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- Father, Take My Hand."
T BIV. JC K. OKiTU.
THE PUATEB.
Tie r it Urk. toy Father! Clood on
clutxl
N rmtbrrinir thickly o'er my hel, aod load
Tb thonJpr ror above m. See, latand
Like one bewildered! Father take my
haod.
And through the gloom
Lead aafelT home
Tby child!
The day roee
faat, nay Father! and the
nitht !
It drawing darkly down
Mr faithleM
- ghostly viatona. feara; a spectral band
Ebcoinpaa oio. O Father ! take my band.
And from the night
Lead op to lixht
Thy child!
The way ia long, my Father ! and my aonl
Ixtj; for I be rrt aou quiet of tbe goal.
Wliii yet I journey throoirh thia weary
laud.
Keep me from wacderiDe. Father ! take
my hacd I
Qijkklj anl straight
Lead to Heaven's gate
Thy child!
The path is rough, my Father! Many
thorn
Hm pierced me ; and mr weary feet all
torn
And bleediog. mark tbe way; yet thy
command
Hid me prees forward. Father, take my
band !
Then aaft and bleet,
Lead up to rest
Thy child.
The throng it yrtsat, ny Father! Many a
tloabl
Anil far and danger compass me about.
And fears eppre uiesore. I cannot atand
Or go alone. . O Father! take my hand
And through the throng
Lead afe along
Thy child!
Th crons is heavy. Father ! I Lave borne
It loiiif. and still do bear it. Let my worn
And fiuting spirit riae to that blest land
YLre crom ns are given. Father, take my
baud,
And reaching down,
Lead to the crown
Thy child.
THE ANSWER.
The
,? wit is uara, mycauu: vui teaus xo
light;
I would not always b are thee walk by
"ght:
lly dralingi now thoa canst not under-
tand.
I meant it ao ; bat I will take thy band,
And tnrougn the gloom
Lea. safely home
My child!
The day ges fast, mr child ! But is the
iiight
Parker to me than dat t In n:e is light !
Keep che t iu anl evei y apctral band
Of frars bll vanish. I will take thy
hard.
And throngh the night
Lead up to light
My child !
The way is long, mycbihl! Bat it shall
be
Xot one atep longer than i best for thee ;
And tbo-j halt know at iaat when thoa
Imlt tand
Safe at the goal. how I dit'. take thy band,
And quick and straight
Led to Heaven'a gate
My child !
The path is rough, myeiitld! But oh!
li.w awret
Will b the rest for weary p ilgrims meet,
Whrn thou ha".l reach the brders of that
land
To w hich I lead t her a I take thy band,
And afe and blest
With me nhall rest
My child!
The throng is great, my child ! Bat at
thy aide -Thy
r ather walks; then be not terrified.
Fori ant with thee; will thy fot com-
in and
To let thee fnely paa ; will tako thy
band
And through the throng
Lead af along
My child !
The rro4 is Leavy, chi!d. Yet there was
One
Who bori a heavier for thee my Son,
My well Wlorrd. For bint bear thine and
Maud
With In in at lat, and from thy Father's
hand.
Thy ere laid down.
Receive a crown.
My child!
Another Real Romance.
At'anta Constitution. "J.
"Many r ago there was a
voiipg k-llo . numeti liigelow sent
by ht a t.tt . to Yule College. The
father was . i-ry ncli, and theyoung
Mrr lived ia grand style at the Uni
versity. Suddenly tLe old gentle
man broke up and bad to withdraw
bis non from college. Tbe boy, bow-
ever, tell the ijecesaity of an educa
tion, and determined to have one
anbov7. He therefore went to work
ami learned n trade as a machinist.
While be was at work bis old asso
ciate cut bitu and refused to bave
anything to do with him. The
young lad it- with: whom be bad
tneti a great favorite failed to ret
cognize him when they met htm;
One day when going from bis work
be met a wealthy young lady who
had been his lriind. He bad his
tin dinner bucket over hi. arm, and
snptiOMMl hhe wo- jld cat him as all
the ret Lad lone. She smiled
pleasantly, addr ?teinchim as 'Tom,'
aud insisted tba tbe should call and
see ber as be ba d always done. She
said, Tbere is r ,o change in yoa as
far as lam cot jcerned.' Tbe years
rolled on. Tbe young work-boy be
came immenne'.y wealthy, and is now
tbe mayor of New Haven, with an
income of $10 0,l00 a year, and own
er oi a factor y iu which l,ouu men
and women are employed. Tbe
young girl gi vw to womanhood and
married. 11 er husband borrowed a
large sum o f money from Mr. Bige
low, and di ed before be bad paid it,
leaving hi s familv with but little
rroKTty. Mr. Bigelow sent her,
with bis i xjudoleuce, a receipted
note for be r husband's indebtedness,
and now t be son of Bigelow, the
millionain is going to marry the
daughter f tbe oe woman who was
faithful a' jd true to tbe young work
boy at col lege.1
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RECALLING OLD DATS.
Utl AT TUK JACKSON
A Ckat ATIth tbe WIJow ofOld II Irk o-
ry'a Adopted How he .net Her
Husband In fblladelehla A
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Special Cor. Philadelphia Times.
Nasiitille, Tenn., Feb. 12.
Of all that is now written of Gen
eral Andrew Jackson his brilliant
military career, his home at the
White House and subsequent peace
ful life at tbe Hermitage very lit
tle is said of a quiet lif'3 now pas
sing away within its walls. There
now dwells an elderly lady, the
widow of General Andrew Jack
son's adopted eon, Andrew Jackson,
Jr. i or many years she has been
an invalid, and visitors to the Her
mitage never catch a glimpse of her
aud do not know that within the
stately edihee is one who participa
ted in the eayeties of the White
House, was the constant friend and
companion of "Old Hickory," and
when he retired to tbe Hermitage
be bad provided for bis declining
years ber band smoothed his dving
pillow. This lady s name is Mrs.
Sarah York Jackson and ber life
has a history in itself interesting.
In early girlhood she was a resident
of Philadelphia and has relaMves
now living there, of whom she con
stantly speaks.
A CHAT WITH MRS. JACKSON.
Jn a conversation with her one
day I asked her incidentally when
and where she met ber husband.
She smiled at the question as if all
the romance of her youth returned
to her, and said : " Why, I first met
him inc Philadelphia, on tbe streets.
wastith a ladv friend, be with a
gentleman. As we passed I turned
it was not exactly the thing for a
young lady to do and looked at
bim, only to find that be had done
the same thing. He called that
evening, and so oegan the acquain
tance which ended in our marriage.
That was during fathers (meaning
General Jackson, whom she always
speaks of affectionately as father7)
first administration. We went di
rectly to Washington,and tbe White
House was our home as long as lath
er was i'resident. mis little re
miniscence seemed to brighten the
ady not a little. She was seated in
a cusbioued arm chair in a rather
gloomy looking room, immediately
bacKof the one iu which General
Jjc'cson died. Her eyes are bright
and black, her raven hair showing
ew silver threads and her complex
ion retaininrr its purity wnien, in
her youthful days, made her a uaz
zling beauty.
It has always been understood by
hose who knew them best that
when tbe youthful Mrs. Andrew
Jackson went to the White House
there arose a question as to whom
he honor should belong of presid
ne as lauv ox rne vv uire nouse.
a wwraTV
Mrs. Andrew J. Donelson was al
ready in that osition and had filled
it acceptably and gracefully. Uen
eral Jackson desired that she should
still preside, and the younger lady
yielded any claims she might bave
had.
In my conversation Mrs. Jackson
remarked that she first visited the
Iermitage before the birth of her
eldest son. whom she named An
drew Jackson, and who is now
Colonel Jackson, the stay and sup
port of her declining years.
lone of your children were born
lit the White House, I believe, Mrs.
Jackson !
No, they were all four in num
ber born here at the Hermitage."
LITE AT THE HERMITAGE.
When the terms ot Jackson ex
pired aud he repaired to the Hermi
tage, Mrs. Jackson, her husband,
Andrew Jackson, Jr., and their
family constituted tbe household,
afterward increased by the admis
sion into the family circle of Mrs.
Mai ion Adams, sistir of Mrs. Jack
son. In tbe rourse of time General An
drew Jackson passed away and wax
placed in tbe mausoleum be bad st
long before provided for himself by
the side of his wife, to whom he was
so fondly attached. The years flow
ed ieacefully on, the young people
bad grown up and many brilliant
scenes of gayety awakened tbe
echoes iu tbe building aud were re
flected in the long mirrors. The
marriage ot the only daughter of the
household, named in honor of tbe
beloved and long departed wife of
General Jackson, Kachel, was an
event that broke into long, tranquil
years.
Then came tbe distractiug times
of tbe war. Three young men two
of the Jackson sous and one Adams
went" into the Confederate ser
vice. Only one returned, and that
was tbe one now living Colonel
Andrew Jackson. The latter went
through tbe vicissitudes of war with
honor, but was, at the close of the
same, a prisoner at Camp Chase.
While here be first beard, through
a chance paragraph in a newspaper,
of his father death. It seemed
that while indulging in bis favorite
pastime of hunting, Andrew Jack
8on, Jr., had shattered his band;
n-Anml tirrwlnrpil Inrki.iw nrid
coi.i f vinnpl .laeksnn ; "The
.t nn sxlnVh I read hat paragraph
thn ldaekeat. cloomiest one of
i. xrh.ilp war. I thouubt of mv
sorrow-stricken mother in her lone
I M v --w - r-r m
ly home, and myself unable to go to
or help her.
In a few months tbe unhappy
struecle was ended, and Colonel
Jackson returned to the Hermitage
and to his widowed mother. Life
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fCs' Y ew '-w w -w-wv r- f
now flowed on in a listless war. It
bad taken on a quiet, Babdaed tone,
shadowed by the newly-madegravea
in the corner of tbe erarden, only a
few steps from the mansion. Mrs.
Jackson and Mrs. Adams, together,
were going, hand ia hand, throngh
tne remainder of the ivoTacre of life.
No bnstleand stir of be bnsy out
side world broke in upon them now,
either with its cares or; its eayeties.
From time to time, when the even-
DRS grew long, and they, with
Colonel Jackson or I some of tbe
bright yonng grandchildren, gath
ered around the blazing fire, a visit
to tbeir relatives in Philadelphia
would be discussed
!Both ladies
desired once more
to visit their
native city and mingle1 again with
their kinsmen and friends of long
ag The pleasure of the trip would
becanvassed, the cotjeounted up,
and, alas ! the slim pome was al
ways found too attenuated to admit
of the expense. Then ! the bright
anticipations would fade, the trip
be given up and the humdrum life
flow on in its unbroken channel.
But there again came a change in
this quiet life, and a sad one. Mrs.
Jackson for years had been sustain
ed and cared for by ber less feeble
sister, Mrs. Adams, but to tbe lat
ter came a long and serious illness
Slowly she began tc recover, and
when convalescence seemed certain
she met with an accident, causing
relapse, and she succumbed to tbe
inevitable. Iler death occurred
about two and a half years aero.
Alter the death f Mrs. Adams
Mr. J k sou's daughter, Mrs. Law-
rtLce, besought her mother to leave
tue sad hermitage or.3 make her
home with her, but '. Mrs. Jackson
sadly shook her head 'and said :
' No ; it will not be for long now P
it would not be long ere she joined
those gone before. I Here at the
loved Hermitage she j bad passed
her days of early motherhood, bad
heard her children's j infant prat-
thngs re echo through the long hall-
ways and listened to the patter of
tueir young reef., in and about the
doorways. They had grown to man
hood and womanhood beneath that
roof, and had passed out from it to
the- duties of life. AM iber joys and
all her sorrows had been witnessed
here, and in its peaceful solitudes
,
she desired her own life to glide
away. i
IHE AGED SERVANTS
The servants at
the Hermitage
now are an aged couple" Gracey"
aud " Alfred77 and auy one visit
ing there finds tbemvotl'ering them
n Ives as escort to tb" tomb. Their
youth was spent in the service of
the Jacksou family, aud now in their
age they do not card to leave it. It
ia upon this faithful couple that
Mrs. Jackson relies: for household
assistance. Speakiugof them she
said Gracey had been ber own hand
maiden, and had been with her dur
ing all ber married life. She do
mesticated herself with the Jack-
sous by marrying Alfred, body-ser
vaut of General Jackson, after they
came to Tennessee. Mrs. Jackson
said : " I don't know y hat I would
do without Gracey. She knows my
ways and my needsj she anticipates
my evt-ry want, bhe is stout and
well, and I do hope jtbat her life will
last lunger than mie.f M. D. C.
Cannibalism has
lately pressed
its claims n non public; attention in
a variety of shapesJ under guine of
current news. In the first place
came the war of Eing Amachree,"
with a poweriui vassal, in iroiu,
ou the west coast of Africa, near the
equator, at the delta jot the Niger.
There, after a battle, the survivo.rs
feasted cn the kilhd, and the pris
oners, to the utimrier! or anouruu,
it being the most profuse banquet
of tbe sort known in that region for
years. Then came ( the case of the
Indian cannibal Swift Buuner, exe
cuted the other day at Fort Saskat
chewan, after having killed and
eaten successively Ibis mother, his
wife, and his sevea children. Then
occurred the mention, by Mr.
Belt, of the cannibal witch in
the E-ist Indies,
who devoured
u j the task by
her son, assisted
two other members
of
her sex.
Finally we have the jtbree natives
of the Marquesas llslands who
latelv visited San Francisco as
a part of the crew of; the French gun
boat Lamothe nqaet. .uey were
of larce stature, with regular tea
tures, finely tattood,'aud with full,
softj exp.-essive e)es; they were
man eaters. The crew of this guu
boat had a year before discovered
the bodies of t e 1 v e captured
Frenchmen prepared for eating, on
the island of New Caledonia. This
is the description which the San
Francisco Call gave of the affair .
"They effected a landing at the
point where the train bad been cap
tured, and surprised the savages
while about to feast upon tbe bodies
of the captured Frenchmen. Ihe
would-be banqueters' fled at their
approach, but were! pursued and
fifteen of them killed, ihe scene
noon the beach, I Capt. Bienaime
says, where they landed, was sick
ening in the extreme,77
But while there has been ot late,
bv a coincidence, Irather a run of
cannibalistic news, these bad prac-
tices are, in general, rapidly run-
niug out. Before long they will cease
altoeetber; for civilization is ex-
tendine. and in civilized life, though
men devour each other, they do uot
do so phyeically and literally.
I-Sun
He who is always in want of
somethinc cannot ibe very rich.
Tis a poor wit who lives by borrow
ing the words, decisions, mein, in
ventions and actions of others.
Lavater.
Mrs. TJ. S. Gtfint.
The Baltimorean.'Febary 14th.
Mrs. Julia T. Grant, 7ife of Gen
eral Ulysses S. Grant, fis probably
now more prominent Jbefore the
American public than any other
lady within our broad Emits. Mrs.
G. is the daughter of fed. Dent, a
merchant of St. Louiswhose son
was a classmate of Ueperal Urau
at West Point. In August, 184S
she was married toflTJIysses S
Grant, thus taking upo$ herself the
duties of an army oracer's wife
sharing the trials andtdisappofnt
ments and alleviating t4e struggles
ot his early career by aj constancy
a cheerfulness and a thfough devo
tion, eminently characteristic of the
good wife. As her husband's duty
called him tojvarious nJ jlitary posts
une invariaoly accompanied him
and it was while in eftrnson upon
our northern frontier tat the two
eldest of her four chydren were
born. While the six yeirs interveh
ing between her busbaml's retiring
irom service in lo4 acja again em
barking therein in IS? jo were un
eventful years as compared with
what 1 immediately followed, yet
they were not without We tnalsan
1 J l. a - . -ft; . .
uarusnips peculiar totne young
mother ot a erowine faHilv.
Throughout the late .ar the part
borne by Mrs. Grant flLildls compar
atively little place in Ijhistory, ; as
does the labor of tbe teU thousands
of other women whose Jiest energy,
time ana tnorrgnt wereiven to the
country yet it was nitje the less
active. The storv of thE eight years
of her life passpd as mistress of the
'Vv hite nousH, wherein 'she won bv
her unassuming virtues the good
will and affection of alii comers I is
well known. i I
We next come to Hwhat Mrs
Grant has been enable! to accom
push m opening the ors of the
older nations of theeart-ii. to 'women
by centuries of worshiplt caste and
custom. She has done&iiia simply
uoora nuuerio rasr-eJv??eu lor ages
t ' . V . -J-t m
as a wife and mutbt-r, Staudine by
ffi fti1f nf lipr li li lia.iwl'v a. rTirfspn.
tative of American worsen.
Mrs Gram left Philadelphia May
17, 1877, on the iem$r Indiana,
for Liverpool, attended $y the good
wishes ot many. a
Upon her arrival in Jjnglaud she
was received at Windsor by the
Queen, and towns ind3cities vied
witn eacn oiuer (ouo iy-r and uer
i . . a a
husband honor- thicRaghout the
British realm. - J:
Iu John Kussell Yonng's work,
"Around the World w-tfh General
Granr.7 the writer give! a lengthy
description ot a Christinas festival
specially dedicated to i&rs. Grant,
and regrets that be cannot lift the
veil far enough to showjjhe Ameri
can people "just how mith the kind,
considerate, ever-womanly and ever
cheerful nature of Mrs. JGrant won
upon us all. She was tjae queen of
the feast and we gareSier queeuly
honor, aud when she proposed "the
loved ones at home,'? he says,
'manr n. hi pnt. nrav' ann nmpfi
were uttered." "It wasckhe Gener
al's habit," says Mr." Ijoung, "to
take his wife upon. hisBrm and go
from place to palace arM to picture
gal lery, as any other stuttaous, home-
loving, thoughtful American would
have doue.77 :
In Egypt Mrs. Grants was more
impressed with tbe ptry of the
scene and of the Biblical associa
tions clustering about tat strange
land than even with t,4e palace of
Ilassr-El-Noussa, or thjfo numerous
receptions and balls iulSer honor;
and amoner the mementoes ot her
departure ou the tour utp "the Nile
wpi-h radiant, mounds' oa flowers as
remembrances "to the tjtdy of the
expedition."
Her mode of life whisa traveling,
like that, of the GeueMl, as Mr.
Young notes iu his wortf, "was the
simplest and most considerate. 77
She ever found timcwiile up the
Nile amid all her duties to give
motherly counsel to a yung bride
who had gone out to ist her lot
with her husband' in thf unpromis
ing vineyards of Siout. ' .- i
At Karnak Mrs. GraiiS visited the
largest Obelisk iu tt, world a
single block of grauitoi ninety-two
feet high by eight fe square
which commemorates tBe virtues of
the King's daughter vQomanly and
queeuly vit tues w h (i flourished
there nearly tour thousand years
ago. Here again, saysSthe writer,
we cet a elimpse ot IVMs. Orant at
Karnak te central figure of -an
animated group which j&ad gather
ed under the shadow f a broken
column, and it was highly sugges
tive. : '
At Assounan, a tovr of 4,000 in
habitants, 30 miles sqgith ot the
Mediterranean Sea, ai?d formerly
supposed to lie directly; under the
equator, Mrs. Grant wegt out among
the bazars, and did ajlittie shop-
ping- f
While in Berlin Mrm urant was
introduced to Prince Bfsmarck, and
dihed-with the Germai Chancellor,
subsequently having kiig conversa
tions with the Crovrjn Princess,
whose motherly, woftianly ways
quite won a place; in ter own sym
pathetic heart. '
At St. aetersbUTgy?:urs urani
dined with the Imperii! family.
Mrs. Grant greatly enjoyed ber
visit to Bombay, and er life in an
Eastern bungalow, lotvking out to
aea.in study mg the customs ot India
aDd the strange pnase oi civiliza
tion about her, and comparing these
experiences to those nome. id
India Mrs urant and,: Air- idoipn
Borie (the latter just te-?.d in Phila
delphia) were the purchasing mem
bers of the party, bu t it is admitted
that her ideas of purchasing were
largely affected by hei sympathies,
she being disposed toay more than
was asked because th Hindoo yen-
I . :
f - !
dors looked so very poor. While
there she visited the Taj of Agra
the most magnificent monument
ever built to the memory of woman
an expression of the grief of
king for his write a monument
which took twenty thousand men
seventeen years to build.
At Jeypore Mrs. Grant was given
her choice between an elephant to
ride and a Sedan chair, and chose
as probably most other American
ladies would have done, the latter,
Ou leaving the place, the Mahajarah
placed a string of gold and silver
cord, with wreaths of rose and jas
mine around her neck, as a token
of good will and friendship.
At Lucknow Mrs. Grant visited
a female mission school, where she
was cordially welcomed by the sing
ing of "Old John Brown." "The
scholars were bright and intelligent
some of them young ladies of Eng
lish and native parentage.
Mrs. Grant has done what few
other American women have ac
complished. She has made the en
-
tire journey around the world, oc
cupying between two and three
years, and given careful and studi
ous attention to the habits, customs,
education and religions of the many
peoples and tribes encountered on
the journey.
During this memorable tour Mrs.
Grant and her husband were the re
cipients of distinguished aud royal
honors from the following eminent
persons and governments :
Queen Victoria, of England.
King Leopold, of Belgium.
The Khedive of Egypt.
The Sultan of Turkey.
King Humbert, of Italy.
.Pope Leo XIII.
President MacMahon, of France.
m 1 ' T f TT 1 Jl
xue iving oi noiiauu.
Emperor William, of Germany.
Prince Bismarck.
King Oscar, of Sweden. '
The Emperor Francis Joseph, ot
Austria.
King Alfonso, of Spain.
President Grevy, of France.
M. Gambetta.
Viceroy Lytton, of India.
Kiug Theban, of Burmah
Prince Kang, of China.
The Emperor of SiaoiJ
The Mikado of Japan.
Mrs. Grant is now with her hus
band in Cuba, where the most dis
tinguished honors have been award
ed them. They propose at au early
day to repair to Mexico, where some
two. or three months will be spent
in inspecting the institutions and
examining the curiosities of that
ancient and remarkable country.
Riohmond, Va
An Seen lly George Augustus Sala.
London Telegraph.
You see more ladies and gentle
men on horseback ou a single fine
afternoon in and afbout Richmond
than you do in the coarse of a whole
week in a city of the North. Then
the farmers come riding into Rich
mond town on plump, well-fed nags,
full of good equine points. Nor are
the grooms and v farm servants at
all ill-mouuted, although I confess
that the first sight of a very tall,
very old and white-bearded negro
mam, in a long and ragged black
gaberdine, bestriding a very long-
egged white horse with a "fiddle-
case'7 head anda switch tail, was to
me equally a solemn and a risible
spectae'e. He put me in mind ir
resistibly of that weird, etching of
Thomas Landseer in the illustra
tions to Southey's "Devil's Walkf'
of the "Apothecary on a White
Horse," profanely likened by the
poet to "Deth in the Revelations."
Very picturesque too, are the "lor-
. . i
ries" driven by negroes, and tue
great wains, somewhat - resembling
the "ladder-wagons77 of Hungary,
aden with tobacco and meal-barrels.
These continually passing vehicles,
alternating with a few private
coupes and buggies, give an air of
great cheerfulness and animation to
iichmoud, which is otherwise a
typical country town. Broad street
reminds you at times so strongly of
nigh street, Southampton, that you
begin to look around you instincts
vely for the Bar, and to conjure up
the legends about Sir Bevis of
Hampton : but Main street may be
considered the leading commercial
thoroughfare of the city. Extend-
ng from this thoroughfare to the
James river, are the principal mills
and factories, which are making
iichmoud quite prosperous, if not
uite happy, again. The lronworks,-
the machine shops, foundries, and
near refineries, the tobacco and
cigar and cigarette manufactories
the h o t e d "Richmond Gem"
cigarette is really made here the
coach and wagon factories, the
works for sheetings and shirtings,
and in' particular the colossal flour
ing and grist mills, are among the
largest in the world. There is one
flouring mill the , Ilaxall which
exports fine wheat-flour only to the
Brazils. There is one stuiendous
manufactory of chewing y tobacco,
the product of which is exported ex
clusively to our Australian colonies.
I am glad, however, to hear that the
Australians donot chew the whole
of the mighty masses of compressed
nicotire which Richmond sends
them. Large quantities of the
"honeydew" and "cavendish," and
other varieties of "quid7 tobacco,
are cut up for smoking. Tkere are
other manufactories of "quid" tob
acco for home consumption, of
course ; but I am not prepared to
say that in Richmond is made the
celebrated "Little Joker" tobacco,
wh'ch on five hundred fences and
big white stenciled letters, I have
been adjured, in the States of Mary
land and Virginia and in the Dis
trict of Columbia, to chew. Wheth-
1 er there has taken place, since h
: 1
was Iashere,throughout the Union,
any sensible diminution in trie
nastiesyconceivable method of cop
suminglobacco, I am not prepared
to saygJfThere is certainly no jsp
parent decrease in what Mr.Thadk
eray, so! ong since as the time whpn
he wrotAthe "Paris Sketch Booft
a good fkty year ago, used to cfl
"expecttoroons."7 But these la
things Uhich I shall know it thjey
are worrit knowing at all later On,
For onef erity, however, I can con- t
fidentlyffvouch. Smoking is very
rigidly; prohibited in numbers of
places wfyere it is openly toleratd j
in Engljad ; and on board the rail- ,
way caiji there is not half the
an EngSh railway train. In fapt,
in England we should hotly resent -i
the continual caveats against 8mk4
ing wbi$i are posted up in places
of public resort in the States, j r
MaifrMreet, Richmond, althot gh
spaciotjsjpand regular, well ligh ed
by nigM and tolerably well pavbd, -is
ratheifa disappointing thorou ;h- -fare,
lmy of the stores are large
and handsome buildings, but tey
do not:jsiem tt me to be so well
sfipplied? with goods, especiilly ,
those of.fhe better class, as t ley
should le- Articles of wearingjap
parel foboth sexes are, I am t ld,
exce8siyly dear, and it is a c )ni
mon thiljg io send to New York for
items f ladies7 dress and millir ery
which stlould be surelv procun ble x
on theiot, as they would be pro- .
AnroVkla M . n ontr rrntl1rna ! Tl Tl -
try tor in England or France
in closMand constant cornection
with iMndon or Paris. "But! I
am bo Ad at once to remember
that aHiough the population h of
the cil i . has i V a s 1 1 y increapedr
withinlpe last ten years in, li370
it was,038, and in 1878 It was) es
timated at 77,500 although fche
commerce of the city is very large,
t ii ii .i.s: : 1.
-uu, m fjuuiuou to ii Buperu w
way, i$ connected by five intersect-
ine linbw of railway with Baltimore, -
PhiJadephi and New York, R ch
m0ndml8t still be looked upon a
a cityHijradually rising from ler
ashes.l When the stranger surveys
from heie-hts of Hollywood ind
Chimijjojrazo the beauteous city, wjith 1
the wihSlinc river dotted with I is-
lands fik'h in trees, and curiously re-
miniscitlfl- of our own Richmond in
urref when he descends andjas
cendstie gentle slopes crossedj by L
handstUie streets, and crownetl bv "
cheerful villas; and when hejde-
uidtuut!) fj uui iui seeimuijf iuuyjuk, x
but rslly struggling place all the
appliajr$es and accessories of lux iry
7 V. irtTt 1 - finla in f 1 . a ?f Ia nf tni
Norttililhich, durine a whole Hun- ;
dred y'(irf, have never felt for lone
momen-; one s trine of the dreaafnl
scourof war, he should remember
that l.ss than twentv vears hero
Richmriul was the capital of Jthe
Confedifrate States of AmericaJind
that tl- collapse of the Confederacy
j r - -
left brf not unscathed, left herjnot
unwri
Corner in Coffins.
New York Ileraid.
Chiibtlgo has become famous I for
its " dxifners." During the lastlten
or fiftf n years it has had a coiner
in aipijost everyining cornersi in
corn, j ven before it was plantjftd ;
- - - . . . . .i
cornevi in wheat, in pork ana in
amow; corners in corner ioiB-in
fact, gfirners in everything it was
possiiiT to corner. The latest lrfthe
most pvel and ingenious of all a
corneiio collins. 1-nvions otlthe
succei!that has followed the splcu--
ationmpf operators in other lines
of bu;e8s, tbe undertakers of (hat
city h-ifo determined to see what
it z A t-3-K. a . 1 .? .
neyfsin oo toward oocainingj ior
themsjves a share in thebusiness;
boomjSlhat is covering thewliole
Nortlest. To that end they field
a met-tUog the other evening pnd
talkef over the situation. Ifusi-
ness.iiiaey argued, is tiourisinng
everyi1iere ; everybody is ha py
except the undertaker, who, bec use
of circumstances over which he has
no cojtrol, is always compelled to
be, ot pretend to be, the mostl lu-
r.n '. .- ci r f -. Arf o la iTn o I 1 I i r n
ne prr5e ot lumber is going up sand.
the itjcrop is short, and altoge
her
the prospects of the undertaken are
tar firm encouraging, Ihe only
way16r;t of the diflicnlty is to make
a corMr in coffins; in other words,
toptiup the rates, and whfena
Chicifgpan is so foolish as to shpffle
off hi"icoil to make him payrar it.
The h&v tariff has not yet crone Into
opemn, so that if thedefiizeji of
ho l'r jine CitT has any idea oil dy-
ng iioj,r is the time to do it, unless he
is cortf nt that his estate sha 1 be
devol to the expenses of his
buriatj In the opinion of th( uh-
derta,lir8 their corner is the biggest
ieve
th
ey Ijve a dead sure' thingdf it.
if :''
A ce. Jous old bill bas been found ainoog
. : . 1 1 i . .
IState
Solo- .
HoarM which belps to enow tnat
mon !t about rignt wntn ne saia
here
was iiiiji intj new under the nan. Tl
billw
s iorjMMienainjng me .ouncu anu j
ODHO
1770,
f, It. T V nentatives on October. ii,
tbe V-1,enth aunt versar r of tbe acct;
bision
of Oei'e III to tbe throne. . Ihe
terns
for wi S'f . nuncb and ber amount t
b hii-
ty-fl .i.lGllars, and that i for ''bistejt and
- . . 2 ' . .....I m
h-ert 4 to only tbree doIar. Uill
tot a
imilaiJrharacterare coriimon to-day
Iwlien
)ubctf.icialrt meet toetber. and
Fal
o all
stall sPfbulf pennyworts j of bread
a , .
tbib It&olerabl deal of Back ' lias o
practi il illuHtration.
fu- u a
m - -
Tb Dne of Arple was 'one. "eiviri
Revi
denci tVlore a committee of the no
Comtiicna uu tbe temperance que
se of
tion.
' Bu&irnaid a member, lin'miriijirly,
ona
ianiejjiacrnerson, appajreuujr ii-ii ui
to tbiTty, deposes that be nerer ea-ay:
na djnk itt bis diHtridt." " Veryjlike-
... V t. ... ! . i . 1. . e
a
any
ona an
lj," '"ilied his Grace,
'f Scotchmen1
bard"?llow a man to bie drank bo long
iftn i-l . 'V 14 p - iw.. A.vfwr
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