About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1887)
THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12,1887, 5 LE1TTER5_ r W^PE0PLE Gulf Coast Marooning. Spirited Account of Two Day’3 Ma rooning in Charlotte Harbor, Florida. Editob Sunny South: One day, a few weeks ago, a trio of us arranged to take a few days cruise among the neighboring islands. The party was to consist of “Arizona,” the Colonel and mysel'; and the outfit, a frying pan, skillet, Dutch oven and coffee pot—a few cans and pans; bedding and mosquito bars (of “cheese cloth”) and such other little articles that each individual might deem necessary to his enjoyment. Supplies were—a little bacon and lard, some flour, meal, grits, coffee and sugar, with salt and condiments. We were to leave early. “Be on hand at G a. m , sharp,’’ was the parting injunction the night before. So we were; but by the time we returned for things forgotten, and got every thing snugly stored away on our craft, filled the water barrel, got our little stove in good condition, and various other things done, it was 9 o’clock before we raised our sail and stood off for the Spanish fish ranche on the east end of Sanibel island. This ranche, by the way, ships yearly large quantities of our best fish to the Havana market, regardless of the fishery laws, and there are two or three others on the harbor run by Spaniards in the same business. About 10 o’clock we landed at the ranch, and a 15 minutes walk carried us across the island to the Gulf, f, as usual, had my gun, and as we approached the beach could see through the sea-oats, a large fl >ck of snipe, plover, and sand pipers. I fire both barrels and get three nice fat birds as the re sult; the flock flew far away up the beach. But we are now after shells, and are soon busy sorting the rare ones from the thousands that are under our feet; by noon we have all we can carry, and reach the ranche hot, tired, hungry and thirsty. There is a good well of water here under the shade of the Malabar trees and at it we baited and soon all our ills were things of the past. After a hearty meal of home cooked provis ions we got aboard and sailed for Bound Bay, which is some four miles westward in same Island. In its narrow entrance, (opposite S'. James city,) we find plenty of deep water, and only a few oyster reefs to avoid. We soon glide into a beautiful land-locked sheet of water, one and one-half miles in diameter, and as we do bo, im mense schools of mullet churn the water. The surface is dotted with the dorsal fins of small shark; the porpoise gambol and play along before us; and now and then a tarpon leaps two or three feet out of the water, look ing like a mass of glistening silver. We steer straight for west side, where some palm pal mettos tower above the dark evergreen man groves. “We are near enough,” says Arizona. “Take in jib. Let go anchor.” I quickly obeyed and we swing gracefully up into the wind, and in a few minutes have our sails snugly furled. “Fish for supper? Look at that tarpon 1 What a jump! Wasn’t he a beauty?” ex claims the Colonel. “We haven’t any bait,” says Arizona, re gretfully. “If that’s all,” I replied, “I will soon get some. Get your lines ready,” and forthwith I take my guu and get in dingy and push to the shore. Under the low-hanging mangrove bushes the mullet are feeding, and I quickly select one near the surface and fire. I step over into the shallow water and feel for him, but the shot has so “riled” the water I cannot see him. I touch him—he wriggles away; again and again I miss him, but at last perseverance is re warded, and I throw him into the boat and quickly row back to the sloop. “The boys” have the lines ready and quickly cut off “chunks” of about three inches each, and with a whiz—whiz—whir-r-r! the circling hook—swung like a lasso—speeds a hundred feet into the bay. For a few moments silent expectation holds its own. Arizona gives a vigorous jerk—“Cattish!” in a tone of deep disgust; but as he speaks he repeats the jerk, and quickly hauls in, hand over hand. The line cuts the water in a gradually decreasing arc, as the fish swims to and fro in a vain en deavor to get away. “What is it?” I inquire. “Grouper. Ten pounder!” “Good! Sling him in and I’ll clean him for supper,” I offer. Before I fairly begin my task, his line is out again; it hardly settles in the water before he cries, “Je-ru-sa-fem. 1 I’ve got a buster.” I cease operations and step over to his side “He’s too strong to pull in right away I I’ll have to play him. This line cuts my hands; help me get a turn on that cleat.” I do so, remarking that it is a tarpon. He flirts and tustles. “Look out!” I exclaim as the line suddenly slacks. As I speak he leaps high out of the water fifty feet away from the boat, every nerve quivering with fear and rage. We have been too quick for him, for as iie drops back into the water the line is taught, and be has no chance to cut or break it by sudden snap, lie fairly makes the water foam with bis strug gles; hither and thither he darts; he starts out in deep water. Slowly we pay out the line, lie drags the sloop entirely around her anchor, and after ten minutes struggle we can slowly haul him in. As he comes alongside I take the gaff aud try to insert it in his gills. He resents the familiarity and struggles so hard that we give him thirty or forty feet of line He is too near exhausted for his flurry to last, and we soon have him alongside again. This time I am successful, and get gaff well into his gills; floundering and flopping, we haul him into the cock-pit. The Colonel, poor fellow—afraid to let go his line lest he should get a bite—sits “like pa tience on a monument.” While we measure and examine our trophy (five feet two inches long), he sings out: “I’ve got one! I’ve got one!” So he has. He braces himself and swings back on his line with all his weight. He sits on the extreme edge of the cabin. Like a dart his fish rushes to and fro. Suddenly it leaps from the water toward him. We have a vis ion of flying heels, aud lo! the gymnastic Col onel is standing on his head in the cock-pit. The strain on the line being relaxed, he over balanced. While he flounders in company with the fish, peals of laughter greet him, anil the tarpon frees himself from the hook and vamooses. Iu accents both loud and deep the Colonel dashe.-(?) his luck as he scrambles up. In a few moments his good nature re turns and he declares: “If you fellows think that’s funny, just you try it once! Say, I believe that was a jew fish, anyhow, for I saw his big, bulging eyes as I was performing my acrobatic feat.” “Ktfleciion of your eyes,” we answer; “they certainly bulged.” “Well, we didn’t need him, any way, as we’ve got enough to last a week,” he remarks consolingly. They proceed to butcher and prepare our “catch,” while I start ashore with the avowed intention of killing a deer. “Save all the tarpon scales,” I tell them. “Why!” asks the Colonel. “Why? Be cause they are worth from one to two cents each. Tourists buy them and a good many hotels are having their cards printed on them; aud, because being silver tipped and so large, they are nice to keep any way.” On landing ashore I find a perfect jungle—in some places wet, all of it low. I find a kind of elevation two or three feet high, composed of huge defunct concha of ages gone. Here grow cactus and sugar apple, briars and vines, etc., in tropical prolusion. Using a hatchet freely I soon clear a path through and in a half an hour penetrate two hundred yards or more, to the open prairie. The grass varies in heigbth from a few inches to six or seven feet, and cabbage Palmettos dot the surface here and there. The deer signs are numerous—in fact the beds and tracks are so plentiful as to remind one of a sheep pasture. Both barrels are now at full cock, and I glide noiselessly from one cover to another. Every nerve is on a ten sion—the eye alert. Any moment may bring the game in view. The shadows of evening lengthen, and the conch at the boat sounds and warns me supper is ready—so I reluct antly give it up and make my way the best I can to the shore. On board I find an immense pile of fresh fish, bread (from home), corn bread, grits and coffee, butter and condiments. Our best sauce is the fresh salt air and the healthful recrea tion. While regaling ourselves in primitive style, ubiquitous mu-quito puts iu an appearance and we hastily wash dishes over the boat's side and prepare our nets—and by the way, nothing thinner than “Sand Fly netting” is used here. I hoist the boom and suspend mine under it so as to cover a large part of the cabin top, and under it make down my bed. The others take the inside of the cabin. We are soon snugly stored (and snoring) away, and can listen to their musical bum with cheer fulness. Early to bed and late to rise is the rule on the Florida coast. No one attempts to get up until after sun-up and during six yi a-s’ residence I have found that those that adopt this rule are seldom, if ever, bothered with either insects or malaria. Next morning after the sun has risen we started a fire in the stove, and its smoke soon drove the insects away. I was delegated to cook while the colonel and Arizona went ashore. The former as a Nimrod, and his companion as a wood-chop per. Coffee is soon odorous, and huge bone less slices of fish nicely frying. Arizona re turns bringing a quantity of the dry, hard, button-wood that burns nearly equal to hard coal. Bang! Bang! !—a moments breathless ex pectation and then the colonel’s exultant view halloo—o—oo! ! reaches us. We seize knives and hatchet, aud hurry away to him. By a series of shouts we soon find him—on his knees over a five pronged buck—a fitting scene for a painter:—The edge of a vast prairie, the huge leaves of young palmettos, aud intense green of the swamp growth, and a half-dozen towering palmettos around, the noble buck stretched in the dewy grass, the gun against the tree, the colonel on his knees with reeking knife in hand, like some priest at the sacrificial altar. “Ain’t he a daisy?” breaks up our artistic reflections. We answer in the terse language of some un known poet—“You bet!” We make quick work dressing him and pro ceed to return to boat and breaktast; only, however, to find the fish burnt and the coffee boiled away. No matter, tenderloins of deer are so in cut and broiling, and the aroma of more coffee is wafted on the morning breeze. More anon from Ckacker. St. James City, Nov., 1887. Our Portrait Gallery. PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF DISTINGUISHED MEN AND WOMEN. Philip D. Armour. Some of the current illustrated journals have portrayed the buildings of the Armour mission houses now in course of erection iu Chicago, 111. The missions are the latest char ities of the great pork king, and his reason for building them is expressed in his own lan guage, “You see, I have been a little short in religion for some years and I thought that the best thing I could do would be to try and get even.” Mr. Philip D. Armour is a man well known to many of our readers, enjoying not only local renown but also occupying a rank of world-wide prominence. Who has not heard of the packing houses cf Philip D Ar mour? This great inaustry, established through the energy and ambition of this man. Shreveport, Louisiana. The Fair—The Entertainments—Wa ter Works and Electric Lights —NbWS. Editor Sunny South: After weeks of golden October days, which our ladies particu larly have delighted in, and rest better con tented after having balanced accounts in the calling line, this week is ushered in with rain—not light showers, but torrents. We are going to have a Fair; the efforts last year will be eclipsed this year, and it promises to be the greatest event which has occurred in this seciion of the State. Our Fair opens November 8.h, and will continue five days. The directors of the North Louisiana F’air As sociation, assisted by their active and untiring secretary, Capt. M. L. Scovell, have shown by their work and improvements on the grounds that they fully understand what is necessary to make a Fair a success. Your correspon dent hopes to dp some good work for the Sunny South while we are entertaining so many visitors. Caddo Fire Company No. 2 will give a ball on the 27th for the benefit of the company. Our firemen are all volunteers, and apprecia tion of duties well performed will secure a full attendance if prompted by no other motive. Dr. Van Dear, the Presbyterian minist r, and bis lovely wife, will celebrate their 25th marriage anniversary—or silver wedding—on the 25th of November. Neat cards printed in silver will be issued this week. It will be a delightful gathering, as the happy couple have a large circle of war n friends, although they have only been in our city a short time. The wife and children cf our worthy and popular Congressman, N. C. Blanchard, are in the city after spending the latter part of the summer in Rapides parish. They will spend several days here before returning to Wash ington. During their winter’s stay at the latter place, Mr. Blanchard will have erected a beautiful residence in Fairfield, sometimes called the hub of Shreveport. Mrs. Blanchard is a great favorite in society and gave some brilliant entertainments last winter, and her friends hope that her winter at the capital will be as pleasant as their’s was in her good so ciety here. Professor George Thatcher’s military school is flourishing. The Kindergarten feature at the Shreveport Seminary is highly favorei. The Louisiana Female College is a success. The public schools are provided with excel lent teachers and new school buildings are. promised at an early day. The Century, F M. N., and Ermime clubs, give many enjoyable entertainments here. The latter is a dramatic club. Each will give an entertainment during our F’air. The theatrical season was opened last week at the opera by l’loience J. Bindley and com pany, aud were greeted with a fair audience. Matinee on Satuiday was well attended, the attraction being Nellie Boyd, in “Unknown.” The Baptist and Methodist churches here can boast of two splendid pipe organs. We have electric lights and waterworks, steam laundry, and a handsome new bank building ; also the new custom house, which is four stories high, with a tower tipped with electric lights; and next to this on the corner an opera house in the course of erection, which will be “a thing of beauty.” Three new railroad depots are completed, viz: Texas and Pacific; the New Orleans, Vicksburg railroad, and the Houston road. Pansy. Shreveport, Oct. 25, 1887. the Sondan, young George was sent there as war correspondeLt by a syndicate of Canadian papers. He also became special correspodent for the London. Enjland, daily News, and was attached to Col. Wolseley’s staff witn the rank of Captain. On his return he again joined the Herald staff, aud at tbe same time became Ca nadian staff correspondent of the' New York World, Boston Globe, Cincinnati Enquirer, and Pittsburg Dispatch. In June, 1885, ne was of fered a position on the Free Pre-s, at Ottawa, Canada, and preferring to be at the Capital, went there as managing editor of that paper. At tbe end of a year, desiring to come South, he became managing editor of the Arkansas Daily Gazette, a position be now holds. Mr. George as a brilliant writer—has few equals in the Southern press. Of broad and cultured mind, and large experience, he is a valuable acquisition to the staff of ar.i Gazette shows this in the sq been connected with it. paper; and the time he has Col. John A. Coekerill. Seme days ago the Associated Press tele, graphed all over the country that Mr. Bennett- the publisher of the New York Herald, had se cured the services of Colonel John A. Cocker- for a sensational purpose only. To thishludga GriRnell replied with some feeling, that “if I desired to produce a sensational effect and to illustrate the murderous character of the as sault at the Haymarket, I would have brought in the survivors of that night on stretchers and exposed their wounds.” N. Drcz. P PHILIP D. ARMOUR. The immensity of this business can only be realized by the fact that over 10,000 of peo ple are supported through the same. It is the largest business establishment of its kind in the world, dependent on and through ,the in strumeutality of one individual. Mr. P. D Armour, the pork king of the Northwest, was born near Middletown in northern New York, on May 18, 1832. He received only the com mon school education in the Casenovia Semi nary. His father was a farmer, and it seemed that Armour was destined to speed the plow all the days of his life, but it should not be his life-long pursuit. When iu 1849 the Califor nia excitement went over the country, he re solved to go to the Golden State. On his way he was prostrated by sickness, but his vigor ous constitution enabled him to pull through, and eventually he arrived at the promised land. Here again, however, he encountered severe siesness, but recovered very soon. After haviug worked for some years, he had made enough to start a business some where in the States. He returned home and was induced to settle at Milwaukee, Wis. He began his business life as a grain dealer and a warehouseman, and after having conducted this business with success and profit he bought an interest in the packing house of Layton and l’lankinton, becoming thenceforth an equal partner of the new firm Plankinton & Armour. Armour became now one of the keenest and most daring spiculators and wont to New York to sell pork “short” to all who might purchase. In three brief months he had closed out the operatioLs and returned to the West with over two millions of dollars of profit in his pocket. He extended now the scope of his firm s operations by establishing a provision branch in New York and packing CHARLES ELLEWYIN GEORGE. WHAT I BELIEVE IN. I believe In a God, Creator, Father of all human souls— Not a monarch watching Nature, which her won drous plan unfolds. But tbe Father of our spirits and the moulder of our frames— Loving each as one begotten, calling all by separate names. In tbe Creator of our spirits I believe. I believe tbe hallowed Jesus loved divinely, suffered much, That our God might reach His children with a close and human touch— Drawing us with love so tender up the pathway where He trod, Till we fall, like weeping children, In the yearning arms of God In our King, Priest and Prophet I believe. I believe tbe Holy Spirit fills the earth from shore to shore— Bound about, above, within us, bearing witness ev ermore ; Wbere the Holy Gbost abideth, If he tarry but a night. Even sordid eyes (beholding) see the wondrous love and ll-ht— In tue Paraclete of Promise I believe. I believe the holy angels hover round us all the way, Each commissioned by the Father—clouds of wit nesses are thei; To tbe throne they bear our sorrows, then return on tireless wing, Bringing to each heart despatches from the palace ol our King. In the ministering of angels I believe. believe in life I eternal; trees and flowers and drops of rain Live ano die, and, decomposing, live and die and live again; D.ubting, still, what wondrous changes shall com plete the perfect sphere— Life, 1 know, Is greater, grander, than tbe segment painted here. In the coming life eternal I believe. I believe the holy message is infallible and true; What therein the Lord commandeth He will strengthen us to do. Not In saints and prophets nor in wise men do I trust— If they teach words of wisdom, where they learned tnem there I must. In the word of inspiration I believe. I believe that human loving Is a leseon taught above; I believe the cup of blessing Is a willing cup of love; Lovirg, when the flesh Is willing, Is the sweetest drop of bilss— LoviDg on through pain and evil, Is diviner still tnau this. In love, the law of love fulfilling, I believe. I believe In sweet communion with the saints In praise and prayer; I believe bat In forgiving we rise upward stair by stair; I believe In Godly strivings—I believe In contrite tears; 1 believe that In believing we shall live through end less } ears— For the key of life Is only I believe. houses in Kansas City aud Chicago. In 1875 he established his residence in Chicago. His sales in some years amounted to §00,000,000 worth of the food product, with which he sup plied tbe armies and navies of distant war ring nations. He lately made §2,000,000 in one transaction. A few months ago he has decided to move to Milwaukee, and it is said that a magnificent residence in process of erection on Grant Avenue of that city will be occupied bv him. The reason of the propos ed change is said to be the fact that he cou- tamplates occupying the presidency of the Chi cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, in which he has a larger interest than any other bondholder e xcept the late President, Alex ander Mitchell. Many people say that Ar mour will be the coming railroad king. Philip D. Armour placed recently to the personal credit of his son, who graduated from college, the sum of 1,000 OliO dollars, and also made him a member of the firm, Armour & Co. Mr. Armour, the great Chicago butcher, as he himself is nothing loth to be styled, rises at 5 o’clock daily and works harder and longer than any of his clerks. He is a portly, stout man, below the average height and beardless. He is a plain man, lives in a plain house, and moves among his friends without the semblence of ostentation. He has been a good friend to many business men who are flourishing now and who owe their present standing to the friendly help of Mr. Armour. Mr. Armour’s possessions are estimated at 35,000,000 dollars. Charles Ellewyin George. whose portrait appears in this issue is one of the youngest and at the same one of the bright- Hl JAY GOULD. ill, but the latter gentleman denies this report in toto, and since then half a dozen or more other rumors have taken its place regarding the New York World, the New York Herald, and Col. John A. Coekerill in general. Mr. John A. Coekerill is at present the managing editor of the World, one of the foremost daily newspapers of the country, entertaining no in tention of changing bis positing by leaving that journal. The World, under ms management, has become a very influential and widely cir culated journal. Especially by the industry and energy of Mr. John A. Coekerill, Mr. Pu litzer’s able lieutenant, who has aided him iu making the World successful, the World has reached its reputation. Through this ably competent editor the World has attained the position and influence it now enjoys, entitling it to recognition as the flag-ship of skillful and discreet journalism. Jay Gould. To the enemies of Jay Gould no adjective is strong enough to express their contempt for him. He is to them a modern Mephistcpheles. He has been accused of sacrificing the inter ests of his closest friend to accomplish his mer cenary ends. And yet this man, the best ha ted and most feared in Wall St., is more than happy in his domes! ic affair s So great is his devotion to his family that everything, no mat ter how important, is laid aside at the mere indisposition of one its members Jay Gould was born in a small village in western New York of poor parents. He was left an orphan whilst yet a boy and was compelled to shift for himself. He became clerk in a country store and during the intervals of his employ ment managed to learn book keeping. By at- Republican forms of government have prov en themselves so satisfactory to the governed and the governors, that gradually one country alter another has instituted that form of gov ernment, so that now their number will swell up in the teens, whereas formerly they could ba counted by ones and twos In America all countries excepting Brazil and the colonial possessions of the European powers, have re publican governments with democratic insti tutions, while there are in Europe at the pres ent but two republics. France and Switzerland. The present President of France, Julius Grevy. is well enough known to receive no further mention here, but how few people are ac quainted with even the name of the President of Switzerland. The republic of Switzerland, formerly a league of semi-independent States, or “Staatenbund,” as it was termed, became a united confederacy or “Bundesstaat” in the year of 1848. The present constitution based on fundamental laws, passed in 1848, came into force May 29th, 1874, having received the national sanction by a general vote of the peo ple given on August 19th, 1874. The Presi dent and Vice President of the Federal coun cil, are the first magistrates of the republic. Both are elected by the Federal Assembly, for the term of one year, and are not re-eligible until after the expiration of another year. N. Droz, who was the Vice-President for the year of 1886, was chosen in the same year to represent the presidency for the ensuing year. His term of service in the capacity of Presi dent began on Jan. 1st, 1887, and ends on the 31st of Dec. 1887. When President Droz took possession of his presidential chair, his inaugu ral address, full of spirit and promise, produced a happy impression upon the people. His for mer brilliant career gives hope of an excellent and peaceful administration. His judicious management in all affairs of state have been acknowledged by the council and his term of administration has so far proved very success ful. Herr Droz became prominent in the in ternational conference for the conclusion of a treaty for the protection of literary property, which was opened on Sept. Gth, 1886. The treaty was concluded and was formally Bigned three days after the opening of the convention. JUDGE JULIUS S. GRENNELL. est newsoaper managers in America. He was born in Kentucky in 1858, and while only four years of age removed with his mother to New Hampshire, owing to that section of the State in which young George was born being over run with troops His father joined the Con federate army and was through the exciting scenes which ensued from 1861 to '65. The subject of this sketch was educated at the Uni versity cf Vermont, where he graduated in 1875, and then entered the University of Mich igan Law Department and finished a course in 1879. He then removed to Iowa and began the practice of law; this being foreign to his tastes after two years he left the law for jour nalism. He spent about a year in Mexico en gaged for several American and English papers as special correspondent, and on his return be came managing editor of the Herald, Montreal, Canada. On the breaking oat of the war in tending, at night, to the books of neighboring tradesmen he managed to get money to pay for his schooling. Before he was twenty-one years old he was already a small capitalist. An enterprising firm had undertaken to survey and publish maps of his native county, and Gould assisted the surveyors and soon became surveyor himself. It oesurred to him that he could make a eood profit by buying out the publishers, which he accordingly did. He wrote a history of the county to go with the maps and sold one to every inhabitant. His next venture was in the tanning business in central Pennsylvania. In three years he bought out, his partner and ran the tannery himself. In his business visits to New York he saw great opportunities for investment there and he accordingly sold his tannery and opened an office in the metropolis. He married the daugh ter of a wholesale leather merchant. His fa ther-in-law owned shares in a railroad of wes tern N. Y., which was heavily involved. He sent Gould to sell out but he, instead of doing so, saw a good opportunity and bought enough shares to control the road. He made a fortune on this venture. His transactions since have been on a scale unprecedented in American financiering. He buys and fie’Is whole rail roads and has owned the N. Y. World and held a controlling interest in the N. Y. Tribune The one topic of Wall street to-day is centered in Jay Gould and Russell Sage. The talk arises from the proceedings just instituted against Gould and Sage by the counsel of the Kansas Pacific consolidated mortgage bond holders; the rest of the talk is the apparent monopoly of the telegraphic business of the United States, by Mr. Jay Gould, his action in the Western Uuion being much at variance with the will of the masses, as expressed through the Journals of the country. N. DROZ. Judge Julius S, Grinnell. Judge Grinnell will be remembered as the man who, as States-attorney, convicted the Anarchists of Chicago, and also the Cook county “boodlers.” Outside of being a very efficient attorney, Judge Grinnell is considered one of the most popular young democrats in the north-west. Attorney Grinneil’s prosecu tion of the Anarchists was conducted in a masterly way, although it may not have been so much to his credit, because the masses of a public opinion seemed to be with him rather than against him, the offense being a heinous one, but it must be said that the prosecution was conducted without the least sensational ism. It is trne that Captain Black, the chief attorney for the defense, objected to bringing in the torn and bloody uniforms of the mur dered policemen, declaring that it vaa done Special for the Sunny South. Fabrics and Furs. Boas are again in favor, the long pile furs being the best for the purpose, also for dress trimming bands. The newest Irish Poplins come in Scotch plaids, clan tartans French colorings and Prince of Wales blue and green. Mantles with sling sleeves are the newest fancy in sealskin; but the preference is given to the short close fitting jacket of seal and seal plush. Fashionable sets of furs consist of muff and boa to match; tbe latter encircles the neck and and reaches nearly to the bottom of the dress. Other elegant sets consisting of large collar (or cape) muff and deep cuffs, are shown at Shayne’s Prince Street Emporium in all the fashionable furs of the season, seal, fox, lynx, beaver, gray Australian opossum and caracal. This is the neplus ultra salon of skins of the best quality; and Shayne’s garments have an excellence "and elegance peculiarly their own. A new woolen fabric with thick, strong twill is called velvet cloth, and is used for short or long evening cloaks, for panels and underskirts of light serge and cloth dresses, and other parts of wool suits. Bengoline and velvet make pretty dressy short wraps. They are elaborately trimmed with head fringes, embroideries, soutache or metal-thread embroideries. For Cold weather wear, bands of fur may be added if desired. The long-fleeced cloths—Himalaya and Angora are popular for trimming plain cloth tailor suits and wraps. The handsome mourning dresses shown at Lord & Taylor’s are made of black, dull-finish ed peau de soie, trimmed with tape fringes dull jet, or bands of crape. The favorite long garment is the Russian coat of sealskin on plush. It is double-brested, has deep collar rolling up to ears and chin, of sable silver fox or some other pile fur, bell shaped sleeves, define the figure, being shaped over the “New Canfield” Langtry bustle at the back, and opens from the skirt upward like a man’s long wescoat. Millineric and Modistic. Bonnets for dress purposes of changeable velvet show brims bordered with narrow bands of curled and shaded ostrich feathers. One specimen in particular is of pate pink and green tints with black watered ribbon passing over the top and sewing as strings. Many bonnets have velvet throat bows form ed by the ends in strings an inch wide when folded. These ends are turned up in three inch loops, and one, provided with a cross strap- completes the bow. The new sealskin turbans for ladies are edged with contrasting fur, such as caracal or otter They have slender, high crowns, and are flat on the top. Both young, and elderly women wear tiny pokes of cloth or velvet without strings. There are also specimens of changeable ,7 eivet which are somewhat larger and have rous.ded cabriolet fronts plainly faced with velvet of contrasting color. Changeable moire ribbon comes up in loops on the back of the crown and hangs in long streamers behind. These streamers are seen on many bonnets, and are a fixture of the season’s fashions. Many turbans with broad or square crowns and closely rolled brims half their height, are picturesquely trimmed with a bird’s head or wing, loops of ribbon or quills. Among a melange of millineric marvels dis played at Ridley’s recent opening, a particu larly bewitching bit of head-gear charmed the crowds who sauntered through the superb millinery salon. It was a poke of glace velvet with trimmings of cream ribbon embroidered in delicate blue. Another lovely eveumg bon net was of rich star-spangled navy blue vel vet, the entire front being of gold-lace embroid ery, trimmed with golden, wheat and lustreless blue ribbon. Moire was never before so popular. White woolen wins the day for street and general utility purposes, this is essentially a silk sea son. Many new fancies in fabric find form with fashionable feminines, while the standard “stand-bys” are by no means slighted! Bordered woolens in gay colors, and often in palm leaf designs are worn by young ladies. The draperies and basque are of plain material aud the latter accurate in fit. Sal lie J. Batley. Words of Maud Muller. Would some of the readers of the Sunny South favor me with the words of Maud Mul ler, through its columns. L. B. The New Columbus. Editor Sunny South: Thanks for the batch of letters from your subscribers, ex pressing the wish tosee “The New Columbus” in book form. This spontaneous evidence of the popularity of the story, is very gratifying to me. As to publishing in book form, 1 can only say at present, that no movement has been made in that direction; but it is most probable it will be done. Respectfully, The Author. Rough Diamond. A lady in Texas write us “I have a rock that everybody who sees it say it is a diamond in the rough but none of them have ever seen a ‘diamond iu tbe rough.’ It was found buried with seven hundred dol lars; some of the money dated 1780. Please describe how a rough diamond looks. I am a poor woman, and if it is a diamond it will be a great help to me.” Will an expert, or some of our readers ac quainted with the appearance of these valua ble gems “in the rough,” please answer the inquiry through Sunny South. Loadstone. Buena Vista, Ark. 1. Why is loadstone found only in the north? 2 What shape is it when in its natural State? 3. When and by whom was it first applied to maritime uses? 1. Probably from the fact that the nations that have done most in the line of discovery, experiment and invention are those in the Northern hemisphere. The natural magnet is found iu various parts of the earth. 2. The natural magnet, or loadstone, is a species of iron ore, found in irregular or crystaline frag ments, and occasionally in beds of considera ble thickness. 3. Its property of attracting small pieces of iron was recognized at a very early date by the Greeks, and its wonderful directive power has been known to the Chi nese from time immemorial. The oldest known paintings in England are portraits of Chaucer and Henry IV. The por trait of the former is on a panel, and was exe cuted about 1380; that of Henry IV. was paint ed in 1405. The annual report of the Governor of Idaho, estimates the population of the territory at 97,250, which is an increase of more than 30, 000 over the last census. Agriculture is a flourishing industry, and the mineral products of last year aggregated §9,245,589, A wooden case, containing a complete set of surgical Instruments many of which are sim ilar to those now in use, has recently been dis covered at Pompeii. Mis. Francis Hodgson Burnett’s national fame as a story writer was made ten years ago, when she published “That Lass ’o Lowries.” It was her first novel and is said to be her best The oldest newspaper in the world is the Pekin Gazette, which started in the eighth cen tury, as a written circular. It no w has a cir culation of 15.000. How She Decided. Ella, Lexington, Ky: You gave Perplexa, of Charleston, S. C., some advice as to her love troubles, and suggested to her to make some suppositive case and thus test her lovers Give me a case for I have two lovers, and am at a loss which to chose. We give you a case of a lady that was just in your fix. She had two lovers; one a bach elor, and the other a widower with four chil dren. Both were men of character, and both wall off as to property. She preferred the bachelor because he was free of a family. She was making her own living as a teacher. She wrote her father, an old man near his 70th year, that she thought she would marry as she had two good offers and both gentlemen had ample means. He wrote to her to marry if she so felt so disposed, and said—“I am now getting to be old, and perhaps in my old age, I may call upon my children for a support, for as you know, my profession has not been a money making one though I have managed to live to educate you and the others. Your old father cannot work many years longer, and your mother is in feeble health. She must not be forgotten.” Her lovers called to see her to urge thei. suits; and the idea struck her that she would test the character of the two men, and see how they would feel about aiding her father in his old age. It so happened, that the bachelor was the first to call after she had received the letter; and she, after stating to her suitor that she had ssked her father’s advice as to marry ing, and had received a letter from him; then read what he had to say about being sup ported by his children. He said in very bus iness sort of a way, for he was a business man —“that when he married, he did not propose to marry any part of the family but herself, and that he would assume no outside obliga tions.” That was business and to the point, she saw at once. A few days after, her wid ower lover called to see her; and she put the same test to him. He without a moment’s hesitation, said—“Certainly, certainly, he can have a home whenever he wants one and tell him.” He won her heart at once, and she married him. Her old father lived comforta bly all his days, and died at the age of 90 years. His sons and sons-in-law made life easy for him. You have a case trne iD fact; and you see how to test men; how men are mentally built in love and in business. The bachelor never married, but left an estate of §600,000. The widower lost his property in the loss of his negroes, stocks, bonds, etc., at the close of the war. He has long since gone to his reward. If a girl will only keep her common sense about her when she is being courted, and not let her feelings do all the thinking, she can read men very well, and pretty correct. Lave is the child of the fourth generation in thought. 1, I like him. 2, I esteem him. 3, I admire him. 4, I love him or her. 6, Is the consummation of love—marriage, possession. Then duty, cares and responsibilities step in to fill up life’s demands. The Sunny South PE MALE S EM I NAB Y, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. FACULTY: W. S. SEALS, A. M., Pesident, Professor of Natural aud Moral Sciences, Prof. GEO. C. LOONEY, A. M., Chair of Mathematics and Astronomy. Mrs. C. D. CRAWLEY, M. A., Chair of English Literature. Mli.e. VICTORIA KONTZ, Chair of Ancient and Modern Languages. Mrs L. H. SEALS, Principal of Preparatory Department, Prof. W. F. SEALS, Director of Music. Voice Culture. Madam VON DER HOYA SCHULTZE, Piano and Organ. Prof. W. F. CLARK, Violin and Comet. Prof. Wm. LYCETTE, Art Department. Prof. A. C. BRISCOE, Stenography. Miss JENNIE RUSHING, Telegraphy. FOREMAN OF “SUNNY SOUTH” OFFICE, Teacher of Type Setting. Miss LILY MAY DANFORTH, Calligraphy. Mrs. W. F. SEALS, Supt. Boarding Department. Mrs. GEO. C. LOONEY, Matron The departments are well nigh full, aud an early appll attoD is Important to secure a goo place for tbe next term. Our object Is to meet, as far as practicable, a long- f ii want In tbe South, viz: a thorough literary and practical business edueatioi for females. Every memb er of our faculty is au experienced ed ucator. All are acknowledged to stand abreast with the best teachers of tbe State, in their respective departments, while some enjoy even a national rep utation. Anyone baying girls to educate Is respectfully re ferred to the State at large for character, scholai- shlp and management. new features. With a view to maki-g onr oourse of study eml- ate of this school takes along with her a profession adapted to her sex, and which tits her to entei at once upon an active busiuees lire. In no other school m the South will she find these advantages. ATLANTA AS A LOCATION. Of all points in the Sonth, not one oombinee so many of the erwuitiale for a school of the character proposed, as Atlanta. It is 1160 feet aoovo sea level. It is Meet with pure water and good air. It is healthy. It has never been visited by an epidemic of any kind. It is out of the range of storms and cyclones. It is the capital of the State, where pupils car. see and hear all the celebrities of the day. It is a progressive city, where everything new in science and art 18 sure to Dome. It is u city of churches, and is without a peer in the oliservance of the Sabbath. Its people are cultivated and refined, aud it* mo rality is phenomenal. It is the music center of the South, and its very air is ladened with music. It is convenient, being a railroad center. GENERAL INFORMATION. This school iB not denominational. Boarding pu pils will attend the church specified by their parents, The number of pupils will be limited to sixty and in no event will more thaD that number be received Tuition must be paid monthly in advance, and no deduction will be made except in cases of sickness protracted beyond two weeks. An experienced horse- keeper will take charge of the boarding department, and a skillful physician will look after the health of the pupils. The daily sessions will be six hours, beginning in the morning at eight o’clock, and dismissing at 4:30 in the afternoon, with two hours’ intermission at noon and two recesses. We do not like the one ses sion plan, as now tanght in onr popular schools. The government of the school will be humane, bat firm. UNIFORM. worn by the pnpile to church been adopted, which i on the street has will be made known to any one on application. Send for a catalogue to W. B HEALS. Preeident. Tno Long; and Short of It. [Twin-City Daily.] A very little baby was bom to Dennis and Betsey Broughton, respectable colored citizens of Monroe, Ga., the other day. It weighed but two pounds and looked too small to have life in it. But its proud mother said that there was nothing the matter with it; it was “jes’ small, dat’s all,’’ and she named it “Martha Ann Mary Magdalene Frances Cleveland Broughton.” Machinery and Industry. [From the Philadelphia Times.] Invention has never lessened the reward of industry. On the contrary every substitution of machinery for hand labor has increased both labor and wages, because it has elevated the standard of mechanical art in every indus trial channel, and has left behind only those who failed to give intelligent application and industry to their calling. Avoid cheap imitations made of various kinds el cord. None are genuine unless “DR. WARNER’S CORALINE" is printed on inside of steel cover. FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING MERCHANTS. WARNER BROTHERS, 380 Broadway, 621-9t New York City, ELY’S CREAM BALM Cleanses the Nasal Passages, Allay Pain and Inflamation, Heals the Sores, Restores the Senses of Tastes and Smell. Try the Cure. 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