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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME XIII.—NUMBER 617. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10,1887. PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. Shaking Across the Bloody Onasim. SOUTHERN WAE SONGS, Poetic Echoes From the Dead Past. PATRICK HENRY. At daybreak tn old Coiur'-sa Hall, The council beard a footstep fall. WheD fl tsbed tbe signal round tbe floor, "Tbe three have entered: Shut tbe door!” Tn Hancock, silent In bis chair, To fifty patriots listening there, A voice that • ever shook with dread ' The mighty Declaration read. All nlgbt that dauntless speech to pen Had tolled those stern committee men; Tbe andlence felt Its awful weight— And then began tbe great debate. Dared one that morning’s mood to mock Wl b talk of prison, glbhet, block? Tall Henry stood In righteous Ire To shame tbe hint with words if Ore. “Let crowned oppression for our sske Of every rock a scaffold make, And ail our homes to ruin give, That Declare 1 Ion s 111 sball live. “Its voice sba 1 cry when we are dust, ‘There are no slaves, since Qod Is Just'; Its lines sball tyran s’ beans appal Like lightnings on Belshazzar's wall. Ton purpled hangmen of tbe world I For you, at last, man’s wrath and rod, For you tbe thunderbolts of God I “Shall we, when Liberty invites, Disown our manifest of rights. And. faithless, to Its solemn claims Like cowards shrink to pledge our names? Complete the proud deliverance now, And on this glorious parchment trace Hope’s message to the human race. “Sign I for the hearts your manhood shields; Sign I for the dead on valor’s fields; And tell the millions yet to be God gave our country to be free.” They s'gr.ed; and still, tn witness grand, ifTie. r.f'v*1x 'iitnortttis stand By the oold Instrument that woke Ten thousand swords when Henry spoke. And still tn legend’s echoes live Those words historians eould not give, Of him whose heart and tougue of flame Are deathless as our nation’s tame. For through the record’s stinted lines, His soul, a quenchless lightning shines; And long lu freedom’s bells will ring Tb’ unwritten Voice that smote a king. —Theron Brown, in Youths’ Companion. The White House Ninety Tears Age. The site of Washington had been selected in the early years of the first Presidential term, but the White House was not occupied until the latter part of the third Presidential term, by President Adams. It was even then “in the woods.” Mr. Woloott wrote to his wife: “There is one good tavern about forty rods from the Capitol, and several other houses are built or erecting; but I do not see how tbe mem bers of Congress can possibly secure lodgings unless they will consent to live like scholars in a college or monks in a monastery, crowded ten or twenty in a house and utterly secluded from society. There are few houses in any one place, and most of them small, miserable huts, which present an awful contrast to the public buildings. The people are poor, and, as far as I can judge, they live like fishes, by eating each other. You may look in almost any direction, over an extent of ground nearly as large as the city of Hew York, without seeing a fence or any object except brick-kilns and lemporarj huts for laborers. There seems to be a confident expectation that this place will soon exceed any city in the world. ” That ‘‘expectation” is yet indulged in, and the people are quite as “confident” now as when Woloott wrote. Gouvemeur Morris wrote to a lady a few months later: “We want nothing here but houses, cellars, kitchens, well informed men, amiable women and other littie trifles of the kind to make our city p< rfect, for we can walk here as it iu the fields or woods, and, consid ering tbe hard frost, the air of the city is very fine. I enjoy more of it than any one else, for my room is tilled with smoke whenever the door is shut.” The corner stone of what is known as the “centre building” of the Capitol was laid by President Washington in 1792. The site is seventy-two feet above tide water, and com mands an extended view of the river and sur rounding country. This “centre building’’ is 362 feet long and 121 feet deep, and nas since had exteesions added, so that now ts front is 737 feet, and the spacious edifice covers three and one-half acres. Mrs. Adams, the President’s wife, writing to her daughter, gives even a livelier picture of tbe city and surroundings: “In the city,” she writes, “there are buildings enough, if they were compact and finished, to accommodate Co tigress and those attached to it; but as they Are, and scattered as they are, I see no great womfor. for them. The river which runs up to Alexandria is in full view from my window, And I see the vessels as they pass and re-pass. The house is on a grand and superb style, re quiring about thirty servants to attend and keep tbe apartmeLts in proper order and perform the ordinary business of the horse and stables—an establishment very well proportioned to the President’s salary. The lighting of the apart ments, from the kitchen to parlors and cham bers, is a tax indeed; and the fires we are ob liged to keep, to secure us from daily agues, is another very cheering ‘comfort. Bells are wholly wanting, not one being hung through the whole house, and promises are all you can obtain. Yesterday I returned fifteen visits.” fn November, 1800, Mrs. Adams wrote: “Woods are all you see from Baltimore, un til you reach the city, which is so only in name. Ho wood cutters or carters to be had at any rate. We are now indebted to a Pennsylvania wagon to bring us, though the first clerk in the Treasury office, one cord and a half of wood, which is all we have for this house, where twelve fires are constantly required, and we are told the roads will soon be so bad it cannot be drawn Breisler procured two hundred bushels of coal, or we must have suffered. This is the situation of almost every person. The publie officers have sent to Philadelphia for wood-cutters and -ifagon s. • • Tbe ves sel which has my clothes and other matters has not arrived. The ladies are impatient fora ‘drawing room;’ I have no looking-glasses, but dwarfs for this house; nor a twentieth part lamps enough to light it; my tea china is more than half missing. • • You can scarcely believe that here, in this wilderness city, I should find my time so occupied as it is. My visitors—some of them—come three or four miles. The return of ooe of them is the work of one day; most of the ladies reside in George town or in scattered parts of the city at two and three miles distance. Mrs. Otis, my near est neighbor, is at lodging almost half a mile from me; Mrs. Senator Otis two miles. * * We have not the least fence, yard or other con veniences without, and the great unfinished audience room I make a dving room of, to hang clothes in. * * Six chambers are made comfortable; two are occupied by the Presi dent and Mr. Shaw; two lower rooms—one for a common parlor, and one for a levee-room, up stairs there is the oval room, which is de signed for the drawing room, and has the crimson furniture in it.” Writing of Mrs. Adams (who bore the plain name of Abigail) Mrs. E F. Ellett in her book—“The Court Circles of the Republic”— reminds us that she made no claim to learning; though her reading had been extensive in the lighter departments of literature, and she was well acquainted with the poets in her own lan guage. The toul shining through her words gave them their great attraction; “the spirit ever equal to the occasion, whether a great or a small one, a spirit inquisitive and earnest in the little details of life—as when she was in France and England, playful, when she de scribes daily duties: but rising to the call when the roar of cannon is in her ears, or when she re Droves her husband for not knowing her bet ter than to think her a coward and to fear tell ing her bad news; or when sh warns her son that she ‘would rather he had found his grave in the ocean, or that any untimely death should crop him in his infant years, than see him an immoral, profligate, or graceless child.’ ” The above presents a different picture of the “White House” than that of to day; and tbe “magnificent distances” of the National Capi tal present a far more attractive vista than Mrs. Adams and Gouverneur Morris described. The book referred to above contains much about “olden time” Washington society that will interest and entertain our Sunnt South readers. Robert Toombs. The first evidence of the coming power of this remarkable man (Robort Toombs) was exhibited at Willington, a small village in Ab beville district (as the present counties were then called), South Carolina, says a writer in the Louisville Courier-Journal. Gen. George McDuffie, the-only representative of Demos thenes in this country since Patrick Henry, lived near there. McDuffie was harnessed lightning. He forged the chain of logic at a white heat. He was the most nervous, impas sioned and thrilling tribune of the people of that day He demonstrated the political prob lems as Euclid did geometry while foaming at the mouth and screaming like a painted Cieek Indian. He had married the only daughter of Dipk Singleton, the celebrated millionaire turfman and rice planter, and he owned 400 slaves and made 800 bales of ootton every vegr. He had been a rnc&ber of Congress, governor of South Carolina, and was afterwards United States Senator. The people, before making up their minds on any political question, would say, “Mr. McDuffie is goiug to speak at Marrow’s old field two weeks from now, and I will wait until I hear him;” and there they would come 40 and 60 miles, and camp out the night be fore to hear him, and his speech would decide the policies of the entire country once a year. On this Willington occasion it was said that “the everlasting mouthed Bob Toombs was coming over to meet him.” Four tho isand people were there when that rash young Geor gian crossed the Savannah to meet the lion in his den, to beard the Douglas in his halls. Toombs rode a horse, and it was remarked that his shirt bosom was stained with tobacco juice. Yet he was one of the handsomest men that ever had the seal of genius on his brow. His head was round as the celestial globe. His abundant, straight black bair bung in profu sion over his ample, marble brow. He had as many teeth aB a shark, and they were whiter than ivory. His eyes were black as death and bigger than an ox’s. His step was as graceful as the wild-cat’s, and yet he weighed 200 pounds. His presence captivated even the idolaters of George McDuffie. He bounded into the arena like a black-maned Numidian lion from the un known deserts of middle Georgia, to reply to the Olympian Jupiter of the up-country of the proud Palmetto State. It was the m >st mem orable overthrow that McDuffie ever sustained. This was the Harrison-Van Buren election of 1840. His argument, his invective, his over bearing torrent of irreverent denunciation, is a tradi'ion in that country even now McDuffie Baid: “I have heard John Ran dolph, ot Roanoke, and met Tristain Burgess, of Rhode Island, but this wild Georgian is the Mirabeau of this age.” After that South Car olina admitted that Georgia was something more than the refuge of South Carolina fugi tives from justice. This was the beginning of Toomb’s immortal Southern fame. A Wonderful Cave. A mammoth cave has been discovered in Greer county, Texas, which presents perhaps as much strange phenomena as that of Ken tucky; and creates as much comuent and con jecture among its wonder stricken visitors, no doubt, as any natural curiosity known in the Lone Star State Mr David Dodge, of Wichita Falls, who has just returned from a visit to it, says the mouth is foity feet in circumference and descends perpendicularly thirty feet. Out of this mouth two large el n trees grow—one on the right aod one on the left—and natural steps f irmed in the rock make descent easy. Tbe cave varies from six to eight feet in height, and from thirty to sixty in width, and is arched and ceiled with j p rock. The air, after leaving the mouth fifty feet, is so cold that one cannot stand it any, length of time, unless heavily clad; and the current is so strong that a light is immediately blown out. There are large apartments, or arms, on each side, and several springs of clear jip water, which form a stream through which the travel er must wade after reaching a point a half- mile from the month. The length of the cave is not pisitively known, as no one has ever ex plored it to its termination; but it is said that an entrance was found ten miles away from tbe one just described, and that a cowboy en tered at one and came out of the other. This latter outlet is under the bluff of a creek and is known as Cave Creek Outlet. This house, built by nature, has the appearance of having sheltered many a cowboy, and utensils, such as shovels and BpadeB, were found in it by Mr. Dodge. It is one hundred miles from Wichita Falls and ten miles from the Indian Territory- in the northwest portion of Greer county. Boring a Square Hole. A man in Iowa has spent fourteen years in solvit g the problem of boring a *quare hole, and he has succeeded. A company is organiz ed to put bis invention on the market. It is simply an oscillating head with chisel edges and projecting, lips which cut out the corners iD advance of the chisel. The balance of the machine is an almost exact counterpart of tbe old-styled boring machine. It will cut a 2x4 mortire in from four to five minutes, and doing it with perfect accuracy, that a carpenter can not possibly complete in less than half an hour. THE OLD, OLD STORY. Florida Cocoanuts. A Splendid Grove of 300,000 Trees in Dade County. [From an Unknown New Jersey Exchange.] There is nothing that can be grown but what somebody else will raise it, and Jersey-men seem to be ahead, especially in growing the sober-looking cocoanut, which Sinbad gathered by throwing stones at the monkeys, who bom barded him with the fruit in return. Ezra Os borne, of Middleton, N. J., an enterprisiqg farmer, has now more than 300,000 trees planted in Dade county, Fla., next to the At lantic ocean, covering nearly 4,000 acres, which will come in bearing in seven yea®, when each tree, it is believed, will jpiodoce an nually |4, making it one of the most produc tive operations in the world. m ,Tms are m ire. produa ive 4a Florida Jibs anywhere else, and Mr. O. deserves great suc cess for his pluck and energy. His location is along the ocean in Dade county, Fla., backed by bays rivers and lakes making it one of the most picturesque and beautiful places in the country. This is especially true of the whole Biscayne region, and the thousand picturesque islands or keys formed by the coral reefs which crop out at the sea all the way from Cape Flor ida to Koy Wtst, a distance of 150 miles. Along these keys our own citizens, Messrs. T. A. and E A Hine, of Woodside, have pur chased and planted some of the finest locali ties. On Long Key they bought last year a grove of 13,000 trees, which were put out four to six years ago, many of which are now from ten to twenty feet high, and will he in bearing three or four years tiecoe. This is the oldest and finest planted grove of cocoanut trees in Florida. These gentlemen own the whole of Sander’s Key, and have made various other purchases along tbe coast, for the planting of which they are now negotiating in Central and South America, for cargoes of seed nuts. New Jersey and especially its metropolis, is well represented in this new industry, and is deeply interested in its success. If that region were at all accessible, it would soon be taken up by winter tourists and per sons wishing to get into a mild climate, but the transportation now is such it is almost impos sible to visit that count' y. This past winter has proved that from Jupiter Inlet to Key West is about the only place along the coast exempt from the cold. Tne Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West railroad has been lately opened to Indian river. The Florida railroad is being built to Indian river, and probabl. be fore long will be extended to the Florida Keys via the Atlantic coast, which will open up for tropical scenery and tropical agriculture the best and grandest part of this country. Tropical fruits of all kinds can be grown here, U being the only safe place, on account of climate, in tbe United Stales. The list of tropical products is a long one, and very prof itable to grow, bringing in net returns of sev eral hundred dollars an acre. When a Jersey Yankee starts in he is bound to be ahead There will be quite an emigration to the tropi cal region next fall from this Slate. SAVED BY PLUCK. A Young Woman Forces a Horse to Swim to Shore With Her. An Abingdon special says that while S. Scott and Miss Broyles, of Lynchburg, visitors at Mongles Springs, were out driving a few days since, their horse became frightened and ran over an embankment twenty teet high in to Holstein river. Scott swam to the nearest shore, but the young lady staid in the buggy and forced the horse to swim to the opposite side of the river, where she was rescued by friends. A Phenomenal Type-Setter. Minneapolis printers have in their midst what they regard as a phenomenal type-setter. His name is Miln, and he hails from Sioux City. He is known as the “Missouri River Rusher,’’ but his experience until very recently was confined wbolly to country newspapers He was employed for a time on the Sioux City Journal, and subsequently west to Cnicago. His first work on metropolitan papers was in Chicago. He is now employed on a Minneapo lis paper. He was put on a case a week ago and worked seven successive nights, pasting up a “string” of 101 000 ems. This is an av erage of 14,428 ems per night. The work was on “straight matter”—Miln having bad but very little “pbat” and no bonuses during the week. He can set 2,000 ems per hour with comparative ease. Minneapolis printers are thinking of putting Miln against any printer in the country for a week’s type setting match.— New Orleans Times- Democrat. An interesting individual now in Boston uses the following name and address: “George R Lawrence, original tramp printer Uuited States.” He was born in Saratoga, N. Y , seventy-five years ago Ever since boyhood he has been a journeyman printer. He has set type in Europe, Asia, Africa, the West India Islands and in nearly every State and Territory in tbe Uuited Suites. He is a man of great intelligence, an interesting talker and clever typo. Echoes From the West. ^ Salt Lake City. Etc. No. 17. V when fln- 1 feet. The 'jUrfoan- the best gray grand struct is not to be Editor Sunnt South : ( Refreshed by a good night's -^st, we are pre pared to enter upon ear wort of observation with new energy. First‘we will go across to the “Sacred Square.” Here tip center of inte rest, and indeed the center 8i interest to all Mormondom, is the great Tbjnnl* It will be, when completed, a strnctqnfiViL-dhich no peo ple ot age need be ashamed at va' study it as a piece of art. It is 200 feet lam 190 wide, and he walls 100 high. The cente^owers of the throe which adorn each. ished, - reach up snot for wail-tfara eightyfeet ihiqkidt dation, and the whole is buiii granite elegantly polished. Ti ore was commenced in 1863, completed until 1891, at which' time all Mor mons are tanght to expect that Christ will visit His temple, this temple, and mighty wonders will be wrought. Up to the present $3,600,000 have been spent on it. The Tabernacle, to i, is in some respects a wonderful building. It stands not far from the Temple. It is elliptical in form, 260 feet long, 160 wide and 70 feet high in the center, with a Beating capacity of about 12,000, besides the thousands of babies such an assembling of Mormons would necessitate. The walls are made of red sandstone and the roof is of shingles. It has a gallery extending all around, one end excepted, and is lighted by over three hundred gas jets. The acoustic properties of this great room are wonderful. While the writer stood at one end the dropping of a pin at the other end was distinctly beard. It has one of the finest and largest organs in the United States. It [the organ) was sixteen years in building, and us made of native pine; is 48 feet high, 36 deep and 33 wide; has 67 stops and 2,800 pipes. Next we visit the Assembly Hall, which stands near by, and, like the Tabernacle, is used for public worship. When the congrega dous are small it can be nsed. It only seats 2,600 people. It is made of nupolisbed, gray granite, and is a fine piece of architecture Within, overhead and on the walls are many significant symbols. It also has a fine organ. It was while examining its adornments that ottr guide gave us his great speech on the wrongs which tbe Government had perpetrated against the “latter day saints.” These three buildings occupy only one square; but you must remember that the square, as do nearly all the squares of the city, contains ten acres There are no alleys passing through these immense blocks, either. Across the street from the “Sacred Square” is the Bishop’s store, which of course is of im mense proportions, as to this place the Mor mons bring all their tithes. Each member of the church is required to bring one tenth of his produce, hogs, sheep, cattle, or whatever he raises or makes. Artisans are required to give work. Next we come to the Mormon news house, where the Deseret News is published. Not much further on and we arrive at the various residences of the late Britham Young. First the “lion houee,” so called because or the form of a lion reposing on its balcony. Nrxt tae “bee hive,” so named because of a bee hive that adorns its top. Across the street from these is the “Gords house,” an elegant modern residence which Young was building when death came. It is the property of the church and the home of the present President Taylor. The Zion’s Co-operative Mercantile Institu tion is an imp >riant Mormon inctrporarion Its main store house is over 300 feet long, about 100 wide, has four stories, and does an annual business of about five millions One of the most interesting places to this traveler is the museum. Besides the collec tions of general interest there are many relics the study of which will give some idea how the feelings of the masses are played upon For example, here is the hat of Elder Joseph Standings who was “murdered” in Georgia, July 21, 1879,at Yamell’s Station, and then at tached are the names of tbe “murderers,” with the announcement the “murderers” were tried, but owing to the prejudice against the Mormons, and the corruption in the court, were set free. The hat of Alexander pieroed by a bullet at the same time is dnly preserved. These will do as samples. Of course every one who comas to this in teresting city must visit Salt Lake and bathe in its clear and buoyant waters. To this de ponent the run of twenty miles to and the bath at Garfield Beach is one of the most pleasant episodes in his visit to Utah, and thus despite the fact that he lost a new hat on the way. Bathe in Salt Lake ere you die. As a farewell to this city and its surround ings an early morning visit to Fort Douglass, three miles to tbe east, is just tbe most appro priate. From that elevated point you get a grand view of the city and the great valley. The Salt Lake is easily seen. The appearance ot the city, is of a gren city, just hiding away in a great waving forest From this point we return by the city cemetery, President Young’s grave, and other places of interest After just snch a breakfast as such an extensive morning stroll will provoke we say farewell to the great Mormon capitol and start on the retnrn. At the entrance of the “Black Canon” of the Gunnison, Colo., we change to observation cars, and then for twenty miles we wind through scene! y too grand for any pen to de scribe. Indeed one feels a strange sort of ex haustion when the journey is over. The ride over tbe Marshall Pass is even more interest ing than it was as we went on. We have been so long luxuriating in nature’s wonders that the temptation to spend twenty- four more hours in seeing nature’s wonders is more than this piece of human flesh consists, especially when that makes a day visit to the Grand Canon of the Arkansas possible. Dine at Salida and then a few hours later, after pass ing through the canon on observation care, this writer leaps from the oars, and soon finds himself alone iu the Royal Gorge, the grandest piece of scenery that ever his eyes beheld. On all Aides rise almost perpendicularly im- of gi^niti} t,hat see'jj to touch the At some places theee great stone walls shut so closely in that the Arkansas River is nar rowed down until a man might leap it, and yet as soon as this river gets a chance it spreads out to a width of four or five hundred feet. Right at these narrow places the perpendicular walls rise 3,000 feet. But it is madness for anyone to undertake a description. When I leaped from the train it was my in tention to spend only the afternoon in the canon, but perforce nearly all the night was spent there—a cool night too for one who did not even have a shawl with him, but his ad miration of the scenery was not cooled. Again I find myself in our own pleasant val ley. P. L. Staunton. Sagnache, Colo., July 1887. The Dark and Bloody Ground. The Green River Country—The Crops —Some Interesting News. Editor Sunnt South: Very likely a letter from the historic “dark and bloody ground” will interest the thousands of readers of the Sunnt South, especially as it is contributed by an old Georgian, by birth and education. We live on the classic Green river, in Mc Lean county, a section of country not sur passed anywhere from an educational, agri cultural and lastly, but not leastly, democratic standpoint. We have very recently passed through an election crucible—a regular “trian gular” race, composed of a democratic nomi nee straight, a republican and independent democrat; but, like old Georgia, we are ever on the alert, and strongly tinctured with that Jeffersonian principle that has so signally characterized us for the last quarter of a cen tury. We are on the “border”—a dividing line, so 11 speak—Indiana being just beyond the placid and beantifnl Ohio—Tennessee, still democratic, on oar southern margiD. We, the central figure, have many “bloody shirt” arguments to answer, but still, to use an un couth phrase, we manage to “get thar Eli” ev-ry time. Our corn crop from a radial standpoint oi five miles, is above in average crop; though as a rule Western Kentucky, as well as the S rath- ern portion, will not grow, judging from close estimate, half a crop. The same rule will ap ply to tobacco. Wheat and oats will t irn out about a three-fourths crop. Other cereals usually good. On August 10th, a burglary of 8200 magni tude, occurred iu Rumsey, an adjoining town. The safi- was blown open and much mischief done- Walter Clark was the loser. A very sensational rumor is now afloat here. D <!aware, a little village situated on Green river, five miles from this point, was some what shocked on the 16th by the doiogs of a man by the name of James Leet, who went there and bought a gallon of Kentucky corn juice, and, after placing himself on the outside cf about one-naif of it, went home; and while his wife and little children were enjoying a restful slumber, he pi-occded to saturate tbs bed, etc , (our correspondent fails to say with what) and while he was in the act of igniting a matci, the noise produced by the modern “pop-match” awoke his wife, when she quick ly gathered her little ones and made her es cape. Leet is now in jail; bat, instead, to nse the new version, he ought to be in “Sheol.” More anon. Green River. Beecu Grove, Ky., Aug. 15, ’87. Webster Annoyed.' Daniel Webster was greatly annoyed by some of the attacks made on him in certain Boston new-papere after bis 7th of March speech. One day when he had received a paper which was especially abusive, he said that he was remind ed of the time when a nomination of Josiah Quincy at a town meeting in Faneull Hall was biased. Mr. Adams spraDg to his feet, and said that he was forcibly reminded of the lines of Milton: 1 di<l but prompt the age to quit tb< ir clogs, Bv tbe known iu'e* of ancleu liberty, wnen str tgnt a barbarous doiso environs me. Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs. WASHINGTON CITY. Reminiscences of Distin guished Public Men. Incident* Which Have Transpired a> the National Capitol. The Supreme Court. William Cushing of Massachusetts was one of the four original justioea of the Supreme Court appointed by Washington ou the 26th of Sep tember, 1789, and in 1796 Washington promo ,- ed him to be chief- justice, bat he declined the honor. The justice were not assigned to cir cuits in thoee days, and Judge Cashing need occasionally to have to go to Savannah, travell ing in hie own phaeton and pair. He died in 1810. Madison was President, and Marshall had been chief-justice for ten years, when the deaths of Chase aid Cashing made two vacan cies on the bench, one at tbe North and the other at the South. Judge Dnvall of Maryland was appointed to succeed Chase, but it was not an easy matter to find a successor to Cashing. Levi Lincoln and Jo^% Quincy Adams were in tom appointed and in Wn declined, and the President then Atatinated Joseph Story a young Salem lawyer, inws thirty-second year. He had served one session in Congress, filling the vacancy occasioned by the death of Jacob Crown inshield, and he had been speaker of the General Coart of Massachusetts, but his devo tion to “Democracy” secured his nomination. He took his seat on the bench in 1811, and from that time until his death, in 1845, he was a leading member of the court, presiding in 1836 as chief-jnstice, after the death of Marshall and before Taney was qualified. Learned, indefati gable and enthusiastic, it has been well said of him that no man has contributed more to the majesty of the law, and no member of the court has left his characteristics more distinctly on the proceedings of that court. The practice of courts, admiralty, revenue, prize and common law, equity, international and constitutional law, in short, all the departments of jurispru dence, were cultivated by Judge Story with praiseworthy labor and flattering suscess He- was Dane professor of law at Harvard from 1828 until his death, and was eminent as pro fessor, as lecture? and also as poet. Mr. Jus tice Story dying during the administration of Polk, a New Hampshire Democrat, Judge Woodbury, was appointed his successor. When Fillmore .was President another vacancy occurred, which was filled by the appointment of Mr. Justice Curtis, who took his seat Dec. 10,1861. He was one of the most original and remarkable men that has ever sat upon the bench of the Supreme Court. With legal abili ties rarely attained, a facility in the investiga tion of a subject whioh nothing bat a powerful memory and a quick perception can supply, and an accuracy of judgment that a strong common sense can alone secure, he had a style of expression exclusively his own, which will be recognized in his famous opinion in the Deed Scott case. When Judge Curtis resigned ir. i«S7, *jp.T * sriScient c^use.jC’rew'jent n ueh anan gratified toe personal anti di John Appleton, by appointing that gentleman' law partner, Nathan Clifford. Some of the Democratic senators hesitated about voting for his confirmation, as there were doubts of his fitness for the position, but Mr. Appleton over came them, and he was confirmed by one ma jority. He became a useful and respectable judge. President Grant nominated the Hon E. R. Hoar of Concord, Mass., to be a justice of the Supreme Cotut, but the Senate refused to confirm the nomination. Grant also nomi nated Caleb Cushing of Newbury port to be chief-justice, but it was ascertained that the nomination would be rejected, and it was with drawn. Now we have Mr. Justice Gray, who brings to this high office the learning in the law which characterized his predecessors, much ex perience on the bench, spotless integrity of character, and a physical and mental vigor capable of hard work. The seal of the Depart ment of Justice was selected by Judge Black, when attorney-general, and has as a mott > the conclusion of what Queen Elizabeth said about Sir Richard Coke: “He shall be my attorney- general, qyi pro Domino, Justicia Sequitur," This hits given rise to profound discussions among classical scholars and lawyers, who dif fer as to its meaning. Whisky Loves a Shining Mark, The Congressional Temperance S iciety, as originally organized in 1833, recognized absti nence from the use of ardent spirit and from the traffic in it. The phrase “ardent spirit,” employed in the pledge, meaning distilled li quors, and not wi..e, cider or malt beverages, was found inadequate to define the boundaries of safety and danger; some of the very men for whom their brethren of the Senate and House had employed the organization as a reform club fell, and that without breaking its p.edge One of these, a man of uncommon brilliancy, illustrating the truth that this vice, as has been said of death,“loves a shining mark,’’had been, apparently, saved from his terrible appetite, but as the pledge did not include fermented liqnors. he soon fell, and one day rnshed np to the noble man who had persuaded him to join tbe society, exclaiming: “For Heaven’s sake, Gov. Briggs, give me something to save me; this plehge isn’t worth the paper it is written on!” A new organization was soon effected, on the basis of abstinence from all intoxicating drinks; and Tom Marshall commenced his speech at the next public meeting with the suggestive words: “Mr. President, the old Con gressional Temperance Society has died of in temperance” holding the pledge in one hand and the champagne bottle in the other. In later years the society has had annual meet ings and chosen officers, bat the number of its members has been very small. Senator Wil son took a great interest iD it, and good old Dr. Chickering has kept it alive, and has seen that its proceedings were reported by type and telegraph throughout the land. There has been a very gratifying improvement in the deport ment of congressmen, so far as intemperate drinking, is concerned, of late years. True, whiskey has only been nominally banished from tbe Capitol, bat very little of it is drank com pared with former years. What Thumping Big Baby. Tom Corwin used to tell in his inimitable way a story about a Mr. Jones, who was run ning for Congress in an Ohio district, and who, while filling his round of appointments, made a speech, at the cloee of which, by way of commending himself to the “bone and si new,” the regular sovereigns” of the country, he said that he was a self made man, of “obs cure birth and humble origin"; that, in fact, he was sprang from “the very dregs of the peo ple.” “Why, fellow-citizens,” said he, warm ing up and elevating his voice, “my parents were so poor that when I was eighteen years old my mother bad to tie me to the bedpost to keep me from falling into the fire whenever she went to the spring for a pail of water.” Of coarse he intended to say eighteen months, and Mr Corwin, who was present, cried out: ‘Ob Jones, Jones, what a thumping big baby yon must have been!” The crowd saw the point of the joke, and Jones broke down at once, amid their jeers. The government of New South Wales having offered 30,000 acres of land to any missionary society that will undertake to civilize the na tives, the Pope has directed that immediate at tention oe p»id to the offer in order to forestall Protestant societies. PEESONAL MENTION. What the People Are and Saying. Having finished their tour o' the Rhine, Mr. Blaine and family are now traveling in Ger many. Th- Czar and Czarina and family arrived at Copenhagen last week in the Russian imperial yacht Miss Sallie McLean,* the author of “Cape Cod Folks,” has married T. L. Green, a Mexi can miner. Bin. Daniels, wife-of the captalfi of the En glish steamer. Water Lily. Aae just been li censed as a pilot of that craft. Tbe Indian prince raler over about sixty thousand people iu the Province of Limbdi in Bengal, haa arrived in New York. e Tbe Duke of Marlborough and Lord Dysart arrived recently _ on the steamer Umbria, to take a look at this surprising country. Gen. Fitz John Porter has just finished a memoir of his friend, the late Gen. Charles P. Stone, of civil war and Egyptian army fame. L O McDaniel, father of the ex- Governor, died at Altoona, Ga., Monday and wis buried at Atlanta Sunday, 30th alt. He was 80 yearn of age. In Washington connty, Iowa, five ladias, the Misses Swisher, Tate, McMillan, Smith and Buchanan, are candidates for superintendent of schools. Prof. A- B. Warwick,of Charlottesville, Va., has accepted the presidency of the Tennessee Valley College, at Darwin, Rhea county, Ten- John Vance Cheney, the poet, has been ap pointed librarian of the free public library in San Francisco. The library ia said to be the finest west of Cincinnat. Dr. DeWitt Webb, of St. Augustine, Fla., was elected a member of the American Asso ciation for the Advancement of Science at its late meeting in New York city. West, the colored jockey, has in the past year come before the public as a rider of great ability. Recently he woo three races lu one day. In him Baldwin has a prize. At the recent annual meeting of the Univer sity of the South, at Sewauee, Bishop Gregg, of Tdxas, was elected chancellor to succeed the late Bishop Green, of Mississippi. Mrs. Sarah Jackson, the wife of Andrew J ickson, Jr., and mistress of the Waite House during President Jackson’s second term, died last week at “The Hermitage,” aged 81. Lord Herschall has been at New Poft. He was Lord Chancellor of England during the last Gladstone Administration, and is chair man of the House of Commons Committee on Silver. A gorgeous Spanish helmet has been sent to the Prince of Wales by Queen Christina. It resembles those worn by the Spanish Royal Guards, and is made of silver with go.d orna ments. Senator Mahone’s frilled sleeves are orna mented with gold buttons as large as silver half dollars; a large cameo ring adorus his left hand and a diamond flashes through his lotig B thin beard. ' Puch- . Qqeen Victoria, who is now kt Balmoral, £ triemd, spends her morning in Uteraiy work. Shots f eman’s engaged in writing another hook. Tie subject and the oate of its publication are kep, a pro found secret. The Crown Prinoess of Germany has pre sented Dr. Morrell Mackenzie with a picture of her own painting as a token of her grateful appreciation of his skill in the treatment of tho Prince’s throat. The Khan of Kiva has founded a Russian school at bis capital, where eight Khiran boys of good birth and between the ages of eleven and fourteen learn the Russian language at tho Khan’s expense. Wharton Baker, of Philadelphia, it at tho head of the American syndicate which haa just secured such extensive concessions in China for banking, building railroads, telegraphs ancT telephones, developing mines, eta Mrs. Eureka C. Story, widow of Wilbur F. Story, of the Chicago Times, has become an expert portrait painter. Sue took up the art as a pastime wnile awaiting the settlement of her late husband’s $3,000,000 estate. Col. George B. Andrews, who, for twenty- five years, has been stationed at Fort Winfield Scott, that guards the entrance to San Fran cisco Bay, was bnned recently without milita ry honors, according to his own request. John B. Moore, the veteran horticulturist, of Concord, Mass., has just died at tha age of 70. He introduced the culture of the Concord grape, and originated many famous strawber ries and other traits aad many superb flowers. Oscar Wilde is editing a ladies’ magazine in London. He does np his long hair iu a very- neat koot and wears a bustle under his coat tails. He wears a light blue corset and a red nectie, and is, in fact, just a little bit sweeter than ever. Cincinnati is to have a monument to the memory ot President flamson. Artists are now at work on the designs and a selection will soon be made. The statue will be unveiled in the fall of 1888, on the centennial anniver sary of the city of Cincinnati. Rev. Daniel Curry, D. D., long known as an official editor of periodicals in the Math xlist Episc >pal church, died recently in Naw York, in his 79th year. He was much of a contro versialist during his editorial career, and was a writer of note on questions affecting his de nomination. The Empress of Japan, who will visit this country in October, will travel ino gnita, and her suite wilt include two of the Imperial Prin ces. As the E npress will not arrive in time to attend the Piedmont and Montgomery fairs, she will not become fully acquainted with the resources of this great country. Andrew Carnegie will introduce to President Cleveland the twelve members of the House of Commons who are to visit this country in Oc tober, and present the memorial asking that differences arising between America and Eng land whioh cannot be adjusted by diplomatic agency shall be referred to arbitration. Tbe Princees of Wales, with her daughters, the Princesses of Victoria and Maud, have ar rived at Klampenborg, Denmark. They were welcomed by all the members of tha Danish royal family and the Kiog of Greece. A dele gation repreeenting tbe native artisans present ed the Princess of Wales with a boquet and an address. Miss Rebecca Beath, 15 years old, of Detroit, is the latest Michigan heroine. Last Thursday a boat containing six persons capsized on Lake Orchard, near Pontiac. Five of tha pleasure seekers could not swim. Miss Beath swam to the rescue and conducted three of the numaer safely to shore before a boat came along and took off the remaining two. Miss Margaret G. Meade died recently at Washington in her eightieth year. She was a daughter of the late Richard W. Meade of Philadelphia, and the eldest sister of Commo dore Richard W. Meade, United States Navy, and of Major-General George Gordon Meade, United States Army, the hero of Gettysbnrg, both of whom she survived. A special from Pierre, Dak., says: Douglass F. Carlin, chief clerk at the Cheyenne agency, was married to-day to M lid n Duprest, the wealthiest Indian heiress on the Sioux reser. vation. Carlin is closely connected with prom inent army officers and with the Carlins of Illi nois Over 1,000 Indians witnessed the cere mony, and the festivities will last four days.