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ADVICE TO A YOUNG LAWYER.
The following lineB were written in 1833 by
the late Judge Story.
Whene’er you speak, remember every cause
Stands noton eloquence, bat stands on laws—
Pregnant In matter, In expression brief,
Let every sentence stand with brld relief;
On trilling points nor time nor talents waste,
A sad offense to learning and to taste;
Nor deal with pompons phrase; nor e’er suppose.
Poetic flights belong to reasoning prose.
Loose declamation may deceive the crowd,
And seem more striking, as It grows more load;
Bat sober sense re] lets It with disdain,
As naught but empty noise, and weak, as vain.
The froth of words, the schoolboy’s vain parade
Of books and cases—all his stock In trade—
The pert conceits, the cunning tricks and play
Of low attorneys, strong in long array,
The unseemly J sst, the petnlent reply,
That scatters on, and cares not how, or why.
Studious avoid—unworthy themes to scan.
They sink the Speaker, and disgrace the Man.
Like the false lights, by flying shadows cast.
Scarce seen, when present, and forgot, when past.
Begin with dignity; expound with grace,
Bach ground of reasoning In Its time and place;
Let order reign throughout—each topic touch.
Nor urge Its power too little, or too much.
Give each strong thought Its most attractive view,
In diction clear, and yet severely true.
And, as the arguments In splendor grow,
Let each reflset Its light on all below.
When to the close arrived, make no delays
By petty flourishes, or verbal plnvs.
But sum the whole In one deep, solemn strain.
Like a stroag current hastening to the main.
other aide had protracted the cross-examination
excessively, occupying six days in the case of
one witness.
Mr. Webster bade me good night after I had
concluded, and went to bed. The next morn
ing he came into court as serene and majestic
as Jove himself, while I was nervous and ap
prehensive to the last degree. He began his
address to the court with that slow, ponderous
gravity that was so characteristic of him in the
outset of his forensic eff orts, then gradually
warmed and quickened. I listened spellbound,
for in essence it was nothing but wbat I had
pumped into him in the two hours and a half
talk of the day before. But how transmuted
and transformed. Te give an idea of the trans
formation I will take the point to which I have
alluded. He rendered it thus:
“They ask for a continuance! Why, may it
please the court, they have taken at this hear
ing as much time in the cross-examination as it
took the Almighty to create the universe!"
That represents the difference between his
speech and my taik; my simple six days grew
to the colossal figure I have described under
the magic touch of his genius, and this instance
was characteristic of the whole.—New York
Sun.
WAR INCIDENTS.
Artistic Mos^rn Houses of Low Cost.
By R. '.V. SHOPPELL, President of the Co-operative Building Plan Association, Architects, New \ ork.
New and Interesting Reminiscences of the
Late Bloody Conflict
Number Twelve.
THE LATE GENEBAL HANCOCK.
His
An Interesting Book—Written by
Wife.
The New York Home Journal has the follow
ing: “One of the must interesting books of
biography and history treating of the men and
events of the civil war is the account of the
life of the late Major-General Hancock, pre
pared by hiB widow from his papers and from
her own recollections. It combines the fasci
nation of romance with the solid elements of
a practical chronicle. The civil and military
details are an important contribution to the
store of materials for a future history of the
war; they throw a strong light, also, on the
character of the man who never faltered nor
blanched before the truth. They are very
comprehensive and, at the same time, are so
admirably condensed that the book becomes
one of peculiar value for purposes of reference.
But to many readers the reminiscences by Mrs.
Hancock will doubtless be the most attractive
portion of the work. All through them runs,
like the familiar music of home to an exile’s
ear, the record of the inner life and daily hap
penings of the central tigureB of the story; now
in the romantic solitude of the frontier camp,
now in the teeming centres of civilization.
They are told with a simple eloquence fresh
and delightful to the reader. Tnty are often
made to reflect the sorrows as well as the joys
of life, for the domestic circle of the great sol-
d ; er was the scene of ordeals more severe than
those of battle. The first was the death of
their only daughter, Ads, a lovely daughter,
possessed of unusually tine attributes of mind
and character, who bad just attained the age
of eighteen. This biow was followed a few
years after by the loss of their own son, Rus
sell, in the early prime and flush of mauhood.
Then followed the mother, whom Mrs. Han
cock calls a tower of strength to them all. Then
her hnsbaud himself was taken away. Thus
Mrs. Hancock lost all her nearest and dearest,
save one brother, who is naturally intensely
devoted to her. Truly she is a woman made
sacred by bereavements. But her trials have
shown the sterling excellences of her charac
ter. She was tenderly reared in the refine
ments of an exclusive and Effluent home, but
followed her husband through the roughest ex
periences of camp life, never a drawback, al
ways full of courage and strength, a devoted
wife and mother, preferring the retirement of
home, yet ever ready to take her place in the
unceasing and sometimes wearing social duties
and hospitality necessary in General Han
cock’s later years. Her dignified yet cordial
frankness and delightful conversations are
treasured in memory by thousands of guests.
It is impossible, by quotation of passages,
to give an idea of the interest of this book as a
whole. Great characters of those memorable
historic days move through its pages. States
men and heroes j >stle each other, and stirring
events confront us in every column.
An Anecdote of Webster.
One of the very best anecdotes of Daniel
Webster as illustrative of that exulted and ex
alting character which his mind pre-eminently
possessed, was told by the late St. George
Tucker Campbell, of Philadelphia, himself a
lawyer of groat and deserved distinction.
Mr. Campbell said that having been retained
in a somewhat famous case at the time with
Mr. Webster, who was detained by his sena
torial duties at Washington, the conduct of the
case through all the preliminaries devolved
upon him, it being agreed that Mr. Webster
should deliver the closing argument. “But,”
said Mr. Campbell, “day after day went by
without bringing tfce great expounder, until
the very last day before that on which the clos
ing argument was to be delivered, and I was in
despair. I was sitting in my room at the hotel
debating with myself what to do, when Mr.
Webster was announce!. After the little civ
ilities had passed he asked me to tell him about
the case.”
“ Why, Mr. Webster,” said I, is it possible
you know nothing of the case?”
“Nothing whatever,” said he. “Tell me
about it."
“I was utterly dumbfounded, and, pointing
to a pile of testimony a foot deep ou the table,
I said: “How atn 1 to convey all that to you
in the. little time that is left ns?”
He said: “Oh, never mind details. Give me
the case generally and the salient points.’’
He sat down at the table opposite me, and I
gave him a rapid synopsis of the case, which
look two hours and mure. One point I especi
ally called to his attention. The opposing
counsel were bent on securing a continuance of
Bichmond, Va., in 1862.
The advance of General McClellan’s army to
the Peninsula in April, 1802, created a great
panic among the inhabitants of the capital of
the Confederacy; fears of its capture were ap
prehended and on the 21st day of the month
congress hastily adjourned; The government
archives were packed np and other prepara
tions made to evacuate the city. The fall of
YorktowD, the abandonment of Norfolk, and
the destruction of the Merrimack greatly in
creased tho alarm, but the State legislature de
cided that the city should be defended at all
hazards. To this end the militia were enrolled
and formed into companies and regiments;
every able-bodied male resident, citizen, mer
chant and official had to take a musket; orders
were issued by the Governor to suspend busi
ness at 2 o’clock and meet for drill at 3, the
exercise to continue until sun-set.
General Robert E. Lee.
At that time this greatest of Southern heroes,
then known to only a few as possessing all
the qualities for military renown, was "mili
tary adviser to the President,” and to him was
intrusted the defenses of Richmond. By the
evacuation of Norfolk, after the fall of York-
town, the James river was open to the Capital
for the Federal gunboats, and the first work to
be pushed were the defences and obstructions
to guard against this dire calamity. By the
15th of May, after a great activity on the part
of general and soldiers, the earthworks and
battery, with the obstructions, at Drury’s
Bluff were so far advanced is to be able to re
pel an attack'of the Federal fleet whiqh ap
peared and attempted to force a passage. The
ironclads Galena and Naugatuck, one monitor
and two gunboats comprised the attacking
force; they were splendidly handled and fought
very gallantly. Oae of the vessels came within
a few hundred yards of the battery and opened
upon it with its powerful guns. After a well
contested and very spirited conflict, during
which the five guns of the land battery were
fought with considerable skill, the fleet was
repulsed and the victory for the Confederate
gunners won. The Galena was so crippled
that she became useless for farther service,
aad the other boats ware damaged to a greater
or lesser degree; the injury to the battery was
very little. Thus was proved the advantages
of earthworks over iron-clads.
Tho Two Armies.
At that period, Richmond was the rendez
vous of people from all parts of the country, of
every grade, from the earnest sympathizers in
the cause of the South to the “vultures” who
came to seize upon any prey within range of
their tender mercies, whether citizen or sol
dier, widow or orphan; to this latter class of
people, native or imported, may be partly at
tributed the downfall of the Southern Confed
eracy; to them rightfully belongs the oppro-
biurn which fraud and extortion should ever
bring upon their votaries. It is needless to
say that these people remained in civil life and
followed whatever avocations would best ac
complish their ends.
Toe Confederate army, under General Jos.
E Johnston, had spread its tents within a few
miles of the city, with its lines extending from
Drury’s Bluff on the James, the right—to the
Chickahomiuy, above the New Bridge—the left.
His forces, including those of linger at Peters
burg, Anderson at Fredericksburg, and Branca
near Hanover C. H, made an aggregate of
about 70,000 men. While our armv was quietly
recruiting strength to defend the Capital, Gen
eral McClellan was maturing plans, as ho be
lieved, to entrap and crush as at a single blow.
The elements, however, seemed to favor our
side; the heavy rains had so softened the sur
face of the earth that the Federal army could
not turn a wheel; it was literally mired in the
mud, and, to make matters worse for his sol
diers, fever and ague, with other diseases, oc
casioned by the miasma of the swamps sur
rounding their camps, took hold UDon them
and put thousands of thorn hors de combat.
This delay gave us ample time to strengthen
the defences of the city and mass a large force
in SlcCiellan’s front. As the period drew near
for energetic, active service, in which every
man would be needed and every nerve of the
army strained to beat back the largely superior
forces of the enemy, stringent orders were is
sued and great care taken to keep the soldiers
within ezinp. Tne roads leading into the city
were carefully guarded, and it required a maj or-
geueral’s pass to eff ect an entrance; her streets
were patroled by sentinels fully empowered to
enforce the regulations; running the b'.ockide
under those circumstances was not an easy
matter; but the bright eyes and sweet smiles of
the soldier boy’s lady friends removed all ob
stacles and no opportunity was lrs: ia which
one might be brought under such gentle influ
ences; the gauntlet was run regardless' of dis
tance or danger, for where was the “Johnny
Reb” in those days—for whose coming r.o fair
one watched incur beautiful “Modern Rome”
so renowned for the loveliness and nobleness
of her daughters?
HO! FOR MEXICO.
From Mar4m of ibe Suite te Dalis
Through Titf-Top Tunnel to El Paso—
Cactus Pulque and Mezcal—Que-
retero where Maximillian
Was Shot.
NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR.
Editor Sunny South: My departure from
Colorado Springs was so sadden that it was
sometime before I could fully realize that I was
indeed to have a short vacation. The question
of my going was not settled until April 22 ad,
and by ten o’clock the morning of the 23rd I
was being hurried through southern Colorado.
Before noon the city of smelters, l%eblo, was
left behind. At the live little city of La Junta
we changed cars, and our course was then di
rectly south. At the picturesque city of Trin
idad we were overtaken by a shower that was
precisely sufficient to make the ascent of Ra
ton mountain, soon to begin, quite difficult.
Though our long, well-fitted, train was cut in
twain and two great engines brought into req
uisition, we had lost a full hour from the
schedule time ere the top was reached. Of
ten the train would come to a full stop, while
the driver wheels spun around at a frightful
speed. The passengers seriously debated the
question of getting out and organizing them-
Belves into a pushing band. It was getting
dark when the tip-top tnnnel, at an altitude of
over 7,000 feet above sea level, was reached.
Dnring the ri’ht we passed Las Vegas The
largest city of New Msxico and climbed an
other mountain range. Morning dawns on ns
at Albuquerque, and at about 5 p. m. we
passed out at the south end of the Territory,
and were soon in the thrifty border city of El
Paso, Texas.
El Paso is a lively, thorough going city of
about 11,003. Its growth has been so rapid
that it has been impossible for its guardians to
keep its clothes large enough for it. Some of
the denizens never tire proclaiming the virtues
of the robust child. A few days were spent
very pleasantly there with some relatives and
then a ran of 00 miies brought this writer to
Darning, N. M., which was once his home for
three and a half years. He had been absent
nearly two years and the welcome he received
was as warm and happy as ever gladdened his
heart. As his comiDg was entirely unexpected
the greeting was entirely free from the charg8
cf studied formality, and was therefore only
the happier to him.
On, the memories, the memories the stay of
nearly three days among those familiar scenes
awakened! Some were sad and some ware
Running trie Blockade.
The mode of accomplishing this exciting feat
depended a great d»a. upon the circumstances
in the case. If the uigut was dark and or.e
knew just where the guards were posted, for
their positions were often changed, it was an
easy matter to get into the city, but then came
the rub; the streets not only had watching sen-
tme.s on every corner, bat moving bqiads of
men looking out for the opportunity to catch
and imprison one. Many “greenhorns” were
taken np and paid the penalty by a visit to the
“Old Lioby,” but an “old stager’’ was seldom
caughi; he knew every by-way and alley iathe
town and in meeting an advancing squad upon
tne street, some dark alley or friendly door-way
shielded his person until it passed. If the
night was a bright one, as was often the case,
the (lark s des of the street, or some passing
vehicle covered his passage. At times it was
necessary to put ou a oold loos aui a proud
bearing; with these, united to a quick step ia
passing a guard and a prompt, pleasant miii-
_ tary salute, nine out ot ten would front face,
’-he case, while our interests demanded an im- | present arms and wonder whether you were toe
mediate decision. As a reason agaiust grant- j Governor, or the General of the army.
ing the continuance, I cited the fact that the i Swift.
species were lofty and wide-spread in their di
mensions, making travel through this forest
dangerous to cattle and horses. All day our
travel was through a most interesting region.
At dawn we were on the mountain and still
rising higher. A t Zacatecas about 9 o’clock,
-we-fjCecbhd. \n_a!!i tada.af o-the .high
est point on the Mexican Cer t,rai. Zacatecas, 1
a city of about 75,0fl0, ancVJiT capital of the
State of that name, is a beautiful city, with
moyt picturesque surroundings; being in a val
ley which as some one says, it has filled until
it has slopped over. It is one of the richest
silver mining centers in the world. The rail
road runs haif way around the city and on
haights above it, giving a view of the city with
its surrounding too charming to ever be for
gotten by thq tourist. South of this place is
the city of Guadalupe and it and neighboring
lake are in full view. At every station great
crowds of natives gather with many kinds of
fruit and their different kind of wares. They
will sell almost any amount from a cent’s worth
up to a dollar’s worth, managing, whenever it
is possible, to cheat you out of die fractions of
a cent. In these crowds are many beggars,
some of whom present pictnres the most piti
able imaginable. Often we practiced our tastes
on fruits new to us, and were sometimes,
(when we tasted some fruits regarded great del
icacies in Mexico) made to wouder if indeed
all nations sprang from the same stock. We,
certainly found that there is no accounting for
tastes in a literal as well as a figurative Bense.
At Agnas Calieates (literally “water hot")
Bights strange were in waiting for us, It takes
its name from the hot springs there, and is an
important city of about 40,000. We reached
it at noon Wednesday, and found our sur
rounding too interesting to occupy the forty
minutes stop in eating dinner. A short dis
tance from the station we witnessed a sight
as sad as it was novel. On either side of
a long, narrow canal were hundreds and
hundreds of people, mostly women and
children, engaged in washing what I sup
pose they called their clothes. Many of
them, especially the children were entirely
nude and the others were not in much better
condition, most of the naked adults, when they
saw our party, had the modesty to get into
the milk colored water of the caDal up to their
necks. The washing was done by dipping the
"arment into the running water and then rub
bing it vigorously on the stone banks of the
canal. This sight was enough to sadden any
refined and Christian heart. It was here that
we tried for the first time a driak of pulque
the national beverage of Mexico. It is a kind
of cider secured from the maguey plant which
is a species of cactus and known to most of
your readers as the century plant though
what they see of the plant in the U. S. gives
them but a slight conception of it as it is seen
here. A single plant produces about 125
quarts oi thepulque during its lifetime. About
250,000 pints of this beverage are daily drunk
in the city of Mexico. After this cider ferments
it possesses intoxicating powers. From it is
made mezsal, a whisky about as bad as any
found in the United States, and that is saying
that it is awful bad. It is said to affect only
the limbs leaving the drunken maa conscious
of the fact that he is a fool. That is au im
provement on oar whisky.
Leon, a place of 190,000 people and a great
manufacturing canter, and other important
cities were passed during the afternoon. Du
ring the night we passed Queratere, a place
made notable because it was there the Ernpe-
peror Maxmilaan was esptured and shot, June
10, 1S07. Thursday morning we rose eariy to
see the great Spanish canal which was begun
about 000 years ago and finished about 100
years later. It passes through a mountain, is
twelve miles long, 100 to 130 feet deep, and
200 to 000 feet wide. It was dug to drain the
great basin in which the city of Mexico
stands, and thus to avoid the floods to
which the city was exposed during
the rainy season. In its construction many
thousands of men were employed, and 70,000
of these met violent deaths’ by landslides and
in other ways. After ail this sacrifice of
money, labor, and human life, the canal serves
its purpose but pooriy. Less than two hours
after passing this canal we steamed into this
j city of wonders, and here we arrive at the close
of th-s letter. P. L. Stanton.
City of Mexico, May, 1888.
joyous.
Monday, April 30.h, I bade the Doming peo
ple good-by, and (m3tead of a vi3it to Califor
nia which was the thought when I left home)
that evening, ia company with Mrs. C. Q
Stanton, I left El Paso, Texas f or a visit to the
city of Mexico. It was about sundown when
we departed from Paso del Njrte a vary inter
esting old adobe town of about 0,000 people,
which nestles under the shades of cotton
woods and amid numerous gardens, orchards,
and vineyards, and lies just across the “great
R-.ver" from El Paec. The first hours oi the
evening were made delightful by seats on the
observation platform of an eiegant special car
in company with some very kind and pleasant
friends—some of them friends made years ago.
All night w^ped on over one of the smooth
est railways in tne west. The breakfast hour
of Tuesday found us at the city oi Chihuahua
which is the capital of the state by the same
name. It is on a broad plain or waat may be
called a wide valley lying between too long
mountain ranges which are in plain view. It,
of course, has its doable towered cathedral (a
tine one toe) Here is ?. well preserved aque
duct of about 220years standing. In the valley,
barren as it may look to a “tender-foot” many
thousands of cattle are herded. Oae ranchman
a few miles below Chihuahua owns 00,000 cat
tle and employs 1,000 peons. The condition
oi these last is hardly any better than that of
regular slaves. To ns westerners the country
passed through on Tuesday was nearer the
monotonous than anytning we have yet seen
on the route. The day was warm, the heat
culminating about dark at Lerdo, the lowest
point on the road south oi Paso del Norte,
though it is 3,725 feet above sea level. There has been along search for a sunken
When we awoke on Wednesday morning we ! rock in the R;d Sea upon which two British
were b=ing hurried through great foretts of ! steamers found red. It has at las; been round,
cactuses. Some of these, the tree cactus, were j It is a very small coral paten with only fifteen
twenty-live feet high, and the prickly pear j feet of water over it.
Clay and Calhoun.
The contending senators of 1838 were Clay
and Calhoun, who had long been personal and
political friends, bat had become estranged by
Martia Vun Bureif’s
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The great' aatagonMi of 1833 did not vio
late senatorial decorum. They med the rap
ier and the broadsword in their rhetorical com
bat, but did not call the blugdeoa into service.
Clay attacked Calhoun’s course in supporting
Van Baren, and incidentally made a cutting
review of his entire political career without a
personal allusion in his entire address. He
was quite polite in all his references, but made
a stinging political arraignment, and made
the indirect inference that while he respected
Calhoun he detested his present attitude and
left it for time to disclose his motive. He
closed by saying that their political fives had
begun together and they had long continued
associates, but that now they concurred in
nothing and their walks were separatedfforever.
Clay’s speech is said by Benton to have been
distinguished by fine rhetoric strong declama
tion, vehement invective, wit, humor and bitr
ing sarcasm.
Calhoun announced at the close of Clay’s re
markable attack that he would respond in due
time. And twenty days later he made his
great reply. It was a full and complete resume
of his political life, in which he answered ques
tions that had been categorically propounded
by Clay. His speech was remarkable for its
clear statements, close reasonings and keen
retorla. In the course of it he said;
“In so premeditated and indiscriminate an
attack it could not be expected that my mo
tives would entirely escape, and we accord
ingly find the senator very charitably leaving
it to time to disclose my motive for going over.
I, who had stood still and maintained my
ground against every difficulty, to be told that
it is left to time to disclose my motive! The im
putation sinks to the earth with the groundless
charge on which it rests. I stamp it with
scorn in the dust. I pick up the dart, which
fell harmless at my feet. I hurl it back. What
the senator charges on me unjustly, he has ac
tually done. Ha went over ou a memorable
occasion, and he did not leave it to time to dis
close his motive.”
Much stung by Calhoun’s reply Clay respon
ded at once with great animation and made a
bitter and sarcastic review of the reply and
ridiculed nullification. In it he answered
much that had not been found in Calhoun’s
response, and launched ofi into general politi
cal history. In his second reply, made in
stantly, Calhoun also took broad scope, and
betwaen them they covered the political history
of thirty years with great thoroughness. Tne
contest finally closed without any evidence of
persona! diff irence, and with apparent good
feeling between the distinguished men. Benton
records this oratorical contest as one of the
greatest that ever occurred in the senate, and
one of great historical value. But there was
in it no weeping, as there had been in the
great scene between Fox and Barke in the
English house of commons—no crying, no
pathos, no violence and no blackguardism.
Bat the attack aad the response have not been
equaled as oratorical events in the last half
century, and they left decided imorints UDon
the political parties of the time.—Detroit Free
Fress.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Woodbum of Nevada]
-^Sunset
International Arbitration
Beported—Marble Tombstones for
Union Soldiers-Dr. Mary Wal
ker Classed as “It.”
Editor Sunny South: During the past week
and probably for the remainder of the present
week, little will be done in Congress that re
quires much application on the part of the
Congressmen. Political forecasts and con
jectures are thick, and the enthusiasm of both
parties is beginning to foam. Personalities
are quite frequent, and as they end in talk,
are quite harmless. Woodburn of Nevada had
an opportunity of doing np Sam. Cox a few
days ago; and as he had been on the hunt for
Samnivel's scalp for a long time, went for him,
and made the house smile b/ declaring that
“Infinite Wisdom never destined for immor
tality a man bearing the name of Cox.” Tnis
little BDeech seemed to arouse the ire of the
little New Yorker, who replied by trying to
trace the descent of Woodbum from the prim
eval protoplasm, ending with the beautiful
lines,
The largest umbrella in the world has been
made in Glasgow for the King of East Africa.
It can be opened and shut in the usual way.
and when open is 21 feet in diameter; the staff
is also 21 feet long. It is lined with cardinal
red and white, has a lot of straw tassels, .and
a border of crimson satin. Tne canopy itself
is made of Italian straw, and the top termi
nates in a gilded cone.
The fastest ran on an American railroad
was made on the Philadelphia and Reading
road, when a train ran ninety-two miles in
ninety-three minutes. Oae mile was made in
forty-3.x seconds.
At a recent coin sale at Bristol, Eng., a sil
ver crown of the reign of Charles If. brought
81775. A sovereign of Edward VI. realized
§525, and one of Oliver Cromwell’s fifty-shil
ling pieces went for §700, whiie §585 was paid
for an Oxford crown. A penny oi Ethel bald
brought 4230,890 wss given for one of Eustace
of York, and §80 for one of Egbert.
which were probably taken from original lines
on “Why We Laugh.”
Mr. Sherman’s resolution in favor of estab
lishing an arbitration board, to settle all dis
putes between the United States Government
and Great Britain, and the dependencies there
of, was favorably reported by the Senate Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs; the bill also includes
France.
Senator Manderson wishes the Government
to erect marble tombstones over the grave of
every soldier who fell during the late unpleas
antness, both as au additional means of reduc
ing the surplus, encouraging of marble quarries
and honoring the dead. Third-class postmas
ters had their salaries cut, and a subsidy of
$800,000 to Steamship lines, presumably mail
carriers, was granted.
Saturday night an incoming train from the
South jumped the track when some miles south
of the city, and caused the death of four per
sons, and injured many others. Among the
killed was a telegraph operator who had just
lailen heir to $30,000, aad was shortly to have
bben married to a young lady of Baltimore.
It is supposed that the accident was due to the
spreading of the rails.
Bishop Faret of Maryland, ex-pa3tor of the
Epiphany Church of this city, is on his way
to Eaglaui, and will open the discussion on
Divorce at the Lambeth Pan-Anglican Council
next month.
The long delayed warm weather has come
with suffiiient vigor to keep the mercury
among the eighties and nineties, and a long
way above comfortable temperature. Summer
clothing, fane, and sun-umbreilas are in de
mand, and even some of the animals are pro
vided with portable sun-shades, one happy
carter having rigged np a small parasol in his
horse’s bridle, so that the animal moves along
drawing his load of a3hes or other debris, car
rying his sun-shade as happily and as jauntily
as some of the two footed creatures who lag
along the sidewalk.
Dr. Mary Walker has assumed a man’s ward
robe entire, having abolished any attempt at a
dress compromise, many of the visitors who
wish to see the “Doctor” on account of her
notoriety, are much worried in understanding
how sue can be a man, or how a man can be
she, and nearly always end up by speaking of
the “Doctor” as it. A E. D.
Washington, D. C., June 18, 1888.
Beanties and Celebrities.
American Life Under Ei$h-
teen Presidents.
Prominent Statesmen and Brilliant
Belles—Fashionable Styles, Enter
tainments, Anecdotes, Bto.
NUMBER THIRTY.
“Little Jim Madison” and Hie Cue.
During the Presidential contest of 1808, as
in many others since, personal feeling ran high,
and private interest to some extent moulded
public opinion—and considering the difference
in population and in the magnitude of capital
and its interests we are not sure bat that sel
fish motives were almost—perhaps not quite
as dominant—then as now.
It is related that a prominent Senator of that
period stated that all the barbers in Washing
ton were federalists, because the leaders of
that party in Congress wore long cnee, pow
dered, and which, of coarse were dressed every
day—to the great gratification and pecuniary
advantage of the tonsnrial fraternity; while
the democrats wore short hair, or small cues,
tied np carelessly with a ribbon. One day a
barber who was shaving the Senator suddenly
burst out against the nomination of Mr. Mad
ison by the democratic party—for the barbers
were then as consequentially loquacious as
they are now.
What President swe might have, sir!” ex
claims the barber. “Look at Daggett of Con
necticut, and Stockton of New Jersey, with
cues as big as your wrist and powdered every
day, like real gentlemen as they are! Bat this
little Jim Madison, with a cue no bigger than
a pipe-stem! Sir, it is enough to make a man
forswear his country!”
John Randolph of Roanoke.
The anecdotes about this remarkable and
justly distinguished gentleman and statesman,
are almost countless, and the people never tire
of hearing of or reading them. A writer de
scribing him as he appeared some eight de
cades ago says:
“His pride,his isolation,his rich appointments,
his claims to a baronial family consequence,
his aristocratic assumption of superiority, his
capricious and dangerous temper, all set him
apart and made him a popular marvel. There
was sometheing in his general aspect which
reminded one of his lineage from the roy
al Powhattan. His eye was piercingly bril
liant. His invective was tremendous; it
scorched and consumed his victim like fiery
rain. It was when passion mouBted its zenith
that his intellect threw ont its finest corrus-
cations like meteoric Bhowers. His great
frame, his cadaverous countenance, a voice
shrill, yet strangely sweet at times, an eye that
seemed gifted with power to read the secrets
of the heart—were accessories to his forcible
oratory. He pointed his sarcasm by extend
ing his long thin elfish forefinger towards the
offender, keeping it quivering till the climax of
his scorn was reached, when it rested immov-
as if at that moment the death shot
' from it to the victims heart.”
e occasion when the'* _ _
was under discussion, Randolph opposed
motion for an appropriation for some public
building. He rose, and in his shrill, clear
voice, moved to refer the matter to the Com
mittee on Unfinished Business. A. workman
in the gallery irritated at the opposition to
what was to constitute his support, cried out
in a voice somewhat like Mr. Randolph:
“And I move, Mr. Speaker, that the gentle
man be referred to the same committee.”
This unexpected, not wholly inappropriate
retort, set the whole hoose in a rear. The
sergeant at arms was sent to arrest the
offender, but he had disappeared.
Jefferson at Heme.
As might naturally be expected, the great
reputation Jefferson had attained to politi
cally, together with his very democratic tone
of thought and habits, attracted very many
visitors to his family seat at Monticallo, and
they were often intrusive. Strangers would
plant themselves in the passage between his
study and dining-room, waiting for him to
pass to his dinner. A woman once broke a
window-pane with her parasol to get a better
view of him. When sitting in the shade of his
porticos to enjoy the cool evening air, parties
of men and women would approach within a
dozen yards of him and gaze at him. In 1810
the house-servants, including the children,
numbered thirty-seven. The general mode of
traveling in Virginia at this period was ou
horseback, or by carriages drawn by at least
two horses, and servants accompanied the
travelers. Mrs. Randolph who presided over
the domestic establishment at Monticello, said
that sometimes she had been called on to pro
vide beds over-night for fifty gneste.
8ENATOBIAL NICKNAMES.
He that provides for this life, but takes no
care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a
fool forever, and acts as untowardiy and
grossly to the reason of things as can be im
agined.
M. Cernnschi has promised to bequeath his
palace and its contents, including his une
qualled and priceless collection of Japanese
broizis, to the city of Farit.
The largest ship afi >at is the British iron
ship Pal grove, which has a gross tonnage of
3,187 tons. Tae Palgrove, is a four-masted
vessel, and was built in Glasgow in 1884.
Her length is 322.5 ieet, and her breadth 40 2
feet. _
Hope is like the sun, which, as wa journey
toward it, casta the shadow of our burden be
hind ns.
Thomas Eggleston has just died at Spur-
lockville, W. Va., at the advanced age of one
hundred and twelve years. There was never
a day since be was sixteen years old that he
was without his pipe, and he said he fully be
lieved that was his life prolonged by the use
cf tobacco.
Appellations Applied to Noted Salons in
the Days of Long Ago.
Frankie Stockbridge was, I doubt not, a
good fellow in Maine, where he was born, and
Cush Davis was one of the best natured boys
of Henderson, N. Y. Eddie Walthall was a
lean, gaunt, ungainly sort of youth, and Jim
mie George was his mother’s Own boy, and he
grew manly before his time in having to take
care of her. Frankie Cockrell would not have
taken the prize at the baby show, and George
Vest was an undersize boy, who was chosen to
thrash any strange boy who came into town—
and did it! Charlie Manderson was one of the
youths who never got left, and Algy Paddock
never received his full name of Algernon until
he was grown up. Senator Stewart, of Neva
da, was called Bill by his fellows, and he early
displayed his money-making talent. He had
a better coon dog than any of the rest, and the
first money be made was in the sale of coon
skins. Ben Blair, of New Hampshire, was a
red-headed boy, and his wicked fellows warmed
their hands over his head, and caused him
endless trouble by telling him that he must
have been out at night, for the dew had made
his hair rusty. And little, nervous Bill Cnan-
dler was a leader among his fellows. Senator
Payne, of Cleveland, had woe as a boy, in that
his father owned a brick yard, and little Hen
I’ayne had to throw bricks now and then.
And so it goes on. Blodgett, of New Jer
sey, was Rufy Blodgett in New Hampshire
and, tail and lean, he was filled with ambition!
Bill Eyarts, the boy, stood the best in the de
bating societies, and little Donnie Cameron, of
Harrisburg, was a Senator’s son and was al
ways treated well. Mattie Quay holds to his
boyish name of Mat Quay still, but Isham G.
Harris was never called Ishy. Coke, of Texas
had a good name as a boy in Bock Coke, but
John Reagan never got the nickname of Jack.
Daniel, of Virginia, was, however, known as
Jack Daniel, and Riddieberger had his first
name of Harrison contracted to Harry .—Frank
G. Carpenter, in Washington Critic.
The output of the Birmingham (England)
bin mills is 30,000,000 a day. Other factories
in that country have a capacity of 17,000,000
pins per day France turns oat about 20.000,:
000 a day and Holland and Germany 19,000,-
000 each.
There are abont thirty grand dukes in Rus
sia, all of them being near relatives of the
Czar. Each receives from the State an annnal
pension amounting to 380,000 and the majority
of them have large private fortunes besides.