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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-19
Lamar's Peroration.

The following peroration of La
mars great speech in the Senate in
which he expresses his sentiments
in regard to the right of secession
and the results of the war was re-
ceived with great applause:
Mr.. President, l am too much
exhausted to detaln the Senate
longer. 1 have said nothing to-day
that was intended to stir up any
feeling of animosity between indi-
viduals or sections. | belong to
that class of public men who were
secessionists. Every throb of my
heart was for the disunion of these
States. If that deducts from the
force of the statements / have made
to-day, 1t is due to candor and to
you to admit it. l confess that
believed in the right of secession
and that it was cherished concep-
tion of my mind, that of two great,
free Republics on the continent,
each pursuing its own destiny and
the destiny OF it's people and their
happiness according to its own Will.
But, sir, that conception is gone;
it is sunk forever out of sight.
Another one has come in its place,
and by the way It is my first fore.
The elements of it were planted in
my heart by my father; they were
taught by my mother, and they
were nourished and developed by
my subsequent reflection. May /
tell you what it is, sir? 1t stands
before me now, simple in its majes-
ty and sublime in its beauty. 1t is
that of one grand, mighty, indivisis
BILE Republic upon this continent,
throwing its loving arms around all
sections; omnipotent for protection,
rowerless for oppression, cursing
none, blessing all!
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-19
The Christian Mother.

There she sits, old Christian
mother, ripe for heaven. Her eye
sight is almost gone, but the splen-
dors of the celestial city kindle up
her vision. The gray light of heav-
ems morn has struck through the
gray locks which are folded back
over the wrinkled temples. She
stoops very much under the burden
of care she used to carry for her
children. She sits at home, too old
to find her way to the house OF God /;
but while she sits there all the past
comes back, and the children that
forty years ago tripped around her
armed chair, with their griefs, and
joys and sorrows-those children
are gone now. Some she brought
up are in better realm, where they
shall never die, and Others out in
the wide world, testing the excel
lence of Christian mothers dis
cipline. Her last days are full of
peace, and calmer and sweeter will
her spirit become, until the gates
| lift and let in the worn out pilgrim
into eternal springtide and youth,
where the limbs never ache and the
eyes never grow dim, and the staff
of the exhausted and decrepit pill
grim shall become the palm of the
immortal. .athlete!
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-19
Bernhardt's Farewell.

Bernhardt sailed for France
Wednesday, and said of the United
States, as she went on the ship
During my six months sojourn in
this country and Canada l have
travelled over eighteen thousand
miles. and was much surprised ev-
erywhere to find the same type o.
man. In France it is very different
both in manners and appearance
Your women are very pretty. Nc
one can gainsay that. Then, again
they know how to dress to perfec
tion, and with a taste that | did
not at all expect to see. 1t is quite
French. Then your children-hov
beautiful they are, and so sweetly
dressed, too.''
Her opinion of the country is:
mo foreigner of any perception
whatever coming here for the first
time can fail to be perfectly aston
ished at the vastness of your coun
try. The comforts of travelling ex
eel those Of Europe. But the cooS
ing 1 can not endure. No, no, tina
is horrible. Whenever it Yves prac
ticable l remained in my car anC
had my dinner prepared by m,
cook, who went everywhere with me
The only meals, with few excep.
tions, that | at all relished wer
prepared by him."
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-19
The Bible.

1t has sometimes been question
ed, as matter of curious specula-
tion, whether the Bible, if suddenly
blotted out of existence, could be
reproduced by means of the scat
tered extracts from it, which are to
be fountin the pages of uninspired
writer's; and the story is told that,
in the case of the New Testament,
such a.reproduction was once actu-
ally made,-the Industrious worker
being desirous OF seeing whether it
could be accomplished. Again peo-
pile have wondered whether the
whole, or nearly the whole, Of the
Bible could be reproduced from the
memories of living men, were all
the books and manuscripts df the
world to be swept away. Suppose
you were left alone on desert is
land, with no book, for the rest Of
your life, how much Of the Bible
would you carry with you for your
future comfort?
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-19
Jay Gould, the Wonder of the Day

Will he ever stop? The man who
stood by Memphis in her hour OF
dire distress is marching toward
New Orleans with his grand army of
railroads and barge lines by many
routes, and the old city feels already
the rejuvenating influence of the
fair prospects of prosperity. From
Mexico and Texas, via Houston
from California and the Pacific, via
Shreveport; from the far northwest,
via Denison, or via st. Louis, Cairo,
Belmont, Memphis and the grand
old river, ice or no ice, Jay Gould
can bring to our wharves the pro-
ducts of half a continent and pour
them through his gigantic elevators
into the mightiest vessels that float
upon the seas. There seems no
limit to his accomplishments. What
if he finds the jetties, now doing
satisfactory service, insufficient for
the number of vessels that will come
and go? What if he takes up Cow
don's scheme of the Lake Borne
outlet and the Barataria canal IN
order to accommodate the volume OF
business at minimum charges? 1t
may be that he will do this, and
there are those who claim to "speak
bv the book" Time was when Jay
Gould's Schemes were much more
quietly aud privately perfected than
now, when their immensity cannot
be concealed. To-day we are told
| of his negotiations for the Chicago
St. Louis and New Orleans railroad
and all Memphians ought to pray
that he may get it, for then that
arch-enemy of Memphis, Mobile
and Ohio road, will be utterly sur
grounded. by the Louisville ant
Nashville on the south and the Jay
IGould on the north. Then, it is u
|be hoped, the Mobile and Ohi'
|road will allow your merchants ac
cess to the east Mississippi teritor,
1via Corinth.-Memphis appeal.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-19
Ihr 9ireside.
What Saved H,n

| " >~~~~ ~~"~~~ &&AAAAs
l A young wife in Michigan had
lust settled in her new home. AIl
seemed fair and promising, for she
did not know her husband was a
drunkard. But one night he came
home at very late hour. and much
the worse for liquor. When he
staggered into the house, his wife
who was very much shocked, told
him he was sick, and must lie down
at once; and in a moment or two he
was comfortable on the sofa, in o
drunken sleep. His face was red
dish-purple, and, altogether, he was
pitable looking object.
The doctor was sent for in haste,
and mustard applied to the pa.
TENTS feet and hands. When the
doctor came and felt of his pulse,
and examined him, and found that
he was only drunk, he said:
"He will be all right in the morn
ing"
But the wife insisted that he was
very sick, and that severe remedies
must be used.
"You must shave his head and
apply blisters,' she urged "or ! will
send for some one who will"
The husbands head was accord
ingly shaved close, and blisters were
applied.
The patient lay all night IN 3
drunken sleep, and, not withstand
ing the blisters were eating into his
flesh, it was not till near morning
that he began to beat about, dis
turbed by pain.
About daylight he woke up to the
most uncomfortable consciousness
of blistered agonies.
"What does this mean?" he SAID,
putting his hands to his bandaged
head.
"Lic still; you mustn't stir, you
have been sick"
clam not sick"
"Oh, yes, you are; you have the
brain fever. We have worked with
you all night"
81 should think you had" groan-
ed the poor victim. "What's the
matter with my feet"
"They are blistered."
swell / am better now; take off
the bhsters-do," he pleaded pite-
ously.
He was in a most uncomfortable
state-his head covered with sores,
and his feet and hands still worse.
Dear" he said, igroaning, 'ifI
should ever get sick in this way
again, don't be alarmed and send
for doctor; and above all, don't
blister me again."
"Oh, indeed / will! All that say.
ed you were those blisters. And il
you have another such spell, shall
be more frightened than ever; for
the tendency, l am sure, is to apo
plexy, and from the next attack you
are likely to die unless there are the
severest measures used"
He made no further defense. Suf.
flee it to say, that he never had an
other attack.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-19
Booth ana Irving.

Every one is looking in advance
for a series of representations in
which Booth and Irving will appear
at the Lyceum. The amount of sub
scriptions already reaches the enor-
nous figure of f10,000. No seats
can be had now for any money. and
Che elibrariansp have sold the tick
sets at very large profit. Booth
and Irving have been rehearsing for
the last two weeks, both. actors
working heartily together to secure
artistic perfection in their perform
ances. Mr.. John Collier has pre-.
sented to Mr.. Booth his picture,
which has been hanging this veal
ut the Royal Academy. 1t is enti
tiled "The Curse Of Rome" and rep
resents Mr.. Booth as Richelien.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-19
Mrs, Garfield a Model Wife.

A friend of mine, who was at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel last week when
Mrs. Garfield was present, said
.She came into the public dining
room with Colonel Rockwell and
his wife. Such a sight can be seen
nowhere else in the world OF the
wife of ruler of fifty millions ol
people dining like any body else
She has good face, and was mod
est and collected, and past criticism
very handsomely dressed, and | un'
derstand she is the first President
wife We haye ever, had sufficiently
educated to prepare her sons FOL
College herself teaching them Latin
and English" GATH.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-19

pardon. And he pleaded his cause
most eloquently.
Il am half inclined not TO forgive
you," she said at length. You acted
abominably, you know You did,
81 acted like a fool and a knave,'
SAID Eugene, "and you ought never
to pardon me; but You will, won't
.you~ uaa 4
"Well," said the beauty, semi
reluctantly, "if you'll be very good
boy" .5
"Yes." asa ra 81 "a
"And never deceive me again
"Never." Iss ft.
"And never paint any more such
wretched trees"
"Never." r, -
''Then 1 forgive you for having
played the servant"
"But want to play it again"
She looked at him inquiringly,
81 want to be your servant for
ever"
Their first child was boy. He
was called Jacques de Lassi, and
Bruhiere was his godfather.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-19
A Northern Man On Mississippi.

The Columbus Index of the thirt
contains letter copied from tht
Madison, wisconsin, Democrat
from Northern man who recently
visited Mississippi. The whole
letter is highly interesting, but We
have only space for the conclusion.
After describing the many objects
of interest which we saw, he says:
AS to the inhabitants, the white
portion / found to be an intelligent,
refined and cultivated class, pos
sessing in marked degree all the
hospitable, generous traits of char
facter and conduct for which our
Southern brethren have always been
famed, tribute from Americans,
as we'll as foreign visitors, to their
bland and beautiful section which
they richly deserve. In this, as
well as all other portions of the
South which | visited, 1 find entire
peace and harmony among all
classes of citizens.
In. conclusion, if l were asked to
choose the most desirable part of
the State for permanent residence,
/ should say that portion lying
along both sides of the Mobile and
Ohio railroad and it's branches,
commencing at Macon and extend
ing to Tupelo, not because of its
greater fertility, other sections be-
ing perhaps fully equal in that re-
spect, but on account of its acces-
sibility, and the means of transpor-
tation supplied by both the railroad
and the Tombigbee river, which is
navigable for large steamers through
out all that portion of the State
which it traverses. Contiguous, or
within that portion l have selected,
is found quantities of heavy timber
of rich and valuable varieties, here
tofore mentioned in this article, and
adjacent and extensive coal fields of
Alabama are convenient to that por,
tion of the State. A railroad is now
in progress of construction from
Columbus, Miss, into this region.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-19
ziferary.
Our H,ead..--"C.S =. A."
q, N f,t..

From the Clarion.
nat faIa where slecn the
In the mus S Vi ~
ue"u, ,;f,s ;,s st,te,v bcad
a hoi'''''ien. ,' an,i o,nnone carved with
,fosse' ,;m sn"''
ss,ir MI, ,;,o whose words can thrill
On Cnnfedcrote Dead"-then-"C. s. A.
""'
p,o evening breeze in solemn tone
rhents ne a reoniem round the sacred stone
trh"n i" l;sses the Grass until il waves
, rinnlnoo sea DER the soldiers graves.
on,I tbe Srass--not a leaf or bloom
t.: scattered DER a single tomb.
I ,h;nt as I lool on thai gray stone there
n Soutbern hearts have We ceased to care
On This followed day each ROSY. spring?
No they not bloom as fair and sweet
A. when with eager, loyal feet.
Ye came in reverence to this spot
To deck these grayee? Have We forgot
The heroes who fell in the heated fight.
Who gave their lives for cause of the right
~
on soar aloft ON fleetest wings.
Or symbol the purest thoughts that rest
In the inmost depths Of the human breast
Think We ii is enough to raise r,-
A costly stone in after days
let the wild grass send its roots down deep
T stand alone no voice hear
OrIy God,s warblerc wander moor
From each throat what music swells
ike the tinklino soft of silver bells,
All mo wben s;pls INV tbrobh;na beod
And 7 S,een near these daatblsss dead
Tho, onIv The Grass sbonId wave above
7 would w mind + loss Il b;rds I love
vonld boyar noor on t;rsIass VINO
And ~ sooth;nn notas sn m swao,lr s;no,
-'''' Al '>''''s "''e' '' '"''' 'o'
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-19

] Nicholas, son Of the Grand Duke
Constantine, and cousin to the Car
of Russia, who has been sentenced
to imprisonment for life. on I'M
questionable proof ofhis completely
IN the Nihilistic plots, is man Of
about 80 years Of age, and will be
remembered by our readers as the
hero of q jewel stealing scandal
| several years ago. It would have
been better to have hung him, and
Iimprisoned the woman who wal
.lately executed as one Of the prime
mowers in the successful assassina
tion scheme.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-19
sMisreHany.
Chang, the Chinaman.

Yesterday morning at o'clock
lclose carriage drove up the side en-
trance of the Bingham house, from
which there was taken out what ap
peared at first to be a second edi7
tion of the Centennial statue, ex
cept that this second figure wa:
that of a mammoth Chinaman, wht
lived and moved on a pair of incon
lceivably long legs, in pepper ant
salt trousers, and with breadth o.
back and shoulders that found diff
Guilty in getting into the hotel door
way, which feat he finally accom-
plished by a low stoop, the upper
part of the door just grazing his
back as he did so.
AS the colossal figure walked in
to the office, the guests who had
been quietly sitting on benches and
chairs reading, with one impulse
sprang to their feet, and with faces
the picture of speechless astonish-
ment, looked up at him. Slowly
and calmly, like towering pedes-
tai, he moved up to the office coun-
ter, looking upon the gaping crowd
below with a pair of quiet dark eyes
and reaching out a hand which
might have been at a distance mis-
taken for a Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary, took the pen which the
clerk handed him and wrote in The
register, in plain, round hand,
Chang-yu-Sing, then below this,
Parn Young.
/ This done, he turned calmly
around, the top of his head almost
grazing the Office cealing, and Civ
ing some instructions to "Parn
Young' about the luggage, was
the elevator, which he
entered in the same manner he had
entered the hotel doorway-by
.stooping-and seating himself on
the groaning cushion was elevated"
to room No. 241. on the third floor,
to which place "Parn Young and
his luggage shortly followed.
The colossal figure was Chang.
the Chinese giant. The effect up
on spectators as they enter his room
and he rises and stands before them
in all his towering height cannot be
likened to anything else than the
sensation produced when one stands
before the statue in the Centennial
building. There is one difference
however. The statue is inanimate,
lifeless. Chang is an affable, cour-
teous, educated gentlemanly living
creature, with the best of manners.
His right hand sparkles with five
huge diamond rings, one of them a
present from the emperor of Austria
bearing the imperial crest; another
a present from the late emperor of
Russia, and the rest presents from
mobiles and people of different coun-
tries in the Old World which Chang
has visited.
He is thorough scholar, speaks
several different languages, among
them the English, with the fiuency
of a native. His height is within
four inches of nine feet; his weight
is three hundred and sixty-four
pounds. He is not fieshy man a
most giants are, bat spare in pros
portion TO his build. He has been
in the show business for twenty
years, and has seen all the coun-
tries of the world and all the noted
people.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-19

Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks has
left Indianapolis for an extended
pleasure trip through Colorado and
Mexico. He is accompanied by his
wife, and they will be absent five ol
| six weeks.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-19

The Christianity which does not
make people sober, honest, kind,
liberal, generous is not worth much.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-19

= MIS-. JaCKSOu VIII feula1H fH1
city only a few days more, at the
expiration Of which she intends re
naming for some time at the resi-
dence Of her cousin, Mrs. Judge
Henry Goldthwaite,. of Mobile
This lady, who is the daughter o.
Rev. DR.. Witherspoon, is now in this
city accompanying Mrs. Jackson
M o. Democrat.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-09

The working men of New York, who have
lately been agitating for an increase of wa
ges, in many instances asked for and receiv-
ed IN advance of ifty cents per day Saturday
Several contr actors had large works on hand,
and could not afford to delay them by waiting
for strikes to tide over. Tho working men.
said tue contractors bad calculate on the
probabilities for strikes, and had charged
sufficiently for their jobs to pay tho work.
men AN increase of wages. There was to have
been general strike among briclllayers
Saturday, in case the contractors and other
employers mad refused to pay So 80 instead
OF SO: Robert s. Darragh, the
builder, who Is now mt work on the
new United States bank building the Lon
don and Globe insurance company's build
ing, in William street, and George Munro's
new building, and employs about 800 brick
layers, agreed to pay the advance asked tor
Committees waited on other contractors and
received favorable answers. The journey
men plumbers also asked for an advance of
fifty cents, A number of employers prom.
ised to pay the advance. The plasterers, who
have been getting ST rs per day, will, next
week, demand 81 so, and the carpenters will
demand SO so There seems to be an under
standing among the different trades unions
to ask for an increase of fifty cents a day all
round. SO far the cigar-makers are about
the only workingmen who have been obliged
to strike,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-09
Tho Nature OF Hydrophobin.

Ehuh tuo I0i Muii uulStc.
Tho theory preached last summer in these
columns that rabies in dog 10 sort Of fever
or symosic discaso-a blood poisoning-,hc
result OF the presence Of some minute fun.
gold organism In his blood, which organism
exists In bis saliva, and when communicated
70 tho human subject produces te.anic effect,
has been curiousy confirmed by discovery
lately made in Paris. NJ. Pasteur, an emiaen,
Partisan doctor, made experiments with tho
lAliva of boy who had died In tho SAinte
kugeniai hospital Of hydrophobia. Rabbits
inoculAted with II died In ihirty.six hour;
other rabbits iuoculated with the blood or
saliva OF those ilrst luoculcted died also, and
even moro rapidly. NJ. Pas.eur examined
the blood Of those inoculated rabbits with the
microscope, and found therein small organ
ism not unlike the "micrope" Of chicken
cholera, but producing different effects. Il
was also singular that poultry when inoculs-
ted with this saliva, or blood, were not
Affected by II, nor were guinea pigs. Again.
dogs inoculased with tho boys saliva died Ia 4
few days. but without symptoms Of rabies.
IN lAct their rapid death seems 10 show
that the virus with which they wore thus
inoculAted had developed Into, quite distinct
organism nom the germ which produces
isbiss for In casss Of The latter Tho diassss
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-09
Leadvtlie Types.

From the Philadelphia Press
OF all American cities Lesdville might be
expected 10 contain number Of what q
novels, calls types. A list of candidates Tor
city office has just been published, with
biographical sketches, showing that the
typical American as he seems to foreigners
may certainly be found in Leadville. The
candidate for mayor was born in
Michigan. He learned the "rudiments"
at the public schools. In 1858 he became
printers devil. and two years later en-
tered commercial college, which he
left to go into the pork packing business.
Next he entered bank as clerk, and then, in
1870, no studied medicine, graduating from
Bellevue hospital, New York. Then he
went to Colorado and practiced medicine.
Then he became superintendent of mine,
and now, at the age of thirty.six. he is likely
to be mayor of Lesdville. One of the can
dids,es for alderman is thirty-three years
of age. He was born in Maine, went to Iowa
as soon b. he WAS old enough to go. lie
engaged in ,veral mercantile pursuits, went
to the war; engaged in stock.rsi,,ng, took an
appointment in the Portsmouth navy.ysrd t,
went to Chicago and engaged in the commits
sion business, and then ran two markets; was
burned out in the Chicago fire; went to Col.
orado Springs and engaged in the hotel
business. From there he wen! to Lesdvllle,
when the craze started, and is intere ed in
forty mines and is large real estate owner.
II these men are not typical Americans, 1t Is
hard to say where they will be found.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-09
Hanged WithOutT Trial.

San Francisco, April S.-A Sants Barbara
dispatch says the sheep herder arrested on
suspicion ofravishing and numbering Mra.
Sargent was taken by the citizens after tn
inquest and hanged by the neck for few
seconds. On being taken down he said some
other man had committed the crime, but he
saw it, and as it WAS done no " his cabin, to
drive suspicion from himself, he put rope
around the neck of the deceased and dragged
her to the place where found. He went
over the ground with the citizsns; also dug
up club with which the murder was
committed ard produced some articles taken
from the murdered woman His stories as
to the perpe.rator were so conflicting that
the citizens considered his guilt beyond
doubt and hanged him TO "A tree.