to put a student
through the ten month-session. It should
therefore, take at least twenty young
men the first year. But this money
is . to be loaned to the students
at four per cent, interest to begin, we
presume, after the student has left college.
Say that 20 boys are put through college the
first four years on this fund. Upon leaving,
they will each owe the fund $600, or a total
of $12,000. On this debt they each pay $24
per annum, or a total of $480 per annum. It
will be seen that this will add enough to the
annual income to start twenty-three boys on
the second four-years course. If the first
twenty boys should pay back the principal
(as some of them will certainly do), the en
dowment would be swelled to $62,000.
It will thus be seen that the fund will be
increased, and tbe annual income enlarged
as the notes ef the beneficiaries mature and
are paid. If every young man who gets his
education under this endowment only pays
the 4 per cent interest on his notes (and it is
hard to believe that many would fail to do so,
we should have in ten years, provided the
principal can lie invested at 0 per cent, $35,000
bearing 4 per cent interest added to the fund,
giving $1,400 additional income. After
this it would increase with much
greater rapidity. In twenty years we might
see a total of endowment and interest bear
ing notes large enough to support one hun
dred boys at college. It is our firm convic
tion that Senator Brown’s sons will live to see
more than one hundred students per annum
supported at the State university by the pro
ceeds of their father’s endowment and the
fund increasing steadily.
In the name of the people of Georgia—in
the name of hundreds of poor young fellows
If Egypt wants any more cjlouels However,
it’3 none of our business. A colonel is a colonel,
Georgia or in Egypt.
The old pumps of the tariff commission are dis
cussing the problem of electing a stenograper. At
first oue or two o* the more 1 xpeilenced members
of the commission thought that a stenographer was
some new kind of astronomer. We are glad to state
that the heal'h of the commissiou remains about
the same. The great accumulation of brains
around one jimmyjohu doesn’t seem to have any
deleterious effect.
We are informed that the Hon. N. L. Hutchins,
of Gwinnett, is not a candidate lor the state sen
ate from the 31th district The choice of the peo
ple of that county will present the name of Captain
Tyler M. Peeples, and Colonel Hutchins himself is
an enthusiastic supporter of Captain Peeples. If
Captain Peeples is selected no district in the state
will have a better representative in the state senate.
It seems to us that if Editor Medill can get a
marble monumeut erected in honor of John A,
Logan, right in the he*rt of Chicago, Editor Romeo
Reed, of Cincinnati, ought to be able to have one
erected to General Grant on accouut of his Vicks
burg campaign.
A St. Louis preacher who got drunk and insulted
a lady on the cars has resigned his pastorate, and
will become a private citizen. Thus it will be seen
that he was considerate to the last.
A mono the notable delegates to the convention
will be General W T Wofford. The general has
been an “independent” for many years, but could
not, it is said, take the “coalition” programme,
thence fal's into ranks again. Wherever this .Geor
gian may fight, he is a gallant and patriotic gentle
man.
Fulton county, as the leading county in the
state, has a most important interest in the state leg
islature. It is essential that she should have capa
ble representatives during the next session when
the building of a new capitol will be discussed. It
has been suggested inat perhaps Captain John T,
Glenn would allow the use of his name in this con
nection. If he would do this we believe Fulton
would give him a practically unanimous vote, and
send him to head her delegation In the lowerhouse
with enthusiasm and confidence. In no other way
could Captain Glenn do the county higher or better
service.
“Is Robeson a thief?” asks the Boston Herald.
Is this some new kind of editorial diversion? If
so, we can add some conundrums to the list Was
Eve a woman? Is Dorsey a leading republican?
Was Guiteau hanged? Is Davi-l Davis fat? Is—
but what is the use of muliipiyirg these things?
From the Brooklyn Engle.
Weaiu’t having anymore picnics, that is, not
church picnics in our section now,” sighed a
.Suffolk county farmer, as the cashier made out his
bill for advertising his seed potatoes and handed
him his change. “We had one, but they are not
talking about any more.”
What seems to be the trouble?” asked the
cashier.
The fust one wasn’t calailatcd to make ’em pop-
ulor,” replied the old man. buckling up his pocket
book. “I don’t think you could raise seven dollars
toward another in the whole township,”
Didn’t it come off In good shape?” inquired the
cashier.
It went off, and that was chiefly the trouble,”
was the response. “You seo, the picnic was to raise
some money to pay the interest on the mortgage
and the balance to go to the heathen. The wimmen
turnod loose and made pie, and we men got some
lemons aud buckets, and if we’d stopped there it
would have been all right. Lemonade and pie was
good enough for anybody, but some smart Alecks
thought we ought to have soda water, and like a
choice assortment of darned fools, we all chipped
iu for one of them copper fountains.”
That's a pretty good idea," commented the
cashier.
Think so, eh!" replied the fanner dryly. “The
idea was good enough, but the fountain made trou
ble. The way we fixed it was t-> let the nozzle of
the contrivance stick up through the table and
squirt during the frugal meal. Though it would?be
a pleasant sight and enliven the proeeeaings.”
Did it?”
It did. There’s a great many factions in our
county, but they agree that the fountain enlivened
the proceedings. You know we all sat around the
table on benches, and we men carved the pies
while the wlmmin dipped the lemonade. We was
all to be helped before we turned the fountain
loose and then we was to catch the soda in glasses
as it <nmeout.”
Did you catch any?" , ,
We did. We didn’t cntch much in the glasses,
but we got the soda; that is, a good deal of it. Some
of it got away. Why, sir; just as soon as the par
son turned tlie spiggot you should have seen that
picnic! Fizz! Whoop! Aud there we was!”
“Where were you?”
“Well, we was scattered. The table had been
heard of twice, and some letters from Connecticut
think it ’ooked as though it was falling Die! You
should have seen them pies! One big apple pie,
with a top and bottom attachment and scolloped
edge, went through that picnic tike a circular saw!
You ought to see the timber fall around Hint part!
A custard ditto went clean through old Aunt Betty
Bigeioiv and smashed against a barn with a report
like a sham battle. Pie! Friend, we carry sheet
iron umbrellas in our section now!”
“Anyone hurt?” asked the cashier.
“Not to mention. We haven’t got ’em all down
out of the trees yet hut those we have saved seems
to be ali right with the exception of an edge or a
joint knocked off here and there. I don’t know
that any one was killed, thoucli half the picnic is
yet to hear from. But tbe point I want to make is,
is that we ain’t having any more of them things.”
••That’s where you're all wrong," suggested the
cashier. “That very experienccAvos just what you
wanted.”
How?” demanded the farmer.
You were trying to raise a church debt, as I un
derstand it. Now. why don’t you opeu another
soda fountain right under the debt."
“Tlint settled it. and if a tornado is ever reported
from down Suffolk county way that cashier will
have something to answer for.”
HOW HE STRUCK A BONANZA.
From the San Antonia, Texas, Gazette.
We had been roughing it around for a couple of
months when we found ourselves' one evening
camped outside of Monterey. Oar finances wero
very low. There was only a few dollars in the
whole crowd, and we felt rather blue. We had been
for several days discussing what was best to be done
We knew little of the language of the country;
there was no work that suited us, or that we wero
capable of doing, and stages in that part of the
country wouldu’tpay the wear and tear of robbing
them.
We were sitting around the camp fire in a very
despondent frame of mind, when Mcluuis came in
from town.
“Hello, boys,” he shouted, “I’ve found it—struck
a bonanza. We are we'1 fixed: cheer up. We are
all right now, and don't you forget it”
“What is it?” we asked.
“You never mind," he replied; “just follow me
and I’ll showyou.”
We filed after him into town. He led us through
the niuiu street, across the plaza, and down into the
poorest i>art of the town, Shopping in front of a
small adobe store he marched us all iu. Mclnuls
stood looking from one to the other as if wailing for
applause.
We could see no sign of the bonanza, and in
chorus we demanded that he should explain.
“How much money have we in the crowd?”
inquired Mclnnis.
“Seven dollars and fifty cents, all told,” replied
our treasurer.
' "Well, didn't I say that we were all rich?”
“Yes. but we can’t see how we can be rich on
seven dollars aud fifty cents.”
“You can’t. eh?”saitl Mclnnis. “Can’tyou read?"
and he pointed proudly to a card hanging above the
counter, on which was printed the legend:
“Four drinks for a quarter.”
WHAT AN OLD MAN MISSED.
Mb. S. A. Reid has become connected with the
Eatonton Chronicle. While he has had no active con
nection with journalism, Mr. Reid has pronounced
literary tendencies, energetic methods of thought
and expression, and is altogether fitted for his new
connection.
Colonel Stone, late of the consolidated Ameri
can republican, is connected with the Egyptian
army. If the colonel Is wise, he will take shelter
on the BUI Chandler chicken-coop, commanded by
Admiral Nicholson.
A few months ago Arabi Bey was a penniless
fellah. Now he is some other fellow.
It is stated that Jay Hhbbell's ancestors were im
ported. Few blaekmailera have a better pedigree
and record than Hubbell.
From the Detroit Free Press.
A man about sixty years old, having his panta
loons tucked into his boot legs and his hat balanced
on his left ear, got out of a farmer’s wagon on Mich
igan avenue yesterday and inquired of a boy lcan-
ing against a hitching-post what kind of a time he
had on the Fourth.
“The awfuleA, goodest time you ever heard of.”
• No?”
“You bet I did!”
“Why, I thoughtthere wasn’tanything going on.”
“Nothing going on, eh? What do yon call over a
hundred cases of drunk? What do you call sixteen
fights In front of the city hall? What do you think
of five runaways all at once!”
“By George! And I wasn’t here!"
“And the police went around knocking folks
down, and five saloon keepers got cleaned out, and
three lame women got run over, and over twelve
boys had theireyes put out!”
“Sakes alive! And I never saw It!”
“And a man he shot off one hundred bunches of
fire crackers to once, and two boys fell off the wharf,
and three buildings took fire; and a man tried to
cut his throat, and there was six pickpockets walk
ing up and down all the time.”
And I wasn’t within seven miles of Detroit all
day! \\ hat a fool I was!”
“That's so: and a baby swallowed a iky-rocket
and it biew him up, and a m!n he got fils eye put
out with » Roman candle, and a torpedo made an
ice wagon run away, and there was the awfulest
times around lyou ever heard of. You ortcr been
here They give away beer and lemonade and co-
coaiiuts and candy and bananas, and everybody
hollered and yelled and hung out flags and screamed
for glory.”
The old man heaved an awful sigh, looked around
in a helpless manner, and then extending his arm
until his finger touched the boy’s nose and said:
" I here was whisky, and I wash’t here to drink!
There was fighting, and I wasn’t here to fight!
There was glory, and I wasn’t here to whoop! Look
at me, bub! I’m the gosh-all-firedest fool in these
great L nited States, und if you was only big enough
to mop me up and down the street for an hour and
a half I’d give you the best yoke of cattle in Wayne
county!”
It is all very well to abuse Robeson during the
heated term, but ne would be invaluable in case of
hostilities with England. Should her navy venture
into American waters, Robeson could steal it in a
night The fact that he can steal iron vessels as
well as wooden one; speaks volumes in favor of
republican institutions, and the versatility they
impart to our public men.
The Angnsta Chronicle doesn’t come to hand reg
ularly, but we gather from the Evening News that
our esteemed contemporary doesn't admire the en
terprise of The Cosstitction in printing the ac
count of the fight at Alexandria a fittle ahead of
ime. As our special came through the New Yotk
associated press, the Chronicle shoald make iu
complaints, if it has any, to headqua-teis. Our tel-
MADE HIS MOUTH WATER.
Little Rock Gazette.
Uncle Ike was one day riding a mule, and had a
little hoy behinu him.
“Tell you what. Uncle Ike, 'possum mighty good
thing,” said the boy. «
“Yes,’tis,” said Uncle Ike, as the mule st.ucka
brisk trot.
“ ’cprelally when you got lots o’ gravy wid him."
Uncle Ike w^s silent, butseemed restless.
"An wheu you got some roasted 'taters to sop in
de gravy,” said the boy.
Uncle Ike used his snitch with nervous energy,
aud the mule Increased his speed to a gallop.
“Yes, Uuk Ike, when de 'possum right brown,
an de gravy drenin’ out. an’—”
“You soet yourmr.uf, you litie tool! You'll
make ais mule run off tui’ fall us bo&f.”
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