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THE DUCHESS.
A Charming New Story.
In our issue before the last was commenced
a most charming story under the above title.
No writer of English fiction is more popular in
the United States than the Author of “Phyllis,’'
“Molly Bawn,’’ “The DucheBs,” etc. This
Story takes its title from the name given by
the Author to the heroine, in playful, humor
ous appreciation of the popular pseudonym
under which all her Stories appear in the
United States.
We will begin in a week or two
Great Detective Story,
BY JULIAN HAWTHORNE,
We have secured a great story by this fa
mous author for the Sunny South and it will
he commenced very soon.
60,000 Names Wanted for Specimen
Copies.
Let every reader of Tub Sunny South send
us immediately a list of good names with their
post offices, and we will mail them specimen
copies of the paper containing the lists of pres
ents and plan of distribution.
Send For Premium Slips, Receipts
and Blank Beports.
We will mail to any one who may wish to
form a club, extra slips printed on yellow
paper, also blank receipts and enbeeription re
ports. Send in immediately. Ws wish to put
6,000 people to work for Tue Sunny South.
Everybody ought to take it.
North Carolina Agricultural Experi
ment Station.
Dr. Herbert P. Battle, son of President
Kemp P. Battle, of the State University, has
been appointed director of the agricultural ex
periment station.
The Constitution Centennial.
President Cleveland will go to Philadelphia
on the 17 th of September to attend the Cen
tennial Constitutional Committee meeting. He
He will probably be accompanied by Mrs.
Cleveland.
Hoes His Own Bow.
Samnel J. Randall, the prominent Pennsyl
vania Congressman, spends the summer with
hi« family in a low farm-house, where he
passes the simplest country life and cultivates
his own vegetables.
A Famous Man Gone.
Professoi O. S. Fowler, the noted phrenolo
gist and lecturer, died at his residence near
Sharon Station, Conn., od the morning of the
18th insi., after an illness of only thirty hours,
of spinal trouble, superinduced by a heavy
cold.
International Medical Congress.
Secretary Bayard will deliver an address of
welcome to the International Medical Con
gress, which meets at Washington, September
5th.
Chicago Britishers—Queen Victoria.
Mr. Collier, of Chicago, was granted an au
dience by Queen Victoria on the 22nd, at the
Osborne House, when be presented to Her
Majesty the address of the Chicagoans of
British birth and parentage in honor of her
jubilee.
A Wise Buler.
Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, is a most
* energetic man when on bis travels. In Paris
he rises at 6 in the morniDg, and works and
studies with the enthusiasm of a yonng scien
tific man on a foreign tour. He takes copious
notes on all he sees and hears.
Inter-State Commerce BiU.
Senator Plumb remarked recently that the
Inter-State Commerce bill was destined to
prove the most beneficial measure that Con
grats has passed in many years, though in
some particulars needing amendment.
The Way the Money Goes.
Mr. George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, puts
his hand into a pocket-book which seems
always open and full, and organized practical
relief on his own account for sick children,
during the terrible period of heat, by sending
them to the sea-shore.
An American Austrian Officer.
Maj. Horatio Glentworth, an American, who
is an officer in the Austrian Imperial army,
has just returned to his native land after an
absence of twenty-two years. He is visiting
his mother in Oyster Bay, L. I. The gallant
major went out thirty years ago; was appoint
ed in 1858 by President Buchanan as Consul to
Rome, which position he held for three years.
Then he returned to this country, and in 1865,
after having served through the civil war, he
returned to Austria. Major Glentworth wears
upon his breast several tokens of Emperor
Francis Joseph’s esteem.
See Our Grand Distribution of
Presents.
Read over the Extraordinary Announcement
on this page, and get your name in the bcx at
once. It is a rare opportunity.
Stonewall Brigade Band.
When the surrender of Gen. Lee’s army
took place at Appomattox Court-house in 1865,
Gen. Grant by special order, directed that the
Stonewall Brigade band, of Staunton, should
be permitted to take their instruments home
with them. Some of these historic instru
ments are still in use by the band.
Two Sprightly Vouths.
It is rather odd that the two sprightliest
youths about London, namely, General Simon
Cameron and Uncle Larry Jerome, foot up a
total age between them of 102 years. General
Cameron is 94 and Uncle Larry 68. Yet it
would be bard to find any two young bucks of
twenty who could bold a caudle to them for
wit, humor, health and general exhuberance of
animal spirits. "
The World Being Americanized.
The female portion of the Jerome family
seems to be given over to foreign alliances.
Not many years ago a Miss Jerome, of New
York, became the wife of Lord Randolph
Churchill, the English statesman, and recent
ly Miss Elizabeth Mand Jerome, of Connec
ticut, was married to Yan Phou Lee, a
“smart” young Chinaman, just graduated at
Yale College.
Store-house of Antiquities Unlocked.
Our readers will remember that during the
disasterous conflagration at St. Augustine,
Florida, some months ago, the old Cathedral
was burned. Though a local (and believed to
be only a temporary) calamity it seems likely
to be the means of disclosing long-hidden rel
ics, etc. The Jacksonville Times Union says
that several vaults and inscriptions have been
found buried and valuable records unearthed,
covering a period in the history of Florida of
which very little was previously known; and
thus the town, in losing its ancient church, be
comes better acquainted with its own ancient
history.
Exhibit Tour Resources.
The Memphis Scimetar makes the following
sagacious and well-timed suggestion. We
heartily indorse it, and earnestly urge its
adoption, as we feel we have a right to do, as
the Sunny South has a large and intelligent
constituency In the States mentioned. In the
absence of a fair or exposition, and in view of
the central and commercially commanding po
sition of Memphis, we think such a display as
that indicated would be of incalculable benefit.
The Scimetar asks:
Wouldn’t it be a good idea to have an ex
hibit at the Merchants’ Exchange during con
vention week of the agricultural and manu
facturing products of Tennesesee, Arkansas
and Mississippi, and specimens of the mineral
wealth of the same States? It would take but
little trouble and an inconsiderable amount of
space, and would be sure to result profitably
to all concerned. The opportunity to bring
the resources of this section home to the in
telligence of some of the best and brainiest
men of the West, does not come every day,
and should be made the most of.
Viva Voce Voting.
Ex-Gov. Brown of Tennessee, who is re
ceiver of the Texas Pacific Railroad, speaking
about some phases of Southern politics, re
marked recently: “There is after all, only
one way by which ballot-box stuffiing, mis
counting of votes and frand of that character
can be entirely stopped. It can be done by
viva voce voting. When the man comes to
vote and must stand up before the judges to
proclaim his name, his place of residence, age,
etc.,and then announce his choice of candidates
in equally open manner, the chance of fraud
will be diminished to the lowest degree. There
would still be some danger from repeating, but
those would always exist.”
Our National Songs.
We print to-day full text of an old naval
song, “Constitution and Gueriiere” sent to
us by an old reader. We are much obliged
to him for his kiodness.
Now who will send us the text of “The Hun
ters of Kentucky,” inspired by the great vic
tory at New Orleans, January 8th, 1814?
The Tribune, Decatur, Texas.
We are informed that our much esteemed
and appreciated correspondent, W. A. Dis-
borough, has associated with another gentle
man, and bought and will publish the Decatur
Tribune, Decatur, Texas.
Mr. Disborough is a gentleman of ability
and Industry, possessing good business qualifi
cations, and we hope and believe he will con
duct the Tribune with ability and make it influ
ential.
His co-partner, in his department, we un
derstand is, equally able with Mr. Disborough.
We wish the Tribune and its proprietors
abundant success.
Non-Resistance of Evil.
There can be no doubt that when Connt Tol
stoi announces non-resistance of evil as the
essential feature of his religion, he plants him
self squarely upon the New Testament plat
form. This is a leading, if not the leading
principle in the system of ethics enunciated in
the Sermon on the Mount. It runs through
all the lessons of the great Teacher, and in no
one particular were his words so clearly em
phasized by his acts. He never compromised
with wrong; never yielded it an apparent as
sent. He left no room for mistake in regard
to bis position. Yet a passive resistance was
all that He offered to the varied forms of
wrong and error which He found prevailing in
the practices and theories of men. The idea
of displacing these by physical force, and of
establishing bis own doctrines by dint of a
strong hand, was altogether repugnant to His
plan of operations. It is painful to reflect that
so few of those who claim to love Him and to
trust in Him for elevation to a higher life, ac
cept this part of His teachings. To return
sharp word for sharp word, blow for blow, is
enjoined by Christian parents upon their chil.
drenjjuite as much as it was by heathen.
Promptness to resist an insult is commended
as highly among us of to-day as it was amoDg
the old Spartans or Romans. In all this there
is a palpable disregard of what the Savior
most emphatically taught. There is, too, as a
matter of course, a disregard of the highest
style of worldly wisdom. You cannot over
come evil by evil. You cannot convert your
enemy into a friend by knocking him down.
You may indeed beat him into submission;
but no one was ever won to loving by abuse
or blows. All the hostilities between individ
uals and nations which have disgraced the
world’s history, prove that fighting is a poor
way to bring about peace. The oceans of
blood shed in efforts to maintain the balance
of power have not brought about amicable re
lations between neighboring nations, but have
led instead only to the shedding of oceans
more. Resistance to tyranny with sword and
musket has most generally brought about: i
worse form of tyranny. No; the Savior was
uttering a most matchless expression of
worldly wisdom when He said: Resist not
evil, but overcome evil with good.
Delicate Reciprocity.
The city of Paris has accepted the copy of
Bartholdi’s statue of “Liberty Enlightening
the World,” to buy which Americans living in
Paris had subscribed 80,000f, and will have it
put up on the island iu the Seine named Gre-
nelle, and fnrnisbed with lighting apparatus at
cost of 106,000f, which includes the expense
of many improvements and decorations of the
island.
Governor Gordon and the Farmers.
On the night before the adjournment of the
Inter-State Convention of Farmers, Governor
Gordon tendered them a reception—the doors
of the mansicn were thrown wide open, and
the reception was in all respects one of the
most enjoyable ever tendered—and that is say
ing a great deal Nearly one hundred and
fifty members were present, besides a large
legislative representation.
As usual Georgia handsomely and gracefully
“did the honors.”
Equipping the Navy Yard.
Orders have been issued from the Navy De
partment to prepare schedules of new tools
needed to put the Yards at New York and
Norfolk to fit those for bniiding molera steel
war vessels. Seventy-five thousand dollars
have been allowed each Yard, and Constructor
Pook of the New York yard believes the sum
sufficient to pat each on a footing with the best
private ship building establishment in the
country. Complete modem iron-clads can be
built at both yards.
Now, we hope, the government will begin to
build a navy commensurate with the growing
interests and the dignity of what is practically
the greatest nation of the world, as well as the
greatest Republic.
How Long Will They Grow?
We often speak of the rapid growth of onr
cities—of how the spot which within the mem
ory of men not now past middle age was a wil
derness; is at present covered by the homes of
teeming thousands, and how the tread of traf
fic is day by day breaking in upon the haunts
where solitude once reigned. We love to
think and speak of these marks of progress;
but as these collections of houses and inhabi
tants continue to grow larger year by year we
cannot help speculating as to how large they
will grow. We cannot, too, help fearing that
there is something not exactly healthy in this
excessive and rapid growth of cities—that their
rapid increase iu wealth and population is not
a safe criterion by which to estimate the real
prosperity oi the country. It is to he feared
indeed that too large a proportion of the peo
ple of this country are engaging in pursuits
other than agricultural. We are likely to have
more merchants, mechanics, miners and pro
fessional men than the toilers in the field can
feed. Of coarse this thing will regulate itself
after a time; but an over-crowding in one di
rection may involve a great amount of suffer
ing while the adjustment is taking place. It
is certain that as cities become larger, the ac
tual, perhaps the relative number of people
who have inadequate means of subsistence in
creases. The aggregate of happiness is not
raised, but rather lowered by collecting hu
manity into large masses. While the city fur
nishes many forms of intellectual enjoyment
one cannot find in crowded streets the physi
cal delight which arises from the contemplation
of green fields, and the breathing of untainted
air. It is claimed that there is in cities more
of systematic charity; but while this may be
admitted, it must also be confessed that there
is more of effort on the part of a few to get all,
and more of the pushing down of the weak and
unfit which renders charity needful. The con
trast between the extremes of wealth and pov
erty displays itself most sharply in cities, and
more sharply as the city grows larger and old
er.
This rapid massing of people into very large
cities is something that was not much known
until within the last two centuries. The cities
of antiquity were old before they were large,
and few of them ever became large compared
with those of our time. The story about
Thebes being able to send forth ten thousand
men from each one of her hundred gates is
probably a poetic fancy. Much of what is told
about the extent and the height of the walls of
Babylon sprung from the brains of travelers
who loved to tell wonderful stories. Athens
and Jerusalem, the two most famous cities of
(he whole earth, were smaller than some of onr
third-rate American cities, even after a thou
sand years had brought them a succession of
changes. Carthage and Rome, though the cap
itals of great empires, never had so large pop
ulations as Chicago or St. Louis—perhaps not
so large as Cincinnati, Baltimore or New Or
leans. There was not in those days any great
facility for transportation, and as a conse
quence there could not be much division of la
bor. When the farmer had to produce and
manufacture everything he needed at home, it
forced the greater portion of their population
to be farmers. Our civilization has advanced
beyond this. Our farmers ought, and we
reckon do produce more food, because none of
their time has to be given to manufacturing
implements and clothing. For this reason we
can have larger cities than they had three hun
dred years ago, though there were no more
people. But the world’s population has vastly
increased. * •
“I Do Not Enow.”
“I dinna kin,” says the author of Waverly,
were words which arose very promptly to the
lips of the Scotch peasant, and which served
him in good stead when confronted by sdme
question that he did not wish to answer. They
are not so easily spoken by all persons. There
are a good many people who are loth to admit
that there is anything that thev do not know.
Ignorance is a plea which they urge only in
extreme cases. It is amusing to note their as
sumption of most thorough information in re
gard to matters of which they do not and from
the very nature of things cannot know any
thing. There are a great many thiDgs about
which a child may propound questions which
the most learned are unable to answer, and
about which they may apply, “I do not know”
without any blushing or shame. Not only so,
hut no man knows all that he may know.
There is a limit to the most retentive,memory,
to the most capacious intellect. The best read
lawyer does not carry in his mind all the time
all the facts and principles of that liberalizing
study. The medical mac, be he thoroughly
posted in all that professors of his science
have taught, will have to read afresh on cases
that come under his care. The theologian,
who has studied until he has grown gray, the
works of able thinkers and profound scholars,
may say, and should say, “I do not know” to
many a question on which he is called for in
struction. But as we have said, there are men
oi these and all other professions who will not
acknowledge their ignorance. On the contrary,
they will offer explanations of what is unex
plainable and offer instruction about matters
in which they have no information. It is quite
a fashion with those who want to be fegarded
as specially knowing to string together words
of great length and sound which will induce
those who do not comprehend them to believe
that they are sayiDg something very fine.
There are many people of respectable sense
who cannot discriminate between the pro
found and obscure. m .
Our Southern Sommer Life.
Its Manifest Tendency to El
evate Our Tastes and
Aspirations.
MUM OF MT EVENTIDE.
BY REV. A. A. LIPSCOMB. D. D.
FORTY SIXTH PAPER.
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We are getting nearer to Nature in the sim
ple and spontaneous enjoyment of the objects
that appeal to onr senses and tastes. Daring
the present summer, I have had frequent op
portunities to observe the growth of this habit
among our people; and while there is some
what of crudeness and the lower workings of
mere sensation in the feeliDg of a need for
closer fellowship with Nature, I donht not,
that we are making progress in the experience
of the inspirations of material objects as reve
lations of God’s bounty and blessedness to our
spiri uai being. Proofs are quite abundant
that a very decided movement is going on as it
respects the ornamentation of daily life in
matters of dress, furniture, domestic build
ings, and the like, but coiBcidently also in a
genuine fondness for {esthetic and imaginative
culture. This is not confined by any means
to onr wealthy classes, nor to such as are or
dinarily jailed well-to-do persons, but extends
through all grades of our society. Viewed in
its broader aspects as an impulse towards a
higher civilization, it is community-sentiment,
and hence indicative of hopeful results. Noth
ing reaches its maximum of value till it is pop
ularized to the hearts and homes of the masses.
For instance, you may build fine churches and
elegant private residences, but the educative
effect is not limited to the worshippers in the
magnificent sanctuary or to the inmates of the
stately mansion. These thiDgs may not spir
itualize people but they tend to de-sensualize
them and therefore elevate and ennoble the
the general tone of community-feeling.
Just here I diverge a little—I must have a
holiday from myself no leas than from books
and pen and occupations in hot weather; and
this season, the holiday has had a large ac
cession of delight in the evidences apparent
everywhere of happiness among our popula
tion. The landscapes of the rural districts;
the village dwellings, school houses and church
es; have a far more picturesque look. 1 con
sider these as inklings of a new order of pleas
ures. Whitewash is a civilizer. So are paint
and vines and flowers. The cottages, spring
ing up so neatly and gracefully in all direc
tions with their bay-windows and verandahs,
are signs that homes mean something beside
houses to shelter their inmates from wind and
weather; nor can I allow myself to question
that these are infallible tokens of a progress
ive sensibility to the arts which adorn human
life. The introduction of the new styles of
house-painting and the changes in wall-paper-
iDg and furniture, are not always to my
taste, but, evidently, the sense of colors
and tbs adaptation of hues and tints
to architecluaral forms and shapes
are not without significant hints of
our tscape from the monotony of a
routine deadening to the development of
aesthetic tastefulness. And I cannot but look
on all this as one mode of an unrecognized
and insensible system of public education.
Draughtsmen, architects, painters, are the
teachers and professors in these supplement
ary colleges and universities of the State. Nor
must we fail to take account of them when we
are estimating the causes at work in the re-ed
ucation ot the old South to the new conditions
of her existence.
II.
Such influences as have just now been enu
merated not only draw us nearer to Nature in
her multiplicity of sights and sounds, but like
wise Dearer to one another. To get away from
the heat and dust of the city and spend a
month in the country is much more than a
physical luxury. Providence has many kind
ways of drawing us out of ourselves unawares
and freshening our feelings by contact with
objects that add to^the zest of life. One of
our great duties is to keep up the freshness of
the sensibilities by means of the common
things which are within the easy reach of
many people. And I know of no better way of
doing thi3 than to break away from the artifi
cial habits of the city and enter resolutely and
genially on the freedom of recreation among
the mountains of Georgia. Leave your stiff
conventionalities at home and liberate»yourself
from the bondage to those parliamei tary laws
of society, whioh city propriety makes of us
not altogether unwisely. You are to he pitied
if you carry the stringency of fashion and its
mechanical rales into yonr rural recreations.
Simplicity and the quiet tastes of refinement
are nowhere more becoming than at onr wa
tering places, and I confess my admiration for
those who ignore everything that makes a
lavish display of style and show at such re
sorts. I like the homely frankness of dear old
Izaak Walton who considered it a pious duty
to thank God for opportunities to escape from
the crowds of Loudon, stroll through the fields
of rural England, enjoy the charms of the in
spiriting scenery and devoutly grateful for
“leisure to go a-fishing.” This is nature ele
vated into pure and beautiful naturalness—in
nocent and healthy sensuonsness untainted by
sensn&lism. Just here it falls in my way to
remark, that I am surprised to find so many of
onr sensible Georgians going to the North to
spend the hot season. On the score of health,
comfort, and agreeable surroundings, I have
found no section of the United States as desir
able for summer recruiting as upper Georgia.
The average day-heat is not exhausting, while
the night-temperatuie is delightful. If jou are
a rest-seeker, not a mere pleasure-seeker, and
as such in quest of an atmosphere to soothe
your nerves and restore yonr brains from the
stealthy inroads of a dyspeptic d gestion, these
mountain nights will prove the most benificent
of godsends to yonr unstrung energies. Good
sleep is onr best recuperator. A fresh to-mor
row morning is a most tender and considerate
providence; and whenever it comes to me,
right down from the canopying heaven,—cool,
dewy, and buoyant—neither brain cells nor
muscles complain of being defrauded of their
righto. North Georgia nights are worthy of
their reputation for somnific virtues. And
now that Southern literature is widening its
compass and intensifying its sectionality of
descriptive power, what a fertile field is open
ing for that sketchy form of delineative writ
ing, of which, we have such attractive exam
ples as Shenstone, the Howells, and Grant Al
lan in the prose literature of England, and in
Tborean, Beecher, and Bnrroughs, in Ameri
ca? Under the guidance of such geniuses, we
learn the finest uses of our neglected eyes, and,
in acquiring the art of observation, we have a
new universe that enlarges its own scope while
adding to our personal capacity for its rational
enjoyment I have hinted at the fact, that we
are making a noteworthy advance both in sen
sitiveness in colors in house-painting aDd wall-
decorations, and I am quite sure that this sen
sitiveness will progress into a genuine sensi
bility to {esthetics in other and nobler forms.
But, Southerners, we have scarcely begun to
sound the infinitude of depth in the inspira
tions of Nature as sources of beauty and sub
limity to the heart of oar moral and intellectu
al manhood. Yet we have begun, and I am
hopefully looking for some John Raskin, or
Walter Besant to appear in the renewals of
the old South, in some work, like “Modern
Pointers,” or “Ail Sorts and Conditions of
Men.”
I had the pleasure, this season, of visiting
Tallulah Fails, which is a favorite resort of
mine and especially adapted as a tonic to my
constitution. The last twelve months had
borne upon me rather heavily, so that when
the problem of a very hot summer came up for
solution, I turned instinctively to Tallulah as
the best place for me and my “often infirmi
ties.” Knowing how true the Eastern proverb
is: “Those who seek the wealth of the Indies
most carry thither the wealth of the Indies
with them,” I joined a most pleasant party
who were not fashionable pleasure seekers bnt
rest seekers, chiefly intent on keeping and re
vivifying what health they had. Do yon not
know just such people, who add their
own vitality to the air yon breathe and make
it more arterializing to your blood? During
five summer visits to the Falls, I have found
the company frequenting the place to be in
unison with the scenery and circumstances of
this notable spot, and, in no respect, out of
harmony with the characteristic environments
of its soothing loveliness. Company, suited to
your tastes and habits, is an important factor
in summer recreation, if you really intend to
recreate, not to indulge in frantic dissipation.
The good fortune, which always attends
me at Tallulah, was enhanced in the
days recently spent in this picturesque
retreat, and I am very sure, that while gaining
a good deal in muscular and nerve life, I gam-
much more in those “imponderable agents,"
belonging to the subtle chemistry of the soul,
in wfaiJh, to borrow Milton’s poetic words:
“ The corporeal to the incorporeal turns ”
So far as natural contours of landscape are
concerned—the diversified forms of rocks—the
sculptured shapes of thee dossal hills—tbeend-
less variety of the flora—the suffusion of light
on the burnished waterfalls with the darkened
cataracts in the veiling shadows of the over
hanging cliffs—I know of nothing in the South
comparable with this magnificence. One does
not need the culture of the natural 8t, or the
eye of the artist, or the sensitive brain of the
poet, to enjoy the rapid succession of surprises
which have access to him amid the nooks and
dells sheltered in the hollows of the hills. If
one has the common heart of humanity, Na
ture as a revealor of God’s 1 atherhood, soon
takes him into her confidence and converts his
erode sensations into something akin to senti
ment and inspiration. All you have to do is to
love Nature and to remember that her scripture
reads just as the Bible reads: “If ye love me,
keep mi commandments, and I will come to
you and manifest myself to yon.”
Bat, after all, and while acknowledging the
protency of Nature over us in her material
charmingness when she is a distinct resource
and a loved fellowship, I must save my closing
paragraph for an emphasis on the affable talks
we had in the evenings on the porches of the
Cliff House. Summer is now waning into
autumn, bat I have brought away so much
from Tallu'ah that is physically good, no less
than intellectually and morally inspiriting,
that I have no reason to covet any “more ex
cellent way” than the one adopted this season
as an exchange of Wee Willie C ttsge with its
attractions tor the senses and the soul for the
enjoyments of Tallulah with its scenery aud
society.
Maj. Micajah T. Gainey.
Editor Sunny Soutb: A few of your older
readers may have known the above person, or
seen in Horry’s life of General Marion what
purported to have been bis picture, as he rode
into Georgetown, S. C , with a bayonet stick
ing in his back, hotly pursue! by Sergeant
McDonald on the back of the noted horse,
Selim. This circunstance about closes Horry’s
reference to the Pee Dee Tory—as he styles
him.
The writer knew Major Gainey well, having
been a neighbor of his many years. He then
lived in the lower end of Montgomery county,
N. C., on Little River, not far-from its conflu
ence with the Pee Dee, at which place he died;
whilst the writer lived in Richmond county,
and has often entertained him at his home.
The writer regarded Major Gainey as a gen
tleman of sobriety and strict integri'y, and he
was so considered by bis neighbors and the
Legislature of North Carolina—for be was
then a Justice of the Peace, which in that day
meant much more than an empty title. He
was, however, regarded by them as a Tory;
but such was his k ndness of heart that he was
held in respect and veneration and was not
taunted with the opprobious epithet
I have often heard my grandfather (who was
a Revolutionary Whig) say that Major Gainey
was very kind to his old neighbors in giviDg
them permits to pass the Tory lines to George
town tor sail; and such was their confidence
in him after peace, that he was elected sheriff
of Richmond connty.
With this prelude I cone now to the mate
rial object of this comnunicaiion, to-wit: In
Sims’ life of Marion he says Major Gainey,
with quite a number of his Tory men before
peace was made, returned to his first love,
from which he had been seduced in Charleston
by the off9r of a commission as Major; that
soon thereafter the officer to whom he and bis
men voluntarily surrendered, was pursued by
a British officer with a much superior force,
and he was much perplexed what to do—hav
ing so many men in his command who had so
recently given in their adhesion to the Whig
cause; he therefore decided to place them in
front, and to fire on them if they proved
treacherous. Major Gainey and h s c rmrades
gallantly received the attack, and the combined
force soon repulsed the British.
I always intended to have written Mr. Sims
for his authority for this statement, but neg
lected nntii his lips were sealed in death.
Will some one of Mr. Sims’ friends or rela
tions please he kind enough to furnish it
through the Sunny South?
My whole object in the inquiry is the vindi
cation of histoiy, being in no manner connect
ed with Major (Jainey either by consanguinity
or affinity. , Senbx.
Salisbury, N. C , August, ’87.
THREE INGENIOUS BRIDES.
How a Costly Outfit was Made to Do
Service en Several Occasions.
[From the New York Evening Telegram.]
We have just heard a story of three very in
genious young ladies that is out of the ordi
nary. These young ladies are all about the
same age and size and, by a singular coinci
dence, were all to be married about the same
time. They were all ambitious to have swell
weddings and stunning outfits, but their purses
were not loDg enough for both and to possess
the latter even was a financial puzzle which
gave them many a sleepless night Finally
they put their heads together and hit upon a
plan. To avoid any unpleasant gossip amoDg
their mutual friends and invitable compan
ions, which is always odious, they decided to
give up the big wedding, bnt they would have
the bang-np outfit by pooling their moneys.
No. 1, who was to be married first, was to
make a bargain with the dress-maker to make
any alterations desired in the trousseau after
the wedding was over, and the three were to
go together to select it, which they did, and
the dress was made np in the very pink of
fashion, with point lace enough to exhaust the
stock of a Worth, and bride No. 1 was mar
ried. The ceremony over, the tronssean was
turned over to No. 2, and she took it to the
dress-maker for alteration according to the
contract, and in it she was married; after
which the second refitting was done, and again
the brilliant outfit stood before the marriage
altar and a third bride was the envy of a few
guests present because of the gorgeous bridal
decorations. How was the dress paid for?
No. 1 paid half the bill because she had the
first wear. Nos 2 and 3 shared the other half.
No. 3 was willing to share as much as No. 2,
because, though she did not have the privilege
of the second wear, she by mutual consent,
kept the dress.
Fancier’s Hand Book.
BOOK OF THE DOG.
We have received from the Associated Fan
ciers’, 237 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia,
a copy of their Dag Buyers’ Guide. It con
tains a finely executed colored frontispiece;
well drawn engravings of nearly every breed
of dog, and ail kinds of dog furnishing goods.
We should judge that the book cost to produce
a great deal more than the price asked—15
cento—and would advise all our readers who
are interested in dogs to send for the book.
A BOOK ON POULTRY
Containing 100 pages, a beautiful lithographic
plate of a group of different fowls in natural
colors, engravings of all kinds of land and wa
ter poultry, descriptions of the breeds, plans
for poultry houses, how to manage an incuba
tor. all about caponizing, and the valne of the
different breeds and where to buy eggs from
the best stock at SI 50 per 13, will be mailed
to any of our readers for 15 cents by address
ing the Associated Fanciers, 237 South
Eighth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
A BOOK ON CAGE BIRDS.
Containmg over 150 engravings and a litho
graphic plate showing all the different kinds of
Fancy Canaries in their natural colors, fall in
formation in regard to song aad fancy Canaries
and how to breed them for profit. Hints on .
the treatment and breeding of all kinds of cage
birds, with descriptions of their diseases and
the remedies needed to core them. All about
Parrots and how to teach them to talk. In
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The most coihplete book of the kind ever pub
lished, irrespective of price. Mailed to any
address on receipt of 15 cento by the Associa
ted Fanciers, 237 South Eighth Street, Phila.,
Pa.
Daring Gov. Hill’s stay at Beiieport, 1» I.,
he went bathing in a 50c. suit, and captured
all the farmers he met by asking about their
crops, but committed the unpardonable blun
der of refusing to dance with several pretty
girls, who laid conventions'ities aside and
asked hinrto waltz.
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New countries are built up by protecting the
settler and settling with the protector.
In Kentucky they call it a “vendetta” ven a
goodly number has been killed. When a few
die it is called a feud.
A French critic is credited with the remark:
“I like a girl before she gets womanish, and a
woman who does Rot get girlish.”
Over the grave of a baseball player in a Wes
tern town are simply his name and the words:
“He Made a Clean Home-Run.”
A case before a New York justice proved
that a physician may practice dentistry, but a
dentist may not practice medicine.
Because Col. Jerome N. Bonapajte is report
ed to “take life easily" at New York, some cu
rious person churlishly suggests that in that
particular he resembled his uncle, for he took
many lives easily.
But for the house fly, says Professor Proctor,
epidemics would csrry off a million people per
year. Think of this, gentle reader, when you
feel like anathematizing the winged household
pet that sticks to yon so affectionately!
The query as to why a city is called “she”
is claimed to be easily answered, thus: There
is always more or less bustle about a city, and
besides, it almost invariably has out-skirtB;
whereas a “he” seldom, if ever, has skirts.
.
A cow is reported to have gone into a milli
nery store in Louisville the other day, and it
took four policemen to get her out. The sup
position is that following the instincts of her
sex she went in to give the proprietress some
new fashion points.
A young man calling on his sweet-heart sent
np what he thought was his card. Soon after
she entered the parlor and handing him his bit
of paste-board remarked she did not think it
was intended for her. It was a pawn ticket.
It is said he don’t go there now.
Not Much on Eulogies.
Sam Hooper, of Boston, was a general fa
vorite in the House of Representatives. On
the day set apart for enlogiea on him, Rice, of
Chicago, Buffington, of Massachusetts, and
other members of the Forty-third Congress
that died daring the season, Butler went to
Blaine, who was Speaker, and asked what the
order of business was. Blaine told him “eu
logies,” and named the dead men whose vir
tues were to be extolled. It was the time
when the whole House of Representatives
were fighting Butler, and Butler kept the
whole house at bay. Said he to Blaine: “I’m
not much on eulogies, but I’ll be blanked if I
don’t get in a speech on old Hooper, if they
don’t call the previous question on me.”
KEEP ME AWAKE, MOTHER.
BY HRS. M. W. STRATTON.
The following “Response” to “Rock Me to
Sleep," furnished us by “K. P. R.,” Augusta,
will be read with interest:
Forward, oh forward; time stays not bis flight—
I’m older and wiser and sadder tc-nigbt;
And, mother, dear mother. I see thee no more,
Bnt watch me, oh watch me. attain as of yore;
And let me not simpler, but gszs on life’s cares
With the look of d* fiance a warrior wears.
0 ce more to tby bosom a weary one take
Bnt keep me awake, mother, keep me awake.
I’m tired of earth, and weary of strife.
1 s until ed hopes ana Its profitless strife.
Bat still I must onward, my destiny calls,
Tho’ troubles snrroond me and danger appals.
Mj life-path is covered with pioom and decay.
Bnt let me not falter or sleep b» the way;
For virtue and honor a name 1, t me make,
And keep me awake, mother, keep me awake.
Oh give me stern power of frame and of soul.
To maater the troubles that over me roll;
And let me not irurmer.tho’ waktng 1 be,
For those whom I see not and never may see;
And let me plant trees tho* they flourish and bloom
When I am asleep In a tai-away tomb.
For those who are coming tome care let them take,
And keep me awake, mother, keep me awake.
The dream* of my childhood have faded and flown—
The ot] eta 1 cherished repulsive have grown—
And an things seem fleeting, fleeting—no pleasure
endures,
Bnt mother, dear mother, the same lot was yours.
Sneh dreaming, such mourning, each hoping and
trust—
Such crumbling of dainty air-castles to dost;
as bravely as tnoa didst, my part let me take,
And keep me awake, mother, keep me awake.
Awake to my duties, awake to my trust.
Let me do my task bravely If toll I must;
Bnt sometimes, oh, sometimes, in creams let me be,
The child, again, mother, that slept on yonr knee;
Wipe out for a moment the story ot lite,
its straggles, Its sorrows, Its follies and strife;
Some season ot pleasure, oh. let me take—
Then keep me awake, mother, keep me awake.
And mother, dear mother, when life’s nearly o’er,
And Qr d bids me cross to the ecbr-less shore—
Wben my last task Is done and my bnsy brain stili,
And I no longer have a power or a will
Oh then blessed spirit, Oh then hover near.
And emooth from my brow the dark shadows of
fear—
Then linger near, mother, to watch and to weep—
Then rock mo to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep
CALL ME NOT BACK.
Reply to “Rock Me to Sleep.”—K. P. R.,
Augusta, Ga.: We cheerfully give place to
this “Reply” in the columns of the Sunny
South.
Call me not back from the Egoless shore,
To cares tnat Of press’1! me in days of yore.
The dark deep waters I’ve safety pass’d through
To Heaven’s sweet rest, and '"alt now lor you;
tArleve not that your brow be furrowed with cure,
Ot that sliver tl.reads shine In your brown ball;
There’s a crown in store If yon will but keep
Tbe precepts taught when I rocked you to sleep.
He not weary of toll, nor spend In tears
Lite which at best Is a few fleeting years;
waste not love and hope on idols ot clay,
And throw, In despair, yonr soul-wealth away,
But labor for Dim who gave life to you—
His cross Is light and the recompense true;
In mercy He sowed that dear ones might reap
With her who caress’d and rocked you to sleep.
All are not false, neither base nor untrue
Their errors forgive as God forgives you;
From the glow of kindness Virtue will rise,
As trait ripens besb’neath tropical skies,
weep not for a mother under the sod.
Think of her darling, at tbe throne of God,
There with tbe angels a ceaseless waten shall keep,
As of yore she hushed and rocked you to sleep.
Over yonr bead In the years tbat seem long
B nce last you were bash’d by lnllaby song.
Omnipotent Eyee with love divine,
Have guarded your slumbers—Then why repine?
Oh spend not womanhood In sad. sad dreams;
Waste not talent* and years In fruitless schemes
Sow the seed of deed* tbat others may reap
Then angels will soothe and rock you to sleep.
ITTITA
(BOTH SEXES.)
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