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VOLUME XIII.—NUMBER 611.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 30,1887.
PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
SOUTHERN WAR SOTOS,
Poetic Echoes From the Dead
Past.
For the Sunny South.
KEEP THAT BANNER.
[BY MONROE PROFFIT.
The howl of rage with which the order au
thorizing the return of Southern battle flags
was greeted, suggested the following lines:
Keep that banner, and 1( ever
Traitors base should mar Its glory,
Oafend It, shield It and Ol never
Let their words of shame dissever
The bonds of truth that hold Its story 1
Keep that banner, and ever tell
In words of living truth Its story;
Tell of those who loved It well;
Tell of those who for It fell,
And dying sanctified its glory.
hi.
Keep It, tbo’ ’tls rent and torn,
Tho* 'tls red—stained with gore—
’Twas the brave ensign of hopes forlorn;
Twas by patriot hands upborne—
Keep It—It Is sacred evermore.
Keep that banner, and to the gaze
Of a Nation’s pride unfold It;
’11s a souvenir of days
Wben patriots met In war’s blaze.
When dying braves smiled to behold It.
Its story upon Its sacred folds,
Write In living words of light.
That the patriot wbo beholds
Th s heroic tale upon Its folds,
May Interpret It arl>ht.
vt.
Write the name of our honored dead,
Without a single word of blame
Upon that flag; for It they bled,
tOr It their patriot blood they shed,
For it they won Immortal fame.
YU.
Write how for years they stemmed the tide,
When superior numbers bore them down;
Tell how they fought, how they died;
llow, with every aid denied.
They gained world-wide renown.
Till.
J,9t not vile tongues with slander speak
Of the patriots who adore it,
Lest the veDgeance that they seek,
Upon their spotless lives to wreak,
Shonld slander those who fell before It.
The Prosperous South.
[Chicago Lumber anti Trade Journal. ]
All reports from the South indicate a great
revival of manufacturing industries in that
section. There is a great revival going on in
cotton factories, which are especially flourish
ing, and enjoying a prosperity unknown in the
New England manufacturing districts. The
most wonderful reports fill the Southern press,
and especially the columns of the technical
journals, of the somewhat phenomenal growth
and development ol the iron industry, and the
millions of capital (largely Eastern and for
eign) which is being pat in great furnaces and
rolling mills in Alabama and Tennessee.
Chattanooga and Birmingham are magic cities,
and their growth is something, the like of
which the South has never before witnessed
not even dreamed of. Then again the number
of wood working factories springing up all
over the South is something astonishing. In
the great timber sections of Arkansas, Georgia,
Florida, Tennessee, and in other States, the saw
mills are making in roads on what Southern
people may think now are inexhaustible—vast
tracts of which contain some of the finest hard
wood to be found on this continent—but in a
quarter century hence they may possibly dis
cover their mistake. Certainly all these evi
dences of Southern prosperity are extremely
gratifying. One chief obstacle heretofore to
the successful introduction of a varied system
of manufactures is the delusion that the work
required a great deal of “capital,’’whereas ener
gy and determination were really the chief re
quisites. Manufactures are gregarious; there is
a sympathy between them that causes them to
group together. It is a waste of time for an
idle population anywhere to point to their rich
soil, fine timber, water power and beds of coal
and ores, and call on somebody in the East or
in Europe to come and work up these cheap
materials into goods. Until recently the solic
ited capital did not come, because the solicited
“capital” argued that if the boasted advantages
really existed, the Southern people should im
prove them. These people may find out one
of these days that they have two much foreign
and Eastern capital to deal with; that their
vast tracts of timber land had better have re
mained in their own possession, and have been
divided up among their own people, rather
than he girt around by huge monopolies, which
will have skimmed off all the cream and left
nothing but the milk for the original owners
and their descendants to partake of. Since
the South has obtained such a magnificent
start, everybody is glad to see her people reso
lutely at work making fortunes of their own
resources, and inaugurating manufactures on
a small scale, putting in a little capital and
plenty of work, employing all the idle persons
in the vicinity who are able and willing to
work, and managing their business with fru
gality and judgment. No wonder the Southern
people are surprised and delighted thus far
with the results of their work.
CASTLE GEYSER AND HOT SPRINGS, MONTANA.
GENS. WISTAR AND WALKER.
Gold for Sunny South Patrons.
See the extraordinary array of gold and val
uable presents to be distributed among the
patrons of the Sunny South on the 1st of Oc
tober next. Read the announcement and plan
of distribution in the 1st column of the 4th
page.
A STORY ABOUT DRUM.
He Won Popularity by Frowning on a
Bit of Hayesism.
[New York Mail and Express.]
Adjutant General Drum, who has achieved
a national reputation lately as the originator of
the resolution to return the captured battle
fl igs to the States, has been for many years a
well-known figure in Washington. He entered
the army more than thirty years ago as a pri
vate soldier, and by merit and soldierly quali
ties hag risen to be Adjutant General of the
army in the face of the prejudice which nat
urally keeps every man who rises from the
ranks from the highest military positions. The
West Pointers say that General Drum’s rise
llatly contradicts the charge that no man stands
a show in the army unless he has been grad
uated at West Point.
Gen. Drum is not only extremely popular
with the officers, but a circumstance occurred
some years ago which made the inmates of the
soldiers’ homes and the enlisted men of the
army enthusiastic about him. It was a mat
ter of just complaint to the veterans out at the
Soldiers’ Home near Washington, that all the
early fruits and vegatables which they raised
by their own labor were reserved to supply the
table of the superintendent of the homo, the
higher officers of the War Department, and
even the White House. During the Hayes
administration not only were all of the delica
cies of the garden sent to the White House and
to these high officials, hut when Mr. and Mrs.
Hayes went out to the Soldiers’ Home cotta
ges, which they occupied by courtesy during
the summer, their table was supplied from the
work of the old soldiers. Just about that time
Gen. Drum was ordered to Washington. One
day in May, 1881, a cart drove up to General
Drum's house loaded with vegetables from the
Soldiers’ Home. The general went out to see
what was up. It was explained to him, and
also the bad practice in vogue among high of
ficers. The old gentleman flew into a rage on
the spot. “Take that cart away,” he roared.
“I’ll have you to understand that when I want
vegetables I’ll send down to the market and
get them. I don’t want the soldiers’ vegeta
bles. I am no dead beat, and I’ll not be treat
ed as one.”
This, of course, was carried immediately
back to the soldiers, who got it in print. Then
the extent of the scandal was developed, and
the Washington newspapers rang with it. The
names of the officers who had fattened upon
the earnings of the soidiers were published,
and such a tornado was raised that the abuse
was instantly stopped. Some of the officers
smirched never have been able to get rid of the
An Antietam Anecdote Apropos of the
Distinguished Virginian’s Visit.
[Philadelphia Record.]
The presence of General James A. Walker,
of Virginia, in this city yesterday recalled to
the mind of General I. J. Wistar an incident of
the battle of Antietam. General Wistar at
that time was a Colonel, and was severely
wounded in the Bhoulder, and came near losing
his life from the loss of blood. While lying
upon the field a lieutenant from a Georgia regi
ment demanded his sword. The general in
formed him that the weapon was in the hands
of a Lieutenant Rogers, of a New York regi
ment, and that if he wanted it be had better
rejoin his own regiment and assist in captur
ing it. The lieutenant then demanded his
parole, and this Colonel Wistar also refused to
give, stating that it was very possible he would
fall into the hands of his friends. At this mo
ment Generals Walker and J. E. B. Stuart rode
up, accompanied by their staffs. Colonel Wis
tar beckoned to the officers for assistance and
General Walker ordered a young captain on
Stuart’s staff to go to his aid. The young cap
tain gave the tourniquet on the colonel’s arm
an extra twist to stop the flow of the blood and
endeavored in other ways to make him com
fortable. Col. Wistar stated how the Georgia
lieutenant had been annoying him, and when
this was reported to General Walker he im
mediately ordered him to his regiment, accus
ing him’of skulking. The young captain who
gave Colonel Wistar so much kindly assistance
was Mosby, who afterward became notorious
as a guerilla.
Castle Geyser and Hot Springs, Mon
tana.
A few miles above the lower fall of the Yel
lowstone River, which is 400 feet in height and
100 feet wide, and near Crater Hills, are a
number of hot springs. Some of these are
mud springs. One, twelve feet in diameter,
resembles a huge boTing cauldror, the water
being thrown to the height of three feet. It is
surrounded by a collar-like rim, which is en
crusted with a bead-like formation. In the
stream running from it is an abundant deposit
of sulphur. The water contains sulphur,
alumina, lime, and iron. Near this spring are
some steam jets, which, by the noise they
make, resemble a locomotive engine. The
Caetle Geyser, which we show in the above en
graving, is situated in the center of a gently
sloping mound of the silicious deposit, above
which its crater rises about fifteen feet, fash
ioned like turrets, many of which are broken
down, as though the castle had been subjected
to a bombardment. It is about fifty feet in
length, and is encrusted with a beautiful bead
like formation. The water gushes from it
every few hours, making a great noise. We
also show one of the hot springs—one in front
of Castle Geyser—which is seen in the dis
tance. These hot springs are of all diameters,
reaching even 400 feet. Their depth is unfath
omable. The waters vary in temperature
from 110 degrees Fahr. to the boiling point.
Reminiseneej of Earl) Manhood. WASHINGTON CITY.
6tain.
Henry Clay and Kossuth.
Henry Clay, at the urgent request of Kossuth,
granted him an interview in his room at the
National hotel on the afternoon of January 9,
1852. Mr. Clay had dressed himself, and, per
haps for the last time, stood erect to meet the
Magyar. He received the visitor with all his
characteristic courtesy and cordiality, but said:
“Governor Kossuth, a dying man stands before
you to protest against your Uoc-rine of inter
vention.” Kossu.h replied in terms that af
fected Mr. Clay to tears, and both giving way
to unrestrained emotion, they parted—to meet
not again.—Hen: Perley Poore's Letter.
American Ladies Highly Honored.
During the recent ceremony of laying the
corner-stone of the Pedestal of the New Statue
to the Prince Consort, an unusual compliment
was paid two American ladies, as related in
the subjoined dispatch to the New York World:
Olive Logan was present, Lady Burdett-
Coutts having sent her tickets. Olive Logan
placed one of these at the disposal of Mrs. Bige
low, wife of John Bigelow, who has recently
obtained the English probate of Mr. Tilden’s
will. A great social triumph was in store for
this well-known American lady. Leaving his
carriage and making his way towards her, the
Crown Prince warmly shook hands with Mrs.
Bigelow, inquiring after her husband’s health,
said that his throat was much better, and that
he hoped soon to he quite well again. The in
cident was so unusual and the Crown Prince’s
manner so very cordial, that’i minediately after
the royal carriage bearing the Prince had
driven off, Gen. Sir Henry I’onsonby, the
Queen’s Privy Purse, came up to where Mrs.
Bigelow and Olive Logan were standing, and
asked if he might inquire their names. The
two American ladies afterwards conversed
with Baroness Burdett-Ccutts.
For Sunny South.
CENERAL ROBERT E. LEE.
BY ROSE W. FRY.
Wrest not those laurels from his brow,
He knew to wear so worthily;
Altho’ he lived to see them fade—
Yet still lived on as duty hade;
Whilst others claimed the victory I
The dauntless heart, the steadfast v 111,
The quiet mien, unplnched by pain
ty tiai/er the worst that fate might send—
The noble yielding to the end;
Were more to him than ylcrory!
Lav the fresh laurel on bis tomb.
Time will not let nis glory fade,
Altho’ he lies within the gloom
Ol cloistered vault and pillared nave;
WUllst others nde to victory!
The tired In life, in death the same;
Man of nntarnlsned earthly fame!
O i, who can doubt thou passed’st out
From this poor scene, which we call life—
To higher, purer, loftier strife;
And tb'ne is soil the victory 1
June tth, 1887.
Extract From an Address by Judge
Cocke, of Florida.
The poet has said:
“ ’Twas even thus from childhood's hour,
I’ve seen my fondest hopes decay;
I’ve never loved a tree or flower,
But ’twas the first to fade away.”
How mistaken is the beautiful, pathetic and
impassioned poet, if he means all sadness.
I can truly say thettMMMMfe embalmed in
my heart many lastil
sion of early days tl
roughest touch of ti
quiver beneath thi
storm, or wither for’
frost, there is yet to the undying
even retorting spring.
While I reflect on the touching scenes that
are now before me, I feel many green and
fragrant wreaths are yet entwined around my
aged brow. They are fresh with the fadeless
flowers of early manhood’s still abiding friend
ship, and long will they thus endure, for they
were planted, and are nurmred on the ex
haustless soil of a fond heart, utilized with a
force that never weakens, and refreshed by
those pure and gentle showers that flow and
fall in tears of love as the eye rests upon feat
ures that are still reflected beneath the sun
shine of an affectionate heart, and will ever
exist in a chrystalized perfection beyond the
touch of time.
The solar beams of loving hearts, will ever
form from the pendant tear, the lasting combi
nation of those colors that are impressed on
the over hanging cloud as the beautiful and
comforting bow of hope, showing its cheering
colors beneath an ever shining sun when ever
a tear drop may meet its passing rays.
Cocke.
Reminiscences of Distin
guished Public Men.
Incidents Which Have Transpired at
the Rational Capitol.
Grand Army Gossip.
[Elizabeth (N. J.) Leader.]
Some men in 1 he G. A. R. want notoriety.
The other day Tuttle, an Iowa politician, said
he would insult the President if the latter at
tended the encampment at St. Louis, and now
Fairchild, commander of the society, calls upon
God to kill President Clevelaud. Fairchild,
ins'ead of calling upon a stranger, should do
his own killing.
“Well, what kind of a man did yon elect for
commander?” was asked by one member of
another.
‘ Splendid!’’ ejaculated the member with
delight.
“ J^Rat regiment did he belong to during the
“None.”
“None?”
“No, he didn’t do any fighting in the war
but Great Scot, man, you ought to hear him
sing ‘Marching Through Georgia.’ ”
The Secret.
A would be literary character, not unsifted
with genuis .wrote a story.
it was returned by the publisher politely
marked *N. G, with the kind intimation that it
was ‘rubbish.’
She—for it was a woman—at once wrote to
the publisher, telling of how she had hoped to
win a way for herself. She told of her little
ones, and their winning ways, and told simply
the short sad story of her lire, asking if it were
be j t for her to continue to try to write.
The publisher answered: “Your last’effort is
a good one—far better than the other story.
It deals in homely truths in a most entertain
ing style. I will publish it. Enclosed find
check for ten dollars. Don’t try to write about
things and sentiments, of which you know
nettling.”
The Texas Chautauqua.
The Third Annual Session of the San Mar
cos Sunday-school Assembly and Sumner Ins
titute will open at the Tabernacle of the As
sembly, one-fourth mile from the town of Sao
Marcos, Hays Co., Texas, August 0th., 1887,
and continue until September 1st.
The Assembly is a chartered institution,
meant to popularize education, cultivate the
social sympathies of the people of Texas, assist
in furthering the ends of the great moral and
religious movements of the State, and provide
a Christian Summer Home tor all.
During August, a variei and interesting pro
gramme, consisting of lecturers, musical and
literary entertainments, and popular instruc
tion in many departments of educational work
will be presented.
The literary features of the Assembly are
daily lectures on literary and scientific subjects
and general educational topics.
Some of the foremost men of Texas, and
other S’.ates will have places on this program
me.
The following are some of the departments
proposed:
A School of Practical Geology, with special
reference to the formations of Texas.
A School of Microscopy.
A School of Astronomy.
A Teachers’ Retreat of seven days, with lec
turers on teaching, by the President of the
State Normal School.
A ScboDl of Music (Vocal).
Kalakaua’s Kingdom.
[From the Omaha Bee ]
It may yet become necessary for the L'nited
States to take an active part in putliug the
affairs of Hawaii into better shape. Among
the natives of the islands there is a decided
preference for annexation to the United States.
It is not a sentiment strong enough to precipi
tate a revolution, hut there is the feeling that
An American to Buy Chambord.
[Paris Letter to the Chicago Tribune.]
There is a surprising rumor extant about
Chambord. It is that the famous chateau and
its grounds are to become the property of an
American millionaire. It will be necessary to
have a special law passed to accomplish this,
but it is said that a majority of the Chamber
has already been secured for it. The Repub
licans favor it because they are anxious to
make money and to get rid of all possible rel
ics of monarchy. The Bonapartists favor it,
of course, because of the hostility between
them and the Bourbons. The Orleanists, also,
are not disinclined to see such a law, because
Chambord is the shrine of the elder branch,
towards wh’ch they have no especially kindly
feelings. So it is probable that Chambord wili
be sold, and will become once more the scene
of life and gayety under the revivifying in
fluence of American millions. It is now more
than one hundred years since it has been occu
pied by its owners It was built by Francis I.,
and was for many generations the favorite
home of the Kings of France. There are few
more splendid palaces in the world, and its sit
uation, by contrast, adds attractiveness to it,
for it stands on the border of the dreary wastes
of La Solonge. The late Compto de Chambord
never occupied this royal home, though, of
coarse it was recognized to be his pereonal
property. Dying, he left it to his wife, with
directions that on her death, which has since
occurred, it should become the joint inherit
ance of her two nephews—‘.he Due de Parma
and the Comte de Bardi; the former to eDjoy
three-fourths and the latter one-foui th of it.
These two Italian Princes, therefore, are now
the owners of this splendid property. This
has caused great dissatisfaction, even among
the adherents of the Comte de Chambord. The
feeling is that he ought to have left it to the
Comte de Paris or else to the French people.
So there will be no serious opposition and lit
The Hard-Cider Campaign.
Tippecanoe clubs of 1840 had adopt-
eir emblem, one was brought
in., by a delegation of Indiana
■ere received with high honors,
the editor of the Union, the
n, wrote an account of the re-
h he said:
Whiggies to the rescue,
Cooney in a cage;
Go it with a rush boys,
Go it with a rage.
Mum is the word, hoys,
Brag is the game;
Cooney in the emblem
Of old Tip’s fame.
Go it, then for Cooney—
. Cooney in a cage;
G"> it with a rush, boys,
Go it with a rage.
There never was a greater party delusion
during that successful camgaign of the Whig
party than the emblematrc display they made.
There was no attempt on their part to discuss
the policy of the respective candidates or the
principles of a government. With their cider
Peter, for if we do we will draw the spigot out of
the barrel and spill all the hard cider.” The
Harrison campaign was known at the time as
the “hard-cider campaign.”
Jester and Sug-Jester.
Matt Carpenter received at the baptismal
front the evangelical name of Matthew, but a
discriminating public, with a sort of tender
irreverence, saw fit io overrule the arrange
ments made on that interesting occasion, and
to gratify its own sense of fitness, by persis-
tenly calling him Matt . Lady Juliet was quite
right when, in her passionate expostulation
with Lord Romeo in the garden, she disparag
ed all formal cognomens by asking, “What’s
in a name?” Evidently there is nothing in a
name, and everything is a nickname. How
insignificant are the liberties which we take,
or which we do not take, in the names of our
public men, by christening them anew with
titles that are affectionately familiar. We lov
ed to say Harry Clay, but who was ever so
audacious as to say Jack Calhoun or Danny
Webster? That the people have an idea that
Senator Carpenter was a particularly good
fellow, was envinced by their fancy for calling
him Matt.
There are some men in Congress who seem
to be always on their mettle, spurred contin
ually by aserious ambition, and evermore do
ing their best. They keep their hair well
combed, their neckties neat, and their boots
and trousers far superior to demoralization;
and their bearing, in speech and action, shows
quite distinctly their appreciation of the fact
that thirty centuries are looking down upon
them from the tops of the pyramids. This
was not at all the case with Carpenter. He
had an extremely easy way of doing and of
taking things. No matter how ably he rea
soned, or how eloquently he talked, he never
seemed to make an effort; and if he was not a
trifle lazy, he was infamously misrepresented
by all appearances. The solemn question,
“Whether school keeps or not,” was not a
solemn question to him. In a hot debate which
f . solemn question uu mm. m nut utjodie wnisn
barreiS on wheels, the rolling of big balls, their occared in the Senate, Mr. Sumner very justly
coons in cages, their coonskin caps and the described one side of him by calling him a
log-cabin or caucus half, together with their
uniform companies, with coonskins dangling
from their heads to their waists, carrying flags
by day and transparencies by night, they com
pletely overwhelmed all argument, carried the
masses along with them, and defeated Van Bu-
ren by an overwhelming majority.
Verdict for the Plaintiff.
Chief-Justice Carrier of the Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia is very apt to speak
his mind freely. There was at one time on the
bench Judge Humphreys, a good lawyer, but
with the fiery temper of his Southern birthplace.
One day when the entire court was sitting,
Chief Justice Carrier and Judge Humphreys
disagreed, and the former said some pretty
harsh things, which Humphreys appropriated
to himself. At last Humphreys leit the bench
and did not return. After the court had ad
journed for the day, Carrier went into his room
and was writing there, when he saw Hum
phreys enter, lock the door behind him and put
the key in his pocket. Then he told the chief-
justice what his associate judges thought of
nim, using vigorous and unmistakable Anglo-
Saxon. Carrier said afterwards that he never
heard a case argued better in his life, and at its
conclusion he gave a verdict for the plaintiff in
the form of a handsome apolo^o.
He Magnanimously Acquiesced.
Mr Clay made a visit from Kentucky to
Albany in the Summer of 1839, to confer with
William H. Seward, then governor of the State
of New York. His reception everywhere from
the Whigs was enthusiastic except in tne west
ern section of the Empire State, where the anti-
Masonic faction, of wnich Seward was the lead- _
er, predominated. This faction desired tne < Lincoln, with his usual nobleness of soul, tor-
nomination of Scott or Harrison in the ensuing I got the past, and stood by McClellan so long as
presidential election instead of Clay, who was ! it was possible, in opposition to Stanton, Sum-
‘‘jester”; and Senator Edmunds, by a ready
pun. as justly described the other side of him
by declaring that Mr. Sumner probably meant
a “sag-jester.” Both for jests and suggestions
Mr. Carpenter had the finest aptitude, and that
too without trying hard.
As to political advancement, Senator Carpen
ter enveloped himself with the same atmos
phere of jovial indifference. Most members of
the Senate appear to have reached that body
by hard climbing; he seemed to have been toss
ed into it. Once, in addressing a class of law
students, and in commending to them Rufus
Choate’s advice, “Keep out of politics,” he said:
“You may say this advice comes with bad grace
from myself, who have in some sense fallen be
fore the great temptation. Wait till you have
achieved a respectable position at the bar, and
then accept a seat in the Senate, and I venture
the prediction that your judgment will con
demn your weakness, as mine does my own.”
The Gawky Country Attorney.
Abraham Lincoln, when a lawyer in Illinois,
won a case for the Central Railroad, which
saved it millions of dollars. When he presented
his bill to George B. McClellan, general super
intendent of the road, he probably regarded
the charge as exorbitant for the services of the
gawky country attorney who stood before him,
and treated Mr. Lincoln with marked discour
tesy. Lincoln was angry, and brought suit for
the amount, and there being no appearance for
the road, he obtained judgment. The president
of the road appealed to him to have a chance to
appear, and Mr. Lincoln had the judgment set
aside at once. The case was tried again, and
Mr. Lincoln’s humorous statement before the
jury gave him a verdict immediately. The
subsequent relations between the country law
yer and ex-Superiutendent are historical. Mr.
the favorite of the oppostion everywhere, the
anti-Masonic districts' of New York, Pennsyl
vania and Ohio excepted. Mr Clay arrived at
ner, Wade, Thad Stevens and other leading
Republicans.
tie regret at its sale to an American, especially an d lodged at the Eagle Tavern in
nlnno tkio nrrvnl/1 norto in 1 XT’ motfirP thfl AnP.lPTlt O Oil till JllTKBt
since this would certainly restore the ancient
glories of the place.
A Fish in the Stomach.
A strange case is reported, by reliable gen
tlemen, to have happened at Crystal, in Dis
trict No. 3, Obion county, Tenn., last week.
W. B. Calhoun, who is well known in this cily,
it would be better if they were an integral part i has been quite sick for over a month, but has
been able to attend to his saw mill business,
of a great country, rather than a separate do
minion by themselves. Were they a part of
ns, their sugar industry would be safe from any
danger of a repeal of the reciprocity treaty,
and that industry is an important clement
in the business and politics of the kingdom.
It is believed that the islands are here
after to be of grand consequence as an in
ternational factor. Honolulu is the only
port in that quarter of the globe for thousands
of miles. It is about equi distant from the
United States, China and Russia, and is an
important station on trans-Pacific voyages. In
the future, when ships from New York go over
or through the Isthmus of Panama on their
westward voyages, Honolulu will be a port of
general rend, zvous. The question is raised
whether, in view of the policy of this country
not to acquire foreign possessions, England
will not pursue her historic course and seize
the islands as one of the most valuable stra-
getic points in the world.
which is located in the Southern part of the
county. About the middle of last week be
suddenly grew very sick and was conveyed to
his home in a buggy by a friend. The next
day he felt a strong pain in his stomach, ac
companied by griping, which threw him into
terrible paroxysms. After suffering in this
manner about ten minutes, he threw up some
thing which strongly resembled a fish. It was
six inches long and one inch in diameter.
While its eyes and mouth were not fully devel
oped, the plans for them were visible. Dr.
Parker examined it and found the flesh resem
bled that of a fish. The patient is doing well
and is much relieved since his deliverance.—
Obion Democrat.
The Secretary of the Treasury has sent a
silver medal to Miss Edith Clark, of San Fran
cisco, for saving a schoolmate from drewning
on Aug. 31, 1886.
street. Here he held a continual
levee and imagined himself surrounded by
friends in the person of the Whig governor and
State officers. Just before his departure, how
ever, it was deemed expedient by Seward to
disillusionize him. For tois purpose he chose a
fitting instrument, Tom Clowes of Troy, a na
tive of Marblehead, and as rough as the rocks
of that iron-bound port. Clowes, in accord
ance with his instructions from Seward, in
formed Mr. Clay one evening that, if nominated,
he could not receive the vote of New york.
Mr. Ciay was, of course, utterly astonished and
greatly agitated, so much so that Mr. Love-
ridge, of the Troy Mail, who sat on the to "a
with him, declared afterward to Clowes that he
shook the sofa with his agitation.
The Sewards, the Thad. Stevenses and other
notorious political gamblers were strong
enough, or rather the Whig3 of the country
generally were weak enough to be reduced by
these unprincipled masters of chicanery; aud
at Harrisburg, in December, 1839, Gen. Har
rison and John Tyler received the Whig nomi
nation for the presidency and vice presidency.
Mr. Clay magnanimously acquiesced in the
Harrisburg nomination, aithough well aware of
the means by which it was brought about. In
a letter to his old friend, Peter G. Livingston
of New Y'ook, written in the Summer of 1840,
he jocosely remarked, after alludicg to some
expression of sympathy from Livingston:
“But we must not talk about these matters.
AT QUEEN VICTORIA’S CORONA
TION.
An American Now Living who Com
posed and Played the Inaugural
March.
Editor Sunny South: In your issue of
July ltith, you say that the only living Ameri
can who was present at the coronation of
Queen Victoria, fifty years ago, was Hon. R.
Vaux; in this connection it might interest the
readers of your valuable paper to know that
Prof. A. Messmer, of Austin, Travis county,
Texas, did compose, and in person play, the
inaugural march on toat occasion; and at the
advanced age of 90 years, is still in good
health. Yours truly,
B. T. Goldbeck,
San Antonia, Texas.
Mehemmed Bey, a handsome officer in the
Circassian Guard of the Sultan ot Turkey, has
recently been married to the Sultan’s sister.
The lady fell in love with the ofiicer several
years ago, but as he was poor and undistin
guished, the late Sultan would not permit them
to be married. Abdul Hamid, however, was
persuaded to permit the marriage, and Mehem
med, having been made a Pacha, was chosen to
represent the Padishah at Queen Victoria’s
jubilee.
PERSONAL MENTION.
What the People Are Doing
and Saying.
Ex-Governor Holliday, of Virginia, has ju*t
returned from another trip around the world.
Teresina Tua, the eminent violinist, has been
engaged for two seasons in America at $15,000
a season.
Secretary and Mrs. Whitney are said to have
given away $100,000 in charity since last Sep
tember.
Among Chief Justice Waite’s ancestors was
one of the judges who signed the death war
rant of Charles I.
Senator Wade Hampton, of South Carolina,
looks as young as he did twenty years ago,
barriDg a tew more gray hairs.
Ex-Governor Pierce, of Dakota, will proba
bly accept the presidency of the Grand Forks
University in that Territory.
A reception was tendered to Lord Aberdeen
at Kansas City on the 1st by members of the
Irish Land League and their sympathizers.
Dr. Charles S. Thompson, of Hartford,
Conn., is the oldest living graduate of the Yale
Medical School. He was graduated in 1822.
Two thousand Sunday school children cele
brated John Wanamaker’s 50th birthday with
songs and flowers and diverse forms of greeting.
Mr. W. D. Howells says that he has just
written the first pages of a new novel, for
which he has not selected a name. Call it
Jones.
Edgar L. Wakeman says he can give the
names and addresses of one thousand Gypsies
whose combined wealth will exceed forty mil
lion dollars.
Archibald Stirling, President of the Savings
Bank of Baltimore, has just celebrated his 89th
birthday. He is still actively engaged in the
duties of his position.
Robert Lincoln says his father never trav
eled without having his copy of Shakspeare
with him, and at odd moments read and com
mitted to memory long passages.
A Berlin paper comments on the fact that
the playwright Moser received a mere trifle for
“The Private Secretary,” which, in its English
form, has already yielded $200,000.
Gardner F. Williams, a well-known mining
man of California, has been appointed mana
ger of the De Beer diamond mine in Sonth Af
rica , one of the largest in the world.
Guy C. Hotchkiss, after a secluded life of
twenty years in California, returns to his fam
ily in Brooklyn, N. Y., and becomes possessor
of $13,000,000, which his father left.
The statement is made that Jefferson Davis,
Simon Cameron, A. P. Kennedy and Hannibal
Hamlin are the only men living who were
members of the United States Senate when the
war began.
The monument to Sir William Wallace, re
cently unveiled at Sterling, is on an eminence
300 feet above the plain. The pedestal is fifty
feet high, and on this is a statue cf the Scotch
hero twenty-one feet high.
George W. Childs has a number of guests at
his Elberon cottage, including Gen. Wheeler
ex-Mayor Fox, of Philadelphia, and the Rev.
Dr. Morton, of the same city. Mr. Childs is
an enthusiast on Long Branch.
The Hon. A. E. Maxwell, who has just been
made Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
Florida, after holding various State offices was
elected to Congress in 1852 and again in 1854.
In 1802 he was elected to the Confederate Sen
ate.
Mrs. Maggie Van Cott, the revivalist who
was the first woman ever licensed to preach in
America, and who once, conducted a series of
meetings in Boston, is now holding revival ser
vices in the Hedding M. E. Church, New York
City.
Mr. George W. Childs has lately added to
his valuable collection of souvenirs the silk hat
that General Grant wore during his tour round
the world. The General's initials in gold-
plated letters are placed on the lining inside
the crown.
Charlotte Wolter, the celebrated Austrian
actress, who is soon to make her first appear
ance in America, was born in Cologne. Her
father was a very poor tailor, but she is now
very rich and a close personal friend of the
Austrian Emperor and Empress.
Gen. William F. Rogers is the possessor of a
stained glass portrait of George* Washington,
which was made in China seventy years ago,
when the art was almost unknown in this
country. The portrait is by Sully, after Stew
art’s celebrated painting, and is life size.
General Batcheller, of Saratoga, has a daugh
ter, only seventeen years of age, who speaks
seven languages fluently. She was with her
father when he was Judge of the Internationa
Tribunal at Cairo, Egypt, and converses in Ar
abic better, if anything, than she does in Eng
lish.
Mrs. Hayes, the wife of ex-President Hayes,
resides at Fremont, O.; Mrs. Polk, the widow
of James K. Polk, at Nashville, Tenn.; Mrs.
Grant, the widow of U. S Grant, at New York;
Mrs. Garfield, widow of James A. Garfield, at
Cleveland, O. These are the only wives of
Presidents living.
Flanagan, of “What are we here for?” fame,
is one of the most effective fighters for prohibi
tion in Texas. He is not making many public
speeches, bat it is represented that in the little
matter of wire-pulling he has given the anti
prohibitionists more trouble than any other ten
men in the State.
There is the highest authority for the denial
of the report that Mr. Gladstone is contem
plating a trip to the United Sta .es or that the
subject was even broached to him by Mr.
Blaine. Mr. Gladstone is too old to be able to
waste his strength in anything but the direct
work of the Liberal cause.
Prince Ferdinand, who has been chosen to
the Bulgarian throne, is described as an ambi
tious and fearless young man whom cares and
troubles will not deter from accepting the po
sition offered to him. He is, however, thought
ful and cautious far beyoud his years and will
take no step without careful consideration.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes’ancesior,“Doro-
tiy Q,’’ha8 become mere than ever an historical
charactar since there has been recently found
the original deed of the land where the Massa
chusetts State House stands, in which she, as
the widow cf Gov. Hancock, conveys the es
tate for the nominal fee of five shillings.
Princess Eugenie, of Sweden, who takes a
great interest in the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, the other day invited
the cab-drivers of Stockholm to “afternoon
coffee," in the large hall of the Exchange,
where a lecture about the horse and its proper
treatment was afterwards delivered, one of
the Princess’ ladies iu waiting officiated as
bOBtess.
Mess. McGalliard & Huske, of the Kernera-
ville granite works, have just completed a
monument to be erected in Wilmington, to the
memory of the late William Parsley, of that
city, as we learn from the Home and Farm,
We are pleased always to learn of our citizens
being patronized in any of the useful indus
tries in which they have invested their capital
and labor.
Judge R. T. Cowan, Supreme Keeper of the
Records and Seals of the Kuights of Pythias,
died in St. Louis on the 14th. ~ He was born iu
Staunton, Va., in 1830. He represented Vir
ginia in the secession convention and sat in
the Confederate Congress. He was elected
judge of the Equity Court in Kansas City after
the war. He was a Royal Arch Mason and sa
Odd Fellow of hign standing.