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THE SUMY SOUTH.
%ht ji>unmj J>outb.
ATLANTA, GA.. AUGUST 2, 1884
PUBL1SHEO EVERY SATURDAY AT
48 BROAD STREET.
JOHH H. NKAkS e«Uo. ft Proprietor
Wn B. HEftlA. Prov'r <»n«l Cor. Editor
■AST K. BRTAK. (•) A*Meli>te Editor
By persistent exercise and judicious diet
ing, the fair and fat Fanny Davenport re
duced her weight some sixty pounds, while
the poor and scrawny Sarah Bernhardt is
actually becoming quite fleshy. We suppose
that—
“Fanny could eat no fat,
While Bally could eat no lean;
And so it was. between the two.
They would lick he platter clean.”
That Brilliant Ueteor.
Over one hundred and fifty nebulse which
have escaped the vision of previous astrono
mers have recently been discovered by Dr,
Lewis Swift, Director of the Warner Obser
vatory, Rochester, N. Y. One of these is of
a most peouliar nature, and seems to be
undergoing a wonderful change. Dr. Swift
de“ires to thoroughly investigate the great
meteor which appeared on the night of July
2d, and for this purpose requests all who
saw it to communicate with him at the War
ner Observatory, Rochester, N. Y , imme
diately, giving the direction of view, mo
tion, color, etc.
Payne’s Chapel.
This is a delightful little churuh in the
western portion of this city, where good
and unpretentious people assemble and
worship God in spirit and great humility.
The Rev. J. M. Bowden, a faithful and earn
est man of God, i-» the shepherd of the
fl ck, and we had a delightful visit there on
Sibbath last. The Rev. W. J. Scott filled
the pulpit, and delivered oue of his able and
eloquent sermons, which deeply impressed
every one present. He is one of our ablest
and most learned ministers, and his great
power In the pulpit is felt wherever he
preaohes.
Athens, Oa.
We endorse the following from the Ban
ner- Watchman: “It is a matter of especial
regret that our little city has been unfor
tunate enough to get a reputation through
out the State as an abiding place for turbu
lent negroes when such is not the case. As
soon as an altercation occurs here in which
a negro and white man are engaged, the
sensation papers of the State make the an
nouncement of a negro riot in A'hens, and
other similar head-liues, when the details
show that there is no reason for it. We
oaunot see why these papers insist on put
ting Athens in such an unfavorable light,
when there is no oause for so doing. Far
the sake of our educational insitntions, if
nothing else, we hope this thing will be
stopped. It is the duty of every one in
terested in the prosperity of Athens to use
every effort in their power to correct the
false and injurious impression that is now
abroad."
The Death of Mrs. E. D. Seals.
The sad news was received in the city yes
terday. by telegram from Tahlequah to Mr.
J. H. Reed, of the death of Mrs. Dr. Seals.
M rs. Seals had been in bad health for some
time, and in company with her husband and
daughter, she left home several weeks ago
to spend a time in the mountain air about
the Cherokee capital. Her many friends
here, who had from years of association
learned to love her for her noble influence
• _ mrf —R shads'-teg- r€al t«!eai aod'geuiAs On tilO
she might be fitted by the change, trot
alas! the hope w(A, vain, and on the 2ist,
surrounded by some‘of those who loved her
beet, she passed away. The remains will
arrive here by the 'Frisoo train this after
noon, and will be laid away in a vanlt in the
yard of the Dootor’s home. While the heads
of onr people are bowed down with grief at
the death of this loved and most estimable
lady their hearts go out in sympathy to the
husband and daughters in their bereave
ment—Fort Smith Tribune.
The deceased was the wife of a brother to
the proprietors of The So&ny South, and
their tears are flowing in heartfelt unison
with those of that stricken brother and his
affeotionate and dutiful daughters.
On the Wheel.
What a pity the inventor of the tricycle
had not been contemporary with Jeannie
Deans. Then that “sweetest kin on fic
tion’s side” would have been spared the
weary tramp to London, with all its fatigue
and discomfort. Modern cyclists get over the
joorney from Edinburg to London easily in
four days and arrives at his j aunt’s end, quite
fresh. In England, cj cling is constantly
coming more into favor and being reduced
to a matter of fact mode of progression. No
other method of getting over ground at the
same rate and for the same distance has
ever been accomplished with like freedom
from exhaustion. Experts make two hun
dred miles a day, and a hundred miles a day
is considered only a fair to middling rate of
epeed. Mr. Marriat has several times lately
ridden a hundred and eighty-three miles on
the tricycle, and, when put to the test epeed,
he aooomplished two hundred end nineteen.
He hardly, on an average, heats Miss Allen,
who has more than once done her hundred
and fifty-three miles within twenty-four
hours. It is fair to suppose that the cycle
will some da), almost superoede the horse
as a means of getting over grounds where
there are roads or streets, a consummation
whioh Mr. Bergh no doubt, prays for de
votedly, as no sight is said to be more har
rowing to his soul than that of a fi le horse in
a foam of sweat, driven at a killing pace in
hot weather, by some fashionable dude in
skin tight trousers, with the latest jockey hat
perched upon his narrow head—a far less
noble looking animal than the flue beast he
tortures. *
Accident to Professor Bogers.
The Washington National View of the
19th instant, says: We regret exceedingly to
learn that between 10 and 11 o’clock on
Tuesday afternoon, while Professor Harry
Rogers, the electrician, was experimenting
with some chemicals in his laboratory on
Four-and-a-half street in this city, an ex
plosion of the materials under treatment
took plaoe, which came near resulting in
the total loss of his sight. It was one of
those unaccountable happenings that some
times oocar in the treating and mixing of
chemicals for experimental purposes.
The hot, poisonous liquid was thrown di
rectly in the Professor’s face and both eyes,
and it was only to his remarkable presenoe
of mind in causing himself to be instantly
carried to Dr. Marmion’s office for treat
ment instead of awaiting the latter’s arrival
that he will owe the preservation of his
sight. At the best we can hope it will,
doubtless, be some weeks before the Profes
sor will be able to leave a darkened room.
We most heartily wish him speedy recov
ery and early return ro those labors in his
favorite smenoe whioh seem to give so great
promise of sac i new and valuable discov
eries in applied electricity.
Latkb.—We have just learned with great
satisfaction, that the dootor reports the
symptoms of his patient as very encourag
ing and that he has the strongest hopes of
preserving the Profeseor’e eyeeight unim
paired.
How to Have a Loving Wife.
If you would hare a loving wife, be as
gentle in your words after as before mar
riage; treat her as tenderly when a matron
as when a miss; don’t quite make her the
maid of all work and ask her why she looks
less tidy and neat than when “you first knew
her;” don’t buy o eap, tough beef and scold
her because it does not come on the table
“porterhouse; don’t grumble about squall
ing babies if you cannot keep up a nursery,
and remember that baby may “take after
pipa” in his disposition; don't smoke and
chew tobacco, and thus shatter your nerves
and spoil your temper, and make your
breath a nuisance, and then oomplain that
yoor wife declines to kiss you; go home
joyous and cheerful to your wife and tell
her the good news you have heard, and not
silently put on your hat and go out to the
“club” or “lodge," and let her afterwards
learn that yen spent the evening at the
opera or at a fancy ball witn Mrs. Dash
Love your wife; be patient; remember you
are not perfect, but try to be; let whisky, to
bacco and vulgar company alone; spend
yoor evening- wi*h your wrfe and live a de
cent, Chris'ian life, and jour wife will be
loving and true if you did not marry a
heartless beauty, without sense or worth;
if you did, who is to blame if you suffer the
oonsequences ?
Spending the Honey-Moon.
“How shell we spend the first month after
marriage ?” is one of the questions address
ed to the Correspondent’s Column by a
prospective bridegroom, who says he has “no
stint of money.” He adds that both he and
his wife have travelled a good deal and
don’t care to take the stereotyped “bridal
tonr.” This is wise, especially in dog days;
and we can imagine that refined people
would find it discordant to go to a crowded,
noisy watering place, where there is a weary
ing round of dressing, eating, dancing and
bathing, and where hundreds of curious eyes
mark them out to be stared at as a newly-
married pair. The most sensible way is to
go to some more quiet place where comfort,
and a degree of privacy can be had—some
mountain or lakeside hoarding house, where
there is fine scenery, pure air, fishing and
rowing and horseback riding to be had—
which outdoor exercises counteract the ten
dency to spooniness and over much honey
in the moon. That was a splendid, though
expensive idea of the Count Sneremetieff,
of Russia, who, when he married the blonde
beauty Countess Heyden, took his honey
moon in a yacht trip up the Volga—a steam
yacht that cost the princely Count $160 a
day for its hire, to say nothing of the feed
ing of a numerous retinue of wedding
guests, a baud of musicians, twenty sing
ers, a photographer, who took groups of
the happy yachters every day, a doctor,
a lot of male and female cooks and nobody
knows how many valets and lady’s maids
There was a honey-moon for you. Cleopat
ra in her swan shaped galley did not equal
it, for she had to wait for the wind to swell
her silken sails, and iced wines and sherbets
and French pates were unknown to her dark
queen ship, *
Dress versus Genius.
“What is she doing?” was lately asked
concerning a prominent actress. “She is,
and will be for a month or two to oome,
deep in consultation with several artists and
modistes about her costumes for next sea
son. 1 hese worry her greatly. She is try
ing to design something new. E very actress
is doing the same thing, and they are all
trying to find out each other’s designs and
oopy the best points, if possible.’’
More and more this thing of dress is over
stage. Dumas, who) has made theatrical mat
ters an elaborate stndy, declares that the
chief undermining evil of the French stage
is the fearfully expensive dressing of the
female characters. He says, “Unless their
talent is of the very highest order, they
think of nothing bat their toilets. Either
they come to rehearsals worn ont because
they have been standing all the morning for
the dressmaker to shape and pin and fit, or
they are all excitement about their appoint
ment with the dressmaker in the afternoon.
The question is not to play their part well,
but to appear in such a dress as has not been
seen before.” Dumas goes on to say that
this state of affairs was not brought about
by the actresses of genius, but by the pro*
fessional beauties, who have taken to the
stage with nothing to recommend them bat
a handsome faoe and figure. It is undenia
ble, how'ever, that the actresses of a higher
order have caught the mania for expensive
stage dressing, or been compelled to resort
to it, because the publio have oome to look
upon it as one of the necessary theatrical
features. Managers, too, are beginning to
require it and to speculate upon the success
de toilette of their actresses. It costs them
nothing for the ladies are obliged to furnish
their own costumes—a fact which, if it tends
to keep many over-ooDfident, but impeou-
nious girls from taking to the stage will
also operate to deter some few of real genius
from entering on a career which requires at
the onteet a fortune to provide oostumes.
Incomes and Happiness.
People who have to tax their wits with the
difficult problem of getting for a dollar what
it takes eleven dimes *o buy are apt to im
agine that an ample income would render
them happy. They do not realize what is
nevertheless true, that their eonoeption of
what constitutes an ample inoome varies
with each change of fortune. Few ever ad
mit that they have enough. They are rare
exceptions whose expenses do not multiply
more rapidly than their means. Should the
man who has lived comfortably on five hun
dred a year have his salary doubled, he
would find it just about as difficult to live
within the margin. It is a well known fact
that the people who handle most money
know most of financial embarrassments.
Those who have never been led to cherish a
craving for the luxury and display of wealth
can be contented upon very moderate means;
but when once the passion for large gains
has taken possession of the soul, it becomes
henceforth a stranger to cheerful, quiet hap
piness. Those who make haste to get rich—
who, despising small earniDgs, make large
ventures for the sake of huge profits—bring
upon themselves many sorrows. Yet it is
necessary for the world's advancement that
there should be such men. The enterprises
whioh set forward communities and States
in material prosperity have to be planned
and executed by men who are willing to
risk the bird in the hand for the two in the
bush. Those who incur huge risks for the
sake of enormous gains are generally beset
by financial troubles. Ttieir nervous system
is kept strung up to the highest tension, and
they know nothing of placid rest. In the
opinion of the calmly wise, they often play
the fool; and in the estimation of the rigid
ly righteous, they often play the rascal. But
condemn their failings as severely as we
may, we must admit them to be publio bene-
faotors. They pash forward the wheels of
progress. The enterprises which they set on
foot, and whioh often bring them no reward
for their toil and anxiety save financial
rain, are eesential to the world’s advance
ment. The easy and happy, who are con
tent to let well enough alone, do nothing
for human progress. The dissatisfied are
they who push things forward. One may be
moodily miserable without having any am
bition to make his condition better. He
may lament his poverty without originating
any scheme for multiplying his means.
Such people would hardly be_ happy were
enormous wealth placed at their command.
A few, having food and clothing, are there
with content, and irk not at their lack of
facilities for making display. By far the
larger portion of mankind are eagerly striv
ing to better their condition; and while not
to be classed as happy, it would be equally
wrong to call them wretohed so long as they
are stimulated by hope. « «
I Win, You Lose.
We do not know that the professional
gambler, who oarries from the hazard table
thousands that a few hours before belonged
to his opponent has his elation at his suc
cess in the slightest damped by the reflec
tion that what he has won the other has lost.
Custom has rendered him callous—or if he
thiuks of it all, he reflects that what he has
inflicted to-day he may suffer to-morrow.
But it is not at the gaming table alone that
one gains at another’s detriment. Nor are we
sure that the gambler who stocks cards that
he may win, is either the most dishonestar
the most heartless of men. Many a specu
lator moves upon his victim with all the oool
craftiness of the spider, and pookets his
thousands from a shrewd stroke of trade,
without a thought of pity for those out of
whom his profits have been won. We do
not by any means assert the doctrine that
the fitness of things can be preserved only
by the equal distribution of wealth, or that
all large accumulations are the r£&ol£s~ef.
imposition. On the contrary, we believe that
society is in its healthiest condition when,
there are considerable inequalites in the
monetary condition of people. It is, how
ever, nndeniable, that many vast fortunes
are built up by pushing down almost below
the living point, those who are struggling
for existence. One becomes a millionaire
by making a thousand almost beggars. The
winner, who becomes so because possessing
more brains or less honesty, feels little sym
pathy for the loser. “Devil take the hind
most,” is the motto with whioh very many
of onr young men enter into the race
for wealth. By their reckoning, he who
lacks plnck and brains deserves to fail, and
sympathy in his failure is misdirected, la
the great game of politics too, there is the
winner proudly rejoicing in trjnmph over his
losing rival. Hew little oares he for the an
guish of disappointment which the unsuc
cessful feels! S ill is it trae that few of the
misfortunes which befall men are more try
ing. The defeated one is expected to veil
bis anguish coder a smile and to avow a
cheerful resignation to the popular will/ He
dare not give utterance to any of the bitter
thoughts that arise in his mind, as he sees
hie successful opponent glorying is triumph
aDd receiving the homage of troops of flat
terers. All this is looking in man for more
than man. Sj long as we are human crea
tures we cut not enter a race without wish
ing to win, nor be beaten without a humili
ating sense of defeat. This is the more
poignant as the ohanoes of suocess seemed
more flattering. Yo it candidate who lacks
but a few votes of being elected suffers more
keenly than he who entered the oontest
feeling that his defeat was almost a cer
tainty.
She reported 122 auxiliaries and 36 juvenile
societies.
Mrs. Hayes, of Baltimore, President of
the W. M. S. of the M. E. Church Sooth, was
present, and she added much to the interest
of the occasion. She is an old lady of 70
years. Snowy-haired, but sunny-faced as a
girl, of superior intelligence and very mag
netic both in publio and private. Mrs.
Gregory, Vice President, Rome distriot;
Mrs. Ray. of Newnan district; Mrs. Bla
lock, of Griffin distriot, and Mrs. Judge
Jackson, of Atlanta distriot, all road re
ports finely conceived, both in spirit and
diotion.
We were most hospitably entertained at
Mr. Marous Pharr’s and Mrs. Hull’s. Noth
ing was left undone, either for our pleasure
or oomfort. Our home was opposite Gen.
Toombs’, and one afternoon we saw the'old
hero sitting with bowed head in the parlor,
and we said God bless him, in onr hearts,
though he does not favor the W. M 8. as his
life-long friend, Bishop George F. Piers*
does, most cordially.
On Tuesday morning we had a suspension
of business, and an experience meeting fol
lowed, whioh was suggestive and profitable.
On Wednesday, after singing the “Sweet
B,e-and-B>e,” the society adjourned to
meet next year in Augusta.
An eminent divine once said to me that
he would not object to women talking in
public if they had anything to say. These
women did have something to say, and they
said it nobly and well.
In the proper place I should have men
tioned that Dr. Potter preached a most ex
cellent sermon on Sanday morning, as did
Dr. Morgan Calloway at night. One thought
of the latter still cliugs to my memory. He
said it was a long time for women to wait—
eighteen hundred years—before making or
canized effort to send that Gospel whioh
had done so much for them in lifting them,
to the highest plane of civilization, to their
sisters who sit in darkness and the shadow
of death verily, a long time.
Sincerely, 0 . S. P.
A WOMAN’S CONVENTION.
Meeting of the Woman’s M&ionary
i > .... a. SfMte*
•' My promise to write yon about tbje annual
meeting of the Woman’s Missionary Socie
ty, whioh convened in Washington the first
of the month, has been haunting me for
days, and, like Bancho’s ghost, will not
down at my bidding. And as there has been
no aooonnt of the proceedings by the secu
lar press, this letter may come in accepta
bly on the “better late than never” princi
ple. Washington is a oharming plaoe, and
the ante bellum type of its houses is very
refreshing to one with Bonrbon proclivities,
while the forests of oak and shrubbery that
surround many of them, give effect to the
gleaming oolnmns and numerous windows,
as well as prove the artistic taste of the in
dwellers.
Yoar correspondent did not arrive in time
for the opening of the session, bnt in the
afternoon of the second day, and never
having been in attendance npon a meeting
of the kind we confess that we were not
at all devoid of cariosity.
At a glance we decided that the body of
the W. M. S., taken as a whole, were rather
distinguished looking women, and they
seemed to know all about parliamentary
tactics. To onr surprise a woman with a
fine, sad faoe ocoupied the chair inside the
chancel railing, Mrs. J. Boring, President
of the W. M. S , North Georgia Conference,
and if intellect and womanliness were ever
better blended in one face, I have never
seen it.
But I must not grow enthusiastic. In a
few minutes after my arrival. Miss Safford,
lady missionary but recently returned
from China, was presented. She proved to
be a most attractive speaker, and as sue had
maps, idols and other onriosities with whioh
to illustrate her points, the address turned
POLITICAL NOTES.
Drift of Partisan Sentiment in State
and National Affairs.
So Cleveland’s nominated ?
Oh, dear! Oi dear I Oh dear]!
My mind is agitated.
My mass le oi-fascated.
And all my hopes are drear.
My campaig i songs will now be tame.
For there's no rhyme to Oleve and's name.
Why didn’t they choose Flower ?
He has a daisy n one ;
And in my rosy b 'wer
I’d show you by the hour
A rain of rhymes for fame.
But now my mnse is bill d and lame,
For there’s no rhyme to Cleveland's name.
The claim that Butler will get 2,000 000
votes as the Anti- Monopoly and Greeuback
candidate is rather extravagrant. His ad
mirers, however, are capable of almost any
extravagance where he is concerned.
Since ex-Attorney General Speed, of Ken
tucky, the only surviving member of Lin
coln's Cabinet, has declared for Cleveland,
the plumed knight may cease to talk about
the traditions of the grand old party.
Honorable John M. Forbes, of Boston,
who usually contributes $10 000 to the Re
publican Presidential campaign fund, re
fuses to support Blaine and announces his
purpose to support Cleveland.
Considerable interest attaohes to the posi
tion of Honorable Rosooe Conkling on the
Presidential qaestion. The Utica Press,
published in his own home, and owned and
edited by his personal friends, and which is
supposed to represent Mr. Conkling’s views,
declares its intention to support the Demo-
cyptio tjcket v ( \
Lot every throat with trumpet note
The shouts of victory raise,
Let banners fly as floats on high
A song in freedom's praise,
*»nd let reform its phalanx form
To meet its deadly foe.
Wit < steadfast eye and sounding cry,
“D. honesty must go!
Press , irward all till frand shall fall
Befon,the mighty storm
Of might), votes and c arion notes
Of “ OleVt'aud and Beform.”
A “heresy” that ‘a often threatened, but
never dies, is the sovereignty of the States.
Tne North is more jealous of it than the
South ever was, and the Washington Post
well adds: “Senator E lmuuds does not per
mit Senator Bayard to outstrip him in zeal
ous maintenance of State rights. Senators
Hampton and Butler, of South Carolina,
are, if anything, less radical m their State
rights views and utterances than Senators
Hawley and Piatt, of Counectiout. And as
for Senator Authouy—he could have given
John C- Calhoun odds and beaten him in a
competitive State rights exhibition.”
The sad news is borne to the country from
Tex is that Maj. Tom Ochiltree intends to
retire from Congress at the end of his pres
ent term, and that, consequently he will not
be a candidate for re-electioa. It is under
stood that he will endeavor to confer bis
seat and his mantle on Matt- Ware, a prom
inent Republican. It ir not stated how well
Col Ware is qualified to fill the distinguish
ed Ochiltree’s place, but he must be a pre
varicator of no mean pretensions if he sac-
c-eds in filling the eye and ear of the nation,
in oase he should be elected, as his predeces
sor does
BRIC-A-BRAC.
Romance and Reality.
(Boston Star.)
S >ft the flickering firelight fell
Up ->n h <r h ir and made it glow
As if ’twere touched by m^gic brush
Of some old master long ago.
I looked on her with eager eyes-
Her beauty was exceedi -g rare
The form and features quite divine.
The firelight on her sunny hair.
My courage strengthened as I gazed:
The wonts came rushing to my lips,
The old. old tale of love was told -
She glanced down at her finger tips.
And then she spoke in accents low.
While blushes red suffused her cheek,
“It may be wrong for me to ask.
But how much do you get a week?
A Business Scene.
“Well, sir,” he said, rubbing his hands
and smi ing pleasantly, as a young man en
tered the store, “what can we do for you to.
day?”
“Yon keep a good many things here,
don’t you?” the young man responded:
looking about.
“Oh, jes; we keep most everything in
stock. If there is anything yon want that
you don’t see, just ask for it. We can sup
ply you.”
“Well, I don’t see any money. My boss
sent me around with this old bill to collect
so I’ll just ask yon for the amount.”
“O-i, yes; I remember the bill. I am sor
ry, but I guess you’ll have to wait a little
for the money.”
“All right,” replied the young man, sit
ting down in a ohair; “that’s what the boss
told me.”
“Wnat did the boss tell yon?”
“He told me to wait for the money.”
Sunset Cox is still in line and is also
vouching for Tammany. He said yesterday
to a Herald reporter: “Tammany will be
all right, and when the time comes, the boys
will all be found on deck in line for the reg-
u'ar ticket It is an organization of from
50,000 to 60,000 men and. they know a good
, .. .... . ...... thing when they see it Taey are not going
out to be a aeliehtful objeot lesson about iq throw away their chances of the plums
China. Miss Salford has been eleven ysacs . that may come to them in oase the Demo-
in Foochow, and we think she herself has qratic party gets into power, and they can
the requisites which she says a successful
missionary ought to have, namely: piety,
large sympathies, sanctified common sense,
independence and self-control.
On Sanday afternoon we had an address
from onr own Miss L-iura Haygood upon
“Conseoration.” Who could better talk to
us on this subjt ot ? For do we not all know
how she has laid her own richly-gifted life
npon the altar ? A lady said to me: “Miss
Haygood is pimply grand, that is all,” and
she is. To illustrate: On the last morning
of the meeting, having been appointed a
member of a committee of whioh Miss H.
was ohairman, we all sat in the vestibule
quietly discussing the subject in hand, when
suddenly, like an apparition, an old negress
appeared in the door. She turned in uitive-
ly to the oentrai figure in the small room
with the inquiry: “Is yon de mis'onary
lady ?” Miss Haygood replied affirmatively.
“Den I brought yon dig,” and she held out
to view, in her withered hand, a silver qaar-
ter. “I bin ’way ont to Mr. Barnet’s, an'
you want dar, so I oome here, so I could
give you dig myself for de mis’onaries."
The old woman had walked two miles in the
hot July son to deliver her mite. Miss Hay
good got np and said, oh, so graciously:
“Then, auntie, i think I must shake hands
with you; and if yon feel such an interest
in the missionary cause as to give yonr
money to it, yon mast not forget to pray
for it too.”
And being the youngest member of the
oompany, I suppose I may oonfess that this
little incident impressed me deeply and I
shall see Miss Laura whan the world lies be
tween ns as she looked when she gave that 1
old gray-haired negress her hand.
The report ot Treasnrer, Miss Sallie V.
Stewart, showed as total collections for the
year, $3 621.05; total since organization in
1878, $12,438 15. Mrs. Dr. Callaway, Cor
responding Secretary read a good report—
said not to have a superlative word in it.
help in accomplishing that resalt.
In Virginia Mr. Mahone’s following has
nominated an electoral ticket composed ex
clusively of Readjusters, no straightout Re
publicans having a plaoe on it. Mr. DeZeu-
dorf and his friends, who naturally are ag
grieved by the treatment they received in
the Chicago Convention, decline to support
the Reai’jusier ticket, although they are
ready for a compromise. They suggest that
a ticket be nominated which shall repre
sent all three of the parties in that State,
some protectionist Democrats being placed
ou it as an indication of the break np of
the existing party lines, and the prominence
of the tariff issue. As Mr. Maboue is rather
more concerned to maintain bis own power
iu the politics of the Slate than to effect a
Republican viotory, we do not suppose it
likely that he will accede to this proposition.
In that case we hope Mr. Dezendorf and
his friends will nominate and vote for their
own ticket, and will send a contesting dele
gation to the next National Convention, in
the hope that it may take a loftier view of
Republican principle in the matter of Vir
ginian repudiation.—A merican.
In the year 1497 a pike was captured in
the vicinity of Manheim, Germany, with
the following announcement, in G-eek, ap
pended to his m izzie: “I am the first fish
that was put into this pond by the hands of
the Emperor Frederic the Second, on this
third day of October, 1262 ’
When a Hindoo eartdriver wishes to en
courage a bollock, be oalls him “mother-in-
law’s darling;” when vituperation is neces
sary, the animal becomes “son of a widow.”
The Danish peasants regard the Bight of a
raven aa an omen that toe parish priest is
about to die.
One Lite.
Her white little hand is resting
On the arm that held it of old,
And he thinks it is o dy tne night breeze
That makes it so soft and cold.
Her eyes into his are gazing—
Eyes evers if lilhful to him.
And he thiuks it the shadowy twilight
That makes them so strange and dim.
Her pretty fane turns toward him:
Ah. when did her face turn away?
And he thinks it the Bilvery moonlight
That makes it so faint and gray.
Oh. spirit that lingers and falters,
Take courage and whisper ‘ Good bye.”
A life?-why, a life is nothing,
When m Jlioi.s each minute die.
With millions each minute dying.
What matt re one life or death?
One fragile and tei der ezistence?
One tremulous, passing breatu?
A life? Why, a life is nothing!
What matters thro’ one burn dim?
Alas for the folly of r -ason -
One life is the world to him!
The “Purtiest Fight He Ever
Saw.”
“The purtiest fight, though, gentlemen,
remarked an old stager, “is between a deer
and a rattlesnake. I was one day hnnting
some pigs in the range, when I saw a deer
come to a sudden stop on a trail, and turn
and gallop off through the woods. Directly
it oame back, followed by a powerful buck,
and when it got up within about twenty feet
of whar it had stopped before, it stopped
again till the old back come alongside of it;
then both oome back about twenty feet, and
took a runnin’ start, and when the foremost
one got to a certain point, she gave a snort
and jumped clear over the place, and the
old buck followed in the same way. They
kept this up for several minutes, when the
buck commenced tc oone down on the spot
with his fore feet. When they had got
through I went up, and thar was a ratt e-
snake as big as a fence-rail, all mashed up.
Now, sir, it’s amazin’ how they worked
their little game. They first got the snake
so taroal mad that he would strike at
shadder, then the first one would go over,
and when the snake had struck at him, the
old back would oome along before it could
coil np again, and get in hie hoof work. It
war the purtiest fight you ever saw.”
Propinquity.
(T. U. Sullivan in Life.)
Augustus saw Alice one morning,
By accident, over the way—
And, smitten without any warning.
Proposed—and they marry to-day.
And Alfred and Agatha meeting
By accident, quite, at the play,
Were caught at me very first greeting.
And are to b9 married to-day.
Had Alfred, n >w, chanced to meet Alice,
In just that original way.
I’ll wager, without any malice,
Tuat ihey would have married to-day.
Had Agatha walked for an airing
11 Alice s shoes, let us say,
Augustus might now have been swearing
To ore and defend her aiwoy.
Ah! blind little god of the quiver,
Thy wings ever flatter astray!
To thi..k ot thy sport is to shiver!
Thine arrows fly all the wrong way!
For Alfred and Agatha mated
No more than a seas >n shall stay.
Augustus and Alice are fated
To wrangle their wedlock away.
Ah! blind little god, if thy blindness
Snouki lead thee to flutter my way,
Uncover thine eyes in ail kindness,
And kill me, in mercy, I pray.
Well Posted in Politics.
(Merchant Traveler.)
A pretty girl of Clifton was talking poli
tics to her best young man the other night,
and he was rather surprised.
“Why, Lucy,” he said, “do you read the
papers for political news?”
“On, yes, and I just dote on it. I’m get
ting to be thoroughly posted.”
“Who’s going to be the Democratic nom
inee for President, do yon think?”
“I couldn’t say positively, bat I can say
that, if Ohio is boand to be represented oa
the ticket, the Democrats needn't think
they can carry the State by giving Cleve
land first place.”
“Why not?”
“Because Cincinnati should have it, of
oourse, for it is so maoh larger and wealth
ier and more influential than Cleveland.
I begin to tnink this Cleveland boom is a
Standard Oil scheme, Deoaose that is their
headquarters.”
The young man looked at the girl in
amazement, aud said something about Sol
omon in all his glory not being arrayed like
one of these. .
A Sonnet.
(By James Reed Bills )
Ere Time’s wave carried me from childhood’s
clime.
My bounding heart was wed to Poesy!
Aty eager feet, ny river, ake an t lea.
And height, aud yawning fell, a many a time,
Allured, uaced deep or scaled her bowers sub
lime.
Long was our converse; sweet as a dream, to
me.
In her embrace to lean, when quietly
Circled, tne gloom of buughs, and vines that
ciimo;
Each wind stole scented with that Muse’s locks.
Brown-banded bees droned o er, songbirds flew.
Bead-pipes blew, tuned with tinkling bells of
fleets.
On misty knolls; sometimes a tempest grew,
Wneu God writ quick the heav'n, and voiced
the rocks—
Noblest my wedlock, then, ’mid grandeur’s
Eldtime knew!
She Silenced Him.
(Popular Soieuce News.)
Old lady to druggist—1 want a box of oa-
nine pills. Druggist—What’s the matter
with the dog? Old lady, indignantly—I
want yon to know, sir, that my husband is a
gentleman! Druggist pate up some quinine
pills in profound silence.
The number of married American women
now in Paris without their husbands excites
the astonishment of the natives.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
General t’onnien** W Ith F**
ell and ficissor*.
Another Washington novel is promised.
It is to be hoped that the author of it knows
more about Washington society than the
writer of the last Washington novel knew.
Engineers are surveying a line of railway
from Chattanooga to Rome, Ga. The road,
it is said, will be promptly constructed and
open np one of the most fertile regions of
this State.
The weather is a good deal warmer than
the campaign j ist now, and the newspapers
will probably not inflict any doable-leaded
and double-loaded editorials on their suff
ering readers for the next week or two.
The Memphis Avalanche says that city
was never so well equipped .to ward off an
epidemic as now, aud with jadioious quar
antine precautions the fact of yellow fever
beiDg in any Galf city need occasion no un
easiness.
Another woman has got an offi ie under
the United States government. Mrs. Mar
cia McKean, of Washington, has been ap
pointed by the President to sign land war
rants, provided in the legislative appropria
tion bill.
An exohange obj9ots to the newspaper
portraits of the day because they make
preachers look like ohioken thieves and
bank Presidents like oat-throats. Would it
have baDk Presidents made to look like
ohioken thieves?
‘For the first time-in three centuries Eng
land yields the honor of farthest North.”
This is the practical result of the Greely
North Pole expedition, as spoken by Greely.
It gives to America the “Blue ribben of
Arctio discovery.”
The most horrible announcement yet
made is that four bright voaug ladies, rep
resenting Cincinnati, New Orleans, St.
Louis aud Chicago, have agreed to write
down their various experiences at summer
resorts this year, aud at the close of the
season give their diaries to a prominent
Western correspondent.
Irish farmers may colonize near Salt
Lake. The Herald is of opinion that “they
would very soon compete with, the M ir-
mons in everything that makes the Mor
mons prosperous, while rapidly exercising
a moral force whioh wonld tend to overturn
the whole political, religious and social
structure of Mormondom.”
The Princess Metteruioh is plump and has
a good deal of oolor in her cheeks, the oon-
seqnenoes, she says, of beer being so tempt
ing in Austria, aud the Yinnese climate be
ing so dry. Id looking at the French orown
jewels, she let fall some tears and exclaim
ed: “How gay and frolicsome we used all to
be at the fetes where these diamonds were
worn! What a good old time the reign of the
emperor was to all those who had easy ac
cess to him!”
The New Orleans Pioayune says that “the
pension extravagance is one of the most
indefensible expenditures of the Govern
ment, and is rapidly being swollen to a
point where it %rill approximate to the com
munistic theory of a national division of
property.” Tne Picayune might have
added that the South pays one-third of the
tax for pensions aud gets, virtually, not one
cent in return. The North sends two dol
lars to Washington and gets three back.
Gen. Grant is said to be living on the in
terest of the trust fund. Gov. Morgan’s
advice was followed as to investing that
fund in Wabash bonds, and bnt for a ten
year guarantee, Grant would have nothing
of an inoome. It is stated that the General
feels his reverses keenly. He seldom refers
to them, and never wfiines. The ravages of
misfortune are, ioweve^-dle'ariFTu laceanST
manner. As he still uses a crutch, he takes
little exercise. Nevertheless, he has lost
mnoh flesh and looks haggard.
Before starting for Europe to engage one
or the other of two aotr6sses whom he had
in view a theatrical manager is said to have
ordered the printing of most of the pages of
a pamphlet describing his new star, whom
he intends to put through a Western tour.
This portion of the biography relates to her
early life as a gy psy and her marriage to a
Russian-Italian Count. He will provide the
rest of the oopy, in whioh the name and
stage experience of the aotress are given,
after he has decided whioh woman to hire.
It is said that the reason of Mile. Bern
hardt’s lack of success in London is due to
a determined attempt to boycott her. The
royal cirole and consequently all the leaders
of fashion have betaken themselves else
where than to the Bernhardt play. Cause,
they disapprove of her. The social set that
looks up to the Prince of Wales with adora
tion as its leader attempting to give Bern
hardt or anybody else lessons in morality is
a sight for the gods.
In view of the fact that $70 000 000 have
been invested in the South during the last
few months in a long list of new industrial
enterprises, the occasional talk about the
danger of the “solid South,” the contempt
uous remarks about the “rebel yell,” and
all the rest of the nonsense becomes sillier
than ever. Mach of the money must have
oome from the North, aud the uniting of
the two sections by such strong ties of busi
ness interests is stronger than any political
differences.
“Wanda” writes to the Edgefield Adver-
from White Sulphur Sprines, that
“Gail Hamilton, a m-m >er of Mr. Blaioe’s
family, who visited Charleston, S. C. and
Savannah, Ga., this spring, told me that the
beauty of the Southern women surprised
and fascinated her.” Gail is an excellent
idge of female beauty. She has fi ae intel
lect and admirable taste. Not a bad cam
paign dooument for Mr. Blaine.
The codfish aristocracy and Plymouth
Rock roosters of Banker Hill are troubled.
Several noh Germans and Irishmen of ole!
bian stock have ereoted their mansions ric ht
ln 5 h . e k he fJ‘ delectable comma®
and the old reRideuters don’t know what to
do. They can’t leave their family haunts
nor can they make toe intraders leave- anH
even the faith cure, which may remove
mountains when accompanied by nro^Ir
works, cannot remove their troubles. p per
,. Tbe Providence (R. I.) Journal thinks
the banks are not specially to blame for thl
money stringency but that the people are
shifting responsibility and looking tor
scapegoats. It says: “The whole body if
swk. There is no patience with slow if
solid, methods. Every one wishes to’ a
more than he oan, as everyone^ anxtons to
appear to be rich. Grant & Ward failed tor
some sixteen millions of dollars h! „ f
claimed credit tor eixteeuthousand?
this in the commercial metropolis d iif Dd
folks if not financiers are ’ where
stocks pnt into the hands of Gran?!'
did not come from the rnral district*
came from those in New York wh^ .k
themselves sharp enough to th °aght
thing out of nothing.” * t0 make 8 »®«-
Of all the rascals and fools „
Smith in the work of fonndingtojM®? J °®
Cnnroh, now so powerful in Ties h ! ^ Jr ™oa
al other Territories, only one Hs 5 8 £ v ® r -
mer, ie alive. He lives a? R’.eP avid J Whit -
He says that he has in hisVifion to°'
original manuscript of the RnnT .“,. the
non. If what Whitmer says is t r n« w OF '
mon Church has only a ooLn/tu® V? e ^ or -
Mormon, which waf made tor B °i° k of
man named Cowdry. The ® m “ h , b y a
mon was written by the n° f , Mor -
Spalding, a graduate of 8olomon
He was of a romantic and i^ . th Co,1 ®«e.
and wrote it for a novel? 8 rE?°“ latlv ® turn
than sixty years ago. ‘ ibat wae more
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