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FARM LOANS,
By W. SCOTT,
cCovinoton, Georgia.
J iWILI. NoL r nli;ite Loans on Farms in
tiSi’NeWtn’ \\ l r..n ami Rockdale counties
Rears’ Time.
Mj wtVMarmiiur with Cush, and see how
-*>£t3TOU like it. Interest will cost you less
tIdNjNHL W. SCOTT.
HER MISTAKE;
OR, —
Howard Thorndike’s
Loves.
BI lU’ltT ARNOLD.
CHArTEU IV.
"ALEXANDER M’riIEESON, Fl,Oil
When Howard Thorndike awoke in ths
morning the sun wus full three hours higU
After enjoyino his Jato breukfust nnd at
tending to his correspondence he asked <4
his valet if he had nnything to say to him.
“Yes, sir," was the eonciso reply.
"Well, Sandy, toll me what it is.”
“I called at the address and made inquiry
of the landlady, Mrs. Campbell, who told
me all that she knew. That was very little,
sir. She said the mother of the young
ladies is the widow of a bcb captain; that
she hired two rooms on the top tioor lust
May, and has occupied them until thd
present time. They are very quiet people,
unohtrusivo, mind thoir own business, and
refuse all invitations to mingle with the
rest of tbo lodgers evenings in the parlor.
Both of the yonng ladies sing, and one
plays the guitar.
“The youngest is a cripple,and has some
thing the matter with her spine. The moth
er, who was forewoman sf Koch A Co.’S
dressmaking establishment, was lately taken
sick, and is now unable to work. The
yonng lady obtained employment some
where as a singe*—in an open troupe, the
landlady thought nnd has supported her
mother and sister since the first week the
mother was taken sick. Before that time
the orippled sister was never loft alone, one
of them always remaining iu when tho
other went out. Now the mother is con
fined to her bed, and when the oldest
daughter, Miss Mario, goes out there is no
one to wait on either mother or daughter,
and neither one is able to help the other.
“The young lady paid the room rents iu
advance last night, and, as she did so,
asked the landlady if it was possible for
her to lower the rent, for the sickness of
her mother and sister made it quite hard
for her to get along with what was left after
paying the rent Mrs. Campbell 6aid she
agreed to reduce it a little, but she could
see by the look on the girl's countenance
that it was not enough, and she thought
the girl would have a struggle to meet the
next payment The girl looked distressed,
and Mrs. Campbell thinks it may be she
has lost her place, although the girl said
nothing about it The family have received
bat one caller during the time they have
lived in the house. The proprietor of the
store in which Mrs. Insley has been em
ployed called two mornings after she t
taken ill. They are evidently genteel
people in reduced circumstances, sir, and
Mrs. Campbell says she sympathizes with
them greatly, for she has been through
hard struggles herself. ”
“That was all yon could find out, was it?”
questioned Mr. Thorndike, with a smile.
“It was all Mrs. Campbell knew, sir."
“Did she know where they came from
when they first hired rooms of her?”
“I beg pardon, sir; I forgot to ask.”
“Never mind; we will find that out later.
Where do they hoard? Evidently, not in
the house. ”
“I should judge, from Mrs. Campbell’s
remarks, that they kept house in the two
rooms* sir*
“Is that florist’s window on Fourteenth
stieet, that you inquired about the other
day, still for sale?"
“Yes, sir; I saw the sign in the window
this morning.”
“Go and buy it in your own name aud
put up a sign. Then go to Miss Insley
and tell her that a friend of hers informed
you she had left the opera chorus and
thought she might feel pleased to engage
in some light employment. Offer a salary
and a liberal commission on the sales; and
if she accents the position, you must turn
proprietor in earnest. That wilt be an easy
matter. Tbo stand is a good one, and has
been long established. It will soon repay
the original investment. When it has, you
can have it for your own. Havo her make
out a list of what is needed each day, nnd
hand to you in the morning along with a
memorandum of sales. Keep the sales
woman who is there now for a week or two
longer, or until Miss Insley can have learned
sufficient about the business to be able to
conduct it alone. Perhaps the business
may require two persons during the win
ter."
Mr. Thorndike then gave a few more di
rections on other matters and went out for
his morning walk, leaving Sandy gazing out
the window in mute astonishment at this
last new freak of his employer, whom h<
already regarded as a most peculiar man.
' Sandy was a jewel set iu tho right plaeo.
If his employer was a peculiar man, hil
valet was equally so; for he did his em
ployer’s bidding without question or com
ment He was a Scotohman whom Mr.
Thorndike had engaged while traveling
abroad; and he found in him exactly the
kind of a man he vainly endeavored to find
for years previous to meeting with him.
Sandy was keen as b razor, of quick per
ception and action, and a “maun whnsa
tongue was na hung in ta middle,” ns he
often expressed his opinion that the man
cook’s was, from whom, at times, he was
obliged to get a late meal for Mr. Thorn
dike. That he was entirely trustworthy
could be 6een by the manner in which ha
was treated by his employer, which was
more like a confidential iriend than a sor
vant, nnd the confidence was not misplaced.
Sandy was never known to lisp anything
hut praises about his employer, nnd could
baflle the sharpest person who instituted a
query regarding him.
Ao’qnaintanoos of Mr. Thorndike won
dered why he kept a servant who “dinu.i
kenned anythin’ aboot it” when asked tho
simplest of questions: but Mr. Thorndiko
knew why, knew when ho “kenned" and
Minna kenned,” and appreciated it accord
ingly.
To his employer he always spoke good
English, and to any one else with a broad
Scotch accent—probably a whim of his.
He was not a handsome man nor one of
Imposing mien; quite the contrary. But a
few minutes’ conversation with him on
business soon proved to any would-be
sharps that they had no fool To trade with;
they usually found out he w.is a crafty
Highlander who well understood what he ,
was after himself, and also what they might
be driving at as well.
. The proprietor of the flower store soon
became cognizant of tho fact that he had a
hard customer to drive a bargain with; but,
being anxious to sell out, lie was obliged,
after two hours’ hard dickering over it—
daring which time Sandy picked numerous
bits of information from him relative to
the business —to come to Sandy’s terms
Sandy returned in half an hour with the
ready cash and a sign-painter.
He was a handy jnck-at-all-tmdos, and
be sat down nnd drew up the bill of sale
himself—all tho while wondering if the
business would pay. and pay suificiently
well for him to keep an eye on the little
Scotch landlady he had met that morning,
with the idea of sometime asking her le
share its profits with him.
He had been a hot-house gardener in the
old country and understood the culture ol
flowers, and he thonght the setting of them
would be a secondary consideration.
Although the store was not yet his, he
had a feeling of pride and satisfaction in
reading his name:
• ALEXANDEB McrHERSON, i
: FLORIST,
in large gilt letters on the window as he
>‘MT COUNTRY: MAY SIIK KVKII UK ItWJTT; RIGHT OK WRONG, MY COUNTRYf” — Jefferson.
passed It that evening on his way to call or
Miss Insley and the little landlady; ful
he hud no notion of culling on Alias Juste}
without making some excuse to seetheonlj
woman he had found time to admire dur
ing the many years ho had knocked around
the world.
Reaching tho house be rang the bell,
then brushed some imaginary specks ol
dust off his broadcloth suit while waiting.
Ah ho was engaged in giviugan extra polish
to his silk hat with a handkerchief, the
door opened, and ho was caught in the ncl
by the landlady, who smiled her neiooms
as she invited lum into hor little private
parlor.
Kandy, after much hesitation nnd shim
mering, told her he had just bought out th<
business of n well-known florist on Four
teenth stieet; and, being iu need of a trust
worthy saleswoman, a friend of Miss Insley
had suggested she was a likely person foi
tho place, nnd perhaps would be glad ol
the cbnnce to fill it if the salary was suf
ficient.
He wound up by a few common-place
questions here nnd there, by which moans
he ascertained what salary Sirs. Campbell
thonght the girl could get along comfort
ably with, and if sho thought her capable
for the position.
Finally he produced n huge bouquet that
he had brought with him nnd presented it
to the little Scotch landlady, saying:
“I ha made sa bauld, sayin' ye air a
kentry woman o' my ain. ”
This so delighted her thnt sho opened np
a vivacious conversation about life in tho
old country, etc., which lasted uutil almost
nine o’olock, when Kandy suddenly remem
bered that if h was going to see Miss
Insley that ovening perhaps sho had better
be called down stairs then.
When Sirs. Campbell left the room to
rail Marie, Kandy gave vent to a noiseless
whistle, and thought to himself be had
■tarted a bee in the little woman’s bonnet
sooner than ho anticipated; and he com
mented, with ashing of his shoulders and
i chuckle, that she was “noo sae baad
lukin'ayther.”
Mrs. Campbell soon returned with Marie,
sml ns they came into tho room togothei
Kandy quite made up his mind that he had
never seen two prettier-looking ladies at
any one time before in his life.
ile looked Marie over with a swift glance,
and shrewdly calculated that her pretty
face would soon attract enough custom to
quickly repay the loan from his employer.
He wondered w hat could be the reason of
his employer’s sudden interest in her.
Evidently he had never seen her to speak
with. Kandy menially compared her to a
beautiful apparition, aud truly she wa3
beautiful as she sat there in the full light
of the chandelier, backed by the old gold
and cardinal window drapery.
She was plainly attired. Her neat gray
merino dress showed signs here and there
of careful mending; bnt she was endowed
by nature with personal beauty that re
quired no fine garments to increase its
lordliness, and no artificial means to add to
its attractiveness. Her deep-chestnut bait
was smoothed back from her broad full
i TIVAt, Ia
|||
“Put it on, Effie, and wear it.”
forehead, and plaited In two rich braids,
the ends of which reached below her waist
and rested in her lap. where she toyed with
the pink ribbons that bound their ends
together by winding them in aud out in her
tiny fingers. A sbght raise of her finely
penciled eyebrow sand a partial opening of
her ruby lips, which disclosed the whitest
of even teeth, evinced the least surprise at
the unfeigned gaze Of admiration which
Kandy had bestowed upon her.
It was quite apparent from Kandy’s con
fused manner that his rudeness was unin
tentional, and a little amused smile played
about the corners of Marie’s mouth ns,
with slightly heightened color, she veiled
tho luster of her bright hazel eyes with
their long silken lashes, and looked through
the window.
It was also evident that the little widow
was somewhat annoyeii.
“My dear,” she said to Mario, “Mr. Mc-
Pherson would like to speak with you
about a position in his store. ”
“Ay, ay,” said Sandy, whoso usually ready
wit had beenwool-gathoring. “Yes -I—ei
—yeM noo tak it oonkind. my young led
die, ye tak me sae mootch b' surprise. Ye
favor ther luks o’ me auld master 8 doetber
’n ther auld counthree soomthin’ ooncom
mon. Ah! an’she was ther foine leddie!
I beg yonr pardon, meos, I’m sure; bnt’t
wa’ sae sood’n loike, I cud na help it,” was
his ragged apology.
Mrs. Campbell excused herself on the
plea of some pressing household matter,
and left Sandy to nnfold his oiler to Miss
Insley.
After consulting with her mother, to as
certain if she favored the proposal. Marie
returned to the parlor and told Sandy she
was obliged by his kind offer, and sho felt
pleased to accept, it.
Sandy then managed to obtain a few
minutes' more conversation with the little
[audlady, who gave him a very pleasant in
vitation to call again, as sho courtesied a
good-night to him on his departure.
He reported progress to Howard that
oight, then retired, and for the first time in
fears he remained awake for hours after he
Feeling of pride' and satisfaction ot
reading his name .
was abed, thinking ot the future, piclurmf
himself as the well-to-do proprietor or the
flower store, and conjecturing how much
COVINGTON. GKOKGIA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 24. 18811.
tbo little Scotch landlady might bo worth la
worldly good*.
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THE WORLD OVER.
ITEMS BOILED DOWN IN A
READABLE BTYLE.
Tttß FIELD OK LAUOIt —SKttTIIINO CADI.
DIION OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE —FIRES,
SUICIDES, ETC.—NOTED DEAD.
The steamer Phyapcket has licen sunk
liy a collision with an unknown vessel
at Singapore. Forty-two persons were
drowned.
Black measles have become epidemic
at Warsaw, 111., there being not less than
300 ca-es, with two recent deaths. The
public schools have been closed.
John Gruhe, one of the most promi
nent merchants on the Vermillion Range,
Minn., dropped dead recently while
standing talking through a telephone.
A house in the quartier Bellemni,
Marseilles, France, inhabited by Ital
ians collapsed. Seven ofits occupants
were killed and nine injured. Thu
building had been undermined by the
floods.
The boiler of the Appleton Manufac
turing G'om|inoy at Appleton, Wis.,
exploded, killing R. Eicliler, the
watchman, who was in the boiler
house. The boiler house was completely
torn to pieces, aud adjoining buildings
w ere badly shattered.
A Port-au-Prince, Hayti, special says,
that the idemnity asked for by the own
ers of the llaytian Republic steamer has
at last been settled. The amount is
$120,000. Of this, $30,000 was paid on
Monday, in cavil, $30,000 is due March
Ist and $40,000 June Ist.
A party of men and boys, of Stony
Point, Pa., went to serenade Charles
Cressler, who had recently been married.
A quarrel took place among some of the
Serenaders, and one of the young men
named Rhone was waylaid on his way
home by Charles Meredith. After Meie
dith had knocked Rhone down, he
tramped and kicked him almost to
a jelly. The crowd interfered, and
Rhone was carried to his home, where
he died soon after.
GRANTS MONUMENT.
The Executive Committee of the
Grant Monument Association on Wed
nesday, met in New York and
announced the following board of experts
to decide upon thj designs for a
monument offered by the lending artists
and architects of the world: N. Leitrim,
Jas. ltenwick, Piof. W. It. Ware, of Co
lumbia College, Geo. H. Post, Prof. 9.
Wolff and James E. Ware.
MOSIOAL AND DRAMATIC.
The author of “Madame Ahgofc” has anew
bouffe nearly ready.
Marie Van Zandt, the American vocalist,
is singing in Portugal.
Edmond Acdran, the French composer,
has about completed anew comic opera.
Rubinstein has finished anew grand
opera, “Gorivska.” on a Russian subject.
Mit. Whetherill, the husband of Emma
Abbott, the American priina donna, is dead.
Lawrence Barrett is alTlicted with a
glandular swelling that is likely to prove
serious.
The musical colleges of Chicago are said
to be unsurpassed by those in any other
American city.
Edwin Pootii and Lawrence Barrett are
to receive $20,000 cash for seven perform
ances in Louisville.
It is said that Joseph Jefferson intends to
engage both John Gilbert and C. W. CouF
dock for next season.
W. J. Florence, the comedian, ie con
templating a big revival of one of Shakes
peare's plays next season.
The London papers are unanimous and
enthusiastic in their praise of Henry lrving’6
impersonation of Macbeth.
Wilson Barrett, the English tragedian,
will play four weeks at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre, New York, next season.
Miss Helen Hastreiter sang recently in
Rome in an opera by a Greek composer,
Spiro iSamala. It was a very gorgeous spec
tacle.
“Francesca da Rimini,” an opera by
Cagnoni, first brought forth in Italy ten years
ago, has just been revived with favor in
Milan.
“Jack 5 * Haverly, the ex-amusement
King, is wielding a pick and shovel in a mine
at Trinidad, Col., and is said to have struck
it rich.
Henry Irving’s production of “Macbeth”
in London is pronounced the most gorgeous
thing ever seen on a stage. It cost over
$20,000.
Rose Coghlan is making an extensive
tour of the South, where the favorite actress
is appearing m her new play of “Jocelyn” to
crowded and fashionable audiences.
The Turkish Censor absolutely refused to
allow Sarah Bernhardt to play “Theodora”
in Constantinople, having more respect for
the memory of the Byzantine Empre>s than
M. Sardou had.
Messrs. I) e Mille and Bel a sco, authors
of “Lord Chumley” and “The Wife,” are
now at work on their play, which will be
called “The Charity Ball.” It will not be
produced before next summer.
Since “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” the play,
has been a success, no less than fifty stage
struck children have offered themselves to
play the part of the hero. And the manager
says that most of them were thoroughly
competent for the part.
Helen Dauvray is to be a member of Jo
seph Jefferson’s company, which will play
“The Rivals” next season. At presentAhe
is in Europe awaiting the return of her hus
band, John Ward, the ball player, via the
Buoz Canal from the Antipodes.
John P. Sousa, the leader of the
Marine hand of Washington, has sold to
Francis Wilson, the comedian, anew comio
opera called “The Wolf.” Under the con
tract Mr. Wilson agrees to produce it in New
York city within a year. The scene is laid
in Spain.
Mrs. James Brown Potter, the society
actress, has appeared at Palmer's Theatre,
New York, in a gorgeous revival of “An
tony and Cleopatra,” in which she assumes
the part of Cleopatra, and Kyrle Bellew sup
ports her as Antony. Mrs. Potter received
scant praise from the critics for her rendition
of tho part.
Con re id’s new opera, “Tho King's Fool,”
has made an enormous success in Chicago,
where the first week’s receipts were close to
$ >OO >. There are ninety-six i>eople in the
oast, and yet not a single supernumerary. The
whole lot are trained singers, and the pro
duction is regarded as one of the best ever
seen in this country.
Boito’s new opera. “Nerone,” has been
completed and will probably be produced in
Milan during the winter season of 1889-00.
The work is in six short acts, each having a
special character. Boito, before presenting
the musical settings, intends to submit the
libretto to the judgement of the public as a
literary work by having it represented in a
theatre as a drama. The libretto is said to
be a splendid work of poetical art.
Emma’s parents bad moved about a
great deal. One day some older people
were telling where they were “born and
brought up.’’ “Well,” said the five
year-old with a sigh, “I was born and
brought un all over.’*— -Judae.
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SOUTHERN NEWS.
HAPPENINGS BRIEFED AND
BTRUNQ TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN— RAIL
ROAD CASUALTIES—THE LABOR HELD.
ACCIDENTS —CROP RETURNS.
A LA II A VIA.
It is estimated that the recent Hawes
murder riot in Birmingham will cost the
Stale about $5,000. The expense ac
count incurred on that memorable occa
sion includes transportation of troops,
provisions, blankets, pay rolltof officers
and companies, and so forth.
Georg" Glenn, a car repairer, was run
over iu thi Alabama Great Southern rail
road yards in Birmingham and badly in
jured, U was working under a list chi’,
when i switch engine backed some eais
against it, anil llu: wheels of the flat car
pissed over Glenu’s left arm and shoul
der.
The Sheffield & Birmingham Coal Cos.,
and Iron & Railway Cos., of Sheffield,
| has been placed iu the hands of a rc
| eeiver. This results from the action of
, the bondholders of said company on ac
count of a default in the interest upon
I bonds.
Fire broke out in the chemical labora
tory of the Agricultural ami Mechanical
College at Birmingham on Thursday,and
but for the spleudid worn of the cadets
and citizens, the college would have
been totally destroyed. Tho college
Bet ms to he in bad luck. The main col
lege building was burned about a year
ago.
Many people are now of the opinion
that George Meadows was not guilty of
the crime for which he was lynched at
Pratt Mines, on Tuesday. A negro, who
give* his name as Louis Jackson, his
been in the county jail since Monday,
held on suspicion. It is said he tills the
description of the assailant of Mrs. Hel
ium better than Meadows. Even il
, Meadows was innocent of tho crime for
which he was lynched, he was undoubt
edly guilty of several similar crimes.
John \V. Williams, whose acquittal of
an unprovoked murder on a plea of in
sanity, did much to precipitate the re
cent Hawes riot, was on Wednesday re
leased from the state lunatic asylum at
Tuscaloosa, Last August Williams,
while 6lightlv under the influence of li
quor, entered liis father’s and rug-store and
sought a quarrel with Simon Isaacs, who
kept a soda fountain in the store. Isaacs
would not resent the insults offered in
any way, so Williams went and got his
pistol and returned to the store. With
out a word of warning he shot Isaacs
dead, shooting him from the rear. Dr.
Buice, the surgeon in charge, said he did
not consider AVilliams insane. On
Wednesday Williams sued out a writ ol
habeas corpus and was released. Dr.
Brice testified that he had never shown
the slightest symptoms of insanity,
FLORIDA.
The Grand Lodge of Florida Free
and Accepted Masons, in session at Jack
sonville, adjourned on Thursday, after a
largely attended meeting of three days.
The City Council of Jacksonville
closed a contract with E. W. Bowilitch,
i Miuitary expert of Boston, Mass., to
I make a thorough examination of the
! sewerage system of Jacksonville.
Governor Fleming on Wednesday is
med a proclamation calling the Legisla
ture of Florida in extra session on Feb
ruary sth next for the purpose of estab
lishing a state board of health, as re
quired by the new constitution.
The State Farmer’s Alliance of Florida
began its annual session at Jacksonville
on Tuesday. Over one hundred dele
gates were" in attendance. President
Oswald Wilson, of Mariana, presided.
A strong effort is being miidp to make
Jacksonville a wholesale market for cot
ton and other products.
At a meeting of the Board of Trade
held in Jacksonville, the following res
olution was passeii: “That the interests
of the orange growers of Florida de
mand protection against competition
with foreign grown fruit; that our sen
ators and representatives in Congress be
requested to exert their efforts aud in
fluence to secure tho passage of a law
levying an import duty of one dollar a
box of two cubic feet capacity, or in
that proportion, upon all oranges and
lemons from foreign countries.’’ The
movement is being made goneral by the
boards of trade and other organizations
throughout the stale, irrespective of
party.
KENTUCKY.
Andrew Ferguson, colored, has jusi
given to the Presbytery of Louisville,
for the use of his church, property pur
chased with the savings of a lifetime.
A circular signed by thirteen of the
largest tobacco manufacturers of the
country, was addressed to the Louisville
Tobacco Dealers’ Association, an uLi
maturo with the request that it be an
swered at once. If rejected, tbey pro
pose to withdraw from thnt market en
tirely. Their demands, in substance, are
there is to be one uniform inspection foi
all warehouses; that tlie date of sampling
and tho name of shippers be placed or
the tags of samples; that warehouse men
be responsible in case the tobacco is nol
so good ns the samples, and that there be
no oidding by warehouse men or theii
employes.
MARYLAND.
In the United States district court at
Balt more, Capt. Robert Mills, ono of
the oyster schooner Chicora, was found
guilty of brutally beating his dredgers,
and was sentenced to a fine of SSOO nnd
one year in jail.
Miss Mary Garrett has added another
benefaction to her list of good works for
the people of Maryland. She recently
purchased a very vuluable piece of prop
erly in the northern section of the city
and has caused the erection of a fine
building for the Brynmawr School, de
signed to prepare girls for entrance to
the Brynmawr College, near Philadel
phia. This handsome gift to the pro
motion of the school will cost Miss Gar
rett over $200,000.
MISSOURI.
Col. Wm. G. Hawkins died from an
overdose of laudanum, taken through
mistake for cough medicine. Col. Haw
kins was one of Pike county’s most
prominent citizens.
At Challows, a village iu Johnson
county, two physicians quarreled over a
small bill. The dispute grew until each
armed himself, and when they met, Dr.
Starke shot and killed Dr. Pister.
WEST VIRGINIA.
The deadlock in the Senate continues
and it is not likely that the body will
organize for some time.
MIMIMIPPI.
William Lindsay (colored) wus ar
rested at Port Gibson, on Thursday,
charged with the murder, of the drum
mer found dead near Yokena, last June.
He made des|ierate resistance, but was
overpowered aDd jailed.
The celebrated suit involving SBO,OOO
claimed to be due the state from lesser*
f the penitentiary, though it was
thought to have been settled favorably
to the latter a year ngo, will be reopened
by the attorney-general of the state.
A heavy rainstorm interfered with
the movements of Imats, and onu of the
large mattresses on the government work
at Greenville gave way and floated down
tho river before it could be secured,
sinking one of the fleet of barges.
There were about sixty men on the mat
tross at the time, but ail escaped to tho
shore.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The inauguration ceremonies of Daniel
G. Fowle, governor, begun on Thursday
in the hall of the house of representa
tives, where the legislature assembled iu
joint session. Lieut. Gov. Stcdman pre
sided. Associate Justice Merryman, of
the supremo court, administered the
oaths of offic to Theodore F. Davidson,
attorney general; S. M. Fingir, superin
tendent ot public instruction; Donald
W. Bain, treasurer; George W. Souther
lin, auditor; Thos. M. Soli, lieutenant
governor. William L. Saunders, secre
tary of state, was too ill to be present,
and was sworn iu his room. Governor
elect Fowle was escorted to the capitol,
aud the procession was made up at the
executive office, Governor Alfred M.
Scales taking the arm of his successor in
office. Both bouses of the legislature
also formed a procession and marched
to Stronsch's tobacco warehouse where,
on account of the rain, it was found nec
essary to hold the inauguration of the
governor.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The first term of the court for Charles
ton circuit promises to be a veritable
bloody assize. On the docket of th
criminal court, which opened at Orange
burg, there are eight men and ont
woman to be tried for murder. Six ol
the prisoners are white and thret
negroes.
About a month ago Butler Bauks, ol
Newberry county, was shot, and suspi
cion poioted to James C. Banks as hit
assailant, as the two men had been un
friendly. A week ngo, Butler Banks,
hearing that James C. Banks was iu the
neighborhood canvassing for a book, lay
in wait for him, and, taking deliberate
aim with a shot gun, tired at his sup.
posed assailant as us he passed
by wounding him in four places.
Butler Banks then ran away. A party
of men went to the house of Butlei
Banks, where were his wife and six little
children. The men set fire to the hous ,
corncrib and feedhoute, leaving the
mother and little ones without food oi
shelter or aufficient clothing.
TENNESSEE.
Thomas Ingram, of Andrew Chapel, i
prominent citizen aud large planter,
died of typhoid fever. Four others of
his family are at the point of death with
the same disease,
Capt. James Lee, Sr., the owner of the
Lee line of steamboats, and the oldest
man in the business in the United States,
died suddenly at Memphis. Capt. Lee
was born in Stew-art county, Tenu.,
eighty-one years ago, and begun life as a
keciboat man.
A committee of the county court held
a meeting at Chattanooga on Tuesday,
and agreed to make a favorable report if
the proposition made to the county to
issue $200,000 in bonds for the erection
of a bridge across the Tennessee river at
the foot of Market street.
Paul Burrus, aged twenty years, of
Chattanooga, who had been a regular
contributor to magazines for over a year,
died on Thursday from the effects of a
pistol shot. Ten days ago young Burrus
was cleaning a pistol, when one of the
cartridges was discharged, the bail pen
etrating the skull and touching the
brain. He was a very prominent young
man.
VIRGINIA.
Bettie T. Lewis, a colored woman,
who claims to be a natural daughter oi
William A. Thomas, who recently died
in Henrico county, lays claim to his en
tire estate, valued at $250,000.
Jack Coates, an inmate of the Dan
ville jail, received a slice of molasses
pudding from his wife. He thought it
was “tricked’’ and refused to eat it.
’Squire Towkcs, another inmate of the
jail, ate the pudding and was soon taken
sick, and died in great agony,
with every symptom of acute poisoning.
Considerable excitement was created
in Lynchburg od Tuesday, when orders
came front the governor stating that
trouble was brewing in Pocahontas and
to hold the military in readiness to pro
ceed at once if necessary. The trouble
is on Elkhorn in West Virginia. The
miners complain that instead of loading
cars with the capacity of two tons, as
formerly, the company has increased the
capacity to three tons, and tho miners’
wages aro not increased.
The state Board of Agriculture met at
Richmond on Tuesday. The chief topic
discussed was immigration. It was de
cided to prepare a pamphlet for general
distribution, setting forth the resources
of every county in tho state, including
the value of the land on the market and
tho productiveness of the same. Also,
to appoint a local agent in every state to
carry out the provisions indicated. A
resolution was adopted for a more effect
ual sampling of fertilizers sold in the
•tate.
TEXAN.
M. J. Bradley, a well-known base ball
catcher, was shot and instantly killed on
Wednesday morning, at Dallas, by Toni
Angus, a liackmau. Bradley was cross
iug Muili street when Angus advanced
upon him and shot him. Bradley turned
to run, but his a-sailaut followed him,
and shot him iu the back until lie
dropped dead. Angus wus immediately
arrested and jailed.
AN OPINION.
Commander Sampson, superintendent ■
of the naval academy, recently appointed ,
Commander Harrington, Lieut-Com
mander Todd aud Lieut. Potter ss a
board to investigate the charges of firing
crackers iu the quarters by the cadets.
The hoard examined every cadet, and
each stated on his honor that he knew
nothing as to whom committed the
bi tah of discipline. The opinion of the
board was given, which mentions no
Hame, but declares the cadets, chiefly
members of the third class, to be guilty
of wholesale lying.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
WHAT THE OFFIGIALB ARE
6AYING AND DOING.
LOMU HUM.
The Kcnato, on Thursday, resumed
consideration of tho tariff trill, the pend
ing question being on the amendment to
the tin plate paragraph. No vote was
reached, nnd uftera short executive ses
sion, tho Senate adjourned .. .The House
whs informed tlmt Governor Hovcy’s
resignation ns a representative hud been
received at Indianapolis, anil accepted.
A committee was appointed to investi
gate nnd purchase real estate by the com
missioners of the District of Columbia.
Consideration of tho territorial bill was
resumed and speeches were made iu turn
by tlie advocates of every proposition
which bus been brought forward.
The President’s tw o messages in regard
to affairs in Samoa and lluyti were laid
before the Senate, and referred (with ac
companying document*; to the conunit
; tee on foreign relations. Mr. Cullum
presented the memorial of the ’Woman's
National Christina Temperance Union, of
Illinois, and other bodies, in favor of leg
islation for Snbbuth observance, against
the running of interstate Sunday trains
aud against military drills on Sunday.
The memorials were in largo bundles,
covered with red cloth, and their presen
tation was witnessed by a deputation asf
ladies in the gallery. The discussion on
the tariff bill was resumed... .The House
reported consideration of territorial bills,
snd was aidre-sed by Mr. Joseph of
New Mexico, who presented the claims
of that territory for admission into the
Union. The discussion occupied the en
tire afternoon, but no vote was reached.
A nrotiou to adjourn was then, at 5:10,
Igreed to.
NOTE*.
A board of army officers have been
appointed to examine Brig. Gen. David
G. Swaim, judge advocate general of the
United States Army, for retirement.
The war steamer Atlanta, Capt. How
ell, has been ordered to proceed at once
to Port-au-Prince and report to Rear
Admiral Luce, commanding the North
Atlantic station.
The Senate committee on interstate
commerce, ordered a favorable report to
be made upon the nomination of Gen.
Walter L. Bragg to be interstate com
merce commissioner.
Before the Senate met on Tuesday
morning, E. W. Pon, Jr., messenger of
the North Carolina electors, delivered to
Chairman Ingalls the vote cast in that
state for Cleveland nnd Thurman. He wae
the first messenger to report.
The House committee on naval affairs
has completed the naval appropriation
bill. Tho new bill will carry an appro
priation of $20,000,000. The most im
portant items of the bill are those pro
viding for new construction. Under this
head the bill authorizes the construction
of a dyuumito cruiser, to cost $450,000,
on the pattern of the Vesuvius, which
has attained such remarkable speed, nnd
a 3,500-ton cruising monitor, to cost
$1,500,000, on the plan originated by
I Representative Thomas, of Illinois.
Mr. Faulkner bn9 presented to the Sen
ate a remarkable petition of Henrietta B.
Leo, tie Redinger, who wishes to bo re
imbursed for the destruction if her
house at Shcpardstown, W. Va., burned
under orders of Gen. David Hunter, in
July, 1884. The petition begins; “It
is with timidity nnd diffidence that I
address so august a body of statesmen.”
The petitioner then relutes the sufferings
of her father, who was a hero of the
Revolution, and in his name nnd that of
her husband, who was a grandson of ant)
of the signers of the Declaration of In
dependence, and a nephew ot “Light
Horse Harry Leo,” she makes an impas
sioned appeal for justice. The members
of the Senate are not wholly accustomed
to being addressed “with timidity nnd
diffidence.”
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
The Emperor of Germany has ordered
the dismissal of all French cooks em
ployed in the palace at Berlin. They
j will be replaced by Germans.
During a charge of the police at
Waterford, Ireland, upon the crowd
! which Wits accompanying the persons
who had been sentenced for participating
in the Manchester “martyrs” demonstra
tion, a police inspector and fourteen
! constables were injured.
A dynamite cartridge was exploded on
Thursday in the house of the largest
weaver in Barcelona, Spain. The house
was completely wrecked. The only per
son injured was a servant, whose leg was
shattered. The outrage is connected
with u series of similar crimes recently
committed in Madrid.
The Arabs destroyed a German mis
sionary station'in Tugu, fifteen miles
west of Darios Salem, Africa. A ma
jority of the slaves captured by the Ger
man man-of-war Leipzig, were lodged
at the station. One missionary succeeded
in escaping from the Arabs, but eight
ethers were massacred.
BABIEB BTARVED.
Two lifeless baby forms, wasted to
skeletons by starvation and fever, were
carried out of a wretched tenement room
in St. Louis, Mo. The woman who had
them in charge calls herself Mrs. Jennie
Suffert. She is now a prisoner at the
Four Courts, and will be subjected to a
severe examination by the coroner.
Neither coal nor food was in sight, and
there was no place in the room where a
day’s supply of the one or rations of the
other could have been hidden. A two
quart tin pail hulf full of milk stood up
on the clothless table, and beside it
so ;d a comtnrn nurse bottle. The
bottle held a gill of kurdled milk, aud
wus black and grimy. The nursing out
lit was not in use, us the two starved
foundling) who had secured through its
few days’prolongation of suffering, were
lying deaJ underneath a soiled sheet on
ihe grimy, h ire floor. An hour later and
the emaciated bodies of the infants were
lying in tho morgue, and the woman
wlio hid pretended to care for them,was
a prisoner in the Central station.
DATTLE SUFFERING.
The snow in the mountains and on the
plains in New Mexico, is reported to be
between two aud three feet deep, and
cattle are suffering for food. The dis
tress among all kinds of stock, especially
cattle and sheep, is great, and many are
flying. From a stockman it is learned
that while he whs out hunting cattle, he
came upon a large drove of antelopes
frozen to death, perishing for want of
food.
NUMBER 14.
GEORGIA ITEMS. ;
At a meeting of the mayor and coun
cil on Tuesday night, letters were read
by the city attorney, Wooten, in which
the authorities of the various railroads
centering there, promise to erect a large
I passenger depot lit Albany.
A number of citizens of Cuthbcrt mflt
to take Borne steps toward communicat
ing with the builders of the Chattanooga,
Romo <& Columbus Railroad, and pre
senting the advaotugos’that would accrue
to them by building by Cuthbert in their
Southern extension.
i C. F. Aiken, a printer, was attacked
| by footpads on Tuesday night, in At
i lanta, and robbed. He says that he
: was walking out Marietta street, about
; Pine street, when two men seized him
from behind and threw him down. One
i of them choked him while the other went
1 through his pockets.
EMIN PASHA FOUND.
I
The following latter, written by Henry
M. Stanley, has been received in Brussels:
j “Homa of Bouukyn Murelia, August
1 17.—T0 Khclkh Mamed, Ben Mahomed,
| from his good friend, Hcury M. Stanley;
[ Many saalams to you. I hope thnt you
i arc in good health, as I am, aud thut you
j have remained in good health since I left
you, but hope I shall see you face to face
i before many days. I reached here this
morning with 130 wangwnun, three sol
diers and sixty-six natives, belonging to
Emin Pasha. It is now eighty-two days
since I left Emin Pasha on tlie Manga.
I only lost three all the way —two
were drowned aud the other otherwise.
I found tlie white men who were looking
for Ennn Phsliu quite well—tho other
white man (Casntcs) also well. Pasha
lias ivory in abundance, thousands ol
cattle ami sheep, goats, fowls and food
of all kinds. 1 found lum a very good
and kind man. He gave all our white
and black men numbers of things. His
liberality could not be excelled. His
soldiers blessed our black men for their
kindness for coming so far to show them
the way. Many of them were ready to
follow me out of the country, but I asked
them to stay quiet n few months that I
might return and find the other men an<(
goods left at Vambunga. They prayed
to God that He would give me strength
to finish my work. May their prayer be
heard! And now, my friend, what are
you going to do? We have gone tho
road twice over; we know where it is
bad and where it is good; where there is
plenty of food and where there is none;
where all the cramps arc, and where we
shall sleep and rest. I am waiting to
hear your words. If you go with me it
is well. I leave it to you. I will stay
here ten days, and will then proceed
slowly. I will move hence to Big Island,
two hours’ march from here. Above this
place there are plenty of houses and
plenty of food for the meu. Whatever
you have to say to me, my cars will be
open with a good heart, as it lias always
been towards you. Therefore, it you
come, come quickly, for on the eleventh
morning from this I shall move on. All
my whito men are well, but I left them
all behind except my servant, William,
who is with me. (Signed). Will
iam Henry M. Stanley.” Sheikh
Ilamed Ben Mahomed, to whom
the above letter is addressed, is the Arab
Tippoo Tib. The letter, which was
taken to Stanley Falls by a messenger,
and which reached Brussels by post, is
the only onqjrcm Stanley which reached
the coast of Africa. A number of other
letters which messengers conveyed to
Stanley Falls, still remain there, but it
is expected they will arrive in Europe in
two or three months.
HE WEPT.
In the case of the state of Indiana vs.
George Hacker, tried at Indiunapolis on
Thursday, the jury returned a verdict of
guilty, aud Hacker was sentenced to
fourteen years in the penitentiary.
I Hacker is an anarchist who biutally as*
(suited his employer, James Bruce, be
cause the latter expressed gratification at
the election of Gen. Harrison. Bruce
was stabbed nine times about the face
aud neck. His recovery was almost mi
raculous. In addition to his punishment
of fourteen years in slates prison, the nn
archist was fined SI,OOO. When he heard
the verdict, Hacker turned deadly pale
and could not take his eyes from the
jury. He broke down completely when
taken to his cell, weeping bitterly, and
declaring he should have been set free.
GAVE A DOSE.
Fifteen men disciplined John Welsh,
of North Salem, N. H. His offense was
one against morality—that of living with
a grass widow. The White Caps called
Welsh to the door of his house, carried
him a short distance, removed his cloth
ing, coated him with grease, and forced
from him a promise to leave town, taking
it upon themselves that the promise was
kept. Welsh went to Portsmouth,
and informed a lawyer of the outrage,
and the lawyer engaged several of the
Pinkerton agency in Boston, which sent
a detail of men to work up the cose.
This resulted in the arrest of thirteen ol
the White Caps named.
SMALL-POX IN DOLORADO.
A Kansas City special says, seven per
sons, fleeing from the small-pox scourge
in Denver, Col., arrived eu route East.
They report that business is very much
demoralized, and that peopl* are getting
out of the city by every train. They say
that from the" best authority they could
obtain there were 750 cases of the dif
ferent stages now in the city, and that
fully seven hundred of them are in tha
pesthouse. Very little or no attention
has been paid to quarantine, and in
many residences where cases exist there
are no placards to denote its presence.
“JAOK THE RIPPER.”
The police at Tuuis have captured e
gang of robbers and assassins. Among
the members of the gang is a ™ su
is believed to havo committed the re
cent revolting murders of a number of
women in the Whitechapel district of
London, England. The supposed
Whitechapel murderer is charged with
having committed in Tunis n murder
similar to those committed in White
chapel. The man has confessed that he
recently lived in Whitechapel.
AIDING DE LESSEPS.
The French Senate adopted tWenty
four articles of the bankruptcy bill,
which, if it becomes a law, will enable
the Panama Canal Company to judicially
liquidate its obligations without declar
ing itsejf iu bankruptcy.