About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1887)
I THE SDNJiY SOUTH; ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MOKN1NG, MAY 21, 1^ 8 7 OBLIBBED EVERT SATURDAY. BUSINESS OFFICE 21 MARIETTA ST - - - editor. Term* s „ .. Ty- per Animm. Ow dollsr for Six Month*. " Advertising i Tm emits P“ Line. Sewoty-flf emits V" InCh ~ — .-i-~~S«“S“KSK<lEYS sssSa®" * ibothoffoM* o GOHTRIBUTORS. WrU t at ptatal* « j£ tS, MSS. at tSa tap M 'JZZZwZi.T«® *«». ««~""7 •*® uW , is plvmtU mat, rZtb^Zd" *•***■ ttmat mMmMmwrUtmMra^maar sagaSadfar * Mbs MSS. at taa rap ~ u m, MSS.O***- w ^ ^ far " ^STJLuarUy. —• *T anim rack cam Uamp. mmtbe *"***- ~t writer should always k **P ac °PV all tetter* concerning the PM* •»<> ““*• ■11 bUl» PM^ le *" j. H . SEALS A CO.. Atlanta. Or Emancipation in Brazil. Emancipation is proceeding raprdly in Brazil under the law of 1872. The number of slaves in 1873 was 1,630,000, and it is reduced, ac cording to a recent registration, to 700,000. -Xw^ing partofthe e^ri^Tofthe Me morial Bay at Crawfordville was the decora tion by a band of little girls of the grave of Mr. Stephens. _ A Philadelphia economist figures out the re duction of car fare in that city from s.x to five cents as a positive loss to poor people. ■ays that when they walked before, they saved six cents, and now they only save bve cents. A few men of exceptional talents—it may be of exceptional grace-have found the calling of the evangelist more profitable in the money way than even thatof the creator of booms. It may be that a few others who have neither tal ents nor grace, but who of those who have simply to make money, will bring this calling into utter disrepute. The author of “Me” has fallen into a fcry common sense strain, and written a plain sto- ry with the very trite moral that getting rich in a hurry is both dishonest and dangerous. When he presents his villains as going on in full tide of wealth for more than a score of years, we fear there is more in this picture to illure than there is in the catastrophe to deter. Of all the paradoxes that that have been aired since the b rth of Abraham, not one is more startling than that of Henry George who proposes to wipe out poverty by wiping out • wealth. We suspect an illicit process in one of his promises. Were the world’s assets equally divided among all its inhabitants, all would not be rich, nor even decently poor. But would this state of equality continue for two days? Tis said that “She" is a piece of bare-faced plagiarism. We do not ktow. But we do know, and in the face of the great popular fa vor that it is receiving, venture to assert that ii.tin.mff A Heavy Copper Contract. The largest single transaction in copper ever made in this country took place last week. The deal was made by the Calumet & Hecla Mining company of Michigan. It amounted to almost 30,000,000 pounds at ten cents per pound. How a Groat Industry Begun. A hundred years ago Abiel Pease started the great clock-making industry of Connecti cut He was a native of Enfield, and there made with a jack-knife hto first clock. Prom this rude beginning has grown up an industry which supplies a great portion of the world with time-pieces. Wild West Versus Indolent East. The Queen of England, a few days ago, com manded that a private performance of the Wild West show be given, at which her maj esty and attendants would be present Pre viously to that It was announced that Mr. Gladstone had attended the show—perhaps more than once—and bad evinced much in terest in it One-half of London Sick. Sir Andrew Clarke, the celebrated English physician, declares that one-ha’f of the popu lation of London is permanently ill. He de fines health as “that stole in which the body is not consciously present to us; the state in which work is easy and duty not over great a trial; the state in which it is joy to see, to think, to feel and to be.” How Havy for England. The English Government has fairly entered on its scheme to build a new fleet from the stump, as it were, to add to its already power ful navy. This fleet is to consist of twenty- five vessels and in to cost in a round sum §05,- 000,000. Four of these vessels are now ready for service; four more are to be completed be fore the first of January next; twelve are to be built next year, and the other five the year following. Our Navy in Grecian Waters, During their recent visit to Athens, the des patches say, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Franklin, Capt. Dewey and other officers of the United States flagship Pensacola were handsomely en tertained by the King and Queen of Greece. At a dinner at the royal palace Rear Admiral Franklin sat at the left of the Queen and Mrs. Franklin at the left of the King. Afterward the entire royal family visited the Pensacola in a most informal and friendly manner. The Queen of Hawaii in Washing ton. During her late brief visit to Washington City, Queon Kapiolani and suite visited the arsenal, where they were received by General Gibson, commandant, and the officers on duty there. A royal salute was fired and an artil lery and battalion drill given in honor of the visitors. After the artillery drill, which was the first the queen had ever seen, Gen. Gib son tendered the party a reception and lunch at his residence. slightest particle of human interest. But it has made Mr. Haggard famous, and probably rich, and the world will be flooded with novels named after all the cases of all the pronouns. What Nova Scotia Wants. A member of the Nova Scotia Legislature, Mr. McColl, made a tensation last week by moving a resolution in favor of annexin: the province to the United States. Nobody but himself vetid in the. affirmative when the question was put, and some of the ultra loyal iets are highly indignant with Mr. McColl for saying ojxlily what a majority ot the people of the country say privately. Meanwhile the more enterprising Nova Scotians solve the question, without any parliamentary help, by annexing themselves individually to their prosperous neighbor. Kentucky's Next Governor. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, who is to be the next Governor of Kentucky, is a man of middle stature, with small, piercing blue eyes, snow-white mustache and imperial, and a rather ruddy face. He is between 05 and 70 years of age. He is wealthy. His real estate in Chicago is said to be worth §500,000. About two years ago he married, as his second wife, a reigning belle of Richmond, Va. They have a bouncing toy a year oid. The Geu- eral’s name is Bolivar and his wife’s Betty. Hence the alliterative war-ciy of the Buckner- ites now ringing through Kentucky of “Bol var, Betty and the Baby." Heavy Tunnelling. While DeLesseps is straining every physical power and every financial device to cut a canal at Panama, and progressive American citizens are trying to get our Government to aid in the construction of a ship railway and canal at Tehauntepec, so as to have water communica tion between the two oceans, other interests are seeking to connect states and countries by tunnelling under water-ways—rivers and straits. One of these—and one of the most important —is the tunnel under the English Channel, to connect England and France. As to its pres ent sta .us we are uninformed, but presume it will ultimately be constructed. Some years ago a tunnel under the Hudson river was begun. After a few years suspen sion, work has been resumed, and a few weeks ago one hundred men were put to work. The company having control of the enterprise has been reorganized, and it is said that the tunnel will be rapidly pushed to com pletion. It will be used by ail railroads which now terminate at Jersey City. Their trains will run through it to the union depot, in the vicinity of Wash ington square, New York City. And now comes the information that propos als have been made to the governments of Den mark and Sweden for constructing a sub marine tunnel for a railway under the Sound between Copenhagen and Maimo. The tunnel, as planned, would have a total length of be tween seven and eight miles. The ground to be worked is represented as clo&ly resembling that in the channel between England and France, and is said to offer no difficulty to the execution of the work. The total cost of con struction it is estimated, will not exceed $5,000,ooa Colonel Freeman Thorpe’s old portrait of President Garfield has been purchased by the State of Ohio for §500. It is considered the beat picture of Garfield extant. Attorney-General Garland is booked for Hominy Hill, Ark., for the summer. St- Joseph, Mo.,—A Voice from a Dis tance. We find the following letter and comments in the Daily Gazette, published at St. Joseph, Mo: As an evidence that in far-off places many eyes are turned Westward, and that it is a first, rate idea to do a little something now and then to draw attention to St. Joseph, read the fol lowing letter received yesterday by Col. Mot- ter, late secretary of the board of trade: Office of Meridek Silver Plate Co., I Toronto, Ont., April 18,1887. ) To John L. Hotter, Secretary Board of Trade. Deah Sir: The reputation of your city is being very widely extended. We tMn* Toronto, the “Queen City’ of rivalled, but, after studying your report, have come to the conclusion that you have many advantages which no As I am contemplating making a movelnyour direction, any tafomaritm™** you may have in printed form relative to the commercial advantages would he gladly re ceived by one who i. H. K. Waheex. It would be a good thing for St. Joseph if we had a few more Blotters. There are many men who have faithfully served the city and stead ily labored for her advancement, bnt not one has been as persistent and few as Intel-igent in their efforts as the former secretary of the Board of Trade. Our Great Hen. We find the following brief comments upon a fruitful theme in one of our exchanges: It is the fashion to assert that greatness is not a characteristic of our times. Great poets we have none, they tell us; great warriors, great statesmen—where are they? Carlyle says that “Each age seems to itself most unheroic.’’ Ko-Ko, in Mikado, says, however, that the man who considers any age better than his own, or any country better than that of his nativity, would “gladly be missed." It does, indeed, seem rather mean to declare that only the distant is fine. It seems as though we had forgotten the trite oid line about “dis tance’’ and “enchantment.’’ Let us see. When has there ever lived more subtle thinker than Emerson? What soldier ever surpassed in originality of tac tics, personal bravery and fertility of resource. Ulysses S. Grant? As for financiers, we defy any age to produce abler ones than those who are now managing our great corporations. As for inventors, who has ever equaled Edison and his compeers? William E. Gladstone is something of a statesman, to say nothing of one or two nearer home. The Commemora tion Ode, by Mr. Lowell, is something of poem, and Mr. Tennyson and Mr. Browning have now and then had an inspiration equal to at least any of the last century’s. We have a thousand evidences that men great in wickedness abound and excel now-a- days; but, on the whole, for genuine pre emi nence of nobility in mind and morals, the nineteenth centuiy stands head and shoulders above any that has preceded it. Harper’s Magazine for May opens with a well-written and highly appre ciative paper on the literay movement in the South, from the pen of Charles W. Coleman. This is illustrated by portraits of George W. ivhh ti m ■t^i.r'^.n i~.i »■—-je jtda day, he is disposed to land those of the “new South” who have taken up the pea, at the ex pense of those of the days before the war who aspired to have their thoughts set in type. We claim that there were men and women of that day who were as ready and as eloquent in ex- expressing themselves in strong, vigorous Eng lish as we have now. Indeed most of those who are writing now either attained their culture under the old regime, or gained it from those who did. We have no wish to under-rate the men and women of the South who are seeking by their pens to earn food and fame. But it is quite too early to say that they are going to attain a Lighcr point of ex cellence or w in a larger share of fame than did Simms, l’oe, Kennedy, Longstreet, Mrs. I.e- Vert, Mrs. Lee Ilentz and Mrs. IVarfield. We thank Mr. Coleman for his kind and graceful tribute to the writers of our day; but we must object to his insinuation that they are prodi gies because springing up in a section where l.terature hai heretofore been little cultivated. An Old Book. Sixty five years of life do not authorize ns to class an individual as very old. Some pass a decade beyond this and are still so full of vitality—so keenly alive to all that is going on about them, that we never think of their age. So it is with books. Some never grow old. They address themselves so directly to those sentiments that know no change that we may reckon them among things imperishable. Par adise Lost and Pilgrim’s Progress will never grow old. But there are books, and perhaps by far the greater number, which are not writ ten with any hope on the part of the authors that they will ever live to he old. Some are brought forth by the issues of the passing day, and when they have subserved this purpose, there is no demand that they should live longer. There are others that are superceded, pushed out by other and better works on the same line, and some fade away from the mem ories of men. Of this last class, is a book that lies before us now—an old “Mercer’s Cluster’’ —a volume of spiritual songs once found in many homes in Georgia, and dear to the hearts of many of onr people. Now, only sixty-four years from the time it was issued from the press, it is a relic of antiquity, and many grown up men and women are ignorant that such a work ever existed. Other and better selections of hymns have taken its place. But as we look upon this, showing by its well- worn leaves that it was oLce much in the hands of its pious owners, our mind ruus back to the days when the good men and women of half a century ago took in large draughts of spiritual joy from these pages. These hymus, some of them extending to a dozen or even a score of stanzas were sung, not very artistic ally, but with a fervent appreciation of the pious thoughts they expressed. How a sight of this old volume brings up the memory of a gathering of plain men and women in a plain house to engage in a plain, unostentatious ser vice. There was in all the scene a striking absence of anything of the splendid or mag nificent. Bat to one who could understand the depth and sincerity of the devotion with which the quaintly solemn airs were sung, there was a sublimity at once grand and touch- it g. Such bands of worshippers Paul and his brother Apostles were wont to gather in re mote spots in Greece and Asia, and in servi ces such as this was awakened that enthusi asm which enabled them in no great time to revolutionize the world. A provoker of much thought and of many memories has this tot tered old volume proved. • * Shall We Ever Know ? The unknown surrounds us closely on every side. Look in what direction we may, we find what we do not know, yet about which we cannot help feeling a keen curiosity. In regard to not a few of these we may set it down as absolutely certain that we shall never be better informed titan we are now. There are mysteries connected with our existence which must remain forever mysteries, despite the efforts of the most searching intellicts. Study and examine as we may, there will al ways remain close about us much upon which “unknown" must he written. Tbs instrument that detects a microqosm in a drop of water will leave a thousand questions unanswered. The great Reflector that searches the surfaces of far-off planets will probably never reply to some queries which a child may propound. Yet it may be safely promised that in the com- inr EimwiM iMBAtfay* w#Uft«jrifort£at Governor Gordon’s Address to the Children of the Blind Asylum at Macon, Ga. Upon the completion of some impromptu exercises which l’rof. Williams conducted, and which had touched the hearts of all pres ent, Governor Gordon stepped forward, and in tones that evidenced his feelings said in sub stance: “I am glad that I came here for I have been made a better man. Von appear happy here and you have good reason for it. While you have not the power of seeing, you have other facultks that make up for it. Your proficiency in music, and your power to hold matbemati- cal calculai ions—all go to prove that. There is another thought I wish to express. Lire is abort anl it is full of trouble to the best, to the most gifted. But when the great day comes and jour eyes an opened for the first time, you shall see grander and sublimer scenes than we can see on earth. Prepare for that end and all wUl be brightness in that great Beyond. Good-bye.” Col. Bob Lowry on Atlanta. No one in Atlanta is more favorably known than our genial Bob Lowry. He is the Presi dent of the Chamber of Commerce and Treas urer of countless companies and corporations. In responding to a toast to Atlanta at the re cent celebration of the Board of Trade of Rome, Ga., he said: “Any one familiar with the history of At lanta mast admit the appropriateness of the words of the “toast” proposed. It is certainly true, gentlemen, that Atlanta ha? attained her present greatness *‘by the energetic and united action of her people.” This is truly a day of “booms” and boomlets for our fair Southland. A day in which, all over this continent, the attention of capital, and brains, and enter- prise is being directed Southward, insuring in this section of the country such material de velopment of our unlimited resources as has not been known elsewhere within the history of our country. In this movement Atlanta may justly be termed the pioneer. Our boom followed the cotton-exposition of 1881. It was a brilliant success, ard the experiment in thus venturing to invite the attention of the whole country to the advantages of Atlanta and the South has been followed by a constant healthy progress. Since the date of our cotton expo sition, and especially more recently, our neighbors have sought to let the world know something of their resources and advantages, and with a success that challenges the wann est congratulations of their pioneer sister. And in extending this congratulation on be half of the Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta, allow me to express the hope that in every in stance the present flattering successes may be followed up by such a united action as may result in perpetual prosperity. Mad Stones. The ACbens Banner- Watchman says: “Since the people have been convinced that there is virtue in mad-stones. they are springing up all over the country. While at Union Point, a few days ago, we saw a magnificent mad-stone as large as a Banks county biscuit. The gentle man who owns this stone says it came from Alabama, where there was a large deer lick. They are said tc be found in deer that visit these licks, and the mineral taken into the ani mal's stomach there forms the mad stone. The gentleman also informed us that be had seen two inadstones broken open, and in one of them was found a bullet and in the other an acorn. Mad stones are getting in demand, and a fine market will be open if the dogs con tinue to have the distemper.” And the editor of the Sunny South thought he had the only genuine mad-stone in the whole country, and he thinks so now. It was sent to him by the Hon. Wm. A. Harris, Sec retary of tha Georgia Senate; and, if we mis take not, he took it from the deer’s stomach with his own bands. MUSINGSOFMY EVENTIDE. Unveiling of Mr. Calhoun’s Statue; Address by Secretary Lamar and its Scope fls Historical and Philosophical; its Contri bution to our Perma nent Literature. BY REV. A. A. LIPSCOMB, D. D. thirty-first fates. govern matter. The influences that control earth, air and water are all the time becoming more subject to the human will. Within a centnry very great advances have been made in an acquaintance with the elements of our own globe, and some unexpected information has been obtained in regard to the spheres which men have watched and studied from the earliest times. In many things a point of knowledge has been reached which, fifty years ago, was thought wholly unattainable. When we think of the rapid advances that have been mace, we cannot but speculate as to what men shall do in tbo hundred years to come. We may reasonably suppose that vast strides will be made in every department of inquiry. He who shall behold the dawn of the twenty-first centuiy will be familiar with many things to us mysterious, lie witl look forth on a world greatly differing in its aspects and conditions from this which we now know. There will be virtually a new earth; and so entirely will in creased knowledge have changed the thoughts with which the starry spheres will be contem plated that it may be arid that there will be new heavens. Yet then, an i at a iar later pe riod of advancement, men will be as absolutely dependent on Revelation as now for answers to the great inquiries whence we came and whither are we going. It Wasn’t the Lord. We are commanded to “try the spirits"— and it does not require exceptional shrewdness to detect the kind of spirit that prompts a per son to tell “pious lies," and sponge bis living out of his betters. The Hartford Times tells this story of Capt. Reynold Maivin, of Lyme, Ct, a prominent man in the early history of that town: Captain Reynold was not only a militia offi -er, but also a ricti land owner and a deacon of the church, and professed to be governed by divine commuiiicatio is. On one occasion, a shiftless fellow-townsman, whowas acqu: intrd with the captain's hobby, went to him and said the L* rd had sent him there for a cow. “Of course, if the Lord raid so, you must bave a cow," said the dec on, “but what kind of a cow did He designate, a iniich cow or a farrow?” “A ncw-milcii cow,” replied the fellow. “Indeed! your communication must have come fron the devil, for I haven’t any milch cows;" and thereupon the ind'gnant caotain chastil tire baffled beggar from bis premises. Death of Rev. Jno B. McFerrin. The death of Dr. McFerrin removes from the Methodist church one of its best, ablest and most useful members. It removes from Nashville one of her best and most influential citizens, and from the South one of its most widely and favorably known divines. During the past half .century no man has occupied so large a place in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, as Rev. John Berry McFerrin. Entering the itinerant ministry of the Methodist Church at the age of eighteen, he filled, with earnestness, zeal and fidelity) every position in the church save that of a bishop. Born of Irish I’resbyterian pioneer parentage, at a stage of the country’s history when circumstances helped to develop sturdy integrity of character, he matured into one of the best rounded men of the age. He may not have been in any one particular a great man, bnt taking his entire active, aggres sive life, his character shows bnt few defects. It has been said of him, by a close observer, “No man ever accused Dr. McFerrin of iven an indiscretion," so delicate was his sense of right and of propriety. When but thirty-seven years old he was a conspicuous figure in the hotly contested, wordy wars of 1814; but the men whose opinions he most zealously fought were then, and have ever been among his warmest, personal friends. His integrity of character and devotion to principle were ex ceptionally sensitive; and his love for the church anew no bounds. tbVu How Do tb 3 18 ixicans Dress Anyhow? We are curi,^ to know. Not having trav elled in Mexico »e do not understand the meaning of the fo owing order which has just been promulgate! in the town of Iturbide. Wont some of on] numerous Mexican patrons be good enongh t give us a letter on this sub ject? “V Every tush f-asident of this citv is re- “2. Any perso within the boundaries of this city, be he r ffdent or not, who is f»und disobeying this I quirement will be liable to imprisonment fr< n one to three days and a fine of 60 cents t §3. Measures will be token for tha proper eg orcement of the ordinance. F. Dominquez. “President of tha Municipality of Iturbide.” A Lasson in Pride. . [Ne(v York Times.] . The following odd bit of versification was picki (1 up from the floor after the auc ion sale of a lot of rare, old and Viluable books. The torn leaf upon which it was printed bears evi dence of age, and it is now in order to name its author and the date of its composition. It conveys a simple lesson on pride and justifies its production now, perhaps a hundred years after being penned: I dreamt that I wis dead and slumbering in my native clay; Close by my side a common beggar lay, And as so mean an object she eked my prhle, Thus, like a corpse of consequence I cried: “Scoundrel, begone, and henceforth thy touch withhold, More manners learn, and at a distance mould!” “Scoundrel!” with a haughty tone cried he: “Fraud lump of flesh, 1 scorn thy words and thee! Here all arc equal—now ttiy case is mine, This is my mouldering place and that is thine.” Young Men and Single Life. We take the following sensible article from the Brooklyn Magazine: It is undoubtedly true that a single life is not without its advan tages for some. There are hundreds of young men, as there are a like number of young wo men, to whom a married life would be unsuit- ab e and unwise. It is an inexcusable sin for any young man of hereditary ill-health or de formity to assume marriage, and to such a one single life has advantages, even though it holds out few pleasures. But that young man who is possessed with every bodily and mental equipment, and marries not, fails in one of the most palpable duties of life. He deprives himself of life’s uicst refined and exalted pleasures, of some of its strongest incentives to virtue and activity, and sets an example uuworthy of imitation. Nothing has, or should have, a greater refining and moralizing influ ence to a young man than marriage. If he remains unmarried, he lays himself open to alluring vice-* that bave no place in his eye or mind when his attentions and affections are centered upon » devoted wife. Marriage changes the current of a man’s feelings, and gives him a ceuire for his thoughts, his alfec tions, and his acts. It renders him more vir tuous, more wise, ami is an incentive to put forth his best exertions to attain position in commercial and social circles. It is conceded that marriage will increase the cares of young man which he would not encounter if he remained single, but it must be granted, on the other band, th it it heightens the pleasures of life. If marriage, in some instances wi h'n our knowledge, has seemed to be but a hin drance to certain success, the countless in stances must not be forgotten where it has proved to be the incentive which has called forth the best part ot man’s nature, roused him from selfish apathy, and inspired in him those generous principles and high resolves which have helped to develop him into a char acter known, loved, and honored by ail within the sphere of its influence. Matrimony, it is true, is chargeable with numberless solici tudes and responsibilities, and this all young men should fully understand before entering upon it, but it is also full of joy and happiness that is unknown to the bachelor. A man of genius may express his finest art of delineation in a delicate touch or stroke, which, at first sight, may not gain the atten tion it deserves. When the orator of this oc casion, Mr. Lamar, gives the prefatory place of honor to the fact, that the public character of a Statesman rests upon his home-character, grows out of its moral virtues and feeds on its secret nourishment, he has presented an epito me of Mr. Calhoun’s distinctive greatness. True, such a characterization, though, so ad mirably done, does not explain Mr. Calhoun’s wonderful endowments; but it goes f*rto show what an element of sturdy genuineness and firm fibre interblended with the original con stituents that went into the making of the or ganic being. The man was pure, simple-heart ed in his large open-mindedness, transparently honest and disinterested, and he was all this by virtue of innate manliness. Because of this intrinsic nature which was an antedate of experience for more than its subsequent, the public man as the Statesman waa the re flex and dual counterpart of the planter of Fort Hill. No doubt, nature had been busy in forming the man in his ancestry. If he were an intense State-rights man, going as many think to an extreme, it cannot be denied, that he was an ingrained American whose ‘•notice heather'’ belongs to the luxuriant flora of his whole country. By an easy and graceful transition, Mr. Lamar portrays the Southern planter as the typical Southerner. What he was; what he did; and how his character and acts co-operated with singular unanimity for generations in behalf of the country and the negro race; are most graphically described. Our recent critics of the old South are most effectively answered in these paragraphs, which are not more pictorically eloquent and calmly rebuked, than thoroughly truthful and vindicatory. There was a reason and a profound one for the ascendency of the “so-call ed slave power,” and Mr. L’s. philosophic in sigh’, the master quality in this grand effc rt de tects it in the intellect, character, and habits of the Southern planter. Could the traits of Southern character and their instinctive emer gence in Southern habits be more genuinely summarized than when the orator speaks of the “habitual industry, the firm purpose, the fidelity to dependents, the self-reliance, the sentiment of justice in all the various relations of life necessary to the management of a well ordered plantation, as they fitted men to guide Legislatures and command armies?’’ These were characteristic virtues because maternal Nature bad shaped them in ancestral wombs. Ourbtst and most illustrious men are never the product of one generation. II. Providence was in all this—a wise and be nignant Providence. It survived as a specialty until its work was done. It became sectional because laws of latitude and longitude were inseparable from its economic relations; but it was continental in the benefits accruing to the whole country. Most of ail, the character of our Noutheru men was the only form of Teu tonic nature on this hemisphere capable of such adaptations to the negro as to perpetuate tlie Providential lease on the life of the insti tution till its parenthesis in the world’s order was closed. Just here the other great factor, in its long continuance, is worthy of mention. Our Southern womanhood was the comple mentary force to the stronger sex; and, by its tenderness and tact in humane offices, did much to perpetuate slavery till its purposes were fulfilled. The attributes of the master shaded off into the domestic qualities of the mistress; the incidental evils of the system were softened down into the watchful offices of sympathy. Atid no better illustration of this result can be cited than the general devo tion of the slaves—something like a miracle of grace to our homes and to our women—du ring the four years of the war between the States. Why should we believe that OLce a Providence, always a Providence? Its essence is limitation. Sj it was when God governed the theocracy of bis-chosen people, the Jews. So it was when—in the case of the colonies— Providence chose an Auspicious hour to sunder J ettHte^o^/tiiWeefrS^les'.' wh^n tl£ physical and political geography of the Atlantic slope determined the nexus that (as Mr. Lamar argues) made us practically one people. The nascent “£ I’luribus Unum** was then shaping its ties, and the Union of 178!i was weaving its thread in the unity of the colonies,mow free and independent States. The cluster of para graphs, in which this truth is elaborated, is one of the most analytic and logical in the ora tion, and shows conclusively how this type of our initial and subsequent civilization up to a later period expressed itself in a type of ability and character which fitted such men as Wash ington, Andrew Jackson, Jefferson, Madison, Clay, Calhoun, Marshall, and others, to take their places in the national government. Ah, indeed, a splendid heretity of ideas and senti ments! Nor does the orator omit to give due signifi cance to the accpiisition by the Federal'Gov ernment of the vast domain embraced in the Louisiana purchase, and that ceded by Spain j shiners and and Mexico to the United States. “In 1780, successful “i the States were the creators of the Federal Government; in lStil, the Federal Government was the creator of a large majority of the States. * * * It was a natural consequence that the unity and integrity of the United States as a sovereign nation should be established on the butle-field; that its gov ernment should come out of the conflict with a prestige and power greater perhaps than any on earth, and that the eleven minority States, after a resistance as heroic as any* recorded in (he annals of Greece and Rome, should suc cumb to overwhelming forces.” I shall alway s think that the war was in part a lexicon to settle the meaning of words. And they are settltd now. III. The death of J. T. Willis of the Chattahoo chee circuit, removes from the State an able jurist and a genial and most lovable man. His place has been filled by the appointment of ex-Gov. James M. Smith. Some shrewd chap, somewhere this side of the Rio Grande, is said to have established a paper with the title of “The Confederate Colo nel.” If all of ’em subscribe, won’t that be a splendid advertising medium? An Alderney cow is now an essential appur tenance aboard a well apportioned pleasure yacht. James Gordon Bennett has one packed into a zinc stall on the Namouna, so the choicest cream can be had at every meal. The cow says she likes yachting. Theatrical Manager: The only thing in Rome that reminded me of home was the Cat acombs. Friend : In what respect? Manager: They were just full of dead-heads. Extraordinary Clnb The Sunny South and Any Other Paper or Magazine at About the Price of One. Clubbed with Dailie* At Lew th»n the Price One. It is said that Queen Kapiolani has been presented with a lock of George Washington’s hair. IShe kindly left with the donor a lock of King Kalakaua’s in place of it. It is said that the Queen always saves the hair she gets from the King to bestow upon people who please h8r. This is the latest and sweetest thing in Washington society: Mrs. Cleveland gave Miss Emma Abbott a most gratifying recep tion yesterday at the White House, and after ward sent her autograph book to Miss Abbott, at the Arlington Hotel, with a most beautiful note. Some of the Northern papers are telling their readers how the ladies of Africa catch monk eys. That’s a waste of space and unnecessary information, for the ladies of America have been catching the monkey’s “apes,” (dudes) for years, and are not proud of the accomplish ment, either. Mr. Julian Hawthorne announces that George Eliot was not an artist at all, but only an interesting story-teller. Perhaps she was not so great an artist as Howells or James, or even Mr. Hawthorne, but we would be very glad to have some more novels like those she wrote. The Southern Baptist Convention, at Louis ville, on Tuesday, adopted the teport of the committee on temperance, closing with the following resolution: Resolved, That wo do solemnly protest against the manufacture, sale and use of ardent spirits, and express our sympathy with prohibitionists everywhere, The New York Supreme Court has decided that marriage is rendered null and void by the fact that one of t he part cipants was intoxi cated. George the Fourth tried to get out of his marriage with Queen Caroline by proving that he was so drunk when he married that he did not know what he was doing. But the courts wouldn’t let George off. By special arrangement with the leading publishers we are able to offer the most 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 Sonnt Sooth at very ^..^y the price of one. Forinstonce, the reg ular subscription price to Puck is B6 and th* Scent Sooth 12, hut we furnish them both for S6.16. No subscription for less than a years will he forwarded for other publications. All complaints in regard to other papers must be addressed to the publishers of those papers, and not to the Sonnt Sooth. The Sonnt Sooth must be included in each and every order for any other publication. That is, a person cannot.order one copy of the Sonnt Sooth and two, three, or a half a dozen other papers. The Sonnt Sooth must be or dered with each. We give our old subscribers the benefit ot 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 the list and secure your reading, 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 Sonnt South both for one year. Bvtnrr Booth and asseriean A*rteuimilst...*a.T0 U •• Alto California 2.78 » •• Atlantic Monthly 4.9B » •• American Bee Journal.... 2.86 •• •• Arkansas Gazette 2.7B « Arkansas Democrat 2.78 •• Arkansas Traveller 3.15 •• American Sheep Breeder.. 2.28 « American Poultry Journal 2.40 “ •• Boston Globe 2.SC •• •• Boston Globe Dally (88-00) 6.26 •• ■* Ballous Magazine 2.86 >• •• , Baltimore Telegram 3.15 •• “ Baltimore ManL Record... 8.78 •• “ Baltimorean 3.26 *• “ California Patron 2.78 “ Century Magazine 6.26 • •• Charleston News & Courier 3.00 •• Charleston News and Cou rier Dally ($12.00) 10.76 x x Chicago Inter Ocean 2.60 •> x Chicago Journal 2.68 x " Chicago Ledger... 2.73 x « Chicago Times 2.73 x x Chicago Tribune 2.66 x x Chicago Union Signal 3.16 x •• Chicago Standard 3.76 x x Chicago Current 4.66 x » Chicago Sporting and The atrical Journal 4.76 x x Cincinnati Enquirer 2.66 u x Chicago Herald 2.6C x x Cincinnati Graphic 4."5 x x Courier-Journal 260 x x Christian Union 4.28 x “ Christian Evangelist 3.26 x x Christian at Work 4.00 x “ Detroit Free Press 2.60 x x Dairy World 2.28 x x Demorest’s Magazine 3.26 •• x Donahoe’s Magazme 3.0C x x Eclectic Magazine 6.76 x x Farm, Field and Stockman 3.00 x x Leslie’s Sunday Magazine 3.76 x x Leslie’s Popular Monthly. 4.16 x x Leslie’s lllus. Newspaper. 4.9e x x Family Magazine 2.96 x x Florida Tlmes-Union 2.60 u x Galveston News 3.00 x x Gleason’s Companion 2.26 • x Godey’s Lady’s Book 3.25 x x Harper’s Magazine 4.76 x x Harper’s Weekly 4.96 (xJiUVfi s T ifsiiaiA^peg, a ? I t 0 o n t1ie- sa vannah News, “a bill declaring Gen. Gordon' international railroad charter forfeited, was introduced, reported favorably and an effort made to pass it at once summarily under suspension of the rules, but Anally it was made the special order for another day. Ho Boom for Him. [New York Sun.] St Peter (to applicant for admission)— What disposi ion «kd you make of your prop erty? .. Applicant—I left it all to my wife on condi tion that she is never w marry again. St Peter (closing the gate) No loom for you in here Observe the stress, which, in the above cita tions, Mr. Lamar lays on community life. It had its advantages, but it had its disadvanta ges. Constituted as the South was, it became a homogeneous people, and I am accustomed to think that honiogeneousness was a defect in our civilization. It did us good service in the colonial aud confederation periods; nor can I see how the Federal Constitution of lTSil could have been logically possible save for the very marked individualism, which was the legitimate sequence of our physical and social organization that culminated in polities as a science, and even more as an art. At a certain stage (f development, homo geneity has to yield to Leterogf neous- ness; and it can hardly be doubled that we were in our Section on the threshold of the new era of heterogeneousness in 1S50-’(H>. Con formably to this view, the decadence of slavery had set in be foie the war between the States, and in so far as that elastic phrase “The New South" carries in it the brain of an idea and the he; rt of an impulse (both divinely orderi d, I must believe,) just so far I accept what strikes me as inevitable law, viz; tiiat homoge neity exists as a provision tor the higher sequential form of heterogeneousness. But— festina Lente. The wise and temperate philosophy of Sec retary Lamar is never more conspicuous than when treating of reconstruction as the offspring of misconception and distrust. For one, I think that the Old South never did a truer ana grander work for the North and We.-t as well as for her own section, than when she brought about a general reaction in the dominant party against the most odious features of the recon structive measures. “Slavery is dead—buried in a grave that never gi res up its dead. Why reopen it to-day? Let it rest.” But he has this to say, “With reference to the constitu tional status of slavery in the States, Mr. Cal houn never «ntertained or expressed a senti ment that was not entertained and expressed by Henry Clay, John Qu ncy Adams, Daniel Webster, and all the eminent statesmen of his time.” Taking this grand oration in its whole ness, every sentence and every paragraph sub ordinated to that supreme sense of unity which is the highest excellence of logic no less than o’ art; the golden cords of moderation holding in due symmetry the prophetic foresight, the intellectual and moral harmony, the profound patriotism, of John Caldwell Calhoun, I know of nothing in our day and country that can compare with it in breadth of outreaching grasp, in depth of profundity, in felicity of ex pression, and in fiuished scholarship. The ad dress is so catholic, broad minded, and patri otic, that I shall expect all our Nor. hern breth ren who are true to their nobler instincts, to give it not only acceptance but admiration. For their own Kikes, we desire and hope for both. Wee Willie Cottage,'Athens, Ga. Mr. Daniel Hand, of Guilford, Conn., the gentleman to whom Mr. George W. Williams, of Charleston, has just paid a debt of honor amounting to §700,000, has given $25,000 to Yale Divinity School. It would have been more graceful, under all the circumstonccs, says the Savannah Xtics, if Mr. Hand had given the money to a Southern school. AVe hear a good deal now-a-days about tnoon- their operations. But tbe most moonshiner" Tttiown to history is Mr. Abell, of the Baltimore Sun, who, as toe result of what is known as the “Moon Hoax,’ published in the Sun about fifty years atio, gave his paper such an impetus as to have ac cumulated a fortune of §15,000,000 from its profits. No “hoax” or “moonshine” about that. The magnificent donation of §2,000,000 by Jonas Clark to found a univeisity at Worces ter, refreshes the popular memory the good men who have done likewise. Three men, Stephen Girard, .John Hopkins and Asa Pack er, gave a total of §14,000,000 to American colleges. The combined bequests and dona tions of all other Americans to educational ob jects amount to ab>ut §0,000,000. A contemporary consoles himself as follows: Newspaper bustles are now made of back numbers. It is pretty rough to think tbat a man’s best journalistic efforts shall thus be sat upon. It crushes all the glory out of the profession and were it not for the fact that an editor can feel that he has no’, only brightened a woman’s mind, but improved her shape, he might throw up the sponge and retire from the world of bustle and deception. Tbe Mobile Iteyister prints this: “Congress man Herbert, of Alabama, at the dinner of the Merchants’ Association in Boston, recently, observed that ‘there is really no new South- it is the old South coming out pure, resplendent gold from the furnace of affliction, developing ns same old brain aud brawn, muscle and pluck.’ Mr. Herbert is right. Southern char acter had splendid qualities in the past, but tbe South had much to learn, and it learned in the school of affliction.” The Macon Keening S'cws says "that the general opinion in Macon U that the conviction of the men accused of lynching Moore is an impossibility; that they have plenty-of friends, can command, plenty of money, and have se cured the services of Gen. L. J. Gartrell to de fend them.” They have acted wisely in securing the ser vices of General GarUell. He is doubtless the ablest criminal lawyer in Georgia, or the South, and has for many years been eminently successful in clearing the accused. An exchange says but a few years ago the monarchs of the Sandwich Isles considered that boiled maa for dinner and roast baby for dessert was the very acme of the culinary art and that royalty was “gotten ap regardless” if attired in a pair of sailer pants tied by the legs about the waist and worn pendant; hut times have changed, and now the queen of th&t erstwhile barbarous land wears Worth cos tumes and diamonds and is led out to dinn< r* served by a French cook by the President of the United States. Yes, times do change! i Journal of Health.. 2.50 Home Circle. 2.70 lllus. Christian Weekly... 3.76 Ingleslde 3.76 Literary Life 2.76 Literary World 3.38 Llpplncott’s Magazine.... 40C- Lteptoeott’s Sunday Mac- g ^ LltteU’B Living* Age.*.*.*.’”.* 8.76 M "on Telegraph 2.60 M-..azlne of Art 4.66 Magazine of Am. History. 5.70 Memphis Appeal 2.60 . Nation 4.40 NashTllle American....’.’.*. 2.60 Nashville American Dal- i> i2.flfc Nashville Banner 2.35 Nashville Banner Daily ’.’." 5.75 New England Fanner 3.40 N.O. Times-Democrat 2.717 News Orleans Picayune 2.70 New Orleans Picayune dai ly ($12.00) 10.70 New York World 2 55 New York Ledger *’ 4.00 New York Weekly 4.13 New York Herald 2.65 New York Herald daily... 9.25 New York Tribune 2.65 New York Graphic 3.20 " I>’ly ($11) 8.50 NewYorkOb8erver(uewsubs 3.73 New York Med. Journal . 6.76 New York Independent 4.26 New York Fashion Bazar 4.06 New York Star 2.53 North American Review 6.76- Overland Monthly 4.76 Peterson’s Magazine * 3.23 Puck (*5.oo) 4 Philadelphia Times... ’326 Philadelphia Times Dally. 6.53 Plirenolovoical Journal 3.26 Poultry World 2,10 Ponular Science Monthly. 5.75 Pubi c Opiuion....... 4 o(s § hirer igo idley’s Mag. (quarterly) 2.10 Rocky Mountain News.... 3.23 Saturday Night 403 Sunday Murcury 3.53 San Francisco Argonaut 4 73 San Francisco Uafl 2.50 San Francisco Call Dally.. 6.76 San Francisco Chronicle. 2.S3 San Fran.News Letter.... 5.00 San Fran. Music A Drama 3.25 Savannah Morning News.. 3 CO Savannah Dally Times ($6) 6.23 Southern Cultivator 2.76 Bt. Louis Republican 2.66 1 x St. Louis Globe Democrat 2.56 St. Louis Globe Democrat x .. .. Dally ($11.00) 10.OJ x u x St. Nicholas 4-ig x x x 8. W. Christian Advocate. 3.00 x Turf, Field and Farm 6.73 x >• u Western World 2.38 X x X Wasp (Sas Francisco).... 4.78 “ x Waverly Magazine 5 28 “ « •• Wesleyan Chrtstain Adro. 3.2f Young Ladles’Journal.... 6.26 JiyThe Burnt South and any two dollar weekly will be sent for $3.25. Patent Medicine Interest for Sale.* Forsale,a thirty years established, thoroughly advertised aud popular lice of proprietary medi cines. Present proprietor has realized a fortune mid on account of advanced age wisnes to retire from the care Incident to so large a busiuess. Oue Arm sells from $25 000 to $75,000 worth of these rem edies annually, others In proportion. Ti.ls Is a first class opportunity for the safe aud prcflcable Invest ment of capital. For particulars, address SOLID FACTSI ‘‘Seven Springs” Iron-alum Mass, win give you an tlllAtit* nrMsnrerfaeQ JQn up cure |>y g r^p 9 (^ D | a . eadacbes, purify the blood, act cd appetite, siren; rhoea and all |M44I4 kcio f?S. K x5. eT ’L. r ? UeTe “ catarrh'ancT'smjds I'd Ma FriSSSOrts and $1 oo per bottle. nu-KKYS 5*1*8 cures luflunedeyes *f.Cure-No Pay. Ask for It. So'd by all druggists or sent by mall ooslpald. Price 25cts. i; y * Amderson. Manufacturers, Br stol, T “ nn 589dm A TLA NT A MARBLE WORKS, WALSH A PAT- A TZBSOIV, FBOPUKTOB8. Importer* and Dealers in ITALIAN AND AMERICAN MARBLES, pgg^l^kgwriosn Granites. No. 77 Wsvsrlz 100 HwPmm hvmpJlHi ■iMMfeSLiSUKXsSsMrVl W *RTED—Maa, Women, Boys sad Girls to earn J * $<0 per moatiiattMrown homes A nice, light, easy and pnoatsbie bnslnsss. Costly ootfit ot samplM, * P]!*?**®.®*and foil Instruct loos rent lor loe. Address, H. CROWELL SCO., Rutland, VL 599St W ANTED -A situation aa governess in some nice family, or a position ee primary ormneie teach- er in some progreeaive school. References given. Ad- **I8* G. KNIGHT, Meador’s. Union Co., B. C. PATENTS THOU. P. SIMPaON, Washington, D. C. No pay asked for patents un til obtained, r- 7? CBBMM STAMPS—Agests wanted, stamp for
