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The Georgia Enter
VOLUME XXIII.
sol hii.am> items.
paragraphs, sap. pleasant
AND JERRIBLfi.
: nrnHAb .-.iooum*-™'* kxcpmion
rs , K „ HAII.UOAD ACCIDkKTS HUiUUItK
DKfALCATIONS —COTTON MCPOIIM, KTC.
AlftbAinn.
... nM-hliois of JatmuE. Windham,
J .. IS who killed P. W. Bailey, at
?„ lk , n tlie 3I of July, ere horrified
S'himil™iinth,.wood S . He hud
threaicoed lo >ni<tde, and the dm wn*
j ine Tiiere were no miks of violence
lut his |Kon, nnd tUegineral virdiet
ilint li' poisoned himself by LU own
hand, being ilrivuu to the act by remorse.
TmnrMf *•
The Knoxville Cold Storage company
nil discontinue busiuers.
Knoxville's old city hall building was
r,ki at auction. Anew building is to be
put up.
The Prohibitionists if Nashville aie
siting an aggressive campaign, and me
Kguiiing clubs in every ward und dh
tiit.
Sam Watts, n clerk, mid Charles Iluin-
Jmvs, a married miner, fought ut Until
treek while on a drunken spree. 'I he
Ihm was shot through the body mid
nil die.
Policeman W. T. Russell, whoa week
go killed Jesse Bishop w hile, it is ul-
Epd, Bishop was resisting arrest, was
t,ien before Judge Shepherd on 11 writ
,1 yhttu corpus nt Chattanooga on
Muesiluy. Asa result of the examin
(ioii. Ku-se 1 was held to bail in the sum
a((5.000, which he readily gave.
South < urolinn
Columhiu has decided to rebuild its
jmshouse, which was wrecked by the
KthijUake two years ago.
The Ice Mision of Charleston, has dis
libuted nearly ten tons of ice among
poor people, so far, this season.
The people of Columbia love their
kep The Council dtcided to squelch
femes of street hucksters before 7 a. m.
The river ph sphate miners around
he South t'aiolina <• >ast have entered
tin i pool to put up the price of rock.
Ibis, of course, does not include the
md miner.. The production of river
ok amounts to nearly 20,000 ton 9 au
naly. i
icommittee wns appointed in Charlcs-
Ikm Wednesday to open books of sub
itriptiou for the purchase of a steamship
kna betwe n there and Bitl iiuore. The
lamer ir to be built outright, with a
■(mcity of 0,000 to 8,000 bales of cot
k,and to have first-class accommoda
fcitorljiO saloon passenger*.
■Thereunion meeting of the Confede
■eieterui sof the state was Ueid on
IWaviit Grtedville, and able speeches
ft made by numbers of prominent and
pfcgui-hed men. There were 1,000
■Mils pr,sent, and the entire crowd
PiMiimred at 10,000. Speeches were
pie y Senator M. C. Butler, Gen. P.
KB. Young, Governor Richardson, cx
f'ltaer llaygood and Editor E'. YY r .
■non.
I Virginia.
ITlie schooner John Oliver, Capt. Fos-
F of Yoiktown, and bound home
Ijdtd with coal, capsized and sank
I Bandy Point. The captain and
ft were teamed.
■JBe coroner's jury assembled at the
Peof the recent collision on ti e Nor-
PtA Wc-tirn Railway, rendered its
Pal on W (inc-il iy os follows; 1 ’We,
RM. find the Norfolk & Western
pwa; Company guilty of neglect in
Ping complicated orders not easily
pT-timl by employes ol the company,
ft*n by tbe evi icnce adduced before
■ Jut), and for its fai.ure to designate
No. 3, which wi uld have pre-
BW this collision j aud it is the opin
■Gf this jury that the Noriplk &
PiiTn management should be held
Bjljisiblc for the remits of this disas-
■. Klorida.
■•Mty-foijr alligators were killed in
by a boy at Spring Garden.
■j 1 * inland lakes in Volusia county arc
B" 1 ! present than at any time during
■Fast tea 3 ears.
B“ ( Mapill.irs are seriously injuring
B?* . an 4 potato vines iu pertain lo-
B'* lo Pttsco county.
■ c Wavers in and around Orlando
HjWh'l 5(1 cents per pound for white
B/' It is not mpt übable that in a
Bj* ars Ktape culture in Florida will
B?' one of the leading industries.
BukV? a . mftn i° Palatka whq imug-
Bj at is a teapot. lie is perfectly
other subject, but nothing
E laviuce 1* in that he is not a teapot,
K. cartl,L 'H "no at that. lie sticks
■ Mh arill n> represent thu spout, bends
Kr; lv i resent the handle, makes
■J' ’ 1 !" 1 ' to represent the escaping
B(. a " 1 'lien, if any oue comes near
Ha "• 111 easy lest they hit him and
E ‘ '’ l! aer Ids l.andie ’or his spout.
'ocas 1 I tos to be Inaugurated
Hospital Bureau wll in-
HLV! 1" bouse Inspection of the
Blk and the guarding of
■L r \l' l,r °f fen days, or until
f'.a'-'e entirely disappeared;
K,,;, in'e tion of all premi-os
K ; , inmates have had fever. |
His,.., immediately [(laced to
r ’ ,:| gei < fii.in in fee ing other
■ - ' "'filing to leave the in
■lid., i:! ? es "'ill have to pass the
■tkin,,!"' 1 1 P't'iod and have their
t ,' ,orlll t’nrollna.
B - v l' rr at Pigeon river, de
-11111 111 ’ °f choice poplurtim
■hlso'r'"" Ibe firm of Kit land &
r nf frame warehouses.
■*' >a!),’V ri *? :| nd White, bank of-
". ,n | ' 1 indictment ended iu a
"' s -elite erd to seven
. " ,,im d W hiie to live yi ais.
11 HO 000 lnla ' n ' "ibe bail was
rn-.V. ‘"’l"' 1 of the crop of
■ft- It a’,-',a "* Halvwton on Wed
(<l “ ' "''‘•'pounds, and was
S ‘ : t M.: ‘ '"''St,,,!,. It was
H " laverpo.d via New
[■St. dj
. :l "' '"""ad officer in
"bo was tlis
, and afterwards
9' ' ,1 ,i, ''' 111 m . v . >'B turned up
>M '' h 1 of two Old gold
"hi, in Mexico,
Speaker Carlisle declined to leave
Washington, I). (J., to deliver , *p.ceh
in At hint i.
The 4Hi I Georgia infantry held a re
in in nt Ponce de Leon Hprinir* near
Atlanta, and out of the 1,000 na n ihat
composed it, in 1861,0n1y Hi were present.
The Augusta Exposition received n
application for space fiom one of the
l-i gest loom manufacturers in Massachu
setts. The exhibit alone w ill cost several
thousand dollurs to place, and the six
fancy looms will he operated by six
blooming Yankee girls.
'I he Columbus Ac Rome, the Eu'aulu
A- East Alabama, the Eufaulu A Ciayton,
the Columbus & Western, the East Ala
bama Railway Company, the Buena
Vista A- Ellaville, the Havunnnh A West
ern railionds will be consolidated under
the mime of the Savannah Ac West
ern. The capital stock of the Savannah
& Western will be $5.000,000, divided
into 50,000 shares of $1,009 <ach. Gen.
Alexander will lie president of the new
company. The Central paid I*. W. Mel
drim and his associates SIO,OOO for the
name Savannah A Western with its val
uable charter aud franchise.
The Ilaincs Normal and Industrial In
stitute is a hoarding school in Augusta,
and during the regular school teim li .and
025 pupils enrolled. During this vaca
tion there are only a few who remain
through the Summer. There were rev
oral cases of sickness in the school, and
as a preventive, the attending physician,
Dr. A. 11. Baker, diricted the principal
to give the chiidien a quinine capsule
every morning. This has been done for
some time past. Sunday morning the
supply of quinine being exhausted, one
of the teachers was dispatched to a drug
store for anew supply. The quinine was
weighed out, placed inn vial and labelled
by the clerk and delivered to the custo
mer. TV hen carried back to the school,
the drug was put in capsules by the prin
cipal and given to the children and one
teacher. In a short time they showed
peculiar symptoms of languor and drow
siness, and soon it became apparent to
the principal that some potent diug had
been taken and the children were poi
soned. The drug was found to be mor
phine, and for a few hours there was the
greale.-t excitement, as the scholars suc
cumbed to its influence.
A daughter of Dolph* Miles, colored,
of Benton. po:son<d her father and three
brothers. Two brotheis ate already dead,
and the third brother and father are not
< xpected t > recover. The mother was at
church and aiissed her \ or.ion of the
poison.
RUSHING FOR LIBERTY.
A p’ot for the escape of four hundred
convicts ut Piatt Mines, Ala., was dis
covered several days ago, but the prison
i fficials kept the matter so quiet that the
fa ts only leaked out ou Widnesdav At
slope No. 1, about four of the seven hun
dred convicts are confined, and there is
only one entrance into the mine at that
place. It seems that one of the veins or
leads at this slope has been worked until
it was within a tew hundred feet of the
surface on the other side of the mountain.
Some of the older convicts some lime ago
Conceived a plan to nig out of the mine.
'Others were let into the plot, and the
convr ts w, uld work turns on tlieir tun
nel after completing their day’s task of
mining. The number into the plot was
increased, until nearly all of the four
hundred convicts working in the slope
knew ab ut it, and aided in the work.
Saturday, it is said, was the day set
apart to force the tunnel through the
mountain and escape. After all the con
victs had entered the slope that morning,
the entrance was blocked on the inside,
aud then they began to dig for liberty,
the tunnel lacking only a few feet of
completion, but the plot had been be
trayed. and the guards w ere on the look
out. The obstruction at the mouth of
the slope was removed and the convicts
were driven away from their tunnel, and
forced to return to wotk. The ring
leaders were punished, and every pre
caution has bten taked to prevent au es
cape by the tunnel route. Only three
biouths ago live convicts < scaped from
Coalburg mines, by the same means, aud
only two of them were recaptured.
•‘WHITE CAPS” SHOT.
“White Caps” in Crawford county,
Ind., whipped two women nearly to
dun'll —one will probably die —and then
proceeded to the house of a reputable
citizen in the neighborhood and ordered
him to spread the news of their doings
as tneir warning, The plans of the
"White Caps” had been overheard, and
the citizen had throe friends with him.
He accordingly tclused to do the bidding
of the “White Caps,” and was threat
ened by tlieiq. A fight ensued, in which
three of the “White Caps” were shot, two
of them fatally. One of these is named
Gregory, a country merchant, aged tilty
years, with a family of grown children.
Another is a saloon keeper named Saun
ders, a worthless fellow, The wounded
men have been hidden away, and the
country is up in arms on a bunt for them.
WON’T HAVE IT.
51 r. O’Connell, chief clerk of the New
Y’ork Court of Common Pleas, lias lodged
complaint with the authorities at Queens
town Ireland, in which he says bis steps
are constantly dogged by detectives, am
asked to he relieved of this unwarranted
survei'ance. He alleges that since lus
r.nival lie has visited religious and char
ituble institutions iu Cork, and every
where he has gone detectives have shad
owed him. ___
quite indignant.
Seven hundred delegates of the joint
convention of Engineers and Firemen to
co, aider the Burlington road mat er, as
sembled at St. Joseph, Mo., in secret
session. An enterprising reporter named
Replegcl was found concealed in the
chandelier supports in the ceiling and the
indig' ant delegates cam 6 near lync 1 g
him.
yellow fever.
The brig Tencriffe, which arrived
Sunday, at "Lewes, Del., from Havana,
lost two men at sea from yellow fever.
Two cases h ive been trunsferied to the
hospital there.
A Weak Effect.
She (gazing at the elephant) What
ma esty, g Oeorgel Such massive dignity
and conscious power, think
He —“Ve-es; but don’t you tlnnK,
JlKh relish somewhat weakens the
general sffoct?— Uarper > iiuar.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
WHAT THE SWELTERING PUB
LIC OFFICIALS ARE DOING
t itof stKut.Nus or coxoiucaa— impobtani
ACTH or PRBSIDBXT * I.EVICI.AND —AT
POI.VI ME.MS AND REMOVALS, ETC.
CTIXJRKHWIONAI..
The Senate on Thursday r sumed con
sideration of the army appropriation hill
the pending quistion lieing on the
amendment offered by Mr. liawley ap
propr.ating $750,000 for an armory gun
factory atjW artervleitarsenal,New York;
$5,000,000 for the purchase of steel for
high power coast defence guns; $500,000
for the purchase of sutumrine ininfes;
and $500,000 for submarine controllable
torpedoes. Mr. Hawley’s amendment
was agreed to—yeas 24, nays 16, and the
: bill was passed. The Senate then pro
ceeded to the consideration of the fish
eries treaty in op> n executive session, and
was addressed by Mr. Wilson, of M ry
i land, in favor of its ratification. Two
1 presidential vetoes were read aud refer
ted, and the Senate adjourned The
j bill t; provide for postofiice buildings ia
cities where there are no other govern
mi nt offices, occupied the attention of
•the House. The report accompanying
the bdl explains its provisions. It pro
poses to establish a plan for the con
struction of public buildings for the use
exclusively of the postoffice department,
of uniform character, nnd which
shell be especially adapted for
the purposes of that depirtroent.
where the gross receipts amount to three
thousand dollars aunu illy lor two succ s
sive years. The extreme limit of the
cost to the United States for any build
iug shall not, in any ea-e, exceed twenty
thousand dollais. Subject to tin se ,imi
itations, it provides for three classes ol
buildings, varying in ci st according tc
the am mat of gross receipts.
The Senate on Wedmsday resumed
consideration of ihe naval appropriition
till, the pending question being on the
amendments striking out of the bill the
item for the expen-e of a commission to
locate a navy yard on the Gulf Coast.
'I he subject was discussed at grest
length, Senat' rs Ca 1 and Pasco favoting
tie amendment to strike out, because
there was already a good naval station at
Pensacola. Final y, the amendment tc
str.ke out was rejected. Y'eas 19, nays
24. So the provision was retained in
the bill, modified, on the motion of Mr.
Reagan, by including the Mississippi
river. The clause now appropr ates $15,-
000 tor the expenses of a commission ol
three ofti, ers to be appointed by the Sec
retary of the Navy to report as to the
most desirable location on or near the
coast of the Gulf of Mexico, or od the
Mississippi river, for a navy yard and
docks for shipping... .After disposing of
various private lulls, the House took up
and considered the bill to establish a
United St tes land court and to provide
for judicial investigation and the settle
ment of private land claims in the terri
tories of Arizona and New Mexico, and
the state of Colorado. On motion of Mr.
Smith, of Arizona, an amendment was
adopted exempting Arizona from the
provisions of the bill, amt the bill with
the amendment was passed—7o to 24.
ttosstr.
Statisville, N. C., is to have a $75,000
public building.
Mrs. George L. Morgan, of Georgia,
was appointed a copyist in the interior
department, at a stlary of S9OO.
YVritten arguments were presented by
the Board of Trade of Spartanburg, S.
C., to tho Interstate Commerce Commis
sion, complaining of a discrimination
against the town by the railroads pass
ing through the town.
The President on Thursday vetoed the
granting the light of way to the Fort
Smith & Dardanelle Railway to constiu-1
a id operate a railroad, telegraph and tel
ephone line from Fort Smith, Aikansas,
tluough Indian teiritory to near Baxter
Springs, Kansas. His mes-age is of con
siderable length, and lie finds many aud
s.rious objections to the bdl.
Senator Palmer reported favorably
from the committ e on education aiid la
borthe bill appropriating $400,000 for a
Colored Exposition in Atlanta next year,
will call the bill up for action next we k,
or earlier if possible. Both lie and Sen
ator Brown have been talking up the bill
considerably, and expect its passage.
Senator Palmer says he has no doubt but
that it will pass without opposition.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Mill r has made a preliminary report of
the operations of the internal revenue
bureau, for the fiscal year ended Ju y 30,
1888. The total collections for the year
were $124,329,474, as against $118,837.-
301 for the previous fiscal year. Collec
tions were made up as follows; On spir
its, $80,306,156; on tobacco, $30,662,-
431; on fermented liquors, $23,824,218.
There was an increase of 278,220,900
cigarettes, ami 56,421,207 cigars manu
factured during tho year.
The committee on agriculture rccousid
ered its action of last week iu referring
to the sub-committee the compound laid
bill and all adulterated food bills before
the committee; with instructions to report
by bill, or otherwise, in December next,
and decided to report to the House the
Lee bill, to prevent the sale, manufacture
or transportation of adulterated articles
of food, drink and drugs, also a substi
tute for the Buttcrworth bill, defining
lard, anil imposing a tax upon compound
lard, and regulating its sale, importation
and exportation.
LUe In New Turk.
Hired Guide—We must cross tho
street here.
Stranger —What for?
“A si pi are further up the wagons are
so thick wo can’t get across without
losing a leg.”
“Well, we are over now. What are
you waiting for?”
“I’m watching for a chance to walk
in the gutter. This building is a tene
ment house, and tenement house walls
fall every once in a while.”
“Whew! We got safely by that build
ing. See here, what aro you starting
in that direction for(”
“We must walk around this block; the
street here is underlaid with steam
heating pipes and they aro always ex
ploding.”
“Stop a moment; I’m tired out.”
“Great Scott! Don’t lean against that
telegraph pole. It’s got electric-light
wires on it. You must have been
brought up in the woods." —Omaha
World.
Whiskey is expensive. It costs a man
dollars and sense.
“MY COUNTRY MAT BUR RVRR BR RIOUT. RIOUT OR WRONG MT COUNTRY."-Jefferson
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2. 1888.
Till; WORLD OVER.
CONDENSATION OF FACTS BY
PHONE ANDTELEGRAPH.
SOMETHIN,! ABOUT CONVENTIONS, RAIL
ROAD*, WORKING PEOPLE, CAPITALIST*,
EUROPE All CROWNED IIK ADS, ETC.
Seven thousand col iers nt Port Pridd,
<ales, struck for an increaise of wages.
A nutunl gas explosion in the hea ting I
factory of Bowlin i Hoskell, at Tipton, I
lud., caused a loss of $70,000. tine man
was hurt. A
A six-story building in Cincinnati!
! Ij Kryppendi rf, 1
man & Cos., as a shoe factory, was binned
on Tuesday. Loss, $300,000.
The Cx.ir of Rus-ia will return the
visit of Emperor William in the Au- |
tumn, stopping nt Berlin on the way j
from Copenhagen to St. Petersburg.
James Mason, au old stage driver, sat
down ou a 50 pound box of giant pow- I
der ut Bedding, Cal., und touched >ft I
the powder. Only 20 pounds of frag
ments of his body were ri covered.
A receiver has been appointed at In
dianapolis, Ind., in the affairs of the
supreme lodge of the United Order of
Honor. When the receiver took charge, t
only S2B iu cash was found in bank.
Stephen Phillips and Fted Newman j
were killed by an explosion of nitro- I
i glycerine at Lima, Ohio. They were
oil drillers, and were mixing glycerine
preparatory to shooting a well, when it
exploded.
The grasshopper war at Pcrhatn, Minn.,
continues un .bated. Although over 10,-
000 hu-hels have been caught, they ate
st,ll catching them at a livily rate. Last
Monday night over 100 bushels of them
were caught in one field.
An accident occurred to an East bound
Union Pacifiic freight train near Valley,
Nebraska, on Thursday night. A Imx car
loaded with shelled corn was throw u down
an embankment and stood on end. S x
tramps wete in the car and were smoth
ered to death; no one else was injured.
A gun-mith, named Rudolph Sebic,
was arrested iu Chicago, 111., on YVedms
day, ami is now behind prison b r-, un
der bunds of $7,000. He is charged
with being the individual who furnished
dynamite to the conspirators who intend
ed to assassinate the three law officers
most prominent iu tie Haymarket prose
cution.
Fifty convicts were received into the
Catholic church at the prison in Joliet,
111., by Bishop Spalding. It was the
second time iu the bi-tory of the peni
tentiary that an event of this character
has taken place within its wells, the pre
vious occasion being two years ago,when
Archbishop Feelian, of Chicago, con
firmed 147 convicts.
Elaborate preparnt.ons were made at
Copenhagen, Denmark, for the reception
of Emperor William. King Christian, of
Denmark, vutl start with a small fleet
irom Copenhagen oil Sunday to meet
the German squadron. Two Russian
meu-of-war are al-o expected to be pres
ent at Copenhagen duting the stay of the
emperor.
The old armory of the lltli regiment
at Elm and White street, in New Y'ork
city, has been used for commercial pur
poses for some veins, although still
owned by the city. The Lovell Manu
faetuiing company, of book printers and
binders occupied a wide gallery around
the hall fifteen feet from the tlror. Ic
this gallery were five heavy folding ma
chines ami tons upon tons of printed
matter. The gallery was supported by
wooden uprights resting on the floor of
tlie hall. Under this hung heavy ir,,n
pipes in stock. On Wednesday the dou
ble strain reached its breaking point and
tlie northeast part of the gallery fell.
The five folding machines carried down
the floor of tlie main hall to the ground
floor. Six girls who had been working
at the machines went down with the
wreck to tlie ground floor. One was
killed instantly, two were protected by
debris which had forrntd an arch over
them and were unhurt; others were more
or less injured, but none fatally. Over
200 women and girls were at w ork in the
building at the time.
CAUGHT BY A MEAT HOOK.
A Heinarkable Accident to a Bicycle
Rider iu Rochester.
[From the Rochester Democrat.l
An acoident as peculiar in its nature
as the ones which proved fatal to Absa.
lom, though not serious in its results,
befell Henry Emrich, an employee nt
the Stein Manufacturing Company’s
fuotory, last night.
The young man was out in the even
ing, as was his custom, on his bicycle
Ho had taken n “spin” to the outskirts
of iho city and was returning about 10
o’clock on Jefferson avenue. When lie
reached the corner where Minges’s meat
market is located he turned up on the
sidewalk. Passing under the awning in
front of the meat market, two young
men who wero standing near by were
horrified to see Emrich suspended to a
huge meat hook hanging from a brace
supporting the awning. They hastened
to his atsistance and discovered that the
hook bad caught him just below the
right eye. Tho wheel nad passed partly
from under the rider so that almost his
entire weight came upon the hook. The
two youug men took tho wheel away aud
then succeeded in raising him off from
the book.
The patrol wagon was quickly sum
moned and bore him to tho City Hospi
tal, where his injuries were examined
and his severe pain relieved. There it
was found the hook had pierced under
the cheek bone, and tearing it loose from
the nasal side, had tom through and
under the orb of tli e eye, The hone was
splintered, and the lids wore torn al
most entirely away from their attach
ments. One peculiar thing about it was
that, though there was no motion to the
eye tho optic nerves were to all appear
ances undisturbed, and, though suffer
ing excruciating pain, he was able to dis
tinguish objects. There is some pos
sibility of the sight saved, but tho eve
and faco will be badly disfigured. The
shook had the effect of producing lieraor
rliages, and up to 1 o’clock this morn
iug he had suffered two severe attacks.
Mr. Em rich is 28 years old. He was
riding a 50-ineJr wheel, and oould not
have seen that tho hooks wore suspend
ed under tne awning.
When Smoking Is l’iensant.
• •1* smoking offensive to you, sir?” he
faid to a straugcr.
"Well—er—l don’t like it second
hand.”
“Have a cigar:”
“Thanks I” —New York Sun.
FRIENDS.
_ Oh, givemn friends!
Thouß oth.r wants may wear my life sway
Though all the days seein cold and dork and
1 shall not question that which fortune sends
If round me press a hast of kindly frien ls.
I ask not wealth.
Nor from the ever open hand of Fate
I crave no robe of grace, nor place of state,
in the hope which fickle longing lends
no gift of fate, but countless friend*.
Anil thus through life,
though round me falls the shadow and the
re
sorr m t hit I s,-arc- can tear
-c. —’. -■ if inv fa in ini’ r- -Is
■ th-t shrouds me from my lex; of
friends.
W\ —Ma deion Granlltg.
EMTJNE’3~SURRENDER.
BY Wn.UAM PERRY BROWN.
The early rains hail supplemented the
thawing of the rebruary snows upon the
lug mountains, and the three forks of
the t itico hiver thundered down the
wild gorges of the Unakas with an in-!
creasing |>ower that cheered the spirits
of the loggers in Eagle s Basin.
A ta I young mountaineer, with flow
ing hair to--ed roughly back, stood
playfully holding a struggling girl over
the verge of the precipice called the
Buzzard lloost, that towered over a
whirl of waters surging through the
gorge at the lower side of the ba-tn. The
girl was robust and muscular, yet this
son of ana ; held her easily with one
hand, while he saucily shook a finger of
the other as he said laughingly:
“Ef you 'lows ter fool me ez ye hev
s. me of the yuther boys in the basin,
you've jist gone nd treed the wrongcoon.
Hit aim fact, Em'line.”
“You, Curt Cable!” she screamed, for
she was more alarmed than her rude ad
m rer thought her; “turn me loose—
turn me loose, I say!”
Em’line, if I turns ye loose, ye ll
fall, shore.”
He still held her, as gently a9 he
coul.l, w hile she clung to his extended
arm, her usually ruddy face now pale
with anger and fear. At length, with a
laugh, lie pulled her toward him, half
embracing her with one arm. But, as
s:,c felt beiself rude y pressed,she struck
him a stiuging blow- on the face and re
leased herself with a supreme effort, then
sa ilc down with her hands over her
face, sobbing \ioleutly. Though the
blow niu-t have hurt, he smiled good
humoradlv, bent over her and said:
“Thar now, Em'line, tit fer tat.
You've paid me back; now I want ter
know ef you really air tryin’ to sarve me
like ye do the teat of the boys ez makes
out like they wants ter marry ye. Ye
know I love ye. Em'line. I’ve be'n a
co rtin’ of ye monster time,’ an I re jest
erblig and ter hev a answer.”
.-vs he -.poke, she crushed back the
sobs, and now looked up with ted eys,
angrily fiatning.
“Hev ve.” I—l’d see you in yore
grave afore Ud marry ye, after the way
you've treated me.”
“Why, Em’line ”
“Don’t ye Em’line me nary bit more.
Thar’s no endurin’ of ye, ’nd from this
ycr day on, 1 wants ye ter keep ter yer
self ’ud lemme erlone. Ef some vuther
boys wants ter talk ter me taint nary
bizness o’ yourn, Curt Cable.”
She rose and confronted him—a
breathing statue of feminine resentment
--a Katharine in homespun, crushing
this would-be Petruchio. As he slowly
comprehended her meaning his snttle
melted into an expression of sadness, as
he replied:
“That’s all right, Em'line. You kin
let on jist ez much ez you pleases; but
I knows that you know how much I’ve
loved ye, ’nd waited for ye; and ef yore
agoin’ ter let my foolin’ ’nd glabbin’
change ye, I’ll b’lieve what the boys sez
of ye air true. You don’t keer fur
nuthin cep'n ter make fools on us, but
after this ye caint hev yore way long o’
me, Em l ymer, for I’m done with ye.”
Em’line stood motionless while the hot
flush of anger slowly receded before a
pallor of after-rising dismay at the result
of her words. The lashing of the tor
rent below fell shiveringly upon her ear,
like an audible echo of coming trouble.
The whistle of a mocking bird singing
from the fox grape vinos over the
foaming abyss, sounded like a rasping
counter irritant to the thunders below.
Yet overhead, through the March air'
and sunshine, the clear -kv basked in the
most restful and soothing of colors. Re
ceding from the basin on every side the
green and saffron slopes rose, browning
with distance, until they kissed the
heavens, apparently far above all terres
trial care and passion.
Y et here she was—the queen of hearts
among these mountain wilds—balked
and tortured by the only man out of a
half score of suitors she had ever owned
to herself that she really cared for. He -
had accu-ed her of trifling, of heartless
ness, of insincerity. Had he not spoken
with some degree of truth? W ithout
knowing the name, she felt herself to be
a lunette, realizing the delight of toy
the hearts of others while her
untouched.
her own heart really invul
nennllc? Standing there, with the
beauty and turmoil of that wild scene
enveloping her, she began to leel that
things were not altogether as they had
seemed to be. Nature was somehow be
reft of its usual charm. YVithout the
sense of ( urt Cable’s devotion—on which
she had leaned, even while she tortured
him —her small atom of the world was
growing very cheerless.
But Em’line, as we have seen, had a
healthy fund of resentment to fall back
upon, und resentment loves to pick
flaws. After her first flood of dejection
had passed, she found some sad satisfac
tion in multiplying Curt’s foibles. His
rough humor, his careless pride, the
ma-terfulne-s and persistence that had
churacteried his devotion, all these, hav
ing whettid her irritation, now bolstered
her pride. Yet she knew, though re
luctant to acknowledge, that tlicso
crudities were as foils to some nobler
attributes of character.
An hour later found her busy over the
raftsmeu’s dinner in the low, long cabin,
planted centrally in Eagle's basin before
the broadest sweep of tho river above
Gripp’s Gorge, Bill Byhier, her father,
herded cattle in sunnier and logged on
tho Citico in winter, white his wife and
daughter cooked for more or less of the
hands.
A boom was here stretched across the
river against which thousands of logs
were pushing, now hourly increased in
number by the floods in the upper
ranges, when the three prongs that here
un'ted came raging.
A score or more of mountaineers were
lounging in to dinner from the woods
and river. Curt Cable was with them,
but his usually cheery voice was now
strangely silent, lie shuffled awkwardly
aoout, his gait and manner contrasting
oddly with his really handsome figure
and face.
"Wal, Em'line,” said Dow Axley, an
oft rejected yet ever good natured visi
tor of the girl’s; what wur you adorn’
eroundthe Boost this morn in'? ’nil what’s
the matter long o’ Curt ennyhow?”
The men were eating and Em’line set
down a plate of “cooked greens” before
Axlev with a thump, saying
“'I bar's what I wuz adoin’. Ef hit
wern’t for me a projectin' eround hyu
’nd yander, hit air prashus little biled
poke ’nd mustard ez you alts ud git. Ez
fer Curt, ef yore so cu'rous ter know what
yails him, you'd better ax him; I’m not
a mindin’t urt Cable's bizness. myself.”
Curt said nothing, though his brow
contracted, while Em'line gloried iaher
independence of speech at the expense of
an additional heartache as she noted his
increasing gloom.
“Yet,” she thought, reassuringly, “if
he wern’t a keerin' he w’n’dn’t shorely
look so mad. ”
After dinner the men lounged liefore
the door awhile. Over the basiu the sky
wa< clear, yet afar off the Unakas still
wore the gray garb of mist and storm.
The thunder of the rising river echoed
ominously to the practiced ear of the
woodman.
“That thar roarin’ means more failin’
weather, ’nd the fraish jist a cornin' on.
A fraish air a good thing, but too much
puddin’ ’ud make a dog sick. I’m afeard,
boys, ez that thar boom ’ll go afore
night.”
So said Bill Rymer, after a long look
at the rising vapors gathering over the
Unakas.
“Ef them thar thunder heads burst up
yander, thar’U be a jam in Gripp’s Gorge
—shore. ”
Gripp’s Gorge extends for nearly a
mile between two irregular lines of cliff,
iu a manner not unlikely a rocky moun
tain canyou. The river sweeping fiercely
through, debouches into a more open
valley below. The “thunder heads” on
the “bigmountain” did burst, the floods
auain descended, and about four o’clock
that afternoon the boom broke.
In less than an hour a jam was discov
ered near the lower end of the gorge.
The waters kept rising, while more logs
from above came thumping down by
the hundred. All swept through the
basin into the insatiable maw of Gripp’s
Gorge, and were hurled against the
masses already piled in every conceivable
shape between the agged walls. Some
thing must be at once done, or the am
would soon assume such proportions os
to defeat ail efforts at dislodging it.
Curt t able, with two others, entered
the gorge from above in a “dug out”
canoe to see what could be done. It was
a forlorn hope, and the danger so great
that Curt, who called for volunteers,
was about to go alone, despite all
dissuasive efforts on the part of others,
when there two came forward.
Em'line sat in the front porch of her
father’s .cabin and saw the canoe leave
the shore.
“Pap,” she asked, “who air them a
goin’ ter risk thur lives fer a paasel of
old logs:”
Mr. Rymer was approaching at a half
run from the riverside.
“You, Em’line,” he cried, “get out
that thar long inch rope we'uns uses ter
windlass the rafts with. Curt Cable,
’nd Jim Spratt, ’nd Doak Slover hev
gone down the gorge ter tho jam. We
—why don’t yer git that thar rope,
gal.”
Em'line was standing speechless and
staring. Her father stamped his foot
impatiently, and she turned to look for
the rope like one in a dream, muttering
to herself:
“What ef Curt—never —comes back:”
Ten miuutcs later Bill Rymer and
several others were standing on the
Black Cliff, a huge priecipice that over
hung a large rock midway of the gorge,
round which the waters boiled and
where the jam had formed. Em’line
had followed them, regardless of the
supper she was to prepare —regardless of
all, Bave that Curt Cable had, perhaps,
gone to his death, aud—that she loved
him.
llow the results of her own pretty re
sentment now mocked her as she remem
bered his last attempt at reconciliation
which she had so causelessly repulsed.
She recalled his better traits —his gen
erosity, frankness and daring. She
owned to herself that if he had been
rough and rude, she had been guilty of
many shortcomings, And now—now—
where was he ?
How she climbed up the rugged,
perilous trail among the cliffs, clinging
to vines and bushes, tearing her clothes
unheeded, she hardly knew. Now she
stood beside her father on tho Black
Cliff. Below was a savage roar and
white dash of spray, and the grinding
and thunder of descending logs. Her
ears, half deafened by the noise, were
strained for the sound of voices that
might, even now, be forever silenced.
The sun was sinking; chilling shadows
were enveloping the gorge, though the
eastern mountains were yet bright witli a
tender glow. The men were lowering
the rope. Her father, lying upon the
rock, peered down into the seething
abyss. At last he raised his head and
said:
“Thar’s two meu ou that thar rock, ox
fer ex 1 kin make out. Hit seems like
they’ve bruk loose a part of the jam.”
“Only two men, pap.'” cried Km’line.
She threw herself down, and peered
over. What if the absent one was Curt
Cable? For the first time since the “big
meetin’s” down in the valley last fall she
prayed —prayed silently, yet with her
mind in an incoherent maxe of fear and
suspense.
“That’s hit, boys,” she heard her
father sav. “A leetle lower down —thar!
He hev kitched it. lie’s got it yonder
his arms. Now—pull stiddv, boys, ’nd
don’t frazzle the rope."
A human form was dangling over the
cauldron below, drenched with spray
and swinging wildly. Was it Curt? If
the rope should break —she shuddered
and drew back from a sight that sickened
her. She hid her face, and still heard
tho horrible rasp of the rope over the
smooth edge of the cliff, the hard breath
ing of tho men—then, after a while, a
scraping of feet, and Doak Slover’s !
heavy voice. 1
“Hit were a hard squeeze, boys, ’nd
a ieetlo the tightest place I wur ever
in.” I
“Who uns on the rock ’aid63 you?” j
she heard her father ask. His voice
was as the voice of one afar off.
“That thar is Jim Bpratt ”
Her heart gave a fearful leap —she
gasped for breath.
“Wall. Doak, whar’s Curt?”
Oh! tho sickening suspense of that
supreme instant of dread. It was mad
dening. She sprang to her feet as
Slover's slow tones came like an echo of
doom.
“Why, Curt—he—wal, jist afore the
! jam bruk loo s e, the eendof a log hit the
dug-out, kerbiml ’Nd Curt, he went
| down long with it.”
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uow
“I! lc tMtokcr
I. " '-v, -a
: : ’ ki- r li w - .a- I g--t - r
p'raps l',l meet! ni thar.” VtnHHBB
The despairing woman,
dilated eyes ami torn
gasping breath and trembling Is,
strugglad along the perilous trail above
the gorge that led to calmer waters be
low, found the above query unexpec
edly answered
The form of Curt Cable, drenched,
bruised, h s clothing half torn away, his
face unnaturally pale, suddenly glided
ronnd a sharp bend of the path and con
fronted her. Her limbs sunk beneath
her weight; she hid her eyes, exclaim
ing
Lawd hev pity! Hit—air—his—
, haant.”
She would have fallen down the slope,
but strong arms gru-ped her; a warm
breath fanned her brow, and as her eyes
responded, she saw the “haunt” ap
parently working its will with her. But
the hands felt lifelike and the voice she
now heard made her h art throb anew.
‘ “No, Em'line. I baiut quite a haant
yet, tho’ I corn’d tolerable nur a gittin’
tur be one.”
“Why—why—” she whimpered,
“Doak. he said ez a log hit ye ’nd ye
went down—”
"Doak wuz skeered ail thro’, 'nd
didn't know half he wuz a sayin’, I
reckin’. YVe'uns cut out the jam. but I
wuz in the dugout when a log stru k it,
’nd I went down jest ahead of the am
when hit bruk loose. Down below the
canoe split herself on a rock. I le’pt on
a log ez wuz a passin’, nd got whirled
yunder 'nd got knocked about purty
considerable. But I got ashore some
how, ’nd hyur I is. Now, Em line,
what wuz ye a doin’ a gallopin’ down
hyur in thish yer style?’’
There was no answer. Y’et her face
was nestled warmly against his ragged
and wet bosom.
“Now, Em’line, air ye still mad, or
wuz ye jist a-puttin’ on?”
Still no reply; yet one arm stole softly
round Curt’s neck, who, fee ing that his
time had come at last, made the best—
or, as the ladies might say. the worst—
use of his power.
“Air ye ever a goio’ ter git that way
long o’ me agin. Em’line?”
The arm slightly tightened its clasp of
his neck for an answer.
“There. Em’line. I wants ye tei kiss
me right smak in the mouth.”
But this last humiliation was post
poned by tha appearance of Bill Rymer
and the other men. The father stared
at Curt and his daughter, then said to
his friends, with a knowing grin:
“He a t a right peart kind of acorpse,
boys: jist erbout peart enuff ter cause a
weddin’ about hyur afore long, I reckon. ”
Bill was right. Em'line had finally
surrendered, and when the affair thus
prophesied came off, as it did in due
time, half of her old beaux were there to
dance and congratulate with such heart
as this result had left them.— NashnUe
American.
Foreign Consuls in New York.
There are at present iu this city four
consulates, representing as many differ
eut governments. In some of these the
duties are very light anil the fees small,
in which case the consuls are merchants,
allowed to trade on their own account
ami receiving a sum about equivalent to
the auiouut of fees as a sort of honor
arium.
Consuls of such nations as Great Brit
ain, Germany aud E’rance, which hive
large shipping and other commercial in
terests in this country, are paid salaries
and are not allowed to trade on their own
account.
The ordinary duties of a consul relate
chiefly to commercial affairs, such as the
authentication of ships’ papers, receiving
and certifying protests of musters of ves
sels aud others with reference to losses
at sea or giving consular certificates to
citizens.
It is also requited of consuls that they
should attend to and provide for dis
abled seamen of the country to which
they belong and send them home at
public expense. Bes.des this they are
expected to take charge of stranded ves
sels or property belonging to their coun
trymen in the absence of the master, or
other legal representative of the owner,
and also to take care of tlie property of
deceased citizens of the respective coun
tries.—New York Telegram,
Rescued from n Monster Unt-flsh.
A rather remarkable accident occurred
at New Harmony, Ind., to Captain YV.
8. YVolfe, a well-known citizen of that
city. He was fishing in the river, near
that place, when a huge eat fish sei ed
his bait and started away with it. The
experienced fisherman imagined that he
had hooked a huge bass, and when his
pole was broken by the powerful cat
tish he wound the line around his wrist
in order to retain his prize. In a few
moments, however, his delusion was dis
sipated, as the fish gradually drew him
into the stream, and while calling loudly
for help he wns drawn under the water.
The strong tension upon the line pre
vented his unwinding it, while the tisli
boro him along swiftly until, passiug
under a projecting log, he was enabled
to bold liis own until his now frantic
companions came to his relief. It re
quired a powerful effort to relieve him,
ns the line cut its way deep into the
fledi, nnd while they were preparing to
cut the line the fish started in an oppo
site direction, swimming near the sur
face, where he was dispatched with
an iron gig from tho boat. The unfor
tunate man and his strange catch were
then taken ashore, where the monster
cat-fish was found lo weigh l it) pounds.
The occurrence is unprecedented in the
fishing annals of that section.
A l’salm of Trade.
‘‘Tell me not in mournful numbers,”
Advertising doesn't pay;
For the man's non compos mentis
Who would such absurd tiling say.
“Life is real! Life is earnest!”
And the man who hopes to rise
To success in any calling,
Must expect to advertise.
“ In the world's broad field of battle,
In the conflict of real life,”
Advertising is the secret
Of achievement in the strife.
“ Lives of rich men all remind us
We can make our own sublime;”
And by liberal advertising
To the highest summit climb.
“ I,et us then be up and doing,”
In this sheet our ads. insert;
11 Still achieving, still pursuing,”
Business then will be alert.
g; -’Y'UYc'
tdSff-'' Ye,!'"
The sweet little bird, bo
But he doesn't even look in my face;
The bright little blossom swing and swings,
But still it swings in the self-same plaoa.
Let them stay where they like it best;
Let them do what they’d rather do;
My swing is nicer than all the rest.
But maybe it's rather small for two.
Here we go to the branches high!
Here we come to the grasses low!
For the spiders and Sowers an 1 birds and I
Love to swing when the breezes blow.
Swing, little bird, on the topmost bough;
Swing, little spider, with rope so fine;
Swing, little flower, for the wind blows now;
But none of you have such aswing as mine.
—Eudora S . Riuns/emd, in SI. Nicholas.
PITH AND POINT.
A bad fit—Epileptic.
A bad spell of weather—Wether.
Down in the mouth—The tongue.
The book agent should wear a canvas
suit.
An old woman who paints—Age hold
ing up a flag of truce to time.
Kind lady; “How old are you, my
little .ellowt” Youngster: “I ain’t old
at all, ma’am; I’m nearly new.”
The crank appears to be a person who
mows down the mental weeds in a whim
sickle way. —Duluth Puraqrapher.
A Milwaukee Judge has decided that
a hen is not a domestic animal. He must
be trying to make a game of bar.—
Picayune.
It seems to be settled that the Gov
ernment cannot hold the Mississippi
river, no matter how often it levies on
it.— Sifting*.
An “anti-chap toilet cream” is ad
veriiscd. It will never become popular.
The girls are too fond of the chaps.—
Detro.t Free Press.
Ah why did she make him leave herf
Ah, why so eruei, tne fair'
When a boy he'd had scar.et fever,
And it settled in his hair.
— Julge.
The civilized world spent years in try
ing to break into Chiua. Now it ia
making streuous efforts to keep the
Chinese from breaking out. Pndadei
p/iei Emjuirer.
Hear the wailing < t the ladies,
bee their faces worn and thin.
And the cause of all their sorrow
la —the bustle is called in!
— Siftings.
The pea. h crop is in a marketable con
dition. The fruit is large and luscious,
but owing to frosts in March and April
the baskets are guarled and dwarfish.—
Cincinnati Commercial.
“How do you like your new place,
Bridget V’ asked the servant girl’s
best beau. “Not at all. Sure the mis
tress wears such small shoes that I can t
get me feet into them. —Neit York
Journal.
Taking the temperature —She (at the
races) —“What’s the trouble on the
judges’ stand, George!” He —“There
is some dispute over the last heat.”
ghe—“Aren’t their thermometers all
alike, George.'”— Sifting*.
Queen Victoria has sent a message of
sympathy to Mr. John Bright. There
will be no dispute among doctors over
his condition as has been the case with
the F.mperor. Everybody knows what
Bright’s disease is.— Picayune.
A sailor for sea,
And a spinster for tea,
A lawyer for talk and a soldier for fighting;
A baby for noise.
Ami a circus for boys.
And a typewriter man to do autograph writ
ing.
A banker for chink.
And a printer for ink,
A leopard for spots, and a wafer for stick
ing;
A crack baseball flinger,
An opera singer,
A shotgun, a mule and a choir for kicking.
Turkish Funeral Customs.
When a Turk dies, the relatives are
forbidden to weep, but rather rejoice
that a saint has reached Paradise; so
tears are quickly suppiessed, no matter
how hearts may ache. As soon as breath
has quitted a body, the professional
dresser of the dead is sent for, and a
most thorough system of cleansing car
ried out. The body is then wrapped in
a winding-sheet, outside of which the
clothes of the person are placed. Then
a very frail wicker or thin board coffin
is brought, and into this the body
is laid, and sometimes even before it is
fairly cold it is carried to the cemetery
and buried. The graves are very shal
low, not over two feet deep. A coin is
put into the mouth of the dead person to
pay his passage across the “river of
death.” The reason of the frail coffins
and the shallow grave is that the body
may decay more quick*!y, as it is thought
that the soul will go wandering around
and not be able to enter the abode of the
blest as long as any flesh remains on the
bones.
Men only are supposed to inherit Para
dise, the women, having an inferior order
of souls, are unworthy the exquisite joys
prepared for all devout believers. The
women who have been unworthy in life
will go to Shaitan (or Satan), and those
who have been good will go to a pleasant
place where all their senses will be
gratified; hut this life is all they
they can look to for its own recompense.
The funeral procession generally consists
of a priest, and a few male relatives and
slaves, who go on a regular dog-trot, with
the corpse on their shoulders, so as to
hasten the release of the soul from its
agony of union with a dead carcass.
They believe that the body is dross and
vileness, and only the worthless cover
ing for the spirit within, that cannot die
nor he deffled. So when a Turk dies,
only his useless and valueless covering of
clay falls off like a disused garment, and
he himself is delivered from its dragging
load. Kismet (it is fate) and his time
has been written in the Great Book from
the beginning of time.— Demorest.
Tho official report on Russia for 1889
shows that the population of the empire
is 100,000.000. There were 46,304 deaths
by violence, 53,000 fires, 3377 dis
tilleries, 133,000 wine and beer shops,
245 sugar refineries, 8 universities, 38,-
531 Orthodox churches, 1387 Catholic,
708 Protestant, 340 synagogues and 8057
mosque*.