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-eiicraoa uaTU IIU Home and Family.
l j NmshTille World. . ' -.. i
, lieauvoir, the hohie of Jefferson
.... ? 18 a part of tbo property
i -wuicu was beaueat luul to him hv
h the late .Mrs, Sarah A.Dorsay. Her
p ' '? e8 uiiempieti to set aside
! tbe will, jbut the Supreme Court
i t recently confirmed the decisions bt
i rhe lower courts in his favor.
I f It is situated on the gulf coast in
f; Mississippi, between Biloxi and
Is Mississippi City. Near bV are the
f f campgrounds where the Methodists
s noia j their annual summer meet
: inirs.1 ; i - - v
i
. me uouse is an
old Southern
tip mansion, such is quite common In
- this section.! Its wide halls and
p many!galharie8 speak of ante-bellum
li days,of the olden time when wealth
pi and lnxury here w?re the common
; lot of jail, j ! "" i
- Beau voir mansion stands some
yPthingpess than one! hundred yards
from ftlie jblue waters of the gulf.
' ;lt tests upon brick pillars twelve
feet high. Broad steps reach from
the' -gj-ouud up to the wide front
gallery, which is the entire length
I pot tbe building. tOther narrow
j porches join at each end, extend-
II ing around the house. The entire
'i I structiiro'is of wood; The main en
ptrance is Jthroughfji vast hall,
p whose high frescoed ceiling is now
! dim from age.! To the right are
p twjo spaciousj bed chambers open
! irig iijtol the hall, and separated
( from 'ach ) other, by large sliding
gPdoorsij The windows extend to the
i floor,' and furnish easy, egress to
- the galleries. ; ! t
j -On the lftiof the hall are parlors,
fp! anitaibraryj furnished with easy
i chairs and sgfas. Around the walls
p hang fine old!; oil paintings, and at
tractive ornaments, adorn the ta
bles ahd. niaiitels. The book cases
- contaiin a wealth of literature sel
dom seen pip a private library.
I Many j of theses these things were
i the prpperty !of Mrs. Dorsay, and
t included iri the bequests she made
- Mr'Davis.lr j I
P In t je wide, airy Jhall are divans
and lounges, upholstered in chintz
by j Mrj3 Davis's own hands. On
tb0 walls hang her paintinga ahd
thosaof Her daughter.' "Around on
J every ijside. i are ; curious relics of
1 other diiys and other lands. ; Be
yond the hall to the left is an ell
.containing the bed chambers, with
large windows ana uoors opening
on thejlatticed porches. Across an
intervening court opposite is the
diningl room, with its wealth of old
! ; suver ana giass, pictures anu orna
i mentsl ! I ; . ' s
P P in te yard toward the front of
! -Pthd house are two pavilliohs of two
rooms teachP The one on the left
:P; is furnished as bedrooms for guests,
p The other ! onp the right, is Mr.
p' LDavis'p study.'! - The latter is raod
i !pj estly furnished with a lounge, ta
:j' bles and chairs and! contains quite
J p! a library.) Here the great man
"P spends much of his time in reading
: aua wnung. :.a smaii room aci
Pi joining is his ! daughter's boudoir
i containing min$v little articles de
'notiwgfa woman's occupancy. The"
t window Wens on a- small garden
ot arq and; beautiful tropical flow-
ersk
few
orange trees are scattered
pin -the
I
cardeti and yard. The state-
.; t;ly;-l piujesl oaks and elms stand
i- , unjuim in i(iuicb-iin.o - gmuucui.
I "; From iheir branches wave the fes-
toolispfof gray 'moss. Again, it
hangs ii graceful pendants, or in
terlaces the pine tcones and green
foliagel ot the trees. P
Pin tlie rear of the house, on the
Ueft.mtfy beseen the cottage occu
? pied by itobert Brown, Mr. Davis's
body servadt, who still follows, as
hie ever has done, his masterVfor
1 tunes. It Was he1 who took care of
1 th children and carried them to
s Canada when Mrs. Davis followed
? he hukbaud to a prisoner's cell.
lie is a dark mulatto with a mix-
ture of Indian blood. JIis.: hair is
lonig ahd nearly straight and now
14 .quite gray. ! His bearing is that of
apblished gentleman. i
1 There is another not less faithful
f piriendi though lie is a dumb brute
, and said to be without a' soul. It
' .is Traveler, a great Newfoundland
P dogV LordpsByron pronounces a
pdog thf 'most- disinterested friend
p pof inauiPj rerha)s he was right.
pTmvpIer is the constantattendant
. either 6f MrPor Mrs. Daviss When
r ixioi with biie he is surely found
p.Pjnejar tljej other. 4 j' '
Pv I' pile lcomes the stranger with
IP fgiajtl dfinonstrations and takiughis
1; iharid ghtiyj in hw great; hiouth,
f ppleadS him up 'the steps) into the
Pphouse. lie! i stretches himself on
? U the rug at liis,. master's foet when-
lever there ate-guests in the parlor:
lie waits w'liu . iiic : iauuiy and
Ifriendsj to11 the dining
oora and
near the
soberly seats himself
1 hearth! until' the meal is
( . i : i :ii : i
finished!
his kind
ter fills a
?ue remains! quiei. uuin
vfand crobd though ttul ma
iplate jivitht food andf tel
Isiieakiifche'iis 1'iuiigr.vi
is him to
A wag of
hrsi tail ami a "bow-wow,"- ani lie
is immediately served jus it outside
Itheldodrjon a mat. ' I " .
I yhenever, Mrs. Davis drives out
Traveler Accompanies her. When
jthe phaeton is ordered the dog im-
Idiatelyj goes to the beaeh for a
bath, returning in time to join his
I mistress;; at y the door, lie trots
plalohg beside; the phaeton through
j thej wpotlland roads, stoppiug to
Jbathe4n every clear-runuing brook
let by if the Wayside. Shaking his
ploug silken hair so white and black
;uiitil ii is aluioyst dry, he resumes
PI his! journey,! passing through the
. i villages of i Biloxi, Ilandsboro, or
Mississippi; City, as the route of
this! mistress may determine Trav
'eler Was the property of Mrs.
, f David's son, who fell a victim to
ryellowi fever in Memphis, Teun., iu
1878. , llis young master was very
much attached to the dog, and had
pplaced himpin the care of Mrs.
sDpjrsajf at Beaiivoir. . She was also
yPjvery fiud of jiiim.
- i .Between the dog and Ned, the
horse, there exists an affectionate
"regard.: Uazy Ned, as he is famil
iarlv r called, I trots more briskly
while in Traveler com panyl 'If
the dog is, left, behind,., the; horse
will turn his head iu , the direction
of his cries, and he can only , be
nrged forward by the whip. r
Among other;;pleasant,.recollec
tions of Beauvoir is the sweet, sad
face of Martha, MrsV Davis's atten
daut. , .For jeara she h been with
her. She lo$t her two, brothers,
they were her all.' in the Confeder
ate army, , ( She.nnited her fortunes
to those of-her generous , friends,
and is truly j appreciated , b?c the
r..:i .1.1-;... . . ,
-,Mr. Davis has nowpbui two .chil
dren, both! daughters. Margaret;
or Maggie, is married ,to Addison
Hayes, of 'Memphis, ' and ' is1 the
mother of tivo Jittle'girisV Yarina
or Winnie is still of her 'Cither's
.'household. I Tlie leading 'charm at
Meanvior, she is accomplished and
iulectionate, and her presence is to
her parents a ;fwell-sprin of joy.w
upon Iier, by bequest, Mrs. Dorsay
entailed a portpi) t)f ber estate. ? ,
Mrs. Davis's .maiden name was
Yarina Howell.! She' was one of
the oldest and most ' honorable
families of Mississippi.'; A" noble
specimen of the! Southern j woman.
she is far. above , the average both
personally ami mentally. .P,;!
I Like Mary and Martha Washing
ton, Mrs. Davi has united the gen
tie, loving mother, with! domestic
virtues, to grander womanlr quali
ties. .i-P-li (;P'i t?:iJii. Mi-?r.i
Whether at the National Capi
tal, bearing the honors of the wife
of the Secretary of War, and later,
listening to the load acclamations
that greeted his election to the
United States Senate, or at Briar
field, as the mother and mistress
f the household, we find the same
type of noble womanhood. '
In prosperity,' sis in adversity,
whether the consort of. the Presi
dent of the Confederacy, or the
wife of tha exile of Beauvoirr the
same grand nature pervades her
life. Still, moving forward with an
undaunted spirit which sustained
her in so many hours of trial, which
supported her amid the clanking
chains at Fortress Monroe - she
cHngs fondly and untiringly to her
husband ; in his declining years.
The friend and companion, she is
all to him now iu his quiet house.
A native of Kentucky, Mrs. Davis
was reared in Mississippi. For his
home his attachment is unbounded.
He firmly pat aside all temptations
to live abroad, and cast his lot on
the Gulf coast df ' his much loved
State. The heart of her history is
his, and it will : remain faithful
through coming years. Time has
not bent his proud form, "nor age
dimmed his wonderful mind, though
four score years arephis. Jlis life
is blessed with the love of all who
know him. Among his acquaint-
ances there are no caviiers., ,It js
only those who do not know him
who misunderstand and misrepre,
sent him. He takes no interest in
politics. He desires nope. He is
not even a citizen of the country,
iu the service of which the . best
years of his lifewere spent. He
desires nothing more than to live
quietly among his own people and
to leel that in death, as, in life, he
is ever dear to them. . , P
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Beauvoir is to him a sacred place
beautiful, heart satisfying and real.
There is a harmony in the sobbing
breezes as they move soughing
through the plumes of Jthe pines
that tower! above. Melodious
strains, low and sweet, linger faint
ly in the soft evening air. The
clamor of the seas, a trifle louder,
soon follows in i rymths, like the
distant notes of the bass viol,
whose - bow is held by an unseen
hand. Now! and then a chord is
lost, or a note broken, and a thou
sand quivering chimes are heard in
the distance, growing lower, lower,
until silence reigns supreme. ; p
Joined by Steel Hands.
i !
The City of Mexico that ancient
city of the Aztecs is now indirect
railroad communicationawith ,New
York, On Saturday . the last spike
was, driven" : which completed the
Mexican Central Bailroad from El
Paso, on the border, to Mexico, the
capital cityr Througb traffic will
open about the 20th inst., and in
April Pullman cars; will be attach
ed to all the express trains. The
formal opening is fixed for May o,
which is a national holiday in Mex
ico. A trip to the. city conquered
by Cortez and immortalized-by
Prescott can then be made .iu. six
days, and travel all the distance in
Pullman car. Arriving at Chicago
any of the through lines can be
taken to Kansas City, where coiW
nectiou is made with the; Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe, which runs
to El Paso, where, after lunch and
the examination of luggage by the
Custom House officers, the traveler
can step across the track! and enter
thocars of, the Mexican Central.
The distance betweeuPEl Paso aud
the City of Mexico is l,U2t miles
ajid this is expected .to be covered
in about tw o days. , ."The , traveler,
will pass through a district popu
lated by about 5,000,0(0 inhabi
tants, through Aguascalientes,
Guadalajara, San Luis Potosi aud
other cities of almost unpronounce ;
able names, through a territory
rich in its deposits of gold and sil
ver and iron and its acres of agri
cultural land. . ,h i . i i i .
' i And yet the couixletion of this
?reat undertaking, which furnishes
lexico with its .first trunk line,
and joins together the two Repub
lics by a band of steel," ha been,
accomplished with so, little stir or
npisc and iu so 'short a time that
many peopU learn for the first time
that there was such an enterprise
only when the last spike has been
driven. The undertaking is .dis
tinctively a Boston one,, aud has
been pushed to completion; by the
same hands! which built the Atchi
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
New York,! Chicago aud other
cities, however," contributed large
ly to the capital required to build
Z- Congressional Sopbomorea.
P . , ' SotiboBKNr Rim. f Ktnm.1 i
,1.
I seem- to'see. nbw, in, fancy my
.depart etinenu on wai-iarou euore.
Wj? ace.Voaringi spisriti in peaceful
repose pt last, ; basting in the glad
sunriser)! .,aui eterpai morning.
From that, infiuite,height jnayv we
not j fancy , him. comprehending i in
the, 'vait, sweep " of uhU4 perfected
vision the. places, eyentsnd inter
ests , that attracted , bis thoughts
and engaged his energies in life I
So shall be look down upon a grate
ful country lier revereiit 'millions
paying the tribute., of Meara to one
who ,served , tbeir interests faith
fully,' whose devotion to'ttie cause
of 'social regeneration andwhbse
championship-of the tights nnd
dignity of ; American labor ,chal
langed their sincere, admiration.
In the ran of thenl "all will ' he be:
hold the sorrdwing hosts of liis
own State watering his igrave with
tears and bedecking it with lily
and immortelle. When these flow
ers fade and thebr,yfragrance
ishes 'surviving paffect ion will rear
a sculpturexipcolumupabove hi
dust, and the endaring I marble it-;
self 'shall fcru'nible and j.decay.,erej
his'iiame and fame fade from recol
lection." rV;'i A' "'t
' Dying fi but $HsaPpeariug, piis
frbtn Pthe crest of. the . mountains
How many ships, with, full sails co
out Into the bosom f of the., ocean,
only to return battered and .tworii..
How many hearts ..commenced life-
joy ful and gladsome to afterward
uea irregular jiicKS, line, a 'ipcK
out of timePHfe was plucked from
us in the' very springtime of (his.
days, ..with the pulses of thought
strong, vigorous, and. clear. , Hqw!
euchantingly the rainbow, of future
promise,, must have nppeared to
him, audwith what endearment he
must; have embraced the prophe
cies of the future!. It is inexpressi
bly aad. top witness the scissors of
death severing the threads that
bind the human soul to this earth.
uai uopes are .qrusueu, wnat an
ticipations are frbstel.. The ocean
that separates this world from the
next no human eye can penetrate.
Oh. what js death, but a rebirth
into that larger ,'lifeP;fyhe?e we, go
on forever T Who. can measure the
compass of our; existence I. Wo
come here. without our consent and
depart without being consul ted t
isopoomore Browne, of Induuift., v ,
The wrecked bark rides an, an
chor without ; a disturbinjr wave.
On his grave the morning snn will
rise and evening twilight fade. As
the years go by the stars will shine
upon it and the gloom of the nights
that are starless robe jt in black
ness. The wiuter winds will shriek
above it, and in the springtime the
melody or tne bird - song . and the
perfume of flowers will environ it.
There, in the solemn calm of the
grave, we! left him to await the call
of the angels', , J : , : . ,
. The Iliineock Campaign Expense. ' '
Several important things, as yet
unknown to the' country,' occurred
at the recent meeting of the" Demo
cratic National coin mittee in Wash
ington. For instance,' the treasur
er of the committee reported every
reasonable claim upon him adjust
ed and paid irt full, and $1,800 cash
in his hands'. The ! books were
there to show every, dollar of re
ceipts and every dollar of the ex
penditures. There was nothing to
conceal, either as to where the
money came from and where it
went to. ' j rV - ;
Shortly i after the Presidential
election of 1880 it was charged by
many Democrats,! and the charge
was elaborated -in a , prominent
Democratic newspaper of the West,
that the Uori- Samuel J. Tililen,
piqued at the jfailure of. the Demo
cracy to force 'upon him a nomina-
Ition! which he had formally and
voluntarily declined, secretly en
deavored to effect General Han
cock's defeat, svorking partuiclarly
through his trusty friends in the
all-important State of New YbrkP ,
! If any member i of the National
committee was weak enough to be
lieve this cliarge,' w,at nnist have
been his surprise,' upon .looking at
the books placed before him, ,to
find that suras were subscribed and
paid as follows: i; . j j s
By S. J. Tililen, of N. Y., $51,500
By W, H. Barnum,of Conn., 40,000
By W; L. Scott, of Penn., 43,000
By Henry B. Payne, of Ohio, 20,000
By Oliver H. Payne,of Ohio, 31,000
By W J,' Gordou of Ohio, 5,000
'; These gentlemen are all in joliti
cal parlance,- TildenJ men,? and
yet they were among the! most
liberal, contributors to the fund
raised to ; pay the legitimate ex
penses of Gen. 'Hancock's! cam
paigu. t If, Samuel J. Tilden and
his friends -desired the defeat of
Gen.! Hancock, they chose a most
unusual method of carrying their
desires into etiect. !
" -p ., Postal A8alrn 1193.
tl
Third Assistant Postmaster-Gen
eral iHnzeti has received a musty
and curious volume from Counecti
cut. ; It is the Postoffice regulations
in force in 1793. it is 'printed in
the old style-and the words are
taint and yellow with age. On the
cover is this inscription : a 'Samnel
Trumbull's - book i fmstmaster at
Stouiugtou jCoiij 1793." It con
tains the act establishing the Post
office Department which is signed
by FA. Muhlenburg as Speaker,
John Adainai.as Vice-President,
and George Washington as i Presi
dent; also contains the Postoffice
regulations in force June, 1790; ahd
which are signed by Timothy Pick
eriugi as Postmaster-General. - In
a- memorandum is this note; "No
postofilce is yet established at the
city of ' Washington, and-it is un
certain 'when one will be establish
ed there."' It hlso contain the
number'' of 1 postoffieea 41 and ' post
routes in operation. There are less
than 1,000; now there' are '48,000
pos to Sices alone.' !j : ;.;.? w
w f 7-1 Mere than, sixty, millionaires
may
be found in Chicago.
GREENSBORO, 1ST. C, THTT7' r
r,, , Fence ' Cuttiny U Texas. .
jTi h , ? Sctifie American.) . ,
: ivxence. cuttincr.v..said a native
,wh kno ws. Texas like "a; book, "id
toe, protest of. a jVery , pecutiar, peo
ple, against evils quite as remarka-
jble and nearly as outrageous as the
present' trouble growing out of
jthem,' Scattered among the public
and private- lauds jn , the grazing
country artscbooUands hat could
be niaUe to'produco a revenue that
wouiu io awa'Witutiiescbooi tax.
Ju,lhe same country aie little farms
.worked by jf'et tiers, and little nests
which, used to be. the headquarters
tpr those,,, liberty-loving, Tcxans
who pastured their, cattle on Jie
len country and never dreamed
that it did hoty. belong to them and
to all mankind in eonunon. Iiithis
country there are few roads. You
might .confine yourself to patches
as big as half, of -Xew Jersey, and
say there are iio roads at all. Wa
ter holes and water courses, re
garded as God's endowment to the
cattle i raisecs, seam the prairie.
Imagiue.great corporations, whose
slock is., owneu in jraris, ijonuon,
JTcw York, andpChicago, suddenly
buying up. vast tracts and fencing
in" .whole counties, even two whole
counties, together. Imagine their
vast herds let loose, to pasture on
the public lands (used, though with
no better right, ?iby the nesters).
and . orilyrtaken, . into the fenced
i ' "Imagiue,1'. he continued, "these
fences" inclosing . squares of school
land thatj never, have been leased,
boxing in; water, boles and streams
that the .nesters and cattle, deneud-
ed upon for life,, inclosing the little
farms and nesters' tracts, and pas
tuieP,'lands of j small, beginners ;
shnt ting1, in the . roads and . trails,
arid everything Tf for, .miles, upon
miles of territory ; in their tremen
dous grasp. Imagine, also, to fully
understand ; tne matter, a popula
tion growing so fast that there had
been to 1SS0 more than 90 per ceut
added to the sum of inhabitants in
1870. arid' tliat gave, in, the shape
of formers,,, a . fixed ; and settled
character to what had, before been
ka quasi-nomadic, populatiou, com
posed of men on horseback and
women to. whom onePpart of the
Southwest was as , good a place to
live' in as another. . The permanent
farmers, who were fenced within
the heart of ; great pastures, . and
the commuuistic nesters,. who were
fenced out of the pasture lands of
bygone j'ears, cried aloud for relief,
and got none. They could uot get
it from the ! stockholders of Paris
and New Yorkj, or from the agents
of these persons in the pastures."
Crinkle . on the Production
of
: ' Peek's Bad Boy." '
Many, plays are imbecile, and a
very few are infamous.!
The reeking rubbish that was
put on the other night at the Come
dv!' Theatre;-nnder. the name of
"Peck's Bad Boy," is both.
We have got to go back twenty
years to' Harper's Drawer if we at
tempt to find the genesis of pre
cocious irreverence in American
literature. - But that (early stuff
was drawn from the wood, so to
speak, and ws comparatively in
nocuous. The latest tap is from
the brass itself and is loaded with
the ' corrosion of ignorance and
fatuous brutality. i
The play bill with consistent ele
gance says this is the only author
ized version, and is li written by
Charles F. Pidgin, of the celebrat
ed bad boysketches j i by which I
understand that nobody on earth
has had the : temerity to fetch the
language of the cock;pit and the
coarseness of! the bagnio into the
domestic circle except Mr. Charles
F. Pidgin,'- for which all men who
have mothers ought to thank heav
en iind anathematize Mr. Charles
F. Pidgin in the same breath.' But
as this statement is followed by
the equally 1 remarkable one that
Mri Charles F. Pidgin is by Mr.
Gebrge W. Peck, the editor of
Peck's wn, in four aets, one is
bound. to believe1 that (the vulgar
humorist of Milwaukee conceived
notoulj- the play but the person to
play it. And it must be confessed
that the ; parentage of talent is
equally conspicuous in both.
! p p. j; i ;
Of the persons -who engaged in
the tomfoolery it is sufficient to
say that judged from what they do
in it they are not actorsl This re
proach is spared to the profession.
The Mr. Carroll who appears; as
the! Bad Boy has the facility that
comes of the penuy, jaff, the volu
bility of the street ; stroller and the
insensibility of the parent who con
ceived the rubbish J I P
, !? Xyji Ouinklk.
"IV ho Turn Dat Ilojr looter"
, , , (Merchant TraTe!e.l I
At, a, certain hotelin Peoria,
where, the meals were not always
what they should be, a merchant
traveler, onej day, sat down to the
table. , He nut a dollar : under a
tumbler, and ,.. calling ! a waiter,
said:, )s, iit .) ..,', ;';. -
"Do you, see that dollar, Jim t"
i "Y'es, 8ab", replied Jim, with a
grin...;..,,!,., !.p.. ,. .j, u 4::.;,
t "jWell, now, Jim, Ij want you to
get me a real good, first-class din
ner. You understand ? !
i j "Yes, 8aband Jim set out about
furnishing a feast fit . for a king.
He bad no time to see to anybody
else. ;f He hqntcd op. new dishes,
put extra touches on everything,
and kept hjs eye on i the dollar.
Finally, the M. T. finished, and,
wiping ; his , mouth, he i winked at
Jim: ii-MlP:,. j .--r
I "Yes, sab,? ; grinned the darkey,
in anticipation. P ' Ij - . p
; i 'Jim, do i ou sec that dollar!"
putting his hand on it in a gener
ous way,- r , ( . ., ..jj . ,p
;Ye8 aiiP -.v '
. "Well, - you will, never see it
again," and it went into his pocket
and out of the dining-room, while
Jim indignantly remarked: P"Fo
de Lawd, who turn dat hog loose
in heah V. a . S
i:, jilAECH
A Keal Amerlran
V?W Yk Letter st- J Poet-Piatea.1
.uiivau jjina m ixnoon or late
have completely eclipsed the fame
off snch professional beauties as
Mrs.. Langtryvt JlMrs. Corriwallis
Ay est. and . Iady Dudley. , Haviug
fallen at the feet of Miss Chamber
lairi1 Miss Mary Anderson and
Minnie Palmerj they1 are now rav
ing over the charms of f Julia Jack
8'n, the daughter of a the, heroic
Stonewall, Jackson. She, must been
riding In ' Ebtteri Row "f b'eji ' he
captured LtheJ nobility" and gehtry
of the United Kingdom,-for, in this
country at least, her beauty ; would
hardly attract attention in a crowd.
But she is the' inostPgraceful and
magnificent ' horsewoman I ever
sawii I . wasl in trod need to '.he at
the White Sulphur Springs, .Vir
gin ia, a few years ago and rode
with her frequently - over the diffi
cult mountain rqad8 iu the neigh
borhood. She seemed born to the
saddle,; guiding her i, steed .with all
the ease imaginable, ant.. challeng
ing, the emulation of her male com
panions by her fearlessness in gal
loping along the edge of a jrawnin
chasm hundreds of feet deep, jump;
ing stone walls and leaping ditches,
Her' figure is petite and wiljowy.
but her 1 complexion is sallow and
the plainness of . her features is
onlyf relieved, .bytliej iijaguificent
lustre and sparkle of a pair, jof big
black eyes. She .will!-' certainly as
tonish the .Britishers bv her rare
combination of good sense arid cul-
luic wtvu uiier ireeuom irom
canyeritioaalityi" On horseback she
is every inch her.father?s daughter.'
arid by no great stretch o'f iniagiria
tion'one could ' fancy her leading a
desperate charge with al the spirit
Miss Jackson is '. .quite ypuhg, still
in ; ner teens, in. tact.T iier, lite has
been mostly spent in' the country".
and 'she j was P hardly, thrown , hi
Northern society .until a few. mouths.
before her,; departure, wheu she
visited: ' Boston . 1 was ! h a ndsomely
received, ' and !, created a f genuine
sensation.' '.Her family is 'compara
tively ; poor,' haViiig lost ! nearly
everything by the war. But it is
to bo hoped that by, "way ..of legiti ;
mate reprisal for the capture of so
many of our heiresses by impecu
nious English lords, she may make
captive some wealthy scion of the
British nobility.
.J --!.-; ' : Tornadoes.
In commenting on the terrible
tornadoes which liaye lately raged
in the South, the !New YorkPr-i?Z
says that tne tornado wnicn is re
ported to have demolished a thou;
sand residences in the northwest
ern part of ueorgia was a typical
storm of its class, evidently due to
an unusual northward movement
of the Gult air, laden with tropical
vapor. f Such s ; violent ' ; gyratory
storms, consequent, upon excessive
condensation of vapor, can only
take place in the presence of the
humid equatorial current ' But as
the latter is now struggling to
spread itself, over the G ulf States,
aud will 1 gain fresh force with
every days advance of the sun to
ward the northern tropic, tornadoes
will increase in frequency till July.
Out of nearly six hundred torna
does examined by Mr. J. PJ Finley,
of the Signal Service, the 'relative
frequency of their occurrence ' by
months was twenty -one m -Febru
ary,! tnnry-seven in aiarcu, ninecy
in April, after which the umbers
slowly increase tdone hundred and
twelve in June.; ! ;.. !
The peculiar shape of the baro-'
metric depressiouj which gave rise
to . Tuesday's tornadoes should . oe
noted by meteorologists, as it sugs
gests the conditions under which
these storms originate in greatest
ntensity aud may be more surely
foretold. On Tuesday morning,
February 19th , the depression had
taken a distinct trough shape,
reaching from Lake Superior to
Arkansas In connection with just
such a depression ! ("mnclclongat
ed in form and extending from
Louisiana to Kentucky) occurred
the fearful tornadoes which ravag
ed Alabama and Georgia on March
20th, 1875. The northeasterly ex
tension ot a low pressure area cross
ing the country, by facilitating the
rush of warm, vapor laden atmos
phere from the Gulf and allowing
its elevatedf strata to acquire great
velocity, seems to favor the genesis
of the most destructive tornadoes.
That this explanation is corrects
confirmed "Tnv the fact that the
storm 15 bearing Gulf current on
Tuesday reached the; latitude of
Petersburg "Va.,- where at midnight
"a tremendous thunder storm burst
nvpr t ifl CUV. IOWOweu u ui :iu
mense rainfall
wiud."P i:
aud a heavy gale
of
- They all Knew. ;
lA writer in the Portland (Me.)
Prc sayst that he took , a spider
from his web, puts him ou a clip,
and set hiui afloat on the quiet
waters ot the ponds. : "He, walked
all about the sides, of. the bark,
surveying the, situation very care
fully, and when ,tb, fact that j he
was really, afloat and about a yard
from shore seemed to be fully com
preheudetl, he prospected! for the
nearest point of land. This point
fairlv settled upon, he immediately
began to cast a web for it. He
threw it as far as possible in the
air and with the wind, f It soon
reached the shore and made fast to
the sin'res of grass. Then, he turn
el himself about and in true, sailor
fashion began to haul in hand over
hand on his cable.. Caretollyl he
drew .upon it until his bark began
to move toward the. shored .As it
moved the taster, the faster he
drew upon it, to keep his hawser
taut, and from touching. the water.
Very soon he reached the . shore,
and quickly leaping to terra firma,
he sped his way homeward! Think
ing, then, that h might be a special
expert, and; an exception tin that
line of boatmanship to the r rest of
bis companions, I tried several of
them, and they all came to shore
in a like manner."
20,- 1884.
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Healing: Dlseasea by Mental Proeesae.
The Boston correspondent of the
uaTtioru nmes recalls what' he
terms the Quimbr method of heal
L ing diseases, which was to heal en
"rely., by mental :. processes, j If o
uicuiuinu oi any kiqu was used
There was no pretended exercise o
will power, no spiritualism; and ho
special faith i was required to effect
ine, cures., b;The. 'method? iJbns
described: , P ,
'', uThe patferit5 sits quietly In a
chair beside the1 practitioner, face
io face as in con versa ti on nl attitude
It he exact iosition nin Quiipby
metnpd .not .being important), for
"""in uau an nour at eacn sitting,
and has nothings do' but to listen,
pr . to,; thinfc I hfs-i owns thoughts,
while : the practitioner., explains
somewhat of the other's true con
union, ana ioiiows tniS with fifteen
ot twenty minutes silent mental
work, .which he. alone can under
ami fry t. A t j .
piaui, xuo,uumoerpt, visits s re
quired depends, upon the case!
vary ing troni one to many." This
writer could fill a whole page of a
good sized newspaper with i ini
stances hp has known of persona
seriously sick haviucr been cured
by this apparently sincrular mental
treatment. But' want of space pre
vents giving 1 sucb illastratious id
this, article, whicb is i mostlv of a
historical nature. jn!Not all patjeutsl
aie cureu wuose cases are under
wicii. iuo praciiiiouer is success
iui iu nis euortsun proportion as
lie understauda ihe; principle, audi
ii ui3 time is given , to the work, he
mah uuuersiauuing ana
power constahtly,' arid this results
in : i greater works. ' !! have said
truly that this is-essentially a spir
itnal work. Its principle is in bar
inoriy'Pwith the Biblel and Dr
QuImbyV writings'ard full of Bible
quotations; illustrative of the futf
aauental. .truth, developed.; by his
practice.':.;
' Dr. Quimby was a native .of
Maine,' who - -died eighteen years
jit. .i, i . . . ... f ... t
Hg i wuuoai f uaviug 1 neen exten
sively known; ..The writer of the
article concerning t his peculiar
met nods of treating diseases knew
him intimately,,'having been a stu
den t under ; hiiii,' ' arid bears testi
mony. to nis wonderful success.'
There are now in Boston four dif
ferent scliools, all based essentially
upon tins tueory or mental prac
tice.! Still, the doctors who dose
ns with i material things kept on
sale in drug stores are not greatly
alarmed, and we .notice that when
a quinine factory burns the price
ot quinine jumps from 81.40 to
;$L80 per onnce.,:j ' - i P
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San Antonio, Texas, March 12.
Ben Thompson and. King Fisher
shot each other dead m the vaude
ville theatre last night. Joe Fos
ter, who attempted ' to interfere
with the combatants, was shot in
the leg and will probably die of
hemorrhage. Thompson and Fish
er had been drinkiug together and
entered the theatre in company?
They met Foster iuthe dress circle
and some words were exchanged
The dress circle was quickly clear
ed; the occupants jumping into
the parquette below, and through
the side windows into the street.
No one seems .to know j who fired
the first shot, or how mauy were
wounded in the shooting, Before
the theatre was fairly cleared of its
occupants, 1,500 persons on 'the
outside were clamoring at the clos
ed doors for, admittance Shortly
after! the shooting Thompson's
brother put in an appearance, but
was ! promptly arrested. ! A jury
is hastily empaneled, and it was
ascertained that Thompson had re
ceived four mortal wounds, and
that Fisher had been i wounded
three times, two of. which would
have caused instant death. v
The remains of the victims were
taken: in charge by the host of
friends, and the obsequies have
been ordered on the grandest schIc,
regardless of expense. s 1 ;,
' The theatre where the affray oc
curred was the. scene ( last year of
the killjng by Thompson, of Jack
Harris, who was proprietor of the
place. Fisher and Thompson were
probably the two most desperate
and widely, known men iu Texas.
They have each killed a large num
ber of men. !' "!
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Surviving Southern Generals.
Southern BironacJ ; !
! Only two of the five full generals
of the Confederacy are now' living.
These are Joseph E. Johnston, Ex
Member Congress, residence liich-
mond. Va' and P. G. T. Deaure
gard, Adjniant General of Lo
ana. who lives in New Orleans.
L.OHIS1-
Of the I twenty-one lieutenant?
generals but nine are living: Gen
eral Wade Hampton, United States
Senator, Columbia, S. C; General
Gordon, exUuited States Senator,
Atlanta, Ga.; H. D, Hill is presi,
dent of an Alabama college; A. P.
Stewards president of a uuiversi-
. . . t i i :n
Uy of Mississippi; duuai mhj is
U priUCipai onucr ui u c ijimi.iiouM
lottery at New Orleans; $. B. Buck
uer is a farmer m Kentucky, and a
possible governor, and Joseph E.
Wheeler is a member of - Congress
from Alabama. General Long
street is a United States Marshal
for the State of Georgia. ;;,' . . p , j
: ' .. Had an ObJeeU' , ,
While 'a New Yorker was nosing
nrouud Birmingham, Ala.',' in search
of a coal or iron mine at a bargain,
a native, accosted him with a re
quest for teu cents, and added : ! j
"Only yesterday I owned a coal
mine worth $20,000."
"And why don't you own it to
Beeau8e a man.got me -drunk
and coaxed me to, trade it for an
old mule.7 ' " t '
'And how will ten cents help
"Why I want to buy whiskey to
get him drunk euough; to trade
back for'a blind dog and au old
shot gun. Stranger, don't let me
insA S 20.000 for the want of teu
ne got it.
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. A Secret Well Kept.
Between forty and fifty years ago
an old ? log church ! stood ' on ? the
South Commons in Allegheny City,
Pa. j It was then in the opeq coun
try. Adjoining and belonging to
tne cnurcu was a graveyard,;front-
mg on tne paDlic road. ; ?
About . daybreak one morning in
1840 a farmer who was onJiis way
iw.i nisuurg wiin a ioaa oi dressed
meat, beard sounds issuing! from
ino graveyard as if some one was
knocking a box to: pieces with an
axe, jr He . climbed , the , tence and
8toleLalong in the, direction bf the
sounds. He had gone but ai short
distance when he found a man en
gaged in robbing a grave, i He had
been, 'so absorbed in his work that
lie had! not heard the approach of j
nis discoverer, and he was In the
act of lifting the body fronr the
coffin when he heard the footsteps
of the farmer. The grave was that
of a prominent young ladvf who
had been buried only the day be-
iore. ;
The farmer
i
was - so
filledr with
horror and indignation at tha-'crime
that .before, the man could spring
ou6 ue Beizeu a cinn mat 1331 near.
niwl . J.1. .1.. - -.LLl-' - i jt.C-
and; dealt' the robber a powerful
blow on the head.-1 The' man ' fell
into the grave and neither uttered
a sound nor moved after fall in c
Tlie farmer became alarmed prop
ping ffutd the grave himself, he
raised the man's body.' The grave
robber was none other than tho'
sexton of the church, a man stand
ing high iutthe community; PHe
was dead. ' -;'!' "" '
Lpae farmer5 hurried back' home.
and, telling his relatives i of what
nad occurred, t he at ouce .left the
State. Only five persons everlknew
the! secret of the graveyard tragedy
s;ide7iheiiVir,r
found the body of the sextoi dead
sextoq
in the grave was
uot1 nositivelv
Known uy tneni, but as it wasgiven
but by' his family that he died sud
klen!y and 1 no investigatioil ws
, v ... . . ,. "
fever: inadey they supposed that the-'
pouy must , have been discovered by
some one of the family before ; its
posuion was Known to any , one
jBlsej f-? '' ' :
1 .The sexton's familv soon .after
ward moved . away. His slayer
.weut to an Uhio town, whete he
parried and grew into prominence
ami wealth, lie died last week.
His secret was never divulged, and
even his wife and children lived in
ignorance of it. -The secret, at the
time of his death, was in the keep
ing of two persons alone, the 6ther
three having haviug died.' Ope of
these Persons is a leadinsr clercv-
man ot Allegheny. The other is
the ! writer's -informant, a resident
of the oil regions. t He says rthat
the death of the principal iup the
grayeyaru tragedy has released
himi from all pledges of secrecv.
He refuses to reveal the uamesl but
umrius,. luav lue Biory, is 1 rite in
A ..'li -I A. -a '
every particuiar.
How; Two Young- Men ' Were Wrecked.
Cincinnati News-Journal. '
of the handsomest
Twd
jand
brightest young, men that
liave
grown ! up in , the Capital City of
Keatnckv since the war wereThos.
Crittenden, grandson' of the g-eat
and good John J." Crittenden, hnd
James Arnold, ' son of Bev. Isaac
Arnold, i With physique lithe and
8inevy as the thoroughbred horse
of that blueirlass recrion, withithn
heritage of honored ' names find
weaUn l that was j lavished upon
their schooling,' these two ' young
men; and bosom friends might have
climbed to" any r position of honor
among aJ)eoixe who love to pestow
honors unon robust men bt courage
and IcnltureP 'But Tom Crittenden
and Jim Arnold early took to drfnk;
iu a town that boasts the mauufac
ture'jof !the finest ; Whiskey in the
world, and introduced' tha breezy
affluence of the frontier dash ttito
the very proper society of a staid
old village. i - ; ; jP
In a word, they painted the town
a subset ' Ted, and ; finallv made it
00 hot to hold them. Arnold drift
ed West and became the princ4 of
cowboys. Crittenden went to Louis
ville? and took leadership among
bar room broilers.' Arnold, while
driving cattle on one of the West
ern trails,' in company!? with aide
generate son ' bf Lord Paget, was
shot' and killed by a negro. : Cfit
tenden killed, a negro for testi ly
ing against him at a misdemeanor
trial; before a magistrate and has
ust been sentenced to confinement
in the JventucKy penitentiary ior
eight years. Both leave behlud
them honorahle fathers and loving,
but heart broken mothers. Arnold
eft a tenderer' tie! than that of
ather or mother and ' a not less
tenacious. v hiskev. , wrecteu sau
these lives. ;; . !; , .
p i Public Mills.
1 fDanbory Ecporter and Post "
The new Code of North Carol
na
(sections 184G and! 1847); contains
mills: j i J ' "" ' ! ; I! '-' -; I
"Every wafer grist-mill, steam
mill, or wind "mill, that shall grfnd
or toll; shall be a public mm. A
millers of public mills shall grind
according to turn, and Rhall well
and j sufficiently grinds the gram
brought to their mills, if the water
-will permit, ;ana snau iasu uu myre
toll for grinding than one-eighth
part.tjf Indian corn and wheat, and
one fourteenth part for chopping
grain of any kind ; and every mil
ler and keeper of a mill making lie
fault therein shall, for each oflencc,
forfeit and nay five dollars to the
partv injured : Provided, that the
owner may gnna ins own gram.ui
any time." ;;-.. t-'''.V-j
j ;Ja Hoosier at a. dinner, 01 a
Mississinni . palatial, steamer Was
about to reach out for somethmg.
hpfnre bim.' but the waiter check
ing him, 'exclaimed: ; r
j Tiiat sir, is dessert." r !
I "Ob," said the Hoosier, "1
care if it's a wilderness, I'm going
to e;it it all the same."
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NEW SERIES.iNO, 890
gbort Stops.
A revenue informer was hang
ed last Saturday night, in Flovd .
county, Va., by moonshiners.
In the Adirondacks, says an
Albany paper, a first class trea.
consumes as much water as a first
class horserU jl !p p p ; : ; ;
j. There comes a report from
abroad that Miss Nellie Hunt, the
daughter of the late Minister to
Russia, is engaged to a Bussian
nobleman,4, who is one of the housd
hold - officials P in : the Imperial
palace. .lfi,,;lt J:., p P---p !
. The Denver na tiers Atrrtu tha
Mme. Patticantivated Denver with
her singing and brought the putt
lio like slaves to her feet. Senator
Tabor t wore: his Major-General's
uniform and took the creat brima
donna out drivinir in his coach
with four. " ; i
Denver News : Speaker Carlisle
must have some spite against Col
orado, or he would not permit Bel-
loru to talk, so muc;h. Belford is a
blather skite . and his maudlins
babblings simply tend to bring his
I constituency into disrepute before
congress and the country.
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The Duke ot Edinbnrch is noir-
renderingp efficient . service in the
British Navy by shooting snipe in
the island of Sardinia The Gov
ernort of the island changed the
date of the close of the shootincr
season expressly to accommodate
the Duke .and other oflScers ot the
squadron. - P1 'r 1 1 ' !
Two youn men of St, Joseph.
Mo.y were ; bitten by -two young
ladies, . "just tor fun," and both the
young men died . m great agony.
jfobody feels worse about it than
the girls; They don't care about
hjTe ffie?rt ft 80
lnff to be considered poison. .
; "Mean,", said the St. Louis
man. "there s 110 limit to the mean
ness of the Chicago tolks. Why,
yesterday, 1 iiad to thrash a Chica
go drummer whom I found telling'
my 1 poor, innocent, four-year-old -boy
1 that Chicago is the larcrest
city in the world." j '.-,.
The ! back of 3Irs. Langtry's
heady which until now she covered
with the simple knot of hair, worn
at the nape of the neck, is said to
be the only uglyliart of it She.
combs iier hair to the top of her
head this winter and that part of,
it is called beautiful in its conical
curve. : . .-; ..
Some of the new colors ares
burned cream, baked pears, crush
ed raspberry, -scorched banana,
speckled green gage and terra
cotta, elephant's breath, monkey's ?
smile and canary bird's grasp, and
the man who would be anvthine
but color blind ought to be lynch
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-Gen. Longstreet stands six
feet aiid two inches high ! and-
weighs over two hundred pounds.
but, is ageing very fast. His hair 1
is white, his eyes are dim and his s
hearing hard. In contrast, his :
youngest son, Robert Lee Long ?
street,' is a bright, beardless boy
of nineteen. 1 - , : 1
P lie Went for IU . i'
. Detroit Fr Pram. T 7
"Know Douglas Stephen A.I
Yes, indeed. I kuew him when he
was a young man," said the Kev.
John risk ' in aPrecent interview.
"He had just opened a law office in
Jacksonville, IU., and I was study
ing with ! him. One; morning as I
came iuto the loffice Douglas stood
with a letter in his hand and was
gazing -pit t intently, .thinking
about something. -He i broke , out
finally with : ! have just got a
letter from - Vandalia saying that
i .
they are going to elect an Attorney
General day after to morrow;. ) If I
had a horse and a little money I
would co down' there and see if I
couldn't get if.' Vandalia' was
then the seat of government and;
was seventy five miles from Jack
sonville. I told bim, Well, there's
that old gray1 horse of mine, and
I've got about $8, and if that will
do you any good yea'ro welcome to
the horse and money.' , He thank
ed me and accepted the offer; "Go
catch your horse and 111 go So I
got up the horse and 'Douglas
started. ! He had about 20 miles to
go before ie struck the prairie and
then there was ZU-mi.es of straight
prairiel' He liadtb ride through
this in the darkness of the night,
but he wanted to get into Vandalia
as soon as possible. Well, he not
only got there, but lie got elected.
It was the first office he ever held.
After that he kept rising from one
position to another, just like sq
many steps going upstairs."
The Decsjrof New England. : -
In a recent address ; before the
Boston Mechanics' Society, Wen;
dell Philips, the late orator, is re.
portedo have said : V j iL
.-The handwriting is so plain on
the wall that none but a fool need
mistake it. New England is doom
ed just as sure as natural laws will
produce, fixed results. Kew Eng-p
land has no soil worth mentioning,
and her wealth has all been deriv
ed from her manufactures. These
are gradually leaving her, and
eventually they will all go; some
to the West, but most to the South,
where the advantages for profita
ble manufacturing are all located.
The coal and iron in the South are
easily gotten at in inexhaustible
amounts, and the iron mills, foun
dries, and machine shops can go
to them better than they can be x
carried to the shops. nTheu the
cotton and woolen mills must go
there, for the raw materials are,
and are to be produced there; most
cheaply, uniformly and better.
Then look; at the advantages of
the extra hours ot daylight in a
year's run. This, of itself, is no
small matter. As the South grows
stronger, tue-weaith, culture and
lower of the country will be cen
tered there, until she will become,
not only the mistress of America,
but iheP central erppire ot the
world." - r- PV !
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