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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION". ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY OCTOBER 14 1884. TWELVE PAGES.
A RURAL RETREAT.
HESTLED AMONG THE HILLS OP
GORDON COUNTY.
An AtHuatlan at tb?? Form of Mr. EleUacd Peters
Among Mild*Eyed Jsrseys and Imparted An
goras, and Roaming Ov??r tbs Fields
Redolent with Perfume* of Clover.
EditorlalCorrespondence Constitution.
Peters Farm, October 8.???It was a pleasant
vision over a sick bed???the ruddy face and
kindly gray eyes of Ur. JU chard Peters. Flcasan
too, were his words.
"Your fever is broken,??? he said. ""Now let me
take you to my farm and build you up.???
The doctor, wise and sensible, was consulted,
and homeopathic though he was, wrote a large
prescription. Dose???spring water, fresh milk
country air, cattle, clover, hay, goats, trees, butter
milk, shady lanes, hunting and fishing???to be
taken away from towns and newspapers. This
was a smart advance???from pellets to spring
pellets???from the infinitesimal to the infinite.
???One who went to sleep with fever in Atlanta,
and awoke convalescent on this farm, can appro*
date the feeling of the people in the Arabian
Nights stories wbo were whirled across continents
every time they touched a ring. Atlanta might
ben million miles away for all we know. The
horizon that closet in the woods over there and
the clover field yonder shots in onr world. Our
only visitor last night was an owl that poured ont
it* soul in a ghostly quaver, and then whirled its
way solemnly into the fcce of tho unblinking
moon. This morning a mockingbird called and
paid its respects, tlptlltlng on a swinging limb
whose sap was music. As I looked outoi my
window this morning a quail piped from the
meadow. A squirrel barked hoarsely from a neigh*
boring tree. A clucking hen with her brood of
half-grown chicks, still shamelessly living by the
sweat of her brow, loitered in the gnus, dodging
the leaves that fell from tho trees, cast
ing hawk-like shadows. Krom tink*
lings, soft and low, I could trace the
march of the bell wefilhcrs as they led tho An*
goras into new pastures for the day. The cows
were lost in unseen fields, and tho stables stood
bare. A cheery voice of invitation wu lifted up
the stairway. The confident and heavy tread of
Essex-the strangely-named cook, who cannot tell
you whether bis cognomen signifies tho breed of
fiukes or .the breed of hogs, bnt who is the duke
of the kitchen,and whoso muffins tempt his guests
to make hogs of themselves, fs heard in tho hail*
way and I descend to breakfast.
???Tho first thing alter breakfast is a walk about
the farm with Mr. Peters and Mr. Ralph, his
trusted and rained agent of thirty years. Loafing
with these veterans is a most informing pursuit.
"In this lot,??? said Mr. Peters, yesterday, as we
passed through the inclosure where the Essex
hogs are kept, "I kept three Essex sows that
raised mo forty pigs in onefyear.???
???The Essex hogs,??? said Mr. Ralph, "have
hollows in t^em. I killed one in this lot that
weighed 839 pounds after he was killed, and net
ted 800 pounds net after he wu stripped,
yielded seventy-nine ponnds of lard. I never saw
hogs take fat as they do. I penned a young Essex
once and put twenty-five pdunds of fat on him in
six days???one day adding five pounds.???
Passing through another field Mr. Peters said:
"It wu right hers that J. R. Wylie, our Jim Wylio
we all esteem so highly, did his first work for
wages. Me worked on this farm when he wu a
boy and drew <16 as his pay. I don't know but I'm
as proud of that u of anything about tho place.???
At a spring branch, he said: "The late Bishop Kl
Uott spent mnch of bis time here. lie wu a great
eonchologist and used to make Ephraim, a negro,
dig In the bed of the branch with hli toes for new
???hells. Me discovered one that Or. Lea named
alter him. Me said to me. 'It Is a curious reflection
that after all my sermons,on which I have spent so
much labor, are forgotten, that my name, which
otherwise would die out of human remembrance,
will bo kept alive by a shelf turned up in this
branch by a negro's toe*.' "
Mr. Ralph uid, touching tho,drouth, "It can'
hurt ns this winter. Tho lut season wu so fino
that wo havo every barn and every building
crammed with hay and bay-ricks standing in every
field. We have considprably over 200 tons on
hand.???
Mr. Tc tern said: "Wo all com plain of the weather
and can't see the wisdom of it, but I confess, In
the light of forty years experience, that if I could
turn on the rain, u I do a sprinkler at home, I
couldn???t havo managed It so well for this one farm,
year in and year ont, u it has been managed. So
I take the weather without complaining. I know
it will come all right in the end.???
In a meadow near tho house yesterday morning
??? wu a flock of fifty young Angora bucks, gathered
lor shipment to fill on order from Texas. Dainty
young fellows they were, with their white and
glistening ringlets, their bright faces yet un
wrinkled, their curling horns, and their kid-like
archness snd audacity. They wheeled this way
and that over the meadow, in Jaunty phalanx, as
if moved by the capricious impulses of tho mom
tog. Suddenly a group of Jersey calves, pretty and
fawn-like, huddling together awkwardly and tim
idly u a lot of school girls, advancing shyly and
irregularly, but all so Innocently, came over tho
bill and halted In full view of the white phalanx.
There was mutual surprise and Indecision. The
Jerseys shot their pretty ears forward and gased
without a blush on the strangers. The phalanx
caught up suddenly in the, midst
of an evolution and stood , poised
and watchful but irresolute. Suddenly the
calves moved forward steadily, but still leaning
bashfully sgainst each other, as if for moral sup
port. Tho phalanx wavered slightly beforo tho
wide-eyed and innocent advance,when two kids of
courage and address, pushed through the fleecy
ranks to the front. Halting directly in front of
the foremost Jersey, an unformed but not ungrace
ful maiden barely in her teens, so to speak, they
reared into the afr, whirled their ringleted bodies
around rapidly and dropped their front feet de
cisively, and presented horns with an air ol groat
determination. Even tho most Innocent of Jer
seya could not mistake this impolite and defiant
attitude. A hurried conference was held and tho
kids were evidently voted too horrid forhnythlng.
Up went the pretty heads in fine disdain, off sbo
tho Jerseys to the left, and down the
flank of tho phalanx they went, boating the wind
with their heels to the most tontemptnous man
One year ago Mr. Peters sold 100 Angora kids for
f40 each, or84,000 cash for tho lot, on the farm
Me has just closed a trade tor a second 100 at the
same price. This, as did the other lot, goto
Texas. He has also just sold to a Texas breeder
ton Angoras for $600. In Texas the Angora fever
b high. Goat culture (to capture a word lately
much abased) is rapidly taking favor there over
sheep husbandry. The policy has been to grade
up the common goat with Angora bucks, and
many flocks of high grades number by thou
sands. The decline In sheep's wool, with other
causes, has combined to pat sheep to dis
favor. Wc Imported last year ton
milllOD'pounds Jo! mohair, which is the commer
cial name of the fleece of the Angoras, so that
there is a large field for native fleeces. The mo
hair brings sixty cents a pound, and a flock may
be counted on toavenge three pounds to the goat
and oftencr much more. There Is but one man to
Georgia who has gone into the business rcgnlarly-
??? fanner nr Murray county, who has a flock of
shoot two hundred grades. D. Freeman, of Chat
teogs, la Just beginning with a few. fine bucks to
grade up a lot of common goats.
Mr. Peters has the largest flock of pore Angoras
to America, and it has frequently put the balance
on the right side of the farm ledger la
hard year. ,v Tbcae old friends,??? he
njr, "never fall me. Come drouth or bull
calves, or any other evfl, the Angocas always pal
me through.???
Mahomet, the head of the flock, is an imports
goat, Me came from Central Alia, and rode
thousand miles on a camel's back. He corill,O'))
ffl gffU, end this fact so fired my fagffnalfPB
wttn I firvitwdof It that I wrote his hhtdTY and
calkd it "The Costly Capricorn
or The Thousand Dollar Bill.'
has tho .most villainous ^ face. A
million debauches have writ their shocking story
across his narrow brow. A million wrinkles have
furrowed his sensual Jaws, and into every wrinkle
the ashes of a fierce apd irregular life have drifted,
dulling its. outlines, but deepening its meaning.
A dull fatalism.burns in his introverted eyes,where
once the light of Asia flamed, and Dejection
sits liftless, where Desire once hung itsflaantlug
banners. A wisp tf ancient hair, tho one sign of
the brave gaycty of his youth, still left, straggles
above bis brow sr funercaljnoss above a tomb
For the reft, It looks as if some one In contempt of
his character had spit tobacco juice from the base
of his horns to his pendulous chin, and tho insult
bad stuck. This deadens his weatherbeaten face
to the last degree, so that framed in the obelisk It
would pan as the finest antique of the lot.
hornet's face haunts me," I said, as we talked of
the goats last night. "What a world of regret is
shut In between his ancient horns????
"What he regrets most, I think," said M. Peters,
"Is the loss of Ills religion.???
???Every afternoon I go down to see the cows come
home. From the meadow to the milking, they
come in rambling haste. Way down tho
shady lane a puff of dirt arises. Tho
cloud deepens until the view to closed. "The
cows arc coming,??? calls some ono. From tho
rolling dust emerges the horns, the head, tho
flanks of a Jersey. Ono after another tho cloud
gives them forth, embodying rapidly, until the
herd stands revealed. Up the lano they come
trooping, the dust dood hanging about their
flanks, and atlll enveloping tho centaur who
speaks from the unseen with hto pistol-Uko whip
and hurries them on.
A charming sight It 1st Tndora, stately queen
of tho herd, leads the way. WJth head uplifted
and swinging pace she wheels into the wide gate,
the aroma of the clover hanging all about her, aud
the peace of the meadow beaming in her eyes.
After her tho herd???Jerseys all aud every olio a
Jewel???pressing in slow tumult through tho gate,
bringing in their rich udders tho emence ol the
rifled pastures, as honey beta bring home the
stolen sweets of tho flowers. Once in the open lot
the herd disperses, and each cow wends her way
to her especial stall.
Then begins the milking. Osceola, a colored
man of great dignity and reserve, with hto hair
done up In cotton-string curl-papers, to f u charg
of the herd. For fourteen yean ho has boon trusted
and found worthy. Mo has hto assistants, who
place the huge milk cans, each with its strainer,
at convenient Intervals through the barn. Tho
assistants then with cans of clear water wash the
dusty udders and respectfully retire. Then Osce
ola's time has come. Adjusting hto white apron,
he leaves the crowd whoso questions he has been
answering with caution and hauteur, aud septs
himself by tho Rido of the first cow in the first row.
Milk? Well, I Just wish you could seo him 1 With
two sinewy hands aud a rotary motion, tho head
thrown back, the foot beating time, and the milk
fairly hissing into the pall, in two . big streams.
Three minutes to the cow, and with
fino energy and abstraction, he moves
from one stall to another, filling
the big milk cans as be goes. Picking out a hall
dozen favorite cows ho milked 13)4 gallons lu fif
teen mlnntcs, on a test, and some how or other
left tho impression that ho hadn't half done hto
best. From 100 to 110 gallons to a day???s milking
and It is cow???s milk too aud not milkman's milk.
Osceola and hto assistants carry tho cans to the
dairy, tho cows take a rest of an hour and are
then turned out for the night. Osceola, then off
duty, drops hto dignity and leads me into tho
midst of a covy ol patrldges hsrd-by, or turns
squirrels to the near side of tho tree, that 1 may
mmder them with a shotgun.
???I take.great Interest in the churning. Tho dairy
to a coo), cemented room, whtto and clean, with
perfect ventilation. Suspended from the wall are
long shelves on which the creaming pans are set.
7 ho milk to poured into these pans, and when
mantled with a rich yollow,
this yellow cover is taken off by the
fins, true hand of the dairymaid. Mr. Peters
thinks he has beaten ail the patont creamer?. By
tho way, 1 wsrfglad to find that the name of tho
dairymaid was Be sc. Of conrao her name has
nothing directly to do with the butter, but It does
seem to me that a dairymaid named Rose can
make better butter than ono named Calodony, for
instance. In Mko manner I know that the dairy
maid's hair ought not to have anything to do with
the batter (and In this case certainly does not),
but still I wu glad to note that Roco has auburn
hair, that whenever and wherever a sunbeam
touches it sparkles Into red. Similarly I was glad
to seo that her brow wu fair and unclouded, her
face frank and pleasant and her arms white and
shapely. Even about so gross a thing as veal pie,
Sam Weller, the philosopher of common sense,
said: "Your love for veal pie depends on yonr
confidence to the woman as made it,??? There
good deal of sentiment and
great deal of common, sense about bat
ter, and especially golden) Jersey batter. I
confess therefore that the thought of this. dairy
maid with her pretty name, and^ier white brow
and her amber hair???this Rose, so shy and silent,
so tidy and so decorous, with her peaceful face and
her lithe form,lending over the milk pans, skim*
mtogoffthe mantling cream, or swinging the
throbbing churn???tho thought of all this. I say,
gives the butter moral stamina, so to speak, and
idealizes it. It comes In direct progression. Tho
scented clover-field, themild-eyed Jersey* Rose,
tho dairymaid, and tfie delicious product, spring
like to Its quality, and u far from coarseness u
the dfcw Itself.
Tho churn that to used In the dairy to e curious
ene. It bu no duher, but to hung between ben,
and the butter to made by swinging it to and fro
regularly. The butter comes quickly, gathers
tho centre snd exhausts the butter-making
power of the milk. At each churning
about twenty ponnds to made. The butter to
packed for market In one pound pots, wrapped In
cheese doth, end to literally as yellow as gold and
fragrant aa clover blossomifUMir.
Yesterday I was standing by a table in the dairy
and noticed a score of pans containing clabber.
Cool, unbroken clabber with yellow clots of cream
wavering the white surface here and there.
???What are you going to do with this???? I asked.
"That? Ob, that goes tbeptgsl???
"The pigs????
"Yes.???
"Then give me e spoon and show me???the way to
be pigpen.???
???I wish all lovers of Jerseys were hero with me.
We have Jerseys to the right of ns and Jerseys to
the left ol us. The milking herd numbers about
18, in more or Isas milk. Thera are asoore of
young heifers, a dozen young bolls, a big bunch of
calves, cows with young calves, cows in retirement,
and the bulls that rule tho herd. There are over
one hundred Jerseys on the place, everyone ol the
best blood, registered, and carefully bred. Mr.
Peters has bred largely to Signals, and now has a
uperb Signal bull. He has lately turned to it
Hellers, and has a young St. nelitr ball that he
thinks the finest animal ha aver owned, and sev
eral picked 8t Heller heifers. Nona of hto cows
have been tested for record, but many of them
make two pounds of butter a day when in full
milk, and a tew have made over three pounds.
The Jerseys are kept in separate fields, according
classes, snd afield to Mr. Peters with hto pets
all times of the day. With unerring Judg
ment, he advise* Mr Kay, hto farm mana
ger, points ont Us promise la this animal, orth
weak point to that, and brawls so as to emphasize
the one aud wipe out the other. It to hto purpose
to have hto herd stronger fa blood ami quality ev
ery year, almost regardless [of sacrifice or ex-
to .wondering ia I write there lines what
life to better than this. Here to quiet, sod peace,
and abundance. Here to rest, and nature, and
health. Here to energy without conflict, work
without pernios, success without envy* * But here
is ennui, rays some one. I think not. Certainly
not within the week I have spent here. Iclcee
my tyta and tot pass to review the pictures that I
will carry beck to brighten my sanctum daring
the winter's work. Tbe*$ are the bunting barns
and tf* plethoric hay ricks. The Augonu, golden
in the sunset; against the green background of for
est. The purling branches and the up-
gushing springs, above which tho
dragon files pulro uneasily as A a dream. Tho
quail piping to the deep grass for tho oovy scat
tered by the gun. Tho long stretches of brown
clover, dotted with perfect cattle. The mocking
bird, whoso rich music overleapl Itself as it poured
from the lavish throat. The chickens hiding in
the gran, and the turkeys roosting, black In the
moonlight, in the trees. The squirrels dialing
each other through tho darkening shades of tho
forests, or stoning hickory nuts lu tho earlier af
ternoon. The deep and dim recesses of the barn,
redolent of dover, to which the cows were gath
ered. Tho figure of the master of all this, erect
and easy, with broad-brim and (luster, standing
on some hill, so fixed in tho sunset that he almost
seemed diaphanous. The country roads, winding
this way and that, through field and forest. Tho
tide at night, past cabins that seem dead, they are
so still, and past barnyards In which the sleepless
gectamove like ghosts through the moonlight.
Aud abovo all, the owl, that nightly hides in
a clustering tree, and as somo disembodied
spirit, from that impenetrable depth, issues its
plaintive inquiry, until I fall asleep, and the still
repeated question sinks into my dreams and fills
them with the larger Inquiry as "Tn-w-h-o-o-o
Tu w-h-a-a-t??? I really am.
Eo my doctor will see that I have taken his pro
???cription, not fa homeopathfe doses, but with the
allopathic largeness and freedom he wisely indica
ted. And I bring home a lot of U bottled for fu
ture use, I only wish that overy fevered patient
to the land might find good people wbo would of
fer to himor for her, what has set mo up so com
pletely. But there's a heap of fever, and good
folks are scaroe. IL W. O.
CUTTING OFF A THIGH.
How a Convict Was Relieved of a Trouble
some Member Ycsterdny.
Did yon ever see a man???s thigh cut off?
Not a man who has been run over snd half killed
by a train. But did you ever see an appgrently
well man put to sleep with ether and hto thigh cut
off as coolly as a tailor runs hto shears through a
piece of ucw cloth? ???
You never did.
Well here to how its done.
Yesterday an exceedingly Interesting operation
of that kind was performed by Dr. Wil
lis Westmoreland, assisted by Dr. Dan
Howell and several young physicians at the At
lanta mtdical college. A Constitution man had
a comfortable seat high up in the tiers of tho am
phitheatre. Never been In the amphitheatre?
Weil you onght to go there some time. Tiers ol
scats run around In aclrclOland in the centre to
tho "pit??? approached by a narrow hallway, lu
this pit stands the surgeou and bis assistants.
1 here Is tho surgeon???s table on which to a mat
tress, pillow, etc. A few unimportant cases were
shown, lectured ou aud then tho rilverturired old
veteran of operations innumerable, dismisses
the last patient and turning to hto audience an
nounced that the next thing would be the ampu
tation ol a thigh. A door opens and down
the hall and Into the "pit??? pass several men bear
ing tho patient, already under tho inlluunco of
ether. The sleeping man was plai cd off the sur
as??? table. A blanket eras thrown from over
NO-FENCE LAW.
THIS MUCH MOOTED QUESTION
CAUSES A CONTROVERSY.
Lira, and on hto left leg, back of tho knee, so to
speak, wot a horrible sore nearly a foot long, run-
nJnijBpwajdfrom tnecalf of btojeg. U was in-
WO
_ r Jto leg. 1
curable, aud was fast eating Its way to a blood ves
sel, which when reached would allow the man to
William
bleed to death. The patient
' from Morgan county
Smith, an old convict . .
nut in the penitentiary on a
time sentence for anon. Ho has lately boon at
Lock ett'a camp. The wound was tho result of a
burn when tho negro waa a little boy, aud he is
took an clastic in hto hand. It was a long atrip of
rubber like an Alabama sling, except that it was
an wide os a man???s baud. It was wrapped arouud
the patient's toes, then wound nruuud nis foot,
then on up hto leg and thigh to the trunk.
"That, young gentlemen,??? said the doctor, "to
to drivo tho blood up Into tho body and save it to
the system.???
Then the tourniquet was put on???a strong cord
around the thigh drawn so tightly that the bhwd
could not pass under it into tho leg. Thus the
Wood was dammed upJn the body. Then the rub
ber bandage was removed and the leg was ready
for tho knife. At: the negro'a hood ware two
young doctors administering ether, aud another
stood at hto side with bis Augurs on tho negro's
pulse.. A young man camo Ju with a large valla*
on which were a number of keen
Waded and murderous looking knives.
u?? Wcstmorchuid took up a
??? * ???nchea long.
Cashed * ??? *
Editors Constitution: \yill you allow me space
to review a decision ol tho supremo court so extra
ordinary audio far reaching in its consequences
as to startle all citizens of a republican govern*
ment. If it to to stand as a precedent.
The decision as reported in Tiut Constitution is
as follows:
Skrine ct a), vs Jackson et aL Refusal of Iujonc-
tfou, from Richmond. Election* Ordinary.
Fence. Government.''Constitutional Law. Quo
Warranto. Injunction. (Before Judge Roney).
Blandford, J.???1. Under tho act ol 1872 (code,
section 1449), the ordinary to required, under cor.
tain circumstance#, to order an election to deter
mine the question of "fenco??? or "no fence;??? tho
returns are to be mado to him, and lie to required
to examine thorn and decide upon all questions
that may arlso out of tue elec
tion, end proclaim the result.
T his to a pert of tho political power of the state
which the legislature has neon fit to confer upon
the ordinary; and without some authority vested
???v. ui iuu uiwuu ui iuu unuuirii
and it seems to have been contemplated that hto
action should be final iudcauduslve. GOG* 238.
(a). Neither the common tow remedy by infor
mation in tho nature of a quo warrauto, to appli
cable to the tace, nor to there any statute author-
izing the courts to inquire lute the legality of
such an election. McCrary on elections, *221, 222,
288: Naar, lufiragcsnud elections, 230; Freeman et
al. vs McDonald et al. (February term, 1881.)
2. 11 the courts had jurisdiction in such a case
the remedy should have been sought before the or
dinary had acted and tho result had been pro
claimed. Alter tho ordinary had decided the
questions beforo him and proclaimed the result
of tho election, it to then too late to seek redress
by injunction. Dyson, ordinary, vs. Tope, (8cp-
timber term, 1883); Freeman et al. v* McDonald
etal., (February term, 1884).
Judgment aflfnucd.
Hook and Montgomery, for plaintiffs in error.
J. B. Cutnmlng; J. Gaualil; Frank II. Miller,
lor defendants.
In Justice to the court and to counsel on both
sides, it must be remarked that this Is a closer de
cision, placed upon a ground not made by plead
ings or argument, or hinted at by the court itoelf
during the long argument of the case. Apparent
ly an afterthought ol the court lu their anxiety to
escape a decision upon the "magnitude ol tho
question.??? to quoto language of the culef Justice,
used in the course of thusrguuioot.
Had there Wen anything in the point upon
which tbodcslon to rested, it Is hardly supposablo
that it Would have escaped the attention of luoh
sMUte counsel aa Messrs. Gauahl, Mtllcf and Cura-
l. lug, who represented the defense, anyone of
\ t.Mii, it la no disparagement to the court to way,
1: the legal peer oi thu ablest of the throe Judges.
but to the decision.
Is it true that the legislature can creato an irre-
si onsible law-making power whoae ukasesare as
unalterable by that power as were the laws of the
Medea and I'cnfnuM. and nro too sacred for tho
courts to review aud set aside If found in cuntltct
with tho constitution, or to have bceu illegally
adopted?
Confessedly, the legislature cannot promulgate
such a law. Cau water rise higher than its
source?
Judge Coolqy says "where a debt or penalty or
. forfeiture may beset up Against a person. tho deter
mination of hto liability becomes a judicial ques
tion.??? Cooley's Cons't Liu., 603,3*
, Ml.
In order to undentaud the cose under ravJow, I
will state that it was not an appeal from
ie Judgment of the ordinary, whoreoy it was
>ugLt to review and reverss hto decision.
It was a bill to enjoin private persona, who, tho
sw urn bill alleged, and the answer did not deny,
threatened to (Lillet a wrong upon complainants
BOV fa
l In the
??? mrge flap, and
point Into the sh
J townward, TheL L
rent of the leg, Just abovo tho knee, theu up
ward opposite the slit on tho othor sido, aud then
under to the beginning point. Then tho leg
skinned upward to a point opposite the beglnui
thus securing the flap.
"Jlow is bin putoef??? asked tho doctor.
'It???s all right,??? replied the young man at the
helm.
The leg was then In shape for the fate strokes
that would carry the knife to the bone. The doc
tor shoved up hto sleeves and with null Inching
coolness sent the blade into the flesh cutting it to
the bone. He then shaved the bone off aud tho
leg and thigh was taken away to be dtoseeted Inter
on. The atump waa dressed, the doctor took oil
his apron, washed hto hands, put on hto coat and
in a moment was dashing up tho street behind hto
spanking blacks aa though nothing had occurred.
T he negro was doing well last night. The patient
did not lose two ounces of bloodby the operation.
With everything in his favor he will ho well in
SEEKING AN OUTLET.
The Teoplajtt Dublin Determined to Hare
n Railroad.
Dublin, Ga, October 9.???[Special.]???Ponuant to
a published call, a large number of the citherns
met In the courthouse yesterday to take meas
ure# for building a railroad to Dublin from some
point. The route to Wrightsvllle was discussed
at length, and tho advantages of tho ronth (via
Jeffersonville, to connect with the Central or East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad,were also
presented. But after a long debate the meeting
declared the route to Wrightsvllle to connect wltn
the Tennelle and Wrigbtsviile road to be the
most feasible* Committees were appointed to
confer with the Central railroad, and Tctrallle and
Wrightsvllle, in order to consolidate with the lat
ter and get aid from the former.
road company.
The subeuiptions earn# In slow and in small
quantities, owing to the fact that the merchants
... B. Thomas, the superintendent of the
Tennlile and Wrightsvllle rood, was present, and
encouraged the meeting by stating that If tho peo
ple would raise forty thousand dollar* the Central
railroad company would do the balance, he was
confident.
Late in the afternoon the amount subscribed
being small and many of the stockholders having
returned home, the election of the officers for the
road wu postponed until next Monday.
T he people of the county are anxious to have a
railroad, and will do more now than they were
ever willing to do iu the past when a move to
made that will be likely to result in bringing the
road to the town of Dublin. Thou who wish a
load from Macon to Dublin should boon the look
out now, because If the road to WrigbtsvIUe foils
orsmeesa, Dublin will call on them for aid to
build a road to Macon. By connecting at (iris-
woidsviUe nr Bullard???s all the expense of a river
bridge and depot In Macon would be obviated.
The weather to tremendously dry snd the mercury
stands above 96 in the shad*
A BRAVE BNOINBER.
An Accident on tha Memphis and Charles
ton Railroad.
Chattanooga, October 9.-{gpeciaLHThe seat
bound Memphis and Charleston passenger train
due in this city at 6:90 this morning met with a
frightful accident at Bailey's station last night
The train was going at the full rate of speed when
ft ran Into ten box care which had ran down on
the main line from a side track. The shock was
terrific and tbs passengers were thrown from their
seats (oily twenty tret distant, many of them be
ing badly braised. The engine turned over with
(far brave engineer. Boh Tenner, and the fireman,
John Mansfield. They were taken from the wrack
olive. Tanner to badly hurt Un could hove es
caped by jumping out bat remained on hto en
gine trying to break the terrific momentum.
tr, received
i were do-
Renting. Carver and ffoganfus.
Na-hyxlle, Tenn., October 9.???In the shooting
st the fair grounds to-day, for the benefit of the
Porter rifles, Andy Meador, of this city, beet the
record of Dr. Carver and Captain Beprdo* break
ing 94 day pigeons at 18 yaMs rise. The best
record heretofore atuioed rum.
1. It was unconstitutional.
2. It hud not been adopted In the way provided
by the act itself. It was unconstitutional, It was
uiged, because it authorised the souuro
ol complainant'll stock without pro
viding ??? mode for corapenmtluif
the owners, If uujnstiy seised; that, though there
was a ptovlribu for the lsnd-owuer???not stock-
owncr???ftuininoulniCbto adversary before a msgto-
irate, who wss to Inquire into and award dauragjs
lor the injury to tho realty, yet It did not author
ize him tuglvc damages to tho slock-owucrs tf hto
stock Pud octn unjustly seized; neither did it
allow on appeal from tho Judgment oi thu
irate lu thut court to a jury, and it required tno
magistrate to summon tha stock
owner to a special court,
damages to tho realty irrespective of amount,
toi>sue executions therefor, and allowed uoap
peal except to tho superior court, If tho amount
was over fifty dollars. All of wblch .lt was lu-
sisted wss "iucoufttotcnt??? with the ooustltutlon
of 1877 as found Iu codo (of 1882) section 6163 and
??? .. ????? ^ 0 private property
ilatlvo ouactmuut except
6016, os to one ponon cxesclslug functions of two
fhc ordinary to certainly a "persou^dJcffirsfiig
* those department*
it the court mean by "political power??? each ns
is conferred upon tnnniclpnl corporations???not
upon one person, observe???are wo to understand
them as averting that if those corporations
light . ,
exist the court must frame one.
Code, 22??, *2304081.
Had tho legislature undertaken to give effect to
the act directly, the mode of its passage could
have been Inquired into and the act would havo
been declared void if that mode was not la accord
with the ooustltutlon. ^utJM
Codeoi '??i3063, 6073,3816. ??? ???. .
epoley. 185, 141; 45 Ga., 381-2. ... lt
If tho court moon by "political power,???) polloo
power, the New York dccctolon shows, "no such
authority can be invoked??? In this case.
it was an attempt to exercise police, not"pollt
fcaI???T"Wcr. Cooley, 572; et. sen.
. An In 'ance of tho exercise of political power
Is the jntk???ng of a treaty by the president and
conferred upon the lost name., .
eon holding a Judicial office, unless expressly __
tkorized by tho constitution, tho delegation ol
the power to void. Code of '82, |5015. , _
W hen exercised by congress it to a part of tho
legislative lower. 7 Wallace, 700.
The nearest approach to its exercise by tho
courts to under tho writ ot quo warranto
When inch a writ wss brought by one claiming
the ??Hire of governor of Wisconsin against the in-
cumbcut, the argument for the latter urged that
the JudicitiT had uo jurisdiction. Cooley com
ment* on this thus: "A strange doctrine in this
country of lawaf but which, of course, received
no countenance from tha able oourt to which It
wss addreksed.???
Cooley G24, n. 2.
The supreme court of the state of Georgia aaya:
w e "esnnot go behind the returns," even to adjust
contests between private persons, not as to wtto
shall hold office, but as to tho validity of a law
vitally afleutlng private righto. Ififll
t un the legislature do indirectly what they are
prohibited (rom directly doing?
II they < jin..iheri they may pass a law giving all
the properly of the country peoplo of Rich
mond county to the city of Augusta, end mako
the law take effect in tho same niauncr as uow
provldca,for thef stock tow. / |
tu m i mo ruuii* Will uvunraiuvau*
ie ordinary and voters depart from tho
mod* prescribed, no power ou earth, say tho ??>u-
prime court, cau iutcrlcrc. If oroperty can thus
be put at the merry of an irehnonslhlo county
officer, without redress, so cau life and liberty.
All are protected by the same claiuo of the mu-
???titution. Code of r 82 section 4991-5-G 49, G*. 286.
Again platntlfls have not had thoirday in court.
As stated the decision Is rested on a ground
not hinted nt ou the hearing'
bp court or counsel; aud tho Judgment affirmed
on tins ground.
in the cose of Ilsrrtoon vs. Nixon, 9 Fetors, 4??*'
????????. Justice Baldwin, dissenting, says (after
Invoking tne principle that where an 'objection
???*??????/."ri*?? ' uuii ?? an, ,11 Miu,ic)iiwiuaw vmjiuiw
ol its jurisdiction, render a Judgment of roverssl
ou any ground on which they would not he boom!
to hear coutiscl (alluding to tho princi
ple tbst counsel will not be heard in a
court of review on an objection not mode below.)
It is a great hardship on parties to lutve tttelr Judg
ments, in tnsidu on technical objection*! nitocd at
the bar, hut the grievance will In come intolerable
if tho course ol the court should bo saca as to do
it when they are first suggested from tho buueh."
And ytt a reversal only gives a ucw trial, not
contrary to the principle that private property
S nnot tie taken by legislative enactment except
r public purposes, aud not even for that purpuao
uulosthcsct condemning it coutaiucd within
Itself provision for compensating tho owner for
anydamsgche might suitor from the seizure of
bis property.
HedgewlcK on RtaL and Const'l Law (od 1867) 614,
515: 40 (is., 48; 63 Ga.. 122-3.
The chief Justice admitted that this feature of
the law was Inconsistent with the constitution of
1877. Theargument wss then pressed that inas
much as the act, deprived oi this feature,
provided lor tho seizure of private prop
erty, without providing any tribunal
K assess damages there for, If damage should bo
Dieted upon th# stockowuur, the remaining
Iiortfon of the few was unconstitutional, to say
nothing, the provision of the law itself requiring
all ol it to be adopted, or none,
ike ( ode 1449. Cooky (3d Ed.) 186.
Opening, ss we are Justified in doing, inas
much as tho court shrank from "tho
magnitude of the question,??? that there was
at least phuutblty iu tho araument,
were not plaintiffs entitled to an opinion as to
whether it was sound under tbAt part of the con
stitntion which guarantees protection to life, lib ???
eriy and property, and forbids the citizen to he
deprived of either without dno process of law?
the supreme court of New York In Taylor vs-
Forter, 4 Util HO (and thecooe but voices tho do
cislons of all the states, save Georgia) sav "tho
same measure of protection against legislative en
croach* ent to extruded to If/e, liberty and
property, snd if the Utter can be
taken without a forensic trial and Judgment
thereto uo security for the other* IfihehsrU*
latureran take the property oi A and transfer U
to B they can take A himself aud shut him up la
prison os put him to death.???
Aislu the supreme court ol New York In
Rockwell y* Nearing. 85 New York R. 307-8, (now
called court ol appeals) a case substanttolly iden
tical with the one in review, say. "The question
whether the act to valid so tor as* It relates to the
seizure and rale of animals running at large In a
putdic highway to not iuvolved In the present ap
peal. That issue might well beoootroilei! by con
siderations connected with polh* powers oi tho
government No such authority esn be in
voked fa support ot its provisions uo tar aa they
relate to the seizure and; couth/urim of animate
found on the pr?? rubra of the captor, as a punish
ment for a private trespass, fro tor os the act In
qnestio# relates to animals trosspassiug on the
prenmes of the captor, the proceedings it author-
fz*t have not even the mocking semblance of the
^lUrrreond attack made npon
wss relied on to justify the tbre
was that its provisions forgiving is cucut iu ?????,/
given county had not been compiled with lathe
steps taken to put it in force In Richmond.
1 be exhibits to the blU showed that various pe
titions were pnaanted to the ordinary on Novem
ber 15, 18*3, for an election under the law,
signed In all by ninety-three freeholder*;
that three petition* were oil worded alike, asking
lor an (lection under the law; that counter peti
tions signed by one huudred and sixty eight free
holders were duly filed; that no supportin'/ peti
tion wee filed, unless one of those fifed on Novem
ber 15th could be treated as such*. Tho ordinary ???
order calling the election named for tho city ol
Augusta, embracing hmr militia districts, the
city hall as the only place for
bolding the election for the en
tire city, It was shown by affidavits that th# city,
hall was not the "court ground" of even one of
the militia districts embraced in the limits of the
city. The election waa held where ordered. Hence
It was urged that the tow hail not been compiled
with; that the ordinary was by the law constitu
ted a tribunal for a speHal purpose, with limit* I
JertedJcttou, and that th scion everythin? must
r ou the record to give him Jurisdiction;
aa the record showed on its tom that tne
prerequisites had not been complied with.
This argument, we are alao justified in vanning
bod some plausibility, and the court have not met
ft. They tell ttethsc the kgtotoCttre has seen fit in
confer "apart of the political poweroftrw srate???
u^n the ordinary, and theccurt* havejaoJnrto-
dinary.???
finally affecting the rights ol any lltigout. An affir
mance, generally, estoje forever thu party ugolnat
whom the Judgment to reudered. What to tho
jplidon ol tliu whole court where tho controlling
|H>lnt In tho case suggests Itoelf after tho argument
h closed und tho Judges have retired to consider
tho cure is shown by the esse of Garland v* Davto.
4 Howard, 243, (see alto 10 Fetera. 321), wbere.oron
when the point seemed to require a reversal, tho
intention ot counsel was called to it and a rehear
ing bad Inline the court pronounced Ita decision.
Thetunremo court of the United btataa seems
more diffident of its abllitv to decide quodions
coirectly without argument than does the supreme
court ol Georgia.
But to Mutalu themselves In the revolutionary
prtrlnu announced the supreme court of aetrite,
cite McCrary, p. 221,222.223. The authoruot only
don. noUu.tiifn thou, bat lays down precisely thu
opposite doctrine.
lui r-ucu '.'.t ho to discussing the right of subordi
nate legiiijativc bodies to Judge of thu'election of
snembtrs of tbclrowu body. He seys,"Anox-
andnatlonof tho adjudged canes In this country
S ill show that the jurisdiction ol tho oourt* to
quire Into the regularity and tho vaildltyof
tJu:lnm,-a Jurisdlrtlhu which belong* to all
courts of general and original Jurisdiction, to not
to be regarded os taken nway by nny merely lie/-
stive words. Their Jurisdiction remain*, unless It
sppesra will* tfucqoirural certainty that the leg*
islaturu inti uded to take it away (l)liloii on Mu
nicipal Corporations, Hoe. I II). It follows that a
charter provision that the council of aelty shall bo
judge of tho election, qualification* and return*
of its own members, does not oust
the courts of Justice of their Jurisdiction. Tho two
tribunals have concurrent Jurisdiction In auoh a
emu; but If tho provision be that no oourt shall
take oogntoanoe of oases of this character, or that
the ( ohm il slmll bo the sole and cxeliulvo or final
judge, etc., then the courts are shorn ot their
power iu the premise*???
Keep iu view that Uie esse was not a contest for
a teat in a legislative body. Again on page ???Ul tho
author rays, si caking on ibo same subject: "The
Uuo doctrine seems to las that a special remedy
given by statute to cumulative, aud notexoluriiro
u!lh?? ordinary Jurisdiction of tho courts, unlen
thu usuUcsi intention of the statute bo to mako
such remedy exclusive, and such Intention must
be manifested by affirmative words to that effect. ???
Making tho violent assumption that the attempt
as the kw provides 8uch action will certainly be
met\ by affidavit ol Illegality.
.Already has a man iu Atlanta been non-
titled beforo tho city court under the
criminal tcction of tho act. When ho
hto case beforo the supreme court, will that
tribunal say they have no Jurisdiction to hear any
objection to the constltutionalfty of the law, or to
the mode of ita adoption la Fulton county, tf
H)P< ??? 11, ??? ?????? U ????? ,am
. 1 have too much respect for tho character and
intelligence of the three gentlemen now occupy
ing rests upon that bench to bcllove that they wfll
edlicro to tho decision under review in faeo
of any sort of an argument against
its soundncM. If I prove to be mistaken iu this,
it w ill but show that having said thu hor,o wu*
twelve feet hJgh, their pride of opinion will forbid
them from correcting the grluvou* error into
which they havo hastily fallen without due con
sideration and without argmment apou the ques
tion.
Let us hope that this additional proof of thu
correctness of the charge made about a year agi
flfnliiSt tho court by tho Albany Law
Journal will bo counteracted nt
the first opportunity. When some
preposterous proposition was submitted to Urat
jqjrrnal audits opinion Invoked a* to ita sound-
Its reply, In substance, wss that no court of
no personal feeling tows
whoso decision 1 have critictoed, severely criticis
ed; It may be my relations with them personally,
have been and are of tho kindliest nature. But
my Clients havo been, ss I conceive, most unjustly
dealt with, the reputation ot thu court lui* bceu
lowered, aud republican government itself Jeop
ard izedjf the deetolon criticised to to stamiasA
precedent. Thera to a time to speak, aud a time to
do silent.
In my judgment the falsity of tho principle
which tbo decision scoks to/wtabl to:i should bu
proclaimed from tbo housctoi*.
Augusta, October 3, 188L
\\, \V. ItoNTGOWKIir,
CONSTITUTION TRADE PAPER.
at ft to no* Let tne repeat that there waa no
tea* before the court seeking to reverse the judg
ment of the nrdtnur. It vus roatewt between
private elites???, the fiefradonU oresrttnc the
right to setae the property of complainants, watch
tit ht the latter contested.
Bet wh*t to "the political power of the govern
ment???? Lawyers undentaud what the executive,
the togUlative and the judicial powers are. If
"political power??? to u*M aa a generic
>rm emanrfDg ml), or er*n twa
. f the first named, what becomes of the ornate-
rational prohibition found in code of *82, section
whtre .it! tlic.nlmi*Tiro~wurrt. In%. iteOV
denying Jurisdiction to tho coortsT
Fage 233 seems wrongly cited. Certafaly ft
contains nothing which In tho remotest manner
sustains tho doctrine herein animadverted upon.
Noer, on sail rages and elections, aUo cued by
the court, entirely falls to sustain tbo novel doc
trine operated by them. He. on f?ie page cited, to
*1?? liking of the "method of trying mo writ of
quo warranto.??? Nothing to uldun the whole
page which con he tortured lut?? an expresteon of
opinon that tin Ijitdlrfitl power has not Jurisdiction
to para upon tin validity of a law, no matter how
hour ht IKioto It, much fees I* any hint given that
urta havo no such Jurisdiction In casos luvolv-
>>nt n congress attempted to play In the hands
of tho president "the political power to de
prive men of their live*, liberty and property
the court* were prompt to assort their Jurisdiction,
though exprosiy denied to them by the act* and
to lescuo tne victim.
Griffin v* Wilcox, 21 Vnd. 370,
Johnson vs. June* 44 JU., 142.
Norrto vs. Doniphan, me* (Ky.) 3*5.
There to ono decision from the highest tribunal
perhaps that evir sat, that Justly sustains
the "advanced??? position token by
the supreme conrt of Georgia,
to thefr reftixal to "go behind the returns??? and
consider "allnndc??? teatlmouy. With strange ob-
llvloroutas they fail to citi It. Even that decision
waa only tarried by otto majority???H to 7. The su-
K me court of Georgia to unanimous to affirming
same doctrine.
If it he uuo that the supreme court have no
irisdiction iu this matter they ore a fate In mak-
raid, not a stogie question made* by the >P recorS
(and several are omitted In this article), ha*
decided by the court. Code 4271 rays: "Tne <
the court rode 1271 sav*: "Tae court
shall decide all ??usstton* presented In the record
of each rase carried up for review.???
As long as Urn tenure of judicial office Is de
pendent upon "the good pleasure of the crown,???
so tor g will we have decisions like the one under
review. Whenever great political or wealthy In
fluence (and they have become almost convert
ible terms) ere opposed ??o tho weak, the chances
ere very raech against the Utter before our Judl-
ctal tribunals as at prevent organfrod. In this
country the sovereignty residue In tne voters
and whether that sovereignty appoint ita Jastlcla*
iry by direct vole or through the vote of ita repre-
sentativre, snd fpr short term*, the incumbent Is
always looking to hi* reduction, and would be.
more than human. If hto own interest*, often
uuconselowly, did not sway hto Judgment to a
more or less extent.
Mr. Hedge*Itk remarks upon this subject In
speaking of the Judiciary of England, "so tar a*
the character of the Judfetory Was concerned, the
evils ante bated to the doctrine of Judicial
c* bitructloD* were corrected by U??o act
which made the tenure of their office dependent
on their good conduct alone, and emancipated
them from ail subordination to the crown, rue
Influence ol this alteration waa almost Immedi
ately perceptible; the seme magistrate* who,
bolding their offices at the pleasure of the king
would have been sycopluuita and time semis,
Uremeae soon ??? they oroupted thefe seats as
long as they boro thciaw lves uprightly, bold and
bon rat public servant*"???Sedgwick (Id eu-L
3/7*9.
Finally, what has this deetoion settled? Nothing
???aUoluu ly nothing. The same question* in etc
**- ???vm mint come o^iln before
y advocate ol the law se-k*
to Impound bis neighbor'* stock and .get from a
magistrate a judgment to be levied ou such stock,
to the r
From tbo Nashville Banner.
The first of October number of Tiik Atlan
ta Constitution to ono of the largest papers ever
Issued In this country It to brimful of choice
reading metier and to a'magnificent exhibit of
tha resources of tho great state ol Georgia, It to a
powerful Jounral ana an,honor to that state, and
especially to At! nta.
From the New York World.
Tiik Atlanta Constitution printed, October 1st,
61,0(0 copies of a 4 t-pago edition, giving a detailed
account of all tho agricultural, commercial, manu
facturing aud industrial interests ot tho prosperous
state of Georgia, snd, as a display of its own Inter-
prise, accomplishing tho greatest newspaper
uchtoYcmeut lu the whole history of tho south. .
From the CbittaeoogA Times.
Tho greet first ol October business Issuo of Tun
Atlanta Constitution, was a decided credit to
the enterprise and public spirit of tho managers
of that leading southern journal, end a feat othor
southern publishers may well strive to Imitate lu
tbo interests of the people, the commerce and In
dustries of tho section.
From the Kufaula Time* ???
The "trade issue??? of Tni AtlantaOomrmunoN
of 1st tost, to the most colossal newspaper publica
tion over Issued in the south. If uot in this wholo
country. It consisted of 44 pagol or 261 columns,
and6e,t00 copies were out in circulation, ft iru
a Journalistic exploit that has never been equaled
In tho south, and wo can see no neoomlty for any
effort, in the way of. newspaper enterprise, that
would undertake to surpass It.
From tbo Bpringfiold Republican.
A surprising sort of newspaper to this "trade Is
suo" of Tub .Atlanta Constitution; 4 i fall sized
pages, filled with historical and descriptive
articles to show the natural wealth and business
of Georgia, miscellaneous articles end advertise-
its It to tbo largest newspaper ever printed in
country, aud to well gotten up in oil respect*
Buch a sheet could only bo dated lu a prosperous
country.
From the Baltimore Day.
Tiik Atlanta Constitution, which as nu enter
prising southern newspaper has no superiors and
too few equals, on October 1, Issued tho largest
paper ever printed In tho United .states. Tbo ro-
mnrknblo Issuo consisted ol forty-four broad page*
224 columns, and tho edition waa 61,000 coplea.
The poper I* devoted to a review of tho trade of
Georgia lor the year, aud contain* many columns
of Inn-rotlug und vnluablo mat-rial about south-
ru push uurtbiirincMt enterprise,
rom tho Albany News mid Advortlscr.
Wednesday???s Atlanta Constitution was the big
gest issue ever published In Georgia. Each paper
weighed about a pound; nnd m about filly thous
and of tho them were published, tho bwuo mar bo
characterized as about twenty-five tons oi solid do-
mocraco.
From tho Belma Times.
Tni Atlanta Constitution of Wednesday was a
mammoth concern. Itcontolnod forty-four pages,
and, aa it designed todo, presented a lull review
of the business of Atlanta and her territory. Tub
Constitution to very Jurtly proud of tho hiu-cch.* of
Its great effort. Tho pep
eastern country of ours 1
business community.
From ths Boston Advertiser.
Tug Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution for October l
to a"trado issue," containing forty-four pages ol
six column* fnch, with a vast amount ol adver
tisements mid other matter touching tho trado of
Atlanta. Tin:?? onrtiti???tion dwell* nt length and
with Juatlflnl.lo prldu upon tho rapid growth aud
prosperity of thu city.
Vrorn tho Louisville, Ky., Commercial.
Tiik Atlanta Constitution, on October 1, pub-'
1 tolled tho lnrccut newspaper ever Issued In Amer
ica. It contained fourty four pages of six columuf
each.
From tho Chariot fc, N# 0., Observer,
Not Jogg ago Tiie Atlanta Constitution movod
into its new building, constructed lor IU special
use, and put in new proves with all tho Iatert Im
provements, and Issued on thcMst Instant a mam
moth edition, containing forty-four pages, mado
npol advertisements, historlm! ???keU-tu*. of
the business (iiicrprWH and manufacturing in-
iluMrii* of that llourMiIug < Uy. Till* wa* a trl*
urupli lu Journalism but rarely kurixuwed iu ciUe*
much I ary or than Atlanta, anil I* an evidence not
only of tnogoiihcaditivcuofiN of tbo publishes of
Tub Constitution, but also of the gate city.
From tho Charleston News and Courier. . ,
Xl*e tnulo Issue of Tits Atlanta (XiNvriTirrioN
lor 1684 was laiued on October 1. ItcontUu of 41
page*, or 261 columns, and to ono of the largest
papers ever published to the United Htetes. H to
devoted to a review of tho trade of Atlanta anil ol
Gc<irrla during the post) ear, and contain* a num
ber or special papers on a variety ot topics aoiodated
with the preasut growth and the future prospects
of the new south.
The trade issue to most crediuole to tho outer-
jccling that Tub Constitution???s best work, lot
Atlanta snd for I Poll, 1* that which to done, in its
usual form, every day in tho year.
From the Detroit Free Press,
Tn* Atlanta ContmunoN to a Journal o!
which not only tbertate of Georgia, bnt tbo whole
of the United States ought to be proud. On Oc
tober 1st it published a ptpea of forty-four page*,
which making the largest tosuo ever put forth
by any paper in tho world. Tho big
issue of tho Free Press consisted of thirty-six
pages of seven colums to a page, making 252 col
nmn*. The Constitution's consisted of forty-
four r age* alx ??olumns to tbo page, or 9H column*
In all-or twelve columns worn Hum tho big
Free nom which, up to October 1, wai tha
largest paper ever Issued. An edition pi il.ouo
was printed of The CoiramrnoN, and the paper
used weighed twelve ton* and measured nearly
600 miles In length. Not only to Ths CoNemunoN
great In enterprise, but it to great In literary tal
ent. It has a large sod brilliant stall of writers,
among theu Mr. Harris, whose "Uncle Remus '
papers and other writing* bare given him ??? world-
wide reputation. Tho Issuing of this mammoth
l??P< r Is one of the best signs of pr ???MperttyAn .the
south. It takes a great, enlightened ami pros
perous country to Mip|-/it * sraat, sBilgnranen
snd prosperous paper.
From the New York Evening Post.
The "trade issue" of Tn* Atlanta Constitution
for tm made Its appearance on October l??t, and
consisted of forty-four page# of six columns each,
the publisher* claim that It la tbefargcatuewt-
paper ever printed to the United 8Utes, ami that
* sand Is the largmt ever
the priu< ip*i hwture*
??et forth that the city already ha* flfty-i
th* dty closer communication with rich fields'
real snd Iron. The city, too, has been well go;
* riuri.im! despite I'a r
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