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VOI.d.MK XXIII.
Di.AL GENTLY.
HV H. M'Xilll,
piMitl v V ith till* erring onoi,
m i(i plt'MM fallen race,
hi. . 1 'i in 111<* v r/ik ,' . nliall your lift
B ~,f joy iukl pruitt.
. , Mih not t< eoii'lomn
1 , , .mi oiii.m who Mtiay,
u'j't, i.i mum ntni win thrill l ack
jo mi ’ '■ h j'leaiiuit way.
K t p. o' thirsty. f honghtlefli man,
' 1 t n oolit*,
in a Kliij l , lft riKhlerlain,
, ■. 1 1 If sob trot.
.. H t ~t amonit the hreakers now,
" Al „j :A H the gapinjl k'ravo,
4 , ,<> would not houio effort inaltt
•‘i jjut wretched wreck to save!
r\ v nth, impatient of restraint,
1 jinn thrown iiwiiv hiH shield,
snow, the tempest oouiea
\u i l .• ,s .surole yield.
r ( ‘ ,i . to him in tondomoig,
•Mi l with your tears implore
i.i.ncui' his foolisluiosi
Ai. l follow vice no more.
5, , t!mt poor, friendless, errriug one,
\1,...'h0 I in deepest
Hm loin ly heart is sorrowful,
vii u.'gs for some relief.
A p 100 . a friendly smile,
A tlliifiv Bpnkrtl word,
y ,t dm the Borrows of her soul,
\ ; l touch some tender chord.
rmn n>t your head with oold disdain,
\ a int t tint selfish air,
, : non <* poor, tempted one
‘ lit pod in Satan's snare.
h had you been tempted so,
i Jr have proved as weak
A* ti at poor sulTor.ng, erring one,
Of vii' in you harshly speak.
A brother Tails into the mud,
\\,il \ou let him expire,
fle ' that it inipht soil y our hand
To drag him from the mire?
Oh 1 do not coldly strut along
Ami turn vout head away,
Kv 1. ing : "Lot him take his fate,
1 i ha\iug gone astray."
If vice be loathing to your soul,
It only should the more
Promi t you to greater energy
The fallen to restore.
Let l it v l.ng r in your thoughts
When sinners you reprove,
'il.uß while you hate the sinner’s rioe,
You may the sinner love
mm FORTUNE!
OR,
TU3 Stolen Heiress.
\ TALE OF NEW YORK IN 1835,
BY PROF. WM. HENRY PECK,
AUTHOR OP
7 fn.MuVj Secret “ The Tower of Gold,*
“ The Ilalf-Breed u Harolds Hate,"
* The Bride of Barcelona ,* Mic.
CH APTER X Vll—Continuer.
The eyes of the dame flushed rage, bat
he resumed a spoken expression of hei
rath. Edward smiled scornfully and con
no- and:
Mr. Bratton states frank’y to my father,
a: : . that he has lost temporarily ail he
orr wed from you. ”
The scoundrel! The unholy villain!*
itr.kred the dauio.
And a 1 so,” rold -d Edward, "that he has
ooi cause to 1 olieve that if he should fail
> pay you the lorrowcd mouey, and every
Glarin' unfoitu ateiy owes you, you wifi
o: besitnto to have him arrested upon s
Rise hut plausible charge of fraud, and dc
ii you can to imprison and disgrace him.*
‘‘Tali' So I will! Lost my fifty
lousand dollars has he! The unmitigated
."'tch! Ho shall pay me every cent thii
ery day —"
' Th( -ate is open, Dame Griopard!” ex
laimed • ettia at this moment—Jansen
atitiK had more difficulty with the locks
tan lie hud expected when he promised to
ave tli gate open so speedily.
“Very well, Bettis, ” responded the dame,
becking herself in what she had intended
a say in regard to her tenant “Come here,
'ettis, and give me your aid to get into my
nariot 1 sprained my ankle just now
bon 1 foigot for the moment that I an
ow merely a poor, old, decrep t woman,
nil of aches, weaknesses and infirmities."
Pettis lost no time in helping her intc
he chaise, and she continued, to Verneena,
1 ai) exhausted tone:
“Oh, my dear! lam so weak. So weak,
feel as if I were a hundred years old—
ad lam sure I look it this minute. Now
J ,v y into the yard, ray dear, and halt the
hariot near the office door. I’ll get out
here. Shouldn’t wonder a bit if I have tc
tder the door to bo battered down. I have
°t the least doubt that Bratton has run
*ay,’ she added to herself.
'erncona began to drive into the yard
be dame beckoned to Edward to ride a l ,
ter side of the vehicle, anti he complied.
“My dear Mr. Hawks worthy," she said in
voice too low to be heard by others, “have
°n the largo sum you name l just now?”
Every dollar of it, Dame Grippard—and
lore."
More:" exclaimed the dame in her heart.
More than a hundred thousand dollars'
| e Dttust bo the sou of a very rich man.
lc “ er than Captain Balbata, by a long
1 01 But this fellow and his father are
oubtless l, o honest, too scrupulous, and
that, and the rest of what the world pre
eulß tn admire fo much—bah!—and would
‘ 01 at any proposition of mine to share
. me the inheritance that belongs to this
miat mv side and which she can never
J R dollar of without my aid. No, Cap
,n. albati is mv man for the game lam
‘ Vln B Gvory time. Yah, I seothat I have
;*nnoiie too hasty iu trying to make a
in with the C ptain.”
C ! ,' Ue turned again to Edward, as th€
"l so r ' icd slowly across the spacious
rar, Uml whispered:
n * grand Mr. Hawksworthy, 1
' n * Ei;le a Htt'e closer if you please.
[ ' ll; it I say is only for your and Ver-
Von i 8 <aiß fdr. Hawksworthy. Couldu’t
Bratton, give me,
live thousand dollars of ttie money
i B to v 1,11 have in hand for his use? lie
mnJ aV i to me ln ft Tew minutes, you
Jgu ’ I' 1! . f ,ol u the money you have with
tVe i( , at once give you his note—l
HiftJ r< 01 'E c monoy I loaned him
put, i lousand dollars, with interest com
' ou Eack of note up to this very diy—*
W, f ll .V uh Eist night niter you were
t ve,., 8 my dear Yemeena. It will be
eav i ( aKaut “urpriso to Mr. Bratton to
j. J, m, us soon us we see him: ‘Here
Paid n“ oto Vou Feared, Mr. Bratton. All
Whv? a^'! ' <ilvu °d otT—ch, Mr. Hawks-
m OQt l ' and then from the rest of the
him h Vour F ;l, ber o nobly lends to
“if J :MI Wme the rent ho owes me.
Part if Y. a< Ekd quickly, “this is only a
Venui,. f c ' vcr 1 intend to give to oui
torthv ia i° n lier Wo(l ding day, Mr. Hawks
then'i'i moan !° K ive her all lam worth
1 asb llro “ and it wiJl be a handsome pile,
pile.*, m'- 0 ’ 1, , . v ©s. a very handsom€
T ,f rliin.*.! I' 1 <: . 10 hundreds of thousands,
to an J Jllt 'Ten'i whisper a word of this
*Bh ;. r . s<? in The wide world. I don’l
can ii. 1 'y In Seneral io know how rich I
ria . 'V 1 ' do.ir Verneena on her mar*
‘ l > <r<? Mr. Bratton’s note, Mr.
jecii j. J y ( F course you have no ob-
Uim ~ u,n 8 me the money for it, undei
The • | ~StiV ' e^ • ri^bf now?”
Wll h by llie dame
Rratiatin„ fluency, in her most in-
e Vea tbr.f- Tie qf manner and tone, her
•ession es i re to have in her pos-
Waa so eYtr o arg ? sum concerning w hich she
“The m me ? anxi ous.
*bis B^e to herself, “if
B °metiiaes l o" Bnap^er ' 3 n °F lying—and
,* Iq w m coHi Bllß P ec l he is—has been very
ua receivpfi Anchors. Bratton
for i no T re PFy* it seems, to his ap
• in sheer despair, if for no
The Georgia Enterprise.
other reiMon, Ural ton miiy lmve Co.l <lurlu
limt ui|(ht—with money ulnoli .linnlil |„. m
my heuda. 1 do not at all like thu look,
of thloßji about the iiremiees. | am mra
that Bratton has heen playing the rancul.
j <>h, if this younu fool would only pay that
I money to mu now here on the a'pot. 6
l ame (1 1 ippartl, replied Edward, ear!!v
to In r reijuest, “by my father', Npi ciul or
derl am to pay Ihe money into Mr. Unit,
ton g own hand, and not nutil he and I
■mail have had some couveraation in refer-
I enee to ita nae hernafler."
This reply fi led Ihe aoul of the damo
j with furioiiN ehagriu, hut the chaise was
j now too near the otlico door, and the pres
j ence of others around it. to permit her to
Rive vent to her wrath. Besides, Pettis ad
vanced at this moment and said
“I have knocked and hammered on the
office door. Dame Grippard, and failed to
obtain the least reply from within. Wbal
ahall be done now? I am wholly at yom
terviee."
“Of course you are that, you simpleton,"
mapped the .lame, as ehe arose from her
lent with assumed decrepitude. “At w hose
service should yon be, if not at mine, yen
fool? Here, give me your aid to get out oi
Ibis chariot. 1 shull not be euoh an idiot
is to jump from it again, and nearly break
my ankle—aa I did yonder at the gate.”
With the help of Pettis, she was soon on
the ground, and no sooner was she then
| than she cried angrily to him:
j “Force the door, man. Make quick en
’ trance in some way. Hy door or window.
! Haste! I believe Bratton has run awav.
Haste 1"
CH APTE II XVfIL
suspicions or foul pla t.
Quick to obey Dame Grippard’s com
mand, Pettis instantly Hashed hie eyes
round in seareh of something to use
against the door.
But she suddenly remembered that the
lock and fmme of the portal would be
greatly damaged by forcing an entrance,
and exclaimed:
“No, no! No smashing of locks and
door frames, Pettis. A broken shutter and
a shattered pane of glass are less cosily,
Jansen, force opon a shutter, break a pane,
unlock a sash and raise a window. Quick!
I am anxious to learn why Bratton has
dared to keep himself hidden so long this
morning. Haste, Jansen.”
The Swede quickly forced open a Bhut
ter of one of the windows, the sill being
not more than breast high to him as he
stood on the ground; but as he wis about
to shatter a pane of glass he noticed that
(he sash bolt used to lock the lower sash
down was not iu place. He at once ex
claimed in a tone of surprise:
“Hello! This sash is unlocked. That is
strange. However, had not Mr. Bratton
discharged me from his service before Bun
down yesteiday this window wonld now
be bolted down on the inside. It was al
ways my duty to see to the sash bolts of the
windows ”
“Well, well!” snapped the dame, impa
tiently, £are yon going to talk about your
self nnd your late duties all day? Open the
window and then the doors. ”
Jansen opened the window and sprang
over its sill into the counting-room of Old
Anchors. Scarcely had his feet a truck tLe
iioor ere he stooped, picked up something
that had caught his notice, and slipped it
into one of his pooket6. This act was un
observed by any one. He then unlocked,
unbolted nnd opened the door.
By this time Edward had dismounted and
tied his horse to a post near the door. He
whispered to Verneena, who was still seat
ed in the ehaise:
“I do not like the appearance of affairs
here, my love. However, I will say no more
of that at present lam exceedingly anx
ious to see Mr. Bratton, and to prove to
him that had uiy father received his petition
sooner this wretched old cormor int would
have had no oause to be croaking at his
door to-day.”
“Ah,” replied the beautiful girl, in the
same guarded manner, “I am very happy
to know that you have it in your power,
tnd are here to free the good gentleman
from her clutches. I know well how mer
ciless she delights to be toward auy delin
quent debtor.” #
“yes,” said Edward, with some bitter
ness, as he glanced at the dame; “ilfis easy
to see fiendishness of intent in her fiamiug
eyes and fierce looks. I too am very happy
in my hope that all will hereafter go well
with Mr. Bratton, for my father has a high
opinion of his integrity—haviug had nmuj
business transactions with him years ago,
before my father retired from active busi
ness life in this city to reside quietly in
Albany.
“But I was about to say to you, my love."
he added, “that the mouey which X have
for Mr. Bratton reached me only a few
hours ago. As I told vou in my last letter,
1 had to hasten to Washington upon official
business. The Secretary of the Navy de
tained me in that city longer tha t I de
sired or expected. I was able to return
to New York only at a late hour last night.
Scarcely had I arrived when a special mes
senger from my father p aced in my hand
the letter of which you have just heard me
speak to Dame Grippard. As soou as I had
read my father s letter X hired a boy to
carry to you the brief note which I sent last
night "
“Come, my dear child,” exclaimed Dame
Grippard at this moment, “the door is open.
Accompany me, if you please—anil you also
Mr. Hawksworthy. I wisli to behold the
delight with which Mr. Bratton will read
your noble father’s letter, and pay me all
be owes me. Como on, my dears.”
Haviug said this very cooiugly, the dame
entered the office, and was immediately
followed hy Edward, Verneena and others.
The counting-room of Old Anchors was
quite spacious, aud much greater in length
than iu width. In it were many articles
pertaining to the ship-chandlery husiuess.
besides such furniture as is usually found
in business offices. The greater portion of
this furnituro, however, was now covered
with dust which had been gathered for
weeks from disuse. Trade had not been
brisk at Old Anchors for many days.
The room had several doors as well as
many windows. Homo of tho doors gave
entrance into rear warerooms, and one was
open at the foot of a stairway that gave ac
cess to the upper part of the edifice, and
the dwelling place of tho Bratton family.
All tho windows aud their shutters were
closed as tho party of visitors entered the
office—that is, all save the window by which
the Swede had got in. To admit light, he
at onoe began to unlock and open the win
dows. As ho was thus occupied ho noticed
that everv window sash was securely bolted
down, and that all the shutters were fasten
ed on tho inside. The shutters wore so ar
ranged that they fastened themselves when
closed from within. Jansen, ns we have
intimated, had found the shutter which he
forced from the outside fnstened on the in
side. This fastening of the shutter could
have been done hy a pressure exerted from
the outside. ... ~
Janseu, keeping his thoughts to himself
the while, hut muttering, as was his habit
when perplexed,moved rapidly from window
to window, looking sharply at tho fnsten
jngs of every sash ©re he threw open the
ihu ters. , . . , ,
Meanwhile Dame Grippard had dropped
herself into a largo arm-chair near the
middle of the office, feigning to be very
feeble and weary, but with swiftly sweep
ing glances which seemed to devour cveiy
thing in the place. Suddenly she raised her
head arrogantly, struck the point of her
tail upon the floor and croaked:
“Know all that I now take possessirn,
full aud entire possession, of these premises,
from g -rret to cellar, from front to rear,
from river to street. Xam the owner,
, 0 "e owner, here, and hero I intend to do as
[ please this day.” ,
“No one disputes that, Dame Grippard.
So much the worse for everybody, say 1,
exclaimed Jansen, hluffly-for he detested
the dame, haviug onoe heen her debtor, to
his great grief.
1 he dame glared angrily at the Swede for
i moment, but restraining her de-ire to hurl
a curse a! him, said sharply lo Pettis;
“l’ettis, there is a bed-cord at the back of
Bratton's desk. He used it when be de
ored Ihe presonoe of any one from above.
I he bell hantpi in the hall near his bod
room. fliug it. If he is above awake oi
asleep tie will ho sure to hear it. If he
doos iot come down speedily I'll soon know
the reason why. Ring the hell, I say."
Pitiis obeyed instantlv, and the bell
sounded loud and shrill throughout the
great vacant rooms above and below.
'That "ought to rouse him,” said the
dame, nodding her head vioiously. “1! .1
it will not. Why not? Because ho is not
tip there to hoar anything we may do down
here. He has run away. I sav I know he
has run away, Pettis. I had bad tidings
about bim yesterday moruiug, early in the
day, from the clerk he discharged last week
—the last clerk he had iu his employ—
Towuly. That clerk told me to look out
for my money, for ho knew that Bratton
would ceitainly go bankrupt in less than a
mouth. So I am here, us you ought to
kuow by this time, to get my money, ltnt
I was a fool not to come here yesterday
morning and have Bratton arrested. Brat
ton is undoubtedly a thief—a robber of
helpless widows— a—"
“Say no more about that. Dame Grip
pard,'' interrupted Edward, indignantly. “I
do not believe that Mr. Bratton has run
from his debts by flight It is possible that
he may have been driven to take his life
with his own hand rather than be cast into
prison and disgraced by you.''
“Eh'' l What do you mean by that, Mr.
Hawkswotthy?" cried the dame, sharply,
and turning pole for an iustant, though her
scowling face seemed nearly black the next
moment.
“Dame Grippard,” responded Edward,
Bternl.v, “my mind has not been at ease for
Mr. Bratton’s life since I halted before
yonder gate and found it closed and locked.
My father writes in his letter tome—the
letter containing monoy for Mr. Bratton—
that Mr. Bratton wiote to him in the de
layed letter that he, Mr. Bratton, saw noth
ing between his future nnd disgraceful
imprisonment, under a false bnt plausible
charge of fraud, save death bv his own
hand. Now, from what my father writes
in regard to Mr. Bratton's upright charac
ter, I cannot believe that James Bratton
could be a thief, even if ho tried to be
one."
Before Edward could say more, Dame
Grip: ard sprang to her feet and struck the
Boor furious blows with the point of her
staff—a sure sign that her rage and Other
emotions were beyond her power to articu
late. She glared mingled rage, hate, and
terror around her. A foam seemed to be
gathering upon her thick lips. She quivered
from head to foot, as if her garments oou
cenled only a mass of coiled wire just vio
lently smitten. Hc-r eyes gleamed under
their black brows like coals of living fire.
AU gazed wonderingly at her, but in si
lence.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
WORLD AT LARGE.
PEN PICTURES PAINTED BY A
CORPS OF ABLE ARTISTS.
What in Uoing on North* Kant and West
and Aero** tlic Water—The t oiniua Eu
ropean Mtorn.
Russia continues to send troops to the
frontier.
A man has been arrested at Coleraine,
Ireland, with a quantity of dynamite in
his possession.
Gen. Boulanger, of France, will issue
a protest against the use of his name for
election purposes.
The miners' joint committee and Mas
ter Workman Lewis have agreed, and all
fear of a renewal of the Reading strike
is dispelled.
Mueller & Gogreve, liquor dealers in
Cincinnati, Ohio, have failed. The lia
bilities are SIBO,OOO and the assets ♦llO, -
000.
Graff, Bennett & Cos., iron manufactu
rers, of Pittsburg, Pa., have assigned
with secured liabilities amounting to
SOOO,OOO, and unsecured of about $700,-
000.
The heavy rain and melting snow have
greatly swollen the Potomac, and much
damage from the freshet is feared. The
eastern part of Hagerstown, Md., is al
ready four feet under water.
Joseph Pulitzer, the owner of the New
York World, is threatened with total
blindness. Mr. Pulitzer has lately been
confined to dark rooms, and lias recently
gone to Santa Barbara, California.
The follow ers of Dr. McGlynn propose
to start a newspaper in New York to op
pose Henry George's Standard. The
new publication will be called the Eaqle,
and the office w ill be in the Trihune build
ing.
A bomb was found at the Philadelphia
& Reading Railroad freight house, at
Shamokiu. It coniaiued several pounds
of pow der, and was placed closely against
the wall of the building. The fuse had
been lighted, but went out before reach
ing the powder.
Maxwell, the murderer of Preller, in
jail at St. Louis, Mo., has made a long
statement, purporting to be the true story
of the crime. It is substantially the
same as the story he told on his trial, that
Preller consented to be chloroformed in
order to have an operation performed.
Reports from all parts of the Schuyl
kill, Pa., region indicate that there are
fewer men working at the mines, in con
sequence of the new trouble arising be
cause of the Reading company's peremp
tory refusal to take back all the old men,
its was understood by the Corb..i-Lewis
settlement.
Fire in the cargo of the French steamer
Lancerville, at Havre, from New Orleans,
La., broke out in the forehold beside
the bulkheads, separating the starboard
bunker from the hold. On being docked
she will be immediately filled with water;
3,500 bales of cotton w ere injured by the
fire.
THE TWIGGS SWORDS.
Rowena Guadella, now the wife of a
prominent London lawyer, but during
the War she was a Miss Florence, of New
Orleans, and a cousin of Judah P. Ben
iamin, has been before Consul-General
Walls, at London, England. She claims
that Gen. Twiggs, of Louisiana, gave her
three valuable swords—one presented to
him by the State of Texas, another by
the City of Augusta, Ga., and the third
by Congress for services in the Mexican
war. When Gen. Butler took possession
of New Orleans he made Miss Florence
give up the swords, and sent them to
President Lincoln at Washington.
DEATH BY CARELESSNESS.
An explosion of dynamite occurred in
a rock cut on Fourth street, Duluth.
Minn., and eighteen men were killed and
injured. The explosion was caused by
some cartridges fused that had not ex
ploded, and the men resumed work about
them. A few taps on the drill served to
get off the uncxploded cartridges, with
results as stated.
“M 7 COUNTRY MAT BEB MTMR BN RIOHT. RIGHT OR WRONG MT COUNTRY ”
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, MARCH I, ISSS.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
tRTKRESTIXO VOTS ABOUT OUR
UNITED STATES’ OFFICIALS.
law.alp Abanl l |,r Wlillo lion.e Arm. Hint
Navy Matter* Oar Itrlnlten. Willi Other
< ounlrlpa *u.l Nalloti.,
CONOREBHIONAL.
Gil motion of Mr. Hoar, in consider
ttion of the fact that the day was a legal
holiday, morning business was dispensed
with, so that the order of the Senate
thould be immediately carried out. The
galleries were well filled, though not
crowded. Fifty senators were in theii
seats and maintained throughout the ses
sion attitudes of most respectful atten
tion. All officials, clerks and pages
w ere at their posts as on other days, but
from the beginning there was abstraction
from the pursuits of ordinary occasions.
The cloak rooms were empty. The desks
of senators were free from papers; there
was no writing of letters, no reading of
newspapers and no moving about the
chandler, without precedent or under
standing. The occasion was observed by
nil present as one commemorating an im
portant historical event, and quiet and
decorum, as of a religious ceremonial,
was observed. The voice of the presi
dent pro tern., though low. was distinctly
heard to the extremities of the chamber,
lie read from a manuscript which lay on
his desk, standing with his hands clasped
behind him, except as they were released
from time to time to turn the sheets of
the address. The presiding officer, (Mr.
Ingalls), rising, said: “On the 17th of
September, 1 TOG, George Washington,
being then at m arly the close of hi
second Presidential term, delivered the
following farewell address.” He then
lead the address, which was listened to
iu profound silence and w ith respectful
attention.
In the Senate, messages from the Pres
ident w ith reports from the secretary ot
state relative to the invitation of the im
perial German government to the United
States government to become a party tc
the International Geodetic Association,
and relative to the invitation of the Bel
gian government to participate in th<
international exposition of science and
industry at Brussels in May next, were
presented and referred to the committee
on foreign relations. Mr. Hoar, from the
committee on privileges and elections, re
ported a resolution authorizing that com
mittee and any sub-committee thereof tr
continue tjie investigation (ordered last
session) into events alleged to have taken
place in the state of Texas, and set forth
in the ja-tition of Stephen Hackworth and
others. Referred to the committee oc
contingent expenses. ... In the House,
Mr. Wilkins, ol Ohio, from the committee
on banking and currency, reported a res
olution calling on the Secretary of the
Treasury for information as to the number
of steam power presses used in plate print
ing in the bureau of engraving and prink
ing. J. D. Taylor, of Ohio, introduced
a bill to change the common law of mar
riage to the customs of modern civiliza
tion by the emancipation of married
women in the District of Columbia and
territories. Referred. The House then
went into committee of the whole, for
the consideration of public building
measures. Bill were passed providing
for buildings at Charleston, West Vir
ginia. Allentown and Lancaster, Pa.
Among the petitions and memorials
presented to the Senate were the follow
ing: For the erection of a government
building in every town of 3,000 inhabi
tants and over, nnd the usual numberof
petitions from the Women's Christian
Temperance Union in favor of prohibi
tion. and one for the better protection of
women. Mr. Butler offered a resolution,
which was agreed to, directing the Sec
retary of YY’ar to report an estimate as to
restoring quarters for troops at Fort
Moultrie, H. C., and to placing the fort
in the highest degree of strength for de
fensive purposes. On motion of Mr.
Daniel, the bill appropriating SBO,OOO
for a public building at Roanoke, Ya.,
was taken from the calendar and passed. .
Among the executive communications laid
before the House by the Speaker, was one
from the Secretary of \\ r ar iu response to
the Boutelle battle flag resolution. It
was referred to the committee on military
affairs. On motion of Mr. Yoder, of
Ohio, a bill passed, authorizing the con
struction of bridges over St. Mary’s, Sa
tilla, Little Satilia aud Crooked Rivers, in
Georgia and Florida. Under the call of
states, a number of bills and resolutions
were introduced and referred, among
them one by Mr. Simmons, of North
Carolina, for the apportionment on the
basis of illiteracy of $68,000,000 among
the states and territories for educational
purposes. Mr. Crisp's bill authorizing
the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
Railroad to build bridges over the Satilia
and St. Mary’s Rivers was unanimously
passed by the House.
GOSSII*.
The present Congress will undoubtedly
pass a bill authorizing the building ol
several new ships of war.
Congressman A. I). Candler has in
charge a bill for the appropriation of
$25,000 for the establishing of a govern
ment office of assays at Gainesville, Ga.
The Secretary of the treasury has ap
pointed the following storekeepers and
guagers, John W. Biddix, at North
Cove, N. C.; James L. Joines, at Ed
ward’s Cross Roads, N. C.; Benj. F.
Rives, at Olin, N. C.
The collection of internal revenue for
the first seven months of the fiscal year
ending January JO, 1888, aggregated
$71,601,332, an increase of $5,552,524
over the collections during the cones
ponding period of the last fiscal year.
Rev. J. C. Price, colored, president of
Livingston College, Salisbury, N. C., has
received a letter from Secretary Bayard,
informing him that the President has ap
pointed him minister resident and eouti
sul-gencral of the United States in Liberia.
Judge Crisp appeared before the com
mittee on harbors in the interest of the
Ocmulgce, the Oconee and the Chatta
hoochee rivers. There are bills now be
fore the committee asking for $30,000
each for the first two, and SIOO,OOO for
the latter.
The House committee on judiciary re
solved to report with a favorable recom
mendation, the bill repealing section 1218
of the Revised Statues, which renders in
eligible to any position in the United
States army, any person who has served
in any capacity in the military, naval oi
civil service of the Confederate States.
The Secretary of the Treasury received
through Adams Express Company a pack
age containing $1,600 iu Satioual bank
notes, shipped by “a freeman” at Cin
cinnati. It was accompanied by a note
asking that the money be placed to the
credit of the conscience fund, amt bear
•'tig flic signature “One Who Will He
Honest.”
Mi>- l-'iaine- K. Willard, president of
the Women's Christian Tetiiltefaiicc
l-'nion, and Mrs. B< < |,< uls-ndcr, chair
man ot the legislative committi that
organisation, made the principal argu
ment. for the Platt District of Columbia
prohibition hill, claiming that prohibit
ion was capable of enforcement at the
national capi at, and that public senti
ment demanded it.
There is trouble between the United
States and the government of Morocco,
it row ing out of the arrest at Rangier of a
Moorish Hebrew under American pro
t' ti on, and the refusal of thu sultan
cither to release him on the demand of
the I'nited States consul, or to recognize
longer the treaty rights of Americans in
bis dominions. Two United States men
of-wnr are on the way to the Coast of
Morocco by order of the President.
SERGEANT JASPER
Reaiembered and Commemorated By
A Splendid Memorial.
The event of the day on the occasion
of the unveiling of the statue erected to
the memory of the hero, Sergeant Jusper,
at Savannah, Ga., was the arrival of Pres
ident Cleveland and party. The Presi
dent’s first greeting to the Forest City
was the booming of a cannon. The dis
charge was the signal to the large crowd
at the depot that the train was passing
the White Bluff crossing. The gun was
fired by a detachment of the Chatham Ar
tillery. Before the roll of the shot died
sway, the locomotives in the yard started
to shrieking and the diu that followed
was terrific. For three minutes the air
resounded with the jangling of bells, the
screeching of whistles, and the roll of the
artillery. Mrs. Cleveland was all smiles.
She and the President bowed their ac
knowledgement to the crowd. There was
a moment of handshaking ou the plat
form, and some elegant bouquets were
presented Mrs. Cleveland. bnc smiled
sweetly and exclaimed: “What lovely
flowers. ”
Taking Colonel William Garrard’s arm,
Mrs. Cleveland was escorted beneath the
bunting into the office, into the long
room. President Cleveland followed with
Alderman Thomas. The President and
Mrs. Cleveland stood on the norlh side of
the room, and the other members of the
party stood in a semi-circle. The party
glanced around the room a few seconds at
the palms, flags and bunting. The com
mittee had hoped to keep them two or
three hours at least, but when they found
that they could not, they determined to
Show them the city at any rale.
The party passed out to Liberty street
entered the carriages in waiting, and
started off in a fast trot. A squad of tlie
cavalry rode off ahead of the carriages,
and the rest of the company closed be
hind. At South Broad streettlie artillery
left the procession, and the cavalry alone
acted as an escort.
- s"rf*CT the presidential party had gone,
the great crowd in the city turned its at
tention to the event of the day. The un
' citing of the Jasper monument, and it
was a grand event. At 0:30 the military
and civic 01 ganizations formed at South
Broad and Bull under the direction of
J. M. Sorrel, Grand Marshal; C. C. Hard
wick, Cuief of Staff; Aides—C. M. Cun
ningham, Taylour Wnlthour, K. M. De
mere, O. M. Carter (U. S. A.) E. P. Law
ton (U. S. A.), J. P. Overton, George S.
Havnes, John Sullivan, Frank Buchanan.
After marching through the principal
streets the line proceeded to the Jasper
monument.
As far as the eye could reach down the
surrounding streets could be seen throngs
of assembled people, all pressing earnest
ly forward in the vain hope of obtaining
a position near enough to the platform to
catch the words that fell from the mouth
of Gov, John B. Gordon. Amid the mu
sic, the governor, escorted by Captain J.
K. Dillon, and followed by bis staff, the
Jasper monument association, and the
mayor and aldermen of Savannah, ascen
ded the platform and occupied the chairs
that had been reserved for them on the
north side of the monument. After the
gentlemen were seated, the young ladies
representing the thirteen original states
ascended the platform and took their po
sitions in thirteen chairs around the base
of the monument.
Col. John Screven, speaking for a few
moments to the concourse of people gath
ered to celebrate the occasion, closed by
saying: “Is it not meet that a battle
scarred veteran should pronounce the
enlogiuin of so brave and gallant a pa
triot as Sergeant-Jasper.” He then intro
duced Gov. Gordon, orator of the day.
At the conclusion of the speech, the
ladies took the positions assigned them,
preparatory to the unveiling of the mon
ument. Georgia and South Carolina
stood at the base of the shaft, ready to
unveil it, at a given word. The others
stood by the cords, on the cast and west
of the platform, waiting to raise on high
the flags that covered the statue. The
orator gave the words commanding the
monument to be unveiled, and Misses
Brandt and NTsbct east away the cords
that bound the flags around the monu
ment, and the other young ladies lifted
them from the statue. As the flags flouted
on high, the cheers and continued ap
plause from the assembled people, showed
that the spirit of ’7(l still, lives fresh in
the hearts of the people of Georgia.
Iu the afternoon there were several
boat races, to which everybody went, and
a pleasant afternoon was spent. At four
o'clock the banquet given the Macon
Volunteers by the Chatham Artilery be
gan. The banquet was one of the grand
est events of the kind ever seen in the
South and lasted until a late hour.
WHAT A BOY FOUNI*
Near Granville, in the upper Cumber
land country, Tenn., a remarkable dis
covery has been made Jay a small boy. In
a little growth of hickory thickets he
found a skull lying in the hushes. A
jury of inquest was impaneled, and after
proper investigation, they rendered their
verdict, which was, “The deceased came
to his death from poison fit his own
hands.” The unfortunate body had on e
blue flannel suit, good shoes and hat. In
his coat pockets "ere found a pearl-lian
j die knife, a comb case w ith fixtures, sev
eral handkerchiefs with the letters “R.
0.” printed with indelible ink, and a
| bottle about half full of strychnine.
Also a discharge from the Union army,
dated 1803, and giving the name and de
scription as follows: “John Miller, five
feet nine inches high, complexion fair,
and light hair." There was a receipt in
the book showing he had paid lus dues
in the Grand Army of the Bepublic post,
at Easton, Pa. To substantiate the belief
that he was poisoned, it is a fact that
j many dogs in that vicinity died about the
j middle of last July, and the belief now
is that the cause was from eating the poi
soned body of the deceased.
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
BOILED DOWS FACTS A Sit FAS
i7 I N I STEIIL sTi SO L Y STA TED .
on l.nml n*l on Hen New Knler
prUri—Huiclrie* l(ellifloM Tempernnee
nml Hoe In I MHilern.
An unknown miscreant change*l the
•witrh of thu Port Koval Hail mad track
between Yeinasace and Port Royal, and
the locomotive of an up-freight train ran
off and was badly damaged.
Mr. Paupert, an employe of the New
Orleans, La., Cotton Exchange, was dis
eovered to have robbed it of $20,000.
Haupert, who was under the treasurer of
the Exchange, had access to its seem itien.
S. If. Cate, a prominent preacher ot
(T atauooga, Tenn., committed suieidt
by drinking whiskey into which he had
put some poisonous drug. No cause is
known except his melancholy feeling for
weeks previous.
Bill Givings, of Augusta, Ga., watch
man on the South Carolina Railroad
bridge over the Savannah river, was
killed by an incoming passenger train.
Givings was about forty years of age, ami
leaves a wife living in that city.
The grand jury of DeKulb su|>erior
court has found four indictments against
Mnj. J. W. Green, general manager of
the Georgia Railroad, for running freight
trains on the Sabbath day later than the
hour allowed by law.
The switchmen and yardmen of the
Georgia Pacific Railroad, at Birmingham,
Ala., about fifty in number, struck
against a reduction of wages. The com
pany ordered a reduction of twenty-five
cents per day in the wages of the men,
and they refused to work.
Paris mountain, w hich is situated about
five miles from Greenville, 8. C., pre
sent'd a grand sight, tlic whole mountain
being covered by forest tires. It is re
ported that the lire is rapidly nearing the
residence of Golonel I. F. Hunt, but as
.yet no damage has been done beyond the
burning of trees.
A lioiler in a shingle mill at West Mil
ville, La,, on the Texas & Pacific Rail
road, exploded, instantly killing Charles
Hill, of Toledo, Ohio, ami John Stephen
son, of Beaumont, Texas, both white,
and Seymour Banks, of Plaquemine, La.,
colored. Thirteen others were seriously
hurt.
The Augusta, Ga., Exposition directors
elected John W. Ryckman, who is now
there, general manager. Mr. Ryckman
lias had considerable experience in that
line. He was connected with the New
Orleans. Kansas City, Louisville and At
lanta expositions, nnd is recommended as
an energetic gentleman.
Both Houses of the Legislature of Mis
sissippi have jmssed a bill providing fot
the pensioning of the Confederate sol
diers and sailors of the state who lost a
leg or an arm in the service, or were in
capacitated by wounds for manual labor,
and who need such aid. They are to be
allowed S3O a year. The provisions of
the bill include the unmarried widows of
soldiers who were killed, and the disabled
colored servants of soldiers.
W. L. Chambers, now in New York,
telegraphs to Montgomery. Ala., that the
line for the proposed new railroad be
tween Montgomery and Maplesville is
now being located, to ascertain the cost
of building the road, and if the estimates
submitted by Mr. Chambers are verified,
the East Tennessee, Virginia it Georgia
Railroad Company will indorse the bonds
of the Great Northeastern-, and the road
will bo pushed through.
The Alabama Supreme Court affirmed
the decision of the City Court in the case
of Yellowstone Kit against Hon. F. C.
Randolph, judge of probate. Judge
Randolph required Kit to pay a license
tax of $375 for peddling medicines w ith
music. Kit paid it under protest, and
entered suit in the City Court to recover,
and Judge Arrington decided that he was
not a peddler and entitled to recover.
The ease was appealed, and again de
cided in Kit’s favor.
The British bark Crown Jewel, from
Oran, Africa, for Philadelphia, landed at
Delaware breakwater the master and
crew of the schooner Edward G. Taulane,
of Homer's Point, N. J., w hich was aban
doned water-logged on February 12th in
latitude 35.18, longitude 73.10. The
Taulane sailed from the Satilia river,
Georgia, on February Bth, for New York
with a cargo of lumber consigned to the
Hilton lumber company. She sprang a
leak anti was subsequently abandoned.
F. Y. Anderson, of the Alabama State
Land Company, at Birmingham, Ala., is
the defendant in two damage suits grow
ing out of a land transaction. Some time
ago Anderson organized a company and
sold to the company a large tract of lund,
representing it to contain valuable kaolin
deposits. The company was organized
to manufacture pottery and a large sum
was paid for land. J. A. Stratton amlj.
R. Carr sued Anderson for $70,000, claim
ing that the kaolin deposits in the land
had never materialized.
The following hooks have been adopted
by the board of education of Dougherty
county, Georgia: Sanford’s arithmetics,
published by Lippiacottcompany, Phila
delphia; Webster's dictionaries, and
Swinton’s word books and primer, Ivi
son Taylor & Cos., New York; Reed and
Kellogg’s grammars, Sheldon & Cos.,
New Y'ork. The readers will not be
changed, being mainly Appleton’s, as
well as the geographies of D. Appleton
& Cos., New York, being mainly used in
the public schools of the county.
NORTH CAROLINA DOTS.
Governor Scales is considering a peti
tion for a commutation of the death sen
tence of James Thomas, who, if there is
no interference, will be hanged at Hen
dersonville, March6th. a .The revivalist,
R. G. Pearson, has begun a great meet
ing at Newbern. The attendance is the
largest ever known there ... A school
teacher named Walter Pearson lias dis
appeared from the town of Wiiidc, in
Moore county, in a very mysterious man
ner. .. . Deeds of trust of the Lynchburg
Durham Railway to tire Mercantile
Trust Company, of New York, iu the sum
of $1,680,000, were recorded iu Durham.
Several physiciansof Durham county
have been presented by the grand jury
for prescribing whiskey in Durham, where
prohibition prevails. It is charged that
they prercribcd whiskey when it was not
needed by persons who applied for it.
. J. C. Morgan, general merchant of
Laurinsburg, lias assigned.... Treasurer
Jenkins, of Durham, lias for months re
fused to pay out funds for the mainte
nance of the graded schools in Durham
township, and much feeling and law
suits have resulted. He has, at last, re
ceded from his position and has begun to
make the payments.
FLOBIDA ITEMS,
Starke's building boom still oontinucs.
Collar Kvv ltaa a now combination
a tomporanoo bar aud billiard room ...
Tin- ronKro|iution of the Oviedo Mothral
int rleared off the church debt of ♦•“>80 in
fifteen niiniiteH the other day .. .The en
gineer eorpM of the Oranjfi' bolt railway
was Inlay the jurat week at Han Antonio
in lavittK °'ti the ite of a now town ....
Apopka qaa completed the organization
of the South Apopka Immigration Soci
ety... .A six-ton tee factory, five two
tory cottages, and alamt the same num
ber of one-story cottages arc some of the
new buildings that are now going up at
Kissimmee.. .The Gainesville l,Wonl
agitates the sdea of bonding the county
♦BO,OOO and expending the entire amount
in making good, solid roadways through
out the county The material has loft
the Oakland shop# of the Orange Belt
railway for the new dc|iot to be erected
at Tarpon Springs. It will Is- similar to
the ornamental one at Crown Point, but
ltrger... .At the meeting of the Lake
county senool ls>ard on Tuesday it was
decided that a series of school books for
amity w ill be adopted at the meeting
of the board in March.. . AY. A. Finley,
of Reddick, reports the discovery of a
wonderful cave two miles west of that
place. It has been explored furtive hun
dred feet, nnd the most wonderful
chambers arc described. The vault
bristles with beautiful stalactites of great
size. It is to be further explored .
The final decision of the Hoard of
Trustees of the Aubttrndslo Episcopal
College, as to when work shall l>c begun,
w ill ln> made within the next two weeks,
and the chances are that the ground w ill
lie broken within six weeks. The col
lege when completed will cost between
$40,000 and ♦BO,OOO. The people of
Aubtirndnle have ♦20,000 raised toward
tliis amount, and the Bishop is prepared
to make good the deficit. .Stephen ('.
Rowan, Vice-Admiral of the United
States Navy, and chairman of the light
house board, Ims established the follow
ing lights in Pensacola Bay and adjacent
waters: Fort M Rae Range; i'ort Bar
raneas Range; Escambia Bay ; Beacon at
Anchorage; Blackwatcr Bay Dc I
Funiak is to have a lurniturc I
factory... .Joseph F. Bays will creel
a cigar factory at Lake City. . . .Ma
chinery lias been purchased for a planing
mill at Carrabelle Bronson is making
an effort to have a cigar factory estab
lished there.... Fernandina's mayor will
shortly ask for bids for building the
water works.. . There is talk of a can
ning and cigar factory being started ere
long at Ocala. Another Key YVest ci
gar factory hns been started by Koenis
burgh, Falk & Cos. . _ Tim West Florida
Land Company contemplate building a
new and larger hotel at Bonifay .... Bids
are being received at Bloomfield for
building au iron draw bridge across the
Ocklawaha River . Lewis and Frederick
Wisclogel will, it is stated, soon begin
work on their fertilizer factory at Chip
lev . . .Warren & William., aud John J.
Philbrick, of Key West, have purchased
a site at Arcadia to build a cigar factory.
E. G. Ridout, of New York, will
build a 22 room hotel ten miles from
Ocala. Plans have been prepared by
George MeKav.. . .Captain YVltidden and
George Mansfield, of Arcadia, brought
in fourteen deer, several turkeys, nnd lots
of smaller game as the result of a fort
night’s hunt ...Mrs. Richard Roan, of
Arcadia, who unfortunately lost her rer
son some weeks ago, was sent to the
Chattahoochee insane asylum
The passenger department of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company announces
that for two weeks a Florida special of
Pullman vestibule sleeping and dining
and smoking ears will run between New
York, Philadelphia and Jacksonville
every’day, except Sunday* and Thurs
days, in order to accommodate the large
number of people desiring to visit 11 ori
du ...A man named Watson died at
Cedar Key from the effects of an over
dose of morphine, which he had taken to
relieve an attack of toothache. . Live
Oak is to have a suburban addition . ..
MaeClcnny is to have a volunteer fire
company... Gadsden county lias a> • :;ro
wlto claims to be 104 years of ago . G.
YV. Cline, of Lake City, will plflnt ten
acres in tobacco this season.... The
Methodist Conference w ill meet at Se
ville. .. .The ice-house of the Key YY eat
Ice Company was damaged by fire....
There are tliree organized clubs of the
Farmers’ Alliance in Wakulla county,
with a good membership in each N.
E. Roberts, who has a fine vegetable gar
den on Haw Creek, i- shipping straw
berries to Northern markets daily The
semi-annual meeting of tho Columbia
County Sunday-School Association will
be held at Fort YY'hito ou the fourth Mon
day in March... .tjealed bids for the con
struction of the two Haw Creek bridges,
ou the Seville anil Daytona road, are be
ing received by Clerk Faulkner, at En
terprise.
TIIE LADY WON.
Mrs. French, a highly respectable
widow lady, who resides in the western
suburbs of Montgomery, Ala., created
a sensation by publicly cowhiding a young
man named Oates, who runs a grocery
store in the neighborhood. About a
mouth ago Mrs. French went to Oates’s
store and found him selling liquor to her
son, Milburn Johnson, a fast young man,
aud it seems that he gave no heed to her
instructions. She went to the store and
found her son and Oates gambling at a
game of cards. She covered Oates, and
with a cocked pistol in one hand, she
wielded a cowhide with the other and
gave him a drubbing. She also scooped
in all the money in the pot and put it iti
her pocket, saying that it was her's any
how.
FATAL BASEBALL GAME.
AATiile a game of hall was in progress
between the studentsof the Chattanooga.
Tenn., University, J. C. J#mson, of
Koddv. a spectator, and also a student,
took exception to a ruling of tlie umpire,
Beu .Alagill, who resides at Hall-Moon
island. Tenn., when Alagill picked up a
baseball hat and struck Johnson a terrible
blow on the left side of the head, fract
uring his skull from tho temple to the
hack part of the head, from which lie
lied a few hours afterward. Alagill, tlie
murderer, is still at large, having left the
jity on foot and fled to Georgia. He is
only 18 years old.
CRISIS IN FRANCE.
Several Paris journals fear that a gov
ernment crisis will ensue should tho cab
inet insist upon tlie Chamber of Deputies
votings sum q! money on account of the
secret service and declare that it will
make the vote a question of confidence.
NUMBER IT.
A KOVAL GREETING
ACCORDED TO PRESIDENT AND
MRS. CLEVELAND.
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The presidential train arrived safely at
Jacksonville, Fla., no incident of note
having taken place on the route from Ha
vnnuuh, Ga., ami was greeted by a salute
of twenty-one guns and the acclamations
>f an immense eonrottrse of people. The
party was escorted to the St. .lames hotel
by the state military reception committee
in carriages, and a band playing patriotic
airs. Mayor Hurbridgc rode in the car
riage with the President and Mrs. Cleve
land, which was decorated w'ith flowers
and evergreens. After the presidential
party lmd taken lunch, the marshal of the
lay. Major llarkishiincr, with twenty
tides, formed the procession. Following
was the order of procession: First Di
vislott Police aud platoons;marshal and
his aides; First Florida battalion, w ith
band; the presidential party iu carriages,
the carriage of President and Mrs. Cleve
land being drawn by six black horses:
Wilson's b attery, mounted as a s|s'eial
escort to the President: Hreond I'.i :! i
battalion; eongrosionnl party in car
riages; press association in-carriages; in
vited guests in carriages. Second Divis
ion—Key YY'est band of colored men;
uniformed Knights of Pythius; Indc
jiendent order of Red Men; Perry Guard
of colored state militia; Duval Guard of
colored state militia; Jacksonville Typo
graphical Union, No. 1(13, and Jackson
ville Fire Department. Other organiza
tions and citizens followed. The line of
march was along the principal streets,
which were gay with decorations of all
kinds, including evergreens, bunting,
festoons of oranges and orange floaters.
Masses of people in holiday attire lined
the route, and it is estimated that 100,-
000 citizens aud visitors witnessed the
procession, including thousands of north
ern tourists.
On the arrival of the procession at
the Exposition building, another salute
of twenty guns was tired by a detachment
of Wilson's battery. The President,
Mrs. Cleveland and their party and vis
iting congressmen were met at tho north
entrance by the reception committee of
the sub tropical exposition, with Direc
tor General Paine and officials of the as
sociation and were escorted to a platform
in front of the north gallery. The mili
tary then entered ami stacked arms, ex
cept the guards on duty. Seats were re
served on the the platform for representa
tives of the city, state and. United-States
government, distinguished citizens and
committees.
When the President, Mrs. Cleveland
and the acoompaning guests were seated
Col. J. J. Daniel dolived an address of
welcome. When quiet had been restored,
the President replied.
The President’s reply was greeted with
most vociferous and long continued ap
u pi a use.
President Cleveland resumed his seat,
but applause and cheering continued to
break out anew at short intervals, and at
length C. It. Jones stepped forward to
the President and suggested that the
people desired to see Mrs. Cleveland.
He acted at once on the suggestion, and
as Airs. Cleveland arose, he took her by
the hand and led her to Hie front. Then
broke forth a perfect tempest of cheering
and storm of hand-dapping. Five thous
'and throa's poured forth their greeting,
and hundreds of waving handkerchiefs
showed that the ladies shared the enthu
siasm and joined in honoring the first
lady of the land.
This ended the formal part of the cere
monies. The ladies and gentlemen on
the platform came forward and were pre
sented to tiic President and Mrs. Cleve
land. Secretary and Mrs. Whitney, Col.
and Mrs. Lam'ont, and then the party re
turned to their carriages and were driven
to tho hotel.
The President’s public reception was
held at night at the St. James hotel, last
ing two hours. President Cleveland, es
corted by Judge Kettle, and Mrs. Cleve
land, escorted by C. E. Jones, entered
the parlors, anil when the reception
ended over eight thousand persons
were still in line.
The Presidential party goes to St, Au
gustine as the guests of Air. Flagier. At
flight they will go over to Palatka, and
jhen to Sanford and Indian river, re
turning Friday night. A stop of one
hour will he made in Charleston Satur
day morning.
President Cleveland passed Ashley
Junction, near Charleston, S. C., but did
not stop in the city. Mayor Bryan had
an interview with him. The President
will stop in Charleston on his return trip
for one hour. Arrangements have lieen
made Tor his entertainment while there.
A national salute will he fired, the city
will he decorated, and citizens, soldiers
and civic societies will turn out to do him
honor.
DANGEROUS BRIDGE.
The Oconee bridge, at Millcdgeville,
Ga., was the scene of another fatal acci
dent. The recent rains had caused the
river to rise about sixteen feet, and logs
and rafters were swept rapidly down the
stream. A man named Moran went out
on the scaffold and with a long pole was
trying to keep the rafters from the bridge.
In some way he lost his balance and fell
in the stream and was drowned. There
s 'eras to he a fatality about the Oconee
bridge at that place. In the course of
construction several men have lost their
lives and a half dozen have been seriously
injured.
THE WAY OF IT.
George M. Moller, a witness before the
New York senatorial committee, told
who were the principal stockholders in
the sugar trust, and the amounts of their
stock, lie named llavemeyer & Elder,
sl6 000,000 or $17,000,000 : DeCustro &
Bonner, a littleover $3,000,000; Madison
A Meeker, of Jersey City. $5,000,000;
the Standard refinery, of Boston, $2,-
900,000; the Bay State, of Boston,
$1,900,000, and several others.
SHIP-OWNERB DESPONDENT.
The ship-owners on the Clyde, Scot
land, express gloomy views in regard to
the prospects of shipbuilding. Mr.Allan
of the Allan Steamship Line predicts the
total collapse of this industry before the
end of the year.
Dakota Weather.
“Mamma,” said a little Dakota boy,
as he came into the parlor, “where is
papal”
•‘He is crawling up the chimney, dear,
to se wt.a. uinrl of a day it is. ” —-.f£poc/i.