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4 THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 1887 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BUSINESS OFFICE 21 MARIETTA ST. J. M.SEALS. - - - - - ' EDITOR. Terms: . Two dollar, per Annum. One dollar for Six op Advertising: Tan oanta per Line. Seventy-live cent* per Inch. *' BT’Bobecribere should always give Jjjj® t ”Erious thaportofflce to which their W*™ "«1“ disremml dalan and Inaonraciee are apt to follow a ajsregao. "fthu rule. Among thousands of Mrtain dlffloult to find a particular name without a certain ifBQti, ind name both offin**. - TO CONTRIBUTORS. Write as plainly at possible on one tide oj the pap,r. and use paper of medium «"*>«• °° %ZpourMSS. Fold them flatly ^olUdpageis troublesome both to reader and printer. Letter tite paper is most preferred. It is well to write the name of the MSS. at the top of each page; the page, ehould be carefully numbered according to their regular sequence. The writer’ e real name and res- UXence should be written on the MSS., as tetters are sometimes misplaced. If a nom de plume is used, it should be written directly under the title. It must jj distinctly stated whether pay is expected for MSS. tent tn. We cannot return MSS., nor be responsible (or them when sent in voluntarily, unless specially re- guested to do so and in such cases stamps must be Inclosed. The writer ehould always keep a copy. Addreee all letters concerning the paper and make all bills payable to Send us Names on a Postal Card. We will esteem it a special favor if each of our subscribers will take a postal card and write on it, plainly, the names and post of fices of a few good people and mail it to us at once. We will send them sample copies of the Sunni South with supplement and list of presents. Who Will Win the Pony and Saddle? All the boys and girls should begin to stir themselves in order to secure the pony, bridle and saddle. It will be a present that any boy or girl would be proud of and now let us see whether a boy or a girl will get it. No Lottery. This is no lottery scheme, nor game of chance, nor anything on that line, but simply a free and. voluntary distribution of presents among our patrons for their liberal and hearty patronage of this paper. The plan of drawing is adopted simply as a means of deciding to whom any particular present is to go. The pa trons risk nothing and pay nothing for these presents. To Old Subscribers. We feel a special interest in all whose names are now upon our books. They seem like old personal acquaintances and warm friends, and every one of them must be represented in this distribution. If any have paid too far ahead to renew again they must send in a few new subscribers. Remember that each and every subscriber sent, whether new or renewal, se cures a ticket for the one sending it. Some old subscribers have recently paid several years The Florida Times-Union. In this day of general progress and “booms,” when the South seems to be receiving new blood, and to be taking on a new growth, when the press at prominent points in eaeh State.is issuing extra, or “Trade” editions, it is gratifying to observe that the leading jour nal in Florida, determined not to be outdone has sent out a splendid “Trade” number. The number of the Florida Times-Union, October 21 st, contains twenty-four well-filled pages. While a beautiful specimen of newspa per typography, and of careful and laborious editorial labor, it illustrates and demonstrates the enterprise and liberality of her business men, the appreciation of her citizens, and the prosperity and progress of Florida. We heart ily congratulate oar Jacksonville contempora ry on the substantial evidence bia paper affords of the generous support of the people, and the assured permanency and prosperity of his paper. It affords us pleasure to say that we always welcome the Times-Union, in which we almost always find something that we wish the read ers of the Sunny South to know, too. And when we seek for special news, or from a par ticular locality, we are seldom, if ever, disap pointed. Our much esteemed contemporary is assured of our sincere wishes for continued and always increasing prosperity and in fluence. You Cannot See from Two Points at Once. Of course bigotry is not lovely. It is fully admitted that people who consider all who dif fer with them as hypocrites or fools, are neither very amiable nor very sensible. But it is most desirable that one should have hon est convictions; and that he should not be ashamed or afraid to express them on proper occasions. If, then, he be fully persuaded that be is right, he cannot do otherwise than think his opponent wrong. He is altogether unable to view a matter from his own stand point and from that of one from whom he dif fers at the same time. He must see the stars of his firmament as they appear to him; haw they appear to bis antipode, he cannot guess. He cannot comprehend how it is, that what are to him truths established upon the sound est logic, are to his neighbor the flimsiest of sophisms. Thus are the teachings of History interpreted according to the education of him who reads. Almost every incident in the policy of Euro, pean states for the last four centuries, is seen differently as viewed from Catholic or Protest ant standpoints. Those who took opposite sides in onr war between the States, will never be able to agree in regard to the causes which led to that great struggle. So long as men shall continue to think of it and to write of it, will the one regard it as a justifiable protest against oppression, and the other think it an obstinate determination to perpetuate an ini quitous policy. Books written by the thou sand and speeches made by the million, will never bring one of these to see this question as it appears to the other. As near as they can come to this, is for each to admit that the other is honest, and really discerns as he claims to do. Liberality of sentiment does not require us to admit that others are as near right as we think ourselves to be; but it does require us to appreciate that all cannot see the world through the same glasses, nor wear clothes cut by the same pattern. German Revision of the Bible. iii advance. You Get What You Pay For. If you get no premium at ail you lose noth ing, because you risk nothing. You do not pay anything for your 2,000 chances. You pay for the Sunny South which you will get for on6 year, and it is richly worth ten times the amount you pay. It is a paper which you ought to patronize freely and liberally, and in doing so now, you secure many chances to make $100 in gold or some other valuable pre mium. Every one whose name is in the box will stand not one chance simply, but 2,000 good chances. There are 2,000 valuable pres ents, and 2,000 names will be drawn out, and every time the band goes in for a name you stand a chance. Why, then, may not you, as well as any one else, g6t a present? The per son who sends in only one name or simply his own subscription may get the $100 in gold. A Far Away Good Night. A dearly beloved friend in Illinois, in clos ing his letter to the Editor of this paper says— Good night to you, my far off friend, Between us broad blue rivers flow: Forests wave and plains extend. And mountains in the sunlight glow. How the President Shakes Hands. President Cleveland tells a curicus thing as to the effect of shaking hands with a crowd: “It does not produce pain,” he said, “in the hand or arm I shake with, but gives me severe pain in the opposite shoulder. When long continued it also produces a hot, stinging sen sation in the knee and thigh of the opposite leg.” Befusing the Better—Taking the Worse. It is no very unusual thing for ladies to please nobody but themselves in the choice of husbands, and we fear that in the majority of these cases, the pleasure they bring themselves is of very short continuance. Outsiders can generally see the fearful risks to which a lady is exposing her happiness, by marrying, more clearly than she can. They often know that the man who is courting her favor by the graceful flattery of a smart tongue, is essenti ally base of heart and capable of the most ex acting tyranny. Fortunate would it be for many a woman could she be armed with an Ithuriel spear which would fcrce these de signing hypocrits to assume their true shape. But so far from possessing such a gift, they lend kindly listening ears to these falsely charming swains, turning the meanwhile away from those who would woo with honest words. It is sad to see true, honest, loyal maidens make this mistake of refusing the better and taking the worse. Still more sad is it to see one who has attained to years of mature wo manhood, when the judgment should he sound and the impulses restrained, yield to the se ductions of a scamp who may talk of love elo quently, but whose affections are all set on the money of which marriage will give them the handling. Good, noble women sometimes make such blunders. The worthy applicants have no pleasing arts while the unworthy- have, and because they are pleased for the time, they give the assent that they cannot recall. Not seldom they make the mistake in ignorance, because no one has been friend enough to give needed information. For the Sunny South. RAY. The fields are drest In subdued garb to day— Tne birds seek Soutbern climes ov fleetest wing; My life seems but a sad and * astea tblng, And ail my song a weird and mournful lay. Because, dear one, thou art not wltb ire nere— Because no more thy smiling face I see; The sweetest buds are faded, dead and sere, And dull and desolate the dreary lea. Yet come to me. sweet love, and darkest night Shall melt and merge Itself l:-.to the day, And brightest sunshine gladden all my way, And every path be fired with fond dellgnt; More dear thou art than gold or diadems, And lovelier than pearls or costly gems. Luther G. Riggs. The work of revising the Bible in the German language seems to he approaching completion. At a plenary meeting of the Commission, held at Cologne recently, the revisers began the third and last reading of the Old Testament, taking first Isaiah and the Fsalms. The for mer book was finished and the latter half com pleted. Another sitting will be held in the antnmn, and then the reading of the Fsalms will be resumed, and the third reading of Jere miah, Ezekiel and several of the minor proph ets be proceeded with. Sub-commissions have been appointed to read Jeremiah and Genesis, and these will bold sittings in the autumn. It has been found expedient that a commission of scholars, well acquainted with the language of Luther and the requirements of the present age, should be appointed to decide on various questions affecting the diction of the sample Bible which is being prepared, and the minis ter of public worship has agreed to defray all incidental expenses. It is remarkable that the revision given to the English-speaking people of the world only a few years ago seems to have already almost passed out of view. The translation was al most universally commended by biblical schol ars and theologians, and large numbers of cop ies of the version were sold. But it failed to supersede the old one, and it is said that it has never been synodically approved by the estab lished church of England that took the initia tive in the work of revision. Neither has it ever been formally adopted by any Protestant denomination for use in churches and Sunday schools. A writer in The Forum assigns as reasons for these failures that too many changes were introduced to suit some and not enough to satisfy others, while he thinks the poelry of many passages was impaired by giv ing them a too literal translation, since a cer tain degree of obscurity serves to give a charm to the expression of poetical sentiment. Still there seems some other reason why this excel lent translation should not be popular. What is it? Bad Spelling on Principle. An anecdote was current many years ago that a young man of considerable promise had failed to graduate from the University of Vir ginia because he had acquired the bad habit of spelling badly and could not conquer the habit. If ail institutions should adopt as rigid a rule as that many a fellow would find it difficult to get his “sheep skin.” Many men grow care less after they leave school and acquire very slovenly habits in composition, not the least noticeable of which is the misspelling of even common words. Greatly as this detracts from the force and elegance of a writer, it is not so had as the “bad spelling on principle” noticed by the New York Commercial-Gazette in the following article: We have received a very courteous circular from the publisher of Spelling, a journal “de voted to the simplification of orthografy.” That is the way the word orthography is spelt in the circular, but curiously euough “philolo gist” in the same document has its orthodox ph. Why the distinction is made we can not guess, and we are still more puzzled when we read: “Are you interested enuf to wish to see our magazine regularly? If you ar,” etc. Why “.are” in one sentence and “ar” in the next? We suspect that the fact is that while almost anybody can spell badly in an irregular way, it is very difficult indeed to spell badly after any consistent sjstem, and although systemat ic bad spelling is advocated partly upon the ground that it saves work in learning how to spell, we shrewdly suspect that it does nothing of the kind, but makes work rather. At the very least it compels an inordinate and dis tracting attention to the exact sound of words and the precise force of letters, which must de stroy ail possibility of worthy thinkiDg on the part of any one who has once learned to spell correctly and who afterward attempts to spell badly in conformity with any phonetic By stem. We have never yet known a spelling reformer who could write rapidly and spell according to any one of the several reform systems. As to the inconsistency of spelling some words phonetically while leaving others in con ventional form, that has been pointed out a thousand times, and yet no two spelling re- tortrers seem q riie served as to how far tl-e phonetic principle shall be followed. Worse I than that, no one of them seems in rational 1 agreement even with himself. If the ough of j enough is an abomination to be got rid of by | writing “enuf” as is done iu this circular, why • is not “business” an equally objectionable form? The circular writer spells that word | correctly and does not venture upon “bizoess.” ] The circular tells us that this reform needs j the sympathy of the newspaper pres3. For re ply we assure the editor and publisher that it has not the sympathy of the newspapers, and never will have, simply because it is an at tempt to make water run up hill, to reverse the order of nature, to do by mechanical effort that which can only be done by natural growth. Changes in language, whether of form or of substance, occur continually, so long as the language fives; but they occur as changes in tree forms do, by processes of growth, prompted and directed by nature, and not by any association or propaganda. Eng lish speaking men have dropped the k from such words as public, almanac, etc., not be cause the dictionaries directed them to do so, for, on the contrary, the dictionaries were very slow indeed to follow usage in that respect, but because that seemed to a great multitude of p 3ople to be the better thing to do. So the elision of u from such words as honor, labor, etc., promises to become universal without the aid of any missionary society. The spelling of English will slowly change in the future as it hae done in the past, without the aid of organ ized reform, and it will take such directions as nature may suggest, in spite of all the attempts of all the cranks in Christendom to direct it. The very best thing to do is to let nature alone. How About This? An Atlanta paper says: We understand that a correspondent of the Savannah News says that when the military of that city got ready to leave Atlanta, they found a tremen dous crowd barring their way at the entrance to the passenger depot. The people were packed and jammed—in fact, there was a tre mendous crush—but the correspondent, we are informed (our copy of the News having been mislaid), states that the Savannah milita ry were ordered to fix bayonets and make a way through the crowd. It is said that they succeeded in accomplish ing this feat after prodding a great many peo ple in the legs. We are inclined to believe that the correspondent of the News is mista ken. We do not believe that the Savannah military, representing the flower of our chival ry, as we may say, could have so far forgotten themselves as to make a charge with fixed bay onets on a helpless crowd of men, women and children. Undoubtedly the correspondent has been misinformed. We should be sorry to know that there was any such display of un authorized force on the part of any military organization. Snubbing in Atlanta. The New York World says the social dis turbance which Tresident Cleveland has left behind him is likely to linger for a long time. When it was first ascertained that President Cleveland would visit the city the Capital City Club, a body of limited membership, requested the privilege of giving the main social reception to the President and his wife. It was not un til the President was almost in sight that the people awoke to the fact that his reception was in the hands of a close corporation, which had regard for neither rank nor station. The tickets to the reception were distributed to the private and inconsequential friends and rela tives of the members, to the neglect of the vis iting Governors and invited guests of promi nence. Governor Taylor and staff were com pletely ignored, while even the staff of Gov ernor Gordon had to cool its heels on the side walk. The story of the neglect of Governor Taylor is no less remarkable than the snub bing of Mayor John Tylor Cooper. In every city visited by President Cleveland he was welcomed by the Mayor on behalf of the citi zens. The Atlanta receptions were remark able all the way through for the neglect of At lanta’s chief executive. He did not figure at the reception on the night of President Cleve land’s arrival, nor was he a guest at either of the dinners given in the President's honor. This is the more remarkable from the fact that the Mayor is a man of distinguished family, biing one of the few members of the Society of the Cincinnati in Georgia and a descendant of the Tyler and Cooper families. Portrait Painting. Editor Sunny Soum: The clustering au tumn foliage, gay with the glowing, colors of brown, yellow and red, whisper at my window, as I write you. I have been painting all the forenoon on the portrait of a friend, and the clear, calm, beau tiful eyes, brown, sentient eyes are gazing at me now from the canvas, as if reproaching me for leaving the fair face unfinished. The lovely hair lies in soft rings on the intellectual brow, and the refined soul speaks even in this, as yet, imperfect picture; and pleased, satisfied with my work, my fancy leaps ahead and lays on the delicate, transparent shadows and glow ing lights, until an ideal picture, more beauti ful than ever artist painted, stands before me. Ah! me, this long, life struggle after the ideal, that peifection never attained. To an art-loving nature, nothing else can supply the pleasure that art study gives. The delight, the proud gladness of realizing that success is won, is not so sensibly felt in any other profession. On the other hand, how ever, no study gives such keen disappointment, such chagrin at failure, such nervous reaching after nature’s perfections, that, will-o’-wisp- like, elude the grasp. I recall an incident that awoke my deepest sympathy for a cultured, refined lady, but which, nevertheless, excited my risibles be yond control. In a college town, in our fair Southland, was held that pleasant yearly meeting—an Agri cultural Fair—at which every imaginable pro duct of the fields and stock-farms was dis played. In the Town Hall was a separate ex hibit of woman’s handiwork-embracing every thing from pickles and jam, light-bread and cake, paper flowers and crochet, patch work at.d plain sewing, embroidery and crazy work, to drawing and paintings. I had a friend, a beautiful friend, who had an artist’s soul hid away somewhere amid her velvets and laces, and despite all fashion’s de mands, she would occasionally wield a pencil and brush. We met at the Fair, and I found her full of the sweet, little social airs and graces for which she was noted. Adjusting her pretty wrap gracefully, and lifting her big blue eyes to mine with as much elation as good taste would allow, she pointed out the exhibit to me—her latest work—a pic ture of an old white-haired man, dear to her, but of an unlovely aspect. He had a hard, cold face, full of harsh lines—a face that looked as if it could grind the face of the poor! She had painted his likeness truly, but in dull, gray, purple colors that made him look hideous. We were standing in front of it; and I really felt quite sad over the poor old sinner, although I honestly tried to say something kind to my friend, when the piess of people attracted our attention. We both turned at once, just in time to see a roguish, boyish face, and a mo* significant finger pointing at the portrait above us; and a gay voice cried: “Everything is lovely and the goose hangs high!” We both laughed, for we could not help it; but my friend flushed a little, too, and I saw distress written beneath her smiling exterior. “Boys always manage to say the wrong thing,” I said, as calmly as I could, and then hoping to divert her attention, I thought to lead tne way to the floral display, which was really tine. But alas for the success of my good intentions! We got into a jam not two yards from the fateful picture, which to my distress and amusement, I saw attracting all eyes. “A portrait of old Col. Smyth, eh? ’ one man said. “Weil, I am no judge, but let no man dare paint me until I am dead'." “ That is just what strikes me about Smyth’s picture,” another answered, “he looks as if he had been dead a day or so!” The whole crowd giggled, looked, and gig gled again. “I shail have that picture down!” my friend said, thoroughly indignant, and she disappeared in the crowd. Presently I saw a ladder lifted beside the wall, and a negro man stepped up half-way its height, paused, grinned, looked down at his associate, and said in a clear undertone: “Here, nigger, y- u hold fast to dis yer lad der while I cut de ole tnan down! I knowed he war er gwine to git hung some day, if he kep on, an’ sho’ ’nuf he has cum to it at las’!” Nettie Loveless Kierulff. Athens Female College, Athens, Ala. A Voice from Texas. In the Scnnt South of the 15th inst., T. W. Moore, the pastor of J. Wofford Tucker, at tempts to tell a “Mister Jingo” who J. Wof ford Tucker is. Mr. Moore feels "amused and perplexed that any one, between our two great seas, could be so ignorant as to ask such a question,” then goes on to state bow Judge Tucker had been engaged in the great temperance movements; how he had written for the religious papers; how he had helped on the higher education of the South by organizing one of the jirst male colleges and afterwards was the president of one of the best female colleges; and how he had, at one time, been the “editor of one of the most widely circulated Westerij journals.” During the last illness of Gen, Grant, his ne gro servant became known, all over the nation, by the faithful manner in which he served his master. The Rev. T. W. Moore seems to want to gain distinction by virtue of being the pas tor of J. Wofford Tucker. Who is Judge Tucker as Mr. Moore calls him? I have asked several, who, even with their “eery slight reading of Texas papers,” could not tell me. so “Mister Jingo,” although he be “not a colwred gentleman, nor a Mexican, nor a Dutchman, but a foreigner from some country much lower than fifteen feet below sea level,” need not feel embarrassed because he did not know the learned gentleman. If J. Wofford Tucker’s celebrety is based upon the puerile response to Ex-President Da vis’ letter, then he will not live long in the hearts of the Southern people. The reply of Judge Tucker to Mr. Davis is not only weak but is false in many respects. The letter of Mr. Davis was not “written and then held in secret till just in time to reach the white vo ters,” and even if it had been, is it thought the letter “not containing one new suggestion,” although coming from a man whom the people of Texas revere, and who stands to day without au equal on the American continent, and equal to the great English statesman, Gladstone, would change the “will of an enlightened peo ple?” By referring to Mr. Davis’ letter, it will be seen that he speaks of receiving Col. Lub bock’s letter with its enclosure. Now, the en closure was a letter written at this place, ad dressed to Coi. Lubbock, asking him to get an expression front Mr. Davis, if he could. The date of Mr. Davis’ letter was July 20th, and the letter was read at Fort Worth, Texas, on the 2<>th of July; so it will be seen that the letter was not “held in secret” long. There was no earthly use to hold it in secret for its effect, if any it had, could not have been changed. Now, as to whether the highest tribunal has decided the matter of St .te prohibition as to the manufacture and sale of vinous, spirituous or malt liquors or not, is a disputed question. Judge Tucker doubtless bases his conclusion upon the celebrated License Cases in V. How ard. The Judge had better read the cases again; yet it would be useless for him to do so, if he cannot distinguish between quarantining an infectious disease, which is regulation, and prohibition—which is absolute; or if he can mak6 nothing out. of “the influences of educa tion and Christianity” being the “blessed handmaidens of virtue and morality” but “the twin handmaidens of education and religion.” The Judge will have to get the assistance of his pastor, Mr. Moore, before he can account for the large anti-prohibition majority, even with the “ignorant negroes and Mexican greasers, and stupid foreigners who think lib erty means license, and Texas Mormons who are a stench in the nostrils of Christian civili zation;” and furthermore they (Tucker and Moore) will then have to add their imaginations to the New York Evening Post. Brown F. Lee. Belton, Texas, Oct. 17th. WEDDED TWICE. A Catholic and a Protestant Married in Both Creeds. Mr. Martin F. Amorous, well known in At lanta’s commercial and social circles, and Miss Emma Kate Williams, a reigning society belle of Montgomery, Ala., were united in marriage twice yesterday—the first ceremony occurring at the Rev. Father McMahon’s residence, on Marietta street, and the second at the First Baptist church. Difference in the religious creeds of the con tracting parties was the cause for the mar riages. Mr. Amorous is a member of the Catholic church, while hashride le dsaply entrenched ii. her Protestant faith. In all other respects they were well mated; and rather than remain sep arated on account of the difference in their creed, they decided to marry according to the requirements of both churches. Bat the affair has created something of a sensation among the Catholics. The bride came to Atlanta, just before the Exposition opened, as the guest of Miss Ida Hightower, at her suburban home in Edge- wood. She and Miss Hightower were warm friends, and have before exchanged visits, and upon a former visit Mr. Amorous became ac quainted with her. A mutual attachment re sulted and an engagement ensued, but for some cause the parties determined not to allow any one to know of the engagement. When the lady came to Atlanta, a few weeks ago, Mr. Amorous insisted upon shortening the time and the lady consented. Then they both de cided to retain the secret until the very day of the wedding. The promise was violated by neither one, and yesterday morning only the bride’s father and three or four intimate friends, who had been called to Atlanta from Montgomery, knew anything of the contem plated marriage. No one, however, who knew either party, felt anything but pleasure when the announcement was made. At ten o’clock the carriages containing the bridal party drew up in front of the Rev. Father McMahon’s residence on Marietta street. There were in the party Mr. Amorous and Miss Wil- l ! ams, Mr. Morris Brandon and Miss Claudia Lewis, of Montgomery; Mr. W. H. Williams, the bride’s father; Mrs. J. M. DeCastle, of Montgomery; Mrs H. H. Hightower, Miss Ida Hightower, Miss Nellie Hayden and Mr. J. P. Hightower, of Atlanta; Mr. D. C. Bacon and Mr. H. P. Smark, of Augusta. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Father McMahon, and then the party returned to the carriage and was driven to the First Baptist church, where the bride and groom were again united, the Rev. Dr. Hawthorne officiating. After the second ceremony the party was driven to Mr. Amorous’ home on Ivy street, at Baker, where a most delightful lunch was served and a pleasant afternoon was spent. In the after noon Mr. and Mrs. Amorous left for a bridal tour through the East, and will remain away about two weeks. But now for the sensational feature. The marriage was published in the af.er- noon Journal, wherein it was said that the ceremony was performed by Rev. P. H. Mc Mahon, assisted by Dr. J. B. Hawthorne. The Catholic church does not permit a priest to take part in a marriage wherein a Protestant minister officiates. After the Journal reached Father McMahon he read the account of the marriage, not having seen Dr. Hawthorne present, and realizing that the publication had placed him in an improper and unpleasant po sition, began an investigation. During the evening he was encountered by a Constitution reporter, and in the conversation some refer ence was made to the marriage. “I am glad you have mentioned that,” said Father McMahon, “because I want to say that Dr. Hawthorne was not present acd that no minister assisted in the marriage. Mr. Amor ous arranged with me yesterday to perform the ceremony; the bride signed all the papers which a Protestant is required to sign : I mar ried them according to the strict rule of the church, and do not know Dr. Hawthorne in the matter. From Mr. Amorous’ representa tions to me, 1 do not believe that any such affair took place. I utterly disavow all partic ipation in such a ceremony a9 the Journal arti cle would intimate. I hold the iiceuse which I have signed and which I will turn into the officers to-morrow.” From Dr. Hawthorne it was ascertained that he had no knowledge of a previous mar riage; that the party called on him in his study, armed with, a regularly issued marriage license, and he married them under the au thority there given. From this it appears that Mr. Amorous was married twice to the same lady in the same day, and likewise that Ordinary Calhoun will to-day be called upon by two clergymen with two conflicting licenses, who will ask him to decide which is the genuine one. Amid a brilliant display of diamonds at the Rothschild wedding, in Paris, lately, the Grand Rabbi of India out-dazzled every one else present with about a half pint of first water gems that he had stuck about his turban. PERSONAL MENTION? What the People Are Dorn? and Saying. Count von Moltke celebrated his STth birth day Oct. 20. Senator Hale sailed from Liverpool for this country on the 22ad, with his family. Gen. Lew Wallace has received $37,000 as royalties on “Ben Hur,” the sales of which have reached nearly 200,000 copies. Sir Thomas H. G. Esmonde and Mr. Ar thur O'Connor, M. P., will have a grand pub lic reception at Chicago on October 28. Ivan Panin, a youDg Russian graduate of Harvard, is about to deliver a course of lec tures in Boston on the great writers of his country. The King of Corea, furnished his winter palace with $18 000 worth of American chairs, beds and tables. He also bought an Ameri can steamer for §28,000. The Princess of Wales and her daughters will be able to return to England from Copen hagen i a time to celebrate tne anniversary of the Prince of Wales’ birth, Nov. 9. Hagop Bogigian, a wealthy Turk, who had renounced the Mohammedan faith, was mar ried this week to Miss Julia Carrigan, sister of a well-known citizen of Naugaluck, Conn. Mr. Blaine, who is now in Paris, will remain tnere for some weeks, owing, it is said to Mrs. Blaine’s bad health. They will go to the Riviera as soon as the regular season there be gins. Rev. Mr. Talmage, Mr. Conkling and Gen. B. A. Pryor are among the signatures to a meeting of sympathy for the condemned An archists who are under sentence of death in Chicago. Mrs. Fernando Yznaga has just obtained a divorce in the California courts. She was the favorite sister of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, and Mr. Yznaga is a brother to tne Duchess of Manchester. Lady Randolph Churchill is understood to be averse to visiting New York. She will have to accept many invitations from people who are fishing for a return in kind at the next Lon don season. How many fcols does it take to constitute a public? qnerried some cynic. There is some trutn as well as some ill-nature in the question. The best people and the most sensible ought to direct opinion. But it is rather rare that this state of things exists. Catholicity of religious sentiment is a very fine thing, and its opposite often presents itself in extremely ugly forms; but fervent zeal is almost sure to beget some bigotry. Had the early Christians thought that any religion would do half so well as theirs, they would not so have suffered and dared for its propagation. “An agreeable French woman,” says some writer, “is a triumph of civilization.” We do not know. There are women whose goodness rendeis them agreeable without any high cul ture, and there are women who are unpleas ant because of the tricks and manners that are acquired in what is called high life. A woman must cultivate her heart if she would be very agreeable. A gentleman who is the pleased owner of a line pointer dog, walking up a' prominent thoroughfare a few days ago accompanied by the pet of his kennel, was surprised and not a little annoyed when his dog suddenly came to a “point” on agentleman they met. he a city here. And this report is said to be sustained by subsequent facts, for years after wards he purchased a large portion of the land which now constitutes the town, and erected a brick residence upon it, where, as I have been informed, he resided for some years, and laid off a city, a map of which is extant here. The traveler who, journeying to the new Mecca of North Alabama, stops at the ancient village of Tuscnmbia, and starts for Sheffield in a crowded bus, can behold the Jackson res idence as he enters the broad domains of the new city. It is an old fashioned two-story, high gabled brick edifice with the chimneys outside, such a house, in short, as our fore fathers were accustomed to build in the days when men labored to make their places of abode as inconvenient, and bleak, and ghostly and ghastly as possible. Baptised While in Chains. On the 14th of last month Charley Edwards, colored, was hung in Clarkesville, Ga., for the murder of William Echols. In connection with this case we have the following sensation al incident. The day before the execution Thomas Scott, colored, of Toccoa, arrived at the jail where Charley Edwards was confined. He had been sent for by Charley for the purpose of baptiz ing him. The authorities granted him that privilege, and the male members of the colored Baptist church went to work building a dam across the branch, just below the jail, for the occasion. The hour of twelve came, and with chain around his neck, accompanied by the sheriff, his deputy, and a guard of five, with double-barrel guns, Charley came out of the jail and slowly walked down to the water’s edge. He stood by the side of the old preach er, looking calm, not in the least excited. The third chapter of Matthew was read, af ter which the preacher said: “Charley says he found Jesus precious to his soul on July the 7th, and let us pray.” The prayer was fervent and earnest. Ho then sang, assisted by the surrounding few Down to the sacred way, The Lord of him was led. He then went down into the water, am. Charley was baptized. He rose and immeai. atelv exclaimed: “Glory, glory to God!” Then with a more satisfied look he was let! back to the cell to spend his last night this side of eternity. Archbishop Casinavo, who has been ban ished irom Guatemala, has arrived at San Francisco. He says the country has practi cally gone to rack and ruin since Barrios’ un timely death. Countess Christine Nilsson de Casa Mirande is seriously ill in Paris. A fe w weeks ago she took a severe cold at Interlaken, and since her arrival in Paris she has suffered intensely with abscesses in her ear. William M. Singerly, of the Philadelphia Record, has purchased fifty blooded colts rear ed amid the blue grass section of Kentucky, and transferred them to his farm in Montgom ery county, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Phelps is highly popular in London. Her afternoon teas are attended by the very smartest people, and she goes to all the best houses on her own merits as well as on her husband’s official standing. President Barnard, of Columbia College, has prepared lor the Forum for November a sharp article on the Knights of Labor, in which he charges them with “blockading industry” and “attempting to coerce society.” Henry W. Bishop, a native of Berkshire county, Mass., and leading lawyer of Chicago, proposes to erect and equip, at a cost of not less than §25,000, a training school for nurses in connection with the Pittsfield (Mass.) House of Mercy. Miss Lucy Baumann is one of the richest young women in California. She resides in San Francisco, and owns no less than 28,000 acres of land in the interior counties, not to mention a big block of stock in a line of coast steamers. Lieut. Foulke, who is a diplomat and lands man during his services and naval attache of the United States Legation in Corea, was for a part of the time acting Minister, is going to marry a Japanese girl at Nagasaki, who helped him to study her language. The re-election of Leonard W. Jerome as President of the Coney Island Jockey Club, this week, is a just recognition. Mr. Jerome is practically the father of the American turf. He was the first man to drive a nail in the cof fin of dishonest trotting. Col. Charles Marshall, formerly chief of staff to Gov. Lee, is credited with giving this rea son for his support of the Maryland Republi can ticket: “I am content to be governed by what they call tried Democrats, hut I am not willing to be governed by tried and convicted Democrats.” Gov. Waterman, of California, had the money in the State Treasury counted recently, and insisted upon every ssal being broken and the money in every hag actually counted. The money was all there—§1,000,000—and when the count was concluded he gave all who as sisted a fine dinner. William L. Gilbert, of Winsted, Conn., who has given $400,000 for the erection and main tenance of an orphan asylum in that place, has decided to give the town a public academy, and is arranging plans for the structure. The orphan asylum, which will be known as the Gilbert Home, will be completed in a year. P. T. Bamum has just purchased an enor mous amount of real estate in Bridgeport, Conn., on which five churches, the old court house, six livery stables, three bank buildings, all the stores on the west side of Main street, and more than 100 private residences and dwellings are located. The property is worth over §0,000,000. Ex-President James L. Clarke, of the III- inoise Central, and. Chief Engineer L. II. Clarke, of the Lake Shore, took recently one of the longest wagon rides on record. They started from Salt Lake City on July 23, and rode for fifty three days, not stopping until they arrived at Norfolk, Neb. The distance was over 1,000 miles. Count Henry de Ruolz, whose death has b=-en recorded, began life with an income of §10,000 a year; devoted himself first to musi cal composition, in which he achieved some suc cess, and afterward to scientific and mechan ical experiments, in which he invented the galvanic plating process, anlicipated Bessemer in steel-casting and produced other valuable novelties; and died at the age of 82 with hardly a dollar in the world. Matthias Splidog, the wealthy Indian rail road builder and owner, was born a Cayuga, hut joined the Wyandottes. At the age of twenty years he went to Westport Landing, now Kansas City, with 50 cents and bis clothes as his sole worldly possessions. He bought an axe on trust and went to work cutting wood for steamboats at 25 cents a cord. At that he saved money, paid for the axe, bought a pony, started a sawmill and got married. He is now enormously rich, owning a railroad, several silver mines and many blocks of property in Kansas City. Cotton Plant, Ark. Where It is and What It is Doing- Business, Schools and Society. Editor Sunny South : As I am a constant reader of your paper (and always glad when Saturday’8 mail comes to bring the Sunny South), I will give you a few items from this business little place. Never having seen any thing from this town, 1 guess I had best give you a rough sketch of it. Cotton Plant is in Woodruff county, and sit uated on the Brinkley & Batesviiie railroad ten miles North of Brinkley, which is on the M. & L. railroad, and sixteen miles East of Des Arc, on White river. The country around is thick ly settled, and the land equal to the finest farming lands in the South. The crops are cut short this year, but, notwithstanding this fact, we have shipped over 3,500 bales of cotton up to date—our usual crop being 0,000 to 7,000 bales. We have bad our usual dry summer and fall—have had rain only about twice suffi cient to lay the dust since the first of August. The leading cotton house here is Henderson, Echols & Co., who have shipped nearly one- third of the cotton received here this season. We have a fine school, of which Prof. Henry G. Porter is Principal. Four churches—one Methodist, one Baptist and two Presbyterians. Our society is good, mixed and bad. Our town is prohibition in name. We buy our “tiger juice” in Memphis, Tenn., and Newport, Ark., and. have it brought here by express. Our average daily receipts are about twenty- seven jugs of the “pisen.” Several weddings are on tapis in the near fu ture, though I cannot now give you any names. Quite a crowd went to see the President and his tady when at Memphis. All seemed satis fied with the look they had of his Excellency. Mora anon. Yours truly, Subscriber. On inquiry it was ascertained that the gen tleman’s name was l’artridge—it is quite cer tain the pointer’s demonstration made him quail. No more striking instance of the inconsis tency of men is to be found than the fact that they who are daily engaged in imposing upon people by selling them articles of food and drink which they know are not as represented, are strictly faithful in the performance of their promises. While deliberately acting lies ev ery day, they shrink from telling one now and then. They will contrive against the health and lives of thousands, but will not betray the trust of au individual. Many of the Northern papers speak of the South and of the Southern people kindly enough; but they have not yet acquired the good manners to quit speaking of the war be tween the States as “the rebellion,” and of those who participated in it as “rebels.” They should cease this rudeness. Our revolutionary sires were rebels until they succeeded, and might have been called so still had they failed. The unsuccessful are sure to be be called by harsh names whether they deserve them or not. They who forty years ago pledged them selves to the task of accomplishing a reforma tion in the matter of intemperance in drink have no reason to be discouraged. They have accomplished a great deal. Liquor selling has been rendered thoroughly disreputable, and those who wish to be esteemed as gentlemen will soon have to quit drinking. Young men whose aversion to honest work leads them fo keep bar-rooms (and we are sorry to say there are such) must give up hopes of moving in the best society. Buenos Ayres was a name which we special ly disliked in the days when we studied the earth-surface in Mitchell's geography, because of the difficulty of pronouncing it correctly. Right glad were we to learn that the country had chosen to call itself the Argentine Repub lic, but we cannot confess that thereupon arose a very great interest in its people or its pros pects. Now, however, we learn from Mr. Wiiliam Eleroy Curtis that the nation which occupies the other extremity of our continent, is making rapid strides of advancement. It is filling up with people from southern Europe, who, under the guidance of men from Eng land and the United States, are developing its resources in a wonderful degree. In her story “Narka” which has just been completed in the November number of Har per’s Weekly Magazine Kathleen O’Meara has presented a stroDg picture of the perils to which the revolutionists of Europe subject themselves, while relating an interesting story of Love and Faith. That it should not end happily was a foregone conclusion; for the conditions are such that happiness was impos sible without a total disregard to truthfulness. The high-souled daughter of Judah who would have deemed all the world well lost in ex change for love, resigned him whom her heart held most dear when she learned that her af fection was not to the full reciprocated, and thenceforth sought to iill herself with the husks of popular applause. Andrew Jackson’s Koad and Other Historical Oojects. [II. C. Fair man, in Times Democrat, Jan. ’87.] Not to speak of the Indian traditions that cluster about tho bluffs and caverns of our river front, and the vast spring which flows a full fledged river from beneath a ridge of neigh boring hills, where dwelt in ancient days the warlike tribe of Tuscumbias, the site of Shef field is indissolubly linked with one of’Ameri ca’s most illustrious names. The gray lime stone bluffs that tower magnificently on the Southern shore of the Tennessee river are here broken m many places by deep ravines that slope gradually down to the water’s edge. One of these, and probably tie most pictur esque of all is known as Andrew Jackson’s Road. About seventy years ago, Old Hickorv, on one of his celebrated expeditions to the South, crossing the river with his army, landed at. the foot of this ravine, and constructed limestone causeways over the rougher portions of the ascent to facilitate the passage of his horses and artillery. The stone walls remain to this day mute witnesses of the historic associations that haunt the spot. On a lovely afternoon last May, when the wood was decked out in full dress of softest green, and the silence and shade of the glen invited to rest and meditation, I lingered until sunset, at the place, entranced by its beauty, and the thoughts and images suggested by its past. I almost fancied I could behold the martial form of the old hero, and hear his horses’s hoofs beating the stony road; or see the blue- coated veterans blastiQg the rock and laying it in place. Plucking a broad leaf, I made a ci:p, and as I drank from the limpid spring that flows perpetually over the jagged ledges, I said reverentally to myself and half aloud: “Here seventy years ago, when our fathers were children, and when our country was a prattling child, innocent of the dangers that environed, nor dreaming of the grandeur that awaited her—here Jackson and his army, worn with the fatigues of their high mission, quenched their thirst in the wilderness.” Jackson’s road forms a part of the system of public parks reserved on the Northern border of Sheffield, and I risk but little in predicting that before many years shall have passed the statue of “Old Hickory,” will guard the wild and lonely glen made famous by association with his name and deeds. Tradition will have it, that when Gen. Jack- son marched with his men across the site which is now the city of Sheffield, he became prophetic and declared there would one day Extraordinary Club List. The Sunny South and Any Other Paper or Magazine at About the Price of One. Clubbed with Dailies at Less than the Price of One. By special arrangement with the leading publishers we are able to offer the most liberal clubbing rates that have ever been presented to the public. Examine the list and see for yourself. Any leading paper or magazine may be secured with the Sunny South at very nearly the price of one. Forinstance, the reg ular subscription price to Puck is §6 and the Sunny South §2, hut we furnish them both for §5.76, and give you a tickets in the distri bution. No subscription for less than a years will be forwarded for other publications. All complaints in regard to other papers must be addressed to the publishers of those papers, and not to the Sunny South. 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