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THE SUNNY SOUTH. ATLANTA. OA SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1887
5
LCTTER5
^^epEnPLE
TO CORHESPONNDE8T.
We shall be glad to receive s i< rt, newf>y and
descriptive c tmiminications from agents and
subscribers for publication. We want inform
ation about booms, resources, development
and propress Write pl«in*y, concisely, ani
only on one side of the paper
Gold for Sunny South Patrons.
See the extraordinary array of gold and val
nable presents to be distributed among the
pitrons of the Sunny South on the 1st of Oc
tober next. Head the announcement and plan
of distribution on 4ih page.
Tampa. Florida.
Prohibition and Anti-Prohibition—
The Combat Thickens-- Great Ex
citement—The Coining Pic Nic
—Present aud Projected
Improvements.
Editor Si'nnt South: Tampa is, to use a
homily phrase, “in a stew.” Prohibition and
anti-prohibition, like the witches’ cau'drou,
“boil ami bubble.”
The late exciting election of city i tlijers, the
yellow fever, the recent fire which entirely
demolished two blocks in the busint ss centre
of town, the proposed •Bp Hotel,” the toll-
bridge, and tbe standing dispute ab. ut. tbe
settlement of the garrison—aie all thrown ill
tbe shade by the one great topic of the day,
“Prohibition.”
The \V. C. T. I'.’s have been editing a paper
in tbe cause of temperance for si vcral weeks,
and the other local pa[ieis have fallen into
line, and given warm support to the cause—
but the whole town was eleettitied this morn
ing bv tlie unlooked-for apfiesrauce of tbe
Standard—out and out. anti-proh b lion. It is
published in the Tribune itliie, and John K
Jones is the repuied editor.
Jones is a sprightly writer, and does net fail
to ca ch on to the weak points ai d lapsus Ha
gue of those who let their zeal for the cause
carry them beyond the. projier confines
The liev. J C Green, of Colorado, dilivered
a temperance speech iu the opera home last
Sunday night, opera home? Oh yes, we
have an opera house and between five and
seven thousand popuiaiion, too.
Mr Green certainly made an able speech,
but towards the close let his feelings get rather
the better of bis discretion, and made s ime
violent remarks, that might be construed to
the disadvantage of the cause
In the course of his remarks lie narrated
the story of a “widowed mother” whose only
son, a “bcauiifiil, curly headed hoy.” was en
ticed into a saloon when only si veil years old,
and so wrought upon that at seventeen he was
a confirmed sol—in a blind frenzy, produced
by strong drink, iie killed bis dearest friend.
for bis prey, indifferent, whether it be a cat
fish or dog, diminutive Ethiopian or limb of a
Caucasian. Ie aving behind us Forts Jackson
and Pulaski (of historical interest), and pass-
no by trestles and draw bridges over Wilming
ton river, St Autusline and Lazaretli creek,
we arrive at Tybee beach and alight at the
Ocean llr.n.p, whose enterprising proprietors
have provided a sp ic 011s platfoim, wiih swing,
ing hammocks, rustic benches and rockers and
other devices, for the com 'ort and luxury of
guests—and a plank walk to the surf.
In 'wading for guests and tourists are hand
some, airy vehicles, so that a drive of fize
miles can be cpjoyed op one of tbe most beau-
'iful beaches in the United States, for twenty
five ceuts.
The beach is lined with cottages, which send
out tbiir occupants in fancy-colored bathing
suit*, like dolphins, naiads and mermaida, to
gambol in the refreshing and invigorating
surf.
Feeling that I have said enough for the pres
ent, on this delightful and inexhaustable sub
ject, I will close, with a cordial invitation to
friends, and fair ladies, and brave men, from
south and nor.h Georgia (in fact from any and
everywhere), to pay a visit, aud enjoy with na,
the “Cape May of the South," which must be
s en to be apprec ated. Respectfully,
Savannah, Aug. 14, 87. J. C. D.
Gadsden, Alabama.
A Bean ifully Situated, Thriving City
—Railway Boom—Black Creek
Falls—Their Surpassing
Beauty.
Kiutok Sunny South: I have delayed a
long time before writing, because it seemed to
me that there could be nothing in Turfcej-
town valby to interest the readers of the
Sunny Soi hi; only the wide-extended farms,
stretching between the Coosa river and the
ranges of “everlasting hills:” aud the country
people, living their quiet lives j ear after year,
wiih but little to break their monotony. But,
lo! while thinking of this, 1 hear the shrill
whistle of the locomotive, and I remember
that the rural beauty of these fields and woods
h s b* en marred by the railroad cuts and tills,
and ihe cattle can no Linger ruminate in un-
disiurb'd serenity.
The Rome and Decatur Railroad is here. I
don’t know how much of the road has been
completed. However,! learn that they hope
to have the cars runt ing through to Rome be
fore many we*-ks. This will conuect Gadsden
—our thriving ambitious country town—with
the E T. V. & G. system. The Anniston &
Cincinnati Railroad will probably be completed
by tbe first of October. Then there is the
Tennessee & Coosa, and the .Jacksonville,
Gadsden & Atlanta, to follow. Railroads are
being ‘ pushed right along,” as the Gadsden
paper joyously asserts.
G idsden is quite a thriving little town, of
about 4 600 inhapitants. and of late has been
“booming” so loudly that the reverberation
must surely have been heard as far as Atlanta.
[Yes, we’ve heard the boom.—En. S. S.] It
really i** a prosper us little place, rejoicing now
in water- works, electric lights and the luxury
of a lately built ice factory. There is then one
large furnace in operation, and two building;
and the mines which furnish the coal and iron
are close at hand. Tnere are also two paint,
two riou% four saw, and four plaining mills.
Work is progressing rapidly on the new hotel,
the “Printup House ”
Gadsden is prettily situated on the western
bank of tbe Coosa river—at tbe Southern tei-
ininusof Lookout Mountain. Springs of Sul
phur and chalybeate waters are just outside
the city limits—and two or three miles from
the town is Black Creek Falls. The creek—a
ra' her small clear stream—tl )ws along the top
ot Lookout Mountain for about thirty miles;
then suddenly plunges over a precipice—
straight down—into a rocky gorge, one hun
dred feet below. For wildness and beauty of
scenery this spo . can hardly be surpassed in
in this country. The beauty of the stream
just above the fall, when gbstening in the sun
shine, flowing over the rocks, extending far
into the woodson either side, and bordered by
low mountain pines, in such striking contrast
to the sh idows of that gorge one hundred feet
b°low afford a scene of surpassing beauty,
mid was bmie-proclaiming lii- innocence"ami ! . v "y', n S tr ' >m « f ‘y to a and fifty feet
accusin'? bis seducer as tlie real murderer on | ,u wi.iU., ilie gorge extends between rocky
thescaffild wads for more than half a mile to where it
The m xt day it was advanced in ext' nua- . 1! * l ° below. 1 he rock over
tion of Mr Green’s fanatical remarks, that the I whlch the water lea P 8 ’ extends far out over
OurPorfreit Gallery.
PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES
OP DISTINGUISHED MEN
AND WOMEN.
George W. Melville.
Geonro W. Melville of the Engineer Corps
of the L. S. Navy was appointed by President
Cleveland to succeed C. H. Loring as Enei
neer-in chief of the navy, aud Chief of the Bu
reau of Steam Eogintering, in tbe early part
of August, 1887 George W. Melville was
bom in the city of New York, Jan. 10th, 1841
He was educated partly in the Academy of the
Christian Brothers and partly in the Polyne-
technic School of New York. At tbe age of
seventeen years he entered the East Brooklyn
engine shops as a machinist apprentice. Three
jeari later in July, 1861, he was appointed as
assistant engineer in tbe navy and was soon
ordered to duty with the flying squadron,
tortoise; overy moral agency, social, legisla
tive, personal, and touches plints of vital con
cern to health as well as to humanity. The
membership is larse and iufl lential, the work
taking on new features every j ear. Among
them being tfie ambulance corps, and" an in
genious invention for substituting artificial for
live pigeons as marks for shooting. Henry
Bergh is ageing fast, but be has lived to see
many of the blessings and benefits from his
butnaiiilariatiistn ipread over most of the civi
lized world and that is his highest ambition
and his mainspring on the earth.
Charles Wyndham
The celebrated and world-renowned English
actor, Charlea Wyndham, is contemplating an
other visit to America His former visits will
no doubt be recollected and his acting recalled
to thousands of people who have witnessed his
playing here
Charles Wyndham is an Englishman by both
birth and education. He has been on the stage
from an early age, stepping from one round of
the ladder to the next until he became the man
ager of the Criterion Theatre of London. He
boy was liis own sou, and Rial in* stood by ibe
young victim of the saloon keeper in the hour
of death, and there solemnly swore to wage
miy live.
I cite this incident to show what a highly
charged atmosphere of excitement we live in.
Thera might be some hope of carrying the
town dry, if it were not for the negro element,
and the large number of Cubans employed in
the cigar factories at Ybor—now a part of the
city.
Tickets are being sold for an excursion on
the C. F 1; H , to-morrow, to SefTner, twelve
miles from Tampa, supposed to be a grand
rally of the strength ot the temperance party in
the county—of which more later; the ladies
will carry'baskets, a.d much pleasure is an
ticipated.
Tlie yeliow fever scare is about over, it pre
vails only in a very mild form ill Key West,
and as no relaxation of tbe quarantine reguia
lions is allowed, we bone to escape the dreaded
malady.
Contracts are being lc for substantial brick
buildings to stand on the site of the olil wood
en etruc ures that were burned.
Grading in tbe extension of the S F. li 1! ,
to Brushy l’oint, ten miles south of Tampa,
is nearly finished, and tlie Tam; a Lumbci
Comp my have tlie contract to supply tile lum
ber for the large wharf lo be buiil at the t< r-
minus.
The dredge, Herndon, is s’i’I a» work taking
rock out of the channel at the mouth of the
river.
F. Firman, tl:* North Tampa grocery man
who was called for by a party of men a few
weeks ago prepared to apply a coat of tar aud
feathers, has not been heard from. He had
been guilty of committing outrages on liitio
gills sent to bis store, too indecent to mention,
lie was fortunate. 10 escape, and bad bettir
not return.
The S. S. Margaret has just returned from
Jacksonville, where she has been repaired, and
is now on her regular trips again looking as
bright as a new pin.
Ic is now nearly time for tlie mail to close.
so good bye iili alter the niciiir.
Tampa, Fia., August Hi, 1887.
G. 1!
Savannah to the Sea.
The Grandeur of the Ocean and the
Ocean Beach.
Editor Sunny Soitii: The long contem
plated railroad from Savannah to Tybee Island
is completed and in full operation. It will add
much to the health and pleasure of our people
by giving them an opportunity to transport
themselves, in thirty or forty minutes, from
the heat aud dust anil din of tbe city to the in
vigorating breezes and briny waves of Tybee
beach (about eighteen miles from Savannah),
there t> ride or walk for miles on a surface as
sincoth and clear and clean as a marine floor,
or don a bathing suit and piungc into the
white-capped waves that come rushing towards
the shore, incessantly breaking upon tbe beach.
The pleasure rf buffeting against these break
ers in these sultry dog-day s, words are inade
quate to express.
Excursions from Savannah and from inland
towns are the oruer of the day. Sanitarily and
financially the enterprise promises to bean im
mense success.
Desirous of obtaining a quiet view cf the
load and its scenery—which is line—I on yes
terday repaired to the depot. It happened n>
be tbe Jewish Sabbath, end crowds of well
dressed Ilebiew Sadies at d gentlemen were al-
xeady • n board. At 10:00, a. m., the whistle
sounded the note of departure. Onward we
sped along the flowery and grass-covered banks
ofttie liil boa canal. IJiveiging to the right to
Bruton llill, we had fri m its wooded plateau a
charming panoramic view of the forest city
now facing from the sight. < la we go past
Deptford and (Jauston Bluff which latter place
is a lovely spot whose arlesian well throws its
cooi and crystal waters thirty feet in the air.
Thence to Tybee Island is a vast expanse of
land and waier, effordinga picture of surpassing
beauty. To the North lies the Savannah river,
healing on its bosom tin outgoing New- York and
Philadelphia steamers, with their crowdsof pvs-
sengeis, ano oilier sinal ercriit. To the South
the landscape sueicues like an illimitable
prairie or everglade, rimmed by di. i-int fi"-
ests, the marshes and salt mead.',. ', waving
with tali grasses of vivid green, amu ’ whose
hiddiu inlets ’.he sluggish alligator is walcbmg
the gorge—leaving a circular reciss behind the
fali under the shelving rock, of perhaps two
hundred feet in diameter. A wooden stairway
extends the precipice; c-1 a path along
the stream’s blink, leads lo that shadowed
spot under the solid rock, curtained by that
veil of foaming, sparkling water. A beautiful
drive has been completed to the falis and
along the cl ffs, and the Gadsdenites are think
ing of erecting a large hotel out there.
Crons in this sectirn are very good.
R A.
The New Columbus.
Eiutor Sunny South: “There is nothing
new under the sun/’ is an old proverb, which,
by cominou consent, is accepted as true; but
wc are canstraiiitd t> believe that the story
which bears the above title is a notable cxccp
lion. The fact on which the story Is founded,
is the ill-fated expedition of Sir John Franklin,
in search of a Northwest passage. Tlie rend-
ing world w ill remember that during the years
lSts-lfc-VJ, the United States and most of the
countries of Europe sent out expedition after
expedition in the hope of rescuing tlie hapless
party, or at least of finding out what their fate
Lad been. The leaders in the search, in giving
an account of the matter, emphasize the fact
j that, though evidences were found of thedeath
I of Franklin and a number of his men, yet the
disappearance of the ent ire party has never
! been accounted for.
! Captain Ila l’s theory is that some of the
i men survived; and—finding return impossible
| —adopted the life of the Esquimaux. Scien-
j tific men hold that beyoi.d the frez *n belt which
I men have failed to penetrate there is a warmer
clime. Out of these two theories the story
j grows. The theme is new—and wondrously
1 captivating; and the idea of an underground
I route to the North Fob is certainly quite orig
inal.
I It is a story w liich it would not do for a busy
. man to take up, lest he be tempted to reverse
the order of that good old maxim, “Business
before pleasure.” For ourself, we confess,
that it is only bv a s .rong effort of will that we
turn our back on tbe Sunny South when it is
brought in by the carriers, and wait for a
leisure hour in which to follow the narrator
through his perilous adventure.
So absorbed do we become, that, transported
from our quiet study we are no longer con
scjous of present timo or plac.; we are oblivi- ,
ous to present sights and sounds, and are our
self, the actor in the stirring scenes wh ch the
writer depicts. We are no longer seated in a
pleasant room in the warm month of July—we
are freezing, starving, in that inhospitable, j
ice-bound clime. Now we are lying down, in |
hopeless misery, to die; and now we are eager
ly swallowing i lie food and drink which the ;
benevolent Loolik offers. Now we are spetd- I
ing like the wind over the icy plains, sealed a*. :
Loolik’s side, and drawn by his faithful dogs; j
and now we are looking with sad, despairing j
heart and tiding eyes, on the still form of the i
noble savage who had been to ua, in its fullest ;
sense, “a frier.d in need.”
We are not reading a description of the won
derful envc—we are, ourself, the explorer. :
j Now groping cautiously by the dim light of a
j lamp; and now gazing m rapturous atlmi*a-
| ii .v;. at the marvelous scene, which our coal i
j bon lire opens to wu r view. Now trying to de-
j cipher the strange characters on tuis tomb in j
' the bowels of tlie earth; and now starling back j
! in honilied surprise as our eye falls on the |
j petrified human figures in this place*, where wt
had thought no foot of man had ever trod be
fore. Now we are toiling up the steep, myste
rious stair-way; now seeing as in a dream the
lights on the distant shore of the subterranean
lake; and now gazing, breathlessly, half-hop
ing, half-fearing, at the strange boatmen pass
ing near.
And so wc go on, experiencing—not reading
—this thrilling story. So realistic is every de
tail—the description of the cave, the river, the
beautiful country, the magnificent city (which
bursts upon his view when he comes ou:. into
the light)—that we close each chapter feeliDg
that we are reading not liction, but fact. And
then tnere is a charming heroine, too, and the
love-tale is quite as tew and entrancing ns the
theme which forms the basis of the story;—
but we cannot go into that tor want of time.
We *hail come to its conclusion with regret,
bu*. shall be consoled by the hope that, ere
long, we shall have the pleasure of reading
BOiuelbijjg else from the pen of lids lifted wri
ter. A JiUADEIL
GEORGE W. MELVILLE.
serving first in the Dtkota and then in the
Santiago de Cuba, under Wilkes. From this
vessel he was transferred to the Wachusett
and promoted to passed assistant. He made
two cruises in the Wachusett and was aboard
of her when she captured the Confederate cor
sair Florida in Bahia Roads The following
year he was employed in torpedo service.
After the war Mr. Melville served in the Chat
tanooga, the Penobscot and the Lancaster.
He was then chosen as engineer o» the Tigress
in the Hall relief Arctic expedition, after
which he made a cruise in the Tennessee.
Mr. Melville was selected as chief engineer of
the Jeannette and his exploits in the escape of
her crew from the ice pack by way of Siberia
has given him undying fame in the annals of
Arctic exploration. It is not disputed that but
for the iron endurance and the unfailing cour
age of Melville no part of the ciew of the
Jeannette would ever have seen home again.
Melville was selected for Arctic service as chief
engineer of the Thetis and fleet engineer of the
Greely relief squadron under the command of
Commodore Schley. Mr. Melville’s recent du
ties have been altogether on shore in positions
requirieg particular expertnesi as a machinest.
He was detailed to superintend the preparation
of the Atlanta’s machinery for sea. Upon the
beginning of contract work on the Baltimore,
the 1,700 ton gun-boat and the dynamite cruis
er at Cramp’s ship yard, he was ordered there
as chief inspector of machinery, and from that
duty lie has been promo.ed to the highest po
sition in his corps. In regard to his book * In
the Little Delta” recently published, Mr. Mel
ville speaks with much satisfaction and says
he is contemplating tbe writing of another
book of about 150 pages. It will treat of a
WILFORD WOODRUFF.
is a great favorite throughout all England, aud
his recent decision to play in Berlin (in the
piece bn titled “David G irrick”) in the Gorman
language produced some little astonishment,
although his protic ency is not at all discredit
ed. the undertaking being fully up to his
ability.
Mr. Wyndham has a large repertory, and his
rendition of tlie different characters which are
to be represent* d is above the general average.
To compare his playing to Salvint’s, Booth’s,
Forest’s, or any of tbe great fetors of wide
fame, would be making a comparison as odious
as it would be unreal, for Charles Wyndham
has an art of playing which is distinctively his
own, and his rare talent has met with the rec
ognition of an enthusiast c public, which re
ceives him with a boundless display of pleasur
able encore and del ght whenever he makes his
appearance upon the stage. His reception in
America will he none the less enthusiastic, as
he became a favorite in his former visits.
Wilford Woodruff.
The question of successors!.ip to the Presi
dency of the Mormon Churcli lias been settled
temporarily by the appeirance of an address
signed by Wilford Woodruff, President of the
Apostles, which says: “As upon two former
occasions in our history, the duty and respon
sibility of presiding over and directing the af
fairs of the Cf lurch of Jesus Christ in all the
world, devolves upon the twelve Apostles.
With tbe blessing of the Lord, and the faith
and prayers of His people, we hope to do our
duty, until we, too, shall he laid to rest.” It
has been though) that either George Q. Can
non or Joseph Smith, nephew the original
Princeton College, graduating from tbe latter
in the year 1854, and immediately thereafter
commencing the practice of law, continuing in
the profession up to the present time. Durir.g
Gov. Packer’s administration be served as aid-
de-camp, which gave him the title Lieutenant
Colonel, and ht was subsequently Colonel of
the l lth regiment, of the Pennsylvania militia.
Colonel Thompson was chosen delega‘e to
the Democratic National Convention in 1870
and a candidate for Presidential elector on the
Democratic ticket in 1880.
HENRY BERGH.
scheme for reaching the north pole by way of
Franz Joseph Land, ;t subject which is merely
outlined in the nfuteiutuih ned volume. It
will also contain a model of a ship especially
designed for Arctic voyages, with a full list of
articles necessary for a complete outfit. Mel
ville can also lay claims to being an inventor
as well as an author, as he has designed a
model of a new sled, to he called “The Mel
ville.” He. says that it is an improvement on
the McCllntock sled, so long universally con
ceded to be the best .•'led in Arctic use. Per
sonally, Mr. Melville is a gei iai, modest,
homespun sort of man, intensely devoted to
his profession and possessing a wide range of
sciemiii. attainments, lie is a hard worker,
an ind-fatigabie student, and has shown on
trying occasions, executive ability of the most
commanding characti r.
Henry Bergh.
Mr. Ilenry Borgh’s recent veto, not to allow
scientific practice on the pound dogs of New
York city, appears as though he was opposed
to the furtherance of science in tlie search of
cure for that dire mahriy, hydrophobia. Mr.
Btr^h says that he does not consider the re
sults achieved in this direction warrant any
such wholesale affliction of suffering lo the
brute creation. The stray canines on which
Dr. Leo Sommer was to have tried the Casteur
experiment of inoculation upon, will thus es
cape the deafh of the lacce and die by the
usual course of drowning There are few men
in existence who have given so much of their
lives to the alleviation of buff -ring, as has Mr.
Henry Bergh, the founder of the Society of
Prevention of Cruelty to Amina*#*. Henry
Bergh was born in New York, (in 1823) where
COL. J. ROSS THOMPSON.
Joseph, would assume the leadership, but
Woodruff i> in the regular line of succession
and his address assuming control would indi
cate that there is to be no departure from the
orders. Wilford W» odruff whs born on March
1st, 18U7, in IL.rtfor.i Connecticut, lie assist
ed his father in the mills in that city until he
was about twenty years of age. In 18$!, in
Oswego county, he first heard of the Mormon-
istic creed ano about its ancient revelations,
which clung to him at. the first hearing. He
hastened a* once to consu l the prophet, be
came enthused, o’dauied an elder and sent out
to convert. In 18:17 he was ordained to a
higher portion and subsequent ly was ordained
an Apostle, gnin.' «»n a missi-v fo England,
shortly thereafter. Wilf» rd Woodruff is a
plain man, simple in his habits, of miuioore
ability, though juged to be r. missionary who
could do an unlimited good in preaching the
church doctrines He has only a tew wives
and a not overly lar;** family ot children. For
the lust tew years h» eas been in hiding and is
at thepr»s»nt time (August, 1^87) still out
of sight to all save the faithful of me church.
Col. J. Ross Thompson.
Col. J. Ross Thompson, of Erie, Pa., has
come into special prominence in the Stale of
Pennsylvania from the fac. of his being a
prominent candidate for tlie Democratic nomi
nation for the vacancy in the Supreme bench
of the State.
Colonel Thompson has been oneof the lead
ing attorneys of Pennsylvania lor "wenty-five
years—standing at the head of the Erie bar du
ring the greater part of that time.
Colonel Thompson comes of good judicial
stock—his father. Chief Ju -r. re .Tames Thomp-
Cii.vKLES WYNDHAM.
he was educated, finally .graduating at Colum
bia College. His claim to the literary ranks
emanates from bis authorship of the works en
titled, “AlarTied off,” a potm, “Love’s Alter
native/’ a drama; “ fbe Portentous Telegram,”
‘•The Ocean l’araeon,” “l’he Streets of New
York,” tales and sketches. Henry Bergh has
also heid political office, having be?.n made Sec
retary of Legation to Kusri i in 1803, and also
acting as vice consul there. But his chief re
nown has been achieved not. as a writer diplo
matist, or government official, but as the
founder and president of the humanitarian
“American Society for tie Prevention of Cru
elty to ALimais.” The American Society was
incorporated April loth, 1800, and according
to the records of an annual report many simi
lar societies have been lounded in twenty-live
S ales aud terri orics, and in Canada. The
works ol the society covers all cases of cruelty
to all classes of animals, from the horse to the
Captain George Mackenzie.
Captain George Mackenzie, the representa
tive of the New York Chess Club, carried off
the highest honors in the international tour
nament of the Fifth German Chess Congress,
in Frankfort, in the early part of August,
1887, thereby winning the proud title of the
world’s chess champion. As this is the first
time that the honor has been won by a repre
sentative from this side of the water since Uie
days of Paul Morphy, a portrait and short de
scription will be interesting to all lovers of
the skillful game, besides others who are only
interested in chess through accounts and hear
say. Although Captain George Mackenzie is
claimed, and is thought by many to be an
American, he is in reality a Scotchman by
birth. His debut in the professional game of
chess was made in the London Congress of
1802, where his proficiency in the game won
for him tbe prize which he easily carried off
In the following year he came to New York
and a few years thereafter was pronounced
the strongest player in America. Within the
last ten years he has been a formidable com
petitor in many international tournaments, and
in the London tournament of 1883 his score in
the second h?.lf was higher than that of any
other plater, not excepting that of tiie two
greatest of living chess players, Zukeriort and
Sieinitz Captain Mackenz e scored fifteen
victories out of a possible twenty, against the
strongest field of chess masters ever brought
together in a tournament. A coming match is
being spoken of to be played between Captain
Mackenzie ai d Mr. Biackburne, of London,
the previous champion
[f >r the Bunny South.]
AN OASIS.
[by f. p. c.]
There w*re long years nf toil and care,
O. trudgtag In tne desert s ;nU.
i'lien c.tme a maid with nut Drown bair
And eves of love, and laid < er hand
WMinii nay own. »cd Uus she suio:
“Thy sorrows I will g.adlv shire
If I tby j >*s may enter too.”
••Oa, Ouzel eyes! O.i! sllxen hair!
You cuann my soul an*' tangle all
My i fe wt. n tlitLe till Time’s last day,”
I ci ted. • • • Oa, wo? drous change I
It seemed that all the siretch of grey
H »d giver place to meadows green.
My burden* now were light as air,
Aud at i.ur feet ran gutgdug stiearas.
And sweet voiced birds were drinking there
Atougthe brink—and brlgiir-eyed flowers
Breathed bluted fra^rauce o’er the laDd.
But death touci ed eye aud lip and heart
Of my young bride, and loosed my hand
And hade me go my m y aloae
And dream no nure i f banplness
O • earth But eveu ci u ri D^atti
L roked pitying on my heart-distress
And left the boon of memory
To cheer me In my louellness—
Tne loving memory of my dead
To life my weight of wretchedness.
And wheo I came from out me gloom,
Aias( the oasis green had fl ed,
And Just as Ur as eye could reach,
Tnw dull, drear, tun sty desert spread. |
Waco, Texas, 1887.
P^gp||^
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Fans of point d’esprit net have slender sticks
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with gold. Narrow, picot-edged ribbon, ex
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the fan’s edge; and a long looped bow is set on
the outside sticks.
Many imported dresses have various kinds
of epaulettes. Those formed of an embroid
ered V are most popular here, though many
prefer the embroidered frill wide above tbe
arm hole, and narrowiy graduated under the
arm, extending to the girdle down the tides.
Pointed Swiss belts, peleune capes and V-
shaped plastrons of finely-cut jet beads, in
drouaing loops, trellis patterns or chain armor
designs, are worn wTlu black, lace dresses.
Floral fans—subserving the double purpose
of fau and bouquet—are shown for summer
fetes.
The Empire sash—so popular in Paris—
passes around the waist, forming a wide girdle,
is tied directly in front in two or three long
loops at the waist line, with falling ends, whica
are again tied in three or four loops, with .short
ends falling nearly to the b >ttom of the foot.
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over the top like a chauticleer’s tail.
Velvet corsages of terra cotta, heliotrope or
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are pretty fjr wear with light or white dresses.
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to the tune of feminine favor. Women are
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and set especial store by this provision of
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Madras plaid sashes in dull colors are much
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“The Burial of Moses.”
Editor Sunny South: In your issue of
July 30th, I find the following:’
To B. M B , Austin, Texa u : “By Nebo’s
Lonely Mountain,” was written by Cecil
Frances Alexander. We cannot find the piece,
but it is one of those that has true merit in it,
and will live as a master-piece of its kind.
As you truiy say, “The Burial of Moses” is
a poem “that has true merit in it;” and as you
cannot find the piece, I herewith send you a
copy from my old scrap-book. I think it first
appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine, of London.
T. B. Baldwin.
Marshall, Texas.
By N bo’s lonely mountain.
0 this side Jn;da:.’a v avq
In a vale of the land of Moah
There lieth a lonely grave;
Ami !i*» man dui that sepulcure,
A* d no m;ui saw it e’er
Fur the aiiiD Is of Hod upfurned tne sod
And laid the deau man there.
This was tne srandest funeral
Taal ev. : r \ assed on earth.
Bu no man beaid the tramping,
Or saw the tram go forth
Slf 'Dily as fbe dayh^ht
C»rae», when the night Is done.
And the cr u s ju streak on ocean’s cheek
Glows Into the great red sua.
8Hentfy as the spring-time
Us crown of verdi re weave*,
And all the trees on all ihe hills
Open their thousand leaves—
So without sound of music
Or voice of blin that wept.
Silently down from the mountain’s crown
The great procession swept.
perchat.ce the bald old eagle,
01 dark B-thpeoi's height,
D.*wn. from his rocky eyrie,
L >oked on the wondrous sight.
Perchance the llou stalking,
Avoils tbe secret spot—
For beast and bird have seen and heard
That which man kooweth not.
But when tbe warrior di -tb
His comrades In the war.
Wub arms reversed and miiffl *d drum,
Follow rhe funeral car;
Toey show Ins banners iakeu,
They teil hts battles cone,
And after him lead his masierless steed
While peals the minute gun.
Amid the noblest of the land
Men lay th>* saee to rest,
And give rith bard an honored place
With costly marbles dr ssed,
In the great ’minster transept
Where lights 'Ue glories fall,
Avd tbe sweet choir sings and tbe organ rings
Along the embiez >ned wa l.
This was th«* bravest warrior
That ever buckled sword—
Tuts was lho most gtfieo poet
Th .t ever breathed a v.ord;
A»'d neve earrb’s philosopher
Traced w.tli his g tden pen.
On tbe de .thlt-ss page, truth half so sa« e
As he wrote down for rntn.
A^d had he not high honor,
TheLil‘side foi Lis pall;
To He In state while angels wait
With stars for tapers tall—
A»’d the d r<ck plr.es, like tossing plumes,
O/er his b;er to w ave.
Ai d God’s owe hand in that lonely land
To lay him in tue grave?
without a name,
fli ted clay
. u! wondrous ibought!—
In that d.*ep gr;iv
Whence bis uu
8h II break *K*on
Uo: n tb*- Judgment d tv
A* «i stano I -, tl rv wrapped around,
On ‘be hit's, h * .nev*»r trod.
A'"i spt-ak of :t»e stifle t at won our life
Witn the ‘ucarnate Won of Gud.
Oh! Ion* ’y t**mb in Moab’s land!
O 1 dark IJ thueor’s htl’,
Speak io th» se curious hearts of ours
Ard team then; to be a »J.
G d hath H?« mysteries of grace—
Tnoughts that cannot red
And lin h des tin in deep dice the secret sleep
Of him He lovfQ so well.
mow.
Note - K rad the last chapter of Deuteronomy \
CAPTAIN GEOKGE MACKENZIE.
son, In in- in bis day one of tlie ioiemost. men
of tbe State, M-rv ng in ilia state Legislature,
in Congress, and in 1807 being elected Judge of
the Supreme Court, in wbiefi capacity Le served
for fifteen years, being Chief Justice for five
years. _ -
Colonel Thejpson’s brother, Samuel G.
Thompson, Esq is in tbe front rank of the
Philadelphia bar to-day, and is al-o mentioned
prominently for the Democratic nomination for
Judge of Ihe Supreme Court.
Colonel Thom jsmi is very popular with tlio
citizens of his native city, '' e11 aa ln ,
greater part of the Stale, ff !ie llas l ,iever held
prominent office, it has onlj b‘- t11 because he
has never betore been a candidate choosing to
remain in the now aggressive state ot political
toil and public service. .
Colonel Thompson was born, ia I ’
Venango county, Pa., on Dtcembe lh, lb.._
lie war educated iu tbe Erie Academy and
Cost of Solomoc’s Temple.
According to the computation of Villalpan-
dtis, tlio talents of gold, silver and brass used
in the construction of the temple amounted to
£0,879,821,600. The jewels are reckoned to
have exceeded this sum, but for the sake of an
estimato, let their value be set down at the
same amount. Tbe vessels of gold consecrated
to the me of the temple are reckoned by Jose
phus at 140,000 talents, which according to
Chapel’s reduction, are equal to £645,200,202.
The vessels of silver are computed at £480,-
214,000. The silver vestments of the singers,
£2,000,000. The trumpets amounted to £200,-
000; other musical instrumf nts to £10.000.
To these expenses must be added those of the
other materials, the timber and the stone, and
the labor employed upon them, the labor being
divided thus: There were 10,000 men at Leb
anon hewing timber; there were 10,000 bearers
of burdens; 20,000 hewers of stone; and 2,800
overseers, all of whom were employed for seven
years, and upon whom, besides their wages
and diet, Solomun bestowed £0,722,077 in do-
natrons. If the daily food and wages of each
man lie estimated at 4s. Gd., the sum total will
be £02.877,088. The costly stone and timber,
in the rough, may be set down at least equal
to one-third of the gold, or about £2,54">,200,-
000. The several estimates will then amount
to £77,521,005,020.—English Exchange.
Voice and Sound.
It is a curious fact that musical sounds fly
further, aud are heard at a greater distance,
than those which are more lord and noisy. If
We go on tlie outside of a town during a fair,
at the distance of a mile, we hear the musical
instruments; but the din of the mn'tiiude,
which is so overpowering in the place, can
scarcely be heard, the noiso dying on the spot.
To those who are conversant with the power
of musical instruments, the following observa
tion will be understood:—The violins made at
Cremona, about the year 1000, are superior in
tone to any of a later date, ago seeming to dis
possess them of their noisy qualities, and leav
ing nothing but the pure tone. If a modern
violin is played by the side of one of those in
struments it will appear much the loudest of
the two; but on receding a hundred paces,
when compared with the Amali, it will scarce
ly he heard. The voice of man is endowed
with purity of tone in a higher degree than
any of the vocal animals; by which, in a state
of nature, it enables him to communicate with
his fellow at a distance very remote. Provi
dence has bestowed upon children a power of
voice, iu proportion to their size, ten times
greater than that of the adult. In a state of
nature this serve’ them as a defence and pro
tection; for it is well known that children
have, by their cries, alarmed and kept off the
attacks of the most furious animals.
Ex United States Senator Sargont died in
San Francisco on the 14th inst.
Editor Si ssy Soi tii—Dear Sir: I notice
in the Si ssy South’s “Notes and Q lerics,” of
Aug. O h, as to who was tbe author of the
poers beginning with “Uickw^ud, turnback-
ward, 0! Time, in your flight ” The title of
this poem is “Hock Me to Sleep, Mother,” and
was written and composed by Elizabeth Akers
Allen, who was born in the year 1822 at Strong,
Maine, and passed her childhood amidst the
picturesque sc.-nery of that neighborhood.
She lost her mother when very young, but in
herited her grace and delicacy of thought.
Shortly after her mother’s death her father re
moved to Farmington, Maine, a town noted for
its literary people. Mrs. Alien’s early pieces
appeared under the pseudonym nf “Florence
Percy.” Her first appeared when she was
twelve years of age, and her first volume, en
titled “Forest Jiuda from the Woods of
Maine," was published in 1850. For some
years she was assistant, eabtor of the Portland
Transcript. ’! he poem “Keck Me to Sleep,
Motbir,” beginning with “Backward, turn
backward, <)! time, in your flight,” was claimed
by five different persons, wiio attempted to
steal tbe honor of its composition.
Yours truly,
Alfred \V. Harris.
Louisville, Kv.
Suicides.
C. P. W., Irwintou, Ga.: Give mo, if you
cau, sore of the prominent names in history
who committed suicide.
There have been many who died by their
own hand; among tlio long list of rulers of an
tiquity who died thus, we mention Nero; Cle
opatra; Dido; ll.radicea, queen of Iceui in Bri
tain; Otbo, of Borne; Ptolemy, of Cyprus;
Mithridates, of Pontus; Saul, of Israel; Baine
ses the Great; Sardanapalus, of Assyria, who
burned himself In his palace with his wives;
Hannibal, and a number of other famous gen
erals. Pride, disappointment, disgrace and
fear had much to do with it all. Judas will
never be forgotten while the name of Jesus
Christ is uttered in prayer.
Public Debt.
P. N. L., Loudon, Term.: “Give me an
idea about tbe national public debt and some
of the payments.”
Have not kept ourselves well posted, as we
do not hold any bonds. The largest decrease
of the national debt in one year was in 1871,
when it was reduced §127,401.000. The na
tional debt in March, 1S85, was §1,805,000,000;
in March, 1880. §1,704 000,000.
Sty on Eye.
My Eye, Gainesville, Fla.: “Please tell me
if you c m, what will prevent a sly on the eye.
ll aw I do suffer.’’
Sorry for ycu; hut if you will apply bay
rum frequently and ptrsevt ringly for a day or
two or more, ycu will prevent it coming, if
yon feel it on the way. Alcohol will no doubt
do as well.
Leaal Holidays.
P. M. O., Washington, 1). C.: Can you tell
me if there arc legal holidays made so by Con
gress?
We are not positive as what Congress has
ever done about holidays. Of late years it is
hard to tell wliat Congress has tot done and
won’t do. Bat we know that law and custom
have made Sunday, Christmas, New Y’ear's
day and the Fourth of July and Washington’s
birth day holidays in nearly all, if not all, tlio
State’. By Presidential proclamation, each
year, a day (generally the last Thursday) in
November, is bet apar. as what is known as
“Thanksgiving Hay.”
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