Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-09


with ardent outspoken Democrats, many
OF them ex Confederate soldiers, but with
many opportunities to interyie 2 Repubi
can negroes, found no more reason to
doubt the patriotism of the people and the
equal protection of all races than | have
to question the same in Lancaster or
Philadelphia,
So far as observation went or report
came to me, ju 60 that there is less
individual greed for office in the South
than ia the North though there is very
determined aud deep-ssated desire TO be
rid OF the administration Of federal power
by aliens.
Massachusetts,, by the way, was tho first
of the thirteen original colonies to intro
duce slavery and Georgia the last.
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On Peaon Tree street, Atlanta, a. a
corner, just about where the business
part of the city begins the Capital club
has established itself in a spleudidly
equipped club house, late handsome
private residence. Whoever is lucky
| enough to share it's hospitality gets ac-
quainted with an admirable cuislRs. But
Atlanta courtesy knows no limitations
| Besides the reception of the Legislature, q
diuner at the club, an entertainment at
Mr.. Robt. Lowry's. and reception by
Gov. Mcdaniel aud his accomplished
family at tae executive mansion, Mr..
Randall and his friends were break
tasted by Major and Mrs. Mimms
an elaborate lunch at Mr.. Grady's aud
other private entertainments made a
round of social enjoyment that introduced
the Northern strangers to delights OF home
life that happily are bounded by no state
lines. It was the great qualification of
Mr.. Thackeray, he said, to find in this
country" homes as pure as ours, firesides
like ours domestic virtues as GENTLE" =
Il am moro struck by pleasant resom
blances," be said. than by anv.hiug
else" These know no North nor south,
aud | carry with me the most fragrant
memory Of that rare combination hot
watn's and preserved figs.
} Gen. P. NJ. B. Young tells a good story
of his classmate and roommate at West
Point, the late gallant Gen. Custer. One
morning during the war Young, who was
reoonnoitering near Alexandria, Va, had
been invited to breakfast at the hospitable
Huuton mansion in the vicinity. Before
he had got to his wafaes he was driven
back by federal command and lost his
breakfast. Recovering his ground at noon
be reached the same house in time to dis
lodge the Union general who had eaten his
breakfast and when he sat down to enjoy
the noontide meal which "Yauk" had
ordered he found that his old friend Gen.
Custer had left his card and compliments
as well as his dinner for him. By the way
there are great many Georgians who do
not pick their teeth with bowie knives nor
introduce revolvers into the nursery, and
I han
mission to Mexico. ae has plantation
some distance out of Atlanta and raises
great hocks of peafowl, which he declares
to be species of bird that roasted is fiji
dish for king. The outspread tail,
mounted in brass Frame makes a parlor
screen that is the delight Of household ant
| decorators.
Tho Constitution is one of the great in.
stitutlons of Atlanta. 1t is the latah. .a-A
| opens and shuts 1.-THE Gate" The
Macon Telegraph and Augusta CoastItu-
| tioHdIist are two Of the foremost papers in
| the South, but the Constitution has far
more extended circulation than either OF
them, and no paper south of the Ohio
approaches it in influence and enterprise,
unless it be the Louisville Courier journal.
The Constitution, daily and weekly, circu,
lates not only all over Georgia, but through
Alabama, Tennessee, the Carolinas and
| adjacent states. Its prestige aud power
are greatly aided by tie personnel Of its
publication and editorial staff, Msssrs.
| Howell, Grady, Hemphill and Finch being
potential factors, not only in politics and
the business life of the town, but iu
society and every high enter
prise. Howell is president of the com.
paDy that is building the ktmball
1 ha, as,l ~ = - 1. a
did not think he was, but they pointed me
to big Methodist church and told me it
was chiefly distinguished for Grad7's
membership in the board of trustees.
Senator Joe Brown, by the way, was q
| Baptist preacher; and Senator Colqultt a
Methodist preacher. Colquitt's sisters
were pupils at the Lititz female seminary
nearly forty years ago under Principal
| Frueauff and SO was Mrs. Hardeman the
estimable wife of Georgia's Congressman
at large.
! hardeman mads hit in his jubilee
speech when, tenderly alluding to the
| carpet Dagger, he said "The Lord gave,
and the Lord hath taken away blessed be
the name of the Lord"
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Pegglng away, up in the fourth story of
| the CONSTITUTIONS splendid new building,
high above the turmoil of city life, and
| and where he can look out TO old Kenesaw
| rising above the ridge and>to Lost noun
tain on whose rugged sides Gen. Leonidas
Polk met death, sits Joel Chandler Har.
ris, the Uncle Remus" of literature
and an editorial writer on the Constitution
missed seeing him on each of three o lis,
and if every other excuse failed me to go
back to Atlanta, / would return to tell
him how his folk lore is, appreciated and
at how many Northern firesides / have
heard the children and the grand children
listening with entranced attention to the
stories which "Uncle Rsmus" tells "the
little boy" of Brer Rabbit and Brer Bar
and the doin's at the Misses Meadowses.
~.
Georgia has right to be proud of the
place wrought for her in American liter
ature since the war. Imet lady who
told me much of interest, and some things
would like to print, Of the sweet, pure
life Of Paul ii. Hayne, whose verse is
the expression of his life aud of his son
Will, whose poems are already now and
then seen in the papers.
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And Sidney Lanier! What state can
show three brighter names than these
blazing out of the war cloud2 Rev. Dr. |
William Hayes Ward has told in his |
fit memorial how lamar won snumnpa1 /