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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26,1884 - TWELVE PAGER. THE CONSTITUTION. Weekly Ctii(lliU??ii$1<MPcr A??a 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 any 12 page piper In America! It will cost you II 25 a year, II you take it alone. II yon get < oi your neighbors to Join you, H will coal yon II each, or less than 2 cents a week! hub- 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. Harmony Grove, Ga., February 14. l&Sft. Renew Your Knbserlptionn Promptly. Tbe ad J rest on your paper shows the date your subscription expires. Please send In yonr renewal before tbe date printed there. It will save us trouble by this and avcl I mining any issue of the paper. Make yonr renewals promptly. 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 Order THE CONeinuTION tt a act. -The FI.scat and Chtatot Paper tn Am*nrn. Only ???l.Maftar. In Uluba ef dec or more *l,oo etch.