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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26,1884 - TWELVE PAGER.
THE CONSTITUTION.
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ATLANTA, GA. KKBHU4RV 2*. 18*4
THB CYCLONE IN UftORQlA.
P,As tbe details derelop, the extent *nd hor
rora ot the atom ot Tnewlay tncreue. A, lull
mated in yeiterd*y????? OoSOTtTtriox there were
two diatinct cyclone*, one^weepin* through
the upper part of the atate anil tbe other
acroee tbe lower. ???
There haa been heavy loeaes in hotiwa,
furnitore, atock and bridge,, and a much
heavier loa in crop, and timber. Beyond all
value, la the heavy loaa of life reported,
There la no more terrible death than th??t
which ride* upon the wing, of the wind. To
be ernehed in a falling houae, that crack* and
tumble* without an inatant'a warning, and
perhapa to die by Inchea Iran,dyed by a beam
a#broken joist, la hard and piteous. Our
apeclal dispatches to-day give the ??tery of
many such death*. Women and children aa
well aa strong men have been caught In the
merciless grzap of tbe storm and in some
case* have died together.
The frequency of cyclone* in late year* In
tblsaection and in tbe west will suggest
many theories, ont of which some useful and
practical direction may come. Few things
are lea understood than cyclones, and yet
few things need to be understood more thor-
ougbly. In tbe meantime there is one grn-
eral truth gradually establishing itself in
this stale. That Is, that in upper middle
Oeorgia-tbesection extending acroaa from
Heard and Carroll, through Cobb, Fulton and
Spalding, Into-Clarke, Walton and Jackson???
there la no danger from cyclones, they being
regnlarly shunted oO whenever they menace
this table-land. It appeara. alto, that in the
lower levels of the atate there is compara
tively no danger, especially in the southeast.
And that in the tier ot counties lying
tween tbe two sections of the atate, stretch
ing diagonally from Muscogee or Harris, to
Columbia, cyclones areeipt to be more fre
quent than in other sections And yet after
all we know little about these strange and
terrible visitors, and cannot predict where
they will strike or where they will spare. A
year ago, the farmer in his mountain home
In Plekens county would have laughed at tbe
idea of a cyclone reaching into hfa section.
And yet on Tuesday, one went careening
through the valleys of that county, with the
worst results.
No man can foretell the coming of these
terrible storms. No man can indicate their
course. They strike with the swiftness of
lightning,and with all its terrible unexpected
ness. Wherever It strikes, or whoever, the
hearts of all Georgians go out in sympathy to
he unfortunate.
CONOR B8SION LIN CriVITY.
We are nearing the first day of March, or
the end of the first three months of the con
gressional session-, and what has congress ac
complished? Day after day is occupied with
small matters,and with prolonged discussions
over questions of trivial Importance. Not
an appropriation bill has been sent to the
senate, and only one has left tho appropria
lions committee. The ways and meanscotn-
rolttee has not brought in a single one of the
great bills that It was formed
to consider, and the other lead
_ leg committees bavs nothing in work
accomplished end perfected to show at the
endef tho three months that congress has
been In session. And yot we were promised
at tbe ontaet that this should be a oongrees of
exceptional activity and brevity. It was to
adjourn In May, and the peopto were to
rejoice. Hut all such dreams have vanished
Into thin air. The appropriation bills were
never more belated, and there is no pros
pect of an adjournment until the
heat and the malarious marshes fairly compel
it, Tbe house will be held reapousiblo for
the waste of valuable time, and it should
take up at once tbe real and Important husi-
* ness of the season, and cease to Interest Itself
with small matters. An adjournment In
June would not be impossible if it would
work with a will and with an eye tingle to
the public good. The wasting of time in the
first months ot the session Involves cither a
hurried winding up or Important measures
left over on the calendars. The democrat*
ot tbe bouse should lake good care that they
be not held responsible for either Imperfect
legislation orneglect of their duties. Tory
should, In a word, get down to business
once.
THB RlOnt KlMD*or IMMIORANTS,
During the period just subsequent to the
war there was a good deal ot wild talk about
Immigration. Tbe range of much of tbe
talk and writing on tbe subject was between
folly and impracticability,.but tbe sufficient
excuse for all of it was that tbe period was
full of doubt and confusion, to say nothing
of a certain sort of desperation that had
seised upon tbe people. Tbe problem which
the south inherited from tbe war was, and is
of more importance than the war itself,
Bealislng this In a dim, vague way, it is
natural that we should have sought to divert
ounelvea by discussing the question of
Immigration. It is natural, moreover, that a
great many impracticable ideas should have
been brought to the surface.
On* of these was the idea that the south
needed a class of immtgrants.who would con
sent to work as day laborers to take the place.ol
the negroes on the plantations and farms. A
great many arguments, a good dead of time
and considerable amounts ot money were
wasted first and last to give force and effect
to a wholly Impracticable Idea. But the ten-
alon ot hope sod expectation in regard to Im
migration baa been greatly relaxed ot late,
so that It mty be said, if public opin
ion has not lost all interest in tbe matter, at
any rate everybody la now willing to let
event* take thalr natural aud inevitable
course. If immlgrents of kbe right sort cbnoae
to come well and good; if they chocs# logo
elaewtre, well and good.
Ible Is not, as might be supposed, the re
sult of a epirit of indifference, but rather a
mark of tbat patience and aereniiy that have
excited the admiration of everybody except
tbe native-bora republicans and tbs imported
republican ofileeholdem. For white our peo
ple ara wailing for events to shape themselves,
they arc engaging In such enterprises and
improvements at their mean* and opportnni-
liea will jollify. As they drive along the
road becomes smoother, and now they are in
a position to go at a gait which bears
some relation to both a foxtrot
and a canter. Meanwhile they are prepared
to give a warm welcome to all who may feel
Inclined to tske advantage of Ibelr climate,
soil and ri sources.
We have obeerved symptoms In some of the
counties that teem to indicate opposition lo
immigration of any sort, but these symptoms
do groa injustice to the real atittode of the
people. If such a feeling of opposition ex
isted to any great extent, It would betray a
lack of judgment tbst cannot pcsstbly exist
side by tide with reasonable intelligence.
There is a class of immigration not only
highly desirable, but actually necessary
to tbe complete development of the state.
Immigrants who propose lo buy land ought
to be made the objects of encouragement, for,
within reasonable bounds, they may be re
garded ns promoters of the prosperity of tbe
state. There is not a county in Georgia in
which the appearance of twenty immigrants
in search of land would not measurably, if
not materially, add to the value of land.
Productiveness fs one of tho elements of land
value, but it is only under certain conditions
that it Is a prime element. In Georgia, where
all the land is more or less productive, or can
be made so with little or no trouble,
demand becomes tbe prime ele
ment, snd this demand can only be crested
by an accession to the population of those
who desire to buy land.
Wedo not allude, of course, to tbe specula
tive concerns, chiefly msde up of foreign
capitalists, that are engaged in buying up
great bodies of southern lands as Invest
meats. Such purchases not only add nothing
to the value of the lands, but represent, in
our opinion, an actual lost to those who al
low themsolves to bs prevailed upon to part
with their lands. On the other hand, every
individual who .buys an acre of land, and
Improves it, adds to tho value of bis neigh
bor???s land.
Just One Word With Yon.
This piper ms; fall lu the Hands o! hundreds ol
people who are not subscribers.
Ol sur b people ire tsk a earelul peroral ol the pa
per. Wo claim Ibai It is the beat paper In America,
or it Is certainly tbe largest snd cheapest. We In
tend to put It In every southern home???where a
bright, cheerful, newsy paper Is wanted.
This Is hardly afalrspiclmcn ol the paper,
rush of news about the cyclone crowds out many
of uur most lntercsdng departments, ft Is our
policy always, however, to let tho sensation of the
week have Its way, aud to give the people tho full
est news on what they are most interested In.
This year will bo a busy and eventful one. We
should begltd tobaveyuu take Tint Constitution
We promise you tho best paper that can bo yuade,
with 12 loll pages every week, and cheaper than
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It will cost you II 25 a year, II you take it alone.
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scribe at once!
BISMARCK IN HIS CUPS.
According lo tbe Berlin correspondent of
the London Times, whose rumors and state
mania were embodied in the dispatches to
Sunday's CoasmuTioM, the United States of
North America, represented by a democratic
house of reprrseutstlves, have gonea step too
far. They have bearded the distinguished
Pretzel-enter in his den, os it were, and now
they most take the consequences. The dill!
cutty arises from the fact that Colonel
Thomaa Ochiltree, the esteemed Texas stales
man, whose fame Is by no means confined to
bisnstivesbores, but bss permeated oil climes,
shortly slier the death of a German agitator
named Lasker, Introduced a series of resolu
tions in the house of repnsentatlves,
offering condolenco to the German
government for Its presumably irre-
parabls loss. Tbe rrsoluiions faliiy
biased with thatspecieaof eloquence for which
Texas and Colonel Thomaa Ochlltreesie justly
famous, and they created a profound impres
sion when recited in the stentorian voice of
oue of the clerk's understrappers. Colonel
Ochiltree stood ready to support them in n
carefully prepared speech sprinkled with
appropriate quotations from that beautiful
oils "I'm a dying Kgypt, a llying," but the
s|ieech was not nccetsary. It would have
been wind thrown -away. The houao, fired
by the eloquence of the resolutions, adopted
them without hesitation.
Some will say that the eloquent Colonel
Ochiltree Is an ignoramous, who understands
n filling o( the relations which Herr Lasker
bore to the German government; but this
would be a mistake. Colonel Ochil
tree understood perfectly well that
Lasker was tegardrd by Bismarck am) Km-
peror William as a sort of political outcast,
snd tbs resolutions which he offered in the
bouse, and which were promptly adopted,
weru in tbe nature of a huge American joke,
such aa sometimes occur to tba newspaper
pangrapbt-n and other inspired humorists.
Colonel Ochiltree, Id short, lean inspired
American humorist, and bia Lasker resolu
tions were Intended to be used as a pole with
which to stir up tbe animals In tbe imperial
menagerie of Germany.
The colonel's joke, if tbe correspondent of
the London Time# is lo be believed, is a very
successful one. Bismarck, who has bossed
England, France, Austria, Spalu
and the pope whenever he found
necessary, la not to be
intuited by a little one-borae American con-
1, aud we should not be lurprited to aee
the German minister at Washington, flanked
by two hired policemen, velk up to the desk
of the apeeker ot the bouse, atam the re
turned resolutions down and walk out. Ills-
uiarck believe* in the one-man power; llerr
Lasker was a republican of the American
way ot thinking, Bismarck believe* wholly
In imperialism; Herr Leaker believed in iu-
dividual liberty. Under these circumstances
it is not to be wondered at that Bismarck
regard* the tranamlaaion of Colonel Ochiltree's
resolutions as an affront to the government
which regards man not aa an individual, but
as a machine to be destroyed in behalf ol
imperialism.
There la another fact to be taken into con
sideration in regard lo the rumored return of
Colonel Ocfailtree'a beautifully turned too
lutlons???namely; Tbat the house of repre
sentative* which adopted them is democratic.
This fact la aa affront, not only to Bismarck,
but to a great many American centralists,
and we have no doubt that tbe Gern^an chan
cellor haa received, through IbeGerman min
ister at Wasingten, assurances from promt
sent republicans that tbe return of the reso
lutions lo congress would be a proper rebnke
to a party which Is not In sympathy with
tbe republicans, who control the govern
ment Full of beer snd bile sa he is, Bis
marck would hesitate e long time
before taking each a step if
ba bad not received eome such
assurances from leading republicans. It is
true, tbe return of the resolutions will be re
garded by a great many people aa an insult
to tbe United Slates, but what difference
does t few insults more or less make? The
republican flunks have control of things, and
they will ute the attitnde of Bismarck as an
other argument against tbe democratic party,
and, undoubtedly, it will be a very difficult
matter for tbe democratic party in congress
to give a reasonable excuse even to its own
supporters, for adopting resolutions offered
by the isteimed Ochiltree. What bss con
gress to do with tbe foreign tramps that hap
pen to die In this country?
POLITICS IN QBURQIA.
Senator Boynton will not be in tbe race for con
gresi in tbe 5th district. We have a letter before
us In wblihhe poUilrely decline* to cu-er toe field
Ills said Judge Stewart will be in the race. This
ppears to make up tbe quartette: Hammond,
Jackson. Htewsrt aud Livlugaton, aud tbe dance
may as well begin???"Swing your corners.???
A correspondent /turn Albany writts us that tbe
friend*of Hon. W. K. Smith will put him forward
in the gubernatorial race, and tho Hon. T. J. film-
mona Is mentioned as a probable candidate from
tbe centor of tbe state.
The Columbus Inquirer Indorses the Hon. R. C.
Humber aa a candidate for treasurer.
The Hon. W J. Northen, of Hancock, will be a
candidate for tbe state senate. There are few better
men In Georgia than Mr. Northern, and no better or
safer legislators.
Hon. C. B Wooten will be a candid*to for tbe
nomination In the second congressional district,
opposing Mr. Turner, who will offer for re-election
Messrs, fra K Bmttb. R. M. Tison and Hon. T. W.
Lamb are spoken of In Brunswick as candidates tor
the now senate.
A Reader, Rntledge, Ot.???We cannot give names
of bos-ness Arms ta yon rrqnest
Joseph Surget, Katcbis, Ml-*.???Tbe address you
ask for Is Richard Peters, Atlanta, Ga. We do not
know whether be bos Eucx pigs for uJe.
Mrs. E. I. Anderson, CrswfordvlUe, G*.-Wc do
not know.
T. G??? Franklin, N. C.???Bid not tbe lasteensns
change the number cl votes necessary to elect *
president?
Yes In 1SS0 It required 17?? votes to elect. It now
takes SOI Tbe ntw apportionment It given In 'be
annexed table, wblcb might bepretetved for refer
ence;
Alabama .If jMtfriretppt
Tim Cyclone News.
Tna CoroTivurioN isltrc s ibis morning nearly two
full pages to news ol the cyclone.
Tills Is mote than will be published by any half
dozen papers combined. Bialdts wefuruhh a map
sbowlng thegeneral course of Ihe storm. It boa
cost us heavily to collect and prepare this nows,
but we ate ditermlned tbat the readers of Tits
CotoTiTCTiow shall have fuller uews, and earlier
news, and more pews than tbe leaden of any other
paper.
We ask our readers to compare their CoKSTrrttTio!)
with any other paper token by their neighbors and
decide which Is best, and wbK-h gives tbe fullest
news, and Judge us on our merits, and treat us
accordingly.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
raent for a remedy fur bog cholera?
No; such a reward has been offered, we believe by
several weslem states, but we havo no definite In.
formation on band.
Certainly not.
r freezing?
In cloudy
be beard farther on a clear day
weather, and the reason.
Sound travels agreater distance In cloudy weather
???that Is when tho atmosphere Is dense. The In
creased density of the atmosphere Is tbo reason
why* bell cau bo heard farther on a cloudy day
than on a clear one.
8, Now Yn'k ???la Atlanta well supplied with wall
paper stores? !?? tbe business brlak? How many
people aro there in Atlaute?
Yea Very. Something over 60,000.
It. C. C., Excelsior, Ark.???la tho letter "I??? erer a
consonant?
Never.
J (! II, Murphy, N. C ???la It true, aa atated by
Iforodo'tis, Out the lioness bears but a single whelp
during her itfo time.
No; tho has only one whelp at a tlrao, which
probably gave rlio to your lmpreulon
B O. It., Darllugton. 8. C.???Ia El Mahdl a black
man?
ilia complexion la light brown,
L. A., D*c??tur, Ga.???Aro there any Indiana In
tbla alato, aud If ao bow many ?
The laat cenaua places Georgia's Indian popula
tion at 124.
B. T. A , Thoraasville, 6a.???Ia It true that tramps
aro banded together and have a sign language?
Yea. The following signs have been i elated by a
professional tramp, as among their cipher
mutilcatlons left on doors, fences, barns, and gate
posts for the guidance of other numbers of the
profession: I. good for a meal: S. this road la bob
tor than thoothur; X.no good: j}, these people bavo
had too many tramps; f. will have you arrested;
eware of tboso folks, they will hurt you, or havo
you imprisoned. Tho city tramp gulldrf In some
plaoca oven resort to drug store*, hotels, and o:her
places whoro directories aro kept for publlo use
aud set over sgtlnit the name a there such marks
aa theso: *, very good, likely to give;'???. notcalled
on before, or doubtful. Ollier signs might bo given,
but thcao are enough to Illustrate tholr secret vo
cabulary.
T. H. M.. Blakely, Ga.???Please a*ate how tbo ex-
penmantal tea farm near bummvrvUlc, 8. C., Is
progressing.
slowly. Of the 936.(00 appropriated for the ex
periment, LePuc spent half on the farm. The tea
plants bavo been neglected, aud aro now growing
wild.
J. <\ P??? Turcumbla, Ala ???Please state the time
required for the Digestion of diflVrrnt foods.
Plgafcot and tripe. 1 hour each; boiled (rout, 1
hour and a half; venison, 1 hour and .15 minutes;
boiled milk, 2 hours; roast turkey, 2 hours and a
half; roast beef, 3 hours; roes! mutten
hours and 16 minutes; broiled
veal, 4 hours; boiled com beef. 4 hours and 15min
utes; roast pork 6 hours aud 15 minutes.
J. L. !>., Conyers, Ga ???Please Inform me if there
Is any demand for Angus's Havings bank bills and
llrchautrs bank bills of 1856 anal85ft. If so by
whom and at what price?
No demand at any price.
8. 8 , Davidson College, N. C.???Please define tbe
ctvll service systtm.
1 ho present civil service system provides for com
petltlve examinations in every government ofhee
where there are 60 employes and over.
N T. 8.. Btfckville, 8 c.???Dv we have more cr
clones aud toruadoca in this section than in
former times?
Opinions differ. It is claimed by many that in
tho old times, when there wero no railroads and
telegraph wires, many cyclones were not reported,
but In these days even the smallest whirlwind is
shown up in print. This may explain the appar
ent increase in the number of atmospheric .dls
turbances.
W P. McD . Milner. Go.???Wbat is mica? For what
is it used? In what Georgia counties u it found?
A mineral. For stove lights, la every county
a ong the Blue Bldge mountains In the northeast-
part of the state, and continuing
beyond Ite terminus into Carroll county, and
again In tbe belt of country cross
lug middle Georgia from Elbert county, and pars
ing through Walton towards the southwest.
R. II. T., Athens, Ga ???I heard a Kfontidc gen
tleman say. the other day, that Georgia is in the
cyclone bel'. What did be mean?
Physical geography shows with more or leas ac
curacy the cause of stnrmr. Maury in hi* valuable
work, places *fart of u??orgta direct! j In the track
of the storms which originate iu the gulf of Mexico.
Probably this waa what your icieutitic friend had iu
hi* mind.
G c , Hard!*, Mlsa???Has the government supply
of carp been exhausted?
For this season, yes. Commissioner Baird writes
ue that some gold fish were put in the government
carp ponds by mistake and bybrld!*td with tbe
carp. In another pond, sun fish got in by mistake
aud destroyed vast quantities of carp spawn. The
supply next season will be abundant.
Geonila Demicrat A'heoa. Ga ???Who is yenr fa
vorite for the presidential nomination?
The man who can win.
A rkriPMF.. ..
Louisiana
Mslne
Maryland....
I Missouri
* NebrsskM ..
f iN'evads
6 Sew lUmtsulre....
). r >
New Jersey
New York 3d
North Carolina...
Ohio
Origon
Pennsylvania 80
Texas 13
Vermont...
Virginia .?? 12
THE MAN ABOUT TOWN,
SOMf? OF THB TOPICS WHICH EX
CITE THE POPULAR INTEREST.
The Exhibit at New Orleans-Oocerst Medellin*!
Pets-A Frcji ct ot tbs Ladles of Atlanta???Tba
Manufacturers Moving-Ni do Works of
Art-Facts About Cyclones.
Wen Virginia..,
Minnesota 7 Wisconsin U
To'al 401
L. N., Morrittovn, Tenn.???Wbat is tho origin of
the superstition of 13 at table?
The Lord's supper at which tho Savior and the 12
apostles were seated,
8. 0,8., Senola, Ga.???Apply to Burke'sold.book
???tore, Atlanta, Ga.
L E. B Lumber City.Ga ???What are the belt pure
blooded fowls, and where can I buy them?
The Brown I^guorus are perhaps the best chick
ens for the form, being the best layers, and hardy,
well*flavored fowls. There are several breeders In
Georgia.
O. A. A., Stark, Oa.???What IstbeGreely relief ex
pedition? 2. What relation is the Prince of Wales
to Queen V ictorla, snd wbst sre bis powers?
2. He Is her eon. No powers at pro sent. He will bs
king of England on the death of his mother.
Frank Holbrook, Chattanooga, Tenn.???Wbat is
the bight of Atlanta above tbe sea? 2. Has yellow
fevfi-r ever prevailed? 3. Wbat is your water sup-
p y? 4 Would ltd>) for an Ohio family to move
there thin spring or summer?
IMG feet. 2. No. During the epidemics Atlanta'
gates aro opon to yellow fever refugees, and dezens
of patients ore brought here. Not a single case was
ever known in the cliy. Tbe same is true of chol
era. 3 Water is pumped from a huge lake four
miles from tho city. 4. It will improve the health
of the Ohio family.
Ilea dor. Like City, Fla.???"Where is tho expres
sion 'Wild home powerrihe grille gie us, to see our-
selvrsaa others sen us" to be found? 2. Andwhero
tbecxpresriou "Neat, not gaudy?"
In Bums'* "Ode to a Louse." 2 In one of Charles
Lamb's letters to Wadsworth, perhaps.
A. M. ( Hparta, Ga.; Is it unhealthy to keep
plants and flower* in sittingrooms and bedrooms?
Yes, where they are of a strong and pungent
odor. A few small plants of delicate odor are ben*
eflclal as they absorb the carboulc acid gas.
Myra. Port Royal, 8. C.: Please give me the Hindu
legcud lu which a giant was bouud with the beards
of women
You refer to a Scandinavian story. All father or
dered the elves to make fetters for the wolf Fenrir,
and they constructed chains of the noise of a cat's
foot-fall, the beards of womeu, the roots of stones,
the sluows of bears, the breath of flih, and the spit
tle of birds, and (Irmly bound the wolf.
U. A., Asheville, N. C. Is It tme that regular
drinkers 11 vo longer than teetotalers?
According to llle Insurance statistic! alcohol an
nually poisons oue tweutioth of civilized mankind.
Teetotaler* average four day aud two hours sick
ness, and death rate 1 in 141, against moderate
drinkers thirteen days and ten hours sickness, and
death rate ooo in forty-four. Annually ninety-nine
per cent expected Jeath occur among moderate
drinkers and seventy per ccut among abstainers.
P V. I??? Roanoke, V* ; Did any nation ever
prac'lco commufom, laud reform, socialism, etc ?
The Spartans and the ancient Peruvians. Under
tho ancient Incas the land was divided into three
shares, oue to religion, one to government, and one
to the people, actual cultivators, who were changed
yearly by redistribution. The Joint Industry of tho
community waa for joint benefit.
J . Gordon county, Ga.: I can draw with a lead
pencil almost to perfection. Is there any mouey in
it? If so,wbat course must I pursue tn make It p??y ?
2. 1 have wrltteu a number of poems aud sent ikt-m
to several editors who would uot publish them.
Now, what course must I pursue to get my poems
before tbe public? I know I keep trjiug, bat I
want to know how to try. 3. What is the au dress of
Paul H. lUync, the Long tallow of the south? 4
1. 1 hero is a good deal of money in it. if, in ad
dition to the aolllty to draw, you possess the arUs.
tic foculty. Submit your drawings to somo compe
tent judge. 2. We aro sorry we cannot tell you
bow to write poetry. It is a disease that attacks a
man dry so, and while It la fun for tho man ills no
fun for tho editors 3. A letter addressed to Au
gust* would reach Mr. Usyue. 4. Tho nature of
contracts between publishers and authors depends
on circumstances. Sometimes publishers refuse to
mako any contracts with authors; sometimes they
buy tho copyright of a book for a lump sum; some
times they pay ten per cent royalty
after tho book has paid the cost
of publication; sometimes they pay the royalty aod
astumo all risk themselves; sometimes (In excep
tional cases) the royalty bmore than ten percent.
It all depeuds upon the popularity of tho author
It la aald that the word "yankee" originated
from the Indian pronunciation of "English,
namely,|"y*ngce*." The Indians are smarter than
a great uuny people.
LETTERS FROM OUR READER?
What The Filkl IIiti to It? About Theraatlvraond
Thlsga lo ttasaro).
W. K. B., Quitman, Ga: Our farmers loere
their meat every year. This year some of them
built meat houao close, no ventilation. They
killed their meat in cold time aud packed in salt
around near the walls, leaving a space iu thecee
ter of tho house, where they used let lu Urge
quantities. In a fow hours the houso would get so
hot tbat tho doors would have to be left open to
let the hot air escape. Will you please explain.
Knrroxs Constitution : In reply to your request
if farmers wbo have adopted the lntcnsivo or Fur
man plan In tbe cultivation of cotton, 1 answer
that I used last year 4,000 pouuda compost per sere
upon 15 acres of my cotton crop, which had been
previously competed by tho direction* contained
In Mr. Furmau'a formula, and planted also in the
check os directed by him. But for the ex???ended
drouth and Intensive heat which commenced here
about the 20th of June I should have made a very
fine crop of cotton. I shall have about 2,500 bu??hol*
of compost for my next crop, which ia uow being
prepend-and I propose tb try my band again,
at about tho same proportions per acre as before
stated. I also planted 15 acres o! cotton on the plan
of A. 1*. Ford, which consisted of 10 busheU of cot*
t-m seed crushed and 100 pouuds of kunite per
acre, which did very well; in fact, U was equal If
not superior to 200 pounds of the best brands of
comuercUl cuaao. The idea of pUutlng cotton in
the check will be worth millious to the south when
once properly understand and generally adopted???
of which no doubt but it will be dene when better
understood. The greatest objection able features
heretofore in checking snd maintaining a good
stand in cotton have been on account of the ??xtra
amount of labor required in planting that way.
But I claim that by my method in pn paring and
planting that I can prepare and plant with less
work in the cheek than any other effectual way???
aud as for a perfect stand 1 can Insure it almostany
y??*. j. W. D Ecklks.
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Charley Harmon gave me tbe figures on tbe
Florida orargecrop. Kenya: "Wehave carried
to tbe west 500 carloi ds of oranges this reason and
there are 100 more cats to go A car carries about
250 boxes, or S6 0(0 oranges. This makes tbe total
errp marketed west 21,(00 COO cranges or 9470.000 in
money, tbe oranges netting about 93 a box, or two
cents apiece. As only a third of tbe crop went
west, the total crop of Florida waa about rlxty
million oranges that netted the orange growers
about tl 2 0,000."
"Tbatisan enormous crop?"
"I have pat it under tbe figures adopted by tbe
Floridians. Tho crop next year will bo very much
larger You never raw-anything like the yonng
orange groves. I should siy that twenty five per
cent of bearing trees will be added to the groves
next year, and that two thirds of the tree* now
beating will add to their yield. I shouldn't be
supprited to see one buudred million oranges*
year seut out of Florida irolde of three yeais."
"Will that glut tbe market?"
"I think not There is no end to the sale of
oranges. See how tho western market* have de
veloped within tbe past year. We took five oranges
west this year where we took one a year ago. And
yet there was no glut."
Mr Charley Owens thinks a great deal of the
Florida lemon. It has always been fine flavored,
Juicy and large, butlta dull color has been agalust
1L skillful handling lu tbe drying house gives the
skin the bright yellow tbat attracts on tho fruit
stands, and the Florida lemon now commands a
premium. Lemon trees bear sooner than the or
ange tree, and tbe profits are quite as large. Lemon
groves are therefore befog rapidly planted.
Mr. II. B. Plant has beeu*the developer of Florida,
doing mere than the Kuglfoh lords or eastern esp
Uallsts, with less style or display. His boats ply
riven, his roads run the ridges, and he carries
per cent of the fruit erop.
has just bought a eteamer for tho coasting
trade to the south of Tampa, and will put on a fast
line of mail steamers between Tampiaud Havana
A passenger may then start from Havana and never
leave the boats or cars owned by this one line till
he reaches Norfolk. I doubt if there Is si cleaner
longer transportation property owned by any
man in (he world. As the head of tho Southern
cxpicas company he has relations with almost
every road in the country, and many people thiuk
the first check glvon to Victor N.-wcomb's phenom
enal career with the Louisville and Nashville prop
erty esme from trying to throw the Southern ex
press company off his liucs, aud thus inviting the
opposition of Plant.
Wbat is Plant's wealth? 4 That is hard to say. Not
less than 9.0,00J,000 and perhaps twica as much,
He Is very reticent and remarks that he had been a
rich man a long time before auybody suspected it.
I recall what Charley Owens said about Florida
speaking professionally. "It is" he said "tho rail
road man's paradise. The people export every
thing they raise aud Import everything they cat or
wear or use. They all have to leave home in the
summer and everybody else has to go to Florida
in tbe winter."
h
Ex Governor 8mlth remarked that he saw Henry
Ward Beecher take dinner at an eating house one
day, and was asked if the old man seemed hearty.
"Hearty? Why if he had been at the miracle on
tbo mount there woulden't havo been any baa-
ketzful left."
1 heard a good thing yesterday in which Dr.
Leland, famous for his speech on "labor," is con
cerned. I give his words as they were given to me.
says: "1 bad a little money In hand,
not long ago, Snd a friend advised me to
do a little speculating in pork. I bought some
pork futures, aud In a few days made S1.0,
It come so quick and locked so easy, that 1 called
iu about a thousand dollars 1 had loaned among
tho neighbors, and put it all In pork. Whsn I came
to towu 1 found that pork bad "dropped" and eve
ry dollar of my money was gone. I waa the sickest
man you ever saw. I went up to the hotel for din
ner, and they set me down before a big dish of
pork. I couldn???t a swallowed a piece to rave my
life. I started homo and the first thing I met in
tho road was a drovo of hogs. I couldn't stand it
any longer I took to tho woods, aud I ain't tasted
pork slues."
Visitors from New Orleaus report that the inter
est in the exposition Is something phenomenal.
A large ms rble building, six stories high has been
taken by the directors, and is filled with officers
and clerks of tho exposition. No such display of
southern re? on tecs has ever been seen as will be
made there. Texas haa appropriated 920.0^0, Mis
sUsippi 912,500 aud North C.irollua, South Carolina
and Arkansas 910,009 each for the ^making of slate
displays.
Georgia has done nothing end 1 lkely to do
nothing, except through privato enterprise. A tlant*
will make a fine exhibit of her local industries,
other Georgia cities will probably do tho same.
Mr. B*con, tho commissioner, may by hit personal
energy, aecnre a geueral rate display. The state
capnot afford to be left out at the comtug world's
fair. And she has nothing to hope .for from the
legfolature.
???*e
A gentleman aald to mu >esterday, "At the Pres
byterian church on Madlmn Squire, New York,
General Ueorgo B, McClellan can be seen almost auy
Sunday slttiug In a pew with two Interesting little
girls cuddled close up under his arms. They are
two of tho orphans of the late General Hood wbo
were adopted by a Mr. Adams, of New York, and
are great pets of General McClellan'a.
The late ejelone swept through the woods In
Pickens about three o'clock In tho evening. The
next morning early Tux Constitution was handed
to one of the victims aa he surveyed his dismantled
ho jse. It had a full description of the storm with
the details worked in. "I swear, I believe them
fellows got tho cyclone up,"he said,"and wrote it up
fore it happened." At tho same time Tux consti
tution was in Leed's station and Cave Spring with
a printed list of tho killed and wounded at eseh
place.
Speaking of cyclones now little do we learn o
them,even with experience. Tney are so sudden and
vaxt,*nd terrible that they stun and blind and be
wilder thoso who see them. Aud then they differ
in their cbaracterlstlcs. Iu McDuffie county some
years ago the houses strn< k by the cjclone,fell out
ward from the center aa if a vscuum were created
around them, and tbe atmospheric pressure from
the Inside parted the timbers, In tho last cyclone
the booses were struck broadside and carried away
aa U feather* in the wind.
???*%
In the cjclone ot a few years since a door hinge
was buried iu tbo body of a tree. It seems in
credible that the wind could have driven so small
thing as a hJege with such
terrific force. And yet in the
Natl jnal museum is a section of a telegraph pole
with* shingle driveu half way through It. In
Tuesday's form a pebble was picked up by the
wind and buried in a lady's back, and the sole of
shoe was torn from a man's foot. It is reported that
when Mr. Darnell, of Pickeut county, recovered
some of his money blown away in tho cyclone, tbe
edges of the bills were burned. This is important
"true.
Only these general facta abont cyclones seem to
be eatabliibed???that they are funnel shaped, with
ragged edges, curled and white, aud wfops of white
wind tbat leap cut from the cloud-that they ore
preceded by a deadly calm, but not by rain???that
they come with a noise like the running of a thou
sand trains of cars???that they *ja practically resist-
km In their force, whipping a great oak out of the
ground as easily as they move a leaf, and driving a
pebble with as much force as a plank???that their
motion ia rotarj???that their volume expands or
contracts with the width of tbe vallfos through
which they paw???.bat they sheer off from high
tablelands,and frequently spilt on ridges???that
they bound from the ground into
the air. and return to the ground gradually, their
course up or down b??!ng marked plainly In the
forests???tbat they often bound for fifty miles and
then tench ground egrin???snd that while liable to
luvsde new regions, they travel certain beaten
paths And finally, tbat tbe only safe place whop
they are at* ut is in a pit or cellar securely covered,
and that it is much belt' r to be laughed at for hid
ing In a pit a hundre d timea when no cyclone come*
than to be caught out of a pit one time when a
cyclone does happen to come.
storm" swept.
(ContlnRsd From First Pnge.l
Rest's son Jobs nle, twelve year* old, who received
blown ut wn and its contents broken to pleeesor
carried away by the cyclone ?? stalwart cur waa
found in possession aud resented every intrusion
upon the premises.
CBOSSPLAINS, ALABAMA-
Cboss plains, February 23???The people here have
been in such terror toy the terrible visitation of
tbe elements that they have not had the time to
look over the field. During tho night of Tuesday,
while the citizens of this place were busily engaged
iu attending to the wounded aud dying, horsemen
came in from different sections of tbe Goshen val
ley bringing mostharroningdeUilsaud inggirg for
phjslcfoUM Dr* Hughes,Little Cowd<ffi anu Teague
hurried, with many other eiiizens, to the rc*nu ot
???he disaster, nv h -t met their vMou ou riding into
Goshen valley Is simply beyond detcripiou. Where
large two story farm houses bsd crowned the
knolls up tho valley, nothing w??a left but a few
torn timbeis, the greater portions of the build-
it g* having been scattered by the fierce augur of
the storm for miles. Wl htn a space of four or five
miles by one-half mile, fifteen pereous were killed
aud many moie will die. No less than sixty ar??.
wounded and tho loss of property cannot be re
paired with {500 O' 0.
MABVXLftUB ESCAPE
A BcUoolhousu, new and well built, sat upon a
bill right In the centre of the village of Goshen,and
also in tbe centre of the storm???s path. When the tor
nado came it picked the ichoothouse up and liter
ally threshed it to plecsr. In it were Mr Allie John
son and twenty five children, none of whom wero
killed, though all were more or foss wounded and
bruised. Your correnpoudect stood ou the former
site of the echoolhoue* and tiled to fiud two planks
left together, but failed; the storm leaving nothing
but the floor, aud that was chattered as U by llght-
uiog.
A bale of cotton was blown a half mile Frog
church wasdes'roytd and one of'he sills fifty feet
long was found three quarters rf a mile away, and
that tod on top of Fiog mountain. The heart
woes aud physical lUfleriuRHof those poor oeopte
wbo-u bouses bavo been demolished, farms laid
waste, stock killed, and friends Mid relatives taken
from th m a:e In ex on sslbiy Indtscnbable. Relief
is ncided us the suffering Is beyond the reach of
the local authorities Pi al eviau*. if your valuable
paper would ouly intimate to the generous people
of Atlanta that nr-lp in tba' quarter is so badly
needeo a response would bo nude that would
gladden the heartsof those so heavily afflicted.
DOWN THBOUOH Till CHIMNXY.
Tallulah. Febiuary 23 ??? John Singleton, living,
near Clayton, Rabun county, on Tuesday last, dur
ing the cyclone, was struck diwn oy lightning,
and Mrs Sinsleton also, was prostrated by it.
Th'-y were siting by the fireplace and the llfhtuicg.
csine down tho chimney. A hoise belonging to
Mr 8. waa killed In the lot and a yearling proc-
trated.
HE WOULD MOT RESIST PROVIDENCE.
Pandebsville, Ga , February 23.???Storm pita are
all tho talk now In our county. There is one man
la our county who verily believes it is siuful to at
tempt to circumvent God by a storm pit, aud who
says that He will punish our folly by sending tho
storm upon us iu an hour when we least expect
it. Self preservation Is the flrac law of nature, and
ltis an old saying lhat providence looks out for
those only who look out fur themstves.
INCIDENTS OF THE CYCLONE.
Mr. Cash, near Mount Airy, ha<T??stalwart pig in
a fattenlog pen near his house It woighed about
one hundred??ounds,and w?? sset aride for the knife
this week. After the cyclone he was nowhere to
bo found, and he has never been seen or heard of
since. If any one should seo him, let us known.
It is said that a child Is missing at Leeds, and no
traco is had of it siuce the storm.
Below Heard county some gum fogs were whirled
Into the air aud broken iu two while off the ground *
Those persons who were lnthecyclono and es
caped alive, atate tbat whon the atoim had passed
they were pantiug and exhausted as if they had
been running a loug distance, and say that they
bad a sensation of unnatural warmth while the cy
clone was above thorn.
It seems to be settled that tho cyclono was abou
two minutes ia psaslng a Riven point.
QREATC TORYt
By JOAQUIN MILLER.
-WRITTEN KXPRKHLY FOR THE-
^yEEKLY
^(INSTITUTION!
TO BEGIN IN OUR ISSUE OF
MARCH lOTH, 1884 r
AND RUN SEVERAL WEEKS I
"SEALED UNTO HIM???
Thrilling Adventure Among the Mormons ?
It treat* ot the DAnites, or/'evenging angels??? of
the Mormoa church, a* they existed over thirty
years ago. The foremost character, the one about
whe m the story revolves, is a Mormon elder, a lead
er of the Danltcs, a maaman In hia fanatical seal,
and a giani in suture and strength. He is one of
the mo<t powerful dramatic creations that haveap
pet red in modern fiction.
The heroine of tho story Is a beautiful yonng
lady, who. In an Ignorant freak, is induced to be
come "sealed" to a Mormon elder, before the sect
had removed Horn Illinois to 8sU Lake elty. Fear
ing the vengeance of tbe D.initts because of her re
fusal to accompany tbe elder, as a wife, to 8??It Lake-
city, her father endeavors to spirit her away to Cali-
foralA On the journey overland, the emigrant
train which they accompaoy passes by Salt Lake
city, and here it is tue vengeance of the "avecglug
angels" overtakes them. The journey, witn its
uspiciona clustering around a colossal and myst*??
rious figure, which forma one of the train; the ins-
Dense as they near Salt Lake city; the secret work
of the Danltes; the flight of the girl and the final
climax are told with a realism and dramatic force
rarely found in the fiction of any age.
With Mormon Elders
Desperately at woik in evety Southern State
practicing their ir famous doctrine a
This Powerful Story is Timely
And takes the character of a
CLEAR, RINGING SERMON !
It 1< one cl th. meat powerful aterlc. #T*r written.
Don???t fail to get the opening
chapters, as it will run
several weeks.
it begins march iothi
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