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WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
THE TOMBS OF CHARLES DICKENS.
SOME NOTED ENGLISHMEN, WHOSE
REMAINS WERE NOT PLACED
• THERE.
(By Mrs. Qon. Low jWallaoe.)
In the melancholy which tlio light
est of hearts must feel before the in
visible presences peopling this space,
we passed under a low doorway hard
ly two feet above a man’s height, into
a large hollow cross. Through its
rich windows glimmered a subdued
light, solemn and mystic in its lovely
coloring. Stooping to pick up a
dropped handkerchief, I read under
my feet, in fresh, untarnished gilt let
ters the name of Charles Dickens. It
was a species of profanation to stand
there; hut to roach this stone we had
crossed a pavement square of blue
marble, about fourteen inches square,
with these four magic words:
“O i are Ben Jon son I'*
Another step would be on the grave
of Macaulay; all above, around, be
neath, were the names whose glory
fills the world. I was in the Poet's
Corner, the holiest shrine of lids sanc
tuary.
Ilow well we remember the funer
al of Dickeys. One soft Summer
morning, when the somber shadows
of the Abbey fell heavily, the little
train of mourners, representing the
sorrowing thousands of English
speaking people, stood beside (ho open
grave it the author of ‘•The Talc of
Two Cities,’’ the least read and most
admirable of his works; the one on
which his future fame will rest. The
grave had been dug the night before
in secret, and the organ swelled the
heavy anthem of the dead while the
clergy read the funeral service. But
fourteen mourners were present.
Myrtles and evergreens, lilies and ro
ws were dropped upon the coffin lid.
Many days flowers were laid for re
membrance by unknown bands on
the fresh slab; the vast space of the
solitary floor was trodden by poor
figures of every-day people, who had
laughed and wept over the well
thumbed pages of the cheap editions
of ‘‘Pickwick” and “Dr. Marigold.”
They were friends of him who lad
pleaded the cause of suffering human
ity before Parliament and tho Queen;
before the world. Among the' rows
of warriors and walks of kings none
have been more missed and mourned.
life sadly looked in each othci’s fa
ces when the news eatne “Diekcrps is
dead,” and our first thought was “Ed
win Drood’’ is not finished. It was
offered to the pnblic in fragmentary
parts; uiul owe ambitious writer
thought to link his name with that of
the greatest story-teller since Scott by
a weak effort to till up tlio outline and
guess the probable continuation and
conclusion —a towering vanity which
found fit end. The unfinished win
dow of Aladdin’s Palace must remain
forever unfinished. While I stood
above.iM grave of the mart beloved -
and praised throughout two conti
nents, I remembered the record of his
early life, more wretched than the
most wretched of the young heroes of
his own novels. For years lie said he
was never flee from the sensation of
hunger. Could that miserable Uov
pasting labels on blacking bottles,
have forsecn his high and brilliant ca
reer, it would have comforted him in
those heavy hours, have been a litlle
sweet among so much biflcr to know
lie should lie at last under theso ar
ches, hardly less glorious than the
azure overarching all. But he did
not work, like Milton,
“As cvr in Li* grant Taskmaster's eye,"
The shadow which dims Ihc lustre
ofhis name fell on it by bis own fire
side. The wife of his youth, beside
him twenty years, mother of many
children, that is the shape it takes,
lie accused her; but she died and
made no sign. Oh! how much bet
ter to have veiled her faults with the
soft mantle of silence and patiently
watted for the long divorce of death,
never far off after we pass the half
way house. When the departing spir
it reaches the bar before which soon
or late we all appear, the tendercst
lines lie ever wrote may yet thrill his
memory;
“Oh 1 woman God—beloved in old Jerusalem t
The beet among ua need deal lightly with thy
fanltsifooly for the punishment thy nature will
endure in bearing Leary evidence against ns in
the Day of Judgment.”
We are not here to sit in judgment,
only to learn lessons of fortearanco
and reconciliation, and to renew our
remembrance of kindahip to the great
family of man. Leveled by death,
who lays the shepherd's crook beside
the the scepter, they sleep, the beloved
dead, under the floor, type of the last
assemblage wten all shall stand on
equal level—small and great, rich and
poor, bond and free —and each give
account for himself.
Under an alter tomb with Gothic
canopy rests Geoffrey Chaucer, father
of English poetry:
“Of English bards who sung the sweetest strains
Old Geoffrey Chaucer now this tomb contains;
For his death's date if, reader thou shouldsi csll
Look but beneath, and it will tell the 11.
25th October, 1400.”
Originally the back of the tomb
contained a portrait of Chaucer.
Jiave not l>cen able to learu when it
disappeared. Near him. first to drop
from Ihc singing brotherhood who
made Elizabeth’s reign a dating point
for after ages, lies in the eternal si
lence, Edmund Spencer. I rest my
paper against DrydeiTs monument,’
and copy verbatim the inscription :
“Here lyes (expecting the second commlnge Of
•our Savior Jeans Christ,) the body of Edmund
Spencer, the Prince of Poeta, in his tyme, whoee
divine spirit needs noe other witness than the
works which he left behind him. He wa* borne
In London in the years 1553, and died in the yeare
15*3.”
Asa curious old scribbler lias said
it is enough to make passengers’ leet
to move metrically who go over the
place where so much poetical dust is
interred. The funeral of the “Faerie
Queen” has often been described. The
expense was borne by the Earl of Es
sex, the last favorite of the old qneen
THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
VOL XVIII.
who could look down a lion, like the
heroes ot fable. The poets in'a body
wept beside the hearse lamenting their
chief. That was one of the grandest
funerals these venerable walls have
ever witnessed. Mournful elegies
and poems and the pens that wrote
them were dropped on the body in tlie
coffin after it was lowered to the dust
toward which it was drawn by such
mysterious kinship. What a sepul
cher i- that in which Bhuke-pearc’s
pen and song may have moldcred
away besido those of Beaumont-
Fletcher and Johnson! Think pf the
gallant gentlemen in the elegant and
picturesque dross of the period, velvet
and royal pm pie, slashed with white,
nodding plumes and flashing swords*
exquisite lace and jeweled badges of
honor, and the high presence oTchurch
dignitaries and courtiers used to
command! There has been no grand
er funeral since the prophet and seer
of Israel went lip to die on No bo’s
height, and the mighty hand which
had led hi a forty years buried him
there.
I looked in vain for the
names of Burns and Byron; nor
could 1 discover any memori
al of the author of the “Ancient Mari
ner.” Their burial places are made
for special pilgrimage, and wo must
not bo surprised that (lie doors of this
far-reaching cemetery were closed
against the author of “Chihle Harold.”
Even his statue by Thonvaldseu was
refused admission; but Lis name is
eternally sounding in tlie songs of the
Storied Sea, “o'er the glad waters”
which lie loved so well, w hile hating
the land of his birth.
Many graves have been opened and
closed hero, as public opinion has
changed from generation to genera
tion ; and perhaps the beautiful statue
ottlie most reckless of men may, in
another decade, take place with the
Bob Southey who writhed under his
blistering wit.
I delight in the old [loets when they
are delightful, but cannot value them
ascertain connoisseurs value cracked
ceramics, merely because tliov are old.
If my jestlictic render does, then he
may be pleased with the following, in
scribed on a marble sarcophagus sup
ported by the muses of history and
poetry:
••Nobles and heralds by your leave.
Hero lleo what once was Matthew Prior,
The aon of Adam and of 15vo.
Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher?’’
Why do we linger so long about the
Poets’ Corner? Because we have
talked wit It them as friend Wjith
IVieml. They have shortened “ilio
heavy hours of sickness and cheered
the dull days of ennui and of cure.
They have been like old familliar faces
under the evening lamp, and their
by inning lias been sweeter to us than
l lie blue-bird telling of coming Spring.
Blessings be with them and eternal
praise! Waller Scott s name is not
here. Perhaps it is as well llial Ihc
genius of the host beloved of Ihc
harpers should hover about the
scenes of minstrelsy, that we should
have hint only in heart and mind in
the lorn; magnificence of Hryburg Ab
bey. The pride of all Scotsmen, every
stony hill is his monument, and every
glassy lake beyond Hie Tweed mirrors
his scenes in the waters lie loved so
long and so loyally.
THE UPPER BERTH
Texas Siftings: One of (be most
difficult of things in this world, next
to swimming the whirlpool of Niaga
ra, is to get into the upper berth in a
sleeping car. It is a moving and ef
fecting spectacle to see (he brad of a
family laboriously acquire possession
of an upper berth. The trouble usu
ally begins by the old gentleman ex
postulating with the conductor for
putting him so high up, and lie begs
that giitedged official to try and make
a trade with some email-sized man
who can easily climb up the side ef
thecar and crawl inside with little or
no difficulty. The commanding offi
cer of the quarter deck says he will
sec what he can do about it, and then
he wanders off into the blue regions
of the smoking car, and shakes dice
with (he train boy for a cigar. Mean
while the fat man waits and perspires
and fumes and curses all Ihc officials
of the road, from the President down
to the section boss. When the con
ductor saunters leisurely back he tells
the fat man that nothing can’done; no
one, lie says, will exchange a lower
for an upper berth ; no, not even if the
fat man will give something to boot.
Then tlie dignified fat man glances al
the other passengers and waits until
they have all retired before lie trieslo
get np into the berth.
There are several different ways or
forcing an entrance into an upper
berth. You can hire the porter for
twobitß to give you a leg up, hut this
method is liable to attract and excite
ungenerous and sarcastic remarks.
The dignified fat man has a regular
circus. First swinging himself up by
the curtain bar, he tries logo in feel
first, but he can’t let go the rail with
out tumbling back into the ailse. The
porter helps him out of his fix, ami
the fat man tries anew deal. This
lime he steps on the car of a sleeping
beanty in the lower berth, and the
sleeping beauty knocks the pins out
from under him, and the fat man re
tires to the washroom to bathe his
nose and abuse monopolies.
Then he gets the porter to bring a
camp stool; he gels npon it, catches
hold of thebrass rod above, and is
about to spring in the berth, when
the camp stool doubles up, in his ef
forts to save himself from coming
down with a “dull thud” on the floor,
lie wildly grasps the hell cord, and
that stops the train, and the conduc
tor comes in and uses language to
him, and the passengers all wake up
and use more language, ami the dig
nified fat passenger even wishes that"
lie were dead or that he had more
dollies on. Finally lie manages to
crawl into the Upper .berth, and he
boils over with malicious thoughts
and sinister desires for the bankrupt
cy of the railroad company. It is a
full hour before he relapses into slum
ber, and then the conductor comes
along and punches hint and his ticket;
and then a horrible suspicion flashes
across him that '.lie berth may become
loosened in some way from its catch
and spring up against the ceiling of
thccar amt smother him. Ho sleeps
no more until daylight, and then he
has to jump out and dress hurriedly,
for the train is running into the city.
A good si retell on the longitudinal
cushioned scats of the caboose of a
freight train is many points ahead of
the best, upper berth ever invented
for a palace sleeping car, and we don’t
care who knows it.
LOCOMOTIVE EXPLOSION.
The Strum Hume of a Central Kntlroiul
Engine Illows Up—Engineer nnd Fire
man Injured nnd n Car Kuril y
Ihimncrd.
A dangerous and destructive acci
dent occurcd this morning in Augus
ta in the shape of ail engine explosion,
an occurrienec and which is very
nearly resulted in serious conse
quences.
The locomotive, Chronicle, on the
the regular morning passenger of the
Centra! roilroad, was pulling the train
out of the yard to the Union depot at
about 8 :20 o’clock (his morning, and
was near Ihc south end of Washing
ton street when the steam dome of the
engine blew off with a leriiffic explo
sion and went up into Hie air nearly
30 feet. Falling with force and the
increased velocity gained by this im
mense mass of iron, the dome struck
Hie n ail coach of (lie train in .its de
cent, passing not only Ihieugh the
lop buL the bottom of the car to the
ground.
Some idea ot the weight and force
of the falling dome may be obtained
from its passing entirely through the
strong mail car. Fortunately no fur
ther damage was done in the par, the
mail agent not having lakciY pinto.
No ether cars of the train were in
jured, hut tlie whole train was racked
violently some thirty feet from the
force of the concussion after the explo
sion.
The chief injury was done on the
engine and cab, and to the persons of
ihc engineer and tiiemun. The en
gine escaped very lightly, as it was
not injured beyond the blowing oil’of
the dome. The cab, however, was
badly toru and smashed, and the de
bris was sent up around in consider
able disorder. Some of the ascending
debris was misiakcu by spectators for
the engineer and fireman. They were
fortunately not blown up, but were
badly damaged about the face and
neck cuts and ugly gashes from Ihc
broken glass and frame of the cab,
and still more seriously scalded by Ihc
steam and hot water scattered in the
explosion. The engineer, Mr.' Clem
Starr, is thought to be seriously
burned,and his face,annsand back are
believed (o be in a fearful stale. The
fireman escaped with less injuries, and
no one else was at all damaged.
The exploded engine had just come
out of the shop, where repairs were
made on the dome, and bad made a
lest trip yesterday with 130 pounds of
steam. This lest and the repairs were
thought to be sufficient, and the en
gine was on its way to make its
first regular trip to Milieu after com
mit ofthe shop.
There does not, therefore, appear to
have been any blame, hut only a screw
loose somewhere. The damage is not
so great but that can easily he repaired,
and with new locomotive and mail
car and new engineer and fireman,
the train went out with very little de
lay.
ELONGATING WOMEN.
A scientific juornal records a late
invention by which ladies are to be
made taller. The woman who is to
undergo this process is encased in a
very tight corset, and her feet placed
in shoes weighted with fifty pounds
of lead each. She is then placed in a
machine consisting of a ring, which
encircles her waist, and suspended
from Ihc ceiling at such a bight to
prevent her feet 'from touching the
ground. The pressure of the corset
forces the upper part of the body up
wards, and the weigiit of Hie shoes
stretches her from her waist down
ward. It is estimated that extreme
length to which the spine can he
stretched by the process is two inches
and Hint Hie knee and hip joints can
he stretched an inch and a half more.
Thus three inches arid a half can he
added to the height of almost any
woman who is necessarily connected
with a stretching process lasting,
with brief intervals, during five or
six months. —London World.
For Rem.
From the first of November a very
desirable store house near the Depot.
For terms apply to Jas. Hikes, Agt.
tf.
WASHINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1883.
GENERAL NEWS.
A snake said to he 0,000 years old
is on exhibition m Philadelphia, it
is petrified, and consequenty docs not
bile. From the age stated, the infer
ence would be fair that is the original
serpent known to Mother Eve.
While drawing water from a well
nobort Handy, of Goliali, Texas, drew
up a snake coiled around the bucket
and rope. The snake hit his cheek
and hold on so firmly that Air. liamly
had to pull the snake oil'.
The Saratoga season that is about
closing was more remarkable for ex
travagance m dress than for anything
else. One lady, the wife of a Phila
delphia millionaric, appeared one eve
ning in laces and silks that were val
ued at $30,000, and the diamonds she
wore were worth $75,000.
A London child,who had never seen
a tree was taken into the country by a
benevolent old lady. Afresh breeze
was blowing, and Ihc first tree that
the child noticed was tossing its arms
in the wind. Instead of being pleased,
the poor little thing was frightened
almost out of her wits,as sho supposed
the tree to be a living monster.
Quite a number of Northern preach
ers are striving to be sensational. A
couple of weeks ago a Connecticut
preacher preached on flic Pose Amble
murder. A Philadelphia preacher
announces that he will preach on base
ball. Others have published that they
will deliver sermons on sccniar sub
jects which they name. It is a won
der these preachers do not hire a hajl-
They have' no business in the pulpit/
There is a story going the rounds
of Ihe press as to how the cotlo r n
planters of Toxas manage to get up
the “first halo.” The writer repre
sents that a number of planters in Hie
same neighborhood agree upon one of
their number to father (ho hale and
they all contribute their pickings un
til the first hale is made up, when it
is forwarded to market for the pre
mium. The premium being received
is divided.
A splendidly gill dining-room,
with almost nothing on the table to
eat, was tho peculiarity of a Boston
miser. A wag was invited to dinner,
on a certain occasion, and tlie host
asked him if he didn’t think Hie room
elegant. "Yes,” wns 1 lie reply : “But
it is not quite according to my taste.”
“And, pray, what change would you
injiko?” asked the host. “Well,” lie
answered, “if this were iny bouse,
know, ] would have,” looking at the
coiling, “less gliding,” and here lie
glanced furtively at the ilining-table,
“and more curving.”
Abraham and Joshua had been tn
vilcd to a HpiCiulcd dinner. It ‘.as
impossible for Joshua not to make a
capital out of such an opportunity;
accordingly lie managed to slip a sil
ver spoon into his hoot. Abraham
was green with envy al Joshua's suc
cess, for ho had not even manipula
ted a salt-spoon. Hut an idea struck
him. “My fronts,” lie cried, “I will
show you some dricks.” Taking up a
spoon, he said. “You zee decs spoon ?
Veil, it ccs gone I” lie cried passing it
up ids sleeve. “You vill find ii in
Joshua’s hood.” it was found.
The Montgomery Advertiser utters
these wise words : “An honest man
is the noblest work of God, in Hie
workshop as well as the courtroom or
office. When a boy believes that he
will he disgraced by becoming a me
chanic or a farmer, his education has
been sadly neglected, (hough all the
colleges in the land have added ini
tials to his name. When a girl bc
leivcs that she will he disgraced by
marrying an honest artisan or culti
vator of the soil, her education is a
failure, though she has triumphantly
passed the gauntlet of seminaries and
colleges.”
The SulJor’N Wife the Sailor 'a Star Shu 1
be.
“ * * * The boy’s pock-marked face
showed he had had his share of suffer
ing already. Accompanying him was
a robust figure, whose fair complex
ion was sun burnt, and lold of las
sailor’s life. My wife,” said lie,
“asked me to take a ticket in Ihe
Monthly Drawing for September (the
160th) of The Louisiana State Lottery,
of if. A. Dauphin, at New Orleans,
La., and now I present, onc-fiflh of
ticket No. 69,519. which drew the
capilal prize of $75,000 for sl.”
* v *—Extract from a local, New Or
leans (La.) Picayune, Sept 11.
Augusta, Ga., January 12,1883
Deaii Sin—T have for a long time
been troubled with indigestion, ami
having been persuaded to use your
u. ii. r., can say that it lias entirely
relieved me, and I cordially recom
mended it. It. W. Gerald.
Merchants, make out list of Crock
ery, Glass, Wood and Tin Ware you
are in want of, and send it to us. We
will attach prices, amt save you ruin
ous freights and breakage, that von
always get fropn the far off East,
y Mcßride & Cos. Atlanta, Ga.
Snow Cases manufacured by Mc-
Bride & Cos., Atlanta Ga., also give
close prices to dealers in looking
glasses, crocnery, wood and tinware,
silver plated ware, glassware, best
American and imported table and
pocket cutlery. 11-1 y
New and uoby Hals at
T. Harwell Green's
WASHINGTON
•nun!
OWING TO THE PRESS UPON U3 THIS WEEK IN
RECEIVING THE MAMMOTH STOCK
PURCHASED BY
‘‘THE LEADER IF LOW PBICES”
FOB IIIS
TWO LARGE STORES
an WAREHOUSE,
During his Six Week’s Trip among the Leading Manu
facturers of the East and West, prevents him
from Announcing to his Many Friends
a Description in Detail, of his
& ' *
IMMENSE STOCK!
Hence Look Out Next Week for the
HOT SHOT
UPON HIGH PRICES,
And a Big’ Cannonade Against
Ante-DBlrai Methods § Old Fop Ideas.
A. STOVE
FOB EVERY KITCHEN.
A BUGGY
For Every Horse,
A SET OF FURNITURE
For Evepyßooin
ABE AMONG TIIE ADDITIONS IN THE NEW DEPARTMENTS.
JAS. A. BENSON.
NO. 41.
Masonic Temple ! !
Augusta, Georgia.
The Only Headquarters For Fine Dry Goods.
Confining our I Doris to the Dry CloodH business proper, exclusively, and conducting it
with the po uliar advantages of .specialists, we claim to lie in a josit : on at all"
| £|l iiiick to .liter exceptional inducements to tho.se who'require reliable as Well as
FASHIONABLE GOODS,
AT TIIE
Very Lowest "Prices.
In udditii n to devoting more time and attention than others to the selection iff goods
our *Myer, Mr. DALY, through his constant personal ciatioh with
those to whom the goods are to be sold, possesses
SUPERIOR FACILITIES
fob
GRATIFYING THEIR TASTES
And supplying their wants; and w r e defy any house in this city, or in Georgia, or the
South Atlantic States, to liu'tch our stock, generally, or in detnil,
lor Elegance and Completeness oi Assoitment.
WE GUARANTEE PRICES,
NOT ONLY IN
FINE GOODS
ut nn over/ article in every department. Without going iiuo particulars, wo cordial
ly and earnestly inviti the ladies and all buyer i of Dry Goods to
rail and examine the stock and decide for themselves.
DRESS MAKING.
This departm nt i in charge of .Mrs. DAVIS, who managed it so satisfactorily during
the pist season. Tho styles will bo the very latest and the work the very
best, iu tact every article turned out will bo fully equal to any
thing hat can be produced in the most famous centres of fashion.
DALY & AMSTROS&,
393 m B r oad and TClli Streets.
AUGUSTA, : : : GEORGIA.
MASTODON GUANO. LOWE’S GEORGIA FORMULA. ACID
PHOSPHATE. KAINIT. COMPLETE GRAIN FERTILIZER.
DIS. BONE PHOSPHATE AND POTASH.
Georgia Chemical Works,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
GEORGIA CHEMICAL WORKS’
COMPLETE GRAIN FERTILIZER,
Prepared expressly for Wheat and Oats,
There is no way that a good Arninoniated Fertilizer can be used to
better advantage than to the cultivation of Wheat and Oats. This fact
has long been known to the farmers of Penusyivanis, Maryland and V ir
ginia, who use it with good results, and seldom put hi small gram with
out it. Our Grain Fertilizer lias been prepared especially high in each of
the necessary Chemical ingredients required to produce largo yElds. It is
made very fine and dry, and can bo drilled with seed, it so desired*
FOR TURNIPS
Use our DISSOLVED BONE AND POTASH, which, if applied in Hie
drill at the rate of 200 to 400 pounds per acre, will give wonderful results.
. These Fertilizers can he had through our Agents, or upon ap-
P " cal M. A. STOVALL, Treas.
The Model Soda Water Establishment of the South.
GINGER ALE, SODA WATER, Etc.
EQUAL TO ANY IMPORTED.
Manufactured and for Sale at
CLINTON'S BOTTLING WORKS,
1348 Broad St., Augusta, oa.
Orders Filllod Promptly and Shipped by Express, in Clinton's Patent
Shipping Cases. No Goods Misrepresent ml. 39-3 m
It. '. STOKEhY. O. K - MOORE.
STOKELY & MOORE,
(Successors to McMahan, Stokei.y & Co.,]
Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants .
115 Jackson Street, Augusta, Ga.
Personal Attention Given to Weights and Sales. Prompt Compliance
with Instructions Relative to Disposition of Consignments.
Liberal Advances on Produce in Store.
ooisrsio-isriwrEisrTS solicited.
J. M. Buudki.l. Ciiari.es I. Baker.
J. M. BURDELL & CO.,
Colton Factors and Commission Merchants,
Continue Business as heretofore, at the
JLfrr?o Fire-Proof Warehouse,
No. 19 Mclntosh St.. Augusta, G-a.
Oaf-Strict Attention to ail Consignments and Prompt Remittance.
itPitSMin
Dissolution of Partnership.
rime firm of M iguirj, Irvin |i Cos., i* this day
X- Oct J, IPSO, d<j ilyorl by the conseut of the
members of the Ann. Messrs. Maguire and: Dillard
htiviug bought out the interest or Mr. Barnett lr
vin, will continue ib ;* basilicas at the name srand
ami will collect all claims due the firm of Magu.ro
Irvin fc Cos., and pay all deuiar. Is against the
same. Respectfully, W. A. MAGUIRE*
BARNETT IRVIN,
GEO. E. DILLARD.
We thank the public for the liberal patronage be-
Btowed upon tho old firm ant? respectfully ask a
continuance of the same. Wc guarantee to giyo
satisfaction in tho future as wo have in the past.
■lO-it Respectfully, MAGUIRE k DILLARD.