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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION'. ATLANTA, GA-, TUESDAY JANUARY 19 '18 6 THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ZntrTPl at the Atlanta Port Office aa aeamd-olaa ■all matter, November 11, 187a. W-skly Commotion, )1,U par annum. Club* or firs, 11.00 each; club* of lea IL00 each and a copy to fetter-up of Hub. A WOIID WITH YOU, If you are not a Mili.crll.er to The ConalU tullon, till, ropy I. aenl yon aa a .ample with a rrquratlliat you examine anil decide whether or not yon want to hike It. need a food imper for 1HH0. We think The Cnn.tltutlon In the heal paper you run Art. l’lrA.r2rxanilnr*il earefutlv. Read It, eom- pare It n-llh other paper., and .end n. your euborrlpllon. It till! tie til. beat lave.!ment yon ever made. Try It one year and yon will never emit It ATLANTA, GA., TCEUDAY, JAMCARY III. UBS. Our Hill Arp Letter. We regret that our Dill Arp letter did not reach ua In flute for publication tbia week, Till! la the drat wock we have ntlaaed la two yea re. Neat week the famous philosopher will lie on hand aa usual. He la still in Florida, hy the bedside of his alck hoy, where the aympt. thieaof all our readers ore with him. Look out for hia neat week's letter, Tito Presidential Succession. The passage hy the house of the Hoar sen- ate hill without amendment takes President Pro Tem|iore Edmund., a republican, and Speaker Carlisle, a democrat, wholly out nf the lino of presidential succession. Mr. llaynrd, secretary of state, lakes the place held by Mr. Edmnnds, and Mr. Manning, recielnry nf the treasury, that hold by Mr. Corllslo. One life ntnndu lietween Mr. Ilay- tutl and the presidency, and two lives are between Mr. Manning and the chief excel: tlvc ofUco. Thuc is an Impression that the succession will not lie permitted to remain In the call* inet; hut those who think a further change will lie made ore very apt to lie mistaken. The line of succession that has just lieca ended by (he Hoar hill, was liegun in 17113, and no man living will be apt to see the succession taken from the cabinet. The rhnogc Is a change that will stand. It will stand hernuse it will retain in power the party that the people voted in, and it will keep at the Iteatl nf the state a man wkobnd the conlidenceof the people's choli c. A cabinet officer la the joint product of the judgment ol the president and of the ■route, and it la almost imposailila that a coniipt or offensive or incompetent man could be appointed either secretary of slate or secretory of the treasury. Thu president and the senate acting together in the ap pointment of cabinet officers very closely re semble the action of the electoral eollcgo in ■electing a president and a vice-president. The plan is a safe one from every stand point. The history of the government shows that as a rule stronger men are selected for the leading cabinet positions than the people se lect for the highest office in the land. Let ns look over the list of secretaries of state, for example. No one ilonhts Mr. Bayard's competency. In point of political experience he for outranks tbs president. Mr. Blaine was Garfield's premier. 111a capacity for public duties U not questioned In hU party. Hamilton Fish would have been » better man for the duties of civil administration than hid chief, General Grant, was, and Hr. Evarta overmatched Mr. Ilayce in arery re aped. Great as Lincoln was, Mr. Howard waa almoat hia cqnoi. The chance of going to the cabinet for a president U so slim, anil the chance of get ting n good president in such nil emergency so much letter Ilian under the old plan or any other plan that has licen proposed, it U not to lie doubted that (lie succession now provided for hy Hie Hoar hill will stand per haps ns long as the republic lasts. The tonnliy is now in its second century, and in the whole time only fonr vice-presidents have liecome presidents, and never liaa there lwen occasion to go further in the line of eureeaalon. Don't Mila seat WeaVa Constitution. A Prohibition Problem. Judge Walter I. Hayes, wlto presides over a district court in Iowa—the Clinton-Daven- poit district—has recently made n ruling, which will not only create indignation among the prohibitionists in that state, but which, if It U nphrld by the supreme court, wilt prove to be a stamlillng-htock in ths way of carry Ing ont the prohibition law. Jndge Hayes holds that when a witness U asked whether he boa rondo purchases of In toxicating liquors he cannot bo made to an swer, since an answer might have the effect of criminating himself. The Jndge rules that at the law makes tbo sale of liqnor a crime, the purchaser must necessarily be a party thereto, and cannot is- required to giro testimony showing that bo U a participant in the offense. This decUion wilt likely create a consider able stir in Iowa, and it will be Interesting to note how the supreme court of that state willdlapoaeoflt, for there ran tie no donbl that the prohibitionUta will appeal from the ruling. At the same time the principle on which the derision U based U worthy of the conaideraUon of impartial minds. The law of Iowa makes the sale of liquor a crime,but no crime can be commuted under the law itnlraa there is a purchaser. Tbo owner of liqnor cannot sell it to the air or to himself. Before there can be a sale for the contraband staff there most he a de mand,and the law cannot be violated without the connivance of another party or parties besides the aeller. The troth ot the matter to, that under a taw that prohibit* the aalo of liqnor, the purchaser who make* • viola tion of the law possible is equally a criminal with the man who sella it. If liqnor-aeUiiig is criminal, the parties to the sale—the buy er as well as the ael ler—are criminals. things that editor* do not nsnaily take into account. And yet, in spite of tlicir knowledge and their experience the formers of the south arc compelled by circumstances to depend on cotton n« their money crop. Hometimer they fail at it, sometimes they have meas urable success—lint they have hod, they arc now having, and they will continue to have lor many yeare to come, s tremendous strug gle with on environment that imposes on ■hem and their children the most tremen dous burdens. Other things being equal, diversified and intensive forming is the solution of some ex ceedingly vexations agricultural problems; lint, so far os the south is concerned, the othrrtbfnga ore far from being equal. The theory of the free-traders is that a protective tariff lays an oppressive tax on the farmers of the conntry, lint is this tax oppressive to the farmen vrho, like those of New England and some of the states of the west, ore in position to reap soma of the advantages and benefits of protection? Let ns suppose, for instance, that the formers of the south were enabled to buy their tools and implements, their clothes and their blankets at half- price—would their condition ns agricnl- tin bits lie materially bettered? Would llio value of their lands lie thereby improved? Would they be aide, any more than they are now, to diversify tlieir form products and get le tter prices for them? To ask throe questions is to answer them, for every sensible man knows that though the southern formers could get tlieir imple ments and their dollies for nothing, their material condition would not lie improved one whit. There would be no more program an Hie farm than there is today, and the Kamo policy of extensive and exhaustive faimlng that is the result, not the cause of tlieir impoverishment, would continne to bo practiced. We are not arguing in favor of making the present tariff an indexible system. Wherever it may need reasonable revision, let it he revised; lint southern congressmen, no mailer what their own individual theo ries may lie, should see to It that the prin- iplo of protection is left intact, not for the benefit of monopolies, but for the benefit of the southern farmers who have had a long row to hoc. We say to these congressmen now, and wliat we say will be indorsed by the common sense of the farmers themselves, ilmt tbo planters of tbesontb cannot prosper ns they should prosper nntil they have ade quate home mnrkcta for their producta; they cannot have these market* nntil ail sorts of indnstrics and manufactories are built up in the aontb, and these industries cannot be linllt up unless the samo protect ion is'extended to them that has liccn ex tended to the industries of the north. Let us not lie misunderstood. Wo are against the present tariff. We demand its revision—lint it should he revised so as to give incidental protection to the indnstrics thst, having made New England rich, are now moving southward and straggling hero for existence. We stand on the democratic platform that was adopted at Chicago, and on which President Cleveland was elected. That platform demand! that the tariff shall he reduced so aa to meet the needs of the government; tint, what is necesssry to be collected, shall he so placed os to give protec tion to American labor. That is where wo stand—and have always stood. Home Markets (tor Southern Farmen. Wc print elsewhere on article foam the Providence, lthade Island, Journal, to which we invite the serious attention of onrroadore. It will lie remembered that The Coxktitt- thin commented a few days ago on the re sult* of intensive farming on seven acres of land somewhere near Providence, staling that while the same results, so for as production is concerned, conhl lie equalled or surpamed on seven acre* of land in any part of Geor gia, no sneh profits rould be realized here. For, in spite of the cry that is continually going up from the southern papers, The Conmiti tmin among them, the planters of the south cannot farm to the greatest advan tage. They know as well as the editors that their crops ought to be diversified—that the all-cotton plan points in the direction of poverty. They know them and Mas other Ir tbl* paper foils in yonr hand and you are not a miliecriher, don't fail to begin with next week’s paper. If there is an agent at yonr office find him at once and send your money through him. If there is no agent send yonr $1.35. Or, get fonr neighbors to join you stid send fit each or $3 for tile club. But any how, don't foil to see next week's paper. Yon will be sorry if yon do! A Protestor of ncauty. Last week the ladies of New York fonnd their ryes arrested hy an advertisement in the daily paper* which contaieed the start ing head-line, “Beauty within the grasp of every women !" The fair readers took in the whole of it, and learned Uut a certain professor for the small sum of fifteen dollars would “change the homeliest woman into a slnr-eytd goddess.’’ This advertisement seemed to fill a long- felt want. It carried Joy and hope Into thousands of homes, and in the course of a few hours brigades of fot women, cross-eyed women, and flrcckled-fored women were on their way to ths professor's headquarters. One young lady paid the professor fiftcon dollars in gold and told him to go ahendwitb the ticauty business. The cunning magician took a large sponge soaked iu soap and water and rubbed her face. Then he put n little rice powder on and fanned her vigorously. After waiving his hands mysteriously he said: “Now yon mo fit to enter into a contest with the 110,000 prise beauty.” The girl looked into a mirror and remarked that she waa not aftaid ot a MO,000 beauty. She departed too happy for anything. The next applicant desired a big wart removed ftom her nose. This was done in a moment. A girl with freckles was the next, and she, too, was sent away in a state of bliss. The next morning when these foolish sisters awoke they looked into their mirrors the very first thing. At first they were dozed. Then they set np despairing shrieks that were heard half a mile. Their faces looked a* if they hod been soaked in strong vinegar tor a week. sufficient toncconnt for tho carious capers cot hy both Carlisle and Morrison. And yet the capers ol these wonld-bc. bosses of the democratic party arc not with out method. According to a correspondent of the New York Han, it is the intention of these distinguished men to establish tbe “democracy of the Miaaiaaippl valley” in control of the party organization, and “to transfer the fulcram of political action from the state of New York to either the state of Illinois or tbe state of Kentucky.” Under this programme, tbe chief manager of the party is to be Mr. Morrison,and its can didate for president in 1688 is to be Mr. Carlisle, and free trade is to be conspicaoas in its platform. We have no donbt thathehasoorrectly ont lined the Morrison-Carliale programme, which baa already been set forth by Henry Wnttcrson, who is the editor-iu-chief of the new movement. The solid south will have something to ray in a matter of this kind; for the solid south cannot afford to take any chances in politics. With New York, New Jersey ami Connecticut democratic, there is no doubt in regard to aecnring a democratic administra tion, hnt with these states driven into tire republican party hy the free trade foolislt- nses of tiro western cranks, tho probability is that the whole country would lie repub lican. If there is one thing that is of vital ne cessity to the interests nf tire smith it is n democratic administration. This being the ease, there can he no donbt that tiro demo cratic party of the south will, when tiro proper time comes, assert its power and place the western cranks where they belong —in tile rear of the procession. Don't miss A Cranky zt Wrak'a Constitution. Programme. No southern democrat who reads tba newspapers can havs any doubt that con gress It organized in the tntereat of a few persons instead of in the interest of the peo ple. Tho rales were changed in the inter est of jobbery, and the appropriation bills are to be scattered around among various committee* in order to aatiaty the demands of such Organized plunderers at those who manage the interests of the whisky ring. Mr. Carlisle is a very good man, but it is welt known in Washington, according to all accounts, that ha has allowed Morrison, of Illinois, and Willis, of Kentucky, to make np hi* committees for him. Tbe coinage committee, for instance, is packed in tbe in terest of the gold-bogs and Wall street wreckers, and it has lieen packed in the face of the fact that a large majority of the democrats of the house are opposed to the demonetization of silver. The great tremble is that soma of tba western congressmen who have been poshed into adventitious promi nence, an suffering from a virulent attack of tbe presidential disease, This foot is Horn! Carolina waa redeemed from re publican rule liy liidivhlnaf work. That is, every democrat made it bis duty to get one vote licsidc his own. That doubled tbe democratic strength. There ia infinite strength in the unit. Wc are willing to work all the year to get 100,000 suhseriiicrs. We have 30,000 now. If every anbacriber would get ono new one wo would have 100,000 in a week. Won’t yon do it? Il Was a Cold Week. Today closes tbe coldest wcok Georgia baa ever seen. Onr wise and venerable friend, Mr. Jos. Ormond, reminds ns that there have been colder snaps of weather, but we donbt if the soath ever sustained a con tinuous week of such uniformly cold weather. The damage has been less, on the whole, than was expected, though it has sorely liccn had enongb. Strange ns it may seem, the greatest losses have been in Florida and Texas. The orange trees, with their thin skins, were blighted in westhcr that the rough barked apple trees of tho north would have laughed at. The Texas herds have perished hy wholesale, while tlieir hardier cousins np north appear to ltave weathered the storm. Moro people have liccn frozen in the south than in the north for the simple reason that they were less prepared for cold weather. Fifty 'degrees below zero meant less In Michigan than one degreo below zero in Carolina. Turn Con stitution print* many barrowing stories of death from cold, but they are individual and casual. There appears to have been no general disaster, such os was feared. It is possible that some such may ho still hidden kqcath the snowy mantlo slowly lifting from the land. Up to date, however, we have passed through the unparalleled cold mncli better than nny of ns hoped. Is It Progress? At lost Charles Bradlaugh, the notorious atheist member from Northampton, lias been sworn in and seated, for the time at least, in the British parliament. In their comment* upon this remarkable proceeding many of our exchanges speak of it aa an indication of progress, and as an ev idence of the growing strength of tho peo ple’s will, even in monarchical countries, There ore many old-fashioned people in England and in America who will see it in a different light For many years Bradlaugh bos liccn to England what Ingereoll is to America. He lias waged a hitter warfare against the Christiuu religion. Possessing many of the aria of the demagogue lie has time and again been elected hy his North ampton constituents only to he repeatedly rejected by the house. Tlte members of lisrliament felt that it would be a hitter mockery, the very irony of solemnity to ad' minister the oath to such a man. Session after Kcssion tho blatant scoffer came to the Imr nf the house with an insolent iccr oftri- nmph to behnrlcd hack aud all bat kicked through the onter gates by the insnlted and outraged representatives of Christian Britain, in an evil hour when demoraliza tion followed the bitterness ol' partisan strife, the arrogant atheist trod nil the an cient principles, traditions aud forms of the commons under his heel, and was admitted into the proudest of the world's parliaments. Is this progress? If it is, theeprogress ia not an nnmixed blessing. v. Concerning Larrh<|iinkcs. It is poreiblc that this great globe of onre ia alnut to pass through another earthquake period. Ho little ia known of the Inns gov erning each disturbances that predictions are out of the question. Within the post few days earthquakes have occurred in varions parts of Mexico aud Central America. The shocks were severe enough to demolish adobe houses, ami to throw people to the ground. This may be tho end of it, hnt no man con tell. The re gion visited has frequently suffered in the same way. In the West Indies, in ICtri, the capital city of Jamaica, Port Royal, disap peared under the water in three minutes. In 1873 Hon Salvador was utterly destroyed. South America has been torn up many times. Some timid reader may lie inclined to speculate upon the proimhility of one of these disastrous visitations in this country. In the pest we have been, hy no means, ex empt. Tbe great earthquake of 1811 in the Mississippi Valley wascahuuitous. Pur sev eral months the ground incessantly quaked over an area ot many hundred mile*. Lakes w ere for med and drained, and the ground rose and rank like the waves of the ocean. Long before this disturbance one occurred in New England and the middle states. This was in 1733. It was accompanied with a noise like that of thunder. The first shock threw people down. In Boston boose* were thrown down or dislocated. In the rural districts the fence* roamed all over the foco of the conn try changing the boundary lines of form*. The California earthquakes have been too numerous to mention in detail Tte southern state*, with the exception of few gentle ebook*, have never received mnch of a shaking np, that is, since they w ere settled by the whites. Centuries ago they no donbt bad their share. One thing is very evident. Onr buildings are not calculated to stand even a moderate earthquake. If we ever have a touch of the gennine Central American article onr cities and towns wiU tumble into heaps of rub bish. Bat it is to be hoped that no snch af fliction wili ever visit na. There is one thing list week’s cold did not stop. That is the rash of subscribers to The Constitution. Where they come from the Lord only knows. Bnt come they did, and by tbe hundreds. Home wrote that their ink was frozen—seme wrote with pencil—some crossed rivers on ice to reach pcetofflcc—some rode knee-deep through snow—bnt they kept a coming! Now, tiro freezing weather is over. The subscribers are abroad again and arc want ing good papers. Hpeak a word for The Constitution# Show your copy to yonr friends and neighbors. Get them to sub scribe. We want 3,000 new subscribers this week Won't you help us get them. Mighty little work from you will do it. We count you! The Mormon Corporation. Altogether tbe livliest provision in new Edmunds bill is that which provides for tlze appointment of trustees to take charge ofand conduct to n closing out point the corporation known ns tho .Mormon church of Utah. This is body politic by virtue of an act of the legislature of tbo ter ritory of Utah. As nutters Are the corpo ration exists with tbe sanction of the people of tho United States; for what tho territory sanctions wo must he held to sanction while we permit it to go on with a fnll knowledge of the facta and circumstances. It is not proposed to interfere with Mor mon doctrines—to abridge ,in any mnnner the liberty of conscience in Utah—but it is proposed that a corporation of the territory which denis with taxes and property shall not violate [tbe terms of its . charter by pro moting movements thnt are illegal and dangerous to tire public good. This corporation is engaged in levying taxes, in appropriating public lands, in furnishing money to attract immigrants, in doing varions other things nil going to sup port and strengthen the crime of polygamy, and to build up a power that bos openly de fied and now secretly defies the laws of the United States. It is simply ridicalons to say that such ^corporation cannot be touch' ed because it is connected with a charcb. The senate by a voto of 38 to 7 rejected snch a proposition, and tho house will doubtless acquiesce. It is stated, among other things, that this close corporation has obtained, under one pretense or another, nearly nil the valuable water coarse*, rivers, springs, and arable lands in the territory. It has caused towns and cities to be organized on paper by thousands, and each of these bogus towns has pre-empted 330 acres of government land ns a town site, on payment of $1.35 nn acre. There ore over 3,000 of these town sites in Utah, not over a dozen of which are used for town purposes, and the titlo of these town sites is practically owned by this gigantic controUing corporation, which is conducted in the interest of polygamy and in defiance of the laws and sentiment of tho people of the United Hiates. Of coarse snch n trading political body mast be (broaght within the law, if Utah is to become an or derly, law-abiding territory. Tho Ed munds hill without tile Mormon corporation section would bo a very poor bill indeed; for it woold leave in tho hands of the law breakers and conspirators all .tho sinews of war, thns enabling them to form new plans and execute tmidly new schemes to uphold their pet institution. The following letter is from one of the best ministers in the Georgia conference, and should be read with interest by our resdors. Nothing is more important than to have tho paper that enters your family wcok after week, clean, pure aud wholesome. Yon would not let a blackguard associate regularly with your wife, pml children. No more ought yon to let a blackguard paper become a regular visitor at your house. Road what tho Rev. Mr. Smith says about The Constitution: Macon, Doccmbcr 31.—Editors Constitution: As you know, I generally spesk out in mooting, and when 1 do not Uko s tiling I say so. A few years ago 1 said in a Sunday school speech that there were few secular papers that ono zealous for bfscblldrcn's morals could safely Introduce tnpi his family. The ttllnc** was true at thst time, but there are few papers, religious tiring into his family, which i purer or safer llisn The Weekly Constitc- tiox. You have shown by your success thst s paper may ho popular with our masses which is pure and elevating. My children look for The Ooxsrm tiox eagerly and Rill Arp and Betsy Hamilton and Uncle Re mus are real friends of the family. I think I can say Justly that nn paper In my k now ledge has such a cor;* of contributors as The Coxstitvtiox. Truly your friend, geo. O. Smith. A man may feel perfeety safe in taking The Weekly Constitution. It is always bright, chccrfoi and clesn. Ilia children are safe with it. It Is an educator, as well its a friend and messenger. It is tho best of family p-a per*. Subscribe for it at once, and mention this to your friends. DURING THE WEEK. Tuesday. January II —The Chilian congress is luicssion—The ehess match for tbe cnamp!on< ship of the world began yesterday fn Now York The volcano ot CoUma, in Mexico, is belching lava to the distance of two miles—The powers demand that Greece, Servl* and Bulgaria demobilize their srmlts Governor elect Koraker, of Ohio, was In augurated in Columbus yesterday with great cere mony The Engltih government revives the question ot Improving the mall system between Great Britain and America The Presbyterian church, erected fn Covington, Ky„ three years ago at a cost oriACOO, was burned Prices oflmported goods am being advanced by Mexican merchants became of the silver depreciation The Spanish government refuses to grant England a coaling station on one of the Caroline islands The loyal ists of Dublin Intend holding weekly meetings, their purpose being to continue the agitation against the granting of home rule to In-laud .The Englt-h government does not intend to prevent Charles Rrsdlsugh from sluing tn ttic house of commons as member them Northampton. txeCitv.—John Williams, * plumber, cautc near being his life by Juhallnggas while repairing a broken pipe—The remains of ex-Governor Benjamin Conley were taken to Augusta for Inter ment Sam Pope, a *mall negro boy, was arrested by the police u bite jumping on a train Skating cn tee was Indulged tn by several AtUmians on ond tnear the city. Wednesday, January 13.—The southern trunk llbes have agreed on an advance of twents cents l*r ton on pig Iron The largest number of postage stamps, postal cards and stomped envel op# ever issued to postmasters in the United states wire sent out yesterday, and bey amounted to fgfK.200 A fight took place between a holy -. Russian troops aud six thousand Shahsovuis, who were croesfngthc Persian frontier to winter in Rus sian Moghan..... M. Floquet has been re-clectod prestdentof the French chamber of deputies....... A thaw, accompanied by heavy rains, has set in ho Balkans anil much damage has been done Prince Alexander bos offered the sultan the services of the Bulgarian troops, In the event of r Greek rising in Macedonia The powers sum- moned Sends, Bulgaria and Grccco to disarm, promising them that Turkey will follow their ox ample,sndSendshosresolvednotto make peace with Bulgaria until the question regarding the dls- posfllon of eastern Roumclla has been solved. In the City.—'William Burr, adeformed peddler, was found dead In his bod yesterday morning The store of L. Cohen A Co., on Alabama street was entered last night and *2,000 wss taken ftom the safe. Tt c men who did It were professional cracks men and did their work with such accuracy that they succeeded in gettingaway with the money be- fore the crime vh detected. The wife was blown open with gunpowder 1 he variety store, Mn. M. A. Christopher, proprietress, at 73 Whitehall street, Assigned yesterday. Thurnday, January 14.—The Ohio legislature elected John Fhcrman to the United States senate Two men were killed by a train on the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania railroad The boiler in the basement of St. Mary’s Catholic church at Fort Wayne, Ind., exploded, killing the engineer and a little school girl Two men were killed in Cleve- land, Ohio, by falling down a sky light shaft Sheriff Zegmau, of Colfax county, Nebraska, was killed In Jail by a prisoner named Lopour, who •truck him over the head with a heavy club, and a crowd of men took La pour from the jail and banged him to a tree. iKTHECirv.—Mr. Ab Grambling, who was in* Jured by the explosion of the water tank In Sena** tor Brown's private car, was in a critical condition yesterday The six-months old child of Ida Foster was found dead In bed. supposed to be caused from suffocating by the bedding Tho minUten of the city, together with several mem bers of the Young Men’s Christian association held a meeting to perfect arrangements for tho proposed visit of Moody and Sankey. They will be hero in April. Friday. January 18.—Connt Rmcoii has been appointed Spanish minister to London in place of Marquis do Casa Larglcsca, who has been trans ferred to Washington—President Grcvy of Franco has signed a degree granting amnesty to persons convicted of political crimes since 1870 A train near Paita, Peru, conveying a military company, was wrecked, and thirty soldiers, including eleven officers, wero killed Michael Davitt approves the proposition to buy out Irish landlords, and suggests an Anglo-Irish arbitration commission to settle the terms of purchase Several Mexican editors iiave been imprisoned formakiug libelous attacks on tbe authorities. In the City.—Tho waterworks reservoir has been frozen over for several days G. II. Barton, w ho halls from Chicago and claims to 1ms tho gen eral agent for Buttcrlck’s patterns, was arrested by the police yesterday charged with cheating and swindling. "For the small sum of ten dollars” ho would supply a man with a complete outfit of pat terns, and he also promised to pay the man seventy- five dollars a month and expenses to travel for tho firm. The police Investigated Barton’s business and found hint to be a swindler, and his arrest fol lowed. Saturday* January 10.—The anti • Chlneso league of 8an Jose, Cal., havo decided to circulate petitions asking congress to Abrogate tho Burlin game treaty W, G. Jlusscil has declined tho New York sub-treasuryshlp tendered him by Presi dent Cleveland The long strike of tho iron moulders at North Dighton, Mass., is at an end John Magee, who pleaded guilty to tho charge of attempting to procure money from tho Prince of Wales by writing threatening letters, wras sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude There were 307 businesa failures throughout the United States dur- lug the post week aud 25 in Canada. In the City.—It Is now definitely settled that tho Metropolitan street car company will complete, their lino to Grant’s park by the 1st of June Sev eral fine residences will shortly be built in Atlanta Tbe "Woman’s Home,” on Marietta street, has dono a great deal of good during the recent cold spell by feeding and clothing those who asked for relief. Sunday. January 17.—The state engineers of Louisiana have been notified of a serious cave-in of the lcvcc at Kennervllle, twenty miles abovo New Orleans Up to the present time the militia de partment has authorized the payment of a fraction over ft,000,000 expenses of the northeast (Riel’s) re bellion Fifty poor families were made homeless by a fire in Washington A small wooden build ing, in which wasatored 250 pounds, was blown up at Yonkers, N. Y„ spreading destruction In all di rections, .. .It Is announced that the vacancy in tho office of the assistant treasurer at New York will be filled tills week Tho board of guardians of tho ]>oor law union of Limerick, Ireland, has decided tocroct 800 cottages for the accommodation of tho poor The Benia government refines to disband its forces on the ground that it desires to be protect cd against surprise. In the City.—Thomas Patrick, who is wanted in Greenville, 8. C., waa arrested by tho police George Vaughn, the janitor cf tho Atlanta medical college, was arrested for robbing a grave at De catur The trustees of tbo Young Men’s Christian association havo selected a lot for their now build ing, and work will probably be commenced by tho first of April. The building will bo five stories high aud will cover a space of about 65x00 feet. Our ogenta should remember that this is the barveet-timo for subscribers. Nine out of ten men who subscribe for the year do so this month or next Other agents are at work trying to get yonr neighbors to take other papers. See to it that Tub Constitu tion gets them. Now is the hanrest-time. Don’t lose a day t Tho friends of other papers are at work. Tlie Ohio Excursionists. From the following, it will be seen that Dr. Estabrook has requested Mr. 8. W. Goode, of this city, to prepare lists of properties for the use of tho cxcunionlsts who will be here on July f»»h. Mr. Goode says that Dr. Estabrook docs this simply that classified properties with the lowest prices may bo ready for^hey visitors when the come. This Mr.Goode will do. Dr. Entabrook writes :| OUR OWN comp, Short Talks With Our Readers on Matters of Interest. A Handsome Colored Poster. We have a large handsome poster, printed in red and blue, for every one of our ageuts. It is the banner of Tue Constitution and every agent ought to havo ono or two pat up in the post office or neighborhood store. Itholpg wonderfully. Have you one? If not, icud at once and we will mail you one. If you have one and could nee another one well, tend for it. We want every agent to have one of onr Illum inated posters. Please Renew Your subscription before your time is out. This prevents your mlaring a tingle number. The printed slip on yeur paper tells when the time is out. Renew at least one week ahead, and bring a new subscriber with you. If You are Buying a Horse Don’t you ask some man that has known tho bone, and if not interested in telling him, about bis gaits and habits t If yon are buying a farm dou’t you inquire of somo one about tho land? No matter what you are baying, you go to somebody who is not interested and get from them all the information yon can. That Is right. Now, In buying a paper for a year, why not pursue the same course? You cannot tell from one copy what it will be all the year. But tho peoplo who have read it ronstantly do know. Then why not take their opinions and bo guided by them? Here is what our roadera say about The Constitution : Mr. M. E. Rushin. Eureka. Go.: "Yon get on tho best family paper In America. I have taken many great weeklies, and have dropped them all and centered on yours alone, as It is sufficient for any household. May you get 100,000 subscribers beats them auT sides tho five I send you now. You will hold all you get, and each hour will work for more.” Charles Bodlnc, North Mountain, West Virginia: "The Constitution is the best paper I ever saw.” J. P.’Nichols, Athens. Ga.: "Enclosed find two dollars for two subscriptions to the best paper in the United States.” Gcorgo E. Brewer, Lafayette.Ala.: "Everyone thinks the Constitution a marvel of cheapness when its size and quality is considered. It Is one enterprise In which tho north is surpassed by the south.” C. A. Klnchcloe, ButUville, Va.: "Enclosed find one dollar, for which send to me the best paper I papers you sent me are about all given away to farmers. As you were recommended to me by some of my friends mend my friends taken the more pains to put your papers into their hands, for 1 do not want one of them deceived. I am bringing them to Georgia because 1 know that Georgia possesses fortunes for every good farmer, ardner or nock raiser In Ohio who will come Jown there and pursue as judicious a course as they do here. In order that 1 may be able to put one of your papers In the hands of all, so tliat they can see how cheap the lands in our state are, rend me another thousand copies. Deal only in the most honorable way with all my excursion ists who call on you. They all look to me as the flftherof these excursions, and I would much rather loose all I expect to make out or my excur sion than have one party deceived. When any of them call on. or write you in regard to buying a faun, show them tbe best yon have advertised. I amposted in retard to some of the land you have advertised, and I know you have some rare bar- Respectfully, Dr. C. A. Estabrook. — now thought tho excursion wlllnuraber several hundred people. Our High Arm Machine. Every mail brings ns letters of praise for our high arm machino that we offer at $22, with the paper, or |21 without U. Wo guar antee this to be a better machine than can be bonght for $55 or $00. Here is whit one of our readers says, who has bought a machine and tried it: Can per 11. Crrxrr, Ga., January 15th. 1886.—The high arm machine 1 ordered of you a few weeks since has come all right, and my wife hat tested it *n different kind* of goods and she Is well pleased ith it. She like* it better than any machine In thecouutry. There i* only one way for you to get it l ack, ami that I* to send her another Just like it. or feo In money. Von need not hesitate to recom mend it to your readers, for it Is all you claim for and^betier too, and If any of my neighbors nt cue let them come and look for themisjlvea and they w ill be satisfied. Yours, etc.. T. L Duncan. This ia plain testimony, bnt you need not take it. Send yonr money, order a machine, try It for ten days, and if it La not better than any $♦*> machine in your neighborhood we will refand your money. Don't mlMJieit Week's C—stitattoa. For Over Two Yeare. The success of TheConrtitution Waterbnry watch is amazing. By tho hundreds they have gone Into every state. Why not? A good watch, accurate timekeeper, for $2.50 is a miracle. But docs it last? That is the question often asked Here is an answer from one who has tried it: Editors Constitution : Two years ago I bought one of your Waierbury watches, which has riven perfect satisfaction. It never has stopped a minuto and kept perfect time. I certainly recommend these watches to your readers. C. D. Beall, Atlanta, Ga., formerly Pennington, Ga. Here is plain testimony. For over two years this little Waierbury has not stopped a minute. Not a cent has been spent on repairing It, though iu tho same time Mr. Ball spent 925 getting his wrifo's gold watch repaired. At the end of two years *Mr. Ball rays: "I wouldn't toko 920 for my Waterbury if I couldn’t replace it.” Our Waterbnry is tho best investment you 'can make. You ought to havo ono. Your wife ought to have one. Your son ought to havo ono. Only 8,25 for tho watch, chain; charm and The Con stitution ono year. Whore can you beat that? Ox 92.50 for the watch and chain and charm alono* Send at once and get one. Our 9U Gun* Tho twelve dollar double-barreled brooch- loading shot gun that wo put on our premium list a few weeks ago has caught the public, and seems to be getting almost as popular as Tue Constitution. We havo sold scores of them, and the universal verdict is that it is tho best gvn over offered for the money. Hero is one of the many letters which each day's mail brings ns. Read what Mr. Rivers says, and then decide for yourself: II. 8. Riven, Falrburn. Ga.: This certifies that 1 F urebased one of your 912 guns a few weeks ago. have used It beside a f to gnu. and find It equally as good. It gives zatjjfartfi.il in every respect. A Good HugRestlon. A subscriber from Mountain Rest, Oconee county, 8. C., writes: "Mr. Editor: If you will persuade all who want to read tbo Constitution to subscribe for it instead of borrowing it, you will soon double your subscrip tions. It Is such a goad paper that any mairwho reads it ought to bo willing to pay for It. I see your appeal for now sub-cribers. If every man that borrows the Constitution would subscribe for it, you would not have need to a<k for any more.” A subscriber docs not like to rcftise to lend bis paper to a neighbor, but very few like to do so when the paper is so cheap that the borrowers could afford to become subzeribers. The Best Kind of Invratment Is a good tew ing machine. It Is a blessing in every homo and pays for itself right along. Have you got one? If not why don’t you buy The Constitution machine? Wo sell yon a ma chine we guarantee to bo better than the 115 Sing er, after which It Is modeled, for 118 withTai Co>stitution for one year thrown In. Remember that wo guarantee this. By this we mean that we will let you send the money for the machine, take the machine homo, put it along side of any machine that cost you $15 or $50. Com pare them closely, try them on all kinds of work, •ud if at the end of ten day* you find our machino for which you peid $18 (with the paper thrown In) is not better than the 915 machine, you can notify us and we will immediately refund your money. Irn’t this fair enough? “NVehavo sold hundreds of these machines. We have had only one returned. Tbe others have more than give satisfaction. Read what our cus tomers cay about it: L. A. Harper, M. D., Caban I**, Ga.—I received the machine reme time since, and find it all you claim for it. 8everal persons have been to see it with tho •D. W. Burton, Monroe, Ga —I received your ma chine two weeks ago. My wife has tried It on sev eral different kinds of goods, and is delighted with It. A. J. Williams. Smlthvtlle, Ga.-I received tba machine all right, and my wife is well pleased with ft. Fays she feels she cannot say too much In Its favor. Ail who have seen it like it. This is a hearty, good letter, and one tha does our heart good. Why c can’t five hundred of our subscribers write us snch • letter this week. Read it. "Dubun Farm. Sibley. Lincoln county. La., December25th, 1885.—Atlanta Constitution; An old Georgian (a native) and a warm admirer of tho best hhcct published, sends you happy Christmas ■«!* a neighborhood filled with settler front Ohall I say) the empire Mate. A friend, Mr. D., first subscribed for The CosKTrrmoN, and when we bad the the pleasure, through him, of seeing the raper, all decided that we could not do with out it. Have sent von one club of nine, and havo more rames to add, and will do better in the fu ture. We would be glad to bear from some of onr old frieudz in Talbot county. Respectfully, ALEX HaNDEBSON T. 8.--I rend yon twodollars this morning by llr. Bailey. Ain't that a good letter? Now, why can't yon get us np a club and send us just snch a etter this week? It will make yon feel good and make us feel better. Now is the Time to decide what paper yoa wUl take for the year. Do not be misled by "sample copies” of Inferior papers sent out to catch mongers. The old reliable Constitution lfl the best family paper in tbe world. • Try It for next year and you wiU never be without IL It ia tho same all the year round, except that U gets better all the time. Read what our old subscribers son about it in "Our Own Cotum." Too dux’! do bet ter than try Tu CoMrmmeK.