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THr lowers coiucnoti VOLUME XIII.—NUMBER 610. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MOINING, JULY 23,1887 Shaking Across the Bloody Chasm. SOUTHERN WAR SONGS. Poetic Echoes From the Dead Past. July4th v 185 I, Tuscaloosa, Ala. In 1851 President B&rnard, of Columbia Col- ege, New York Ci r y t was Professor of Chem istry and Natural History in the University of YUbatna, at Tuscaloosa. Hon. W. L. Yancy was firing the Southern heart and preparing to “precipitate a revolution." < >u the 4th of July, President (then Professor) Barnard was invi ted by the Whig Mayor and Council to deliver the oration, which he said lie would do provid ed lie could express his convictions. They consented. The night before this oration was delivered a committee asked Professor Barnard to write an ode to be sung at the celebration the next day. He consented to do so and within an hour wrote the following stanzas, which were sung by four young men before the address: * ris the day of Freedom’s birth; Flint? her starry banner forth; Let it wave, f r om .South to Nor-h, In her own blue sky. Floating wide, from s=*a to sea, Oi the breath of liberty, Let that glorF ui standard be » Ever borne on high. Wfto Its onward course would bar? Who Its lu«tro'is folds would mar? Who would blot, away a star? L*4t him come m*t near. Who would bear It proudly on. Till Its world wide course is run? OI his sire a worthy s >n, Lst In in j tin us here. By that sainted hero, sage, Whose gr«at d«eds—our 1 erltage— Fill with brightness hist’ry’s pa^e, By our Washington. We will cling, till l.oue expires, To the charter of our sires, * Till our course is run. HIT HIM HARD. How a Young Southerner Surprised a Fashionable Club in New York. [New York Letter.] An event occurred in one of the swell clubs on Fifth avenue the other evening, that for the time being created the liveliest kind of a ripple :n the social swim. The rooms were fairly tilled with the young gentlemen who enjoy late suppers, think it the correct thing to be on hand at first night performances in the thea ters, and do the athletic business in its various forms. As several crack boxers were present, some suggestad a friendly bout or two, and a dozen or more of the gallants were presently in the regulation ring attire. One of them is well-known as a famous beau, but he is un fortunately possessed of the idea that because he is the amateur champion of listcuffs in bis club he must per force be the ruler of that particular roast. In (lie can tests that followed this notion was further emphasized by his f] lick extinguishment of three of the biggest oi the young fellows pitied against him, and, l ice Alexander, he panted for other beads to bitter Flushed with his success and possibly with a trifle of wine, the champion began t , ( boast that he could whip any man in the house, whereupon a number who had just sauntered in from the billiard room .-.ietly remarked: “I’ll wager you a thou- s: - t vou can’t whip a friend of mine who hap- ,,, s ] 0 be at this moment a guest of the club anil is playing a game of billiards in the next roi :n ” The bet was promptly taken, and tlm youn" man disappeared to apprise his guest wh t was expected of him. The latter after a» ii’le entered the parlor smoking a cigarette, b U ( no one suspected that the handsomely dr. ssed little fellow, weighing probably less than 1”5 pounds, was more than what he V seemed”to be—a mere looker-on in the halls of fas lion, nor was he himself aware of all the conditions. When t'uev wore made known, therefore, he positively declined to box, unless the bet was called off, and then only in a thor oughly gentlemanly mauner for “points" He stud he was a total stranger there, anil would na'.:rally have no sympathy from a crowd who ■would of course want their man to win. The ibuzziiig questions ran around: “Who is he? When; does lie come from?" Ha was then in troduced as Mr. If., of South Carolina, a grad ual-: of Ilarvaid, class of ’86. It was not, without persuasion that lie permitted the boys to remove his coat, waistcoat and shirt, leav ing pin, in his silk undershirt and drawers. Stripped tie presented a flue specimen of man hood He was compactly built, straight hr an T i-diau, and without an ounce of spare flesh upon him, while the muscles of his arms and chest played like those of a Kentucky thor oughbred. „ , . When the two men faced each other the con- t-ast was almost ridiculously striking. The home lads thought they hud a good tiling. The club man was at least forty pounds heavier and three inches taller, and there was the old bull- doe expression on bis face which he bad al ways carried to victory. On the other hand, the little chap, as they called him, wore an ha bitual sin'le. Time was called in the parlor facin" on Fifth avenue; the two gentlemen shook hands, and the collegian said, “Now, mind Mr , no hard hitting, we re to spar iust three'rounds and for points only.” The champion, however, bad his reputation to sus- ■ain and evidently did not intend to spar for pointe He went in to knock the little fellow tfut His first rush was ferocious, but the young Carolinian, stepping lightlv to one side, delivered two light taps on the cheeks of his antagonist, thus counting two points It was irritating, but it could not be helped. Again and again the club man rained his sledge hammer blows only to have them parried with the utmost ease. When time was called the score stood s x to nothing in favor of the collegian. The non-partisan members leathered around to congratulate bun on bis wonderful skill, for he had not received a blow. In the second round they came to the scratch, .me mad and the other coolly 1hntton- ig his glove. Before the position was fair y ssutued, however, the club-man seemed te jse ail control of himself, and, making a sud- en movement, struck the young Carolinian full in the face with a cruel blow that nearly knocked him off his feet. An angry fire now dashed in the Southerner’s eye. He saw that the other meant serious business. When the big fellow again reached out 10 repeat the dose, quick as a flash the blow was parried; a body seemed to fairly leap forward, a left arm flew out like a rocket, and the champion clubman was knocked down so hard that for fully two hours the doctors, who were hastily summoned, found it difficult to restore consciousness. It was the only hard blow the young fellow had struck, but he was mad now and meant it to hurt. When the excitement was over he apol ogized to the managers of the club. They said lie had acted just right and could take the bal cony. His opponent is still weary and con fined to his house as the result of sudden con cussion between bis head and the floor. Mr. B. left for his home in Charleston on Tuesday night. Moral: It won’t do to under-rate a stranger. The Star-Spangled Banner. The stars and stripes of the present design adopted in 1818, were first hoisted over the hall of the House of liepresentatives on tlyc 1:1th of April, 1818, at p. m. Previous to the adoption of the present flag by Congress, the number of stripes in the old flag hid been in creased to eighteen, according to the number of Slates admitted into the Union, thus de stroying the beauty and perspicuity of the flag; and while this order was preserved in sonic, others contained but nine stripes, as fancy dictated. (>n the admission of Indiana to the Union in 181(1, Mr. Peter 1). Wendover, of Xew York, offered a resolution “that a com mittee be appointed to inquire into the expedi ency of altering the flig of the United States ” A committee was appointed who reported a bill on the 2nd of January, 1817, but it was not acted upon. While the committee had the matter under consideration, Mr. Wendover called on Captain Keid, who was in Washing ton at the time, and requested him to form a design of our flag, so as to represent the in crease of the States without destroying its distinctive character, as the committe were about to increase the stars and stripes to the whole number of States. Captain Reid recom mended that the stripes be reduced to the orig inal number of thirteen States, and to form the number of stars representing the whole number of States into one great star in the Union, adding one star for every new State, thus giving the signiticant meaning to the flag, symbolically expressive of “J? plurtbusunum.” This design of Captain Keid’s was adopted in committee, but the bill did not pass until the next Congress, in 1818. The President, oil the 4th of April, 1818, signed “a bill to establish the flag of the United States.” Captain Ileid, who commanded the piivateer Gen Armstrong in the war of 1812, had a flag of the new pat tern made at his house in Ne w York, by his wife, assisted by a number of young ladies. When completed he sent it to Washington, where it arrived on the Pith of April, and was hoisted that afternoon to replace a damaged flag then flying. < Hie of Captain Keid’s daugh ter's is the wifi of the eloquent Irish born poet, John Swage, now a judge in New York. Captain Keid’s son, who now resides in Waslt- “And Thus Would Wo Have It.” Caleb Cushing, who left no children, in a letter whilh lie wrote from Mount Vernon one Fourth of July, said. “We may regret some times that Washington left no posterity of bis own body to continue his name and race, and to retain and cultivate liis lands. But what perpetuity of name or estate lia.I Jefferson, Madison and Jackson? They have immortality, not in Heaven only, but on earth as well. Should not that suffice? And as to Washing ton, what son or grandson him succeedirg could have continued his fame? Let us be content to have him stand in his solitary grand- ■ eur. We should not have tolerated a descend- I ant of his presuming on his blood, nor should we have been satisfied with one of inferior | metal. And it is unjust to complain, as we are too prone to do, of this or that descendant of his brothers, if, in the possession of a frag ment of the Mount Vernon estate, he do not maintain the mansion house and its grounds in the style of its opulent builder; and still more unjust to complain of such a collateral successor, if he do not, as of himself of course he cannot, provide there a Mecca for the resort of the people of the United States. But this misplaced expectation has at length turned to good, now that, about to pass into the custody of the ladies of America, Mount Vernon be comes a central shrine, a national temple, in which, by the sanctifying influences of the memory of Washington, to keep burning bright forever the sacred tires of the love of home and of country. And thus would we have it. Siioh a memory, calm, grave, digni- tied, severe, is well guarded by the fair maid ens an 1 pure matrons of our land, fit minister ing priestesses at a holier and loftier than all the altars of the classio Vtsta.” Bonfires and Boll-ringing. Said Cbauncey M. Ilepew to a Tribune re porter ihe other day: “I am and always have been a firm believer in what John Adams said about the celebrat'on of the Fourth of July. It was said as a prediction, and it lias not been fullilled because" of the immense number of people in the country who don’t know any thing about the lievolutionary War, and never heard of it! That is all (he more riason why it should now lie celebrated precisely as .1 >hn Adau s n oed that it would I believe in the ringing of lie bells; I believe in the cannon and the. fireworks—but I would draw the line at the tov pistol. I regard this way of keeping Independence Day as a s irt of riinalof liberty, quite as important for inculcating patriotism as are the rituals of the, various church de nominations for incul3iting an i perpetu iting religion,” Broad r.nd Narrow Guage Men. (From the Washington Post.) The meeting at Gettysburg, and the oilier military reunions of like character that have been, and that are proposed to be, held, show a spirit in such contrast to that of the “palsy - iug” Fairchild and the vaporing Tuttle that one is reminded of General Grant’s saying that “if nobody had been left but soldiers on either side we should have had peace within a year,” and of his other sarcastic remark, that “some of the warriors did not get warmed up to the fi»ht rill long after it was all over.” It is an impressive fact that the greatUnion statesmen of the war—Sumner, Seward, Chase and An drews—were in this respect of one mind with General Grant. The Good Old Ideas. (Fiom the Baltimore Sun.) The tendency of enthusiastic celebrations of the Fourth of July, as illustrated by many of the speeches made yesterday, must be to re call the minds of citizens to the men and prin ciples that controlled in the formation of tho Federal compact, to the neglect, for a time, of the newfangled ideas of government that the events of the last quarter of a century have brought into vogue. No conservative person can regret this tendency. It may be very profitable in the interest of the country, to skip the perverted teachings of the middle period, and recur to the ideas of those very sane, just and honorable people that co-operated with Washington and Jefferson to found the Republic. PERSONAL MENTION. BOTTLE TREES OF NORTH AUSTRALIA. Bottle Trees of North Aus tralia. The above illustration of the bottio trees of Queenslitnd, Northern Australia, will attract attention. These tales grow upon a sandy soil, in which the Eucalypti and other gigantic myrtles and acacias flourish. The soil, judg ing by the vegetation described, is poor. These trees are rf the order sterculiaceie— named Delnhecliea rupeslris by the botanists, and called b ittle trees by ilie natives. The in terior structure of the tree abounds in a mucii- a re resembling gum tragacanth, according to Dr. George IWmett. of New, South Wales, opportunity of observing were nine, varying in height from thirty-five to sixty-five feet, with huge branches at the summit. The foiiage is composed of narrow-stalked en'rie and lanceo late leaves, four to seven inches in length. Others on the same tree and stem are digi tated, the digitations varying from five to seven sessile leaflets of a form similar to the simple leaves. The flowers are in panicles and insignificant in appearance; the bark is rugged, and there is no distinction of foliage to be observed either in young or old trees. The circumferance of the trees measured seven feet from the base, was from twelve to thirty- live feet. The trees grow very luxuriantly on a soil of sand or sandy loam. They are often tapped by stockmen, who procure from them a glutinous and refreshing beverage. When of large size they are scooped mu and form ex cellent canoes. It is stated that an excellent kind of jam or jelly is made from the sap. Gen. Jackson’s Death Bed. Gen. Jackson’s death bed at tho Hermitage, one bright Sabbath morning in June, 1815, is described as a scene never to be forgotten. He bade them all adieu in the tenderest terms, and enjoined them, old and young, white and black, to meet him in heaven. All were in tears, and when lie had breathed bis last the outburst of grief was irrepressible. The congregation at the little Presbyterian church on the planta tion, which the general had built to gratify his deceased wife, the morning service over, came flocking to the mansion as his eyes were clos ing and added their he wailinent to the general sorrow. Shortly after this mournful event a lady friend of the family encountered an old servant in the kitchen, who was sobbing as though her heart would break. “< He missus is gone,” she brokenly said to the lady, “and now ole massa is gone; dey’s all gone, and dey was our bes frens. And ole massa, not satisfied with leachin’us how to live, lias now tciclied us ho v to die.”—Ken: Perley Poore's Letter. The Reconstructed South. It is very pleasant to observe that, in the discussiouof the liat'le Hug question, almost every expression from the South is good-natur ed. The South does not want the flags; they are all right where they are; they are not worth a hard word or thought. This is the universal sentiment from the .S oith, and it shames the fervid eloquence of a few Northern politicians, with thei— theatrical curses and desperate ap peals. Indeed, tiie discussion has not dis turbed the era of good feeling, but has con firmed it, by showing how far the South has left the war behind in its new record of pro press, and how easy it feels in its natural rela tions under the old flag.—Boston Ihr it l. In His Arms. “It was just like a thunderbolt/’ said Ruth, with a set, almost hard, expression on her young face, as of a grief too bitter to bear * itli submission, and too deep forte;.rs. “Yes, my dear child, it was,” said h'V aunt, a gentle-voiced woman, with bands of Mnooth, half-gray hair over her quiet face. “But the thunderbolts are all held by the Father’s own hand, and His hand is as genth as it is strong. He never sends his bolts am*). 11 is children without directing them in le.tue • ->t love." Ruth made a little movement of half impa tience.- ‘.‘It would be hard to conQfv " ‘ me, A’uit Faith, thaHhero was any -ne taking Glim AlUlt T’TtTlh patted her face gently, longin ^ T^ay the luir.g that might be of help to the s growing heart. “I mean good for me,” weapon Ruth, with a little tremble in her voice. • Of course it is all best for her. But she would never have chosen to leave. She would have thought it good to stay.” “But tho Master doesn’t allow His children to choose for themselves, dear. It must be as He thinks best. Isn’t it enough to know that what He orders is surely best.?” “Christians always say so, and I suppose it ought to be. But it doesn’t seem that way to WASHINGTON CITY. Reminiscences of Distin guished Public Men. Incidents Which Have Transpired at the National Capitol. Webster and Wentworth. In the Twenty-Ninth Congress, when tha' gigantic annual steal, the river and harbor bill, first «ttV'>ia*l gigantic oroportfem*. ’ > l ’h —nr'-- t r _irscnOTpc,'.’Ttpf»n wur.,.. nc hoped to secure his re-election, and among liiem “Long John” Wentworth of Illinois ad- | vocatad nv appropriation of 812,000 for the improvement of the harbor at Little Fort, now called Waukegan, on Lake Michigan. The bill ■ had been loaded down with amendments by 1 the Senate, and John Davis, from the conm.it- I tee on commerce, endeavored to lighten it by | striking out some of the items, among them the appropriation for the improvement of the harbor at Little Fort. Long John” was in trouble when he learned lean man, considerably over six feet in height, with stooping shoulders, long pendulous arms, terminating in hands of extraordinary dimen sions, which, however, were far exceeded in proportion by his feet. He was dressed in an ill-titling, wrinkled suit of black, which put one in mind of an undertaker’s uniform at a funeral; round his neck a rope of black silk was knotted in a large bulb with flying ends projecting beyond the collar of his coat; his turned-down shirt collar disclosed a sinewy, muscular, yellow neck, and above th?t, nestling in a great black mass of hair, bristling and compact like a ruff of mourning pins, rose the strange, quaint face and head, covered with its thatch of wild, republican h^ir, of Presi dent Lincoln. The impression produced by ‘ d What the People Are Doing and Saying. Last year 770 women attended lectures in the Russian universities. Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London, has just celebrated his 5 Id birthday. There are six editors in Boston 80 years ol age, who are engaged in active work. Judge G. II. Nixon died at his home in Law- renceburg, Tenn., last monday, July 4th. A monument has been erected by the heirs of Leopold von Ranke at the great historian’s birthplace. Queen Kapiolani, of the Sandwich Islands, arrived in New York from Europe on the 11th, homeward bound. A subscription has been opened at Fort Worth to erect a monument to the late Col. Sidney I*. Cunningham. Frederick Douglass, who has been making an extensive tour of Europe, is expected to re turn to this country in September. Lawrence Barrett, Edwin Booth and T. B. Aldrich will cruise along the Maine coast in a steam yacht later in the summer. The young American violinist, Hettie Car penter, uses a bow which was a gift to the young prodigy from Emperor William. Miss Adelaide Johnson, of St. Louis, has re ceived an order from Mrs. Logan to make busts in marble of herself and Gen. Logan. William Walter Phelps’ son, John J., the skipper of the yacht Brunhiide, has just com pleted a two years’ cruise around the world. Mrs. Grant has so far received from the pub lishers of Gen. Grant’s Memoirs nearly $400,- 000. The work has a constant and large sale. Count di Mariflori, son of King Victor Em manuel, is one of the greatest wine makers of Italy. Ilis vineyards at Lucca cover nearly 7,000 acres. W. W. Corcoran is slowly growing stronger at Deer park, but he will in all probability nev er walk again. His mental faculties are as vigorous as ever. Francis Roudo, the Wisconsin pioneer, who died last week at Fond duLac, aged more than 100 years, is said to have left 454 descendants in three generations. Mrs. Mackay has presented her tiny grand son, Prince Colonna, with a magnificent dress ing case, all the appointments being gold, rich ly entrusted with jewels. When Mr. Edison uses the telephone he fairly shocks whoever receives his message by talking very loudly. Being slightly deaf he does not apprecia.e the high pitch of his own voice. Prof. Crouch, of Baltimore, who composed “Kathleen Mavourneer” while walking along the banks of the Thames, has been made Fel low of the London Society of Arts, Letters and Sciences. ! Gen. Mahone, of Virginia, Ggn. L F. But- I the size of his extrenv oies, and 'by his flap ler,‘ of Massachusetts, and Senator Plumb arfc 'll } »“> f „ {uea/io.it si h:j uc Crev- 1 njovtnfby the appearwr.ee of KintKiuess, sagac- ' sole, Lumber and Construction Coino:mv, of A Wasbiugtoniau Relic. An old trunk was sold at auction in Wash ington for 25 cents. It was filled with rubb sh, and the buyer sent it home, intending to have it cleaned * ut. When this was done, the trunk was found to contain a solid silver shield, which appears to have been on the coffin of George Washington. The plate from the cas- , ket has been missing ever since the attempt ! to steal the reinaius in 1837. FROM THE SHOULDER. Canon Wilberforce Makes a Few Re marks About Prohibition. New York, June 20.—Canon Wilberforce, of England, in his remarks at Cliickering Hall on total abslinence last evening, said: “There must be no compromise. There must be no high license. There must be absolute, univer sal prohibition. Talk about destroying an in dustry ! In Scotland there is an establishment that turns .€1,500,000 annually, and it employs only 150 men. In the iron manufactoiies at Sheffield the same capital would give work to 1,500 men. and in cotton manufactures it would employ 11,000 persons. Any man who says prohibition would hurt industry lies under the greatest mistake of his life. [Applause.] I don’t know anythirg about your politics here, and I don’t know whether I am treadiug on dangerous ground or not., but I beseech you not to let this cause become a political question. Don’t place it at the mercy of political in trigues, and don’t have any party division up on the question. Push it as a question outside of politics.” I that his appropriation was to be opposed in the I Senate, and he went to the Senate Chamber » .tsiH A,„.t Voith mil- I on the last day of the discussion on the bill ingterougb who with h heavy lean, Neither of the senators ™ “robbery outside. “There | “-‘of S.EK* and ffkETZS hint, exhibiting a large map of the locality, and pledging his reputation as a civil engineer that the appropiation would be wasted if ex pended. While Gen. Dix was speaking, Mr. Webster came along where Mr. Wentworth was sitting, in the rear of tho senators’ desks, and said: “Wentworth, what is Dix making all this ado about?” The reply was promptly made: “Mr. Webster, since your trip around Lite lakes from Chicago in 1837, we have had b it few appro priations for ttc old harlors and none for new ones. This place is half way between Chicago and Milwaukee, and we want a harbor of ref uge there.” “I see the point,” said Mr. Web ster, and he went at once to his seat. When Gen. Dix had concluded an I rolled up bis map, Mr. Webster arose and remarked, in liis usual impressive manner, that what lie might say on the subject could add but little ! to the conclusive argument of the senator from New York in favor of the appropriation for Little Fort harbor. Tne senator had endeav ored to show that there was no harbor there, and so the House must have thought when i’, made an appropriation to construct one there. Upon what did the senator front Now York found his doctrine, that, when God created the world, or even Lake Michigan, lie left nothing for man t) do? The curse pronounced upon our first parents for their transgression was in entire conflict with at y such doctrine. He did not believe that the Constitution of the United States wis such a narrowly contracted instru ment that it would not permit, the construction of a harbor ween the necessities of commerce required it. Mr. Webster proceeded to foreshadow the growth of the West, its abundant products and its gigantic commerce, indulging in predictions which have been more than realized since. He then described a steamer starting from Chica go, laden to the guards with freight and pas- I setgers, and caught in a storm, with no habor I of refuge at hand. lie depicted the whistling | of tho winds, the dashing waves, the creaking timbers and the shrieking passengers, and, as j he sent the steamer to the bottom with all on j board, he exclaimed: “What but a merciful Providence saved me from such a catastrophe when I was a passenger on a Lake Michigan steamer in 1837' At such a dire disaster could the senator from New York derive any conso lation that his narrow interpretation of tho Constitution had bern maintained?” The argument was unanswerable, and when tbe yeas and nays were called on the motion to stiiae out tbe Little Fort item, it waB lost, by a vote of twenty-three yeas against twenty- nine nays. Benton, who was an advocate of internal improvements, said that Mr. Web ster's remarks were the greatest speech on so Email a matter that he had ever heard. But the great expounder was always ready to serve anyone of New Hampshire birth. lie had known Mr. Wentworth’s father, and “Long John” was a graduate of his alma mater, Dart mouth. 1-resident Folk vetoed the river and harbor hill, futile Fort item and all, as unconstitu tional. When, years afterward, Gen. Dix vis ited Chicago to deliver the oration at the lay ing of the corner atone of the Douglas menu uient, Mr. Wentworth called his attention to the magnificent breakwaters whi:h formed an artificial harbor, Gen. Dix complimented them, adding: “They ought to protect you from any storm, even from such a one as Web ster manufactured for you in 184(1.” Lincoln Graphically Sketched. Dr. Russell, the correspondet t of the Lon don Times, who so graphically sketched the re treat from Bull Run, gave the following carica ture pen-portrait of Abraham Lincoln: “Soon afterwards,” wrote Russell, “there entered, with a shambling, unsteady gait, a tail, lank, hete.” The clouds were gathering thicker and dark er in the western sky, but in the east the sun still shone, so that the streaks of lightning were hardly visible, and the rolling thunder was still very far away. But the cloud rose higher and h.gber, and the puffs of wind which foretold the approaching storm began to stir the leaves. "Come, come, child,” again called her aunt. But the naugbly little one still lingered, now holding out Iter small hand to catch the drops which were beginning to fall. “Hetty!” Tne call was sterner. Whether it would have been heeded or not can never be known; for at the mutt. if. came a blinding flash of lightning, wind, seined to wrap every thing in its appalling brightness. The deaf ening thunder crash came almost in the same second, drowning the cry of terror with which the little girl rushed into the house, and pale cheeks and trembling limbs, sought slte 1 - ter in tbe loving arms which were folded about her. “Don’t be afraid, little one. Your Father is caring for you all the time.” “But it might Lave killed nte," said the brightened child. “Lightning does kill people sometimes.” “And if it had, wouldn’t you be in your Father’s care still?" Ruth looked out of the window until the storm had passed, and little Hetty had again ventured into the sunshine. Her aunt came and put her arms around her. “Hetty did not mind me when I called her in from the storm, until the thunderholt drove her into my arms ” And Kuril looked into the kind eyes with a softened expression in her own; for she had found a new meaning—a lesson of love in tbe thunderbolt.—Sunday School Titi.es. The Crown of England. [l’.iiladelpbia Call ] There are 21) diamonds around tbe cir- clo worth 87,br-fl each - - - -§150,000 Two large central diamonds §10 000 ea. 20,000 1 Fifty-four smaller diamonds, placed at the angle of the former, §500 each - 27,000 1 Four crosses, each composed of 25 dia monds ----- - - - Four large diamouds on top of cross - Twelve diamonds contained in tho fleur de lis ------- - Kighteen smaller d,amends in tbe same l’earls, diamonds, etc., upon the arches aud crosses - -- -- -- - One hundred and forty-one small dia monds --------- Twelitj -six diamonds in the tipper cross Two circles of pearls about, the rim - The cost of the stones in the crown, exclu sive of the metal, is, therefore, nearly $500,- 0OO. 60,000 20.000 I 50.000 10.000 50.000 25.000 15.000 15,000 Of the men of New Y'ork who can justly lay claim to success in this life, the following do not drink, smoke or chew: Cbauncey M. De pew, Jay Gould, Russell Sage, Cyrus VV. Field, Henry C.ews, Stephen V. White, Commodore Bateman, Collector Magone, Washington E Connor and John D. Slayback. Many others of almost equal influence use tobacco but do not drink. The Alexandria and Washington railroad was sold at public auction, at Alexandria, and was bought by the l’ennsyluanit. road for $100,- ooo. Luther Beecher, one of the wealthiest men in Detroit, has promised the Citizen’s Associa tion of that city $200,0C0 to be applied to the erection of a permanent exposition building. [■Pei . ity and the awkward bonhomie o; his face; the mouth is absolutely prodigious; tliu lips, strag gling an:! extending almost from one line of black beard to the other, are only kept in or der by two deep furrows from the nostril to the chin; the nose, itself a prominent organ, stands o it from the face with an inquiring, anxious air, as though it was sniffing for some good thing in the wind; the eyes dark, full of an expression which almost atnmiuts to ten derness; and above them projects the shaggy brow, running into the small, hard frontal space, the development of which can scarcely be estimated accurately, owing to irregular flicks of thick hair." Cen. Taylor and Ampudia. Gen. Taylor, when lie won his victories in Mexico, did not look much like a hero. He was somewhat below medium height, was short and stout, in fact, was what one wouli call dumpy, lie wore a straw hat, an old tine t duster that looked as if it might not have been washed since he fought the battle of l’alo Alto. His pants were large and loose, and he wore coarse soldier shoes. Gen. Shields used to narrate an interesting incident that occurred one day when he was a guest of “Old Rough and Ready’s” table at dinner, with Col. Bliss and a son of Henry Clay. Just as they were finishing dinner, a guard filed in with two i prisoners that had just been arrested. The | men had been for two days peddling oranges j through the camp, aud by accident one of the i soldiers had discovered that under their coarse [ garments they wore the finest linen. So the j two were arrested, and carefully concealed about their persons had been found papers ! containing very valuable information concern ing the American camp, the number of men in arras and the best points for at .ack. These I papers were handed over to Gen. Taylor, and after read ng them be passed them to the rest | of us. They were unmistakable evidences } that ilia two men were spies. “Call my inter- i pretet!” demanded Gen. Taylor. The general could not speak Spanish. Lite only Spanish word he knew was “rnmos," and he used i> on I all occasions. Whenever he invited the Mexi cans into camp, lie said “mmos,” and when ever he ordered them out of camp, lie said ‘ vamos.” Tne interpreter having arrived, Gen. Taylor said to him: “Ask them who they are!” The prisoners replied that they w-1e Mexican f<>!- tiiers. “Humph!—bought so. Now ask them what their rank is.” They looked at each other a moment, as much as to say, “We might as well tell the truth," ami answered that they were colonels, one of them chief of the engineer corps at Monterey. “Aha," said Gen. Taylor, “so much the worse. Aud n o v a :k them who sent them here.” They replied that they had come io obedience to the orders of Gen. Am pudia. “Gen Ampudia sent you, did he?" roared old “Rough and Ready.” “ Well, I say Gen. Ampudia is no gentleman, or he would not have sent: you here upon this sneaking er rand, to spy about our camp I sav he is no gentleman!" Tho prisoners had just begun to understand that tbe man whom they were be fore was the American general, and when he uttered this hasty opinion of their chief they bowed very low. Gen. Taylor asked them if tlity knew the penalty of their crime—if they knew that, as spies, they ought to be shot. At once the prisoners drew themselves lip proudly and said they knew the penalty, but if they were to die they trusted they would meet their fate like brave men. Their bravery pleased the bluff old soldier, aud after a moment’s thought he said: “Well, I’ll let you go this time; but if I ever catch you spying here again I’ll have you shot, shot like Mexican dogs! Now, tamos! tamos! And tell Gen. Ampudia that when he wants to find out about our army, he may send a delegation of his officers here and I will escort them about myself and order a review of the troops for their especial bene fit.’’ The liberated men scampered off briskly. Shortly after that Gan. Taylor, at the head of his victorious legions, marched in and took possession of Monterey. General Bragg, tbe old commander of the “Iron brigade,” says that the real soldiers don’t c ire what is done with the captured flags, and tells about a professional veteran in Wis consin who “was going to palsy his arm, or fight again, or something of that kind before tbe flag captured by the Sixth Wisconsin from the Third Mississippi should be returned;” and, 4, d—n him!” adds the General, “he left the war two years before we captured that flag.” Fernandiua. The Rev. Wm. M. Turner, for many years principal of the American Asylum for tne deaf and dumb, and one of Yale’s oldest living grad uates, died in Hartford, Conn., on the 11th inst., aged 87. Perhaps the most successful venture in au thorship ever made in this country was that of General Grant. It is stated that the gross re ceipts from the sale of Ills memoirs have reach ed odo.ooo. l’rivy Counsellor Dr. vou Dechend, of tha University of Bonn, has been elected a fore gu corresponding member of the Paris Acaiemy of Sciences. lie is the first German thus elect ed for many years. Harriet Beecher Stowe is aging very percep tibly. She lives a quiet life in her modest home at Hartford. To a friend she said re cently: “No, I write no more. I have done, I have done, I have done.” Portland, Me., has a bank cashier who has been in one bank fifty-three straight years. People who ask why he hasn’t made a grab and run away, are informed that tbe money in that bauk is counted every night. Rev. Dr. W. C. Winslow, of Bos'.ou. has been made an honorary member of the Royal Arcbte tlogical Society of Great Britain on ac count of hts distinguished services in connec tion with the Egyptian exploration enterprise. It is rumored in Washington that the Pope will bestow the Golden Rose on Miss Caldwell, who gave .$300,000 to the new Catholic univer sity. The wife of General Sherman is the only American woman who has hitherto received the Golden Rose. P. T. Barnaul celebrated the 77th anniversa ry of his birth on '.he Fourth of July at Wald- mere, where he gave a clam bake to about thirty of his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Mr. B iruuui appears 1 ’.o be iu remarkably good health. The Princess of Wales is this year for the first time an exhibitor at the Royal S iciety of Painters in Water Colors. She sends a dainty picture of Windsor, seen from the river. Mr. Ruskin sends two pictures, one painted as lately as February last. The Empress Elizabeth of Austria has joined the baud of royal authors. Wuile visiting Ma- hadia she went to the summit of the peak called in her honor, Elizaoetheu Hohe, and was on the spot inspired to write a poetn on the smallness aud vanity of earth 1 }- dignities. Mias Alice Freeman, President of Weltesley College, has received 580 applications from young women wishing to enter Wellesley next year. There are. only l'H) places possible it present. Miss Freeman will only oe absent one week during ilie summer Iron, the college. The eloquent Indian woman “Bright Eyes,” who is now Mrs. Tibbies, is making arrange ments for a series of lecturers in London on the wrongs of the North American Italians. She has well chosen her time. Tae Wild West show has awakened interest in England in the red men of this continent. Walter Murray Gibson, ex-l’remier of the Hawaiian kingdom, is a matt over 70 years of age, but hale aud vigorous. Miss Howard St. Clair, a handsome California book agent, claims that tbe Premier nas failed to keep a nromise of marriage, and that the sum of $100,- 000 will j ist about quiet the throbhoigs oi her more or less broken heart. Senator Farwell is going to Europe in August on business, lie and Col. Abner 1'ayior, of Chicago, are at the head of a mammoth land enterprise in Texas, and it is on affairs con nected therewith that Mr. Farweil is going abroad. Col. Taylor is spending tbe summer over there on the same business. They will come home together in October. Mrs. Nancy Culpepper celebrated her 103d birthday, at her home about tight miles e*.-t of Starksville, Miss., on the !V,h instant. She was b>rn iu Nash county, N. C., and was one of the first settlers of Oktibbeha county. Her general health is good, and she is now catling her third set of teeth. She does not wear specks, but can thread a cambric needle with perfect ease. Grand Duke Michael, of Russia, recently asked to be allowed to eater into competition with Miss Annie Oakley at the Wiid West Show, at London, which permission nas at once accorded But, although the Prince made a fairly good score, it showed out piorty in comparison with that of his fair competitor, and he retired from the contest abashed but firmly convinced of the superiority of Ameri can markswomon over Russian amateur shot*.
