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Wm. B. SF.AI.S. Proprietor and For. Editor,
MILS. MARV F.. BRYAN,<*> Associate Editor
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, APRIL. 2P, 1879.
THE NEW SUNNY SOUTH.
One more issue after this and “Our
Sunny South" will appear in a new
costume. The Fifth Volume will then
begin with an entire new “make-up.
The old readers of the paper will ob
serve some of the new type in this issue
THREE NEW STORIES.
The “New Issue" will contain the
initial chapters of Three Splendid
New Stories.
Heath of C«en. Dick Taylor.—In the death of
Gen. Taylor, the South lias lost one of the ablest
repr»sentatives of its society abroad. Intelligent,
polished,courtly, brilliantly versatile, accomplish
ed as a soldier, politician, scholar and author, lie
was rightly honored at the South, though it is too
t -lie that he was not appreciated by the masses at
his real worth. He was known as a dashing com
mander in our Confederate army, as the oflicer, who
defeated Banks in the battle at Mansfield and broke
up the Red River expedition: but his strikingorigi-
n ility, hi« high sense of honor, his fine taients
have never received their full recognition among
us. English and Continental Society acknowledged
him, however, as one of the most remarkable men
of the time and have honored him beyond any
other American. His book concerning the war has
just been published. It is an able work—boldly crit
ical in military matters, vivid in narration and
showing marks of the scholar in its style and
thought. Gen. Dick Taylor, only son of President
Zachary Taylor, was born in New Orleans in 1SZ6.
When he was six years old he was at Fort Snelling
in Minnesota, and was there taught by a missionary
who had a school of young Indians and half breeds
Little Dick was the only white boy among them,
and, from these wild companions he may
have imbibed that restltss, hdf fieic spirit
that afterwards distinguished him. When the In-
dian boys broke through the school-walls one day
and took to the woods and prairies like the wild
things they were, little Dick went with them and
was not captured tor two days. At the age of thir
teen he was sent to a school in Edinburgh Scotland,
and instructed in Latin and other studies. Return
ing after some years to America, he entered the
Junior class of Harvard college and graduated in
1845. He went directly lrom college into military
life, and became his father’s aiudecamp on the
Mexican frontier. He was In the battle? of Palo
Alto. Resaca de la Palma, and Monterey, After
wards he was in the Louisiana Senate for four years.
He went into the war of the States as a Confederate
Colonel, and was promoted first to a Brigadier, and
afterwards to Lieutenant-Gei.eral with command of
the trans Mississippi Deoartment. His defeat at
Mansfield of Banks army of 40,000 with only 8,000
men was a brilliant exploit; and proved his military
Mexico's International Exhibition.—It is a
hopeiul fact tliatfMexico {seems to be forgetting to
squabble internally as usual in her efforts to make
a success of the grand International Exhibition—
she has projected for next year. The Fair will take
place at the capital and will be an exposi
tion ot the rich resources of the country as well
as of its enterprise aed industry. The Invitations
to other nations show a liberal spirits avowing that
“the Executive desirous of maintaining itself at
the height of its purpose, will in the name of Mex.
ico invite ali nations, without even excepting those
whose governments have not established or renewed
diplomatic relations with that of the republic,
■'he powers who maintaiu such relations are at lib-
ert.y, the same a? the states of the Mexican Federa
tion, to construct at their expeuse buildings or
pavilions on the ground destined for the exhibition;
according to the rules wnich will be issued in due
time. In due time also, the ports of entry for objects
destined to the exhibition will be determined.
These objects, in accordance with the regulations
that the department of finance will duly issue*
■shall pay no duties, except iu the case of sale, and
.nay remain exposed during six mouths, exempt
lrom all local or warehouse charges,” *
I»r. Carver's last Exploit.—The handsome
American .Marksman has been astounding our
cockney cousins by his feats with his Winchester
rifle. At a recent exhibition near London, after
breakiug any number of glass balls, he capped his
performances by a feat done for a wager. His col
ored boy, that he carried out with him, was put
upon horseback a hundred yards off, and made io
bold up iu his left hand the target of a big apple
stuck upon a pruning knife. Then the horse was
put at full speed an-i headed for tire spot wnere the
Doctor stood w th iiis rifle. When at thirty yards
distance, the accomplished rifleman fired and split
the apple iu pieces. He won nearly two thousand
dollars by this feat, and bis backers were elated at
i.lieir good fortune; for the belting odds against him
bad been £5Dto$lo, The Doctor is to return to this
country in time for his great match next fail with
iiogardus. *
How the Men are Ruled.—The boss wife is the
wile who thinks she rules and doesn’t; the baby
wife governs and doesn’t know it. And men like
■o be governed by babies, not bosses. This is aw
fully humiliating, but it’s a fact. Nothing demor-
ilizes a man so effectually as to discover that he
has married somebody stronger than himself. A
baby wile never lets him discover it; it is enough
for her if everybody else kuows it. Men have a
trange fondness for weak women —that is. women
who appear to be weak, ’’’hey derire to be protec
tors and cha "upious before they ar ; ten years old.
Nothing is so aggravating to the urchin as to appear
•o be ruled by a woman; As a rule this is the fellow
i hat inevitably is ruled by one without ever know
ing it, and he’s always a masculine fellow. Mark
that. Your effeminate fellow rebels against wo
manly influence, and flounders about to a most dis
tressing thraldom, and never is ruled by a woman
>r anything else. The one redeeming trait in all
boss wives is the woman in them. I never saw a
boss wife who didn’t have feminine Rpells. Some
of them retire to their rooms once in three or four
weeks, stop up the Key-hole, and have a good cry
before the glass. Then they come out refreshed and
ready for business again.
A Devil-Fish.—The monotony of life at the
Ascension Observatory was relieved by walks along
the sea-shore picturesquely lined with volcanic
rocks iu which the fierce waves had cut passages
and left pools in which millions of sliell-fisil dis
ported themselves. Mrs. Gill relates an adventure
on one ot these occasions: ‘‘While poking at a
lovely pink coralline in one of these grottoes, try
ing to dislodge it, I felt my stick suddenly pulled
from my grasp. Thinking it must have got fixed
among the stones in some way, I was about to put
■ lown my hand to disengage it, when, to my horror,
I saw some ugly slimy tentacles wind themselves
round my trusty staff, which was now the prey of
a cuttle-fish. There was Dot the slightest occa-ion
lor it, of course; nevertheless I screamed. This
See Good in the Living.-That great
master of oar language, Mr. Harry FieldiDg, has
giveD a receipt whereby a hosband who finds
that the love of his spouse has not only waned
bnt altogether disappeared, may rec <ver his lost
e tate. The plan suggested may not, indeed, be
very pleasant, bat it will be fonnd most efiida-
cions. Bat we may not charge women alone
with shedding fictitious tears over those whom
they have not loved either wis ly or well. Men,
when called upon to pronounce funeral orations,
wax pathetically eloquent over excellencies of
character, to which thev were wboll bl ; nd
while the person was living. Let s -me wrang
ling demagogue die, in wh( s z al tor the tri
umph of party every consideration of right and
justice seemed to be lrs - , and there will not be
wanting those even from among his political
enemies, who will string together fine sentences
about his virtues. Those virtues, while he
lived, were ahOjeth* r obtoare*’, ind it is only
when the san of life has set tuat they may b e
Keen.
Bat what avails this pcs humous praise? Be
it ever so fulsome it can never no longer excite
a thrill of pleasure in the heart stilled in death,
or be it ever so sincere, it cannot atone for the
abuse heaped upon the liviug. Tnough one
shape forth paragraphs of the most touching
eulogy they will not efface the bitter words that
he has been a ; l along uttering. The husband
may, like H rod, bewail through life the Mir-
riam whom he has slain in a fit of mad j alonsy,
or the wife may erect above the husband whose
heart she broke by her cruel taunts, a monu
uient as costly as that reared by the Carian
queen over the remains of her departed lord—
yet all will not recall the past unkindness. The
chants of praise hymned ove- the dead can car
ry no Bolace to the departed spirit which while
in the flesh was wounded hy many slanderous
words.
Yet is the tear shed all too late more honora
ble to our nature than the savage insults which
Achilles heaped upon the body of his slain ri
val. Hate should hush its revelings in the pres
oiice of the all-conquering monarch. We con
demn r.ot charity for the dead, bnt lack of it for
the living. How much better were it, could we
but rccogniz > that our opponent is not so black
as our pr jndi:e paints him ! We might, if we
could clear our vision from the mists that party
spirit throws over it, discern that the fanatic
may be sincere in his convictions, and that one
may do very bad acts without having any bad
motives. If we would but look a little at the
other side and not all the time at our owr, we
might differ without contemning or hating
We would entertain more favorable opinions of
:he living, and could pronounce eulogies upon
them when dead without being exposed to the
charge of insincerity. * *
The Cassava or African Potatoe. —
A New Hampshire mannficturar has just sent
machinery to Apouka, Florila, to test the
starch-makiog qualities of the roct of the Cas
sava. I remember, when a child, seei ig quan
tities of the very whitest starch mads of the
Cassava— g own on my father’s plantation in
Florida. The method he use l was to run the
long roots through the rclleis of a sugar mill to
press out the juice which was then mixed with
water, and allowed to settle, when the water was
poured off and the cakes of starch dried on
tabb s and board?. The Cassava was in ex’en-
sive use there as an article of food, being baked,
boiled, made into pies, or stewed and eaten
with milk. It is very palatable and the shrub
grows rapidly and has beantitul foliage. *
was no devil-fish of Victor Hugo dimensions, but
genius. He had immense wealth at the beginning I so hideous was the creature that disgust, not terror,
of the war, but like all our noble leaders lie sacri-j possessed me. David, who was at a little distance
ficed It on the altar of patriotism, and came out of I exploring on his own account, concluded that I
the war so poor that a few days after the surrender
he was obliged to sell his horses to provide for his
immediate necessities. He went to England a few
years after the war, where the best society and roy
alty itself received with every honor the accom
plished soldier, scholar and gentleman. He died in
New York on the 12th of April, at the residence of
Mr. Barlow, an old f.iend The Capital erroneously
calls him an old bachelor. He was married to a
lady of Louisiana—of a fine old Creole family*
and he has three daughters living. His sons, I
think, are all dead. *
I.ncia Zarate a Bride.—The two lit*lo Midgets,
who have drawn crowds all over this .-ountry to
look at the most diminutive specimens -i human
ity that ever existed, were married in New York
last week. Three years ago Lucia Zarate was iu
Atlanta for several weeks. Hhe was then just from
Mexico and had not made her debut before North
ern sight-seers. Her twin brother, but little larger
than she, had died of small pox on the trip. She
was then twelve years old and weighed four and a
half pounds and looked like nothing earthly:
rather like one’s fancy of a brownie or other eerie
sprite. Her dark litt'e (ace was not ugly, but it and
her doll-like figure, bobbing restlessly here and
there, dancing and pirouetting, were so exlranrd;-
nary that not even when we felt of the mites of
arms and fingers could we bring ourself to believe
she was flesh and blood, and not some artfully
gotten-up puppet, wound up by mechanism to ta'k
In that shrill, piping little treble in which she jab
bered to us unintelligible Mexican, Not uutil we
saw her wierd face light up immistakably at the sight
of flowers that a lady had, and her fit of anger and
stamping because she conld not have them, were
we convinced that the midget was a real mortal,
and not an ingenious hoax. Zarate has increased
only a half pound since then. She is now fifteen
and a matron. It is too absurd to think of. Doubt
less the marriage was the catch penny contrivance
of those who have the midgets in charge.
The little creature seemed hardly to have more
intelligence than a well-trained ape, to which ani
mal she bore some resemblance. Gen. Mite, to
whom she was married, is fourteen years old and
weighs nine pounds. Zavate wore a white satin
dress—en Iraine studded with one thousand seed
pearls. The General, whose real name is Frank
Flynn, wore a full dress suit, with white satin vest, j
There was a ripple in the smoothness of their en- |
gagemeht it seems. The bride was a member of the
Episcopal church and the General’s family were
Roman Catholics, but the obstacle was surmounted
and the marriage went smoothly off. A queer look
ing pair they must have been. *
laid at least sprained my ankle, and ran quickly to
my assistance. ‘Only a devil-fish! We have seen
many of these before!’ ‘Yes; but only baby ones,
who looked innocent enough to be gorged with
cabs; tilts is a monster, a fiend.’ We stood watch
ing him. Clearly, my stick was not to his liking,
for by and by he gradually unwound himself from
it., and sank sullenly down among the coral, look
ing, as before, like a tuft of harmless sea-weed
How I congra ulaled myself on not having trie ' <1
my hand under water." It was a fortunate e.-e .pc.
Mr. Talmage and the Brooklyn Presby
tery.—The New York public seem thoroughly dis
gusted with the proceedings of the Brooklyn Pres
bytery that is now trying Mr. Talmage The as
sembly calls itself a “Court of Jesus,’ but its uiter-
ances are not altogether similar to those of the
meek and lowly Master; and the 1‘osl asks irrever
ently, “Do these sonsoi God fight all the we. k and
expect us miserable sinners to put up with their
rolled eye-balls on Sunday ?”
Indeed, Christians had need to be more circum
spect now than ever before. It is an age that
weighs everything, sifts everything, burns through
all masks with thekeen eye of inquir . -nTd requires
that all claims shall be established b- •' they are
recognized. II Christians do not wish their profes
sion to be evil-spoken of they had to follow
their divine pattern more closely, especially his
new commandment put before thosegiven to Mose
‘•Love one another.”
Stand at tlic Head.—Young man if you are go
ing to be a farmer be a good one. Be the chief
worker yourself. It is the first that wiDs esteem
and respect. Study, observe and listen, and gather
inform tion pertaining to your business from
every source, and you can soon know as much as
any one. Let no day pass you without some in
crease of knowledge. Whatever you cultivate do it
well. Whatever stock you have iet It be good, and
lake good care of it, and improve it as fast as your
means will admit. Whatever fruit you have, let
it *'e choice, and study how to improve it, how to
market it so as to get the highest price. If you
have a garden let it be the flrst in the neighbor-
K. Be at th head of the class, not third or
fourth, or at the foot.
How They are Crowded In Cities.—People
who live in the country have no idea—can have no
idea—of the way in which people are packed to
gether In our great cities. In the seventeenth
ward ol New York City, which is the most crowded,
if we take out the lanes and streets, and consider
only the ground actually occupied by the people,
statistics show that the average for each inhabitant
—man woman and child—is nine and a half feet
square. It takes from fourteen to sixteen feet to
bury him This frightful fact epitomizes in a sen
tence our tenement house system. Men live in a
little more than half the space of ground their
corpses occupy when dead. In Philadelphia there
is scarcely a fore-handed mechanic who does not
own his house, or at least live in one tiiat is truly
his home; which a room in a tenement-house
never can be. There is in Philadelphia, district
after district, and street after street, with its two
and a half story houses of brick with the inevita
ble trimmings; for Philadelphia has a cravat and
wristband of marble, as much as a gentleman has
of linen. There is probably not another city on
tliis continent in which as many men have homes
as in the city of Philadelphia *
The Opera of CindenHa is very shortly to be
produced in gorgeoas style at Eiobmond, by a
club of amateurs composed of the first young
ladies and gentlemen of the city. The per
formance is for the benefit of the Betreat for
the Sick. The opera owes its snggestion to
Prof. Er.osson, a skillful musician as well as a
scholar, who was inspired by gratitude for the
o ire Le had received at the Brireat. The Pro
fessor is the author of the series of muoh sd-
mirsd stories, wbioh appeared in the Sunny
South called ‘Uader Six Flags.’ •
Tlie Spectacle of a pie-«atirg match filled
aN’W Orleans theatre recently. Tne contestants
were four youths, who were to stand around a
’able on the stage, each with his pie before him
which, &’ a signal he was to grab and devour,
the winner being the one who should first bolt
the d\speptic mass. Tae pie was rather a suc
cession of mince pies put one on another until
the layers retched a thickness that would call
for an alligator-lik-* expansion of j iw to lake in.
Dan Lindsay proved his greater oiaim to being
a human pig by gulping the last morsel of bis
pie while the others were struggling with their
piece next to the last. He pocketed the ten
dollar praai:um, and then there was annouccjd
a five dollar match, and three pies were put ou
Die table, and three deluded boys came forward,
-■' zed them and bit them simultaneously. But
a one bite was tbeir last. Simu'taneously.
.ere was a terrible sputtering, a thud of
lropp e d pies and a trio of wry fac-s, while the
s; eciat 'rs roared with laa pi -r on compreh* tid
ing 'bat the pastry tuat tilled the pie crusts
was composed of uncooked salt mackerel, leath
er, rus’y wires, straw and rags—a mess to equal
the compound stewed by Macbeth’s witches.
Truly the games and spectacles in which the
modern public delights are not of a very ele
vating character. Why don’t soma one an
nounce a Fasting match— the winner being the
one who conld do without eating longest ? It
wonld snit the times better than enconraging the
development of the food-devouring capacity. *
Why Curry Killed tlie actor Por-
(«»!•. Th* agent for the E aersoo troop io-
i nued the Louisville A^gas that the cause r.f
Curry’s brutal shooting of the actors P >rter and
Barrymore in Marshal Texai was a grudge the
bully had hirbored against all plav people ever
since Louise Pomeroy gained the five thousand
dollars for which she sned the Texas Pacific
Bailroad for injuries received by her on that
road last winter. Curry was the detective em
ployed by.the railroad oompany, and was to
have been paid only if he s ucceeded. He failed,
and has since frequently avowed his animosity
to all players. Emerson’s agent reports that
the desperado said to him on the very day he
killed Porter: ‘I’ll lay for yon actor* and get
one of you yet. ‘ Porter was the fifth man that
Carry had killed. He was a fiend, unfit to be
at large, and it is gratifying to know that, in
stead of being a ‘Texas Desperado,* as the
Northern press take pleasure in calling him, he
was an Ohio man and a non-commis lioned offi
oer in Hayes own regiment during onr civil un-
pleasantntsi. *
The Hathaway Cottase. -The scene
of Suak*-epeare’s courting is said to be pictur-
J esq ie as well as interesting. The cottage,
quaint, etraw-thatebed building, covered with
ivy and rose bnshes, is iu a good state of preser
vation. The old house, which was lor its time
commodious and of some pretentions, is now
occupied by three families—iarm laborers. The
central division, which is formed of the hall
and main fireplace, and the sittiig ro >m of the
old building as it stood in Shakespeare’s time,
is now known as the Hathaway cottage, and is
kept much as it stood then, with some of the
old furuitnre and some of the heirlooms of t .0
family. Au elderly woman, with the pleasant
manners of the bumble classes here, rtcrives
the visitors and shows a real and intelligent in-
teres in explaining the legend and relics of the
place. She is herself a Hathaway, and the fam
ily have lived on the spot ever since the tine of
Shakespeare, as well as for generations before.
Iu the garden of the cottage, planted with
box, lavender, marigold, res mary, pansy, thyme
aud other familiar English diwera and shrubs
stands the well of pure, cold water in the same
place 3nd serviog the homely uses as of old. It
is doubtful, however, if Shakespeare ever drank
of it. The Englishman of the sixteenth cen
tury, like the Englishman of the nineteenth,
we suppose, confined himself to ale.
Women Eyeing Women. -Tne eye-
iog of women by women is one of the most
offensive manifestations of superciliousness
now to be met with in society. Few observant
persons can have failed to notice the manner in
which one woman, who is not perfectly well
bred or perfectly kind-hearted, will eye another
woman whom she thinks is not in such good
society, and, above all, not at the time in so
costly a dress as she herself is in. It is done
everywhere; at parties, at church, in the street.
It is done by women in all conditions of life.
The very servant girls learn it of their mis
tresses It is done in an instant. Who cannot
recall hundreds of instances of that sweep of
the eye which takes in at a glance the whole wo
man, ani what she has on, from top knot to
shoe-tie? M n are never guilty of it, or, with
such extreme rarity, and then in such feeble
aud small-souled specimens of their sex, that it
may be set down as a sin not masculine, or at
least epicene. But women ot sense, of some
breeding, and even of some kindliness of nature,
will thus endeavor to assert a superiority upon
the meanest of all pretences and in diet a wound
in a manner the most cowardly, because it can
not be resented, and admits of no retort. If
’hey but only knew how unlovely, how posi
tiyely offensive they make themselves in s) do
ing, not ouly to their silent victims, but to
every generous-hearted man who observes their
aia- ceavres, they would give up a triumph at
once so mean and so cruel which is obtained
at such a sacrifice on their part. No other
evidence tv 0 this eyeing is needed, that a
'’ninan. wh»;e-er be be* - birth or breeding, has
a small auc vulgar soul.
Talking Things Easy.—There is no
small art in taking things easy so long as we
must suff r annoyance in this breathing world,
saying as little as possible about them, and
making no parade of our martyrdom. If mak
ing a fuss and rendering every one else about
us uncomfortable in any way abated the ills
that 11 sh and spirit are heir to, there would be
some slight excuse for the folly and selfishness;
but, since we cannot escape tribulations of one
kind or another, fretting only aggravates them.
Either let ns be silent and endure, or take arms
against onr woes, and by contending end
them.
professional man. Its instruction in cancella
tion aud abridgement of mnlttplica ion and di
vision, in the shor e*t method for computing
interest, in gnaging, in finding square and cube
root, and solv.ng other basinets problems make
it invaluable to business men. The book of
over GOO pages is issued from the Atlanta press,
and the neat way in which it is printed and
bound in handsome, gi’t ettered cloth reflects
great praise upon the enterprising and popular
publishing firm of D >dson & Scott. ’
Here is a verbation answer to a matrimonia
advertisement that appeared in the New York
Post: ‘My dear fren Iv Sean ; n toDiy Nase
Pa. er you Wanting A wife I shall be glad f° r a
good husborn Bat I should be very Glad to new
you age firs 2 I should like to now Wether you
are good temper. My age is 24 years and a little
Incom for Life and if you are Beally in Wants
of A Wife I should be happy to seay you after
you Have Sent you Liknes and then I will meet
you at my sisters and then We Will talk the
Matter Over. Short aquaDtris-i S .m times
makes Long Eepentno. But 1 Wonid Mak you
Comfortable Wile I Liv and A Little After I am
Dead Weaklv I ncom. PS Exuse my Biting PS
Anserr by N xt Post ‘
Lent in ‘OurlVouil Capital. —D p.
says that Washington did not keep very relig
ion ly to its Lent. Washington is mnch stronger
on the loan—or borrow—than on the lent. It for
gets. Besides, we have had Congress with n$, and
that alone is sufficient to eliminate the piety
from the dome of St. Peter’s itself. Widow O.iver
and Simon Cameron and Ben Butler have ao’el
as amendments to the destruction of lenten
virtue. Zook Chandler has dts’royed one half
of the religions observances by cursing it and
J.ff Davis into an eternal oblivion, and the
sight of S im Bandall’s face oansed the other
half to gather ap its garments and fly.
Appleton- anl* Company with their nsual
promptness have already issued the North
American B .view for May. Tue number
abounds in interes . The leading article or
Election La vs by Secretary McCrary is an able
exposition of popular saff .-age. Campaign Notes
on Turkey by L Greene U. S. A contains in
teresting glunoes at the momentous cam
paign between Russia and Turkey. There
is a continuation of the papers on G rman So
cialism in America. ‘Absent F.ien ls’ is a
timely % and truthful sketch of half a doz m
men of letters ‘distinguished iu the annals ot
their country and closely connected with the
Beview.’ Then follows ‘A Plea for Sport’ by
Loyd Bryce. N >teson B scent Progress in Ap
plied Soieuoe by President Morton of Stevens
Institute, aid Law and D.sigu in Nature, a
discussion of the two conflicting schools of
philosophy’ by a number of the most able
thinkers and divines. *
Prof L. C. Lane author of ‘Improved sys
tem of Mathematics’ has just issued an impor
tant work in the same line, with whioh he has
been engaged for a number of years and upon
whioh he has brought to bear all his thorough
research and mature ins ght into the Soienca of
numbers. Iu ‘Practical Mathematics Simpli
fied,’ tne Professor claims that he pats forward
in a dear and simple manner the shortest and
most comprehensive method of computing by
numbers ever published to the world. It is
founded striotly upon analytical ana syntheti
cal principles, and is designed for the use of
The Kennesaw House ou Broad Street Atlan-
a, has advantages that recommend it to busi
ness men, in its nearness to the business-cen
tre of the city, its cheap rate of board and
lodgiog, its quiet, i's cleanliness, and good fare.
Mrs. Smith, the proprietress, is an excellent
fady, indef itigabie in her tfforts to make her
guests happy.
SOCIETY NEWS.
Fashions, Amusements and Gossip.
Sir Edward Thornton is tlie champion pedestrian of
Washington, ami with one of his beautiful daughters
takes a five mile walk every day.
"There is a lady, well-known in New York society,
whose distinguishing characteristic is an insatiable ap
petite. When she goes to an entertainment where tlie
atables are served from a side-table, and passed around
to the guests, she takes her ehair, and draws it up to the
table, and helps herself. When she eats all she wants,
he tills her pockets, or tells a waiter to do her up a little
parcel of the good things to take home with her. Tills is
such a well-known fact that now, when a lady is going
ive a party, she tells the caterer that there will he so
many persons and -Mrs. , and lie knows how to pro-
vit le.”
Of the :’>2 young government clerks who imbibed more
than was good for them at the recent state I jail at Ottawa,
many are said to have staggered about tiie ball room
neur’the close of the entertainment.
A Miss Mathias, of Oglethorpe county, Georgia, only
level 1 years and six months old, was married last Sun-
lay to a man of twenty-five.
The hiit worn now for the promenade, is a stiff square-
Towned walking shape, not at all pretty, but capable of
icing so when modified. Light grey and yellow felts, or
draw, are popularly trimmed with bright colors, the
iblions being threads of ali colors closely interwoven.
Everybody now is swathed in the blue or pearl-white
tissue veil, that is supposed to protect the complexion
igoinst the scathing spring winds.
REVEL IN COLORS.
The mummy cloths, the satteens, tlie bandanna plaids,
the pompadours, are all exquisitely tinted in new shades
>f color—currant, opal blue, shell pink, scarlet cerise,
ream, and every tint aud shade of blue, green, garnet
and red, ail will be worn, with much of the new yellow,
which is lighter than Bismarck or coffee, and always
.-upplemented by a dash of vivid contrasting color. All
shades are not unirequently found in one fabric. The
only trimming for such goods is yellow lace, which har
monizes with everything, or a decided mode color in the
deepest shade. It is, alas! ’tis true, that the exquisite
clinging dr ,peiy mu.-t give way to the ungraceful buttffi n'
style, which in the short street suit will give the fairest
form a grotesque stiffness and awkward bulk. Why
fashion should resurrect the ungainly hoop, is one of the
mysteries of the day.
Mine Mantilla wore at the recent fancy ball at the Aus
trian Embassy, in Constantinople, the gorgeous costume
of Zuleika, the last Moorish Queen of Granada.
French chips are not exclusively fashionable. Very
many handsome styles are of Tuscan straw, cactus braid
and other straws in fancy open work patterns. And it is
very stylish now to trim the coarse braids of deep tint
with the tine laee aud plumes. When only one bonnet
is purchased during a season, and that intended for gen-
end purposes, perhaps the best selection would be a
Tuscan straw, trimmed with a black scarf and three
Prince-of-Wales ostrich tips. A scarf with small dots
and delicate border worked with line straw is prettier
than the plain one. White straws trimmed in the same
way are used exclusively as dress bonnets.
The baz ar at James Hall for the benefit of
8t. Phillips (Episcopal) Church is largely at-
ended, and the lighted and decorated rooms
>r*s ust a hril'iant appearance, with tbeir t Dts
nil of 1 vely gipsies dispensing ic j c-eam hdd
oiling toriun-s and thrir tables cover- d with
ancy work, flowers and frni s.
Miss Jennie B Ponce, of Savannah, was mar
ried >0 Mr. A. H. Sfand-oi . ot \opnsta on the
16.h iLst. at her r- sidence in Savannah.
Among the many lovely gwls ot Atlanta, none
were more attractive, brilliant aud stylish than
Vliss Lncie Ellis, daughter of Mr. D. P. Ellis.
3 r grace of manner, conversational ability and
tovoly face made her a social favorite, both here
and in Columbus, where she resided for some
years. On last Tuesday, (15th iust.;, she was
married to Mr. Donald Bain, a well known and
exceedingly popular gentleman of this city,
partner in the flourishing mercantile honse of
Morrison, Bain & Co., president of the Young
Men's Library and director of the Fair Associa
tion. Tue marriage took place in St. Phillips
Church, E-v. Mr. Fonte effi dating. Ai im
mense throng of iriends and aeq ' riusances
filled the church to •- it ness the nnntisls of this
oopnlar couple, the ushers, Messrs Julius
Brown, John Fitten and Henry Grady, escort
ing the guests to their seats. Among them was
Miss Ellis’ Sunday school clast of twenty
youths, especially invited to see their fair young
teacher transformed into a matron. Miss Ellis
wor j a rich, peirl colored silk ; her attendaits
were in white, the gentlemen in full evening
dross. They made a very imposing group, and
the lovely bride elicit :d murmurs of praise <>n
e ery hand. Af er the ceremony and a bar.d-
some lunch at the residence of Mr. Ellis, the
bridal party left on the Florida train to spend a
happy two weeks in the land of flowers. The
friends of the parties presented them mauv ele
gant presents. Among them were a handsome
watch aud chain and silver piokle service, pre
sented by Mr Bain s partners; elegaut bracelets
and pio, by Mr. Ellis, the bride's brother; a rich
Suita of parlor furniture, from the Young Men’s
Library Association, and a complete china din
ner and P a set from a club of Mr. Bain’s friends.
The groom s gift was a superb set of jewelry.
Miss Allice Ida Ormond, daughter of Mr. J.
M. Ormond, an old and highly esteemed busi-
uTh fnKt t e . ma vi ° f xT A ; lantH ’ was married on the
19 h lost, to Mr Milton A. Smith, a prominent
planter in Southwest Georgia. The marriage
took place quietly at Mr. Ormond’s residence in
ies fhI S Unf e 0nl T 0f member8 of two famil-
hv R?v EP mT carriage rite bring performed
? j -^ r » ^‘ ,a te. Miss Ormond was much
m‘ aD,a 80 ° iet y* her large circle
to hm nll k regret her absence and follow her
to her new home in SmithviUe. Southwest, Ga.,
with earnest wishes for her happiness.
j Dt Joannes aots on th ® mimic
. T-j:- . ? n !? make an occasional exit.
— - — — but 0 thi?„H° th6 ^' rec t* OD e ofthe prompUbook,'
the farmer, meohanio, student, merchant and ] too uienoe frequently make their eggs hit,
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