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Lexington,
Massachusetts—1776—
XSS7.
On the 19th of April, 1775, the battle of
Lexington, which inaugurated the struggle
which wrought our Nationality was fought.
On tLe 19lh instant the 112th anniversary was
celebrated in patriotic Etyie, the procession
piedding through eight inches of snow which
fell during the night preceding.
Gallant Southrons Coming.
The Elizabeth Leadir, N. J. says: The
fi.mous Gate City Guard of Atlanta, Georgia,
will visit Elizabeth, Saturday, June ISth, as
guests of the Veteran Zouaves. This magnifi
cent company will he heartily welcomed here,
and their stay something for its members to
remember tbe rest of their lives. The Zou
aves will escort the Guard from this city to
Jersey City, where it will embark on the
steamship I’cnnland for its great tour through
Europe.
How Long 'Will Land Last?
The Crawfordville Democrat says Mr. A. J.
Chapman is this year cultivating a spot of
ground that his grand father rented over eigh
ty-five years ago. And the grandsiie Chap
man said he rented it when he first came to
this country, and he said that his neighbors
told him then that it had already been rented
for enough money to cover it ever with silver
dollars. The same piece of land has been cul
tivated regularly ever since, and it has been
manured hut once in all these ycais; yet it
now bears good crops of com or anything else
that may be planted theroon.
tMtuipq^^Toss tho Bloody Chasm.
'*■— > ^' r,no l of nUlPMswJl cii.nnw.i-
nut the most gratify ing 1 art of it is that
these frequent gifts, some ot them very largo,
by the wealthy citizens of the North to the va
rious educational and benevolent institutions
of the South, shows that “the walls of parti
tion” are being broken down—that the people
of the two sections are beginning to under
stand each other better—and that tie frater
nal sentiment is now constantly widening and
deepening.
Bessemer, Alabama.
One scarcely gets over the astonishment ex
perienced over the magical growth of one new
town in Alabama, before another challenges
attention, and whose growth is equally mar
velous. Yet it seems that the presence in
such immensity of raw material, the need of
the age for the products of this raw mate
rial, and the increase of capital and the abun
dance of labor seeking employment, that this
rapid development should excite no surprise,
nor the fear of a collapse be indulged. Ev
erything points to permanent prosperity.
It is but a short time since Birmingham was
founded, now a prosperous, growing city; An
niston followed, baa developed wonderfully
fast, and promises to be one of the great man
ufacturing centers of the South; then Sheffield
was founded, and possesses advantages which
must soon place her in the front rank of enter-
prising, and progressive, and prosperous cities.
Id the meantime other cities have caught the
spirit of development and have exhibited un
expected vitality.
Now comes Bessemer, a new city twelve
miles south-west of Birmingham, founded, it
would seem, by the joint enterprise and sur
plus capital of Southern men and capital—New
Orleans, Natchez, Nashville and Charleston,
and, perhaps, citizens representing other cities
and some capital from abroad.
About two weeks ago several companies
were organized at the new city representing
millions of dollars—New Orleans alone $500,
000. Among these were:
The Orleans Land and Building Company,
capital $100,000, J. C. Morris, l*residcnt, and
Thomas L. Airey, Secretary and Treasurer,
This company has bought about one hundred
and fifty lots, aud will at once erect twenty-
eight stores and residences.
The Natchez Land and Improvement Com
pany also organized, capital $200,000, J. N.
Carpenter, President, aud Thomas L. Airey,
Secretary and Treasurer. This company has
bought two hundred building lots, aud will
soon erect stores and residence buildings with
modem conveniences.
A Charleston company has made large pur
chases of building sites, and are erecting a row
of handsome brick stores.
Sales of five hundred lots were made ia one
day, within the limits of the city proper, at
from fifty to seventy-five dollars per front
foot, and this, too, as it were, in the woods.
There are already four large iron furuaces
in operation; and the new DeBardeleben fur
nace, now approaching completion at a cost of
$(100,000, will start up in July. In addition,
contracts have been closed for two new fur
uaces of the same capacity as the DeBardele
ben. Work has already commenced on the
new Bessemer rolling mill, which will give em
ployment to fifteen hundred skilled hands; and
the foundations arc being laid for a handsome
and commodious four-story brick hotel.
The use of iron extends and increases every
day. Iron ore abounds in Alabama, and the
coal necessary to convert it into metal lies be
side it; and, with these natural resources and
advantages and increased consumption, we
may reasonably expect the prosperity of Ala
bama to be permanent. We see it staled that
over 59,000 metal ties have been ordered from
England for the railways in Mexico, to be de
livered and laid on their extensions during
1887. Many of these ties are to be used hun
dreds of miles inland from the point of diliv
cry on the coast of Mexico, after being freight
ed across the ocean. Now, do not the mar
kets South of us naturally belong to us? Aud
cannot we make iron cheap enough, with well
paid labor at that, to compete with England in
Luis branch ol manufacture? Who will say
.ous am. nTamlfftcruriu goods, if we hut send
them to them. Then why should not the pros
perity wo enj >y he permanent and progress
ive? Who dare assert the “boom” w ill i.„
A Tramp Trip Through Europe.
In his volume of how he saw Europo for
fifty cents a day, Mr. Lee Merriwethcr not
only affords some very entertaining reading,
but he imparts a good deal of information in
regard to the manner of living among the
working classes in the old world. Of the
phase of society to which be confines his ob
servations almost exclusively, ordinary tourista
tell us very little. They who pass through
the country on the railroads, and stop at fine
hotels, see next to nothing of the hard struggle
for existence which everywhere claimed the
attention of the pedestrian. We are very glad
tc hear tbe information which he furnishes re
specting these matters; but we must prefer ob
taining it through the medium of his readable
book, than to purchase it at the cost of the
many unpleasant experiences through which
he had to pass. The lodgings and fare which
he had to take in order to confine his expenses
within the prescribed amount were not very
enjoyable. But the leisure afforded by this
style of traveling for observing noted pieces
and interesting scenery compensated for much
inconvenience. When he stopped to view
some old castle or to climb a mountain, there
was no inexorable schedule to hurry him away
before he was half satisfied. Considering how
ample wire his opportunities for observing
places and tilings hitherto little described, wo
are a little disappointed at finding so small
an amount of really new matter in his book.
Ue could, we thiuk, have swelled bis volume
to its present, or even greater size without in
troducing any of those episodes which, how
ever much they may impart to the vivacity of
his narrative, add nothing to its value as a
book of travels. It is agreeable reading, and
we hope will be extensively read. The plain
though painful descriptions of how the labor
ing classes live on the continent of Europe,
ought to make those of our people who study
his accounts, satisfied with their vastly supe
rior condition. From Mr. Merriwether’s
showing there are those in Italy, Germany and
Russia whose miseries are unquestionably due
to bad government, and they are not to be
blamed when they plot revolutions. But in
this country ho who plans to upset tho exist
ing order of things is not only unreasonable,
but wholly without an argument.
MUSINGS OF MY EVENTIDE.
assert the “boom” will not be
perpetual? If we are true to ourselves, our
advantages, cur opportunities, why should it
not be"
TownPolks Canno: Know Every thing.
The Macon Telegraph says, If the Georgia
farmer ever wants advice he should go to the
city man and get it. The city man knows
how to make a profit by growing 7 cents cotton
at b cents, how to raise corn without fertili
sers, buy fertilizers without money, and raise
ogs and cattle upon air and faith. Bless our
knowing souls, we have the matter reduced to
science; which brings us to the point- We
have for years told tho farmer how to live and
grow fat, and charged him nothing for the in
formation. Will not the farmer drop iu Sat-
- ^ ? XI ’ lain b ° W 10 Ja * dust i!1 a city of
wo.000 inhabitants, and on a boom at that’
And we hold that since our advice has been
rendered with the utmost gravity, the farmer
should be courteous enough to restrain his
smiles. It is not to be expected that town
iolks should know everything.
Votes for Sale.
A convention of colored men from the vari
ous Southern States has been called by T. A.
Randolph, a leading colored lawyer of Vir
ginia, to meet at Danville in that State. The
object of this convention is stated to be “to
organize the colored men as independents po
litically, upon the principle of voting with the
party only' tLat will agree to advance the i:
dustrial interests of the negro.” It is perfectly
right that the negro should use every legiti
mate means to advance his industrial interests
but when he sets himself up in ihe market to
sell his vote to the party that will make him
the best promise in that direction, he is cer
tainly ad opting a very demoralizing experiinen t.
He is a freeman and should vote iu all elec
tions as conscience and judgment dictate, and
enter into no combinations to extract from a
political party promises that are not likely to
be fulfilled. Ilis experience in this line ought
to have taught him wisdom in this matter. H e
has voted and talked, and worked lor one po
litical party ever since bis investiture with the
privilege of voting, aud what has that party
done to promote his industrial interests, or, in
truth, any other interest*? It has been said
that “republics aro ungrateful.” There can
What it is to Be Socially Ostracised.
A hit of history shows how fearfully wild—
should we not say crazy’—people had grown
at the national capital during and immedi
ately succceiing our civil war. Tho recital of
the social ostracism brought to bear against
Gen. Eitz John l’ortcr almost challenges be
lief. Here was an officer of the army who
was charged with the commission of a grave
crime, tried by a court-martial and declared
guilty, and barely escaped with his life, but
was deprived of his commission and declared
ineligible to hold any office under the Govern
ment of the United States. He made appeal
after appeal to have his case reopened, declar
ing his ability to prove his innocence, but par
tisan feeling was so bitter against him that
his efforts were treated with scorn and con
tempt. Twenty years after this court-martial
which appears to have been organized to con
vict, had declared him guilty of a crime for
which he deserved to be shot or hanged a
board of army officers investigated the matter
thoroughly aud they declared that he was en
tirely innocent of the charge preferred against
him. Here was another victim of circumstan
tial evidence manipulated by partisan mali»-
nity. The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Times tells the story of Gen. Porter's
ostracism and his triumph as follows:
Not Conventional.
It is sometimes said of people, with the pur
pose of paying them compliments, that they
are not conventional—that they do not hold
themselves hound by conventionalities. This
may be praise or it may not. It is certainly
not commendable in any one to disregard ail
tho laws of society. Nay, wc think it must be
aduiitted that in the main society is correct in
the rules which it jirescribes for the govern
ment of its members. The man or the woman
who decides that these are unsound, and pro
ceeds upon this decision to give them a practi
cal setting aside, will act most unwisely. But
at the same time it is truo that one may be too
particular about following the liue of conduct
which society prescribes. There is found now
and then a difference between propriety and
sound Christian ethics, and in all such cases
there should be no hesitation about following
the latter. Sometimes men, and tolerably of
ten women, are placed where they must either
refuse to do what Christian charity demands
of them or go coutiary to the generally ac-
cepied notions of propriety. At such junct-
es it is an indication of true manhood or
womanhood to rise above these conventional
restrictions. To withhold aid from the needy
or a word of kindness from those woo are suf
fering from the strokes of adverse fortune, up-
_ -I.. *i-* —. n s mTmstkrcan-
praise. But .there are those who evince a
pride m being unconventional—who are actu
ated by no motive of benevolence; but who
on the contrary, merely wish to show their
Talk with a Lady-Friend About her
Foreign Tour,
BY REV. A. A. LIPSCOMB, D. D.
rwasTi-xiouin riraa.
I.
A few days since, a lady-friend who is a fre
quent and always a welcome visitor at Wee
Willie Cottage, called to see me. Her face
and manner had that bright, communicative
look which she wears when she is in her most
genial moods and I instantly read in that un
written language the promise of an entertain
ing hour. By nature, she is an admirable
talker, and by practice, she has carried her
native endowment to the perfection of a fine
art. On this occasion, aided by the beautiful
weather which spring was ushering in as
Ethereal Mildness, I found her in more than
usual sympathy with that delicate and half-
hidden quality of impersonation, which
Thompson adopts so frequently in verifying
our own fainter experience by his poetical en
thusiasm. A great good it is to see material
nature through the finer eyes of gifted people
and to feel its deeper meanings through the
warmer pulses of their hearts; and, in this in
stance, 1 was eager enough to catch inspira
tion from one who had brought so much of the
gentle season that had already betokened her
fuller advent in the melody aud beauty which
the poet celebrattb.—
< wnile music wakes around, veiled In a shower ol
shadowing roBts.”
Knowing how sensitive my friend's intel
lectual structure was, I tcok care not to let her
know in so many words what topic I wished
her to expatiate on, for, woman-hke, she talks
much better if left to her spontaniousness.
Volitional talk is always more or less stilted
and artificial; and I find that the only way to
get the best out of people, is by indirect and
circuitous modes of approach. She had spoken
of her return to London from the continent in
time to spend Swuday. Aug. 22,1880, and I
pulled gently on the leading string of au asso
ciation she had furnished in one ot her letters,
viz.: “It was quite a pleasant coincidence
that we had been recommended to a boarding
house which Mr. Spurgeon had lived in when
lie first came to Loudon as a preacher not yet
eighteen years old. According to his own ac
count, the youth, hardly a man except in
nius and consecration, had not a very agreea
ble time of it, as some of his people were not
much in sympathy with him and engaged
boarding for him, the little room ho occupied
being scaicely big enough for him to say his
prayers in. Literally, it was his “closet,”
small, very small.”
I happened to remark: “Well, M , lie had
growth in him, and, like tbe Nautilus in one
of your paroside poems, added on to his ac
commodations.”
Indeed, he did, and he soon grew to be the
biggest preacher for his size in London."
II.
“Of course, then, you heard him preach.
Tell me something about him, for he has long
been a most interesting character to me.
Come now, let us compare notes.”
“Well,” resumed she, “Mr. Spurgeon had
scut us tickets ta his tabernacle; and so, after
an eight o'clock breakfast, we went to tho of
fice of the house to inquire concerning the
hour to leave, tbe route to take, and tho etcet
eras useful to strangers.” "Bit you need net
hurry,” said the landlord; “teu o’clock wifi
be early enougn to lea?e. London is empty
at this season, there not being more than four
millions of people in the city.” But tbe start
ling information about the four millions in
creased our anxiety to hurry off, and, as it
turned out, we reached the tabernacle none
too soon. The tickets were simply envelopes
to contain the contributions, which we were
expected to drop in the box at the gate. 1
wished to kci .iilie envelope as a memento, so
I tool out theVmtribution and dropped it in
the box; but ttijgaie keeper observed me and
asked that I sLimfe deposit the envelope with
tbe money in ■ box, which I did. Entering
the church, Jwere conducted up inu
first galleiy .jf J" mid that ve should h tve a
seat) but afi
? l “ ,, dmgio|m occupied—and I wasvividly
onWfmr nfiffi j“f ,0rd ,’ 8emptJ ' Lont, ° n "lib
only four mil.ufs of souls. Just think of it—
membership of ever five thou-
The Original Billy Patterson
and Who Struck Him.
(he church has i
defiance of I-ublic opinion. They delight in I sa, ’d..aud the eiormons a^ffitorium is said to
doing things out of the ordinary line merely I C °?. vy 11 ,. 8eVL ' a thousand persons.”
that they may cause people to stare and talk, of Zi i L° U J v ? e not ,accustomed to f he sight
T here is nothing worthy of commendation it
the freedom of these from conventionalities.
It lacks altogether the honest loyalty to truth
and right that causes one to prefer dsing;
good act, for which he will be censured, to fol
owing a beaten track where no risk of blame
is incurred. The boldness that prompts one
to outrage decency bears no resemblance to
the moral heroism which performs unpleasant
duties in tlio face of obloquy.
question as to the justness of the chare©
WtsA in
be no
i f applied to political parties. They will throw
a sop now and then to a faction or an individ
ual where such action will benefit the party
not the individual or the faction.
If the negro wishes to advance his industrial
nterestshemustdoit as other classes have
by inmnL Per8i8tent ,abor > directed
^intelligence and a determination todo right 1
r^ ‘“I™ iDtere8t8 ° f action nor of a
race can be promoted in any other way. Only
the industrious and frugal succeed in the path
thTwh l t0aU - t0tbe «o Jess than to
te man. There is no manliness in the
negro putting his vote to b
"iSSSX!?- Wbea lbe negro -
as mere votes cannot
“There can not be many persons in the
world who would begrudge Gen. Fitz John
Porter aud his most agreeable wife and very
attractive pair of daughters the good time that
they had in Washington this winter. For
twenty years the general’s family have care
fully avoided Washington; and tho general
himself has visited the capital only when
obliged to. They had enemies here whose
coldness or hostility they did not care to ex
pose themselves to, and they had friends
whom they did not wish to embarrass or com
promise. The ostracism that Gen. Porter's
sentence carried with it can hardly be de
scribed. Not only during Secretary Stanton’s
life, but under successois of his, if was not
safe, or at least it was not at all convenient
for an officer of the army to be known to be
on any sort of personal terms with Gen. Por
ter. The sentence was one that compelled
army officers to drop his acquaintance, at least
by si ay light and iu the presence of other peo
ple, aud it is only within a few years that an
officer could be.known as a friend of the gen
eral without suffering for it Now the gen
eral comes back to Washington with his vin
dication by the Schofield board’s report in-
Liability of Telegraph Companies.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee has ren
dered a decision holding that telegraph com
pauies are responsible, in damages, for neg.i-
gence in their operators in the transmission of
messages. It appears that Thomas S. Marr
banker and broker ot Nashville, sent an order
by the Western Union Telegraph to his cor-
respondent m New York to buy for him one
thousand shares of Memphis & Charleston
railroad stock. The order, as received in New
fork, read one hundred shares, which were
purchased at 02 cents on the dollar. The
market rose rapidly on the day of this pur
chase and closed at about 07 cents, and re-
mamed at about that figure the day following.
Mr. Marr was not advised of the error ia his
message until the day following the purchase
of the one hundred shares, but he did not re
new his order for several days, by which time
the stock had made a further advance, so that
the stock actually cost him about $3 000 more
than it would have cost him but for ’the error
in Ins message. Marr instituted suit i u the
Circuit Court to recover damages upon the
ground of the negligence of the Telegraph
Company in the transmission of his message
The cause was tried by the Circuit Jutfoe
without a jury, who found that the mistake
was due to the negligence of the agent of the
defendant at the receiving office in Nashville
but that under the printed regulations of the
Company, contained on the blank used by
plaintiff, he was limited in his recovery of
damages to a sum not exceeding ten times the
price paid for transmission, which was thirty
cents, and he accordingly gave judgment for
only three dollars.
The case was then taken by appeal to the
Commission of Referees, which tribunal re
ported that the stipulations or agreement
r , • “ -- Ut-vuniumcu in l Ilf* SItrhI
f ™ a “ ass of people,” I remarked. “But
1 just lrom the Alps,” she replied “and
Imbituaud to colossal scenes?
sLu-thewfod wc . re Provided with excellent
seats—tlie whole of our party—about ten feet
from the speaker, and a little on one side.”
,ar ’ K0 / ;0< “ 1 - Vour preliminaries whet
my desire to hear you further.’*
m.
‘‘ Vou w‘»h me to describe the sermon. Did
)on ever know e-woman that could analyze a
discourse?” “l e8 , some, not many; the rnos
theR oiefi°° Slr ° ng aud exu beraiit with
their pictorial aojectives. Hut I can trust
J” tou "4 e without the least fear of over-
muchncss in the sketch of a Sunday sermon
S,"' SP'wgoon. If you make no effort, you
p e certain tc succeed.”
“To begin then; every expectation was more
worVlfjrt Ke I s lhe ^ Preacher t*he
wor.d tvei knew. Possibly, this may be ex
travagant, hut certainly one century 'can only-
produce one such man.” 1
“IVhy, you have heard Mr. Beecher, ard
«nL£ PU J gUOn 1,as 88id; Beecl ‘m- is the Shak-
speare of preachers.”
f-‘! 1 ’® 8; ,?, he " <i -' Ir - Beecher hut he didn’t af-
vou foi l J !n lr ' • t ’P ur K eon - The man makes
?i? U „ 1 tbat he ls - vour Personal friend—talks
mat way—prays that way!”
"5° Ubt ?‘r but , you were fresh from Lu
cerne, and Thoniaiden’s Lion and Mont Blanc
h b f? g ' ,t t0 Bmidon and, perchance, thev
nau loft their inspirations unawares in yon-
blood. But your possibly is a saving clause
.,3 be moment, fcc rose to prayer there was'
silence like that of death over all that vast
multitude; and all through the reading of the
scriptures, the hymns and sermon, the audi
ence seemed spellbound. Now, I may have
been somewhat t xtravagant when I spoke of
saw ^mt^T ■ firealest Preacher the work over
saw, but I ignore even the “perhaps'’ when I
speak of the intense and almost breathless si
lence which lasted through the exercises
heard him 1 ’ 1 n ? liced ,hat T ,® ry when I
neard him .wen'y years ago."
brow fi re ‘‘'rn Ut i L10th 1,sallu ’ ^ the 7th of "e-
hymns were good, old fashioned
BY “TOM YARD.”
Ringing down :hroagh the ages, mingling
with centuries and coquetting with decades,
comes the old and decrepit question, “Who
struck Billy Patterson.” It was asked by J.
Iscariot, L. Q. C. Herod and other footlight
favorites of o den times. Go if you will to the
oldest inhabitant of your town or country and
wake hiui at midnight when the stars are
shining above and the dew-drop glistens upon
the cabbage-leaf below; ask him who struck
Billy Patterson, and he will get up, glide to
the nearest window, raise it gently, relieve
bis throat of accumulated tobacco juice and
other drift wood, wipe his mouth with one
corner of the piano cover, step on the cat and
exclaim, “Sir! I have been asked that ques
tion from my youth up.” As far back as I can
remember into the distant heretofore, even
into the one-suspender days of boyhood, I
have heard that question asked, and so it has
ever remained the one great unanswerable,
unexplained, and that fadest not away ques
tions of both the past and present time. I
have before me a copy of the “Jerusalem Ohbe-
durn,” a daily paper published at Jerusalem in
the year 103 aud one-half, B. C., in which is
published a biographical sketch of the life of
the original Billy l’attcrson. From this sear
and yellow leaf of ancient literature I glean
the following in regard to the renowned Billy
and the lick that laid him low and at the same
time laid his name upon the dusty shelf of im
mortality. Speaking of his sudden demise,
the Ohbedurn says: “Billy at the age of seven
was au orphan boy. This was caused by his
parenis being deceased. But Billy, like all
orphan boys, had a good aud kind uncle who
seemed to take great interest in him. lie
was also liis guardian and had a controlling
interest in the barn and other out
houses left to Billy by his lamented
father. Billy’s uncle was noted for his
far-sigbtednt68 and bad breath. It was
said tint he was at one time employed iu
a fertilizer factory, his duty being to blow his
bieatli upon the guano and give it that pecu
liar odor which enables you to easily locate a
sack of it in any crowded freight depot. This
kind uncle thought that Billy should learn
some good and useful trade at once, lie di-J
not wish him to become a dyspeptic dry goods
clerk, and have to use a diet of angel food and
crackers with an occasional powder taken with
cathartic intent. But he desired him to be a
strong and muscular man, whose only sugges
tion aB to diet would be to give me some more
of the same. So he told Billy that he must
learn the blacksmith’s trade. Billy remon
strated with a large size kick at first, assuring
his uncle that he sighed not for the lonely re
treat of the blacksmith. But his uncle told
him he must sigh. So Billy arose up early in
the morning, when none but the early worm
was astir, and wandered down to the dingy
old shop by the roadside. Being naturally of
an industrious turn, Billy began looking
around to see what his hands could find to do,
so that he might do it willingly. IIis eyes
rested upon the cooling tub filled with dirty
water and scrap iron. The thought struck
him that it would at least he a sanitary bless
ing to empty this and fill it again with fresh
ram water. He accordingly aid so. He then
noticed upon Ihe rostrum—in the fire-place
near Ihe mouth of the bellows (autopsy speak
ing)—slight traces of where charcoal had once
lain. He thought it was about time to lay on
another handful. He did even so. The black-
smi-li came in, and seeing his refiection in the
cooling tub lie called Billy *o him and asked
him what had happened. Billy explained as
how he had emptied the contents of the tub in
the back yard and filled it again with clear wa
ter. The blacksmith shook his head and admon
ished Urn with an awful warning never to do
so again, saying that it was not only positively
forbidden by ail blacksmiths of good stanu-
ing, hut that it was a bad ouieu, and that
it was generally believed that the blacksmith
who ever in life emptied or allowed his cooling
tub to be emptied, would some day be sudden
ly yanked into eternity with the emblem of
good luck carved upon his cheek. The black
smith then noticed the fresh layer of charcoal
on the fire. He removed il quickly sav.ug tc
Billy ln*l it was only necessary lo pqt one
lhe amount of charcoal 'used as upon ^he 1
^ ,r earil,g , < r l0 "°' llu ‘Ben informed
billy that they would give an open air enter- '
wasTo be shn 1° ° Ck ’ a f Wl ‘ Cb time a mtiIe
was to he shod upon whose hind feet shoes
had never before rested. Ifo toM B.iiv tha)
this was the one trying time in b very ''black
smith's career, and that many would come
In o a L aud then hack. lie said he would
admit that it was discouraging to a vomi"
blacksmith to have to scop while hammering a
soine it L b j'n„ P ° W - a !l d , tura tlj e hose on his
m o ’, Baung ignited from flying snarks
1 his, however, he could get over in tin,/ But
when ic comes to taking a mule’s hind foot in
jour arms and caressing it iu the open air i-
was altogether different P 11
‘Be appointed hour came, the black-
limi-- h nnri 1 emfi tb?b0SUer ‘ oa Pi» 0 ach with the
mul., find gathering up a large tea grass rone
from the corner of tho slmr. i,« ... ,o.. „
“From yarns and kindly hearts
And eyas wh.re gentlest mean ing born,
Ruoneet tbe liaht of life dope- ts
Bat lingers with tbe cold and stern.’*
The Markham House in this city has been
closed for repairs, and will not be re-opened
till the 20th of June.
It is said that the Delaware peach crop will
be very large, but it is sad to think that in
Georgia we will scarcely see a peach fit to eat
It is predicted that Delaware will produce 10,-
000,000 baskets of this delicious fruit.
The Chattanooga Commercial says: No other
city, nor any alleged city, need claim the cog
nomen of “Queen City of the South.” That
title was copyrighted by Chattanooga long
ago, and all infringers will be dealt with ac
cording to law.
There is said to be a genuine case of leprosy
at Louisville, liy. 'J'be victim is one John
Haskins, who contracted the disease at Hono
lulu three years ago. llad it made its appear
ance in San Francisco the Chinese would have
been charged with it, of course.
According to the statistics just published by
the government bureau at 'Washington, we are
spending in this country for malt and spirit
uous liquors, seven hundred million dollars a
3 ear, or twice as much as it costs to support
the government of the United States.
The New York lilar says General George II.
Sheridan’s characterization of Colonel Iuger-
soll as “a moral and intellectural anarchist,”
was the most idling i hrase iu a lecture re
markable for beautiful illustration of a close I
and well-sustained logical argument.
Extraordinary Club List,
The Sunny South and Any
Other Paper or Magazine at
About the Price of One.
Clubbed with Dailies at Lesa than
the Frice One.
“No less a person,” says Mr. Kiddie, “than
the late M ss Charlotte Cushman told me with
her own lips that Boston never supported nor
gave her encouragement, nor God-speed even,
till London aud other cities had set their
stamp of approval on her merits as an actress. ”
The railway interests of the country and the
business interests, as a matter of course, are
embarrassed somewhat by the Inter-State
Commerco law. Nobody knows anything
about it-hut the Commission, and they do not
know as much as the provisions of the law re
quire.
The Rome Duiletin justly says, much is now
being said about tbat follow Knapp of Atlanta.
We should think that a bouquet should be
made up and sent to him, a card, etc. I’ieaee
do not leave the impression that he is a mar
tyr. We presume that he is nothing more
tiian a common thief. Always call things by
their right names.
It is reported lrom Zanzibar that Emin Bey
went to see King M’wanga; of Uganda, last
November, and asked to be allowed to go
through his country to Zanzibar. The per
mission was refused, but Emin got off without
injury. This King M’wanga rivals Solomon
**•—wive*, alilionah he is
corner of tho shop, he made a run
Ding noose at one eml and, taking the other
end in ins hand, he climbed the old rionlar
tree near the door, allowing the noose fo rest
on he ground. When the mule stepped his
foot in the noose he drew in the on i
one hind huff of the mule swung"'out’ into
spate. Bdly rushed forward, and, catching
the bent twig of the i>..>fi> i— ---..'8
blacksmith to descend.
The Galveston A’ea-s has become a convert
| to this great truth: “Tho hahit of puffing
anything and everything, from a poodle do-
to a poinmian, is the crying newspaper evil of
the day. Every speaker is not eloquent be
cause he is a Democrat, roriseveryjoui.-as-
pmant a genius. It is insulting to the iufeffi-
genee of the public to tell them so.”
It has been not^d^^iy all deaths of
prominent piople reported in this country of
late years have been sudden and unexpected
Death is always sudden and unexpected,”
■sa.d Henry Ward Beecher, ‘-whether it strifes ,
a man m the prime of life or in old age in
ShelP a a y T ° f Sick,Je «'" Alexander I
Mitchell s demise is the latest addition to the
I he New 1 ork Mail and Depress says there
will be a deep and melancholy interest in the
official statement of those who were present
.... as witnesses of the opening of the .
began operation at once. ^ ** “e ttfor'
dorsed by both branches of Congress and the I talD£d ‘ u ‘B e printed blank are invalid, in
President. He and his family attended a re- far 38 tbey limit 1116 recovery of plaintiff for
ception at the White House immediately after damages resulting from the negligence nf *i.
Has?* swn ass cs d r a “ i -,«*« ££££
judgment in favor of the plaintiff for the dif
ference between the market value of nine hun
dred shares on the day the message was re
ceived and their value the next day. The Su
preme Couit affirms this opinion, holding that
_ _ ) army
and had a right to wear the uniform and dec
orations of his grade, but he sought to avoid
rather than attract attention. He was of
course very generally recognized, and was
greeted with much cordiality by everv
intelligence Qlrected I w »o knew him. He spent little time here but
c inrinattUai aud a determination todo right Mrs. Porter and the Misses Porter were here
a month, and civil and military officials Re
publicans as well as Democrats, took pains to
pay them very marked attentions. In every
way their month in Washington was made as
pleasant as possible to them. They were con
stantly invited out, and wherever they went
people treated them with a courtesy that was
more than Ihe mere civilities of the occasion
demanded. No one can fail to admire the
struggle for justice that the general main
tained against tremendous odds for so many
years, and sympathy with Mrs. Porter and the
young ladies was inevitable. Now that the
official record has been made to correspond
all <1 ex f jdil, iiocuoir
ail tile deacons sat on the platform, called
here the p u ]p it . one of them came’to ,ho
Pfo8an“ d ^‘ 8ed ‘Be hymn, when all the poo-
Pie sang. Gionous church music it was. Once
“Mv & lit le , wh f n Mr ' 8P“««w said:
my friends, large bodies move slowly 1
,, su fi5f 8t ‘Bat you quicken your time a
nixie. 4 hint was enough. Instantiv tlm
volume of music swelled to such a degree as lo
? lake ‘Be welkin ring and I was almost lifted
from iny seat. ILs subject was the Ever-Liv-
“ g "cb, vii, 232M vs. Presenting^
,.r • ‘"‘Pressive introduction the superiority
of Christ 8 priesthood by contrast with the
Aaronic order of priests, and that like Mel-
chieedec „ order, it had neither beginning of
days nor end of life. Then came in order
(v; BBr'st as a priest with an endless life; 2
nith endless priesthood; 3. Endless iuterees-
seemed about to drop a crown upon the
undertakmg a sweat bee alighted on P Billyh
£ e f. k > B' s Bold on the mule loosened for an in-
. taut there was a loud crash followed by a
sound like beating an old carpet in springtime
mttW f n kt f ? gl « Ud a ' ld al1 ' vas sti ' 1 save the
rattle of mule hoofs on the stony hillside three
quarters of a mile away. Kind friends gath
ered up the scattered remnants of the biack-
sinith and placing them in shape in a fine coffin
mid him in state in the woodshed.
Weeping relatives carried Billy into the
house and laid him out upon the clean conn
terpane, where he soon manag.d to shake of
the few remaining mortal coil and passed awn-
just as the sun slid down behind the western
clay bank and twilight clasped the afternoon
were somewhat shrunken, but the feathers
ere quite natural, and we could readily "
cognized them as tho features of the former
illustrious President of —
our Nation and our
lm h *L d “ k I- a .i'“ S ’. "'B* 1 ? oi the 1 outside peo-
former friend and feilow-citizen
An exchange says Washington is becoming I
terribly pious. The Sunday laws are enforced '
there with a striciness hitherto unknown
All the bars arc closed both in front and i„
the rear, and their proprietors are notified that
a&mssw"*-«•»« w
By special arrangement with the leading
publishers we are able to offer the moat liberal
clubbing rates that have ever been presented
to the public. Examine the list and see for
yourself. Any leading paper or magazine may
be secured with the Sunkt South at very
nearly the price of one. For instance, the reg
ular subscription price to Puck is $5 and the
Sukhy South $2, but we furniah them both
for $5.75.
No subscription for less than a years will be
forwarded for other publications.
AU complaints in regard to other papers must
be addressed to the publishers of those papers,
and not to the Scssr South.
The Sukst South must be included in each
and every order for any other pubUcation.
That is, a person cannot.order one copy of tie
Sunkt South and two, three, or a half adozec
other papers. The Sunkt South must be or
dered with each.
We give our old subscribers the benefit ol
these clubbing rates when they renew for a
year, but they cannot renew their subscriptions
with other papers though this scheme. They
can only get the benefit of these rates when
ordering publications to which they are not al
ready subscribers.
Examine tho list and secure your re.Bing
matter at these reduced figures. The offer is
unparalleled. The list includes about all the
leading journals and magazines in the United
States, and the figures opposite each include
that publication and the Sunkt Soutu both
for one year.
Sunkt South ut American Agriculturist. ..lt.lt
■ “ “ Alta California Z78
‘ •* “ Atlantic Monthly ask
• “ 11 American line Journal.... £.50
• •* *• Arkansas Gazette 2.7D
• “ “ Arkansas Dt mot-rat 2.75
■ “ •• Arkansas Traveller 8.15
» " “ American bueep Breocer.. 2.25
• •- “ American Pouiiry Journal 2.4c
• “ “ Boston Globe i.ao
■ “ “ Boston Globe Dally ($6.00j 6.26
** “ Ballous Magazine 2.S0
> “ ** Baltimore Telegram 8.15
• “ “ Baltimore Mani. Record... 8.75
> »* •» Baltimorean s.m
i n •• California Fatron 2,75
. •» it Century Magazine c.28
• ‘ “ Charleston News & Courier 8.00
i •• Charleston News and Goc-
- Her Dally ($12.00) 10.7T
• •• “ Chicago Inter-Ocean c.GO
■ »> •• Chicago Journal 2.55
1 •• •• Chicago Ledger 2.75
1 Chicago Times 2.7D
1 n ii Chicago Tribune 2.36
1 •> •* Chicago Union Signal 8.15
1 •« *• Chicago Standard 3.76
1 •• •> Chicago Currant 4.66
1 •. “ Chicago Sporting a no The
atrical Journal... 4.76
1 - *• CtucinnalWEnqulrer..""' 2 06
1 n “ Chicago Herald 2.50
' “ “ Cincinnati Graphic * 4.75
1 ** “ Courier-Journal 2.63
i »« •• Christian Union * * 4.25
' “ “ Christian Evangelist.'. 3 a
1 •• “ Christian at Work '40c
1 " “ Detroit Free Press " ' 2 60
■1 n Dairy World 2.25
’ •’ “ Dentorest’s Magazine".'" 3 26
: »i •• Donahoe’s Magazine 3.00
1 “ “ Eclectic Magazine . 5 75
‘ “ “ Farm, Field aud Stockman 3.00
■ n “ Lcsdes Sunday Magazine 3.75
1 H ii Leslie s Popular Monthly. 4.15
1 “ Leslie’s lllua. Newspaper. 4 S3
' “ “ Family Magazine s.ac
1 n n Florida Ximes-Union 2.50
1 *• “ Galveston News. " s 00
1 n •• Gleason's Companion!"’" ‘2.26
1 • n Codey’s Lady’s Book....3.25
1 “ “ Harper's Magazine "4 75
•* •* Harper’s Weekly 4.03
•1 a Harper’s Bazar 4.25
■■ •• Hall 3 Journal of Health." 2.50
•• •» Home Circle o
mi «: Jilns. C’Drjaaau rfckkf~,\'
;; “ inrefan- Mre - LA
.1 te rary World.”
•• * Llppmeott’s Magazine"** liS
foppmeott’s Sunday^Magl
i'i « Lit.ten's Living'Age f'S
“ " Wacim. Telegraph h! f'S
;; ;• Magazml of f aS'
** " £a»hvj]]e American irS
u American” bail
u .a wr £ iwauwj...
* “ Nashville Baiinpr
• : IlfSlSi§l
“ “ 2 - Ti
“ " New
" " £ ew Fork Ledger S
New Turk Week-f
“ “ New York Herlm 4 -L3
“ New York Herew 2 ' 6S
•*' ::
.. £ ,ew .>°, r , k Graph,,. ;;
“ “ NewYorkOhserverVn^ ( *‘‘> «
“ New York M^ T < sub8 17E
“ m K e w Ynri 7* <1 - Journal... 6.75
: •- Ne e :?sf 8 ^s&g
•• North American RF4vf’«m**
{Jl? rland , Monthly / view * * J-g
•• Peterson s M&vartrL 4,73
“ “ Puck ($5.00)******* s.25
M •• Phihldttlniiia 4.95
SBUadelphiaT^V,—
S!!!..?.?®, PB'a Times Dally! 6A6
Pbrenolimpicai Jam-mi; F-
Poultry World.. „„
Quiver
Ei
pie were hurrying to and fro eagerly inquirin
who struck Billy Batterson. * J J '
„ii?* e J Bntteau De I’attasson was shrouded in
f h‘« f n r tw j and seven hours, then they
rook Billy and the blacksmith out and UiW
onm, l ^a eSt J n ‘. be cen * e,ar >' beneath the shade
of the o d cedar tree w here the sunflower blows
to Uiovvestern ^b^But^'V'XT
whether it was the
heavily fined, and their licenses will be for-
w‘w °l t i e :^ C °. nd ° ffeD8e ' Tbe of soda
water is forbidden. It
is questionable whether
mules foot that struck the fatal blow or a fly-
agf f a ?r>“ of . ‘Be blacksmith laid him low
we shall never know. Let us dwell on that
chorus. Ii e shall never know.
claim such recognition
purehag, Their leaders' «"CtiTmto
h!v, mT S .°. ^ 1116 faCt tLa ‘ when they
the lamf Lhpv^n tlVe * S * U intelii & ent power in / with the historical record, and the fighT for
and they will not need to dicker and bar- i ustice is won, Washington society without
gam with political parties for the purchase of r ? gard 10 P oli ‘ios, was glad to make things as
their rotes under any pretext. j flofu' 3 *” SS P oss ‘^ e ‘Bo general aud his
the same reasons which make void the con-
tracts of a common carrier, by which he seeks
to be wholly exempt from the consequences of
his own negligence or that of hia servants, ap-
ply with equal force to similar agreements
contracts or stipulations or rules or notices
by which a telegraph company seeks immu
nity from all responsibility for its negligence.”
The Court ordered a judgment entered
ggainst the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany for $1,125 with interest, and for all the
costs of tlie cause.
.L ■ cciy Olie
luese general divisions consumed over eight ur
ten minutes, and they were subdivided into
paragraphs that made them seem briefer, liis
art Of address is singularly fine; laueuaee
chaste and refined; nothing coarse’or 2!
sional about him.
[conclusion next weak.
SOFTLY,CENTLY.
nr GEOUGfc AUGUSTUS lb YAKS,
^ st voice arcuje
A throb within that breaat:
Tw*°i my ’ ! f 8t tLy et «P disturb
That sleep, for It ts rest!
Abt it at last Is rest!
>er £ a i? kDOwa (ts power;
1 Rhl n l L!i r ^' lad ? we ^' >hado*e<l life
Bae bad no quiet hour!
Mrs. Eunice Darling of Hersey, Me., aged
one hundred and one years, knits a pair° of
stockings every day and attends to her house
hold duties.
Spring in Carolina.
BV I1ENBT TIHBOll.
“I enclose a few other line* of Henry Timrod’
imposition and hope you will be so kind a
r? allow ‘hem to appear in your columns a
““I are appropriate to the season.
Miss Clauuins Bhbtt.”
WM-fO with that nameless pathos in the air
8*5?™ dwell; with all things fair.
i* until wi th Il ® r geldsu subs ana sliver rxlu,
™ with us ones again.
gJM 11 ‘B* loiely woods the ] iimlne burns
• M irugrant lamps, ana tnrus
Tb. i a royal court with green festoons
me bjiuk, of data laguous.
Thl b w d *ep heart of every forest tree
iBeMoodissIlaglee.
iiri,, 8l< **“ o11 shoutthejesflji*bowers
41 “ hity dreamed ot flawers.
Henry Ward Beecher Memorial Sor-
rices.
- T B, e Ee J- Joseph Barker, of the City Temple
London has consented to deliver the eulogy
on ths ltev. Henry Ward Beecher at the mZ
He wBi S fi V1C * m B rookl y n . N- Y., on JanexT
Rr JJt! 1 hk T 80 del 'ver several sermons in
Sl^5 k ..'?! D .T5( ter . , w B lc h he will make a Iectur-
afent? Dt °* Pond - Uie ^ Beecher'
Monument to Lee in Richmond.
we«ter^ e °r^?' name / 1 , t , is tobe l“ated in the
| western portion of Richmond. The corner
efMaJ 118 1 ® n PP°sed,wiU be laid abjut the3i at
w^ Cn tb f Sou “«em troops will be on
eir way home from the national drill.
Hold the Port, We are Coming ”
nSs^aarfi-aa; % 1
riod,’ 18SG? St for ‘Be correspanding pe-
Third Georgia Begiment Eeunion.
IG^nextl^t. WUI
Washington i s not attempting too much
iowever it is a comparatively easy thing for
Washington to be pious when Congress is
It seems probable that tho large railroad
corporations will coaie to like the inter-Siate
commerce law after they get used to it. Their
ch.ef relief will fe from the necessity for keel
ug up secret arrangements with thousands^
individual shippers for irregular rates, which
under the present system each road has been
obliged to adopt to protect itself. The theorv
was that if one road did not cut raS another
“ l the*' 11 f ^ C °“ pClJiug ffuiform
rates to a„, the arduous and worrying busi
nessof radroad management will be greatlv
simplified. greatly
- pWSSSfer-
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** 8t. Louis Globa yy——* * *• *>58
The standard age at which little New
Workers put on their stays is said to be 8
years, said a woman physician in busy prac .
ties to whom was submitted Miss Booth’s view
of the irrepressible clothes question. “Call it
Dame Fashion or call it Dame Folly
suits are much the same in the long ru n to
me. Ask any dry-goods dealer, and he will
tell you that he never sold corsets for babies
" “ •• Bt. Nicholas
U 2 2 Wavrriy Magazine 1 ””
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weekly will be sent for $3.26.
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hOD SbOOtlDg Itjck, 300 ounln. i I Dialler 1
stIcM.'fettie'Giant lead and rof
80 young or women so old before. The stay
habit ia spreading at both ends of life and df
rectly or indirectly two-thirds of my patLte
come to me through the dressmaker,^ “
| % Cal,ar ' ,gbt “Pon two subjects—the^number
of unexplained dtsappearances, and the
certainty of human testimony.
The murdered woman was f nUT ,j , v
I.»er.
identity. At least twenty-five of them
ssra^tr
TrethT f nCral appearance 01 ‘Belne fold
Truth is stranger than fiction.
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