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Human Nature.
This is an abbreviation for “the human
in nature.” It was a glad day for this
earth when that good time alluded to in
the holy writ as Che creation of man made
its advent; or, as the French admirers
would say, when man made his debut. ”
Previous to that there had been no human
in nature to admire the girls new spring
bonnets.
Human nature is a very necessary ele
ment in the man, and it’s pretty difficult
deciding as to the difference between
the man who lacks human nature and the
animal that lacks it. We are not going
to define the term—do not know, indeed,
as it ever was defined. Their are certain
characteristics of man’s nature which we ,
term human—from this the word humane
is derived. The man was human before
he was humane.
Humanity has certain attributes not be- I
longing to the lower animals, as voice. ;
The human voice is capable of a great
range of expression, and of cultivation to
a greater degree than any other animal.
lire human shape is also a characteristic
of no inconsiderable advantage over the
lower animals.
Human knowledge—the power to learn
and accumulate knowledge.
Then above all comes the human life—
all and each are in excess of mere animal
powers. But underlying all these is our
»nheffi^ffiffi|^±^Jjffluence —“the hu
to mi
C accepted er equivalant.
' to “the naJure of all as fear of the
suprrmtural, a love the love of •
social intercourse, and to which we fear
we must add the love of dominion, pomp, j
power, contest, and victory. These are
inherent in man, and constitute his human I
nature as generally understood.
From these come his love of games, !
racing, contests of strength, skill, speed,
endurance, chance, etc. There is nothing
essentially divine about a man’s human |
nature, and yet we never saw a man so
divine as to lose all interest in all the i
above humanities.
We shall make no farther effort to trace
the human nature in man, only closing
with the remark that when a man gets so '
low in the practice of animal habits as to :
be the mere slave of appetite or passion, he
can no longer lay a claim to possessing
the elevating, manlike characteristics i
which wo deem the human in nature, j
Man can become a mere animal—a brute. :
Talking About Hot Weather.
“Talking about hot weather,” said a
brakeman, “that we had yesterday was
nothing long side of what I've seen down
on the Southern Pacific. I was braking i
down there last summer, and in some o’ '
them dead, desert valleys of Arizona,
where rain never falls and the sun’s al- *
ways blistering, I’ve seen weather that’d
rem nd a man of what’s in stoie for him
after he leaves this vale o’ tears and
boardin' houses. One day last summer
we were running along in that country
when an accident occurred such as I 1
a’l ose was never known in all the history
of railroading. All of a sudden the loco
motive was seen to be bouncing along
like a ball,an' the engineer was so fright
ened that he shut off s-team as quick as
he knew how and whistled like sin to
call alt the men forrerd. We rushed up
ahe ad and ho told us what had happened,
but we laughed at him and made so
much fun of him that he finally pulled
open the throttle agin just to show us
tnath' knew what he was talking about.
I hope to drop dead in St, Louis an’ be
cut up in a medical college if that loco
motive didn’t bounce just like a ship in a
swell. Wo were all so frightened that
w* Legge 1 the engineer to shut off sienm
and stop her. What wa< the matter*
Nothin', 'cept that the rails were so hot
that they sagged down between the ties
whenever the engine struck 'em, an I the
wheel* were so hot that they were pound
ing out fiat. Yes, sir, if we’d run a mile
furthtr we d a had nothin' but square
wheels under our locomotive. None of
us had ever seen an engine run with
square wheels, and so w« didn't try it."—
Rank Insanity.
Bagley— “I can t imagine what has be
rose nt that $lO bill.”
Dr Baggs “Have you lost $!0?”
“1 don t know. I had an awful head
ache yesterday and can t remember what I
did. I was—•“
‘Oh, I remember now I I taw you pay
Pooscmby sl6 that you owed lum. That's
where your money want' ’
“There! 1 was sure I was out of m*
head!”— CauL
The stockmen of Nevada complain of
the quantities of jack-rabbits which in
fest the cattle ranges and are rapidly de
nuding the country of all vegetation.
Never since the settlement of that section
have these animals been so plentiful, and
unless some means of destroying them
is soon found the experience of extensive
portions of Australa bids fair to be re
peated. In many parts of California
and Oregon, where the rabbits have
multiplied so as to become a pest, they
have been thinned out by a combined
move on the part of the settlers. All the
residents of a given neighborhood by
common consent have turned out for half
a dozen entire days, and, well supplied
with armsand ammunition, have waged
successful warfare against the common
enemy. By this means thousands have
been destroyed in a single day.
Apropos of the warlike feeling in
Greece, a prominent Greek who -was in
terviewed as to what his countrymen are
aiming at, says: “We want Epirus and
Crete, and other smaller territories, be
cause in all respects —historical, geo
graphical, ethnological, linguistical and
ecclesiastical—they are Hellenic, inte
gral portions of Greek territory, and by
natural right the inalienable possession
of the Greek race. The vast majority
of the inhabitants of those provinces are
our compatriots, eaten up and preyed
upon by Turkish banditti who have been
encamped there for four hundred and
five hundred years. The Turks have no
more right to the possession of those
provinces than has a band of pirates to
the ship which they have captured by
force or fraud. Epirus, besides, was
ceded to us by the treaty of Berlin.”
As au evidence of the growth of thrift
among the colored people of South Caro
lina, the Charleston News and. Courier
publishes a statement showing that one
thousand and fifty-seven colored people
of that city have deposits in the local
savings banks amounting to $124,936.
The person who has the largest deposit,
$6,747, to his credit, is a pure-blooded
African, but a born financier. He has
recently bought a valuable plantation for
$10,060 and has paid $7,000 of the pur
chase money. The News and Courier
adds: “There are thousands of active
and thrifty colored men in the State who
have bought land since the war, and who
are steadily collecting about them the
comforts and many of the luxuries of
life. Comparatively few of the colored
people entertain decided notions of
economy or have any faith in govern
ment savings banks, but the wealth they
have hidden away in old stockings and
the money they are investing from year
to year in lands and houses, if it qould
rightly be estimated, would prove to fee a
pleasing revelation. ” ,
The advocates of temperance have won
a point in the contest in Ohio, where the
Legislature has passed what is known as
the Dow Liquor Tax bill, a measure sim
ilar in most particulars to the Scott law,
which was defeated in the Supreme
Court. The new law provides for yearly
assessments instead of license fees, the
tax on the sale of spirituous liquors being
S2OO, and on. malt liquors SIOO. Where
liquor sellers refuse to furnish to the
assessors the information required by law,
the assessment is increased to S4OO.
The penalty for false returns of the kind
of liquor sold is an increase of the assess
ment to $250. Local option is provided
for in a cause which empowers municipal
corporations to regulate and prohibit ale,
beer and porter houses, and other places
where liquors are sold, and whoever sells
to a minor, or a person in the habit of get
ting intoxicated, is to be subjected to a
fine of not more than SIOO nor less thai
$25, and imprisoned not more than thirty
nor less than five days. If one section
of the law is declared unconstitutional, a
provision is injected to hold the others
intact.
David Van Dvk?, of Mason, Ohio,
seventy years old, own* a house and lot,
and that'B all, and owes a Urge debt con
tracted by going security for a friend.
As long a* Mrs. Van Dyke lived the
house and lot could not be attached for
ths debt, under the homestead exemp
tion law. But Mrs. Van Dyke died a
short time ago, and suit was at once
brought against the widower and the
Sheriff advertised the property for sale.
Under the law Van Dyke could not now
claim a homestead, as his wife had died,
and he had no minor children or unmar
ried daughter living with him. The
only way to escape was to marry again,
he thought, and so he went to Cincin
nati and called on several women before
be found one to suit him. At last he
hit on Miss May Jones, who was willing,
and they were married. That was but a
few days before the day fixed for the
sale, and the proceedings in execution
were stopped at once The case was
then argued in the Common Pleas Court,
and the judge has decided that it was
not necessary that Van Dyke should
have been a married man at the time of
the levy ou the property, but that it was
sufficient to entitle him to have the
homestead exemption by becoming the
head of a family aay time before the ac
tual sale.
The America': Trart Society issued,
pages hat year.
PAN ELECTRIC REPORTS
FROM THE HOUSE COMMITTEE
OF INVESTIGATION.
The Majority Uphold and the Minority
Condemn Garin nd.
The minority, or Republican, report of the
special committee which conducted the Pan
Electric telephone investigation, prepared
by Ambrose A. Ranney, of Boston, was
made public on the 29th,ready for submission
to the House as soon as the Democratic mem
bers reached an agreement upon their
report. Mr. Rannoy’s report is in
dorsed by the four Republican mem
bers of the committee, and Chairman
Boyle’s report, which represents the views of
the majority, is indorsed by four Democratic
members, Mr. Hale of Missouri, the fifth
Democratic member of the committee, hav
ing decided to submit his individual views
independently of his colleagues.
The Ranney report reviews the testimony
of the principal witnesses examined before
the committee, and criticises the methods of
the projectors of the Pan Electric enterprise
and the conduct of Attorney-General Gar
land and Solicitor-General Goode in connec
tion with granting the government suit
against the Bell company. Referring to the
efforts of the Pan Electric people to bring
about a government suit, the report says:
“They determined to have the department
of justice bring a suit against the Bell com
pany, but which would remain under their
control. They did not want to have the Bell
patent vacated, but they hoped they could
frighten the 8511 company into the balief
that they could do so. They thought, more
over, that the mere institution of such a suit
would deter the United States courts from
granting any injunction in favor of the Bell
patent.” a
Ui Attorney-General Garland’s action, or
non-action, in connection with bringing the
fovernmeut suit, the report says that he
new the Beil patent had been repeatedly
sustained, and so it concerned the honor
of the department that such a patent
should not be attacked without serious
inquiry, and the duty of the Attorney-
General to see to it that it received
such inquiry, they say, was increased by the
fa.-t that he knew an application was going
to lie made, and that the parties pressing
action wanted it passe 1 upon without refer
ence to the Patent Office, and that he had a
great pet sonal interest that it should lie so
passed, and should meet with no delay. The
report says further:
“There are a number of facts and circum
stances. however, which leave it beyond
doubt ihat Mr. Goode’s recollection is sb se
riously at fault as to a large part of what took
place that it cannot be sately relied upon in
any portion. He became Solicitor-General
in May by an appointment made by the
President but not yet confirmed by the Sen
ate. On June 26 he went to British Colum
bia on a mission for the department
and appeared at his office again
August 20. Mr. Garland testifies
that he was then expecting to go away for
his vacation, which would occupy about six
weeks, and he did go away on the 27th of
August. Mr. Goode testifies that during the
week that intervened he hardly spoke to Mr.
Garland, except for th* ordinary inter, hange
of comtesies, and did not talk with him
about business whatever. Mr. Goode must
be mistaken about it He must have had
consultations and forgotten all about them.”
The minority reach the conclusion that the
Solicitor General was led to grant the applica
tion for a government suit with cat the usual
reference or inquiry, without competent ex
amination, with a speed unexampled in the
history of the department, and in violation
of the established rules and practice of
the office. “In ordinary cases,” they
add, “such action Would be held
to b« positive proof of fraud,
Republican mtuonty follow up Lh is,
criticism of th® Soticftor -Genera!
arraignment Oi Attorney-General (4M*NiK
They say;
“The best that can be said of him is that
he lent himself to this scheme, because bo
got stock for nothing. If he was not active
mit himself, he suffered his name and influ
ence to be used by others. He was then only
a Senator of the United States. He was
next placed at the head of the Depart
ment of Justice. The man from whom he
had received the half million of stock
wanted now to borrow the name of that de
partment and get its indorsement; then an
ally asked for it; then the official repreeeat
ative of bis company asked for it His in
telligence told him there were things he
should not permit, and then his will let him
argue that be might stand aside and see his
office do them.”
Mr. Hale's report, takes the ground that
the whole matter was purely a speculative
venture. He does not believe there is any
thing in the great mass of testimony which
will show that the Pan Electric projectors
saw anything in the enterprise which was in
any sense immoral, dishonest or inconsistent
with the duty of public men or citizens.
V- - - - - -
The Majority Report.
In the House on the 3Gth Mr. Bovis
(Penn.) from the Pan-Electric Commit toe.
submitted a report signed by four members
of the committee upon the subject of its in
vestigation. Mr. Hale (Mo.), who concurred
in this report, also submitted his individual
views. Mr. Ranney (Mass.), submitted the
minority report signed by four members. The
majority’ report was accompanied by tlf
following resolution:
"Resolved, That a full, fsir and
ive investigation has failei to adduce any
i evidence which tends to slow that Attorney-
General Garland, 8 die it<r General Goode,
Secretary Ijimar, In liai Commissioner At
kins, Railroad Uommitfioner Johnston or
Senator Hanis—they being the officers
! named in the Pau Elecfic publications of the
> newspaper press, which g*ve rise to this in
i vastigation—did anv act, official or othsr
wise, connected witMhe matter investigated
wh eh was le or censurabl?. ”
The report ami she resolution (which is
! concurred in by M. Jtide* was referred to the
. M oas» calendai
After a referenio to tite comparisons that
! have beea made Stiween the con itict of Mr.
! Gariatid and his JM® nates and M essrs. Car-
J tide. Rail iall an# others, toe majority report
« savs:
•'What Dr. Itifeoffered to M;-srs Car
lisle and other? was sto.k in incorporated
' and or-am anie.< What batons-
< torred to Garlind. Harris ani others was an
’ interest in inySiitious, in there then condition
of no value ifiatevvr. and only to be made
I valuatk* byjhejointefforts of the Rogers’
and tbmse ’ oii.ei them m the uader
! taking. Tpt tht c<]'itsl o’ the tde >hone
j company fixed at sS'XD.W Vis wholly ’
immat rial Had it bes-n fixed at $ .Ou),
th • t dag Jeyownxi an t their propewtionate I
' hiterecs i#'t woni Iha e be?a the ssue The j
; pr muht turn outt> be worth '
< much or As Dr. Rog-srssay i, it ha I ,
•no c.> iux>r ‘®’ va’n«. Evid*n show
' tba the/ itoatienea w.-re a imittod by the
i M» >rs./o."ers with any expe tation of pro.’- i
I iting h' offiv a* pohtioas or official !
| time Mr. Carianu was net thougbl ’
>of forA-ttoriHsy Genera). He was suggested, j
; bv and it need bardiv be said, in
; his prerio.is Ide and etiara ’ter. that j
i it w#* not thought he would use bi» official ;
P 0 to a private eatorpm? in
« wbiP 5 be *•» inter stel. Casey Young was ;
> by Rogers. He was not ti> |
a -#ar in Congress until nearly a *
after. General ’ Johnston * was
in office and dii not expect to be.
rfi'lk-.al influence was the c. usideration for j
>e mtereats transfe red to Har » and Gar- J
>rad. what was the •An-dJeratson for those ■
transferred to Atkins an Ito Juhjst>r.» The •
?coumnttoe has failed to find that any tegi'ia- j
Hinn was at toe t m.- this ;
company was formol, or dnnnr its exxs'-
eoo up to the present time by wtedi it or its I
members could have prohtoX The only mat
i ter spoken of was in relation to the establish
ment of a pascal .telegraph by’the govern
| ment. This had been agitated for some
I rears. When mentioned Senator Harris
irate! to his associate! that if it came
up iu the Senate hs could ma’xe known
I n.s interest i.i the natter an! decline to
vote, so that nothin r wa > expat-te I from him.
: And a cording to the testimony of all the
parties nothing was expected from any one
of the members. Tae.e is no evidence that
our. Garland ever heard of it. The question
riever did get be to: e e:ther body of Congress,
and it is not pretended that any’ member of
tho company did anything to aid it or that
any member favored the pro eot.
“It is in evidence that the Bell patents were
disposed of and the Beil company was organ
ized just a , the Pan-Electric was. Out of
this Bell organization, thus commenced, has
grown in the course of a few years one of
the most stupendous monopolies in the
w.rt'L'”
Tsi report main a’ns thai no stock was
| ever issue I by thePan-EiectrieCo npany and
in eouue . tion with Senator Vest’s purchase of
an “interest,” says that the propriety and
honesty of that gentleman’s transactions are
unquestioned.
The history of the proceedings at the con
to-“nce is given in detail aud the report
says:
-»pw, up to this time, what had the Attor
ney General lone, permitted or advise I in re
lation to a government suit! He had received
Dr. Rogers' letter of Ma/ 24th and pigeon
holed it. He had received Mr. van
Bentouysen’s letter of July 12th and re
ferred it to the Da part meat of the In
terior without re’ommendatiou. A del
egation had tailed on him and he had
absolutely refused to be talked to on the sub
ject on the ground that he mas interested in
a talephons company. It is not pretended
that he did anythin’ more. What more
could have been required of him or of any
one? No J udge of a court ever behaved more
p discreet’y or circumspectly or honorably.”
Os Solicitor General Goode's treatment of
the application to bring the Memphis suit,the
report says:
“There'is no reason to question the correct
ffiness of Mr. Goode’s statement. It is not only
but is fully supported by all
the w.tnessei who testified about the same
matters. He was not connected with any
telephone company: had no interest of any
kind to be effected by the suit and had
no knowledge of any previous applica
tion. He had not been informed of
Mr. Garland’s connection with a
telephone company, and had he been
that should have made no difference iu
his conduct. In the view of the committee,
while it would doubtless have been bettor to
have referred the application to the Depart
ment of the Interior (as such had beeu the
practice) notwithstanding he already had all
the information attainable there, his failure
to do so was, at most, only a mistake. The
committee finds nothing whatever in the con
duct of Mr. Goode deserving censure.”
In conclusion the report says:
“The committee does And that there was
sufficient “reason and authority” for bring
ing the suits, but it expressly refrains from
attempting to find whether the Bell patents
were obtained fraudulently or whether B®U
was the inventor of the sneaking telephone.
THE EEW CARDINAL.
Instillation of Archbishop Gibbono al
Ur Irimore—The ( cremonlM.
Baltimore became on the 30th the Cardinal
city of the United States, and Archbishop
Gibbons was invested with the scarlet be
! retta, with all the ceremonial of the Roman
' Liturgy. Just twenty-five years ago James
| Gibbons was ordained a priest in the chapel
|of St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore, by
| Archbishop Kenrick, and on this, his silve r
1 jubilee, he received from the hands of the
i venerable Archbishop of St.Lpajs tlieinsignia
JlftqpogrSSw fllFW 1 v"
attend-
of Arcibishop Gib
i bons with everything (save the red hat and
ring, which mart be placed on the
i Cardinal’s head and finger by the
Pope’s own hands) that appertains to a
princedom iu the church was not by any
means distinctively Roman Catholic, for in
j the great throng there was a goodly number
ot prominent representatives of other re
ligions denominations, who were present by
; special invitation. Admission to the Cathe
dral was regulated by ticket.
i The sanctuary of the Cathedral and the
altar were decorated in a magnificent man
ner. The massive columns in the rear of the
altar were heavily entwined with coils of
! evergreens, whfle from the top of
the columns gracefully arranged gar
lands extended around the apse.
Huge vases of flowers stood at the sides of
the altar. Hundreds of waxen tapers in
golden candelabra rested on the terraces
above the altar, rising in pyramidal form.
1 0 ’ n . terv ®ning spaces were placed vases
of beautiful flowers and rate exotics.
The procession was led by a cross bearer,
Mary s, the regular and secular clergy, the
monsignori, the mitered abbots, t’oe bi stops
aud archbishops in the order named. The
apostolic delegate (Archbishop Kenrick) came
next, with assistant priest and chaplains;
■ then the Pope's Noble Guard (Count Mucci
! oili, with the ablegate's secretary,
i of all canij Cardinal Gibbons, with
the papal ablegate and the Cardinal's as
sirtant priest, deacons of honor and train
bearers. As the head of the procession en
tered the Cathedral street entrance of the
edifice, the pealing of the organ broke
upon tho stillness of the sacred place,
and the choir sang the pro ession
j anthem, ‘ Ecce bacerdas Magnus,” with full
Shortly before the profession en
tored the sanctuary. Mgn Stranieri, his sec
retary ani Father McCallan, master of cere
monies entered within the railings aud
glaced the tiapal documents and scarlet
eretta on the table.
When the rear of the proce-sion reached
toe muctuary. Cardinal Gibbons occupied
i hts throng Bishops and Archbisnops
finding scats on either side of the altar. The
apostoac delegate (Kenrick) sat upon a
ti-ecial throne oppraite the Cardinal The
Noble Guard stood upon the Cardinal’s left,
guanl 1 Rb!e o»te to the left of the
; After the pontifical high mas? there was
the usual clencal addresses, and the new Car
dinal in the scarlet robe of hi - order
and took his seat upon t ae throne, and the
sapphire ring was placed upon his finger. The
prelates and c crgy .secular and regular, then
approariiidh st.iruaence,andkneeling, kissed
his hand. The Card nal then delivered a
short addrasai m Utin to Archbishop Ken
a rfnl ° ne m the congregation.
SJ%^ ai , Was then by the c h dr, and
i Uie Cardinal sang - The Braye.- of Tnanks
-1 1 l ? raV , e ’ for hls Holiness the
* , ??’ Dbe Cardinal then arose upon the
; of the th-one and pronounced
; the apnstuae benediction sent to him
I Th/'V XIIL Upon the P®°3le present.
sole »n were tuus concluded.
, ana the Cardinal was escorted to the arch
. A banquet was gi ren
retiring bi-hops at St
, Map s Seminary m and a sere
, b5 ■ ,h •
Didn’t Like the Dose.
.‘T/” - vou at the Homeopathic Hos
;■ pital fsur asked Fred of Harrv
. ‘ les, and had a rattling good time.
: iou weren t there, were you!”
“No, I didn’t gp.’l
“Why not!’’
| , IDb, well, I don’t care to go to these
[ homa-ojiathio affair where numetons
: pretty girls make allopathL demands on
Cr"?° PnhiCpOCket
DEATH OF PAUL HAYNE.
THE GREAT SOUTHERN POET
BREATHES HIS LAST.
Be Passes Away at His Home In Grove,
town, Ga.—Something About His Use
aud Works.
t 4- '- /
■ ,C'
For some weeks the family and friends
of the poet have known that he was ill
beyond the hope of recovery. He was
stricken with something like paralysis, a
clot of blood on the brain, his physician
described it, and human skill could avail
nothing. Even in his helpless condition
Mr. Hayne’s chief anxiety was to cheer
and strengthen his devoted wife and son; I
and by a tremendous effort he, almost to ;
the last, spoke hopefully, and endeavored '
to divert attention from his affliction.
When it was known that he could not ;
live, spontaneous expressions of sorrow
caine from every quarter of the country,
and to-day many a tear-dimmed eye is
turned in the direction of the little cot
tage at Copse Hill.
Most people who know anything of our
literature know something of the lineage !
of Paul Hamilton Hayne, the general '
outline of his career, and the world’s es
timate of his genius and his works.
Born in South Carolina, in 1830, our ,
poet belonged to a family distinguished i
in the annals of the state, and de
scended from an illustrious English ances
try. He was a kinsman of the famous
patriot, Colonel Isaac Hayne, who was so
cruelly murdered by the British during
the revolution. He was also closely re
lated to the Senator Hayne, whose cele- j
brated debate w ith Webster has become
historic.
Young Hayne entered life with all the 1
prestige that name and high social posi- :
tion could give him. After graduating at !
Charleston college, he turned his atten- i
tion to literature. He had inherited a I
comfortable fortune, and was therefore at
liberty to follow his inclinations in the
matter of occupation. At that time
Charleston was a literary center. Legare
was a familiar figure in its social
William Gilmore Simms was at hi|Jb§eiL. j
and the influence of Calhoun was
tentfal clement In tertCTs*’ as 'wen ' nOn"
politics. Hayne naturally drift€Kh4«toc
journalism. He was called to the edito
rial chair of Russell’s Literary Monthly,
and from that time until his death was
never separated from literature.
In 1855, when he was about twenty- :
five years old, Ticknor & Co., of Boston, I
published his first volume of poems. A
second volume followed in 1857, and a '
third in 1860. Success crowned his ven- i
tures. The critics on both sides of the ;
'w ater applauded the young poet, and the •
older bards hailed him as the south’s ’
greatest singer. He had married in the
mean time, Miss Mary Middleton Michel,
of Charleston, the daughter of a distin- i
guished French surgeon, whose services
under the first Napoleon at the battle of
Leipsic were rewarded with a gold i
by the third Nopoleon. Os this noble :
and affectionate wife too much cannot be •
said. No poet, no literary man, ever j
had a more sympathetic, appreciative agd 1
devoted helpmeet.
The war found Mr. H&yne suffering ill
health. But in spite of his delicate con
stitution he felt that he must serve his
country. Unable to take the field, he
accepted a position on the staff of Gover
nor Pickens. His beautiful residence was
laid in ashes duiing the bombardment of
Charleston, and his large and valuable
library destroyed. During these stormy
times his pen was not idle. His “Black
Flag” was a model of fiery verse, perhaps i
too fiierce to be appreciated now. Note
the refrain:
“Then cp with the sable bann»r!
Let it thrill to the War-God’s breath,
For we march to the wa'chword—Vengeance!
And we follow the captain—Death !”
We must remember that this was writ
ten by a man whose native city was then
passing through a baptism of fire.
The war swept away everything that
Haynes possessed. After their home
was burned the family silver was sent to
Columbia for safe keeping, but even this
was lost. Homeless and penniless the
little family sought a refuge junong the
pine barrens of Georgia. At Copse Hill,
in Columbia county, sixteen miles from
Augusta, the poet began the painful and
laborious task of literally creating a home
place. He had nothing to start with,
and the land was without a sign of prom
ise. In this lonely spot the exile built a
little cottage, or “shanty” as it was called
at first.
He courageously faced the situation and
went to work with his pen. The best
northern magazines gladly welcomed his ■
contributions, and some of them achieved
a wide popularity in Europe. The Lip
pincotts, in 1882. publishe<l his “Legends
and Lyrics,” and m 1873 his edition of
Tunrod's poems appeared, with a jxithetic
biographical sketch. “The Mountain of
the Lovers” was published in 1875. He
wrote also a “Life of Gilmore Simms, ’
and • ’Memorial Sketches of Governor
Hayne and Mr. Ixjgare.” Among his
longer poems at this period of his life he
wrote “The Yorktown Centennial Ode”
and the ode read at the opening of Atlan
ta’s International Cotton Exposition. ;
Recently his prose articles on “Ante Bel
lum Charleston” and Judge Gayane, in
the Southern Bivouac, have attracted fa
vorable attention.
It is conceded that Mr. Hayne’s sonnets
will bear comparison with some of the
best in our language.
So far as the judgment of his contem
poraries goes, it may be said that he
successfully passed through the ordeal
of criticism. The beautiful edition of
his poems published by D. LothropA Co.,
of Boston, in 1882, was a compliment of
which any jioet might well be proud.
With the people of the South his poetry
must always be popular. While" it is
i American in the best sense, it is also dis
tinctly southern. It interprets nature as
wo see it. It brings the pine barrens,
the mocking birds, the muscadines, the
peach blooms, the wild flowers, the cy
clone aud the midnight thunder all before;
us, holding the mirror up to nature.
The city council of Augusta, and
the Hayne Circle, in called meeting,
both adopted resolutions on the death of
Paul H. Hayne, the poet leaurcatc of
the south. The news of the death was
received with genuine sadness. Paul
I Hayne was idolized in Augusta, and his
. death is regretted by all.
| WRECKED BY THE WIND.
I
( APALACHICOLA. FLA., IS SWEPT
BY A DISASTROUS STORM.
I
' Six Men Drownerl--Sliit>ptng Broken From
Their Fastenings un<i Destroyed, etc.
The particulars have been received of
the late hurricane at Apalachicola. The
wind arose at ton o'clock, and by 1 p. m.
had increased to seventy miles an hour,,
the barometer reaching the lowest on'
record. At half past four there came a
lull; then the wind, which had been
; from the southeast, suddenly blew furi
; ously from the opposite direction. The
air was filled with flying shingles, tim
■ her and branches of trees. The business
houses were closed, and the citizens bat
tened their windows and doors. There
was six hours’ reign of terror. Combs &
Co.’s mill lost both smoke stacks and
part of the roof. C. H. Smith & Co.
had a lot of dressed lumber blown away.
Munroe Co.’s mill at the bluff, had the
' roof and smoke stack blown off, and at
1 Carrabelle many buildings were leveled,
while much timber was carried away.
i On the river and in the bay the disaster
was extensive. 8. N. Kimball’s dredge
' was sunk, as was also the steamer Emlen,.
belonging to Combs & Co.
She was down the bay, and was
swamped. Three men, Jesse Rainey, en
gineer; Abe Monroe, cook; and Walter
Johnson, deck hand, tried to save them
selves in the dingey, which capsized, and
i the first two named were drowned. The
I rest of the crew, the captain and three
I men, were rescued. At East Pass,
lighter, California, was made fast to the
bark Bigette. At Dog Island cove the
bark had out four anchors, but dragged
ashore. The lighter was. ctit Ibose and
I swamped. There was on board Nicholas
(♦Comforter and son Willie, also, Wm.
i Anderson and James Norman. The
lighter was found that night water-log
ged and with no one on board at all.
LFJiArt i/Aiir w/irr* (irxiivnihl um iinan on
dragged also
but escaped.
Two men, McKnight and Milner, were
on Sand island when it was submerged.
They took refuge in the only tree on the
I island, and remained there several hours.
St. George’s island was swept by the
wind and waves, All the glass in the
light house was blown out aud the tower
badly shaken. The keeper’s house was
filled with water and sand, and the fami
ly took refuge in the “gale” house, built
for protection in such cases. There were
many accidents to harbor craft. A num
ber of small sailers capsized, and several
tugboats received damage. Many hair
breadth escapes are reported. The storm
j was the greatest one ever seen at Apala
. phicola.
Dekvek theatre burned.
The Academy of Music Destroyed by Fire
—Other Damage*.
Thursday morning fire was discovered
in the Academy of music nt Denver, CoL
and before the fire department could get
to work the flames were leaping through
the building in half a dozen places, aucL
in a few minutes the building was a mass
of flames. The heat was so great that
firemen were driven away from the front,
of the building. The flames spread so
rapidly that in less than fifteen minutes
after the discovery of the fire the wires
of the Western Union Telegraph compa
ny were melted and all service was de
stroyed. The operators managed to save
the Wheatstones and other valuable in
struments, though several relays were «3e
stroyed. The fire was the quickest ever
witnessed in Denver. A hundred engines
could not have saved the building,
which was a mass of ruins within an
hour after the alarm was given. The
ground floor was occupied as business
houses, in which several men were sleep
ing, all of whom were rescued except
Tim Enright, an old roustabout, who
worked in the saloon of John Kineray.
Enright retired about twelve o’clock, in
toxicated and was forgotten until too late
and he perished in the flames. The cause
of the fire is at present unknown. The
firemen devoted their attention to saving
the adjoining property. The Rock Moun
tain News building was damageds2s,ooo;
insurance $3 ,500. Otter minor losses,
$30,000. Loss on Academy of Music
$125,000; insurance $50,000,
TWO MEH DROWNED,
A Pleasure Pu-ty m a Lake Meets a S*<
t Fate-
Henry McCauly, 25 years of age, Moses
Levi, 25 years, and Michael Collins, 23
years, celebrated the fourth by taking a
boat ride on the lake in Douglas park,
Chicago. Their boat was capsized and
the three young men were thrown into
the water. McCauly was rescued by
another boating party, but Levi and Col
lins were drowned before they could be
reached. Their bodies were subsequently
recovered and were rem3ved to the -
morgue. _