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TIIE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1884.
ACTORS IN SUMMER.
Some of the Manners and Cuatoms that
Prevail About Union Square.
New York Timer.
‘•Bv tlic way, Josephus, do all actors
stand around Union Square in the sum
mer?”
"No, not all of them. Why, my
dear hoy, there about 0,000 of them in
tho United States. Those fellows who
stand around Union Square all day
long are the riff raff of the profession,
as a general thing. Not all of them
can be classed under that term, for
many a respectable actor loafs there.”
"Why?”
"Well,” jhey travel all the season
and hence have no fixed place of aliode.
Most of them are single men and when
they come into New York they take n
room in a boarding house. They don’t
know what to do with themselves, so
they spend much of their time in hang
ing around Union Square. They call
it the Itialto ”
“What do they do on this Itialto?”
"Well, one thing they do is to talk
over their triumphs of the past season.
JitmJ% llrown will spend hours in tell
ing Johnny Jones how he ‘hogged ’em’
in Kalamazoo. That a as the most in
telligent audience he ever saw. They
VANDERBILT'S BRIDE.
took every point in his part and aj
plauded nearly every speech. After
tho show he was introduced to several
leading bar-keepers and pool-plovers
and they sat up all night trying to raise
each other out of jack-pots. Jimmy
won |37 and lost it all the next day
betting on a skating match in Oshkosh.
The narration of experiences is inter
spersed with visits to neighboring sa
loons, where drinks are imbibed as of
ten as any one can lie found to ‘set ’em
up.’ And many are the dodges, Oh
Ptarximander, to which the cunning
fakir resorts in order to get his little
drink. Let a man steal quietly into a
place to take a solitary drink. In an
other minute an acquaintance walks ii:
and appearing not to see the drinker
walks up to the bar and inquires of the
bar-keeper:
“ ‘Any letters for me?’
“ ‘Not to-day, Mr. Bilkins.’
“ ‘All, thanks.’
“He turns to go and catches sight of
his friend.
“ ‘Why, Johnny, old boy,’ he ex-
rlaims, ‘when did you get
Haven’t seen you in an age.’
“And if Johnny is not ‘lly’ he re
sponds warmly to the greeting and or
ders a drink for his friend. And the
drink the friend takes—what do you
suppose it is?”
"Beer; that’s the cheapest.”
‘‘Ptarximander, the amount of igno
rance you carry around with vounliout
the theatrical profession would stock a
school for actors. He takes an egg lliji
or an egg lemonade.”
"Why?”
"Because of the nourishment con
tained herein. Some of these fellows
who hang around Union Square all the
summer almost live iqion nutritive
drinks of that kind. They are as full
of cunning as the much-slandered
mule.”
"Josephus, when I want to learn
how to live hereafter I will not go to
the ant, but to the fakir.”
"Quite right, Ptarximander. That
Itialto in a great place in many ways.
A wonderful amount of business is
done there in the course of the sum
mer. Actors and managers who do not
wish to transact their business
through the agencies do so there. It
used to be the headquarters for busi
ness before the agencies became so
general. Now it does not liavo so
much business patronage ns it did.
though I understand that some of the
old trade is drifting hock. The Kialto
is becoming divided into smaller por
tions, each devoted to a special line of
work. They have what they call an
‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ comer, for in
stance.”
‘‘What is that?”
“That is a place where the ambi
tious players who are accustomed to
exhibit their abilities in the ancient
dramatization of Mrs. Harriet Beech
er Htowe’s novel hold forth. There
you will find on pleasant, warm morn
ings perhaps five George Shelheys, six
George Harrises, four Simon Legrecs,
ten Marks, the lawyers; eight Gump
tion Cutes, a dozen greatest living Un
cle Toms, aud as assorted variety of
QuimlMj*, Sambos and Itussian blood
hounds. Occasionally an enterprising
New F.ngland speculator comes along
ami takes tin to of each and goes out
with an ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ compa
ny, arranged after the mastodon min
strel plan—three Uncle Toma, three
Simon Is-grees, three Marks, the law-
vers—three strong, three . olid, count
’rin, count ’em, 1 tell you, my verdant
disciple, when they put that announce
ment up on a sixty-four foot streamer
in a country town it makes the inhab
itants tremble with excitement. Then
there is a ‘Two Orphans’ department,
ami ‘Lights o'London' headquarter*,
and a legitimate division, and!
lesque wing, and a haven for those
who were with Itlce, as Sydney Rosen-
fold has it. You and other stangers
going across the square would not dis
cover these places, but they are
there.”
"Where la one ol them, for in-
“Welf, now, my child, but thatl am
forbid to reveal the secrets of my pris
on house I could a talc unfold that
would harrow up the young blood, etc.
I’ll tell you of one place, and that is
characteristic. On the northeast cor
ner of Fourteenth street and Fourth
avenue there is a beer saluon, above
which rooms are rented for lodgers.
This place in the headquarters of the
Southern eirciut. The Southern cir
cuit consists, aa you may readily infer-
of town* in the Southern States. Com
panies ore organized every season for
the punKj*e of devaatating llie recon
structed Foutli. Most of these ccm-
panies are fearlullv and wonderfully
comisiM-d. At this place on the cor
ner, which I have rnentio ed, the ao-
tora and managers meet. It is a little
itialto of their own. Most of the man
agers of the Southern circuit have rooms
in the house. The proprietor, with an
eye to hm-ineis, has a little inclosura
on the )iavement decked out witli
plants an<l ines, and inside of it are
tables. At these tables the actors and
managers meet and discuss business
over foaming—very foaming—lieakej?
of the beverage of the Rhine. Any
day you may see there men with straw
ghats on the hacks of their heads, hail
cigars in their mootha, glasses of beer
in front of them, and little memoran
dumhooka in their bands. In these
they enter their engagements with ac
ton and with managers. You most
understand that certain local Southern
managers control the show-houses in a
numiter of towns on the circuit, and
the manager of a combination cannot
get Into one town withool playing in
the others. It's a great scheme and it
works beautifully.''
Tut Times reports that the news of
the nomination of Cleveland waa re
ceived in Savannah “with
How He won Her, or How She Captu-rd
Him#
New York Morning Journal.
It was a bright moonlight night in
Albany, some thirty-five years ago,
and the streets were filled with loving
couples, who walked arm > in arm up
and down and over the many hills in
tlie city. The clock in a neighboring
steeple was chiming the hour of 10,
when a young lady who was walking
through tho quiet and deserted streets
was startled liy the clatter of horses'
hoofs. Soon she saw coming up the
street, at a breakneck pace, a bay
horse, on which was seated a young
man witli auburn hair and a beautiful,
smiling mouth. His upper lip was
shielded from the night air by a six
months’ mustache, whieli boasted of
twenty-two reddish-brown hairs.
The young man handled his
horse with sucli ease and
grace that the young lady sighed and
knew her heart had gone out to the
unknown rider, lly this time the horse
and rider had reached the corner where
the young lady stood, and she, being
' ii mouest, retiring nature, witdrew
the shadow* of a doorway.
Tlie horse saw the movement, and,
being a spirited animal, sided and
threw its rider, who fell heavily on a
file of stones, striking the left side of
us face and utterly ruining the stone
heap. The young lady screamed and
sprang forward, supposing tlie young
man was either dead or very badly
hurt. Hardly had she reached his
side when tie jumped up, shook him
self, ami brushed the dust from his
face.
“Are—are you hurt verv badly?”
timidly inquired the young lady.
“Not at'all Miss—Miss—a—” stam
mered tlie youth.
.Miss Ktssam,” whispered tlie young
lady, while many blushes suffused her
pretty face.
"Well, I'm not hurt, Miss Kissam,”
said William II. Vanderbilt as lie in
troduced himself, "but I’m pretty bad
ly shaken up.”
Miss Kissam appeared embarrassed
and insisted upon young Mr. Yonder-
hilt going to tier home, as lie suddenly
appeared very faint, ft did not take
much persuasion to induce him lo es
cort her home. Here he was intro
luced to Miss Kissam’s father, the
Rev. Ur. Kissam.
A pleasant evening was spent, and
William proved such Ml excellent con
versationalist that wlicn lie took his
departure that evening lie was invited
to call again. Ttiis lie promised to do.
When lie got to the street lie found
that lie had forgotten his h-art and
taken Miss Kissam’s ^instead. Evi
dently the young lady was satisfied
w ith tlie exchange, for site ilid not ask
Mr. .V. to return her palpitator. Many
times did tlie young couple meet.
Finally young “Vundy,” as his com
panions called him, plucked up cour
age and decided to ask Miss Kissam
to change her name in his favor.
He put off the “popping” from day
today until tlie next July, when th»
Sunday-school of which Mr. Vander
bilt was superintendent gave a picnic.
Miss Kissam was present, ami “Van-
dy” popped.
When this momentous event oc
curred young William dropped on liis
knees with such force that the earth
quaked. He listened eagerly for an
answer to his request, and amid the
singing of birds and the rustling of
leaves it came, a softly and lowly-
whispered “Yes.”
If reports are >true Mr. Vanderbilt’s
strength greatly exceeded that iwsseaa-
‘ by Samp sun in his palmiest days,
when William's paroxysm of joy
had passed away there were several
hundred young saplings lying around
torn up liy the mots.
Drawing a big penknive, the happy
S man cut deep into the bark ot a
j maple the words‘‘Mr. anil Mrs.
Williiim II. Vanderbilt,” just to see
how it would look in print.
It satisfied him, and a few months
later the young couple were ninrrieil
by the bride’s father. With his mar
riage, Mr. Vanderbilt prospered, and
i-ilay is tlie riciicst man in tlie world.
Never has he regretted Ids union witli
pretty Misa Kissain, the “belle of Al
bany.”
To thil day Mr. Vanderbilt tells tho
story of his first love. Anyone who
can find the maple tree where Mr. V.
carved his name, together witli a "Mr.
and Mra. V.,” may to lids day ice tho
words Even now when lie thinks of
how he first met his wife he will re
mark :
“Funny meeting, eh?” nnd will then
sigh when he thinks of how the stone
heap must have suffered.
Although Mr. Vanderbilt talks that
way he knows lietter. XoIhkIv knows
lietter than he that he is the eldest son
of his father, the late Commodore
Vanderbilt, of Staten Island, who left
dollars enough to keep William's head
above water for all time. The present
head of the house, William
IL, has done better than his father
could have dreamed, as the cld gentle
man was in the habit of hinting that
his "boy Bill” had more feet than head.
For all that “Bill” has so msny gov
ernment bonds that a steam engine
going day and night baa hard work to
clip off tlie coupons in time for psy-
ment.
Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt have six
children—three daughters nnd three
sona. One of the latter, Comeliua,
lives across tlie street in a fine granite
house. Another son is William K., a
chip of the old block. Tlie Inst is
George Washington, who ia his father's
pet. The daughters arc all married—
Mrs. Twombly, Mrs. Webb and Mrs.
Hheppanl.
tab A large crowd gathered around,
and a young lady in silk stooped over
tlie wounded woman and wiped tlie
blood-from her brow with a cambric
handkerchief. Then tlie ambulance
arae rattling up and b!io was lifted
into it. She was unconscious when re
ceived in tlie hospital. Five minuths
later she was dead.
In the reticule were some letters and
photograph of tlie dead woman, tnken
_l the Belle Studio, in St. Louis. In
tlie photograph she wore a loosely-
fitting robe, showing her handsome
arms and neck. Tlie round, full face
was smiling, nnd large eyes laughed
tieloiv short curls that fell over the
forehead. The photograph represented
a beautiful woman of twenty-five years.
The letters were directed, “Miss
Carrie A. Johnson, Station C. New
York city.” One of them was signed
James It. Marshal, 108 West Fortieth
street.” It began, “Deur Friend Car-
. ’ expressed regret at not Bceing her
nnd a desire for tier address.
Mr. Murston w as found at the Mutual
District Telegraph office, at 1ST Broad
way, o( which ne lias charge, and was
requested to go to the hospital. He
there looked at tlie picture, and said
that the dead woman was Mrs. Jeanne
Neuville, of St. Lonis. Her husband
was A. Neuville, a manufacturer's
igent at 013 Washington avenue, St.
St. Louis. Sirs. Neuville was an actress
whom he had met three yearsago. She
then was performing in Arkansas. He
did not know her husband. Site had
telegraphed to him on Monday a week
ago, telling him to write tier at tlie
post.oflie-e in this city. He did not get
the telegram, for some unknown cause,
until July 3, when he replied to it, Hu
had recta veil no answer.
Mrs. Neuville was well known in St.
Louis, where she originally went on the
stage. She took the part oi “Clara”
in Dan Frohtnan’s Western “Hazel
Kirke” company, and for a short time
played in one of his Eastern compa
nies. Mr. Krohnmn said lust night
that sho was introduced to him by Mr.
Charles Pope, of tlie St. Louis Opera
House.
“She was a remarkably beautiful
woman,” he said, “but I think she wus
just a little near-sighted. I have her
name on my books now.”
A year ago Mrs. Neuville was in this
city for several months, and stopped at
1,41)5 Broadway. She then returned to
St. Lonis. At the Uilsey House last
night a gentleman who knew her well
in St. Louis said that tier death would
cause general grief there.
The police say that tho wagon that
ran over Mrs. Neuville belonged to
Trow’a printing establishment,but were
unable to verify it. Nothing has been
heard of any runaway horse and wagon
being picked up
.Last night a dispatch was sent to
Mr. Xeuville’s St. Louis address noti
fying him of his wife’s dentil.
IN THE OLD CARROLL PRISON.
Mr. Harry Ford's Recollections of a Grant
Tragedy.
A Washington Star reporter finding
cosily seated in the office at Ford’s
Opera House, and Mr. Harry Ford, in
a vein for reminiscence, led Mr. Ford’s
mind back a score of years to the
events attending tlie assassination of
President Lincoln at tho 10th street
theater. 'The day of the assassination,’
said Mr. Ford, “about 12 in. Booth
came down 10th street to the theater,
and stopped there to read a letter. I
can remember very well seeing him
sitting upon the steps outside. I told
him then that President Lincoln and
Gen. Grant would occupy one lwx, and
added as a joke to tease him that Jeff
Davis aud Gen. Lee would be in anoth
er box. He denounced Gen. I,ee very
vigorously for having surrendered tlie
sword of Virginia.' Tiiat evening, af
ter tlie performance began, lie came to
tlie theater, anil as lie passed the box
office, he looked into the window, and
putting his arm through, placed a ci
gar which lie bad partly smoked on a
shelf inside and said in a mock heroic
bombastic furioso style,
this cigar (lure* displace
Caraway B. Lunar,
New York Journal of Comnuree.
Those who knew this gentleman in
timately need no vindication of his
memory. He was a true man and
good citizen, and while president of the
Bank of tlie Republic, in this city, was
foremest among those who were active
in sustaining tlie credit of the govern
ment before ilie outbreak of hostili
ties, hut at a time when the hearls o
so many failed through fear. Ten year
ago a son of Mr. Lamar wrote the an
nexed letter to Mr. John J Cisco, ma-
nv years Assistant-Treasurer of the
United States in tins city, for the pur
pose of preserving a roco d of his
lather’s prominent support of the pub
lic credit in those dark hours. Mr.
Cisco heartily indorsed the statements
in the letter, hut the publication of tlie
correspondence in deference to Ids
wishes was withheld until ins de
cease:
.MX York, Octola-r 21, 1874, No.-,-Ui
West Twenty-first street. Mr. J J. Cis
co, Sr.: Ilk a it Min—Introducing myself
as tlie only remaining son of the late
Mr. Gazaway B. Lamar, I entreat your
indulgence of a trespass upon your
leisure, which shall lie as brief as pos
sible. Within so recent a periisl as
six months previous to his death I
have heard my father refer to the ac
tion of a meeting of New York hank
presidents, held just prior to hostili
ties, whieli under ids guidance rescued
the credit of the Untied Slates govern
ment from threatened default. Hi*
statement briefly set forth that upon
reaching tlie place of meeting lie first
definitely learned from you that tlie
government could nut meet the in’er-
est payment then falling due its for
eign bondholders; tliut lie theretiiion
volunteered to urge tlie necessity of un
adequate lnau upon tho meeting; tliut,
in tlie absence of Mr. John Austin Ste
vens, president of the Bank ol Com
merce, who wusalisent,ill at home, lie
was called to preside at the meeting us
tlie senior hank president present;
tliut after the transaction of routine
business, lie pressed the urgency of
immediate action in sustaining the
government’s credit, and pledging the
management of the hank of the Re-
Then he parsed into tlie theater.”
“Did he ever return lor tlie cigar?
asked the Star reporter.
“No. Those were the last words I
ever heard him speak. lie must have
said them to mislead us, for his plans,
it seems, were already laid and it was
part of the plan, as I heard afterward:
that Payne was to assa-sinate Howard,
Atzerott should kill Johnson at the
Kirkwood house, and Booth shoot tin:
President simultaneously. So lie knew
just that lie was going to do, and how
much time he had.”
“Later in tlie evening,” continued
Mr. Ford, “we heard a pistol shot in
the theater. Joe Si-Nifnrd and 1 wen-
in the treasurer’s office. We thought
at first that it Was tlie pistol fired by
Asa Trend.ard in the |ilay—Laura
Rbcne was playing “Our Amer
ican Cousin’ —" out then it
struck as n lit’ L* early in
lie evening. We opened a little win-
low that lo >ked int • lie- theater and
saw Booth crouching outlie stage, witli
a knife in his hand. Even then we
cotild nut tell what had happened, and
no nno s- enied tojtnmv. We thought
at first that some one had insulted
Booth ami he had pursued tlie man
across the stage. A few minutes which
seemed an hour passed before the
whole terrible truth was known.”
“You were among those who were
arrested were you not?” asked the Star
reporter.
”1 was arrested, I think, on the Sun
day following the assassination, ai.-d
taken down lo the old Carroll prison,
fronting upon tlie Capitol grounds. I
was treasurer ol tlie theater, ami my
brother, James R. Ford,hctterkqownus
’Dick’ Ford, was manager. Mvbrother,
John Ford, who owned the theater, was
nrr> sted ut his homo in Baltimore after
Ids return front Richmond. He had
run down thereto see our uncle, moth-
,t Family brother, .Mr. Win. Grcaner.
Nearly everybody aliout the theater
put under arrest—the carpenter,
the n.-sistnnt carpenter, the properly
man, and others. Nearly every one
•round here professionally related to
Booth was arrested, and the Virginia
and Maryland farmers along the river,
who were supposed to liuve assisted
Booth in his escape in unv way, hy har
boring him, giving him food," or shel
ter, or boats were arrested,
sud they were all sent
lo the prison where 1 was. Ho we had
plenty of company.”
“Did 1 enjoy it? Well, 1 would not
have uiis-cif the experience for u great
deal. It was a rare mixture—desert
ers, bounty-jumpers and men of every
station, still, it was rather rough tlu-
first week. We wen* k* o: ii. ciuso and
sclilury confinement. I' ich limn hail
a room by himself *e:>d was not allow
ed to leave it or to see anyone. I rfe
member that when my brother was
brought in I suwLliim in the yard. Tlie
guards would not let me go to him or
speak to him. After John T. was ar
rested Ids family came over from Bal
timore. His wife applied to Secretary
Stanton for a pass to go to tlie prison
and see him, lint Htunlou refused
There wo were left alone in our dun
genus in dreadful uncertainty. 1 re-
inemlier the day of the funeral cere
monies at the capital. I could see
nothing, hut could hear the solemn
Is Miming of guns, the dismal la-ating
of niutlled drums, playing dead march
es. and tlie steady trump of lect. That
wok not verv cheering music (or our
ears. We did not know hut the peo
ple in their excitement would moli tin-
prison and lynch us, for some of the
men arrested hail been stencil in the
street. Our fare was coarse pr» n
Mrs. Surratt occupied a room in the
second storv of the hack wing, or ‘L’
of tho building, and her window look
ed dawn into the yard. Tlie back
yards of the houses, now forming Car-
roll row, all formed one large prison
yard then. Junius Brutus Booth,
brother of J. Wilkes and John S. Clark,
the comedian, who married Booth’s
sister, were also arrested. Clark made
a good deal of fun, you think? No;
lie was the most serious man there.
The guards took a penknife away from
Juniui Booth, or ‘June,’ as every one
called him, la-cause some one thought
he would commit suicide. He said that
he had a gun, he would put the whole
guard to flight. The men who were
accused directly of complicity in any
way with Booth were imprisoned at the
arsenal, where they had padded cells,
go they could not butt, their brains out.
If they had found anything to implicate
us, they would have sent us down to
the arsenal. When I was first taken
to the prison, I was examined by tlie
authorities there. Two or three days
liefore the assassination Booth gave
me his picture. It was a tin type, such
ns you can get now for twenty-live
cents a dozen. It was small, about
large enough for a locket, hut very
fine. He happened into the the
ater, and was showing the picture, aud
took a notion to give it to me. It was
in tr.y pocket-book when I was arrest
ed, ami taken from me, together with
a small pistol, when I was searched at
the prison. Nothing was said alsiut it,
however. When I was released and
took the oath of allegiance, ail of my
things were returned to me except tho
pistol and picture. These were kept
hy tlie tnan wlm searched me, as his
pcrqnisities. I did not think it would
he wiso to make any stir about them—
especially about tlie picture—so I said
nothing, and have never to this duv
seen either the pistol or tho picture.”
“Why did they arrest me? Well,as
I said, nearly everybody was arrested
ihatconld possibly have hail.anything
to do gill' Booth. All the theatre
people and some of Booth's friends and
relatives were taken. 1 had fixed up
and decorated the President's box, and
a knife, whieli had been used in cutting
the strings of tlie lings, was left by
accident <>n tlie sill. It was thought
that perhaps it had been left there
purposely, to he used hy Booth. Then,
1 hud placed a rocking clniir in
the box for the President, and, of
course, it was at once surmised that the
chair writs placed tlv. ro so that when
the President rocked hack Booth would
have him at a disadvantage. Why,
scores of mon around town were arrest
ed and whisked away to prison. Young
men nno were out driving and win;
were followed by ulliiV-r* were arrested
and locked up oh tile charge of decay
ing the officers. There was one man
arrested while traveling ia New Jersey.
He was asked his name and got a* far
•is *.!. Wilkes,’ or ‘J. Booth,'—IPs mid
dle name was Wilkes or Booth
1 have forgotten which— when hi
nt oneo arrested. He was not
n time t-J furnish his name or
say anything more until he was brought
to Washington, when lie told t^- rest
if his name and was released. We were
held as witnesses, and I, with others,
was taken from prison to testify in the
Spangler case. We went down to eourt
in nn old army ambulance. Boon after
wards I was released, having liooti in
prison alsiut two months altogether,
1 was lot out twice before, once uImiiii
a week after 1 was arrested, and
then rearrested. I went with a friend
the elder Booth’s f..rm, near
Baltimore, looking for Wilkes, and
was rearrested hy u detective nt Balti
more when returning. I was told tliut
Col. Baker, who was chief of the secret
service, asked: “Whore" is Harry
Ford?” Nobody knew, so Baker said
tie would him put where he could lie
found when wanted. The second time
I was released I went to Pittsburg on
business and was arrested on tny re
turn. It may lie that I was let out for
for (lie purpose of teeing where I
wouM go and W
municate.
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TALBOTT &
Manufacturers of
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For catalogue and prices adsress
S.S.PEGRAM. TALBOTT & SONS.
Manager. Macon. Ga
«J“We frequently have for sale second hand Knglnsi of n'her makra taken i„
exchange for our own build. We nmv olhr cli.u-i on - 2j.li.irao power Emrinaaml
power Engine ami Piai-i llvuti ler Biller witli Siw Mill
"Al.nuri’ A SONS. Macon*C> .1 *
foular I loiter. One ?. r > Id
nil in complete running
villi whom I would com-
“The theatre wan never opened after
tlie a*Ha*Mnrttion?” Haid the importer.
“Nn," nnid Mr. Ford; “we tried to
opeu it, and advertinud, hut Secretary
Sianton dosed the house. We took out
everythin# there was in the house, and
the government |»aid mv brottier's
enuimel, the Hon. Henry Winter Davis,
for the property."
“Aml K«lwin Iloodi will never play
here," said the reporter, suageslively.
“No," said Mr. Ford, “tie has a
very stnm# feel in# in the matter. My
hrolher has talked to him often, hut !|e
asked him never to speak of the matter
of acting in Washin#ton. He will not
visit Washington to stop, hut has sev
eral times passed thnm#h the city. I
think he makes a mistake, for his course
keeps the matter constantly in the
minds of the people. When l ain away
I often hear It asked why Booth floes
not play in Washington, ami the ex
planation, of course, lias to he made.
He makes the thing conspicuous,
though doubtless his purpose is just
the reverse."
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General Machine Work promptly done. All makes
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Central City Iron \V.,rks. Macon, Ga.
F. S. JOHNSON.
Run Oi.r In Fifth Annua.
New York Sun.
Tlie procession of vehicle* which
whirl up ami ilown Fifth avenue hail
liegun tn thin a little nt noon yester-
■lay when a lady whose symmetical
figure was shown to advantage by a
tightly fitting drab suit attempted to
cross at Fourteenth street. She carried I
a little black leather hard ling and fom
or five parcels, nnd ** t-m* d to have
licen shopping. A moment Is-fore a
covered wagon such as grocers use had
been driven down the uwnne, la-tween
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets. The
driver jumped to tlie ground and care
lessly threw the lines over the home’s
hack. Then he walked away, no one
knew where. Tlie horse, a restive-
looking bay, tossed his head and
pawed the stones. Then there was a
rash down tlie avenue, a woman
ahrieked, and the restive hay and tlie
wagon grew small in the distance.
The lady in tlie drab suit was iving
in Uiestreet. The reticule and |>afcels
were scattered, her hat was crashed,
and her garments besmeared with mud.
Blood flowed freely from • large wound
in her head, which had been made by
the wagon wheel.
Policeman Hopper and Bernard
Cumisky, a track driver, picked her up
and carried her to the aidewalk. Her
head zested on the teamster's knees
whiliT the policeman nn around the
corner of Fifteenth street to get an
ambulance (root the New York noepi-
public to assume an unequally large food, soup and beans and dry bread,
proportion ot the loan among the hanks — ...
represented, conditionally upon his
first obtaining the approval and co-op
eration of Mr. Stevens liefore appris
ing the Hccretary of the Treasury of the
action ot tlie bands. This conclusion,
moreover, wss not reached before so
late an hour of adjournment aa to im
pose upon the meeting the necessity of
according to its presiding officer tlie
appointment of two of their munlier
as a committee to w ait main Mr. Hid-
vens, with instructions, in the event of
Sir. Htevens’s co-operation, to tele
graph the Hccretary of the Treasury of
this concurrent action of tlie hank
presidents. The names of gentlemen
forming this committee were mention
ed hy my father, but are not now re
called, and one of them, I have reason
to fear, is defeased.
Chicfcst among Mr. Lamar’s repre
sentative* are his many orphaned
grandchildren. Unspeakable will t
Even this experience had its comic
side. We used to have tin cups, ami
every evening one of the prison guards
would come through tlie hall, roaring
‘cups, cups, you scoundrels.’ We had
to pass them out to him. After that
first week we had more liiierty, and re
ally had a very jollv time. W. I’
Wood, the superintendent of tlie pris
on, was away. When he returned lie
treated us very nicely. We were al
lowed to mess together, and were
about as sociable and merry a se of
I irisoners as ever were under lock and
ley. My brother Dick's health was
not good and on that account he w as
allowed’ to go out into the capitol
grounds where lie used to walk unat
tended. 1 was quite a hall-tosser
then,” remarked Mr. Ford with some
pride. He noticed the reporter look
rather skeptically nt his rather rotund
[figure, anu added: “Yes, I was quite
an athlete then. It surprisasl some of
for nervous debility and weakness ntnrrvi-
seneratite system there Is nothing equal
to Allen's Brain Fond, which pmmpltj
and iiernisnentlv resin es ill lost vigor
it never falls $1 s package, fl for 15 Afl
ilruggists or br mall from J. H. Allen, 315
First Avenus, New York (Tty.
their grateful remembrance of tcstimo-1 o,e prisoners there,the bounty jumpers,
ny borne to an incident which so elo-1 farmers and others, tojwe iny hall
quently protests against the wrong tat- j,laving. I would let them throw halls
ing .lnne *n arable name. > ^ at me any way and patch them as fast
With every cxoresslon of regard, I
remain, dear sir, very respectfully
yours,
Da Rosser Lamak.
[kki*i.y.]
as they could throw them.* There were
several of H- there who used to go over
to Brady's gymnasium, op Louisiana
avenue, and were fond of athletic
No. 30WallHracrr, October 29,1874. | r t*. We found a numls-r o! logs or
—Dk vll SIR—In reply to the within let- sucVa of wcssl and cut them so as to
ter I beg to state that the facts as staf
ted by you relative to the meeting of
hack presidents of this city, and of tlie
action of your father to sustain tlie ... e , B ...
erdit of the government, entirely ac-1 ra t e they came down on us and took
cord with my remembrance our dubs away. We organized whist
“ * parties and plaved all sorts of prauks.
make Indian clulw, with which we
exercised. The authorities got a no
tion that we were getting ready for an
attack on the guard, I guess. At any
very important event. . Truljt yours,
Dz R. L.vx.vn.
Joiix J. Cisco.
Talkie* vo the Council.
Ksrly i rsn*iy*S«w».
Tlie council is notifying our citizens ™“ n ‘ -’”* **
to stop the hog- irom under their to ban, an inmate
homes. Hope these gentlemen will | B« l-Jolt »P^ U 5 I ?
I reinember that we use-1 to keep
W«*i- man, who was a wilnce* after
wards against Mra. Hnrratt, half Kar
ol to death by telling him that the sol
diers were going to take ‘room 33,' or
did not know which, out
He hail risjm 3i.
JOHNSON & LANE,
107 and 109 Tumi St,. iviar.on, G».
now pull down theirhrads low enougii * pi'ifo* wa> ami felt -very ner-
to see that “flea bed” on the side walk I „ Among mir dudingmali-
on main atreet. We like to aee our *•’, ( el,ow . * ere .. , ”’ v *
public servants tote high heads, but 1 -<* J 0°*- * « ne3 ’
not nuite no hich II too plViM. gentle* I North Carolina, an*l GoYemor
JSf £*££ a^lfin a Brow., ol Georgia; the Utter two |
bridge ami am! tall through, and there- ,1^‘i ,
by injure yoonelL
daughter wen there at the time also.
To Till needs of the tourist, commercial
traveler and new settler, If., tetter’s Htotn
sell Bitters is peculiarly adiptej, since It
strengthens the digestive organs, and
braces the physical enrgiea to unbriltMul
influences, ft removes and prevents ma
larial fever, constipation, dyspepsia,
healthfully stimulates the kidneys and
hlsdder. and enriches as well as purifies
the blood. When overcome by fatigue,
whether menial or physical, the weary and
d-hUitated lino it n reliable source of re.
nawed strength and comfort For sale
druggists and dealers generally.
by alls
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WE ARE AGENTS FOR THE
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We have in stock a full line ot
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AND <
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BakT MB«EY—HOW 7
By condngtu headquarters end see Ingot -
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Before buying. We sell four of the best En
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bam the largest tcanufsctureri in the Unlt-d
’States,oath* t sad tena-i Ul»s
| time to work It not
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Don’t boy those fs-loied out Inn retail way
over the country. Gone and examine ov
stock. 8aro money by coming. If you esc
j writ#. We warrant all voids*
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makes of Otns. Buckeye Beapers and Mowers. Standard nnd Old Hickory Wagons,
ooe yawr’s guarantee. We bsee the best and largest suk ol any house In Georgia
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