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r THE SONNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3. 1*7. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. BUSINESS OFFICE 21 MARIETTA ST. r^EALS.- - - >P»TO>- Two dollars per Ann Ch>e dollar for SU Montt^ uSJ’SiXtUSt SEyM&BgrSa B&E&g&essit jSrir^ £ ssfi h a card to uuo — i t md ^vna both omcaa. TO CONTRIBUTORS. Write ae plainly « P°‘ MU on one mde of the JZToZ use paper of medium weight. Do not ’^aZcur MSS. Fold them dotty; a rolled pagtie trmMMome both to reader and printer. Letter site t^ZZetpr^erred.ItUweUtowrUethename yX uss. at the top of each page; the payee be canxfully timbered according to their regular tequence. The writer’s real name and ree- ZZZ JZTZ terOten on the MSS.. atletter, are tamaUmet misplaced. V a nom de plume if need, yttMoM.be written <Mreetly under the title.Item* m Mettnetly Hated whether pay to expected for MSS. tent In. , We cannot return MSS., nor be retponelbU for them when tent involuntarily, uniset specially re- mteeted to do to and in such cases ttampe must be - The writer should ntwavt keep a cony. • all lattsss concern in* the paper and make all bill* payable to f g_ 8BAL8 & OO.. Atlanta. Ge. 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. L 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 structions for building and stocking an avairy. 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. EXTRAORDINARY! Over $500.00 to be Given Away to “Sunny South” Patrons. GUAM D1STRIBUTI0K OCTOBER 1st 1887. Here is Your Chancel Best Array of Presents Ever Offered by any Enterprise to Its Patrons. On the first day of October next the Sumrr South will distribute among its patrons over |500 in gold and valuable premiums, and every one will stand a chance of getting 9100 in gold. The Plan of Distribution. Every one who subscribes or renews or sends in a new snhecriber for one year, between Au gust 1st, and the last day of September next, will have his or her name and poet-office written on a small, thick card or tag, which will he dropped into a sealed box. If yon send in only yonr own subscription, yonr name goes in the box once. If yon send your own and another sub scription, yonr name goes in twice and the new subscriber's name once. If you send in five names, yonr name goes in five times on sepa rate cards and each of the five names go in once. If yon send ten names, yonr name goes in on ten tags, and so on to any number. This privilege is extended to every one except the regular traveling canvassers. Ail local agents will have their names put in once for every subscriber they send, and will be allowed their regular commissions besides. And every name sent in by the regular traveling agents will also go in the box. On the first day of October a disinterested committee of three will shake np this sealed box thoroughly, when an opening will be made and a little boy or girl will pat his or her hand in and take oat one card, or tag, and the per son whose name is on it will receive 9100 in gold. Another card will be drawn oat, and that person will receive 950 in gold. The next five names drawn out will receive 910 each in gold. The next ten names will receive each 96 in gold, and so on till the following splendid list ol premiums shall have been exhausted, and in the order here named: 1 Premium of 9100 in gold ...... 9100 00 1 Premium of 960 m gold ------ * 60.00 6 Premiums of 910 each in gold - - - - 50 00 10 Premiums of 96 each in gold - - - 60.00 1 Premium of a high arm sewing machine - -- -- -- -- -- -- - 22.00 1 Premium of a low arm sew’g mach’e 18.00 1 Premium of a double barrel Breech ldading shot-gun - -- -- -- -- 15 00 10 Premiums of Waterbary watches 85.00 1 Premium of a Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary - - - 12.00 1 Grand Premium of 27 handsomely bound volumes of the household poets, Byron, Burns, Bryant, Eliz- beth BrowniDg, Robt Browning, Dante, Goethe, Longfellow, Mer edith, Milton, Moore, Poe, Sbak- speare, Pope, Swinburne, Tenny son, etc. (these all constitute one premium) - -- -- -- -- -- -- 40.50 1 set of Chambers’ Encyclopedia, six volumes hound in cloth ----- 18.00 1 set Carlyle’s works, 11 vols. in cloth, gilt16.60 1 set Washington Irving's works, 16 vols., gilt doth- - - - - -- -- -- 16.00 1 set Dickens’works, 15 vols.,.cloth 18.75 1 set Geo. Eliot’s works, 8 vols., gilt, cloth - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - 12 00 1 set ot Scott’s works, 24 vols., cloth 80.00 1 set of Goethe’s works, five volumes 7.50 1 set Macaulay’s History of England, 6 vols., gilt - -- -- -- -- -- - 6.76 1 set Macaulay’s Essays and Poems 3.75 1 set Rollin’s Ancient History, 4 vols. 8.00 1 set Flutarchs’ Lives, 3 vols. 4.60 6 yearly subscriptions to the Sunny South - -- - -- -- -- -- -- - 10.00 68 Premiums -- - -- -- -- -- -- - 9643.26 This is no lottery, hut a free and voluntary distribution of presents among onr friends and patrons in return for their liberal patron age of this paper. Every one, of course, will not get a premi um, but every one whose name is in the box will stand not one chance simply, but 53 good chances. There are 53 valuable presents, and 53 names will be drawn out, and every time the hand goes in for a name yon stand a chance. Why, then, may not you, as well as any one else, get a present? The person who sends in only one name or simply his own subscription may get the 9100 in gold. But if you get no premium at all you lose nothing, because you risk nothing. You do cot pay anything for those 63 chances. You pay for Tbs Sunny South which yon will get for one year, and it is richly worth ton times the amount yon pay. It is a paper which yon ought to patronize freely and liberally, and in doing so now, yon secure a chance to make 9100 in gold or some other valuable premium. Every citizen of the South should patronize The Sunny South, for it is onr great repre sentative home paper, and is the first and only successful attempt, among many thousands be fore and since the war, to establish a hightoned literary family paper in the South. It is not a cheap, trashy story paper, nor is it a cheap weekly made np of the crimes and wickedness of the times from the daily papers. But to every household it carries volumes of the best, purest and richest matter, and in an unending variety. It is pronounced the handsomest pa per in the world, and Is one of the best and largest. From Maryland to Mexico, and from Florida to California it is a household favorite and is regarded as an honor to onr section. Every one should now take this golden oppor tunity to do something for it, ana at the same time take advantage of the chances to benefit himself. Don’t wait nor hesitate. Send right along and get your name in the box. Club Rates: 1 subscription 1 year 92.00 5 subscriptions 1 year, each ..... 1.75 10 “ “ “ 1.60 20 “ • “ 1.50 All the names and the money must be sent in at the same tim& Every name whether single or in clubs will go in the box. Send money by post-office order, postal note, registered letter, check or by express. Send for sample copies, receipts, subscription blanks, etc. Address the "Sunny South,” or J. H. SEALS & CO., Atlanta, Ga. Our array of gold and other valuable pres ents for onr patrons is unprecedented. Read over the announcement on this page, and get your name in the box as often as possible. 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.) MatbsmaUaa, Aadasl Langnaga, Abstract Seleecea, Natural Sciences, Zngilab Lan guage aad lta Literature, Tbeery and Practice ef Teaching, Mule and Art, Tbnar7 and Practioe at Business. Beer* per menth, in private famfhss, <10; In amba, <!; wttb tbe Principal, <l«. Next ■eamoat list Mender In Beptembaei. Add»ee« a. A. SEAN. lobe. Visa