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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
ll!•Jla«4•ll«><l ■•air*.—The story of
King Cophetua and the lieggar inaid has few
exemplifications in real life, and it is well
that it is so. Great disparity in the parties
to a contract of marriage does not give prom
ise of happiness. She, who brings nothing
but a pretty face to grace the lioard of her
Wicked Old Senator.
Statements of His Wife.
All tiie Way from Peru,
difference by perquisites. So it was fixed for
him that he should go to Peru. AVhile he
was in Washington awaiting the action of
the senate on his nomination, 1 learned from
t;ie wife of a former minister to a Koutli
American country that it wns impossible to
live there in any respectability whatever and
save money. I telegraphed to Mr. Chrint-
iancy to that effect, for I had opposed hisg<
Wakhingntom, March 33.—It has already
I wealthy husband, is not likely to hold her been announced that Mrs. < hristianey, wife i ing all along, but he wrote back that it had
' own against that tyranny which almost eve- r L * r "
JOIIST H. SKA I.Si. Kali I or «Y proprietor.
Will. B. SEAI.S. Prop'r ami for. Kill tor.
MARY E. KKY AV. <*)■Associate Editor.
ATLANTA, GA., MARCH 37, i8So.
jiPKCl.U. NOTICE.
Those Kcd anil Yellow Klips.
AVe feel very giateful for the kindly man
ner in which these little reminders which
went out in our last paper have been received
by our friends, and the promptness with
which many have responded to them.
But some are mistaking the figure •» for
tiie figure I, anti when we come to examine
it we find that the mistake might easily be
made. But our book-keeper meant it lor a
a. The subscription price is Si.TiO a year
“MUCH."
I Aotirc.
AA'e have several orders in hand for copies
of Mrs. Bryan’s book, which cannot be filled
till a new supply is received in this city. N't
a copy is to be had at present, but there will
lie a supply on hand in a few days. The
book is having a fine run. All orders will be
promptly attended to on receipt of the fresh
supply.
Knetian Ailiili-m—M lial is it.
—We transfer to our columns the following
editorial remarks of the American Cultivator
upon this question which is now absorbing so
much of public attention: “The nations of
Eur<q>e arc watching with eager and anxious
eyes the political movements of the Russian
government, for it is next to certain that the
Nihilists are preparing an explosion which
may shake the Eastern Ileinis’ihere toils
centre. It is well worth while to pause amid
our own concerns to inquire what is Nihilism!
parties, political and otherwise, generally
adopt a deceptive name by which they may
br known to the world at large, but the Ni
hilists (Nothingarians) have assumed a de
scriptive title—for Nihilism is a negation,
not an affirmation. The French Revolution
ists have a thousand theories, although they
are converged in the gastly facts. Murder
and Ruin. The Nihilists aim only at destruc
tion. They have never entertained or put
forth a single plan for the reorganization of
society, after the present order of things
■shall be wrecked and sunken to oblivion. A
Nihilist being asked what his doctrines con
sisted of—what the grand aim of his organi
zation really was, replied truly and consis
tently: “To capture Church and State, kings
and God—to hoot at and spurn them; this is
our doctrine.”
Russian Nihilism is no new thing; it was
rife among the schools and universities of
that country twenty years ago, and attracted
the attention of the government and police
long before its daring outbreaks in i878 and
187!!, not failing, as well, to excite the curios
ity of Europe and the world generally.
From I8I5 to 18(53, influential men labored
for the propagation of Nihilism, which was
then and is now but another word for Rus
sian radicalism recognized in Germany as
Socialism, and in France as Communism.
Some of these early propagandists ended
their career in Siberia, but their disciples be
came only the more fierce, daring and deter
mined; how fierce and how daring the two
attempts at wholesale murder and destruc
tion which have so lately taken place, the
one at Moscow the other at St. Petersburg,
may testify. The fanatics devoted to the
cause of destruction command and are obeyed
by men of action, the mute executors of or
ders they never question or discuss, being
bound by oaths and fearful penalties which
make of them the veriest dupes and slaves.
Net er did novelist or playwright invent more
thrilling deeds than these banded ruffians ac
tually put into form and practice.
Vera Sassoulitch, of whom wo hear so
much, is only one among the thousands of
these female proselytes, women as heroic at
heart and as determined as ('harlotte Corday.
To obtain a greater influence over such wo
men the leaders have instituted a system of
Platonic marriages among the faithful. Bride
and bridegroom separate at the altar to de
part on their revolutionary mission, hoping
to meet again in the glare of incendiary
torches and amid the ringing shout of vic
tory. Not long since, at a vast cost of toil
and suffering, a huge palace of ice was erected
at St. Petersburg, while it lasted forming an
eighth wonder of the world. Southern winds
and northern suns have already melted it.
And is it not possible that the icy fabric of
Russian despotism is doomed to liquefaction
beneath the fiery breath of revolution? If
so. then the transparent and glittering struc
ture on the banks of the Neva was not a I’al-
aee but a Prophecy.
ry man loves to exercise; and a penniless man
who weds an heiress can hardly escape a feel
ing of humiliation. Difference of moneyed
fortune, however, is not the only inequality
likely to produce unhappiness. It is some
times the case that parties have been reared
in such very different styles that they can not
assimulate. The young lady who has been
brought up in society where the whole talk
was of “pictures, taste, Shakspeare and the
musical glasses,” would hardly be content
with a young farmer who can talk of little*
save making cotton and rearing stock. At
this day, when to he the efficient mistress of a
farm-house requiies an ability to cook, wash
and scour, the city girl who has been dainti
ly bred, will find herself much out of place
if she is enticed by the poetry of green fields
and skipping lambs to form a union with one
who has to hold the plow. But despite the
absuidityof the thing, such matches occasion
ally take place. Young farmers sometimes
gratify a foolish ambition by marrying girls
w ho have skill and taste to “pink, paint and
frill,” but know nothing of milking, baking
and brewing. They find that having wives
who can dress stylishly and talk well, are
poor off-sets against the disadvantage of hav
ing to do the double duty ol‘ field and Inuse.
Much more frequently do we see women of
feminine culture wedded to men who, des
pite a little pinchbeck gilding, are utterly
destitute of refinement. Such women live the
lives of martyrs, lti their pride they will
suffer no compluintto escape them. But their
sufferings are none the less acute because
they are borne in silence. There ure some
moral heroes and a vast number of moral
heroines whose claim to admiration the world
has never recognized. * *
The Hook of Hath,—No where in
all the range of pastoral poetry is there a
sweeter picture of rural life than is presented
in this touching little Idyl. The writer has
presented each scene with the delicate touch
of a true artist. Leaving the imagination to
supply the descriptions of suffering in that
land to which cloudless skies had denied
fruitage, he at once transports the littie
family group of father, mother and their two
little ones to the land of strangers. There
however, they soon made friends, and found
that which made them loth to return to their
old home. But when tiereft of husbaud and
sons the heartbroken widow prepared to bid
farewell to the spot that had witnessed her
greatest happiness and most bitter suffering,
aud resolved upon seeking comfort among
the friends of her youth. The three widows
gather together to mingle their tears for the
last time. This communion of grief draws
their hearts together as they have never been
drawn before, and Ruth, in the warm impul
siveness of her nature, feels that she can not
part from this fond mother. In language,
t he tender pathos of which has never been
surpassed, she avows her purpose to follow
this breaved parent of her husband. The
stilisequent story is told with an artless sim
plicity which must charm every lover of true
beauty. Naomi finds herself destitute and
friendless in the home of her childhood,
with no resource save the devoted love of
her daughter-in-law. But that love now as
serts itself superior to every difficulty and
fearless of danger. It arms the modest
young widow with a courage to go forth in
the bumble calling of a gleaner, and there
the quiet dignity ol' her demeanor protected
her against any insult from the rude men
among whom she was thrown. Nay more;
joined to her beauty, it won her the notice,
and eventually the love of her lordly kins
man. Her virtue had its reward. The effort
to win subsistence for her mother was the
means of gaining her a position of dignity and
affluence. At the moment when her love
impelled her to follow the fortunes of her
afflicted relative, she took the step which was
to make her the mother of a long fine of
Kings. * *
of ex-Senator Christianoy, of Michigan, at gone too far and he could not hack out. I
present minister to I’eru, has seperated from I Fell y ou more of this business, but that
her husband, and that both intend suini
, is enough to show you how it wns (leliber
J f or j ately planned that he wns to sell his seat in
divorce. Mrs. Christiancy, who was a | the senate to Chandler and receive as pay a
• l«« lo Hake it l*!iy.—Persons
living in the surburlis of the city who have
a little ground attached to their cottages can
make it "pay." Cultivate small fruits. Itisan
inexpensive and lieathfid occupation. You
may commence with strawberries; they con
tinue alsuit a month. You pick, perhaps,
from -ix to twelve quarts a day. You have
them on your table as a dessert, if you
please, at noon, and your tea-table is loaded
with them at evening; you want for little
else blit, bread and butter. The family eon-
-inne. iii one way and another, about eight
quart- a day. and while they lust no medi
cines for bodily ailments are required, as a
quart of -trawberries daily will generally
dispell all ordinary diseases not settled per
manently iu the system. After strawberries,
raspberries come, to continue about three
weeks; then blackberries, when the climate
is not t.00 cold for cultivated varieties: then
tiie currants ripen, and remain until the
early grapes mature; and taking the season
through, any family with a halfaere of land
in a garden can grow small fruits that make
country life delightful, and at the same time
many dollars can be -aved in the supply of
the table.
Mli«‘ Him Ukcsi Hoi**«*.
— A correspondent of the Constitution says:
A11 old mail in Forsyth county, about sixty
years old. whose name is Peter Glater, and
who married Kitty Brown, of Hart county,
Ga.. for two or three years has been plowed as
ahorse bv his wife. Having harness made to
Jit him, she would plow him until about 10
•o’clock and then they would both turn to
and hoe.
Tiie Newspaper in :i l':ii-m-
l»ou*e.—People who live near the great
thoroughfares where they have access to two
or three dailies and a half-dozen weeklies, do
not fully appreciate the value of a new spaper.
They come indeed to look upon them as nec
essities, and they would as cheerfully do with
out their morning meal ns their morning
mail. But one must be far off in the country,
remote from “the madding crowd,” to realize
the full luxury of a newspaper. The farmer
who receives but one paper a week, does not
glance over its columns hurriedly with an
air of impatience, as does your merchant or
lawyer. He begins with the beginning and
reads on to the close, not permitting a news
item or an advertisement to (■scape his eye.
Then it has to be thumbed by every member
of the family, each one looking for the things
in which he or she is most interested. The
grown-tip (laughter looks for the marriage
notices and is delighted if the editor has
treated them to a love story. The son who
is just about to engage in farming with an
enthusiasm that will carry hint far in ad
vance of ills father, reads all the crop reports
and has a keen eye for hints about improved
modes of culture. The younger members of
the family come in for the amusing anec
dotes and scraps of fun. All look forward to
the day that shall bring the paper with the
liveliest interest, and if by some unlucky
chance it fails to come, it is a bitter disap
pointment. One can hardly estimate the
amount of information which a paper which
is not only read but studied, can carry into a
family. They have, week by week, spread
before their mental vision a panorama of
the busy world, its fluctuations and its vast
concerns, It is the poor man’s library, and
furnishes as much mental food as he has time
to consume and digest. No one who has ob
served how much those who are far away
front the places where men most congregate,
value their weekly paper, can fail to join in
invoking a blessing on the inventor of this
means of intellectual enjoyment. *
clerk in the treasury department, and only mission.”
twenty years of age when she married Mr.
Christiancy, was a Miss Lultengeel, and now
lives with her mother, who is a sister (if Col
onel Lubengeel. of the United States army.
Her mother keeps a boarding-house in AVash-
ington, and it is said Mrs. C’hristaincy gains
a moderate income by coloring photographs.
Being visited by a reporter of the Washington
Post, Mrs. Christiancy made the following
statement:
“My going to Peru was igainst my will.
My ill-treatment had commenced long lx fore
that time, and I was fearful for my safety.
1 was only in Peru five or six monthsp^J*'!
yet all that time was marked by continued
brutality towards me. One instance, in par
ticular, I remember. Mr. Christiancy, as
usual, had been drinking. He came to me
one nignt, and, although I had been sick in
lied for two days, commenced to abuse me
violently, until, his drunken auger getting
the best of him, he struck me. I went down
totlio door to rush from the house, when
George, his sixteen-year old son, followed me
out and said that he would go with me, ks lie
was tired of seeing me so treated. At tnat
juncture, a Mr. Hayt, an American resident
in Limn, came to the house on a visit and
was a witness of the trouble. Mr. Christian
cy then begged tne to stay, saying that he
had not intended to strike me. But I refused
to remain, and as I was leaving he called
George to come to hint. George walked to
wards my husband, who then pointed to Mr.
Hay t and me, saying to me: ‘Now you can
go.” Instantly Mr. Hayt eomprehenjP.i the
insinuation, and answered: ‘Mrs. Chris
tiancy does not leave this house without
your son acconijKinying her.’ With that
George said: ‘Father, I am going with her,’
and came to me.
‘If you go out of this house now you go for
ever,’said Mr. Christtanej. ‘Then it is for-
every, I answered. George and I went to a
hotel. The next day Mr. Chri.-tiancy sent
word to us that be was very sick and expect
ed to die, and would 1 please come home. At
first I refused, for l had suffered almost too
much to forgive. But the friend he had sent
me pictured his distress in such a manner
that at last I consented. AVhen 1 returned 1
was surprised to find him perfectly well. He
made every manifestation of penitence, and
once more I returned to his house. The very-
next morning, when I was lying on the lied,
suffering with the pain that my troubles had
aggravated, he stixxl over me and cursed and
swore at me until I was nearly wild. His
driving me from the iiou.se had raised such a
sensation that a petition for his recall as min
ister was put into circulation, but I, dreading
a scandal, had it suppressed. Everything
went quietly for some little while, during
which time we heard that this Mr. Hayt,who
had gone further south had lieen kjlleil in the
war. This was noticeably good to Mr.
Christiancy. who would have lx'-’ gmd to
have lost this witness of his cruelty. One
day, however, he returned, and, calling at
our house, said that he was about to return
to the United States. Instantly Mr. Chris-
tiancy’s manner towards him ‘tanged,
nod be was all kindness.;- - -mt
Mr. Hayt to leave with any id .E1.1 that
might result in the spreading of th ■ facts re
garding him that Mr. Hayt knew. I The lat
ter, much to my surprise, received an invita
tion to remain overnight. The next morning
Mr. Christiancy again commenced his abuse
of me, ana to escape him I ran into the sit
ting room. He followed me, and not content
with using words, struck me. I screamed,
and then he choked me until I could make no
sound. Mr. Hayt, who was in another room
reading a paper, heard my first scream and
hurried to my assistance, hurling Mr. Chris
tiancy hack and almost throwing him to the
floor. Mr. Hayt left that day for the States,
and I left the following week.”
“That was the cause, or rather those were
the causes, of your coming home J”
“Yes.”
“Have you entered suit for divorce yet J”
“I have already consulted one of the liest
lawyers here, and intend to bring a suit for
divorce as soon as possible. There is a legal
objection, however, which, perhaps, may be I
surmounted. I forfeited mv residence here I
when I married Mr. Christiancy, a,nd went
to live in Michigan. AA'hen I returned with |
him, and was subjected to continued ill-treat-
At this point a visitor was annnunoed and
the reporter took his leave. In tin's connec
tion it may he stated that six weeks ago Sen
ator Christiancy filed an application for leave
of absence at the state department, and was
advised that it would be granted as soon as
practicable.
AVOHAA'K TK1BSI Tl! TO HAA.
Opinion* of Iiilerary Women.
The following scintilations on man from
the pens of some our ablest literary women
will be read with interest:
I know a man who can write gentle, gossip
ing letters like women. He is straight-mind
ed and tenchr-hcarted, with immense energy
and great good spirits. He smokes pipes,
goes out shooting, plays billiards and cricket,
is charming with all the grumbling old men
and women. He enjoys life and all its good
things with a grateful temper, and makes
most people happy about liim. He belongs
to the school of athletic Christianity. — Anna
Isabella Thackeray.
Aden a man becomes only an elegant piece
of furniture in a women's life, to be dusted
at times and admired at others, it will be
generally found that he endures >he annoy
ance of neglected furniture—little more.
The level that we strike in the soul that
touches us most nearly is almost sure to li
the high wafer mark of our own.—E. ,S.
Phelps.
It is hardly an argument against a man’s
strength of character that he should he apt
to be mastered by love. A man may be
very firm :n other matters, and yet be tinder
a sort ef witchery from a woman. AVho
shall measure the subtlety of those touches
which convey the quality of the soul, and
makes a man’s passion for another as the
morning light over valley, and river, and
mountain top differs from light among
Chinese lanterns and glass panels.—George
Eliot.
Do I think men strange beings? I do, in
deed. However, they regard the position ( f
women in another light than they used to do;
they are beginning to approve and nid in
stead of ridiculing or checking us in our
efforts to he wise. I must say, for my own
part, whenever I have been so happy as to
share the conversation of a really intellectual
man 1 have not felt that I was accounted a
superfluity.—C. Bronte.
YOOI> OT TlfE A’MU’. ATS.
Wild A** Compared to Venison
—Stufling' I’igs with Asa*
fa-tida.
The diversity of substances which we find
in the catalogue of articles of food, is as great
as tiie variety which the art of the science of
sookery prepares them. The notions of the
ancients on this important subject are worthy
of remark. Their taste regarding meat was
various. 3eef they considered the iuostsub-
stantial food; hence it constituted the chief
nourishment of their athleta'. Camels’ and
dromedaries’ flesh was much esteemed, their
heels more especially. Donkey flesh was in
high repute, and *>e wild ass brought from
Africa was compared to venison.
In modern times we And Chancellor Cupret
having asses fattened for his table. The hog
and the wild boar appear to be held in high
estimation. Their mode of killing swine was
refined in barbarity as in epicurism. Figs
were slaughtered with red hot spits, that the
blood might not be lost: stuffing a pig with
asafietida was a luxury. Young bears, dogs,
and foxes (the latter more esteemed when
fed upon grapes), were also much admired
by the Romans, who were also so fond
of various birds that some consular families
assumed the names of those they most es
teemed. Catius tells us how to drown fowls
in Falernian wine, to render them more lus
cious and tender. Pheasants were brought
over from Colchis,and deemed at one time such
a rarity, that one of the Ptolemies bitterly la
mented his never having tasted any. Pea
cocks were carefully reared in the Island of
Samos, and sold at such a high price that
they fetched yearly upwards of £10,000 of
ment, I condoned it by living-with him. Tiie ' eur money. The guinc-a-fowl was considered
’ .. , w , r \,. , . 4 . 1X loiniis' hilt tllb» Ki.miiMv L-imtf 11.\t All,
CHARCOALJKFTCHES.
BY .WARY E. BRYAN.
MAUM FANNY’S CABIN.
AA’e have all come to lielieve that the abol
ition of slavery has been a blessing to the
South. True, it was an act of injustice <»i
the part of the government to liberate slaves
without indemnifying their owners for the
loss of their property. Against this disad
vantage the South had to struggle; but she
got on her feet for all that, aud now she finds
herself all the stronger for having had the
crutch of slavery knocked from under her.
Though hobbling badly at first, she has found
out how much more strengthening and stim
ulating it is to walk alone. Handicapfied as
our people have been by poverty, we have
covered more ground intellectually and phys
ically since slavery was done away with,
than in three times tiie number of years
prior to its abolition. AVe have ceased to re
grot the negro in his financial relation to us,
but there is still a tender remembrance of the
more pathetic connection he sustained to our
AVill Noah Smith and A. B. Robertson be
good enough to give us their post-offices: Mr.
Smith will also please say how much money
he inclosed in his excellent letter.
AVe would again urge upon our friends anrl
patrons the importance of naming their post
offices always when writing to a publisher.
With thousands of names upon his books he
cannot possibly know the offices of them all.
We have much trouble from this negligence
on the part of correspondents.
We have a spicy letter on the hook for
next week from our sprightly Agent and
Correspondent, Miss Annie Logan Anderson.
.She has just returned from a pleasant and
successful trip to Macon, Georgia.
Heal estate is rapidly increasing in value
in Brunswick, caused by the recent sale of the
Macon and Brunswick Rxilroad.
The Kimball cotton factory runs night and
day, but cannot keep un wiih orders. Two
hundred more operatives are needed.
“1 do not know for certain, but I should
not be surprised if he is. He threatened. |
when I left him that lie* would crush rue— '
those were his very words—unless I stayed, j
and would ruin my reputation foreVv. He I
said that he had power and position, and 1 i
was weak and could not fight him. I can '
understand why these charges have been !
made against me. 1 threatened him that l :
would make known his treatment of me, and ;
would expose his cruelty, besides telling j
what I knew of his selling his seat in the !
senate to ( handl e for a mission. Fearing I
that I would carry out these threats he is j
trying to create public sympathy in his be- j
half and against me In-malicious accusations.
Edward Gibbon, the English historian of
Rome, died at the age of fifty-seven, in the
year U94.
The “Pretender” died at Rome in 17.5(1, hav
ing lived through the reign of six sovereigns
who occupied the throne of Great Britain, and
were regarded by his partisans as usurpers.
modern gastronome is, perhaps, not awar
that it is to the ancients lie owes his Fattened
duck and goose livers—the inestimable foies
gras of France. The swan was also fattened
by tiie Romans, who first deprived it of sight:
and cranes were by no means despised by
the pen;4e of taste.
AVhile the feathered creation was doomed
to form part of ancient delights, the waters
yielded their share of enjoyments, and seve
ral fishes were immortalized. The carp was
educated in their ponds, and rendered so
tame that he came to be killed at the tinkling
of his master’s bell or the sound of his voice.
The fame of the lamprey is generally known;
and the sturgeon was brought to table with
but
social life. The old plantation negro—whe
ists now only as a fossil—how indescribable! General Alexander thinks under the pus
was hisplace in our social fabric! There was no j ent arrangement the Georgia Railroad stock
equality; no presumption on one hand or con- | will pay ten per cent, dividend within eigh
descension on the other, and yet his foot- teen months
ing, especially among the white children
of i lie family—was of the most friendly and
confiding character. Our young children
cannot understand it. The old negro woman
who comes to see us sometimes on Sundays,
her face sadly wrinkled, but the old love for
gay color stiil apparent in the red and yellow
head-handkerchief and the faded blue aud
trreeu combination iu her dress of cast-off
finery—this Sunday visitor is to our younger
children only an old black woman who brings
mamma a long handled water-gourd ora di
minutive frying chicken, and who sits in the
chimney corner drinking cups o' much'
sweetened coffee and takes a smoke after
wards from a stuhliy-stemmed pipe, and at
last goes off with a package of sugar and cof
fee arid a goodly bundle of old clothes. But
to us the old black woman is Maum Fanny,
of the blessed long ago—Maum Fanny, wh 'se
big needle mended the rents in the new calico
torn by riding nine-limb horses, whose ash-
enke and buttermilk used to taste so good
after a long tramp to pick black!erries or to
fish in the creek, whose string of blue and
white beads round her chubby neck seemed
more interesting than nur mother’s pearls,
especially that, big, red-streaked white head
which was the central gem of the strati, and
with which Muum Fanny bribed us, when we
were getting well of the measles, to stay in
lied and not go out to see the new puppies.
The tales that Maum Fanny could tell as
she sat in the sun of a June af'ernoon in the
door of her cabin carding in a leisurely way
the long rolls of cuttiin that she would spin
into thread when her white oak basket was
full. Witches, ghosts and spirits abounded
in those tales- Their weird shapes are still
outlined in the background of my memory,
and they move sometimes through my
dreams. Did those stories do me any harm ?
I think not. I never was made “scary,”
though maumer’s legends peopled the woods
and the graveyards for me, and gave a sym
pathetic, human interest to wolves and rab
bits, hears and other wild animals that I have
never gotten over. The “Folk-lore” of the
South (which Mr. J. C. Harris so delightful
ly reproduces in his “Uncle Remus” sketches)
is a product of the quaint, exuberant negro
imagination. The cunning of “Brer Rab
bit,” his delight in outwitting “Brer Fox,”
tiis fondness for taking bis ease, and his per
fect freedom from any feeling of moral
responsibility—do they not mirror the negro
character ?
Maum Fanny was unfailingly sympathetic.
To her cabin I took my way when aggrieved
and into her ear I poured my wrongs. I re
member once, when 1 had a big grievance on
hand and was sobbing in a manner that]
knew would excite her liveliest commisera
tion, she was not in her house; I called her
wailingly and waited impatiently for her re
turn, my grief subsiding in spite of myself.
“I'll get done crying before she comes.” I
said aloud, and at that moment her figure
darkened the little doorway, anil her voice
exclaimed, “AVho’s been botherin' the poor
chile now!”
AVhen I grew older and one day chanced
upon the forbidden poets—and reveled in
Cnilde Harold and Lara, I took my treas
ure to the old cabin at the foot of the hill,
where my half superannuated mammy spun
and carded and nodded after she had com
pleted tier other duties of milking the cows
ami feeding the chickens. There I read on
and on, and mammy listened and swayed her
body to the rythm (negroes are peculiarly
susceptible to the swing of measured verse)
and when I would look up ecstatically for
her admiration, I would find her nodding
tranquilly, but opening her eytsattbe cess
ation of the reading and answering my re
monstrance. “AVhy maum Fanny!” with an
apologelie “I ain’t sleep, honey, de sun’s in
my eye.” Or if the often-e was too plain:
“’Sense me. honey, I ain’t sleep none last
night, de witches tie bridles in my hair and
set on my brass all night. Go on.chile.de
potry is mighty pretty: you jes sings it off,
like camp meeting pre: chin.”
s very sentimental, and
A mass meeting has been called to convene
at Jug Tavern, Walton county, to considei
the building of a railroad between Monroe
and Gainesville.
One hundred and fifty negroes passed
through Memphis on tiie 2htb, en route for
New York. They are an advance lot of large
numbers, to follow from the vicinity of
Helena, Ark., and arc on the way to Liberia.
Mr. AVm. A. Broughton, says the Georgia
Madisonian has purchased tiie old homestead
of Col. J. B. Walker, Sr. This is one of the
most magnificent private residences in mid
dle Georgia, and around it cluster some of
tiie most enjoyable incidents of hospitable
Southern life.
The question of whether or not cities are
bound to have a first-class fire department,
is about to be tested in the courts of Indiana.
A hotel proprietor of Indianapolis has sued
that city for £150,000 for the loss of a hotel
by fire. He alleges that if the fire depart
ment had been efficient, his hotel would have
been saved.
A Sau Antonio dispatch dated the six
teenth, says: “The late freeze destroyed all
the fruit and vegetation, and throws the
farmers back fully two months. The loss of
stock is not so great as apprehended. The
sheep were lambing, and some lost a few.
but none heavy. The damage to the crojis
in this section cannot lie repaired by two
million dollars.”
“Woman (Suffrage” in Massachusetts, as
elsewhere, has been a failure and a delusion.
Not on account of any opposition by the
male sex, but because the women refuse to
take hold of the privilege. It is the latest
bubble that has exploded in the atmosphere
of common sense.
Dr. George Little’s geological map gives
the following elevations above the sea level
as taken by him: Savannah, 3a feet above
the ocean; Augusta, 147; Sparta, 445; Mil
ledgeville, 364; Macon, 4I4; Forsyth, 735:
Griffin, 4*7.5; Atlanta, 1,05ft; Marietta, 1,1.14;
Chattanooga, fioft; Cartersville, (194: Rome,
6g2; Dablonega, 1,235; Gainesville, 1,22c:
Lula, l.GOi; Toocoa, 1,040: Thomasville, 353:
Bainhridge, 88; Albany, 25:; Americus, 360:
Columbus, 400; Hawkinsville, 336.
A list of the ages of the candidates for the
Presidential nominations will interest all
readers and may surprise some of them, for
there are several illusions cherished on the sub
ject: Charles Francis Adams, Is seventy-three:
Horatio Seymour is seventy; Air. Tilden,
sixty-six; Senator Davis, sixty-five: Speaker
Randall, fifty-one; Ex-Governor Parker, of
New Jersey, seventy-four; Senator Thur
man, sixty-one; Mr. Hendricks, sixty-one:
Ex-President Grant, fifty-eight: Secretary
Sherman, fifty-seven; General Hancock,
fifty-six: General M’Clellan, fifty-four: Sena
tor Bayard, fifty-two; Senator Conkling.
fifty-one, and Senator Blaine, fifty.
AVe have received several lei tee
the turbot, one of
which was brought to Domitian from A11-
I cona, was considered such a splendid present
I that this Emperor assembled the Senate to ad
mire it. The red mullet was held in sucl:
He told me that he would bring a suit against, j triumphant pom]
me for divorce, I asked him on what
grounds, for 1 could not see where I had
lieen guilty of anything which could form a
basis for an action of this kind. ‘1 will bribe
witnesses,’ he said, ‘to appear against you. if
it is necessary-’ ” '
‘•Yon say,'Mrs. Christiancy, that you can
tell something about the manner in which
Mr. Christiancy procured his appointment as
minister to Peru >"
“Yes, and 1 think it ought to be published.
One day Mr. Chandler came to our house in
Detroit to see Mr. Christiancy. I was some
what surprised at this, as the two had been
at loggerheads for sometime. They had a
long interview in the parlor, the nature of
which I know nothing of until Vic.' Christ
iancy, the senator's son. who overheard if,
told it to me. Chandler said he had been to
Washington and seen Hayes, and one of the
three missions could be tendered Christ 'aiicy,
either Japan, Central America or Peru. The
programme was that Christiancy was to
have it published that he was too unwell to I . 1 ; '
enter into a canvass and wished to lx- re 1 At the institution of the Grand Council of
lieY'ed from senatorial duties. After a long I the Royal Arcanum lor the stale of Georgia,
talk during which the details of the affair! !,t Mac-mi, last week, Col. John 1). Munner-
distinguished category among genteel fishes. | waisted and did nt have 01s boots
that three of them, although of small size, | ' ' ' '
were known to fetch upwards of £r,ooo. I
They were more appreciated when brought !
alive, and gradually allowed to die, when j
the Romans feasted their eyes in the antici- |
pated delight of eating them, by gazing on ,
the dying creatures as they changed color]
like an expiring dolphin. Snails were also
a great dainty; Fulvius Herpinus was ini- |
mortalized for the discovery of the art. of I
fattening them on brail and other articles:
and Horace informs us that they were served j
up. broiled upon silver gridirons, to give a
relish to wine. Oysters were brought from
England to Rome, and frozen oysters were
much extolled. Grasshopjiers, locusts and j
various insects, were equally acceptable t
our first gastronomic legislators.
Maum Fanny j ™ , , . , ,
knew no end of love experiences that had hap- I inquiry about A. Micnael & t_
jiened to her young mistresses in “('allinn.”
These young mi-trasses were described as mir
acles of beauty and elegance, whose charms,
an i fine dress, and piano playing 1 could not
hope to emulate, tint, might and did weave
into mv first essays at story writing, which
I dignified by the names of "novels,” and read
from tne long, old yellow account book to
approving Maum Fanny. AVhen l came to
have love experiences of my own, Maum
Fanny was my sympathizing confident. She
Thought my first love-letter (a high flown
school-boy production! a model of tine com
position. and though she disapproved of this,
my- first beau, because his folks were "poor
buckras,” whose niggers were few and "no
count,” she qualified her objection by admit
ting that the youth “(lid mighty well liissef:
and noliodv eouM'nt say lie was’nt as slim
making
f Atlanta.
and requesting us to recover money sent them
lor a “magnificent watch,” dec. AVe have
not paid much attention to these letters, lie-
cause people should not be so easilv gulled
by such advertisements. It is astonishing
that any one could be made to believe that a
magnificent icateh could be purchased for
*'2.60. It carries fraud upon its face and no
one should have been deceived liy it. A cor
respondent writing from this city to the Au
gusta News. March 12th, says:
“The 4th of January of this year. I wrote
to the Evening News the first intimation
about an ‘expert, swindler’ here in Atlanta,
vith a carefully worded advertisement, pre
fix that matter with Henry,” meaning, as I
learned afterwards, that he would pay a sum
of money to Christiancy’s son Henry, who
was in the custom-house in Detroit! That
day Air. Christiancy did not (line at home,
but dined with Mr. Chandler at the Lansing
house. AVhile lie was away, \ r ic. told me
what he heard, and that was the first intima
tion 1 had of the matter. AVhen Mr. Chris*-
ianey returned he asked me if I would not
like to go either to Japan, Central America,
or Peru. I replied frankly that I would not
leave the country with him, for I was afraid
to. 1 asked him why he wanted a mis ion,
and he said he wished to save money. He
said he thought he would take the Peru mis
sion, as lie would not have to live in style
there. It did not pay as much salary us the
other two. but he said lie could make up the
ion of Honor for the state of Georgia.
The EaGmnge Reporter says: It is re
ported that the firm of D. Appleton A Co.,
has made arrangements to publish in book
form the “Folk-Lore” of Uncle Remus, as it
has been published ill the Const it nt ion. This
will lie a rare and original contribution to lit
erature. There is nothing like it. we believe,
in the world. Among all those who have es
sayed negro dialect writing there arc two
who stand pre-eminent. They are Air. J. C.
Harris, the author of “Uncle Remus,” and
Mr. Irwin Russell, of New Orleans. The lat
ter is dead, and Air. Hairis is thus left with
out a peer as a worker in this rich mine of
unique humor. We are glad that the book is
to lie published, and we want one of the ear
liest copies that leaves the book-bindei y.
snmy
and his fiat cocked one side wid de richest of
cm. He's a likely fellow too. t reckon
youv’e liearn dat potry honey—
•Pretty in <l»- face
And slim in de waise.’
"He thinks a sight of yon too and if you
give him de mitten, twould '-prise me if he
did’nt blow his brains out, like one er Miss
Lncindy’s sweethearts in ('allinn. He was
jes as handsome ns a pietyer wifi snappin
black eyes and red cheeks, and he played '>n
de fiddle to beat de Jew s. He turned white
as de dead when she told him she would’nt
have him.”
"Why would’nt she Alaum Fanny;'
“Lor"chile! and she wid de governors and
and judges a rollin up in dere fine buggies
and prancin horses and jes beggin her to
marry em! So poor John Styker, he shot
liissef one day down by de rilier. De Coro
ner sot on hi 111 and said "tw as accident, but I
knowed better. I done see what lie wrote to
Afiss Lueindy, dat he ivamt goin to live ef
she did'nt sav she’d have him.”
"Oil! Aunt Fanny!” f said apprehensive,
and yet delightfully thrilled with the sense of
tieinga heroine. “I do hope Richard (lie had I hardly one third of the
been Dick before sentiment supervened) won t
hurt himself if I refuse him.”
"I hopes so too honey: but dis love’s a
mighty onaecountable thing. I knows all
about it.” Aunt Fanny shook her head slowly
—took up her basket of rolls, and got up
from her low seat in the door. She stirred
up her pot of “lye homly” on the fire and
put up the band" on her wheel. Presently
the droning whirr of the old wheel began, ae- I
companied by Mammy’s song of
"I'm bound for glory won’t you come along J
wid me
Or,
"De debit he shot one ball at me.
lie miss my soul aud he took m v sins,
And he run down de hill a liellowin
Glory hull! iu.”
posing to send, for 82,60, a ‘magnifio
watch to any one who would first send him
j $1,00 to 'guarantee payment of express
I charges. i had met a member of a promi
nent wholesale firm here in Atlanta, who
] made free with me and 1 with him about the
| matter, he lieing the first to bring it to mv
| notice, and asking me as a public journalist.
: to look into the matter. I did so. and found
j the concern to be swindlers. * (
j now have the satisfaction to state that
I Michael is a fugitive from tne officers of the
] law here, both the civil and the United
j States.”
The New- Orleans Times says : “The mini
i her - a immigrants from Europe to this emu
| try is largely 011 the increase. It is pr. ha-
| ble that during the present year, ow ing to
I the famine iu Ireland and the failure of the
] crops in England last year, the number of
I immigrants will be greater than ever. Last
: February there landed at New York 8,--28
; immigrants. For the corresponding month
f last year the number wns only 2,81s m-
present year. < )f
these 8,328 immigrants 1,5.'!! were from Ire
land, 2,(185 from Germany, 1,90ft from Em>-
lutid and 546 from Scotland. During the year
which closed with last February the number
of immigrants which arrived at New York
was 147,963. The number which arrived the
preceding year was 82,454- Of course a very
large majority of all the immigrants to this
country arrive at New York. The number
however, which arrives at New Orleans for
Texas and points in the Alississippi valley is
by no means small. New Orleans is becom
ing quite a popular port for European inimi -
grants. • , •'
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