The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907, February 24, 1877, Image 4

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fellow enough—obliging and all that, but flighty. Think of his hardly ever having a good dish of solid meat on his table—fowl and beef some times, and sich light things, but no pork—says with nothing to give grace of poetry to the meal, are devouring in Gillen rence, or with snappish remarks or brief dints, their fat pork, or bacon and “greasy grans," their fried Farm Life C.ipublt* of Iteiiur made Attrac tive and Happy.—Why is it that farming, now that it is elevated to one of the most scientific pursuits, has to go begging for men of brains, while the other professions and callings, most Thk Geobgia Enterprise.—We are pleased to announce that Mr. Jenkins will issue next week another number of his popular journal. The first number was issued as an experiment, for the accomplishment of a special purpose, and i he would swallow a cup of whale oil as soon as j sausage, lardy biscuit and lepJnerv dumpling, ; piurcmivun -&"• i — - . ., . ,, . ' T I of them much less worthv of attention, are crowd- so successful did it prove that Mr Jenkins JOHN H. SEALS, - Kititor and Proprietor. XV. 8. SEALS, - Business Manager MRS. MARY K. BRYAN (*) Associate Editor. A. L. HAMILTON, D.D., - Associate Editor And Manager of Agencies. ATLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY. FEB. 24. 1877. R. G. Agee, General Agent for the State of Virginia. Office at No. 4, corner of Eleventh and Bank streets. Cot. C. B. 1)av, General Agent, for the State of Geor gia. Office in Gray’s bnilding, McIntosh street. Angnsta, Georgia. he’d eat a dish of bacon and greasy greens. ; cooked by ignorant hands kmong disorder, Think of a dinner for all his family, of nothing, waste and dirt. If indigestion J d “bad feelings’’ ! ed to overflowing ? The spectacle of a stalwart but bread and vegetables, beans, rice, potatoes j ensue, they can fly to their Flue pill or their ! farmer plowing, and a delegation ot men calling Special Notices.—The reception ot a copy of the paper after remitting money is evidence that flic remit tance has been received at this office. All letters on business should be addressed to W. 15. Nears, Business Manager. In writing on a postal card, don’t fail to name your Office. Directions for Contributors.—In sending a Mss to this offiee you should not fail to put your name and post-office on it; for if the accompanying note gets separ ated from—which is frequently the case—we have no means of identifyng it. Wc receive many letters inquir ing after “ My Ms*." but in many cases do not know to which they refer. If you have a very high opinion of any Mss you propose sending us, it would be a good plan to retain a copy, as it is exceedingly troublesome to us to return it. SPECIAL NOTICE. and the like; milk and butter, and fruit, and such flummery. I’d starve to death, pine away to a shadow." And Mr. Spratt looked down ou his apoplectic proportions. “It’s acting no better than heathen; jnst flyin in the face of Providence for a man to deprive his family of solid vittles,” continues farmer Spratt, who believes in hog tor the stomach and calomel for the liver, as devoutly a| he does in the decalogue, and forgets in animadverting in this pious strain upon his neighbor's defection in pork eatiDg, that God, the Great Sanitarian, had long ago forbidden the flesh of this same uncleanly pork er, to his chosen people, in one of those by-laws which form a noble sanitary system in themselves Mr. Spratt proceeds to say that it is n’t stingin ess that keeps that man Robinson from provid ing “solid vittles” for his family, because he knows him to spend as much money on books, pictures, newspapers and “trumpery,"as would buy enough fat bacou to derange the livers of his household—to “provide decently for his folks,” as Mr. Spratt puts it up. He does not add that his own doctor's bills and the sums he expends for medicine to set right the livers disordered by gross, greasy food, to say nothing of what is spent for tobacco and whisky, or “bitters,” to supply the morbid craving snch stimulating food prodnees, would more than pay for all the books, engravings, maps and stereoscopic views with which “that Liver Regulator, for their h£me glories iu a medicine closet if it has no hl'.h room. “Those queer Robinsons!’/) Would we had more like them; then would re see a healthier, happier, purer race growirg up around us. They can atford to smile attia epithet "queer” knowing it is only one of th| stones with which the short sighted multitude ilways pelt those who “ go before. ” f * $ A Paper fur Southern liiys and Girls-Ob jections to Northern Paptrs.—We reproduce finds a great demand for a second number and has determined to issue it immediately. It is devoted mainly to the agricultural, fruit and grape interests of Southwest Georgia. His second issue will be an excellent advertising medium. The Macon and Brunswick Railroad.—This important line, which has given the State of Geor gia much concern, came up in our Legislature a few days since under various resolutions to sell or queer Robinson” adorns his home, as well as for The subscription price of The Sunny i most of the conveniences and modern improve- SOUTH is $3 pCT annum. 1 ments with which he has supplied his house, Clubs of four and upwards got it at ! and made it easy for his wife and daughters to Qsj -q i do their own w'ork, instead of keeping half a ’’ " j dozen lazy, slatternly servants hanging about A Sensation.—Wc arc pleased to j the honse t0 eat U P their work s wortb - in j ure tv , j /v • 1 i . | and destroy more than they earn, and demoral- know that our Boys and Gir S paper IS ; j ze c jjij^ reil an d break up family and neighbor- creating a tirst-class sensation wherever j hood peace by their gossip and tale-hearing, it lias been seen. One tnan ordered 1 Medicines and stimulants are almost unknown in this healthy, temperate, well-trained family, thanks to the good common sense of the heads of the household, which enable them to appre ciate the advanced ideas of hygeine, physiology and natural science to be found in the two or three first-class periodicals on their table,and in i the few books of modern science, as interesting | as the pages of the most fascinating novel. The children have been brought up in ac- | cordance with the true rules of health and mor- | ality. Their tempers are as sweet as their i breaths, their skins as firm and as pare as their : morals. They are examples of healthy bodies, | and, as a necessary sequence, of healthy minds. eighty copies to supply an immediate demand, and we think the young people everywhere will be delighted. The truth is, we do not see how any one can fail to like it. The severest critics have pronounced it excellent in every particu lar. Every community in every South ern State can easily make a club for it. Clubs of twenty 'fhe Sunny South and Boys’ and Girls’ paper one year for pearl-gray cottage, with dark- grassy, tree-shaded space in front, and Uower- beds on either side, a pair of summer-houses, that in spring were pyramids of pink and white bloom, and in autumn were aflame with scarlet woodbine leaves and berries, and wide orchards and gardens covering the slope in the rear. Feeping over the paling, you saw that the grass was well kept, the flower-beds bright, the walks clean, the vegetables luxuriant, the apple trees and grape vines well-trimmed and thrifty; yon saw joyous pigeons fluttering and cooing around a fanciful cote, and caught a glimpse in the back yard of trimHondan bens and speckled guinia-fowls flying up among the bending stalks of chicken-corn and benny to feast on the racy grain planted for their benefit. And it might chance that yon would see a neat girl’s fig ure in the seat under the ivied oaks, or under the grape-arbor, busy with book, or work-basket, or drawing, or else bounding lightly up the steps, or at work with hoe or rake among the flowers and strawberries, a garden-hat shading the piquant face, and a pair of old gloves pro tecting the hands. Seeing all this, you would be apt to say, “ This is a pretty home, land the occupants must be nice and industrious people;” and you would be surprised at the shrug and sneer that an swered your remark, and the after information that the inmates of the pearl-gray cottage were “queer folks, and not much visited.” Cross questioning would elicit the additional inform ation that the “ queerness ” of those Robinsons consisted in the fact that from the Boys and Girls piper an able editorial by Mrs. Bryan, on an important subject, and ask all parents to give it a care^i reading: “ There is not a bit of dcdbtthat the boys and girls now growing tip arouid us, will be, on an average, better cultivated ind more thoroughly informed, than their fathers and mothers. We are glad it is so. We t*ke pride and joy in seeing the young, eagei, faces crowding np to take our places and to stsnd higher in the scale than we have done. We »re glad to know that when age palsies, or death folds our hands, there are plenty of young hands and brighter brains to take up our part of the world’s work and carry it forward more easily and success- fuHy. ^ \ “ We delight in seeing the avidity with which I young minds catch ideas and imbibe know ledge. They are absolutely hungry for mental food. What shall we feed them upon? That is a serious question. Plenty of food is spread out before them; but not always of the right kind. Some of it is not nutritious; some of it stunt the mental youth, and not a little is posit* ive moral arsenic. Books, magazines and news papers for children and for boys and girls of a larger growth are as plenty as butterflies in June, and very gay and attractive some of them are. But some of them repel the young faucy by being too formal and prim, too didactic and lesson-like, or too much on the “goody- good ” order. Too many are exactly of the op posite style, and by their wild tales of blood or treachery, pauder to false tastes and feed un healthy passions. Their over wrought stories of wicked plotting, robbing, murdering and fighting, fever the youug blood and stim ulate the growth of revenge, cunning, and other evil passions. They create too a morbid distaste for commonplace life and a disgust at ordinary pursuits. “Many of the Northern publications for the young are of this character, and because of their exciting nature are eagerly read by our j No diseased nerves or disordered stomachs pro- ! bo J s and -j- 8 sus P* c j on on tbe P a :>0 I , , , , : rent s part of the msidiously evil influence they i duce morbid feelings, anger, jealousy, and other i . S~ . - . . , • , , . ° ’ ,1 exert, or of how mese wonderful tales of bair- t | abnormal passions. Not fear, but love.and ! * . it> '- . . ’ j AltlllUCSA, auu . pcxioul CUUUUGUUU VGVA* reen pa n 'ar’t a ren {. and gjjju are tlie laws by which these rower- young minds were trained from the cradle; and, him to abandon his work and rule the people, is a beautiful picture of the past. Cicero men tions several of those cases, not then uncom mon; our own historians tell us of others. Is it because our farmers to-day are not in sympathy with their work? or is it because, amid the ex citement of cities, the wonderful inventions, people being shot rapidly from city to city with i - , , •. , . , , ... 1- lease it to uarties who had made offers for it, but. little chance to see what sort ot a being a tarmer ; le I . ... ... • i ii | -v, t - after some important discussion a most sensible is—-is it because am id all these we lose sight of ; r .... . . , .. , i repairtinn was offered bv our immediate repre- agiicultnre, that it does not occupy its true po- resolution was o j sition ? ! sentative, the Hon. Henry Hillyer, to postpone ‘ Many men look with less disgust on a man j the sale or lease till the next session ot the Gen- staiued with political treachery or corrupt mor- j era * Assembly, and that the Governor be aut or als than they do on a man stained with the pure j ized to advertise and receive bids in the meantime soil and honest elements. If a young man has i and submit them to that body, been highly educated, and proposes to be a farm- ; was passed by a vote of 117 to 22 relations and friends immediately ex- The resolution er, the claim, with great clamor: “What: throw away all that education, and be a coarse, rude farmer? Destruction has overtaken us !” They, of course, differ with Cicero when he says: "I am exceedingly delighted with the j .. ., * .-ill i - u . , . tion, and to which it is proposed to remove the pleasures of husbandmen, which are not check- ! ’ r , , „ , _ , ed by any old age, and appear in my mind to make the nearest approach to the life of a wise man.’ ! Atlanta is fast becoming a reading community, ! and in a similar ratio her future brightening. All honor is due to the ladies and gentlemen of We are gratified to learn that the Fair given by some of the leading ladies of this city during the past week for the benefit of the “lonng Men’s Library Association,” was a financial suc cess. The new and spacions room in the Grant i Building, now being rapidly pnshed to comple- large and choice library already formed and constantly increasing,—when handsomely car- 1 peted and furnished, will be handsome indeed. A farmer's life, though proffering no sudden leaps, no ready short cuts to opulence, is the surest of all ways from poverty and want to comfort and independence. Other men must climb: the temperate, frugal, diligent, provid ent farmer may grow into competence and every external accessory to happiness. There is a phase of agricultural life which it j is no wonder is not attractive to the brisk and j bright mind of a youth. The dull, }dodding j the Library Association, for their thoughtful and well directed enterprise. A Great Institution tor Atlanta.—Two years ago, Dr. Stainback Wilson opened, opposite the Markham House, where he still continues, the first Turkish bath iu the Gulf States ; and he still gives the only genuine hot-air Turkish bath, hav ing large rooms of different temperaiures, hot air existence of a farmer, rough as his own stubble ; rooms for shampooing, in which the pure, dry. .§13.00 “ They did eat But little meat,” and that, though “ well-off,” they preferred to do their own work. Other minor offenses were alleged, snch (as the refusal j of the girls to “ economize ” by cutting up calico and sewing it together again to make qnilts; by knitting in stead of buying their stockings, and their oddness in wearing their print dresses plain, instead of ruffling, knife-pleating ;and Anting the same, nntil the wearer looked like a frizzled chicken. The time thus saved from not doing in this re spect “like other girls,” these “queer Robin sons ” employed in reading, drawing, rambling over the woods, working flower-beds, making ‘ ‘gim- cracks” such as hanging-baskets,and fancy pieture-frames for the parlor, or in teaching their young sister and brother. “And such teaching!” says Miss Spratt, at tempting to curl her inflexible snub nose. “ Why they haven’t one particle of dignity, or discipline;They don’t try to control Bob and Lula; they act just as if teaching was playing, and they let them children ask all manner of questions about their lessons; and they actually read stories to them and draw pictures, and tell anecdotes to illustrate what they teach, so they calljib But it’s all fudge; why don’t they give the children a lesson and set them to memorize it, and slap their jaws if they don’t? It’s because they are too queer to do like other folks.” Her father nods his fat head in acquiescence. “Queer—the whole of ’em,” he says oracu- No common sense. Robinson’s a clever in consequence, hypocrisy, concealment, deceit and bitterness are unknown. No jarring exam ple has counteracted precept, and minds and bodies have been judiciously nourished, not crammed or unnaturally stimulated. Stay in this house an hour, and you cannot fail to dis cover about it some indication of the way in which these beautiful young organisms have at tained their present admirable development, of mind, soul and body—those three interdepend ent parts of our being, so closely related that what affects one influences the others ; so that the bath-room here in the house of the Robinsons is an agent of culture, as well as the book-case yonder; and these maps, globes and black-boards, as auxiliaries of development, cannot be placed so high above those beds of flowers, the glass bee-hive, the pretty aquarium, the chessboard, the well-chosen engravings, the piano and—the kitchen stove. You smile at the climax, but it is because you have never looked closely into the subtle relation of things—have never, by the light of science, traced effects through many windings to their intricate causes, else you would see how the health, and conse quently the happiness and morality, of families depend in a great measure tfpon the cooking- stove, or rather, the cook who performs upon it. Much of the discord of life—the irritability, discontent, craving for stimulants, morbid sus picions and fancies, and sins of darker dye, are rightly laid at the door of Dyspepsia— a fiend born chiefly of wrong food and bad cooking. You will not find him lurking in the sunny, clean, wholesome kitchen of “those queer Robinsons,” where Kate and Clara cook the meals with their own pretty hands, prepar ing the food according to the rules of chemistry and good sense, carefully preserving the nutri tive qualities, and thus “ economizing” in the best sense. You will find them with sleeves rolled back from their plump wrists, “ dishing” the mealiest potatoes and baked beans, the snowiest rice, the'sweetest “brown bread,” the lightest buckwheat cakes, the juciest broiled steak, or mutton chop, the most fragrant baked apples and pears from their own cellar. These, with stewed fruits, 1 rich milk and butter, and cream, fresh eggs, porched so that the yolks just blush through the delicate white, consti tute the meal. And it is set in a manner provoca tive of appetite and good digestion. A pleasant dining room, with green shades, fruit pictures on the the tinted walls, a table bright with its snowy cloth, clean, white crockery, sparkling glass, and centre vase—ehina or glass—holding some cheerful sprigs of green, or a bunch of flowers. Here, the “queer Robinsons” sit and eat with wholesome appetites, chatting cheer ily, and practicing the rules of table politeness that folks less “queer” usually folded away with the best damask napkins and kept for company. And while they take their food in this pleas ant way, and “good digestion waits on appetite, and health on both,” their neighbors the Spratts, herded around an uninviting table, ’"'Vt jakcA.plots bloody fisthts. dice; Jfcveni cunning, malice^ k»^enge, and all evil passions appeal to the lower instincts of the youth, make him cruel, hard-hekrted and wickedly knowing, and lower his ideal off manhood, so that he would rather figure as an If dian-slayer or a fascinating buccaneer, a TexaS Jack, er Buffalo Bill, than to be a useful and respectable citizen. “ Must, then, the literature for youth hayeall the racy taste taken out of it, and be left as in sipid as blanc manga? asks some pair of red lips, with a pretty pout of disapproval. Not by any means. We would^have youth’s literature, merry as well as wise; gay, grotesque and ten der, like the stories of dear Hans Anderson; spiced with adventure, flavored with fun, dashed with romance and chivalry, and with the charm of sporting, hunting, and all out-door games that are good for physical exercise and harmless recreation. Even knowledge should wear at tractive colors, and l^istory and science come upon the scene clothed in anecdote and illustra tion. $ “Nor would we exclude the Winged-god from oar youth’s literature. But it should do its “spiriting gently.” Young love is pare and beautiful. Often it stimulates a noble ambi tion, proves a tailsmatfmgainst vice and a pro- m oter of virtue. Moreover, love is something which surely hides, like a subtle perfume in every budding heart. Jt is there, and we can not help it, why not refine its quality by pure and tender, or chivalro^j.and romantic concep tions, such as we may convey through the medium of song and story? “It will be seen that we give a wide scope to literature for the young. All that wo stipulate is that it should be heaDyhy, pure and strong, untainted by sentimentalism, unspotted by what is called “knowledge of the world,” by hardening pictures of vice and cunning, or by brutalizing details of bloody fights, robberies and murders—details, whose effects are to fos ter the cruel instincts of revenge and combative ness, and retard the wished-for era of brotherly kindness and good will, when the intellectual part of man, shall hold in/yfirb his animal in stincts ; when “standing armies” shall cease to be expensive standing nuisances ; when peace and plenty shall crown the land and ‘The drum shall throb no longer, the battle flag be furled.’” A Georgia State Convention.—The Georgia Legislature has at last passed a bill calling for a State Convention in Atlanta on the 2d Wednesday in July, to revise the Constitution of the Slate. The bill submits the matter to the people and they are to vote on it on the 2d Tuesday in June. The ballots for delegates are to have the words “Con vention’’ or “No Conventio I-’^jjatten or printed on them, and if a majority vote for convention the Governor is directed to call the delegates together on the 2d Wednesday in July, otherwise he will make proclamation that there will be no Conven tion. The sum of $25,000 is appropriated to pay the expenses of the Convention. lands and uncultured as his cattle, with no in terests outside the care to make enough to eat and wear. Horace Greeley says o f such a life: “An American boy who has received a fair common school education, and has an active, inquiring mind, does not willingly consent merely to drive oxen and hold the plow forever. He will do these with alacrity if they come in his way; he will not accept them as the be-all and end-all of his career. He will not sit down in a rude, slovenly, naked home, devoid of flowers, and trees, and books, and periodicals, and intelligent, inspiring, refining conversation, and there plod through a life of drudgery as hopeless and cheerless as any mule’s. He has needs, and hopes, and aspirations which this life does not and ought not to satisfy. This might have served his progenitor in the ninth century; but this is the nineteenth, and the Young American knows it.” It is not necessary that a farmer should be rude, uncultivated and of no intellect, when be has chances for study and improvement which warm air is brought in contact with the 20,000 square inches of the lungs—essential features of the Turkish bath, to which its comfort, safety and efficacy are mainly due. Encouraged by the success he has had, he has fitted up elegant separate rooms for ladies, where they can, at all hours of the day, enjoy the de lightful luxury and health-giving action of this bath free from interruption or exposure, under the supervision of Mrs. Dr. Wilson. He has also added the Roman bath, recently in troduced into this country. This is a specially prepared lubricating unguent used after the Turk ish Water or Shampoo Bath, to smooth and polish the skin, and to remove any roughness or abra sion, giving a velvety softness to the roseate bloom brought out by the Turkish bath. These baths are becoming very popular with our ladies, and now that spring is coming on, Dr. Wilson’s deiightful rooms will be the favorite re sort of those seeking health, pleasure and beauty. No more delightful place could be found. Here they will find everyihing neat, clean, quiet, se cluded and all that could be desired by the refined few men enjoy: the long winters—just the time I and intelligent class that sustain such institutions, he may devote to culture—while with granaries ’ 11 18 worth a visit merely to inspect tne cum- full, health, happiness, and independence, he j P Ieteness a “ d attractiveness of his rooms ; and we .. - .. . . , t are sure that all who will do so will be highly may compare with satisfaction his own lot with j pleasedt and feel dia p 0se d to sustain the Doctor in that of striving humanity in general. Lord j an enterprise so creditable to Atlanta, so condu- Francis Bacon said, “Indeed it is the surest of j cive to the health and enjoyment of her ladies.— human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment ! Bridges Smith s Paper. to the spirits of man. Man shall ever see that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfec tion.” But until the popular idea changes, until men look on work as a blessing and «not as a curse, when the farmers themselves .take ad vantage of their opportunities—not until these things begin shall agriculture take its true posi tion. EDITORIAL MENTION. We take great pleasure in calling attention to “Ford’s Eutaw Hotel,” in Baltimore, Md., un der the immediate management of the polite and attentive Yerby. This house is first class in all respects, and for many substantial reasons should be patronized by the South. We have tried it, and know whereof we speak. H. A New Song.—A song, “Light of Love,” written by Charles W. Hubner, has been set to music by Professor Henry Schoeller, director of the Normal Musical Institute at Dalton, Ga. It is arranged as a duet, for two sopranos, or so prano and tenor. Prof. Schoeller is an excellent and popular composer, and lovers of beautifnl music will gladly welcome his “Light of Love.” It will be published soon. “ The Sonny South ” and “Boys and Girls of the South ” one year for $3.50, A Valuable Invention.—We see that our old friends, Captains Rhodes & Frank Holden, are interesting the public in a new and cheap in vention for running a gin with one mule or horse. It is attracting considerable attention and is no doubt a valuable invention. We know the men, and feel safe in commending anything in that line which they would recommend. But we beg their closest attention to the one unfortunate fact, that in this poverty stricken and utilitarian age, people are prone to throw the labor of two or four men on one, and of two, four or six horses or mules on “ one little mule.” Parties interested would, no doubt, do well to correspond with those clever gentlemen at Crawfordsville, Ga. Our. Hamilton. —We were truly delighted a few days since, to welcome our genial and dis tinguished co-laborer, Dr. Hamilton, back to the sanctum, from his wide and successful tour through Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia, in behalf of our Sunny South. He comes like a conquering hero, with his laurels thick upon him, and brings the most grateful remembrances of the universal kindness and respect shown him everywhere on his line of march. He is a whole team and never fails to infuse a healthy quota of his own earnest en thusiasm into the community which he visits, and as a result adds hundreds of good names to his long lists of personal friends and patrons of our Sunny South. He is a noble worker, and desires us to say to all his agents that he is much disappointed at not finding large reports from them in the office here, and hopes wo shall soon hear good things from all of them. He is now aiding us most materially in the sanctum, and in a few days will besiege Ala bama and Mississippi with his irresistible bat teries, and all the good people of those States will have to surrender en masse. The Doctor is an earnest, genial and irresistible worker in any department and knows no such word as fail. Gus Hulsey.—We were deeply pained on Sab bath last by the intelligence of the death of this pure and noble young man, a son of our highly esteemed fellow-citizen, Judge E. H. Hulsey, of this city. He expired in Augusta, Ga., where he had gone with a lingering hope of benefit from the climate, but his remains were brought to our city cemetery for interment. He was universally esteemed in all the relations of life and was truly noble and gifted. A beautiful and impressive dis course was delivered in the Central Presbyterian church to a very large audience, by his beloved pastor, the Rev. Mr. Leftwitch, after which his remains were deposited in Oakland cemetery. Important to theEdwabds Family.—We have received the following notice for publication : _ Liberty, Va., Feb. 13th, 1877. Editor Sunny South will please make inquiry through your paper whether there are any Ed- !L“ 18 ?,V irglDlade s ce nt in Georgia, and^f so they will communicate at once with box 145 Liberty P. O., Bedford Co., Virginia. A subsequent note saj s : Should there be a Rev. Dr. Edwards in Georgia he will please communicate as above. Roanoke College. The anniversary ofthe Ciceronian Society of this popular Institution came off on the 22nd inst, with H. \V. Dela- plane of Ohio as orator, T. W. Dreher of South Carolina and C. H. Scott of West Virginia as debaters, and Isaac M. Warmsey of West Vir ginia as Anniversarian. The following young gentlemen compose the committee: L. F. Smith, Tennessee; J. B Stevenson Virginia; J. L. Argabrite, West Vir ginia, R. R. Kirk, District Columbia; W C Dreher, South Carolina; R. M. Brown, Georgia'; j bTom 8 i. t X1CO;R - D - Duncan ’ J. B. Lobdell, Louisiana; G. EpDrioht H. Chamberlain, ai-lI™.. £ P n ^t.JIexns; Indian Territory. Alabama. David Folsom,’ The Mardigras festivities in New Orleans were EIpT 1 ,, a 8p " lu " g 1M,e ' f '»“> 4