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The Land of the Nile.
The Cities and Population of
Egypt
Its People, Its Progress, Its Religion
and Its Prospects.
“ Egypt as it is. ”
As long as the snn shines in the heavens by
day and the moon and the stars by night, Egypt
with all the grandeur of its antiquity, with tra
ditions and legends, and history even, and
monuments hoary with age, thousands of years
before the birth of Pythagonas or Confucius,
with all the mysticism of its by-gone learning
and strange, weird religions, must teem with
interest to all who have heart and brain enough
to feel due veneration and regard for that land
which had a great civilization of its own when
all Europe, even Greece and Borne themselves,
were shrouded in the gloom of barbarism. And
recent events have made the Egypt of to-day,
from many but far different points of view, as
interesting as th6 Egypt of the Sphinx and the
Pyramids. The growth and development of its
resources since the days of Mehemet Ali, and
particularly during the Viceroyalty of his grand
son, El Ismael, the ruling Khedive, the con
struction of the railway system, the efforts to
abolish slavery, the extension of its frontiers
towards the equator by expeditions under Sir
Samuel Baker and Gordon Pasha, the construc
tion of the Suez Canal, and the rapid improve
ment in the education of its people, present
features far more instructive and almost as fas
cinating as the romantic tales of its life under
the Califlfs, and this interest has been heighten
ed by the war in the East of Europe, which must
most materially affect the destinies of Egypt,
and probably result, according to our author,
in snapping asunder the frail tie which now
keeps the ruler of the Land of the Nile in feu
dal subjection to the Sultan at Constantinople.
It is this Egypt of to-day—‘As It Is’—which Mr.
McCoan describes in a large and handsome vol
ume, in which nearly every detail is almost ab
solutely exhausted. The work is accompanied
by an excellent map, and forms a worthy com
panion to the recent works by Wallace on Rus
sia, and James Baker on Turkey.
Owing to the recent conquests to which we
have alluded, the limits of the territory now
Bubject to the Khedive can not be stated with
accuracy, but Egypt proper is bounded on the
north by the Mediterranean from Cape Hazaif
to El Arish on the frontier of Palestine, west
ward by the Libyan Desert, east by a line from
El Arish to Akabar, and thence inclosing the
Peninsula of Sinai, down the western shore of
the Bed Sea to Cape Benas; and on the south
by the First Cataract, between Assouan and
Philse. A glance at the map will enable the
reader to localize these metes and boundaries,
and to the land lying within them, to its cities
and people, its government and public works,
its commerce, agriculture and industries, its
religion, its schools, its domestic slavery, its
mighty river, and a hundred other details per
tinent to the subject, the attention of the reader
iB almost entirely confined, after the first chap
ter, in which the geography of Egypt is elabo
rately discussed.
The climate of this long stretch of land in
THE VALLEY OF THE NILE,
which, under a system of thoroughly good gov
ernment, might be so rich and prosperous, is
hot and dry; but its salubrity, especially in pul
monary, rheumatic, renal and brain disorders,
is recognized by every physician of note in Eu
rope, and as many invalids now seek for health
at Ramleh, or the beautiful suburbs of Cairo
and Alexandria, as once flocked to Madeira or
to Nice; and, for some cause or other, ophthal
mia which is the scourge of the native popula
tion, rarely, if ever, attacks a European. In
Alexandria and Cairo visitors sometimes light
a fire in December and January, but properly
speaking there is no winter at all, and spring,
summer and autumn are the only seasons known
in the whole land of Egypt. The spring and
autumn are very pleasant, but scarcely has the
hot breath of the Khamsin— called more familiar
ly by its Arab name, the simoon—begun to
sweep northward toward Constantinople than
the heat in Upper Egypt becomes very trying,
even to the natives. At Cairo the mean sum
mer temperature is about 92 degrees Fahren
heit, sometimes ranging 10 degrees or even 12
degrees higher. The summer lasts till the end
of September, and the long five months of gen
ial autumn, including the period of our winter,
begins. This is the period of gavety and social
enjoyment in the cafes, upon and under the bal
conies and verandas of the hotels, and in the
Opera House, where the Khedive at his own
risk frequently assembles the best artists in
Europe. The people who live in this country
and are subject to the laws of such a climate,
are composed of almost every nationality upon
the earth. Among the five million and a half
of the population there are Arabs, Copts, Turks,
Nubians, Jews, Armenians, Negroes from Dar-
four, Gallas, a mixed hybrid of Negro and
Abyssinian parentage, pure Abyssinians, beau
tiful Circassian slaves, wives and concubines,
Levantines of almost every shade of mixed Eu
ropean and Eastern blood, a sprinkling of Mai- ;
tese at the sea ports, and pure Europeans num- !
bering about 90,000 in all, among whom are 40,
000 Greeks 16,000 Italians, 15,000 French, 7,
000 British, an equal number of Austro-Hun
garians, 1,500 Germans, and 4,000 or more of
various other nationalities. Of the native races
the settled Arabs form nearly four-fifths of the
whole, and, although to aljman Moslem, are very
diverse in race. About two-thirds are descen
dants of the cod quest in 640. The actual army
of Amrou was small, but of the purest Arab
blood from the neighborhood of Medina, but
but were afterwards joined by other Arabs from
the Hedjazand Mauretania, who assimilated the
ex-Coptic race and now form the
GBEAT LABOEING CLASS.
of the fellaheen, about whom so many contra
dictory reports have been written. According
to Mr. McCoan:
‘These fellaheen are a fine, muscular race,
the average height of the men being from five
feet eight inches to five feet nine inches, and
the women in propotion. Under nine or ten
years, most of the children have very spare
limbs and distended abdomens, but as they
grow up^their forms rapidly improve, and in
full age, the majority, as a rule, become remark
ably well propotioned, with fine, oval faces,
bright, deep-set black eyes, straight, thick nos
es, large but well formed mouths, full lips,
beautiful teeth, broad shoulders and well-shap
ed limbs. From twelve, the usual age of mar
riage, to eighteen or nineteen, nearly all the
women are splendidly formed and many of
real beauty; but once past their teens they rap
idly wither, and as a rule, are little better than
wrinkled hags before thirty. In Cairo their
complexion is a clear olive, and their skin very
delicate; in the less sheltered villages it dark
ens towards the frontier to the tint of a Barba-
dienne bronze.’
Every thing almost in Egypt is painted cou-
leur de rose, and the scant clothing, the thin
single garment, through which the forms of the
Fellaheen women are only too plainly visible,
their insufficient food and primitive mud huts,
oannot induce the author to express any doubts
'of the happy condition of these peasantry, de
scribed in tones so mournful by most travelers.
Optimism, however, is a far better trait in the
mind of a traveler than pessimism, and the se
peasantry are, by general consent, said to b6
more light-hearted than most hard-working til
lers of the soil. It is, however, probable that
the influence of the climate, rather than that of
the government of the Khedive, that makes
them so, but unfortunately this very influence
has no effect when the tax-gatherer comes round
with the stick, which is an important assist
ance in collecting the dues of the government.
The unfortunate debtor to Ismael Pasha would
rather bear half a dozen blows than pay a pias
tre which he can avoid, and if he yields after a
dozen, when enduring fifty would have per
suaded the collector, he is looked upon as a
poltroon by his wife, and despised even after
unless by greater courage he redeems his rep
utation the next year. The Bedoween or No
mad Arabs, the Turkish colonies and free Nu
bians are the chief remaining Mahommedan
races of Egypt, and then come the Christian
Copts, numbering in all about 500,000, and
not only the most ancient, but, strictly speak
ing, the only native Egyptian race. They are
descendants of the Egyptians of the days of the
Pharaohs, with their blood intermixed with the
Persians left by Cambyses and the Greeks who
followed Alexander. Though thus crossed,
they still preserve the characteristics of the Old
World race that built Thebes and worshipped
Amoun-za, and closely resemble the sculptur
ed presentments that abound everywhere in
tomb and temple from Beni-Hassan to Philaa.
They are also generally undersized, like the
Egyptian mummies in the British Museum,
in religion they reject alike the Latin, the Greek
and the Protestant churches, and are monoph-
ysites of the Jacobite sects. Their clergy, who
are terribly ignorant, consist of a patriarch,
twelve bishops, an indefinite number of arch
bishops, priests, deacons and monks. The pa
triarch appoints the aboona of Abyssinia,
whose Christianity is also Coptic. The patri
arch and the twelve bishops are not allowed to
marry, but for the priests and deacons mar
riage is, as in the Russian church, a condition
of ordination. They assert that St. Mark
IS THE PATRON OF THEIR CHURCH,
although one of its rites is circumscision prac
ticed upon both sexes alike, and they are polyg
amous. Auricular confessions, frequent and
rigid, fasts, and a few other outward observ
ances are the only connecting links with the
Eastern and Western churches. They sup
port themselves chie fly by retail trade and skil
led labor, and in Upper Egypt cultivate their
farms and the date trees, like the Arab Fella
heen. Many of their coreligionist, the Abys
sinians, who have migrated or been brought
into Egypt, have at once adopted the faith of
El Islam, and very many of them belong to the
class of the higher domestic slaves, and are
eunuchs. The Greeks, the Armenians and the
Jews preserve most of the characteristics which
distinguish them out of Egypt, and our author
admits that, out of 20,000 Israelites in Egypt,
very many of them are poor and in want, there
is scarcely one without an education. This could
not be said of any other race in Asia or in Af
rica. Of the Europeans, except a few thousand
of the better class, and those chiefly English,
employed upon the public works, or otherwise
in government pay, the less said perhaps the
better. The foreign Levantines are among the
worst of their class, and that is simply to say
that they are among the most detestible of mor
tals.
The majority of the native races live, of course,
in the country, but there are no less than eight
towns officially classed as cities, the principal of
which (as everybody is aware) are Alexandria
and Cairo. Alexandria is too well known to
need any description here, but it is wonderful
to read in the pages ot our author of the marvel
ous progress which has be,en made in the city
during the last twenty years. New and spacious
docks have been built. Nearly two-thirds of
the town has been rebuilt with broad streets
and spacious squares. There are schools and
colleges and hotels, and churches of half a doz
en denominations, from the grand Greek or
Latin buildings to the humbler Presbyterian
chapel. Although far from possessing the
splendor of the architecture, the palaces and
the temples, tne baths the museums, the thea
tres, libraries and obelisks of the wild days of
Cleopatra, its best quarters have ali the lively
surroundings of a handsome Italian or French
town, with something Oriental everywhere to
charm the unaccustomed traveler.
In siz6 and commercial activity it is the sec
ond port on the Mediterranean, and although
the Suez Canal has diverted so much of its old
transit trade with India, it is still rapidly grow
ing, its harbor furnishing tbe only safe anchor
age for 5C0 leagues of coast, from Tunis to Alex
andria.
From Alexandria, a run of 131 miles by railway
in four hours and a half, brings the traveler to
Cairo, and here he catches his first glimpse of
pure Orientalism. Even here, however, the im
provements are astonishing. If Rip Van Winkle
went to sleep not very long ago on the old Es-
bekieh, with its huge Sycamores, its stagnant
canal and its fringe of tumble-down native
houses, he would wake up now and see a new
Esbekieh (or modern quarter), so transformed
that he would see files of stately stone buildings,
broad macadamized streets, and, in fact, a new
Esbekieh. The old city, however, remains near
ly what it was when Noureddin, Abou Shamma,
Bedreddin Hassan, Ali Cogia and the other he
roes of the Thousand and One Nights were the
dramatis personae of those wondrous tales. Mr.
McCoan says that Warburton’s description in
‘The Crescent and the Cross’ is still true of this
district, and it is so graphic that we will quote
it here:
‘Ladies wrapped closely in white veils, wo
men of the lower classes carrying water on their
heads, and covered only with a long blue gar
ment that reveals too plainly the exquisite sym
metry of the young and the hideous deformity
of the elders; here are
CAMELS PERCHED UPON BY BLACK SLAVES,
magpied with white napkins round their heads
and loins; there are portly merchants, with tur
bans and long pipes, smoking on their knowing
looking donkeys; here an Arab dashes through
the crowd not quite at full gallop, or a Europe
an still more haughtily shoves aside the pom
pous-looking bearded throng; now a bridal or
circumcising procession squeezes along, with
music that might madden a drummer; now the
running footman of some Bey or Pasha endeav
oring to jostle you to the wall unless they recog
nize you as an Englishman—one of that race
whom they think the devil himself can’t fright
en or teach manners to.’
Despite all these relics of the Old World of by
gone times Cairo is a great and flourishing city,
it contains about 350,000 inhabitants, no fewer
than 523 mosques, 30 Christian churches, 10
Jewish synagogues, 1,300 khans, 1,200 cafes and
70 public baths. The Hassaneyer, built in 1352,
at a cost of $3,500,000 of our money, is the most
beautiful mosque in the city, and one of the
most perfect specimens of Arab architecture in
the whole East. Within the citadel, built by
Saladin in 1166, is the mosque which contains
his own tomb, the famous Joseph’s Well, the
mint, a cannon foundry, workshops, magazines,
and all the other adjuncts of a great military es
tablishment. From the ramparts the view,
through the pellucid atmosphere,is magnificent;
northward the eye ranges beyond the solitary
obelisk that marks the site of Heliopolis, while
west and south glides the sacred and mysterious
Nile, dotted with sails gleaming in the sun; the
time-defying pyramids standing oat, phantom
like, against the gray background of the Libyan
Desert, and the palm groves that wave over bur
ied Memphis and its sole relic, the prone statue
of Rameses. The sights within Cairo are many
and various; there are the eunuch-escorted
ladies of the Khedive’s harem driven through
the streets in the smartest of London-built car
riages, the cafes, the theatres and the bazaars;
but the most interesting spots of all about Cairo
are a little more than eight miles beyond Cairo.
It is in our anthor’B language:
‘The fine plain on which Sultan Selim, in
1517, fought the battle which won him Fgypt,
and where, in 1800, again the French, under
Kleber, beat the Turks and regained Cairo; the
famous
JESSAMINE AND ORANGE GARDENS
of Mataraech,ib”which stands the ‘Virgin’s Tree,’
the grand old sycamore that (tradition says)
sheltered Joseph and Mary after their flight into
Egypt. Less than a mile further on through an
acanthus grove, and you reach the old granite
obelisk—the oldest in the world—that marks the
site of the ‘City of the Sun,’ in the family of
whose high priest Joseph found his bride, where
Moses learned the wisdom of the Egyptians,
Jeremiah penned his Lamentations, and Plato
thought out his sublime doctrine of the immor
tality of the soul. For nearly 4,000 years this
solitary pillar has pointed with its tapering
apex to the sky, and yet the hieroglyphs on its
sides are nearly as sharp and as distinct as if
graven a year ago. ’
The Pyramids, and the ‘sad, earnest eyes and
the same tranquil mien everlasting' of the
Sphinx, as Kinglake writes in Eothen, have been
described a hundred times, from Pliny to Miss
Edwards, and upon/the topic of towns, we have
only space to add that the remainder of the
eight cities, as the Egyptians call them, are Ros-
etts, Damietta, Port Said, El Arish, Ismailia and
Suez. The details given of each of them and of a
number of other towns and villages in the book
before us are very minute and complete.
Most men think that the institution of slavery
is a great blot upon the administration of
Egypt, and the opinion is correct and Mr.
McCoan certainly deals with it too tenderly, al
though it must be acknowledged that as it there
exists it is managed upon far milder principles
than elsewhere. Legally it is abolished, but
still it is carried on privately, and although
Christians can not buy a slave a Mussulman
may. Slavery in the East, however, is by no
manner of means a Mahommedan institution; it
existed there long before the birth of Abraham
and was simply accepted by the Prophet of
Mecca, as he saw it universally and kindly prac
ticed after the almost paternal method every
where about him. In Egypt the treatment of
the slave is very mild and humane. Mr. Mc
Coan says that ‘he is simply an unwaged indoor
servant, whom both law and religion protect
from ill-treatment, and who, as a rule, is only
as kindly used as ordinary domestics in
Europe.’ Egypt, moreover, was long ruled by
a race of slaves—the Mamelukes—and hence
there is no idea of personal degradation in
the condition. For all that it is bad, and
should be remedied, that is practically as well
as legally abolished. At the pr sent, time the
slaves in Egypt may be broadly divided into
white and black, with many shades of color be
tween the two. To the one class belong the
fair-skined Circassian and the dusky but often
beautiful Abyssinan, and to the other the darker
but still straight-haired Galla and the negro
from Nubia, Kordofan or Dafour. The slaughter
of the Mamelukes, and the admission of both
Arabs and Copts to the public service, have
nearly put a stop to the importation of white
male slaves, who are now rarely met with as
adults. Some few boys, it is admitted, are still
purchased as playfellows for the sons of the
wealthier Beys or Pashas, but in almost every
instance, as soon as they reach full age, they
are liberated and married off, frequently to their
masters’ dauglil^^^^jtd in some way established
in life. The Circassian girls, as in Turkey, find
not merely purchasers but husbands in their
j owners or their soauy-iut- regular
TRAFFIC IN THESE WHITE BEAUTIES
has greatly fallen off' since the cessation of the
regular trade between Constantinople and the
coast of Abasia has reduced the supply. We pre
fer to allow our author to speak for himself. He
says:
‘At any rate, it is only in the wealthiest
harems that these exotics are to be found. They
are generally bought at from ten to twelve years
of age, and after being well nurtured for three
or four years, and taught the usual Eastern ac
complishments, are. as rule, either married by
the master of the house or given as wives to his
sons. In strict iuw marriage does not confer
freedom, but the girl is nea(jj& always first liber
ated, and the offspring are, in any case, born
free. One special reason why these white girls
are thus almost always married is, that they
wear much longer than Egyptian ladies or Abys
sinians, retaining their fine physique to thirty-
five, or even forty years of age, while the latter
are generally withered and passees before five-
and-twenty. This is an important considera
tion, in view of the now prevailing custom
among the upper classes of having only one
wife. * * * Some of these nouris are indeed
very models of beauty, combining with a pro
fusion of long wavy hair, lustrous eyes, regular
an<j delicately cut features, perfectly carved
busts, and admirably moulded limbs generally,
a grace and even dignity of carriage that no arti
ficial training conld heighten,’
Upon this subject we need only add for the
information of the curious, the scale of prices
of slaves of all sorts. They are from $50 to $60
for a black boy or girl ten or twelve years old;
from $350 to $500 for an Abyssinian girl of from
twelve to seventeen or eighteen, and from $2-
500 to $5,000 for a high class Circassian. Adult
women slaves who have already been in service
are cheaper. Males range from $100 to $1,000.
Stage Notes.
A Father Kills his Wife, Three Chil
dren and Sister-in-law, and
then Dashes out His
Own Brains.
Special Dispatch to The Constitution.
Americus, Ga., June 4—Yesterday afternoon
at three o’clock, fourteen miles west of here, the
negro laborers of John W. Caldwell, a well-to-do
farmer forty-five years old, saw him standing on
his honse-top, waving his hands. Tney started to
the house and met his little girl Emma, five years
old, who said, ‘pa has killed ma.’ As they arri
ved at the house, the laborers say, Caldwell
jumped to the ground. The blow stunned him
and they took him up and carried him indoors,
where they found Mrs. Caldwell, her sister Miss
Mitchell, and three of the children, lying side
by side, all bruised by blows from a heavy iron,
and gallons of blood puddled about on the floor.
The laborers laid Caldwell down and ran. He
got up and following begged them to kill him.
He then went to the well and jumped in, got
out and jumped in again, got out and went to
the gin Douse, where he met his oldest son, six
teen years old, and told him he had killed all
the people at the house and was going to kill
himsalf. The son dissuaded him, but he climb
ed to the roof and threw himself to the ground,
producing death instantly. When your report
er reached the scene at 9 o’clock this morning,
a horrible spectacle met his view. Caldwell and
wife lay on one bed, the three children and Miss
Mitchell on another, all with the most ghastly
wounds upon their heads and faces* A heavy
bar of iron, a hoe and a smoothing iron were the
weapons, and were marked with blood and hair.
The victims had been killed at various places
about the house and then dragged together in
the dining-room by the fiend. The neighbors,
gathering, had placed them on the beds. The
floor and yard were marked all over with Cald
well's foot-prints in blood.
Preserving Corpses.
To the Citizens of Atlanta, and Surrounding Cities and
Villages, and to Undertakers in Particular :
Now that warm weather has commenced, and ail of us
are continually exposed to sickness and death, I would
say to you, gentlemen, that I have in store a full supply
of Egyptian Balm, which is a sure and effective corpse
preserver. Anybody can administer it. and it makes the
use of Ice useless. One bottle of Egyptian Bairn does
more towards preserving a corpse than any amount of
Ice yon may be able to procure; keeps it life-like and
natural, to which hundreds of onr own citizens can tes
tify. Call on me before the corpse becomes rigid, or as
soon as death has taken place, and I will guarantee to
keep the corpse for any length of time you wish. Refer
ences given from first families in the city. Office and
ware-rooms. No. 26 West Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga.
METALLIC AND WOODEN BURIAL CASES,
of any style and size constantly on band,
FRANK X. BLILEY, Undertaker.
124-ly
Woilfml —A first-class SALESMAN. Good salary,
f T (111lull* guch only that can fill the above need
apply to J. LOEB,
25-lm Bainbridge, Ga.
Accommodations
Can be had with first-clas board and nicely furnished
rooms for families and single gentlemen at
Sirs. f. satorius,
25-3m 111 East 56th street, New York City.
DR. A. L. HAMILTON, President.
CUTHRERT, GEORGIA,
This old and popular institution is still doing noble
service in the great work ol education. The spacious
and comfortable Boaiding House and College Buildings
havejnet been repaired and relurnished in elegant style,
and will bear favorable comparison with similar estab
lishments in any part of the country. The corps ol
.. . L . ., . , , ,, , i usuiucius in any part or me country, rue corps wr
The little girl Emma that escaped states that teachers—nine in number—for thoroughness and effi-
he asked her if she wanted to live, and then
told her to ruu. Many neighbors stated to
your reporter that they thought Caldwell per-
tectly sane when he committed the deed.
His oldest son stated that his father was on
the plantation in the forenoon, and at dinner
was morose and ate little, stating that he would
remain at home in the afternoon. Caldwell had
eight children. Three were at school. Those
killed were Nancy Alice, aged ten; Robert Ho
mer, aged six; and Leila, aged two. Mrs. Cald
well was forty, and Miss Mitchell thirty. The
latter was killed in the yanfwhile trying to es
cape being brained with a hoe. All tbe wounds
were on the heads. Neighbors running to the
scene saw Caldwell jump from the gin-house.
He stated to some negroes to run for Represen
tative Davison, his near neighbor, as he had
‘played hell,’ but was in his senses. Your re
porter learned that he had been aberrated for
some time, but neighbors deny this. He was
usually a mild, quiet man and a good citizen,
in good circumstances. Most o\ those prese nt
thought that domestic trouble concerning M iss
Mitchell was the cause of the tragedy. She has
lived with Caldwell twenty years. The family
physician thinks differently from the neighbors
concerning Miss Mitchell. There are five chil
dren left, two of whom are nearly grown. Cald
well was a good farmer, highly respected and a
church member. It is thought, from statements
of little Emma, that Mrs. Caldwell was the first
victim. The coroner's jury found a verdict in
accordance with the above facts.
_ B.
The Invitation Accepted by all the Powers,
London, June 4.—A Daily News’ St. Peters
burg dispatch says: Lord Beaconsfield’s appoint
ment as representative to congress, comes with
satisfaction here. There is some fear that the
situation at Constantinople will necessitate col
lective action, as proposed by the Berlin mem
orandum.
London, June 4.—Advices from Constantino
ple indicate a better state of feeling there and
a subsidence of the recent excitement and anx
iety.
The successful conclusion ot the regulations
for the congress has taken a great burden of
anxiety from the public mind.
Berlin, June 4.—All the cabinets have ac
cepted Germany’s invitation to the congress.
London, June 4. — The Times, in a leading
article, say the government deserves great cred
it for the clearness of their views and the firm
ness with which they have adhered to the prin
ciple of a free discussion of the treaty of San
Stefano. Their success will have the ligitimate
effect of enhancing the authority with which
this country will enter upon the coming dis
cussion. The Times approves the selection
of Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury, and says
it will certainly conduce to the dispatch of bu
siness and add weight tc the conclusions of the
congress, and that it is, in spite of some disad
vantages, probably on the whole, the best that
could have been made.
ciency, cannot be surpassed North or South.
The Course of Study was prepared with great care, and
it is fully up with the requirements of the times. It em
braces equally, the physical, mental and moral cultiva
tion of the pupils.
The Discipline is very mild, but firm, systematic and
exacting.
The Terms have been reduced, so far as possible, to meet
the necessities of the times, as will appear from the lol-
lowing exhibit:
PER SESSION OF NINE MONTHS,
regular coubsb.
Preparatory Department 330 00
Academic Department .... 45 00
Collegiate Department 60 00
For extra course, as music, vocal and instrumental,
modern languages, painting, ornamental work, the price
has been put down as low as possible.
Boarding Department.—Room handsomely famished,
washing, lights and fuel, at $15 per month, or $135 for
the scholastic year.
Payments—quarterly in advance, unless by special
agreement otherwise.
Location—Cuthbort is the most beautifnl little city in
Georgia; is approachable from all directions by railroad;
and for good morals, good health, and cultivated society,
is unsurpassed in the United States,
J-sr"The College is thoroughly non-sectarian.
^•Boarding arrangements in the College are Jirsl-class.
upils received at any time, and charged from date
entrance. 141-tf
PIANOS.
OKOANS.
New, 7 Oct. $135
New, 7 1-3 Oct. $1*5
New, 9 Stops, $67
New, 12 Stops, $78
“Magnificent” “bran new,” “lowest prices ever given.”
Ch, how this “cruel war” rages, but Luriden £, Bates
still hold the field and rain hot shot into the bogus manu
facturers who deceive the public with Humbug Grand
Offers on Shoddy Instruments. Send for Special Offers,
and circular exposing frauds of Piano and Organ Trads.
Ludden & Bates, Wholesale Piano and Organ Deal
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A DAY to Agents canvassing for the Fireside
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Lotta began a two weeks’ engagement in Bos
ton, last MondA Sh6 shortly goes abroad.
Miss Lillian Pike, daughter of the famous
Albert Tike, is said to be the most accomplish
ed musician in Washington.
Celia Logan objects to Rignold’s manner of
kissing on the stage. It should be added that
Celia is not a participant, but a looker-on.
Mary Anderson tells a New York reporter
that the New Orleans people are fastidious but
kind, and that she likes the Yale College boys
better than any other people. Tha Yale boys
havn’t yet quit yelling for Mary.
Tbe Boston singers, Miss Julia Gaylord and
Mr. Fred Packard, have been members of Carl
Rosa’s English opera troupe for several years
past, and at the close of their present tour, it
is said they will get married.
The statement that Mario is in comfortable
circumstances is now contradicted. He is quite
without resources, and a concert is to be given
in London for his benefit, Mme. Christian
Nilsson journeying to that city specially for
that occasion.
The benefit at the New York Academy of Mu
sic, for Eugenia Pappenheim, next Tuesday,
promises to be a great sacoess. She is recog
nized as a great artist in that city. Madame
Pappenheim has been engaged for a term of
years at Her Majesty’s opera house, London.
She shortly sails for that city.
Sitting Bull is said to have telegraphed to the
Democratic leaders in Congress his approval of
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PIANO & ORGAN w "°™ r
Lvdden
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