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ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

The Alabama insane asylum has All in
mates.
Immigration to Texas is larger at present
than ever before.
Atlanta, Ga, claims 10 have the finest
church building in the South.
There are sixty telephones in use at jack
son, Miss, and more are being put up.
A branch OF the Southern Historical So
ciety has been organized at Aberdeen, Mics.
The stave factory at Newport, Ark, works
sixty men and turns out 1000, 900 slaves per
month.
The annual convention of the Arkansas
Christian Temperance Union will be held al
Little Rock, January Both.
Alabama has over 100000 acres of gov
eminent lands subject 10 entry under the
homestead and presumption laws.
vast amount of cotton will go to waste
in Arkansas, Texas and other cotton States
because OF the scarcity OF pickers.
The deer on Cumberland mountain, in
East Tennessee, are dying of black tongue.
Some catila are also dying with it.
Chattanooga, Tenn, has decided to have
sidewalks, at least the Knoxville papers are
responsible for statement TO that effect.
An eagle was killed near Chattanooga,
Tenn, last week which measured six feet
Tue Rosalee Yarn Mile, at Natchez, Miss,
have been converted iuto cotton factory.
The outlook for the new enterpiss is favora-
bic.
Rockville, Tenn, is taking active meas
ures TO number and name her streets, to the
end that she may get free postal delivery
soon.
The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times says large
numbers of farmers from Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois are settling in the section contigu-
Gus TO that city.
1t is stated that Mobile merchant objects
to being called a millionaire simply because
his name is Damrich. There must be some
thing in name, after all.
Young heodluns at Cabot, Ark, alter
business hours at night fill the doors of busi-
ness houses with boxes, barrels and other
rubbish that they gather from the streets.
Georgia has more illiferates than any
other Slate In the Union. North Carolina is
second on the List, Alabama third, Virginia
fourth, Tennessee fifth and Mississippi sixth.
Virginia will soon have the largest iron
furnace in the United Slater. The Victoria
furnace, in Rockbridge county, now ready to
put 10 blast, will daily produce 200 tons OF
iron.
A curious wedding occurred near Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, last week. An old negro aged
eighty years, and black as the ace of spades,
led 10 the altar saddle-colored maiden OF
fourteen.
Fifty-one women from Northeast Georgia
left Atlanta last week for homes AMI hus-
bands in Utah, having been converted to the
Mormon faith by missionaries working IN
that Stale.
Geological examination reveals in the delta
OF the Mississippi, a long space OF 300 miles,
ten distinct forests of buried trees. Bald
Expresses with diameter OF twenty-five feet
have been iound.
Mississippi physician says the day IL
not Tar distant when cotton-seed oil Will have
taken the place of lard the world over. He
pronounces it much purer than lard and
great deal healthier.
The Rsv. Geo. w. Baker and wife haye sued
w. A. Huff, proprietor of the Markham
House, Atlanta, for $4,000 damages for in
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pains. 1t might have been feared before
hand that the presence Of band would
have given 10 the musical side OF the drama
a preponderance not altogether suitable to
the Greek stage. 1t may be doubted whether
a modern orchestra. however subdued, can
be regarded az a legitimate representative O
the few pipes or flutes that accompanied the
GreciAn lyric odes; but, tins much being
granted, we may give all praise to Prof Mac
farren's treatment OF his subject.
The music was generally OF very simple
kind kind Of chant sang IN unison-but
yet full of mellow, and by no means monoto-
nous the meaning of the text being through
out admirably ilustra ed by the character
OF the music. We were inclined now and
then 10 Wish that the orchestra had been
little less audible, but in general II preserved
its position as supplying merely 40 accom-
paniment, the chorus being powerful enough
TO make itself well heard. When fifteen
persoDs are singing together II ls OF course
sl9ays hard 10 make out what they cay, but
the articulation Of the chorus was 30
clear that it was almost always pos
sible to follow them even without the aid OF
the text The way they performed their
task reflects the greatest credit on their
trainers, Mr.. E. S. Thompson and Mr..
Stanford 1t il difficult 10 say which OF the
odes we liked best, bat the most striking was,
perhaps, that in which the chorus rejoices in
the belief that "AjAx" has renowned his
project rhythmic dance, with more ella
borate movements and swaying of the hands,
was introdueed-a bold experiment. justified
complete success, the Joyousness
OF the ode Tightening by con-
trast the horror of the deed. The
play ends with a chorus, preceded
By brief but very effective piece OF insIru-
mental music of the nature OF funeral
march, during which the body of Ajax Is
carried forth. We are happy to observe that
numerous email points, adding immensely TO
the general effect, showed a result only at
tainabIe by accurate scholarship and minute
observation. For instance, when "Euryssce"
is brought before Ajax" "Tecmessa" covers
his eyer, lest he should behold the carnage
a tou sh which gives great force to two lines |
in the following speech. We may, however,
ask why, when "Ajax" cries, "Lift him, lift |
him to my arms," the child is not raised up
in answer to his request-an action which
would certainly highten the effect.
But these and other small matters it
is hardly worth while to mention. Scholars
must have been pleased 10 mole how few and
far between were the grammatical mistakes
or the departures from the text. 1t should
be added that Prof. Jebb has supplied
Translation OF the piece, and II is needless to
say that one more accurate or more brilliant
is not likely to be found. Altogether, we
may heartily congratulate the actors in the
first place, and the university at large on
the production of a masterpiece of Greek
dramatic art in a manner of which even
Sophocies himself could he be here 10 see it,
might deign to express approval, and which,
at any rate, we may safely say will not
cause diiquiet 10 his holy shade.
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THE LADY IN BLACK
who Visits the Royal Family of Ba-
varia inst Before the Death
of Member.


Ghost stories galore, royal and otherwise,
Lady Bloomfield has scattered through her
volumes of "reminiscences of Court and DipLo-
matte Life. A particularly gloomy one was
told to her by Princess Reuss, the niece of
its heroine, Queen Theresa of Bavaria. 1t
appears that IN the BavArian royal family
there is tradition of the appearance of a
black lady before any death; Just as In the
Prussiau royal family white lady is seen.
One evening Queen Theresa was sitting with
her brother, on the eve OF her departure for
Munich, when her lady -in-waitipg came
into her msjesty's room, and asked whether
she was going to give an audience, because
though che, the lady-in-waiting, had not been
apprised of that intention, lady was wait
ing in the ante-room. The Queen, much
astonshed, said she had no intention of see
ing any one that evening, as she meant to
start very early The next morning for Munich
and wished 10 retire TO rest in good time
Her majesty hen asked her brother TO go and
see the lady in question, and inquire what
she wanted. On entering the anle-room he
saw the figure dressed in black, sitting; but
as he approached, it disappeared, so he came
back to the Queen and said, SIS ist sehr un
heimtich eS nluSS de Sch1drze Frau getoesen seyn'
ut Is very uncanny, but il must have been
the black LADY, The next morning at
O'clock the Queen started for Munich. As
she was leaving Aschaffenburg, she told her
chaplain che mad left various petitions on
her writing table, which she wished him to
attend to, and as soon as the carriage drove
off he went 10 get the papers, and there,
standing by the Queens table, was again the
same figure, dressed in black. That evening,
after the CASTELAR, and his wife had retired
TO rest, they were surprised at hearing the
great bell of the castle toll. The key of the
bell-tower WAS hanging up as usual 10 their
room; but they noted the hour, and at that
moment Queen Theresa died al Munich Of
cholera, which seized her on her arrival in
the town At o'clock pm, and carried her
off in a few hours. A mystical anecdote
about Napoleon III Is given on the au-
thoriiy of Lady B!oom6eld's relative,
Lord Normandy. He was at the Elysee
one dsy, when he saw the EN-
peror converting with San Giacomo.
They beckoned to him to approsch, and then
Napoleon SAID that he was reminding San
Giacomo OF a curious interview they bad
when young men, with asomnambulist. He
added that she predicted three things:
That should be some time in prison, then
reign over an empire, and lastly that l
should die a violent death" "Deuz de ces
chooses sont 0TTiUees," he said, "Pautre arrpera."
Lady Bloomfield tells among her other
picturesque tales, curious story OF Harriet
H1smer, who declared that the spirit of her
Italian servant appeared and spoke to her
at the moment of The girls death in another.
quarter OF Rome.
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sQUELCHED.
be puplls on the benchea sat.

In staring, stiff array,
Feeling the awful thrill that marks
Examination day.
NoheraId had proclaimed, He comesP'-
That magnate, sleek and slow.
The latest trick is-sDring the trap
And 'catch 'em alive, or
"PIease close the southern window-biind,
And the sasnes toward the west
The sunlight strikes my eyes," he said
And the air-ahemi-my chest"
The teacher, sitting at her desk.
Was more than usual calm,
Muslng on David most intense
Impreeatory psalm.
"Ge-og-Ia phyr' Each trembler felt,
Hearing the solemn sound,
Convinced of sin, because the earth
Is like an orange, roundi"
"Tbe greatest river in the world,
This little girl will name"
1.-THE Mithithippi, thir." she said;
The class Endorsed the same.
"By no meansl" He refused to let
so gross an error pass.
And, turning, with a look transfxed
The teacher of that class.
" 1t may be the longest, madam,
From EXTREMIST north to south,
But we gauge rivers greatness
Blythe discharge at the mouth.
" And. by that test. the Congo
Is the greatest river known
The long locks rythmic motion
Emphasized the ponderous tone.
The teacher blushed. 81 stand reproved;
L taught amiss, you see,
And If you say the Congo,
Why, the Congo 1t shall be.
''Your ipse Dirt, sir. would shrink
= A river in its bed,
And, doubtless. meath your frown, the Nile
Hides its diminished head.
"But--I ask for information, sir,
And surely you can tell
Does the rivers test of greatness
Apply to men as well?
"For-my teaching days are numbered,
My redemption draWeth near
For IN that case, no living man
May call himself your peer.
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Morgan Said to Have Died Abroad.

Maj. Ben Perley Poore, the Washington
correspondent of the Boston Journal speak
ing of Thurlow Weeds alleged exposure of
the Morgan mystery, says: Careful of his
reputation, it was not strange that Mr.. Weed.
as the end of his eveniful life approached.
desired TO remove the stigma that he had
been prominently concerned in removing
front tooth from the body of a drowned Iris a.
man, and of saying de6antly III at she'll make
good enough Morgan until after election
His statements about the taking of of Nor
gan, which are all hearsay, were doubtless
believed BY him, but they are not evidence.
When IN Smyrna some forty years ago
gathered good deal Of information about a
mysterious American who had come there
soon after the Morgan excitement, He re.
eelved quarterly remittances and finally died
there. Were I disposed to give heresay
statements l think thatI could show that the
mysterious stranger was Morgan, who was
paid Literally by the Auti-Masons to absent
himself, but who hoped after some years had
elapsed 10 return to the State of New York.
But cannot prove 4he statement, and my
oath would not make my statements Of what
saw, heard and did legal evidence
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PRESIDENT DAVIS, SADDLE,
Stolen by a Negro I'm Georgia, Vow a
Curiosity I'm ths Fort VAL
ley Library.

As is generally known, says the Perry
(Ga.) Home Journal, President Davis, after
his capture in Irwin county, was carried
prisoner, under escort of Federal cavalry,
along the river road in the eastern portion OF
this county. Night overtskino the party,
they csmped at Sandy Run church, near the
residence of Mr.. g. M. Feagin. During the
night negro, who was taken into the con-
fdence OF the Yankees and given free access
to the camp, purloiued a fine saddle. Next
morning Mr.. George Feagip, who went to
the camp to bid adien TO the captive ex-
president, was charged By the officer in COM
mand with having stolen the saddle, he
having been in the camp the evening before,
couversing with President Davis. This he
indignantly denied. and by his bold
demeanor disarmed suspicion and avoid
ed arrest. Several weeks after, the
negro who had the saddle in his pos
session, no longer fearing detection. openly
rode the saddle about the neighborhood. 1t
attracted the attention OF Mr.. OPfy, who
purchased il from the negro at nominal
figure. Mr.. Fesgin, hearing that the saddle
belonged to Col. Johnston, of President
Davis's staff, wrote to him in reference to
the matter. Col. Johnston wrote in reply,
telling him that he remembered all the cir
cumstances, but that the saddle was the
property of President Davis, and not his.
Whereupon Mr.. Fesgin wrote to President
Davis, who answered his communication inn
mediately, informing him of all the facts in
the case, and describing the saddle SO accu-
rately as TO leave no doubt of its identity.
In the meantime the Rev. w. L. Jones of Fort
Valley, hearing of the historical interest at
tached to the saddle, purchased it from his
brether-in-law, Mr.. OPry, and presented it
to the Fort Valley Library, where it now il.
President Davis requested Mr.. Feagin in his
letter to secure the saddle for him if possible,
as he highly priced it for the associations
connected with it. 1t was given to him many
years before the war in Texas, and he had
ridden it on many memorable occasions dur
ing the late war.
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his sallies such learning, such profanity and
such contempt that, even now, it is difficult
10 determine whether he meant his chief
work 10 be an extravagant burleeque or
serious romance. 1t was due solely TO the
immense admiration excited by his match
less works, BY their inimiiable drollery and
fun, that sufficient protection was accorded
to him by powerful patrons to preserve him
from the fate OF Dolet snd Desperiers In
an ieonoclastic age, which spares few rspu-
tations and has no reverence for antiquity, il
is something 10 feel certain that, Whatever
statues may be torn down from their pedes-
tails, the fame of Rabelais stAnds firmly en-
shrined upon a rock of adamznt.
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The Dealh.Rate In lhe United states.
Lord and Lady Derby.

Lord Derby will undoubtedly add an ele-
ment of strength to the present British Cabi-
net. In the prime of lie, most assiduous in
business, enjoying the highest reputation for
caution and sound Judgment. the inheritor Of
great name, a weighty, though far more
eloquent, speaker, and the owner of over
$4,000 week, Lord Derby's presence can
not be a matter of indifference in any admin
istraiiop. Add TO all this that he Is the
husband of an exceedingly clever, agreeable
wife, who, unlike her predecessor IN the title,
knows we'll how to make her house popular.
Lady Derby first married Lord Salisbury's
father, and to an old friend, astonished at
her choice, who remarked. aWhy, he Is as
old AZ your own father" She cleyerly Ie-
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iuries susi aimed by Mrs. Raker i, T.,
ten by rats while guest of ihe ho,af Lea
summer.
Male relatives Of the girls enpIov.d in the
Nashville manufacturing estabi;.S -.
acting as detectives, on their orr .ai;,;o,s
to punish fast Young men who a.. ~
habit of insulting working girlson their xsy
home after dark.
A curious Indian relic WAC r,r..,ts
near Hartsville, Tenn. 1t is pises - 800
about fifteen inches long, holioEsJ ant i, ,bs
shape of a policeman billy. T, 80, r. ~
blown like horn, and evidently was nssd 70
summon the warriors TO assemsle.
Atlanta, Ga, has q candidate Ia .ro-
who proposes, If elected, TO gradusllv -
taxation until, at the end OF 6[tss, 80
to her citizens. The scheme il uronorn -
feasible by many citizens who have can
ined il.
Ann Bvnun, colored, died ii The ,,oo,.
house at Fort Payne, Ala. November 1stb
She was, at the time OF her dezlh. nrohs hI-
the oldest person in the State. II Il sIIs.-sd
BY some, who claim 20 know, thar sba g
125 years old, and all agree that her ace
exceeds 10 years.
Bills in the interest Of Temperance are
consuming a great deal OF the time If ,hs
Georgia Legislature. The total prohibition 81
the sale or manufacture of whisky within
their borders is wanted by many cspniies
while others ask that the license be 6xed ~
$4,000, $4,000, and even SIC. 00e pr sn51e,-
The Hon. w. NJ. WilIingham, 81 cIarts
county, Tenn, turned six little carp loose in
the miil-pond OF Mr.. L. NJ. johnson. near
Crawford, and few weeks ago the 4stisr
gentlems IN was astonished to find thai his
pond was stocked with German earn bv
thousands, the offspring of the six ishes
placed there two years ago.
The latest oddly in the INSURANCE bn.i.
ness is a scheme conducted in Nashville
Tenn, called the Mutual GUARANTEES Asse'
citation. The plan is 10 soothe a fellows
feelings in the event of his girls agoinr bach
on him. In the case of person so afflicted
the mollifer is a gift of SIS day from Inc
Lime of insuripg to that OF jiItipg.
The sesqui-centenniaI of the landing Of
Gen. Oglethorpe is to be observed 10 a spir.
tied manner at Savannah, G 4, next Sspiem.
Der. The general committee of the organi-
zstion is working with zeal and industry 70
excite wide spread interest in the ceiebra-
ton, and the indications are that these efforts
will be crowned with gratifying success.
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THE MOTHERS LAST SONG.

Stopl The ghostly winds are blowing,
No moon abroad, no star is glowing;
The river is deep, and the tide is wing
To the land where you and are going!
We are going afar,
Beyond moon or star,
To the land where the sinless angels are!
lost my heart 10 your heartless sire
CTwas melted away by his looks OF frel,
Forgot, my God. and my fathers ire,
All for the sake of mans desire;
But now Well go
Where the waters flow,
And make us bed where none shall know.
The world is cruel, the world is untrue;
Our foes are many, our friends are few;
No work, no bread, however we suei
What is there left for me to do,
But fly-fy
From the cruel sky,
And hide in the deepest deep-and diel
BARRY CORNWALL
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FOE THE LAST TAME.
It is all over, and the lights are out,

1t is all over, and the lights are out,
The Rissal elosed-the mass is done;
And the dear nuns. like shadows one by one
Have left the chapel and are alone,
Ny God and 1; my God, whose viii is done.
Whose win is done. go be it evermore
But we, my soul, must pile the sods up high
Upon this corpse, that was so dear TO you and me-
This last poor human consolation that doth lie
With white dumb lips sealed for eternity Z
Fill in the grave, and heap the stones up high
II must not rise again. 1t is dead for aye,
We have done with il, my soul and l, to-day
We have sinned, we have trusted in the earth and
clay
And 1t has failed us. Let US kneel and pray.
Prayia the silence by this new-made grave.
Pray that God only from heneeforth may be
Our refuge in the storm, that none but He
May ever comfort us. And o, my soul, that we
May kiss the hand that wounds remorselessly.
Yet we may weep, poor soul-that is no sin
We cannot help it--God viii not deny
Us this, our last poor solace Like a Htany
Each salt tear pleads, ''Be merciful to me,
1t is the last. last timei Beats Haorfuih'
1t is all over and the lights are out,
The misSal closed, the mass is said,
And we go out into the empty world to tread
New paths and learn new lessons, and be led
Another wayl Beat morttip'
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KIDNEY WORT.
S IIII5 We ri
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.

ANNUAL MEETING Of STOCKHOLDERS
TENNESSEE SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY. L
MEMPHIS, TENN. July &, 1882.
is hereby given that the Annual Meet
In ing of the Stockholders Of the above Com
pany will be held at the ONCE OF the Company, In
the city of Memphis, on the
14th Day of August. ISS2.
Notice is also given that at said meeting propo-
sftion will be submitted to the Stockholders 70
consolidate with the Memphis and Vicksburg
Railroad Company. the Mississippi Valley and
Ship Island Railroad Com pany, and the New Or
cans and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company.
GEO. NJ. LEM, Secretary.
81 The stockholders' Meeting mentioned in
foregoing notice was held at the time and place
stated above, more than three-fourths Of all the
Stockholders OF said Company being present.
when. for the purpose of further considering the
proposals for consolidation with other companies
Is above, stated, an adjourn ment was had until
the third Wednesday n October next f1S821, same
being the 18th of october, 1882, at place stated
above. therefore, said Annual Meeting stands ad-
iof1rned 70 18th October, 1852, at the place
mentioned above when said matters of consolida-
ton aud other subjects will be further considered
t. WILSON. resident.
n|said meeting of stockholders was held pur-
sunnt to above notice, and was adjourned to meet
on the a2a December. 1852. at above stated
place. z. T. WILSON. President
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Millions of packages of the Diamond
DYES have been sold without single COM
plant. Everywhere they are the fayorite
dyes.