The Morning herald., 1875-10-20
Old Virginia Hospitality.

remember case in which neighbol
Of my own, very wealthy gentleman
whose house was always open and always
full ofguests, dying, left each Of their chill.
dren a'plantation. To the eldest son, how
ever, he gave the home estate, worth three
or four times as much as any of the other
plantations, and with it he gave the young
man also large sum of money. But he
charged him with the duty of keeping
open house there at all times, and directed
that the household affairs should he con-
Quoted always precisely as they had been
during his own life time; and the charge
well-nigh outweighted the inheritance.
The new master of the place lived in
Richmond, where he was engaged in man
ufacturins, and after the death of his father
the old house stood tenan.less, but open as
before. Its troops of softly shol servants
swept and busted and polished as
of old. Breakfast dinner, and
supper which were laid ont
every day at the accustomed hours, under
the old buffers supervision, and as the
yiands grew cold his silent subordinates
waited, trays in hand, at the back of the
empty chairs, during the full time appoint
ed for each meal. l have stopped there
for dinner, tea, Or to spend the night, many
atime, in company with one ofthe younger
sons, who lived elsewhere, or alone, Is the
case may be, and l have sometimes met
others there. But our coming or not was
matter of Indifference. Guests knew them
selves always welcome, but whether guests
came or not the household affairs suffered
no change. The destruction of the house
by fire finally lifted this burden from its
owners shoulders, as the will did not re-
quire him to rebuild. But while it stood
Its masters large inheritance was of very
small worth to him-GEoRGE CARY Ec-
GLEsToN Norember atlantic.
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"Faust" has been produced at the Paris
Grand Opera, with the usual splendors of
mise en- scene, and ballet and chorus, and
with the usual weakness of cast.
The bark Draco is the oldest vessel in
the United States. She was bull. at Dux.
bury by Reuben and Charles Drew in 1924,
in the most thorough manner and of the
best materials (pasture oak), and if no &C.
cident occurs may live as long in the future
as she has in the past. She is PSI tons
register, double deck, originally brig, but
altered into bark in 1884.
A few days ago the engineer Of a freish.
train neas Bryan, Wy. T., heard a terrible
noise, and thought SON ething
must be wrong with his engine. The train
was stopped, when it was discovered that
was leaking from a car near the
engine, and that the loud reports we're ,,,,a
caused BY the wheels passing over drops of
The fluid which had fallen upon the track.
The car was opened, and a number of l.ree
tanks found upon the inside labelled "Gly.
cerine." The horrible truth then burit
apon the train men that they were hauling
, whole carload Of that terrible explosiye
nitro.slycerine. Tie cir ~
and LEFT at Granger, xhetas &
'puf-track wss built and The car III, ou;
'pon It 4 sway from the m ain lrsck!. I'll
IT'LL remains there, and the citizens Il md ia
'ailfosd d. officials are .lik. At lo.;; Il know ~
xh.t q, T. do With it. The car i L. 9 ccouae,.a
. . some 'lrn in San Francisco, but th.1
'nippers cannot be found, although The
company have made NEST stringent .ao,tI ,