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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUME XXIII.
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MY a. MOOBM.
B ?mryout* w 'uluiSui kuowlsdge.
t non may "turo his mind
, , .h.'t a+nful I'.Httor,
J uiii-r cam nor yet retain
B obl, * i “ tu ,c,lUur
„, „t t.p think anil than allow
" 1 , i tlinii 11tii to .lumbar,
, , uU, lliiu old oookloftfli
jliti ru for useless lumbarf
, .rlliii It" neck nml find the truth
’u'.ilfvi'roßli ruUln it,
... try in hard to keop
j„ ( - or J.d to (fain it,
, ■ . in* to! tiei’oniea a put
A 'n‘.,tl lull I Obey It;
Wl„ldati r,.w tho heavier
Xho l"i).:* r o' o delay it.
-I„, |, o hu ll we don't wish to keep
n ]wu> .1 harsh and cruel;
Tli t i. into we T' ckon vile,
o hut wo law on u jowel.
fclieri f.iiflu i'hlloHOphy
If the wlnlo unuse it?
r ar t* rli .v -<>oJ oornmoa sense
Auti Kuuw well how to use it.
gtillwe h 1 i uld have our minds well stored
With truth aud useful learning,
. ] ~,.a|, ,:,i in action what we know
Whiloafter wisdom yearning.
fljon ishuii tho curse of ignoranoe
Ami dari or Hiiiicrstition,
I, i keep a talent unimproved
To uernl you to perdition.
Gft love and store It In your heart,
And K iard tho sacred treasure,
’lwill throw a charm on everything
Aud make your life a pleasure.
Lovo lubricates tho wheels of life,
And swci tens every duty.
And makes the roughest pathway seem
Au avenue of beauty.
Ell'S FORTUNE!
OR,
The Stolen Heiress.
IALE OF NEW YORK IN 1835,
BY PROF. WM. HENRY PECK,
ADTHOII OF
The Queen's Secret,” “ The Tower of Gold 9
'The 1 'la[’j Hrced” “ Harold's Hate, 9
• The Brule of Barcelona ” Etc
CHAPTER XXXV.
rnn dame and her servant.
The clouds gathered fast and dark while
mm Grippard was on her lonely way, and
i closing day became quite stormy ere
e arrived at her cottage.
Thesnn had long been invisible amii
Brain and clouds when she drove into
r stable-yard, dismounted from her re
de, and pursued her noiseless way into
r kitchen.
In the kitchen she found Maggie Dilkex
sily engaged in preparing s for
H Uil . ■■ '-V . • . . ’
dtedy been made ready and set aside
tiler coming. Quick of eye, she instantly
meed that Maggie's heavy and usually
did features m ere now very lowering and
riile from great discontent evidently
whins in her soul.
Ihe dame, after gazing keenly at the
lomn for a moment, said:
Wow. then, Maggie Dilker, what’s the
tier with you to night? And where is
1 Kraud-danghler?’’
The woman lifted her heavy eyelids elow
ind sullenly, not at all startled by the
dden and unannounced coming of the
me, stared at her a moment, and replied,
r%:
‘She's in her room, Mrs. Grippard.
here should she be?"
"lamveiv g.ad to hear this,” said the
me to herself. “As I live, I had some
it that ehc might have gone to stay with
me of our neighbors for the night, as she
soften done when asked to sit up with
•moll. She is always ready to take sueij
ml is upon herself for others, the sim
eton.
‘And what is niy grand-daughter doing,
JBB e?" she added, aloud.
’Tacking up everything that is rightfully
own, Mrs Grippard," answered Maggie,
icurtlyand sullenly as before.
“Hum! And why is she doing that, Mag-
Heeause she is going away, Mrs. Grip
ird."
This reply made the dame st irt with sud
‘■l consternation. If Veruoena quitted
* cottage before eating again in it, the
“Dame Grippard had schemed for the'
Men's abduction would be blown to the
duds as a thing of naught. 6he hastened
Miclaini:
W hat? Does she intend to go away from
. oott geto-night —and immediately?”
Aol till 10-morrow morning, she told
“•Mr. Grippard. And lam going, too.
tat s flat,
Ham! An<l why is she going?—and why
toj/ou going?”
Miss V erueena keeps her reasons for
Wogto herself, as she has a perfect light
“°' Mrs. Grippard. Hers are good enough
tier, of course, and mine are good
3 , °r me, Mrs. Grippard.”
doubt, you insolent hußsy. But what
yours, Maggie Dilker, IM liketokuow.”
L°uf yj rH Grippard, 1 swore an
1 1 my heart that never would I stay a
hop- r y° up ro °£ Mter Miss Verneena
~1 -wot be by my side to cheer my work.
. 00u starve for food, Mrs. Grippard, if
ifl°f orDore to cat Mere than you allowed
ioo b ° n * rst took service with you. I
Pa . w Miat, if Miss Yerneena did not
#m if •. 1110 victuals Rhe buys for
Mer own earnings, that the liv
-lA, 0n would be a fat woman by the
sol took my Bible oath
lo**, 0 J lu 8 er with you after the blessed
lot K Mfyiit you—and I wonder she has
L p ? e that same many a day agone,
B ont . n Prard! So, now, 111 just forfeit my
Mrs , M - Wil k' os mther than stay with you,
a nd 1 !?^ — and y ° U ou t Mk® you
Cluing to livo with my gmml
pH; alter you leave my service, Mag
pr,°!ni9od to have me after she it
ple, lSe p , has a home of her own—which,
*Yon ’ * Mope she soon may have! ’
Dilker vO** f>° now * if you like, Maggie
Was ft Mout to offer you
Chors ” aes to live with me at Old An
-1 Anchors!” exclaimed Maggie,
Old An,.! I*** 1 *** A'ou think I would livo at
night! *i? rs R “er what happened there last
crazy von ° U m '’ 80u * Mre. Grippard, it’s
Bent to n v ar ° and crazy would 1 be to con
iou dol'n.o 111 that terrible ]>lace for a mill
“And *1 a * ( J ay * Old Anchors, indeed!”
Anchoiß i. n Mappened so torrible at Old
“As if v n you Rimpleton?"
Miss \\J° n l * ldu, t hnow, Mrs. Grippard.
the aw , u ;‘-na told me all she knew about
•ightii, )N lc 4 :deof poor Mr. Bratton last
Lu, ' n °Morß, His ghost will be
“Avtnn,, i" 1 ' 1 ' ’be place t.ll he is avenged. ”
lr “The on . U {!°“ w M°in, Maggie?”
Mrs. (j r j that made him kill himself,
°f Mim. -n 1 ' ' * ° no that was the death
to°H, y . e y say he owed you so much
ki U d himself to be free
d beeU sure t 0 put blm
lum i. B °’ >erßlitions idiot, Maggie
bor * to.m a ol 01 “ to . move iuto Old An
°t se 1 ii w moril iog, to live there till
, ion M ‘
“Si '-'V th, , < ;! CO '} 16 .. t0 d0 ‘hat, and be
j lint tell i' kos h Mrs. Grippard. ”
i ov ‘''' Sla egie—did my grand
'll'” r enter this house with her
;'lfr lover! Mian Ycr.ieen. has ncTO ,
tolil wo Unit Nhe lms u iover. *
Rut she lms, Maggie, and (hey menu to
try to elope from this cutlugu Him very
D'Kut. I menu to Wutoh about uli night
too, to catch them at it. Rou t tell me that
you dhl uot ace him accompany her here
10-duy In a carriage, Maggie Bilker.”
nKrPe replied with uuuaual q uickneep
Mil sharpness to this:
“I aiiw u very humlaome young gentle
mm in the curriuße, Miss Grippard. He
uiiln t come into the yard, even. He helped
Miss Verneeua from the carriage like a
prince, and aa if ahe wua a born priuceaa,
Mis. Grippard. They ure ua haudaome a
pair as ever lived. He led her to the gate
bade her good-day, mounted a noble-look
ing horse that a bit of a boy had ridden
after the carriiße, and rode away like a
prince again. The b t of a boy got into
the carriage driver's seat, and the carriage
rolled away toward the city, empty. When
it got near the hazel thicket out yonder, a
man lushed out of the thicket and jumped
up ou the footmans board behind—and
that's the last I aaw, and all I know about
the matter, lira. Grippard, aud bo you
ueodu't worry yourself, nor me, either’ by
asking me auy more questions, for I am
tired of the same. That’s Bat”
“Ah, ’’ reflected the dame, “the man that
jumped up behind the carriage was, do
doubt, Bulbata's first mate Urbandt.
Roubtlegs he spied after Hawksworthy
fr m the time the carriage quit the vicinity
of Uld Anchors. Here. Moggie,” she added
aloud, aud giving Maggie u key; “tltke this
key to the teed chest. Go to the stable aud
give Ajax a double feed of oats and corn.
The poor beast must be nearly famished."
“Nearly famished, do you say!” muttered
Maggie, as she quitted the kitchen. “It's
enti.cly starved with the hunger the pool
boast has been ever since he became one oi
your family, Mrs. Grippard.”
The dame heard these muttered words.
Her eyes flashed vengefully, and as she
hustene J to her bedroom she said to herself:
“insolent wretch! If 1 did not intend to
use your tongue iu my plans of this night
and hereafter, I’d give you a dose to still it
forever!"
She quickly procured in her bedroom,
from aßecret drawer of her private desk, au
article which sbo intended to use. She
then hastened w ith noiseless steps to place
herself near the partially opened door of
Verueena's bedroom. She was now able to
see the maiden and at the same time remain
concealed.
Yerneena was engaged as Maggie had
said. Sne bad no suspicion that the evil
eyes of the dame were gazing keenly at her.
Game Grippard watched \ erneeua only a
few seconds, i-atisfied IhatYerneena would
continue busy for some time, she glided
away and into the kitchen. There she
flashed her scrutiny in every direction, lis
tened toward the stable awhile, and then
deftly ami swiftly mingled a tasteless and
colorless narcotic powder with the tea and
food which Maggie had prepared for Ver
neena’s supper. She knew that Maggie al
w\s ate of what she prepared for the
maiden.
Long before Maggie returned from the
stable the dame was again near Yemecna’i
bedroom door. She tipped gently on the
half-opened door, and tottered into the
room with steps of feigned feebleness.
Verneena glanced at her. but said noth
ing. The old woman protended to sink
father than seat herself in a chair, panted
s if f - ’ ' *■ V.- ,CV. iia'i-luitiefc, !'•' 1
whined, in broken accents:
“Oh, my! How tiled out I am! This has
'been an awful day on my feeble strength,
my dear child! Oh! But, dear me! Worse
than anything that has happened at Old
Anchor! is what Maggie has just told me.
my dear child. That is, if it is really true.
Can it be true. Oh, my dear grand-daugh
ter, are you really going to desert me in my
old age and increasing infirmities? Going
to desert me—your poor old graudmother!
Goiug to desert me to-morrow!"
“Dame Grippard,” responded Verneena,
severely, and gazing steadily at the old
hypocrite, “in my departure from your roof
forever there is nothing that can be rightly
called desertion. Maggie has told the
truth. lam going to leave you and your
io-called protection to-morrow, forever.”
“Hear her! And after all the faithful
promises which I have made to her this
very day! After I have sworn to her that
she may marry her lover whenever and
wherever she may desire! Eight here, this
rery night, and in this very room, if she
wants to!” exclaimed Dame Grippard,
clasping her hands and lifting her eyes
tearfully toward the ceiliug.
T o all this Verneena made no other re
ply than to dart a glance of utter scorn and
contempt at the old womau. When Pettis
had earned (o Verneena the message that
she at and Edward could depart from Old
Anchors, aud not tarry there longer for the
dame, he had whispered to the lovers that
Dame Grippard had declared to him her
intention to write to Edward's father that
very day, and ask the Colonel to hasten to
New York to prevent the marriage of the
devoted pair. Pettis, of course, had asked
the loveiß not to betray him to the dame.
“You will make no reply, my dear?”
whined the dame, feigning to sob from fhe
bot:om of her soul. “Oh, at least toll me
1 rln re you are going! I ask to know, for
you are so young, so sweet and so beauti
tiful, and so inexperienced to go out into
this wicked world unprotected. Of course,
Mr. Hawsworthy will be your protector.”
“I am goiug to Albany. Dame Grippard,"
answered Verneena, coldly. “Why, or how
I am going there does not concern you. for
henceforth nothing in common is to exist
jbelween you and me.”
“It is plain,” said the dame to herself,
“that her lover has made her more defiant
of me than ever—and she was bad enough
in that respoct before th s day, the Lord
knows.”
“My dear child,” she added aloud, “yom
singular and very unnatural oonduct hai
made me so sick at heait that I fear I am
going to be very ill to-nightl Oh. such
stranee pains nround my poor heart!”
Horo the dame rolled her eyea and dis
torted her features as if her whole frame
was rent with ineffable inward agony.
“Oh, I feel as if I had swallowed poison,
mv dear child! I man have dona that.”
Verneena continued to attend to her own
affairs. She put no faith as yet iu the sx
isteuce of any illness of tbe dame’s body.
“My dear Verneena,” gaspingly whis
pered the dame, “it is very probable that I
have poisoned myself. Just now in my
bedroom I chanoed to pick up and eat a
cake which I placed on my desk-lid this
morning just before we set out for Old
Anchois. Oh! And now I remember that
I was mixing some rat poison on the lid last
night. Oh! And now I remember that I
did not clean off the lid after mixing the
rat poison on it. Oh! This is dreadful! I
am sure now that the cake which _ I have
just eaten got much of that horrible rat
poisou on it. Oh, you should pity me, my
The dame’s xoice was so full of anguish
that Verneena looked toward her curiously.
To her nsionishment the visago of the old
woman was now ghastly pale streaked with
bluish stripes, aud speckled with red
splotches. Her eyes glared with real hor
ror. Her features expressed sudden and
boundless terror aud terrible pain.
Scarcely had Verneena s glance taken in
the above'aspect of tbe case when Ihe o and
woman spraug convulsively to her feet, fu
riously clutched W robe and skin across
her breast, uttered a loud and sharp scream
of great pain, and lied from the room with
all her speed and strength. , ,
“1 thought she was merely trying to de
ceive me for some vile, purpose, saidl \er
neena to herself, and easing after where
the damn had vanished; “but it.m,v ;
dent that she is r. ally very ill, and it t*
possible that she may have poisoned her
self iu the way she said. ’
In truth, the dime had poisoned herself
while iu her bedroom by testing 100 freely
of a drug while iu search of that which we
Jiave seen her use in tho kitchen. The dis-
Cbvery that she had poisoned herself came
upon her conaciousm hh a moment after she
had begun to feign illness to deceive Ver
neeiui. With tli s suddmi aud terrific con
sciousness writhing tierce pains began to
dart thiougii her breast, lli u o her sud
den uuil be.ttlluug flight from Veruct-ns’s
loom to her own, f. r she knew that if sbo
should fail to swallow nn antidote to the
poison she could not live many hours, aud
that each of the hours would be oue of
horrible agony.
“If she U:s indeed poisoned herself,"
thought Verneo.in, as she resumed her
packing, ‘‘the justice of Inavm won and teem
lo bo in the fact, lor in t nfg l t she wotlld
have po.Boned me to death had she ruined
lo satiety her hatred of me.”
TO 11K CONTINUED.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
HOW CONGRESS IS SPENDING
ITS TIME AND ENERGY.
OFFICIAL ACTS OF THE FUESIDENT—AP
POINTMENTS AND ItEMOVALS—WHEKE
THE NATION’S MONEY OOK&—GOSSIP.
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In the Senate, the pension appropria
tion bill was takcu up, the question be
ing on the amendment reported by the
commiltee on appropriations to strike out
the words, ‘ 'Th a t in all pensions to
widows, payments shall be made from
the date of death of the husband,” and
to insert, “That all payments which have
been, or which may hereafter be granted
under the general laws regulating pen
sions to widows in consequence of death
occurring from cause which originated in
the service since the 4lh of March, 1881,
shall commence from the date of death of
the husband.” The Senate proceeded to
business on the calendar and passed,
among other bills, the following: Senate
bill appropriating $150,000 for quarters
and barracks at branches of the national
military home for disabled and volunteer
soldiers. Senate bill for a light ship at
Bashes Bluff Shoal, Elizabeth river, Va.,
not to cost over $00,000....
In the House, Mr. Henderson, of lowa,
presented the conference report on the
Cincinnati exposition bill and it was
agreed to. The House went into com
mittee of the whole (Mr. Springer, of Illi
nois, in the chair) on the tariff bill.
Mr. Nichols, of North Carolina, favored
tho repeal of the internal revenue system.
Other speakers against the Mills bill
were Messrs. Rouicis, of Ohio; Sawyer,
of New York; Spooner, of Rhode
Island, and Felton, of Colorado, and in
favor of it, Lane, of Illinois, and Marsh,
of Pennsylvania.
The resoluti n offered by Mr. Vest in
the Senate Monday, providing for a se
lect committee to examine questions
touching meat ar .I meat products of the
United State as taken up after a long
discussion ssrs. Vest, Manderson,
Cullo-i ■ .. .tty ob. The resolution for
tlit uw. th/uhuiiittt nuo t alcuVilu Jsvj >iO
to make the investigation embrace the
trunk line association, Central traffic as
sociation and other agencies of transpor
tation, and was adopted. The Senate
bill appropriating $500,000 for the com
mencement of a boat railway around the
obstructions of Columbia river at
Dalles and Ceblio Falls was pissed.
Among the bills passed were the Senate
bill appropriating SIO,OOO for a public
building at Fort Monroe, Va., and Sen
ate bills to pay vanous claimants for
cotton taken by Gen. Burnside for
military works at Knoxville, Teun
The House met at 10 o’clock, and went
into committee of the whole (Mr.
Springer, of Illinois, in the chair) on the
tariff bill. Mr. Baker, of New York,
spoke in support of the protective tariff.
Speeches were made by Messrs. Farqu
har and Brum against, and Messrs. Wea
ver and Russell for the bill.
Among the bills reported in the Sen
ate, on Wednesday, from the committees
and placed on the calendar, were the fol
lowing: Senate bill granting the use of
certain lands to the city of St. Augus
tine, Fla., for a public park ; House bill
to authorize the construction of a bridge
across the Tennessee river at Knoxville,
Tenn.; House bills appropriating SIOO,-
000 for a public building at Columbus,
Ga., and increasing the limit of the cost
for the public building at Charleston, S.
C., to SIIOO,OOO were taken from the cal
endar and passed. The bill to limit th
hours of letter carriers (House bid) was
taken up aud passed without discussion
or division. It provides that hereafter
eight hours shall constitute a day’s work
for letter carriers in cities or postal dis
tricts connected therewith, and allows
them extra pay for overtime. The bill
for the establishment of a bureau of ani
mal industry was displaced from its
position as “unfinished business” and
remitted to Ihe calendar. House bill to
establish a department of labor was taken
up, laid aside informtlly, and the pen
sion appropriation bill was considered.
....In the House, speeches in favor of
the tariff bill were made by Messrs. Buck
alew,of Pennsylvania, and Stone, of Ken
tucky, and against it by Messrs. Hender
son, Grant, of Vermont, and Seymour.
The committee then rose, after further
unimportant and minor legislation.
One hundred and five speecnes have
been made on the taiiff bill up to the
present time. The speeches have occu
pied ninety-seven hours and twelve min
utes iu delivery. Eighty-nine floors have
been occupied during day sessions, and
eight hours and twelve minutes during
evening sessions.
UOS3IP.
Secretary Fairchild has approve 1 tha
design of the new twenty-dollar silver
certificates, bearing an excellent likeness
of the late Secretary Manning.
A cable message from Uuited State*
Consul Lewis, at Tangier, was received
at YVashington on Wednesday, saying
that all questions of disagreement be
tween Morocco and the United States has
been settled, and that lie had gained all
points contended for.
Through its chairman, Representative
Matson, the House Committee on Inva
lid Pensions on Wednesday reported a
bill proposing to remove the restriction
upon the payment of arrearages of pen
sion in the case of claims filed before the
date of the passage of this act.
KNOCKED ’EM OUT.
Tbe judges of the Liquor License Court
of Philadelphia, Pa, rendered their de
cision on Wednesday in the cases of
applicants in the 22d, 23d, 24th, 25th
and 27th words. Out of 531 petitions
for license only 182 were granted. In
the five wards there are at present 1,024
saloons.
A man with both legs shot off ia not wholly
unhappy. He can stand on his dignity when
ever ho *‘> a to.
‘•MT COUNTRY MAT HUS SVSR BS RIOBT. RIGHT OR WRONG MT COUNTRY."—Jifftnon
COVINGTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1888.
SOUTHERN SPRAYS.
INTERESTING FACTS BRIEFED
FOR BUSY HUMANITY.
MOVEMENTS IN KELIOIOCS, TEMPERANCE,
MASONIC AND SOCIAL CIRCLES — KIKES,
ACCIDENTS— INDUBTIU AL I'HOO HESS.
Alabama.
The Alabama Masonic grand lodge
laid the corner-stone of Jefferson
couuty courthouse, at Birmingham, Thurs
day.
The American Institute of Miuiug En
gineers, Prcsideut W. B. Potter, of St.
Eouis, presiding, met iu Birmingham on
Wednesday. About one hundred mem
bers were present, and many of them ac
companied by their wives. President
Potter said he had traveled from the At
lantic to the Pacific, and nowhere else
had he found such inexhaustible mineral
resources as in North Alabama.
Last October Editor G. 11. Johnson,
of the Birmingham Sunday Morning
Star, shot a real estate agent and a po
liceman, slightly Wounding both. He
was released on $4,000 bond, and on
Wednesday his case was called for trial
in the criminal court. Johnson hud been
in the courtroom all the forenoon, but at
recess be disappeared. When his case
was culled he couldn’t be found in the
city.
At Ensley, six miles from Birmingham,
Terrell Darden, a negro ex-convict, was
shot dead, on Thursday, by Deputy
sheriff Jack Pasco. Paseo arrested the
negro for burglary, and while reading
the warrant the officer was knocked
down by his pri-oner, who then started
to run. Pasco got up and started in
pursuit. The negro again turned on him,
and was then shot through the heart.
Dardeu had just served out a five years’
sentence for burglary, and robbed a store
at Pratt mines a few days after he was
released.
A collision took place at Muscadine
creek, on the Georgia Pacific road ou
Thursday. The Atlanta bound passen
ger train ran into a west bound freight
train which was leaving a side track.
The freight engine was driven into a box
car, splitting it in half. The pilot of
both engines were demolished, and the
cab of engine was torn off.
The baggage oar was smashed. The in
jured are: William Spinks, engineer of
passenger train, face bruised; B. 11. Fill
more, baggage master, lip cut aud hip
bruised. A. B. Dunuing, express messen
ger, nose smashed.
Virginia.
The diocesau council oi he Protestant
Episcopal church of the s. met in
Staunton Wednesday.
Frank May, working at a saw .'ill,
near Port Republic, was caught by a s
which opi r, ft hlo 1 g ‘ +bi- thigh, lh’
tered his side and cut his bowels, liver
and iungs, and forced his heart from the.
left to the right side. He lived fourteen
hours and suffered intense thirst. The
water he drank flowed out at his wound
in his side. He was conscious until his
death. The doctors consider it most re
markable that death did not occur im
mediately.
Georgia.
Augusta is to have a reformatory in
stitution forchildreu. Sixty acres of land
has been purchased for it.
Governor Gordon, on Thursday, par
doned J. M. A. Stringer, sentenced to
imprisonment for life for killing John
Goddis in Lumpkin county.
The State Grand Lodge of the Knights
of Pythias met in Atlanta. The street
parade of the uniformed division was
magnificent. Mayor Cooper welcomed
them in a speech, and Governor Gordon
reviewed them.
On Monday night, fire broke out in the
West & Edwards building on Pryor
street, Atlanta, and a loss of nearly SOO,-
000 was sustained. Bain & Kirkpatrick,
hardware; McDonald Bros., grocers; and
Levi Cohn, wholesale dealer in notions
were the principal sufferers.
On Sunday, a mob of several hundred
young men rotteo-egged the Salvation
Army iu Atlanta, and assaulted the bar
racks with rocks. Mayor Cooper has
ordered the police to protect the Army,
and will hold them to rigid accountabil
ity if they do not, so he says.
At a large gathering on Thursday night
of Mitchell Post, G. A. R., of Atlanta,
and their Northern friends, Prof. Thayer
suggested, and it was received with great
favor, that memorial services for both
Confederates and Union soldiers should
be held on the same day.
John W. Roberts employed on the
tanks at Iceville, on the Chattahoochee
river, was walking along the State Rail
road, when he was struck by a freight
engine and cut into smull pieces. The
heart had been separated as if by a knife
and was lying all alone upon a crosstie.
Rev. G. H. Patillo died on Wednes
day, at Clarksville, after a lingering ill
ness. He was well known and greatly
beloved in Atlanta. At one time he was
the pastor of St. Paul’s Methodist church
in that city. He was a prominent mem
ber of the North Georgia conference for
years.
Geo. H. Eddleman, a real-estate man,
and Thomas Gresham, the yardmaster
of the YV. & A. Railroad, had a dispute
on Wednesday in an Atlanta restaurant
Eddleman complained that his book
keeper belonged to too many secret so
cieties, and spoke unkindly of those
organizations. Gresham denounced him
as a liar, whereupon Eddleman assaulted
him with a cane, following it up with a
pistol shot which took effect in Gres
ham’s stomach. The wounded man died
and Eddie man was jailed.
North Carolina.
Information comes from the tobacco
growing counties of the western part of
the state that two-thirds or more of
young plants were killed by the recent
frosts. Vegetables and wheat were
greatly damaged at numerous points in
the mountains. The mercury went be
low 30, and in one instance to 25 degrees
above.
Kenluckr.
In the “Derby” race at Louisville,
“Macbeth,” the winning horse, netted
his owner, named Hawkins, $70,000.
A supplementary report was made on
Thursday on the investigation of cx-
Trensurer Tate’s office, in Louisville. It
shows that SIB,OOO taxes paid by the
Kentucky Central Railroad Cos., has never
been accounted for.
Texas
The new state capitol of Texas was
dedicated Wednesday with imposing cer
emonies.
Houill Carolina
Fire iu Uluckvillu ou Wednesday dot
stroyed twenty-four stores aud residences.
Total loss $54,550.
About half a dozen vends of the
North Atlantic fleet will rendezvous at
Foct Royal, arriviug on Suuduy, aud
diAing a week's stay will treat visitors to
a grund sham tight, etc. Tho yacht
clubs of Charleston and Savanuuh will
>t!snd.
Will Palmer aud John Dawmond, la
borers on the C. It. & W. Kuilway, were
arrested at Greenville ou Thursday
charged with riot and carrying concealed
On last Sunday night, while
they •'•ere passing several citizens’ houses,
ihcy cursed their families and fired pis
tols.
*t. Mark’s colored Episcopal church,
Chirleeton, has determined to maintain
an independent position. At a recent
meeting of the congregation, resolutions
wero adopted expressing gratification
that after thirteen years ot patient effort,
the constitutional rights of ht. Marks had
been recognized by the diocesean con
vention in admitting Rev. J. H. M. Pol
lard, its colored minister, to membership
in the convention without question or
objection, “but holding our union in
the church by our allegiance only to the
bishop of the diocese under the canons
and constitution of the general conven
tion of the Protestant Episcopal church
in the United States, without reference
to the diocesean convention of South
Carolina or its laws.”
Florliln. •
Phosphate beds twelve feet in thick
ness have been discovered on lands in the
Alligator creek vicinity.
The state immigration convention met
at Jacksonville on Wednesday, and
adopted measures to attract reliable im
migration to settle in Florida.
At a colored festival at Ocala, Sunday
a row occurred. Will Williamson shot
and killed Matthews Lucius and wounded
two others. The murderer, with his ac
cessories, John Bellinger aud Henry
Fisher, were arrested.
The western portion of Wakulla county
is peculiarly adapted to bee culture, and
many gallons of honey arc annually Bold
by the people of that vicinity. No pains
whatever is taken iu the cultivation of
ih s industry, the old fashioned gums
being still in use. Many of the citizens
ou the upper Ocklockonee have from 150
to 200 hives.
Missouri.
Word comes from O’Fallon that the
water is now an unbroken aheet from
biuff to bluff, except iu the extreme
southwest portion of the bottom. Buei
ne-s ou the Keokuk line is wholly sus
;a-ndeil, ns au open lake of water reaches
In m St. Peter to beyond old Monroe
The gap in Sny levee, through which the
whole of the Mississippi is now pouring,
has widened almost thirty yards. Sny
is in contains 120,000 acres of line
ja-ming laud, and it is estimated that
■Jn Uj To,<>oo acres will be inundated. Of
the submerged lands 50,000 acres are in
crops, and the majority in wheat The
flood situation grew worse on Wednes
day on the opposite side of the river, and
it is now most certain that Indian Grove
district will be abandoned for years to
come. Indian Grove region is completely
covered with water. No loss of life has
y<t breu reported, but the damage to
property in the two di-tricts is known to
he not lar from $1,500,000.
Maryland.
The General Assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian church met in Baltimore on
Thursday. The sermon was preached
by Rev. Dr. Striekler, of Atlanta, Ga.,
moderator. The assembly includes sixty
ries, which are represented gen
erally by one clerical and one lay dele
gate, though some of them have two of
each. The whole number is about odo
hundred and fifty, who are entitled to
seats in the body.
Tennosee>
Buildings aggregating in value over
$1,000,000, have been commenced in
Chattanooga siuce January.
Pension Examiner, Dr. J. L. Gaston,
of Chattunooga, has been removed, and
Dr. W. T. Hope takes his place.
Dr. If. A. Brinkly, of Nashville, was
arrested on a charge of being concerned
in the ultering of counte feit money.
Gov. Robert L. Taylor was renomi
nated at the Nashville Democratic Con
vention, on the final ballot receiving
1,081 votes, the opposition casting 214.
Henry Lane, a young man about twen
ty-one years old, night-watchman for the
Lenoir Manufacturing Cos., at Lenoir?, on
Monday, was struck by an engine and re
ceived injuries from which lie died.
Thursday was a gala day in Somerville.
The crews from either end of the Tennes
see Midland were at work laying track
just w est of town, and so nearly together
that it was known early in the day that
the day would witness the laying of tho
last rail. The whole population visited
the track iu the afternoon and inspected
the systematic working of the large crews
of men, and quite a large number re
mained till dark, when the last spike
was driven, and -Memphis and JacksoD
were united with bonds of steel.
Maj. O. 11. Ernest, Capt. Dan C. King
man and Col. William E. Merrill consti
tute the board that pass on the Memphis
bridge. The western approach will be
gin three-quarters of a mile from the
hank of the river, while the eastern or
Memphis approach will not be more than
300 or 400 feet long. The structure will
be composed of steel and the most solid
musonry, and will cost $2,000,000.
Thrc will be only ono railroad track
across the bridge, and the wagon and
foot-wav will be of plank, on a level with
the track.
A FIEND 8 DEED.
Three weeks aao a tramp named
George Cook secured employment on the
faim of John Sommers in Scipio town
ship, Indiana. On Wednesday, Mrs,
Sommers went to La Porte, leaving her
husband at work iu the field and three
children in care of Cook. On returning
home the mother was horrified to find her
eleven months’ babe dead in the cradle
and Cook absent. Cook, who was chased
and arrested, says lie did not mean to kill
the child, I ut did so by shaking it, be
coming angry at the baby because it cried
and would not hush. its neclc was
broken.
NEEDB ATTENTION.
On Vinegar Hill, Morris Island, in tho
harbor of Charleston, S. C., tho heavy
winds have blown the covering of sand
off the bodies of a large number of sol
diers. l’he bones lie bleaching in the sun.
An epidemic prevails at Madrid Bpain. It
is feared that the disease is of a choleraic
nature, ami its spread is attributed to the ex
treme heat and tue drinking of impure milk.
WORDS OK WISDOM.
All genuine truth ii orthodox.
Agreeable advice is seldom uaeful ad
vice.
The best armour is to keep out of gun
shot.
It is double pleasure to deceive the
deceiver.
Nothing ii troublesome that we do
willingly.
He is a wise man who can preach a
abort sermon.
As long as temptations exiet, naan will
hunt for them.
Consuro is the tax a man paycth to the
public for being eminent
Man may not reach perfection, hut he
:an reach for it; this is all that is re
quired of him.
Vanity, perhaps,has made more people
polite and even endurable thau lias any
one of the virtues.
Gentleman is a term which docs not
apply to any station, but to the heart
and feelings in every station.
Mentally, morally and physically man
is composed of all things good, lad and
indifferent. He is a kind of a human
rag-bag.
From the thoughts roused in Newton's
miud by the apple falling to the ground
sprang the discovery of the law of nature
called “gravitation.”
No statue that the rich man places
ostentatiously in his windows is to he
compared to the little expectant face
pressed against the window pane,
watching for his father wheu his day's
work is done.
A great mind obseives great laws,
broad inward principles, guides its con
duct by fixed and determinate methods;
while a great mind sets order at defiance
and imagines itself to be free when it is
simply lawless.
When self interest inclines a man to
print, he should consider that the buyer
expects a pennyworth for his penny;
also, that it is possible to publish a book
of no value, which is too frequently the
habit of mercenary people.
If right means will uot compass a de
sired end, then the desired end is not a
right end. However attractive or desir
able an object ofattainmentmayseem.it
cannot justify the use of wrong means.
Unless tho way itself is right, it cannot
rightly be taken as a means to any end.
Twin Curses of Sandwich Islands.
“With all the increasing prosperity ot
the Sandwich Islands,” said Mr. George
W. Wolcott, a prominent sugar producer
of Hawaii, to a St. Louis I‘o-t-Ditpatch
reporter, “the natives are fast losing
ground, and are diminishing in numbers
with startling rapidity. The islands pos
sess an almost perfect climate, in all
probability the be3t in the world, and
epidemic diseases are practically un
known. But two scourges are now rag
ing among the islanders with little pros-
| eel.of <U>uG u n leprosy aruLj^jiik.
The natives are very fond of liquor, but
seem unable to resist its effects, and after
indulgence for a ytar or two almost in
variably die. But the great curse of the
natives is leprosy. Whites are scarcely
ever affected, and Chinamen very s 1-
dom, but fully three-fourths of the
deaths among the natives are caused by
this disease.
“Everything has been done to stop it,
a large reward has been offered for any
means of stopping or even checking its
ravages, and every six months a ship
makes a tour of the island, collects ail
those far advanced in the disease, aud
takes them to a remote island, where
they remain in isolation for the
rest of their lives, iu order that the con
tagion may not spread. But all lias been
in vain, the disease becomes every year
more prevalent and destructive, especially
an the largest island, that of Hawaii,
ind it is a question of a very few years
when the entire race will succumb. The
Sandwich Islanders, owing to the efforts
of the missionaries, who, by tlie way,
are nearly all traders, and very success
ful ones at that, have become Christian
ized after a fashion, but many of the
superst: sus of heathen times still pre
vail.
“The most universal belief is that of
the power of a mat to pray his enemy to
death. The Sandwich Islanders possess
a peculiar faculty in this respect. When
a man becomes convinced that someone
is praying him to death lie will gradually
waste away, and finally die from fright.
This faculty of simply giving up and dy
ing is, as far as I know, peculiar to the
Sandwich Islands, but its manifestations
have been too marked and frequent to
admit of any doubt entertained on the
subject. The natives to-day arc scarcely
considered when the best policy for the
interests of the islands is discussed, and
actual instead of practical annexation to
the United States would be best in all
respects for their interests.”
A Remarkable Column.
Carter Harrison says, in a letter from
PellA, India, to the Chicago Mail: Cities
lie hero in strata, as the ribs of the earth
do, in its mighty rocks—sandstone, shale,
limestone, and marble. Can we hope that
under British rule will overlie all n
stratum of rich loam, to be yet watered
by the sweat of a happy and prosperous
people, till it waves like a field of grain
and blossoms as the rose. Close to the
iron pillar stands, to me, one of the
most interesting aud beautiful monu
ments I have ever seen, the “Kutnb
Minar.” This is a species of column
with a diameter at its base of nearly fifty
feet, and rising to a height of two hun
dred and forty odd feet, with a diameter
at its apex of nine feet. At one time it
continued to a still greater height of ten
to twenty feet; the upper part was
thrown off by an earthquake within the
present century. It is divided into five
stories, graduated in perfect symmetry.
Each story is surmounted by a balcony
supported by an exquisite bracketed
cornice. But, as a still further relief,
each story is divided into what appears
to be other stories by broad bands of
Arabic inscriptions, extracts from the
koran. The column is fluted for most
of its height, and built of red, buff,
and pink sandstone and white marble.
For what purpose it was built no one
knows. It is as beautiful in its form aud
construction as it is unique in its concep
tion. The Kutali Minar is eleven miles
from the present city. The space be
tween is a mass of ruins of older cities.
A Quick Return.
“Oh! bless you, ma’am,” the beggar warmly
said, *
As grandma filled with bread and meat her
basket.
“This meat will bo returned you from
above—
That’s sure as I, a grateful womau, ask
it”
And as she turned away, our servant maid,
A newly come hut promising tiegiuner.
Called out: “Thelady who resides upstairs
{Sends you an invitation, ma’am, to din
ner.”
— Harper') Bazar.
BUDGET OF FUN.
RI'HOROCS BKKTCHRS FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
A Shining Society Light—A Freak
of Nature Robbing River
Banks Her Strict Sense
of Propriety, Etc., Etc.
A pair of shiny boots lie wore,
Likewise a shiny hat,
And eyed the damsels at the door
Who came out from the mat.
No answering glance they gave him bock.
Aa swiftly past they flew,
Because like hat and lioohi, alack,
His coat was shiny too
—Boiton Courier.
A Freak of Nature.
Timpkins—“l say, Jones, those trou
sers of yours are mighty shabby.”
Jones (who is sensitive on the subject
and replies with some asperity)—“Well,
anyway, they cover's warm heart!”—
Judge.
Robbing River Banka
“I see in the paper,” remarked Mrs.
Snaggs, “that some river thieves have
been arrested.”
“Yes,’’replied her husband, listlessly.
“It’s a good thing they are armpted.
Think how Pittsburg would sutTcr if
they had stolen the Allegheny or the
Ohio.” —Pittibui g Chroutele.
Her Strict Sense of Propriety.
On the archery ground. Miss Prim—
“ Did you hit the masculine bovine optic,
Mi. Uubbins?”
“Beg pardon?”
Small brother Prim to the rescue:
“Aw, she wants to know if you hit the
bull’s eye, Mr. Gub., only she’s tootoney
to talk plain English. Cheese your non
sense, Sue."— l)amtitle Breeze.
The Instrument Was Shocked.
First Telegraph Operator— “What’s
the matter with your machine, Jack? It
acts as if it were going to tear itself off
the table?”
Second Telegraph Operator—“Oh, it’s
that fool fellow in Washington.”
“What’s he doing?”
“He's sending the proceedings of the
woman’s rights gathering there, and he
just now gave the name of the president
as Susie Anthony!’’— Chieagu Mail.
A Chance to Show Attention.
“Do you think, Miss Ethel,” he in
quired, tremulously, “that 1 could see
your father this evening?”
“I hardly think so, Mr. Lastyn,” she
replied with a soft and not unbecoming
blush. “Papa is in the library with Mr.
Gctthere, and I expect he will need me,
too, in a few minutes. But I am sure
that any other evening papa would be
more than happy to have you call on
him. He is always pleased when young
people show him attention.”
In a Cont-eWprtniit u -Mood.
“ Why so contemplative, papa mine? ”
said the beautiful Miss Wabash to her
father, the eminent Chicago pork packer;
“is your mind upon business cares in
tent f ”
“ Yes, dear,” he replied, pushing her
away gently; “and you mustn’t dis
turb me now. 1 have perfected a sys
tem by which I can make silvered pigtail
favors for the german, and 1 am trying to
thiuk out something that will prevent
the grunt from running entirely to
waste.”— New York Sun.
A Waateof Raw Material.
Mr. Thrippair Bacque (who is showing
Miss Terrie Hutt the sights of the town) —
“ Look at those seals, -Miss Hutt! Don’t
you think they’re sorter int'resting? See
’em flop about!”
.Miss Terrij Hutt (sternly)—“l thiuk j
they're an awful waste of material, if you
wanter know, Mr. Bacque. I calculate
there’s a sacque and a half in each one of
those insects, and now they’re natural
ized ; I don’t s’pose there’s a cent cf duty
on ’em. Where did you say the monkeys’
cage was?.” — Puck.
A Sarcastic Order Literally Obeyed.
A missionary once took a Hindoo coun
try lad as a servant, when goingon a boat
ing journey. As thore are no lavatories
on board these country boats, one’s ab
lutions have to be performed iu a very
simple manner, an ordinary bucket serv
ing as a wash-bowl. Tbe boy was or
dered to bring some water, and in doing
bo, happened to spill a little on the floor.
‘ Why don’t you throw it all over me?”
asked the missionary, jocosely. “Aha,”
said the lad, and immediately, to his
master’s astonishment, took up the pail
and emptied it o: er that gentleman’s
head. The boy could not possibly un
derstand the humor in the speech, aud
was astonished to find that words are
not always used to express the same idea.
AVliere He Drew the Line.
“I dropped into a down-town hat
store last week to have my hat ironed,”
says a writer in the New York Town
Topic*. “ A gentleman having just pur
chased a silk hat, one of the clerks had
taken it to the inner room to have it
shaped to his head. While he stood
bareheaded awaiting his tile, another
gentleman entered, and, mistaking him
for one of the clerks, said as he handed
him his hat, which was an old one”;
“ Want to have it ironed.” The gentle
man accepted the situation humorously,
and taking the hat to the back office,
called out: “Just iron that hat, please!”
Presently his new hat was brought out
to him, and while he was just ad justing
it, customer number two came up briskly
and said: “Y’ou need not try it on; it
looks all right; give it to me.”
“ Well, my good man,” was the some
what sarcastic retort, “ I don’t raind be
ing mistaken for a hat clerk, but when it
comes to giving up my new hat for that
old campaigner I have just passed in, the
line has got to be drawn.”
Larry Jerome’s Scarf Pin.
A week or so ago, just as Larry Jerome,
the New Y’ork millionaire patron of out
door sports, was leaving home to come
over to Washington, he stopped in at
Macy’s and bought a handsome solid gold
scarf pin, set with a beautiful sapphire,
for which he paid the regulation price of
s:i. On the handsome Jerome this pin
loomed up like a gem of purest ray
serene, and he flattered himself that he
was giving the jewelry a great send-off,
and taking in all observers by its glit
ter. When he reached Washington aud
Chamberlin's the first man he met was
John Hoey, and the first thingho noticed
on Mr. H. was a tine diamond scarf pin.
“Larry's mind was soon made up and
he began to “approach” his friend, the
millionaire.
“That's a fine pin you are wearing,”
he said, with innocent confidence.
“Yes,” remarked Mr. H., “and I ob
serve that you are wearing one that isn’t
any slouch.”
NUMBER 29.
Larry blushed and went at him again.
“Yes,” he suid, “that’s a fine article,
but I like yours better in some respect*
than my own.”
“Oh, I don’t know,” said Hoy, eva
sively.” “How’ll you trade?"
“Well,” hesitated Larry, shrewdly, “1
am not very anxious, hut if you feel like
it, Hi go for you for friendship’s sake
and take the chances.”
Each one assured the other of the great
bargain ho was getting, and filially the
pins were exchanged.
That night the two friends went to the
theatre, and Larry, fearing that Hoey
might want to play “Injun gift," wore
his new scarf pin in hia pocket, oo hla
fiiend wouldn’t see it and be reminded
of the past. “Gf course,” thought
Larry, “Hoey wouldn’t wear anything
hut the best, and I’m just in to the ex
tent of a SSO scarf pin."
The next day Hoey left, and Larry was
in high feather and went to John Cham
berlin to tell him his luck.
“By Jove!” he said to John, “I
worked Hoey in great shape,” and he
proceeded to give him all the particu
lars.
John tumbled into a chair and fairly
yelled.
Larry joined kim and roared even
louder thun John did.
"What are you laughing at?” asked
John, finally.
“At the way I worked lloey, of
course,” said Larry, in some surprise.
"I ain’t,” said John. “I’m laughing
at the way he worked you.”
Worked me?” exclaimed Larry, getting
cold.
"Of course,” said John. "Didn’tyou
trade him a $J pin!”
“Y’es, and got a SSO one for it.”
“Not much, you didn’t. Hoey told me
all about it, and that pin you’ve got cost
him just fifty cents, and he didn’t try to
beat the dealer down a single cent,
either.”
Larry was so indignant that he bet
Chamberlin a basket of champagne he
didn't know anything about jewelry, and
then taking him out to a jeweler's, the
question was put to the expert as to the
value of the pin.
“Well,” he said, after a critical ex
amination, “I don’t know what it is
worth to you, but if I were buying I’d
give about twenty-five cents a quart for
pins of that grAle.”
Larry collapsed, and now he is look
ing for Hoey with a club.— Washington
Cri ic.
Capturing Young Elephants.
Carl I.ohse, a hunter in the employ of
a New Y ork house dealing in wild ani
mals, has been interviewed by a S m re
porter. He gave a description of the way
elephants were killed or captured in
Africa. “The attack is made.” said Mr.
I-ohse, “by two or three of the best
mounted and most eourageous men of
the Homrahn tribe riding close to the
leaders of the herd and teasing them in
every possible way. ’lhe enraged bulls
charge after the hunters, who lead them
a lively race through the underbrush.
Thc.otb.'r. herd string out after
the leaders, and in this way they become
scattered. As the elephants in the rear
are ambling gently after the others they
are suddenly set upon by the swordsmen
of the party, who are on foot. Before
the big brutes can turn around the hun
ters are at their heels, and, with a quick,
dextrous cut sever the tendons of their
hind legs. This hamstringing of course
brings the animals to the ground, and
then the hunters can dispose of them at
their leisure. Asa general thing they
only kill the males, letting the females
go for breeding purposes. The young
ones me captured by the horsemen. The
Homralms are wonderful riders, and they
will gallop at full speed after a fleeing
young elephant, get alongside of him,
and then jump from their horses to his
back. It takes marvelous agility to ac
complish this feat, but the men seldom
make a failure. Once on the back of the
young elephant it is an easy matter for
the hunter to secure it. As the fright
ened animal runs swiftly along trumpet
ing with his trunk held high in the air,
the hunter throws a slip noose over his
head, tangles the rope dextrously about
his hind feet, and in almost less time
than it takes to tell about it has the ele
phant lying helpless on the ground and
tied se urcly to a tree. There they are
permitted to remain for several days or
until they become sufficiently subdued.
Then they are hobbled and driven back
to the enclosure. In one hunt that I
made with twelve horsemen and about
twenty footmen we captured four young
elephants alive and killed ten old ones.
The hunters sold the ivory obtained on
that hunt for about S4OO. They got all
the ivory, and I had to pay them SIOO
each for the young elephants they cap
tured. The ivory is bought by Abyssin
ian merchants and most of it is exported
to India The llomrahns use the hides
of the elephants to make shields, but
they do not use the carcass. Very rarely
they eat some of the meat.”
Romantic Discovery of a Tenor.
Since the days of George Sand the
operatic tenor has invariably been re
regarded as a romantic personage. The
career of M. Bernard, the new tenor of
the Paris opera, bears out the romantic
tradition to the full. Two years ago he
was a working carpenter iu Toulon,
France; now he struts upon the stage of
the grand opera, lie was discovered in
a properly lomantic fashion also. M.
Hartmann.the music publisher,was pass
ing along the streets of Toulon aud
heard Bernard carolling gleefully as he
worked at his bench. Struck with the
singular beauty of the singer’s voico, M.
Hartmann made inquiries on the spot,
and engaged his newly-found tenor to
appear iu the “Herodiade,” which at
that time was in rehearsal at Toulon.
Since then Yl. Bernard has studied at
Naples and Milan, and has made good
his lack of musical knowledge. When
first engaged by M. Hartmann he con
fessed that he did not know a single note
of music.- • Commercial Adcertiser.
The Largest Gorilla in America.
Boston has received from Africa the
largest gorilla ever landed in this country.
His name is Jack, and he is five feet in
height when standing erect, and
measures seven feet from the end of one
outstretched hand to the other. He
weighs about oue hundred and twenty
live pounds and exhibits enormous
strength, compared with which that of
man seems like a child's. He arrived in
a large box made of plankiDg two and
one-half inches thick, and when being
removed from the ship he tore large
splinters from the hard-wood planks
with as much case as a child xvould
break a twig. The hair, which is very
coarse, and from two to four inch s in
length, is of a greenish-gray color, aud
on the back, legs and arms inclines to a
black. His shoulders are immense. The
expression of liis face, which is black,
is scowling. The eyes are small, sunken
in the head, and the lips large and thin,
—Boston Courier.