Southern ladies' journal., October 02, 1886, Page 2, Image 4

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Southern Ladies' Journal.
Issued Weekly by Southern Ladies' Journal Company, and En
tered in the Little Rock Postoffice as Second Class Matter.
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SOUTHERN LADIES’JOURNAL CO.
Beyond the'poet’s sweet dream lives
The eternal epic of the man.
Hewisest is who only gives,
Tiue to himself, the best he can;
Who, drifting in the winds of praise,
The inward monitor obeys;
And, with the boldness that confesses fear,
Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience
steer. —Whittier.
Miss Sarah Cecil of Kentucky has
won many admiring criticisms in New
York, by her musical talents. Miss Ce
cil macle her professional debut in con
cert at Chickering Hall. She has a mez
zo of great range, with especially beauti
ful notes in the lower register, and she
was received oy her audience with much
enthusiasm.
The widow of the lamented and elo
quent Sargent S. Prentiss of Mississippi,
with her daughters, is at the head of a
very excellent private school for girls in
New Orleans. Mrs. Prentiss during
the latter part of the summer visited Bos
ton in the interest of her school, and
much kind attention was shown her
there. Thus it is that Southern Wo
men brave and indefatigable, are being
known and respected abroad for their in
dustry, their ability to carry on success
ful enterprises, while still preserving the
characteristics of elegant ladyhood
amid the most exclusive of thoughtful
and social circles.
1 he Southern Woman a fortnightly
Journal, published at Henderson, North
Carolina, and edited by Miss Mamie E.
Hatchett, containes some very urgent
editorials concerning a Southern Wom
an s Press Association, Commencing
with the New Orleans Picayune, owned
and edited by Mrs. E. J. Nicholson,Miss
Hatchett mentions Miss Mary Bisland
assistant editor New Orleans Times-
Democrat and Mrs. Robert Sharkey as
sistant editor New Orleans Item. With
these ladies Miss Hatchett gives the
names ot thi • y live lad es who are ow
ners, editors or assistant editors of news
papers. Surely there should be a co
operation of such power fur mutual help
in journalistic work, literary standards
and for women’s work in general Tlip
S rHERN Ladibs’Journal
hearty co-operation to southern Women
in the advancement ot their interests
and particularly to women journalists
We will aid and carry forward to the
best of our ability their interest in the
formation of an association for mutual
help. But here, with kind greeting to
Miss Hatchett, let us call attention to her
mention of our title. We are no longer
the Arkansas Ladies’ Journal in name,
but the Journal of Southern ladies every
where, within our state and visiting a
largq circle of Southern ladies in other
states. Thus for almost a year we have
had the general title of Southern La
dies’Journal.
The New Orleans papers are alluding
in admiring terms to the “public spirit”
of Col. Jos. A. Walker, who proposed to
have Sept. 29 anchored at the Crescent
Hall, “a monster balloon capable ot bear
ing aloft some eighty persons.” This
public spirited proffer upon the part of
the Colonel, was intended as a benefac
tion to those citizens who were in a state
of trepidation concerning the earthquake,
which we are happy to say Mr. Wiggins
the scientist, was mistaken in pre
dicting. Had, however, the Wiggins’
predictions been followed by the Wig
gins earthquake, fancy the feelings of
the eighty persons that might have been
gathered at Crescent Hall {that rocking
mayhap) to embark upon the dipping and
rolling balloon. And being lifted above
terra firma, can immagination compass
the excitement of these eighty citizens,
as hanging in mid air, they looked down
upon their once secure resting plaees
along the borders of mother earth, view
ing the convulsion, buildings falling,
earth crust down sinking and uprising,
the spout, the smoke, the ocean tide per
chance. Ah well I are we half thankful
enough along the platitudes of daily life
tor these same platitudes? The earth
quiet and reposeful, permitted Mr. Wig
gins to wait in expectance all along,the
day he had set apart. And although
there was considerable anxiety last Wed
nesday. still earth, nature ami sky were
seiene, cool and tranquil throughout the
entire twenty four hour hours of Sept,
the 29th.
And now that we have escaped the fa
tality predicted for September 29th,
we may calmly view the numerous theo
ries concerning earthquakes. These
theories have been advanced by sciei -
lists for the last month, with great force
and much volume of manuscript, and thi >
is the first theory from that almost in
fallible magazine Science.
“Aline of weakness in the earth’s
crust extends from Troy, N. Y.. south
westward. along the line ot tidewater,
past Baltimore, Washington and Rich
mond, losing itself in a broad flexure
south ul Raleigh. The cause of the
s lock st ems to have been a renewed
faulting or displacement along the line
where it crosses the
vere shock appears t 0 hav X
along this line i„ cc „ tra|No h r « SM i gi(
and eastern South Carolina,, C’* l '
peventy-fifth meridian
It was not without warnini,
pne slight shocks have been fe “
Carolina, and only a lew da vs „
ly moderate shocks were n
Charlston.” hear
far Vesuvius, with a volcanic A "
the southern Atlantic coast, i '
a correspondent of the NenAA
bune, and here let the LA, WJo „i'
remark, that the dash the fr eshnK f
th’s theory is broad and
ming as a subject of thought.
“Some dozen years ago some scien
tihc men advanced the idea that the Gulf
Stream came from an underground out
let of the Mediteranean Sea, the water
being heated in its subterraneous pass
age and retaining its heat, volume and
current along the Atlantic coast and
across the ocean until it passed the coast
of Ireland. Investigation showed that
plants growing along the shores of the
Mediterranean Sea, were found floating
in the Gulf Stream. It has also been
proven that while there is an immense
inflow of water into the Mediterranean
Sea there is not, so far as known, any
corresponding outflow. The earthquake
that destroyed Chareiton was felt in i s
extreme in Italy, Egypt and the Grecian
Isles, just where the subterraneous pass
age would begin, if such existed. A
steamer arriving in New York reported
that the shock had been felt on board,
although the sea was perfectly calm, the
sensation being as if the bottom of the
ocean had risen up and struck the vessel.
May this not have been in crossing the
Gulf Stream, the motion coming from
the undercurrent? Again, the shock was
largely felt along and close to the sea
board, beginning in Florida. The Gull
Stream rises oft the Florida coast 01 neat
the West India Islands, and follows the
coast untfl it crosses the ocean. a J
1 ot the earthquake have been geneiate
about the region of Vesuvius ant e
carried under the ocean in te
Stream channel, and discharge its
on Charleston and its vicinity?
The new silver
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backs. The ones will have ol
of Martha Washington, the t ' ,lls \ te
General Hancock, the tens t
Vice President Hendricks, and
will probably have the p<u 1 ( | en)illl d
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from all parts of the count.
ones and twos.