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A SOCIAL ISSUE. i THE ALPHABET OF THE I
One of the needs of our time is a ADMINISTRATION li
Butler to write another' satire, not on j Written for the instruction of Judge
the subject of Miss McFliinsey in pax- Taft, the latest arrival, whose educa
ticular, but on -American -society in gen j tion is about tq coram en ce. ' ;
era! AYeliavetmssed through various A is for Avery, safe in his prison. ;
stages of social demoralization and de-1 B is for Babcock, rhb should be in
his'n. . ; ' -"! "'-j
C is for ColfaxHobillier's bead mini
i-D is for Delano, wbo swindled the
red man. !
E is for "Ebma,M. on England un
pravity , masculine foppishness and
feminine extravagance We have had
tbe early excesses of republican court
in the first days of the nation the (state
ly, pride of the bepowdered dames from
back woods clearings, who imitated the
dress and mannera of the belles of the
eoitrts of the English Georges ; the false
chivalry, chevaliers and fine ladies of
anoteher period which was a sort of re
MARKT TWAIN'S duel.
1US W03DEUTUL ESCAXE.
the bam door and could not bit it ; and i TOUCHING FUNERAL INCIDENT!
I practiced at the rail and eocrtd not
hit that; and I tried for the squash and
could not hit that M would baveVen
eiitifely disheartened but tlutoccasiofn
ally 1 crippled ono of the boys, and
that ''giTB toe hope.
r.T At last we began to bear Ipistol shots
near by in the next ravine. ' We knew
what that meant t The other party was
out practicing too, Then I was In the
loaded.
F is for Fori Sill that poor Belknip
exploded. ?
G is for Grant, who is partial to
knaves.
SING -RUMPUSES IN RALEIGH.
LlHrtS AND COUNTER-LIBELS All-
HEt-rs,. Slits, pen-and-ink knoc
DOWNS AND DRAO-OUTS AND OEX-
1'KAL MUDDLEMENT.
f . :
V sterdav was a breezy day in Ral-
The I:irch zephyrs went cavort
nd 'Hihin, howlint' around cor
clattering signs and dashing dust
enough into every open mouth and eye
to 'enable its passe'sor to go into the
real estate business with, a heavy a
rnoimt of paid-up capital. But more
bre-zeful by far than all the March
weatlicr was the hellabclloo picked up
by man's inhumanity to inan" which
mak ?s countless .scribblers mourn.
The -air was hot and thick with rumors
'"of wrath and tribul.-ttion. About noon,
(ion,. W. R." Cox, chairman of the state
derii-""atic committee, was arrested by
a IT ntted States marshal, and taken orT
to Wilmington on a lying charge of
cons)iracy in the Robeson county con
vention case. A little later in the day,
ruzissance of feudal : follies ; the codfish j H is Harrington, expert in safes.
aristocracy shoddy and now we have :
the political pilgrim 'military society of
the latter and worse days of the repub
lic. The last is the climax and culmi'
nation of the evil examples and idiotip
practices that have brought ridicule and
contempt upon us as a people. . The
Mrs. Hominys and Elijah Pograms,
painted by the gi eat , satirist, nearly
thirty years ago, with a pen dipped in
Caustic, and to our pain, acknowledged
in indignation, were paragons compared
with the leaders of society and remark
able men' in politics we have been ad
miring and obeying for the last decade.
When the great rogue who is now hid
ing the Lord and the New York police
only know where, was in the plcntitude
of his powerL his every movement and
that of his family was chronicled with
the minutest details in the greatest jour-
rials of the land, and when his fan
daughter was led to the alter the mar
riage inarch was sung in more glowing
termsthan those of which the Court
Journal described the nuptials of Vic
toria's daughter Louise and the Mar
quis of Lome. Pelf pushed its way
into the parlors of the White House,
and honest worth and good breeding
were elbowed iuta the dim and dust-
I is for Ingalls and Mrs. GV watch
J is for Joyce, who "a nice thing"
did botch.
K is for KU Klux. and bloody-shirt
Morton.
L was tho Landulent for Williams
to sport on.
M is for Marsh, who to process is
non est. I
N is for Noj one but Bristow that's
honest.
O is for Orville, the go-between
brother.
P is for Pierrepont, conviction to
smother.
Q is for Questions that no one must
ax.
R is the Responses that keep out
fax
S is for Shepherd, his ringities and
panders.
T are the Tax -payers, whose money
he squanders. i
U is for Ulysses that stands by these
friends.
V is 'the Villanic3 that he defends.
W are the Witnesses hunted with
violence. "
X the 'Xamination which he must
silence. !
Y is the Yell from the nation that
Mark' Twain contributes the follow
ing to Tom Hood's Annual f j
"The only merit I claim for the fol
lowing narrative is that It is a true
story. I has a moral on the end of it,
but I claim nothing 5 on that, as it is
merely thrown In to curiry favor4 with
Ihft lifTtoUa plAmrnfJ ' " - i'
Afterl haof fcprted 'a couple of
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vears oii the Virginia1 Citv (Nevada) our o anu men
Daily Enterprise they promoted me to " w ' tt" , .
una. ray tarn uoor wunouxia wonna or
mark,' and that! would simply be an
end to me;' for,1 of cours, the other
man would immediately bettme blood
thirsty as I was. I f
Just at this moment a little bird no
larger than a sparrow flevr by nd lit
on a bush about 30 paces a Way,' ard my
little second,' Steve Gills, who was a
the
ton
ard of Secretary of State Ilower
appeared, charging Col. Walter
Clan, of the News, with offering to
t-cW the influence and championship of
that paper to him for $1,000 in public
printing ; and charging the proprietors
of t ie News with having made a false
afftV avit in rcjrard to their circulation.
Within an hour after the appearance
oft iese grave charges. Josiah Turner,
of t le Sentinel, was. arrested charged
wltlji libel in allowing, Ilowerton's pub
lication to bemnde through the Senti-
... n
iiel'ls columns. A warrant was out for
lllowerton too. Add to all this the
arrest of, or servinir of warrants on
olj Walter Clark, Col. Thomas Holt,
sol; John 1). Cameron and Dr. George
graham, of the News, in a suit for
$50,000 for libel of Howerton ; and the
dear public have t lie bill of fare of
about as lively a day's work as wo" have
wit
pol
ren
mansion, while brazen vulsraritv shone
resplendent under 'lights that were only
less brilliant than the parvenues be
neath.; A new class of journals sprang
i'ltp existence, and a new kind of liter
ature had to be invented to publish the
praises of the age of brass. Society
gossip, toilet descriptions and party
(evening ones) reports all at once be
came necessary features of every enter
prising journal and the effeminate Jen
kins was supplanted by a female who
stood on line even between the doubt
ful society she lauded and a darker
ground. These conditions still exist,
although there are signs that they are
decaying from their own primal rotten
ness. . !
There is a crying demand for politic
cal reform, and the demand for the pur
gation of our society as we must call
it ought not to be less loud. Our
be editordn-chief ; and I lasted just a
week by" the watch. But I made an
uncommonly lively newspaper While I
did last, and when I retired I had a
duel on my hands and three! horse-
whippings promised me.
I he latter I made no attempt to
collect however, this history concerns
only the former. It was the ld and
"flush times" of the silver excitement,
when the population was wonderfully
wild and mixed ; everybody went arm
ed to the teeth, and- all slights and iru
J -
suits had to be atoned for with the
best article of blood your system could
furnish. In the course of my editing
I made trouble with a Mr. Lord, the
editor of a rival paper. He flew up
about some little trifle or other that I
said about him I do not, remember
now what it was. I suppose t called
him a thief or a body-snatcher, or an
idiot, or something like that ; I jwas ob
liged lo make the paper readable, and
I couldn't fail in my duty to a whole
community of subscribers merely to
save the exaggerated sensitiveness of an
individual. Mr. Lord was offended
and replied vigorously in his paper.
Vigorously means a greatrdeal when it
a fron
all the
Under this r bead, the Richmond ,
Dispatch of March 16, says : p "
There was & funeral service held la
Centenn ary Methodist 'churclv Tues
day. The pastor of the chirrchv ReV; ;
Dr. Edwards, conducted the services!
The subject'' of the solranltjr was a
poor white man who had been a hack
driver in the city.' nc harl died sud
denly In an bseure locality! TTheri
the hearse bearing his remains reached
theehuTchloorf amended thy flair
carriages containing 'the immediate
friends and relatives of the deceased,'
it was found that there were no pall
bearers. In this awkward cxtremltr,'
it bee am 2 necessary for. the colored
sexton of the church and the colored
drivers of tho hacks r to assist the two
or three white gentlemen present In
carrying the corpse ' into the church.
The whole company present dill not
young
nnspi.
Z is the
thinjrs.
Zeal
for a
r
new state of
The Democracy has now the most
powerful motives that ever animated a
party to unite. They must do it.
Thev will be false to themselves and to
their countryj if they do not sink min
or differences on the financial Question.
I
and rally to save the country from a
. i r
party whose infamous rascalities, whose
gigantic frauds, have made Our nation
a disgrace in the eyes of honest men.
Cleaveland Plain Dealer (Dem.)
refers to a personal editorial in
tier newspaper. Dueling was
fashion amonir the unner classes in that
i j
country, and a "very few gentlemen
would thiow away the opportunity of
fighting one. To kill one man in a du
el caused a man to be even more looked
up to than to kill two men in the ordi
nary way. ell, out there ii you a-
buse a mail and that man did pot like
j
it, you had to call him out and kill him,
otherwise you would be disgraced. So
I challenged Mr. Lord, and 1 did hope
he would not accept ; but I knew per
fectly well that he did not want to fight,
and so I challenged him violent and
fashionable women need not tm hark to
iicssed in Carolina journalistic and tliehomel w which are said to have
uca. cire.es in many a aay urew, characteri2ei their udn:others. but
dear brethren; permit a venerable L, can restonj t, , standards
christian with green glass eyes, seated lf d breedin aud manners wh'ich
tin a very high fence, to suggest that ,Wi,r :ii w u
F ' J I rno !! vr. l A r n 1 1 p rente iro miict
r little hand-cs were never man u- bauish our modern Jezehils Deli.
ured to claw each other's optical h-PUlaJMia Times
anisms in tins exaccroaiiiur sivie.
1 mt
; v hl The tKlitieal auction in New Hamn-
gCK .1 order, we trcntly tender you theTN. n.m- - aVin t nnnM.
usd of a battery of. 12 pounders and a raentj and Uie party with the1 most mon-
up
von
fac
AH'
As
GEORGE ELIOTS APPEARANCE
AND MANNER.
From the London World.
A slight presence, of middle height,
as the height of women goes ; a face-
dead shot with a pistol much better exceed twenty-five persons.
than I was snatched out bis revolver j
and shot the bird's head biff! We all
ran to pick' up the game, and-sure
enough, just at this moment, some of
the other duelists came reconnoitering
over the little ridge. They ran to our
group to see what the matter was, and
when they saw the bird Lbrd's second
said ; I f:
"That was a splendid shot. How far
off was it?" I I
Steve said with some indifference:
"Ob, no great distance. About
thirty paces.1 j .
"Thirtv - paces! Heavens alive!
Who did it r -
"My man Twain."
- ''The mischief he, did ! Can he do
it often?" ;
"Well, yes. He can do it about four
times out of. five.."
T knew the little rascal was lying,
but I never said anything. I never
told him so. He was noi of a dispo-
i i - r
sition to invitfKconfidence of that kind,
so 1 let the matter ves. ! TBut it was a
comfort to see those people look sick,
and see their jaws drop jwhcu Steve
Among
ladies whose
these were two
bearing and style of dress indicated
refinement and culture. One of these
young ladies liad in her hand an ele
gantly wrought cross composed 'of
beautiful flowers, and evidently gotten
up by a skillful florist without regard
to cost. The solemnities were con
cluded in the church with the usual
remark of the officiating minister j
The further services will be con
ducted at the grave." And then the
coffin was lifted by the extemporized
pall-barcrs and borne down the aisle
of the church. On passing the two'
j-oung ladies referred to, the one hold
ing the floral cross quietly arose jind
laid it on the coflln of the ioor and
almost friendless man. It struck the
spectators, of whom there were two or
three outside of the little circle 'of
relatives and friends, as a curious In
cident. The explanation of the mys
tery was that the occupant of that
coffin had a few y earsl ago, rescuad
the young lady in question from Im
minent peril and most probably from
sudden death. The horse she Was
made that statement. They went off riding became unmanageable and ran
and got Lord and took him home; and jaway. At the intersection of Gover-
when we got home, half an hour later,
there was a note saying that Mr. Lord
peremptorily declined to fight.
Vie found out afterwartl that Lord
hit his mark thirteen times in eih-
teen shots if he had put those thir-
l . . . 1 1 : 4 zl i i j i .
lmplacable manner. And then I sat j
down and snuffed and snuffed till the V "T J '". w. 14
deal. I rue, they could have put pegs
in the holes and used me for a hat-rack;
but what is a hat-rack to a man who
feels he has intellectual powers?
I have written this true incident of
my history for one purpose only to
answer came. All! the boys Uhe ed
i
iters were in the office "helpiug" me
in the dismal business, and telling
about ; duels and ' discussing the code
with a lot 'of aged ruffians who had ex-
doen .tin-buckets- of aqua-fortts.. Let
ia e peace or pieces. Daily Srn.
us
n the course of yesterday's con
gressional discussion on tue ventilation
question, Blaine said that, ''from some
cailHe or other the air ot the hall had
never been so bad as this
vear;" and
he j could not account for it He seems
to forget, his having dug and spread
out in it all the skeletons aud carrion
of jAndersonville, and torn open within
its, walls all the old sores and ulcers of
tho ar. And lie sterns oblivious of
the fact that a thousand reeking cess-
pools of radical villainy and infamy;
ey was the successful competitor, as
was to be expected. They are a thrifty
set in the Granite State, and - as they
carry on their elections always on a
cash basis, many an honest yeoman
doubtless went home rejoicing last
night, with some of Uncle Sam's crisp
greenbacks in his pocket. Apart from
this they are also a steady-going set,
not easily shaken from their convic
tions, and being firmly 'convinced that
the rebellion must be put down, they
wUl probably continue to vote, for a
vigorous prosecution of the war for the
remainder of the century. In about
seven years from now the news about
perience in such matters, and altogeth
er there was a loving interest laken in
the matter that made me unspeakably
somewhat Ipng, whose every feature uncomfortable. The answer came
tells of intellectual power, lightened Mr. Lord declined.1 Our boys jwere fu
by the perpetual play of changing ex rious, and so was I on the surface,
pression ; a yoice of most sympathetic- I sent him another challenge, and
comnass and richness: a manner full r,n
4 ; J . -lJViJV,. UUVt ftJUVT VUV . baV4) .vb.w w I . , fm
P ! . . i i .. . t , , more experienced now, and am ltdlexi-
of a grave sweetness, uniformly gentle ha not want to fieht the more blood- 1 . . J l .
At-'L i.. .t,: .i- . T. . ropposeu to tlie Ureadtul custom. 1
,kms the denth of the interest taken tor.. L n If o .mUrl f um 6laJ lnJeetl to Vh ta
7 W VUUI'Q". I I
inordinary land obscure things and U waking up. It was becoming appa-
warn the youth of to-day against the
practice of dueling' and to plead wtih
them to war against it. I was young
and foolish when I challenged the gen
tleman, and thought it very fine and
grand to be a duelist and stand upon
the "field of honor." But I am older aud
nor and Main streets, her horse, Rolnff
down Governor street, dashed against
the horses of a hack as it was nro-
cecding up Main street. The hack
driver, leaning forward and extending
his hands, grasped the young lady
and dragged her into the boot of the
hack. She never forgot tho man ; and
hearing of his death and funeral ser
vices, she attended in person, and
with her own fair hand laid the tribute
of flowers on his coffin.
The young lady mentioned is Miss
Mattie Ould, a .daughter of Judge
Robert Ould, Confederate commission
er of exchange during the war. f
c " - I seven years irom now toe news aoout
whisky-ring:, war and navy department Belknip and Babcock and, Robeson
rings, pxst-traderships, Babcockery and the rest will reach N ew Hampshire,
aild lklknapping, have been uncovered and if by that time any Democratic
tlircabouts. No wonder the air is hould arise in tr State who
. I , , , . 4. . , not phenomenal fools, it is possi-
bad. ITie only marvel is that, like a ble that they may get up an interest
vist, exaggerated Upas Valley, it has ing election. Meanwhile an election
nt suffocated every man and beast in New Hampshire is abont as Import
.within : a hundred leagues of it, and t as a battle among ghosts, though
a,L , . . . . - the crgaxs will play theirsweetest tones
stifled the very cherubim as they fiew d there' wiU be rejoicing iu
over it with patent-nipper clDthes-pms every custom house in the land In res
oi their noses. DaVy Scntind. ponse to this 'first gun." rhil. 7imt.
people ; con yersation which lends itself
as readily to' topics trivial as to topics
profound, and which is full of a humor
as, indeed, are her writings that is
redeemed from sarcasm , by its ever
present sympathy ; such is a rough and
imperfect sketch of George Eliot, as
she may be seen when she is occupied
. ol ', l! 1
wuu ncr ounuay rcvepuons m uer
pleasant hotne near Regent's Park.
Far from strong in health, she feels the
effort of authorship so severely, the in
terest whichj she takes in the develop-,
ment and the destiny of the creations
of her brain who might be better de
scribed as the generalizations from her
own personal knowledge and experi
ence, is so painfully and absorbingly
deep, that she is unequal to the task
of going very generally or very much
into society, So thoroughly does she
think out her books, even to the struc-
ture of her sentences, before she com
mences to write them, that, unlike
Dickens, txugh like Thackeray, her
manuscript displays scarcely an era,
sure Or a bloL M1ImingUn Journal.
r( r-t that he was going to fight me after
a'l I ought to havo kuownl how it
Gul(l be he was a man who could
ne?T bej depended upon. Our boys
were jubilant. I was not, though I
tried iiarJ to lfe
11 now time to go out and
tice. l tjj6 custom there
duels
up my voice against it. X think it is a
bad, immoral thing. It is every man's
duty to do all he can to discourage du
eling, i !
FACTS ABOUT THE KORAN.
- i .- : i
The Koran was written! about A. D.
Listen here: "If thou turn away
thy foot from the sabbath, from aoing
thy pleasure on my holy day ; and call
the sabbath a Delight, the Holy of the
Lord, Honourable ; and ehalt honour
him, not . doing thine own ways, rior
finding thine own pleasure, nor speak
ing thine own words : Then shalt thou
delight thyself ia the Lord ; and I Will
cause thee in ride upon tlie high places
of the earth, and feed thec with tho
heritage of Jacob thy father : for the
mouth of the Lord hath spoken lt,p
This is a promotion worth striving far
and yet how few arc thoughtful and
i iX 1 Tfrar m-nAv-al nm - at v tBk iI.a 1
mi prac- - - nsible enough to seek it. The world
to fight proiessora iuutair-, asa ir;e -jeirj,
. . " I I - -w i ' "i t " r J 444 rvik4VA UVUUi
-uh navy six-shooters at fifteen ana me lunscians. m c wor,;up oi , and
PAUd and empty till the game one God whose unity Was the chief! cmptj lhe breath of lba
t wa5 sccurc. e cnt -ux., j ble who cry crucify fcxiay and bo-
lu ravine iust onfof town and ana crremomra, ckhiej
was absent-.
ind
viA.Txcic iu ! . . . : .
; nanna w-mnrsv. x uung man. pu&
was ,i l t w- -wi'. .j it.
I II - ft r A , T I - I
w stood this barn I language, wmca cmwur Iesy.a . : 1
borrowed barn door for a 'target plahommed as j the prophet. It
i i .. ... i ....
- ironi a jciiitj- - " v i . . : j CP lO lb.
The father of Carl Schurx died in
Illinois last week, at' the age cf 80.
door up, ar d a n on Cnd against every fine quality, was said to be that a party of ladies and gentlemen In
.t r.it . . . I .I t.i ii .iai . i
put a sqnasK c. . 'Al to
represent his He was a very
tall, lean creat- reit sort of
material for a . & Iice
shot could fcta Vlta ftd evcjl tLen he
might spHt your U.Ucu Exaction
aside, the rail cf
too thin to reprt 1,
ly, but the aqua If
there wai.tnj ; n ,
between the squaM a
in lavor oi m? squij,
Well j I
of Paradise. , Mahoromed.ciserted that j th gallery of the House of Represen
tee Koran was re vealed t) him,lurmg ; tatfrev having witnessed som rather
a period of twenty .three years, by th- j disgraceful proceedings oa .the floor,
Angl Gabriel. The sty Je of the vol- j weTe lament rng the decay of Atnerican
uiic a """""m -, . Bvauaixjaijiiiq, wueu one oi luem re-
where the attributes of Go4 are describ- j marked : I wonder what Tlma
cu, ii. ovu.v.w.-w -4-,v. iweiierson wooia uo ir ne were aown
ran was tmnslated into Lattiaia 1144,
and into English abont 1762. It is a
rhapsody of 3,(K0 rerseaJ diviW into
11 4 section, j :
tlierc to-dav r--- An individual In an
- . . . ,
adjoining seat; who had been listenfug
to the conrersation, gravely replied :
A Western
nt "death Kr
: . He"d probably offer to pay liberally
Wretniie.VaTerdUrt i cf getting otttsidjs
hanging; twA ?. nun ; 'Hthcnt hsvisg his porks ritke"