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ATT.ANTA, GEORGIA. SEPT. 21, 1878.
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The Morals of Politicians.—It is cer
tainly not much of a compliment to onr politic
ians that the public are accustomed to judge of
them by a different standard from that fcy which
they judge other men. We often hear it re
marked that such and such a man is honest for
a politician, intimating that it is not expected
that a politician should exhibit honesty of a
very high type. Why is this ? Is it because
they are placed in circumstances in which it is
more than ordinarily difficult for one to be hon
est? or is it that the practices of politicians:
have brought them into such repute that people
have ceased to expect integrity of them ? Well,
somewhat of both. Since the game of office
seeking has become what it is now, the politic
ian must practice much of both simulation and
dissimulation. He must, if he would move with
the current, denounce what he believes and ap
plaud what he abhors. Yet if this is now a ne
cessity, it is of their own creation. They have
followed the crooked when the straight might
have done as well, until now it seems that devi
ous ways only can lead to success. Onr people
too encourage dishonesty by condoning so read
ily the falsehoods and tergivisations of public
men. The political acrobat, provided he exer
cises judgment in making his leaps from one
party to another, need not fear that bis record
will be quoted against him very damagingly.
Hfe can abandon his allies to-day and come back
to them in a few months without serious loss of
position or influence. If we are thus lenient in
our judgments, how can we expect them to be
honest? The remark of an Eoglish writer is en
tirely too true, that the •American people care
mnch for men, but very little for principles.’
Made Famous By an Accident -
Fame is often due to some accidental circum
stance. People go plodding along in an art or
profession till some chance hit happens to strike
the popular fancy and a wave of favor at once
lifts the fortunate individual to fame and
fortune. Many of the most celebrated authors,
theii ckr.uuu to chance.”
thought, unimportant stroke of the pen or the
brush, some unpremeditated speech or action,
some unlooked for incident or accident was the
turning point of their fortune. The Empress
Eugenie owed her prestige as a beauty—the pres
tige which won for her the imperial crown which
she has lost, and the millions of gold which she
still retains—to a mishap. On her first appear
ance at the court of Madrid, she attracted no at
tention whatever, being simply a pale, quiet
girl with no animation, and nothing of distinc
tion about her. An accident brought her into
notice and made her the fashion, ‘One day, the
court being at Aranjuez, during a fete champetre,
Mademoiselle de Montijo had the good or ill for
tune to fall into one of the ornamental fishponds
in the garden. She was taken out insensible,
and her wet and clinging garments revealed a
form of each statuesque perfection that all Mad
rid went raving about her beauty. She plung
ed a commonplace girl—she rose a Venus.’ Ma
ny reputations for genius as well as beauty are
due to such chance circumstances. *
Aim at Deserving Bather than at
Winning.—We once heard Hon. A. H. Ste
phens in an address to the pupils of a school
urge upon them that they should be more so-
licitious about deserving than about winning
the prize. The lesson is a wholesome one, and
should be considered by grown np people as
well as by youth. The opposite way of think,
ing is one of the greatest evils of our day. Few,
we fear, of the thousands who are seeking polit
ical preferment have calmly considered their
fitness for the positions to which they aspire.’
‘I think, wrote a ‘ring’ master, ‘that our best
men should be sent to the Convention, except
myself; I wish to go anyhow.’ Such is the sen
timent of a great many men who call themselves
politicians but who are really only tricksters,
who hunt office foi its honors and emoluments,
without spending a moment in preparing for its
duties. We have little patience with the cant
about letting the office seek the man; this will
do in Utopia, but not for our planet. There is
no disgrace in a man’s wanting an office, and
even using fair means to gain it, if he has faith
fully striven to prepare himself for a discharge
of its functions, and is earnestly desirous of do
ing something for his country. The shame lies
in there being an inordinate greed coupled with
an utter lack of capacity. The school boy who
is striving for the prize rather than for the ex
cellence of which the prize is a symbol, would
not scruDle to take advantage of his competitors
in the contest if he finds that he can do so with
impunity. As the boy is father to the man,this
same boy, later in life will cheat bis opponents,
and like our present acting Chief Magistrate, ac
cept a position to which he is not entitled. Many
men are no doubt induced to take office not by
a sense of fitness for it, but because they find
they can get it In a land where people choose
heir rulers, it is popularity that seoures office,
and popularity is no sure index of merit;—for
the voice of the people is not the voice of God.
The correspondent of theNsw York Dramatic
News has been misinformed as to Joe Mortimer
marrying Miss Ida Morris.
Woman’s Heroism during tbe
Pestilence —Dr. Holmes, somewhere in his
•Aatocrat' Bays that the fine-natured woman is
something like the fine-blooded horse—she rises
to meet emergencies. The dainty Arabian, that
starts and pricks her ears at every sound, steps
gingerly, frets at the smallest fly-sting and seems
utterly unfit for hard service, yet when the test
comes that puts her to her mettle, will breast the
hill, clear the ditch and five-barred gate,and de-
velope a strength and endurance utterly beyond
the capacity of the coarse, strong-looking cob.
Something to this effect says the Autocrat,and
his comparison is true as far as it goes. Women,
whether of the Vere de Yere class or belonging
to lower ranks of life, become heroic through
their affections. Dainty, timid, or even indo
lent as they may be in ordinary life, yet let an
emergency call for courage, energy or self-sac.
rifice, and these delicate women rise into hero
ines. This was illustrated by the conduct of
our women during the war between the States.
It is now strikingly exemplified by the fortitude
and fearless devotion of the women in the fever-
scourged cities of the South. Instances are re
ported of men deserting their trusts but women
have been true to all the best instincts of wo
manhood. Whil9 Donovan abandons his dying
wife and children,and a son refugees to the
Sprngs, leaving stranger hands to nurse and bury
his parents, the mothers and wives,the sisters and
daughters stand nobly to their duty, watch by
their dear ones to the sorrowful end, or nurse
them back to life, passing through horrors at
which the imagination recoils and, in many in
stances, prevailing upon their sons and husbands
to fly from danger while they remain to face it
that they may nurse some loved one already
stricken by the destroyer.
Numerous are theinstances of such devotion and
courage on the part of women, that come to ns
through the press of the afflicted cities, and
through private letters—instances, not only of
the heroic conduct of wives and mothers, but of
women who have no tie of blood or previous
friendship with those whom they attend so faith
fully, and to alleviate whose sufferings they ex
pose themselves to danger and death. Among
these are the noble Sisters of Charity, and the
women who have volunteered their services as
nurses and who will accept no remuneration.
Many of these have come from Northern cities,
and their self-sacrificing charity will never be
forgotten by our people. Of those who recently
left Washington to go to New Orleans as nurses,
the majority were women, none of whom were
driven to what they did through poverty. They
went from a sense of duty and an overpowering
impulse of pity. Friends tried in vain to dis
suade them from their purpose. ‘It is almost
certain death,’ they said. ‘And you will be no
better than menials. All the best people have
left these plague-stricken cities; only poor per
sons and negroes are there. You will have to
wait upon them.’
‘All the more need that we should go,’replied
a quiet, determined-looking lady. The rich can
hire service, the poor must depend on the char
ity of their human brothers and sisters, and
they must not count upon it in vain.’
So they went on their noble mission. It was
more heroic than the riding of the famous six
Fagging ami Hazing.—Charles Dick
ens deserves the everlasting gratitude of school
boys for having shown up m such strong col
ors the wrongs to which they were subjected by
tyrannical masters. But neither he nor so far
as we know, anyother writer has sufficiently
portrayed injuries inflicted upon the younger
and weaker boys in school by the older. Fag
ging has long been the custom in the English
schools. By this is meant a system of bullying
on tbe part of the larger pupils by which the
younger or weaker are oompelled to perform for
them many menial services. In our Southern
schools this has been wholly unknown; nor are
we aware that it has existed to any great extent
in the schools at the North. We have been told
however that it prevails at the Military Acade
my at West Point under the name of hazing, and
that every new Cadet who enters there is ‘brok
en in’ until he is willing to sweep, or bring wa
ter or brush the books for any one of the higher
classes who may order him. This is kept up,
we presume, without the knowledge or consent
of those who have the institution in charge. Oc
casionally some of them are caught ‘hazing’ and
sent away in disgrace; but they are inspired
with such a dread of being frowned down as in
formers, that even those who snffer most are
afraid to complain. The whole system is most
iniquitous and no pains should be spared by
the officers in breaking it up. If thought de
sirable that all of army officers should be such
as the oppressor ot New Orleans and the de
stroyer of Columbia, fagging may be a very good
thing. But it is utterly repugnant to that gen
erous nobility of soul that should mark the
character of every soldier.
The “Spartan Sisterhood”—A New
Society—Leap Year is not far off and as
an early out-shoot of what it may bring we have
a number of unmarried ladies forming them
selves into a secret society called the ‘Spartan
Sisterhoood.’ Their platform is a profound se
cret, but there are whispers of a petition to be
sent to Congress. What may be its purport we
can only conjecture, but to assist our imagina
tion it may be useful to rub up our history and
remember what treatment was administered
upon old bachelors and non-marrying men in
the days of the Spartan Republic. History tell g
us that if a man did not marry at a certain age
in Sparta he was forbidden to present himself
at any of the national games and festivities, es
pecially at the athletic exercises of the young
girls. This itself was tantamount to disgrace;
but the punishment did not by any means end
here: One wintry day in each year the miser
able delinquents were brought together, strip
ped of all their outer clothing and forced to go
round and round the agora singing a song, set
ting forth how disgraceful their own oondnet
was in disobeying the laws of their country.
The women also, at a certain festival, dragged
these misguided individuals round an altar, in
flicting blows on them all the time.
This account of the treatment of non-marrying
men in Sparta is enough to make the blood run
cold in a bachelor’s veins when he remembers
that history repeats itself—that onr women have
taken to cultivating their muscles, and that a so
ciety calling itself the ‘Spartan Sisterhood’ has
come into existence. We do not like to assume
the attitude of an agitator, but really it looks
ominous for tbe bachelors.
Mrs. Howard.—Few know of the later life
of the mistress of Louis Napoleon who had been
the partner of his days of exile and ill fortune,
who had given him her earnings from her pro
fession and empoverished herself in his service,
and devoted herself to farthering his ambitions
aims with a persistency worthy of a better cause.
After Napoleon’s marriage with Eugenie, he de
termined to get rid of Mrs. Howard. He would
not go about this honestly. ‘A frank and open
rupture was not in the style or the ideas of her
royal and sphinx-like lover. A pretended secret
mission to England lured her from Paris. She
learned the truth at Boulogne, and hastened
back to her home. There she found that her
hotel had been visited by the police, and that
a cabinet wherein she kept the letters of Lou
is Napoleon had been broken open and rifled of
its contents. Deeply wounded by the treatment
she had received, she withdrew, not without
dignity, from all attempt at contesting the po
sition with her rival. ‘I go,’ she wrote to Napo
leon, ‘a second Josephine, bearing with me yonr
star.’ To do justice to the emperor, it must be
confessed that he treated her in other respects
with royal liberality. The title of Countess of
Beauregard and a fortune of a million of dollars
was allotted to her. She withdrew to England
where she afterward married. In 1865 a great
longing to behold Paris once more, came upon
her. Her youth and beanty gone, a worn, dis
appointed aud unhappy woman (for her marri
age had turned out most wretchedly) she return
ed to Paris only to die. Her oldest son succeed
ed in the title of Count de Beauregard, and
was made consul at Zanzibar. Since the down
fall of the empire he has lived a sort of Bohemi
an existance in Paris, where his striking resem
blance to Lonis Napoleon has won for him the
nickname of ‘the ghost’ tie revenant.
Castle Stewart.—Of this huge and cost
ly architectural pile, built by the rich Nevada
senator, Stewart, and lately unroofed by the
storm, a recent Washington exchange says that
though a palace with an interior as gorgeous as
its outer look, is uncouth and barbarous, it bids
fair to be a ruin, for men, these hard times,
shrink from either its rent or purchase.
Then, an ill odor seems to attach to this pa
latial mansion and the writer alluded to says:
‘Probably there is nothing about Washington
that so fairly lepresents the social period under
Grant; the power of mere money, the influence
of a coarse sort of play, with all their suggestive
ness that fetch np to the mind’s eye the Robe
sons, Belknaps, Williamses and that host of fast
men and fair women, in their ruddy counte
nances, rustling silks, velvets, satins, diamonds
and flashing display. And all are gone, as if a
century had swept over them,and this huge pile
alone remains a record of their reign. We walk
ed through the lofty halls on heavy carpeting or
costly floors of rare woods, and heard our steps
echo along the painted ceilings and saw the dust
gathered on beautiful furniture gradually going
to decay. About us were the ghosts of tbe bu
ried past. The throng returned to the mind’s
eye, of scheming men and intriguing women,
some bent on love and pleasure, but mostly in
triguing to defraud the people, not only of their
hard-earned ta'vea, but, as a necessary conse
quence, of their liberty and rights.
Did real life ever before exhibit such a romance
of strange people and strange adventures ? The
^^djkndJroD^^the offdDding, the man upon
short time previous an inebriate, making a pre
carious living by hauling wood into St. Louis,
and avoided as a nuisance by all his fellow-men.
Of those who followed, flattered, sought and
sued, there was scarcely one who has not left
his memory for bad a stain upon our govern
ment. They are all gone, let us hope, forever.’
*
Taste versus Money.—‘All taste, I assure
sir,’ the cost has been but a trifle,’ said a lady,
as we were admiring the elegant suits of three
young misses whom she introduced to us as her
daughters. Tasteful they certainiy were, and
spoke highly in favor of Demorest of whom the
mother is an admiring patron. But being both
critical and a little skeptical, we were disposed
to ‘investigate’ a little into the triflingness of the
cost. It was indeed cheap enough valued by the
yard—not more than twenty-five cents. But oh
the number of the yards! In that complicated
mass of folds, ruffles and plaitings there could
not have been less than fifteen or twenty yards
—quite enough to have made two dresses in the
days of our mothers. Moreover when the mate
rial has been cut up into all these diverse shape
it cannot afterwards be utilized when the next
new moon shall bring a change of style. So,
good madame, while we heartily admire the
taste displayed in making up your daughter’s
dresses, do not ask us to commend it on the
score of economy. The prevailing mode for
misses or for grown up ladies is not suited to
slender purses of our day.
Tlie Grave of Admiral Sciiinies —
The following letter is from a distinguished
lady of Alabama. The regret and surprise she
feels at seeing the grave of the brave, good and
world-famous Admiral Semmes ‘unmarked by
stone or carven line’ will be shared by every
southerner:
‘While in Mobile, a few weeks since, I visited
the grave of Admiral Semmes. Only a mound of
earth, covered with rare flowers, marks the last
resting place of Alabama’s great hero !—No mar
ble tablet records his devoted patriotism chival
rous heroism, and self abnegation, in sacrificing
all save honor, in defence of his country!
His indomitable courage, love of truth, justice,
and liberty,(.indigenous to his noble nature)
enabled him, to perform deeds of wondrous
valor, in the strife of the right with the wron g
—’ which will live in soDg,and story—. Truly
‘His fame on brightest pages,’
Will go down to future ages,’
and no other monument is needed for the illus
trious dead ! But the South, ought not to let
her national horizon, be darkened, by the cloud
of ingratitude.—Especially Alabama, the state
he loved, the name he made world-renowned she
should not suffer this odium to rest on that
name-, in thus neglecting the grave of her great
champion!
I believe, if solicited, every true woman, and
brave man will gladly aid in the erection of an
appropiate monument for one who has done so
much for our liberty. G.
Closing of the ‘Bloody Chasm ’-The
prompt response of the North to the fever-af
flicted South, the heartfelt sympathy that has
been expressed by Northern communities and
the abundant aid, money, provisions and per
sonal service that they have given to relieve the
distressed occasioned by the terrible pestilence
—these spontaneous tokens of brotherhood and
kindly feeling have done more to heal the old
wounds made by the war and the newer ones
inflicted by party malice and injustice since the
surrender than all the reconstruction policies
and peace speeches of politicians. In this way,
the South's awful affliction has been beneficial.
The prompt and earnest manner in which the
North has come to her relief, closes the old
chasm of resentment and restores the unity of
feeling more effectually than costly Centennial
Exhibitions or political sops to Cerberus, con
cessions that had no heart in them, and were
wrung from cold and calculating policy. Now,
the people speak to the people through the elec
tric medium of sympathy and not through po
litical mouth-pieces. We can understand and
appreciate this kindness. It has nothing hid
den and crafty in it. The messages of compas
sion and comfort sent from press and pulpit,
the days set apart for fasting and prayer in be
half of the ‘distressed South,’ the generous do
nations of money and provisions aud of personal
help from the North have done more to restore
unanimity and brotherhood of feeling than all
the eloquence of assemblies or the machinations
of policy. *
Are we all Insane f - A Roman Poet
having considered the different weaknesses of
men, was led to utter the sweeping declaration
that we are all insane. Perhaps he was correct;
—he was certainly so if the standard of sanity
be one who has equal ability in everything,
without a weakness or a special aptitude in any
direction; for such people are not to be found.
But we should erect no such standard. Twere
folly to pronounce Pope insane because he was
much concerned about the making of verses,
while he cared very little for the making of
shoes, and it would be quite absurd to pro
nounce all unsound of mind who are too deeply
engrossed in the rearing of corn to care for the
wonders of the phonograph. The truth is that
either a perfectly sound body, or a perfectly
sound mind is hard to find in these days;—but
from the very nature of the case it is more diffi
cult to determine the character and extent of
mental than of physical malodies, Many a
mind is like a chime of bells all out of tune,
while no one is wise enough to tell of its de
rangement.
Pariflcatioh by Fire— Letter from New Or
leans.— Dear Sunny South:—I read and heartily
indorse your ‘Suggestion’ (in last week’s paper)
that fires be kindled on the premises as a pre
ventive of yellow fever. I had read a similar
suggestion from you in the Sunny South two
years ago, and remembering it I have had fires
kindled in my yard and bedrooms at nightfall
ever since the fever became epidemic. My fam
ily of six persons have escaped the dreadful dis
ease. I sent my copy of the Sunny South with
yonr suggestion marked to one of our daily pa
pers yesterday, but I see in this morning’s Times
that a general purification by fire has been ear-
nnnn the Citv authorities by a
communication purporting to express the wishes
of many citizens. I clip the article from the
Times and send it to you. It is entitled ‘The
Whole City to be Thoroughly Fumigated.’
To the Editors of the New Orleans Times; Gent
lemen:—It being the universal opinion of
our old citizens that a thorough fumigation of
the city of New Orleans will immediately destroy
the fevers now prevailing in our midst, will you,
for charity’s and humanity’s sake, advertise for
three consecutive days that all good citizens are
requested to build fires, of anything that will
make plenty of smoke and flame, from a half to
one hour in the street in front of their premises,
also in their yards, if possible, twice a day for a
few days—say at seven o’clock punctually, every
morning and evening, beginning Friday morn
ing, the 13th instant. Since the first publica
tion of this nature a great many people have
built fires, but to produce good it must be uni
versal .
The purifications and disinfecting such as we
have had never did nor ever will do any good,
any more than a mans’s washing his feet to
cleanse his dirty face. D. E. M.
The Prayer of Balaam.—The Prophet into whose
mouth Goil put blessings when he was urged and
perhaps himself wished to pronounce curses, utter
ed no uncommon prayer when he besought that he
might die the death of the righteous. All men de
sire to die well;—doubtless there are few who do not
flatter themselves that they will do so. But not
many are willing to purchase a good death by living
a good life. Amid the pleasures of doing wrong they
forget that each sin must inevitably entail suffer
ing, and thus they go on forgetting that day of reck
oning that will surely come. To the outward seem
ing however, there is no striking contrast between
the death scenes of the righteous and the wicked.
Hope does not always hover with radiant wing
around the departing saint making all bright and
glorious by the light of his presence. On the other
hand many whose lives have been marked by shame
and guilt have died calmly, with strong faith in a
better state beyond the grave. We have no assur
ance that in the extreme moment the conscience is
any less swayed by that self-deluding sophistry
which persuades one that wrong is right than at
any other period of existence. Men must be judged
not by the manner oftlieir entrances or exits, but
by the way in which they discharge their duties
while on the stage of existence. Adopt the prayer
of Balaam if you will;—but supplement it by trying
to live a good life.
Yellow Fever
Memphis, Sept. 12.-Weather cool enon|J for
over-coats, but fever still unabated. Ninety-
eight deaths, among them Herbert Landrum
city Editor of the Memphis Avalanohe, a young
and talented man, who stood to his post of duty
through all the trying time of the pestilence.
His father, Rev. Dr, Landrum, well known and
beloved through Georgia, was smitten with fe
ver while watching at the bedside of his dy g
son and is now very ilL
New Orleans, Sept. 12.-Two hundred and
seventy-seven new eases reported by tne U -
ards. Ninety-four by the y°ung men s^ Chris
tian Association. From noon till 6 p. m. there
were twenty-two deaths.
Vicksburg, Sept. 11.-Weather quite cool, but
little abatement of the plague. Deaths 42 yes
terday-31 to-day. Drs. Potts, Blitchfield and
Norris who voluntarily went from Chattanooga
to aid the sufferers are dead and so are several
of the nurses who went from Chattanooga.
Mr. Norvell, one of the Editors of the New Or
leans Democrat, died of yellow fever under very
pathetic circumstances. He was a native of
Lvnchbnrg, Va., and had served gallantly
through the civil war in the Confederate army.
At the beginning of the epidemio, he refused to
leave the city and allying nimself with the How
ards, did all he could to alleviate the sufferings
of the sick and destitute. His philanthropy was
the cause of his death. He was smitten with
fever at the same time with his little boy. To
gether they lay sick in the same bed, together
they died. The tie that bound them together
was unusually strong. Norvell was a devoted
father, wholly wrapped up in his boy; the child,
handsome, precocious, extraordinarily develop
ed for his age, was glad to lie by his father. He
had often expressed a desire to die at the same
time with his father. Heaven granted his pray
er- The little boy expired yesterday morning,
and the father, shocked by the child’s death,
soon followed. ‘In death they were not separ
ated.’ He leaves behind him a widow who has
shown her heroism in this terrible catastrophe,
which tore from her her husband and her only
child. With strength of mind and courage pos
sessed by few she nursed these, her dearest ones,
to the very moment of their death, refusing her
self rest or sleep.
Augusta, Ga., Sept. II.—Augusta has con
tributed S3,300 to the fever sufferers. Thomas-
ville sends $640 to the Howard association at
Memphis.
Boston, Sept. 11.—The Wenhem Ice company,
having offered to load ten cars with ice daily for
fivd days for the Memphis sufferers, the connect
ing railroad lines agree to transport it free. The
first five cars will leave Boston to-night via the
Boston and Albany railroad, marked; ‘For the
Yellow Fever Sufferers, Memphis, Tenn.’
Chicago, Sept. 11.—The receipts from yester
day’s great picnic were over $10,000. The en
tire amount goes to the afflicted southern cities.
The total amount raised here up to noon to-day,
and regularly reported, is $57,838.
Holly Springs, Sept. 11.—Deaths yesterday
and to-day, 18; new cases, 12. We need doc
tors, supplies and money.
Grenada, Sept. 7..—J. G. Fountain, Herald
correspondent, and W. F. Ball, railroad agent,
were stricken to-day. Since last report there
have been eight deaths and four new cases. The
malignity of the fever surpasses anything in the
previous experience of the oldest physician.
Very few escape when attacked. Grenada is no
longer a city, it is a morgue.
How They Buy and Sell in Madrid.
A nut-brown maid is attracted by a brilliant
red and yellow scarf. She asks the sleepy mer
chant, nodding before his wares:
‘What is this rag worth ?’
He answers with profound indifference:
‘Ten reals.’
‘Hombre ! Are you dreaming or crazy ?’
She drops the coveted neck gear, and moves
on apparently horror stricken.
‘Don’t be rash ! The scarf is worth twenty
reals; but for the sake of Sanctissima Maria, I of
fer it to you at half price.—Very well! You are
not suited. What will you give?’
‘Caramba ! Am I a buyer and seller as well ?
The thing is worth three reals—more is simply
robbery.’
‘Marie! Jose ! and all the family ! We can
not trade. Sooner than sell for eight reals I
shall raise the cover of my brains ! Go thou !
It is eight in the morning, and still thou dream -
est.’
She lays down the scarf reluctantlv, saying,
‘Five. ’
But the outraged merchant snorts scornfully:
‘Eight was my last word ! Go !’
She moves away, thinking how well that scarf
would look in the Apollo Gardens, and casts
over her shonlder a Parthian glance, and bids—
‘Six !’
‘Take it! It is madness, but I cannot wa r
my time in bargaining.’
Both congratulate themselves on the opera
tion. He would have taken five, and she would
have given seven.
Fall Fashions,
Amusements—The various entertain
ments given in the city daring the week for the
benefit of the yellow fever sufferers have all
been quite successful and realized handsome
sums.
The Templeton Star Alliance will begin an
engagement on Monday Evening which will be
brilliant in every particular. John Templeton
is an old favorite with Atlanta audiences and
his little Fay is one of the prodigies of the
stage.
They will probably give an entertainment
daring the week for the yellow fever fund.
The Citizens’ Entertainment has been post
poned until next Thursday evening. It will
take place at the Opera House and consist of a
Singing Match between the two excellent Quar
tette Clubs of this city; the recital of a drama
tic poem (original) by Mrs. Bryan and a lecture,
not exceeding an hour in length, by Dr. Browne,
of the Jewish South. A splendid gold medal
has been made and engraved to order and will
be donated by Mr. Haas to the young lady sell
ing the most tickets for the occasion. It is on
exhibition at the jewelry store of Mr. Stevenson,
Whitehall street.
The New York Herald gives a map of the in
flicted districts of New Orleans, which the Times
of the latter city says is incorrect. The Herald
asserting that the greatest mortality has occur
red in the ‘old, ill ventilated houses of the French
quarter and along the canals and basins which
are the filthiest in the United States, the Times
corrects the statement and says the French quar
ter of tne city is not badly ventilated, and that
along the canals and basins there is not mnch
fever. ‘The resoirvoir and hot-bed of the dis-
ease is the low and badly drained, but compar
atively new quarter between Magazine street and
the river.’
What is Going to be Worn.
The short frock will be short indeed, clearing
the pavement perfectly , and necessitating the
wearing of the neatest and most jaunty of boots
and encouraging the use of fancy stockings’.
‘Tne kilt’ will be varied by the short, round
skirt, trimmed with a kilt plaiting at the
bottom; overskirts will accompany utility
costumes, varied by trimming appliances
on more dainty confections, with the general ef
fect of the overskirt; polonaises will assert
claim to the notice so long held by them • while
the prevailing fancy, it seems, will run into
jaokets and vests;-the Louis XIV. style, not
ably. On all woolen stnffs, the garniture will
be applied as flatly as possible; and indications
8 ®?g est ‘ or later ’ the ne »t. simple finish
of the stitched hem—effectiveness being relied
on in drapery rather than in extraneous trim
ming.
Jetted and fancy beaded garniture still pre
sent the luxuriousness which both charmed and
astonished in the Spring, while the former will
, have precedence m popularity oyer the lat-
*«•„ Th ° s m °ch from information at hand: we
shall perhaps oe compelled to modify our pre-
dictions m regard to what will definitely remain
as distinctive of the coming season, aud further
TIT- 68 lntrodnce to notice many things'
esting! 1 fabncs and trimmings, novel and iuter-
waTs^te^whif tyl6 ’ "reprehended in the long
waist fatted with corset-like exactness and of a
make Thel« Zm £ Ce !| tain aust erity of cut and
n e » in gZS l‘*™ h d,gtM ° f
mJSES - ! has g0ne from North Carolina
olaiminc? nnrBe yellow-fever patients,
“Fl- 411 dootor8 will agree
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