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The Georgia Enterprise. VOL CM E XXIV. mrie Enterprise. wJuLisiiKDW kkk i-v.vr m IXC 10N... (iKOUOIA, $ 1 IN CIA'IiH OF FIVK. 1,1 *' l<! Covington Poxtoffice class matter. Terms, $1,25 In clubs of five or more MKlJolhir. Bix months 75ota. Four Smith-, 50 cts always in advance. pa t it o x ize [be Oil! Enterprise. Et ‘[rides no fences.” Tumps no nominations n ,25 in advance. En clubs of five sl. Advertising Rates. Local Notices lOcts per line first inser lion —*0 cents per nioutli. Business Ad vertisements $1 per inch first time —50 cts each Subsequent insertion. . 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M„ on, Ga.] President. .SIMMS& Go il Estate Agents, GTON GEORGIA. ire to give us the selling and renting of your property. Rates of commission low. Valuable property on hand for sale. Try us. Titles traced and per fected. jjjjl pay unless a sale is made or rents col lected. R. L. SIMMS & CO. Franklin B. Wright, r|t:o YIN GTON, GA.— Physician & Surgeon. ftynecology, Diseases AVomeii' and Children, and all Chronic diseaseiSjpf n. private nature, a speeialtyl I have ft tor.se at my command, which wil* enable me to attend the calls of thp sur rounding country, as well as my city prac tice. A FRANK UN B. WRIGHT, M. D 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*. [TO SB CONTINUED.] ■ ■ ■ ■ l "‘. m - 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. • 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.