Southern ladies' journal., October 02, 1886, Image 3

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LADIES’ JOURNAL.-
ESTABLISHED JUNE, 1884.
VOL 3, NO- '5
News Notes.
The talk is revived in Montreal of
making that port the western terminus of
the Atlantic mail service.
The sea serpent is reported to be
still showing himself, to the great alarm
of the timid, in the Hudson River.
The Bartholdi’s statue in New York
Harbor is rapidly nearing completion.
October 28 is now named for the dedi
catory exercises.
Charleston people are recovering from
the depression caused by the earthquake,
and are sturdily struggling to work
themselves out.
Hundreds of people daily seek per
mission to climb to the top ot Washing
ton Monument at Washington. There
are nine hundred steps to the stairway.
Miss Craigen, who extinguished the
lamp overturned on the stage of the Bos
ton museum, the other night, has been
presented with a diamond pin by the pro
prietors and manager.
The rumor is current in New York
that ex-coachman Shilling was paid
$15,000 to give up his wife. There
seems to be no doubt that the young wo
man has made up with her father, Mr.
G. P. Morosini.
A Washington despatch says that the
commissioner of Indian affairs is not at
pleased with the position ofGeonimo,
the Apache chief, as a prisoner of war,
and insists that the murderer must be
put to death—a fate that he seems to ful
ly deserve.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards contributes
t ,J the October Harper’s and account of
the lemarkable discoveries which have
‘ecently been unearthed by Egyptian
vx plorers, Miss Edwards is best known
dsan English novelist, but her scholar-
Sl 'P in antiquities has achieved for her
lle distinction of being the first lady to
ec eivethe degree of Doctor of Laws
r °m an American college; and as if
that honor from Smith Col-
? e a t its last commencement, the same
xeas °n brought her Ph .D. from Betha-
J College, Topeka, Kansas. Her
"°ugh mastery of Egyptian Archaiol
s Proven by “The Story of Tanis.”
PUBLISHED ANDCONTROLLED BY LADIES' JOURNAL CO
LITTLE ROCK. ARK., OCT.. 2 1880
About Women.
Mrs. Fletcher Harper's free seashore
cottage at North Long Branch has been
the home of many sick work girls this
summer.
Mrs. James Brown Potter, who has
just returned from England, says
that the story that she is to go upon the
stage is without foundation, as she has
no intention of taking that step.
Miss Laurence Alma-Tadema, the
daughter of Alma-Tadema, the painter,
has written a paper on “Fashions in
Hair” for the English Illustrated Maga
zine. Her father has prepared a? 'an il
lustration to this paper a page of heads.
Miss Carroll, daughter of ex-Gover
nor Carroll, of Maryland, and grand
daughter of the late Royal Phelps, of
New York, will soon be married to the
Baron Louis de La Grange. Her
grandfather was a princely sort of man.
Mrs. James Brown Potter is in favor
of erecting a theatre for the exclusive
use of amateurs, and will help the enter
prise with her counsel, but she does not
propose to build it herself nor to manage
it.
Miss Amelia Jackson of Alexandria,
Va., has just been appointed to a posi
tion in the Patent Office. Miss Jack
son is the daughter of that Captain Jack
son who shot Colonel Ellsworth, of the
Chicago Zouaves, on the 24th of May,
1861.
Miss Winnie Davis, the voungest
daughter of Jefferson Davis, is in Rich
mond, Va. Miss Davis was born in the
Confederate executive mansion, at Rich
mond, not long before the close of the
war, and for that reason her father calls
her “The Daughter of the Confedera
cy-”
Lady Randolph Churchill is playing
Mrs. Gladstone’s part during that lady’s
absence from the ladies’ gallery. For
years it has been Mrs. Gladstone’s habit
to come down with her husband to the
House, and, taking her seat in the right
hand corner of the ladies’ gallery, begin
a patient watch which often lasted till
the small hours of the morning. Since
MARY W LOUGHBOROUGH. President
Subscription $2 a Year
Lord Randolph became the leader of the
house his handsome young wife has been
constant in her attendance behind the
grille at the ladies’ gallery.
Mrs. Henrietta Chanfrau, whose per
formance of “Dora some years ago
will be remembered as one of the most
chaste and beautiful creations of the
modern stage, reappeared before a New
A ork audience, at the Fourteenth
Street Theatre, Monday night, and won
deserved success in a new play by Sir
Charles L. Young, author of “Jim the
Penman,” entitled the ‘‘Scapegoat.’'
Ihe story is that of an English baronet
who has been falsely accused ot murder,
and whose innocence is proved and the
real murderer unmasked by his wife, an
actress.
The Washington Star tells how Gen
eral Fremont’s forthcoming memoirs are
written : “The Frernonts live in a com
modious house that over-looks the wood
ed grounds of the British legation and
the shrubbery of Dupont Circle. The
family at present consists of the general
and Mrs. Fremont and their daughter.
The two son’s are married. One is in
the navy, the other lives in Montana.
The workroom is on the second floor of
the house. There is a bay window in
the east end of the room, on the right of
which is placed the General’s table, sur
mounted by a tall set of pigeon holes,
where letters, notes and papers are kept
On the other side of the window is
placed Mrs. Fremont’s table, a large,
plain affair, covered with green leather.
T he general dictates, and Mrs. Fremont
writes down each word of the story as
it falls from his lips. In the alcove is
placed a type-writer, and with it Miss
Fremont transforms her mother’s man
uscript into neat, legible print. Here
they all work together all day long.
The rule of the house is to rise at seven,
take a cup oftea and a roll and begin
work at eight and continue until twelve,
when breakfast is taken. At one o’clock
they resume work until six. In the
evening the copy is sent out and in the
morning other proof-sheets are received
from the printer. General Fremont is
now seventy-four years old, but looks
scarce sixty.