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THE (iEORGIA ENTERPRISE. I VOLUME XXIV. [heK nter prise. wlek.lv at I^JTToT - GroHoiA. I |N ; C T LUDB OP FIVE. 1.,, r Vat it'' Covington I’oatoffice F I class matter. Terms, $1,25 I m)U m. In clubs of five or more L IXilliir. Six month* 75cts. Four Lllu, r<o cts always in advance. ■ \T|{O N I ZE L Oil! Enterprise. ■ “rides no fences.” ■imps 110 nominations ■ .25 in advance. K clubs of five sl. ■ Advertising Rates. ■ \ ■ . . lili-is per line first inser ■-20 cents per month. Business Ad i,.jut inch first time —60 eta ■ jabsequent insertion. I COXTIi.V'T ADVERTISING: ■a|i mo. | 3m. | Cm | 12 m. ■a s -:iil T"5 00 I 8.00 12.00 ■ 400 I 800 12.00 18.00 ■ i i;0 I 12.00 18.00 27.00 ■is 1 TOO | IS.OO I 25.00 40.00 ■ l" : i | 25.00 140.00 60.00 ■ i- eu I 40.00 I 60.00 100.00 ■Vi, n anv i.- iie of interest to the ■|,in.! I:i ; county arises it may be ■cß'l ■! i.; ■ u that The Enterprise ■ bcrc:i iv to discuss in a way and Burr u Inch no sensilde man can ■cmirU'ii” or misunderstand. We Bulicrr irmly to labor B?f. ■ aii-c tliat lacks assistance, ■ i that needs resistance ■tl i fin"re in the distance, ■itlm o""d that we can do.” lop Methodist I FEMALE COLLEGE F lISJBO-O. ■all Term Logins August 29, and ■es December 14. ■pii;iu r T. i in begins January 9, and K June 19. Board 810 to 815 per month. 1-i:ati:s of tuition. — ■“iti.iu and Incidentals Fall Term, Months, 89 to 817. ■all corns of teachers. Apply for ■alngue. I'ii T. McLaughlin, A. M„ B™gton, Ga.] President. 11l SIMMS & Go ■Real Estate Agents, piNGTON, GEORGIA. I e sure to give us the Plingand renting of pur property. ■ates of commission ■ttr [aluable property on laud for sale. Try us. ptles traced and per iled. Pay unless a sale PUiacle or rents col lated. ■ RE. SIMMS & Cos. mk B, Wright, [ ovington, ga.— f%i! Physician & Surgeon. Len in i : - vncc ' ol °Py• Diseases p!asi. s *,{• \ LMron, and all Chronic | v nature, a specialtyl . . 1 41 'ey command, which wil. ptiiuir ''"'‘"'i the calls of the sufi |i'i . Ils "ell as my city prac- L^ AXk I.IN it. WRIGHT, M. D Krm loans, 1 SCOTT, Georgia. Bill v„_- Kr ( tnn \v.';!' Uo L ? at >s on Farms in ■ m * Yen, T and Rockdale counties lIL -1 2“ like 'i and see how ' Interest will cost you less I W. SCOTT. 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. SOUTHERN NEWS. L CONDENSATION OF EAPFEN □rag ST&UNO TOGETHER fiorKnm * ROAD CASUAJ-TnAAJSCt JtKK—BAIL —FLOODS—ACCIDBVTS—c * 0> 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.