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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, SEPTJ-tib
Beading »n«l Eloention-Mi»« Clarke.
We take special pleesnre in introdncing Miss
Clarke to oor Atlanta people and the people ot
the South generally through oar columns. She
comes to us so highly recommended and is so
earnest and devoted to her profession that we
bespeak for her the highest considerations of a.l
our cultured people. While in this city she
will probably present on our boards a popular
new society play for the Benevolent Home. The
following complimentary notice of her we take
from a private letter which was received at this
cffioe before her arrival, and of whioh she knew
nothing.
Clayton, Ala.
Our Clayton folks had a treat last night that was
as rare as it was enjoyable. Miss Louise Clarke
wave's reading at the Court house which was large
ly attended by our citizens. Tb s young Udy is in
the first place a Southerner, in hesscond an Ala-
vlt,iIW wrmderfunv gifted witn aromatic talent,
a^Senr* 'deep* highly cultivated voice; and the most
raceful woman1 have ever seen; it is not surpass
fn^ thal her audience sat spellsbound under her
magnetLYnfluencr swayed at her will from tears
to laughter from laughter to enthusiasm.at one time
thinking she was a born comedian, at another
some great sorrow had left its impress upon her re-
omriim expression in the sutdued tones of pathos.
Sut when with flashing eyes and towering height
she recited the “Charge of the Georgia 8th. or
with her whole soul beaming in her face, she read
the words so dear, so sad to each Southern heait,
“We’ll live or die for Dixie,” the^audience was kin
dled with heroic enthusiasm, and loud bursts of ap.
plause testified their delight, and the admiration
and pride with which they regard this gifted
daughter of the South. We hope she may every
where meet wtth the success she certainly deserves,
and should she ever revisit our community we |
premise her a hearty welcome and cordial support
from the people who were delighted with her reads
ing and charmed with her graceful manners, and
attractive social qualities.
SOOTH
Rev. Dr. Will*.
The Rev. Dr. David Wills, chaplain of United
States arnry, delivered a lecture last night in the
Congress Street chnrch, in Georgetown, to a
large audience, on the duties and dangers of
young men, and at the close announced that
this would be his last publio effort prior to his
leaving for McPherson barracks, at Atlanta, Ga.,
where he has been assigned to duty by the presi
dent till April 1, 1880, when he will proceed to
his post at Walla-Walla, in Washington territo
ry. He thus returns to his old state, where he
has held important pastoral charges, and to the
very city where he was the president of the
Oglethorpe university for a number of years.
Dr. Wills is a man of high character, marked
ability and broad national v^ws, and he will
prove a valuable acquisition to any community.
His departure from Washington will be regret
ted generally. .
Tbe above we clip from the Evening Star, of
Washington D. C. Dr. Wills arrived in the city
yesterday. We welcome him heartily upon his
return to his old home.
SOLDIER’S REUNION AT WINNSB0R0, S. C.
The Twelfth Confederate Regiment.
Our little town was in quite a stir to-day,
caused by a reunion of the survivors of the 12th
ex Confederate Regiment. Men, who, side by
teced tl« storm of battle for four long years,
met again to-day after a separation of fourteen
years. Time has marked many changes since
that time; and it was difficult, in many cases,
to remember names that were once so familiar.
The morning was very unfavorable; the rain
pouring in torreDts, but at ten o^clock the sun
broke through and the clouds dispersed. At
the beating of the drum—a sound with which
these veterans had once been so familiar—they
were ordered to “fall in,” which they did in
quick time. The band struck np and these
gr«y haired veterans marched through the prin
cipal street to the Conrt House, following that
flag which had been carried in so many battles.
Once seated in the Court House, the meeting
■was opened with prayer by the Rev. C. B. Betts,
the old ohaplain of the regiment in camp. Col.
Henry C. Davis delivered a short little speech,
and then introduced Col. Cad. Joujs, the orator
ot the day, who made a most excellent speech,
full ot historical facts connected with this gal
lant command. During Col. Jonos’ speech
many—very many eyes were bathed in tears
caused by his vivid description of the fail of
some noble fellow whom they all once knew so
well. After Col. Jones bad conclnded, short
speeches were made by Capt. J. H. Kinsler, of
Richland County, Capt. J. C. B. Smith, who
commanded one of the PickeDs companies dur
ing the war, and Lieut. W. J. Kimbrell, of York,
the hero who bore his same tattered flag which
he bore to-day, so often to victory. The drum
now beat the call for dinner. The Survivors as
sembled in tbe street and marched to a large
hall where a bountiful table had been spread,
and where the laugh and jokes of 250 people
were going on at one time. Do not understand
me that these were all survivors.—Alas, no ! on
ly about 90 of these were survivors of this once
large and gallant regiment. Everybody got
enough to eat and there was plenty left. After
dinner the survivors again assembled in the
Court House for the purpose of completing the
Regimental Organization. Col. Cad Jones was
elected President of the Reunion. Col; H. C,
Davis, 1st Vice President; Col. T. F. Clybnrne,
2nd vice President; Capt - J. H. Kinsler, 3rd;
Capt. J. C. B. Smith, 4th; Seargt. R. G. White-
sides, 5th; Lieut, J. R. Boyles, Sec’ty and Treas.
and Rev. C. B. Betts, Chaplain. The men
then had a lively time in bidding for tbe place
at which the next annual meeting should be
held, and was at last decided to be at Yorkville,
The Survivora then adjourned to get ready to
attend the play of “Pinafore” at the Thespian
Hall, which was performed by the Winnsboro
Histiionic^Clnb in splendid style.
Thus ended a day which will long be remem
bered. particularly by me, as my father was an
actor in many of the incidents mentioned by
Col Jones in his speech, and thank God! an act
or in the scenes of this day, notwithstanding,
ene of his legs lies buried on the bloody plains
of Gettysburg. He had been shot twice before.
Yonrs trnly, Cassius.
Winnsboro, S, C., Aug. 20, 1879.
The climax of absent-mindedness—To sup
pose that yon have left yonr watch at home, and
pull it out of yoar pocket to see If yon have
time to go hack and get it
An editor being asked, ‘Do hogs pay ?’ says a
great many do not They take the paper sever
al years, and then have the postmaster send it
back marked ‘refused.’
‘In pursuing my theme, I should liketooovsr
more ground—’ ‘Buy Bhoes large enough for
yonr feet, and you'll do it,’ was the imnudent
suggestion from the crowd.
•lhe mills of the gods grind slowly.’ This is
all because the hands are paid by the day. Will
tbe gods never learn that it is to their interest
to let out work by contract?
Warned inTime.
Katie.—“Papa says it is well you’re baldheaded.”
Thompleins—“Why, Miss Katie.” .
Katie—“ ’Cause if you marry sister Bell she would pull ’em all out in six months.
“Too Much Education.”
[Nashville Banner.]
A few days ago I saw in yonr paper [the issue
of tbe 20th inst.) an article under the above
caption, in which the writer undertook to show
that we had too mnch training in oar public
schools; too mnch education. This is in keep
ing with other utterances that have been crop
ping ont here and there over the country for
a few months, the most infamous of which,
as has been said by another and abler writer, is
that of the Governor of New York, Governor
Robinson, in his message to the Legislature last
winter, recommending the abolition of the
training schools for teachers and the high
schools.
Strange that men will not understand this
qnestion; bat they eannot be induced to take a
broad, comprehensive and philosophic view of
it What is education, and what are its objects?
What interests has society in it and why does
the State take a part in the general diffusion of
knowledge? And what is a State? What con
stitutes it?
These are questions the correct answers of
whioh will enable us to arrive at a proper solu
tion of the question.
Now, 1 hold that in this, as in all other mat
ters affecting directly the public weal, the peo
ple have a common interest The people of
this State—every man in it—has a direct inter
est in the education of every child in it. I
don’t care whether he recognizes it or not; that
dcra’t alter the fact, and it is not for him to say
jn^. how far each child shall go, pointing him j tiy>
.A: catch individual case, or even d(x>t~£
ing (them by olasses. The public schools of
the country ought to be as free as the courts of
the country. Suppose any man should say to
the poor men of a certain class, yon may bring
yonr suits before the justices of the peace of
your county, but you cannot go into the Cir
cuit or Chancery Courts of the country; they
cost too mnch. Yon don't pay anything for
their support. Besides, they are too high for
yonr aspirations. It will pat yon into better
company than you are used to, and make you
discontented with your station in life. Besides,
what you have got is not worth lawing about
anyhow.
Now, this is a fair illustration of the reason
ing of parties la the other case. You organize
schools of a certain kind, very poor ones, com
mon ones, aome people like that term, and yon
say to tbe poor people, tbe masses, yon may go
to that school; yon can learn to read and write
and cipher there, and probably a little history;
that is enough for you; yon was made for a
drudge; your father was that before you and
you were necessarily born to the same position.
Now, I say the utteranoe of such a sentiment,
and it is the sentiment, virtuslly, of every man,
who holds to the doctrine that we ought to
limit the course of study in onr public schools
to resding, English grammar and arithmetic,
etc., is an insult to the intelligence, as well as
tbe aspirations, of every American citizen,
who holds dear the doctrine for which his fore
fathers fought, that all men were born free and
eqnal, and every man had a right to aspire to
any place in this country, social, political or
otherwise, and might occupy it, if he would
qualify himself for it
This is the doctrine of American society, and
yet it seems hard for some people to under
stand. It is the source of all the difficulty on
this education question. Who pays the taxes
ot this country ? Is it the millionaire, the man
who pays on his hundreds of thousands, or the
man who pays on his hundreds or simply his
thousands ? A casual examination of any tax-
book of any oonnty or town will soon tell the
tale. The average property tax-payer in Ten
nessee, I venture, does not pay on over a thous
and dollars worth of propertv, and five-sixths
of them do not pa;~ on over $3,090 worth; and
I will say more: thoi 3 who pay on S3.000 and
less pay from seven to nine-tenths of the taxes
of the country. Consult your tax-book. I
have had oocasion to look into it a little; I know
what I’m talking about Then what is a legiti
mate inference ? Why, that these men that pay
the taxes of the country—these farmers, me
chanics and laboring men, these small business
men, doing business on small capital, and pro
fessional men, who bear the burdens of the
government, public school system and all—
have a right to demand that the pnblio school
course of study shall be such as will give their
ohildren a liberal education without their hav
ing to send them to some higher tnltion schools
or college, which most of them are not able to
do, and if they were it would cost them two or
three times as mnch as the taxes of the largest
tax-payer among them would amount to in the
support of a well regulated first-class pnblio
high sohool.
it is snicidal in the extreme. What have
they done there in Nashville, in obedience to
this idea that a public school system is neoes-
sarily a poor man’s institution, a kind of a
charity, and in the interests of a false eoonomy?
Cat off all the “fancy branobes," as they term
them, even inolnding Latin, and what will be
the result ? Why the men there who want
their sons and their deughters to study Latin
even as a preparatory step toward entering col
lege, or to give them breadth of culture and
enable them to understand their own language
better—and they oan’t understand it well with
out it-must take them ont of the nublie
sohools and pnt them into some pay sohool
somewhere, and yon lose their active and zeal
ous support in carrying on yonr pnblio sohool
system. They get tired, of course, of paying
taxes when they yield them no direct benefit,
and when they have to pay ont other large sums
for the education of their own children. You
divide their resources, their energies, and nei
ther -your private schools nor your public
schools are as good by it.
I hold that the public sohool system of the
country ought to be made to yield all the educa
tional advantages the people want np to the
necessary work of a college. Let their course of
study be arranged with that end. It will be
cheaper. There are many reasons that might
be urged in favor of it besides. The entire
population of the country can be educated in
the high school branches and all, Lat n, French,
German and Greek, if you please, he college
preparatory course, for less than half the money
that it will take to educate them as they are now
being educated. But you may say what will
become of the private schools? The public
have nothing te do with that; they want to edu
cate their children. The system that will do
that best and cheapest is the one for them.
Take your private school teachers into your
public school work as you have need of them,
as you absorb their schools. I have never seen
a teacher yet; of real merit, who did not prefer
the public school work, once he got into it, if
he could get work to suit him, aud nearly all
teachers of real merit get it sooner or later ; for
that is one of the strong points of the system.
Real merit is recognized either in pupil or
teacher, and promt pons ara made accordingly.
The idea that '‘.tuer' 1 education, such as our
Public High . J j o tended to give, makes.
ma, iV - esge with their stations in
1 aiiierH -r
.fore
,.j, la u.
said articles nd unfits them for the
various meohanic “and industrial pursuits of
the country, docei^-ot deserve a moment's seri
ous consideration W >m an inteiligent man. It
is an insult to tins whole masses of Tennessee,
the farmers and mechanics, the men who are
upholding, by their toil and their taxes, their
mechanioal skill and ingenuity and their thrift,
the whole social fabric of Tennessee public
schools, and all the facts are not that way. They
can't be ahown.
I know that is a favorite argument with those
who oppose popular education, and most of
those who make it, even in an argument, as to
the grade or character of public school we shall
have, if they still examine themselves very oare-
fully, will find that their attachment to a public
school Bystem is not very strong ; for their the
ory, carried to its legitimate conclusion, would
oppose all education for the masses of every
kind.
The character of the whole common people
for thrift and industry in manual labor, and the
people of other European countries, aud the
whole of the North and Northwest, where the}
have bad a liberal svstem of public schools with
high schools, contradiots their theory. The ex
ample afiorded by our Southern country here,
where slavery put ail kiuds of manual labor un
der the ban to some extent, is no criterion.
The fault was in the kind of education, not the
amount. Educere, the word from which educa
tion is derived, meaus to lead forth, to bring
out, to develop. Develop yoar boys and girls
well; cultivate their intellectual faculties as
high as circumstances aud opportunity will al
low, their moral faculties likewise; give them a
good conscience, and develop their physcial sys
tem also. Attend to all, and there will be no
trouble about their getting into useful employ
ment when they get grown, manual labor be
other kind, no matter, whatever they can or
most useful in.
Hence 1 ooneiud vVTith this statement as the
proper doctrine on this subject: There cannot
be too mnch education; the people being the
taxing power and the government in this coun
try, have a right to tax themselves to'any extent
they please for ednoational, as well as other pur
pose ; that whatever of a pnblio nature can best
be done by the pnblio should be done by the
public; whatever of a pnblio nature can best be
done by individuals should be done by indivi
duals. Educating the people is a pnblio inter
est that can be done best by the pnblio (State),
therefore the State should do it Hebmus.
Buies of Conduct.
Never betray a confidence.
Never leave home with unkind words.
Never give promises that yon do not fulfill.
Never laugh at tbe misfortunes of others.
Never send » present hoping for one in retnrn.
Never fail to be pnnotnal at the time appoint
ed.
Never make yourself the hero of yonr owp
story.
Never make much of yonr own performances.
Never pick the teeth nor olean the nails in
company.
Never fail to give a polite answer to a oivil
question.
Never present a gift saying it is no use to
yourself.
Never oall attention to the features or form of
another.
Never read letters whioh you may find address
ed to others.
Never qnestion a servant or child about fami
ly matters.
Never fail, if a gentleman, of being oivil and
polite to ladies.
Never refer to a gift yon have made or a favor
yon have rendered.
Never associate with bad oompany. Have
good oompany or none.
OFF-HANDJALKS.
By Slim Jim.
On Woman.
After man came woman.
And she has been after him ever since.
She is a person of nobie extraction, being
made of a man’s rib.
I don’t know why Adam wanted to fool away
his ribs in that way, but 1 suppose he was not
accountable for all he did.
Woman is not an amphibious animal, but she
seems to know a good deal abont the peculiar
merits of water, and preaches them to her hus
band whenever she Bmells something stronger
than water on his breath.
It eosts more to keep a woman than it does to
keep three dogs and a shot-gun.
But she pays yor back with interest—by giv
ing yon a house fall of ohildren, to keep you
awake of nights and smear molasses candy od
your Sunday coat.
Besides, a wife is a yery convenient article to
have abont the house.
She is so handy to swear at, whenever you ac
cidentally cut yourself with the razor, and don’t
feel like blaming yourself.
Woman is the superior being in Massachusetts.
There being about sixty thousand more of her
sex than males in that State.
This accounts for the terrified, hnnted-down
expression of the single men who emigrate from
the East
Woman was not oreated perfect.
She has her little faults—such as false hair,
false teeth, false complexion, and so on.
But she is a good deal better than her neigh
bor, and she kuowsfit.
Eve was a woman.
She must have been a model wife, too, for it
cost Adam nothing to keep her in clothes.
Still, I don’t think she was happy.
She couldn’t go to sewing circles and air her
information about everybody she knew, nor ex
cite the envy of other ladies by wearing her new
spring bonnet to church.
Neither could she hang over the back fence
and gossip with her neighbor.
All these blessed privileges were denied her.
Poor Eve! she's dead now.
And the fashion she inaugurated is dead, also.
If it hadn’t been for that confounded ‘snaik,’
perhaps the ladies of the present day would
dress just as economically as Eve did.
But the only place where this primitive style
is emulated is in certain portions of Africa
where the women consider themselves in full
dress when they have nothing on but a postage
stamp stuck in the centre of their foreheads.
What a beautiful example of simplicity in
dress is shown some of the followers of fashion
by that domestic animal, the cat, whioh rises in
the morning, washes its face with its right
hand, gives its tail throe jerks, and is ready
dressed for the day.
Woman is endowed with a tremendous fund
of knowledge, and a tongue to snit.
She has the capacity for learning everything
she was divinely intended to know, and a few
extra items beside.
Young ladies take a good deal of stock in
classics, and learn fast.
When you see a young lady student from Yas-
sar with an absorbed look in her eyes, and her
lips rapidly moving you understand at ono“
that she is memorizing a passage from Virgil.
But perhaps a closer inspection will reveal
the fact that she is only ohewing gum.
A woman may not be able to sharp.au a pen
cil, or hold an uumbrella, but she eau pank
more articles into a trunk than a jnan can into
a otiEhorso wagon. > ■
The happiest period of a woman’s life is when
she is making her wedding garments.
The saddest is when her husband comes
borne late at night, and yells to her from the
front door steps to throw him out a handful ot
key-holes, of different sizes.
There are some real curiosities in feminine
nature.
For instanoe, I once knew a young lady who
could easily pass another one on the street with
out looking around to see what she had on.
Poor thing! she was blind.
One of tbe worst habits a woman can get in
to is a riding-habit.
Bnt it is not much worse than the modern
walking-dress, which ladies persist in wearing
on the street.
When a woman approaches a crossing she
pauses for one fleeting instant, gives a sudden
kick that would fire the envy of a Mexican
mustang, and catches her train on the fly.
There is no fun in kissing a girl when you
kuow you have got to do it, and a crowd is
standing by to see fair play.
The best way is to lie in wait for her, and
jump ont when she is not expecting it; catch
her round the neck, knock her back hair down,
tear all the gathers out of her dress, pull her
hand away from her face, have her cry, ‘Ob,
don’t!’ as you press your lips to hers, then go
off to a quiet place and think about it.
The average age of woman is about twenty-
two years. •
She never lives to be very old.
Some of them look as if they were well adv
anced in years, hut yoa should not judge by
appearance.
If you will take the trouble to ask a woman
how old she is, you will get at the real facts of
the matter.
And discover tLat she is quite young.
She seldom passes her thirtieth year.
About which time she begins to tear out cer
tain leaves in the family Bible.
Scientific men are trying to explain why wo
men can’t throw stones with the force and pre
cision of the sterner sex.
This is glaring nonsense.
Women may not be able to throw stones with
precision, but they can hit the mark every time
with a gridiron, or a stick of stove-wood.
Experience has taught me that.
Women, as a general thing, are very hard to
manage.
I know of bnt one way to keep a woman in
check.
And that is to make her dress in gingham.
Don’t Blow any More.—But go to Dr. Gurley
and get cured of that Nasal Catarrh. Worst cases
cured in one to six weeks. Treatment painless. 67
Whitehall street. -aug30-lm
WONDERFUL.
Nasal Catarrh Cured in 2 Weeks.
Dr. S. W. Gurley, 67 Whitehall street—Dear
Sir : Our daughter, who is just fifteen, has from
birth Buffered with an obstruction of tbe left
side of tLe nose, not being able to breathe
through that side. About two years age she
took a severe cold, which left her with Catarrh.
We paid little attention to it until it became
offensive and the diseharge profuse, requiring
three to four hankerohiefs daily. Pain throngb
the forehead and temples often. We became
alarmed, and seeing yonr advertisement, decid
ed to put her under yonr treatment. Tbe first
application relieved her—so with each subse
quent one, nntil at the expiration of two weeks
she eonld breathe through the affeeted side free
ly, the discharge had disappeared and headaohe
gone. I do most unhesitatingly recommend
yonr treatment of oatarrh as being all that yon
claim for it
Yonrs truly, E. I. L.
2t
Answers to Correspondents.
A. R. C. asks; “What has become of your Corres
pondence Column? I mean your notices of those
desirous of corresponding with others. I found it
a very entertaining department of your paper, and
nad just entered into a correspondence, with a
young lady that interested me greatly.” The Cor
respondence Column has been discontinued. Our
senior found it tbe occasion of unkind criticism. It
was introduced to give life and variety to the paper
but there were those who regarded it as harmful.
We had nothing to do with it, as it was not to our
taste, but were notable to view it in any very of
fensive light. It was. as you say, an entertaining
feature of the paper to the young folks, and would
pass without criticism in Northern journals; but
we view our own papers with severely critical eyes,
and keep a triple-leas microscope ready to spy out
their defects. If they are high-toned we call them
dull ami lacking in spiciness; ifspice and gossip
are thrown in; we hold up our hands in virtuous
horror and cry out “what a falling oft is here my
countrymen!” It Is hard to steer between such a
Scyllaand Charybdis, and our Senior is growing
bald-headed In hie efforts to do so. Our people say
‘we must encourage Southern literature,” then they
button up their pockets and level their critical spy
glasses on the unlucky literary enterprises keen to
search out the spots upon them, while they forget to
bestow a dollar to brighten their powers of il
lumination and help them to struggle through the
clouds; the dollars go Northward to swell the
princely income of long-established journals. Is’at
this true? true of too many of our people? Yet our
‘Sunny’’ has found kind friends who are
To its faults, a little blind
Aud to its virtues ever kind.
Emma says: “A gentleman friend of mine amed
liis horse Bayard. I said to him the other day:—
‘You named your horse after a true and gallant
knight.’ ‘No,’ lie auswered. ‘Bayard is the name of
a celebrated horse.’ I told him I felt sure he was
wrong, and we had quite a controversy. Can you
set the matter right?” * * * You were
both correct. Bayard is the name or the famous cav
alier of the fifteenth century, who was san.i puer et
sansreproche, but Bayard is also the name of tbe won
derful fabled horse spoken of in Villeneuve’s “Four
Sons of Aymou.” The horse Bayard carried all four
of Aymon’s Sous. If only oue of the sons mounted
his back, the horse was of ordinary size, but in
creased in proportion as each oue of the sons got
upon him. The name Buyard is used for any valu
able or wonderful horse, and its literal meaning is a
‘high bay” (bay—ardj.
Emma, of Augusta, Ga., writes: “ I have been
reading Mrs, Warfield's strange novel, 'Beausean-
court,’ and I find there frequent allusions to King
Cambyses. “Bertie" applies the term in speaking of
her father, aud the author mentions it in connec
tion with him, thus: ‘Sucha tiling was said or done
in liis finest King Cambyses ; vein.’ Also teii me
if Mrs. Warfield ever wrote the promised sequel to
Beauseanconrt, and wliat is meant exactly by the
phrase, ‘noblesse oblige’ that was always on the
lips of Bertie and her father?” * * * The
Cambyses of history was a Persian King, succeed
ing his father Cyrus. It is probable he is the Ahas-
euras mentioned in the Bible as prohibiting the
Jews from rebuilding the temple. He was Nero-
like in liis haughtiness, cruelty, ami wantof rever
ence for all things considered sacred. King Cam
byses is also a pompous character in a tragedy
called Cambyses, written by Preston. Shakespeare
says in Henry IV., “Give me a cup of sack that I
may make my eyes look red, for I will speak in a
passion, and I will do i’ in King Cambyses vein.’
Mrs. Warfield published the sequel of Beausean-
court, called Miriam Moutfort. JVobleSse oblige is
Preach aud a free translation of it is that noble
blood imposes the obligation ofliigh-miuded prin
ciples aud noble aciious.
Arthur P- inquires: “Who is it that said, ‘There
is always a Shakespeare in existence?' Was it not
Wendell Holmes?” * * * We believe it
was Boucicault, but are not sure; neither are we
sure of the truth of the assertion.
Annie and Emily says: “We are blonde and bru
nette respectively, and we wish to know which of
these two styles is now the fashionable one?” *
* * Awhile back, the pet beauty of novel
ists, poets, and society connoisseurs, was the posi
tive blonde, all brilliancy of coloring, gold-red hair
and snow-moulded arms. Previous to. this, the
heroine of tbe three-vol umed novel was obliged to
have jet black eyes, blue-black hair, olive skin and
crimson lips. Fashion seems to be again drifting
back to its old love,—and many of the pet.beauties
of society aud of story writers are brunettes. The
ladies who bleached their locks and colored them
with “goid dye” are now, we see stated, resuming
their former dark colors. The light literature ol the
day is usually the.straw that tells which way the
wind blows, and we see in Mrs. Edwards’ newjnov-
el, “Vivian, the Beauty”—that the London Venusi
who gives the book its title and who is the adored
of painters and photographers, the “glass.of fash
ion and the mould of form” wears her hair
and her eye brows dyed a jet black.
“Brunswick, ga.” precedes her question for the
Correspondent's Column with some items of news
that may be interesting, she says: “I don’t know
wliat lias gotten into Brunswick the past month or
two. we have had a great fire, then ‘an assault with
intent to murder’ (I think that will be the indict
ment) upon one of the persons burnt out (Mr. Mor
ris Mickelson) by two brothers Greenfield, and the
accidental shooting (dead) of a worthy younglman,
Mr. Robert Williams, by his own hand. When
will men learn to be careful in handling pistols.—
Dear little Lottie Smith was buried to-day; eldest
daughter of T. F. Smith, late editor and fouuderof
the Seaport Appeal (which is amongst the good
tilings of the past.) We are of course very jubilant
at the passage, by such au overwhelming majority,
of the B. & M. R. R. Bill. That Savannah deigns to
get excited, ami acknowledge our existence is a
great thing for little Brunswick—she has heretofore
as completely ignored us, as ever did Cinderella’s
step-sisters “the little cinder weuch in the kitchen’ *
—well! “the mills of the Gods grind slowly, but
they’grind exceedingly fine.” I don’t recollect 1
that should read "fine or “small?" Apropos, can you
give me the quotation aright, of ‘a heart at leisure
from itself’ aud its author.” * * * We
think the quotation is from a poem of Woodsworth
but are not sure. *
Tbe man who finds a pocket-book with cash
in it doesn’t look at a paper for three weeks.
A Syracuse boy pnt his sister's switoh into a
cannon for wadding on tbe Fourth. He said
that was tbe proper way to bang her hair.
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