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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUME XXIII.
SOUTHLAND ITEMS.
paragraphs, sad, pleasant
AND TERRIBLE.
nrorsTßiAi. imioorkss— rim excursion
fKVEII -IIAILUOAD ACCIDENT*-SUICIDES
DEFALCATIONS— COTTON HBPORTN, ETC.
AIftSAHU.
The Pullman Car Company will locate
branch shops nt Ensley City.
H L Wellington, a lawyer of Bitm
inehani, left sdrtdenly after being
charged with forgery. In two years he
has spent $25,000.
Juliiis Calson Davis, n leading colored
politician, nt Entaw wns killed on Tuesday
hr Madison Coleman, nlao colored. Davis
w ,, a umn of bad character and antece
dents.
A sensation was develop and in Mont
gomery by the action of three fire com
panies, members of the city tite depart
ment, in a joint meeting, appointing a
committee to institute impeachment pro
ceedings against Chief Wm. K. Jones of
the department, on the ground of drunk
enness and general iucompetenry.
\V. D. Brown & Cos., public printer*
filed a hill in the Montgomery city court
and obtained an injunction against R. F.
Kolb, state agricultural commissioner,
to restrain him from having the piiuting
lor the department done outside of the
state and by others than the public print
ers.
A west-bound passenger train, from
Birmingham, on tho Georgia I’acitic
Road, was derailed on Thursday at
Cook’s Springs, twenty-five miles of Bir
minghnm. Every car lett the track and
turned over on their sides down a slight
embankment. M. J. Carlisle, of Eden,
Ala., a passenger, was severely cut about
the shoulders aud head. The other pis
icDgcrs and tiain men escaped with a
few slight bruises. A defective switch
frog caused the rails to spread.
A terrific thunder storm parsed over
Birmingham on Thursday, doing consid
erable damage. A number of telephone
wires were rut, breaking tome of the
large circuits. The ri sidcncc of Dr.
Brewster, on Fourth avenue, wns struck
and badly damaged. His daughter, Miss
Fanny, and a colored servant were badly
shocked, the colored woman being ren
dered unconscious for several bouts. The
handsome residence of Dr A. Codder
was struck and badly damaged. At E ist
Lake, six miles from the city,the elegant
tesidetiee of Mr. li. M. Horton w is torn
to pieces and the furniture broken into
kindling wood by a bolt of lightning.
(I'eorgii.
Jonathan Norcrota has presented 20
acres of lan 1 near Atlanta, to the Geor
gia Baptist Orphans’ Home.
Col. Harrison, of Guv. Gordon’s staff,
reports that 1.033 maimed veteran s 1-
diers have been pensioned, emailing an
expenditure of $25,823.
Brunswick and Savannah have de
clared a strict quarantine against Jack
sonville, FI i. The action of the Board
of Health of Savannah was overruled by
Mayor Lester of Savannah, in order to
have some trains to pass through, and it
is feared trouble may come from it.
• At a meeting of melon-growers held at
Camilla, the following resolution was
passed: * ‘That it is the sense of this
meeting that unless ihe railroads grunt a
substantial reliction in friigtat ra'o-,
that the growing of melons in th s county
will necessarily lie abandoned.”
The surveyors started work on Monday
laying off the lauds donated by tbe C’ar
tersville Land Company to the Carters
ville Furnace Company. The elevations,
depressions, etc., will be taken, and the
furnace site laid off. Work will 1) b -
gua at once It is said tint a strong
company formed in Atlanta will shortly
begin the erection of a rolling mill at
that point.
Several painters were engaged in paint
ing a frame building a mile from Home,
jus: beyond East It into, in Thursday,
"hen a thunder shower came up. Light
ning struck a chimney and the fluid de
"cndcd to the urouli I. L. I*. A. Wul
k r "ai inst mtly killed, James Bigwcll
"nil liuheti Mulkcy were injured, and
ll'ihert Ham- was on rail zed in both
South fnrol)im.
Charleston has instituted n close quar
antine against the Florida infected ports
on uccount of yellow fever. The quar
antine is not only by sea, but on land.
Detective Henry Wcthcrhorn, of
Charleston, left town suddenly, on the
publication of the confession of Frank
Hamilton, a colored man, alleging that
the officer induced colored men to steal
and then fastened the crime on innocent
men.
Keports from 202 correspondents of
'he state agiicultural department, show
'hat cotton has greatly improved during
the last month, and particulaily in the
upper and middle sections. The crop,
however, is still late. The staple cotton
on the sea island is very tine, the condi
tion being reported from one hundred to
J hundred and ten. Corn is reported at
I" for the state against 99 last year; the
average of rice for the state is 85 against
last year. The area in rice is about
'he same as last year. Labor is satis
factory,
DllMfluri.
Hate news from the Indian territory
®ays that n company of the Fifth United
tales cavalry arc now engaged in ej ct-
n K non-iit zeus of the Chickasw nation
"ho have resisted the payment of the
jtt'otax. On Tuesday a large number
. 'hose men were seut across the Bed
'verinto Texas, with the injunction not
u return. All iheir crops and other pos
ctsions were left behind and will proba
y he a total loss to them.
./bold mail robbery was committed on
e Missouri Pacific Road, between Jef
iuT°A ®f" Louis, in which over
*‘<,ooo was stolen, of which $5,000 was
;®the state treasury. The discovery
the crime wns accidental. Two
. |r ra s near Washington, were ap
i!■ i "g a “"spicious-looking man on
inrl • ra '', "b pn he b came frightened,
lar ’ ln ‘’tempting to flee, dropp and a
a .? e P aCKl 'Be. The farmers secured it,
a °nce discovered that it was plun
r‘m a mail robbery.
fl w Texas
i,. n Thursday morning, six m les from
< t rr°'i° n ( b f ' Texas Central road, apiece
timber was f istene I to the track and
e night i xpress w : s derailed, the loco-
I °,." e ‘'em dished ands vend cars
hill j a ’”.'S e 'i. Engineer A'osis was
•roll '' ,l ' l ig?ti*. llis lireman was terribly
iurct ''“lf a dozen passengers in
, lhe r! ev ifs posse is scouring
country for ihe criminals.
Ten
Mi** Daisy Judd, of Nashville, com
mit ed suicide ut New Middleton by
blowing out her brains with a pistol.
Unrequited love was the cause.
A lire broke out on Thursday iu the
Griffith- Caldwell building on Market
street in Chattanooga, and a loss of
$400,001) was sustained before the fire
was extinguished. The h< uviest losers
were: Bradt Printing Cos.; Gibson, Lee
A Cos., china dealers; N. Deitzer & Bro.;
Block Drug Cos.; L. Rosenheim, cloth
ingdealer; A. Tschopik,confectioneries;
Baltimore Clothing Cos. Three men,
among them J. I*. McMillan, a promi
nent citizen, were buried in the falling
wall*.
\\ bile two boys, Jackson Moore and
John Harvey, of Memphis, aged about
seventeen years, were hunting squirrels
across the river in Arkansas, they dis
covered a large rattlesnake coiled upon
a rock apparently asleep. Moore said he
would capture the snake alive. lie
crept up to the deadly rattler, and by a
quick movement caught it firmly below
the head and held it at arm's length in
triumph. Suddenly the snake coiled it
self around the boy’s arm. He became
frightened aud attempted to throw it off,
when the reptile struck him. He then
fell in a swoon, while his friend tied for
assistance. The neatest house was two
miles distant, and when help arrived the
poor lad was past help and died in ag
ony.
Two men had made ready a very
heavy blast in the face of the high bluff
at the mouth of Smith’s forks, near Lan
caster. It was composed of quite a num
ber of holes about twenty feet deep, and
with nine or ten kegs of powder to the
hole. Everything had been made ready
to touch the blast with electricity by
means of a wire connected with the bat
tery. A cloud came up in the meantime,
and as it was lightning, the men con
cluded to wait until the cloud passed
over. A flash of lightning, however,
came running along the wire from the
battery exploding the blasts with a tre
mendous noise. The whole side of the
bluff was blown off aud it tumbled with
a tremendous crash down below. At
the time the blast occurred, two laboring
men were seen coming along down
under the bluff. They were vigilantly
searched for after the explosion, but no
trace of them could be found.
GEN. SHERIDAN’S FUNERAL.
The special train bearing the body of
Gen. Sheridan and the funeral party ar
rive lat Washington on Thursday. It
was met by Geu. Schofield, and a guard
of honor from the District of Columbia
military order of Loyal Legion and
I’roop D, of the 4th cavairy. As the
train slowed into tlie s'ation, eight ser
geants of the 3d artilleiy, under com
mand of Lieut. Danes, marched up the
platform and formed a line. Soon after
the train stopped, Mrs. Sheridan stepped
tit, leaning on the arm of Col. Sheridan.
They were met by Gen. Rucker, Airs.
S teridan's father and sister. As they
left the station the artillery sergeants
took the casket from the car in which it
ha 1 made the journey from Nouquitt
Hid bore it to a caisson belonging to the
3rd artillery, which was draped with
flags festooned with crape. As the cais
son bearing the body left the station,
Troop D, of the 4th cavairy, fell into
line in front and escorted the procession
up Pennsylvania avenue to Fifteenth
street aud St. Alattbew’s church. Fol
lowing the caisson in carriages were Gen.
Schofield and staff, Dr. O’Reilly, Col.
Blunt and the guard of honor from the
local commandery of the Loyal Legion.
As tho body reached the church door,
it was met by a procession of clergy and
sanctuary boys singing the “.Miserere.”
After the casket had been placed upon
the catafalque, the preliminary burial
service was recited, the choir singing the
funeral hymn. The interior of the church
was effectively draped, a feature of the
decora'ions being the American colors
blended with the somber shade of heavy
folds. The ccraph fronts of both galle
ries were served with large flags caught
up at intervals witli broad bands of
black. Above the entrance on the front
of the organ loft were grouped regiment
al and cavalry flags, fastened together by
a knot of black. Tlie altar was heavily
draped. The candelabra and marble
figures on either side were draped with
black. Two silk American flags hung
from the wall above the altar. The car
dinal’s throne on the left of the altar
was appropriately covered, aud the front
of the pulpit was concealed by heavy
black velvet, with deep silver fringe.
Space had been made iu front of the
altar by the removal of four pews on
either side of the main aisle, iu the cen
ter of which stood the catafalque, the
same that was used in the funeral obse
quies of King Alfonso, held in this
church on the death of the king several
years ago. It is about four feet high and
rests upon a broad base which is covered
with national colors bordered with a
band of black velvet. The upper portion
is covcreel with an American flag, ou
which the casket was placed. At
the head of the casket was planted a gen
eral’s headquarters flag. The service
concluded, the little company immedi
ately left the church. Ou Friday morn
ing the requiem mass was celebrated by
Father Kervick. This service was for
the convenience of the family and friends
of the illustrious dead.
The executive departments were closed
on Saturday as a mark of respect to the
memory of Gen. Sheridan, and all public
business was suspended on that day.
Those invited to the funeral were
President and Airs. Cleveland, members
of the cabinet and the ladies of their
families, judges of the supremo court
judges of tlie local courts, members of
the diplomatic corps, members of the sen
ate and House of Representatives and
elective officers of both bouses, all mem
bers of the Catholic clergy in Washing
ton, all officers of the army navy and
marine corps stationed in Washington,
twenty-five of the Grand Army of Re
public, twenty-five of the Loyal Legion,
eighty members of the press and a large
number of personal friends of the family.
The total number of invitations issue 1
was 1,500, and no person was admitted
to the church without a card of admtston.
The funeral was strictly m accordance
,wth armv regulations, and the impres
sive services of the Church were under
the direction of the local clergymen ab
solution being given by Cardmal Gib
bons. .
FEVER IN A convent.
*'rtr&*cS%£'
had not taken the
to their paren . , (, een pros,
died and many others have t
trated.
THE WORLD OVER.!
CONDENSATION OF FACTS BY
’PHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
SOMETHING ABOUT CONVENTIONS, RAIL
ROADS, WORKING PEOPLE, CAPITALISTS,
EUROPEAN CROWNED HEADS, ETC.
The market reports from New York
slow that Southern fruits und produce
brought liberal prices.
Advices from Rome, Italy, state that the
etuptlon at the volcanoes continues and j
an estate belonging to an English com
pany Ims been destroyed.
Col. George Gibson, of the sth U. 8.
infantry, commandant at Ft. Bliss, died
very suddenly on Tuesday at Las Vegas,
N. M., where he had been for rest.
Seven socialists of Berlin, Germany,
have beeu sentenced to imprisonment for
terms varying from two months to three
years for insulting the imperial house.
Emperor William will sojourn in Al
sace-Lorraine for ten days, making the
palace at Btraslmrg his headquarters,
lie will visit Metz and other large towns.
The car drivers and conductors of New
York City will not support their striking
brethren of Green Point, LoDg Island.
They say that the step was ill advised
aDd uncalled for.
Terrible damage has been done to the
crops in Germany and many head of cat
tle have been lost near Koenigsburg,
Elbing, and Sagan. Railways are inter
rupted at Gorlenz and Bromberg.
Lawrence Donovan, who successfully
jumped from Niagara and Brooklyn
bridges, was drowned on Tuesday in the
Thames, London, into which he jumped
from the Southwestern railway bridge at
Chariug Cross, formerly called Hunger
ford bridge.
Lightning struck the main building of
the Cincinnati Exposition on Wednes
day aud produced a counter current on
the electric dynamos und stopped the
machinery and put out the electric
lights. No one was hurt.
The main building of Wells College,
New Yolk, where Mrs. President Cleve
land graduated, was burned on Thursday
with the entire contents. The loss is
$130,000. There wa9 an insurance of
$75,000 on the building.
A four-story tenement house at 1,020
Avenue A, in New York, caught fire, and
the family of Gustave Berg, who lived on
the top floor were burned to death. They
were Gustave Berg, 40 years old ; his'wife
30; his mother-in-law aud his 12-year-old
daughter Gertie.
James O'Neil, an employe of an elec
tric company, was repairing a lamp in
the city hall at Hoboken, N. J., onTues
day, when the current was turned on and
he was instantly killed. There was a long
red mark on his right side. The flesh
wns broken at the waist.
Two iron mills of Graff, Bennett A
Cos., at Pittsburg, Pa., were sold at auc
tion on Thursday for $729,000 to satisfy
two mortgages, one of $625,000, held by
the New York Life Insurance Company,
and tlie other for SIOO,OOO, held by local
parties.
An east-bound passenger train on the
Santa Fe railroad left the track near
Lawrence, Kansas, on Tuesday, while
running forty miles an hour. All the
cars except the sleepers went off the
track, several of them being demolished.
Martin Meyars, the engineer, was killed
instantly, and John Hurff, the fireman,
was badly scalded. The accident was
caused by a broken rail.
Almost a riot took place at the meeting
of the National Temperance Society at
Ocean Grove, N. J., on Wednesday.
Col. G. W. Bain, of Kentucky, delivered
an address, and Mrs Alice Osborne, of
Boston, Mass , sang a solo so sweetly that
an encore was demanded. The Society
people would not allow it, but the aud
ience insisted and the sweet singer tri
umphed.
A tremendous rain and wind storm
burst over Springfield, Ohio, and raged
for five minutes. In that brief time,
thousands of dollars’ worth of damage
was done. The magnificent Arcade
hotel building was struck by lightning
during the storm and badly wrecked.
The wind lifted the wrecked roof and
hurled it with tremendous violence on
thersky-light, and it fell with a crash
that was heard for blocks.
Fifty thousand people turned out to
view the funeral of Gen. Elides, the
communist ot Pans, France, a display
of red flags being made, the civil guard
captured them after a severe fight. Fif
teen thousand persons marched in front
of the hearse bearing the remaius and
they wore bouquets of red immortelles.
M. Basly, member of Chamber of Depu
ties, was present, and he and Rochefort
were greeted with cheers and shouts of
“vive la revolution” and “vive la com
mune.” Shots were exchanged between
the police and the mob at several points
on the route of the funeral.
Florida.
Mr. White, of St. Augustine, has
growing on h’s place in Beuna Ezperan
za, four species of the castor bean plant.
One of the trees measures tliirty-flve
inches around its trunk. The beans of
this plant are worth $2 a bushel.
The farmers around Plant City have
made fine crops, and vegetables are to lie
planted on hundreds of acres. New
lands are being put in order, and new
groves set out. There are about 100,000
boxes of oranges on the trees near that
place to be shipped the coming Fall and
Winter.
Marcus Diamond was accidentally
drowned in the Cascade near Tallahassee.
While bathing with a small companion
he ventured into deep water, and before
assistance could be had from town, he had
been under water nearly an hour and
could uot be resuscitated. lie arrive!
there less than two months ago from Ger
many, was about 18 years old, and a
brother of Julius Diamond, a prominent
merchant.
Virginia.
Capt. John T. Wise has made arrange
ments to leave Richmond and settle in
New York.
The Gray National Company has been
chartered by the circuit court at Rich
mond, with a capital stock not to exceed
*15,000,000. The principal offices will :
be located in Richmond. The officers
are: President, Thomas M. Logan; vice
president, Charles E. Coon, of New
York; secretary, David I. Carson, of
New York. Among the incorporators
are United States Senators Plumb and
Hale; John H. Inman, George S. Scott,
S. Brice, J. B. Pace and James H.
Dooly. Tlie company wi 1 engage in the
general telegraph and telephone business
un h r the system invented by Prof.
Elisha Gray.
“ JfF COUNTRY MAT BBS SVRR BB RIQUT. RIGHT OR WRONG MT COUNTRY."—
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, AUGUST Id. 1333.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
what the sweltering pub
lic OFFICIALS ARE DOING.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS —IMPORTANT
ACTS OF PRESIDENT CLEVELAND —AP-
POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS, ETC.
CONURBSHIONAI..
On Thursday, after the passage of
several hills on the calendar, the Senate
proceeded to the consideration of the
fisheries treaty in open executive session,
and Air. Everts resumed his speecli
against its ratification. After he had
spoken for two hours, Mr. Evarts yielded
the floor temporarily to allow Mr. Haw
ley to inti oduce a concurrent rc.-o’anou
that members of both houses shall ’.tend
tho fuucral of Gen. Sheridan on Gaiur
doy next nt ten a. m., and that, ar a fur
ther mark of respect to the memory of
the deceased, the tw houses, when they
adjourn on Friday, shall adjourn to meet
on .Monday next. Resolutions were
agreed to, and Mr. Evarts resumed his
argument agaiast the fisheries treaty. ...
In the House, the message from the Sen
ate announcing the passage by that body
of a concurrent resolution declaring that
members of both houses would attend
the funeral of Gen. Sheridan on Saturday
next, and that as a mark of respect to
the memory of the deceased, when the
two houses adjourn on Friday, it will be
to meet on Alonday next. It was con
curred in.
In the Senate, on Wednesday, the
Chinese protection bill was taken up and
passed without division. The Senate
then proceeded to the consideration of
the fisheries treaty in open executive ses
sion and was addressed by Air. Evarts in
opposition to its ratification. After
speaking over two hours, on the sug
gestion of Mr. Frye, that the day was
hot, Air. Evarts ceased speaking, and
postponed the remainder of his speech
till Thursday. The fisheries treaty hav
ing been laid aside and legislative bus
iness taken up, Air. Edmunds suggested
that, in view of the extreme heat, public
business would be better attended to by
an adjournment than by continuing in
session Iu the House, Air. Shaw, of
Alarvland, from the committee on ac
counts, reported the resolution appro
priating $5,000 to meet the expenses of
committee on manufactures in investi
gating the subject of trusts. Air.
Springer then asked for immediate con
sideration of his trust bill, but demand
for the regular order from Air. Long,
of Alassachusetts, operated as an
objection. The House went into
committee of the whole ou the deficiency
hill. Debate on the French spoliation
claims section was renewed. Pending
debate the committee rose. Air. Outh
waite, of Ohio, entered a motion to re
consider the various votes by which the
House amended the Senate ( olumbus
Exposition bill, by providing foe Rich
mond, Augusta, Atlanta and Kansas City
Expositions. The House adjourned.
The resolution offered in the Senate on
Alondav, by Air. Jones, of Arkansas, in
structing the committee on finance to
make an investigation of the cotton bag
ging pool, was taken up and adopted.
The Senate bill to remove the political
disabilities of Julian Alyers, of Georgia,
was reported from the judiciary com
mittee and passed. The Senate then re
sumed consideration of the fisheries treaty
iu open executive session.
Cl! OSSIP.
The proposition to give government
aid to the Colored Exposition at Atlanta,
Ga., and the Richmond, Va., and Au
gusta, Ga., Expositions, was loaded
down with so many amendments, that
it looks now as though these three Ex
positions will get nothing ftout Uncle
Sam.
North < uio.ina.
.Montgomery Wygatt, a colored hand
employed on the Wilmington & Weldon
Railroad, died from sun-stroke. He was
on a hand-car near Wilmington.
A remarkable accident occurred in
Richmond county. While a negro
woman was standing near an open well
she was struck by lightning and knocked
into the well. She was dead when taken
out.
Dave Lowe, of Alamance county, com
mitted suicide in a rather novel way. He
conti ived to climb a large tree, and stand
ing in one of its forks, fifty feet above
ground, sprang head foremost. He
broke his skull and spine and died in
stantly.
Dr. F. 11. Glover, one of tlie ablest
physicians in the state, died suddenly
on Tuesdi.y at his home at Charlotte. He
was a native of South Carolina, but for
(twenty years had lived at Charlotte.
He was a prominent Mason and Knight
Templar.
’ Alembers of the Farmers’ Alliance are
|up in arms on account of the cotton bag
ting trust. They are holding meetings
hud pledging themselves not to purchase
any bagging at tlie prescut exorbitant
advance in price, but’ to use some other
material for their cotton, if it be only
four-cent cottonade.
James McCurry, of McDowell county,
observing a dog running after his sheep,
took his gun and followed in pursuit.
When he overtook the dog the latter had
caught and killed a sheep. McCurry
shot and killed it, but in so doing the
gun burst, breaking his neck and
causing instant death.
Carl Dabbett, a German at Wilming
ton, committed suicide on Wednesday.
He went to the boarding house, with his
clothes wet and remarked that ho had
fallen out of a boat. Subsequently he
acknowledged he had jumped into the
river with the intention of drowning
himself. Being a good swimmer, he be
gan swimming and his resolution failed
■him. Later he borrowed a razor from a
friend. The latter went out, and return
ing in a few minutes, found Dabbett ly
ing on the floor with blood spouting from
a wound across the throat.
YELLOW FEVER.
Surgeon-General Hamilton, of the Ma
rine hospital bureau at Washington, D.
C., received the following telegram on
Wednesday. “Jacksonville, Fla.—Two
cases of yellow fever were discovered this
morning. One of them had been in the
city six days from Orlando when taken
sick; the other had not been out of the
citv. The other two suspicious casrs are
traceable to the same store where others
were taken sick. The health authorities
arc takiug active steps in the matter. All
cases will be sent to Sandhills hospital.
I fear this is the beginning of the out
break. Guiteras.”
THE SIN OK OMISSION.
It isn’t the thing you do, dear,
It’s the thing you leave undone.
Which gives you a hit of heartache
At the setting of the sun.
The tender word forgotten,
The letter you did not write,
The flower you might have aent, ties.,
Are your tiauntmg ghosts to-night.
The stone you might have lifted
Out of a brother s way,
The bit of hearthstone counsel
You were hurried too much 11 say;
The loving touch of the hand, dear,
The gentle aud winsome tone,
That you had no time nor thought for,
With troubles enough of your own.
The little acts of kindness,
Ho easily out of mind;
Those chances to he angels
Which every one may find—
They i-omein night and silence—
Each chili, reproachful wraith—
When hope is faint and flagging,
And a blight has dropped on faith.
For life is all too short, dear.
And sorrow is all too great.
To suffer our slow compassion
That tarries until too late.
And it’s not the tiling you do, dear,
It’s the thing you leave undone,
Which gives you the bit of heartache
At the setting of the sun.
—Christian Leader.
THE NEW CURATE.
“You haven’t seen him yet? Well,
that’s a pity. lie’s quite a catch, I atn
told. Young, handsome and single, i
Why don’t yon set your cap for him,
Mattie? You've got as good a chance as
the rest of them, aud twenty-six is not
old, by any means."
She leaned over the garden gate as
she spoke, th s veritable village gossip.
1 can see her now, with her great poke
bonnet, from beneath which the cluster
ing gray ringlets peeped; the keen blue
eves that seemed to read your very
thoughts; the trim little figure, clad al
ways in ample skirts of Quaker gray or
sombre brown.
Never was there a weddiug, funeral or
christening in the village without this
estimable lady’s presence. What a harm
less little body she appeared, and how
incapable of carrying about that wonder
ful budget of information! How nicely
she imparted her knowledge to her
listeners, beginning with, --Well, I
don’t mind telling you, or, “The . do
say, but of course you can’t believe
everything;” and ending with, “That’s
between you and me; it will go no fur
ther.’’
I was in the garden that morning,
training some early June roses; my
thoughts were not the brightest, scarcely
in harmony with Nature, which was
decked in one of her brightest mantles.
It was quite unnecessary for-Mrs. Briggs
to remiud me of my age; I was think
ing seriously of it. Twenty-six! Not
very old, to be sure, and yet not very
young to an unmarried woman. I must
be content with fewer laurels, less con
quests. I must step out of the field, as
it were, and leave the romance and day
dreams to younger and fairer girls.
It mattered little to me whether the
new curate was young and unmarried, or
a portly old fallow, with a wife and
grown daughters. At heart I disliked
this interfering old woman who had
broken in on my reverie.
I thanked her kindly for her advice,
telling her that at present 1 had no in
tention of setting my cap for any one,
not even for the new curate; so saying I
went back to my work and the roses.
“There, Mattie, don’t get riled. Of
course it’s nobody’s business if you’re
going to leave yourself an old maid; but
take my advice and don't spend your
time fretting and worrying over liob
Preston, for he ain’t worth it, nohow. ’’
She shook her head wisely, and was
off before I had time to recover from the
cruel thrust that had opened the old
wound—Robert I’reston and the past.
I had tried to guard my heart, to
trample under foot the old love. I could
have laughed at my girlish folly as if it
were a dteam until a thoughtless word
had brought back the past, like the dead
risen to life again, or a smouldering lire
that needed but a gentle breeze to make
it a burning flame. One by one the roses
dropped from my bands. One by one
the blinding tears fell. I was on'y a weak
woman, after all, as, covering my face
with my hands, I sobbed:
“Robert, O Robert! Why were you
false?’’
It all came back to me—that visit to
Aunt Alartha, where I first met Robert
Preston, a young student just returned
from college. 1 canuot tell all those
bright, happy day-dreams; how I loved
him and waited for the happy day when
he would ask me for that love. He read
my answer in my tell-tale face before my
lips uttered it.
So, engrossed with Robert's society, I
took little heed of other matters, scarcely
giving a thought to the fact that a young
lady, the daughter of a deceased friend
of my aunt’s, was going to make her
home with us. She came. From the
moment I looked upon her lovely face
my happiness was gone. I was a pretty
girl, fair, and fragile, yet one might as
well compare a simple little da-sy to a
full-blown poppy or a rich red lose as
my frail beauty to this girl’s exquisite
loveliness.
For a time his love was unchanged. I
I laughed iu my foolish heart at my
doubts and fears. At times 1 would find
his serious eyes wandering from me and
resting admiringly on the beautiful face
of Kathleen Ice. No man could resist
that wondrous, fascinating face. Hite
uever encouraged him: but the drooping
lids, the faint flush, the trembling of
the little hands, all told plainly that she,
too, loved him.
How I suffered! In my mad jealousy
I grew almost to hate the child. He
loved me be ore she came, with her beau
tiful flower-like face, to rob me of that
love. Was she blind that she did not
gee that we were betrothed.' I prayed
that she might go away and leave us to
ourselves once more, and Robert would
go hack to his old fond ways. His ca
resses were growing colder, his kisses
lighter. I spoke ot his seeming neglect,
fle answered lightly, taking both my
hands in his and looking fondly at me.
“Nonsense. Alattie! Do you know,
my little girl, that you are growing
Dearer and dearer to me every day ? ’
For a time I was satisfied, trying to be
satistied with but a share ot his love.
AVe were seated in the garden, one af
ternoon. early in the autumn, Robert,
Kathleen and L Hhc was looking unu
sually handsome iu a dress of soft Indian
mull. My lover had just paid her a
well merited compliment, or which she
was about to make a gracious reply,
when ti mt Martha came us.
“Robert,” she aiki. placing her h ind
fondly on bis shoulder as site spoke,
“will you gather some grapes for nto 1 l
find that tome of the hunches hang too
high. The girls will go with you and
hold the basket."
He rose to comply with her request.
Kathleen wns at his sido in a moment,
while I refused to join them, feiguiug a
severe headache.
“They do not want me,” I reasoned
within myself.
I watched them as they walked away
together, he carrying tho little wicker
basket, and she tossing her bright curls
with that coquettish air that came so
natural to her.
I cannot tell you what tempted mo to
follow them ; it must have been some evil
genius. Slowly I followed down the
pathway, taking every precaution, how
ever, not to be observed. Heated upon
a little rustic bench, I could sec every
movement of my lover and Kathleen.
How lovely she looked standing in the
orchard, the sunlight falling athwart
the lovely upturned face, on which a
smile rested 1 Never was seen a fairer
vision. Her sleeve of soft texture fall
ing back showed the shapely, out
stretched arm.
Sometimes a peal of merry laughter
would fall upon my ear. They did not
miss me—not even Robert; he was content
with Kathleen.
The basket was full to overflowing,
and still they lingered. One bunch of
luscious gtapes, the last gathered, was
in Robert s baud. He stooped to place
it with the others, when their eyes met,
their hands touched. Has [ dreaming?
Alas! no. I saw him stoop and kiss her
fondly. I waited no longer. With a
cry of pain 1 turned and fled to the
seclusion of my own room, where 1
sobbed out the trouble of my young
heart, with only God to hear me.
I went away quite unexpectedly. 1
was homesick, I told Aunt .Martha. I
left a letter for Robert, giving no ex
planation of my conduct; simply telling
him it was better we should part. 1
was a proud girl and would not stoop
to acknowledge a rival.
I remember taking the ring he had
given me from my baud, and what a
struggle it cost me to place it with that
letter—the last I should ever write to
Robert.
I came home to mother, who was
quite au invalid and needed all my care.
I never heard from Robert save once,
through Aunt Alartha, who wrote:
“Of course, Alattie, you’ve uot for
gotten Robert, whom, to speak candidly,
you treated rather unkindly. Ho has
gone to New York to practice medicine.
He is doing well.’’
An old newspaper had fallen into my
hands, where an uccouiitwas given of a
brilliaut reception. Among the guests
were the names of Dr. 'Robert l’reston
and wife. I knew it was Robert and
Kathleen. 1 made no inquiries, and,
receiving no further information, took
it for gianted that Aunt Martha’s kind
ness of heart prevented her from again
referring to the past. I closed my heart
forever. The world will never know
me as a disappointed woman. I thought,
flattering myself that l had quite suc
ceeded in deceiving humanity in general,
until the gossip hail come upon me with
her idle words, bringing to life the
bitter past that I thought I had buried
years ago.
“Going to service. Alias Kenwood?”
It was my neighbor who asked the
question, Marcia Hall—a dear little
girl with the utmost faith in mankind
in general. I smiled faintly as I caught
sight of the new bonnet with Us dainty
ribbons, evidently got up for the new
curate.
“Y'oung and foolish,” thought I.
“Wait until she’s six-and-twenty, and
I’ll wager she will not buy anew bonnet
for all the new curates in towu.”
Slowly we walked to church on that
bright Sunday morning, Alarcia chatting
gaily and I, dressed in the plainest of
dresses, walking silently beside her.
I had not fully recovered from Mrs.
Briggs’s unkind remarks, and was de
termined to show her my disinclination
to “set my cap,” ns site termed it, by ap
pearing in an exceedingly unbecoming
gown. I was really disappointed, in
catching a last glimpse in the mirror, to
find that, notwithstanding my plain
toilet and my six-and twenty years, I
wns stiil a pretty woman, and to hear my
mother say as I stopped to kiss her,
“How well you're looking, Mattie .”
How crowded tlie little village church
was—filled to overflowing. I.vcry one
was there, even that hateful Airs. Briggs.
I caught a glimpse of the great poke bon
net as 1 walked quickly to my seat.
They were singing as we entered, yet
I scarcely heard them, feeling rather em
barrassed nt coming late to be gazed at
by the entire congregation.
! sank wearily am ng the soft cush
ions, gladly taking refuge behind a
palmleaf fan kindly pro i'ered by a port
ly old gentleman beside me.
Now a hush, a slight flutter among
the congregation, a rustle of garments,
with now and then a subdued whisper
as the pulpit was rolled close to the
clmncel, and the new curate ascended.
“He’s just lovely,” whispered Alarcia,
pulling softly at my sleeve, “Do look
at him, Aliss Kenwood.”
I kept my eyes downcast. If every
woman in the congregation cast glances
of admiration, 1 was determined to do
otherwise.
“Ami my brother’s keeper.” was the
text. Clear and distinct were the words
of fixe speaker. The first words had
caused my heart to beat wildly. How
like that voice of long ago, that rich,
soft voice that pleaded for my love! 1
listened like one in a dream,until I raised
my eyes to see before me—Robert I’res
ton.
Yes, Robert Preston. Changed, to he
sure; not the bright, boyish face of long
ago. There were lines of care and suf
fering on it now-, while the dark hair
was streaked with silver.
Was Kathleen dead? I wondered. Had
he given up his practice? Was he happy ?
Fifty different queries crowded upon my
memory. AVhy had fate thrown us once
more together after my bitter struggle to
forget? One thing 1 was determined
Upon : 1 must leave the village. I dared
not trust myself further. Reason as I
would, my heart told me that I loved
him still.
it was all over! I could hear the
whispered comments of the worshipers
on tlie eloquence of the new curate. Ihe
singers were chanting in that nasal,
drawling tone so natural to village
choirs, and still I sat dreaming.
“Are you coming?” asked my com
panion; then, ns 1 arose mechanioally to
obev, “Don’t you like him. Aliss Ken
wood? Do tell me! You listened at
tentively, and once, as I looked at you,
I thought you were going to faint away,
vou looked so pale. Are you ill?”
■ Yes, 1 like him,” I added aloud, while
my heart whispered: “God pity me, I
love him!” . . , .
We were out once more til the bright
sunslx xie, coming quite unexpectedly
upon a little group composed of the
wealthier members of the congregation,
gathered around the new curate. They
had learned he was a man of wealth and
standing, choosing hie calling simply as
a matter of taste. Someone —I think it
was the pastor's wife—presented mo to
him. Our eyes met; our hands touched,
ns, resting those serious eyes upon uin,
lie said:
“I have had the pleasure of meeting
Miss Kenwood before.”
I cannot tell how it happened that we
were all walking out through the church
yard toward the highway, and I found
myself alone with Robert. He was
the first to break the silence. It pained
me to think it was a common place re
mark.
“How is Kathleen; - ' Inaked,eudeavor
ing to show him bow little I eared for
the past, and how, without betraying the
slightest emotion, I could inquire after
his wife's health.
“Kathleen?” Ho looked dazed at tho
question. “I believe she is well, but not
happy, poor girl.”
lie believed she was well. Ilowstrunge
Had he grown weary of her as of me'
Was he utterly devoid of honor?
“Not happy?” I said, as I toyed nerv
ously with the roses in my bodice. “Shi
should be very happy ns- as—youi
wife," I faltered.
"As my wife!” he said, gazing it
b ank amazement. "D and you—oh,
Mattie, you have judged me wrongly.
I never married Kathleen.”
He looked like a man upon whom a
sudden truth had dawned, or one ac
cused of a great wrong who could prov<
his innoceuce.
It was in the twilight before service
that he told me it all. The notice con
earning Robert l’reston and wife referred
to his cousin. He had entered the min
istry from choice, as lie had come into
a lurge fortune through the death of his
uncle. True, lie had admired Kathleen
as a mun would admire a beautiful wo
man, but he never entertained the
slightest feeling of love for her.
The scene in the orchard was but a
simple ruse gotten up by Robert and
Kathleen to excite my jealousy, little
dreaming of the serious result.
Kathleen made a most unfortunate
match, like most beautiful women, mak
ing a poor selection from her many
suitors. Poor girl, what a dear, kind
letter she sent to us, telling how happy
she was to hear we were reunited 1
“Just to think of it!” said Airs.
Briggs. “He came back to her after the
oilier girl had given him the m’tteu. I
wouldn’t take him. Would youi”
AVe can afford to laugh at her idle
f Ossip, we are so happy, Robert and L
smile proudly to think that without
“setting my cap” 1 have captured the new
curate, after all.
The Simple Natives of Jamaica.
The natives of Jamaica, says the New
York (V. fiercer, are ingenious aud skillful
with their fingers. They make many
prettv articles for sale, which can be
bought for very little. They utilize the
palm leaves iu many ways, making from
them hats, pretty fans, ornamented with
gay wools, and dainty little baskets with
handies and covers. These they weave
of strips of palm, making the body ol
the basket white, with a colored bordet
of strips dyed red and yellow or black.
They also carve well, and some of the
se s of jewelry, tiny vinaigrettes, and
rosary beads, made from the root of tlie
“groogroo palm” are exquisitely done,
with carvings in relief almost equal to
the best Swiss carvings. They are emi
ncntly a people of expedients, and are
very clever at adapting the various tropi
cal growths to their needs. Living
often far from a railroad and on an
island where needful things canuot txl
ways lie piocured, they set their in
genuity to work to furnish sub-titutes.
The coarse, fibrous network which hangs
from the base of the cocoa leaves, they
call “cocoanut strainer,” and use to
strain milk, rum punch, colTcc, etc. A
cucumber-like vegetable, full of soft
fibre, they call the “Dish-rag” plant,and
scrub their kitchen utensils with it.
They cut the husk from around tlie
cocoanut, ravel it out into a brush and
polish floors with it. They wrap the
leaves of the cashew tree around meat to
make it tender, and hang butter in a
draught in a porous clay vessel, which
they frequently wet to insure rapid
evaporation, and thus cool it in the ab
sence of ice, aud have hundreds of labor
saving plans of a like nature. They arc
clever at making pottery, and use the
clay “yabbas,” a kind of earthenwaie
bowl, in lieu of pots and kettles, doing
most of their cooking in them. They
make them ol all si.es, for beating up
cake, washing tea-things, and also in tho
shape of large jars, for various purposes.
Pitchers for water and filters are also
made in this pottery, some of which are
exceedingly graceful Dot lx in shape and
ornaments, with cars of corn moulded on
tlie sides, and other designs.
Tests of Steel and Iron.
Nitric acid will produce a black spot
on steel, the darker the spot the harder
the steel Iron, on the contrary, remains
bright if touched with nitric acid. Good
steel, in its soft state, has a curved
fracture and a uniform gray luster; in
its bard state, a (lull, silvery, uniform
white. Cracks, threads or sparkling
particles denote bad quality.
rood steel will not bear a white heat
without falling to pieces, and will
crumble under the hammer at a bright
red heat, while at a middling heat it
may be drawn out under tlie hammer to
a fine point.
t are should be taken that before at
tempting to draw it out to a point tlie
fracture is not concave; und should it
bo so, the end should be filed to an ob
tuse point before operating. steel should
be drawn out to a line point and plunged
into cold water; the fractured point
should scra’ch glass. To test its tough
ness place a fragment on a block of cast
iron; if good, it may be driven by the
blmv of the hammer into the cast iron;
if poor, it will cru-di under the blow.
A soft, tough iron, if broken gradu
ally, gives long silky fibers of leaden
g ay hue, whicli twist together and co
here befoie breaking. .....
A medium, even grain, with fibers
denotes good iron Badly refined iror
gives a short, blackish fiber on fracture.
A verv fine grain denotes hard, steelt
iron likely to be < old short and hard.
Coarse grain, with bright crystalizeci
fractme, 7ir discolored spots, denotes
cold-short, brittle iron, which works
easily when heated, and welds well.
Cracks on the edge of a bir are indica
tions of hot-short iron.
Good iron is readily heated, is soft
under the hammer and throws out a few
sparks.
A Saucy Boy.
“What, five dollars a week! Why, boy,
Where can your senses be?
Why. when 1 first became a clerk,
They paid me only three."
Holding the door ajar, lie said,
(This boy of humble birth),
| “But when they paid you three, perhaps
’Twasall that you were worth!"
—Tid-Bits
NUMBER 41.
A GREAT INVENTOR,
(In hail a startling genius but somehow 1
didn't emerge,
Always on the evolution of things that
wouldn't evolve;
Always verging toward eome climax, bathe
never reached the verge;
Always nearing tlie solution of some theme
he could not solve.
And he found perpetual motion, but a cog
wheel set awry
Burst his complex apparatus and be could
not got It fixed;
And he made a lifeelixir—if you drank you’d
never die—
But the druggist spoiled tho compound when
the medicine was mixeM
And he made a flying vossel that would navi
gate the air,
A gorgeous steamer of the heavens, a grand
aerial Istat,
A match loss paragon of skill, a thing beyond
compare,
And the only trouble with it—he could never
make it float.
And be found a potent acid that would
change red dirt to gold;
But the tube from which he poured it had
some trouble with it’s squirt,
So the gold held in solution and would not let
go its hold,
And the dirt in dogged stubbornness it still
continued dirt
And lie made a great catholicon to curs all
disease,
A general panacea for every ache and pain.
But first lie tried it on himself bis stomach
ache to ease,
And it killed him very quickly—and he did
not try again.
— S. IV. Foss, in Yankee Blade.
PITH AND POINT.
A country seat—The top fence rail.
A patient man—One in a doctor’s office.
A doctor must understand all tongues.
When a thin man visits you, lodge him
in the spare room, of course.
A sick burglar is very loth to call a
doctor for fear that he may give him up.
“Mine, miner, minus?” This is ths
upshot of speculations in mining stock.
What are ministers good for? They’re
good because it is part of their business.
The exact quantity of the lion’s share
is not stated, but it is all the lion can
get.
When a woman is trying to write a
letter on a half sheet of paper much may
be said ou both sides.— Naw Haven Newt.
“Talking is cheap,” they say:
That's not so clear
Just hire a jawyer
And you’ll find it dear.
— Judge.
A correspondent wants to know the
difference between a dog-watch and a
watch dog. Well, not much; they are
both kept on the bark.— The Ocean.
This w orld is but a fleeting show,
And no wise mao regrets it,
For man wnnts little lu re below,
And generally ho gets it.
— Somerville Journal.
Ingenious thing, this English lan
guage. When you hear a citizen say:
“. ih, lie’s a good man,” you can’t tell
whether lie is talking of a pugilist or of
a deacon.
A criminal lately executed in England
protested his innocence on the scaffold,
and his last words were that he was a
good aid faithful subject of the Queen.
The subject then dropped.— Siftinys.
“Nothing is ever lost,” Walt Whitman sings;
But po ts have peculiar views of things;
Few will agree with him who've had ill luck,
When they the frisky tiger tried to buck.
— Boston Courier.
Brown made a bet with Wagerly that
he could cause nine out of every ten
men who passed a certain building that
day to touch the structure. Wagerly
accepted the bet. Brown simply hung
out the sign “Paint.” — Judge.
A lover called upon a Miss,
And thought she looked bewitching,
He longed so much her lips to kiss,
He chased her round the kitchen,
But fell against the red-hot stove
As soon as he hod kitted her,
And though he thought the kiss was bliss.
Ho found the burn a blister.
— Siftings.
Overtaxing his brain. Old Mrs. Bently
“ Did you hear, Josiah, that the young
student who has been boardin’ at the
Hendrickses’ir very sick?” Old Mrs.
Bently—“Yes, I heard so; what’s the
trouble with him?” Old Mrs. Bently—
“Studyin’ too hard I s’pose. The doc
tor says he’s got information of the
uraiu.” —The Epoch.
The Giraffes of the Bird Kingdom.
Four very queer yet beautiful bird*
have been paying an enforced visit to
Mr. I onald burns, in Roosevelt street,
says the New fork Sun. These birds
1 are natives of the fens and morasses of
j Cuba. They are the giraffes of tho bird
kingdom. The necks of these home
sick visitors resemble sections of garden
hose .painted red. Their legs look like
Coney Is’and 5-cent canes, and are
hinged in the middle. The complexion
of the birds is adirty red, save the strong
beak, which is black. The necks have
a most marvelous capacity for stretch
ing and they wind around and twist
sinuously this way uud that in a snake
like motion. They enjoy the seclusion
of an upper room, in one corner of which
they are enclosed by four drygoods
boxe j . The shins |of these le ither-cov
ered Cubans are very tender, and are
harked when they come in contact with
the boxes. Mr. burns .eeds the birds on
rice and bread crumbs. He thinks the
birds would prefer little fish aud tender
grasses, but there doesn't happen to be
any of these succulents in Roosevelt
street. They are \ allied at $25 apiece.
.Mr. Burns says his visitors are flamin
goes.
Precocious Villains.
Precocious villians arc turning up just
now with alarming frequency, says a
European correspondent to the New
York Sun. The Tribunal of Mortain in
France has just sentenced a lad of 14 to
six years’ imprisonment for the murder
of a boy of 7. The murderer, Jean l.e
laudais, iiad been watching a blackbird’s
nest with the idea of taking the birds
when they should have rca hod a ripe
age. The younger boy named fosse,
ipprdpriated the nest ill the meanwhile,
i and l.elandais, in his rage, killed tosse,
I cutting his throat from ear to ear with a
! reaping hook. The youthful murderer
seemed very proud of the position he had
attained, and posed in court as a man
not to be moved bv anything. He told
the Judge hehadomyone request to
•nake, and that was that his honor should
proveut his being pestered by the pri oa
chaplain, as lit had no religion aud no
desire to be pardoned.
The slaughter of alligators in Florida
seems to increase