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VOLUME XIII.—NUMBER 613.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13,1887.
JAMES BUCHANAN AT COUBT.
Shaking Across the Bloody Chasm.
SOUTHERN WAR SONGS.
Poetic Echoes From the Dead
Past.
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. Bead the announcement and plan
of distribution on 4th page.
‘Old Glory.’
The following poem won the first prize of
3100 in the Boston l’ilot competition. Its au
thor is Emma Frances Dawson, of San Fran
cisco. It is in the old and difficult French form
of verse called chant-royal. There are but few
English-chant-royals, the making of them hav
ing been called “a hard and thankless task.”
Heretofore only one poet has made use of this
form of verse. In making the announcement
to the author that she bad drawn the first
prize, Mr. John Boyle O’Reilly said; “I con
gratulate you on having added a great poem to
the permanent literature of America. Among
patriotic poems it will rank forever with any
thing ever written.” “Old Glory” is a name
given our flag by our soldiers during the late
war. This poem was inspired by the following
paragraph by George F. Hoar: ,
“I have seen the glories of art and architect
ure and mountains and river; Ifceve seen the
sunset on Jungfrau, and the full moon rise
over Mount Blanc; but the fairest vision on
which these, eyes ever looked was the flag of
my country in a foreign land. Beautiful as a
flower to those who love it, terrible as a meteor
to those who bate it, it is the ’ symbol of the
power and glory and the ho^or ^ Jgmes James, & negroyyand cftixen of the
of Americans. -* 'United StateB, who resides at Santa Rosa, Mex-
Enchanted web I A picture In tbe air,
Drifted to us from out tbe distance blue
From shadowy ancestors, through whose brave care
We live in magic of a dream come true—
With Covenanter’s blue, as If were glassea
In dewy flower heart tbe stars that passed.
O, blnoo veined blossom that can never blight;
Tbe Declaration, like sacred rite.
Is In each star and stripe declamatory,
Tbe constitution thou sbalt long recite.
Our hallowed, elcquent, beloved "Old Glory!”
O symphony In red. white, bluet—fanfare
O! trumpet, roll of drum, forever new
Beverberatlons of the bell, that bear
Its tones of Ltb-rty the wide world through!
In battle dreaded like a cyclone blast!
Symbol of land and people unsurpassed.
. ' shall never have a night.
Thy brilliant day sba
On foreign sbore no pomp so grand a sight,
Thou art the one flag; an embodied prayer,
One, highest ana most perfect to review;
" t; It Is lineal, square,
Without one, nothing;.»>.
Has proDertles of all the numbers too,
Cube, solid, square root, root of root; best classed
It for his essence tbe Creator east.
For purity are thy six stripes of white.
Is number circular and endless quite—
Six times, well knows the scholar wan and hoary,
His compass spanning circle can alight—
Our hallowed, eloquent, beloved "Old Glory!”
Boldly thy seven lines of scarlet fl ire:
As whan o’er old eenturtan It blew
<Bed la tbe trumpet’s tone) It means to dare!
God favored seven when creation grew;
The seven planets; seven hues contrast;
The seven metals; seven days; not last
* rvelout ‘
The seven tones of .marvelous delight
”■ eking soul their wings for flight;
The Trouble He Had While Minister to
England-His Court Dress.
While the drag question was still under
consideration parliament met and it waa as
usual opened by the queen. Buchanan re
ceived a circular asking him to be present and
saying that no one would be admitted who was
not in full dress. The result was that Buch
anan did not go, and his absence called forth
the comment of the newspapers. He writes
home to the state department that he has de
termined to vyear no gold lace or embroidery
at court, and that he had expressed a desire to
the master of ceremofiies to appear at court in
such r. <J vsa as might be agreeable to the
qneen ano- still not be much different from
'-/hat. )f th^ American citizen. It was then sug-
‘•gested.-Oi Buchdnan that he might assume the
civil dress of George Washington. ’’But,” he
says, ‘‘fashions have so changed that if I were
to put on this dress aDd wear it at one of our
president’s receptions I would be the subject
of ridicule for life,” and farther that he con
sidered it a presumption for him to affect the
style of dress of the father of his country.
Ilis worry is shown in his letters to his niece
Harriet Lane, who was expecting to visit him
in England. He fears, he says, that he shall
not be invited to the court receptions upon
this account, and that if be is not, he will
probably be dropped by London society in gen- '
eral, in which case Miss l Lane had better re
main at home. The day before the first levee
of the queen he writes that bis appearance
there in a suit of plain clothes will, he has no
doubt, produce quite a sensation and become
a subject of gossip for tbe whole court. But
be had, after this, another interview with Sir
Edward Oust, at whose suggestion he added a
plain dress sword to his ordinary* clothes and
thus solved the difficulty.
He says, writing to Harriet Lane, ‘‘I ap
peared at the levee on Wednesday last in just
such a dress as I have worn at the President’s
one hundred times. A black coat, white waist
coat and cravat, and iftaek pantaloons and
dress buttons, with the Addition of a very plain
black-handled and black-hilted dress sword.
This to gratify those who have yielded So much
and to distinguish me from the upper court ser
vants. I knew that I would be received ifi any
dress that I might wear, but could not have-an
ticipated tnat I should be received in so kind
and distinguished' a manner. Having yielded,
they did not do things by halves. As I ap
proached the queen an arch but benevolent
smile lit up her countenance, as much as to
say, ‘You are ihe first man who ever appeared
before me at court ! n such a dress.’ I confess
that I never felt more proud of being an Amer
ican than when I stood in the brilliant circle in
the simple dress of an American citizen.”
This remained "Buchanan's dress during the
remainder of his mission, and he was one of
the most popular foreign ministers of American
history. —Frank O. Carper• terin American Mag
azine.
PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
WASHINGTON CITY.
Reminiscences of Distin
guished Public Men.
Incidents Which Have Transpired at
the National Capitol.
“There is a pleasuijfc in the pathless woods,
There, is. a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is;society where none intrudes
By the' deep sea, and music iu its roar.”
LAWYER SWETT’S BRIDE.
The Oldest Man on
Eartjjv
Tnat lend the listi
But why complete tile happy category
That gives thy thirteen stripes tfietr charm and
. might, .
Our hallowed, eloquent, beloved “Old Glory!”
In tny dear colors, honored everywhere.
Faith, Hope and Charity are numbered there,
“““ .. - BCrne - ■ ■
And tbe three nails the Crucifixion knew.
Tnree are < Sanded when one has trespassed,
-God, and one’s neighbor and one’s sell aghast;
Christ’s deity ana soul and manhooo’s height;
The Father, Son and Ghost may here unite,
With t« xts line these, divinely mlcotory.
What wonder that thou coDqnerest la fight,
•Oar hallowed, eloquent, beloved "Old Glory.”
O blessed Flag! sign of our precious Past,
Triumphant Present and our Future vast
Beyond starred blue and bars of sunset bright
Lead us to higher realm of Equal Bight!
Float on In ever lovely allegory,
Kin to the eagle and the wind and light.
Our hallowed, eh quect, beloved “Old Glory.”
THEIB MISSION TO ALASKA.
Significance of the Trip of Senators
Vest, Plumb and Cameron.
In conversation with Senator Vest a few
days before he started with Senators Cameron
and Flurnb for Alaska, it was learned that
their trip to Alaska had some significance.
Senator Plumb is a member of the Senate
■Committee on appropriations and Chairman of
the Committee on Public Lands. Senator Don
Cameron is Chairman of the Committee on
Naval Affairs,and is also a member of the com
mittees on Commerce and Coast Defenses.
Senator Vest is a member of the Committee on
Commerce and of tbe Committee on Transpor
tation, Routes, etc. What these Senators
learn by personal inspection, Senator Vest
said, will be imparted to their committees. It
is expected that the showing to be made will
hava Tnn/<h mflnanhn in 1 l_l.il
have much influence in promoting legislation,
needed by Alaska, relating mainly to immigra
tion, commerce and development of its mining,
coal and timber resources.
Besides, there is pending an important dis
pute between England and the United States
in reference to the boundary between Alaska
and British Columbia. The recent discovery
of rich deposits of gold near the boundary line
calls for a speedy settlement of the boundary
dispute. American citizens have been quietly
working mines about ten miles inland, on terri
tory which the British claim. At other points,
also, where our citizens are mining on the
eastern slope of the coast range, the territory
is claimed by Eng'and. The latter Government
has intimated these latter facts to Secretary
Bayard. The English view of this controversy
places it above the fisheries dispute in the dif
ficulty of a satisfactory solution.
The British Government claims that in con
cluding the treaty with Russia, Mr. Seward ac
cepted as correct the boundaries set forth in
the treaty between Great Britain and Russia
in 1825. It is alleged that we occupy territory
outside of the boundaries set forth in that
treaty and that the gold mines recently dis
covered are really in British 6oil.
ico, is probably the oldest man on earth. He
was bom near Dorchester, S. C., in 1752, and
while an infant was removed to Medway river,
Ga., in the same year that Franklin brought
down electricity from the thunder clouds. In
1772 there was quite an immigration into South
Carolina, and his master, James James (from
whom he takes his name), moved near Charles
ton, S. C , in company with a number of his
neighbors. On June 4,1776, when 24 years of
age, a large British fleet, under Sir Peter Par
ker, arrived off Charleston. The citizens bad
erected a palmetto wood fort on Sullivan’s Is
land, with twenty-six guns, manned by 500
troops, under CoL Moultrie, and on June 28th,
the British made an attack by land and water,
and were compelled to withdraw after a ten
hours’ conflict. It was during this fight that
Sergt. Jasper distinguished himself by replac
ing the flag, which had been shot away upon
the bastion, on a new staff. His master, James
James, manned one of the guns in this fight,
and Jim, the subject of this sketch, and four
other slaves were employed around the fort as
general laborers. Jim followed his master
throughout the war, and was with Gen. Mou’- |
trie, at Port Royal, S. C., Feb. 3, 1779, when
Moultrie defeated the combined British forces
of Prevost and Campbell. His master was
surrendered by Gen. Lincoln at Charleston, S.
C.j on Feb. 12, 1780, to the British forces, and
this ends Jim’s military carter.
He remembers of the rejoicing in 1792
throughout the country in consequence of
Washington’s election to the Presidency, he
then being 40 years of age. In this year his
first master died, aged about 60 years. Jim
then became property of the “Marse Henry”
(Henry James), owning large estates and about
thirty slaves, near Charleston. On account of
having raised “Marse Henry” Jim was a spe
cial favorite with his master and was allowed
to do as he chose. His second master, Henry,
died in 1815, about 65 years of age, and Jim,
now 03 years of age, became the the property
of James James, Henry’s second son. In 1833
the railroad from Charleston to Hamburg, S.
C., was completed, then the longest railroad in
the world, and Jim, with his master, took a
trip over the road, and was shown special
favors cn account of his age, now eighty-one.
James James was ten years of age at bis fath
er’s death, and when he became of age inher
ited large estates, slaves, etc., among whom
was “oid Uncle Jim” and his family. James
James lived in South Carolina until 1855, when
he moved to Texas with all his slaves. James
desired that his slaves should bo free at his
death, and in 1858 moved into Mexico, so that
they could be free before his death. James
returned to the United States and died in Tex
as, and in 1865. After there were no longer
slaves in the United States, Uncle Jim’s chil
dren and grandchildren returned to the United
States. Five years ago at the age of 130, Jim
could do light chores, but subsisted mostly by
contributions from the citizens, but for the
past two years, not being able to walk, he re
mains for the most part in his little jacal, his
wants being supplied by generous neighbors.
The rheumatism in his legs prevents him from
walking, but yet he has sufficient strength in
his arms to drag himself a short distance—fifty
yards or more—and readily took a position on
the outside of his cabin to enable the Globe-
Democrat correspondent 10 make his photo
graph.—Laredo (Ter ) Letter to the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
A GIFT TO THE G. A. B.
Mr. Drexel Presents the Mount Me-
Cre«or Cottage In Which General
Crant Died.
Joseph W. Drexel, the New York banker,
has written Commander-in-Chief Fairchild a
letter tendering, free of expense, through him,
to the surviving Union soldiers of the late war,
in perpetuity, the cottage on Mount McGregor
in which General Grant died, There is no
stipulation as to how it shall be nsed, but it is
specified that the trustees shall consist of the
Commander-in-Chief of tbe Grand Army, Pres
ident of the Mount McGregor Railway, and
such other person as Mr. Drexel, or his suc
cessor as President of the Drexel & Morgan
Banking Company, may designate. Com
mander-in-Chief Fairchild has laid the gener
ous proposition before the Executive Com
mittee of the National Council of Administra
tion of the Grand Army, which is now in cor
respondence with Mr. Drexel in regard to it.
The C^cago Women who Took Cflre
of the Affairs or a Law Firm.
. [From the Philadelphia Times ]
The marriage of Leonard S wett, the famous
Chicago lawyer and friend of President Lin
coln, to Miss Marie Decker, a member of the
bridegroonf*s law firm, was a strictly private
affair, fewer, than a dozen persons Witnessing
the ceremony. The bride was horn in Cologne,
On the Rhine, thirty years ago. Sher”‘-«-te
Chicago with her parents in 1809. Her?a?fifr
had been well-to-do in Germany, and when he
came to this country brought considerable
means, which he invested in business and
property in Chicago. All was swept away in
the great fire and the family was ieft almost
without means of support. Fortunately Miss
Decker had been well educated at Catholic con
vents in Germany and Belgium while yet but
little more than a child, so that she possessed
the ability to write and speak fluently the Ger
man, French aDd English languages, besides
many other accomplishments, especially music.
When tbe crash came in 1871, and Mr. and
Mrs. Decker was left without home or money,
their eldest daughter, Marie, at once became
the support of the family. She threw aside
her mucb-loved music, and struck out into the
world of business. Her knowledge of book
keeping and mathematics, her familiarity with
foreign languages and her energetic spirit were
irresistible. From the humble beginning of
bookkeeper in a small firm, she rose, step by
step, first to an important position in the post-
office under Postmaster Palmer, then to the
chief clerkship of Mr. Swett’s law firm, later
to a partnership interest in the firm, and finally
to become the bride of the great lawyer at
whose hands she sought a modest clerkship
seven years ago. For fifteen years she has
served either in the capac.ty of clerk, cashier
or manager, and daring that time has turned
over to her parents to assist in the support of
the family, in addition to clothing herself, the
handsome sum of $10,000.
As a local paper says, however, it would be
impossible to tell the story of the life of Leon
ard Swett’s bride in a single paragraph. Her
first decided success was achieved in the post-
office, where, in the management of foreign
mail matter, her knowledge of the languages
came into service and her accuracy and relia
bility were recognized by all. She had already
established a valuable name in Chicago busi
ness circles when she presented herself to
Leonard Swett for a position in his law offices.
Her application was at or.ee accepted, and in a
short time sbe became practically indispensa
ble to the business. Starting out as book
keeper, she was soon placed in charge of the
vaults, and was the only one connected with
the firm who knew where to place hands upon
important papers connected with all the varied
interests entrusted to the firm. In two years
she became cashier, and has for four years
handled every dollar of the firm’s immense law
business. Three years ago she was admitted
as a partner, her interest the first year yielding
her $2,500, the sf cond $3,500, and the last year
over $5 000. This growth is representative of
the increase of Mr. Swett’s business since he
regained his health, which he claims is largely
due to her abilities. During Mr. Swett’s ill
ness, when for two or three years he was trav
eling in the South and other parts for his
health. Mies Dicker—the bride of to-day—was
the mainstay o: the business. She locked
after the collection of fees and kept the husi-
Altitude of pur Capitals.
Among the publications of the Government
Geological Survey is a volume giving the alti
tudes of a large number of places in the coun
try. We have selected from it the altitudes of
thirty-four capital cities; those of the capitals
of five States—Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Mississippi and Missouri—are not given in the
list, at d so are omitted here. It will be seen
that four are above the 1,000-feet level; ten
more are abovi-inOO feet; nine are between 500
and 150, and the remaining eleven are below
100 feet. In_ ease where it has been
igitSO. the a&iuxda.used U-that-of the railroad,
station Boston, for^ostance is the sidewalk
in front of the Boston «nd Albany station, and
Hartford is the station here, etc. The follow
ing is the record:
Danville, Virginia.
Capital.
Denver - - - - -
Carson City - - -
Lincoln - - - - -
Atlanta
Topeka
Lansing - - - -
Madison - - - -
DesMolnes - - -
Springfield - -
Cnarlestown - -
Austin ....
Montpelier - -
Nashville - - -
Harrisburg - • ■
Raleigh - - - .
Colombia - - - ■
Little Bock - - •
Concord - - • -
t-alem
Montgomery - -
Blcbmood - - -
Augusta - - - -
Newport - • - -
Hartlord •
State.
Feet.
Elevation.
Colorado - - -
Nevada - - -
Nehrassa - -
- • - 1,155
Georgia - - -
- - - 1 050
Kansas - - -
Michigan - •
Wisconsin - -
Iowa - - - -
Olio --- -
Indiana - - •
- - - - 722
Minnesota - •
- - - - 702
Illinois ...
- ... 594
West Virginia
. ... 617
T xaa - - -
Vermont - - -
- - - 484
Tennessee - -
Pennsylvania -
North Carolina
- - - 319
Booth Carolina -
- - - 296
Arkansas - - -
Dover ----- Delaware
Trenton ... - New Jersey -
S icramento • • California -
Albany .... New York - -
Providence • • Bbode Island
Boston - - - - Massachusetts
Annapolis - - - Maryland - .
New Hampshire - - - - 252
Oregon - -- -- - - 137
Alabama • •
Virginia - - -
Maine ....
Biode Island -
Connecticut 39
The “Bright” Tobacco Market—Wa
ter Power—Manufacture—New
Railway Connections.
Editor Sunny South: Danville, Va., is a
town of some twelve thousand inhabitants,
and is situated very near the North Carolina
line. Your readers will remember that this is
the^own ip-which occurred what our Northern
friends were pleased .to call the “Danville
D%ssacre,” which .was p fight between three
hundred negroes and ofily six. or eight wwitrr
men.
Danville does not claim ts» be on a “boom,”
39
A few other places may be mentioned, too.
New Shoreham, the flourishing capital of Block
Island, is at its signal station twenty-seven
feet above the sea. In New York City the
tracks of the railroad crossing Harlem bridge
are at an elevation of twelve feet. The Forty-
second street station is fifty-two feet above the
sea. At Broadway and Chambers streets the
height is thirty-four feet. The Springfield
railroad station is seventy feet. The New Ha
ven station is ten feet .—Hartford Courant.
Henry Clay in a Duel.
It may seem curious to many that the two
greatest statesmen of the first half of the nine
teenth century should have been induced to
settle personal difficulties by exchanging car
tels to fight a duel. On the Virginia banks of
the Potomac, across from Washington, Henry
Clay, Secretary of State, and John Randolph,
Senator from Virginia, met in 1826, on account
of political disagreement. The two names are
inseparable on the pages of American history.
They were staunch personal friends, though
bitter political enemies. On the eve of the en
counter, wh6n told of the unconsciousness of
the meeting of the child and wife of his oppo
nent, the Virginian replied, with a smile, “I
will do nothing on the morrow to disturb the
repose or sleep of child or mother.”
While arranging the preliminary details at
the scene of the enconnter, and before Mr.
Clay took his position, the pistol of Randolph
was accidentally discharged. This was very
but is going forward solidly, as is proven by
the many improvements which are being made,
and the new enterprises which are being start
ed. The old wooden bridge across the river
DaD, connecting North Danville with this city,
which stood the storms of thirty years, has
been replaced by a handsome iron structure,
said to be one of the finest bridges in the
south, and cost between fifty and sixty thou
sand dollars.
The city is now building a new reserv lir
which will hold five millions of gallons of wa
ter. This, with the one million-and-a-half gal-,
ions held by the old reservoir, will give us an
abundant water supply.
The city gas works also are being enlarged,
g’ving an increase of thirty eight thousand cu
bic feet additional gas supply.
Our much talked about street railway is
nearing completion. “We will all take a ride”
in the course of a week or ten days.
Danville is t aid to be the largest “bright” to
bacco market in tbe world; aDd at this time
the weed is pouring in—wagon loads and car
loads of it—all to be prepared for those who
love to “chaw.” The article is bringing a good
price at the present time, as the coming crop
is said to be only sixty per cent, of the usual
annual average.
Our town is beginning to see the necessity
of a variety of industries, as is shown by tbe
cotton which is here manufactured into cloth.
There are two large factories in operation and
a third being built. Their brands are so popu
lar that tie demand far exceeds the supply.
At this time our citizens are very much
aroused against the Richmond & Danville sys
tem, on account of their unjust discrimination
against this place. Having no competing
roads, we are entirely in the power of this com
pany. The case, however, will soon come be
fore the commission, and we are praying for
relief. What is'worse than a soulless corpor
ation?
The Atlantic & Danville railroad is thought
to ha a certainty, running from Norfolk to this
place. This will give us an outlet to deep wa
ter. The road will then be continued west,
giving us a western connection. If all this
does come to pass, the future of the “Border
City is assured.”
We have ample water-power, and almost
every advantage necessary to make a city, ex
cept competing railroads. Only give us fair
rate! that is all we ask.
E. P. B.
humiliating to his sense of honor, as he well
ness intact, remitting funds to the sick man ! knew that it would give rise to unpleasant re
abroad and to the late invalid wife at home,
proving herself equal to the most serious emer
gency.
Secretary Lamar’s New Trousers.
[Washington Star.]
Secretary Lamar is now wearing trousers of
a rather peculiar color. One pair has a purplish
tinge and the other is blue. The Secretary re
gards them as great additions to bis wardrobe,
and calls the attention of his friends to the ex
cellence of the material and the fact that they
are entirely made by band. They are manu
factured in Louisiana by people who raise their
own cotton, color and weave it into cloth, just
as they did many years ago. They never wear
out, and while the color might not suit some,
yet the fact that the cloth casts $7 50 per yard
ought to be sufficient to make it at once fash
ionable. Tbe Secretary, without saying any
thing about tbe price, is in the habit of telling
his friends that he can order them a suit of this
cloth, or a part of a suit. As a rule they Bay
that they would be very glad if he would take
the trouble to do so. Commissioner Black was
so enthusiastic over the stuff, as shewn in the
ports by his enemies, and his reputation as a
gentleman would be assailed, but Clay mag
nanimously came forward and said that it was
an accident. When tbe details were finally
arranged the two principals took their posi
tions. There was a stump just behind Clay
and a gravel walk behind Randolph. The sec
onds and attendants retired, and the word
given, the reports of pistols sounded simnlta-
neonsly, and Clay advanced qnickly toward
Randolph, exclaiming: “I trust in God, my
dear sir, you are untouched; I would not have
harmed you for a thousand worlds.” Ran
dolph had fired in the air, but Clay’s bullet
went through Randolph’s coat. “You owe me
a coat, Mr. Clay,” jocosely remarked Ran
dolph, when he saw the rent made by the bul
let. “I am glad the debt is no greater,” re
plied Clay. They then shook hands and re
tained to the city the very best of friends.—
Washington Capital.
Hon. Luke V. Poland.
A contemporary relates the following of the
above named distinguished Vermonter:
Illustrating the judge’s happy union of hu
mor and simplicity this anecdote is told.
While he was “stumping” Vermont in favor
shapely trousers worn by the Secretary, that j of prohibition he occasionally had cold milk
he at once said that he must have a suit, and j served on the stand for him instead of water,
while they were abont it they might as weli | a practice the wags took advantage of by filling
order two suits for his children. The Secre- j the pitcher with a strong article of milk punch,
tary suggested that, as the cloth cost $7.50 per ! He was in the midst of an eloquent speech
yard, some cash would be acceptable; other- , when he paused to quench his thirst. Filling
wise there might be some delay while the Sec- ; the large glass to the brim he drained it before
retary was accumulating the money needed to ! discovering the trick. Then, turning a twink-
pay for three suits. The Commissioner thought j ling eye to the corner where sat those he sus
The California Land Boom.
Says a gentleman now in Los Angeles:
“Land immediately outside the city limits is
worth from $1,000, $1,500, $1,700 to $2,500 per
acre. In Pasadena it is worth from $2,000 to
$4,000; at San Gabriel, from $1,500 to $2,500;
and at OraDge, Monroavia, Pomona and other
comparatively well-settled places, prices are
but slightly lower. On Spring and Main
streets—the two principal business streets of
the city—the land is worth from $1,200 to
$1,800 per front foot, and the rents received
from the property fully justify the value. To
give you an idea of the population and wealth
pouring in here, I am told upon good authority
that the four banks of the city of Los Angeles
hold nearly $13,000,000 of deposits belonging
to people who have recently acquired residence
here. In Pasadena the three banks’ vaults
contain over $1,000,000 of deposits, and the
whole townsh<D does not embrace more than
5,000 sonls.—New York Tribune, July 22.
Beau Barney.”
John Barney, who was a son of Commodore
Barney, represented the Baltimore District of
Maryland in the Nineteenth Congress, 1825-29,
and from that time un .il his death on the 26th
of January, 1857, he was one of the patriarchs
of Washington society, meriting his sobriquet
“Beau Barney.” He must have been oversev-
enty years of age when he died, and to the last
was what he had been for more than half a cent
ury, the glass of fashion, if not the mould of
form. He never affected the society of gentle-
meD, and whether riding in his carriage, or
walking or sitting, he was sure to be basking
in the radiance of “fair woman’s smiles.” He
was uncommonly ugly in his appearance; he
was very round shouldered, probably tbe stoop
of age; his head was but partially covered with
dyed hair, his teeth were false, and every ves
tige of nature about him that was visible was
in a state of repair; but his dress was elaborate
and dashiog to the last degree. He was never
seen out of doors without a coat or cloak of the
latest style, his hands in the finest white kids,
from one of which daDgled the slender cane of
an exquisite. His cravat and vest were always
of the most conspicuous colors, and when he
was fully made up, with a hat brushed to a gloss
on bis head or in his hand, and he stepped forth
from his dressing-room conquering and to con
quer, he might readily have been taken by any
one who did not see his face or hear his cracked
voice for a young man of twenty, instead of a
septuagenarian.
He was invited everywhere, of course, for he
was a man of considerable refinement, was very
Empresse in his manner to ladies, had an inex
haustible fund of agreeable small talk, danced
in every set and all night, if his special friends
would keep biin company; had known every
fashionable star, male or female, that had been
in habits of social intercourse with the most
prominent public man to be found in Washing
ton society for the same period, and by mak
ing it his coc stant study, knew better than most
men how to please ladies of ail ages, and
especially the young. The pleasure which he
found in this kind of life, and the prudence
which he exercised in the indulgence of it, un
doubtedly contributed to his length of days,
and to that elasticity of spirits which made him
one of the marvels of our time.
Hugh S. Legare.
When President Tyler visited Boston, on the
17th of June, 1843, a large delegation of sons of
New England, escorted by the New York Light
Guard, came on. Tbe Albany Burgess Corps
was also present with full ranks. The military
escort was the First Regiment of Massachusetts
Volunteers, then commanded by
Jtyler BTgelow, aodXe CitV-Dreys, f
Well A. Thompson,twas detailed as es_
cort of the invited guests from the-'State,
to the dinner in Faneuil Hall.
Three days afterwards, Hugh S. Legare who
succeeded Mr. Webster as Secretary of State,
died in Boston at tbe residence of his /riend
George Ticknor, and was. buried at Mount Au
burn. He was perhaps one of the best scholars
of the age. and certainly one of the very best
in our country. The wonderful extent and
accuracy of his reading, the strength of his
memory, his great natural capacity and talen
had enabled him to amass a store of learning
and knowledge very seldom the acquisition
one man.
A Farewell Dinner to Clay
Henry Clay was honored by a farewell din
ner given on the night of April 9th., 1842,
Brown’s Indian Queen Hotel. It was attended
by about one hundred and fifty gentlemen, in
cluding many members of both Houses of Con
gress, strangers and citizens. The sentiments
and speeches were of much interest, and man
ifested a strong devotion to Mr. Clay. At the
time it had been remarked, perhaps with jus
tice, that the tone of the meeting was influenc
ed more by the recollection of disappointment
than by the prospect of success. It was a meet
ing of friends, who had long cooperated with
their distinguished leader in a great political
object, and for the purpose of bidding him
farewell. Mr. S. S. Prentiss of Mississippi
made oue of his unequalled dinner-table speech
es, Mr. Saltonstall of Massachusetts made some
remarks which were well received, and Mr.
Clay’s words of thanks were well chosen and
effective. It was remarked that Mr. Tyler
could not attend after Mr. Clay’s Alexandria
letter, in which he bad spoken of the adminis
tration as “weak, vacillating and faithless."
Mr. Clay plainly intimated that he expected
the Whig party to retain him as its presiden
tial candidate, and he spoke savagely of an in-
timation that Gen. Scott was to be brought for
ward. Yet there were those wbo ‘‘dipped
with him in the dish” at this dinner, who had
determined that they would never again sup
port him as a candidate for the presidential
chair.
PERSONAL MENTION.
What the People Are Doing
and Saying.
John Whitlock, of Birmingham, Conn., owns
a clock of 1697.
The Emperor of China, though only 16 years
old, is getting $50,000,000 a year.
The Rev. Dr. Nevin, of Rome, is among the
summer’s guests at Newport.
Rear Admiral Franklin will be retired next
month. He will be succeeded by Commodore
Gherardi.
A new hotel to be erected at Baltik.-r* bv
Robert Garrett, will be seven stories high anw
cost $500,000.
There are over 300,000 children in the United
States between one and twelve years old whose
lives are insured.
General Lamour, charged with attempting to
murder President Salomon of Hayti, has been
sentenced to imprisonment for life at hard la
bor.
Maggie Mitchell is a close second to Patti as
a diamond owner. She has the choicest col
lections of gems of any woman on the Ameri
can boards.
uxnj i/i vUlLAgU, IS Cm |HdLLILdJ III el*
chinist, having served an apprenticeship at the
trade, and makes good use of his knowledge in
o;:
that, in Tiew of the price, the Secretary need | pected, he exclaimed with deep emphasis, “Ye
frnHa whaf o nrtrxr **
not send the order for the suits for the present. I gods, what a cow.’ 1
This is a Gi eat Country.
John H. Craig, who passed north thiongh
Albany Thursday morning on a single railroad
ticket, bound for Water bury, Vt., is reported
to weigh eight hundred and fonrteen pounds,
and claims to be the fattest man in the world.
That is seventy-five pounds more than the fa
mous Daniel Lambert weighed, who was the
fattest Englishman that ever Jived. Lambert
died seventy-eight years ago this week. His
coffin was six feet four inches long, four feet
four inches wide and two feet four inches
deep, and was made square on account of the
size of his legs. Part of the wall of the* room
in which he died was taken down to admit it.
It was interred in St. Martin’s churchyard in
Stamford, Lincolnshire, by digging an inclined
plane into the grave and wheeling it down upon
two axletrees —New York Telegram.
There are about 150 female physicians in
New York city, and quite a number of these
are making $10,000 a year out of their practice.
De Witt Clinton and his Bis Ditch.’
Dennis H. Doyleiused to be quoted by old
New York poiiticiabs as one of the brightest
and wittiest of the political friends of De Witt
Clinton. At the grand celebration of the open
ing of the Erie Canal in Albany in 1824, a
large committee was sent from New York to
join in the festivities of tbe occasion. Of this
commute DenDis was a most zealous member-
It was a proud day for Da Witt Ciinton. Many
of the strenuous opponents of the “big ditch’
were there, very anxious that their short-sight
ed policy might be forgotten; political chiefs
also, whom he bad beaten at tbe polls, those
who feared, those who envied and those who
respected him, all assembled on that day to do
homage to the superior sagacity of a man whom
no opposition could subdue. He stood, with
his colossal figure, his dark, bright eye, his
noble forehead, on the deck of the first boat,
as it entered the basin, looking proudly over
the work of which he had been the father,
amply repaid for all the temporary reverses
his political course had sustained! He was a
private citizen then, having declined a nomina
tion at the previous election, but the tide soon
began to turn in his favor, and he was shortly
afterwards forced back by the popular voice
into the gubernatorial chair, from which death,
alas! too soon for his country’s good released
him. And here I may remark, to the credit of
the good people of the State of New York, that
he never lost hi* election whenever he was a
candidate, although more than once his op
ponents succeeded in obtaining a majority in
both houses against him. His name was a tow
er of strength, which Tammany Hall, in her
proudest days’ could not overthrow.
After the morning parade the crowd disper
sed. and every hotel had its dinner-party, where
all kinds of patriotic toasts and speeches were
indulged in, and a joyous hilarity reigned
throughout. At one ot these promiscuous
gatherings Dennis found himself a guest, and
it so happened that he was one of the very few
Clintomans present; however, all was good hu
mor and friendship, party lines were torgotten
for the moment, and each man added his share
to the fun. Somebody called upon Dennis for
a toast. He complied at once, saying, at the
same time, “Yes, gentlemen, I’ll give you a
toast; but you must drink it with “tnree times
three,’ and in a bumper.” To this they all
agreed. “Well, then,” shouted Dennis, “I
give you De Witt Clinton; like ould brass, the
harder he’s rubbed the brighter he shines.”
The company were so delighted with his ready
wit that they all drank the toast with over
whelming applause. 1
his new position.
Joaquin Miller, who is building himself a
house in sight of the Golden Gate, says he
means to devote the rest of his life to writing
the “Life of Christ” in verse!
It is reported at St. Petersburg that Grand
Duke Michael, son of Grand Duke Micheal,
uncle of the czar, will shortly ba affianced to a
daughter of the Prince of Wales.
The Duka of Northumberland is about to
issue, for private circulation only, the “Annals
of the House of Percy from the Conquest to
the Opening of the Nineteenth Century.
At the suggestion of H H. Carter, Superin
tendent of the Baltimore and Potomac rail
road, a library for the employes of that compa
ny has been established at Washington.
S. G. W. Benjamin, late Minister to Persia,
announces a new book from the press of Ben
jamin & Bell. “Sea-Spray” is the title. It is
a history and study of American yachting.
Senator Bill Chandler is| not the only thrifty
person in the Granite State. There are 132,-
000 depositors in its savings banks, and they
have increased the deposits within a year more
than $4,000,000.
A Walt Whitman Society is to be formed in
Boston, the most striking feature of which will
be a weekly pension paid to “the good gray
poet.” Societies of this character should be
very popniarxamong authors.
Dr. James F. Love, t^AiPhiiadelphian who
has for several years h MagtSegeon-dantiat to
the Khedive of Egypt, iuSMttt been decorated
by his highdess with IhtflMtt’ star of the
Imperial Order of the Medjidieh.
NDr. E., D. Standjford, of Louisville, Ky.,
candidate to succeed Senator Beck in the Uni
ted SUfS senate didd onxfife '4th; be was 56
years old. Dr. Staudiford was at one time
president of the Louisville & Nashville road.
The Eliza Southgate Bonne whose letters,
written from the New York of eighty years
ago, have attracted considerable attention in
Scribner’s, has a great-niece living in Natchez,
Miss., who strikingly resembles her beautiful
ancestress.
Dr. Helmholtz has been appointed president
of the curators of the Physical Imperial Insti
tute, which will be opened at Berlin next year.
Dr. Werner Siemens and Dr. Forster, director
of the Berlin Observatory, have also been ap
pointed curators.
Mr. James G. Blaine and Andrew Carnegie
attended the unveiling at Dunfermine Tuesday
of a monument of Alexander the Third, who
reigned in Scotland from 1249 to 1286. They
drove to the spot in a four-horse coach and
were well received.
F. A. Sawyer, who wa* once a United States
Senator from South Carolina, is now a clerk
in the Qoar term aster-General’s offise, Wash
ington, on a salary of $1,400 a year. He at
one time held the position of Assistant-Secre
tary of the Treasury.
Professor A. E Verrill, of Yale University,
has joined the deep-sea surveying party on
board the United States steamer Albatross.
At present the vessel is cruising off the New
England coast, but in September she will go to
the Pacific ocean by the way ol Cape Horn.
Roland Leveson Gower, a nephew of the
Marquis of Stafford, recently arrived in
Francisco from Hong Kong. He has been vis
iting Japan, China and India. He will visit
*• Yosemite Valley, and then come g«H*t
He is traveling very unostentatiously with hie
friend, F. Dugdale.
Miss Daisy Hampton, Gen. Wade Hamp
ton’s daughter, has a hobby. It is the healthy
one of pedestrianism. While the General waa
away on his last fortnight’s Northern tour,
Miss Hampton walked from her home to
Charleston, a distance of 145 miles, making a
record of twenty-five miles in one day.
The Queen of Portugal is an accomplished
potter. When staying at the seaside last year
she constantly visited an important factory
close by, and was so interested that she took
lessons in the whole process of manufacture
Now Queen Maria Pia has become a first-rate
workwoman, and tarns out most artistic
bowls, cups, etc.
Harrison W. Garrett, Robert Garrett, .ft.,
and John W. Garrett, sons of Robert Garrett
of Baltimore are studying American geography
in a pleasant manner. They left Baltimore in
May with their tutor, and have traveled on a
special car through Mexico, Texas, Colorado
and other parts of the country. They recently
passed through Utah on their way to Califor
nia.
Gov. Foraker and Thomas E. Powell, who
are pitted agaiDst each other in tho Ohio guber
natorial campaign, are old friends. They w<mt
to Wesleyan College at the same time. Fora
ker was a member of the Phi Kappa Pai frater
nity, while Powell was a Sigma Chi. They
were frequently pitted against each other in
debate in the literary society to which they
belonged.
Four rich young Chicagoans own ocean
yachts. Roland Nickerson, who will some day
possess $5,000,000, has just bought a yacht at
New London. Will Armour has paid $25,000
for a keel sloop, in which he will cruise about
Watch HilL Hobart Taylor, one of the richest
youngsters in Chicago is also owner of a hand
some yacht. Arthur Ryerson bought one last
year, and lias not yet tired of the expensive
toy.
Tra Bu Ban Cu Sin, a Chinese graduate of
Yale in the class of ’78, recently visited Sara
toga. He is a Hong Kong tea merchant, has
about 45,000 acres of tea under cultivation and
employs 4,000 coolies. He is of medium
height and has dispensed with his queue. In
conversation he is most interesting, speaking
perfect English. He remained but a short
time at Saratoga and is now on his way to
Hong Kong.
Mrs. Mary Morris Johnson, of Philadelphia,
whose will has just been admitted to probate,
left $400,000 divided after a fashion which
fairly illustrates the wide interest taken m
charity by most Philadelphia women of inde
pendent means. Nearly thirty separate chari
ties are mentioned in the wifi, to each of which
bequests are left, nearly all being for those
small and straggling institutions which en
deavor to supply some missing link in the chain
' charity by caring for some special class.
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