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THE SONNY SOOTH. ATLANTA. 6A.. SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1887.
A Great Palpit Orator.
Thomas Hewlings Stockton
—First Article.
MUSICS OP NY EVENTIDE.
BY REV. A. A. LIPSCOMB. D. O.
FOBTT-S1TBXTE rAFER.
“•rmt men have been among ue,” Bays a
gnat poet, and surely there is no better way
to perpetuate the intellectual dynasty of great
men than to cherish the memory of their geni-
as and saintliness. Half a oentury ago, a por-
Moa of the Eastern shore of New England, and,
aot long after, Baltimore, Washington, and
Beorgetown, had their attention aroused by
the appearance of a remarkable young man
In the ministry of the Methodist Protestant
ebarch. It was an auspicious time for the ca
reer of a singularly gifted preacher to open.
Old men still lingered her* and there who had
heard Wbitefleld in their early days, when the
magic of his eloquence had charmed two conti
nents. The recollections of Summerfleld were
still fresh; the “silver trumpet’’ of Suthren was
still occat-ionally heard among the hills of Ma
ryland and Virginia; Biscom was in his prime,
and Durben had already betokened the splen
did success of his future In the halls of Con
gress, eloquence was a culture and inspiration;
and whenever a great pulpit orator appeared
in Washington, he was sure to at ract Con
gressmen to hear bis sermons Two years or
more after Mr. Stockton began his ministry,
the orators oi thi Capitol were his admirers
and enthusiastic friends Henry Clay pro
nounced him the finest pulpit orator in the
United States, while Wirt, who never lost an
opportunity to hear him, was accustomed, to
express bis admiration in emotional sobs and
tears, that diffused their contagious sympathy
through the Hall.
I must try to sketch Mr. Stockton as he ap
peared to an auditor in the days of his chap
laincy to Congress. The explanation of his
fascinating power is quite easy.
Personal appearance, that counts for much
In an orator, bad a good deal to do with his at
tractions, and the more so, as he had what one
might venture to call an ideal pulpit figure.
One writer designates his appearance “as al
most superhuiAan.” Tall and spare, yet sym
metrical and finely proportioned, his form
commanded insiant notice whether in repose
or action; nor could he be observed as he
walked into the pulpit, and prepared for the
introductory exercises of the occasion, without
el enlistment in advance of an uncommon in
terest in his behalf. A consumptive was be
fore you. Yet the shadow of death passed
from your thought when you saw the large
eyes filled with serene light and the saintly
face, expressive of emotion, waiting for utter
ance. Marks of pain were on the brow and
around the gently compressed lips, but these
were signs of struggles past and were half-
veiled beneath a smile of holy composure. By
this time, the fascination had begun to take ef
fect. The way he took up the Bible and
Hymn Book, turned their pages, replaced them
on the pulpit-cushion, while the voluntary
from the choir mellowed the air of the church,
could not escape your sensibility to manner.
When he rose to open the services, the silence
that had pervaded the vast assembly seemed
to deepen into awe, and, without any help
from the imagination, you could easily per
suade yourself into believing, that the power
of his presence had already asserted itself over
the multitude. The hush was impressive.
“Even his silence was eloquence,” said a fine
thinker of him. How it was, you could not
tell. If you did not hear your heart beat,
there was a throb of expectancy in the air
about you, and, forsooth, your sensations tes
tified that the orator, by sore indefinable art,
had found a preliminary access to you as a
mere spectator. Would the auditor be as
much pleased as the spectator? The hymn
read, you fell to musing again. There was a
solloquy with yourstlf. Was that reading or
recitation? Both; it was read from the book,
and yet no mechanical routine, no hard intel
lectual tone, but a spirit breathing itself aloud
and making every word of Dr. Watt’s poetry
his own Did just such emphasis and accent
ever touch your ear before? You remember
the hymn beginning: “Eternal Wisdom, Thee
■wepraise," and especially the last verse, into
which he threw such wondrous force:
“There, like a trumpet loud and strong,
Thy thunder shakes our coast,
While the red lightnings wave along
The banners of Thy host.”
And you recall how you were perplexed to
find a term in your aesthetic vocaoulary which
should convey your idea of his individuality in
reading, till at last “pi ituresque” occurred to
you, and then your mind rested from inquiry
into mysteries.
Hymn and prayer over, the vast congrega
tion in the Hall of the House of Representa
tives composes itself to hear the preacher.
Already the orator has risen, and, as his com
manding form erects itself to lull height, a
long, deep breath is taken, the eyes dilate, the
head is thrown slightly back, the arms hang
closely by the body, and, for the first time, he
seems thoroughly conscious of the immense
audience. The surface man is quite composed,
and yet one knowing his habits can discern a
tremulousness, held in firm check by the mas
tery of a strong will. I have heard him say
that this agitation, if kept under control, was
A great help to effective speaking; and I doubt
not he was right. The lower atmosphere is
disturbed when thunder and lishti ing are com
ing on; and, in oratory, it can do no harm, pro
vided it is confined to the lower atmosphere.
But the announcement of the text; how finely
it is enunciated; in what cleancut syllables,
the voice touching the doors and swelling over
the galleries! Read, too, in such a way as that
you anticipate where the stress of the discourse
will be; nay, foresee, in part, wnat will be the
important divisions and mcide of treatment.
The text is, “For the Jews require a sign, and
the Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach
Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-
block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but
unto them which are called, both Jews and
Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wis
dom of God.” (I. Cor., i., 22 24 )
A momentary pause—another deep inspira
tion of the lungs—a slight elevation of the
shoulders—an instant concentration of his eyes
on some given point—a gentle inclination of
his head to the right side; and then, in a good,
round tone, slow and measured, just rhythmic
enough to enliifi every ear in the house, he be
gins the sermon.* It is his second discourse
on this text, and, without an introduction, he
proceeds to a “review, more at large, of its
(the Apostolic Proclamation) reputed feeble
ness and folly.” Do you see the face of that
fine-looking man over there, suddenly lighted
up? How the rippling radiance smiles! The
word “review” has advertised him what the
preacher will do, for, when he hears that word,
he knows a movement is at hand over a broad
area. Then the preacher says:
“It has already plainly appeared, that the
doctrine of the Christ was known to both Jews
and Gentiles. The Apostles might have said,
with little qualification, the Jews preach—.he
Christ; the Greeks preach—the Christ; and we
preach—the Christ But the Jews preach
Christ—with a Sign, or with Power; the Greeks
preach Christ—with Wisdom; while we preach
Christ—with the Cross. The Jews, preferring
their Christ reject our Christ—as Weakness;
the Greeks, preferring their Christ, reject our
Christ—as Foolishness; but we, nevertheless,
preach the Crucified Nazarene as the true
Christ—not Weakness but Power—not Fool
ishness but Wisdom. The Jews’ Christ would
be Weakness, the weakness of man; the
Greeks' Christ would be Foolishness, the fool-
ishst ss of man; bat our Christ is the Power
of God and the Wisdom of God. In a word,
they differed, not in simple knowledge of the
doctrine, but in relation to the proper under
standing and application of it. This, as will
be seen, was a difference of infinite conse
quent.”
Is not that put in a new and striking way?
It is a familiar text, and most justly sacb; a
aoble text, and from St. Paul, noblest of men;
and you have heard many a stirring discourse;
but did you ever have exactly that standpoint
whenoe to look at the subject? Is there not
here the insight of originality? Andjwbat is
genius but origional insight, seeing new things
in their own light, and old things in a new
light? Accept the definition, and Mr. Stock-
ton is a genius. “But what sort of a genius?”
Be patient, sir, and I will try to show you.
Meantime, observe that body of his; what a
tide of life begins to rise, and flow, and swell,
prompt to obey the attractive force which has
been summoned into activity 1 And what a
pulsatio i from head to foot! By that, know
the orator. “First, and last, and midst,” ora
tory, as such, is body. That is the place to look
for its seat and sphere, and to analyze its beau
tiful mysteries. ‘‘From lop to toe,” this man
is a speaker; and even in his pauses—what a
tableaux! The pantem me, as you see, is per
fectly involuntary; no art but the art of art-
lessuess—as self-forgetful as a child before the
criticisms of people have spoiled the native
gracefulness; and, in it all, not only exquisite
propriety, but a propriety hallowed by the
consciousness of the sacred precinct. Much
in us has to be disclosed by this means. Much
in us would be voiceless, save for sach a mech
anism of expression. And yet more in us
would have a very imperfect utterance by
speech, were it not for this most useful ad
junct. Watch yourself when silent thoughts,
in the loneliness of your room, are stirring
your soul, and you find the root of your tongue
slightly moving without the least will or pur
pose on your part. The automaton man is
having things his own way, and is educating
you, sponte sua. Our orator is already him
self. Do you detect the remains of nervous
tremor? No matter. “Do you trouble so,
Marshal Ney, when you ride into battle?” said
a young officer to the hero. “Yes, young man,
and if you were half as brave as I, you would
tremble tool” A lesson in the Physiology of
Emotion 1
The speaker progresses with his theme:
“Let us first examine the case of the Jews.
‘We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a
stumbling block-' an occasion of surprise and
prostration. What! the Christ—crucified? It
was utterly incredible. Such a doctrine would
lay their highest and proudest hopes low in
the dust forever. It was the mightiest insult,
the bitterest mockery, their nation had ever
heard. Their astonishment was perfect; their
resentment malignant. But why was this?
The answer is found in the first verse of the
text,—‘The Jews require a sign;' that is a mir
acle. They scarcely deigned to noiice any
other evidence of the Messiahship. They not
only expected, but demanded as the only sat
isfactory sanction of claims to this great office,
some supernatural demonstration of divi le
power But, it may be asked, did not the his
tory of Jesus of Nazareth disclose dt-monstra-
tions of this kind? Certainly, it did; and this
fact creates a necessity for the statement of an
important distinction; a distinction by which
the difficulty thus suggested may be entirely
avoided, and the true ground of the opposition
of the Jews to the gospel be clearly and fully
displayed. The distinction alluded to, is that
which exists between miracles performed in
behalf of Individuals, and miracles wrought
for the advantage of the Nation. The Jews
were looking for a National and Political Re
deemer. This is proved by every record of ’he
times. Therefore, the signs or miracles, which
they required, were such as should illustrate
the ability of the supposed Messiah to deliver
them from national subjection, and exalt them
to a condition of supremacy and masterdom.
Several causes encouraged this requirement.”
“In the first p.ace, their history was full
of such encouragements. Their ancient
deliverers, * * most of whom might be re
garded as types more or less exact of the
Great Promised Deliverer, in nearly all in
stances, had exhibited such signs. Let us ob
serve a few of them.”
“When the Israelites were to be brought
forth frjin Egypt, Moses was commsisioned to
go in as a god before Puarath, atteniedby
Aaron as his prophet. Then, the dry rod, cast
upon the fl ior, coiled into a living serpent, and
sprang again into the hardness and deadness
of a staff.
“Then, the delicious waters were changed
into stagnant blood; and then, bloated rep
tiles; and then, loathsome insects; and then,
the ‘grievous murrain;’ and then, burning
boik; and then, the ‘fiery hail-storm;’ and
then, the consuming locusts; and then, the
universal midnight cry over the death of the
first-born; at once avenged the wrongs of the
oppressed, secured their emancipation, and
established the dirine authority of their mag
nificent leader. These were mircles for the
advantage of the nation. And such were all
the memorable achievements which subse
quently distinguished their descent into the
sea, their repose among the mountains, and
their prolonged pilgrimage.
“So it was, again, at the time of the entrance
of the Tribes into the Promised Land, under
the guidance of Joshua. Jordan, sweeping on
ward in its flood-season and overflowing ail its
banks, shrank from the feet of the priests who
bore the Ark, and turned back upon itself,
heaping the torrents in its northern course as
though intercepted by an invisible but impene
trable wall and leaving a bare channel south
ward from the fording to the lake. Thus, the
authority of Joshua was confirmed. There
fore, it is said, ‘On that day, the Lord magni
fied Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they
feared him as they feared Moses, all the days
of his life.’ So was it, moreover, when the
walls of Jericho, at the sound of the priests’
trumpets and the shouting of the people, ‘fell
down fiat, so that the people went up into the
city, every man straight before him.’ And so
was it also on the day, of which it is said:
‘There was no day like that, before it or after
it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a
man;’ permitting the behest of a child of the
earth to control the movements of the sky;
when Joshua, ‘in the sight of Israel,’ ex
claimed, ‘Sun, stand thou still upon Gideon;
and thou, Moon, in the Valley of Ajalonl’ and
for ‘about a whole day,’ Gideon burned in the
overhanging glory, and the motionless moon
beamed in its beauty on the wondering inhab
itants if Ajtlon. All these were miracles for
the nation, that the people might ‘avenge
themselves upon their enemies.’ ”
•dee the volume, “Sermons for the People,”
2d edition, page 33.
[conclusion next week.]
Dr. Hammond's Warning.
American Women are Pre-
Eminent in Avoiding
Maternity.
The Maternal Instinct Dying Oat Be
fore Education, Refinement and
Selfishness—The Sommer Re
sorts Largely Responsible.
[Copyright 1887]
Salem, Ala., Society Notes.
A most delightful musicale was given at Mrs.
Loveless’, in Salem, recently, as a farewell
courtesy to Prof, and Mrs Kierulff, who go to
Athens to live. The guests were all in the
gayest spirits, and the evening will long be re
membered as one of unalloyed pleasure. Be
sides the other guests, there were twenty-six
musicians present, leading ladies and gentle
men from East Alabama’s most cultured and
refined society.
The full programme was lengthy and varied.
The selections played by the orchestra (two
violins, cornet and piano) were very enjoyable.
Miss May Johnson, of Arkansas, won all
hearts by her sweet and tender rendering of
Then You’ll Remembtr Me,” and “Good-bye,
Sweetheart, Good-byel”
Miss Gussie Brewer, of Tuskegee, Ala., also
sans, with much sweetness and expression,
White Wings” and selections from the Mi
kado.
There were gues s present from Savamah,
Columbus and West Point, Ga., also from
Smith Station, Goodwater and Tuskegee, Ala.
Many ladies were in exquisite evening cos
tumes. Mrs. W. P. Kennon wore handsome
hlack silk jets and diamonds; Miss F. A. Am
brose, black and white satin; Miss Minnie Lee
Key, golden brown satiD; Miss May Johnson,
embroidered mull and lace; little Tyler John
son (one of the musicians), cream colored cash-
mere, lace and garnet velvet; Mrs. J. A. Ad
ams, mull and lace, pearls; Miss Elliott, gray
silk; Miss Minnie Holtzclaw (niece of General
Holtzclaw), white lace and pink satin; Mrs.
Love, white and black lace costume; Mrs. Kier
ulff, white silk brocade, cameos; Miss Mamie
Kennon, mull and lace.
I cannot tell you what my admired one wore.
I can look at other ladies' costumes, but I can
oniy see my sweetheart’s face. It was wreathed
in rosy, dimplel smiles, and her soft, brown,
clinging, curly locks entangled my heart anew.
Respectfu.ly, Ned Lee Kino.
Calico—4 to 5 Cents—Robbery.
[Nashville American.]
Some of our free trade friends say the tariff
is robbery and the burdens are unbearable.
We don’t wish to crowd our friends, but we
will put one question at a time.
We do not remember how cheap calico ever
got, though we know in old time it was re
markably cheap. It is now from four to five
cents per yard; a full dress for a lady is from
48 to 60 cents. Will some neighbor tell us
when the rise began and what has been the ad
vance since the rise commenced, and what was
the lowest price? It must have been rapid;
the price, under the robber tariff, is certainly
robbery.
A Pretty Sleep-Walker in a Well.
[World.]
Bbidoefobt, Conn., August 28.—Mrs Drew,
a pretiy widow, liviug on Trowel street, West
Stratford, was found at the bottom of a well at
2 o’clock this morning. Her screams attracted
some young men and neighbors, who succeed
ed in extricating her from her unpleasant pre
dicament. Dr. Downs, city medical examiner,
arrived at the time she was being lifted out
and found that she had arisen in her sleep, re
moved her night-clothes and jumped or lallen
into the well. She was asleep when lifted out
and was returned to her bed. She slept until
6 o’clock before returning to consciousness,
and denied ail knowledge of the occurrence.
Dr. Downs pronounced the case a remarkable
one. Mrs. Drew was not hurt nor even
scratched, though it was a narrow escape from
death.
I hare often been asked, why do American
women avoid maternity more than do the wo
men of other countries?
It might be said with reference to this ques
tion that it is by no means certain that Ameri
can women are to a greater extent than the
women of other countries disposed to shnn an
obligation that they owe to the human species.
The sense of duty in this respect is gradually
becoming less imperative with the women of
all civilized countries. Very few consider it a
duty at all that they should undergo suffering
and discomfort in order that the State may
have its population increased. Their chief re
gard is for themselves and their own homes
and they care little or nothing for the body
politic. The maternal instinct is dying out
before education and refinement and is already
in great part succeeded by a factor which is
nothing mire than an act of the intellect by
which the advantages and disadvantages of
maternity are fully considered and by which a
determination, affirmative or negative, is ar
rived at in accordance with the circumstancts
governing each paaticular case.
Filty years ago probably not one young mar
ried couple in a tnousaud thought of this sub
ject with a view to the employment of any pre
ventive measures. Now it is in many c»ses
calmly discussed either before or after mar
riage especially when the parties are in a po
sition of life above that of the very lowest.
Tae indisposition to assume the cares and
responsibilities of motherhood exist ti a great
er or less extent throughout the whole civilized
world. But I am very confident from my own
personal experience as well as from the obser
vation of many physicians and intelligent lay
men with whom I have conferred that Ameri
can women are pre-emiLent among those of all
civilized nations in their anxiety to escape the
obligations that the bearing and rearing of
children impose. Besides it is no small point
in support of this assertion that it is accepted
with singular unanimity by intelligent people
in all classes of the community.
The Women of Other Nations.
It is true that the women of France are not
far behind in this rather ignoble race, and that
English women are rapidly gaining a promi
nent place in it, but for the present at least
American women lead. There are many
reasons for this pre-eminence. It will be suffi
cient perhaps in the present connection if I
refer only to three which appear to me to be of
chief importance.
In the first place, many American women
are so educated as te acquire the belief that
personal display, luxury, and what they call
“excitement,” are the principal considerations
by which they are to be actuated in their pur
suit of happiness. It is only necessary to see
them, of ail ages, as they frequent the various
resorts to which they flock in the summer and
to observe their dress and manners in order to
perceive how feeble and erroneous in their
idea oi the plaoe of women in the world. In what
other civilized countries are young girls allow
ed to walk either during the day or till late at
night, if it so pleases them, with men whose
acquaintance they have just made and of whose
antecedents they know positively nothing?
It is said that American women, by being al
lowed such freedom, soon acquire the ability to
take care of themselves; but it is just this sense
of power, when they attain it, which is to a
great extent one of the circumstances which
influence them in their antagonism to mater
nity. They know that with the care of chil
dren on their hands their liberties would be
curtailed and that their independence would in
a great measure vanish.
But to return to the summer resorts, which
must be held to be largely responsible for the
changes which within the last fifty years have
taken place in the women of America. Here,
from the child of less than a dozen years up to
the age of maturity, bedecked in silks and sat
ins of gorgeous hues, and often blazing with
diamonds and other precious stones, they as
semble night after night in the ball room to
engage in promiscuous dancing with boys and
men they have never met before. They are
sharp enough to perceive that the women with
children who may be in the house cannot par
ticipate in the gayeties .and that they receive
little attention. Tne lesson is one that they
never unlearn. They flirt with one man after
another, emoloying wiles which excite the as
tonishment of their elders, while the mothers
are eitber looking after their babies or sitting
in corners feeling tnat a summons to attend
one of them may at any moment come. The
belles know that only rich men could provide
them with the servants requisite to attend to
.the wants of children, but they also know that
rich men are few and far between.
Through these influences, and many others
that might be mentioned, an undne love for the
frivolities of life is engendered, and when mar
riage comes the bride knows that her giddy
day s would be over and that she would sink
into the hum-drum existence she both hates
and fears.
The Fault Is the Parents’.
After all, the fault in such cases rests pri
marily with the parents, rhey are, perhaps,
the architects of their own fortunes, arriving
at competence only after severe struggles and
the endurance of many hardships. Proud of
their daughter’s so-called accomplishments,
they gratify themselves by showing her off ar
rayed with a degree of splendor far beyond
what her mother had ever dreamed of in her
most hilarious slumbers. They see her ad
mired by men of a higher social position than
the one they had occupied in their young days,
and they feel fully compensated for the poverty
and all its attendant evils of their own married
life, with their six or more children, when they
witness the social triumphs of their girl.
“Ah!” I heard a mother say one night at a
fashionable watering place where her two
daughters, neither of them fifteen years old,
magnificently attired and with solitaire dia
monds sparkling in their ears, were rushing
through a round dance with partners to whom
another girl of like age had just introduced
them—“Ah! if it had not been for my children
I might have been just as fine a belle as either
of those girls.” Doubtless she had said the
same thing :o them a hundred times. Hence
it comes that “the girls,” taught by precept
and experience, find that their happiness con
sists in following other lines in life than those
which lead to maternity.
would make slaves of them; a baby at their
breasts would be a greater tyrant than any
they have escaped; the very idea is horrible to
them.
Tnese, then, are the three reasons of which
I spoke in the beginning. There are many
others almost as strong. But notwithstanding
them all, and though the avoiders of maternity
are more numerous among American women
than among the women of other nati ms, the
great mass of the sex, and by far its better
part, still h >ld the maternal instinct in all its
overwhelming power and bear and rear their
offspring with all the fidelity that imperious
nature requires.
William A. Hammond, M. D.
Greenville, S. C.
Visit of Sumter Guards, of Charles
ton-Military Inspection—Electrio
Light—Carolina, Knoxville Sc
Western Railroad.
Impecunious Marriages.
Then, again, Americans are prone to marry
before they have acquired suffi dent means to
maintain themselves in the condition of com
fort to which they have been accustomed while
dependent upon their parents. It follows,
therefore, that whatever tends to increase
their expenses is a hindrance to them. Mater-
nity is a very influential factor in this direc
tion, and hence it is not desirable. People in
this country are not—unless they are exceed
ingly well placed in life—disposed to be con
tent with the position they occupy. They are
anxious to better themselves, and they know
that children, entailing as they do care and
making serious inroads into limited incomes,
are impediments to their progress. A larger
establishment is required and the household
expenses must be greatly increased by one or
two children in the family. The saving of
money is rendered difficult* if not impossible,
and the wife knows that she will be the drudge
upon whom most of the additional labor will
come. “Why,” they say to themselves,
“should we have children until we can take
care of them properly?” That is the form in
which tne question is put, and it is not difficult
to see that it will receive only one answer.
American Independence.
In the third place, looking at the matter
still more broadly, we shall not fail to perceive
that the spirit of independence with which
many American women are imbued, and the
desire which actuates them to do nothing that
may restrict them in their liberty, exercises a
much greater influence over them than either
of the other factors mentioned. They have in
recent years arrived at the point of regarding
maternity as the one circumstance of all others
that is likely to keep them in bondage They
have nearly succeeded in emancipating them
selves from the control of their husbands; ev
ery year sees them approaching nearer and
nearer to the right of suffrage; motherhood
Edroe Scent South : Notwithstanding the
extremely hot weather we have had, the moun
tain city lost none of its energy and life. Bus
iness moves on with the same briskness and
spirit, and our citiaena are still stretching out
their arms to grasp new enterprises and enjoy
the pleasures presented on every hand. A1
our people are wide awake. There are few
drones in the hive, and the hum of industry is
continually heard.
During the last week the military have been
stirred up, and things for a time looked lively
and inspiring. After the grand display in
Spartanburg, in which two of our military com
panies participated, and to which hundreds of
our citizens went to witness the base ball match
between Columbia and Greenville (in which
our boys came off second best), they all came
home determined to kick off the blues by exer
cising their skill in giving the Sumter Guards,
of Charleston, a grand and glorious reception
as the invited guests of the Greenville Guards.
The Sumters came, and were received in fine
style and escorted to the armory of the Green
ville Guards—Captain Boyd, of the Butler
Guards, and many of his company joining in
thh march. Pretty speeches of welcome and
responses were made, knapsacks laid aside acid
refreshments enjoyed, etc. The weather was
very inclement for two days, yet it by no
means dampened the ardor of our people in
doing a.l they could to make the Sumters feel
perfectly at home. As soon as the clouds
cleared away tents were pitched in the shady
grove of the City Park and was designated as
“Camp Patrick,” complimentary to the Green
ville Gua’ ds, whose guests they were. Guards
were placed around the camp, but vain were
the attempts made to conform to military dis
cipline. As well undertake to keep the bees
from inhaling the sweets of the flowers as to
pen up the Sumter Guards in the narrow limits
of a camp while so many attractions were in
sight, and the “Regulations” wouldn’t regu
late. You could see them in squads like “but
termilk rangers,” heading for Paris mountain
to take in the grand panorama of the moun
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Smith, one of our city fathers, at his lovely
summer home—a treat they will not soon for
get. What did the Sum.er Guards care for
“txtra duty” with such excitement before
the n? To be brief, a grand ball was given in
their honor in Ferguson & Miller’s large hall,
and it was a splendid affair and a grand suc
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A shooting match was made up between the
Greenville Guards and Sumter Gaards, and the
Charleston boys won. The ladies did every
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at home, and their efforts will long be remem
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visit of the Sumter Guards! But the Scnnt
South says hold on.
On the 10th nit. Adjutant and Inspector Gen
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and a short time after two military companies
marched down Main street—the Butler Gaards
first, Greenville Gnarfls following—prepared
for inspection. The work was done rapidly,
when the companies performed various evolu
tions to the delight of the vast crowd of spec
tators.
On the 16th ult., Capt. PatricK having pre
viously resigned as commander of the Green
ville Guards on account of having to leave
Greenville to take a positio i in the Military In
stitute in Anderson, the company unanimously
elected Dr. J. W. Norwood, and repaired to
his home on Washington street to apprise him
of their action. He was taken by surprise, but
accepted the position, over which the Guards
were enthusiastic. v
A quiet marriage was performed at the resi
dence of Colonel A. S. Duncan, on Buncombe
street, on the 10th ult.—Miss May Balfour, a
niece of Col Dunean, to Mr. B. C. Foster, a
prominent and very popular young merchant
of Greenville. Rev. J. A. Mundy officiated.
The marriage took place at 12 m., and the hap
py couple left on the Air-Line train for an ex
tended Northern trip.
A grand flag drill and festival is the talk
among the ladies of Greenville, for the benefit
of the Butler Guards’ trip to Philadelphia, and
when they undertake anything they make no
mistakes.
Greenville is now on the electric light ques
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our people enlightened!
The Carolina, Knoxville and Western Rail
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Friday night the 14st inst, when the route of
the march had been completed, the crowd met
on the lawn of the Female Institute, and was
addressed by several speakers. The enthusi
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The Knoxville Tribune of Sunday, Aug. 14,
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We must, as we assuredly can, make Knox
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at 8 o’clock, to devise means for building this
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On Monday, Aug. 15, a letter from G. W.
Susong, apprised our citizens of the Knoxville
meeting, and a committee, consisting of Capt.
G. G. Wells, Hon. M. F. Ansel and J. R. Bel
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and let that city know that Geeenville will do
hf r duty. Our delegation arrived in Knoxville
on the 16th and were met at the depot by the
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