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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION . ATLANTA. GA.'.! TUESDAY JANUARY 1 i 188Z
MB WEEKLY CONSTITOTIOH.
Altered «t the Atlanta poatoffleo u aoeond-clara
f'l Better, Norcmber 11,187*.
Weekly ConotltnUou M.W per «»”"?•
ante of lire, 11,00 each! dnbe of tea IL00 meh
(ad e copy to getter-up ol club.
WE WANT YOUI
The Comtimtlon wonts an agent at ererp
noatofflee la America* AgenU outfit free and
good tenor* Uproar, not Inn elob, we
want yon to net (a agent nt your
Write na.
We want 10,000 agent*
pin and ontltt (Tee,
ATLANTA, GA, JANPABY 4,1867.
A Special Word fbr Yon.
We distributed on January let a box roll
of Christum preeente to our enbecribao.
We bare filled the box up again with orer
*500 worth of Ner Year'e presents and offer
It to onr friends tor January work.
Seewbat tlio Christmas preeeot ecbema
did: Mr. B. F. Camp, of Corlngton, Os.,
got np a club of Are subscribers. It took
him a half hour. He kept bie eoumMon
ami got $100 in gold as n present. Mr. E. S.
Willingham, of O'Nrall’fi Mills, Ga., got
three subscribers. A beautiful picture wss
sent him, and he got $50 la gold as a present.
Mr. M. J. Dean, of Tyler, Tease, sent his
own renewal and one now anboertbor, and
got $35 in gold as a present. And so on
through the list. Mr. E. C. Dewey, of
Round Knob, N. C., sent In bis own sub
scription of $1.00, for which ho got the paper
one year of cotuse, and a splendid sowing
machine as a present. Mr. J. W. Elkins, of
ToomV station, Tenn, sent in a aloe dob,
and besides his commission got a sowing
machine is s present.
Now understand ns perfectly. Any one
who takes Tub CaNSTmrnow gets the best
paper In America, and the cheapest one,
Tho man who sends tun dollar for fllty-t wo
Isaacs of The Constitution lisa already
made the best lnrestment be can make. We
ranks the paper worth his money, and this
1s all he should expect to gel when he semis
his money. If he gets one of our presents
besides, It is just that much added to what
he his bought. Hero Is the dtnatlon—lfyon
send s dollar tor The Constitution tor one
year yon are sure to get the beet family
newspaper In America, and yon may get $100
in gold besides ai Mr. Comp did, or $50 os
Mr. Willingham did, or ono of onr other
Jannaiy presents, os tbo other tortnnnto
enlncribem did. Yon will hare eren more
chancca in January, tor wo hare pnt more
presents in onr box.
Any sensible man who reads this paper
nud likes it, will at once subscribe, because
be gels a better paper tor the money than ho
can possibly get elsewhere, and may get a
present that will give him back one hnadred
times the dollar bo lias Inrcated. Every
subscriber whoso time expires In January
will certainly ace tho point of renewing Ills
subscription at once, and of getting a new
subscriber or so to Increase bis chanoes of
getting one of onr presents.
let every January subscriber renew nt
once, and send In now subscribers, for each
onr of which his namo will go in our New
Year’s box. Let every subscriber whoso
name doc« not expire In January, get aomo , 111 ‘ b * that CburehUl belongs to this
...... ,I class of statesmen, the cabinet is well rid of
new snlierrlhen and send In at once, oo ns to .. _tti
soles to realize and checked the demand.
There was n slight improvement, bnt a slow
trade, and some depression attended the
freer internal movement tor the past week.
Tho strike on tbs Lonisrills and Nashville
railroad may to some slight Demurs Impede
tor a time the movement of the crop. Cotton
on the spot was dull and quotations were re-
dneed 1-1 Go on Monday, baton Wednesday
there was better bn si nose for home consump
tion. The total sales tor forward delivery
tor the week ore 473,800 bales.
The old interior stocks hare increased dar
ing tho week Id,480 balsa, and were, Friday
night, 87,668 balsa leas than at tbs earns pe
riod last year. The receipts at the
towns bars been 8,333 bales mots than the
saint week last yaar, and sines September 1
the receipts at all the towns an 18,883 bale!
leas than tor the same time In 1883. The
imports into continental ports last weak
wore 34,000 bolts. There was an increase of
cotton far sight Saturday night of 186,094
bales as compared with the same date of
1685, a decrease of7,333 halos a* compared
with tbo corresponding date of 1884, and a
decrease of 370,316 hale* as compared with
1683.
The total receipts from the plantations
since September 1, 1888, were 3,904,654
bales; in 1885 wen 3,833,850 bales; In 1884
were 3,663,740 balm. Although the re
ceipts at tho ontports the past week were
983,045 halm, the actual movement from
plantations wa* 305,636 balm, the balance
going to Increase the stacks at the Interior
towns. Last year the receipts from Utopian-
tatlons tor the same week were 380,340 bates
and tor 1864 they were 307,517 bales. The
decreese in tbo amount of cotton in sight
Friday night, ns compared with last year,
is 31,870 Mrs; the Increase, as compared
with 1884, Is 141,410 bales, and the increase
over 1883 Is 103,364 Met.
With respect to the cotton movement in
India, Bombay appears to show on increase,
compered with lest year, in the week's re
ceipts of 14,000 bales, and an Increase in
shipments of 8,000 Mea, and tbs shipments
since January 1 show an increase of 335,000
balm. Tbs totals tor the week show that
the movement from the ports other than
Bombay is 1,000 baler more than same week
lost year.
Tho figures from Alexandria, Egypt, show
that the receipts for the week ending Decem
ber 33 were 335,000 enntarsand the ship
ments to all Enrope 34,000 bales.
A Iditlc Man's Little Ways,
lord Randolph Churchill's action in leav
ing tbo British cabinet is accounted for by
some of bis friends. They stats that
Churchill regarded the increased estimates
tor the admiralty and war departments tut
nowise. It is believed that this explana
tion will endear him to the average tax
payer, and make him the most popular man
in England.
There may be something in this. We are
all flunlllar with the narrow little statesmen
who, realizing their inability to originate
great measures, quietly bide their limo un
til they seo a chance to cut down an appro
priation in tbo interesta of economy.
In congress and in svery stato legislature
there are dozens of thsso follow*, who de
sire to poso before their constituents as the
watchdogs of tbo treasury. Of
goes without saying that their random licks
at tho budget do more harm than good, but
they care nothing tor that Thiy ore carry
ing lkvor with some stingy taxpayer who
would bo willing to stop tbo wheels of gov
ernment and check the program or the cen
tury, provided it was done in the name of
economy.
studies should first be satisfied that a strong
natural bias is pushing him onward and up
ward into conditions in which he must neces
sarily be his own best schoolmaster. Re
duced to its last analysis, then, Mr. Steven
son's complaint is not directed against edu
cation; it is simply the protest of a man
whoso strong natural aptitudes led him to
select his own studies and his own methods
instead of thorn which did not suit him. A
weaker man, one infirm of purpmc, unsta
ble and nlmlem could not strike out thus
boldly and successfully. It will be seen,
therefore, that it takes something like genius
to throw an rducatisaol system overboard
and get on education without it. Mr. fite-
venson may kick ns much as he pleases, bnt
be has been absorbing culture Industriously
wbUe hs bos been abusing the schoolmas
Ol'B crnttoTMAB BOX.
Bow It Was Opened and Wbo Oo t Presents,
On Saturday marelnt four scents of Tux Cottsri
verso*. Hr. K. P. Bruce, of ItownriW*, 8. c„ Mr. W.
F. Woodllff. of Brown’s Bridge, Mr. J. A. Potrs. of
Tslladscs, Ala., and Mr. J.1. Blackmsn, offCamil-
ton,Oo.,met In TnOorrennmoNomettoopenTui
CoxniTtmost's Christmas box and distribute Us
Chri-tmaspresents. Ataf foreaehsobocrtptlonsent
in In the month of Oeceaibar hod been pnt in a box
•s fost as received daring thementh. This box wss
tamed ovee and orer, and shaken up and down
rigorously, and one of the agents, putting bis hand
Into tho box, draw out a ticket. Tbs
name on this ticket was B. F, Camp, |
Covington, Os., and he wss entitled to; the hnu-
drtd-dollar present. Another agent pat his hand*
In and drew oat a tat oo which was X & willing-
ham, O'KoM's Mills, who was entitled to the fifty,
dollar present. A third sgret drew ent a tag with
the seme of M. J. Dean, Tyler, Texas, who was
entitled In twenty-fivo dollars. In this way tags
were taken front the box unUl the forty-cliM
presents were exhausted. The following Is s list
of the fortunate subscribers, with their postnltlces
and with the presents awarded to them. In each
case the present was sent off on the night of the
first of January, and tn oik next Irene wo will have
replies from the fortunate subscribers:
No. I. B. F. Camp, Covington, Ga, 1100.
Ko.lt K. 8. Willingham, O'Kant's Mills, Ga., sat
No. 3. M. J. Dean, Tyler, Texas. n\
So. 4. tv. A, Monroe, ThomaivlUc, Ga., 410.
No. r>. J. J. Hill, Georgians, Ala, 110.
No. 0. J. H. Winn, Winns, Ga, K.
No. 7. J. H. Wheatley, Stroud, Ala, is.
No. 8. .1. L B. Fowler, Woodberry, Ga., So.
No. 0. Jtev. O. Parrott, Itamsey, Ga., *0.
No. 10. W. B. Hoaer, Auburn. Ala., *5.
No. 11. J. W. Ellfina, Toons Station, Tenn., high
arm sewing machine.
No. 12. K. C. Dewey, Round Knob, N. C., low
—wring r—' ‘—
IS. W. 1
TialtD. A. McDonald, Knlly Chaha, I. T„
Waterbary watch.
No. tfi. B. F. Johnson, Mt. Pleasant, Texas,
Watcrtmry watch.
No. is. J. F. MeCloskey, Bellrille, Arte., Water-
bury watch.
No. 17. 8. A. Grier, Harrisburg, N. C., Wntorbury
watch.;
N0M8. a M. Thomas, Jackson, Ga, Walcrlmry
No. 19. G. E. llomll, Moulton, Tex., Waterbary
Na-j). M. R. Best,: Malden, N. C.,| Wntorbury
watch.
Na *L D. F. Miller, Mtrrowrlllc, Ala, Water-
bury watch.
Na 72, Daniel roe, West Point, Ga, Wntorbury
watch.
Na 23. R. 1. Williams, rtedmost. 8. C„ Wntcr-
bury witch.
Na 24. B. C. Mass, notatuworlh, Ga, ono year's
inscription to the Weekly Constitution.
No. 28. Mrs. Colonel Hmfth, Wakerltle, N. C., one
year’s subscription to the Weekly constitution.
Na 28. C. B. Kirkpatrick, Vamell Station, t
get into our New Year’e box. Let ovoty
non-snbscrilwr into whose lminls this paper
Dills, subscribe at once, and send in soma
ether stikacrihere with his own name, and
get his name in oar New Year’s box forevety
name be sends. Wo wont every subscriber
to have a share in onr New Year’s distribu
tion of presents. Send in at once, os the
rush is heavy towards the end of tbo month,
anil there may lie a delay or mistake.
Reggtsted by the Day.
It is iu order to retail a Aw stale plati
tudes about the death of the Old Year and
Ate birth of the New.
Bo tor as we are concerned tho Old Year
may bnry its daad. Others may look up its
history in dusty files and musty volumes,
hat onr attention, our thoughts, onr hopes
are linked with the year Just opening.
The outlook bore is all that wo could do-
sire. While Europe stands on tho eve of war
or bankruptcy or both, this country antici
pates a chide of prosperous seasons, and the
south Is entering upon tho brightest era of
her existence.
A jubilant ring cbank teriieseach “Happy
New Year" that ii uttered today. It is n
greeting from happy friends to those who ore
equally happy. Tbo emphasis of prophecy
gives it force and weight.
It is pleasant to giro voice to three words
of good cheer. It is more plffgqnt still to
fret that they are words of truth end sober
ness. The CoNUTmTlox rejoice* with its
readers over the prospect, uul wishes to ono
amt oil the usual Happy Now Ysar 1
Cotton Facts ami Figaros.
The figures given by the Financial Citron
icle allow that tor the week ending December
34, the total receipts of cotton have reached
383,045 holes, against 360,650 hales, last
week, 337,886 holes, the previous
week and 375,716 bales throe weeks
since, making tbo total receipts since Uto
first of September, 18*0, 3,518,180 boles,
against 3,417,380 hales tor Uts same period of
1885, showing u Increase since September 1,
1866, of 101,700 bole*. Tbs exports tor the
some time reach a total of 339,196 holes, of
Which 136,819 were to Great Britain, 33,878
to France and 68,401 to the rest of the coull-
Thc Chronicle soya that the speculation
ia cotton tor future deliver; at New York
opened the week under review with much
depression in tone. The receipts at the ports
were quite Urge, and foreign advices were
generally unfavorable, causing many who
hod been operators for the rise to sell and
dose accounts. The decline from the highest
so Friday to the close on Tuesday wo* 18 to
31 point*. Tho boars, however, operated
eantioualy. so that no gnat “short interest"
was created. On Wcdaead ay tbs report from
Liverpool was much better than was gener
ally expected, and it caused a smart advance
with v, whfichwas w*U —twtslMfi at the
close. The market vras again depraved by
unfavorable foreign advices, which led to
him, and the Gludatonians will do well to
fight aby of him. His methods will not ntd
any cause. What England needs now Is
liberal patriotism, ami not the akia-fltnt
meanness of a huckster who values pennies
and shillings above human righto.
Women ami the Gallows.
The reprieve of tho New York murderess,
Mrs. Druse, has started a discussion all over
the country os to the propriety of exempting
women from capital punishment.
In nu interesting collection of facta gath
(red from nineteen state* it, seems that New
York hits never made any discrimination on
aeoppat of •ex. Ohio has never hanged bnt
one woman; the rale ia to commnte the
death sentence to life imprisonment. r»nn-
aylvanl* strings np female murderers witli-
ont hesitation. No woman has been ex
ecuted in Connecticut since colonial days.
Maryland has had bat one ease in half a
century. Illinois commutes the death sen
tence, and is followed by Louisians, Mis
souri, Indiana, Abiae, Iowa, Delaware;
Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Mich
igan. In Vermont a woman stands no bet
ter chance than n man. North Carolina
aometliura liangi and aometimei commutes.
The first person ever hanged in Georgia,
according to same accounts, was a woman.
Public sentiment in this slate is against the
execution of women, except In cure of ex
ceptional atrocity.
It ia suggested that New York will shortly
pore tin art exempting women from capital
puniohmont, but in the opinkm of many na-
thoritire this would be in conflict with the
federal constitution. Under tbs law as it
stands there ore donlitlere very few, if any,
cosre of hardship. When there is anything
to be urged in tovor of a murderess she is
sure to get the toll benefit of it.
Kducatctl In Spite of Himself.
One of the latest protests against what is
called higher ed oral lost comm from Hubert
Louis Bterenson, the gifted author of
"Treasure Island," "Dr. Jekyll and Ur.
llydo," and “Kidnapped."
Mr. Bterenson ssyx that be played truant
most of the time at the university, and went
out Into lbs world with the merest shadow
of an education. Beys be: “I am sorry, in
deed, that I have no Greek, bnt 1 should be
sorrier still If I were dead; nor do 1 know
the name of that branch of knowledge
which is worth acquiring at the price of
brain tom.”
It will net do to accept Mr. Stevenson’s
view of education without some explana
tion. The anther of “Treasure Island" did
not toncy the routine learning of the uni
versity. hot be hod an intellectual bent, and
hii assimilative powers enabled him to mas
ter everything that intereited hitu. lathe
bat genie of the phrase Mr. Bteveaeon is so
educated man, and be did not moke himself
one without a degree of mental concentra
tion and application that would have mat
tered Greek or any other study.
The young nun wbo quota Mr. Stevenson
as * justification tor the neglect of hiv
NO, .i, U, J, filOOTvi rtjtljttt, ug.» QuC jvM 1 id O'
fcrlptlon to tho Weekly Constitution.
No. 2*. A. IL Real, urecnbuih, oo., one year’s
iut«crlption to the Weekly Constitution.
No. 29. J. T. Dari*, Griffin, Ua.. ono year’s tub-
•crlpllon to tbo Weekly Constitution.
No. no. Miss Ma- J * --
Mlw.fi one year’s i _____
stltutinn.
No. 31. It. E. Abel, Day ton, Tenn., ono year’s sub*
■nett i? Jt!««aV:sa"6.Vo., one
year’s subscription to the Weekly Coustltutloo.
No, 18. C. W. oak*, Aerial, Go.,one year's sub
scription to the Weekly Conatltntion.
Na in. N. J. Dcsgs, mryker, Tex., op. year’s sub
scription to the Weekly Constitution.
Na HA. D. L Morgan. Norwalk, Fla., one year's
ubscription to the Weekly Constltullon.
Naze. Mrs. t’.P.lRobinvon, Chattanooga.Tenn.,
ono yrnrs’ subscription Ito tho Weekly Constitution
No. t!7. It. A. .Giles. Itoodsville, Go., ooe.yetuT
sol-serlpUon In the Weakly ronstltntlon.
No. DM. J. P. Msnhall, Ifeldcnhcimcr, Texas, one
year's subscription to thu Weekly Constitution.
Na t’.ti- J. F. Ainb-rvon. Hecks, (la., one year's
sul-scrlpilou to the Wookly Constitution.
NO. 4o. u. D. Beckham. Concord, Us.. ono year's
subscription to the Weekly Constitution.
Na 4L W. It. Maxwell, Kempt-Ills, Ala.,
year’s ititecrlpllon to ths Woekly Constitution.
No. 42. 8. Walker, lllals. Iliac, one yssrs sub
scription to the Weekly Constitution.
Na 40 J. T. Lnckie. Handy, Go., one ysar's sub
scription lo the Weekly ConsUlnllon.
Na 44. David Monro, Eatnnton. Ga, ono year's
inscription u> the Weekly Constltullon.
No. 18. Warren Jarkson, Linden, Ala., sue year's
no. o. tv. a. herr, tsestnennni, lots,,
year’s sulerrlpiion to tho Wsskly Constitution
No. 40 C. F. I'alntour, Keatchlc*, la., ons year's
sntwcrfpUon lo tho Weekly Coustitutlou.
Tho opsnlnlng of tbo box was perfectly fair and
sntlsfih lory. The agents who superintended It,
were (nests or Tux CoNsmvvioH on their trip ami
during their stay lu the city, and tho matter wav
put entirely In their hand*. We wish that every
subscriber to Tux CoNirrmox could have receiv
ed ono of the presents lo sddlttaa to yelling the
best family newspaper In Amciica at Ihc very lor-
«*i price. In order to gtvo them another
opportunity wo hsvs filled up s Now Year's box
which will bo opened on February 1st and its pres
ents distributed: among every nun, woman and
child who sends us a subscription during the
month of January- l et everybody go In work now
and bo represented lu Tux Co.xsitTcno.v's New
Year'e box. .
Murphy and Hit Jlcthoda.
When Francia Murphy opened bio gospel
temperance meetings in Cincinnati about a
month ago, wo gave n summary of hi* work
in this country and In other lands.
It will gratify tho true friends of temper
ance to loom that the greatest reformer of
our time is meeting with o degree of success
worthy of tlie man and the cause.
The Cincinnati papers state that within
tho past month Mr. Murphy lias pern nailed
4,060 persons to sign tboplcdgo. Thou
sands have hung entranced npon the win
ning wenls of the orator. Clough In his best
days never scored nut'll n triumph.
The problblttoniata and the liquor meu do
not understand Mr. Mnrphy’t methods.
Here is a man whose heart la filled with love _
inateod of hate, llenbnac* nobody and'
never nttrre a bitter word. Moral ouasion
is his line, ths good old method, tbo only
method that ever yet turned an erring
brother into the right path. Under the simple
loving eloquence of this good man, legions
of the ram fiend’s victims have caught the
inspiration of liope, and, reinforced by a
resolution equal to tho occasion, they hare
shaken ofiT their thraldom and regained
their loot manhood.
Amcng the recent tignere were a surpris
ing number of hard drinker*, nud the c.ua-
tutreial-Gaxeite rem.uk* that they ore keep
ing the pledge. It is almost incredible, but
we are assured that it ia a fact, that the pro
hibitionists of Cincinnati have hail no good
word* for Fraud* Murphy. They did not
invito him, nor cooperate with him. They
did not n i'll him well, nor thank him.
Their conduct has been oo peculiar that the
contemporary already quoted says: “They
are in practical cooperation with the wont
elements of society!’’
It comes upon ua with a shock of surprise
to ore ->ueh words app’ied to tho prohibition
ist*, hot then la on explanation, Prohibi
tion by legal methods naturally and inevit
ably becomes bound np with political con
ditions, and the advocates of the movement
soon cease to concern themselves about moral
conditions. Now, moral conditions ore just
what Frauds Murphy bases his reforms up
on. He does not care a straw for politics.
Ho awakens the sluggish moral sens*, qnick-
ens it and turns it in the right direction.
He lias a proper contempt for law wrested
out of its sphere. He says that if law alone
could save men, Moses, and not Christ,
would have been our Saviour. AVe had the
law, hut the example of Christ was needed
to redeem sinners. Air. Murphy looks deep
into the Cannes and the nature of things. He
knows that no moral evil was ever extir
pated. He knows that such a result is be
yond the power of statute. Coder prohibi
tion, for the hundreds of saloons dosed,
thousands of saloons spring up in ns many
homes. Under Murphy's method, men do
not want liquor either at home or in the sa
loon. Of course he cannot reach all classes
of meo, bnt does the law reach them? Can
it be mode to coerce them except under each
au inquisitorial and despotic form of govern
ment ax would not be endured by freemen
tor a day!
The sensible friends of temperance; those
who are'not endeavoring to shape politics
those who are not waging war npon any class
of their neighbors; those who ore for the
genuine reform which is the outgrowth of
better morals, should watch this Murphy
movement. Queen Victoria said that it hod
blessed England, let ns see to it that it
blesses America.
A Flayiul Judge.
Judge Alooney, of Algiers, Louisiana,
labors under the disadvantage of living in
an nnappreciative community.
The judge’s fellow-citizens recently signed
along document asking for his removal,
They allege that he Is guilty of “dranken
and hoodlumlstlc"conduct; that he is fre
quently too drank to hold court, and that he
sometimes sleeps oil' a debauch at the police
station. 11 appears that the j ndge discharges
firearms within the city limits, breaks into
booses at two o’clock in 4be morning,
smashes windows, and kicks np Jack gener-
ernlly. He has biren known to take a milk
man's wagon from its owner and drive
through the streets scattering tbo milk and
acting like n maniac. .Ho ontrageons has
been his conduct that his own mother ono
day chaatlsed him with his cane.
It must be admitted that the petitioners
make out n good primn fade case against his
honor, but it is to ho hoped that no hasty
action will be taken. The judge's frolicsome
antics may he accounted fbr in a sat {factory
way. A vrry small quantity of domestic
wine with superabundance of animal spirits
Is doubtless the true explanation. One does
not feel disposed to deal harshly with snch n
coso. In some communities it would be a
decided relief to see u judge occasionally
throw aside his ermine end mingle with tho
lwys. Judge Alooney's efforts to promote
good fellowship between the bench nud the
people are possibly carried to on extreme,
hut from all that has lieen said it is evident
that Ills infinite variety is eqnal to any
emergency. Rneh a man shoald not be
squelched without due deliberation.
The Iowa Haters.
The Iowa State Register, edited by the
Clarksons, who heard stars drop on tho
gnrand during the great meteoric shower in
the thirties, is not to be appeased. It says:
The speech of Mr. Grady, at the Pilgrim banquet
In New York, wee very fine, and Instinct with
much of noble feeling. Tho most that he lays the
north can respond to. But when he aeystbat the
condition of tho negro In the south Lx ea free, and
Ills citizenship is ai much protected as the white
man, ho goes Into romance and fiction, whtoh eren
hospitality cannot let go unlmpeachod. So long a*
tho negro Is not allowed lo vote, he Is not free, and
so longasGooigtaclocts all tti congressmen by a
smaller vole than any ono district In Iowa electa
one conKTCsaman, tho negro will have no political
rhanco and no real personal protection.
If these poor creatures will come to Geor
gia we will take pleasure In introducing
them to negroes who are infinitely their su
perlore in cveiy quality that goes to make
up manhood and gentility, and these negroes
will tell them in plain terms that tho colored
voters nro os free to vote ns tho whites.
These negroes will tell the Clarksons that
tho small vote in congressional districts is
tine to the fact that there is no republican
opposition to the democrats; they will tell
the Clarksons, moreover, that the vote In
some of tlie northern states is os small, com
paratively, as that of Georgia. Bnt even
this would not satisfy tho Clarksons, for ns
soon as tho gentlemanly Georgia negroes had
put them to the hlnsli, they would go home
and attack the colored race.
At the same time, wo wish the poor Clark
sons a happy New Year,
Southern l’ig Iron.
In spite of the increased home demand for
southern pig iron, the result of the growth
nnd development of diversified iron lndns-
tries, there was a largo Increase of shipments
dnring the year just ended, na compared
with previous years. The southern demand
tor pig iron, it aliould be boras in mind, has
grown and is growing very rapidly. This is
shown by the Diet that eight southern fnr-
whlch, in 1885, shipped forty-two
thousand tons of iron north of tho Ohio river,
shipped dnring 1886 only thirty-seven
thousand five hundred tons.
Dnring the year just ended, southern fur
naces have shipped about ono hundred anil
forty thousand tons of iron into the northern
and eastern markets. Id addition to this, it
should be noted that the Tennessee Cool and
Iron company, with five furnaces, ia turning
out as much pig iron os the Thomas Iron
company of Pennsylvania, with ita twelve
ftiraaoes. The Tenncraee Coal and Iron
company, is building five additional ftirna-
res. which will more than doable the oatpnt.
This, however, is merely one form of tho
tremendous industrial development that is
going on in tlie sonth.
A Sensible View of II,
Tlie business men of Montgomery take a
sensible view of the unprecedented activity
in the iron region of Alabama. Instead of
denying Birmingham they bail her progress
with gratification.
It is the opinion of those who hare studied
the situation, that in leas than five yean
Montgomery will have a blast furnace,
rolling mill, store xrorks, nail fhetory, and
hundreds of oilier factories. New (railroads
are talked of, and capitalists are on the alert
tor investments in new enterprises.
AU this it one of the results of the Bir
mingham (pom. The Montgomery people
know that the rash to the heart of ths iron
district will overflow that limited area and
strikendghhorisg potato enjoying advan
tages more peculiarly adapted to the many
enterprises now shifting southward.
Atlanta has understood this all along.
The prosperity of the iron district ii onr
prosperity. Hundreds of industries certain
to foUow in the wake of the iron boom will
silently obey the workings of tho laws of
trade end distribution and make their home
with ns. Speaking of this very point, intel
ligent F"g l *«h' n «"i familiar with the inter
ests centering in and growing out of the iron
and coal field*, ray that there are numerous
large monnfhcturing enterprises which flour
ish better at a short distance from the mines
than would bo the case on the spot. One
reason tor this, the** Englishmen ray, is the
desire of manufacturers engaged in the finer
lines of Iron and steel work, and resultant
Industries, to keep their labor systems out
of the complications incident to the mines
and the cruder stages of Iron work. This
alone is an important consideration, bnt cli
mate, health and distributing advantages
also have great weight, and Atlanta has all
of these, besides being a thrifty, busy
metropolis under foil headway.
Let the booms come. If they strike our
neighbors they are welcome all the same.
Nothing can prevent Atlanta from getting
her share, and she will find It as big a thing
os she can handle. Jnstwhnt Birmingham
can properly take care of will go there. J not
what is best suited to Atlanta, Just what v i
most desire, wiU come here. There will be
a satisfactory adjustment of industries all
round, and there will be no reasonable
ground tor jealous rivalry anywhere.
Vanco and Phelan.
Harper’s Weekly, which is a very careful
ly edited publication, has an editorial on
“The New South," in which the editor com
ments on the recent speeches of three south
erners. The Weekly has something to say of
Air. Grady's remarks at the banquet of the
New England society in New York; of Mr.
Trcnkolm's speech before the New Englsnd
society of Philadelphia, and of a recent
speech by Mr. Phelan, of Tenneesee. The
sentiments that follow ore credited to Air.
Phelan:
‘■Bitter to my taste as wero the remit! of the civil
trar, day alter day hai reconciled mo to them, and
convinced mo of the wisdom of cheerful lubmls.
•Ion to tho will of Blm who brought them about.
Tho union of them states has been preserved and
declared lndiseoluble. A great and disturbing
constitutional question hat been finally and forever
Milled, and tlavery baa been forever abolished; U
no longer tarnishes the fair fame of a great and
freo republic. Becauso it was Involved la the
question of constitutional right, I fought four years
In Its dsfensc. I tell you now, upon the honor of
my manhood, that 1 would fight eight years though
my hairs are white, against my attempt to reinstate
It in any portion of this continent.”
Ai Mr. Phelan is only thirty-two years of
age, the probability is that bis hair is not as
white as the foregoing wonld suggest. Air.
Phelan boa given utterance to similar senti
ments, bnt the quotation which we give is
probably taken from a speech recently de
livered in Boston by Senator Zcbnlon Vance,
and the sentiments are worthy of tho man
wbo, all through tho war, had the confi
dence of Jefferson Davis.
The Farm Contests For 1887.
We made allnalon the other day to tho Cot
ton States Agricultural Field Contest for
1887. Onr . readers will -find the planters'
premium list printed elsewhere. This list
is taken from tho circular letter recently is
sued by Air. F. C. Morehead, the president
of the National Cotton Planters’ association.
It is hut fair to say that Air. Morehead ex
plains in the circular letter referred to, that
the list is incomplete, being merely a rough
draft designed tor suggestion, rather than
ndoption.
A complete programme of the contest is
to he offered to the public shortly, but, in
the meantime, it should be borao in mind
that the premium list is to be revised and
enlarged, so ns to cover everything of impor
tance in southern agriculture. It will be
observed that tho premiums offered are very
substantial, ranging from $500 (to $5,000,
and there can be no donbt that the result of
the contest will bo everything that its pro
jectors intend it to be.
In bis circular letter, President Morehead
says: "Any suggestions from onr renders or
friends will be greatly appreciated." This
opens the way for a suggestion by Tnc Con-
stitition that/ in our opinion, contains the
gist of the wholo matter. Ths proposed
field contest is based on the success of the
contests inaugurated by Air. G. W. Scott
who is the manufacturer of a well known
fertilizer. To win the premiums offered by
Atr. Scott depended not alone on the skill
of the Hunter, bnt greatly on tho skillful ap
plication of a certain fertilizer.
TnE Constitution wonld suggest that
the premiums to be contested for under the
anspicesof the National Cotton Plantere’
association be based, not alone on the amount
of produce made on any specified area, bnt
the element of profit bo taken into consider
ation. The premiums are »o considerable
that it would pay o former to work a few
acres np to extraordinary point of fertility.
The result to be reached is two-fold. Does
intensive forming pay? If so, wbat are its
profits? These elements cannot bo left ont
of the question. They are all-important.
“The Southern ErugilUte"
Tbo popular religious monthly, “The South
ern Evangelist,” published in Atlanta daring
the past year, has been sold by Mr. W. A.
Hemphill to Bor. 8am W. Small. Mr. Small
has transferred tho Evangelist to Nashville,
Tenn. Ho has changed it to a weekly, and
the first issue under the new management is
remarkably bright and readable. The sub*
script ion price is one dollar a year.
Successful Ihin»lltry.
From the Philadelphia Call.
The husbands who handed their money to
their wives at the time of the late train robbery
have not yet had It returned to them. The surprise
of the wives was so great that they haven't recov
ered flrom it yet
Tho Boy Was Anxious to Know*
From the Texas Siftings.
A little Galveston boy visited his uncle a
short time before ChrUtmas. lie asked his uncle
if he had washed himself.
’’Why »or’ a<ked his uncle, patting the Innocent
little prattler on the head.
‘ Became papa !f you had done the clean
: one dollar at lea*t this
thine yen
Christmas."
The also of Bor Smile.
From Harper's Carer.
"Well, Algernon, she greeted you with a
-mile, did «he?”
"Yea," Algernon.
Regard for Appearances.
From the Omaha World.
Eminent socialist: "In what respect, sir, are
you better than your clerks?” Omaha merchant
• "In none that I know ofc" "Bo! ho! that
■ answer, is it? Then toil smUUs: Why are
wor men ia rbeir company eathe pubUe
’’ ’Bemmm the contrast makes my clothes
PERSONS AND THINGS#
Senator Van Wyck, of Nebnuks, hag •
baby daughter a year or two old that was bom on
New Year’s day land goes by ths name of Houov
New Year Van Wyck. UT
The five Arab horses given to Queen Yletai
rta by the sultan of Muscat are valued at flTAoS
hut the presents sent to him In return only cost
12,£00. The circumstance lives Hr.Ltbencherora!
nested opportunity to snlffot his sovereign's thrift;
The foreign journals announce the discover;
by a Chinese gentleman of photography In natural
colors-ttic realisation of thedreami of all our pho.
tographers from Daguerre's do, down to our owni
The process. It Is to be hoped. Is simpler ttuu tha
name of the Inventor, Azurlzawe Byocht Nichoma
fanjuksnbor Ktobasnl-Ku. The photograph taken
was: tbc Island of Enosblma.
Anothee “mammoth cave” lo reported, this
time In Missouri. The first oxolMition was .ulyi
partial one, but took In several chambers and was
prosecuted to a distance of a quarter of a mite,
■„h .tin nthM.h.mhM. -net labyrinth* of nil!
__
aorta of fantostio shapes.
M. Pasteur is described as follows Face,
pale yellowish; eyes,dark gray, grayish board, hole
ways.
Cluverics, the condemned Virginia mu.
derer, receives a great many floral gifts. One
young woman recently sent him a design which
bore ths words, “Heaven Is thins."
Maspexa, the Egyptologist, soya tt is non.
seme to claim that the pyramids of Egypt wero
long In construction. Three or four yean, he
believes, sufiloed for the building of the highest of
them.
A citizen of Pocahontao, la., has Invented x
new met, which bids fair to take the place of coal
lathe prairie coon tries. He grinds com stalks
and coarse prairie gram together sad moistens
them. This pulp Is pressed Into blocks about
twelve inches long and four inches thick and
dried. One block will give an hour’s steady heat.
This fuel ran be stodueed for 12 t ton, and tha
Inventor claims Out It will lost twloe as long eg
the best soft coot
When Jay Gould scribbled off a check for a
million and a half dolhux to pay Tom Allen for ths
Iron Mountain rood, it was thought to bo the
lsrgest Individual cheek ever written. Gould wrote
It on a sheet of note paper. John B. Alley once
dashed off a check for 8400,000 and gave It to Mat-
tor Doney foe a half Interest in the stnotor’a cattlo
ranch. There ere several United States govern
ment chocks for one cent, to square np accounts,
In existence.
OUR NEW YEAR’S PRESENTS.
OVER $500 IN PRESENTS
GIVEN AWAY TO ODI SUBSCRIBERS
for the Hew Yeai!
Onr distribution of Christmas presents on tha
first of January was *> popular, and pet so many
good workers failed to got presents, that we havo
determined to
Pill Up “A New Year’s Box’*
and distribute even more than onr Christmas pres
ents among our January workers. Every sub
scriber ought to bo represented in onr New Year’s
box. Mr. D. F. Camp, of Covington, got 9100 for
sending one subscriber, and 930 presents, 925 and
sewing machines, etc., were sent all over tho
southern states to Constitution workers. Bo
sure nnd be in Jauuory. Here ia onr plan.
$500 la totals
We have determined to distribute a lot of NSW
Year present! to our friende, beginning with tin U
gold, end running down to leas valuaalo presents
to every agent. Wo cannot gtvo It to the agent
sending the biggest club, for that leave* out ths
smaller agents, who are Just os faithful and deserv
ing. Wo have therefore adoptedathoablhnring
plan:
We haro hod printed a number or (mall squzro
tegs. For every new subscriber sent In during tho
month of Jsnnary we will write the name of the
person who sends It, on one of the tags and pot It
lt4a box. On the first of February, wo will havo
this box, containing tbo togs, token In the ptesenca
of three retponilble ogenti and thoroughly shaken,
One of the agents shall then take a tag from the'
box. The person whose name Is onthat teg shall
have the *100 premium. Another agent shall then
take out a tag. Tho person whose rnusois on Ifhat
tag shall have the >50 premium, and so on unfit
the premlome are all taken.
This la of course no lottery or anything akin to It.'
It Is a free, voluntary distribution of preMnto to
our Mends—for whtoh they pay nothing, and for
which we ask no pay. Wo want every >0010111)01
to shore In this distribution. AUy subscriber there-
fore who sends us theuameofanew subscriber
will have his or her name pot on attag and dropped
Inthebox. If they rend two new subscribers theig
name will be written on two tags and pnt to the
box twice. One who sends a club of five subscri
bers will bo ou tiro tags In the; box,3*nd will thug
have five chanccs lnsteod of oo* of getting s ptfit
tntum.
Now here are tho premtum#
1 premium, In gold, of.
1 premium. In gold, or...—.
1 premium, ln oold, or.—
2 premiums of (10 each—
8 premiums or*8escb...._
1 prcnlum of high arm machlno..
3
Tun WIXXLT Costairrtmon-
(TotoL,
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Now, let us be distinctly understood. This Is a
froe and voluntary gift to our Mends and subscri
bers. We went every one to participate; To do
this yen have (Imply to get ua one new rabaeriber.
Your name goes Into the box and you may get the
8100 premium. For each additional sutacrlber you
get an extra chance; Now here are three mice:
lit If you are already a; subscriber, you must
lend a new subscriber, and fbr teach new subscriber
your nunc goes In the box, once also for your own
•me.
2d If you are a regular agent your name will go
Into the box for every renewal that expire* during
December, and of courm for every new subscriber;
3d. If yomrenota subscriber your name gora la
the box for your own subscription tndjbr every ad,
dJUooal subscriber you rend.
Now let every eubecriber send tin a new mb-
acilbet, sad thus get a place In our Premium Bos.'
Let erery agent Mud In his lists. Let ovary person
Into whose, hands this may fall send in hie mb
scriptlou at onca and get a place In oar Premium
Box, end odd two or three mors rots to get two 0Z
three chances.
Of course every ono will not'got o premium, hat
•very oca will havo a ehaneo. A littlo child who
gete one subscriber may got tha no* In gold,toc foil
tag In Ibis, tho 160—orsofns othm premium. You
cannot poaribly lose anything—Ac you (tvs nothing
for the ebanco. 1/you get a Msnd to lutocribe yau
do ns a fovor and you do your friend a favor, for
you get him started with the tost newspaper in thfi
country, and ha will thank you every week for it.'
If you take it yoursalf, yoa get tha biggest and best
and cheapest paper la America. Now let every,
body com. In and gets place in our Premium Bo*
ud try to get one of our New Year's praaenta.
Of connc onr other premiums will bo given Just
ss usual. For svery threa new subscribers WO WiU
send one of our soperi) pictures, and all othar pre
miums as adrcrtlsod. These special New Year's
presents ore pure and staple gills to oar Monde ■
made In grateful acknowledgement of their kind]
nem and devotion. _ ,,
All» ho want agent’s outfits to week with moot!
men copies, posters, pictures, agent's hooka, blanks
envelopes, ne., con get them by writing torn foe
them. Ws oOhr good eonramers premiums for seat
ting auhacriben, and Tax Oranma fo undouhtc
edly the best paper In ths country to eenTam for.'
to to work, it win pey yon U
ho a CoxrrrtTOo* agent for too next twelve
to. Remember, that tothin to theChristmaa
ua all names mast be received hero on orb*
om January gist.