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WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. — - ~~~ F.\ Y ETTBVILLE GA : 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. indistinct print