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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION - . ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY FEBRUARY 9. 1886
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ATLANTA, OA.. TUESDAY, FKIIBPABY P. IMP,
M'e Arc So Crmvtlctl AVItli New*
Thia week that we have little room for
onr weekly talk with our milimJ-ibcn.
We nuitl last week we wanted 7,500 new
entacrlben for February. The first week
has given us 2,101. If the remaining weeks
do as well, we shall have 10,000 new still-
reriliers for February, Instead of 7,500,
whirl) will make us very liappy.
Tiik Constitution goes this week to
fiH.ooo subscribers. We repeat onr inquiry:
Cannot each one of tlieso get us one more
subscriber (luring the month of February?
Wilut a great piper we could make if each
one wonld do this little favor. Won't yon
doil? (Jet one line oaf. If you arc in a
i Ink, give it to your rluh-tniser, and it will
double bis club! laitus raise February to 10,-
0011 new subscribers.
fs.tji Jones has been persuaded to stay
another week in Cincinnati. Seven thousand
people rose at one of his recent meetings and
requested him lo slay.
1E any wonion was ever entitled to a di
vorce It is Mrs. lamas (Jcnningcr, of Brook
lyn, N. Y. filio states that last Hoptember
he tried to ent her throat with a razor. In
December he took a clothes line nntl tried
to etranglc her. Failing In this ho tried lo
finish her with an ax. Then ha bid in the
collar and tried to kill her. She escaped nil
ol these dangers and now wants a separa
tion,
Hotv is Ibis? We were told, when llie
"new rules" were ndoplcd liy the house, that
business in that Issly wonld be carried
through with n rush. lint thus far there
have been no signs of u rush to speak of.
Tin- house has done, and is doing, literally
nothing, and it will continue to do nothing
until the last weeks of the session, when the
laanly anil perfection of the new rales will
lie demonstrated liy the facility with which
rxtruvagont anil unnecessary legislation is
rushed through. Thu new rnles nre good
enough for the joldiers and whisky ringsters,
lint they are fatal to democratic economy.
Our Friends From Ohio.
We laka it for granted that onr friends
from Ohio mean business In coming to see us.
And beyond the sincere welcome with which
ws greet them wo have a few wools of bust-
ness tor them.
Georgia is, In our opinion, the bent farm
ing state in the union. tVe may be askod,
if it la the beet state why it is not the rich
est. The reply Is direct. When General
Bherman started his march to the sea he tel
egraphed Grant, "X will nuke Georgia bowl.
If Georgia did not howl it was not because
the hand of war was not laid heavily on her.
Our town* and cities were destroyed, onr
loiras devastated, our stock killed, home*
and fences burned anil the state was one
stretch ol desolation. The farmers, coming
heme ragged and barefoot and dazed from
the war, tonnd Ihoy had literally nothing to
begin work with. Their money was value
less their sieves freed, their families deci
mated. With this scanty resource they had
to solve new problems and strike new lim
of eaperiment They had to bny imple
ments and machinery, rebuild their houses
end fences and stock their farms on credit.
The testimony of (turners, collected through
the agricultural department, showed that
they paid an average of 54 per cent per an
num Interest on their supplies. When our
visitors see what Georgia's farmers have ac
complished in spite of alt disadvantages Urey
will agree that their progress is anuulng. It
mutt lie remembered, too, that Georgia has
only lately become a manufacturing state,
end that the farmers bate bad no home mar
bets, nnd no market* at all for perishable
truck.
Our staple crop—cotton—la the beet money
crop ol the world. When supplemented by
ether crops and made with home raised meat
and corn it never fails to tiring prosperity nnd
competency. In Georgia wheat and cotton
grow in the snnie field, clover and rice thrive
side by side. Onr climate is incomparable,
except when an Ohio excursion come* dowu
nnd brings it* weather with it. Work in
open Held need never be impeded a day in
the year for heat or cold. Cattle grass nine
months in the year. lands are cheap and n
pittance bays a farm. Our laborers are the
best in the world when they an watched,
decile, strong and willing. Our soil is worn
•omewhat by the desperate farming of tho
pstt fifteen yean, bat responds quickly to
good treatment, and i* capable of the highest
mulls. Onr school system is fine, churches
aloud!, law and order pravail, taxes are
low, >oi iety is good anil the people are frank
and hospitable. No where on this earth can
a sober, industrious, intelligent farmer find
a better home than in Georgia.
It may he asked, then, why so much of
Georgia la ofi’ered for sale. In the first place,
there is abundance of land for sale in any
stale. In the eceoud place, the Intensive
system of forming has made marvelous pro-
gras in Geoigia. "A little form well tilled”
is becoming the proverb of Uie Georgia farm
er. The snug patch is replacing the field,
and the meadow aupplauts the barren. The
man who has been scratching a plantation
tow rralirra there is more money in culti
vating a small farm. I onueqiie ntly the own
er of a thou-and acres, cumentrutiug oa five
bundled acies, has five lmudred acres for
sale. Intensive fanning is splitting up the
eld plantations and the new made farms
await purchasers.
A wire man -hould not hay without in
spection. No man should locate a home
without stndying the situation. That is
what we want our visitors to do. Look over
the ground carrfolly. When yon find what
yon want bny it. We will he glad to have
yon settle in Georgia. Von will agree with
ns afier you have lived here it is the bent
•ttfe in the onion.
The Dead Lock In Ohio.
No compromise, no plan of settlement has
lieen adopted in the Ohio senate. Matters
stand jnst where they did when tho body
suddenly resolved itself into two senates.
The republican senate consists all told of
seventeen senators, headed by Lieutenant
Governor Kennedy. The other senate con
sists of twenty democrats and Clerk Valion-
digham.
The difficulty arises over the four senators
that Hamilton county is entitled to. Etch
party claims its nominees were elected in
that troublesome county. The democratic
candidates were declared elec toil by the
hoard ofcanvassers, and tho supreme court
compelled the proper officer to issue certifi
cates of election to them. They look their
seats with the knowledge and consent of the
republicans, and participated in the election
that gave Mr. John Sherman six more years
in the L'nited Slates senate. .V* soon as that
was accomplished the republican leaders re
sorted to high-handed and revolutionary
measures, and the state is disturbed by
their antics.
The arbitrary nnd reckless course of the
lieutenant governor blocks the way to a set
tlement of the difficulty. His rulitlgs pre
sent so wide a departure from parliamentary
law that no one takes the pains to show
their absurdity and false grounds. The
democrats are ready to accept any reason
able plan of settlement. They nre willing
to co-operate in sending a special committee
consisting of three republicans and three
democrats, to Cincinnati, to investigate tho
election, and report to the senate. Bat,
then,Jiny the republicans, none of the men
occupying contested seats shall vote on the
In other words, if .Senator John
Smith's rase is up, the other three setting
senators, each holding certificates of elec
tion, shall not vote. No court in the world
wonld say they had no right lo vote. If they
ore allowed to vote the republicans would lie
outnumbered; their rump organization
would be repudiated, and the entire con
spiracy would go by the board.
As the case stands, there is no room for
compromise. The republicans demand that
their journal shall lie approved, and that
enough democratic senators shall be kept
from voting to let them vote their own men
in. As long as they stand on these proposi
tions, no compromise is possible; and we
hope to hear each morning that the demo
crats are holding fast to undoubted rights
nnd tho plainest constitutional provisions.
The noil Telephone "Honmlnl."
A correspondent asks us to explain the
serious charges that have been mode agaimt
certaiu leading democrats in regard to their
holdings of I'nn-EIcctric telephone stock.
The explanation is a very simple one. Cer
tain prominent democrats liavobcen charged
by newspapers more or less in the interest of
the Bell telephone monopoly with dishonest
ly holding shares of the Fan-Electric tele
phone company. Most of these democrat!
are southern democrats, and they are men
whose honesty and integrity will ho vouched
for by the best people of both sections.
Throe charges against prominent demo
crats are made by tho organs of tho Bell
telephone company for tho purpose of cover
ing np and concealing the real lames to be
tried before the cohrte. The charge, simpli
fied and stripped of ell details, Is that tho
Bell patent* were obtained by fraud. It la
understood that a former employe of the
potent office 1* prepared to testify to this
effect, and that there Is other evidence at
hand to substantiate the charge.
Now, if the Bell monopoly, which has
lieen organized into a system remarkable for
iis rapacity, is based on frond, it is high
lime (list tlio pnbllo know it. It is provable
(bat if the Fan-Electric patent* should be
declared to lie the lowfril ones, this company
wonld also become n monopoly, bat a least
it wonld lie a lawful monopoly, and there is
to believe that its rapacity wonld not
be oa ferocious as that of tho Bell company,
supported as it is by tho Western Union
telegraph company.
The position Tut: Constitution takes is
this: That though ten thousand prominent
drmonati held stock in the Fan-Electric
company this feet would have no sort of
bearing on the issne to he settled in the suits
to lie bronght liy the government. These
ten thousand democrats might have come by
their holdings of stock fraudulently—hut
this is a question for their constltncnta and
for the public; whereas, the charge that the
Bell telephone patents were fraudulently
procured is a question for the conrti and
must be tried there. We are perfectly will
ing to have (ho innoceuce or guilt of tho
democrats who hold l’an-EIectrio stock dia-
cttMcd Iwfore the public or elsewhere. If
their possession of this slock is not in ac
cordance with tho strictest rules of honesty
snd integrity, we shall not hesitate to con
demn them, nor will they fail to be con
demned liy their own party and liy the pub
lic; but, in the meantime, the question is,
did the Bell telephone monopoly secure it*
patents by means ol fraud? Let this natter
he settled in the courts; nnd if the conrt*
arc not huge holders of tho shares of n rival
company then tho Bell monopoly wilt have
no reason for complaining of their decisions.
You pick apples when apples nre ripe!
Then pick subscribers when subscribers are
ripe. Now is the season when subscribers
are so ripe they drop off tho lice liy shaking.
Shake the trees, then, and hold The Con
stitution under them! You can't gather
subscribers when the friends of other papers
have stripped the trees bare. Now is the
time—shake ami gather!
. President Cleveland and His Party.
The fight between the president and the
senate is inevitable. The republicans have
lieen determined from tho first on making
thia fight. They have simply played for
vantage points and have lieen ready to
throw off the mask of peace whenever daisy
and diplomacy had done their perfect work.
All appointments made by the president
lo fill vacancies caused liy death or
resignation have lieen promptly confirmed.
All appointments that followed removals
have Ismi laid aside. These have accum
ulated and the light will open whenever
they are touched.
The small pretext under which the re
publican senatois begin boitilltiee will de
ceive no ore. The demand that the prest-
dmt ftunish reason! for the removal of every
official whose head is smacked off, is in
sulting ami alumni. The right of remoral
goes with the right of appointment. Both
aio presidential ftin.tions. Both were
handed to President Cleveland when ha
assumed office, nnd both he most transmit
unimpaired to bis successors. With the
removal of an official the senate has nothing
whatever to do. It is the duty of the senate
to review certain appointments and oonfirnr
or reject them. For papers relating to the
fitncee of appointees who come nnder its
review, the senate might nek and the presi
dent wonld doubtless famish. But for
papers connected with the removal of an
official the senate has nothing whatever to
do.
The whole purpose ol the fight is to rob
the democratic party of the fruits of its
victory and to keep republicans in office.
No rule is sounder or more jnst than thst
the party responsible for the administration
of affairs should have the right to fill the
offices. Otherwise there can be no j nst re
sponriliility. When the people voted for a
change of parties they voted for a clearing
ont of the rat-lioles of the government.
They voted for on overhauling of the liooki
nnd offices. They wanted a change from
top to bottom. It Is this that tho republi
can senate will try to prevent.
It Is good for the democratic party that
Fresidcnt Cleveland is a man of courage.
With an opposition majority of eight in the
senate a weaker man might waver. Mr.
Cleveland will do nothing of the kind. He
willBimpiy wlict his cleaver and go to work.
As fast ns one democrat is refused he will
present another. And between times he will
chop off heads. The first year of his admin
istration showed that be was slow, prudent
nnd conservative. The official ax fell lightly
and nnfrequcntly. lie did not allow parti
san greed to discourage the public business.
He accepted tho reproaches of his party
rather than nronse apprehension among the
people. All this was lost on the repnbiican
senators. They insist upon a light. Frost
dent Cleveland will doubtless accommodate
them. He will meet them with n hearty,
undivided and enthusiastic party at his
luck. This he can count on until “the last
day in the morning."
Tho Wood Chopper nnd tho Throne.
Mr. James O’Kelly, tho brilliant Irish
leader who mode fume in this country as
correspondent of the New York Herald, ca
bles that paper from London as follows
‘The lories are sad. Their plotting has
brought them disastrous defeat. Their whig
allies failed them, and the queen toiled them,
for she did not send for land Harrington,
Her mgjesty bates Mr. Gladstone, and would
like to send Mr. Farncll to tho tower: hut
she is anxious the prince of Wales should
have a throne to sit on, and therefore, her
majesty sent for the wood chopper of Ha-
wardeu."
That Ireland ought to have home rale
every liberty loving American will affirm,
The violence of some of her representatives,
however, will rally the stont hearted Eng
lish to the defense ol the throne that is
threatened. This Is to bo regretted, for it
may drive away the spirit of concession and
compromise, throngli which alone Ireland
ran get her rights.
It la fortunate that control of the matter
la once more given into the hands of Mr.
Gladstone. He is the wisest and greatest of
Englishmen. All that the human mind may
conceive or human courage accomplish, ha
will plan and execute for thia crisis. If hs
fails, the isilnn will be leering. As for
Victoria's thnme, thst might easily crumble
before advancing enlightenment and the pro
gress of human liberty. It will never be
hacked to pieces by alien knives or destroyed
by dynamite.
Democratic Officiate and she Hotter*
Family.
Dr. J. W. lingers, one of the talented pro-
prieton of the Fan-Electric telephone com
pany, has opened his books for tho informa
tion of the New York World, nnd that
teemed contemporary covers a whole page
with (he interesting contents thereof. We
have cuseftUly examined every one, and In
no instunco is there the slightest intimation
that the writers of the letters purpose to de
fraud anybody. There is not, from the be
ginning of the published correspondence to
the end nn expression, or even n word, going
to show that fraud is intended. On the con-
tnuy, each and every writer, without ex
ception, bus the most sublime faith in the
goad intentions of the great Rogers family,
uud the most enthusiastic confidence in the
utility of their inventions.
As the correspondence strikes as, so it
must strike the public, and the 'public will
probably agree with ns that such men as
General Joseph E. Johnston and Isham G.
Harris, with nil their knowledge nnd expe
rience, were probably the dupes of the esti-
mublr Rogers family. This nuiy be said of
all the other shareholders in the so-called
Fnn-Eleciric. Wean very sorry to know
that there are prominent democrats in the
bunse, in the senate nnd in the cabinet own
ing shares in this Rogers concern, for which
they gave nothing hut their official iuflaence.
We believe they were the dnpes of the Rog
ers family.
They committed an error of judgment for
which they have no donbt suffered. Their
error wopld become quite inexcusable should
they cantlnne to bold stock in the inventions
of the Rogers family. No democratic official,
high or low, ran afford to bold stock in a
concern for which he Is expected to pay noth
ing bnt his real or supposed influence. This
being so, it becomes the dnty of those demo
cratic officiate who hold stock in the concern
to surrender It promptly, and thus prove to
the country that their intentions in procur
ing the stock were what the country sup
poses them to be.
Bigamy In France.
American bigamy cases are tame and com
mon-place affairs. Bigamy in Franco is a
different thing. It has variety, chic end
kick.
A recent cable special from Paris tells s ro
mantic story, and a synopsis will give the
reader material enough to serve as the
ground-work for a five hundred page novel.
Leon Leconte, young, handsome and dash
ing, was married to a fond, motherly wo
man ten years his senior, lie lived with her
live vears, and then met Mdlle. Blanche,
near Alfoitville. Blanche was the very im
age of Sarah Bernhardt.oml Leon fell in love
with her. When lie went home he said to
his wife: "I have fallen in love witha young
liden. Her name is Blanche. She lives
at Alfoitville." Tableau.
One night I.cou jumped into lied and said
to hi* wife: "Have my die* suit rcaiy in
the morning. I am to osiist at a wedding.”
The next morning thia bold, bed man went
gaily away strayed in his bolidsy attire.
His neglected wife, however, was not a fool
Kbe said to beroelf: "The wedding may lie
at Alfortville. The parties may be Leon
snd Blanche."
So the good woman trudged off to Alfort
ville. There she learned at the mayor’s
office that Leon snd Blanche had Jnst been
married, and were eating their wedding
dinner at the restaurant. “It was my hus
band!” she cried, and fell (hinting to the
floor.
The mayor’s clerk was a man ot chivalry
and resources. He rushed to the restaurant,
stuck his head in the door, and looking at
Blanche's father, shouted: "Monsieur,
your son-in-law is a bigamist!" Another
tahleao.
While Blanche fainted, her father and the
rest of the wedding party seized the miser
able I .eon, pulled his hair, scratched bis face
and beat him black and bine. Finally he
cseoped with about enough clothing on to
cover n bine bottle fly. He jumped into a
cab and drove to a place of refage.
Then came arrest, nnd the trial. Tho
scene was very dramatic, and hundreds of
fashionable ladies witnessed it. The youth
ful bigamist dressed for the occasion, witli a
white camelia in his button-hole. When
the judge rebuked him, and asked him how
he could treat a loving wife so, Leon replied
with pathetic dignity: "Mon Iiieu, judge,
just fancy yonrself in my place!"
There was a buzz of admiration and sym
pathy nil over the courtroom, and even tho
judge shed n few tears. The jury found
Leon guilty, but with extenuating clrcnm-
stanees. Under this verdict he got off with
five years. He made his exit from the court
witli one hand on his heart, signifying in
dumb show that his blighted affections were
ntiont to canse his untimely death.
A Fraud on tho Coiv.
Representative J. Wharton Green, of North
Carolina, the well known vineyardist, is
after oleomargarine with n sharp stick. His
bill is carious in phraseology, but it appears
to have a sound nuh to it. AVe quote:
"Whereas, of Into years* certain imitation or
counterfeit butter known as olcomargartno 1ms
been extensively manufactured "and sold m tho
genuine article, thus perpetrating a fraud alike on
tho Innocent purchaser, the cow and tho hones
dairyman ; and, whereas, from newspaper investi
gation and report, it Is a mist tlltliy and villainous
auballtute. Therefore, bo It enacted, that whoever
sells the same to any resident of tho districtof Co
lumbia, or of tho tcrrltorlca, or ol any fort, arsenal
or dockyard of the United States, shall havo it la
belled accordingly 'oleomargarine' In plain and
unmistakable letters. That every retail dealer
who sells the stuff, and every keeper of a tavern, or
hostelry, or boerdlng-bouse, or captain of a steam
boat, that sets It upon the table for the use of
guests or boarders, shall place scant by tho dish
with the Inscription thereon, ‘this Is oleomargar
ine.' "
Having than assailed what he officially
slates is “a fraud on the cow,” Air. Green
enlarges the plan of his crusade, and pre
sents the following bill:
"Whereas, It Is a notorious and admitted fuel
that various and divers articles of diet drink and
medicine are manufactured, stretched aud com
pounded by the use of Ingredients foreign to tho
nature of tho article, and often the substance so
made np and sold for consumption is hurtful to
health and almost Invariably tho offspring of
fraudulent design. Therefore, whoever shall Im
port, manufacture, mix or compound such delete
rious and fraudulent substances and sell tne same
to residents or territories, arsenals, forts and dock
yards, shall be deemed guilty of a felony."
He provide* for a sanitary board, which
shall examine all medicines, foods or drinks
submitted to It, and if it finds anything in
it nowhere essential to its intrinsic mer
its, the maker and dealer are to be prose
cuted. Mr. Green has certainly ent ont a
big lot of work. We only hope he can get
through with it, , ’
Divorce Made Easy.
Even in the Illinois court* there 1* some
delay in obtaining n divorce. The filing
of n bill, the service of papers nnd the hear
ing require time. How to simplify the pro
cedure in these cases fag* occupied tho
thoughts of many able lawyers, bat no satis
factory solution of the problem has yet been
reached.
What onr learned jurists have failed to do
has been successfully accomplished by a law
yer's office boy in Now York. 'In
the particular case referred to a plain lock
ing man and woman walked into a (aw office
and found nobody in hut the boy. As aeon
os the youngster sized up bis visitors be
knitted hie brow and bent over the open
of “Story’s Equity Jurisprudence."
The strangers stated their business. They
desired a divorce. "Nothing easier," said
the accommodating hoy, cheerfrilly. He
•rated himself at a desk, and in ten minutes
produced a sheet ot legal rap covered with
‘said*,’’ "aforesaids," and mysterious refer
ence* to “parties of the second pert,” con
cluding with the words: “Know all men by
these presents, that raid parties have pro
cured a divorce a rinculo matrimonii, and are
free to marry again in thia state." Having
added a big red seal to the document this
surprising lioy said in a cart, haziness like
way: “Fifty dollars.”
The man asked if It was not too much,
bnt the paralyzing hoy ihnt him np with
the remark: “They comes high, they do.”
Not having the required amount the man
planked down half of ft and left, promising
to pay the balance later.
The next day the boy era* oat and the
lawyer was on deck. A men came in and
tendered twenty-five dollars, raying that it
was for the divorce drawn np the day before.
The lawyer smelled a rat and asked to see
the paper. When be read the concluding
portion a cold perspiration stood on hi* brow.
“Haw yon married yet?’ he asked. When
informed that the man had jnst obtained a
license to marry that night, he explained the
situation to him, and started off on a wild
hunt for the office boy.
It wasadoae shave for the confiding client.
He barely missed bigamy. Bnt the rapid
and yet simple method of executing a di
vorce invented by the office boy deserves at
tention.
It Will Be a Clean Sivoep.
There ore very few who appreciate tile
rapidity with which official changes are daily
made. Mr. Cleveland lias not been in office
a year, lint he lias mode over 25,000 changes,
mid it is believed the full year’s work will
aggregate 50,000. It will lie large enough at
any rate to indiatte a dean sweep before the
president's term of nffiee expires.
About thirteen hundred men have lieen
appointed to impoi taut offices; anil there men
lmxe caused within the law fully five thou
sand ehangf s. Assistant Postmaster-General
Stevenson has decapitated 15,000 lirarth-chu!
postmasters and he is working with steadi
ness ;,ml increasing dispatch. Postmasters
and interna] revenue collectors and a host of
other officials are making minor appointment*
in all coze* where they have the right of re
moval and appointment; nnd altogether it is
certaiu fully one-quarter of the entire civil
service will lie in democratic hand* by the
fourth day of next month. -
It is computed that decapitation ha* gone
on at the average rate of twelve per hoar—
the official working day being eight hoar*.
One head has dropped in the official basket
every five miimtes daring the year nearly
ended. If this para is maintained, the groat
work will be frilly accomplished inside of
the limit. The official ax will donlitlesa
move faster and freer ns the headsmen become
fimiilinr with the work in hand, and practi
cally one more year will revolutionize our
civil service, anil give tile people a good op
portunity to make up their minds os to the
value of the change. President Cleveland
is n very Imsy man, and we mny depend up
on it that he is making changes ns rapidly as
he ran without detriment to tho public ser
vice. He is holding fast to the civil service
reform act, and is working the nx vigorously
outside of it.
A I’rolltnble Crop.
A shortage In lirooni-corn is reported, and
it Is in the power of a daring speculator to
cause a regular famine in brooms, at least
for atime.
Our southern farmers doubtless have never
thought of the magnitude of tho broom in
dustry. We have broom factories In this
section, but no broora-corn. Onr manufac
turers are compelled to obtain their mate
rial from the north and west
This is all wrong. Onr climate and soil
are well adapted to tho cultivation of broom-
corn. It is a profitable crop, and a southern
farmer can gather and sell two crops of it
before his cotton ceases to bloom. At a
time when onr people nre waking up to the
importance of diversified farming this new
industry should attract attention. Any of
onr broom inctories will doubtless take
pleasure in famishing farmers with all the
information they may require, and also
supply them with seed.
A Gigantic- Monopoly.
In 187(1, Professor Alexander Bell npplied
for n patent on a telephone. On the same
day, lint perhaps nn hour later, Mr. Eliahn
Gray npplied for a similar patent. Professor
Bell got the patent, and Mr. Gray was
thrown ont.
A telephone had been shown at the cen
tennial, and visitors nmnsed themselves by
talking to each other across the building.
No one thought then the telephone would
nmonnt to more than an ingenious (by.
In 1877, a company was organized to in-
treducc the telephone.' In the past four
years that company bos paid fear million
dollars in dividends. Its net profits in 1334
were one million seven hundred thousand
dollars. The original stock has been
doubled seven times, and is now worth $150
n share. The man who paid $50 originally
now lias $1,200 of par stock worth $1,800.
This enornions gain In vnlno has been made
in less than eight years, daring which time
his original investment lias lieen paid back
five times over in dividends. The income
last year was two million dollars; the tax
nnd salary list less than one hundred and
fifty thousand. The profits increase at
tremendous rate. If the patent is not for
feited, the company will become the most
gigantic monopoly ever known.
Professor Bell is worth $4,000,000 which
he made ont of his invention, while Fulton,
who invented steamship*, Stevenson who
invented steam engines, and Mono who In
vented the telegraph, died poor. Vf. II.
Forties, of Boston, the president of the tele
phone company, put in $04,000, and Iras made
$7,000,000. G. G.Hubbard on $31,000, has de
rived over $2,000,000. The company hoe mode
dozen millionaires. Mr. Lamar, secretary
of tho interior, Iras decided that there is
enough evidence of fraud in obtaining the
Bell' patent to justify the government in
bringing a suit to vacate tho patent. That
suit has lieen bronght hy Solicitor Goode,
and Is now pending.
THE WEATHER.
•□owrromTraatMM to Mexico-Great Devolution
to Property end Much Buffering Among tUe
Brute CreaUon-Railroad Trains Are Stop-
ped end Buelnem Stagnated, Etc.
We print this morning the promlied pic
tures of congressional leaden. They are not
what w* wish, and had we not promised
them, shonld have had them made over. We
shall hereafter print no pictnrcs that nre njt
first-class.
Confederate Bond*
By Cable to tbe Now York Herald.
London, January 30.—Much amusement
was caused today on 'change when the broken
rrad an advertisement in the latest Herald arrived
hero about confederate bonds, which readt a» fol
low*:
"A committee, consistlugof tho Right Honorable
I.onl rcnznnoo, Hie Honorable Thomas C. Urtieo,
M. 1*.; John Eldon Gorst, Esq., Q. C., M. F.; John
B. Martin, Esq., and Robert Stewart, Esq., has bcon
appointed In London to act as trustees for the con*
federate bondholders. In view of solicited action
by tha congress of the United States, persons hold*
ing such bonds, wherever situated, are requeued
to rend to William F. Moore. Esq., care of Honor
able William Fullerton, of counsol, 18 Exchange
Place, New York city, their names and the number
of bonds held by them respectively, giving
amounts, dates of issue and number of coupons at
tached to each bond."
A few doors from the Herald office is the Safe do-
This Is tbe week of tlmoet universal snow.
Down it has come in masses, covering the
earth twenty inches and more. The snowfall
is attended with less cold than the Jauuary
storm, but impedes work and travel very
much. Jt Js to be feared that when the snows
melt, the spring floods will work heavy dam*
age.
Breckinridge, Col., February 1.—Ycnter*
swept away tbo track and burled J ...
and two shovelers under a hundred feet of snow
and rocks.
Washington, February 3.—The snow be.
gan falling here about three o’clock this morn*
ing, and this evening the depth at that hour
ranges from eight Inches on the level and shel.
tered spots to drifts of enormous size.
The heaviest snow of the season fell iu
Staunton today. At five o’clock, when it
stopped snowing, the ground was covered to
an averago depth of eighteen inches. Ail the
trains nre delayed.
In Harrisonburg, Va., the heaviest snow
sloim since 1857 began at one o’clock this
morning, and continued all day in blinding
clouds. It is now eighteen inches deep on a
level, and drifted from six to ten feet. Travel
on tho country roads is almost Impossible.
West-bound trains were two hours late. The
mercury is twelve degrees above zero.
The severest snow storm for several years
prevailed in Richmond all day. The thermom
eter has fallen twenty-two degrees in the last
twenty-four hours. The six twenty northern
train on the Richmond, Fredericksburg Poto
mac railroad is delayed.
THE SNOW IN TENNESSEE.
JNaphyille, Tenn., February 3.—Tho storm
ol yesterday and last night was one of tho so*
verestever experienced In this state. Tho
storm continued unceasingly from daylight
Tueseay till daylight today, fully twenty-
fonr hours, and prevailed throughout too
state. The turnpikes and roads in overy di
rection arc impassable, and it is probable that
tho mailea for points of several
roads will be delayed several days. Reports
received from points in upper Middle Tennes*
secosay tho snow drifted badly in that section,
effectually stopping all the mail carriers and
travel generally. All the stage coaches aro
snow bound, and do not hope to be able to
travel for several days. All the city schools
adjourned today, it being impossible for the
children to reach the buildings. The average
depth of snow hero is twenty inches. An
engine was carried under tho snow np to tho
steam chest all tho wsy. Tho snow at Martin
was rej>ortcd to bo twenty-two inches deep.
No trains aro running to or from that place.
In various parts of West Tennessee it was rc-
ported to bo from twenty-two to thirty inches
deen, but no serious damage was done. This
is the first tiroo there has ever been a general
blockade ou the Tennessee roads.
THE SNOW IN TEXAS.
Galvemton. February 3.—Meagre intelli
gence from north Texaa up to midnight last
night reports a heavy snow storm prevailing
over the Indian territory and extending south
and west into Texaa. The oxtent of tho
storm will probably not be known for a few
days. It Is blustering and raining hero, hut no
cold wavo, anything like that of the January
blizzard has yet reached Galveston.
EVEN IN MEXICO.
City of Mexico, February 3.--Snow fell to
the depth of fonr inches at Mexicaleingo, four
miles distant frotn this city, yesterday after
noon. This is the first snow that hasfallcuia
this vicinity since 1860. The tops of all tho
adjacent mountains were also whitened. The
weather is much cooler than is generally ex
perienced in this latitude at this season.
Hakkisonbuxo, Va February 4.—Three
inches more of snow fell last night. The pike
across the mountain to West Virginia is block
aded so as to be impassable fo^atleast a month.
llering among the stock. The
tain bauki
tee was ap
Ing Lord i
Tits SCIIKME KXPOSSD.
liseofi
nrt proi __
•olntcd two or three yean ago, Includ
usance, Mr. Gorst (now Sir John Eldon
twm. raiH-itor general!, Mr. Stewart and others. It
Kill exists, but u only a committee of trustees, and
has not done anything since ism. The committee
on bondholders consisting of Messrs. Van Real, of
the firm of Mccatta A Cohort, of Gorahlll; Meredith
Brown and Mr. Cklnncry. a stock broker, are still
general, who held office some few years after the
clo>c of the war of secession, bos given an opinion
favorable to the bondholders' claims, which is
printed and distributed here, but his name is with-
"It omits to mention the constitutional amend
ment about tbe hundred millions' worth of bonds
now collected in London. Fully seven-eighths of
these are held by foreigners, and points have late
ly been given ont here to t»oom confederate bonis.
As I understand It, sums of money have been rais
ed by assestment on the holders for a *purt. The
bill, which will be referred to a committee, unless
the *K«ker roles the inquiry out of order. If not.
he wonld then prem for a hearing, sad the fact of
the mea-ure pending laymcnt would be made the
basis for large holders to -ell to the small one.-.
The Herald - exposure* o:t the Florida swindle*
re already noted here, and hope i« held that it
111 rot allow ignorant Invc-tor* to suffer with
.e$eloiids h* enough transatlantic swindles ou
John Lull Lftvc already been played.
OUR PRIZES.
1 l:e pfLes oilured for larpe*t li«t- of subscriber*
tVom October l-t, l.*e\ to January Ivt, lviu, are
arded a- follows-:
1. E. P. Bruce
i J.T. l.av. ren«e
5. J. L. Blackmon
1. J. W, < o-s
6. T. It. Uollenshead ...
L. Laytou
7. J. W. F. Little
S. J. A. Fowe^
9. A. H. Bird* eg ...
10. Mrs. JoeCtiX^.^.^...
11. M, K.C©l!ltr.._
204 moo In O dd.
....... M *25.0) in <J >ld.
.... 71 ft*.*) in Gold.
72 MOO) In Gold.
70 Sewing Maculae
.. ... 07 Libr«ry.
Ci Watch.
CO •*
There Is great sufl
mercury has fallen twenty-three degrees since
noon and is still going down.
Parsons,Kan., February 4.—Last night snow
fell the heaviest ever known In this country.
In the Indian territory it is said to bo much
heavier than hero, having fallen there to a
depth of two feet The roads havo been badly
delayed. Reports from western Kansas indi
cate the suffering of the people and heavy
looses of stock.
Belleville, Ont., February 4.—Owing to
the cold weather of the past three days, the
mouth of tbe Moira river has been almost com*
pletely stopped with ice, aud in contequeaco
the water is now eight feet above the ordinary
level. Every cellar in the principal business
portion of the town has been submerged. The
back yards and promises in the rear of the stores
on tho west side of Front street aro also inun
dated. In another district half a mile square
every building, excepting half a doaen, has its
lower floor covered with from six inches to
four feet of water, and mostof the houses have
been vacated. Many manufactories and
other business establishments of all
kinds havo suspended operations. Numerous
ffcmiHes are huddled together In upper
stories of houses, and are suffering Intensely
from the cold, tho mercury having fallen bo-
low zero.
Denison, Tex., February 5.—The recent,
storm that has prevailed through the south
west has, in some respects, been the most
severe of the Besson. The enow fell through
out northwest Texas, and it is expected much
damagowill result to vegetation and stock
from the cold wave. News from the Indian
territory indicates that tho loss of cattle in the
nation will bo very disastrous, In consequent
of tbe storm that has recently swept over that
section. There is much suffering on the
’Frisco extention west of Red Fork, and the
loss of stock on the range will be unprecedent
ed if tbe snow Ilea on tbe ground two days
longer, aa feed and water are unobtainable.
In many of the covers in the timber bleaks,
where stock usually resort in a storm, the
snow drifts are from ten to thirty feet deep.
The snow has been fklling hard for the last
twenty-four hours in Choteau, Indian territo
ry, with no signs of abatement.
It is now about two feet deep witha heavy,
cold north wind blowing. The snow has
drifted in places from live to eight feet, and
already weak cattle will undoubtedly perish.
It is the worst storm that has prevailed in tbe
territory for years.
Caattanooga, Tenn, February 5.—A tele
gram from Sunbright, Tennessee, says that
the temperature was twenty degrees below
zero at that place this morning. From twelve
to twenty-four inches of snow Is lying
throughout thst section.
The Pennsylvania Farmees’ Excursion.
Mr. J. J. Hprenger has at last made the final
arrangement for hie excursion, which will
leave Washington. D. C., on the 22nd of Feb
ruary, getting to Atlanta about the 21th in
stant. These farmers will come from the very
rich agricultural counties of Lancaster, Berks,
Chester, Dauphin snd York, mainly descend
ants of the Pennsylvania Dutch, the most
thrifty class of people, perhaps, In America.
The principal starting points at which tbe ex
cursionists will congregate for special train*,
will be Philadelphia and Washington. Mr.
Sprrngergoes to Pennsylvania next Thursday
to imrtand return with thc-o people, and to
give them such inducement* to come to Geor
gia as bln knowledge, pro-perify and pleasant
experience here suggest. It goes
without spying, after the hospi
tality and courtesy so recently extended to
the Ohio farmers, that the Pennsylvanians
will be given reduced rates at our hotels, special
fhreot) tbe various railroads centering in At
lanta, and every other facility for teeing, with
least expense and most pleasantly, the differ
ent section* of Georgia, and every true Geor
gian and all the thousand* of northern and
western people already rerding here, will ex
tend to these farmers of Pennsylvania a most
cordial welcome, .
B. Spencer, Murfreesboro, N. C.