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VOLUME XXIII.
lEDEEH'S FORTUNE;
on,-
The Stolen Heiress.
A TALE OF NEW YORK IN 1835,
BY PROF. WM. HENRY PECK,
AUTHOR or
• The Queen'g Secret* • The Tower of Gold*
• lhe Hal/- lifted,* H //aeoUT* UaUf
• The llrule u f liarctlvna.* tite.
CHUTE fxUL
Tmt FAI.L OF (ATTAIN It ALBAT A.
The dame had no cowardice in her Htrrn
lature. Sho rushed through the powdor
imoke‘bat now fill'd the narrow hall, al
most bhndly, at* the Ciiptai •, b'inded by
M]o loioke also, i;im rushing ut her.
Each could but dimly w e the form of
the other. The I intern on the tloor showed
jiL'ht hut feebly aui and th) powder smoke.
••Satan tike yon!" siid the Captain, as h *
Jea t a terrible sweeping blow with law club
it the dame’s brad.
His blow missed her. The end of his
}lub struck the wall behind her head. Re*
.'ore ho could strike agdn, she had smitten
turn across his face with the butt of one of
her pistols.
A great and painful gash was cut deep
Into his lion like visage. A gnsh of hot
blood streamed into his massive beard. Jlo
Itaggered back a pace, bowling.
The dauie struck again with the butt o|
her other pistol. \Viih the butts of both
ihenow rained terrific blows with light
ning-like rapidity upon Ins bead, face,
•boulders, and fending hand aid arms. A
uian less tough, le.-s bnll-liko in muscle,
less s rung, would have been beaten sense
less, or to the tloor, in less than half a
minute under such a tempest of iron h:i 1.
Snarling, snapping, spitting like a huge
and cat. the darno fought furious y to beat
him down.
But the Captain held his own with a
itubborn tenacity t hat soon began to weaken
the power of the dame’s attiek. Suddenly
* chance blow, blindly dealt by him with
his <*lub, struck heron the side of her head.
She had just cast aside one ot her wea
pons. grasped his collar, anil was drawing
Dim nearer to her blows, when thus smitten
on her head. She relaxed hor grasp, stag
gered hack, and fell.
Balbata would have rushed upon her and
hcaten her to death instantly, but nt this
moment th<* front door was thrown open,
and Edward sprang into th hall
Edward and Sir Edward had been snr
prised greatly by not rinding tho pretend and
mulatto coaehinau before the hotel when
they descended from above, and especially
when the ni_ht watchman of the hotel told
them that the supposed mulatto had scram
bled to his seat with the haste of a fright
ened cat. and driven away nt full speed the
next moment.
Edward did not allow his surprise and
wonder to delay his movements. His ac
tivity and knowledge of the vicinity were
great, ami a carriage and a pair of swift
hdil stiong horses were bearing him and
Sir Edward toward Yorkvillo in less than
half n hour after Bazilio had begun bis
furious flight thitherward.
Edward’s horses, swifter, fresher than
those driven by ltazilio, arrived at the cot
tage but a few minutes niter Bazilio’s ar
rival there. Edward and the bmonet had
convi rsed end wondered much on their
wav from the city, and each was nervous
from apprehended evil to Verneena long
before their caningo ha ted at the cottage
gte. They hastened into the yard, Ed
"ard in advance, knowing well the locality,
and holding the baronet’s hand as they hur
ried toward the front door.
Bulimia's recognition of the young offi
cei was instantaneous. lie saw, too, ihe
form of Sir Edward close behind Edward s.
Be im giued many more were coming. He
knew his Hunger knew that he could not
easily escape from the cottage by rushing
toward the front door—and so wheeled and
tied toward the rear of the house.
Edward bouuded after him with the fleet-
QeBB °f u panther, for ho had immediately
fecogui/.cd Balbata. The fact that the de-
J ebt,, and mid disreputable Captain of the Bal
boa wim there at that hour added immensely
to Edward s terrible anxiety for Verueena’s
safely.
Balbata, unacquainted with the interim
°f the cottage, ran headlong into the dame’s
bedroom, wnich was brilliantly lighted by
to* cun His burning on h r desk. Before
Hie Captain—eager to be out of the house,
though in no fear of the yo im? officer, but
fiiinply from fear of the ditailed grasp ot
the law- could escape from the room, Ed
ward seised him by his massive red heard,
M'hirled lrm about, dragged him down
ward, and so twisted his beard as to lorc'e
hiui to his knees roaring with pain and rage.
*!<■ dropped his club and (In w one of his
pistols. The stieugth of Ihe young officer
■mazed while it infuriated him. Ho re
johed to shoot h in through the body. But
tot-' muzzle of his pistol was force l up
ward and toward him by Edward, and when
k<‘ drew the trigger the bullet of the weapon
pierced tho shoulder of his unwounded
urn h ond thereby utterly disabled him.
Edward burled him from his knees to
tho floor, where he lay on his back, help-
I'-bs, uualde to rise ere the officer’s foot was
! l l u m lus broad breast, crushing him rnerci
lessly down holding him down with mer
nless power.
“Bug!" cried Edward, speaking for the
m*t time since his sudden entrance. “What
fvo you been doing against M ss Boland?
the truth, or. by heaven, you die uudermy
hoot-heel— bruised to death like afoul ser
peut!"
. By a!l tho sain-ts of Spain, Senoi
liwksworthy ” began the vanquished
Upturn.
. But ut this moment Verneena rushed
111,0 to" room, to her lover, threw her arms
mound U in, und, as he encircled her lovely
°fto iu hri ardent embrace, exclaimed:
() 1. Edward! thank heaven you are un
'rined! She drugged me to utter holp
®suohß and to apparent insensibility; but
mind wis not unconscious a moment.
, ’ “ ow 1 have antlered in knowing that
® had drugged me—deceived me into
Oh a * cttei ' meant to decoy you hither.
n . I heard much that she and her accom-
P ces said of me and of you while I lay
0 ere ln my room, unable to open my eyes
'iiovu a finger. Their words, spoken in
. * r ooln as they plotted, reached my hear
ln m - v *°om. Ah, bow mr heart shud
m * comprehended what they in
, )° Bo with you and mo! The first
ten c °v in °^ B P ar tially shattered the impo
-3 that lav upon my nerves and muscles.
olh lolUen t ,iv, or I was able to rise. An
lo r Rl to r ient, and 1 heard a shot in this
hi ' f?!* K treogtli returned to mo. I
unKn?* Either. Ah, thank God! you are
V... 1 ’ ,C) ve, my own, my darling!”
)y | 110, ‘ l,a uttered all the foregoing swift
her fiVA UBt ? a8 I )ln R , y* ftn d her lover kisse l
*hiU‘i 8 ' c , e^ 8, IIU B bps most fondly the
Btif ° Ca ni er hysterical agitation,
thnt r , r<3 We Bn *’ moi ' e of what chanced in
hull '? rn ’ must return to the narrow
par-,.*- ere wo tofl B-tziiio and his evil
’ P ros txnte ou the tloor as if > id.
f'HAPTER XUIL
Bir Vj n<lNniON A,NI> RETWBimos.
iMim a i.,i W ® r '!i Hawksworthy had, we have
entejed I ? ? Edward closely as they
laat ern e “all °f the cottage. The dame's
ra dla “ W “ 8 sU 1 burning on the floor. Its
the Beo np a S ßain B hed well around it over
thick over *11 0 t’ ovr der smoke was not so
J>at b< tw. A* * l wa * when the tierce com
®*lbta a,ne Grippard and Captain
The Georgia Enterprise.
HiioljKor.nl l,y 1 1r. Urban.lt bud r
," N BeUBt!B * L|l ® 111 “ .liirno was min-
Cantabi °* "' Uel Bu ' l * oud u "° u tho
T n ~ bßt h 0 tad halved
." ,I * u,b Mbl# to line to oue
e bow, watchedthe oombat. hoping that th..
Pos might each slay the other. When he
HUW (lie dame truck down he bad rejoiced
,i ike'h,!. - V ’ ,Ure , lhl,t ' he C *p‘ ai “ would
li iko her again and again.
Hut When ho saw Edward bound into the
I. 111, und almost orer him, he hud rerog.
nized him instantly. Edward Tanishedtho
u vt moment, hurauin the Captain, os wo
told, und l*rl>audt turned Pm <>veH
upon the face of the baronet, who had
puused in bewilderment, and was •taring ut
the scene urouud him.
m "lla! ejaculated the nmized outlaw.
Here is one who is the image of old Sir
Jerome HawlyiworthY. the father of Kir
Edward, the grandfa herof our s pre
tended gnind-dßiigliter? 'This may be Kir
Ed war I, grown sixteen yea s older than
"hen 1 last 6R*r him. It must he ho, since
Ki:- Edward’s father died long before 1 tied
from Kiiglaud. ”
At this moment Bnzi io rose suddenly, by
scrambl ng to one knee. lie glared straight
into his father’s face, recognized him for
thov were lying less than fivo feet apart—
and called out
“Away, father! Away! The game’s up!
Kir Edward, Jaidy L, the Ha, and lluwks
woriliy’s father aro coming li re to-night!
On the way now, father' And tho Still
wells, also! The game is up, I sav! They
have discovered our (lames secret! They
know tho girl is here, and that she is Kir
Edward’s daughter! Away! You have not
a minute to *
But here Ba/.ilio, already gasping hard
for strength and breath to finish what lie de
sired to tell, uud but half-conscious of what
he was saying, and bewildered by tho blows
h ’had received, lost his momentary con
sciousness, groaued loudly, funk back upon
his side and face, anl di 1.
The rays of the lantern Mi squarely upon
tbo flamed face and wide open, gJari g
eyes. IThaudt knew now that liU sou was
deni indeed.
Ihe dame, too. had just recovered con
scioasiicss, and iu time to hear and com
prehend every word that Bn/ilio had ut
tered eie he sank back and diKI. Kho had
bagged kerne If to tho tottering support of
one elbow, and wag gazing at Sir Edward
in instant before her non began his burned
warning words to his father.
StiJ ilazed, sho flashed her eyes swiftly
..vor the scene, and was about to speak
whoa the outlaw oxo’atmed, with his ga/.e
despairingly ou his dead sou:
“My lad, would to he.ivou I could have
died to save yon! A curse upon the plot
that has ltd you and mo to this end!”
“A Uessiug upon it, I sav," snarled his
wife, “since h s treachery to me has de
stroyed you, you villain! Ob, Murvtno, my
darling sou, why wore you so false to me!"
“A word with toil, sir." said Urbandt to
Ihe laronet. “J know I am about to die,
and 1 will try to achieve w hat men hke you,
if you are Sir Ldwird Hawksworthy, as I
suppose, would call a worlliy deed, before
I follow my sou to whatever place he has
just gone. Are you pot Sir Edward llawks
wor by?"
“X am, ftud you nre Thomas Brackly,” re
sponded the baronet.
"i am, Sir Edward. Aud yonder wretch
was once my wife, who——-”
"Who kidnaped your infant daughter,
Sir Edward— since 1 must speak the truth
to be ahead of yonder villain,” snapped the
vindictive dame, who then fell forward on
her face in a swoon, and lay mo'ion’.ess.
“ Villain, where may I seek for my child?”
demanded the agitated baronet.
"In her bedroom, wherevor that room
m>y be in this cottage. Sir Edward. Her
lover and tho Spanish Captain nre making
a fight of it somew'here iu tho house, I
judgo, by those noises. Ah! a pistol shot!
I hope the lad has smashed forever the life
of the Spanish hound!” And having said
this hoarsely, Urbandt sank to the floor,
aud soon breathed hiß last with great and
prolonged groan.
Sir Edward had rushed from the hall iuto
the nearest room, ignorant of the locality,
hut eager to find and aid Ihe young oflicer.
Ills headlong hunting from room to room
soon carried him into the and line's bedroom,
w here ho found bis daughter in the warm
embrace of hor lover.
He rushed forward till close to the lovers,
halted, placed his baud upon Verneena’s
shoulder, aud exclaimed:
“One moment, .young lady. Tell me—
are you Verueeua Roland?”
“She is, Sir Edward,” replied Edward,
before the amazed girl could utter a word.
“Then she is my long lost daughter.
Beat! ice!” almost shouted the baronet
“The wretched kiduaper aud her husband—
the wicked Bracklys- have ju-t confessed
the fact. Mv daughter - my darling, long
mourned child let me press your form to
mv hoart! my lips to yours! my cheek to
yours. Ah, m.v darijug, I am your father!”
lie opened wide his eager arms, and Yer
neena s; rang joyously within his embrace,
and threw her arms around his neck, while
her lover said ardently:
“Embrace him, dearest, for he is indeed
your loving father and your dear mother,
alive and well, will soon be here ulso—and
my father, too.”
We need not attempt to describe the mu
tual happiness of the beautiful girl aud her
father, nor that which she and her mother
soon euioyed.
The carriage containing Lady Ethella,
Colonel Hawksworthy. and the two Still
wells arrived at the cottage but a few mo
ments after the maiden and her father wore
lockod in loving embrace.
Dumo Grippard, too badly hurt to rise
from the floor without assistance, glared
vain rage at the new-comers as each passed
her and gazed inquiringly into her uglyaud
framing eyes. She recognized lardy Ethella
at once, and hurled a curse at her from set
teeth, and was recognized by the Stillwells,
Who upbraided her, and were cursed bit
terly in return.
liy Colonel Ifawkswortby s command the
tVo coachmen who had driven the carriages
to the carriage bore the dame to her bed,
:nd a physician and several polioemen were
soon in the cottage.
During the confusion incident to the
vents o the night. Captain llalbata ea
rned from the kitchen, in which he had
on left bound after his wounds had been
i reseed by (he dorter, but his dead body
was found duiing tho following day in a
deep ditch, into which he hud fallen while
fleeing painfully, and v here he had ponshed
miserably and slowly.
On the next day a change came over the
spirit of tho dying dame. Fearful at last
of tho justice of a loDg-defied hereafter,
she made full confession, and also restitu
tion of all that she had stolen from the
baronet and Lady Lthelia. The repentant
old wretch died within a few days. She
beauealhed much of heraccumulated wealth
o Jansen the Swede, and more to the
widow of iho unfortunate James Bratton,
,f Old Anchors.
Her body was buried between the graves
,f htr beloved sen and her hated husband
and socuded the e\il bves of father,
We’s'cm'cilv need say (hat the choice of
'.lward and of Verueeua was approved
with delight aud enthusiasm by their
parents; (for that the marriage of this no
b“e and affectionate pair was not long .le
aved after that ev, ntfnl i ight at Bosevine
Cottage; uor that the marriage was ever at
tended bv mutual love and happiness.
iUa„io Pilker became their delighted
servant 1 , and lived many years, perfectly
contented. end }
,r is saiO that In going from his palace to
•nr i.wainistor Abbey the Bishop of London
KKITBUCANS MEET
TO NOMINATE PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATES.
OAVKI.B I'HKKKNT KI) —FK*D DO (mi, its
HI'KAKH -COI„ FItKD. OHAMT PKKBBNT
—TIIK PI.ATKOKM.
Before tlio Convention tuembled, im
inensc crowds visited the Intll in
which tho National Republican Conven
tion were to meet to choose a jircgiden
lial candidate. At the apex iu front of
the chairman’s desk was a gilded
American eagle, and beneath it a por
trait of Washington, On the right of
'he chsirmau’s desk was a plastor bust of
Uen. John A. Logan, in heroic size,
draped with an American llag. Hang
ing from one of tho boxes at the right
was a large painting of Logan’s charge
at tile battle of Atlanta. On the face of
the north and south walls of the audito
rium, fianied iu festfions of large Amer
ican flags and surrounded by a circle of
electric stars, were portraits of Lincoln
and Grant, the designs being mammoth
iu proportion, and form two of the most
striking details of the decorations.
Flashing its particolored brilliancy
full into the face of the
audience and delegates, was
ponded an American shield, formed of
different colored electric lamps. This
shield, its horizon of stars, its stripes of
the Union, are all pictured out and put
in a basso relievo of light by flashing jets
through red, white and blue globes. At
points of exit and entrance to the hall,
which dip like great wells into the audi
torium, are the nation’s standards,
planted at either side and draped so as
to hide the rough hoards which form the
staircases of these avenues to the con
vention, of which there arc sufficient to
empty the place iu case of accident, in
three minutes.
The Boston club planted its magnifi
cent banner, five feet long, just behind
the stage and it proudly floated, bearing
in letters of gold upon a field of blue,
the sentiments which appear to be upper
most in the minds of the delegates. The
banner is inscribed: “Home Market Club
of Boston. American ways for American
workingmen. American markets for the
American people. Protection for Ameri
can homes.” This banner is marked by
the delegates as they come into the hall,
sod by spectators as they gather iu the
galleries and balconies. It was cheered
time after time.
The arrangement of delegates’ scats
was made in alphabetical order, begin
ning with Alabama, on the extreme right
aisle, through the two big stutes of New
York and Pennsylvania together on the
front, facing Washington's portrait on a
panel of the chairman's platform. The
Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Ala
bama. Arizona and Dakota delegations
had front seats. The Ohio delegation
was directly back of the New York
seats, while Missouri, lowa and and Illi
nois are on the main isle near the center
of the space reserved for the delegates.
The pace reserved for the District
Columbia delegation, was designated by
a white banner, marked in black letters.
This is a conspicuous departure from the
general plan of voting delegations, the
situation of all others loing designated
by a blue silk banner, lettered in gold.
A significant view was tho open space of
empty scats in the Virginia delegation.
The doors were not opened until all of
the inti rior arrrangements were complet
ed and the crowd was kept waiting un
til two large bouquets of cut flowers and
a floral shield were being nailed upon the
chairman's desk, which bears in Greek
letters this inscription : “James A. Gar
field was nominated from this desk in
1880 and James G. Blaine was nominated
from this desk in 1884.”
Chairman Joues, of the national com
mittee, came upon the platform just be
fore the convention was called to order
and brought with him two handsome
oak gavels, one merely polished and in
tended for hard pounding. The other is
a more pretentious affair, intended as a
gift to the temporary cltairman, is richly
chased in gold, and has engraved upon
Its several gold bands the names of
Washington, Lafayette, Grant, Lincoln,
Garfield and Logan. Precisely at 12.30,
on Tuesday, the gavel of Chairman
Jones, of the National Hepublicnn Com
mittee, sounded sharpiy upon tire ma
hogany desk, and the Republican Con
vention of 1888 was formally opened.
The hum of conversation ceased
throughout the vast auditorium, ami the
buzz of expectation gave place to the
impressive silence as the chairman intro
duced Rev. Frank AY. Gunsauler, a
Plymouth Congregational Church ot
Chicago, wlto oponc 1 the proceedingt
with prayer. At the conclusion of th
prayer, Chairman Jones announced that
the secretary, Mr. Fessenden, of the na
tional committee, would read the call
for the convention issued by the national
committee.
Mr. Jones made an address, and Mr.
Thurston, the temporary chairman, then
announced a long list of secretaries, as
’istautant secretaries, sergeauts-at-armf
etc., tor temporary organization. After
the reading of the list of officers was com
pleted, the bands struck up a medley of
national airs, which was warmly received
by the audience, and as the air turned
into “Marching Through Georgia,” the
assemblage caught tip the refrain and the
chorus of many voices resounding
throughout the hall. Gen. Fremont was
presented to the convention, Fred Doug
lass maue a speech, bouquets were pre
sented to Miss Rachel Sherman, daugh
ter of the Gen. Sherman, and Mrs. Thurs
ton, the wife of the temporary chairman
of the Convention.
Virginia presented a contesting dele
gation, and at one time it looked ns
though Gen. Mnhone and Capt. Wise
would come to blows.
ranee, the new anti-monopoly chairman
was given a reception on AVednesday, on
taking the gavel that for unanimity aud
heartiness was not exceeded since the
Convention first opened. One of the
most interesting minor occurrences of the
day was the presentation of a gavel of
silver and gold to the chairman. A great
hit was made by the addilion of another
gavel notable as coming from Galena, the
home of Gen. Grant. Reference to the
old commander’s early struggles with
poverty in the little Galena tannery,
brought down the great audience at once.
Just when everybody was expecting the
decks to be cleared for genuine business,
the w-cary flummery of useless points of
order over the rights of alternates began.
The only relief was a night session.
At 8:20 p. m. when the convention
was called to order, the auditorium was
uncomfortably crowded and the air in
the hall was stifling. Chairman Estee
announced that the limit of time for
speaking was 5 minutes,and that all speak
ers would be called to order on lime, ex-
"Mr COUNTRY MAT BHH SVRR BB RIGHT. RIGHT OR WRONG MY COUNTRY."—Jtffmo*
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JUNE 28. 1888.
cept in the presentation of presidential
candidates. Mr. Wellington, of Mary
land, offered a resolution tendering, on
behalf of the Republican party of the
United States, to the Gem An nation its
sympathy in this hour of her bereave
ment and deep sorrow, caused by the
death of her ruler, Elti|)cror Frederick of
Germany: “Wo tender to tho German
people our heartfelt sympathy in the
double loss they have recently sustained
in the decease of the great man under
whose reign Germany has boconto a uni'-
cd nation and that other great man his
liberal minded, peace-loving and noble
son.’’ Adopted by a rising vote. Mr.
Dixon, (colored) of Maryland, offered
resolutions of.respect to the memory of
Grant, Logan, ex-l’rcshlent Arthur, and
tho late Senator C'onkling, which was
also adopted by a rising vote. Col.
Fred Grant and his wife, accompanied by
Mra. Potter Palmer entered the conven
tion, and, walking through one of the
delegation aisles, stepped upon the plat
form and took seats in the rear of the
stand assigned to them. The convention
at once recognized Giant and cheered
the distinguished visitors. Mr. Hallo
well, of Kansas, moved that Gov. Foia
ker, of Ohio, be asked to address the
convention. The motion was agreed to
and Governor Forakcr was introduced.
The committee on credentials made n
report on the nineteen contested eases as
follows: From third congressional dis
trict of Georgia, the committee recom
mended that R. R. Wright, Jess Wim
berly, I’. H. Craig and O. F. Guilder lx
each admitted to a seat with power to
cast one-half of one vote. From tho tilth
district of Louisiana, David Young and
W. J. Yell. From the third district of
South Carolina, J. R. Talcott and F. I
Hix, delegates, and L. C. Halsey and
Henry Kennedy, alternates. From the
seventh district of Tennessee, A. VV
Hughes, delegate. From the third dis
trict of Maryland, William Fairly and
William Johnson, delegates; Charles F.
Riehl and Isador I). Oliver, alternate!’
From the third district of Massachusetts,
Frank 1.. Stephens and Jonathan Bourne,
delegates; Samuel Fessenden and John
H. Abbot, alternates.. From the District
of Columbia, Andrew Gleason and Perry
H. Carson. In the Virginia matter, the
Mahoneites were admitted.
On Thursday, the following platfoim
was adopted t
“The Republicans of the United
States, assembled by their delegates iu
national convention, pause on the thresh
old of their proceeding, to honor tho
memory of their first great leader, im
mortal champion of liberty and the rights
of the people, Abraham Lincoln, and to
cover also with wreaths of imperishable
remembrance and gratitude the heroic
names of later leaders, who have more
recently been called away from our coun
cils—Grant, Garfield, Arthur, Logan,
Conkling. May their memories be faith
fully cherished. We also recall with our
greetings ami with prayer for hi ' recov
ery, the name of one of our living he
roes, who sc memory will be treasuicd in
history, both of the Republicans aud of
the republic, the name of the noble sol
dier and favorite chief of victory,
Philip 11. Sheridan. In the spirit of
those great leaders, and of our own de
votion to human liberty, and with that
hostility to all forms of despotism and
oppression, which is the fundamental
idea of the Republican party, wc send
fraternal congratulations to our isiiuw
Americans of Brazil upon their great act
of emancipation, which completes the
abolition of slavery throughout the two
American continents. We earnestly hope
that wc may soon congratulate our fel
low-citizens of Irish bit th upon the
peaceful recovery of home rule in Ire
land. We reaffirm our unswerving de
votion to the national Constitution and
the indissoluble union of the states; to
the autonomy reserved to the states ou
ter the Constitution; to the personal
rights and liberties of citizens in all the
s'ates and territories in the Union, and
especially to the supreme and sovereign
right of every lawful citizen, rich or
poor, native or foreign born, white or
black, to cast one free ballot in public
elections, and to have that ballot ctmuted.
r * * * * *
We arc uncompromisingly in favor of
the American system of protection. * *
* * *- * The protective system must
be maintained. Its abandonment has
always been followed by general disaster
to all interests, except those of the usu
rer and .sheriff. AVe denounce the Mills
bill as destructive to the general business,
labor and farming interests of the coun
tty, and we heartily endorse the consist
ent and patriotic action of the Republi
can representatives in Congress in op
posing its passage. AVb condemn the
proposition of the Democratic party to
place wool on the free list, and wo insist
that duties thereon shad be adjusted ar 1
maintained so as to furnish full and ade
quate protection to that industry. * *
* * * * AVe declare our hostility to
introduction into this country of foreign
contract labor and Chinese labor alien to
our civilization and our Constitution, and
we demand the rigid enforcement of ex
isting laws against it and favor such iut
mediate legislation as w ill cxclu le such
labor from our shores. A\ r e declare our
opposition to all combinations of capiial
organized in trusts, or otherwise, to con
trol the arbitrary condition of trade
among our citizens, and we recommend
to Congress and state legislatures, in
their respective jurisdictions, such legis
lation as will prevent the execution of
all schemes to oppress the people by un
due charges on their supplies or by un
just rates for the transportation
of their products to market.
AVe approve of legislation by Congress to
prevent alike unjust burdens and unfair
discriminations between the states. AVe
reaffirm the policy of appropriating pub
lic tends of the United States to be home
steads for American citizens and settlers,
not aliens, which the Republican party
established in 1802, against the persistent
opposition of the Democrats in Congress,
and which has brought our great western
domain into such magnificent develop
ment. ****** The political
power of the Mormon church in the Ter
ritories, as exercised in the past, is a
menace to free institutions, a danger no
longer to be suffered; therefore xvo pledge
the Republican party to up, ropriatc legis
lation asserting the sovereignty of die
nation in nil the territories where the
same is questioned, and in furtherance of
that, to place upon our statute books
legislation stringent enough to divorce
peaceful from ecclesiastical power, and
thus stamp out the attendant i kcdnrss
of polygamy. Tire Republican party is
in favor of the use of both cold aud sil
ver as money ; aud condemns the policy
of the democratic administration in is
efforts to demonetize silver. AVe demand
a reduction of letter postage to one cent
per ounce. In a republic like ours, where
a citizen is a sovereign and official scr
.vant; where no power is exercised, cx-
ecpl by the will of the people, it is im
portut that the sovereign (x ople should
ixisscss intelligence. The free school is
the promoter of that intelligence which
is to preserve tho nation. Therefore
the atate or nation, or both combined,
should supjKjrt free institutions of learn
ing, Hlirtii it-nt to afford every child grow
ing up in the land the opportunity of a
gtxxl school education. We recommend
that prompt action he taken by Congress
on the enactment of such legislation as
will licst secure the rchaliiliation of our
American merchant marine, and we pro
test iigninit the passage by Congress of a
free ship bill as calculated to work injus
tice, by lessening the wages of those en
gaged on preparing materials, as well ns
those directly employed in our ship yards.
We demand appropriations for tlie early
rcbuilding of our navy, for the construc
tion oi iulsi fortifications nod modem
ordnance and other approved modern
menus of defense; for tho protection of
our defenseless harbors and cities; for
the payment of just pensions to our sol
diers, for necessary works of national
importance in the improvement of the
harbors and channels, and of internal, of
coastwise and foreign commerce for the
encouragement of the shipping interest
of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific states,
ns well as for the payment of the matur
ing public debt. This policy will give
employment to our labor, activity to our
various industries, increase the security
of our country, promote trade, open new
and direct markets for our produce and
cheapen the cost of transportation. We
affirm this to be far better for our coun
try than the Democratic policy of loan
ing the government's money without
interest to ‘pet hanks.’ ***♦’*
The name of American applies alike to
all sections of the republic and imposes
upon all alike the some obligation of
obedience to the laws. At the same time,
that citizenship is and must be the pan
oply and safeguard of him who wears it
and protects him, whether hign or low,
rich or poor, in all his civil rights. It
should and must afford him protection at
home and follow und protect him abroad,
in whatever land he may be, on a lawful
errand. The men who have abandoned
the Republican party in 1984 and con
tinue to adhere to the Democratic party,
have deserted not only the cuuse of hon
est government, of sound finance, of the
freedom and purity of the ballot, but
especially have deserted the cause of
reform in the civil service. We will not
rail to keep our pledges, because they
have broken theirs, or their candidate
has broken his. We therefore repeat our
declaration of 1884, to-wit: The reform
of the civil service, auspiciously begun
under the Republican administra
tion, should be completed by the fur
ther extension of the reform system
already established by law. To all grades
of the service to which it is applicable,
ihe spirit aud purpose of reform should
be observed in all executive appointments
amt all laws at variance with the object of
existing reform legislation should be re
pealed to the end that dangers to free in
stitutions, which lurk in the power of of
ficial pa tronage, may be wisely avoided.
Tlic gratitude of the nation to the de
fenders of the Union cannot be measured
by laws. Legislation of Congress should
conform to the pledge made by the loyal
people, and be so eularged and extended
as to provide against the possibility than
any man who honorably wore the Fede
inl uniform shall become an inmate of an
aims house or a dependent upon private
charity. In the presence of an over
flowing treasury, it would be a public
scandal to do less for those
whose valorous service preserved
the government.” ******
WHAT CAME OF IT.
Notwithstanding the urgent entreaties
and protest of the widowed empress that
no autopsy should be performed ou the
body of the Emperor Frcdetick, the
gew emperor, disregarding the ap
peals of his uiothcr'caused a post mor
tem examination to be made. The post
mortem has revealed the fact so long de
nied by Sir Morell Mackenzie and other
surgeons, namely, that the malady with
which the late emperor was afflicted was
cancer in its most malignant aud incura
ble form. This being the case, Emperor
Frederick was debarred by certain
clauses in the Prussian constitution con
cerning princes afflicted with incurable
maladies from succeeding to the throne,
and according to the letter of the law
his accession wns an illegal act. Not
only the legality of certain acts of tho
late emperor are übout to be called into
question, but even the rank and po
sition of his widow as dowager, are te
riously compromised, especially as re
gards her appanages and title.
MONEY RECOVERED.
Capt. Linden, of Pinkerton’s defective
force, has arrested Express Agent Huber,
of Sunhury, Pa., for stealing $2‘J,600 from
the Adams express company, August
20th, 1880. The money was shipped
from Philadelphia to Shamokin, to pay
ihe- employes of the Mineral Mining com
pany , SO,OOO was ln gold und the re
mainder in notes done up in packages of
SI,OOO each. The money was found re
cently in Huber’s house behind the par
lor mantel: SII,OOO was missing, and
and what was left had not been taken
from the original packages.
STANLEY IS DEAD.
Advices from Zanzibar to the Paris
Journal DrJmt says: “there is little
doubt but that Stanley is dead. The
families of persons who accompanied the
expedition have worn mourning for sev
eral weeks. It is believed that Tipped
Tib has taken revenge for Stanley’s hav
ing thwarted him in his efforts to continue
the slave traffic.”
TERRIBLE AFFAIR.
On Wednesday, Mrs. Josephine Morike,
a Polish lady, residing in Alleghaney,
Pa., administered a dose of strychnine to
each of her three children, aged respect
ively 8, 5 and 3 years; then took a dose
of the poison herself.
A Useful Stovepipe.
Wife— oj gU ppose you kuow there il
i young man coming to see Mary two or
three evenings a week.”
“ Husband “Yes, I’ve noticed him
two or three timer: what about it?”
“I've been inquiring about him, and I
find he isn’t worih a cent and never will
be, and I wsnt you to stop his visits.”
“When is he coming again?”
“To-morrow night.”
“All right; I am going io set up the
parlor stove to-morrow night and I’!l
get him 10 help me. Afterward, I’ll find
i way io get rid of him; we rnusn’t act
too precipitately in the-e matters, "—bo*
ton Courier.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
HOW CONGRESS IS SPENDING
ITS TIME AND ENERGY.
OFFICIAL ACTS OK TUB PRKSIDF.NT —At*-
FOINTMKHTS AND KKMOVALS— WHKKE
TIIK NATION'S MONEY 008S —OOSSIf.
(ONUKKSNII)XAt.
Mr. Blair, in the Senate on Thursday,
called attention to the fact that the day
was the one hundredth anniversary of the
ratification of the Constitution by the
state of New Hampshire and the consoli
dation of states which had up to that
time ratified it intoanation. ln the Capi
tol of that state, appropriate ceremonies
were now in progress, ho said, for the
celebration of that great event, lie n:
cordingly moved thut in recognition ol
the day and in honor of his native state,
tho Senate adjourn. Tho motion wa>
temporarily suspended until the close ol
the morning business anel of a brief exec
utive session. Mr. Blair then renewed
his motion, and the tVimte adjourned till
Monday.... Senate amendments to the
diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill aud the District of Columbia appro
priation bill were non-concurred in, and
a confetcncc was ordered on the first
named bill. The House then went into
committee of the whole on Ihe sundry
civil approptiation bill. In the course ol
debate on public land survey, Mr. Town
shend, of Illinois, declared that the ad
ministration had recovered 80,000,000
acres of public lands.
In the Senate, the motion hcretofor*
made by Mr. Vance to reconsider the
vote parsing Ihe resolution to amend the
net of June 15, ’B2, changing the boun
ilaries of the 4lh collection district ol
Virginia, was withdrawn. The Senate
bill appropriating $50,000 for a public
building at Stanton, Vn., was on motion
of Mr. Daniel, taken up and passed.
Mr. Frye presented a petition of the
“Constitutional Defense Afsi ciation of
America” against the ratification of the
fisheries treaty. The Senate then took up
private pension bills on the calendar and
passed all of them, 02 in number, inclu
ding onS giving sl2 a month to each of
the two daughters of Maj. Aimer Mor
gan, of the revolutionary army, and one
fora soldier of the war of 1812.. .In
the House, three-quarters of an hour was
spent in an effort to displace certain pri
vate pension bills which had been made
special order for the day, ami their con
sideration was finally postponed for two
weeks. The House then went into com
mittee of the whole on sundry civil ap
proprintion bill. Thut part of the bill
relating to special agents was made the
occasion for a jxilitleal debate. At it's
evening session the House passed hills
authorizing the construction of bridges
over the following named rivers: Across
Halifax liver, Dayton county, Fla.; Mis
sitsippi river, at or near Natchez, Miss.;
Tennessee liver, between Bridgeport and
Sheffield, Ala.; Coosa river, or bridges
ucross Onstanaula and Etowah rivers, at
or near Rome, Ga.; Flint river, in Geor
gia; Oemulgee, in Georgia; Tennessee,
at or near Lamb's Ferry, Ala.; fancy
Fork river, between Rock Island and
Carthage, Tcnn.; Mississippi river, at
Memphis, Tenn.; Oconee river, Laurens
county, Ga., and several*rthers.
UWSIP.
Gen. Sheridan is surprising even his
physicians, by the rapidity with which
lie is recovering.
Sarah Story, mother of Bishop 11. M.
Turner, of the African Methodist Epis
copal church, died iu Washington on
Thursday.
The post-office department announces
that “inner registered sack exchanges”
have been ordered between Jacksonville
and Ocala, begining July 2, daily except
Sunday.
There arc 14 silver watches belonging
to South Carolina soldiers who served in
the late War, now in the keeping of the
War Department, which can be had by
proving ownership.
There is a good deal of interest in the
Naval Appropriation bill and the feature
relative to a navy yard ou the Gulf Coast.
Pensacola, of course, stands the first show
as she has the prestige of having alrcndy
a yard and the finest hsrbor on the coast.
There is evidently to be a strong fight in
behalf of a point on the river above Mo
bile.
The House Committee on Commerce
has made a favorable report on ihe bill
for the construction ot a litgUt-House on
the highland to the westward of Crooked
River in Florida. The original bill was
for a light on Dog Island, but Vice Ad
miral Rowan, in a letter to Congie.sc on
the subject, said : The amount named in
the bill ,$40,000) is sufficient for the es
tablishment of the light. Hut the board
is of opinion that the bill should be to
amended as to permit of tlic erection of
the light “ut or near” instead of “on”
Dog Island, as it may be found that it
will’be better to place ihe light on the
mainland a little to the westward of
Crooked River.
Posh,dices have been established at
Christmas, Holmes county, Miss., and
Tilton, Lawrence county Miss. Star ser
vice lios been discontinued in Tlgas
from Richardson to Frankfort, and from
Nevada to Royce City Mail messenger
service has been discontinued in Texas to
Ren Franklin, Delta county, Texas, from
the G. C. &8. F. Railway. Special ser
vice has been discontinued in Texas to
Gibbs, Dallas county, from Grapevine
and to Bransford, Tarrant county, from
Bedford. The following fourth-class
postmasters have been commissioned:
John Briggs, Manfred, Aik.; Moses C.
Grcshim, Peerson, Ark.; .las. A. Evans,
Moss Bluff, Fla. ; Isaac L. Saids, Tilton,
Miss.
Hmitli (‘nroUfin
The King’s Daughter?, of Climb ston,
are doing a great deal of iffective work
among the deserving poor.
Fire at Yorkville, on Sunday morning
destroyed the dry goods store of T. M.
Dobson A Son, "and gutted two brick
buildings used as stores. The total loss is
about $30,000.
AV. E. Sawyer, a prominent citizen of
Aiken county, committed suici !c on
AVednesday night. Ilia dead body was
found hanging by a rope from a joist in
an outbuilding on his own premises. He
had been in very bad health for seinie
time.
Much excitement exists at Union in
consequence of the discovery of an at
tempt to fire a poition of the town.
Coming immediately upon the recent de
► tractive conflagration there, it i xeites
tire belief that a systematic purpose ex
ists to distroy the village.
SOUTHERN SPRAYS.
INTERESTING FACTS BRIEFED
FOR BUSY HUMANITY.
MOVKMKNTH IN KKLHIIOI'S, TI MPKRAJfCK,
MASONIC AND SOCIAL CIUCLKH KIRKS,
ACCIDKNTH —WDUATIII !L lUOCIRKH.
Alnbu mu.
One furnace nt the new town of Shef
field, nt the foot of Mussel shoals, in the
northern edge of Alai ama, is in blast and
doing well; another is to Ik 1 started July
4th, aud three more by the first or middle
of September, provided raw mateiiala for
them can be procured.
Florliln. ,
C. C. S. Kcecli, a postal clerk between
T.nrpofl Spring aud Monroe, was arrested
on I hursday morning at Monroe by In
spector Boykin, of the U. M. mail aerv
ice, for stealing valuable letters. The
money stolen from test letters was recov
ered from Keceh. He made a full con
fession.
I.miln.
Neaily fifty of Atlanta’s butchers have
formed a protective association. The
principal feature of the organization is a
talu k list of “delinquent” patrons.
In the superior couit, nt Columbus,
Emanuel, Henry and Walter Smith were
convicted of arson. The first-named
was sentenced to the penitentiary for ten
years, and the two latter for five years
each. Emanuel and his two sons, Wal
tir and Henry, tet fire to Ed Reese’s
li nn last February, and while the family
were trying to save the bain the negroes
burglarized their home.
Rev. William Coolson, a prominent
Baptist preacher, of Paulding county,
win found dead in the woods near his
residence, at Yilla Rica, on Tuesday,
lie walked over to the postoffice after
his mad, and took his gun. He was
found on his face dead, the gun beside
him. The jury of inquest held an iu
vestigation, and after examination, deci
did that the cause was heart disease.
An accident occurreil on the Macon
& Covington Railroad. Five negroes,
belonging to Powell & Davenport camp,
were excavating a cut, when the whole
embankment suddenly, and without
warning fell upon the laborers, burying
them beneath the enormous weight. A
squad of workmen in the neighborhood
rushed to the rescue, and succeeded iu
digging the unfortunate men from their
perilous prsitiou before any of them
were dead.
Kent ncky.
A freight train on the Newport News
& Mississippi valley Railroad went
through the bridge over Green River, at
Rockport, on Sunday. Lunt Coleman, a
brakeman, was killed, Engineer P. Car
roll, Conductor J. C. Compton, and J.
G. Love, yardmastcr at Central City,
were seriously hurt, but may recover.
iMlMimlppl*
Attorney General Miller, at Jackson,
on Thursday, sued out nn injunction be
fore Judge Campbell, of the supreme
court, seeking to fo ce lhe lessees of the
Gulf & Ship Island Railroad t > discharge
one Collins, charged with the inhuman
treatment of convicls now at work on
that road in South Mississippi.
The dead body of a man was found on
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
track, at Mississippi City, with tho head
lying on the rail and the skull crushed
in. The body was identified as that of a
carpenter, who has been working nt
Gulfort. He had been there during the
afternoon drinking. A flask of whiskey
was found on his person.
North Carollnn.
On Thursday evening L. W. Hill, of
Orange county committed suicide by
hanging himself. The only cause that
can be assigned for the suicide is aberra
tion of the mind. It is not know n that
Hull had any financial trouble. He was
sixty four years of age, was highly es
teemed and was an influential faimer.
The crop report (or June, ns made up
from the reports of a thousand corres
pondents in every county itt the state, is
as follows, one hundred being taken ss
the estimate of a full crop: AVheat, 83};
oats, ill 1-7; corn 87; cotton, 78 3-4; to
bacco, 82 5-6; rice, 03 1-7; sorghum,
80 1-3; apples, 00 1-4; peaches GO; hay,
05; clover, 00; peanuts, 80.
There is great excitement in Hyde
county by violation of tire new oyster
laws by non-residents from Virginia.
Trespassers upon states’ oyster bed have
also come from other states. Thirty
vessels have been trespassing upon the
oyster grounds at one time. A thousand
bushels of oysters can be removed in one
day. The oyster rocks of Pamlico sound
are extensive, but at this rate, they will
be. entirely exhausted, and consequently
oyster planting in North Carolina will be
suspended.
TsnnsMss.
The test spike of the Chattanooga,
Rome & Columbus Railroad was driven
on Friday, snd passenger and freight
irains will be running between Rome and
Chattanooga early in the coming week.
The construction of tho company’s shops
in Chattanooga will be begun at once.
A windstorm struck Chattanooga on
AVednesday, and lasted for several min
utes. The air was so thoroughly tilled
with dust that it was impossible to dis
tinguish any one across the street. A
number of trees were torn up by the
roots, and signs were blown a long dis
tance while the wind was blowing.
Jos. P. Rose, transfer clerk of the
Louisville & Nashville railroad at Jellico,
was shot and killed on Monday, by the
accidental discharge of a pistol. Two
white men and a negro gambler were
“shooting craps" on the railroad track.
Rose was sitting on a rail looking on. A
large revolver dropped from the negro’s
pocket as he was playing and was dis
charged in two chambers. Both balls
went through Rose’s head, killing him
instautly.
V. 8. Stevens, A r . M. Barrett and J.
B. Storms arc under arrest at Corbin,
Ky., for swindling the merchants of
Knoxville. Stevens and Barrett con
ducted small stores at Loudon and Cor
bin, Ky., and would order large quanti
ties of goods which they would never
pay for. After their game had been
discovered they brought Storms into play
and had good? shipped in his name.
They also had goods shipped to fictitious
names at sma'l stations near Loudon, and
then hauled them several miles in wag
ons.
THERE has recently berm a most extraor
dinary run of bluebac-k salmon at the Cas
cades and the Italics on the Columbia River,
in Oregon. Ono cannery ve a o.i fourteen
tons of the fish in on * day'. Many of the
fishermen made from S'rti to -fit) a day, s-'llin;
their catch at four and a half cents a pound.
NUMBER 34.
AROUND THE GLOBE.
ITEMS GLEANED FROM TELE
PHONE AND TELEGBAFH.
INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT THE NORTH,
KAHT AND WEST —THE EUROPEAN SITU
ATION —DOINGS OF KINGS AND QUEENS.
No foreign officers will lie allowed to
attend Russian military maneuvers this
year.
Maj. J. C. Tibbetts, city tax re
ceiver of Lnmbcrtville, N. J., is short in
his accounts, lie has disappeared.
Ex-Warden ltccd, who attempted aui
cide on Monday at Minneapolis, Minn.,
is in better condition and may possibly
recover.
Detailed accounts of gales which oc
curred on the coastof Iceland, show that
400 French fishermen were drowned,
thirty vessels having been wrecked.
At the Pennsylvania railroad locomo
tive shops, at Altoona, Pa., on Wednes
day, a locomotive weighing 110,000
pounds was built in 16 hours and 55 min
utes.
Three of a gang of four men, who wera
laying gas pipes iu !12d street at Fourth
avenue. New York, on Wednesday, were
killed by the raving of hanks of the ex
cavation. The fourth got out alive.
Seven coke works of McClure & Cos.,
in the Conncllsvillc, Pa., region, shut
down on Monday on account of a strike
of the employes against the discharge of
a woman. About 2,000 men are idle.
Emperor William has telegraphed (o
President Carnot, of France, thanking
him for his message of condolence on
the death of Emperor Frederick, and
expressing the hope that the good rela
tions now existing between France and
Germany may continue.
The supreme lodge of the Knights of
Pythias in session at Cincinnati, 0., ac ed
on the Pennsylvania case. They ap
proved the action of Supreme Chancellor
Howard Douglas in suspending the grand
lodge, and agreed that tho grand lodge
charter should be restored conditionally
upon their complying with the orders
of the supreme chancellor heretofore is
sued.
Thomas Joseph Conden, member of
the House of Commons, who was imptis
oued in Cork jail for offenses under the
crimes act, was released on Wednesday.
The appeal of John Dillon from his sen
tence to imprisonment for violation of
the crimes act was heard and sentence
confirmed. Mr. Dillon was taken to
Duodalk jail.
A change has occurred in the plans of
the agents who bought out the franchise
of the Gatling Gun Company. They in
tend manufacturing tho machine, both
in Hartford, Conn., and in England.
The works at Hartford, therefore, will
not be closed. The new Gatlibg com
pany which Dr. Gatling has organized at
Richmond, Va., is for the manufacture
of guns with a tensile strength hitherto
unknown.
Puyverdier, of the Paris Ga uloit, and M.
Ransom, of the Paris Martin have been
expelled from Berlin, Germany. Puy
verdier wrote from Ban Remo a state
ment reflecting upon the present German
emperor and empress, which appeared in
the (laultm an<i London World. Ransom,
after talking with a Russian staff officer
in Berlin, wrote letters reflecting on the
German army.
A PERILOUS ADVENTURE.
Eleven lioys 6hnt in a Cave by the
Incoming Tide-
More titan thrilling was the ndventure
of eleven boys ns told by the Newcastle
(Eog.) Chronicle recently:—At the south
side of the town of Seahatn there is a
rock projecting from the mainland
known ss Nose Point, on top of which is
built the Vane and Heahntu blast fur,
naoes. Underneath is a large cavern,
locally known as the “Smuggler's Cave,”
which, at high tide, is filled by the sea.
Among the Ixiys referred to the explora
tion of this cave and the unearthing of
treasure of some buccaneer of the
had long been an object to be aevom
plisbed, and a determination was at lasi
come to to carry, out the project. Satf
urday last was fixed upon for the day of
search, and they started off,
with candies, lanterns, torches, a pick
and shovel. Faltering the cavern at low!
water they commenced work, and sooq
were so intent upon it that they nevei
heeded the turn of the tide, and it wiq
only when they found escape from the
oave by the way they had entered impos
sible that they realized their position.
The water drove them fartlierand farther
bar k into the cave, until at length they
found it impossible to recede any more. 1
To avoid the rise of the water several of
the boys climbed as high up the walls of
the eavo us possible. Others had no
alternative blit to stand pressed
up against the end of the cavern
and allow the water to gradually
creep in upon them. Higher ana
higher rose the water, and deeper and
deeuer the lads became immersed, until
some of them were covered up to the
shoulders. They all managed, however,
to keep erect, notwithstanding theii
weakened condition, produced from
shouting for help and numbness arising
from being compelled to stand in the
water. Now and again a broken wave
would dash in among them, rendering
their position still more perilous. More
over, the cave was nearly dark, ail the
lads' lights having been put out except
one, which hail escaped the wash of thq
waves, and continued to give forth its
feeble illumination. One of the boys at
last, from sheer want of strength, wad
washed from his holding; bnt soon an-J
other lad standing near groped in thd
dark, anti, with nothing blit the cries olf
his comrade to guide him, succeeded id
restoring him to his feet. In the meanj
time the lads had been missed from theii|
homes, and their continued absence
caused inquiries to be made. This
resulted in their whereabouts becoming
known. A rumor then got abroad thaij
all the boys had been drowned, and soon
fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and a
large body of other men, women and
children rushed off’ in eager haste to the
top of the cliff. There was no way of
reaohing them from the shore, nor wok
there any possibility of going down the
precipitous face of the cliff with ropes.i
Nothiug could, therefore, be dons by
the hundreds of people who had cols
lected but to wait until the fall of the
tide would admit of access to the cave
from the shore. Meanwhile the im
prisoned boys passed a terrible time, but
just when they thought the worst had
come the water stopped rising. Slowly
the water left the cave, and in a short
timo they felt themselves in comparative;
safety, although in darkness. It was,
however, 10:30 o’clock at night before
they were rescued,