About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1887)
VOLUME XII.—NUMBER 584. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1*87. PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. Shaking Across the Bloody Chasm. THE BIKD OE TKIUMPH. (Suggested by a bitter and prolonged con test between party rivals.) The Bird of Triumph, when the smoke That veiled the comhat from our eyes W'i swept away, ibe silence broke With fl ipplug wIdss, and piercing cries, And o’er the ensanguined, panting held His golden pinions flashing shone, As darting on unerring wing He perched thy,waving banner on. Dseefrfnf bird! In ancient davs As now, you watched with fa'con eye B <et| fleld of name and your gaze V ter failed rhe earliest to espy Tne crowning Wow that won the day,— -.The Hero rf the new-won He'd,— Whom to yon hastened eagerly Your plastic feally to yield. Over each well-matched contest hangs A brooding cloud as black as night; T *e cloud of Ttsiibt; and in Ps depths Tb* Bird of Victory shrinks from sight. Nor prayer*, nor sighs, nor stern command O' anxious foes e’er mnveth him, To issue forth while vet that pall Like night m tre hovers dense and dim. But when the sun of Triumph rears His head ab <v» the eastern seas, And like a mis! b f >re his rays The cloud of doubt dissolving flees,— And when In panic o’er the plain D sion flteri ibe beaten flv, Tressed bv Ihe fl imlng cor queror With dripping sword, and vengeful cry. When round the hero of the hour The thronging sjc >nhants appear. And praises thick unon him shower And ringing piaodifs rend the air,— *TW th* n theWrd of Triumph sits Unon the standard fl>«Mng high. And Joins with fl mnlugs and with ahrleks The vaunting Victor’s revelry. OUK.PINE POEESTS. The Turpentine Industry and Its Processes. Tho Chipping, Dipping, Hauling anti Duiiilng Illustrated. Burning a Tar Kiln. Turpentine, resin, tar and pitch are largely used in various trades, as well as for many domestic purposes. The chief supply comes from the long-leafed pine (Pinys australis) of the Southern States. This tree grows from the north-eastern boundary of North Carolina, Along the Atlantic coast to Florida, across the State to the Gulf, and thence to Louisiana, in a belt averaging one hundred miles in widtn. The soil is sandy, with an under stratum of yellow clay. This whole region is cut by deep sluggish rivers and immense swamps, almost all underlaid with marl. The manufacture was first commenced at Newbern, in North Carolina, and that State still supplies by far the largest proportion of the product. The •first step is to obtain the crude turpentine. This is the natural juice of the pine tree, and is sometimes called white turpentine and gum turpentine. It is a mixture of the essential oil, known as spirits of turpentine, and of re sin. A a half-moon shaped box is cut in the tree, as near as possible to the surface of the ground. The shape of this “box” will be seen in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4. The box cutting com mences about the first of December an i con tinues until March—perhaps a few weeks longer if the spring is late. A hand can cut from 100 to 150 boxes per day; tbe price now is from one to one and a half cents per box or from one quart to half a gallon in capacity. After cutting, the boxes are “cornered’’ by taking out a triangular piece at each end of the half moon. A “task” is usually 10.000 boxes, but we have known hands to tend 18,- <100. These must be cornered once, and “hacked” about six times, from the first of spring until into November. The dipping (shown in Fig. 2) is done by task work, too, so many barrels or boxes per day being a task. This is accomplished with a spoon-shaped in etrument and a peculiar twist of the wrist, only well done by long practice. Two dip pers generally attend one hacker. Hacking is the making a groove shaped cut on each side, downward, to the center of the half-moon. These grooves can be seen in all the cuts. The barrels for filling are placed at inter vals through the woods ; the dipper gathers his gum in a rude basket, and empties it into the barrels, which, when filled, are bulled off. A frequent mode of hauling is seen in Fig. 1; the same cut shows a primitive but cheap mode of “roiling” tar to market Both articles are frequently rafted to a seaport between sticks of hewn timber. The first year's operation produces “virgin dip,” the second “yellow dip,” the third some common yellow dip and scrape; then thefurtb- er product of the trees is all “scrape.” The virgin dip is, when carefully gathered, a honey like gum. of whitish appearance. From it are produced No. 1, pale, extra, and window-glass resins. It yields about seven gaiions of spirits, and not quite three-fourths of a barrel of resin <to the barrel (280 lbs). Yellow dip yields over three-fourths of resin, and about six gallons of spirits to the 280 lbs. of gum. Scrape yields about the same. "Scrape” is the gum which gathers on the face ef the tree or box when •worked up three, four, or more feet. It is a •white, cheese-like substance. The operation of chipping the box face and gathering the scrape is seen in Figs. 3 and 4. With care a very light resin can be made from it. The operation of distilling the gum is carried on in turnip-shaped copper stills of a capacity from ten barrels up to sixty—the ordinary .size being twenty and thirty barrels. They are bricked up at the sides, and the fire strikes di rectly on the bottom. The top has a large hole for the “cap,” which connects with the worm for condensing the spirits, and a small hole through which the “stiller” examines the state of his charge, and lets in water as it may he needed. The resin, being a residuum, is let off on one side into vats, through strainers, from which it is dipped into barrels to cool. Many attempts have been made to use steam as a heating agent, but not yet with success, if the resin is not entirely free of either spin is or water it is opatue and loses value. Previ ous to the war much white turpentine was dis tilled for the spirits alone, and the resin run to waste. These (called “beds”) in many, cases, under the stimulus of war prices, were -‘resur rected.” During Sherman’s march, a body of troops encamped one night on one of these beds, it appearing to be a vast rock. The resin melting from their camp fires soon caught fire, and they hai barely time to save themselves, losing the bridge they had built across the streams in their front. Few will forget the awful grandeur of the burning of one near the distillery, at the battle of Ben tons ville. The rear oi the stills and the resin vats are shown in Fig. 5. Probably the largest distill ery in the country is at Wilmington, N. C. The profits of this business depend entirely upon the vigor with which it is pushed and the economy wi h which it is conducted. A store usually accompanies and adds to the profits of a country distillery. A task of 10,000 boxes may Hafely be calculated to yield two hundred and fifty barrels of virgin or yellow dip in a season, If convenient to railroads, cities or towns, the trees (when worked out) are cut in to cord wood, quantities of which now find the r way to New York. In trees deadened by fire, stumps of trees cut down when the sap is up, and old boxed trees left standing, a pecu liar transformation of the wood takes place; ail its pores become filled with pitchy matter, it increates greatly in weight, and will take fire almost as readily as gunpowder. In this state it is called “light-wood,” because it is used for kindling, and with the poor as a substitute for candles or other light. The smothered burn ing of this wood is the source of tar. Tbe wood is split into billets three or four feet long and about three inches in diameter. To form a tar kiln tie operation is commenced by scooping out if the ground a saucer-shaped foundation, making a hole in its middle, and thence running a wooden spout outside the rim of the foundation. Billets of wood are then plac-id radiating to this centre hole and piled upward, each upper and outer slick lapping a kittle o rer, so that when finished the pile re sembles a cone with the point cut off, small end down. Logs of wood and green twigs are then piled around, and the kiln thus made is covered with dirt, the top as well as sides. Then fire is then lighted at the top eaves of the kiln, and the tar trickles down to the centre hole, whence it runs out through the spout. A kiln yields fifty, one hundred or more bar rels of tar, according to its size. Large iron retorts have been used, but the product is not sufficiently greater or more cleanly to pay for increased cost. In process of distillation a tar and pitch are obtained. Pitch is tar boiled down until all its volatile matter is driven off. The manufacture of tar is ckiefly carried on by the poor whites and negroes. It is but eldom the object of regular work, being rather a job for odd times. The kiln burning is generally a frolic, or was in oldea time. Few sights have in them m ire of a sombre grandeur than a large tar kiln at night. Its immense columns of slowly ascending smoke are no w and then illumined by the leaping forth of a tongue of llame. The wild cries of the men, in their ef forts to cover it quickly with earth, add to the wildness of .he scene. Lumber made from trees that have been boxed has a blrttUlfUl white, rather hot-bduse plant lo ik, but will not last so well, nor is it so strong as that which has never been boxed. Fire and worms sometimes destroy immense tracts of the pines, and hundreds of thousand* of dollars worth of trees have thus been ren dered valueless. The traveler along any rail road of the Southern Atlantic coast will be greeted with the sight of the gaunt, ghost-like, leafless monuments of these destroyers. Spirits of oil of turpentine is used in paint ing, the manufacture of varnishes, oil cloths, etc., and as a medicine. It has peculiar char acteristics in which respect no substitute for it has ye; been found. Benzine took its place to some extent during tbe war, but with the regeneration of Southern industry, that has been abandoned. The discovery of petroleum has lessened its consumption, the spirits hav- in; formerly been used with alcohol in the manufacture of burning fluid and cam phene. Many were the shifts made to dispense with its use during the war; some varnish manufac turers erected costly apparatus for collecting the spirits thrown off in melting kowrie gum. White paints mixed with benzine rapidly turn yellow and peel off, while with spirits of tur pentine they grow whiter, ace ela-tic, and te nacious. These qualities are attributed to its property in absorbing oxygen or transmuting that gts into its allotropic form—ozone. As a medicine it is diuretic, so powerfully so that sailors of vessels loaded with is are sometimes intensely affected by its fumes; rubbed on the joints it has a strange, and if often repeated, an injurious effect. Chemically it is a hydro carbon, being C20 Hid. It is a powerful sol vent of India rubber, and if allowed to s.and exposed to the air for a length of time, is said to obtain the power of bleaching vegetable col ors. A subititute was endeavored to be made for it by distillation of the white pine wood in iron retorts, and even yet a species of spirit is made by distillation of that wood, and also of the long leaf pine, but it belongs to the methylic series, and when deodorized is used as a substitute for alcohol in dissolving aniline crystals in dyeing. Pine rosin or resin enters largely into many manufactur. s. The pale window glass article has a share in the soap, which graces the toilet of the belle, and the dark grades go far to make up the co irser bar. It helps to wash our clothes and to mend the tin caldron in which they are boiled. It fur nishes gas ligh; for hundreds of the smaller towns, helps to paste up our thousands of placard advertisements, and assists in sizing the manufacturer’s clo h. It is used for mak ing lampblack, and is largely distilled for its oil and residuary pitch. In 1800, $660,000 of capital were invested in this last branch of business alone, and there is much more now, while the character of the product has been greatly improved. MBS. CLEVELAND RECEIVES. A Throng of Visitors Pay Their Re spects to the President’s Wife. Washington, January 8.—Mrs. Cleveland held her first public reception of the season this afternoon. The hours were from 3 until 5, but as early as 1 o’clock people began to gather outside the White House until the long line reached across the Park to the Navy De partment. Carriages were constantly arri ring with intimate friends, and many of the wives of Congressmen and others in official life were early admitted. Mrs. Cleveland was assisted by Mrs. Man ning, Mrs. Endicott, Mrs. Vilas and Miss Hasrings, a niece of the President. They stood in one of the series of parlors and Mrs. Cleve land went through the ordeal of two hours of handshaking without flinching. Promptly at 3 o’clock the doors were swung back and the long line began to move. The visitors passed by the receiving party to linger in the great East Parlor or to promenade the long vesti bule which ends in the conservatory. The Marine Band, concealed behind plants and flowers, played waltzes and promenade music. The scene was a brilliant one. The East Parlor was thronged with ladies dressed in ex quisite costumes. Here and there the seedy apparel of a stroller served as a reminder of the truly cosmopolitan character of public re ceptions at the Executive .Mansion. In point of numbers the reception was a great success. When the doors were closed at 5 o’clock there were probably as many people clamoring on the outside as had been fortunate enough to gain admittance. Mrs. Cleveland's dress was of satin, robin- egg blue. She looked particularly charming. Just before the close of the reception the Pres ident entered the Blue Parlor and shook hands with Mrs. Cleveland and the receiving ladies. PERSONAL MENTION. What the People Are Doing and Saying. WASHINGTON CITY. Reminiscences of Distin guished Public Men. Gen. Kaulbars has taken his family to Italy for the winter. Incidents Which Have Transpired at the National Capitol. Spurgeon’s health is failing, but he con tinues to preach to immense congregations. Tennyson is reported to be in failing nealili, and will soon leave for the south of France. By BEN. PERLY POORE. No. 168. Fig. 1.—HAULING TO MARKET AND HACKING. fig 3,-chipping;the;box;face ^ Fig. 4 —GATHERING THF. SCRAPE. Fig. 5.—THE DISTILLERY AND RESIN VATS. Fig: 0 —BURNING A TAR KILN. ROYALTY ASH DEMOCRACY. Shabby Treatment of General Grant by the Prince of Wales. Ebitor Sunny South; Gen. Adam Badeau has furnished the New York Tribune an ac count of the very shabby manner in which the Prince of Wales treated Gen. Grant while in London in 1877. Gen. and Mrs. Grant had been invited to dine with the Prince and Prin cess of Wales, “to meet their imperial majes ties the Emperor and Empress of Brazil.” When Gen. and Mrs. Grant arrived they pass ed first into a large ante-chamber in which the Prince of Wales happened to be playing with his two boys. The Prince may not have ex pected to be in this hall when Gen. Grant came in; or he may pissibly have planned the acci dental reception. He came forward at once, like any other gentleman in his own house, and gave his hand to Gen. Grant, who pre sented Mrs. Grant. Then the Prince called up his sons, and said he wished them to know Gen. Grant. lie was extremely genial and af fable. After this he disappeared and an equerry ushered the party into a long waiting- room, where they remained nearly half an hour, all standing, for no no had been seated or been asked to sit. Then the door of an adjoining room was thrown open and the Empress of Brazil came in on the arms of the Prince of Wales, followed by the Princess with the Em peror. They passed directly to the dining room. The Empress of Brazil had known Mrs. Grant in America, where the ladies had each been the wife of a great ruler, and she stopped short when she came to Mrs. Grant, and greeted her, but the other royal and im perial personages, including the hostess, pass ed in without recognizing anybody. After every noble person present had been assigned and gone to the table, Gen. Grant was request ed to go in with Mrs. Pierrepont, the wife of the American minister, and Mrs. Grant with the Brazilian minister, “whom the Emperor of Brazil looked upon as his servant.” It appears that the subject of Gen. Grant’s social recognition during his visit to England had been the subject of negotiation, for Gen. Badeau states that the British Government had agreed with Mr. Pierrepont that the ex- President should have precedence of Dukes, but the Prince of Wales deliberately put him as near as possible to the foot of the table, as there was no English person of noble rank who followed Gen. Grant. When the ladies retired from the table, Mrs. Grant was left to find her way like any other person of insignificance. Then the Prince of Wales changed his own seat, according to the English custom, and took that by the side of the"Emperor, which the Princess had vacated. In a moment or two he sent to ask Gen. Grant to sit the other side of him in his new place, and Gen. Grant accepted this high honor, just as any other private gentleman might have done. The Prince then was very gracious in his talk and manner. In one of the drawing rooms there was mu sic; here the Princess and the Empress sat court, and he desired his friends to say noth ing on the subj j ct of the con iuct of the Prince and Princess of Wales, which even English men must admit was shabby in the extreme, since the man who had filled the highest posi tion within the gift of the people of this great republic was there with his wife, who had shown herself “every inch a iady” while mis tress of the White House, as the especially in vited guests of the Prince and Princess. WITHOUT BREAD. Appeal for Aid for the Drought-Strick en People in Texas-Over 4,000 Families Destitute. Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 6.—The Gazette has made the following estimate of the number of destitute families in the drought-stricken re gion of Texas: Callahan county, 50; Parker, 100; Taylor, 200; Palo Pinto, 250; Coleman, 150; Jack, 300; Stephens, 350; Runnells, 200; Jones, 225; Shackleford, 150; Haskell, 30; Young, 150; Brown, 400; East Land, 500; Co manche, 500; Nolan, 50; Fisher, 100; Erath, 150; Morton, 10, and Hardeman, 150. From several counties no figures have yet been ob tained, and in the estimate given above the figures are in every county smaller than the number reported by the county judge’s con vention. In speaking of the situation the Gazette makes an appeal for aid for the sufferers, and says: “There is privation and want in certain counties that demand immediate relief, and the truth concerning it should be told in the in terest of suffering humanity. The truth will not only result in giving bread to those who need it, but it will extract the mischief from any exaggeration. But for the wholesale i alse- hood that people in Texas were suffering by the hundreds of thousands, those who were actuated by selfish interests would uot have been able to create the impression that no suf fering at all existed. Stong m-m, who would go away to other localities in search of work, dread to leave wives and babies in their homes without bread. Men who have homes paid for grow desperate, and consider whether they shall carry their helpless families to the coun ty seat and leave them as paupers to be cared for while they seek work and money and bread wherever among other communities they may be found. All these counties are not suffering in the same degree and to the same extent, but there is general need and some privation—so intense that without aid, without some recog nition of common humanity there may go out to the world a story of more bitter shame and greater hurt to the State than any which has been exaggerated in the past.” COOKING WITH NATURAL GAS. How a Bet Against It Was on by a Smart Tramp. [Oil City Blizzard.] An Oil citizen and a Buffalonian were lean- apart and listened and talked, and the Empe- ing against the bar at Sawdust Hall. The resi- ror regained near them. Neither Gen. nor ' Mrs. Grant was invited to join this select com pany. The Prince came out of it once or twice and talked with some of his guests, among others with Gen. Grant; but he said no word to Mrs. Grant, and neither the Gen. nor Mrs. Grant was presented to the princely hostess. Subsequently the whole imperial and royal party disappeared and did not return. When Mrs. Grant desired to leave she took Gen. Grant's arm and retired, but when moving toward the cloaking-rooms, one of the courtiers came up and said the Princess desir ed to bid Mrs. Grant good night. Accordingly there was a halt in the ante-room til the Prince and Princess came out. The royal hosts smiled graciously, bowed and courtesied gracefully, and wished their democratic guests good night, and that was the end of Gen. Grant’s dinner with the Prime of Wales. Gen. Badeau states that Gen. Grant, of course, perceived the intention of aU this et - queue, but was determined not to resent or admit the slight. He was receiving great hos- • from the English nation; he had been cordially treated by the Government and the high aristocracy, who could not control the dent was enlarging on the manifold b enefits of natural gas as a fuel. At a most interesting point of his discourse he was interrupted by a seedy gentleman, who approached him with: “I beg your pardon, sir; a great Diany of the thin is you say regarding natural gas are true. There are, however, drawbacks, one of which is most important; you can’t cook with it.” “What!” exclaimed the astonished enthu siast. “I repeat it, sir; you cannot cook with it.” “Cannot coo—! why, man, you are crazy.” “I will wager you a smiling dollar, sir, that you cannot cook'with it.” The money was instantly produced. “Now then, sir, we will adjourn to the range and observe you as you do some cooking with natural gas.” “Why, d n it, I can’t cook; never cooked any—” “Then, my dear sir, why waste your money? Bartender, hand me the dollar. It .is a cold day and I will purchase me a liver pad. Gen tlemen, farewell.” When he reached the sidewalk he drew a long breath and muttered: “It was an awful bluff, but she went.” DOTS BY THE WAYSIDE. A Touching Little Incident. Editor Sunny South: How illusions fade, ay, like the mists of the morning! I once read the works of Dickens and Thackeray, and the grandeur of the characters they depicted were so realistic to me that I felt they were taken from life. The men, women and '■hildren that stepped from those pages were too perfectly delineated to be crea.ures of the imagination, and often I have wished that I couid have lived at the same time and in -he same circum stances as those great authors. But how fool ish a wish, for I have lived to know, right here in our own fair Southland, a fac simile of Uriah Heep, with his cold, clammy hands, his pale face, red hair, humbleness and sly, treach erous heart. “Poor, dear, patient little Nell” sits by my own fireside; and Becky sharp has been an acquaintance of mine for years, and I am watching her career with interest. Often a glimpse of real life, full of pathos and trag edy, fills my mind with ideas of the life of the dramatic persons whom I gaze upon for a few hours and who then disappear from my range of vision forever. One night last week the Air Line train steamed into the city of Atlanta; mj little family and I, feeling rejoiced that we had got ten so far on our journey home, got off and went to the sitting room to wait until the West Point train was ready to bear us further West ward. I noticed, upon entering the room, several elderly people who looked as if they were ac customed to the good things of life, and were wrapped comfortably in cloaks and furs await ing with quietude and good breeding for their trains to be sn lounced. I noticed also a good looking young woman—tall aad graceful, com fortably dressed, but not at all in the reigning mode—tramping up and down, up and down singing softly to a wee baby that she had nes tled on her bosom. There was such a tone of sadness in the sweet, low voice, and such a pensive expression in the pale face that my heart went out in all kindliness to her. She finally sat down by a neat bundle of shawls, and, looking at her move it carefully, I sa w two clumsy little shoes, incasing two fat biby feet, sticking out of the package. ©ur train was in readiness, and gathering up our belongings, we hurried out and got aboard. Immediately after I saw the slender, sad-faced woman, with the babies, enter, both children .crying lustily. They were soon hushed, however, and locked in rosy slnmber on their mother’s breast. I was glad to see that she had met with a gentleman acquaint ance who was looking after her comfort. “Where did you receive the telegram?" I heard him ask her, a tone of sympathy in his voice. “About eleven this morning,” she replied. “I am not well, but I gathered up my babies, and by harrying, was in time for the train.” She paused a moment to stifle the sob that had choked her voice. “Oh! wkat was the matter with Gus, my poor brother? I cannot realize he is dead! I had such a dear letter from him just before receiving the dispatch. He was coming to see me. Is there no mistake? Is it really true?” “Yes, quite true. He died from gas. It is supposed that he blew it out instead of turn ing it off. He had been traveling, and got in to Maysville late, and was no doubt very tired, and thoughtlessly blew the gas out and went to bed. Next morning he was found dying.” “Oh! poor Gus. How terrible! He and I were orphans, you know. I cannot imagine what the world will be to me, without Gus. We have clung together all these years.” The babies moved in sleep, and the sad wo man hovered over them, and I heard her sob bing, quite heart-broken, as she fondly tucked her darlings more comfortably under the shawls. They got off at Fairburn, and I heard the gentleman friend say: “Well, John, I am glad you are here. Your sister-in-law, Mrs. , is here.” The greeting was sad, and our train pulled out into the darkness before it was over. With a prayer that Gid would pity her when she looked upon the face of Gas, her fondly loved, dead brother, I tried to put her from my mind, by repeating in time to the rattle of the cars: “If none were sick, and non# were sad, What service coull we render? I think if we were always glad, We scarcely could be tender—.” Nbttib Loveless Kibrclff. Salem, Ala. The jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign will be celebrated throughout India on February 16. Buffalo Bill has killed during hi3 career 4,- 280 buffaloes. This is the way he earned his title. Archdeacon Farrar says that “in India tie English have made 100 drunkards for one Christian.” Gounod, the musician, is said to be the mist likely candidate for the next vacant seat in the French Academy. The famous Sergeant Ballantine, si well known in two worlds, was the son of a London police court judge. As a lecturer on modern literature in the- Bucharest high school, the Queen of Rouma- nia will add to her literary laurels. It is now denied that Miss Caldwell, who gave $300,000 to found a Roman Catholic uni versity, intends to enter a convent. Maria Henrietta, the Queen of the Belgians, is said to be very democratic; in her tastes and habits, and this has made her popular with her subjects. Blanche Roosevelt, who started out with the inti ntion of becoming a prima dona, now de votes her time entirely to ne wspaper corres pondence. Lady Hicks-Beach is going to give a fancy dress bah at the Chief Secretary’s lodge at Dublin, at which all the guests will be between 5 and 15 years. A California paper says that H. H. Ban croft’s great library, which it has taken him thirty years to collect, is offered for sale, the price being $250,000. Gov. Hill,, of New York, thinks that the creating of another holiday to be known as “Labor day’’ would help to solve the labor problem in that State. 'William Black, the novelist, has obtained a verdict for £100 damages against Bow Bells for libellous assertions respecting his early- life and parsimonious habits. The president has so far failed to nominate Mr. Manning as minister to Mexico, and the impression is almost general that this appoint ment will be allowed to lapse. General Butler appears in the United States Circuit Court in New York as counsel for Sa rah Branagh of Ireland, who claims to be the heiresi of the late A. T. Stewart. Publisher Elder of Literary Life says that Miss Cleveland’s letleis to him were stolen from his desk at the instigation of a Chicago man, who proposes to publish them. '•it*., on Wednesday. W. L. 'descendant of Chief Justic , and Miss Judith Page Aylett, a de scendant of Patrick Henry, were married. George M. Pullman began life as a cabinet maker,. and was forced to emigrate with his family from the little country town where he lived in order to save them from starvation. At the funeral of Senator Logan, General I Fairchild, of Wisconsin, wore the uniform of of the Grand Army. He is the successor to General Logan in the command of the Grand Army.) Colonel Lathers of Westchester deserves the thanks of all good democrats for the eulogium on the policy of the administration he deliver ed at the Jackson celebration at the Hoffman House. Sir Stafford Northcote (Lord Iddesleigh) was the clearest-headed man in the Cabinet from which he was kicked out, and the Tory party couid as ill afford to lose his services as Eng land his existence. On the 77th anniversary of his birthday over one thousand let era and telegrams were re ceived by Mr. Gladstone. Among other birth day gifts were a comforter for his leek, a pot of jam and some fine mutton anl beef. Prof. Ferdinand V. Hayden, an eminent ge ologist of the United States Geological survey, has resigned, owing, he says, to continued ill- health, with no prospect of permanent recov ery. Prof. Hayden is the founder of the U. S. Geological Survey of the Territories. Ex-Governor Hagood thinks that there is no room for reduction in the expenses of the Ex ecutive Department of the South Carolina State Government. He thinks that the sala ries of State officials and employes are as low as they should be to secure efficient services, Congressman Hiscock’s proposition about the sugar duty is simply to substitute a direct bounty! paid out of the treasury, to the plant er and to the manufacturer for the indirect bounty now accruing to them through the workings of protective tariff. Minority Governor Lownsberry take* tbe executive chair in Connecticut because he was not the candidate who received the largest number of votes in that gerrymandered State. In this very bad habit of defeating the will of the greatest number the land of steady habits is altogether too steady. Mr. Chauncey Depew gives it as his opinion that after-dinner oratory is destined to play an important part in the world’s affaire in the near future. There is some foundation for this opinion, but there is a little danger that too much wine may interfere with the wit and wisdom of the speeches. Miss Mattie Mitchell, the daughter of the Oregon Senator, and Miss Victoria West, the British Minister’s daughter, are spoken of as tbe two most attractive young ladies in Wash ington society. They have agreed to discour age extravagance among their gentlemen friends by refusing to accept bouquets at germans. This has increased their popularity—with the young men. Rome, Jan. 9.—King Humbert and Queen Marguerite attended religious services in the Pantheon to-day, the anniversary of the death of King Victor Emanuel, and afterward un veiled a bronze monument, erected to the memory of the dead King. There were wreaths and flowers in abundance, many of the floral offerings being the gifts of English and Amer ican residents and sojourners. Fifteen years ago G. L. Lanne was scalped by the Sioux Indians in the Western part of the then territory of Colorado. Lately he wandered into Waco, Texas, sick wearjt, and without money. He had been roving about ia the mountains for fifteen years. His wounds are still open, and when he lifts his hat and raises the bandages he presents a ghastly spectacle. Maay old frontiersmen gathered about bim, and the old flash leaped into their eyes as they listened to his pitiful story. Sttps are being taken to permanently relieve his necessities. Miss Lamar, who is in society this season, is a young woman of fresh blonde complexion and fine dark-blue eyes. Her face has too much strength to be called pretty in the sense of regular features, but it would often be term ed handsome, because of its bright, varying expression. Her smiles has much sweetness, and she is sympathetic, with the easy frank ness of manner belonging to Southern women. It was her first reception on Wednesday, and first appearance as hostess, receiving with her sister-in-law on that day. Miss Endicott is the eldest si the foot yonng women in the Cabinet circle. Miss Vilas, Miss Manning and Miss Lamar are just out this season. Butler In the Johnson Impeachment tnai. When the farce oi impetching Andrew John son was being carried on, Chief-Justice Chase, wearing his official robes, made a dignified pre siding officer, but his presence was anything but acceptable to Sumner, Wade and others^ who hoped to oust the President from the White House. They watched every movement made by. and every word uttered by, the Chief- Justice with jealous attention; and Senator Drake of Missouri, since Chief-Justice of the Court of Claims, undertook one day to show that the President’s counsel had a hidden pur pose in addressing the presiding officer as “Mr. Chief-Justice,” while the managers and the Radical Senators addressed him as "Mr. Pres ident.” Senator Sprague, the Chief-Justice’s son-in-law, raised a laugh by inquiring wheth er—should Senator Drake’s motion prevail, and Mr. Johnson should he deposed—there wonld not then be two Presidents of the Senate, only one of whom could succeed to the Presidential chair. The most conspicuous person at the trial was Gen. Butler, who aad with him the sympathy of a majority of those in the crowded galleries and the admiration of the Radical Senators, who believed that he would have enabled them to have carried their point—depose Johnson and make Ben Wade President, with Sumner as his Secretary of State. Some of ths counsel floundered terribly in their arguments, but Butler was always ready for a ly emergen cy. One day Mr. Stanberry charged that the managers were endeavoring to carry on the trial with railroad speed. “Why not with nil- road speed?” said he, proceeding to show the railroad and telegraph had somewhat changed matters since the days when the Con stitution was adopted; that the telegraph could summon and ths railroad could bring a witness from the farthest limits of our domain in fewer hours now than it would have required months in that day. Why should the fact not be re cognized, and why should not railroad speed aid this matter too? Davis the Elephant. The elephantine David Davis was judge at an Illinois circuit containing fourteen coun ties, when his old crony, Abraham Lin min, called him to the Supreme Court of the Unitoa Rtxlaa in-lft&i. ■ There nevera more jnab \ or popular nisHprius judge thin Javid Davis. He did not enforce the most rigid rules of or der in his cosrt, but saw that everything wae done with propriety, with which he did not think a little humor now and then at all in compatible. He often questioned witnesses himself and was very severe on those who tried to prevaricate. “Man,” said he onoe to a witness who had long avoidtd replying to questions as to his feelings towards a party, “man, you know you hate the defendent, why don’t you say so, say so, say so, and stop yonr lying!” A young man of desperate charac ter had been convicted of robbing and craeliy treating an aged man. Tbe judge’s manner in sentencing him was absolutely terrible, and he closed by sending him “for seven years, to* the Illinois legislature!” He directed tho clerk, his attention being called to the slip oT" the tongue, to correct it on the record. Dur ing his long career on the circuit bench very few of his decisions were reversed by tho higher courts, and en the bench of the Su preme Court of the United States he won lau rels as a jurist Unfortunately the presiden tial maggot got into his brain, and he accepted a seat in the Senate, where partisans of both sides found fault with him as being neither fish, flesh nor fowl, nor yet good salt herring. He would not permit Henry B. Anthony, the republican caucus nominee, to be elected pres- identpro tempore of the Senate, but he had no scruples about securing his own election to that position. Mrs. Southworth. The most prolific author in the District of Columbia, is Mrs. Emma De Nevitt South- worth, a native of Maryland, and from early youth a resident of the District. She married young, and was the mother of two children when she first began to use her pen for a live- lihood. Her husband had deserted her, and her only means of support was what sums she could collect from ‘.he parents of young chil dren who attended a primary school which she established in that part of Washington called the Island. Her annual receipts were but lit tle over $200 when she first wrote for the Sat urday Visitor, published in Baltimore, and af terwards for the National Era, Dr. Bailey's Free Soil newspaper at Washington. When she began to receive liberal pay for her litera ry work, she built a picturesque cottage home on Georgetown Heights, perched on the edge of a bluff, overlooking the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and the Potomac river beyond. For many years she has written almost exclusively for the New York Ledger, which paper has re cently republished several of her stories en joyed by a former generation. Mrs. South- worth is near-sighted and somewhat absent- minded, but those who know her speak of her as an interesting, loveable woman, who lives to do good, and repays the cruel blows she has received in the battle of life by munificent charities and good works. Amusing. There was a great deal of amusement created at Washington in the Spring of 1857, when two correspondents, who had been retained by ths India rubber patentees, then at loggerheads, wrote private letters to Mr. Bennett of ths New York Herald, in which each denounced the other as a blackmailer and a scoundrel. Mr. Bennett very coolly published the letters of both, with imposing headlines, and when the paper arrived at Washington the anger and mortification of the two correspondents men tioned can better be imagined than described. Each had thought that he was writing confi dentially and denouncing the other side, and each found himself ^in a very unpleasant situs- ion. Sumner’s Wife. Charles Sumner’s wife was not the daugh ter of U. S. Senator Jon ithan Mason, as has recently been stated, but of his son, Jonathan Mason, who was born in Boston, March 12, 1795, and died there February 21, 1884 aged nearly eighty-nine years. The younger Jona than Mason entere i Harvard, where he had Jarei Sparks and John C. I’altrey as class mates, but temporary deafness forced him to abandon bis studies, and he devoted himself to the fins arts. He studied abroad, and while at Florence married Miss Isabella CowplartL His sisters married John C. Warren, David Sears, Patrick Grant and Samuel Parkman. His son, Philip Dummer Mason, served in the Union army as a lieutenant of artilery, and re ceived a wound of which he died in an army hospital. His daughter, Alice, first married a son of Hon. Sam Hooper, and after his death Charles Sifmner. She had a daughter by her first marriage, who ia, I believe, married. No child by the marriage with Mr. Sumner ia liv ing. I
