Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-27
A Memorable Scene Of Brilliancy, Grand
er Than That Home of the Car
nival Had Ever Witnessed
Before.
leaux Illustrating ''The History
Of the Semitic Races and
ssThe BeIIes.o
"The History Of Ireland" the Subject OF
the Procession at Night-A Sur
passing and Poetic Display of
Great Interest.
A Day and Night of Pleasure UnbOunded,
During Which Every Sense Was
Held Enthralled-TWe
ty Balls.

Special to the Appeal
New ORLEANS, February 26.-To-day,
Mardi Gras, wound up with proper glory
and eclGt the most successful carnival that
New Orleans has ever enjoyed, and prob
ably the largest audience of strangers ever
here. The weather was splendid to-
day for the morning procession, and
over 100000 persons turned out to
see it. Since Saturday the railroads CEN
tering here have had all the business they
could possibly attend to, and each of them
has been bringing in from seven to ten
sleepers, and from 500 to 2OO0 passengers
daily. The arrivals by the railroads dur
ing the past four days are pretty close on
to 10000. Those by boats and other
means of transportation it is somewhat
more difficult TO estimate.
The Streets in the Morning.
From the earliest hour this morning the
streets have been thronged with people,
both Orleanians and visitors, to see the
sights. Canal street, as during the pre-
vious days OF the Carnival, was the CEN
| ter of attraction, and there some 10000 or
more persons assembled to witness Ghe
parades and the maskers. There were few
more beautiful sights than this boulevard
presented, from one end to the other gay and
radiant with flags and bunting; the CALLER
les filed to overfiowing with women and
children in the brightest of colors; the
street literally iammed with people, so
that locemotion was difficult and almost
impossible. The morning hours were de-
voted principally to the promiscuous and
| general maskers, who turned out in un-
usual force, in every costume and disguise
it is possible to imagine-troops of In
dians, armies of monkeys, legions of
devils; women dressed as men and men
as women; minstrel companies sang the
plantation melodies on every street cor
ner, while clowns and testers amused the
crowd and kept it constantly laughing and
in the best of humor with their merry
quips and jests.
The Carnival Procession.
At 10 O'Clock signal gun sounded, an
nouncing that Rex was approaching to
marshal his forces, and, suddenly and
mysteriously, most of the maskers stepped
| from the streets, the horsemen fell into
! line and the Carnival procession filed into
Canal street. As of old, the Beuf Gras,
the fatted OK, to be served for the Kings
banquet, led the procession magnificent
animal of pure Durham breed, weighing
1000 pounds. For weeks a search has
been going on for an animal suited to this
! exalted position, and commissioners were
sent out in every direction to find suita-
bic Beuf Gras, which was finally secured
in the bluegrass regions of Kentucky.
The blaze of light that followed the Beuf
! Gras announced the coming OF Rex, the
King of the Carnival.
His majesty never appears any two
years, or two days for that matter, in the
same character. Yesterday he landed
here from his vessel as Charles II, the
merry Monarch of England; to-day he
came as Solomon the Wise, the great King
Of Israel, "arrayed in all his glory" The
car or chariot upon which he rode shone
and glittered in the sunlight as if it were
really solid gold studded with precious
stones. High above this rose a golden
throne, whereon sat Rex, dressed in robes
of pure white silk, and protected from the
sun by canopy of red velvet and cloth
of gold. At his feet, as footstool, lay a
slumbering lion, and below on the chariot,
surrounding the throne, were the heralds,
| blowing the long, resonant Jewish horns,
the musicians playing upon the mu-
| days of Solomon, and band
of Jewish warriors, in the armor
and accouterments of that age. A guard
of thirty slaves, armed with spears and
swords, surrounded the chariot, and
behind it came the Royal Household
Brigade. Following the Kings divisions
came twenty tableauS, illustrating the
leading incidents in
The History of the Semitic Races,
the Jews, Arabs, Persians and Babyloni-
| ans.
NnRoD, the mighty hunter of the Bible,
chasing the wild boar in his chariot.
SEMIRANIs, THEW ARLIKE QUEEN OF AssY-
RIA, engaged in battle with the King OF In
dia, the latter mounted on one of his war
elephants.
NINHAs, HER EFFEMINATE Son, in his lux
uriant pavilion, feasting and revehng, sur
rounded by his slaves and mistresses.
| SARDASAPALUs, THE LAST KING OF AssY-
RIA, presiding in his palace, with his fol-
lowers and favorites, and his immense
wealth.
NEBUCHADNEzzER,k KING OF BABYLON, in
all his pride and glory, returned from his
conquests, with the Jewish prisoners
shackled and manacled together.
| Ttrr (yOI TrN In ACT or y
the likeness Of himself which he had set
up in the center of Babylon, and which
he commanded his subjects-the Jews
and the Babylonians-to bow down before
and worship.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR IN HIS MISERY, bereft
of his reason and reduced to the level of
the beasts, with whom he lives in the
forests, clad only in skins and eating grass
like an OK.
Scenes from Jewish History.
FIRST, THE E1oDus-Moses and the Is
raelites, surveying from an overhanging
crag the destruction of the Egyptian army,
drowned in the waves of the Red sea.
SAMSON, BLIND AND PRISONER, in the
hands of the Phihstines, pulling down
upon himself and his enemies the temple
of Baal, during an important religious fes
tival.
DAVID, AT THE HIeHr OF HIS Power, re.
ceiving tribute from all portions OF his
kingdom; vases of gold and silver, camels
and even tame lions.
7 The GREAT TEMPLE or SOLOMON, at Jeru
salem, very ambitious tableau, being 6
careful and accurate representation OF the
Temple, even to the minutest details, a.
described in the Bible, with Solomon and
the High Priest making sacrifices.
The PH9SICIASs landing in England
and trading with the barbarous native
tribes.
HASNIRAL CROSSING THE AIRS in the
midst of winter, and while they ST,
covered with snow and ice, with an army
including cavalry and elephants.
THE PARsEEs, OR FIRR-WoRsHIPERs
holding their religious ceremonies before
the eternal fire or Zoroaster, in the rocky
recesses of the Persian mountains.
MAHcNEr IN THE DESERT expounding tC
party of Arab sheiks, the mysteries ol
his great work, the Koran.
TnR ARARs IN SYRIA, a scene in the pal
ace Of the Caliph Omar, where he is rs
! ceivino the gold vases and plate taken by