The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907, December 06, 1890, Image 8

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8 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 4. wm.' 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 ©®L(yJM„s»“-i23 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.