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TBf 80HNT SOUTH
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Wn. B. SEAM, Proprietor and Cor. Editor.
MRS. MART E. BRl’AX, (*) Aaaoeiate Editor
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AUGUST 30, .879.
TWO SPLENDID
NEWSTORIES.
SONIA.
This moat beautiful of all Henri Grevelle's
novels will be began in the Sunny South in the
issue after next week. It has been handsomely
translated from the French by Miss Annie Mur
ray of Thompson Ga. as before announced. Tbe
publication has been delayed by the misplac
ing of a portion of the M. S
MY COURT LADY.
BT LEONORA LI PPM AN HUSSEY.
Next week we will begin the publication of
this charming serial written by an accomplished
lady of Georgia, who, though young, bas already
made herself a name in literature. She says of
her new story: “ "My Court Lady" is my favor
lte of all I have written."
Cream Cheese Christians;
The kind of Christians served up in that clever sat
ire of twenty years ago, “The Potipher Papers” still
flourishes in New York as may be seen from tbe
statement in one of the city papers that a number
of church members do not attend sendee on Sunday,
because they do not wish it known they have re
mained in town, when fashion had decreed a sum
mer sojourn at watering places, a trip to Europe,
or at least a rustication in the country. So, the
front doors and window shutters are ciosed and the
family retire to the back ot the house and suffer a
species of imprisonment for pride’s dear sake.
The pious Mrs." Potiphars, who kneel at rosewood
pre ‘liens aud have their prayer books bound in
sky blue because it is the color of the Rev. “Cream-
Cheese’s eyes”—keep aloof from the droppings of the
sanctuary' that it is not fashionable to sit under ex
cept at Saratoga or Long Branch, and read Miss
Braddon’s last-or the Police Gazette-on the lounge
in the back room. Such Christians instead of being
the salt of the earth.are its diluted rose-water. *
A Capal'" Woman.—Undoubtedly Mrs. Potts
the walk ist, is a smart woman, but sh“ is not the
only woman who has destinguished herself lately.
For instance. there is Miss Allie Cowgie.of the Hoo-
■sier State, who lately went some miles to hear a
lecture on education, returned home, stole a horse >
v«jdc fifty miles to a female seminary, anD*eas4tiMun
settling down to'hard study, when th«^ constable
called upon her and insisted so pressingly on her
accompanying him that she was forced to relin
quish her educational project. *
A Monomaniac from Fear.
Mrs. Kate Davies a New York lady—rosy, healthy
and weighing over two hundred pounds, became
affected in mind through dwelling on the murder
of Mrs. Hull by Chastine Cox and would spring up
and scream wildly at every noise heard in the
night, thinking that a murderer was about to
start up at her bedside and lay a choking hand
on her throat. One night lately she was awaked
by some sudden sound, when she sprang from bed,
snatched up her little child from its crib and threw'
herself over the balcony upon the paqement below.
.She was so badly injured that she died after linger
ing sometime in great agony. But the strange
and providential part of the affair is that the little
child w as unhurt. *
A Heroic Beed.—A poor girl named Cassie Laf-
lin. lately did a heroic deed. It was atFairview on
U'ilkesbarre Mountain, where there is railroad-
headquarters and a perfect network of roads. A
little girl six years old, here attempted to craw^
under a train of freight cars; the girl, Cassie, dart*
ed to her rescue, and caught her, but in the act of
snatching her from the track the train started and
ran over both the girls. Cassie’s head was severed
from the body and both arms cut off. One of the
child’s arms was taken off, the head crushed and
part of the lower part of the face carried away
She was alive when picked up but died in a few
hours. *
A Story of a Lamb.—In 1873 as everybody will
remember, the most terrible cyclone that was ever
witnessed in this country, passed through Warren,
Glasscock, Hancock, Columbia and Richmond coun.
ties. Ga. Houses were blown down, forests uproot
ed. and great damage done to life and property.
On that memorable day in March, while the blasts
were scattering things right and left, taking up men
and animals from where they belonged, and setting
them down where they were not at home, a small
white lamb, no larger than an ordinary sized house
cat, was safely deposited,among other debris,in the
vard of Mr. Dan Prather, an old gentleman who
lives near Berzelia, on the Georgia railroad. As
soon as the lamb was discovered some of Mr. Pra
ther‘s family ran out, picked it up and carried it
into the house. Where it came from no one knew,
but it was fed and wanned, and nurtured, and be
came a great pet in the household. Iu fact, like
Mary’s little lamb, it followed Mr. Prather about
all the time.
After inquiries, Mr. Prather could find no one
who owned a flock of sheep in the direction from
which the cyclone came for a distance of twenty
miles and whence his pet came from was more of a
mvstery than ever At any rate, it grew to be a
fine healthy sheep, and as the years passed it was
regularly sheared, and the wool applied to domes
tic uses. There were no other sheep on the place_
and it is doubtful if ever this lamb saw another of
its species since the memorable March winds took
her up upon its wings and deposited her safely in
Mr Prather’s yard.
This has been over six years ago, and tlhe yield
of wool from this lost sheep has averaged annually
about five pounds. Mr. Prather brought to town
Forty-two Years a <tneen.
Every now and then,fora number of years, a ru
mor runs through the English papers, or comes
from some enterprising correspondent ,nt the Eng
lish capital, of Queen Victoria’s intention to abdi
cate the throne and retire to private life, one cause
or another being assigned for this step. This time
the rumor comes through the London correspon
dent of the Dundee Advertiser, who dishes up the
following gossip for the delectation of the loyal
readers of that journal :
Rumors of a vague but somewhat alarming char
acter have been current here torsomedays in regard
to the Queen. I have not alluded to these reports,
but they have become so persistent that it would be
useless longer to ignore their existence. It is said
that for some time her Majesty’s health has not been
in a very satisfactory state. Thedea'h of the Duch
ess of Hesse gave her a shock from which she has
not recovered, and the fatigue iucident to the cele
bration of the marriage of the Duke of Connought
exercised a depressing influence on her health. The
Journey to Italy is notamere holiday trip. Sir W.
Jenner considered that a change of scene, and an
almost entire absence from official duty orany kind,
were necessary for the Queen,and this is the reason
why why she lias buried herself on the secluded
shores oran Italian lake. It is no doubt in conse
quence of the somewhat gloomy statements regard
ing her Majesty's health which are passing in so
ciety that other rgports connected with the succes
sion of the throne are always current. It is said
that unless a considerable change in her Majesty’s
health takes place she will no longer be able to dis
charge the functions which belong to the sovereign
of the count'y. and rumor points to the possibility
of an abdication. It is an undoubted fact that since
the departure of the Queen for Italy the Prime Min
ister has several times seen the Prince of Wales
On Tuesday he had an interview with his Royal
Highness of more than an hour's duration, and t he
Prince would seem to he since to some exteut dis
charging the duties of the Queen with regard to
public affairs during her absence iu Italy. In a
matter where there is necessarily a good deal of
speculation, it would be idle to makedefb-ite state
ments, but there are those who think that a some
what startling surprise is in store for Parliament
before the present session closes, - ’
Nothing came from the retreat of the Queen in
Italy during her stay there, confirmatory of the ru
mors touching her failing health, of which this cor
respondent makes mention. On the contrary, she
is represented to be in excellent health of both body
and iniud, and enjoyed her respite from the hum
drum routine of official duty and court life. Queen
Victoria was sixty years old the 21th of May, aud
has enjoyed remarkably good health during her
long reign. She is a well-kept woman, and coming
from a long-lived family on both sides, may reign a
score of years yet, and possibly a quarter of a centu
ry. Of all European sovereigns, she is least likely to
abdicate, even to place her son upon the throne-
The life of a sovereign, which she has enjoyed, ver
ging on to half a century, possesses too many fasci
nations for her to voluntarily relinquish the pomp
and pageant of regal life—a position that promises to
continue f ully as pleasant unto the end—and retire
to private life which would be but little else than
the essence of dullness. Then she is immensely
popular with the English people, and there are no
reasons, social or political, that demand such a step.
Then she does not come of an abdicating family.
Since Queen Victoria took her place on the En-
lish throne, June 20. 1S47, every other throne in
Europe, from the least to the greatest, has changed
occupants. Forty-two years have elapsed since she
ascended the throne, and she can look back upon a
comparatively peaceful and prosperous sign during
all that long period, the later years of which have
been marked by throne-overturuings and sudden
convulsions of states and commonwealths in Eu
rope. It is true, she has experienced some of the
troubles inseparable from all European govern
ments, but they have been trivial as compared
i‘h the ups and downs that have attended her
contemporary sovereigns. She assumed the scep
ter of power at the blooming age of eighteen, and
now, at the mature age of sixty, she can look back
upon what must be regarded as ji remarkably placid
reign, and fliay feel aqivef tjcrtent ia-Bee fact Utv.iT
she is not less popular with her subjects in matron
ly prime than she was in her fresh and fascinating
youth. What changes iu her house-hold, in her
realm, and in the outer world, has she witnessed !
As already stilted, she comes of a long-lived family.
Her grandfather, George III, reigned sixty years,
and all her uncles died old men. Elizabeth reigned
next longest to George III—forty-five years. Vic
toria, with her robust constitution aud quiet do
mestic habits may outstrip tier grandfather in the
length of her reign. If she does not reach the limit
of Louis XIV, who reigned (and governed too, for
that matter) seventy-two years, she may attain that
of his great-grandson. Louis XV, who. despite his
dissolute habits, was Monarch of France fifty-nine
years.
The changes which Victoria has seen since she
became Queen of England are wonderful. As al
ready stated, every throne In Europe has changed
occupants since her coronation ; some of them—as
in France, Denmark, Prussia, Bavaria, and Spain-
several times. As illustrating the length of her
reign, it is remarked that when she became Queen.
Wellington, the‘‘Iron Duke,” was not beyond his
prime; Sir Robert Peele was at his zenith; Brough
am and Lyndhurst were still the great forensic
gladiators in the House of Lords, and O'Connell,
Hume, Standley, Macaulay, and Palmerston were
the leaders iu ihe House of Commons, Wordsworth,
Southey, Moore, Campbell, Rogers, Sydney Smith,
Hood, Christopher North, were the literary celebri
ties of the day; Bulwer, Dickens, and Disraeli (the
present Prime Minister of Great Britain), were just
dawning, and Thackeray and Tennyson (the latter
poet laureate) were utterly unknown ; Gen. Jack-
son had just retired from the White House to the
Hermitage, and Martin Van Buren waa President of
the United States and since that period, we have had
eleven Presidents, only two of whom are living
Of all the distinguished English gentlemen we have
mentioned, only two or three live to remember the
timid young girl who ascended the throne of Eng
land forty-two years ago, and who to-day gives fair
promise of liviug a full quarter of a century yet.
What a wonderful reign hers has been !
Many of our older readers will remember the gos
sip that was created in this country by a report that
‘‘Prince” John Van Buren, son of President Van
Buren, was about to marry the young Queen of
England shortly after her coronation. It was the
theme of discussion in every circle during the ear
lier days of Mr. Van Buren's administration, but it
was simply gossip without any substantial founda
tion. ‘‘Prince’’ John, like Prince Albert, whom she
did marry, has gone to that “undiscovered country
from whose bourn no traveler returns,’’ and the
Queen, now a stout and staid grandmother, con
tinues on in her long and peaceful reign.
Talented Men and Gifted Men.
That analytical critic and keen investigator of all
the out workings of mentality—Schopenhauer, has
this to say concerning the books written by the me n
who think merely and those to whom knowledge
comes with the freshness of intuition—besween tal
ented minds and gifted minds in fact. Schopenhauer
says that:
We find in the greater number of works, leaving
out the very bad, that their authors have thought,
not seen—written from reflection, not intuition.
And this is why books are so uniformly mediocre
and wearisome. For, what an author has thought,the
reader can think for himself; but, when his thought
is based on intuition, it is as if he takes us into a
land where we have not ourselves visited. All is
fresh and new. . . . We discover thequality of
a writer's thinking powers after reading a few
pages. Before learning what he thinks, we see
how he thinks—^namely, the texture of his thoughts;
and this remains the same, no matter what the sub
ject in hand. The style is the stamp of individual in
intellect, as language is the stamp of race. We
throw away the hook when we find ourselves in a
darker mental region than the one we have just
quitted. Onlv those writers profit us whose under
standing is quicker, more lucid than our own, by
whose brain we indeed think for a time, who quick
en our thoughts, and lead us whither alone we could
not find our way.
Once more he says of these two qualities of men,
the' alented who are numerous as stars, and the
gifted who are rare as comets. ‘Mere clever men
always appear feiactly at the right time; they are
called forth by the spirit of their age, to fulfill its
needs, lieing capable of nothing else. They in
fluence the progressive culture of their fellows and
demands of special enlightenment; thereby their
praise and its reward. Genius flashes like a comet
amid the orbits of the age, its erratic course being a
mystery to the steadfastly moving planets around.
*
The Fnt Men Lose Their Dinner.—At the
Fat Men’s Association lately held at George’s Point,
N. Y., there were but a few of the members pres
ent, but there was quite a crowd of lookers on. Tbe
account of it says:
President Bradley (,)5o) pounds) had to yield the
enormous gold-headed cane, which is the wand of
office, to Mr. IFilliam Perkins, who since last sum
mer had gone up to four hundred aud three pounds.
In old times this ceremony was accompanied with
great hilarity: the members would mount the hay
scales in succession, puff themselves out with all
the wind they could inhale, and go through the
weighing process with the countenance of inflated
frogs. Nature bountifully gifted men in those
palmy days witJh five hnudred pounds of flesh to
carry; anil their humor was in proportion to their
weight. They would affect to cry when the weigh
er called out tour hundred and fifty, a falling off of
ten or so from last year.
The usher looked sad this time after the cane pre
sentation ; but presently somebody announced ‘Two
candidates for membership—Mr. Bush, of Hoboken,
410, and Mr. Hine, of Hartford, 372.’
In came the two new fat men, smiling and rosy,
and then up stepped another new member in the
person of a youth of nineteeu, who weighed three
hundred ami twenty. The F. M. A. then proceed
ed to smoke and drink, teil anecdotes and ‘cele
brate’ generally,-until an hour passed, and they
felt that the cla t- oake ought to be ready, uuless
they were prejttk d to begin to fall off.
‘\Yhat the mjdilief does this delay mean?’ ex
claimed Preside Ikflradley.
‘It means, 4 s.^Lpirion, entering in a most sol
emn manner; ^jRjfhe mob has eaten up all the
clam bake. .
Then you sh . '
mad. From “if
from hilarity 3
sweltered anupj’
The clam bj , j
five barrels ola^
4.000 ean^qLyS ^f^cauids- chickens, all crook
ed together. . y * got a half ear of corn and
a quarter of t'® -^ r “icken apiece. So much for
drinking and s7* instead of attending to bus
iness. “ji r
1
jive heard the jolly fat men get
to teal's is one change, but
A. oeats it all; they fumed and
ftnt for the relics of the feast.
; ytted of 100 bushels of clams,
tgtatoos, 2,000 pounds of fish,
Aif.fcau.ir
BEAUTIFUL KATE.
A Sketch of the Life and Person of Mrs.
Kate Sprague.
This lady who so long was a leader and idol of
society, and whose recent downfall is now the
theme of gossip throughout the Union, is thus
characterized by a correspondent of a Washington
paper, who prefaces his sketch by the remark that
ex-Senator Sprague, with all his ambition and his
money, found it impossible to get into that upper
most social circles the creme de la creme until
he married the beautiful, winning and graceful
daughter of Chief Justice Chase, then Secretary of
the Treasury. Miss Kate Chase had come with her
father to Washington under a cloud. It had been
her misfortune to lose her mother when an infant,
and her father, although a great man and married
three times, knew no more of domestic life than
Sammy Tilden. His beautiful and, indeed, brilliant
girl grew up at his side with the education, train
ing and habits of a man. One never knows, until
this is tried practically, what a narrow, unjust,
illiterate life is given to a woman. The young girl,
inheriting from her father a clear, healthy brain,
rebelled against the despotism of society, and suf
fered accordingly.
While her father was governor of Ohio this slen
der, almond-eyed, graceful girl, then but sixteen,
did the honors of the governor’s mansion, and did
them with a tact and ease that rendered the house
extremely popular. Among the frequenters of its
elegant reception-rooms was a gentleman named
Richard Nevins, and known to be a cool, quiet man
of the world, and then a man of leisure, for he was
wealthy, and he became extremely attentive to the
youthful head of the governor’s house. He was not
a man remarkable for either intell ct or attain
ments, but he had the easy self-possession of a so
cial magnate—that indescribable something that
makes a man at home among men and extremely
attractive to the gentle sex. He was a man who
knew horses and women, and while well up in
manly out-door sports, could trifle in a graceful
manner with all the gentler pursuits of the female
sex. He talked politics well with the governor,
and diamonds, laces, dinners and parties with
the daughter. He became a great favorite with
both.
Unfortunately, Richard was not himself entirely.
There was Mi's. Nevins: and the way she came to
be Mrs. N. was not so peculiar as romantic. Dick,
when a beau, saved her from drowning at the risk
of his own existence here below, and of course, hav
ing given her her life, she returned it to him by
becoming his w ife. She was a good little w ife to
Richard, but, knowing his fascinating qualities,
she was, woman-like, a bit jealous.
In this dramatis personae came, of course, a mis
chief-maker, in the person of the Hon. Sam. Gallo
way, a heavy-lunged, voluminous M. G’., as full of
gossip as if he were a justice of the Supreme Court
or a member of the United States Senate It is said
that he talked to Mrs. N. about her husband’s at-
ENCIR^-D BY FLAMES.
«PP
A Sharp County,Man Who Has Caught Afire
and is It! ninating the Country.
(LiFMe Rock Gazette.)
information reaches us that the Sharp count;
‘fire man’ is still burning. This affair is, indeed
very wonderful—wonderful in two respects—won
derful if true and wonderful if not true. IFonder-
ful in the not true sense because people of Sharp
county, some of them, believe the story. At night,
so the story goes, the man resembles a moving il
lumination. His nose is as a taper, and his eyes as
red lanterns. Several nights ago he appeared to a
party of fishermen. Coming up suddenly, accom
panied by a glare and fearfully flickering lights
that flared with the wind, he awakened the most
augmented terror. He did not speak, but stood
glaring at the men, and when they ran away he fol
lowed them.
A history of the man, as near as can be obtained,
says that several years ago he was a well-to-do
farmer. Though a kind-hearted man, he was ex
ceedingly profane and was never at loss for an
oath- A protracted religious meeting was sprung
at a school-house in his neighborhood. His wife,
a very religious woman, persisted in attending,
and nights, when she came home, her husband
would hear nothing else but the bright way in
which some neighbor came through, or how devout
Brother Perkins had proved himself. The man ar
gued with his wife, and told her that there was no
Christ, no God, no Devil. ‘Look,’ said he, ‘into the
Christ matter. The Testament says that at the
crucifixion of Jesus the world grew suddenly dark
and the earth shook. The Grecian and Roman ass
tronomers of those days were learned. Why did
they not transmit accounts of such a remarkable
phenomenon ?’ His wife, ‘simple-minded and un
read,’ did not attempt to answer his argument, but
with that characteristic faith of an Olintheus, con
tinued to nightly sit within the sound of the gospel.
The man—Hamlin is his name, which fact should
have been mentioned before—gradually lost his
reason and vowed that if his wife did not quit at
tending church he would burn down the building.
This threat, though made passionately, was more
than a passing declaration. One night after his
wife had gone, Hamlin took a chunk of fire from
the fire-place, and moved off toward the school
house. When he arrived the minister was painting
a glorious picture for the good, and giving to the
had a miserable chromo,Hamlin, unobserved, stole
to one corner of the house. He blew the fire brand
till it blazed. He laid it down and gathered splin
ters aud dry grasses. Then, igniting them, he
thrust the blazing fagots and grasses under one
comer of the house. He fed the fire with sticks
and chips, and when he saw that the fire would ‘go’
he yelled demoniacly and dashed away through the
' ~ le"
“The Old Oaken Bucket” was written fifty or
more years ago by a printer named Samuel Wood-
worth. He was in the habit of dropping into a no-
ed drinking saloon kept by one, Mallory. One day
after drinking a glass of brandy and water, he
smacked his lips and declared that Mallory's bran
dy was superior to any drink he had ever tasted.
‘No, ‘ said Mallory, ‘you are mistaken. There was
a drink which, in both our estimations, far surpass
ed this. ‘
‘What was that?* incredulously asked W oodworth.
‘The fresh spring water we used to drink from the
old oaken bucket that hung in the well, after re
turning from the fields on a sultry day. 4
‘Very true,* replied Woodworth, tear-drops glis
tening in his eyes. Returning to his printing office
he seated himself at his desk and began to write,
In half an hour
“The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,
The mossscovered bucket that hung in the well 4
thisy ear’s dip. which netted six pounds, for which was embalmed in an inspiring song that has become
he received twenty-five cents per pound.
3^.
as familiar as a household word.
woods. Ti e congregation was startled by an out
cry, hut, hearing 110 repetition, again gave way to
the influence of the speaker- Suddenly a glare.
A flame spear had shot through the floor. The su
perstitious congregation crowded together like
sheep, and the minister himself frightened, ran
from the house followed by his entire flock- The
house burned down, and wheu Mrs. Hamlin went
home she found her husband tossing on his bed. He
said that he was burning up, aud before water
could be lifted to his mouth it became boiling hot.
Suddenly he sprang out of bed. Every hair on his
head seemed a blaze of fire. Currents of fire ran
from his ears into his nostrils. With a wild yell he
ran from the house, aud ever since then he hus been
burning. There are hundreds who will vouch for
this improbable story.
approach that gentleman, and represented to him
that the imprudent intimacy of his daughter with
Dick Nevins was destroying the peace of a house
hold, and ought to he stopped.
'Gov. Chase, who was as clumsy in such social af
fairs as an elephant in a round-dance, immediately
gave orders, without consulting his daughter, to the
servant to deny Mr. Nevins admittance when he
again called. This was done, and not Jong after,
while walking with a gentleman from Springfield.
Ohio, along the streets of Columbus, be met Dick
Nevins. The last-named stopped Governor Chase
and said:
‘Governor Chase, when I last called at your house
the servant said you had left orders to deny me ad
mittance, Was that true ?’
‘Yes, sir,’ responded the Governor.
‘Well,’added Nevins, ‘I should like to know what
I have done to forfeit your respect.’ \
‘You never had it, sir,’ was Chase’s steifci reply, as
hq stalked on. • ^ ’
Of course this spread over Columbus like a bat
ter cake on a greasy grid.lle. It reached the
daughter s ears, and she too demanded if it were
true. The Governor said it was.
‘Well, father, 4 cried Kate, ‘you have done all
that was necessary to indorse the slanders these
people have been circulating. Now, what I hav
left to do is to receive Mr. Nevins as if nothing had
occurred. ‘
‘Not in my house, 4 said the father.
‘Weil, I shall see him elsewhere then,* and she
did. Nevins, indignant at the insult offered him,
gave the utmost publicity to his attentions. The
two were so successful that, when Chase was called
to the Cabinet and removed to Washington, there
were just two houses opened to Miss Katie in Ohio.
One was her own, and the other that of a lady near
Chillicothe, who, knowing Katie from her child
hood, knew that she was innocent, hut unfortun
ate.
In all this Katie proved a captain. Had she
quailed for an instant she would have been lost.
But she kept her lovely head up, and her fair face
with the softly shaded, luminous eyes, to the cruel
world, and the brutal world, that likes to be bullied
gave way.
M ashington is quite as chaste and virtuous as
Ohio, hut it is not so nice. The beautiful and bril
liant girl went to the front,and was followed, flat
tered, sought and sued by all. Among these was
the millionaire senator from Rhode Island. He
wooed and won the slender, fair-haired girl, and
forthwith all the doors of Ohio she cared to enter
swung open on oiled hinges at her approach. The
marriage, however, was not a happy one.
A Souvenir of "Lothair.”
[London World, August 6.]
The Marquis of Bath has just returned from a
tour in European Turkey. He has visited Bulgaria
and Eastern Roumelia, has listened to the eloquence
of the Deputies at Tirnova, has discussed Pan-Bul-
garianism with Aleko Parfia, or (as be would prob
ably prefer to call him) Prince Vogorides, and has
hobnobbed with the Patriarch of that Bulgarian
Church the creation of which was one of the mas
ter-strokes of Ignatieff’s policy. The Marquis, who
is more remarkable for the ability with which be
adheres to them, and who has, like Lord George
Gordon, wandered through every labyrinth of
opinion, religious and political, is now an ardent
apostle of the gospel of Panslavism. It is a pity
that the tardiness of his return may prevent him
from airing his new convictions before the assem
bly of which he is so brilliant an ornament. We
need not fear, however, that the opinions of his
lordship will be altogether lost to posterity. En
thusiasm will find a vent, and if the tribune is
closed there are always publishers to be found
whose arms and printing-presses are open to even
the most obscure among royal and noble authors.
Talking of obscure authors reminds me of a poem
written some twenty years ago by one of these,
and entitled ‘The Peer’s Progress,’ in which the fol
lowing lines occur. They are supposed to describe
the hero’s reply to the Eton boy’s inevitable query
of, ‘Hallo, you fellow, what’s your name V and I
am quoting them from memory:
Proudly he an s wared each inquiring sub,
I am a marquia, and my name ‘a Tub’
THE MORMONS MAD.
Louil Talk about Fighting nt Salt Lake.
New York, August 13.—The Sim's Washington special
1 snvs that Delegate George Q. Cannon, before his depar
ture for his Ftah home, said that he could not foresee the
the end of the Mormon struggle that the conviction of
Reynolds for bigamy portended. The Mormons might
lie compelled to give up one feature of their religion, or
tight.
At the cabinet meeting yesterday, the President called
attention to the report that Reynolds, the convicted
Mormon, was only nominally in custody. The Solicitor-
General was directed to see that Reynolds was confined
at hard labor in Vie peniten iary with theotherconviete.
GENERAL INQUIETUDE.
Ogden, Utah, August 13.—The imprisonment of Rey
nolds for polygamy, the murder of a Mormon preacher
in Georgia, the imprisonment of George Q. Cannon, de
legate to Congress, and the other executors of the Brig
ham Young estate, have caused a bitter feeling, and the
News, the leading church paper, has lately contained
threatening articles, and inflamatory speeches have been
made. Tlie circular to foreign countries is treated with
contempt. It is claimed it would lie absurd to suppose
that any European Government would undertake to est
ablish an inquiry to determine the religious faith of emi
grants or those that intend to enter into liolygamy. There
is no evidence of any intention of civil resistance to the
Government, but the Mormons have a good military
comjHiny. and are mostly well armed.
EXCITEMENT AT SALT LAKE.
New York, August 13.—A Salt Like special to the
Herald, the 11th, says: Apostle Joseph F. Smith, in the
Salt Luke Tabernacle, yesterday afternoon, delivered a
furious speech, which greatly added to the popular ex
citement. He said the Mormons had met the enemy
with their own weapon, the Bible, aud defeated them
every time. Our enemies, not content with defeat, have
persecuted and maligned us and driven us from our set
tlements in Missouri and Illinois for no cause whatever.
By these abominable acts these people have been sub
jected to haritships almost unparalleled. The speaker
enlarged upon the part he had borne in these persecu-
tions and said he did not want to see such terrible cruel
ties repeated. We have been turning the “other cheek”
long enough, and it is now about time to change our
policy. \\ e have suffered the presence oi that damnable
sheet among us. which would not be borne in any other
community. \\ e have submitted to its abuse and" misre
presentations longs long enough, and now
. it must re stopped.
[This wits greeted with “Amen !” from the whole con'
gregutmn] The a]H>stle then advised his hearers to pro
cure effective fire-arms and not delay long in doing it.
In the fourteenth ward meeting-house the same evening
the speakers recommended their hearers to secure arms
and to sell their clothing if they had not monev to pur
chase them. I11 the Thirteenth ward Major l.ittle severe
ly reproved one speaker for indulging in the same incen
diary strain, saying there was a I read v too much excite
ment prevailing for public safety, f lie gun shops to-day
have been busy selling firearms and taking old ones to
repair.
(’HARMED BY A SNAKE.
An Ohio Girl for Weeks in Ihe Power of a
Reptile.
Mrs. W. G. Y-lsou, who gave Texas ‘the
Lone Star,’ died at Crawford, in that State,
last Wednesday. She made a beautiful flag,
with a large, single star, in the summer of 1835
and presented it to Colonel Ward's command.
The flag was of plain white silk, bearing an az-
nre star of five points on both sides. It was first
unfurled at Velaseo on January 8, 1836. aud be
ing hoisted npon a liberty pole at Goliad floated
until Texas was declared free.
Lady Gamblers.
The number of lady gamblers in London is in
creasing steadily. A correspondent of ; he Stand
ard states that there is more gambling among wo-,
men at the present time than has been the case
since public gaming tables were put down by act of
Parliament. The harmless bet of a few pairs of
gloves at the race meetings is now considered far
beneath the notice of a dashing matron or fast
maiden. There are not a few female “plungers”
011 the turf who “put the pot on,” as the idiotic jar
gon of the race course has it, with as much eager
ness as the most dissirated subaltern at the Raleigh
who stand* to win a heap of money at Ascot or at
Goodwood, with the alternative of ruining his old
father, the country rector, if he loses, and allowing
his sisters’ portions to be swallowed up in paying
his “debts of honor.” If the female plunger be urn
married she has recourse probably to some accom
modating dressmaker, or worse still, accepts pecun-
lai y help from some male friends, and perhaps puts
herself for life in the power of a man who will one
day make her pay dearly for her indiscretion
Mt. Vernon Letter to Cincinnati Commercial.
A very rare psychological phenomena was related to
us by Mr. Campbell, about a snake’s influence over a
young lady living east of Mt. Vernon, by the name of
Bertha Miller, lor some weeks the parents had noticed
that their daughter was showing marks of declining
health, evidenced by an increasing paleness and emacia
tion and accompanied by a melancholy mood. So mark
ed was the change becoming that they began feeling
great solicitude concerning her and consulted a phv*ic-
mn ot this city about the matter. The physician visited
the girl, but wiis unable to explain the cuu.se of her <le-
clineor to render her aid. It also fell under the observa-
tion of her mother that each afternoon, about three
9 *‘hick, the girl would leuve the house und remain uwav
iroin one to two hours. This fact being communicated
to the other parent, it was decided to watch the young
lady and discover if possible tile reason for such habitual
absence. Accordingly on the day following when the
hour had about arrived the father left the house and
watched for the going of bis daughter. In a few minutes
the young girl was on her wav through a wood and up a
ravine leading from the house to a small stone quarrv
some half-mile distant, reaching which she took a seat
on a flat stone, under a small clump of trees, and remain
ed sitting there quietly for several minutes, her head
held in one position, and eyes evidently fixed on one
pot. The father had gotten up so near by this time that
he could observe all that would happen. In a few mo
ments. to his amazement, there proceeded from the di
rectum in which the girl was looking a snake about four
leet in length, and known to him as our common black-
snake or racer. So astonished was he at the peculiar
manner of his daughter and the appearance of the reptile
that he remained quiet in his concealment to observe
wlmt would happen. The snake crept slowly along to
wards the girl until it halted close to her feet'. After re
maining there motionless for a minute or more and gaz-
iug fixedly into the face ot the girl it slowlv and stealthi
ly began creeping ‘ —'■ ’
ed in her la
apparently
visitor, but gazing intently at it. After lving in that
position fora short while it slowly uncoiled,'crept down
to the ground and back to its hiding-place in the rocks
The girl remained sitting motionless for a considerable
time, and then got upand retraced her steps to the house
On the next day the father, at the appointed time took
his gun and proceeding to the scene killed the reptile.
Tile girl, startled at the report of tile gun, sprang to her
feet, but immediately recognizing her father proceeded
without further ado back home with him. She. when
interrogated, could give no intelligible reason for visit
ing the spot, except that at a certain hour she felt strong
ly inclined to go and sit there. She has rapidly recover
ed her health, and appears in no wise affected in her
mind. Experts can offer no solution to this straime pro
ceeding, the most intelligible being that the animal pos
sessed r. powerful mesmeric influence and had so
wrought upon the mind of the girl that she went auto-
catieally to the place. This, in connection with an ac
cumulated inherited disposition to be beguiled hv a ser
pent-transmitted from our first mother. Eve—otters the
only rational explanation.
A Great Man's Tribute to Lee.
“Mont,” the Paris correspondent of the Cincinnati En-
quirer, writes as follows concerning our Lee
At this moment the eyes of Europe are turned toward
tbe great.army commander in Zuluhmd. During “our
little war this officer was a guest with Gen. Robert E.
Lee. I knew him then. I have met him since. The las'
tlme ,. I ," 1 F t J 11 " 1 . 1 asked him where liis head-quarters
\vould be 111 South Atru-a. “Not iu the saddle ” lie re
plied, with a smile, and the suggestive quotation reviv
ed our recollections of persons and events in the past
that, gave us much mirth of criticism. We talked over
00“ nie nice oi me girt it slowlv and stealthi-
legan creeping toward her. and in a moment lav eoil-
n her lap. The girl remained perfectly motionless
arently not tlie least alarmed at the presence of her
this as coming from the first soldier of Great Britainif
not ot Europe, and at some future day I may add furth
er remarks on the Generals who were opposed to
Robt E. Lee, and whose military abilities EuropcanVttD
eers have carefully noted. 1
Cetnwayo—the Pig-Headed.
IN- O. Times.]
It is strange that Cetawavo don’t surrender to the Bri
tish. He must be a most cantankerous and pig-headed
old savage to refuse them. Time and time again h “
inquired whether it would be agreeable to the British to
receive his submission and as often he has been assured
in a voice husky with emotion that it is the „„„ hi, 7
all others that they desire. They have offemd m*'‘ S
his life and to divide out his property and geimra ]\-to
behave like angels if he will onlv deliver hin ielVi,
Still he don t do it. and the painful suspicion Hirin'
mug to leak out that he is not yearning to la'co ne p -
soneraud to resign himself to the teem,. ... . ,l l rl
tired the kraal filled with Zulu women anVehl'ii U
These “nigger” savages have no p th,1<,rUU '
Wouldn't Hay f„ r „ le i» rinks .
Mississippi City, August ”1—n rt p
quanel about t driid;r e fl,at' Conkertmi"V 5 ’ Br T out
had not paid for. Conkerton claimed Pearson
SM; ““ » fe'tt
shot
against iiiv _
entered his left side and lodge.! on the right side”
Identification Problem
lie knew nothing of the facts connected iriihniii. , u; '
appearance but hud seen him. One of the inr,V~ m ' hs ‘
ed of witness: 01 lnc J urors mquir-
“I)id you know Hall well ?”
Aes, sir,” was the reply.
“Y.S U !nr 5 ;” U k ‘- lOM him if - vou saw him agafn
• } ff. Si.- answered the witness '
on the desk!' 11 ask ” 1 ' the juror, pointing to the skull
and'™id *"“w!!n k iT t !'” sku11 ' examined it carefully
now,” and repfaced R J on 5re°deS! lCh * lb ° Ut Sku,li! ’