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BOB TAYLOR, OF TENNESSEE.
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1oW irE iON A WIFE A MD TH
HONORS OFA CONGRENSMAN.
The Happy Conolusion of a Very U
MOW" mantic Story--The Successful Career
of "the Beardless Boy Who Fiddles."
On Wednesday the 10th nIt., at
Asheville, N. C., Congressman-elect
Robert Taylor was united in iar
riage with Miss Sallie Baird, a niece
of Governor Vance, of North Caro
lina. The marriage is the conclu
sion of a somewhat romantic story.
When Taylor was nominated by the
Democrats as their candidate for
Congress, Miss Baird promised him
that, if elected, she would marry
him ; if defeated, it would be an in
definite time before their union
could be consummated. The district
contains some of the strongest Re
publican counties in the State, and
has always given a Republican ma
jority of 2,200 or 2,300. The pros
pect for Taylor attaining his
dasires were, therefore, not at all
promising. Besides, ,he had as an
opponent Pettibone, one of the
Republican chieftains of the State,
an emigrant from Michigan, pos
sessed of unusual shrewdness. In
the Presidential contest, as one of
Republican Electors, he bore the
banner of his party as gallantl3 as
was possible, worrying the Demo
crats considerably. For Taylor he
entertained seemingly nothing but
contempt.
Taylor's nomination was simply a
lucky stroke of fortune. In the
Republican Convention Taylor's
brother, a very pronounced Re
publican, was the principal candi
date for the nomination against
Pettibone ; bt the latter, after a
bitter fight, secured the honor.
Taylor's Republican friends were all
angry, and the Democrats conceived
that it would be a good thing to
o norninate his Deinocratir, brothir,
who would probably draw votes
from the Republican ranks. 11his
plan was carried out. Taylor was
only twenty -eight years old, and in
that region had mnatdt- considartble
reputation and p)opular'ity as a ti. I
dier. At the freient gatlhcritng
for dancing lie was a most welcomic,
guest. His noinination seemed to
five the young nvi with enthusiasm.
Numbers of Republicans and two
or three Republican journals left
the party ranis and went over to
Taylor's side. Pettibone wts ac
cused of being in with the Revenie
and Customri-house Rings, which hd
co.itrolled politics in that section.
It was an understood fact that
Federal money was to be showered
on the d strict. Taylor, as lie
afterwards told friends,had only five
dollars to commence- the canvass
with, but once out, money and assis
tance of every kind poured in on
him, so that after the campaign was
over, very little of the five dollars
was spent. Pettibone looked down
on him with contempt, and in the
- - opening speech merely alluded to
him as5 the "beardless boy whlo
fiddles."
When it came to Taylor's rejoind.
or he approached the table with a
fiddle in one lymd and a carpet-l:a f
in the other He commenced with
the statement that he was a fid.lller.
Then laying the fiddle and the car
pet-bag side by side on the table,
he asked thme crowd to choose he
tween them. The point was taken
up and tari-ied from one end of the
district to the other, producing any
amount of meri'iment at Pettibone's
expense. Pettibone, afterwards,
- never alluded to Taylor's fiddle
more than once or twice. Taylor
also taunted Pettibone with the
fact that his regiment, at the close
of the war, disbanded with more
men than It had started with, The
young Democrat was a ready,
eloquent speaker and never failed
to awaken enthusiasm. Frequently
when the speaking wa.s over he
would entertain the crowd with
music from his violin. The district
has its share of moonshiners, and
they, with all their friends, were for
Taylor, as Pettibone was in with
and supported by th~e revenue men,
the enemies of the moonshiner.
Taylor's umjority was nearly 1,500,
making a Democratic gain of one
Congressman from Tennessee. His
father represented the State in (Jon
gress just . after the wa4. -When
nominated, Taylor was -advised to
take a very conservative course,, but
answered airmly that bo roosed to
maethe ohiu
uDmoe .-ati~eib' p' d so
VNOY,B TOM'S CABIN.
Translated Into Every Language--The
Most Popular Am-3rican Book Ever
Published.
A now American edition of "Uncle
Ton's Cabin," illustrated, I is just
been givn to the public from the
press of Houghton, Osgood & Co.
Trhere are some interesting pecu
liarities associated with this book
worth mentioning. "Uncle Tom's
Cabin" was first copyrigltedl by
Mrs. Stowe in 1851. Its publish
ers, Jewett & C.., .lthough having
sold hundreds of thousands of
copies of the work, did not get
rich out of it, but they went into
bankruptcy some years after. The
list,of editions and translations of
"Unole .'om's Cabin" contained in
the Library of the British Museum
inel.ides several hundrd, i-icluding
the Welsh language, although ev,3n1
the masterpieces of Scott and
Dickens have nover been translated
into that language, while this
American novel hats forced its way
in various shapes into the languages
of the ancient Britons. There are
also three translations of the work
into the Magyar, two into the
Illyrian, and two into the Valla
chian. A full translation into
Russian appe.ars to have been for
bidden until recently, lest it miiight
get into circulation among the
serfs. In the Asiatic langu.ages the
only version yet seen is the
Arnenian. The translation of the i
same text by thirteen different
translators at precisely the samne
epoch of a language i- a circam
stance perhaps altogeL)er uipice,e
dented. All told, tWere are thirty
five editions of the or:gin.1 Eg:i3h
of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," the em
plete text, arid eight abridgeients
or adaptations; nineteen transla
tions, besides others not in the
British Museum. How this book
came to be, how it was received in
all the world, and what has been its
history throughout all the nations
and tribes of the earth, civihzed and
uncivlized, is a matto: of history.
The first part of the book evo,
Commllitte-d to writing was dhe de;Alh
of Uncle Tom, and the story itself
WaS fikSt published in wt-ekly in
st-dments in the Waslington
Natial_ Era. ed-utd at, that time
by ),. B tiley. As the story pro
Ce-Ss3d, howecver, Jowett, the Bos..
to1m piub:i'., sot his eye upon it.
and .itde overtures for the ptibli
c-:tiim of it in book form, to which
i ts ato li csed. After a while
kho had a letto: from him, express
iog the fears tial.t she was miaking
he sitory too long for ia one volume
publii. ts"n : mnd lie also reminded
Iher thvit it was an un 11) popular sub.
jtwt, and t t, people, W(otld not
wilungly lie ' mnli abour, it ; that
One short volmne might possibly
sell. Mrs. Stowe replied th-at she'
did not mike the story, that the
story made itself, anI thatt she
could not stop it until it was done.
Over 10,000 copies of the book:
were sold in a few days, and over
300,000 witnin a year). No Ameri
can book, evei' before oi' since, has
sold like "Uncle Tfom'hs Cabin."
How -rHE PREOIHEa REFORMED THlE
GAMBnIsR. --ittle Johir.ny, the youth -
fuil contributor, recoirds this moral:
A preecheir wich haid been a wicked
'gamIer fore he was a preecher he'
seen a feller wich w~as a gamnler too,
and he sed, the pr'eachier did :"HeI
jest play cards with and this poro
mnizable sinner winl his nmunny, and
wen he is busted may be he will
listen to the divine trooth and be
saved." So they played and the
preecher' he wmnned ol the feller's
nounny evry cent, and then he Bed:
"Now see how wicked you have ben
for to loos yure munny, and for yure
whife and babys haven't got no bred
for to eat." And t'ae gamler' he se.l:
"That's so," and he bust out a cryin.
Then the precber he sod :"Pore
sinner, if you prommiice me unto
yure onner to not pilay cards agin
lIe give it back, cos lIme a preecher.".
So the gamier lie was a stonish, and
he sed : "I nevei' see sech a good.
im mn. I promrmice, yes in deed, and
heaven bless you I" and he busted
ont cryin again, the gander did.
Then the preecher he give him baek
o1 his mun -y, and the feller put it in
his pocket, and whiped his eyes, and
blod his nose gratefl, and then lie
thot a wile, and pretty suns he
coffed, and he said to the preecber ?
"I feel mity me.n taikin back this
hundred dollars from a man wich
has resoewed me from card playing ;
tel you what Ile do : you put up a
other hundred agin it and wee! toss
up for the pile, hreds or tails, best
two out of thre."
Way your' subscriptin to the
OBEAT MEN WHO HMOKE.
Illustrious Devotees of the Pipe and
* Cigar.
[Rom the New York Star.]
Some authors assert that smok
ing dates back into antiquity. Be
this as it may, we can surely trhco it
back to the aboriginees of America.
The smoking of herbs or leaves for
medicinal purposes has been prac
ticed from a vory early period in
many countries. Inasmuch as pipes
have boen dug up in places under
the Roman wall, in the north of
England. and at the Roman stations.,
it has been taken for granted that
the Roman soldiers smoked 1,500
years ago.
Oliver Cromwell was a bitter
enemy to smoking, as were also
Charles I. and Charles 11. But,
notwithstanding perseention, smok
ing grow in favor, and in $he reign
of William III. it was alm4st a uni
versal custom. "Pipes grew long,
then, and, ruled by a Dutchman, all
England smoked."
Some of the Puritans were moder..
ate smokers in England and also in
America, and some of the New E ag
land women enjoyed indulging in a
pipo.
Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, wife of
Rev. Joseph R1owlandson, of L-.mcas
ter, Mass., had the misfortune to
be captured by the Indians in the
year 1765, during King Phillip's
war. Being brou. lit into the pres
once of Phillip, that redoubtable
chieftain courteously offeled her a
pipe, according to the I ian cus
tom. "Bit smoking," she says,
"%did not suit my presen feclings.
For t.hough I had forn rly nade
use of tobacco, yet I h:Ad tied none
since I was taken." The ashion is
not yet entirely obsolete among the
women of Now E4 ngland, 4nd '. in
dulged in by soma of the women of
the West and South. -
In .1559 Cardinal St. Croix, . who
was a great smoker, introduced to~
bacco into Itally.
In 169") Pope Innocent XII. ex
notumunicate-l all who should take
wniff or use toblcco ir church ; but
in 1721 Pope Benedict revoked this
bull. as-be himself used tobacco im
Perhaps the most celebrated fe
male smoker was Madame Dudevant
(George Sand). who loved to smoke
a cigar, while at work on her inter
esting novels. Emily Faithful is
very fond df smoking cigarettes.
Robert Hall, the celebrated di
vine is said to have preached his
most eloquent sermons after smok
ing a pipe in his vestry. This was
also the caRe with Doctor Parr, who
sometimes smoked twenty pipes in
one evening, and never wrote well
except under the influence of tobac
co. Bishop Kennet relates that
Thomas Hobbs, the philosopher of
Malnesbury, retired to his study
every day after dinner, and-had his
candle and ten or twolve pipes of
tobacco laid by him ; then shutting
the door, lie fell to smoking, think.4
ing and writing for severMl hours.
Although lie smoked excessively, ho
lived to the age of 92.
Sir Isaac Newton was very fond of
his pipe. He lived to a ripe old
age, and lost but one tooth,
which wvould seem to disprove the
assertion that tobacco injures the
teeth. Alfred de Musset, Prosper
Merimee, and Eugene Sue were
excessive smokers. Lord Palmer,
son was a great smnoker, and smoked
his ten or twelve ciguus a day, to
"preserve his health," lie said ; this,
too, after he had passed his eighti
eth year.
iomas Carlyle, in mild weather,
likes to sit or wvalk in his garden
and smoke a long clay pipe. Lord
Lytton, Lord Eldion, Louis Napo
leon, Moore, Campbell, and Byvron
were mno-.ierate smokers. The late
J. M. Kenmble, author of "The Sea,
s ns in Engi md," was, a tremen
dous smoker. Lord Beaconslield
1l>ved the long pipe in his youth, but
mn middle age pronounced it "the
tomb of love." He gave up smok
ing years ago to please his wife.
John Milton never went to bed
without having first smoked a pipe
and drank a glass of water. Addi
son used to fr'egnent "Button's,"
where lie had a pipe in his mouth at
all hours. Fielding, the famous
novelist, both smoked and che wed.
Dickens, Jerr old, and Tlhackeray all
puffed. Sir Walter Scott smoked in
his carriage, and regulairly in dinner,
loving both pipe and cigars.'- He
gave the following advice : "Learp
to amok. slowly. Cultivate calm
and intermittent puffs."
Charles Lamb haS sung the vir-.
tues of tobacco ifl his p oem, "Fare~
well tobacco," in which he owns his
weaknesses iii the ftamous words :
For thy sake, tobacco, I
Wouldbadnything but die."
Ben odl&iW'fo'ad the- divin
weed," and describes its use with
the gusto of a connoiseur. Rev
0. H. Spurgeon, the celebrated
Baptist preacher of London, is- a
great smoker. On one occasion Rev.
G. H. Pentecost, of Boston, address.
ed an audience in Spurgeon's taber..
nacle, in which he denounced smok
ing as an offense in the sight of God.
When he had finished speaking,
Mr. Spurgeon got up and told his
people that he saw no possible sin
in smoking, and electrified Brother
Pentecost by remarking that as soon
as the services were over he was
going to smoke a cigar himself. Rev.
W. H H. Murray, of Boston enjoys
a cigar as well as a good dinner.
he same may be truly said of a
great many celebrated divines.
he late Coinmodore Vanderbilt
was an inveterate smoker, and would
sinoko and play whist for hours. U.
S. Grant smokes. He is said to
lave once remarked that in the war
the enemy could do him no greater
injury than to steal his cigars just
before a battle.
Edison both smokes and chews.
John Swinton smokes moderately
Thomas Bailey Aldrich smokes the
best Havana cigars, which, he says,
impart a flavor to his poetry. Oliver
Wendell Holmes loves tobacco and
good punch. James R. Osgood, the
famous Boston publisher, is a very
nervous man, and smokes a good
cigar fregiently, biting at it in a
vicious manier.
Oliver Ditson, now nearly 70
years old, smokes at regular inter
vals during every day. . Clirles A.
B. Shepard, B. H. Ticknor, and Au
gustus Flagg are great smokers.
John Bartlott., author of "BArtlett's
Familiar Quotations," finds a good
cigar a great pleasure while making
his researches.
he late Charles Sprague, who
died when over 80 years of age, was
a constant smoker. He wrote a
poem, "To My Cigar," in which
these lines occur :
"Yes, social frien I, I love thee well,
In learned doctor,' spite;
Thy clouds 0ll other clouds dispel,
And lap me in delight."
J.imes Russell L,well smokes a
pipe. Bayard Taylor is equally at
home with a pipe or cigar. John
G. Saxe both smokes and chewf.
President Andrew Jackson smoked
a corn cob pipe. Most of our poli
ticians, lawyers, physicians, and
many of the clorgy use tobacco.
With these in its favor, why should
any he against it t
A TRAGEDIAN ON AcTORs AND
Ciiirics.-Jolin McCullough says
there are but three tragic actors in
the United States-Booth, Law
rence Barrett and himself. He says
that Booth is an excellent actor,
but, hke all men who get to the top
round of the profession, receives
more criticism than he now de
serves. "This business of criti..
cism," said he, "is peculiar. There
are men now writing me uo- with
sincere enthusiasm who will in a
few years hence, if I have better
luck, make up their minds that they
had better begin to pull me down.
That is the only trouble with Edwin
Booth. He has had the largest
following and the best class of sup
port of any person on the stage, in
England or Amnerca. It began in
his youth, and in his following were
scholars, editors, scientific men-all
of the very best. He has improved,
but, of course, there will be pauses
and reactions in every career. It is
the same," continued the ph)ilo
sophic McCullongh, "with Dion
Boucicault, the play writer. I have
seen recently a dozen or twenty
references to him as played out."
Washing ton Jherald.
CLAIM OF THE HEIRS OF STaPHEN A.
DOUGLAS ALLowED.-The suit against
the government brought by the
heirs of Stephen A. Douglas for
certain cotton capturedl by the
United States government in Mis
sissippi during the wvar, and sold as
abandoued property, has been
setledfiall m heCourt of
Claims, by a judgment in favor of
the cl'uimants. This ease has been
pending for years, and has been the
subject of much controversy, in
vestigation and litigation. The
heirs aIre Robert M. Douglas, United
States Marshal for the Western
District of NQrth Carolina, and
Stephen A, Douglas, Jr..
IThe longer Ilive the more do I
become satisfied that nothing is so
goocd for people who are in deep
.troub~le 'as real hard work-work~
that not only occupies the handa
i'but the brain ; work da which ond
Javishes the best part off- the'heart.
.-.Blliott. Any one dee~p in trouble
can have a buck.-saV a wood-pile
hefnivn:IMti afn..
ruERE r GET OU!R WORDS.
Researches of Dr. Weisse, al
though not bearing on the question
of orthographic changes, are of
singular interest on account of the
comprehensive method he has
pursued in tracing the origin and
growth of the English tongue. He
has made careful analysis of English
writings from tho earliest times
down to the present year, and
presented the results in tabulated
form ; shoWing the changes which
the language has undergone and of
what elements it co-sists at differ
out periods. To this end every
sort of document is laid under con
tribution. Tuoehing the moderns, it
may be noted 'thht ouf '9f every
hundred words . used by Horace
Greeley in his editorias, some
fifty-eight would be Greco-L.atin,
fo. ty-one G1tho-Germanic and one
Celtic-although in his spoken
larguage the Gotho Germ nic
grotly preiokninate:. The London
Time shows the p -oportion of
fifty-five Greco-Latin, forty-five
Gotho-Germanie words and one
Celtic. The New York Herald
uses fifty- two Greco-Latin, forty
eight Gotho-Germanic, and, strange
to say, no Celtic. Prof. Tyndall
uses forty -'x Greco-Latin, fifty
two Gotho-Gormanic fnd two Celtio
vords ; Horatio Sey1nour, forty
three Greco-Latin. and fifty-seven
Gotho-Gerinanic words. Tennyson
shows a remarkable number of
GotlioGermanic vocables-not less
than seventy-one out of a hundred;
Mrs. Hemans, :sixty..seven, Byron,
seventy-six, and Longfellov seveh
ty-three-proportions which sho wv
that English poets are much more
inclined to the use of Gotho.
Germanic elements than prose
writers. "The coming of the Nor
man," says Dr. Weisse, Nvas the
knell of Anglo-Saxon stagnation,
and the dawn of English progress."
The language, hitherto confised
and unstable, began to assupe de,
finite shape, coherency.and firmn.ess.
Since that period there .has, been
among prose writers a steady,
increase in the percentage of Qreeo.
Latin words used, arising .not so
much from a disuse of Gotbo4er
manic as from'th'e continual acce's
sionP from the Greco-Latin. lan
guages of Europe. In general, as
the English language now exists,
about sixty-eight per cent. is Greco,
Latin, thirty per dent. Gotho-Oer
manic or Anglo-Saxon, and two per
cent. Celtic, with traces of Semitic
and Slavonic. Dr. Weisse thinks it
beyond question tht the English
language is destiner to become the
universal language of the earth.
A London telegram says that the
steamship Emily B. Souder, which
left New York on the 8th of Dom
ber, bound for Turk's Island and
Santo Domingo, foundered at sea
after being only two days out from
port. The news reached London
on Friday, being telegraphed from
Kingston, Jamaica, by the agent at
that place, who states - that two of
the crew of the ill -fated vessel, the
only survivors of. the wreek, have
just been landed at Kingston.
What became of the passengers,
officers and remainder of the crewv is
not known, but the two wrediked
sailors, who wvere picked up by a
passenger vessel, state that they
believe that all the others on boaird
the steamer were drowned. The
vessel was valued at $50,000, and
was insured for that amount.
A telegram to the Indian office
from the Takimo reservation,
Washin gton Territory, says :"The'
Indians continue .to be perfectly
submissive, and there is no pro a
pect of any bloodshed. Four of the
Indian murderers of the Perkins
famiily are in irons. One committed
suicide wvhile attempts were being
made to capture him. . -Onl 1 w
more are at large."ytw
A fearful snggestion--Fred (to
chum).-"I drea~med abont you last
night, Bob." Bob-"I hope it was
pleasant." Fred-.-"Oh, yes I very
peasant while it lasted. I dreiunisd
that youx paid~ me the ten d 1Jffe
you owe me."-Hlarvard L4ftif66
The boys who sell 'photographs
during -the oper~a are very nice little
fellows, but they should not -be
permitted to stand in -the -aisle
during the finest part of the .,er
formance to discuss thecoga
tive amounts of their gales5,.q
Hlerald..
fA man took bii aot t6 the -dhi
farin New York-last week, aabled
him, "Gilt Edge," and WdeduMr~dis
1appointed'at riot receivinr ie& i
pImHowirs 0onfident't athetb,d