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Itussla and Austria.
It may be true that Russia is massing
troops on the Austrian frontier. It is quite
likely, too, that the Austrian emperor has |
field n council of war.
Taking it for granted that the cablegrams
reporting these war-like movements state
nothing but the facts, it by no means fol
lows that there will be war. Austria has
Germany and Italy at her back. Russia
Btands alone. .She cannot ew>ect to form
an alliance with republican France. Eng
land is watching her in Afghanistan, and is
her deadly enemy.
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enough. Possibly the czar ami Bismarck
have had some rough words. The czar
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«m n should snarl at each other j s perfectly
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tion of worrying the iron chancellor 1 y pitch
ing into Austria.
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Austrian frontier will aimplv r<--.ilt in t).
Btreogthening of the Austrian defenses and
tlie mar-haling of troops on that side. T1 .•
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• Europe. The king of France who marched
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V» here Justice is silent.
The acquittal of John Arensdorf, one of
i tin- as sins of the R. v. George C. Had
dock, al Sioux City, lowa, is a public
calamity.
Haddock was an active prohibitionist.
He sj>oke for prohibition, and hunted
down violators of the taw, and took a hand
in their punishment. The brewers and the
liquor men regarded him as their most
dangerous foe. Finally Haddock was as
sassinated, and an overwhelming amount of
evidence was brought forward to prove
that Arensdorf was one of the guilty par
ties, and probably tlic most culpable of all.
When the case came to trial the prohibi
tionists of the state spared no pains to se
cure a conviction. They were met, how
ever, by a defense so tierce, bitter and un
scrupulous, that the jury seemed to be
borne down and crushed by it. Arens
dorf s law yer boldly attacked the witnesses
for the prosecution as a gang of perjurers.
He charged the lawyers for the prosecution
with being conspirators. He denounced all
prohibitionists as fanatics, and accused
them of injuring Sioux City by their meth
ods. Then lie turned his attention to the
murdered man, and denounced him as “a
crazy fanatic,” “an armed, disguised,
prowling midnight spy and informer.” For
six hours he poured forth such a torrent of
vituperation as had never been heard in the
court house, lie wound up by saying that
"the brutal fanaticism of Haddock had
profaned the temple of justice, and the
rotten canker of his fanatical spite had
threatened the libvrtiesof the people.”
Against tliis deluge of fiery speech the
mild arguments of the prohibition lawyers
seemed tame and common place. The peo
ple in the court room bowled and applauded
Arensdorf. lawyer, and when at la-t the
judge's charge came it seemed like the pat
tering ot a few rain drops after a hurricane.
In spite of the law and the facts, the agi
tated jury returned a verdict of acquittal.
The western press and the public opinion
of that legion pronounce this verdict a dis
grace to Sioux City. It is a lamentable In
. di .ition of the tendencies of partisan
I strife. In a court of justice the question of
| prohibition or anti-prohibition should have
j no bearing on the black crime of murder.
Perhaps this is the only ease of the kind
I that has < ver occurred in this country. All
I giod citizens will pravthat it will be the
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‘ The Birmingham Age, of Sunday, has a
' shut editorial addie s to Congress ’ that is
; worth censi b ring. < ur contemporary takes
i for its text a n'.tle in i lent that has already
been reported in oar news columns innie-
ly. tho killing of Giora- Kirk iu DeKalb
county. A1..., by th- revenn- otlleers.
„ti; -th,- parti.-.d us.ifthiskilling,which
we need n t it 1 ta; lieie, our cetitcmporary
jbv .V:v d. * : tk” n ri! <* it > -ir in xw
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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 20.1887,
that the officer of the law was Justifiable tn killing
this man, an I we have uq testimony to show that he
was not, is it not somew hat hurtfiti to the retie of
Justice of every one of you that n system of taxation
should 1 ■ upiielJ in this land of liberty that makes
such r.n <K-currcn< e as the above possible; and, that,
under your democratic adnilnl .tiaticnof thegoveiu
rncut?
But this Is only one of very many fsimilnr cases
where death has resulted either to citizens of the
state or to officers of the law. The records of the
federal courts ore fill d with incidents of injustice
and oppression resulting from the attempt to collect
the internal revenue taxes.
Ixrt us give you an example. An ex-revenue col
lector, several years ugo, bought a few twists of
homv-niade tobacco from an old negro man, and at
once gave inf irnintlon to ft United States deputy,
who arrested tho old man, carried him fifty miles
I away to Huntsville and had him lodged in jail,
where be remained some weeks, until the sitting of
i federal court. The cos - was such a trifle and unjust
one that tlic negro was discharged without a trial,
w bat an unjust law it was to deprive a laborer of tho
right to sell tlic fruits of his own toil?
This is, indeed, the gist of the whole
matter —its pith and marrow. The Consti
tution has frequently called on the honor
able body to which the Age appeals to take
this subject into consideration. The same
honorable body has been appealed to on
various occasions by so respectable a com
munity as the people of Georgia, through
their representatives in the legislature, anil
by other states; and quite recently the state
of Virginia, through its legislature, has
uttered a simitar petition. But to these
urgent jietitions, the members of congress
have hitherto turned a deaf ear.
Gentlemen of congress, you talk about
revenue reduction and tariff reform, but
here is a system of taxation —and unneces
sary taxation at that—which lias wrought
murder and bloodshed. Here is a system of
unnecessary taxation which has commis
sioned an army of spies and informers. Here
is a system of taxation which has broken up
happy homes; which has caused innocent
men to be dragged hundreds of miles from
their families, to die in the loathsome jails
provided for criminals in our country. Now-,
what is to be done about it?
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Congressional Biographies,
The compiler of the “Congressional Di
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He requires the congressmen to furnish
their own biographies, and then he prunes
them down.
S.mie of the sketches sent in by our
statesmen would make rich reading, and it
is a pity that the compiler of the “Direc
tory” feels in duty bound to consign so
much of tliis matter to the waste basket.
An Arkansas congressman furnished the
compiler with enough copy to till a half a
dozen printed pages. He related several
stories of Lis coon hunting adventures, in
troduced a spring poem written by his son,
mentioned tl.e names of the two young men
who were courting his daughter, “Pink,”
an# gave a full description of his wife and
children. Another southeir congressman
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Georgia. Os course the compiler had to
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an account of two fights in which he had
killed a couple of men. An lowan sent in
his biography in verse. One congressman
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brother congressmen not to think hard of
him.
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Great Yield* of Cotton and Corn.
We print this week the list of awards
in the third annual contest for premiums
offered by George W. Scott <fc Co. These
premiums are for the best five acres in cot
ton, the best single acre in cotton, and the
best single acre in corn—all to be fertilized
witli Gossypium Phospho.
The awards show that Mr. Robert G.
Ray, of Douglas county, raised 9,688 pounds
of cotton on five acres; George W. Truitt,
of LaGrange, 8,666; and Mr. J. T. Wyatt,
of Jasper county, 6,050. On a single acre,
Mr. James W. Mason, of Palmetto, raised
,2,677 pounds; Mr. R. G. Ray, 2,556; Mr.
George W. Truitt, 2,087; Mr. J. 11. Wid
ner, of Coweta county, 1,775: and Mrs.
Smallprice, of Sumter county, lj’>2. Mr.
Mason and Mr. Ray took over five bal<% of
five hundred pounds each from a single
acre.
Now, what does this mean?
Mr. Ray raised twenty bales of cotton of
five hundred pounds each on five acres.
Tin average throughout Georgia last year
was one bale to three acres, so that the
average Georgia farmer occupied sixty acres
with a crop to get what Mr. Ray took from
live acres. The average farmer had to plow,
plant and cultivate sixty acres, while Mr.
Ray cultii ated five acres and got the same
amount of cotton. He [used fifty-one hun
dred pounds of fertilizer on the live acres
which cost him seventy dollars. The cot
ton yielded him s'.'7o. Not only was he
saved the labor of cultivating fifty-five sur
plus acres, but those acres were either lying
fallow, or wer eput down in grass or ether
crops. Mr. Truitt, who tills year took
i igiJ.cn bales of five liundr. il pounds each
froui five acres, is cultivating lihs land than
he cultivated five years azo. He got more
cotton from it this year than ever before,
and lias three hundred tons of hay for sale
besides.
These farmers have reduced tlielr cotton
acreage from sixty acres to five, and have
put the other fifty-tlve acres into other
crops. Tliis it seems to us is the secret of
hiiccoMful firn inL”
■ These yields arc’ not exceptional. Last
year Mr. Sims made 10,857 pounds on five
acres; Mr. Kay, W.B6U; Mr. Pyron, 10,71x1;
Mr. Truitt, s.s3J. These four cont« stants
were iu separate counties. Vu a single acre
Mr. Truitt made 2,191; Mr. Hudgins, of
DeKalb, 1,898; Mr. Pascal, 1,701; Mr.
Thompson, 1,683 pounds. Each of these
gentlemen lived in different counties, but
tlie same process of cultivation produced
the same approximate results. Tlic year
before tlie yields for these prizes were about
tlie same. Every yield is attested by the
closest affidavits and inspection.
The yield of corn is equally astonishing.
Mr. J. T. Mann, of Palmetto, gathered
1971 bushels of corn from one acre, and Mr.
J. J. Millions, of Coweta county, 174
85-100 bushels from one acre; Mr. Truitt,
156 bushels; Mr. Clay, of Paulding, 109
bushels; Mr. J. IL Widner, of Coweta, 106
bushels. Tlie highest yield of corn ever
gathered from an acre, we believe, was 210
bushels. Mr. Mann’s yield from a Georgia
farm comes within twelve and a half bushels
of the highest yield ever made.
These things show what can be done on
Georgia soil ant! by Georgia farmers. Colonel
Scott estimates that there are two or three
thousand farmers throughout the south
farming on this plan, though from one rea
son or another they are discouraged from
entering into the contest. He has prizes
offered in Alabama and South Carolina.
We shall look with interest for the reports
from those states, to see whether they sur
pass Georgia in the excellence of their
farmers and the fertility of their soil. In
any event, these reports show that the south
is the best section of this country, and that
industry and intelligence will produce re
sults here on the farm that cannot be
equaled elsewhere.
It will be seen that the results achieved
in Alabama and South Carolina are very
much lower than in Georgia, though in Ala
bama one farmer conics very near the top
with 2,391 pounds of lint cotton to the acre.
It was expected that tlie returns from each
of the adjoining states would fall below the
return of Georgia, for the reason that the
system of intensive farming taught by this
competition is tried for the second time this
year in those states, while it is the fourth
year of contest in Georgia. Alabama and
South Carolina will come up in next year’s
contest, and Georgia will have to look to her
laurels. We emphasize the fact that the re
turns from either one of the three states,
and especially from the three states com
bined, show that farming in the south when
properly done is a profitable business, and
that in fertility our soils when properly
treated equal the best soils of the north or
west.
c
An American Borgia*
The trial of Mrs. Sarah Robinson, now in
progress at Cambridge, Mass., will rank
among the most celebrated cases of the pres
ent generation.
Mrs. Robinson is charged with fatally poi
soning at least eight members of her family.
Sometime in 1886 Mrs. Robinson’s son Wil
liam died. As his life was insured for
$2,000, and the circumstances of his death
were suspicious, the doctors looked into the
matter and camo to the conclusion that the
young man had been poisoned. Upon fur
ther investigation it was found that within
five years eight persons had died in Mrs.
Robinson’s liouso of arsenical poisoning.
They were: Oliver Sleeper, seventy-two
years old, who died August 19, 1881; her
husband, Moses Robinson, Jr., forty-five
years old, who died July 23, 1882; Emma
M. Robinson, a daughter of ten years, who
died September 6, 1884; Elizabeth B. Free
man, a niece, aged one year, who died April
15, 1885; Prince A. Freeman, aged thirty
three, a brother-in-law, who died June 27,
1885; Elizabeth A. Robinson, a daughter of
twenty-four years, who died February 22,
1886; Thomas A. Freeman, seven years old,
a nephew, who died July 23,1886; and Mrs.
Freeman, wife of Prince A. and a sister of
Mrs. Robinson, who died while under Mrs.
Robinson’s care in South Boston in 1884.
In every instance the victims had money,
and Mrs. Robinson was the only person who
could profit by their death. Tlie prosecu
tion, however, will have a hard time in prov
ing her guilt, as the evidence is all circum
stantial.
The poisoner is a middle-aged woman,
decidedly good-looking, with keen black
eyes and a determined face. She has always
been an active church member, and at the
time of her arrest was attending a prayer
meeting. Her bearing at the opening of
the trial was self-possessed and defiant.
She has not taken her lawyers into her con
fidence, and apparently relies upon the
weakness of tlie prosecution rather than
upon any testimony of her own.
There is little doubt of this woman’s
guilt, but she went about her murderous
work so cunningly and with such a clear
head that she managed to cover up her trail
very successfully. Her acquittal, under the
circumstances, will not be regarded by her
neighbors as a vindication.
*
When the Virginia legislature instructs
its senators and requests its representatives
to vote for the repeal of the infamous inter
nal revenue taws, it gives voice to the public
sentiment.
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Bare Prejudice in Ohio.
In the little town of Oxford, in tho great
republican state of Ohio, the people are in
quite a stew over the question of the co-edu
cation of the races. They have been in
this stew for some time, but it is worse
now than ever, and there is every reason to
believe that the contest will end in a row
which will not be very dear to the heart of
Editor Murat Halstead and other profes
sional wavers of the bloody shirt.
We have already given an account of the
troubles in Oxford over the attempt of the
negroes to send their children to the white
schools. The school board of Oxford as
signed the colored children back to their
own schools. Then followed a suit brought
by a negro named Perry Gibson, in the cir
cuit court. The court decided that Gib
son’s children had a right to attend the
white school. Since this decision the pros
perous little republican town of Oxford has
been, in a manner, torn up. The white
people are loud in their expressions of dis
gust at the verdict of tlie court, and against
every measure looking in any way toward
the establishment of a mixed school.
Gibson, the colored man, was advised by
his attorneys to send his children to the
white school at once. The superintendent
of the schools declined to receive the negro
children. He was advised not to admit
them as the case had not been put on rec
ord. Meanwhile, the case will be taken to
the supreme court.
What is to be the result of this controversy
in the republican town of Oxford, in the
great republican state of Ohio? The white
citizens propose to boycott the entire col
ored population. A prominent merchant
and a member />f the board of education
has discharged ail the negroes in his em
ploy, and will not give them work of any
kind. A systematic boycott is in contem
plation, and it is thought that seventy-five
per cent of the white population will par
ticipate in it, showing that prejudice
against the negro race is as broad and as
deep as it is in the south.
It is to be hoped that when Halstead and
John Sherman begin to wave the bloody
shirt they will shake it a little for the ben
efit of Ohio.
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A 18650,C00 Farm and Ils Head.
Our staff correspondent this week des
cribes “Belle Meade,” the historic breeding
farm of General W. 11. Jackson. Besides
being the home of “Iroquois,” the only
American winner of tlie Englisli Derby, it
was the home of “Bonny Scotland,” who
sired such horses as Bramble, Luke Black
burn, and a swarm of “B—s” that in 1882
put the old stallion at the head of winning
sires in America. One of the spring sales
of this farm showed higher average price for
yearlings than any sale ever Held, except at
the Queen’s breeding farm in England.
Over forty yearlings sold at Belle Meade for
an average of $1,046 [each, and at the
Queen’s farm thirty odd sold for $1,112
average. The French government sent out
a commission of experts to study the horse
breeding farms of the world, and it reported
“Belle Meade” the most perfect farm they
had visited.
Next week we shall print a full sketch of
the best Jersey farm in the country—that of
Major Campbell Brown, at Spring Hill,
Tenn. General Jackson this week says he
does not believe in the system of small
farms. He sticks to the old plantation
idea —Major Brown, on the other hand,
does not believe in the old plantation sys
tem, and does believe in small farms. His
views on this point next week will be very
interesting. Our sketches of the big farms
of the country will be a special feature of
The Constitution next year. Next week
the great Jersey farm of Major Campbell
Brown.
Os Interest to Fx-Coiifederatos.
The bill introduced by Senator Gibson to
make ex-confederate soldiers eligible to po
sitions in the federal army and navy ought
to become a law.
The civil war ended nearly a quarter
of a century ago. Southerners who
fought under their flag have been called to
some of the most responsible civil positions
under the government. They have been
considered worthy of places on tlie bench
and in the cabinet. They are not barred
out from even the highest offices in the gift
of the nation. But the absurd and unjust
law which prohibits their appointment to po
sitions in the army and navy has remained
on the statute books unrepealed, year after
year.
It is time to wipe out this last vestige of
sectional and partisan hatred. If an ex
confederate is good enough for the civil ser
vice of our government he is good enough
for its military service, and in tlie event of
a foreign war he would prove himself a
brave and efficient defender of the nation's
honor and security. There is no other way
of looking at the matter.
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A Happy Convict.
Banker Harper, although a convict, is a
happy man. No hard tabor for him. Not
a bit of it!
He has been made the clerk of the secre
tary of the Ohio penitentiary. He will
have a light and agreeable occupation, and
pleasant companionship. He will be spared
many things that remind other convicts of
their degradation.
But Harper has another reason for feeling
well satisfied. He now lias more money
than he ever had before in his whole busi
ness career. Let us see. His loss in the
wheat deal was $1,260,000, but the loss of
the Fidelity bank was $4,400,000. Where
is all tliis money? A good deal of it was
doubtless wasted in Harper's high pres
sure, fictitious way of doing business, but
it is thought that at least two millions have
beiii safely concealed.
The career of this man shows what a
bright, unscrupulous speculator can do in
this country. Harper had little or no edu
cation, but he had a pleasant address, plenty
of self-confidence, and he had the art of
convincing people that their fortunes were
made if they would trust h in with lheli
money. Selling sewing machines on com
mission was a small business for such n
man. He borrowed money, and then but
rowed more, to reimburse hi. creditors. He
became a banker, made false entries In Uia
books, declared fictitious dividends, and
pulled the wool over the eyes of
He had been guilty of acts that would have
ruined any ordinary man long before ha
opened his bank, but he made such golde®
promises that people, listened to him, anS
not less than seven hundred banks authow!
ized him to transact business with theia
and for them. f
The wreck of the Fidelity was not en4>
tirely the result of the disastrous wheat,
deal. It was bound to come anyhow, and:
so far as the seven hundred banks are coms
cerned it is all right. They knew that theW
were dealing with an unprincipled sharper-i
and each of the little banks, with the little-
Shylock at its head, fancied that it was ei&
joying special privileges. r
But Harper has saved a pile of money)
out of the wreck. It is somewhere, and)
when he comes out of prison he is going tsi
enjoy it. If he serves his ten years he wiUl
not be an old man at the expiration of than
time. Os course he expects to have thd;
time shortened, or to be pardoned. An®
the expectation is not extravagant. Sue®
a man always has influential friends, andj
they will spare no pains to aid him. The
millionaire convict’s Christmas may not be’
a merry one, but it will not be altogether
wretched.
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EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.
Bismarck stirred up all Europe the other
day by having an attack of the colic.
Tom Woolfolk will eat his Christmas
dinner in Atlanta, this year. Next year -
It is a great thing to live in New York.
Strawberries for Christmas may be purchased,
there at twelve dollars a quart. ,
Henry George continues to announce
that iie will not run for president. This is ii»
deed true. By next year George will be fof*
gotten.
The Philadephia Press says that Mr,
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form. Tliis is reassuring. In that event, the
platform will be targe, broad and fat.
When Senator Evarts shook hands with
two colored republicans in New York the othelf
day, there was tremendous apulause in the
galleries. It was, indeed, a very unusual
sight.
An anonymous correspondent send®
Henry Labouchere, editor of the London!
Truth, 10,000 six-pences every year, for distri*
bution among the poor children of the great
city. He has no idea who the person is.
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.superior to their brethren in this country. He
attributes this to the conversion of theiiegroe®
to Mohamedonism.
General Joseph E. Johnston says it cost
a good deal to correct tho delusion that slavery
was necessary to the civilization of the soutlii
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