Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-08-26
A Relic Of the Past.

Eayari TaE Or. writing from Manchester.
Mass. gives the following graphic sketch OF
IA Old time celebrity, who happily has not
Yet pissed Out OF The memory of men: Re
tracing cur way 4 mile or so. we took dif-
feient road. and approached the coast
a fCUEh open, Er3S>y necS, beyond which.
o. the edge Of lofty bluff, stood The gray Old
n arsiOn ii tie venerable poet, Richard III.
Dana. The place i SlEgulaTly wild, lonely
and picturesque. No other dwelling is v'Sl-
he. 2 little bIEEt OF the coast tlrustS oct its
/. on hsaUleuuS II short distance on either
side, the surf IhurderS necessarily below,
ana IN 1rOut The ofen ocean stretches 20 TIE
SKY. Or. EaIa'S only ueigtbOrS sre the YES
sis that come and 80 AZ greater or less dis
tarces
Ht.e. on a por,ico almost overhanging the
a we fOUTd Tire Old poet When first read
lis pOem OF The Buccaneer." as n boy of
seventeen, be was already past middle life;
v hen. in 1913, / heard his course Of lectures
o. Old English Literature. in New York.
and was thereby led 10 The study OF the Bal
lads, the DramatiSjS and Wordsworth, he
was called an Old man, vet here he sat be
70 me, bis long white locks streaming in
the wind, his eve uudimmed, his voice IN
broken. his 4, tyl!e evidently a. clear, calm
ard SOU q as ever. Il seemed almost iucrad-
IDLE Dana vas born before Byron, Shelley
ard Keats; he was old enough u have re
meribered Mozart. Burns and Cgyvper, La2
be net them; he was eighteen when Schiller
giCd; he was the first maturei man VINO re-
cognized the genius OF the boy, William Cal
len Bryant. Born in T~1, he Will be - in
November, ard may reasonably hope % see
many succeeding birthdays. Age has only
given = , him is rcpO>e and dignity, not its
lines ofrulu, and trust some artist may be
foul J 20 p1rpetuate for us ais noble aud ven
enable head.
il MAS pleasant % note vi Dana's interest
IL LIS Old friend BRYANT. whose "Thaaaf0fp-
SIS was LTSt sent 10 him Tor publication.
SKY years ego. An amusing incident cOI-
IcCjcd with tuis literary event has aiTeauy
been published, hut u VIII bear repeating.
HaDa's admiration Of he poem was SO great
list lie set atcGt discovering its author.
SUrrebocy Informed him that Bryant was "A
member al Tie MsssaCi USeJts legislature,
then IL - S~lOG. ard re SgNtcned 10 The state
house. Bat the member with the poetic
SINE was p bard. matter Of fact old farmer
glance at whose tace was sufficient for
rama: 'bUs man. he knew. could never have
written "EaandfOI>rS" His acquaintance
With the true BT! ant followed soon after
wards, and may possibly have led 10 the
l"tieT's reading Of his poem OF The Ages
at Harvard think ia l>-).
JUnGF LYsCH X FloRruA--4 T-,gaa IN
ChgT.e q q J0f Gb -ar..y ~ .y0F.a-lss--A
dispatch 10 tie New IuIE Herald from Pen
>aCOia. 2ist instant, SAYS \ CprOE-r'S in.
quest was held here today or the to lies o.
Two men. named Jeu Brown and Morris
Morse These men had been IA ken out Of the
ja't where they We're conf fined for committing
criminal aSsaUit upon q woman. 10y an IN
CIgl ant mob, this morning. and dragged 10
"a vacant lot, corner Of SS~rag OSSa and Flor
ida blanca streets. on Seville square. oppo-
site the Episcopal church, ami they were
ia! ECU On TWO trees dtau llltH NflDl al. HE
Pensacola Gazette publishes i'm full the evi-
cence taken before the coroner. and it in
cluces that OF a woman, Mrs. Broughton
who lives Oh the Jail premises, and is iailer
De facto, or jaiieresS. The jailer. Richard
Evans, IN his testimony, gives the following
explanation Of the mode OF release: I aSkcd
OF Mrs. Broughton how the prisoners were
got out OF jail. She said that a crowd Of
about one hundred men came there broke
the door and got them out. j then asked Her
II She bad the key; she said she had I then
nEL 1ar rta.zN~ l. NaH-
said they had not-the key was there: they
came there and unlocked and locked the
coor; she heard IL unlocked and lo-6ed. /
then got the key from her and unloc xed the
front door, ard found that the staple OF the
inside door was drawn out. aud Jlnd lock
and staple on the ground i'm front Jf the front
door.
BREACH OF PRoMIsE-Ss,Oo0 Damages