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The Georgia Enterprise.
volume XXIII.
■ CANADIAN COD.
Jit John AI-liBO.
11i .oiisibilify."- Syr>icut
i iliifTorcftllod "Kamick*
H '*inii-tful natal luck
, uKi ].i<>n of senility
Ii i ' :i reputod dad,
! |, . .*. v huuoxor nmd,
u oof Ine-i*Misllihtf.
■ V , Mt ,t ( hanood to he lif wish
H ,’..in pill '.b some fish —
l ji-mi’s general utility
r s ‘ • . i .t.•r-i*iotln*r, “ Vatik,"
■ ImlTy, Muo-nosod crank:
i out of‘lishery facility.
I
Hj ,i II c i> *v with meek docility
. t inv British dnd'a
■ j | toil iron clmls
H • i*ow aer your humility.*
■ |v worn jeered and laughed
■ ..i , *:i!i rated craft,
H • r elective risibility
H re out of staff
■ I irraut us to bluff
Hi,, o( Irresponsibility.
■ j\,r u■ i a vcn't pot a boat
■ 'He; , i K*rj> it sdf afloat,
i. • "..non of availability;
V iv ’ ims pot us checked,
■ ui ;i ivor iuroobject
H u .f Irresponsibility.
I Thu t* • hy riddlo stands
■ v. 'fis on the hands
■ -tits i o-tHtful of ability.
■ i "t l riiliant wit,
■ If *,■ i.-up*r bliull submit
■ . of Irresponsibility I
PENA'S FORTUNE!
I —oh,
jiiv Siclau Heiress.
BALE CF NEW YORK IN 1835.
I BY PROF. WU. HENRY PECK,
I AUTHOR OP
I tQ"HS S’.rrt,” • The Tower of Gold*
W'The II Hreedf * Harold's Hate*
I * Thu I, le of Barcelona, 9 Etc.
H ilAl’TF'.ll XlX.—Costinc kd.
Hh i n l -! -iro stained with unman
H i liiiipaid,” almost shout< and
B ■•■! Swcil.', as he continued to
t ir l tho startled old worn.
H"I a" 1 lof my good and niur
- . .lames Bratton, Dame Ur p-
H Me I, and advancing closer to
■ tat 1 Touch it! You wanted
Hi Ii i.I bo tied and you caught
H-'I . tli.'fl Look at it! lam
Ha Mod of Mr. James Bratton.”
H .V"k, you vi lainons wretch!"
as Bh ® B l’ r ” n E ‘otter
L.‘ r l high her staff. “Stand
He n. ■,sb will b, at out your brains.
Hi...,". ~"tep him front me, some of
' 1 "" 'ill put Ills uiwii)
Ulo i Villain of a Swede, put no
H 1 i.-ed koij'a ulood on me ; Why do
H*. m ". R ' Why should any stain of
B'ln rb' >e ' ut u l o:1 111 e ■ Hold him
Hut- fo this time had thrown his arms
Bud I whose excitement was for
Bea. its almost uncontioll.ible—and
Bnoiv living to calm him. Edward also
B. Ito aid Bettis, and between them
■' -o n forced him to he seated.
■he ilume then asked him sternly why
Believed the stains on his hands were
■ Wood of Mr. Button, when he had not
H his dead nor living body.
■ihtie stains on my hands,” replied
Ben, u a low and now steady voice,
B r in m blood that has dripped through
Bs between the trap-door i dges and its
Be in the cupola floor. I did not. while
Bs I o.ding against the door, notice hoW
■y and moist it was, bnt 1 remembered
■ fact as soon as I saw the awful stains
Bear light. I have no doubt that the
•od was my dear late master's—l am surd
(hosh, Jansen! Y’ou have not yet looked
■ the cupo’a,” responded the dame,
l.v loath to believe that her debtor was
leeil forever beyond her reach. “You
le not seen him, dead or alive. The
fins on your hands may not be from
lod.”
■ Hut they aro from blood.” remarked
I s aril, alter a close scrutiny of the
Ptde'g hands, “though tho blood is no!
Iskly shed blood. ”
■ And may it not be the blood of a rnl
ft chanced to be crushed when tho trapJ
loi-up there was last closed, Mr. Hawks.
lithv? I have often smashed the head
I a chased rat or mouse in that way — with
1 door suddenly shut upon the beast,
pifever, w e shall soon see the upshot ol
I* matter. Your atm, if you please, Mr.
■"'KBWtirhy. ”
fliit Edward did not seem to hear tbit
liuest. Ho began to converse iu whis-
Its with Yetneona. After a b tier glanca
lAc lovers, the dame turued snappishly
I betis, who offered his arm instantly
Id iih great fervency.
I tour arm is tho best after all, Pettis,” sha
I’” mbs ear. “But mind, you—you and
■hers— have beon making such a rumpus
’ft nration's absence that my poor nerves
® a 1 of a tremble, and my heart in a
■Met', and I can barely totter along on my
*'•. hut come on.”
h inging ostentatiously to the arm ol
cthfl she lod the way front tho room, fol
ded by Edward, Verneena, and others.
CHAPTER XX.
UNDEIt THE CUPOLA.
AH were noon in the email apartment be
: the cupola floor. The room had no
i l lu K, nave the under side ot the cupola
j ' " '‘'eh was lnid across heavy beams.
J hero nag but one window to I hi- room
Jfwner window which admitted sufti-
I ot light to reveal clearly nil the interior,
' o the upper steps of ladder-like stairs
if Vc ,0 closed trap-door in the lloor
... , e cupola. 'J he top of these stairs
u , “gainst the frame work of the trap
-I,j ' nni ' could be seen but dimly by
“1 Parsons below.
laddt> me lil ' |l P i,r< l halted not far from the
looking keenly upward, said,
'onucnae! I can see nothing unusual ,
te l n Cre \ Alount the ladder, Tottis, and |
hi. may be seen to prove the wild
p°|. tha ‘ bull -w>tted Swede,”
ri e j , barr ed up the Inddor. and hnr
oi uwn again, shuddering in frame and 1
II - s , wiped his hands rapidly npon
■ j ‘ i” °f oakum, and said”
Urdu'r , usen <bd not lie. Dame Grip-
Worui ]A’,,' How I hate this kind of
them 1 There is quite a pool of it npl
d un ” 011 ’bo steps just, under the trap,
lrr*;apo°l ! Ugh! Uff!”
crj,.,i 1 “ IS!i you make about it, Pettis?"
this a “ ma - “Is the trap bolted on
the ,V, f ame -.but it is on the other side—
bid !‘ 01 9 ' l ’o ItU I gave the trap a
luovo ,) 7? '“y shoulder, and eouldu't
toy com! ('j ~,’lb!— see how I have soiled
fi. ■, j ’ "'as not lying, or simply
*®ud..-ir i "'P 9 ’" '"used the dame. “I
lie j u A ’bought to oxamine the seut
dldu't , s,:u, b garret-room? Perhaps he
thio„ A ’’'obiibly he does net know any.
it 'ns nni p t la ’ 80U ttle. 1 am quite sure
,s bu it oei ) DU£ railed since the cupola
'hero i a , t J lat was ten years ago. If
dans,, ~ ' or live man in the cupola
“ larisen?. 1 the firßt lo Bee *’• Where
s"■ t s bo asked aloud, and turning
B ™ 6 Hrippard," replied the
- • *bo had just entered the room.
"Do you know tint there l, a lou ttle in
Oio south garret-room?"
”}?’ 1 h “ v e j*t examined lhat
ecuttie. It is a, it blls been for manv
years fastened below, as veil ns uaileT
ilmvn on its upper aide. It has not b<en
oiM.ued since I wa first employed by Mr.
t 1 * lon - 1 found a Udder in that room,
and used to examine the Bouttle. There
fore I know tlmt whoeior fastened down
he trap-door in the cupola did not disturb
th scuttle.
Junso i’s hearers exchanged glances of
Krent interest in wbat he said. A grayish
! (iiillor aga n seized the dame s complexion,
imparting to ber birth and forbidding fea
tures a most ghastly aspect,
i'ui, commuea .lAnsuu, „ tl .. „
luent's panne, au l hasleuing to the solitary
window, which pieced the slant! g ro .f of
that part of lire dwelling, “a very active and
daring man might bolt the trap-door
above, climb out of one of the cupola win.
donß to tho roof, climb down the roof to.
this window and enter it—-provided the
saßh fastening were looso.”
lie examined the window carefully. All
watched his movements attentively.
“Ah," he soon said, “if any one did that,
he did not fail to bolt down this sash after,
Le entered the window. Tho assassin was
r a very bold nod cuuniug rascal."
“The assassin!” repented the dame, scorn
fully, for her desire to find her debtor alivej
would not permit her to believe that he was
dead. “The assassin! You are very fast!,
Aou speak in this matter as if you were
perfectly sure that James Bratton has been
murdered."
“I do not think anything but murder has
prevented Mr. Bratton from meeting you
below or at tho gate this morning, Dame.
Grippard," replied Jansen, moodily.
And I," remarked Edward, gloomily,
| "think that nothing else than suicido has
robbed him of his life."
“And I declare here, before all," said
Jansen, in an agitated voice, and flashing
looks of hate at the dame as he spoke, ‘ that
j if Mr. James Biatton has committed sui-
I cide his blood will be on the head and soul
! of this woman—this Helen Grippard. He
i owed her more than he could possibly pay;
he told me so yesterday morning, poor
j gentleman! And he told me, too, that he
exacted to be cast Into prison by this
woman if he failed to pay her her does to
day. But 1 will not believe that he has
killed himself. I believe he ”
But here the dame exclaimed, furiously:
“You shall suffer for what you have
dared to eay of me, you dog! Hear all. I
am mistress here. lam going to have that
trap door raised. Pettis see that tools,
implements of some kind, be brought from
below at once."
Pettis bockoned to several of the men
who had followed the party from below,
and hastened from the room. Edward then
said to the dame:
“Dame Grippard, the body, if there is
one on the trap door, should not be dis
turbed from where it is before its appear
ance and position have been accurately
noted and commented upou. If a wounded
man is there he shonlJ not be rudely moved
by tho violent ra sing of the trap. Let the
scuttle you have mentioned be forced, and
entrance of the cupola be made from one I
of its windows."
“Jf James Bratton lies dead on that trap,"
said the and ime, darting malignant glances at
Jansen, who scowled in return, “I believe
UAm ont-uo u<o uau u auuu iu uib oluvu. a
call ail to witness bow strangely and mys
teriously be bas acted ever since be ap
peared at the gate this morning. A fox
knows his own scent best; every dog knows
where he bas hidden his bono. AVho knows
tho ins and outs of Old Anchors better than
this Swede? Who was the first to hint that
something serious may have chanced to
Bratton? Who will persist in declaring his
belief that James Bratton has been mur
dered? Who but Jans Jansen! Look at
him! To me he looks like a murderer. I
expect to see him hanged for w hat he has
done in this place. I do, Jans Jansen !
I do!”
She continued to voice her rage and
spleen in this style for several minutes,
during which few paid any attention to her
save Jansen, who held his dark blue eyes
steadily nnd defiantly upon her angry face
throughout. She was still speaking ven- 1
omously when the sudden entrance of sev
eral persons caused her to turn about andi
look at them.
These persons wore Pettis and the men
who had accompanied him to procure tools
from below. With these men were three,
others. One was Captain Balbata, another
was Bazilio, the third was the outlaw, Her-,
man Urbandt, so-called.
Balbato nnd Bazilio were well clad in
citizen s attire, which they woie as persons
well accustomed to such. There was noth
ing nautical in their appearance.
The outlaw was clad in the garment of a
first-mate of a Spanish merchant ship, nn(j
he wore it with every sign of the sailor he
pretended to be. A large wig of light brown
hair, curly and careless, covered and dis
guised his huge head—closely cropped nowi
—cf massy iron gray locks. The wig was
crowned by a Spanish holiday hat, whose
broad brim shaded and half concealed his
closely shaven and repulsive features.
The Captain swept a grand glance of sal
utation over all in the room, bowed low,
aud sail, in excellent English:
“Good nnd fortunate day to nil here, und
especially to Sonora Grippard. Ah, my
dear Senora, you see that I, Alfonso Bal
bata, never fnil to beep appointments with
handsome ladies like yourself. But, diablos.
what is this that I have heard below?”
Without pans ng for a reply, the Captain
designated Bazilio und tho outlaw, with
two sweeping and rapid gestures, aud con
tinued’ .
“You are well acquainted with my secre
tary and supercargo, Senor Bazilio Alfauti,
Senora Grippard. This is my first-mate,
Senor Herman Urbandt.”
The persons indicated bowed low to the
dame. She did not tarn her eyes upon the
outlaw, nnd scarcely gin ced nt Bazilio.
She wished in her heart that the Captain
had not appeared just there and then, nm(
held her gaze downward for the moment.
Yerueena had fonnd an opportunity ere,
this to speak to her lover of much that we
have told the reader in reference to the
dame’s desire to sell her to tho Spanish
Captain, and Edward’s eyes were fixed
keenly upon the Capta’n's face while the
latter was addressing tho dame, as we have
11 Without yet having noticed the others in
the room, the Captain continued to the
and But what is this that we hear ? The
noble Senor Bratton not to be found? Be
lieved to have come to some great harm?
Impossible! Run away owing you a great
sum? Impossible!" ...
Here the Captain chanced to turn his
eves snuarely upon Edward. The ga..e of
these t.\ o remained steadily fixed for a few
a rasr fwsrjwiasio
was to be shown to >n al iere to-day- Let
me tako a good look at the damsel.
; lie withdrew his eyeß from Inward ■ ag
erossive gaze, and turned them for the first
lime squarely upon Vemeenaa wonder
fully beautiful find angelin ,
1 she chanced to be gnziug ateaddy at the
Caplin as he Hashed bis bold eyes towaro
I her P Her fair face became instantly suf
fused with deepest blushes, for sho re
! i m -wi tlien why he was at Old Anchors,
urgazo beld hem fora long moment, and
ti n she turned her eyes from him qntckly
and with a secret shudder of mingled dread
! "'scareeH‘had the eyes of the Captain
' fallen upon her sweet countenance B T uart ' l ;’
he started violently and stared at her
witll a most wondering state
• Wtala wcndS resemblancel The liv
-1 ni' the only woman I ever truly
loved” W The hag did not lie about this
maiden’s rare beauty.
CHAPTER XXL
DAME omrPABD ACCUSES J A SHEW 0 MUIUIER.
( aplain Balbata stared so keenly at Ver
nocna that Edward wus about to advance
and address him sharply, wneu he again
turned to Dame Qripp.ird, nnd said, in his
effusive manner and rolling voioo:
“Ah, Hen ora Grippard, I really hope all
will he right Willi Henor linn ton. 1 had
au interview with him in his otllco yester
day afternoon elsewhere after that. True,
ho seemed in iow spirits exceedingly
despondent, in fact. Come to think of his
parting words, I am not sure they did not
intimate an intention to commit suicide,
lie was, indeed, very despondent, senora,
ud k*,l „ wild wav about him X ue.ei saw
upon him before.”
The dame Unshed her gaze from the floor.
She had ap| arently ns yet scarcely glanced
at the Captain. She exclaimed, eagerly:
“Do you say he Bpoke of killing himself.
Captain?”
“Let me think, senora,” replied the Cap.
tain, with feigned reflectiveness. “Let me
try to remember. I have such a poor
memory for particulars."
“He spoke o f suicide," said Bazilio. “I
was present, Caplain, and of course heard
>ll he said.”
“Yes, I remember now." said the Cap
lain. “He said he had a very largo sum of
money to pay you, Senora Grippard. and
that he feared you would use severe mens,
ares toward him if he failed to pay you
here this day: that hs had no hope of being
able to raise even a tenth part of the sum
he owed you. He wanted to borrow from
me. What did he say as he asked me to
lend him money, Senor Bazilio?”
“He muttered,” replied Bazilio, quickly,
‘that he feared death by his own hand
would be his only way to pay Senora Grip
pard.”
“True,"exclaimed the Captain; “and that
it was either death or flight with him.
Something of that kind I am sure he s*id.
Bu what was it that I heard below? Thai
ais dead body may be up here somewhere.
That blood from it has gotten upon some
me’s hands?"
“Oh, ” remarked Bazilio, confidently, “if
lis body has been found, no doubt he killed
aimseif, poor man."
“Captain Balbata and Senor Bazilio,"
laid Dame Gr ppard, gloomily, nnd tnrni g
Jer eves maliciously upon Jansen, “if James
Bralton does lie dead ou the floor of the
mpola of Old Anchors, I shall not believe
dint he killed himself. This Swede knows
more about the affair than he has told 01
tinted. He was the first to hint that any
jam had come to Brntton; he was the first
o say that Bratton’s and ad body is np there.
Be was the first and only one to say that
Bralton was murdered in this house last
night ”
TO BE CONTINUED.
PRINTERS KILLED.
A MnNnn<-lni*etift Newapupcr Uurued Out—
A <imn Miicrifire of l.ite.
The new office of the Evening Union,
at Springfield, .Mass., burned out. and the
blaze was attended with the most sicken
ing horror ever witnessed in that city, six
of the employes meeting a terrible deatli,
most of them jumping from the fifth story
aud being crushed into a shapeless mass
The fire was discovered in the mailing
room, and clouds of smoke were pouring
out of the lower story windows, and be
fore fifty souls on the upper floor were
aware of their danger, the flames shot up
an old elevator in the rear, cutting off
escape by the stairway, and most of the
employes who escaped found their way to
the ground by a roof in the rear. Some
were cut off in the composing room, and
there is still a terrible suspense, as several
fell hack into the flames. The employes
who rushed into the editorial room wore
cut off from escape in the rear, and had
to face the horrible alternative of burning
to death or jumping to the sidewalk be
low. Four comporitors suffered bad frac
tures of bones and serious burns. Two,
named Doneliue and Eusworth, were
fatally hurt. It is thought that the fire
started among lumber in a closet on the
ground floor. The flames were draw nup
riie elevator well and spread through the
composing room. The following is a cor
rect list of the killed and injured: 11. J.
Goulding, agecfThirty-two, married, fore
man of the composing room, burned to
death; Mis. Hattie E. Farley, aged twen
ty-three, secretary to the editor; Miss
Gertie Thompson" aged eighteen, proof
reader, burned to death; (’. L. Brown,
aged twenty-two, compositor; IV. K.
Hovev, of Boston, aged twenty-five, fell,
striking on his head, aud died at the hos
pital ; J. Danzon, aged thirty-five, com
positor, lately came to the city from
Canada.
As Hildas I/ving lti a Flat.
A Washington letter says:
The wife of a IV astern Congressman,
quite well known in the House, has a
oosy little apartment, and in the dining
room—she has three rooms in nil—is a
curious looking settee, or sofa, which
has often attracted the attention of her
visitors. It looks liko a large box, cov
ered with imitation Indian cloth. It has
figures and plenty of gold thread run
ning through it, while tiie top is tuft and
makes a rather soft seat.
She had some guests to tea the other
evening, and one of them remained later
than the others. The guest was seated
on the sofa, sipping a glass of wine, and
talking to the Congressman and his wife,
when the door suddenly opened and nu
apparition appeared on the threshold.
It was the six year old child of the mem
ber from the west The boy was nrrayad
in bis night clothes, and carried over
his arm a rough bath towel, while un
der the other he lmd snugly tucked away
a largo sponge. In one hand ho held a
cake of soap, mid the other grasped the
knob of the door. His mother gave an
exclamation of surprise when she beheld
him, but lieforo she could say anything
the enfant terrible shouted out: “I say
Mr. Jones,” thus addressing the strang
er, ‘‘how much longer are you going to
stay? I have been waiting here for the
last hour for you to go home, so I can
take my bath. Do you know that you
are sitting on the bath tub, and I can’t
get in until you go home!’’
The scene that followed can be im
agined. The gentleman soon after left.
The boy, being in a very convenient
costume, bad a sound spanking, while
his motlier lifted the top of the curious
looking sofa and displayed inside the
zinc-lined bath tub, spigots and all com
plete. The guest gave tho joke away,
and now the member swears that next
time lie entertains he will hire a house
if it takes all his salary. He has had en
ough of this mechanical furniture, and
especially bath tubs hidden in sofas.
Experience Had Taught Him.
ft. Paul Dame —“Charley, I like light
hou-ckeeping, but this bedroom is too
crowded to suit me. I’ve filled every
nook and corner in it, and now I’ve got
to putthat dirty lincu underthe bureau."
Charley—“ Don’t you put anything
under the bureau, my dear.”
“Why not?"
“heave that place empty and I shall
always know where to find my collar
button.” — St. Paul Globe.
“Mr COUNTRY MAT BBS MVTtR BS RIQHT. RIOBT OR WRONG MT COUNTRY."-Jtf*r* m
COVINGTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1888.
-NATIONAL CAPITAL
INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT OUR
UNITED STATES > OFFICIALS.
About t|ie H’blli* House-Army and
Nnvy Miiitero-Our It elution* \Vtb Oilirr
Comunca mid Nation*.
CONIiHK&HIONAL.
Among the petitions and memorials
presented and referred in the Senate, was
one with 102,000 signature* from thirty
three states and territories, against the
admission of Utah as a state, so long as
its people are under the control of the
Mormon priesthood. The pension bill
uftH then taken up, the question still be
ing upon the amendment of Mr. Wilson,
adding the words, ‘ the infirmities of
age.” The nmeudinent was voted down,
th‘ amendment to include Mexican vete
rans was rejected and the bill passed 44
to 10.. .In the House, Mr. Tillman, of
South Uurolina, asked unanimous con
sent for the immediate consideration of
the hill appropriating SIO,OOO for the
purchase of certain swords belonging to
tin* widow of Gen. James Shields, 'fin.*
hill was passed, but not without a good i
deal of discussion arising out of the state- !
ment by Mr. Steele, of Indiana, that he i
hud seen a newspaper paragraph to the |
effect that there was some question as to 1
the ownership of tho swords. Mr. Toll
man declared that there was no such
question, and the entire Missouri delega
tion give the assurance that the swords
were in the undisputed possession of the j
Shields family. Mr. Bayner, from tho !
committee on commerce, reported the
bill to establish a postal telegraph. Mr. j
Blount said the subject of ihe bill was
one over which the committee ou post
offices and post roads had jurisdiction,
and he reserved the right at the proper
time to raise the question whether the
committee on commerce had jurisdic
tion over the subject of postal telegra
phy.
The Senate resumed consideration ol j
the urgency deficiency bill. At the close
of a discussion on the hill, a vote was j
taken on Mr. Payne's amendment and it j
was not agreed to—yeas 34, nays 24. !
The bill having been reported from the I
committee of the whole, Mr. I’ayne re- ■
uewed his amendment in the Senate and j
it was again rejected—yeas 25, nays 30. I
... .In tlie House Mr. Belmont, of New j
York, from the committee on foreign af- j
fairs, reported the follow ing, which was !
adopted: “Resolved, That the Presi-|
dent be requested to send to the House, |
if not against public interest, all docu- j
ments and correspondence, if any there j
are, between our government and the
governments of Great Britain and Vene
zuela. or either of them, relating to the
question of the disputed boundary be-
LO'ela. The committee oi. comm" vCe
reported the bill authorizing the estab
lishment of a number of life-saving sta
tions. among them one at Lynn Haven
inlet, Va., and two between Ocranoke
inlet, and t ape Lookout, N. C. The
House passed a bill for a public building
at Seda I in, Mo It then took bills re
ported from the Indian committee, nnd
passed, without am- ndment, the t ill rat
ifying und confirming an agreement w ith I
the Grosventure, Piegan, lliaekfeit and
River Crow Indians in Montana.
The Senate took up the “pension bill”
question, still being on the amendment of
Mr. Wilson, of low a, to insert the words,
“From the infirmities of age.” After
brief speeches by Messrs. Berry, Man
derson, Sherman, Teller nnd Beck, Mr.
Ingalls, presiding officer, having called
Mr. Platt to the chair, proceeded to ad
dress the Senate, the galleries being
crowded to their full capacity. The
speech was very bitter, and was replied
to by Senator Blackburn. At the con
clusion of Mr. Blackburn's speech, dis
cussion on Nlr. Wilson's amendment was
resumed, but after a half hour, it was
agreed, by unanimous consent, at the
suggestion of Mr. Sherman, that the
pension hill should he taken up as unfin
ished business the following day and
finished .. In the House. Mr. Thomas, of
Illinois, introduced a bill pr hibiting the
use of likenesses, portraits or representa
tions of females for advertising purposes
without consent in writing. Referred.
The House then resumed consideration
of the Alab ima contested election
case of McDuffie against Davidson.
After brief arguments by Messrs. Lynn,
of lowa, and Johnston, of Indiana, ii
favor of the claim of contestant, Mr
O’Farrell, of Virginia, took the floor ii
support of the majority rep rt. Aftc
further debate by Mr. Buttcrworth,
Ohio, in favor of the minority report
and bv Messrs. Moore, ot Texas. Jones
of Alabama, and Wheeler, of Alabama,
in favor of the claims of the sitting
member, the discussion was closed bt
Jir. Crisp. The minority resolution de
claring McDuffie entitled to a seat was
rejected —yi as 122, nays 144. and tin
majorityr solut on declaring the sitting
member entitled to Iris seat was adopted
without division.
gossip.
1 he report submitted by Senator Cock
rell from a special committee which ha
been studying tlic methods of transact
ing government business in the exccutivi
department, is a volume of 2,68-1 printed
pages, in addition to voluminous appen
dices. The committee devoted a year to
the work. Some of the examples of offi
cial circumlocution ri ad as though they
might have originated in the brain of an
extravagant humorist.
The President sent to the Senate, antes
sage in reply to the resolution requesting
him to negotiate with the Emperor ol
China a treaty containing a pro vision that
no Chinese labor shall enter the Lnited
States. The President says, such nego
tiation was commenced some mouths ago,
and its progress has been communicated
to such members of the Senate ns sou-lit
information upon the subject, and he now
deems himself justified in expressing the
hope and expectation that the tr. aty will
soon lie concluded concerning the immi
gration of Chinese laborers which wil
meet the wants of the people.
The following Georgians have made
claims on the Government for supplies
furnished or property destroyed during
the late War: Leroy Napier, $20,000;
heirs of Nedlinm Ballard, of Georgia. $200:
Samuel Wood, of Chattooga county, $503;
William White, $170.90; also $107.00 to
George K. Ward, of Floyd county; $197.-
50 to Alexander Vnugn, of DeKalb
county, for same; $622.10 to John Smith,
of Chattooga county; $1,891.50t0 Henry
A. Sims, of Chattooga county; $249.50
to William P. Ramsey, of Walker county;
$1,305 to David R. Ramsey, of Chattooga
county; $712 to Perry W. Partain, of
Paulding county; $2,915.50 to James M.
Foster, of Paulding county; and $770 to
Abner Worthy, of Chattooga countv;
i John G, Whitehead, administrator of
! foho G. Whitehead, of Rome, #2,158;
j 4am Allison, executor of William P. AT
i ison, of Walker county, #2,321; Luther
Walter, of Floyd county. #502.
FLORIDA ITEMB.
L. Bucki & Hon will extend their road
to a point on the Suwannee river nlxmt
fifteen miles from Elluville, and then con
nect with boat for Cedar Key.... Hills
borough is to have anew jail. 5111(11800
wants a tobacco factory. . Day ton ia is to
have a kuieht of Pythias Lodge .
Cholera is taking off ninny hogs in Madi
son county. .The corps of engineers of the
Lc'duirg and Lake Region Railway have
, started out to definitely locate the line of
that road... Robert Serene, n colored
mar from Lake county, who was confined
iu the jail at Suinterville, charged with
breaking oien astoro, died of meningitis.
...A large saw-fish fourteen feet iu
length was caught in the bay, at the
mouth of the Myakka river. I)r. King,
| of Boston, made the unusual eateli while
fishing for tarpon with n hook and line.
... A brick-yard is to be established at
DeLeon Springs ...Silas H. Wright, of
DcLand, has resigned the office of county
assessor . . .K. N. Waldron, of Welukn,
lias started a cocoauut grove at Jupiter.
... .Parties in Appltton, Wis., have pur
chased 04,000 acres of pine and cypress
timber land of Hamilton county.... In
quiries concerning Alachua county are
coming ia from all portions of the North,
and there is no doubt but that next Fall
will witness a largo influx of visitors and
settlers... .Mr. Lancaster, of DcLand, is
now tilling large orders from California
for orange nursery stock. He expects to
leave with a car-load or two within the
next few weeks, nnd will lie absent about
thirty days.... A Cuban gentleman in Key-
West, who has a number of pretty daugh
ters, complains to the mayor that he was
continmmlly annoyed by a number of boys
congregating nrcund bis premises. Flic
mayor ordered a policeman detailed to
watch affairs .. Tne immense sugar mill
of Disstons was started up at St. Cloud,
on the beautiful lake of Kast Tohopcka
liga. Mrs. Hamilton Disston, of Phila
delphia, christened the enterprise ..J.
W. Paul, J. W. Willis and A. W. Wine
gold, from Crystal River. Fla., went to
Jacksonville. They registered at the
Pinza. H. T. Leshman, cleik of the hotel,
went to their room to call them for the
early train. G- tfing no response to his
knocks, and thinking he detected the
odor of escaping gas, he forced thr
door open. All three of the men
were found lying unconscious, while
the gas jet was turned half 0n....
Ed. Perine, popularly known in Lake
Weir circles, has been missing. He was
to make a trip to Homosnssa, conse
quently ro fear was entertained till re
centlv, when a boat was found capsized,
....Tne*’ -v< oreej v-m i ,i.i ..
pi mentary serenade to Mrs. General
Grant at ihe Ponce de Leon hotel in St.
Augustine. Owing t > a sudden slight
illness. Mrs. Grant could not appear, but
through L. P. Hoi erts, clerk ot the
Ponce de Leon, scut her regrets.... Ed
wurd F. Pittman, a cigar manufacturer,
of Quincy, cut the throat of George
Hughes, also a cigar manufacturer, and
head of the firm of George Hughes A Cos ...
Forest fires raged near Mill Creek, doing
much damage to the property of F. E.
Southland, destroying Iris house and c in
tents.... County Solicitor A. W. Owens
filed with the clerk of the Criminal Court
at Jacksonville, forty fifty bills of infor
mation against parties who were reported
by Sheriff Broward and his deputies as
being inmates of the gambling houses re
cently raided. . . .A large party of promi
nent New York and New England people
are in Jacksonville. The tour is one con
ducted by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Sir Thomas Grattan E-monde, M. P.,
spoke before tlie Irish National League at
ihe opera house in Jacksonville... .The
Omaha party of excursionists, who ar
rived at Jacksonville two weeks ago nnd
who have since been down on the Gulf
coast, left for home. They were all de
lighted with their trip and expressed
themselves as Florida converts.
BOLD ROBBER.
IlaEnterial n Hank. Uobbrd the TIM, KMleil
Two .lien nnd Suicided.
A masked man, named Kimball, en
tered the Bradford, Pa., national hank
with a revolver iu llis hand, and when
midway between the paving teller's and
discount clerk’s desk, nimbly jumped
over the high glass partition and made a
grab for the money on the cashier's desk,
the suddenness of the affair paralyzed
the clerks, but Cashier Tomlinson rushed
from llis private office and seized the rob
ber. As lie did so. he received a ball
from the revolver in the hands of the
villain, over his left hip, going clean
through him and coming out of the right.
He dropped, aud the robber escaped at
tlm front door with the money and ran
down a side street. The report of the
revolver atti acted a crowd and a number
of citizens started in pursuit and Kimball
ran some distance, when he turned on
his pursuers and shot A. L. Bleich. a
butcher, in the abdomen, inflicting adan
gerous wound, lie then placed the tc
volver to his own head and fired. The
hall entered at the temple and killed
him instantly. The stolen money was
found in an inside pocket of a rubber
coat which he wore. Tomlinson and
Bleich arc fatallv hurt. Kimbalil was
about twenty-eight years old and was
formerly an employe of a producing
firm. He was recently injured on the
Erie road, near Stamburg, in an accident
from which he is said to have received
several hundred dollars damages, since
which time he has been drinking
heavily He was formely a real estate
agent in Garden City, Kansas, where his
wife died, leaving two girls.
MONUMENT POSTPONED.
The Senate hill appropriating SIO,OOO
to the Ladies’ Monument Association to
aid in the erection of a monument to the
Mississippi Confederate soldiers, when
ever the funds of that association is suf
ficient to erect the monument, came up in
the Mississippi House, and proved to lie
the most exciting question yet discussed
in that body. The ladies had beautifully
decorated the speakers stand \\ ith choice
flowers-and creeping vines, and displayed
conspicuously over the stand a fine pencil
drawing of Jefferson Davis and the tat
tered colors of the third Mississippi rem
inent of volunteers. All was artistically
arranged and presented a grand picture.
To make the seine complete, the ladies
turned out in force and thronged all the
lobbies. A great many patriotic speeches
were delivered, and strong appeals made
to grant the reasonable aid asked for by
the ladies in their noble work, but the
bill was indefinitely postponed by a vote
of fifty-nine to forty-two. It jiasscd the
Senate with only eight dissenting votes
NOT YET DEAD.
THE EMPEROR RALLIES II REN
ALL THOUGHT HIM DEAD.
IMmiinrrk Nent For nnd Official f*npert
Hlinnl I’rincn WIIIIhmi Acting aa Ueurut
f'auditlttu tttltia Crown Frlnur.
4
EMPEItOIt WIIXIAM.
Late at night after the presi had an
nounced he was dying, Emperor Wil
liam rallied and commenced to improve;
he repeatedly pat took of soup and drank
a glass of champagne. lie sjioke to the
doctors and expressed a desire to get up,
but was not allowed to rise, except par
tially, so that the bed might be arranged.
He sleeps soundly nnd his breathing is
regular. Ho was afterwards given oys
ters and an egg and a little champagne
and sherry, llis pulse had fallen from
110 to 00. When awake he is fully con
scious, showing an interest in what is
passing around him. He asked the grand
duchess of Baden, who stood by, whether
she had already dined, and with whom,
and then asked why she had not dined
with the empress. He expressed regret
that he was “causing so much trouble.”
He sent for Bismarck, with whom he con
versed for twenty minutes. Prince Bis
marck, reassured by the Emperor's dis
play of vitality, then drove to the Reich
stag and presided at a council of minis
ters. which was followed by a meeting of
the Buudesrath, whence be returned to
the palace.
Just before the attack that was con
sidered a premonition of death, divine
services were hold at the palace. All
dignitaries atrit mbcitsawLfutuily, court
were present. ■—. , "‘w uWi-i lu , a
with bare heads in the nuir ’out- at nr , f ]
the palace, and joined in the prayers of
fered by Chaplain Koegle. The ringing
of the church blls to announce the ad
ministering of the sacrament, led the
public to believe that the end had come.
Just before the swoon, which gave lisc
to the report that he was dead, the em
peror was talking w ith the grand duchess
of Baden, and that lie suddenly fell
backward in a faint upon the bed. All
efforts to revive him were fruitless for
some time. Public feeling is greatly
scandalized by the recklessness of tho
press in announcing the death of the
eiftperor, and by the conduct of a cler
gyman in a church at Potsdam, who in
formed his congregation that prayer for
the recovery of the monarch were useless.
The report of the death of the emperor
created the wildest excitement. Papers
that published the report will lie prose
cuted.
The emperor ou Thursday was
able to sign an order proroguing the
Reichstag, otherwise the signing func
tions have been assumed by Prince YYil
liam. All troops are kept in barracks in
readiness for the contingency of taking
the new oath of allegiance.
Following is the text of the imperial
decree promulgated, declaring Prince
William to be representative of the em
peror in state affairs:
“Considering the unerring state of my
health, which compels mo temporarily to
abstain from the transaction of affairs,
and in view of the illness and prolonged
absence of my son, Frederick \V illiani, I
charge your royal highness with all cases
where I believe representation necessary
in current government business, specially
signing orders, without special order be
ing requisite on every separate occasion.”
The Vienna fVssss asserts that in event
of the emperor's deatli the imperial decree
granting regency powers to Prince Wil
liam iptofacto is nullified, aud that Fred
erick William becomes emperor by right
of successiou.
The Quecu England's draw ing room
and silver wedding fetes of the prince
and princess of Wales have been can
celled because of the expected deatli of
Emperor William.
The German crowu prince slept sound
ly all night and awoke refreshed. Ho
breakfasted with a good appetite, llis
condition continues to improve. His
larynx is a little more swollen.
The crown prince will go to Berlin by
the Brenner route. He will stay in Berlin
no longer than is absolutely necessary,
o-oing nfierwards to either Wiesbaden or
Hamburg. Dr. Mackenzie will accom
pany him. Tlie doctors are much op
posed to the crown prince's return to
Germany.
BOLD SWINDLE.
J. H. Bond, Mrs. Julia Bond, J. O.
Bond, Dr. L. M. Shafer and his son, R.
E. L. Shafer, with others, were airested
in Charleston, S. C., upon the charge of
defrauding the supreme council of the
Royal Templars of Temperance out of
$20,000, by the feigning death of John
O. Bond, who is really alive. Mrs. Bond
and John O. Bond were discharged from
custody upon sw earing that their names
on nil of the payers are forgeries. Dr.
Shafer and son, J. A. Robinson, and J.
A. Robinson, Jr., were also arrested on
the charge of defrauding the same or
ganiz itiou out of $20,000 by certifying
to the death of the fictitious John R.
Lyman.
BAD LOT.
The police of Norfolk, Va., captured
ft gauf* of five Italian counterfeitera,
named Joseph Lattiori, Pietro Dauorfoi,
George Cataboni, Filip Brocolo anil Bra
gios Marols, alias Petro Lanio. These
men have flooded Norfolk with counter
feit silver dollars. They ha none of
the spurious coin in their possession w hen
Trrested, but have been identified as hav
ing passed it. Similar gangs are work
ing in different portions of the South.
| SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
! BOILED DOWX E'ACTS AMI EAX
CIES INTKRBSTINULr STATED.
IrrldMla on Knnil nnd on Eiili'r
nnd Noctn! Muller*.
The shojm of (he E. T. V. & Georgia
Railroad, at Macou, Ga., were destroyed
by fire.
Hon. C. G. Memminger, first secretary
of the treasury of the Confederate States,
died at Charleston, 8. C.
Pepper A Honey, jewelers, at Cleve
land, Tenn,, were robbed of #3,000 worth
of watches and jewelry. Thieves blew
the safe open and made away with their
laxity. No clew to the robbers.
The bridge over the Peedee river on
the Wilnington, Columbia A Augusta
Railroad has been rebuilt, und trains by
way of the Atlantic Const line have re
sumed regular schedules on that road.
Thomas C. O’Neal, of Rutland, Vt.,
employed at the marble works in Mari
etta, Ga., while under the influence of Jiq
uor wandered on to the railroad track of
the W. Jt A. Railroad nnd was killed.
State Chemist 11. B. Battle, of linleigh,
N. C., returned from Washington, D C.,
bringing with him $7,50b of the Hatch ex
periment farm fund, which he puid over
to the state treasurer, who iu ex-officio
treasurer of the Department of Agricul
ture.
Miss Marian Bones, daughter of Mr.
J. W. Bones, died suddenly at Rome,
Ga. She had just finished her duties for
the day as instructress of music at Rome
Female College, when, without warning
or premonition, she dropped to the floor,
and w hen assistance came, she had ceased
to breathe.
The steamer Waurita was launched at
Palatka, Fla. She will leave for Duy
tonia, down the St. John’s to its mouth,
thence towed down the const to Motis
quito inlet and the entrance to Halifax
river. She will run between Daytonia
and Rockledge in connection with the
Bt. John’s and Halifax (the White) rail
road.
A fire broke out iu Wright's Opera
House, at Macon, Mo., and destroyed
Wright & Martin’s tobacco factory, N.
Hunt’s brick block, occupied by McCol
lough & Smith as a grocery; two adjoin
ing brick buildings, owned by Daniel
Rowland und occupied by Montgcmory &
Cos., and Wyuner & Friteh, grocers, and
the Congregational Church.
The elders of the Gay Street Christian
Church at Nashville, Tenn., have filed a
bill in the chancery court against Preston
Taylor, colored, pastor of said church.
Complainants charge that during defen
dant's pastorate he lias so cl anged the
long-established mode of worship iu this
oKwrcii that grievous dissensions have
arisen among the member,
on luc ai-J— . ...
was ditched near Fort Payne, AltfiT’WSA
badly damaged, involving a loss of sev
eral thousand dollars. The trucks struck
a broken rail while the train was running
at the rate of forty miles au hour, aud
the coaeli was turned cut rely over. S.
L. Waldridge, of Lexington, Ky., and
C. A. French, of New Orleans, La., were
badly hurt.
The Uuited Stutes Rolling Stock Com
pany have taken charge of the works at
Anniston, Ala., and have orders already
for more than fifteen hundred ears to he
made as soon us possible. Twenty-five
per cent, of the Anniston subscription of
#150,000 was paid over, and Nlr. Hcge
nosch, tlie president of the company,
stated at the meeting that he had per
fected arrangements for another indus
trial enterprise to be run in connection
with tlieir present immense plant, to work
about five hundred additional hands.
A cyclone passed over tlie southwest
ern part of the parish of Opelousas, La.,
und many dwellings were blown to pieces.
Chapman Guidey and his sou, each had
an nnn broken. The youngest son of
Valentine Lavcrgins was killed. Three
brothers, who were keeping a store, lost
their house, aud their goods were scat
tered for miles. All the members of the
family of Louis Bourgeois were injured.
About a dozen dwellings and as many
more out buildings were demolished, and
in every case the inmates were injured,
nnd household effects destroyed. The
path of the storm was three hundred
yards w ide.
At Berry, five miles from Ileidsville,
N. C., the dwelling house of C. W.
Mobley and his granary and stables were
fired, and he 10-t in the fire all his mules,
wheat and fodder and corn, wagons,
carriages and threshers. The plan of the
incendiaries evidently was to plunder his
store near the house. The same niuht
three stores in Ileidsville were robbed.
Logan Fuqua, a white man who is Mob
leys miller, has been arrested for the
burning, and is in jail at Wentworth.
:At the granary is a piece off dlow laud
! that hud just "been turned over. Fresh
! tracks were found over the fallow laud,
j and it is alleged they tit the tracks of
Fuqua’s shoes. Arson in North Carolina
j is a capital crime.
DYNAMITE.
A frightful disaster, the exact cause of
which will probably never be learned,
occurred in the Cleveland Iron Mine,
Mich., resulting in the instant death of
five men. They were at work blasting
rock, having inserted a piece of gas pipe
charged with dynamite. Ihe pipe had
just come from the blacksmith’s shop,
and it is supposed still retained sufficient
heat to cause an explosion of the deadly
agent of destruction Six tons of dyn
amite stored in the house of Oliver
Hampton, about nine miles northwe-t of
Richmond, Ind., exploded. David
Hampton, his horse, and a dog were
blown to atoms.
OVERWORK.
The sexton of a church atCastleton, N.
Y. near Albany, discovered in the cellar
Charles Downing, teller of Castleiou
National Bank, who has been missing for
several weeks. He has been wandering
about demented, and a reward was offered
for information of his whereabouts. He
died shortly after being discovered.
There was a’ pistol wound in his left
temple, and the weapon was found in the
cellar. His accounts are all straight. He
was rendered insane by overwork.
GOULD AND SAGE.
In the court of general sessions in New
York, Recorder Smvtho reserved his de
cision ns to whether the Gould-Sage case
should be again submitted to the grand
jury.
NUMBER 19.
U OKLD AT LARGE
PEN PICTURES PAIXTF.D Bl
iORPS OF A RLE ARTISTS.
II (nil I. tiatii, tin Norlli, East nnd Weal
nnd Arran the Water-The t’oiiiina Ku
rofienn Ktoriii.
Wilfred Blunt was released from Tul
lamore, Ireland, jail.
The New Jersey senate has passed the
high license bill over the governor’s veto.
A dispatch from Massowuh says, that
the Italian out]>ost* have signalled the
enemy along the entire Italian line.
Louise M. Alcott, the authoress, and
daughter of A. lironsou Alcott, the aged
author who died a few days ago, dftd iu
Boston, Mass.
The, r,team ship Circassia arrived at New
York from Glasgow, Scotland, and is de
tained at quarantine ou account of small
pox on bourd.
S. V. Harness, of Cleveland, Ohio,
vice-president of the Standard Oil com
pany, died of hi art disease on board his
steam yacht Twilight, in Charlotte Hur
bor, Fla.
A shock of earthquake was felt at Los
Angeles, Cal., being the severest for
eighteen years. No damage was done
but houses were badly shaken aud people
run iuto the streets in fright.
Lord Randolph Churchill presided over
a conference held in London, England,
to receive the preliminary report of the
executive committee to provide assistance
for the unemployed workingmen oi
Paddington.
Quite a scare has been created at the
Chicago, 111., city prison, where 950
prisoners arc confined, over the discovery
of a case of small-pox. The victim is a
man who came from the East, aud was
scut out for vagrancy. He was promptly
removed to the iiest.-iiouse, and the pris
oners were vaccinated.
The Wamsutta Cotton mills, at New
Bedford, Mass., whose spinners and balk
boys are now on a strike, give notice that
II of their mills, except No. 0, will shut
down for an indefinite period. The news
has created eonstcination among the
traders, who depended largely on the 2,-
500 operators for support.
By order of District Judge Malms, of
the state of Coahiulu, Mcx., ('apt. Fran
cesco Mananz, Lieut. Miguel Cabrera, the
second sergeant, and the lieutenant’s’or
derly, all of the 3d Mexican cavalry, have
been arrested ami placed in jail, charged
with participating in the late attempt to
kidnap a Mexicra deserter in Eagle Pass,
Tex., and with participating in a subse
quent attack upon the sheriff of Mave
rick couni y.
RUSTING WHEELB.
'the Sink ■ ol I.oeoinoiivr Enslavers Ki
ten-ting Over llic West.
Us, ~j iifi!rrr, ,T pde”<Md -Northern!’ *"*• •-
was very large before the Chicago,
lington ami Quincy strike, but it is m.
nothing more than local. Chief Arthur
stated unreservedly (to use Arthur’s ex
actness,) there was “serious danger that
the strike of the engineers and tiremen
would now spread widely. It is imjtos
sible to appease our men,” he said, “when
they know that railroad companies all
over the country arc giving aid to the
Burlingtou. We are continually iu re
ceipt of telegrams showing that the com
panies are rendering this assistance, and
it is not in my power, or the power of
any other man, to restrain them, unless
such things are stopped.” The Burling
ton strik" is involving other roads at the
stockyards. Five Lake Shore engineers
refused to take a train of Burlington cars
from Englewood to Sixteenth street, in
Minneapolis, declaring they would quit
before they would haul anything bearing
the “Q” label. A Wabash switchman
refused to rec ivc Burlington ears, which
were brought to the yards at Boot street.
The switchmen employed by the Union
Stockyards and Transit Company, which
lias charge of all switching at the yards,
also decided that they would handle no
Burlington ears. The full support of the
entire of Locomotive En
gineers and Firemen has been pledged to
their members on any and all roads
throughout the United States, who deem
it necessary to strike, and formally de
cide to do's.), in order to uphold their
brethren on tho Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Ilailroad. So far as heard from
not a single road upon which the Chica
go, Burlington & Quincy has made the
, ,aand to handle their freight had re
sponded favorable. The Wabash refused
point blank. The St. Paul declined, and
! a heavy train, switched on to its tracks
| front the Burlington’s tracks, at Western
avenue, for transportation over the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad,
was hauled baek. Other western roads
to whom the formal request was
sent, have either refused or are pre
pared to reject freight when offered.
“We would rather have a lawsuit than a
strike,” said General Agent W. B. Nine
lin, of the Minnesota A Northwest
road, and Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas
City. The strike threatens to ext' nil to
the engineers and firemen in the Denver
& Rio “Grande Railroad’s freight yards.
It was learned that several
loads of freight consigned by
the Burlington to Rio Grande for
transfer to the West, arrived in the
yards. Orders were issued to have the
car- switched, but the engineer on the
switch engine refused to touch them.
Another engine was sent after them with
the same result. The cars were aban
doned, and the men say they will quit
before they move them. Indications are
that a strike on the Kansas City, Fort
Scott and Gulf system is inevitable. The
Gulf road lias announced its williuguess
to handle freight, and unless it reconsid
ers this determiuntfcn the men will sure
ly go out.
LEVANTED.
Charles K. Dickinson, treasurer of two
street railway companies, and highly con
nected, has mysteriously disappeared
from St. Louis. Mo. He took all his keys
with him. He is a brother-in-law of
Julius Walsh, president of the Franklin
Avenue and of the Northern Central Rail
ways.
DISAPPROVAL.
Mgr. Dttccy, a prominent Catholic di
vine, pastor of St. Leo’s church, of New
York, the most fashionable Catholic
Church in that city, h is been suspended
by Archbishop Corrigan, on account of
his friendship for Dr. McGlynu.
The youngest looking Congressman In the
House, and one of the very smallest phvs
ic-ally is Mr. Yost, a Republican member
from Virginia.