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And vainly racked my acHug head For conversation ; ; The while a rival, stoutand Btrong, Would hover around her nil daylong, In adoration. One cannot coruscate or shine When f jeling far too ill to dine ; c The yacht's gay motion Wade me more bilious ; md he, My hated rival,, loved the sea, The horrid-ocean." I knew she could not love a man Who, when ho went to s sa, began ; To look bo yellow ; And fio he cajmly wooed and won, While I was outcast ana undone, Unhappy fellow. ....... r. BKAUTY IN NEW YORK. The Handsomest Women af Southern Birth. You often hear strangers visiting New v York praising New York women . ; the beauty of Frequently in so doing they mention by name three or'four of our s Dciety beauties. Among those most irequently cited as examples of beautiful women are Mrs. James B. Potter, Miss Virginia Urqhuart, the March toness de Mores (nee Von Hoffman,' Mrs. Richard Irwin, Jr., Mrs. William" Jay, 'and Mrs. Capt. .Randolph,' and-Mrs. Wil liam Wright, who were respectively before their - marriage. Miss Edith and Miss Carrie May. The mention of these names, however, is not so much a tribute to th 3 beauty of New York women as to t ie beauty of the South. For those referred to, are either of Southern birth or of South ern descent. Indeed it is not exag geration to say th at of the most beautiful women in New York some , w ere born in the South, while others i - -, - represent strains of Southern blood running through our society... Some have been here for u few years only, being young'-Southern women-who married New Yorke rs; others belong- ing to the families which came from .the South ageneratton or more back. -New Orleans; has representatives iri both classes. Prominent among those in. the latter are the members of the Grimes family. About 1840, Mine. Grimes, as she was always called here, settled in a commodious country mansion on what has since been known as Grimes' Hill, Staten Island, about seven miles down the bay. Mme. Grimjes had been, be fore her second marriage, the widow of Gov. Claiborne, of Louisana. She is doubtless still remembered in New Orleans for mer beauty. The Grimes mansion was a place of pil gnmage for all the grand beauxs of New York society. They found there a quartette of beauties the hand some hostess and her three beauti ful daughters, of whom Miss Medora Crimes was the- mpst ; beautiful. Among the pilgrims to the. Grimes mansion was the late . Sam Ward, who soon became, to quote the title of one of Henry James' stories, a passionate pilgrim. . He was then a widower, his first! wife having been a Miss Astor. In those days he was not, as he was soine years before his recent death, kiiown only as a lob byist and gourmet but was distin guished as a rising young banker, a member of the bid firm of Prime, w ard & King, a brilliant' society wit and an amateur man of letters His polished manner and the glam our which rathpr superficinl intel '..lectual attainments threw around him gave him a power of fascination ' which few could resist. At all events, the beautiful Miss Medbra Grimes Kceptible to his chaima, and . C. WALL, Editor and Vol. III. she became Mir. Sam Ward. The marriage did not, however, prove a happy one. They separated, and she took up her residence in the city of Paris. She died there. Her two children r Sam and Marion, are also dead. During her residence in the French capital' she vas noted as one of the most beautiful and ac complished women in that city. I may say, en passant, that the present representative of the Ward family in New York society, Charles Montagu Ward, a second cousin of the late Sam Ward, had his cousin's charm ing address, and in addition, qualities which Sam- Ward lacked-unselfish-iiess and unbounded generosity. He would "go broke" to help out a friend. The characteristics of Medo ra Grimes' beauty, a-mass of golden hair, largo brown eyes and lovely complexion, were possessed by her sister, Mrs, Louis Von Hoffman and the latter's daughter, the Marchion-, ess oi Mores. Mr. yon uoiiman ish one of New York's leading bankers. He has a residence in Paris as well as in New York. In the Paris resi-; dence is a much admired portrait of Mrs. Sam Ward. Mrs. Von Hoff man is one of the most popular la dies in New-York society. I say la dies purposely, for not all the. wo.'. men in New York society .are ladies! No reception committee at a swell ball is considered complete unless she is a member of it. The Marquis de Mores, who married Miss Von Hoffman, is a young French noble man.: He is known as the Cowboy Marquis, IJe has a large cattle ranch in "NVyoming, where he and his wife spend most of the year leading a bracing, healthful, out-of-door life. His splendid physique and pluek have won him the admiration and respect of the rough men in his em ploy. He is as fine a type of man hood as his wife is of true American womanhood. For where else but in America could you find a woman wno, reared in tne luxurious sur roundings of a New York society home, could renounce these quietly and adapt herself to the duties of a ranchman's wife? All honor, I say, to such women ! The Von Hoffmans were in the habit of spending much of their time at Cannes, South of France, in company with the Du- jchesse de Luynes, the Duchesse de Valambrosa, and Mrs. Beach Grant, whose daughter, Miss Adele Grant, is one of our society beauties. It is probable that the Marquis de Mores met Miss Von Hoffman during one of these visits. xAnother daughter of Mme. Grimes is Mme, de Martig- ny. Altred urimes now jowns the old Grimes mansion, which is quite near, tne residence ot lien. William G. .Ward, a couisin of Sam Ward. One of the most noted of our soci ety beauties is Mrs. James B. Potter, formerly Miss Urqhuart, of New Or leans. Of her great histrionic talent and her concientious and, happily, successful endeavors to raise the standard of amateur acting I wrote you in a previous letter, about the time her uncle, ex-Governor Mac lane, of Maryland, ' was appointed minister to France. Oi her mother, Mrs. David Urqhuart," who now re sides at the Brevoort House, I have heard a prominent New Orleanian, who, for - personal reasons", asks me to withold-his name, say that she was among the many young beau ties of your city 'the most beautiful and charming." Mrs, Potter is con sidered by many the handsomest la dy m New York society Both she and her sister have many" beautiful traits which seem characteristic of the family, among them large, ex pressive brown eyes and brown gol den hair, with a lovely russet sheen, V Several of New York's beautifu society ladies come from Baltimore Prominent; among these is Mrs Richard Irwin, Jr., formerly Miss Mary: Morns, a daughter of the late John Morris and a grand-daughter of Reverdy : Johnson. Mrs. Irwin is tall. and slight, with passes of- jet black, wavy liair and Imllianf: blue eyes.' No woman ever made for her self, in a strange city, such a promi nent ( 'place ;in refined ; social circles asMrs; iTwin- has" made for herself Proprietor. Rockingham, Richmond County, N. C, in New York. She gathered around herself a group of our beautiful wo men, the majority of whom were 'rom Baltimore. Of this set she was the centre. Nearl v all of them are , married now, and Mrs. Irwin devotes herself much of her time to getting up public entertainments for chari ties, bhe founded the Kirmess fes tivities for the benefit of one of our hospitals. These entertainments have proved highly; successful. " At he last of these Mrs. Irwin presided at the flower booth, she and the la dies assissting her representing each a flower, Mrs . Irwin being the lilac. Those famous beauties, Miss Edith and Miss Carrie May, both brunettes, were in the setxshe gathered around her. The former is now Mrs. "Capf Randolph ; the other, once James G orden Bennett's fiancee, is Mrs. William Wright To the May fam ily we are" indebted for another of our beautiful women. For the moth er of Mrs, William Jav. formerlv Miss Lucy Oelrichs, was a Miss May. The Misses Lilian and Julia May, of Baltimore, frequently visit New York, and are much admired here. Mrs. Wadsworth, of Washington, well known here, Mrsr William Du er, both daughters of Mrs. William R. Travers., who was a daughter of Reverdy Johnson. Mme. Duval and Mrs. Alexander Brown are ladies born in Baltimore, or descended from Baltimore families, whom New Yorkers admire for their beauty and respect for their, many estimable personal traits. The Misses Carroll, of Carrolltoo, are distinguished for their brilliant coloring, dark hair and eyes. Miss Anita Carroll, who adds accomplishments as a singer to her social graces, has had a success ful season in London. The Misses Carroll are grand-daughters of the late Royal Phelns, founder " of the firm of Maitland, Phelps & Co. Virginia has sent .us the Rives family, Mrs. William R. Strong, the Davidges and others. Miss Frost, daughter of Gen. Frost, of St Louis, and now Lady Andalusia Moles- worth, of London, where here beau ty, created a sensation, was greatly admired whenever she appeared in society here. From the foregoing facts you will justly conclude that New York soci ety is indebted for much of its bril liancy to the Southern women who grace it. It is a wonder that the beautv of Southern women has bc come proverbial h ere I Moreover, they are as bright in conversation as they are beautiful in looks. GUSTAV KOBBE. To Improve Southern Agriculture. The National Cotton Planter's Association, which was the origina tor of the New Orleans World's Ex position, has decided to make an ex traordinary effort in 1886 to improve the agricultural interests of the South. It is proposed to hold some where in the South in November of next year an "agricultural field con test," at which $200,000 will be dis tributed in premiums. The contest will be-confined exclusively to agri cultural interests. The very liberal premiums offered for the best crops and for the best cotton, farm and other machinery will undoubtedly, if proper -guarantees are given that the $200,000 will certainly be paid out, attract much attention and stimulate farmers and others to the most vigorous efforts to secure them. If this important enterprise s to be a success, no time whatever should be iost in making preliminary arrange ments. The location should be se led and $200,000 guaranteed very shortly, in order to give the utmost confidence to the public, as it is none too soon for those who expect to compete to commence gettin ready. - : f ; At a negro wedding, when the minister read the words, "love, honor and obey," the groom interrupted him and said : T "Read that agin, sah ; read it pst wuhce ' mo', so's de lady km ketch de full solemnity of de meanin'. Ise been married befo', sah." " - Crop prospects continue good. ; fjj " ' " How Dixon Provided a White Husband-for His Colored Drughter and Heiress. . The will of David Dixon, in which he left 0500,000 to his daughter, a mulatto, is 'creating wide interest here. The woman, Fannie Eubanks, is living in good style in Augusta. Mr. Dixon years ago offered 025,000 to any respectable white man who would marry her. A young, man named Eubanks, a graduate of the University of Georgia, accepted Mr. Dixon's proposition, and took the girl North, and they were married in Boston. He brought a "certificate from that place showing that they were legally - married. Eubanks brought her home, and was well pro vided for on Dixon's plantations. He lived with his dusky bride sever al years, raising two children by her. Eubanks died several years ago, and left Fannie a dashing widow. Mr. Dixon took her and her two children back to his home, where they lived until he had a fine house built for them near his own, and there Fannie Eubanks and her moth er lived until Dixon's death. He made his will and then sent for the family to come down to his house, together with other witnesses, and informed them that he had made his will, that no one but his lawyer and himself knew what was in it, and that he wanted them all to wit ness his signature. After signing the document and having it properly witnessed he said that after his death it would be asserted that he was not of sound mind, and he wanted them to test him and see if his mind was clear. " After his death his vault was open ed. A package of 025,000 in stocks and bonds was found with the name of the mother of Fannie Eubanks written on it as its owner. This amount was not mentioned in the will in any manner, and the $250- 000 was turned over t6 the woman by the executors. It is asserted by some that the will ought to ' be broken on account of Mr. Dixon hav ing advanced to his brother 040,000 and taking a mortgage on his land to secure the money. His brother paid the debt but failed to have the mortgage 'cancelled, and died with out ever taking up the paper. As soon as he died Dixon came in with the mortgage and took the land for debt. It is also asserted that Dixon had no right to give this mulatto woman, although she was his child, his landed estate, amounting to 17, 000 acres of the best land in middle Georgia, as it will injure those own ing lands adjoining. The mother of Fannie Eubanks is a very quiet, inoffensive woman, and when any of Mr. Dixon's friends vis ited him she would wait upon his guests, and never put herself for ward. She always seemed to recog nize the fact that she was a servant. Sh6 would often visit Sparta to trade, anf some of Mr. Dixon's friends, tovhom she would bring things from the plantation, would invite her to dinner. She would always prefer having her dinner sent to the kitchen, where she would eat with the servants. Cor. News-& Courier. : Nine presidents and ex-presidents of the United States have died since Lincoln's first, election.- This does not include R. B. Hayes, who is the deadest of them all. "Father," he said as he let go of the cross-cut saw to straighten his aching back, "they say that fish have begun to bite." - "Yes." "The Burns boys caught a big string yesterday, and ar going again this afternoon." " "Yes." "And I thought being as I thought " "Henry," said the old man, as he spit on his hands and reached for the saw, "you just let the Burnsboys go, and you stay here' and help me saw. Put the date down on the bam door, and fifty years hence sec who is worth the most clean cash. Pull away on your end." Wall Street News. A wholesale dog" poisoning is in progress in Richmond, Ind. ' ' ; TERMS: August 13, 1885. Arkansaw Religion. " The north has produced many noted preachers, and some of them have become justly celebrated in the field of evangelism, but after all the revivalist is indigenous to the south. A revivalist must be something of an orator. In the north, oratory has been buried ; in the south it is still a passion ; therefore, thej most pow erful revivalists dre southern men. Sometimes there! is, even in the south, a scarcity of revivalists, and sometimes they abound in great numbers. j ' At presenPSam Jones is the chief of revivalists. His moral lectures are good, but his religious assertions are dogmatic. He allows no one a chance to reason with him'. He says "do as I tell you or you'll go to hell." He has a passjon for the word hell. He would rather say hell than to eat a hunk of sWeet potato pie. Well, in this particular we do not much blame him. Mr. Jones is a "slang-slinger." Ke turns Biblical quotations into slang. His language is as rough as th? back of a toad. He talks ungrammatically, it is said, so that the common people may un derstand him. That is ridiculous. No matter if a man be wholly uned ucated, a grammatical sentence is more pleasant to his ears than a sen tence that is ungrarnmatical. No great good results from excite ment. True religion is quiet, char itable and unassuming. A few weeks ago a skillful revival ist made his appearance in Morrill ton, Arkansaw. S Ho had heard' that Morrillton was not a godly village. The report, although somewhat sen sational, was, in the main, correct. Morrillton, writhing under the drug store whiskeyfof prohibition, disre garded the saints. The revivalist began a series j of religious meet ings. He did not rant like Brother Jones, but he talked kipdly to the people. After a while young law yers think of it, young lawyers humbled themselves at the bench. Some of them had to shout. One young fellow exclaimed : "Gentle men of the jur, in all my legal ex perience I mean, my dear brethren, I am a changed man." The enthus iasm went up to : ninety-nine in the shade. Some of the young lawyers, hearing that an old fellow was dying near town, rushed out to see him, to persuade him to ; change his course before it was everlastingly too late The old follow was at home when they , arrived. It was evident that he had but few, hours to live. "Uncle Dan," said one of the law yers, "how do vou find yourself to day?"- T "In bed," he replied. "Oh, yes, we know that, but are yon willing to go ?" "Well, I ain't hankering after go-: ing, but I reckon it's all right." "Are you not afraid of hell?" "I used to be, but I am not now. You remember that a few weeks ago I was on a jury and listened to one of your speeches." The lawyer was shocked. He wiped the perspiration from his brow and. sighed, j '"Uncle Dan, do you not . feel sor ry that you ever committed any sins?" ' '.. j ; "Yes, if I have done wrong I am sorry for it, but I am glad to say that I have never wronged a human being. Let me see : Don't you re member that a few weeks ago you turned a! widow and several children out of a house ?" .'-T "Oh; yes, biit I have professed re ligion since then." "Glad to hear it, but what has be come of the widow ?" . "I saw her out in the woods yes terday." ' j "Did you tell her she might have the house again ?" "Oh, no, but I went home and prayed for her." ? "And you have come out to teach me religion?'? i ';; '.- I ' Yes, I hae come to help you," j " ell, 1 reckon I can get aionj. without yu.j Good-bye." -,;v ,'-' The great fault to be found; with the revivalist is that he teaches the idea of momeiitary forgiveness. He $1.50 a Year in Advance. No. 33. makes religion so easy that a man can take it up or put it down .when ever he chooses. Arkansaw Trav eler. - l :-r i : ..- APPtETON OAKSMITH. The Noted Blockade-Runner and Reputed Slave ; Trader. ; A Galveston, Texas correspondent furnishes the following about Apple ton Qaksmitli wha figured some what conspicuously some years ago on the political stage in this State : At sunset the correspondent sat on the pier of the Pagoda bath house, which projects into the Gulf at the toot of Tremont street, and watched the hundreds of people who ' were enioying a dip in the brine. The f waters of the Gulf of Mexico were almost as smooth as glass, and there was but the faintest suspicion of surf along thef shore. "This reminds- me," said Captain John Cossar, . who was the corres pondent's vis-a-viSj "pf an adventure of mine along this beach in the blockade running days, which was not a very profitable venture for any one concerned. Early in '64 I shin- ped as fireman on the Caroline, a rattletrap of a steamer, witha "walk- ig beam" engine, then lying at Havana for the purpose of running the blockade. The captain was a stout, well built man, apparently 45 years of age, with a swarthy com plexion, and went under the name of McDonald. The crew of the Car oline, however, knew him to be Ap- pleton Oaksmith', noted, for his vent ures in the slave trade, for which Ke had been condemned to be hung, but had by some means managed to escape from jail in New York and reached Cuba "where one of, his brothers was engaged in running a large sugar estate. Being a thorough sailor, Oaksmith, or McDonald, soon obtained command of the Caroline, and made the trip from Havana to Galveston, and up Buffalo Bayou to Constitution Bend, without trouble. We discharged cargo, and, after tak ing on a load of cotton, got up steam and were ready to start down the bayou. I AN UNFORTUNATE GERMAN "There was a big pile of sails in the pilot house and Captain Oak smith ordered a Dutchman named Buis to take them out and put 'em on the deck out of the way, who re plied: . "I shipped as iquartermaster on this boat, and don't do deckhand's work." ' I "D- n you," said 0ksmith"take your things and go ashore," ."The Dutchman gathered up his canvas bags and Walked off the boat on to the bank where he opened one of 'em and pulled out a pistol, which he pointed at Oaksmith, whoso back was turned. Some of the crew' called the captain's atten tion to this, and he deliberately walked to his room and returned with a big six shooter in his hand. The Dutchman stood still on the bank, too .badly frightened to at tempt to shoot, when Oaksmith yell ed out : i X ' " Dr n you, leave here, or I'll kill you "The fellow was too - badly scared to move, and he didn't leave as or dered. 4 Oaksmith fired, and the Dutchman fell to the ground howl ing out that he was murdered. . A Hoosier happening to, pass by the captain said to him, "haul that man up to Houston ; he's only shot through the leg. I ought to have killed him, but he isn't worth it." : - A CLOSE LANDING. ; "The . Caroline proceeded down the bay on to Galveston, and a cou ple of nights after, iri cairn weather, we ran out of the harbor by the Beach channel, keeping close in shore. Some one in town must have given U3 away, for by the time we had got a couple of miles down the coast a signal was made to the block ading fleet, and four: gun boats start- j ed after us. They phased us nearly to the west end of the'lsland and as it was getting near day we put the ship' about and started" back to see if we couldnM, make Galveston. , By the time we were abreast of the Six- Having recently purchased a first' class outfit, we are prepared to do all kinds of . . ' ? . PLAIN" AND FANCY JOB PRINTING ' IN" THE " ' " r ' ' x BEST OP STYLE , And at Living Prices. teen Mile House it was broad dayi -light and the gun boats were pepper ing us with shot and shell, which broke the "walking beam and bored a coUple of big holes, through the ship, so we hadJ to beach her. . While the crew were getting into tho , boats my partner, a young fellow named Ed Farley, ran down to tho fire room and getting a shovel full of live coals threw them into the. cotton, which set the steamer afire. .; The Yanks continued to shell us, ? ' but we made the beach all right,. . when the captain turned to one of the crew, who had given him all his wages for safe keeping, and said : "Bill I forgot your money and left it aboard." . "The poor fellow took one of the boats and started back to the vessel, which was ,now in flames, to see if . he could not recover it, when the gun boats fired a broadside of grapo and cannister, one of which struck him in the breast and killed him in; stantly. We then lit 6ui for town as last as we could, having lost near ly everything we had. NARROW ESCAPE. "The Captain .-left Galveston a short time after on the steamer Alice, bound for Havana. The Alice was captured just at dark, near the coastl of Cuba, by a Yankee gunboat, anot as the Federals boarded, her on one side Oaksmith and , another man pulled off in a small boat from the other side and got safe to shore. . It was a narrow escape for him, as they; would have huug him if they jiadV got him. ' "They used to tell some terrible things about him on the ship. Ono of tbem was that when coming across from the west coast of Africa with a load of "blackbirds" he was chased by a man-of-war, , whence fastened the negroes to a long chain cable and dumped 'em , overboard,' so in case he was captured -there .would be no evidence against him. I don't know that this is true, but I do know that he was a determined and desperate man. He was hero Several yeare after the war, in com mand of a British vessel, and went under the name of McDonald, and was at last pardoned, by Gen. Grant when he was President He finally settled down in a- small village in North Carolina, where I heard that he died a short time ago." . , r - , Last year from one acre of tobac co 5,000 hills Mr. A. C. Parham realized S474, after all warehouse charges had been paid. It was some of the tobacco produced on this one acre that took the premium at the State Exposition. A sample of ( it which sold for $1.00 a pound, was sent to Calcutta, India. ' T , From three acres . Mr. Frank Wortham made $953 52 clear of all expenses. He expects this year to do even better. Gold Leaf The man who tries to get on in life without the influence and the comfort of a woman's blessing is like a ship at sea without chart arid rud der, driven here and there and -chased by every , billow of i passion and temptation. ; With her , angelic influence around and directing his pathway he is like the mariner at night when the light-house Is in-full -sighfamd lighting up the waters that he may find the channel which leads into the harbor of safely and securi ty. Without her influence' and he is like that mariner on : the stormy ocean at night when far away frou the friendly beamings, of iho light house and without a star to ' look down upon the inky flood beneath he struggles 1 along, - unaided and alone, and hears nothing but the ' sobbing and the moaning of tho dreary billows. Wilson Mirror. ' Cramps and pains in the stomach and bowels, dysentery and diarrhoea -are very ; common just now j and should be checked; at once. 'John-, son's Anodyne Liniment:' will posi- ' tively cure all such cases and should be kept inbve.ry'mjil;y:VSliiC?i' The m ost distressing case of scrof ula or blood poi?biv that wo ever heard of was cured by Parson's Put -gative Pills. viThese:piU3imakeTnew rich blood, and take one a;riiglit for three months will change the blcol : in, the entire system. ..V-4 I ' ' 1 A fowl bouud A volume in tuj N . key "morocco; J v ;';