The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-28
Drift of American Society.

.,arolina at the present time,-as many
ten ar twelve weil-known families
icing involved at various society cen
but our people are IN the hrs'
blush of maidenly modesty as compared
with Yankeedom. 1t is a not uncom-
mon remark that nearly all OF the Yam
kee women are free and easy. which Is
: bout as big a mistake IS that other
Southern saying that one
Southerner could whip ten Yankees.
MANY Of the purest. noblest, and most
women we ever knew were oil
= orthern birth. and Northern sentl-
ments. Nevertheless there Is. and has
been. (and .'gctting worse a class o.
Northern women,-recruited from poti
the first and the fourth circles
the fashionable lIrt, and the wlnklng
waiteress.-who manage TO talnt the
atmosphere, crowd the courts, n oc-
the newspapers to a degree strong
ly suggestive of the French Free-Love
era. NlCn SCdlludl. dIhOItI. ouANHNN- oAN
all manner OF deyiltry ran rampant.
New York society is all agog concern
ing Mrs. Bill Vanderbilt's Easter
Ball" which is estimated to have cost
1900, 900 in expenditures Of one sort and
another not counting the diamonds
and dresses Of the guests.
Philadelphia Press describes a game
of draw-poker at one OF the fashionable
clubs. Young Tom Scott. Sol of the
Railroad Prince" Thomas A. Scott,
and Johnny Tucker. each tried to bluff.
The JACKPOT and trimmings amounted
TO s43 600. Scott called" anI showed
4 queens. Tucker d~isplayeda Straight
fush," and took the pile. No flush
of shame mantled the brows of either OF
these young bloods.' as they fooled
AVA their time, and tritied with for
tunes wrung fro.n the pinched and pov-
erty-stricken people all over the land
through which the greedy Monopoly
controlled by their daddies, extends its
iron arms and sucking mouths.
Iowa comes forward with new waltz
for fashionable foikses, The German
as danced at Marshalltown, had a figure
which required half an hour to dance.
All lights were eXtinguished except the
small tapers borne by the ladies
AS each gentleman selected a part
ner ne blew out her taper. Soon the
whole room became dark as Hades.
The music and fun grew fast and furi.
Gus. The dancers must have been fast
and loose.
The New York papers for the past
week have had from two to ten columns
daily about the killing of Haverstick, a
leading Wull-Street Broker, by Geo.
W. Conkling, a government surveyor.
whose sister was being kept in q
fashionable suit of rooms, by Haver.
stick. The woman, like many another
had great beauty. greater vanity nc
sense. and less virtue. Her husband
was what Plato described as an ''un.
feathered goose He installed his
business partner, Havcrstick. Ga MAJ
whom he had started in business, anl
helped in many Ways as a boarder il
the family, and often encouraged hin
% sit by the pretty woman's Ned. keep
ing the flies off from her, while she pre-
tended to be trying to break off the
morphine habit.
Needless to say Haverstick embraced
the-opportunity TO undermine he
Half-a-stick ola husband: and in the end
tie silly woman deserted her home ant
two babies, to go and live in satin and sill
with the traltOrous serpent who had 81
foully betrayed his friend! She nov
bewailS her TROUBLES" but seems Il
think less about her shame. and he
brothers bloody hands, than-Hov
shall / live hereafter without my OLE
| Injuries Z"
Boston is, or claims to be, the club
of the Universe in respect TO intelli
gence, refinement, culture, (prOnOuncet
cul-tchawD morality, etc. 1t is pro
badly not true that Judge Abbott. 9TH
leader of the a%rIistocratic element in III
Democracy in that State,) became in
stantly sick 1T the stomach over a tele
gram that Beast Butler had joined til
party, in a town 40 miles distant bu
we have no doubt he felt a sniff of dis
gust the first time Benjamin rolled him
self aud his leering cock-eye into hi
courtly presence. Well. BeSton.-cul
tchaw-ed Bosting.-has just enjoyed al
aesthetic entertainment Of high grade
1t was conducted by Grandchildren o
the Fistic Art,-Johannes l.. Sullivanus
yclept We Bruiser! Springfield Republi
can says
Popular interest in the event wa
wonderful. The great Mechanics fai
building raj packed to the utmost witt
the largest audience ever seen under
Hub roof. and tten there were 500 mel
in the street pushing. shouting and al
most fighting for a chance to pay thei
money and get in. Upon the organ
platform were reserved seats-at =
each-and there could be found tn,
common council president and a doZel
councilmen and aldermen, a lot of othe
city officers, representatives of Boston
trade and commerce, and, beyond all.
great party of Harvard students. Be
fore the exercises began Mr.. Sullivan
made a speech, Said he, livery set-t'
will be a scientific dishplay. CThre,
cheers for John l.. Sullivan,) Don
we Encourage ony n o. the boxers {,
knock the hid off his opponlnt. Plas,
'kape as quiet as We calm, an injy tn,
fun. Oi want no brutality 1t John L
.Sullivahn's exhibitin-niver a bit
'(Applause,) Gintlemin, Oh live in Bos
'thon, and Bosthon is me home. an O
want to give q show tonight that viii
be recorded in histhory. Oi want it re
corded hat there was nivir a bit u,
brutality .iurin' the spar'n." Cap
plause.) 1t is worth while to reproduc,