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tFOIDLW’SFHE
OR,
I lie Maid of the Tyr
olese Valley.
BY H. BIRD, ESQ.
CHAPTER V.
A wil l tale had traveled all over Volothol.
ill • uew chaplain had slain the vicar’s
utece, and Eranzi, the foundling, had flown
from I the vicarge, and gone none knew
whither. Such was the report circulated
by the wicked schoolmaster of what had
just happened at the vicarage. Everybody
heard the story with intense amazement
and sorrow. Many refused to believe it,
sud threatened to punish the man who
dared to st 1 afloat.
The w heel right of tbe place—a sturdy
feiiow—the tailor, and the shoemaker all
fell upon the schoolmaster, and menaced
him with their several fists. Upon which
the creature cried out lusti’y, and besought
them in such piteous accents to spare him
that they released him.
“You shall not feel the strength of my
arm on this occasion, Master School
master,” said the wheelwright. “But be
ware if you speak further ill of our new
chap aiu!”
“But wherefore should I speak other of
him than according to his deserving?” per
sisted the schoolmaster. “You do not know
him, I tell you. He wanted to turn every
thing in the chapel and out of it upsid 1
down. But heaven has taken away his
power, and he is fallen into the hands of
the Evil One!” he added, with a hypocriti
cal drawl. “But, there: go your wavs to the
vicarage, and you will learn whether I have
spoken falsely or otherwise.”
We must now return to Albert.
As tho vicar ceased speaking, tho chap
lain disappeared down the staiis, and
rushed out into the night. He was half
distract and, and hardly knew what he was
about. For hours end hours he wandered
np and down the lanes of the village. ll<
conid see lights iu the vicarage, and iu al
most every cottage in the valley. IVhat hat
he done.' And w hore wis he now to find t
she,ter for his head? By this time he fell
that his | nrents had heard of the disgrace
th.it had been thrown upon his guiltless
bead. What would they think of kind
Would they credit the vile report which
would probably be raised against him?
The st irs had vanished now, aud the
snow was falling fast. The chapel clock
struck the hour of four. Albert was numbed
with cold, aud a strange drowsinesr seined
to lake possession of his senses He glanced
toward the little ehipel—the lights which
burned night and day there made it visible
through the daikness of the scene—and he
felt half inclined to seek a temporary shel
ter beneath its holy walls.
Full of weariness, the poor young man
leaned against tho truuk of a tree. He
thought he could lay himself down there
and did. Ho did not fear deitli, for he
knew he had committed but little sin. But
iust as he was about to seek the earth for
is pillow, Ihe snow ceased to fall, and
Ihe morning star shone clear and bright in
the heavens. He looked upward with sud
denly renewed strength animating his whole
frame. In his eyes Ihe star had assumed
the aspect of an angel's face, which smiled
upon him and seemed to say to him: “Fear
not; heaven will stand firmly by thee, even
though the whole globe should shake be
neath (by feet!"
Albert at once turned round, and made
toward the home of his parents. He
thought ho would bid them farewell, and
then leave Volothol forever, and go Bome
where where no one would know him.
His father s house looked black in the
gloom, and as if it forbade his approach.
He found the outer gate wide open, and
1 kewise the door, as though his advancing
steps had been heard; but not a soul was to
be seen. He entered, and went up stairs
into his old room, where he found a large
fire bnrniug in the stove, and on tho table
a lamp.
He was surprised. Evidently his coming
had been expected. He sit down before
ti e blazing wood, and rubbed his frozen
hands together. Ho reflected on his sad
condition for some time, then laid his head
upon his pillow, and forgot his troubles in
sleep.
When he awoke, his father was by his
bedside. The old man’s eyes were tired
severely upon his son.
Father!" cried Albert, springing np and
rushing toward him.
But old Uuterwald drew back, and raised
his arm with a threatenie gesture.
“Stay where you are!* he said, sternly.
“I must be made to understand certain mat
ters, before I can a low you to greet me as
a parent. Do you know wbat I have heard?
I once told you, Albert, that yon would
never prow too great for me to talk to you
as a father should talk to his sun. I left
the door nnclosed early this morning, be
cause I w ished the neighbors to see that I
had not cast you adrift. Now, tell me. Al
bert, what his happened. You are not my
son if you speak aught but the truth.”
"Fear not, father; I will not offend your
Sight long. I will start away at daylight.”
“Aud it will be well for you to do so, if
what the people say of you be true, old
Uuterwald renlied. “Under my roof thero
can be no shelter for you after to-night
Ob, boy, boy, why have you dealt me this
heavy blow? Aou kuow with what reluc
tance I suffered yon to chose a life so
widely apart from our own; but 1 let you
have your own way, thinking it best to do
so. And now you return to me in shame,and
like a thief! Oh, Albert, you have broken
my beart.l”
Here the speaker’s voioe died away, aud
he drew the back of bis band acros his eyes,
as if to wipe away the tears which were
flowing down his brown and withered
cheeks.
“Father. ” re'.ured Albert, by alt that is
sacred, 1 have done nothing unworthy!''
The old man shook his bond. “Go on;
let me hear your lale,” ho said.
Then Albert related all those particular s
with which the reader has already been
made ac inniuted. .
As the words fell from the young priest s
lips, so vanished all doubt from the lathers
mind. The old mail folded Albert ill Uif
arms and held him in an affectionate em
brace. ”1 givo thanks to hoaven for bov
ine bestowed upon me so good a son, he
said. “But what shall we do?” he asked,
by aud by. “T, o vicar will send his report
in to thS ordination."
“And let him do so. 1 shall not be con
demned unheard, ’ Albert calmly replied
“mv judgi s will listen to mv .Meuse. After
ward I will seek to obtain a liv ng some
where else, far, far from Vo’ot io!, whore
nothing will be known about me.
“Mv boy. my bov, 1 fear the future will
prove a sail b’ank to jou.
Albert look, and down, and was si’ont.
“Speak! linseed die old man ion
need have no secrets from vour fa her. 1
?o fr that vonr heart is no longer -u your
callin ■ ail 1 I think it would boat lighter
under a farmer’s coat than under a pnests
K °Alb'.rt seized the speakers hand, anil
ii. f uvt'ii both Lis owu. Sireu o 'tli
will come to all those who ask for It. I will
words; si adhere a. long as
your u ‘x; u 0 t Of voiir shedding. You
was she l was not oi ' another _
I should
ha “Tlmnkli ‘ faher U " y H n ow ' shall I ever re-
P „y r you for your charitable kindness
toward me?"
‘‘JFK COUNTRY: MAY SHU KVKR RK RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY !"— Jefferson.
"Say not a word about the matter,” re
joined the other. “Now listen to me, Al
beit," he continued. "You must remain
h* re in your room u til this affair blows
over, or Until we sec how tho vicar means
to act in it. ”
“And what of my mother?”
“She will not see you. She takes Miss
Isidore* part, and dooms you much to
blame. But don’t trouble yourself about
that. I will explain all to her, and doubt
uot but your peace w ith her will Boon bo
made.”
“And, father,” Albert commenced, in
great embarrassment, "I I can do nothing
more for her. But you will not forsake
her, will you?”
"Yon moan Emn/.i?”
“ Yes. ”
“What of her?”
“i am not sure, but, soon after I left the
vicarage, ihe figure of a female resembling
her l ilted past me in the dark. I believe
it was Eranzi. Doubtless, she had been
driven forth. I heard Miss Isidore threaten
to turn her out of doors; but 1 do not re
member more.”
“I wish I bad never allowed hir to quit
us," answered old Unterwald. “I always
loved her like my own child; but, you see,
Miss Isidore, with her i-oft, wheedling
tongue, ttdked over your mothei, and w
were persuaded to part with our edoptt and
one, and to yield her up to one who has
pro\ed herself to bo wholly unworthy of
such a trust. Never fear, I will make it
my business to look after Eranzi at once.
She must not remain in ihe village after
whit has occurred; but I think I know
where I can safely bestow her. ”
That day Albert | assed in aching anx
iety. The report current in the village,
when the evening arrived, was that Miss
Isidore was not killed, as the schoolmaster
had asserted, but very ill.
Now it so happened that Madame Unter
wald belonged to the society of which Miss
Isidore was the head; and, conseque tly,
the two worn *n wore constantly being
brought in contact with one another. Not
liking this, the vicar’s niece tried to expel
the matron, but she did not succeed in her
object; and. to her dismay, made a host of
enemies in Volothol.
t HAPIEIt \T
A few miles beyond the village, in a se
cluded spot, stoo 1 a cottnge, inhabited by
an old woman, who was a cMreoal-buruer.
For ten long years her lire had never been
out. She rare y went abroad, and she
troubled not herself with the affairs of the
world. To her charge Ui terwald had con
fided Frauzi. He knew that the charcoal
burner could bo trusted, and that the
maiden would be perfectly safe under her
protection.
_ rt . ,ue window of the cottage
one evening. The setting.sun was sinking
to his rest in the led glory, and the girl’s
pale face was tinted wilh the declining
beams. She was buried so deeply in
thought that she did not perceive the tig.
ure of Kal#ina, until it was before her at
the casement.
Fr.m/.i looked up with a cry of joy. The
broad face of honest Katrina was tu her an
object pleasant to behold.
“Oh. is it indeed my old friend Katrina?"
exclaimed Franzi, rising aud opening the
door to admit the new-coiner. “Sly grod
Katrina, how did you find me?" she added,
afier she had kissed her cheeks, aud placed
a chair for her.
"And why should I not find you?”
answered the other, sitting down, “if one
sets one’s mind to do a thing, one may
surelv try to do it, eh? I saw somebody's
father quit the village yesterday upon liis
ponv, Zug, which everybody in Yolothol
Knows never goes beyond a snail s gallop.
I was certain that I could walk as fast as he;
so, suspecting the errand he was bent upon,
I followed him, and, by so doing, learnt
your hiding-place. There! Are you sorry
that I d,d so.'"
“Sorry!” repeated the maiden; “this is the
first hippy minute I have known since *
aud here she broke off suddenly, and
turned away her head
“Ive left ihe vicarage," said Katrina, ab
ruptly, us she removed her shoes, aud
shook the snow out of them. “But you
don’t ask me any questions,” she continued.
“Well, never mind, 111 tell yon all the news
without being asked to do so, as I am sure
you want to know everything that there is
to tell. Well, the chaplain has received his
sentence. He is suspended for half a
year.”
' And that through me!” cried Franzi.
“Ob. poor Albert! What will he do? This
disgrace will break his heart!”
“People say that he w as not asked for his
defense, and that, inconsequence, the sen
tence is an unjust one.”
“How cruel!” exclaimed Franzi. “Oh, he
is lost forever!”
“Miss Isidore has reported But
(here, never mind what she says! I ought
to have my chattering tongue cut off for
mentioning her name to you," Katrina said,
wilh blunt earnestness.
“What has Miss Isidore reported? Yon
must tell me,” Franzi cried, starting off her
seat, and seizing the other's hand. “Come,
what does Miss Isidore say? I will know!”
Katrina hesitat ’d, aud looked ill at ease.
“Pray, pray don't ask me, Frauzi dear!” she
entreated. “Who cures what her spiteful
tongue utters?”
“Speak—speak!”
“Well,” replied the woman, unwillingly,
“she has said that the good man means to
break bis o ath, and marry you.
Franzi stook like one turned to stone,
“And moro than that,” continued the
speaker, “she says that lie will go over the
sea, and. wilh you, seek a home in another
land. ”
Franzi answered not, but stood with her
hands clasped across her brow, her eyes
fixed on vacancy.
l r s ntly she walked to the window, and
after a pause, came back to the side of her
friend.
“I mean to go to the village, Katriua,
she said. “Will you go with me?”
“What should you do in the village?”
“1 want to do my duty, Katrina,” the
maiden answered, very firmly. “I want to
stop people’s tongues. ’’
“That is impossible, Frauzi! llow would
you begin to do so?”
“Don’t ask me any questions, Katrina; I
know how it is to be done, and I will do it!
Heaven will assist me! I don't care what
the people say of me; it is of Albert—my
dear brother—the brave and noble man,
who, through me, has been ruined, I think.
No one shall breatho one word against him!
Come, Katrina; I will stop tho people’s
tongues!”
And with these words, Franzi reached
down her woolen c’oak, which was hang
iu" on a nail, bade the mistress of the cot
tage a hasty farewell, and, followed by her
friend, rushed out into thegutbering gloom
of ove.
The two women hurried along as fast as
they could. They neither of them uttered
a word for some time. Frauzi was engaged
with tier thoughts, ami her compani.iu was
regretting that sho had told her what Miss
Isidora had Baid.
“How warm the wind comes, ’ observed
Katriua, presently. “We shall soon have a
thaw And listen to tho river: its waters
are rushing along at a mighty rate. Do you
hear them?”
Franzi made no reply and the other of
fered no further remark, but silently went
"when they had reached tho village Franzi
P*“llere wo must part, good friend,” she
Ba - p ß rt!” repealed her companion. “AVhitL
cr would vou go alone?”
“I can not tell you, Katrina. Thank you
for your company thus far, and farewell;”
saying which, Frauzi wrung her friend’s
baud, and then hastened away.
Katrina stood for a few seconds, wonder
ing how she should act. ' I’ll follow her,’’she
said to herself, by and by. “Yes, please or
displease her. 1 will not lose sight yf her."
Arid with that, she nimbly made after the
unhappy girl. _
Meanwhile, Franzi r —Uage
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER IS. 188S.
ptreet. Ibe blacksmith n hammer was
clanging loudly* tad o bright gltn m
visible through the windows of the smithy,
toward which she now directed her steps.
Vigili, who, at this moment was having
high words with one of his apprentice lads,
had made u/ush to the forge, and snatched
up a red-hot iron, which he was about to
throw at the offender, when his arm was
luddenly arrested. Ile turned rouud angrily,
red beheld Erau/.i s eye upon him, and
heard her long-lost voice in his car. As the
warm winds outside had melted away the
inow. ro his rage died away.
“Vigili,” she said, softly, “you stiller your
inger to go too far.”
“What do you come here for?” he asked,
eagerly.
"I want to speak to your mother,” she
mswerod, in seme slight confusion. “I
wish to ask her if she will take me as a
Servant."
Vigili threw the hot iron into a corner.
“Come in," he rejoined; "mothei is mak
; lug coffee. And whether she wants a ser
j vaut or not, a place in the house can be
fouud for you. ”
And with a fast throbbing heart, Eranzi s
rough lover led her through tho smithy into
fi room beyond it, where the dame was
busily engaged in preparig the evening
meal.
“What does she here?” the blacksmith s
mother inquired, casting a contemptuous
ook upon the poor girl. “You know what
Mi'S Isidore says of her.”
“Miss Isidore be hanged!” returned the
sou, iu his old rough way. “What do I care
what she says? I love this girl!”he added,
taking Eranzi’s hand ns he spoke; “and as
I am master here, I can do as I please.
Now, mother, you are answered, so make
uo more to-do, but let us have some
supper. ”
"No, she is a good-for-naught, and I will
not have her here. ”
“But I will give her the right to be here,
if she will let me,” Vigili replied, raising
his clenched hind, nn l then bringing it
down with a hang upon the table near him.
“Speak!” he went < n, in softened tones, and
tuning again to Frauzi. “You shall decide
the question at once. "Will yon be my wife?
Yes, or uo?”
The girl reflected. If she became the wife
of the blacksmith, the tongues of the slan
derous would at once be silenced, and Al
bert’s name would be preserved. She
looked at the coarse, bujly man by her side,
smothered a rising sob, and smiled upon
him.
"The hand you hold is yours, Vigili,” she
spoke firmly. “If you will take a poor girl
who can bring neither name nor honor to
your house, then I say yes. I will be yours
truly and faithfully.”
Vigili 8 joy demonstrated itself very nois
ily, and he would have folded Eranzi in his
arms, had he not been afraid to take so
great a liberty with her.
“We ll have the wedding to-morrow, eh?"
be said.
Eranzi readily assented to his proposal.
“That’s all right!” cried Vigili. “Come
mother, you’d better put your sulks in your
pocket, I think, and look pleasantly upon
her. You'll have to do so sooner or later,
you know"
Then he broke off abruptly, called one of
the workmen out of the smithy, and bade
him run across the street and fetch the
schoolmaster. Then adding, “Tell him he
must leave whatever work he may be ijbout,
and come to me at once. Bid him bring a
big sheet of parchment, for a wedding is
going to take place at the smithy.”
When the schoolmaster heard this aston
ishing piece of news, he rushed across the
street instanter, anxious to learn who the
bride was. His amazement and anger were
great when he fouud it was Eranzi He
could hardly conceal his feelings. “To
think that that girl should become the wife
of one of the richest men in Volothol!”
he mentally exclaimed. “It shan’t be! I’ll
put a stop to it!”
Vigili, as blind in his joy as he was
sometimes in his rec;e, paid no attention to
the man's looks, but bade him write from
his dictation.
“I endow my wife that is to be with my
house, my shop, all the ‘money I have in
the bank, anil with myself into the bar
gain," he said; "so now write away, old fel
low, and mind you make no mistakes.”
The schoolmaster hesitated. “He had
forgotten to bring with him a sheet of
parchment,” he explained. “Ho would run
and fetch it.”
And he left the house, but returned after
an absence Qf a few miuutes only
which time he had dispatched a messenger
for Miss Isidora), aud then ho commenced
his task. When it was finished to the satis
faction of tho blacksmith, some neighbors
were called in to witness the document. As
one of the men took up a pen, the door of
the room was suddenly flung wide, and the
vicar’s niece was added to the scene.
The lady cast a withering look upon poor
Franzi, who had retreated into one corner
of the apartment; then sho burst forth:
“So it is true, then! You are going to wed
this wicked girl;” Miss Isidora cried, ad
dressing Yigiti. “I am sorry to interrupt
you in this abrupt manner, but I have a
certain duty to perform. Your mother be
longs to our society, and I am come to her
help. She can not remain in her sou's
house now; my uncle’s dwelling will re
ceive her."
And, with that, she took the woman’s
hand, and led her to the door. But. ere
they could cross the threshold, the black
smith had spinner in their way, and barred
their exit.
“What are you to my mother that you
should thus control her actions?” he de
manded. “This is her home. Why should
she leave it?"
“Because, a good woman can not live
under the same roof with such a shameless
creature as that,” Miss Isidora replied,
pointing to Franzi, who uttorod a cry, nud
covered her face with her hands.
Yigili was white with rage. “Whom do
you call a shameless creature?"
“She who deserves no other name," re
torted Miss Isidora.
“Of what do you accuse her?" he went
Dn. “Wo all know what happened ou
Christmas Eve, aud that she was not to
blame, and I will not have her insulted by
sither you or auy one else. ”
"Indeed!” sneered tho vicar's niece.
“What will you say when I tell you that I
tnyself saw' her secretly leave the chaplain s
room?”
“Franzi!” exclaimed the smith, turning to
ber, anil speaking under his breath.
The girl did not uncover her face, but
stood there shuddering and weeping.
“You do not answer me,” pursued he.
“Heaven and earth, is it true?”
ITO BE CONTINUED.J
A Curious Ceremony.
A curious religious ceremony is now
being performed by tho Mexicans iu tho
vicinity of Paso Del Norte. Each night
the crest of the mountain ridges is a
sheet of Hume. With infinite labor anil
patience dead cactus and mesquito
bushes are collected and earned to tho
steep mountain tops for their sacrjficial
files; but then tho entire population,
almost, labors at it and looks upon it as
a sacred duty. These night fires are
dedicated to'u double shrine, first to the
approaching celebration of Our Janly of
Gaudalupe, the patron saint of Mexico,
who made her miraculous appearance at
the village of Gaudalupe on December 9,
1531, and to whose glorification the whole
month of December is annually given
up; and secondly, these fires are dedicat
ed to Montezuma, the legendary em
peror and culture god of the Atzees,
whose return is still looked for by the
great mass of Indian population of Mex
ico. They think ho will come unex
pectedly from the East, and those tires
are lit to show him the way to the realms
of his still faithful believers.
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OE ALLIANCE MEN—RAIL
IIOAD CASUALTIES—THE COTTON CROC
6 --FLOODS—ACCIDENTS —CROP RETURNS.
ALABAMA.
The Piko County Guano Factory, at
Troy, was burned. Loss $50,000; insu
rance $25,000,
J. W. Ellison, a section hand on the
Nashville, Chattanooga Jt St. Louis Rail
road at Bridgeport, was fatally wounded.
At a point between Bridgeport and Boli
var a train ran over Ellison, who was
lying on the track, and cut off both his
legs. The cause of tho accident is par
tially explained by a whiskey bottle found
iu Ellison's pocket.
Conductor Brantley, Engineer Brown
Fund a freight train crew of four men on
the Birmingham Mineral Railroad, nar
■ rowly escaped lynching on Wednesday.
A freight train in charge of Conductor
Brantley and his crew ran over and killed
. a colored woman, named Clara Dickson,
at Smith's mines, eight miles from Bir
mingham. The woman was druuk and
, lying across the track. The engineer
• blew his whistle but did not slacken tbe
. speed of bis train. The train passed
over the woman and her body was ground
into fragments. The train was stopped
and some of the crew took a shovel and
threw the frsgments of the body from
the track. About 200 negro miners wit
nessed tbe accident and when they saw
the crew handle the woman's body in
such a manner, they became indignant.
Many of them were drinking and nearly
ill were armed. They surrounded the
train with their pistols drawn, swore
they would lynch the entire crew. A
number af shots were fired at the men on
the engine, but no damage was done be
yond breaking the cab windows.
tISJiNESSKIf.
dynamite cirtridge tbTcw a Clay
street car from the track at Knoxville in
the business centre and badly injured the
driver, M. E. Dykes.
The Brunswick Hotel, located in the
business center of Chattanooga on a writ
of attachment issued by the chanceiy
court ou the application of AV. P. Crow
A Son, the owner of the building. J. D.
Carlisle & Cos., are the lessees of the
property.
Archie Thomas, who, for twenty
years, has been the editor and proprietor
of the Springfield Record, died at his
residence of peritonitis on Wednesday,
aged about fifty-two years. The deceased
had filled the position of president of
the Tennessee Press Association. He re
moved from Springfield to Florida about
about five years ago, but came back to
Tennessee less than two years afterwards,
and again took charge of the Record.
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ErtßilA.
The “Spelling Bee” held in Atlanta o l
Thursday night for the benefit of Jack
sonville, Fla., was attended by one of the
most refined and enthusiastic assemblies
of the season. A largo sum of money
was realized.
The black tongue has broken out
among the deer in the section between
Savannah aud Charleston, and many ani
mals are said to have died with the dis
ease. A number of dead deer have been
found along the line of the Charleston &
Savannah Railway, and people should be
very careful how they get their venison.
“The Gospel Army,” is a split from the
Salvation Army in Atlanta. A. J. Wilson
a special policeman is the leader and his
purpose is to be some day the general-in
chief of some vast army, to lead a move
ment to which not only sin and evil shall
succumb, but the churches and preachers
as well, lie and his wife quit the Salva
tionists for what he called their “low
moral tone.”
Maj. Iver Boyce, Augusta’s postmaster,
laid the first Btone of the government
building on Thursday. It was a solid
block of granite, two feet long and a
foot thick, from thequarries of Newber
ry, S. C. This stone is pronounced by
the government contractor to be the fin
est granite he ever used in government
buildings. Contractor Corbett says the
first story of the building will be up by
the opening of the Exposition, and the
building ready for occupancy in sixteen
months.
WORTH CAROLINA.
Raleigh was thrown into a state of
great excitement on Wednesday when it
was announced that Charles E. Cross,
ex-president of the State National bunk,
just sentenced to convict labor for five
years, bad sworn out warrants before 1.
R. Burnett, United States commissioner,
against E. R. Stamps and AV. S. Prim
rose, the former at one time president and
tho ’latter director in the bank. The
warrant charges Stamps with making
false entries on the back of certain dis
counted paper. It further charges that
said Stamps did, from time to time, dur
ing the years 1880, ’B7 and ’BB, make
false statements of the condition of said
bank, knowing them to be false. The
warrant charges Primrose with making
false statements from time to time of the
condition of the bank during the years
1884, ’BS, ’BO, ’B7, ’BB, he knowing said
statements to be false.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The dwelling house of Mrs. M. AV.
Hunter, four miles from Greenville, was
burned before day-breuk AVednesday.
Loss, $4,000.
Three men named McFall, Grumpier
and Richardson, of Branchville, all
white, accompanied by others, entered a
garden in which Cajsar Stevens was at
work and shot the man down ill cold
blood, literally riddling him wilh
bullets and shot, after which they delib
erately rode away. They made no at
tempt t” hide their identity.
MISSISSIPPI*
Mrs. Wirt Johnson, wife of the Secretary
of the State Board of Health, tngethu
with many others was fined at Jackson for
violating the quarantine laws. The quar
antine has been raised at Jackson.
Ku.vrrcKV.
The Southern Association of Homeo
pathists is in session in Louisville,
ANOTHER GUNBOAT.
The gunboat Petrel, a leading typo in
the new navy, now building at the Co
lumbian Iron AVorks, Baltimore, Md.,
will be launched soon. She is about
885 tons displacement, burkentine rig
and steel hull. She will carry four
breech-loading guns in her main battery,
besides several machine guns on deck,
and for her size, is one of the fine t ves
selsevcr constructed iu the United States.
THE WORLD OVER.
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
rtlK FIELD OF LABOR —SEETIIINO CAUL
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIOUIE —KIKES,
SUICIDES, ETC. —NOTED DEAD.
The customs officers will not allow
Chinamen to pass through the country
ns tourists.
The grand vir.ier of Turkey has issued
a decree forbidding the publication of
morning papers.
James B. Carnes, bookkeeper for Dol
phin Cos., of Paterson, N. J., has gone to
Canada with SIO,OOO.
German booksellers have ordered
75,000 copies of Dr. Mackenzie's history
of the case of the late Emperor Freder
ick.
M. Immerman, editor of Memn , the
Fr. nch paper of Metz, has been expelled
from the country, by the German offi
cials.
By the fall of a platform erected for a
display of fireworks in Quincy, 111., on
Wednesday, 150 persons were hurt. Some
of them will die.
The irredentists of Italy have scattered
inflammatory hills, headed “Down with
the Triple Alliance,” aud similar expres
sions, through the streets.
Henry G. Hotchkiss, a respected citi
zen of West Haven, Conn., w s arrested,
charged with forgery. The forgeries
will aggregate about $20,000.
An indictment by the grand jury of
nine of the principal citizens of Mat
toon, 111., for lynching Wm. Moore on
June 25, is a sensation there.
Samuel Gompers, pre-ident of the
American federation of labor, has issued
a call for an annual convention to be held
at St. Louis, Mo., December 11th.
Schuneman’s packing house, in the
stock yards district, at Chicago, 111.,
was burned Wednesday. The tire origi
nated from an overturned lamp in the
butterine factory. Loss, $125,000.
The committee in London, England,
having ebargif of the fund to pay the ex
penses of Mr. Parnell, in his litigation
with the Times, have issued a circular in
which they state that $35,000 has thui
far been subscribed.
The failure of A. M. LeCont was
nounced on the Cotton Exchange in New
Y’ork on Thursday. The suspension ie
said to be due to losses incurred iu the
failure of J. W. Hart &, Cos., last spring
and has had no effect on the market.
Twenty thousand British colliers in
Yorkshire have given notice to their
employers, that they will go on strike
unless they are conceded teu per cent
advance in wages. Fifty thousand col
liers will give notice to the same effect.
The marriage of the duke of Sparta,
the crown prince of Greece, and Princesi
Sophia, of Prussia, has been fixed for
the latter part ot October. 1889. Em
peror William will go to Athens to at
tend the services, which will be held in
the cathedral there.
George Francis Train is going to lec
ture in New York for the benefit of the
yellow fever sufferers. He lost his
father, mother and three sisters in an
epidemic of the fever in New Orleans in
1833. Although rather “queer” some
times, he is a man of brain with a big
heart, and has done many a kind deed.
A fire at the oil refining docks at
Greenpoint, (Long Island), N. Y., on
Thursday, burned three barges, one
steamer, several buildings wharves, etc.,
and 177 barrels of oil belonging to the
Standard Oil Company. The loss amount!
to $300,000. Au exploding oil tank
scattered burning oil- amongthe firemen,
and six were badly wounded.
The Knights of Labor council, in
which are represented all Knights of La
bor in Chicago, 111., at a meeting on
Wednesday adopted resolutions indors
ing the action of the striking street cat
men, and promising them moral and fi
nancial support. Slimy small riots oc
curred ou Wednesday and Police Cap
tain Aldrich had liis head badly cut. Re
vel veis and stones we;e freely used.
Emperor SVilliam arrived at Rome,
Italy, on Thursday, and he was met at
the railway station by King Humbert
and the greeting between the two mon
archs was most cordial. Large crowds
lined the streets leading from the station
to the Quirinal, and au enthusiastic wel
come was extended to the German em
peror. There wa9 a crowd of 50,000
persons m issed in front of the palac^.
A north bound passenger train on the
Cleveland, Canton A Wheeling Railroad
came into collision with a freight train
near Mnssilon, Ohio, on Thursday. Both
engines, two passenger coaches and sev
eral freight cars were completely wrecked.
One freight and one passenger brakeman
were fatally injured and two passengers
were seriously hurt; one probobly fa
tally. The accident was caused by a
change of schedule.
The National Line steamer Queen,
which arrived at New Y'urk on Wednes
day from England, collided with the
fishing schooner Madeline during a fog
off the banks of Newfoundland. The
Queen struck the Madeline amidships,
cutting her in two and sinking her im
mediately. The captain, first and sec
ond mates and steward of the fishing
schooner were rescued after they had
been in the water nearly an hour, but the
rest of the crew, numbering twenty,
were lost. In the collision the Queen
lost her bowsprit and foremast. The
Madeline was a French fishing schooner.
THE CHICAGO CORNER.
The question, “What did Hutchison
make on his wheat deal?” is being asked
on „i| sides. An approximate answer is
easy. From Thursday noon to Saturday
night he drew out of ihe board of trade
clearing house $975,000 in certified
checks” and there is still $1,000,000 due
him on unsettled sales. Then ou Mon
day, when he unloaded 7,000,000 bushels
just “to ease the market,” he had an
even 20 cents profit on every bushel,
which netted him $1,400,000 more.
This makes his winnings something like
$2,375,000 cashed in, and a marker up
for a bagatelle of 81,000,000 more. But
the smoothest part of the whole business
is the fact that Hutchinson used the
bears’ money to beat them with—saud
bagged them witli their own club.
GENERAL SNOW FALL.
Snow fell over a great part of Quebec,
New Hampshire and Vermont on lues
d .y, to the depth of from two inches in
New Hampshire to six inches in Mon
treal.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Doings of Congress and the United
States Officials.
CONOR RNMIONAIa
Tho Senate chamber presented on
Thutsday, after, the reading of the jour
nal, a depressingly deserted aspect there
being but live senators, present on tiro
Democratic side, and but fifteen on the
Republican side. Subsequeatly, howev
er, half a dozen more Democrats put in
an appearance. The House bill appro
priating $50,000 for tho enforcement of
tho Chinese exclusion net was reported
by Mr. Allison and passed. .Mr. Mitch
ell then proceeded to address the Senate
i u advocacy of the bill heretofore intro
duced by him to reduce letter postage to
ono cent. At tho conclusion of Mr.
Mitchell's speech the bill was referred to
the postoffice committee. The Senato
then resumed consideration of the tariff
bill, and was uddressed by Mr. Cullom in
advocacy of the Senate bill.
In the Senate oa Wednesday, Mr. Hale
presented the report of tho select com
mittee on the operation of the civil ser
vice law, and said that a minority report
would be presented hereafter. Order
printed. The joint resolutions reported
on Tuesday from the committee on epi
demic diseases requesting tho President
to direct the chiefs of mcTlical bureaus
of the army ami navy and marine hospi
tal service to cooperute with the yellow
fever conference to be held in Washing
ton, in December pext, was taken up and
pussed. A message from tho President
was presented an l read, vetoing the bill
for the relief of the executors of Joseph
H. Maddox for payment on accouut of
losses sustained by the seizure of tobacco
during the War Mr. Dougherty, of
Florida, rising to a question of privilege
in the House, declared that he wished to
have the journal corrected so as to show
that the Senate bill providing for the
electoral count, passed the House
without a quorum. He said that the
chair (Mr. Stone, of Kentucky,) had not
recognized him (Mr. Dougherty), to make
a point of no quorum, either because he
did not bear him, or refused to hear him,
and he did not wish a precedent estab
lished that by a quick decision of the
chair a member could be deprived of bis
rights. Mr. Burnes called up the confer
ence report on the deficiency bill, and
after some time spent in persuasive en
deavors Mr. Burnes was successful in in
ducing Mr. Dougherty to withdraw his
opposition about a quorum, and the re
port was agreed to. This disposes of
the last of the general appropriation bills.
€! OSSIP.
Reports received in Washington on
Monday show that a track has been con
structed around Jacksonville, Fla., mak
ing connection between the Jacksonville,
Tampa & Key West Hoad with the Sa
vannah, Florida & Western Railroad,
thus allowing through transportation to
the South without entering Jacksonville.
Argument in case No. 846, the United
States against the American Rell Tele
phone Company, began in the United
States supreme court on Tuesday. Judge
Thurman made the opening address for
tho United States. The case grows ont
of a suit brought by Acting Attorney
General Jenks in tbe circuit court of the
United States for the District of Massa
chusetts to have canceled two patents
granted Alexander Graham Bell as in
ventor of the telephone, on the ground
that the patents were obtained by fraud.
Chief Justice Fuller took the oath pf
office and assumed the active duties of
his position on Monday. An hour before
the time for the opening of the court,
the narrow space allotted the general pub
lic in the court chamber was crowded by
men and women, who wanted to witness
the ceremony of installation. It was an
orderly, well mannered throng of pou
gressmen, attorneys and ladies, which
sought to pack itself into a space far too
small to contain it, and naught but crow
ding marred the usual solemn decorum
of the proceedings.
NOT SO FAVORABLE.
Dr. Neal Mitchell, president of the
Board of Health at Jacksonville, Fla.,
reports sixty-threo new cases of yellow
fever for Wednesday, and four deaths.
Of the new cases, eighteen were while.
The authorities of Mississippi and Louis
iana will notullow the nurses from Camp
Ferry to enter those states. These nursoS
have been in Camp Perry from seventeen
to twenty-four days each. Thero is abso
lutely no infection in the camp, nor has
there been. The question that now con
fronts the authorities at Jacksonville is,
whether Mississippi, Louisiana or the
United States are supreme in the matter.
Dr. Hamilton sent the following instruc
tions from Washington, D. C: “Allow
the nurses to depart and go as far as they
will be allowed. While the regulation
forbidding their entry to New Orleans,
in my judgmeut, is entirely unwarranted
by any state of facts, the government
cannot override local regulations, under
our laws, but no community cun force the
government to retain persons in quasi
confinement beyond the period the gen
eral judgment of sanitarians have agreed
on as safe and proper.” The nurses
are residents of New Orleans, who vol
unteered to go to Jacksonville under aus
pices of the Red Cross Association, and
are desirous to return home. The fol
lowing is the daily bill of fare at Camp
Perry: Beef stew-three times a day;
grits, rice, stewed apples or prunes—
three times a day; dessert—three times a
week; coffee—twice a day; hot biscuit
three times a week; light bread, butter.
Four cases of yellow fever were reported
at Decatur, Ala., during the last twenty
four hours. Several refugees have died
at other places, but none of them have
spread the fever. At I criiatidina, Fla.,
tlieie have been twenty-three new cases
of fever, but they do not appear to be ol
a malignant type.
UNBIDDEN GUEST.
AV. R. Boss, a compositor, was married
to Miss Jesse C. Lovett, in Jacksonville,
Fla., on Thursday, under peculiarly sad
circumstances. The bride-elect at 3
o’clock in the afternoon, began feeling
sick, and when 8 o’clock sr ivcil had a
very high fever, her temperature being
103 degiees, but nothing daunted the
plucky and pretty bride insisted that the
wedding should lake place, and Bishop
Weed, of the Episcopal Church, tied the
nuptial knot. Immediately after the
ceremony, the bride broke completely
down, and so alarming became her
symptoms that a doctor was called in,
and she was ordered to bed. Next
morning it was discovered that she had
a very serious ease nf yellow lever. Tho
bridegroom is wild with grief.
NUMBER 50.
GEORG I A'S CROPS.
Col. Hiuder-on, the Commissioner of
Agriculture of Georgia, in his last report,
says: “The heavy storms of rain and
wind which occurred during the first
twelve days of September, covering the
entire stare, proved very damaging to
most crops not harvested, but especially
to cotton and rico. The storms were
most violent and the rainfall the greatest
in tho eastern and northeastern section of
the state,' causing great floods in tho Sa
vannah and Ogcpeheo rivers, almost
without ‘precedent in the history of the
State. The general reduction of tho
condition of the cotton crop—on average
of the state—was 10 points, or from 85
on September 1, to 75, October I. This
is due almost entirely to the heavy storms
already alluded to. ' In North Georgia
the dmmige was 11 points; in Middle
Georgia, 14; in Southwest Geergia, 8; in
East Georgia, 7; in Southeast Georgia,
10; showing that the greatest injury oc
curred in the valleys of the Savannah and
Ogeechee rivers. The general average
condition for the state is three points be
low that of October 1, 1887. It is quite
evident that the sober, second thought of
tho farmeis lias reduced the first esti
mates of damage. Tho effects of tho
storms and floods are also seen in the re
duction of the condition and prospective
yield of corn from 113 on September 1, to
88 on October 1. The condition is now
the same ns that of October 1, 1887.'
The sugar cane crop is reported but
little under an average, while in fact it is
probably the best crop we have
had for several years. Kice
is not damaged ns much as was
first estimated, flowing a reduction in
Southeast Georgia (where the bulk of tho
crop is produced) of but 4 points since
September 1. Sweet potatoes have Im
proved 3 points and give promise ofa'full
crop. The questions in regard to the price!
of cotton bagging, on the first day oi
Octolier, 1887, and the date this year,
the average quantity used per hale, and
the price of cotton, were intended to
elicit facts which have a special interest
at this time. At G. 4 yards per bale it
required 45,000,000 yards of bagging for
the crop of 1887-88. . At 8.9 cents pel
yard the prevailing price of last season,
the cost of the bagging for that crop wai
$4,005,000. Assuming that the crop of
the present year will equal that of last
year, the cost of covering it with jute
banging at 14 cents per yard will be
$0,300,000, or an increase of $2,295,000."
MANY KILLED.
A severe accident occurred on the
Lehigh Valley Railroad at Mud Run, the
first station above Penn Haven, Pa. A
grand parade of Catholic societies took
place at Ilazelton on Wednesday, and a
large excursion waa run from Wilkes
barre for the occasion, composed of
lodges, bands and sight-seers from
Wilkcsbarre, Nanticoke and other points
along the line. The excursion train was
run in two sections, and upon the return
trip at night the rear section ran into
tho forward section at Mud Run, about
9 o’clock, with disastrous results. Sev
eral cars of the forward section were
telescoped and forty persons were killed
outright, and about an equal number in
jured, many of them probably fatally.
SOLUTION PROMISED.
The latest theory of the London police
on the subject of the Whitechapel mur
ders—and one in favor of which they
have abandoned all others—is a most
•startling one. It is an alleged case in
real life of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Ilyde.
The police claim to have a particular in
dividual in view, and to possess corrob
orative evidence in support of their the
ory. lie has been repeatedly tracked
and traced* and is a well-known and
wealthy resident of Grosvenor Square,
the most fashionable quarter of Loudon.
A sensation of immense magnitude is
expected in connection with the matter.
MORMONS DOWNED.
The supreme court of Utah entered a
final judgment and decree iu the ease of
the United States against the Mormon
church, which was pending to dissolve
tho church corporation and have its
property declared escheated to the
government. The suit was brought in
ihe supreme court of that territory under
the act nf Congress of February 10,1887.
In that suit a receiver was appointed for
the church corporation aud succeeded iu
collecting over $7,000,000 worth of
property, real and personal. The decree
entered is a complete triumph for the
government.
SPECK OTWAR.
German frigates Moltke, Stosch, Gneis
cnau and Charlotte, which were lying in
the Ray of Naples, Italy, for the purpose
of firing a salute.in honor of Emperor*
William upon his arrival there, have re
ceived orders to proceed instantly to Zan
zibar to protect German residents whose
lives and property are endangered by a
rising among the natives. The four war
ships carry a complement of 1,030 men
and mount 00 guns. The German train
ing squadron of half a dozzen vessels in
the Mediterranean has also been ordered
to Zanzibar.
loss Ing beeT
Emperor William and Emperor Francis
Joseph arrived at Murzzuschlug from
Nueburg, on Wednesday. They were met
by the king of Saxony, the regent of
Bavaria and the duke of Tuscany. After
luncheon, Emperor William bade all
farewell, lie embraced and kissed Em
peror Francis Joseph three times, and
then embraced and kissed the king of
Saxony and then the regent of Bavaria.
Ihe salutes were exchanged while the
train was leaving the station. Then
Emperor Francis Joseph and tho others
returned to Vienna.
NEW STEAMERS.
A resolution was olf red and unani
mou ly adopted at a meeting of the East
Tennessee K. U. directors held in Savan
nah, Uu., instructing President Thomas
to put engineers in the field at once to
locate a line from Eastman to Savannah,
(.la., and also authorizing President
Thomas to negotiate for the purchase of
four steamships, with a view to establish
ing a line of steamers between Savannah
and New York.
WILL NOT REGISTER.
Up to Wednesday 4,648 foreigners
have registered in Paris, Fiance, in ac
cordance with the recent decree of Pres
ident Carnot. Oily 164 of these are
British, although the number of that na
tionality, resident in Paris, is estimated
i at 12,000.