The Greensboro patriot [May 19, 1880]

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Established in 1821. GREENSBOEO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1880. New Series No. 630
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Tea, brim the cap and put it to my lips,
Press bitter wormwood in the reeking
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drips;
Wesve cloth of nettles for my pillow-slips—
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—yah I
—Pud. _____________
Poe at the University of
Virginia-
[Richmond State ]
Many of oar readers have, no
doubt, read E. I'. Stcdmau's article
oo Poe in the current awnber ol
Scribner. Eiceltent as this sketch
is, it is Hacking in one particular.
It contains no account of POP'S life
at the University of Virginia, a
time tall of interest to all his ad-mirers.
This want, however, has
been fortunately supplied by Mr.
Douglass Sherley, of the Universi-ty,
who contributes as the fourth
and last of bis excellent " Oddity
Papers" in the Unirertity Magazine
a very entertaining and Instructive
account of Poe's life as a student.
We are sorry that we cannot repub-lish
the whole paper, but we give
as much of it as our limited space
permits:
To Mr. Thomas Goode Tucker,
of Gaston, North Carolina, who, at
our urgent request, has finally con-sented
to allow his name to be used
in the present connection—we are
F^8crr«i^-L2> d,eply indebted To bin. »e ow.
nearly all the information CBaaf «i'
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JOHS >. HBrTBT. CtTBBAlt * CO.,
su raormrroas, „____,,
24 Colle»e Place,
ate now alile to give. Bi.ng, as lie
was, Poe's much-lured am! DOtl in-,
tima'e f.ient), there is no ono'.iio
<:JII throw mr:re light on his liriel
University career than Mr. Tucker.
Poe is described us having been
■A most excellent Latin and Frrnch
scholar: lie aoald nwd and speak
botb langiiage^ with greit ease al
Though ii could hardl) bare been
Haid that he knew either language
crilifMlly. Greel: lie rend indiOVr-enilt
; what a consolation tlii.s facl
must l>e to those as|>uiiig vonilis
of genius to whom the tongue in
which Homer so divinely song is
distasteful, and to whom Greek
roots ure mi alioniinstion.
Time and again Poe wonld enter
the lecrure-rooni uHi-rly unprepared
HI recite ■( called ii|ion But his
bran was so active ami his mennorj
M-i excellent that only a few mo-ments
study was necessary, ami
theu he was ready to make the best
recitation in 'lie class. The bare
opportunity of '• reading ahead," as
we students term that agonizing
ordeal, when one is fully expecting
to lie called upon, was all tha' Poe
desired when unprepared. As a
consequence ol this wonderful tacul-tv
he was able to maintain a very
high position in his classes, and
win for himself the admiration, but
mote oftentimes envy, of his fel-low-
stndents. The plodding lellow
who wearily bent over Ins work lor
twelve or thirteen hours, and came
to his daily lecttites wnli a satisfied
sense of doty done, could bat poor
ly »ud at heal aograeioosly, brook
the easy won triumphs of his neigh
bof bard by, who had, to his certain
kuowledge, spent the better part t-l
the night before with a jolly set ol
fellows around the card-table, or
alone in his room dashing off line
alter line of poetic beauty or deep-ly
absorbed iu the development of
an intricate plot of some wild,
stiange story, fresh from his bruin,
ol great originality and clearness
of thought
"H-is delightful to know that Poe
was,not exempt from that college
weakness to which the most of us
Bave at one time or another yielded
ourselves—a good, healthy quarrel
with that much abused creature,
our room-mate. When he liist
come to the University he roomed
on the lawu with a young man troni
Richmond, Miles George, who we
understand, is still living. They
had been together but a shori time
when something arose to disturb
the harmonious intercourse—per-
,i,ips Miles refused 10 nnse on cold
mornings to answer the knock oi
M*. Wertetilmker, who in thr-e
good old days made *l'e rounds
•acli morning ro see it the fellows
were np and dressed and reodv I >r
work (what a good thi..g the** stiff
old legulaiiou. bave fallen into ■■ -
honored disose), or perpaps Edgar
Allan wr.s unwilling io coon: ovei
■ lie clothes on Monday morning
i?!ien (he washerwoman came. (U>
the way, we kuow of seven differ-ent
ancient colored leinai' s who
claim to bave washed for "Marae
K I. Poo.") Well, he this as i' may,
net had a tailing out ami they had
■•soettlil g more- a genuine, good.
0 il fashioned light. Without si>
i g a wold to any one, ilu-v quieiK
leiued into that held neat the L'ul-
> eisit) where a certain enthusiastic
titiIf portion of our community
daily resort for baseball purposes,
and alter one or two rounds, in
which they both showed a suflli ent
amount of courage and a strong tie-sire
to black each other's eves, tbe\
mutually agreed that they were
satisfied, and, heartily shaking
hands, returned to the University,
as warm friends, but not as room
mates. Poe, after this little affair,
thinking it best to room alone,
moved into No. 13 on West range.
So that «e see that even Poe at
aeventeeu was as much of a boy—
although so different from the or-dinary
run—as our commonplace
selves. .... ,.,
Poe at this period ol his life was
rather short of suture, thick, and
somewhat compactly set, but very
active, being quite an expert in the
athletic and gymuastic arts. Some-bow
we have hitherto always bad a
vague kind of a notion that Poe
was slight of build, slender as a girl
and just as graceful, and wandered
about with a slow-moving gait and
a dreamy air pervading bis whole
manner. Instead of this somewhat
idealistic notiou, be was bow-legged,
and walked rapidly with a certain
jerkiness in his hurried movements.
He had about him the air and the
action ol a native-born Frenchman.
To quote Mr. Tucker: "He was
very mercurial in his disposition and
exceedingly tondof peach and honey"
—something that all Virginians ahd
Oaroliuiaus are familiar with, es-pi-
ctally those stately, courteous
geutlemen of the *'Old School™ who
are now so rapidly passing away.
Poe was also particularly fond ol
playing cartls—seven up and loo
being bis favorite games. He play-ed
iu such an impassioned manner
as to atnoHtit lo almost an actual
frenzy. All of his curd-playing and
drinking he did under a sudden im-pulse.
His passiuu for strong drink
was of a most marked and peculiar
character. He would always seize
the tempting glass generally un
mixed with either sugar or water—
in lact, perfectly straight—and
without the least apparent pleasure
swallow the Contents, never pausing
until the last drop had passed his
lips. One glass at a time was abou'
all that he conld take, but tins was
sufficient to rouse his whole Dei vous
nature into a state ol strangest ex-citement,
that found vent in a con-tinuous
il>* of wild, fascinating
talk ;uat irresistibly enebained
everj libtener with sj ren like power.
ir :s carious *o trace the subse-quent
career «.! those men nlm were
Poe's constant companions around
the card-table end who tilled their
glasses; xvr.li peach and honey from
the same pouch bowl.
Thomas S. Gholson was after
wards very pious and a judge ot
.-Dine distinction and gnat integrity
iu the Petersburg district; Upton
Beale (who always held the win-ning
card) became an Episcopal
minister, stationed at Kortolk, and
who was succeeded by Phil. Slaugh-ter,
who is still leadiug a lile of
parity and exoellencp, preaching
the gospel - unewhere in the Stale
at the presenl lime, and who re-members
With a smile those way-ward
days of bis youth when lie
and Pn- were partners at cards aud
neiil a Common treasury boeween
tin in. Ol N.ii. Dunn, W. A. Creinh
toll and Win. M. Bill well we know
nothing It is more than likeiy that
all of '.his old set ate dead, with the
exception ol Slaughter and Tucker;
the latter says be rarely, it ever.
ventured to play with those we
have named as they were, each one
ot theiu. regarded, and justly so, as
great experts.
Bui with none of these men, ex-cept
Thomas Goode Tucker, did
Poe form that close and teodereat
ol all intimacies—a warm, impul-sive,
genuine college Inendship.
All old men and those who have in
any way experienced the innanet
able delights of this relationship
bear testimony in the strongest and
most unqualified terms, that a true
college Iriendsbip is that one some-thing
in life tree from selfish mo-
| tives anil worldlineas and upon
which we may safely anchor onr
fondesl affect trios, resting iu an un
mistaken confidence that no matter
what lime may bring, wbat oui
enemies may say or do, there will
always remain in Ibe innermost
heart of the college friend of our
youth a teudei spot lor these with
whom ho has exchanged all the
sweet and sacred offices of a pure
friendship formed at that time of
Ills when we are Ire.- from the cool
calculations and somi times sordid-ness
ot those maiurri years when
our friends are olios- n Recording to
the prim dictates of the judgment
rather than ot the heart.
Whatever Pos may have been in
alter years, he was when here as
Ized by that same weitduess of
style, graphically picturing horrible
scenes and incidents, that so strong
ly marks all of his published writ-iugg.
His little room ou West Range
was often filled with a small, select
audience of his most particular
friends, who, spell-bound, scarcely
breathed while tbey eagerly listen
ed to some story—strange and wild
like all the rest—that be had just
written and which he read with his
whole soul thrown into every action
and intonation of his voice—now
loud and rapid like the mad rush ot
many waters, and now sinking into
a scarcely audible whisper, ot smeo
terrible sentence of incantation or
curse sending a shiver over all that
heard. What a privilege to have
been there !
On one occasion Poe read a story
of great length to some ot his
friends, who, in a spirit of jest.
spoke lightly of its merits, aud jok-ingly
told him that his hero's name,
" Gaffy," occurred too otten. His
proud spirit would not stand such,
as be thought, open rebuke ; so in a
fit of auger, before his friends could
prevent him, he had fiuug every
sheet into a blazing fire, and thus
was lost a story of more than otdi
nary parts, and, unlike the most of
lus stui ies, was intensely amusing,
entirely free from his usual sombre
coloring and sad conclusions merg-ed
in a mist ot impenetrable gloom,
lie was for a long time afterwards
called by those in bis particular cir-cle
''Gaffy " Poe, a name that he
never altogether relished.
Gaining during the first two or
three sessions of the University
was very prevalent. Iu last during
tho early part of the present eendj
rj it wss indulged in to a certain ex
tent, more or less, by onr very lies-people.
But ot course it was some-thing
iu au institution like this ol
so pel nicious a uature as to demand
a decided check. This, the year
before bis death, Ur, Jefferson at-tempted
by trying to stop the gen-eral
card-playing at the Dniversitt;
and although il did not serve the
purpose tor which it was intended,
yet it furnished a characteristic
picture ol Pis' that it will be well
to mention in this connection.
Mi. Jefferson aud the Board of
Visitors, af'er much deliberation
decided upon the following device
in order to stop the card playing lor
money. Au arrangement was made
wiib the civil authorities to ferret
out the most noted of the
Minng gamesters, and have them
indicted in due form and brought
belore the next grand jury. So on
a given day that theu this formid-able
personage, the o limy sheriff,
with a good posse, appeared within
the doorway of one ot the lecture
rooms just as the morning roll was
about to be called, ready to serve
his writs on certain young men as
tbey answered to their names. Bui
those gay young rakes were not to
lie so easily eiisn.tri-d in'ho well ' ii I
toils of the aim »st triumph nit ene-my.
They needed no word of "inn-ing
; the mere glimpse ol the sliei-ill's
shadow i'i the doorway wuh ins
men behind him was more lhau
enough to convey to their minds
an idea of «hat was com-tig.
With Edgar Allen Poe I i
a leader they, to nse the
college expression, indiscrimi
nately "bolted"—some through ihr
open windows and some through
an opposite door. Slid ft- prntHt ami
the Professor were lett 111 lull pos-session
ol ! he empty lecture room.
Then the hot pursuit. But those
whowere wanted the most had made
ii.eir successful esca|M-—not to their
rooms, they would not have been
sale there; but off to the "Rigged
Mountains" over an unfrequented
hv-paih, but one well known lo
Poe. They were aware it would
not be well to return to the
University until alier night; so-some
of the party bad managed ill
their lusty High' 10 snatch no ■
deck or so ol cards with which 10
while away the hunts ol their sell
imposed banishment. Then plac.
of retreat was a beam iful deil high
u;> in the mountains, and very Inac-t.
v
Last we should die-appoint those
*ho may be anxious to know the
result of the ruse on the part of the
sheriff snd bispo««« to capture Poe
and his friends, we will add in con-clusion
that, as we have already
said, tbey remained out in the
mountains during the wboleof three
days, playing cards and telling
stories, and returning to the Uui-veraity
sometime alter night, they
would wisely exchange rooms, so
that it might lie impossible to idea
tifv thera by their names, that were
then required to be iu large letters
on the door of every dormitory iu
the University ; early next morning
they would be off again. The board
ing house people,who were of course
in sympathy with the "|*>or dear
tellows," kept their rooms liberally
stocked with the beet of everything
the uiitket could afford, while
"Uncle John," au oltl servant, who
In his day was a great character
among the students, did uot allow
their generous supply ot peach and
uouey to run low. Finally every-thing
blew over, and the gay young
rascals, with Edgar Allen Poe at
their head, returned to their lec-tures,
where thev were greeted wilb
sucn fiiendly professorial smiles as
to almost m.iKe them believe that
uothing had actually happened.
This much tor Kdgar Allan I'oi-while
a student at the University
ol Virginia.
11 was our purpose to give a
ini-ii- glimpse, that much it nothing
more, ol Poe's University career ;
and It was our desire to add some-thing
new—titcis hitherto unpub
lisln-d—to the much that has been
said aim written about this in niauy
resoeela woniletltl! mall.
Tins we hive, after a manner,
been able to do, thanks to Mr.
Thomas Good.. Tucker.
Special Paragraphs-age
and hard work
i. lie is in earnest
true asd pel fi Cl i friend as the waj •
.Tdness of bis nature would allow, oessibie, being fat nwaMrom
of the beateu paths, but a spot thai
•|'„..... was in vet then the least
;oii 'h "I itteineerity, and never 'he
I ...i indieatin i ol lhal fickleness ol
dispositied with a Inch he was atler
wards so often—although in the
main, we ti-.'.k. unjustly -accused.
The inosl i I people have little or Ilu
patience with marked peculiarities,
am) aiealways ready to twist them
into a meaning little intended by
i|i« on,- go unfortunate is to ; nssess
„uch unenviable qualities; and as
an tuvi'ilil- consequence, constnot
misunderstandings, and of -such ■
nature that even the person him-self
cannot explain them away. So
ii is nol a mattei of much Borprise
•hat Poe had few intimate friends.
al:hough be could play cards »"»l
drillk peach and honey lor hours
with those who were thrown iu bis
way bv matter ol circumstance A
genuine Iriendsbip asks for some-thing
more than mere conviviality.
.,nd a shuffling each in turn the
same pack ot cards. There must be
other ties in order to cement a lite-long
attachment. Poe showed his
warm appreciation and high respect
fni his liieinl Tucker by reading "•
bim those earl} prodnctions.it his
tontb—productions thai his critical
hand afterwards destroyed, think-ing
them unfit tor publication.
Sometimes, when be had written an
article that Tucker would especially
praise, he would call in a few of his
friends and read it to them. Those
men who were so fortunate as to
hear those impromptu leadings nev-er
forgot them, and those ot the
number who arastill living, declare
that there is no impression on their
minds more strikingly vivid. They
were mostly stories and character-was
a lavorite haunt with Poe.
Theie he hail often gone alone.
when those overpowering fits ol
depression approaching almost to
madness had come upon him, and
there be had frequently remained
for hours, deeply buried in what
have Bomelimes deen termed the
"bitter-sweets of melancholy.'' And
there it was, perhaps, that his ac
live brain liecame so strongly im
Ion d ui'h those wild, t-meitul ideas
sorealis'ic iu their uurealiiy, that
ar° so abundantly embodied in his
weird wtitings.etivironed as he was
bt those low. sweeping pines, from
whose dark-green, ne. die-pointed
foliage there seemed to acttiallv
ooze a dreary soiubreness that per
nn-aied all the atmosphere with a
lancinating gloom. Surely it must
nave been this favorite haunt ol
youth that he has pictured iu ex-quisite
verse and fiily termed
TUB VALI.SV OF csaasT.
Oaec it Miiihu I silent doll
Where the people did uoi dwell:
Tlii> hail gone unto the wars.
Tru-tii'K i" 'he "l
Nightly, from ib
l„ keep wait
III the iind.t
-e irees.
id eyed stass,
ii azure towers,
b above the ll'.weta,
, f which all day
Ihe red s Ighl latilj lay.
Aoir each visitor .hall confess
The sail valley's restlessness.
Nothing there i. motionless
Over the magic solitude.
Ah. by no wind are stirred in
Thai palpitate like the chill seas
Around lbs misty Hebrides!
V, by no wind those cloud, are driven
That matte through the nnqniet h.-aven
Ineasllv from mom till even,
Over the lilies there that nev«
And weep above a "«"</"? J'"" '
Thev wave from out their fragrint to,'-,
Fturnal dews come down in do p.
Tbey weep : from off their d-kcate stems
Perennial tears descend in gems.
— K -T.\,*n k ." ii.il
are telling upon hii
about resigning.
— The Bultan of Turkey la. refused
lo pay bis soldiers aud tha soldiers wives
have revolted.
— Tin- N.-w- York Ilrralil is diftcnsaing
the shooting of President Lincoln for the
ben, lit of the future historian,
— A negro couple in rhiladelpha have
jii-t gained a unit for «W)HI lor being eject-ed
from a theatre in that city some time
ago.
■We arc sorry to sec that several State
papers are trying to quarrel about the ap-portionment
of officer, between the East
and West
— Robescn county is not for Fowle or
Jarvis for Governor. Probably our Kob-esoli
county friends have '-Scales" before
tlu-tr eyes.
—I'eml'er county Republicans have de-clared
for liuxton ias their choice for
Governor.
— Judge Christian, of the Court of Ap-pealsof
Virginia, has granted asiipeisid-nas,
returnable Jane 1, estopping tbe sale
of "lie Virginia Midland railroad, to hate
been made May la in Alexandria.
— - Ron A G Tlinriii.in is reported as say-ing
I bat no nan can rise lo prominence
in I,is -i.-.t.. (Ohio) nut that Ihe envious
memken "l bia party will woik to tut
liiiu down,
— I':. 11. io i Sea declares that the
last doubt thai Grant ia a eandldate
tMiw-.ri-too.e.l be kissed a baby ul Spriug-neld
last we. k
— The National Convention of the An-eioi
t Order •! Hibernians met in I'bilad
alpbia in Ms) 11 Delegates from
twenty-nine states two Territories and
Canada, numbering in alt about ISO, were
present John Hart, of Jersey City, pre-sided
Th- business was oondneted with
ol 1 door. It i. expeoted that the
tension will last until Saiuiday.
— Ab il in.- passed both branches of
the New fork Legislature giving holders
of Southern defaulted securities the right
I ■- M Hi- through Ibe attorney-gen
rial Mu. ',i intere-l I- fell concerning
ihe Governor's action on ibe bill, but in
■sell i.d .nn.-.l quarters it is believed he
wpi sign it.
— Cotton g 1- in New York city are
feeling Ihe farther fad in the raw article,
a,,, price, for May styles have been re-am
,1 withi "t leading to any marked in-crease
of business.
. [ii Congress the House committee oa
public building, bave agreed to tho hill
appropriating 1100.000 for a public build-lag
at Charlotte, N. C. How about the
aPl>i ipriatii ■ for » paWlo building io
Ulei lisle,lo ; | Ed. PATUIOT.)
— Mr. Til 'en »s in better health than
ever, lie- latest bulletin from Orauiercy
Park ssy« he DOW cms his own chop-.
Mr. Wuttei-.n ol K.i.lucky saw- him do
ii.an.l hastened to spread tho news which
will send the heart* of half a dozen heirs
sppareol down Into their boots.
—County Conventions, it seems, do
not show the people's preference for any
office except that of Governor. To till
out the rest of the State ticket with its
own countymen is the recognized duty
of every convention, and right well his
that duty been performed.
—Then ia little dependence to be put
in a primary canvass. When Ohio went
Kep.iii.ii-.n laal fall, Tburman bad bis
political funeral preached by the papers
■ looms!.....: the e try 1 n..» Tb.ir-man
laengag nursing a haby-booni
—already ..I respeolablo dimensions ar.d
still glowing.
— We have also n teived an invitation
lo attend a party to be given.... Frtdaj
evening, tho*Wb of this month, by the
young gentleman of Koetimjkem Acileni
at Madison, N C, R»i which ..ur thanks
aie tendered. We hope to be present on
that ocea '
of this month, at the closing exercises ot
Graham High School. We would be
pleased lo attend and will do so if possible.
The annual sermon will be preached by
the Rev. Solomon Pool, of Chapel Hill,
N.C.
A strange awry oemes from 8carleltslown.
Bsrka coanly, Ps. A young msu tried to
prevent his f.lhsr from cbssti.ing s little girl.
wbsn father sad son clinched In s hard ■ •■-• •
for muscular ■npremarv. Th. pogilisia roll-ed
into s mill-race and fought in ibe water
for some minutss. Hsviug sadr.1 ibe strug-gle
at Isst, lbs father packed up a f-w du.t.
and left home for tbe Weit The son sisa
pscked his trunk snd left f T part, uuknown.
—We feel under obligations to the
manager* at Trap Hill Institute, for an
invitation to atteud Ibe commencement
exercises of ihat exoetlent school of learn-ing
on lb* 21st of Ibis month. This lusti
tute is located in With** county in this
State, aud it would certainly afford ss
much pleasure to visit that section of K
C, ar.d inhale Ibe invigorating mountain
air, but onr business arrangement, are
snch as to compel ns todec.iue theinvils
tion.
— Weare in receipt of the Report of
tbe Ore Knob Copper ' ompany which was
organized under tbe General Laws of the
State of Maryland in 1W3. bnt is oper-ating
in Asbe county, in this Stste. Thi-company
owns about 1,600 acres of land
in the mountain region of North Carolina
and is doing a very pro8table business.
We wish success lo this and all other
compsnies thst sre trying to develop the
mineral resources of North Carolina and
give work and fair wages to our nnem
ployed laborers.
—Tbe present se«eiou of 8um»*rjitl<t High
School will closs on Thu.sdsy, lbs '.Hlili sf
tab month. This school i. locsied in Ouil
ford c.-unty twelve miles N..rth we t ot
Green.h..ro, anil we lean, that it 1. in a II"
iehing condition. It is under the efricieni
m.nag.u.ent and supervi.ion of Mr. I. S
Blah-, a Kentlen.au of considerable sspsrUaee
a- an instructor After the readme ot the
grades of .cholar.hip, a lil.-raiy aflMrass wiP
be delivered by Rev. J. Henry Smith I> 0„
of this city.
—J, Milton Turner, who may be re-garden
cs tbe most prominent colored
man in tbe West, was interviewed by tbe
Washington roil on Monday. He tohl
the PMI that the colored voters want
either Senator Hrnco or Fred Douglas* to
be the Republican Vice-Presidential can
didate. He says Ihat the colored people
will cast six hundred thousaudRepllblican
votes al the coming election-that is, if
thev akall »— .-—•"■I -"'•» www re-oeel
—For a week die politicians have been
watching with intense intercut the rnntest
going on in Illinois, (Grant'* home) be-tween
the Grant men and the anti-third
termers. I'p to last Monday a large
majority of the counties, in their conven-tions,
had declared for Grant, but on thai
day Cook County, in which Chicago is
situated and which is entitled to ninety
delegates to the State Convention, declar-ed
against him, and now he baa fallen
behind. Other counties are yet to hold
conventions, and upon these, it i* held,
Grant's nomination for the Presidency
depend. Not necessarily. Grant's de-feat
in his own State would of course
lessen his chances but would not make
his nomination an impossibility.
—At tbe celebration of the elghty-si'venth
anniversary of lb* Richmond
Klnes on May loth tho following letter
was read frouiGeneial Burnable ■ '-Wh.l.i
I was glad to have captur-d your corps
when I Isst had the honor i" I i< •"■
Boanoke Island. I would he very glad t"
surrender to it on the 10 h inst. al Clark'.
Spring. I am sure of one thing, and thai
i. Ihat my constant hope and prayer Is
that Union and Cotifedera'e »oldier* ma-in
the future he fonnd shoulder ro should-er
in defense of th- right* ana prerog*
lives of our beloved country, and that no
evil spirit will ever again arise to pat
ih.-rn at swords' points «m sectional af
fairs."
— Tbe following fact, about lb-Slal.lii-..ii-
A«ylum are Irora th* first ssaUlerly i'i *t"l
ibe BnsHwiuUnd***, uoiiee-1 in Uenday ■ ia-h
ar il spoken of even now whenever hi*
i . me is mentioned, but it I* an ootrage-
< s slander. I will tell yon what I know
in.self. For six years, while we were
both here in Congress, 1 lived next door
to him. His house was ss fsmdisr to ms
: s wss my own garden. I was iu than
s great deal, and he was as often In mine,
ami, in all the time of my oequsintsnoe
with him, I never saw Webster wbsn hs
was in the least affeeted by liquor, or so-rter
the iiitlneiice of it in any way.
have dined with him at bis house and at
mine; I have met him at dinners and
aft.ir-i outside, and 1 never saw him In
the least inebriated. I never heard of bia
being intoxicated bnt twiee, and on one
oflb.se- occasion.—a dinner—he was said
to have mad- a s|>eeeli that wa* grandly
eloquent. He wa., as 1 say, ons of tbs
worst slandered men 1 ever knsw. Why,
a friend told me once that he had known
Webster for 10 years, and in all that tlms
he never saw him intoxicated."
ulmitt'd .Im
o i-u-., i •■'•;
Total number of patients
ihe opening of the laMHalion
Total number of discharge, 1,046. Now in
the A.y'um. *7», Three male, and three N-rnale*
died doriag the quarter; Hire* fsmalss
were diechsrv-d ss cured. The expenses • I
th* qns-t-r sggrsgatad, 110.769,4*. Ail ibe
nthing at- ye'
aid
Spring anil Kail purchases of i-lo
be paid for. There was an
ane.nut ..f .ickuea. among the offlosr*
mate, dining the .pjarter,
—According to a contributor in the
New York /r.'un/, the following named
businesses are only about half the di part
menu of labor in which women in tins
country are doing good work: Artists,
authors, barbers, bakers, beekeepers,
bookkeepers, companions, cooks, cashiers,
canvassers, colonsts, clerks of all kind,
copyists, confectioners, critics, draughts-men,
designers, dressmakers, [enlists,
decorators of all kinds, experts, cngr...
employers of labr.r.i'inbi ud'-rers.tanners,
tloiicuiturisis, fresco-rs, gardeners,
ernesscs, horticulturists, housekeepers,
insurance agents, jewellers, journalists
Topics of the Week.
[t'p to Saturday, May 15th ]
Hoitilul Accident.
Wilson Slosu. s negro machint.t, In the
sash and blind rsetoey ..f W 0. Psily * Co,.
in ihl* city, bad two .t his fingers cutoSliy s
.sw yest-rilay.
Around and Abost Winaton and
Siilem
A gentleman of this city just returned
from attendance upon the Superior Court
in session at Winston, gives us the follow-ing
items :
The Superioi Court will remain in ses-sion
two weeks. The State docket was
finished yesterday. A burglary case ha*
been set for Monday.
Foraytb county delegates to Ihe State
Convention go uninstructed for Governor.
Business is brisk more freight is ship-ped
over the Salem road than ever before :
the merchants are prosperous: new
buildings are going up .very day.
Twelve drummers came down on the
train from Salem last nlghL
I'olice Volir I 'remises.
If, "ert'ect follow* swaae," many of Ibe
eitixen* of Greensboro would, no doubt,
be very lunch surprised, >f they would
make a i lose personal inspeotlos or their
back-yaida and lot., and see wbat a huge
ami.n f "cause" for sinks*** lies hid-den
iu ihat pile of accumulated tilth.
whi.se -tench, intensified by lb* heated
ravsof Ihe .un .r'espn is Wafted bv
gentle sepbyr* into sleeping apartments
in tho nigbl lime. And, if"au ounce of
prevention i. worth a pound ..( cure."
suppose, just for oui-e, each owner or ten-ant
go.s to work w ith.nit delay, and re-move,
all tbe garbage nf every daaeriptloa
around his boose and In hi. lot, turn
■ II hi* empty barrels open bead down to
nr.-v.-nt Ibe catching of rain water, and
learn from experisno* how much tiekn***
and di-.- c oi lie prevented by keeping
the promises . lean and lldj . It i. ball**-
..I that a reference lo this mstter i. suf-
Seient lo st-noilaI- the .-iiizen. of this
beautiful "City of flower*" 10 Immediate
ae'i.oi
Lot all, therefore, "wilhonl regard to
race, oolor or previons e.oi.liti.m of sorvl
•nil..."c'insidei him nrhersalf arnmmit-t
f to see that Ihe plaoa where bo
,., »he |. . . input ia proper order as i,
required b> Ibi uuilsry ordinance* of th*
city. _____ _
Col. .lui.io- i. Bead*—.
II or New Y-.ix in a letter to Wa'r'i
(Teetfa-of the ll'h •».»■ "four townsman
Col. Scale-. \\l... wenl North reren'ly f-.r
nodical lt.iviii,' • " \' my ls*< SMisdl'
oal visit to-Kev H-. Phillip*, at th* Pr**-
byteiian H«*pil il, I onlled on Col. Joataa
I Seal'- -if Greensboro, who became an
inm .1.- of the same inslitntio I Monday
tot, ami wl aeojaaintane* it would
have I let to make ander other
elrenmstanee* iban on a sick bed. Dr.
Phillip, him—.f wa. ... much Improved
il.ai b. .. ■ iai led me dowo snd *p lb*
.tain t.. a--i from Col HealWa room.
wber* ws remained in oheoiftal Bonvonss
tiou HS long :.. we fell that it might tint
be injurinn* lo th* patient. I hope ihst,
under kind and skillful iieatment in that
inatilution, upplemeoted by the affee-in.
nate and . bearing attention* of his
f, I sndfi K* Instructor, Dr Phillip*,
he will s,.,,!, I p -. itored to health, and to
his family al d friend* ami the public,
whom he ha- i.-presented 111 lbs Stste
Banal*
stenographers,
skilled nurses.
laundresses, landscape gardeners, lawyers
merchants of all kinds, manufacturers ol
all kinds, milliners, preachers,
rjroof-reaucra, pharmacists, pb)
painters, pattern-makers, ph.:
specialists, surveyors,
sculptors, shoemakers,
sewers, translators, taxidcrn
of all kinds, typewnters, telegraphers,
tailoresses, upholsterers, wood-carvers.
8TX—»N* OH waswran.—A Waabi -■ oi
letter to the Chicago v.- report* lb*
lion Alexander H. atopheas asaayiogi
•• I think Webster wa* th* wo
Aatnwa 11.-ri.<!.....
Thit I • 'I talented artist will
appeal at Bei Hall, in this city, on
S.iim.: . May 2i -'ted
bj hi town the plays "t
i i. ,||, -...-■ .\ I.- ..- W on
Miss H : mel with very gratiry-m
, |UI .■ idopti d the dramat-ic
profes >n, and - nt of high
prat fro.n I ' lb« country.
The H.'i ' ■«'
..\* , • ■ hei ilc hearts ./
c more forcibly than
does M Hi I •■■ " - ni- thing
,1,, ., her i th it draw, the
spectator out In a full realisation of the
sentiment of Ih play, and portrays so
.,,„■ ;,, • lean of the injured
safe, thai we I fain mingle oar tear*
with I.''
irpassed by none.
-We ate indebted to Mr. J. A. Tn* «''"»" ■ *-" *
inger, one of the managers, for an invi- iu.pree-.on
'..r...:. to be present on the :7th and 28th
Webster was
It is il' g
iL. c uu'.ry to day
a great drunkaid.
The it ■ •
eeiel.l .11 0
■
heieiol in-ch,
f Ms -
that
You
The Memorlsl
,, was par-
^, elel interesl than
.......-^t..n lei by the
I,,] Mr. I '» lleartl. and
I .,,. .. i—I. ll.t", " .n :-."! "1 two bands,
miliiaiy, e* ■ ghi; -i c..n
f. d.-i ••• s un fooi Ai Ibe cemetery praver
a woffei il hj k. - J It Watkins, of that
,.,i, a/iei wbicl iratorof the day,
.. vf h.itton J Ore lie, ..I-Warren, was
o.'io.l'i. . I'.• '".'■ Jarvis Col. Greene's
:..l. I r. i..!:.. have boon a grand
, , i \ elOBlOII salutes were hre.1
»l„| i. . ■ si tau graves begau
aa**a*aw*a *_Mama_a_i