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JOHN H. SEALS, - Editor and Proprietor.
W. B. SEALS, - Proprietor and Cor. Editor.
MRS. MAKY E. BRYAN (*) Associate Editor.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA. APRIL 6, 1878.
Burton Bros., of Opelika, Ala., are Agents for
The Stony South.
Geo. W. Norman Esq. is our general traveling
Agent in Kentucky and the North W estern
States.
X‘8~ The Sunny South is always discontin
ued at the expiration of the time paid for.
What “Gath” Says of Charleston.
Gath is strolling about in Dixie, and sending
back pengraphs of its scenery, society and mat
ters in general. His views are fairer than we usu
ally get from the Northern standpoint, and his
comments in the main more sensible than bril
liant The style of the pattern correspondent
seems to have lost much of its Champagny
sparkle, but this is no great matter, er wonder
either. The popping of puns and the fizzing
of funny epithets pall on the evolver himself,
sooner than it does on the partaker, - that is if
there is any genuine wine of genius in him, and
he is not, like syllabub, all froth. He will strip
off his gauds and grow more earnest in spite of
himself, and then the public, that likes better
to be tickled than taught, will miss the jingling
of the jesters bells and cry out, “He is growing
dull. He makes ns laugh no longer; bring out
another harlequin Mr. Ring-master,or you may
hand back our money at the door.”
“Gath” says that Charleston is the best built
of all cities in the South. No, he doesn’t call it
“city:" he says, “of all places in the South. He
never dignifies our little Southern collections
of houses with the name of city; and, of course,
he has much to say about indolence and decay,
and dilapidation : and, though he doesn’t make
out Charleston the dilapidated buzzard’s roost
that another correspondent pictured Tallahas
see, yet he enlarges on the decayed grandeur;
the battery, “barren as the grass grown squares
of Siena” and intimates that the inhabitants
have a tendency to laziness and unpracticality to
“reading ideal state-craft rich with fundamen
tal nonsense, advancing into confidence and
logic toward a baseless ecstacy and ruminating
on honor with optimistic egotism.”
Then the Charleston ladies; are they really
those veiled, nun-like creatures, stealing out of
their gloomy abodes for a half hour’s dreary
gossip, or cheapening of calico, and then back
again, as if bat-like they loved the gloom of
their mouldering halls? Surely that cannot be.
The last Charleston ladies I saw were sunny
and fresh as they were handsome, and carried
no suggestion of Ichabod about them.
But Gath pays the industry of Carolina la
dies a compliment at the expense of the men,
who, he intimates, could not better advance the
interests of the State than by dying and leaving
their affairs to feminine management.He says :
“How can this poor, war-ridden country car
ry so many idle women and children ? But the
women of South Carolina are not unwilling la
borers. David Ramsay, of Lancaster, Pa., their
patriot and historian, wrote seventy years ago:
‘When they are left widows, though with small
means, large families and great embarrassments,
they in many cases extricate themselves with
wonderful address and devote themselves to the
education of their children.’ Speculating, in-
semperate, mismanaging husbands advance
their families by dying and leaving to their
widows the sole management of their embaras-
sed fortunes.”
He is complimentary also to the German citi
zens of Charleston and of the South in general,
and says:
No other race is systematically growing in the
South and the reasons are plain; they believe
in labor for their children and wives and them-
gelves—actual contact with dirt and manure,
and in German temperance, w’hich is neither
ice water nor raw alcohol. All the the German’s
pleasures and sacrifices are his family’s, too;
but the American husband steals away from his
family for enjoyments, and they generally steal
away from his work.
Gath renders due honor to Gov. Hampton,
for the immense good his wise and temperate
policy has already wrought throughout the state
and says that he thoroughly is believed in and
honored by all the better class inhabitants.
He says;
Wade Hampton has almost universal honor
and confidence, and the scurvy elements
in Edgefield and else where, get no coun
tenance in belittling him. He will be the
next Governor of the State, it his life is spared,
and he presents a model to aspiring Southern
statesmen of how mildness, honor, faith and loy
alty invariably triumph oversullenues, severi
ty and selfishness. The Edgefield district is
almost without respect in South Carolina, and
at the mention of it the average native gives a
smile of pity. Said one stump speaker, before
the war: “When the devil took the Lord into
the mountain, he said: "All that you see I will
give you to worship me—except Edgefield!
That’s mine! I can’t let Edgefield go!’ ” •
A Doable Endorsement.
We take pleasure in copying the following en
dorsements of the author of ‘Battles Around
Atlanta,' and his ‘valuable contributions’ to the
Sunny South, from the Savannah Morning News:
The Atlanta Christian Index pays this compli
ment to our Atlanta Correspondent: ‘Major
Sidney Herbert, special correspondent for the
Savannah News, we regret to say, has been quite
ill for some time, at h»B rooms in this city. We
are glad to hear that he is convalescent, and
will socn be out again.
■He is one of the ablest and most versatile
correspondents connected with the Southern
press, and as ‘Chatham’ of the Savannah News,
has acquired well merited distinctiop for the
freshness, point and reliability of his corres
pondence. His sketches of noted persons, and
his memorabilia of the war between the States
(published in the Sunny South,) are valuable
contributions to the literature of ycur country.
A Pastor Without a Pulpit.
A young minister who has the charge of a
family and has not the charge of a church, in
quires, “If God, who seemed to call him to the
work of preaching by impressing upon his heart
the salvation of souls, has not, with equal sig-
nficance, called him from that work by cutting
him off from means of support?” The situa-
tien is not new, and in these days, alas ! not
rare. Times of financial stringency are hard
on all the learned professions, but hardest upon
the ministry. Men will retrench some extrava
gance in diet and dress to indulge in the harass-
sng luxury of lawsuits; they will sacrifice some
thing in order to pay the doctor for his pills
and plasters; but will hardly dispense with a
single dish from their board or a single feather
their wife’s hats that the gaunt spectre of want
may be kept out of the parson’s door. The
piety that pays the preacher, wanes in the time
of a financial crisis.
What, then, shall we say to our young minis
ter, whose habits in life demand a large salary
while his prospects for a small one* grow more
j faint? It were vain to bid him preach on and
! practice patience; for not even the strongest
i faith now expects ravens to come laden with
I flesh and bread for hungry prophets. Shall wa
j tell him that God has called him from the min-
| istry, and that it is now his duty to abandon a
i vocation which promises so little? This we do
j not believe. If God has con.scribed him, He
i has done it for life, and he can not leave the
service without acting the part of a deserter.
The New Testament idea of a call to the minis
try, is that it is one for life, and, in accordance
with this, public opinion attaches some blame
to any one who having once entered upon this
sacred vocation, leaves it in pursuit of worldly
gain or glory.
But while God does not only not order but
positively forbids those whom He has called to
the work of the ministry to abandon that work,
He may, and often does, indicate by His provi
dences, a change in the mode of pursuing it.
Sometimes the country preacher has a fitness
for work in the city, and, by some train of cir
cumstances, is carried thither. The city preach
er, on the other hand, may be driven by a ne
cessity, which for the time seems hard, into the
country, and there finds the field for which his
capacities are best adapted. There are diversi
ties of gifts, and, of course, there must be diverse
places in which the gifts are to be exercised.
All are not required to be pastors who are re
quired to preach. All whose anxiety for the
salvation of souls prompts them to plead with
men for their eternal welfare, are not required
to give themselves wholly to the ministry of the
Word. We suspect there is much erroneous
theory on this subject, which, under different
circumstances, might lead to much bad practice.
Some urge that pastors should be so paid that
they could give themselves wholly to pastoral
work. Now, except in our cities and larger
towns, the vast majority do not demand or de
sire the whole time of their pastor. It would
be inconvenient, indeed, for farmers and me
chanics to receive those weekly visitation*
which forms the most wearing part of the city
pastor’s life. The amount of service which they
require does not materially interfere with very
fair attention to some secular business. Paul
did valuable service as a minister while he sus
tained himself by working at his trade of tent-
maker.
To our querist, then, we would reply : Do not
think for a moment of abandoning the vocation
which your conscience gives assurance that
God has assigned you. We admit all that you
plead in regard to the darkness of the prospect,
and w - e admit that it is a prime duty to provide
for your household. You can not, as you would
prefer, give yourself wholly to the ministry of
the Word. Doubtless, God does not design that
you should. Choose some business which is
not incompatible with piety and which will not
engross all your time. There are occupations,
and those not the least remunerative, which will
not derogate from your character as a minister.
Having found such an one, pursue it with dili
gence for the support of your family, and, in the
meanwhile, preach as often and ably as you can.
Chamberlain's Popularity.
The Chicago Journal says that Chamberlain
of Carolina robbery Ring infamy can get from
the Republicans of New York any political hon
or or preferment they have in their gift This
fall, if he wishes, he can go to Congress from
any one of half a dozen districts. And the
Journal seems to base this assertion solely on
the ground that the Alpha Delta, Phi fraternity
composed of graduates from the various col
leges have selected Chamberlain to deliver the
address at their forth coming anniversary, to
be held in Connecticut. As if the worthiest,
smartest or most popular men were .always or
even usually selected to deliver addresses on
such occasions. A crowd is wanted, and curi
osity is an effective force to draw a crowd togeth
er. The nuisance which Hampton and Hayes
abolished would draw well even here, though
we acknowledge that it would be on the same
principle that one of our neighborhood urchins
drew a posse of village boys around him by
running up with a defunct polecat tied by a
string and crying out: ‘Here’s the skunk what’s
been a eaten all your mother's chickens and
duckseB. *
Morphine and Divorce.
Shall the habit of morphine-eating be held as
sufficient ground for divorce? The question
has lately been brought into notice by a case
that has come under the jurisdiction of Judge
Barber, of Cleveland, Ohio. The plaintiff in
the case brought suit against his wife charging
habitual drunkenness and neglect of duty for
three years. When the case was brought on for
trial the prosecution claimed that the intoxica
tion consisted in the excessive use of morphine.
The Court held that it made no difference in
law whether the intoxication occurs from the
use of strong drink or from narcotics. Tnis is
a new case in this country. It may have some
tendency to check the spread of this dreadful
habit which, as druggists tell us, is becoming
alarmingly prevalent. *
Straining at Gnats—A Victim to Mi»» Kan-
eyism.
Miss Cook, a modest and intelligent young
school mistress, hus fallen under the severe dis
pleasure of the women of Holden, Missouri,
because she forgot her ‘prunes and prisms’ in
an earnest lecture to her girls on the evils of
tight lacing. She adverted to some facts in
physiology, and told the young ladies that
drawing their corsets to wasp-waist proportions
would interfere with their becoming mothers,
whereupon the ladies of the school district,
declared that Miss Cook was no better than she
should be, and had her summarily dismissed.
Their daughters might expose their busts and
shoulders under the ball room gas light; they
might give their waistq to terpsichorean embra
ces, they might read police gazettes, Ouida and
the Mercury, but on no account must a teacher
—of their own sex —be permitted to talk to
them about the internal construction of their
bodies, or their natural duty and destiny as
women.
Miss Cook has entered suit for a thousand
dollars damages, and we heartily hope she may
get the money, and emigrate to some place
where women are more sensible and Miss Nan-
cyism is not in the aoCb ndancy. *
Women at the Polls.
It is often asserted that the reformers which
women have proposed to make in the manner
j in which the voting business is conducted, are
all “talk” or that they are not practicable and
cannot be carried out. A good beginning has
lately been made in New York State where the
women of Utica undertook to prevent intoxica
tion and quarrelling upon the voting ground.
The evil has been especially noticeable in Utica
at previous elections, and great praise is due to
the ladies of the various Christian and Temper
ance Associations who, we are informed, “labor
ing unceasingly in every ward, serving refresh
ments tp candidates and voters; now sandwich
es, now biscuits, now now pie, now crack
ers and cheese, always coffee, and never whisky
or beer. At the various polling places, five
thousand seven hundred and twenty-five cups
of coffee were handed to politicians and voters
| during the day. There was good order every
where, and very few cases of intoxication were
reported by the police.” *
The First Steamboat on the Mississippi.
The death of Mrs. Lydia Roosevelt, in New
York, recently at the age of eighty years, has re
vived the tact that she was the first woman who
ever descended the Mississippi and Ohio rivers
in a Steamboat. Her husband, Nicholas Roose
velt planned, and built the first steamer that ev
er plied these waters. The name of this pion
eer steamboat was the New Orleans. She was
built at Pittsburg in 1811 and cost $38,000. Mrs.
Roosevelt accompanied her husband in the first
trip of the New Orleans down the Mississippi. *
Florida l T Id Virginia.
Florida has been a pet of the North ever since
Aunt Harriet Stowe settled her substantial cor-
porosity within ii^W^-ndary New England
pats and praises the flower-land, and sends her
children there out of the way of the winter
snows; and in short is a very mother to Florida.
She is a step-dame to poor Virginia, and loves
nothing better than a chance to snub the ‘old
Dominion.’ The Boston Post finds such a chance
in two recent news items, and thus comments.
Virginia, the Mother of Statesmen, permits her
festive sous to tie a negress to a sapling and
then jerk her into the air, a performance which
maudlin sentimentalists will call barbarous, in
asmuch as the woman might have been hanged
decently. On the other hand, in Florida, a
sheriff actually faces a mob, kills one of the
8 neaks, and wounds several others—a most ex
traordinary feat for a sheriff in these degenerate
and unmanly times. Let Virginia be called the
Mother of Statesmen—Florida shall be known
as the Mother of Sheriffs. •
BOOK NOTICES.
Thirty-four Years: Ad American Story of
Southern Life. By John Marchmont.
This volume from the pen of a distinguished
and most talented lady of South Carolina is at
tracting large attention among the literary peo
ple of the South. While much beautiful fiction
is woven into its pages, it contains a true and
faithful picture of Upper South Carolina for
thirty-four years. Its incidents and actors are
all taken from real life and every reader will be
impressed with its truthfulness to nature. It
will interest any and every one, and we suggest
that you order a copy immediately from your
book-seller.
The following commendation is from the pen
of one of our most intelligent and popular At
lanta ladies:
We have recently read this volnme and take
great pleasure in commending it to the reading
public. It is written in admirable spirit, prin
ted in clear aad beautiful type, and possesses
much Anglo-Saxon sweetness. Especially do
we think that it cannot fail to interest South
Carolinians. Fanny A. Holmes.
Atlanta, March 30th., 1878.
Atlanta Notes.
IIOMK ART.
Mr. Guerry’a Latent Picture.
Mr. Guerry’s studio on Whitehall street, Atlan
ta, is now the centre of attraction for all lovers of
the beautiful. In addition Jo his other works,
which may be seen there, he has just completed a
picture that illuminates his studio with its rich
ness and beauty. It is the portrait of a child—
little Willie Cox—the deceased grandson of Mrs.
Cox, of this city. How the artist, working from
g mere photograph, has caught so perfectly the
peculiar look in the eyes, the subtle expression of
the features, figure and attitude that belonged to
the child in life, is one of the marvels of genius.
The accessories of the portrait form a picture
in themselves. The child is standing on the steps
of a broad winding stair, lie leans lightly on
the balustred, over which drops in rich folds, a
drapery of gold-bordered crimson. His lovely
hands hold his pretty riding whip and black vel
vet cap, whose long white plume is so exquisitely
painted that one almost looks to seethe wind blow
about the light-floating mass. The feet in their
gold-tinted boots stand on the crimson carpet
carelessly crossed, and above the glimpse of deli
cate stocking, are seen the pure flesh tints and
sweet rounded swell of the graceful limbs. It is
all touchingly natural. The child, riding whip
and cap in hand, is waiting for his ride ; the eyes
seem to look forward for the coming of the poney
that is to confer the morning delight; but mean
time, in spite of the childish eagerness, they have
a wistful look, prophetic of the early blighting
that overtook this cherished flower. The figure,
in its little demi-loose velvet gabrielle, has all the
unconscious, pathetic, nameless grace of child
hood, and the rich surroundings, the gold and
crimson drapery, the graceful curve of stairway,
the massive vase with its wealth of green leaves
and peail-white lilies, come in with file effect to
relieve the simplicity and wistful sweetness of the
child’s face and figure. Every detail is worked
out with the minute care of the loving student of
nature. The very figures on the enameled vase,
each leaf of the lilies, each fold of the drapery,
each hair, it seems, of the boy’s light, lovely curls
is painted with tenderest fidelity. *
Atlanta Musical Institute.
One of the most worthy and popular institutions
of Atlanta is Prof. Schultze’s Musical Institute.
As a musician and teacher, he has doubtless very
few equals, and it is gratifying to know that he
has awakened a new interest in musical culture
throughout this entire community. New life has
been infused by him and his most excellent lady
into both of our musical societies, and an improved
taste for the higher order of music is perceptible
among our people generally.
On Monday evening last a large audience as
sembled, by his invitation, in the hall of his in
stitute to hear a recital from his pupils, and it was
most gratifying to every one present to note the
proficiency of each performer.
The programme opened with a pretty duet by
Miss Rosa Crown on the piano and Prof. Schultze
on the violin; then came a well executed caprice on
the piano, by Miss Maggie Jones, after which Miss
Julia Rushton rendered LaDanza d’Amore in a
fine soprano voice, but farther on in the musical
feast, sue brought down the house by her clear
voice in “Once Again.” Miss Kate Bleckley then
executed, in artistic style, a solo on the piano,
when Misses Fannie and Sallie Collier performed
a beautiful duet. Every one was then captivated
by the rich and powerful voice of Miss Lena
Bradfield in “Judith.” She has indeed an extra
ordinary voice and may be set down as one of the
very best singers in our city. To volume and
richness of tone it has wonderful flexibility and if
she can prevent an occasional harsh break in its
register, she will make a star. Sweet little Buddie
Ilill then displayed remarkable skill on the piano.
She has a fine touch and will make a brilliant
performer. Miss Eugenia Arnold and Professor
Schultze gave a beautiful duet. Miss Eugenia
executes with fiue taste and expression on the
piano. “Sing Birdie, Sing” brought a storm of
applause as the last birdling notes died away on
the lips of little Mabel Haynes. To hear her clear,
strong, pure voice it is diificult to realize that it is
the voice of a little girl. Miss Rosa Haiman then
gave us “Silver Bells” with true emphasis and
artistic touoh. Miss Susie Howell rendered “Fairy
Festival” in excellent style on the piano, and Miss
Jessie Mims the “Feast of Roses.” For one of
her size and age little Jessie has the most remark
able touch on the piano that we have ever heard.
Her execution is simply wonderful. Under her
manipulation the piano sounds as if in the hands
of a Master. Messrs. Florieand Nattie Seals con
cluded the programme with a “Charge of the
Hussars,” a brilliant duet for the piano, which
they executed with fine effect and to the general
delight of the audience.
The entire entertainment was a genuine treat to
all present. Each performer reflected much credit
upon the institution aud made every visitor a
friend to the Atlanta Musical Institute.
We are pleased to learn that the Professor’s
noble and accomplished lady will return from
Germany in a few weeks restored to her usual
good health.
The C'hanfraus—A Grand Treat in Store for l T s.
Cooking Parties in Bmtnn-A Novel Enter
tainment.
Fashion d ies accomplish wonders, and no mis
take. In fact there is nothing that this queen
over women cannot bring to pass when she sets
about it. Her latest mandate is that all her sub
jects especially her more wealthy and stylish
ones, shall learn to cook. Music, painting, danc
ing, French and Italian lessons have long been
ordained, but now the one thing needful and in
dispensable in upper-tendom is cooking lessons.
And as one's own kitchen, or one’s mother’s is
not always available for this purpose, owing to
the high-handednes of the reigning monarch of
the kitchen, who will not have his or her domin
ions invaded, everybody who is anybody flocks to
the cooking parlors of Miss Parloa, and groans
because they came not sooner, and are obliged to
wait their turn before a vacancy can be found for
them. This mistress of a new profession, who
has suddenly become a very oracle of wisdom, be
fore whom Beacon street and Commonwealth ave
nue bow down in worshipful admiration, and who
lectures, scolds or praises her high-toned patrons
at her own sweet will, has a pleasant suite of
rooms at No. 171', Tremout street; of which, how
ever, the only one about which anybody cares is
the kitchen, with its attendant pantiy. It’s a
perfectly glorious old kitchen ; in fact, there nev
er before was such a kitchen, for it was original
ly a photographer's saloon, and one whole side of
roof and wall is of glass, so that the light is
thrown down directly upon the long table on
which the cooking mysteries are compounded.
Under this glass roof, curtained by trailing vines
and pendant mosses, are placed many rows of
chairs, each row raised above that in front, which
are always filled ou the afternoons—Wednesday,
Thursdaj and. Friday—when Miss Parloa gives
her practical lectures. In fact, some of these
lectures bring out so many that they cannot be
accommodated at all; as, for instance, when a
week ago the lecture was on bread and pufl' paste
(i. e., pie-crust; this to the uninitiated male) the
room was thronged, ladies even crowding
ON TO TIIE VERY STOVE
in their anxiety to see, and many who jcould not
gain admittance at all went away. These lec
tures, it must be understood, are not made up of
“ words, words, words,” but Miss Parloa shows
practically and conclusively how the thing is done,
bo doing it right before the eyes of her audience,
intersprinkling such explanations as may be need
ful, and answering questions (often ridiculously
childish and puerile ones) propounded by the la
dies before her. It is a significant fact that
among the most interested and constant atten
dants at these cooking seances are old housekeep
ers who realize that newer and better ways have
been discovered for doing very common things
since the days when they learned to cook. At
the conclusion of the lecture, when the various
dishes have been cooked, plates are passed around,
and each lady produces from her pocket a spoon
with which she tastes the delectable meats and
compounds, surreptitiously smacking her lips
over the appetizing morsels and betraying all too
plainly by longing glances at the tabli her desire
to cry with poor Oliver for “ more !”
BEACON STREET IN CALICO.
Evety morning there is met a class of six young
ladies in this model kitchen, who having defied
their usual costumes of silk aud novelty cloth in
the cosey little dressing room, and donned pretty
calico robes, short and serviceable, dip their own
fair hands in flour, and strengthen their weak
little wrists by wielding the great mixing-spoon,
coaxing together the two halves of the lemon-
squeezer, revolving the tiny crank of the egg-
beater till the foaming mass will stand alone;
they astonish joints of meats by dressing them
themselves ; they cook the unpoetical potatoe in
unheard of delicious ways ; they make—oh ! such
cake that one feels willing to risk dyspepsia for
the rest of his natural life for just one taste ; they
“ coddle” apples and crack “ Cupid’s jokes,” and
make “ kisses” and play innumerable petty and
fascinating pranks with their unaccustomed toys,
bui they don't wash the dishes !
(Moral—It’s very good fun to cook when you
don’t have to wash your own dishes.)
And then, when all is done, they sit down to a
cosey little dinner of their own making at 1
o’clock, after which the room is cleared up for
the afternoon lecture. And once or twice in the
course of each term of twenty-four lessons, these
jolly little classes “ do up” a lot of cooking, solid
and fancy and invite each a gentleman friend to
come to the cosiest imaginable little dinner party
in the evening. Each may fancy for himself the
delights of these occasions, when that bright par
ticular “he” for whom all this study aud work
have been accomplished, is brought in triumph to
witness the results !
Editors with Gifted Wives.
The Daily Tribune, says Mr. D. G. Croly, the
able managing editor of the New York World,
has long been at the head of the list of the few
journalists whose wives are distinguished in
newspaper circles. Mrs. Croly as “Jennie June,”
having won a world-wide reputation as a spark
ling and brilliant journalist and correspondent
But just now a new literary star is fast rising
to view, in whose future career there is the most
glowing signs of promise. We allude to Mrs.
M. P. Handy, the accomplished wife of Mr. M.
P. Handy, at present the able and popular man
aging editor of that Stirling paper, the Phila
delphia Times. Mrs. Handy wields a versatile
and graceful pen, and her magazine poems are
as meritorious and as sprightly as her newspa
per letters and sketches.
Her description af domestic life during the
last days of the Confederacy, written in a most
charmingly interesting and vivid style, has been
published and republished, from Maine to Cal
ifornia, by all the leading newspapers and pe
riodicals. When such popularity attends a new
writer in her field, Mrs. Croly may well look to
her laurels, especially when that writer is al
ways handy with a pen.
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“Whispering Winds.” By George K. Camp,
Sunny South Publishing House.
This is the title of a handsome little volume
of rich and racy humor, which will be issued in
two or three weeks from the Sunny South Steam
Publishing House. George K. Camp, Esq., a
popular attorney aud brilliant humorist, of
this city, is the author. The price is only 50
cents. Send in your orders.
At this season all who love flowers are look
ing out for something new and pretty for their
gardens. If they will send for “\icks Illus
trated Priced Catalogue” or Monthly Magazine
and see what a fine collection of flowers and
seeds he is advertising, they will not fail to give
him an order. He is in every way reliable and
parties who buy from him will find their flowers
and bulbs so carefully packed that even the
most delicate plants will not be injured in
transportation. See his advertisement in this
paper.
It is a rare thing for two such celebrities as the
Chanfraus to visit a place like Atlanta at the same
time' Though man and wife, they do not travel
together, for such a combination is too much for
most audiences, and we are to have a treat which
seldom falls to our lot. See thespecial announce
ment in another column.
Hiss Rose Eytinge.
We are also delighted to announce the coming
of this celebrated emotional actress who will ap
pear on our boards in the role of Cleopatra on the
8th inst. Special announcements will appear in
our next.
Remember at Phillip’s «fc Crew’s book store,
on Marietta street, are to be found all the new
books and freshest pnblications, among them
the charming young folk’s magazine, Wide
Awake, with its premium picture—a lovely en
graving called “The Proffered Kiss.”
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^Liuumry,
Miss Mary Baldwin, the distinguished Prin
cipal of Augusta Female Seminary in Staunton,
Virginia, has found it necessary to issue a cir
cular contradicting a malicious statement made
by an anonymous correspondent of a Cincin
nati paper, and extensively copied throughout
the country, to the effect that an opium mania
prevails in Shenandoah Valley, especially in
Staunton. Speaking for the whole community,
she pronounces the story an utter fabrication!
She says: “Of the many persons cited by the
writer as testiiying on the subject, most of them
are fictitious; and the few citizens named by
him indignantly deny every one of his asser
tions. All the druggists and physicians of
Staunton have united in a publication declaring
that the use of opium, in this community, i 8 noi
common or extraordinary.” Her statement is
fully confirmed by a certificate from Dr Wad
dell, the physician of the college.