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INTERESTING LETTERS
From Richmond, St. Lonis, Mason vi He (My.,)
The Far Wert, and Hempstead (Texas.)
The Capital of the Old Dominion Under its
Varying Light* and Shadows — Bustling
Thoroughfares—Shady Streets-St. John’s
Church.
A stranger visiting Richmond conld not bnt
be impressed with the contrast in appearance
between the different portions of the city. In
many respects, this Richmond on the “Jeems”
is a flourishing mart; at the same time, it re
minds ns of Horace’s “ rns in nrbe.” If yon go
with ns down into the business streets—along
Main and Cary, and the cross streets between—
yon will find all the activity and commercial life,
the din and commotion incident to large eities.
Ponderous wagons, freighted with all kinds of
merchandise, jolting over the bonldered high
ways; men hurrying to and fro, intent upon the
business of the day, and capacious bnildings
dedicated lo trade and traffic hedging ns in.
shov ti at we are in the midst of a populous and
>y centre.
come with us into the residence portion
D,, «*«ity, and observe what a contrast. We
i, stand first on Fifth street and look up
x ranklin—elegantly paved, wide and well-shaded
Franklin street, is the boulevard of Richmond.
Here the beaux and belles drive and promenade;
and here, all along, from our point of observa
tion to the Park, the bon ion dwell. The surface
of the street is slightly undulating—just enough
so to break the monotony and please the eye.
The houses on Franklin, whilst not constructed
of marble or brown stone, being for the most
part built of brick and stuccoed, are large and
handsome, having around them an air of ele
gance and refinement not often found in the
great cities of the West or North. We will stroll
along this boulevard to Third street. At the
corner stands the Club House, which is a source
of huge enjoyment to the members who have
the leisure to sit on the portico and watch the
pretty girls as they pass. The Club is patron
ized by some of the best men here—those who
are commonly styled the “ upper ten ”—but it
is looked upon with horror bv the ministerial
profession as being an institution calculated to
encourage vice in the form of card-playing,
drinking and loafing—albeit, a reading-room
and library constitute an important feature of
the establishment. Farther westward, we find
between Adams and .Jefferson streets the most
imposing square in Richmond, which consists
of the residences of Mr. James R Pace, Colonel
Clement R. Barksdale, and Mr. Walter K. Mas-
ton, all three tobacco men. Mr. Pace’s mansion
is not quite completed, but when it is, it will
be probably the costliest one in Virginia. It
will reqnire upwards of ?100.000 to pay for it.
After all, it is not fashionable Franklin, with
its stately edifices and its aristocratic society,
that most delights us. Come stroll a few squares
to the less pretentious streets. Ah ! now we
stand on the corner of Fourth and Clay, looking
up and down. With our eyes turned to the
West, we can see Clay street until it vanishes in
n big sylvan grove a mile hence. It is a bowery
vista, ayd reminds us of a village scene. We
cannot imagine a view more picturesque. Leigh
street, its next neighbor, is equally attractive.
Yesterday, as Sabbath bells chimed the hour
of prayer, and old Sol cast his genial rays alike
upon the evil and the good, we wended our way
to Church Hill (formerly Richmond Hill'l which
is the oldest part of tho city. Cot off from tho
rest of Richmond by a deep valley, it seems a
town to itself. Here stands, in a graveyard. St.
John’s Church, a venerable relic of colonial
times, and one of the most celebrated and his
toric places in the Old Dominion. Neither his
tory nor tradition give us an exact account of its
age, but it was evidently the first church erected
in Richmond. The date on one of the tomb
stones is 1751. Under the roof of St. John’s
met the second convention (1775) which forms
so important a chapter in the history of the
American Revolution. Pevton Randolph. Rich
ard Henry Lee. George Wythe. Thomas Jeffer
son, George Washington and Patrick Henry
were present on the occasion: and it was nnder
the roof of the old church that Henry uttered
the memorable words,—“Give me liberty or
give me death.”
The church as it is seen to-day. although
added to, is as simple and unpretending in its
architecture, we snppose, as it was a hundred
years ago. It is a white, weather-boarded struc
ture, with wings at the end and a tower in front,
surmounted by a tasteful spire and gilded cross.
Yesterday we passed the venerated place just
before service, and saw groups of men and boys
standing around on the green grass under the
solemn shadow of the trees, and Sunday-school
children playing among the tombs. The con
gregation is large, we are told, and have an ex
cellent preacher, the Rev. Alexander Weddell.
Opposite Richmond is Manchester (a city of
about 5,000 souls), with its greatand flourishing
cotton mills. Dalbymlle.
Richmond, Va., May 1, 1876.
Grand Duchess,” etc. The week holds in re
serve, too, several other special attractions,
among them a lecture by Professor Living, of
Chicago; a concert, at which the eminent young
pianist, Julia Rive, will appear; a “reading” by
Mrs. Felt, a St. Louisian; one or two farewell
bon boloin concerts, etc. But the theatrical and
concert season in St. Lonis is fast drawing to a
close, and ere long the summer quiet will settle
down and children of leisure flit to summer re
sorts or the Centennnial.
And now, after this resume of theatrical gos
sip, we suppose, dear readers, you are ready for
a change; but we really must defer until an
other letter a variation of our theme, and we
will conclude the present one with tender, re-
gregretful recailings of the old actor who has
has just passed from the stage of life,
BASNET WILLIAMS.
He is said to have been always kind to the poor,
to have given many benefits in aid of charitable
institutions, and he has left a goodly fortune to
attest the success of his labors. So, with kindly
thought of a worthy actor who has passed “to
where, beyond these voices, there is peace,” we
will close. M. J. W.
St. Louis, April, 30, 1876.
Letter from Davies County, Kjr.
This county, which lies on the Ohio and Green
rivers, in what is known as the “ Green River
Country ” of Kentucky, is noted for her rich
corn and tobacco fields, the hospitality of the
people, the forests of excellent timber, the good
housekeepers among the women, the mammoth
whisky and brandy distilleries, free “fighting,”
and last, but not least, her devotion to the “Lost
Cause.”
Owensboro, the county seat, is a city of 10,000
inhabitants, with splendid graded schools, nu
merous churches, several manufactories—among
soothing influences for human trials, more quiet
retreats for contemplative minds, more real in
centive for humane action, than in this vast
arena, where new joys spring up at every turn
of the beholder?
Countless herds roam at will over the thou
sand hills and valleys, with seldom the sight of
a human intruder to startle them from their
wonted haunts in many portions of the State,
and the forest boughs still bend with the weight
of wild game that fill them at all seasons, while
the rivers dance wantonly over their millions
ot finny inhabitants.
Sweet land of our adoption! beautiful land
of the flower and the vine ! Would that the pen
of the poet were mine, that I might sing of thy
rare possessions, till half a world should be
charmed hither to participate in and enjoy thy
wondrous munificence. Lottie C. Efnob.
Hempstead, Texas, April, 1876.
[Tor The Sunny South.]
SCANDAL.
It is a sad thought—but unfortunately as true
as sad—that even the very best of us roll a bit
of scandal like a sweet morsel under our tongues.
How deliciously infectious it is ! How delight
fully diffusive ! How exquisitely it adapts itself
* ii a.. : ~r3j»ite varieties of human existence !
> so pure, so noble as to be ex-
to all the in
Who is so w _
alted beyond! the reach of its slimy, poisonous
tongue? Die? it not make its debut in the Gar
den of Eden? Was it not in the very midst of
the glory, the beauty, the perfection, the unsul
lied purityof Paradi.se itself that this hissing
spawn of perdition—this worthy offspring of its
infernal progenitor, in most fitting guise—first
made its appearance, and with devilish insinu-
the most important of which are: French’s Hub j ation traduced the character of the immaculate
and Spoke Factory, Delker’s Furniture Manu-! Jehovah ? And did not our mother Eve listen
factory, Troutman and Rarick’s Plow and Wagon and repeat to her husband ?
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Factory, a planing mill, numerous saw and grist
mills, aDd tobacco stemmeries by the score.
There are over ticenty-Jive tobacco merchants,
which of itself, is proof positive of the great
business capacities of the place—its favorable
location as a mart of trade—and that, “ There’s
millions in it.”
Year before last we were subjected to a dreary
and desolating drought of ninety-five consecu-
Mark how this infernal leaven leaveneth the
whole lump ! No sooner bad detection followed
crime than we find the husband casting asper-
ions on the wife, and the wife defaming the ser
pent. And thus impregnated with the seeds of
this horrible distemper, our first parents came
forth out of the gates of Paradise. Is it then to
be counted as something marvelously wonderful
that we, their lineal descendants, should bear
tive days; hence, made no tobacco and not a full I the evidences of being tainted with the same
crop of corn, and last year the lightnings flashed, | disease?
thunders rolled, and the waters descended in
torrents, for an equal space of time—almost—
and “drowned out” thousands of acres of our
crops. In consequence of these dispensations
The popular idea of senndal is that it confines
its haunts to old ladies’ tea-drinkings, young
ladies’ calls, small villages and Plymouth
Church. While it is not to be denied that it
of Providence, we are at a low ebb. financially; j finds a most congenial atmosphere in all these
but just wait till we can make another crop, j localities, a very cursory observation will con-
and we promise you many subscribers for your | vince any one that it will grow equally well in
beautiful and excellent Sunny South, which our j other and lesa notable places. It is a great mis-
people will delight to support, not only for its i take to suppose that it is confined to the gentler
intrinsic merit, but because it is a Southern en- j sex. Any one can be convinced who will listen
terprise, inaugurated by Southern men, than j with a view of testing this matter to the conver-
whom none like better to honor than does our
“Little South Carolina,” as it was called during
“the war.”
Owensboro is the home of United States Sen
ator Thos. C. McCreery.
Masonville, Ky., April 16, 1866.
sation of any two men. Take the first two you
see talking together, or select those yon deem
least likely to prove the truth of this assertion,
and—provided they speak at all of a third per
son—nine times out of ten, and oftener ten
times out of ten, you will find more or less
scandal exuding out of their conversation. In
fact, it is so universal that, like the air we
breathe; its presence is not noticed unless it
comes in such unusual volumes that it forces
itself on the attention. Wo often hear scandal
and repeat scandal without beiDg conscions of
it. v It not only forms a staple of conversation
, r — , in it also hoblfc a prominent- posi-
nationality nnder "the sun—English, Scotch, j tiow-^Sl all tue profession?! and avocations of
Irish, French, Spanish, Russian, Prussian, ; mankind. Strike it out of a politician’s speech,
Scandinavian, Swiss, Italian, Chinese, Japan- : and the remainder would remind one of the play'
— besides emigrants from every part of the j of “Hamlet” without the presence of the mei-
The Par West.
Thirteen days of travel in these times of rapid
locomotion brings a Virginian to this land of
the Far West, nnd to a society and scenery quite
different from that he has been accustomed to
see. Society here, in this busy and handsome
Plow-Bot, Greenesboro.—You are too young
yet. Stick to your plow.
A Subscriber, Greenesboro.—Send your proper
name, and I will see what can be done.
Subscriber, Spalding county.—Certainly ; send
it along and do the best you can about the balance.
Minnie C., Buford.—Your criticism upon Mrs.
Wilson’s books is a very just one, and coincides
with our own.
Pearl and Shirley, Edgefield.—It is not right
for a school-girl to receive notes from boys. A
school-girl should not engage herself.
Earnest Enquirer.—You ask twelve questions
in one note. Too many. Ask any one or two,
and we will answer them if we can.
“Injured.”—If he personated any one in this
column, be did very wrong, and we should not
have published it had we known the facts.
Florence, Ala.—The times are too hard now to
add to our heavy current expenses. We should be
delighted to assist the “poor woman” youallude to.
A Subscriber, Millen.—It is always preferable
for the man to be a little older than the woman,
but if she should be the elder, it is not sufficient
ground for breaking the match.
L. H., Baldwin Co.—Miss Melville wrote for the
letters soon after the appearance of the second no
tice, and they were forwarded to her. There were
some four or half dozen, however, and you might
secure one of the places.
Broken Heart, S. C.—If she is to be married
soon to another, she is no longer “ your darling;”
but if you feel inclined to give her a present when
she marries, we would suggest a sack of flour and
a few sugar-cured liams.
T. W. M., Pittsylvania, Va.—If you stand in the
same relation lo her that the other two young men
do, then she did not treat you right in refusing,
upon the ground of her own youth, to acoompany
you, after she had received them as escorts.
Railroader, Union Point, Ga.—You should
hood,” wishes correspondents. Lillis and Lula
Linton, Mountville, Ga., wish to hear from Paul
Aubrey, Willie Gray, J. A. Montague, and others.
Elsie Manning, Maude Stanley and Leslie Gray, o
Dyersburg, Tennessee, wish correspondents : Elsie
wishes to hear from Jack Spratt. Willie B. Rivers,
box 7j. Athens, Tenn., wishes a youne lady cor
respondent from the South. Clarence Clifford, box
. ’ an “ Herman Wilbur, box 60. Uniontown. Ky.,
in good standing, full of fun. romance and poetry,
wish correspondents from Georgia. Alabama and
Tennessee. W,lli e Hamilton, Knoxville. Tenn.,
wishes to correspond with Willie Leighton, of
Thomson, Ga. J. W. Pearl and C. E. Earl, of Eu-
faula, Ala., between eighteen and twenty years of
age, wish correspondents. Walter A. White, Salem,
Va black eyes and hair, wishes correspondents.
Estelle V and Della L. f Atlanta, wish correspond
ents—prefer widowers; will not describe them
selves, lest they exaggerate and might deceive:
their object is matrimony, and they do not feel
backward in addressing men, as this is Leap-Year.
Harry Cecil, Senoia, Ga., wishes to correspond with
a few young ladies of romantic fancies, between six
teen and eighteen ; must not wear spectacles. Guy
Templeton, Bainbridge, Ga., wishes correspondents
under twenty. J. W. C. and J. M. II.. of Wil-
hamshoro, N. C., wish Georgia correspondents;
red-headed and illiterate people need not. write.
Cadets Arthur Leigh and Jack Montressor, Captain
and First Lieutenant of Bethel Military Academy,
Va., wish correspondents ; Arthur prefers blondes
and Jack brunettes. Susie Denkan, Newnan, Ga.,
wishes to hear from Willie Gray, Eufanla, Ala.
Emmie Emmerson, Claud Clifton, and Lillie Bel
mont, of Thomson, Ga., with brown, black and
blue eyes and loDg golden hair, wish correspond
ents. ^ Lone Wolf, hox 20, Weatherford, Texas, but
a native Georgian, wishes a Georgia correspondent.
Lone Pilgrim, lock-box 18. Gainesville, Ga., wants
a partner in a well-established professional busi
ng’ 8 (using one of the “Seven Wonders of the
World”); none but ladies between the ages of
seventeen and twenty-seven need apnly; capital
no objection : a knowledge of the business not es
sential ; brown hair, brown eyes, fair features and
by all means endeavor to make it up. She sim- I medium size preferable, though he will not bn par-
ply misconstrued your attentions to the visiting i ticular about such small matters. Ethel Tlnvmond,
young lady, and an explanation would set the ! sixteen years of age and called pretty by the
matter all right. There is a great deal of jeal- boys, wishes a few gentleman correspondents ; she
ousy in the female heart. j has a “little cash” and a few brains (to get),
Clea, Atlanta, says: ‘‘A friend claims that the j faN of fun and good natured. She hails from
tragedian E. R. Dalton has not been South in | Macon, Ga. Ona Seyton, of Thomson. Ga., aged
twelvo years. Did he not fill an engagement in
Atlanta at DcGive’s about six years ago ? Please
tell us also where he is, if living, and oblige one
of your first subscribers.” . . . He filled an en
gagement here some six or eight years since. Do
not know of his whereabouts now.
C. II. T., Kingston, says: “ Will you please in
form me through your columns what are the ‘Seven
Wonders of the World ?’ ” . . . The wonderful
works usually alluded te as the “ Seven Wonders
of the World ” are the Pyramids of Egypt, the
Mausoleum of Artemisia, the Temple of Diana at
Ephesus, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the
Colossus of Rhodes, the Statue of Jupiter Olympus
by Phidias, and the Palace of Cyrus cemented
with gold.
J. K. M., Chattanooga, asks: “ Is it deviating
from ths rules of etiquette for a young man to ask
a correspondence with a young lady with whom he \ mutual improvement
twenty-three, red hair and eyes, wishes to corres
pond with a gentleman between the age of twenty-
eight and thirty: he must be tall and handsome,
with light hair, blue eyes and fair complexion.
Maurice Montague, Anchorage, Ky., care Central
Lunatic Asylum, wishes any number of lady cor
respondents, with a view to fun and mutual im
provement. AH letters answered promptly and
stamps furnished for reply. Charles Pinckney,
Atlanta, aged twenty, wishes a few lady corres
pondents; has the “ cash,” and thinks he can in
terest. them. .T. Broughnes, A. M., Ruckner’s
Station, Va., wishes to correspond with pome
maiden or widow aged from twenty-nine to forty-
nine, five to six feet high, seventy-five to one hun
dred and ninety-nine pounds : well educated and
not objecting to teach, unless rich. W. Branham,
Atlanta, young and handsome, wishes to corres
pond with a number of young ladies for fun and
ese
United States.
When there is such a mixed population as wo
have here, we cannot expect to find everything
working as harmoniously as in the older States,
where the majority of the people have been horn
and raised and educated together. There arisps
from this mixed state of society, discord and
rivalries of persons and customs. It will take*a
long while to harmonize the different conflict
ing ingredients — to crystalize the social ele
ment, and render it perfectly pleasant. But
that better time is coming. Noble men and
women are here in the field at work, clearing
away the thorns and thistles and noxious weeds
from the heart, as well as felling the forests and
building cities and making roads and farms.
belter from St. Lonis.
[This letter, from our highly-esteemed Rt.
Lonis correspondent, reached us a little too late
for our last issue.—Editor.]
Dear Sunny South,—Just now, we aro “filled
to the brim” with enthusiasm for the fair young
artiste,
MISS MARY ANDERSON,
who is creating so grand a furore in the world
dramatic. It does seem indeed that the mantle
of Cushman has descended upon her, and
watching her wonderfnl personations, one in-
stin.Jively recalls the queens of English trag
edy—Mrs. Pritchard, Peg "Woffington, Fannie
Kemble. Mrs. Siddons, nnd others of their day
and period. And this young girl—for it does
seem she is still in the flush of youth—does give
us this soul of vitality in her acting. Lnst night
we went with the throng, rushed in with the
crowd to see her in
“meg merrilles.”
“We,” astute authority that we are, think
that Scott’s beautiful story, “ Guy Mannering,”
loses much in the dramatization. We miss the
beauty of Scott’s scenes, so brightly and be-
witchingly painted by Sir Walter’s pen, and the
quaint uncouthness of the “uncanny ” Scotch
accent, which is music to our ears though, nnd
which only one of the characters, Dandle Din-
mount, is made to sustain. But the gaunt, gray,
shriveled, “crooning” hag of the Highlands,
Queen of the Gypsies, stood before us, and I
almost held my breath in amaze to think of the
temerity and strength of this young woman in
essaying this, one of the most "difficult of roles.
But wonder and amaze were soon lost in high
appreciation of thesuccess, nnd I am glad to-day
to lay my tribute of unqualified praise at her
feet. Her week’s engagement here has been a
perfect ovation, and on the night of her benefit,
St. Louisians testified somewhat of their regard
in the shape of a handsome gold chain and locket
Bet with jewels.
Miss Anderson is somewhat above medium in
height, and is of rather slender physique, with
clear-cut, mobile features, nnd possessed of eyes
of most wonderful witchery, and a voice that
reminds us of the running undertone in aria ac
companiments. She goes from here to Cincin
nati, thence to Baltimore and Washington, and
after, to a quiet season of rest and study in her
Kentucky home.
Last week we had the
“ RICHINGO-BERNARn ”
English opera troupe, and this week we are to
have opera bouffe, with Julia Matthews as the
central attraction in “Giroffle-Giroffla,”
ancholy Dane. Put an embargo on the lawyer
and.ho would be as dumb as the goddess of jus
tice is represented to be blind. The healers of
souls and the healers of bodies—let us hope un
consciously—often mix it with their admoni
tions and their remedies. The press, too—es
pecially the daily press—makes it a specialty,
and their writers serve np to be read by onr
wives and daughters sickening details of the
most disgusting occurrences, while their print
ers call attention by glaring headlines to sub
jects that neither writer or printer would dare
to refer to ha the presence of purity.
Scandal is not only an hereditary disease, but
it Reems to be an incurable one also. It gains
strength and power as the world increases in
We think this grand valley will one day rival j age and population. Civilization, which is sup-
anv other section of onr great republic. _ j posed to improve and refine mankind, only fur-
One of the greatest difficulties we meet with j pishes new means for the propagation of scan-
here is the general want of confidence, which j dal. The church, which appears to be specially
indeed is a wide-spread epidemic. The rule is j adapted to hold its ravages in check, has actu-
to regard every person a rascal until he has
proven himself, by much and unvarying evi
dence, to be a good man. Even then he will
hear watching. And I don’t wonder at this at
all. How people have fleeced and been fleeced
in some quarters has been “astonishing to the
natives.” The country has been overrun with
ally been made the theatre of its greatest con
quests. The strong arm of the law has been in
voked, but the result has invariably been not
only to increase the one scandal, but to create
numberless other and smaller scandals also.
Chivalry has attempted to wash it out in blood,
and fonnd itself competent only to render the
bilks of every profession, from the minister of I stain indelible. Opposition of every kind only
the gospel down to the lowest profession in life;
and a “burned child dreads the fire.” It will
require years of honest toil and endeavor to re
store confidence. We want good teachers and
preachers and governors—not men broken down
in other communities and rejected by other peo
ple, but good, strong, honest men, to mould the
public mind and lead off in the work. And we
have them right here among us; it only remains
for us to call them into the service.
Our winter has not been cold, but very rainy.
It has been raining almost daily for about six
months. The amount of rainfall is almost in
credible. The number of rainy days for Novem-
tends to cause it to grow and flourish; it withers
only when treated with indifference and neglect.
He would justly be regarded as a great benefac
tor who would provide an adequate remedy for
this horrible disease. He would well deserve
all the encomiums that could be poured upon
him. Bnt be would find he had undertaken
most difilcult task. Everybody would applaud
him; everybody would encourage him, but ev
eryhody would put obstacles in the path of his
success. Unfortunately, the world is not fitted
either hv birth or education to aid in such a
glorious enterprise. For granted, that looking
on it witk\he light of sixty centuries concen-
ber was twenty-one; total rainfall for the same j trated npjbn its hideous deformity, we recognize
month, 15.77 inches. December,—rainy days,
twenty-fonr; total rainfall, 13.91 inches. The
rainfall has not been as great during any month
since, but the number of cloudy and rainy days
has been as great. It is raining now.
"We long for summer. The long, dreary, mon
otonous winter has cast a gloom over mind and
body. But when spring comes, we will have
the finest climate in the world. I can write
about it best when it comes.
We do not mean to rob Philadelphia of any
of her glory, but we are making preparations
for a grand celebration on the coming Centen
nial Fourth of July. Some of the most eloquent
speakers have already been engaged. It will
take place here. Vidl
Portland, Oregon, April 16, 1876.
From Hempstead, Texas.
Here, in grand old Texas, we drink in glori
ous draughts from Nature’s distillery,—from
deep, silent woods, fresh green trees, fragrant*
shrubs, varied flowers, sighing houghs, whis
pering leaves, cooling showers, clear-running
streams, light-falling dews, balmy air, mellow
sunlignt, blue-tinted skies, sweet-singing birds,
and from a thousand other sources that go to
enhance the joys of a Texas spring. There is
no country on the globe where Nature has dis
played her regal bounties with more profusion
than on the broad bosom of onr own fair plains
and the wide-spreading prairies of this Queen
of the South. She has here located her gardens
and filled them with Flora’s most choice pro
ductions. Here she has planted the sweet-
scented ratama, the beautiful acacia, the sheeny
magnolia, the tender locust, the sensitive mi
mosa, and an hundred other trees, and loaded
their branches with fragrant blossoms— fit homes
for the feathered tribes that build their nests
amid the crowded foliage and sing their sweet
matins to the balm) winds from the sea.
What a home for the human family! What-
climate is so calculated to expand the human
The | soul with gratitude ? Where can one find more
the fact that it is a disease. Granted, further,
that recognizing the fact that it is a disease, we
concede that a remedy is needed and a cure de
sirable. Wliat then ? We denounce it as send
ing forth the poisonous exhalations of the deadly
npas tree, that brings ruin and death upon all
that come beneath its shade, but—we inhale it
as though it was the sweetest perfume of Araby
the Blest. We compare it to the roaring of the
lion seeking its prey, or to the snarling of the
fierce, restless, untamable hyena ready to tear
and destroy everything that comes within its
reach, but we listen to its rasping tones like our
ears were charmed by the sublimest strains of
the most enchanting music. We hate and loathe
and fear a serpent; yet, a serpent possesses a
certain mysterious influence by means of which,
under certain conditions, all these emotions are
stifled, and men are charmed into admiration
until the fatal blow is struck and the victim re
alizes too late that he has been charmed into de
struction. So it is with scandal. Everybody
hates and detests and fears scandal; and yet,
like its great originator, it possesses powers of
fascination that enable it to draw the whole hu
man family within the folds of its deadly em
brace. We hear. We dissent. But, alas! we
repeat. Repeat, not exactly what we heard, but
with iv trifle more color—with some sliuht em
bellishment; with—to us—an imperceptible ad
dition, but still somewhat enlarged. And our
listener gives it forth, again enlarged and im
proved. And thus an atom insensibly grows
into a hillock, and the hillock swells into a hill,
and the hill expands into a mountain that falls
on and overthrows and crushes earth’s dearest
treasure—>a spotless reputation.
, “ Mai it please your honor.” said a lawyer^
addressing one of the New York judges,* “I
brought the prisoner from jail on a habeas cor
pus.” “Well,*’ said a fellow, in an undertone,
who stood in the rear of the court, “ these fel
lows will say anything. I saw the man get out
of a cab at the court-room door.”
has no acquaintance ?—I mean through a private
letter.” . . . There would he no special violation
rtf any etiquette in making such a request, if made
in proper terms, and it would be a matter for her
to decide. If she should refuse upon the ground
that she was not acquainted with you, it would be
a good and sufficient reason, and you could not
reply to ij.
Blue Eyes and Brown Eyes, Pond Springs,
write: “ We are very timid little misses, but hav.
ing learned of the privileges granted us this year,
summoned up courage to ask a gentleman to escort
us to a cantota, but he had the audacity to refuse.
Alas I the days of chivalry are no more. Will you
or some of the gallant young gentlemen who cor
respond with your delightful paper tell ua what
punishment to inflict ? Must we tnr him, feather
him, and then burn him ? Please advise us, and
our best wishes will ever be yours.” . . . Have
him shot instanter. But perhaps he can-tote-her to
the cantata if she applies alone, but when Brown
Eyes and Blue Eyes both call on him at the same
time, it is too much.
Peri'i.exity, Talladega, Ala., says : “ My father
was an actor, and a noted one. Both father and
mother are dead, and I am living with my aunt.
I have a talent for the stage, and am anxious to go,
but my aunt nnd others are bitterly opposed to
such a step. I am just eighteen, and you know
you ought to begin early. Must I run off? Can
you tell me where most troupes originate, and
where I could study or be taught for it? I am
confident that I can make an actor, having suc
ceeded so well in amateur companies, and having
been praised in papers more than any others of
my company.” . . . Most companies originate
in New York and break down in the South and
Northwest. If you wish to steer clear of police
clutches and vagrants’ cells, take your aunt’s ad-
advice.
Distressed Jok, McLemore’s Cove, says: “ I
called on a young lady the other night. We sat
near the door, beneath a shelf on which was a
churn of milk. I became so engrossed that I un
consciously reached my hand to the shelf, when,
‘ miserabile dictu !’ down came the churn with a
crash, emptying its contents on myself and the
fair one, ruining her Sunday calico and new gai
ters. I rushed from the house in dismay. Now,
is it necessary to apologize for my unceremonious
leave ? And should I replace the churn ?” ...
Such an awkward calf as you seem to be should
not be allowed to leave his mother till he can get
along without milk. An apology would not help
the calico nor mend the churn. You should re
pair all damages, but should not call again till you
ate better u-eaned.
Earnest Enquirer, Barnesville, asks: “Would
it be a breach of etiquette for a young gentleman
to write a note to a certain young lady friend, so
liciting her company to a concert, or any other
place, when she has another young lady friend
visiting her—the young gentleman being a veiyr
intimate friend of both ? Or, vice versa, would it
be any slight to the young lady visitor (she being
perfectly at home during her visit) for this home
young lady to accompany this young gent to said
concert ? I should think it would be very annoy
ing to answer questions of so little import, but,
however nonsensical they may appear, it is very
convenient to your many readers to know that
they have an authority whose opinions are not to
be doubted on any subject; and all who read your
valuable paper become very much iuterested in
your earnest efforts thus to inform the public.”
It would be proper to take the visiting young lady,
but not the home one. The former is the guest
of the latter, and entitled to the preference in such
matters; and the home young lady is not only
willing to give way to her friend, but, if truly po
lite, will insist upon her male friends showing her
special attention during her visit. Should the
young gentleman not feel pecuniarily able to take
both young ladies to the concert, he should get
some agreeable friend, whom he knows would be
acceptable, to accompany him and escort one of
them.
J. II. Hope, box 56, and J. N. Ernest, box 45,
Hawkinsville, Ga., with light hair and blue eyes,
wish correspondents with black hair and brown
eyes. J. A. J., Richmond, Va., neither a bachelor
nor a widower*but “just? blossoming into man-
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