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mtt- } * y ■O* *8 > -y •10L L!NAT. Affi MESSENGER, Vrhy do eve* that were tender Averted, turn away? why ha* our dear love's splendor All faded into gray? . , Why Is it that lips glow not That late were all aglow? I know not, dear. I know not, I only know ’tlaao. Why do you no more tremble Now when 1 press your cheek? Why do wc t»oth rtlswimbla The thoughts we used to speak? Why Is it that words flow not That used to fondly flow? I know not, dear, I know not, I only know 'tls so. Have wo outlived the passion That late lit earth and sky? And is this but the fashion A fond love takes to die? Is it that wo shall know not Again lovo's rapture glow? I know not, sweet, I know not. And yet it may bo so. —EUa Whaler. ARMAND DUVAL DUMAS. II 1ST 011 X OF “LA I*AXE CAM EL! AS.”* AVX Where the Author Found Ills In spiration—-Interest Jna Anecdotes of Marie Dttpleaata. Paris Letter to Boston Herald. The first volume of the “Theatre Com- plel” of Alexandre Dumas fils—the Edi tion des Comediens—which is now being published without being offered for sale, and of which only ninety-nine numbered copies are to be printed, has just come from tho presses of a house in the prov inces. It is a very handsome volume, consist ing of a preface and notes of a carious, private and touching nature, and the two pieees, “La Dame aux Camelias* and “Diane de Lys.” This work, which is dedicated to the “interpreters of my pieces,” and which the author begs them to accept “as a sou venir of a common work, of emotions and straggles that we have shared, and as a feeble testimony of the gratitude of the author,” this editiou, I say, will some day be the despair of the bibliophiles. It will be precious, not only on account of its rareness, its paper and its typography, but also on account of the “cotes,” in which Dumas gives to his friends the hitherto unknown details and the old souvenirs connected with the history of bis works. From this new efli£Sn 1 take the following description of how Dumas' chef d’ccnvre originated: “On one of the fine days in September, 1844,1 had gone to SU German-en-layo to see my father, and on the way I overtook Eugene Dejazet, ifcc son of tho great ac- "■ess^ We were both seated on horse- jack, and were laughing and chatting as we galloped our two steeds that had been hired from Ravelet, whom all those of my generation have known. “We traversed that fine forest of St. Germain, which could relate so many in teresting stories, if. one could only under stand and translate all that the leaves whisper in tho first breezes of autumn. “We had returned to Paris for dinner, and we had gone into tho theatre of the Varieties, where we had taken seats in the orchestra. “The avant scene of the rez-de-ebanzee (lower box) on the right of the actors was occupied by Marie Dnplessis. She was Jflhe, or at least one saw nobody but her Fjing between a bouquet and a bag of .r ontons, smelling the one and mnnebing the other, not listening much to the play, looking in every direction through her op era glasses, exchanging.smiles with some three or four of our neighbors, and from time to time leaning back to converse with the person in the back part ot the box, whom none of us saw. This Indi vidual was no less a personage than tho LBuasUn Counts., who was later to ; as a model for the Dnc de Man- Dto add that the story lg, consumptive girl, a sesem- tbom the Duke lindf in Marie I is a pure invention. The ^withstanding his great age, did J afEdipus, look for an Antigone in Mary Duplessig, but, like David, look ing for a Batbsbeba. ••Well, Marie Duplessis was making all aorta of telegraphic signals to a fat woman with a florid complexion and a loud toil ette, who was making as much display a3 she could in the proscenium box opposite that ot my future heroine. . “This good woman, who had beside her a female with an- air of stupidity and a chlorotic and anxious manner, whom she was probably trying to start on a fast life, was a certain Ciemence Pr 1, a mod iste, who occupied apartments at that time in the boulevard tie la .Madeline, in tho Cite Vende, in the house adjoining that in which Marie Duplessis occupied tho entresol. “A strange fact! this woman, Pr 1, after all sorts of adventures which it will be useless to relate, as it will be easy to guess them—adventures to which, shortly before her death, a condemnation for leading minor children astray put an end to—this woman some fifteen years after this first meeting was playing the roles of dueeno at tho theatre of Montmarte, and she actually played there in La Damnaux Camelias the role of Prudence Duvernoy, of which she was my living model. She was so perfectly poor as an actress that, although she was herself the person whom she was representing, her shamelessness and her souvenirs did not help her. Which proves how greatly superior art is in certain circumstauces to nature. Eugene Dejazet knew Mine. Pr 1, Mine. Pr tkuew mil IK UUI'I.KSSIS, whom I wished to know, hut, I must say it, without in the least foreteeing the li terary influence that she was to have on my life. Eugene went to inform M’lle Pr—t of my desire, and as she was a born go-be tween, it was arranged that we shonld go to her house after the theatre, and that, If the Count did not accompany Marie Du plessis any farther than to her door, she would receive us for a few minutes. The whole first act of the piece, except so far as the farewell of St. Gaudeus and Olympe is concerned, actually took place as it is represented on the stage. The manner in which an entrance is effected into the apartments of the heroine was tho same; the manner in which M. de Var- vllle is got rid of, who was there when we went in, whose features and real name I must have retained the recollection, than is tbs play. The imagination of a writer of twenty- three years of age had only to condense,to pnt into relief, to poetize the facts and the emotions which a whole generation, or each generation for thousands of years past, will to a greater or less extent, find a picture of itseit. “M. Bosquet has published In the Re'vgne des Deux Mondes a Japanese drama, which is 305 years old, aud which is noth ing else than the ‘Dame aux Camelias.’ I bad not seen it when I wrote my Pari sian drama, but this drama is to be fonnd and always will be found in all conntries of the world in which courtesans and young men abound. St. Faudens existed. Ho w&3 a certain Baron de G., a very wealthy man, mar ried, and the father of a family. Did not all at once throw himself at tho ago of forty-five, without there having been anything to give warning of tLo catastro- B e, into this world where he had never fore set his foot ? He was present at all tho performances of the piece, always occupied the samo seat in the orchestra, and eveiy evening he 6ent a bouquet of wbito camelias to Mme. Doclie. “He was a man of esprit, with a slight defect in his speech, speaking in what one may call a side tone. He recognized him self In my character. “ ‘It is I,’ said he to me, ‘whom yon have represented in Saint Gaudcns. I am not angry with you for It. It amuses me very much, and I come to hear myself ev ery evening,’ “The nature of the illness and of the death are altered. The diary in tho nov el, the return of Armand in the piece are imaginary. <T had lost sight of Mary Duplessis for a long time when on my return from tfpaiu I heard of her death in Marseilles. soon as I arrived, I hastened to her apartmeut where the sale of her furniture was to take place.” NOTHING COULD DE MODE ASTONISH ING than the romantic histories of these two comedies in the “Edition des Comediens.” Take “La Dame aux Camelias.” It was written at Kemilly, a suburb of Paris, in the snmmer of 1840, in barely eight days, on all the scraps ot paper which the au thor found lying on his table. The second act was written in one day between 12 and 8 o’clock. The piece was to have been according to the Idea of Antony Be- rand, who saw an affaire in it, a melo drama for the Ambigu. Dumas preferred to extract only a drama from bis novel. Wheat he piece was written It was im- possiole to get it played. The Gymnase and the Vaudeville both refused it. Mile. Page, she died only the other day at Neu- llly, to whom Dumas took it, would not receive the author. The great Dejazet found the piece touching, but said she could only play it in the costumes of the time of Louis XV. Rachel, who made an appointment with Dumas to listen to a reading of bis work, left word that she was not at home, that she bad gone to friend’s house lo play loto. “Let my young irionds remcmember this,” says Dumas, when one wishes to make one’a way one supposes that the pro- tection of a master may bo of use with director. It was the son of M. Alexandre Dumas, the first dramatic author of bis time; one could not have a more ex pert or a more powerful protector. It was of no me. 1 was repulsed every where, as though I had just come from the country with an unknown name.” The piece, however, was near being performed at the Theatre Hislorique, and would indeed have been played there as early as 1849, but for the closing of the bouse. This is the story. • Dumas fils had written his play without having said anything about it to bis fa ther. He never dared to show his Ms. to to the author of “Antony,” and of “Made moiselle de Belle Isle.” Chance willed It that, having taken bis work to Viciot, the copyist of his father, be was in the act of giving him directions about the work and of keeping it a most irofound secret, when who should come but Dumas pere. Permit me to translate the following touching and masterly description of wliat followed, as written by the academician himself: “I was caught. I confessed laughingly my ftther that I had written a piece after my novel. My father then said: “ 'Well, let os sec wbatitis like. Read me the first act.’ “We went intohis cabinet de travail, and I began reading, a prey to the most, xiweifui emotions that I have had in my lifetime. I was in the presence of my su preme judge. After the first act said to me in at once a friendly and grave man ner— “ ‘It is very good; continue.* “Emboldened by this debut, I read tho second act, and I read it as well as I could. “My great listener was very much touched, tears stood in his eyes over the scene between Armand and Marguer- ite. “ ‘Go on,’ be said to me. I read the third act. Then he could not contain his emotions, and the last two-thirds of tho act made him weep like a child. “ ‘Go on,.read me the rest;’ and when he said that ho looked at me as be bad never looked before. There was still and more than ever in that long, open look the tenderness to which I was accustomed, but there was a little astonishment mingled with it, a del icate joy that was still kept back by tho fear that the end of my reading would not be equal to its begtnmng. “It was between 2 and 3 o’clock. I bad an engagement which it was impossible for me to miss. “ ‘Imust go to my rendezvous,’ I said to my father; ‘in an hour I will return aud will read yon the rest.’ “ ‘Go, and be back quickly; I am anx ions to know the end.’ “The affair that called me away was soon dispatched, aud I returned to the av enue Frochet on the ran. “When I opened the door of his cabinet my father got up, all in tears, and clasp ing mo in his arms, said: “ ‘I was not able to wait. I wanted to know if youhad done well to the end. I have read the last twqjcts. It Is original. is touching. It i£ audacious. It is new. It will be an immense success, If censure will allow the piece to he played.' But ho will.never allow it—it Is too true to life. In the meantime you must read it at the Theatre Historique. I perfectly remember, whom I still meet sometimes iu society, and who offered the mosi polite and perfect courtesy to tho sallies of Marie Duplessis, was the same. The same supper, the same gayety, the sudden indisposition of Marie Duplessis. Seized with a violent attack cf coughing, forced lo leave the table, she took refuge in her cabinet de toiiet, and the rest ol the act is a falllfful picture ot what actually took place. . , . On this point the recital in the novel is even more faithful to the reality than to the play. It must, however, be said that the whole novel is more In conformity with the events of this little drama of love, of which ali the men of a certain set am curious to see tho effect of the reading (then wrote me: on the artistes.’ “We again hugged each other—took a long hug, both of us weeping; and the great success of the piece certainly never caused me one-fourth of the happiness Lbatl experienced on that memorable af ternoon.” Furher on he recites the effect of the pieec on Marie Duplessis: We went to the theatre together some days afUfr. We had a baignoire (a dark box on the ground floor, so-called because they are hot and private, like a bath- rcorn), and we were alone. .she listened, applauded, wept during the first four acts, and was rejoicing iu the good frame ot mind that she was in. But aj soon as the curtain rose on the iifLh aet she began to grow uneasy. Slip be came more and more excited, aud turned paie. Ali at one she sprang up and saia: «• ‘take me ouu 1 I a misunderstanding—I don’t wish to Take mo out! There U no time to make use #f any other word—I had been lose.’ j the victim, restored to me my ibU rights “I took her out of the box and placed her in her carriage, where she gave way to a burst of tears. Her profession had not blunted her sensibility. Besides, ac tresses are the most nail public that one can have, and thclrfeeliogs can be worked upon the easiest.” After the history of tho piece come sketches of those artists who created. In the “Edition d«3 Comedincs” are all those details so living, so persona], so es sential to theatrical literature, and into which the author declares that he lias put more of bis heart and hi3 life than in any other edition of his works, and is, as it were, the last will and testament of his dramatic career. “How many are aireadr dead among thoso who have shared my emotions Charles Fechter, Dupuis, Hippolyte, Worms, Mme. Aslruc. Mme. Lagrange basjust returned from Russia as young as ever. Irma Granler, who wept so much at the sebeaisals at having to play the disagreeable role of Naume, now comes back in the person of her daughter, la Pe tit Mariee and le Petit Due of the Renais- . But where are Allie, Roger, Mile. Worms, the gentle Clorlnde, aud her young and pretty Mile. Clary, who was so great a success to the author ? “To those who are dead and forgotten I offer this last souvenir, which will cause them to live again for an instant in the minds of those who once knew them. There is one whom these lines will find neither dead nor alive, tho merry aud lively Gil-Perez. He is now going out like a candle iu a malson de saute, de prived of reason and a victim to the very malady of which the person he represent ed complains to the doctor in the fourth act. ‘Alas, poor Yoricki’ “To thoso who survive, I offer this last testimonial of my gratitude. Let them know that I have forgotten nothing that I owe to them.” This Marie Duplessis of whom Dumas was so fond was from Normandy. She came to Paris when she was but seventeen years old. She was beautiful, remarka bly so, and she squandered her first five years in the capital amoDg worthless characters. Then her mental, as well as physical, charms won her a place in the world of gallantry. For awhile she wandered about Eu rope, going as far as St. Petersburg, where she met the old Russian whom Dumas mentions. He came back to Paris with her and set her up in her own apartments. She had a magnificent head of hair; it was of a golden coior, and to long that it touched the ground when she stood upright. Hers was a delicate beauty, and through her clear skin one could see the blue veins in dicating consumption. She was of a capricious nature, ador ing to-day what she disliked yesterday. Moreover, she had a mania for lying. Asked once why she was so given to tell ing untruths, she replied: “Lies whiten one’s teeth.” She died in 1845, not, however, until Alexandre Dumas had written a fiae piece of poetry, which the future great man dedicated to the future Marguonte Gauteier, aud which he reprints to-day at the close of his preface to “La Dame aux Camelias.” The other play in this edition is “DIANE DE LYS.” While Dumas was writing the piece at Port Marly iu 1852, in the Castel de Mon te Cristo, the author often said to Henri Mirault: 'I am convinced that Paul Aubrey must iu the end be killed by the Count, but I hesitate about it very much. What will the public of the Gymnase say if I kill a man with a pistol shot ou a stage that has become accustomed to the de-* nouments of M. Scribe ? ” Logic necessitated that Dumas should kill Paul, and, is he was already the ene my of all concessions, he decided in favor of logic. “When I bad written the last word of the piece,” he says, in these quasl-unpub- lished notes, “I ran to Mirault to inform him of the great event. He was not at home. I said to tho concierge, who knew me vety well: •‘ ‘You will tell M. Mirault that it is done: that I have killed Paul.’ “ ‘I am to inform monsieur that you have killed Pauli” repeated tho concierge, looking at mo with rather an astonished air. “ ‘Yes; you won’t forget it ? ’ “ ‘No, sir.’ “His voice expressed tho same aston ishment as his look. When Mirault came ho was accompanied by a friend. The concierge took him to one side, and said him in an undertone: “ ‘M. Dumas has been here and direct ed me to tell you that all is over; that he has killed Paul.’ “ ‘Ah, he has done quite right,’ ex claimed Mirault, ‘and I am glad of it.’ “Notwithstanding the Joy of Mirault, the cdnclerge remained confounded and was anxious for a very long time after. He must have looked more than once into the papers to see what was said about the murder of Paul.” Just as I am finishing my letter the gar- cou enters with my evening papers. In one of them I find the following supple mental reference to this actors edition, as related by Alfred Duane: “I must confess to you that I have a passion for old things covered with years aud dust. One day, while rummaging right and left in the shop of a dealer in antiquities in tho rue St. Jacques, my eyes fell by chanco on a pen-aDd-Ink sketch,represent ing, or nearly doing so,‘the grand entrance of the chateau ot Saussaye, near La Ro chelle, formerly the property of the grand father ol Mme. A. B.’ “It was in this chateau that Cardinal Richelieu lodged during the last month ol the siege of La Rocbeile, 1828. “Underneath this sketch, which was signed ‘Antony Beraud,’ and dated Cth August, 1735,’ I read the fMlowlngpresen- tation line, which greatly aroused my cu riosity: “ ‘Sketch presented to tbs author of the Fillcs de Marbre” by one ol the authors •f “La Dame aux Camelias.” To his good friend, Theodore, from his friend Antony.’ ' • “The friend was Theodore Barriere. As I was absolutely iguorantof the fact that Dumas bad had ANY COLLABOHATEUH aid him in writing his drama, I in formed him of the discovery I had made, and the following ts the letter which be “,‘M. Antony Beraud had indeed for merly, and was the first who had, the idea of making a piece out ot my novel of “La Dame aux Camklias.” He even wrote the scenario of three tableaux, wliioh he tbonght ought to be inserted in the plot ol the look. This work was 'of no use to me but as I had authorized him to under take It when I had written my play, and when it had ben performed without bis ever having seen a word of it, M. Beraud, when success had come, could not refrain from telling all the managers and all his confreres—they, however, Dever believed a word of it—that he was one of the au thors of this very successful piece. He even collected his share, the rules of the Dramatic Authors’ Association being very clear on this point, regardii>g_tue com mencement of a collaboration is the col laboration itself. After the death of Au- lu consideration of a small indemnity. There is the story of the matter, which I owe to you m exchange for your kind' ness. Alexander Dumas.’” the FI It ST CHINESE WOMAN. A Lady ot sba Flowery Charging tier Countryman with Intent to Slay Her—Lawyers wbo Would bo Smart. Cariosity seekers and students of hu man nature filled tho chairs iu the Court or General Sessions yesterday, to the utter discomfort of the chronic court-room loafers. There was a case ou trial that had it pe culiarly sensational interest, inasmuch one of the complainants, who had a nar row escape from death at the bands of the accused, wrs a curiosity—a Simon Pure Chinese woman, probably the first ever seen in this city. Her name was Cum Wab. She and her husband, Gam Wah, keep a laundry at No. 09 West Twenty-first street. They complained that Ah Yanne, an employe, assaulted them with inteat to klfl. Ah Yanne,they asserted, had attacked Gam Wah with a hatchet as the latter was lighting his pipe, and then went into the room where Cum Wah was sleeping and also assailed her. There was no provoca tion for the act. Ah Yanne was arrested abont an hour after he made tho murder ous attack. Gam Wah was the first witness. “Is this a man or woman?” Recorder Smyth asked, as the complaiuant took the stand. It w&3 indeed difficult to distinguish the sex, as the witness wore the customary Chinese uress and had his face and head covered with silk handkerchiefs. Lo Ling, who bad been temporarily ap pointed by the court, made a partial suc cess of interpreting what tho witness said, which was simply an account of the as sault. At the request of the Recorder, Gam Wah untied his bead wrappings and loos-, cned his pigtail, showing several ugly wounds ou tbo right side of his head, which, he said, had been inflicted by the prisoner.'* Counsellor Goodbeart, who represented Ah Yanue, arose to begin the crcss-exam- inatiou. Ho lolled over the bar in what could hardly bo called a very dignified position. “Be kind enough to take your legs off that chair and stand up,” said Reeorder Smyth. The counselor corrected his attitude and proceeded to question the witness. He evolved from him that be was chop- pingwood wlieu the prisoner, Ah Yaune, struck him. “What kind of wood was it?” the counselor asked. “I exclude that,” said the Recorder; “come dhwn to something sensible.” Counsel stopped, and Assistant District Attorney O’Byrne asked witness how much msney he bad under his bunk on the morning ol the assault. I tcorder Smyth—That’s excluded; we are not trying the prisoner for larceny, but tor an attempt to kill. Eveiy eye was fixed on the witness stand when Cum Wah was called to the witness stand. Her slim,, short figure was covered with an expensive black silk fur lined aud fur trimmed circular which reached to her heels. A red silk handkerchief was bound around her head and knotted under the chin, and over ail was a dark blue silk veil wound like a turban over tbo fore head and gathered into a knot at the back. When she sat down aud threw open her circular, it was seen that her inner gar ment was a fine brocaded skirt of a deli cate shade of blue, which reached just be low the knee. Under that were wide trousers of daik blue cloth of fine texture. Herfeetpvbich were of normal size, were encased in fine fitting leather gaiters of American manu facture. When she removed the bandages from her bead it was found that her head-gear was of a decidedly unique pattern. It was a low, round cap, not unlike a smok ing cap, made of fine blue cloth, trimmed with gold ornaments and embroidered with silk. Her faco must have been considered at least pretty in the Flowery Kingdom. It was of tho ordinary Chinese hue, but her features were more regular than those of her countrymen. The lett side of her face was covered with round patches of plaster concealing her wounds. She could give but little ev idence, as she was in bed when .attacked, but was positive that Ah Yanue was the man who had attacked her husband and herself. • Mrs. Cum Wah was escorted back to her seat in tbo court-room and cared for by an American female attendant. Sergeant Josiah A. Westervelt, of the Thirtieth street police station, testified that he brought Ah Yanua before the wounded couple and they identified him their assailant. He also identified the hatchet as the one found in Gam Wah’s laundry with which the attack was com mitted. Ah Yanne, who during the proceedings had sat with 'downcast eyes, shambled around to the stand to testify in his own behalf. He wore no pigtail, and his coarse, un kempt hair hung in a shaggy mass down on his neck. He was one of the dirtiest, most wicked and repulsive-looking Mon- ;olians that ever left China. A bristly jeard of recent growth covered bis angu lar features. His dress was of the ordi nary pattern. Through .the interpreter he testified that the complainant was bis uncle; the night before the assault he went to Mott street buy some opium, and on his return he and complainant smoked a couple of >iyes; they bad no quarrel the next morn- ng, he said, and be did not commit the assault. The prisoner went back to his scat in a manner that showed that he was sick or shammiog illness. Counsel for prisoner asked for an ad journment until this rooming to enable him to examine Policeman Gilroy, but the Recorder ioslsted that bo postpone ment would be allowed. The case then closed. Counsel did not sum up. The Recor der’s charge was terse and brief, and the jury, without leaving their seats, found the prisoner guilty of assault with intent to klil, the maximum penalty for which is ten years in the State prison. The pris oner was remanded for sentence. He was not affected when tne interpreter told him the verdict. This was not his first crime, he having served nine years a California prison for murder. ELEPHANTINE OHANT. pass u vuuu me cage iu all uirecuuu, apu tue receptacie is as strung as stout ti-uueis aud mm cau uiaxe it. it we.gus six urns, witmu halt a tou as uiucn as J umuo uuu [ self. It rested on the flooring or the mam deck ot the steamer,^under one cl tbe framed hatches, and extended through the shelter dec o the hatchway of the spar deck. The ship had a rough passage, experl Aoxabo's safe Arrival a* (to Bat- *«rr aad uis Duncan Usdlsi- Incidents «r the Voyage—His Dte. si paled Jlablta aad Foadae— far Whisky. Jumbo has arrived. He did not have an opportunity to Jumboverboard during the voyage, and be reached New York in I encing a aeries of heavy gales, out Jumbo safely. Saturday after a tempestuous pas- bore thejourney well. He was frightened The r ^ ri een h m , JsawswisEfes steamel Ui whlch tfu dUtingulshed^S g00d C ° aditltm Wh<mhe hadbeen totraiud, anchored at 0“*™- ^mfdaily allowance of food was abont Une sbortljr tolnw midnight on Friday, I f 0 u 0 ws: Two hundred pounds of hay, but tt was not until 12:20 Saturday that " * jJusheU of oats, one bushel or biscuit! WcTv^" m00r ° dat h8r d0Ck ® of bread, two A steam* derrick was to have been " tofnutf this city and lodged sately in his tempo- . Burdett-Coutts aud otner SSafeSK saSSrg^ aargiaaaffs ars Arte,.delay or several hourc «,o. J “ e ™*S‘S°niS?’S"w'S2 the hands were found, and another inter-1" as I bera ‘ y Iea val elapsed before the clumsy craft, which I , combined tbe functions of a forty-ton I He has developed a great liking for steam derrick and a lighter as well could uufn^J^then S‘rftaaBii‘Sr“ “ 4 «"- & £&«£££■•££ “■££ Jesmssmi^ jo ““ ° r about a thousand Demons, among whom | bo “ le ? during voyage. _ the small boy was ubiquitously and noisi-1. fle ls ver £ ° f *l u ly numerous, the covers were removed I * nd °, ue rem * ,n from forward hatch No. 2, and the top of I constantly, especially at Right, the great wooden box containing u, e I If they wandered out or his sight he would monster was revealed. - j route tbe ship with his trunipeilugs of com- Enormous chain cabtes were then care-1 P]*! n t- The two keepers were assisted by fully passed under the case, the cisautic I cariM tor blnia arm of tbe derrick swuDg into position, I ftnestion of duty has not yet been and at 6:80, with many precautions to see I decided, but the custom house authorities that the ropes aud cables were properly I have permitted Jumbo to be landed under adjusted, so that the box and its living IO 0 ?®' „ ' , . freight would move smoothly and safely I A V’, B ¥ nuI ? t claims tnat u t«Jhe all was declared in perfect readinei “« d flw bidding ptupojes, and as Sufch for the difficult and somewhat haz- I ®bould be allowed to enter free. He has ardous work of lifting Jumbo lrom the Uwenty-two other elepbauta, he says, on hold of the steamer and dropping him | whldi he paid duty cbeetfalift bat Jumbo gently on tbe deck of the lighter. I was originally purchased for breeding It was just twenty-Lve minutes to six * than for show, o’clock when the order “Hoist away!” was given, and, with clattering of chains, straining of ropes, creaking of pulleys aud puffing or the engine, the box rose slowly iuto tbe air. A slight rocking motion attended its 1 tony Beraud, his wife, wbo it^ew of what Wheat in north Georgia is in excellent condition and growing rapidly. The fear * rust has uow disappeared. It is thought by well-informed gentlemen that the en tire crop will be harvested before June 10th. Origin oi Popular Pbraaes. The Globe-Democrat. A Cat May Look at King.—This say ing is said to have tbe following origin: a —„ — . When Charles U. was fleeing, in disguise. upward movement, the cause of which from England to France, he was sitting w “*°o n »PP»wnt. Ion deck directing the course of the vessel, The box, spudded with wooden beams, I w h e u one of the sailors, filling his pipe clasped about with many bauds of iron I uear by> blew aomQ of the tobacco in his and doited with bolts and rings, was | face. The master of the ship ordered the closed on every side but one. I marine to go farther away from the “geu- inis front was open, except for^ five j tleuian,” when he, grumblingly, replied, heavy lateral bars of timber, aHd as | quim ignorant as to the quality of the pas- cage rose above the combings of tbe I seuger: “A cat may look at a king.” hatch a huge, dark, swaying mass was I u^hc Sweet By and By.”—This popu- visible through these openings. I jar hymn was the work of two men—Jo lt was the bead and trunk of Jumbo I »enh p. Webster, now dead,- who compos ed a cheer burst from tbe fast increasing I e / lJj9 music, and Dr. 8. F. Bennett, at crowd, which lined tbe pier; laambered [ tbe prMe nt time a resident of Richmond, over adjacent vessels and blackened the Hi., the author of the verses. The two roofs ofaheds and warehouses. wrote * hymn book in.1874, and “Tbe The great brute rolled uneasily *nd Sweet By and By” was one of the pieces restlessly from side to side inhls narrow jo]ntly L oda<x a tor it. Tbe suggestion quarters and pushed hb trunk between I came from a chance remark by Webster, OLD IE BET tiie bars with quick and nervous motions, causing hb cage to rock very perceptibly iu spite of guy ropes and cables. Matthew Scot;, who has been Jumbo’s keeper since the elephant was first import- who was haUtnally despondent, that all would be weS “ by and by.” Bennet at once made' the rhymes, aud Webster brought the music out of a fiddle, which was his customary aid in composition. . . . .every new publication-. , the animal as it it were a human being, | j )aJ ga ] e 0 f mbou t, io,000 copies a year in quieting and soothing it. I a h e et form. Dr. Bennett says that he ^Jumbo seemed to understand, for as the aud Webster were not orthodox Clirbt- cage rose higher in the air, he swayed I j ans when the hymn was written, and less violently and gradually quieted down lbatbo u now even a less believer, so that by the time be was lowered upon m country, 'Tts of Thee.—Written by the deck of the lighter he had ceased to tbe s . #! Smith, who still Jives at manifest any signs of uneasiness or Newton, Mass. It was composed one day fn ?. « , , , .. , , . . while the author was a theotogue at An- At G o clock the cege was safely stowed I doTer Seminary, and be never expected It upon tho lighter's deck, and with three I 3 rousiug cheers and a tiger for Jumbo; 1 10 be tam°u®. .throe more for tho Assyrian Monarch, an I As Dead as a Herring. This expres- threo more for Captain John Harrison, sl °“ {“as a ogglo- .Tha jMHtag, her hardy commander, the assembled I ^bich wbenfatis called a bloater, die multitude saw the lighter, in tow of a tug I immediately upon its removal from the boat, move out into tbe korth river, in IIt wants air, aud cau Uvo only tn tbe direction ol pierNo. 1 at tte B,t- S*lt water; whereas an eel llves a long ^ 1 Itime after leaving its native element. Up to thb time Jumbo bad uttered gp | Swimming so near the surface as it does, sound; but when for a moment Scott, the ^ herring requires mudi air, and, tha keeper, descended from the front or the Np when dry cannot perform their func- cage aud moved off to speak to Mr. Hut-1 tion—that of breatmug. chiiison, one of tho managers of the show, I Admiral \ ernon, the sa^s after the animat uttered a hoarse bellow aud I *bom Mount Vernon was named was butted his head against the bars, although tb e first to requ re *o drink their ha wanted to follow him - I spirits mixed with water. In bad weather As soon as the kee^r’returned to fala * was in the habit f walking the deck side he was quiet again, aud from that in* roughgrogram cloak.andhenQa had time on either Scott or William Newman, obtained the name Qn£MnU» the American keeper, who went to Eng- ser9 A“; Sucb of the a land to fetch the elephant to this country, a PP ll ® d tor , unl ro°^ m , r had to remain iu his sight. \ A Bon f to EE' If they showed any signs of leaving him I na * e c I u,t 9P l P Sicily far the biide s fath he manifested his displeasure by bellow- SSSjiaaS r at ( o clock, the whole of the hrs. expla ^ all0I £ but tbe practice of throwing pieri ward seemed to have turned out to wel come Jumbo. Nearly two hours were spent in landing the cage and adjusting it to tbe low ana broad wheel track which was to be the means of transporting Jumbo through tbe streets to the Madison Square Garden. A team of sixteen horses was in waiting, and these, after much delay, were finally harnessed to tho cage, and it was started on its way to the Garden, where it arrived without accident shortly after ' 12 o’clock. Jumbo is a monster. Mr. Barnum, Mr. Bailey, Mr. Hutchinson and Mr. Arging- stall, the elephant trainer, agree in pro nouncing him tbe largest elephant ever imported. He stands over eleven feet six inches in height, weighs six and a hall tons and measures fifteen feet across the head from the extreme tip of each of his formidable ears. He is twelve feet long and bis trank is seven feet in length. Mr. Barnum aud his partners paid $10,- 000 lor him, aud his entire cost landed in New York, Mr. Hutchinson states, willbs nearly $30, COO. There have been many unforseen ex penses in getting him here. In tbe first place, the opposition In Lon don to the sale to Mr. Barnum was so great that several lawsuits had to be con tested, entailing a cost of $2,000 for iegal expenses alone. Then the experiments in making a cage in which to transport him were coetly, and the expenses of bringing him across the Atlantic were very heavy. I’assage was obtained for him twice and two steamers were tilted up for him and provisioned before the Assyrian Monarch, but on both occasions Jumbo positively refused to enter his cage at the last mo ment, although ho was docile enough at all other times. • In addition to tbe freight charge of $1,- 000, tbe steamship company exacted pay for fifty tons of freight displaced and for 200 emigrants, at $ iO per head, because the emigratiou authorities would not per mit passengers to be carried ih tho same part of the ship with Jumbo. The cage in which Jumbo was confined duriDg the voyage is about six feet eight' inches wide aud thirteen feet high, Inside measurement. it is made of aeven-lnch timbers of yel low pine, with double lining of three-inch oak planks. Heavy bands oi three-quar ter inch angle iron,.with five-inch flanges, bones to dogs is a more natural method of accounting for tbe saying. Wizard of the North.—A name often given to Sir Walter Scott, In allusion to the extraordinary charm and descriptive power of his writings, which excited un bounded enthusiasm on their appearance, and whrch still retaiu a large measure or tlfair original popularity. Vanity Fatr.—In Banyan,s spiritual allegory, “The Pilgrim’s Frogrcss,” this is tbe name of a fair which was held all the year.round in the town et Vanity. The origin and history of this lair are de scribed: “Almost 5,000 yeans ago there were pilgrims walking to the Ueles Jal City, and Beelzebub, Apollyon and Le gion, with their companions, perceiving by the path that the pilgrims made that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to •et up a talr—a fair wherein should be sold ail sorts of vanity, and that it should last all tbe year long. Therefore, at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as bouses, lands, trades, places, honors, pref erments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusU, pleasures and delights of all sorts, as har lots, wives, husbands, children, lives, blood, bodies, souls, sliver, gold, pearls precious stones and what not. And, moreover, at this fair there is, at all times, to be seen Jugglings, cheats, games, tools, knaves, rogues, and that ot every kind. • • • Now, aa I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this town were this dusty fair is kept; and he that would go to tbe city, and yet not go through this town, must needs go out of the world.” Thackeray haa made use of tbe name of Vanity Fair as the title of his satirical novel. Johannes Factotum. ■ Diphtheria Attacks all classes, at all ages and at all Masons of the year. As the seed ot this terrible disease is in the throat it is di rectly reached by Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid used as a gargle or by swabbing out the mouth with a doth saturated with the fluid. Articles used about the sick should be rinsed in water containing a small quan tity of the fluid. It will absolutely destroy tlm germs of contagion. Boa'S Dte la the Boon. “Bough on Bats.” Clears out rats, mice, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants, motes, chip munks, gophers. 15c. lw Abumims Hiaasir a CaadldaU t, Governor—Why He was Polealod Two Toon Abo. Jr ease as Gazette. “Gen’lemen,” said old Jerry last night, mounting a box near the river and turn ing to a~£owd of “water-side characters,” “two yq*n ago to-night I erected myMlf at dls berry spot—an right dar is wbar I spit out a chaw or terbacker at de time, terbacker what I borrowed from Mr. Fish- back aud had ter ’pudiate it—stood up an’ tole yer dat I was a candidate for Gubner. “Oh 1 my feller-citizens, had we kuowd deu what was gwine ter befall us, how much more cautious would we set our feet ou tiie ground. “I won’t undertake to mark de changes what bab been rang since den. - Many who was dat night under de sound ob my voice is now under de sod. Since dat time de best of friends half become ene mies an’strangers ban become friends. De debbil hab broke loose in many parts ob de country and we’ve had unrevised hell an’ high water—an’ a mighty heap ob high water, I tell yer. Now, feller-citizens and skiffmen, 1’se again a candidate for gubner. “I ain’t no wah horse, but 1’se de corn field mule what, if yer stick to, will fetch prosperity to de country. Ef dere is a manheah what doau wauter heah de horn dat 1’se gjrlne ter blow, let him ’scuse bisself and go home. “Yes, gen’lemeD, 1’se a candidate on de prohibition ticket. I doau intend to take any more whisky den I can do widout. Some folks Is opposed ter wimmln habin’ a say In de temporauce cause. I ain’t, ’case, law or no law, de wimmm is gwine ter bab dar say. Who bab a better right to despise whisky deu de wimmin ? “Who hab as much as her felt de brutal hand of intemperance ? Let her speak out, an’ my anvice ter Iter man is doau’ go home drunk. Go somewhar else. 1’se a temperance candidate, still ef eny man cau tell me wbar I can git a vote by the aid of whisky, let him sound his XlWlM. “Votes is what 1 warn- t , _ I must git. Efit hadn’t been fur v( agin me I would bab been gubner now, wida long list of notary publics lyin’ on de table in frout ob me. 1’so gVine ter fight ebeiy opponent wat -shows bis head. Da may call me ele kidney-footed; but I’se de boss dis time obde siraation. I sees whar I. made my mistake afore. I didn’t get my opponents drank enough. „ “I doau believe in personal attacks, but, gen’lmen, you mus’ lookout. “What I says in public I may take back in private, but, geu’lmeu, look out. Draw in yer horns ef yer doau want’em knock-' ed off wid de hoop-pole oh political tact. “Ob, 1’se been improvin’ my time sense I run fur gubner two years ago. I’se been ’nointin’ these ole jints till 1 cau run like a fox. “I’ll be de naixt gubner ob dis State; I’ll sit on de chair ob rest and hab de sec retary of State keep de flees offen me wid a sassa'tes sprout. I’ll Lab my meals letch me by de ’turney-general, an’ will be driv iu a carriage drawd by de treasurer au’ de commissioner of State lands. “Ob, I’ll warm my fest in de bosom ob de polerticai Abraham. •JNow, dar is Duffy, de fust man to ’nounce hisself. Ef 1 couldn’ run faster den dat man I’d pull off dis check shirt an’ liaDgitondeeberlastin’ weepin’ willows oblost energy. “What has dat man doue fur deSthte ? De hollow winds dat sweep downde river whisper, ‘Nuthin.’ What claim has be? None. Why, gen’lemen, ef yer was to ’leek dat man it would take him so long to git ter der S(.alehouse, dat he would be deex-gubner afore he could reach dar. Da say dot he’s lazy. Dat ain’t true. He ain’t got energy enuf, “Dandar’sStanley. Who deduce is Stanley? Does he want ter be gubner Just to git acquainted wid der people? He’d better keep his mouf shut, ur de sands ob defeat will be flung right squar inter it. “Dar ain’t no more heads in sight yet. Mr. Fishback is under a box, writ In’ let ters. ’Casionallyhe sticks his head out, an’ declares dat he won’t support a man lessen he’s for de ’mendment. “He’s what I calls a piece ob wln’-shak- en timber. But he’s dead. His voice is widout effect; his aim was weak; his cal lin’ was weak. He declare he ain’t no candidate. His declaration, feiier-skiff- roen, is like de foundin’ brass au’ de tmk- lln thimble. “I will see you all on some Tutor ’casion. I’se de coinin’ man; “Take any man across de ribber fur a upll outen a bottle. AGRICULTURAL ATOMS. FOB THE EXES OF HONEST SONS OF TOIL. A German living in England, in reply to a notice to present himself at a certain place in Prussia for military service, un der tbe conscription, has addressed tbe following letter to Prince Bismarck: “My Dear Bismarck—I feel highly flat tered by your kind invitation, addressed to me at mynative town, to Jria tho Ger man army, but am afraid I shall not be able to accept it,for I am now in England engaged in the more useful work, as I consider it, of expounding mental science and teaching people howto make tiie best use of their faculties. For lhe same rea son I scarcely feel myself at liberty to ac cept even tho six months’ board and lodg ing at tbe expense of the State; which you considerately offer as an alternative. I much prefer basking in the sunshine of English liberty to beiog forced despotical ly into military servitude In my own country. I have altogether given up fight ing since I left school. 1 do net know that I have anytbiog particular to fight about now, and hardly care to engage in fighting at anyone elM's bidding. If you have a qultrel with anybody, I would ad vise you to settle it amicably if possible, or else fight it out yourself. If, after you haye ‘fixed up* the army, you can make it convenient to run over here at any time to one of my phrenological lectures, I shall be happy to point out tbe superiority of life in England, and I will examine your head either publicly or In private, free of charge. With kind regards to the governor,I remain yours faithfully, “Gustaaus Cohm.” A Bsnorkabls Floor Osvcrlas. The floor cloth, “Limolsum” has now been manufactured for some years, and is much commended by all who use it. It is composed mainly ol finely ground cork and solidified oil. Remarkable alike for durability, beauty and cleanliness, the de mand must oontinus to increase. It has stood tl.9 test of time: but imitations be ing on the market, buyers should look on tbe back of thu cloth for tbe word “Lnt- outUM,” which on.the genuine is printed on every square yard. Ali carpet dealers keep it. To Pfoileitas. I have iust received a supply ot lhe “Shakers Aromatic Elixir of Malt." This preparation of malt can be prescribed in many coses where tbe common extract of malt cannot be taken. Give it a trial. L. W. liuirr. Canary Birds. It yon want to keop them fat call at L. W. Hunt’s drag store and get a box of Lan- dreth’s mixed seed. One pound boxes 15 cents, two pound boxes 25 oents. A fresh supply just received. ■ ■**•»■'■ 1 ——— Pubs imported gin—tha best that is >a s - *- *■ ' ■evened From Oatel-lhs-Way Batata *■ ° or WvehaaB—, Dressed Up mm* I*reseated far latsstMta. Georgia is more interested in the corn fng grain crap than in ths next governor Or congressman-at-large. - Uncle Sim Norris says that when a boy fifteen years old, living in Monroe county, he saw hail cover the ground to the depth of one foot, and in valleys and drift placea it was twenty-five feet deep. We men tion this to show croakers wfcat hsrd times there were in former days. Sweet potatoes are selling at one dollar per bushel. At that price a man cau re alize from $100 to $250 per acre on laud tha; it would take two acres to make one bale of cotton, hence we can readily see that a planter bad better plant potatoes aud make cotton a surplus crop. At fifty cents per bushel more cau be made to tbe acre than can be made with cotton. It is quite a common saying that there is no money in fanning, but It depends altogether upon the farmer himself wheth er or not there U. we, says the editor of the Echo, spent last Friday night at tbe home of one of Oglethorpe’s farmers, and were we able to pick our lot we would hardly hesitate before taking his. . Mr. R. J. Arnold ss the man of whom we speak. He has never bought a pound of meat for himself—killed fire thousand pounds at bis last killing—has over two hundred barrels of com in his cribs, his barns filled with fodder aud oata? and haa wheat enough ou hand to do him for a long time; ae haa twenty bales of cotton on band, owes no mau a dollar that ho cannot pay. From all we can see, says the Hawkins- vilieNetca, our farmers are making dea erate efforts this year to make their I arms self-sustaining. They are curtail ing their cotton crops and paying more attention to provision crops. That is as it ing'thelr^owS^SlSS!IS9t!S ing cotton a surplus crop they can"' ;in to think about controlling the price of L But until then they are in tbe hands of speculators in cotton and shippers.. Mr. T. J. Barrow, of Smithville, re torts a good condition of the farming out- ook in his immediate section,though they are somewhat ueediug rain. Mr. Barrow reports the oat crop as simply splendid, but that tbe wheat crop is damaged by tbe nut. The com thus far is doing well. Mr. Barrow expects to realize this ;rear from his crop a thousand dollars. Now that sounds like business, aud we are delighted to bear so many of our far mers speaking so hopefully cf tbe future. But that wilt ever be tbe case when our farmers become self-sustaining, and many of them are uow ou that Hue, Mr. Leroy Hudgins, wbo lives at the old Fowler place, niar Ciarkslon, left on the HawkinaviHe Dispatch tabio a speci men of the finest we hare seen this season. The stalks measure nearly fire feet in height and are large and rich looking. ' Theyare just beginning to bead out, and give promise of a large yield. Mr. Hud gins says he has a large field of the same, kind. If no accident befalls it, in the opinion of competent judges, It will make about forty bushels to bs acre. We see more evidence of prosperity iu such a crop as this than In thb finest cotton crop that could possibly be produced. We don’t believe that any other crop brings as good _ returns in this section as wheat, taking tbe labor time and expense of raising it into consideration. A certain geutlemau who has a home in Spalding, once had a garden. He had never attempted the like before and this was his first experiment. He bad made this garden his special care, in fact, it was almost his idol. He worked in it by day, aud dreamed and studied about it at night. He watched the growth of his choice vegetables with pleasure aud bragged on bis garden wbeuever an op portunity presented itself. He went to bed one night and dreamed that be was having a superabundance of garden luxu ries. He awoke next morning and went into the garden in fond expectation, but, alas, wbat a sight met hla eyes. Every thing had been trampled and mashed down during the night by his fa70rite horse. He bad nine different kinds of vegetables, aud tho horse had taken es pecial care to wallow all over them sep arately. Not a sprig was left to tall of its escape. The man was mad. He raved and tore his hair in frenzy, and muttered that be would kill tbe hone for lu mis- - chief. Just then his wife came Into the garden, followed by a fine Bramah ben his mother-in-law had sent down the day before. He let fly a brick at tie hen and knocked her bead completely off. His wife remonstrated with him, but he ex claimed: “D—d if I don’t kill anything that comes into this garden.” Her lady ship beat a hasty retreat for the bouse and has not been in tbe garden since. This man takes an oath that he will have nothing more to do with a garden A Dollar Walt (spent. On March 14th the 142d Grand Monthly Drawing of tbe Louisiana State Lottery took place as it always does on the day ap pointed, under the sole supervision of Genls C. T. Beauregard, of La., and Jubal A. Ear’y, of Va. Then <110.400 wa*i scat tered broadcast through the land. The first capital was sold in halves, and drawn by ticket No. 75,414—one-half to B. L Holt, of Quitsnan, Nodaway oo., Sio.; the other to Mr. Eugene B. Ehiipot, a prominent young merchant of Savannah, Ga. The second capital, $10,000. also sold in halves and drawn by ticket No. 87,875—one-half to a lucky Bostonian, who ooffected it through Yanoe’s Express, No. 15 Devon, shire et, Boston, Mass.; the other htlf col lected through Darragh A Co., Bankers, St, Lonis, Mich., for Jno. Creegaa and Albert Nagel, of Six Lakes, Montcalm oo., Mich. The third capital was also sold in. halve* and drawn by ticket No. 0099—one-half to John Bnrrell, No. 26 Devonshire st, Bos ton, Mass.; the other to Sami E. Palmer, No. 855 Sixth ave . New -York City. The two fourth capital prizes of $2^00 each, were sold in halves to Nos. 17,873 and 33,- 166—to Edward G. Guet, No. 17 Mulberry Place, Newark, N. J.; to Levi Alden, and collected thi ough State Bank of Madison, Wit.; to Miss Campbell, No. 727 Eighth st, Louisville, Ky.; and Geo. H. Count, of New Yoak City. The next drawing (the 144th) will take place May 6«h, of Which every- thing will be told on application to M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La. 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