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A BO«H T ET.
For Miss Mollie It- of Calhoun, Oa.
Little darling—sweeter far
Than the sweet .1 une roses are.
Cold as snowdrop's trosty brightness,
Pure as lillies - pearly whiteness.
Blue-bolls droop beneath hot skies;
So the lids of your shy eyes.
Prop neatb passion's ardent glances.
Too intense those daring lances;
Yet drop lower your eyes ray sweet,
••Ia)ve lies bleeding" at your feet.
Tills white rose, so marble fair,
With your brow may well compare;
And these pansies purple dyes.
Lurk within your shadowy eyes.
“Maiden's Blush’’—your cheek’s light bloom,
Your subtle voice. Its soft perfume.
So these flowers are tribute meet.
Bend their fragrant praise to greet,
•‘Love lies bleeding” at your feet.
M. J. X.
OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.
ENGRAVINGS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF
DISTINGUISHED MEN AND WOMEN
BISHOP JOHN JOSEPH KEANE, OF
RICHMOND.
begin to rank as a capitalist in the city which
he had so recently adopted as bis home.
Henry Watterson was born in Washington
City on the 16th day ol Febrnary, 1840. at a
time when his father, the Hon. Harvey M. Wat
terson, was a Representative from Tennessee.
It was remarked as a coincidence that thirty-
five years later he had a son born to him while
he was a member of Congress. Deficiency of
sight, prodnoed by a severe attack of aoarlet
fever in his early childhood, and whioh other
wise enfeebled him, made it necessary for his
parents to educate him at home, and in conse
quence ha took no college degree, bat was in
structed almost entirely by private tutors. He
was at first designed for a musician and was
carefully taught to that end. But his mind
took a different turn, and when be was sixteen
yean old he had become a newspaper writer.
He had various engagements in Washington
and New York, and. when the war same on, was
writing for Frank Leslie, the Harpers and other
well known litemry purveyors, his residence
being in Washington, where he had a position
on the editorial staff of the States, a paper edited
by John P. Heiss. He also was the working
editor of the Democratic National Quarterly Re
view, owned and published by the Hon. T. B.
Florence. During the war he saw military ser
vice in several irregular capacities, but his
sight made independent or even continue! ser
vice impracticable, and his most noticeable en
terprise was the "Rebel." a newspaper that
gained universal popularity and favor. He was
for a few months iu Atlanta and edited the
Southern Confederacy. After the war he went to
I took my place again, feeling a little sheep
ish, and when the ball finally oame in my di
rection, I supposed it was another bird, of
course, and refused to move a musole.
I saw my mistake, and a large number of
stars, when it hit me between the eyes, and sat
me down in a bed of thistles.
But I oame to the scratch like a hero, and I
verily believe that I should have caught the
next ball if it hadn’t slipped through my fin
gers, and mashed my nose all over my face.
It hit very hard that time.
I think it struck me two or three times after
I was down, and would probably have murder
ed me on the spot, if the oentre fielder hadn’t
taken it off.
The two sides changed places after a while,
and I was glad of it.
The first thing I did when I went to the bat
was to give the catcher a bat in the ear, causing
him to stand on his head in the water-pail.
I excused him, however, this being his first
offence, and sternly commanded the pitcher to
pitch her again.
I told him I wanted a shoulder ball.
And the next one hit me so hard on the knee
that I wasn’t able to say my prayers for a month
The umpire yelled, ’One strike!
I sassed him for that; I oalled him a liar and
a scoundrel, a bow-leged, blear-eyed, sneaking
swindler and horse-thief; and if I had got much
madder I believe I should baveilnsulted him.
He said he would see me aft«£ the game.
But I thought if my luck contirfr'’ unchanged,
nobody would be able to see me at the end of
the game, without the aid of a anorosoope.
In our issue of to-day we present to our read
ers a pictnre of the Right Rev. John Joseph
Keane, fifth bishop ot the Catholic Churoh in
Virginia. The first bishop of Riohmond was
appointed by Pope Pius VII., in compliance
with a request made by several Catholic resi
dents of Norfolk, and the cboice of the Holy
See was Rev. Patrick Kelly, President of Biroh-
field college, near Kilkenny. He was consecra
ted in St. Mary’s Churoh, Kilkenny, and ar
rived in Norfolk January 19th, 1821. Here he
resided for a little more than a year when he
was recalled to take charge of his native diocese
of Waterford, where he died at an advanoed age.
The next bishop appointed to Richmond was
the Rev. Richard Vincent Whelan, of the arch
diocese of Baltimore, where he was consecrated
on the 21st of March, 1841. Bishop Whelan was
a man of untiring energy; he presided over the
Catholics scattered over the whole State then
comprising within its limits Western and East
ern Virginia, and on the division of the diocese
in 1849 he took as his choice the Western por
tion, making his residence in Wheeling, where
he died a few years ago. Bishop McGill next
snccteded to the See of Richmoud;he was at the
time of his appointment Vicar General, of Lou
isville, Kentucky, and a man of varied and
solid learning; be died in Richmond, January
14th, 1872. and Bishop Gibbons, then presiding
over North Carolina, was selected as his suc
cessor, and governed the diocese with great suc
cess until about a year ago when he was pro
moted to the Archiepiscopal See of Baltimore.
The bishop of the province having assembled
to name a priest to be appointed by the Holy
See, Bishop of Eichmond, the choice of that
body, was Bishop John Joseph Keane, who was
born in the ancient city of Ballysdannon, coun
ty Donegal. Ireland, on the 12th of September,
1839. In 1847 the bishop’s parents left Ireland
and reached St. John’s, New Brunswick, where
they remained about eighteen months, then re
paired to the city of Baltimore, where the sub
ject of our brief biography was educated. He
was entering his tenth year when his parents
arrived in Bilfli... —3“conimeiioea nis
course of English studies in Calvert Hall, and
after seven years graduated with much distinc
tion. In his seventeenth year he entered a
business house in Baltimore, but having a voca
tion for a religious state, a fondness for im
proving his fine mind still more, and anxious
to benefit his fellow man and promote the
glory of God, he, after a short stay in the
world, entered the college of St. Charles, situa
ted in Howard county, and under the charge of
the Sulpician Fathers. Here he commenced
his rhetoric and classical course, which he
completed in three years, during which he gave
every indication of intellectual ability, and left
St. Charles for the Seminary of St. Mary’s, Bal
timore citj. Here he commenced his philoso
phy and theology, and went though with the
highest honors, having been facele princeps in
hisclas8;he was ordained priest on the 2! of
July 1866, by the lamented Archbishop of
Spaulding, and assigned as assistant pastor of j
St, Patrick’s Church, Washington, D. C., where i
he remained until appointed to the See of Rich
mond. It is very seldom an assistant pastor is j
thus elevated, indeed I doubt if it has occurred
in more than one or two instances in the his
tory of the Catholic church in these States.
Bishop Keane, however, preferred that position
as it gave him an opportunity of doing more in
the way of preaching, and using means to ele
vate the weak and encourage the innocent in
the ways of virtue. Ke wss especially success
ful with young men, being a great temperance
advocate—he himself never used the weed or
wine even when a young man of the world, and
by his exhortation did much good in Washing
ton, where his departure from that city was so
much regretted. Bishop Keane is now in the
bloom of life, being 39 years old; he has a fine,
highly cultivated mind, and whilst a ripe
scholar, is by no means a finished student. All
the time be can spare from other duties is de
voted to study; he stands pre-eminent among
the bishops of the Catholic church, and with
the blessings of God has a rich harvest to reap
HENRY WATTERSON.
A GENIUS AND A SUCCESS.
An Interesting Sketch.
(See his portrait in No. 207.)
In No. 207 we presented a good likeness of
this wizard of the qnill. We know him per
sonally and intimately, and publish with great
pleasure the following interesting sketch whioh
has been famished ns since his portrait ap
peared in this paper:
In 1868, when Henry Watterson went from
Nashville to Louisville to snooeed George D.
Prentice as editor of the Journal, the opinion
was general among newspaper men that the ex
periment could not snooeed. Although the
yonng journalist was known as an energetic and
indefatigable worker, and had made the
•'Rebel ' a success during the war and, in con
junction with Albert Roberts, had successfully
revived the Nashville Banner after the war, he
was still a very young man and untried upon
ambitious scale, and it was thought that he
could no more wear the mantle of Prentice than
compete with Haldeman, who had completely
eelipsed all rivalry and was making the Courier
the biggest newspaper success of the day. No
one conjectnred that in six months Haldeman
and Watterson would join hands and be working
together as partners in a bnsiness ten times
greater than Louisville had ever known in Pren
tice’s palmiest days, and that in six years the
junior journalist should make for himself a
national reputation as a speaker and writer,
’eside over a National Convention of his party,
present a great metropolis in Congress and
BISHOP JOHN
Nashville and he and his friend John Happy,
who had been his constant companion during
the war, started the Banner and prospered from
the first. In 1868 he was offered the managing
editorship of the Louisville Journal and took it.
It was here that his career began in earnest, and
has continued ever since with increasing and
nninterrupted success. His union with Mr.
Haldeman, one of the first business men in the
newspaper ousiness of this or any other coun
try, made a rare combination. They bought
up all the newspapers in Louisville and made a
lamping operation which they called the Courier-
Journal. They here built the most expensive
and magnificent newspaper building in the
world, investing nearly three-quarters of a mil
lion in it. They now have a paper which is
without a rival in the Soatb, either in circula
tion or influence.
Mr. Prentice died in 1870, and immediately
Mr. Watterson began to be known as a power in
the journalism of the day. He was the most ac
tive member of the famons newspaper syndi
cate that ran the Cincinnati Convention of 1872.
and was one of the “quadrilateral” in connection
with Murat Halstead, Whitelaw Reid and Sam
uel Bowles. It is generally conceded that he is
more responsible tiiaa all others for the action
of the St. Louis Convention, over whose organi
zation and first day’s proceedings he was chosen
to preside, and doing his work in a manner
which those who witnessed it will never forget,
particularly his ruling in favor of Miss Pnoibe
Cousins, that “no point of order is in order
when a lady has the floor.” A vacancy occur
ring at this time in Congress, Mr. Watterson
was almost unanimously elected to fill it. Ha
served as a member of the Ways and Means, the
principal committee of the House, made several
successful speeches on the floor and perempto
rily refused a re-election. He has since devo
ted himself to his newspaper, in which his
hand can be easily traced by its readers.
These are given as the principal features of an
editorial oareer, perhaps the most fortunate and
successful of the day, and as precocious as it
has been successful. Mr. Watterson is still a
young man, on the snnny side of forty, and
mnch may be expected of nim. He is married
and the head of a oharming household.
OFF-HAND TALKS.
By Slim Jim.
NO VIII.
Base Ball.
Well, yes, I have had some experience in
base-ball matters.
I joined the Government Book Club, as right-
fielder, in the very first game we played I made
my mark—in fact, severed marks; and I carry
them to this day.
Our club took the field in the first inning, and
the nmpire called ns to time.
The first man that went to the bat was cross
eyed, and looked as if he intended to Bend a
ball right into my hand.
I told him I’d take a fiy in mine.
He knocked the ball.
I looked np, and saw it soaring through the
air directly toward me; it went over my head
I turned and ran for it, keeping my eye on it;
I fell over three stamps, ran through a clump of
briers, tumbled into a ditch, and nearly butted
my brains out against a tree, and jnst as I
thought the ball waa about to light, it turned
and flew away in another direction.
Then I discovered that, it wasn’t the ball at all,
but a bird flying through the air. I looked back
at th6 players; they had the ball, and the game
had not been interrupted.
I swore I would hit the next ball.
It came; I closed my eyes and str lek it a sock-
dologer; the bat broke into three peices; I drop
ped the fragment, and ran.
Ye gods, how I ran!
I reached first; I didn’t stop, but rushed on
like a locomotive under a fall head of steam.
I knew the ball couldn’t have stopped this
side of San Francisco, after the whack I had
given it, so I thought it possible to make four
bases.
I fell down fonr times between second and
third; I busted one of my suspenders, and barked
both shins, I slipped and floundered and blowed
and grunted, bnt kept running all the time.
I was determined to make a home run, if it
took a thousand years to do it, and broke every
bone in my body.
Dexter would have committed suicide if he
had seen me coating in on the homestretch.
I yelled to the crowd to clear the track, ran
over two men and a boy, and shrieked “Tallylic!”
as I landed on the home plate.
But, as I glanced aronnd, I discovered that
the game had stopped.
An excited crowd bad gathered round a par
ticular spot, and I soon saw That they were cry
ing to bring the umpire to life.
Then one of the men sadly informed me that
I had not hit the ball at all. bnt had nearly
knocked the umpire's head off.
I was shocked—not on the wounded man’s
account, but because I had made that brilliant
home run for nothing.
The umpire was a book agent by profession,
and of course he speedily recovered.
But I was mad; I seized another bat, and re
quested the pitcher to give me another trial.
Also informed the nmpire that if he didn’t
keep out of my way this time, I would land him
in Liverpool in two seconds.
But I missed the ball; and the bat, flying out
of my band, knocked over an omnibus, crippled
two horses, glanoed from the top of a barn, and
knocked the steeple off a churoh in the next
county.
At last accounts it was still going.
After this feat some of my companions tried
to induce me to resign my position, bnt I was
determined to carry oat my Bpie, and enjoy the
sport with thereat of them, r
I finished the game, and the game almost fin
ished me.
I was hit twice in the stomach, had both eyes
blaeked, lost a small piece of my soalp, suffered
a broken rib, and dislocated my arms at the
shonlder.
When all was over, I fainted.
Then I made a final home ran on a window-
shatter, and my wife, . at fisst sight of me,
thought I had been ran over by a freight train.
Yes, I have had so mnch experience in base
ball matters that I don’t require any more-
thank you.
Died from Fish Poison.
Mr. 8. W. Doss, a citizen of Missouri, oppo
site Hickman, died on Sunday last, after suffer
ing terrible agonies. Some three weeks ago,
while taking a oat fish off his line he was cat in
the palm of the hand by its fins. Not thinking
the woand amounted to maeh, it was some
time before any medical attention was obtained.
The physicians when called did everything in
their power, bnt with no good results. The
poison permeated from the wound np the arm,
through the breast and into the bowels, and the
suffering of the poor man was said to be beyond
description. On SnDday he died. Mr. Doss
was known as an industrious, worthy, good cit
izen, and leavee many relatives and friends to
mourn his loss.—Hickman Courier.
Movements in Southern Society.
The Portsmouth Knights of Honor had a pleas
ant picnic out at White Lily farm on the twenty-
sixth ult.
The officers of the first Virginia Regiment gave
Gen. Bradley T. Johnson a complimentary banquet
in Richmond lately, a-, a token of their esteem for
him as a soldier and citizen.
The Young Men’s National Union (Catholic) met
at Richmond lately and the delegates were delight
fully entertained. A complimentary concert being
given them at Mozart Hall and a sumptuous ban
quet the evening after.
Miss Martha Wilkinson, a lovely and accom
plished daughter of Capt. Archibald Wilkinson,
one of Richmond’s oldest and most highly honored
citizens, was married lately to Mr. John W. Wil
liams of New Kent county, Va.
Baltimoreans are now having regular moonlight
excursions down the Bay whenever Luna holds her
torch—and often when she doesn’t. Pinafore and
Terpsichore—not to mention Flirtation-oh—assist
the moonlight in making things pleasant.
H. M. S. Pinafore was given, for the first time,
at the Lyceum Theatre, Summit, Miss., on June
27, with repetitions on Saturday. The oparatta
was performed by first class amateur talent and
with new scenery and effects.
Married in a Buggy.—June 24, I879, on the
road between Phebus and McAlister, about two
and a half miles from town, sitting in a buggy, by
the Rev J. H. Roberts, Mr. J. F. Catron to Miss
Alice Wade. All of Obion county, Tenn.
A charming entertainment came off at the resi
dence of Mr. John F. Spearing, New Orleans, on
the 26th ult., by the Hawthorne Dramatic Society.
The programme consisted of tableaux, farce and
comedy, which were followed by music and danc
ing.
The gallant Pythians of Portsmouth. Va.,J in-
dulgsd themselves and their friends with a moon
light excursion to Old Point and the capes on the
twenty-seventh ult. A brass band and two co
tillion bands enlivened the trip, and a hop in the
pavilion of the Hygeia Hotel was part of the pro
gramme.
The Lycurgus Literary Association, of Baltimore,
had an excursion on the Steamer Keyport last
week. Singing by the Crescent quartet, a grand
orchestral concert and a literary entertainment by
the young ladies and gentlemen of the Society
were among the attractions.
The Richmond Blues will have an excursion to
Old Point Comfort on July 8th, where they will go
into encampment on the shady and grassy former
site of the old Hygeia Hotel. A large number of
friends will accoinpaay the Blues and it is thought
the Catonsville amateur corps will give another
brilliant Pinafore on the occasion.
The Abingdon (Va.) Standard has this to say of
an Atlanta lady. This is the third presentation
of a cantata by the institute and considered the
most successful. The fairy bridal represents the
union of Titania, the fairy queen, with Oberon,
lord of the realm. Titania was represented by
Miss Lelia Lowry, of Atlanta, Ga. The same pa
per says: ‘Miss Hattie Rice, of Atlanta, read the
salutatory address of the graduating class at the
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Jackson Institute.’ t
Tile reorganization of the Southern Dramatic
Club, well and favorably known in times past,
took place at the Old Drury last week. Fifty mem
bers have enrolled their names upon the list, and it
may be confidently expected that the club will, be
fore long, give evidence to a drama-loving public
that, like the phoenix, it has arisen from its ashes
witli renewed powers, and that its pending enter
tainments will place it on an equal footing with
the best of New Orleans amateur dramatic asso
ciations.
Madison, Ga., has had a Pinafore. It was gotten
up by the young people of that charming town,
and was under the management of the accomplished
musician, Mrs. McHenry. It was very creditably
rendered. Mr. McHenry made a goo 1 Sir Joseph,
Mr. Albert Foster an excellent Capt. Corcoran.
Ralph Rackstraw was well given by Mr. N. Brown,
with the exception that he was not sufficiently af
fectionate to such a charming and silver voiced
‘Josephine’ as Miss Kitty TValton. Mr. L. H. Fos
ter, with Ins rich bass voice, made as good a ‘Dead-
eye’ as you would be apt to find among trained
professionals, while rollicking little Buttercup was
well personated by Miss Bertha Saffold; and ‘Cous
in Hebe,’ by Miss Sallie Harris was well sustained.
Stage Dots,
The ‘'Pinafore” sent out by Feyer to Havana,
had a hard time of it.
Effie Ellsler denies most emphatically that she’s
married, or that she intends to marry—just yet.
Haverly made $5,000 out of McKee Rankin,
while McKee made $26,000 out of the engagement.
Harry Meredith will pass the summer at Cohas-
set, Mass., but will support Janauscheck next sea
son.
Max Strakosch has signed the lease of the Fifth
Avenue Theatre for one year, from Sept. 1st, at
$34,000.
Joseph Jefferson made his first appearance upon
the stage when fourteen years of age, and nearly
fainted from fright.
Last evening and again this, Haverly’s Mastodon
Minstrels of fifty performers are at the Academy
of Music, Buffalo, N. Y.
Mme. Albani has been safely delivered of a son
and heir to the head of the family of Gye. Both
infant and mother are doing well.
Minnie Hauk has been engaged by Carl Rosa for
next season. She will open in London in the new
opera, “Taming of the Shrew.”
Three companies of colored singers are being or
ganized in Boston for the performance of “Pina
fore” next season, beginning early in September.
Ogden, Nevada, is to have a $1,000 theatre, with
seating capacity for six hundred. The chairs will
not be upholstered in silk damask, as the natives
prefer natural white pine.
It now seems doubtful whether Mr. Toole’s in
tention to build a theatre’in London will amount
to anything. He has not been able to secure the
site upon which he had fixed his mind.
Modjeska’s agent, H. J. Sargent, is correspond
ing with Irving, the great English actor, with a
fair prospect of success. His proposition is to put
Modjeska in the Lyceum Theatre, London, guar
anteeing the management certain receipts, while
Mr. Irving makes a brief trip to this side, getting
back for the holidays.
PERSONALS.
What People are Doing and Saying
all over the World.
Isn’t Robert Bonner the neigh-Bob of horseman -
ship.
The “Bob Ingersoll cigar” is the latest nicotine
arrangement. Like his tphiloaophy, it w ni SOO n go
off in smoke.
Tilden has lately made so much by the elevated-
railroad speculation that he must have “pots” of
money now.
The Emperor of Germany wag the first of the
crowned heads to offer condolence to the twice be
reaved ex-Empress Eugenie.
Near Strawberry Plains. East Tennessee, last
Thursday night, a son of Mrs. Ann Caldwell, aged
seventeen years, mistook his younger brother fora
burglar and shot him dead.
Hayes is the champion pardoner. He refuses to
pardon the victim of a test case of Mormonism, but
extends his clemency to the negro desperado, Pey
ton, who murders his side partner at a six cent bet
at cards.
Gen. Boynton writes to theCincinati Gazette that
Zachariah Chandler will be a candidate for presi
dent in 1880. Though he has not written the con
ventional letter, it is known that he is in the hands
of his friends
TUe reception ofTalinage in Nottingham, was. in
numbers and enthusiasm, unprecedented.® The re
ceipts from the first lecture, were over $1,000. Ap
plications by the thousands are pouriugjin for Mr*
Talmageto preach and lecture.
The last slave sold in the Confederacy was in 1865,
near Richmond, a negro man, who was bought for
nine hundred head of cabbage. Cabbage was worth
a dollar a head, consequently the negro man footed
up at nine hundred dollars.
Frederick Coon, of Schuyler’s Fall, New York,
celebrated the one-liundred-and-first anniversary
of his birthday a few days ago. Frederick makes
willow baskets, and recently walked eight miles in
carrying them to market.
Mr. Gladstone Is an ultra temperance man. He
says he is opposed to coffee palaces, as lie believes
they are more deteriorating than beer shops. The
stimulating properties of tea or coffee are greater
and more injurious than those o( malt liquors.
Dr. Swan M. Burnett, of Washington, has recently
made some examinations to ascertain whether the
negro of the United States is affected with color
blindness to the same degree as the white race. He
concluded that they are less liable to the defect.
Miss Caledonia Linton, who lives on cottonwood
creek, near Richmond, Texas, was walking in the
woods last Saturday, when she metalarge alligator.
The young lady got a rope and, single-handed, tied
the reptile about the neck; then she'dragged him
two miles to her home.
The late Cardinal de Moriehini. Bishop of Albano
was a very learned and amiable man and was full
of humor. One day a discussion was going on in
his preseuce concerning a certain Italian orator
and statesman noted for his verbanity. “Yes,,' the
Cardinal said, “he is an admirable speaker; he does
not know wliat he is saying but he says it so well.”
A rejected suitor made a last and ineffectual ap
peal to the girl of his choice, as they were riding to
gether near Newark, Ohio. She told him that she
would certainly never change her mind. “Then I
want to die,” he said. He got out of tiie wagon,
(took the check-rein from the horse, walked some
jffistance ,r r.. ,‘i.c ,y„ods, and hanged hiir t”. -
The girl, after waiting awhile, went to look for him,
and found him dead.
Queen Elizabeth, admiring the elegance of the
Marquis of Medina, a Spanish nobleman, compli
mented him on it, begging at the same time to
know who possessed the heart of so noble a cava
lier. “Madam,” said he, “a lover risks too much
on such an occasion; but your Majesty’s will is law.
Excuse me, however, if 1 fail to name her, but re
quest your Majesty’s acceptance of her portrait.”
He sent her a looking-glass.
“Fighting Dick Anderson! Equal to an emergen
cy; ready in every place; fit for every responsibility;
doing loyal service wherever lie was placed; free
from resentment when slighted, as President Davis
chose to slight him, and giving to those whom he
should have commanded cheerfulest aid and read
iest obedience! .South Carolina had cause to b e
proud of him. Yet was lie almost a strauger
amongst his own people!”
Frederick the Great was always very fond of dis
putation; but as he generally terminated the dis
cussion by collaring bis antagonist, and kicking
his shins, few of bis guests were disposed to enter
the arena agaiust him. One day, when he was even
more disposed than usual for an argument, be
asked one ol his suite why he did not venture to
give his opinion on some particular question. “It
is impossible, your Majesty,” was the reply, “to
express uu opiuiou before a sovereign who has such
very strong convictions, aud who wears such very
tiuek boots."
“Fighting Dick” Anderson, who was buried at
Beaufort last Friday, was the most distinguished
soldier that South Carolina contributed to the con
federate service. He was educated at West Point,
and alter serving in the Florida and Mexican wars,
he held the rank as captain w lien South Carolina
seceded fro u the union. He instantly resigned his
ommissiou to join the confederate army, in .which
he rose from a colonelcy to a lieutenant-general
ship. He had command of the fourth corps before
Petersburg, and all through the war he had
partin much of the hardest fighting. The News
aud Courier, in an elegant article, sadly says:
“Jimmy the Duck,” of Virginia City; Nevada, is
dead. He made his living by a queer invention.—
He used to put a duck in a box, with its head stuck
out ol a hole, and allow the crowd to throw clubs at
it for 25 cents a throw, the bird belonging to whoev
er should hit it. The ducks would of course “duck”
their lieadsjust before the stick whizzed along, and
it was not oftener;than once in six months that
Jimmy would loose. The following is his epitaph:
“Old Jimmy’s weary bones are now resting peace
fully under the sagebush. Let us hope that when
the trump of the resurrection shall echo over the
ragged peak of Mount Davidson he will be able to
pop his head up tike that famous duck, and should
the devil appear and make a grab lor the old man,
may he dodge back successfully.”
Paul Boynton, the swimmer,has a rival in a Col
orado chap, who walks the water in a pair of new
fangled shoes. He gave an exhibition at Leaven
worth recently, which was entirely satisfactory.
He started from the upper side of the Missouri river
bridge, and although the current was running at
the rate of fourteen miles an hour, the river was
crossed in nine and a half minutes. After resting
a few moments he showed the audience how toman-
age the shoes and how they could be steered In any
direction one wished to go. The shoes were then
attached together, making a perfect buoy or life-
preserver, upon which the occupant could sit or lie
with ease and safety. These aquatic shoes will prove
very convenient for American travelers who visit
Europe aud find it couvenient to walk home.
Strange but true.—Neuralgia and headache
have at last been robbed of their terrors. Neural-
gine never fails to cure them. It contains nothing
hurtful to the system. Hutchinson & Bro., propri
etors, Atlanta, Ga.