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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. 'ATLANTA. GA*' .TUESDAY MARCH 3 1888 The weekly comom j ''Entered it th* AtlautaForeOfece u reoond-clare aun nutter, November II, UM. sttk* w and a copy to geitcrnpnfClub. y . A WORD WITH YOU. II roa mrm p 0 t p snbttrlbJr to Tho Oonitl- tntlon, thl* copy la float you at a aampl#, aatth a reqaeet that you aaamlna and dt«M* a*bather or not you treat to tatto It. TOu peed a food paper tor ISM. Wo think The Con.tllullon la tlie beat paper you can fat. Plcaaefexamtoe^lt earofollr. Head It, eoi para It with other paper., and and ua yoi anbaeHptlon. It will be tha beat loreattoeat *tty Itona year and yon will peTOrgalt It. ATLANTA. OA.. TDMPAT. liAECgii.tfSr Tm Constitution baa thousand* of redd en in the great northwort, and do more de voted friends anywhere. This is became Til* Constitution is honestly and sincerely devoted to breaking down sectional lines, and building np a spiritof national comrade ship. It is a democratic paper now and for* over. Above all thing! It is a southern pa per, bnt it Is for the whole country—the two sections united in one, and cemented with the blood of the bravest and beat of north and aonth. All that we had wo offered to tho caase of the bonnie bine flag. The straggle aronnd that flag coat ns blood and fortune. Bnt when Uncle Bob Loo and Un de Joe Johnston made an honorable surren der and sheathed their ewords, we Celt that everybody else might quit fighting. The war is over. Tbs nnion is reunited—this time forever. Wc an{ American citizens, and Tiik Constitution is an American newspaper) and wc are proud of the name! Mr. Manky voiced the whole truth when he said that the complaint of tho people was not that the president had made 643 remov als, bnt that ha had not mad# ten timed that number. The people voted for a change in 1884, and they were entitled to it. The Carrollton Tragedy. Til* Constitution, has printed all the particulars of the recent killing oi negroes nt Carrollton, Mississippi, by a party of armed white mea, and it ia unable to discover tho remotest justification of so horrible a tragedy. A more deplorable affair has never been chron icled In these columns. There are two aides to tho story, of coarse, hat there is no excuse, short of the total de pravity of those whose duty it is to set the machinery of the law in motion, that wilt jnsiiiy the killing of them negroes. This does not seem to hsve been the case at Car rollton. There the law was In fall force, bnt in the very teeth of the law, the outrage was committed. Let it be admitted that the Brown negroes were the worst of their kind, and, that the negroee associated with tham were no better; let it be admitted that they were impudent and overhearing in their conduct, and mur derous in their intentions; let all tills bead- milted, and atill we shall And neither ex cuse nor justification tor the wholesale slaughter of tho negroes who wore assembled in the conrthonae. TiikCunstitution understands, of course, that human nature, at liottom, la pretty much the asms in Iowa and Indiana aa it ia . in Mississippi. The people of neither state are willing, in the face of it flagrant crime, hwalt ior the slow processes of the law. The lynchiogs that occur In both sections of tho country— in the north as well as in tho eolith—are evidences of this fact. Bat it stems to as that the outrage reported (bom Carrollton, MiaeMppi, could not oocnr in any community under the ann where there is the Slightest respect for law or the faintest love of justice. It ia an outrage that to severely denounced by the brother of I.iddoll, who sms the indi rect cause of the trouble. Liddell's brother was an eye-wiintsa, and he declare* that the mmder of tho negroes svas unjustifiable and unnecessary. Ia Hho Guilty? The fiuuone Wulkup ease has been dupli rated at South Valley, N. Y., bnt with* very different result. In the Watkup ease (he defendant was acquitted, although it wee proved that she purchased arsenic and that her husband died from arsenical poisoning. In the Xew York caw Mia. Mary Wileman, a handsome woman of tbirty-ssven, baa been (band guilty of poi soning her husband, nnd has been sentenced to be banged on the 30th of April. • The result seems to have surprised every- body, and an effart will be made to secure either a pardon or a commutation of tho sentence. In the Wilrman rase may be seen the danger of allowing an Ignorant or blood- thlnty jury to wrestle with circnnutantial evidence. In this case no motive was shown for (lie crime. The good character of the defendant was not attacked. Hatred be tween herself and her husband was not shown. Tho possession or pnrchiae of tho poison need was not traced to her. It was simply proved that Wileman ate a pie made by his wife, fell sick nnd died. Before hto death be expressed the belief that he had been polsunvd by bin wife. At Uio poet mortem arsenic waa found In bis stomach. Now, all these beta make a much weaker ease lor tho prosecution tlianjwa* made out in tho Wnlknp affair. Fortunately tho re mit strikes the people sad press of Now York so unfavorably, that the victim baa still another chance. It to not believed that ttovvraor Hill will allow Mra Wileman to go to the gallows. Under the circumstance* it would be a blot on the an unto of a great state to allow a weak woman to be itranglod on such muatisfaeloiy testimony. Per ha pa the jury boxes in New York stand ia need of acarefal revision. The Good Old Times. When our fathers and grandfathers suffer their dyspepeia to get tho upper hand, they have a great deal to say nbont the good old times. The reminiscences of these venerable dtiaeaa are interesting, but they urc alto gether too rose-colored. If we go lack alien t sixty years or so, to a period within the memory of many now iiv- lag, it will be found that the manners and morale then in vogue were infinitely worse than those of the present day. In the Uni ted States, aa well aa in Eagiand, the higher rtrelee of society have always been more or lees affected by the immplea set by British royalty and nobility. We aee too much of this in our own day and generation. Sixty year* ago it was worse. The man who was rellod "the first gentleman in Europe” occupied the tngltoh throne. George the Fourth wee netting ntoffi Hffr lcaa than a royal bog. I Thackeray, OrevUle, and Inter writers have told in how bo lived and misbehaved him- keif. It to on record that George celebrated his wedding night by getting beastly drank. He robbed hto bride of her bracelet* and gave them to another woman. From the cradle to the grave be continued an unblushing Bar, swamped in debt, and nearly alwaye drank. In bin flunily relations bo was nn- grateful, brutal and treacherous. When he fell ont with Lord Mansfield on acooant of s speech, be told tho Archbishop of Canter bury to go to hto lordahlp, and toil him he lied, and to kick him In the king’s name. The nobles imitated their king. When Lord Lonrdale was baited by an officer for driving too Aat bo said .- "You rascal, do you know I am s peer ?" The officer replied, "I don’t know yon are a peer, bnt I know you are a scoundrel!" of course a duel waa the re sult Even the preachers caught the infec tion,and we are told of one who in a funer al diaconna aid that the deceased lately a great and good dnehea on earth, and to nowa great and good dnehea in haven.’’ This will do for a glimpie of the good old times in England. American society did not escape the consequence* of such bad ex amples. It to only necesary to glance over aome of the forgotten books of travels written fifty or sixty years ego by inch writers a Mis. Trollope to see that ignorance, immo rality and bad taste prevailed to an alarm ing extent in this country, in circles where something better might have been expect*^. Perhaps this to going as tor »s It is neces sary to go. If it does not convince our young readers that they are fnlly os good aa the people of tho oid school they will do well to read aomeof tire histories nnd mcmolnof the first half of tho centnry. A very little re search will atiafy them that modem socie'ty to really on the np grade. A Manly and Honest Letter. In pleasant contrast to' the shabby letter of “L. W. J.,” which we discuss elsewhere this week, to the following from Mr. H. T. Flection, of Lucas station, low*. Mr. Fleenon writes: l.rcxn, lows, Msrcb 12, lsst.-Edltors Constitu tion— Dear Mr: 1 have been a reader of many pit- pare for many years, anil a reader of The Consti- vi tins for one year, and I bare also been a repub lican politically all my lire and served in tbe noth Iowa volunteer infantry, but notwlthitandlni all tbisl feel tbat I would keilolnx myself and fam ily an injustice to drop Tire Cosstitctios to try to find a belter paper, and I will here inclose tbe eaib, one dollar and twenty-five cent*, for another year. ILF. Fbxsxos. A Wicked nnd Supreme Folly. Tha wwtem free-trade crank* insist that they do not favor free trade. And yet tbe Coniier-Jouroai of test week insists that every one should scud for and read the pub lications of the New York Free Trade dab. It endorsee these publications and yet says it to not for free trade. In the meantime, the Kentucky legisla ture baa instructed its senators and mem- ben to vote against hemp being put on tho free list Alabama speaksgttp for her iron. Louisiana for her [angar. A rice planter in Carolina testifies that he found the (tore- keeper on hto plantation selling hto rice- field heads rice raised in East India and imported by an evasion in tho duty. Free trade would rain many southern crop* and Industries and aet the south bock twenty yearn. Wa are for a revision of the infamous and oppressive tariff. A thorough and complete revision, (hat will give tbe goverament no more income than itoyactuol need,)and]that it will be ao laid as to protect southern inter ests. Tbe folly of ascribing tho ponding labor troubles to tho tariff, to answered by the laborers themselves, who are unanimous igalnst the folly of free trade. The tariff must be revised—hat not by cranks who think more of their own notoriety than of tho country’s good. Farms Increasing In Number. Several recent writers would have us be lieve that Ihe country to threatened with landlordism—English landlordism at that: but Mr. Henry Strong, who has resided in Chicago forty yean, shows in the con no of an aiticle in the North American Review lor March tbat there are no grounds for inch statement*. The evils of landordtom are ad mitted on all hands, bnt fortnnaUly no linn of the country is drifting into that kind of tremble. Mr. Btiong shows by successive censuses that small estates are not in tho coarse of consolidation into huge estates. We repro duce tbs figures: No. farms No. farms No. farms In 1K0. In lm In iw>. . iw.an . 119,00 SLOW 2.7KH 42.00 rorgl* 02,000 00,100 130,000 Nor to this all. The same enumerations show Ihe number ol acre* in the average Aim of the last three decades, aa follow*: I860. 1*70. I*Ol Acres. Acres. Acres 1 lew York Pennsylvania.... Teas*..... 210,000 203.000 110.000 12,300 241.000 233.0001 lav, 000 03.3*7 Georgia Iowa Illinois. TVaae..— 110 aw 430 1® til _ 110 — in ;i3i 333 390 301 208 The truth to there are comparatively few flume in the country of 1,000 acre* or over. There are only 640 ont of 353,000 ia Illinois; ia Michigan there are but 84, and in Kansas only 335. Only three companies have made considerable purchases of land in Texan, and all their capital does not equal the vnlne of the smallest county in Iowa. Landlordism to still a bugbear, at least in the northwest; and in the math and southwest the number of flume is annual ly increasing. Mr. Strong says that landlordism in the- northwest to impossible because capital to net cheap enough. To make money farming one most live on hto flum, no matter where it to located. Tbe tendency in that .section to altogether toward* independent owner ship. The pwceas to first the form laborer, then the tenant, and lastly tbe owner. Tbe lend-owner in this country to the ideal citi- ren, tbe hope and bulwark of the republic. Hr to very numerous, nnd the indication* are that the number of land-owucr* will an nually increase, and that landlordism will never become a permanent or prominent fea ture in thie country. A 1 tat her Shabby Pel tow. A friend from Dayton, Ohio, encloses ns a letter printed in the Dayton Journal by i. W. J., who was ore of the late Ohio exenr- sioalete to this ►late. The letter to Tory abueive,.and our friend writes, “The writer he* won tho contempt of ua all by so re- taming tha hospitality of your people.’’ Thereto something ia that Tbe Georgia forme:* who to frankly met their Ohio brothers anti dm» open wide tub doors of their homes to IL^m, did not of course expect to put oven *Jne obligation! of courtesy on tho lip* of their visitors. They expected the OhtoUnt to return home with much to criti cise, and to speak (rankly of what they had seen in the south. That modi to always understood between gentlemen. Bat the man who accept* the hospitality of a borne, however hnmble, and while sitting about lta hearthstone, forgea'slanders with which to smite that borne after be has left it, to a pretty shabby fellow and deserve) tho con tempt of hto-weigh bore. The Dayton writer grows merry as for as malice can be made to be merry—over the “half-banded way’’ in which Georgia Burners do their work. It to well to judge methods by their results. Twenty years ago the Georgia former had nothing. The war that enriched Ohio desolated Georgia. Homes, staves, stock, fences, implements, houses— everything waa swept away. There was neither money or credit with which to replace them. A mortgage on land and crop only gave them the right to buy tbe necessaries of life at on advance of 50 to 00 per cent on tbe cash price. The richnorth hindered rather than helped the aonth. It sent ns nsnrere and advi-ntnrers, who cut deep for blood and plondtred at the point of the bayonet. In spite of ell this, tho Georgia farmer has prospered. From desolation ho has come to plenty with amazing swiftness. Last year hto cotton crop sold for $44,000,000, or nearly double tbe veins of Ohio’s wheat crop, nnd more than the value of Ohio’s corn crop. Ho raised 34,(100,000 bushels of grain last year, and has 315,000 milch cows, while tho conene gives Ohio only 767,000. Ho has bought or raised 140,000 males or asses, while Ohio has (not including "L. W. J.’’) only 19,000. He has 60,000 oxen while Ohiohss only 0,000, and hto form implement), which L. 3V. J. ao despises, are valued at $0,060,000 while Ohio’s only reach $30,000,- OOO, with double Georgia's population. Ho has 1,660,000 hogs, while Ohio has only 3,141,000 bogs (not counting “L. W. J.”) He boa 034,000 sheep, while Ohio has only ,003,000, and atill he don’t count his wool- clip na an item. The Georgia farmer has done wonders. Bead over the figures given above. Remem ber that Ohio has twice Georgia's popula tion and tbat one third of Georgia's popula tion to colored. Yon will see that the white Georgia farmer to about aa well off as his Ohio brother. And when we remember that the war, while it enriched tho Ohio farmer, absolutely impoverished the Georgian and left him penniless and homeless twenty yean ago, we certainly feel he to not deserving the ridicnle "L. W. J.’’ launches at hto con tented head. Bnt "L. W, J.’s”pettcr has its sting in its tail. It closes with the statement that if "Georgia, with her sand, and red clay, and niggers anil poor white trash’’ tries to secede from the nnion again, ho will throw np hto hat and say, “God speed her ont, forehe ain’t worth keeping in.’’ No doubt that is just what "L. W. J.” and hto fellow-cranks and spoilsmen do want Bnt Georgia has no ides of leaving the nnion. She tried it once, and wot headed bock. Now she to in to stay. She boa got part and parcel In this government and she to going to have her aay abont running It, just like the rest of the family. And the is going to help tho honest (oiks of the north and the aonth keep the fingers of L. W. J. and bis sort ont of tho public treasury. She took a hand in tbejob of turning them ont lost November year, and she will be on hand every time there to any danger of their getting in again. We respect this to really what is making L. W. J. lick. If so, he may count on n very long •pell! Attacking an Evangelist. We have fallen upon evil times. Once a preacher could my what be pleased, and hto hearers listened In decorous silence. Now they talk back. When this to not done it to a common thing 'for some dissatisfied person to write a card. Ont in Macon, Missouri, the Rev. Edward James, a Baptist evangelist, to in very hot water. For aome time post he hoe been hold ing successfril meetings. Recently he branch ed ont in tho Sam Jones style, and de* nonneed card playing, theatergoing, dancing, intemperance and other vices. Speaking of tho Episcopalians and Catholics he said that many of the former vronid never get to htaven unless they died during Lent Iu one of hie sermons he said: For forty days you observe all the forms sad cere monies ol your church, at the end of which time you return to your wickedness, your vices and your villainies again. Catholicism he denounced in stronger terms still, stating that the Catholics persecuted for conscience's sake and enslaved liberty. . A counterblast wo* promptly forthcoming. It waa in tbe shape of a printed circular, signed by a prominent Catholic priest. Tho first paragraph was os follows: To all whom It may concern: Macon City, Mo., has Just now within her corporate limits a phe nomenon laths shape of a traveling preacher,who rives promise by his extravagance, bluster and lying to eclipse even Ingcrsoll, and threw Ram Jones In the ihade. Whilst lacking the sophistry of the former and tho bunoombe of the latter preacher, James seems to possess the brazen effront ery of both. Tbe evangelist's attacks upon the Catho lics and tha Jews were then denied and re- futcil. The circular condnded with throe remarks: It If a sbsme-a disgrace, that respectable citi zens iliould tolerate hireling fanatics of this man's type In their midst, to tbe detriment ot the com munity. ****** la the belief of Its writer, tbe evangelist must hare got his Insplrstloe as well as his commlmlou (bom the follow down stairs—U>* devil. *•••** We have t very dangerous lunatic to our midst. The appearance of this spirited document naturally created in tense excitement. For the present, Evangelist James to maintain ing an ominous silence. Hto admirers say it to tbe calm that precede* a storm, and confidently predict a cyclonic outburst. The sitnation justifies the gloomiest forebodings, nnd the authorities may yet be compelled to interfere to preserve the peace ol the com munity. A Blob of tin thus last*. Since Ignatius Loyola organized the fomons Society of Jesus the world has never •sen sm-h a peculiar order of religions zealot* as the Salvation Army. Something over twcntyyears ago William Booth, * Methodist minister in England, placed himself at the head of a few follower*. Booth assumed the title ot general, and ap pointed other generals, division commanders, colonels, majors, captains, lieutenants, and mi on. Tha order spread, and at tha present time has grown into an immense body of evangelists, all under one cfihtraf head, Gen eral Booth. In oar northern end western cities it to a common sight to see them their military uniforms, rallying converts to the inspiring music of a brass band. Boston to just now undergoing the visitation of large force. When men and women join tho Salvation Army, their appearance, education and sta tion in life give them no advantage. They enlist aa privates and do the work assigned them. They most obey orders, and these orders run ail the way from tbe captains np finally to the head center, General Booth in London. Tho pri vate stags and (boats and preys for weeks, or it may he yearn, until hto superior officers notice hto zeal and ability. Then be to promoted. He mnat ask no questions, and go wherever he to sent to aaeanlt the strongholds of sin. If he has money it to well, bnt if he to poverty-stricken and foot sore, he most nevertheless march to hto field of doty, and depend upon charities for food, raiment and lodging. Sometimes he most endure the terrors of the tow, or submit to mob violence. Sneers and jeers, rotten eggs, bootjacks and dead cats are tributes of popu lar esteem which be must be prepared to receive without a murmur. The Salvationists have a rough road to travel, but they contlnne to increase rapidly in number*, and General Booth finds uo difficulty in collecting money for hto opera tions. Perhaps the best idea of the growth oi the society that can bo given to contained in tbe following cable special from London The Salvation Army lx completing arrangements for holding in this city a monster International re- llltoua convention. Tbe managers announce that they have secured fire of the largest halls In Lon don for the accommodation or tho thousand* who are expected to attend. The convention will open onMay,28and lari a week. The regular delegates who will be present to represent the army’s relig ious movements In different foreign parts of the world will number 2,300. Tbaee delegatee, the managers My, will Include Hindoos, negroee, Maories and American Indiana Passage for the American delegates has already been secured aboard the steamer Assyrian Monacb, which will sail from New York about May 13. The Educational Bill. It to plain that the Blair bill would lie passed by a large majority if a vote conld be reached upon It, but it to equally plain that the house committee on education does not intend to report it nntil n report would be valueless—until the house calendar to well filled with bills. Aa a prelimi nary movement, ' the committee has resolved to postpone consideration of tho mroanre nntil a day in April, and when that day arrives an effort will be mode in the committee to postpone n report indefinitely. The friends of the bill are not, however, idle, and they have introduced a resolution calling upon the committeo on education to report tho bill in some shape at an early day. The resolution hoe not come np in the house, but it will soon be reached. The composition of tho committee to well known, so for ns the Blair bill to concerned. Messrs. Candler of thta state, Welles of Ken tucky, Whiting of Massachusetts, Campbell oi Femuylvania, and O’Donnell of Michi gan, are in fovor of tho Blair bill. Mr. Mil* ler, of Texas, considers it the dnty of the state to educate its own people, and Messrs. Maybuny, ol Michigan, and Barns, of Mis souri, are said to entertain similar views. Hr. Mahoney, of New York, thinks the Catholics should receive separata recognition if there to to be an appropriation. Very few, if any, Catholics, support -the Blair bill, or any other liberal appropriation in aid of pop ular education. Mr. Strait, of Minnesota, thinks the states are able to maintain their own educational establishments, and Mr. Taylor, of Ohio, to inclined to take a similar view of the subject. Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina, chairman of tbe committee, to ill at home, and probably will not be able to par ticipate in the consideration of the bill. In abort, the committee to against tho bill. The troth is, tbe bill to involved in the effort to reduce tho tariff; and a considera ble number who are not against it upon its merits, are opposing the appropriation be- cause, in connection with the demands for n new navy,' it wonld be nted to urge the in expediency of a reduction of the tariff. They Only Wanted to Know It. We print herewith n letter tbat will be read with interest, it' will carry a useful bint to thouands of yonr readers. It to from Mr. 1.1*. Seal borough, of Marion, Ala. Hevrritu: Yonr paper pieaies me so well I thought I woold try to get a club (or yon. All the trouble I bad to get the names I lend you was to toll them tbat It was fur Tin: Atiistx Constitution. Some told me they bait been wanting to take it for some Umc, but did not know who waa agent at this place. Xmt-totu- gentleman who told mo ho was ttkingit nml raid It would be cheap at five dollar*, and that he would giro It If he conld not get It for less, i consider It the beat of all papers. Myself and fondly look forward with fond anticipation to Tuesday's mall that bring! ua Tuz Constitution. Wbnt Mr. Bear borough writes to donbtlero true of thonsaoda of town* and neighbor hoods. Tbe people are ready to take Tux Constitution if they only knew who was agent and how to get it. If they conld only see tbe paper, and stndy its merits, they will certainly wont it. We might print ■cores of letters bearing the same testimony the one printed above. The Constitu tion to the easiest paper to canvass for ever tried. All that it requires to to show the paper, give time to read it, and then ask for the subscription. - Tbere are 10,000 subscribers on our lists who can do precisely wbat Mr. Scorborongb has done. If they were to do bo, it would give The Constitution tho greatest boom any American newspaper ever enjoyed. Won't you do it? A Party of Bravo Women. The wrack of the steamship Oregon to atill the talk of the day. The minor incidents of the wreck are be ginning to come ont, and they are by for the most interesting port of the story. It appears that after the collision, when it became apparent that the ship was rapidly going to llie bottom, the usual panic ensued among the passengers. Tbe tueu were com pletely unnerved. They scrambled for tho boats, and i- they did not actually suuvei’ie women aside, they did not gite them the pre ference. And wbat was Ihe conduct of these wetl and helpless women at a time when dea lt seemed almost inevitable? Ac-stiding to the published accounts of the disaster they were comparatively cool, and even dignified. The* did not join tbe men iu tbeir rush tor the i-oata; they did not faint nr scream, or get in any bod j's way. The Tribune says of their behavior: Tho women paaengen of the Oregon were peob. ably quite average specimens ol tbeir ox. There ieao icaaon to regard them u exceptional. lot they acted with a gentle, quiet, self-abnegation Leant!fill to contemplate, and they did not appear to have to pot any compulsion upon themselves to do this. The explanation, of coarse, te not far to seek. Women are, as a role, for tern selfish than men; for mors aluulsttc, to borrow a word from the evolutionary terminology. Thetr lives are spent In self-sacrifice very frequently. They learn to think more of others than themselves. And though some pessimists have latterly broached the hereti cal sxsertlon-tlist modem social ways and educa tional arrangements were gradually diminishing the most attractlr* and lovely characteristic of woman, tbe cam of the Oregon proves how Idle such an apprehension realty Is, by demonstrating that In danger, la the free of death, the calm cour age and sweet unselfishness of tbe "suppressed sex” put them as for above the tyrant man as they arc, Incontestably, In minor matters of tact and taste, grace and tbs amenities of life. This tribute to the heroines of the Oregon wonld not bo complete without a word in commendation of the judgment they dis played in a trying boar. The calm patience of these women wag sensible. It made the task of getting them into the boats mnch easier, and lessened the dangers incident to such a harried transfer. Trifling With the Wrong Girls. Of conns at this season of the year yonng man’s foncy lightly tarns to thoughts of love, etc., bnt that to no reason why ha should not “tote lair.” A reckless disregard of this unwritten law of love-making has plunged Mr. Croncb, of Randolph, Tenn., into the depths of ha* initiation and woe. Hr. Crouch by some infirmity of hto nature was unable to keep bto affections within bounds. Ho became smitten with tbe Misses Templeton, and in bto tussle with Capid was knocked silly in the first ronnd. The two sisters were unaware of the donble dealing of their lover nntil they found that he was engaged to both. Then there was a display of detonating and cor uscating fire-works in the Tempistin man sion that boat anything ever witnessed within those decorous walls. Old man Tem pleton held an cxecativo session with him self, and taking hto trnsty shotgun raided Crouch's bailiwick and captured the young ster. He marched hto prisoner before him to the Templeton residence, where he tnraed him into the parlor in tbe presence of tbe In- dignantslsters. Tbs Misses Templeton acted with a neat ness and dispatch worthy of tbe emergency. They locked the door and demanded an ex planation. The hang-dog faced Romeo wilted. The yonng ladies then proceeded to test the virtues of a horse-whip. Mr. Cronch at this juncture recollected an en gagement elsewhere, nnd unceremoniously took his departure, carrying the window snelt with him. Ho had no particular use for the saah, bnt as it seemed to come handy he took it along. Two days later the Randolph papers an nounced the marriage of Mr. Cronch to one of the spirited heroines concerned in tbe affair. All to well that ends well. Only ton mors days in March. Thou sands of March subscribers have renewed and hundreds have brought in now ones. There are 3,000 March subscribers to-hear from yet. Are yon one of them? Ifsosendin yonr renewal and m.kas send a new name with yonr own. Wo must have 10,000 new names in March. Bend in a new snbacriber when yon renew, Toombs on tbe Code of Honor. Washington Letter. When Broderick was killed by Terry in a duel in California in 1832, Toombs delivered a eu logy on the dead senator, at thecloae of which he ■aid : "He foil In honorable contest, under a codo whlcn bo tally recognised. While I lament his •ad fate, 1 bare no word of censure for him or his adversary. I think no man, nnder any otrenm- slanccs, can have a more enriable death than to fell in vindication or bis honor. H* has gone be yond Centura or praise. He has passed away fri— men's Judgment to tbs bar of the Judge or all I earth, who will do right. Earth's highest honors sad la 'here holies.' And 'dnst to dust' conqpides her noblest song.' PERSONS AND THINGS. Out of the 7,000 bills introduced in the present congress, three bare becomo laws. A Ditroit prcichor bos j ust wooed and won widow possessed of thirteen children and 11,000,- 000. There Is hops for Joses. An insurance company of Barcelona has raid the queen regent of Spain the sum of 300,000 Vanes, the insurance of her late husband. King I.elard Stanford's gilt of hto estate in California, valued at twenty millions of dollars, for the purpose of endowing a college is tho largest donation ever made by a private cltlscn. A mono tbs latest Inventions to that of a match which may be used over and over again an indefinite number ol limes, the wood being, It Is claimed, soaked with a peculiar chemical sola lion. The legislators in Mississippi, like those to Maryland, have failed to materialise In favor of a constitutional convention. A bill having that ob- & ct in view waa before the bouse of delegate* of Isslwlppl last week, but alter an exclttngjjiniggte tha bill was tabled by a vote of 48 to40. This dis poses of the matter for the present acarion. David Sinton, Ohio's richest man, to a Scotch-Irishman, and grew up around the big Iron mills of Pittsburg. He began business as a clerk a country store at gi a month; then was clerk in a blast furnace, afterwards manager, and at last owner. After that the advance In wealth was fast. He la worth 112,000,00), and gives largely to public charities Moxx than 3,600 babies have been entered roc the International baby contest in Paris The favorite for the prise in tbe heavy-weight class Is a boy named Btdoyne Valles » Belgian ay descent. At the age of five yean h* ia four feet one and a half Inches In height and weighs iu pounds A farmer once called hiseow “Zephyr,’’. She seemed such an amiable hspbyr. When the former drew mar, . She kicked off his ear, And now tbs old formsr’smnch d«ybjTj hl l[M) Tbe largest barn in the world to probably that of the Union cattle company of Cheyenne, near Omaha It cover* five acres cost *123.000. and accommodates three thousand, seven hundred end filly head cfcattla The March number of The Southern Evange- list to Just ont, and to for rale at tha news* Is to a notable number, strong, bright, and frill of vivid interest. 8am Jones’s closing sermons at tho great Cincinnati revival are given, with graphic ■ketchea of acenea and incidents daring the progress of the meetings The opening sermons of the two Bams in the Chicago meetings will be found in this issue. The Evangelist also contains Senator Col quitt's masterly prohibition address at the llrroklyn tabernacle. Other feature* of in terest are "£am Jones’ Letter I)*ikat.” two -ital stories, miscellany, religious intcilt- once, thoughts for the month, etc. It is impossible to keep up with tho progrets one of the greatest and most peculiar re- ligious movements of the country witb-iut reading the Southern Evangelist. The ser mon* of Ssm Jones in Cincinnati and Chicago leer in the highest degree tbe stamp of tbe wit, eloquence and power which have made this remarkable preacher so successful and femous. It can he' had by sending GO cents for a year’s sobaeriptioo to \V. A. UemphtU, burl- manager of Tbe Constitution. THE TWO SAMS. Tho Evangelist Indorsed by the TTlvs* and Mothers of Chicago. Bam Jones preached the other afternoon to the women of Chicago. Folly fire thousand were Mr. Jons* promised a special sermon to wive*. He said that he wonld pot It off* few days la order that his wife might be present “For all I know," said be, “my old lady may need a little tapping npaa well as soma of you." - • FilHKKH newed laughter.) ed Into on any other cry on him that makes him sweet? ILnuxhteri (Hr* ms that old wool hat boy, tbatbov whoLu •impleand plain and has sense iSe a homTuSgh! day*- H * U ° Wn U,re * blocks one or theso * * Therein lots of Umeswhen the daughterhumors mft MSS JSSffij S3th»£ < 2£?? many* poor woman in Chicago who sits to her parlor ot night rocking the baby and staging: “Bock a-baby bunting, Daddy'a gone a-buntinr.” And he has, too. {Tittering;] I don’t see how ■ e men enjoy f ter buy tome laughing powder and take them lost before yoor husband comet home, and then grin him out of countenance. [Laughter.] It ia a •stronger and stronger, until the wife piekM up a chernr tart and hung It at the h«IS of herhusbana. The tart flew wide of Its mark, and MStma the wall: "God Bless Our Home/* Lie tnmed to tho other 0 and' czcUtau!?:^^Mamma in the prwence of yonr children 1 stand up." About twenty-five elderly women wlth deter- iSSSffilSSd. iA CShSttUS way. How many of you quarrel before your chll- SSL* ®t«n(Uifc” Not one In the great andlenoo arose. *>cji. crawled the evangelist with a sar* donle trlDp. yi take It for granted there are no women with children here today." [Loud laughter.] From tbe Chicago News. 8am Joan and 8am Small ware present at us Methodist ministers' meeting In the Sherman • house club rooms yesterday morning. Seventy or eighty clergymen comfortably filled the apart ment. Elder Trusdell Introduced the evangelists. Mr. Jones spoke about twenty minutes, bnnglng out peals of laughter and many fervent omens. Ho *Tam not working for converts thl* morning, hot feel that lam communing with kindred spirit*. I have one thing that I would Uke to aay to the min- liters of Chicago—I think that yon ought to make yonr attacks on evil more specific. Mere generali sation Is no business method. When my grooer sends me my monthly statement he don’t say “to merchandise, so much,” bat the bill comes with the detalli of account*—"to so-and-so-much flour, so much; to onions, so mnch. to batter so much, etc." So, brethren, when you arraign your con gregation Sunday morning It Isn't bus!DOM to call them to accouot for general inlnnity. You ought to present them aa accurately itemized bill—“to dancing, so much: to theater-going, to card-play ing, to SabbsOh-breaktag’—quote them tho latest price current of f - *- thiuSF ted and died at a hall, in a jiffy Satan so on the spot and started away with her. He hadn’t more than got outside the door when st. Peter cams In,' rattling gutter-h?ttd.%,s Wwenfft with,her Just this minuto,” they said. St Petes struck out after the devil, and pretty soon caught up with him. "See here. Satan," said Peter, "you’ve got no right to that young soul; aba’s al ways. been a Christian and a Methodist, too.” "Well,”replied th*devil,"Ididn't knowtiutt. I Just took her be cans* I found her Ouray territory.” Th* EvangflUat Forg.ta llltnsslf, and Coes a Stop Too Far. Sam Jones has been preaching to the women of Chicago. In hla sermon ha attacked tho gsr* Mothers and lathers clow their eyes to this de bauching of tbeir danghtera, and It goes on and on. and tho world bacomaswono and worse. I board a society raan asked how th. ladle, were d reared at a german not long ago. Hla reply waa that be did not look under the table, and tha ladle* had no clothes above It Considerable displeasure was evident front tha appearance of the ladles, and Mr. Jones said: Oh, you look Innocent now, and feel offended, bnt you know I am telling the (ruth, And wo pal- pits have eloaed our rnoutha to all this, and almost sanction rueh things. No wonder the world Is go ing to the devil. Mothers, teach your aiagnun to say.'-Danas oa.;-. Teach them to keep themselves undefiled. Teach hem to lead a pure life and the world will be pure. But you must lint be pur* yoursalyro, for you tjinot trech^pcrlty^unlere your own. hearts are " " newspapers : . _ . t from ih« awampgreutd ain't . but tho people In th. swamps are net . half *o mean u those In Chicago. Ifwe were edu cated w. could take lessons in wiotodnes* from Chicago for yean to come. If I should tell tho - rople tn Georgia of the wlcktduesa or Chicago ley would my: "Sam, you haren't quit lying yet.” I don't know lha misery of aoctoty. I ncrer was In It, and my wife waa neyer a society woman. I hope society won’t let ua In. It ir Impartible fora Chicago Not Quit. Converted. Chicago, March 30.—Effort* an being made to continue th. revival In Chicago by AuaJonro ■r.d Ham * mall two weeks longer than was origin ally , B allons! conventions, should a sufficient ran * 6 pledged to defray expenye*. Tho interior of the buie building on tho Uko front will bo con verted into a temple of worship. Mr. Jonet.lt i» ixiil, on good authority, has cancelled hia Sprint- • said, on good authority, haa ioMcitillon gwsMysausssa been anticipated. A DRAMATIC EVENT! The CosvrrriTioN is now tatUnff material foe reporting one of the nuwt dramatic events of • American history. Hon. JKIFFKHSOX DAVIS, flrrt ainl last President of the Confederacy, haa confuted to deliver an addrea in behalf of the SolrlierV‘Monu mental Anociatlon in Montgomery, Ala, Thl a will la all probability bo tho last wonld Mr. Davis will ovor apeak in public * The ipcech will be delivered on tho very apotoa which Mr. Davis Hood when ho Was Inaugurated President tho confederacy. The CoawTiTCTtow will make the grandest report! i vent ever made by any newspaper. One •ditor* will accompany Mr. Dgpi« in hifl ppetial rarfrom his borne to Montgomery. Th<J speech iu Dill, the Mvmi leading up to lt t willbO reported Id full. Tbe report will be illustrated with poTtidltsof Mr. Da via and many other Ulna* ration*. No Man North or South aflfcnl to bt without Thk CorirnTtmos cod* taJnfng the report of thia patriotic and mciaocablQ event. Send in Your Subscription at Oneel ar the ruth trill b. tr.mmtlou*. 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