Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-04-03

A modest correspondent "E," sends me
the score Of the old song " Barbara Allen,"
which has been asked for in these columns
and with It says, "Enclosed ind an at
tempt az reproducing the. tune OF Barbara
Allen" as sung by my mother In her youth,
and who Is now three-score and ten. If the
endeavor will prove Of interest and satisiac- |
tiou to your correspondent NJ II will be
gratifying TO q constant reader Of the INTBL- |
LIoENcER." Now who can supply the COM |
plete words of Capt Kidd:"
When sailed. when sailed, etc."
~
The first name in American literature--in
point Of time-was not graved on Plymouth
Rock, but was written in the sand that lay
along the banks Of the James river, Va
George Sandys was the name and his for
gotten work was translation of Ovid.
~.
For the past ten or twelve years the voice
and pen of Charles r. Buckalew have not
been heard and felt often in political discus
sions lie has recently published timely
and forcible article on Jefiersons theory and
policy with regard TO removals from Office,
which would afford the president a good
beacon light to steer between the Scylla
| of civil service reform disappointments
| and the Charybds of Democratic dis
satisfaction. Ten years after Albert
Gallatin quit active politics. and when he
was So years old-he lived TO be over sS-he
| printed pamphlet entitled "Peace with
Mexico OF which 10000 copies were cir
culated. There is good crayon picture OF
Gallatin hanging In the handsome room OF
1t Gov. Black in the state capitol Black
knows all about Gallatin, "Friendshlp Hill'
i'm Fayette county, the former home OF Gal
latin, was part OF the estate of the late John
l.. Dawson, decd, Gov. Blacks father in-law,
and II is still the possession of his family. 1t
was also once the home of the Mellier family,
of which Mrs. w. NJ. Nevin, of this city, is a
daughter "Friendship Hill'' is in that dis
trict Of Fayette pronounced Fy-at) where
the township meetings bravely passed "the
resolution of 1898" all through the stormy
period of the late war. In that lieutenant
governors room at Harrisburg besides Gal
latin's there hang pictures OF exit Cows.
Stone and Latta; General Simon Cameron,
Judge Black and Senator Wallace. Gov.
Black did not select the furniture for the
room nor its wall ornaments, but they all
! represent very good-looking men and II
, there was a mirror on the wall the portrait o
; another might occasionally be seen.
Q When Adelaide Proctor first began TO write
: | poetry aud to send IL to Household Words
I | under the editorial direction o; Charle
. Dickens, her fathers friend, she was so con
scientiously careful lest personal considera
ton might be shown her that the merits o
/ her composition would not nave won, Una
!, she adopted nom dc plume. IT was 3
a carefully concealed that Dickens did not dis
cover her identity for over year, and the
only by accident, after, he says, ne ma
Is come to regard the fictitious poetess as quit
as real parsonage az his own mother Sue
nice scrupulousness would well befit som
. later day writer's who put off on the readin
public great deal OF trash unworthy OF thel
!" regulations, and which they sell by the
pr names, though II really discredits them.
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'" 90 hot hhom 'h,' any VI 'ne l. ui''i y.
IN Lincoln university that most earnest AL
sh successful laborer in the field OF negro educ
ton, has reeled of better poetry than Phil
wbeatley wrote more than hundred yea
n ooo Sbe ,yaa houybt a, tho aoe of eight
=, tie s,aya ,narket of Roston before sIav
III hojding yvas nm nrofitabie i'm that cold cljmat
ny or kidnanmng had become unnonuIar
er New EnaIanfs snrcharged moral atmc
" nbere. She mourned George Whitfield
y death In yarsa and baiIad Vasbinoton
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