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VOLUME XXIII.
It it nid Micro in a *ingle county oft
I„„ ;l that raise* moro wheat cftch ycr
than all the New England States.
An English authority com putes that in
,h,. last three or four years more pig*
h:ire died in the United Stntes from
, hoiortft titan havo been raised in the
British Isies. _
A Swiss engineer named Hitter wants
the City of Paris to adopt his plan for
obtaining an ‘‘inexhaustible" supply of
water from the Lake of Neufchatel,
Switzerland, 812 miles away. The coat
j s KIVOU at about $66, QUO, 000.
The new metal turrets with which
lias been experimenting have
orovi .(l unable to stand the new projec
ts hurled by the modern high explo
res. This, says the Loudon Tiuus,
condemns all ironclad ships without
airing them a chance of showing what
they could do.
A Florida radish is one of the phe
n, menu commented on by a Southern
exchange, it is said to weigh four
pounds, and to measure six inches in
diameter at the largest point The body
proper measures thirteen inches, and the
taproot is thirteen more,making its total
length twenty-six inches.
The National Cemetery at Frcdercks
luirg, Va„ is the third in sixe, there being
oxer 15,000 soldiers buried there, drawn
from the neighboring battlefields of
Oiancellorsville, Spottsylvauia and the
Wilderness. The cemetery itself lies on
the battlefield of Fredericksburg and in
the midst of most solemn associations,
jet only two Decoration Day services
hare ever been held there. These were
in 1886 and 1834.
It is said that the primrose was not
Lord Ileaconslield’s favorite flower at all,
although the English political society
that perpetuates his Tory principles takes
its name therefrom. The story that it
was arose Irom the fact that the Queen
tent to grace his coffin a wreath of these
towers, with a card bearing the iu
icription, in her own handwriting. ‘Tlis
(avoritc flower.” But she meant the
favorite of her own husband, Prince
Albert, and not of Beaconsfield.
Some idea of the extent of the use of
utnrslgas in Pittsburg, Penn., and
vliii ;, y, and the jf Hr business
Ia; be had from the report of one of the
| ompanics just presented. It states that
piiFebruary 29 the last of the treasury
neck had been sold, so that the entire
I capital stoi kof $7, 500,009 is now sub
let to dividends. Kents, operating ex
penses, interest and taxes for the year
imo inted to 46.65 per cent, of the earn
ing, or $1,709,792.74. Monthly divi
dends of one per cent , amounting to
N2,620.50 have been paid. The mim
ber of house connectious made from the
lines of tiic company during the year
Mi was 4712. A year ago the com
pany contracted to operate the lines of
9*o other companies. The united busi
hesi of these three companies amounted
tra March 1 to the supplying of 078
Inanufa'turers and 11,955 dwelling
Ifcouse--, and, through other distributing
hompanies, the supplying of 113 facto
|t<s and 10,9(51 dwellings, or a total of
123,707 contracts.
I ‘The spiritualists of France,” says the
Ihrw lork Commercial. Advertiser, “have
|lely been celebrating the anniversary
I l ' the death of their great apostle, Allan
Kardec, who was removed an almost in
appreciable distance from this world in
|bOP. it will probably surprise mo t
P w l | le to learn that about a hundred
spiritualist journals are now published,
Bkwhich M. Birmann, who spoke at the
P*rJec celebration, gave some account,
■'“d that, according to his estimate,
P lere *re about two million spiritualists
PUhe world. What seems unaccouut-
J ' s that more of their journals are
■“Wished in Spanish than in any other
■ttgunge. t ne is priuted in Ilindoslanee,
■ “rteeu in France, one is issued at
■” en ' va, four in Belgium aud one in
K Usnos Ayres. The Sphinx, the great
H"e.man spiritualist organ, is published
| l-W]):c, and is said to be ‘purely
r^ c .' being problematically so and
■“twding to the science of the late ill
•kil l) r Xollner, wdio, if we remember
hy.wcg a Professor at the University
■ heipsie, went mad over spiritualism,
‘hed in a lunatic asylum.”
I hew \ ork Sun’s res dent corre
r“' lcnt at Germany, sends
K 1 'bicudiiiary account of precocious
■ftf ]•' *'' hoy of eight, living in
■tin, Ullu 'bh'ge of Oberndorf, became
lt|, > °h 8 new pair of boots
cxt 'ite l the envy of a comrade of
'll
■ 1,13 premature highwayman
1,., hittle proprietor of the boots into
■:<: U ' T'larry, crushed in his skull
Ipir " took oil the coveted boots,
l*ith ° n ’ "’"thed home, and supped
■lo: lr( j" nppetite. The body was
1t;,,. „ 1 1 ' '"'is, of course, revealed
■ ' murderer -ri i
Ipivih. ' the boy’s monstrous de
llli(.r’j ] l ']' IC! ' rs to l,e hereditary, ns his
I': ], 1 " s t finished a term in prison
Iftaihf ! t 0 set oft this tale o.'
| tl ,r( l'tn" b"■ i noss, here is one of even
■>iri M(y !v' ei ‘ ma heroism. Aninqucstat
■•'enk; lls ( h on the body of Frank
u siv months, moved the
I'hniration for Johnny
■Wu'"]", 1 four years. Frank, hav
■lni titn 1 ' play with a lighted
■V„ ’ -“"'Hell „ n firc . Johnny> who
’"'>k the baby out of his
fl "''-Med hint down stairs,
u'hi '"‘' tllncc - A neighbor
’v ~ , ! " ’he (lames out was too
■ '. e child.
The Georgia Enterprise.
SOUTHLAND ITEMS.!
PARAGRAPHS, SAD, PLEASANT
AND TERRIBLE.
INDUHTRIAt, I'KOUUKHS —THE EXCURSION
FEVER -RAILROAD ACCIDENTS-SUICIDES
DEFALCATIONS—COTTON REPORTS,ETC.
\ iitbaiHit.
The 2ud United States artillery, in
riiarge of the Gulf const defenses, have
been ordered to Mont Suno, near Huuts
ville, where they are now encamped.
Oscar Cooper, a wealthy young planter
living near Town Creek, Laurens county,
ivas shot and killed on Tuesday by Steve
Binford, colored, a tenant ot his farm.
The negro w ijlaid und shot him from
ambush. Cooper leaves a wife and two
children.
William Willis, a young white man
smployed as a flagman on the Mobile it
Montgomery Hailroad, was killed in
stantly Tuesday, by being knocked off
Hie lrin by a low bridgeut Fort Deposit.
Willis was a young married man, nud
had been married only a few months.
rinrliln.
L. W. Vanhaulovcr has teen appointed
postmaster at Brevard.
W. G. Jones a most estimable young
man was drowned near Bt. Augustine.
Several Cuban tobacco planters are mak
ing arrangements to plant near Lake
City.
A pension has been granted to Clara
11., widow of John 11. Scott, of Zeli
wood.
Starke had n big fire, in which Dr. J.
L. Gaskiu’s mills were destroyed. Total
loss about 1(10,000.
The American Press Brotherhood, of
Jacksonville, will make an excursion to
the Cincinnati, Ohio, Exposition August
Ist.
The Executive Committee of the Flor
ida Horticultural Society have selected
Sanford as the place of the meeting of
tlie American Potnolog'cal Society next
February.
The artesian well sunk at Sarasota, is a
grand success. It has a depth of 400
feet, a six-inch bore, runs 150 gallons per
minute, and rises 23 feet above tide.
The water is very pleasant todiink, w ith
a scarcely perceptible trace of sulphur.
Rev. R. S. P. Allen, while swimming
in Saddle creek, at Kissimmee, was
drowned. The body was embalmed and
carried to Orlando for burial. He w r as
one of the first settlers of this place. He
opened the Ki simmee river for naviga
tion and ran the first steamboat.
Georcia.
Mrs. Ann Walsh, a respectable and el
derly lady, living in the southern por
tion of Augusta, fell in the canal on
Thursday, and w* drowned before dis
covered. She leaves three children, all
grown.
Col. B. W. Frobel died at Monticello
after an illness of four weeks. He was
58 years old and was born near Alexan
dria, Va. He was a naval officer until
the War and resigned to enter the Con
lederate States navy but was transferred
to the army, serving as an engineer offi
;er. At the time of his death Col. Fro
oel was c ief engineer, vice-president
rnd general manager of the Macon &
Covington Railroad.
Kentucky.
The large training stable of William
Rue, at Danville, was burned on Thurs
day night. Thirty-three head of line
trotters were incinerated. The total loss
will be $75,000. Some of the trotters
were entered in Ohio, and New York
races.
Maryland.
The Furniture Workers’ Co-operative
Association assigned on Wednesday.
The bond of the trustees was $50,000.
Within the past two weeks nearly 300
men have been discharged from the Bal
tiniore & Ohio railroad shops at Mount
Clare. Last Saturday, 115 wen were
dropped from the different departments.
The discharge is due to the recent sale of
the sleeping car system to the Pullman
company, aud a general lack of work.
MiHßoiiri.
That portion of Missouri known as the
home of the bald knobbers, Christian,
Taney, Barry and Ozark counties, is
striving to surpass former records. Du
ring the last two or three months it is es
timated that at least 2,000 head of cattle
have been stolen in Taney and Christian
count, es by the bald knobbers, uplauders,
us they call themselves.
By the spreading of the rails on a fifty
fa -t trestle ten miles west of Cameron, on
Tuursday, the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific construction train with seventeen
men on board was precipitated to the
ground, a distance of thirty feet. The
fireman, Richard Jones, was killed out
right. Engineer Wilcox was scalded
nnd died a few hours later. Brakcmnu
Cummings’ feet were crushed, and lie
also received internal injuries from which
he will die.
The boycott against Burlington cars
was put into effect by switchmen of Kan
sas City. W r abash and Chicago and Al
ton officials notified the Burlington com
pany that they would continue to receive
cars ns usual. Shortly before noon on
Wednesday about twenty-five strikers
made an assault upon C. A. Scanlon, a
new switchman, and beat him in a tern- 1
file manner. George Sheehan, a striker,
then had Scanlon arrested for flourishing!
a revolver, and said the assault was rnado
in self-defense.
Huntli Carolina-
The state board of agriculture will hold
a Farmers’ Institute at Laurens on July
20-27.
The Common Council of Charlestor
decided to permit the ice cream saloon
to remain open on Sundays.
The delegates from the various sub
alliances of the Farmers’ Alliance met id
secret session at Florence for the purpoM
of perfecting an organization of a btate
Alliance. The attendance was large sc
large that Barringer’s Hall was fiffed tc
suffocation. '1 he enthusiasm of the del
Cga es was unbounded. A temporary
organization was effected The Farmers
Alliauce is, comparatively speaking,
new comer in South Carolina, but sinco
its arrival it has spread and teased
with a rapidity unparalleled in the ms
tory of any organization of like character
in the State.
I,ouiln*a.
j- 8 fiarwßS ft™
Stain
thought that there are """gb tr edUor
to swell the amount to sao,ooo. it is
sssssr* sat-’
During n atom on Wedn aduy, twq j
negro men took refuge in a burn oncmilq
from Chattanooga. The barn was mim It
by lightning and one man killed and tint
other stunned, hut he recovered in üboui
two hours.
During the administration of Gov,
Taylor, 317 pardons have been granted.
Many of these, however, were never ii)
the state prison, or uny other prison, bui
were pardoned after being sentenced tq
line or impr sunmeut before this sentence
was executed.
June Allred brought suit in the circuit
court at Chattanooga against the Nash
ville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad,
claiming damages in tho sum of $30,000
for injuries received on tho night of June
Kith. The plaiutifl alleges that in get
ting off the train at Whiteside, she was
thrown into a ditch and lauded on a
stone, which caused injuries so serious
that she could not be moved for fourteen
days.
Deputy Marshal Spurrier, of Nash
ville, has arrested an old man ot more
than sixty years, known as “Ilnmpy’ 1
Pennington. He is of immense build,
but lias an unsightly physical deformity
t Hat has given him the name of
“Humpy.” He has been running an il
licit distillery ever since the War, but has
never been arrested before. The rifle
that the old man carried was one that
was carried by his sou, who was killed in
a feud about a year ago.
Vlrflinin.
The gallery of the old Quaker church,
m Alexandria, uscdasaniufirnmry for old
colored people, fell on Thursday night
during an ruteitaiument for the benefit of
the home, precipitating the crowd to tin
lower floor, and probably fatally injuring
ihe janitor and breaking his leg and oth
erwise injuring six or seven women, al.'
colored.
In February last, Itawlins&Rose mach
a sale of the'old Libby prison, at Rich
mond, to William 11. Gray of Chicago,
11. The price to be paid was $23,300.
On Februrarv 27th, Mr. Giny made a
cash payment of $5,825. The other pay
ments were to be made in s x, nine and
tweve mouths, or sooner, atlhe option ol
the purchaser. Gray afterwards disposed
of the property to a Chicago syndicate
at a cons durable advance. There is rea
son to believe that no more payment!
will be made, and that the Chicago syn
dicate will sell the property at auction.
SEVERE ACCIDENT
Express train No. 52 left Orange Court
(louse, Va., south-bound, on time at 1:50
j>n Thursday morning with Conductor C.
P. Taylor, Engineer Watkins aud Fire
aian Felly. About two miles south of
Orange is a trestle known as Fat Nancy’s
Irestic, on the Virginia Midland Rail
road, and is one of the highest on the
road, being fifty-nine feet above the
creek. Train 52 was on time, under
C. P. Taylor, and moving at a slow rate
having been flagged. The engiue had
crossed when the smoking-car went
through the trestle, followed by the mail,
express, passenger coach and sleeper,
which dragged the engiue into the gen
eral wrcekT The light went out instant
ly, and total darkness followed. Cries
for help and screams of young children
added horror to the terrinle scene and
people living in the neghborhoodhurried
to offer assistance. The engine went
dowD, the pilot end foremost, thus com
municating no fire to the wreck. All the
lights were extinguished in the fall. As
loon as the aeciuent occurred, the engi
neer, who w'ns but slightly injuied,
walked back to. Orange and
telegraphed for asssistance. O. Cox,
of Alexandria, of the engineer
ing department of the Piedmont Air
fane, wus instantly’ killed; 11. b. AVlut
lington, of Greensboro, N. C., postal
Clerk, lived ten minutes; H. C. Bright
wed, of Prospect, Prince Edward county,
Va., postal clerk, lived until he reached
the hospital; W. B. Parrott, of Alber
piarle county, postal clerk, badly in*
jured; J. Q. West and J. L. ANalthall,
(if Washington, D. C., postal clerks,
l-adly injured; Louis Jenkins, of Lynch
burg, postal clerk, slightly injured ; Pot
terfield, express agent, seriously injured;
Z. Jennings, of Lynchburg, a passenger.
Internal injuries; Capt. C. P. Taylor, of
Alexandria, who was in the car next to
the smoker when the accident occurred,
was hurt about the head and one leg
was injured. The total number of in
jured are estimated at about twinly-five.
It wus one of the passenger coaches in
[he middle of the train that ran off the
tne track, causing the accident, ft broke
down the trestle, dragging Dark the mail
and baggage car and engiue, which had
passed beyond the point where the trestle
broke, and pulling them down to ruin it.
The train is always well loaded because
>f the through connection it makes be
;ween Boston and New Orleans, Augusta
uid Atlanta. On an average it carries
between 150 and 200 pn-cngets. One of
;he sleepers was destined by \\ lute Sul
jliur Springs to be dropped at Clnrlotte
rille. Th s cur, howc-er, was the last of
:he train, and remained on the track.
TWO VIEWP-
The new duchess of Marlborough ar
rived in London, England, on Wednes
day. She was cordially received by her
mother-in-law, Lady Randolph Church
hill, and other members of her husband’s
family. Tne New York authorities how
ever, claim thattheDuke of Marlborough
was guilty of bigamy in marrying Mrs.
Hammerslev, under the Code, and he
will be indicted.
TROUBLE IMPENDING.
A labor newspaper in Chicago, Ifl.,
has the following on the Locomotive
Biotherhood affair: “If the present
cii-is in the affairs of the two great broth
erhoods does not insult in a general strike
it will not be the fault of the radical fac
tion. Their leaders nre busy ‘bracing
up’ the more conservative member" of
the two organizations.”
FAVOR CONSOLIDATION.
Members of four Brotherhoods of lo
comotive engineers, firemen, brakemen
and switchmen, held a meeting at St.
Cloud, Minn., for ti e purpose of taking
steps looking to an amalgamation of these
orders. The sentiment developed was
favorable to their union, and a further
meeting for this purpose will be held in
Minneapolis four weeks hecce.
SUMMER SNOWB.
The weather throughout England is
abnormally cold. Snow has fallen in the
suburbs of London, and the peaks of
Sk’ddaw and other mountains are cov
pre d with snow. It is the first time snow
is known to have fallen in that country
in July.
"MT OOUNTRT MAT BBS BVBR BB BIOBT. BIOUT OB Wit OHO MT COUNTRY. "-Jeff*™
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, .JULY 19. 1888.
THE WORLD OVER.
CONDENSATION OF FACTS BY
PHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
SOMKTUINO ABOUT CONVENTIONS, RAIL
ROADS, WOItKINU PEOPLE, CAPITALISTS,
EUROPEAN CROWNED HEADS, ETC.
Gen. Diaz lias been reelected president
of Mexico.
Fire destroyed nearly all the business .
portion of SuDun, Cal., on Tues-day.
The rate war in The West still contin
ues, another cut in dressed beef rates j
having been announced.
Gen. Boulanger, in an oration at a
banquet iu Furis, said he hoped his sword
would return to him before another year
had passed.
The British government has instructed
Sir Charles Warren, chief commissioner ;
of police, henceforth to suppress Satur
day meetings in Trafalgar square,
London.
Advices from Rome state that the re
cent meeting of Irish bishops, which
seemed to reopen the questions closed by
the Papal rescript, surprised and dis
pleased the Vatican.
The Bethlehem, I’a., Iron Company will
start up their rail mills under the new
scale, which reduces wages from five to 1
twenty per cent, and guarantees contin
uous work until January.
A dispatch from Rome to the Chronicle
says Cardinal Moran is about to go to
Ireland by order of the Pope to urge
Upon the Irish bishops more complete
submission to the Vatican.
A motion was proposed in the French
Chamber of Deputies, to confiscate prop
eity in France belonging to Orleanist
princes aud use the proceeds for the
erection of au asylum for the aged.
Farmers along the line of the Lake Erie
& Western Railway in Indiana are
greatly alarmed over the appearance
among their cattle of the dreaded Texas
fever. The farmers fear the scourge will
become general.
Fire destroyed the lumber mills owned
by 11. R. Morse, at Alpena, Mich., ot
Thursday, and ci mrauuicated to over 201
other buildings, causing a loss of nearly
half a million of dollars and rendering
1,300 persons homeless.
Charles M. Kittridge, a private banket
f Denver, Col., returned from thi
tnountains on Wednesday after a vacatioi
>f ten days. lie discovered he had Leer
robbed of SIO,OOO. As Arthur White,
ronfidential clerk, has not been seen sine
Inst Thursday, it is thought be has ah
Iconded with the money.
The Chicago, 111., newspapers arc en
gaged in a war of rates. A fort night ago
ihe Times, which has been selling at
three cents, reduced its price to two
tents. The Tribune followed will* u out.
front three to two cents, and including
its Sunday issue. The Daily News, which
las all along been a two cent paper, cut
lown the price to one cent.
Charles H. Wright, for eleven years
assistant superintendent in the mailing
department of the Detroit, Mich,, po-t
--olfice, was arrested on Wedmsday on the
charge of purloining money from the
lunils. Inspector Smith, who ra/ide the
srrest, claims that Wright has stolen
letters ever since he has been connected
with the postoffice—about thirteen years.
Patrick Joseph O’Brien, Member of
Parliament for the north division of
Tipperary, was released from Tullamore
jail on Wednesday, his three months’
imprisonment for violation of the crime s
act having expired. He was immediately
tonveyed to Kilkenny jail, where he will
serve another three months for an
offense of the same kind.
Chairmen lloge and Murphy, of thi
Locomotive aud Firemen’s Brotherhood,
have been arrested at Chicago, 111., on i
charge of conspiracy. The much-talked
if circular, in vhich Mr. Iloge isalleged
to have requesled the brotherhood men
to hire themselves secretly to the “Q’
roads, and then disable the engines, is
mid to he the basis of the charge against
Hoge. Chairman Murphy is charged
with being an accomplice.
An important decision, involving anew
point under the prohibitory liquor law of
lowa, has been rendered by Judge
Phelps, of the Burlington district court.
Two years ago a saloon keeper, whose
place of business was enjoined as a nui
sance, appealed to the lowa supreme
court, aud artcr filing a super
sedeas bond, continued the traffic.
Recently proceedings were brought to
have h ive him arrested and fined for con
tempt of court in continuing the illegal
traffic, notwithstanding au injunction.
Ihe saloon keeper at once closed up and
others will follow suit, as they adrtiit that
further resistance to tho law is useless.
The waters that have been sweeping
the valley of the Monongahela and the
waters of its tributaries for the last 00
hours, are again falling into their natural
channels. From Pittsburg to the moun
tain fastnesses of Randolph county, West
Virgin*", iowiis have been ravaged,
manufactories inundated, boats sunk,
houses and growing crops have been de
vastated. The losses entailed by flu
flood will not fall short of $3,000,000, a
large proportion of which falls upon tho
people of the counties of Monongahela,
Marion, Taylor, Harrison, Lewis, Bar
hour, Upshur and Randolph, in West
Virginia; In Pennsylvania, the losses are
In the counties of Allegheny, Washing
lon. Westmoreland, Fayette and Greene,
the heaviest being in Allegheny, Wash
ington and Fayette,
Louis Btrohl, a young man about
twenty-three years old, was arrested at
Topeka, Kansas, on the charge of selling
uid offering for sale for $1,200,a eonln
ranoe alleged to ho for counterfeiting
gold coin, hut which, in reality, only
brightens a genuine coin, although giv
ing the impression that it was spurious.
In’shape the maihinc resembles a small
alock, being round, with a handle about
six inches long. The face is four and
one-fourth inches in diameter, and the
instrument is about two and three-fourths
inches thick, opening exactly at the
middle. The owner pretended that it
was a counterfeiting machine, and was
trying to sell it as such when be was ar
rested. On opening tho case two
aickle-plated cases, in each of which one
lido of the stamp necessary to make a
$5 gold piece of 1887 is cut,
CANADAS SHAKE,
A slight shock of earthquake, lasting
nearly one minute, was felt at Belleville,
Madeira, Tweed and Work worth, in On
tario on Monday night.
North Carolina.
A-heville has voted to put in a thor
ough system of sewerage, to cost SIOO,-
000.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
WHAT THE SWELTERING PUB
LIC OFFICIALS ARE DOING.
I’IIOCEEDINOH OP CONORESS —IMPORTANT
ACTS OP PRESIDENT CLEVELAND—AP
POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS, ETC.
(ONU ItbMISIONAU
On Thursday the Senate hail a very
exciting session in discussing some pen
sion vetoes by President Cleveland. Iu
the course of debate Mr. Blair, of New
Hampshire, and Mr. Butler, of South
1 aroiiiia, gotintosn exciting wrangle....
-> the House, Mr. Ford, of Michigan,
. 10m the committee on military affairs,
reported back a resolution for the ap
pointment of a special committee to
...vestigatc the alleg and evasions of the
contract lubor law. The balance of the
day was spent in the discussion of the
tariff bill.
The appropriation for fortifications be
ing before the Senate on Wednesday, Mr.
Cockriil ridiculed the scare about danger
of war as farcical. The bill proposed an
appropriation of $126,000,000 for a sys
tem of fortifications w hich the grand
children and great grandchildren of the
present generation would never see used,
lie argued that earthworks could he con
structed in a few wicks, and was then
asked by Mr. Stew art w here the guns to arm
them would be obtained. To this he re
plied that he favored the encouragement
of fctiel works that could be in a condi
tion to build the guns.. . In his opening
piayer the House chaplain alluded to
Mr. Randall’s illness, and invoked Di
;Vine blessing and protection upon the
’sufferer. A conference was ordered on
tlie land forfeiture bill, and Messrs. Hol
man of fndiina, Stone of Missouri, and
. Pay son of Illinois, were appointed con
ferees. Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, sub
mitted the report of disagreement on
1 the agricultural appropriation bill, sta
ting that the point of disagreement wai
; tie- Senate amendment making an appro
priation of SIOO,OOO for sorghum mgat
experiments. Mr. Ryan moved toncur
r, lice in the Seuute amendment. H<
f pointed out the benefits which had ac
crued to tlie agricultural interests of thi
country from former appiopriatioßs for
sorghum experiments, and he contended
that still further appropriations, would
i result in still greater good. Alter fur
l ther debate, Mr. Ryau’s motion to concut
> was agreed to—yeas 120, nays 96. Thit
[completed the consideration of the bill,
r and it stands as finally passed.
COSBIP.
Mr. Randall’s condition still excite*
ihe apprehensions of his friends, hut
there is a slight improvement in his con
dition.
fbn Vqr Pasco, on Thursday, introduc
ed a biii to |*n* BalTadoi Co-ta, D vst
county, Florida, SBSO for the sloop Mary
Lawrence, destroyed during the War.
The supervising architect of the Treas
ury Department lias postponed the selec
tion of a site for the public building at
Tallahassee, Fla., until after Congre-i
adjourns.
The contract for the construction of thi
public building at Augusta, Gu., which
w as awarded to G. W. Corbett, of Wash
ington, for $91,000, provides that thi
building shall be completed in eighteer
mouths. Work on it will commence it
two weeks.
The number of bills introduced in thi
Senate so far this session, exceeds that
of any other Congress during its first
session, and falls only about two score
short of the number introduced in the
Senate in the two sessions of the last
Congress, which surpassed all preceed
ing Congresses in this respect.
Judge John V. Wright, of Tennessee,
Rev. W. *N. Cleveland, brother of the
President, and Capt. R. 11. Pratt, super
intendent ot the Carlisle Indian school,
will constitute a commission to negotiate
with the Sioux Indians for a division of
their reservation in Dakota and the sur
render of a pait to the United States.
Col. W. P. Craighill, engineer in charge
of the river and harbor work in Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia and North Car
olin-a. submits estimates for next year, as
follows: James river, $400,000; harbor
at Norfolk, Va., $100,000; approaches
to Norfolk harbor, $100,000; Currituck
Sound, etc., $20,000; New river, Vir
ginia, s2otooo.
The House committee on manufacture-
St the meeting on Thursday decided to
continue its investigation into subject ot
trusts. It will shortly report the evi
dence so far taken in the sugar and
Standard oil trusts, and will then, in all
probabi ity, within the next ten days oi
two weeks, begin an investigation into
the whiskey trust.
Senator Dolph, from the committee on
foreign relations, on Wednesday report
ed favorably the bill to prohibit the com
ing of Chinese laborers into the United
States, reported in the House by Mr.
Belmont, chairman of the committee on
foreign relations, as a substitute for all
hills before the committee relating to
Chinese immigration.
Senator Daniel on Monday introduced
a bill directing the head of the interior
department, commissioner of agricul
ture, United States fish commissioner aud
secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
to prepare suitable exhibits for the Vir
ginia exposition, to be held at Rich
mond, beginning October 3d next.
Twenty-five thousand dollars is appro
priated to defray the expenses of the ex
hibit.
Commissioner Oberly, of the Civil Ser
vice commission, has prepared a special
statement to show the difference in the
records made by ineu and w omen who
have appeared before tho commission
(or examination prior to entry into public
■ervice. To the surprise of many, the
adies have carried off the honors by an
ncrensed percentage. Many of the heads
rf departments are opposed to the em
ployment of ladies, and they had hoped
hat the showing would have been just
lie reverse.
Foreign.
Fatmck Baynks. a hero of the BalakHva
charge of the Light Brigade, drowned him
self at Montreal, Canada.
Thb Dublin (Ireland) Municipal Council
has nominated Mr. Sexton for re election as
Lord Mayor in 1889.
A laruk mill near Pesth, on the Danube,
has been destroyed by fire, together with one
million bags of hour.
Th* Czar, accompanied by his family, has
left St. Petersburg for an extended yachting
tour ia the waters of Finland.
Barnum saye the elephant has got more
sense than the average man. Yon can t name
a drink outside of water he will touch,and no
one can lead him into bad company.
THE BEAUTIFUL.
Beautiful faces are those that wear—
It matters little it dark or fair—
Whole souled honeaty printed there.
Beautiful eyes are those that show,
Like crystal panes whore earth fires glow,
Beautiful thoughts that barn below.
Beautiful lips are those whose words
L ap from the heart like songs of birds
Yet w hose utterance prudence girds
Beautiful hands are those that do
Work that is earnest and brave and true,
Moment by moment the long day through.
Beautiful feet are those that go
On kindly ministry to and fro,
I),.ivn lowliest ways, if God wuls it so.
Beautiful shoulders are those that liear
Cv.-* less burdens of homely care,
With patience, grace and daily prayer.
Beautiful lives are those that bless—
Silver rivers of happiness.
Whose hidden fountains bat few may guesa
Beautiful twilight at set of sun,
Beautiful goal with race well run,
Beautiful rest with work well dona
Beautiful grave where grasses creep,
Where brown leaves fall, where drifts He deep
Over worn-out hands—oh, beautiful sleep!
THE HEIRESS.
BY EMMA A. UPPER.
She was known as Aunt Lucinda by
all Boynton, bccatlfce that is what I’h i be
Willi mu called her, and Boynton liked ;
to do what Pliu be Williams did.
When Aunt Luc nda and Ph ebe had
bought Squire Branch's house, and come
to live in Boynton, the general verdict
had been that Aunt Lucinda's niece was
au Uncommonly pretty girl. A few
weeks of acquaintance had settled the
fact that she was, moreover, a remarka
bly nice girl; and l oynton had never
had occasion to alter its decision.
What, alas! had been a powerful con-j
sideration with a certain portion of the
town was the well-grounded belief that
Fhnpbe was Aunt i ncinda’s heiress, j
There was no proof of it, since nobody
had mustered the courage to ask them;!
but it w as a sc f-ev!dent fact.
She was, confessedly, Aunt Lucinda’s
aole living relative. What was more
likely, more a matter of course, than that
the fine old hou e and the rich furnish
ings with which Aunt Lucinda had em-!
beilished it, and the solid fortune which
tlie proceeding- bespoke, should, upon
Aunt Lucinda’s demise, become the
property of her niece. Nobody doubted it. ;
Of course, the bright and pretty heir
ess to a delightfully mysterious fortune
had plenty of ardent admirers. Just
which of them were admirers of tho for
tune and w hich adorers of sweet Phoebe
Williams herself was an ever fresh sub
ject of speculation and con ecturo in
Boynton. Truth to tell, it was a puzzle
to Ph ' l ' J '4w.r l >clf.
Nobody would have believed that she
was greatly concerned about that or any
thing else, however, who had seen her
onaceitain winter's evening when all
the youth of the town had swarmed to
Aunt Lucinda's for a candy pull.
The heiress's entertainments were fre
quent and alwa s lively, and uobody who
was invited ever had a previous engage
ment.
Aunt Lucinda, in a shining black
satin and a white lace cap—and a very
impressive figure she was, being a hand
some old lady—roamed about from room
to room, smiling on this one, conversing
for a moment with that, and patting a
third on the head or shoulder.
t-he was a very cordial old person, and
very popular in Boynton, being second
in tho hearts of Boyntonians only to her
niece.
Pha be was in her element. She wore
a red dress with profuse colored head
ings, which shimmered and sparkled as
she flitted up and down, aud in and out,
like a moving flame.
Her costumes were a perpetual wonder
to Boynton giris, and indeed she would
have excited admiration anywhere, as
would also her pink anil-white complex
ion, her long-lashed eyes and her fresh
lips.
The candy lmd been boiled to precisely
the proper point, and had been set out
on *he snow in pans to cool just enough
for pulling, the waiting company filling
in the time with a lively quadrille or
two.
And now the front yard was comforta
bly filled with giggling girls, in care
lessly-adjusted wraps, and young men,
with hats stuck hastily on tho backs of
their heads, somebody having suggested
pulling the candy out of doors, for a
change.
Everybody clutched a generous bunch
of it in grcaied or floury hands; shoul
ders beutto the task; elbows worked in
in and out, and tongues chattered.
Phicbe Williams stood by a snowy
evergreen tree, with Harrison Belding at
her s;de. lie was tall, good looking and
altogether quite distinyue, so Boynton
thought.
He w as Colonel Belding’s son, and pros
pective heir to a property of no mean
proportions. Boynton giris admired and
coveted him, but he had hardly looked
at one of then* since Phoebe Williams
had come to town.
“Charming night. Miss Williams,” he
said, shoving a cuff to a safe distance
from the sticky substance in his hands.
“Yes, delightful,” Phoebe assented,
lifting her 1 right eyes to the starry sky.
“Wasn't I lucky?”
“You’re always lucky,” Harrison re
joined, bending his own I'nc orbs upon
her. “I wish I was!” he added, enig
matically.
“Why, aren’t you, Mr. Belding?” said
I’hd be, in pretty concern.
“I don’t know!” Harrison burst forth,
fcoldlv. “It s for you lo decide.”
“Why, what can you mean?” Phoebe
murmured.
“Well, I moan this,” Harrison re
joined, determinedly—“that I shall con
sider whatever luck I’ve had so far in
life ns nothing—worse than nothing—if,
to crown it, I can’t have you, Miss Will
iams—Phnebe you must have known
this. Come; give me one word of hope.
1 can’t live without it!”
He came closer to her, with a frantic
but unsuccessful effort to free his hands
from their sticky bonds.
I’h rbe moved back gently, with a
timid, upward glance.
“Oh, Mr. lidding—’’she began, de
precatingly.
“Don't say no~don’t, Miss Williams
—Phirbe!” Harrison implored.
“But I can’t say yes.” said Pho-be,
softly. “I don’t know, Mr. Belding,
whethor I—care for you or not.”
“Hut you dou’t know that you don't,”
cried her lover, tearing frenzicdly at his
sugary shackles.
“.Vno,” Ph rbe admitted, with her
eyes cast downward.
“Then I can hope!'’ cried Harrison,
triumphantly; “and I’m confident, Miss
Williams —Phiebe —that you’ll decide
favorably. Nobody loves you so deeply ;
nobody could make you liappler. I
may hope for a speedy answer, may I
noil 1 may call for it soont”
“Yea,” Ph i be responded, sweetly.
He did look very handsome standing
there, tall and manly, under tho stars.
Pbirbe bestowed a faint smile upon
him as she slipped timorously away.
Eben l.ako stood leaning against the
fence, lie interposed himself iu 1 h ebe’s
path, with a calm smile of proprietor
ship. and Phu-be stopped, not quite un
willingly.
F.ben I ake was, in a sense, the pride
of Boynton. He had been uncommonly
bright at school, and au admiring uncle
had sent him to a law-school, whence
he had emerged with high honors. Now
he had lucrative practice in the largest
town in the county, and was known
among his fellow-practitioners as a
sharp fellow; and he was not yet
twenty-five. Boynton was justly proud
of him.
“Stop hero, Miss Williams! 1 ’ he com
manded. “1 haven’t seen anything of
you all the evening.”
“( li, Mr. Lake, I danced a quadrille
with you I” said Phu-be, reprovingly.
“Oh, I don't court that!” Kben de- [
dared. "To tell the truth, Miss Will- j
iain's, I don’t count anything, unless-- |
unless it has a meaning, and you under
stand it so. There! do you understand
that?”
“I don’t know,” said Phoebe, some
what unsteadily.
Another! What was she to do?
“Well, I’ll explain,” Eben proceeded, |
with professional calmness. “I mean, :
Miss Williams, that I want you to marry
me. I have had this in my miod for j
some time—in fact, since I first saw you; j
and it has lately occurred to me to settle
matters. I don’t need to tell you of my j
esteem for you— of ray love; you must be
aware of that. .May I not hope that you
return it?"
He was pulling his candy with strong ;
hands and perfect self-possesaion. Miss
I’h die glancing up at him from beneath
the pink scarf on her soft hair, felt a
thr II of admiration for his strength ard
his c!c erness. She hesitated, prettily.
"If you want time to consider it,”
said Eben, reassuringly, “you shall have
it. I know this may seem sudden to
you, but my feelings would not endure
a longer repression. I shall return to
the city in three days. You will give
me my answer before I go, will you not?
You will never meet with one more de
voted to your best happiness, Miss Will
iams !”
“I appreciate the honor you do me.”
Ph ebe murmured; “but I will take the
three days, please, to think it over.”
t then waved a courteous hand. **’
“In three days 1 confidently expect to
be engaged to the piettiest girl in the
State!”
Ho smiled, tenderly and triumphantly,
as Phiebe fluttered past him, her color
heightened and her lips parted tremu
lously.
John Wells was standing in the mid
dle of kin now-piled flower-bed, in
solitary state. Phoebe paused at its
edge.
“You look like patience on a monu
ment 1" she declared, with a half hyster
ical laugh.
“I don’t feel unlike it.” said John,
joining her with a long stride.
“Why?” Phoebe demanded, calming
down under the friendly glance of John's
pleasant gray eyes, and taking a bite
from her candy, which was getting hard.
“Well,” said John, slowly, “when I
have to stand still and see you talking
to Bidding or Lake, or anybody else, fdr
that matter, patience is all that keeps
me—well, sane I”
lie laughed apologetically as he said
it; and he said no more.
l’hrrbe found herself wondering if he
never would say any more. Not that she
wanted him to. Two proposals in an
evening, and those unanswered, were
quite enough!
But John had said things of the same
kind before, and always stopped short at
the most incomplete point.
Not that John Wells flirted. No;
Phoebe knew better than that. But he
was a clerk in a hardware-store, and the
sole support of his mother and two
younger sisters; and I’hcebe was an heir
ess!
No; silence had been John’s role hith
erto, and he had told himself, sternly,
that so far ns Phoebe Williams was con
cerned it would tontinue to be.
‘‘Don't you think it's pulled enough?”
said Phoebe, for want of something bet
ter to say, holding out her stiffening
twist. “I’m going to cat mine. See—
everybody is. Why don’t you eat
yours?”
“I don’t feel hungry,” said John, so
berly.
But he looked hungrily at Phoebe,
nevertheless.
“You can have mine then. Will you
eat that?” said Phoebe, breathless at her
own daring.
And she it into his hand, and
saucily snatched uis own, and ran away,
leaving the young man red and trem
bling with a pleasure that waa half
pain.
* * * * * *
Three days afterward, Boynton was
shocked and sympathetically grieved by
the news of Aunt Lucinda's very sudden
death.
Shocked and grieved, but—alas, for
human nature!—far beyond these emo
tions in depth and intensity was the as
tonishment and horror which greeted a
second and complementary piece of in
telligence.
Aunt Lucinda had not possessed a for
tune, and, as a natural consequence,
Phoebe Williams was not an heiress I
The report was well founded. Phoebe
herself had told Judge Campbell so with
her own lip, when he had called to as
sist in ihe funeral arrangements, and had
put a delicately-framed inquiry on the
subject.
Aunt Lucinda had had no money I
That was the news which set all Boyn
ton agog. Where had the fine house
and the finer furnishings come from?
What had they lived on? What would
Ph rbe do now? Boyton well-nigh lost
its reason in the breathless discussion of
these sphinx-like riddles.
I’h rbe Williams sat in the richly-fur
nished parlor, late on that exciting day.
Her sweet face, sad and subdued, was
sweeter than ever in its black rushings.
Possibly Harrison Belding, who stood
before her, thought so. If he did, how
ever, he gavo no sign of it.
“I was dreadfully shocked to hear of
your aunt’s death, Miss Williams,” he
was saying, in properly-modulated tones.
“Accept my heartfelt condolence 1”
“Hho was all 1 had,” said Phnebe,
gently. “I don’t know how I shall get
on without her—dear Aunt Lucinda!”
Harrison cleared his throat nervously.
“I—you will excuse me, Miss Will
iams, if I intrude upon ycur grief
with an apparently inappropriate matter,
but —pray excuse me—but is the report
that your Aunt Lucinda was penniless a
correct one?”
“Auut Lucinda?” Phoebe repeated.
N UMBER 37.
Oh, yes, quite correct, Mr. Bolding!
Aunt Lucinda hud nothiagP’
Harrison paled, reddened, and moved
uneasily from owe foot to the other and
back again.
“I hardly know how to put it, Miss
Williams.” he stammered; “hut this—
all—iutelligenee naturally affects my
pinna as regards yourself. Naturally,
MBs Williams—naturally, you must ad
mit—”
Phoebe rose.
“Yon mean, Mr. Belding," she said,
pleasantly, “that you wish to withdraw
the proposal with which you honored
mo the other evening?”
“I—well, but you must see. Miss
Williams,” llur-isoti faltered, with his
eye# on the floor, “that a fellow—that a
j man—”
“I see, certainly. Mr. Belding,” said
Phirbe, quite collectedly. “I am glad
to be able to release you. Be assured
that I do it freely!”
Mr. Belden, passing down the front
steps, met Eben Lake coming up. He
carried a satchel, and a cane and um
brella strapped together, and he bowed
before Phcebe, in the parlor, in a hur
ried way.
“I am on my way to the station, Miss
Williams,” he informed her; “but I
wished to assure you of my deep sym
pathy in your bereavement.”
“Thank you!” said Phiebe, raising
her candid eyes to his.
But Elien avoided them.
“Forgive me for mentioning such a
thing at such a time. Miss Williams,” he
continued, hastily, “but as this is my
only chance—is it true that your Aunt
Lucinda was not possessed of the for
tune she was generally believed to
have?”
“Perfectly true," Phcebe rejoined, in
mild tones.
Eben took out his watch.
“I have not a moment to spare, Alisa
Williams,” he said. “You must over
look my abruptness; but I am forced to
tell you that the matter I mentioned to
you the other ever mg, is—or—at least,
that I no longer desire to proceed in it,
if you will consent to my withdrawal. I
am exceedingly sorry at being obliged to
say this, you know, but —”
He was already half way to the door.
Phcebe followed him with calm eyes.
“Certainly, Mr. Lake,” she said, quite
cordially; and the door closed behind
him.
Five minutes later the waitress won
deringly admitted a third gentleman.
“I couldn't stay away any longer,”
said John Wells, standing close to
Ph rbe, with both her hands in his. “I
am so sorry for yoir,. May I call
you that? Will you L . e take care of
you now as well as I<* ° 'V T can’t
sorry Aunt Lucinda w' I '<<*• cell and
she hadn’t been—well, y
was, didn't you? Perhap jiu *—r.-,||
in me—false pride -but,' -
it. If I had known
did care for me, I |? *
it in spite of your “l n i7p* w /
For there waa * U 11 1 V i
his bounding heart, .■, ..erness i
her soft eyes settled that. - Still, the*
was an expression in them which he did '
not understand. He started back sud
denly,
“Have I made a mistake?” he said, in
confusion. “Has everybody made a
mistake? Was Aunt Lucinda rich—and
you’re an heiress after all?”
“No, no I” cried Fhuebe, following
him as he retreated, with both hands
round his arm. “No, she hadn’t a cent,
but I’ve never let her feel it. I’ve taken
care of her for a long time, and gladly.
The money’s mine, don’t yuu see? I’ve
been an heiress for years. And I don’t
think much of Boynton for not know
ing it.”
“But—” said her lover, slowly.
“But what? but nothing!” cried
Phrebe, tenderly. “Vou’ve asked me to
marry you, and I’m going to do it, and
I shan’t let you off. 1 think it’s you I’ve
liked all the time, dear!”
Everybody in Boynton knew the facts
of the case within twenty-foyr hours.
How ever it leaked out concerning Har
rison Belding and Eben Lake was a mys
tery ; but those enterprising young men
did not hear the last of the subject for a
long and heart rending time.— Saturday
My tit.
The Grief of a Cowboy Dotr. 1
A cattle man from Arizona, William
Wilson by name, recently paid a visit to
San Francisco, says the New York San,
and brought with him a dog that would
have delighted the heart of the author ot
“Sartor nesartus.” For the animal
flaunts a real Carlylean contempt for the
fripperies of civilization and the useless
adornment ot clothes.
Mr. Wilson sent Nugget, the dog, to
board with a dog fancier in a canine
boarding house, and then went to a
clothing store and exchanged his cow
boy’s rig for new clothes of the latest
cut. The next day he called on Nugget,
but Nugget would have none of him.
The master whistled to the dog, petted
him, and made every effort to make him
understand that affection was not
changed, even though clothes had been.
The dog looked up at the silk hat which
had taken the place of the broad
brimmed sleuch to which he had been
accustomed, sniffed at the dude-like
cane, and surveyed the light trousers
fiom several points of view, and then
walked off to the corner of the room, lay
down, nnd gave a long, mournful howl.
Mr. Wilson tried to coax him out of the
corner, but could not. Nugget would
1 look up at him with a knowing expres
sion in his eye, and occasionally give
the feeblest little wag to the end of his
tail, but he could not be induced to re
consider his evident determination not
to recognize his master in any such
ridiculous attire as that.
Mr. Wilson went to his hotel, donned
his cowboy rig again, and then returned
ito Nugget’s quarters. The instant the
dog saw him he was almost wld with
joy, and his delight at seeing his master
again clothed as he thought a man ought
to be was almost unbounded.
Do Figures Lie 1
Let us see!
Two women had 30 chickens each, which
they took to market. They ageed to di
vide equally the proceeds of their sale.
One sold her chickens 2 for a dollar,
getting for the 30 chiokeas sls.
The other sold hers 3 for a dollar,
getting for her 30 chickens $lO.
This made $25 realized for the 60
chickens.
The merchant called on to divide tha
money said:
You sold your 30 chickens 2 for a dol
lar, and you sold your 30 chickens 3 foi
Ia dollar. That makes 60 chickens at tha
rate of 5 for two dollars. Well, 5 into
60 goestw-elve times—twice twelve is 24.
That makes $24 dollars your chicken*
have brought.” But, as Bhown above,
the women actually had $25 in pocket,
j Aud yet the merchant's figures wer
right 1
Do figures lie? —Atlanta Corutitutien.