The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-14
PAsCAGOULA JACKSON COUNTY, MISS, MARCH

iVi' O'"ih cOIldtlOU 10 tue UTetu-
! rem ID the handsome halls of his
Female Institute. There was a
great throng in the drawing.room,
laughing, chatting, eating and
drinking, and my attention was di.
rected to one of those grand three.
cornered pianos, at which Robb
was seated, playing, with HOskins
turning the music for him. Not to
a professor, he impressed me with
his talent for brilliant execution
upon that much abused instrument.
Striking the keys with the ease
and dash of a master, it looked as
if he was as much at home with
passages from Beethoven as with
ballad songs like " Annie Laurie"
A common looking boy enough,
only his manner pleased you, and
his head had what phrenology rec
ognized as "the poets corner"
Then there was gallant and gener-
GUS
HOLLAND,
the acknowledged "Prince of
that happy crowd--tall and grace
ful, with his bright, steady eye, the
snuff .colored frcck coat that fit
him so well, and always with some
passing kind words for the obscurer
members of the gang. You re-
member his cOnvivial powers-his
wonderful memory of names and
faces-and that vein of unaffected
kindness that threaded all he did
and said and looked. Never man
who will be SO missed from the an,
nual reunions as Col. Holland.
And there was
KINLOCH FALCONER,
how natural it seemed to link his
presence and Hollands at IA Press
convention They were peers in
social fascination, equally brave,
accomplished and popular, and it
looks now almost right and natural
that they should go down to their
graves together, with an act that
finished off and rounded up the
beauty of their brief careers. Did
you ever notice how much Falcon
cr's expression reseinbled that of
the younger Winthrop of the col
ionial days, whose picture art has
preserved, and whose heautit ii aud
courageous character Bancroft has
immOrtaiized! Holland and Fal.
coner! Heroic spirits, ye sleep
well! And
WILLIE ADAMS,
we cannot forget him, with his
sombre brow, but generous heart
and modest worth. Only those
who knew him well ever imagined
the many dry pleasantries that
welled flom his mind. keeping up
an almost constant ripple of merri
ment wherever he went. But for
his single infrmity-that of so
many noble natures, alas!-he
might have almost attained the i'll
f1uence and force of his celebrated
father! There was
j. P. ALLEN,
of Wick sbnrg-not at Holly Springs,
but the acknowledged "mine host"
at his home last year, and how
gratefully he his remembered there!
He literally made himself sick in
his efforts to have the occasion of
the editors visit a pleasant one,
taking upon his own shoulders the
place OF committee of one"
and seeing to every thing-every
hour of our stay betraying the
warm-hearted gentleman he was.
| remember the last time we con-
versed together was during the
steamboat excursion down the Mis-
siSSippi. He looked sadly worn
and worried, and told me, to an
expression of surprise upon my part,
that he was doing to much drudg-
cry in the craft, but could not help |
himself. Mr.. Allen was "a graceful
poet, as a wgiter of humor had no
equal in the State since DR.. Woods
and Henry Moss left us. Peace to
his gentle memory! How, too, we
will miss those other heroes OF the
plague,
O. v. SHEARER AND UPSHAW.
"The old, old fashioned deathw
dear Clarion, is a curious, an aw.
full, vet a familiar one to us all
For,
"Men may come, aud men may go,
But he goes on forever!"- g..
and after little while, herhaps, he
will be tapping at the door of 9th
ers of the Mississippi Press assO-
citation. Perhaps in few days, it
will be good old "Uncle George"
and then jovial Frantz, and then
delightful brother Bonney; or, it
may be brave John Miller, or the
amiable gifted Ward, may becalled
upon next to leave his chair vacant
at the " "round table, of the loved
fraternity. Who knows bnt that
even the clatter and crash of the
saw-mill" may soon
put on the breaks, and then how
like Hamlet with the Prince left
out will be all future reunions!
Heigho! | fear me those of us
l.