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J. W. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME IV.
THE QUEEN’S PAGEANT,
VICTORIA OPENS THE ENGLISH
PARLIAMENT IN PERSON.
Her {Hajnty SIM Calmly Upon the Throne
While Her Speech Is Being Head.
The -British parliament is again in session,
having been opened by Queen Victoria in
person. Promptly at 1:30 p. M., says a Lon
don dispatch, the royal party left Bucking
ham palace for the house of lords. The route
of the royal pageant had been covered with
gravel. This prevented the horses from
falling and enabled more rapid progress to
be made. Her majesty rode in an open car
riage drawn by eight horses. The House’noil
cavalry acted as the escort to the queen,
large crowds lined the street through which
the royal procession passed, and her majesty
was greeted with hearty cheers all along the
route. , The scene in the house of lords was
very brilliant. Peers and peeresses, judges,
ministers and bishops were present in
large numbers in full court dress. Gaslight
was used in the chamber, owing to the ab
sence of the sun. This enhanced the beauty
of the scene, as it, showed more fully the
brilliancy of the jewels ancP splendor of the
dresses worn by those present. The queen
looked as if she were suffering from a cold.
; A cluster of princes was about the throne
in the house of lords; princesses were in front
of the wool-sack, and all were standing in si
lence to receive the queen. The procession
entered with Lord (Salisbury bearing the
sword of state, the Marquis of Win
chester the cup, and the Duke of Port
land the regalia on a cushion. The Prince
of Wales went to meet the queen, and bent
to kiss her hand. She ascended the three steps
of the throne assisted by Princess Beatrice
and the Prince of Wales, then seated herself,
and her ermine robe and crimson train were
arranged bv the deputy lord
chamberlain. Princess Beatrice took a
position at her right, and Prince
'bert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of
Wa.es, took one at the left. The lord chan
cellor stood next to Princess Beatrice, and
then came the Prince of Wales. Lord
Salisbury having laid the sword down, the
queen bowed three times—in front, to
the right qnd to the left. The house of com
mons was then formally summoned, and.
came rushing into the bar headed by the mace"
and the speaker in his gold-braided robe of
state. The members with him were drawn
by lot owing to the limited space. The lord
chancellor, salaaming to the queen, then held
the speech toward her. She touched it as
a sign of poceptance, and then he read
it with abominably dry elocution.
When he-had finished it he salaamed again.
The queen then rose, assisted by Prince Al
bert Victor, from the throne, and the pro
cession re-formed and retired. From the be
ginning everybody save the lord chancellor
was absolutely mute. The ceremony lasted
just a quarter of an hour. The queen said in
nerspeecn:
My Lokds and Gentlemen: My rela
tions with other powers continue to bo of a
friendly character. The difference which ex
isted when I last addressed you between my
government and Russia on the subject of
the boundaries of Afghauistan has been satis
factorily adjusted. In pursuance of a conven
tion which will be laid: before you, English
and Russian commissioners, with the fud
concurrence of my ally, the Ameer of Afghau-,
istan, -have been engaged in demarcating the.
frontier of that' country. I trust that their
work, already far advanced, may tend to
secure the continuance of peace in Central
Asia.
The rising in Eastern Roumelia has given
expression to a desire of the inhabitants for a
change in the political arrangements under,
which they were placed by the treaty of
Berlin. My object in the negotiations which
have followed has been to bring them, accord
ing to their wish, under the prince of Bulga
ria’s rule, while maintaining unimpaired the
essential rights of the sultan.
Under a convention concluded with the
porte, commissioners have been appointed on
behalf of England and Turkey to confer with
the khedive and report upon the measures
that are required for securing the defense of
Egypt and the stability and efficiency of the
government in that country.
Greatly to my regret, I was compelled in
Nctvember to declare war against King Thee
baw, of Burmah. Acts of hostility on his
part against my subjects and the interests of
my empire has since his accession been delib
erate and continuous. These had necessitated
the withdrawal of my representative at his
court. My _ demands for redress were
systematically evaded and disregarded. An
attempt to confiscate the property of my sub
jects trading under agreement, and a refusal
to settle the dispute by arbitration convinced
me that protection of British life and prop
erty and the cessation of dangerous an
archy jn Upper Burmah could, only be ef
fected hy-force of arms. The gallantry of my
European and Indian forces under General
Prendergast rapidly brought the country
under my power, and I have decided that the
most certain method of insuring peace and
order is to be found in the permanent incor
poration of the kingdom of Ava with my
empire.
. An agreement has been made with Spain,
securing to this country all commercial rights
granted to Germany in the Caroline Islands.
Your consent will be asked to legislative
measures rendered necessary in the eonveu-
tion on the subject of international copyright,
to which I have agreed.
v Gentlemen op the House op Commons—
My Lords and Gentlemen: I regret tp
say that no material improvement can be
noted in the condition of trade or agricul
ture. I feel the deepest sympathy for the
great number of persons in many avocations
of life who are suffering under a pressure
which, I trust, will prove transient.
I have seen with deep sorrow the renewal
Bince I last addressed you of the attempt to
excite the people of Ireland to hostility
against the legislative union between that
country and Great Britain. lam resolutely
opposed to any disturbance of that funda
mental law, aiid in resisting it I am con
vinced that I shall be heartily supported by
‘ my parliament and my people.
The social no less than the material con
dition of that country engages my anxious
attention. Although there has been during
the last year no marked increase of serious
crime, there is in many places a concerted
resistance to the enforcement of legal obliga
tionSj and I regret that the practice of organ
ized intimidation continues to exist. I have
caused every exertion to bo used for the de
tection and punishment of these crimes, and
no effort will be spared on the part of my
government to protect ray Irish subjects in
the exercise of their legal rights and in the
enjoyment of individual liberty.
If, as my informatioh leads me to appre
hend, the existing provisions of the law
should prove to be inadequate to cope with
these growing evils, .1 shall look with confi
dence to 3 T our willingness to invest my gov
ernment with all the necessary powers.
Bills will be submitted for transferring to
representative councils in the counties. of *
Great Britain. loaal business which is now
transacted by the courts of quarter sessions
and other authorities. A measure for the re
form of county government in Ireland is also
in preparation. These matters will involve
the consideration of the present incidence of
local burdens.
A bill for facilitating the sale of glebe lands
in a manner adapted to the wants of the rural
population will also be submitted to you; as
will also bills for removing the difficulties
which preveut the oasy ana cheap transfer
of land; for mitigating the distressed
condition of the poorer classes in the west
ern Highlands and the islands of Scotland;
for the more effectual prevention of accideuts
in mines; for textending the powers of the
{tailway Commission in respect to the regula-
tion of rates, and for the codification of the
criminal law.
In those and in ail other matters pertaining
to your high functions I earnestly commend
you to the keeping and guidance of Almighty
It MIffSTIERS,
FATAL CONFLICT BETWEEN A HUN-
G A RIAN MOB ANDTHtt POLICE.
A Battle in which Women Use Knives In the
Defense of Their Husbands*
A Pittsburg (Penn.) dispatch of the 20th
says: A fatal battle occurred between the
Hungarian mob and a posse of deputies and
special officers at the Morewood mines, near
Mt. Pleasant, to-night. One Hungarian is
known to have been killed and three or four
wounded. The Hungarians this afternoon
marched from Bessemer armed with
clubs, pistols and hatchets. They were
accompanied by women armed with knives
and stones. As they approached the More
wood company’s store they encountered
about fifty deputy sheriffs and uniformed
policemen. The latter were drawn up along
the edge of a big ice pond. The Hungarians
pressed closely together and marched slowly
across the pond, bearing an American
flag and yelling a Hungarian war cry.
Sheriff Stewart with an interpreter stepped
forward and told the mob that he had a war
rant for the arrest of some of them. He or
dered his posse to take them. The officers
surrounded the strikers, who at once made
a fierce attack. The policemen used their
clubs with terrible effect until somebody be
gan firing. Then the battle began in earn
est.
The women screamed and ran and the men
fought like savages, till the superior skill of
the sheriff’s men forced them to run. They
hurried across the lowland 1 and up the hill to
their houses, from the windows or which they
began a fusillade with revolvers and rocks.
Part of the mob, which was 300 strong,retreat
ed up the hill and surrounded their leader,
Steve Stannex, a Hungarian of giant size.
Here they began a fierce fire on the officers,
who returned it and forced them to retreat.
One officer, Me Roberts, was surrounded by
the mob and terribly beaten. He clubbed his
way out, and in getting over the hill fell and
hurt himself badly, breaking a leg.
Thirteen of the strikers were captured,
handcuffed and placed in a special car, ana
taken to Greensburg jail. The prisoners are
all Hungarians. One of the attacking party,
named Jabalski, was killed. As the Hun
garians scattered to their houses it is not
known how many of them are wounded,
though blood tracks show that some of the
officers’ bullets did not miss the mark.
The hills around the Morewood works were
covered with. spectators during the battle,
which occurred just before dusk. When the
fight was at its height, Father’Lambing, of
Scottdale, appeared and tried to make
peace, but was not successful. Ho had to.
content himself with soothing the fright
ened women and children. The Hun-'
farian women fought beside their ,hus
ands and brothers, and when driven to their
houses fought-from the doors and windows.
None of the sheriff’s posse was injured seri
ously. A consultation was held between the
operators and the sheriff, and it was decided
to raid, the strikers at the Standard works
to-morrow. The hills are filled with enraged
Hungarians to-night, and further bloodshed
is feared.
A The Hungarians have been arming them
selves for several day, and growing more and
more demonstrative. They are clamorous
for an advance in wages. The wages now
Said are twenty-seven cents per wagon for
igging coal and fifty-five to sixty cents per
oven for drawring coke. The demand is
thirty cents per wagon and sixty to sixty-five
cents ver oven. The wagons are supposed to
hold thirty-three and a half bushels.
Thirty-six hundred of the 10,000 coke ovens
are shut down. This morning about 300
strikers again left Morewood and marched to
the Alice mines, where thi&y found men at
work. They caught some of them, stuck
their heads in the hot oven doors, removing
them only after they had promised not to go
to work again. They then marched to May
field Mines. They chased the mine boss,
J. B. McCabe, from the yard after beating
him. They assaulted a boy named Mentzer,
and cut him badly about the head and face.
From thence they went to the Rising Sun
works, and forced the men there to join them.
About 2 o’clock they reached Scottdale. The
men marched down the street carrying fence
rails, clubs, pick-handles, crowbars, gaspipe,
ancl other weapons. They visited the saloons,
and many got drunk.
A negro named Stewart fired a shot at the
strikers, when they rushed to his house,broke
in the doors, and smashed everything in the
house. The negro barely escaped with his
life. At Donnelly works the Hungarians
cleared out the yard and beat several of the
men. Wherever the strikers have gone in a
body they have left ruin behind. Smashed
oven doors, overturned coal cars, and broken
tools show the effect of their rage.
This evening another car load of policemen
from Pittsburg were sent to Mount Pleas
ant, where they were sworn iu as deputy
sheriffs. The members of the Fourteenth
and Eighteenth regiments of militia,in Pitts
burg, have been ordered to hold themselves
in readiness to go to the coke regions at short
notice.
Prospective New States,
A CHANCE FOll THREE TERRITORIES
SENATOR VOORHEES* ATTITUDE.
United States Senator Voorhees, who has
introduced bills to admit Montana and Wash
ington Territories' to the Union, has been
asked by a.Washington correspondent if he
intended to make the admission of Dakota
conditional on the admission of Montana, os
it has been reported that the Democrats were
disposed to do. He replied; “I can speak
only for myself. I think the best arrange
ment that we can make is to admit Da
kota, Montana and Washington together.
They must all come in soon, and they
might as well come in now. I do not see
how we can prevent Dakota’s coming in. She
ha* a voting population of 80,000, and is
certainly entitled to admittance. I thought
at first that I should oppose the division of
Dakota, but Ido not see how I can. The
Territory has an area of five times my own
State, and South Dakota will be about as
large as Ohio and Indiana Montana .has a
voting population of 26,000 and Wash
ington a voting population of 40,-
000. There are not fifteen con
gressional districts in tho country with tho
population of Washington, and nota hundred
with that of Montana. Dakota is Republican.
Montana is Democratic, and I am confident
will remain so. Washington is close and may
be won by either party. If she comes into tho
Union. by Democratic votes under a Demo
cratic administration, our chances in the new
State will be all the better. It seems to me
much the best pltpi to take in these three Ter
ritories at once. They are entitled to it,
and politically it will be as fair and equitablo
an arrangement as can be made.”
Several prominent Democrats are reported
to agree with Mr. Voorhees. Mr. Springer
expresses the opinion that the House com-,
mittee on Territories will report favorably
on the division and admission of Dakota un
less the party shall hold a caucus upon tho
subject. In that event it is his opinion that
the decision would be adverse.
Divorce, —When a man and his w f ■
wish to be divorced in Btirmah ea. h
lights a candle. Then they sit down and
look glum till one of the tapers burns lu
the socket, then the owner of the candle
that lasts the longest obtains the decree,
and the other fellow lights out.
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL AND INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT OP OUR COUNTY.
LOUISVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4,1886.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Bishop Fobtkr (M. E.) has lately preached
and lectured in the City of Mexioo.
Fivemsixths of the Irish people, according
to Herbert Gladstone, are followers of Par
nell.
United States Senator Dawes for some
years edited rural newspapers in Massachu
setts.
Mrs. Talmage, the wife of the Brooklyn
preacher, lectures every Sunday to a class of
three hundred men and women.
-Dr. Fillmore Bennett, who wrote th
hymn “Sweet By and By” in 1868, lives a
Richmond, 111., and is quite poor.
Princess Isabeau, who recently inherited
*1 ,000,000 from her mother, keeps in her Par
isian palace twenty dogs and twenty cats.
J oseph Lille y, the oldest ex-United States
Senator, finished his ninety-fifth year heartily
andm happiness recently at Nottingham,
Grand Master Powderly, of the Knights
of Labor, has been urged to become a candi
date for Congress in the Scranton district,
but declines because he is too poor.
The richest men in Russia are two Swiss
brothers named Noble. They bought up im
mense tracts of oil lands and now control
more petroleum than the Standard oil com
pany.
President Cleveland reiterates his in
tention not to attend evening parties at ail
while he is in the White House, and will only
accept dinner invitations from the members
of his cabinet.
Rev. Dr. J. B. Hawthorne, the eminent
Baptist preacher of Atlanta, is very tali,
straight as an arrow, wears long black hair,
and a curl is trained to fall carelessly over
his forehead like a “bang.”
Ex-United.States Treasurer Spinner,
whose signature on national bank notes mys
tified thousands of persons years ago, is now
in Pablo Beach, Fla., in the enjoyment of ex
ceptional health. He has passed his eightieth
year.
Leonard J. Thomas, of Salisbury Cove,
in the town of Eden, Me., being over eighty
years old, is probably the oldest postmaster
m the United States. He has held the office
almost continuously for nearly half a century,
under the different administrations.
General Stoneman, the once famous cav
alry leader, who is now governor of Califor
nia, has lived for most of the time since the
war at San Gabriel Mission, near Los Ange
les. His health was completely undormined,
and it has taken almost twenty years to over
come his severe dyspepsia.
The residence of James G. Blaine is only
100 yards from the Kennebec, and he is one
of the most persistent of ice-yachters. Clad
in a big fur overcoat and a fur cap, Mr.
Blaine always insists upon steering the yacht
himself, and his ice-boat, the Keunebecker, is
one of the fleetest crafts on the river.
President Cleveland never attended a
college of any kind. l’ho acting Vice-Presi
dent, John Sherman, is a graduate of the
common schools of Ohio. The secretary of
state, Thomas F. Bayard, never got further
than a Delaware rural academy. The speak
er of the House of Representatives, John G.
Carlisle, is a self-educated man.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
One rich man in Chicago pays SIO,OOO a
year for a pew in a church.
The United States army now consists of
2,150 officers and 24,700 men.
The pedestal for the Bartholdi statue will
be ready for the goddess about April 1.
About 2,000 cases of murder were reported
to the press in 1885 in the United States.
The river lank in California blew dry the
other day and boys found live fish on land.
An extensive deposit of iron ore has been
discovered near Irondale, Washington Terri
tory.
The Grant monument at San Francisco
probably will be a shaft like Cleopatra's
needle.
In England last year 4,307 pew books were
published. Of these the largest portion—o.l6
volumes—were religious.
An <: eclio catcher,” a device for catching
sounds on the sea, is being examined by a
uaval board on Ch©sap<?ake bay.
“There are 300,000 Indians who are to
day, to all intents and purposes, as uncivil
ized as they were 250 years ago,” says Sena
tor Dawes.
The wool clip of Oregon and Washington
Territory for 1885 was 13,000,000 pounds,
which was 3.000,000 pounds in excess of 1884
and 5,000,090 ahead of 1883. 4^
A man in Friesburg, N. J., leads the big
hog record so. far, with an animal that
weighed 845 pounds and was suffocated in its
own fat while being moved in a wagon.
A cruiser that is to steam among the
waves of the sea at the amazing speed of
twenty-two knots an hour is being built on
the Clyde for the Spanish government.
There were more miles of railroad laid in
Missouri last year than in any other State.
Kansas follows with 278 miles, Florida with
251, Nebraska 214, Texas 211 and Pennsyl
-125.
In leveling a hill in East Los Angeles, Cal.,
lately for the residence of Baron Roquiat, the
working men uncovered a two-foot edge of
gold-bearing quartz, assaying $3 at the sur
face.
The mild weather preceding the opening of
the year was very conducive to the health
and strength of game birds, which are now
unusually abundant, at least throughout New
England.
Several additional fertilizer factories are
being built in Georgia, in order to keep pace
with the growing demand for cotton seed
compound, which is rapidly increasing in
popularity.
Henry Bergh told his S. P. C. A. at its
annual meeting in New York that the organ
ized protection of animals was spreading in
South America—notably in Brazil and the
Argentine Republic.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
It cost Mr. Irving $60,000 to put “Faust”
tjn the London stage.
John B. Gough, the-,lecturer, says this is
his last season on the rostrum.
In a Fresno (Cal.) barber shop they furnish
music for the barbers to shave by.
The Italian opera, under Colonel Maple
son, at Boston, has been a great success.
The loss from three weeks’ presentation of
Lord Lytton’s- play, “The Household Gods,'
in London, is $35,000.
Goldmark is looked upon by the musical
critics as the most promising operatic musi
cian in Germany to-day.
It is said thst Signor Tamagno, who is
esteemod as one of the greatest living tenors,
will visit America this year.
Mbs. Lanotry now speaks of this country
as “my dear America.” The date of her re
turn will be announced later on.
The opera company led by tho popular
English singer, Miss Violet Cameron, will
come to America in October next.
Charles Coghlan’s new play, written for
Mrs. Langtry, is entitled “Enemies.” Cogh
lan and Mrs. Langtry assume the leading
roles.
Lawrence Barrett gives a reporter tho
important information that he is a vege
tarian, and that the vegetable diet has im
proved his voice.
The Duff “Mikado” company recently
playod to SIO,OOO in one week at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music, the largest business done
there in five years.
Janauschek’s next season is positively
announced as her farewell to America. She
will then play two years in Europe before re
tiring from tiie stage.
Massenet’s now opera, “Le Cid,” is said
to be one of the most successful works pro
duced in Paris for many years. The receipts
for the first tea performances averaged more
than $4,000 a night. w
WOMENJF ML
Brought to Mind by the Celebration
of Elizabeth Caty Stanton’s
Seventieth Birthday.
Jennie .Tune Tells of Susan B, Au
thony, Lucretia Mott, Lillie
Devereux Blake, Etc.
[Special New York Letter .]
It was a remarkable gathering that sig
nalized the recent seventieth birthday
of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the
parlors of Dr. Clarence Lozier. It is not
so many years since the still beautiful
but now white-haired woman was, with
Susan 15. Anthony —her colleague for
nearly half a century—the target for jibes
and sneers; the butt of a!
paragraphists when nothing else offered
upon which to sharpen their wits. But
times have changed—the world certainly
moves. Mril Stanton has not altered,
except to grow older and less active
than formeily, though still retaining all
her clearness of brain, all the force, ap
parently, of her trained intellect. Miss
Anthony, also, remains strong, true to her
convictions, loyal, devoted, faithful as
ever—but the world views them with
different eyes. It forgets they were ever
“course'’ and “masculine,” had “loud”
voices, and carried “big cotton umbrel
las.” It sliowers upon them good for
tune, and praises in old age the beauty
and nobility of character it denied they
possessed twenty or thirty years ago.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.
The occasion was a strong reminder of a
similar one that took place years ago on
the occasion of the sixtieth birthday of
Horace Greeley. But national and world
wide, indeed, as had been Horace Gree
ley’s services to humanity, it was not by
any public or spontaneous outburst that
his natal day was celebrated. It waa
the thought and work of an individual,
and there were greetings and responses
and the memory of that benignant, child
like face, radiant with happiness, can
never be forgotten, stilt it was as noth
ing in its significance compared with the
outburst of affection and greetiug which
came from every part of the country and
every quarter of the globe and made a
halo for the white head of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton on her seventieth birthday.'
The “celebration” seems to have be
gun with Mrs. Elizabeth Boynto* Her
bert, who devoted the November num
ber of her New Era to tributes in prose
and verse, and it was echoed by clubs
and suffrage societies all over the
country, while the crowning fete in New
York was signalized by the presence of
Queen Elizabeth herself, and the reading
of a special papier prepared for the oc
casion, “The Pleasures of Old Age.”
Royalty itself—Her of the ruff, I mean
—might have been proud of the letters
and cables from the old world, the let
ters and telegrnms and gifts from the
new. The flowers, the books, the pic
tures, the silver, the mosaics, the Cali
fornia blankets—eveh bank checks,
which, as ttie recipient remarked, were
as xvelcome to old ladies of spendthrift
tendencies as to the young. Tributes in
prose and verso were plentiful enough to
fill volumes; but the one that pleased
me best came in a letter from a married
daughter living in England.
Among the hundreds of clubs and so
cieties that specially celebrated the event
was the New Orleans Woman’s Club—a
significant fact, as showing not only the
cordiality thatexists between the women
of the South and the women of the
North, but the utter change that has
taken place in public sentiment in every
part of the Union.
Mrs. Stanton’s resume of the “Pleas
ures of Old Age” was delightful, and ;
certainly went far to prove, as,she said,
that “at fifty, not. fifteen,' began the
true heyday of a woman’s life.” Very
touching were the remarks made by Miss
Anthony, who referred to the length of
time they had worked together since
1850, when they met at the first anti
slavery convention, which met at Mrs.
Stanton’s residence in Seneca Falls. N.
Y. Since then they had been ardent
co-laborers, and were spending their
later days, one at seventy, the other at
sixty-five, in collecting ipaterials and
writing their history of the reform
movements of this century.
Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, In one of
her br ght, ready speeches, told the fol
lowing anecdotes:
“Mrs. Stanton is better known for her
ability than for her ready wit. A smile
seems to be lurking always in the cor
ners of her mouth, and a merry retort is
ever on her lips. I remember one such
instance which occurred at the earliest
convention at which I was present. It
was at Newport in the summer of 1869.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker made her
first public speech on that occasion. She
had a manuscript in her hand from
which she read, but having a strong na
tive gift as an orator, she frequently di
verged from the paper. In the course
of her remarks she came to some allusion
to Moses, when looking up from her
lecture she said:
“I have always thought that when I
passed to a better world the person I
should most wish to see, of course after
memoers of my own immediate familv,
would be Moses.”
Mrs. Stanton whisnered noth voce , “I
have often suspected that Moses was a
Beecher.” .
A gentleman on the platform leaned
over and asked, “Mrs. Stanton, when
you. go to heaven do you want to see-
Mdses?” '
• “No,’'she replied promptly, “I want
to see Lot’s wife ”
The distinguished lady'onc3 enjoyed a
joke at the expense of one of the leading
judge* of the State. .He had opposed
the married woman’s property rights be
cause he declared if a wife held a separ
ate estate it would lend to quarrels in
the family and direful were the picture
he drew of the divorces and miserie
which would follow such a law.
Despite these lugubrious vaticinations
the bill was passed and not long after
Mrs. Stanton met the judge. She ex
tended her hand with a sad and mourn
ful countenance, saying: “Permit me
to condole with you, judge.”
“On wliat, madam?’ he asked in
alarm.
“On your great domestic trials, and
the troubles between yourself and your
wife.”
The judge, a most devoted husband,
turned pale and asked agitatedly.
“What do you mean? What have you
heard?”
“Nothing," replied Mrs. Stanton se- !
renely, the merry smile no doubt twitch
ing on her lips. “But as your wife has
now a separate estate and you predicted
such unhappiness as the result of this
law, I presumed you were now on the
eve of divorce.”
The judge joined heartily in the laugh
at his own expense.
Mrs. Stanton and Horace Greeley were
lifelong friends until the Constitutional
convention of 1868. Mr. Greeley in
that body opposed an,amendment td the
constitution striking "• out the word
“male” as a qualification for voters,
which was sustained by George William
Curtis, Charles J Folger and many
others. Just after a somewhat violent
speech by'Mr. Greeley against the meas
ure Mrs. Stanton caused to be presented
a memorial praying for its passage headed
by the name of Mrs. Horace Greeley,
The great phtlosopher was furious, and
in revenge decreed that her name should
never again appear in the Tribune except
as “Mrs. Henry B. Stanton.”
Mrs. Stanton was boin in 1815 in
Johnstown, N. Y. She was the daughter
of Judge Daniel Cady and Margaret Liv
ingston, his wife. She was educated in
a class of boys at the Johnstown aca
demy, and afterward at Mis Wizard’s
seminary in Troy, N. Y. Her .own ex
perience turned her attention to the dif
i Acuities and disabilities of women and
aroused her strong indignation. Had
she oeen a boy her father would have
trained her with the greatest care for the
| legal profession. . As it, was she was
; turned loose amidst Coke and Black
stone in her father’s office,but her mental
activity, her independent lines of
thought and .really splendid forensic
faculties, aided by a fuud of ready wit,
were more .subjects for joking by her
father than for laying the foundation of
futuro eminence, although he was very
proud of his clever daughter. In 1840
she married Henry B. Stanton, and went
with him to London to attend the
World’s Anti-Slavery convention held in
that city. Subsequently they settled in
Seneca Falls, and it was from that point
that the call for the first suffrage con
vention was issued, bringing together
three women destined to exert an im
portant influence upon the succeeding
years and their events—Mrs. Stanton,
Lucretia Mott and Miss Anthony.'
Since that time the lives of the two have
been wrought in together, although they
have had their separate interests, enter
prises and ambitions—Mrs. Stanton
naturally expending more of her energies
and the results of her work in her home
life, .Miss Anthony devoting herself al
most unreservedly to the cause she had
at heart.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
The Revolution was Miss Anthony’s
enterprise, and in the attempt to sustain
it she lost not only her own money, but
that which had been loaned by her brother
and friends. She bravely maintained it
till it became a forlorn hope, and then
she relinquished it into hands which she
believed stronger than her own. For
the next few years she worked and
labored incessantly to pay off the debts
incurred for the paper, and never rested
till she had earned the money and dis
charged herself of all obligation. Miss
Anthony was born at South Adams on
February 15, 1820. She is of Quaker
parentage, and was for fifteen years a
teacher. Her features are regular, her
face of a fine, strong type, which has
lost the “rugged” and somewhat an
tagonistic expressson, quite foreign to
her nature whiqji it formerly bore, for
she is one of the most tolerant, most for
giving of mortals, severe only to herself.
Since 1852 she Hai-been associated with
the suffrage movement, but was ptevi
ously and always distinguished for zeal
in the temperance and other questions.
She is not a writer and dislikes to have
to use her pen, but she is a natural orator
and an indefatigable worker. The only
.barrier to success had she been a man,
would have been. her conscience, but
then it perhaps would not have acquired
its development under masculine educa
tion and training. Her public life and
that of Mrs. Stanton has been one of
speeches and resolutions, convent ons
and flying travel. Not luxurious
journeys in Pullman palace cars, with.,
expensive hotels and hotel faro at the
termination, but hard night and day
traveling by the cheapest modes and at
the least expense, snatching a hasty
meal here and there, as time and the con
i tents of a slender purse permitted.
All this is changed now. “Susan"
lias earned her rest, and she takes it in
the home which Mrs. Stanton succeeded
in earning for herself in Tenafiv, N. J.,
in the midst of her friend’s family, of,
which she is as much a part as if sho
, belonged to it by blood. Here they
write tho history they have helped so
much to make, qnd whatever may lie the
individual opinion in regard to their
work, credit has. at least been given to
their coiirage, their martyr-like spirit,
their constancy, their imselfish devotion,
: their true womanliness and the substan
tial benefits they have been largely the
means of conferring upon their own sex,
LUCRETIA MOTT.
so that Mrs. Stanton's daughter may
well say that one woman, at least, is
glad to acknowledge that her life has
been made belter because those two
women have lived.
Lucretia Mott cannot be discussed
here, for the litUe would be an imperti
nence and the much out of place-*-a
repetition of what has been better said.
Yet, as one of the group of famous
women who met and asked for their
share in the right to individual life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness: with
out in the least forfeiting or sacrificing
that refinement and delicacy of woman
hood which was her distinguishing fea
ture, her picture, at least, must here
have a place. Who that ever saw that
sweet, saintly face could forget? Who
that ever heard the tpnes of that per
suasive voice could fail to be moved by
them?
/iJL'
LILLIE DEVEREUX BLAKE.
Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, as the
President of the New York State Wo
man’s Suffrage association, presided on
the occasion of Mrs. Stanton s birthday
celebration. Mrs. Blake is one of the
youngest of the suffrage leaders, having
been born in Raleigh, N. C., in 1835.
Her fatlier, George Devereux, was a
Southern gentlemen of Irish.descent, her
mother a Johns in, of Stratford, Conn.,a
direct descendant of AVilliain Samuel
Johnson, one of the' first two Senators
from that State. Both her parents were
descendants of Jonathan Edwards. Mrs.
Blake was a much admired beauty and
belle in her young days, and displayed
also much literary ability. . She has been
twice married, the first time to Mr. Frank
Umstead, a lawyer, in 1855, who died in
■ 1859; the second time to Mr. Grenfill
Blake, in 1866. Her principal work
previous to 1870 was alone for Harper's
Magazine, the Evening Post, the Phila
delphia Prett and other journals. She
published also several successful novels
and was and is a correspondent to some
leading journals still. Since, how
ever. her efforts have been largely di
rected toward the enfranchisement of
women, and it was owing mainly to her
efforts t.hat the-bill was passed in New
York State conferring the right of school
suffrage upon women. Mrs. Blake still
retains a youthful and-attractive appear-'
ance, she dresses with taste and is an
energetic and untiring worker. Her
FRANCES POWER COBBE.
home in New York is a pleasant and hos
pitable one, and she has two handsome
and accomplished daughters, both
grown to womanhood, one of whom is
married and now known at Mrs. Beverly
Johnson, the other occupying the po
sition of vice-principal in ene of the
large public schools.
Frances’ Power Cobbe is a strong fig--
ure in this day and generation, with a
face and form not unlike our own EJiza-.
both Peabody, but possessed of astonish
ing versatility and power. Her “hobby’.’.,
is, and has been for years past, vivisec
tion, but she has written also excellent
books like her “Duties of Women,” one
of the noblest text books tqput into the
hands of young girls that ever was writ
teu, and she still lectures and writes
constantly for magazines and newspa
pers. Her intellect is strong and versa
tile and her life too serious to admit of
the wasting of time, but she is a
thorough lady, very gentle and courteous
in manner, with a serene face on *hiclf
•the sunset calmness has fallen, for she
was born in Dublin in 1822, and the re
ligious doubts which asitated her
younger days long ago gave place to
abiding trust in the dictates of her con
science and the goodness which controls
the world. Some of her works have
been “intuitive Morals,” “Broken
Lights,” and she also edited Theodore
Parker's works. She has been a stead
fast worker also fttl along the line of
modern progress, and wilh,her letter of
congratulation to . Mrs. Stanton sent a
photograph of which picture is a
c°for • ,
. Frances Wright hardly belongs to this
group. She died in 1852, before the
work in which the women here spoken
of have been engaged had fairly begun.
But it would be difficult to measure the
influence she exerted in bringing about
the general approval by her indepen
dence of thought, her unselfish life, her
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FRANCES WItIOHT.
sacrifice of means and position to the
spirit of her liberator, which burned
like fire in her bosom. Slie was bom in
Dundee in 1795; her father was the
friend of many distinguished political
economists ami reformers and it was
from, him that she obt lined that large
ness of view—that enthusiasm for hu
manity which was the aspiration of her
future career. But siie lived too soon.
She spent her fortune and died before
any of her efforts had ripened into
fruition. , But she was courageous and
sincAe, a martyr to her faith and con
victions, and deserves a high place
among women reformers.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
For age and want save while you may.
No morning sun lasts a whole day.
Pleasant roads make pleasant drives.
Pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.
Humor is the smiling pathos of the
heart as wit is the laughing deviltry of
it.
- I.ife becomes useess and insipid
when we have no longer friends or ene
j mies.
The knowledge drawn from experience
is of quite another kind irom that which
flows from speculation or discourse.
It cannot be too deeply impressed on
the mind that application is the price to
be paid for mental acquis lions, and that
it is as absurd to expect them without it
( as to hope for a harvest where we had
not sown the seed.
A man’s best help is himself, his own
heart, his resolute purpose —it cannot be
done by proxy. A man’s mind may be
aroused by another, but be must mold
his_own character. What if a man fails
in one thing? Let him try again—he
must quarry his own nature. Let him
try hard, and try again, for he does not
i know what he can do till he tries.
Under the Mistletoe.
Kissing under the mistletoe is a relic
of Scandinavian mythology. Loki hated
Balder, the Apollo of the North; and,
as “everything springs from fire, air,
earth and water” had been sworn not
to hurt the celestial favorite, the wicked
. spirit made an arroyof mistletoe, which
he gave to blind Hoiher to test. The god
of darkness shot the arrow and killed
i Balder, Being restored to life, at the
urgent request of the gods and goddesses,
the mistletoe was given to the Goddess
of love to keep, and every one who
passed under it received a kiss, to show
j that the branch was the emblem of love,
and not of death. The mistl toe is a
| parasitical plant which flourishes on the
| branches of many kinds of trees in
Northern Europe. It is the Viscum
album of botanists, and is frequently
j found on the apple, and less often on
1 the oak in ftie west of England. The
Druids regarded it with peculiar rever
ence, from its connection with ihe oak,
the favorite tree of the divinity, Tu
tanes, who seems to have been identical
with the Phornecian god Baal, or the
sun. The plant is very rarely found in
Scotland, and nowhere in Ireland.
Fossil Wood.
An interesting paper has been com
municated to one of the California sci
entific societies on the fossil wood which
is found in different localities through
out that State. This silicilied wood is
stated to be a variety of qunrtz; the
wood fiber is gradually replaced by
quartz, leaving the form of wood intact,
so much so tha* sections cut and placed
under a microscope show the characteris
tic grain of the wood, by which- the
genera may often be determined, and
sometimes the species.
, In what is known as the petrified for
ests in Colorado, where are stumps of
trees several feet in height and some
twelve or fifteen feet in diameter, one
stump seemed to have been fossilized
while in a charred state, and from it los
sit charcoal was obtained. Many of the
Specimens of wood at* encircled with
layers of crystallized chalcedony of an
opalescent tint, so beautiful that sections
have oeeq prompted and worn ns jewelry.
In’ Wyoming there have been-found sec
tions of trefcs twenty inches in diameter ■
*nd : s,eA;raPfeel in length, like hollow
tube* wirfh thffinteiiOr surface ontirely
studded with pruo quartz crystals, pre
senting >a most beautiful appearance.
A Newspaper Writer's Work.
A jqpid penman pan write thirty words
in’£m'ijS;de,y To this he must draw '
fias peu throTTgTi the space-of a tod -six
teen and a haif feet. In forty minutes
his pen travels a furlong We make on
an average sixtcea curies or turns of the
pen in wtiting each word. Writing
thirty words iu a minute we must make
4HO turns in each minute; iu an hour,
2,000; in a day of on y five hours, 11-!,-
0110; in a year of 300 such days, 43,200,-
000. The man, therefore, who made
■1,000,000 strokes with his pen was not
at all remarkable. Many men—news
paper writers, fur instance—male 4.U00,-
000. Hero we have in the aggregate a
mark 300 miles long to be traced on
paper by such h writer in p year.
"Stone walls do uQt a prison make,"
says, or, rather, siftgg Sir Richard l.ovo
lace. You are right, Sir Dick,
you are quite JYght ; they don’t. If the;)
did, how wjMiicl the small boy ever get
out of thg apple orchard uncaught, when
chase the shouting farmer. —Pud -.