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JOHN B. SEALS, - Editor and Proprietor
\V. B. SEALS, - Proprietor and Cor. Editor.
HRS. MARY E. BRYAN (*) Associate Editor.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AUGUST 24 1878.
Buttles Around Atlanta.—1« our next
issue we expect to publish number twelve of this
series of papers. It will comprise a deeply in
teresting sketch ot the ‘Hero Brothers, Oapt.
Jos, Clay Habersham and private Wm. Neyle
Habersham, of Savannah, who fell in the ‘Battles
of Atlanta.’ A fine double picture of those gal
lant soldiers will accompany the sketch. It is
engraved from an elegant painting mad* express
ly for this purpose by Prof. Carl L. Brandt, a
distinguished New York artist, and will be
greatly admired.
Egg Hatching as a Profes
sion. — Some time since, we published an
item from a Kentucky newspaper purporting that
a young woman of the Blue Grass region had
kindly taken to her bosom a number of duck's
eggs, deserted by the legitimate mother, and in
that soft respectacle had successfully hatched
the fortunate ova, turning out as fine a brood of
little quackers as the web-footed parent could
have done with all her feathers. The story may
have been a oanard, but it has served a World
Editor as text for a commentary that has a good
deal of Poe’s delicious sarcasm about it—that
reduclio ad dbsurdam burlesqu*ry that very few
except the oritic of New York Literateurs and ot
William Ellery Charnning in particular, have
ever succeeded in. The writer set out by declar
ing that the oviparous exploit of the young lady
was more or less laudable according as we dis
cover whether there was any self denial in the
matter. If she was one of the superfluous wo
men such as abound in Massachusetts she can
perhaps be dismissed with a low meed of praise,
inasmuch as she may have acted from merely
utilitarian motivse or from the desire to obtain
a pet in whom she should have some grateful
sense of property and deputy motherhood. As
compared with Skye terriers, tabby-cats and
even street Arabs, the duckling has, too the
advantage that it can be eaten. If, on the other
hand, this young woman had admirers, or a
lover, the duck's eggs which she cherished in
her bosom may be regarded as similar to the
cognate peas of penitence that other sinners
were wont to wear in their boots upon painful
pilgrimages-—or akin to the collars of spikes
and yokes carried by Oriental devotees for the
mortification of the fl-sh. At the same time it
should be definitely announced that incubating
maidens are the exception and not the rule in
the land of Blue Grass, otherwise the consequen
ces will be fatal to sociability, for a plump
young woman charged with a clatch of eggs is
no more to be taken into one's arms than a wet
Newfoundland dog. There arte. however, pla^wj*
wliere the heat of the human nodyTs systemat
ically utilized for incubation. Mr. Prank Buck-
land has written that in certain districts of Eng
land where the goose is much cultivated the
cause of education suffers because the people
keep their children at home to hatch out the
eggs, which aie placed with them in warm beds.
There is probably a good deal to be said on
both sides of the question here presented. It
is desirable that the agricultural laborers of the
future should be able to read and write, but
might not this boon be purchased at too great a
cost if involved the scarcity of geese, stubble
aud other? Men have been authoratively de-|
fined as of greater value than many birds, but J
the birds in question were sparrows, and the
sparrow is notoriously pugnaoious,philoprogen
itive, greedy and deceitful. There is also this to
be said about the profession of goose-eggs hatch
ing—it is a sedentary occupation wholy incom
patible with what the illiterative Algernon has
described as the resea and raptures of Yioe. 1
The infant incubator who attends strictly to I
business cannot stone cats, steal apples, smash I
windows and attach pernicious parasitic pans
and kettles to the stem of stray dogs. The
mind, teo, has ample opportunity for deliberate
and thorough reflection. Indeed, so valuable
does this system of incubation seem, either
when regarded as a discipline or an occupation,
that we cannot but regret that it has not been
long ere now introduced into this country.
There are scores and scores of eminent statesmen
that could be utilized in thiR manner. It would
have been money in the Republican party’s I
pocket bad Mr. Stanley Matthews, for instanoe, |
been induced to concentrate his energies on the <
incubation of three-dozen anserine eggs, duly i
protected by an armor of down with a three- i
inch packing of felt. There are thousand of
poets, book agents, lecturers, people who oross
their legs while riding on street-cars, bass-ball
players, Colorado orphans, authors of ‘Beauti
ful Snow,’ exchange fiends, Kearneys, etc., etc.,
who might be made by a rigidly administered
Incubation law as useful to society as now they
are not. Well has the philosopher, whose
name up to the hour of going to press escapes
us, said that the man who makes two goose eggs
to hatch where before there were none has a
better title to immortality and grateful remem-
branoe than Alexander the Gieat, or the man
who first thought of sticking a small potato
upon the nozzle of a kerosene can. *
Yellow Fever.—The Gulf Citizen—the
new Southern Monthly, is assured that the yel
low fever is imported into New Orleans by fruit
ships trading with infected tropical ports and
urges upon Congress the enforcement of a rigid
national quarantine, which shall draw a 'sani
tary cordon’ around the whole Atlantic and
Gulf sea-board. The yellow fever that contin
ues to afflict New Orleans is milder in type than
former epidemics. In our last week’s article—
“Yellow Fever—Its Causes, etc.,” a mistake oc.
curred in proof-reading. The statement “There
were 17C deaths last week from that cause" should
have been “176 deaths, of which G6 were from
that cause,” meaning yellow fever. *
Tlie Women Who are Only Home
Keepers-—“How I crave your power to do
good; but alasl my usefulness is circumscribed:
I am only a home-keeper.”—Letter from a lady.
‘Only a home-keeper!' But the wisest among
us have said that the woman who is, in its truest
sense, a ‘home-keeper’ is the fulfillment of the
best form of feminine life. Herbert Spencer
in his Evolution of Society, says, intellect, that
the woman whose work and life lies outside of
home, is an abnormal social phenomenon, that
however well she may do her work, however
great her talents, she is still an anomalous not a
natural ‘evolution’ of society. This is going
rather far, but it is true that women whose orbit
of employment lies without the home circle and
who are absorbed in doing the work of the world,
lose many opportunities for exerting sweet,near
influence upon children, husband and intimate
friends. In the female workers outside of home
there is always a feeling of incomplete life—of
unfulfilled trust—of some good they have lost.
If I were asked what is the highest type of wo
man, I would answer, not the busy worker, the
author, the artist, the actress, the lecturer, the
philanthropist; though these may have a far wid
er influence, yet is it so deep, so true, does it
reach so lastingly down through the ages as the
influence of her who fulfills all her duties as a
‘home-keeper?’ who is her husband’s helper,
her children’s best friend, who orders her house
hold wisely and economically,yet without mean
ness, dispensing hospitality according to her
means, making home beautiful morally with
small charities and quiet sympathies, and beau
tiful outwardly with order and neatness, with
flowers and trees and little touches of refined
taste. Such a womrn, pure, sweet, feminine,
quietly self-sacrificing, pliant without be
ing weak, innocent without being ignorant
surrounding her children with a pure and yet
a strong-toned atm osphere of thought and mo
tive, and breathing this atmosphere through the
circle of friends in which she moves, is I think
the best and most essential type of woman.
We can do without the ‘great public workers'
among women—those who can do such work are
few and exceptional—but we could not do with
out the ‘home-keepers.’ It is they who keep
society from disintegrating; it is they who give
us that bulwark of moral and national prosperity
—the home. If the few women especially en
dowed, who work for the public good or plea
sure, are stars, then the ‘home-keepers’ are the
house hold fires, the household lamp. We could
live without the stars, but chaos would oome
again if the fire and light were withdrawn. *
Words of Sound, t»ood Sense.—A
writer in the last number of the ‘Happy Home,’
says very sensible things to the mothers of our
land—things that have been said before, but
that the exigences of the times demand should be
repeated again and again. Says the writer in
question. So long as girls are taught that their
highest aim in life is to dress handsomely,
(whether they are able to afford it or not,) so as
to catch rich husbands ! so long as boys are sl
id wed to ItreBtb, serf
tlemen by drinking, swearing, smoking cigars
and fiirtiBg with the girls; so long as mothers
sit with folded hands, and feebly say, ‘I don’t
know what’s to become of Sally, Annie or Jim
my, for I can’t control them;’ so long as wives
waste their lives and energies at the sewing ma
chines, making useless ruffles, puffs and tucks,
while servants are wasting and destroying in
the kitchens, gardens are ohoked with weeds,
and fruit trees being eaten up with worms; so
so long as husbands and fathers spend their
time and talents in billiard and bar-rooms, while
their account books are getting behind, and
business going to ruin, so long will debts accu
mulate, mortgages be foreclosed and poverty
reign in the South. We not only want women
with plenty of common sense, but men as well.
Educate your sons and daughters, but with it
teaoh self-reliance and industry. Teach them
to say no, and mean it; teaoh them self-control,
temperance in all things, and courage to do
th*ir duty, whatever it may be, or whoever may
condemn them for it. Teach them that honest
labor is honorable, no matter whether behind the
work-bench in a carpenter's shop, in the kitohen
or at the wash-tub. *
New Publications.
Mr. W. H. Crongston from the Opera House,
Pittsburg, has been engaged as stage manager at
the Broadway Theatre Miss Eliza 0 Conor, a
popular favorite in Chicago, has also been en
gaged by Messers Edgar &. Fulton. A corps of
artisan are busy at the work of renovation and
alteration. The entrance vestibule is to be hand
somely decorated. A new drop-curtain will be
painted. Messrs Edgar A Fulton seem to be
determined to make the Broadway one of the
most attractive theatres in the city. Miss Ada
Cavendish will open on the 9:h of September
Miss Gwilt,’and Miss Rose Eytinge, in ‘A
man of the people’will follow.
Jeflerson Havls.—The Gulf Citizen, after
aluding to the ‘vulture-like watch for dead is
sues,’ whioh the Northern press keeps upon Mr.
Davis, so that every time that unfortunate ex-
Confederate President sneezes in public it is re
garded as significant of treason, stratagems and
spoils, says: “Mr. Davis is net a representative
man of the South to-day. He is a man of strong
natural convictions, of inflexible will and strong
prejudices. These have all been ‘set’by long
years of training in the ante helium sohool of
Southern politics; and this natural bent—whioh
never oould be swayed—has naturally been in
tensified by years otposi helium trial. Mr. Davis,
therefore, cannot be regarded in any sense as a
representative of Southern feeling to-day. In
deed, he does not live in today, but exists in
the yesterday of the South, when her sentiment
al, no less than material problems were seeking
solution by far different methods. High-toned,
sensitive, perhaps morbid, Mr. Davis dings in
the sunset of his career to the lengthening shad
ows of a dead past; BubstaDoe to him, vague re
flection only to the active and living South of to
day.
Mississippi knows—what the common-sense of
the North has already learned—that Jefferson
Davis is not only not a leader of, but is not even
a sympathizer with, Southern opinion of to-day;
that the people of this section respect his past—
even should they deprecate somewhat of his
present; and that he stands, for any leadership,
or spokesmanship of them, as Richelieu, speak
ing the sad words:
Yesterday I was—
To-day a very weak old man.
Prof. J. w. Beardslce,—an accom
plished vocalist who ia known through his
charming novelty—the ‘Old Folk’s Concerts’—
is now in the city and will give one of his unique
entertainments next Thursday evening, at the
Opera House. He is a gentleman of remarkably
fine physique and frank, intelligent face. We
learn that he has been engaged to teach vocal
music at Andrew Female College, Cuthbert, the
ensuing term. Dr. Hamilton is determined
that no parent shall send his daughter out of
the State to be educated because there is no
college within its borders that can afford all the
facilities for a finished education. Andrew’s
curriculum will embrace everything taught at
the best Northern female seminaries. *
Manual of Georgia: Prepared by Thomas P.
Janes, Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture’
A long-felt want has been filled by the publi
cation of this book. It is a complete hand-book
of methodically arranged information upon all
subjects relative to the State of Georgia. It
gives a concise statement of the present politi
cal, educational, religious and industrial status
of Georgia, a sketch of the topography of the
State, its climate, soil, mineral and farming re-
rourees, its products, its railroads,manufactures,
benevolent and educational institutions, and
newspapers. Also a list of the Counties of Geor
gia with the principal towns of each. In brief,
all that a Georgian should know concerning his
State, or that a person wishing to emigrate here
should desire to learn, is contained in this neat
little volume prepared for gratuitous distribu
tion by our enterprising State Commissioner of
Agriculture, Dr. T. P. Janes. *
‘Bonny Kate,’ by Christian Reid, issued late
ly irom the press of the Appletons’, is a story
very agreeably to>& with not much power or
originality in oonstrjiotion or character drawing.
Christian Reid’s characters do not take hold of
one as veritable creations. She needs to study
men and women as they are, outside the pages
of books, or the world of her imagination.
Gaerielle,—translated from the French of
Henry Greviile, and published by Peterson Bros,
is an unpleasant and unsatisfactory story,French
in sentiment and maudlin in plot. Qaite differ
ent in style and motif is Dosia by the same writ
er—a pleasant, bright little romance, which we
will begin to pablish next week in the Sunny
South.
‘His Dear Little Wife.’—By an anonymous
author, evidently a woman, is a story with a
lively beginning and a pathetic termination. It
is simply and naturally told, but the kind of wo
man which it holds up to admiring sympathy,
is entirely too sensitive, mimosa-like and in
efficient to suit the necessities of this day of
work and purpose. •
The Science Monthly.—This young period
ical—the exponent of scientific progress in Amer
ica, sustains itself with undiminished vigor.
The August number opens with a suggestive,
instructive, yet sprightly lecture on Civilization
and Science, delivered by Prof. Du Bois Ray
mond, of Berlin University. It is followed by
an address of Prof. Huxley. Anillustrated ar
ticle on ‘Man and his Structural Affinities’ is cu
rious and deeply interesting. The Monthly has
a fine engraving of Edison as a youth, for a fron
tispiece with a most entertaining and graphio
sketch of the great inventor—the present sci
entific sensation. Appleton & Company, Broad
way, N. Y r .,publish the Science Monthly. Price
50cts per number. *
The Eclectic for August contains an enticing
variety of reading matter, The best outgrowth
of foreign thought upon politics, literature,
*■ co ■ »ti h a-tenad ic.thf? old an ah
sterling Monthly, whose contents are collated
from European publications of the highest
order. Subscription prio# $5.00. E. R. Pelton,
N. Y. Publisher. •
Editorial Correspondence,
A Run Through Texas.
Honey Grove — Bonn am-—Sher
man-
Following the line of Texas and Pacific R. R.
in the direction of Sherman, the next point wor
thy of note is Honey Grove. It derived its name
from the quantity of honey found there prior to
the settlement of the town. In the absence of
gums or hollow trees, the bees fastened their
comb to the roots or lower branches of the small
mesquite bushes which abounded on every side,
forming a grove. Similar bushes, with the bees
at work, are still to be found in the suburbs. The
town, though situated in the black mud,is neat
ly built, mostly of wood, with an occasional
house built of very substantial brick, made in
the neighborhood. The college building is an
elegant building of large proportion and beau
tiful design. It is well patronized, drawing pu
pils from the adjoining counties. I was glad to
find Georgia talent in demand here, the musical
department being in the hands of a very accom
plished Georgia lady. The society is good. Quite
a number of new buildings are going up, which
tell of prosperity. The town has a bright future.
The present population is about one thousand.
BONHAM
is the county town of Fanin county, one of the
best for farming purposes in the state. Being
the natural enterpot for the various products of
the soil, it does a thriving business. A few years
ago the best part of the business square was de
stroyed by fire. For the lack of a little firmness
Dramatic Notes.
The Atlanta Dramatic Association will repeat
the popular play “Ingomar, ” at De Gives, on
Thursday eve, Aug. 27tb.
Rose Eytinge’s daughter will appear at the
Lyceum, New York.
All of Janauschek’s dates are filled for her
next American tour.
Mrs. Boucicault will certainly visit the Uni
ted States next season.
Oliver Doud Byron has made nearly $100,000
by ‘Across the Continent.’
Mrs. Frank Majilton is reported to have in
herited $30,000 from a relative in Germany.
Miss Mary Anderson is to add ‘Hernani,’ Vic
tor Hugo’s earliest (1830) Parisian success to
her repertoire.
The rent Kate Claxton pays Shook & Palmer
for the Lyceum, New York, is $10,000, and
$2,500 paid quarterly in advance.
At last Maggie Mitchell has a new play. It
is entitled ‘Birds of Passage,’ and she begins
the season with it at San Francisco.
E. B. Plympton is engaged for the coming
season at the Standard, New York. The vacan
cy occasioned by the death of Mary Wells will
be filled by Mrs. Clara Stoneall.
Joseph Jefferson played in Salt Lake City,
Utah, one night, in ‘Rip Van Winkle,'to a sev-
en-hundred-and-fifty-dollar house. A corres
pondent, writing on July ICth, says: ‘Mr. Jef
ferson had a guarantee of five hundred dollars
per night, and Salt Lake turned out her thea
tre-goers en masse ; but, in spite of liberal pat
ronage, the management lost money. There is
but little encouragement to managers to play
stars, unless they play on a percentage and
draw their salary. I know Mr. Jefferson is in
dependent, and not obliged to act; but he
on the part of the city council, the sufferers onght to remember that the publio gave him
* ... . . « .. . . ... Inc ninnnr onn Ihn nun linnelrmi n bnci
Big Family Babies.
The foolish habit, so dear to oertain weak
parents, of keeping a full-grown boy or girl as
the baby of the family, is infinitely pernioious.
The boy, if he has any manly instinct in. him,
takes the matter into his own hands, and, des
pite the wrath to come, outs off hia luxuriant
curls, changes his attire, and worries for school
companionship till he gets his own way, and
is emancipated from the weak society whioh
was sapping the foundations of his future man
hood. But girls, who are more plastio and less
daring, suffer themselves to be manipulated at
the will of the fond mother, so that they remain
the babies which it is her pleasure to make
them and carry on into womanhood the weak
ness and inaptness which she has been so care
ful to nourish during their girlhood. Baby oan
do nothing for herself, and is not allowed to
learn. When she is twelve years old she has
her shoes and stockings put on for her, all the
same as when she was two; and at sixteen is
washed in the Saturday night bath by nurse
with reluotance or compunction. She is enoour-
aged in all childish amusements long after the
natural age for them has passed. She plays
with her dolls when she is seventeen, like that
little French wife who so powerfully excited the
jealousy of her husbaDd, till he found out that
his formidable rival was a large wax doll; and
she finds her ohirdish treasures and playthings
as pleasant now as they were when she wore
short frocks and lisped broken English. What
is the consequence of all this ? Baby grows up
into womanhood without one qualification for
her career. Sheyias never been taught to do
anything for herself, and has never been trained
to think. She has been the petted plaything of
her family, who find it amusing to keep up a
baby among them, no matter to what number of
pounds or breadth of inches in may run; and
the after destruction of the girl’s oharaoter and
usefulness counts for nothing. That she should
some day be a wife and mother on her own ac
count is of no oousequenoe to them oompared to
the private pleasure of playing at babydom
that she might be called on to aot, to direct, to
think for others, does not disturb their minds
or set them to calculate rationally. She is Ba
by; and Baby she remains to the end. When
therefore she marries, what does her husband
find her ? Innocent certainly. But innocence,
if a girl’s chief charm, is not everythtng in a
woman;and the pure, sweet strength which can
look steadily at the facts of human life, and
deal with them when occasion demands, is more
to the purpose by a great deal. But how can
Baby manage her hou.se or her ohildren ? She
has been always managed for herself—always
kept in idleness, and spared all trouble or re
sponsibility; how then can Bhe suddenly order
and arrange and think for others ? If her ohild
is ill, what can she do, she who has never been
suffered to see sickness or sorrow ? She oan
only stand helpless and scream; or perhaps
make matters worse by fainting; or by insisting
on taking the ohild on her lap and smothering
it with kisses as the best restorative of whioh
she can think. These great children, these
grown babies, are infinitely distraoting both to
theii husbands and to every one with whom
they, have dealings.—[London Queen.
were permitted to replace the lost houses with
just such structure as their fancy dictated, and
the consequence is, the business district is cov
ered with mere shanties. Even the owners them
selves, now regret that they did not erect better
houses, but those old hulks will probably be
permitted to remain until another fire shall
sweep them away. It is much to be regretted
as the location is eligible and the community
intelligent and refined. The unsightliness ot
the town is calculated to strikes stranger unfa
vorably, and impress him with the idea that there
is a want of enterprise in the people. The popu
lation is about two thousand, and among this
number is a strong bar and an able and experi
enced medioal board.
SHERMAN.
This is the terminus of the northern branch of
the Texas and Paoific R. R. and here for the first
time we strike the great Texas Central R. R.
running from Houston to Denison through the
very heart, so to speak, of the state, three hun
dred and twenty-five miles. A narrow gauge
road is projected to extend thirty-five miles fur
ther west. Geographically considered, this
ought to be and was intended to be, the largest
city in the state. It is finely located on a hill
gradually sloping in every direction—is hand
somely laid out and well built. Many of the
buildings are fine, built mostly of brick wi'.h
limestone trimmings.
Street cars run from the Union Passenger
Depot, through the entire extent of the city,
and they seem to be well patronized. The
streets are lighted with an excellent quality of
gas, which is furnished about as cheaply
as in Atlanta. The churches are good,
with good ministers, while the children have the
his money, and the five hundred-a-night busi
ness was well enough during the flush times of
1892 and 1803, and as long thereafter as good
times lasted; but now money is close, and the
theatres have been obliged to reduce their scale
of prices, while good stars won’t reduce their
terms.
THE ENGLISH ROYAL FAMILY.
The Enormous Sum Annually Paid
by the People for Its Support.
In support of Sir Charles Dilke’s motion an
tagonistic to the proposed grant to the Duke of
Connaught on his approaching marriage, the
following figures have been prepared: The an
nual grant to the Queen is £385.000 from the
consolidated fund, and shout £10,000 from the
revenues of the Duchy Lancaster; the Prince of
Wales has £40,000 from the consolidated fund
and £66,000 from the revenues of the Duohy of
Cornwall; the Princess has £10,000; the Duke
of Edinburg has £25,000; the Duke of Con
naught £15,000; Prince Leopold £8000; the
Princess Fredrich Wilhelm of Prussia £8000;
the Princess Ludwig, of Hesse, £6000; the Prino-
ess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, £6000; the
Princess Louisa, Marchioness of Lorn,£6000;the
Duchess of Cambridge, £6000; the Dowager
Duchess of Cambridge, £6000; the Grand Duch
ess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, £3000; the Princess
Teck, £5000; the Duke of Cambridge, £12,000.
The whole of the annuities to members of the
royal family, exclusive of the Queen, paid out
of the consolidated fund, amount to £142,000.
- —. ,, ' The amount whioh the Queen has for her own
advantages of two flourishing female colleges j personal U3e . independe < t of th * e 8alarieg of the
UOUl * A _ 1 II
There is an air of thrift and enterprise jOv U . , ,„ , - , ,
the people that is truly refreshing,''and taken j £ . , J' , - ' 3 *° servants, allow
all together, it reminds the visitor of one of the 1 a J“ 8 ’ 1°™'™ aD L d spemal^ serviees, m
better class of towns in the older states. Indeed
many of the largest and most substantial busi
ness men have emigrated thither from the older
states, and Georgians are there by scores. The
Mayor is a Georgian and so are some of the
best lawyers and physicians. A splendid
oourt house has just been completed, and many
other fine buildings are being ereeted.
The trade of the city is very large, supplying
as it does a scope of country three hundred
miles wide to the west. The piles of buffalo
hides whioh are to be seen everywhere, are
astonishig to the visitor, and would lead one
to suppose that the speedy extermination of
this noble animal is not imprbable. These are
brought in wagoDS, drawn by long teams of
oxen, and either sold for cash or exchanged for
goods. Merchandise of all kinds is reasonably
cheap, owing to the very low freight charges by
the Central Railroad. A merchant exhibited a
bill to the writer, showing that 4th class freight
was laid down in Sherman from N. Y. for 50
cents per hundred pounds.
Cistern water is used mainly, aud fires are
made of coal, brought down by the M. K. & T. R.
R. The health of the city is as good as any in
the state. Geod fruits abound in the country
near, and the finest cattle and hogs. The climate
seems especially adapted to the raising of hogs.
The population Is now a little above ten thous
and by reoent census, showing a very rapid
increase in a few years.
£102,000 pounds per year, of which £42,00
comes from the Duchy of Lancaster. Sir Charles
Dilke makes his motion in opposition to the
grant to the Duke of Connaught on the ground
that the nation has already more than sufficient
ly provided for the royal family. He made
similar motions on the occasion of the grants to
the Princess Louise and to the Duke of Edin
burgh on their marriage: He does not expect
his motion to prevail, but makes it on princi
ple. It is thought that on a division of it, the
bill wiil receive less than ten votes.
Buffalo Ldtliia Springs.-The waters
from these springs, located in Meoklenburg
County, Virginia, are gaining a wonderful oe-
lebrity for their medicinal properties, See
what eminent physicians say of them in our ad
vertisement in the last two issues of this paper.
A BLOODLESS DUEL.
One of the Principals Seizes 111* Second as
• Shield From Danger.
(From the Mouticollo Constitution.)
A couple of colored gentlemen became involv
ed in a quarrel on Wednesday of last week at
Simkins’ livery stable, when Simkins suggested
that they retire beyond the incorporate limits
and fight it out in occordance with the code.
The suggestion was promptly acquiesced in,
and in a few minutes all preliminaries were ar
ranged for a terrible death struggle. The loca
tion selected was the grove west of Dr. Taylor’s
residence; Messrs. E. B. B. and W. D. S. vol
unteered their services as seconds, Mr. J. F.,
provided with a oarpenter’s saw and rule, was
selected as the surgeon; Mr. J. L. was to pro
vide breech-loadiug rifles, and Mr. T. B. S. was
ohief diraotor. The principals were posted,
the seconds and surgeons assumed their re
spective stations, and the' rifles, loaded with
blank cartridges, were placed in the hands of
the belligerents.
Principal No. 1 was cool and determined,
and evidently meant mischief, but No. 2 was
nervous and excited, and when his eyes rested
upon the glittering barrel of his gun, heex-
olaimed ; ‘Look here, gernmen, dis ere gun’s
too bright for me!' and attempted to leave the
field. He was brought baok and notified that
unless he ‘stood up like a man’ his second
would shoot him down, whereupon he dropped
his gun, seized E. B. B.—his second—around
ths waist, and held him between himself and
bis antagonist. The barricade was speedily re
moved, when the oonr&geous n egro fled from
the field like a race horse, and thus prevented
'murder most foul.’ Those who witnessed the
burlesque on the oode duello described it as
rich beyond dasoriptou, and at least one of the
principals is oured of hit bragging propensi
ties.
Thoughtful Trifles-
Great things are not accomplished by idle
dreams, but by years of patient study.
Judge not from appearance lest you might err
in your j udgment.
Some of the grandest things whioh have been
achieved were by those whom we thought were
our inferiors.
Narrow not your mind to your own eelfish-
ness, but give it a broad field for your work
men to work in.
Study all things of nature in your daily walk
through life.
Do as your conscience dictates and you will
not go far astray.
Be respectful to all men that you may com
mand respect.
Kind words are better than gold, and the voioe
of a friend has saved many a man from ruin.
Many kind hearts beat beneath seemingly
oold exteriors.
Be happy it you oan, but do not despise those
that are otherwise, for you know not their
troubles.
Is Croquet a Moral Game 1
Oae day this summer we rode fifty miles in a
riilway car, seated behind four men who were
playing with those awful playthings of the devil
—cards. They played euohre until they were
tired of it. They played a little seven up, pedro
and occasionally a trifle of poker. We never
heard a aispute. Their bursts of merriment
occasionally at some unexpected play drew our
eyes from our book. They never quarreled,
and never called names once. After we got out
at our station we sat at the window and watohed
a party of young men and maidens playing cro
quet. In fifteen minutes we saw two persons
oheat successfully. We heard the one player
who did not cheat acoused of cheating five
times. We heard four distinct, bitter quarrels.
We heard a beautiful young girl tell two lies,
and a meek-looking young man three, and final
ly we saw the young girl throw her mallet against
the fence so hard it frightened a horse, the
other young girl pounded so hard on the ground
that it knocked the buds off an apple tree. They
both banged into the house at different doors
and the two young men looked sheepish and
went off after a drink. Now, why is this ?
Bismark'g Little Joke.
After the congress adjourned the other eve
ning, Bismarck punched Beaoonsfield playfully
in the ribs, as the two sauntered down Main
street, and said :
‘Who’s treaty ?’
‘No particular individual oan olaim it, my
dear friend. The treaty belongs to all of us.
It is the product—’
•O, vipe your shiu of, schoot it,’ said Bis
marck, laughing. ‘Ton’t you hunderstant ?’
and he repeated very slowly.
‘Who s treat-eh; treat; say to a feller if he will
haf somedings; set ’em up. See?’
Beaoonsfield tumbled, and stepping behind a
screen, exclaimed :
'It’s mine, it’s mine! What will you have ?’
‘Peer,’ replied Bismarck, his face beaming;
with good humor; ‘efry dimes peer.