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THE SUNNY SOUTH,-ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1887.
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The American Forestry Congress.
The Governor of Florida has appointed the
following named gentleman to represent the
State at the American Forestry Con peer,
which will he held in Springfield, HI., Septem
ber, 14, 15 and 16,1887: Col. W. D. Chipley,
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The Public Debt.
The public debt was reduced nearly $5,000,-
000 during July. Cash in the Treasury August
1st, 8456,304,301.50.
Siamese Prince in St. Louis.
St. Louis assures the Siamese Prince Kron
Luand Devawongse Varsprakar a cordial wel
come as an honored friend of the Hon. Jacob
T. Child, lately of Missouri but now of Bang
kok.
Death of a Congressman.
Hon. E. W. Robertson died at Baton Rouge,
La , on the 2d, aged sixty-four. He served
three terms in Congress, and was elected in
November last a member of the fiftieth Con
gress. ^
Michael Davitt at Work.
Michael Davitt and wife attended a meeting
at Bodyke and made presents of money and
medals to a number of girl’s who ’defended
their home against the police during the recent
eviction*.
Louisiana’s First Bale.
A business letter dated at Merricks, Louisi
ana, August 1st, says: “Mr. H.* f, Dohert
ginned on the 29tb, July, the first bale of cot
ton ginned in this State this season. Good
luck to him.’’
The Largest Steamboat in the World.
The Fa'l River line is about to build a steam
er to be called The Puritan, 404 feet long at
the water line. She will have 335 state rooms
and all modern improvements and will cost
8500,000, and will be finished in May, 1889.
The Chattanooga, Borne & Columbus.
This road located its line in Chattanooga on
the 2d instant, and work on it will be begun
within ten days, the funds being supplied by
New York and London bankers. The road
will be one hundred and forty-two miles long,
and will traverse a well-wooded, productive,
agricultural country, and one unusually rich in
mineial deposits. It is expected that it will be
completed in twelve months.
Captain Ericsson’s Anniversary.
On the 81st of July the veteran inventor of
war-ships, and weapons defensive and offen
sive, adapted to naval warfare—Captain John
Ericsson—celebrated the anniversary of his
eighty-fourth birthday quietly at .home. He
received no callers, but many congratulatory
telegram 8, mostly from officers and ex officers
of the United States Navy, others from persons
fortunate enough to possess his friendship, and
two or three came from Sweden, where he was
born.
The Kentucky Election.
The returns indicate a light vote—Buckner
being elected by a small plurality against 50,-
000 expected. Tbs prohibtion vote .was very
light—the labor vote nominal. The republicans
gained in the legislature; the labor men two,
and the prohibitionists three to five in the leg
islature; stili the democrats will have a large
majority on joint ballot.
Tite vote in favor of the constitutional con
vention ia almost unanimous. Fayette county
voted against the whipping post and in favor
of giving, with Lexington, two hundred thou
sand dollars to the Kentucky Union railroad.
Coming Conventions.
Atlanta is a city of Conventions. She in
vites and entertains them, and all who attend
leave well pleased—ofsenest “carried away”
with what they see, hear and experience—and
spread her fame abroad. .
To-day the National Convention of Locomo-
t.ve Engineers is in session, which it is expect
ed will be attended by not less than four hun
dred persons. This is one of the strongest of
the labor organizations.
On the 16th (next Tuesday) the Farmers
Inter State Convention will meet. This is
one among the most important of goneral as
semblages. Its action will be fraught with,
and wiil be followed by important results.
Properly conducted this body is calculated to
have a more extended and weighty influence
on public and political affairs, probably, than
any other, as t represents a so much more
pjpulous and laboring portion of the people.
It is believed that this Convention will number
six hundred,-'and will represent the wealth and
intelligence of the farming interest of the South.
On September 20ljh the Convention of Fire
Engineers—expected to number four hundred
—will assemble. This body will be more cir
cumscribed in discussion and action, than that
just mentioned, but, as the guardians, in part,
of the safety of the people’s property, their de
liberations and conclusions will profoundly in
terest the public.
Tbey Want to Utilize Niagara.
A movement has been inaugurated among
the leading-business men of Buffalo, N. Y., to
raise a fund of 8100,000 which will be offered
as a prize for the best invention for utilizing
the water power of the Niagara river. Com
petition will be open to the world. Several
prominent citizens have already subscribed.
One Million Dollars Stolen.
A careful estimate made by county officials
at Chicago shows that no less than 8480,000
was stolen in 1884 ’85 and fully 8520,000 in
1886-’87. The total is estimated at 81,000,000
for the two years. The tax levy for county pur
poses for the same period was $2,500,000—$1,-
200,000 for 1884-’85 and $1,300,000 for 1885-'86.
The stealings, according to the estimate,
amount to forty per cent of the levy in both
years. _
Nashville Will Lose Barnard.
Mr. E. E. Barnard, of the Vanderbilt Uni
versity observatory, has accepted a position in
the corps of observers which will soon take
charge of the great Lick observatory in Califor
nia, of whom Prof. Edward S. Holden will be
chief. There will he six members of the corps.
Mr. Barnard, though a young man, has al
ready won for himself a reputation co-exten-
sive with the astronomical world. He will
leave for California some time in September.
The Pope’s Golden Jabilee.
Catholic Societiestave been called upon to
appoint delegates to a general council to be
held, at which steps will be taken to make ar
rangements for a public meeting and parade in
the metropolis in honor of the golden jubilee
of Leo’s XHI’s priesthood. The Catholic News
says:
“Temporal sovereigns, whose sway is terri
torially limited, are honored in birthday fetes
in our principal cities. Now if anniversary
celebrations like these reflect credit, from a
national point of view, on their projectors,
and the rulers are honored, is it not reasona
ble to suppose that a celebration in Leo’s hon
or would be more successful when spiritual
allegiance is universal and respect and homage
unconfined by nationality?”
The Earth Shaken.
About 12:30, August 2nd, quite severe earth
quake-shocks were felt all the way from Hunts
ville, Alabama, to central Illinois, the appa
rent oscillation being from South to North. At
Huntsville the tremor aroused sleepers and
lasted twelve seconds; at Franklin, Tenn.,
furniture was shaken in a lively manner, but the
shock lasted only about six seconds; at Nash
ville the vibrations (fourteen), were attended
with a rumbling noise; at St. Louis it woke up
the sleepers—the shock lasting from five to
eight seconds; and at Centralia, Jonesboro and
Jacksonville, Illinois, and throughout the
central and southern part of the State, the
shocks were severe, cansing picture frames to
fall from the walls.
An Evansville, Indiana, dispatch says that
at the time of the earthquake the farm of Z, P.
Hayden, in Trigg county, Ky., sank four or
five feet. There were 300 acres in jthe farm,
and it is now filling with water.
Low Bates to the Pacific.
The following little itfcm shows what low
rates do towards encouraging travel to remote
points. These rates are extended almost all
the time, but particularly in the summer, to
all points on the Pacific coast, and, as a conse
quence thousands are induced to go, who, oth
erwise, would not do so, and so become ac
quainted with and make investments, very
much to the advantage of California. The
item referred to is as follows:
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad
alone has already booked 75,000 passengers
for Los Angeles for the coming winter. Wheie
all these visitors will be housed is a problem
that is now troubling the enterprising citizens
of that prosperous town.
Now, why cannot—or rather why will not—
our Southern lines of railway nnite and make
a low rate so as to encourage travel, and exam
ination of properties, in the Alleghany and
Blue Ridge region, where our forests and min
erals are, and to our Gulf States—particularly
Florida, Louisiana and Texas—whose flelight-
fnl, salubrious climate and semi-tropical pro
ductions present seductive inducements to the
pleasure and health seekers, as well as the
money-maker.
In the Critic Prof, l^rrison, of the Univer
sity of Virginia, is writing some articles on the
native French authors of Louisiana.
Miss Minnie E. Folsom, a near relative of
Mrs Grover Cleveland, has become precep
tress of the Brooklings Agricultural College in
Dakota.
President D. C. Gilman, of Johns Hopkins
University, has joined Colonel Elliott F. Shep
pard and his party, and will make with them a
tour in Alaska.
Morphy, Norljh Carolina.
The town of Murphy, N. C., is on a big
boom. Mr. E. P. Valentine has spent several
months in and around Morphy, and has just
drawn and had lithographed a beautiful map of
the town. In the statistical note on the map it
is stated that Murphy was incorporated in
March, 1887, with a population of four hun
dred. “Many properties have since been sold
there, and business and private bouses have
been erected, both by citizens and strangers-
The town is situated at the junction of the
Hiawassee and Valley rivers—branches of the
Tennessee river—in the basin between the
Blue Ridge and the Smoky mountains, and at
an altitude of 1,600 feet. By its position,
Murphy is the ngtnral exit for the mineral and
agricultural products of eight counties in North
Carolina and Georgia; ft is distant from At
lanta one hundred and twenty miles, Knox
ville eighty miles, Chattanooga eighty-five
miles, and the rapidly advancing mountain
town of Asheville, one hundred and thirty
miles. The railroads now tending to Murphy
are the Western North Carolina railroad, which
connects at Salisbury with the main line of the
Richmond and Danviile system, and the Ma
rietta and North Georgia railroad. There is
also a railroad projected and chartered from
Chattanooga to Murphy, which would give di
rect communication to the West and North
west; while the Marietta and North Georgia
railroad (now within a few miles and soon to
be at Murphy) to the North and South, and
the Western North Carolina railroad (within
twenty-eight miles of Murphy), with the East
and Northeast.”
In Need of Advice.
Advice has been very correctly described as
something which every one is willing to give
and no one is willing to take. Most people
have very decided opinions as to how others
should act, and are generally very ready to
proffer the aid of their sagacity. We not very
seldom find individuals who can tell everybody,
from the President down, how to do better
than be is doing. Advice when not aeked nor
specially -needed is abundant enough. But
when it is needed, it is not so readily forth
coming. Occasions arise in the histories of
most persons when tbey do sorely need the
guidance of judgment o her than their own.
Only the exceedingly willful or thejexception-
ally sagacious have never known periods when
they greatly craved ooffnatol. But most of per
sons find that the friends who are so ready
witll words of direction when not demanded,
shrink from the responsibility of advising
when advice wonld be followed. There are
partings of the way, where all the future ca
reer must be determined by the decision of the
right or the left, and they who appreciate the
seriousness of the moment wonld like to have
the opinion of their wisest friends. These
friends, as we have said, often shrink from the
responsibility. More often however they re
fuse advice because they suspect to be insin
cerely asked. Tbey think that the man is go-
ipg to build his house according to his own
tastes, despite their suggestions, or that the
girl will follow the bent of ber inclinations in
marrying, and be more.than half offended
with those who try to speak words of caution.
They are right in the main. People are often
strengthened in their purpose of doing as they
want to do by being told it is the right way,
when they would not be at all weakened by
being told that it is the wrong way. The fact
that this is a characteristic of human nature
generally has prevented many a perplexed one
from receiving the counsel which friends had
it in their hearts to offer, but from fear of hav
ing it rejected withheld. * * I _
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A Woman as an Engineer.
Some fascinating stories are told of women
who have donned the bifurcated garment and
played the part of men in employments re
garded as suitable for men only. Among
these is one of a woman who became an en
gineer of a railroad locomotive. She was a
young bit of a lass in London, named Mattie
Morgans, and she had a sweetheart, Tom Win-
nan by name, who was engineer of a train
running between London and Edinburg, his
run being from London to York. We are told
that she would listen to Tom’s thrilling recitals
of his adventures until she learned to love her
hero as Desdemona loved the Moor. She
yearned to fly through the air with him, and
share the dangers, excitements, and triumphs
of a life so foreign from ber own. With the
assistance of her lover, she secured the posi
tion of “stoker” on his engine, which position
she filled for nearly a year, meantime learning
a good deal about running the engine. They
were soon to be married, but fate bad decreed
otherwise. Tom Winnan was killed. He was
run over is the switch yard by a shunted car
and died within an honr, his head upon his
“stoker’s” lap. It was then, when in her an
guish, Mattie Morgais’ grief betrayed her
womanhood. She Bed the country and came
to the United States, where, disguised as be
fore, she secured the position of fireman on a
Connecticut railroad, and was' subsequently
appointed as engineer of a freight locomotive.
Perhaps her experience in railroading in this
country is best told in ber own words:
“Yes, I was appointed engineer of the night
freight. I had a seventy-four mile ran, and old
‘27’ was my engine. The first night I ran a
forward strap of the main rod broke. I dis
connected the main rod, covered the ‘ports,’
wedged up and fastened the ‘cross-head,’ and
crawled twenty miles with only one side work
ing, losing less than one hour of my running
time. Then we got stalled in an up-grade,
and stood there until morning for a relief en-
f ne. I suppose you would think it strange if
shonldtell you that I have been inside of my
engine’s fire-box, but of course it was cold. I
have also been inside the spark-arrester, and
shifted tbe diaphragm. Once while running a
passenger train 1 keyed up and fastened a
slipped eccentric. We were running forty
miles an hour when it happened. I shut off,
gave her sand, turned the air-cock for l^atces,
and brought up the train all standing. My
fireman and I crawled under the forward driver
axle and pried the eccehtric into place. The
passengers gathered about and looked on. My
fireman climbed back into the cab and worked
the lever until the links came into place, and
then I tightened the set screws holding ths Ac-
centric in place. I could not adjust the ‘throw’
to a Dicetv, and in consequence the ‘lead’ was
a trifle ‘off’ on one side, so that when we star
ted again the ‘exhanst’ barked unevenly,sound
ing like the exhaust of an engine not properly
.‘quartered.’ I performed this job m six min
utes, which drew considerable attention from
railroad men. I received a letter of commen
dation from the superintendent, and was
shortly thereafter given the ‘day express’ to
run. I never had any serious accident, but I
have killed two men. One was walking on
the track. I blew and blew for him, but he
did not hear me, and was struck. The other
man attempted to drive his wagon over a grade
crossing. I struck him and killed him and his
horse also.
“These accidents had a strange effect upon
me. Of coarse I was not to blame and was
exonerated by the officials, but seeing these
men killed produced insomnia. I could not
sleep. Their faces were constantly staring at
me. I began to run down in health, and my
last accident drove me from my trade. I can
not now even refer to it without a shudder. I
was running my train with a new engine—No.
120—and was going nearly fifty miles an hour.
Far ahead on the track, between the rails I
saw something white which I thought was a
piece of newspaper: As I drew nearer, oh!
horror! it was a little child. It was sitting
facing me and playing with the dirt and stones.
I reversed and tried to stop, but it was impos
sible. As I got nearer the little thing looked
up and clapped its hands, apparently in de
light at the big engine, and in an instant the
ponderous monster passed over it. I almost
fainted but stopped the train. The people
went back. The poor little thing was ground
to atoms. That was my last trip. That child
haunted me day and night. I was taken ill,
and when at last I recovered, I resumed my
skirts.”
Peculiar Observances Connected with
Beligious *W orship.
The smallest religions sec: la this country is
said to be the Sandemaplaris, composed of only
ten members, who worship in a rude little
church in DanbuP)'. Conn. They are said to
,comprise the descendants of the followers of
Sandeman/ ^ 0 came to this country and set-
tioflpJfcianburv in 1764.
y0ae of the peculiarities of the Sandemanian
farm of worship is that they have a weekly
love-feast, in which the whole congregation
dine together. It was the original intention to
have this take place in the churches, where a
dinfiig-room was provided, but in Danbury
they find it more convenient to have this din
ner served at the house of one of the members.
Here they also pray and sing, and the kiss of
brotherhoo 1 passes between the members of
both sexes. From this custom they have been
vulgarly called “Kissites.” Their rules pro
hibit games of chance, prayers at funerals, col
lege training, as well as most nineteenth cen
tury innovations, while in food tbey are for
bidden the use of flesh meat and “all things
strangled.”
There are yet a few congregations of this
sect in England. The great scientific philoso
pher, Michael Farraday, was a member of this
sect and worshipped in one of their chapels in
London. The curious observances of this sect
reminds us of what a correspondent says of
what is done by some other sects. He says:
“In England there is scarcelAt parish with
out its church inn—an inn geijp-aily situated
on the glebe, of which the parsf is the owner,
and very often this church innl a great cause
of vexation to him. It stan(M close to the
church—sometimes conspicuously taken out of
the church-yard—and the proximity is not often
satisfactory. The church inn has for its sign,
maybe, the “Ring of Bells,” or simply the
“Bell,” or the “Lamb and Flag”—anyhow,
some sign that points to itB connection with
the church. These inns were originally the
places of entertainment, where the parson sup
plied the wants of the parishioners who came
from a distance and brought their food with
them but not their drink. These people at
tended morning service, then sat in the church
house, or church inn, and ate their meal, and
%ere supplied with ale by the parson or his sub
stitute. At Abbotskerswell, in South Devon,
is a most perfect old church inn that has re
mained untouched from probably the reign of
Richard II. It consists of two rooms—one
above stairs, one below. The men sat in the
lower, the women in the upper room. Each
was furnished with an enormous fire in winter,
and here the congregation took their dinner
before attending vespers. In France the Bame
thing took place in the church porches, and
that was one reason why the porches were
made so large. Great abuses were consequent,
and several of the French bishops charged
against, and the council condemned, the eating
and drinking in the porches. If the people
from a distance were to remain for the after
noon service, they must go somewhere. The
writer has seen the porches of French and Ger
man cathedrals full of women eating their din
ner, after having heard the morning service,
and who were waiting for the service in the af
ternoon; but they are no longer served there
with ale and wine by the clergy.”
Governor Lee and General Wade Hump ton
have gone to Dagger’s Springs to spend some
time.
Knowing When to Stop. t
The homely—but none the less important be-:
cause homely—truth that “enough of a thing is
enough” has need to be often inculcated. Peo
ple lose sight of the fact that the best things
may be spoiled by being too long continued or
being carried too far. The preacher who feels
that he is charged with an important message
will not stop when he has delivered it, but con
tinues reiterating it again and again. The
public speaker who has perhaps good thoughts
enough to occupy fifteen minutes, scatters
them amid a sea of platitudes for two weary
hours. The magazinist who has some fine
thoughts that fill three pages, insists upon
spreading them out over fifteen. Many—we
may say most—speakers and writers have not
a keen perception of the graceful point of leav
ing off. So too more causes are injured by
the over zealousness of their friends than by
the opposition of their enemies. The makers
and venders of intoxicating drags build the
hope of perpetuating their unhallowed traffic
more upon the intemperateness of temperance
men than upon any argument they can offer.
Religion—“the chief concern of mortals here
below”—has suffered incalculably because its
advocates have so often failed to recognize that
“enough of a thing is enough.” Here, some
starting out with the correct proposition that
the rues of the sanctuary should be performed
with decency and order, go to the length of
pressing out all spirituality by pomp and cere
mony. Another starting out with the equally
true proposition that God must be worshipped
in spirit, cultivate more and more of spontane
ous enthusiasm until it calminates in exhibi
tions little differing from Bacchanalian orgies.
Oh! a long sermon, if not many sermons, conld
be preached from that homely text, “enough
of a thing is enough.” It should be dinned
into the ears of the people every day and every
hour of the day—so prone are they to carry
things too far. Anything must be very good
not to be spoiled by a great deal of it. ^
re warn .
A number of new free delivery poet-offices
will be established September 1. Only three
are in the South, Columbia, S. C-; Shreveport,
La., and Charlotte, N. C.
It is estimated that the cotton crop this year
will be 7,500,000 hales, which means that cot
ton is still king.
San Franciscans observe that daring her
visits to that city and to England Queen Kapi-
olani underwent a marked change for the bet
ter both in physical appearance and in her
pronunciation of English.
WHAT PLAYS ALL THE MISCHIEF.
The grocers have raised the price ol their tea
On account of the Interstate law:
And Pie doctors, the; say, have doubled their tee,
And the air ol He&ven very soon won’t be tree
On aeeonnt of tnA Inter-State law.
How convenient It is, wben yon raise on yonr price,
To bamboozle your patrons with such a device!
Tbe tailor pots up the price of yonr coat . "
Oi aeeonnt of the Inter Suite law;
And tbe Interest is raised two percent, on yonrnote
And the heeler has raised tbe price of his vote
On account of the Inter-State law;
Rat what Is this law that our Income all melts?
We don’t know what It Is—nor does any one eise.
—Financial Record.
Tbe railroads have all raised the rate of their freight
O j account of tbe inter State law;
So It costs more to carry tbe usual weight.
And the grocery staples are higher at date
On account of tne Inter State law.
How transparent for railroads to raise on the price
And try to bamboozle with snch a device!
Small shippers have always been left In the rear,
So we needed the Inter-State law;
Rnt tbe railroads say to the favorites, “Here,
We’ll fix the thing up In the tariff, don’t fear,
In spite of the Inter-S'ate law.”
Rut tbe people are earnestly crying out. “Stop!
Give us fair play for all or you’ll hear something
drop.”
—American Grocer.
Dr. S. H. Dickson.
Even the most fastidious of critics must
grant that the charming pen-picture of our
Sunny South, appended below, is quite wor
thy of perusal, and is indeed an idyl of rare
merit, which does honor' not only to the patri
otic sentiments, but to the poetic ability and
achciarly polish of style of the author.
The medical profession engaged Dr. Dick
son’s chief attention, and general literary pur
suits were a relaxation and delight to him, not
a vocation.
Unlike the lamented Timrod, his pathway in
life lay rather in sunshine than in shade; for
he was admired, songht after and attended by
troops of friends, who were attracted by his
versatile talents, brilliant conversational
powers, and high character.
He was bom in Charleston, S. C., 1799, and
was a graduate of Yale College. Afterwards
he passed through the Medical Department of
the University of Pennsylvania, then practiced
his profession many years in his native city,
where he helped to establish the Medical Col
lege. Subsequently he was professor in the
University of New York, and later, accepted a
chair in Jefferson Medical College, Philadel
phia, which he filled until his death, some
years ago. Cuaudine Rhett.
I SICH FOR THE LAND OF THE
CYPRESS AND PINE-
[BY SAMUEL HENRY DICKSON.]
I stgb for the land of the cypress and pine,
Where the jssssmliie blooms and the gay woodbine;
Where the moss droops low from the green oak
Two Great Preachers.
Bishop Pierce and Dr. T. H.
Stockton.
HUSIS6S OF 1Y EYECTIDE.
BY REV. A. A. LIPSCOMB, D. D.
FOR rY‘.THIRD PAPER.
Obi that annbrtght land Is the land lor mel
Tbe snowy flower of the orange there,
Sheds Its sweet fragrance through the air;
And the Indian rose delights to twine
Its branches with the laughing vine.
There the deer leaps light through the open glade,
Or hides him far In forest shade,
When the wood resounds In the dewy morn,
With tbe clang ot the merry hunters’ horn.
There the nnmming-blrd of rainbow plume,
Hangs o’er the scarlet creeper’s bloom.
While ’midst tbe leaves his varying dyes
Sparkle like hall-seen fairy eyes.
There the echoes ring through tbe livelong day
With the mock bird’s changeful roundelay;
And at night wben tbe acene is calm and still,
With the moan of the plaintive whip-poor-will.
Oh! I sigh for the land of the cypress and pine,
Of the laurel, the rose, and the »iy woodbine;
Where tbe long-gray moss decks the rugged oak
tree—
That aunt)right land Is the land for me.
There are at present at Stratford, Conn., two
intnesting old ladies. One is Mrs. Perry,
widow of Commodore Peny, the hero of Lake
Brio, and the other is Mrs Lamb, widow of
Gtneral Lamb, a prominent officer in the war
of '812. They are both well on in years, but
bright and active.
. Simon Cameron has arrived in England, fresh
as a daisy, and Da Lesseps talks of making
another trip to the Isthmus, to hurry up his
ditch. A vigorous pair. They should know
each other. It would be entertaining to hear
them swan reminiscences. But it would have
to be in French, for De Lesseps doesn’t talk
English.
Among the great preachers whom I have
heard in this country and abroad, the fore
ground in my memory and admiration has no
figures so prominent as Bishop Pierce and Dr.
Stockton. I did not hear the former until I
was nearing middle life, tbe period in one’s his
tory when judgment and sensibility contribute
each its qnoto to our beet impressions. The
sermon in clearness and breadth of statement,
in simplicity of thought and style, in that wise
moderation of impulse and manner which
deep feeling always assumes when it is the im
pression of the whole nature and not of the
mere imagination, fed by over-heated animal
blood—chaste, scholarly and spiritual—this
sermon affected me as I like to be affected,
namely: by sound and vigorous ideas most viv
idly put in the dual language of soul and body,
and, furthermore, by vindicating to my heart a
logical reason for intensity of emotion. The
imprint of that discourse is to-day as fresh in
my sensibilities as I could wish, and the rela
tivity of the argument quite as fully perpetu
ated. Thanks for such sermons! But deliver
me from those sensational efforts in which
some preachers appeal more to my animal
blood than to mv brains and their divine coun
terpart in my aff&ctions!
Years afterwards, I heard the Bishop’s ser
mon, the Baccalaureate discourse, Commence
ment Sunday. University of Georgia, on
“Christ and Him Crucified,” I. Cor. ii.:2. I
infer from his preaching it at different times,
in places remote from one another, that it was
a favorite sermon; and, though most ministers
who like to repeat “pet discourses,” impair
their originality of creativeness no less than
the vitality of utterance, the Bishop certainly
escaped tbe latter effect. On this occasion, bis
manner and bearing were not quite up to the
level of his expressional capacity, with its nicer
shades of force and differentiation. Age had
begun to tell upon him. The handsome and
graceful form; the finely chiseled face remind
ing you in its repose of a statue of the old
classic times, but, in states of high emotion,
variable as the wavy crest of a lake
stirred by the wind; while every mus
cle of flesh, every bone aDd nerve, and
ligament of his frame, was perfectly obedient
to spontaneousness rather than to assertive
volition; these characteristic attributes of the
orator in his palmier days were somewhat aba
ted. Notwithstanding this slight diminution
of oratorical charm, the fibre of bis eloquence
showed that it had been spun and woven in
those other days, when the color and figures
of the rare tapestry wrought out the perfection
of the loom.
After an introduction, clear, concise, histor
ic, biographical, a model of its kind, worthy of
Atterburg or Blair, the Bishop lays out by im
plication the first part of his plan in the low
construction, which the enemies of the cross
gave to its historic fact. “Power;—what sort
of powerl Omnipotence baffled, not glorified;
power in the innocent, illustrious sufferer tor
tured defied, laughed to scorn.” And then
the preacher’s sadden exclamation: “Thun
ders of heaven, where slept you? Angels of
God, where were you encamped? Power, in
deed! No power here bnt the rage of cipel
malice, the triumph of wicked conspiracy.”
Somewhat languid up to that instant, (though
by no means prosy,) the interjections! outburst
brought the orator back to himself, and the
gathered momentum continued and increased
through the analysis of the wisdom of God on
this low plane of interpretation. Viewed from
the standpoint of the sense-intellect, with its
facile deceptions consummated by hereditary
ages, the doctrine of the cross as Paul preached
it was to the Jews a stumbling block, and to
the Greeks foolishness. These men still sur
vive, “stnmbling, scoffing.” And the preacher
now proceeds to deal with this survival of Jew
and Greek (verily a survival of tbe nnfittest)
and to show that this power and wisdom are
the glory of the gospel. “Take this away and
the gospel is nothing; there is nothing saving
in Christianity but this; this comprehends all.
It is the wisdom of God and the power of God.
Wisdom is knowledge in action, adjusting
means to end. The term implies. difficulty,
complication; a problem to be solved. A tre
mendous ftsue is involved. The rights of God
and the interests of the human race are in con
flict. How can man be just with God? No
voice comes from earth, or air, or. sky to give
the answer. Abashed, confounded, is the
boast of every age. Hoary learning is dnmb;
silence reigns in heaven. The great end to be
reached is the salvation of sinners. What are
tbe difficnlties to be overcome? They originate
in the moral government of God. Prerogative
moat not override law. This wonld
unsettle the foundations of authority.
Rectoral justice must be maintained. One at
tribute must not wound another. How, then,
can God he just and yet justify the ungodly?
* * This was the mysterious problem which
all created intelligence deemed inexplicable.”
This is common sense, orthodox to the core,
and the fine play of the catechist and the re
spondent in the orator done singularly well.
By this time the basis of contrast between the
“low plane of interpretation” and the higher
had been fully laid. Tbe great painter, Blake,
great but eccentric, used to say that “color
ing does not depend on where the colors are
pat, but on where the tights and darks are put,
and all depend on form and outline.” The
“darks” have displayed a keen, artistic eye in
the method adopted in pictorializing the “low
construction” of stumbling Jews and Grecian
idolaters of carnal intellect. And now comes
the quick compacting of the “lights” in a sen
tence and its kindred sentences, beginning with
See how the cross of Christ solves the prob
lem!” Never was the divine law so completely
vindicated and the claims of justice so awfully
asserted as when the law-giver offered Himself
as a ransom. There is no relaxation of law,
do encouragement of sin, no eclipse of the di
vine glory, but a fuller, brighter manifesta
tion—the light of the knowledge of the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ.
“God is love—love His name and His na
ture—the very essence of His being. * *
The cross brings no accession of power to God.
He was and is the Almighty, the Omnipotent,
but power was restrained. * * Christ cru
cified solves the problem. Divine power, long
pent up, broke forth like a rushing, mighty
wind, and Pentecost reports three thousand
converts as the first signal proof of its freedom
and the harbinger of its future achievements.”
’Twas great to speak a world from naught—
’T was greater to redeem.
“God made the world by the breath of His
mouth; He redeemed it by the blood of His
heart” The formative sentence this of a par
agraph of uncommon vigor and antithetic bril
liancy. The orator was in the climax of power
and rythmic prose when thought after thought
g lided with majestic grace into the last half
our of the processional movement For in
stance, “Redemption reveals His loving heart
drafting upon eternal power for a new creation
more magnificent than the whole visible uni
verse.” * * * The Eastern caravan—laden
with gems and gold, the spices and perfumes
of every land, faint with dust and heat and
thirst—perish if water be not fonnd. The
treasure cannot save them. “The world by
wisdom knew not God.” And all the wisdom
of the world, hoary with antiquity and cumu
lative by the accretions of the ages, cannot
avail to tell how God can be just and yet jnst
tify the nngodly; how man may be saved from
the discouragement, the terror, the despair of
guilt We must have “the living water.” * *
Bat what if I were to go on with these dis
located extracts? What a very imperfect view
wonld be presented of that unity which Hooker
says belongs to all created things by virtue of
the law—that every object borrows a portion
of its beauty and symmetry from its relations
to the perfection of other objects.
Wee Willie Cottage, Ga.
Apples on LeConte Pear Stocks.
Two years ago Mr. James E. Earnest, of
Tallahassee, Fla., grafted an apple on to a Le
Conte pear stock, and now he is picking fine
led apples off of the tree.
The Levy County (Fla ,) Times says that
Mr. Otis Richardson budded the Astrachan ap
ple on a LeConte pear stock last year, and now
has a lot of as fine apples as can he produced
anywhere. He thinks the apple will be a suc
cess in this section when grafted on pear stocks.
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Dr. McGlynn has received tbe heaviest pun
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has been wben such a sentence would have
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sympathy. The world moves.
Sabina Zembra, the latest story of William
Black, would, from its name, be supposed a
tale of Eastern life. It is, on the contrary, a
powerfully written history of a young lady of
London, who, though of sound intellect and
high moral principle, marries a frequenter of
the turf, under the idea that he was a gentle
man- Her devotion to him after she knows
him to be a villain, is finely portrayed.
Mr. Rider Haggard has poured out quite a
series of novels, each of which, we believe, has
the Dark Continent for its locale. “Allan
Quarterman,” the last of these to be issued,
though not the last written, is as full as any of
highly imaginative scenes and startling adven
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to come.
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eve of some great change in the moral and
physical world, seems to be largely prevalent.
Scholarly divines ara writing books about
the prophecies in which they claim an insight
into the meaning of those mysterious oracles
passing anything that has ever yet been offered.
Let us be patient, but not alarmed. There is
no prophecy more unmistakable than that the
Son of Alan shall come when no one is expect
ing Him.
The long and almost nnbrokenly successful
career of the Emperor William has caused
him to be regarded with a sentiment closely
approaching man-worship, both by those under
his sway and by some who are not. This feel
ing will help very much towards bringing about
some great political changes upon his now rap
idly approaching decease. The most far-dis
cerning can form hut a faint conjecture of
what shall be the state of Europe a year hence.
to increase rather thin diminish violations of
tie law.
Rebecca Hardin Davis is writing a series of
papers for Harper’s Magazine, in which she ■
describes several places in the South as' tbey
appear to each one of a number of Northern
tourists, mingled with observations upon per
sons and places. She is introducing a little of a
love story. The conception is a good one; but
she has thus far carried her travelers over the
old beaten route—Richmond, Lynchburg, At
lanta, Montgomery, Mobile, New Orleans.
These are, of course, important points, but
they are not the only—hardly the best, for the
study of typical Southern life.
For the Sunny South.
Diad, dead, dead—
Dead are all my hopes, manhood forever gone—
Life, love, ambition have forever from me flown;
Ibis life’s a nigbt of sorrow—1 will never see the
fawn—
Dead, dead, dead.
II.
Gone, gone, gone—
Happiness all, all gone,|forever gone from me,
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row’s sea—
Peace, fry, cont-ntment can never be lor me—
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Will Hkadi 1
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If mob law is ever defensible under any cir
cumstances, it is when a semi-savage commits
an outrage upon some delicate and virtuous
woman. It is no matter for wonder that on
such occasions the indignation of a community
overleaps all bounds. But a calm, quiet, dig
nified vindication of the law would prove more
effective. Savage punishments are not the
Words of the Wise.
The thief might be trusted—the ^
never.—Burke. -t m
A man never has good luck who has a as a'y
wife.—Beecher. ming th
One pound of wisdom is worth a Kb
knowledge.—Eaton
A genius for bard work is the best kind
genius.—Mrs. Stowe.
Good men but see death; the wicked always
taste it.—Ben Jonson.
How much better is the love that is ready to
die than the zeal that is ready to kill.—Lynch.
All good men should tmite to uphold the
laws and to crush out the enemies thereto.—
Dr. Johnson.
That can not be a healthy condition in which
few prosper and the great mass are drudges.—
Beecher.
Conquer thyself. Till thou hast done that,
thou art a slave; for it is almost as well to ho
in subjectiop to another’s appetite as thy own.
—Burton.
A man who can not get angry is like a stream
that can not overflow, that is always turbid.
Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunder
storm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
—Beecher.
I have been jnst looking over a newspaper;
one of the most solemn and painful Btuaies in
the world, if it be read thoughtfully. So much
of sin, and so mach of suffering in the world
as are there displayed, and no one seems able
to remedy either.—Dr. Arnold.
Garfield and Mark Hopkins.
Gen. Garfield once said: “I had rather dwell
six months in a tent with Mark Hopkins, and
live on bread and water, than take a six years'
course :n the grand >st brick and mortar uni
versity on the continent”
A bill has passed the legislature of Dakota
providing for the taxation of telegraph property
as property of individuals, and that the tax
shall be sixty cen s per mile for the first wire,
thirty cents per mile for tbe second, and twenty
cants per mile for eac8 additional wire. It
provides in addition that telegraph companies
bast repressives of savage crimes. It would j take out license, and a failure to pay the
hardly be believed were it not proved by all . tax abrogates the license. Dakota is young,
history that public executions have a tendency I b it vigorous.