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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, [Concluded from 1st page.] ‘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. on doe 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. ■ Vi