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6 THE CONSTITUTION. • Entered at 'he Atlanta as accond-claaa mail matter, Novsmlior 11.1*73. The Wm-kly Con.titutlon •!.!?« per annum. Clubs of five, »1.00 each; clule of ten, 81.00 each •nd a copy to getter-up of club. WE WANT YOU. The Constitution wants on agent at every poMoffice In America. Agent* outfit free ami good terms. Jf you arenot in a club, we wan you to act as agent at your office. Write us. OUR ’’CHRISTMAS BOX'’ OF PRESENTS. On January Ist wo will distribute SI,OOO among our subscribers. From September Ist to January Ist we put the name of every snbserilter received in a box. On the latter date we shako np the box thoroughly, A hole is cut in it. Ono of our weekly agents, in the presence of three others-draws out a name. Tlint name get* #SOO, the box is then shaken again, ami another name drawn. That name gets s..">, ami soon through the list. Now you ought to subscribe for the paper without expecting to get one of the presents. Fay for it, for itself, just as you liava always done. From reading the paper you get your money’s worth, and more for your money than any other paper gives you. Bo sali>!ied with that. Then if you get the SMX>, or the #2OO or even one of the #5 presents, take it with our best wishes and our Christmas greet ings I tis com < wi> do not pretend that ev< ry sole scriber v. dl get a pr. ent. Not one in every hundred v. ill git one. But every subscriber will have an equal cliniK’f. The box will have the mime of eyi ry subscriber sent, in be fore January I 1 atul no other name Three agents from different slates will shake the box nod will draw out a name while, the others hold it. You will have just exactly tho same chame ion other subscriber lias. Some per sons will got every prize. It may just as well be you as any < tm el ie. We do claim this. We furnish you the big. gest and Ih -i paper that is printed. We furnish it cheaper than any other paper. Wo give yon besides an equal chance with every other sub si riber in .‘•1,000111 gold distributed as presents. No other paper does this. So, if you like our paper as well as any other, take it, for besides the paper you have an interest in our “Christ mas box,’’ which no oilier paper gives you. But if you do not likoour paper ns well ns some other paper, take that paper and drop ours, for yon may m t ",t one of our presents and then you would bo di •itlslied. Take the paper solely for the papers sake,and if you get a pie.u nt, you will bo just that much hap pier. ATLANTA. GA , SEPTEMBER 13,1887. Tin' Visit of I'rcahl.’iit ami Mrs. < leveland. The reception and cnleitainnienl of Presi dent and Mrs. Cleveland, at Atlanta, during the Piedmont exposition, will be u series of events memorable forever to those who wit ness them. For the lird time a democratic president will get foot on Georgia 8011. Additional interest is given to this, by the fact that it Is the man who led the democratic party from twenty (Ivo years of defeat into glori ous victory, and who restored tho south to the eonli leneo of the. nation to their full rights ami partnership in the. union. Fresidimt Cleveland does not pay us a formal pop-call. Ho comes in (lie old fashioned democratic way, bringing his wife •ml friends with him. and staying with us three nights and two days. He gives \t liuita more time than any city on his entire route, because he is anxious to meet our people, study our resources, and know some thing from personal observation of our folks and the wonderful riches of our Pied mont legion, lie especially wants to meet the people face to face and w ill be accessi ble the whole lime of bis visit. Every visi tor who wishes Io do so can reasonably Count on shaking his hand and giving him • word of welcome. 'Die scene* attending the president's re ceplioti and entertainment will be superb and splendid. The illumination of blenue bhw mountain, with artillery on its heights, ami a Hight of live thousand rockets from Its crest by electric match, will be a sight never seen before. The sham battle, cot ering seventy acres, with four batteries <d artillery, ten companies of cavalry and thousands of foot Siddiers, w ill be an incom parable spectacle. The torchlight procession of ten thousand young democrats in line, with the whole city illuminated, and the air full of color ami sound, will be inspiring. Tim exposi tion itself will bean enormous show, full of interest and instruction. Now let us make tho president's visit here the significant and overwhelming tea ture of his entire tour. Let us show him the south at her best, ami ht him know that the people love him and honor him. ft Is because ho wants to know tho south better that he gives Atlanta more time than any other city on his route. M hen he stands up to speak to us. let him look into the faces of mon southerm rs than any man, living or dead. has ever seen assembled. • How to I’rt'M'ov Our lorcilK. In this democratic country where every citizen claims the right to use his land as he phases, digging down for hidden treasure, •nd stripping it of the timber, it is some what diliieult to see how our forests are to be preserv cd. The paternal governments of Europe do not allow such small matters to disturb them. They simply go ahead and requite tin land owners to leav o a certain propor tion of their timber uncut, besides requiring them to plant trees. We cannot very w< 11 Compel our citizens to do these things. YVe u*us; pcr»i ;ul< them, or otlerthem sultieient Indiiceniems. Mr. James Byars, of the National Forestry Burc.rn, in a recent speech BUggetUd that the better policy would be to exempt from taxation all lands planted in forests. Doubt It *s this would do much to wards preventing the wholesale destruction of our for. sts. In some of the European forests all that is done is to preserve the undergrowth to biieh an extent as will al ways leave a young tree to take the place of the larger tree cut away for timber. Jf the exemption plan will do any good it should be given a uial, At least vne- TIIE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1887. fourth of our territory must always remain In forests or we may make up our minds to see the land gradually turn into a desert. If a state of governmental system of exemp tions and rewards w ill do any good, then the sooner we put it. into operation the better. Henry George and Land Values. Mr. Henry George, who is a very eloquent writer, is pushing his land theory forall it is worth. He brings to its advocacy a brilliant style and a facility of expression that are well calculated so deceive those who take merely a superficial view of matters and things. Mr. George's theory is that man can have no propert y in land because man found it here when he came, just as he found the air and the sunshine. He can neither add to nor take from it, therefore he can have no right to it. ami no title in it. Property in land being wrong, all our ideas of polit ical economy are wrong. This is Mr. George’s theory, ami lie contends that to abolish private ownership ii land is to pro vide a remedy for poverty and all the misery that is the outgrowth of poverty. A great many sensible people have been misled by Mr. George’s arguments, but if his theory be correct, it is applicable to a great many other things besides land. Land, in ami of itself, has no value. It is worthless until man by his labor has util ized it. Lamlth.it is unoccupied may havea market value, I it the measure of that, value 1* its posslbilitie-i of production w hen utiliz ed by the labor of mam Man found - live], (for instance) in a wild state. He lu. . utilized them, ami he now owns them, but lbe wool on the sleep's back would be worthless if it were not wove Into various t 'brim? tor the benefit of man. The Geoigc theory is as applicable to own ership in sheep as to ownership in land. Here is what tlie great reformer says in a lute number <. f his organ, the. Standard: What the iiniu-.i labor i-uiiy mid tho Autl-poveit society, tie' <>:.- us a political and the other as u ethi-. 1 mid i- -.a-, o ;anizatlon, s-i-k to l rmg about, i- i.-i.- v II." practical reC'iguitlon of Hie gnat ti itb tli'it *i <1 i" i le this earth for the us? of the. men wl.omi.i inuli to live in it; each genera tion ml Izlngtiu 1 li Inheritance In turn, and leav ing it uuiuqadred to its moves ore. This cud they propr-e to m cumpli-.li by the taxation of land values; a system miller whl. h, so long iwouly one man wants to use any natural opiantimity ho shall to free to do so without tribute J aid to any num; but when by reason of social growth the privilege of a natural opportunity Is wan ol by a number of men, tin? Ullin a lio uses It shall pay to the community Mull a tax as may fairly re pres nt the advantage whh h Hie i-iijiym nt of thnl opportunity gives him over bls fellownien who eonaent to forego its use. It needs but a little thought to realize that under slub a sysli m not only would that degrading desti tution In the midst of plenty which we now know ns poverty l*e impossible. but no man or woman of sound mind and ho ly, and willing to work, need want for any reasonable luxuries. Thia is very fine, butitis very vague. The “rich inherit alien” is rich simply because it has been made so by man’s industry, and the value of land is due. solely to its utiliza tion and to the possibilities that it oilers in that direction. So that, after all, Mr. George’s tux would fall not on land, which Ims no value of its own, but on man’s in dustry, which has given the land value. Mr. George’s system of land taxation con templates the equalization of man’s labor and industry, which is only another form of socialism. It is not a vicious form, indeed, for the simple reason that it is utterly im practicable. As long as the world stands, some men’s industry will count for more than that, of others: as long as the. Almighty' differentiates individuality in the human race -ome men will bo crowned with great success, where other-fail. This, after all, is the whole problem, and Mr. George will find it just difficult to level up individu ality and iiii.-lli ~m < by means of a system of taxation as it would be to dry up Niagara rivet by dipping water from the Gulf of Mexico. Wi .ire I old t’ at Mr. George’s preposter ous the--ry is ve -Citable to him. If he lias ever made a limo out of it he has made more than the human race ever ..will. n More < übnn Patriots. 'I ke i xpeditii u dispatched from Key Wi st, a few days ago, against t üba will in all probability come to grief. The invading army is said to consist of sixteen men under the command of Captain Beriben. These filibusters propose to make their way into the interior of the island when’they will join other bands of insur gents and at onee begin a guerrilla warfare against the Spaniards, burning, plundering and killing without mercy. Beriben is said to be a daring fellow of considerable military ability. During the present century dozens of just such foolhardy expeditions have. started out from this country with the design of freeing Cuba, but they have all been disas trous failures. One of the most notable attempts in this direction was tile one made by General Lopez in ISSI. Lopez was a gentleman and a soldier. He came to the United States and spent a fortune in or ganizing three expeditions for the deliyer anee of Cuba. The first two failed, but the leader succeeded in making his escape. Finally he landed near Havana, but his forces were soon captured and dispersed, and Lopez was taken prisoner. The un | fortunate general was parroted in Havana, • his friends in this country being powerless to save him. although they made strong ap peals in his favor. lu some points Cai tain Beriben’s venture resembles the I.opea affair. The black flag programme is u new feature, but it is not calculated to add to the strength of the invaders, and the chances are that the fili busters will b< hunted down and shot like dogs. • They are Hani to Kill. Occasionally u dyspeptic southerner picks up a few ideas from northern health crunks, and at once begins a vigorous onslaught ujmn the diet and the cooking of his native section. Among other things he is certain ' to mention the deadly frying pan as a se- I rious drawback to the physical well-being of i his people. I’udoubtedly bad cookery and an un wholesome diet w ill injure anybody, but it | is not yet settled that tho southerere are 1 worse off in this regard than their northern neighbors. Ficin the texolutienary war > dow n to the pres, nt time the vietims of the I deadly frying p in. the men who had a i sneaking fondness for corn broad, bacon and i coilaids, have prove.l themselves in point of physical cudu.aiiee the equals of any set of • men on the face of the globe, M hen it comes to the matter of longevity, | it is a notable fact that nearly every patri ■uch report) das living beyond the century I limit hails from the south. Os course lids doers not ptove that we j have briaighi our diet and cooking tv pcr- section, bub it goes to show that we are not being killt-d olf at a very alarming rate, and that, we have not degenerated into a race of weaklings. The average southerner may not compare favorably with the northerner in the matter of complexion, and he is slower in his movement- z... a rule, but when the two come to test their strength and en durance in the labors of peace or the hard ships of war, the southerner makes a record that no American need be ashamed of. Pcrliaps we have too many new fanglcd health notions anyhow. The men who are a law unto themselves in their habits gen erally live Uj attend the funeral of the cranks who attempted to advance them. Nature guides nine men out of ten in the right direction. Jf the tenth misses it, he may deserve to mit>» it. It would be an overcrowded world if everybody lived to a great old age. Some must get out of the way early to make room for the others. It is all right. — MjMhiMdppi Corn for Jllinoi**. The growing independence of the south is illustrated by a news item in the New Orleans Picayune, which states that Illinois farmers propose to transport thousands of hogs from the drought stricken regions of that state to northern Mississippi where corn is abundant. The idea of fattening Illinois hogs on Mississippi corn would have been deemed the perfection of folly a few years ago. Mississippi then depended on Illinois and the other western states for almost all her supplies of meat and corn. This year tlie corn crop in Mississippi is very large, and there will be plenty to supply the wants of the unfortunate Illinois farmers. This incident may serve to impress upon Mississippi, ami the other states of the south, the importance of self-reliance. —_—_—— Prosperous Times Ahead. The Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record’s special reports from all parts of the south make a splendid showing. According to the Record’s figures, our corn crop will be the largest ever raised, exceeding the crop of 1886 by over 50,000,- 000 bushels. Our contemporary says: The yield of corn in the south for the last few years has been: Bushels. 1 >Bl 433,270,(K)0 18S5 470,776,000 1886 481,818.030 •JSB7 535.000,000 4 Estimate based on government reports. Thus the increase in com as compared with the crop of 18S4 is 107,000.000 bushels; compared with J‘ 8\ 70,000,000 bushels, and with 1886, 61,000.000 bushels. This alone would vastly improve the con dition of southern farin' r\ as the great drawback to their prosperity hereto! - 'r * has been their de pendence t« r com and bacon upon the west. This year the south will be nearly self su ppm ting in the matter of r«>rn, and millions of dollars that have been paid for western corn and provisions will be saved. In many counties tho farmers have raise I not only enough com fora year’s consumption, but will, it la claimed, have sut!.<-ient to supply their v.ants t'ortv.o years. As our reports show, there arc ninny places where the yield will run from 50 to 100 per cent over the crop of but a conserva tive estimate based on official rep »t s places the ag gregate for the whole south at about 51,000,0j0 bushels over hist year’s crop, with the probability of tho final returns showing a somewhat large excess. The Indications point to a good cotton crop, if no serious disasters occur. Higher prices for tobacco will make up for the short crop. Wheat, oats and grasses have been produced in abundance. AH this is calculated to give pd impetus to the commercial and industrial develop ment of this legion, and it will do more to invite, investigation than anything else could have done. Prosperity attracts every favorable condition in the shape of enter prise and capital. We are entering upon an era of tremendous progress, and for some years to come we may count upon botvtr times than have ever been known in our history.— A Sensible Colored Editor. The editor of the Marion, Ark., Headlight is a colored man who feels a deep interest in the welfare of his race. lie sees no prob lem growing out of the relations of the two races. In the matter of education this colored editor's views are good-tempered and sensi ble. He says that the leading colored edu cators of the south do not want mixed schools. The white and colored children, he thinks, will do much better by tliem selves in separate schools. Mixed schools would increase the prejudice between the two. and perhaps lead to war. The colored people need a few more such editors. The Headlight man will never have any trouble with his white neighbors. He will never feel that he is oppressed or denied his just lights. When people are minding their own business, and when they respect the rights of others, they are rarely interfered with. This class of colored citi zens find it diliieult to believe that there is such a thing as a race problem. They love their own people, and desire to be with them. They take it for grinded that the whites feel the same way tow ards their own race. Viewed in this light, the separation of the two colors appears to be for the good of each, because it results from the workings of the principle of natural selection. With self-respect, and a little common sense, there is nothing in the way' of continued peace and harmony in the relations of the whites and blacks. The Cotton Movement. The New York Financial Chronicle, of September 10, in addition to its other fig ures, has a review of the cotton mov< ment and crop for the year. According to the Chronicle's figures, the total crop this year reaches 0,5L’1,<i23 bales, while the exports are 4,-l*>B,32fi bales,and the spinners' takings are 2,077.ba1e5, leaving a stock on hand i at the close of the year of 52,0m1 bales. ' The total receipts at the Atlantic and Gulf ■ shipping ports this year have been 3,320,- I 621 bales, against s,tllHi.tW bales last year ■ and 4,770,100ba1es in 18SI 5; and the ex | poits have been 4,438,320 bales, against 4.343,001 bales last season and 3,039,495 ' bales the previous season, Liverpool getting ' out of this crop 2,C05220 bales. Tin' Chronicle has a review of the world's I consumption, which is of surpassing inter- I est. Tho new season opened not- only ' with bitter hope but with the conditions i actually improved. Doth goods and yarns had already begun to go out more freely be ' fore the first ol October, so that nil reports ; of that day agreed in saying that stocks of ■ y arns as well as goods Lad been gre.uly re duced and were very small. After the first j of October the export movement continued free, the total shipments of yarns for Octo ber, November and December being 153.600,- IKJO pounds, against 5t*,1u0.000 pounds for the same months of 1665, while the goods aggregated 1,229,500,000 yards, against 1,064,100,000 yards in 1885. It is scarcely j necessary to say that, other things being equal, this change alone was sufficient- to ; entirely transform the condition of the trade from depression to prosperity, from a drag ging production to extreme activity. An other feature which contributed to the English spinners’ profits as the season > opened was the count of stock of cotton at j Liverpool the last of September, made pub- i He October first, which disclosed the total on hand as 51,000 of American besides 13,000 Egyptian and 9,000 sundries (73,000 bales in all) more than the running estimate. This discovery, corning at the time when ' large estimates of the American crop pre- ; vailed, induced a considerable decline in the. raw material, and as spinners were under contract on a basis of the higher rate for cotton, the difference inured wholly to their advantage. In the south the conditions during the entire season have been all that could be reasonably hoped for. YVhere mills have not improved their situation this year, it must have been due to some very excep tional drawbacks; it certainly has not been due to a lack of demand. Almost the entire southern section of the country has been greatly prospered, and the consumption of those states, both of northern and southern makes of goods, have largely increased. The t lirom le hears also of an enlarged de mand for y arns made in the south, from northern mills, heavy weights, if wcmistake not, in all cases. This has been a feature to an extent in previous years, and we see no reason why it might not, under favora ble circumstances as to freights, be made a growing industry. Southern managers have come to realize that the advantages of situation, etc., they enjoy are not so great in any ■ to permit a mill to be built orconductedcxe. pt with strict regard to obtaining bed results with a given capital. But granting they have advantages, they might, we should tliink in many cases, be more effectually reajied through spinning yarn for northern mills. The spinning and the manufacturing departments are not by any means as extensively separated among us as in Great Biitain. But if that practice is found by long experience to be more economical there, it seems as if we ought to come to it in the end; and in that case, why might it not fall to the share of the south, in a larger measure, to spin the yarn where the raw material is found? So far as India is concerned, the exports have reached an aggregate of 21 £ million dollars, though the trade began with million in 187(5; the United States exported in value about 7J million in 1876 and this year about 15 millions. The increase in spindles is not, however, large or rapid, the total number of mills reported in 1886 being 95, with 2,261,561 spindles, 17,455 looms, consuming 643,204 bales of cotton of the average weight of 392 pounds. In its weekly review of the cotton move ment, the Chronicle says that for the week ending September 9, the total receipts have reached 85,437 bales, against 39,309 bales last week, 19,270 bales the previous week, ami 9,6411 bales three weeks since, making the total receipts since the first of Septem ber, 1887, 100,936 bales, against 54,344 baies for the same period of 1886, showing an increase since September 1, 1887, of 46,612 bales. The expoits for the week reach a total of 18,015 bales, of which 16,461 were to Great Britain, 100 to France and 1,454 to the rest of the continent. The total sales for for ward de.livi ry for Hu week are 290,400 bales. For immediate delivery the total sales foot up this week 3,67.5 bales, including for export, 3,675 for consumption, —for speculation and —in transit. Os the above 1,410 bales were to arrive. The imports into continental ports this week have been 15,000 bales. There has been an increase in the. cotton in sight to night of 101,165 bales, as compared with the same date of 1886, an increase of 69,661 bales, as compared with the corresponding date of 1885 and a decrease of 227,971 bales, as compared with 1884. The old interior stocks have increased during the week 9,462 bales and are 11,061 bales less than at the same period last year. The receipts at the same towns have been 16,452 bales more than the same week last year, and since September 1 the receipts at all the towns are 13,233 bales more than for the same time in 1886. The total receipts from the plantations since September 1, ISB7, are 111,880 bales; in 1886 were 56,041 bales; in 1885 were 85,383 bales. Although the receipts at the outports the past week were 85,437 bales, the actual movement from plantations was 96,398 bales, the balance going to increase the stocks at the interior towns. Last year the receipts from the plantations for the same week were 47,019 bales, and for 1885 they were 61,156 bales. In regard to New York the Chronicle says that business for the week was inter rupted by the new legal holiday, “Labor Day,” on Monday last. The speculation in cotton for future delivery at this market has I been fairly active, but fitful and uncertain 1 in tone, involving pretty wide fluctuations ' in prices. On Saturday there was much j depression, due to sales to realize, the gen eral discrediting of seriously adverse crop reports and the free movement of the new crop. But on Tuesday renewed buoyancy was noted on a renewal of unfavorable crop accounts, but the best prices of the day were not sustained, and on Wednesday, af ter slight fluctuations, the close was lower. Thursday a firm opening was followed by a decline, but Friday rumors of an adverse crop report from the Agricultural bureau, in which 87 was mentioned as the probable average condition, caused a small advance 1 in afternoon dealings, but the close was at ! some decline from last Friday. Cotton on ; the spot has been in demand for home con -1 sumption, and the very' small stocks, espe cially of the better grades, have enabled i holders to obtain more money. There was j an advance of j cents on Wednesday, and ; the sales have latterly embraced considera ble parcels to arrive. Friday the market was steady al 10j cents for middling up lands. The Chronicle’s weather reports indicate ! that dry weather has prevailed generally at . e south during the week, and that in con sequence picking and marketing have made i excellent progress. Damage to the crop from various causes is reported by some of 1 our correspondents. Havs I'oh Friends in Texas. The Piedmont expedition has secured a ball i rate tare from Texas to Georgia, and back. This | xb the first time a low rate has U.vu given to Georgians living in Texas. It is the first chance our friends in Texas have had to conit back home ami see their people. Now, if you have friends in Texas, wute them at once to come and see you, i they come to the exposition or not. It w i a grand time for meeting old friends. As soon as you read this, write the news to your friends ia Texas, and beg them to come back home onee more. Georgia loves them yet, and they love Georgia. To all Georgian-in Texas who read this, we sav, tell your friends in Texas about it. Tell them that for half fare you can come back to the old state, ami see Georgians, ; Carolinians, Alabamians, Virginians and Tennesseeans, and all gathered together here at the greatest sliuw ever seen in the south. We want ten thousand Georgians who live in Texas to come back and make the old state glad by paying reverence to her once more. As we understand it the half rates are good frqm any town in Texas to Atlanta, Ga. Monte Christo Outdone. China has stubbornly resist! <i the march of modern ideas. Her statesmen have pro fessed a contempt for what the outside world calls scientific progress, and the masses of her people have opposed super stition. prejudice and ignorance against all efforts to introduce among them mechani cal appliances of other nations. 'Die immense population and great nat ural resources of China have long been a tantalizing temptation to the speculative and enterprising spirit which had overrun the rest of the world but which encountered an impassable barrier in Chinese law and Chinese prejudice. If we may believe reports which are now freely circulated the immemorial Chinese policy has been suspended and a system of internal improvements on a gi gantic scale has been projected for the “Flowery Kingdom.” This opining in the hitherto impenetrable Chinese wall has been accomplished, not by a statesman, a diplomat, or even a money king. It is the work of a little fidgety individual known as Count Mitkiewicz, an alleged Russian no bleman. The count has been in this coun try several years and never has been still five minutes of the entire time. He has been continually proclaiming some wonder ful discovery or working up some sheme that threw into the shade the most ambi tious projects of Colenel Mulberry Sellers. The count went to China,and by some means or other gained the favor of the government. He explained his plans for the building of railroads, the construction of telephone lines, and the establishment of manufacto ries iu China and convinced the authorities that such enterprises would prove vastly beneficial to the kingdom. Not only was the count given permission to carry out his plans, but magnificent grantsand subsidies, and a monopoly, the value of w Inch cannot be computed, were assured him on condi tion that he would accomplish the proposed improvements. According to the latest, reports this man, who was a year ago diverting the annoy ances of actual poverty by building the flumsiest sort of air castles and getting him self laughed at as a crank, has actually or ganized a stock company with a capital of $25,000,000. Among the subscribers are men of the highest financial standing and business reputation. The Chinese minister saysthat his government w ill take $5,000,- 000 of the stock. Chinese bankers and merchants have subscribed $7,000,000 more. The other $ 13,000,000 is reserved for Ameri can stockholders and nearly ali of it has already been taken. There must he something besides gas in this last enterprise of the frisky little count. Many a time since he came to America he has been without a dollar, but if his present plans work out, (and it seems they will), he may in a few years be the possessor of a fortune that will make the wealth of Gould by comparison a mere bauble, and the fabled “find” of Monte Christo pale before the actual achievement of a cranky little count who got on the good side of the sleepy old Chinese. EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT. Since Memphis was made a taxing district in 1880 it has paid off nearly $4,000,000 cf its debt. About $3,000,000 is yet to be paid. Now they say Pasteur is a fraud, but the fact remains that be lias saved scores of human beings from the horrible death of hydrophobia. Zola’s works have been suppressed in Russia. They turn the civilized stomach everywhere except in France and the United States. The dear tu'ke of Marlborough is still the rage at Newport. The duke will carry a iin< lot of American gossip when Le returns to the brothels of London. Age considered, M< Neilly, of Saco, Maine, goes to the head of the defaulters’ list' Ho was only nineteen, and he scooped over a quarter of a million. Blaixe has drawn first blood for the next republican nomination. Two delegates to the national convention were chosen in Lacka wanna county, Pa., the other day, and were instructed for Blaine. Missourians are the hardest people in the world to satisfy. A Missouri farmer found an egg the other day with a clock face and the , hours clearly marked on it. Now he is kick ing because it don't keep time. Colorado people complain that the cow boys are wobbo savages than Colorow and his band. They are not half so much afraid of the Indians as they are the white desperadoes. The government ought to turn the rascals out. Jay Gould is getting so hard up that he proposes to raise the elevated railroad fare from five to ten cents after certain hours. It is a sublime spectacle, as someonehasremiuk ed before, to see a good num struggling with adversity. The Galveston News docs not think the recent wheat corner gives cause for alarm, be cause, though the gamblers who tried to iniike tho corner are out SB,VW.UUO, not a single grain of wheat was lost. That is a comforting thought. Senator Riddleberger bought nil the liquor privileges for the bhenandoah county fair for SIOO and then refu-ed to let a drop ot intoxicating liquors be sold on the grounds. The senator is thought to be doing penance fur Ida recent naughtiness. Roderick I’, vndosi Butler, congressman from the first Tennessee district, is accused of selljiig his influence in the pending prohibition tight in Tennessee for SSOO. When Butler was in congress s< veral years ago he was ac cused of selling a West Point cadetship. In reviewing his defeat at the Allentown convention, Editor Singerly says: ''The ' Record, however, is not r.ltogi tlier dis- I couraged.” This is natural. Mr. llaudall has i knocked the Record cut so ni'teii tli.it tin re is no reason why another drubbing should have | any decided etfci t o:i it. We have hitherto s.ippd that an Ameri can base ball player was the I e-t paid man in the world, but it seems that we were mistaken. A Spanish bull fighter lias be. n offered e’ '.<• •> to give four perfoi man.-cs in the City of Mex ico. The only difficulty in the modern bull ■ tights is to catch the ball after he is turned : into the ring. Only nineteen suits have yet been filed against the Toledo, I'eoria and Western rail road, on account ol the Chatsworth honor. These aggregate claims for SI3U,<AX) and as there will be over a hufideed suits more the rond may be lucky to escape with the payment I of a round million. That sounds heavy, but | the officers us the ruod ought, to thank their I stars that they are not in Jail. Hon. Thomas E. Powell has made hfi opening speech in the Ohio campaign. It was a strong and dignified presentation of the denS ocratic case. The Ohio democrats have a good candidate. They ought to go to workman® elect him. , The city council of Richmond has refused to appropriate $15,000 to help defray the exsl pen-es of the dedication of the Lee monuments Richmond will raise the amount and as mncS more as is necessary, without regard to th< council. Richmond is a good deal bigger con.« corn than its city council. % Men rise rapidly in this country. Six. teen years ago William M. Singerly was sellj ing peanuts in Chicago. Now he is the propri« etor of the Philadelphia Record and owns a superb yacht. Mr. Singerly will be rcmenv bered as the gentleman who tried to run tha recent Pennsylvania democratic convention, i Johnny McLean is said to lie worth $5,fMX),s 000. He proposes to put some of it into tha baseliali business at YVasliington. McLean live- in Washington about as much as he does iu Cincinnati. One of his dreams is to be a| United States senator from Ohio. John h./J er been a bashful fellow. Governor Marmaduke, of Missouri, can? not. under the constitution of that state, be 4 candidate fi r re-election. There is no lack oj gentlemen, however, who are willing to taka* the office. Among the probable candidates are) Congressmen Clardy and Burnes, and Davifj R. Francis, the rich and handsome younsf mayor of St. Louis. , A Louisiana judge has enjoined the As. cension Democrat against supporting General Nicholls for governor, on the ground that th& charter of the paper stipulates that it shall ba' “democratic in politics.” This judge may be a’ very wise man but our recollection is that Gen# erat Nicholls was a democrat at a time whext democrats were badly needed iu Louisiana. If he has changed his polities since that time are not aware of it. . Watterson has fixed it. In the next house, Carlisle is to be speaker, Mills cliair. man of the ways and means committee, and Bill Scott “the most ininortant member orj the floor.” Imagine Bill Scott in that posi* lion. He was in the last congress and his onlj, reputation then was that he hud thirty mil. lion dollars. Scott, as a great parlianmntaijJ leader, will bo the most astounding revclatiod in our history. Then all the people may Le pardoned for exclaiming "Great Scott!”—* but not till then. , The i it teen great American inventions of world-wide adoption are: 1, the cotton gin ; 2j the planting machine; 3, the grass mower and reaper; 4, the rotary printing press; 5, tion by steam; 6, the hot-air engine; 7. thei sewing machine; 8, the india-rubber industryj 9, the machine manufacture of horse shoes;' 10, the sand-blast for carving: 11, the gauge lathe; 12, the grain elevator; 13, artificial ice. making on a large scale; 14, the electriS magnet and its practical application; and, tho telephone. The reports of John Ruskin’s failing mindi have revived the story of how Millais usee® to visit I’uskin and his wife as a dear friend J. how he took Mrs. Ruskin as the original of ths sad, clinging sweetheart in his famous pictura of “The Huguenot Lovers;” how tho painted and his friend's wife fell in love with eactt other, and how John Ruskin gave her up td Millais and said he hoped they would be very happy together. In the opinion of most people? Ruskin’s insanity is at least as old as this re* markable action. Governor Lee, of Virginia, smokes an im. mense red clay pipe which General Sibley .of Sra I’anl, gave him. The pipe is thus deseiibeda “The pine was made by Isla-Du-Ta, or Red! Eye of the Sisseton Hand, a one-armed bravS of the Dakota Indians, from the red pipei quarry, celebrated by Longfellow in his ‘Hinjt watlm.’ Presented to Governor Fitzhugh Lets of Y’irginn while in Minnesota, January 281‘ by W.ih-Ze-Oni-mi, or YValker in tha Pines,” this being the Indian name of General Sibley. Mr. Mills, of Texas, does not appear to have the solid support of his own state for tlid> chairmanship of the ways and means commits tee. The Austin Dispatch says: “Th dem ocrats of the, next house .should unite in vigf orous protest to the speaker against the ap* pointinent of that blatant free trade howlerl Dodger Q. Mills, to the important positiolX of chairman of tho committee of ways ana means. It’s safe to say, however, that yonif Uncle Sammy Randall * will have a r.ord oi two to say in the matter.” , Governor Foraker has played the demaq gogue so long that he forgets the ordinary de4 ceneies of every occasion which affords"hiiuj an opportunity to assume the role of a political blatherskite. Last Thursday night he was is guest of the city of YV heeling, a democratic] city, and a city full of southern people. Yet] he made a speech full of sectional hate, which lie said the south was “danmablw wrong’’ in the war. How splendid are ths patriotic words of Governor Wilson beside such vile etuffl “I have been asked by somd one at my side,” said Governor Wilson; “whether the confederates were traitors. Irf reply I have only to say the man who asks that) question at this day and on this occasion i 9 lacking in patriotism and is inspired by the same sentiments that once moved for the de2 struction of this union. He is the man wh<S would keep sectionalism alive and fattenon sectional hate. [Cheers.] The day is past for anything of the kind to succeed. Thia country is grandly united. Let it remain sd forever.” Dl\ IDING OUR~PROFITS. And Giving Our Readers Some Big Cln ist* mas Presents. We furnish our subscribers with The best fumily paper in America. / Tli" < heapv.'t pay er printed—the only 12 pag< weekly. The ’ i,' r that pays more for special features that# any other. n ■lo this our contract with our subscriber* uh. Hu: m the past three years our friends hav« inviv ’>’?d our circulation Ironr 9,000 to 112,000 copieal Appreen;: ng tills we 51.h.1 distribute to t! ea oIS January Ist some big Christm.us presents. Here is 4 list of them: Ou<> present of SSOO in goldai One proent of «OO in goldi One present of 100 in gold] One preent of C< > gold! Ous privontof in gold* To fne 10 next SIO each 100 in goidj To the 5 next S 3 each 25 in gold* Total Presents sl,oos ’ You do not pay a cent for this. Y'ou aunply paw ’ for your paper, just as usual. We put your name in| our "Cin istnias box’’ and <>n January Ist ttie firs, name taken out—the box being shaken and tlid a, nt blindfolded—gets S.?001n gold, the next 82001 and so on through the list. 1 Now not'.-;li:- .. 11. Send in your own s-1-scrip* ■ tion and v. ill put your name in the box. Tiierel 1 lore every otlwr name yon send in we will pm ini | your name a ;ain. If you send teu subscribers youil name goes in ten times, and you have thid - i many more chances. - We want every man, woman or child who readii ; this tog to ..oik at once lor Tub Constiti iion? 5 ( Bou’t dei.iy .". ilay in s.. .ling in names. The- merd y iti ct in now m . you will get in late'. Com! ? I me: eAT..x. f. Y .it ought to have 100 names id : byJa.i'.aiy i t Kemcmlier this. Some niiu.ewilj 1 let;;',, int 1:: ; hazard from the Christmas ’ox oa> . 1 .fat: '.;.u; 1 and that name u; ts 8000 in gold. It may' t any event yout .. aot • ceu wi* ■ get th I. t; <1 < heapest paper printed, and ifyoill 1 I get th !■ ’ toe 8210, or any of the other j'e-entd f it is|llmt mueh made. i N.. .1. . Sen lin your own name anij • tl.at of io: r friend, and then legin a regular can. vas.-. T! i- x willbethor.ni'.’lilyrolledand 1 a,id ti.e Hr-: name may be taken from the bottom. i BIG PAY FOR YOUR WORK. F ■ - .u.thiiig c e f-.-r our agent'-. Ami s j Hr«. it it.: To U»»‘am nt sending in the biggest list • t- before January l m " ill -rive S'l.’JO in golda , r<» tiiv next hv t agent tfloo •• ‘ •• To she itvxt bot agent 50 •» To tli<’ i»» \t l>v!»t agent f3.*» “ “ ‘ To Un next bc.*t agent 10 •* •• I Total agents* premiums 54"5. Iu a to this VC ali .'the best cash <uui< missions i'Hi'l by any pajier. We uilow better oohm 1 mS’ions than la-t year, hn lat once and getoud >utiit It xv ill iay you to beccane an agent of Ini • | Constitution. V ant 10,000 aunts at once. Send fur our . 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