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Greenville, S. C.
Large Eailroad Meeting—City Elec
tion—Greenville Guards Will Vis
it Atlanta—New Cotton Facto
ry—Hop at the Mansion.
Euitor Sunny South: On Monday, Sep
tember 6, sales-day, a public meeting of the
county having been called to discuss the sub
ject of subscribing $200,000 to the Carolina,
Knoxville & Western Railroad, the Court
House was jammed with an enthusiastic
crowd. A delegation had just arrived from
Knoxville, comprising some of her best men,
who were introduced and made speeches which
captivated everybody—they made the thing
unanimous, setting our people wild on the
subject. In the afternoon, carriages were
dashing through the city to let the delegation
see what a lively mountain town we had, and
they left for home perfectly delighted with
what they saw and heard.
On Tuesday the 13th, we had one of the
most exciting elections ever witnessed in
Greenville, for Mayor and Alderman--no par
ticular issue at stake, txcept personal popu
larity; the ex Mayor, 8. A. Towns, winning
by six votes over Dr. E F. S Rowley, the
present incumbent. Each voter cast his bal
lot on the School House question, and but two
votes were given against building two buildings
for that purpose. Set Greenville down solid
for railroads and education.
While tde above election was goiDg on, the
Butler Guards passed by in their traveling
outfi-, and at 2:30 p m. took the Air Line
train for Philadelphia, escorting Lieut. Gov.
Mauldin.
A’, a meeting of the Carolina, Knoxville 4
Western railroad company, held at Knoxville
on the 16th inst., Lieut. Gov. W. L. Mauldin
was elected President, and Capt. A. B. Byrd,
Secretary and Treasurer, both of Greenville.
The Greenville Guards did not go to Phila
delphia, btr are resolved to visit the Piedmont
Exposition at Atlanta and join in the grand
display before President Cleveland.
Another new Mill, an addition to the Pe’zer
Cotton Factory on the line of the Columbia &
Greenville railroad, sixteen miles below our
city, is to bo built, and W. D Goodwin, of our
city has the contract, as weli as for a large
warehouse. When No. 2 is completed the
Pelzer Company will have a capacity ot 30,000
spindles, and 1,100 looms, will employ 950
operatives, and consume yearly 18,000 bales of
cotton.
Capt. E. A. Smith, President of Pelzer
Factory, has j ist completed a fine residence on
Rutherford gin et, where his family resides,
which is quite an addition to Greenville.
A hop, complimentary to Mr. and Mrs. W.
J. M. Gates, at ihe Mansion House last night,
was a really brilliant affair; the elite of the
city were in full force, richly and elegantly
sostamed.
Enough for this time. Unoli Bob.
Kept. 17th, 1887
Cross Plains, Alabama.
Its Fine Location—Minerals and For
ests— Educatioual and Business
Advantages—Railway Con-
' nection.
■nitor Sunny South: Having been a
reader of the Sunnt South for aome' ime, and
not having seen anything in it from our thriv
ing little town 1 decided to write you a short
sketch so that the world may know what we
arc doing.
Crocs Plains is a beautiful little town con
taining seven or eight hundred inhabitants
walled in by picturesque mountains, on every
Mde. The famous Blue mountain is within
three miles of here on the south. The town
is bountifully b essed with minerals, having an
inexhaustible deposit of iron ore in sight of
the heart of the town. There is enough timber
within thiee or four miles to supply wood
working establishments lor au indefinite time,
and all kinds of useful timber, too, from the
black jack to the famous long-leaf pine.
Water is here in abundance, too. Two
streams run very near to town, and several as
•ns apringa as are to be fonnd anywhere are
within half a mile of the public square. Nature
has done a good part by us and we only await
aapitai to develop our resources.
There are two good schools here, presided
ever by highly accomplished teachers. The
Edncationai Institute was chartered at the
lsat tension of the General Assembly. Rev.
E. B. Russell, Principal; Mrs. G. B. Russell,
Assistant, and Mi*s Mav Br mn, Music teach-
sr. The Male and Female High school is not
a chartered school but gives thorough instruc
tion in all branches usually taught in High
Schools. J. H. Stark, Principal; Wesson,
Assistant, and Miss Lizzie Reynolds, Music
The H. T. V. A G. and the E. A W. R. R of
Alabama, both pass through the center of the
town, and the Georgia Central has surveyed
another, thus giving us as good rail road con
ned ms as any town in the South.
Crops are cut off considerably but notwith-
atanding this, the merchants are doing a pay
ing and satisfactory business.
Cross Plains is destined to become a bie
town some day. and t at day will be whenever
the capitalists fiud out our many advantages.
More anon. Civic.
Cross Plains. Ala , Sept. 19, 1887.
Athens, Ala.
“The Light of Stars.”
Editor Sunny South : Athens, the county
•eat of Li met-lone county, is a town of fifteen
hundred inhabitants. It is situated ne3r the
Tennessee river, and Town creek sweeps grace
fully, like a thread of silver, tqrough its charm
ing suburbs. The LAN. railroad affords all
facilities for travel and commerce, intersecting
as it does the M. A C. at D.catur, only fifteen
miles away. The scenery in North Alabama
is the most pleasing in the State.
There are four churches here, tasteful in ap
pearance and well sustained in all Christian
work by the refined, good people that compose
their membership.
The press is lepresented by two ably edited
weekly papers, the Herald aud the Courier.
The legal and the m< dical professions nil all
requirements. Aud last, but not least, the
Atuens ladies are beautiful, graceful and
charming.
The educational advantages here are the
best The Male Academy, under the manage
ment of Prof. Hansard, is well sustained, aud
has just opened with fine prospects for another
successful session.
The Athens Female College was established
in 1843, and is under the Presidency of Prof.
M. G. Williams, a gentleman of the highest
Christian character, and an excellent faculty of
proficient teachtrs. This is one of the best
equipped colleges South. Its coterie of teach
ers hail variously from Martin College, Pulaski,
Tenn ; from the Normal Business Institute,
Lebanon, Ohio; from the Slate Normal. Nash
ville, Tenn; from Huntsvi le Female Colli ge,
Huntsville, Ala ; from LaF-n-eue Female Col
lege, LaFayette, Ala.; from H m.burg College,
Hamburg, Germany, and from C F College,
Lexington, Mo. The college ecitice is a hand
some structure of brick. It is large, with spa
cious halls, airy chambers, frescoed wails and
most delightful grounds.
Tuese Athens trees are magnificent. Such
splendid, stately, far-reaching oaks; suchgrace-
THE SUNNY 80UTH, ATLANTA, GA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1, 18S7.
fill, tall pines that wave their proud, plumed
heads in greeting to the blue sky that smiles
down so tenderly.
The Fair opens here on the 6lh of October,
and will lo doubt be a success. It will in the
live stock department, I feel assured, as I have
seen several of the beautiful, satin-skinned
horses i i training for the occasion.
It is night, ai d
“There is no light in earth or heaven
But the cold light of stars.”
I sit at my wide window casement, looking
toward the West, and gaze up through the in
terlacing branches of the spreading trees. The
soft tight breeze sweeps across my soul sad,
Bweet memories of how I sat one other night at
an opened casement scrrowfullT, for on the
morrow I must bid adieu to my dear friends so
staunch, so true—bid adieu to rose-decked,
chivalrous South Carolina.
The star-light fell softly, coldly, clearly about
me while I schooled my heart to still its cry.
A soft tap at my door and my “beautiful
darling” came quickly and gracefully forward.
Her bright, golden hair fell about her slender,
white rt bed form; her pansy-blue eyes looked
unusually large as she gazed down at me with
outstretched bands.
We neither spoke for some moments, but
gazed mutely and sally, feeling so heavily the
weight of grief that pressed upon our hearts.
“Oh! I have come for a good cry,” she said
in her sweet, womanly voice, and the next mo
ment she was kneeling beside me—her dear,
sunny head bowed and her tears falling upon
my clinging bands.
My beautiful darling, may all good angels
keep thee. Oh! there is wi hin my heart other
1 ght than the cold “light of stars.”
Nettie Loveless Kierulff.
Athens Female College, Athens, Ala.
Tampa, Florida
Rebuilding—Improvements — The
Great Prohibition Movement-
Very Interesting General
News.
Editor Sunny South: This you know is
our dull season. Everybody who can get away
goes North; business is comparatively stagnant
and nothing specially interesting of a personal
or social character is transpiring.
But beneath this surface calm, the initiated
know that silent preparation is being made for
an active winter campaign. Several huge
transfers of city property have been made in
the past week. Mr. Chamberlain, President
of the Hillsboro Brick Co., has sold out his in
terest, and sufficient additional capital will be
put in to enable the Company to make many
needed improvements, and the yard will soon
be in full blast again.
ThsS. F. R. R have extended a track across
the foot of LaFayette street to the upper ware
house of the Commercial Company. W. A.
Fuller’s wharf at the foot of Washington street
is finished aud the foundation laid for his
store.
Capt. A. Dixon has returned -from a long
stay in Brunswick, Ga., where he was detained
by his connection with the Post Office at that
place.
New side-walks have been laid through the
burn, district and several vacant store houses
in Washington btreet have bten rented.
The temperance cause still booms, and reg
ular meetings are held under the oaks iu the
garrison every Sunday afternoon.
Judge Hammond delivered a very humorous
lecture Sunday before last, and last Sunday
several speakers addressed the crowd which is
always good.
The colored people are manifesting much in
terest in the cause which meat s a great deal,
as it will depend on their vote whether the town
toes wet or dry, and if their vote can be con
trolled by moral suasion vs. whiskey and mon
ey, the saloons will be defeated.
Mesdames Clarke A Ben jamine have just re
turned from Braiden Town, on the Manatee,
where they organized a W. C. T. U. Society,
with eighteen members.
The fishing business has been opened up
lively by Messrs. Saverese Bros., and Mr.
Spafford—both firms run steamers down to the
mouth of Manatee river and Palma Isle bay
where the gay and sportive mullet most do
congregate. The ice-fish business is assuming
vast proportions and brings more money into
the country, distributed through more various
channels'than any, not excepting beef, cattle,
vegetables, or oranges.
Fruit is very scarce in Tampa this summer;
the usual supply from Key West and Havana
having been cut off by the quarantine. We
have a few specked Northern apples from 20
to 50 cents a dozen, aHd a few small pears in
the market. Why don’t you send us some of
your delightful juicy Georgia peaches? I have
not seen a good peach on the market this sea
son. [Georgia peach crop cut off last spring
by freeze —Ed S. S.]
Notwithstanding the bad luck of last winter
the truck farmers down on Manatee river are
making preparations for a large winter and
spring crop.
Grading on the extension of the S. F. R. R.
to deep water on old Tampa bay has been fin
ished, and the creosoted piles and ties for the
bridge have arrived. Three large lighters are
being built for the pile drivers and the bridge
will be finished in a few weeks. The Tampa
Lumber Co., have the contract for furnishing
the lumber.
There are three distinct crops of oranges on
some of the trees—a tew ripe ones of last sea
son’s crop; a spring crop about grown in size,
most of which fell in the dry spell; and a sum
mer crop, put on after the early rains com
menced to fall.
It is repor.ed here to-day that trains will be
running over the Orange Belt R. R. to Point
Penallas in sixty days.
The refreshing breath of Northern air wafted
here last night revives the hope that we may
have winter again after a while
Building will soon be commenced in the
burnt dis rict. The bids for the water works
will be opened at the regular meeting of ths
council next week, of which more later.
Gno. Boexsit.
“LET ME DIE."
[Published by R quest.]
0 God, mv heart doth long for Thee,
L-t m“ die.
Now set my soul at liberty,
Let me die,
D'e to thr infliag things of earth,
Tnev’re m w iu me ot tittle wortn;
My Sav or calls. I’m going forth,
Let me die.
Toy staying powi r In the display,
L“t me ole;
1 must be dead from day to day,
Let me die.
D- ad to the world and Its applause,
Toailth customs, fashions, laws.
Of those who bate toe humbling cr» ss,
Let me die.
My friends may say, “I’ll ruined be,”
if I die.
If I leave mi a- d follow Thee,
B-it I’ll die.
Their areuur nrs will never weigh.
N >r sc.nd me Dying judgment day;
H-lp me to east idem ah away,
L-t me die.
Ob, I nu«t die to se: lie and jeers,
L -t me die;
] must be 'r-ed Pom slavish fears,
L-t me die.
Bo dead tuat no desire shall rise
To appear good, or great, or wise,
Iq any but my n vlor’s eyes:
Let me ale.
If Christ would live and reign In me,
I must die;
Like Him I emciflea must be,
I must aie.
Lire, drive the nails, nor heed the groaDF,
My fl sn may writhe and make Us moans,
Bat this tne way and this alone,
I must die.
Begin at once to drive the nails,
Lei me die;
Oj, suff -r not my heart to fall,
Let me die.
J sus. I look lo Taee for power,
To enable me to endure the hour
When, crucifl-d by sovereign power,
1 shah die.
When I am dead, then, Lord, to Thee
I shall live;
My time, mv strei gih, my all to Thee,
Will I give.
Ob, m’v the S >d now make me freel
Here, L -rd, 1 give my all to Thee,
yor tune aud lor eternity
I will live.
Tht carnal mind once troubled me.
But It died;
He sanctified and made me bee,
Sj it died
fo dead that codes ires arise
To appe r good, or great, or wise,
In any hut my S.vior’s eyes,
so 1 live.
King Humbert, of Italy, is only 43 years old,
but his hair is nearly white. He is the hardest
werked monarch of Europe.
Dr. Holmes once jocularly said that he had
to cha.k the house at which he wis visiting in
Philadelphia, in order to tell it from the others
in the row.
Our Portrait Gallery.
PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES
OF DISTINGUISHED MEN
AND WOMEN.
Col. A. J. Woodbury.
Colorado took her place as star number thir
ty-eight, in the firmament of the United States
flag, on the fourth of January, 1876, the signifi
cance of the date giving her the poetical name
of the Centennial State. The grandeur of her
scenery, her transparent atmosphere with mag
netic and magnify tng powers, the outcroppings
of her vast mineral resources, together with a
reasonable amount of combined modesty and
energy on the pait of her citizens, has kept her
before the world as a haven and heaven for the
tourist, speculator and sandwiched tramp.
She has a welcome for all; she greets the tour
ist, with open handed hospitality, the specula-1
tor with speculative zeal as keen as his own,
and the tramp with a rope. Asa result of this
wide-spread interest, the great organizations
of the country recognize the advantage of a
session in Colorado so as to enable the mem- i
bership and tbeir friends making the trip at re
duced rates. The Sovereign Grand Lodge ol
I. O. O. F. will hold its annual session in Den
ver, Col., from September 19th to the 25',b, in
elusive, and the busy hum of preparations for
the events of that week are already perceptibly
heard. Among the chief attractions will be a
ccntinental competitive drill of the Patriarchs
Militant, the military branch of the order,
which will take place on the 21st instant. For
this drill prizes have been offered and Col. A.
J. Woodbury of Denver, has been made presi
dent of the local board of management. Colo
nel Woodbury, or “A. J.” as he is very famil
iarly called (his own children even knowing
him by this name) was born in the town of
Acwortb, western New Hampshire, on Decem
ber 23rd, 1833. during one of the most able-
bodied snow storms that ever swept that coun
try, noted for iis severe winter storms. His
father, Henry Woodbury, was a descendant
from an Eng ish family who immigrated to
Massachusetis in 1628, settling in Beverly.
His mother was the daughter Hannah, of Cap
tain Nathaniel Dtvidson, of Scotch-Irish stock
The peop!e known as Scotch-Irish immigrated
from Scotland to Ireland in a body. Their
theological dogmas, however, did not harmon
ize with those entertained by the average Irish
and eventually they immigrated to the new
world and settled in Nt w Hampshire on the
east side of the Merrimack river, a few miles
below Amoskeag Falls. The Scotch-Irish were
fighters from way back, a fact which was
abundantly attested while living in Ireland.
They gave to this country Gen. John Stark,
who at Bennington, in 1777, turned the tide of
British success, which so confused and crip
pled Geu. Burgoyue, that the surrender of his
EMILIE VAUGHN.
army occurred the following month. In 1846
Henry Woodbury removed from Francistown
to Manchester, then a growing manufacturing
town, where the subject of this sketch remain
ed until about twenty years of age, when he
went west, or what was considered west
at that time, but after a few years returned to
Manchester, remaining in that ci'y until 1863.
In early life he became a machinist and engi
neer, in which capacity he remained for sev
eral years in the West Indies, but later became
a journalist and was President of the Denver
Press Club in 1877 and 1878 Mr. Woodbury
was made an Oddfellow by Mechanics Lodge,
No. 13, Manchester, in 1862, and a Patriarch
by King David Encampment No 42, Fitch
burg, Mass., in 1871 la 1872 he removed to
Denver and represented the Grand Encamp
ment of Colorado, in the Sovereign Grand
Lodge at Providence, R. I., in 1883; Minneap
olis, Minn., in 1884; Baltimore, Md . in 1885,
aud Boston, Mass , in 1886. At Minneapolis
he was appointed by Grand Sire Leech, second
on the committee on Patriarchal affairs, John
H Albin, Evq., being chairman. This com
mittee had before it matters of a peculiarly
delicate nature. It recommended the revision
of the ritual Knd all other mat ers pertaining
to the Uniform Degree Camp, the adoption of
which report, led to the establishment of the
Patriarchs Militant at Baltimore in 1885 J.
C. Underwood, of Kentucky, was elected
Lieut-General of the latter, and he soon ap
pointed Mr. Woodburv upon his staff as Lieu
tenant-Colonel and Special Aid-de-camp for
Colorado, serving also as Department Com
mander until July of the following year. On
the 19th of July, 1887, L ; eut o nai:t-Colonel
Wooabury was promote! to the rank of Colo
nel and Aid de-camp on the staff of the com
mander and male president for the local
board for the management of the Continental
Drill as previously mentioned. Col. A. J,
Woodbury is also a mason, a member of the
P. O. S. A., and has served two years as Su
preme Commander of the I. C. R. C., a semi-
Military conservative temperance organization
of western origin, and by virtne of having been
chairman of a revision commi’tee is the author
of its present retuai. In personal appearance
Mr. Woodbury is apparently about fifty-three
years of age, standing five feet and ten inches
in height, weighing some two hundred pounds
and wearing a substantial number nine tyjot.
Emilia Vaughn.
The vigorous determination and energy
which the female sex is showing in the per
formance of official dnries of bo h private and
public nature, has ref ulted in the appointment
of numbt rs of women throughout the Uuion to
places of trust and responsibility. In New
York State the latest appointment of this kind
has been made by Governor Hill, the ap
pointee being a Miss Emilie Vaughn, who is
considered fully capable of fiUihg the position
of notary public, which she has accepted with
modest d’gnity. Miss Emilie Vaughn is a na
tive of Brooklyn, New York. In her youthful
years she received but little schooling, having
been com polled by force of circumstances to
earn her own living before Bhe was twelve
years of age, and assisting in the support of
others. From the somewhat arduous access
to the few books within her reach she educated
herself and in time gained not only reputation,
but a pecuniarily successful livelihood as a
writer. Miss Vaughn has written much for
the press, has been a teacher in a public
school and in a commercial college and has
also acted in the capacity of physician’s as
sistant. She is an engrosser of high merit,
the Penman's Art Jou-nal ranking her among
the best self-taught writers in the country; she
is also a skilful elocutionist, having been
trained by aDd subsequently given readings
with the late Mrs. Vanderbcff. She became
Assistant-Secretary of the Jeweiers’ League of
AMOS R LITTLE.
New York, a uiu'ual life insurance associa
tion, numbering three thousand members on
its roll, which po.-ition she still occupies, hav
ing under her the complete management of the
daily work of the entire rffice, The Jewelers'
Weekly speaks in the highest; terms of her ser
vices to the League as being one of the most
respeced members of the society. She is re
spect'd by both friends and acquaintances in
the whole cc unty of Richmond;
Ignatius Dortally.
Much similar to the ever vailing sea-serpent
tales is the Bacon Sbakspeare controversy,
which ever and anon rises to the top of the lit
erary cauldron as so much scum to be cast
aside until the arising of the next boil. Mr.
Ignatius Donelly, the well known advocate of
the Baconian theory, is so much a lover of lit-
irature that his innate desire to know about
and investigate the mystery attached to the
Shakspearian writings is oniy a natural one,
and Mr Donelly emphatically claims that Lord
Bacon is the authentic author of the Shakspear-
ian writings. Ignatius Donelly is a native of
Philadelphia, Pa., having been born in that
city some fifty years ago. Removing West
ward, he settled in M'linesota, where he be
came a well and honorably known, influential
citizen of the State He has long been con
nected with its public and private affairs, his
political record showing him capable of fulfill
ing such bign positions as Senator, member of
Congress, etc. As an author and journalist
wt os- wr tirgs have met with wide favor, Mr.
Donelly’s discoveries are simply marvelous.
The doubt raised some thirty years ago with
respset to the au Lorship of the Shakspearian
plays, and the belief that these are the produc
tions of Lord Bacon, have both been thor
oughly treated of, is shown in the fact that
more than one hundred books and pamphlets
denying the authorship of Shakspeare have al
ready been published, and therefore it is an ar-
duous task for any one to claim originality as
to any new literary discoveries ia regard to the
matter, as Mr. Donelly hits done, claiming to
have found the mystic cipher which settles the
question of authorship. Mr. Donelly’s books
on the subject will be well read and studied by
all lovers of Shakspearian literature, so that
each reader can form his owa opinion after
careful perusal of the containing statements
and theories.
Amos R. Littls.
The Constitutional Centennial eelebration
at Philadelphia, Pa., has been the one topic of
newspaper journalism for weels past, ana the
officials who take an active part in the affair
are known and spoken of all over the country,
their portraits are inspected by the knowing
ones with a scrutiny which detects the accu
racy or inaccuracy of every expression de
picted on the represented portrait. The Chair
man of the Executive, Amos R. Littie, has
a responsibility resting on his shoulders,
which calls forth all the activity of a wot king
brain to make the result of his administra
tion in the. celebration a successful one. Amos
R Little was born in Mansfield, Mass., July
27tb, 1825 He was the son of Hon. E. P.
Little, and grandson of Capt. J II. Little, who
commanded the U. S. frigate, Boston, during
the short period which portended wa- between
France aud this country in 1801 H.s early
education was received at home, but he at-
JAMES BELL.
tended schools in Sandwich and Providence,
R I. At the age of nineteen he removed to
Pennsylvania, selecting a mercan fie career
Energy, integrity at d dt termination were
conspicuous traits in his character. His first
year was passed in a country store of Miiestown,
Pa., where he received board at five dollars
a month. He subsequently entered the whole
sale house o' Maynard A Hatton at Philadel
phia, at $300 per annum. In 184*. under the
name of Little A Peterson, he started a com
mission business, and afterwards became a
partner in the firm, his first connection being
known as Amos P. Little A Co. The house
met with great financial success and he is now
a ret red merchant of large mea- s. He made
an extended tour anund the world, accompa
nied by his wife, and the result ot their joint
experiences and observations is published in a
charming book recently issued, entitled, “The
World ss We Saw It.” Mr. Little has been
prominent as an ardent, advocate of rtform in
municipal politics, and his lofty standard of
duty has commanded the respect of bis fellow
citizens. He was selected by Gov. Pattis'n as
a member from Pennsylvania in the Constitu
tion Centennial Commission, and was unani
mously chosen Chairman of the Executive
Committee, charged with the arduous duty of
arranging and executing the details of the
plans for the great national memorial celebra
tion.
Mrs. Ada C. Bittenbender.
Mrs. Ada C. Bittenbender, who is making
an active canvass for Judge of the Supreme
Court of Nebraska, is the first woman ever
nominated for a seat on the bench and the only
lady lawyer in the State. She is a graduate of
the Binghamton, N. Y,, Business College. She
afterwards attended the State Normal School
at Bloomsturg, Pa., graduating in 1875. In
1876 she became Principal of the Model School
and Department of Physical Culture. In 1877
she married Mr. M. C. Bittenbender, removed
to Nebraska, and edited the Osceola Rec rd
and took an active interest in agricultural
affairs, bung secretary and treasurer of the
Polk County Agricultural Association, and in
1881 its delegate to the State Board’s annual
meeting—the first woman ever sent to that
body. In 1879 she became editor of the Ad
vocate. In 1881 she became Secretary and
then President of the New State Woman Suf
frage Association. In 1872 she was admitted
to the bar, passing a very successful examina
tion in open court, having studied UDder her
husband. Her husband, iu a letter to Mr.
Hamilton Wilcox, states that she has often
practiced at the bar of the highest tribunals,
traveling from court to court, and ranks among
t ie leaders of her profession She was enthu
siastically nc minated by the Prohibition party.
James Bell.
There has been no yacht that has sai'ed into
the American waters, of whom Mr. Bell is the
owner, causing as much consternation and
turmoil as the Scotch yacht, Thistle, which
was built expressly for the purpose of captur
ing the Queen’s Cup from the United States,
where it has remained ever since the yacht,
America, brought, it here in 1851. Mr. James
Bell, the subject of this sketch, is a fine look
ing, well built man, over six Let high, wears
a full beard, and is about 40 years of age. He
is a resident partner of the firm of John Bell
A Sons, of Glasgow, Scotland, who are agents
for T C. Castman, the beet exporter of New
York. All English consignments made by the
latter pass through Mr. Bell’s hands. As re
gards enthusiastic yachting qualities he is
said to be the equal of Lieutenant Henn, the
owner of the yacht Ga'atea. The best portion
of bis life has been spent in the advancement
of yachting, and he has spared neither time
nor money in bringing before the public the
yacht Thistle. His wife is as fond of the sea
as is Mrs. Henn, but unlike that lady, she does
not live entirely on the briny deep. He has
two sons and one daughter, all great lovers of
yachting. He has been in this country at
least half a dozen times, his last visit being in
1880.
A Voice From Texas.
A Texas Anti-Prohibitionist Makes
the Strongest Possible Reply to
J. W offord Tucker.
Editor Sunny South: In your paper of
September 3rd, tht re appears au'extract from
the Times Union, which seems to be a letter
from J. Wofford Tucker, Sanford, Fla,, which
is a gross injustice to the people of this State,
and I ask yon, in the spirit of justice and im
partiality, to show the olher side of this ques
tion of prohibition, as it looks to us who voted
against the amendment. I am actuated to put
pen to paper because a great many papers in
the States are publishing articles that are a
misrepresentation. My experience of the men
who voted the “anti” ticket, is, that they are
law-abiding, sober, industrious, liberty-lovirg
people, who love their State and all its institu
tions. They are not opposed to temperance—
in fact they favor it—but they do doubt the
expediency of changing the organic law of the
land as an experiment. Many of them are
strict temperance men who do not visit sa
loons, and who do not drink, which cannot be
said of some of the other party who, of all
people, should “praotice what they preach.”
I can tell Mr. J. Wofford Tucker, and others
like him, the real reason of tne big majority
in Texas. The amendment, as it was voted
on, was written out by E. L. DahoBey, of
North Texas; bv him sent to Mr. Beard, the
member of the Legislature from Lunar county,
and was presented by Mr. Beard to the Legis
lature. Mr. E L. Dahoney was the prohibi
tion candidate for Governor and has been a
chronic politician for years; and the Hon.
Dave Culberson ven aptly describes him as
“the God father of every political party that
has sprung into existence in North Texas.”
Neither a democrat or republican, he is a bush
whacker in politics, and his busy brain is ever
ready to stir the political pot; hoping that out
of the scum of political passions he may find
power and place and help. We of the big
State of Texas recognize in this demagogue a
man bent on destroying the big democratic
majority of Texas, and we are not fools enough
to follow his leadership, though he is backed
by Reagan, Maxey and other statesmen, ana
by many, very many of the nobleat ladies of
the land, and the preachers. We believe that
if the preachers would only stay in the pulpit
and endeavor with God’s help to Christianize,
or convert the wicked and sinful, their eff orts
as temperance orators would be more success
ful, aa cur experience teaches us that good
Christians do not frequent bar rooms.
Who is J. Wofford Tucker? Where was he
when we thepeople of Texas dared to he true
to what we considered cur highest sense of
duty and honor, and voted against—not tem
perance—but this demagogue’s “idee?” Is he
a native Texan, a “br .ad horn,” a man with a
right to say what Texas shall do, or is he a
citizen of some other State who preferred to
try this prohibition medicine on some one else?
If so, wby in the name of common Bense aud
justice, don’t he get his own State to try it be
fore he criticises us?
Will Mr. Tucker please state in plain En
glish who the Texas Mormons are, aud where
they have their abode, across this broad State
from the Rio Grande to the Sabine and from
Red River to the Gulfl I know of no such peo
ple, and tell him in pure unadulterated English
that his statement is false. One word more
before I pass him to the obscurity to which he
belongs Does he find it a paj ing business to
slander the people of this State? The anti
prohibitionists of Texas are not saying any
thing; all the rant is being done by the other
s.de. I can tell Mr. Wofford, though, that we
are more determined than ever, and if in four
years the blot of whirky is to be wiped out of
Texas, it will not be by the agitation of the
prohibition amendment. We antis will “get
there Eli with both feet every time.”
In conclusion will say in our humble opin
ion that the way to reform a drinkng man is
to convert him from the evil of his way, and
with the helping hand of an Infinite Redeem
er. make of him a better man and citizeo.
Excuse me for this lengthy trespass on your
valuable space. I have tried to be as concise
as I possibly could.
B. Y. Jingo.
Troupe, Texas, Sept. 11, 1887.
Former Foemen Fraternizing-
The Association of ex Confederate Veterans,
at a very full and enthusiastic meeting
held on the 19tn ult, appointed a committee of
fifty to make arrangements for a fitting recep
tion of the Union Veterans ot the armies of the
Ohio, the Tennessee and the Cumberland, who
fought from Chattanooga to Atlanta. The
Union Veterans come at the invitation of the
Piedmont Exposition to revisit the battlefield
over which they fought over twenty years ago.
The programme of the reception and fraterniz
ing will extend through the week beginning
October 10th, and w 11 be elaborate, but the
chief event will be the re-ui ion barbecue and
ceremonies at Kennesaw, October II, and an
illumination of the historic old mountain at
night. Thousands of Union soldiers have sig
nified their intention of comirg. and the re
union will doubtless surpass anything yet seeH.
A rate of one cent a mile each way has been
obtained from the Cincinnati and St. Louis
Riilr tad lor parties of twenty-five or more, or
half-rates for smaller Tv»«tes. Similar rates
will doubtless be extended irum Chicago.
The new story which “Ouida” is writing is
said to be a picture of society in Rome and
London—on the lines of her tale ‘In a Winter
City.’
Queen Victoria’s present to the Pope on the
occasion of the Holy Father’s Jubilee will be a
small chamber or “an of exquisite workman
ship aud with beautifully illuminated pipes.
“Taffy Tolu.”
D. L. D., Elkmont, Ala.: Can yon inform
me through your Quiz Column, from what
taffy tolu is made?
It is a secret as a compound, and made by
Adams St ns, New York. Of course they must
not tell you or any one else.
Book Wanted.
J. T. G., Lebanon, Ohio: Will you please
be so kind as to tell me where I can obtain a
book called “Living Southern W riters,” by J.
W. Davidson? If not please ask through your
paper.
Write to Carleton, Publisher, Madison
Square. N. Y. Ask for the “Living Writers of
the South.”
State Fairs
W. H. R., Helena, Ark : P ease tell me, in
your next issu”, at what time the different
Northern State Fairs are to come off. If you
cannot answer it, where can I learn?
We do rot know, as we do not take papers
from all the different States. The best thing
for you to do would be to write to the Secreta
ries of State of the different States and ask
them. Inclose a stamp for reply.
Davis’ Dictlonarr, Etc.
Subscriber, Clayton, Ala.: Will you please
inform me through the query column, where I
can get a copy of Davis’ Analytical Grammar
and Dictionary, and at what price?
Write to J. B.Lippincott 4 Co., Philadelphia,
Pa. The work also treats of Practical Arith
metic, Forms of Notes, Drafts, etc. Form of
Book keeping, Penmanship, etc. A real good
work, of 740 pages. Price we do not know.
Telegraphy
Subscriber, Bowden, Ga: Where can I
learn telegraphy? How long to learn? How
much wilt it cost? Does the institutions fur
nish positions for its graduates? What is an
operator’s salary ? Please answer and oblige.
Address scch questions to some telegraphic
operator, or to any school that you may know
about. Come to Atlanta and see some opera
tors for yourself, and it will be far more satis
factory to you than anything we can write on
the subject.
Florida Water.
H J. S , Martinsville, Va : I have need of
perfumery in quantities, and would like to
know bow to make it. I like “Florida Wa
ter.” Would you please tell me how to make
something ef the kind?
See Dick’s Encyclopedia of Practical Re
ceipts and Processes. For Florida water there
are several recipes. We give one: Dissolve
in half gallon 90 per cent, alcohol, 1 ounce
each oil of lavender, one of bergamot and one
of lemon; and of oil of cloves and cinnamon,
1 drachm each; aid gallon of water and filter.
Cleopatra’s Needle.
R. N. M., Silcan, N. C : I am a subscriber
to your paper at this office. Several of my
neighbors and myself desire to knew something
about the obelisk, called Cleopatra’s Needle.
By whom and when erected, and for what pur
pose; its height and descriptions in general.
This ancient Egyptian ob< lisk, one of two
which were brought from Heliopolis to Alex
andria by one of the Caesar’s, stood on the
sands. The companion obelisk having fallen,
was embedded and preserved in these sands.
Cleopatra's needle is 70 feet high. It is about
3000 years old, as near as we can come. Bead
the American Cyclopedia fir all the facts. Too
long to be published in our columns. Don’t
send any more questions on postal cards.
Negro Race.
R. W. B., Wild Wood, Fla.: Will you let
me know through the columns of your valuable
paper, where the negro sprung from?
Just where the rest of the human race sprung
from, if they sprang at all. The negro belongs
to the genus homo, and when it is known as a
fact where and how and at what time the
world was peopled, then we will know all
about all races of men. The Garden of Eden
tells the only story of the creation of the hu
man race, and if that statement is not satisfac
tory, we refer you to Darwin and those who
think like him. Man was a special creation,
in our opinion, and we do not take much stock
in the speculations of the day. Ton should be
more interested in knowing where you are go
ing after death, rather than where you origin
ally came from. The Bible is about the best
book on that point that we have yet seen.
Answers Snails- Ants.
M., Louisburg, N. C.: You ask for the
works of George Egbert Craddock. I think
yon ar« mistaken. Miss Murfree is known as
“Charles Egbert Craddock,” Bristol, Tenn.
You can prevent snails from ascending or
descending brick walls by sprinkling salt
around where they frequent. Wash the walls
with strong salt water, and they will never at-
ti mpt to ascend. To sprinkle salt over snails
will desolve them at once; for they soon be
come a mass of jelly.
To prevent small ants from visiting sweet
meats in store-iooms, spiinkie lime in shall w
boxes, or on the sheivep, with slips of paste
board placed promiscuously about so as to
prevent the vessels from coming in contact
with the lime, and at the same time be careful
and not led the paste board or slips of their
wood touch the sides of the b tx, if you do, the
ants will soon find it out, and at once will
gather all their forces to bear against one
connecting point, then—good-bye sweet-meats.
Wartracb
Short Hair.
Bill Short, Opelika, Ala.: A question in dis
pute is this: Some hold that cutting the hair
increases its growth, others that it does not.
Who is right?
We do not see that cutting the hair increases
its growth, nor does shaving bring out beard.
It is an old idea based on false ideas of nature
and nature’s laws. How does cutting hair in
crease its growth? We say so because we can
more easily see a thing grow when short than
long. But really the cutting retards. Take, for
instance, a wheat field of an acre, and cut a
part once or twice and let the other grow, and
you will see the difference in favor of the uncut
wheat.
To keep the hair cut close in summer is to
invite sunstroke, headache, etc., for our hair is
a protection to our heads every way. Bald-
headed men suffer more with heat than those
with a full head of hair; and those who have to
be exposed to the sun should never cut their
hair too close. Beard is a protection to the
face, and a mustache is a preventative against
dust getting into our nostrils. Young men im
agine that, by shaving, their beard will grow
faster and get thicker—a great mistake as to
facts. The beard is of course thickening every
day until it gets its full growth on the face.
Let it alone, and nature will give you all the
beard you will ever have. Sha7ing is but a
waste of time.
One idea more, and that is let your hair grow
to a certain length to protect the head, and, if
expesed to outdoor work, wear a broadbrim
hat to protect the back part of your neck.
Sunstroke is intimately connected with the
spine; so protect head, neck and shoulders.
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CUMBERLAND ISLAND,
The Gem of the Atlantic,
O FFERS MORE ATTRACTIONS T3AN ANY
seaside resi r: in ihe south. To me cuhIo^s man,
whose mind aud brain need rest, and io Ihe inva
lid, dyspeptic, asthmatic .-mn nervous sufferers there
Is no place lise Cumberland with Us bracing gait
air, surf b- thing, bo iting, Bshlog, shootiag and out
door sports. We have fcere
THE FINEST BEACH IN IHE WORLD
350 feet In width uod extending to old Dunclness 22
mites, lined with beautiful shells of e.vi-rv 'ueseriu-
tlon, aud formiugrbehandsom-stdrive on 'he Amer
ican coast. Tne bathing n the-urt here is oellc'ous
and invigorating aud the gemiv sloping beach
makes It perfectly saP* even for mils children.
THE HUNTING AND FISHING
Are unsurpassed. Every Variety of salt water fish
abounds if re, as well as every s'eciss of gace from
the deer, black bear and pelican cowu to the rice
bird and sand pipers, ana tne visit or can find royal
sport with rod or gun everv day in tue year.
THE HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
Are now ample. In adaptor to the former buildings
and cottages, the proprietors have eiec ed a large
and handsome two story blinding with 12 to 15 Urge
rooms, and a donole colonado on all sides, and
a dining hall 40x60 leet, with a seating capacity for
300 guests.
RAILROAD AND BOAT CONNECTIONS.
Visitors can reach here via Brunswick aud Savan
nah. Close connection Is ramie at Brunswick daliy
with the s'aunch and first-class steamer “City ef
Brunswick.”
Ample conveyances with good drivers meet the
boat dally at the landing.
Sal: boats, fishing boats and racing boats always
a' the hotel wharf.
fS^Bttes ot board, only (2 per day or $18 per week.
For further lnforma'lnn nddrevn
W. H BUNKLEY. Proprietor,
Bnnkley P. O , Cumberland Island, Ga.
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