The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-21
rne Two susnns and orphcus G. Kerr.

Good Uncle Sam shall come 10 town
TO drive out rogue and rowdy!
The Two Susans and Orphcus G. Kerr.
Jennie June says: There are two rather
women in New York, or just
outside OF it, at the present time, who de-
serve more than q passing notice. one IS
Susan A., the other Susan B. Both are I'm
married; both have only recently passed
fifty; both are somewhat rugged looking;
both have worked their way up from OBJ
scure conditions-one to the practical lead
ershiD OF armies Of women, the other TO
what many would consider the more prac-
tical proprietorship OF upwards OF half
million of dollars.
Susan A. King came from the same town,
a village OF Maine, that Miss Annie Louise
Cary did, and boasts that when she first
came into New York she often had not so
much money as would purchase meal or
nav street-car fare, il there were street-cars
in those DAYS. Her efforts and adventures
would ELL u volume, and are very amusing
in the retrospect. though they must have
been ANYTHING but funny at the time. But
she had true business instinct and capacity.
She always started something that would
set other people at work; she mad genius
for organization, but none for hand-laDor.
Her fortune has been amasscd in real estate.
She has "carried" more real estate at one
time in the city of New York than perhaps
any other one person, outside OF TWO OF
three great holders and operators.
Yet she is really gentle and tender-
hearted woman, honest and truthful as the
day. It has been well said OF her that she
has the "head Of man, with the heart Oh a
woman and courage which does not
know what fear is. She travelled alone and
unattended throughout China and Japan,
penetrating into the interior, ascending
rivers, traversing tea-districts, where no
foot but that of native had ever before
trod. and receiving everywhere the greatest
possible kindness and attention, because, as
She herself expresses it, she treated them
all, from the lowest to the highest, rs Ii
they were human, just like herself.
She has now got an original idea OF build
ing "Woman's Exchange TO be COM
posed OF blocks of, more or less, precious
stones foot square contributed by women,
inscribed with any suitable emblem or
motto they please, and finished on one side,
ready for fitting into the temple.
Women's societies can contribute larger
block-three feet square, for example.
The buildiNg, when completed, is to con-
tain yaults-to be fire-proof-to be capable
OF use as q bank; as II woman's clubhouse,
have hall for lectures, parlors for recep-
tions, studios for artists, restaurant,
reading-room, Il laundry, even; ana be
possession for women forever. .,
The idea is not by any means so wild rs II
looks. The building is just what women
need, and she has already I'm less than TWO
weeks, without special effort, obtained up
wards OF two hundred signatures to her
scheme. She makes herself wholly and en-
tirely responsible for whatever is entrusted
to her in the carrying out of this plan, and
is perfectly capable OF making it a success.
Susan b. Anthony is spending some weeks
ut Tenaiiy, New Jersey, with Mrs. Eliza
beth Cady Stanton, for the purpose OF wri-
ting history Of the woman suffrage move
ment for Johnson's new american Encyct0-
media. She will also contribute blograph-
zeal sketches of many women eminent rs
speakers, reformers, or journalistic class
that are wholly ignored by the ordinary ell
cyclopedist.
The personal friend of Horace Greeley,
however, is a man Of q broader type. lie
wishes above all things to do justice to the
widening and deepening spirit of the age;
to the peculiar genius which animates the
American people and American women,
and President Barnard, Of Columbia Col
lege, the editor-in-chiei, being quite en- rap
port with these ideas, Johnson's new Ency-
clop9dia promises, when completed, to be
the most perfect reflex Of American thought
and activity that it is possible to construct
and combine.
Anna Dickinson was at the first repre-
sentatlon Of g Sardanapaius the other eve
ming, and looked in splendid condition. She
is proving herself capable OF almost unlim-
tied work. She has already written or dra-
matized three plays-one for leading ac-
tress, for which she has received $4,000.
She opens at the Arch-Street Theatre, Phil
adelphia, IN the fall, and may possibly come
thence to New York.
Few persons who can read but have read
OF "Orpheus c. Kerr" one OF the most de-
ligbtful Of American humorits, and one OF
the truest and most pathetic Of poets. But
few knew or ever will know how rare the
nature which lay concealed beneath his
kindly wit, his genial cynicism, and found
expression in his active sympathy WITH
every poor, forlorn, and suffering child OF
humanity. He was modern knight-errant,
as true and chivalrous as the truest and
purest of the knight-errants of old, and as
sensitive and refined Is the tairest lady OF
their love. His marriage with Adam
Isaacs Menken was the strongest PROOF OF
this, though many considered 1t an act OF
folly. So far as its effect upon his own fu-
ture was concerned, it doubtless was; but
his motive was Christ-like. She wrote some
poems for paper he edited; he believed
there was good in her; he married her to
save her, but she would not be saved; and
she sacrificed him without q second thought.
Poor fellow! he lived In the world, yet the
world knew him not; his wisdom and good
ness was its folly; and now he is in all
probability dying, wasting away with dis
ease which battles the skill of physicians.
He takes food only every other day, and
then nothing solid. He was always slen-
der, delicate looking man, but he is now
the mere shadow OF himself.