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VOLUME XIV.
TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST S, 1882.
PRICE 5 CENTS
DURING THE WEEK-
A Garnett S reet Negro Shoots Himself— Passage of
Blver and Harbor Bill Over tka President's j
Veto—Bow in tho Republican Convention
Caucus—Local and General News.
Monday, Jn’y 31.—Tiie porte declines tor de
clare Arabi Pasha a rebel, at England's sug- '
gestion. The South Carolina convention has
nominated Colonel Hugh S. Thompson for
jovernor. Topham, superintendent of the 1
folding room of the house of representatives,
is charged with forgery. The yellow fever is ,
epidemic in the towns along the Rio Grande, i
New York city had thirty-one cases of sun
stroke. A million dollar tire in New York. !
A twelve year old boy has been convicted of ■
murder in Missouri, and was sentenced to he
hanged. The Apache Indians in Arizona
have killed twenty per.-ruts. In the City.—
•Governor Colquitt lias contributed $100 to
wn-J the rebuilding of Monroe Female col
lege. The dead brdy of a negro was found on
Ellis street. A new colored college is to be
erected in Atlanta.
Tuesday, August 1.—The president has ve
toed the river and harbor appropriation hill.
Rumors are current that the English ministry
will shortly resign. In a freignt colliron iu
Indiana, sixty cars were burned, and four
persons killed. The French ministry has
tendered its resignation. In the City.—W.
A. Uass lias been elected a member of the
Fulton county commissioners. .Midnight
burglaries are frequent.
Wednesday, August 2.—An Indian out
break lias occurred among the Chicotas.
Twenty lives lost by a flood in Kentucky.
Seven deaths from yellow lever in Browns
ville, Texas. A temporary ministry has been
formed to carry on departmental business in
France. The New York republican convention
meets September 30. In the City. —A Garnelt
street negro accidentally shot biuiself through
the lung. Two republican caucuses end in a
ro c, in \vh ich 1 Tedgt rand Err >\va tire arrested.
Tiiersday, August 3.—Congress. Jias passed
tin; river and harbor bill over the veto of the
president. W. A. Black nominated for the
Americas post-office. The nomination of
Newton for the Brunswick post-office, rejected
by the senate. Another plot against the life
of the czar has been discovered. A brother-
in-law of General Beauregard has committed
suicide. In the City.—Captain Burke has
resigned ttic command of the Gate City
Guard. Two negro women had a fight about
the possession of a goose.
Friday, August 4.—The strikes continue
without cessation. Congress refused tin up-
ypripriation for thc-usteuance of the national
■ board of health. The nomination of Judge
i.'cCay has been confirmed. The call lor a
constitutional convention has been lost in
Tennessee. A disastrous storm in southern
Ohio involves a loss of $300,000. W. F. Cook,
son of p. A. Cook, of Atlanta, on trial in
Texas for murder, has been acquitted. Five
murderers hanged throughout the country.
In the City.—Atlanta has received her first
new bale of cotton. Two lunatics in Fulton
county jail, ('imp Norris knocked down by
a negro politician.
Saturday. Augusts.—Congress remained in
si sion until 22:30 Sunday morning, but did
in succeed in reaching adjournment. Gen
eral Grant appo!u;. , d a commissioner to nego
tiate a comic, ere hi! tpcaty with Mexico. The
appropriation bills have all been passed and
signed In the City.—I.arkin Davis, of Fulton
county, brought in assxty pound watermelon.
. Areuniomof old citizens will take place at
' + ’'V'gqSPfF/T couutyvqn i:t,a_ 17th in
stant.
Bayard and Pendleton.
Special to the Times-Dtunocrat.
Washington, July 30.—Senators Bayard
and Pendleton are regarded as the democratic
presidential aspirants in tlie senate. Al
though they are rivals for the nomination of
their party "fur the highest office in the gift of
the people, they do not. appear to have any
jealousy of each other. In fact, they seem to
be the best of frit-n Is. Every afternoon they
leave the senate chamber together and ride
down Pennsylvania avenue to their homes in
Pendleton’s basket body carriage. The basket
body is painted yellow, which color becomes
Pendleton's complexion better than it be
comes Bayard’s. They never appear to be in
earnest conversation. This fact is accounted
for, perhaps, on the ground that their chief
aim is to conceal their inmost thoughts from
each other. Both senators are deservedly
popular, but the impression which prevails
among members of congress is that there is
better presidential timber outside of the
senate.
A Woman Drowned in a Barret.
Special Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.
Hamilton,,Ont., July 2!t—Mrs. Hunt, wife
of David Hunt, a shoemaker in Garrett’s fac
tory-, was found dead at noon to day by her
husband when i:o returned from work. * The
children hail missed iier for an hour before,
and her husband found her drowned in the
water barrel in a shed in-therearof the house.
There was only thirteen inches of water in
the barrel, and she either committed suicide
from religious ntanut, with which she was
afflicted, or was seized by a lit when leaning
■over the barrel, which was only three and a
half feet high. She leaves a family. Her first
husband, George Marshall, committed suicide
on the Great Western railway track some
years ago.
Blaine and Davis Railroad.
Washington, August 2.—On the line of the
Wi st Virginia Central and Pittsburg road,
now being constructed, there arc four stations
named as follows: Blaine, named after the
ex-seeretary; Elkins, named after the son-in-
law of Mr. Da vjs; Windom, named after the
Minnesota senator, and Davis, turned after i
the West Viiglnia sfeuator. Also Shaw,
named uft; r the prin -ip d engineer of the
-company, who is a resiitcntof Baltimore, all
the above-named gentleman having largely-
invested in the new enterprise. The local
name applied to the road is the “B'oine and
D.j.vis railroad.’’
A Qir:r«.r Suit.
Special Dispatch U>T1.« < ■ bn, Jon.
ji ontrea r.. August 3— D.^riis Dtneer, a
farmer on the lowt r I,;, n ail, is about to
sue the society for the pjwvoiou of cruelty
to animals for having imported sparrows. He
declares that they have already eaten up
thirty acres of barley, destroyed his potatoes
and in general made havoc with his early
vegetables. He estimates the number oi
sparrows on liis land id. 3.1103.
Instantly Killed.
Special Dispatch to the Constitution.
Stratford, Out,, August 3.—Mrs. Drum
mond, while traveling on the Grand Trunk
railway from Wiarton to Stratford, fell off the
train. Her daughter, aged 17, jumped to her
assistance, fell beneath the wheels and was
instantly killed. Her mother was seriously
injured. t
The Hillsdale Crew.
London, August 3.—The Hillsdale crew
have challenged the Amateur rowing.associa
tion to furnish an amalgamated crew to row
an international race in a fortnight. If the
association refuses it* accept the cuallenge
the HUlsdales will claim rite championship
oi England. ,
A Colored Man Denied Accommodation
Providen ce, It. I., August W. A. T.
Smitn, a colored clergyman, made a persist
ent application for accommodation at the
Adams house this afternoon, and was refused
and driven out, avowedly because of his
color. He has employed counsel to prosecute
the landlord under the civil rights law.
LINCOLN, GARFIELD, HILL.
A Striking Contra»t and Toucl»!ns Tribute to Geor
gia** Djlnxr Senator.
From the Indianapolis Journal. t
In the presence of death, in the solemn pause
that precedes and the religious hush that follows
it, malice is disarmed, envy is shamed to silence
and revenge is swallowed up in charity. The dead
have no honorable enemies, and those ignoble
enough to pursue them are powerless to harm.. Not
that death hallows all, but death shrives alL Its
ministration makes the hostile touch of any human
hand a profanation, and to cry out against a pris
oner in its solemn courts is grossest sacrilege. The
grave draws au inviolable mantle of charity over
all; its shadow softens every harsh line and
strengthens every virtue. The world, relentless in
its pursuit of the living, stops at the threchold of
death, and, with uncovered head, pays reverence
to the sovereign whose summons we all await, and
hearing, heed. Against the living the world is
often cruel and bitter and wrong. But for the
dead, who, shrouded by that endless calm that
settles on heart and lips and feet, can never break
the silence to make reply, tnere is ever the kind
liest charity.
Thete was once a people descended from a com
mon ancestry and loyal to one llag. But estrange
ment came The interest of one section of the land
clashed with the convictions of right held by the
other. The bitterness engendered grew stronger,
until it culminated in civil war, and bloodshed
stained the annals of the nation. The barb- irfem of
war aggravated every human passion, until the
better instincts of humanity were well nigh ex
polled. 'Jhe fortunes of war turned again;'the
side of wrong, as we believe, and the victory that
came to their opponents appeared to awake the
keenest feelings of hatred in the hearts of the van
quished. This was, perhaps, only human.
With the return of peace, the passions of war
were succeeded by the less vindictive rivalries in
politics. 15ut even here- the contest at times was so
close, and the feelings of partisans were wrought
up to such a pitch, that nothing seemed ;oo base to
resort to in order to achieve success. During the
last presidential campaign no story of shame, how
ever improbable, seemed to be too mean to be used.
Charges without the shadow of a foundation in
truth were made in the boldest and most confident
manner. Audit was not strange that many, who
did not know the inner cha-acter of the man,
s.iould accep ast true the infamous slanders set
afloat. The assassin’s pistol aroused
the laud. This time there was noth
ing of that vindictive hatred engendered by
the war, and whi h was rife when the assassin of
1805 struck down the noblest man of his century.
In this case the heart of the whole nation responded
to the shock, as if the mortal wound had been uni
versal. As the wear£ days slowly dragged .along,
and the dying president evinced such heroic pa
tience and fortitude, the sympathy of the American
people of every shade of political belief went out
to him in a way that challenged the sympathy of
the world. When Garfield died, and the bells car
ried the tidings throughout the night. there was
not an honorable man any where who did not suffer
in sympathy.
Now another man Ues at death’s door. Lincoln
and Garfield were northern men and republicans.
This is a southern man and a democrat. As the
former were representative men of their party, and
hold in the profession of their views, so is the man
now dying at Atlanta prominent among his fellows
and noted for his.outspoken candor. Ben Hill, of
Georgia, has always been an able, aggressive and
consistent democrat. As such, he has brotteht down
upon himself the antagonism oi the opposition,
/•id, like all men prominent in pubBoJife, has
suffered Attacks upon' hisV^irtTactdr/HVdlt' iftfari ofe-
cial and to- a private eiiiz u. It is not our purp^.-e
to rank Hill with Lincoln a.ol Garfichl, or to inti
mate that he has sor\».d his couutiy to the same
purpose. That would lx- mi inconsistency of which
we will not bet guilty. Ben Hill living, was a
democrat of democrats; B< :> Ilill dying, is a
man am< i, r men. Ills: lic-ti-ic bearing dnrit gthe
post few months, his < h/istio-1 fortitude
in the imnvriu ■:r presence of death hfs won for
him univo: -: 1 >en. In the prime •.«? life, when
the future lo ;k<*d i tost inviting. »ie wassiri kcu by
an incurable < j . II • doubt 1 .- - tcct^uiZi 1 the
inevitable rt -ult when it fi.-.u deve.op «i But to
spare pain to mints, he kept t*i • secret to himself
until secrecy w s no longer possible. All this time
—lor it has been several years sine** it b-gan—he
has carried on his work with a vigor tb a mowed no
Hoatemenc. Now »he end is near, life 'ays are
few, but he is ready. Helms repeatedly declared
that this is th«* happiest period of his existence.
Confessing his human weakness and sins, he ex-
pre’-ses his full preparation to go into the presence
of the Great Judge. The world’s criticism of him
as a politician is swallowed up in iG regard for him
as a mail. In life's supremest moment he has
proven himself heroic, and the sympathy for him
and his is universal. This fee.ingis creditable to
our mi lures. lie who does not respond to it in such
jin hour, is to be commiserated.
The only regret is tlxat this honest sympathy and
charity for the dead ;*\d dying ure not oftener ex-
teinb d to the living , bile the struggle is on. if
the wt rid is evere n.d: 1 and fair in opinions if is
toward the dead, ii we can condone their faults,
which can never be recalled, how much better
would it be to in Ip the living while they are yet
able to do goodi n the world arid atone for what
ever in their past lives has been amiss. Charity for
the dead is a grand virtue, but the same charity
extended to the living would be of infinite more
service. This is eminently a practical world,
and the sympathy and indorsement given
to Lincoln and Garfield dead, would have been in
valuable if extended to them while living. And the
sympathy now felt for the dying senator iron
Georgia would have been sweeter to him whi e in
th vigor of manhood, and would doubtless have
softened his antagonism against those who opposed
him. In the years to come, when other Garfield*
rti' l Hills shall come up to the halls of congress or
before the people for election, if the lessons lea ned
by the bedside of these who have met the last ene
my so composedly shall result in a kindlier treat
ment being extended to their followers, the deaths
c i these men w ill not have been in vain.
The Texan^Yeliow Fever Scare.
Chicago,August «».— A special from Austin,
Tex ts, Mays: “The mayor of Rio Grande City
yesterday telegrapueu to the governor that
yellow f* yer had «.roken out in the town on
the Mexican side of the river and that a panic
existed, Rio Grande City being overrun with
refugees. He wanted a quarantine establish
ed and the g ver ier had instructed him to
use his discretion unless the health officers
of the state had arrived.
A Railroad Accident.
Special Dispat<-h to The Com- iruti. u.
Beloit, Kahsis. August —The passenger
train on the cea tr.il branch of the union Pa
cific railroad fell through a burned bride to
day. The engineer and fireman were so
hadly scalded ar. i injured that they died soon
afterwards. Tho mail and express agents
were injured. All others escaped.
Two Long Lives Ended.
Brockton, Mass, August4.—lion. Artemus
Sale, oldest ex-member of congress, died at
liis home in Bridgewater at 11 o’clock hist
night, aged i);5 years and 2 months.
Montreal, August 4.—Major Hiram Mills,
a native of Virginia, died here yesterday, aged
80.
BUZZ AND BOUNCE.
THE GOSSIP THEY HEAR IN NE , v
YORK.
apicy Talks and Bright Anecdotes of the Meu^.
Things Past and Present in the Metropolis of
the New World—Bar nmn and His
Sensation—Thearical Facta, Etc.
A Destructive Storm.
Milwaukee, August 4.—The most destruct
ive storm for many years swept over the city
yesterday. The damage to property is esti-
itbded from fifty to one hundred thousand
dollars. A man was killed by lightning and a
child was drowned.
A Cotton Failure.
New York, August 4.—The failure of Ben
nett «& Faulke, commission merchants, 121
Pearl street, was bulletined on the cotton
exchange to-day.
A Fishing Fleet Out.
I London, August 3.—The Peterhead fishing
• fleet has'been caught in a gale. Two hun-
I dred boats are still missing.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
New York, August 3.-—The theatrical
son is near enough at hand to enable
me to write intelligently about the attrac
tions booked for the next season in New York.
Two new plays—one by Bronson Howard and
other by Fred Marsden—have just been subrni
to the managers of Madison Square theater,
m&ralda,” with John E. Owens as Elbert Rogers
and Lillian Russell as Esmaralda.willbe continued
until the 7th of October. Bronson Howard’s Jew
play will be produced on the 9th of October. ' The
managers of Madison Square have engaged over
two hundred people to travel with their **Hj«el
Kirke.” “Ksmaralda” an J “Professor” troupes. C.,j
W. Con 1 dock, Charles Wheat legh, R. F. MeCjjj
r.in and J. F. Hog m will play the role of Duusfen
Kirke in the four traveling Tazel Kirke combij|tt-
tions. J illia.ii Russell and 'Tola Allen will t Vo
the leading roles in the Esinaralda companies, jj -r.
David Belaseo. the tilityright that stole and L:ii-
proved ‘'La Belle Russo** and “Heart of Oaks,” has
been engaged as stage manager for the Madison
Square
Abbey U back from Europe. He has engaged
Christine Nilsson for fifty appearances in concert
and oratorio. She will give her farewell concert in
England at Albert hall, London, on October Pith,
and sail for America on the 14th of October. Miss
Hope Glen wili be the contralto of the troupe, Dei
Puente the barritoue, and a handsome unmarried
Swedish nobleman of only tS will be the tener.
Abbey says he is a lady-killer, and will create as
much enthusiasm ufiivng the women as Langtrey
will among the mtn. The Pork theater will be,
opened on the 4th of ^September with Maggie
Mitchell in “Elsa,” a new play written for her.
Raymond, the Florences, and Robsou and Crane
will follow them. “The Jersey Lily” will make her
American debut on the oOth of October, supported
by ait entire company brought with herfrom Eng-
glaud. “In bringing her over,” says Abbey, “I pat
on the American stage the prettiest women and the
finest stage wardrobe that ever appeared before the
footlights of any theater.** Abbey’s other theater,
the Grand, will be opened on the 2811 of .August
with “The Lights O’ London” at night and Clara
Morris giving matinee j in the day time.
Daly’s theatre will open with “The Passing Regi
ment’’ on next Monday with Ada Rehan and the
old crowd iu the caste.
At the Standard theatre, a preliminary season of
four weeks will begin on September 4, when Laura
Don will produce her eanvional drama, “A Daugh
ter of the Nile,” iu which the authoress, Henry Lee,
E. M. Holland, Miss Helen Bancroft and
others will appear. After this W. Park and ».l
Walter’s opera, “Les MauteauxNoirs,” now run ning
at the Avenue theatre, Loudon, will be produced.
This opera will be played for about lour weeks,
after which Gilbert and bullivan’s new opera, cf
which neither title nor plot is yet known to anyone
save tlie writers, will be pus jilted, lor the com
pany only thiee persons have btcu engag *rl in this
country, namely: Helen Dingeon, soprano; J. If.
Rylev and \V. T. Carleton. Tho other members of
the company will be engage ! in London by D’Oyly
Carte..
IV all tick* 4 theatre will open with Henry Pettit’s
SiPKUJw’^iiir ineLKlrinnv. “Taken fr^m LffV-'
lst of j^ttember"vvitnWm. Herbert, of the Prince
of Wales theatre, London, as leading man, sup
ported by Herbert Kelsey, of Drury Lane, and
Miss Mead >r, of Haymarket th atre, London, it
will be seen that Mr. Waliaek continues his habit
of getting his actors, as well as his plays, iroin
broad, lie has secured the American right to
Godfrey’s “The Parvenue,” now running at the
Court theatre, London, and a dramatization oi
“Ot.ida’s” novel, “Moths,” now being played iu
London, and will produce them later iu the sea
son.
Haverly’sllih street theatre will be opened on the
21st of August with Henry Mereditn’s play “Ranch,
10,” which will be followed by Marion Elmore in
her new pUy “Crisp*,” in which some fine scenic
effects are promised. “Crfepa” is siid to be a
California drum* without a miner or mining camp
in it, without a reference to the days of the “49 ers”
or the glorious climate of C.ui/oruia. Jiaverly says
“now that the American manager is flooding this
country with foreign attractions, - he is going to or
ganize American attractions to go to Europe at
once.”
The season at Booth’s will open on the 18th of
September with Georgia Gay van as “Lura Lee” iu
G K c'ims’s new drama ’“Romany Rye.” The cast
includes Emma Stockman, Marie Wilkins, Erms-
tine l'jtoyU, Jean Delxnan, Oetavia Alien, John W
Forton, G F Rockwell, E E IiUon, F F uackuyand
Hany Dixey. The. Fifth Avenue, stetson’s
other theater.'will be opened by .vimee, supported
by a comic opera troupe of twenty-two people
which she brings over from Frame.
The Gnion Square theater will open a prelimin
ary ?*. J :uii the ?lat of August with Nat Goodwin
and ih F. Thorne in “The Black Flag.” Sara Jew
ett, Maud Harrison and Lite entire old Union
square company have gone to California to play
a four months engagement. The regular season
wifi open as soon as they return, which will be
about the 1st of December.
■ The academy of music will be under the direction
of . Muplcson. He will open Gc ober 16th with
nil Italian opera troupe with Adelina Patti asprima
donna. Her route after leaving New York will be
Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincin
nati, Baltimore, Washington, Buffalo and Pitts
burg.
I leant that at Hairigau th llarl’s theatre eomi-
qtte a new policy is to be introduced. Instead of
the usual plays fo’unded upon local characteris
tics from the pen of Edward Harrigau, a comedy
drama of Irish life, entitlec! “The Blackbird,” by
Geoige L Stout, is to be produced.
The New Casino opens Fepteraber 11, with Mile
Theo, the pretty French woman, in comic opera,
with 34 French people, mostly girls. Her repertoire
includes “Mine, i Art-hiduc,” “La Jolie Parfu-
mousc,” “l ili,” “Niniche” and “La Fille du Tam
bour Maj r.”
The Bijou opera house, which lias been open for
two years without mfesiug a single progtamme,
will open what they call their next season oil the
4th of Septentber, with Gilbert and riullivau’s “Sor
cerer.”
Herr Conried is on life way home from Europe
with Miss Josephine Gullmeyer and other European
attractions for the Thalia theatre, which will open
on the 14th cf September.
P T Barnum is back fiom Europe, and according
to his own account of his visit, he created a great
sensation in England as Jumbo does in this coun
try. He says whenever he tcS>k a walk iu any of
the large cities in England the small boys, headed
by the boot blacks, would stone and scoff at him
for having taken their pet Jutnbo from them. He
also says that he attended a military t iiruaiuent in
London, and sat within a few feet of the royal box,
and that the nival family like to have craned their
necks off looking at him. When the Royal Life
Guards came in and gave their musical ride which
resembled the grand entry to a good circus per
formance, the prince of Wales noticed that Barnum
was t cry much interested in their evolutions and
sent him word that while Barnum had succeeded
Jumbo from England de-plte the will
*and'influence of himself, he notified him now that •
he wotfld bieet with his^the prince’s) strongest op
position if he attempted to bring the Royal Life
Guard of England to America to figure in the grand |
entries lT his circus. Another one of his tales is I
that a London firm published his autobiography j
and sold a half a million copies of it before he left.
He further said that there were only two buildings
iu Loudon large enough for his show. They were
and Alexandria Palace, and as he
mt either of them he commenced 1
/'•A a $100,000 building for liis circus in j
proprietors of the Royal hotel en j
building a circus right under their |
ight $200,000 worth of animals and
une.
state law r making it a misdemeanor to selloleo-
'margarine, except when it was labeled as such, went
into effect on the fird of the month, although
there are eight large oleomargarine factories in the
city, besides a large number of small manufactories
down town doing a sort of private business-, there
has beeu no arrests made up to date. Dr. SLine,
who bas interested himself in the matter, has sent
duplicates of this letter to the mayor and others in
authority, but he claims they have taken no steps
to punish the violate; s of this law
Dr. W. De F. Goy, Sanitary Superiute d-
ent—Dear Doctor: I beg to cal your
Attention to a flagrant breach of ihe recent statute
formed and passed expressly ior the prevention cf
selling adulterated butter (or oleomargarine) «s
pure fresh butter. There are several such factories
in the lower part of the city in full blast every
night, engaged in turning out large quantities of
this vile compound, made of the lowest grade of
impure and rancid fats. Next day it is packed
in heavy tin boxes, labeled as pure Orange county
butter, and forwarded to the summer hotels for
innocent dupes to feast on during their vacatio i
from the city. Oa yesterday evening 1 visited one
of these places. I found eight men working with
their dirty shoes on in a large pan containing sev
eral hundred weight of this noxious and vile com
pound. They worked with common shovels, such
as are used iu making mortar, aiul were salting and
coloring the compound under the direction and
•taste of an overseer. 1 consider this an outrage,
which should be quickly stopped, and will cordially
co operate with any person whom you or die proper
authorities may appoint to have it stopped ai.d the
offenders punished, lours most respectfully,
W. L. Siiink, M.D.
This showing of Dr. Shine makes the “firat-clas;
butter you find at second class restaurants” much
more undatable than it was before.
The hews comes from Washington that Conkling
is the pewer behii tl the throne, that caused Au-
thur to veto the river and harbor bill. Authur is a
strony believer in tlie west, and consequently in
the improvements of the Mississippi river as the
great commercial artery that leads from the sea to
the heat t of the we t, giving it life* and prosperity.
Conkling has always opposed Mississippi river im
provements on the ground that-the southern states,
under cover of these bills, plundered the treasury
>-t the exjJfhise of the northern taxpayers. At a
roiiLicnce between the president and the ex-sena
tor it mutual friend states that the president ar-
gt.ed the necessity of coLCiliniing the western re
publicans by giving them the patronage promised
by their representatives in congress in passing the
bi’l. Conkling urged that he v would make
.me re in New York state, where he was weak on
eecouutof his Albany campaign, by signing the
veto/ than he would luge in the west by disappoint
ing the friends of the Grill. Arthur Seemed set iu
his purpose aud could not be persuaded, until
'conkling had nude an active canvass of his triends
in congress and was enabled to give the president
good assurances that the bill would be passed im-
inertiately over his veto, and that his friends in the
west would in any event get the benefits of the bill.
With these lights before him, Arthur affixed his
signature to the veto aud message that Conkling
had prepared, not because he thought it was right,
but as a diplomatic act, for the purposed regaining
his prestige in New York state. The veto bore fruit
beyond the most sanguine expectations of either
Conkling or Arthur, and today Arthur is stronger
than ever in New York. Nearly every paper in the
state, irrespective of party or politics, indorses the
message and veto of the president and censures iu
unmeasured terms congress for overriding it.
POINTS.
Yesterday thirty Russian Jews returned to tlicir
homes in Russia. Their excuse ior asking assistance
to enable them to get home was that they were un
used to manual labor and not capacitated for it;
that they had rather put their lives in jeopardy mid
be subjected to persecution than to work all day in
the bniiling.suii on a farm; that they were satisfied
that they < udangered their lives more by trying to
do farm work under an American sun than they
did by going home; of the two, they had rather be
under the Russian knout than the sun of this
country; they came to this country expecting to be
employed in mercantile houses, not on farms.
J. II. Ilaverly and J'. E. Abbey came over on the
sarue ship with Thus Ju, the Chinese ambassador to
this country, and his suite. Unbeing met in New
Yoik by a dramatic critic anxious for news, they
werj t sked, “Which of you brought over the troupe
of Japs?”
Fince November, 1881, two hundred unsafe build
ings have been torn down by authority cf law.
Twelve hundred have been condemned aud made
safe.
Princess Louise and Marquis of Lome are booked
for New York next week. After making a short
stay here, they go to Newport and Narragansett
Pier. Buzz and Bounce.
ATLANTA’S WEATHER.
| •
F13URES THAT SHO.W US THAT
WE SHOULD KEEP COOL.
Th© Coldest Day and th© Hottest Days - Th© Delight
ful Breeze that ia Ever Blowing Here—Dog
Days that do not Bring Us Oppressive
Weather—Th© Official Statement.
Tlie Hartford, Conn., Times prints an arti
cle on the heat of that part of the ivorld
which may prove interesting to the readers of
The Constitution - , and as a line showing can
he made by the comparison of tlie climate of
North Georgia with that of Connecticut, it
may serve to cool off any patriot who might
show a disposition to find fault with Atlanh^
weather. The article is as follows:
"The summer has reached that point at
which the heat begins to show not only its
quantity, but its quality. For there is a qual
ity of heat which tells, on perspiring human
ity, quite as much as the quantity; perhaps
even more. It is more trying, certainly, and
probably more dangerous, to be exposed long
now to the full blaze of the sun, even when
the shaded thermometer marks but Si de
crees at the wai mest hour, than it was a
motith ago with the mark at !>i degrees. Earth
find air have become heated; the air from the
ground is warmer than it was a month ago.
The weather, though the mercury does not
range so high as it did at the beginning of the
month, has grown more like the sum
mer weather of portions of the
West ’ Indies. Our New England
J uly and August often bring a good deal of
that very kind. They never have, in most
parts of Cuba and Hayti for example, any
Hotter summer weather than some of our
hottest days; nor are even the nights, oa
most of the islands, so much warmer than
ours at this season as many people seem to
imagine. The most trying thing about their
nights (aside from their insect plagues) is the
fact that they keep just a few degrees too
warm all night, and ior months together, and
do not bring the cojl change, about dawn,
which in our midsummer nights is so re
freshing. From the restless sleep of such
nights as they have iu summer, on most of
those islands, one rises not much refreshed,
and waits impatiently for that coolor hour of
tlie daily sea wind from ihe east. So far as
actual heat is concerned, we have, probably,
us much of it here in u Connecticut July—ut
least in the hours of daylight—as they have
in Santo Domingo, or even in Forto Ilico, or
Jamaica.”
Now for the Atlanta tables. Below are pre
sented tables showing the maximum temper
atures since LST'.l, inclusive, the year in which
the signal office was established here. The
tables were copied from those in the cilice of
Sergeant Hall, the only variation being that
the fractions of a degree are not given. The
temperature in 1879 ii shown in the following
table:
FOR THE YEAR 1S79.
YELLOW FEVER.
It. ProKrcM lu ISrown.viile and Along t he Klo I:r.'.ule
Valley.
Brownsville, Texas, August 5.—There are about
flfiy cases of yellow fever now existing auil increas
ing rapidly. Th.re was to-day one death, a Ger
man named Quasi, recently from Europe. Them
are conflicting reports about the disease existing
throughout the country, but they are not reliable
Kinustox, Jamiaca, Augusts.—Demeraraadvices
says that yellow fever has siu.fii itself in the ship
Giitner, at dacauri Creek. Several sailors have
died from it. The health of the city of George
town and the harbor continues good, not a single
ease of yellow fever being recorded.
Galveston, August 5r-The schooner Hen
rietta, from Matamoras, with a suspicious
case of sickness, having been supplied
with medical officers aud stores, will sail to-day for
the nearest port having a quarantine hospital.
Havana, Aucust 5.—There were thirty-four
deaths from yellow fever in Havana up to Thurs
day evening.
Clilntwl Cannot Ho Naturalized.
Washington, August 5—An intelligent, well-
dressed young Chinaman, Ah Kit by name, ap
plied yesterday to Judge Wylie for papers of natu
ralization. After a consideration of the Chinese
bill as recently enacted, Judge Wylie to-day in
formed Ah Kit that although he had lived long
enough in this country the provisions of that bill
absolutely forbade the nzturalizatiou of Chinese
from the date of its passage.
SENATOR HILO’S CONDITION.
The week just ended marked no special change
in Senator Hill's condition further than that he has
slowly grown weaker. 1 esterday he was up but
he cannot walk without assistance. He continues
to sleep quietly at night. It is impossible to be
lieve from .Mr. Hill’s condition that another Sun
day will fintl him alive.
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437
FOR THE YEAR. 1881.
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March
June
July
till
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Annual means
4i»:»
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fox: THE YEAR IKS2.
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March
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For the three davs proceeding ye
sttu
X.IV
the tempera u : was as follows:
On the
1st
maximum So,- minimum G8, on the 2
1 Til
axi-
mum 82. mini! 1 '-urn G!>; on the 3d maximum
So, minimum till.
It will he seen from -the tables that at no
time lias the temperature been higher than
99. The warmest day was in October, 18:0;
tlie coldest day was in December of the same
year, at, which'time the thermometer fell to
zero. The present summer has been a most
delightful one. At no time has the weather
been oppressively, or even uncomfortably,
warm.
The summer resorts have been patronized
only on account of a custom which takes
people out of town during the summer and
not on account of any lack of pleasant weath
er at home. Atlanta is situated so that a
breeze is always stirring, and generally there
is a pretty stiii wind, which, in the suburbs,
is so strong that on some days windows have
to he put down in order to keep it out. Tlie
nights are now, in the midst of dog days, so
cool that no one would think of sleeping
without one blanket or more Altogether,
Atlanta may be congratulated.
AN ENGAGEMENT WITH ARABI.
between the Mahntoudieh canal and the Cairo
railway, tiring upon the enemy’s position
from three sides. "The engagement, which is
of a serious nature, stiii continues^ Arabi
I’asha sent 14 men with a white flag to tlie
British camp this morning. The party was
received by Major Pringle, but the interview
was without result,
11:30 p.m.—The object of the-operations
to-day was a reooilBoisance in force. Com
mencing at 4 o'clock this afternoon, a steady
advance was made, tho marines upon the
railway line, the rifles upon the west hank
of Mahntoudieh canal, and the Souths afford-
snire regiment and the 1 mounted infantry
upon the east bank. The enemy were
driven in from ail their advanced
posts and compelled to bring in to
action all their troops available in front of
their principal line of entrenchments at Kap-
reV Dowar, namely, t about four battalions of
ihtintry, a force of cavalry and several guns.
The ialtar were completely silenced by the
accurate fire of our 49-pounders. The Egy p
tian iniaiuryjiekl thvir ground with consid
erable steadiness. The marines at the rail
way, who werewmder immediate command of
General Allisoa, pushed the enemy back
u l >0 n their second line of entrenchments
toward Kaprel Dowar. The marines were
supported by the South Staffordshire regi
ment and the rifles. They suffered somewhat
hut behaved with the greatest coolness and,
steadiness under heavy lire. The object pf
the British operations was to compel the
eitpjuy to[ display what force and what guns
they hart in front of the main position, and it
was completely attained.. This wa; ao. er r
mined by nightfall, when the British slowly
and steadily withdrew'. No, accurate return
of the killed and wounded is obtainable. The
enemy’s lu: s is unknown. A large number,
of wounded fell into, the hands ol .the
British. Many dead were seen. A considera
ble number of toe enemy Were made pris
oners.
A Tipsy Man’s Wealth.
Driving a yoke of scrub steers, Jones was
n center of attraction. It was about as much
sis he could do to keep his seat on the wagon,
as his visits to the grocery had been numer
ous.
“Reckon you think I’ve got nothin’,” said
he to a small boy who had been eyeing him
curiously.
"Don't look like you had.”
"Gol-darned if I ain’t got money though,
if I am driving steers through town. I’ve got
five teams, and my old woman can ride in a
carriage if she wants to.”
By this time Jones was half way across the
street after the little boy, hut detecting Lite
friendly glance of a passing stranger, lie
pulled his flask out on him. The proffered
kindness was declined.
“Didn't 1 give it to that town chap,” said
he. "J made fifty bales oi cotton fast year.
I raised three hundred bushels of wheat.”
“You are a model farmer then? ”
"Just ask Clem Green or Aug Perkerson. it
they don’t know me. If 1 mu driving steers
I won’t he run on. I’ve got teams. I’ve got
four hundred acres of land a'J paid for. I’ve
got—hie—I’ve got $90,(too.” And the rest of
the story was cut off by the gurgling of the
contents of the flask down his throat.
Uncle Jeems’Device g
Uncle Jeems Harris, the Fulton tax receiv
er, is a man who generally proves equal to
emergency. Years ago he had tine flowing
locks of hair, hut time has made a considera
ble clearing on the his lute fastnesses of his
massive head. .Sitting in his office during the
long summer days, his -■ dozes wt re frequently
interrupted by ilies seeking a rest upon tlie
bald spot. The other day on reaching Ins
office he carefully removed liis hat and sat
down. It was not long before Sheriff Vt'ilson
entered, and-with a Took of concern, said:
“Mr. Harris, there is a spider on your head;
don’t let it. run out to yoqr ears.”
“It won't’ move fat^’ saidUnch- Jeems,
“I’ve been pestered so tench \vith flies that I
couldn’t rest.. 1 recollected that these nui
sances will not go near a spidiir, r.o seeing a
picture of a little spider in a pafier this morn
ing I rut it out and pasted it mi the bald'
place hr re. If anj* onecoaies to-’give in just
wake me up.”
MORSELS OF GASTRONQMIY.
From the New York Mail.
It is now the proper 'hing to see how many lish
can be served at me llsfl dinner.
During very hoi weather some people do not care
whether the.price of beef is high or low.
Sheeps heads ai.d pompano, sea bass, red snapper
and salmon are now the fish in highest favor.
Woodcock is roar iu season, and tastes fine
enough for any ,it.i::e-!over, whetheron toast or not.
There svere cigt ire-i e arses and ten wines at the
dinner ia Paris lo apiti the new Hotel de Ville.
Now the epicure rises and says that salt pork
ruins any artlbl - of food with whien it is cooked.
Some of- dttr won! Id-be epicures now have
Madeira with the its i—or wluit they declare is
She
ara.
Amorg the good soups of the hour should not be
forc'd ton a puree of crab and bisque of craw
fish.
We used to call them chicken croquettes, but
now on the menu they are stytert ‘ croquettes de
capon."
Pear hes become better and better as the season
advances, and are now in condition to go with
cream.
Artificial mushroom sauce one gets at some
hotels a 1 restaurants is a good thing to let severely
alone.
A nice and se-vronabJa entree »u this time is
chicken [gtie's lvi t freshly pickled “field mush-
ssert it the tir.lt house,
cake," ‘'corn dodger,"
Order tUj’uwj.l cf
Louisville, i served “1
and "little pumpers.”
Wise people w ill let veal severcit alone, especial
ly in hot weather/ To cat of ft in large or siirgll
quantities trot ovly mcaes veal but woe.
Now is the cost time of the year for our profes
sional cooks to “spread :h mse:vc«,” for they have
what may be called oeCarts of material.
Kick berries are vaSCv improved and benefitted
by being covered wifi: cracked ice and powdered
sir ear for some little rime before being served.
Soft shell crabs, lirtc fried oysters! ant ruined bv a
superfluity of batter, winch the average French
cook seevs bent on smearing all over them.
I'oirsonrme stock is the foundation for more than
half the soups of different names enumerated on
the hill of fare at European plan Hotels and restau
rants.
WHY THE COWS CAMS LATE.
and Hat
London, August 5.—A dispatch to the Reu
ters telegram company, dated at Alexandria
0:35 o’clock this evening, says: At 5 o'clock
this afternoon, tlie British troops with a num
ber of field guns, with .the sailors, attacked
the advanced guard of Arabi near lUmleh,
Crimson sunset bur ning
O’er the tree-fringed Mils;
Golden a>e the meadows.
I!uby flashed the rills.
• Quiet m the far mhouse.
Heme the farmer hies:
But iris wife i- watching,
Shading anxious eves.
While she lingers with her pail beside the baraya
gate.
Wondering why her Jennie and the cows con
home so late:
Jennie, brown-eyed maiden,
" sintered down the 1 ane;
That was ere the daylight
Had begun to wane.
Deeper grows the shadows:
Circling swallows cheep;
Katydids are calling;
.. ,, Mi~hj o’er meadows erven.
still the mother shades her eves besides the bar
yard gate,
A,U be so hue:"'' 010 *' er Jcunie aml the cows ci
Loving sounds are falling.
Homeward now at last.
Speckle, hers and Brindie,
Through the gate have passed.
Jennie, sweetly blushing,
Jamie grave and shy.
Takes the pails from mother.
Who stands silout by.
Not one Word is spoken as the mother Juts tl
gate.
But now she knows why Jennie and the cows can
home so late.
, —John Boynton.