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ALOVS.
BY K. N. HFAfir.lt.
ai th went oul
AndY2Si th, *'V : 1 ~pon • ome
Alia m H i tils* Hfuri upucur in uutldon rout
~,M * "" c *dldro n .oft
K?.l V h, ' ,4,, “ rixunitui round
Tli* iirmf• wklU on tU ground
A iTIitXT t J ?,"? V a,ul "bito,
Ths.iL. K Ul " • Ur Ut uißlit;
~, ‘i 1 ! “ , Kn ” llf, n 1,0 "“mill, but tie* m..au
f toe wiiuls; Uut than 1 aeeuiuO not alone.
hfen-fu?n CO “ ho aUanant water* In;
It awful •tlllneae 'imath tali <•)•,,r.*.
A at leen anon the nr.llv ■ lutennliteut ra;
’tea Jt tni'Ji ,r "“ *“• aoleome Hood, an the lon.
if'a 1 ' ? . V lr * : l ""° lt*tem*fl to tin* call
tL, -i‘ V t ', b rJ “ luw couiptahilrm., amt alt
T ° fran'i" U|! ,oUnil " “ l "leht; tin, luililrn
(it 'll then the uartllug ilaih
( t friphti*no'J birds, tho trembling leave*’ soft
In ce.suiea. long • But I leomod not alone.
Anil I have scoli the earth In living er.cn
Stretch out In lino rant tea. to meet tho blue
th non u ; tho etare in grand porepeotlve con,
Koino near, eoine far. ae rhe; wander on through
bj ace, 1 r_ght watohere oor the eilent tleeniug
world. v •
cronturs, save boujo meteor lnilietl
> Mi li rid flush nth wart tho Btonny sky^
Atid l.ear l afur the skulking coyote's orr
Acr.ihs tlu> darkened prairie* swiftly blown:
>ot even then. I soemod to be alone.
And I am now among the hnnnte of men,
A strung r. with mu.nv thousand thrown
Iy chance ; midst crowds of busy men is
when.
Oh, paiadox most strange, I am alone.
MILM’SFITE
OR.
The Maid of the Tyr
olese Valley.
BY H. BIRD. ESQ.
CHAPTER Vl.— [Continued. |
Here Fran ai rushed forward, and finng
tiirse'.f ut the feet of her some-time niis
tro- s. “OU, Miss Isidora! " she cried, h df
chok. and with her sobs. “Wbat have 1 done
to you that you should thus seek to ruin
ui 'ir 'lliiuk of my friendless condition!
Von know that I um parentless, with none
to care for mol Oh, mother, mother! you
who deser ed your babe from its birth,
where—w here are yon?" •
4he vicar's nioco stood as still and as
rigid nr n pillar of atone. “Have you done?”
she asked in harsh syllables.
The girl staggered to her feet, and, turn
ing, sank into a chair.
“Come!” added the lady, drawing tho
blackm.ill's mother to tho door. “I have
spoken only tho truth. Come!”
“Stop!” thundered Viglli, placing himself
before tho iwo women. “My mother shall
not be driven from her home; nnd she who
would have imposed upon and fooled me,
who is so beautiful, aud looks so innocent,
she shall not have this house alive -I will
kill her with my own hand!” And, with
those words, the furious man tried to seize
Franzi: bnt some of the neighbors caught
hold of him, nnd held him buck, while tho
g rl escaped through tho suiilhy, nnd tot
tered out into the opeu air.
“It is all over!” she murmured to hersolf.
” I have li thug lift me now bnt death.
Heaven will piiy and forgive me. i hone!"
Aud she siaried off down the village
street in the direction of rtßerwald’s house,
never pausing o ce till she found herself
in froul of i:b doorporch, with only a strip
of garden betwixt hersolf nnd it She stood
quite still, for Albert was sitting thero.
'‘Heaven protect the dear old home!" she
prayed, iu a whispering voice. “I thank
you all a thousaud tunes for your gooduese
to me! Ish ill never see you more, but I
will show you that I have not forgotten
you." And, lustily opening tho little
bundle sho had brought with her from the
cottage, sho took out of it the crushed
wreath which Albert had worn ou tho even
ing of tho festival, tore off the riDg she
had onco shown to him, pressed them both
to her 1 ps, aud afterward tied them up in a
handkerchief, which she threw over the
hedge,
Ibe little parcel fell at his feet; but she
who bad thrown it there was already gone.
He picked it up in amaze, and immedi
ately went into the house, in order to ex
amine it. When his eyes fell upon its con
tents, he seemed to understand all that had
happened, nnd alarm at onco possessed
him.
110 hurried out of the house again,
and looked over the gate—up the road
and down it. It was starlight, and every
object was plainly to bo seen.
While he was thus standing, the vicar’s
niece, who had quilted the blacksmith's in
triumph, came hurrying along on her way
baok home. As she approached tho gate,
three men. who had just left tho villago iun,
me: her face to face,
“Oho!” cried one of them, stopping her.
“Here is the mischief-maker of the village—
the saint who tokos away the character of
honest girls. Let us give her a rometu
brance. ”
‘ Agreed!" replied the other two.
With a acreani, the woman broke from
them, and flew, sho knew not whither, the
men following, shouting and hooting be
hind her.
Blindly she passed through the passage,
which Albert had flung open to receive
her.
“Here - conceal yourself hero’ he whis
pered, dragging her into an outhouse. "No
body w i'l seek you hure, ’’ he added, pulling
tho door after him, and leaving her iu
darkness.
Then he went back to meet the mon, who
had already entered the golden.
.‘;BUe went in here, I’ll swear!" said one
of them.
“Nonsense!” replied another. “Miss Isi
dora knows better than seek protection
under the roof of him whose good son she
soug't to injure."
“ What is tho matter? Whom seek you
here?" asked Albert, approaching the in
truders.
But boforo they could answer his inquiry,
a woman’s voice w as heard in the distance,
crying out, "Help, help!"
The voice came nearer and nearer, and
with it hastv footsteps through tho snow.
"Help, help, in heaven s name, reverend
sir!” cried Katri> a, recognizing Albert.
■Help whom?” he asked, fear shaking all
his limbs.
“Frunzi!” she gasped, in reply.
“Franzi!” echoed all.
“Something to-night told me to follow liei
Steps, and not to lose s-ght of her,” an
swered the woman, panting for breath.
“When she left the smith's. 1 was close at
her hoels, flying after her like the wind; I
called to her, hut rhe did not hear me. All
of a sudden, she made toward the river,
and then was lost to my view 1 . I reached
the bank, but could see nothing hut the
rushing waters, and at mV feet this hat and
kerchief. Ah, now 1 understand her words;
the poor darling has, indeed, slopped the
people's tongues.”
liv this time Albert’s father and mother,
bearing a lantern, were added to the reat.
“Oh father,” exclaimed the young man,
falling on old Uuterwald’s shoulder, poor
Franzi has rushed out of the world, and I
am tlie unhappy cause of her doath. bee );
here is her parting f}ifl to mo her ring.
“A ring?” echoed Madame l nterwald,
taking tho little golden hoop out of hoi
son's hand, and holding it to the light. Ah,
I recoenize it! It was found round her in
faiit neck It must have belonged to her
mother! the unnatural creature! An old gold
riro with three stars engraved inside it.
“ , W °nt fora°lThe men, followed by the
lie voted'Katrina! l ad hurried away in the
"MY OOUHTRY: MAY SUE EVER RK RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY !" —Jefferson.
whero he had loft tho vicar'* nioee; it wan
uij)ty.
CHAPTER VII.
On the following morning, Albert made
inquiries nfti r Miss Isidora, hut he was
told that she had not been horn* all night,
and that tho vicar was in almost a distract
ed state about her. Rut day followed day,
and no news wbatover was heard of her.
I run/i n fato seemed uncertain, and re
mained so uutii the spring time came, and
the river becamo lower. Then a fem tie
corpse, iu peasant's dress, was found, but
its features were unrecognizable. No one,
! for a moment, doubted but it was the body
of poor Franzi.
Albert's time of suspension being past, the
| vicar dead, and tho young priest’s famo
cleared in every way, ho was presented with
the vicarage, und tho living annexed to it.
Tho wicked schoolmaster was discharged,
and another was engaged—one who was
not too obsSinate to work hand in hand
with the new vicar, whose name, all through
Volotho!, was ever the theme of constant
commendation. Every one who stood in
need of a friend sought the wise counsel of
the good priest, by whom the hungry were
fed, the naked clothed, and tho unhappy
comforted.
The pain that had once wrung his heart
was gone, and calmness now reignod ia it
Neveitheless he always looked sad. as one
over whose head a mighty storm had passed.
He often thought of the friend of his early
youth-of Franzi—and prayed that hei
I only sin might be forgiven.
* * * * * *
A whole year had gone by, when, one
day, a letter bearing the poet-mark of an
adjoining city arrived at the vicarage, pray
ing him to coine to one who was fast pass
ing away from the world.
The worthy priest lost not a moment in
attending the summons: and the following
morning found him at the door of a cottage,
the servant of w hich admitted him, and led
him up stairs into a room, where she left
him. As the door closed behind her, an
other opened, and a female figure entered;
It was Miss Icddora. Yes, despite her
changed face, and her bleached hair, he
knew her in a moment
“Is it you, Miss Isidora?” he exclaimed,
starting. ”\Vliat mockery is this? Why am
I brought hither?'
“Nay, you are not mocked, reverend sir, ”
she replied, very mournfully. "You are
summoned here to visit a death-bed. But,
first, I must reuder you an explanation—l
must tell you my tale*”
Albert took the chair to which her finger
pointed, and sat down, a vague fear creep
ing into his heart.”
“Bo not imagine that I am the same
woman whom you formerly knew,” she
commenced. “As my face is changed, so is
my soul purified. The hatred that once
filled my breast is gone, and love lives in
its place. You remember that terrible night,
when you afforded me shelter and protec
tion, and what happened after 1 was hid
den in tho outhouse? Well, I heard every
word that Katrina said, and also about the
ring with the three stars engraved on it, and
a light seemed to shine upon me, and the
darkness went out of me forever. My father
was a rich man, and I was his only child,”
6he went on. “But I was not good; I was
vain, ambitious, and false-hearted. I had
a crowd of suitors whom it was my daily
delight to deceive and torture. But I met
my punishment before long, for ono came
who succeeded iu deceiving me. For a time
I managed to preserve the secret of my
downfall from every eye. At length I dis
covered that I should soon be a mother. I
was bold, and I did not tremble even then.
I asked my honorable and trusting father to
allow me to visit an old schoolmate, and ho
consented. I must tell you that I did not
travel far before my unhappy child was
born. J never saw it. I left it with a
woman, who carried it to a place where
it would be certain to be quickly found,
and ”
“Heavenly powers! What dire forebod
ings you awaken in me!” Albert cried.
“Your forebodings do not deceive you,
reverend Bir," the lady rejoined. “Judge
me as you will, and curso me as I deserve
to be cursed. Well, I learned that the
town took charge of the foundling; aud
afterward 1 had to discover that the girl
whom I had so persecuted, aud driven to
despair, was my own daughter!”
The last words were almost shrieked out,
and Miss Isidora, overpowered with grief
and shame, slid from her chair, and buried
her face iu its oushion.
The good priest remained speechless.
“When litst I met the girl years ago,” re
sumed the speaker, “I felt my heart drawn
toward her. My father died, and I then
went to live with my uncle. I now began
to play a part—to seem the woman I was
uot. I hated every body, and I learned to
feel delight in making peoplo suffer. My
youth was fled, and with it every hope.
Judge how I felt when I heard .your mother
speak of the ring with the three stars, and
learnt who was its wretched owner. At one
moment I felt inclined to rush forth, and
reveal nil to you. Hut I chose to act other
wise. I left my hiding-place, aud flew
toward the river. *if Franzi has sought
death, so will ll' I cried, inwardly.”
Here Miss Isidora paused again, quite
overcome w ith emotion.
Albert raised her from her knees, and
placed her once more iu her chair.
“What more—what more?” he exclaimed.
“Ob, my whole soul goes forth to meet your
words!”
“I soon reached the river hank, and by
the light of the moon and the stars I fol
lowed her footprints in the snow. I saw
that they went toward the water. But, fur
ther on, I remarked that there were foot
marks as of someone coming from the
river. I did not understand tins. I sought
further, and, praise be to Providence, 1
found her at last, lying among some thick
hushes, quite insensible, and with hei
slothes all stiff with the water that had
frozen on them.
“Merciful powers!” uttered Albert. “II
is no dream, 1 hope! Oh, toy heart, ol
what a heavy load thou wi t be relieved if
ill this be true! Go on go oil!” ho con
tinued, turning to Ihe iady. "Tell mo hIII
VVhat happened further? Does Franzi still
live?”
“She does. We have lived here for some
:ime, content that Ihe world should believe
is both dead. 1 wrote to my uncle, and
old him everything, and he arranged for
me all mattes relative to the property I
possessed. My life for the last twelve
months has been one of almost unalloyed
happiness; a heaven on earth seemed open
to me. But now oil is changed, and lam
become one of the most miserable women
in creation.”
“Impossible! With such a daughter you
san not bo otherwise than happy. "
"Hush! Sho knows not who she is; I
have not dared to tell her. I feared that
she would turn from such a mother as I
with horror and loathing. Could I say to
hor, ‘1 am the heartless parent who deserted
her new-born babe, and left it to the morcy
of tho wide world, caring nothing whether
It lived or perished?’ Oh, how often I have
longed to take her in my arms and call her
my own! Bnt when sometimes the words
rose to my tips, a choking sensation would
come in niy throat and prevent my speak
ing, and tho words wero left unsaid. ”
“ Wheie—where is she?”
“She is here. Can you bear to hear the
sad truth?”
“What more have you to tell?” he de
manded anxiously.
“Inmahout to lose her, the lady an
swered, iu unsteady accents.
“You are about to lose her!” echoed Al
bert. “I do not comprehend you.”
"She ie dangerously ill—dying!”
For an instant Albert’s lips quivered, and
a cold shiver pervaded his frame; in tho
aext he was himself again.
“It was her wish to sco you once more,
ind I obeyed her wish seeing no sin in it,”
“You did well,” he returned.
“She is in yonder chamber, impatiently
expecting you.
Albert turned aside his head, and silently
away the tears he could not repress.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1888.
"Arc you ready?” *he asked.
“I am."
"But one word more. Before you outer,
pronounce me your forgiveness ”
“Not by words alone; my acts shall prove
lhat I pardon you. ”
And he gave her bis hand, and Nhe
him into Fran/.i's chamber.
Thero, on tho bed, lay a wanted form, by
the side of wh ch he foil on his knees. He
saw at once that fhcro was no hope for the
* ck girl, of whom nothing remained of her
former self Have her honest dark eyes.
She turned to him.
“'Albert,” she be; an, vorv feebly, “this is
more than 1 had <l>ire<l to hope for. Now I
shall leave the world without regret. Can
you pardou me.
“For wh it? I have nothing to utter save
thanksgivings. 1 have mourned you dead,
ami have been tilled with regret for your
loss. ”
Here Franzi's white cheoks Hushed. She
tried to Hpeak, but was too weak to do so
at the moment.
Her rnoiher watched her with aching
eyes, and gently slid her arm beneath the
invalid's pillow.
“Ob. how good you are to me!” Franzi
said, with a grateful look. “I shall not live
to repay you for all the acts of kindness
you have rendered mo. I shall not have
time to do so,” she added, meaningly, and
with a smile.
j “Oh, do not tear my heart!” wept the
other.
“I am so happy—then whorefore do you
Nhed tears? happier, almost, than when I
wore the wreath on lhe festival,” sighed the
I dying one.
“And who knows but is some still
greater felicity in store for you?” said Al
bert. “If 1 could bring you news of your
mother, what would you Bay?”
“My—my mot her. gasped Franzi, trying
■ to raise herself upon her pillow, and after
ward sinking back upon it. “My mother!
Does she live?”
“She does," he replied.
"C an I see her?”
“You shall see her when you are strong
enough tv bear the joy her presence will
! bring to you.” answered the priest.
“Where is she—oh, where?’’ cried Franzi,
tho roses once more blooming in her face.
“She is hero, my child,” Miss isidora an
: swered. falling sobbing across the bed.
| "Oh. hate mo not—thrust mo not from
i you.”
“My mother! Is this true? AVhy do you
hot take me in your arms, then, and press
me to your bosom, that I may say I am on
my mother’s breast—if only for once and
the last time?”
“My daughter—my good, good daugh
ter!” the wretched woman exclaimed, hiking
Franzi in her arms, and pressing her
closely.
“Oh, my mother!” faintly dropped the
| expiring girl.
Then there was silenco for some few
seconds, and she was laid back on her pil
low, where she remained, looking as if she
had already ceased to breathe.
By and by sho felt for Albert's hand,
' then for that of her mother, and placed
them together; ns she did so, saying, in
! broken accents, “Mv mother— my brother. ”
After that the gentle spirit of Franzi at
i once took its ilight.
******
| Albert returned to Volotbol, and worked
' with increased zeal; and, after a short time,
Jsidora cume back to the village, where she
: jspent her money and her time in perform-
I ing all sorts af charitable und womanly
acts. Her secret lay buried with Fmnzi.
When Albert had worked at his sacred
calling for fifty-six years, there was an
other festival given in his honor at Volotbol.
But the friends who made meny at his first
! had most of them passed away, und Albert's
parent's slept in peace.
One morning, a few days after the above
mentioned festive occasion, tho priest’s
chamber-door not being opened at its ac
customed hour, his servant entered the
ro m, and found his master in his old arm
chair, with bis head resting on his breast,
and a smile on his line. On the table be
fore him rested a holy volume. Albert had
gone to Him who waited.
Many, many years have fled since Albert
Unterwald'B death. But among those of
the village who were children when he
lived, and knew his many virtues, he is still
fondly remembered; and they recount to
others what has been narrated to them of
him, and shake their heads when any other
pastor is praised, observing: “Well, well;
we say nothing against him, but such a
man as our late vicar we shall never see
again.”
[jiff 5Ni>J
A renny Savings-Bank.
A Penny Savings-Bank has been
started in Philadelphia by the Bethany
Presbyterian Church. Mr. John Wan
amaker is at the head of the new enter
prise, and it is chiefly through his in
strumentality that it has been estab
lished. The idea, of course, is to en
courage thrift among the people of the
section of the city in which the church
is located. On ’ Wednesday evening,
August 1, at 7 o’clock, tho doors of the
church book-room were opened, and the
first opportunity was given for the mak
ing of deposits. The number of people
on hand was encouraging in a high de
gree. A lino had to bo formed in order
that the deposits might be made in an
orderly fashion, and for an hour and a
a half the volunteer teller was busy en
tering accounts.
The first deposit was one cent, from a
wee little lad of seven years, whose face
beamed with pride as ho marched out
with his book. The largest amount re
ceived was 8200 and there was another
of 8100, whilo the groat majority were
nickels, dimes and quarters. The de
positors wero from all parts of tho city,
and by no means confined to the con
gregation of the Bethany Church. Mr.
Wanamakor express' s hinself aR par
ticularly pleased by the numberof young
men and women who deposited small
sums, showing a thrifty desire to save
money. Tho bank doors were closed at
half-past eight, and many wero obliged
to wait until the next night to deposit
their savings.
The plan on which the bank is conduct
ed is as follows : The services for con
ducting the institution are entirely
volunteer, so that there aro no expenses;
deposits from one cent upward will be
received every night, from seven to nine,
oxcept Saturday. The money is to bear
interest at four and a-liaif per cent., and
may be withdrawn in sums exceeding
810 on ten .days’ notice. Sums less than
810 may be withdrawn without notice.
No investments are to be made except in
or secured loans, and the cashier is to
deposit with tho Real Estate 1 rust Com
pany all Bums exceeding 8100. The rate
of interest given is unusually high for an
Eastern savings-bank, yet when we con
sider that tho services are free, and that
in the West, at least, money can be
seenroly loaned on mortgages at even
greater rates of interest, there is no
reason why similar enterprises should
mot bo sta’rted, even where the credit of
Mr. Wanamukor is wunting to give
strength to the institution.
Tlie Old Man's If altli.
“Ma,” said Bobby, “is pa danger
ously sick?”
“No, Bobby, ouly a little sick, that’s
all.”
“Well, Willie Waffles was braggm’
’round school to-day, that his pa was
dangerously sick. Don't you think, Via,
that my pa will get dangerously sick,
too?” —Ths Epoch.
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVF.MKNTB OP AI.LIANCK MK!f—RAIL-
ItOAD CASUAI.TIKS —TUB COTTON CHor
—FLOODS— ACCIDENTS —CROP UPTURNS.
ALABAMA.
James Ware, s well known contrsctoi
snti former circuit court clerk, of JJir
minglmin, whs thrown down stairs by a
man named Place, and waa fatally injured,
his skull being crushed in on the right
side. Place keeps a boarding house, and
at night Ware came to the house very
drunk. PI nee met him ut the head ol
the stairs and ordered him away. Warn
Began cutting and refused. After aome
•kords, Place pushed him down the stairs.
The Talladega A Coosa Valley road
will build fifty more miles of railroad,
and will also widen their track to the
standard gauge. The road at present
oporates between Talladega and Pell
City. The extension will he from Talla
dega through Clay county to connect
with the East Alabama and Cincinnati,
which is a part of the Central of Georgia.
The road has been in operation between
Talladega and Pell City four years.
GEOStilx.
Atlanta is wearing a 6xß smile beeaust
the new railroad deal will bring uearly
10,000 new citizens within her borders.
The County Commissioners of Fulton
county are discussing the sdvisabili y ol
building a bridge over the Chattahoochee
river, midway between tho toll bridge
And Lowe and Howell's ferry. No doubt
it will be built soon.
On Wednesday, Hand Duvis, aged übotit
fifteen years, met a terrible death ou the.
rail. The killing occurred at Iteid's sta
tion on the East Tennessee Hoad, sixteen
miles from Macon. The train was com
ing under good way and Davis tried to
:ross the track in front of the engine.
Geo. Rogers, who was standing neur by,
tried to deter him, saying the train wus
too close at hand, but the lad would not
heed and he was mashed to death by the
ponderous engine.
LOUISIANA.
Thomas D. Miller, a member of the
cotton exchange, a wealthy sugar planter
and widely known in commercial and so
cial circles, died on Tuesday, at New Or
leanSj aged 65.
NORTH CAROLINA.
At Mt. Zion church, in Surry county,
as Rer. F. MoNanghan, who had been
invited to preacb, was in the pulpit and
in the very act of opening the service, ho
fell dead without the least struggle. He
was 72 years old.
At Reidsville, J. R. Webster, of Web
iter't Weekly, and speaker of the House
of Commons, and E. M. Redd, a promi
nent tobacconist of Reidsville, had e
personal encounter, during which Reid
received severe cuts. The affair was the
result of a quarrel about politics.
Mrs. Adolphus Fuller, of Durham,
while in her home, and wearing a hurtle
of goodly proportions, passed near the
open fire-place, when the bustle, holding
the skirt of her dress far out behind it,
reached over the blaziDg lire. Before
she was aware she was all aflame, and is
fatally burned.
Two white men, William Venters and
William A. Branch, set upon Calvin Cox,
at a political meeting in Calico, and tear
ing planks from a fence, beat him on the
head until they had driven into his skull
the nails which projected from the
planks. Cox was a prominent man some
years ago, and was grand lecturer of tho
grand lodge of Masons of North Caro
lina. He was a man of genius and an
inventor. This fatal affray was not due
to any quarrel about politics, but was
the result of a long standing feud.
A woman’s screams, as if in mortal
agony, were heard, and thrilled hundreds
of people near the dep t at Greensboro,
on Thursday. There was a rush, nud the
body of a negro woman was found lying
partially in tho door of a store. Her
throat was cut from car to car, and she
lay in a pool of blood. The wound was
so dreadful as nearly to cut off her head.
Her name was Laura Ilyatt, and she was
a young mulatto. She had left her home
but a little distance away, only a few
moments before, as the door of her house
was open and her baby, aged ten months,
was lying in the bed. No reason can be
issigned for the crime.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A fire broke out in the jail in Green
ville, beurg set by Fletcher McDavid, c
lunatic negro. As soon as the fire was
noticed, Jailer Powell rushed to the cell
of the insane negro, but was unable to
unlock the door, as the lock was heated
to such a degree that his hand could not
bear it. The key would not turn. The
negro was left to his fate.
David E. Durand and his wife left
home in Bishopville to spend the day,
leaving their little daughters, Eva und
Cora, with their brother-in-law. Late
in the eveniug, while the children were
playing, Carues was informed that Cora
had fallen from a bed in the room in
which they hud been playing. Games
hurried in where she was and picked her
up, but she died in a very few seconds,
her neck having been broken by the
fall. The next morning Eva died from
the shock caused by her little sister’s
death. Their ages were seven and thir
teen respectively.
TENNESSEE.
While playing around a cane mill,
which was in operation near Midway
on Wednesday, John Carroll, aged 11
years, had his head caught between the
lever and frame, and was instantly
killed. His head was crushed almost to
1 jelly.
Colonels Duncnn P. Cooper, Pparrci
Hill, and John W. Childress have pur
rhased the Daily American newspaper, of
Nashville. Col. Cooper will be the edi
tor-in-c ief. The paper will be Demo
cratic, but the Wuttersouian idea will
prevail in the treatment of the tariff ques
tion. The American has hitherto been
a protection journal. Col. Colyar, who
lias been editor-in-chief, will retire, as
well as the former stockholders.
The grand lodge of the Tennefsee
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in
session at Chattanooga, elected the fol
lowing officers: Grandmaster, John L.(
Nolan, of Nashville; deputy grand mas
ter, Peter Norris, Jr., of Nashville:
grand warden, Phillip Eichoru, of Chat
tanooga; grand secretary, J. H. Harwell,
Of Nashville; grand treasurer, J. L.
Weakley, of Nashville; grand represent
ative to the sovereign grand lodge, A.
F. Davis, of Memphis. The next meet
ing of the grand lodge will b$ field at
Columbia.
ALABAMA ROMANCE.
A remarkable and long legal contc’t
of a will has just been ended in a most
unexpected manner in Winston county,
Ala. Twelve years ago, Charles H. Bik
er was known as lhe richest man in W'in
aton. He owned several large planta
tions and a store, from which he sup
plied the small farme rs for miles around.
Baker was then living with his second
wife and two children, also three sous by
a former wife. In the Summer of 1878
Baker went to Memphis, Tenn., where
he always sold his cotton and did hie
banking. When the yellow fever broke
out in Memphis ho was Caught there,
and could not return home on account of
the rigid quarantine regulations. Aftci
the fever had bcou raging several weeks,
Baker's name one day appeared among
the list of new eases and soon afterward
the family heard that he was deal. Then
his widow filed for probate u will which
left her and her children the principal
part of Baker’s fortune, and made het
administrator without bond. Baker'i
sons by his first marriage contested the
will, and ten years of hitter and expen
sive litigation followed, the final result
being that the widow and her children
secured the bulk of what property the
lawyers had left them. The three sons
immediately secured an injunction re
straining Mrs. Baker from taking charge
of the property, claiming th it they had
secured evidence of a later will. The
day after the injunction was served
Charles H. Bakerhimsclf, now a very old
man, appeared at tho old homestead aud
claimed his fortune. It seems he did not
die of yellow fever, but after he recov
ered, after several weeks, his reason was
gone and the past was a blank to him.
He had drifted here and there as a com
mon tramp, finally turning up in Buenos
Ayres, South America, where he was
taken to a hospital, and under the care
of a Spaniali physician, recovered his
reason. He then worked his way to New
Orleuns as a common sailor, and aftet
many hardships, reached his home. He
confirms lhe claims of his sons that he
had made a later will, in which he made
an equal division of his property amoDg
his wife and five children.
FEVER ABATEB.
Surgeon General Hamilton is in corres
pondence with Dr. Potter with reference
to the systematic disinfection of Jackson
ville, Florida, at the close of lhe epidem
ic. It is estimated that about 18,000
people, residents of Jacksonville, are at
present awaiting permission to return.
This wholesale entrance of their houses
in their absence is fraught with deep
jnoaoi-'g to them, and the system to be
adopted is looked for with much anxiety.
Official bulletin for Thursday: New
cases, 29; deaths one, Elwood B. Holli
day ; total cases to date, 3,692; toal
deaths, 322. The following telegram
was received in New Y'ork City by VV.
1). C. Duree, secretary of the Fernandina
relief committee; “New cases 10; whites
2, J. W. Bailey and Annie Perry. No
deaths. This low rating must not deceivo
you ns executive comrai ttee of colored aux
iliary committee somewhat mixed it aud
made an increase of nearly 50 per cent,
on the same basis of returns. The
weather is very warin. There are seve
ral critical cases. The city is quiet. It.
8. Schuyler, Secretary Howard Associa
tion.” Two more new cases of yellow
fever have developed in Gainesville,
Fla., aud the fever has been de
clared epidemic. Surgeon Ross tele
graphs from Fernandina, Fla., that one of
his men has been taken sick and requests
authority to employ another in his place.
Mr. Hubbled and I. Ford, a promi
nent contractor, died at Decatur, Ala.,
on Thursday; and four new cases: H. C.
Jones, Jr., president of board of relief;
Mrs. Itenison, 8. E. Skinner and Willis
Wise, (colored). Deaths from yellow
fever to date, 24. The executive com
mittee of the Mississippi State Board of
Health, on Thursday, withdrew all its
quarantine officers, and travel to and
’roin tho state will not any longer be in
ierfered with, unless by local quarantines,
which are now very few in number.
BOUNCED.
The most important action taken by
the present general executive board of
the Knights of Labor was at Philadel
phia, Pa., on Wednesday, when Thomai
B. Barry, a former member of the board,
was formally expelled by the order.
Barry was accused of abuses and vituper
ation, and was suspended from duty last
August. A month after ho forwarded
his nsignntion, but this was not acted
upon until luter, when the board refused
to accept it, and threatened to expel
him. In the Journal of United Labor,
tlic General Master Workman, Powderly,
over his own signature, ventilates every
thing which lias a bearing on Barry’s
cases. He charges him with having
violated every pledge he made when he
entered the order, and cx
ing himself for not noticing the attacks
of Barry upon himself, declared that the
quarrel between them always had been
one-sided, and that now that he is com
pelled to hit back, he pronounces Thom
as Barry one of the most despicable
scoundrels living.
HUNGARIANS KILLED.
A wreck occurred on the Pottsville
division of the Lehigh Valley Railroad,
near Tamarind, Pa., between a Lehigh
gravel train and a Pennsylvania fast
freight. The flagman did nut get back
far enough to signal the freight, which
struck the caboose of the gravel train, the
l itter containing a batch of Hungarian
laborers, six of whom were instantly
killed. Twenty-six were injured, two of
them dying while being conveyed to the
hospital. Tlie gravel train was backing
on a siding when the freight train, wnich
was running on orders, approached at a
high rate of speed and went crashing
into the cars ahead. The killed and in
jured men were all on tho gravel train,
with Ihe exception of one brakemau on
the Pennsylvania train, who was killed
on his own train. S > far ns is known, the
responsibility rests upon the shoulders of
the flagman, who failed to flag the freight
train in time to prevent the accident.
SPANISH TROUBLES.
Gen. O'Ryan, minister of war, has de
clared his iniention to resign from the
Spanish cabinet. Premier Sagasta is
trying to pacify his radical supporters,
who r p oaeh him for always deferring
to the reactionary influence oft! e mili
tary and cons rvative parties. Members
of the cabinet are divided on the ques
tion of army reform. A ministerial
crisis is. therefore, threatened.
THE WORLD OVER.
INTFRE9TING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
TUB FIELD OF I.AIIOR— BEBTRtNO CAUL
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE —FIRES,
SUICIDES, ETC. —NOTED DEAD.
Mrs. Cynthia Leonard ia running as a
candidate foi mayor of New York, on a
woman's suffrage ticket.
The grip cars of Chicago, 111. arc to bo
hereafter run by new men, nearly all
the new hands being supplied from Kan
sas city, Mo. The police nave their hands
full guarding tho new men.
Railway traffic throughout Greece is
impeded by heavy floous. The Mega
riau plain has been converted into a take,
and railroads on both sides of thu Megs
ra have been destroyed for a distance of
twelve miles.
The circulation of the newspapers E>
toff el, l'ay, futmtiseyexint, I'atric, Tele
ffrupkennd Voltaire, all published in
Frauce, his been prohibited in Alloce-
I.oraine, and circulation of other French
papers has been restricted by the German
authorities.
From a report made at the fourteenth
annual convention of the Mutual Benefit
Association of the mail clerks of the
United States, now in session at Cincin
nati, Ohio, it appears that the association
has 090 members, and that last year SB,-
132 were paid in benefits.
11. S. Briggs, safe mauufacturer, mys
teriously left Rochester, N. Y. lie had
forged uotes to the amount of $15,000.
The Trade rs’ bank is supposed to be the
only sufferer, it ia said to have been
Briggs’ jilan to forge names of patrons
to promissory notes aud get the bank to
discount them.
When a West Shore train which left
Wcehawkeu, N. J., reached a point in
the West Point tunnel where the roof is
being repaired, a large mass of rock and
earth came down on the baggage and
express cars, crushing them and suddenly
stopping the train. Nobody was injured.
The damage to the tuunel is great.
lion. John Wentworth, better known
aa “Long John," a man as well known
as any iu the West, died on . Tuesday.
Mr. Wentworth was one of Chicago’s
oldest residents, and in his day was mayor
of that city, congre’-stn m and editor of
the principal dally paper there. He was
73 years of age, and a man of wealth,
his eßtatc being worth at least $1,000,000.
At a meeting of the Franklin Institute,
Philadelphia, Pa., Commander 11. W.
Taylor, U. 8. N., general manager of the
Nicar.iugua Canal Construction Compa
ny, read a paper describing the route of
lhe proposal Nitaraugua caual. He
stated that the cauul could be liuished
in six years, allowing fur all possible de
lays. The cost of the work is estimated
at $(11,000,000 but Comuiuuder Taylor
thrirkw a company with a capital of
$100,000,000 should be organized to
carry on the construction.
The force of an explosion of petroleum
on board the French steamer Ville de
Calais, which arrived at Calais, France,
from Philadelphia, Pa., tore off the deck
and partly away her sides. Only the for
ward portion of lhe vessel sank, and the
fire raging fiercely in that portion above
the water. Other shipping lying in the
vicinity of the steamer was much dam
aged by the explosion and the loss of
life is great. Portions of a dozen bodies
were found lying on the quays, arms,
legs and heads being scattered about in
shocking confusion.
Two passenger trains on the Cumber
land Valley Railroad collided on Thurs
day near Bhippenshurg, Pa., while run
ning at high speed. The engines were
telescoped, the boilerof one being driven
five feet into the boiler of the other,
and the express car on each train tele
scoped the baggage car behind it. One
baggage master was killed and both
conductors seriously injured. Many
passengers were hurt, hut not danger
ously. The mail cars taught fire a d
most of the mail was destroyed.
A PARSON’S QUANDARY.
“Shut up, old man, you are off your
base, I’m a preacher to-day.” This lan
guage was addressed to Rev. J. T. Rad
cliff. a Baptist minister in Shelby coun
ty, Ala., as he announced his text. The
speaker was David Hurrellson, a member
of the church, who had suddenly be
come crazed on the subject of religion.
With a knife in one hand and a Bible iu
tlie other, Harrcllson theu marched up and
down the aisle and preached a sermon.
Parson Radcliff tried to leave the house
and Harrellson sprang upon him and
beat him severely. WBile the fight was
going on, the congregation oscaped from
the church. Harrcllson then wandered
around through the neighborhood with
his knife in one hand and his Bible in
the other, preaching to every oue he met
and defying arrest. He was captured
and was taken to the insane asylum at
Tuscaloosa.
DESTITUTE DAKOTA,
M. J. Horpmann, of Minneapolis, Minn,
as been investigating the condition of
farmers in Ramsey county, Dak., who
were reported to have boen starving to
death, says the real condition of the peo
ple is beyond description. Men, women
and children arc in raga and have not a
cent of money in the world. Their crops
were totally destroyed und their laud,
stock and farm implements mortgaged—
absolute distress prevailed everywlieie. A
minister was living in one room with his
wife and two small children, one of the
latter wrapped up in the crib in order to
keep warm, and the other blue and shiv
er. ng with cold and emaciated with hun
ger. There was no fuel, with the excep
tion of a little dry manure, which is all
that auy of the families have to burn,
and the only thing they had to eat was a
dry crust of bread.
ENGINEERS’ brotherhood.
Tho 25 th annual convention of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
was commenced iu Richmond, Va , ou
Wednesday. An address of welcome
was made by Mayor Ellison, also speeches
from Governor Lee, Col. A. 8. Buford
and Judge S. B. Witt, and the reading
of the annual address by Chief Arthur.
In the corn so of his address Mr. Arthur
said that 32 new divisions were estab
lished in the past year, and there are
394 divisions located at different point*,
from Manitoba to Mexico, and from
Nova Scotia to California, giving a grand
total of 25,000.
NUMBER 51.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Doing* of Congress and the United
States Officials.
CONG It K *1 HI ON A L.
Mr. Brown offered a resolution
in the Sen tte on Thursday, for the final
adjournment of the session atone o'clock
on Saturday, aud it was parsed. Mr.
Teller offered a resolution instructing
the committee on Indiun affair* to in
quire ns to the truth of the report that
tho secretary of the interior has pur
chased a large number of wagons for tho
Indian servtco that were manufactured
with pris in labor in the state of Tennes
see. He mrde some rimarks on thesub
jeet, intimating that the complaint was
really against the late commissioner of
Indian affairs. A discussion then en
-sud on tariff bill ...Mr. Cex, of
New Y'orfc, was in the chair when tho
House met After prayer by the chap
lain, Mr. Farquhar, of New York, roso
and called the chair's attention to rule 1,
of the House, which directs the Speaker
to cause the journal to be read on tho
appearan eof a quorum. He was un
willing that certain members should ab
sent themselves, while others, like him
self, had remained since- December,
He felt that it was not onlj a disgrace,
but an affront to the intelligence of Con
gress to have two insignificantly attend
|ed bodies waiting patiently the move
ments of political parties. A dismission
arose on the Senate's resolution |o ad
journ. and it wag passed with much
cheeiing.
The tariff bill was the subject of dis
cussion in tho Seuate on Wedueaday, and
Messrs. Teller and 51* rgan were tho
speakers... .The Speaker laid before the
Home, twelve pension veto messages
from President Cleveland, and they wore
referred to the committee on Invalid
pensions. Mr. Cox, of New York, aris
ing to a question of privilege, Sent to
tho clerk's desk and had read an extract
from the New York Tribune, entitled
“S. 8. Cox’s Postal Fraud,” charging
him with sending unfranksble matter
through the mails under his frank. Mr.
Cox sri i he had seen the alleged frank
upon which the Tribune'e editoiial was
based, and it was a forgery, lie bad net
on foot an investigation as to where the
forgery originated.
GOBSIP.
A. M. Speer, of Georgia, has been ap
pointed a |!)00 clerk in the posb.ffico
department and assigned to the first as
sists it postmaster-general’s office.
Superintendent Horan, of the National
Museum, left on Monday for Augusta,
Ga., to superintend the placing of the
government exhibits from that bureau at
the Exposition, which opens iu that city
on the Bth of November. Maj. Charles
8. Hill, commissioner of the government
exhibits, will also leave for Augusta in a
few days, and Hopes to have the govern
ment exhibit historical and illustrative
of the functions ot tlve bureau of the dif
ferent departments, in readiness by the
time the Exposition opens.
Dr. Hamilton, surgeon-general, of tho
Marine Hospital service, received the
following telegram on Monday ftm the
Board of Health at Gainesville, Fla.:
“We have two new cases to-day in dis
tant parts of the city, 'lhe outlook is
not good.” Dr. Hamilton also received
the following report from Burgeon Hut
ton, at Camp Perry: “Five deaths,
eleven employes, forty new refugees ar
rived. Discharged 32, remaining 113;
yellow fever camp 6, all convalescent;no
new cases in eight days. ”
The case of tho North Carolina special
tax bond case was called in the supreme
court of the United States on Tuesday.
After counsel on both sides had announ
ced their readiness to proceed, the justices
held an informal consultation. The
chief justice then announced that tho
court deserved a full bench to hear this
case, as it involved a constitutional ques
tion. As Justice Matthews was ill, the
court would adjourn the hearing for tho
present. The case of Bernard P. Ilanj
vs. the State of Loui-ians, involving a
similar question was disposed of in like
manner.
EMPIRE PREDIOTED.
The German newspapers speak dis
trustingly of the situation in Fiance.
The Earth German Gazette, quoting the
Temps' ironical comments on Premier
Floquet’s revision bill, indorses tho pre
diction of the Temps that an empire is at
hand. The TagUatt thinks that some
thing unexpected will happen in France,
and that tlie doom of tho moderate re
publican party is sealed.
COTTON,
The report for the week shows that
the total visible supply of cottou for tho
.world is, 1.20G.797 bales, of which
959.897 are American, against 1,946,049
and 1,403,149 respectively last year.)
Receipts at all interior towns, 174,994;
(receipts at plantations, 292,101; crop in
sight, 913,527.
FLORIDA.
On Wednesday, there were 36 new
cares of fever, (6 white and 30 colored)
nt Jacksonville, and 3 deaths. Surgeon
General Hamilton wired from Washing
ton that in his opinion the most rtriagent
measures should be adopted to keep refu
gees away until after a thorough disinfec
'ion.
Baseball Phrase Illustrated.
Some of the newest dressy wraps are
mantles, short iu tho buck and on the
sides, bat with long, tapering tabs in
front reaching almost to the hern of the
dress. Plush is the favorite material for
these garments, and they aro trimmed
with jet motifs, epaulettes, yqkes, nml
oolluts, with a little rich fur at the
wrists, and sometimes around the ueuis,