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MACOK, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1880
YOLUME KO—LV
A BOOK OF POEMS.
To-day I found in a drawer,
Where I had not looked for years,
A volume of little poems,
And my eyes grew blind with tears,
As I turned the yellow paces,
And found some daises dead,
> That marked the last sweet poem
My darling ever read.
How well can I remember
That afternoon in May
We saw the white-sailed vessels
Go gliding down the hay.
And our ships went sailing outward
As far as ships could be,
Bound for the far-off island,
In love’s enchanted sea.
She read me this quaint, sweet poem,
Her little hand in mine—
I hear the throbbing ocean,
And see the blue waves shine—
And like some dream of sorrow,
The years have passed away,
And I am by her side again,
This afternoon in May.
I look in her eyes and listen
To bef voice so soft and sweet,
As her lips this strange, sweet fancy
Of the poet’s brain repeat,
And think that love is a poem,
So old and yet so mew—
Tho sweetest of all sweet poems
To those who make it true.
Ah! but the poem ended!
The beautiful dream is done!
The fairest flowers are the frailest
Of flowers under the sun.
My book of life has its poems, *
And the sweetest poem there
Is the memory of my darling
Safe >vliere the angels are.
—Baltimorean.
BOSE FORRESTER’S ESCAPE.
“Everybody envies Rose Forrester.”
The pale girl in gold-colored silk lifted
the broad lids from her clear eyes for a
moment, as the speaker’s words reached
her ear; then she bent over the photo
graphs upon her lap again.
She handled the pictures with an en
thusiastic appreciation of their worth, so
absorbed in their examination as to be to
tally unconscious of the tall, fair man
who stood quite near, looking down upon
her with an apparently suddenly awaken
ed interest.
“Belonging to such a nice family, an
heiress, aud so beautiful!”
The continued words of the speaker
reached Howard Manley’s ear, but evi
dently Rose Forrester did not hear them.
She turned with a sparkling smile to
her hostess, and was still talking with
her of the photographs when Mr. Clinton
brought Howard Manley up for an intro
duction. . .
As she rose in the full light it revealed
that she was very young, scarcely twenty,
yet tall of stature, aud with a marked re-
pose of mauner..- •
Her beauty was not conspicuous—she
was too pale; yet Manley saw how per
fectly cut was every feature, how clear
the dark gray eyes, how dark the curling
lashes. The lips shut over little teeth as
white as milk and the contour of the face
was a perfect oval.
■TEe'girl’s jiatqfe.qpd spontaneous man
ner told that she gave .{lie young man, at
first, no unusual attention. Little by lit
tle she observed him—the fair hair shad-
• owing the white forehead, the dark blue
penetrating eyes, the unusual grace of
figure, the faultless drees.
• • Her manner was so cordial and friendly
and unmistakably charming that Manley
racked his brains for the chance of a next
meeting, but was obliged to abandon it
when Miss Forrester was joined by her
. brother. . .....
She left the room, but instantly he
thanked his good fortune at the finding of
a ruby scarf pin which he recognized as
hers. It was easy to decide the ornament
too valuable to be entrusted to a messen
ger. It was a presumption that he wonld
manage with ease to call upon her and re
store it. „ „ ...
Rose was not a belle. She had too
much depth and passion of nature to ever
be a society woman; but she bad her ad
mirers, and out of them she soon chose
^She 6 could not tell why, but his looks,
words, every act had a charm for her, and
the eloquent blood tinging her cool cheek
at liis approach told him the story of lus
^Hewas a proud man—he might well
have been a happy one—but he often bore
an air ot noticeable weariness and de
pression. This, in answer to'Rose’s gen
tle inquiries, he attributed to ill health.
Spring was opening, with Its vivid sun
shine, its balmy air, and Rose was very
happy. It seemed to her that it was the
pleasant influences of the season which
made her daily ways so light; the tender
colors, sights and sounds surrounding her
daily walk with’Manley in tho park,
which made them so enjoyable.
Perhaps they helped to make her spirit
strong so that she dared say to herself, “I
love him!” and say it without reservation
or fear; for she knew that it was but a
little while since she had first met him,
and of his past history and much of his
present she knew nothing.
No; she feared nothing for herself, io
love and be surrounded with tenderness
was happiness enough for her; she asked
for no more. Yet some instinct or trace of
worldly wisdom made her withhold her
confidence from her brother, who was her
guardian; he knew nothing of the mti-
111 From the night she had first met Man-
ley at Mrs. Clinton’s party, she never
knew any one who knew him intimately.
He told her that he had no living female
relative—no home. .
He evidently had means at command,
and procared for her, with an ingenuity
which was almost genius, the rarest and
most beautiful gifts. Her delighted re
ception of them seemed a mutual joy
which prevented any possible feeling of
obligation on her side. In truth, full ot
passionate impulses of youth, she was
• deaf, dumb and blind to anything bat the
fnllness of the present. :
Her brother came into the music-room
where she sat at the piano, dreamily, play-
• ingone day.
“Rose, will yon give me your attention
for a few minutes?” ' •
He held an open letter in his hand. He
' was twenty years older than herself, a
world-wise, prudent man.
“Dr. Wingrove proposes for your hand.
You are aware that it will be a very ad
mirable match, are you not?”
Rose liad a strange, stunned feeling,
yet she bowed faintly. From childhood
she had been greatly under her brother’s
7 control. - 1 . .: ,,
“I should like to write him favorably,
Rose. Have you any objection?”
“I—I—” '
She fonnd herself upon her feet shiVbr-
ing in the May sunshine.
“I wonld have a little time, Edwin.
One of Opie Read’s Stories.
Near the river, in the upper part of
Arkansas, lives old Jeremiah Winfrew,
known all over the neighborhood as pos
sessing a fund of profanity so great that no
one, no matter how desirous of “swearing”
distinction, could hope to rival. Old Jere
miah, although named for one of the most
distinguished prophets, made uo effort to
ward reform. He would not allow a
preacher to come to his house, so great
was his aversion to the gospel. One
night, when the wind blew cold and when
the sleet beat against the window pane
with that sharp rattle so brightly tending
to produce thankful emotion:) to those
whdjare within a warm room,andsocxas-
peiatmg to the traveler, a man rapped on
the door of Jeremiah’s house.
“Come in,” exclaimed the old man, as
e^nare.°!^Ioimtaiiibubbieil I he P ut as' ld ° a plate of pop-corn. The
; the stone vases of flowers door opened and a young man, carrying a
’ - ... p a i r 0 f ^jddle bags, entered. Jeremiah
immediately began a series of attentions.
He gave the stranger a seat in the corner
near tlio churn, while his wife and daugh
ters flew around in that hurry flurry only
known to women, preparing supper for
the ‘poor traveler.’ After supper, when
the stranger had been invited to smoke
and when Abel Jeremiah’s son, had been
sent to ‘shelter’ the stranger’s horse, the
old man, eying the stranger, asked:
“Wliat trade do you.foller ?”
“I am engaged in the Lord’s merchan
dise. I, my kind Christian friend, am a
meek and lowly circuit rider.”
“Then git oaten my house, sir,,” ex
claimed Jeremiah. “Git right out, or I’ll
apply a par of cowhide hoots to that pait
of your physical arrangement which rests
in a cheer. A circuit rider; why, ding
your soul, I swapped horses with a circuit
rider when I was a hoy, aud got cheated
so bad that my father thrashed me. Get
out of here. Mosey!”
“I am sorry, my Christian friend—”
“Git out. Abe, git this feller’s shoes.
Move on.”
When the preacher had gone, the old
man sat for an hour, swearing aud smok
ing.
“Father,” said Abe, “I’ll bet my bay
filly agin the sorrel nag tiiat you’ll be a
circuit rider in six lUonths.”
“Go to bed, you young varment, or I’ll
whale you.”
“You’d better take the bet, pap. Here’s
yer chance to win the filly.”
“All right, I’ll take the bet. Go to
bed.”
All next day the old man swore about
the preacher’s impudence, and in general
terms expressed regret that he did not use
a stick on him. Next night, while the
old man was feeding the cattle in the
barn, a voice so strauge that it made the
old man’s blood creep, moaned rather
than exclaimed:
“Jeremiah Winfrey!”
“Who’s that ?” answered the old man.
“Jeremiah Winfrey!” . .-
“Well.” . v (
“Ride the circuit of the gospel.”
“I’ll show you what it is to fool with
me,” hotly exclaimed the old man, and
he climbed all around in the bam looking
for the ofl'ender. He could fiud no one,
and when he went to the house he roused
Abe out of bed and told pfliis strange ex
perience. Next day, when the old man
was riving boards in the woods, a voice
over his head exclaimed:
_ “Jeremiah Winfrey!”
“Where are you ?” said _the old man,
dropping his free, and gazing up.
“Jeremiah Winfrey!”
“Well?” sPll gazing. *
“Ride the circuit of the gospel!”
“Oh, Lord!” supplicated Jeremiah,
dropping on his buees. “Oh! forgive me
for my sins, but keep me from riding a
circuit.”
The old man went home, and experi
enced some trouble in trying to convince
his wife and Abe of the fact that some
thing supernatural had spoken to him.
The old lady sighed and said that she was
afraid Jeremiah was not in his right mind.
Thus matters went on for months. Nearly
every night the voice at the barn would
call the old man, and every time he went
to the board tree the solemn admonition
would come from above. Unable to lon
ger endure such mental torture, the old
man, who had by this time professed re
ligion, made application to conference,
and was accepted. On the morning when
he first started out as a circuit-rider he
presented Abe with the sorrel nag. He
soon instituted a revival, and was so suc
cessful that lie received a complimentary
letter from religious headquarters. Several
nights ago, just after family prayers, and
while Parson Jeremiah was upbraiding
Abe for not joining the church, the young
man said:
“Pap, and you did become a circuit
rider, didn’t you?’
“Certainly I did. You well know the
circumstances.”- ** r • ‘
“Yes, I know,” replied Abe. “I know
leetle more about the circumstances
than you reckon. Arter I made that bet
with you I hid in the barn loft and called
you through a horn, When you dim up
j[ hid under the hay. Then I beat you
down and run to the house. Next day
when I seed you goin’ out to rive boards,
I dim up in the tree an’ got down in the
holler. I again beat you to the house.
S racticed this on you, pap. till you ’fessed
;ion. I wanted the nag, you know.”
The old man sprang from his seat, seized
piece of rope, but throwing it down,
raised his hands and said in a calm voice,
“Let us pray.”
A fraudulent transaction can sometimes
have a good result. The old man is still a
preacher. _
world, I dare tell my brother why I will
not marry Doctor Wingrove.”
Dr. Wingrove was the noblest and
gentlest of men, singularly handsome,
wealthy, and highly connected, and bare
ly thirty years of age. He had known
her since childhood, never made love to
her, but now that the offer of marriage
had come to her, she realized, somehow,
that he had always loved her.
Rose was conscious of a racking pain
in her temples, at last. The chamber
seemed stifling.
Catching up her cloak and hat, and
tying a veil of heavy black lace across her
face she went out into the street.
She soon walked herself weary, without
abating her painful sensation, and, re
turning to the street in which her resi
dence wa3 situated, entered the public in
closure of trees and shrubbery which or- |
namented the
in the centre;
sent a sweet perfume upon the air.
So close to her home, she had no tim
idity, and, sinking upon a circular seat
surrounding a large tree, she gave herself
up to her absorbing thoughts.
• It was soon dark, yet she liad not
stirred. In her black dress, in shadow,
she was quite unnoticed by two men who
crossed the street from the opposite side
and sat down behind her.
She would then have risen and glided
away quietly, but the movement was
arrested by Howard Manley’s voice.
“How soon?” he asked.
“Now, my dear brother, I’ll stand the
risk no longer. I’ve passed false money
enough for you to shut me up for the rest
of my life, and I value my liberty, singu
larly enough,” sneenngly.
“Well, well, I am willing enough to go,
Fred. Heaven knows that I am as sick
of the business as you can he. Coining
isn’t all prosperity. In a new country I
should feel like another man. But—”
“The heiress?”
•‘I am sure of her. But I don’t like to
urge a hasty marriage. She has an old
fox of a brother, who may be inconven
iently curious regarding my affairs. If
we could wait tul the autumn, now, I
might enter some respectable business.”
“I tell you it won’t do!”
Both rose in their excitement, and in
voluntarily walked away.
Plainly under the gaslight, Rose saw
Howard Manley and his brother pass un
der the street. They wore coiners.
More dead than alive, she crept into the
house. But Rose was not a weak girl.
Before midnight she had placed Howard’s
gifts in a close package, and sealed with
them a note, briefly slating that she had
overheard the conversation in the park.
The next morning it was dispatched.
As soon as her brother broached the
subject of Dr. Wingrove's proposal, she-
asked to have the latter call upon her.
He came, with countenance sq high of
purpose, with eyes so full of truth, that
she involuntarily contrasted Howard's
cold, reticent face with it; but she told Mr.
Wingrove all the truth.
“Perhaps it was wrong, bnt I loved him
—loved fiim purely—and my heart is tom
and bleeding. I am wild with a secret
pain which I must hide from everybody.
If I liad never known him! Bat I cannot
imagine that. This terrible experience
has changed me; I am not the care-free,
happy, trusting girl, you knew. I cannot
love you; bnt pity me—be my friend, I
must talk to some one, and oh,,there is
no onerin the world so kind a3 you.”
Was Dr. Wingrove piqued by his recep
tion of his proposal ? No, he was too gen
erous and tender-hearted for that.
“Poor child!” he said, in a tone so
soothing that, for the first time, Rose gave
way to a relieving burst of passionate
weeping.
“What shall I do ? What do you think
of me?” she asked at last.
“We will wait, and I think that I love
yon,” he answered, quietly.
So two kept the secret of Rose’s so/row
more easily than one, and though her
heart still kuew its pangs of grief for a
time, the summer brought change of scene
which was hopeful to a spirit really brave
and innocent.
Dr. Wingrove joined Rose and her
brother at the seashore, to find brightness
in the young girl’s eyes again, and to the
latter it was sweet to call so kind and no
ble a man friend.
Together they climbed the rocks, drank
in the free air, watched the sunsets and
the sea. Of old they had been congenial,
and now they seemed more happily so.
There is usually a sacredness about
first love, and perhaps it is expected of me
to record the death of my heroine of a
broken heart, bnt I must tell the troth.
In the autumn Rose manied Dr. Win
grove. She is one of the happiest wives
in the world. The first love fell from her
like a false blossom, while the second
ripened the richest fruit.
A Professor of Dimples.
A New York reporter has discovered a
“professor” who creates dimples, who
prophesies that in five years, when his
process becomes known, there won’t be
a plain woman in New York City. After
discussing the esthetic and poetic sides of
the dimple question, this is the way the
E rofessor says he can create the bewitch-
ig hollows.
“Well, sir,” said the professor, “a dim
ple—a natural dimple that is—is simply
a slight hollow between two muscles or
over a muscle, and the skin is more firmly
attached to the subjacent tissues at this
point than at other points. Hence, when
the muscles contract, as in the act of smil
ing, the skin is drawn down into the hol
low, forming a dimple, that beautiful—”
“Yes,” said tlie reporter; “but bow do
yon make them ?”
“I make apuncture in the skin at the
point where the dimple is required,” an
swered the professor, “a puncture that
cannot be noticed when healed, and with
a delicate instrument I remove a portion
of the muscle. Then I excite a slight in
flammation which attaches the skin to the
subcutaneous hollow I have formed. In
a few days the wound—if wound it can
be called—has healed, and a charming
dimple is the result.”
The reporter suggested that _ there
ought to be a good deal of money in the
new operation.
“There is,” said the professor. “Wo
men will be made lovely and 1 will be
made rich.”,,
“How many times have you per
formed this operation ?” asked tho report-
C “Many times in France,” answered the
professor; “neveryet in America.. To-,
morrow I begin operating on several ac
tresses who wish dimples on their faces,
shoulders, arms and—yes, shoulders aDd
arms.”
-The Burkett Outrage.
New Yo’iik, July 28.—A special from
Pittsburg states that a farther hearingwas
had at Greensburg yesterday in the case
of the showmen charged with outraging
the person of Salome Burkett, a little
j country girl. The girl was .present and
_ | twelve persons were picked out fronf
“Certainly,. if you wish-,” though his among the prisoners by the girl as having
brow slightly clouded. “The doctor will assaulted her, she passing among them in
not probably look for an immediate an- company with District Attorney Kline.
«™>_» I Q n cross-examination her story was
The next moment R6se had escaped about the same as in the chief examina-
froin the room, and was locked in her j| on . . Several showmen testified, corrob-
chamber. 1 1 orating the testimony of the girl. All
During the next two hours she hardly were then discharged except the twelve
.knew what she was doing. She found w ho were Identifleiby the girl
herself walking the floor, and wringing _ - Uru j.*». .
.her hands. At last she stopped short, —The desire to go somewhere in hot
with a sense of pride. weather Is only equalled by the desire
“There is no reason—no reason in the get back again.
gy and medical profession and a few em
ployes of the government, shall present
himself in uniform and drill everyday
from 11 o’clock until 1. All foreigners are
invited to form themselves into a corps to
maintain order and protect property in
the event of tho city being left '-'it any
time without the usual guardians of the
peace. No inhabitants of the province of
Lima are allowed to go beyond its limits
without passports.
As an example of the spirit which .ani
mates the people, it may be stated '-that
the archbishop of Lima lm placed -the
treasure of :he church at the disposal of
the government, to be used in the Sprvice
of the country.
An official telegram dated Lima- July
4, received viaPayto, states that thfll Chil
ian transport Amazona was on the day
previous blown up by torpedoes in Callao
bay and sank immediately. It is thought
quite likely, however, that it was one of
the Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s
steamers, as the Amazona had been pre
viously reported as having sailed for Val
paraiso. -
The Chilian government is said to have
agreed upon the following propositions
looking to tho prosecution of the, war:
First, to emit $0,000,000 for the continu
ance of the war; second, to organile the
army with new’ divisions; and, third, to
raise the Manco Copac. Serious Icbatc
was occasioned in Congress in conse
quence of one of the deputies saving it
was now time to offer peace to"; Peru
through the mediation of another gower,
and that' the bombardments of Callao
were barbarous and useless proceedings.
The cable has been restored from Arica
to Callao, and is now being worked for
Chilian account.
Panama, July 27.—The volcano Fuego,
in Gautemala, is in exceedingly active
eruption. Whole houses for miles around
are filled with smoke. At Sau Benito, and
even beyond that point in Mexico, and
down the San Salvador coast, fine dust
thrown up by the volcano falls in quanti
ties, which renders it certain that in the
immediate nigliborhood the effects must
be caiamitousT
A WOMAN’S
EXECUTION — PARIS*
1871.
The South American War.
Panama, July 17.—Latest dates re
ceived here from Lima are by mail to
Juue 30, aud by telegraph via Payto to
July 4th. The Chilian admiral, Riverose,
it is said, has announced his intention to
bombard Lima, aud lias notified the di
plomatic body in tliatjcapital to that ef
fect. 3 Notification has also been conveyed
to foreign ministers,intimating that the Pa
cific Steam Navigation Co.’s steamers
would be pemiiitted to enter Callao har
bor up to the eighth inst., and would re
ceive all foreign families of women and.
children who desired to fly from the
doomed city.
From certain portions of the adjacent
coast, no doubt Lima can be readied by
the artillery of the Chilian fleet, the dis
tance in a straight lino not being more
than four to four and a half miles from the
centre of the city, to the depth of‘ten
fathoms of water. Its destruction, there
fore, is a mere question of time, even
without the assistance of the land force.
The number of long range guns which
the, Chilians have at command is small,
however, and the work of injuring the
city, at the distance stated, will he ex
ceedingly slow. *
The Chilian admiral has already threat
ened that Lima when taken will be given
up to destruction and to the ravages of the
Chilian troops as were Molendo and Arica,
because, as he states, the Chilian officers
cannot restrain their men. The Feravi-
wns are preparing to give their women,
children and household valuables an asy-
lnm where no enemy’s hand can reach
them. Lorma, a beautiful little town,
situated beyond impenetrable ramparts of
the Cordilleras, has been selected as the
place, and great activity is being shown in
its preparation for the large increase of
population which it will doubtless soon
receive.
In view of the critical state of affairs
Railroading Along the Blue Ridge.
Asheville, N. C., July 20, 1880.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
The writer’s physician had urged upon
him the necessity of seeking for. a time a
higher altitude and a more invigorating
climate, and in canvassing for a location
combining these requisites, we decided to
teat the Blue Ridge of western North
Carolina.
Leaving your city by morning train, we
found tho same time would be made by
lying over in Atlauta and faking the early
morning train of the Air Line road. Mine
host, Major, Huff, of the Markham, gave
the party an impromptu “hop” aiid ex
tended other courtesies in keeping with
his well-known reputation. ThU hos
telry is liberally patronized, a3 it well de
serves to be, being in charge of such vim,
energy and experience as is seldom com
bined in hotel management. ,
Next morning, as the twinkling stars be
gan to fade in early twilight, round the
party on board the Air-Line train, and
rather uncomfortably packed for hbt
weather. The cara are new and in fine
condition, tlie conductor courteous and
obliging, roAd^bed smooth, schedule time
at all stations promptly made. Breakfast
at Bellton.* was rather meagre, as the con
ductor had orders to telegraph for seven
teen, when eighteen extra ones wanted'
what they were not willing to order two
hou« previous. .
Nothing out of the usual routine of
railroad travel occurred during the run to
Spartanburg, which place was reached at
12 m. Here was a break of over four
hours. Half a mile of omnibusing u» ti, fi
Central Hotel furnished us an excellent
dinner and gave ample time to perambu
late through the town, which shows signs
of thrift and business energy flattering for
their future. Many new buildings are in
course of erection, some of which are on
quite an extensive scale. The town Is
healthyj and has a thrifty surrounding
country to support it.
At 4 p. m. we took the train for Hen
dersonville, forty-five miles distant in a
northwesterly direction. The road has
an up grade from the start, and ere long
has an average of ninety feet. Twen
ty miles bring to view tlie tips of tlie Blue
Ridge.'As we progress they gradually loom
up, until they assume huge proportions,
and presenting a barrier which seems to
defy the locomotive to penetrate or sur
mount. '/
We arc now meandering among the
foot-hills and spurs of this mighty range,
circling peaks, high upon tressliug over
giddy ravines, clear, sparkling cascades,
clashing their spray over the train.
Skirting murderous gorges, sweeping
round a sharp promontory into a small
open space, wo stop for wood and water.
Here the climb commences in earnest, and
on a maximum grade of 238 feet. The
slow measured exhaust of the engine an
nounced the fearful tax upon its powers.
An occasional whir, as tlie bite of the dri
ving wheels relaxed their hold upon the
rails, caused a shudder among the more
timid. The formation presented but lit
tle choice of location by tlie engineers,
they being compelled to follow tlie con
tour of the mountains through the gap
which makes a continued alternate curv
ing in and out of tlie mountain side. Tlie
ravine is on our left, and for the whole
distance presents a fearful abyss, into
which to plunge a train of cars should
they be thrown from the track.
It is well known that fewer accidents
occur in tbesMieavy grades and curvilin
ear roads, than on tlio^ugnore Savorabl
located! This exemption may be attnbul
to the perfect structure or the road, and
the slow and cautious running over such
lines. Every precaution against accidents
is adopted—even the couplings of the cars
are trebled. It would be impossible to
separate the train unless intentionally
done. Somehow we always feel safe in
this species of railroading. Adding there
to its novel and exhilerating effect, it fur
nishes a delightful change from the mo
notonous run through a level country.
The summit is reached as the eveuing
shades are hovering over the mountain
peaks, and when, after an easy run of ten
miles, we roll into Hendersonville, the
stars arc out in full force, as well as a
phalanx cf hotel drummers and hack
drivers. These accessory nuisances of
travel are adepts in their calling, and are
as clamorous an 1 persistent as if the fate
of a nation were at stake. By accident
we selected tin Arlington, where an ex
cellent supper was furnished,' and, on a
vote being taken, it.proved unanimous,, in
favor of going to Asheville, twbnty-one
miles distant that night. Twothacks and
a baggage wagon were engaged for the
sum of $20 to take the party of ten. The
road the entire distance is very good. The
late start and moderate speed landed us
at the Swaunanoa DcStel just as the in-
‘dustrious denizens of Buncombe county
were astir. .Ere long will give you
glimpse of Aslieville as impressed on
tourist. C.A.N.
Theatrical Notes.
Alice Hutchings, who possesses a sweet
voice, is to travel with the “Tourists”
next season.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Carhart have been
engaged to support Mine. Janaoschek
next season.
Clara Morris will probably play an en
gagement at the Park Theatre, New York,
the coming season.
It i3 stated that in October next Arthur
Wallack will lead to the hymeneal altar
Miss Addle Moss.
Lizzie Price Fechter states that she, and
not John McCullough, paid, for her hus
band’s monument.
Emma Carmen, a protege of Samuel
Colville, takes Amy Gordon’s place in the
“Goblins” next season.
F. C. Stansbury, one of Callender’s 0r-
igiral Georgia Minstrels, died at the New
York Hospital from sunstroke, last week.
“Nora’s Vow” will be produced Novem
ber 1st, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, un
der the immediate direction of tlie author
ess, Emma Schiff. . ;
Louise Pomeroy Will go to Australia
next season under the management of
Mr. Dayman. Her contract also includes
season in London, England.
A fortunate man is Manager 'Abbey.
Hfchat already been offered, by three sev
eral parties,.! bonus, of S30.000 for Ids
conti act withMlle. Sarah Bernhaniu
Mrs. G- T. Ulmer (Lizzie May Ulmer)
has received"a very flattering ofl'er to go
-i : 'Uomnn 'nnnninfr in "Rllinhlirffh.
• BY EDWARD KING.
Sweet breathed and young,
.The people’s daughter,
No nerves unstrung,
Going to slaughter!
“Good morning, friends,
You’ll love us better—
Make no amends;
We’ve burst your fetter!
“How the sun gleams!
(Women are snarling),
Give me your beams,
Liberty’s darling!
“Marie’s my name,
Christ’s mother bore it,
That badge ? No shame,
Glad that I wore it!”
(Hair to her waist,
Liinb3 like a Venus),
Robes are displaced;
Soldiers, please screen us 1
“He’s at tho front!
That is my lover;
Stood all the brunt,
Now the fight is over.
Powder and bread
Gave out together;
Droll! to be dead
In this bright weather!
“Jean, boy, we might
Have married in June!
This the wall? Right!
Vine la Commune V’
'renewed your provision,” said a rival
“Don’t speak of it, I have qnite rained
myself. I have bought a thousand things
I do not need, among others, six tooth
brushes.” “Ah, one for each tooth,” said
the other sweetly.
It is said that more than three millions
cf women in England and Wales are earn
ing a living—or trying to earn one—in the
various trades and industries. But their
wages are so low that six years ago a soci
ety—the Women’s Protection and Provi
dent League—was organized to raise
them.
Walk up Mulberry street any fair after
noon and you will see upon tlie most fash
ionable bonnet, cherry, apple and peach
blossoms, often in small sprays, boughs of
hawthorn, reeds, ragged sailors, cat-tails,
small sun-flowers, chrysanthemums, hare
bells, four o’clocks, and seaweed, together
with odd looking insects.
Living on a Volcano.—London has
discovered, says the Daily Telegraph, that
it is undermined in every direction by a
network of pipes tilled with a gas which,
when mixed in a certain well-known pro
portion witli air, becomes at once terribly
explosive; that this network is divided
off, according to the districts served by the
different gas companies, into special sec
tions, and that each section is liable, from
a single act of carelessness at any point
within its area, to be suddenly involved in
a common ruiqp No matter how careful
the individual household may he, its safe
ty lies practicaily at the mercy
of a stupid workman • a mile
off, for any day, wheu a flaw in a pipe in
some distant street or square is being “re
paired,” the fatal train may be ignited,
and a sullen roar, rolling down tlie centre
of the thoroughfare, and turning corner
after corner, may announce the rush of
the exploding gas as it ploughs up street
after street, and tlie houses on both sides
are shaken and shattered by the awful
force of the swiftly traveling devastation.
Such an accident as this may, it appears,
happen in the most crowded thorough
fares of the city, or tlie most
aristocratic quarters of the West End.
may include a railway station in its radius
of havoc, or a crowded opera house, and,
instead of wasting its'violence on such
comparatively unfrequented spots as
Charlotte street and Perry street may revel
in tlie carnage of the Strand or Picadilly,
or the great business centres round the
Royal Exchange. It is no exaggeration to
say that such a disaster is always possible,
and that witiiout an instant’s warning, or
from no negligence of their own, whole
rows of households may be overtaken by
sudden rain, and whole streetfulls of hu
man beings blown suddenly into the air.
We are speaking literally within
the facts, for so long as gas has
to be used for light the public must live
With this hew danger added to their al
ready too dangerous existence. The ex
plosion of Monday evening is but the rep
etition on a large scale of what is by no
means unusual in a small way with -gas
laying. Any foreman of works could teill
an Inquirer of dozens of similar accidents,
which have fallen short of tho present
^MSn^te'n^ISll^^ces in
WEATHER GRUMBLERS.
Hath the Bain • Father.
That wonderful student of human na
ture, Dr. Talmage, has recently delivered
one of his unique discourses upon the
weather, which everyone can lay to heart.
We append an extract:
I suppose you understand your family
The Cotton Caterpillar.
Among the telegrams of Tuesday night,
In our yesterday’s edition, is the follow
ing, which will bear republication
Mobile, July 27.—Prof. Riley, chief of
the entomological commission of the Uni
ted States, addressed the members of the
Cotton Exchange to-day. He said he had
just visited North Carolina and Georgia,
genealogy. You know something about aDli
vour narents vour rraiidnarents vonr i cotton bounties in Misissippi, as far as
Have you ever studied the parentage of
the shower? “Hath the rain a father?”
This question is not asked by a- poetaster
or scientist, but by the head of the uni-'
verse. To humble and to save Job, God
asks him fourteen questions—about the
world's architecture, about the refraction
of the sun’s rays, about tlie tides, about
the snow crystal, about the lightnings,
and then He anaigns him with the inter
rogation of the text: “Hath the rain
father?” With tho scientific won
ders of the rain I have nothing
to do. A minister gets through with that
land of sermons within the first three
years, and if he has piety enough he gets
through with it in the-first three months.
A sermon has come to me to. mean one
wqrdof four letters: “Helpl” You all
know that the rain is not an orphan. You
know it is not cast out of the gates' of
heaven a foundling. You would answer
the question of my text in the affinnatiye.
Safely housed during the storm, hear the
rain beating against the window pane,
and you find it searching all the crevices
of the window silk It first comes down
in solitary drops, pattering the dust, and
then it deluges the fields and angers
the mountain torrents, and makes "the
traveler implore shelter. You know that
the rain Is not an accident of the world’s
economy. You know it was bom of the
cloud. You know it was rocked in the
cradle of the wind. You know it was
sung to sleep by tlie storm. You know it
Is a flying angel from heaven to eartlu
You know it is the gospel of the weather.
You know that God is its father.
If this be true, then Low wicked Is our
murmuring about climatic changes. The
firet eleven Sabbaths after I entered the
ministry it stormed. Through the week
it was clear weather, hut on the Sabbaths
the old country meeting-house looked like
Noah’s ark before it landed. A. few
drenched people sat before a drenched
)astor; but most .qf tlig farmers stayed at
loine and thanked God that what was
bad for the church was good for the crops.
I Committed a good deal of sin in those
days in
_ denouncing the weather.
Ministers of The gospel sometimes fret
about stormy Sabbaths, or hot Sabbaths,
or inclement Sabbaths. They forget the
fact that the samp God who ordained the
Sabbath and sent forth liis ministers to
announce salvation, also ordained the
weather. “Hath the rain a father?”
Merchants, also, with their stores filled
with new goods; apd their clerks hanging
idly around the counters, commit tho
same transgression. There have been
seasons when the' whole spring and fhl
—e.-i tber. 'The mefend dbr wet
starring to Europe, opening in Edinburgh.
She will accept-next season.
The Kiralfvs will produce the spectacu
lar play called “Black Venus” at Niblo’s
Garden next fall. Many novelties will be
introduced, including a den of wild ani
mals. ‘
Agnes Haliock has been re-engaged as
leading lady with Jarrett and Rice’s “Fuji
on the Bristol” party fofnext season. She
is at present rusticating near Harrisburg,
Penn.
Frank Budworth, wlw» achieved a fair
success as the “Heathen Chinee” in tho
“Danites,” plays the principal comedy part
in Ned Marble’s play of the “Tile Club,”
next season.
Miss Henrietta Vaders lias been dan
gerously ill at her home for the last five
weeks, but is now slowly recovering. She
is specially engaged as Tom Keene’s lead
ing support for the next season.
The uncertainties of the theatrical
business are illustrated by the fact that
Miss Ncilson, after a season of great suc
cess in the East, has been playing to al
most empty houses in San Francisco. T
Haverly has added another to the long
list of theatres under his control. This
latest is the leading one at Denver, Col.
Does he propose to make up tho even one
hundred before he stops? * j
Texas Jack will always be remember
ed in the profession by his reply to a
modest query why he and his troupe wore
long hair and broad sombreros. “All
actors,” said he, “wear long hair—all
good actors!”
Instead of “Two Nights in Rome,”
Miss Ada Cavendish will probably play
next season in the same author’s “The
Soul of an Actress,” which was early
this year produced by Clara Morris in
San Francisco.
E. M. Gardner, representing Frank
Mayo, lias purchased Bartley Campbell’s
play, “The Virginian,” for $2,500. It is
to be strengthened in several points, and
will be produced early next season in
New York.
Mr. Lawrence Barrett ha3 a new dra
ma, entitled “Pendragon,” wntten by Mr.
\Y. W. Young, and founded on one of the
•legends of King Arthur. This will be
produced by Mr. Rarrett in Chicago Sep
tember 27-
Harry Clifton, Jule Keene, Harry Irv-
g, and Miss Connie Thompson, have
ten engaged for Buffalo Bill’s company
tlie coming season. Irving is re-engaged.
Open season at Windsor Theatre, New
York, August 23.
Mme. Alta Hallelt, while performing
her trapeze act witli. Murray’s Pony Circus
in Cambridge, Massachusetts; July 6, fell,
sustaining a compound fracture which
may disable her for life. She is at pres
ent in a dangerous condition.
Wambold having retired from the San
Francisco Minstrels on account of ill
health, Mr. Charles Bernard, the best and
most pompous of middlemen—interlocu
tors we call them uow—will resume his
old place in the troupe next season,
Femlulne Fancies.
A young lady wants to know if the
‘crack” of a rifle is where they put the
powder in. • „■ j
A smart young girl calls a young fellow
of her acquaintance “honeysuckle,” be
cause he’s always hanging over the front
fence of evenings.
I’d have you to know,” exclaimed Mrs.
Upalcrust, haughtily, tossing her head,
“that my family always moved in the up
per circles.” “Yes,” whispered Mrs.
Blount to her friend, Sarah Jones, “I’ve
hearn that the scum alius rises to the
top.”
Mrs. Elvira A. Crabb has taught a lit
tle school in Troy for fifty years. Though
now over eighty, and partially paralyzed,
she keeps up her school. The great
grandchild of one of her pupils is now liv
ing, and she has taught four generations
bf the same‘family.
A young and beautiful girl was rapidly
sinking with the lockjaifr, when her pby-
General Grant President of a Mining
Company.
'A special dispatch to tho IForM says
General U. S. Grant has been elected
£ resident of the San Pedro aud Canon do
,agua company, which owns 40,000 acres
of land in New Mexico, including copper
and gold mines. Boston and New York
‘capitalists are largely interested in the
enterprise. While in New York General
Grant will make his headquarters at the
banking-house of George - William Ballou
& Co. .
[The San Pedro and Canon de Lagua
company has a nominal capital of $10,-
000,000, divided into $25 shares. It is or
ganized under the laws of the State of
Connecticut, having its principal office at
No. 17 Devonshire street, Boston. It is
said that the company has secured the
services of Superintendent Gillette, who
was for a long time the superindent of J.
W. Mackey’s “Savage” mines. General
Grant, so those interested in the company
say, is expected here next month, and
wll spend his time as president ofthe
company both in this city and in Boston.
Wheu the rumor was set afloat that Gen.
Grant had been' elected president the
stock went up from $1.50 per share to $2,
and yesterday upon confirmation of the
fact ofthe election, was quoted at Si bid.
This was at the close of business. Mr.
Jesse Grant, who is in business in this
city, is reported as saying that he has no
information that his father, from whom
he hears regularly, intends to come to
New York to live or to engage in a min
ing enterprise.]
Mr. Hayes on the Stump.
A San Francisco special to the Herald
says: Atelegram from the East announcing
that President Hayes will take the stump
on tho Pacific coast for Garfield during
his visit here in September, meets with
condemnation by many in the Republican
ranks. Democratic orgaus very frankly
state that if Hayes takes the stump he will
be treated as any other stump speaker,
aud that they could not wish for a better
opportunity than that would afford for
“expanding his fraudulent presidency.”
“His vetoing the Chinese restrictive emi
gration bill would also be a delicious
morceau, ,r and both would be used effec
tually against Garfield. As a warm friend
add supporter of the President in these
matters, the Republican paper of the late
secreiaiy ofthe State central committee,
alluding to this telegram, utters this
morning the following:
“For the honor and glory of the country
wo hope not. We hope the presidential
office will not be brought so low in Amer
ican politics as to see its incumbent
mounting the hustings to ‘make votes’ for
the party with which he affiliates. It
would be a disgrace that would sink so
deep in the escutcheon ofthe nation as to
be ineffaceable. If Republican leaders
do entertain such an idea for a moment as
seenring stump speeches from the Presi
dent of the United States we say, in the
name of God, in the name of all that is
decent, patriotic aud honorable, cease all
efforts in that direction; and if the Re
publican party cannot win its fight with
out dragging in the mud the great robes
of the presidential office, then we say let
the Republican party be beaten.”
As President of the United Slates Mr.
Hayes will, on his arrival, be appropri
ately if not enthusiastically received in
San Francisco, but the first stump speech
Will sever him from tho multitude.
At Birkenhead, England, lately a man
was arrested for furiously driving a horse.
It was explained in extenuation that it
bad become, while in the possession of a = -
drummer of convivial habits, so addicted I sician conceived the happy idea of hold-
to strong drink—“standing on its hind ing a spoonful of ice cream to her lip*,
legs and drinking liko a man”—that it I The .Moment he did so, she opened her
,,, „ M , VJV „. t ._._ -was hopeless to attempt to'get it past old ' jaws and shrieked: “Don’t give me a little
ot existing in Lima, Dictator Pierola has de- J boozing haunts without putting it into a plate; make it a big one.
to creed that every male between sixteen ! gallop. The explanation was deemed A coquette came out of a f«mcy-goods
i and sixty years of age, excepting the cleft, satisfactory. ^ shop loaded with purchases. Y ou have
“Everybody pays taxes at the North,”
said Senator Edmunds in a speech on his
native heath the other day. The state
ment is positively false if he means that
all pay Federal or State or municipal
taxes, for millions of the Northern people
do not pay a red cent, not even poll tax;
hut “everybody pays taxes,” not only in
the North, but iu the South, to the manu
facturers’ring, which has its seat chiefly
in New England and Pennsylvania, and
is sustained by that infamous instrument
of oppression, the protective tariff. “Ev
erybody pays taxes,” and is compelled to,
on every article of consumption, but -the
proceeds do not benefit the government,
but a sect of business men—an unconsti
tutional arrangement to which Senator
Edmunds gives his wannest approbation
if Courier Journcl.
He had made other observations aloDgthe
line of the .Alabama Central and Vicks
burg and Meridian railroads, and found
the worm in. most fields, the evidence
being that they must have been there a
full month before, and, in many instances,
the fourth generation was just hatching In
sufficient numbers to cause serious injury
to cotton in the next fortnight. Nine
planters out of ten ride through their fields
and coine away with the idea that there
are no worms in the fields, because they
were yet quite small—just hatching. The
moth, which.is also called a fly, is about,
and eggs are being laid constantly. Re
garding the best and cheapest poison, he
referred to Loudon purple, a refuse mate
rial obtained in the manufacture of ani
line dyes. lie said, although the worm is
in the fieids, if the planters use poison and
the weather'is good, there may be very
good crops. - ■ a •
We are inclined to believe from some
facts coming to our knowledge, that indi
cia ot the caterpillar will be found vjery
general, if close investigation be made,
and that great danger to the crop is fore
shadowed. In this connection we pub
lish the following from the Entomological
Commission:
Department of the Interior
Office of the United States Ento
mological Commission, No. 1700 13th
St., N. W., Washington, D. C., July
22,1880.—Editors Telegraph and Messen
ger : The enclosed circular wasprepared
more particularly for the benefit of the spe
cial agents of the commission, but I take
the liberty of. sending you a copy in the
belief that you may wish to call wider .at-
tention to it through your columns. I
shall consider it a favor if you will have
mailed to me any items containing infor
mation regarding the cotton worm that
may at any time be published in your
columns, and shall take pleasure in re
ciprocating the favor in any way in my
power; Respectfully yours,
* : ’ C. V. Riley,
Chief-U. S. Entomological Commission.-
* COPY OF CIRCULAR.
Dear Sif: Congress at its late session
made an appropriation to the United
States entomological commission for the
completion of the investigation into the
habits and best means of counteracting
the injuries of the Rocky Mountain lo
cust and ofthe cotton worm. The work
on the last-named insect has been con
signed to me, and as many of the ques
tions relating to the cotton worm were •
pretty fully considered during the past
year, as indicated in the preliminary sum
mary of work given in Bulletin No. 3 of
the commission, it is my desire to pay es
pecial attention the present year to fur
ther study of the practical questions in-
weather probabilities” with more inter- tention to issue ai ine eu»e. va-
est than they read their Bibles, They
watched for a patch of blue sky. They
went complaining to the store, and came
complaining home again. In'all’that sea-
s5n oTavet"feet, and* dripping garments,
and impassable streets, they never once
asked the* question, “Hath the rain a
father ?”
So agriculturists commit thi3 sin.
There is nothing more annoying than to
have planted corn rot in the ground be
cause of too much moisture; or hay, all
ready for the mow, dashed of a shower;,
or wheat, almost ready for the sickle,
spoiled with the rust. How hard it is to
bear the agricultural disappointments.
God has infinite resources, but I do
do not think he has capacity to make
weather to please all farmers.' Sometimes
it is too hot, or It is too cold; it is too wet,
or it is too dry; it is too early, or it is too
late. They forget that the God who
promis d seedtime and harvest, summer
and winter, cold and heat, also ordained
all the climatic changes. There 13 one
question that ought to be written on every
barn, on every fence, on every haystack,
on every farm-house—“Hath the rain a
father?” •-»<
If we only knew what a vast enterprise
it is to provide approprate weather for the
world, we would not be so critical ol' the
Lord. Isaac Watts, at ten years of age,
complained that he did not like the hymns
that were sung in the English chapels.
“Well,” said liis father, “Isaac, instead of
your complaining about the hymns, go
and make hymns that are better.” And
he did go and make hymns that were bet
ter. Now, I say to you, if you do not like
the weather, get up a weather company,
and have a president and a secretary, and
a treasurer, and a board of directors and
ten million dollars of stock, and then pro
vide weather that will suit all of us.
There is a man who has a weak head,
and lie cannot stand the glare
of the sun. You' must have a
cloud always hovering over him.
like the sunshine, I cannot live
without plenty of sunlight, so you must
always have enough light for me. Two
ships meet mid-Atlantic, the one is going
to Southampton, the other is going to New
York. Provide weather that, while it is
abaft for one ship, is not a head wind for
the other. There is a farm that is dried
up for lack of rain, and here is a_ pleasure
party going out for a field excursion. Pro
vide weather thatVill suit the dry farm
and the pleasure excursion. No, sirs, I
will not take one dollar of stock In your
weather company. There is only one
Being in the universe who knows enough to
provide tlie right kind of weather for this
world. “Hath the rain a father?”
Certificates ior Arthur.
Here is what Hayes and John Sherman
said of' this same man Arthur not long
since. It is Republican testimony ana
should not be questioned by Repub
licans;
“With a deep sense of my obligations
under the constitution, I regard it as my
plain duty to suspend you in order that
the office may be honestly administered.”
—R. B. Hayes to Collector Arthur, Janu
ary 31,1879.
“Gross abuses of administration have
continued and increased during your in
cumbency.”—Sherman to Arthur, Janua
ry 31, 1879. , , ,
“Persons have been regularly paid by
you who have rendered little or no ser
vice; the expenses of your office have in
creased, while its receipts have diminish
ed. Bribes, or gratuit’es in the shape of
bribes, have been received by your subor
dinates in several hranches of the custom
house, and you in no case supported the
effort to correct these abuses.”—-Secretary
Sherman to Collector Arthur, January 31,
1879.
Notice.—The following regulations
have been posted in the forest domains of
France, by order of the minister of agri
culture :
The Hedgehog lives on mice, small io-
deuts, slugs, and grubs,—animals hurtful
to agriculture. Don’t hurt the hedgehog.
The Toad is a fariu-assistant; destroys
twenty or thirty insects an hour. Don’t
kill the toad.
The Mole is continually destroying
grubs, larvie, palmer-worms, and insects
Injurious to agriculture. No trace of veg-
year a final and, as far as possible, ex- .
iiansMve re[>ort on all the insects
injuriously affecting the cotton plant,
SP, as. to embody not only the
unpublished data collected during the
past year relating to other insects jthan
Aletia, but all that will be ascertained,
during the present fiscal year regarding
the cotton worm, which outranks all the
others in importance. I therefore give
below, for the benefit of those employed
by the commission, (but also for those
who in any way desire to aid in Us work),
an outline of tlie plan of the final report
it is intended to make.
The report will be delivered in six
parts, as follows:
I. INSECTS AFFECTING THE ROOT.
Under this head there is need of much
further investigation, and I wish observers
to pay particular attention to plants that
die where the trouble seems to be in the
root. Specimens found on such roots
should be carefully packed and sent tome
according to suggestions in the letter of
instructions. All symptoms and- mani;, _
festations should becarefnlly noted.
II. INSECTS AFFECTING THE STEM AND
BRANCHES.
Here, also, there u room for additional
observations, aud I repeat the request
made in the preceding paragraph.
III. INSECTS AFFECTING THE LEAF.
These include a large number of species
which have already been studied by the
commission. It is upon tlie cotton worm
among them that I desire the recipients of
this circular to concentrate their attention,
and especially to the mean3 of destroying
it. In addition to the special instructions
you will receive, the different substances
treated of in Bulletin No. 3 of the com
mission, especially Pyrcthram powder and
yeast ferment, or beer inasb, should be
carefully tested so far as opportunity offers
to test them, and results duly recorded
and reported. Extracts from any other
plants that grow in your neighborhood
that are not too rare and that give the
least promise of beneficial results should
be made, and their effects fully tested both
upon worms directly, upon the chrysali
des, and upon the eggs; also in how far
they prevent the parent n.oth from iaying
eggs. I also desire to have trials made oi
any machine employed in your vicinity
whether for sprinkling, spraying, or pow
dering, also models or pliotograps, with
full descriptions of any machine or con
trivance not mentioned in Bulletin No. 3. .
IV. INSECTS AFFECTING THE SQUARE
OR INVOLUCRE.
Under tills head it is proposed to treat
of every insect that in any way affects the
square and causes it to wither or to fall.
The shedding of the squares, to an unu
sual extent is a very serious trouble in
many sections, and there is much yet to *
learn as to the different causes which lead
to it. I therefore desire as full a report
on this subject as possible, as also speci
mens of the insects concerned in the
work. ^
V. INSECTS AFFECTING THE BLOSSOMS.
Any insects infesting, or in any way in
juring, the blossoms should be forwarded.
VI. INSECTS AFFECTING THE. FBUIT OR
t BOLL.
Under this head I desire more particu
larly accounts and specimens of those in
sects, other than the ordinyy boll worm,
which cause tlie young boll to wither and
fall, whether by eating into it or by punc
turing itj’ also any that aflect the cotton
after the boll opens, or that aflect the
seed.
For special work that I desire you to
perform you will receive special ins trac
tions.
All reports or communications should
be written on one side of the paper only,
and addressed to me at the headquarters
of the commission. Respectfully,
Cuas. v. Riley,
Chief U. S. E. C.
The Fasting Man.
New York, July 28.—Dr. Tanner en
ters upon the 31st day of his fast, appa
rently bright and in good sjptrits. In tjie
past twelve hours be b^s consumed less
than a gill of water.. During the morn
ing, after restlDg from his usual drive, be
marched around the enclosure iu the ball
distance of nearly
______ twenty-five times,,
station is ever found in its stomach. Don’t | half a mile. His gait was firm, anti s|e^
kill the mole.
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