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THE (iEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
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A VISION OF DECEMBER.
Along of that tlmo when the forests aro
drear,
On the moor, within tho found of thebelfriot
appear
Twolto inyttical eplrita, tho month! of tuo
year
Set the thimej a-ringm.’l
With laughter and aong they dam* In I heir
zaat;
And deep In the circle their footsteps have
i>i O'sed
f>its noary Decernlier, his beard on his
breast.
Set the chimes a ringing’
He thinks not of them, and his mind is
away;
For he is too old, too old to be gay
Like hearty Octolter or lily-crowned May.
Set the chimes a-ringing!
And dreaming, still dreaming, he murmurs
and seeks
l"air memories forgotten, the tears on his
cheeks;
But when the bells burst, he remembers and
speaks:
Set the chimes a-ringing!
‘ln the watch of this night, in tho Orient
land,
Thro’ the pass of the hills which a glory o’er
•panned,
I led in the Light of the World by the
hand!’
Set the chimes a ringing!
Ihey hear him, they heed him, that reverend
one,
And the words he hath sj>oken shine out like
the Min;
Now tho ild chant is hushed and the frolic
is done.
Set the chimes a-ringing!
Then sudden for praise and for joy that they
o we,
They, kissing his feet, kneel them down in
the snow;
And all for the sake of the Child that we
„ know.
Se* the chimes a-rtnging!
For the star of our hope in the gateways of
morn,
For tho lover of love and the seorner of
scorn,
* or Hie King that is come, for the Christ that
is born.
Set th<• chimes a-ringing!
—Louise Imogen Ouineu.
CHRISTMAS BELLS.
I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play.
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And thought how, as the dav had come,
The be.fries of all Christendom
Had roi e i along
The uni roken song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Till ringing, sinking on its way.
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime,
A chant sublime.
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
But in despair I bowed my head—
‘•There is no peace on earth ” 1 said;
‘ 'For hate is strong.
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep,
“God is not dead, nor doth He sle p!
The wrong shall fail,
The right prevail.
With peace on earth, good-will to man!”
—Henry W. Longfellow.
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Happy New Year! Happy New Year!
L st to the words floating so clear—
Cottage and palace, in mansion so grand,
Every Rweet home throughout our fair land;
No hearthstone so bumble but hath its own
share—
Happy g°od wishes, a glad New Year
prayer.
Happy New Year! Huppy New Year!
Hark, ’tis an omen of fu ure cheer!
Rad sorrow, fa r joy. of last year have flown,
New Year is coming with hopes of its own:
It may bring us happiness.lasting and sure—
It may bring us anguish, hard to endure.
Happy New Year! Happy New Year!
'Gladly, brightly, welcome you here;
Greet you with pleasure, right royally too.
Bringing our dear hopes and wishes to you.
We may not look forward to view our own
way,
God’s Hand will direct us from day unto
day.
—-Maru Currier Parsons.
ON CHRISTMAS EVE.
§” had been f.tll
( ing early in the day,
but so lightly that
, only a white fleck hero
1 and there marked the
, distant housetops and
a thiu lrosty layer
made the itringpiece
show in the dark
like a glittering line.
Flown hy the water’s
edge the night was
silent and gloomy,
t inly the hoarse gur
gling of the stream
filtering through the slimy piles un
derneath the pier, only the distant
•wash of a paddle broke upon the
monotonous creaking of chains and
cables, the same big, stiff ones that Old
Tom Saunders had seen make fust the
newly arrived bark at nightfall.-He had
been striding up and down the bare
deck of the dusky Canal boat to keep
himself warm ever since the stranger
had loomed up on the other side of the
pier, lie had heard screaming in the
slip bevond the whistle of the tug boat
that bad brough her in, and seen the
bustling little craft steam away with
the sparks and smoke Irom her tunnel
leaving a luminous trail in the dark.
From that the gloom had been thicker
about the pier and the damp mist roll
ing up from the bay had wrapped the
shipping in a shroud of moisture. There
had been a clatter of voices for a while
on the big hark, and he had been half
conscious of i itting lights and hoarse sea
orders: but all these had ceased long ago
and now the olack hull of the new arrival
rose up in the gloom, solemn and silent,
with her masts slightly tilted off and a
lantern forward gleaming like a dim
yellow star. ,
(,]d Tom Saunders paced the deck ot
the dingy hulk lie was on, with his pipe
gripped fast between his teeth and his
hands stowed away down in the pockets
of his threadbare pea jacket. Ihe bat
tered and decaying boat was no shabmer
and more woe-'egone than the man.
Old Tom he was by virtue of the years
that had turned his few straggling
locks gray and drawn all sorts of deep
furrows across his face. Familiarly. Id
Tom ameng the wharf men, who knew
him as such ever since he had come alun„
on the old canal boat, a broken-down
man with a flavor of better times about
him. Facetiously Old Tom. in conse
quence of the fondness for the tipple
of that name which, it was hinted had
dragged him down to h . "resent low
estate l ld 'lorn Saunders had once
been burly, and be was still a big man,
but he had lost all his tle-h His face
looked like worn parchment, and met
that colorless, bleached out "PP ar *" ce
which a life o' constant excesses |gets
There was also that nervous twit hing
about the lips and that aimless wander
ing of the fingers which betoken a con
atitution unstrung and shuttered.
| In low spirits indeed lie BCmed , th ’®
night of Christmas Eve as he stopped a
j (7 oovztxt. ja. r ve srsn st monr itionr ca witovo, mt ooutctrT:
thn stern of the canal boat to iooic off
toward tho big blnelc warehouses thit
shut in the nvor side like a wall. Up in
the air a reddish barekdng over the city
where the lights of countless lamps on
the thorougfares beneath had set the
dump atmosphere aglow, end from some
loltv buildings the radiance of electricity
showed in the fog, blue and pallid, as
death lights at some infernal orgie.
“So this is i hriatmas Eve. ekl” mut
tered Old Tom with a snort that was
half a groan. “Christmas Eve, and nary
a bite in the locker nor a nickel in the
pocket 1 It’s blasted hard—blasted bard
lor a man that’s seen better days.”
lie crunched the pipestem betwoenhis
teeth and made another round of ihe
deck, but stopped when ho had reached
the old place again.
“There’s some a9 'ud say ’twos mis
fortiu did it. And some as ’ud croak
’bout ill-luck. ’Twusn’t neither. 'Twas
rum. lum aud me own mulii-hncss. Ef
I dadn’t driv that boy awsv, he’d be now
makin’ a good livin’ for her, no matter
what I wus about, and she wouldn’t be
in there dyin'—dyin’ for a bite to eat.”
As he spoke he glanced at the little
pokey hole in lhe cabin, where a faint
light glimmered, and turner! again to the
dark line of the water front.
“She was never the same after he went
away—never the same bouncing gal that
used to ’liven up the old house like a
sunbeam 'Twas that tuk all the go out
o’ her. And I had to get to work and
blame her for sulkin’ when her heart wus
breakin'.”
He took the pipe from his mouth and
absently shoved it in his pocket.
“It m ght ’a been all right,” he went
on. “It might ’a been all right ef I
hadn't carried on as I did till house and
shop and everything went to smash.
But I had to keep a-goin’ while the
money lasted, and now—now,” he
repeated with a solemn inclination of the
head, “it's gone.”
He swung about to resume his lone
some wa'k but the glimmer in the cabin
brought h : u) to a standstill.
“She's there,” he said, and there was
sorrow and re corse in his voice “She’s
there nussin’ his baby and think in’ of its
father; mayl e cryin’her eves out about
him. And she a-dyin’ by inches ”
The rumble of a wagon came from the
land side, and the sound of a horn away
off in the streets sent down to the silent
wharves a reminder of the holiday jollity
going on ashore. The man Blurted as he
heard it.
•‘She won’t be without her supper,"
he said. “ .Not while this here toy’s lyin’
around.”
He groped a moment in his pocket
and drew out a ring—a plain gold cir
clet, evidently the symbol of a consum
mated union.
“I had to sneak it away unbeknownst
toiler,” he muttered, turning the shin
ing trinket around in his lingers, “i’m
afraid she’d take on u deal if she knowed
it, for she hangs on to any keepsake of
hi- for bare life. Hut what’s the use ”
And the ring and hand that held it went
down into the pocket again. “What’s
the use o’ beiu’ senteemental and snick
erin’ over sich things when a square
meal can be got for it, and p’raps—
p’raps a drop t’ drive away the chill.”
lie glanced, half frightened, half
apologetically, at the litle window as he
spoke, slipped carefully by on tiptoe as
though fearful of being confronted by
the occupant of the cabin, reached the
side, looked back again and then stepped
out upon the pier and slunk away.
It was only n moment’s space after
when ihere sounded among the low.
harsh whispers of the river something
that seemed deep in the darkness, but
not of it—something suggestive of heat
and light and home, and not of this
black flood and these great marine phan
toms standing so solemn in the gloom.
It was the cry of a child. Low and
weak, suppressed as soon as uttered,
it still had a strange shrillness in the si
lent p ace, and of all the sad voices of
tide and timbers, it seemed by far the
saddest It came fro n tho cabin of aD
old canal boat, came only for an instant
and died away in what fancy involunta
rily pictured a mother’s kisses aud ca
resses.
Old Tom heard it half way up to the
wharf, lie heard it and arrested his
cautious footsteps and brought his face
about in a twinkling to the tiny-lighted
space in the cabin that baiely reached
Ins eye where he stood. Tho cry was
not repeated. Hut ho stood there for
over a minute with his whole soul, it
seemed, intent upon that and in glimmer
ing pane. Ili- hand mechanically grop.
ing in his pocket, touched the ring aud
it seemed to startle him. 110 took out
the little trinket and looked at it care
fully, as though making suro that it was
really there, and brushed it with a
rough, greasy sleeve. Then, without li
glance at the street on which he had
been walking, he passed back along the
pier, crossed to the boat again and
walked straight up to the cabin and en
tered.
A ship's lantern hanging from the roof
showed a rough table, a couple of boxes,
a tarpaulin, some ends of rope, aud on a
loosened and slanting borth ail infant
with a woman kneeling beside it. It
was a pleasing face she turned up to the
old man ns he came in p easing, and it
had been very pretty— but there was a
sad gauntuess about it now and the
dark, tendcreyes looked out from blueish
hollows.
“Whore have you been, father?’ she j
asked. "1 aby has been restless again.
Fin afraid that tho child is growing I
worse.” This with a look of infinite j
solicitude at the tiny creature beside j
her. “And it’s so hard to see the poor j
dear suffering and be able to do noth
ing. Why. father, what is the matter!” ]
chc might well ask. The poor man
was standing, with his head sunk upon
his breast, and great tears'were rolling
! down his faded cheeks. His eyes were
fixed upon the little cabin window, but
j it was clear that his mind was far away.
He started as she spoke, and when he
answered it was in a voice broken with
| sobs.
“Tibbie,” ho said, “my poor gal, I’ve
been a bad father to you, a rcg’iar bad
’uu, ain’t I? I’ve ruined the littiehome
you oughter be in, and bi ought you and
your child to this. I know that ain’t
the wust, neither. 1 driv him away that
would be a support and comfort t’you,
and left that lcetel rroetur ithout a
father. I've done all that, and I was a
goin to do more, Hod forgive me, thia
very night, only for bearin’ your baby
cry in’. 1 meant it for the best. I did, but
I knowed that it would ’a hurt yourfesl-
COVINGTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1888.
in'a wuss than anything also. There,
l.ibbie; take it. It was very nigh a-goin'
asevervthing else has.”
He held out the little gold ring to her
and turned hit head away. In an inetant
the woman was on her feet Her long,
thin hand clutched the bauble and ahot '
flush showed itself on her pallid, sunken
cheek.
“Father," she cried, “would you dare?”
In her indignation the waa speechless
for a moment, but then she broke down
and the tears came
“It Is all 1 have left,” she moaned,
“all I have left to remind me of him
all of hit father's the child mav ever see.
How cou'd you think of it, fathort It
was cruel—cruel. ’
“ 'Twas all wrong, yes 'twas, l.ibbie,”
the man assented. ‘But it bruck mo
heart to think o' you aud tliat leetlc ’un
siftin’ here supperless. 1 heerd the bells
lollin’ up in the city and the horns
a blowin’, and I knowed that everybody
was bavin a good tmeon t hrismisa vo
n ght. while you was starvin'. 1 couldn't
stand it. I sneaked away with the ring
to pawn it or sell it, I didn't cate what,
till I heard the little creetur’s cry. aud it
brought me to myself agio ‘Hischild I'
I saya to rneself. His child! And I
right about and comes back here with i he
ring to you, Tibbie—to you, me poor
gal.”
He sat down on a box and ran his hand
through his tangled hair and aaw the
womau dry her eyes und look at him
kindly and pityingly. Once or twice he
hit hie lips and shook his head, as though
a struggle were going on within him and
then, in a broken voice, he said: “Libbie,
I’ve somethin’ t’ tell you, but I’ve beeu
ashamed t' open me mouth about it.
There’s times now when I look back t’
the days when you was a bright gal. and
poor Ned—yes, poor Ned —1 never called
him that befoie, hut now I must —when
poor Ned was makin’ love t’ you and I
was makin' a brute o’ rneself t' hm. He
wus a good lad, but I wus so cussed
stuck up with me shop and ihe loafers
about it that used t’ brag about me that
I wouldn't stand his marryin’ you. When
you tuck him, and I hunted him away
with me abuse and me drink, I didu’c
think the day would come when I’d be
lorry for it. But it has, Tibbie, it has.
He’s gone. Maybe gone for good.”
The woman was crying sgain, but she
wiped away her tears at this and raised
her pale face again.
“Oh, don’t say that, father, don’t say
that,” she cried. ‘ .\ea will come some
time, lie will find us yet. It seems so
strange this ong waiting. But he said
he would come to claim me as hU wife
when he was able to support me, and
he’ll do it. I remember when he went
away. He said to me: ‘Tibbie, your
father forces me to this. Come with me
or stay with him, which ever you wish,
but depend upon it that I shall be back
soon to claim you, my little wife, and
w hen I do I’ll come like a man, will
ing and able to take c are of you and
take olds from no one.’ Then he said :
‘Whenever you see that ring think of
me and rememter that I will be wo-king
hard to keep my .word.’ He went away
then and I hay# tried never to doubt
him. But *t is so hard to wait BDd wait
and hear nothing. He may be dead. He
cannot be untrue. Disappointed and
perplexed as I am I will not believe it.
But no word, no word. It is that is
killing me.”
Old Tom arose and walked the length
of his cabin, then turned about and came
back to the seat on the box. Then ho
leaned over to her and said :
“I’m agoin’ to ted you somethin’ Lib
bie. It’s somethin’ I oughter told you
long ago but Id.dn’t have the courag ■,
me gal, to own up to what a scoundrel I
wus.”
The woman dried her tears and there
was a look of interest in the pale face
that encouraged him to go on. Hut he
still hesitated and said to her with a
trembling voice, “You won’t cuss me,
Tibbie, will you; bad as 1 may be you’ll
forgive me now that I’ve come around
and mean to do better."
She remained impassive and only said
“Go on, faiher.”
“I will. 1 will, if it kills me. Libbie,
don’t you worry yourself on account o’
Ned’s stickin by you. He wus true to
you all along. He wrote to you. He
sent money to you. He never forgot
you, poor boy, and I—l tuck letters,
money and all.
The man groveled down upon his
knees beside the box and his he id sunk
upon his hands. He was that moment
the veriest picture of humiliation aud re
morse. Hut she before whom he hum
bled himself did not seem to see him.
Her eyes were fixed on vacancy and her
lips opened and closed as though she
were speaking to someone unseen.
Then she rose w th a cry of “J-.dward,
my husband, whom I would have
wronged by doubting, come to me; come,
or I will die,” and fell on the Hoor in a
swoon.
The old man, all in a tremble, crept to
her, raised her in his arms, dashed water
into her face, laid her down again, and
rushing to a shelf, felt for a bottle ar.d
held it to the light. Kmpty! A curse
upon the fiery brew that had brought
ruin and was gone when it might do
good I He knelt again, beat her hands,
wrung his own. and then starting up 1
like a madman, dashed out into the a r,
leaving the woman lying in the cabin as
though she were dead. Over to the pier
and across it he ho ied. He ian to the
side of the big bark. There was no
gang-plank there, but he sprang for the
lower rigging, grabbed it and clambered
on the deck.
He saw a figure pacing up and down
in the dark, and the yellow light for
ward showed a couple of seamen who
had risen from aeoil of rope. He turned
toward them, and with hands stretched
entreatingly, he called out
“For God's sake, mates, let me have a
drop of grog, or somethin’. He gal,
me daughter's dvin’ over on the boat
there, and I’ve nothin’ to bring her too.
A drop o’ somethin’ and a bite to
strengthen her, ef you’re men."
The figure in the dark stopped, and a
voice asaed : “What's all this hubbub
about?” „
“I’lease, sir,” said one of the sailors,
“a man's come aboard to say a woman ‘
lick in a boat lyin’ off there, and he
wants somethin’to help her out.
“Send him to the steward, said the
voice, and the form melted In the dark
ness aft. , ..
Up and down, up and down it went
over the amooth deck —a manly figure.
hut with stooping head an! a solemn,
thoughtful face. Once or twice the lat
ter turned to tbu big city, and the eyes
roamed over tho black profile of the
buildings and the tell bt.ck phantoms
far off In the air as though they would
pictce to the heart of that throbbing hive
aud pluck from it tome secret hidden
there. A glimpse of the moon showed
oveiheed for a moment, and the spare
and ropes atood out clearer, but soon it
was veiled, and tho figure went on inthe
dark up and down, up and down as be
fore.
“God bless you, mates, for this night’s
work, t-od bless you!"
The words stole out into the air from
the open companionway, aud Old Tom
j Saunders, who had uticred them, came
;up with a bottle and pan. Once be
| stumbled in h i baste, but quickly re*
| covering himself, he came on to the
; deck. The silent figure had paused and
1 turned toward thu voice. It moves to
ward it, and then with a wild cry
springs forward. The light from the
ship's lantern falls on Old Tom's face,
haggard and blanched and excited: on
the fare of the other, too—young and
hearty, hut sad and whito with passion.
And is the yellow glow the two men
.........
With a grand sweep of the hand the
stranger has dashed Horn the old man’s
hand the bottle, and it les smashed
upon the timbers, while the young,
manly face is thrust into the other's and
a voiee cries in h i ears: “i nr.-e it! Let
it lie there. It was that robbed me o'
my shfe. It was that drove me away
into the world a wanderer in search of
her. Curse the stuff! It was the cause
of all;” and the heavily shodden toot
comes down on the splintered glass till
it crackles beneath It. Old Tom has
atarted back aghast at the young mans
vehemence, but in that moment rises to
his lips a cry that sweeps enmity and
passion away:
“My God, Ned, it was for her! She
is dying.”
The strong hand of the young seaman
is oa the other’s arm, and the face is
even whiter as he demands:
“A hat do you meant She is dying.
Where? Speak, man! Tell me at once "
“There, in that boat. Yes, that old
hulk orwcanawler,” he adds, in response
to the other’s in miring glance. “That's
what we’ve come to now ”
The young man turns and is at the
vesse’s side before Old Tom can call
out: “Where are yougoing? You will
kill her. Lid n’t i tell you she is dying
—dying of w ant.”
From the other’s breast comes a groan,
a deep, prolonged one, and he says in an
altered tone:
“Lead me to her. God will not rob
me of her now. Come along.”
The two pass over the wharf and go
down into the cabin of the old boat,
from which the dim light is shiniug.and
there, awakened from her swoon, but
stilt dazed and fr glitened. is the girl of
the young mans love, the wife of his
thoughts, lying like a blighted flower.
The father was the first to descend,
and he turned at the entrance to restrain
his companion.
“A moment, Ned. Wait a moment. •
The surprise is too sudden."
The young man drew back into the
shadow while the other lifted up the
woman and seated herby the berth. “1
am better, father,” she said, and laid her
head wearily beside the sleeping child.
Hut old Tom’s act ions soon attracted her.
He was sm ling, actually smiling, and
rubbing his hands with infinite compla
cency. r-he said nothing but looked at
him inquiringly.
“It’s a good night is Christmas Kve,”
he blurted out. “I’ve always heerd so.
Ain’t you, Libbie? Sandy Claws brings
things t’ chil’rcji, and fr ends come to
gether and news comes o’ people that
ain't b; en ’round for ever so long. Don’t
they, eh;”
She looked at him more intently than
ever, and there was an eager, appealing
look in her eyes.
‘•No one knows when luck may change.
Do they?” the man continued.
“Father, you have heard something.
Tell me, is it about him?”
“’Bout Ned? Well, yes I have. Now,
don’t take on, Libbie You’ll be quiet
and easy, like a good gal.”
“It is about him. You have seen him.
You have nr.ct him. He lias come for me
at last ”
Sheturnec toward the cabin door,and
: was stretebiug her hand toward it when
i she was clasped to the breast of her hus
band and his voice repeated: “At last.”
There were tears and caresses and ex
planations Ned haa come back from
itis wanderings as mate of the big bark
with a promise of soon having the com
mand of a vessel for himself. In the joy
of the moment all the ha dsh psand prl
vaations of the past were torgotten, and
as the bluff seaman cuddled bis own
child, whose acquaintance lie then made
for the first time, he said to the happy
mother:
“Didn’t I tell you, I.ibbie, whenever
you looked at your wedding ring to re
member me,and be sure I would keep my
word 3”
She glanced at the tiny circlet and
her eyes cauirht sight of Tom sitting
with {tended head, and the tears stream
ing down his cheeks. And as she
pressed her lips to the tr nket lie said
”“od bless that ring! It has brought
si joy and happiness on Christmas Eve.”
Off For a Foreign Shore.
Mr. and Mrs. Gobbler, in anticipation
of Christmas, depart hastily for Europe
WASHINGTON NEWS.
NHAT the united states of
ficials ARE DOING
CONGRESS
The Senate, on Thursday, resumed
tonsideralion of tho tariff bill, the
peuding question being the amendment
offered by Mr. Coke, to admit & tton
ties, etc., at the rate of 85 per cent, ad
valorem. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Rid
ileberger objected to thu displacement
of “morning business,” and aaid that an
advantage had been taken of “absentee
ism, occasioned by ihe bus.ness of the
Senate.” Hall an hour was consumed
in Mr. Riddlebcrger’a “objections,” and
be did not desist until the President
threatened to use bis power to enforce
tbe rules. Mr. Mitchell introduced a
bill (which was referred to the commit
tee on the territuiiei) for the admission
of Idaho as a (laic... .After *he trans
action ot soma routine business, ihe
Hu use proceeded to the consideration of
the Oklahoma bill in committee of the
whole. Mr. Hooker, of .Mississippi, of
fered an amendment providing that un
occupied lands west ot tbe 96th degree
of west longitude shall be open to set
tlement only by consent of the Cherokee
ludians, or any other tribe or tribes,
having an interest therein, which shall
first he obtained by the commission to be
appointed by the President. After a
long discussion and after an hour con
sumed in the effort to secure a quorum,
the amendment was rejected—3B to 129.
| Mr. Payson, of Illinois, offered an
amendment providing that the rights of
i honorably discharged Union soldiers to
make homes on the public lands under ex
; istmg homestead laws shall not in any
j degree be impart'd by the bill; and that
their righis uuder these laws shall ex
tend to lands open to settlement under
its provisions. Mr. Warner, of Mis
souri, (at present he is the coinmander
in-ihief of the Grand Army of the Ke- ;
public) said that if the lands were pub
lic lands he would be in favor ot the
amendment, but they were not. The
proposition was to purchase them; he
had a slight acquaintance with the
wishes of the old soldiers of the coun
try, and he had never heard a request
from them that such amendment should
be put in the bill. He believed that
the men who fought the battles of the
country simply asked justice at the
hands of Congress. They were not here
as beggars, and he hoped to God they
never would be. [Applause on the
Democratic side.] Mr. Peters, of Kan
sas, said he bad a larger soldier con
stituency than any other member of the
House, and he had never heard a request
from any soldier that such amendment
should be placed upon the bill, W ith
out action, the committee rose and the
; regular business of the House proceeded.
There was but little morning business
in the Senate on Wednesday so the tariff
bill was quickly taken up, the question
being an amendment offered by Mr.
Jones, of Arkansas, to admit “hoop or
band iron” (cotton ties, etc.,) free of
duty, instead of taxing it two-tenths tf
one cent per pound additional. Mr.
Morgan characterized the proposition to
tax cotton ties as a very heartless and
cruel thing. It was the duty of the
Senate to try to lift the burden i off the
Southern people instead of railing (as
the substitute proposed J the duty ou cot
ton ties 100 per cent. Finally the amend
ment wus voted on, and was rejected by
a strict party vote—yeas 18, nays 23.
Mr. Coke moved an amendment reduc
ing the duty on cotton ties to 35 per cent
ad valorem... .In the House, Mr. Blanch
ard, of Louisiana, reported ’.he river and
harbor bill, and it was referred to the
committee of the whole. Some changes
were made in the bill, and as finally
agreed upon it appropriates $11,906,850.
The following axe si me of the principal
items of appropriation: Norfolk and ap
proaches, $50,000; Charleston, including
Sullivan’s Island, $200,000; Winyaw
bay, South Carolina, $100,000; Cumber
land sound, Georgia, $90,u00; Mobile,
Alabama, $170,000; James River, Vir
ginia, $135,000; Great Kanawha river,
$150,000; mouth of St. Johns’ river,
Florida, $100,000; Black Warrior river,
Alabama, from Tuscaloosa to Daniel’s
creek, $100,000; Tennessee river, below
Chattanooga, $250,000; Brunswick,
$20,060; Savannah, $20,000; Altaumlia
river, $6,000; Chattahoochee river, sl2,
000; Ccosa, $35,000; Flint, $12,000;-
Ocmulgec, $7,500; Oconee, $7,500;
Savannah, between Augusta and Savan
nah, $12,000. The House then want in
to committee of the whole,
Jlr. Springer, of I linois, in the
chair, on the direct tax bill.
Jlr. Johnston, of North Carolina, offered
an amendment appropriating $70,-
000,0ti0 in eight unuual payments
for the support of common schools.
Mr. Groin, of Texas, raised a point of
order, which was sustained by the chair,
and the amendment was ruled out. After
several amendments were offered and re
jected, the House adjourned without
action.
Jlr. Frye’s resolution of Monday, in
structing the Senate committee on for
eign relations to inquire into the state of
affairs at Samoan Islands, was reported
back on Tuesday from the committee on
contingent expenses, and agreed to.
Jlr. Chandler presented a petition pray
ing for investigation into the alleged de
privation of the right to vote for electors
and congressmen in South Carolina.
Tltis petition is signed by the names of
195 residents of Ziegler precinct,
Orangeburg county, South Carolina, and
recites that they endeavored to comply
with the registration law of the state,
but were prevented from doing so, and
then on the day of the election were re
fused the right to vote. The petition and
letter were referred to the committee on
privileges aud elections The Senate
then resumed consideration of the tariff
bill, the pending question beiDg the
Harris amendment to reduce the duty on
beams, girders, etc., from one and one
tenth of a cent per pound to six and
one-tenth of a cent. An amendment of
fered by Jlr. Jones, of Arkansas, to make
cotton tics free of duty gave rise to a long
discussion, participated in by Jtessrs.
Jones, of Arkansas: Berry, McPherson
nnd Yance, on one side; and by Jlessrs.
Dawes, Aldrich nnd Stewart on the
other. It was not disposed of—the Sen
ate going into executive session... .In
the House, Jlr. Hopkins, of Illinois,
spoke in support ot the proposed
amendment refunding the cotton tax.
It there was merit in the latter proposi
tion, that merit should bo discussed in a
separate bill, and an amendment should
not now be brought forward to embatass
the consideration of the pending mea
sure. H controverted the position taken
by Jlr. Barnes, cf Georgia, that the oot
ton tax was unconstitutional, and oon
teuded that the tax was uniform aa_ epa-
levied*the sauu* C°ntitutlon being
ami having been coft I ''! “ in
aix states and territorfe. .£? m
tion that this tax had been pi *omp
people of the Southern States wSF." 1 ®
taken one. It hod been
by consumer* in Northern State*
Sir. Eulov, of Tennessee, declared that
the bill was sustained neither by law nor
by precedent, and denounced it a* n
fraud and charged that its aim was to
perpetuate thu power of tiust* to exact
tribute from the people by moans of s
high tariff. Koferriug to the cotton tax
he attackod it on constitutional grounds
and spoke in favor of the proposed
amendment refunding the tax, as far at
possible, to the persons who paid it, and
reserving the remainder as a common
school fund. Mr. Dibble, of South Oar
olina, staled that it was a mistake to
suppose that the state of South Carolina
was in default in regard to the direct
tax. Asa matter of fact mors than its
quota had been paid in. He thought
that the refunding of the tax was a
thoroughly con-titutioual and equitable
proposition. No conclusion was reached,
and the House adjourned.
NOT ICS.
A delegation from the American Sab
bath Convention appeared before the
committee on education and labor in
Washington on Thursday, urging the
passage of Senator Blair’s bill to secure
to the people tbe enjoyment of tbe first
day of the week, commonly known as the
Lord's Day, as a day of rest, aud to pro
mote its ob-crvance as a day of religious
worship. Personal liberty leagues, Sev
enth Day Baptists, Hebrews and others
opposed it.
The President has nominated to be
postmasters, Ambrose B. Megrue, Bes
semer, Ala; Miss Fannie Shuford, Ox
ford. Ala.; John B. Roberts, nSandets
ville, Ga.; Jno. C. Hunt. Lexi, gton, N
' C.; Jno. M. Thomas, Monro* N. C.;
< John C. Hunter, Union, 8. C.; Wm. C.
Penn, Humboldt, Tenn.; John S. Sher
wood, Sweetwater, Tenn.; Richard J.
Hail, Marion, Va.; Robt. H. Jones, Mar
-1 tiusville, Va.; James H. Rodeffer.
Woodstock, Va.
Alton and E 1 G. Angler, of Atlanta,
Ga., are in Washington and conferred
with leading Republican senators. They'
are outspoken for Gen. Makoue as the
Southern representative in the cabinet,
and are supposed to refleok the views of
Gen. Longstreet. It is apparent
that nearly all the Southern Republi
cans favor Mukone for a cabinet place.
Rumor has it that Gen. Longstreet will
refuse the marsbalship of Georgia, but
will be made regi-tcr of 'the treasury,
now held by Gen. Rosecrans
Postmaster-General Dickinson said to
an Asssociatcd Press reporter, that with
in the last few weeks he had received the
resignations of a considerable number of
presidential and fourth-class postmasters,
with the request that Republicans, whom
they name, and recommend, be appointed
in their places. Others have written
asking whether their resignation and
recommendations of-,Republican succes
sors would receive favorable action. The
postmaster-general*has ordered to be
established a full railway postofflee line be
tween St. Louis and Nashville on the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad, thus
making a coniinuous full car service Be
tween St. Louis und Montgomery, Ala.
Small cars and parts of cars hare hither
to been in use on this line.
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
M. Hammer was elected president of
Switzerland on Thursday.
The French chambers hare rejected
the treaty with Greece.
Hon. T. J. Jarvis, of North Carolina>
Minister to Brazil, has arrived in New
York.
The SBO,OOO cooper-shop of the Stand
ard Oil Company, in Pittsburg, Pa., has
been destroyed by fire.
Colorow, the celebrated chief of
Southern Utes, has died at the Green
River (Utac) agency of pneumonia.
The Louisville Boui hern Railroad has
been leased to the Louisville, New Al
bany & Chicago Road for thirty years.
The Panama sharea have not been
taken in sufficient number, and DeLef
seps’ friends will petition the government
for aid.
E. L. Harper, vice-President of the
Fidelity bank of Cincinnati, now in the
Ohio penitentiary, has become suddenly
insane and was on Thursday removed to
the prison asylum and locked up.
Emperor William, of Germany, is
writing a narrative of the events of his
recent visit to the northern capitals,
which will be published together with
the woodcuts of sketches made by him
self and the artist Balzuiann.
Two German medical atudents, named
Bluhm nnd Eicher, fought a duel on
Thursday at Berlin with pistols. Bluhm
was mortally wounded. The duel was
the result of a quarrel over the merits of
Dr. Mackenzie, who attended Emperor
Frederick during his illness.
The Stave and Lumber Company, com
posed of several capitalists of Columbus,
Ind., but whose operations are carried on
at Erin, Tenn., made an assignment. The
assets are $136,000; liabilities, $96,000.
The cause of the as-ignmeut was the suc
cess of a large suit brought against the
company.
Secret societies with extensive ramifi
cations, composed of young Armenians,
aud modelled after the young Italian so
ciety, which flourished’ prior to 1848,
have been discovered in’-Russia Armenia.
Their object is to rebel against Russian
rule and to establish Armenian union
and independence.
Two strangers from Arizona entered
the San Bcrnandino National bank, Cal. 1 ,
on Thursday. One of them presented a
check and asked that it be cashed. E.
H. Jlorse, cashier, told him he would
have to bo identified. Somo words fol
lowed, when the stranger drew a revol
ver and shot Morse through'the body.
The latter returned the fire, and put two
bullets into his assailant. Six or seven
shots were flred in all. - The strangers
were arrested and lodged in jail. Cashier
Morse died half an hour after the shoot
ing. A third man, who hs’smot yet been ar
rested, was seen trying the side door of
the bank while the shooting was going
on. • T
RUSS! A 18 ANGRY.
At a meeting of the foreign office Rus
sian military authority urged that au ulti
matum be sent the Persian government
warning it that Russia would take steps
for tho occupation of Persia unless it
cancelled tho treaty opening up the
Karum country to the English.
NUMBER 9.
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ALABAMA. 'T
The Alabama Conference of tbm Meth
odist Episcopal church South (m> t on
Wednesday ia Mobile, Bishop R. H.
Hargrave presiding. One hundred and
seventeen clerical and twenty-eight lay
delegates were present.
On Thursdsy a prominent farmer
named Bartlett, visited Hughes k Trippc't
hardware store, at Atalla, when he got
into a difficulty with a small boy, A
cousin of Walter Trippe’a, snd a nepbow
•f Miles Htighas. Bartlett slapped the
boy in the face, when a quarrel ensued
between the lormer and Trippe, the lat
ter 'icing struck in tbe face. Bartlett
drew a knife and advanced on Tripper
The latter seized his revolver, and began
firing, but did not succeed in killing
Bartlett, until he bad been tern ly cut
In the neck, and Milos Hughes received
a dangerous stab in the abdomen.
NORTH CAttIM.INA.
Fire at the town of Camden, on Thurs
day, burned tix stores, all wooden build
ings. Moat of the goods were saved.
During the fire, while the building was
tieing torn down, a chimney fell on a
man named Markem and crushed his leg.
Col. R. R. Bridges, president of the
Wilmington & Weldon, Wilmington,
Columbus & Augusta and Albemarle &
Rale gh Railroads, died very suddenly of
apoplexy, at Columbia. He was stricken
while addressing the way 9 and means
committee of the Legislature, and died
in about an hour.
Miss Bynum, aged twenty, a school
teacher, and Miss Lewis, aged eighteen,
were run down by the incoming express
train on the Western North Carolina
Railroad, near Alcr >nder’s,‘and both
horribly m ingled, being literally ground
to pieces. Tbe accident occurred on a
trestle in a sharp curve of the road.
MOUTH CAttOI.INA.
Qen. M. C. Butler was re-elected sen
tor by the South Carolina legislature on
Wednesday.
Joe Ivey killed Bud Cato in Sumter
county. There was a fight but Ivey was
enraged because Cato objected to Ivey’s
attentions to Cato’s sister.
About seven hundred bales of cotton,
lying on Bryce’s wharf, Charleston, were
damaged by tire on Thursday. The cot
ton is owned by Gastover & Cos.
Monsignor Persico has made his report
to the Pope on Irish affairs. He finds a
bad state of moral public sentiment, but
says any effort toward its rectification
must be preceded by granting the
national aspirations of the people.
Capt. W. J. Roberts, of the schooner
Emily R. Dyer, was accidently drowned
in the Straits, six milea east of Beaufort,
while running out an anchor during a
gale. The anchor caught on the gun
wale and sunk the boat, and Capt. Rob
erts, being unable to swim, was drowned.
FI.OKIDA.
About 800 refugees returned to Jack
sonville on Wednesday. As no fever or
new cases have been reported for two
days, the Board of Health will issue no
more bulletins.
Fourteen refugees were before Judge
Lee in court at Jacksonville, charged
with violating the ordinance by remain
ing in the city over night. They wera
fint-d SIOO each, but the fines were re
mitted on condition that they will leave
tho city at night.
The disinfecting corps of Jacksonville
is rapidly enlarging the area of its opera
tions, and the squads have eitended
their researches into Fairfield, Long
Branch (on the Panama road) and other
outlying districts. The working force
consists at present of sixty men and
thirty foremen.
TEXAS.
One of the most sensational and de
plorable murders that ever occurred in
that section, was perpetrated at Texar
kana, Texas. The son of A. T. Spear
killed ex-Majoy Bredder. on the streets.
VIRGINIA.
The schooner Church, bound from
Cape Charles to Norfolk Light, sunk in
a storm. Capt. Enoch, Mate Harris and
one of her crew, were lost.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Atlanta on Tuesday reorganized the
Manufacturer’s Association, designed to
establish factories in that city.
JI. Jlurden, a young man who lives nt
Roberson, attempted "to get on a train
whilo it was in motion, at Crawfordsville
ou Monday, and wag intaDtly killed.
The Mutual Aid Brotherhood, of At
lanta, was disbanded on Wednesday
night, claiming that the association ac
complished its object of driving prohi
bition from the city.
The Georgia Legislature voted SIB,OOO
for the technological -school, $7,500 for
branch colleges and $165,000 addition to
the school fund of 1889, and $360,000
for 1890.
A fire broke outFThursday afternoon in
the Central Railroad warehouse, adjoin
ing the Ocean Steamship wharves, in Sa
vannah. Baldwin & Cos., are the heav
iest loßers. They had 1,800 bales stored,
aud Woods & Cos., 1,680 bales. One
warehouse was burned and with it be
tween 4,700 and 3,800 bales of cotton
Btored by Baldwin & Cos., Woods & Cos.,
and Hammond, Hill & Cos. Hammond,
Hill & Co’s, loss is small. The total loss
on cotton will approximate $200,000,
and is not fully covered by insurance.
Governor Gordon has approved the
following acts: To authorize the mayor
aud aldermen of the city of Greeneaboro
to call an election in said city to deter
mine the question of using bonds for the
purpose of constructing and furnishing M
school house for the white, and also one
for the colored people. To authorize the
mayor and aldermen of Savannah to
grant to the county of Chatham an addi
tional lot to be used in the erection of a
new court house. To authorize the
graduates of the law department of
Emory college to plead aud practice in
several courts of law aud equity in the
state of Georgia. To authorize the gov
ernor to draw his warrant on the treas
urer, in favor of the trustees of the deaf
and dumb aavlum for $4,500. Also, a
resolution requesting the President of
the United States to look into ann par
don violators of the internal revenue
laws as far as his sense of justice will
permit.