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WANDERERS IN THE ICY NORTH.
BY AI.MO.
Lone wanderers of that unknown sea,
That marks the Northern pole,
Each icy wind that wanders fr^e,
Your solemn knell doth toll;
I see the glacier’s towering hight,
The chasm wide and deep.
And polar snows forever white
Their ceaseless circles sweep.
Lone wanderers of that unknown sea,
Ah! who shall tell the tale,
How hopelessness and misery
Have caused the cheek to pale ?
Shut out from hope of human aid
By walls of glittering ice,
Ye watched the daylight dawn and fade
Within those Northern skies.
The reddening North-light sheds its glare
O’er wastes of circling snows,
And spreads its fiery pinions where
Day’s golden beams repose.
But from those realms the North wind’s breath
Brings no responsive tone,
And only the deep hush of death
Dwells in the frozen zone.
The only paeans to your fame
Shall be the North wind’s sigh ;
Your monuments the icy vane
That pierces to the sky.
Rest till the sens give up their dead
And earth shall be no more,
Then shall ye meet again o’erhead
Life’s fitful fever o’er.
Tuftonborough, N. H.
OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.
ENGRAVINGS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF
DISTINGUISHED MEN AND WOMEN.
EOWIN BOOTH.
We give an excellent likeness this week of Edwin
Booth, who is now the most distinguished tragedian
in America, and who has recently been brought
more prominently before the public by the recent
attempt of a crazy man in Chicago to assassinate
him on the stage. But though an actor of unusual
dignity and rare accomplishments, we have never
l* *en able to accord to Mr. Booth such transcendent
genius as bis more enthusiastic admirers claim for
him. We have failed to discern in his actings that
magnetic stage power which is so essential in the
dramatic make-up of a great actor. His name alone,
we have often thought, was a great help to him.
His father, the world-renowned tragedian, and his
brother, the world-renowned assassin, have made
the Booth name famous for all time.
It is unnecessary to give any biographical sketch,
as all are familiar with the leading incidents in the
family history. The recent attempt upon the life
of Mr. Edwin Booth has added a fresh interest to
the name, and we give our readers a good portrait
of him. He has written a private letter from Chi
cago to a friend in Richmond, Va., in which he
says: “Your very kind and welcome letter of con
gratulation reached me in due time, but the nervous
shock [referring to the shooting] has been so severe
to both Mrs. Booth and myself that we have been
unable to do much more than play nurse to each
other since the event. The poor fool that commit
ted the outrage is in safe keeping, and I hope he
will be confined in an asylum for the rest of his life.
He is a dangerous lunatic—nothing more.”
OTHELLO AND DESDEMONA.
A New Version.
(Cincinnati .'inquirer.)
“AnothW interestin’ character in bUakstare,” re
marked Grandfather Linckshingle, “is Othello, the
Moor of Vinice, an’ perhaps I can spare the time to
tell you a little somethin’ about him. ”
One of the family said they were dying to hear
about “Othello,” but thought it would be nothing
more than fair to postpone the recital until the
next family reunion which would occur in about
ten or fifteen years. Grandfather said he would
repeal it then by request, and started in:
“ ‘Othello’ was a colored coachman who eloped
with ‘Desdemonia,’ his employer’s youngest daugh
ter, beautiful, gifted an’ accomplished, an’ the ac
knowledged belle of the towu. They fled to Jersey
City, where they were married with great Pomp
and Circumstance. 1 can’t say positively, but I
think great Pomp was a big niggar, also a coach
man, an’a friend to ‘Othello, who had perhaps ru*
away with his employer’s daughter. Any liow
they were all married together. ‘Othello’ and
‘Desdemonia’ lived happily together until they
made the acquaintance of ‘Iago,’ a scheming villian
of an undertaker who was always maneuvenn
around to get somebody killed and get a job. ‘Iago
concocted and poured into 'Othello’s’ ear the wicked
lie that ‘Desdemonia’ had grown tired of him an^
was carryin’ on a desperate flirtation with ‘Cassio,
a book agent.” ,
“What kind of flirtation !” demanded ‘Othello,
growing white about the gills.
“Well, I suppose you would call it a handkerchief
flirtation,’ replied ‘Iago,’ ‘as a delicately wrought
handkerchief, which thou didst purchase and give
unto ‘Desdemonia,’ is now in the possession of Cas-
“My first gift to the wench,’ exclaimed ‘Othello,’
strugglin’ to catch his breath, ‘an’ doth he blow his
Plebeian nose upon it r
“No good, my Lord, he doth use it to knock the
dust offen his boots.’ ,
“It is here that ‘Othello’ speaks the famous lmes:
“ ‘Then, by my soul she dies !
Arise black vengeance from thy
Hollow cell, an’numph thyself e’en now !
Oh ! blood, Iago, a bucket full of blood !
“To this the deceitful ‘Iago’ suggested'that it
would be well to go slow, and perhaps ‘Othello
would change his mind. The jealous Moor made
reply:
“Never, Iago. Like to the Pontic sea,
Whose icy current an’ impulsive course
Ne’er feeis returning ebb, but keeps due on
To the Propontie an’ the Hellspont,
Or a politician hot on the scent of an office,
E’en so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace.
Shall ne’er look back until I sweep
To my revenge-e-e!’
“And going right up to ‘Desdemonia’s’ room he
hammered her over the head with a boot-jack until
she was quite dead. He then threw the body into
the well, remarkin’ that he would teach her to give
away a handkerchief that cost him good money
earned bv hard licks as coachman for her father,
who paid the smallest salary and set the poorest
table of any man in town.”
After wiping the tears from his eyes, grandfather
concluded:
“The moral is that there is nothin’ gained by be
in’ an onery cuss, as we see in the case of ‘lego,’
the schemin’ undertaker. Although he succeeded
in creatin’ a death in the family, the body was
thrown into the well, an’ he, therefore, got no or
der fori'a funeral. While virtue was not exactly re
warded. vice received a terrible rebuke.”
The friends and relatives of Mr. John T. Cox, were
startled with the intelligence that he was struck by
lightning and instantly killed, last Thursday, while
on his farm near Albany, Ga. Mr; Cox only left
our neighborhood last winter, and had been in
Southwestern Georgia but a few months. He was
widely known throughout the State, and even in
many other States, as one of the most popular
Railroad Conductors, a few years ago, and after
that as a member of the firm of Pollard, Cox & Lo.
He was farming at the time of his death and had
been for the last four or five years. We extend to
Bis bereaved family our warmest sympathies in the
deep^tflhetion.—Greensboro Herald.
r ,i e inp.-Thii is an Internal remedy that never
fails to cure Neuralgia and Headache. It contains no
quinine,opium, morphine. Chloral or narcotic of any
kind. Quick and perfectly safe in ita action.
ENGLISH LITERATURE.
SHAKESPERE STUDY.
Ko. III.
the merchant of Venice, (continued.)
A corrected view of the play and of its develop
ment may have been seen by making some such
synopsis as the following:
x. Borrowing to woo.
2. Portia.
3. The Bond.
L The Situation given.
11. The characters of
Portia and Shyloi k
painted.
1. The Caskets.
2. Launcelot.
3. Jessica.
4. Lorenzo.
5. Jefica’s home life.
6. Eloping.
7. Gold drawing.
8. Lost daught’r& ducats
9. Silver drawing.
have felt 1 What a pit}' there was no Mrs. Anto
nia ! Who knows but that he had been disappointed
in early love. This may have been the cause, in
part at least, of his habitual and unaccountable
sadness.
we saw last week the three great center charac
ters: Shylock, Antonio and Portia. Let us see now
the centers of study that our analysis of the play
f ives: The friendship of Antonio and Bassanio,
ortio, Shylock, (two examples of Shaksperian por
trait painting) the marriage, the trial, epilogue-
Every one of these is a post of observation to look
at the whole plav from.
After long study of a single play from many
sides, how the great master's supreme power bursts
upon us like a glorious revelation ! And almost all
other painters of the ideal world seem as dwarfs.
w. h. p.
A young lady In Baltimore has conceived an un
conquerable passion for the stage, and is anxious to
communicate with some manager without delay.
A summer theatre under canvas, U to be inaugu
rated in Chic igo.
EDWIN BOOTH.
III. The Catastrophe.
IV. Tlie Trial.
• . -a« y
1. Shylock and Tubals.
2. The marriage.
3. To prison.
4. Wives to be lawyers.
5. Chat at Belmont.
The Trial
Rings.
V. Epilogue.
1. Three couples at Bel
mont.
Immediately before making or using any such a
synopsis, one ought to read the play and have it
fresh in the mind, in order that the naming of the
scenes may be signifleent instantly. The merchant
of Venice will hardly grow dull under a hundred
successive readings, if the readings be careful. For
it is as the stars that shine brighter after long gaz
ing. Studying the play by some such method of
analysis as this, as dull as it may seem at first, will
surely reveal the true greatness of Shakspere’s
work. Clusters of the most prominent pictures are
thus brought to view. Only the most prominent
pictures, however, are seen in this way. The fill-
mgs out and the delicate shadings cannot be tabu
lated. nor paraphrased nor epitomized. Every
speech presents some deii *ate touch that fades away
with any attempt to tell of it, and the effort brings
to the mind of the most powerful critic the wide
world of power between himself and the inspired
master.
In the first scene, the deep friendship between
Antonio and Basanio is shown. In the second we
have a pictvre of Portia; and in these few lines we
gain the knowledge of as much of a versatile and
brilliant woman’s character as most men are able
to find out for themselves by a life-time’s observa
tion and study. In the third scene, in hold contrast
with the friendly picture of the first, we see the
deadly hatred of Shylock for the Christian Antonio,
and the contempt of Antonio for Shylock. Thus
the first act introduces us to the three main charac
ters of the play, and gives the whole situation. The
plot remains now to be developed. Already, too,
we have come to know Gratiano thoroughly, who
is the fool of the comedy. He is a sort of parady
on Bassanio, as Nerissa is on Portia. It is noticea
ble that the scene giving us an introduction to Por-
tio, (sc. 2) comes between the scenes given to An
tonia and Bassanio (sc. 1&3.) Thus the story of the
caskets alternates with the story of the bond, and
no possible monotony can occur.
In act 11. the characters of Shylock and Portia
are given us in full; and how skillfully ! The first
scene gives the particulars about the caskets. Then
the next five give us indirectly a minute descrip
tion of Shylock—his character and his habits of
life. No other man ever worked so skilfully by in
directness as Shakspere. We are not wearied with
a dry account of Shylock’s domestic life from a
point of view whence Shylock himself appears with
direct prominence. But the center of attraction is
first, the servant-jester, Launcelot; and then the
lonely little Jessica and her boy lover. While by
means of these we are gaining the very clearest in
sight into the character of the old Jew, behold, we
are imagining all the while that we are entertained
with Launcelot, Lorenzo and Jessica for their own
sakes ! And for their own sakes they are sure-
enough well worthy to entertain us. But, for all
that, the real work they do in the development of
the play is to fill up the outline of the drawing of
the Jew’s character. But this ‘lyrical’ episode of
Lorenzo and Jessica, as Mr. Dowden calls it, gives
a good subject of study in contrast with the more
serious couple, Bassanio and Portia. See here, too,
the alteration: the two princely suitors are not
made to draw in two successive scenes (sc. ^&g).
Through the whole second act, Antonio does not oc
cur except incidentaly in the sixth scene; and there
he is engaged, as usual, in doing a service for his
friend.
In act III, since we now know fully the main
actors in the play, the fuller development of the
nlot is given: the exasperated cruelty of Shylock,
the maririage of Bassanio and Portia, (of Portia
and BassaDio, I should rather say, for Portia is of
lesser importance nowhere, not even m marrying),
the imprisonment of Antonio, Portia’s bold strate-
«sm for his acquittal. The last scene of the act is
merely episodic—the chat of the boy-and-girl lovers
as the temporary proprietors of Belmont.
The crisis comes in act IV.—The solemn court-
scene Antonio's acquittal and the giving away of
the wedding rings. The trick of the rings keeps
the interest up alter the trial is over.
Then the beautiful and musical act V the recon
ciliation of the two lawyer-wives with their hus
bands, the pleasant news of Antonio s ships, the
money of old Shylock given to his Christian son-in
law, and the whole company happy, all with the
moonlight at Belmont and Portica‘s music. Three
happy couples i How lonely poor Antonio must
OFF-HAND TALKS.
By Sljm Jim.r
N° 3. i
Advice to Young wfo.
Get married.
Stick a boquet in your buttonhole, part your hair
in the middle, cram your number nine bands into a
pair of number seven white kids, and get married.
There’s nothing like it.
Why, where would you be now, you idiot, if your
father had lived an old bachelor all his days ?
Will you hang back, and let your children be or
phans, because you refuse to become a parent ?
Don’t waste your time serenading your girl, and
getting chased out of the yard by the faithful
watch-dog, but go to her and say :
“ Amelia, my darling, I am the recipient of eight
dollars per week, and abundantly able to support a
wife. Wilt thou be miue i”
And if she looks at the matter in the same light
that you do, she will hang her ear on the point of
your piccadilly, and say :
“Orlando, I wilt.”
Of course she wilt.
But there is a possibility that you will be the first
to wilt after the marriage.
No matter; bristle up, take unto yourself a wife,
and have some style about you.
A man never knows what domestic bliss is till he
has been kicked out of bed once or twice by an en
ergetic wife, who takes an honest pride in letting
him know that she is proprietor of that particular
portion of the globe.
Almost everybody gets married, and it is a good
joke.
But the joke soon wears out.
Some marry in haste, and then sit down and
think it carefully over.
Some think it carefully over first, and then sit
down and marry.
Both ways are right, if you hit the mark.
If you are addicted to feelings of loneliness, mar
riage will cure you of that.
If you are of an independent spirit, and accus
tomed to have your own way, marriage will cure
you of that, also.
Perhaps you will find it hard at first to realize
that you are actually a married man.
But the first time you stay out till midnight, the
reality of the thing will be forced upon you so ah-
ruptly that you will feel as if you had been knocked
down with a footstool.
And maybe you have—I don’t know.
Women are economical beings, and will make
your money go farther than you can.
They will make it go so far, in fact, that none of
it will ever find its way back.
A wife’s instinct of economy enables her to buy
her husband a whole suit of clothes for fifteen dol
lars, and herself a sacque for thirty.
Perhaps you have been in the habit of paying
from seventy-five cents to a dollar and a half for a
single undershirt.
Your wife will buy you one for twenty-five cents.
To be sure, the twenty-five cent shirt, when
washed, looks like a set of fiddle strings; but it
shouldn’t be washed.
You don’t want to be too clean.
Thus you will see that you cannot possibly get
along without a wife.
The sooner you get one, the sooner you will be ad
mitted to the paradise of conjugal felicity, and
learn how to hold a squalliing baby, while your
wife hangs over the back fence and tells Mrs. Smith
what a handy husband she’s got.
When your clothes get ragged, your wife will re
pair them—maybe—if her time is not too much
taken up with other things.
Even if she doesn’t, you have the consolation of
pins.
Before you were married you never could find a
pin when you wanted it; now they are every where
—all over the dressing-table, in the hash, on the
floor, and sometimes you make the painful discov
ery that they are even on the chairs.
A pin is an insignificant affair in itself, but when
you sit down on its point you feel as if a telegraph
pole had penetrated your existence.
Married men make the best soldiers.
Not because they are the best fighters, perhaps,
but because they can do a better job of retreating.
They learn to dodge flying missiles with great
nicety, and practice this sport so much at home
that they can get out cf the way of anything, from
a gridiron to a bombshell.
Napoleon Bonaparte was a married man, and I
have no doubt he would dive under the bed as quick
as any other man, wheii his wife gritted her teeth
and made a grab for an argument that could be
thrown clear across the room.
Young man, get married.
Don’t hesitate.
Winter is coming on, and you will need some one
to get up in the morning and make the fires, while
you take your morning nap.
A wife is what you want.
She will make herself useful in a variety of ways
—.sweeping, scrubbing, and keeping the house in
order—and will unnoubtedly be as happy as you
are miserable.
But then there’s one thing woman does
That makes man mighty mad :
She leaves enough hair in the comb
To fill a saddle-pad.
Movements in Southern Society.
Dr. H. J. Nichols, of Marietta, has celebrated his
golden wedding.
The Tennyson Club, of Griffin, Ga., gave a fine
literary and musical entertafnmenta few evenings
since.
In Benton, Ark., on the 7th inst., Mr. James C.
Kinke&d was married to Miss Sue E. Hockersmith,
by Rev. Finis Leach. No cards.
Colonel Henry J. Lamar. Mr. John C. Curd and
Mr. Hugb V. Washington, of Macon Ga., have gone
to Hot Springs, Arkansas, for their health-
Mrs Poullain, of Greensboro, Ga., the young ard
handsome wife of the venerable Dr. Thos. N. PouU
lain, is a fine billiard player, and she and the Doc
tor have some excellent games on their private bil
liard table.
Misses Floy Latham and Lena Frank, who made
presentation speeches on board the Steamer Gaff,
at the May party in Memphis, Tenn., are charming
little girls. They delivered their speeches to Uncle
Bob Wise in a pretty manner, and received well-de
served applause.
Miss Virginia Allen, of Hall county, asked Mr
William Voyies if he" would let her ride on his wag
on to Gainesville. William said he would. They
rode on until finally William asked Miss Virginia
if she would ride with him further than Gainesville
through life, in fact. Miss Virginia said she would-
And so they did.
Mr. Zach T. Dobbs, of Macon, Ga., was joined in
marriage-with Miss Vance, of Greenville. S. C., on
tlie 27th ult. The bride is a niece of Govenor Vance
of North Carolina, and is a handsome and beauti
ful young iady. Ur. Dobbs is well known in Ma
con, and to the young pair the warm congratula
tions of the host of the friends of the groom are ex
tended.
At four o'clock, on the 7th, at Memphis, Tenn., the
1 First Methodist church was well filled with a fash
ionable assemblage, to witness the nuptials of Mr.
Calvin A. Reynolds, of Pulaski, Tenn., and Miss
W illie Campbell, of this city. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. Mr. Mahon, pastor at the First
Methodist church. There were no bridesmaids or
groomsmen. On entering tlie church the couple
proceeded to the altar and were soon made husband
and wife. The bride was elegantly attired, and
much admired for her modesty and beauty. After
the ceremony the happy couple received the con
gratulations of their friends, and repaired to the
family residence andjcommeuced preparing for the
bridal tour. Tlie bride is the daughter of Mr. D. A.
Campbell, an honored and much respected citizen
of Memphis, and during her girlhood has been a
great favorite in the social circle which she adorn
ed. The good wishes of a host of friends will follow
her to her new home, where it is hoped in the new
relation of wife her life will be as happy as her girl
hood has been bright and full of unalloyed joy and
beauty.
DRAMMC NOTES.
Mr. Joseph Jefferson has engaged a company of
his own for next seaon.
Going out between acts is said by the ladies to be
a folly. The men say it is fun.
Up to the present writing Mr John T. Ford has en_
gaged Charles Waverly for the ensuing season.
Miss Anna Dickinson has closed an engagement to
appear in San Francisco in a new play next fail.
It is reported that Mrs. Alice Oates proposes to
visit England shortly upon urgent family affairs.
Miss Charlotte Thompson will retire to her de
lightful country place, Fruit Grove, near New
York, on the 15th of June.
At the Chinese Theatre, San Francisco, to-be-con
tinued plays are given, averaging from 30 to 50
nights for a complete representation.
Fanny Davenport has gone to California, but she
promises to return to the Atlantic States in Sep
tember, when she will appear in a new piece at one
oi the New York theatres.
Sothern leaves England on the 29th of this month.
He will open at the Park theatre, New York, Sep
tember 8th, in an engagement which is expected to
run through eight weeks,
Mies Addie Austin, the pretty equestrienne with
Cooper & Bailey’s circus, fell from her horse during
the afternoon performance at York, Pa., one day
last week, and broke her leg.
Edwin Booth does not now think that the young
fellow who attempted his life in Chicago, did it
through any malicious motive. It is his impression
that the youthful sliootist is demented.
There will be so few stock companies next season,
that combinations will be the rule, and managers
propose to try to make some arrangement with the
great trunk lines by which they can secure some
reduction of fares.
The great novelty of the season has occurred in
Philadelphia this week. Mrs Barney'Williams ap
peared at the Walnut for the first time in three
years on any stage. Her engagement is positively
limited to one week and closes to day.
Jarrett & Palmer have not made all the money
out of Booth’s theatre, New York. Boucicault
thinks there are dollars and dimes there yet. He
has effected a lease, which will commence Septem
ber 1st, and he agrees to pay 820,000 for the same.
Washington Capital: Harry Ford is a genius in the
dramatic line. He has not only been successful in
giving us the benefit of the best dramatic talent
throughout the season, but now he starts out on a
purely original style and produces a colored opera
in “Pinafore.”
Mr. Maurice H. Barrymore, who was so seriously
wounded by the Texas ruffian who killed Porter
has been tendered a complimentary and sympa
thetic benefit by some of the leading citizens of
Philadelphia, to take place at the Arch Street Thea
tre 26th of this month.
The inevitable Max Strakosh has authorized the
press to announce that the immaculate and fascina
ting Adelaide Neilson lias graciously condescended
to revisit this vulgar Yankee country next October.
This is to be[tbe farewell engagement of sweet “mar
malade,” and cannot possibly ran more than one
hundred nights.
Manager John T. Ford reached New York Monday-
last from Philadelphia, with his Juvenile ‘Pinafore’
Company and crew for Wallack’s theatre. The
children range in age from four to fifteen, the
youngest being baby Belle Goodman, midshipmite
of the crew. Their salaries run from six to fifty dol
lars per week and expenses. The parents of a few
of the children go with them. “Sir Joseph Porter'’
is Harry Davenport, son of E. L, Davenport.
PERSONALS.
What People are Doing and Saying
all over the World.
Edison is worth 8159,000.
Lester Wallack has gone West.
Bonner owns 151 valuable horses.
The Talmage trial farce is finished.
John C. Fremont is sixty-six years old.
Modjeska will sail for Europe on the 21th Instant.
Barnu-n has actually sent to Africa for a couple of
native Zulus.
Mills, the sculptor, began life as a day laborer and
house plasterer.
Tennyson says truly, “To soil ethers is no way to
make ourselves clean.”
William Penn was a true cockney. He was born
in London and died there.
Charles Francis Adams Is a great student of his
tory and a coin collector.
Speaking of hanging, Cowper’a line is a good rule,
“Mercy to him that shows it.”
Moody, the revivalist, is in Boston. He got 86,000
for his Baltimore engagement.
Archbishop Purcell has been sued for 822,000 by
the Lafayette Bank, of Cincinnati,
Dr Holland was paid twelve thousand dollars for
his stupid novel, “Bitter Sweet.”
It is now passed a doubt that Sherman will be a
candidate for the Governorship of Ohio.
Henry Bernstein, United States Consul at San
Salvador, died in San Francisco last week.
It is rumored that Senator Booth, ofCalifornia, is
shortly to be married to an attractive Washington
lady.
The Empress of Germany, although 70 years old,
contemplates making a visit to the Queen of Eng
land.
Carlyle says each man carries under his hat a pri
vate theatre, where a great drama at all times is be
ing acted.
Miss Hosmer, the American sculptress, has been
an habitue of Rome for over twenty yedfc-s, and it is
still her home.
Gov. McClellan has removed with his family from
Trenton to his summer residence on the Orange
Mountains.
Danks, the author of “Silver Threads Among the
Gold,” and other popular songs is an Ohioan by
marriage.
Bor Mr. Newberry of Michigan, is said to be the
wealthiest man in Congress. His income last year
was 8250,000.
Dr. Carver is on the continent, but has been pro
hibited from entering the domains of the Czar. He
is too good a shot.
John W. Forney was, in his boyhood, a printer's
devil, from which occupation many great men have
risen in this country.
Though history tells us that Julius Cresar, Nelson,
Bonaparte and Marlborough were nervous yet they
were brave enough.
The Hou. Gen. Thomas Cl ingman, of North Caro
lina, sailed from New York for Bermuda Thursday
on the steamer Flamborough.
The Rev. Dr. Lowrence S. MacMahon, of Provi
dence, R. I., has been appointed Roman Catholic
Bishop of the vacant See of Hartford.
Bulwer Lytton trembled in every limb when he
saw a cat, wby he could not tell. It was not from
fear, for he had no such sensation.
Secretary Sherman's portrait, life size, is to be
placed in the ^Vew, York Chamber of Commerce,
and is now beiflg painted for the purpose.
Daniel Deronda was too much for George Eliot
as it was her readers. The labor bestowed upon it
hascompletely broken her health.
Dore is engaged on a mammoth oil painting,
which he conceives is to give him great fame and
prove the most remarkable of his works.
I The cattle ranch recently purchased by Wm. H.
Vanderbilt in Colerado is said to have cost him
8350,000. Mr. Vanderbilt will visit it in May.
“Poor Carlotta” has been transferred to her new
abode, but is quite unaware of the change. She nev
er speaks, and can with difficulty be made to take
food.
Senator Kernan’s eldest son has gone abroad to
study lor the priesthood at the same institution at
which General Sherman’s son, Thomas, is now a
student.
Lorillard paid just seven hundred and eighty dol
lars for Parole; but he has cost the elegant gentle
men of Kentucky and the English natives hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
The negro exodus should turn its mind to Boston.
Aristocratic ladies there are marrying colored men.
The wedding of Grimke, a negro lawyer, to Miss
Stanley, is the latest.
Ex-Governor John B. Floyd's widow died in
Abingdon, Va., on Thursday. She was the daugh
ter of General Francis Preston, and the sister of the
late William C. Preston.
Bishop Atkinson, of North Carolina, is now over
70 years old. For about a quarter of a century his
mental and physical energies have been devoted
to the religious promotion of that State.
General Jubal A. Early has written to the Lynch
burg News in reference to General John C. Pem
berton and the surrender of Vicksburg. Of Gen
eral Pemberton he says: “Those who know him
best, know him only to love and honor him.
Students of the University of Virginia are exer
cised over the mysterious disappearance of A. W.
Crawford, of Louisville. Ky. He left his room in
Charlottesville as if to take a walk for recreation.
He left his best clothing, his watch, his books open
and lamp burning as though to be absent but a few
minutes. The students turned out iu a body on
Wednesday and scoured the country north and
west of the University for five or six miles, leaving
hardly a leaf unturned that might hide the boy.
Nothing was discovered.
Assistant Commissary General Lilley, of the Brit
ish Army, took Miss Venetia Alamazarda, daugh
ter of the late Francis C. Sexton, away from New
York yesterday as a bride. They sailed foi Ber
muda, where General Lilley is stationed. The
marriage was opposed by the bride’s mother, and it
is said that Miss Sexton was for awhile under lock
and key at her mother’s residence, in New York.
General Lilley holds the Crimean metal, with four
clasps for Alma, Inkerman and siege of Sebastopol,
the Turkish medal, and is also a member of the
Legion of Honor.
Mr. Henry Kiddle has stirred up a lively breeze
Id New York. He is the superintendent ofthe pub.
lie schools of the city and has held that position for
many years. A day or two ago he published a work
on spiritualism, in which he avows his belief in the
ability of people of this world to communicate with
the spirits of the other world. The city is divided
on the question of Mr. Kiddle’s fitness as an in
structor of youth. One party says that Mr'Kid
dle's spiritualism has nothing to do with education,
and the other party says that a believer In sny such
nonsense can’t manage the schools in which their
children are taught. The chances are that the be
ginning of Mr. Kiddle’s career in spiritualism wi il
end his career as an educator.