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VOLUME XIII.—NUMBER 619.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1887.
PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
Shaking Across tbe Bloody Chasm.
SOUTHERNER SONGS.
Poetic Echoes From the Dead
Past.
GETTYSBURG.
Tti. morning dawn, on Gettysburg,
Tb« b»ttle-«mo«e I, creeping through
W>de covet fl 'lda and grassy slope,.
Now sadly wet with blood and dew.
Here where their life blond ebbed away.
In Honor's cause and Glory’s shed,
The Gray and Blue together lie.
The dying pillowed on tbe dead.
On yonder ere,', at dawn of day
Still wares tbe standard of the Stars,
While, half-triumph ant. near away.
Floats the brave banner of the Bars.
Between the serried lines at last,
The drlf lag clouds of smoke reveal
The long gray lines tu columns massed,
A living wall with fringe of steel.
We see those srlendld columns sweep
Across the Held. Mu bold their breath:
Before them frowns tha' sullen s'eep.
Before and m ar, Is Life or Death.
They reach the slope.—from ridge and rock,
The blinding Ores In torrents pour;
B-neatb the fury of the shock,
Tne earth seems shaken to its core.
They are not such ss break and fly.
No laggards droop, no coward, quail,
Th se onli pause, who drop and die,
Beueath tha: storm ot leaden hall.
Above the click and clash of steel,
Tne booming can :ojs' roar and swell.
Are 1 cord, where surging columus reel,
Tbe Union cueer and "rebel yell."
They gain the crest—there hand to hand
They bleed and tall. Alas I too few
Are :eft of that h role band
To break tnose stuhb iru lines ot blue.
'f Is sunset. For the II ue. a gleam
Ot glory tills the dying day;
From clouds above that, sunset streams,
Auolher glory f r tbe Gray.
1887.
The morning dawns on Gettysburg,
The clover 11 -Ids are aewy sweet,
The grassy slopes are fresh and green,
Uuirampled uow by hostile feet.
They meet again,-not steel to steel.
Hit band to baud, and breast ti breast,
Hailed by tbe cannons’ p-aceful pea ,—
The Biue the bust, the Gray the guest.
Now arm In arm where memory leads.
Along the crest, across the plain,
W'tn words of praise and kindly deeds
they fight the battle o’er again.
Nor host, nor gu« st. who Unger here.
Though f icinen once, would wish to blot
Tbe memories ihey hold so dear
Of thlstwlce-cousecrated spot.
And so they sbare,- the brave and true,
Tbe glory of mat fateiul day:
The 111 ay. the glory of the Blue,
Tne B ue, the glory of the Gray.
’ Tls sunset. From yon heaven, away
Fades every golden purple hue:
O'er host and gue t. the twilight gray
Blends wttti tue evening sky of blue.
Times-Democrat.
The American Section of the Union.
[New Orleans Picayune.]
The subject of foreign immigration is coming
to be of great importance as a question of na
tional policy. The returns show that Europe
ans are ciming into the country at a rate never
before known in the history of the republic,
three and a half millions having arrived in the
six years succeeding the tenth census of 1880,
while during the entire preceding' history of
the union since 1780, only ten millions of im
migrants of all races and nations had come
into the country. In view of this extraordina
ry influx of foreigners and the depression of
various indus'ries, depriving many thousands
of work-people of employment, a great outcry
has arisen throughout the Northern States, and
measures to prevent or restrain the foreign in
vasion have been demanded. ,
At this juncture it may be worth while to
inquire what effect the state of affairs men
tioned is having noun the South. According
to the census of 188(1 there were about 6 680,-
000 foreigners in the United States, and of
these only .‘120,871 were in the twelve Southern
Stat*s of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Geor
gia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas
and V'irgini*—Texas having more than one-
third of the whole. Since 1880, although three
and a half millions of foreigners have come
into the country, few have settled in the South,
■o that out of ten million foreign born popula
tion now in the Cni ed States not more than
600,000, or onr-lwentieth of the whole, are in
the Southern Siates mentioned.
As a consequence there has been none of
the d.sturbanca to the labor system in the
Southern States that has been so general in the
North and West, caused by the extraordinary
additions to the working population, while the
socialistic disorders so rife in many of the
Stales of the North and West have been en
tirely unknown here. In these twelve South
ern Slates there are nearly two million native
born citizens who have come thither from
other States and Territories of the Union,
making a most desirable population. This
movement of interstate migration to the South
ward is constantly on the increase from States
in the Northwest which are rap dly tilling up
with foreigners of certain races. Take the
Scandinavians, for instance, who have immi
grated from Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
They have set le in vast aggregations in par
ticular districts of several States. They bring
with them not only their language, habits and
customs, but they maintain, »s far as possible,
their institutions end traditions, so that they
are convert...g entire extensive areas virtually
into foreign communities. In Minnesota there
are 120,000 of these people, in Wisconsin there
are 00,000, in Iowa 10,000, in Dakota 20,000.
Their own countryman, Mr. lij dinar Boyes-
sen, the distinguisned author, in a recent arti
cle on the subject, in the Forum Magazine de
clared that in many instances they ietusid to
adopt American ideas and were hostile to
Americans generally. For these reasons there
has begun a movement of the American popu
lation from the districts that have been mo
nopolized by those aud other foreigners, and
that movement is Southward. Those people
desire to escape from what is little better than
a foreign land, and in the South they find not
only congenial institutions and a friendly wel
come, but the genial climate, the fertile lands,
and the vast material resources which combine
in addition to attract the invalid, the pleasure
seeker, the capitalist, tbe man of enterprise
and the honest, industrious worker. The
South is actually gettirg to be tbe only truly
American part of tbe Union.
Yes, Gather the Sacred Dust.
[Wilson (N. C.) Mirror.]
As will be seen from a notice elsewhere pub
lished, the Hon. G. D. Green, our noble, pa
triotic and most excellent Mayor, is taking
steps to remove the remainsof the Confederate
dead, which are now resting in unmarked and
neglected graves, to the "Soldier’s Circle in
oar hallowed and beloved and beautiful Ma
plewood. This movement strikes responsive
chords in every heart, and awakes in hundreds
of bosom* those noble notes of melody which
mingle and ripple together in the grandest and
most sonorous rythm, and which flow on in
tbe smoothest channel of the Bweetest and ten-
derest harmonies. Upon this point none differ.
There are no bitter dissensions, no selfish
wranglings, no rancorous discussions, no sor
did objections. All recognize the duty—the
grand and important and imperative duty we
owe to tbe memory of those dead heroes, and
all are willing to thus give suitable and strik
ing and eloquent evidences of the lofty appre
ciation of the grand and patriotic virtues,
which made their names immortal. Yes, all
are wiliing to pay tribute to the memory of
gallant soldiers, for heroism is admired the
wide world over, and its glory fires burn on
and on, and fling forever its inspiring light
adown the unending vista of Time. Columns
sacred to its existence, with names of martyrs,
and their broken javelins and battered shields,
stand in imposing but voiceless eloquence to
teach the centuries how heroes lived and how
they died. Even those, whose cause was
shadowed in the clouds of defeat, have won by
the splendor of their heroism recognition of
those sublime virtues which garland a hero’s
name with the fadeless wreath of immortality.
We are told that there is a cenotaph at the
Emeus in honor of Themistocles, who having
been outlawed for treason, afterwards won
that monument from struggling Greece. Tbe
devoted patriotism and heroic virtue of Thad-
deus Kosciusko won reluctant admiration
even from the iron bound and steel riveted
wheels of despotism which bad rushed over
and crushed out the liberties of his country,
and to-day a lofty mound can be seen on the
banks of the Vistula which speaks of that hero
whose patriotism aud whose heroism once lit
up with glory the now darkened sky of crushed
out aud down trodden l’oland. And so it is
with our own pale sleepers. Monuments are
rising to their memories, and even those who
PERSONAL MENT108.
MAIN EXPOSITIONIBUILDING, PIEDMONT PARK, ATLANTA, GA.
The Piedmont Exposition.
We present to-day an engraving showing the
exterior of the main building of the Exposition.
It is very large—covering many acres—will be
commodiously arranged and fitted up in first-
class style, with ail needful arrangements,
power, shafting, etc., to enable exhibitors to
display all the merits and value of the anima
ted contributions and the diversified capabili
ties and power of such implements and ma
chinery as they may place on exhibition.
Besides the above there is a building devoted
to cattle, GOO feet bv 100; a building devoted to
poultry, 200 by 200; 1100 stables for horses;
swine, goats, sheep, etc., in abundance.
The following great attractions may be men-
f tioned, independently of the pleasurable sen-
wore the blue” now come with nobly plucked I sational spectacular displays which have been
leaflets of admiration to twine around their extensive y advtrtised, namely:
virtues. And we are glad to note that Wilson ! The collective county exhibits of a dozen
is making a movement in this praise-worthy .counties, showing the resources of each county
t.-iS aud regal unt, wo^uen, the
pure and glorious fountains fiom which flow
the purest patriotism aud highest gallantry-
will proudly honor herself in thus honoring
the dead heroes who sleep in our midst, for a
tribute to heroes is not ttie giving of alms, but
the worship of patriotism—ennobling and puri
fying and exalting. And the monument that we
will some day erect, though cold and dumb and
passionless it may be, shedding no tears of sor*
row and breathing no sighs of mournful mem
ories, yet it will stand for years and years to
come in its mute but pure devotion an endur
ing testimonial of that undying gratitude which
keeps in hallowed remembrance the deeds of
a struggle which lit up with the sun-bursts of
everlasting splendor the battle fields of their
country aud gave to history such deathlessness
of fame.
The place where they now sleep is rank with
the weeds of neglect. The fingers of decay are
pulling down the slabs which beareth the name
of "Somebody’s Darling,’’ and soon the sweep
of the years will level the mounds and leave no
sign to tell
"Where sleep the brave who went to rest
With all their country's wishes blest ”
It is bes\ therefore, to remove them to the
ci'Cle in Maplewood, where proper care can be
more conveniently accorded them. It is our
duty to keep green and fragrant with the flow
ers of devotion the last resting place of those
pale sleepers, and to show to the generations
that are to come after us that the persons who
are sleeping beneath are not traitors, but patri
ots, and that the deeds which they performed
for their country’s cause have justified them in
the presence of a God of trutn and right and
left to them the fadeless crown of martyrdom.
Yes, let the noble and patriotic step be taken
at once, and let us "gather the Bacred dust”
and deposit it where our own loved ones are
sleeping. And let us make it a custom that
when we go to scatter flowers upon the graves
which our owu deep affections are tending, to
remember those who marched down the gory
road to glorious death and through its crim
soned portals to splendid immortality.
Yes, let us do justice to the dead—let us bear
their remains to our own loved Maplewood,
and there let us deposit the sacred dust of those
fetterless martyrs who passed from war to im
mortality and took their places in the grand
Valhalla of tlernity. Yes, let us now
"Gather the sacred dust
Oi the si I'll,-I-, tried and true,
Wno bore tbe flag of our country’s Fust
And dn d in a cause, tbo’ lost, still just,
And died for me and you.
• l,»t the dead 'hus meet the dead
While the living o’er tnem weep,
Aud tue men a bom L*e aud 8‘onewall led,
And tbe hearts that once together bled
Together siltl ahall sleep.”
A VIRGINIA SONG IN FRANCE.
“Oh, Carry me Back to Old Virginia”—
How Mozart Adotped It.
About thirty years Ago a gentleman from
Boston was traveling through France in one of
the old stages whose compartments were only
obtained at considerable expense, and met aa
his fellow-passenger a gentleman whose general
knowledge and easy chit chat rendered the jour
ney moat pleasant. When the stage arrived the
Bostonian disclosed bis nationality, and Mozart
eagerly asked him about the net.ro melodies,
which he had till then vainly searched for. The
gentleman was about 1, aving for his own
home, but promised to bring Mozart all that he
could gather of this music on his return to
France. He kept his word, and dmiig the
winter after his arrival the niasquarades, just
before Lent, were liven with all the elegance
which distinguished them at that time; f ,r the
nobility, and even members of the royal family,
frequented the gay salons where Mozart led
the orchestra. On this evening, at the end of
the season of 1884, a new strain, full of tender
pathos, seemed delicately interwoven with the
overture. At first light and graceful, the mu
sic was charming, and then a waii that seemed
to express a wild, passionate heart-cry, sound
ed, and the assemby, wild with enthusiasm,
turned to Mozart, and, with one shout of ap
plause, lifted the tone-master from his stand
and bore him in triumph round the room. Is
there a Southerner who can ever forget this air,
or a Virginian who would require to be taught
the no'es of “Oh, Carry me Back to the Old Vir
ginia Shore?” This old song of the South had
charmed the maestro, and, grafting it upon his
own individuality, he had thus inspired the
brilliant circles of France.”
ia-nffiworV, Hfce atbsfe and everyUpnj* ragged in
tAe county. .
The richest epitome of the soul.i s riches
ever shown in collective exhibits from the cit
ies of Birmingham, Anniston, Decatur, Tusca-
looaa, Gadsden, Rome and Tallapoosa. The
Richmond and Danville railroad, the Marietta
& North Georgia railroad, the East Tennessee
road and the Florida Southern road. Each of
these collective exhibits will cost thousands of
dollars, and you will see the grandest show of
southern riches ever made.
An art gallery with 400 pictures from the
best living artists, and thirty paintings from
Mr. George I. Seney’s gallery, which ranks
with Vanderbilt’s. One of these pictures cost
$40 000 (forty thousand dollars,) and the thir
ty cost over a quarter of a million dollars.
“THE HUNTERS OF KENTUCKY.
Editor Sunny South: In a recent issue
you ask for the lines, “The Hunters of Ken
tucky.” I will give you two stanzas, all that
I can remember. The song was taught me by
an old-time country shoemaker when I was a
small boy down in South Carolina.
Yours truly, M.
Springfield, Mo , Sept. 12, ’87:
“Y*a gentlemen and ladles (air
Wno grace this famous city,
C«>me listen if you’ve time to spare,
While I rehearse a ditty.
Now for an oppjrtunity conceive yourselves quite
For ’tts no?<often that you meet a hunter from Ken-
Oid* Kentucky, the hunters of Kentucky.
“We raise a bank to hide our breast,
Not that we feared of dying;
But when we shoot we want a rest,
Unless the gi.me be flj log. ......
When near enough to see them wink, we think it
time to stop ’em; 4 .
I think It would haye done you good to see Kentuck
ians drop ’em; . _ t „
Old Kentucky, the hunters of Kentucky.”
ANOTHER STATUE OF LIBERTY.
A San Franc’aco Millionaire Will Erect
It on a Peak In That City.
A Statue of Liberty is to be erected on the
higher of the twin peaks in San Francisco, by
Adolph Sutro, the millionare. The contracts
have been let, and work will be commenced at
once. The figure and pedestal will be forty
feet high, and the torch, which will be lighted
by electricity, will be 1,000 feet above the level
of the sea. The material to be used in tbe con
struction will be entirely blue sand-stone, dug
from quarries close by. The pedestal will rest
on the solid rock of the peak and will be over
twenty feet high, eleven feet square at the base
and seven feet square at the top.
. The principal figure will be that of a woman
holding aloft in the right hand the torch of
liberty and in the outstretched left hand the
sword ofjustice. At her feet will be afigure em
blematical of despotism, and will be that of a
man lying on his side and clutching at the
sword held out of his reach. The figures will
cost 5,000, and the road on the side of the peak
has been cut. already. The expense of cutting
this road and getting the figures to the height
will be very great. The peaks are in a most
central position, being equidistant from the bay
on the north and east and the Pacific ocean on
the west.
Senator Sherman in North Carolinia.
Senator Sherman, sf Ohio, has accepted an
invitation to attend the annual fair of the Col
ored Industrial Association, to be held in Ral
eigh, N. C., and commencing Oct. 2d. He is
expected to make an address. The Raleigh
Observer says "it is already evident that tbe
approaching fair of the colored people will sur
pass that of last year, and if Senator Sherman
comes this year he wili.probably see the largest
assembly of colored people ever in North Caro
lina.”
Death of the Oldest Methodist
Preacher.
Kev. Moses Rogers—a direct descendant of
John Rogers, who was burned at the stake in
KDgiaud on account of bis rel gious convictions
in the sixteenth century—who was probably
the oldest member of the Methodist ministry
in America, died at Fresh Pond, Suffolk coun
ty, N. Y., Thursday night. The deceased was
in his 94th year, and had been preaching about
seventy years.
A Comedy Played by Horses, Mules
and Pomes.
Editor Sunkt South: 1 have recently
been to see one of the greatest shows on earth
—a regular comedy acted by horses, mules
and ponies. These intelligent animals have
been trained by Prof. Bristol, who has devoted
his life to the study and development of equine
character, and who has certainly brought to
gether a singular group of actors in the brutes
he now has under control. It is easy enough
to select and train horses to perform single
feats of a very astonishing kind; but this gen
tleman has gathered his animals at bap-hazard,
or rather has selected them chiefly with a view
to the dissimilarity of their natures, and has
compelled these animals to act together in a
regular comedy—playing children at school.
Denver, the clown inttie,facts as the monitor,
and after removing the master's hat, coat, and
gum shoes, proceeds to ’Ttjfii nis functions by
reporting a number oAX'.cuoUrs f.oa? vario’s
Then begin 8 the regal sty school routiner Jiie
in oh t notable feature of this, is the wonderful
capacity of Mattie in arch tne tic She tells the
month, the day, the l our, and the minute;
adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides simple
numbers, without a word from the master,
and at the request of any member of the audi
ence. This mare also distinguishes colors by
bringing a red, a white, or a b* indkerebief
from a closed one-compartr \ desk, and
catches a ball as easily as a short stop on
the diamond.
Besides the school comedy, these animals go
through a number of other feats, singly or all
together. Thus Denver brushes his master’s
clothes, goes fishing, and takes lunch with the
professor There is one failing he has, poor
fellow. He has developed a remarkable fond
ness for the bottle and endeavnrs to monopo
lize that institution. Hornet plays the rocking
horse, and jumps a rope. Several of the hors
es swing and see saw, Eagle in ooe act stand
ing on the middle of the board, with Mattie
and Minnie at either end. and balancing them
up and down by transferring the gravity
through the movement of his feet. Nine of the
animals play a regular tune on bells of differ
ent sizes, some of them using two bells, mak
ing a complete, though simple melody. Then
the whole twenty-two of this marvellous equine
company go through all the evolutions of a
military drill, marchiDg in double or single
file, countermarching, obliquing, wheeling in
twos and fours and in column, and executing
all the movements of the regular code.
With one exception, l’rof. Bristol has had
none of these animals over three years. He
has conquered them, too, not by cruelty, but
by kindness. Those who observe how often
his hand seeks mis pocket during the perform-
• ii j J . i .l. nirotiir* of flip Biurnr
WASHINGTON CITY.
Reminiscences of Distin
guished Public Men.
Incidents Which Have Transpired ai
the National Capitol.
ances will understand the mystery of the sugar
loafs wherewith he rules his little animal
world. This spectacle is worth a whole series
of moral lessons to the children, teaching them
how to make friends of the dumb brutes
around them by acts of gentleness.
II. 1*. M.
Baltimore, Md., Sept. 12, 1887.
A Library for the Asylum.
We take special pleasure in inviting attention
to the following suggestion and request of a
much esteemed lady subscriber and friend of
tbe Sunny South, in Augusta. It is needless
to say that we heartily indorse the movement
and cheerfully give it our support. It will be
observed that this lady has commenced collect
ing books—adding works to her faith. Now,
how many ladies in other cities in Georgia will
emulate her example and do likewise?
“I saw an article in a Mi Hedge ville paper of
last month asking every one in the SUte to
contribute one volume to the Asylum Library.
They are most anxious to have a library; and
as the StAte cannot furnish it, it seems only
right and kind that every one who can should
give one book. I have a collection of twenty-
five volumes, and hope to get many more.
Will you not call attention to it in your paper.
I tbihk every one would be gl*d to assist in so
good a work.”
Chinaman Educating for Missionary
Work.
Ying Lee has for some time past kept s Chi
nese fancy-good store on Main street, Hartford,
Conn. He is twenty-six years of age and was
born near Canton. He is atomt to enter upon
a four years’ course of theological study at
Mount Ilermon School, Norihneld, Mass. He
is a young man of quick intellect and high am
bitions. At the end of his course at Mount
Ilermon he will begin missionary work among
his couLtrymen either in this country or Chi-
Sunflowers for Fuel.
Sunflowers are used in Wyoming Territory
for fuel. The stalks when dry are as hard as
mapiewood and makes a hot hre, and the secd-
headR, with the seeds in, are said to burn bet
ter than the best hard coal. An acre of sun-
fliweis will furnish tael for one stove for a
year.
Think of the day, tie humbling, affecting,
overwhelming day, wllen the cup of cold water
will re appear as an ingredient in the everlast
ing glory.—James Hamilton, D. D.
Force Library-American Archives.
The Force Library was purchased by Con
gress in 1800, for .$100,000, the appropriation
passing both Houses without a dissenting vote,
and the collection was soon removed to the
Capital. It contained between 40,000 and 50,-
000 books, 30,00 pamphlets, 800 volumes of
newspapers, and a wealth of Revolutionary au
tographs, inSMJai fiSfi’ Erhidfl adllGu
* Jptrtfr.ireing erected by him for a irint-
mg ofli te bad its especial value. Every pam
phlet, handbill or newspaper was hailed, as it
contributed to throw some light upon the his
tory or politics of the past, or ti illustrate some
character in the long picture gallery ef depart
ed American worthies. The greater portion of
the volumes in his library, and especially the
Revolutionary newspaper, aud pamphlets, were
filled with marks and memoranda indica’ing
careful study and repeated examination. Ref-
erences to other and collateral authorities,
notes showing where further information
had been published or was to be found,
references to catalogues of early print
ed works where any volumes of ancient typo
graphy bad been described—all these and simi
lar elucidations were scattered through the well-
thumbed and dusty volumes. And one could
rarely call upon the veteran student without
finding him, with pen in hand, betiding over
some subject of a century ago which he was
pursuing through a multitude of authorities.
Unfortunately, Col. Force exhausted all of his
small fortune in purchasing for his collection,
and he was forced to mortgage it to a Washing,
ton bank! -house. He staggered along under
his burden manfully, cheered by no hope of
recompense and struggling with debt, until he
was forced to sell. The collection, well cata
logued would have brought at auction a larger
sum, but he preferred to have it go in its umity
to the Congressional Library. When his treas
ures had been rem. ved, his health failed him,
and he passed quietly away on the 23d of Jan
uary, 1808. The Force collection and the vol
umes of "American Archives,’’which he edited,
are his monument.
A Dinner in 1819.
I came across, a few days since, a letter writ
ten from Washington in January, 1819, by the
Hon. Elijah H. Mills, then a senator from Mas
sachusetts. He then wrote: "Yesterday I din
ed with the French Minister in a party corsiat-
irg of about twenty to twenty live, mostly
members of Congress. The dinner was in true
French style, everything so disguised and
transformed that no one knew what to ask for,
or what was before him; whether ham or jelly,
mutton chop or pudding no one could tell un
til he bad put his knife into the dish. The first
course consisted almost entirely of cold meats,
in various forms, pickeled, hashed and minced,
as well as whole. Turkey s without bones, and
puddings in the form of fowls, fresh cod dis
guised like a salad and celery like oysters, all
served to excite the wonder and amazement of
the guests. It reminded me of an anecdote
told by Horace Walpole when givingan account
of a dinner of a great man at which he was pre-
sant. He said: “Everything was cold but the
water, and everything was aour but the vine
gar.’ Excepting, however, the perplexity of
finding out what was ujon the table, I had a
very pleasant time. Mr. and Mrs. de Neuville
are decidely the most pleasant and the most
popular of the foreigners residing here. Plea
sant and affable in their deportment, they take
great pains to please, and to avoid the cere
mony and cold politeness wh’cu distinguish al
most all the intercourse which takes place here.
Although a frivolous nation, they both seem
very considerate and sufficiently grave,and have
much lea* of frivolity than the other ministers
resident here. Their kindness seems unaffect
ed, and their piety, it is said, is equally so. In
the evening there was an immense crowd of
ladies and gentlemen, their house being open
for that purpose every Saturday evening. The
usual insipid interchange of idle questions and
needles replies, gazing, lounging, card-playing
and dancing occupied the various groups, as
fancy or caprice might dictate, and the evening
closed’with a waltz by tbe daughters of tbe
Spanish Minister and a few others, mostly for
eigners. ”
Mrs. Hughea-Hallett.
Mrs. Hnghes-Hallett of London was, when
she was Emily Scbaumbergof Phladeldhia, the
handsomest woman who has ever visited Wash
ington city. It was said of her that she never
showed age; but if she had, people would have
forgotton it when she opened her mouth. She
hail beanty, wealth, s.cial position, a fine and
highly cultivated voice, great charm of manner
and remarkable intellectual gifts. She spoke
Italian, German, French, and Spanish as fluent
ly as English, and was highly accomplished
musically. Altogether it seemed as if this
Philadelpnia girl was cut out to shine in some
court circle instead of the plain drawing room
on Pine street, where some of the most distin
guished persons who visited this country went
to pav her court and attention. Her father,
Col. Von Schaumberg, was an army officer, but
resigned his commission in consequence of
some complications attending a duel which he
fought in New Orleans. As in the case of the
baroness and her husband, having been born in
1828, ten years before him. Yet at forty Miss
Von Schaumberg looked little more than twen
ty. and not only held her own in appearance
with all the younger belles of society, but in
any assembly received almost as much atten
tion as all the rest of them together. Wherever
she went she was the centre of attraction. She
had remarkably fine eyes, a superb figure, clas
sical featues, and was altogether a paragon.
Her romances and the records of her disap
pointed lovers would fill volumes. Her mother
was the sister of John Page, one of the promi
nent citizens of Philadelphia, who left his for
tune to his niece.
Valuable Papers Lost,
perishedon tHjfald Wolfe Ton-,the Irish patriot,
French armv nkiring th-ee campa’gna. After
the battle of Waterloo be resigned aod came to
Wasbingtor-wfty, where he settled with his
mother at G’litrgetown and received Govern
ment employment. He married the daughter
of Mr. William Sampson, who was the early
friend of his father. She survived him, and
had, in the latter years of her life, two large
trunks filled with manuscripts of tbe greatest
value. After her death great efforts were made
to obtain them, but without success. It is to
feared that they were destroyed.
Alphabetical Alliteration.
Editor Scnnv Sooth: I found the sub
joined in a very old journal, and send it to you
for publication. It is the most perfect speci
men of alliteration I have ever seen, for in it
the whole alphabet is fathomed, and each word
in each line claims its prop r initial.
There are other curiosities in the book—“a
temperance lecture two hundred and fifty years
ago”; a ballad three centuries old; “The Wan
dering Jew,” a part of the old superstition up.
on which was founded the novel of Eugene Sue.
Hknsir I. Burkb.
Bainbridge, Ga.
An Austrian armv, awfully army <1,
Bildly, Dy battery, besieged Belgrade;
Cossack comminders comma' ding came.
Dealing destruction’s devastating doom;
Evety endeavor engineers essay
For : ame, tor fortune, flgbtlng—furious fray:
Geuerais ’galist Generalsgr.pple-gracious God!
How honors Heaven, heroic hardihood!
Infuriate—indiscriminate In IP,
Kinsmen Rill kinsmen—Rlmmsn kindred kill;
I,.bor low levels lottles —longest Hues—
Men march ’mid mounds, ’mid moles, 'mid murder-
ona mines;
Now uotsy uuiuuers notl.'e nought
Of outward obstacles, opposing ought;
Poor patriots, partly pmcnaaed, partly pressed,
1} itte <i taking, quickly quarter, quarter quest;
K asou reiurns, religious right r.mounds—
nuwarrow sums sucu saugniuary sounds,
truce to tile Turk—triumph totheiralu!
Unwise, unjust, uom rcifui Uxanc!
Vanish, yam victory—vanlsu victory vaiof
Why Wi«h we warf-re? Wherefore welcome w«r,
X rxes, X mines Xiuibns. X xierel
V .eiQ f ye youths! Vwinen, y mid your yells,
Z Tin’s z trpartes’, Zoroaster’s zeal,
And au attending— ig-inst arms appeal.
THE ROYAL PLATE.
Croat Value of the Cold and Silver
Used at the Jubilee Banquets-
Tlio royal plate, probably the finest in the
world, was used at the state banquets at
Windsor during the jubilee. It is usually kept
in two strong rooms at Windsor, and is valued
at $10,000,000. The gold service purchased by
George IV., dines 130 persons, and the silver
wine-cooler, which he bought about the same
time, holds two men, who could sit in it com
fortably. It is enclosed in plate glass, and the I ty.
What the People An Doing
and Saying.
Mrs. Garfield is recreating in Canada with
her family.
M. Cbevreul the veteran French scientist en
tered upon his 102d year on Aug, 31.
Mrs. Frank Leslie returned by the City of
Rome on the Utb from an extended European
tour.
The Emperor and Empress of Brazil expect
to meet Emperor William at Baden at the end
of the month.
President Grevy, of France, was 89 years
old on Aug. 14. fie received 1,000 telegrams
of congratula ion.
Col. Fred I). Grant, it is said, will snrely be
nominated by the Republicans of New York for
Secretary of State.
Kuki, the Japanese Minister at Washington,
is not converted to Christianity, but has had
his children baptized.
It is stated that the copyright of Miss Hol
ley’s book, "Samantha at Saratoga,” was pur
chased by the publishers for 910,000.
Ex Congressman Albert Gallat'n Talbott, of
Danville, Kentucky, died of heart disease on
the 9tn while visiting relatives in Philadelphia.
Prince Bismarck owns distilleries at Variza,
Misdov and Wendisch-Puddiger, the annual
output of which is estimated at 600,000 litres.
Mary Anderson denies the rumor that she is
to become a subject of Queen Victoria “I
shall always be a Blue Grass country girl,”
she says.
The Princess of Wales is reported in poor
health, tie result of the sad fate of her favorite
sister, the Duchess of Cumberland, who re
cently became insane.
Tbe German emperor has given one thousand
marks to the fund for tbe erection of a monu
ment in Berlin to the memory of the famous
German poet Chamisso.
Judge Walton, of Corsicana, Tex , has per
formed the marriage ceremony for 785 couples
during the past eighteen years. His revenue
from this source exceeds $6,000.
The fortune of George Washington, Jr., the
Pittsburg inventor, is estimated at $9,000,000.
He ranks with E iison in the success of his
numerous inventive achievements.
Miss Hidalgo, of New York, a five-year-old
heiress worth $5,000,000, and Miss May Sbarp-
less, an eight-year-old heiress worth $7,000,000,
are stopping at Lung Branch and Sea Girt.
Mrs. Langtry is building a cottage on the
shores of Lake Tab te, California. Tahoe is
one of the most, beautiful sheets of water in ex
istence. It is 0,200 feet above the level of the
sea.
Ex Senator Tabor, of Colorado, has taken
$12 000,000 out of mines iu the Rocky Moun
tains. He has a natural genius for the busi
ness, and has succeeded where hundreds have
failed.
It is reported on good authority that Victoria
Morosini-Schilting-lIutskamp is now in a con
vent in Italy, where she wi 1 remain for some
forgot.” " ' J ' *' '■*
W. W. Corcurau. the venerable philan
thropist, has returned to his Washington home
greatly improved in health. He will be ob
liged, however, to remain closely indoors for
several months.
Count de Brazza, the African explorer, has
arrived at New York, and is on his way to New
Orleans to wed Miss Cara Slocumb. The
courtship took place on the Continent, where
tbe bride elect lately traveled.
Quite lately a man with only one leg swam
across the river Citde, in Scotland, between
Kirn and the Oloch, a distance of about two
and a half miles. He was accompanied by s
boat, and was quite fresh at the finish.
The oldest bank president in the country re
sides in Delaware and bis name is Charles Tat-
man, 96 years of age and in full possession of
his faculties. He is president of the New
Castle County National Bank at Odessa.
Dr. Jessup, of B urut, writes that “the Sul
tan of Turkey has set the seal of imperial ap
probation upon thirty-two editions of Arabic
Scriptures, allowing them to be sold, distribu
ted and shipped without leave or hindrance.”
It is doubtful if Bonanza Flood re-enters
business. His eyesight since his recent illness
is practically destroyed, and he feels like
spending the remainder of bis days as quietly
as possible. His fortune is estimated at $10,-
000,000.
George William Childs McCarter, son of
Robert McCarter, of Newark, N. J., is one
week old and is worth $1,000. His money is a
present from George W. Childs, of Philadel
phia, whose niece, Miss Peterson, married Mr.
McCarter about a year ago.
Jane Oshkosh, a granddaughter of the cele
brated chief after whom the Wisconsin city
was named, is to have a monument erected in
the cemetery near Kcshena. The deceased was
a Catholic, and the testimonial to her memory
is the work of her Indian friends.
Shipbuilder John Currier, who died in New
bury port, Mass., on Friday night, shaped many
a splendid ship in his town. He began work
in that line titty-five years ago, and since then
nearly 100 craft, each of more than 1,000 ton
nage capacity, have slid from his ways.
Mr. M. J. Tatum, the man who made the
first plug of “horey dew" toba.co put up in
Guilford county, North Carolina, was in
Greenesboro the other day. He introduced
"honey dew”1u 1840—17 years ago The reg
ulation plug at that time weighed 14 ounces.
Dr. Elizabeth Beatty, of Indore, sent out by
the Presbyterian church in Canada as a medi
cal missionary, has treated over 6,000 patients
in the past twelve months, and thinks a hospi
tal and training school for Hindoo women
would make thousands converts to Christiani-
splendid chasing took two years. There are
some quaint old pieces in the royal collection
which belonged to Queen Elizabeth, having
been taken from the Spanish Armada, and
others were brought from India, China and
Burmah; and there is one cup which belonged
to Charles XII. of Sweden.
Mrs. S. C. Eccleston, who returned recently
to the Argentine Republic, is one of sixteen
women teachers who went from this country
about four year* ago at the urgent request of
the Argentine Minister of Education, ani were
placed in charge of public schools in the sev
eral provinces. ' The fact that all were Protest
ants caused them to be regarded with some
suspicion at first, in a country where the Ro
man Catholic is the prevalent as well as the
State religion; but it soon came to be under
stood tha: their teaching was purely secular,
and the schools are well attended by all classes.
Mrs. Eccleston speaks with enthusiasm of the
succets of their educational work and of the
generous treatment the North American teach
ers received from the government.
The Chicago News says ministers are so
scarce in Idaho that they have to be imported
in many cases where people wish tu get mar
ried. Traiiis are stopped that they may be
searched for ministers.
Robert Bonner reeeui.y piosouted Jockey
Murphy with the roan gelding Keene Jim,
record 2.19, and added jokingly: "I don’t care
for horses that, can’t go a quarter better than
33 seconds.” Murphy got np behind the horse,
which is valued ar, $6,500, aud sent him a quar
ter of a mile in 32 seconds. Keene Jim has
been driven in 2:16.
One of the great characters of Loudon society
is Maria, Dowager Marchiones, of Aylesbury.
She is an octogenarian, vary eccentric and sar
castic, but despite great poverty a favorite in
the grandest houses. Many of the English
papers do not hesitate to refer to her aa "Oid
Maria.”
W. H. R. Williams, a carpeiter of Mil
waukee, and Mrs Jane R. Williams, by the set
tlement of an estate in Wales, find themselves
raised from a hand and month existence to one
of wealth. Each receives $100,000 from the
estate. The property has been in litigation for
some time past.
Carter Harrison was one day talking about
the boys of Chicago whom he knew. After
naming scores of them, aud dwelling on the
characteristics of each, he said: "And then
there’s my boy Cato.” For a moment he
paused, and then added: "Well, Cato Harr -
son’s the only boy in Chicago whom I don’t
know.”
Capt. George F. Price, of the Fifth United
States Cavalry, is anxious to learn the where
abouts of Private R. W. Heeth, formerly of the
same regiment, whom he desires to present
with a $9 000 farm in Kansas. Capt. Price waa
severely wonnded in a fight wi h the Sioux In
dians in 1876, and Private Heeth rescued him
at the peril of his owu life.
John Jacob Astor has bought of Cyrus W.
Field one of the most beautiful estates oa tue
Hudson, paying about $160 000 for the same.
The mansion has a frontage of six.y feet. Mr.
Field pai i $60,000 for the property, but after
wards expended $ 10,000 in improvements. Ue
sells it because his daughter, Mrs. Liadiey,
for whom it was bought, does not care to live
there.