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WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.
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VOLiUMB XI c
TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER IT, 1882.
PRICE 5 CENTS
DURING THE WEEK.
WHATT HE PEOPLE OF CITY AND
COUNTY ARE DOING.
Tt« Ormocrsts Carry 0*» b7 30,000 Majority, Elect-
Inc Fifteen Cor*TWm*n-Xbo National Cotton
Picotara* Aasoolarwn Holds a Meeting In
Litila ttncg-Lnoal Evrtl* of lUa Week.
1 10«
W0 Urn J. Sailer and Wilnot H. Ward. Fennsyl-
vaula politicians, arrested in Washington fur steal
ing bond plan s. Tlielr defense U mat they waund
to prove the negligence of ihe-officeni in cbnrpe
Hume Keitman, in Kvunt-ville, Indiana, murdcn.il
hie wife, lie was altarked t#y a mob of citlzeUHand
killed. A. W. How, a wealthy banker of Cincin
nati, a*>«i> I lotted General Butler accepts the dem-
ocrauc nomination in Mavtacbueelt*. Bradetreet
report a iiei.erul improvement in the condition of
the coin'll cn p Tbe prosecution of Dickson, fore
men of rlic late tier route grand jury, l» to be
pressed. Up to date ilicre have been 999 cases of
yellow ievirand *i»death* iherefrom in Fenaacola.
I rate in giniailoiia tieiweeu Peru and Chill hate
been broken • IT The Virginia politicians are con
ducting a very lilitt-r personal canvass.
IS IIIKCIIV.
Through trains have Halted on the Bast Tennes
see, Viral-is and tieontia road. 1 he circus Is in
the city, Death of Thomas J ilaivllle, of Atlantu.
The attorney* oi Mr Ferguson have se.ved notice
upon Mrs it llovt, of a contest to his seat in the
senate. A little son of Ur K It Kidlcy broke bin arm.
WedarMlay, Ortsbrr It.
The Hats election took plat e in Ohio, and re
suited in a deineiT lie victory of AJ.OOOin tbe stale,
the election of fifteen democrat, and Fix republl
cans to congress, and a clean sweep of thecouaiy
offices. In a collision on llie new East Tcimearrc
road, at Ooltewah Tennessee, too engineer, James
N Waters, and the pilot, John Hobbs, were killed
Iu a collision at Dallas Texas, six persons were
killed. A Scotch astronomer predicts that in Oclo-
bor, 1*83, the comet will strike into the sun, and
them will be an end of things generally,
Howard Carroll has been nominated by the
republicans of New York for congretman-
at-large. If C Mead, a wealthy banker of
Wapaca.Wisoonsln, murdered by unknown parties.
A colored boy was killed in New Orleans by bis ac
quaintances because he played the drum at a dem
ocratic political gathering. Tho telegraphic line
between North and South America has been com
pleted. A monument is suggested to the late \V. T.
Thompson, of the Savannah News. The Air-Line
railroad has changed hands, and It Is surmised that
it will pass into the control of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, ltev. J. L. Denton, an Arkansas
preacher, has. committed suicide.
_ IN TIIE CITY.
A night distributing clerk has been
put on in the Atlanta post-office. T he case of Rice,
funner assivtant postmaster at Lula, is up in the
federal court.
Thnmiiuy, October 12th.
England Is buying up the shares in the Suez ca
mil with the object of gaining complete control
Mary Bullivan, who made herself conspicuous as a
murderess ami outlaw, has been lynched. Don
Carlos's son James, has been declared tbe successor
to bis claims. Secretory Folger will not rotlgn un
til he shall have been elected governor of New
York The President Is in Boston to attend the
unveiling of a monument of Webster. Considera
ble excitement exists In Lee county, Ala., over an
anticipated negro Insurrection. Over 80 refugee
families are in Columbus. Brv.ee,the colored ex-set.
ator, is stumping Mississippi. A $3.">,0C0 fire iu Con
cord. N. H Workmen on an old building in Nor
folk found the itajgau of two twbies in the garret.
' 'X .inner ttr Pine Blull's, Arkansas, put poison in
some of his. watermelons (or thieves, and then, by
mistake, brought one home to tho family, from the
effects of which all died.
IN THE CITY.
A general desire is expressed for Mr. Pam Inman
to become a candidate for the mayoralty. Eix
courts are now in session In Atlanta. West End
voted in favor of tho fence law. Jordan & Cranston
failed. The Atlanta medical college opened its fall
session.
Friday, October IS.
The National Cotton Planters’ association is hold
ing its fifth annual session in Little Rock, Arkansas.
I n its opening proceedings was a procession oi drays
beating 300 bales oi prize cotton. Major-General
McDowell has been placed on the retired list,
bank cashier in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, knocked
down and robbed ol $"-0,000. A grain syndicate has
been organized in Chicago, with W. II. Vanderbilt
in the list. The laborers oi the Southern Pacific
road are on a strike. Diphtheria is alarmingly
prevalent in Virginia. Congressman Lowe, of Ala
bama, the noted independent, is dead. George
Fisher, a colored fugitive, jumped into the caualat
Augusta and was drowned.
IN THE CITY.
The grand jury of Fulton county is going to find
numerous indictments in connection with the re
cent senatorial election in the 35th. George Rice,
the Lula assistant postmaster, has been convicted
of robbing the mails. The case of W. W. Findley,
James Fiudley, Jackson Bearden and George
Sparks, charged with attempted murder and arson
in the Stewart case from Fannin county, was then
taken up. W. M. Townsend, accused of horse
stealing in Paulding county, arrested by the At
lanta police.
tlatarday Ocloser 14th.
One of tho Taylors, who recently murdered the
shcriffand deputy sheriff of Hamilton (Chattanooga)
county, has been met up with and killed in resist,
ing arrest in Missouri. A German family of six
persons starved to death in Wilkesbarre, I’a. Pen
sarola makes an urgent appeal for help. Tbe fever
daily grows worse and the destitution passes descrip
tion. The Irish land league has been dissolved
and merged into the Irish national association.
It will be under the same management, but wider
in its scope. The effect of the Ohioelection is being
felt in Pennsylv nia. Paul Pringle was hanged in
Mansfield, Louisiana, yesterday. Colonel John
Cockrill, of the St Louis Post-Dispatch, was at
tacked by, Ex-Congressman Slay bach, and killed his
adversary. In a Laramie City fight three men were
killed and a fourth was lynched. Tho North Caro
lina negroes are frightened at the comet.
IN THE CITY.
Judge Richard Peters has been elected a member
•f the board of county commissioners of Fulton
county. Hon. H. W. Baldwin, of Madison, has
been commissioned county judge of Morgan
Pledger has returned from Ohio somewhat demor
alized. State Treasurer Speer has been elected
director of the Georgia railroad in place of Gen
eral E. P. Alexander, president of the Central
road. Three men in Fulton county jaiL
SuClT, October 13.
i Laborers on the levees in New Orleans are getting
$75 per month. An attempt was made to assassinate
Congressman Thomas, at Carbondale, Illinois. J W
Bliss was assaslnated at Memphis. Franklin Eason
has been nominated by the democrats of New York
for mayor. Venezuela will celebrate her centenary
on Jnly34.
in the errv.
In the United States court room, when the two
Findleys and Bearaen were found guilty.they drew
revolvers and made a break for liberty. One of the
Findleys’ escaped, but the other two were held,
convention of the Churches of Christ will be held
in Atlanta, on the first of November, it. Philip'i
Episcopal church has been formally opened,
murderous assault was made on Hr. John M. Pope,
by the negroes on the Jonesboro road.
Ta Pan He*
When you are near,
feel the hot blood mount into my check;
1 more as one upon whose life a spell
Most powerful has fallen, and I sp*-ak
With word-dogged tongue; but why 1 cannot tell.
And when your eye*
Glam* into mine, a strange electric thrill
Runs through each vein; I bow my head and stand
•—ul-boumf captive, subject to your will.
Held fast with silken cords to friry laud.
And when your hand.
fraud fashioned so slenderly, rests within mine
own,
I know not If the world tsd -rk or bright;
The run may shine, or winter winds may moan.
The outer world is blotted from my right.
1 can but see
Tbe rare sweet beauty of your dark brown eyes.
The well poised head ine dainty red-iipe lips.
The wealth of brown tllkeu trews, blown carcless-
Wbal wonder if all else Is in eclipse.
Paahloa’s Freak*.
London letter in the British Wetkly Mall.
I saw an tccontrio but very handsome “uini-ont”
oxford street this morning, it corsisted of a
dark-green dog earl of very lighistructnre. with the
wheel", body and shafts picked out with red, drawn
by a laiauiifuliy symmetrical mule with light-brown
harness. 'I he Keoilen.an who drove this equippnge
was a well-dressed, swaitby personage—awcstl-i-
diau Creole, I should s.y attended by an English
groom in irreproachable livery.
LIGHT MELANGE.
Pram Grave tv Gay — Fr
Lively tv Senw.
BUZZ AND BOUNCE.
THE GOSSIP THEY HEAR IN NEW
YORK.
Bpioy Talks and Bright Anecdotes of tbe Men and
Things Tsar and Present In the Ms’ropclis of
the New World—Wave the Preachers
Are Biying- Theatrics! Faots.Eio.
Whet
From Nye’s Boomerang.
There lives an old gentleman who is famous for
the soiled condition of his linen. An old friend
who had been lookieg fixedly at the bosom of tbe
old gentleman's shirt, spoke out thus: “I say,
major, I've known you for the last twenty years,
ana there Is something about you that has puzzled
me very much. I would llketoa k you about it if
you have no objection. I hope you wont get
rnsd?"
’’Well, no; I reckon not ”
’•Well, then, major, do tell me who wears your
shirts before they get dirty?”
A Perriatent Lever and ilia Whip.
From the Montreal Star.
Miss Lowery horsewhipped Edward Orr at Gray’s
Falls, Out., because he preferred another girl in
marriage. Her two brothers and new lover held
him fast while she plied the whip That happened
year ago. Orr obtained tbe whip and has since
flogged each of the threo men separately with It,
thelast to receive the punishment getting so much
that he was confined to hLs bed for a week. The
girl then b< came frightened, and wrote to ask If she,
too. was to be whipi ed. Orr replied that he had no
such intention, but thought he might feel Impelled
to thrash her father and several of her cousins un
less they treated him with deference.
Real and Imitation Llghtalag.
From tho Washington Critic.
Over in old Virginia the other day an old-time
sort of a fellow was sitting out on the porch in front
of bis honse during a heavy rain and thunder
storm. It appears that the old fellow was a heavy
drinker, being.pretty full at the time. On this occa
sion he was in his usual condition, when, iu the
twinkling of an eye. he was struck dumb by light
ning. Ills fmnllv and friends thou ht he was killed,
but in the course of half an hour he recovered.
Opening his eyes and looking all around, lie said to
a friend who was standing by: “1 am mighty glad 1
am not killed, because if I ha been all the tem
perance people would hare said it was whisky that
did it.”
An Ethiopian Change* Ilia Skla.
From the Richmond Dispatch.
There lives in Henry county, Virginia, a negro
man whose color ten years ago was dark brown,but
since that time has gradually whitened until to-day
he is as white as the averago Caucasian. Tho
change commenced some years ago upon the hands
and extended gradually to thelimbs.body and face,
and finally altered the appearance of the entire man.
The subject of this notice is Jack Pres on by name,
once a «Jave of the late William Ballard Brea'af, is
slxij' oeaj years old. in gooJ tfealth. Him lives on
the Chestnut Knob in said county. Jack would
pa-* anywhere for a white man but for his hair,
which plalnlybetrays his race. To many this will
he hard to believe, but the fact is known to a hun
dred of his neighbors.
Entail*"* Relic-
Front the Chicago Tribune.
IAs Eulalie McGirlyglrt's words floated upon the
soft air oi a June afternoon and fell upon the ear
of Berwick Hethertngton, who was swinging lazily
fn a hammock that hung beneath the larches, he
smiled the cold, cynical smile he had learned in
Kenoeha. and then he raised himself on one elbow
and fell out of the hammock.
The noise attracted Eulalie's attention and she
came to the window, holding a shoe in her hand.
Leaning out over tho casement, she was about to
offer words of condolence andsympathyto Berwick,
when her foot slipped, and the loud crash of furni
ture which followed so startled the girl that she
dropped the shoe.
t» 0 0 O O c* I
“Will this patient ever recover?" asked a visitor
at a noted insane asylum.
“It is a hopeless case.” replied the physician.
‘He was brought to the hospital nearly two years
ago dreadfully mangled and while his health was
restored reason bad fled. His one idea is that the
court house is falling on him.”
^ i <i ft <i
“We have kept the secret well, daughter," said
Mrs McGirlygirt to Eulalie one summer afternoon.
“Yes,” was the reply. "But do you know that I
have never worn the shoe since that day?”
“How foolishly notional you arc, darling," said
the mother. ’You might at least give it to some
poor family who have no home to protect them from
the cold.”
“No," answered the girl. “It is a sacred relic,
and I shall always keep it to remind me of one who
might have been my husband."
CvaiKltnt Palace* In Decay.
Faiifield, Conn., Correspondence Now York8un.
It is noticeable that Improvements put upon any
laud, no matter how highly valued by the owner
for their beauty, comfort or magnificence, do not
attract others when death takes away the builder or
ruin comes upon him—in cither case requiring a
sale. This holds good everywhere, as for example,
$500,000 spent In Improvements at Canonchet.actual
sale, $63,500; Jay Cooke's Ognontz, over a million,
bought in for him at $1 0,000: Lee rami Lockwood's
palace, $1,200,100; sold for $120.000: and so on. The
value of tbe land alone is abont what the forced
sale brings.
So in Fairfield there are numerous estates highly
improved which are for sale at far below the actua
cost of building Others are likewise obtainable
because of busiuess requiring engrossing attention
elsewhere, as John Glover's with seventeen and a
half acres, which could be bought for about what
should be a fair value for the land—say $18,000 In
fact, there is to be had beautiful property which
cost tbe former owners half a million—for probably
one-third the amount. These houses are good
enough for any lord to live in, with gronnds in the
highest state of cultivation and adornment
Land in this section is very high, tbe farms sell
ing at $300 to $700 per acre, and very little of it for
sale. The crops of vegetables, especially onions,
produce enormous returns, sometimes netting as
much as $400 to the sere Usually the farms are
small—of ten to twenty acres. They are generally
fanned on shares with any tenant. I asked the
money value of rental, and was told It seldom was
done, and the only instance my informant knew of
was ten acres at $400 per annum.
The high state of cultivation and the skill of the
laborers produce this result, for the vegetables do
not command a price much higher than those in
other-stales. It requires constant care incessant work,
thorough manunr-gand considerable care tc run a
farm of t00acres. What is done In Co necticntonght
to bo studied by southern farmers, who have a
richer soil and a better climate. It looks
absurd to see tbe Connecticut farm' re toiling away
each year to scratch out wagon loads of boulders
and rocks from the fields in which their crops have
jnst harvested. But they build fences with the
stone, and pnt $8 of manure and phosphates upon
an acre of such ground; and the grora crop will
often reach $600 or $ 00 per acre. •
The Death «r Ur. Parker.
Special Dispatch to The Constitution.
CoLCNBtA, S.C.. October 11.—Dr. J. W.Parker.one
ol the oldest and most popular citizens of Colum
bia, and for many years one of the foremost physi
cians of the south, died here this morning in hla !
eighty-first year. For nearly forty years Dr. Parker
was superintendent of the south Carolina lunatic
asylum at Columbia. He leaves a wife and a large
number of children and grand-children. Be will
be buried to-morrow in the Elmwood cemetery in
this city.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
New York, October >2. 1882—There was just a
bare susphion of flatulency in the t levcland boom
when tbe news from Ohio same and stiffened
things up.
Yon see Hancock had almost- ns big a boom as
Cleveland’s, and yet It petered out. The news
from Ohio, however, sets tho current wlrh Cleve
land. and he will grow rather than decline from
now till the polls are closed. Put it down as a cer
tainty that Cleveland will be New York’s next
governor. If he governs New York as be governed
Buffalo, lookout for him iu Washington abont
March 4th, 1885. \
Last Sunday quite a number of our preachers fol
lowed Beecher’s example and delivered political
s-rmnns. Talmadge said: “As an illustration of the
degradation of American polltios let’s take the York
town celebration to oar public men. It was a
drunken caiousaL The celebration was conducted
by the i-oiiticians, and thi y besmirched the occa
sion, and then made the government pay the wine
bill for their drunken debauch. Garfield’s funeral
was a disgraceful wake. The public men who fol
lowed tbe dead president to hit grave were drink
ing and cursing all the way to Cleveland and back,
and never before’ nor since was as much whisky
drunk in Cleveland as on the day of Garfield’s fu
neral. and these politicians made the tax-payers pay
their bar bills. At the Saratoga convention another
fraud was enacted which is a parallel to the forged
telegram. A man in the Oneida delegation. In as
bold a spirit of fraud as was ever practiced this
side of pandemonium, arose and declared that the
Oneida delegation would go over from Wadsworth
to Cornell. It was an attempt to get up a stampede
for Cornell, and it would have proved successful
bnt that one of tbe misrepresented Oneida delegates
protested that he voted for Folger. I say, cursed be
the forged telegram, and cursed be tho Oneida
fraud. People ask me whether I am a republican or
a democrat. I tell them, one and all. Thank God
I am neither.
Dr. Newman preached on NewJYork politics. He
said if New York city officials were to restore all
that has been stolen from the city treasury, it
would be the richest city in the world. It is a city
of thieves, respectable thieves, for whom you vote,
thieves too good to go to the penitentiary, but who
sent lesser thieves there.
Elbert S. Porter preaches on partisan politics. Ho
predicted the speedy disruption and ruin of the re
publican rariy unless it could be relieved of the
rule of vicious partisans. He hoped for the defeat
of the republican party this fall, because he thought
it would be a good thing for it and for the people
“I have voted the republican ticket,” he said, “since
I860 But it is so eager for spoils that 1 will vote for
its defeat, ”
Dr. C. S. narrower preached on "Public Morals. 1
lie said: “There are in New York state 80,000 men
directly Interested In politics, and these are only
representatives of still lower wire pullers. Tho
community acquiesces in the wholesale corruption
of politics by these politicians, and attire same time
declares that it Is a nuisance to go to primaries and
get up a ticket in opposition to the politicians. 1
Rev. j H. M. Hodge preached on “Profession at
Politics.”J.He said: “Christian men make a great
mistake in keepiugaway from politics and leaving
unECOipulousnre^ to run the machine Thf-tis r_
time of political malaria. I flying, and dander, and
fraud and bribery, such as havo been resorted to
wltbln.a few days back, are suffered tobesuccessful
In political life, how long will it be before lying, and
slander, and fraud, and bribery will invade every
pursuit in life, and sap the very foundation of our
liberties? Corruption in politics unrebuked give
sanction to immorality in every walk. Go out, then,
at the next election and vote. Vote down fraud.”
Dr. J. G. Oakley preached on “Politics and Reli
gion.” He said: “The complaint that political
power has been drifting into the control of bad and
scheming men Is true, just because the Christian
citizen has stayed at home on election day and not
done his full duty to his fellow-man by opposing
the bad and the scheming men. Let him awake;
let him interfere to counterbalance the evil in poli
tics by the puissant influence of the good, and God
will rule where Satan now seems to hold the sceptre
of power.”
On Tuesday Henry Ward Beecher made a new
departure by withdrawing from the Congregational
association, giving as his reason that he did not
want to hold the association responsible for ht* be
liefs and doctrines. He said he did not believe
punishment in the next world would be of the
body; it would be mental, according to the laws of
moral sensibility. The idea of sulphur, fire, a del
uge of devils, etc., was to him barbaric. The doc
trine of original sin as found in the faU of Adam ho
repudiated as being the conception of men who
were uneducated on the subject. The doctrine was
not used once in the instructions of all the ages of
the Old Testament, and a single passage in the four
Gospels could not be applied to it except by much
misconstruction; it could be found only in the Pau
line writings. He believed in the Trinity aud con
sidered it useless to try aud divide the functions.
He believed in a God who ruled the world through
natural lawB. He believed in the divinity oi Christ
and that ne was God manifest in the flesh, but he
was infinite within finite limits, and as a man was
subject to the laws ol time, space and matter.
Yesterday while out sight-seeing I went through
a tenement house in the Chinese quarter on Mott
street. I saw there some half a dozen families liv
ing in one dark, badly ventilated room. Their beds
or sleeping apartments filled ene end of the room
and were arranged one a row of shelves one above
the other, like berths in a sleeping car. The other
end of the room was used for general household
purposes, such as cooking, washing, etc. When I
saw how the “heathen Chinee" could take a me
dium sized room and convert it into an apartment
honse with separate suites of rooms for a half a
dozen families, I no longer wondered at his being
able to work for twenty-five cents a day and save
money.
light polished wood trimmed with black walnut
The whole building is lighted with
gas md the fixtures would do credit to any
private residence in the city.
There are at present in Mr. Vanderbilt’s stable
Maud 6., Aldine, Early Rose, Leander, Lysander,
Bay Dick. Small Hopes, Charles Dickens, and four
coa: ’> horses. There are six large coaches, eight
lighi wagons aud two sulkies. Six men are em
ployed as gtooms and hostlers.
Contrasting Vanderbilt's stab with tenement
house on North street, I could not help thinking
that New York had adopted the popular American
idea of encouraging thorough-bred hones, aud
driviiyout the “Heathen Chinese."
The Mau About Town ’• of the Tribune, who is
said to be George Alfred Townsend, says in his
‘Broadway Note Bock:”
“I saw ex President Hayes in the city last week—
a man on whom care never stopped to brood, in
whom ambition produced no bad passions, who
r ached his honors without pains, and who carried
a musket In the war and spilt his blood like aman.
They who sneer at him never carried a gun—not
one of the ‘Spartau hand,’ in which there are no
•oldlt-rs, hut no lack of assassins Mr. Hayes sacri
ficed hires' If iu vain to teach future presidents an
example; he (fid not pour his salary down drunk
ards’throats,'.tor lay pipe fni a second -.eim, nor
call the- offices "spoils’ and the tusslers for them
‘victors-’ His talents were not equal to bis princi
ples, *ud he did not leave the personal impre-siou
his vio -s should have been accompanied with. But
while (he derisive word Is passing around of ’who
ever hears of Hayes?’ they say Mr. Hayes is to get
to the United States senate again before Coukling.”
FURMAN’S FARMING.
t. E. C. GRIER’S VISIT TO T1
COTTON MINE.
Stalks 3-ven Feet Sigh-One Hundred Balt a Where
Previously Eight Could Nat Have Been
Raised—Interesting Foots In Xtetsrioa
to the Work et Intensive Culture.
Yesterday in talking to Mr. Thomas Edison about
his electric underground mains, he said: “I value
human life too high to run my electric wire thtough
town on poles or over the house-tops. You saw the
other day where a Hue man,by accident or through
ignorance, happened to catch hold of both ends of
a cut electric wire and was killed Distantly. The
same thing is liable to happen in case oi a fire. If
a stream of water from a fire engine should come
in contact with a broken or cut elec ric wire
the electric current would follow the stream which
Is as good a conductor as the copper
wire aud would certainly kill the
men at the nozzle and probably others along
the lino of hose and at the engine. It would also
go with the stream of water against the building
and do the same damage as a stroke of lightning.
In case a fireman should by accident or purposely
cut one of these deadly wires the handle of his ax,
if wet, vould be an excellent couductor for the
electric current, and a stroke of lightning would
not betqore Instantaneous in its effects. Or if a
broken or cut electric wire should fall across a.tele-
phone wire the current would be transferred to the
telephone wire and would kill any one who hap
pened to be using It at that time. I do not want
you to construe what I am saying into an attack on
the other electric systems They can bury under
ground at a very small extra cost, and will, alter a
few mo- o accidents occar, be forced to do so.’
A gre t deal of building is now being done by
“home ■ associations. A home dub is an or
dinary j sat stock company limited. It is formed
by a nu .iberof gentlemen desiring homes. The
club b- rrows money at 3% or 4 per cent and
builds a t apartment home. A certain amount of
stocken'itles each member of the club to a per
petual 1. rsc to apartments. No one Is admitted os
amerab-. tof a club without the consent of all the
other sh e'.holders. Every stockholder is a lessee of
a portio; • of the building, which he has fitted up
under hi.-: own supervision 1 and according to his
tastes, < ^1 he is not allowed to transfer his lease ex
cept to i -on seat of the club. Every stockholder
pays rent'on his apartments at the rate of 7 or 8per
centon the amount invested. Half this rental goes
to paying interest on the borrowed money, and the
other half makes up p. sinking fund which
is invested nnder the direction of the club until it
accumulates sufficiently to pay hack the borrowed
money. Then the club has its house free of rent
The Central park apartments, which are to he
known as the Madrid, Cordova, Grenada, Valencia,
Lisbon, Barcelona, Saragossa and Tolosa are to be
of this character. They are to he erected on Seventh
avenue, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth streets. Work
has just been commenced on four of them and will
be started on the others as soon as possible. They
will be nine stories high, having a total frontage on
Central park of 425 feet; and their construction will
necessitate the use of 200,000 feet of stone and from
4,000,000 to 4,500,000 bricks. The total Cost of rhti
gigantic structure, or series of structures, will reach
$5,000,000, including the cost of the ground.
“Uncle Stephen Whitney, who is remembered on
account of his answer to the conundrum, “when is
a man rich enough?” “When he hashalf a million
more," died abont twenty years ago. The house he
lived in at “Bowling Green,” on lower Broadway,
was valued at the time of his death at $20,000. Yes
terday it was sold at $110,000 to William H. Vander
bilt: the two loisadjoining his residence were pur
chased in 1880 at $180,000, and resold yesterday for
a cool half a million. The truth is, an eligible res
ident lot in any fashionable quarter 25x100 feet Is
worth from $90,000 to $100,000—the consequence is
that no one but a millionaire can afford to own a
house and lot of his own. Hence the French
flat system Is f*st growing in popularity. Next to
the D. O. mills building at the corner of Wall aud
Broad streets, which cost a million and a quarter,
and is fitted np for offices for commercial and pro
fessional men, the "Temple court,” a tenement
house at the corner of Nausau and Beekman streets,
which costs Eugene Kelly a million dollars, pays
the best rental for the money invested of any of
the newer buildings in New York. The tendency
of the day is to colossal structures for the accommo
dation of colonies of tenants up-town and colonies
of offices downtown.
One of the “306” stalwarts that stood by Grant at
the Chicago convention took offense at Beecher’s
political sermon, and the following correspondence
is the result:
Deaf. Mb. Beecher: You made an ass of your
self yesterday. Altos F. Larned.
Deabmr: The Lord raved you the trouble of
making an ass of yourself by making you an ass at
the begiunina—and His work stands sure.
Henry Ward Beecher.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Atlanta, Ga., Octooer 13th, 1882 —"There has
been so much talk about what you wrote of ‘Fur
man's Farm,’ aud so many opinions expressed,”
said Mr. E. C. Grier, the veteran secretary of the
state agricultural society, disposing himself com
fortably on a sofa, “that I thought I’d respond to
your request aud drop iu aud tell you what I know
about iu It has certainly made a stir iu agricultu
ral circles and I am glad to be able to give you defi
nite information on the subject”
‘ That’s wbat 1 want, no matter how It runs.”
"‘Well. I luvited Mr. Furman to make his speech
before the society. Of course it made a sensation
hat night we had an informal diseussiou, and
the old farmers present plied Furman with a great
many questions. In this way they picked out of
him the whole history of how he had built up his
woru-out Georgia farm, and with what esuit. The
general feeling after this was one of iucredulity,
and numbers did not hesitate to express their dis
belief iu wbat Furman had said. 1, therefore, de
termined to go to Mllledgeville and see for myself
exactly what he had done. 1 did so.”
“What was the result of your trip?”
“When I reached Milledgeville 1 secured the
company of Geueral Myrick. As we went out to
Furmuu's place we passed some land ihat General
Myrick said was exactly like Furman's when he
started. 1 do not think it would have produced
300 pounds of seed cotton to the acre at the outside.
It was as poor laud as I ever saw. Mr. Parker, who
bad kuowu Furman’s land for many years, said
that when Furman took hold of it he thought any
man was a fool that would Xxf to make a living on
it. At length we reached his place,
“And the result?”
“Was simply astonishing. I never saw 65 acres of
such cotton in my life, aud I’m an old fanner. It
was almost incredible to believe that it stood on
what was five years ago the poorest of land. The
first field we entered was that he had been testing
for the full five years. The cotton was full 7 feet
high, and the limbs of the sta ks were interlocked
We might have thrown our hats in the air in auy
direction and not one hat would have touched the
ground. Indeed, you could not see the ground.
Tho next lot had been improved only three years,
and the stalks were about six feet high,
“Was not the growth too dense to make a full
crop?”
“If it had been a wet year it was, but with this
dry weather it will fruit perfectly. Hereafter Fur
man will plant in four teet squares, so as to give
each plant plenty of sunshine. He was himself
astonished at the luxurious growth of his crop this
year.”
’’What will the sixty-five acres make, in your
judgment?”
“I believe it will make from ninety to one hun
dred bales. That is my judgment.”
“And this on land that made only eight bales five
years ago?”
“And that ain’t all. On much of the land he
made two crops. There was twelve acres of his
laud that he had planted in oats, gathering l.COO
bushels, worth $306, from the patch. After taking
off the oats, he planted four acres in com, which
yielded forty bushels to the acre; or 1C6 bushels,
worth ^00, and eight acres in cotton, which will
yield nine bales* \vorth*450. So that he gets $1,153
After leaving the Chinese quarter I visited the
stables of W H Vanderbilt, which cost upwards of
$100,000 and are built of the best pressed brick,with
s brown stone front. Walls, floor snd ceiling were
all of polished wood, cheny, ash and black walnut
being arranged in strips and panels In a way that
brought out the beauties of each to the best advant
age. In one place a long mirror reflected the line
of sombre and stately coaches opposite, and in an
other a case of nickel-plated bits on a background
of black velvet hung glittering on the wall. A sst
of Fox's English hunting scenes, and oil portraits
of Maud S. and Fullerton in heavy guilt frames re
lieved the bareness of the ash walls. In the comer,
on a platform of cement, a stable
man was washing a light wagon
which had been whirled over the road that after
noon behind Aldine and Early Rose. The stable
implement! which lay around him flashed in the
gaslight with their heavy mountings of polished
brass, and the pail in which he dipped his sponge
was decorated with a Dig brass monogram. There
was no scent of the stable in the air. The noises oi
the horses in the stalls a few feet away conld scarce
ly be heard through the thick walls and the heavy
doors of black walnnt and plate glass. The box
stall for the horses sre 20 by 24 feet and made of a
POINTS.
Wm. H. Vanderbilt, accompanied by W. K. and
Fred W.Vanderbilt, August Schell,Wm.Tummbull,
Edward Ellis and several other friends, is ofl on a
pleasure trip over his system of railroads. He and
his party are dined and feted everywhere they stop.
He persistently refuses to be interviewed, but be
occasionally chats with the reporters, and they
publish what he says. At one pla.«, when asked
about politics, he replied with a meaning smile:
“This is Jay Gould’s campaign; I am not meddling
in politics this year." At another place, when asked
about Thurber’s anti-monopolist party, be said:
“It is a movement Inspired by a set of fools and
blackmailers. But I don’t object to them. When I
want to buy any politician, I always find the anti-
monopolists the most purchasable. They don’t
come so high.”
Mr. Pierre Lorillard shipped nine race horses to
England on last Saturday to recruit his stable in
the old country. The lot consists of five fillies and
fonr colts. In the string are included the two-year
old half sister to Parole, Parthenia, by Alarm, out
of Maiden; the three year old Pinafore, by Enqui
rer. out of Mollie Rogers, and seven yearlings. All
the youngsters are excellently b. ed. They consist
of Vixtrix, Nirvana, Nitocris, Pontiac, Emperor,
Choctaw and De Soto.
Signor Salvini is already afioat on the Amerique,
and is expected Wednesday, the 18th iusL His
support will be Miss Marie Prescott, Miss Adele
Belgarde, Miss Etta Baker, Miss Conway, Mr. Lewis
Morrison. Mr. J. S. Fitzpatrick, Mr. L. S. Outram,
Mr. A. Oowper and several others
Letta has imported a bran new Englishman, Cedi
Rayne by name, who Is to play her leading roles
this season. Bczz and Bo fc’Nrx.
worth of crops^L acres. The manure
for it cost him $9 an acre, or say $120, and what is
best of all left the land stronger and richer after the
year’s cultivation than before it.”
“You indorse his plan, then, to the full?”
“Every word he says Is true, and the results he
has achieved are certainly most admirable. The
chief beauty of his plait is that his compost is so
cheap that any farmer can afford it if he has or can
get the cotton seed. It is so sure that it pays back
its cost doable and treble and five times over every
season, besides enriching the land yearly. It en
courages the farmer to take care of his stock and to
buy more stock and better stock, for he needs the
stable manure for the compost heap.”
“What do you think of his formula for compost
ing?”
“I believe it makes a perfect manure for cotton.
He has studied it in the light of sdence,and he
gives back to the soil precisely the same elements
that the cotton takes from It and a surplus of these
elements besides. That is hound to he a perfect
manure.”
COTTON SEED AND THE COTTON SEED MILLS.
“What about giving up the cotton seed to tbe oil
mills?"
“That is a very important question, and I’m glad
you asked it. Plainly, we do not want to cripple
the oil mills. We realize, perfectly, that tho cotton
seed is better as a stock food, and as a fertilizer,
after the oil has been taken from it than before.
It is therefore improper to bury 35 gallons of valua.
ble oil in every ton of seed, when the oU is not only
wasted, but is an actual hindrance to the seed in
doing its duty.”
“Why do you not send your seed to the mill,
then?"
“Simply because we never get it back. Once
made into meal or cake it is sold elsewhere. Under
the present arrangement no seed can be bought in
my neighborhood. As soon as the farmer under
stands how valuable his seed is, and how he im
poverishes his land by selling it off, the mills can’t
bay it anywhere. As soon as the Furman formula is
fairly tried they will find out that the cotton seed,
even with the oil in it, is the beet fertilizer they
can get, and actually indispensable to cotton
lands."
'What ought the mills to do?”
They ought to do this: When they buy a man’s
cotton seed they ought to agree to return him his
meal ground up and pay freight both ways. If they
would do this they will get all they want and at
nominal figures. I could furnish them thousands
of tons at my depot at $2 a ton if they would take
it at tbe depot aud return to the depot the cotton
meal ground up. They now pay from $S to $10 a
ton for seed and pay the freight oneway. It
seems to me it would be cheaper to try the other
plan. It would certainly be safer. For with tbe
number of oil mills certainly increasing, the de
mand for oil enlarging, and the farmer constantly
being educated to tile valne of his seed as a fertil
izer, and less and less willing to impoverish his
lands by selling off for a song the eubstanre (hat is
esi ntial for their maintenance, the mills will find
that they cannot get enough seed to run them
They will find the fanners standing at the steam
gins and bidding in competition with them for the
seed, because working Mr. Forman’s fonnnla a
fanner can give mu"h more than auy oil mill has
paid for seed, and still make with it the best and
very much the cheapest manure he can get any
where ”
“You may write,” Colonel Grier went on to say,
“what you please about Furman’s farmingand you
cannot write too heartily. The advantages of
bis system are manifest. To begin with, bf cot
ton grows so rapidly that grass can’t catch np with
iL The worst enemy the cotton plant had is a nigger
with a hoe. Cotton planted on the 7th of June and
7 feet high in a little over 3 months can’t be hnrt
with grass, and don’t need hoeing. I have shown
yon how his manuring pays in increased crops.
Starting by manuring each acre at a cost of $1.80 he
increased until he was using about $10an acre. The
cash valne of the cotton crop with the $10 worth of
manure on each acre of the 04 acres was about $4,000
net above what it was when he took it, without
manure. The manure used had paid for itself five
times over every year. He gives the figures to show
that he nude $2,750 clearon this 2-horse farm this
year. To his profits must be added this: His farm
when he took hold was worth $5 an acre, or for the
65 acres $325. It is now worth at least $60 an acre,
$4,000. 1 believe it has gaiued in value $1,000 a year
si .cn took hold of it With the treatment he is pur
suing 1 believe it is good for 1)4 bales to the acre
year in and year out”
“Any other fanner can do what-he has done?”
“Yes. In mere or less degrees. No laud Is so poor
that it cannot be improved as his has been Ills is
a thin chocplate-colored sandy soil, with cloy five
inches from the top. He had only one advantage,
aud that was in running a steam gin. He
S nucd other folks’ cotton and kept
e seed. This gave him a sufficiency of the
basis of his comp. sL But if each farmer would
only save the droppings of his stock aud insist on
having the seed of his own cotton returned to him
from the gin, and compost them on Furman’s for
mula, we shoull feel the effect in Georgia the nrst
year. Every year would improve the yield of
cotton seed, aud consequently the amount of . am-
posL For example the first year Mr. Furman got
about 150 pounds of seed to the acre, which gave
him about 500 pouuds of compost He will get mis
year 1,500 pounds of seed off each acre, which »111
give him about 5,000 pounds of compost So that
each acre of his laud now furnishes about enough
seed to make its o wn compost Ho says, ho a ever,
if he gets three bales to the aere, which v> ould givo
3,000 pounds of seed, or 9,000 pounds of e nifoM, he
would put every pound ol it back ou the grouud
he took it from.’’
“Hasn’t he simply put back on each acre the seed
it grew, properly coiujusded?"
n Very nearly. Ue has used hut little seed from
ouLsidesour. es. His process of improvement has
been cheap, gradual, and m.de to pay its own way.
It is iu this that it is so valuable. Auy farmer, no
matter how poor his land, eau follow his pi m moro
or less closely. And, doing this, he will lutvitably
achieve his results, moro or less exactly."
A WORD FURTHER FROM MU. FURMAN.
I have been o» erw nclmcd with tuqui.ies since the
publication of my first article ou this subjeci. It
has been circulated everywhere. A shoe dealer 111
this city, Mr. George w. i’ricc, lias sent lu.tUj
copies of it, with hisadvertiscniect. ou: to bi coun
try customers. Mr. Furman is in litre manner
embarrassed, and l am informed mat visitors to bis
farm have revived tho lh.s i days with the hotels of
Milledgeville That’s all very good. The more
people that inquire, the more people interested,
l lie more people that go to Milledgeville, the moro
people will be convinced and converted. The in-
ouiries are mainly directed to the accuracy of the
article—“It it all true?” is the tenor ol the corre
spondence.
It Is proper to say that Mr. Furman, in a letter of
late date, sends the most abundant proof ot the
truth of his claims. The last Milledgeville Re
corder publishes the certificate of two leaning
farmers who say that his sixty-fiv* acres will bring
over seventy-five kales. Mr. S. P. Myrick writesme
that ho has been over the crop four
times, and his best judgment is that it
is certain to make seventy-five or eighty bales. He
rays it sounds incredible when the poor land on
which it iB planted Is considered, and adds; "Had
1 not seen it with my own eyes I, too, shoul - have
doubted.” 1 could publish a column of similar
certificates.
But where is the incredible part of Mr. Furman’s
work? It is no miracle, and no new invention.
What he has done is as old as mathematics and as
inexorable.
He found a piece of land that was starved.
And he fed iL
That is all. Just as he would have fed a starving
mule or horse. A great many farmers would have
refused to feed the land, holding that wliat they
gave to it would be wasted. Many who were wil
ling to feed it would have fed it recklessly, tossing
into its dumb mouth whatever came handiest. Mr.
Furman fed it intelligently. Ue saw that it had
been depleted by successive crops of cotton being
taken from IL
What was the proper thing to do? Clearly, to
restore to it the savor and strength that had been
t&keu from iL But exactly what eUmeuts had
been taken from it by the wearing cotton crops.
To ascertain this he analyzed a cotton-plant, and
found what elements made it np. Then see how
carefully he proceeds.
"1 found,” he said, “that a perfect cotton food—
that is one that would restore to the soil everything-
thai cotton took out of it—must have iu it phos
phoric acid, ammonia, humus, potash, lime, mag
nesia, soda and sUica. Of these eight elements
only one, silica, is found in the soil in sufficient.
quantity. The other seven must be supplied. So
1 determined to make a compost that supplied
them."
“Why didn’t you buy acommercial fertilizer?”
“Because tho best commercial fertilizers furnish
only three of the eight elements needful, viz—phos
phoric acid, ammonia aud potash. Analyze them,
all and you will st e mat none of them do better
than to furuish three of the needed elements. So 1
made me a compost, made up of (1) cotton seed,
(2) stable manure, (3) acid phosphate aud (-1) kainiL
Now, see how this compost gives every oiie of the
eight elements needful for the perfect cotton food;
“S. Acid phosphate gives phosphoric acid and
lime.
“2. Stall manure or organic matter gives ammo
nia and humus.
“L Cotton seed gives ammonia potash and hu
mus.
“4. Kainit gives potash, lime, magnesia andsoda.
“Silica is always present in.the soil, is practically
in inexhaustible quantities; so we have in my com
post everything essential supplied. Kainit is one
of the most important elements of this formula.
Contain ing, as it does, nearly one-third of its bulk
of ralL it Is a great conservator of moisture. 1 have
found it, combined with humus, a specific against
rust in cotton, and owing to its contents of sulphate
of magnesia it is invaluable in the power that it
possesses in the compost heap of fixing the ammo
nia as a sulphate and thereby preventing its cs-
cape.”
“Now, by feeding the land with this perfect food
you bring It up?”
“Certainly, and why should there be surprise
at the result. You give your land more every
{ ear than is taken from It. It fattens
ust as a hotse or mule would fatten.
felt that a bale to the acre on this land that
produced a bale to eight acres was jnst as sure under
my process as I used to be at college that a mathe
matical problem would work out^ right. Indeed^.
to the 65 acres, and keep it at that figure. I say now
that I will make three Dales to the acre next year
on many an acre, and I feel sure that I will get 150
bales ofi the 65 acres within two years. Now print
this prediction.”
"Ihereare,” Mr. Furman went on to ray, "cer
tain incidental rules to be observed. For example,
it does no good to your land to give it proper food if
our tropical washing rains sweep it out of the shal
low soil and take it away. Wo must put It there
and keep it there. To do this, 1st, 1 ditch all hill
sides, turning the dirt on the upper side of the ditch,
so that it catches the washings and iu time terraces
my field. 2d. I break my land deeper each year, as
I am able to increase the humus, and this increases
the absorptive power ol the soil and renders ft leak
liable to wash. 3d. I have a succession of crops, so
that the earth will be kept full of organic matter
and rootlets all the time, and is thereby held to
gether and can’t wash. I plant oats in the fall anti
cotton or corn when the oats are taken off. I there
fore not only give my land a surplus of good food,
but I bold it in the land until it is absorbed. The
result is inexorable. If 10.000 farms in Georgia
were treated just as mine has been, the outcome
would be just the same."
A FEW EAST WORDS.
Mr. Funnan is right in claiming 'hat there is
nothing new in the principle he is working on. He
has discovered new details and adjustments, anti
has maoe some striking results, for which all credit
will be given him.
But it is the same old principle of Intensive farm
ing that has made France and England prosperous—
that has made cenlial New York and Pennsylvania
and Ohio the garden spots of this country, and that
has enabled the New England rarmer to live and
prosper on bleak and rocky hillsides that a southern
farmer wouldn't touch, and to command S50J an
acre for laud that, put alongside a Georgia farm,
wouldn't bring $1j. it is the same system by which
Mr. Hardaway, of Thomasville—the real pioneer of
intensive farming in Georgia—has demonstrated
that fifteen acres of Georgia land properly fanned
would support and clothe a family of raven people
and educate the children, while many a family of
smaller size half-starves on three hundred acres Im
properly farmed.
WHAT YOUNG HEN CAN DO.
In writing all .his there 1b no intention of tender
ing advice to farmers. They know more about
their bovineae than 1 do.
Bat as a young man, i might ray a word to young
men. Ur. Furman now in nia fifth year of farm
ing, declares that he will clear, this
year $3,000 on his 3-horse fans of
65 acres. I have at my band the detailed
figures of his expenses and income, and he puts his
crop at 75 bales when It will probably go over 80,
increasing bis profits jnst that much. Bul let us
ray that he makes $3,000 this year. He is adding to
his acreage yearly by bringing np new land, and
to the value of his farm by increasing its fertility.
U esays he is determined to make his net income on
100 acres over $5,000
What has the outlay been? He had 65 acres,
worth $5 per acre, or(3z5; a pair of mutes $300, and
perhaps $300 for implements. To this add a small
amount for a cabin and perhaps $100 to help get the
living for the first year, and there is lndepend
ence and prosperity ahead of any man who will
work intelligently. Aud yet strong armed, clear
headed boys on the farm resLessly turn toward the
city, and brave and patient young fellows In the
city, work day after day and way into the night, and
look with contempt on the country and its resources.
The salary ot the beat clerks in the dty—those
who have worked just as honestly and just as intel
ligently for ten years as Mr. Furman has done for
five years—1b $75 a month, of which they must pay
$40 for board for themselves and wives. Their en
tire salary Is less than one-third of Mr Furman’s
net profits. h. W. O.
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