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THE SUNNY SOUTH. ATLANTA. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST 6, 1887,
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Do You Want 8100 in Gold ?
Let all our c irrtsp icdents and friends call
attention to our extraordinary array of gold
and other valuable presents to be distributed
among the patrons of The Swxr South on
the first of (ictober next. See 4th page.
Delaware, Ohio.
Its Location, Advantages and Privi
leges.
Eihtor Sunny South: Thinking you and
the readers of the Sunny South would like to
know something of our beau lful little city and
surroundings I will give you a brief description
of it.
Delaware is located near the centre of the
state, on the < Hentangy river and has a popu
lation of ten thousand. It is in a region high
ly favored by nature and greatly improved by
art. Famous throughout the world for its
natural attractions, its unequaled educational
advantages and the intellectual character of its
population.
It is not too much to claim for Delaware
that, in any of these points it far excels any
city in Ohio. The Ouio Wesleyan University
is located here, and is the largest Methodist
educational institution in the United States.
It was founded in 1842 without endowment
and with a property valued at 810,000. At
present its endowment, property and applian
ces aggregate $700,000 This University is
provided with a conservatory of music; art de
partment; commercial department; chemical
department; libraries and reading rooms, and
a museum containing numerous, varied and
valuanle collections. The University has an
annual attendance of about 800 pupils. It is
provided with an able faculty, Rev. C. H.
Payne, DD LL D., President.
There i < also located here the National Pen
Art Hall and Business College, one of the best,
most practical and thorough business colleges
in the United Slates. It has an able faculty,
with Prof. G. W. Michael, author of the sys
tem of Rapid Writing as its President.
No city with equal population is better pro
vided with churcnes ttian Delaware; there are
now thirteen churches in the city and two
magnificent ones being erected.
Delaware is the birth place of ex-President
Rutherford 15 Hayes. The house in which he
was born is still standing.
Delaware is greatly blessed with mineral
springs of which the White Sulphur Spring is
the most important. It is equal to the famous
Sulphur Springs of Virginia.
Meigs.
Mount Carmel, S. C.
Its Beautiful Location, Healthfulness,
Churches, Schools, Crops, Etc.
Editor Sunny South: Thinking that some
of your many readers might perhaps like to
hear from this section of the country, I will
give you a partial account of our little (new)
town.
Mt. Carmel is situated in Abbeville county,
on high rolling lands between the Savannah
and Little river—the former in a direct line
about three miles to the west, the latter one
and a-half miles on the east. The soil is a
very sandy loam with a clay subsoil, and as
fine farming lands cau be found here as any
where. The land is very productive and well
adapted to everything generally grown in
Upper Carolina.
Our town is noted for its health, excellent
water, and salubrious climate; being entirely
free from all malarial diseases; in fact many
of the largest planters in years gone by, used
to leave their rivtr plantations and make this
place their summer borne.
The Savannah Valley railroad runs right
through Mount Carmel, which, of course, has
largely increased our facilities for business and
transportation; and while our town is not on a
boom, we are growing steadily, and while
many people are making this their home
none leaving. This speaks well for the place.
Since the railroad has disturbed the quiet of
our little town, many people from different
sections have turned their eyes thitherward.
We can boast of four churches—Methodist,
Presbyterian, Seceder and Baptist—two cot
ton gius, two saw mills—one blacksmith and
wheel-wright shop—nine stores and many
pretty cottages.
We have also, an excellent High School for
girls and boys, with about ninety pupils—with
one principal and two assistant teachers—also
a music teacher. Our school is really one of
the most important and best paying enterpris
es of the town, judging from the interest man
ifested by patrons, and the public as shown by '
their attendance upon our commencement ex
ercises, which occurred early iu July. The
Actdemy was filled to overflowing all the
time; the crowd being estimated at from seven
to eight hundred. The exercises were pro
nounced by all to be a complete success.
The crops iu this section are as good as can
be produced, up to this time, and we are still
blessed with continuous showers of rain. It is
said by good farmers that the average yield
per acre iu this locality will be from 700 to
1500 pounds of seed cotton, and if nothing
happens to blight our now flattering prospects
we will reap an abundant harvest; the best for
many years. Our merchants wear a smile of
contentment, and exhibit a spirit of hopeful
ness, and count on doing a fine business and
make good collections this fall. Last seaton
we shipped about 1600 bales and this season
we hope to double the amount.
1 hope to send you some subscribers for the
dear old Sunny South, of which I have been a
constant reader for a number of years. I only
wish every one in this fair sunny land of ours
appreciated your excellent paper as I do.
Wishing you great success and a continually
increasing circulation of your valuable and
time honored paper, I remain yours truly,
M. I
Rare Book-Great Curiosity.!
An Old Bible Printed in Bussia.
Editor Sunny South: I have been think
ing sometime of sending you some dots, and
will try to do so. The beams ofj'.he Sunny
gladdens our household each week, much to
our enjoyment. We all like it and read it.
Court has been in session here three weeks,
with three murder cases on the docket.
We have the prospect of the best crop we
have had in twenty years. Vegetation, like
every thing else in Alabama, is on a big boom
toe.
The following item was published yesterday
in our local paper—it may interest those of
your readers, who, like your correspondent,
are fond of old books, and relics of the past.
“Mr. J J. B. McElrath has a relic in the
wav of literature. He owns a Bible printed
in the Russian language in 1472, (416 years
ago.) It reads from right to left, beginning on
the last page in the book. This is "doubtless
by far the oldest book In Cherokee county.
The Russians call this book Ticken Lalo Sweis.
It was published by Zettsbut, at Wilna, Rus
sia. The letters look like little pig pens and
umbrellas. We are indebted to Mr. Sam Kiak-
ofskyem. a Russian who is in the place, for
reading the book to us.”
The book is a rough looking affair, and is
one of the real curiosities.
I will try to write again soon, and write
more. B. J.
Centre, Ala., July, 18S7.
Echoes from the West.
Minerals, Belies, Etc.
No. 13.
Editor Sunny Socth: Something unusual
and almost unaccountable at this season and in
this clime—a ra n, keeps this writer in his
study this afternoon; and, if you will permit, I
will be so ego istic or whatever you may wish
to call it, as to talk abou: some things around
me in this room.
I have no regular cabinet for my minerals
and other specimens. In this country of im
mense distances and high freight tariffs, such a
possession is too expensive for an itinerant. So
you see my loose specimens lie on the window
sills, on the fljor, library table, on the lower
shelf of my wash-stand, on my desk, and are
found in numerous boxes. On the rear portico
are pounds and pounds of specimens too large
to bring into my study.
If you will sit down here we will spend a lit
tle time looking hurriedly over some of the
specimens that have been worked into varioi s
Devices by tne band that now engineers this
pen, during boors of recreation.
Those spec mens on the large—cardboard ve
will call it, but it is nothing in the world but
me lop ot a large fancy pasteboard box, are all
“Indian relics.” ([ use quotations because I
thick some of them are much older than the
Indians.) In the center of the twol elipses
made of numerous arrow and spear-heads, you
see a fine specimen of the stone hatchet from
New Mexico. Those arrow and spear-hem s
come from many States siretchiog from Nor h
Carolina to Colorado. That best specimen just
below the hatchet is about six inches in length
and only a little over an inch in width. It s
made of beautiful jasper and is from my old
Georgia home. On it is an arrow-head made
of “volcanic glass” (obsidian) and it is so sma 1
that we can scarcely see it across the room. It
with some shell beads on the small card ju.t
below, is from some old aztec ruins in South
ern New Mexico. But we must not stop to
speak of all these. There on the corner of the
card that stone bear that stands so quietly on
that pipe stem, or rather it a part of it, is a na
tive of Georgia, at least he was found on one
of the mountains of Union county years ago.
He looks over toward another stone pipe which
comes from Xacoochee Valley of the same
State. The duck shaped piece of stoneware
that has something to do with Indian worship,
I bought it from the innocent, smiling, Pueblo
Indians. That “deer skinner,” and that large
agate spear-head have traveled thousands of
miles with me.
That small card just below on the wall has
specimens of minerals, shells, etc., from parts
of the world stretching from India, by way of
Italy, to California. The large photograph
just above the large card board is ot the adobe
church, 268 years old, in Paso del Norte,
Mexico, where the learned (?) Bostonians re
cently made such fools of themselves,
j Along the wall on the right of these names,
is a cluster of Rocky Mountain minerals with
some views of the wildtst mountain scenery
| attached. Still further to the right making up
i those three ellipses, one in the other, and the
borders of the large board are simply souve
nirs, stones, shells, etc., ftc., gathered with
my own bands from the tops of towering
mountains, in caves, along rolling rivers, on
shores of placid lakes, beside wild, rushing
water-falls, and at other places of interest it
has been my privilege to visit. Mitchell Peak,
Lookout Mountain, and Pike’s Peak are rep
resented. So, too, your own beautiful, leap
ing and roaring Toccoa, Amicalola, and Tal
lulah water-falls. The attached pressed flow
ers, golden medal and badge have their associ
ations, too.
That framed motto, “God is Love,” hang
ing just above the last described, is my hand-
iestand most highly valued work; and its spec-
mens—minerals, shells, and mosses—represent
some six nationalities and about twenty States
and Territories. Each specimen is numbered
and its name and history given on the base of
the frame; but it is rare that this writer has to
consult the record
IVe cannot at this time look at more than
one other device; and that is the huge picture
frame made mostly of minerals, such as agates,
garnets, quar zes, amethysts, jasper, gypsum,
tossils, etc., etc., (hundreds or which are fa
miliar to me). Tne frame encloses a church
house in front of which are more than eighty
familiar faces.
But I forget that no others can feel the in
terest in all these that I feel. Others cannot
see these as my eyes behold them. My eyes
look upon them every day with unabated in
terest." As I look upon these and many others
of which we have not time to speak, thousands
of memoirs, some sad, some joyful, and all pre
cious, hover around them. Scenes of otter
years come back and oftentimes seem as fresh
and beautiful as they did the day they were
first beheld. 1*. L. Stanton.
Saguache, Col.
Halcyondale, Georgia.
The Crops and a Pic-nic.
Editor Sunny South: The weather is very
warm and crops are generally good in this sec
tion. We had a very dry June, or com would
have been even better than it is.
As cultivating is about ever, pic-nics are in
order, and the first in our section was at
"Gem,” in Bullock county, (and a little “gem”
it is,) on the 0th instant. The day, however,
being very rainy, the young people did not
spend the day nearly as agreeably as they ex
pected to have done. Bullock is a dry county,
so every one present was sober—as lemonade
does not intoxicate.
One of my neighbors, a good old farmer,
accidentally fell out of his house a few days
since, the fall bruising his chest considerably;
shortly afterwards a neighbor came in who ad
vised him to rub his chest with one teaspoon
ful of carbolic acid put into one pint of water.
The bruised man forgot the water and rubbed
his chest well with pure carbolic acid, and
since then his chest is perfectly peeled, and
life is a burden.
The June drought ruined the watermelon
crop in our section, and as we usually make a
great many, and very fine ones, too, it is a real
hardship. More anon. Amicus.
Halcyondale, Ga., July, 1887.
Newsy Extracts from Letters.
A correspondent writes, July 2d, from Clark-
ton, Bladen county, N. C.:
“We are just now having fine rains, just
such as our farmers like to see. Crops gener
ally are in excellent condition, notwithstand
ing some complaint of blue lice on cotton in
some localities.
‘ The huckleberry crop is just immense and
the children are happy.
“The poultry business is ‘booming* here, and
interest >n imnroved breeds is on the in
crease. Mrs. E Meares has a hen which has
not missed a day in laying an egg since the
first of January; and she has another hen
which one day not long ago, laid three eggs.
[See our Agricultural Department for egg
items.—Ed. S. S.]
“Our little town numbers among its citizens
quite a number of graduates, while many
youths are attending Davidson College and
Chapel Hill.”
***
Another letter from Weimar, Texas, says:
“Corn crops were never known to be better
in this part of the State than they are this sea
son. Cotton is opening, and has begun to
come in, but slowly. Prospects for a good
crop encouraging.
‘•At an Anti-Prohibition pic-nic, at Schulen-
burg (a town of about one thousand inhabit
ants), recently, it is claimed that ninety-six
kegs of beer were sold, and that the proceeds,
about $900, were appropriated to the fund
used to fight and defeat the Prohibition amend
ment ”
*
A correspondent at Gaars Mills, La , writes:
“Crops around here were never better than
at this time (July 5th). The Grange store
here is doing a huge business this year.
“Winn parish is soon to have a railway run
ning through it, and then we . look for the
‘boom’ to reach us. too, for we have the re
sources that should bring it, and keep it. Be
sides our superior agricultural resources—soil,
climate, etc.—it is now discovered that Winn
parish has a fine marble quarry, while Grant
parish exults over the discovery of gold. Oh,
the ‘boom’ is coming, sure.’
Back Numbers Wanted.
A correspondent of mine desires to know
where he can get back numbers^of your paper
(Sunny South) from 1870 to 188o. Can any of
your subscribers inform me?
Respectfully yours.
J. Brace,
Nashville, Tenn.
Our Portrait Gallery.
POBTBAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES
OF DISTINGUISHED MEN
AND WOMEN.
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The famous aulbort-ss of “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin,” Mrs Hairiet Brecber Stowe, although
still able to go about her Conn* cti -ut home
and take short walks for exercise, is failing
rapidly in health and strength. Mrs. Harriet
Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, daughter of Lyman
Beecher, was b-rn at Litchfield, Connecticut,
on Jane 15th, 1811. She was interested and
associated with her sister Catherine, in the la
bors of a school at Hartford, in 1827. afterward
removing to Walnut Hill, near Cincinnati.
She was married in 1832 to the Rev. Calvin E.
Stowe, D. D. Mr». Stowe wrote several tales
and sketches, which were afterward collected
under the title of the “May F nwer,” 1849 In
1850 she contributed to u.e Xational Era, an
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
anti-slavery paper published at Washington,
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” as a serial. This story
followed shortly afterward (in 1852) in book
form, and met with unusual success—313,000
copies being sold in the United States within
the short space of three years and a half, and
in all, over half a million copies, including a
German edition. In Great Britain its sale was
enormous. It has been translated into more
than twenty languages, including Welsh, Rus
sian, Armenian, Arabic, Chinese and Japan
ese; tnere werf fourteen different German and
four different French versions; and it has been
dramatised in various forms. Mrs. Stowe sub
sequently published “A Peep Into Uncle
Tom’s Cabin, for Children,” 1853; “A Key to
Uncle Tom’s Cibin,” giving the original facts
and statements on which that work was based,
1853; and “The Caristian Slave,” a drama
founded upon “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” 1855.
“Uncle Sam’s Emancipation” was issued in
1853, and the same year she visited Europe,
publishing in the year following, “Sunny Mem
ories of Foreign Lands.” A little work enti
tled, “Geography for my Children,” was pub
lished in 1855, and the next year appeired her
second anti-slavery novel, “Dred, a Tale of
the Dismal Swamps,” republished in 1859 un
der the title of ‘ Nina Gordon.” In subse
quent works Mrs Stowe has delineated the
domestic life of New England of fifty or one
hundred years ago Hsr other published
works are, “Our Cnarley, and what to do with
Him,” 1859; “The Pearl of Orr’s Island,”
18G2; “Agnes, of Sjrrento,” 1883; “The Rav
ages of a Carpet ” “Religious Poems,” “Sto-
riesAboutOur Dogs,” “Little Foxes,” “Queer
Little People.” “The Chimney Corner,” “Men
of Oar Times.” “My Wife ana I,” “A Dog’s
Mission,” etc. In September ot 1809 Mrs.
Stowe contributed to the Atlantic Monthly, an
article enti led, “The True Story of Lady By
ron’s Life,” in which she accused Lird Bvron
of incest. This article evoked a storm of lit
erary criticism, which was by no means allayed
by the publication, in 1870, of her work enti
tled, “Lady Byron Vindicated ” Mrs. Stowe’s
home is in Hartford, Connecticut, but she
passes muci of her time in Florida, where she
possesses an extensive orange plantation.
Archbishop Walsh.
Archbishop Walsb. of Dublin, who is en
deavoring by every effort in his power to in
duce the Government to suspend the still con
tinuing evictions in Ireland until the Land
bill has been settled by Parliament, suggests
that a conference on the subject be held by the
leaders of the various parties and determine
on the most possible and humane plan of deal
ing. The question is an obstinate one and
Archbiihop Walsh has his hands full, with the
work of mitigation and leniency. Dr. Walsh
is a recent appoi ntee to the Arcabisfiopric of
of Dublin. At the time of the vacancy Pope
Leo Xfll was a long time making up hi3 mind
as to whom to select for the vacant Archbish
opric of Dublin, but as might have been ex
pected, wbeD he bad to choose between the
presumed desire of the British Government, as
conveyed through the mysterious Mr. Erring-
ton, and the loudly express* d aspirations of
Nationalists ecclesiastics, he d»cided in favor
of the latter. The advanced Irish party were
naturally highly delighted when a telegram ar
rived from Romo annou’oing tha‘ the Verv
Rev. and Dr. Walsh, Vicar Capitular, and
President of the College of Maynooth, had been
appointed to the vacant See. The Nationalists
regard Dr. Walsh as an ardent sympathiser,
but there has been nothing in his former pub
lic life to warrant such a belief. He had never
until the present time taken an active part in
politics, but has been exclusively devoted here
tofore to a scholastic life nor could his views
have been distasteful to Cardinals Cullon and
McCabe, as these Reverend gentlemen pro
moted him to be first a professor, and finally
the Dresident and responsible administrator of
a college specially intended for the education
of candidates for the priesthood.
J. A. Olavarna.
The newly appointed Minister to the Uni:el
States, Sen or J. A. Olavorria, was bom m
Puerto Cabello, in that republic and is ap
parently about forty-five years of age. He is
a very accomplished gentleman, speaking
French, Spanish and German, and manages to
make himself understood in English. He is a
resident of Caracas, the capital of the repnb'ie,
where be is the Direct-r of the Commercial
Bank, the only Government Bank depository,
and is regarded as the first financier of the
country. SenorOlavtrria has never held of
fice before his present appoin'ment. Being a
gentleman of considerable means and having
large busmens interns' a at siake in his own
country, he has had no desire for either official
or political honors. His piesent acceptance of
office proceeds from patriotic feeling and a
desire to serve bis couoifiv in the matter of the
encroachments and seizure of Venezuelan
Territory by the Etgiisb, particularly the Is
land of Barima. at the m-uth of the Orinoco
River. The Venezuelan government desires
an arbitration of this question, and Minister
Olararria asks the frie dly offi *es of the United
States in the settlement <>f the dispute. If
England can seize and '8 allowed to hold Bari
ma Island, she can, in the course of time, go
still further and take the wiole country. And
as Venezuela is indebted to citizens of the
United States, it is the l art of sound policy
for the gov-rnm-nt to see ibat their interests
are not jeopardized in the manner suggested.
GRACE HAWTHORNE.
Grace Hawthorne.
All the comment and gossip of London dra
matic circles at i ti- pre>ei,t time is centered
upon Miss Grace Hawthorne, who has secured
the lease of the Princess rbpa're. Grace Haw
thorne was tor neily an ac ress of the type
known as the ‘ bvrn-storm r ” That is to say
she playtd in ihe smaller western cities of
America with a success ti at varied with small
profits and none at ail. She was then put up
on the bills as Grace Cariland. Along came
W. W. Kelley, an excitable and enthusiastic
young man, known to fame in the theatrical
calling und^r the title of “Hustler” Kelley.
He was a smart young fellow with plenty of
energy, and he undertook to carry Miss Cart-
land into fresher fields and pastures larger.
He changed her name to Hawthorne, adver
tised her “just an American actress, no duch
ess, no countess”—and began to whoop up
the country. If he did not .make much money,
he at least kept going and he finally turned up
in England with his sta-, who leased the Olym
pic Theatre. London. Business was not good
but the American correspondents were kind to
their compatriot and the local critics, after
some preliminaty slashing began to view the
lady’s effort in a spirit of calm endurance that
might with some efforts be construed into more
or less praise Then when the opportunity
came to lease the Princess Theatre a capitalist
was found who advanced t'1,000 towards the
rent. Graie Cartland first, achieved notoriety
about four years ago. She was “starring”
the country towns in the Northwest and some
how or other became confounded with Grace
Cortland, the “Witc i of Wall street.” The
latter was justly indignant aid said she was
afraid the Cartlani woman would injure her
business in the museums. Then came “Hust
ler” Kelley in quest of an attraction, and he
found all his requirements in Miss Cartland.
With her, as before stated, he played the Wes
tern country towns, more or less, and attempt
ed some few of John Rogers-Palmer’s adver
tising vagaries. Two years ago (1885) he found
it necessary before pro-eeding to California, to
rest and recruit bis company for a short space
of time in Kansas Citv. It happentd that one
of the editors of the Journal of that city allud
ed to the company’s mishap in a two line para
graph and the following day went to Mexico.
Learning that the editor was out of town Kel
ley marched his star to the newspaper office,
armed with a horsewhip, ostensibly in search
of him. He obtained considerable advertise
ment out of the episode, and tbe editor knew
nothing of his miraculous escape until a month
later. Miss Hawthorne’s next enterprise will
probably be a jqbilee celebration in commem
oration of her artistic success abroad.
James A. Bradley.
The sun’s rays beat down with scorching
ardor on both the black and white population
of Asbury Park. and. despite Mr. Bradley’s
fiat that tbe board walk, etc., was exclusively
intended for the payiDg visitor, the colored
people defy the decree and appear »s usual on
board walk, beach and pavilion Puck, who
has so humorously pictured the situation of the
color line in a recent issue, fully explains the
dilemma in the amusing sketch. There black
belle y sties her white neighbor as though to
the manner and sta“on born—equal.
Mr. James A. Bradley, the founder and
owner of Asbury Park, of course has a legal
and moral right, as long as private ownership
of land is recognized, to decide who shall and
who shall not occupy his property. Mr. Brad
ley’s offending lies in the charge that he has
said that large numbers of colored persons
come to the beach every evening; that they mo
nopolize the choice seats in tbe pavilions and
crowd guests off the board walks; that some of
them behave improperly, and that many try to
make the walks and beach lodging places. Mr.
Bradley’s words are: “The time is coming—
indeed may have arrived—when some decided
action mu3t be taken to show our colored
friends that the board walk and the pavilions
are private property, to which the owner in
vites the guests of the hotels; and others, whom
he does not invite, will be requested, in lan
guage not to be misunderstood, not to interfere
with the arrangements he has made for the per
manency of the town and the prsMction of the
capital he has invested.”
Mr Bradley manages tbe property that be
has built, and maintains everything at his own
expense. He is an acute, shrewd and active
business man, and as the owner of Asbury
Park be has certainly a right to exclude whom
and what he will; bnt, as a Republican, it
speaks rather small for the progress of the 16th
amendment and the continual howl of wiping
out the color line in tbe South, when there is
so mnch contention of the question in the
North.
Dell Darling.
When it became evident in tbe fall of 1886
that the Chicago Base-Bail Club's management
intended to make great changes in the personel
of their leagne, and it was given out that they
had signed Dell Darling, the whole athletic
world inquired, “Who is Dell Darling?” Well,
Darling was the renowned catcher of the To
ronto Club. He stands five feet ten and a half
inches in his stocking feet, and weighs about
one hundred and seventy pounds. As an all
round player he can scarcely be excf lied. He
can throw a ball with any of tbe long distance
throwers and is a good base runner. Anson
made no mistake when he secured Darling,
and be was fully justified when he said, “I
have secured a Darling.” Up to July 1st 1887,
Darling was second in the list of batsmen of
the league, being exceeded only by Twitchell,
of Detroit, but Darling had played in fifteen
games with an average of 108, whilst up until
the same time Twitchell had played but nine
games with an average of 568, sj that honors
were light between the two crack batsmen.
Darling’s work at the bat is all the more sin
gular because when he played with the To
ronto’s in 1886, it was mainly as a catcher that
he distinguished himself; as a batsmen he stood
number eighty-two in a field of one hundred
and twenty with an average of 221. As a
catcher, however, he stood second only to
Morrison, of the Hamilton Club, but played
twenty-one more games than did the latter.
Darling’s average as a catcher was 958. He
describes bis experience when he made his
first home run not long ago something to this
effec: “I was at the bat with three strikes on
me. The crowd had just sent forth an exul
tant cheer, as if it expected the fourth strike to
soon follow the third. This made me desper
ate and I determined to die game and not with
out a struggle. So I firmly gripped my bat
and with all the force at my command I
“swiped” at the fast approaching ball. I hit
it. It rose high in the air and sailed majes
tically t award the fence, though the wind blew
bard, it fell on the other side, and for the first
time I made tbe round trip witbout having to
stop or check. It was a blissful moment for
me, tbe greatest achievement of my base-ball
career, and I was extremely happy.
Hope, Hempstead Co., Ark.
A Glimpse of Hope from the Cotton
Warehouse—The Great Young Re
vivalist, Rev. Dixon C. Wil
liams—A Beautiful Little
City—Delightful Time,
Entertainments, Etc.
Editor Sunny - South: “Home sweet
homel” Old isn’t it? Yet, like love, ever new,
and admirable at least once a year.
By the kindness of a dear self-sacrificing
friend, who relieved us of our most important
responsibilities at home, we have had the
pleasure of a week’s delightful visit. We
started for the picturesque little town of Cen
tre Point, from which place we intended to
write yon; but were stopped at the beautiful
and flourishing little city of Hope. Stopped—
by a “ditched” train? No not exactly, (if you
bad have heard what we did, you might have
thought that the whole town was “ditched” in
a slough of religious indifference, and as con
tented there as a school of polly-wogs in their
native element;) but by that rising star in the
evangelical firmament, Dixon C. Williams,
who was holding a series of revival meetings
there. Would that we were a gifted writer,
with a ready pen, that we might give you some
of the impressions received from this eloquent,
earnest, devoted man. His power over his au
dience is a mystery to everybody. It is not
his superior eloquence—though that is far
above mediocrity. Nor does it cons'st alto
gether in his magnetism as some suppose; (we
heard some say they were aware of his vicinity
when he came within ten feet of them, by an
electric tremor that ran through their nerves
though his every motion is replete with a vigo
rous lite, and yet of an easy grace that the eye
involuntarily follows as if entranced. We have
studied him from all points, and cannot discov
er his secret, unless it be in his overmastering
faith in the promises of God, in unison with
his faith in the power of combined Christian
work, coupled with combined Christian pray
er. He is doing a great life work; and if re
claimed souls are to be jewels in the Heavenly
crown, then surely his will be a most brilliant
one.
In‘ personal appearance, Mr. Williams is
rather under the average size, but perfectly
symmetrical from the top of his full, expan
sive, white forehead, to the handsomely arched
insteps of his shapely feet. As a good old sis
ter said, “While looking at him one is remind
ed of the acceptable jewish sacrifice—‘perfect
without spot or blemish.’ ” He controls his
large audience, as a great General does his ar
my. We could fill pages telling of his wonder
ful power of memory, his quick perceptions,
etc., equaling those of the once famous Robert
Howden. We hope many of you may have
the privilege of seeiog and hearing him for
yourselves. Of course a fearless speaker like
him will arouse some “bad feelings” in a cer-
t in class, but trhen they know the motive for
nis “plain talk,” he makes few if any real ene
mies. His seething torrents of “strong lan
guage” against the whiskey traffic are some
thing terrible to listen to, but they are all di
rected against the traffic and not the trafficers.
Hope is a very attractive place, combining
many of the conveniences and comforts of the
city, with tbe superior attractions (in July) of
beautiful, luxuriant shade trees, and graceful
shrubbery and flowers almost everywhere the
eye can rest. One is especially impressed
with their water system. Though miles from
any water course, one.finds a hydrant at every
door, and on the street corners, and other con
venient places for public use. All their water
is pumped into a large tank by a neat station
ary engine (protected by a brick house) from
an artesian well, and thence distributed by
pipes, as in any other city. There, too, one
linds, as in other towns in “backwoods” Ar
kansas, a handsome and commodins school
building. It was our pleasure to visit while
there, the Teachers’ Normal Institute, being so
ably conducted by Prof. Russel, of Little
Rock. We were welcomed and (in courtesy to
our profession) assigned a seat in that inter
esting body by the President of the Washing-
toD, Arkansas, College—Prof. Littlepage—who
is also superindent of public schools in Hemp-
sted county. The expenses of this worthy in
stitution, which makes the annual round of our
State, are defrayed, we believe, by the Peabody
fund. The fund could not be put to a better
use—for a time at least—than to educate the
many teachers in the use of better methods
than many of them employ.
We visited the Floral Garden of Mrs. Judge
Lowery, and were told that it is not only self-
sustaining, but paying a handsome dividend.
It is interesting, not only as showing what can
be done in this land of flowers, but from the
fact that it is the work of a lady now old and
reduced to the necessity of adding to her com
forts by her own exertions. Two years ago
she lost—by unprecedented cold—almost her
entire collection. But instead of giving up,
she went bravely to work with her wonted en
ergy, and now her garden is restored to its
pristine glory.
We were cordially entertained by the family
of that great-sonled gentleman, Mr. J. R.
Jones (“Uncle Dick Jones,” as he is more fa
miliarly called). His heart is out of all pro
portion to his body (and that is not small by
any means)—if his glowing face may be trusted
as an index of that organ, when supplying tbe
wants of strangers or pointing tbe tender feet
of childhood to “the better way.” His wife is
the embodiment of the old-time dignified, genial
Southern hostess, who never appears to better
advantage than when dispensing the hospitali
ties of her home to her contented guests. The
whole family possess, to a remarkable degree,
the rare quality of making their visitors feel
completely at home in their well-appointed
house. The dear old grandma and sweet, tal
ented little Bettie, all made a lasting impres
sion on our hearts, and a fervent “God bless
them,” will ever go up with every reminder of
oar pleasant visit. Hope is surrounded by a
good agricultural country, from which it de
rives an active trade; and when they have
abolished the place an Englishman spells “Sar
hell-a-hoes-a-hen,” will be one of the nicest
towns in south Arkansas. But we are glad to
be back home, better satisfied with the Chris
tian kindness and warm-hearted sociability of
Prescott than ever before.
Yours most sincerely,
Homely.
Prescott, Ark., July 25, 1887.
Don’t Miss the Grand Opportunity.
Secure the 8100 in gold or some other valu
able present. Read the announcement on 4th
page and get your name in tbe box without de
lay.
Points of Etiquette.
S. R. A , Indian Spring, Ga.: Please give
me a few points of etiquette. You see in my
note what I desire to know.
We see. In entering a public dining room,
you should go in with the lady side by side; if
you cannot do so, the lady should precede, as
it is not exactly a gallant thing to turn your
back to the lady. Always at public places go
in and out with the lady if possible. In get
ting into a carriage or car, the gentleman
should help the lady in, but in getting out, the
gentleman should get out first so as to help the
lady to keep her from falling, etc. It you are
walking with a lady and she meets a lady
friend whom you do not know and bows to her,
certainly you should lift your hat, or give a
bow. It is right and proper for a lady to re
cognize a gentleman on the streets first where
tbe acquaintance is slight or of a strict social
kind; but where the gentleman is well acquaint
ed with the lady, and their social relations
pleasant and agreeable, be should bow upon
meeting tbe lady as an act of social gallantry
and not wait for her recognition. All ball
room introductions and acquaintances cease
after leaving the ball room; and if the lady de
sires to continue tbe acquaintance after that,
she should of coarse bow or speak first, .for
then it is presumed she has no objection to a
further acquaintanceship, and you violate no
social propriety in speaking to her or bowing.
Calamus.
Calamus, Weldon, N. C : Will you oblige
me by giving me a little more information
about Calamus—where can it be sold, and
what is it worth per pound.
It is bought by New York and other drug
gists—probably by manufacturers of patent
medicines. Calamus is quoted at 7 and 8 cents,
dried, crude, in 25 pound bundles or 200 pound
bales, and at 25 and 26c, split and bleached
and dried, in 10 pound parcels or 100 pound
cases. See article on “Calamus,” as to pro
duct and demand in Sunny South, July :50th
—last number.
Horse Flies.
L. S. T., Valdosta, Ga.: What shall I do to
protect my horses from the horse flies that are
so bad with us? Can you give me a recipe?
We have seen it stated that horses and cows
may be protected in a great measure at least,
by wiping them all over with a sponge dipped
into soap suds in which a little carbolic acid
has been mixed. Suppose you try the remedy,
' and give tbe result to the public, or any one
else who may try it; for it is worth knowing to
many who desire to protect their horses and
i cattle from the annoyance of flies.
K. S. H., Sweet Springs, Mo.: Please give
me the translation of “Noctes Memorabiles.”
Will the same come out in book form? It is a
gem and should be preserved. By answering
the above throngh the Sunny South, you will
greatly oblige.
Noctes Memorabiles means Memorable
Nights We do not know if it will be publish-
in book form.
Square Inch.
Gold, Macon, Ga.: Can you tell me what a
square inch of gold is worth—pure, of course?
We have seen it stated that a square inch of
pure gold is worth $169.28. A pint of gold
dollars are worth about §4,000. There are a
number of metals that are more valuable than
gold, one or two of them being worth from
$9,000 to $10,000 per pound, while gold is only
worth about $330 per pound. There will, ia
time, be other metals that will in a degree sup
ply the place of gold for use and ornament, but
hardly for currency. You and I will not live
to see it, but it will come nevertheless.
Cold— Its Ductility.
R. S. T., Covington: I have a twenty-dollar
gold piece, and told a friend that it could be
beate i out or drawn out to cover a space twen
ty feet square, or drawn out in a wire to reach
Atlanta. Did I exaggerate when I so stated?
We think not. It is stated by those who
work gold that a cubic inch can be hammered
so as to cover a space thirty-five feet wide and
one hundred feet long, and that twenty of our
twenty-dollar gold pieces can be drawn into a
wire that would reach around the globe—that
is, about 25,000 miles. When you look at the
gold leaf used for ornamenting books, signs,
etc., you can have some idea of the wonderful
ductility of gold. The gilding of Queen Vic
toria’s carriage for the celebration of her fiftieth
anniversary took three hundred books of gold
leaf, and a book is worth about twenty-five
cents. A book is about three inches square
with about twenty leaves, we believe. The
beauty about gold is it does not tarnish like
other metals and resists acids; hence its use
for many purposes besides money.
Questions-Moses.
We would say to Estelle, Portland, Ala.,
that Mr. Montague was the author of the ex
pression—“That the only thing which recon
ciled her in being a woman, was the fact that
she would never have to marry one.” You
know dear E , that one woman is more severe
in her opinions of another than men. We
men, of course, like or love those unlike our
selves. The frailties of women we condone,
and sometimes like. The vices of men we
hate, yet, we are a part of them. A woman is
a very desirable thing to have about a house,
Mrs. M.’s opinion to the contrary notwith
standing. Madam DeStael never said it
2. As to the children of Israel being led oat to
Egypt, it was done in the reign of Menephthah,
the son of Rameses II, Moses was brought up
in the court of Rameses II; but after his killing
scrape with the Egyptian and his flight into
Midian and his forty years sojourn there,
Rameses II died, and Menephthah was in the
throne when Moses demanded the release of
his people. Menephthah was rot lost in the
Red Sea, but some of his officers were. He
did not go after the Israelites himself.
3. Eugene Aram was a living, acting char
acter, no myth abont him. He was born in
1704, and hung in 1759, three days after he was
found guilty of murder. His defense in be
half of himself was one of the ablest arguments
ever presented to a jury, and in this our day,
he would not have been found guilty, there
was circumstantial evidence against him, rath
er strong, but bis defense brushed that away
easily enough.
4 Lord Lyttoa die! in 1873. The month]we
do not know. He wrote the “Coming Race.”
Quite an able man, and a fine writer.
The Sunny South
FEMALE SEMINAfiY,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
FACULTY:
W. B. SEALS, A. M., Pesident,
Professor of Natural and Moral Sciences.
Prof. GEO. C. LOONEY, A. M.,
Chair of Mathematics and Astronomy.
Mrs. C. D. CRAWLEY, M. A.,
Chair of English Literature.
Mlle. VICTORIA KONTZ,
Chair of Ancient and Modern Languages.
Mrs. L. H. SEALS,
Principal of Preparatory Department,
Prof. W. F. SEALS,
Director of Mnsic. Voice Culture.
Madam VON DER HOYA SCHULTZE,
Piano and Organ.
Prof. W. F. CLARK,
Violin and Comet.
Prof. Wm. LYCETTE,
Art Department.
Prof. A. C. BRISCOE,
• Stenography.
Miss JENNIE RUSHING,
Telegraphy.
FOREMAN OF “SUNNY SOUTH” OFFICE,
Teacher of Type Setting.
Miss LILY MAY DANFORTH,
Calligraphy.
Mrs. W. F. SEALS,
Supt. Boarding Department.
Mrs. GEO. C. LOONEY,
Matron 4
THE FALL TERM WILL BEGIN ON lit MONDAY IN
SEPTEMBER 1887.
Tbe departments are well nigh lull, and an early
application 1* Important to secures goo place for
tbe next term.
Oar object Is to meet, a* far as practicable, along-
f It want In tbe South, viz: a thorough literary and
practical business education for females.
Every member of our faculty Is an experienced ed
ucator. All are acknowledged to stand abreast wltn
tbe best teachers of tbe State. In their respective
departments, while some enjoy even a national rep
utation.
Anyone haying alrls to educate Is respectfully re
ferred to tbe State at large for character, scholar
ship and management.
NEW FEATURES.
With a view to maki .g onr course of study emi
nently practical, Telegra’ by. Calligraphy, Phoi ogra-
phy, Book-keeping and Tyre-setting, or Joorralism,
will be introduced ae Bpecia departments. A grad
ate of this school takes along with her a profession
sdapted to her sez, and which fits her to enter AT
once upon an active business life. In no other
school in the South will she find these advantages.
ATLANTA AS A LOCATION.
Of all points in the South, not one combit ee so
many of the essentials for a school of the chat acter
proposed, as Atlanta.
It is 1160 feet above sea level.
It is blest with pure water and good air.
It is healthy.
It has never been visited by an epidemio of any
kind.
It is ont of the range of etorms and cyclones.
It is tbe capital of the State, where pupils can see
and hear all the celebrities of the day.
It is a progressive city, where everything new in
science and art is sure to come.
It is a city of chnrches, and is withont a peer in
the observance of the Sabbath.
Its people are cultivated and refined, and Its mo
rality is phenomenal.
It is the music center of the Sonth, and its very air
is tadened with music.
It is convenient, being a railroad oentor.
GENERAL INFORMATION.
This school is not denominational. Boarding pu
pils will attend the church specified by their parents.
The number of pupils will be limited to sixty, and
in no event will more than that number be received.
Tuition must be paid monthly in advanoe, and no
deduction will be made except in cases of sickness
E retracted beyond two weeks. An experienced hoose-
eeper will take charge of the boarding department,
and a skillful physician will look after the health of
the pupils.
The daily sessions will be Bix hours, beginning in
the morning at eight o’clock, and dismissing at 4:30
in the afternoon, with two hoars’ intermission at
noon and two recesses. We do not like the one ses
sion plan, as now tanght in onr popular schools.
The government of the school will be humane, but
firm.
UNIFORM.
In order to prevent extravagance, a uniform to be
worn by the pupils to church or on the street has
been adopted, which will be made known to any one
on application.
Send for a catalogue to
W. B BEALS, President.
IUKA
(BOTH SEXES.)
Mathematics, Ancient Language, Abstract
Sciences, Natural Sciences, English Lan
guage and Ite Literature, Theory and Practice
of Teaching. Mu9lo and Art, Theary and
Practice of Business.
Board per month, in private families, $10;
in clubs, $7; with the Principal, $10. Next
•ession. first Monday In September.
Address H. A. DEAN, Iota, Miss
SORE THROAT, CROUP AND HOARSE
NESS CURED BY USING
and DENTIFRICE.
PERSONS Wearing Artificial Teeth
should use HOLMES’ MOUTH WASH and
DENTIFRICE. It will keep the gums heal
thy and free from soreness; keeps the plate
from getting loose and being offensive.
A Pure Breath, Glean Teeth and Heal
thy Gums by using Holmes’ Mouth Wash
and Dentifrice. Try it.
A Persistent Feeling of Cleanliness re
mains for hoars after using Holmes’ Mouth
Wash and Dentifrice.
From John H. Coyle, O. O. 8., Profea
sor Operative Dentistry and Den
tal Materia Medica. Balti
more Dental College.
Having been shown the formula for Holmes’
Sure Cure Mouth Wash and Dentifrice. I will
say that from my knowledge of the therapeu
tic action of each of these substances entering
into its composition on deseased mucus mem
branes of the mouth and gums, I believe it to
be a specific in a large number of the ordinary
deseased conditions for which it is recommend
ed. I say this on theoretic grounds and am
satisfied that a practical test of this mouth
wash in my own practice has more than justi
fied my expectations. I therefore reccommend
it for general use and would be glad to know
that every man and woman in the country
would try it for themselves, believing that it
will result in great good to those who use it as
directed.
Athens, Ga.—I have had occasion recently
to test the virtues of your Sure Cure Mouth
Wash in an aggravated case of inflamed
and ulcerated gums, with most gratifying re
sults. I find that I can accomplish more in a
short time with Sure Cure Mouth Wash than
any other one of the many similar prepara
tions I have ever used in my practice of many
years. I wish that every one, old and young,
would use your preparation according to the
printed directions, and then, I think, the den
tist would be able to accomplish more good for
their patients, and do it with more satisfaction
to all concerned.
H. A. LOWRANCE, D. D. S.
Georgia Railroad Company,
Office General Passenger Aoeht,
AUGUSTA, GA., Feb., 1, 1887.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
Tickets to Hillman, Ga.
Notice is hereby given that Tickets have
been placed on sale at all regular stations on
line of the Georgia, and Gainesville, Jefferson
and Southern Railroad to HILLMAN, GA., a
flag station on the Washington Branch. Par
ties desiring to visit HILLMAN and go to the
“ELECTRIC SHAFT,” can now purchase
Tickets to that point direct, instead of stop
ping at Raytown (Sharon), and taking private
conveyance from that point The SHAFT is
located just half mile from Railway Landing.
Trains stop at Landing only when signalled,
unless passengers on board desire to stop
there. E. R. DORSEY,
General Passenger Agent
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