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U THE PBOFHECT OF THE MOWERS.
BY HESTER E. SHlFLET.
I wonder if yon have forgot,
Amid the din and strife.
The clash of arms, the wreck of hopes,
The dissonance of life,
That summer eve beside the brook,
When life was all aglow
With hopes as bright as sunset skies,
Some twenty years ago.
The brook bore on, with gushing laugh,
Its message to the sea,
/a, on its banks, with idling steps,
We strayed—just you and me,
Above, around, the fragrant flowers,
Dropped down—a tinted snow—
No flowers have ever been so sweet,
Since twenty years ago.
To answer your impassioned prayer,
Upon the silvery tide,
I cast two flowers—a prophecy,
By which we should abide.
Awhile they floated very near.
Then parted—Ah! I know
How sharp the pain that pierced your heart
There, twenty years ago.
Too true; the flowers! We drilt apart,
Adown life's darkling stream;
Before, the glimmer of the Dawn,
Behind, that happy dream.
But, by the hopes we lost, I leel
In heaven we shall knovt,
How deep the love,—how strong the pride
Of twenty years ago.
Ah Guy! we do not reckon age
Alone by flight of time.
Some hearts are green 'neath snowy heads
And some sere ere their prime.
EveD now a love my pulses thrills—
That love I dared not show,
Beside the brook that summer eve,
Some twenty years ago.
WHAT COULD IT BE ?
A Story of Savannah.
You don't believe in ghost stories, my friend ;
neither do I. as a general thing, bnt few arrive
at the age of discretion without the occurrence
of some peculiar event that cannot be explained
away by any usual way of dissolving doubts. I
tell you the simple tale that follows as ‘twas
told to me. I only premise it by stating that it
is strictly true, the names alone being fictitious.
0n one of the principal streets of the city of
Savannah stands a large, massively built house.
It had been a palatial home in the days whm
the century was still in itB youth, bnt gradually
as the city expanded it grew beyond it, until
commerce, with its noisy traffic, invaded iis
quiet precincts, rendering it unfit for a borne.
The original ownetB clung to its clustering
memories, but when .in due time they were gath
ered to their fathers the younger surviving mem
bers ooncluded to leave the old mansion and
seek quieter quarters elsewhere. There was an
only daughter, a fair young girl, about to be
married to a gentleman living in the northern
part of Georgia. She pleaded hard that Bhe
might be married from the old home, so the
cl< sing scene before the desertion of the home
stead was tbe«marriage of Anna Neville to the
man of her choice. The plan of the house was
very simple. The library and dining room oc
cupied the whole of the English basement. The
drawing-rooms »W* —« reached bv a solid
mahogany stairwayWindir^np from.iiw front
Ooot, which °pen^dj»rr^ ^ diyided t y fold .
ing doors, "but they rarely served their pujrpose,
and the entering guest was impressed fby the
long vista seen through the depths ot the splen
did mirrors at each end of the apartments.
Suoh were the rooms that received the elite of
Savannah for the last time, and the young bride
he i self left the next day, nevermore in the flesh
to >-ee her old home.
Everything was dismantled—transferred to
another house-rand in a few months eve.y room
was fi-tei np for the reception of professional
men with names outside each office door. As
the shadows of night deepened, one lightfafter
another would be extinguished until a long si-
lenoe reigned throughout the n.ight, only broken
occasionally by some rat on a forage.
Ten years have passed. The war has inter
vened, breaking np old obannels of life, and
creating interests in new paths. Not a member
of the Neville family remained in Savannah,
and the old house was iu an agent's hands to
keep or change its occupants as he thought
proper. New people bad come in, too—the
itroiig. energetic element, that in time was to
leavrn the South —and among them two brothers
in the prime of life, one a physician, the other
a lawyer. They had rented the drawing-rooms,
ea< h occupying lus own office, and keeping the
fcl ting-doors sufficiently nj ir to admit of easy
egress lrorn one room to the other.
This brings ns up to a particular evening in
the winter of 187—, when Dr. John Mortimer
had lefc bis fiont office under the care of his
brother J mes, then busilv preparing briefs for
the ntxt day's work in court. The outer door
was locked and the key deposited, as usual, in
a given place. The brotheis were methodical
in their work and generally timed their duties
that one should be at home when the other was
aht-eut. It was between five and six o’clock, the
sun's rays had gone beyond the windows, but
the daylight wes still clear and distinct for con
tinued wii.ing. As James Mortimer still leaned
on his desk wholly occupied with the work be
fore him, be was made conscious of some one’s
approach by the shadow cast upon the paper.
Hastily raising his head, he saw before him a
tall, lovely young woman. Her movements were
so deliberate, that he took in her whole pres
ence at a gla ce. Her golden hair swept in long
w&veB from alow, broad forehead, and was care
lessly caught by blue bands of ribbon. The
features were delicately chiseled, and the deep
blue eye was intensified in its glaDce by the
long black lashes. Her white dress of some
light material seemed to float around her in am
ple folds, and was confined at the waist by a soft
broad sash of the same color as the ribbon on
the hair. There was no covering for the head
or shoulders ; apparently the person was in a
curious costume for an outdoor visit. As she
neared the table, Mr. Mortimer saw a peculiar
dradly pallor of the skin, and above all the far-
off expression of the eye that seemed to have
no recognition for surrounding ol j-cts. The
idea then arose that this was some lady patient
of bis brothel’s, probably not wholly conscioas
of her actions, and he rose quickly that he
might reassure her.
‘Madam,’ he said, 'can I aid you in any way?'
No reply. No apparent consciousness of his
presence, but with au uncertain step she turned
towards the front room.
‘Madam,’ he again said, ‘if you wish to sea
my brother, he is absent; but let me light the
gas in his office, it is almost dusk.’
Still no answer. No intimation that he had
been heard. The lady oontinned her walk to
the other rcoin, and they entered together.
Matches were always beneath the burner, and in
an instant every corner of the darkened room
had been illumined by the gas.
Mr. Mortimer glanced around to see where
the strange guest might have seated herself,
when, to his consternation, she was gone. Tue
outer door was locked, he saw that in bis has j
survey. It was but a moment's work to rusk
^through his own deserted offioe, down the stairs
and ont into the streets, where there were but
a few pedestrians, and those only men wrapped
in overooats*
Baffled and puzzled, he returned to his office
to search once more, every possible and impos
sible biding place, nntil finally he pushed aside
his papers, stirred his fire into a blaze, and sat
down to await hiB brother.
When Dr. Mortimer did return, he brought
back, (no unusual thing), a young friend for a
social gossipy hour's chat. Of course the curi
ous visitor, who might turn out to be only an
eccentric patient, was not adverded to, and the
talk drifted in various ways until the very room
they were sitting in suggested the last item of
news to their visitor. ‘By the way, this old
house will pass to other hands now, for the
owner died to-day, at her home in the northern
part of the state. Our families wme intimate,
and the telegram announcing her death came
while we were at dinner.’
‘What style of woman was she ?’ asked the doc
tor.
‘I have not seen her very lately myBelf, but
we were recalling to-day her appearance on her
wedding night, just ten y< ars ago. 'She was tall
and a perfect blende, with any quantity of wav
ing. golden hair, always oaught loosely back.
Her eyes were of a deep blue, with long dark
lashes shading them.’
‘Frank,’ said Mr. Mortimer,’ ‘you have un-
oonsoiously suggested to me some weird ideas
of the supernatural. While I was alone this af
ternoon, I had a lady visitor of the description
you have just given. Unless Dr. John recog
nize the likeness as some patient cf his, I am
afraid I must col elude I was face to face with a
disembodied spirit.’
‘I have no patient answering to any such de
scription,’ repded the doctor, and then followed
question after question, with no possible solu
tion to any one of them.
The only conclusion reached was simply that
their friend should induce his sister to write
for a careful account of her friend’s last mo
ments, the reason to be kept as their own secret.
In a week an answer was possible ; until then
they should possess their souls iu patience.
Weeks pass even if we are in a state cf ex
pectancy, and the three friends found them
selves once more together. No inquiries had
cleared up the my stery, and there hud been no
i repetition of the appearance. The portion of
! the letter that concerned them ran thus : Oar
telegram told you the bare fact that Anna had
ceased to breathe ; and it is right that some of
the facts concerning her death should be told
you. Thb whole burden of her prayer had been
to be spared lor the tenth anniveisaiy of her mar
riage, and this ardent wish was granted. More
than that came to comfort her dying bonrs, for
in her state of semi-cousoiou ness -she contin
ually thought herself back in her old home. As
she lias never seen it in its present condition,
there was nothing to break the illusion, and her
soul seemed to see all as it appeared on her
bridal night, ten years before. She died at
tour o'clock, and before six o'clock we had
robed her in one of those lovely white costumes
that were so identified with her long, weary
Lours of sickness. Her hair was arrange! in
loose waves, lightly caught by blue ribbons,
and a broad silk sash ol the same hue confined
her drass at the waist. As she lay on her couch
she truly looked as if she had entered into her
rest, only the deadly pallor told us it was the
sleep of death. ’
My story ends, and here I haye it without
comment—a bare, unexplainable fact—not even
to be guessed at,
“—for in this life
Of error, ignorance, and strife,
Where nothing is. but all tilings seem,
Anti we the shadows of a dieaw.”
I, Personals,
f —
What People Tare Doing and Saying
bt'all over the World.
D. M. Bennett hss been convicted iu New
York city of sending obscene publications
through the mails.
Gen. Hayes has nominated to the Senate for
the Mission to Berlin, the name of President
White, of the Cornell University, who is a Re
publican.
Mr. Henry C. Nrth A° wrote the B0 ”&
Grandfathers Ott’A- 11 hav ® Th^worst
thousand or moino^T an ^ one °* . tb u
of them all bashje me famous—m a small
way. Some of th feat things I have ever writ
ten have had a y limited sale, and a tew
songs on which I re spent the most time ha
never been sold a 1.’
Mr. E. C. Stedr recently received a letter
from a rich lady < ing him to write for her a
poem commemort e of her silver wedding,
holding ont kb au ducemev.t that she would
pay him ten dolli for the thing if it was long
enough and the i< 8 suited her. He replied
that to take adva ,ge of such liberality was
something he cot never think of, but that he
would advise her apply to either Tennyson
or Browning eitl'" of whom made silver-wed
ding epics a speciity, and were in the habit of
doing them up klrst-class style at $10 a dozen,
assorted.
Not long ago a ushand in one of the villages
of Indiana sou|t a divorce. The neighbois
were lull of sj pathy for the injured man,
whom they hel red to be overpowered with
grief for the losie had sustained. The lady,
after the usual phation, prepared once more
to enter the mazed state. The night before
the wedding shsras surprised by the arrival of
a casket. On ifeuing it she found a magnifi
cent present of welry, with a note from tne di-
voroed husbandicougratulating her warmly on
ner approachinjliuptials, and wishing her ev
ery happiness phkf future conjugal relations.
Here is the Sis description of G. W. Childs
—the Editor olte Philadelphia Ledger, famous
for obituary poxy, and genial gusli. It was
at the wedding If Col. Alex. McCiure of the
Philadelphia 2'tes to Miss Gratz that the re
porter took this pte-book photograph of “a little
stnbby man, wilting a brown overcoat and
turning bis toisjin as he walked, proceeding
down the aisle IJhind Mr. Allred Gra'Z. It was
particularly notied that he carried his heaver
in his unglove(\ hand, and that his hair was
smooth brushedand oily, like a wig. With
little short stepjand a monrniul cast ot coun
tenance, he waked along, looking straight
ahead, apparent! in deep thought, 'lhe beaver,
with a black bull, gave some indications that
the wearer had soently been in deep sorrow.
As he approach'd the first row ol pews, the
whisper went though the assembly : ‘ George
Washington Chios.”
J
Jumor,
The latest interview with Edison reports him
“serene," and as laughing at the idea that he
had failed in solving the problem of lighting by
electricity.
Miss Louisa Rymer, a young lady yet in her
teens, has carried off a chess prize of the Birk-
beck Literary and Scientific Institution, Lon
don, from many masculine competitors.
Munkaesv, the Hungarian artist, who has
recently sold one picture for $52 000, was for
merly a carpenter, an i has painted only a few
years. Bully for Munkacsy !
List week Mitchell R >gston, a negro, ran eff
with a while girl from Waller county, Texas.
When last heard of he was in Houston.
The Dallas (Tex.) Herald fays that Mr. Frank
Miller, an employe in the press room of that
paper, has fallen heir through his wife to $2
000 000.
John E. Hatoher, a well known journalist,
and one of the editorial staff of the Louisville
Courier Journal, died at Nashville, Tonm, March
26.
A fellow iu Baltimore stole a Maltese eat
“valued ’ $25. and was released, the Justice
holding that t iking possession of a oat Is not a
criminal cffdiice, however highly its owner
might prize it.
A man in Springfield, Miss., who wants a di
vorce, is iu a sad case of mind .b^oiuselbe can’t
recali the date of his marri”
cate is lost. Of course, V
him, and it is necessary t •W give the
date in his petition. / :agry„fo£go*—-,
Ex-Senator Chrstiancy .fO* eJ y st»rip erllj h as
taken with him his son, 2*®** * a ” 8 hen, who,
without governmental e noneys^j^i be
bis private secretary. MuiW*? »>?!t\*Scv will
follow him from New' York
M'nisUr Christianoy is sT-?^
$10,000 a year, witn $40 for
A correspondent, writing
“American women are aoki
even here, the most beautiful
titPJlw myie certifi-
id dot. uot tell
?,'£V^oy wm
-V'V, i0:h ot June.
* rB god receives
ieot
, bora*, Biys :
tobe f
— -ifil/he best
dressed women in the world, just/as American
men are beginning to *e known/ as the most
polite in the world. I lieari ■ afEnglish lady say
the other day, ‘An American lsj^an English gen
tleman perfected.”’
Mr. James Alexander, of/charlottesville, V*.,
a veteran newspaper man,I celebrated bis 75 oh
birthday Friday. He wasvy>acmns Jtfferaou’s
printer, and the distinguished American placed
much confidence in him. I A purer Christian
gentleman or more worthyjman, has never lived
in Virginia.
Recen^fcat the Chr’stiaAsburg Depot, of the
lantio.'wtio andfip'sSfsippi Rn'road, I® aa0
,('')u*H t y. te»rried, and the fat air
lip sew lost bis life in a dispute
i my n|»ent into tne bar of the
oo 'rw wishing ylMled fur a drink. Waller
R. who attends the bar
fo*» jcoinralpbtaasl Wi’son, charged
fift’ vcrjfused to pav bat 10 and
on v'A 1 . lapUes ooof *hu sent for an officer.
Thi
btr
whe:
A dollar in yoVkr hand is worth wo in another
man's pocket.-j-Jome Sentinel.
‘There’s musidlin the heir,’ moaned the young
husband, as he reached lor the paregoric bcttle.
The first impulse of a young married man on
being presented with his first baby, is to give it
a-weigh.
The proprietor of a hene factory announces
that persons leaving their bones with him can
have them ground at short notice.
It will be fashionable this season for organ
grinders to wear their monkeys with tails looped
up the back.
•What is a pedestrian ?’ asked the child. ‘The
pedestrian,’ explained the father, ‘is a tramp
set to walking in a circle.’
Yon can always tell when the hero and heroine
ia a play are man and wile. They infuse no
warmth or feeling in the siage kiss.
‘Blow, gentlefemzes, blow,'sighed the spring
poet yesterday* and the next moment he was
-basing down after bis hat, and yelling
tion, ^/Chester eouflty, Pa., man went out anu
caDtured eleven polecats in one hole, which is
doing extremely well considering the times.
The best religion is that which will make a
man sit down content to eat corn bread for sup
per, knowing at the same time that a neighbor
has fat chickens and no dog in his yard.— Pic
ayune.
A lady writer is out with an article entitled
‘How to Catch a Husband.’ But her theory is
all wrong. Ask any married woman bow to
catch a husband, and she will reply : ‘By the
hair !’
Wnen a Hartford woman patted her friend's
seven-.year old youngster on the head and Baid :
•I should like to have such a little boy as you
are,’ he looked up into her face and replied :
‘Well, I guess you can. I don't believe God s
lost the pattern of me.’
‘Isd t my photograph excellent,’ said a young
wife to her hnsband. ‘Well, my dear,’ replied
he, ‘there's a little too much repose about the
mouth lor it to be natural.’
‘I have a theory about the dead languages,’
said a new student. ‘What is it ?’ asked the pro
fessor. ‘That they were killed by being studied
too hard.’
A Cornell professor, lecturing on the effect of
wiad iu some Western forests, remarked : ‘In
traveling along the road I even sometimes found
the logs bound and twisted together to such an
extent that & mule couldn’t climb over them,so I
went aro*und.’
‘Did you ever know a man too poor to take a
paper, who didn’t spend a dollar a week for to
bacco ?
S r >ell murder backwards and you have its
source ; spell red rum in the same manner, and
you see its effects.
Dr. Holmes* definition of an entomologist is,
one who gives jiosec s long names and short
lives, a place if tcience, and a pin through the
body.
‘What makei the milk so warm?’said Betty
to the milkmR^Khpn he brought his pail to
the door. onf-Aming. ‘Please,mum, the pump
misaUB took the water lrorn
[.shed by a seedy poet whether he
anything that would live, re-
vou trouble yourself on that
you to write something that will
JSteg°yo« that he went behind tne
^ . PvVltM indffagman with his fijet,
/
■ »eP v
baud le’s
the biler.
A wit heir'
had ever ' . >{ 1
plied : ’B P.V
score, I ad**"
let you live,“‘I
A newsbot-w*' hoi rd to say that he had given
up selling s. and gone into the mes
merizing bil-gjw i I get five dollars per week,’
said he, -lf,i|ijla> A?.’ Playing what ?'asked
one of his jo? ipadifc. '’Possum/ replied the
boy. \
Orders we^ given this morning by each oi
the editors ofl .he journals to his sttff: Gentle-
tien, that gi ; from Pinaiore a as very well in
its way, but it is quite worn ont now, and I have
it >cu will never use it again in
he staff (in chorus)—‘What! Nov
ell, hardly ever.’
here is another arm just as
’ said a young fellow to his
pinched her fair arm the other
evening. The ( storm that gathered on that yonng
lady's brow quickly passed away when the
young man pipoued the other arm and said, ‘It
is this on«i dflir.',
e Australia, groans under the
Mr. Cowan killed 26 000 on
i months. The oost of de-
three penoe each, or over $1,-
only tetched half that sum.
A member of tbe Legislature arid that they had
rendered' whole distriots worthless. It is esti
mated that a opup(ft of rabbits will in four ycarB
to tbf enormous total ol 250,000.
‘I know whf
pretty as this)
sweetheart, Lc
Naw Z ‘aland/
rahbit pest.
20 000 acres in
stroy mg them
600, and tbe skii
An editor and a lawyer got into a fight
Texas city, in which the former’s pantaloons^
acoording to a veracious chronicler, were ‘wieek-
ed beyond repair.’ Tbe report says the editor
went home, donned another pair of trowsers,
and returned and fired three shots at the law
yer The only remarkable thing in the account
is the fact that the editor had another pair of
pantaloons at home. All editors are not so for
tunate.
A teacher in one of the public sohools was
startled the other day at tbe answer she got from
one bright little fellow. Oa the black board
was the picture of an ostrich, and the teacher
described its great strength and power of^n-
duranoe, dosing by saying it was the only bird
upon which a man oould nde_ I know anoth
er,* spoke np a little chap. ‘Well, what is it ?
•A lark.’ Unsuspectingly, the
‘How can you prove that, Johnny ? All I know
about it,’ said the boy,’ is that mother every
little while says father’s off on a lark, and when
he oomes home he looks as if he had rode awful
fast.’
The wife to her husband—‘Oh, how good you
are—how generous -how thoughtful it was of
you to buy me this lovely stuff dress! But,
dearest, do you not know that the unhappy silk-
weavers of Lyons are starving loi bread ? _ I pre
fer doing a little good, humble though it may
be, to gratifying myself. Take this splendid
merino dress hack to the store and make them
ohange it —a simple black silk robe will do for
me. Let us remember the poor !’
A lady told her little son, who was teasing for
something to eat, to wait until breakfast. With
a tear in his eye, he burst out: ‘I jsst honestly
sometimes think you're a stepmother !‘
Two sophomores enter a horse-car; the first
takes the only vacant seat, and the second sits
in his lap. Presently a young lady enters, and
the second soph, rising, says: ‘Take my seat,
madam. ‘ Fact.
The other day an eight-year-old boy, in Mil
waukee off- red to bet his mother his velocipede
against $500 and half the gate-money that he
conld eat 300 mince pies in 300 consecutive
hours — his mother to furnish the pies. For fear
of having to pay a large doctor's bill, no matter
how the trial terminated, and the prospect of a
funeral into the bargain, his mother declined
her ambitious son's tempting ofie/. The lad
had been reading of Mme. Anderson.
I think it was in September, it I now rightly
remember, that 1 heard a knock, knocking at
my door; yes, I know 'twas in September, for
quite well I now remember, he had been there j
about fifty tim«s belort ; had been there knock
ing at my door. But I opened not, nor won
dered, as upon my floor he tLnndered, for be
yelled: 'Sa”, now, will you settle this‘ere bill
I bring you? 1 as he battered upon the door;
and I answered, calmly answered, Nevermore.*
‘Rhymes of Science* is the namo of a little
work published by the Indrstrial Publishing
Company, New York. It seems to be a collec
tion of rhymes, of which the following is a fair
specimen;
Now Adain he stood in his garden alone,
Ere out of his body had come a rib bone
(For woman was made from a rib you’re aware,
So rib bone's their idol, and ribbon they’ll wear).
The first of his race, a monarch sublime,
He gazed all around and said, “all Is mine—
But still there’s a want, a something I miss.
And I feel that 1 long for something to kiss."
Soon after poor Adam fell down in a sleep,
Not restless and tossing, but solemn and deep.
Then rose he, but knew cot that woman was maid;
He walked iu the garden and was not afraid
But hold ! what is this? a maiden so fair
Walks bo tlly up to him without thought or care.
YoiCjui.tiu-.l/ine tr» n..lw.w t v fi rwthrnk o
Well, below find the words—’twas dond A
He—“Madam, I’m Adam.” *
She—‘ Adam, I’m Madam.”
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PLAY PEOPLE.
‘TheCrimson Cross,’ Miss Wilson's new
is savagely attacked by the London critics.
Fox’s has secured a genuine sensation for this
week in a colored op^ra troupe, who will do ‘H.
M. S. Pinafore’ in the most approved style of
genuine (not burnt cork) Degro minstrelsy. At
the same theatre Miss Marie Wellesley will ap
pear in ‘The Cross of Gold,’ and the usual va
riety bill will be presented.
It is reported that Maud Miller, Jorquin’s
youngest daughter, is dancing in a California
ballet.
The celebrated Sarah Siddon's grandson is
teaching elooution in Washtngton.
The stage is illumed by Irish talent. The
mo-t noted Emeral ! s are Dion Boucioault, Bar
ry Sullivan, John Brougham, John MtCu'ln >gb,
W. J. Florence, James ONeil, and Signor Foli,
of the Mapleson company.
The ‘Pusoion Play’ at San Francisco entailed
a loss oi $2 000.
Oat West, Lizzie Webster’s hundred-dollar
tights are regarded as nothing compared with
Texas Joe s. That distinguished sc.qnt says that
his latest pair oost him twice that afnount and a
gold watch.
Lydia Thompson is reported as having cover
ed herself with glory in her latest burlesque per
formances. Lydia was always a light dusser.
‘Carmen’ was written by Bizet expressly for
Marie R z°, and the handsome prima donna
will make her San Francisco debut in that role
April 15.
A benefit at Dallas, Texas, on the 25th, given
by the ‘Diplomacy’ combination headed by Mau
rice B .rry more, in bebalf ot the murdered B.
C. Porter’e mother, y ielded $415 net. A pre
vious benefit on the 24 h to tne combination
personally, y ielded over $500. CoL J. B Sioip-
s >n, a leading lawyer cf the city, presented to
Miss Ellen Cummins, hading lady of the
troupe, in behalf of the cit-zens of Dalles, a Ro
man-gold necklace and chain inlaid with jew
els. He eloquently anathmat-'z?d the murder
of Mr. Porter and the wounding of Barrymore.
Miss Cummins attempted a reply, but tears soon
choked her utterance, aud all that was heard
was a call upon God to bless the people of Dal
las. It waB first reported that Miss Josephine
Baker, of the troupe, was tbe lady in whose be
half Mtssrs. Barrymore and Porter resented the
insult of tbe murderer. Carrie, but subsequent
telegrams designated Miss Cummins.
derbilt University,”
lieve they were found i]
ending of a fight is of m3
than is generally supposed. \
published by the Harpers morel *
occurs the following:
‘ The combats in which the male of^
dear engage with each other are ft*
structlve of tbe lives of both in a way th
not readily be anticipated. In assaulting
other furiously, their horns come into contac
being elastic, they yield mutually to the shocl
that the horns of one animal pass within thos^
the other, and thus secure them, front to froat i
such a manner that neither can escape, and (/
torment themselves in fruitless struggieg )
worn down by hunger, they perish or bucojjj
prey of wolves or other animals. Heads i
which have thus perished are frequent/^
and there is scarcely a museum in tli f j
which has not one or more specimens-
ing instance is given by Say, in t.crnfy
to tbe Bocky Mountains: ‘As the partere de
scending a ridge, their attention was cd to au
unusual noise proceeding from a coof low
bushes, a few rods from the path. On lying at
the spot, they found two buck deer, Iheir-us fast
interlocked with each other, and both m spent
with fatigue, one in particular being so i ; h ex
hausted as to be unable to stand. Perceig that
it would be impossible for them to extric-them-
setves, and that they must either linger their
present situation or die ol hunger, or be iroyed
by the wolves, they despatched them w, their
knives, alter having made an unavaillng.-.empt
to disengage them. Beyond doubt many these
animals must annually thus perish.’ ”
A World-Wide Reputation.—Dr. R.V?ierce,
having acquired a reputation iu the treati^t Of
Chronic Diseases resulting in a profession: busi
ness far exceeding his individual ability i con
duct, some years ago induced seveial medic gen
tlemen to associate themselvas with him,is the
Faculty of the World's Dispensary, the Conuiiing
Department of which has since been mergy with
l he Invalid’s Hotel. The organization
been completed and incorporated uud-
euacted by the L< gislatureof the btute olli
under the name aud style of the “World 1
sary Medical Association.”
We clip the loilowing from the Buffalo
A branch of the “World's Medical Association” is
to be established iu London, Eng., a step which the
continually increasing European business of tbe
Dispeusary lias been lound to warrant, and next
week Dr. B. T. Bedortha will sail for the great me
tropolis named, to superintend the organization of
the new institution. This gentleman has been for
some four years associated with Dr. i’ie.ce in a po
sition of respous.bilily, and is Weil qualified for
the duty now ei trusted to him. Heretofore the
foreign business of the World’s Dispensary has
transacted through the agency of promiutmt ih
gists, but it has assumed such proporlW as ft,,
require more direct care. Dr. Bedort/'ill iu ’
duubl successtu ly carry out nis nns.-iJJeiug
gentleman ol excel ent business abilititf'J iiiu~- ie
pleasing address.
statute
w York,
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xpress*
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heart, sc * - lure
not be
whe :£<
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This morniDg Colonel J?~W. Nelms, principal
eeper of the penitentiary, will reach Atlanta
from Macon with about 150 convicts, which he
will oa:ry at once to the Dide o ral mines, to be
placed in the hands of Georgia Penitentiary Co
No. 1. This company is entitled under the new
apportionment to the convic.s to about 300 long
term men Colonel Nelms has just been in Mid
dle and Southwest Georgia for the purpose of
redistributing the convicts a oording to the
twenty-year lease which went iLti effect Tues
day. He is now on his way back, and alter the
delivery of his prisoneis he brings tomorrow
will have about completed his difficult task.
The prisuners will be brought in box-oars, bnt
they will have plenty of ventilation and as much
comfort as possible under the circumstances.
When they reach the city a special engine will
take them at once np the Western and Atlantic
railroad at excellent speed. Perhaps tbe cari
osity to see so many of these s riped fellows will
attraot a crowd at the depot this morning. Con
stitution, April 3rd.
The en
ot the
There
ot tho
Gartreil,
raue.
Miss
prepasla
and ele
A correspond
that the most »
came off lately
Hal. Dickenson
Coles. BothrwSfJ
was a labor flf love
the Methodista,ch in
was performed.. It was b-
vines, evergreens, and,fia W{ ^
many tiny, sparking upers
the bridal party to the music
MarcL ‘ wa. most imposing
couples of attendants, all i n fn-i
ranged themselves into a half circle be.oi J '
richly decorated chancel, while in the %
the brine and groom took their pi e f 1
lovely bride wore a heuvv »hit« i P i
made en tr-nine . Heavy white broCAlle S'
made en trume and trimmed with noint wm; l
llinsion ; over the whole fl ° P/ , J
veil that fell from hsr L . “ g be lo " g i
delicutft in hr in er Lead, wheia |
1.1-L. and orang^S 0 ’?,, 0 ' ’’
groom was bicomingiy hab^ ha ?*'hi, b ‘-
countenance beimedwithV i ^ vlr
niooy was impressively oeVi > 0t V 1 « HV
L Bmke, pa-'or ot the \T ,V ^ Wtd , by * 1
the party/acjonrned to fc h bodlst charcD ’ f ,
bride s brother to ei im- ii U ° rebl ^ eBee 0
tion. The bridal prasem^ 6 a dei) g hlfal c °»-
handsomo th ^ were numerous
handsome, the congratulations ma**
Jf»
10 THE PUBLIC!
^rranVKrHair « P o ° 1Ste d r aU ki “^
at prices to suftfthe 1 !‘' d .V° U , OU Mattresses,
tui e to renovate can drml J alUes having Furni-
willcall at their rp«i,i»»tL lne f po ? tal eiicd < and I
arrangements. Nonces and make the necessary
p or TRIAL IS ALL I ASK.*£x
keeper of the penitentiary, wUireaoh Allan to ^ Si l jnSdlS!te’2T£S. u f! n b ^^
__ J* Us Gttvsiii
*To. 78 Peachtree St., ATLANTA, GA.
Mrs. J. K. GlfcEGOKY,
ARTIST.
STUDIO—Corner ALABAMA i «
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