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ATLANTA NOTES.
The Rossini Club will give the opera of II
Trovatore, on Monday night, April 29th. A
grand treat may be anticipated, as onr citizens
well know the excellent abilities of this stand
ard amateur association.
Mr. John G. Middleton, representing the firm
of Nelson Q. Phillips, No. 805 Broadway, New
V York, had an elegant display of books, pictures,
mottoes, etc., on exhibition during the Conven
tion of the International Sunday-school in this
•ity. The display was very attractive, eliciting
the admiration of all in attendance, while the
genial manners of the gentleman himself won
him many friends who will be glad to have him
visit Atlanta again.
The Concordia Association, will give a grand
Dramatic Performance and Ball, on Wednesday
evening, May 1st, when will be presented the
beautiful Domestic Drama, entitled “All that
glitters iB not Gold,” or the “Factory Girl’s
Diary.” The play will be produced under the
direction of Mr. J. Auerbach, who has kindly
undertaken its whole supervision. The cast
will be as follows:
Sir Arthur Lassel, S. Rosenfeld.
Jasper PlHm, P. Hills.
Stephen Plum, J. Auerbach.
Frederick Plum, H. Hanlein.
Toby Twinkle, D. Rosenberger.
Excursion to Stone Mountain.— j
The first picnic excursion to Stone Mountain of j
the season (the only one that the road intends
to allow, as is stated) comes off on May 1st,
under the auspices of the new popular club—
The Eccentrics. The president of the club,
Mr. L. Reeves, has charge of the excursion, and
his experience in such afiairs, no less than his
well-known courtesy and thoughtfulness, are
assurance that all will go as merry as a marriage
bell. Fifty cents pays lor all the pleasures of the
day—including the trip, a minstrel entertain
ment, various games, and a sight of the grand
old mountain in its lovely spring garniture.
CLARA MORRIS.
[8ee engraving.]
Miss Clara Morris possesses the reputation
of being the leader of emotional actresses and
to-day if it was not for the terrible disease with
which she is inflicted, would be the stellar queen
of the world. Her rendition of Carmille has
never been successfully copied save by Modjes-
ka, who comes nearer than any one else. She is
petite in figure, blonde in complexion with
incomparable eyes and a queenly stage
walk. She is a close student of nature,
and every line she reads is accompanied
with the movement of reality. In society
plays she does not depend so much upon
wardrobe, but upon movement, and in this
particular role she has yet to record a failure.
In Camille—especially the last act, where she
personates the poor, dying, wrecked coquettes
she gives a new life to the play and brings the
character put a heroine. Miss Morris has been
suffering for years with a spinal malady, and
four years ago in Paris, she underwent the
heroic treatment of excoriation — her spine
being seared with a hot iron rod. Since then
she has enjoyed some better health, though not
The Fancy Dress Ball in Paris at which the
Prince of Wales went as Robinson Crusoe was
a grand affair it may be interesting to know what
some of the ladies wore on that occasion. One
of them appeared in a dress of gold cloth em
broidered with daisies made of pearls, and round
the top of her corsage was a ruffle in gold lace.
Another appeared as Diana, in black satin, with
silver stars scattered on it, and a peplum in
crimson silk over it: in her hair were twisted
strings of real pearls, and on her forehead was
a diamond crescent.
Anna Dickiason intends returning to New
York shortly. I met her walking along Broad
way in the soft spring sunshine of Sunday, her
arm linked in that of a friend. She had come
to town for a day or so only, having been en-
engaged in waiting on the wants of a siokbroter,
a minister of the gospel, in Pennsylvania. She
looked wan, as though with watching, and her
rich sable furs were muffled ahout her as though
she was cold, although the Jay was rather warm.
She seems in reasonably good spirits, however,
and has been doing, I hear, some good work
daring her retirement.
There is a pretty Texan girl, daughter of Cul
berson from that State, at the Imperial, who
sleeps on a bed of roses sent her by her admir
ers.
SIDE BY SIDE THEY REST.
BY FLORENCE LYNDON.
The following verses were designed to ac
company the sketch of Gen. W. H. T. Walker
published in our last issue, hut were crowded
out. They are a deserved tribute to a gallant
soldier, and his heroic and devoted wife :
Soldier ! sleep thy dreamless slumber,
'Midst the scenes thy boyhood knew;
Death with thee didst quickly number
Her whose heart to thee was true ;
True and loving through all the years’
That brought, by War, such bitter tears.
As In life she walked beside thee
Sharing both thy joy and grief.
So in death she sleeps besiae thee,
Finding there the same relief:
Relief from War's most cruel pais,
That wounds, and woundB, and wounds again,
Thv duty done on fields historic.
Her'* besides thy home’s loved altar;
Thou wert brave and she heroic,—
Neither at Duty’s callconldst falter
Falter ? Why it was at Duty's call,
Thou on the battlefield didst fall.
Atlanta, Ga., April 17, 1878.
Memorial Day.
Memorial Day throughout the South was ob
served with more than usual ceremony. In At
lanta the preparations had been on a large scale,
and the disptay was beautiful. The procession
as it moved at three o’clock from the Capitol,
was grandly imposing. The mounted police and
the various military companies of the city, in
their brilliant unilorms with accoutrements glit
tering in the bright sun, escorted the carriage
in which was seated the orator of the day, Hon.
James Robertson and Col. E. T. Hoge. Ike
Knights of Pythias, Knight Templars in full re
galia, express wagons, drawn by horses with
crimson plumes at their heads, and filled with
children btaring garlands and evergreens, the
Ladies oi the Memorial Association in carriages,
and a va6t concourse of citizens followed the
militaiy companies which moved to the fine
music of the Post Band.
The procession halted at the Monument of i
“Our Confederate Dead,” and the numbers j
were said to he at least eight thousand. Nearly !
all the Union soldiers had come from the bar- j
racks to pay a last tribute to the memory of the I
dead heroes who sleep their last long sleep in j
the city of the dead. j
The address by the orator of the day was j
eloquent and appropriate.
In that part of the Cemetery where the sol.
diers from Alabama are buried, Mr. George
Johnson, formerly a Confederate soldier and res
ident of that state, placed a beautiful design.
On the corner of the lot was an old mortar,
around the mouth of which flowers were bloom
ing with a pure white dove resting in the
midst of them, the whole being a beautiful
typification of peace triumphing over the stern
power of war.
Steinheimer & Kreisle have opened a new
Shoe store on Whitehall street (No. 30) and dis
play a large assortment of shoes, boots and
other leather goods—of newest styles and at
moderate prices,
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‘To be sure—Mr. Clarke Vincent!’ ,
Sybil uttered a faint seream, and looked in
expressibly astonished.
‘Mr. Ellison, either yon are mad or I am rav
ing !’ she cried. 'You cannot snppose—you
surely do not imagine—that—that Clarke is my
lover f I—I thought you knew !’
•Knew what?’
‘That Clarke is my brother !’
‘Your brother!’
•My half-brother. His mother was also mine.
He never lived at home till of late years. Oh, I
never dreamed that you could make such a hor-
rihle mistake !*
Nat was too thoroughly stunned to utter a
syllable, and the young lady continued:
‘When I received your note yesterday, i
thought it my first duty to show it to Clarke,
We were talking about it on the piazza last
night when you heard us. He was both pleased
and surprised, for he was under the impression
that I loved an unprincipled rogue in the city
who persisted in being attentive to me last
winter.’
'Then it was this rogue you detested, ana
and not me?’gasped Nat.
‘Of course. I think you might have under
stood.’
Down on his knees he went, without the
slightest warning, and seized both of her tremb
ling hands.
‘Oh, Sybil, can you ever forgive me ?’
‘I can, and do !’ she replied, heartily.
‘And if you had answere J my first note^ dar
ling, it would have been—’
'it would have been in the affirmative, for I
love you, Nat.’
And as he folded her close, close in his arms,
and imprinted passionate kisses on her willing
lips, the glorious sunshine dispelled every trace
of the recent storm.
We need only to add that they are to be mar
ried in June, and that Nat has never had the
slightest cause to regret the whim that induced
his father to take Boarders.
News.
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Theatrical Notes, Etc.
There are few more promising actors
our stage than Cyril k Searle. Not only
his rendition of whatever part he undertakes
show care and study, but in certain roles (noticea
bly that of I’lerre—the miser in Hose Michel) he
evinces dramatic power of a high order. The
sombre-tragic seemB to be his forte, and he plays
the villain so well that, although off the stage he
is a very pleasant gentleman, one is all the while
haunted with the sinister ‘aside’ look and dark,
determined scowl of his Pierre and other 'villain'
characters. *
Fanny Davenport is the best puffed actress
on the American stage, a fact which is due to
her personal charms, and not to her dramatic
genius, which ib by no means of a high order.
Her physique is superb, and there is no harm in
say ing so, but why pretend that she is a great ac
tress, when there is not a spark of the divine
fire in her. Lately, as we see, she has attempt
ed the role of Rosalind, which admirer de
clares in a Washington paper is one of the best
heever saw, “for it gives ail the brilliant dash
and coquetry of tue pretty mabker in doublet and
hose, and still preserves the maidenly modesty
of the character. He especially commends Fan
ny in this most beautiful character, in which
she revels with all a clever woman’s keen and
delicate perception and sensibility.” •
“Leah’’ has been drawing well at Niblo’s. It
has now given place to a * roaring farce,” called
Nia-lor-li-ca.
A Celebrated Case is still being played at Un
ion Square.
Maggie Mitchell has hade good-bye to New
York. Her “Marie” in the Pearl of Savoy was
very popular, as she is always at home in a rol
licking character, with some siDging, a good
deal of dancing, and a dash of pathos here and
there; but.she missed the tenderness of the
more subdued scenes.
Olive Logan is arranging the charming play of
La Cigale for Lotta. The heroine of the play is
a circus rider up to the day of her marriage.
The Soldier’s Trust with Mr. George Boni
face in the leading role, is being played at
t Broadway Theatre. The play is a very effective
ne, and is well presented.
able to throw in her plays all the old fire she
was wont to possess. Off the stage, in her home,
Miss Morris is very quiet and retiring, seeking
repose from her labors in the midst of her books
and works cf art. Like the true actress, she
shuns public ovations, which are generally but
fawnings of hypocritical friends, and prefers
the quieter triumphs given her by her own im
mediate circle. America, to-day, possesses no
greater living artiste than Miss Clara Morris,
the subject of our sketch.
Mr. Montague seriously objects to being known
as a “lady-killer.” He has suffered a good deal
of chagrin and mortification from his reputation
in that respect. But he is legitimately liable to
the appellation of “dandy,” in its more digni
fied sense, because he dresses faultlessly, and
drives a tasteful team; and he has usually been
cast in parts which required a foppish behavior;
yet he has always been a thoroughly manly fel
low, and has prett j well established himself by
his recent attempts, as an actor of unusual tal
ent and great power.
Maggie Mitchell has lived a life of honest and
womanly endeavor. She has done nothing in
her profession debasing to herself or her
audiences. With her will her own, and num
berless opportunities of assuming roles which
would catch the public taste and put money in
her purse, she has given only those which de
tract nothing fr®m a woman's self-esteem, and
■which have an elevating infinenoe upon others.
About Women.
Dr. Mary Walker is said to be dying. She
could stand all the masculine ways but tobacco,
and she says she is dying because her lungs are
filled with tubercles, tobacco-planted and to
bacco-poisoned. She is now in Providence
Hospital, Washington, and reported as in a very
critical condition.
The Female Ex-Slave in Ohio, who brought
an action to recover damages from her captor,
who resold her into slavery, has recovered twen
ty-five hundred dollars. It is not improbable
that it will form a precedent for many simlar
suits.
They say in Paris that Strakosch and Nicolin
had a fight about Patti’s engagement. The beau
tiful ‘diva’ broke her own engagement, which
cost her ten thousand francs, and then the en
gagement between the two men, which cost her
a terrible bruise on the arm.
Mrs. Blackburn is said to have the smallest
and prettiest feet in Washington for her size.
Madame Catacazy and Mrs. Belknap were famous
for the possession of pretty feet, but Mrs. Black
burn, a larger woman than either, wears num
ber one shoes.
The Industrial Home for Girls has now been
in successful operation for twenty years, and
its annual report just issued, shows how mucti
good may be done in saving the helpless and
unfortunate by little means and the faithful
efforts of the charitable. Already 476 girls have
been received in the institution, the most of
whem have been plaoed in the care of reputable
private families.
Miss Clara Morris, the Actress.
Humor.
About Men.
Ye-
‘Thanksgiving is good,’ said the venerable
Phillip Henry to his children; ‘but jhanks-liv-
ing is better.’
‘We have to p4y for everything,’ as the man said j
when a musquito, after a voluntary seranade, sent j
his ‘bill’ into him.
General Grant, wife and son, are now m
nice, Italy.
The Roman Pontiff concluded by expressing
the hope that the erring children would finally
submit.
The Boston Post says: “Hjalamar Bjorth Bo-
jesen is to mjarry a Njew Yjork Ijady,
j On Friday evening Mr. John M. Hogan, liv-
I ing near Blythwood, was shot by Win. Boley, a
i step-son. He died that night.
The American Eagle has been behaving badly.
J An immense bird of that description tried to
! capture a negro baby in Georgia recently.
Harry Love, of Lexington, Ky., aged thirty-five
j years, was murdered and thrown from a bridge
! window, thirty feet high, into the Cbattahoo-
! chee River. Dowell Adams, the murderer, has
i been arrested, and has made a confession. Rob
bery instigated the deed.
Advices from Hayti to -Ipril 11th, state that
peace prevails, but an uneasy feeling exists. All
of the political prisoners implicated in the late
revolutionary movement were banished to King
ston, Jamaica, except Generals Salomon. Tams
and Chevalier, who are still under the protec
tion of the foreign consulates, fearing a worse
fate. q
Report says that Indian raiders who crossed
from Mexico cne week ago, have reached the
Fort Ewell sheep settlements and are sweeping
flocks before them, and several persons are
already reported killed. Troops and citizens
are in pursuit, but not likely to overtake them.
The river is fordable at all points near Laredo.
These raids are not to be confounded with those
j raiding on the northwestern frontier.
General Meyer, ine Chief Signal Officer, has
| issued a circular enclosing data, exhibiting the
! chances of weather conditions favorable for the
] observation of the total eclipse of the sun July
29th next, at various stations and places named
] as deduced from the data Collected at .uis office,
j The list embraces the United States stations and
j posts within or very near the path of totality.
| The total number of such points within the path
| of the locality is thirty-six and the total nuca-
I her near the path of totality is thirty-one.
On last Thursday night, while a party of men
| were engaged in cutting the back levee near the
j lower end of Lake Bolivar, in Bolivar, county,
■ Miss., to let off a heavy body of water, caused
! by the unpreceedented rains, the whole party
I were caught in a sluice, and, with the exception
| of Capt. Briscoe, all were swallowed up in the
| vortex. Briscoe was rescued after being more
j than an hour in the water and quicksand. The
• names of the lost are Capt. Forlhley, a planter,
| two brothers namod Moran, and an unknown
j laborer.
A Newspaper Propp.ietor Shot.—Col. W. L.
Salisbury, banker, Mayor pro tern., and owner
| of the Enquirer-Sun, Columbus, Ga., was fatally
shot in the back while entering the train at
j Seale, Ala., Saturday, at 10 p. m., by Dr. R. M,
I Palmer. The latter had sued Salisbury for two
Union Telegraph Company, died suddenly of
Three things that never agree—two cats over apoplexy in New York City, on the 22d of
one mouse; two wives in one house; two lovers April.
after one girl. . j Mr. Millais will he represented at the Royal
‘I am thy father's spirit,’ at the bottle said to 1 Academy this spring by a picture of the Prin-
to the little boy when he found it hidden under ; cess in the Tower, besides two or three portraits
the wood-pile. | and a landscape.
A negro once gave the following toast: ‘De late J A singular murder trial is going on in Newark,
Gubernor ob de State—him come in wid berry Ohio. The accused is an old man who murder-
little opposition; him go out wid none at all.’ sd bis own daughter for the crime of adultery.
1 He pleads as his justification the injunctions of
Hon. NVm. Orton, President of the Western j hundred and fifty thousand dollars damages to
T_i “ m„i O „ c p, arae te r by publications, and the jury had
awarded him one cent. Salisbury died to-dav.
‘Wife,’ said a tyrannical husband to his much-
abused consort, ‘L wish you to make me a pair of
false bosoms.’
‘1 should think,’ replied his wife, ‘that one bo
som as false as yours is would be sufficient.' Exit
husband in a brewn study.
‘Madam,’ said a cross-tempered physician to a
patient, ‘if women were admitted to paradise,
their tongues would soon make it a purgatory.’
‘And some physicians, if allowed to practice
there,’ said the iady, ‘would soon make it a des
ert.’
Why is a dandy like a mushroom ? Because he
is a regular tip-head, his waist is remarkably
slender, his yrirJjth is exceedingly rapid, and his
top is uncoBimo/iy tender.
‘Ah, me,’ said a pious lady, ‘our minister was a
‘powerful’ preacher: for the ehort'time he minis
tered the word of God among us, he kicked
three pulpits to pieces and banged the inards out
of five Bibles.’
A learned young lady the other evening aston
ished the company by asking for the ‘loan of a
diminitive argentiferous, truncate cone, convex on
its summit, and semi perforated with symmetrical
indentations.’ She wanted a thimble.
Speaking of dancing, a clergyman hits • the
nail on the head with the remark that ‘people
usually do more evil with their tongueB than
with their toes.’
A tramp called at a house on West Hill the
other day and asked for something to eat. He
was so thin, he said, that when he had a pain
he couldn’t tell whether it was a touch of the
colic or the backache.—Burlington Hawkeye.
‘That’s s fine strain,’ said one gentleman, allud
ing to the tones of a singer at a concert, the other
evening.
•Yes,’ said a countryman who sat near, ‘but if
he strains much more he’ll bust.
The clerk, by a spasmodic effort, kept his
countenance, and ordered up a pound of dips
to room No.—
•Then I wish you’d give me some; I want
something that I can blow out, for I have been
blasting away at that carssed jigger, (meaning
the gas burner) till I’ve no breath left me.’
the Old Testament
Kenna, of West Virginia, who delivered the
beautiful eulogy on John Edwards Leonard, is
the youngest member of Congress, and an hon
est and talented man; therefore rare and eccen
tric as a politician, and likely to take as a
novelty.
Mario, the celebrated tenor singer, is living
at Rome in a state of almost complete destitu
tion. Time was when his name was a house
hold word in Europe. Thousands have forgot
ten their cares and troubles in listening to his
voice.
Tooker and Jarrett are said to be hunting
through Southern cane brakes for negro singers
—what is called “field hand” material—to take
with them to London. They have already las
soed several musical prodigies, including a num
ber of tooth-cutting babies, and three or four of
the last servants of George Washington.
An Address from the Pope.—At the Easter
reception of the Cardinals, Pope Leo dwelt upon
the strength and vitality of the Pontificate. He
said: "The war which has been declared against
the Papacy from the earliest times continues
with undiminished fierceness. Trusting in God,
we are ready to carry on the warfare and to up
hold the right of the Church.”
In the experiment of educating some of the
Indian youtn, which, it will be seen by a letter
on another page, is to be made at Hampton, in
Virginia, and Syracuse, in this State, and then
sending them as missionaries of civilization to
their respective tribes., we may probably find a
solution of the Indian question. At all events
it is worth trying. The cost of our Indian wars
shows that it is cheaper to educate an Indian
than to kill them.
Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes is thus described
in the Cincinnati Gazette; ‘He is a brisk, witty
man, who dresses ia the most charmingly old-
fashioned style, always with a drab waist-coat,
and a coat that seems too small for him. He
looks like a cross between a Yankee and a Seotch-
man, and has a dried-up appearance, very much
like an autumn leaf. Bu t he has a keen eye
that laughs when he langhB. And he enjoys
laughing, and wakes you up with his fan.’
Palmer has fled. A reward of five hundred dol
lars is offered for the arrest of the murderer.
Great indignation is felt over the act.
San Antonio, Texas, April 19.—Reliable in
formation has just reached here from the in
terior of the Mexican border States that an in
surrection against the Diaz Government is steadi
ly but surely ripening. It is understood that the
Lerdist party are urging the Mexican Indians
to renew their raiding operations, in order to
bring matters on the Rio Grand to their former
unstable state as regards the United States- The
commanding officer of the subdistrict of the
Pecos telegraphs to the Department Headquarters
that the Mexican Indians are acting in concert
with Indians from the Fort Stanton Reservation,
who are now on an extensive raid in Texas.
Reports from St. Domingo to April 11th, say-
fresh disturbances are feared because General
Gonzalez, who headed the northern revolution
ary army against Baez, has formed a govern
ment in Santiago, of which he proclaimed him
self provisional president. This occurred at the
same time that General Guillermo proclaimed
himself president at the capital. The question
arose as to whioh of the two governments was
legitimate. Both pretenders seem disposed to
have the question decided by the general suf
frage. Meanwhile business is reviving. The
importations during the past two weeks have
been considerable, and produce is beginning to
reach the ports from the interior. °
A terrible cyclone swept over the eastern pa
of Iowa on the 21st ult. The house of Mr P
Riley was torn to pieces. Mr. llil ey wa * p j c k e d
up, carried over the main building and some trees
near by, and alighted on the ground uninjured"
Horses and cattle were picked up and carried
great distances. A very heavy hail accompanied
the storm, the track of which was from a half to a
mile and a half in width. A whirlwind or tonado
passed over Storm Lake from the southwest, three
quarters of a mile east of the town. The resi
dence of Alfred King was struck, lifted from its
foundations and dashed into thousands of pieces.
Mr. King s mother was instantly killed. She was
found some distance from where the house stood.
The other members of the household escaped un
hurt. Trees in orchards were torn up and ear
ned away. The house of Mr. DeGraff, half a
mile from King’s, was unroofed, and some hogs
and cattle were killed. After the storm, the town
or Storm Lake was crowded with men seeking
surgeons to attend the sufferers. It is believed
that tue damage south of this place was very
great. Reports say there were four killed and
forty wounded.
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