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The Georgia Enterprise.
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| —COVINGTON, GA.—
isident Physician & Surgeon.
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FARM LOANS,
By W. SCOTT,
■Covington, Georgia.
Negotiate Loans on Farms in
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"MK> Credit. W. SCOTT.
HER MISTAKE;
—on, —
Howard Thorndike’s
Loves.
BY HURT ARNOI,D.
CHAPTER VI
MR THOhNDIKK MAKES TWO HAPPY I)IBCOV
ERIKS.
Those were sweet words to Howard
Thorndike, the words he heard Marie
Inelov utter in her swoon after Mrs. Camp
bell had left the room to et somo "cor
dial:”
“Oh. he does not know that I love him
already!”
He took the liberty of printing a cares!
pu one of her tiny humls with his lips when
he had laid her ou the sofa.
Slowly she opened eyes; then, giving
vent to a long sigh, she shut them again
and shivered.
Her scattered senses gradually came back
to her, and she opened them again.
A faint Hush spread over her face as she
asked, iu a weakened voice:
“Will you kindly ask Mrs. Campbell to
bring me a glass of water?”
“She is coming wiih one herself in a
m nute, Miss Insley,” replied Howard.
And while he spoke Mrs. Campbell en
tered the room with a whole tray full oi
restoratives.
After bathing Marie’s forehead with a
sponge dipped m bay rum and giving her a
glass of wine—not forgetting to take one
herself at the same time, as it had given her
"such a shock”—Mrs. Campbell arched her
pretty eyebrows and shook her bewitching
little widow s cop, while a twinkle lurked
in the corners of her laughing eyes as she
said:
“You will be all right in a jiffy, dear!
Mr. Thorndike will let me know if you are
not. 1 must go to the kitchen and see to
the dinner or it wili be burnt.”
When she had left the room Mario spoke
to Howard, who, for the first time iu Lis
life, felt he ought to say something and
was at a loss for words with which to say it.
“You must think me very sillv, Mr.
Thorndike. Ido not know how I came to
faint. I never did so before. I feel dizzy
yet. I have often wondered how people
felt in a faint; but I am not a whit wiser
after my experience,” she said, with a faint
laugh.
“My dear Miss Insley,” said Howard, as
he Rat in a chair by the sofa and took her
little hand in his, “I have something to say
to yon, and I scarcely know how to begin.”
Marie felt that a denouement was forth
coming, and her little heart fluttered wildly
as she endeavored to feel calm against her
will.
“I should begin at the beginning,” she
said, demurely, aH she looked at the sofa
back and naively picked at a button.
Howard felt something drop from hei
hand into his as she spoke, and, on looking
at it, saw it was the diamond ring.
“She—sho left it,” was all the remark
Marie made about it.
“Miss Insley, I will not attempt to dis
guise from yon that I overheard what she
said to you, and that I am aware of the
cause of your fainting spell. It may be
She took Howard Tho indike' a hand and
pressed it against her vet cheek.
wrong for me to take advantage of what yon
said while nnconscious, but you led me to
think that you may not feel indifferent to
ward me. that some time yon may like me,
perhaps love me, and may be willing to be
come mv wife. That I love you tinly, yon
already know; and it will be the happiest
moment in my life, dear, when I can know
my little Marie returns my love.”
Two little tears escaped from Marie Ins
ley's quivering eyelids and trickled down
her cheeks, as in silence she took Howard
Thorndike’s hand and pressed it against
her wet oheek; and Howard I horndike was
well satisfied with the depth of affection
expressed iu the look that accompanied the
act on, ns though shs had told him a thou
sand tains over that she loved him.
Her glance was by far more eloquent
than the most finished phrase, and Howard
was the happiest man in the universe as he
fireased her olose to hiß bosom and their
ips met in the first mutual caress of their
their new-born love.
When Howard Thorndike went out into
the street the aspect of everything had
changed. Everything seemed brighter to
him, and he felt better satisfied with him
self and the world in general than ever be
fore.
When he reached tliehotol Sandy thought
by his actions he had “gang daft, oor ayther
ta bee 'n her bnnnitud stoonghim ntlast,”
and his face wore a very puzzled expres
sion until Howard told him he was going to
stenl away his clerk from him and marry
her.
“Hoots, toots, manu 1 " exclaimed the sur
prised Sandy, iu trepidation. “What'll ye
ie doin' i' ther stooer?”
This was the first lime Howard had ever
beard Sandy addreaa him with his Scotch
accent, and he laughed heartily at it and
Sandy’s fears.
“I will make you a present of it,” he re.
plied.
Sandy almost jumped up and down like
a schoolboy in hie delight. Suddenly he
cried out:
“D’ye—d'ye mane it, an’ na jookin, sir?
“Of course I do; the day I am married
yon shall own the store, also all that iB in it,
and, perhaps, more besides.”
"Ye air ower guid, sir, I dinna ken ta
words ta thankee, sir.”
“Never mind, Sandy; you have been
faithful and trustworthy while in my em
ploy, and I appreciate it.”
Howard had agreed to return to Marie’s
in the afternoon to be introduced to Mrs.
lusley, and the specified time found him
there. He brought with him a noted physi
cian, a friend of his, that he might set
what was best to be done for her.
After spending some little time with Mrs.
Insley, Howard relnrned to the parlor with
Marie, leaving the doctor alone with the
patient.
The doctor joined them ahortly after
ward and asked several questions of Marie
relative to her mother. lie then told How
ard that it was impossible for her to be re
moved then, and that chances were in every
way against her recovery in either case—
whether she remained where she was or
was taken South. The crisis was near at
h nd, and her life was a queation of mere
ly a few weeks and days. It was a physical
impossibility for her to live longer. She
bad quick consumption, and the only won
c r was that she was still alive after snft'er
irg ao long. If she had any friends it
would be as well to notify them of her ap
proaching death.
“JTF COUNTRY: MAY SHK KVKR )1K RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG f MY COUNTRY P'—JmwwKHßott.
me crippled daughter, bethought, couiu
be giently benefited by treatment, and
eventually regain the use of her limbs, al
though who might never bo ns strong and
healthy as she would have heeu lmd she
never boeu a mfferer from spinal affliction.
Whitt they Loth needed was the attention of
an experienced nurse, ono who understood
the petty eontiivances for relieving some
of the sutTuiings of sick folks, and under
whoso care the cripple would surely begin
to improve and feel more comfortable. It
was too much of a strain for Marie, and
she would be 6tiro to break down if sheun
deitook it.
Howard instiuetod the doctor to send a
mute around to the house uh soon as ho
could, and to take both sufferers under
treatment
After the doctor had left Howard walked
ncr >8 4 the room to Marie, who had re
mained at the further end during his con
versation with the doctor, and, taking both
hands iu his, he asked iu a quiet, kind way.
if she had ever thought of what she should
do if her mother did not recover.
"Yes,” sho said, "and I know fully as
well as you can tell me that she can never
get well. She is dying now. If I can keep
rny place at the florist’s I cuu get along after
a manner. I ennnot sav 1 shall be sorry
when she is at rest: sho sutlers so much. I
thought, perhaps, the end had come when
1 was sent for this morning. It hurts mo
to see her suffer so, although she is very
patient aud nev. r complains. When she
dies I w ill try to do tLe same by her daugh
ter as she has done by me. My own mother
could never have treated me with more
kindness or cared for me with more moth
erly nffectiou. ”
“What! la not Mrs. Insley your mother?”
inquired Howard, iu surprise.
“Why, no, indeed! I thought you knew
Bhe was not. I have no knowledge what
ever of my parentage. I was picked np at
sea when I was apparently between three
aud four years old.
“Ticked np at sen," repeated Howard, iu
a sort of a maze.
“Yes; by Captain Insley, over twelve
years ago. He was making a trip between
New York and Havre. I owe my life to a
Newfoundland dog that held me up by my
clothes. Poor fellow! He died from ex
haustion after I was taken aboard the ship.
Captain Insley saved his skin, and when
he leached port sent it to a taxidermist’s to
be stuffed and mounted. He has beeu
ca led my dog ever since. That was him
lying ou the mat up-stairs.”
Howard Thorndike still continued tc
think in silence.
What was it made her story seem so fa
miliar to him, and why had her features
seemed decidedly so from the first time h<
bn-* met h*>r?
Ah! CoiTcl it be possible?—yes. that was
it; she resembled them. What if she should
turn out to be their lost child! She might!
It was a reasonable supposition.
“Has any of the apparel which you wore
at the time you were found been pre
served?” asked Howard.
“O, yts; I have it all up-stairs in a little
bundle; also a small locketand chain and t
little ring,” replied Marie.
‘ Was there a picture in the locket?”
“No; there’s the Lord s prayer in white
enamel, so fine it can scarcely be read.”
“Do you thiuk there is anything else
among what has been preserved which
might aid friends or relatives—supposing
you were to meet any—to identify you?'’ in
quired Howard, earnestly.
“I do not know. 1 here might be. Why
do you ask so seriously. lam not at all
afraid 1 shall ever meet my natural parents.
I was advertised throughout the country in
the papers at the time. I have a dozen
different papers containing a full descrip
tion of me, telling when and where I was
found, even including a wood-cut of me.”
“Have you a photograph of yourself taken
at that time?”
“Yes; but it is a veritable little fright, as
I was sick for a long time aHer I wag
found.”
“Did Captain Insley ever state where he
thought you might have come from?”
“He thought I was probably French oroi
Fiench descent, as w hat little I could speak
I spoke equally as well in French ns in
English—if anything better. If I could
have told my last name my parents might
possibly have been found. He said I was
evidently born of parents in comfortable
circumstances, as the clotheß that I wore
were of fine texture; aud, indeed, on look
ing them over, I think so myself. They
are much better than 1 have ever worn
since. And Captain Insley was not poor.
When ho died he left a block of houses,
the rent of which supported liis widow and
daughter and myself until it burned dotfn.
Then Mrs. Insley sold the land and set up
dressmaking rooms. That did not pay, and
wo moved here from Tarustabie. Mass.,
about a year ago, and she got along well
until the work became too hard for her.
She gradually bioko down, and when sho
was taken 6iek 1 obtained a place in the
opera house, and you kuow the rest.”
“Mar e, I want those clothes and the
jewelry; a’so the picture and the newspa
pers of which you speak, I shall go away
to-night and may be gone several days. I
have sent for a nurse, and you must hire
in extra room for her of Mrs. ( nmobell
Here is some money which I positively in
sist on your accepting. Buy everything
necessary for the comfort of the sick o:.es,
ind do not hesitate to spend the money
freely. I will send you more by Sandy to
night.”
Marie loft the room and soou returned
with the clothes in a bonnet-box.
Howard examined them careful y, and
an the under side of the locket, within a
scroll, he found the letters: “Marie
D.” The letters after the capital D
were completely obliterated through having
sust'ined constant friction against the drest
of the wearer; but the D was clear and dis
tinct
Howard turned to Marie, and drawing
her to him, he said:
“I do not wish to raise any false hopes,
but I am almost assured that on my return
I can place my darling’s parentage beyond
a doubt, and perhaps introduce her to her
parents. Now, I have no time to spare,
for I wish to catch the early train for Bos
ton. I may return to-morrow and I may be
gone a week. I cannot tell. I will bring
you good news when I do come. Now.
good-by, dear. Sandy will look out for
you during my absence. ” And after an af
fectionate embrace he departed.
Tears filled Marie’s eyes as she watched
kim up the street from the window.
CL if the dream ol lier life would come
Both parents accurately described the
contents of the box.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 188!t.
irne; If she fouuiTlier | an nt she would
)e mo happy, happy beyoud description.
Howard Jhormliko took the 4%50p. ni.
;raiu for Boston, and by oleven o'clock a
Etrriage dej ositsd him and the prec ous
sand box at th door of Mr. Dosmonri.
Afier an apology for his late < a'l, which
ae claimed was urgent, he ask'd Mr. Des
mond if either lie or Mrs. Desmond oouid
describe the clothes worn by their lost
laughter when they last saw her; also, what
aer name na 1 be* n.
A thrill of joy pervaded him as both par
mt accurately described the contents of
die band-box previous to his opening it be
fore their astonished Razo, and Mr. Uos
aion 1 told him that she wmb named after
kis wife, whose name was Marie.
The next day found them both iu New
York, and uo one who could have seen
Mrs. Desmond and Marie aide by side
would have hesitated to prououuce them
mother and daughter.
The chain of evidence was completed by
Mrs. Desmond n recognition of a singular
oirth-inark on Marie corresponding to that
!>ornc by her lost daughter, aud she claimed
Marie for her own immediately.
Mr. and Mrs. Desmond remained iu New
York until after the death of Mrs. Insley,
whose funeral expenses were borne by
them, and then returned to Boston with
Marie and her foster-sister.
Howard weiP to Europe fora year and
took Sandy with him.
Sandy was loath toleave the flower-store,
but by this time he had completed a com
pact witn Mrs. tampLieJl fora “stiare in
the profits,” and ou going away ho left her
in charge, feeing assured that he could not
leave it in better hands, for she would be
Bure to look out for what would now be
equally as much for her interest as his
owu.
At the end of the year all interested par
ties met at the house of Mr. Edouard Des
mond, where Miss Marie Desmoud became
Mrs. Howard Thorndike.
Miss Insley had so far recovered from
her spinal trouble that sho w*b able to be
first bridesmaid on the occasion.
Mrs. Campbell was there, and the morn
ing after the wedding Howard was not at all
surprised on Sandy's introducing her to
him as Mrs. McPherson.
Sandy’s attempt to rise above his station
was a failure, and a few years after h*s m r
riage he applied to Howard for his old
position, Howard was very glad lo receive
him back, and his wife, “the litt’e Scotch
landlady,” is now the housekeeper at the
Thorndike mansion.
The dashing Mademoiselle Duraon 1 mar
ried Mr. Murphy, her manager, who de
serted her after obtaining possession of her
money. When last heard from she was
plain Mrs. Esther Mur]>hy, walking lady in
a musical comedy combination at a dime
museum.
Her error had met with its own reward;
her lofty ideas had experienced a tumble,
and she had found there was a large dif
ference between the grim reality of stage
life and the castles in Spain built by her
when she sacrificed her love to her am
bition.
fTHE end 1
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
The round house of the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe Railway Cos., was burned.
Loss SIOO,OOO. The fire was caused by
lamp explosion in the waste room.
At Berlin, Germany, it is reported tha.
it is not expected that German military
operations in Samoa will commence un
til sufficient reinforcements are sent to
the islands. At present, there are at Sa
moa three German warships with an
available landing force of 300 men.
The working force on the steel cruiser
Charleston, at San Francisco, Cal., has
been largely increased, lier engines and
boilers are all In, and her boilers are be
ing cemented. The carpenters are busy
fitting up the saloons and state rooms.
Painters arc hard at work giving her
iron sides a coat of a dark slate color,
and blacks l.iths and mechanics arc to
Ire seen crowding her decks. Her guns
are much heavier than that of any tier
man man-of-war at present in Samoan
waters.
HARRISON IS COMING.
President Oglesby’s committee from
Atlanta, Ua.,called on Gen. Harrison on
Thursjav, aud were presented hy Gov
ernor Bullock. Gen. Hurrison said
professional engagements kept him at
home during the Winter, and that he
had not visited Atlanta since he com
manded a brigade iu i's front, and that
lie would enjoy visiting the city. To
the direct question if the committee
might hope for a favorable consideration
of the invitation, if the exigencies of the
public service at ihe time would permit,
the general replied : “Certainly, I will
he very hirppv to come, and in that event
I w ill bring Mrs. Harrison and a party ol
friends with me.” The general waß very
cordial with the committee, and they
feel confident that, unless prevented by
6otne untoward circumstance, President
Harrison will visit the Piedmont Exposi
tion in October.
Little Clara’s Grievance.
Oh, how sad it is to know
Little girls must always grow—
Grow ia size and grow in years!
Thinking of it brings tho tears.
But though I may cry and fret,
Every day Ii igger get;
Every day I’m older too.
And there’s nothing 1 could do
That would make me stop a growing,
Or would keep tho year* from going.
Now I'm five; soon I’ll be six;
Here’s a poor child in a fix!
After six comes sjven, then
Follow eiijht and nine and ten.
How I wish that 1 could stay
As I am this very day—
Always have my hair in curl,
Always be mamma’s woe girl!
But I can’t: I’ve got to grow.
Oh, deur me! why is it so.<
Very soon I must be six;
Here’s a poor child in a fix!
Tbe Emperor William’s summer tour
In Austria and Ttalyis said to have cost
r:‘-nn f OOO.
THE SOl’TlI
AT LARGE.
A ORKA T ERA OF PIiOSPKRITT
AND PROGRESS IMPENDING.
the isnoa riKLo—rnMi! and iusimess ara
AOXITI-iOMKTBIXO ABOUT BAtI.ROAD ACCI"
nurra, McitoKKs, scicides, rims, etc*
ai.aha.ua.
At North Birmingham, Tuesday,
George Avery, a colored furnace laborer,
was brained with an ax and instantly
killed by an unknown negro who es
caped.
J. W. Dec, a respectable white citizen
of M died suddenly from the
eflfei. • •' a dose of chloroform. The
drug was administered by a physician
for the purpose ot performing a surgical
operation. Dee was in very delicate
health, and his system being too weak
to resist the influences of the drug, he
died from its effect.
Dick Hawes will he tried in Birming
ham for the murder of his wife and
children. Judge Greene refused to grant
the motion for a change of venue. When
the decision wus announced, Hawes, who
was present, turned very pale and his
lips twitched nervously, but he soon re
covered his composure. The trial will
begin on Thursday, February 14.
A robbery and murder which, for
boldness, is seldom equaled, was com
mitted in Birmingham Tuesday morning
about 8 o’clock. Charley Thomas, the
colored porter iu the store of Brooks ft
Cos., was left in charge of the store while
the proprietors were at breakfast. A
customer entered the store and found
Thomas lying on the flo r, unconscious
and bleediug from a terrible wound in
the head. The alarm wus given, and
when the proprietors reached the store,
accompanied by officers, it was found the
cash drawer had been robbed und that
the porter was fatally injured, his skull
having been crushed by a blow with a
piece of iron. A negro who gave his
name as Harvey Nelson, was found con
cealed under a bed iu a rear room.
FLORIDA.
The mail steamer Snm sunk opposite
Apalachicola, Wednesday. No lives were
lost. Overloading aud rough weather
caused the disaster.
Contracts were signed Wednesday un
der which five thousond terns of Alubama
coal will leave Pensacola each mouth for
the West India Islands.
Fullv three thousand people were
present at the opening of the Florida
International aud Semi-Tropical Exposi
tion at Ocala on Wednesday. There was
a procession two miles long, and the city
was beautifully decorated.
President 11. B. P ant, of the Plant
Investment Cos., and plant system ol
railroads, states that the travel to Flor
ida has so far been very light, although
the same inducements have been offered
to visitors as heretofore. This he at
tributes to the mild weather prevailing
in the North, lie expects the present
cold snap to send many of them South
ward, and looks for an active business
from now until the end of February.
MIBSISBIPPI.
The colored people of Jackson, held t
large meeting to answer the charges
made by the grand jury thnt crime and
;rtminals were shielded and law officers
were prevented from ferreting out the
wrongdoers. Resolutions denying ths
illegation were passed.
NORTH CAROLINA.
In the Legislature, on Thursday,an m
rortnnt bill was introduced to make the
renitentiary self-sustaining. It makes
in appropriation of $75,000 for each of
.he next two years, and requires all the
turnings of the penitcutiary or of the
tonvicts to he turned into the state
treasury. There shall be, if needed,
.mid out to an amount not to exceed
122,000, including $75,000 regular ap
uopriation.
At Grcensborough, Mrs. Elizabeth
Grown, of Danville, Va., was robbed of
1:1)0, nnd then so severely stabbed with
i knife that she died soon after. There
s no clew to the murderers, who enticed
ler to suburbs of tire town under pre
tense of showing her the way to a hotel,
the being a stranger in the place.
Last September, AmmaEllis, a colored
man of Sampson county, killed his fath
er, John Allen Ellis, under circumstances
which made the crime peculiarly atro
cious. After the crime Amnia fled, but
was soon captured nnd convicted. His
execution at Raleigh ou Tuesday was
public, and three thousand persons saw
t,. There was a military guard, but no
lisorder.
TKNNKSNKK.
Bishop Radainacher, of Nashville, laid
the corner stone of the new Catholic
Church in Chattanooga. Tr.c event was
a memorable one. The chutcli is to cost
$125,000.
John P. Long, tbe oldest and one of
the foremost citizens of Chattanooga,
died on Wednesday after a lingering ill
ness. He was one of the pioneers who
laiil out the city, having located there in
1836, when Chattanooga was a wilder
ness, inhabited by the Indians.
John Blackwell was stabbed to death
by Lulu Meredeth at a dance given in
the fifth ward in Chattanooga. Black
well was paying attention to some other
girl, which enraged Lula, and she
plunged the blade of a dirk into Black
well's heart, killing him instantly. The
murderess made her escape.
George Schoffner, a bright colored
man of 20, was arrested at Nashville,
for stealing, and confessed his crime and
went to jail. He wus given S3OO by his
employer in Huntingdon to deliver, and
instead of delivering, got on the train
and came to Nashville. When found he
had bought two small saloons in Black
Bottom, and was running them both.
A shocking tragedy occurred at Day
ton, on the line of the Cincinnati South
ern railroad, which will result in the
death of Col. S. B. Northup. Police
man Doughty and several friends went
into the livery stable to warm. They
made some noise, which annoyed Col.
Northup, who was sleeping off a spree
in the room above. Northup sent word
for them to get out, but they refused to
obey the order and the old gentleman
went down stairs, and takin" Policeman
Doughty by the arm led him to the
door. When the men arrived on the
scene, Northup began beating Doughty
over the head with a cane, when the
policeman drew a revolver and shot the!
lolonel through the body, inflicting a
mortal wound.
Alt li ANH4N.
John M. Clayton, brother of Powell
Clayton, was assassinated at Plummer
villa, hy somo unknown person who fired
a load of buck shot through a window,
breakiug Clayton’s neck ami killing him
instantly. Mr. Clayton was emendate
for Congress at the recent election
against C. R. Ureckenrhlgo, aud had
served upon Mr. Breckenridge a notice
of contest of his seat in tho Fifty-first
Congress, Nothing has hccotnc public
which iu any manner explains the mur
der. A bill was presented in the Senate
at Little Rock, authorizing the governor
to offer $5 ,000 reward for the arrest ol
the murderer or murderers.
I.OITMIANA.
White Caps have made their appear
ance in Louisiana. They are reported to
have whipped and driven off several ne
groes at New Iberia.
Norm CAROLINA.
Fire io Darlington, Wednesday night,
destroyed the jail and other buildings.
Total loss $11,000; insurance 1(1,000.
Things are lively in Beaufort county.
W. J. Whipper, probate judge, and W.
P. Graham, coroner, w ere at rested and
jailed for contempt of court iu refusing
to obey a mandamus i-sued by the court,
directing them to surrender the records
of their office to the candidates who were
declared elected at the recent election.
The death of Dr. L. M. Shaffer, in the
state penitentiary, rec alls the most re
in arkanlc series of Climinal transactions
known to police records, the bond
swindling insurance eases. The deceased
bore an unblemished reputation for
honor and probity among his fellow men,
but he had led a double life, very much
in the style of I)r. Jekvll and Mr. Hyde.
In connection witli the bonds he had
used his official position in the Royal
Templars of Temperance, an insurance
organization, to defraud it by tho enroll
ment of fictitious names on the member
ship list, and by furnishing proofs ol
the deaths of the alleged members, ob
taining the insurance claims thereon.
ALL OVER
THE WORLD.
A MOST INTERESTING MED LET
OF CAREFUL CULLINGS.
what is aoixa os is imore-nisTnmrisHED
KIN DEAD—FEARCF.’s PERIL—OEBKAHT ASD
THE UNITED STATES.
The walls of the burned opera house
in Duluth, Minn., fell nnd buried sev
eral persons in the luins.
Near Plum Creek Station, on the
Southern Pacific road, a passenger train
was crushed into by a freight train.
The report that Lord Sackville West
would succeed Sir William White as
British ambassador at Constantinople is
contradicted.
David Sheehy, member of Parliament,
was found guilty of violating the crimes
act and sentenced to a six months’ im
prisonment, without hard labor.
A change of venue has been granted
in the case of boodle Alderman Cleary,
of New York, to Broome county, ot
which Binghamton is the county scat.
Lake View, a thickly settled suburb
of Chicago, 111., is undergoing an epi
demic of typhoid fever, caused by the
contamination of its drinking water from
the sewage of Chicago. Many deaths
have occurred, nnd there are several
hundred fever patients in the little sub
urb.
The lockout of two thousand miners
and company men who struck at Spring
Valley, 111., ten days ago, seems to be at
an end, the Spring Valley Coal Cos. hav
ing decided to reopen two of its mines.
The strikers have fully conceded to the
company its right to hire men and dis
charge as many men as they see fit.
During a recent storm, two school
children nesr Hitchcock, Dakota, per
ished in the snow, and a third was
savercly frozen. Owing to the storm,
their brother could not get to the school
house as usual to take them home, and
after waiting until dusk they started
home, but lost the road and were soon
overcome with cold.
Henry W. Adams, of Brooklyn, N. X.,
who took the place of one of the striking
railroad employes, was murdered by be
ing thrown from an upper story of the
car stables while asleep. For safety, lif
slept in one of the stable bins, and led
by an unfaithful watchman, four men
picked him up as he lay sleeping in his
blankets, and threw him through a win
dow to the sidewalk.
Boone Marlow, who killed Sheriff
Wallace, for which offense his foul
brothers were recently mobbed, wus
killed in tbe Indian Territory by John
Demickson and Tom Beavers. They
tracked Marlow to his hiding place,
Hnd, covering him with their Winches
ters, ordered him to throw up his hands.
Instead of surrendering, he reached for
his six-shooter, whereupon Demickson
and Beavers fired upon him, killing him
instantly.
Mrs. Mackie Rawson, of Chicago, 111,
wife of the millionaire banker, who in
3pen court shot his lawyer nearly to
death, was acquitted. Mrs. Rawson’s
motive for the attempted kill
ing was the activity of Whitney, the
lawyer, in working up testimony to
smirch her reputation. Only two ballots
were taken, the jury finding in favor of
the defendant on the ground that she had
been rendered temporarily insane at the
time the deed was committed.
Archduke Rudolph, Austrian crown
prince, and heir apparent to the throne,
died suddenly on Wednesday, neat
Baden. His death is supposed to
have been caused by apoplexy.
Archduke Charles Louis, the emperor’s
brother, is now heir presumptive to the
throne. He has three sons, Archduke
Francis, Otho and Ferdinand. It is
Hated that Archduke Francis resigned
his right to the succession, upon inherit
ing the Duke of Modena’s property, and
that consequently Atchduke Otho is the
next heir. It is thought, however, that
Francis’ resignation was only condi
tional. _____
FINE GUNS.
A trial of the dynamite gun whioh is
to compote one third of the armament
of the Vesuvius, took place at Fort La'
fayettc, New York harbor. Tho con'
tract required that 30 per cent of the
shells fired should fall within an area 50
feet by 150 at a distance of one mils or
more. Of the eight shells fired, four
fell within the allotted space, thus ful
filling the terms of the contract.
PEN PHOTOS OF
WASHINGTON.
DOINGS OP THE “OUT'S," AND
WIIAT THE “IN'S" PROPOSE.
com; i< kan.
Quito a lively debate took place in
the Senate on Thursday about Samoan
affairs,and Mr. Reagan said that lie agreed
with Mr. Frye, that there was not a
fourth-rate European power “that would
have stood what the United States gov
ernment has stood from Germany.” The
President's Message relating to ISamoa,
rend in the House on Wednesday, was
read and referred to the foreign rotation::
committer. After some unimportant
iimduess, the Senate resumed c nsidorn
tion of the diplomatic and consular ap
propriation bill, the pending question
being on the amendments teferiiug to
Samoa.... In the Home, Mr. Springer of
Illinois, called up as the special order
the Oklahoma bill. Mr. Grosvenor, of
Ohio, made a point of order that hy tea
son of adjournment Wednesday, tho 1-ill
had lost its privileged character. The
Speaker overruled the point of order,
holding that the bill was privileged
under operation of tbe previous ques
tion The bill having been taken
up, Mr. Y oder, of Ohio, moved to
leconsider the vote by which the
House agreed to the Payson soldiers’
homestead amendment.” Lost. Mr.
O’Farrell, of Virginia, moved a recon
sideration, nnd Mr. Springer moved to
table that motion, pending which the
House adjourned.
The Senate resumed consideration of
tho diplomatic nnd consular appropria
tion bill on Wednesday, the question be
ing on amendments affecting the Samoan
islands, Mr. Dolph said he could not
conceive why tho government should
spend SIOO,OOO in establishing a coaling
station at I’ago-I’ngo unless the govern
ment should insist that all its rights were
to continue, lie took the position that
if Congress were to interfere in matters,
something very different from the pend
ing amendment would be required. Re
ferring to Mr. Cleveland’s Message on
the subject, Mr. Reagan remarked that
the President understood that he had ex
hausted the authority conferred on him
by Ihe Constitution, and felt thnt lit
must now ask Congress wliat furthei
steps should be taken. .. .The Oklahoma
bill was brought to the attention of the
House by Mr. Springer, of Illinois, with
the motion to go into committee of the)
whole for its consideration. Mr. Finley,
of Kentucky, laiaed the point of “no
quorum.” Roll call followed, anil tha
motion was agreed to —yeas 134, najt
54, Mr. Dockery, of Missouri, being as
signed to preside over the committee.
The pending amendment was offered by
Mr. Payson, of Illinois, expressly pro
viding that the right of honorably dis
charged Union soldiers aud sailors of thcl
late Civil War to make homes on public!
lands, under the existiug homestead
law, shall not, in any degree, be im
paired by tho passage of this bill, bul
that such rights shall extend to any and
all lands which shall be open to any set
tlement under the provisions of this hill.
Finally, the amendment was agreed to,
pro forma, and it was agreed that a vote
should be taken in the House upon it.
Sevtrnl other amendments were adopted
prescribing the method of disposing ol
the land in the new territory. When,
pursuant to the special order, the liout
of 4 o’clock having arrived, the commit
tee rose and reported the bill to the
House. The first vote was taken on Mr.
Payson’s “soldiers’ homesteads” amend
ment, and it was agreed to—yeas 114,
nays 111. Pending further votes, tho
House adjourned.
NOTES.
Judge Crisp, of Georgia, reported
from the committee the bill appropriat
ing $20,000 for a light house at St.
Catherine’s Sound, Georgia.
The President nominated to be post
masters, John If. Davis, Tallapoosa, Ga.,
Mrs. Jennie 11. Livingston. South Pitts
burg Tenn.; Fiorina A. Hines, Suffolk,
Ga.
The third annual convention of the
American Shipping and Industrial League
has begun its se.-sion iu Washington,
General Joseph Wheeler, its president,
in the chair.
Harry L. Ryan, Secretary Bayard's
stenographer, has been ordered to pro
ceed to Florida to obtain the election
certificate of that state for use in count
ing the electoral vote of tire Union.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina, has
ruined the sight of one of his eyes by
his treat labors on the tariff Mil, and his
physician informed him that it
would he necessary to remove the organ.
The President nominated Jesse I).
Abraham 0 , of Virginia, to be comptroll
er of currency, vice William L. Tren
holm, resigned, and Miss Mary A Du
seubury to be postmaster at Concord,
N. C.
Electoral messengers from a’l the
states except Florida, have deposited
certificates, giving the result of the
meeting of the presidential electors in
their respective state 0 , with the presi
dent pro tern, Ingalls.
The contract for the granite wharf at
Charleston, 9. C., awarded to I). A. J.
fcuillivan, has been revoked and anew
contract made with the Southern Con
struction A Quarry Cos., to perform the
work at $107,800.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, introduced
a memorial from the, Southern Manufac
turer’* Association, and the association
of exhibitors at the late Augusta exposi
tion, indorsing the American Shipping
and Industrial League.
Mr Candler, of Georgia, is making un
effort to lmvo all persons charged with
violations of the internal revenue laws
in his district pardoned by the Presi
dent. There are 150 of these men either
in jail or out on bond.
Col. Carroll D. Wright, commissioner
of the department of labor, sub
mitted to the Secretary of the Interior
bis fourth annual report, which deals ex
clusively with the subject of “working
women in the great cities.” The report
shows that the working women in the
great cities are practically girls. Ihe
average age in all the cities comprehend
'd is twenty-two years and seven months.
The highest average age is found in
Charleston, S. C.-twenty-five years and
one month; the lowest average in St.
i au \—twenty-one years and live months,
u is found, however, that the concentra
tion is greatest at the age of 18. I lie
average weekly earnings by cities it
[riven as follows: Atlanta, $1.0.); Balti
more $4 18; Boston, $>.G4; Brooklyn,
0570’; Buffalo, $4.27; Charleston,
tJ. 32: Chicago. $3.74; Cincinnati.
NUMBER 16.
|t.!so; Cleveland, 14.63; Indian
apolis, $4.67; Louisville, $4.51;
Newark, ♦•’>.lo; New Orleans, $4.31;
New York, |6.88; Philadelphia, $5.34;
Providence, $5.31; Richmond, $3.03;
St. Louis, 15.19; St. Paul, |6.02; San
Francisco, $6 61; San Jose, ♦6.11; Sa
vannah, 84,90; all cities, i r >.24. The
report onvers 342 industries, in which are
employed 17,427 women.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Atlanta has ordered anew set of iron
cells for her station-house.
Two hundred colored people in At
lanta have applied for license to teach
school.
Rev. Oco-ge Macauley, the oldest
Episcopal '•Jiiin, sw<" in At’anta, died of
pa-alyai* „>n Hicunesday.
Snow fell at Savannah, but the ground
wus not covered. The sight was an un
usual one for that section.
Uncle Clnbc Trussell, one of the oldest
Methodist preachers in the state, died at
Villa Ric.i. He was about eightv-elght
years old when he died.
Shipping freights still rematu high
and still at Savannah, owing to the ina
bility to secure accommodations. By
the middle of February a drop is ex
pected, as a large part of the cotton and
other commodities will be transported.
Echols, of Covington, who, it is al
leged, murdered Thomas and assaulted
Cohen, of Madison, two men who had
won some money from him at gambling,
was refused bail by the Supreme Court,
at Atlanta, on Wednesday.
There are twelve citizens fresh from
the Emerald Isle in Atlanta, prospecting
with a view to establishing an Irish
colony. They are from Donegal, in
North Irelaud, and represent considerable
capital. ’lhey all talk genuine Irish
dialect and are well pleased with Amer
ica.
A train at Brunswick, bound for Al
bany, met with a singular accident.
A freight train upon a siding had left a
car too near the msin track, and as the
train came by at the rate of forty miles
an hour the freight car grazed it as it
passed. The engineer had his arm out
of the cab, but pulled it in just in time
to save it. One side of the passenger
coach was torn up, the windows
smashed in and plsnks torn off. Fortu
nately, no one was hurt.
A blood-besmeared postal card, signed
“Jack the Ripper,”ws received by Mar
shal Dart, at Btuuswick, stating that he
was in town and would commence his
murdcrouß work Wednesday uight. No
attention was paid to the card until at
night, a negro woman of the lower class
rushed into police headquarters with the
collar of her dress torn off, and several
scratches on her face. She said that on
her way home from a neighbor's house
in the northern part of the city, a man
suddenly sprang from around the corner,
and commenced cutting at her.
The Woolfolk murder case is before
the Supreme Court at Atlanta, and Col.
J. W. Rutherford, for the defence
claimed that the character of the wounds
inflicted upon Capt. Woolfolk, Richard.
Charley and Pearl and the position of
the bodies arc ull opposed to the idea of
one man doing the work. These wounds
were made with both the blade and
head of the ax. “Our theory is that two
persons commenced the attack —that they
were negroes—that they killed Captain
Woolfolk first, then Mrs. Woolfolk, that
as Richard ran in they both attacked
him. As to the motive of the negroes to
commit the crime, Capt. Woolfolk was
unpopular with them."
The Central Railroad train due at
Millcdgeville at 2:20 Wednesday after
noon, happened to an accident about
live miles below that city, in which sev
eral cars were badly wrecked. The
train had left Stevens’ Pottery and was
speeding with the wind toward Milledge
villc. When near the trestle over Camp
creek the tracks spread, and three of the
freight cars, together with the mail,
baggage and passenger coaches, were
precipitated down the embankment. It
was found that the mail agent, Mr. Ad
ams, was bruised considerably and his
hend badly cut. Express Messenger
Leese Caraker was bruised up badly. O.
C. Pace, a traveling salesman for W. T.
Conn & Cos., of Millcdgeville, was badly
hurt. Baggagemaster Jack Sharp, foot
mushed. Mrs. T. L. Avant, bruised up,
but not serious.
WHAT LEARY BAY 6.
Commander Leary, of the warship
Adams, which arrived at San Fraucisco,
Cal., from Honolulu on Thursday, in an
interview said: “There was a great
commotion when I was at Apia. I went
down therewith all kinds of orders suited
to a time of peace,but when the war broke
out, I threw the orders to the wind.
There was a meeting of consuls aboard
the German warship Adler, and at the
meeting I said to ttie Germans: ‘Now,
just let the natives tight it out between
themselves.’ Oh, no, they could not do
that. Thev said they had proclaimed
Tamascse king and they could not leave
him now to fight alone. Then I said, 1
would take a hand in this. If you per
sist in aiding Tamasesc and lighting foi
him, I will participate, and I pulled the
Adams in ahead of the Adler, and would
have done my part in the fray if the
Germans had" decided they must have it.
1 had made up niy mind that the Adams
could throw some shells, too. At this
thev eased down, and promised that if
should be ‘hands off.’”
WEBTERN WHITE CAPS.
White Caps have made their appear
ance neat Adrian, Mich., and the Prose
cuting Attorney is now investigating.
Notice* written in red ink, one side orna
mented with skull and cross bones and
the other with a barrel, on which is
written the word “tar,” have been re
ceived by several citizens of the village
of Tecumseh. The following is a sam
ple; ‘ Lodge of White Cape, Tecum-
Beh: Sir—We have organized a lodge ol
White Caps for the improvement of so
ciety in Tecumseh. Now, if you don’t
go to work and support your wife as •
white man should, we will make Tecum
•eh the hottest town you ever lived in,
Lodge of White Cops, No. H 432.”
A HEAVY HAND.
Dispatches from Auckland regarding
Samoan Islands state, that German nava
officers have been notified to search all
ve-sels in Samoan waters for contraband
articles The Germans have suppressed
the Samoan Times, a paper published in
the English language at Apia.