CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
VOL. I. NO. 4*
"tME. SWEET HOSE."
Ui. •( J*t>« n.wtH Fan*
niwr*. Kmklm lta<» .1 U« Oh,
11.X.1h. UMftwaAUn.
Snuw reventyreight y*»r* ago Mas
ker John H. I\yn<> was rensideret a It
re«y prodigy 1X men of letters in tils
«*?. xp lh.» S« York Nisi*, He was
h rtf, as' vnlit'g tn the »« e <unts reganl
«>f as meal trustor. rtliv. in v> oM
ladiiwsttd two-story 'bouse, witli
rstStui nwf anti at*«i doorway, at
ed nmuierli Brava! street, ntar
P-arL New York. ills father was
" lam IXvne.Une son of one <*t three
twtlwrs wiw> itutm tn Ewtlginmton,
Mass, fnwu l\ rt-neiatli, England
at* a fvriy years aster Ute arrival of
Ike.-- ayiWwtr. William Payne's soc
t;t wife, he mother of John Howard,
wttsxtrah Isaacs*, the daughter of ana
tve f Hamburg, Germany, who came
to . a tluiupf it. Long Island, before
tin 1 ewJutunary war, Jo in Howard
was the sixth of »Lie children. The
jc, t r jartof Ustariy bi.yho d wa
sfsatat Kustbnnpton. l.<nj Island.
While \d a boy he went to live in ltos
»ut ills f .ther was a rehoolteaeher.
atm the hoy I solated unusual talent
\r e lawallon .lift a strong likir.g for
rentiay. About the year
(set ms iu* hs, William Osborn Payne,
wh i was in business in this eity, uie.l.
a d lwha Howard was sent to take a
A rrekip in Um store. Wh le thus cn
§ «,vl h" nuhl d isl a little weekly
(Ui off, the i mis Jfihvi', in which
hi arete, under the name of •' t'r.ti
eas" art ties whs h at Tasted the al
tc.ti nos literary men. Their interest
us tain hr ui' so deep Unit they found
u, axs to send him to I'nion enUig*.
la h- va die tary in their*. pUHJt.r
'•‘•i he wr.ue that the slu-.y of law
w hi ise " the ga! of his tiiture ex
»r- a-." The vldedictory was signed
Mi aH. Payne. He did n. treuia.ii in
wit j[i' tid the end of Ih ■ course; hut.
haring ohtaoed tlie consent
of his father to a;pwr on
the -ta*e. he made his debut as You up
N'vrvil a: tlieohl I"iark theatre in this
city un Pets nary at. lists*- He was
siikv ssiul and alter ward played in Bos
ton and Providence and in the South,
fk'ur years; liter he went to Liverpool.
Kn-lißidandthe United states were at
war ti eo, and he and oU er Americans
were put in prison and k pt there for
tvurtkwi days. On June 14,1813, he
appeared in the title roie in Uie trag
olj of "Douglas" at ltrury Lane
theatre iu land u. with much sue
e ss. an ! afterward in oUier English
and Irsh cities. A critic of his (>cr
fkiouucv in Manchester wrote; "He
ti> a figure nut. imposing, but well
pro;* named; a fare aim <sf too bewu
tful tor a m in. and a voice the dear
's t an I uo-t bed-like we remember
ever to liave heard." From the Brit
bh Island < Payne went to I’ariswlmre
h* made thca quaiutaneeot VVa hing
hfi Irving, and was Ids ro unmate lor
a while. Tlierelie turned his alten
twi to making Kngl slf versions of
Ptench ptiys. for the I„4> lon stage, j
Eit- tragk'iy of " Brutus'* war wntt n |
f«r Kmn and was pr.siuced on Decern-,
tci i-i'lS. iaiter heluvame managi'r
ui S»M t i's Well, the.tre iu London, j
Vi.-* s,thh» in the venture, awl wa<
1 dge.l iu the del tor's jaih He after-1
* .’.id went bach to I',o-is and engaged \
in Uie euiidoyiucnt that had kept j
htik there pteviouaiy. Asan actor and j
i writer lie was uufjrtunate with the
w i gvrs, often al andoniug work be-,
*aus»- of dikigicements.
While Payue wi a »n Paris he rent a
fa age of mauusonpU to t'liarl s
httnlle. then manager of the COwnt
thw .cn, iiwidkkn. setting his price at
*5SSft. Tlie manure* p'.s were ac
cepted. Among tliew wan a drama
entitled • Augioletta." Before Uiis
t! «an»a was piodueed at tlie tYivenl
balden another version of it was
height out at tire Surrey. Payn
changed the plot of his "AngioleUa''
xtt.kwhal, mtrkduced musi.al parts,
railed it * t'lari, the Maid of Milan,”
and produced it as an oi«ra at the
'ii cut t anien on May d, ISJi- In
t i opera was the song " Htuue, Swot*
Hoe” The miuae was mlaiiUd
tMu a Sicilian air by Henry B. Bishop.
The r.ameof the original c mp. rer is
a.' known. ItonnU tti embudbd il
tn his opera of “ Anna Bolena.” thus
p-' ing it new wonts in the- language
tor which it was composed. In a
Hi rl.Hikhtia Payne write; • 'Home,
Swicl II uue,' as a refrain, I llnnk,
•ill mur in n rely ” The song was
cuug b> t'lari when .hr contra ts the
•pl-adid a> artwents in which she finds
bedl with t* e home she has aban
*li sol Tlie fol'o ring is given by .Mr.
b*lr el Harruon in bis luugiapby of
i'hyne as being In arronlauce with
I'aruv’s "orig nal maims -ript, with bis
o«u enc.re mmcluauen ”
CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG CO., N. C., APRIL 14, 1883.
’Mid pleasures and palaces though we may
roam,
Ba it ever so humble, there’s no plaoe like
home!
K charm from the sky seems to hallow ue
there,
Which, sock through the world, is ne’er met
with elsewhere!
Home, Home, Sweet, Sweet Homel
There’s no place like Home!
There’s no plaoe like Home!
An exile from home, splendor dazzles in
vain!
ft K 'J' > m -V lowly thatched cottage again!
Tlie birds singiug gnyly, that come at my
call—
Give me them!—and the pieeo of mind,
dearer than all!
Home, Homo, Sweef, Sweet Home!
Tlieie's no place like Home!
There'* no placo like Home!
“This song,” says a writer, “has.
had a more universal circulation than
any song written before or since. It
is a fact that upward of 100,0 JO cop
i s were issu. d liy its publisher in
London in less than one year after its
i.rst publication. The profit yielded
over 2,0,10 guineas,” Mr. Harrison’s
work ere lits Payne with having writ
ten eight tragedies, six comedies,
twenty-on 3 dramas, five operas an l
nine farces. He wrote many short
poems.
On July 25, 1832, Payne rcturnel
to tlie L'n'ted States. In November
of that year a benefit entertainment
was given to him in the Park theatre.
The tragedy of “Brutus ” was played,
and “ Home, Sweet Home” was sung,
lie made ibis city his home for some
time, engaging in literary work, which
proved to he n it very remunerative.
In I'4l Pre-id nt Tvler appointed
him consul at Tun's, North Africa
In the course of Polk’s administration
he was recalled. He was again
appointed to the same post by Fil
morc. and this position he held
at tin' ti “e of his death, which
eurred at Tunis, April 0. 1852, in his
sixty-second year. Tlie United S’ates
government caused a marble slab to
be placed at his grave, which bears the
following inscription:
In memory of
OOUOSCL J IRS HOWARD PAYN*,
twice Consul of the United States of America
to the Kingdom of Tunis,
This stone is here p need by a grateful
country.
The slab has graven on it also these
lines, written by Mr. B. S. Chilton:
Sure when thy gentle spirit fled
To realms beyond the azure dome,
With arms outstretched God's ange!e said:
“We'eome to Heaven’s ‘Home, Sweet
Home.’ ”
His Pa’s Treih.
•• What ails your pa’s teeth,” asked
the grocery man of the bad boy. “Th
hired girl was over here to get. some
c irnmeal for gruel, and she said your
pa was gumming it since he lost his
teeth.”
“ Oh, about the teeth. That was too
bad. You see my chum has got a dog
that is old, and his teeth have al! come
oiit in front, ami this morning t hor
ned pa's teeth fre he got up, to see
it' we couldn’t fix them in the dog’s
mouth, so he could ea’ In ttcr. Pa says
it is an evalenco of a kind heart for a
l>oy to be good to dumb ani cals, but
it's a mean dog that will go bark on a
fri nd. We tedt ie teeth in the clog’s
mouth with a string t mt went aruun 1
his upper jaw, and another around his
under jaw, and you’d a dide t o ee how
funny he lo ksi when he laffed. He
looked just 1 Ue pa when he tries to
smil i so as to g< t me to come up to
him so lie can l ek me. The dog pawed
his liou'.b a spell to gut the teeth out,
and then we gave him a hone with
some mi at on, and lie begin to gnaw
the bone, and the te th came otf the
plate and he tlmught it was a piece of
tie bone and he s.vullowed the
t * th. My chum noticed it first,
and he sad we had got to
ffA in our work pretty quick to save
tlie plati 8, and 1 think we'were in
luck to save them. I held the dog,
and my chum, who was better ac
quainted with him, untied the strings
1 and got th; golti plates out, but. there
were only two teeth left, and the dog
was happy, lie woggled his ta 1 for
' more teeth, but we hadn't any m ire.
lam going to give him ma’s tei t.i
! some i.av. My chum says when a dog
I gets an ap|ietit» for anyth ng yon
have got to keep giving it to him, or
he goes ba. kon you. But I think my
churn played dirt on me. We sold the
gold p ates to a jewelryman, and my
'chum kept th' money. 1 think, ai
long a» I furnished the goods, he
ought to have given me something be
sioe the experience, don't you V
After this I doVi li ive no more part
ners, you In t.” All this time the hoy
was marking on a piece of paper, and
soon as ter he went out the grocery
man noticed a crowd outside, un l on
I going out he found a sign hanging up
| which r al. “ W. rmy Figs for Pur
ti**."—Peris V Sin..
A HORRIBLE CRMS.
A Froni'ei 1 l)«wrado Who Added('^nnlbnl
lam to i he Orlne of Murder—Five Uold
Hreker* Killed by 1 heir €3aide—Captured
Alter Mae Years.
A reernt letter from Denver, CoL,
to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat says :
After nine years one of the greau at
murder myster es of the fronti t has
been cl areil up by the c.iplure of the
murderer at Fort Fetterman, Wyom
ing Territory, and his confession,
which General Adams, of tlie pns -
office, received here by telegraph.
The affair has long since become a
story of crime that for atrocity and
fieadislmess is n’t surpassed iu the
criminal hi tiry of the country.
gNine years ago, when the scan Juan
mining excitement broke out, a party,
composed of eiglr.een frontiersmen,
left -alt Lake City to penetrate the
new IB Dorado byway of the old Mor
mon trail through the Ute domain.
On arriving a the confluence of-the
Gunnison and Grand rivers, early in
Fo ruary, they separated into two
bodies of twelve and six respectively.
T.ieir supplies had iliminishud to so
small an amount that when they were
divided there was barely rations
enough for two days. The larger de
tachment followed the Grand river to
Cochetopa river, while the smaller
crew, which consisted of Messrs. Mil
ler, Bell, Swan, Humphreys, George
Noon and Alfred I‘ackha, pursued the
Gunnison south. Packlia wassel sited
for It ader. General Adams was agent
for the Uneompaligre Indians at Los
I’inos agency at tlie time. Late in
March Paekha appeared at the agen
cy in an a most naked condition anil
starving. He was unable to eat for
several days and it required careful
me liciil treatment to save his life. To
Gen. ral Adams I’ackha said he hail
been de erted by his companions and
left to die in a snow-storm. He was
taken to Laguache, the nearest fron
tier settlement, for treatment. Two
days after the agency esoort departed
with him a couple of Utes arrived
with strips of supposed meat, which
they showed to Gen ral Adams as
“ white man’s fl ah." Suane-ting foul
play, the general immediately dis
patched a soeond party to brlpg Pack
ha back to the agen y as a prisoner.
Upon being shown the human Aexh
and charged with murder Packba
seemingly broke down, and confessed
that the five men were killed, one
by the other, to provide food for
the survivors. One - day when he
was absent from the camp hunting,
,he said, his five companions drew lots
for death, and Swan drew the unlucky
number. The victim was being cut
up, he said, when he returned to camp.
Miller, Humphrey an t Noon then fell
under the hatchet, and in the order
stated their flesh was devoured. Bell
then tried to murder Packba, but the
latter di t siting him in the act, felled
him dead with an ax before he crthld tire
a second shot. Pai klia wound up his
somewhat crooked story with an account
of his blind journey through tlie .wilder
ness, in which he preserved his life
against the winter cold and stems by
carrying from placi to place burn ng
coals in a coffee-pot. Bell’s flesh was
what he fed on. Meanwhile during
tlie investigation a straggler from the
p irty of twelve turned up almost dead
iron starvation. He described as
nearly as possible where he had loft his
compani ms in a dying eon lition. and a
relief party sent out with food found
them in a camp on the Cebolla river,
and they were brought into Los l’inog.
On being told Packba's experience tie y
refused to ere lit it. and demanded a
scout. Paekha offered to guide a
party to the Remains. An ex
pedition of Whites and Indians
was organized under the leader
ship of Henry Lantsr. Tlie trail was
taken across the mountain toward the
head of the Gunnison river. When
the north fork of the Gunnison was
rta-hid Paekha d limed to be con
fu ed, and mi 4 he could not direct ttia
exploration any further, lie tried his
best to lead the party north. Lanter,
growing suspicious, charged him with
toe purpose of mis Greeting the party,
and insists 1 on continuing south,
whereupon Packlia drew a knife anil
tried to kill him. Packlia wai dis
arined and irone I. The party returned
to the ag mey, after having faded to
discover the camp, and Packba was
confined in the Lagnuche jail. As w
days luter ho c • iped, an 1 traoe of him
was nuver certainly bail aga n till last
week.
Three years ago a desperado was
kil ed at Foit Defiance, Arizona Ter
ritory, whose des ripti >n oorrespom e I
with' that of Pacliha, and it was
thought that l.c bat at la t mot his
death. In June, 1874, a photographer
from Peor.a, 111., named Reynolds, ac-
cidentally discovered the bodies of
the murdered men in a hem
lock grove near Lake San Cbris
toval, an l only a short distance
from the present Lake City. Some
memb rs of the surveying party who
had lingered in the country visited the
scene and identified the men. The
bodies of four of the men—Swan,
Bell, Noon and Humphreys—were
lying side by side. Two of th m were
rolled up in a blanket. A bullet-hole
in each head explained the way of the
killing. What remained of poor Mil
ler was a few yards away. The head
was severed from the body and tlie
flesh had b en taken from the limbs.
There was evidence in the disturbed
condition of the ground'that he ha 1
fought hard for his life. The bodies
were | reserved and easily identified.
There was known to have been about
$10,1)00 in tlie possession of the party,
but not a dollar could tie found. There
was no longer any d übt hut Paskha
murdered the men to obtain their
money, and running out of food ate
their flesh.
chapter opened last week,
when a member of the Salt Lake party
*i legraphed to the sheriff at Liike City
that he had met Packlia face to face at
Fort Fetterman. The murderer was
reei gnized as the leader of what has
been for some time the most desperate
gang of outlaws in the West. General
Adams was inf irmed of thediscovery,
and a c incerted movement by .sheriffs
Spangler, of Denver, and Smith of
Lake City, and Sliarple3s, of Cheyenne,
re-ulted in the capture of Paekha.
When confronted with' the details of
the finding of tbe bodies and the charge
of having murdered the five men for
their money he confessed.
The Emperor’s Buttons.
In a recently published life of tlie
emperor of Germany occur; tlie fol
lowing: As king and emperor alike,
for many yt are past, William I. has
not appeared in p ihlic except while
undergoing his annual water cure at
Gastein and Ems, dressed in civil dress.
He invariably wears uniform at home,
even wli m writing letters in his study,
which ovi rlijoks Linden avenue, Ber
lin’s chi f mili ary and fashionable
thoroughfare. While actually sitting
at his writing table he is acustomed to
loosen three or four of the upper but
tons of his double-breasted tunic, and
to turn back its lapels. Whenever,
however, a h idy of troops, Bmall or
larg >, is heard approaching the pa'ace,
he rises from his seat, hastily buttons
up his uniform tn the throat, and ad
justs his cross if tlie “Order piur le
Merite” in m li s irtthat it hangs d iwn
over the coat collar exactly under his
chin. This operation, which long prac
tice enables him to perform in a
few seconds, conc'uded, he walks to
his window and stands there in, full
view of his soldiers while th y inarch
past. One day an exalted personage,
wlio happened to be in conversation
witli the emperor when, the sound of
dis ant drums and fifes having an
n uncoil the approach of “Grand
Guards,” his majesty hurriedly went
througli tlie above describe! “ rapid
act,” took heart of gracea id asked the
Kaiser why he was so particular about
liu'.toning the top button of his uni
form lief >re showing hiins if to his
guards, “ who, af.er all.” aided l’rince
tunity of seeing your majesty face to
face. I should have thought, sir-, that
you would have scarcely deemed it
necessary to sta iiLupon ceremony with
th in.” “ That is not the question at
all,” replied the Kaiser. “At the head
of the army, I am bound to show my
soldiers an irreproachable example in
the way of tenuo. They have never
:een me witli my coat unbuttoned, anil
Ido not intend they ever shall. For,
let tne tell you, it is the one b itton left
I unbuttoned that is the ruin of an
army I”
Little Johnny Talk.
One time 1 was in Mister Brily’s
! shop and he had cut off a pigs he 1 and
set it on the top of a ba 1, and ole
Gaffer Peters he cum in and seen it
] an 1 he sed, old Gaffer did: “ Mister
I Drily, yure pig is a gitten out.” Mr.
; Drily he lak-d and then he said :
j “That's so, GaTer, yon jest take that
| stick and rap him on the nose lore he
cun draw it in.” So Gall'.x he tuke
the stick and’ snook up reel sli, and
fetched the pigs hed a r gnlnr no-tc-
I wiper, hard as ev -r ho code with the
stick, and knocked the pigs he I off the
1 bai l and you never se-n se ll a ston’sh
oh- man! But Mr. llrily he ptende!
like he wesn’t a loikin an ole Galtir
he seJ: “Mister Brily, you must ex
cuse me, bu* whi n I struck at that
pig it dodged and cut its he! of agio
the eilje ol the hark"— Argonaut.
V. C. SMITH. PntiMcr.
A BIT OP FOTTBHT,
The potter stood at his daily work,
Use patient foot on the around;
The other with never-sku k ming speed
Taming his swift wheel roand.
Silent we stood beside him there,
Watehing the rei t ese knee,
Till my friend said low, in pitying voiee,
“ How tired his foot most be 1”
The potter never paused in his work,
Shaping the wondrous thing;
’Twas only a common flower-pot,
a, But perfect in fashioning.
Slowly he raised his patient eyee,
With homely truth inspired;
“No, marm, it isn't t ie footthrtSlicks;
The one that stenis gets tired i”
—The Continent.
HUMOROUS.
The key-nott—“ Wife, let me in I”
The widow of the late Alexander
Ti t in recently presented the town of
Tilton with a church an! a . team fire
engne. She is bound to have that
town protected against tire.—llawk
eye.
The greatest criminal in New York,
or perhaps in this country, was his own
accuser the other day. He testified
that in the last five years he lia! taught
1,500 boys to play the flute— l.oirell
Citizen.
Beneath a rough exterior
Oft gleams a g.owiag gem,
Which sometime, shine 3 steer, or
To any diadem.
Ful! many c. gaudy overcoat
Oft hi 'vs a threadbare rest,
O’er which a r:v-man's gaze might gloat,
Its value to attest.
—Neio York Commercial.
Inquirer: “What is it to be.'caught
in a Llizrarl.’ which fate we read is
befalling folks in the \Vi-st V” Well,
no such thing happens in this part of
the country, but you can get some idea
of it by 1; tti.ig an elderly but ac'ive
and athletic lady of single condition
catch you abu ing her cat.— Somerojh
Journal.
Professor Blackie once chalked on
his notice-board in college: “ The pro
fessor is unable to meet his classes to
morrow.” A waggish student re
moved the “c,” leaving “lasses.”
When the professor returned he noticed
the new rendering. Equal to the oc
casion the professor quietly rubbed out
the “1” and joined in the hearty
laughter of the asses.
A TOUCHING BALLAD.
The wife of the Chinese minister at
Wasaington recently sang the .follow
ing touching ballad of her mtive land.
Wr.tten out in the form of letters used
by outer Barbarians it will be si en that
Chinese is not nearly so difficult a
language a; suppo ed :
Ohc ometo th ete asho pwit hme,
Audi) uya po mid ) i thvuo -t,
Twillpr oveam ostex cvllimit ea,
Itsqun lit yal lwi 11a ttest
Tiso nlyf oursli illi ligs npo und,
800 o.net othet eaiua rtau dtry.
Nob et-terc one! sewh erebe.on nd.
Ort huta nyodi er neeJb ny.
One of Gene al B tier’s Pranks,
j Governor B. F. Butler relates one
of his college pranks in breaking up
an abolition meeting. We students
, went into the country anl paid an
ol! farmer fifty cents lo 1.1 us catch
in his barn ajl the swal.ows we
wanti d. We got a dozen or so, and
on the night of the meeting a
number of us were pres nt, distrib
! uted judiciously about tlio room, each
| boy with a swallow in his pocket.
The church was lighted by old
fashioned chandeliers, holding each
five or six whale oil lamps. At a
given signal, when the s rvi es were
under way, the swallows were let loose,
and almost in the twinkling of an eye
out went the lights. The birds of
course went for the lights, and the
rush of air caused by tin ir wings put
out the lamps. We ki sed a girl or
two and they of course shrieked. Ail
was commotion and confusion for a
few moments. Then tlie moderator,
demanding silence, said that some
unaccountable acci lent had. pnt out
the lights, hut that the audience
must sit quiet and preserve order, and
that the lamps would s on be lighted
The sexton hurried away for a torch
—tlieie were no lucifer matches in
those days—and presently i.e came
into the church, holding it in front of
his face and shielding it with one hand;
the swall iws of e u ss went for the
light, and one of them struck the
candle, knocking it out of the old
I man's hand and into his fa •. lie
turn led back, gave a yell of fright,
and gat er ng liimself up took to tus
heels, vow lag there were spirits tt *ri
sure. The crowd, new frightenid in
earnest, the st idents leading, got out
of the church in a hurry', and that
abolition meeting was at an 'insxpccted
and un' xnlailiable end.