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Wilt. B. SEALS. Proprietor and C or. Editor.
MRK. NARY E. BRYAX. (*) Associate Editor
ATLANTA. GEORGIA. MAY 24. 1
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fhp Progress of Fashion.—Our front page
illustration shows the changes in ladies' fashions
from 1668 to 1875. It forms an amueing study when
we note the variety of curious shapes Dame Fash
ion has taken during her progress through two cen
turies, and even when we compare those phases
that have existed in our time. We can scarcely
realize that so recently as 18«0 women wore those
enormous crinolines which made them look like
walking balloons, and caused them to take up four
times the room they were justly entitled to. And
those who can look back only so far ss 1832-37, open
their eyes in astonishment when reminded that the
grotesque head-gear, represented in the engraving,
was deemed very becoming at that period. Ladies
of rank, in all ages, have dressed richly and expen
sively—much more so in some of the past ages
than at present. Many of the old court-dresses of
England and France were marvels of elaborate
workmanship and artistic display, composed of
material so rare and costly as to be only in the
reach of the wealthiest.
The fashion of 1875 was only the beginning of what
It'is to-day. In other words, the style of dress now
worn by our ladies of fashion is merely that of 1875
■carried to an extreme. Perhaps the time is only a
few years distant when we will look back at the
fashions of 1879 with expressions of holy horror, and
pronounce them the most ridiculous of all the past
modes of dress. But we will not anticipate! One
cannot help admiring the neatness and simplicity
of the styles of 1S04—especially of the evening dress,
which was not only graceful, bnt convenient to
the wearer, being short in the skirt to allow
the limbs free play. The walking-dressj or i<su
also arranged with an eye to con venience in this
respect, though it was by no means a graceful cos
tume as viewed from an 1878 standpoint.
What wiil be the next revolution in ladles’ fash
ions, only the future can tell.
The Macon Library.— * t the last meeting of
the Directors of the Library, a resolution was adop
ted that as the income of the Library, t hough suffi
cient to meet the ordinary expenses, was not large
enough to afford much of a margin for the purchase
of new books, and as fairs and similar enter
prises devolved much expense and trouble on a few
to meet the increasing demand for new literature,
and that a voluntary subscription list be opened at
the Library to create a fund to be used in the pur
chase of such books, and all members are invited
to subscribe to the fund. Ail moneys so collected
will be devoted to the purchase of the current lit
erature of the day. The books so bought will be at
the disposal of the whole membership of the Libra
ry. The list has been opened at the Library and a
number of names have already been appended.
We are pleased to know that this Library is in a
flourishing condition, and with such a librarian as
Charley Herbst, we do not see how it could be oth
erwise. He is not only one of the most efficient of
ficers that ever had such an institution in charge,
but is one of the most worthy and noble-hearted
gentleman in all the land.
Let Oar Congressmen Answer.—The Savan-
nan News says: ‘‘Some of the State papers are
finding a good deal of fault because Hon. W. O. Tug
gle received $10,000 as a fee for collecting from the
general government the 872,000 due to the State.
We are Inclined to view such criticism as rather
captious. To collect the sum required, a great deal
of time, expense and unremitting exertion, and it
was necessary that some agent of Georgia should go
to Washington and devote himself assiduously to
the recovery of the mcney and nothing else. It is
stated that Mr. Tuggle agreed t° do this on consider
ation that if he were successful he was to receive
fifteen per cent, of the amount, if not successful he
was to receive nothing. This can hardly be con
sidered an extravagant agreement, under the cir
cumstances, and Mr. Tuggle not only should have
his fee, but he deserv, a credit for securing the set
tlement of a claim of many years standing, and
which, but for his industrious research and indefat
igable efforts, would never have been discovered or
presented to the United States government for pay
ment.”
There Is certainly a mystery about this whole
thing which should be explained. We have In
Congress ten men elected by the people of Georgia
to represent their Interests at the seat o'govern
ment, and yet when the State really has some In
terest to be represented It has to call in the services
of some outsider and pay him a very large fee.
These ten men receive annually over $52,000, and
weshouldlike to know what benefit the State re
ceives In turn for this immense outlay. To say
that these Congressmen are kept busy on Impor
tant matters is a mistake; and what could be of
more Importance than the collecting of claims
actually due the State. If the making of a few po
litical speeches is worth all this money we cannot
see It. Indeed we are wholly unable to see how or
wherein these speeches, however good In thought
and matter, are worth anything at all to the State
or to anv one else. Ben Hill’s recent speech of four
hours duration cost the United States $20,000 in
money, aad has it benefltted any portion of the
country ? We cannot see it.
But, to reiterate, why cannot these ten men
lect these claims In favor of the State? Some
odd thousand dollars have recently teen pah
Georgia to outsiders for collecting claims and
our Congressmen cannot and do not perform i
duties we cannot understand.
The Wav to Be Happy.—Happiness is alt
to be found, If we will only condescend to pic
up, seed by seed. As none of its ingredients sR
be thought too minute to be gathered and add<
your store, so none should be deemed too insig
cant for distribution toothers. Occasions for
ferring great benefits do not often occur, and w
they do, it may not be in your power to bet
them; but the little services and gratification w
every'currentday placeslwithin the means of
humblest member of society, will constitute I
all throw onr share in the common stock, no in
siderable aggregate of human enjoyment and
tual good will.
Does Her Own Work.— Does she ? What of j
it? Is it a disgrace to tier? Is she les3 a true wo
man, less worthy of respect than she who sits In
silk and satin, aud is vain of fingers which never !
labor? We heard this sneer a few days ago,and
the tone in which it was uttered betokened a nar
row, selfish, ignoble mind, better fitted for any
place than a country whose institutions rest on
honorable labor as one of the chief corner-stones.
It evinced a false idea of the true basis of society, of
true womanhood, of genuine nobility. It showed
the detestable spirit of caste, of rank, which a cer
tain class are trying to es ablish; a caste whose
sole foundation is money, and so the meanest kind
of rauk known to civilization. Mind, manners,
morals, all that enter into a good character, are of
no account with those social snobs; position in
their stilted ranks is bought with gold, and each
additional dollar is another round in the ladder by
which elevation is gained.
In matter of fact, is it more dishonorable for the
tradesman's wife to do her own work than for the
tradesman to do his? For her to look after her
house than for liim to look after his s:ore? Or is a
woman fit for nothing only to be “pleased with a
rattle, or tickled with a straw?” It seems to be
the height of ambition in some circles to be, or pro
fess to be, not only r “above work,” but even Igno
rant of how wo. k Is to be done; and if the table Is
poorly spread, or if the housekeeper is at sixes and
sevens, the servaut receives maledictions without
stiut, but the lady takes none of the responsibility
upon herself. She look into the kitchen! She
know how bread should be made or steak broiled !
She know when the flour is out or the sugar la!
Absurd! Help may be bad enough, but what in
terest can the girl in the kitchen feel in the house
hold economy, if the lady in the parlor has none!
If mistress neglects all domestic duties, will maid
be thoroughly'conscientious? Will the husband’s
business go on well if he neglects it? And why-
should that of the wife prosper uuder her lack of
responsibility ?
Self Government.—In the midst of events that
seem to bespeak predestination, man still feels that
he is free. The planets wheel through the heavens;
the earth revolves on : .s axis, and performs its vast
annua! circuit; the seasons come and go; the clouds
riseand vanish; the rain, hail and snow descend;
and in all this, man lias no voice. There is a
system of government above, beyond asd around
him, declaring a sovereignty which takes no
counsel of him. But still in the midst of all this,
man possesses a consciousness of fred,,m. The met
aphysician may i e confounded with the seeming in
consistency ot an omnipotence, ruling over all
things, yet granting tree agency to the subjects of
its power. But common sense does not puzzle it
self with an at Lem at to <1 scover the precise point at
which these seeming principles of opposition.may
clash or coalesce. It contents itself with the obvi
ous fact that God is a sovereign, who has yet created
beings, and given them their freedom, prescribing
boundaries to their powers and capacities, indeed,
but withiu these limits permitting them toact their
own volition.
Man then is free; he has the power to seek happi
ness in his own way. He enters upon existence
and sets forward in the road of life. But as he pass
es along, a thousand tempters beset him. Pleasure
comes to beckon him away, offering him pleasant
flowers,and unfolding beautiful prospects in the
distance. Wealth seeks to make him her votary by-
disclosing her magic power over men and things.
Ambition woos him with dreams o‘glory. Indo
lence essays to soften and seduce him to her influ
ence. Love, envy, malice* revenge, jealousy, and
other busy- spirits assail him with various arts.—
And man is free to yield to those temptations ifhe
will. God lias surrendered him to his own discre
tion, making him responsible however, for the use
and the abuse of the liberty bestowed upom him.
If a man mon >'48 a liigtespirited horse. IH»i«(
portant that lie should be able to control him, oth
erwise be may be dashed to pieces. If an engineer
undertakes to conduct a locomotive, it is necessary
that he should be able to guide or check the pant
ing engine at his pleasure, else hie own life, aud the
lives of otlieis may be sacrificed. But it is still
more indispensable that an individual, who is in
trusted with the care of himself, should be able to
govern himself.
This might seem a very easy task; but it is one of
the most difficult that we are called upon to per
form. History shows us that some of our greatest
men have failed in it. Alexander could conquer the
legions of Persia, but tie could not conquer his
passions. Caesar triumphed in a hundred battles,
but he fell a victim to the desire of being a king.—
Bonaparte vanquished nearly- the whole of Europe,
but he could not vanquish liis own ambition. And
in humbler life, nearer home in our own every
day affairs, most of us are often drawn aside from
the path of duty and discretion, because we cannot
resist some temptations or overcome some preju_
dice.
If we consider that self-government requires two
things; first, whenever we are tempted to deviate
from the path of rectitude, or to act imprudently,
or whenever we are tempted to neglect any duty,
that we should possess and exercise the power to
check ourselves in the one case, and to compel our
selves to the required action in the other, we shall
see that it is the great regulator of conduct, the
very- balance-wheel of life. Without it, a person is
almost sure to miss happiness; however great may
be his gifts, however high his fortune; with it the
humblest individual may command not merely- the
world’s wealth, but the world’s respect; and, wbat
is better, peace of mind, and the consciousness of
Heaven’s approbation.
If parents would not trust a child upon the back
of a wild horse without bit or bridle, let them not
permit him to go forth into the world unskilled in
self-government. If a child is passionate, teach
him, by gentle and patient means to curb his tem
per. If he is greedy, cultivate liberality In him. If
he Is sulky, charm him out of It, by encouraging
frank good humor. If he is indolent, accustom him
to exercise, and train him so as to perform onerous
duties with alacrity. If pride comes in to muke his
obedience reluctant, subdue him either by counsel
or discipline. In short, give your children the
habit of overcoming their besetting sins. Let them
feel that they can overcome temptation. Let them
acquire from experience, that confidence in them
selves, which gives security to the practiced horse
man. even on the back of a high-strung steed, and
they will triumph over the difficulties and dangers
which beset them in the path of life.
A Punctuation Puzzle.—The following arti
cle forcibly illustrates the necesity of punctuation.
It can be read in two ways, making a very bad
man or a very good man, the result depending on
the manner in which it is punctuated. It is well
worthy the study of teachers and pupils:
He is an old and experienced man in vice and
wickedness he is never found opposing the works
of iniquity he takes delight in the downfall of his
neighbors he never rejoices in the prosperity of any
of his fellow creatures he is always ready to assist
in destroying the peace of society he takes no pleas.-
ure in serving the Lprd he is uncommonly diligent
in sowing discord among his friends and acquaint
ances he takes no pride in laboring to promote the
cause of Christianity he has not teen negligent in
endeavoring to stigmatize all public teachers he
makes no exertions to subdue his evil passions he
strives hard to build up satan’s kingdom he lends
no aid to the support of the Gospel among the
heathen he contributes largely to the evil adversary
he pays no attention to good advice he gives great
heed to the devil he will never go to heaven he
must go where he will receive the just recompense
of reward.
A Reniij-liable Woman.—Mrs. Sarah J. Hale,
who was (Juried on Saturday at Philadelphia
at the ageof ninety-one years, and who is best
known to lpndreds of thousands of ladies by her
fifty years' Connection with the Lady’s Book, was a
remarkably generous woman. She was the main
instrumeritln raising the $.50,000 whicli completed
the Bunk-i Hill Monument. The Bnnker Ilil*
Monument Cad stood in an uncompleted state for
want of filths, an eyr-sore to the people of the
“Hub” ami b all New England, something like the
unfinished Tashingtoo Monument at Washington
City in the present day. Mrs. Bale, through her
magazine, proposed that the women of New Eng
land shoult undertake to raise the above sum to
finish the work. People smiled at the idea at first,
looking upoa it as nothing more than visio-ary.
It turned out an entire success, however, for entire
ly through Mrs. Hale's efforts, an association of
women was formed, under whose auspices the
greatest fair that had ever been known in this
country was held in Boston, and all the money
wanted was raised and the monument not long
afterward completed. Fanny EUsler contributing
the sum needed to cap the structure. Mrs. Hale's
part in the monument matter is quoted by her
friends as illustrating the energy of purpose and
str -Jig will vhich she appears to have carried with
her into everything she undertook. She had won
derful persexvrance. This is shown in her connec
tion with tin origination of the universal Thanks
giving day. The observance of such a day was for
merly at the option of the respective States, no day
in particular being set apart for It. Mrs. Hale al
ways contended that Thanksgiving Day should be
a national aflairand that the last day In November
should be adopted as the most fitting. For thirty-
years she had urged this in various publications.
At length, aft^rjrersonal correspondence with the
governors of all the States prior to the civil war
and afterward with President Lincoln and his suc
cessors, her object was accomplished. It is under
stood that her memoirs, reminiscences, letters and
selected writings will be soon prepared lor publi
cation in a book,
Dr. Talmage acquitted.—' r he Philadelphia
Times says: Mr. Talmage. who has been on trial
for some time past, before an ecclesiastical court in
Brooklyn, for certain eccentricities cf ritual in
dulged In at bis Tabernacle, as well as for conduct
generally unbecoming a clergyman and a gentle
man, has been acquitted by a handsome majority,
liis ministerial brethren being apparently of tlie
opinion that his prosecnt.on was only an attempt
at persecution in which his opponents were in
fluenced more by jealousy of Talmage’s success
than by a desire to suppress irreverence in the
preaching of theTWord and in the conduct of divine
service according lo the Congregational rite. Mr.
Prescott, of St. Clement’s, on the other hand, has
not yet been tried, but he lias been condemned in
quite emphatic style by the diocesan convention of
the Episcopal Church in this city- for the mode of
worship and of preaching practiced by him. The
Episcopalian method ol dealing with an ecclesias
tical offender has the merit of saving much of the
consumption of time and of printer’s ink involved
in the Congregational method, and perhaps is
equally effective, though upon this point there
seems to he some doubt in the mind of the conven
tion, since it is now proposed to enact a law for Mr.
Prescott to break, so that he can then be tried.
Tills is a desirable thing to do, for it was probably
the absence of a canon to cover tlie case in the
Congregational body that compelled Mr. Talmage’s
acquittal by a efmrt that is not supposed to have
approved of thel doctrine, discipline or worship of
the Brooklyn TJtermvle,
Evil SpeakinflL—Many a man despises another,
with whom he^jctmUhad any dealing*, ° r *>y "-horn
in* scarcely evwNs^olfe. Some person has whis
pered a slande J in his ear. He believes the ill re
port and thus shuns and despises his neighbor. A
slander stops not here. This man has intimate
friends to whom he opens his heart, and who catch
his feelings and also become prejudiced against one,
who perhaps may he one of the test men in the
community. “Behold how great a fire a little
spark kindleth,” says the apostle. A man who
breathes a word against another, is little aware of
the great injury he produces. He cannot recall
that word if he would. It has gone forth and is
repeated and believed by scores. Men are not care
ful when they speak, and the slander is added to,
until the character of one, comparatively pure, is
made black and offensive in the extreme. Stop
man! Do not speak at random. Utter no false
hood, no matter what may be your feelings towards
another. Evil speaking is a sin of which hundreds
are guilty, who are not sensible of the injury they
are producing. They imagine that language dies,
when it falls from their lips. Not so; it lives, and
is ever active for good or for evil. Be careful then
when you speak and how you speak. Misrepresent
nobody. It is a good rule to observe—if you can
not speak well of another, do not speak ill. A lit
tle care will save a deal of trouble and prevent these
animosities and hatreds this side of the grave.
Will you 6peak evil of another ? Will you slander?
Will you lie? If so we never desire your acquaint
ance. We are sure if there is a God, he will present
his coldest frown to those who backbite, and de
fame and labor to cover with infamy a name that
is above reproacn.
Economy in a Family.—There is nothing
which goes so far towards placing young people be
yond the reach of poverty, as economy in the man
agement of their domestic affairs. It matters not
whether a man furnish little or much for his family,
if there is a leakage in his kitchen or in the parlor,
it runs away he knows not how, and that demon
Waste, cries more, like the horse-leech’s daughter,
until he that has provided has no more to give. It
is the husband’s duty to bring into the house, and it
is the duty of the wife to see that nothing goes
wrongfully out of it. A man gets a wife to look
after his affairs, and to assist him in his journey
through life—to educate his children for a proper
station in life, and not to dissipate his property.
The husband’s interest should be the wife’s care,
and her greatest ambition should carry her no far
ther than his welfare or happiness, together with
that of her children.
This ahoul 1 be her chief aim She may do as
much at home towards making a fortune as he can
do in the work-shop or the counting-room. It is
not the money earned that makes a man wealthy,
it is what he saves from his earnings. A good and
prudent husband makes a deposite of the fruits of
his labor with his best friend; and if the friend be
not true to him, what has he to hope ? If he dare
not place confidence in the companion of his bosom,
where is he to place it ? A wife acts not for herself
only, but she is the agent of the man she loves, and
she is bound to act for his good, and not for her
own gratification. Her husband’s good is the end to
which she should aim—his approbation is her re
ward. Self-gratification in dress, or indulgence in
appetite, or more company than his purse can well
entertain, are equally pernicious; the first adds
vanity to extravagance—the second fastens a doc
tor’s bill to a long butcher’s account—and the latter
brings intemperance, the first of all evils, in its
train.
OUR NEW DRESS.
The Best and Handsomest Paper
in the World.
ITS PAST AND FUTURE.
PRICE REDI CED.
A Profusion of Thanks and et ceteras.
Now give it up. You can’t deny that The Sunny
South is now the handsomest paper in America, if
not in all the world. And is it not also the best.?
Examine it and judge for yourself. Such a variety
of reading matter was never before embraced in
one paper. Examine each page separately and care
fully.
' The Tide of Nesfrn Em migration.
Philadelphia Times.
The tide of negro immigration into Kansas lias begun
to ebb. A party of fiftv left St. Louis on the way hack to
their old homes Tuesday evening, having seen all thoy
wanted of the promised Northern Paradise. The relief
committee have been furnished with money from the
South to pav the exjiense-s of all who want to return,
Grill thp nnisTicpt is ytv.vl that the exodus will soon be
Important DnesUons.
[N. Y. World.]
It is commonly supposed that there are thousands of
destitute and unemployed working-men iu New lork
who are anxious to get work at any wages which will
support them. The steamship companies, it seems,
would be giad to>find some hundreds of this presumed
multitude. They have failed, although they required
only unskilled labor and have offered at least the means
of daily subsistence in return for it. How much of the
apparent and undeniable destitution in this city is a real
consequence of a real lack of employment, therefore,
and how much proceeds from the habit of promiscious
alms-giving without inquiry and from, the growth of a
positively vagrant pauper class in this country, are ques
tions worth looking fnto.
This is the beginning of the
FIFTH VOLUME,
but the paper is very nearly five years of age al
ready. The first number was issued on the 29th of
October, 1S74, but for the first year it was published
only once in two weeks. The lawyers, doctors,
wiseacres and knowing ones, generally-, said it could
not live, That a literary paper had never lived in
the South and eoukl not live, for there was not cul
ture enough among our people. Six months of life
was the longest time we could hear of any knowing
one giving it. But still it lives, neveriheless. True
it has teen a severe struggle, for, beginning as it
did, without money, credit or resources, and just
when the money panic of the country was setting
in, and in the face of all that doubt and unbelief in
the public mind, it has required the test efforts of
our lives to make it a success. The labor, solicitude
Since the Days of Oalhonn.
[Correspondence Cleveland Leader.]
Hill’s speech was startling, and inimical to the peace
of the government, as it advanced the idea of state sov-
eignty with more audacity, cunning, extremism, ability
ami eloquence than any that has been spoken since the
days of Calhoun. Not since the Republican party has
gone into power has it been so ably attacked as this after
noon. With a refinement of sophistry he advanced jioiiit
after point against its management of national affairs
since its first appearance as a party that had never been
put forth before, and finally took the position that in the
war in which tlie country was being forced lie would be
found fighting under the flag of the union. He explained
this statement by charging that if the president vetoed
this hill and the army interference hill he would be
doing so to continue the Republican party in power by
degrading ami strangling the States to death, and with
out the States tlie union would be destroyed—a thing
against which lie was now ready to fight to the hitter
end. When lie drew near the close, and spoke of the
critical situation of affairs, his earnestness and gravity
were impressive beyond description, and the solemn
faces of everybody around told the depth of the convic
tion he had wrought—that the issues of the extra session
might drag the country to war.
and financial cares have borne heavily upon us, but
we have struggled bravely ou, and thousands of
noble hearted Southerners have cheered us with
kind words and subscriptions, while a good Provi
dence has seemed ever near, to sustain us in mo
ments of despair. We now feel as though we had
safely passed through the wilderness, and with re
turning prosperity to our people, the paper presents
itself to each and all of them with a new and smil
ing face, and begs to be token in as a permanent
member of the household. Will any one refuse ?
Can any refuse ?
One thing which now cheers us is the fact that all
those who said the paper could not live, and some
in whose heart’s lurked a secret and envious desire
that it might not, are now becoming its warm
friends and wishing it a long life. Since it did not,
and would not, nor will not die, they new say
bravo! good! long life to the brave and glorious
enterprise. We take t'em by the hand.
To the brethren of the press everywhere we feel
THE UNKNOWN DEAD OF THE SOUTH.
Visit of Two Vi ririnian* to Aeeept the 8110,000
Monument lor the Stonewall Brigade.
It was a quiet carriage party that drove away from the
Girard House yesterday morning, out through Laurel
Hill to Pelahunty’s marble tombstone works, opposite
the point where “Old Mortality” guards the gate of the
cemetery. The guests of tlie party were two Virginia
gentleman. William It. Denny, president of the Winches
ter Paper Mill Company, one of the largest stockholders
of which is the present Governor of Virginia, Holliday,
and John J. Williams, a leading member of the bar of
Winchester, of that State. The hosts of these two gen
tlemen were ex-Mayor Vaux, Thomas May Pierce, Tlios.
E. Gaskill, Public Building Commissioner, and Mr.
Delahunty. The purpose of the visit of these Virginians
was to approve of the completion of Mr. Delahuiitv’s
contract for the 810,000 monument to be raised in Win
chester on the 0th of next month over the graves of the
“Unknown Dead,” gathered at the Stonewall Cemetery
in that town. Mr. Jlelaliunty competed with New York,
I Baltimoreand Philadelphia, and carried off tlie prize.
His work was approved with enthusiasm by the Vir
ginia gentlemen yesterday, and the Philadelphians were
proud of the treasure in art which the old Philadelphia
sculptor of monuments had turned out for the "unknown
and unrecorded dead” that lie in tlie valley of Virginia.
deeply indebted for the sympathy- and interest
which they have ever manifested toward the pa
per, and in the future we shall endeavor to show- a
higher appreciation of their efforts to aid us.
Let all the friends of the paper everywhere now
congratulate it on its new dress, and show it to a]l
the neighbors and induce them to send for it with
out delay-. The price is now reduced to 62.50 a
y-ear; $1.25 for six months; 61.00 for four months,
and 75 cents for three months. Let all labor now
just a little in its behalf, and we shall rejoice and be
exceeding glad. Our hearts are filled with grati
tude to all its old friends who have stood by- it so
long, and we wish each a long and happy life.
Two Gotham Husbands.
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The Melancholy Experience of Messrs. Jones and
Brown.
Boston Gazette New York Letter.
New York is full of scandals. If the things that
happen here among society people happened among
members of the theatrical profession we would hear
more of them. People on the stage are so well
known that they can do nothing that is not made
in public. Theatrical scandals are rolled over the
mouth like a sweet morsel, but in society- they are
hushed up or whispered about with bated breath.
I heard a story the other day that has made a stir
in certain fashionable circles. It seems that two
friends were talking confidences at their club the
other night, when one, whom I shall for conven
ience call Jones, told the other, whom I shall call
Brown, that his wife needed looking after. “Now
don't get angry, Brown, old boy, but they do talk
abouL your wife and say that she goes out" with a set
of fast men.” “Impossible!” said Brown. “I
know where my wife is every- night; she could not
go with fast men without iny- finding her out.”
“Well, I only tell you to warn you,” said Jones,
and as he and Brown were such cronies the latter
did not take it amiss. “I am going to Philadelphia
to-morrow, and if y-ou tear anything let me know
by telegraph,” said Brown, laughingly. He went
to Philadelphia, and the morning after he arrived
received a telegram from Jones: “Come home;
there's a theater party on hand for to-night that
you will not approve.” So Brown came back, and
at nine o’clock or so strolled into a certain theater
with Jones. The two friends turned up their coat-
collars and stood up against the rear wall. They
raked the house with their eyes, and lo ! there, in a
proscenium box, sat Mrs. Brown in evening dress,
with the man of all men in New York whom Brown
despised the most leaning familiarly over the back
of her chair. By her side sat anothor man, one
tearing a very unsavory name among gentlemen.
He was talking to some one in a corner of the box,
who could not be seen by the audience. Brown’s
feelings may- be tetter imagined than described.
He w ould have gone and dragged his w-ife forcibly
out of the box if Jones had not held him back.
Jones soothed him as test he might, inwardly thank
ing his stars that Mrs. Jones was not like vMrs.
Brown. After the play was ended, the two friends
stood outside the theater door and saw the party
from the box come out. There were two ladies,
well muffled up with scarfs and such like disguises.
Such women generally go in pairs, thought Jones,
and pittied poor Brown from the bottom of his
heart. The order was given to the driver, “as
usual,” and the coach dashed off. Jones and Brown
jumped into a coupe and told the driver to follow
the coach, and when it stopped to stop a good dis
tance behind. Up town dashed the two vehicles,
and brought up in front of Brown’s door ; the party
went in, and giving them time to get settled Brown
and Jones let themselves in w-ith a night-key. The
front door unfortunately made a noise in closing,
and when the two friends walked into the dining
room, where preparations were made for a cham
pagne supper, they saw the end of two coat-tails
disappearing through the back windows, and two
e ile, frightened women staring at them ; one was
rs. Brown, and the other—Mrs, Jones.
Confederate Survivors' Association.
Inquiries from various parts of the country make
it proper to state that any Confederate soldier,
wherever he may be, is entitled to membership in
the Confederate Survivors’ Association which has
its headquarters in this city. The organization is
not at all local in its nature or connections; on the
contrary, it has members on its roll who now live
throughout Georgia and Carolina and other States,
even in New York and New Jersey and in Europe.
The Association is spreading rapidly;and its mem
bers are active and energetic in promoting its in
terests. The number on the rolls is now verging on
to 300, with new applications coming in daily.
Papers throughout the country will please give
this notice a place, stating that all any old soldier
has to do is to send his name to ‘Mr. Berry Benson,
Secretary C. S. A., Augusta, Ga-, and a blank ap
plication will be forwarded to him promptly. The
expense is light—50 cents initation fee, and do
a quarter for regular dues.
Newspapers please
KEARNEY'S VICTORY.
Ills Proclamation on the Success of the New
Constitution of California.
[New York Herald]
We have carried the election in the interest of the peo
ple against the combined forces of the Democratic and
Republican thieves who coalesced with corporation
swindlers, bank robbers, land sharks, stock manipula
tors. short card players, abortionists, shoulder hitters,
whiskey bummers, bludgeon murderers, religious hypo
crites, worshippers of the deril and the golden can.—
They employed every hireling scribbler, bought up
nine-tenths of the papers of the State, spent millions of
money, and were routed, horse, foot and dragoon*, oil
the day of election, by moral men and virtuous women.
I am asked what will be the effect of yesterday's elec
tion? In answer, I will say that capital will be better
protected, but will be taxed for such protection. Look
at the present state of affairs. An English capitalist
comes to our State, refuses to become a citizen, damns
our flag and laws, loans his money to farmers at the rate
of one and a-half to two per cent, a month, lives in a
hotel, is protected by the police, firemen and court*: vet
he pays no taxes for such protection. This is sipping
''-■ft® .v"olDrDl thq people.' Interest must be reduced
to tha rate that it is loaned in England, France etc. New
industries will be prosecuted. The people will beconta
prosperous, labor will be emancipated and the unthink
ing majority, as we are styled, will do it. The Chinese
must go, the "bread and water.” Beecher must go, the
screaming Talmage must go. the lecherous bondholders
must go; Sherman, Shylock, Scyndicate it Co. must go.
as neither can exist under the new order of things, and
intelligence based upon virtue, honesty and common
sense will introduce principles that must survive and
rule the world. Dennis Kearney.
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HARK GRAY INSANE.
Booth's Assailant Pronounced Mad from
Incipient Epilepsy.
Chicago, May 11.—The case of the voting man, Mark
Gray, who some timeagoshot at Edwin Booth, was called
Saturday in the Criminal Court, and the experts who
had examined the prisoner as to his mental condition
testified as to the opinion arrived at as the result of
the examination. I)r. Henrotin said that there was a
certain class of insane people—periodically insane—who
would at times reflect. When thev felt that their insane
spells were approaching they would request their friends
to lock them up. That Gray was thus afflicted he
thought was demonstrated by liis wish to be alone at
times. Then again it was stated that Grav’s sister was
subject to epileptic spasms. He believed that Gray was
insane, and would soon become an epileptic. Dr. Brow
er said that he thought the man insane. The condition
of the prisoner certainly showed that. His perfect in
difference to all that occurred during the examination
pointed to that fact. Dr. Lyman also thought the man
insane; Gray, lie thought, enjoyed the investigation.
There was not the slightest effort on his part to feign
insanity, as proved by hisadding up figures. That inci
dent alone he thought would indicate insanity. Gener
ally speaking, an insane man would deny his insanitv
while a sane man would acknowledge insanity, where
there was "method in his madness.” Another’ indica
tion of Gray’s insanity was his high opinion of his sanity
and his low opinion of Booth’s acting.
The evidence having been heard the State’s attorney
moved that the Court 1 toclnre Gray to be insane which
was done, and consequently the voting man will not bo
tried, but be sent to the Elgin Asylum.
Last night Gray was called upoii to see what he had
to say. He was not very talkative, but was of the opin
ion that he would be very soon released from imprison
ment. lie proposed to go on the stage this fall at 8t
Louis. He said that he would make his debut in ‘-Ham
let,” and after gaining fame he insists that he will return
to Keokuk and there wed “Katie,” the girl whose name
has figured 111 connection with liis since his foolhardv
attempt on the life of Mr Booth. When asked if "Katie”
was willing, he said that he had not as yet suggested the
matter to her, but that would be all right Ttere wM
no danger in regard to that part of the programme.
, t The Snltan's Gift to Grant.
interview His Majesty charged Mumir Bey, the maste?
of ceremonies, to present the General with an Arab
horse from the imperial stables. Accordingly a Sumter
were led out, and one chosen and set aside for hte but
owing to some misunderstanding the gift horee wtis not
sent, andIt e Vandal,a sailed without him Reeentv
the question having been revived, the steed n ouos-t on
was hunted up among 570 horses which comthe
araa&SSHSwsys-a
ably sail direct to New Haven ’Fhev > aro 1 w prob [
on deck, provided withcanvastelts Vswffig inln
rough weather, and treated like saloon passmirere So
that the end SHhefrttutg
Passage win find them both sound in wind and
the finite 6 n a da PP. led gray of fair size, and having all
well-2?^esfe™ - th v 6 Arabian Mood-Lmall
iet ’ . tless ears > wide pink nostrils, and large soft
eyes, waving mane, and long tail reaching aim os? to the
Found, and> skin of such delieac^ thafthe sftoke of a
jf dy i* "hipis sufficient to draw blood. The other stal-
white^aro^isT^^ 116 ; 8 4 'black^witha
wnue swr °n ms foroheiid and white hind feet when
Ses 1 'hire tWJS b ' S fo f rehe “ d ‘he large, black
Their rait is ,^L» vf e ‘f 10 n of a Bedouin woman’*.
gssurss , X‘ W “
££ mo 0 u n t e h th Le a t d o 0 ne Sil f k ,l; S en °^h
aeharceora these Arabs in the mad rush of
dwife^teed f ♦5“ r t der and that instant the
hones are of The f!r£ “ ‘o 0 ^ gh turned to stone. These
& nntvfl? 6 .race, the purest Arabian
hederivesfrom the aSS 5“? , Calr °)- which cognomen
although foalS a h t tl? 6 T 48 bou g h t at Cairo,
well as saddle horses ilfeft blo^d'and genttl KeTare
S?tarill , te d have nrdoubHh^ our
great General will be highly pleased with the Sultan’s