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The Georgia Enterprise.
YOU)MM XXIII.
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Alabama.
, Simon Isaac*. of Birmingham,
'■ , r | v nf Atlnntn, Gib) 11 soda water
Kl . I ilnot address jolm Williams
'' eimr agreeable to Williams, lie
h ;l pistol and shot 1 nacs
killing him. Au hour be
"’.i i eal affray, Williams attempted
il'et another man.
A- Dav's Gap, on Tuesday, Marshal
uanison ami Deputy Lee "Williams
im the house of James Gurgins to
Kthini. litiniins resisted, and sever-
M. sere exchanged. Dock Odom,
ujy respected citizen, entered the
and while the sic otinif was in progress,
|{ L .il dead Av.tli a bullet through hi
lt-
(sTOr Lane, of Birmingham, lias de
pi a <|iiarantinc against Atlanta, Ga.,
Hiistruett'd the officers to rigidly en
eit. No person who has been in
Liawithin twenty days will he rd-
B jl i enter or pass through the city,
fuavor not i ti ( and the officers of the
oriial’tieifi Railroad that no train
~ifr,nii Atlanta would be allowed to
lerthat eity, and no < row from this
jaiiiiilpoto Atlanta and return. Toe
inntint' "its fieri..red o.i account of
. number "f Florida refugees now in
Ink and the fact- that they co ti lie
drive theie. It was aso rep rted < i
jnihy that there were two < use i o
k fever ill Atlanta.
Arknns&a*
j] e death occurred under peculiar
rumst.-mi'es of Rev. Jesse Pratt, of
tic H ick, ol iest Baptise minister in
Isms. His son, J. H. Pratt, was on
il for assaulting a woman, and the
krexprtsse i the hope that he would
i before the verdict was rendered. He
tired fi'c hours before the jury came
sentencing his son to live years’ im-
KOitDKDt, (irief and shame kilted
VI o ritlii.
IhcJacksonviilt; relief committee feed
at 200 people a day.
Ddian River lemons are proving a
wful factor m fighting against yellow
thcvere storm visited DeLand. A
ill cyclone passed north of the town,
truck Ca;.t. A. D. Hilton’s house, a
wtory fra :.e building, and literally
Bed it bottom side up.
I. A. Cawtbon, a prominent citizen of
'uniak S priii . s, died at his residence
1.30 o’click Thuvsd iy morning. The
ceased bad been suffering from an ul
rM>"Die time, and, acting under the
vk" of tlr best medical experts, had
moved, ml was thought to be doing
'until hlocd-pohoning set in, from
ch be died.
fjeorgln.
flic quaran'ine of Savannah
idbiirar has been raised.
' i-iMi from all the counties in
! sta v have been received at the
”t : 'lll r-General's office, at Atlanla,
a the pri'perty ill the aggregate re
tin 1 Hi? counties in Georgia
®ip j.,'.’, ,| o( . s 110 (
lc tli ' property returned by the tax
- in the state, whic h will
Se-.e Affl,ooo,ooo. This makes
®' las priqicrty return foot up the
ksi '"‘ l,; if1i'i8,863.331. The digest;
'“Of the counties show a net in
ever List year of $11,258,002, and
ttn.n in railroad propertv returned
i" iimiiiiut to $4,000,000, whi. h pins u|
“-ci 1 -He net increase for the hist
'515,258,002. In nine years,
i ‘ : ;" in's gained about $120,000,000
’’ property on the digest, anti
' ’ 1,1,0 itt taxable railroad property.
Norili Carolina.
cotton planters are, in accord
tin* suggestions of (lie Farm
■ Adu-nce :tn<l Stale Grange; using
J*° a(, idh instead of bagging. New
°don Ims arrived at Lourinburg packed
; c,otll i nnd inquiry lias been nude of
j® ran,,| ‘ agents vviio say that they can
take fn<j or marine risks on bales of
of this kind.
tarns out that Col. Julian Allen, a
lament member of the Farmers’ Inter
eAssociation, and who is a proini
and sueet’-slul farmer in I rede 1
, lt h Russian nobleman —with the
of Baron Alcnski. He came to
" ri( fi in 1841) and commanded a Fed-
in the late War. He is a
“peiikc-i- and a leader among the Al
men.
' 'Riani Fletcher, of Durham, and J.
■ t>'oilsou were returning from a hunt
i 8 ’"pgy, and in front of the house of
peiathor-iii-law of Fletcher, the buggy
uliy l,l coupled, and the front wheels
throwing the front of the
0 the ground. Fletcher had the
b, 1 gun under his arm, and the
miiro'' ' gun to explode, and the
contents entered liis body. Death
“followed.
i'' Liimh.'rton, Richard I). Johnson
ttf v* * l‘Hrs<lny convicted of bigamy,
Mfc. , to fi y e years at hard labor
Ij, P'n'teiitiary. Johnson had tluee
C:r Uw ngt ,n ° great distance
llu 'i 0, ' IL ' r ' but it turns out that he
W, ■ u l>,"lygamist. He now con
llfgn N, oce his conviction, that he has
h, t j l| " IVls - Ho declares that when
>„ 'changes his residence, and this
*1 'lont occurrence, he remarried,
tk tl . 1 :lres Ibat he always found i'
4 0 marry than to move a family
ltft w ,i ,"!‘ l ' ks a f;o a passenger train due
4.i u „' the Charlotte, Columbia
tke'r,‘ 'abroad was wrecked by a
Hen. 11 hring placed on the track,
itt®.,, 'u'n seVlT al wounded and the
Pinker. 1 , M *■ Horace It. Johnson, a
i' 1 -1 1 c, ' ve i l**a succeeded in
•tit i fj.'" H nco enough to cause the nr
*od V Tony Hutchison
C te ’ sU colored.
f"i>iils'.?oi mis< ‘ of a Wl,r among the
•fgna l,v' . harleeton. The bat; le was
®®ttnced'. ' H' s oHii mill, which an
*° 8 cents' " 1 ll,, tion of tolls for milling
was 12 r liuslul - Up to 1880 the
of ; s .", i cent for weighing, a to
* Hi,cents. In 18H(i there was
J-nts fo r 1,'., ° ce nts for milling and 5
. 'liar.,, r ' ''"S' a total of 13 cents.
, t .I'; 1 ' weighing have been
present reduction by
*H , , . 'has tlf rates (1 cents for
|J* H. i, r ,t s ”' 1 r barreling, a total
M'tfleston n Jll, r " ” lu live mills in
'itifiia,, ' a “ cf which do an active
l.onUlnnn,
Cotton planters from different purls of
the* Alexandria motion are discouraged ut
the crop prospects. Some complain ol
worms, mid of ruin wishing off the poi
son. All say that in the bottom crops
Lolls are rotting and the seed in open
cotton is sprouting, and thut the crop
will be cut off not less than forty pet
cent. 1
MUaUftippl,
’Hie following order of the state board
ol health was piomulguled nml went into
operation on Thursday: ‘' oll nCr()Ulll
ol the increase of the yellow fever at
Jacksonville, Fla., it has in the opinion
ut the executive committee of the state
o mil of litaUli, become necessary to
adopt more stringent measures for the
protection of this state, it j s therefore
• ill rod that on and after this date, no
person will be permitted to enter tile
state unless they poises* a certificate.from
u health officer that they have not been
exposed to yellow fever."’
.Missouri.
John Hiley, an unruly and desperate
convict, who has infringed the rules of
the penitentiary at Jefferson time and
again, and who has attacked shop guards
on several occasions, met his fate on
rimisday evening at the liandsof Joseph
Gresham, a guard in the "shop of the
Glesecke Boot and Shoe Company, at the
penitentiary. Just after the whistle had
sounded for the men to resume work
after the dinner hour, Riley assaulted the
guard, knocking him down, striking him
a number of heavy blows in the face and
kiekin t him several times while he was
on ihe floor. After struggling a few
minutes, Gresham regained his feet, and
drawing a revolver, shot his assailant
twice.
TentiPMee.
At the meeting of the entton planters
of West T< nuessce and Noitli Mississippi
held at Memphis, it was resolved to de
cline to use jute bagging at present pri
ces and to adopt any substitute for the
same tint could lie found.
A large cave has been discovered at
Red Boiling Springs. The entrance is
large enough to drive in a two-horse
wagon and turn around inside. It has
already been explored four miles, some
of the passages being so small that it
would seem impossible to pass through.
Texan
Harrison Spencer, a colored man,
prominently identified with the labor
party at Longview, was taken from his
home late at night recently by members
of the party of his own color and hanged.
Tin- reason assigned for the crime was
that Fpmcer had left the labor party.
Jlis. Millville, Miss .Mattie Harvey,
Miss Mattie Lane and a servant girl of
bun Felipe, went to the Brazos River to
go in bathing. They went to a sand-bar
about one-half mile below town, and not
knowing of the quicksand went in.
When they weie in water about waist
deep their feet were washed out from
under them. Ihe servant girl, seeing
the danger, rushed in and rescued .Mrs.
Millville, hut the others went down.
Virainla.
Default having been made on the sec
ond payment on Libby prison, it will he
sold again and at public auction. W.
11. Gray, of Chicago, bought the prop
erty in February last and made the first
paunent in cash. He then sold it to a
Chicago syndicate who failed to meet the
terms of sale.
Miss Kfiie Williamson, aged 18, of
Fairfax county, was killed on Wednesday
near Long Branch station, on the Alex
andria A Fredericksburg Railroad. She
had taken leave of some friends at the
station, and was on her way home when,
in crossing the track, she was run down
by a freight train.
T. Spicer Curlett, an ex-member of
the Legislature of Virginia, has been
forced to resign his position ns common
wealth attorney of Lancaster county,
having recently sent a challenge to a man
of the county to mortul combat. The
challenge whs not accepted, but the
sender is now disfranchised under the
law.
IS NOW EPIDEMIC.
The Jacksonville, Fla., Board of Health
reporis thirty-four new cases of yellow
fever f r the twenty-four hours ending at
5 p m. Wednesday'. Total cases to date,
105; total deaths to date. 28; under
treatment, nearly 100. Now that travel
is open again as formerly and the gov
ernment i.as provided free transportation
to the Boulogne cam]), not so many
availed themselves of the privileges of
exit as might have been expected under
the circumstance s. With few excep
tion, ministers of Jacksonville are nobly
nt their posts of duty. They are nearly
all oD the relief committees for different
wards. Prominent among them are
Bishop Weed and Hcv. l)r. Weller,
Episcopalian; Father Kenny, Catholic;
Rev. Dr. Dodge, Presbyterian, and Rev.
Mr. Sharp, Southern Methodist. Sister
Mary Ann ii kept busy, and all sisters of
St. jc seph are ever ready to nurse the
sick and comfort, the dying. The situa
tion is less hopeful, as the damp, murky
weather is very unfavorable, and it is
expected that the next outbnak of fever
will creep up into surprising figures.
Still the disease is very mild and the
mortality very slight. Many are encour
aged but the doctors say that in all
likelihood the disease will now speed its
course. Colored peopleare uow catching
it and are becoming alarmed.
Many are leaving for St. Mary’s relugee
camp and officials and citizens have made
up their mind's to confront the situation,
and try to keep the fever in check, and
lelieve the suffering until frost appears,
which is looked for in about sixty days.
No general call has yet been made for
aid but it will doubtless have to
come soon. Nearly all the appli
cants for aid are colored people.
The Savannah, Florida & Western road is
building a hospital for its employes six
mdes from Jacksonville, where they can
sleep so ns not to lie exposed to yellow
lever A restaurant has been established
at the same point where the employes can
ha furnished with meals at a low rate
Competent physicians and nurses have
been em'iigefl for the hospital to care for
uuy who may take the disease.
CONSPIRATORS ARRESTED
The Paris Gnvloif has a Ivices from St.
Petersburg, which state that another
nihilist plot Ins been unearthed there.
The conspirators, who had quarters near
the imperial palace, were raided by the po
lice who cup mod twelve men and three
women. They also secured a number ol
bombs. _
A BAKERS' HARVEST.
A heavy rain, accompanied by a gale,
prevailed ov< r England, doing additional
damage to crops. Asa icsult of the <x
peeted shortage in breadstufls, bakeisuro
raising the price of brsad.
•MY COUNTRY: MAY AIIK KVJCR UK RIGHT; 1110117 0/; WRONG, MY COUNTRY !" Jkkkkhhon.
WASHING ION, [). C.
BUSY TIMES STILL, IN THE NA
TIONAL CAPITOL
CONGRESS IN SKSStON YKT—MOVEMENTS
OK PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLEVELAND—
WIIO ARK GETTING KAT SLICES.
< OMJUIXSION.U..
The Senate, on Thursday, resumed con
sideration of the President’s retaliation
message, and Mr, George proceeded with
his speech of the day before. The Senate
then proceeded to the consideration of
the lortilieations bill, and with the
amendments recommended by committee
on appropriations. Amendments were
ugreed to as follows: Incressing from
*2110,00(1 to SAOp,OOO, tlx- i tutu fortorpcclu
and for harbor defense; increasing the
appropriation for (annoti and carriages
from $460,000 to $500,000; inserting an
item of *IOO,OOO, for examining, testing
and experimenting with pneumatic or
other dynamite guns; increasing the ap
propriation for steel fur guns from *l,-
500,000 to $2,500,000, ami inserting the
word “American” before the word “Forg
ings.”. .. .The Speaker laid before the
House a letter from Representative Tra
cey, of New York, resigning his mem
bership of the committees on Pacific
railroads, and coinage, weights and
measures. Mr. Davidson, of Florida,
introduced a hill to subdivide the inter
nal reveuue collection district of Florida.
Referred. Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas,
from the committee on judiciary, re
ported a hill authorizing writs of error in
cryniual cases to the United States
supreme court. The House then went
into a committee of the whole, Air. Dock
ery, of Missouri, in the chair, on the
Oklahoma hill.
In the Senate, on Wednesday, Air.
Reagan introduced a hill to permit the
importation of jute bagging free of duty,
and it was referred to the committee on
finance. Air. George proceeded with the
discussion of the President's retaliation
Alessage. Without concluding his speech,
Air. George yielded the floor. A num
ber of hills were taken from the calendar
and passed, among them the House I ill
appropriating *75,000 for the construct
ion of a revenue cutter for Newherne,
N. C., to replace the revenue cutter Ste
vens. .. .The House then went into com
mittee of the w hole on the Oklahoma
hill. After a discussion and the rejection
of several amendments, Mr. Anderson, < I
lowa, proposed an amendment providing
that honorably discharged soldiers and
sailors of the Rebellion making entries
fe*r settlement shall he exempted from
the payment of the purchase price pro
vided for by bill. The vote on this
amendment, stood 40 to 47 and the point
of no quorum was made. The commit iea
arose and the House adjourned.
The Senate, on Tuesday, took into
consideration the conference report on
the sundry civil appropriation hill and
was addressed at considerable length by
Mr. Allison in explanation of it, and a
general defense of the action of the Sen
ate. A long debate followed, and pend
ing disposition of the conference report,
the Senate went into secret session. The
resolution offered by Air. Iloar, with
respect to the fisheries question, with
amendment thereto, offered by Mr. E*j
munds, was taken up and agreed t 0....
The Speaker laid before the House a
number of requests for leave of absence,
but Air. Breckenridge. of Kentucky, ob
jected to granting any leaves except
those desired on account of sickness.
The House went into a committee of the
whole on the Oklahoma bill, and
debate on the pending section
of the hill being limited to three hours,
Mr. Clayton, of Illinois, took the floor.
Mr. Hooker, of Alississippi, declared that
if the homestead law would he fatal to
the hill, then it ought to die.
uussir.
R. H. Hall, son of Judge Hall, of Grif
fin, Ga., has been appointed on the
United States coast survey.
•
President Cleveland and Col. Lamont,
accompanied by Internal Revenue Col
lector Miller, left Washington on Tues
day on a fishing excursion of two oi
three days in the vicinity of Clifton
Forge, in Blue Ridge Mountains.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap
pointed A. D. Beddings and C. T. Wer
tenbalcer to be assistant surgeons In the
marine hospital service. Ihe former has
been assigned to duty at Waycross, Ga.,
and the latter to duty at Norfolk, Va.
Senator Brown introduced a bill to in
crease the pension of Beding F. McDon
ald son of ex-Governor McDonald, of
Georgia, on account of wounds received
m the Mexican War, and from the effects
of which he is now unable to work.
Francis Matthews has been appointed
postmaster at Cerro Gordo, Holmes county,
Fla,, vice A. J. Matthews, resigned; L.
Smith, at Longview, Jack Son county,
vice F. B. llugerman, resigned, and
Charles' T. Powers, at Tomoka, Volusia
county, vice T. R. Byrd, resigned.
judge Stewart reported favorably from
the judiciary committee, the bill to make
valid the deed to certain tracts of land
in Bibb county, Georgia; made and de
livered by Brigadier-General David Til
son, acting assistant commissioner of the
Freedman’s Bureau, to Samuel I. Gustin,
his heirs and assigns.
The House conferees on the sundry
civil appropriation bill have agreed to the
Senate amendments appropriating SBO,-
000 for completing the Jacksonville, Fla.,
public building, and #32,500 for a sup
ply steamer o run on the Gulf and East
ern coasts, but have rejected the amend
ments appropriating *40,000 fur con
tracting a ngnt-nouse nr urn mourn or
Crooked Hiver. Fla., and $25,000 fo,
another at St. Joseph s Point, Ila.
The total collections of internal reve
nue during the month of July were *lO,-
599 being $82,220 more than collec
tions during July, 1887. The collections
•were as follows; From spirits $5,212,-
077 an increase of $333,082; from to
bacco $2,507,845, a decrease of $195,
-98- from fermented liquors $2,409,012,
a decrease of $64,703; from oleomarga
rine $41,571, an increase of $15,752;
from banks and banking $242,000, all in
citas ; Horn mis in• . •<.- oujvi.s su,-
958, a decrease of $0,050.
Since June 30, 1887, 60,252 name
have been added to the pension roll,
and 15,730 have been dropped from
death and other causes. The aggregate
annual value of pensions is #56,707,221,
„n inciease of $3,882,570. The amount
of pensions pnid during the year was
$79 775,862, an increase over the pre
,lollß year of $5,308,280. There were
filed during the year 47,840 application;
for original pensions; 11, <B9 widows,
2,440 dependent mothers and 1,883 de
pendent fathers, making a total of 05,-
704.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1888.
OVER Tllli liWRE.
WHAT THE EI.ECTRIC WIRES
POUR INTO OUR EARS.
LAJIOR NOTES— ACCIDENTS ON SKA AND
LAND —TERRIBLE ACCIDENTS ON THE
RAILROADS—NOTED PEOPLE DEAD.
Two brakemen were killed on Wednes
day in a collision of freight trains on the
Chesapeake and Ohio.
The August report of the Alexandria,
Egypt, cotton association shown that the
condition of the crop is exceptionally
good.
A cable has been laid between Culm
and Haiti, connecting Cubi with l’orto
Piuio, s!u Domingo, uuracou and Vene
zuela.
A heavy white frost covered every
thing in the lowlands around Dover, N.
H., and the damage done to crops will
be large.
Ihe six story stocking factory of Her
man Kline A Cos., Cincinnati, was de
stroyed by lire on Tuesday. Loss *IOO,-
500. Partially insured.
Fire destroyed the valuable stables of
A. C. Remy, near Indianapolis, Ind., on
Wednesday. “Iliignoli Wilkes” and
other valuable horses were burned.
Advices from Alutamoras state that the
Texas authorities on Thursday, raised the
quarantine against Alexico. Mexico will
raise her quarantine against Texas.
Cholera is raging in Presque Isle
county, Alich., and the people are dying
like sheep, with no doctors in the imme
diate vicinity. Nine persons died in one
day.
During a pole raising on Tuesday near
Morris, Otsego county, N. Y., a cannon
was discharged prematurely, killing
John Dickson, Albert Sergeant and Fred
Ssge.
The first local option election in New
Jersey under the law passed by the legis
lature of last Winter was held in Cum
berland county on Tuesday and resulted
in a majority of 1,744 for anti-license.
Three children, Berta and Edna Smith
and Fred Bernard, all aged about 12,
were drowned on Tuesday by the cap
sizing of a boat in the harbor at Hyannis,
Mass. Seven others were rescued in an
exhausted condition. All were from
Boston.
Michael Angelo Latouche, Antonia La
touche and Francis Moore, employed at
railroad work at South Bethlehem, a few
miles from Albany, N. V., were clearing
away debris from a two weeks’ blast in
the rock ou Thursday. One of them
struck a dynamite cartridge, which ex
ploded, killing the three men.
At a meeting in London, England, of the
holders of first debenture bonds of the
Alabama, New Orleans A Texas Pacific
Junction Railway Company, a resolution
was passed authorizing the receiver to
borrow SIOO,OOO, with which to pur
chase second mortgage bonds of the
Vicksburg & Meridian Railroad Com
pany.
The reply of the French government to
the note of Signor Crispi, Italian prime
minister, announcing the Italian seizure
of Massowah, is published. It says
France desires to avoid entering upon
irritating polemics and does not care to
prolong debate, but it is impossible to
avoid recalling the fact that the French
consulate, was established at Massowah
twenty-five years before date of Italian
occupation.
Horace Bishop, aged 15, and Charles
Applebee, aged 16, both of Branford,
Conn., while driving through that town
on Thursday, stopped at the drug store
of Robinson & Toole and called for soda
water, which was given them. They
drove off, but shortly after returned in a
very sick condition. They were taken to
the office of Dr. Zink, where both of
them died in about half an hour. An
investigation revealed the fact that tinct
ure of aconite had been mixed with the
6oda water instead of syrup. Robert J.
Lotta, the clerk who made the fatal er
ror, has been arrested.
DEMENTED MILLIONAIRE.
Robert Garrett, the railroad magnate,
has been placed in the Bloomiogdale,
N. Y., lunatic asylum. It took six men
to control him before his confinement.
Mr. Garrett’s delusion is that he has Jay
Goul 1 confined in a cell, “where,” to use
his own language, “I intend keeping
him until he rots.” His perverted mind
makes him believe that while he was
asleep several of Gould’s minions, armed
with knives and revolvers, came to his
bedside and threatened to kill him if he
did not release their chief.
VENGEANCE THREATENED,
The United Ireland , a newspaper of
Dublin, says, that the American Senate
in rejecting the fisheries treaty gave
England a terrible proof of the power of
retaliation of the greater Ireland across
the sea, whose vengeance Balfour’s coer
cion policy has aroused. It says the ar
rest of the Redmond brothers will incite
fresh vengeance. The paper commends
the action of the Cork band in refusing
to play the national anthem at the Irish
exhibition in London.
INSIST ON A REDUCTION.
A delegation of the South Georgia
Melon Growers called on the rate com
mittee of the Southern Railway & Steam
ship associal ion at Atlanta, Ga., to make
a formal demand for a change in rates,
etc. They say that the existence of the
melon industry depends on fairer treat
ment at the hands of the roads. They
ask for 33 per cent, reduction, fast
freights aid better cars. The committee
took the matter under advisement.
MUST GO.
Gov. Gray, of Indiana, has written
again to the judges and prosecuting at
torneys of the judicial districts w hie.h nre
disturbed by the AVhite Cap outrages,
urging that increased exertions be made
to cause to be indicted ail persons who
have in any way been connected with tha
recent lynchings.
The Pewer of Association.
“Pass mo tha butter, Charles,” shs
said. , ,
She had been a widow, she had mar
riod again, and they, too, had gone to
Washington to begin the honeymoon.
“My name is George,” he said coldly
and with diseriminnlting emphasis.
“I know it, George,” she replied,
“you must excuse me, I was misled. 14
is the tan*) butter. ’’---sJVnfc.
will* l IILE,
If 1 could know that after all
Thsse heavy bonds have eonsod to thrall,
We whom in lifo the fate* divide
81k Mild weetly slumber side by side—
That spy green spray would drop it* dew
Softly alike above us two,
All would l*i well; for I should Is'
At list, iloar Soring heart, with thee!
How sweet to know this dust of ours,
Mingling, will feed the self same flowers—
The -cent of leaves, the song bird’s tone,
Atbnee across our rest he blown,
One *oeadMi of sun, one sheet of rain
Maks green the earth above us twain!
Ah, sweet and strange, for 1 should be,
At ast, dear tender heir, with tlieel
But half the earth may intervene
Thy place of rest ami mine between —
Ai J leagues of land and wastes of waves
May s* ynand toss between our graves.
Thy bet, .. ,h summer light b ■ warm,
Whi \iw drifts heap, in wind and storm,
My pillow, whose one thorn will be,
Beloved, that 1 am not with thee!
But if there lie n blissful rphere
Where homesick souls, divided here,
A- i wandering wide in uselosiqueit,
HUPI find their longed-for heaven of rest,
If in that higher, happier brt.il
"Wo meet the joys we miss and on earth.
All will las well, for I shall b\
At last, dear loving heart, with thee!
—Elizabeth Ak'rs Allen.
THE MOONSHINERS,
The girl closed the door of the crumb
ling spring house. Her expression was
alert and expectant—her movements
sluggish, almost dilatory; and yet a
chilling wind wh stled down the holes
of the rotten root, through long gaps
and chinks between the worm eaten
logs; it tossed her brown hair,crimsoned
her pretty cheek, all unheeded. Miriam
Snglhy did not feel the northerly gale.
Her gaze fastened itself upon the
thickets of laurel, sassafras and creep
ing bramble, where a narrow path, only
a few yards away, abruptly disappeared.
The spring bubbled out froifi under a
huge rock, behind which ran a deep
ravine where sunlight never penetrated
the great pines, even at midday. The
spot could not have been more wildly
sombre; hut there was a safety iu that
black abyss, serviceable more than once
with n Miriam's memory. Her smi'e
broadened into a pleased laugh as the
lapping b ishes were pushed aside, and
a man looked warily about him before
quitiiug iheir shelter—a man in the
rough homespun of a mountaineer, but
with the handsome face, soft hands and
indescribable aspect of one used to ease
and luxury.
“it’syou, Dr. Heathe!” she exclaimed
in well feigned surprise.
“>Vho did you think it was, Miriam:”
inquired Dr. Heathe, iris keen, rapid
glance darting with lightning rapidity
into every nook and remote shadow.
There was something painfully appre
hensive in the watchful scrutiny con
tinually in tho-c restless, suspicious
eyes, as well as the firm, half menacing
hold upon ihe rifle always carried or at
hand for instant use. “Have you seen
any strangers!” he questioned.
Mangers! How should i ! Strangers
don’t come this a-way, onliest they’re
arfter the mconshiners, ” she laughed.
“Don’t they?” he said, without echo
ing the laugh. “There are worse things
than free stills. Could you, at the peril
of your life, save men tracked like wild
beasts!”
“It" ’twur father, now, I'd like to see
’em catch him while I’m about, onliest
father don't have no mo’ to do with the
free stills. When lie did, I kep’ him
safe, en" give him ihe signal if ever a
stranger prowled the ridge,’’returned
Miriam; “hut you ain't no moonshiner?”
“No, Miriam, not a moonshiner: but
would you stand by me in that way, my
girl, and care what became of a
stranger ”
“lou have been on the ridge six
mouths or better—you are not a stranger,”
she interrupted.
“No ; not a stranger as these people see
it,” was the half ironical reply. “But,
Miriam, would you care enough to marry
me? 1 mean to stay here in the moun
tains all my life—spend my days in
these pines where no one will ever see
me. j.'oes it matter to you that I don’t
want any one to see or know of me?”
A more vigilant apprehension gathered
under the intensified suspense, r-lie had
hesitated and averted her face. The
crystal surface of the water at her feet
reflected the superb grace and manly
beauty of this stranger, so unspeakably
different from the rugged sun-hardened
inhabitants of ridge and hollow-. The
girl turned slowly toward him.
“I know you’ve got summut to hide
from,” she said, quietly; “but for all
that, Dr. Heath, you’re better tbau I am
—you're quality bred, and 1 am only the
old moonshiner’s daughter—”
“Hush, Miriam! What does it matter
what I was?” he broke in passionately.
“You are too good for me. Only say
that you will marry me and care for me,
scoundrel that 1 am,” added the man
bitterly.
A dauntless resolution depicted itself
upon Miriam's countenance, as she lifted
her lustrous eyes and held his shifting
glance- by the subtle force anil lire in
their depths.
“ie-, I’ll marry you, cn’ stand by
you, too stand by you cn' help you
true en'faithful, if 1 am onliest a moon
shiner’s daughter. I’ll say it en’promise
it, ef so be you as true eu’ faithful to
me.”
The harassed tension of Heathe'scoun
tenance relaxed.
The girl laughed, and Ileathe opened
the door and went in.
“Mirry kin tie ter whomst she pleases,”
her father said, when Hcathe, taking ad
vantage of Miriam’- absence in the shed,
told him of his hopes. “Hit’s a good
leetle gal as you’ll git, en she's a smart
gal, Mary is' li'aiu’t afeered o’ nothin’.
She’ll stick ter you, spite o’ole Nick his
sclf, less’n you go back on her; ’twouldn’t
he overly safe fur you then,” and Ab
chuckled, while the great quid of tobac
co oscillated in his cheek.
Abner relaps and into his moody enjoy
ment of the huge crackling blaze Grand
mother Sagsby came in. and soon dozed
over her knitting. Miriam came in and
sat on the hearth oppo-ite Ileathe. The
firelight glowed over her beautiful face
and the strong, shapely figure. Utter
repose and the delghtful warmth con
duced to that half drowsy ha iness and
abandon of perfect rest. The one execu
tion was the stranger. Apparently he
neer rested. The watchful, listening,
wide awake look seemed never beguiled
by any charm whatsoever. Two or three
dogs that slept on the.floor near Ab be
came somewhat restle-s An old hound
opened his eves and pu died huns-lf
nearer the door. The movement was
k): lit and noi ele-s. but Milium sal up
and noted the uuimal for an instant, then
left her scat and stepped slowly past him
to the shed room. Tile dog followed her
into the chilly starlight beyond. Then
she stopped short and observed the
hound. I ifting his nose high, he sniffed
suspiciously and gave n low growl.
“Whatis it, Miriamf"
The girl started. Heathe was lieside
her, an agony of apprehension in his
coiintonnucu even as he grasped his gun
and held it ready to fire. “Suuimut
strange is around. Leader never mis
take,,’" she whispered, creeping closer to
him. “Do you think they are hunting
for you?”
“Yes, I know it. They are on my
track at last. They are hunting for me
if they are hunting for anybody, hut I’ll
never he taken, Miriam—never'”
“Taken ! No. , It’s not many get
taken in the mountings,” was the scorn
ful reply. “Leader’ll give tongue time
enough; and remember the big hollow
tree hack of the clearing—the rope is
always there to let you down in it, she
directed, in quick, low tones.
“.Miriam, ’" he whispered, “don’t be
lieve their black story of me—don't be
lieve it. I was there—l saw it —hut I
didn't do it. 1 never intended the worst.
1 can’t prove my innocence, hut I sol
emnly tell you 1 am innocontof the worst
—the very worst you will hear ”
Miriam laid her hand gently on his arm
her face grew tender—her voice soft
and tremulous.
"I care for you, John, whether it were
true or not. Go—now; Leader sniffs
lower quiet there. Leader summut’s
closer!”
The girl’s startled, suppressed voice
became suddenly shrill in its terror.
Heathe sprang forward with an agile,
chamois-like hound and vanished in the
pines. The dog, inside the cabin as well
as out set up a simultaneous howl. There
was no doubt of an alien presern e near
at hand. Miriam rushed into the house
and fastened the door behind her.
“We know he’s in there!” shouted a
rough voice.
“He’s there! Give him up! We’re
goiu’ to have him!” chorused rougher
voices.
“it’s better ter let ’em come, Alirry.
He’s done swung hisse’f in ’gainst
now.”
Ah unbarred the door, and opening
it stepped on the threshold in col con
tcmpla.ion of the scene. Instantly a
revolver was on each side of his gray
head.
“What he you arfter, Hhurf!” he
asked, thrusting him aside. The men
outside rushed rudely past him.
“You might as well give him up,
Ah,” answered the Sheriff. “They’ve
tracked him out here, cu’ it’s ‘gainst the
law ter sheltur a criminal. 1 don’t
want er ’rest a neighbor. The fellow
goes by the name of llcathe.”
“We’ve got to search the premises,
Sheriff.” bristled a ferret-faced min,
more thau usually energetic in his ef
forts.
The Sheriff smiled significantly.
“Ef you kill sarcli the-c ’c*e prem’ses,
why jes’ go ahead, Mr. Faxton—course,
sir,” he dryly responded.
“I’ve followed this Heathe for a year
and I won the heat now. There's a re
ward out for him—dead or alive—so you
may a, well tell me where he is.”
Ihe man i .axton turned sharply upon
Miriam as he spoke.
“He ithe is not his name neither, Miss,
and I’ll make it worth your while to
tell of him.” *
Miriam heard him in silence, a set
resolute expression upon her face.
“You shall have part of the reward”
“I don’t touch blood money!” she
interrupted, fiercely.
“It don’t matter. I’ll catch him yet.
lie's a cold blooded villain—wanted for
murder. ”
“Murder?”
The girl shivered. Her face paled
into a whiteness Ab had never seen
blanch its deep, healthy hues.
“Murdered an old man for his money.
They’re sure to lynch him if they get
hands on him. Murder and robbery.
I’m certain to nab him sooner or later,”
answered the detective, with the profes
sional gusto of a man who had bagged
human game.
Miriam listened wearily while they told
the terrible tale to Ab. She watched her
father narrowly. The quasi moonshiner
might condone offences against the rev
enue, but murder! —she knew that lie
had a superstitious horror of a man with
blood on his hands.
“He h’nin’t titten tor git o‘f, M rry,”
he whispered, while the search went on
in the angry th wouglinesi of threatened
discomfiture, '‘tic’ll fotch us turrible
luck, cf he's done h’it; en’, Mirry, he
shan’t have you, noways. We ll git inter
trouble iong o’ him cf we don't tell.
“Father. I’ve helped cn stood by you,
hev’n't I?” asked the girl, a passionate
pleading in every lineament and accent.
“True ’nuff, Mirry; you’ve helped me
pow'ful; but ’twin- never murder,” he
rejoined, uneasily. “H’it’s no good
a-holpin’ murder.”
“No, no! I wouldn’t do it either,but
he says he is innocent, father.”
“Inr.ercent? Mayhap lie is. an’ likely
lie hain’t; likely he’s jes’a-fooliu’ wid
you.kaso he’s sartin vou’ll help him out’n
his trouble,” shrewdly interposed Ab.
“Father, he says he didn’t murder—
he says so,” she repeated; “then don't
youtu’n against us.”
“Us? He shan’t hev you.”
The girl clung to him in desperate,
terror-stricken violence.
•‘.No, I won’t never go with him till
you give the say so, father.” she
promised recklessly. “But he didn’t do
it -he is innocent, en I’ll hold to him
till it comes all right”
Ab turned away—his wrinkled
countenance had grown hard and stern
in aspect. He wished he had heard it
all beforethey told Miriam,or before they
had come into the house, and the g rl
had reminded him of the time when her
vigilance and devotion hail stood him in
good stead while “Guv’mentors” hunted
for the free distillery.
Angry and disappointed of the gains
! for which they served justice, the de
tectives came in from their futile search.
They had found the two or three brush
thatched outhouses an infinitesimal shred
of the “premses,” < ompared with the
black ravine, the dense thickets, and
the great pine finest stretching away
into untold labyr nths.
They hid taken themselves off, down
the ridge, some time before Absai l, with
a satis' ed chuckle:
“Mind you, gal, you hun t got my
say so ter tek’ no man es commits mur
der, en’ you’ll never git h't, kaic he
don’t mean you right, en' h it’s onlucky.
The girl knew her father too well to
remonstra e. She knew, too. that,
Ileathe was only -afe while she adhered
to her promise not to marry him without
Ab’s |ivnil —on The cold win er
tightened its grip and sr. II an uneasy
sense of surveillance ill dinger hung
j over them. The old moonshiner's family
\ hud once been fui, f expedients for de
i ludiug doubtful vis tors, They seemed
to come hack to Miriam, along with
thousands of ingenious devices for the
comfort and safety of her lover. All
the winier long lie was nover seen nor
heard of at Ah’s cabin, hut all the winter
long neither rain nor snow nor raging
tempest —the tempest of the mountains
—prevented the girl’s daily pilgrimage
to the hut in the black ravine. Ah
would watch her go out in tlie whirling
snow wreaths, with the bisket on her
arm, hut he never questioned her errand.
Ho the winter dragged its ice cold lengths
away. The fine frosty flakes of snow be
tokened a licreo storm coming over the
ridge—already it had sifted like white
powder into crick and crevi e, shutting
out the rigid wind roaring savagely
among the pines outside, hut passing id
most contemptuously the warm, sub
stantial cabin crouching beneath them.
The snow deadened all sounds without,
the dogs gave no how l nor warning,
when suddenly the door was thrown
open, and with the sweeping gust two
men came in. They were the Sheriff and
a stranger.
“Don’t make a stir, Ab!” shouted Hit
Sheriff. “It’s all right t’other fel e"s
confessed. Heathe didn’t do it. This
here's his brother—t’other feller owned
up when he’s adyin.’
Ab smiled grimly.
“I wouldn t hev tuk nobody’s wu’d
for hit but your n, Shurf.”
“Yes, we've kem u-|Hippo*o ter get
him,” added the satisfied sheriff. “1 on
see Heathe kem in on ’em, en folk;
kno wed thar’s had blood'twist’em, sc
they pitched on him, cn'wouldn’t be
lieve nothin’ else. "Twur a clear cast
’gainst him: hut he's innocent, and me’n
his brother have kem for him. lie’s all
right now ”
“Fotch him, Mirrv —h'it’smysay so.”
“You had a close call young man:
they'd hev hanged you sure, if they’d
t aught you,” the Sheriff said au hour
later, when explanations had been made,
and Heathe stood among them, beside
his brother, free and innocent.
“1 must have had an inevitable and
final call, this winter but for this true and
loving woman,” answered Heathe, as he
looked down into Miriam’s lustrous eyes
and beautiful face, softened and aglow
with joyous tenderness. “And now, Ah,
there is nothing to hinder wo will he
married to morrow at Odd Corners.”
And they were. Frank Ledie'*.
New York Diamond Gutters.
It is not commonly known outside ol
the trade,probably,but one of the finest,
if not the very finest, of all artistic me
clianisal work—that of diamond cutting
—is now done as well in Maiden Lane as
in Amsterdam. That means that it is
done as well as anywhere in the world.
The earliest mention of a cut and
polished diamond, made by Harry
Emanuel. F. 1!. G. 8,, in his standard
work on diamonds and precious stones, is
that of the geins worn by the Emperor
Charles in 137;; as ornaments to the clasp
of liis cloak. It is probable, however,
that for a long tiinu. before that the
Coolies of India were skilled in the trade.
One of the most beautifully cut stones
ever taken to Maiden l ane was of such
a shape and style of workmanship that
the cutters there unhesitatingly declared
that it had been cut by the Coolies more
than four linn bed years ag ). It was re
cut a few months a;o in order to irnpro e
its market value by giving it a modern
shape.
The art of cutting and polishing dia
monds with their own powder was intro
duced in Europe, according to the gen
erally received ac omit, by Louis Van
Berghem, or Rcrguem. who, in Paris,
studied the handicraft, Mien imperfectly
praet ccd. He revolution! ed the trade
and established a guild of diamond cut
ters in Bruges. In 1473, nearly twenty
years after he had made the discovery,
if it was a discovery, he was entrusted
With the task of cutting three largo
rough diamonds for Charles the Bold,
Duke of Burgundy. For his wftrk he
received 3009 ducats The largest, was
the famous San y diamond, which was
lost in the battle of Oranson. The
second afterward belonged to Pope Six
tus IV. The third, a triangular shaped
stone, was set in a ring and given to
Louis M
Afterward Amsterdam became the
chief center of the industry, and thou
sands of persons are employed at it in
that city now. For n considerable time
it was the only place where diamonds
could be cut, but of late years estab
lishments have been set up in other cities,
and within ten years New Yoik has been
chosen by half a do ten ma ter cutters as
a place of business. I'hc trade lias for
many years been mostly in the hands ol
the -lews.
Xo special changes have been made fot
a long time ill the tools or the methods
employed, and no shape has been invent
ed that seems 1 kely to supersede that oi
the modern brilliant. Tools, method
and shape are too w 11 known to need
dcs -ription here, but it is interesting to
know that the work done in New York
is accounted fully equal to that of Lon
don or Amsterdam. — New York Mail and
Erprexx.
Amateur Eut oinoiogy.
The Yank ■ B ade thus describes how to
mount and prepare for a collection, but
terflies, beetles, etc. The killing is an
important matter, to do it quickly and
not disfigure the insect in any way. Foi
this purpose butterflies succumb at once
to the fumes of chloroform. Most moths
need something more powerful, like ben
zine or the fumes of sulphur. I epedop
tern butterflies and moths should be
pinned through the thorax; coleoptera
—the beetle tribe—should have the pin
inserted through the right wing-cover.
Let the pin project about one fourth its
lentil übove the insect. Many insect;
will need to have the wings expanded
and kept in place t.lt dried, in a setting
box. To do this, use a small, straight
awl set in a handle to manipulate the
wings, antenn i and legs, mid keep the
same in place by pins and pieces of card
l.o.ird. Tile small insert; will drv
sufficiently to remove to the cabinet in
two or three davs; the larg.-r moths will
require a week to dry. Place in the
boxes or drawers pieces of camphot
w apped in paper to prevent the ravages
of insects.
W bat’s the Matter With Tins!
A subscriber writes: “A friend asks
me to multiply $5 by $5. I elo so und
announce the result as $2 ►. All right.
ow multiply NO > cents by 500 cents,
giving the answer in cents pure and sim
ple. tiot as fractional parts of a dollar. I
do so and am surprised to see the figures
cl mb up .'50,000 cents, which is $:->tH.
As A and AUO cents are e [uivalent, the
result is puz ling It cannot be urged
that dec mal marks should be used. A
cent, as such, sas distinct a unit as a
(I liar. and. as lesult is to lie announced
,u , eitt-i. the decimals cannot be pleaded
n extenuation ol ibe rather surprising
r ,.mi>t. J!ut tle-re is clearly something
wrong. What i- it?”—/V nman’t Art
I .hair aU
NUMBER 44.
I HE WAY TO WIN.
If on the field of love you fall.
With smiles conceal your pain-
Be not to Cove too sure a thrall.
But lightly waar his chain.
Don't kiss the hem of Beauty’s gown,
t )r tremble at her tear,
And when caprices weight you down,
A word within your oar: /
Anot her Inss, another lass,
With laughing eyes anil bright—
Make love to her,
A ml trust me, sir,
Twill set your wrongs’arlght.
Whene’er a sweetheart proves unkind
Ami greet* you with a frown,
Or laughs your passion to the win 1,
The talk of all the town,
riead not your cause on trends 1 knee
And murmured sighs prolong,
But gather from my minstrelsy
The burtlon of my song:
Another lass, another l,iss —■ . .
There's always lieauty by—
Make love to her, •<
And trust me, sir,
'Twill e'enr the clouded sky
—Samuel Minturn Peek, in the Century.
PITH AND POINT.
Every dude has a head light.
The baker —The moro Ikuead, the less
I want.
One touch of rumor makes tlio whole
world chin.
The man who hollows amen the loudest
doesn’t always mean it the most.—
Merchant Traceler.
“How much to peep through yout
telescope'” “Ten cents.” “There s
five. I've only one eye.”— Time.
When a young man has given a ring
to his best girl he soon realizes that it is
one of those things that there is no end
to. — /’/ c Idea.
Science now claims that every atom
has a little soul. There are men who
seem to have swapped souls with atoms.
— Martha ’s Vineyard Herald.
Now the tourist at his ease
Swings idly with the breeze
In a hammock hung in some delightful spot;
While in town som - hapless wight
Murmurs loud from morn tilt night.
“Ain't it hot! —-Yeif York Han.
“I am on my way home, doctor,” said
a citizen, who was after some free ad
vice, “and I’m tired and worn out. What
ought lto take?” “Take a cab,” re
plied the intelligent physician. —Neu
York Fun..
Au attempt is now being made to pick
a flower for a national badge. Con
sidering the American proclivity foi
oratorical display, a proper badge might
he selected from the flowers of speech.—
Arkaaeayc Traveler.
“Are you engaged?” inquired a pert
young lady, stepping briskly up to a Bar
Harbor Imekboard driver, who was
lounging indolently across the front
seat. “Gracious, no! Are you?” was
the prompt reply. —[xwirton Journal.
Loquacious Wag: “Most remarkable,
madame. lam assured by the Captain
that the son of the owner of this vo-sel
lived to he a well grown man, and yet he
dictl at his berth.” Ingenious old lady:
“And did you believe it:” “Certainly,
I have tiie Captain’s word for it. Strange
phenomena happen at sea, madame."
“Well, well, it docs seem so.” —O ran.
A green watermelon sat on a fruit stand,
Singing “Mc-llow, I'm mellow, I'm mel
low.”
And a small boy stood there with a cent in
his hand.
Saying “mellow, it’s mellow, quito mel
low.”
So he bought a big hunk cut right out of the
heart.
And he ate it all up to the hard outside part,
And they carried him away in a rag dealer's
cart,
Poor fellow, poor fellow, poor fellow.
—Philadelphia News.
The Manufacture of Brushes. !
“The subject of paint and artists'
brushes is a very interesting one,” said
one of the members of a New York firm
in respouse to an inquiry of a Mail and
HUpr ** reporter as to the details of their
manufacture, “and the many procesros
the bristle%or flairs go through forming
the brushes are peculiar.”
“Practically none of the finer bru-hes,
whether they be large or small, are made
from domestic bristles. Nearly all the
bristles come from Germany or Russia,
the Russian being the more preferable,
as the hogs from which they are taken
run wild iu northern Russia and Siberia,
and aie'larger and stiller than those ol
the domestic animal. Several attempts
have b en made to utilize the bristles
from native hogs, but without success.
It is the universal law of nature, among
the lower animals at least, that careful
breeding tends to shorten the growth of
the hair or bristles. I have seen bristles
from the Russian wild boar measure
nearly a foot long, and of great strength.
These bristles are used for paint, varnish,
kalsominc, and whitewash brushes and
others of the coarsest description.
“But here is one of the smallest size,”
lie continued, and took from a case a
delicate and tiny brash about the size oi
a needle. “This is used in the finest
class of art work and, together with
brashes of a slightly coarser nature, is
made from the hair of the sable, camel or
badger.
“The bristles always come to us in
bulk and are- first thoroughly cleaned.
After the cleansing process has been
finished they are carefully dried and
sorted, size for size, and are trimmed to
the required length. They are then
attached to the handles anti are ready for
immediate use. It takes fiom one to
three dais, accord ng to the quality ol
the brush, to put it into perfect shape.”
SHE KNEW.
A little girl who lias just entered
school yesterday jubilantly announced
to tier father that she turned down all
the girls above her in the arithmetic
class anil went ahead. “That was smart
in you,” said lie encouragingly. “How
was it?” “Well, you see, Miss Maggie
asked tho girl at the head how muoh
wus 8 and 5, and she didn’t know and
said 12; then the' next girl said 9, and
the next one said 11, and the next one
said 14. Such silly answers! Then Miss
Maggie asked me, and I said 13, and
Miss Maggie told me to go ahead.
’Course it was 13.” “That was nice,”
said the father. “I didn’t think you
could add so well. How did you know
it was 13?” “Why, I guessed it; no
body saitl 13.”— Nashville American.
A Chicago newspaper tells of a woman
who, at a bookstore, after buying a lb
bh', which she said was tor her husband,
then bought two packs of playing cal'*!?-
“That’s modern religion ail over, said
the clerk to himself. “One Bible auij
two packs of card