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CHRISTMAS IN TEXAS. KA\rHE LIFE—A STORY OF RE SENTMENT AND MURDER. A THRILLING episode of two men who WERE IN STRONG CONTRAST. STORY OF A HANDSOME AND UNFORTUNATE BOY. * Buena Ventura Ranche, Crockett County. Texas, December 24, 1890.—[Spe cial.]—I was spending Christmas at Dos Ilermanos sheep ranche in Southern Texas. It was a big and beautiful ranche in a beautiful country. Fine open valleys and draws, and cosy sheltered hollows, clothed with rich mesquite grass and the various little weeds that the dainty and fastidious siieep loves, were llanked and buttressed by low, conical, or humpy, flat-topped, Egyptian looking hills. The plains, too, were only a couple of miles to the. north- card, and looking from them toward these low pjiatuidal hills, with the everlasting silence about, aud the sunlight lying soft- over all the landscape’s face, with its brooding loveliness, its majestic serenity and repose, seemed to wear a significance, a smile of inscrutable meaning, like that of Egypt, hut lacking the awe, the dread that Egypt inspires. * The house—a iarge a’-'d comfortable one for this almost semi-tropical region of tents and two Ihree roomed box-houses— was full and running over, and a half dozen young fellows were, camped in a lit tle hollow dose by; the weather was de- iiuhtful, fairly meriting the adjective su- perb, one day followed another, warm, soft, brilliant, the air dry, crisp, and bracing, like the brightest and best of Oc tober weather in the Middle States. ibe boys had worked hard all day long on the g:id, when we arrived, rigging ii'igs, making lances and arranging seals for a grand tournament on Christmas eve; i i' ij body was tired and by mutual con- sem we went to bed early to be ready for the next day’s festivities. U hen the contestants all rode up and saluted, my eye was at once caught by two figures that came from a tent a little apart from the general camp in the draw. One was a big Saxon blonde, six feet two or three inches in height, with his fair skin burned to a uniform dark red, from which a pair of fine honest eyes looked out with startling blueness. His features were of a singularly large and regular mold, with a throat and chin so beautiful, a mouth so heavy yet correct, and a nose so high between the eyes that it gave him a slightly bucolic look, like ancient Apol- los. His proportions were more hue and just than you would often see in so big a man; he carried his head ami shoulders magnificently, aud his bearing in the sad dle was past criticism. Reside him rode a boy who might have been 20; lie was of ordinary size, slightly bill strongly built; bail a pale olive face, great black eyes and clustering, dark hair. It was a face that somehow appealed to you,although so full now of life and spirit, it had a suggestion of keen sensitiveness,of hidden capacity for suffering. He was on an uncommonly fine and spirited black pony, his saddle was of superb and ornate Mexican workmanship, and a big white sombrero, [glittering with silver, shaded the splendid eyes. White they paused in front of us I saw him look among the spectators as though seeking some one, then an electric smile flashed over his face, he raised the big hat and touched a knot of red ribbon on the side of it. I looked up and saw Louie, the pretty 17- year-old daughter of the house, blushing, and bowing, 1 smiled to myself. “Who are they?” I asked Mrs. Flint, and she replied quite as if I had indicated them, “Oh, David and ” “Goliali!” 1 interrupted. “No, indeed, David and Jonathan. The tall one is Paul Melton,a young sheepman over on Live Oak; and the boy is his in separable, a sort of protege, and a partner, 1 believe, in a small way. “Mark used to driuk and gamble, 1 think, and young Melton got hold of him, straightened him up, and he has held on to him ever since. They are always to- jjeti.« r; you never see one without the other.” .u.iik—I don’t believe I ever knew his other name—carried off the most rings, and rode up glowing with victory to crown Louie queen of love and beauty. As 1 looked away from the pretty pic ture. 1 saw the blonde giant standing near in a studiedly unconcerned attitude, but with with an expression of an affectionate pride on his great, frank face. After this we had a general display of horsemanship, and a great deal of skylarking. There is no finer sight, to my mind than a troop of well mounted men; there is nothing arouses my enthusiasm and ad miration more than fine riding. This is true of a single horseman, and the en thusiasm and enjoyment increases in a geometrical progression with the number of horsemen engaged. Here there were twelve or fifteen, among the best riders I have ever seen, all mutated on fine and well trained horses. It is very easy to taik about picking up handkerchiefs and quarters from the ground, leaping on and off a horse, or hanging on one side of him and firing from under liitf neck, all the while going at full gallop, but there are not so many, even among thorough going cowmen, who call perform these feats, as is supposed. However, there were several in the party that could perform all these and many more to a lmiration; there was no poor or even mediocre work. Young Melton’s riding has something magnificent; he sat like a tower on his strong iron gray and as he came sweeping down the track the impression of force and power was tre mendous, overwhelming—he was like an embodied thunderbolt. lie bore, down upon two fellows who were racing, ran the gray b.-tween them, grasped right and left and went on with a man on each arm while the two horses sprang away with empty saddles. Everybody applauded Luillv: “Melt’s scooped the. whole race. Hurrah for Melt!” “Whal'd ye leave the horses for, Melt?” But the boy was a very form for the eyes of young love to linger on. The spare yumc outline, the lithe, springing grace, tlie light alertness and Vigor, and tear- lessness! He seemed a glowing incarna tion of youth and love and valor. Whether he bent forward or back, twisted sideways or sat erect, he seemed just poised in the saddle; every movement, every attitude charmed and satisfied the eye with its perfection of unstudied grace, like the something ineffable in the slant of a Lira s wing, the turn of its glossy head or the glance of its quick, bright eye. The big fellow rode as finely as a man could ride, but there was something more than horsemanship in the boy’s riding. We danced that night to the peculiar ENQUIRER-SUN; and beautiful Mexican music. A harp, a viol and two violins, played by Mexi cans who were musicians all the time and shearers in the season, comprised our or chestra. We had the Gondorina, La Po- lima, soft, dreamy waltzes, with their sin gular intervals, piercing sweetness and un expected and tender accompaniaments. I saw my boy waltzing with Louie.They came past me once and both young faces were flushed and bright with smiles. Pres ently thpy passed again—walking—and on Mark’s face was the shadow that some how I had felt a prescience of from the first. The light was gone from his eyes, and the color and smiie from his lips. Louie was chattering gaily and laughing up to him, but he looked past her, with a look of fierce pain in the great black eyes, at a young man,a new comer, on the other side of the room. “Come and look at the tables,” whis pered Mrs. Flint. We went out, and in running about, helping, arranging and de vising, forgot the boy for the time. Presently I slipped out onto a side ve randah, to cool my heated face a moment in the soft and chilly air. The full moon, the great, white Texas moon, rode almost up to mid heaven, pouring' its flood of white radiance down through the silent and crystal air. It was like the sublima tion, tne apothesis of daylight;the beauty, the lustrous effulgence, without the harsh or unlovely details. Almost simultaneously with my opening the door two men rushed together just in front of me with knives in their hands, and the next instant the towering form of young Melton dashed noislessiy onto the porch. He plucked them apart as though they had been two kittens, held the stranger in his right hand, fairly shaking the knife from his grasp, and pushed Mark gently, but has tily, toward me, against me, and through the open door. “Don’t, Melt, don’t,” said the boy, “one of us has got—” “Wait with him till I come back,” said young MeltoD, and away he went, carry ing the other fellow, like a rat, by the back of the neck. Mark turned on me a look of agonized desperation, a face drawn and blanched and blackened almost beyond recognition, all the beauty and softness struck out of it; the great lustrous eyes blazing, the fine sensitive features quivering fiercely. I slipped my arm through his aud we walked silently up and down the sileut hallway. I could hear his heavy, gasp ing breath. I could feel his heart leap, and his frame tremble,and was still striving to think of some word to say that might soften the savage thrust it must have been that tore him so, when Melton came up to us, and with a grasp of his hand and a kindly look from his blue eyes, drew Mark away. “Hullo! Where’s Jake Shackleford?” called some one, just as the pair went through the gate. “Oh, I sent Lum home with him; he’d got too much and was noisy,” I heard Melton rejoin in a lower key. After they had left the crowd behind I saw Melton’s great arm thrown across the boy’s shoulders and was sure I heard a choking sob. An hour later I saw them at supper, and I do not think the others found anything amiss; but to me there was visible a fleet ing but frequent shadow on the boy’s face and a pathetic solicitude and concern in his big friend’s manner. The next day, which was Christmas, the men went bear bunting up a very wild and rocky cannon, while such of us wo men folk as liked to ride and were fond of sport set off to find a certain wild cat that held forth in a low bluff some six or eight miles away across the plains. Mr. Melton was our guide and protector, while Mark was dragged away by the bear hunters. As we rode home in the late atteruoon, full of scratches and glory, with a big cat skin and a tiny, snarling puff of a kitten as trophies, Mr. Melton aud I got far ahead of the others, and this is the story of Mark’s troubles, as he told it to me: “ His folks moved out to Esperanza, a couple of miles above my sheep camp, about four years ago. They were New England people. Everybody hated the old man on sight. He was a mean, close fist ed, cold-blooded, snakey sort of fellow. His wife was a warm-hearted woman, but she hadn’t much sense. She ran the house, and him, too, though, when it came to the pinch. •• One day the old man, who was abus ing Mark, was so outrageous and insult ing, and called him such vile name3, that the boy went and got down a gun to shoot him. His mother screamed, threw her arms around him and held him. I reckon she was wild with terror, and she took Mark off and told him how she was not his mother. His own mother was a poor, pretty young servant girl she had in the first ears of her marriage, and whose ignorance and youth her husband bad wronged. The girl had died and she had raised and loved Mark as her own. “Now, there was a nice thing for a 16- year-old boy to have to bear. He came down to my camp the next morning and told me about it. He sat about like some poor dumb creature that’s been one-half killed by a bad shot. It must be so, he said, for this fellow Jake Shackelford that came out with them and was afterward discharged by his father, had told some other people. “I was awfully rushed with shearing, and before I knew it the boy had gone. He never was home again, but weut up to Es peranza and got a place in a lumber yard. “He niUde some awful bad plays and no wonder. He got drunk and got to run ning with a gang of pretty tough men. Rut the old lady always loved him; she wrote to him, and finally weut up to Espe ranza bought him an outfit and sent him over to East Texas to school. He was away two years. He hadn’t been back a month, keeping books in Esperanza, when he saw Louie Flint, whom Jake Shackle ford was crazy in love with. Anybody would love the boy; of course Louie pre ferred bint, so Shackleford, like the Jow dog he is, went about telling his tale, and the next I heard of Mark he was all broke up and drinking again. “1 went up and got him to go down to my ranche with me. He’s been with me ever since. I’ve got a bunch of cattle and he has charge of Litem. He never drinks, nor gambles nor swears; he’s got lots of erit and courage and he’s all life and go; but there is something like a woman about him that makes him more to me than any brother could ever be. “Can’t he ride the prettiest you ever saw? That saddle and sombrero of bis are both premiums he won at roping con tests and tournaments. He We were within half a mile of the house with one or two rises aud dips between it and ourselves. Suddenly a shot rang out on the still air, then another. My compan ion started, beckoned me, stuck spurs into his horse and launched forward like an avalanche. I followed as fast as I could, but I was fully five minutes behind him as I rode over the last rise. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1890. I There, in the hollow, was a group of men, standing in the full glory of a prairie sunset, the golden splendor all about -and npon them. In the midst knelt young Melton beside Mark’s motionless form? Mark’s head was on his arm. I rode up and dismounted. The big tears were run ning down his face as he tried to staunch the bleeding of a great wound in the bov’s breast. “O, Mark! O, Mark!” he said. In a moment later the fathomless eves unclosed and gazed long and calmly into the West; then turned suddenly toward Melton with a look in their lambem depths, which I can never forget. Melt, I m glad,” he said; then after a pause,” “It’s better.” The look of yearning love and trust slowly faded from his eyes; then a mist clouded their splendor, he turned his cheek upon Melt’s arm and breathed no more. Four men rode up on streaming horses. “Where is he?” said Melton, rising and stauggling with his sobs. “He turned and fired on us, and we shot him,” said Mr. Flint. “Bennet’s bringing his body in.” Alice MacGowan. HOW CONGRESS KILLS TIME. SOMETHING ABOUT CLOCKS—A BIRMING HAM MAN’S SCHEME. ^ Washington, December 26.—[Special ] Congress kills time by nearly a thousand clocks. At the hour of noon more thau 10,000 strokes of tiny bells sound through the great buil ling. On all ordinary occa sions 12 o’clock is the beginning or the end of the day at the capitol. For the committees it is the close pf the day; in the halls of Congress the morning hour be gins just when the last bour of the morn ing has closed. When the ball drops at meridian on the dome of the observatory, when the whistles sound and the belis ring throughout the city and the workmen everywhere begin to rattle their dinner pails, the hands of the electric clocks at the capitol spring straight to the hour of 12, picking up a moment of lost time or dropping a moment they have marked too soon. when reed's hammer falls. At meridian exactly, unless otherwise ordered by a vote of the House, the Speak er’s gavel falls, and it is the time for morn ing prayer. High noon is the hour of hours in this marble temple of law and dis- or ler. All the capitol clocks must mark that punctually, if no other hour in the day, and all the bells must strike in unison. At noon Congress has its birth and at noon it expires. It is only on extraordinary oc casions like the present, when Congress is hardly its natural self, that it meets from day to day at any other hour. All com mittees, unless they have received some special dispensation, cease to have power to act as committees when the clock on the mantel strikes twelve. Action taken after that would have no binding force. Therefore, the official clock, whose state ment as to the hour cannot be disputed, is ou the mantel in each of the hundreds of committee rooms. AN IMPORTANT FACTOR. The clock enters very largely into legis lative business. Besides starting the House aud Senate on their daily courses and ending the power of committees, it measures off the allotted portions of time for bills whose fate depend upon the use of the moments to its credit, and it cuts Con gressional eloquence into sections varying in length from one minute to sixty. CLOCKS UPON CLOCKS. It takes a variety of clocks to keep time for Congress. Some of them are old and curious, some are very rich and ornate, while others are plain, every-day clocks. The most committee room clock is the square black stone, worth from $25 to $35, but in a number of the more important committee rooms are old, ornamental clocks, rich with carving or perhaps sur mounted by bronze statuary, often of a highly artistic character. THE WAYS AND MEANS CLOCK. In one of the committee rooms there is a clock, on the top of which reclines in an attitude of grace a Grecian goddess a foot and a half loDg cast in bronze. In the room of the committee on ways and means is quite a handsome clock, surmounted with bronze figures of astronomical sym bolism. Many of these, clocks are works of art, designed especially for some con spicuous place at the capitol by some am bitious ytist, and, like the ornate bronze staircases, have been stuck away in dark places, where they can be seen by but few. THE SENATE AND HOUSE CLOCKS. The Senate clock is but a dial against the base of the gallery over the door. The dial is of blue enamel, ornamented with gold stars. The House clock is more ornate. It is of bronze, about four feet high, standing in bold relief above the main entrance. It is ornamented with wreaths and scrolls of bronze. Above it a spread eagle perches on a shield, and on either side stands a bronze figure as tali as the clock itself. One is that of an Indian and the other is a figure in pastoral garb. It is not by this clock, however, that the Speaker measures the time consumed by members in debate. On his desk is a little chronometer, not much larger than a watch, which measures out the minutes used iu debate. A similar timepiece lies on the clerk’s desk. In the Senate the pre siding officer measures the time by a little hour glass, the sands of which run out in just five minutes. MR. DUPRE’S BIG SCHEME. A Mr. DuPre, of Birmingham,. Ala., who claims to be at the head of what is known as the Hollander syndicate, is here, and proposes to have government assist ance in building a water-way from Bir mingham to the sea, at Mobile. His plan is to dig a canal from the Warrior at a point above Tuscaloosa to connect with the waters of the Tennessee, and by using the surplus discharge of that noble stream create a navigable stream to Mobile, and at the same time reduce the volume of water that discharges into the Mississippi, and contributes to overflow the low lauds about New Orleans. much iron and steel and coal has been sold in South America from England can be estimated. We know that those coun tries have recently gone into bankruptcy, together with that delicious “ republic,” so called, of Guatemala, for somethin 0 ' more than $500,000,000.” 3 A VERY ROSY VIEW. “If Birmingham had a water route such as the Dutch syndicate proposes to create from that city to the gulf, these vast sums iu gold that England has been taking out of the coasts and islands of the gulf of Mexico and out of South America, would be flowing in shining streams of silver and gold into Birmingham.” “Birmingham and the co-terminus min eral regions of Tennessee and Georgia, given free access by a wator-way for heavy freight to the gulf of Mexico, to Africa and South America, will furnish a gold basis for the fiat money of the wildest Greenbacker.” E. P. S. A JOKE ON GOY. JONES. HE RECEIVES A DOUCEUR FROM STRANG ERS. Gov. Jones was the victem of an amus ing mistake the other day. He had occa sion to go dowD town at. an unusually early hour, aud finishing his business, weut to a restaurant for breakfast. He then pro ceeded to the Capitol at an hour long before the officials usually put in an appearance. At the steps lie was ac costed by a gentleman with several ladies, presumably Northern visitors, who re quested him to show them to the top of the capitol building. Governor Jones had a heavy overcoat on, buttoned up to the chin, and deciding not to make himself known, escorted the party through the capitol and to the top. On descending the gentleman thanked him and handed him 50 cents. The Advertiser thus tells the result: The Governor was considerably shocked, but held to the coin. About this time the colored janitor, who was standing near, smiled very audibly—so much so as to attract the attention of the visitors They asked him what he was laughing at. “Dat am the Gubner, aud you been payin’ Gubner Jones to show you round,” he re plied. The stranger doffed his hat and approaching Governor Jones tendered profuse apologies, saying he did not expect to see the Governor at so early an hour the morning. He said that it had occurred to him that his guide was of an unusually commanding presence and intelligence, but he reflected to himself that many Southern gentlemen were in reduced cir cumstances and accepted such positions about public buildings. He and the ladies with him were very embarrassed at their mistake. The gentleman gave the Gov ernor bis card, and the latter soon put the party at their ease about the mistake. The visitor wanted to relieve the Governor of the half dollar, but the latter remarked that he intended to keep the money and devote it to the monument. The stranger was so overcome that he declared that he should not only have that, but a $50 check besides, for the same purpose, provided he would not tell the story. THROUGH TWO STATES. HAPPENINGS IN GEORGIA AND ALABAMA. A CHINESE DISASTER. THE STEAMBOAT SHANGHAI BURNED AND MANY LIVES LOST. London, December 27.—Furtl er ad vices from China as to the burning of the steamship Shanghai, near Woohoo, in the province of Nghan Holi, about fifty miles from Nankin, show that the disaster was much more serious than at first imagined. The earliest advices received stated that the victims consisted of about sixty na tives, together witli several European offi cers, who are supposed to have met death either in the flames or subsequently by drowning while attempting to escape from the burning vessel. It now seems that the number of lives lost will amount to over 200, and all lost their lives by drown ing. A terrible panic appears to have oc curred among the Chinese passengers and the crew as soon as the alarm of fire was heard, and the panic increased terribly when the flames spread beyond control of the terror stricken crew. The few Euro pean officers on board the Shanghai seem to have done their best to maintain some kind of order among the Chinamen, but without result. The large majority of those who lost their lives did so by jumping overboard in order to escape the flames. The others met death through the swamp ing of clumsily lowered and overcrowded boats. A XV ATER-WAY INDISPENSABLE. A water-way to the Gulf front Birming ham and the mineral regions of Georgia and Tennessee, Mr DuPre thinks is indis pensable to the achievement of the mine and furnace owners of those sections. He declares they have now enough iron to gridiron two continents with steel rails, but'they no longer can afford to pay rail way rates 250 miles to tide water. The railroads levy $2.00 on every ton of iron and coal transported this distance, while it could be barged down for 25 cents or at a maximum rate of 50 cents per ton. THE BRITISHERS GET THERE. English ships now sell $49,000,000 worth of coal and iron and steel each year along the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico and of the islands hedging in it. How BANKER KEAN’S DIMINISHING ASSETS. Chicago, December 27.—It was thought that the mark in S. A. Kean’s bank assets had been reached, but the sum to be distributed among depositors has been greatly diminished by upward of $100,000. It looks much as if from 5 to 10 per cent, will be all the creditors will receive. Of the original figures, $270,000 or thereabouts, for bills receivable, $135,- 000 vanished early, it being found that a large amount of Kean’s personal notes, accommodation paper of his friends and worthless claims were included. Now, the expert accountant, who has been go ing through the bills receivable, reports that fully $80,000 consist of protested notes whereof the makers are entirely in solvent. Many are long past due, some of them more than a year. In addition to this, $10,000 on deposit at the American Exchange Bank of New York has been applied on Kean's paper held by it. A Boston bank did the same thing with $3,500 in its vaults. THE STRIKE EXPECTED TO COLLAPSE. Glasgow, December 27.—Freight traf fic has not yet been resumed on the rail roads, but there is a slight improvement in the amount of passenger traffic clone. The Caiedeitan railway officers say they antici pate an early collapse of tile strike. They state that ttie body of the locomotive engi neers and firemen among the strikers will resume work Monday, and others have pri vately asked to be reinstated. The strikers generally express confidence in their pros pect. The Caledonian Company yesterday en gaged 20 English engine drivers. Various railway companies expressed a willingness to treat directly with the men; but they decline to allow any officers of the Union to be present at auy interview which may take place. At a meeting of citizpns of Edinburg to day, a committee was appointed to confer with the railway directors and representa tive men, with a view to a settlement of the disputes between the men and the rail way companies. A HEAVY LOSS. Atlanta, December 27, [Special.]— J. R. Kelly, a Jonesboro merchant, was robbed of $4,800 last niglit. He had placed the money under his pillow at home and then left the house with his wife. 'When the twe^eturned the place had been broken into aim the money was gone. NEWS OF INTEREST ABOUT OUR NEIGH BORS CULLED FROM EXCHANGES AND PARAGRAPHED. The registration list of Richmond county shows only 1859 names. Tom Arter has been re-elected City Clerk of Macon. The Catholic fair which has just closed in Augusta realized, after deducting all expenses, $4,615.55. President George Work, of the Macon street railways, is still in jail in Philadel phia in default of $20,000 bond. Dr. J. W. Barrett, a prominent physician of Taliaferro, is dead. He was fifty-seven years old, and had been ill two mouths. The president of the Georgia Telegraph School at Senoia has telegraphed Governor Northen to withhold his signature to the Boifeuillet bill until he could see him. Savannah celebrated Christmas with some flue raciug at Thunderbolt Driving Park. The Morning News says that the grand stand was crowded to overflowing, and the track was lined with people on both sides. The Governor has been asked to pardon Henrietta Grier, a negro wiman sent to the penitentiary in 1869 from Bibb county, for life, for murder. At the time the crime was committed the convict was a mere girl and she has served ovei; twenty years. The Savannah Fire and Marine Insur ance Company, a solvent and successful concern which has gone out of business on account of proposed adverse legislation in the Georgia Legislature, has ar ranged to reinsure its risks in the Hart ford Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn, Yamaeraw, a historic precinct of Savan nah, had a lively Christmas. One of the leading features of the day was a pitched battle between a squad of Italians and a band of negro fantastic paraders, in which one young Italian was stabbed and had his skull crushed, and another was shot in the back. Hon. D. P. Wells, the representative from Marion county, has in his possession one of the finest and rarest violins in the country. It bears the stamp of the far- famed Stradivarius and the date of 1716. These Stradivarius violins are so very rare that one in perfect order recently sold in Europe for $10,000, and they are eagerly sought, after by all violinists, but a genuine oue is seldom found. Mr. Wells does not know the history of the violin before it came into his hands. He bought it from a tobacco hauler who came through the country with a caravan of wagons from Virginia. Since he has had the instru ment it has been examined and played by many fine judges of the points of a violin, and they have all pronounced it a re markably fine specimen. He recently had it examined by an expert, who pronounced it a genuine Stradivarius. Its tone is remarkably strong and sweet, and with the exception of a small crack on one side it is in per fect order. Mr. Wells says it is not for sale, but thinks that an offer of $10,000, such as was recently paid for a Stradivar ius abroad, might induce him to part with it. An Americas dispatch of Friday, says: One of the cars on the electric railroad met with a frightful accident at 12 o’clock to day. In crossing the high bridge over the Savannah, Americus and Montgomery railroad, near Leeton Park pavillion, two miles from the city, the car left the track. It was moving rapidly at the time and its great momentum caused the motorman to lose coutrol of it. After traveling the bridge for thirty feet, the car jumped from the bridge to the ground, about fifteen ft et. The car was occupied by a number of per sons, out for an airing. Fortunately, no one was killed, but a number were in jured, among them the following: Hon. W. M. Hawkes, arm broken; Mrs. T. N. Hawkes, internal injuries, not fattCl; Nel son Hawkes, cut on head; Mrs. Simpson, badly bruised in several places; son of Mr. Murray, arm broken. Ugly rumors are circulating as to the cause of the accident, which are withheld, as the matter will be officially investigated. It is the second accident which has occurred at the same place and in the same manner. In the first accident no one was hurt, as the car re mained on the track. IN ALABAMA. Wedowee wants a railroad. The Journal says there is not a vacant house in Montgomery—that is a house of any pretension. The Greensboro Beacon, the third oldest paper in the State, has just commemorated its 55th anniversary. Dr. W. M. Fenley, of Village Springs, has purchased the L. B. Hanna place at Blountsville, and has moved there with his family. At Attaila, the compress cannot now keep up with the business, and is likely to run till the first of March, on account of the large crop of cotton. Colonel Hatch, who runs the rock crusher between Bangor and Blount Springs, has purchased a quarry between Village Springs and Compton. Coosa has at present five bar-rooms, but it is understood that after January 1st the number will relapse to three. Reason: not sufficient patronage. Eufaula Times: Mrs. George Smith, who lives over Captain Gorton's store, corner Broad and Orange streets, was curiously poisoned. She has been quite sick, but was better last night. Her sort and daughter were also poisoned, the for mer’s eyes being so swollen that he could not see at all and his eyeballs shut out from the view of others. The daughter was not so badly afflicted. But the curious part is the cause of this trouble. It came, the physicians say, from inhaling the smoke of swamp sumach, by some known as “thunderwood.” A recent load of wood Mrs. Smith bougiit produced the trouble. All the parties were much better last night aud will recover. This from the Momtgomerv Advertiser : B. W. Walker, the receiver in the case of the Government vs. Mobile and Girard Railroad Company, et al, has brought suit against Martin H. Suilivan, of the firm of The Sullivan Lumber Company, at Pensa- sola, Fla., to recover the value of 4,000,000 logs alleged to have been cut from railroad lands in Baldwin and Escambia counties. The value set by the reciever in this suit for the logs is $1,000,000. Papers were served on Mr. Sullivan on the night of the 19th as he passed thorough the city en route to New York. Messrs. Roque- more, White & McKenzie and Stringfellow & LeGrand appear as attorneys for the receiver. OOMMERUIAL REPORTS. Local Cotton. Enquirer-Sun Office, i Columbus, December 27, 1890. J (Corrected daily by Carter <6 Bradley.) Cotton market dull, unchanged; good mid dling 9%c. middling 8%ft8%c, low middling 7%o, strict good ordinary 7c, good ordinary 6%o. RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS, Today .To date. Today .To date By Rail 151 “ Wagons 24 "(River 127 Factory takings.. u 25,-038 2' .880 15,333 0 37,103 0 1,232 5,327 43,712 Totals 302 63,206 Stock Sept. 1, 1880 590 Receipts to date 63,206—63,796— Stock. Shipped to date —43,712— 20,084 Sales today, 75; to date. 29,119. 31a rfc.ee aaiHirni ojr TiUci"Av-b. New York, Dec. 27.— Noon—Cotton market dull, sales 77 bales; micidiing uplands 93 l-6e, Orleans 9%c. Futures—Themarket opened quiet, eaey, with sales as follows: December delivery 8 82c; ,Iai>- u.vxy delivery 8 8lc; February delivery 8 tie; March delivery 8 82c; April delivery 902 c; May delivery, 9 06c. 4 p. m.—Cotton dull; sales today 47 tales, middling uplands 9 3-16c, Orleans 9%c; net receipts at all ports 45.172: exports to Great Britain 2288, France 11,203, continent 6704; St ck 80 ,832 bales. 6f. x.—Cotton, net receipts 2295, gross 10016. Futures Closed easy; sales 34,300 bales as let- lows: December delivery 8 81:g8 82c, January de livery 8 82 u 8 83c,February delivery 9 (KVa 9 Ole; March deliver} 9 15<i9 16e. April delivery 9 30^ 9 31c; May delivery 9 i0o9 41e, June delivery 9 SOct9 51 : Juiv delivery 9 51X5,9 60c, August delivery 9 5Da9 60c; September delivery 9 i3a) 9 45”'. Freights to Liverpool firm; cotton 5-3M. Galveston. Dec. 27—Cotton, mi id i g 9 3-I0e; net receipts 6733. gross receipts 6733, 6cues 1425; stock 111,703 bates; exports to Great Britain 7639; coast ; France ; Spinners 0; market qui t. Norfolk, Dec27.—Cotton, middling 8%e; net receipts 2968, gross receipts 2968; sales 1253; stock 50,782 hales; exports to Great Britain 1325, coast 975; continent —, market steady. Baltimore, Dec. 27.—Cotton, middling 9%o; net receipts . gross receipts 124: sales —; stock 13 983 baton .exports Great Britain ,coast- w s 225, continent —; market nominal. Boston, Dec. 27.— Cotton, middling 9 3-I6e; net receipts ,684 gross receipts 4212; sales 0; stock —: exports to Great Britain 54 bales; markefc dull. Wilmington, Dec. 27.—Cotton, middling 8%o; Ret receipts 767, gross receipts 767; sales 0; stock 21,660 bales: exports to Great Br tain . conti nent—, coastwise 00; market dull, nominal. Philadelphia, Dee. 27.—Cotton, middling* 9 %c; net receipts 106, gross receipts 106, sales , stock 8266 bales; exportsito Great Britain bales, market quiet. Savannah, Dec. 27. — Cotton, middling 81*0, net receipts 7727, gross receipts 7727, sales 1200; stock 129,446 bales: exports to Great Brilain 87 8; coastwise 840, continent ; market dull. New Vkleans Dec.27.—Cotton.raidding 8 13-’6c; net receipts lg,3'5 gross receipts 20,0:8, sales 37UO; stock 306,024 bales; exports to Great Britain 4888, France 11,203, ooastwise 897, continent ; market quiet. Mobile, Dec. 27.—Cotton, middling t%c; net recciDts 997, gross receipts 997, sales ltMl: stock 47,334 hales; exports coastwise 758 bales; market dull. Memphis, Dec. 27. — Cotton, middling 8%e; net receipts 3727, shipments 24,967; sates 67.3; stock 181,532 bales; market easy, Augusta, Dec. 27—Cotton, middling 9e; net receipts 1344; shipments 1356, sales 383; stock 52,419 bales; market quiet. Charleston. Dec. 27.—Cotton, middling 9%o; net receipts 2812, gross receipts 2812,(sales 600, stock 61,370 bales; exports Great Britain , Fran e , coastwise 1012, continent , mar ket steady. Atlanta, December 27.—Cotton, steady, mid- dling 8%c; receipts 895. vlh'im .tun '5.....is. New York, Dee. 27.— Noon—Stocks dull and firm; money easy at 4 @5 per cent; exchange—long $4.79(3 ; short •r4.83.2j ; state bonds neglected; government bonds dull and steidy. Evening—Excnange quiet, S4.80F4.84 money easy, 4gfc, last loan at 3 per cent; government bonds dull, g-eady; uew 4 per cents 122%, 4*4 per cent* u 314 hid state bonds entirely neglected. Coin in me sub-treasury $148,298,006; currency $4,(8t.000. Closing quotations of the Stock Exchange: Alabama I Kinds, class A, 2 to 5 103% “ “ class B, 6s 105 Georgia 7s, mortgage North Carolina 6s 1TC “ “ 4s 93 South Carolina Brown Consols 99 Tennessee 6s 102*4 “ 5s 96 “ settlement, 3s 69*4 Virginia 6s 50 " consolidated 47 Chioago and Northwestern 1,03% “ “ preferred )34 Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 129*. Erie East Tennessee, new stock Lake Shore 1C 8^4 Louisville and Nashville 72 Memphis and Charleston 39 Mobile and Ohio 25 Nashville and Chattanooga 92 New Orleans Pacific, lsts 84*4 New York Central 99 Norfolk and Western preferred 62 Northern Pacific 21 “ “ preferred 62 Paoiflc Mail 3i*4 Reading Richmond and West Point Terminal 15% Rook Island f 8X2 St. Paul 49% “ preferred It'3Jk Texas Pacific 13% Tennessee Coal and Iron 29% Union Pacific 41% New Jersey Central v 99% Missouri Pacific E9% Western Union Telegraph 74*4 Cotton Oil Trust Certificates 15% Brunswick 18% Mobile and Ohio. 4s 69% Silver certificates 102 Grain—Chicago, Dec. 27.—Cash quotations were: Flonr steady, spring patents 84 20(8J4 75, winre' do $4 64X55 95, bakers S3 30(53 35. No.2: sorinc wheat 88*/4@-c, No. 2 red 91c. Coin,, No. 2 47%c. Oa 8. No. 2. 39%C. Future". Opening Highest Closing Wheat—December.... 89% 89% 88% May 97% 97% 90*4 Corn — D. cember 47% 47% 47% May 61% 51% 60% Oats — December 40% 40% 39% May 43% 43% 43*4 Cincinnati, O., Dec. 27—Wheat fair e'emaiul: No. 2 red 95% r .a—c. Corn heavy; No. 2 mixed 51c. Oats steady; No. 2 mixed Bio. Baltimore, Dec. 27.—Flour dull—Howard street and western superior $3 00@4 00. extra $3 60@4 40, family 84 50,55 00, city mills. Rio brands.extra 85 IXI'aS 15. Wheat, Southern quiet; Fnltx 95c(a$l 02, Longberry 98c(a$l 02, western firm. No. 2 winter red, spot and December 96%c. Corn, southern, white 5o(S58%c, yellow 54 58%c, western nominal. Provision*—Chicago, Dec. 27.—Mess rork ?82 10(28 12%. Lard 85 70. Short rib sides, loose, ?4 5024 75: shoulderB, ?4 25(24 36; short clear sides, $5 12. Futures. Opening Highest Closing M.Pork—December .. 8 10 8 12% 8 12% May II 00 11 02% 10 82% Lard — December... 5 82% 5 82% 6 42% C 42% January May Ribs—Deeember.. January May . 5 81 % 6 37% 6 02% 5 67% 02% 5 67% 5 7D Cincinnati. Dec.27.—Floi.i,moderate df maud; family $3 8524 : 5. fancy 34 452 4 75. Pork steady, 850 25. Lard firm,|»5 52%25 75%c. Bulk meats steady: short rib sides t5 07%. Bacon steady; short clear sides S6 00. sugar and Collie — New York, Dec. 27.— Sugar—raw quiet and steady, fair refining C 4%c;. centrifugals 96 test 5%c; refined quiet, C 5%a—c.extra C 5 3-16(25 5-16C, yellow 4 15-I0a5; white C 5 7-16(25 9-10c, olf A 5 7-16C, mould A 9%c. standard A 6 15-16c, confectioners A 5%e, cut loaf 6%c, crushed 6%c, powdered !,%", granulated 6c, cubes 6%c. Coffee—options opened firm, December $16 30a ; January $ (2 ; March $ (a, ; May $15 35. Spot rio dull but steady: fair cargoeg 19*ic; No.? 17%c. Wool ar.d Hides—New York, Dec, 27 Hides quiet—wet salted. New Orleans selected. 50 and 60 pounds, 5%@6c; Texas selected, 50 and 60 pounds, 5%(26c. Wool easy and dull, domestic fleece 34<249c, pulled 27234c, Texas 18225c. Fetrolenm- New York, Dec. 27—Petrolenm quiet and steady ;Parker’g $7 10,refined, all ports 87 25. Cotton Seed OH—New York, Dec, 27.— Cotton seed oil steady; crude, off grade, 19@ 20c: yellow, off grade, 25226c. Rosin and turpHittne—New York, Dec. 26. —Rosin dull and steady; strained,common to good $1 42%21 47%. Turpentine quiet, 39%C. WILMINOTON.Dec. 27—Turpentine steady,36%e. Rosin firm; strained $1 10; good strained $1 15. Tar firm; $1 55. Crude turpentine firm; hard $1 20, yellow dip $1 90, virgin $1 90. « t
