The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-03-13

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Murray Hill salon, glancing down
the line Of notabilities gathered to-
gcthcr i'll the elegant parlors of A.
j. j. Johnston, the publisher, last
night, "they all look like signors of
the declaration of Independence.
And did not they Most potent,
grave and reverend seignior" every
one, they carried their eminent
heads with an heir of conscious
power, and made tho lesser lights
present flicker and flare as though
abashcd before them. Disincs rose
up and called their neighbors bless
cd on every side ;pocts were thicker
than the traditional loaves in Vul~
lambrosa magnates of collegiate
rcnown bcamcl bcnignantly on the
scene artists seemed TO sketch in
their minds eye the dazzling vista
OF the spacious rooms, perfumed
| with flowers and mclodious with
the music Of Il scquestcrcd orches.
ira; literary people of all shapes and
sizes were among us, taking notes !;
and, like snow~drop in mass of
laurel and and cxotics, stood one
sweet singer, once Of Chapin's Isra-
cl, now OF the opcratic stage, This
reception Was complimentary to
the cditors- !n-chief of Johnsons S
Universal Cyclopcdia--President Il.
A. j.. Barnard and Professor Arnold
Guyot--;;nd the associate editors,
whose names make Il small lerion,
The completion Of a work that had
it's inception in the giant brain of Hor
acc Greeley, who depended on the
hard pan OF facts to such an extent
that he appreciated the uses of a
cyclopedia that should be universal,
was Justly deemed worthy OF some
manifestation of social character.
SO all the literary world was lid len
; to the stntcl y mansion that stands
within stones tn ow of the arsenal
III Central Park, and which, from
basement to garr,t, is m )ddo.ei
| after fashion tlAt Combines cla-
gance with convenience.
.RrHuftlcs MOI, as the French say,
tins group OF divncs that accident
mas jo:*Gle | tD.setlet in tAa m ovine
mass under tnc brilliantly lit chan.
dcliers close to the bank Of hyacinths
that penetrate the rooms like incense
from their station on the mantcl.
piece, The Rev. e. II. Chaplin, who
looks like Darwin and talks like him
self; the Rev. DR.. Ormiston, Bap
list to the core, Scotch in his
speech, and crowned With bushy
black halr that has been s;til to re-
somDlc heaven, because (cXcusc tho
age OF this joke--it was once u dar-
ling, bat it is growing olD "thero
is no parting thore;" the Rev. O. b.
FrCthnSham, WHO is tall and slen-
der, and looks as pleased as q man
can in black frock coat that inter
fercs with the natural rights of his
cravat, and scarcely leaves room for
a stiff whito rim of his collar :;
and the Rev, William II. Algcr,
whose mild blue eye takes every
body in unobtlusiycly and assists
him in forming his own conclusions
considerably quicker than Jack Ro-
binson could be said by the average
sinner Mr.. Algcr's recent sermon
on the theatre, which "thc profess
sion" arc urging him to repeat, was,
by the way, Il chapter from "rhe Life
Of Edwin Forrest" which he is now
writing. The small, active man,
with the fine forehead, and pretty,
modest young lady on his arm, Nis
daughtcr,) is the Rev. VIM. ~.
Clarke, once the editor of the Co.,
den Aye, and now and always of
tho Graphic staff, Mr.. Clarke has
given up up preaching regularly, at
Unity Cnapol, HArlom, but he is
still foremost in many good works
of composition. Here, too, is an.
other Graphic man-W. A. Croffut,
a wit, u palpablo wit, and, moreover,
a poet. d. G. Croly, the editor in :
chief of the same cnterprising jour
nal, is conspicuous in tho throng.
With him is his wife, best known
as 'Jennie June who wears blue
bellies in the rare lace at her throat,
Apropos, heard recently the way
this clever writer came to take her
nom de platme. When she was a
child a friend of her family sent her
q book If verses, ono poem among
which was entitled Jennie June. "
The giver wrote that he sent the
book to her because she was the
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