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6 THE CONSTITUTION. Entered r.t the Atlanta postoffice as second class Snail matter, November 11,J' 7.1. The Weekly Constitution 51.2.1 per annum. Clubs of five, *l-00 each; clubs of ton, 41.00 each •nd a copy to gcttcr-up of club. WH WANT YOU. Tlie Constitution wants an agent nt every portoffice In America. Agcnlsoulflt free ami Rood terms. If you are not In a club, we wan you to act as agent at your office. W rite us. OUR “CHRISTMAS BOX’ OF PRESENTS. On January Ist wo will distribute $1,600 among our subscribers. From September Ist to January Ist we put the name of every subscriber received in a box. On the latter date we shake up the box thoroughly, A hole is cut in it. Ono of our weekly agents, in tho presence of three others—draws out a name. That name geto SOOO, the box is then shaken again, and another name drawn. That name gets S2OO, and soon through the list. Now you ought to subscribe for the paper without expecting to got one of the presents. Pay for it, for itself, just as yon have always done. From reading the paper yon get your money’s worth, and more for your money than any other paper gives you. Be satisfied with that. Then it you got the SSOO, or the S2OO or even one of the $1 presents, take it with our bi t wishes and our Christmas greet ings! Os course we <Jo not protend that every sub scriber will get a present. Not one in every hundred v il! get one. But every subserilter •will have an equal chance. The box will have tbc name of < very subs ribei sent in be fore January Ist and no other names. ’I l.t’ ” agents from different states will shake the box and will draw out a name while the others hold it. You will have just exactly the same chance every other subscriber has. Some per sons will got every prize. It may just as well be you as any one else, We do claim this. Wo furnish you the big Rest and best paper that Is printed We furnish it Cheaper than any other paper. We give you besides an equal chance with every other sub •crilM'i in sl,oooiu gold distributed anprcsentß. No other paper does this. 80, if yon 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 other paper gives you. Hut if you do not like out paper as well a some other paper, take that paper and drop ours, for yon may not get ono of our presents and thou you would be dissatisfied. Take the paper solely fm the papers sake,and if you get a present, you will be just that much hap pier. ¥rEE “EXPOSITION” TICKETS. Do yon want tt free ticket for yourself, wife and children to the exposition? Here in how to get them. Gela club of 5 subscriber; to Thu CoNSTiTtmoH at $1 each and wo will give you a full ticket, (50 cents,) a child’s ticket, (25 cento,) as a premium. Get a club of ten subscribers at #1 each, and wo will give you two w hole tickets ($1) and two child’s tickets (7.0 cento) as a premium. You of course have to buy your admission tickets for one day when you buy your railroad ticket. But if you stay two days you w ill need tickets for tho second day. These will cost you 7.(1 cents for yourself or wife am! 2.5 cents each for your children. You can get one of ' each for nothing by bringing us live subscribers and one of each for every dub of fire sub Scribers. If you are only going to stay one day, we give you7s cento cash premium for every club of five subs, libers, or 81..70 lor 10, or s:’> lot 20, all at 81 each. We will only give those rates | to subscribers who m tuallv bring them hole and present them at our oilice in town or on the grounds. We do this for two reasons. We want to see you ami know you. Wo w ant you to come to the exposition, and we want tv help you puy jrour way. Now, get to work get the children to woik ami von cun ea ilyget enough eash premiums to pay for your tickets. Tell the children they must iielp earn the money to pay their way. JCvery five subscribers at SI each, pays you 75 cents in cash or n w hole and half ticket. 1 f you want sample copies to work w ith write on n postal card or letter "send me samples for ex position club," and we will send them flee in the meantime work with this copy. Kenewals •f old subscribers will work just the same as now ones. But w e positively cannot make this offer good to anybody but iietual visitors to the exposition, and the offer dowhen the ex posiiion does. ATLANT A. G A., OCTOBER 11, ISS7. The Cotton Aloverneiit. The New Vmk Financial Chronicle, in Us weekly review of the cotton movement, says flint for the week ending last Friday even ing, the total receipt* have reached 251,160 bales, against 238.745 bales last week, 187. 740 bales the previous week and 126.(i1l kales three works since, making the total receipts since the Ist of September, 1887, t»5,902 bales, against 580,4111 bales for the tunic period of 1880, show ing an incretwi) aince September 1, 1887, of 3111,471 bales. The exports for the week reach a total of 170,439 bales, of which were to Great Britain, 14.153 to France ami 52,757 t® the rest of the continent. The total sab s for forward delivery for the week are 542, BIB' bales. For immediate delivery the total •ales foot up this week 2,221 bales, includ ing ( for export and 2,158 for consumption. <>l the above, 113 bales were to arrive. The imports into continental ports have been 12,600 bales. Tin s, figures indicate an increase in the Cotten in sight tonight of 3117,025 bales, as compared with the same date of 1880, an in cnas. of 414,146 bales aseompared with th. I corresponding date ot 188.5 and an increase ■ •I 148,103 bales is compared with 1884. The old intei i.,r str ,ks have Increased dur i tng the w.i-k 2’.',504 ball's, and are tonight 35, I UK! bales more than at the same period last I year. I'he receipts at the same towns have b»M n 25,086 bales more than the same week last year, and since September 1 the receipts •t all the towns ate 167.19.5 bales more than for tin same ’ime In 188(1. The total ree< ipts from the plantations time Sept,-ml .r 1, I'M. are 1,0 )0,1.11 bales; tn 1886 were t.'O.om. hales; in ls-,5 were 170 bales, ai;hough the receipts .it the oulpoits the p:i<t w< ek were 251,186 bales. K the actual movement from plantations was 1 V 260.221 bales, th.* balance going to increase th. stocks at the iutei.or towns, J. art y<ar Um Ncglpti from the plantation!) for the I THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1887. same week were 236,087 bales and for 1885 ■ they were 210,010 bales. > The inci ease in the amount in sight Fri- I day night, as compared with last year, Is 402,952 bales, the increase as compared with 1885 Is 351,513 bales, and the increase over 1884 is 382,350 bales. The weather reports of the Chronicle in dicate that the weather has been dry and ex ceedingly favorable to crop gathcringdnring the week. Marketing is also making rapid progress. The Chronicle says that the speculation in cotton for future delivery at this market has shown much strength throughout most of the week under review, the chief excep tion being a decline of a few points on Sat urday last. In the course of Monday to Thursday, inclusive, there was a slight but steady advance, on the belief that the “rush’’ of new cotton to market is about to cease (at least in comparison with former years) an I that prices were ou a safe basis for operations for the. rise. Hcduccd crop estimates from Texas and adverse crop accounts from Memphis have been published in the daily papers, with the effect, of stimulating the demand to cover contracts, and better reports from Liverpool on Wednesday and Thursday also favored the “bull’’ parly. The business was largely for the winter months, and the close Thurs day evening was 5a9 points above the prev ious Friday. Friday the market was very unsettled, but made some further advance in the later dealings. Colton on the spot met with only a limited demand for home consumption, and although stocks were still small, quota tions Were reduced l-16c. on Monday. To day the market was dull and weak at 9 7-1 Ge. for middling uplands. The Chronicle has an interesting review of the cotton consumption and overland movement for September. As is well known, the present crop began to move to the outpoi l , earlier ami in larger volume than any preceding it, ami naturally, there fore, the shipments by rail have also been quite free. In fact, the gross movement during the month greatly exceeds that for September in either of the two previous years, and is, moreover, heavier than for the opening month of any other season in cluded in our record. The total for the month is -48,178 bales, an increase over 1886 '4 23,056 bales, while the gain in comparison with 1885 teaches 19,872 bales. The heaviest, movement in September of any year previous to the present one was in 1881, when Ihe gross total readied 46,862 bales and the net .‘10,869 bales. All the railroads, except those crossing the Mississippi at Hannibal, have bcnelitted by the larger cotton movement. The Cin cinnati .Southern and the Louisville, Cincin nati ami Lexington have, however, made Hie most important gains. In th.' net move ment there is also a decided excess over pre ceding seasons, the total for September this year being 39,162 bales, against 19,635 hales last year and 22,910 bales in 1885. Never before lias so much cotton reached the outportßduring the first month of the cotton season as during the present year. Compared with last year the increase is 2971,1,7:; bales (about 87, per cent), in which all the southern ports share, but, sti’angoto say, Galveston to only a slight extent. This would seem to indicate that a greater por tion than in former years of Texas cotton lias gone direct to New Orleans, Foreign ’ exports have been on a very liberal scale during the month, exceeding those, for .Sep tember a year ago by 97,284 bales, and re cording a gain over the similar month of 1885 of 131,16 1 bales. The amount of cotton marketed during September, 18,57, is thus seen lobe 318,400 bales more than in 1886, and 291,686 bales more than in 1885. Northern spinner ß had up to October 1 taken 147,216 bales, an increase over the correspond ing period in 188l> of 53,383 bales, and an increase over the same time in 1885 of 11..">15 bales. The movement during September of the present year is 389,531 bales more Ilian in ISStI, and 338,817 bales greater than in 1865. The movement up to October 1 shows a de crease in the average weight as compared with the same period in the last two years, the average this year being 493.48 lbs. per hale, against 502.04 lbs. per bale for the same time in 1886 ami 199.:. I lbs. in 1887?. • I nU’itititmieut at the position. The Piedmont exposition, it. appears, must suffer,withall groat shows, from rumors of extortion for entertainment. Fortunately wo are able to scotch this rumor definitely. Dr. Fox, at the head of the committee on public comfort, h is regis tered in his office over twenty two thousand lodgings. These arc mainly in private resi dences, the owners of which at repeated re quests have consented to take boarders dur ing t lie exposition. In only four houses is two dollars and fifty cents u day charged. In the other private houses the charge is two dollars a day. In boarding houses a dollar ami a half a day. In each case this includes board and lodging. Lodging alone is a dollar a night where one person takes a whole room, or titty cents a night where two or mote occupy a room. This is certainly eh. ap enough, and of the twenty-two thous and registered, none exceed this charge. This tact is guaranteed by the exposition, and will be vilified by application to the committee ot public comfort, of whii-li Dr. Fox is chainuun. Some criticism is made because yayiuent is demanded in advance. The justice of this demand is clear. A lady agrees to give four or five rooms to guests during the exposi tion, and puts those rooms in the commit tee's hands. she is notified that the rooms are engaged for three special days of the ex position. She accepts this as final and holds the timnis, no matter how many applicants : she may have. To make her safe, or protect her. the ' committee requires the persons who engage | these rooms to deposit payment in a.! I vame, but with this condition, that it the j parties vv ill notify the committee on or I < fore I October 10,that they will not need the rooms, I the money will be refunded without eo«t. j 4Ve do not see how the committee ceuhl do more. If they did not dem.iml an advance I di posit, mischievous or irresponsible persons ! might engage rooms by the hundred ami thus shut out real visitors am! di traudthe : ladles who have given the use of their houses to the < xpositiun. Any visitor in know by i the tenth whether or not l.e is coiniiu totlie. ' exposition, and if he amwums s by that date that he will not cotuc his money will he re . funded, tl.e r. .. ms he has rented released, to be OC« Upied by eflier people. | The comiuittee has an office at 2? Wall street, and will be on duty during the expo sition night ami day ready to furnish infor mation to gne: ts without any charge w hat ever. This committee receives no commis sion from any source,but is organized solely for the comfort and protection of visitors. Ami of the 22,060 lodgings registered on its list, but four of them cost $2.50 a day, but a few of them $2 a day, and the vast bulk of them $1.50 a day for board and lodging; or for lodging alone, $1 for an entire room, or fifty cents where more than one occupy the same room. These rates, wc repeat, are not only not extortionate, but they are cheaper than have ever been given to any great exposition, and vve defy contradiction of this fact. The fact that Chicago is making pure leaf lard out of genuine cotton seed oil shows that wc are in the midst ot and contiguous to a great people. Let the good work go on. Itcllw Thun Genius The late Governor Bartlett, of Califor nin, was a remarkably successful man. He did all that he ever attempted, either in bus iness or politics. lie died the possessor of a large, fortune, the governor of his adopted state, loved by many, trusted and honored by all who knew him. If a young man should study the life ami career of Washington Bartlett, he w ould find that he did not possess sonic of the qualities which are found in most of the men who seem to succeed. Ills best friends never considered him brilliant. He wasnot an orator. lie did not pretend to be a states man. He had none of the glittering gifts which dazzle the common gaze and kindle Hie admiration of the multitude. But he had something bi t ter than all these things. From his youth all through his career, and down to his honored old ago, he was ever honest and true. . His life was a long and absolute devotion to duly. He always pre ferred truth to suqi-i-ss in business or poli tics. He had a heart running over v> itli kindness. He built himself up by helping others. His genial nature and his sterling integrity won a firmer hold on the hearts of the people than any degree of intellectual power, or any grace of culture could have gained. Men believed in him and trusted him implicitly with great commercial and political responsibilities. It was said of him when he was nominated for governor that lie bad never shirked a responsibility or dodged a duty. The people knew that, these w ords were not an idle tribute to a party's candidate, but that tlmy were the true record of a faithful life. Such arc th" mi ii who give to society its stamina, to poli tics their purity, and to government its strength. They are the salt of the earth. Coni-cvniiig CenietericH. A paper read before tin- last meeting of tlie British Medical association makes some strong points against the present mode of disposing of our dead. A reviewer in sum marizing the article says: Itr. Williamson ba 1 witnessed the removal of the dead floin u qriiveyiml probably eighty years old. Ito declared Unit iivie.iqe British burying places were “masses of boxed iq> putridity," mid that the dead in them could not lie regarded as hurled at all. Some had been placed in rnetiil casket-*, some in oak, mahogany, rosewood or oilier collins made out of wood equally as durable under ground, mid that would last just ns long almost as the casket’ them selves. lairing alt this lime, years up >n year-, nox ions gnsi's were eonstantly i ciqinr to poison tlie air, while liquids were running out Unit were liable to find their way into coutiinionsstreams and welts. In opening graves that t’ndl evn closed for forty year’n vteneti arose wlitcli drove away the work men, and kept them away for a couple of days at a time. '1 be most dangerous graveyards of a’’, said T>r. Jeffreys, were tlie graveyards where tlierii.fi were buried. Here the eadiets most nbriii.il ■>!, or coffins madi ot'wis'd epuaily as imt" li-teil'le. Not. uni’u qiieidly a casket would be inelo cd in a box of ma hogany, and this box wared up iu a vault of ma hogany. No particle of eiuth was about it any w lieu to tlie gases and liquids, for it v.as nut burial at all. but simply tlie employment of much skill in the arrest, of decomposition and decay. Os course the remedy suggested was cre mation. To this, however, there arc seri ous objections. Some of the leading relig ious denominations are against it, ami the old-fashioned custom of burial appears to be preferred by the masses everywhere. In the course of time, when we begin to suffer from the evils of overpopulation the matter w ill assume a serious aspect, and it is more tliiiu probable that tin’ authorities will take hold of the question ami regulate it. .. —e A IT’hJh' ! Hemy. There is no longer any doubt about the evil tendencies, or topnt it more intelligibly, tlie destructivcne-s of tlie English sparrow. We have given this little foreigner a fair trial in this country, and Canada has treated him with equal kindness. From Cana<la the complaint, comes that this restless bird has destroyed twenty-live percent of tlie fruit crop. Keports from every state in the union make fully as disastrous a showing. AVe have ha>l English sparrows since ISSO. They have multiplied rapiilly and have spread all over the country. When they were first introduced it was the inipressioii tiiat they were insectivorous birds, but this was soon found to be a mistake. They are tlie enemies of other birds of the same class ami make war upon them. They destroy grapes and other fruit, blossoms and buds, ami the tender varieties of garden plants. Einee their increase they have proved them selves an unmitigated pest, and their annu al damage to our farmers amounts to mil lions of dollar-'. According to a recent gov ernment report, there is only one thing that tlie English -i.u row is fit for he is good to eat, ami Hi" sooner we proceed to utilize him in this way the better it will be for tto, This is perhaps tlie only solution of the problem, it vve cannot get rid of ottrenemy in any other way. we cun eat him. <» - MU|ihi'«*«l Sympathy. The movement in behalf of the condemned Chicago anarchists appears to be reaching eon-id’" T' ■ t vol- tiott-’. Not only in this country, but in Europe, an active effort is being made to secure the commutation of the sentences of the doomed men. Feriiaps sympathy was never wasted upon a viler let of mmderotto ent-throats. The cold-bho.led te:< .ity of the Hay mark’ma-’.'- iv > xcited a thrill of hot'rer throughout the civilized wet’d. I’he affair wasd ’liber.itely planned, ami it tlie anarcliists had not t.i n cheeked in their bloody career th- y would doubth -- I’.axe imuignrated a eartiiv.il of wheh-aii: murder. If these men h.‘d even the p.w.r . xev.«e ~f hot blood or sudden iinpu)--' one might be dtoiK>.-> <1 to pity them. Bt” tin . wi r< cold and calculating in their nu thed-. as: 1 -| nt months and y< .ns in biinging their plot to its final outcome, bi their i.i-e the only luetvy to to' thought of is the men y tlwrt is due to scc ety. I'he instincts vs »< li-prese.-- vation tb’mand the execution of these dan gerous public enemies. No greater mistake ' could be made than to extend clem< ncy to ' th"se men, and no patriotic and thoughtful citizen w ill sign a petition in their behalf. 'l'he law should take its course, and the sooner the hangman discharges his duty’, the belter it will lie for the community. — "" 11 Not a Candidate on Wheels. The esteemed New York Suu has a spark ling editorial headed “Danger of a Candi date on AVheels.” The Sun’s sparkling editorial refers to Mr. Cleveland’s trip to Atlanta, and we are of the opinion that Editor Dana not only does injustice to the distinguished tourist, but to himself, also. It is a mistake, for instancy for Editor 1 Dana to suppose that Mr. Cleveland is traveling as a candidate. He has no need to do that; he knows, and everybody knows, that he will be the candidate of the demo cratic party whether he wants to be or not. Mr. Cleveland is traveling as president of the United States, and, as the president, he is the guest of the whole country. There is another fact that Editor Dana ought to take into consideration, namely: i that the president is merely engaged in pass- i ing through the western towns on his way ; to the great Piedmont exposition. But for his engagement, made months ago with one of the editors of Tub Constitution, he would not now be placed in the attitude of j a tourist; nor would the Sun have the su- i preme satisfaction of discussing him as “a ' candidate on wheels.” The history of Mr. Cleveland's tour be- ' gins with the announcement, of his promise to visit Atlanta. As soon as the fact became : known that he would visit the metropolis of : the south, he was besieged by invitations J from towns all over the country. St. Louis j begged him, Chicago importuned, and the | result is his present tour. If he had refused the courteous and cordial invitations of these and other municipalities, he would have been voted a surly president—and he is anything but that. AVe think wc may assure the Sun, also, i that he is not particularly troubled about ! speeches lie is called upon to make. Only ! a political fakir would be troubled about sireh things as these. An honest man is sure I of himself before any crowd, and he is sure of the crowd also, for honesty and sincerity >;U’ry with them their own stamps and trade marks. They cannot be counterfeited, i These are Mr. Cleveland’s strength—his honestyq his s implicity and his sincerity. Not all the cranks, nor all the Burchards in the country could affect his candidacy before the people. — _ « Signs and Symptoms. It is curious how the mind wanders when it is turned loose in tlie woods. The other day something was said in these columns about a mocking-bird toying with a flake of golden-rod. This was undoubtedly the product of a mind taking a half-holiday. It is the dandelion that gives its dainty plumes to Hie wind. But what is the differ ence, after all? AVhen the midday sun, shorn of the fiery glare that gives distinction to Iho dog-days, begins to throw your sha dow northward instead of dumping it in a little heap at your feet —when the buzzards fly high and the air is serene—nobody cares whether the golden-rod has plumes or no, A bare-footed boy, sunning himself in the warm grass, and eating ehinquepins, is about as good a sign of the season as the wayfarer needs to have. It may not be an invigorating sign, but it is an unfailing one. The commonplace is terribly mixed up w ith the poetical in this life. There is a robust ness about that not even the most fanciful i can afford to ignore. To see a ground squirrel flitting to his burrow with an acorn iu his mouth is a very pretty' symptom of tlie change, from summer to fall, but it is not a more certain symptom than the spec tacle of a group of children waddling along in the road with their faces and their frocks smeared with ripe persimmons. To our minds, the last symptom is much thi’ jucier of the two, belonging as it does to the mixed and multitudinous phenomena that result from the amalgamation of art h s mess and appetite. The symptoms of change ot which vve have been speaking are not to be seen in the city, to be sure. Brick walls and paved streets are deaf and dumb. The citizen knows it is summer when he feels uncomfortable and sees the soda-water i fountains in lull blast; he knows it is fall when cold chills begin to run up his back and the restaurants hang out their fly-blown oyster signs; and he. knows it is winter when the coal dealer’s collector begins to pursue him. But this is the extent of his knowledge. Stove-pipes, grates, brick walls, rickety pavements and the puffing of locomotives are not very close to nature; but in Atlanta they’ are closer than some people suspect, for one has only’ to walk an hour in any direction to find himself in the very heart of nature, so to speak. Once there, the blindest citizen can find all the signs for himself, and he will be accounted a worthy ; discoverer. Tlie Itevival of an Old Business. A century or so ago highwaymen flour ished everywhere iu Europe and America. The progress of civilization, the changed i methods of traveling and various other I things finally made it inconvenient and unprofitable for the knights of tlie road to pursue their calling, and they disappeared from the stage, inttch to the satisfaction of 1 tourists and the public generally. AVithiu the past year or two, however, a new set of highwaymen have made their appearance in some of the western and southwestern states, and their boldness and the extent of their operations make them i worthy successors of the Duvals and Tur pins of the olden time. In Texas it is no very unusual thing for a train load of pas sengers to be robbed by a few determined men, and it seems to be a settled fact that i i one stalw art desperado is more than a match j for an ordinary stage. A few nights ago i the Ballinger and B.«n Angelo stage was halted in a lonely place by a solitary bandit, who presented two revolvers to the driver’s ' f ,ee. The passengers w. re ordered out ' end compel!’d to stand in a iciv with their l hands up. The robber furnished each of | his victims with a cap. and ordered them to ;sill it down over tin ir eyes. It was then the work of only a f“W minut s to go ' through the party and ritle the mail sacks. ’ After all was over the highwayman walked ; off. • ir.g six wrath’• 1 travi-b r- -tending , iu the road afraid to move. 1’ may be that the pres tit mode of id- , I ministering justice in Texas has no terror* ■ tor the daring outlaws who have taken to , the road for a livelihood. In the old day’s, I ! when lynch law prevailed, horse thieves and 1 road agents knew what to expect, and they ■ did not care to take the risk. Os course lynch law is a very bad thing, but if travel in Texas cannot be made safe without re sorting to the old-fashioned safeguards, it is pretty certain that the return to them for a time at least. If the high wayman cannot be suppressed by ordinary methods, then something extraordinary hsould be tried. “• * An Infamous law. The Richmond Dispatch truly says that the storm of opposition to the internal reve nue system only lulls for the purpose of 1 gathering force, and then it proceeds to quote from the Asheville Citizen, which says: “There is something present, tangible, terrible, offensive in the internal revenue system. It comes home to every individual; it invades all promises: it pries Into all business; it lays its hands on every enterprise; it thrusts that hand into • very; o :ket; it j walks abroad ae the familiar friend and discloses it self as the treacherous and when its dis guise is thrown off it vaunts itself as the insolent bully and disports itself as the hatclul tyrant." To which it adds; "The system is not American; it is not manly; it | is not tolerable. It does not belong to the da’s of ’ peace and liberty. It bears upin it tlie smell of ■ carnage and the hiteful brutulism of conquest. It throws the chain of slavery upon the freeman and 1 o.vs in humiliation tlio head of him whose eye should never blench before an equal.” There is nothing to be added to this. The i law is infamous because its operations are I infamous. o A Helpless State. Unless the people of lowa show the dis position and the capacity to maintain some ; thing like local self-government it is more than likely that an appeal will be made to ’ congress for help. If we are to believe all that wc hear lowa is in a bad way. Only a few weeks ago the 1 complaint was made that a gang of detec tives had run rough-shod over the citizens, and had searched private houses without a warrant, at the same time murderously Beat i ing the citizens who protested against such ian invasion of their rights. This was bad I enough, but now it is stated that a British ’ syndicate, in possession of a large tract of I land in western lowa, has commenced I evicting the original settlers because their titles arc in dispute. A settler writes: "Women of over sixty years of age, siek in bed, have been taken by six men and carried out into the driving storm. Delicate women have had their hands tied with cords until their flesh was bruised, and then dragged shrieking from their homes. CliHdren have been born prematurely nt sight of (lie band of evi-tors. Strong men have been run down by ruffians on horseback and then handcuffed and driven fom their little possessions. I might go on and multiply Instances where tlie sheriff, with a writ of ejectment in one hand an I a British con tract iu the other, gave these poor people their choice between these two evffs, which they would take. Affidavits of the cruelties practiced are being collected, says this writer, for use at AVashington next winter, and will be read in both houses of con gress. Tliey are expected to create a sensation when tlie people of the east are brought fully to realize what tlie native American pioneers are suffering at tlie hands of the invaders.” Iu view of this state of facts it would ap pear that the liberty of the citizen is a mean ingless phrase iu lowa. The un fortunate citizens ofthat state seem tohave no riglpts that anybody is bound to respect, and worse than all, they show a lamentable lack of independ ence and courage. Perhaps the picture is overdrawn. If it is not, it will soon be in order for the general government to inter fere and establish the republican form of government guaranteed to each state by the federal constitution. _ _ Undaunted Ohio Republicans. Until the last legislature of Ohio repealed the law, the white and colored children of Ohio attended separate schools. The col ored schools were as good as the white, and there was no sort of friction. In a great many colored schools, the colored children were taught by competent colored teachers. Now all this is changed. The negro chil dren have deserted their schools and are ap plying for admission to the white schools. We have already printed some of the facts set forth in Editor Halstead’s republi can newspaper, but incidents continue to i arise. Thus, for instance, at Yellow Springs, in (thio, which contains six churches, a normal school and a college, and which is in a county that easts 4,579 repub lican votes to 2,252 democratic, there is a ti’i’rible state of affairs. AA T e will let the New York Evening Post, which is always i accurate, tell the story: t ii’ler the new statute tlie colored children are : expressly given the right to attend the white sehcols, but when t ic time for opening the schools e. in; last month, (lie school tioard refused to aihiii them. About fifty colored children presented them selves for instruction on the opening day, but the teachers would not receive them, mid in view of tlie popular excitement, the school board closed tlie schools temporarily. Meanwhile tlie colored citi zens employed counsel, who a vincl them of the well-understood fact that there was uo possible doubt of their legal right to send their children to the white schools. On Wednesday lad the schcols icoi>encd, and the colored children again applied for admission, and they were again iefu-e<l tlie right to get au education, the school board sustain ing the teachers in tins nullification of tlie law. i The colored citizen- propose to 1 ring a suit and see i if they cannot get their rights. I Here is a very unhappy state of affairs in deed. AA’liat does Editor Halstead propose I to do about it ? 1 lie untamed Ohio repub- lican appears to be about as hard to handle j ! and to hold as the vt tld southern ku-klux. ■ Atlanta's Illustrious Guvst. | Today Atlanta will receive, and tomorrow* will welcome as her guest, the American ' I statesman who stands in public estimation ; second only to President Cleveland—the ■ lion. Samuel J. Kandah, of Pennsylvania. To the south, Mr. Randall is especially dear. He has been her friend—watchful, ■ dauntless, iwwcrful —even when it meant ! political ostracism to speak a word in her I behalf. Political history does not show the , equal of the scene in the house when a niad : dened majority sought to put the infamous force bill en the south, and Mr. Randall ■ stood almost alone, fencing, battling, tight , ing for us—through the day and through the night, his marble face impassive and his great heart unquailing—until the majority was beaten, the bill abandoned and the south saved from a worse fate than lr< land is now threatened with. Never before stood one man so bravely before a host—not even when Horatio died upon the bridge. Beyond this—but not better than this Mr. Randall is the b- ’t type of the Ameri can statesman. No man better compre hends w».hin himself, the genius of this re- I public. His very pov.qty honors hilu, and ’ stands proof of his Intern tty. Bis courage, i his frankness, his dev-'tion—th< se are the j I best qualities of the government his services 1 have honored. Dear to us especially, he is dear to every’ man who honors America and j American institutions! Let Atlanta give him a royal welcome to-' morrow when he starts the machinery of our great exposition, and tells us of its sig nificance and its possibilities. The Visit of President and Mrs. Clevet and The reception and entertainment of Presi dent and Mrs. Cleveland, at Atlanta, during the Piedmont exposition, will be a series of events memorable forever to those who wit ness them. For the first time a democratic president! will set foot on Georgia soil. Additional) interest is given to this, by the fact that it ig the man who led the democratic party Irons twenty-five years of defeat into glorious victory, and who restored the south to the con fidence of the natiom and to their full rights j and partnership in the union. . President Cleveland does not pay us A formal pop-call. He comes in the old-fashioned' democratic way, bringing his wife and friends with him, and staying with us three nights and two days. He gives Atlanta more limo than any’ city on his entire route, because he is anxious to meet our people, study our re sources, and know something from personal observation of our folks and the wonderful riches of our Piedmont region. Ho especially wants to meet the people face to face and will' be accessible the whole time of his visit. Every visitor who wishes to do so can reasonably count on shaking his hand and giving him a word of welcome. The scenes attending the president’s re ception and entertainment will be superb and splendid. The illumination of Kennesaw mountain, with artillery on its heights, and S flight of live thousand rockets from its crest by electric match, will boa sight never seen be fore. The sham battle, covering seventy aeres> with four batteries of artillery, ten companies of cavalry and thousands of foot soldiers, will bo an incomparable spectacle. The torchlight procession of ten thousand young democrats iu line, with the whole city illuminated, and the air full of color and will.be nspiring. The exposition itself will bd' an enormous show, full of interest and itstruc-' tion. Now let us make the president’s visit hero the significant and overwhelming feature of his entire tour. Let us show him the. south! at her best, and let him know that the people love him and honor him. It is because he wants to know the south better that lie gives Atlanta more time than any other city on his route. AVhen ho stands up to speak to ns/ let him look into tlie faces of more southerners than any man, living or dead, has ever seen assembled. EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT. Atlanta is now having a succession oi decoration days. Califounia’s boom is said io be collapsing. Georgia is tlie California of the future. A Trcx vs gboceb has been killed for pre senting a bill to a man. This is, indeed, a ter rible warning. Sarah Bernhardt is still getting advertis ing in guy Paree. It she was in Atlanta now> she could be utilized as a transparency. According to some Dakota papers, that territory has a population of three-quarters of a million. Ananias was the original Dakota, editor. Detroit Free Press : There may be some question yet about the, ForaKer snub, but there can bo mine as to ■ Im snub administered at St'. Louis to Fairojiild and Tuttle. Mobile Register : The tendency through out the south is very strongly against whisky. We have been setting our face against the whisky flask many years and now we intend to put whisky down. Kansas City Times: A photographer has succeeded iu taking an instantaneous picture of the flight of a curved ball thrown by a §lO,- 000 pitcher. It is said to a procession of inebriated cork-screws. Providence Sunday Telegram: The talk about race prejudice and race hatred in Geor-’ gia has been silenced by the worst cases of the same sort of feeling and in tlio republican states of Ohio and Kansas. Phil A bmour pays a doctor §IO,OOO a year to. feel of his pulse. Jay Gould gave a doctor' $5,000 to rub his head. The rich have all the luxuries. Governor Hill has a finer house in Albany than President Cleveland has in Washington? Both of these gentlemen will continue to occupy their present quarters for several years' to come. Kansas sent more troops to the union army than any other state, according to its population, There were several southern states contributed to the confederate e.rmy a still larger per cent i of their male population than Kansas gave to the federal anny. Bob Ingersoll grows maudlin over the fate of the Chicago anarchists, and advertised himself as tho most sympatlietic of men. It' seems to us that the tender-hearted colonel Would put his valuable sympathy to a better use if he bestowed it < n the widows and chil dren of tho brave policemen wiio were mur dered by his poor dear anarchists. One of the republican issues in the local campaign in Ohio this year is the abolition of the fee system of paying county officers. The Cleveland Leader (rep.) explains that in the county where it is published (Cuyahoga) mord than §50,000 a year “would be saved to the county by ttiis change, ami at tho same time remove the temptation now offered to spend large sums of money on elections.” An lowa railroad engineer went mad in his cab Wednesday night, and, had it not been i for a quick-witted and courageous fireman, i would probably have wrecked his train and ! killed many passengers. Occurrences of this < nature serve to show how much depends upon i a locomotive driver. 1 George Francis Train’s crankisin is not objectionable while it continues to amuse the great public. But now that it squints towards anarchy it is a very different matter. Mr. ; Train has served one term in jail. Perhaps 1 another would make him a model citizen. It was the marquis of Aylesbury’s britality ; as much as anything else that caused him to be i ruled out of English society. The fellow WaS carousing witli a party of drunken women I when lie heard of his grandfather’s death, Tinning to his companions, ho exclaimed; . “Hurrah! Do von hear that, girls? I’m a ' bloody marquis:’’ Cmaha Bee: American consuls furnisl* ' much gratifying information regarding the progress wliii h the manufactured pr lucts of the I. uited States are making in foreign mar : kets. Tills is esjiecially noticeable in thd i manutactun’s of steel, which are everywhere ' entering into sttccessfu competition with tho ; Engli.li product. In Australia and Ne v Zea land American hoc-and siioxeis and axes and. ■ other implements of the sort have almost en tirely supplanted tho.-e ot English manufac ture. Pittsburg steel |>a become so excellatitf that it is being s night after in Europe. I. ,-r Sunday Ki.v. Jo-eph Parker, o? London, preached Iris first sermon in this country during iris pre,, nt visit. He ... ’upiecl Plymouth puipit and piv-.u-lied from tlio text ‘Hi isTpit hero, but it-» n.” His sermon was j alm■ sp imen of ri.etoiic delivered with dra mat;. force. Due of Iris most striking remarks “77ie day will come when he will be t- t. emed tin- gie a. st minister of Christ on ’.irtli. the greatest and truest preacher of the • Christ .ii church wlio keeps us on‘bread and I w.it.i. " A great congregation listened at t ntivcly to Dr. I’a.r, but there was a gen eral s. -e disappointment. “Not likff l Itoeoh. tl.e p.-..p e .Jas they went home.- i If th > Plymouth cnureli folks are looking for preacher like BeecLur they might as well. I stop.