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the piazza tkagepy.
Algernon’s Ethel’s papa has a
Newlv-painted front piazza,
He has a
Piazza.
When with tobacco juice was tainted
j,he\ had that front piazz painted.
That tainted
Piazza painted.
Algernon called around perchance
That night arrayed in goodly pants—
That night perchance
In gorgeous pants.
Engaging Ethel in a chat,
On that piazza down he sat
in chat
The., sat.
And when an hour or so had passed
He tried to rise: but,oh! stuck fast—
At last
Stuck fast!
Fair Ethel shrieked: “It is the paint!’’
Alik fainted in a deadly faint
This saint
I’id faint.
Algernon sits there till this day—
He cannot tear himself away—
Away?
Nay, nay:
His pants are firm, the paint is dry-
lie’s nothing else to do but die—
To die—
O my!
OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.
ENGRAVINGS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF
DISTINGUISHED MEN AND WOMEN
In 1S01 he was ordered to the command of the
Department of New Mexico, but resigned imme
diately after assuming command, upon hearing
that Florida, the State to which lie owed allegiance,
and which he claimed as his home, had seceded
from the Union.
In 1801 Colonel Loring arrived at Richmond after
the battle of Bull Run, and reported for service to
the Hon. Jefferson Davis, President of the South
ern Confederacy. He was at once appointed a
brigadier-general, and ordered to command an
army of 20,000 men in Western Virginia. He sub
sequently served under Gen. Lee in Western Vir
ginia, and having received an affectionate appeal
from Gen. Jackson, made a campaign with that
famous officer, leading his advance very often.
In 1S02 he was promoted, and ordered to a com
mand in East Virginia but after the evacuation of
Norfolk, returned to West Virginia. Here he struck
the enemy and gained victories at Fayette C. H.,
Cotton Hill, Gauley Bridge and Charleston, he and
his men watering their horses in the Ohio, dis
organizing the government of West Virginia and
entering Ohio with the cavalry of the command.
General Loring was next assigned to command
in the Western division of the Confederate armies,
where he operated wit If Pemlierton in Mississippi,
and Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, Gen. Hood and
Gen. Joe Johnston, and was with the latter officer
when he surrendered in North Carolina to Sher
man, Gen. Lee having previously surrendered at
Appomattox Court House.
In 1870 he was ordered to Alexandria and the
Rosetta, at the mouth of the Nile, where he was
assigned the most important command in all Egypt.
His headquarters were at Alexandria, with 'nu
merous forts along the coast. Here he remained un
til December, 1875, when he accompanied the Egyp
tian army to Abyssinia, as second in command and
chief of staff. He was in the battle of the Valley
of Gena, on the 7th of March. 1S70. when attacked
by King John's army, and was in the battle of
Fort Gena, when an attack was made by the entire
army of the enemy on the 0th of March.
Gen Loring has been decorated and promoted to
OFF-HAND TALKS,
By Slim Jim.
A Whaling Voyage.
When I was a youth, I shipped for a whaling
voyage to the north seas.
I went with my father, who was captain of the
good ship “Crazy Jane.“
My father was a good whaler.
Be had pratioed on me so often that he had
grown qnite expert at the business.
Besides, he was at one time a schoolmaster,
and had to do so mnch whaling every day ihat
he soon gradnated, by a large and enthusiastic
majority.
It was a little afraid to nndertake the trip at
first becanse I remembered a story I had onoe
heard abont a fellow who went on a similar voy
age, and got badly taken in.
His name was Jonah, If my memory serves me
right.
Perhaps yon never heard the story.
Jonah was fool enough to try and swallow a
whale, and it made him so seasick that he had
to spit it out.
It’s a good story when it‘s well told.
But it’s abont as bard to swallow as it was for
Jonah to swallow the whale.
However, it served as a warning to me, and I
resolved to attempt no snch feat.
We steered for the source of the Anrora Bore
alis. and crnised abont for a long time before we
could catch a single whale.
I don‘t know why they were so hard to catoh,
unless it was becanse we forgot to spit on oar
bait.
Then he would proceed to pick his teeth.
When fast-day came, it was religiously kept
by all on board.
We were all starved at last, and we were jnst
casting lots to determine which one of ns should
die first, when aconple of whales were sighted
to leeward.
We went for them immediately, and both
were captured.
Then we harnessed them up to the ship, and
drove them southward at a rate of sixty-two miles
a minute, reaching port in safety on the evening
of the second day.
GEN. W. W. LORING.
We give to-day a finely executed and entirely
life-like portrait of Gen. William TV. Loring, so
long a resident of this country, but for many years
past Commander-in-chief of the army of tiie Egypt
ian Khedive.
Gen. Loring is better known in the Southern
States of this Union than elsewhere, for in that
section his earlv and middle life was chiefly spent,
and he served with great gallantry in the Florida-
Indian war, in the Mexican war. and also in the
Confederate army during the civil war of 1861. '62.
'63. '64 and ’6;. in fact, in 1S35. when a mere child,
he went to Texas, to assist that struggling people
in their resistance to Mexican tyranny, and there
served until the fighting closed. He would proba
bly have remained in Texas, but bis father, know
ing his tender Years, made a special visit to the
Lone Star State, and induced the gallant boy to
return to the parental roof in I lorida.
In iS}6 his restless, boyish spirit, induced him to
enroll his name in a company, known as the Down
ing Guards, mainlv composed of the young men of
St" Augustine, Florida, and raised to serve in the
Seminole Indian war. He went through the cam
paigns under Gens. Chick. Call and Jessup, and was
in the battles of Ouithlacoochie. Powelstou, Forks
of Ouithlacoochie and B ahoo Swamp.
In 1 St;, young Loring, although but sixteen
vears of age', was an officer in one of the companies
made up of men from St. Joseph and Apalachicola,
ami known as part of the Calhoun and Franklin
Volunteers, under the command of Cols. George S.
Hawkins and Robert Myers. During the campaign
young Loring landed at Santa Rosa Sound, near
Pensacola where be was sent out as a scout in com
mand of two men and a friendly Indian. By the
exercise of a little strategy, lie surprised and eap-
+'.rea H »-«- In II...-. " arrlors an* six »onwii and 'Cllil-
tlreu Tliis was regarded as an act of unparalleled
braverv and daring, and for it he was highly com
plimented by his superior officers. He was also at
the celebrated battle of Alaqua. when a desperate
tticountpr ensued at close quarters, during 11 hich
tile superior officers Myers and Haw kins, both fell,
desperately wounded, and the command developed
upon voting Loring. He closed the struggle in a
hand to hand fight, and drove the savages from the
field thev leaving a large number of then- killed
and wounded upon the scene of carnage.
In 1S19 and 1840 voung Loring entered George
town College. D. C.. and in 1842 completed the
studv of law in the office of U. S. Senator Yulee,
and was admitted to practice in the United States
and other courts. . , ^ ,
In 1S43. ’44 and '4- the subject of our sketch was
in the Legislature of the territory of Florida, and
served in the last Territorial and first State Legis
lature. , . . . .-
In 1846 he was appointed senior captain in a rifle
regiment of the regular army of the United States,
and assisted in recruiting the regiment.
In 1847, he was actively engaged 111 the Mexican
War landing at the Rio Grande with Gen. W infield
Scott, and subsequently at Vera Cruz. He was at
the seige of that eitv, and iu the battle of Rio Me
dio and Cerro Gordo. After the enemy had cut off
his communication with Vera Cruz, Gen. Scott
fought his great battle, and in sending his first dis
patch to Washington, mentioned four officers, viz:
Gens Harne and Plimton, and Majs. Loring and
Childs to whom lie said, he was most indebted for
the victorv. Major Loring was subsequently in
the battles of Contreras. Cburubuseo, C’liepultepec,
and Citv of Mexico. He h d the advance to the
Citv by "the Tacubava Causeway, and left with the
loss' of'an arm, it having been earned off by a can
non ball, when the Major was within 150 yards of
the celebrated Garita Belen. one of the fortified
gates of that famous city. In the advance upon
the citv there was neither officer or soldier between
voung‘Loring and the enemy when he fell, nor was
there anv other member of the army as near.
In 1S4S Col. Loring recovered and joined Ins reg
iment, and aided in recruiting the same prepara
tory to marching it across the Continent to Ore-
S 'ln 1849 his regiment, guarding300 six-mule teams,
started from Leavenworth, in Missouri, crossed the
Pockv Mountains, inhabited then by Indians only,
and carrying supplies for the entire command a
distance of two thousand six hundred miles to
Fort Vancouver, on the Columbia river, m what
was then Oregon Territory. He left a command at
Fort Laramie, and established military posts en
route in the Port Neuf Valley, at the Cantonment
Loring, Fort Dallas, on the Columbia river, near
the Cascade mountains, and Columbian Barracks,
on the river, near Fort \ ancouver. Colonel Lor
ing commanded this department for two years, du-
ring which the great California gold fever raged at
it- greatest height, and during which there was no
less than 60,ooo emigrants tor California on the
plains at one time. All this vast multitude was not
onlv protected, but great service rendered them m
addition, by the military.
In 1846, ’5* and 51, be commanded the depart
ment of Oregon, and during the great gold excite
ment only saved his command from decimation by
desertion,' by vigorous pursuits during the winter
into the snows of that cold and rigorous climate.
From 18-1 to 1S56 he commanded upon the Texas
frontier and the Rio Grande, and in the last men
tioned vear marched Ins regiment 1,200 miles to
Fort Union New Mexico, and in 1857 fought the
Coveterosand Mogollons, tribes of Indians, west of
the Rio Grande, in the Territory of Arizona. Great
numbers of the cruel and depredating savages were
killed and immense herds ot sheep captured, which
had been stolen from the settlement.
1858 Col Loring was ordered with a command
to assist Gen. Marcy, who had a large number of
Animals for Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, who was
then in Utah and preparing foraca > pa gn against
t e Mormons. He joined the command of the latter
" r F oi t Bridges, and went with Gen. Johnston to
“ it Lake Citv, and remained until the campaign
Hosed He then inarched througu the entire Mor
mon Territory, crossing in his route those great
sA-eams Blue River, Grand River and the Colorado,
and finally marched througu what was known as
ti e Park Region hack to New Mexico.
In 1861 and 1S00, having obtained a leave of
Movements in Southern Society.
TheEatonton Literary Club met last Thnrs-
day night at the residence of Mr. Qainn, where
a tolerably large crowd was assembled and a
most pleasant evening speut. Miss Lizze Quinn,
according to appointment, read an original es
say. Her subject was “Genius.’’ After read
ings by Mr. Lon Reid and Miss Sallie Lou Nis-
bet, the latter of whom read “The Raven," a
short and pleasant intermission was granted.
Voluntary readings being in order, Miss Lanra
Boykin, of Macon, read beautifully “The Bells,”
and Prof. Willis, of Virginia, treated the club
to a homorous dialogue. The next meeting
will be held at the home of Mr. B. F. Adams.
The nights for meeting have been changed to
Thursday of each week.
The long-talked-of Dramatic Entertainment,
under the management of Meadames Pharr,
Bnrress, Roberson and others, of LaGraDge,
Fla., was enjoyed by a large andience, at the
Schoolhouse, on Wednesday evening.
At eight o'clock the curtains were drawn, and
the attention of the audience was attracted and
held by the “star" of the evening, little May
Kelly, who delivered with both grace and ease
a beautiful little speech.
This was followed by tableaux and other
scenes worthy of a more extensive notice than
we will be able to give them.
In the scene of the “Fairy Queen,’’ honor was
never more highly paid, nor honor done to a
more dignified queen, than was Miss Susie Bar
rels, as the “Fairy Queen.”
The well-known game of “Strategy,” by Mr.
Porter Weld, in the play of “All’s Fair in Love
and War,” was played npon the unsuspecting
rival, Mr. Jodie Hopkins. Friend H. had he
been in reality “left” could never have worn a
more serious expression, for while his lips were
motionless his countenance spoke “such is life.”
Misses Sophia and Katie Burma played their
parts well, and Miss Mary Hickey never “seem
ed more at home” than while on the stage. The
song “How Can I Ever Forget You, by Miss
Bessie Rembert was happily rendered, and as
we listened to the rich, smooth strains of sweet
est mnsic, we were fully aware that the sound
thereof covered not the bonnds of her thoughts.
The exceedingly difficult piece, “The Car-
few,” was delivered by Miss Katie Bnrress, and
creditably, to.
The parts taken by Mis. W. N. Pharr and
Mr. T. D. Weld were well played. “Matrimoni
al Sweets could not in reality have been pre
sented more naturally.
We noticed one very familiar form occasional
ly flitting gracefully across the stage, attracting
attention—it was that of little Belle Derrick, one
of Marianna’s favorite little girls.
All in all, it was a happy affair; bnt we all
must confess, that in scene fourteen, wheD the
curtains were drawn, leaving the stage vacant,
save the delicate form of little "May,” who
charmed the andience with a song and glide
1 PERSONALS,
What People are Doing and Saying
all over the World.
Peter Anderson, editor of tin S 1a Frmisci Ap
peal, one of the most prominent; colore i men' on
the Pacific coast, died suddenly last week. He
was at tiie head of the colored Masons of California.
John Charles Adrion Hamilton, grandson of Alex
ander Hamilton, died at 'Merced, California,on tiie
loth inst.
Mrs. Sarah A. Dorsey says, iu her last will and
testament; “I do not intend to share i n the ingrati
tude of my country towards a man, who is, iu my
eyes, the highest and noblest in existence ’’
The heart of the Greek statesman, Deiigeorgis, is
to be placed in the mausoleum at Missolonghl, his
birthplace, where tiie heart of Lord Byron rests.
Mr. Jones, an American citizen, superintending
the great Government sheep farm of Japan, who
was seriously wounded by armed burglars last
year, lias been relieved from service with full sala
ry for the remaining three years of his engagement
and an additional gratuity, it being found that his
recovery was impossible if he continued his duties.
A drinking fountain has been openel for the use
of the public at the junction of five streets centred
at the foot of Lemau street. Whitechapel. The in
scription on the base of the plinth is; “This foun
tain has been erected by Emma, wife of Mr. Na
thaniel Monteflore, in loving memory of her broth
er, Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid, Bart., II. P„ for
Reading. Born ist May, 1803; died, 2nd May. 1S7S.
‘Write me as one who loved his fellow-men.Lei°h
Hunt.”
Mrs. Laura Fair, for some unexplained reason
failed to keep her engagement to deliver a lecture’
iu New Orleans last week.
Gov. Talbot, of Mass., a strong Sabbatarian, has
induced the Legislature to forbid the running o
trains on the State Railroad.
Masters Charles Brown and Hunter Weeks re
cently killed twenty-three woodcocks in two days
along the banks of the Shenandoah river.
Mr. J, \\ esiey Cook, of Staunton, is an engineer
by profession, only about forty years of age, and
though so young a man, on Wednesday last week
buried his eighteenth child. He is the father of
twenty-two children, four of whom are living, and
his wife is yet a young and pleasing looking lady.
William C. Reeves, aged twenty-seven years, shot
his young wife four times last M or day in St. Louis,
but perhaps not fatally. He became jealous of her
without cause, and it is thought that he was tem
porarily insaue from the effect of heat. Asj soon as
the examination of the wounds ba d been made,
Reeves flung himself on his knees at his wife's feet
and begged her forgiveness for his act. The wife,
wounded as she was, jumped to her feet, flung her
arms around his neck, and assured him that he had
not only all her forgiveness but all her love.
Captain Eads has at last secured a depth ofjtwen-
ty-six feet in the South Pass, at the mouth of the
Mississippi river. Tliisconcludes hiscontract with
the government, and is one of the greatest tri
umphs of modern science. Ships of tiie largest
draught now go through the Pass without thejieast
difficulty. When Capt. Eads first begun his jetty
operations, there was only eight ieet of water in
the Pa#-.
Iinu n ooug auu
vaa presented the crowning feature of the enter-, . %vIio * ias f . )r u , p
. 1 ataipment. • _ i. • *■
- *»V~ “* , f . . ,, oeeii mill lor Mr. K. M. hlilt iu Lmieubu r
n e are id hopes the Club will aive another T . . *
GEN. W. W. LORING.
a Major Generalcy by the Khedive who seems to
estimate him very highly, both as an officer and a
gentleman. Since 18;6 his headquarters have lieen
at Cairo, where he lives in a style becoming his
high rank and exalted station, fie now wears the
decoration known as ’‘Osniahueeyah,’' or “Grand
Commander,” an honor only awarded to veterans,
or those who have commanded armies in the field.
But two years since he was again decorated with
the “Medi'jedah,” or “Grand Officer,” which is the
highest honor ever conferred upon a foreigner. It
consists of a brilliant star, surrounded by crescents,
and is hung around the neck. This is accompanied
by another large and brilliant star, surrounded by
crescents, which is worn upon the left breast.
General Loring was born in North Carolina, near
Goldsliorough, Wayne county, in 1S23, but his father
removing to Florida at a very early age, the Gen
eral claims the land of flowers his home. In person,
he is tall, well proportioned, and of most command
ing physique. His complexion is a clear olive, his
One day when I was taking my turn at the
lookout, I saw something white in the distanoe,
and I immediately howled, “Sail, ho 1“
In an instant all was bustle and confusion.
Some thought it might be a pirate, and pre
parations were made to fight.
The captain immediately cleared the deck,
and put it in his pocket.
"Reef the anchor 1“ he yelled. “Splice the
forecastle, and haul up the main-brace! All
hands around 1 Throw the cook overboard!
Swing your partners!“
Then, turning to me he roared, in his usual
Scotch accent:
"Jim, gang ‘way and see how the bulwarks !“
I failed to find any bull on board, bnt the
gangway was there, and I took possession of it
with considerable promptitude.
The mate wanted my father to board the
e are in hopes the Club 'will give another
entertainment soon.
At the residence of the brideB brother Mr.
Jacob Wideman. on the evening of the 8th inst
by Rev. J. M. Rushin, of Boston, Ga., Mr. Wil
lie Barnard, conductor A. «fc G. R. R. to Miss
Emma J. Wideman daughter of Maj. H. E.
Wideman, of Fla. The attendants, Miss Octa-
via Stone, of Boston, Ga., Miss Barnard, of
Walthourville, Miss Lee Wideman, of Fla., Mr.
J. Willis Moore, Conductor A. & G. R. R. as
they formed themselves into a semi-circle pre
sented a scene of beauty aDd loveliness.
hair and beard black as Erebus, until time slightly strange vessel, but the old man shook his head
tinged them with grey, and his eye is dark and He gaid he didn . t fpel able t0 board anybody
lustrous, fairly piercing when fully concentrated
upon any specific object. He has never married,
although' conspicuously handsome and intelligent,
hut is genial and generous, especially fond of chil
dren. His manners are engaging, and few men
made more friends among the Indians than he, for
although he fought them fiercely, he was ever ready
for an honorable peace, and cheerfully smoked the
calumet and buried the tomahawk with those blood
thirsty and uncivilized aborigines.
Letter From Knoxville, Tennessee.
Our hotels and boarding houses have been throng
ed for the past week with refugees from Memphis.
Others are seeking the various watering places.
Among these, the celebrated Montvale, twenty-five
miles south from Knoxville, seems to be the favor
ite. The writer hereof spent a few days of last
week at the delightful M<mtvale. About half of the
rooms were taken—about two hundred. Good ac
commodations are offered for fully four hundred
visitors. The water is certainly wonderful in its
efficacy in relieving sufferers from dyspepsia and
kindred complaints.
One of our best aud purest men passed away into
the eternal world last night. Prof. R. L. Kirkpat
rick, of the University of Tennessee, died after an
illuess of a fortnight. He was a native of the
neighborhood of this city, ami was graduated in
1845 at the University of which he was a professor
up to the time of his death. Among his classmates
were Col. C. M. McGhee, the popular president of
the Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia railroad, and
Prof. IU. G. McAdoo, now connected with the same
University. It is no undeserved or exaggerated
praise to sav that Prof. Kirkpatrick, in all the re
lations of life, as a father, husband, friend, instruc
tor, citizen and as a minister of the Gospel, (he was
a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church
South,) was a model of unblemished excellence.
A great question is pending before the people of
Tennessee whose solution will be had at the ballot-
box on the Sth of August next. The Legislature,
by a formal enactment, proposed that the State
assume the payment of fifty cents on the dollar of
her enormous indebtedness aud that bonds shall lie
issued to that extent beuring 4 per cent interest.
This proposition lo the bond-holder is first to go be
fore the jieople at the time mentioned; and if rati
fied by popular vote it will go to the bond-holders
for them ratification or rejection. An active party
is at work opposing it, a party favoring repudia
tion or a lower rate. But it is believed that the
50-4 proposition will succeed.
Among the chief places of interest in our City is
the Gallery of our distinguished young artist, Mr.
Flovd Branson. TVe understand he spent some
weeks recently in your City making his beautiful
portraits for some of Atlanta’s prominent citizens.
The health of our City continues to be good.
The ever-welcomed Sunny South comes to cheer
and instruct our reading public, always filled with
the choicest offerings of southern literature. H e
are expecting in a few days a visit from Georgia's
charming and gifted authoress, Miss Fanny An
drews. She will spend the mouth of August in
Knoxville, at Montvale Springs, and at the delight
ful little City of Rogersvilie. M. S. O.
at present, since his son had developed an appe
tite that answered the purpose of a dozen board
ers.
Bnt it turned ont that there was no vessel to
board.
The sail that I had seen was no more nor less
than an iceberg.
Then everybody got mad.
I don’t know what there is abont an ioeberg
to make any one hot, bnt my father was on fire
in a minnte.
He seized a rope and took me into the cabin
on a whaling voyage.
And I think that expedition was prodnotive
of more “blubber" than any he ever made, be
fore or since.
I didn't see any more sails after that, and*the
sight of an ioeberg was enongh to freeze my
yonng blood.
One morning my father and his good-looking
son were standing on the fifty-cent deck (we
didn't have anything as cheap as a qnarter-deok
on onr vessel), and he pointed ont Davis Strait
to me.
He said he did not like to pass throngh Davis
Strait, because the ice-floes made it the most
perilous strait he had ever enconntered.
I timidly asked him if it was as perilous as
whiskey strait?
Then he clntched me by the collar before I
coaid got oat of his reach, and yanked me off
my feet, and mopped the deck with me, and
asked me if I would put him in snch a strait
again by my silly questions.
Then he went straight to the cabin, looked
himself in, and got blind drank.
A few days after this onr ship was canght in a
calm.
It was the most violent calm that was ever
known in that region.
The ship was stationary for as mnch as a long
time, because there was not enongh wind to fill
her sails.
The captain got three sheets in the wind, bnt
it was not enongh to start ns.
He also managed to get np qnite a breeze with
the mate, bnt it didn’t seem to act on the sails.
We ran ont of provisions, and I didn’t eat
anything for three days, except one egg.
I don't think I should have had even the con
solation of an egg, if it hadn’t been for tho fore
sight ot my father.
He ordered tbe ship to lay too.
And he gave me one.
After that we had nothing to eat bnt a piece
of an old snspender.
Onr only comfort was an old hill of fare,
which my father happened to have.
Every morning, noon and night we would
pass the bill around, and every man would read
it through carefully.
Dramatic Notes,
‘The
Anna Dickinson has written a book entitled
Ragged Register. ” „•
Ambrose Thomas, the great French musical com
poser, was born in a peasant's cabin, aud Verdi's
father was a successful tinker.
Jenny Lind sang in the chorus at the first concert
given during the past season by the Bach Society,
of London.
Mr. H. J. Byron has written a new commedietta
for Mr. Sothron, which will be produced here. The
artists engaged m England by Mr. Sothron will
leave for America in August.
Mrs. Florence I. Duncan has written a little
comedy satirizing the prevailing passion for china
painting aud decoration. She calls it the “Barn
Beautiful.” The Philadelphia Times says it is a
bright and witty little play, and will make a sue*
cess.
Simple people in London, hearing that Sarah
Bernhardt has a son fourteen years old accompany-
ing her, have been enquiring for Mr. Bernhardt,
but they can't find any such person.
Fanny Foster, the actress, was married to Thom
as Frederick Clark, on Tuesday of last week, at the
residence of the bride’s mother, by the Rev. E. C.
Sweetser.
As the marriages of artists are so proverbially
infelicitous, it is pleasant to learn from unquestion
able authority that Christine Nilsson (Madame Rou-
zaudi and her husband are a remarkably happy
couple. Thej r live in a style of quiet elegauce in a
small house on Belgrave road, London.
Fanny Davenport, who is resting ather mother’s
cottage in Canton Pa., will bagin her starring tour
under T. W. Davey’s management on September
5th. She will add to her repertoire the melodrama
of “The Child Stealer,” which Lucille Western
used to make so popular. She appears at the Grand
Opera House in October.
When the great temperance drama, “L’Assomoir’
was being played at the Olympic, in New York, it was
noticed by professional aud other critics that the
moral of the drama was entirely lost upon the au
dience, if it did not even have a bad effect. It was
said that never before did so many people go out
between the acts to get—‘fresh air.’ In London the
same thing is remarked. “Observer” writes to the
Standard: Seated in the stalls I looked behind me
at the close of each act, and I invariably saw—to
me an unaccustomed sight—three or four men and
women refreshing their exhausted aud excited na
tures by the application of a spirit flask to their
lips on the fall of the curtain. I ascended and
looked into the gallery, and there I beheld precise
ly the same spectacle, though on a more considera
ble scale. I may add that from the incessant cries
of “Bottled beer” which ran through the theatre
between the acts, the purveyors of intoxicating
fluids seemed to be doing an unusually brisk busi
ness with the “gods.”
conntjr, eloped some time since wilh Miss Lizzie
Hines,Carrying with him the money lie had collec
ted iu tue mil! for Mr. Hilt during the year, and
leaving behind a wife and two or three children.
The Prince of Wales stood sponsor to Capt. and
Mrs. Arthur Paget's baby, that was christened at
tiie Chapel Royal, St. Janies' Palace, two weeks ago.
Mrs. Paget was formerly Miss -Minnie Stevens, of
New York, daughter of Mrs Paran Stevens. This
is the first child of American-born parentage who
has had an heir to the crown as a godfather.
Mile Grevy, daughter of the President of tiie
French Republic, is an excellent shot, and habitu
ally accompanies her father iu his shooting excur
sions.
Miss Stanton, a daughter of Elizabeth Cady ; Stan_
ton, is to be one of the lecturers next winter. Miss
Stauton lias had five years' training at Vassar Col
lege aud two at the Boston School of Oratory. She
is very beautiful. Her subjects are “A Solid South'’
aud “Edmund Burke.”
Colonel W. B. McGreery, of Flint, late State Treas
urer of Michigan, had to have a finger amputated
n order to save liis life. He was poisoned by a cut
with a new pocket-knife.
King Cetywayo, of Zululand, is a mulatto from
western Pennsylvania, and has not only been in
the Confederate navy but iu the Federal, Italian,
and British armies. He is a likely negro,hnd twen
ty years ago would have brought fifteen hundred
dollars iu any good Southern market.
Laura Fair, the heroine of two murders, has in
vented a baby-carriage and sold the patent for four
teen thousand dollars. This is a great deal better
than popping over old lovers.
An ieronaut,calling himself Count Henri de Gilbert,
was to make an ascension from Cincinnati. When
all was ready he stepped in the basket aud leaning
over, first kissed his wife and then another woman.
This so infuriated the wife that as the balloon was
ascending, the Count saw his wife pitch into the
other woman. Tiiis so annoyed him that he paid
no attention to his balioon, which collided with a
chimney, which disabled the air ship aud threw him
out. He was bruised a little, but his feelings were
much hurt.
An eccentric old German named Armiud died in
his lodgings iu New York the other day and hi*
body was not discovered until twenty-four hours
later, when it was found to have been horribly mu
tilated by 20 pet cats which the old man kept around
him in life.
A lady of Louisiana, who had been a munificent
contributor belore, has just made a donation of
000 to Southwestern Presbyterian University; it Is
to be paid in ten annual installments, aud is amply
secured in case of the death of the donor. It is a
good tiling to have money; it is much better to
know how to use it.
Rev. Jno. E. Massey who is on a tour of the Vir
ginia court houses, spoke at Spottsylvania C. H.,
recently iu opposition to the debt settlement bill',
to what the Fredericksburg “.star” says was “an
unsympathizing audience of twenty-five persons.”
“As a result of the personal efforts of Colonel Kil-
lebrew in New England, Mr. Stearns, of Boston,
secretary of the Massachusetts colonization associa
tion, has been making a tour of Tennessee. He is
in search of sixly thousand acres for one colony
and may purchase several other sites for other colo
nies before he returns.
Mary Hall has been made a commissioner of the
Superior Court of New Haven, by the appointment
of Judge Beardsley. It is the first of the kind in the
State.
Strange but true.—Neuralgia aud headache
have at last been roboed of their terrors. Neural-
gine nevei tails to cure them. It contains nothing
nurtful to the system. Hutchinson & Bro., pro^
prietors, Atlanta, Ga.