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EDITORS AND
RIETORS.
ATLANTA, GA., NOVEMBER 15, 1884.
Terms in Advance} s lng le Top Y.Ti.
NO. 477
WASHINGTON CITY.
Reminiscences of Distinguished
Public Men.
Incidents Which Have Transpired at
the National Capital.
NO. 89.
fi«n. Scott ami Col. Robert K
Gen. E. D. Townsend, who was appointed to
West Point from Massachusetts, was assistant
adjutant-general on the staff of Lieut. Gen. Scott
at the outbreak of the war. Among oilier inter
esting recollections of his is that of a visit of
Col. Robert E. Lee to Gen. Scott on the 19th of
April, 1861, incompliance witli a summons from
headquarters. After salutations had been ex
changed, Gen. Scott said: “You are at present
•n leave of absence since your return from
Texas, Col. Lee?” “Yes, general,” replied the
•olonei, “I am staying witli my family at Ar
lington.” Gen. Scott then remarked: “These
are limes when every officer in the United States
service should fully determine what course he
shall pursue, and frankly declare it. No one
should continue in government employ without
being actively engaged.” Here he paused, but
Col. Lee making no response, he proceeded.
“Some of the Southern officers are resigning,
possibly with the intention of taking part with
their States. They mat. e a fatal mistake. The
contest may be long and severe, but eventually
the issue must be in favor of the Union.” Scolt
paused again, but Lee said nothing, whereupon
tlie old general came directly to the point, say
ing: “I suppose you will go with the rest. If
you propose to resign, it is proper you should do
so at once. Your present attitude is an equivo
cal one.” “General,” Col. Lee now answered,
“I cannot raise my hand against my children.”
Gen. Scott then signilied that he had nothing
further to say. Col. Lee, with a respectful bow
withdrew, and the next morning tendered his
resignation, which was accepted five days after
wards.
YYillium IIiilifer.
William Hunter > ho has been for more than
fifty years an attaSiu- oTVn? Sicf afimes.'f l -‘ 1 £uu>»-2, wa8 regarded as me emboviimeni of 1,ol'.vn
is the grandson ol a Scotch surgeon who came to J«. hint (Tyler) in illustration of this )k.\v-
rport. K. I., more than a century ago, and <f r 0 f voice,‘.an expression used by MK Clay in
e delivered Hie first course of medical lec- | discussing tlie t-ertg'-ebion of thjLSpanish-Ainer-
tongne he labored unceasingly for the cause ol
Native Americanism. He was among those ar
rested on the charge of treason in 1844. but he
was never tried. In 1st5 Mr. Levin was elected
to represent the First District in Congress. H<
served with credit to himself from 1S45 to 1847
and again from 1847 to 1851. He generally formed
a pari of the committee on naval affairs. He
was succeeded by Mr. Florence, who afterwards
occupied a seat in the House. After his retire
ment Mr. Levin did not make a prominent ap
pearance in politics until the campaign of 1856
when he inaugurated a movement against Fre
mont. He held a meeting at National Hall,
which broke up in a disturbance. Mr. Levin be
ing ejected from the platform by the siqqwtrters
of Fremont. This was the last appearance of
Mr. Levin in public; his health {gradually de
elined, and he died at Philadelphia March 14
I860.
Fra't's K y.
Francis S. Key was United States Attorney
for the District of Washington during the Jack'
son administration, lie was a small, active
man, having an earnest and even anxious ex
pression of countenance, as if care sat heavily
lqion him. He was eminent at the bar at Wash
ington and Baltimore, and held arguments with
Wirt, Swan, Fiuckey. Walter Jones and others
of similar rank. In composing the heroic song
of the “Star Spangled Banner, he, in a measure,
associated himself witn the glory of his country.
He was a man of very ardent religious charac
ter, and one of the most poetic and popular of
the hymns used in religious worship was from
his peu. He was a most energetic man in the
discharge of his duties as government prosecu
tor, and once undertook the Herculean task of
cleansing the city of Washington of its gambling
houses ami houses of ill-repute. His son was
killed by Sickles in 1869.
John Uiown’ti Raid.
John Brown’s insurrection at Harper’s Ferry,
in 1859, elicited reminiscences of a plot at the be
ginning of the present century in Soutliam)>toii
county, Va. Nat
several otlu
destruction
number of 1
tants on a Sunday mg
eight of them before the alarm was given.
Turner a negro preacher, with
several other plantation preachers, planned the
destruction of the white |>opulution. To the
number of 150 or 200 they rose upon the inhahi-
jnt, and murdered liftv-
The
people rallied and drove the rebellious slaves
into the swamps, shooting them down like dogs,
until the whole hand was annihilated. Nat es
caped from his pursuers, and dwelt in a cave for
several months; but he was finally scented, cap
tured and executed. His fate formed the topic
of a song commemorative of the insurrection,
from which we quote the following stanza:
First we hung him. then we swung him—
Hard times in Old Virginny,
Then we swung him and we hung him—
Hard times in Old Virginny,
Mr Uliiy’* Eloquence
Henry Clay’s eloquence was wonderful. Ex-
President Tyler said that Philip P. Barbour,who
Newport
tlier
tures given on the Americ.iu continent. Gilbert i jc»ii coiouies. The sneaker had'.dravv11
Stewart, the artist, attended this course, and ob- sounding picture of the condition off Me:
tained irom Dr. Hunter a knowledge of anatomy
which was of great service to him in drawing the
human form. Dr. Hunter's son, William, was
educated at Brown University and the Univer
sity of Oxford. He was an elegant classical
scholar, an eloquent orator, and one of the first
lawyers in Rhode Island. He was also distin
guished for his fine presence and agreeable man
ners. His sister was one of the great beauties
of the revolutionary days, and is mentioned by
the Marquis deChastellux in his memoirs. When
Miss Hunter visited Boston at the close of the
Revolution she had a crowd of French, Ameri
can and English suitors, and she was pronounced
the most beautiful woman iu the lown, not ex
cepting Lady Greenville Temple, Mrs. Gov.
Wuithropand the elder Mrs. Harrison ('
Miss Hunter married an English office ,
was said that he afterwards succeeded to an
earldom. William Hunter married Miss Min
ium, of Rhode Island, who belonged to the ‘
ily which established the great commercial
- ..r V.x.» Vurlr <vf tlwveo rt-ivu \fintii«*n S-r
spending picture of the condition of* Mexico iu
tier struggle for independence—her libp‘”L r ‘ , P<> 1 '-
ted to be blasted; Mirra.her great leader, cilia T
killed or captured; all gloom, all despair. At
that moment a page put in his hand a morning
paper. His eye fell on a paragraph, when his
whole manner became changed, and, holding the
paper, aloft lie exclaimed, “Mirra still lives.”
The effect was wonderful. Mr. Barbour said:
“I sprang to my feet, and several minutes
elapsed before I recovered from my my trance."
f*aa> dt rs vnd Purh nun
George Saunders sent a long dispatch from
the Charleston Convention in April, 1860, to Mr.
Buchanan, which made the recipient very angry,
, Mrs. Gov. especially as lie had to pay the telegraph tolls.
m Gray Otis. * Hiyqpder^ 9iiid in explanation; “When I sent
neer, and it, dispatches to'CIthgitffih I knew lie was poof, nut 1
'“'“‘i ,n nn I paid for them; when I sent dispatches to Vice*
TMJfi W UMAR’S REALM.
Feminine Fancies, Foibles and
Curious Infatuations.
Freaks and Feats of the Little Blind
God Among the Sexes.
A Baronet’s daughter, who was married In
London the other day, had her seven unmarried
sisters as bridesmaids. She was a Miss Corbel.
The law providing for the punishment of wife-
beaters by whipping in Maryland is said to be
exti emely popular. Probably the time will come
before loug when the lush will be adopted in
many States for . certain “unpopular” crimes.
Whipping is a cheap and expeditious mode of
punishment, and there is much to be said in its
favor as well as against it.
A correspondent wants to know what I think
;irl out West who, having remained a
seminaries,
declared
of tlie girl out West who, having remained
girl eighteen years and gone to girl sei
and done other girlish tilings, suddenly
house of New York of Git’S? Jlfijturn & because I knew he had the secret fund service
Camplln. After having served several times in j (whereof inquire of Wykoff and Francis Judas
the Rhode Island House of Representatives be Grand! and the contingent fund, and was there.
was elected a United States Senator from that
Slate, and was re-elected, serving from Nov. 25,
(y „
Grand) and ‘the contingent fund, and was there
fore rich, and able to pay liberally for every-
Oiaie, aim ,v.u» *~J thing in the way of news and personal service,
1811. to March 3,1821. Returning to Rhode Island N()t on [y that. 1 gave him an office worth S2K5.-
he resumed the practice of law until appointed qoq ;l year, and he only gays me an office Worth
by President Jackson charge deaffiairs to Bra- $3000 ”
zil in 1834, which position he held i^til 1841, when 1 ’ ’ , _
he was appointed minister ptthlputehtiury, and “lie Chinese B-y.
served until 1843. lie had with him iiis three ; lataiesi Onajero, or, as he was called. Tommy,
daughters, who were great belles in Rio de Jan* was the jolly boy of the Japanese Mission, which
eiro, and who all inade_bnlliant matches, one visited Washington City in the spring of 1860.
PILGRIM MECCA,
DANCER.
DERVISH.
TURKISH LADY.
herself to be a man. 1 have'thought very much
about it, with tlie conclusion that 1 do not know
what to think, except that she is a very exas
perating kind of girl, and that I hope there are
not many of her. A girl like that cannot be de
pended upon.—Philadelphia Progress.
Of course the presentation of flowers to per
formers while on tlie stage is sometimes carried
to extremes, and often there is nothing real
about it. Hut these floral offerings, when given
at the proper time, when they do not interrupt
the scene; when they are genuine testimonies of
appreciation from friends, add, I think, to the
pleasure of the whole occasion. Tiiey increase
the brilliancy of tlie general effect, and I can
not see why they are so strenuously objected to.
To send them around to Hie back door, or to tlie
lady's hotel, does not give tlie recipient half the
pleasure as when they are presented in full view
of tlie audience. She wants the public to un
derstand how she is honored, and it is natural
that she should.
Half the heiresses in Paris have their names
down on tlie private ledgers of the agencies.
Tlie girls and their families know nothing of it.
Some busy-body or other provides the requisite
details as to age, position, and tlie amount of the
dot. If these prove satisfactory to tlie appli
cant, some way will be found to put them in
presence. Iu case of his lieiug accepted, the
bridegroom has to pay a high percentage on tlie
fortune when once tlie connubial knot is tied.
Meu have, before now, been married by tlie
means of an agent, unknown to themselves; and
when about to start on their wedding journey
tlie biii is presented. It is paid-gnidgingly.
Anything is better than that they should be sus
pected of having bad recourse to such a means
to obtain a well-dowered bride.
A gentleman tells tlie New York Morning
Journal of ail incident which few people will
read with astonishment, for most of us have wit
nessed tlie like. It speaks adversely of the real
gallantry of American men, and is a fair exam
ple of tlie seltisiiness of women. This gentleman
was seated iu a crowded street car when a girl
and her beau entered. He gave the girl his seat.
I After awhile tlie seat next the girl was va
cated and she as - ed iier escort to occupy it,
which he did. She had not previously thanked
I the gentleman for his courtesy, and now she
I wholly iguored him. He said nothing, of course,
! but when an infirm old lady came into tlie car he
I called tlie beau’s attention to her, but that indi
vidual refused to resign his seat. Tlie moral of
which would appear to be, when you have a seat
! in the street car, keepU.-
-I - "There is a wife in New York who has been a
I wife eight years, and during this period has not
cost her husband, or anybody else, three hun
dred and fifty dollars for clothes. If this wife
were not a wife, and this very rare quality of
hers were generally known, wnat a rash tnere
would be for her. Her husband, according to
her account, is “a liberal, good, easy man,” and
witli an English naval officer of high rank, and
another with John Bireklicad, the wealthy Amer
ican o> Moutevidio. William Hunter’s son, Wil
liam, was appointed a clerk iu the State Depart
ment during the administration of Gen. Jackson
and rose to lie chief clerk in 1852. and assistant
secretary in 1866. He lias confidentially served
such men as Edward Livingston, Lewis McLain,
Daniel Webster. Edwaid Everett. William L.
Morey, William H. Seward and William 11. Ev
ans. intercourse with whom lias rendered him
one of Hie most uselui public servants of tlie re
public. He married a. lady in Georgetown, where
When in tlie presence of his superiors he was
very sedate, but his humor would develop itself
the" moment he was out of their sight. Tlie
ladies made a great pet of him, and he indulged
iu numerous flirtations, writing on fans liauv,ed
to him. "I like American lady very much.” He
learned to sing and whistle—a great acquisition,
since tlie Japanese are not a singing people, and
have inn few musical instruments. He mastered
“Hail Columbia and “Pop Goes tlie Weasel,”
which lie persisted in calling “Poppy Goes the
Weasel.” and thought tlie extra syllable rather
—. ----- a good thing. He also began to swear after a
e has resided, and lie lias for years been re- curious manner, and. when over-i*xcited, mingled
garded in 1 lie Department of Slate as. an ency- midne profanity with his conversation in very
eloiiediaott all matters connected with our eivii inapplicable ways. 4, young girl tell deeply in
anil diplomatic service. '
(ipeaher p. iminglon.
Wm. Pennington, who was elected Speaker of
the House in the thirty-sixth Congress, on the
forty-fourth ballot, after an exciting contest, was
inapplicable ways. 4. young girl tell deeply
love witli him. an.& nt one lime endeavored to
persuade him io remain here.
A GikmI Julie on Old • be I/neoln.
Senator Douglas, who served in tiie Black
"Hawk war with President Lincoln, used to tell a
X lawyer, who was born and who bad always re- C()IK i story about “Old Abe's ’ military exploits,
sided at Newark. N. J. lie had served as He enlisted in a cavalry company, which staited
ernorof New Jersey, and President TayUu-had ( ,ff in fine spirits to engage in the deadly fray,
appointed him Governor of the Territory of Min- Arriving at a point on the prairies about 200
nesota, a position lie declined, lie had always miles from tlie Indian lines, the party bivouacked
been a Whig, and had been affiliated with the f„r tlie night, picketed their horses and slept on
KnownoUiiugs. Excepting, of course. Mr. their arms. The method of picketing their
Muhlenberg. Speaker of Hie urst Congress, and horses was that in common use—fastening a
also Mr. Clay, Mr. Pennington was the first gen- huge hope, some eighty feet in length, to a stake
tleman of the twenty-six that had occupied the firmly planted, and then using smaller lines of
KnownoUiiugs. Excepting,
rg, Speaker of
also Mr. Clay. Mr.
tleman of the twei _ . „
chair who had been called to it on iiis first ap- considerable length, one end attached to the ap
pearance in that body. Though Mr. Clay was mail's neck and the other to the main rojie.
chosen Speaker of the twelfth Congress w ithout During the night the sentinel imagined he saw
having previously held a seat in the House, yet the Indians and immediately discharged his old
he had often beeu a member of the General As- (usee. The camp was aroused iu an instant and
sembly of Kentucky, had been Us presiding each sprang to Ins saddle. “Old Abe” shot out
officer, and had served three sessions in the i n the darkness on his charger like liglit-
Uulted States Senate. Speaker Pennington was n ing, until the ropes “hove taut,” when over he
a large, heavy man, genial and kind, but not we nt. horse ana himself, headlong. Thin ing
quick-witted. ' He had no knowledge of parlia- himself caught in an ludian ambush, he gath-
mentarv law. aud followed the “cue" given him e red up, mounted, and putting spurs to his horse
by a smart page, who stood at the side of his ta- too- the opposite sliute, but soon brought up as
bfe A few days after his election, prompted by before, horse and rider tumbling headlong,
the tinge he said, in a loud, deliberate tone; “Old Abe” got up. thinking he was surrounded.
“Those in favor of permitting tlie gentleman and shouted. “Gentlemen Indians. I surrender
from Ohio to speak will say aye; contrary mind- without a word. 1 have not a word to offer. All
— ayes have it and tli<
ed will say nay. The ayes
tleman from Ohio has the floor. Now sit down!
The last remark was intended for himse f. and
the House, who saw that he had. parrot-like, re
peated what was for his individual guidance,
shouted with laughter.
Levin and the American Party.
Lewis C. Levin, of Philadelphia, was the
lie gen- 1 want is quarter.”
own!” ~
G-n. Harrison.
r When. Gen. Harrison was inaugurated he was
so full of the progress of tlie old Roman empe
rors along the Appian Way that lie refused to
ride down Pennsylvania avenue in acarriage.but
rode on horseback, bat in hand, bowing acknowl
edgments for the cheers which greeted him. The
founder of the Native American party. Hebe- weather was very cold with a slurp northeast
*«une the editor of the Daily Hun about that wind, yet he wore neither overcoat nor gloves,
time uid m ide the paper tlie organ jointly of Arriving at tlie Capitol lie delivered his iuaugu-
NaUve Americanism P and temperance. On the ral address, winch occupied an hour and a half.
which had elected him, and John Tyler, who
had been placed on tlie ticket as Vice-President
to give it strength at the South, acted in defiance
to tlie wishes of those who had nominated and
elected him. but failed to receive the election as
President which had inspired his political
treachery,
Ihivis and Benjamin
Senators Davis and Benjamin had sharp words
in tlie Senate on tlie 8H1 of June, 1858. during (lie
debate on tlie army bill, it was tlie manner more
than the words of Senator Davis which gave tlie
offense which Senator Benjamin regarded so se
riously as to demand an exilaiiatioii. A duel was
apprehended, but Senator Pearce and other mu
tual friends took the matter in hand, and were
fortunate enough to effect an honorable adjust
ment of the difficulty, it appearing that tlie Sen
ators quoted irom diffeieut documents, and
lienee the misapprehension. They severally dis
avowed unfriendly sentiments aud made the
amende honorable.
otlmramtive^were’killed mui'created party mar- mounted Iiis horse and rode to tlie While House.
Tbis^TwM the commencement of the escorted by the military. It was evident that he
lyrs. 1U1S «1CI , n.i^Iia/l almu- till* lu> woe rwxt if l. A
A FLOATING HOTEL.
The “Great Eastern” to Carry English
Tourists to New Orleans.
Immense amusement has been created in con
vivial London, says a London special of Nov. 3,
by tlie announcement that a syndicate of ricli
Englishmen have chartered the Great Eastern,
still by many thousand tons the largest ship in
the world, to carry English and French tourists
to the great Cotton Exposition at New Orleans-
Tlie most fanciful stories have been told of tlie
manner in which the “White Elephant of the
Seas" is to be fitted lip. All her appointments
are to be those of a first-class hotel, witli draw
ing-rooms. dancing-halls, billiard-parlors, and
bowling-alleys, in addition to tlie usual card and
smoking-rooms. A concert troupe and a theat
rical company are talked of, while a number of
chaplains of diffeieut denominations will be
surely provided. Tlie idea is to keep the people
on board while in i>ort.
It is thought that a full list of 2.000 guests will
be secured. Tlie provisioning will be on the
largest scale, as the trip will last for two months.
One order is for 90.000 bottles of Bass’ ale. Tha
great ship will leave England by the end of No
vember.
The steamer Great Eastern, it will be recalled,
was built on the river Thames, England, between
1854 and 1859. She is 680 feet long. 83 feet wida
and 58 feet deep, and draws 30 feet of water
when slie displaces 27.000 tons. She has hots
paddle wheels and screw. The paddles are fifty-
six feet in diameter. She has eigiit engines for
tlie paddles and four for tlie screw, and they
develop 10.000 horse power, but her speed is only
15miles.au hour, or 360 miles a day. The Ore
gon, in her fastest passage, covered 430 mi'.es for
' (-four hours; The Great Eastern has
and five smokestacks, so that she is
be mistaken at sea for any other
vessel. As a passenger ship she was a failure,
mainly owing to her being too deep for most of
..... bloody — —, _
Philip de Neri. Queen street, Southwark. On
that occasion Mr. Levin used all the “
bis eloquence to restrain the fury of
partisans. During the excitement of this .
lir Levin was untiring. With his pen and
month's overtaxing of bis physical powers was ! sippi, it is extremely doubtful, unless she can be
lightened safely.
would, however, be a rare treat to see this
. . . „ t anth
death completely revolutionized the Whig party, eight laps
great antique in American waters. Her deck is
' i to the mile.
A CHECK UPON THIEVERY.
A Bole Adopted by Business Men that
Often Causes Annoyance.
[N. Y. Mail and Express.]
A young man heavily freighted with bundles
entered the wholesale department of one of tlie
largest dry goods establishments in this city, a
few days ago, and called on tlie head of the de
partment. He observed, sitting behind a desk
at the door, a middle-aged gentleman, who eyed
him suspiciously and seemed on the point of
speaking to him. but, as lie was iu a hurry, and
saw iiis friend sitting at the other end of tlie
room, he paid no attention to him, but hastily
brushed past tlie desk, carrying his packages
witli him. After a few minutes' conversation
with tlie manager, lie arose and again ap
proached tlie door. Before he could pass tlie
desk, however, tlie doorkeeper (for such was
tlie position of the middle-aged gentleman) re
quested him to stop.
“I am sorry to trouble you, sir,” he remarked,
“but 1 should like to examine your parcels.”
“Examine my parcels!” exclaimed the young
man in surprise. “What are they to you? I
brought them here with me and intend to take
them away with me.” ,
“That is all right, sir,” replied the doorkeeper,
doggedly, “but I must see what they contain
""“What is that to yon?” responded the visitor,
angrily. “What do you care whether they hold
butter or dry goods? I paid for them myself and
it is none of your business what they are. Get
out of tlie way and let me pass.”
Hearing the loud talking at the door, the man
ager came quickly to the rescue of his unfor
tunate friend and inquired what was the matter.
“He won't Jet me examine his bundle, sir.” re
sponded the doorkeeper; “and as 1 didn’t check
them when he passed by here, I don’t see what
I am to do about it. I know it’s all rigid, but
you know as well as I do that if 1 don’t see them
rnvself I’ll lose my place here.”
“That’s a fact,” explained the manager. “You
see there has been so much thieving in the store
that we have adopted this rule. Look at the
sign on the door.” „ . . ..
The visitor looked up and read a notice to the
effect that all persons coming into the store with
bundles in their hands should leave the same
witli tiie doorkeeper, and receive a check for
them, otherwise the doorkeeper was required to
examine ihelr contents and satisfy lumself that
they contained limiting pillered from the store.
“There is no exception to the rale, continued
the manager. “I couldn’t take a I™*
here myself. Y"U see, the dishonest salesmen,
and every store has some of that kind atone
time or another, got in the habit of having a con
federate come in here with a large bundle.
They would take him around and show lum
goods, and meanwhile manage to secrete some
valuable articles in his package. After this was
done, the confederate would walk out with the
stolen goods under his arm, and no one would
be any tlie wiser for the theft. To prevent this
the proprietors adopted this rule, and this door
keeper would be discharged if he made any ex-
^As the visitor, overcome with the logic of his
" 11 V ** a nf
, j , , „ , „ . . would deny her nothing in his power to grant,
parcels on the doorkeeper’s desk, a well-dressed B ut she says there i* no need lo ask him for
gentleman, who had a pencil back of his ear more money. She had when she married “a good,
and wore no hat, came hurrying out of tlie door serviceable trousseau,” and with a good pair of
on..,11 t.Qnap Ktnwllu lnu liMiiH . . . . .. ..... . . . _ . _
with a small paper bundle in iiis hand.
“1 beg your pardon, sir,” remaiked the door
keeper, stepping out from behind bis desk, “but
orders are orders, you know.”
•To be sure,” responded the gentleman, “to
hands lias made tiie best of it. I should say she
lias. Her motto is to “live for comfort, not for
style.” Still, I cannot see that there is much
comfort iu turning and returning and trimming
and re-trimming old clothes. And it would ad
be sure,” and lie promptly submitted the parcel to tlie interest of the case could we know how
to inspection. It was soon examined, the con- muc li tlie gentleman spends a year on ills own
tents noted down in a book kept for that pur- w; , r drobe. What club he belongs to, what is his
~ favorite brand of cigars, and whether his accus-
pose. and in a minute it was returned to him and
he disappeared down tlie stairs.
"That is the senior partner,” observed the
doorkeeper, as he began untying the largest
parcel.
REPRESSION IN RUSSIA.
Government Severity with Journalism
—Forbidden Books-
Chicago News.
Deeming the press the most dangerous enemy
tomed tipple is beer or champagne. Nor am I
convinced that this is tlie proper way to bring
up a husband. Take it that this most excellent
of wives was in a need of a dress. Would not
hubby lie so surprised at the untisaal request as
to forget that he was “a liberal, good, easy
man?”
M. H. F. to St. Louis Republican from New
York: A lady at Wallack’s wore a new bonnet
with very funny effect. The hat proper was
made of some brown material, close cap, fitting
smooth. On top was a large yellow velvet bow,
the two loops heiug caught back. Sitting be
hind tlie damsel a lew rows, that bow bad the
effect of a liltle doll’s bonnet resting on her bare
to despotism, the Russian government continues Head. It was very droll, and people sat and
’ . ’ .. ... . „ t, • laughed at her while she plumed herself on the
«s old-time severity witli journalism. Private ^ess of her Alsatian bow. * * * At Wal-
property in newspaper enterprises lias no rights lack's I made a discovery. At different places
whatevor that the government is bound to re- lately an overpowering smell of cologne, fresh
. _ * . , . _ and fragrant, has been a matter of much wonder
spect. Government makes its own laws of of- t)) me b p| ie wonder was out Monday night,
fenses, itself judges their violation, and without when two dames in front of me produced little
court or trial inflicts such punishment as it bon-bouieres of irridescent glass in which were
deems advisable by its own standard. A paper
may be suspended for a time or suppressed alto- Hn d then they sat and munched it, getting as
gether. The authorities may forbid its sale upon jolly fuddled on Jean Maria Farhii as their es-
v. . ... ' .„. . corts were at the bars outside. Several friends
the street, or forbid it to publish advertise- Q{ m)[ie have i a tely seemed in a sort of daze,
ments. The government dislikes to openly sup- similar to that produced by chloral, and I find
press a paper, but is not above accomplishing its the source of their indisposition is derived from
. j, .. .. ; cologne and lump sugar. I’d like to know what
end cowardly and indirectly. | next ^J, y adventurous sex will try. Hypodermic
Not long ago it became displeased with the needles, MeMann’s Elixir, Hoffman’s Anodyne.
Xox-otchrrkash. Don, Kama Gazette and tlie Ti- chloral and bromide are familiar adjuncts 01
flis Obsor. No paper is permitted to discuss po- New York life, and now the innocent cologne
litical matters at all, or even to print govern- bottle comes to the front as a promoter of for-
mental news that has not been given out offl- getfulness.
cially. Notwithstanding the vigilance of tlie
[|v L t . L , | j ti , r __ tt[v .
local censors—there is a censor for every I II is stated that there are many wives who
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town in which a paper is printed—these mix themselves so officiously in their husband'!
ntrived to print a few -1—. . .... .
They were or-
Imirnals had contrived to
ines'of political information.
few business affairs that they keep everything in a
fils'
state of uproar and confusion, and seriously in-
dered to send their proofs to the censor at Mos- terfere witli the proper conduct of the establlsh-
cow. instead of to the local censors. As tlie menls. They are always ab..nt, always asi ing
journey to Moscow and back takes seven days questions, always making their presence disa-
.rom Novotcherkask. twelve days from Kama, greeubly felt and of themsehes general nuisan-
and twentv days from Tiflis. the news became ces. If there are women employed It is a tbou-
ancient be'fore it could be published, and two of sand times worse. It an act of kindness is done
the discouraged editors have suspended their any of these employes, if any one of them is pro
papers. moted. Madame, the wife, demands to know all
Book stores are quite as carefully guarded as the circumstances, and in such a fashion as to
writing. - —,
as those of Agassiz, Bngehot. Huxley, Zola, allv beyond her intelligence. She may go so far
Lassalle, Lubbock. I,ecky, Louis Blanc. Lewes, that she breaks up the business; but even then
Lyall, Marx. Mill. Reclus. and Herbert Spencer it is not likely that her fanlt will ever come borne
can be sold only on government permit, and are to her. 1-adies, stay by your firesides and cra-
not. allowed in the public libraries. Even Adam dies, and keep away from where you are not
Smith's “Wealth of Nations,” and “Theory of only not wanted, hut where your coming Is an
Moral Sentiments” are outlawed. It will task actual injury. Still, I doubt if the men who sub-
the imagination of tlie average American to mit to this espionage would succeed anywhere,
bring iiis mind to a realization of the fact that There is something wanting in their characters
there is an enlightened people forbidden by which would defeat them in their business
their government to know what their govern- though left to themselves. If they have not
ment is doing, and forbidden to read Agassiz, strength enough to keep their wives in their
Huxley. John Stuart Mill, Adam Smith, and pro|«r places, they have not strength enough
Herbert Spencer. for the battle with the world.