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THF FLOWERS CCUECTKW
VOL X.
J.H.&W.B. SEALS! rSoPKiCTOfiS.
ATLANTA, GA., NOVEMBER 29, 1884.
Terms in Advance}
NO.’479
WASHINGTON CITY.
Reminiscences of Distinguished
Public Men.
Incidents Which Have Transpired at
the National Capital.
NO. M.
Jenny Lind.
Jenny Lind's ballad singing carried her Wash
ington audiences by storm. Without in the
slightest degree compromising its character of a
simple ballad, she infused into every line of it
more of the poetic spirit and meaning than the
words, upon the mere reading, seemed to con
tain. It was often the outpouring of the soul of
a Scottish peasant lassie, yet it was one of the
most sparkling pieces of vocalization ever lis
tened to. What wondrous versatility was here !
From Bellini to Burns—from the highest reach
of Italian art to the most homely simplicity of
Scottish minstrelsy—and the same effects pro
duced by each! At the close of her singing of
the “Last Rose of Summer,” on one occasion,
Mr. Webster, who occupied a front seat, joined
in demanding its repetition, and when Miss Lind
came on the stage again he rose and bowed low
thrice, his swarthy features gleaming with grat
ification. Tlie audience endorsed the compli-
ynent with vociferous applause.
Mr litlciitlilsirs Hail.
Mr. Bnchanan. when Secretary of State, gave
on the night of the 23d of January, 1346, a bril
liant ball at Carusi’s saloon. No effort was
spared to give comfort, beauty arid brilliancy to
the scene. The supper room was adorned witli
flags of other nations united with our own. It
is estimated that there were from 1,200 to 1.500
persons present, among whom were many ladies
Irom other places, foreign ministers, memiiers
of the Cabiuet, members of Congress, strangers
4- v*ell as citi//*" H was one of tpe most
“tfbnUm ..... * T.c* < • -
tngton. if not the most splendid. It was truly
the bail of the season.
Strange Antagonisms.
Mr. Wlnthrop. when speaker, gave a large
party on the evening of July 4,1860. At the sup
per table he had on his left hand his successful
competitor for the speakership. Mr. Cobh, of
Georgia, with Mr. Fillmore, the Vice-President,
on his right. Benton and Foote, Webster and
Horace Mann, the members-elect from Califor
nia, with Clingman and Venable, who were
striving to keep them out, were seen in genial
eomiKinionship. Most of the Cabinet and the
made most effective speeches. Nor did he relax
his exertions until the closing of the polls. Lin
coin carried the State by a plurality of 11.046
over Douglas. an d a majority of only 4.629 over
all the candidates, in a popular vote of 339,693.
senator Fra •mien nu<l “lluiuc-
Nirhuc s.”
Senator Fessenden used once in a while to rap
some other Senator over the knuckles with a
terse sentence sharply uttered. Once, in the
early part of March. 1867, If ye, of Nevada, who
had been at home all ttie winter looking after
his re-elect ion, wanted to prolong the session,
that he might “put through” some bills in which
he was personally Interested. So the eloquent
Senator from Nevada opposed a proposition for
adjournment and intimated that there seemed
to lie a sort of homesickness seizing on the Sen
ate. “I am told.” said lie, “that in armies oc
casionally it really amounts to a disease, so that
it is not a crime to desert, and prudent com
manders on such occasions always examine and
diagnose carefully to see whether the soldier
means to desert or whether he is afflicted with
a disease he cannot help. If that is the case
here, the Senators who are so much in favor of
an adjournment will probably go home if they
have that disease, and Ido tiot expect what 1
say will change the result. My friend from
Maine seems to tie afflicted with it bad; and so
far from considering measures that are sent
here, his only cry is ‘adjourn immediately.’ ”
Senator Fessenden, answering this severe
imputation in his s ireastie manner, denied that
the gentlemen around him who wished to ad
journ until December were following out their
own persona 1 convenience, instead of being
iiiHiioneed by public considerations. “Heme- •
sickness,” said he, “lias not affected me. lmt I
will say to my friend from Nevada that if I had
spent my time at home pretty much during the
l ist session, and had got here only a few days
before it adjourned, it would have been hard
then if 1 had been homesick.” As Mr. N.ve was
looking after his re-election all winter, and only
returned from Nevada about the first of Marcli.
this decjded hit produced a general roar of
laughter.
‘Mujiir 4liialitbitiierll|eihe Jews,
Major M. M. Noah was for many years a lead
ing New York journalist, who occasionally visit
ed Washington, where lie was always welcome.
Major Noah was born in Philadelphia, where he
was apprenticed as he grew up to learn the
carver and gilder trade, hut he soon abandoned
it for literary and political pursuits. Receiving
the appointment of Consul to Tunis, he passed
several years in Northern Africa, and on his re
turn wrote a very clever book, containing Ids
souvenirs of travel. About the year 1825 he con
ceived the idea of collecting the scattered Jews
and of rebuilding Jerusalem. Grand Island, in
»i- yap-uh. ay** 1 , alx'vo Niagara Falls, w.s
(iesi‘_ll o(’rj as iiio (Toioe/v,71.s.7(751Tos
proclamation, which be sent to all parts of the
world, created quite a sensation among the chil
dren of Israel. He subsequently was connected
with tlie evening press of New York, then at>-
pointed to a Government office by President
Jackson. He was a man of flue personal appear
ance and great conversational powers, lie died
at New York in March. 1851. One of his sons is
now in the civil service at Washington.
The* O d l.eltcr Writers.
The old-fashioned letter writers were a well
educated, well Informed set of gentlemen, whose
epistles contained a variety of information.
President’s private secretary, Col. Bliss, were | Occasionally they dabbled in the explanation of
there side by side with those who were ready to court intrigues, and again they furnished critl-
tinpeach them. Strange antagonisms were thus cl '" ns on the customs, habits and proper man-
WeiMkni under the influence of old associations, I hers of the diplomatic corps at the various
and the memory of tlie fathers appeased for the I courts in Europe, and particularly of that corns
moment the animosities of their sons. stationed at Washington. This species might
be known from the frequent and pedantic for-
Mr. Lincoln's NninlnntloB. ' “— -
The second National Republican Convention
was called to meet at Chicago on Wednesday,
r —L
Joan Wesley.
DEL RIOJEXAS.
Its Mysterious Cham and the Mexican
Senora.
One of the attractions of Del Rio is the large,
eign phrases with which their writings were hold looking spring at the head of this shining
Interspersed, and which were spread before the river which flows through our streets,
wdi ii. lt public t<> create the impression that the writer j Really, there are three of these springs, all
was t<tiieu io aim caucago <>u ocuucsu.iy, w;ls f ;im iiiar with the courtly phrases of foreign 1 , . , . . , . . . , .’
the 18th of May, 1880, and Mr. Seward’s friends nations, and to show how eminently superior, as beautiful and abundant; but one is especially
regarded bis nomination for President as cer- a writer, was one who had been abroad, and admired, as it is large, clear and bold, and has
^'at^Vitur ah^iiuM nreviouS u-S au h3d ’ w Il h J 1 ' 8 ° W n T™' 1 hMrd , w T dpr : withal a mysterious, dangerous, look, which im-
mei at iMfC^iiur a iorinigni prcvjous. iiuas.iv fni savings that ttuiv be found compiled, in almost . , . ’ T . , ...
tended hy the ih)1 itic.nl friends of Abnihuni Lin- &ny ordinary nlmjiniic of the country. This clnss pels one to pitze by the hour into its seothio^
win, who had written urging them to come, as oeiffom soared to indignation; it was not their depths, and listen fascinated to the wierd strain
he thought Uint if supjiorted by the Illinois dele- f„rte. Their natural element was soft solder which sounds there dav and night
gallon he might secure the nomination. Few of a nd lard, and whether they wrote of hotel din- ‘ sounds there aay ana ififint.
tnein «mreeu with him, but they worked zeal- ners or of politic.il events, somethinc would Roihjibcc hath it th.it it is the cry of <i lost
•usly for him, and elected three Lincoln dele- iiiv lr j-ibly appear to show that they desired to man, who plunged into its cool, clear currents
gates at large-David Davis, Norman K. Judd keep in with those who can afford to butter their a t llr , s ‘- containing thousands in gold
and Stephen T. Logan. Tlie other delegate, bread on both sides When bv an accident they which he had carelessly dropped in, while lean-
Orville H. Browning, was a Bates mam but Lin- became so unfortunate as to make a great man tag over the vortex. This was years ago, and
en „ , . „„ .... ...
ll. Browning, was a Bates mam but Lin- became so unfortunate as to make a great man tag over the vortex. This was years
coin api roved of Ins election, saying thal Bates pass th«-ir effusions without special notice they be came up never again. But still is heard that
wou d have no show, and that win n Browning jrenerallv dropped him and pursued their trade eerie cry as tlie waters of the spring boil and
saw this, he would not only go over to him, but in other (mailers surge and take their stormy « ay. It is supposed
Would take some of iiis fneuds with liim.
Judge Davis lias never attended a primary
meeting ora caucus, much less a convention,
hut Lincoln prevailed ujmmi him to go to Chicago
and conduct his campaign. The judge arrived
on tlie scene of action the Satin day liiglit previ
ous to the meeting of the convention. He found
to have mysterious undercurrents, and to he
bottomlene.’ Dread Thought!
Standing here idly listening to the weird call
ot the surging waters, my eye was caught by tlie
warm gleam of a crimson and gold shawl in the
crowd. It was draped about tlie head of a
in other quarters.
Gonroaling Two Ycsrocs
In the spring of 1851, a free colored man
named Noah H. Hanson w.is tried in the crimi
nal court for “wittingly and wilfully entertain
ing” two slaves, the property of the Hon. \V. F. _
Coleoek of South Carolina. It will he recol- graceful, dark-eyed senorila. And never shawl
that tlie parlors at the hotels had all been en- lected that they were found secreted in a hole graced a sweeter, sadder face than this. A
raged, and lie had to establish his headquarters under tlie floor of an outhouse attached to the daughter of Mexico, with glorious eyes in whose
fit two small connecting rooms in the tlitre! story j residence of Richard S Coxe, on K street, and dark depths lay a haunting sadness, smooth,
of the Treinont House. The outlook was not I this was the “entertainment to which they were pomgranate-tinted cheeks, lips like velvet rose
encouraging, as tlie only Lincoln men on the . invited” by Hanson, one of the servants of li'e leaves, and over the whole countenance that
ground were a few of the delegates from Illinois household, who fed them for a “long time,” in subtle touch of pathos which belongs to the
and Indiana. Thurlow Weed had thoroughly tlie language of the indictment. Tlie slaves race.
were concealed until they could obtain an op- “Beautiful as a dream of youth.” said I, “and
portnnity to escape. Tlie United States 1 >Is-' as sad,” for there is a touch of sadness in yoiith-
triet Attorney endeavored to show that they had fid dreamings. “This is a face with a history,
been’‘entertained” for about 2 3no hours, and surely. This sweet faced woman has a nature
spoke as to the probability of this, the shoes of as lovely as her face, earnest, pure ami tender.
organized the Seward cohorts, and tlie streets
were tilled witli thousands who were shouting
the New Yolk war cry. Lincoln's raw levies
were scattered far and wide, and left at the
mercy of disciplined politicians. They had no
organization. They were even without a head
quarters. Tlie hotels were packed witli the
noisy friends of Bates and Seward.
David D.ivis proved himself a political Carnot,
and threw the Railsplilter s flag to the breeze.
TMe raw levies were gathered and disciplii ed.
Night and day was lie busy, forming combina
tions and visiting delegations. Horace Greeley,
under tlie guise of a delegate from Oregon, ap
peared as tlie leader of tlie Bales men. and
Thurlow Weed tooted defiance from his Seward
bugle. Davis visited both leadeis, and was
gllowered with chaff. But his raw levies were
not without backing. Ou Si tin day night lie tel
egraphed to the lawyers ol the eighth circuit, as
suring them that Old Abe’s stock was ris ng,
and that it would lie greatly euhauced by u.e
presence of his friends in force. It was an elec
tric shock. Tlie State was aroused. On Mon
day aud Tuesday trains poured into the city
overflowing with Lincoln shonters. They were
enthusiastic friends, who gladly paid their own
way out of love lor Lincoln. They inaased
themselves In tlie streets, and raised a din that
astonished the noisy retaincis of Sewaid. They
thronged the corridors of the hotels, and awoke
the echoes of tlie night witli their cheers. Hour
ly tlieir number increased. They |>oured into
the wigwam as soon as tlie doors were opened,
and the very atmosphere of the convention
seemed surcharged with tiieiremliusiasm.
The two small rooms ou the third floor of the
Treinont House were tlie scene of unwonted
activity. Every order was promptly executed.
Lawyers acted as messengers and judges
watched the cars for lielated delegates. Under
Davis's guidance tlie work was thoroughly done.
When lie entered tlie city on Saturday night
barely fifty weak-kneed delegates siood under
the Lincoln flag. Ou the first ballot tlie Rail-
•pHtler milled 102 votes to 17314 for Seward and
forty-eight for Bates. The lanky cohorts in tlie
galleries nearly lifted Hie roof with tlieir cheers.
Tlie second ballot gave Lincoln 181, Seward 18114
ami Bates thirty-live. Again the brawny friends
of Old Ain? roared with delight. The Seward
men turned pale, and Thurlow’s knees smote
togetlier as he saw tlie writing oil tlie wall. Lin
coln was nominated on tlie next ballot by a vole
oi 364 to 1I0‘4 lor Seward, and the whole Stale
of Illinois was thrown into eestaey. That liiglit
Judge Davis went to lied for tlie first time in
six days, having conquered at a total cost, all
told, of 8709.
Judge Davis went to Springfield on tlie nexi
day and had a long interview with Mr. Lincoln
Tlie candidate off- red to refund ihe 8700. but
the Judge said that his fi lends would not hear oi
it Mr. Lincoln’s friends urged Judge D.ivis to
take the stump iu his behalt. He did so, and
the negroes being thickly covered with mould. ' and over the 'Bridge of Sighs’ she lias passed
The punishment.lie said, under tlie old Marv- tlie narrow gulf from youth to tlie fuller, deeper
land law, was TOO pounds of tobacco for each life of a noble womanhood, and then that pa-
hour. Messrs. Key and Ratcliff appeared for tiietic note in the soft voice, as she lifts her
the defense. Tlie former iu ills speech re- ' slender shoulders, and in reply to some reniaru
marked that the statutes quoted by the gentle- from a companion, says: ‘Quien Sabe—el sera
man were acquainted, and were innldier than viena,' in her liquid Spanish—that suiely was
tlie shoes, one of the laws being a century old left by the ebb of passion and pain. Those love-
and Hie other 103 years! Tlie jury were out hut j ly eyes prison a soul far above the sordid views
son was remanded until the amount should be
paid.
Mr*. Madison's Furniture.
Mrs. Madison's furniture was sold at auction
at her late residence here, on the 29th of Febru
ary, 1851. Tlie bust |M>rtralt of Washington, by
Stuart, sold to a gentleman in New York for
8300. That of Jefferson, by Hie same artist, at
8200, to Gov. Odes. A m>rtrait of James Madi
son was ta 1 - en hy the same gentleman at 8235.
Dr. Causen purchased that of Mrs. Madison at
8270. A portrait of John Adams (the elder) was
sold for 8160 to the same gentleman who pur
chased the first picture. A portrait of Monroe
went for 85<i to Gov. Holes. Several other paint
ings went off at from 85 H>825. One of the large
pictures for which Mrs. Madison refused 83.000,
and oiliers oMess value, were withdrawn bv the
administrator, there being no bids for them.
The carpet on the front parlor, in a good state
of preservation, was ascertained to be 180 years
old. It was KMderminister and was withdrawn
at 817.
Do Ton Know How to Talk?
“A white and red calf” means one calf but “a
white and red calf” means two ealves. There
is a wide difference between ability amt capaci
ty. Capacity i* the power of acquiring knowl
edge. tint ability is the power of ap| lying it to
practical pnr|Mises. “1 found the way easy.”
and "I found tlie way easily,’ convey different
ideas. In speaking of a look of Illness on a per
son s countenance, the correct (orm is, “lie
looks had.” not “badly.” The young lady inav
look "bewitclilngly” at the gentlemen, hut she
looks “bewitching” in her silks and jewels,
tggravate is frequently misused. An offense
hi.iv lie aggravated, lmt a person is provoked,
ri itated. or angered. Alike is often incorrectly
coupled witli both. “They are I Kith just alike,
is as incorrect as the liilieinicism, “1 saw it
with IhiIIi my two eyes.” A disease spreads
■over all” tlie country, not “all over” the coun
try.
her. will arise in her land and start a lietter com
dll ion of affairs; with the tire of eloquence . ill
enthuse his countrymen witli tlie pride of knowl
edge, and freedom from tlie tliralldom of their
old habits of sloth and indolence.”
Mymusings were intemipted.
Up steps to my daiuty Senora. with the dreamy
anil eloquent eyes, a little Mexican dandy, in
whom I recognize Uie“was-her-maii who takes
"‘^vTllfanalrof aidhorityand ownership, which
can belong only to the husband, lie orders her
home to her duties—“Sale a el casa y travarca,
and as she goes, down tumble my air castles in
ruins as I watch the receding, gr ieefill form.
Is this the noble Don 1 had pictured—II.e
knightly lover whose stormy fate it was to he to
lead the rebellious and fierce Democracy of the
nineteenth century, who was to stir all Mexico
with the thrill of his eloquence, ami startle Ids
countrymen from tlie sleep of indolence which
wraps them—the little ignorant dandy, with no
thought above soap and slareli and the scarlet
sash around hia waist! Fall! .
“What a rail was there, my countrymen! \
And that lovely einlxKliment of n poet s dream,
Tied to sncli a little prosaic creature!
I turn again to my baffling, puzzling spring,
whose haunting strain thrill one s heart with its
subtle spell, and whose mysterious and ihik nowu
depths furnish belter material for tlie im igina-
lion than can tlie liura.ui Mexican nature around
I will dream no more dreams alsmt Mexican
senorilas. And yet—they arc smnel inies lovely!
and a limit the whole race lurks that strange, in
tangible touch of sadne-s and mystery, and out
of tlieir even looks a spirit putheiic, dumb. suf-
enng. inSnlMhle. Vint is h? Why is ii?
I know not. but it ens l ines tlieir greatest
charm, together with a soft melodious v.-ice.
We And ourselves weavimr ruin inces about
them iiivolui.tarflv. even tlioic”' «»ir “castles”
mav tori, r and tall in raids. They ire so utter
ly different from the actual pro.-. »• reality, eeu-
erally. Mamma F. Harpy.
ABOUT VAB.IETY ACTORS.
Goods One Scarce and High-
“Why is it not possible to give good variety
shows here in Boston, all the seasou ?”
“Simply because I cannot get good people. It
is not a question of money. We can offer all the
Inducements needed in that direction, but the
performers are not to be obtained. The reason
is not hard to find. Nearly all the small eccen
tric comedy companies on the road at the pres
ent time in pieces such as ’Feck s Bad Boy,’ ‘A
Rag Baby,’ and a score of that class, are made
up of variety performers. If a comedy or drama
has a good character part in black or a gro
tesque character, some variety performer jumps
in and makes a success in it. They look upon ii
as stepping higher in tlie profession. They are
all anxious to get out of the variety busines-
and into tlie'legitimate.’ If they are not found
in these legitimates pieces so-called, you will
fitui them starring with- 1 companies of tlieir own.
They are ambitious and- not to he blamed, al
though hut few of them ina e a success. Still,
these things leave the variety manager hut a
very limited number of good people to draw
upon.”
“But there are new performers springing up
every day?”
“Yes. new performers, but no new perform-
ai c -s.There ar> jmore producers in tlie variety or
nigger business. 1 can safely say that I have
not seen a new original act in ten years. Floa
ty of now combinations of old acts, hut uo origi
nal ones- 1 may s.iy right here that in all Hie
new ligli! comedies of the class I have already
a ludt d to, 1 found that tlie funny business was
simply a leliasn ol old variety acts.’
"Are variety performers paid as well as for
merly?”
' “Belter. Their salaries were never so high
since 1 Iiave known anything about the busi
ness, and 1 began over twenty-two years ago.
The same causes that made performers difficult
h>obtain aid in sending up tlieir salaries to a
high figure. 1 iiave paid specialty performers
wlio occupied tlie slage only twenty miimles
each evening a salary as large as Afr. James
O'Neill receives, and lie probably gets tlie (ugli
est salary ever paid to a leading man in this
country. 1 am obliged to pay the -Two Macs’
8200 per week, and all their expenses from Eng
land ill order to get tlieni for ibis season. Mr.
Carroll, my old partner, receives $125 and ex-
I>enses. Miss Lizzie Simms receives $100 and
expenses, and I also pay her mother's expenses.
I paid last season 8300 a week for a team of four
performers, whose 'turn’ did not occupy twenty
minutes. Woinriglitie does a wire act that no
one else can do. and so I am couiiielled to pay
biin 8200 iter week.
“I would rather pay $500 a week than $25.
The performer who could command $500 would
drtwlhe money into tlie house, while the $25
man not only would not draw any money in. hut
he would keep m< nev out. Another tiling 1
would like to call jour attention to. We have
to pay more money to performers here than tlie
same people will play for elsewhere. 1 know
performers who will play every afternoon and
evening aud take less money for their-services
than they will demand where they only play six
uh'lits and two mariners. They know we have
a large house and can afford it. and they • now
that we must have the best, consequently they;
make us pay. They come high, but we must
have them, that’s tlie idea.”
“Is there any noticeable change In the public
taste for variety shows?”
“No. nothing very noticeable. The public
will not tolerate anything coarse now. I thins
there is a tendency to greater refinement, but
not liing else. A 'nigger' act goes as well now
as it ever did. The trouble is, good negro im
itators are scarce. They are, as I have said m
comedy, out for themselves with comnanies. or
in tlie big minstrel combinations. I think that
within three years we shall get back to tlie old
way or doing business, and lhat you will see
first-class variety theaters rim ou tlie old stock
system. It was a great success formerly and
gave full satisfaction. I mean that business will
be run w ii Ii a good stock company, a few spe
cialties, several variety ‘turns’ anil a local dra-
nn. comedy or burlesque to conclude tlieper-
fn. m nice. Tills will certainly be the result i n
less tlie public taste for these light, rrolliy. hut
funny, plavs slimi’d change, and our best variety
people he compelled to return to their old way
of doing business.
OLD SAYINGS.
Looked at from a New Standpoint
“A ROLLING STONE GATHERS NO MOSS.”
Time out of mind, a rolling stone has been cen
sured for gathering no moss. But what of that?
Is it not tb its credit rather than to its dispraise?
If it had lain Idle all its life, it no doubt might
have accumulated no end of moss. But It’s busy
existence prevented its acquiring any sucli use
less environment. True, the rolling atone gath
ers no moss, but it gathers something better, to
wit, polish. Isn’t polish to be preferred to cum
bersome and useless moss? Avast there!
‘ OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN INTO THE FIRE.”
It is conventional to condemn tlie man who
jumps out of the frying-pan into the fire. But,
gentle reader, were you In the midst of the fer
vent fat of a frying-pan, would you not rather
jump into the hie itself and have your anguish
ended speedily and at once than to suffer tlie
slow agony of being fried like a vulgar dough
nut? Of course you would. Then never again
speak a wind against the judgment of this un
known martyr lo expediency.
“FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS.”
Tlds may he true on general grounds, but we
fancy lhat facts hearing on a political campaign
are as pliant and yielding as boarding-house
butter. \Ve trust, therefore, that this severe
characterization of facts in the abstract will give
place to a more generous appreciation. It is no
nearer tlie truth to say that all facts are stub
born tilings than to affirm that all stubborn
lliings are facts.
“FAINT HEART NE'ER WON FAIR LADY.”
This is a libel on tlie faint heart. The modest,
diffident, bashful man—that is to say. ri.e faint
heart—is always first to be won by the fair sex,
which is tlie true way of saying that he is the
first to win the fair sex; for he it Down that it
is the woman and not the man who wins iu tlie
game of hearts. The man thinks he dues, but
he doesn't. It is true that the winnings are often
times hardly north Hie taking; hut be they
go id, bad or indifferent, the woman is llie arbiter
oi man’s matrimonial destiny every time; and
tlie fainter the heart site assails, the easier her
victory.
BRUCE ON BLAINB
The Tattooed Man Sharply Criticised
by the Colored Leader.
Philadelphia, November 23.—Ex-Senator
Bruce, of Mississippi, was seen at his hotel. He
was very frank ta expressing Ids oj In ion regard
ing Mr. Blaine’s attack upon the South.
“That speecti of his at Augusta.’ said Senator
Brace, “will doubtless be the cause of great un
easiness and mental distress among the colored
people of the South. Fortunately its effects can
onlv be short-lived. Such utterances were dem
agogical in the extreme and wholly unwar
ranted. 1 think I ought to know something
about our people in tlie South. Tlie greatest
harmony exists lietween tlie white and colored
races. Blaine’s charges of intimidation and
violence at the polls are absolute aud unquali
fied falsehoods.
••TimI.iv the South is loyal and peaceful.” con
tinued Mr. Bruce. “Its people, white and
black, are. or were until Mr. Blaine fomented
tlie new antagonism, iu the rigid frame of mind
to enter upon harmonious relations with tlie
people of tlie North. They were especially de
sirous that tlie pleasant business relations
should not lie interrupted. This is exactly wliai
Mr. Blaine strikes at. and his Augusta speech
lias Iowa-red him more in popular estimation
than any act of his life.”
I do not call a healthy young man, cheerful In
his mind and vigorous in his arms, I cannot call
such a man poor. I cannot pity mv kind as a
kind merely because they are men. This affect
ed l ily only te als to dissatisfy them wiilitlieii
condition, and io leach them to seek resources
where no r. sources are to be found. |u soine-
ti i'lg else than tlieir own industry and frugality
and sobriety.—Burke.
PERSONAL TOM
What the People Are £oing and
Saying.
Wiggins, the weather prophet, has joined the
salvation army.
Senator Don Cameron made a deal with
Blaine. Mr. Blaine got left as President, but
Mr. Cameron will be re-elected Senator.
Mr. Grubb, of the Darien Gazette, is mentioned
as the future cohector of tlie port of Brunswick.
Darien is in ttie Brunswick customs district.
Prof. Tyndall, tlie scientist, smokes a pipe and
wears a rat skin lined night-gown. Science is all
very well, but comfort is tlie Professor's weak
ness.
Victor Hugo eats dried herring and crackers
every night just before going to bed. He got it
into liis bead somehow that herring assists in
digestion.
Baron Steiglitz, the wealthy Russian banker
who died recently, bequeathed 6.000.000 roubles,
about $3,900,000, to .Mine. Sophie Aleuter, the
celebrated pianist.
A bicycle rider in England—Mr.George Smith
of London—is the champion of the world, hav
ing made a record of loo miles iu seven hours
and eleven minutes.
A visit from Mine. Albani. the prima donna.is
announced for January. She will appear for the
first time in tlie January concert of the New
York Philharmonic Society.
Alphonse Daudet, the French novelist, writes
to the Paris newspapers: “I am not acamlidate,
t never iiave been a candidate, I never shall be
a candidate, for tlie Academy.”
It is said tliat tlie colored people of Washing
ton are going to petition Cleveland to retain in
office B. K. Bruce, register of the Treasury, and
Fred Douglas, recorder of deeds.
There is one man who would swap places with
Rutherford B. Hayes, but Rutherford lias pulled
tlie hole in after him, and Mr. Burchard can on
ly stand out iu tlie cold and howl.
It is now said that tlie rem tins of John Wilkes
Booth, Hi- assassin of Lincoln, are buried in tlie
i.miily burying ground on the old Junius Bru
tus Bootli farm, a few miles from Baltimore.
The venerable Mrs. Barron, widow of the
naval Commodore who shot Commodore Decatur
■ , Iv. '. : — —.11*,! .n
October 29, Porlsmoum, va. She '».»» ss
years of age.
German dukes usually spend their incomes
upon ballet dancers, but the recently deceased
I out against tlie
Duke of Brunswick left a snug little plum for
his heirs to scuffle over. He held i
syrens of the stage.
General F. 8. Spinner, whose puzzling signa*
ture on the United States notes at one time ex
cited special wonder, is in Washington, and will
spend a couple of weeks there before returning
to his Florida orange groves.
Belva is a lawyer In want of clients, and she
hit ujxm ttie happy idea of running for Presi
dent as dn advertising dodge. It cost her noth
ing, and. like other cheap kinds of advertising,
will probably bring her nothing.
Franklin was married at 21. Mozart at 26.
Byron, Washington, Wellington and Bonapart
at 27. Peel at 32. Wordsworth at 33. Wilber-
foree at 38. Luther at 4g. Addison at 44. And
old Parr, for tlie tiiird time, at 102.
Mrs. Johnson, who, as Miss Harriet Lane,
presided over the White House during the ad
ministration of her uncle. President Buchanan,
is now visiting in Washington. She is a widow
and childless having lost her hnsbaud and two
promising sous within the past three years.
laird Coleridge and laird Cairns, England’s
law lords, are each having a taste of'tlieir own
physic. The daughter of one aittl lheenn of the
other inclined to matrimonial paths inarxed out
by themselves, lienee ttie necessity of parental
intervention. They may find, however, ns oth
ers iiave, that tlie cure is worse than the dis
ease. . . ,7
Postmaster-General Frank Hatton has a
bright, pretty little wife, whose delicate health
has kept her out of tlie thickest whirl,of society
during the high season, but who lias ;i great cir
cle of friends in Washington. Mrs. Hatton and
Mrs. Robert Lincoln were school girls together
at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, during tlieir girlhood,
and after both of them moved to Washington
tlieir long friendship became Hie elosjer and the
two families are much together.
In the course of the present session. Parlia
ment will be asked by Mr. Gladstone to grant
Prince Albert Victor, the Prince of Wales’ eld
est son. tlie sum of .615.000 year, to commence
when he attains hs m ijority in January. This
is tlie same amount which was voted to each of
the Queen’s younger sons on coming of age.
Tlie sons of George 111. each had 621.000 a year
iu addition to other allowances. It is announced
that tlie vote will he opposed on tlie ground
lhat the Queen does not spend all her income.
In the early part of the eighteenth century a
very old lady sat to Thomas Hudson, the |>ortrait
painter, who was born in 1701. She told that
artist that when she was quite a little girl she
had sat to Sir AiKktmv Vandyck, then at the
height of his fame, anti living in great, state in
tlie then fashionable quarter of Bluckfriars. On
one occasion lie led her fortli into a long gallery
attached to tlie house wherein were hung a num
ber of his pictures. Remarking the whiteness
of the faces, she asked him why he painted
them so nale. “I paint for Time." he replied.
“Time will darken them, and posterity will thank
me for it.” Tliis utterance, proving at once Ids
knowledge, wisdom and jealousy for ids reputa
tion, was rc|ieuled by Hudson to Sir Joshua
Reynolds, whose master he was. Sir Joshua
told it to Ids pupil. James Northcote, who re
tailed it to poor Penj imin Haydon; liv Havdon
it. was told io Mr. W. P. Frith, and by'Mr. Frith
it was re|*eated to Mr. Seymour Lm-as. Thus,
without the medium of ink or paper, has there
been handed down an interesting statement of
one of tlie world's greatest men. uttered before
the civil wars hurled Charles I from his throne.
Conveyances were put on In 1766 which made
Hie unprecedented time of two days from New
York to Philadelphia. They were, therefore,
termed “living machines." The first stage
route was between l*rovidence and Boston, tak
ing two days for the trip. A mail was started in
1672 between New York and Boston by way of
Hartford. By contract the round trip was to be
made monthly.
About 400 streets and 13.000 houses were re
duced to ashes hy tlie greqt Lindon fire of 1686.
Tlie oily was rebuilt in a very little time: and
cure was taken to make tlie streets wider and
more regular Ilian before. IahkIoii became
iinirli more healthy after the lire. The plague
which used to break out twice or thrice every
century almost entirely disappeared.
In England. 1764. tlie Rev. Mr. Hill was killed
in a duel bv Go net Gardener of rite carbineers.
Tlie Rev. Mr. Bates fought two duels, and was
subsequently created a baronet, ami preferred
to ;t dealierv idler he had fotigltt another duel in
ilvde Pota'without incurring ecclesiastical cen
sure.