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VOLUME XLIV.]
■ IL L EDGEF1LLE, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 18, 1874.
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"On jgh."
How lo ProDonnre
Peasant Arcadian,
Guiding tlie plough,
Course are your garments.
Your aspect is rough.
Peasant imprudent.
I hear you’ve a cough ;
Do you feel sure
You’re dad warm enough '
Bibulous peasaut,
Your voice it is rough
You’re not a disciple
Of temperate Gough.
Home to your cottage
You hear the winds sough,
Even the birdies
Sing hoarse on the bough.
Home to your cottage
And bend o’er the trough,
Kneeding the loaves
Of digestible dough.
Though the bread’s heavy,
Unsweetened and to-rgh,
Well sharpened teeth
Will go easily through.
“To be or not to be”—Married.
Those who are opposed to matrimony will read the
first and third lines, t lieu the second and fourth, aud
i-j continue through all the verses. The friends of the
'‘institution” need make no transposition :
The man must lend a happy life.
Who is directed by his wife;
Who’s free from matrimonial chains
Is sure to suffer for bis pains.
Adam could find uo peace
Until he saw a woman's face ;
When Eve was given him tor a mate,
Adam was ic a happy state.
la ail the female hearts appear
Truth—darling of heart sincere;
Hypocrisy, deceit and pride.
Ne'er known iu woman to reside.
What tongue is able to unfold
The worth iu women we behold ?
The falsehood that in woman dwell
Is almost imperceptible.
Fooled be the foolish man, I say,
Who would not yield to woman’s sway;
Whochnuges from his singleness
la sure of perfect blesseduess.
THWARTED
BY BESSIE MURRAY.
Philip Earle s house was filled with
guests—a gay, pleasure-seeking throng
that had come at his invitation to spend
the summer months at his beautiful resi
dence, the Elms. For years the house
had been closed while Phil was abroad,
but he had returned to liis native land
once more, and a large party of old friends
had been invited to visit him.
Bernice Vaugn was deliberating be
tween Newport and baratoga when she
received Philip Earle s invitation. Not a
moment did she hesitate, but packed her
most delicate silks, laces, jewels, fans and
all the et ceteras of a New Pork belles
toilet, with a fixed determination to cap
tivate Phil’s heart with her dazzling beau
ty. She had known him years before ; in
fact, there had been quite a little love af
fair between them: but Bernice’s flirtations
had ended it.
Bernice Vaugn was a beautiful brunette;
cne of those flashy, fickle creatures that
.ensnare so many noble hearts by their
wit and beauty, only to thrust them away
when a new victim presents himself. But
now she was tired of flirtations, and she
decided to many Philip Earle for his
riches, never doubting her ability to cap
tivate him, for she rarely met with fail-
urea; and this prize she thought worth
trying for. Imagine her surprise and vex
ation when she learned from Phil s own
bps, the night of her arrival, that he was
betrothed to Ethel May.
“You will love her, Bernice, when you
know her,” he said, ‘‘for she is too pure
and good, alas, for me. Still, we appre-
-ci&te the goocl things God gives us if we
are unworthy.”
Bernice, hating the girl she had never
ween, congratulated him, and told him,
how anxious she was to see the lady w’ho
had won his cynical heart.
It was a lovely June morning. Bernice
Vaugn pleaded indisposition, aud excused
herself from appealing at breakfast. In
fact, she was cross, and very well knew
she should say something ugly to some
one if she appeared ; and this of all times
would not do. In the garden below, the
flowers were wet with dew, the blush rose
and pint hearted damask were loaded
1*1111 glittering jewels, and on the pansy s
velvety cheek lay shining drops that look
ed like tears.
Bernice sat en dishabille at ner window
unmindful of the sweet, subtle fragrance
the breeze wafted up to her, or the red
breasted robin’s silvery notes as he car-
rolled his morning praises in an elm op
posite. She was watching the party of
croquet players on the lawn. The ladies
looked pretty in their light morning dress
es and sun hats, and their merry laughter
rang out clear and glad on the morinng
air.
Bernice watched with a critical eye
Ethel May’s every movement, and die
could not bat admit that she was the em
bodiment of grace, and a powerful rival;
and ehedf* noted Phil followed her eve
rywhere ehe moved, with a proud fond
(ace.
WAViai wag very lovely. She was rather
petite, with a transparent complexion of
white, large deep blue eyes, and
a wealth of soft, golden hair.
“Philip Earle, you shall never marry
h«r Bernice exclaimed aloud, br— : —
h«r jirtmlnd hand down on the a
“Thia baby-faced girl shall not
me - I will make myself more beau
tiful than she can be. I will exercise all
my power over him, and if I fail I can
surely win him by strategy."
That night there was a hop in the par
lor, comprising -the guests of the house,
“d a f ew outside friends. Ethel and
Philip were enjoying a little tete a tete in
one comer when Bernice entered, looking
perfectly dazzling in her dark beauty.—
She wore a long, black dress of some
thin material, through which her white
shoulders and arms gleamed like marble;
bracelets of heavy gold, in form of a ser
pent with jeweled eyes, coiled around her
wrists, and diamonds glittered in her ears
and shone among the braids of her pur
ple black hair.
O, Phil, who is that magnificent crea
ture ? ’ Ethel exclaimed.
Philip was gazing at her with a look of
deep admiration.
“That is Bernice Vaugn. Is she not
beautiful ? I must introduce you, dear;
she used to be an old love of mine,” said
Philip, as he went in search of Bernice"
for she was already surrounded bv a group
of admirers.
An old love of Phil’s ?" Ethel mur
mured, and a strange fear crept over her
as she looked into Bernice’s eyes and dark,
handsome face.
“So this is your lady love, Sir Philip !"
I am so glad to have met you, and I am
8llr ® ^ B ball love you dearly if you will let
me,” Bernice said taking a seat by Ethel’s
side.
They formed a striking contrast—these
two girls. Ethel, with her fairy like foitn
and delicate face, dressed in some fleecy
material; and Bernice in her dark dress,
that admirably set off her Southern beau
ty. Ethel was fascinated with her as every
one was when she exerted herself to be
agreeable; and to-night she was doing her
best. Bernice watched her rival carefully
—noticed how fondly her eyes rested on
Philip’s form and how eagerly she listen
ed when he spoke.
“I wonder if she has a jealous tempera
ment, or does she trust her love implicit
ly ? I will soon see for myself for I must
study well, she mused.
Very adroitly Bernice managed to keep
Phil at her side, entertaining him with
her wit and beauty; or she would ask him
to take a stroll on the veranda, as the
rooms Avere close and heated. He AA r as a
willing captor, for somehow he was be
witched by her beauty to-night, and did
not notice the little white-robed figure
who watched them so earnestly.
Bernice was leaning on Phil’s arm, gaz
ing at the jeweled vault overhead, when
the band commenced playing a low, deli
cious waltz, and fairy like forms flitted
past the windows.
“That music is irresistible ! O, Phil,
won’t you Avaltz with me? We used to
waltz in old times, you know ;” and Ber
nice looked into Philip's face with a ten
der look in her dark, luminous eyes.
She Avaltz superbly, and almost ere he
was aware, Phil was whirling away in the
giddy dance with Bernice leaning on his
shoulder, and her warm perfumed breath
close to his cheek. He had forgotten that
this dance was promised to Ethel, and
was just excusing himself from Bernice
when she exclaimed—
“What a lovely rose bud you have in
your coat! Do give it to me—will you,
Phil?
Ethel saw him give Bernice the flower
he had promised her, saw him fasten it in
her hair, and she Avas a little cool toward
Philip, and Bernice congratulated herself
upon her evening’s success.
Day after day passed, and still Bernice
held Phil a captive. He did not love her,
and Ethel was as dear to him as ever ;
but there was a fascination about her—a
nameless something he could not resist
when he was in her society. Struggle
against it as he might, fate seemed to
throw her continually in his path. She
dazzled and bewildered him with her
strange words, sometimes as bright and
gay as a tropical bird, again as sad and
pensive as a nun.
Ethel May resided Avith her uncle, only
a short distance from the Elms, but spent
nearly every evening there, for Phil de
sired to have her participate in the amuse
ments the guests had arranged—tableaux,
charades, or dancing, there was always
something to be enjoyed every night.
About this time, Mr. Thurston, Ethel’s
uncle, Avas taken very ill, and Ethel was
constituted nurse ; so while the others
were coquetting to their heart’s content,
she sat by the bedside of the sick man, a
pale and sad watcher. Philip called as
often as he could, but his guests claimed
him most of the time, and Bernice im
proved Ethel’s absence to make herself as
charming as possible.
If Bernice knew when Phil intended to
call on Ethel, she would try her best to
detain him; challenge him to a game of
chess, or by some other trivial excuse
strive to keep, him at her side. But she
did not always succeed, and when Philip
was with Ethel he reproached himself for
not being more attentive and calling of-
tener. He still loved her truly and ten
derly at heart, but Bernice was doing her
best to lure him away, and such brilliant
beauty was hard to resist. Yet he never
dreamed of loving her, but being contin
ually at her side, seeing her every day and
hour in her radiant beauty, he could not
help admiring her.
Mr. Thurston had nearly recovered and
Ethel for the first time since his illness
was spending the evening at The Elms.—
The guests had arranged an impromptu
concert; several opera airs had been sung
and a number of difficult instrumental
pieces had been executed. Phil turned the
music for Bumice to play a brilliant piece
that just suited her. Then Ethel was in
vited to sing. „
“Shall I tumyourmusie, Ethel ? asked
Phil.
“ No, I will sing something from mem
cry.
She looked as fragile as a lily in her
soft, white dress and pale blue trimmings.
Ethel had a pure sweet voice, as clear as
a bell, and she sang in a plaintive tone,
that old Scotch ballad:
Better loved ye could na be,
Will you ns come buck to me.
It seemed to Philip that she sang for
Mm, and he shuddered to think how near
he had come to straying away from her
nice stood watching eagerly Ethel’s every
movement. Aw moment after moment sped
away, and there was no change, Phil no
ticed the surprised and perplexed look
on her face and shuddered to think how
near she had come to robbing him of a life
long happiness.
Every one excepting Bernice had wish
ed the happy couple joy, and she kept si
lent, thinking the poison must soon take
foveTforadmiration,'suchdeep admiration! effect But now she felt she must say
I need your pure, sweet presence always.
What need is there of longer waiting ?—
To-morrow eve we are to have a tableaux
—the last one on the programme is to be
a mock m&rrmga Let’s astonish the
guests by making it a legal one. Will yon,
Ethel?”
She remonstrated, and almost refused
to listen to the proposal, but Philip urged
in his loving way for a long time, until
Bernice heard Ethel's low-murmured con
sent, and saw Phil's face radiant with
happiness.
W ith clenched WnHa and a white face
that looked almost ghastly in the silvery
moonshine, Bernice stole unobserved up
the broad staircase into her own room.
Seating herself by the window, she looked
out on .the calm, peaceful night; but
there was a hard, fixed look on her face,
and a dangerous light in her eyes. There
she sat, rocking back and forth in her rich
evening dress, until the grey dawn ap
peared, never thinking of sleep, or of
aught except the black, crnel deed she
was on the verge of committing.
The next day the party went on a fish
ing excursion. Philip excused himself,
and, taking a book, he sauntered out on
the lawn. Behind the summer house was
a line of thick and shady shrubbery.—
Throwing himself on the soft, velvety
grass, he read for some time, and then
dropped asleep. He was aroused by the
sound of voices, as he thought, and peep
ing through the branches, he saw Bernice
in the summer house, reading aloud from
a large black book. At first he thought
he would speak, but the words she was
reading held him fastened as it were.
“The pois5n is quick and sure. It leaA r es
no trace behind. This is what I want.—
No trace. But Avho would dare suspect
me, Bernice Vaugn, of murder? Oh, that
is a fearful word!” she said, shuddering.
“Sometimes I think I cannot doit. I have
never been guilty of murdering a person,
for Leslie Leigh died by his own hand;
yet I know I was the cause of it. Oh ! I
shall never forget his words that night at
the ball—
‘Bernice, you have led me on and on,
and now if you reject me I shall die !—
Mark me, I shall die 7’
“But I spumed him from me; and yet
I loved as I can never love again. That
night, while I was flirting and listening
to the honeyed praises from a stranger’s
lips, he died. The merciful rough hid
the pallor of my face when I heard the
news, and my laugh was gayer than ever
as I mingled in the dance, for none knew
I was a murderess at heart. But he Avas
a poor artist, and I could ill afford to be
come a poor man's bride. People say of
me, ‘she's cruel, heartless,’ and so I am ;
but I cannot forget, and Leslie is contin
ually before me. I feel that I am wedded
to Ins spirit,” she moaned.
“Yes, I suppose Ethel May’s white face
ill haunt me. But marry Philip Earle
I must and will! My fortune is gone, but
when I am mistress of The Elms, I will
plunge into society the gayest of the gay.
X will be their acknowlwlged qneen, and
in my reign of triumph I shall forget Eth
el’s death. Yes, I have planned it well
I will let her be glad in anticipation until
the tableau before the marriage, then she
shall drink the poisoned glass of wine,
and—never mind the rest, for mv path
will be clear and Philip all my own. Non
sense,” she said, starting to her feet. “I
have been talking aloud as usual. I must
be more careful, for sometime this habit
may betray me. But now there is no one
to listen except the birds, and no one can
interpret their songs. Well I must go
back to the house, for if the party return
they will say my headache was a poor ex
cuse to remain at home.”
And she glided up the lawn, leaving
Philip almost stunned by the astonishing
revelation he had just listened to. He
could scarcely realize that he had heard a
woman so coolly plan the murder of a
fellow being; ahd he shuddered when he
thought how near she had come to ac
complishing the deed.
The excursionists were already return
ing, and he mast return to the house or
they would wonder at his absence. He
had formed no plan to act upon only to
watch and wait without Bemice’sknowing
that she was suspected.
Evening came and the tableaux were
passed off finely. Every one was pleased
with the success of the entertainment so
far. Philip had watched Bernice’s every
movement. Unsuspected by her he
followed her footsteps from room to room,
seemingly careless, but, oh 7 so eager in
his watch. Just before it was time for
Ethel to dress for the marriage, Bernice
glided into her dressing room, and Philip
looking in at the open window saw her
prepare two glosses of wine. Into one
she dropped a white powder, saying to
herself—
“The right hand glass for the bride.—
Ha! ha 7 the bndeof death,” and she stole
softly out of the room.
It was but the work of a moment, for
Phil to empty the poisoned draught, and
fill the glass with water colored with wine;
and when Bernice returned with Ethel
the glasses appeared as she left them,
and everything was the same as be
fore.
“See here, darling,” Bernice said, “you
are looking pale and tired, so am I, and I
got some Airine, knoAving it would do us
both good.”
“I don’t care for any, Bernice, thank
you," Bthel replied.
“Oh, yes, drink it; that’s a dear ; yon
surely won’t refuse when I got it on pur
pose for you."
“Did you? Yon are very kind, Bernice,’
said Ethel as she raised the glass to her
lips.
Bernice hurried from the room, leaving
Ethel to dress, saying exultingly—
“It is almost over.
The marriage ceremony had been per
formed and there was a perfect buzz of
surprise throughout the rooms, but Bur-
„ he had felt for Bmnice, is the oflfeprinffl something or be eoi
of love. He reproached himself bitterly
as he noticed for the first time how thin
and pale she had grown in the past few
weeks*
After the song was finished, Philip led
her away, from the piano saying:
“Ethel, darling, come into the con
servatory. I want to speak with you.
' Bernice, standing near, saw the love-
light in his eyes, and heard his low spo
ken words. Unobserved by the others,
she stepped out of the low windows that
I ed on to the verandah, and when
lip and Ethel came in, she was crouch
ed close by the open window, when
she could distinctly hear their conver
g*tion.
“Ethel, was that song for me?’ Philip
asked.
<1 thought of y<
somehow, Phil, I
think you do not love
es; but only a week since you thought
‘fiend’ was very wise and beautiful, yon
know,” said Bernice, with a low laugh, at
she left the room.
A year later Philip and Ethel read of
her marriage to a man old enough to be
her father, but who was as rich as Croesus.
“Poor Bernice,” Ethel murmured. “Why
poor, dearest ?” “Because she has sold
herself for gold, and can never know the
joy of loving and being loved.' was the
reply.
•Coney Value And Farm Lift.
The subject of why the sons of farmers
so often desire to leave the farm for city
life is one which, though continually
discussed, has always something fresh to
be said of it. There is, however not so
much of this disinclination to farm life as
is represented; and where the disinclina
tion exists, those who complain of it very
often have only themselves to blame.
The fact is there has been too much
said on the mere money aspect of life,
and too little about the pleasures which
money is to bring. The greater
part of our formers have made the ma
king and accumulation of money their
sole aim. The real comforts and pleas
ures of life are too often sacrificed to the
barren knowledge that so much money
has been made.
In one of the writer’s rambles through
the Rocky Mountains a few years ago he
came on a settler many miles away from
any other human habitation. All alone
in this Avilderness he had established a
stock ranch, and he Avas earnest in descri
bing his great success and in detailing
how well off he was. He had left one of
our great Eastern cities years before com
mencing his new career, Avith little or
nothing. Now he had hundreds of heads
of catt' a and sheep by the thousand. He
was indeed rich—not, perhaps, in actual
cash, but in cash value. When he started
on this race for wealth it Avas Avith the
intention of returning to civilzation Avhen
he had made a “competency,” to enjoy
the fruits of his years of adA'enturous toil.
But with time he found in those Avild
mountains all he wanted. His rifle for
the mountain lion and goat, the bison and
antelope, was dearer to him than thous
ands of dollars. He and his family had
everything they seemed to wish for.
Once in a while an ox-team went a few
hundred miles south to El Paso, and the
few little knick-knacks that wild nature
did not furnish them Avere thus supplied.
Neither he nor his wife or young family
seemed to have any desire whatever to
return to the cultivated world again.
Yet he looked on his increasing Avealth of
stock and means with pleasure, and insis
ted that right there, some 10,000 feet
above the level of the sea, aa’es the best
place in the world to “make money.”
We who looked on and listened could
hardly understand why he dwelt on this
money argument. He had few Avants
that were unsupplied; and though the
huge granite lulls were mountains of
greenbacks he could find no use for
more.
This after all, is the philosophy of form
life. We may not make so much. But
then we do not need so mneh. There is
beauty in tasteful dress and pleasure in
the many varied works of art, which
make up much of city life. But much of
this is mere fashion and not taste; and it
is safe to say that of every thousand dollars
a man makes in the city one-half of it has
to be spent in obedience to inexorable
social demands; and not that it gives the
slightest pleasure in return. On the other
hand, there are thousands who do not
make, and yet must spend. It will not
do to be a nobody in a city crowd, and
unless we are “like our neighbors” we
are nobodies of the worst kind.
Let, then, fanners teach their children
that it is life, and not mere money, which
is the great thing to live for. To live
well—to enjoy life intelligently, usefully,
happily—is all that money should be for;
and if we get all this without having first
to work hard for the money—without the
money it is so much added to the wealth
of life.
A young man on the farm should aim
to become rich. He should carefully
study business habits, and apply them to
form life. He will find use for all the
money he will ever handle; and if he has
the proper knowledge and business tact
he will find that farm life is as good as
any money-making pursuits; but not to
forget that money is only to buy happi
ness with, and that the materials for this
happiness abound in farm life to an infi
nite degree over the city life, and only
need the proper cultivation which the
race for mere money has so disguised.—
Louisville Price Current.
Confederate Officers in the present
Congress
The following list of members of the
present Congress, with their rank in the
army of the Confederate States, is furnish
ed by the Congressional Directory:
Lieutenant General—John B. Gordon.
Democrat, Georgia.
Major Generals—Matt. W. Ransom,
Democrat, North Carolina; P. M. B.
Young, Democrat, Georgia.
Brigadier Generals—J. S. Alcorn, Re
publican, Mississippi; Philip Codk, Dem
ocrat, Georgia; John B. Clarke, Democrat,
Missouri; Eppa Hunton, Democrat,
Virginia, R. B. Vance, Democrat, North
Carolina.
Colonels—Hiram P. Bell, Democrat,
Georgia; James M. Leach, Democrat,
North Carolina;D. C. Giddings, Democrat,
Texas; R. Q. Mills, Democrat, Texas: Ed
ward Crossland, Democrat, Kentucky; L.
Q. C. Lamar, Democrat, Mississippi;
W.M. Robbins, DemocrafiN orth Carolina.
.Lieutenant Colonels—Morgan Rawls,
Democrat, Georgia; James H. Blount,
Democrat, Georgia; J. H. Caldwell, Dem
os, to she step-
_ forward to offer her congratulations
_ _ese two words, “Allowme”—had scarce
ly passed her bps when Phil interrupted
her, and there was a hush throughout the
room.
I accept no congratulations from
yon, Miss Vaugn, for I have proof that
they are not sincere. Here is your book
that you left in the summer house vester
day. A curious book for a young lady to
read, is it not, my friends?” he said, read
ing the title aloud, ‘All About Poisons.
But you would not wonder at the selec
tion if you had heard her soliloquy, her
plot to poison my bride. Does
it seem possible that a lady guest of mine
is a murderess at heart f None but a fiend
could be capable of such a cold blooded
deed! BuV most happily few us both, I
ou when I sang it, for, thwarted you^ The poitoned drink you
prepared for Ethel she did hoi taste, for
j^^mohee gid.” . . I emptied the glass. And now, Miss
“I havenerer ceased loving you, dear
est, although Bernice Vaugn thralled me
with her strange beauty. But I am her
slave no longer—that bttle eang awaken
ed myaleepmg rinses, and now I almost
deapuejber, for I see her motive. 0,Ethd
Vaugn leave my presence. I have just
ordered your Taaid *o pack yonr tranks
i mn edwtehr,andma;yougo out in the
world s wiser and a better woman for this
night’s sad lesson ”
“Thank* monwemr, for yonr kindwjsh-
Just as We Said.
A few days since, in alluding to a sug
gestion made by one of the Atlanta papers
that some move should be made towards
selecting a site for a new Capitol, we said
that very soon we .should hear that the
Opera House was “not woi-tliy to be the
Capitol of a great State like Georgia,’
etc. Our prediction has been swiftly
realized. Senator Brown, from Cherokee
county, on Tuesday introduced a bill to
do this very thing, and in one of his nu
merous whereases, uses almost the iden
tical language Ave predicted.
Thus does the adverse vote on calling
a convention bear fruit. The Avliole op
position to that measure is now seen to
have meant with Atlanta, and those whom
she influences, nothing more nor less
than keeping the Capital there: and when
that was secured, a big job in the shape
of a new building to cost anywhere fr om
three to five millions. Atlanta has play
ed a sharp game so far, and will not stop
until she has “raked in” all the stakes—
unless, indeed, the people take a hand.
We think that very likely, especially w hen
they are asked to assume any additional
burdens of taxation for this purpose. H
the “Opera House” is not “suitable,” as
Mr. Brown alleges, let the representa
tives of the people betake themselves to
Milledgeville, where there are “suitable”
quar-ters already provided for them, and
which have the additional advantage of be
ing the rightful gathering place of Georgias
representatives. We hope the people will
watch this scheme to saddle another en
ormous debt upon their shoulders, and
stamp it out promptly and effectually.—
Tel. & Mess.
We did “Understand.” -
Our respected contemporary the At
lanta Herald, when it asserts that The
Telegraph was ignorant of the fact that
no actual vote Avas taken in the House
upon the naked question of submitting
the calling of a Convention to the peo
pie, is simply mistaken. We were per
fectly aware of all that took place, but
have the direct personal testimony of a
member to this effect, that an amend
ment had been proposed submitting the
decision of Convention or no Convention
to the people at the October elections,
but pending any action on the same,
“that indefinite postponement" move
backed by the call for the previous ques
tion, was insisted upon and carried. Of
course thif. disposed finally of the whole
affair, and effectually estopped any ap
peal to the popular voice.
The gentleman who gave us this in
formation Avas strongly opposed to a
Convention, but refused to support the
motion for indefinite postponement, on
the very proper ground that it killed the
contemplated amendment referring the
question to the decision of the people
at the polls.—Tel. & Mess.
Miss Nellie Grant’s Approaching Mar
riage.—Miss Nellie Grant’s engagement
is one of the leading topics of society chat
here. It will be remembered that Fannie
Kemble, the tragedienne, who married
Mr. Pierce Butler of Philadelphia, and
was afterward divorced from him, had a
younger sister who evinced a great talent
for ihusic. She studied in Italy and Paris
and made a sensation at several concerts,
but before she Avas fairly on the stage as
a prirna donna she Avas woed and won by
Mr Sartoris, a rich Englishman of an
old family. Now when Miss Nellie Grant
returned from Europe last year she made
the acquaintance on the steamer of the
second son of this Mr. and Mrs. Sartoris,
and the intimacy ripened into affection.
Just then the elder brother died, and the
fortunate swain thus becomes the heir to
the Sartoris estate. It is intimated that
the marriage will come off in the spring,
and at the same time Col. Fred Grant
Avill marry Miss Kitty Cooke, the eldest
daughter of the ex Governor of this Dis
trict.—Washington Special to the Her
ald.
Resources or Texas.—With one single
field of coal covering 6,000 square miles ;
with apparently inexhaustible copper and
iron stores ; Avith lead and silver mines;
with 20,000,000 acres of cotton bearing
land; and Avith agricultural resources
equal to those of any State in the Union,
Texas can enter upon her new career con
fidently and joyously. As a refuge for
the ruined of our last great revolution,
she is beneficent; as an element of greab
ness in the progress of the United States
she has no superior. She has peculiar ad
vantages over her sister Southern States;
while they court emigration in vain, the
tide flows freely across her borders, and
spreads out over her vast plains. What
ever danger there may be of political dis
agreements and disturbances within her
borders, nothing can permanently trouble
her progress. Lying below the snow
line, she furnishes the best route to the
Pacific; and fronting on the Gulf, she
will some day have a commercial navy,
whose masts will be seen in every Euro-
pean port.—Edward King, in “Glimpses
of Texas.”
—
Barnum’s next Sensation.
ocrat, Alabama; W.C. Whitthome, Dem
ocrat Tennessee; John D. C. Atkins,
Democrat, Tennessee.
Majors—Thomas Whitehead, Demo
crat, Virginia; Richard ,H. Whiteley,
Republican, Georgia; Joseph H. Sloss.
Democrat, Alabama; Charles Hays, Re
publican, Alabama; R. A. Hatcher, Demo
crat, Missouri; A. A Willie, .Democrat,
Texas.
(TqitiiM—Charles Pelham, Republican
A i-L-re,-. C. L. Cobb, Republican,
North Carolina. Privates—Win. G Hern
don, Democrat, Texas; Wm. P. McLean,
Democrat/Fexas.
A private in the army recently sent a
letter to his sweetheart, closing with“May
Heaven cherish and keep_you from yours
truly, John Smith.”
“The evidence shows that he sot up
with her night after night, and they
sqnoze hands and talked soft, and I think
she ought to have about *23 damage
was the charge of s Kansas judge to
jury in a breach of promise case.
A church near Bergen, Norway, which
can contain nearly 1,000 persons, is con
structed entirely of papier mache.
An enthusiast was turned out of the
gallery of a Memphis theater, the other
night, for encouraging the antics of Miss
Lydia Thompson with the delighted ex
clamations of “Bully for you, old tow-top!
Good lordy, look at her kick!” Thus
fate chills the ardor of the most in
The greatest showman of the day is
once more in London, completing pre
parations for the opening of the immense
Hippodrome which he is erecting in New
York. He has leased from the Harlem
Railway Company property in the very
centre of the city, opposite Madison Park,
Fifth Avenue Hotel, St. James Hotel, and
other principal buildings. The “track” of
the Hippodrome is to be one-sixth of a
mile in length, and some idea of the means
which are being taken to create a sensation
may be derived from the folloAving facts:
Bamum has not only sent agents to Spain
and Africa to secure attractions, but has
himself visited the Hippodrome in Paris,
the Circus Renz at Vienna, Mayer’s Cir
cus at Dresden, Salamonski and Garre’s
Circus at Cologne, the Zoological Gar
dens of Hamburg, Amsterdam, and other
continental cities, selecting and purchasing
the choicest animals procurable, and en
gaging the most talented artists. He has
secured Avhat may fairly be called an end
less variety of attractions, ranging from a
race horse to a Roman chariot. With the
Messrs. Sanger alone, he has done busi
ness to toe tune of £11,000. He has al*.
ready shipped to New York elephants,
camels and horses, trained for every spe
cies of circus performance. On the 25th
a further “batch’ will be despatched, in
cluding sixteen ostriches, ten elands, ten
zebras, a team of reindeer Avith Lapland
drivers, atroupe of performing dogs, goats,
etc., etc. The armor and costume makers
of London are to be set to work immedi
ately, the pantomimes are off their hands,
and some portion of the paraphernalia
which is to contribute to the gigantic
whole, will be shipped weekly. The hip-
prodrome will be opened in April next,
and in toe preliminary parade, we have
no doubt, toe citizens will say that their
greatest and most popular showman has
tar outstripped all Ins former efforts. We
may add that the New York enterprise
in no way interfere ’with toe famous
tent show everywhere known as “Barman's
Great Musefim, Menagerie, CircuB and
Travelling World’s Fair/—London Erg.
The American Bestaurant.
The typical American restauiant is ar,
establishment quite as Avell individualiz
ed, and quite as characteristic, as any
thing of the land to be found in tlie
world. The French cafe, the German
beer-garden, and toe English chop-house,
all have their characteristic habits, ap
pearances and manner, but the American
restaurant is like neither of them. It
can only be conducted by an American,
and. Ave regret to sajk it can only be fre
quented and enjoyed by Americans of
the second and lower grades. The aim
of the conductor seems to be to sell tlie
greatest amount of food in the shortest
possible time—an aim which the guests
invariably second, by eating as rapidly as
possible. We have seen, in a Broadway
restaurant, a table surrounded by men,
all eating their dinners with tlieir hats
on, while genuine ladies, elegantly dress
ed. occupied the next table, within three
feet of them. In this restaurant there
was as much din in the ordering of dishes
and forks, as if a brass band had been
in full blast. Every dish was placed be*,
fore the guests Avith a bang. The noise,
the bnstle of the hurry, in such a place,
at dinner time, can only be compared to
that which occurs when the animals are
fed in Bamum’s caravan. We do not
exaggerate at all when we say that the
American restaurant is the worst manner
ed place ever visited by decent people.
No decent American ever goes into one
when he can help it, and comparatively
few decent people know hoAA’ very inde
cent it is.
Our best hotels have no equal in the
world, and, in asserting this, Ave knoAv
Avliat we say, and “speak by the card.
Our best restaurants are mainly kept by
foreigners, or, if not, modeled after the
French type. NoAA'here in the world can
there be found better cooking, mere
quiet and leisurely manners, or better
service, than in the restaurants of the
hotels aboA'e alluded to, or the best class
of eating-houses. These, however, are
direct or indirect importations, while the
American restaurant, pure and proper,
serves the needs of the great multitude
of business men—clerks, porters aud
upper-class laborers generally. These do
not eat—they feed. Thousand of them
would regard it an affection of gentility
to remove their hats while feeding, and
they sit down and order their dinner,
which—pudding, pastry, vegetable and
meat—is all placed before them in one
batch, and then “pitch in.’ This lack
of courtesy, of dignity, of the ordinary
tokens even of self-respect Avould be amus
ing if it were not so humiliating.
It is useless for the incredulous Amer
ican to ask the question. “Where have
you been?” When in a secondrate res
taurant a guest asks for fishballs and
hears his order repeated to the cook
by the colored water as “sleeve-buttons
for one 7” and hear this neighbor’s or
der for pork and beans transformed into
a “stars and stripes,” he begins to won
der, indeed, whether “civilization” is not
failure,” and whether “the Cauca
sian” is not played out. The average
American, in an average American restau
rant, eats his dinner, in toe average time
of six minutes and forty-five seconds. He
bolts into the door, bolts his dinner, and
then bolts out. There is no thought of
those around him, no courtesy to a neigh
bor, no pleasant word or motion of po
liteness to the man or woman who re
ceives his money—nothing but a fearful
taking in of ammunition—the feeding of a
devouring furnace—and then a desperate
dash into the open air, as if he Avere con
scious he had swallowed poison, and
must find a doctor and a stomach pump,
or die. A favorite method of devouring
oysters is to stand, or to sit on a high
stool, always with the hat on; oysters on
the half shell. There may be something
in the position that favors delutition, Ave
don’t laiow.
The penalty a man pays for getting his
lunch or his dinner at a reasonable price
is to encounter the offensive scenes we
have described. The penalty he pays for
eating where he finds the manners of civ
ilization is an unreasonable price. When
a man pays half a dollar for a bit of cold
meat, or seventy five cents for a steak, or
a quarter of a dollar for a couple of boiled
eggs, he recalls sorrowfully and wonder
fully—if he has ever traveled—the nice
little breakfast he used to get at madame
Dijon’s in Paris for two francs, his dinner
In the Palais Royal for three francs, his
daily board, Avith rooms, at the Pension
Picard, in Geneva, for five francs, and his
luxurious apartments, Avith an elaborate
table d’hote at all the principal hotels of
the continent for 10 francs. Is there any
necessity for such prices as we are oblig
ed to pay at the best restaurants—or an
apology for them? Any man who keeps
house, and does his own mai’keting,
knows the first cost of the expensive
dishes placed before him in these restau
rants, and he knoAvs there is no just rela
tion between the cost and tlie price
charged, after all the allowances has
been made for cooking, service, rent, etc.
Sometime or other there Avill be
change, Ave suppose. When the times of
inflation are gone by, when on one side
men Avill content themselves Avith reason
able profits, and on toe other money
comes harder and slower, we shall have a
reform of prices in the better class of
eating houses. Our expectations in re
gard to the second-rate places are more
indefinite. It takes several generations
to train a people to ideas of retrench
ment and good manners at the table.
The average German has nothing to
boast of yet in this respect, and v. e can
only hope that the American, Avith his
greater sensitiveness and quicker in
stincts, will reach toe desired point be
fore him.—Scribner’s.
The New Clark Telescope at Waffi*
ingtoa.
However Avonderful the parts of tht
mounting may be. the greatest internet
will always center in the giant eye of the
monster. When it is said that this i
ures in available diameter twenty-six
ehes, it conveys to few an adequate
ception of the patience and skill of the
glass founder, and his oft-repeated fail
ures before he produced disks witoovi a
flaw, or of the vast experience and effort
bestowed on the disks by the optician in
bringing them to an absolutely pezfsei
figure. The standard of density in op
tical glass is so very high that the mSIHl-
foeture is limited in Europe to very i0W
establishments. Messrs. Chance ic Co., of
Birmingham, furnish the Clarks with
most of their optical glass. The difficulty
of fabricating large disks of optical glass
increases very rapidly A\-ith their size; COIF-
seqnently large disks command a T«TJ
high price. Thus, Avhile the disks for tM
lens of the 18*3-4 inch glass of toft Dear
born observatory, Chicago, cost $2000^
those for the 26-inch glass at Washington
cost §7000. The object glass of eveiy
achromatic telescope consists of two len
ses, one of flint and the other of crown
glass, the beam of light transmitted
through them produces a colorees image
at the focus. The question is often asked:
Hoav much does this telescope magnify or
how mueh more does one telescope mag
nify than another? Such questions can
never be ansAvered in toe sense in which
they are asked, because toe
power of a telescope is not a certain 1
quantity. The magnifying power depends
on tlie ratio between toe focal length of
the object glass and eye-piece. Telescopes
of any particular size are always furnish
ed with a variety of eye-piftces. The siza
and perfection of the object-glass of a tel
escope determine its power. A large ob
ject-glass affords a great amount of light*
and renders the effect of atmospheric dis
turbances less troublesome to the observer
aud thereby enables him to examine ob
jects with greater facility AA-ith the samn
magnifying power. There is plenty of
work to be done with this powerful im
plement of discovery. The astronomer has
no need to shed tears, as did Alexander
the Great, because there are no mois
worlds to conquer—New York Tribune-
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and regretful eyes. He proclaims himself
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are women so much better and more for
tunate than she; strives to have hope for
the future, and listens with bounding
blood to every voice that brings back to
her toe spotless past Never does she
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shower of stars, dollied with thoughts,
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