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The Georgia Enterprise. VOLUME XXIII. The Knterpnse. T^TTTTTSH Kn WEEKLY AT ' IVINUTON (iKOKtIIA. ,g L Y $1 IN CLUIW OF FIVE. I 5. ~.i ; ,t ilf Covington Postoffioe class matter. Terms, $1,26 ’. r tn clubs of five or more JJ, Dollar. Six months 75ct. Four ~ nths, -30 rt always hi ailvnnee. I'A TI! 0 N LZE He Old Enterprise. It "rides no fences. Jumps no nominations $1.25 in advance. In clubs of five sl. Advertising Rates. Il'nl Notices lOcts per line first inser -ii) rents per month. Business Ad vriisi'meiits $1 per inch first time—so cts iJc li jnbseqoent insertion. CONTBACT ADVERTISING : .pair j 1 mo. 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GEORGIA. Be sure to give us the selling and renting of your property. Rates of commission low. Valuable property on Ijanci for sale. Try us. Titles traced and per fected. Pay unless a sale I s made or rents col lected. R - L. SIMMS & CO. franklin B. Wright, -COVINGTON, GA.— tedeot Physician & Surgeon, \\ t ' Gynecology, Diseases C: and all Chronic I have u a l )r * v fe nature, a specialtyl enable '' at ,nv command, which wil r,,' J n<lin!!' !l) the calls of tho sur tif.o " ' " nn,r .V- as well as my city prftc- FRANKLIN li. WRIGHT, M. D f arm loans, b Y W. SCOTT, r , Covington, Georgia. I "Ti.i v, —; — X-- if", * p Loans on Farms in i 0,1 Fivp v “non and Rockdale counties w F ,r a nnui - Iv„„ with Cash, nnd sop how flutn Interest will cost you less VV. SCOTT. 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. * 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.