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VOLUME XXII.
lb G;irgia Sstspe.
A pr. grcssivo IVmnoratic paper, pub
lished weekly til Covington, Now-ion
County, Georgia. lerma, SI.OO (tor an
num, ati'icily iu advance. Established
Otl ef 2-ith, InCo. Burnt out on
Atiy;us. nibt, IRSI, a ul ugnin on Decent*
•vi Gist. 1383. Rotli times it went down
in ashes without any insurance.
Tim E.vntnpnisnis an uncompromising
advocate of tlie priu •:i>li*j of thcorg-nizctl
ami living Democracy of to-day.
While it grants equal ju-tieo to nil
men lteforo llte law, it h Ids tliis to be a
White Van’s (lovernment, beloiigim; to
him hy the right * f discovery—be
queathed to him liy the Mood and sutler
ingot’ tho Fathers N aio but Anglo
Saxon u unts were signed to the Declara
tion of Independence and none hut
while men blod aid died to wrench tho
colonies from England's ertiel grasp, to
establish tho proud young Republic of
Amo iea.
Upon these issues the paper is nil mg
to go before the public, asking no other
suppoit than that which its merits de
serve. Tho paper will be free and otit
sp keu on all questions of public interest,
and will not endeavor to accomplish the
ridiculous font of “running w ith the Lare,
and baying with tho hounds.”
In other words, The Entekpiitse will
not be a “fence rider” in any of the pc*
litical campaigns. Tboso who desire a
live newsisipcr, are earnestly requested
o give it a trial.
8. \V. IIAWKINS, Editor.
SOUTHERN REPUDIATED BONDS
Tin* CSorei nmetii Urged to Hurt ihe States to
Kuforse Their Payment.
Tlie United States government holds in
trust for the benefit of the Indian tribes
$1,710,000 of lx>ndß issued by Southern
States, on which default lias been made.
About $50,000,000 of the same defaulted
securities are held by private parties in
New York city. E. 1.. Andrews, attor
ney for certain New York holders of re
pudiat l bonds, nas written to Secretary
Lamar, urging that the United Statessu*e
the defaulting States, claiming that the
United States has power to bring an ac
tion against any one of the repudiating
States, while a private individual cannot.
Secretary Lamar has referred the matter
to Attorney-General Garland. If the
United States should bring the desired
suits and win them, the individual hold
vis of bonds would profit along with the
government, which annually now makes
good to the Indians the interest which
the States refuse to pay.
MORE EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.
Marylanders Pxperleuce Serein Shocks, but
Nu Damngr.
At Westminster, Urederick, Emmets
burg, and other towns in Western Maty
land, on Monday, the inhabitants woic
considerably excited over several violent
snocks atul loud rumblings which awoke
them from sleep, and continued at inter
vals from 1J :80 o’clock at night until
early next morning. Ne damage was
done, as far as can be learned, but as that
country is mountainous the people are an
prehensivo of giave trouble. Congress
man Shaw, who lives at Westminster,
says he was awakened by what sounded
like the blasting of locks, and pictures
it ere shaken friru the walls in other
houses, lie heard tuo distinct shocks in
rapid succession. The mercury at West
minster was four below zero this morn
THE WORST IN FIVE YEARS
Tho Western lini'road lJlocUed up WttSi
Snow.
The prerent stonn on the railroad* has
been the worst in the west in live years.
Fortunately the weather is not very cold
or the railroads would be unable to move
a train. There is over five feet of snow
in a level ia exposed places, while iu the
ravines it is six feet deep. The Michi an
Central had to abandon several of their
passenger trains. One is at Nide's, g>■
ing west, and two east bound train* are
at Michigan City, Iqd. Three westbound
passenger trains became stalled in drifts
live miles east of Michigan City, and it
required nearly all day with live locomo
tives to bring thorn out.
The New York fast express became
caught near New Buffalo, and the Grand
Rapids train crashed into the rear, dam
aging the sleeping car and injuring the
fireman aud porter.
LOUISIANA ORANGE CROP.
lint One-Tooth the Quantity T Last Year
Produced.
The orange crop of I.ouisiana i all har
vested and in market. It is, as predicted,
less than one-tenth of the average crop,
and oranges are retailing now at thirty to
fifty cents per dozen,against ten to thirty
cents this time last year, and scarce at
these figures. There will be none for
shipment north, as usual. In fact a great
many Florida oranges have been import
ed and are for sale this year, a decided
novelty in New Orleans, which lins hith
erto been exporter; but while the crop is
a failure a more favorable report comes
from the Plaqueminc orange district, for
the trees are not as severely injured and
not as many of them killed by the cold
of last January, as was imagined at first.
A VIRGINIA HUSBAND.
<r.Tnlinnge’s Daiigbtrr to Marry n Hand,
some ltlclunond Man.
It has been announced that Miss Edith
Talmage, daughter of Ilcv. IJr. DeWitt
Talmage, of Brooklyn, will be married
to Mr. Allen Donnan, of Richmond, iu
about two months. The announcement
will be publicly made early in February,
and the marriage will take place a month
later. The prospective groom is an in
telligent nail ha dsome Virginian. Miss
Talmage spent two seasons at the Wisite
Sulphur springs, and the next fail visited
Richmond as the gucs' of Mr. James B.
Pace, Richmond's millionaire. It was at
AVhite Sulphur that Mr. Dounan met Miss
Talmage. During her stay there she was
a m eat belle.
The Georgia Enterprise.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
NEWBY ITEMS GATHERED
UP IN PARAGRAPH*.
LOUISIANA.
Three wagon* from the Choctaw na
tion, filled with immigrant*, arrived in
Vermillion last Monday and will multo
that parish tlu ir future home.
The ginliousc of Mr. Edmond Brous
sard, living about tight miles übovo Ab
beville, was burned down the curly |>ai t
of this week with ten or fifteen hales of
cotton. It is supposed to be the wink
of an incendiary.
The ginliousc of Mr. b. D. Sptars, of
ward one, Claiborne Parish, was de
stroyed by fire last Friday night. Several
bnles of cotton were lost belonging to
different parties, who will suffer from
the loss, as thera was no insurance on the
property.
A young man named Ratcliff, living
several miles above Arcadia, w as seriously
if not fatally injurned last week by tho
explosion of a shell, which he was at
tempting to drive Into his gun with a
pocket-knife, the biass end of the shell
striking him iu the forehead.
A white man named Cornelius Coyne
late section hand on the Texas and Pa
cific railroad, near Edgard, was found
dead on the Carie Plantation road at 9
o’clock Sunday morning last. The coro
ners jury rendered a verdict that lie < a no
to his death from an incised woui'd in the
abdomen, causing fatul hemorrhage, sup
posed to have been inflicted by one Jo
seph White, who is now in custody.
On Saturday last Mr. Itcese Pong was
shot and killed at Oxford station, DeSoto
parish, by Mr. B. B. Dickinson. Both
were prominent young men, highly con
nected. They had hud u trifling quarrel
some days before, and Poag became
crazed with whiskey and attacked his
to nter friend, who was compelled to
shoot him. Sir. Dickinson surrendered
himself to the sheriff, and upon a pre
liminary examination by Judge llall was
discharged irom custody upon the ground
that he acted in self defense.
TEXAS.
John Harrison, of Liana, committed
suicide at Lampasas, by taking an over
dose of morphine.
Tlie Paris News announces that the re
port started by one McPherson, that in an
affray in Arthur City three men were
killed aud one wounded, was a baseless
canard.
While a slaughtered beef was being
haule l up the limb of a tree in Scotts
villc, Andrew Humphrey mounted the
limb to guide the rope, wheu the limb
broke and Humphrey fell to the ground,
striking on his head and breaking his
neck.
Charles (frees was shot at a saw mill
on the Natchez river, near Burke, a few
days ago, one ball taking effect in his
breast, just below the left nipple, the
other penetrating his back. The wounds
are probably fatal. Green says he was
shot by a man named Strikes, a Dutch
man, once after ho had fallen. The par
ties seemed to have been drinking. Both
are white.
booth Carolina.
Earthquake shocks were felt at many
places throughout the Slate on Tuesday
morning. At Charleston, Columbia,
nd Orangeburg the shocks were severest.
Lee Gaston, who killed his son-in-law,
Will Estes, made application before
lodge Witherspoon, at Chester, for bail
on last Saturday. The judge, after hear
ing the testimony offered a' the coro
ner’# inquest, signified Id. -.011 i s*.
grant him bail in the sum of Jo, ooo.
So far, only ninety-three persons, all
told, have gone to Arkansas from the
line of the l’urt Royal railroad, and they
have gone, not from dissatisfaction with
the eight box law or the priority lien law,
but because of hard times and the desire
for new things. If similar inducements
were offered, it would be easy to get
more white people to go than the colored
people who have taken their dept rt ire.
The ease of R. B or “Dick” Jacobs,
charged with the killing of tenant Dock
Hughes on Christmas day, was brought
up before Judge Norton at Pickens,
Thursday, on application for a writ of
habeas corpus. After hearing the case,
Judge Norton granted the petition and
fixed tlie bond at $2,500. Jacobs was re
leased and returned to the city iu the af
ternoon. In view of tlie evidence given
at the inquest, and the verdict of tlie
coroner's jury rendered therefrom, the
amount of the bond lias excited much
surprise and unfavorable comment. The
tide of public feeling is much against the
defendant, and his release on slight se
curity has not tended to abate that senti
ment.
While Deputy Marshal J. B. Elkius
was riding along iu the road at the footof
Glassy mountain, twenty-five miles from
Greenville, Wednesday morning, on liis
way to join the raiding party of Deputy
Collector Black, he wns tired on by a man
who stepped into the road from tlie
bushes behind him. The gun was loaded
with No. 1 shot, aud a dozen of them
were lodged in the deputy’s back and
shoulders. Captain Elkins returned the
fire with a pistol, but with less success.
Hi-- wounds are. not serious, and he at
once returned to the city. The would-be
assassin was recognized as a veteran
moonshiner, and probably a partner in
one of tlie illicit stills destroyed by
Colonel Black on tlie same raid.
ARKANSAS.
The mill of tlie Traskwood Lumber
company, Saline county, was burned
Saturday night. Loss quite heavy with
no insurance.
Henry Adams, colored, was jailed in
Pops county last week for murdering an
infant supposed to bo his chi and by a white
woman.
In a difficulty in Mississippi county on
Saturday last Tom Cat ten was killed by
a young planter named Lee Wilson, who
shot his victim four times. Wilson sur
rendered.
A little boy named P.nk Moore was
caught by a revolving wheel in Hill’s gin
near Clarksville, Johnston county, last
week, aud instantly killed, his back aud
neck both being Itroken.
ANOTHER FAILURE.
The failure of Lounon Pels, a leading
dry goods merchant of Newport, is an
nounced. The creditors are St. Louis,
New Orleans, Memphis, Louisville, Cin
cinnati. Boston, Chicago and Philadel
phia merchants and manufacturers. Lia
bilities will reach $40,000; assets. SBO,-
000.
RAILROAD DISASTERS.
1 alli.li.ii. Between Passenger mid rrclgl.t
*1 ruins
A fast train on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad at an early hour Wednesday
morning collided with a freight train
near Tiffin, Ohio, wrecking both trains.
Twenty-two bodies were burned beyond
recognition, und many more injured se
verely. It is a fearful sight ami calls to
mind the Ashtabula horror of tho winter
of 1877.
A MASSACHUSETTS WRECK.
A passenger train on the Boston and
Albany railroad was wrecked near West
Spiivgtiel I, Mass. |.y a eollision with a
lie gl t train. Tho wreck caught firo
and one passenger and one sleeping coach
w ere burned and several person sscriously
injured, and one was killed, being
burned so badly that no one could recog
nize him.
ACCIDENTS IN AJ.AHAiIA.
Near Livingston, on the line of ths
Alabama Great Southern railway, Tuea
dav night a construction train was
wrecked and Captain Joe Lowis, an old
passenger conductor, and a fireman
named Fowler were killed. The wreck
was caused by the < ngine striking a cow
and derailing the train.
A second accident occurred at Jtecs
villc, where a frciglit train was derailed,
six cars demolished and two brakemen se
verely injured.
A BIG SALE.
The Lur*est Ever Made iu the Mouth.
The rumors of the recent sale of tlie
Woodstock Iron and Steel company, at
Anniston, Ala., and the Anniston Land
and Improvement company, of tlieit
property, to a syndicate, have been con
tinued, the trade having been consum
mated. The syndicate buys the prop
ertv for six million dollars, which is
the largest capital rash transaction that
has ever occurred in the South. This
property includes the celebrated Wood
slock iron furnace, with its thousands ol
mineral aud timbered lands, tlie renowned
Annistsn Inn, tlie perfect system ot
waterworks aud electric light and all
other property previously owned by these
corporations. The Woodstock Iron and
Steel company will at once erect two
large coke furnaces, costing about five
hundred thousand dollars, which amount
is provided for in the treasury, and lias
perfected arrangements for a standard
gauge road to Gadsden, Ala., to lie
known as the Anniston and Cincinnati
railroad. This road lmv ing made a traf
fic arrangement for through business
witlr the Cincinnati Southern railroad,
will greatly add to the shipping ficilities
at reduced rates the produc tof tlie fur
naces here, tlie Clifton Iron company in
suring a heavy paying freight to this now
road.
ASSIGNMENT OF A CATTLE FIRM.
A Failure Which Cnuiri Much Surprise In
Texas.
Tho Dolores Land and Cattle company
or Texas, which was chartered last year
with a stated capital of $3,000,000, have
made an alignment. The ranches and
cattle belonging to the company are situ
ated in Deramit, Kinney and adjoining
counties, and were assessed last year at
$350,000. The ranches comprise over
200,000 acres, stocked at present with
16,000 head of cattle. The papers of ns
s’gnment as filed here and signed by
Messrs. Seabright and A. F. Robins,show
in round figures liabilities of half a mil
lion dollars, and the assets float up at
about $510,000. The assignment creates
great surprise and regret, cn account of
standing of tlie persons con
cerned in the entemriyi Tiy* y.y: l -
however, us compared with the liabilities,
indicate temporary embarassment, which,
it is hoped, will be eventually overcome
without much loss, if any, to the credit
ors.
THE DEVIL’S RIVER ACCIDENT.
TVn or Twelve Lives IJelieved to Have Hern
Lost.
The officials and employes of the
Southern Pacific railroad still refuse to
give any information nonaerning the col
lision, Friday evening, of a freight train
and a construction train near Devil’s
river. It was learned that ten or fifteen
lives were lost, nearly all the pirsous
killed being Mexiciu*. Four or five dead
bodies from the wreck have been brought
in, and several of the wounded have been
taken to Columbus for treatment at the
railroad hospital When the trains col
lided they caught fire, and two cars and
tho locomotive were burned up. Most
of the killed and wounded received their
injuries by being burned.
MiIEFFIELD BOOMING.
An interesting feature of Sheffield's
boom w;i“ the meeting of tire stockhold
ers of the Sheffield and Tiiscumbia street
railway company Thursday. The capital
stock of fifty thousand dollars was all
represented, and a further subscription
of twenty-five thousand dollars was re
fused. Of the capital stock twenty per
cent, or ten thmi-.und dollars, was paid
in. The board of directors was organ
ized with the election of F. D. McMillan,
president; E. B. Almon, secretary, and
John 11. Nathan, treasurer. Tomorrow
engineers will be put to work surveying
the route and steps taken to prosecute
th<‘ work with dispatch.
TEXAS QUAKING
A slight shook of earthquake occurred
at Paige, Tex., Wednesday morning
which lasted two or three seconds. The
colored servants at the Williams house
were greatly alarmed at the rattling of
dishes and pans in the kitchen. In one
store a number of cow-bells, suspended
from the ceiling, chimed. In other
store, tin-ware and stove pipes abound the
caves of houses were shaken down. Sev
eral clocks stopped. The shock was felt
for several miles around, and evidently
passed from south to north. A few say
they heard rumbling noises. No serious
damage was done.
DEATH FROM DRINKING WHISKY.
The four-vear-old child of T. J. Gar!-
nrr, an employe of the Central railroad,
at Oconee Station, got up before day
with its father Thursday morning. The
child being sick, was given u drink o.‘
whisky. During Gardner’s absence, while
the others of the family were asleep, it
drank sufficient whisky from the jug to
produce instant death. It was found 1)\
its father lying by the jug. The coro
ner’s verdict is not known.
“HY COUNTRY MAY BUR EVER BE RIQUT. RIOIIT OR WRONG MY COUNTRY."—Jeffcrton.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA. FRIDAY, JANUARY U, 1881.
PERSONAL MENTION.
P. T. B4IUYUM has built thro toboggftu
•lidi At Bridgeport, Conn.
A grandson of the late iUverdjr Johnson
of Maryland is a page iu the United State*
Senate
The Empros of Austria wants to visit this
eeuatrv, having always longed for a ride on
the prairies.
Evangelist D. L. Moody has be*n n
-▼ited to visit Australia an I conduct revival
meetings, but he has declined.
On the first of January Emperor William
celebrated tho eightieth anniversary of his
entry into the German army.
Massachusetts will hive two authors of
books iu Congress when Henry Cabot Lodge
and Governor Loug meet there.
Senator Loo an was sixty years, ton
months and fifteen days < 11 at tho time of his
death. Ho did not look, however, more thau
fifty.
Bonanza Kino Flood’s stone housj in
San Francisco cost $2,000,000. The cost of
Leland Stanford’s wooden bouse is ostima&d
at $1,(100,000.
It is said that ex-Senator Conkliog is very
charitable toward impecunious members of
the legal profession and gives away large
sums of money.
Senators Payne and Ingalls are said to
be rivals for the pedestrian championship of
the United State. Senate. They are both in
defatigable walkers.
Henry M. Stanley has left London for
Zanzibar, A f rl a. He is said to have de line i
au offer of fiOJj.O'J to return to Ameri a *n l
resume his lecturing tour.
Sculptor E/itiiKL has flushed a little
figure of Robert E. Lee to be placed in front
or the house in Westmoreland County, Va.,
in which the General wa> born.
Srnatok M kiull is noted for his resem
blance to Charles Sumner, lie has been m
Congress thirty-one years—-twelve iu the
House and nineteen iu the Senate.
Secretary Lamar i regarded as the best
swordsman iu Washington. There are sev
eral Senators wh sj knowledge of singlestick
would euublo them to defend themselves if
attacked.
Mu. S. H. Pulkstow, the millionaire ms;n
her of Parliament, who is about to purebise
Se,OOO,OUO worthof Pennsylvania coal lands,
was twenty years a;o a reporter on a small
paper at Pittston. Penn.
The Duke of Devonshire, W-‘ Duke of
■Westminster ; n 1 the Duke of Bedford hat e
Income.; rang ng from #1.60). ) 0 to
000 a year. No one thiic.s of trying t j esti
mate thetr possessions iu any other way.
The Independent is uuth n ity for tho state
ment that Dr. Douglas really lost his own
health by his efforts in the caro of General
Grant. He lias gone to Arkansas and Flor
ida for the winter with his family, a maa se
riously out of health.
The telephone is put to anew and e nven
ientusei.i Brussel . Gentlemen who wish
to rise early, but don’t like to, tan have a
row of little bells along the edge of their
beds, which ring viei udy, imtd they rite
and stop the disturbance.
Four of the Justices of the United Slu es
Supreme Court are o -er seventy years cid.
and as they have served up n the bon -hover
ten years aro eligible for retirement oil full
pav. They are Chief Justice Waite au t As
sociates Miller, Field and Bradley.
Bsfork sai ing for home General Booth,
of the Solvation Army, claimed that during
his stav in this country ho had put in fi.ni
hours on the cars, had spoken to IhO.OO)
American sinners at 139 meetings, and had
saved 2.500 souls.
General 1 3 -. .\ P-vo V—■
York soon after tho war without ad .liar,
and with no introduction save his reputation
as n Confederate soldier. He aequiro l al
ia st immediately a good pra -tics, which has
steadily grown, until it now brings him
$20,000 a year.
AN ATROCIOUS CRIME.
A Party of Sleeping Mexicans Murdered by
Negroes.
The particulars of a most atrocious
murder, committed on Saturday night,
have been received. Four Mexicans
were employed on the farm of Mr. Sim
mons, on the Cottonwood, in Gttadaloupe
county, to plow and grub the land.
While in camp Saturday night they were
fired upon by a party of negroes and two
of the Mexicans were instantly killed.
Another of the party was mortally
wounded, and the fourth was shot
house some distance away. Before leaving
the murderers poured kerosene oil ovtf
the body of one of the Mexicans and set
(ire to it, burning it to a crisp, They
were traced four miles towards Kings
bury, and ware then lost sight of. Tlie
Mexican who is still alive stated that two
of the men were negroes und the third
was a mulatto or white man.
A FEDERAL VETERAN'S SUICIDE.
Caleb L. Bryant, of Belleville, Ohio,
died at a restaurant in Birmingham
Thursday, from an overdose of morphine,
lie took eighteen grains of the drug, it is
suppose ! with suicidal intent. Among
the papers found in his pockets was a
certificate of honorable service in com
pany I, seventh regiment of Ohio, which
showed that he enlisted June 19, 1861,
and was discharged December 20, 1802.
There was also found in his pockets a
United States pension certificate, showing
that he drew eight dollars per month
from the government. Others papers
showed that he was a monitor of the
Belleville Masonic Lodge, with all dues
paid up.
THE DROUTH DISTRICT.
Thlrly Thousand People in Want of llie
Norcianries oi' Life*
The Fort Worth Gazette publishes an
official report of the convention of coun
ty judges from the counties in the drouth
district of Texas, held at Albany, Texas.
The totnl number of people in these
counties now in need of food, clothing
and fuel is placed at 30,000, while thou
sands more aro without seed to plant
during the coming year. An appeal is
made to tho state and national legisla
tures and to the country at large to fur
nish at once $500,000 to relieve immedi
ate wants.
1 HEATING WITH INDIANS.
Comrv’.-sionors Wright, Larrabee and
Daniels hxY<- effected an agreement with
the Sioux iEdiaus, at the Feck agency,
by which the Indians concede all titles to
their land, excqpt that retained for tlioir
reservation, tho boundary of which will
follow tho Missouri liver from the mouth
of the Big Muddy fora stipulation of sl,-
050,000, in auuunlpayinents of $165,000
f r ten years.
OUR INDEBTEDNESS.
The debt statement just issued shows
'he decrease of the public debt during
the month of December to be $9,358,203,
12; cash in treasury, $114,015,791.19.
gold certificates outstanding, $97,214,-
'lOs l silver certificates outstaudiug $117,-
246,(170; ccrtifica'es of deposits outstand
ing $6,510,000.
A VIRGINIA GOLD MINE.
A Pennsylvania company has just be
gan to work a gold miue in Charlotte
county, in Virginia. It is said that the
yield of ore is very satisfactory.
LIVING AND OYINO.
Finding to-dny a hard task done—
Finding a inoral conflict won;
An answering glow tho setting sun
One’s warm heart giving
Companionship of those wo prise,
Or e*on one glau *e of love-lit eyes—
And this is living!
Ftoaliug away au unsharod grief,
While naught but weedteompose the s Leaf
Unsightly blots upon the leaf
Our care belying;
*J he sky o’ercast when day l>eg!n
Loving the one another wins—
Ah! this is dying!
But death itself to life must yield,
And lo! Heaven’s portal < are revealed;
TIIO King’s great register unsealed
r>, \ j* v supernal 1
Shows us as what wo strove to be,
And love has turned for us the key
To life eternal I
—Hartford Times,
A SCRAP OF BISTORY.
111 his speech at Cooper Union, Oct.
22, Mr. llewitt, then a candidate lor
-Mayor,now Mayor-elect,gave a sketch of
his own life as an answer to some attacks
made upon him as a “rich man. ’’ In the
course of the remarks he said: “1 be
came nearly blind, and was compelled
to pass a year iu Europe, for which 1
paid out of thccarnings which I had laid
up from the lessons I had given. On my
way home another accident occurred —
the .-hip on which 1 was went to the
bottom, und I was saved by another acci
dent in one of the boats ot that ship in
company with a man who has been
Mayor of this city, who was and is
my friend and brother, and will be to tho
endof my li e. I landed in midwinter
in a borrowed 6iiit of sailor’s clothes—
not a thing of my own—and I had three
silver dollars in my pocket, whii h cou
stituted my entire worldly wea.th. I
was twenty-two years ef nge.”
let the captain of the rescuin'; ship
tell the story ns ho did a lew years ago to
a little circle of friends iu a New York
club:
“In 1844 I was commanding the ship
Atlanta, and in the month of December
of that year w.:s m iking a voyage from
Liverpool to New York. On the 11th 1
was crossing tho Gulf Stream, and hid
got well over it. when, near evening, I
saw a ship under full sail several miles to
windward, and evidently heading for
New York, like myself. My barometer
had been falling ra; idly, and ns I always
regarded it with gre t care and obeyed
its orders, I took w Tiling and sh rtenul
sail. Mut I noticed that tiic stranger kept
everything *| read, and when night came
on aud hid herfrom sight she was far oil
on the horizon, and di in’t appear to have
taken in a stitch of canvas. During the
night it came on to blow heavily—a reg
ular eyelon-, in fact-and you may be
sure 1 was glad I had taken in sail. It
only la-ted a enuplo of hours or so, but
was very rough ns long as it was on us.
“About nine in the forenoon the watch
reported pieces of wreck floating on the
water, aud an hour later we sighted a boat
and bore down for her It was as Ih id
fcaied: Ihe stranger hud foundered in
the gale, and this was cue of her boats.
“irhe proved to be, or to have been,
the American ship Alabamian, Captain
Hitchcock, from Leghorn to New sork,
and beside her office.-s aud crew she had
two passengers in the cabin, r-he was
under full sail when the wind struck her,
and in a very short time sho wns an un
seaworthy wreck. She h and two boats,
one a stanch file boat and the other an
old and rotten long boat, f.ots were
drawn for places, and tlie life boat fell to
tlie first officer, whilethe long b iat went
to the Captain. The two cnbin passen
gers went to the long-boat, and also n'no
of the crew. It was the life-boat that I
picked up, with the first officer in com
mand, and lie said they left the ship at
2 in the mo ning, and lost sight of the
long-*,...... o* .
the ship than they, ns tlie Captain had
been the last to leave her.
“The weather was cold, and they suf
fered considerably from their cramped
positions, but in a little while nfter com
ing on board they were warmed up and
all right. Nothing could 1 e seen of tho
long b iat, and it was not certain whether
she was’still afloat. I determined to
save her if possibl - to do it, and Iho
great question was to determine what
course to steer to find her. I reasoned
that Captain Ilitchoock would try to get
out of the Gulf Stream ;.s s on as h •
could, in order to find smoother water,
and after carefully studying the situation
I changed my course in accordance with
this theory. I sent men aloft to keep a
sharp lookout, and report the !ca-t sign
of a bo: t, and to watch ier anything
that would indiratc she had goneziowu
and was past all help.
“Noon came, and then one o’clock,
and then two, and no signs of the boat.
1 went to the cnbin with my first officer
aud the officer of the Alabamian, and wo
held a council. One of them thought I
cught to run on another course, and he
gave his reasons for it. and then the
other, who had been wavering on the
subject joined him. I persist din my
belief, and stood alone in t. Somehow
I could not see their reasons as they did,
and I had a firm convict! n that I was
right, and if the captain of the Alaba
mian had done what I should do under
similar circumstnncts, lie would be ex
actly in the track I was running.
“The afternoon went on. ami about an
hour before sunset I went into the cross
trees to haven look on my own account.
I swept the horizon with my glass over
and over again, but saw nothing, and felt
what a terrible re pons'biiity rested on
me, and what would be said of me for
holding my course against t e advice of
the others, ifl should not find tlie boat.
“Just as the sun was within a hand
spike’s length of the hor on I saw a
speck on the crest of a wave. It wi-nt
down as the wave fell, and I believe my
heart stop -i and beating till the speck came
up again and showed it-t-lf. There it
was and no mis'akc, ad it wns e aetly
dead ahead as near a* you could draw a
line.
“I hailed the deck, and suit the first
officer to take tho wheel. I t Id him not
to vary the breadth of a hair fr< m tho
com sc we were running. 'Mien 1 fame
down, and seut a man up t( take my
place.
“‘Have you seen anything?’ eicry
body asked as I reached the deck.
“ ‘Nothing I’m certain of,’ Innswered:
‘but we ma. have developments pres
ently. I don't know if my heart was
beating then, but presume it w as.
‘ In a little while —it may have been a
quart'l* of an hou r . and ust as the sun
was dipping into the horizon —the man
in the rigging called on : ‘Sail hoi’
“ ‘\Vh re awny f I asked
“ Dead ahead, sir. I think it’s the
boat
••.uy heart went up in my mouth, but
1 tried to appear as cool as
Of course everybody else was all excite-,
ment, and that was more reason why I
should not ho Besides, I was Captain,
nnd nobody else was, as 1 had shown
them hy sticking to my course.
“The night came on clear und beauti
ful. and wo kept straight on. We lost
sight of th ■ boat as tho daylight faded,
but in half an hour or so we saw her
again, and we still had her right in line.
As we neared her I kept tho ship up a
little so us to brim; tho lioat under our
lee. and I put men in the fore-chains and
along the sides with plenty of lines, and
made all possible preparations to make
fast. I knew the mon in the boat would
be so chilled with tho cold that they
would lie nearly helpless, and whatever
was to be done would have to be dono by
ourselves.
“We pot tltvm out all right, and it
*st...s as I had surmised ; they were most
of them too much benumbed to climb up
the sides, and had to be helped. When
they were all safe on b -aril we tried to
hoi-t tho boat iu and she broke in two
witli her own weight; how she ever lived
as long as she did is a mystery.
“Captain Hitchcock told me they
rowed as long as thec could after leaving
tho ship, with the intention of getting
into smoother watc r beyond tho Gu’.f
Stream, and he had thought that in casj
I fell in with tlie other boat 1 would do
just ns I had done. The two cabin pas
sengers took their share of the labor w ith
the rest. They were both young men,
with a difference of perhaps five or six
years in their ages, and had been travel
ing in Europe, the elder of the two being
tutor for the younger, who was the son
of a prominent citizen of New York.
They took passage at I eghorn for New
York, und when their turn came to enter
tlie long-boat they had done so without
complaint, nnd had borne the privations
of tlie night aud day as cheerfully as any
otic else.
“All day they had watched and hoped,
hoped and watched, but there was no
Bigu of a sail. The night threatened to
be cold, and there wa* little expectation
that any of the pirly would live till
morning, even if the boat continued to
float. As the sun neared the horizon
the younger man was lying in the bot
tom of the b at, wrapped in hi* over
coat and a blanket, w hile the elder sat
in the stern with the captain
“Just as the sun was dipping into the
waves, the eld r of the twain said to
Captain Hitchcock that, with his per
mission, he wou and o ler prayer. Of
courso it was given at once. ‘And I
never, in all my life,’ said Captain
Hitchcock, ’heard a more beautiful
prayer fn m the lips of mortal man.
And as he sad “am n,” and I said
“amen’too, liaised my eyes and saw
your sail.’
“Perhaps,” laid Captain Raymond to
li’s group of li tellers —“perhaps you and
like to know the names of those two pas
sengers? They are familiar to you all.
and you’ll find them at the bottom of
this letter, which I received, with a sil
ver pitcher, a few and tys after we reached
New York. I haven't seen it for some
time, until it turned up to-day while I
was overhauling niv desk. It is an old
letter, yim see, and was written before
the envelope was invented.”
Tlie letter was passed around and
handled with great care. It was then
read aloud by one of the group, aud
ran as follows:
“New York, December 2S, 1544.
“Dear Sir: Desirous of testifying our
grateful ‘fii-e of the noble disinterestedness
with whi li you stood fn m your course on
theli-thof December last iu s.arch of the
captain, pas* u .its, aud crew of the ship
Alabamian, which f< undere 1 on that day at
sea. aud of the Kindness we received at your
hand* while your guests, we beg your ac
ceptance of the acc m; allying piece of plate.
•• AVe 1 now that no offering of ours can
add to tlie pn ud feeling of satisfaction
whi li must ha\ e animated your bosom w hen
n on your own deck you saw the eighteen
human beings whose lives you had saved;
but we wish you to possess some slight token
which in after-days may serve to remind
your children an 1 your fr.ouds of how nobly
you did your duty to your God and your
fellow-men; and we desire that other ship
masters, incited as well by their own humane
bl •an a t never fails to a 1 down from the
public, may ‘ go and do likewise.’
•‘ln conclusion, we congratulate you upon
the opportunity you have enjoyed of grati
fying the most g ncrous promiting3 of tho
soul we pray tnat Heaven may shower its
choicest blassin s u; on you and yours, and
we bog yo i to he assure 1 of the lasting grati
tude of, very truly, Your friends.
“Edware'Cooper . Passcnger9 .
“Abram 8. Hewitt, > “
“To Captain George B. Bnymond, of the
ship Atlanta, of New York.”
“A day or two after receiving and an
swering this letter,” Slid Captain Ray
mond, “I received an invitation to goto
.Mr. 1 etc r Cooper's house, as the family
was very desirous of seeing me. I was
so busv with the affairs of my ship that
1 could not respond at once, but sent
word that 1 w iuld call on New Year’s
l ay. When I called, and my name was
announced, they did rot wait for me to
go into the parlor, but all came out into
the hall to greet ine; the ladies pressed
around me, and I assure you it was
rather embarrassing for a young sea dog
to receive so much attention. I had
done nothing more than my duty, and
somehow felt that I nas being thanked
and praised a good deal beyond what I
merited. 1 tried to tell them si, but they
wouldn't listen.to me, and all the time I
w s there they made s cli a hero of mo
that I didn’t know wh it to say, and
wondeied how I would be able to es
cape.
“None of the Cos ipcror Hewitt family
h ive ever forgotten me, but, on the
contrary, th y ini-s no opportunity of
referring to that incident ot the 12th of
December. When the 1 otos Club gave
a dinner to Mayor Cooper I wanted to
come as much as I ever wanted to do
anything in all my life, and I thought I
would do so; but 1 don’t like lobe called
up for a speech, and l knew that newilt
or Cooper would lie sure to have me out
and make me say something; so 1 stayed
away, and saved the club from listen ng
to the story of the loss of the Ahtlamltm.
“If you had told that story as you have
told it now,” sai l one of the listeners,
“you would have made one of the most
effective speeche, ever made at a dinner
party.”
“iso say we all.”— Harper's Weekly.
The l’arrot and the Monkey.
A Parrot wa swinging in her cage
under a t ee when a monkey owned at
the next liou e came over to Boast that
he had the Wisest Mistress in the \\ orld.
The l’arrot quawked and cackled and
resented the Allegation, and Added;
“No one can compare with my own
mi-tress for true nisdom.”
The. sub ect was being Hotly Disputed
when down flew the Crow, and it was
Agreed to leave it to him.”
“Why, Ladies and Gentlemen,” said
the ( row, “the Fact that neither of them
Has even good Common Sense is Proved
off hand by their keeping the likes of
you for Pets’.”
Moral: Our Defenders are Sometimes
the Best Witnesses Against us.— Betroi'
I. fV*S P''oS..
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SCETOHEH FROM
V VRIOUH SOURCES.
A Worth Having—SensibleSav
agea —An Expensive Pin —Tho
Dreamy Bookkoci>or Tho
Landlady’s Retort, Etc.
‘Mr. Winks —"Great Scott! thero
comes .links. He has a bill against me.
Tell him 1 am out.”
Mrs. Winks—“ Well, I’ll tell him you
have just gone down town to pay a
bill.”
“No, no: he’ll know you’re lying
then. Tell him something ho can be
lieve.”
‘•Well, I’ll say you’re on another
spree, dear.” —Omaha boi Id.
Sensible Savages.
“What quoer things thero are in the
world!” said Mr. Brown, looking up
from a book of travels which he had been
perusing. “Here it says that a New
Guinea savage gives a friendly salutation
by pinching his nose and patting his
stomach at the same time. What do you
suppose such a performance signifies:”
I’hat you can lead a man by the nose
when h:s stomach is full,” returned Mrs.
Brown, promptly. “Those New Guinea
savages must be a very sensible race.” —
Uarper't lia.ar.
The Landlady's Retort.
“These biscuit,’ said tlie Professor,
“are like the Statue of Liberty at
night. They would give bettor satisfac
tion if they were lighter.”
“Yes, ” said the third floor back, “and
this piece of chicken reminds me of a
great hero—Bonaparte.”
“But neither of your board bills are
like the Balkan troubles,” said tho land
lady.
• Why so?” asked the Professor and
third floor lta< k.
“Because the Balkan troubles will
probably be settled.—Aria Turk tiun.
An Expensive Pin.
One fine day a ScrigglcsviUe man came
to town with a pailful of clams, which
he sold. Then washing out the pail care
fully he had a gallon of molasses poured
into it nnd started for home, beefing
the weight of his burden he put a stick
through the pail aud hung the pail over
his shoulder.
Presently, jogging along in an ab
stracted fashion, the S' rigglesvillc man
espied a pin in tho road, anil being of a
frugal turn he stooped over to pick it up.
This seemed to the molasses to be as
good a chance as it could find, and it
promptly stepped out of the pail and
walked all over the back of the Scrig
glesvillc man's neck.
“Good heavensl”ga-ped the Scr'ggles
mim, as he struggled to his feet and
viewed the devastation wrought upon
the scenery, “a gallon ot molasses for a
pin.” —Rockland (Me.)' Courier-Journal.
The Dreamy Bookkeeper.
V tall, gaunt, absent minded man at
tired in a drab sack coat and a pair of
checkcr-plaid pantaloons stood on the
corner of Charles and Baltimore streets
yesterday afternoon smoking a cigar and
conversing with two young ladies 'ihe
party were waiting for a car. As the
car approached, tho young man, who was
evidently a bookkeeper, mechanically
stuck the lighted cigar behind his <ar,
under the impression that it was a load
peni il.
The cigar remained behind the ear ex
actly two seconds. Then the young
mans mouth opened like an old-faßh
ioned barndoor swinging on its hinges
“Gee-ru sa-lcm.” he yelled, jerking
the cigar away as though it were a bum
blebee and projecting h s anatomy about
two feet into the st 11 and placid atmos
phere.
The cigar had singed the hair off from
A AiAxskl -2i Liu. iiami a£ . a . Mii tucr_
dollar, and the top of his ear was burned
to a blister. —Baltimore llerald.
Ho Guessed at It.
y Superintendent Judson, of the Chicago
and lowa Road, tells of a section boss
who several years ugo sent in a report
which made a byword for the boys about
the general office that is in use to day.
Section bosses are provided with blanks,
on which 'hey are required to report all
cases of animals killed by trains. The
blanks have spaces for telling where,
when and how the animal is killed, and
what disposition is made of the carcass,
whether it is buried or sold.
One day a cow was killed out on the
Rochelle section, and asecticn boss wh)
had been re entiy promoted went out to
make the report. lie told in the proper
spaces what train killed the aaimul and
under what conditions it was done. Then
he came to the lino:
“Disposition ...”
“Well,” said he, scratching his head,
“I'll bed inged if I'm sure about that,but
being’s she was aeow I think I can guess
at it. ’ So he filled out the line, which,
when it reached the general office, read :
“Disposition, kind and gentle.”—Chi
cay o Aetcs.
The Time Fiend.
On one of the recent cold nights n man
was hastening across the Common wilh
his overcoat buttoned up to his lie k.
He was rather anxious to know what
time it was, but ho was too lazy to un
button his coat in order to get at his
watch. Just ihcn he saw a man of well
dressed appearance coming in the dis
tance, and remarked to himself;
“Go to! I will e'en ask you genteel
stranger what time it i*, and he will un
button his coat, pull out his watch, aud
eke inform me of the hour of the
night.”
lie perceived that the stranger was
buttoned up ju t ns h • was. When he
came up, the man who wanted to know
the time touched his hat politely and
said:
“Sir, do you know what time it is?”
The stranger paused, removed his
right glove, unbuttoned his overcoat
from top to bottom, unbuttoned his un
der coat, and finally pulled out his
watch, while the cold wind beat against
his unprotected breast.
Holding up the watch so that the
light would shine on it, he scrutinized
it an instant, and said :
“Yes.”
And then he passed on without au
other word.— Boston Record.
The Haughty Wife.
In one of the cities that lie over against
Boston there lives a family whose mas
culine head is a man who lias won con
siderable wealth, from humble begin
nings not unlike those of Commodore
Vanderbilt, with the difference th t
xvhile he, like Vanderbilt, began as a
boatman, he wa* expa ded into the bank
ing business instead of into the railroad
NUMBER 8.
business Ever since lie became a banket
bit excellent wife has been smitten wlih
the grent importance of her husband’!
new occupation and lias advertised it on
every jtovaible occasion. The horse-cai
conductors on tho line wh:ch runs inte
her city all know her, and smile when
slio enters tho car and grandly utters hei
command:
“Conductor, let me off at my hu*
baud's bank I”
Onaday lately a trampish looking old
fellow with a red nose got on the cai
just as tho banker’s wife delivered her
usual order to the conductor. The old
man watched tier performam o curiously,
and then arose, pulled himseir together,
and cal'ed out with a magnificent ail
that was inimitable:
“Conductor, let me off at my old wo
man’s peanut stand ”
A roar w nt through th" air, and “mj
husband's bank” hii bee t alluded to
more than ever since that time. —Doitot
Record.
Dynamite Gnns.
The last Congre-s made an appropria
tion to purchaso a ship which would
linvo a high rato of speed, and which
would be armed hy dynamite guns.
Should we suceeel in procuring such l
vessel, it might secure u ngaiu t navar
attack, even though wo have no fortifi
cations. Lieutenant Zaliuski, in New
York harbor, demonstrated, by actual
experience, the possibil tv of safely dis
charging dynamite shells of any size,
through the use of compressed air foi
propelling them. In this case it was
proved that projectiles, containing g
hundred pounds of explosive mative ma
terial, can he expelled from a pneumatiq
gun tube, with great accuracy in range,
the shell explodingon strikingthe water,
or any other sub-tancc. 'there is nq
reason why five hundred pounds could
not be used as safely as one hundred
pounds. A swift cruiser, armed with
these guns and shells, might be a terrol
to an attacking licet, for no other nation
has ns yet utilized the dynamite gun. It
is curious that we have been the first tq
originate warlike inventions; the Dahl
gren gup. was the first of tho great ord
nance attempted hy any nation. But this
mighty pro ectiic, as we thought it, is a
mere baby to the giant ordnance of
t.reat Britain and the continental na
tions. We first tested a monitor, which
wascopied, and resulted in the creation
of anew clnss of iron clads in all the
foreign navies. A successful dynamite
gun or guns, or a swilt cruiser, also
would be imitated and surpassed by tlie
French, English and Germans. But
what a pity it is that human ingenuity
should be wasted on these death dealing
nti-siles! Surety the day will arrive,
when, by general consent, wars will come
to an end.— Demur tit.
A Wild Cat Story.
“Talk about the wild war dog* of
Atlanta, if you want to,” said an old
citizeu yesterday, “but the wild cats
took my eye. When the city was in the
midst of that desolation which marked
the wild dog era, there was an old man
who lived in a broken down box car
which had been thrown off the track,
near the State road round house. One
day some of us soldiers went into the old
man's home to fry some bacon that some
how or other we had gotten hold of.
When the meat began to fry the odor
was wafted about by tlie breezes. It was
an exceedingly appetizing odor, the more
so becau e it was rather strange to At
lanta air and to Atlanta nose3. Well, in
a few minutes the wild cats began to
come from their hiding places, attracted
by the odor of the frying meat. They
came first singly, then in pairs, then by
dozens, then by scores, then by hun
dreds, a great army of fierce-eyed, yowl
ing, howling inousers. When the old
man saw the cats about to invade his
home in such swarms, he got a dub and
stationed himself at a point near xihich
the cats would have to pass. He went to
work killing cat*. He killed 5,0001 I
never in my life saw so many dead cats!”
*‘l utAj" l v.iooi Lml
“No, I never did,” said my TtltmSfy
“I never did. The cats were thrown into
a big washout near tho car, tilling it up
completely. There were enough of them
to fill a room tw ntv feet s ware and,”
added my friend, as I prepared to leave,
“3,000 additional cats died from their
wound > and were found in various parts
of the city next day ”
I forgot to ask whit became of the
little piece of bacon. —Atlanta Constitu
tion.
Slaughtering for Prizes.
The slaughtering contest in connec
tion with the Chicago Fat Stock Show
for the Washburn prizes attracted wide
attention, and the leading butchers from
nearly every city of importance through
out the country were in attendance
watching the competitors. Twenty-five
butchers from Pittsburgh, Penn.,
xvere present whi n the contest ended.
The measure of time which it was sup
posed each butcher would consume from
‘ calling of time” to “finish” was fixed
at twenty-fire minutes, for which twenty
points were scored. Each butcher was
sored two poiuts less for each minute
consumed over twenty-five, and two
points more for each minute he consumed
less than twenty-five, 'ihe “time” was
called when the bullock was pritched
up, gullet raised, forward feet off, and
right leg broken, and “finish” called
when the entrails, feet, head and hide
were thrown one -idc, the caul placed in
a tub, and the carcass hoisted up nnd
split down. The winners were: M. F.
Mullins—time. 10:17, total points, 108.4;
Larry Noonan—time, 10:33, total points,
107:9; Walter Dennison—time, 13:6,
total poin:s, 103.8. First prize, $100;
second, SSO; third, $3.5.
When He First Saw the Sky.
M. Francisque Sarcey, the critic, hai
written about his eyes. He was always
near sighted, but he was a schoolboy be
fore he found it out. One day, for tho
fun of the thing, he put on his father’s
spectacles. “Fifty years have passed
since then,” he says, “b it the sensation
I exp rienced is keen and thrilling to
this day.” Hitherto he had seen tho
heavens above him “only as thick green
cloth. Now, “Oh, wonder and delight!"
he saw “what so enchanted me that I
cannot speak of it to this day without
emotion; betwc n the leaves and far be
yond them 1 ttle glimpses of bright blue
sky.”
After that master Sarcoy had a pair of
spectacle * of li s own. The study of
myopia is his hobby, and it makes him
melancholy, as it makes many other
people, to know that iu fifteen years the
proportion of short-sighted lads in tho
polytechnic school of France has risen
from 30 to 50 per cent., while 80 per
cent, of tho students wear glasses. Yet
in the beginning of tho Christian era
myopia, which is now “increasing like
pn ep domic through Europe," was prac
tically unknown.— at. James's Oisette.