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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.
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TUESDAY MORNEN^, DECEMBER 12, 1882.
PRICE 5 CENTS
K DURljSrffls WEEK.
WHAT THE PEOPLE OF CITY AND
COUNTRY ARE DOINO.
A Lari* Fir*» in Lo-don-Asaemblms of Congrtaa-
Daaih of tba Aroabtabop of Castsrbury-Tbs
Murders, Sutoldr* and Oilier Criminal
X rente—Loeal Happening of tba Week.
Tatiieri Deaembar 5.
The archbishop of Canterbury, la dead. The sul
tan of Turkey fears aaaassination. Noah D. Smith,
elerk of customs at Memphis, haa absconded. The
cotton compress at Houston, Texas, was burned.
Loss $125,000 John Hunulcutt and son weremur-
dered In Walhalla, South Carolina. A train
robbery was attempted and repulsed
on the banta Fe railroad. Stephen
Brytley committed suicide by laudanum
In Petersburg, Virginia. The steam barge Peters,
with thirteen men on board, was lost on lake Erie.
Along the Hudson river yesterday the thermometer
fell to & degrees below zero. Two hundred small
dealers were arrested in New York on Sunday for
eabbath violation. Clayton McMlchael, of Phila
delphia, has been appointed marshal of the district
of Columbia. Hon. W. II. H. Tlson. speaker of the
Mississippi house of representatives, was murdered
yesterday. At Paris, Tennessee, a young
man named forest. was arrested for
murdering his mother and grand*
lather. The second trial of the star route prisoners
began In Washington on yesterday. Much diffi
culty exists in getting a fury. The United Stales
supreme court has confirmed the decision otthe
court below giving the Arlington estate back to the
family of General Lee. Patrick O'Brien, deputy
sheriff of New Orleans, was murdered in a bar
room row. 6,212 bales of cotton came in by the
New Orleans and Nashville road. Arabl Pasha, on
8unday, pleaded guilty to the charge of rebellion,
was sen ten oed to death, and then ho had his sen
tence commuted to life Imprisonment.
in tiib CITY.
Mr. William Gibson, of Stone Monctaln, is dead.
Overcoat thieves are plentiful in Atlanta. Dock
Seay, a negro, has been arrested for attempted out
rage upon a white woman. Three candidates In
the field for mayor, Dr. Roach, John H. Seals and
J. B. Goodwin. A delegation Is in the city from
Boston seeking a Georgia exhibit for the New En
gland fair to be held next year.
Wodaesdaj, De«eaabcr 6.
General Toombs Is In Washington. The Utah
commission report that they are progressing In their
work. The post-office department has made $1,000,-
000 over its expenses last year. Two cent postage is
recommended. The second star route trial has com
menced. John Crunder, a crank, has been arrested
for threatening to assasslnato the prince of Wales.
At Towanda, Pa., sevon lives were lost in a railroad
wreck. Three resurrectionists were arrested in
Philadelphia basing lu their possession five bodies
stolen from the colored cemetery. An attempt was
made to lynch them.
IN TUB CITY.
Rnfus H. King, of Wluston, North Carolina, has
been arrested on account of crookedness In a meat
transaction. A thirteen year old girl named Msry
Mehan charges J. U. Pali with her seduction while
she was yet eleven yoart of sge. Several pickpock
ets are in the city. Miss Carrlo Westmorland aud
Mr. John Rommel wero married at St. Philips.;
Thursday, December T.
Pope Barrow sworn in in the tenate. The negroes
of Philadelphia attempted to lynch the men charged
with robbing the oolored cemetery. The Trczevant
claim, a Georgia claim over 100. years old. passes
the house of representatives. Anthony Trollope
and Louis Blsno dead. . Kellogg has been given his
•csrtlfloatc-of election-to-oongross from Louisiana.
Congress will devoto tbo 20th of January to eulogies
of the late Senator Hill. The transit of Venus will
not be again visible before 206 years. Eleven per-
•sons were killed by a boiler oxploslon in New Or
leans.
in TJIB CITY.
J. B. Goodwin has been elected mayor of Atlanta.
Earn. H. Shaw Is a candidate for coroner of Fulton
-eonnty. Rufus King Is charged by the postal au
thorities with forgery. Tho cotton factory has been
sold under decree of court.
Friday, December 8.
CongTWV Is askod by the democrats to Investigate
the political assessment frauds. A Russian lady,
exiled In Siberia, haa assassinated the governor of
Frankraal. A $15,000,000 fire has taken place In Lon
don. Socialism is etiU increasing In Germany. In
Chihuahua, Mexico, seventy five persons were
massacred by Indians. The cold spell has extend
ed over the whole country, the mercury falling 35
degrees below xero In some places. The steamship
Cartnond h«s sail .*d from New Orleans with a cargo
valued at $>100,000. The legislature iu Pennsylvania
stands 38 republicans to 113 democrats.
IN TUB CITY.
An Atlanta lawyer owns a $500 dog. Thos. Kil
gore, a strange white man, was adjudged Insane.
The residence of Mrs. Klniey, on Collier street, de
stroyed by fire.
Saturday, Detcmbrr ».
A bill bss been Introduced In congrew by the
post office committee reducing postage to two cents.
Will Porter, colored, was banged In Perry, Georgia,
for themnrderof a negro boy. In Swalnsboro Ed
ward Conyers was hanged for the murder of North
ern Pierce. Two negroes were lynched In Bastrop,
Louisiana. John W. Dorsey, a wealthy young man
of Baltimore, committed suicide by shooting him
self through the bead. 8alUe itokes, who killed a
rival In Arkansas, has been acquitted. In a riot In
Opelika nine men wero shot. Four Chinamen
were killed In Portlaud, Oregon.
IN TUB CITY.
Coal stealing haa become common since the cold
spell come in. Edeh Maxwell, a five year old white
child has been lost. Rodgers, a young white man
In the employ of the East Tennessee road, was
found dead The public schools will suspend for
the Christman holidays.
Sunday, December 10.
Gambetta Is seriously sick from effests of sn acci
dental wounding of his haud. At Sharkly, Mis
sissippi, a clerk was murdered by burglars. In the
Tennessee penitentiary ono of tbe guards shot and
killed another. Six persons drowned at Tsllabas-
•ee, Florida. An Illinois family died from cadng
trichena. Holman, of Indiana, is added to th
candidates for the speakership. 81r Hugh Allan, of
the Allan line of steamers, Is dead.
IN TUB CITY.
Fulton superior court meets on Monday. Two
small Arts In the fourth ward. A petition for tbe
pradon of Id. Cox lias beeu circulated In Atlanta.
A delegation of Ohio editors has been in tbe city.
Major T II. Blscsnall, the tobacco man, has be
«mm u citizen of Atlanta.
B< aret/ae** VhJ Shot at a Burglar.
Tboy, December 7.—James Dearstyne, proprietor
of a hotel In Bath-on-the-IIudaon, was awakened
at an early hour this morning by his wife, who de
els red that burglars were attempting to break into
tbe house Dearstyne armed himself with a revol
ver and went Into the hallway, where be saw a
man at Wo k upon a window, and asked him what
he was doing. Tbe burglar looked at bis questioner
and continued his work. Dearstyne then fired.
The burglar fell and a confederate ran away. When
the burglar reached this city he was recognized »s
Fairies 4111ft. a desperate criminal. Tne bullet
pasted through bfs neck and struck the spinal Col
umn. Tbe nan cannot stir, and is eying. Before
he visited Dearatyne’s he bad emered John 8.
Wolfs house, two blocks away, and ibe police wen-
looking for hiih while he was forcing the hotel
window.
Utf*j •rvmih*i+ R atlas*.
Father Ryan’s Boston Lecture.
1 admit that c atholic nstlons are decaying. The
sixteenth century was an age of protest. The
seventeenth century was one of doubt. The
eighteenth century was one of denial, and In the
nineteenth God Is ostracised. Yes, those nations
are decaying, and they d servo to decay. Isms
Catholic. I would die this moment for my religion,
for e religion that is not worth dying for f
worth living up to But atftll I say these n
deserve to decay. I have travelled through Europe
and I saw more true religion In Queenstown in six
weeks than 1 nw on the continent in as many
months. When Catholic nations fall they fall far.
WbUkr I'aach for a Bisk Klspbaat.
Indianapolis. Ind., December 7.—The elephant
Bamboo, one of tho principal attractions of the
Klralfy show, has had an exciting experience In
this city. In a rehearsal Sunday he broke through
the opera house stage, fortunately without injury
Yesterday the exposure of a street parade brought
on a chill, which is usually fatal to elephants.
James Klralfy, alter stuoying the case, concluded
to treat Bamboo as though he tvere a human being.
He, therefore, with the approval of the keeper ~
pared a punch, consisting of two gallons of w
and three gallons of water Bamboo was ten
tbe drink, and he took it with the greatest sal
tlon. and seemed to appeal for more. In a few
moments the an<mal appeared to have fully re
covered, and hss shown no Illness aluce. The
punch did uot Intoxicate him In tbo slightest.
Cotton la Flames.
Special to The Constitution.
NbwOelbans, December 7.—The Tlmes-Demo-
crat’u Galveston special says: This morning the
work ef breaking out the cotton In the forward
hold In the steamship -Ardeucarrah” was com
menced, and the fire that was supposed lo be subdtt
ed last night was discovered smouldering In the eot-
ton’ln the bottom of tLe hold. When about 300 bales
had been taken out the flames again burst forth,
aud a geueral alarm was rounded. The fir* de-
partmentsoon had the flames under control. The
entire cargo will be taken out.
A Murderer ArroatcS.
Charlotte, N. C., December 7.—Joe Ross, a
negro, who murdered T. N. McDowell at Camden
on thanksgiving day, was killed on Wednesday at
Ivsy's Mill, o/i the Catawba river, in Lancaster
couuty,South Caroline, by ferryman Alonso Hunt-
ley. The pursuing-party were close behind. Ross
asked the ferryman to take him across. The ferry
man Identified him. and tried to arrest him Rost
resisted and tho ferryman shot him. Before dying
the negro confessed murdering McDowell, and also
murdering Bob llennegan In Mecklenburg county
two years ago”,
Better D«atb Thai the Daetsre.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Concerning Presldert Garfield's case, we ere
told that "If anybody Imagines that Dr. Agnew or
Dr. Hamilton would have given the same atten
tion to any patient for $5,000 he Is a fool.” There
are doubtless a great many "fools” In this coun
try, but they will continue to think $5,000 a venr
resi ectable fee for ten or twelve visits from Phil
adelphia or New York to Washington in as many
weeks. If doctors charge much more than that,
death would come as a relief even to a millionaire,
A Retaliatory E*tU
New York, December 9.—The atttomeys for tho
Mutual Unlou telegraph company have filed with
the attorney general an application for leave lo
bring suit to annul the charter of the W. U. tele
graph company on the samo grounds that Jay
Gould alleged la his complaint against the Mutual
Union. The latter claims that the Western Union
has violated ltscbartealn watering stock without
cash representation.
A Fatal Qsiml lUiwtis Cmlel Guard*.
Memphis, December 9.—A difficulty occurred on
Thursday night at Eusley’s convict farm, ten miles
south of this city, between C. M. Tardy and E. M
Wheeler, two guards, which resulted lu Tardy
shootlug Wheeler In tho bowels. Wheeler returned
tho shot and killed Tardy. Robert Wilson, who
killed Frank B. Russell in this city last September
was to-day sentenced to be hanged on January 3rd,
A Burglar Fatal!/ Shot b/ a M i*al.»
Toronto, Out., December 7.—Last week a young
scan named Jroilc* was admitted to thu hospital
suffering from a pistol wound In the thigh, but
would uot tell how he received the Injury, and it
wns only to-day that tho mystery was cleared up,
He was keeping watch while two "pals” burglar
izedaprlvato dwelling. Fearing they would net
make a fair division of the s,ofls, Crazier left his
post to soe for hluuolf what was belug secured.
Due of his companions, taking Crosier fora police
man, fired at aud wounded him. Kcnnymau. who
fired tho shot, boa been arrested. Crosier Is uot
expected to recover.
The Hear loot Shtpnoat Hcoord.
New Orleans, December 7.—Tho steamship Car
mona cleared to-day for Llverpo 1, with 10,861 ball
of cotton, 12,0:0 bushels of wheat and 2,650 staves.
This Is Is tho largest cargo of cotton ever carried by
any vessel. The total weight of the cargo Is 6,840,000
pounds, and the total value $617,000. The Carmona
will go to sea on Friday or Saturday through the
jetties.
KxeltfBad from tbs faerameat*
Special to tho Constitution.
Ottowa, Out., December 0.—Tho Irish Catholics
of this city arc greatly excited over tbe action of
Iilfthop Duham in excluding from tho sacrament
Irish Catholic parents who allow their children
to attend tho model aud normal schools aud
cbildreu who attend such schools.
Peroaao Druwurd.
New York, December tf —A Tallahassee, Florida,
special says: Thursday the Mall sloopcupelled near
Fort Myers. Three boys named Bright, aud one
named Tice wero drowned. Last Might the steamer
Roxle grounded at Mt. Homer landing. Two sail
ore, named George Jones aud Frank Mathews were
drowued.
Via *bs of tba Kiplaolaa.
New Orleans, Docomber7.—Frank Holt, of Chat
tanooga, W. M. Freltus, aged sixteen, and Sarah
Young, colored, who were badly scalded by the
cxplo»ionon the Morning Star, have riuce dkd.
of toe twenty one persons on board at the lime of
the accident, but five are now living. It Is stated
that the Morning Star was racing with the Sunbeam
when the explodon occurred.;
Bales by Dart nad llasiarda.
Chattanooga, December 7 — Sanday a negro
matt died suddenly a few miles above tbe city,
and was buried. Yesterday it was discovered that
dogs bad exhumed the remains, and had partly
TktPtluant Pork.
Bloominoton, 111., December 9.—Tbe family of
LdUis Brandenburg, a well-known citisen, was
poisoned a day or two since by eating trichina In
usage. One of tbe family died this morning.
Brandenberg and his wife cannot recover.
Salrlde of an laeaetaoao Father*
Aubl’en, N. Y., December 9.—Alva H. Green was
yesterday convicted of incest with his daughter,
and was to have been sentenced to-day, but last
night be banged himself In his cell with a sheet
from his bed.
A UlMlaff Married Mao.
Special to The Constitution.
Kbw Orleans, December II. Mrnnler, a young
married man. who took paaregeat Point a la Hacks,
on tbe steamer Morniug Star, has been missing
since the disaster, and is supposed to have per
ished .
A Murderer
Kbw BEsav, B. C , December 7.—Cicero Colli as,
who was sentenced to be banged at Kingston, N.
C., on December 8th. bas been respited by the gov
ernor until January 19th.
Hols of a Uallroad.
Cincinnati, December 9.—The Marietta end Cin
cinnati railroad was sold under foreclosure to-day
to Robert Garretr, of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road, for $4,375,000.
Booth cl Mr flash Allea.
Montreal, December 9.—Tbe death liannounced
In Scotland of Sir Hugh Allen, proprietor of the
Allen line of steamships.
BUZZ AND BOUNCE.
GOSSIP THEY HEAR IN NEW
YORK.
Bpley Talks and Brifbt Aneodotes of tba Men a
Tbloga Past and Praaeat in the Metropolis cf
the New World-Th# Latest Railroad
Qoeatp—Tbaatrioal Notes, Eio.
| edit, ra who have been left out In Hie cold have
beeu moved to make facetlour remarks about the
club in the dally papers. The Stuyvcsant club
will draw its members, for tbo moat part,
from the journalistic and theatrical pro-
fcasUm*. Club men general* are talk
ing about the ueed for new clubs In New York.
The men about town and the newly rich are two
cl&ues that have been rapidly growing here, and
all the club* are besieged with applications for ad
mission. Tbe limit of membership has been
reached in most of tbe leading clubs, and the
crou ds that are besieging the doors are rather cm-
Tin's ' bar racing, to say the least. The Union League
Special to tho Constitution.
New York, December 7.—The old Louisville-
and Nashville crowd, which was
saiion of the street two years n*<<, ««■: , . , - . . . . .. r .
gone to piece* Id a huff. Newcomb. Bddulnahd ! - Ihounud mouberm ui.d •. It* l«*t
CUrk. the three Inseparable,, ere at digger, point,. ; now member! only three eould he_ed-
stid rumors of a hostile meeting between New-j “
comb and Baldwin were a float a short time since. ’
Newcomb aud both the Clarks are out of the dl-1
rectory, but Baldwin has tho p esldcncy safe with |
E. II. Grecu and Mrs. Green at his back. Ugly J
stories are circulated soncerning tbe road, and
every time tho stock shows its head somebody hits J
it between the eyes. Baldwin has the nerve of tho f,
devil and has shovelled In a cleau million and
mined out of over two hundred applicants. Tho
KnU’ktrbrocker has not quite reached Its limit, for
die reason, doubtless, that it la tho most expensive
wish in town. It costs $450 to get Into it, in the
first place. The initiation fee is $300. the annual
.toes aro $100, and new members are ass ssed$50
each for tbe benefit of the oulldlng fuud. It is no
uncommon thing for gentlemen of mederste
, m* ana te get into the other clubs, but wealth Is a
hull In the campaign, the Ken ol which ero Joel f ?""'-»«*«• "> «>• Knickerbocker. It. curd-room
I is amc 1
healing on his lean body, and he will bold
to tbe last. The story was that ono of the links
of their system, from Mobile to New Orleans I
believe, has been captured by a rival corporation,
but this Is doubtful. The great system of ro ids
blocked together with such startling rapidity three
winters ago will probably cohere, simply because
they can't let go.
In the meantime Fund l ford, the old president,
who was ousted by Newcomb, after he had drank
heavily and become dlszy, returned from his stock-
farm, where he retired fer rest, to take the presi
dency of a bank, and later of the Kew Albany and
Chicago road, Is the picture of health and prosper
ity, having built up both bis enterprises and stead
ied his habits. Newcomb, having unloaded his
stock at cuormous profits, resigned the presidency
and sold the stock short, ou his knowledge of its af
fairs, and raked In a fortune or so on the down
turn. He Is now a ohuffy bank president In this
dty, owns his bank, and is a club man, a patron of
the arts and an amateur politician, with a fortune
of anywhere between ten and twenty millions,
There doesn’t seem to be much confidence In the
oome-out of the Loulsvlllo and Nashville stock.
A11 the "southern fancies ' iu which huge for
tunes havo been lately made and lost, seem to be
sick.
'Jho campaign engineered by the Richmond
crowd that came up and ran the Danville stocks up
so high that "privileges” of taking stock in their
now schemes commanded from 60 to ICO premium,
was tho most brilliant of the past decade while it
lasted. When the old foxes of tho street thought
it had gono far enough, they sprang on it aud it
tumbled v0 points In a day. It Is said that the fall
Impoverished most of tho officers of the road, just
as tbe rise bad enriched them It Is now believed
thst Mahone, of Virginia, will be elected president
of the line, In return for privileges asked from the
rcadjuiter courts aud legislature. Tho system It
considered the most promising lu the south, and
its managers as bright men, but just now tho whole
thing seems to l>o carrying a black eye.
The Memphis and Charleston pool Is also
sick. The crowd that operates through
the Baxters In Nashville, Jamison & Co. in Phila
delphia. and Stevenson in New York have control,
but the stock that was to go to par staggers below 60.
It is said that little of tho stock Is offered at any
thing under 75 as tho big holders believe In the
earning capacity of tho road aud count It a sure 6
per cent stock.
The East Tennessee and Virginia slocks are quiet’
and droopy. The new roads of the ayvtem
f.id.hcd and investors are waiting to see
rents of trade established before they pitch In at
fsney figures. Tho manipulators of this system
having realized heavily on the >alo of their nickel
plated ro«d, will now probably put their hands to
tho East Tennessee and Virginia stocks.
At present, however, the southern railroad stocks
are heavy. They wero "boomed” too furiously at
first, and tbe values set too high. They wlU appre
ciate as tho south develops slowly but more surely.
You havo no idea how many private organs are
built lu housos here. The Messrr. Odell have
just built two for \Mlliam Belden. Tbe first was
au orchestra organ of Immense power, which was
placed in his cournry residence on City Island. It
cost $7.100. Its peculiar feature Isa high pressure
cornet atop, for solo effects, which is frequently
heard clearly iu Long bland, two miles away across
the water. For the second organ, to be erected in
his residence at Fifth avenue and Sixty-second
street. Mr. Belden gave the order: "Make me the
best organ you know bow. without regard to cost,”
and that the Messrs. Odell have just done. There
are only one or two church organs in the <ily that
are larger than this one, aud even they have
not some of Its peculiar and most effective
features. It bas 58 stop* and 2,500 pipes, a
carillon, er Chirac, of 32 bells, military drums,
and a solo cornet stop. That solo ooruet Is
supplied with wnd from a separate bellows of Its
own, Is voiced at 10-lneh pressure, whereas the
usual voicing of a church organ is on 3-inch pres
sure, aud In solo playl g has exactly the effect of
a cornet performed upon by Levy or Arbuckle.
The "carillons” are not actually bells, but steel
bare, and are operated by a separate piano action.
This organ itself cost $16,000. but that was by no
means the extent of tbe outlay ou it. To afiord a
place for its erection, a place had to bo provided 22
by 18 feet, running from the sub-cellar floor up to
the secoud story of tbe bouse, a height of 33 feet.
give absolute security sgalust
dampness and its lower parts, which
would be fatal to It In a short time, the
sub-cellar and cellar had to be double and treble
lined with concrete, aspbaltum, and other mated-
A steam engine of three-horse power was pro
vided to work the bellows. Perfect connection was
effected by the employment of the patient pneu
matic system, which Is the distinguishing feature
of the Odell organs. The key-btiard was putln tbe
first story in a recess back of the parlor. Looked
at from tbe front there, only a large expanse of
highly ornamental Queen Anne fretwork appears,
ou either side of which, at the depth of tho recess,
window. Before one of these, win
dows Is the botrd, and behind that fretwork
are the carrilons and the solo organ, iucladiog that
powerful cornet stop. A vMtor might be In the
house fora week, and, If tbs organ were not played
In that time, or he did not chauct to penetrate that
recess, he would not be likely to suspect that there
Is sn organ In the building. Messrs. Odell have alio
erected organs in tbe^ouses of Benjamin Gregory,
$74 West Twenty-tMrd street; Robert Thallon, 81$
St. Mark's avenue, Brooklyn; E. M. Bowman, of Sh
Louis, ind a number of others, but none of them at
all approximating In size to that built for Mr. Bel-
den’s dty residence.
Within tbs psst week twro new clubs havt
been organised here, one styling Itself the Authors’
•lab. and the other adopting the name "Stuyves-
ant club.” Tbe Authors' club will have quite a
small membership. The limit is at present fixed
at fifty, and that number, it seems, in tbe opinion
of the members, will include all the book writers
In town of fair ability. Among the members arc
E L. Godkln, George Wi lltm Curtis, 8. 8. Co-
nant, A.Thnrsklke Bice, R. W. Gilder, RIrhard
Grant-White, Edward Eggleston, E. C. Stedman,
H. H. Boyrten, Noah Brooks. Charles DeKay, (1.
E. Montgomery, Bronton Howard, William Winder,
Rraud'.-r Matthews, H. M. Alden, W. L. A Idea,
and John Blgelowr. Some literary men and
ameus for the heavy game of poker that if gofug
ou there every evening. *-'ome time ago one of the
younger members, who haa an inoomsof $76,000
rr*er annum, dropped $3,000 of it at a single slttlug
in the club rooms. The Union club has beeu talk
ing of buying land near Central park for the erec
tion of a new club-house. it is now
Mid that the schemo has been aban
doned, as it was found that a deslrablo site
could not be bought in the proposed location for
U-m than about $76,000. Many members of tho
Union club are very wealthy, but the club Itself is
uot particularly "forehanded,” as It has always
been Its policy to live up to its Income. It costs a
<ood deal of money to belong to a fashionable club,
hut the advantages and comforts of club life are
<uch as only the most opulent purses could provide
.'or private enjoyment, and many men of good
<landing, but of really moderate means, are will-
.ug to pay tho large Initiation fee and the annual
ducB. It is esteemed also a great advantage
to have a membership in a first-class club when
one happens to visit London or the continent. The
hospitalities of the leading clubs of London aro
free y extended to the members of the Union, the
4,’nlon League, or tho Knickerbocker, and a New
Yoik gentleman hardly needs any other Introduc
tion to the society of tbe British capital. The8t.
Nicholas club la In ono sense the most exclusive In
die dty. Inasmuch as it has an inexorable condi
tion of member hip as respects one's ancestry. It
is wholly composed of tbe descendants of old New
Yorkers, and no one Is eligible to membership
who*e ancestors did not live In this city as far back
as 1787. It Is probable that one or two new clubs,
organized on an ambitious plau, will bo formed
here soon to meet tbo demand.
The most distressing news reaches us from tho
ell region. The number of pcoplo ruined in the
Ikte speculative crash there is unprecedented.
Fortunes of a million dollars and trlblo that were
swept away os feathers In a cyclone, thousands of
people who enjoyed a competency ono hour found
themselves hopel -ssly bankrupt the noxt hour. Of
t^ureo the Slundard oil company made Incredible
pfrotits. As it controlled tho market, it mado prices
just what It pleased, dropping them when tho
lambs had bought, or shooting thorn up when tbo
lambs had sold.
.liockafcllor, who manages tho affairs of this giant
corporation, is ono of tho shrewdest men In tho
country Ho has in his time tackled Vandorbilt
a id Gould on tho transportation question, and uut-
Itrited them both. There Is no monopoly so secure
‘ t' TJib.ic a« the oil compauy ho has built up,
and the t- rtutics amatsed by Its members are fabu
lous. I acted a friend of Rockefeller's what he was
worth. The friend replied: ••Rockafollcrls oneof
the few men who would bo afraid to tell Just what
he Is worth. I should put bis wealth at $10,000,000.
Ho would probably nut it at half as much.”
the meantime the suicides that have been commit
ted In tho oil reglous by wrecked Investors, and tbo
lunatics that have been crazed by their losses, cry
out against Rockafeller and his friends. But these
sort of cries rarely ever peuetrate tbe gilded palaces
of those against whom they are directed.
"CURBSTONK ECHOES/'
Caught on the Wing
-S*v
,r°
Sent Flying Through
THE CONSTITUTION.
The Passion Plsy Is now being rehearsed hero for
presentation soon. Roy. W. M. Waunemakcr Is to
take the part of Christ. He says ho was reformed
from sin by seeing the Passion Play rendered lu
Sau Francisco, and has ever since studied tho char
acter of Christ so that ho could render it reverently
and iutelligeut|y. The play will be rendered In a
new bouse called Passion Hall, now being built by
Mr. Salmi Morse, who owns the
play. The scenes, and elahoiste
ones they will be. represent the Garden of
Gethesmane, the aabbatba where Christ was tried,
the temple, and a great street scene In Jerusalem,
137 feet in depth. Mr. Morse says: "I do not in
tend in this production to give tho scene of the
crucifixion or any of Ihe horrors In
tbe tiagedy of tho life of Jesus, but only
to depict, as man reverently and lov
ingly may, the meekness the goodness, the great
ness, attending that sublime subject. I mean to
show contemporary matter* aud tblngs > ot which
little Is known, exsept to students. I shill show
the sedltloa of tho Jews when Pontius I’ilste placed
the bust of Tiberius In tbe temple. I shall show
the disastrous consequences of the battle of Arctai
at tbe time of tbe death of John tho Baptist. I
shall give the plausible grounds of John tbe Bap
tist's decapitation. In nothing that I will do shall
there be anything that might justly shock tbe
prejudices or weaken the antagonism of the most
devoted religionist.”
The shop windows are assuming their holiday
aspect, aud they draw better than a pantomime.
One of the windows at Macy’s is given ap to
Mother Goose and a grand performance by all her
characters. Tbe piece is set lu a large carved gilt
frame, and by some unseen magical process re
vnlves, each revolution turning out different
sc#-nea First comes Mother Geo»o and hor maids
of honor. Tbe fate of po^r Jack a»d Gill is graph
ically personified by a little boy doll at the too*, ot
a steep hill, laying flat on tbe ground with his
bead mashed and Gill tumbling after with her pall
of water upset and the bucket rolllugoffat one
ride. One novelty In toys is an old white hen com
posed of real feathers and in life-sixe. When wound
up she would run over the floor as If looking for
com on the ground, and deposit her eggs at inter
vals. She has a companion of the m«le persua
sion composed of brilliant feathers, and displaying
a veiy red comb as he struts around, crowing lust
ily every few steps.
Mrs. Langtry came very near meeting with fail
ure In New York. Had her engagement been pro
tracted a week longer, empty benches would have
been tbe tale. As it was, there were many vacant
seats the last few ulgbts. Tbe papers are fierce lo
their criticisms of her acting, and the most thst
people have cared for was to see the greatest beauty
of our day. She does not show well In the rustic
garb of Hester Graxebrook, nor the absurd leggins
of Rosalind, and her audiences have little chance
to Judge of the witching beauty that lu dtcollette
and diamonds captured the prince of Waive
at an evening party and made the lUy the rage. In
Boston she is doing well, as she always will to first
nights She bad little or no social recognition here
and bas fallen In with a »et of fast club men thst
drive eTen the dot!-g Mrs. Laboucbere from her
side In alarm. With an income of more than $1,000
Atlanta, December 7-1 dined with Ballard
Smith, of the New York Herald, tho other night, and
the conversation turned on tho next presidential
election.
"I think few things wero ever more certain in our
politics,” said Mr. Nmlth. "than that tho democrats
will elect the next president. Or rather that the
regular republican nominee will be beaten.
"Then the regular democratic nominee must beat
him?” suggested some one.
"I don’t know about that There are hundreds
of thousands of republicans who are dissatisfied
with the party mauagemeut. They cannot be
brought to vote for tbe party nominee, even wheu
ho Is personally unobjectionable-aa witness the
overwhelming defeat of Folger in New York
against whom not a word could be said. But it
doubtful If thero dissatisfied republicans would
vote for tbe nominee of tbe "machine” elements
of tho democratic party, such as Tammany for ex
ample."
"How will the fight be made then?”
"It Is easy to see how. 8*y that Mr. Cleveland
makes such a governor as the business men and con-
irvative people, lriespective of party, will approve,
Put forward as the representative of there lutcrests
ho would sweep the couutry certainly and over
whelmingly,”
A gentleman at the table suggested that with a
million dollars cash ho could defeat the democrats
by paying a southern congressman to move for tho
payment of the confederate bonds, and by establbh-
lug incendiary bourbon papers throughout the
south.
•The time has passed for that sort of thing,” Mid
Mr. Smith. "Tbe time hss been when the republi
can ranks could be closed by almost any sort of
rallying cry. You notice in tbe last campaign that
even when Folger raised the alarm about the unset
tling of values aud of "panic,” to which New York
has always been particularly susceptible,it failed to
check the anli-Folger current aud the answer to it
was 193,000 ad verso majority. The best republicans
(and I'm Inclined to believe tho bulk of repub)!
cans) have become convinced that the manage
ment of the party Is thoroughly corrupt and baf
and if Cleveland gives New York a clean administra
tion. i do not think one million or ton million dol
lars coula defeat his election to tho presidency
in 1884. it la quite probable that ho will fall out
with tho democratic politicians of New York,
will have a head of his own, and will not bo the too)
ot Tammauy or of any other clique. The opporitlon
of such an element would really be of benefit.
"Is Cleveland a strong man personally T”
’ lie is a safo man and an honest man, without
having tho intellectual force that would of itself
command tho presidency. It Is his position and op
portunity more than any thing olso that wllladvanco
him. Paitiion, of Pennsylvania, is a stronger
matt than Cleveland and mote forceful, llo Is out
of the question as ho is too young to tako tho presi
dency if ho woro elected, jf he had been born nine
mouths earlier than bo wni, I believe bo would
crowd Cleveland < ut. Pennsylvania Is about as
important as New York, In certain view, more im
portant, I'atliron is a moro magnetic and a broad-
der man than Clevoland, and his very youth would
be &u otement in his favor. Ho has also tbe quali
ty of reservo and dignity which is a good deal. If
ho wero niuo mouths older it would probably bo
I’attison th&t would fill tlio public eye threo years
from now. As It Is it will bo Cleveland, if ho at all
metis tbo expectations of bis frkndt.”
Mr. Smith has traveled extensively over Now
York and Pennsylvania lately, aud his facilities
for obtaining Information have beeu very great.
By the way, Mr. Smith tells a story of a North
Carolina wedding. It runs this way: It was In the
Carolina backwoods, a country couple and a coun
try parson. Though a Baptist, tho minister wore
an old surplice. When he bad finished the cere
mony, he said:
"An’ tbem'uns who God bath Joined”—
"Siopthar, parson,” said tho groom; "don't say
tbem'uns, say thrse'unsi”
"John," Mid tbo parson, "I lech you at school,
and I say tbem'uns."
"These ’uns,” shouted the groom, drawing bis
pistol.
Tbe parson selng tbe movement fired through his
surpllco and tho groom dropped dead—wluilug the
parson as be went down. There was a lively fusil-
ade of perhaps thirty shots. When tbe smoke
oteared away a half dozen men were on the floor.
The bride, peeping over tho pulpit to wbicb she bad
tied for refuge, gazed mournfully on the scene, and
said:
Them a self cockin' pistols is a playin' b—II with
my prospeiksi"
Ot course the story is an Impossible one, and yet
said Mr. Smith:
That is tbs staple story of the south that iscircu
latedatid believed throughout tbe north. While such
a thing could hardly have happened lu North Caro
lina cny more than in New York, tbeaverage north
man smiles Incredulously when you tell him
that this performance Is Improbable at a Carolina
wedding."
A broker gave me tbo following story yesterday
8ald he:
Watch for a lurprile in Georgia railroad stock.
You know the Central and Georgia roads control the
Western road of Alabama. Tbo only obligations
•gainst that road are $3,000,000of bonds fndoned by
tbe Georgia and Central. There Is no stock. It is
uow proposed to issue $5,000,000 of new bond*. Of
these $3 OuO.OOO will be ploct d In trust to tske up
the I3.00u.0i0 f Indorsed bonds now oat. The re
maining $.',000 000 will be divided between the
Georgia snd Centra), giving them $1,000,000 each o
bonds. These bonds can sell at par, for the p ad Is
undoubtedly worth $5,000,000, and with $3,000,009
held In trust the remainder can be sold.”
"What will be done with this cash surplus?"
"I only know as to the Georgia road. Tneir $1,
000,000 ran cither be put iu their bank and used as
additional banking capital or It can be paid out as
a cash dividend. In tbe the first case it will in
crease ibe annual dividend, coming Ines Increased
earnings from tbe bank. In the other case it woull
be a cash dividend of $2 a share on the 42,000 shares
of capital. I think the last Is the most probable
course."
"Has It been decided that thu scheme is to bs
put through?'" *
"My Information comes direct thst President
Pbinixy, at a meeting where the plan of Issuing
stock ou the Western roid was proposed, suggested
ihe bonding scheme and tbe division of the surplus
bonds. HU suggestion wss favorably considered,
and he wss requested to^ee whether be could get
the directors of tbe Georgia road to aaree to It. I
am Informed that he now hss written authority
from bU board to put tbe Georgia road into the
scheme, and toy belief Is that it will be carried
out.”
I give tbe above for what it U worth. My in-
formaut has faclU'.lee for gelling information, and
is sincere in bis statement.
In the historical department at tbe Art Loan are
two woro and dirty ticket* carefully framed. One
. .1,01. Mr., tunnr iotm’tfor . 'h.prron. ^ Kor Uur( . nl ' ri Hul; r „, Clf , ptmi
M. M. Tidwell; For8cnator, J. M. Calhoun; Rep
resentative, B. H. Overby. The other, For Govern
or, Joseph E. Brown; Congress, L. J. Gartrell: Sen
ator, J. I. Whitaker: Representative, J. O. West
moreland. These are probably tbe only tickets left
of tbe hundreds of thousands of tickets of that fa
mous struggle in which Hill and Brown were first
pitted against each other, and the feud began be-
tw- on them that lasted for a quarter of a cen
tury.
Just back of these relics of an opening rivalnhip
hang the life-size portraits of the two rivals taken
In virtue of their colleagueshipln the United States
senate. What vast concerns fluctuate between the
days when the tickets wero printed and when tke
portraits were painted. What desperate struggles—
what momentous affairs—tbo slow-growing forces
of disunion, tho Inexorable approach of war, the
bloody soenes of tho strife, tbo destruction of
slavery, tbe reconstruction of a shattered republic.
In the working out of ell these problems the two
voung statesmen were pitted against cash other,
and looked at things from opposing points of view.
Each wss a leader of his faction, and each potential
as a leader. They came together m friends when
each had reached by different routes tho highest
honor that the state could give. With tho achieve-
mentof this honor is closed the career of the two
youngsters which began with the tickets and pro
gressed to the portraits. One han gone to his long
rest, followed by tbe love of his people
and tbe other after more than twenty years of pub
lic service turns longingly toward the -hades of
pr vato life.
John Goodwin, tho newly elected mayor, has
had a very remarkable career In Atlanta. He came
bore a raw oountry boy, from Powder springs, and
was a reporter on the old Atlanta Herald. In
writing up ward mcctiugs he bccamo interested In
politics, and soon took a hand on bis own aceouut.
Ho offored for tho city council and was elected to the
surprlso A everybody, who thought that tbe un
known couutry boy had no sort of showing with
tho practical politician*. Goodwin has made many
races, but has never been beaten. He always has
strong opposition, but his majority is always sure
and decisive. Without eloquence, affability or
showy qualities, and with no fortune to back him
or old family alliances, ho wins by common sense
and quiet management. With tho possible excep
tion o! Bill Hulsey, ho is tho youngest mayor
Atlanta ever selected, aud ns the head of the chief
and capital city of tho state for tho two years that are
pretty sure to bo the most Important years ol her
history, ho occupies a responsible aud delicate posi
tion. But it Is a place where common i«nso will
ivo him where showier qualities would fail him.
When tho Hon. Joshua Hill was in tho United
States senate ho bought for $7,000 an old field lying
on tho suburbs of Washington. IIo thought little
of it. but held it as an investment for hh children,
Tbo British minister built a flno rcsldenco in tho
quarter In which this land was situated, made It a
fashionable district and Mr. IIIH’b purchase is now
worth perhaps $25 -,000-ocrtaln.y a vo.y largo sum.
get this information from Mr. Theodore Cono, a
former citizen of Georgia, who now lives in Wash
ington.
Treasurer Watson, of tbo Cartcrsvlllo car factory,
udU mo that tho factory paid25 percent cash divi
dend and passed 12 por cent, cash toa reservo fuud
tho first year of Its onoration. It built 600 cars that
year and has a capacity of over 1,200 cars per annum
As it cleared 37 per cent net c«sh its first twelve-
mouths, and is doing bolter tho present year, it
maybe put up as an cxamplo of what money and
skill can do In manufacturing in Georgia.
1 heard ono mother say to another yesterday: "If
you want your daughter to grow up graceful aud
comely, glvo her a cold bAtli every morning, give
her hnlr ouo hundred strokes with a stiff brurii, lo
her breakfast bo mado of graham bread and syrup,
glvo her broad slfocs with low heels, and pnt her to
bed at 7 o'clock, overy night.”
Mel f.t'uM trot.
1'rof. W. B. Carpenter's Lecture.
No human power can be so rtrcngtnenod by prac
tice as this power of self-control. Every successful
moral coufllct loaves tho victor ro much the strong
er—with so much moro good—for tho next time.
Tbo way to conquer temptation is to fix tho mind
upon somo other object. It l* a bid policy to keep
m\ I hr nw i, "I will n (it yl< id t<» thl-.'' for thru the
object is kept before the mind, but the mind should
be resolutely turned to tonic other tiling.
of brooding over wrongs and tho slUhts Inflicted
upon us by friends, tho remedy is not to say. ”1
“ tot think about it.” but to turn tho mind to
somo other channel. Frequently tbe morose feel-
Ingi aro the result bodily derangement,
often the liver. Nothing is worsj than bo o ling.
In nerlodsof deprcftrioii. Dr Carpeufcr *»ld ho
bau found much relief in read»ntt ncott’s novcli.
The UeUee-lle Tex.
From the Memphis Avalanche.
Now the day lor reforming the tariff U como, let
every one concerned lu the cotton business remem
ber the odious aud oppressive Iron cotton-tlo tax,
and tbe Insolent cffirtamsde bv those who levy
tribute fr<>m tho cotton planters to double lu
amouut. Tbe duty is thirty five per cent.
Appll.-Mblu to all Paper*.
From the Memphis Avalaucbe.
When tho average citizen on these bluffs ispuz
tied to know what to buy and where to buy Christ
mas presents for bis sisters, bis cousins and his
aunts, be will naturally seek the advrirtMaf (Uaf
umusof the great and good Avalanche for a solu
tion of tne problem.
lboislativk notes.
The senate lean Industrious body.
Senator Morgan resembles Bill Arp.
Senator Baker was in thu pro-uk-ut’* chair yester
day.
After all it was a busy session and a good working
one.
Henator Meldrim celebrated bis thlrty-fortth
birthday yesterday.
Senator Parks helped tho secretaries In the read
ing of bills yesterday.
Senator Neal does credit to bis district although
ao far he bas not made any speeches.
Henator Bush Is one of the most unassuming yet
• one of the very best members of tho senate.
Hpeaker Garrard pulled through with fewer mis
takes aud a better avenge tha t any new speaker
cv<r made.
Senator Wilcox has made no speeches. He hears
the others and then quietly votes as he pleax* and
he pleases to vote right.
IMr. Watts, of Stewart, established himself ax ono
the leading tbiukenof the house,and a good de
bater wheu mere was need of debating.
Several of Tux CoNtrrrtmoN correspondents aro
.j the legislature. Noiablv among them aro Hcna-
lor Parka.aud Honorable* Mr. Hawks and Rountree.
These three geiitlemcu stood In the very front rank
end The Constitution lx proud of them—u their
constituents ought to be.
No man leaves the capital with more frimd* than
Ben Ku»*ell, of Dtcatur. He baa won the «**».. « m
and confidence of hi* c.,lie*Ku. * and is a favorite
with the public. Bluff. Incorruptible, and coura
geous, he baa been true to his cunxtlur~* J
Four of the most studious and conoclentlous
membere of the senate were Senators Waik.-r, wti-
cox. Frederick and Harris. They were aiwa
their places, always anxious to do what wu
when the intereMsof ihe state woul
■afe tn the bands of these four senator* alotu
Judge James B Park, of Greene county, la
the|workitig men of the b gidature. "
■ervaitveln politics, but is ono of tho
bars of the Douse. He has been r-
npeaker Garrard os one of the h-ding
bouie in the sppolntmeat of HU c«.i!u
hh record in the leBblature, not onl> f
but for revere! terms, ha* been equal
‘ judge box some eucmkh In ni< •
iillng on tbo rivef bank / tr Jng, n
whenever there ban electi-sn her’
i leaves thqtn on t
elect too.
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