The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-05
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THE LAST OF THE sEAs0N--TIlE LATE FANCY
DRESS BALL---THE CHARACTERS GOODBYE

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] JORDAN ALIJMaSPRINGS.
THE LAST OF THE sEAsoH--TRg LATE Fancy
| DRESS BALL.--THE CHARACTERS G0DD.BYE,
&C., &C.
correspondence Of the Richmond Dispalch1
ROCBBRrDGE COUNTY, VA,
.-5 September, 9, 1878. !
1t Is with keen regret that the writer takes
leave OF this charming mountain resort in
our lust letter from the Jordan Alum to the
Richmond Dispatch. It impossible to re-
main weeks in such pleasant company as
| Maior Cameron has collected together and
mot miss some OF them sadly.in parting.
Had we never met and never parted.
| The grand dress fancy ball OF the season
came OIL on Tuesday night OF last week. 1t
was success, OF course. On his point the
Indies OF the Jordan Alum and their chief
of staff. Mr.. j. M. Brown, are utterly rigid.
After failure up here drought, a famine,
or wholesale execution might instantly be
expected. we can only allow ourselves to
sing the names OF the chiefs after the fashion
| Of Homer. Were We to attempt to itemlze
the costumes of the ladies and gentlemen.
or the attractions OF the former. we would
soon he seen bounding into iimitless space.
Mrs. Madison, OF Washington, appeared as
German Peasant; Mrs. John Stod-
dard, OF Savannah, as Norman Peas
ant; Mr.. Stoddard as Highland-
err; Miss Mamie Vason. OF Georgia, as
Snow, and Miss Rayner, OF MISSISSIPPI, as
| Lala Rookh. Miss Duncan, OF South Caro-
| lima cher dress covered with bells), was the
appropriate belle Of the ball. Miss Pickens,
Of South Carolina. and Miss Curtis, OF Geor-
ga, as the Two Orphans, looked their parts
| to perfection. Miss Mamie Belle Maury
| ,dr yvocbip rto Court HISS
Alice Maury a Warehouses, and Miss Sue
Maury the Child of tie Regiment. Miss
Mills, OF Savannah, the Press; Mrs. Mills,
Nun; Mr.. Mills, a Friar; Miss JOHNSTON,
Quakercss, and Miss Hopkins Spanish
| Lady. Miss Lippitt, of North Carolina,
went as a Swiss Peasant; Miss Mackall rs a
Lady OF the Olden Time; Miss Katie Cam
eron, q Roman Peasant-Girl unique and
very Ilke), and Mrs. Payne, OF Washington,
as Autumn. Sweet little Miss Julia TUCK
was FIower-Girl. and Miss Ruth
Tuck Little Red Riding-HooG. Mas
fer Joel Goldsby. of Alabama, was
most attractive as the Girl OF the Period;
Miss Bessie Bryan, Of Baltimore. more than
lovely rs Night. Miss Talbot went as
Jockey; Mr.. Walter Brooks, OF Baltimore,
as a Clown; little Belle Stoddard, Peasant
Girl; and Mr. Dcrfour, OF North Carolina,
| as a Second-ClaSS 1riShman. Mr.. >. }. Jones,
of Washington, was Methodist Bishop;
Mr. John Goldsby, OF Alabama, Harlequin;
Mr.. Delphi, of Georgia, trlar; ana Mt.
Graham, OF Lexington, Humpty-Dumpty.
Such were some OF the principal characters,
and so we'll did they act their parts as to
cause the grand dress fancy ball at the jor-
dan Alum to be long remembered
We reserve for the very last what has
l. oS ~, ntr al
Jordan Alum the whole SUMMERTIME
charming music which the highly-culti-
waited, mczzo-soprano voice OF Mrs. Came
ron has given her friends. This accom-
plishcd lady received her musical education
at the hands OF Bagioli. OF New York, the
father OF Mrs. Daniel Siclies, whose short
life probably contained rs much OF sorrow
iul eXDialion us ever falls 10 the lot OF the
sad and the beautiful daughters Of men.
At the request OF General Fry, native
yirgirian, but now Of Alabama. and
a DISTINGUISHED soldier in the Next
can, the Nicaraguan, apd the ConIed-
crate wars. Mrs. Cameron on Saturday
last kindly consented to sing especially Tor
the pleasure OF the gallant soldier who was
about taking his leave OF bis friends at the
Springs. Her music ranged from the nigh
est operate pieces to those simple ballads
WHICH 20 SO SlTulHul 10 tHt uc"li. -AitSA q
stirring rendition from Deiisario,' and
charming one from LA Favorita," Mrs.
Cameron gave the ''Di placer mi babza il
cor" "Oh, how beats my heart with Joy"
from "La GazZa Ladra," so as to draw
from the appreciatire audience who had now
gathered to hear her warm and well-earned
applause. And now there broke upon the
year that sad wall
Tears idle tears. know not what they mean
Tear. from The depth Of some divine deSpair--
Rise In the heart and gather i'll The eyes
In looking on tie happy autumn De!dS.
And thinking OF The DAYS that are no more"
Surely in song there is nothing sadder
than this warming lament OF the poet lau-
reatc, save, perhaps, that strain which Mrs.
Cameron then rendered with such fine ef-
feet, in which TennySon signs out the
deathless despair OF the virgins whose
lamps are not trimmed and whose oil has
given out.
In the depths OF despair, in the lurid
hosts OF the lost. there can be nothing heard
that is sadtler than this refrain, and never
is the human soul so stirred rs when thus,
BY magic voice, mourntul music IS mar
ried TO immortal verse.
Changing her song and her expression
with perfect versatility, Mrs. Cameron took
leave OF her guest in gay and graceful
strains, sending him OH his way delighted
that his lot had taken him for 4 brief period
to the Jordan Alum, where so many friends
stood ready to press the hand OF the gallant
soldier. and wish him always God-speed in
his Journey through life. NIAToR.