Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-04-10
NO WOMEN IN THAT TOWN.
Peculiarities of a Grecian Town
Where Marriages snd Births
Never Occur.

n. Y, Star.
81 know a city in the United States
of over 80, 600 population Where not
one vote was cast for Grover Cleve-
land"
"Where was that ?"
"In Washington"
81 know a stranger place than that.
| have been to a town where there
have been no births nor marriages in
hundreds of years, yet people live
there and die"
The Captain of the bark Malta
crossed his legs, opened and shut the
blade of a penknife with his thumb
and forefnger and complacently
chewed tobacco. The Malta arrived
in New York from the Mediterranean
last Friday with figs and Egyptian
onions.
eyes," said Captain Baldwin, 1--WE
ran up the west shore of the Egean
Sea to Haggion Oros, meaning to the
Greeks holy mountain. 1t is grand
pile of rocks, rising 6 200 feet straight
out of the water, from the end of
narrow peninsula. What Gibraltar is
to the Mediterranean, HaggiOn OrOs
is to the Dardanelles. This penenSu-
la runs back from the mountain about
forty miles-grand coast-and aver
ages six miles wide. 1t is joined to
the larger Chalcedonian peninsula by
a narrow neck Of sand. They told
me there that XerXeS, the fellow that
led a million of heather soldiers, cut
Il canal through the sand at that point
for his vessels to sail through. There
is another mountain on the peninsula
Mount Athos. We had an Ohio
preacher and his daughter, passengers
from Alexandria, on board, and the
preacher told us of the peninsula and
town of Athos.
"Before Chistendom, said he, re
cluses used to live at Mount Athos in
holes in the ground. The solemnity
inspired by the bare peak Ofthe noun
tain harmonized we'll with their
minds, bent on wild and mystic
thoughts. So said he, after the
new religion came, the place got tC
be a popular resort for monks who
didn't want to live with the rest OF
m9nkind; and Greek monks have
been going to that peninsula ever
since, until now, after 1000 or 800
years, they have formed an ecclesias
teal self government. Under the
Byzantine emperors the monks were
under no secular control whatever
but now the Turkish government
keeps a caimakam there. He has ne
power, however. His duty is only
to observe the monks. The caima
kan has two zaptieths or soldiers, fOl
Il bodyguard, but they represent thu
hanOr of his Office more than tn,
power.
"They wouldn't let the preacher
daughter land. No woman is allow
ed on any pretense whatever, to Sc
foot in the territory. No femalecrea
ture of any kind-cOw, she goat 0
mare, or animal capable of givinj
birth 20 its kinds found there. No
even hens are permitted in AthOs
50 there have been no births, no mar
riageS, no love makings nor scandal
there. Just about as many Greel
monks get sick of the. world and Q
to AthOs as there are those who die
But what Il SanctimoniouS funeral
monk must have there-priests fo
mourners, hack drivers, pail bearers
grave diggers and lockers on"
Thetwo professional beauties Of tn
Republican court of France are Nine
ttauthcrOt and Nine. ArmenquanC
of whom no journalist ever speak
without the prefix "la belle" Nine
Gautherot is n native of New Orleans
and her husband is in the guano bus
ness. Her father was killed at ShilOl
fighting in the rebel ranks.