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GAINED _25_ POUNDS Bbooysvill" "Mi**.. Feb. 284.18S4. j FAYETTEVILLE GA have a youug man with liourjggi C with Rheumatism???coal*.?????* - ** ?? .. * ^ 1H Bottles ii well-able to go to work. Has otto Arf-??? 25 pounds in weight. Yours truly, H. 8HULB. I For sale 88 Wall St, Atlanta. | CONSTITUTION. REAL ESTATE LOANS FIVE YEAR LOANSl ON PLANTATIONS IN MIDDLE AND NORTHBRN GEORGIA On better terms than are offered In Atlanta Negotiated by FRaNCIS FONTAINE. Fitten Building, ATLANTA GA. VOLUME XVI. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1884.???TWELVE PAGES. PRICE 5 CENTS A COMPLETE PAPER. The Constitution Interests all Classes and Appeals to all Tastes. Tho leading topics of this week's issue are: Travel and Adventure???"Mr Camming chased by a Rhinoceros," "A Bride in Red." "Scenes at Mtfsowan," "Phases of Frontier Life," "A Curie us Application," A Night with Panthers," *??? Hoses in the Scudan," "Breadfrom Grass. TALMAGE'S SERMOJ^T: "IS LIFE WORTH LIVI-'G???? Abound tub Camp Fire???'???A Reply to W. H. Merlthew," ???Alter the Surrender,??? "A War FarmtiTe." Oua Humorous naiTize???Uncle Remus, ???Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf,??? ???Betsy Hamilton,??? ???Flurrldy Tennysy.??? Abound the Camp Fibk??????Glory Won by A cot dent,??? "A Patient Man." Oua Humorous Wbotrs???Uncle Remus, "Brer Pox and Brer Wolf:??? Beley Hamilton, ???Tom DavisBill Arp, "Coming Out ol Winter Quit ter!.'??? Sews op the Week??????All Through Dixie," ???The Week In Congress,??? ???News by Wire,??? "Short Nows Notes," ???Points About Peoplo," "Across the Water," ???Daring the Week,??? ???Georgia News,??? "The Political Field.??? Thx Constitution Departments???'???The Woman???s Kingdom,??? ???Oar Young People,??? "Answers to Correspondents,??? "Farms and Farmers;" ???Tho An ti-Liquor Fight,??? Editorials??????Notes, on Current Topics,??? ???Let ters From Our Readers,??? and many other thlnga ol Interest., Something to please every member of tho family. Only .1.95 n Tenr. In Clubs of Five, .1 Eflfti. jiibsgjbs at Once. TALMAGE???S SERMON. ???IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?" DIS CUSSED BY THE GREAT MAN. Yoa are to b* Rewarded, Not According to theOreat- DIM ofYoar Work, Bat AooordlDff to the Use You Make of tho Toioata You Pease**, Brooklyn, May 11.???Dr. Talmage preached this morning In the Brooklyn Tabernacle on tho subject "Is Life Worth Living???? The hymn before the sermon was: ???Come ye dlitonrolate whtre'e???er ye languish Come to the mercy seat, fervently kneel."- For the lesson Dr. Talmage read and ex posed the story of Job???s accumulated misfor tunes. The text was, Lamentations 111. 39: ???Wherefore doth a living man complain?" If we leave to evolutionists, said Dr, Tal- mage, to guess where we came from, and to the theologians to prophesy where we are go ing to, we have still left for consideration the fact that ws are here. There may be doubts about where the river rises and about where It empties, but there can be no doubt abont the fact that wo are Bailing on it. So I wonder not that eyerybody is asking tbo question ???Is Life Worth Living? Solomon in his unhap pier moments ssys it is not. Vanity, vex ation, no good are his estimate. He was a polygamist and that soured his disposition. One wife will make a man happy, more than one will make him wretched. But Solomon was converted from-polygamy to monogamy and the last line of his Inst book leave) him on the mountain ol apices. But Jeremiah iii my text says life is worth living. In a book supposed to be dirgeful and supulchral and called ???Lamentations" he sets forth the fact that tbo blessing of merely living Is so grand and exalted a blessing that, thongh all mis- fortunes and disasters were piled on a man, he has no right to complain. The anthor of our text breaks ont in startling intonation to ask all the centuries and ages of time, "Why should a living man complain???? A great diversity of opinion now as well as In olden times. Here is a young man, light hair, blno eves, sound digestion, generous salary, popular in soclsty, affianced happyliy, on the way to become a partner in a com. merclal firm of which he is now an important clerk. Ask him the question, ???Is life worth living??? and bo will laugh in yonr face at the question, saying, ???Yes; yes; yes!??? But here is a man who, somewhere in the forties has come to the top of the bill and every step has been a stumble and a braise. He nis been cheated out of what money be made. Those whom he united have proved deserters. His nervous system is out of tone and bis appetite Is poor, and what be does eat is not assimilat ed. Forty milts to the top of the bill of life have Deen like ascending the Matterhorn and he has vet to travel forty miles down again lo tbo foot of the hill, descent always more dangerous than aecent. Ask him whether life is worth living and he drawls ont a shiver- ing, lagabrioai and appalling, "ifojjuo!" In deed sometime you will find a man oscillat ing between-opfntons on this subject. As his' circumstances change his theories change. If of a very mercurial temperament bis opinion abont the worth or wortniessnsso^lifemay de pend upon the direction of the wind. If the wind blow from tbs northwest he will say yes, if the wind blow from the northeast he will say no. How then are ws to dsclds? Suppose we gather the human race in great convention in eastern or western hemisphere and pat the question to vote, requiring that all who believe in the affirmative say aye, and all who believe in the negative say no. While hundreds of thousands will vote In the affirmative, more' millions won Id vote in tbs negative, and because of tbs fact that mors people are in annoyance and trouble than in unalloyed prueperity, the noes would have it. The answer I give to-day is dliTerent from either answer end I think it will commend Itself to all who hear me as the right answer. If yon ask me wbetber live is worib living and answer with all tbe emphasis of body, mind end eonl: It all depends upon the kind of life yon live. First, a life that seta ont with tbe one idea of money???getting never pays for ;the reason yon will never get enough to satisfy yon. Tue poorest men ere those who have a mil lion dollars, and the next| poorest are these who have a half million. There is not a scis sors grinder on tbe meets of New York or Brooklyn that is so absorbingly anxious to make money as those men who have for many yean piled it up in Hocks or government se curities or tenement booses or city blocks. Yon ought to see them jump when the fire belt rings. Yon onght to serntinizs their feelings wheu reformation in tariff is pros posed. Their nerves tremble like harp strings bat without any mnaic in the vibration. Tney read tbe morning report of Wall street doings with concernment that threatens pa- ralysis or apoplexy. More probaoly they have a private telegraph in their house or telephone, through wnich they catch every breath of change in tbe money market. They are eaten op with tbe disease of accn- mnlatlon. It gets into their heart, into their liver, into tbelr spleen, into their brain, into tbeir bones. Chemists have analyzed tbe human body and found it to be made np of so much lime and eo much msguesia ana (0 much chloride of potasiam. if these finan cial behemoths were analyzed by some moral cherais , they wonld be found to be made no of copper and gold and silver and ztno and lead and coal and Iron. That stylo of life is not worth living. There are so many earth quakes in It. There are so many agonies In it. Tbere are so many shipwrecks in it. Thera are so many perditions In It. They build their castles and open tbeir picture gal leries and summon the prlma donnas and inuke every endacement for happiness to come, but she will not. They send footman ed and postillioned equipage to fetch her but she will not ride to their doers. They send a person to escort her thither, bat she will not tsketbeirerm. They call to her from tbe npbolsiered bslcony, bnt she looks tbe other wev. Theyiutke tbeir gateways triumphal armies to temp her bat she will not pass un der. They set for her a golden throne before a golden plate, but sue turns away from the banquet. However, this is the failqre of those who have largest accumulation. Tne most of those who make the one idea of life money-making die far short of afituence. It is estimated in ell parte of this land that only two ont of a hundred bnsiness men are suc cessful. A life with the idea of money making domiuanHs not worth living. So also a life that chiefly strives for world- ly approval is a failure. _ Tbe two most un fortunate men for tbe next six months will be the two men who secure the nominations for the presidency. The two reservoirs of malediction are gradually filling up, gallon abovo gallon, hogshead full after hogshead full and about mid-summer the two reser voirs will bs brimming fall and hose will be be attached to each of these two reservoirs and they will begin to play on the two nomi nees and they will have to stand and take it, the falsehood, tho sarcasm, the caricature, tbe venom, the cetermanling, the anathema, the filth, and they will be thrown down into it and rolled over and choked andenbmerged and strangled,and at eveiy sign of returnlog animation barked at by all the honnds of po litical party from the St. Lawrenco to Mobile bay. To win that great privilege a hundred candidates to-day with their thousand oi ^BntthVm'seryof a 8 life aiming forpollllcal preferment is seen on a smaller scale in tbe strife for social position. In every communi ty to win It, men and women by tho thous and are striving with attention terrific. What is social position? It is not easily de fined bnt all know what it is. Good morals and education are not necessary for it' but wealth or show of wealth is indispensable. A man may be as notorious for his libertinism ns the night is famous for its darkness, bnt he moves it In. There are hundreds of out and out rakes in high sccal position in America to-day. Their names appear |n the list of important personages at the great levees. They have annexed for themselves all the known vices and are looking for other worlds of diabolism to conquer. Good morals are not necessary for what is called high so cial position. Nor is intelligence necessary. There are in that realm, men who wonld not know an adverb from an adjective if they should meet it a hundred times a day and could not write a note ot acceptance or re grets without the aid of a secretary. They bought their libraries by tbe square foot, only anxious to have the books in Rnsslan binding. Impersonations of ignorance so enblimo they make the English grammar dis reputable and yet they find the finest parlors open to them. Bnt while good morals or in telllgence aro not necessary, wealth is; (very- thing, or the appearance of it. It makes no difference how begot his money if he only got it. Ho may have gained it by falling four or five times, that boing in this country the most rapid mode of accumulation. The quickest way of getting In to high social post lion is to buy all sou can on credit, then put your proD(g.(0||MNoqr wile???s name, make i provision for some special friends and then make an assignment and tin'll go, no one knows where, until you turn up in time to start again. Don???t yon see bow beautifully you have put your neighbors in the came kind of business in bid predicament, and so much sooner yon can get in high social posi tion. Bnt really get ont of money and how soon you will drop out, and the higher yon are up tho harder you will drop, Tens of thousands of people anxious to reach that so clal realm and thousand! in It fear they will lose their grip, and every year and month and day there are changes that involve heart- breaks never reported. Social life is In per petual II utter with the delicate question es to who shall be let In and whosbali be pushed out. end the battle goes on, pier mirror against pier mirror, upholstery against up holstery, Gbickerlog grand against Ohleker- ing grand, wine cellar against wine cellar, drawing room against drawing room, equip age against equipage. Insecurity and uncer tainly rampant, and it is wretenedness en throned and torture at a premium, and a life not worth living. Thus I put before yon the lifetime mis takes or a great multitude. But now I sketoh for yon a life worth living. A young man says: I am here. For my ancestry I am not responsible, others decided that. For ray temperament lam not responsible, God gave me that. Here I am in tbe afternoon of tbe 19:b century, end I am twenty veers. Let me take an account of Hock: A body which is a divinely constructed engine and 1 mast put it to tbe best uses and allow nothing to damage tbis rarest of machinery. Feel, and they wean locomotion; eyes, and they mean cipiclty to pick out the best way: ears, and they mean teiephonea of connection with all the world, and capacity to lake in music and the voices of friendship, tbe best music, A tongue and with it an almost Infinity of ac centuation. Yea, bands to welcome, to re sist, to lift, to strike, to wave, to bless, to help myself end help others. Surrounding galleries of a world which, after 0,000 years of battling with tempest and accident, is, even in its dilapidation, better than any arch itect, human or angelic, coaid havednagbted. Two lamps for me, a golden lamp and a silver lamp, tba one set on the sapphire mantle of tbe sky, the other on the j?? mantle of tbe night. More than that, at twenty years of ago I have something tbatdefies all inventory of valuables, a soul with capacity to love and hate and choose and reject and rejoice and suffer. Platossys it is immortal. Confucius says it is immortal. Seneca ssys it is Immor tal. An old book found in our family relics of worn-out cover, some of its pages almost obliterated by much perusal, joint in with tbe other books end stye lam immortal. Now, I most lay ont my plans for sixty years' in this world and that will make me eighty. I may not live an hour, bat I mast have plans, and so I take in calculation sixty more years added to my past twenty, and 1 most keep in mind that tbeae sixty years are a short preface to tbe 600,000 qatntilllooa of years that make np tbe rulnmeof my exist ence. These then are my resources end my opportunities. If tbere be an all wise and ail-bmificent Being anywhere in the uni verse to help me I went Him at tbis tremen dous juncture. Tbe old leatber-ooverod book among tbe family relics says tbere is a God, and mat for tbe sake of Hu son, one Lord Jeans, He will help. To Him I apply. Now 1 start for it. Sixty yeam to do fur myself and to do for others. Tbis body I shall de velop by all industries, by all gymnastics, by all fresb air and annabine. and tbis son! ft stall be swept and garnished end glorified by ell that I can do for it and all that I can get God to do for it. I am going to have It a Lnpembnrg of all grand pictures, an orches- traof ail grand harmonies, a palace in which God and righteousaese shall bold dominion. I wonder how many kind words I ctn utter in the remaining sixty yean that will bring me to eighty. I will try. I wonder how many kind deeds I can do in these six com ing decades. I will try. Lord God, help me in this consecration! Well, busy life opens for that young man. Disappointments chase him. Graves open all around him He makes mis akes and falls but never surrenders his faith, and his life is one of blessing to himself and blessing to others God forgives his errors, and makes everlasting account of his holy en deavors and greets him, at last with ???well done, good and faithful servant." Yon can chisel on that man???s tomb tbe words, "His was a life worth living.??? In the olden time amoug the mountains of New Hampshire, there s-??????s a mother. There are six children in the house, four sons and two daughters. The farm is email and very rough, and it requiris very bard work to coax uutof Unliving. I c is a mighty tug to make tne two ends of the year meet. The boys are sent to s ihool in winter and work on the farm in cummer. The mother with her own hands k>dts all the stockings for the little feet, is the msntua maker for the boys nod milliner for the girls, and the presiding spirit of tbe wholo household. The only musical instrument in the place is tho spinning wheel. The food, though plain, is always well prepared. The winters, though very cold, aro kept out by blankets she quilted. Ou Sabbath day when she appears in the house ot God with her family, the minister looks down at them and thinks of the de scription of a good housewife in Proverbs: "Her children arise up and oall her blessed, her husband also and he praiselh her.??? Years pass ou and two of the older boys ask for a college education, and then tbe econo mies of the New England farmhouse become severer and the calculations closer, and until tbe boys are educated it is a battle to get bread. One of the boys entered tbe gospel mlnis ry, and in pulpit of wide iniluence presents righteousness, temperance and judgment of God. The other son enters the law and passes on into legislative halls, and commands the attention of listening senates while be pleads for the oppressed ami tho down trodden. One of the younger eons en ters commercial life at the foot of the ladder and climbs up till his success and his philan thropies are known all over the land. The other son stays on the farm because that style of life the better pleases him, and be cause that ho wishes to take caro of father oad mother when they get old. Of the two daughters one of them when tbe war broke out went through tbe hospitals at Pittsburg Landing and Fortress Monroe, cheering the dying and homesick, and took the last mrs sages for kindred far away, and when Christ thought of her He said as of old, "Tho same Is my sister and mother.??? The other daugh ter has a bright home of her own, from which in the afternoons after devoting the forenoons of each dty to her own family, she goes forth to look after the sick and encour age tho disheartened, leaving smiles and benefactions everywhere. After a while tbere are five telegrams sent from tbe New England village, telling the three eons and two daughters to coins home, for mother u??? dangerous y ill, and Defore.they canget ready to came five mor.t legramsarcs a-tel,saying, "Mother is dead.??? Tue neighbors come 1 > and stay around the old farmhouse to do the list offices ot respect. And os tho farm sou and the senator and tbe olergyman and the merchant and the two daughters stand at the casko. of th<ir mother taking the last look, or lift up their little ehlldren to see tbo wrinkled faces of oldgrandma, I would like to ask them this question: Don???t you think that her life was worth living'.??? Oh, yeil A Ufa for others is always worte living. A life for God always worth living. An lion- oit life, a puro life, a consecrated life, a Chris bid lite worth living. It would be no difficult thing to make you believe tbet old Peier i'qqp*r rywHn- gV \, Iheu amassing a fortune^ then building a great specimen of philanthropy that has found its echo In a thousand other educa tional philanthropies, had a life worth liv ing. It would be no difficult thing to make S ou believe that she had a life worth living, unarms WesUy, sorting out one am to or- [ganize Methodism, and the other son to mako all ages echo with hymnology. Or that she had a life worth llviug. Florence Lees, organ- Iz ng institutions for the scientific nursing of tbe sick in England, and then when war broke ont between France and Germany go ing to the front and with her own hands scraping the mud off Che bodies of soldiers dying in tbe trenches, and wetting tho heads nights to keep down delirium, and pushing back to bis couch a German-frenzied witii his wounds as he persisted in dashing ont and going home to "liebe mat ??????"andmajor generals stood back to let pass ibis angel of mercy. You can understand that Grace Dar ling, tbe heroine of tbo life-boat, bad a life worth living, and do not wonder that the proprietor! of Adelplii theater, in London, offered her $100 a night to sit In a life-boat In a shipwreck scene being enacted. Ah, my friends, ail your lives are worth living, whether conspicuous or Inconspicuous if you are trying to live right. Let tbisretnark sink deep into your souls???you are to be re warded, not according to the greatness of your work, bnt according to the ure yon make of tbe talents yon potscss. And then Iremetuber that this life lit the vestibule of another life and who despises the entrance of a palace. It is the first bar of endless oratorio, and who despises tbe first strain of Haydn's symphonies. The life here is worth living, | more particularly, because it is introductory to the life that never ends, ACROSS THE WATER. THE RACE DONE AND CHESHIRE THE WINNER WITH OVER FORTY-EIGHT MILES. Eeete* a raw Yard) Behind and BrofT-jr Next-Three Tkoneehd People la the Hoae<???rhe Iatetie- h(M or the Xathmlenm-Scenea In the Bins???Bemadell Strops Off, Etc. London, Hay 10.???Preparations for tbe relict expedition to Khartoum are being accollerated with new vigor. It Is now decided that the apt??? dlUon will start In July. The strength of tho force has not yet been determined, bnt It wl 1 probably number >.000 men. Including She India contin gent. Tbo war odlee has Instructed tbe autborlUee at Cairo to send snivel offlesrs lo report upon tbe nlatlvo advantages ot tbe routes by tbe way ot Buaklm and by tbe wsy ol Hanonh. From tbis It Is supposed that thero will b] two llnci of oper ation, that tbe milu ixpedttlon will proceed uo tbe Nile ana the other by tbe Red sea. A camel depot ha> been ewabldhed at Assouan, and camels am being collected in (vradderab'e numbers. Cel Ardagb list the bead of tbe committee at Cairo, to watch has been eutrusted toe storage of water t ?? tbe des-rt routes Nubar oatht, Egypt ian prime minister, will arrive Is K (gland next m-inthto attead tho Eg> pUan conference, fix demand for id mlasln to the conference will oe refected, bnt he will be allow-d to be prrwnt for co.nltatlon. The government hu received a telegram mating that D mil* Is at present safe from attacks by tbe mehdi'a fates. a t a meeting of 1000 conservative! at Hsnebee- ter to-day resoluttoul were adnptodeondemulng theihendonmeatol General Gordon by toe gor- ernmetii second asaoiNo or rax anti-socialist nil Bosun, Hay to ???Tbe rtlc istag us- day, by a vote ol ISO to 167 pasted the anil socialist bill to Its second reading. Tbe national liberals and tbe conserva'lree voted lor tbe measure, aaditlelaotJ Independents and 29 of the center party. Thereat of tbo lodepaodenta on tbe center party voted against the MIL This tnneewi of the meawre eur- p >s<ed all expects (too. Toe bill will undoubtedly be peseed to its third rcosUnr on Monday. The wheat fretstH. WasaiNOTON. May :o.-Tb* returns oltbede partmentof agriculture lor May show tbe wheat prospect to be nearly as favorable as In Apr!', J ben tbe general avenge was within flee percent ol the itendaidcf full ocndl-tcn. sod tbo Mar standard ol lull condition. Tbo May avenge Is M. It was V.\i In 16M Baring the chsnr'inf the Into rt, a winter a neat product ol gloat ??0.?? oco.oqo buaheli Is Indicated Tbo temperature of April baa been lower than usual, and tbe low lying lends bare been saturated with moisture, retarding tbe growth. Well drained wheat soils aro nearly ?? ??? ??? J healthy grog ,The reporters' |walking match on Baturday was a sBocesti In every particular. The crowd was large, tbe arrangements perfect, th?? walkers looked well, walked well and bchared well???the folks were In good humor, and Ibe inter est never digged from first to last. The record, all thlngi considered, Is a Odo one. Tbe men bad only one week???s training and bad to Arr; on their work In the mean timo. They would work mini midnight at their deika and then walk until daylight. Tbelr record was, therefore, more than was expected and does them credit. Tbe match lacked tho features that make matches of this sort usually objection able. There was not a drunken man ecen In tho honsodnilng tho day, and not adrop of liquor was sold. There was not a pool cried, and not the [lightest disorder or disturbance. This match has ??et a pattern that will ho followed and will result In many a pleasant diversion for the summer, The hoys ate to bo heartily congratulated. It was apparent early Saturday morning that a tig day???s sport was anticipated, Tho trains brongfe; in crowds from the suburban towns, and lbs streets woro all agog with excitement. Long before tho hour ot ten hundreds of specta tors were In their scats quietly awaiting the signal lot the match to begin. There wu a buzx of eon vernation all through the building, and all sorts of predictions were msdo as to tho prob able result. Promptly at ten o???clock the bell summoned tho oqAeslauls to appesr, and tho eight walkers took their placet In line on the track, directly between- the Judges??? stand and thescoreia' blackboard. There was a moment of intense silence, and ex peetatlon stood on Uptoo, is it were. Mr. Uonry WGrsdycsmc forward, and In a clear ringing voice, itaWd m-1 rules and conditions under which tho match would proccod. As It war what Is called a go as-rou-picaso match tho rules governing It were ftor and slmplo, everything being arranged tho word "Go!??? rang cqt with suen explosive forco as to give an uncx- pceted Impetus to tho pedestrians. The line of [awfully dressed figures darted forward at tho ??CM, the band struck np a lively tuno, and the eMCrlng ot tho crowd madothe welkin ring. Tba wslkera almost Instantly broko- their Itns after starting, and during ihafirst round or two tbo following wastbooracr luVulch they glided along: BanudcU. Garter, IMngtou, Small, Cbesbito, Logan, Brulfey tnd tlfcyton. In this straggling line they oould be ???wca to tho best auvauioge, anil their Iftho alnowy fbnnit decked In gty attire, excited universal admiration, Bams'iitU's peculiar, sharply-rat testates at tracted general attention. With him at first, Um walk seemed a mere pastime, a huge Joke which t suited Ills rltlblutt at every step. By uo means graceful In Ms movements, bla long, loosely hihmd tlmha covered Ure trick In a surprlsl-???- rapld faddon. His bright scatlet lt-ga Hashed t.ie track In a be wintering way, and for awbllo he waa tho object of everybody's giso.; Caro l???s Header figure, without an ounco of ante endurance, and many Jumped to tho con clusion that he would bo Mu winning man. Uylngtou, lu tbo opinion ol tho crowd, did not rook like a man of first-class wnlklng powots. Ills novtments were slow and laborious, but It ro c dred only a abort time to see that ho was an id -isoahy good pudestrian. Ill fact, he took ev- jKSum , the most fftaMii walk of ally olttw) ecu tbsUm*- tit* elksiicltfp, easy oar- rlago and icgularswluglng gait Inspired the utmost confidence In his Irteuda and backers. Ubcoblro walked without any apparent effort, at a rapid oven paco him! his light, him figure seomed well suited to such a list of muscle and perseverance. Ltgan loomed up as the athlotoot tbo crowd. Any onu could see ala glanco that ho war built for leant of strength, activity and endurance. His ibort sleeved shirt and lights showed oil??? Ills well round- limbs to great advantage, and he would have been generally regarded as the winning msn, butfor tbo well known fact tbat he had reft a bed of Ill ness only a.few days before. Tne lftUo msn with a big moustacbo, In other Winds. Bruffey, was an unknown quantity In tbo affair. Ho was as comptct as a solid ball of India rubber and twice as elastic, but It was feared that bta limbs were two ibort tokicpupwlth tbo others lit tnurree However, good burnur and grit beamed from above and below the big moustache, and a Dost ot friends hoped for tho best. Clayton was known to many as something of an atlileie, and hli quiet way of taking things at Uo start led many tu oeilcvo that ho knew Jest wbat he was about, and would walk along at an easy pace un'll towards uo last, when ho would pul fotth his icrenofotco and by a series of spurts make his way to the front. During Uo first fourteen-Ups, or mile, thero wr. muni I-, le cite,'ring, and U* re sult was Impalleutly looked lor. The walkeis made their Oral mile si follows: Jtatnadeil lit 11 Ji minutes, carter lu minutes. Bylngton lu 13 minutes. Chet-hlre In UK minutes. Logan in liHalulfia , bm. It lull;, minutes, firulloy lu lb minutes. Clayton lu 16 mlnutei. Kamsdell come iu Ont on tho second mile, fol lowed at Intervals byiBylugtun, Carter, Cneshlre. Logan, Bmall, Druffy and Clayton. All were eveu In nutter condition than wbru they started ont. 'lire exercise and the enUuilsim of the rpeolatots gave Urm Ju>t Ue excitement needed, Tbe third mile was first mstle by Kimidelt, fol lowed by Byisgton and Cneshlre, Carter, Logan, Bruffey suit email. Karasdell led In the fourth mile and shit In tbe fifth, making Ue entire fire miles in fAtemluutis. At elevun u'cli rk ue soore stood at follows, the figures In the II.at column representing milts sod these In Ue second column laps: bmall IKamedoll A-a BJIngiou.._ ..,???4???10 Cheshire .a-B Catiur. Logan..,.??? A. Clayton (???9 j llruffay 1-6 Bam,dell inaoti me slxdi mile ahead of oiners, and alio tho si vmib, elghu, ninth land It-mb. eleven h. Iwell.lt, IhlrlteutO, fourteenth, closely pressed inward toe list by liylngton. At twelve o'clock the score stood; bmall s???111 Rs mao ell 10-2 Brl-.gton??? 0???fi J Cheshire ....7???13 Carter. 6-tl (Login i???12 Clayton ....???7-121 Bruffey ???..6-12 At this June ure lire trainers ware bonded not to walk around wlU their men a lonur distance Uan two thirds ol Uelrai k The Judge! aim decldad to patina the policy drat adopted ot making frequent reverses, say one for erery boar, The afwruooa brought a fresh and constantly swelling crowd. At lp/elock Ue score waa: Small 11-11 I Ramsdsll 14- * Bringiou??? 18??? < cneiblre 18??? 6 Carter........ ??? .18??? 11 Logan to day ton ...???.. lit??? 21 Bruffey ??? ....Id- 6 As the aiwmblage Increased In numbers U?? ex citement Increased. Two new prizes were offered, one by Ibe Atlanta Home Insurance company ot 160 dlrldrdioiolA 116 sod HO. and another oy Msjor }. F. Camming! In the shape ol an mete rubber elephant, to be presented to Ufislowfiit msn In Ue race. When Ue clock struck two the soon stood; Brasil 141 Ramadell It Hrlngton. ???171 Cheshire ??? It Carter .???..???.161 Login 12 Chaywn 41 Bittfley... ??? 17 Bjlug'ou mtde toe dm seventeen mllee emtdit kept his rlrsl dogging him ground Ue track (era consld-rable time, Clayton suck to Ue track without taking a rest for fourteen milu end 6 tape, longer Uan any other man. Logan woe lie first to lakes res???. Alter this one tfieran- o'her repaired to the tent fora rest nntll the end of tbe onilnees. Toe prirlleged few wboceoght a mlmpeeof Ue Interior of tho ten is taw a rare sight Keen walker hid acoteodon retiring tohls tent wonld Ue dows.orraUer fell over, and allow his ujMuut' uiDi, run mm uowu. wioiuuwr uouuug refretbmeatR. and then altiro him in fresh toggery. Ia addition to this tho patient (or tho time being resolved aahock (roman electric battery before he waa permitted to *tart ont again. About 3 o'clock Carter made (he 21st mile in ad vance or hli competitor*, and wu cheered to the echo Thp acoro at this time itnod: BmalL a# 17 | Ransdel! -20???10 Uylngtou: 18???8 Cheshire - 8???20 Carter 21??? Logan -12???10 Clayton ..18-11 Bruffey 20-S After this came some lively wort, cneshlre made tho 22d mile: Garter made the 23d mile, bnt- waa Closely pressed hr Cheshire. The 21th and 25th miles wero also first mado by Garter, and (our o'clock showed this score: Small. 20- 01 Ramsdell 23-13 Byingtou 22-6 | Cheshire 24-13 Garter 25???3 I Logan.......... 15??? 8 Clayton 21???21 Bruffey......... .At???U Logau???s rcceut lllners (rum which he had nutal- togeiher recovered began to tell heavily on him in the afternoon. Aud although ho did some fine fast walking and rapid running ho was compelled to take frequent rests, and It soon became evldont that he was practically out of the race so (arss uukluga record was concerned. Several ot the contestants about (our o'clock were so overcome by fatigue that they retired to their tents, lcaviug Glaylon and Bruffey tho only two on??? tho track for several minutes. When Bruffey forged thcad to such purpose m to be the first to make 27 miles, there was tumultuous cheering. Bruffoy then made the 28th mile. At five o'clock tho blackboard stood: Small 22-3 I Ramsdell 26 Byingtou 25-9 Cheshire 23???7 Carter .23???91 Logan 15-8 ClMytou 24-21 Bruffey 28-9 Cartertuado thefcO.h. 30th, 31st, 32ad,83rd, 8lth. 85th, 86lh, 37th. 88th, and 39th miles. During this time Lomu took a very long rest and Ramsdell was disabled by sudden Illness, but returned to tbo track. At 6 o'clock the score was Small 24???91 Ram??del1 ???....26??? 9 Bylngton 29???5 (Chethhe 81???8 Carter 82-01 Logan 17- 2 Clayton 26-6 | bruffoy 81???12 Another hour of excitement followed, aud at 7 o'clock the blackboard had these figures: ..26 Ramsdell 29-5 ItaniHlell Cheshire. Logan 17-2 Bruffey 86 Byingtou 82???5 Carter .86-8 Clayton i?? Absut 8 o o'clock a certitlcalo from Dr. Todd was rend to the effect that .Mr. Rtmnlcll had once receive a gunshot wound in the lungs, and his condl tlon was such as to mako it dangerous for Mm to remain ou tho track. This was a satisfactory ex planation to tho spectators, bnt Ramsdell Insisted upon walking, and finally had to bo forcibly ro* strained by his friends from taking any^lnrther part in the contest. At eight o'clock tho score was: Small .30- 2 I Ramsdell 30- Bylngton 85???121 Cheshire 89- Carter 89??? j Logan 18??? 8 Clayton ??..3l???121 Bruffey 88???18 Tho fortieth mile was mado by Cheshire, and after this all tho Interest was centered on Carter. Cheshire and Druffty. After 8 o'clock the crowd becamo the dunscst assemblage ever picked be tween (he four walls of any building lu Atlanta. The utmost good humor and good order prevailed, bnt peoplo were pan.kcd together liko sardinos, aud ft was almost lmpc??slblu for a man to ebangu scats with his noxt neighbor, At nine o'clock the aooro warn Small.: ^83???1* I Ram??de11 .30??? 5 Byingtou M...87???111 Cheshire 43??? 9 Carter 43- 8) Logan ???18??? 5 Clayton 35??? (Bruffey From this time on excitemont was at white heat It was generally conceded that th- raco lay be tween Carter and Chtsblro, aud deafening cheers greeted them as they psssed around tho track Cheshire first made tho 44ta mite, and t^c-u the 46th, closely followed a few picts behind.by Car ter. At this stage of the raco tho trainers became* more Intensely In earn ist than ever, and accom panted Cheshire and Carter a few yards on every -??? ???Inkling their heads with wot sponges. ?????? this did mRdeliy tho walkers In tho lout, como of tho impatient (spectators feartd tbat it might have that effect. Just as a trainer held n spougo over Cheshire???* head sn entbusWiulc Tiiitn in llir riir.vl y.???lli???il mil, ???(Jri'iit h'di???Innij! V\H lih head and let hltn gol" It Is needless to say nit the sentiment was rapturously applauded. When Cheshire made ihu 47th milu tho real agony of the affair began fh earnout. The two pc dtwtrians weru cornetlmM so cIoho that the one In ttyo roar ooulA almost * touch the man 'In fiont of hint, iit.i.i???rud* of tho friends aud backers of each of the two lecdlnu oon'ciuntu pressed to the front, and waving huts and handkorchlcfs to them, implored aud urged them to do the Jr level bestf and very minimi. Onu moment a th??n*??i??id yells for "Car ter" would roll and reverberate through the vast bul.dlng un 11 it seemed that tho roof Itself would bn uplifted, as by a tornado Then a thomnud answering shouta for "Cheshire" swept llku a crash of thunder through the ampitheatre. In the midst of this din and excitement, Cheshire rcado hh 17th mile. It was now near tbo fateful hour of ten. Tho commands of tho police to "bo seated" were no longer heard. There was no disorder In tho usual tense of the word, but Iho pooplo who had watched the race thruu h bad their nervea stretchy cd to such an ahnornal tension that they were in a state of painful suspense, and canid no longer control themN-ln-s. Thero were fully :;.w u peoplo in tio building, and nearly all of there leaped to their feet and remslncd standing nntll tho and* Those who baa chairs stood in them. About forty men climbed upon tbe edge of tba Jud??? E rted th urn selves by ciIul vtral adventurous spirits supporting the roof, and thrusting tbelr arms and legs through the braces Joining the pillars to the root, hung downward like trapexe performers in a circus Intently watching iho hut.y scene below. Now was (he critical time. Tho trainers confldered each moment worth Its weight 1 ??? gold, and rendered every lawful attention to their pnn> cl pals. Bteadlly Cheshire and Carter sped along tho even tonor of their way, the distance betweeu them rt-maluiug about tho same every lap. Car* ter???s trainer muck clo>ely to his side, using tno ipongo liberally, and Cheshire's trainer was equally assiduous. Aliateaaa twenty minutes of ten, opinions were expressed that Carter by tusking one en ( ??r*tae effort wonld brlag Into plsy his reserved nrco snd get ahead aud keep his advantage. Ife did some splendid walking, and several limes he msdeagslUnt. but futile effort to recover lost ground. Kvery tlmo Carter made dneh forward bta altn do a atlll bigger spurt and remained In ton lead. Uradually, hut very slowly, Carter be* ???au to fall behind, until he had lost half a lap Tbe band of tho eleok pointed to ten minutes cf He???s gone now." muttered hundreds under their breath. "Utt'll never regain that much dis tance " Carter fell atlll farther in the rear. I1U hcvd lay back on bU shoulders, but his face had the tamo game look, and bo atlll kept up a rapid gait, "Ten I" Ho said tbe clock. Re yelled thousand* of voices, and the great bell rang out from rhe Judges' stand with a brtsen Clamor swul.owlr.g ut* all other boise, and eb j lining illenco. As soon as quiet was restored, Mr Brock Beck with, one of tne J idges, aroao surrounded by hU associate Judges, and said; ''Julies and Gentlemen: It now becomes my duly In annonnen to you lira result nl tbo great re- poru n' walking mttcli.but before doing so,I dinro ter myrellaud my colleagues re (bank Hr. Grady lor rue Honor wbleh be nas conferred upturns In mtblng ns Ibe Judges ol this lnterttilng contest. Aud 1 desire loadd another word lu tble con* Mellon. Mr. Henry W. Grady bn done more to promote Ure material and pleasure) inturesu ol Aibnlalban auy other man In lb* sure ol w. E. T. Byiugton, 87 miles and 8 laps; laps: J A Carter, 4H miles; rmith Clayton, 38 miles ???n??l two lap*; lldo*IUmwiell, S3 oaths and ft lapt; EM .Cbeahlre, 48 miles and 1 lap Charles T Lo gan, 21 miles end 8 tape; E G Bmffsy. 46 mihs and 9j tape. There yon have the result 1 havo now one more duty to discharge, has been won by Mr ChaHei T I.xcsn, and I here with present him with It. Tbe walking match is now adjourned sine die " [Applause. 1 The contestant* did not hear ibe speech. They were In their tents, Cheshire having been carried tbere In triumph on the shonldcr* of a group of admirera aa aoonas the c:ock struck ten. ttlowly aud in perfect order tbe vast crowd dis persed. Not a tingle accident occurred daring the day and nlyht, and it la doubtful If any simitar entertainrnent conducted on ao large a tcale ever used off to smoothly and satisfactorily. Wfca Kntukr Odtpitlos at I.tree. Fbawkfo&t, Ky. t May 8??? At 12:80 the delegate* at large were elected after aeveral hours bard work They are Henry Wattereon, Colonel Thomas L Jones, James L McKenxie and J Btoddard Johnson Ihejentlre delegation are for free trade. GEORGIA SPECIALS- Augusta, May 7???As The CoNamunoN predict ed, in refer! log to tho evidence In the Simmont- Watson hank robbery cose, the defense set up in Simmons's statment was powerless to acqnlt, and to-night at 6.30, after an all-day argument by most eloquent and eminent attorneys, and an able and Impartial charge by Judge Roney, a verdict of guilty was returned. Tho jury wasontonly twenty minutes and in tho verdict recommended the prla- one:s to mercy. Judge Roney sent the prisoners back to Jill, postponing the sentence. The punish- ment by law is between one and ten yean, and they will probably get tho extent of the law. Judge TwJggi made one of hi* most brilliant and ingeuloua speeches for the defense, and was well nssis??od by M. P. Carroll. Solicitor General Boy kin Wright made a superb opening speech, cover ing all the point* of the prosecution, and elo quently representing tho state. Hon. U. Clay Fos ter concluded In an able, search* Ing argument for the prosecution, last ing three hours. The defend tnt???a counsel will move to morrow for anew trial, and when this is oterruled, they will take the c*so to the supreme court, a?? Judge Twiggs sayr hu has some technical points of great value. 81mmons and Watson took the verdict calmly and laugh ingly remarked to Mr. Foster. "kou were pretty hard on ui." Prater replied: "Yes, bui not harder than You deserved." They were escorted to the Jail by the constables and will receive their sentence to tho penitentiary the last of the week. Macon, May 7.???On yesterday Deputy Marshal E. E. Cash arrested V. B. Holton, the ordinary of Crawford county,charged nnder sec. 5-185 of revised statutes with crime of withholding pension money and fraudulently converting tho same to his own UR3, Tho pension was allowed a widow lady nam ed Elizabeth Sherloy, widow of a soldier of the war 1012, under tho act of March 9th, 1873. The pemion was allowed in 1882 and tbo first payment amounted to 1406 check for which was indorsed by Holton in name of payee without knowledge of their presence and the wholo snm converted to his own use. Warrenion, May 7.???Last night about 8 o???clock, two negro boys, Josh Ruff and Willie Cody, were etandibg near Allen's corner, Broad street, talking very loud when suddenly tho report of a pistol was heard and a voice cried out In the darkness, "Oh, Josh, you havo shot me!" A tussel ensued and one was seen to bo carrying the other away on his shoulder. About this time Marshal Cody and others hurried to the moving figures, and discovered Raff in the aet of carrying Cody away on his shoulders, An investigation proved Cody to bo a wounded roan, the victim of Ruff, who was carrying him away to ronotal hi* crime. Dr Hull wim summoned and he could do nothing for the wounded man and Lo died a few minute* later. Raff waa arrested and was taken to Warren county Jail. Savannah v Qa., May 7.???Tho Mutual gas light company this afternoon accepted the works and other equipments from tho contractors. An issue of 850 000 stock at parlwas authorized, with preference to the prc-ient owners. W. 8. Gibbs waa elected president: 8. T. Boderlcx, treasurer; N. F. Thomp son. secretary. The Mew water main* rccontly laid in tbe city were thoroughly tc*8t6d yeaterdHy with satisfactory remits in tho presence of tbe mayor aud aldermen and oiher officials. Villa Rica, May 7.???Tbrco fancy young men wore going from tho depot to tho old town a f jw nights ago, and concluded to have some lun by seating some women that chanced to bo pawing, ft-nl threw ri it ml shot off tin ir pistols ut thrm. Dcl'iity Hhcrltl riklpper happened to como up this way and the trio lied to part* unknown. Warrants are out for two of them, and their friends and kin aro trying tosettlo tho disturbance, and they have found that nothing lers than 875 will aatbfy the women for the ncare they received, Ckdartown, Ga., May 7.??? Ou Monday morning , his residence, ten miles south east of this place, Mr. E. D. Hightower was attacked by a Jersey bull and tossed some eight feet into the air aud falling struck ou hu head, sustaining severe aud i-rhtpsfatal Injuries He*it tot been.fo/ a t. n- v who wsamar by and who ran to his aMtm tco, Mr. Hightower would lu all probability ?en killed ou the spot. Mr. Fruett, a tenant of Mrs. Lea Nell, living oelow town on Cedar crc^k, had hi* dwelling house and contents burned Tuesday evening. Macon, May 8.???[Special.]???To day Js the annual colobratlon of the anniversary of the union Buns day schools of Macon. It has been the custom a number of years for a goneral uniting of the vari ous Sunday schools at the park, and spend the day in a general picnic and good time. Columbus,May 8 ???[SpecialJ???Reports of a crooked and dirty looking affair havo reached tho city from ritewsrt comity. The n oiy 1* only partly known here, and nothing absolutely reliable except tbat thero waa ion\ play la certain. Tho story is that about a week a ago a woman named Mary Davis, who was employed As a cook by Mr. TcmJeff Illncs, waa fonnd dead in h*r bed In her house on .Mr. Ilinch???s home near Green Hill,Htuwart county 30 xnlles southeast of the dty. Cue Dr. lxio wm sum moned, and made an examination of tbo body. Hu dDcovcrcd mark* of violence about the wo man** neck, and upon raising the lid of her eye, ??? saw lint a pistol shot had evidently boon fired into her brain. Notwithstanding these circumstances, tbo woman was hurled without an Inquest being held. Our Information 1* tbat the lauyhas been exhumed, aud a thorough Investigation '* in pro gress, buf no reliablo whlio miu has como in from Htuwart to report tho facu Boveral negroc* from tbo vicinity have been in the city today and havo mado confllctory RU'cmcnta in regard totheaffslr. Their itatemciiui Implicates the fair name of those who.llkeCa!??cr*|. wl/o. are abovo suipldon. and aro not brslievca ??? M If. ,M.??ry lUvii W.INR whip? woman sg* d about ???l??. nod wu* m dmighhr of Dan Davl*. deceased. Bho hia been In the employ of Mr. Hint a for nearly twtnty years. f Savannah, May 8???[Special]???Rosalie Wlao, col ored, died this morning from an overdoae of laudanum, taken to relievo pain. An inquest wae held and a verdict rendered accordingly. Her hnsband, working ia Augusta, was notified. CutssTA, Ga., May 9.???Last Monday a negro man entered tho houio of Mr. Grerge Wiseman, and 4 made on outrageous assault upon hia uiece. Mia Wiseman gave the alarm, and her husband, who was working near by,ran to tbe honse.and securing bla pistol, pursued the negro. It Is said that he amx needed In overtaking the brute, and shot him three times, killing him Instantly. Butler, May 9.-(4pcclaL]???Butler has Just pa* aed through a three weeks??? revival, conducted by Reva. J D Mauldin, C D Adams, of Geneva, and J B Culpepper, of Talbot circuit. These clergymen nave conducted this meeting with a great deal of u.*l. The Taylor county Sunday School association has Its annual celebration to-day. CTuttavocoa, Toon., May 8 ???[Special]???AU the ???lock lor the new street zallzo&d line, to inn to the castrid of the dty, hi* been subscribed, and articles fo incorporation are being prepared today. Columius, Ga., May 10.???A ipeclalho the Enquir er Bun from Houston, says: The first prise, fb.OCO, la tbe Inter-state drill, wa* awarded to the Hous ton Gnardaof Homtnn: the aecoad, 81.000. to the Treadway Kifimtof rit. Loul*; and the third. 9800, to the Cointnbus Guards of Columbus. Augusta, Ga., May 10-[3peclai]-Judge Roney's determined {charge against the gamblers, and the indictment of two of the most notorious of the gang, by the grand jury, has resulted In a sudden exodus of the sports. BenNieizwho ran Clark's savings and faro bank and drove four blooded hot aet, bta shipped hia tool* and team suddenly north, and John L*m)na, another aport, returned ;o Alabama. Both were indicted and will fiud Augusta too warm to return this summer. Others are preparing to fold tent* and follow. Gnirrur. Ga., May 10.-[Special ]-Nellie Jordan, an aged colored woman abont KM years old, was knocked from the track by the Macon bound train this afternoon and killed outright. Her nee*, both legs and one arm were broken. She waa thrown at Hast iflirty feet In the air. Green Feeney, the engineer, did all in his power to signal her off with the whistle, and tried to prevent the aocidenwby