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1 BATTLEFIELD ROIAHCE
Love Letters Over a Century Old
Just Discovered.
wi« Sweetheart, an English Lady
of Bank, Died of a Broken
Heart.
N THE ancient battlefield
of Stone Arabia, in the
, town of Palatine, Mont-
1 gomery county, waa found
recently a metiUc box,
the contents of which re
veal an Interesting r o-
' manoe of loBg ago. The
box waa badly battered,
and was begrimed with
the rust of Many yean.
It was about six inches
long and two Inches deep.
The casket was opened
with considerable diffl
eoity, and Its contents were (bund to
nnmtit of • bundle of letters, written
apes parchment and tied with a faded
piece of blue ribbon. The locket is of
gold and of exquisite workmanship. It
has on one side, inscribed in monogram,
the letters “A. H. D,” while on the other
Is a curiously wrought hunting scene,
'‘she locket contains a miniature, dell'
eately painted on porcelain, of n young
lady of rare beauty.
The letters, though the writing wss
somewhat faded by the lapse of time,
were quite easily read. They were ad
dressed to Capt Lowe, an officer in the
British army during the Revolutionary
war. As appears by the letters, Capt.
Lowe was the betrothed of the lady whose
portrait is In the lo ket. Theletters are
written in the moat tender language.
The last one In the packet was written
just before the battle of Stone Arabia,
and is very pathetic in tone. A strain of
sadness and melancholy runs througa
the Utter, as if the fair young writer had
a presentiment that she was never more
to meet her lover. She wrote that her
health was falling, and she longed for
the return of her beloved, as she feared
that her days were numbered.
The finder of the box and contents, a
gentleman residing at Palatine Bridge,
took much interest in bis discovery, and
resolved to Investigate the romance. He
had a photograph taken from the minia
ture in the locket and sent it with a
letter requesting Information, to the
(fficials olthe Royal Historical Society
of London. After considerable delay he
received a letter from the society effi
clals, which completes the story, the
outline of which is indicated by-the let
tersinthe casket. The writer of the
letters was Alice Douglass, a young lady
of rank, belonging to one of the noblest
and most aristo cratic families In Britain.
She became enamored of Capt. Lowe
when that brave young officer was with
his regiment at London.and they were
engaged to be married. When the Ameri
can colonists rose in rebellion, Capt.
Lowe was sent with his regiment to
America.
Capt. Lowe seived with bravery and
distinction in the British army in the
early yttrs of the Revolution. He was
connected with the lorces cf Sir John
Johnson when he made his celebrated
raid through the Mohawk valley in the
fall of 1780. Coming down from Canada
with an army of British regulars, Indians
and Tories, Col. Johnson laid waste with
ruthless hand the fair and fertile fields
of the Mohawk valley. The settlers were
massacred, their dwellings burned, and
crcpa destroyed. Sir John continued his
msrcti of devastation, up the Mohawk
river, westward from Caughnawags (now
Fonoe). Gen. Robert Van Rensselaer of
the patriot army, hastily collected a
tody of Aloany and Schenectady militia
and went in pursuit of the enemy. Fort
Paris at Stone Arabia was commanded
by Col. John Brown, no braver man than
whom held a commission in the Conti
nental army.
Gen. Van Rensselaer sent a message to
Col. Brown to leave the fort with its gar
rison and head ofi Col. Johnson’s troops,
while he fell upon their resr. Gen. Van
Rensselaer thus hoped to hem Johnson
and his army in between two fires and
capture them. In response to the orders
of hi* general. Col. Brown and his little
band of patriots marched out of Fort
Faria to do battle with the enemy. This
force numbered lees than 200, while the
snemy had four times as many. The
American troops feU into an ambuscade,
and were taken at a disadvantage. They
held their ground bravely for awhile,
however, and a desperate struggle fol
lowed. The patriots were at length com
pelled to give way, while their brave
commander fell dead with a musket ball
In the heart.
Capt. Lowe at the head of his forces
bravely led the charge upon the Amer
icans. Rendered a conspicuous mark by
his commanding presence and c fficer’s
uniform, he drew the fire of a sharp
shooter and sank to earth mortally
wounded. A comrade knelt beside him
and raised him in his arms. The dying
soldier with bis last expiring strengtu
drew the casket frem bis besem and
handed it to his companion.
-Tate It,” he whltpercd, “and carry it
to Alice. Tell her I died bravely, and
that n y latest breath speike her loved
name.”
They burled him on the field of battle,
with his martial cloak aronnd him for
a shroud. Here a'so was laid at rest Col
onel Brown, the brave American com
mander. Side by side they lie, the pat
riot and the invader, as repose Wolfe and
Montcalm on the plains of Abraham.
fihe companion to whom Captain Lowe
entrusted the casket hastily concealed It
by turyirg it near a stump in the field—
expecting to return for it after the pur
suit of the flying enemy. The British
army, lowever, never returned to the
spot, as General Van Rensselaer’s de
tachment and other American forces
pressed u* on them fiercely to avenge the
death of their comrades in arms. Sir
John Johnson and his fcrcea were com
pelled to beat a hasty retreat to Canada,
aEd the metallic bex belonging to Capt.
Lowe lay hurled near its dead owner for
more than a century, when It was dis
covered.
Miss Douglass, the fair young be-
t:othcd of the English officer, waittd
many weeks and months for tidings of
her absent lover. Hi r health fal’ed rap
idly, and when at length the sad news
came of bis death si e could not stand the
shock. The marble headstone which
marks her grave bears tbe pathetic in-
scrlpticn: “Died of a broken heart.”—
N. Y. Sun.
■rw-rrtr fin Birth at ths Primes *f I
r w?posssss much valuable literature
on this great subject wfflch we will glad
ly furnish to those who ask for It.
- Geo Daka Boabdman,
President.
J. B. Woos. Secret fry.
LINES TO HI FRIEND.
When rosy Horn’s first dawning light appears
And bright Aurora comes with sonny smile
To dry each flower, and kiss away tne tears
Which Autumn sheds—they droop but for a
while—
I think of thee.
When gorgeous Day, In sunny beauty drest,
Has chancel the morning’s bnd Into a flower,
And when his beam- are gliding to tin west.
To veil his charms from evening’s modest
honr,
I think of thee.
When at the soft delightful honr of eve
The fliwers of metn’ry yield a sweet perfume,
And each sad thought with happy visions
At this enchanting honr of mental bloom
I think of thee
When night, with true sublimity of power,
To contemplation every heart Inclines,
And Lima, shining in her starry bower,
A holy love of heaven and earth oombinea,
I think of thee.
When waves of fancy wash the spirit shore.
And sounds of heaven y music charm the ear,
Thrilling with sweet vibrations f e the Core
nil ecstacy inhales it with a tear,
I think of thee.
8. R. Makschalk.
CULTIVATION OF THE OYSTER.
How the Crop In Long Island Sound Is
Regularly Planted and Dug.
Science is about to apply its attention to
the propagation of oysters in order that
every one may be able to buy as many of
the succulent bivalves as he wants to eat
without extravagance.
At present the supply of oysters is but a
fraction of the demand. What the fish
commission desires to accomplish is to
bring the mollusk within the reach of all.
To accomplish this end it proposes to es
tablish at least one station devoted to
breeding oysters by methods newly in
vented.
The young oysters thus obtained, called
“spat,” are to be planted in all the oyster
producing waters of the United States. Up
north, on the Connecticut shore of Long
Island sound, and in the rivers and estu
aries of New York state, the fishermen are
most anxious to be assisted in this way;
down south a widespread desire is felt to
make use of fresh scientific discoveries for
the purpose of creating a new industry. It
is only in Maryland that an entire apathy
seems to be felt on the subject, and tbe
oyster beds of the Chesapeake are being
permitted to go to ruin, simply because
the state does not think them worth keep
ing up. Within a few years, if things con
tinue to go on as they do now, the Chesa
peake will have ceased to be an oyster
ground. At all event, so the fish commis
sion says.
The French people were the first to in
troduce oyster culture upon a commercial
basis, and in tliis country the state of Con
necticut led the way in taking it up. Ten
years aeo a law was passed there directing
the state to seii, as if it were so much real
estate divided into lots, the bottom of
Long Island sound outside of the natural
oyster beds near shore. Since that time
oyster farming has become a large indus
try in Connecticut.
Oyster beds for many miles out into the
sound are cultivated, just as potato fields
might be, and with great profit to those
who pay proper attention to the work.
Such beds are not usually seif sustaining,
as are the natural ones inshore, but by
planting them each year with young oys
ters they are made to produce several hun
dredfold. The production of young oysters
for planting in this way has grown to be
an important part of the business, and the
planting of them has been reduced to a
most scientific basis.
To begin with, in making a new oyster
ground, a basis is established by covering
the bottom over the area to be planted with
a material called “cititch.” This cultch is
usually composed chiefly cf oyster and
clam shells or any stuff of that sort.. Thin
shells of whatever description that may be
most readily obtainable are desirable for
the purpose, inasmuch ns they soon rot
and fall to pieces, thus distributing the in
dividual oysters attached to them. It is
important that the young oysters should
be distributed as much as possible, because
when a lot of them attach themsihyes to a
single permanent object, like a small rock,
they overgrow one another and aggregate
themselves into a mass less useful commer
cially, while their growth is itself impeded
incidentally. A kind of limestone called
“blue-stone,” from the Hudson, is found
very useful for this purpose, smashed np
into about the size employed for macada
mizing roads.
Having in this way prepared the bottom
for what is to be an oyster bed you must
next procure your oysters. You can buy
them of dredgers, who sell them to you in
the shape of old shells and all sorts of such
truck scoo[>ed tip from below, which is j
found to be inerusted with young oysters |
of various ages. From thirty cents to fifty !
cents a-bushel is charged for this material J
in the crude, and you simply throw it into !
the water and let the oysters do the rest. I
As the shells decay they will distribute |
themselves, and soon you will have an j
oyster bed of your own. Each year you j
dump in as many more bushels of young
oysters as may be necessary to recruit the
supply and your crop is as sure as any
other, so long as you take care to keep
away the enemies which may attael. it. If
yon know bow to manage the thing you
will have a number of beds, permitting
the occupants of some to grow big while
you dredge in others.—Washington Star.
GLOBY m THE FIGHT.
SUBLIME DARING AND DEVOTED EN
ERGY AT CHAPULTEPEC, MEXICO.
ThE UNIVERSAL PEACE CONGRESS.
Philadelphia Office cf tee 1
CBBifcTJAN arbitration and Peace •
Scciets, 310 Chestnut St., J
November 28.1890.
To the Clergymen of the United States:
Tbe following gentlemen were our
delegates from tie United States to the
Universal Pesce C'cr gress, held in Lon
don, July, 1890, namely; *
Rev.T. S. Hamlin, D. D,, Washington,
D. C.,
Rev. Edward Braislln, D D , Brooklyn,
Rev. W. A. Campbell, D. D., Richmond,
Mayor W. Taylor Ellyson, Richmond,
llr. John F. Branch, Richmond, Va.,
Brest. Isaac Sharpless, Haverford Col-
Julius E. Grammar, D. D., Haiti-
r. W. U. Mnrkland, D. D„ Baltimore,
. Richard C. Morse, New York,
. James Wood, New York,
v. Philip S. Moxom. D. D., Boston,
James H. Chase, Providence,
hL Berj. F. Trueblood, Penn Col-
, Iowa, and the undersigned,
e Congress recon mended the ob-
mce of the third Sunday in Decern,
ach year as Peace Sunday through-
the world. At a meeting of onr
d, held November 12tb, it was re
td to request yon, through the press,
seistent with your sense of duty and
ilety, to do all In your power to
is securing the general observance
bis third Sunday in December as
e Sunday, and also to present this
entous matter, in whatever wey you
t win st, both before your church
tour Sunday school, The Ccngrega-
ilacd Baptist Uiions of Englatd
accepted the proposal, and, so far
issibie, Iheir ministers will preach
ferenee to Petce ODthst day. What
can be more appropriate for this
cse than the Sunday which com-
A Feat That Beats Sword Sw 1 lowing.
An old colored man about 75 -ears old,
calling himself Uncle Dick, created a sen
sation in this town Monday wi .h a mag
nificent rattlesnake four feet loi g, having
nine rattles. Uncle Dick, the “snake
charmer,” surrounded by acrowd of Wash
ingtonians, took a glass of cold water,
swallowed it, rolled up bis sleeves, made
several cabalistic signs, and finally plung
ing his right hand into a sack in his basket
brought out, to the amaz meat of the spec
tators, a monstrous rattlesuake. The rep
tile slowly coiled himself around the neck
and arm of the old man, whi e its head
grazed the white beard of Uncle Dick, who
in return was caressing with gentleness the
reptile and talking to it as if it were •
baby.
After handling the snake for twenty
minutes the old man announced that he
was going to swallow part of the reptile.
At that moment the crowd surveyed all
the surrounding doors, so as to lie sure of
making a successful break if it should
be necessary. Uncle Dick seized the snake
by the neck, made more mysterious signs,
took a firm attitude, with his eyes riveted
on the serpent’s eyes to fascinate it, and
all of a sudden he swallowed the snake by
the head to about a length of twelve or
fourteen inches in his stomach, and quickly
brought it out. The spectators expressed
freely their astonishment.
Uncle Dick, proud of such an ovation,
raised himself, stretched his old body, and
waving his right hand like an orator, said:
“Gentlemen, I am the master of all ‘in
sects,’ and can make anyone of you gentle
men handle that snake just like me.” We
will quickly say that Uncle Dick’s propo
sition was not accepted. He opened with
Ms fingers the reptile’s jaw and showed
the fangs to the astonished spectators.
Uncle Dick says be can pick up the wild
est rattlesnake or any other “insect” in the
woods as easily as ho would a spring
chicken.—Washington (La.) Advance
Improved Smoking Arrange teats.
Quite a change appears to be taking
place in tbe general opinion as to the head
derangement of smoking room accommo
dations < n some classes of passenger trains,
and it is quite possible that the common
■making car will before long cease to form
• part of the. better class of trains. Quito
■ number of railroads have constructed
their chair cars with smoking rooms of
sufficient capacity to provide accommoda
tions for the occupants of each car. The
practice of thus furnishing a smoking room
fiar each car is rapidly extending to the
osounon day coaches, and a number of very
prominent roads are putting a smoking
jartment in nearly every. car.—New
Commercial Advertiser.
Volunteers of Scott’s Army Storm the
Slopes and Outer Walls of Santa Anna’s
Stronghold—The Castle Won by Ameri
cans Animated with Battle Fury.
HAPULTEPEC
(Sept. 13, 1847), a
most brilliant and
decisive victory in
Gen. Scott’s cam
paign against the
Mexican capital,
was the occasion
of some of the
grandest deeds of
martial valor re
corded in history.
The fight was pict
uresque as well as
bloody, and for
the Americans,
who won, there was glory enough fora life
time. Imagine an elevation of 105 feet
crowned by a castle, with wings, bastions,
parapets, redoubts and batteries of heavy
stonework over 000 feet in length. Sur
rounding this seemingly impregnable for
tress—the castle of Chapultepec—are two
stone walls, strongly built and from 2 to
14 feet in height. In the castle are mount
ed heavy cannon under superior artillerists
of the French service.
At the most accessible base of the hill,
the western, the stone wall is twenty feet
high, and behind it stands a heavy grove
of cypresses whose large trunks form ex
cellent cover for defending troops. The
slope is planted with powder mines ready
to be sprung when the assailing columns
are swarming on the surface right over
them, and midway of the hill a strong re
doubt extending along an entire front of
the castle, filled with soldiers. The posi
tion of Chapultepec is the key to the City
of Mexico, and with 25,000 soldiers in Santa
Anna’s army of defense there could be no
lack of men to garrison a citadel so im
portant. Besides, the hill was historic, for
here had reveled the Aztec princes in the
gardens and groves once famous in the
Mexican city of splendor; here the site of the
famed Ilall of the Moutezumas. Whatever
remained of Mexican pride and courage
should certainly show itself on these
heights in the last stand of the hour, where
the fate of the invader must be decided.
Chapultepec had for an outwork a group
of heavy stone buildings known as El Mo-
lino del Key, or the King's Mill. This
place Scott had carried by storm on the 8th
of September, after a frightful loss, and
instead of being a key to Chapultepec, as
supposed before the assault, it was itself
dominated by the Mexican guns of the
castle, and had to be promptly abandoned.
When the word was given out in Scott’s
camps that the castle should be stormed,
and that two parties of 250 men each would
have the post of honor in advance, the men
came forward iii excess of numbers, and
the choice in some companies had to be
made by lot. With the appalling death
list of Molino del Rey fresh in mind the
daring soldiers, both regulars and volun
teers, were eager for the place of danger.
These parties were taken from two divis
ions that were not to be in the assault, and
were to be followed by the divisions of
Gens. J. A. Quitman and Gideon J. Pillow.
The storming party preceding Quitman's
division was led by Capt. Silas Casey, Sec
ond infantry, with Capt. Gabriel K. Paul,
second in command. Pillow was preceded
by a party led by Capt. McKenzie, Second
artillery. A second storming party was
made up from Quitman’s division, and
was led by Maj. Twiggs, of the Marines,
with Capt. Miller, of the Second Pennsyl
vania, second in command.
Geu. Pillow’s column, formed for attack
at the Moliuo del Rey, had the longer and
more difficult route before it, and must
forge ahead through a grove of cypresses,
past the midway redoubt, and up a steep
and rocky acclivity, the whole region alive
with Mexican marksmen. McKenzie’s
storming party carried scaling ladders, and
were preceded by eight companies of
skirmishers, under Cols. T. P. Andrews
and Joseph E. Johnston. Under the ex
citement of battle the skirmishers rap far
ahead and held the lead. The Mexicans dis
puted every inch, dodging from tree to tree.
Gen. Pillow was hit at the outset and
his command fell to Gen. George Cadwal-
ader. From this point on the struggle
was a determined though not an extreme! j\
bloody one. The guns of the castle thun
dered, many shots fortunately going over
tiie mark. Rocks and breastworks, shel
tering enemies whose muskets kept up an
angry fusillade, were charged and carried,
and very soon the Mexicans were driven
back to their redoubt.
Pillow’s skirmishers had shot down the
Mexican soldiers appointed to lire these
mines, and over them the main columns
passed in safety, only to confront the heavy
redoubt. Here came a crisis. Annihilation
awaited the daring men should the mines
explode, aud death or wounds were before
them in that well packed redoubt. Quick
work iu such an hour is often better than
numbers in men or missiles, and the criti
cal moment at Chapultepec produced its
hero. Capt. Chase, of the Fifteenth infan
try, whose company was in the advance
line, dashed promptly past the right flank
of the redoubt and was followed by a com
panion company aud by :«he whole Ninth
regiment. Then the attack was joined
front aud flank, and the Mexicans, fearing
for their safe retreat and expecting, as they
In tbs meantime Gtk Quitman's column
was advancing against the southeast
corner of the incloeure, some hundred
yards distant around the angle from Pil
low’s men on the western wall. On this
field the Americans encountered numerous
causeways and deep cuts prepared to im
pede them, and defended by infantry
posted behind shelter and by fortified bat
teries as welL The storming parties under
Capt. Casey and Maj. Twiggs pressed on
with gallantry equal to that displayed on
Pillow’s front. Casey was severely wound
ed and Maj. Twiggs killed at the head of
their men. But never halting, the stormera
went forward, cleaning out the trenches
and batteries.
Gen. James Shields, with New York and
South Carolina volunteers, and Col. John
W. Geary, with the Second Pennsylvania,
dashed up under a heavy fire of cannon
balls and bullets, and made a lodgment
under the walls on the flank of the storm
ing party. Soon an entrance was made
through a breach, and a grand rally took
place preparatory to an assault on the
castle from the south, when the Mexicans
above began jumping the works to escape
the fury of Pillow’s men, and Quitman
knew that the bloodiest work was over.
Part of his force followed the retreating
WpTifArm along the roads to the city, and
the rest joined Pillow on tbe hill.. The
united columns of Pillow and Quitman
now stormed the castle itself, where of
course all was confusion.
Some Mexican national guards and a
body of cadets belonging to a college estab
lished in the castle fought on with great
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SCALING THE WALLS.
should, that no mercy would be shown to
prisoners after the horrible butcheries
practiced on the Americans at Molino del
Rey, abandoned the work and fell back to
the inclosnre of the castle.
The men of Pillow lost not a moment,
but followed tbe fugitives so close that the
comrades of the latter could not fire with
out hitting friends. The Mexicans were
of course aumitted tnrougu tne gates, ana
the daring assailants ranged themselves
along the wall, and as soon as McKenzie’s
party came up with ladders a reckless
rush was made for the top. Many brave
fellows were shot down in the ditch; others
fell after mounting the wall.
There was, however, no lack of daring
substitutes for every one that fell. Mc
Kenzie’s stormers took up their work with
bravery and energy equal to that displayed
by tbe skirmishers, and rapidity and dar
ing it was that was carrying everything.
Two of McKenzie’s lieutenants were killed
and another severely wounded while
mounting the ladders. Another officer,
with two wounds, struggled up to unfurl
the American banner on the wall. The
stormers were closely followed by the in
fantry columns, and these, with matchless
courage, climbed tbe ladders, planting
their banners in the face of the enemy and
of the city, upon the lofty and historic hill.
Small wonder that the Mexicans threw
down their arms, although no quarter
would be given. The swoop of invaders
was like a whirlwind, and no power, no
Obstacle, could stop it. The fight went on
in the inclosure, the infuriated Americans
dealing death on all sides, until, their
wrath partly appeased, they yielded to
better nature and the entreaties of their
officers.
SCOTT DIRECTING ATTACKS ON TIIE GATES,
energy. The cadots are described by an
eyewitness as “pretty little fellows from
10 to 16 years of age,” and the same writer
adds that they struggled “like demons.”
But it was useless; the enraged assailants
bayoneted man and boy, prisoner and
fighting man alike, aud the blood flowed in
streams out at the passageways.
The attacks of Pillow and Quitman cov
ered the southern anu western sides of the
hill; the eastern side was connected with
the city, and the northern was approached
by a division under Gen. Worth in con
junction with Pillow’s advance from west
to east. Worth was to guard Pillow’s
flank, and his advance captured an outside
battery and opened an attack on the main
Mexican line beyond Chapultepec Castle
just at the time the work fell before Pillow
and Quitman. Gen. Scott mounted to the
dome of the castle,and took a sweeping
view of the city that now lay before his
victorious battalions, and from there di
rected his forces upon the several gates
doomed by the fall of Chapultepec to opeu
to the exultant Americans.
Of military names since made famous
Chapultepec claims a remarkable roll. It
was not a grand battle—the killed and
wounded in the American army probably
reached 500—but it was exceptionally dar
ing, aud brevets and honors were showered
on men whose work there well merited
them. Grant, according to his biography,
received a brevet of captain, although Scott
made no mention of him in his report.
Lee fainted from a wound while on duty
and was breveted lieutenant colonel. Mc
Clellan was iu the engineer corps. The
Confederate Joseph E. Johnston led the
skirmishes on Pillow’s front. James Long-
street, also a Confederate leader, was se
verely wounded wMle advancing, colors in
hand. 1 ‘tYtoney.'aljjfcL)ckson was a lieu
tenant iiiMa^TT^S" battery iu Worth’s
column. The general E. V. Sum
ner, who died in io63, led a battalion of
dragoons, and Gen. Joseph Hooker (“Fight
ing Joe”) won ULs tilird brevet in the Mexi
can war by fcr.'viee.v on Pillitw’s staff. G.
T. Beauregai'j, afterward a Confederate of
high rank, w as wounded there, and Earl
Van Doru, another Confederate general,
served on staff duty. The Union general
C. F. Smith, who was at Donelson with
Grant, commanded one of Worth’s bat
talions.
Capt. Silas Casey, afterward a Union gen
eral, has been mentioned, and also John
W. Geary, another Union general. Geary
was wounded, but kept the field. There
were also in the tight I. I. Stevens, who
fell as a Union general at Chantilly,
Va., iu 1862, and Jesse L. Reno, who
fell at the head of the Ninth corps
at South Mountain, Md.; L. A. Arrni-
stead, the Confederate brigadier killed in
Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, and George
E. Pickett himself, who won a cap
tain’s brevet; J. li. Magruder, Pillow, Gus-
tavus W. Smith, Benjamin Huger aud Ed
ward Johnson, all men of note in the Con
federate army. In fact, to have been with
Scott at Chapultepec was a passport to fa
vor in both the I'niou and Confederate
capitals when the ■ ivil war broke out, and
the men w no won honors there in 1S47
showed soldier mettle on other fields when
put to the test of daring.
George L. Kiljier.
Necklaces of Savages.
Uncle Sam has a vast collection of tho
jewels of savages. He has silverware made
by the Indians of Arizona, carved orna
ments from Alaska and great bracelets
and anklets of gold, silver and brass from
India. One of the most curious necklaces
in his collection is one of human fingers
which the medicine men of some of the In
dian tribes wear, ami ?ne is made of sixty-
seven human teeth, with holes pierced at
their roots to string them. This necklace
is ten inches long aud a number of the
teeth evidently need filling. It came from
the Fiji Islands ami was found there in 1840.
Another necklace is made of human hair,
into which the t^sk of the walrus was
woven. It is abor t two inches thick and
twenty Inches long. Another savage neck
lace is one cf human and dog teeth com
bined, and there are necklaces of stone, of
gold, silver, copp er and brass, of all shapes
and sizes, gathered from all parts of the
world.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
An Episcopal .glrorcb on Wheel*.
Bishop Walker, cf North Dakota, has for
his present hobby a car which the Pull
man company has made for him and
which he facetiously dubs “The Roving
Catholic Cathedral’’ The car is so con
structed that it affords seats for eighty
or more people, and contains a font,
an altar, a lectern and a cabinet organ
and whatever may be necessary for per
forming the rites and ceremonies of
the Protestant Episcopal church. It will
be the home of the bishop as he travels
about his diocese. Notice will be sent
many days in advance to the people of a
a —
THE INTERIOR OF THE CAR.
certain town announcing the date of the
bishop’s visit there. On the appointed day
the car will arrive and lie sidetracked. At
the appointed honr the people will assem
ble in the peripatetic cathedral and enjoy
a service that otherwise their community
might never have.
SWEETS FOB (HUMAS
THE VAST QUANTITIES TURNED
OUT BY THE MANUFACTURERS.
Boxes of Candies Ranging in Value from
•SO to' S100—The Humble Toilers Who
Make the Gay Toys for Christmas
Contrast.
CONSUMPTION CURED.
An old physician, retired team practice,
had placed in his hands by an East
India missionary the formula of n
simple Tags table n medy for tho speedy
and permanent cure of Consumption,
Brononltis^ Catarrh, Asthma and all
In the weeks intervening until Christmas
enough candy- will be turned oat in the
United States to make a good sized mount
ain. In and about New York alone Christ
mas sweets are being manufactured by
hand and machinery at the rate of 6,000,000
pounds a week, and there will be no let up
until almost the very night of Christmas
eve. For years the holiday candy trade
has been growing at an enormous rate,
but it is the general opinion among people
in the business that times have never been
so brisk as this season. This is due largely
to the tempting shapes that the manufact
urers have given to their Christmas wares.
Among the most striking things in this
line are “genuine candy sausages.” These
sausages are perfect imitations of the
“Frankfurters.” They are made of genu
ine casings taken from the American
porker, and are staffed with a paste com
posed of sugar gam and cocoauut. They
Throat —. — «-rofwiw,«. ^u«.
tlve and radical cure for Nervous Do
. bility and all Nervous Complaints. Hav-
! ing tested its woLderinl curative powers
in thousands of oases, and desiring to
relievo human suffering, and I will seed
free of charge to all who wish It. this re
elpe in German, French or English,
with fall directions for preparing ana
nslng. Bent by mall, by addressing,with
stamp, naming this paper,
W. A. NOYLE8,
£20 Powers’ Block, Rochester, N. Y.
781-12L
By electrolysis of a fluoride in a molten
state M. Minet extracts 21.5 grams of
aluminium for an expenditure of one
horse power per hour.
Some take their wrath up in their arms
and nurse it and coddle it until it grows
to be so strong and lusty a thing that they
can no longer hold it or control it.
WHERE THE CANDIES ARE MADE.
x>me in long double strings like ordinary
»ork sausages, and are specially intended
for Christmas tree ornaments.
A new fangled egg has scored a great
hit. It contains a soft yelk, made of the
whites of eggs baked with sugar and gum,
around which is a shell of brittle sugar,
colored and shaped to imitate exactly a
guinea hen’s product. “Yellow bananas,”
made of selected fruit, ground up with
sugar and gum, are also being put out in
immense quantities, while apples, peaches
and nearly all the other fruits that grow
are reproduced in the same manner, re
taining all the naturai flavor and appear
ance. A queer thing is a big potato of the
peach blow variety that looks fit to put in
a pot for boiling. “Helen’s Babies” occupy
a prominent place on the confectioners’
shelves. They come in pairs—boy and girl
—of pink candy, and have a hole drilled in
their heads by means of which they may
be strung up to the Christmas tree.
In very fine candies no attempt is mads
to produce novelties for the holidays. Tha
dainty shapes that sell the year round are
simply turned out in greater numbers.
All the novelty is put in tiie boubonnieres,
and in these some wonderful results are
achieved. It is nothing extraordinary for
one of the fashionable confectioaers to
show candy boxes costing $100 each. They
are generally made of hand painted satin
and lined with porcelain.
A box costing $55 is a very commonplace
affair, aud a big importer—for nearly all
these bonbon nieres are imported—tells me
that a single store will sell several hundred
of these high priced affairs for Christmas.
The designs this year are particularly
dainty, as the demand for them has grown
very great of late years on account of the
rage for them in Paris.
In candy toys for Christmas tree orna
ment there is also’ an endless variety.
These toys are made in a very peculiar way.
Some candy factories carry on thei r pay rolls
a large number of families on whom they
depend for their stock of toys. The people
are too wretchedly poor to buy the sugar
that is used for making the toys, so the
factory furnishes it to them and charges it
against their account. Tho patterns for
the toys are also furnished in the same
way. The sugar and patterns fire then car
ried home, and the whole family is put to
work making the goods in the tenement
house kitchen. First the form of the pro
posed toy is molded from the pattern in
starch, and then the molten sv.garis poured
in and allowed to crystallize. The coloring
and finishing are all done by hand, and
though few of the toys sell for more than
five cents anil many for a penny the work
is in most instances really artistic. But
the pay is small, and the combined family
earnings rarely reach $7 a week.
EXCURSION TO THE DAYTON,
TENN., LAND SALE.
For the grand sale of lots and lands at
Dayton, Tenn., December 3, 4 and 5,
agents E. T., V. A G. By. system will sell
tickets to Dayton and return at low ex
cnrslon rati s good ten days from date of
sale. Dayton is now a city of 5 000, situ
ated on tho Qneen A Crescent Route, in
tho beantlfai Tennessee Valley, sur
rounded by an Inexhaustible supply of
ooal, iron and timber. Two farnaoes are
now In fall blast, and behind In orders.
Two floor mills, pnmp works, planing
mill, briek works, and other Industries.
Ample accommodation at the hotels for
all who come. Fall particulars on appli
cation to agents E. T., V. A G. Ry. Sys
tem. _
An Indianapolis sculptor lias finished a
clay model for a bust of the Iloosier poet
James Whitcomb Riley. The model will
be sent to Rome to be east in bronze.
Tho value of the production of the Calais
lace trade is 80,000,000 francs yearly. Cau-
dry produces 13,000,000 francs n orth of lace
yearly.
Itch on human and horses and all ani
mals cared in 30 minutes by Woolford’s
Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Sold
by all druggists.
A good preventive for the inroads of ants
is a strip of carbolated petrolatum, about
half an inch iu width, drawn about the
places frequented.
Cincinnati is a wire center, and claims
to make among other things 20,000 bird
cages, 25,000 rat traps, 120,000 fly traps and
800,000 sieves annually.
FITS.—Ail Fits stopped tree oy Dr. Elint’s
Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits alter first day’s
use Marvellous cures. Treatise and $2.00 trlrl
bottle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Eline, 9f 1
Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 741-ly
Ad
TIRO ©IMIKffir a ,ui
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No advertisement will be accepted for lees than
28 cents. In every ease, the cash or sampe
must accompany the advertisement:
.SPECIAL NOTICE It
Advertisers in this column MUST NOT hav*
their mail sent care Sunny South. It requires
too much laborious work on our part to look aftsr
your correspondence. Have all replies to your
advertisements sent to you DIRECT ’
M RS. VAN LYONS, general purchasing agent,
orders for dresses, millinery, etc., filled
promptly. Special attention to wedding outfits.
Prices reasonable. Samples and estimates fur
nished. All orders for Christmas goods will re
ceive speciul attention. Write for circnlar,
Louisville, Ky., t>. 5 Fourth avenne. 746 3m
VI A D T> V7 I A handsome young It. D.,
lllnlllt I i 21 years old, 5 feet 10 inches
high, weighs 145 lbs., black hair and mustache,
blue eyes, fine form, good set of teeeh Ac., well
educated, amiable disposition and of the high
est social standing, has no bad habits positive-
ly don't know how whiskey or tobacco taste,
can write stunning letters, desires correspond
ence with educated and reflued young ladles,
with a view to early matrimony between the
ages of 16 and 22, must be pretty and capable of
E'. a *i ng a “lying wife, and be worth at least
$2,000; would like to exchange photos in first
letter. If convenient ladies please answer at
once you will not regret it at all, letters strictly
confidential. Addrets M. D., P. O. Box No. 2
Greers Depot. 8. C. 701 it
A LADY desires a position as teacher. Pri
mary work a'specialty F.xperienced In
Graded School methods. Testimonials fur
nished. Address Lock-box 124, Walhalla, 8. C.
Ml 3t
T HE SUWANNEE RIVER.—Some of the best
Lands and Finest Locations on the majes
tic Suwannee are offered for sale. Address Jas.
O. Andrews, Cedar Eey, Fla. 737 4t
O H GIRLS! it’s sad about us three young
gentlemen without correspondents. All
‘ Phunny Pbellows,” too. Girls from 17 to 23,
won’t you write and keep us from mischief.
Honorable answers assured. Address P. O. box
79, Jeanerette. La. 779 3t
W ANTED—To sell cr exchange, 30 acres good
farming land for a lot near a city. Ad
dress A. R. White, Clayton, Ala. 778 tf
P HOTOS —Seventeen beauties, latest out
only 10c.; 56 for 25c. Thurber A Co., Bay
Shore N Y. 772 tf
w
ANTED—Ladies to send their old dresses
clean the most de! ieate shades and colors, wa
pay expressage both ways, or. large bundles,
write for price list. McEwen Steam Dye Works,
Nashville, Tenn, 766 6m
W HAT! Do thev trust any and everybody?
Yes, The Havana Cigar Co., aeents, Wins
ton, N. C., to introduce their great "Nickle”
Cigars, will scud to any person (whether mer
chant or consumer) C. O. D. by express (with
privilege of examination) a sample lot of 150
cigars for $5.25 (retail value 87.50). They also
send in the same package a gold filled, stem
winding watch, accompanied by the manufac
turer’s guarantee to wear 20 years. Under no
circumstances will this package be sent twica
to one party. Orders will nave attention after
ward at $35.00 per 1 000 cash (or C O D.), with
out watch. Jan 190
A law has gone into effect in Louisiana
requiring railroa.l companies to furnish
separate cars for white and colored persons.
The Sutlej, a lm-ge river in British India,
with a descent of 13,000 feet in ISO miles, is
the fastest flov. imr river in tiie worhL -
English Spavin Liniment removes all
hard, soft or calloused lumps and blem
ishes from horses. .Warranted the most
wonderful blemish cure ever known. Sold
by ail druggists.
In An.sonin, Conn., tiie cither day three
Chinamen entered a street car, and when
the conductor came for fare one of the Ce
lestials gave liis head a turn and a jerk
and dropped three nickels from liis ear
into the conductor’s hand.
W ANTED—You to keep your money in tha
South, send your old faded suit to McEwens
Steam Dye Works and Cleaning Establishment,
they will make it braud neiv for you, they
clean, dye aud repair. They pay the freight,
write for catalogue. McEivens Steam Dy«
Works, Nashville. Tenn. 766 Cm
If Not Already Familiar to You,
AH we ask is try a bottle of Maguire’s Cundur-
ango when suffering from
Headache, Constipation, Fever,
Disordered Liver Indigestion
and other kindred affections.
W ANTED—You to know that McF.wena
Steam Dye Works by doing artistic work,
have now many cudomers in every state in the
Union- They pay freight both ways, so it places
it in your reach as well as if in your own town,
correspond with them ami patronize a worthy
Southern enterprise. McEwen Dye Works ana
Cleaning Establishment, Nashville, Tenn. 765 6m
W ANTED—Ladies to know that we make a
specialty of dyeing mourning goods, ws
take the fanciest colors and make a beautiful
black, wd pay all expressage, write for particu-
ars. MeEwcns Dye Works, Nashville, Tena.
766 6m
W 'ANTED—You to send us that old over coat,
we will dye it a beautiful color, put on new
buttons, re-line and thus save you buying a new
one. we guarantee it not to smut, wo pay all
expressage, write for price list- McEwen Steam
Dye Works and Cleaning Establishment, Nash
ville, Tenn. 766 6m
A RE YOU Married? if not, send your addrest
to The American Corresponding Club, F.
O. Box 643, Clarksburg, W. Va. 756 12m
For jveak eyes a wash of weak salt and j
water will prove of much benefit.
Experience in electrically welding pro
jectiles shows that the metal is strength
ened at the point of welding.
Some one has proposed that one of the
new cruisers or battle ships should receive
tiie name of Ericsson.
EXCURSION TO ASHVILLE, N. C.
Southern Interstate Immigration Con.
vention.
Excursion tickets will be sold by all
agents of the East Tennessee, Virginia
& Georgia Railway system to Asheville,
N. O., December 13 14,15 and 16, at one
fare for the round trip, to parties to at
tend the Southern Interstate Immigra
tlon Contention, to be h6ld December 17,
18 and 14 Tickets good to return until
December 24tb, 1890. Every Southern '
citizen should be deeply interested in ;
this Convention.
H k I R—Superfluous hair permanently re
moved from the face, from moles, or from
any part of the body, without injury or discol
oration of the most delicate skin. Simple, easy
of application and positive iu its effects. En
Close stamp for particulars. Address Horn*
Manufacturing Company, Box 220, Atlanta, Ga.
758 6m,
W ANTED—Ladies and gentlemen to know
that we dye vour goods and guarantee them
not to smut, save money we will make your old
Clothes new, we par express both ways, writo
for catalogue. Agents wanted. MeEwen Dye
Works. Nashville. Tenn. 756 6m
F IR SALE—150 extra fine Silver-Laced Wyan-
dottes bred from my prize birds. Circular!
free. J, A..Cullum Ridge Spring, S. C.
768-4 mos
TEN POUNDS
i !,
two weeks:
THINK OF IT i .
j As a Flesh Producer there can be J i
< no question hut that ( 1
DE. M.T.SALTEE.
Reform Dispensary, Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Salter enjoys special advantages in tha
treatment of general chronic complaints, and
special diseases, Rheumatism, Cancer, Con
sumption, Bronchitis, Catarrhal Diseases of
the Head, Throat, Stomach, Bowels aud
Bladder rapidly cured. All Blood Diseases and
Blood I’oisouing cured in a short time Nerv
ous Diseases, Epilepsy, or St. Vitus Dance,
Nervous Debility, Hysteria and Hypochondria
quickly relieved and rapidly cured Diseases
of Kidneys so common to both sexes cured in
the shortest time possible Diseases of Females,
Falling of Womb, Leueorrhcea, Inflammation of
Womb, Menstrual Irregularities quickly re
lieved and permanently cured.
Consultation Free Charges very moderate •
including all neeesary medicines. A personal
interview seldom neiessary. Hundreds have
been cure! by Dr. Salter by correspondence
! willi medicines shipped by express Give a
WAERE THE CANDIES ARE EATEN.
It would make a strange contrast if by
some means a picture of the candy maker’s
miserable home could be placed side by
side on Christmas with the borne in which
the products of bia bands hang heavy from
the gay Christmas tree.
In one warmth, light, happiness, a hun
dred candies blazing in the pine houghs,
happy faced children pressing about with
their arms full of Santa Claus’ most ex
pensive offerings. In the other, misery,
squalor, dirt; the only signs of Christmas
are the gaping starch molds, useless now
until next year; pale faced, hungry chil
dren, who are so pinched bv poverty that
they hardly dare to keep one of the sugar
toys that their little fingers have helped to
make. Paul Latzka.
he cannot ire he will so state aud if employed
will greatlv benefit or completely restore you to
health. The most timid need not fear, as he
holds all letters aud consultations with the
strictest confidence. Address
M. T. SALTER, M. D,
777 90 Broad Stre.ei, Atlanta, Ga.
: Of Pure Cod Liver Qi! and Hypcphosphites:
Of Lime and Soda
! is without a rival. Many have !
I trained a pound a day by the use (
; of it. Zt cures ;
CONSUMPTION,
SCROFULA. BRONCHITIS, COUGHS AND !
COLDS, AND ALL FORMS OF WASTING DiS- J
EASES. AS PALATABLE AS MILE, i
lie sure you get the genuine as there are J
poor imitations• J >
i
Off for fiurope.
"1 really cannot tell you, George,
How much I dread to go,
Because I've never been before,
And this boot trembles so.”
“I’ve studied up the maps and things,
And planned out all the routes;
I'm still a/raid to go, and —ugh.
My heart is in my boots. ”
“But there must be something surely
I can do for you,” said she.
“Yes, Kittle; if you'd just as soon,
Please leave your boots for me.”
—Journal of Education.
How the Money Comes In.
“The worst money we get,” said a treas
ury official at Washington recently, “cornea
from the west and northwest, where
tho people have little use for pocket-
books, but ram their currency into
their pockets regardless of the conse
quences. Our best money—that the least
damaged — cornea from New England,
where the people seem to be orderly and
careful. We get more money for redemp
tion in good times than in bad, and more
In midwinter and midsummer than in the
3 ring and fall. These facts are attribn- |
ble to the greater use the people have for
currency in the seasons of the year which
are most active commercially. Forty per
cent, of the money comes in from New
York city banks and 75 or 80 per cent, of it
comes.from the banks of the eightsnb-
treasury cities of Boston, New York, Phila
delphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati,
New Orleans and San Francisco. On Mon
days we get the worst money of the week,
for it is on that day that we chiefly hear
from the remote country banks, which
have a habit of holiliiijJ” to their currency .
till it is iu pretty hail shape.” I
genuine
ONE YEAR
TRIAL FREE!
An Inparalleled OHVr.
■ of c
DUEBER
11 engraved silverine watch, fall? *
tl tirnl guaranteed by us for 20vei
Unequalled for appearance i
perfect asa timekeepe:
. silver for a life
time. The engraving on it Is
a perfect marvel of beauty-
anti elegant finish and cannot {
be duplicated an , wher.‘else in *
the orld for less than three J
times our price The movement
is our own «p*eial ruby jew
eled full plat -1 ,-ver movement
with hard enamel polished dial
extra burnished pinions, finely
fitted train and magnificently
finished balance, unsurpassed
as a perfect timekeeper and
positively unequalled in ap
pearance. Many watches are
sold at |i5.o« that mill five
no better results than this,an1
we guarantee it in all respects.
cut thin Kff Sid it with
vour order and w* will ship
the watch to you by express C.
O. D. If on examination at
the express office you find it as
represented pay the express
v agent the amount. $3.98 and
tsvnm charges and it is yours, otherwise yon pay nothing and it
will be returned at onr expense.
_.ONE YEAR TRIAL. ^ „
I^With each watch will be sent a printed agreement giving yen
fee privilege to return the watch any time within ana year If It
does not give perfect satisfaction. Can anything ke fairer!
THE NATIONAL MFC. A IMP0RTINN GO.
(btwtarited.) 191 a 193 Clark St., Chicago,III
4 aeents collecting small Pic-
10 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ fares for S; 'RrRptiKiit We
Vk ■ ■■■■will ror-y mill frame your
wlw ■ ■■■■own picture ‘at agent’s
W ■ Qf Ur prices,” to be used as a
a sample to show our work.
Send for circulars. Address
Southvrn Copying Co., UJ4MaiictlaSt- Atlanta,
Georgia
Mention Sunny South when you write
Lais, 1)8 Beautiful.
OF INTEREST TO ALL WOMEN.
.Hiiio. A. >Iar*s Skin lilmrh h poMtivelv
superior to all others; in tho lat-M and best evei
offered for sale; not a cosmerit ; d. es not shot*
on the face; is a perfect skin t«»!. : _ .•ran teed to
remove the worst, cases of Fret V’ I.iver Spots,
Tan. Pimples, etc. (if used with n . .-oapaccording
to directions), or money refunded. L per bottle;
;t bottles, $2.75. Pirn' and harmless to the skin.
Vino. Hair Bieaeh is perfectly
harmless to the hair or person it. Pan ho
taken in the mouth, it is so p;rv. One botdf
sufficient to golden a dark suit of l air. Price. $1
per bottle.
Sfi|>oi*tVnoii<i nasr* • I L n few min
utes without pain or injury to the most delicate
skin, Anvone can use it. SI per bottle.
Hairy moles removed. All kinds of Scars or
Birthmarks removed or reduced: and Blemishes of
evervkind upon the face treated with some success.
Fine hair preparations, fine soaps and superb
face powder.
X. R.- The discoverer and manufacturer of
the Skin Bleach has been known to us for many
years. She is a lady of the highest respectability,
and her statements are entirely trustworthy.
A. A. TMI.UTR.
Pastor Warren Memorial Pres. Church,
F.. L. POWELL.
W. H. BARTHOLOMEW. .
Principal Female High School.
Address, MADAME A. MAR,
407 Fourth Avenne. Louisville, Ky.
Send stamp for circulars Orders promptly
filled. Mention this paper.
780 4t
FASHIONABLE HAIR.
Goods sent
by mail to
aU parts of
United
States.
SPECIAL SEDUCTION
Tot two month* 0 ^ will mail tor
approval our
$3.00 Water Curl Bangs tor $2.00
$5.00 Water Curl Bangs for 3.50
STEM LESS SWITCHES.
$3.00 Stemleaa Switches for $2.00
6 00 :: 122
800 vS
10.00 •• “ 7.00
The above prices are
for common shades of
hair. Send for circu
lar to John Medina,
463 ^Washington street,
$f Boston, Mass.