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GAINED _26 P FAYETTEVILLE (7 Bbook»till*, Mli LBUrfggt Dear Sir—I'luu.- find tnclo-*.-..... m one Dozen SCROFULA SYRUP-SMITH'S. I have a young man with mo who has been crippled F wlth Rheumatism—could not walk. After taking % Bottles la wall—Able to go to work. Has gained 25 pounds In weight. Yours truly, H. SHuLK. For nle88 Wall 8t, Atlanta. THE CONSTITUTION; REAL ESTATE LOANS FIVE YEAR LOANS ON PLANTATIONS IN MIDDLE AND NORTHERN GEORGIA Uj»n»re offered In Allant. Negotiated by FitsNCIri fonts ine. FlTTEN BUILOIMO, ATLANTA VOLUME XVI. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1884—TWELVE PAGES. PRICE 5 CENTS A COMPLETE PAPER. The Constitution Interest, all Classes and Appeals to all Taatea. The leading topics of this week’s Issue are: Tbatio and adtimtub*—"El.phani Hunts In the Best ladles," “A Boneless Man," "Ballooning Possibilities," “A Remarkable Doc Story," “Teqflk and Tommy Atkins," “Killed by Loneliness,” “Where Is the Gunnison Conn' try?" "Seal Fishing In New Founland,” “A Child Carried off by a Bear." TALMAGE’S SERMON: . "THEATERS.” AaonriD thz Cahf Fire—"Glory Won by Accl- dent,” “A Patient Han.” Oca Humorous Writrrs—Dncle Remus, “Brer Fog and Brer Wolf:" Betsy Hamilton, “Tom Davis;" Bill Arp, "ComlngOntol Winter Quar ters." Niwi or the Wax—“AU Through Dlxis," "The Week In Congress." “News by Wire,” "Short ’ewe Rotes," "Fonts A boat People," "Across he Water," "During the Week," "Georgia Newt," "TheRolltical Field.” Till CONSTRDTiort DiFiRTXiiraa—“The Woman’s Kingdom,” "Oar Yoang People," "Answers to Correspondents," "Farms and Farmers,” “Tho Anti-Liquor Fight.” Editorials—“Notes on Current Topi os," "Let ters From Our Readers,” and many other thlngi ol interest. Something to pleaso every member ol the family, Oaljr $1.83 a Year. InCInbs of Five, $1 Earls. Rnbacrlbe at Once. TALMAGE’S SERMON. THE THEATER AND TON*. ITS MORAL Tks Host Drsmsllsat sll UsPr.sobers Arraigns lbs Drams and Its Fatrons-d Lurid Bill of Xndt.t- mrnt WllhBarer. 1 Uosn.wtr.bt. Cunts —Tfcvss Good B.assns. Is, Etc. Special to The Constltntlon. Brooklyn, May 4.—Dr. Tolmage preached to-day in the Brooklyn Tabernacle on the enbject "Are the theatera improving in high moral tone?" The opening hymn was "Let our lips and livei express The Holy Goipel we profesr." Dr. Talmage,read and expounded.the stirring passages which describe the wagons going to fetch Jacob np to the palace of Pharaoh. Tne text was Isaiah xxl. 11: "Watchman what o( tbe night.” Following is the ter* mon in fall: As near os I can tell it is about hall. past foot in the morning. There are aignsoi dawn all around tbe eky. Though the caverns are still dark, the mountains are be ing transfigured. The aun is evidently coming up, although be comes very slowly. The world is advancing. Since the armios of civilization and Christianity* began to march they have never fallen back one Inch, Here and there a regiment has played tho coward and retreated£ut ip evmr arm^Jhore are' wo are lo look today mtbsomeorthe recre ations of the people. Yon have already learned that I have no sympathy with ecle- slaatical strait-jackets or with that attempt to ignore all amnsements and recreations os though they were something not fit for Chris tians to enjoy. A book came out some time ago discussing this subject and saying that 11 a man returned at nightfall from business and felt weary ana desired some recreation and he should put on slippers and so into his garret and walk atonnd‘lively Tour or five times, there would be uo harm in that, bat farther than that frowning upon all recreations and amusements. I think one of the ghastliest mistskes ever made by Cnristian men is the attempt to pnt down tbe sportfnlness of youth and drive out the desire of amusements and recre ation from the people. Bo I have known znen of such morbid etato and of such twisted theology that they were opposed to ball-play ing end hated puzzles and denounced charades and despised tableaux*, and cried: “Away with all parlor amusements,” and when young people full of exuberance and vitality asked, "what shall we do by way of recreation they were answered “prayer meet ings!” I have noticed, however, that the people do not know how to play, do not know how to work. I have noticed that the mightiest men in the Cnurch of Cod in all axes have joined in hilarities and recreations, William Wilberforce tumbled hoops with hia children, Martin Luther helped to dress the Christmas tiee, Helen Chalmers told me that her father, Thomas Chalmers, in the days when be wts most overworked in tbe awful hour of Scottish history when the free church was about to come out from the es tablished church, and good men were at their wits end—almost every day Thomas Chal mers played kite with his children on tbe commons. But are the enterluinments and recrea tions ofthe world keepiog abreast with the grand march ol tbe ages? Are tbe novels ol this day better than their predecessors? Is the dance of this day an improvement on other decades? Are tbe opera houses render ing higher style of music? Do parlor garnet become more healthful? Have the theaters of our time arrived at a higher moral tone? To tb s last question, I this mnrotng give reply in this aeries of sermons wherein 1 am answering some of the absorbing questions of tbe day, mark you I am not this morning to diacnas whether the theater is right or wrong. I am not making a wholesale attack on tragedians and comedians. 1 am not disensaing whether Henry Irving and Edwin Booth and McCullough and Joseph Jeflenon are great acton or honorable men. I believe they are. I am not dlicusalng any of the im portant questions which I have already dis cussed, bat I come from a new standpoint to this whole subject. I have three reasons lor thinking that tbe tbeaten ol America are not improving in moral tone. Fuat, became ol the universal testimony ol all the leading secalar newspapers of the United States. There is not a newspaper ol power in this country which has not witbln the put few yean, both in editorial and reportorial columns deprecated the styles of play most frequent in American theaters. It u against tbe in terests of the nesrspapen to severely criticize the playhouses because a vast amount of ad vertising patronage comet from them. I am told that the papers receive more from that source than any other source—many thou sands of dollars a year. When therefore the secular newspapers, contrary to their finan cial intercut, denounce the theatera for frivolous and unclean epectacniar their evi dence ie to me conclusive. 1 roll np on the negative aide of this question ail the respect able printing presses of the continent. A second reason for thinking that the tbeaten ol America are not improving In moral tone, I find in the show windows and on the bulletin boards and board fences from ocean to ocean. I suppose that these are honest pictures and representations of wha actually occurs night by night in such places, Are these theecanea to which fathers and mothers take their daughters and young men their afiUnctd? Would you allow iu your parlor such brazen indecency as in maDjr nf tbe theaters of the United States must be dramatized if the board fences and the show windows are not a libel? If there pictures are genuine their work is damnable. What is wrong in the parlor is wrong on tbe stage. It ought to take just as niucu com pleteness of apparel to be honorable in one place as to be honorable in another. I de clare 11 you fathers and mother! who take yonr children to see such Sodomic lack ol robe afterward live to see your families ploughed np with libertinism and profiigacy, you will get what you deserve. As though a surplus of sanctity had been gained by lenten service throughout the United States, right after Etatcr, north,south, cast and west, the streets of America become picture caller-' ies tlmt rival the museums of Pompeii which are kept under lock and key. Where are the mayors of the cities and the judges of the courts and the police that each things are permitted. Judging from their depraved advertisements that Dlotch np our cities to day. I conclude that many of the theaters are not on their way to millennial excell ence. Another reason for thinking that the thea ters of America are not improving in moral tone is that the loreign Importation of bad morals during the past few years been eo im mensely popular. France sent to thia coun try her queen of the atage, one whose in famy was not a shame, bat a boast. A more popular actress or one more dloolnte never never appeared in America. England aho sent to os delectable specimens of ineffable sweetness commended by a prince not as good as his mother. From some ol the noto rious foreign importations of onr American stage, I conclude that if many of onr thea ters are advancing in high moral tone the advance is imperceptible. Another reason Jot thinking that the American stsge is not improving it that the majority of tbe plays in onr time are degrad ing in their tendency. I will not mention the names of many of the modern plays that are very popular lest I advertise that which I condemn and beaido that their very names are too suggestive of perfidy. If I mention any of these objectionable plays it must be those that are a little past, but will come back again no donbt te de bauch the pnblic taste when its appetite de mands a change of carrion. Take the manu- s ripts of tbe plays for the last fifteen years and admitting that one-tenth ol them are free from objections, the other nine-tenths ere unfit to be witnessed by the families of America. Subtract from these nine-tenths of improper plays the libertinism and the do mestic intrigue and the innendoes and the vulgarities and marital scoundrelism and yon would leave Ihom power .ess in the dra- matld market. You who went to aee “East Lynne” and took your families with you now in yonr cooler moments read that pity with its fesdd and. malodorous chapters which chase tho dishonest wife from ini quity to Iniquity and ask if that is an im provement on the former drama. You might as wqlvgq and alt down in a bar room with a bevy o( village loafers and expect to got morel'aiePMtlou from them aa from the popu lar phkp’/ '^Hnket-ol Leave Men," with IF >ictajr**o/Ylllstoy aud low slang. "A Naw Vay to Few Old Debts'! is e uracuoal ealogy m -'.ebeptioa if it ha pMcucefi upon the baa, lud.iSe men and tha-jrooien wno go into a b'.-J&r andsna i"Sir Oma’’Duma. uvtuK So pilfa »TiWh tndyYdt: ^ r 8n» Conquer" is aa full of moral malaria as llonun campagna of typhus fever on an August night. Writ* Oliver Goldsmith name at tbe top of it and at the bottom of it and at the close of each act and you cannot cover the S rofano and salacious. Tne "School for candal" is rotten clear through with lasciv iousness and if a man should go into your house aud take that play from under hia arm and read certain passages to your family the bones in his body which were not broken would not be worth speaking of. Bat wno would have the heart even to mention the "Don Ceaars,” the "Barinalda and the "Peg Woffingtons" and "Lady Gay Spankers" and the “Coortlya" and tne pol troon! and the scapegraces and the people minua all excellencies plus all abominations that gather men, women, boyi and girls by tens of thousands, night by night into tho lzzrretteol the average American theater. An average ol a thousand boys ol this city every nignt breathe this pestilence. Hear it, parents who let yonr boys stay out ’till 11 o'clock without finding where they have been I Hear it, philanthropist who want tbe coming generations to be better than this. Ouce in a while a great tragedian renders King Lear or Hamlet or Merchant ol Venice in the presence ol entranced audiences, but tbat style of play ie In as small proportion to tbe imbecile and depraved plays ol America as the few dropi of good blood are to the bad blood in a man who passed out of yellow fever Into Asiatic cholera and is now winding up with first-class smallpox. From the atyle of theatrical plays whioh have been in majority for the hut ten years, I conclude tbat tbe American theater is not improving in high moral tone. Now I demand that there be a conspiracy to rescue the drama from 111 vile surround ings. Let all reformers and philanthropises and Christians attempt this dlsenthrallment. The drama is not the theater. The theater is of human creation. Tne drama is tbe lit erary expression of a feeling which God put in the tinman eonl. Borne people apeak of tbe drama a: though it were aometbing built up auteide of ourselves by tbe Congreves and tbe Goldsmiths and the Shale- apearea and tbe Sheridene of literature, and that then we attune our tsates to correspond with human inventions. Not at all. The drama is an echo from something divine empianted in onr immortal souls. It is seen liras in tbe domestic circle among tbe chil dren three oc four yean of ege playing with their dolls and their cradles and their carta- teen ten years after in the playhoaiee of wood—ten yean after in the parlor charades —after that in the elaborate impersonations in the academies of music The»pti and .K<chylus and Sopbociei aud Euripides merely dramatized whet was in the Greek heart, Terence and Plautus and 8eneca merely dramatized wbat was in the Iloman heart Congreve and Farqnbir merely dra matized wbat was In the English heart. Kxcine, Corneille and Aifiere only drama tized what was in the French and Italian heart. Sbakspcare only dramatized what was in the groat world’s heart. Tbe dlthy* ramble and clinic drama, tbe sentimental drama, the romantic drama were merely ecboea of the human sonL I do not speak of tbe drama on the poetic ■keif nor of the drama in the playhoute; bat I speak of the dramatic element in your soul and mine. We make men responsible for it. Tney are not responsible. They are re sponsible for the perversion of it but not for tne original implantation. God did that work and I suppose He knew what He was about when He made ns. W* are nearly all moved by tbe spectaenlar. When on thanks- giving day we assemble, and the cbnrch it decorated with the cotton, and tbe rice, and the apples, and the wheat, and the rye, and the oats, onr gratitude to God Is stirred. Every parent likes to go to the sohool exhi bition with its recitations, and Its dialoues, and its droll costumes- Tne torchlight proctaion of tha political oempaign is merly a dramatlzttion of the principles involved. No intelligent man can rook in any secular or religious direction without finding this dramatic element re vealing, unrolling demonsuratlve itself. Wbat shall we do with it? Shall we suppress it? You can as easily suppress the Creator. You mey direct it, you mey educate it, you may purify it, you may harness it te luuttipoteut usefulness and that it is your duty to do. Just as we cul ture tbe taste for tbe beautiful and the sub lime by bird-haunted glen and roystering stream and catarac's let down in uproar over the mossed rocks, and the day lifting its ban ners of viqtory in the east and ■ then setting everything on fire os it retreats through the gates of tne west, an Austerlitzand Waterloo of an August thunder storm blazing their batteries into a sultry afternoon, aud the round glittering tear of this world wet on tbe cheeks of the night as in this way wo cul ture onr taste for tbe beautiful ana sublime, so iu every lawful way wo are to culture the dramatlo element in our nature by every staccato passage in lttcr.itur-; by antithesis and synthesis, by every tragio passage iu hu man life. Tha plainest man has in his plainest day something hiatrlonie. This dramatlo ele ment in all our natures, or nearly all our natures, is exceptionally strong or weak in aothe, jnat as there may be a million men who admire poetry whirs there is only one poet, one Tennyson to every land, or one Longfellow to America. Just us there may be a million people who admire music where there was only one Ole Bull to Nor way and one Wagner to America. Now I have to tell you not only that God bos implanted this dramatlo element in our natures, bat I have to tell you iu tbe scrip tures he cultures It, he appea's to it. He develops It. I do not care where you open the Bible your eye will fallfttpon a drama. Here It Is in the Book of Judges: tba fire tree, the vine, the olive tree, tho bramble— they all make speeches. Then at the close of the scene there is a coronation and the bramble is proclaimed king. That is a po litical drama. Here it is in tbe Book of Job: enter Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar, Elihu and Job. Tbe opening act of the drama all darkness; the closing act of the drama all sunshine. Magnificent drama is the Broke! Job. Hera it is In Solomon’s song. The region, an oriental region—vim-yards, pomegranates, mountain of myrrh, flock of sheep, garden ol spices, a wooing, a bride, a bridegroom, dialogue after dialogue, intense, gorgeous, all-suggestive drama is the Book of Solomon's Bong. Here it Is in the Book of Luke: costly mansion in the night. Alt the windows bright with the illumination. The floor aquake with the dance. Betnrncd eon in costly garments which do not very well fit him, perhaps, for they were not made for him, but ha past swiftly leave off his old ? »rb and prepare for this extemporfxsd levee, ■outing son at the back door, too mad to go in because they aro making snoh a fuss. Tears of sympathy running down the old man’s cheek at tho story of hisaon'ewan- dering, and suffering tears of joy at bis re turn. Hear Murdock rccito tho prodigal sou In one of his readings and you will not know whether to aob or shout. Revivals of religion have started just under the reading lof that Hotil-revulutioulzing drama of tbe Prodigal Sen. Here it la in the Book of Jtevelai-'u:i: crvstaline sea, pearline g*t. r opaline river, amethystine capstone, thoW" •ring coronets, one vial poured out incar nadine the .watera; cavalrymen of heaven galloping on white horses; nations in dox- ology, hallelujahs to the right of them, lia|- lelnj*ha to the feft of them. As the Illblb open.-, with the drama of the first psradlse bet the God who starts you will help you f through and great will be the eternal r.s-1 wards lor the assiduoue and tho plucky, 1 wards lor the assiduous and tbe plucky. What we want, ministers and laymen Is to get our sermons aud our exhortations and our prayers out ol the old mt. . Isee a great deal of diaciusion in the rellgioui papers about why people do not eonie to church.i Tbey do not come beoause they are not in-l ten-ted. The old hackneyed, religious] praises will never arrest the masses. What we want to day la to freshen up. Wewant to drive out tbe drowsy, and the prosaic, and the tedious, and the humdrum, and intro duce tbe brightness, slid the vivacity, and tbe fire of religious zeal, and I do not know of auy way of doing It as well as through the dramatic. As to the drams of your life and mine it will soon end. There will be no enoore to bring us back after tbe curtain ha3 dropped. Atthe beginning of tbat drama of Ufa atood a ehulle, at the end of it will atand a grave. Tbe first act, welcome. The last act fare well. Tho intermediate acie, banquet aud bailie, procession, bridal and funeral, songs and tears, laughter and groans. It was not original with Bhakapeare when he said "All tne world’s a stage and all the men and wol men merely players.” He got it from Stl Pan I, who fifteen centuries before that had wriiten: “We are made a spectacle onto the world, and to angels and to men." A spec tacle in u coli.-eum fighting with wild beast* ie an amphitheater, the galleries full, look ing down. Here we destroy a lion. Here we grapple, with a gladiator. When we fall] devils shout. When we rise, angels sing. Gallery above gallery; gallery ol our depart ed kindred looking down to aee if wo are faithful and wertry of our Christian ances try, hoping for our vlotory, wanting to throw us a garland, glorified children and parents with cheer on cheer urging us on. Gallery ol the martyrs looking down. The Poly carps. and the Ridleys, aud the McKaila, and tbs Theban legion, and the8cotch covenant ers, and they of the Brussels market-place, and of Piedmont—crying down from the galleries,“Gqd gave us tbe.vlctoryjand He will give It you.” Gallery of angels looking down—cherubic, scraphlo.archangelic—clap ping their wings at every advantage we gain. Gallery of the king from which their waves a sacred hand and from which there comes a sympathetic voice saying, “Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life." Oh the spectaclo in which you and I ere the aotorsl Ob, the piled-up galleries I looking down! among; thk jerseys. BILL ARP. HIS WEEKLY PHILOSOPHY TAKES A BUCOLIC TURN. He UOBgratulates Hlau-ir l'o»t IS. are Jlouaaboid Has 8fcV.lv IPs e-d tba winter and Mike. JO* Berne Allusion, to "Sweet Mav"-Ita unset oa the onudr-n, Eto., Era $*e*eie. Captain Jim Ecgllth received on Friday two bcariiHul Jersey heifer calvna from tho heard of Mnowe, of Frcdcrlckabuig, Md. They are flnoly bre.lt exquUlto in color and ahape and cost Cap tain about 1300 each. 1 It a fact beyond dliputo tbat the Jersoya aro on the blrgest sort cl a "boom," not only In Georgia hoi,all over tho United Btatci. 'Khava now nearly five hundred A. J. G. 0, reg- lsupld Jorseys fh our stato, yet we uo behind both -Bls'jftma and Mlnlulppt, but an fut cloning In On Jkth. ThiB number will be augmented by cor- a rag hundred before '85 rolls around. VI learn that Mr. Geo. T. Hodgson Is negotla- tin. (or a farm near Atlanta, with tbe view of ■ Uklmi a largo herd. There are several gentle- rLlMtgagi'd lu gelling together email herda that l-'aLvwj»jr> V’fi-lcyi" of tha.*1 yira- <’.':.«V.bhnately be Inoreaiwd. Among thoae we dlraT ’ mention tho following: Messrs, W. W. Boyd, W. A. Hemphill, W. H. Thomson, W, I, Hey wood and A. J. Ormc. Mind yon, when Iaay drama I donot mean myth or fable, for my theology la of the old- eat type—500 years old, thousands of years old, aa old as the Bible. When I speak of tho drama at tbe beginning or close of the bible, I do not mean an allegory but I mean tbe truth so stated tbat iu grouping and in atar .llng effect it Is a God given, world-re- sonudtng, heaven echoing drama. Now, if God implanted this dramatlo element in our natures, and if He has cultured and develop ed it in the scriptures, I demand that you re cognize 1L Because tbe drama has again and again been employed for destructive purposi s Is nothing against tbe drama, auy more than musle ought to be accursed be cause it has been taken again ami again into the saturnalian wiasxila of 4,000yews. Will you refuse to enthrone mualo on the church organ because the art hu been' trampled again ami again under the feet of the lascivi ous dance? It is nothing against painting and sculpture that in Corinth and Heroula- neitm tney were demonstrative of vul gar, ty and turpitude. The pollution of painting shall throw no discredit on Power's "Greek Slave,” or Church's “Heart of tb* Amies,” or Bnben’s "Descent from the cross,’’or Angelo'e “List Judgment." The very faot tbat again and again the drirna hts been dragged though tbe sewen of In iquity ie the reason why we ahonld snatoh ii np and stlrt itont on a grand and a boly ann a magnificent mission. Tbe dramatic element may be forced into the service of our holy religion. Yon Sab bath school teachers ought to have mors of tbe element in yonr inatruetlons. By graph ic aerpture scene, by anenlote, by descrip tive gesture, by impersonation urge your claaaea to right action. Yon had in your International aeries of lesions tbe story of Mary in Bethlehem. Tnose teachers who most graphically presented tbat gospel hero ine got tbe firmest grip upon the a ten lion of their listeneri. We want in all our schools, and college*, and prayer meetlnn, and In all our attempts at reform, and in all our churches to nave less of the style didactio and more oi the atyl* dramatic. Fifty fssays about tbe sorrow of the poor could not effeot me as a little drama of acci dent and suffering 1 aaw one slippery morn ing in tba streets ol Philadelphia. Just ahead of me was a lad, wretched in apparel, hie limb amputated at the knee; from the pallor of the boy’e cheek the amputation had been not long before. He bad a package of broken food under bis arm—food he bed begged I suppose at tbs doors. As he pawed on over the slippery pavement cautiously and carefully I steadied him nntil bis cratch slipped and he fell. I helped him up as well as I could, gathered fragments as a ell as I could, put them under oue arm and the crutch under the?other arm; but when I saw the blood run down hia pale cheek I burst into tears. 4 i(ty essays about the sufterings of the poor could not touch one like that little drams of accident and suffering. Ob. we want in our differant department* of usefulness—and I address hundreds oi peo ple who are trying to do good—we went more of tbe dramatic element and leu of tbe dietetic. Tbe tendency in this day is to drone religion, to whine religion, to cant re legion, to moan religion, to croek religion, to • rpulchriz* religion when w* ought to pre sent it in animated and epectacular mea ner. Bankstb morning by Babbath morning I ad dressed many theological students who are mooring for the ministry. They come in n here from tbe different lnetttutione. I say to them thia morning: if yon will go home and look over the history of tha church yon will find tbat thue men have brought most souls to Christ who have been dramatic. Kowiand Hill, dramatic; Thomas Chalmers, dramatic; Whitefield, dramatic; Bonrda- lone, dramatic; Kenelon, dramatic; Dr. Knott, dramatic. When you get into tbe ministry ii yon attempt to culture tbat ele ment and try to wield it for God you will meet with mighty rebuff and caricature and eccleUstieal counsel will take yonr caw in charge and they will try to put you down; By tho success attalnod by eomo ol onr brecdois, wo aro led to oxpect great results from our Urargla raised Jerseys. Mr. J. B. Wade bu Just completed a coven days’ test ol Tciiclls 2d, who mtdo tho wonderful record of 18 pounds 4 ouccex For a three years nfco months' belter thia Is high up on Ibe list, as few of this ege have ever been able to equal It. Mr. Wada thinks ibe will t4kt her dam's record of 22 pounds throo ounces. He also tested Romping Less, same age, who made U pounds 10 onncea, which Is bud ta beat Mr. Richard Peters bu mtdo a valuable addition to tbe Jersey stock by Ibe purchase ol a largely Inbred Bt. Heller null, 78 per cent He Is Ibe Arst representative oi this family ever brougnt south and bu lew equals and no snperlar in all of old SL llcller's descendants. sirs. Yancey and Hunntcutt, of Atbons, have rendered good service in tho promotion of this business by tbe purchase of Itubana Rioter, one of tbe closest bred ball* In Ibis country to Uro celebrated cow Mery Ann of HU Lamberts, (record 27 pound! v,i ounces, 7 days). lie is ono ol the Ancst bulls in tbe United Biatce, and etaudi with out an equal In tbe sonib. He wu bought at an enormous prlco to bead tbelr herd, and la well worlb a trip to Athene loses. Judge Hopkins bujuet brought south some very Ano belters of this same strain (Hoke Pogis) to be bred to bis Ano young bull Prospects Rioter. We may well expect some valuable additions to tbe choice animus bo now possesses. Moists. L. J. and O. W. Hill bought at tbe Kellogg Importation ulo In New York two besutilal heifers that aro now on a visit to Prospects Rioter. II good breeding la any Indication wo certainly will cbtaln lino results from this crow, Messrs Hodgson Bros, of Atbons, have bought and recently brought south a Klgnsl, Grand Duke Alexis bull, with which thev ezpeot greally to In crease the value of tbls strain. He pememet 75 per cent of tbe blood elements ol TenoeUa (record 22 ponndx I ounces In 7 days) and with tho exception of Slgnalda in Tonneseee, 1a the highest brod bnU of this popular cross In tbe south. Mr. Wlmblsb, of LaOrange hu bought a son of Mr. Walker's celebrated bull, Explrdeo, with which he extracts lo elevate tbe>tandard ol Jerjeyi In Troup. [ A Latter frew JlVirns Darla. The Keokux (Iowa) Constitution prints tbe fol lowing: Beauvoir, Mias, April 10, 18M.-W. W. Dodge. Dear Bit: I have reoelved yonro of tbe Hth lasL, Informing me that you would, with others, pese through Mlulsalpp I on tb* Jiduou route to New Orleans, to reach that place on the 22nd lust., end klndlysay that the Kulgbur of Pjlhlss and mauy ctUzeas of your commonwealth dealre to meet meat some i<olnt upon that IIb* of travel. I do not reside near the New prietui and Jackson railroad, but upon tba New Orleans •ad Habile railway, about midway between those dtice. I could hardly venture to ask so large a body to turn tbua far out of tbelr MUta merely for the purpoeeot honoring me with a visit, but not will- leg to deprive myselif of the pleasure of meeting those who so graciously exoreoa tha wMs toeej me, I will 10 to New Orleans. Wednesday, April_**, tha day altar your arrival, and be happy to meet you and other* at ibe Ht. Charles howl, ebout noon of tbat day. It would be a sincere groUAcatlon in me to meet the eon of my dear and honored friend, GeWral A. U Dodga, and tbe randron of iffy old commander and much esteemed auoclaw of many yeero. General Heavy Dodge. While de laying to answer tbe last letter t received from tout father, tbe sad intclllg-rnro of bts death reached me. He area a great foes, not to bts family only, but to bis country alao,and I trait hi* views in reward to the geuerml policy of our country wlU Uv» and bear tho Irnlt he dyelrod. . With sincere regard end beet wishes lo too and your*, lam, faithfully. Jarraarow Davis. Afc.Tk.r tlse* Mae lieee. From tb* Otl City Derrick. Oue o( oar yoang men went Into a cigar store Uu other day for a few of hta favorite brand, aad aj the German countess handed turn bis "Henry over tbe counter he observed: ifeorr cIat ii dct4-" lib dot soP' replied Hi* tender hearted girl, "I vo* so sorry, for ho did make gout cigars.” Daniel Webster, begun a great speech by saying that when a vessel had been otorm- tossed for many days in cloudy weather and Ioat her reckoning the first thing to do when sunshine came was to figure up and find sat where ebe was, or words to tbat effect. The agricultural department sends men circular and asks "how did yonr cattle come out of winter quarters?" It hat been a hard winter and a miserable •pring, and we farmers have been demoral ized and disheartened, anil now when tbe storms and floods and cyclones have ceased to afiliet us, and tbe blessed inn oi this bless ed month of May is warming np onr hearts and homes, it is natural for ns to sum it all up and see where we are and wbat we hare lest, end be able to say how we have come out of winter quarters ourselves. We went into those quarters on the heel of a stingy crop, and take it ail in all, have had a hard ttme; but, nevertheless, we are lively and thankful, for it might hove been worse. The elements have been on a fearful rampage, end the floods have furrowed the fields and carried onr best soil awsy down into tbe gnlf of Mexico, and left tu more bottom land than we wanted. Tha oorn we h»d planted has de parted three coasts, and the compost with it, and the work is all to be done Aver again. Fenors and rails and water gates have gone uu a ccunhlon, and there's work to do—Iota of work—but there’a nobody dead or hurt, nobody lick but me, and I've got only the rheumatiam. and nobody carealint me—that is—except Mrs. Arp, and she says she does care a little. I've tried moit everything that everybody lias told me, except poke berries, which a preacher said was a sure cure, and I'm wailing for them to come; for I don’t want to go granting around like I was only half a man and prematurely superannuated. It is bad, very bsd, and jerks me around lively, and makes me get up away in tiro night and hunt liniment ami sit by the fire; bat it ia a friendly disease, tbat stlcketh to you like a b‘o)her, for It dodges from tbe shoulder to the cellar bono, and from there to the arm, and then to the back of the neck and then to the ahonlder again, and seems lo aay. I’ll play aronnd a little jnat fora ehange, bnt I will hover leave tbee or foruke thee. So its all right, and I'll compromise with fate and fortnneon rheumatism. It ta not lo be compared to war, or peatllence or death in the family, or long lingering disease. So f think that, take it ait iu ail, we have come out of winter quarters pretty well, and as tbe good old Methodiat preachers say In their prayers, We thank Thee, Oh Lord, that it ia aa wi ll with ua aa nlmt it ia. 1! i-iainga on the return of Bpring, the time when tbe littlo chaps can go barefooted ami paddle in the branch aud fish for minnows, and the older onos can ramble ever the fields and marshes and gal bar wild bowers aad make bcquels for tbe parlor and the dining room I gu ebout with them most everyday and en joy it. i liuve lo get fishing poles and make whistles, and cut tho rough twiga from tho crabapplcs that have such lovely blooms, and I havo to balttbo hooks for Mrs. Arp and the girls, for they don’t llko to handle the little cloan wiggling worms, and when they catch a fish I nave to got the hook out of bis mouth, and I have to watch out for snakes and (lizards, and hlezo out tire way generally, and of course it makes me feel proud and consequential, sorter like a rooster who gives warning qf the hawks, and makes a powerful to do, and when lie finds a bug, calls all tbe hens and cats it himself just be fore tbey get there. May hu come with all her sweet memo ries and maiden ways. Tho children don’t bare to bu penned up in tbe house now. They are ever so happy. Lut night it was •plendid to hear them singing their littlo songs, so aa to get a little grand child to sleep, and it took "Dixie," and "There was a frog who lived In a pool" and "We’ll pa;s over Jordan," and "Shinbone alley," and several more, but the little thing surrendered when they (truck up "Kcotiamla burning," andehe wu soon in the land of happy dreams. These little grandchildren were born for tbe country, and they all ought to be there. Of course tbey can’t be exhibited to vlaltora very often, and don't have to dress in their fine clothes, but they are the better oil for it GEORGIA SPECIALS. CanriRsviLLX, April 28.—Saturday lut Mr. w C. Brooks, an Old citizen <4 tbls county, living near Stamp creek, brought to town a wegon load of meat, consisting of sides, cbonldero and hams. It wu killed la 1882. HAWXnfiriua, April a.-Tbe recent heavy rain and cold weather hu very materially retarded the Brow* Of our growing erope. both of cotton and corn Tho cotton In eome plscea looks as Hit wu d Fi“f,»nd*auch of It doubtless will die. Corn Is smad for this lime ol the year, and he* that yellow unhealthy appearance, which-requiressnuihine and general showers to bring it out. lhe rolling land are badly wanht-d. In tome ptaces tom up m great snlleyt, which bu injured it badly. 1 Macks. AprilA Ire occurred In Hawkins vllle early to day. It originated in the hallding occupied by 8. J. Shepherd, and consumed an en tire blccb on the cast tide of Jackson strecL Tbe ltmn are about 115-000; Insurance 910:000. Nashviux, Aprils:—A told wave has visited onr accilon tho lut teyr days, and making vegeta tion look rather pale, after two and a half lushes rainfall Monlay, the weather became very cold Jbr this aeclicm. Tho little cotton Ie djlng- and want! tome hot cun Crape are, however, looking well lor so backward a spring Tho oat crop la boi ler than onr must sanguine expectations early in the season, aud early varieties In full head, and we are cafe la tho way of horse .‘nod. Block of all kinds look well. Wo have experienced not mere than the usual mortality with sheep, hogs and cattlo. Aumista. April 23-.—Tho superior court Is now engaged tho third lime with- the oue of Goorgo R. Dorsey vtthe street railroad, a suit lor damage*. Hit leg wu cut off several years ago by an cngtno, Dorsey obtained u high a* ten thousand dollar* damage* and hMaecounssl James C. C. Black, H. B. D. Twiggs and Fred Lockhart. Daoikn, April 29-—John Turner, a negro raft hand from Liberty county, entered tho residence of Mrs. DeLagal In tbe morning about OX o'clock and when ordered out by Miss Ratio DeLagal, vvhoio mother wu abacol front homo on a visit to- friends In Florida, not only refuaed to leavo the home, but In a most lmnudeut manner, aakcl that ho mlsht bo favored wlthsomemualc on the piano. T Marshal Hopkins was sent for and with the- ■tanceol Deputy Marshal Guy ton, made the- necessary arrest. Justice Kenan heard thecaseand bound Turner ovtr for bit appearances! the sups- rlorcourt, Axing tho bond at 85CO. Macon, April so.—Tho grand lodge ol Royal. Arch Masons convened lu tho grand lodge hall In Ma-oulc building thia morning at 10 o'clock. Tho grand high priest delivered hle> annual addrou. The following lodge* aro represented: Augusta,OF Lewis, prosy; Georgia, Thoa Bal- iautlnc, H P; Constantino, J R Wells, M P; Dar ter. H Mlddlobrooka; Glenn, J W Taylor, U P: Pythgoras, U C Burr, U P; LaFayetto, W It Gra ham. U P; Albauy, C Wemlowsky, king; Mount Zion, c L Wilson, H P; Fort Valley, D L Rots, U P; Tilon.O O Bryan, HP; 3jhomuton, THBhar- mon, H P; Schley, J M Mobley, II P; Nownan, W Mitchell, H P, O McLen- on king; Adoneram, TBurry, HP;Stephen A Bordtx king; Laurent. K BellAowers. II P; Mys tic, A M Uawhreu, U P; Jackson, E R Pound, H P; Henola, J P Taylor, king; Trenton, J W Ku>«y, UP; CM Tatum, ioribe: Perry, J B Smith, H P; Haynes, U N llotllAold. II V. l'ut Grand uigti Prlost Lambdln announced that u Ire had held that potlllon for three years. The folloalug officer* wero elect d: W A Gra ham, grand high priest; A W Nollham. deputy graud high prleM; J w Taylor, grand king: Thos. llallantyue.graun sertbo Joo K Wu" ~ ‘ It ii curious how cully folki change their opinions. Home of my oltler children used to think the younger ones were awful bsd anti ought to have lots of whipping, and If tbey had children they shouldn't do such things and so forth. Well, tbey have got children now, children of tbelr own, and they are about u bad as the common ran, but tbey don't get r ny whipping, and are not likely to get any, and they are most too pre cious to be scolded, and that is always the way, and it Is right, too, I reckon, for if tbe mother wu not blind to the faults of her bad children they wonld’nt get a good word from anybody. Sickness and badness run togeth er now. "Tbe little darling is tick, or she wouldent be so crosa.” "When he is well he is jnat u good u be can be.” Tbat is tbe modern philosophy, and so when tbe child is bad and cats up. and disturbs the general tranquility, It is sick and must have come carminative or cherry pectoral, or aomeotber hail tuted staff, and that gets up more (quelling and doe* lest good than a little dose ol carminaliv* with the palm of tbe handon eonie tender place that wu made for counter irritants. But May hu come atlut and tbero ie no excuse for anybody to be croe* or gloomy now. From time immemorial May bu been honored and sung mors than any other month, for it la* type of Ibe new birth of na ture. The ancient Britons danced around a May pole and forgot tbelr troubles. Tb* first May queen was Maid Marian, and Kobin Hood crowned her. The old Romans bad ffstivitle* moat all tbe month, and the Utb, 13th and 15th were dedicated to decorating the graves of the dead with flowers, and no body ever married on thoae three days for it wu believed that one of tbe wedded pair would die before tbe end of the year. How like those people our people are. Full of superstitions, and decorating the graves of the dead M they did. Tbe May day of tbe modern* came down to ua from the Romans celebrating five daya in honor of Flora, god- (lets of flowtn. l'hoae day* were from April 2»tbto May 2d; but tbe busy modern* couldent spare so much time and reduced the festival down to one, and a good many are too busy or too poor to tak* even one bolli- day. Wbat a glorious thing It would be if all the poor children who live in scanty bouses m crowded cltiu could get out in tbe country for even one day, and breath* the breath of spring, and gather flowers and be happy. Tbe good things ol ibis life are not for ail, and it is ud and pitiful, but tis true. But may be tftalr time will come—will come in a laud where flowers aud green fields and sunshine and happy boars can be had with out money and without price—I hope eo. Bill Asp. KSSSK. n olegtnt It n oue of much 4**tweet aud ip*.. legaot lunch wae aet all day, together with rcfreahmeutH which wm greatly enjoyed by the merntMT*. Thu next wmIoi* of tho lodgo will bo held In Atlanta, m the twocltiea, Macuu and At* Irtit'R, alternate. _ maulers of twenty-seven for the state of Georgia, annum bled In convocation In Maaonlc hall tO’davat li in. The following graud officers vrero re-elected: Mod 111. G F I.ewR most illustrious grand mas ter; Right III U G Burr, deputy graud master; Right 111. H K Moore, priucipal c inductor of the work; Right III, J K we IK grand treasurer; Right 111. A M WollhlOi grand recorder; Right III. H Middle brook*, grand captain of the guard: Right III. Johu F otiUwoll, grand chapUlu of work; Right 111. Jtocb Morris, sentinel. McVu.lx, April 80.*—A G McLean, of this place hu thirty acres In watermelons. They are Just bo ginning to run aud aro looking fine, considering the cold, backward spring. Tho woather Is very warm now, and tho7 will grow vigorously. Buchanan, April 30.—M. Y. Darnell, of Talla poosa, whllo handling what ho supposod to be an unloaded pistol, shot himself In tho hip on Friday lut. LuxrxiN, April 30.—Charles Darby, agod seven teen years, tbe son of James Darby, a farmer, re siding two miles north oi Lumpkin, wu drowned In a small pool of water near his residence yester day. It appears tbat tho deceased, In company with two other lads, wero standing on the brink of the pool, whon, walking on a place somewhat in- dined towards tho water and which had been made slick by tho deposit of mud In a recent rain, bla feet slipped and he fell la. Gao of his com- pan lor n plunged In after him, but wu reccued nlmsolf, by his brother, after a struggle. Bomg, April 30 — Mayor King to-day wrote a let* ter of Invitation to the New England editors to visit Romo during nbelr southern tour, lo case they accept our citizens will make every effort to make tbelr stay pleaAant nnd agreeable. Rev <i. A. Nannally, rocreUry of the building department of tho Baptist church, states that tweutythree ct arches have been built lu the soutborn aisles during lhe past six.months with aid rendered by tho department. Uommmviujc, April 10—HMrriag the recent rain*, which set onr farmers back somewhat, the crop pmspect Is fair In thlsscctton. Numbers of our citizens are being snmmonod before the Gutted Slates court la SAvannah as wit* peseta !• tho mo t trivial nutters. Ah Investigation of the officials there would do good. Butlkr, April 80.—Mr. Rufus Bullock, of this place, went down t) the factory ono week ago to day in a two-mulo wagot to boy a load of fodder, and hu not returned nor been heard from sli.ee. Some think be hu gone to Florida. Brunswick, April 30.—Kaiser's new brick block, comprising five handsome stores and large room for the First National bank, hu Just been com* pleted. It is one of tho handsomest brick build* their money here, and spend It freely for the ads ran cement of Brunswick. Brunswick will havo a grand county fair on Jane lOtb. llth and 13 b. J>. f. Dunn hu been elected E rchldcut, vice A. J. Crovatt resigned lu success Matured, and It Is hoped and expected that it will be the beat f*lr ever bold here Due notice will be published In Tjir Constitution. Athens, April W —George Long broke jail again in DanleUvlUe, after being securely cbslned with log chains to the floor and wall. Katqkton. April 80.—Memorial Day wu appro* prletely observed hero on the 28th Instead of the 2fth- Hon. John G. McHenry, of Madison, wu tbe orator, and delivered a feeling address. Valdsrta, May 1.—The district conference of the Methodist church bu been In session here for sev eral days, A large delegation of ministers and lay members wero la attendance, among them some prominent officials of tbe church. Truck acd vegetables are growing finely, and the planters ere pleased with the outlook. Athens. May L—A great many people living arouLd Athens are suffering with pneumonia, and many deaths from the fatal dliease have taken place. Eastman, May 1.—George Fuller, who was ar rested for the murder of Ed Curry on the 27th of , February, says a letter received yesterday evening, bad * preliminary trial before Justice Ryals, of tne Pond Town district and wa« discharged, having proved aatUNctorlly to the I usUce that ha. was elsewhere at the time the murder wu sUegeA to have been committed.