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[Written for the Friendship (N. Y.) ]
Edith Wilder s
Journal.
By METTA E. S. BENSON,
Author of “ Barbara Dare,” “ Her Trim
Friend,” '• Dr. Vetnor's IAIVO Af
fairs,” “Thi! Missing Ring,”
“Lovo’a Sacrifice,” eto.
CHAPTER I.
July 12, 19—
I, Edith Wilder, am to keep a journal.
I wonder wh it would Sirs. Chilsom say,
if blio knew? Nearly every night Mrs.
Jordan wrote something in a creel cover
ed book which she kept in the top
drawer of her bureau. I questioned her
about it onetime, and I think she must
have divined by my eyes that I thought
it a wonderful thing to do, for to-night,
when she kissed me at the door of my
room, she slipped into my hand this
beautiful brown book, with its white,
meaningless leaves waiting for
my eager soul to reach out and
inipriui them. I am writing
upon its first page now* —what
—what shall I write upon its last one ?
Ah, who can tell, since “ We please our
fancy with ideal webs of innovation, but
our life meanwhile is in the loom, where
busy passion plies the shuttle to and fro,
and gives our deeds the accustomed pat
tern.”
However, I slm'l seek to make this
journal as nearly as possibly like a real
printed story. And yet, when the record
is all written, even to the last page, it
will doubtless app ar to another who
may chance to read a very prosy story,
iinee it will be made up of the fragment
ary happenings of a girl's life. But, to
my heart and me, it will not be without
import, for it will contain the significa
tion of our hope, joy, aud love; out
struggle, disappointment, sadness, and
despair.
Now the story of Joyce’s life would be
quite a different affair. That would read
like a poem, a glowing, passionate East
ern song, which would needs be written
upon rose-hued paper, bound in blue and
gold.
Seven years ago, when mamma died,
Mrs. Volney took Joyce into her mag
nificent home, d,siring to rear her as her
own daughter. Sirs. Volney lived in the
southern part of the city, where there
was a halo of artistic beauty, a newness
and a freshness pervading all things. 1
was glad Joyce had found such a lovely
home aud such a grand lady as Mrs. Vol
ncy to care for her; but I also had,which
was quite as natural, a deep throb oi
scif-cumniiscrution for my own less happy
fate.
Mrs. Chilsom lived in the older part
of the city where its growth began in a
huddle of low houses. In one of these
she dwelt. A long, low, rambling house,
with heavy brown gables and great, over'
hanging trees.
Mrs. Chilsom kept boarders, and it
followed therefore that she needed a girl
to help about the kitchen and run ol
errands, and so —I had a place.
This contrast in our new social posi
tions was not so very strange after all.
It was no more marked than the dislinc
tive type of face and nature we each
possessed.
Joyce was such a lovely child—hair
like spun gold, falling in wavy masses far
below her waist; eyes; wide open and
violet blue; complexion, all snow and
rose3, aud with such a warm breezy way
as drew everyone’s attention to herself.
People were always giving her bright,
pretty things; no one ever thought of
me; I was such a shy, p'ain child.
From our mother Joyce inherited her
rare beauty and attractiveness, while I
was born with the birthmark of my
father's nature upon mo—a nature silent,
intense, visionary, and with deep under
tones of sorrow.
Well, the dreaded days at Mrs. Chil-
Bom’s began, days that grew speedily
into years. For a growing g rl I was over
worked, and, as a result, was often de
pressed, discouraged and morbidly sen
sitive. I was not wholly unhappy,
however; it takes so little to make hap
piness for a child.
There were brief and far-between visits
from Joyce; and there were rare and
radiant afternoons when, by an extra
amount of work before and after, 1 was
allowed a few hours at Mrs. Volney’.
1 shall never forget my first visit to
Joyce after we were once permanently
settled in our new homes.
I went by special invitation from Mrs.
Volney, herself; and I think Airs. Chil
som consented to my going, notfrom any
desire to please the poor little homesick
girl, whom fate had placed in her care:
but rather because she was proud of even
this vague social relation between a mem
ber of her househofd aud the elegant
Airs. Volney.
Among the fountains and flowers of
the wide, well-kept lawn surrounding
the Volney mansion, Joyce waited for
my coming that mid-summer afternoon,
and came fluttering across the velvety
turf to meet me, a pretty perfumed pict
ure all in blue and white. How dull I
looked beside her, in my dress of brown
lawn, with no bit of bright ribbon to re
lieve its plainness. I thought even of
my shoes; how very coarse they seemod
compared with her dainty kid slippers.
Silly things to trouble about, Mrs.
Chilsom would have said. No doubt
they were; but there had been born with
me a rare consciousness of beauty. I
cannot remember a time when I did not
love sweet sounds, rejoico in rich colors
and feel a strange pleasure in harmonious
forms. It was, therefore, a real source
of discomfort to me that I was compelled
to wear such coarse and unbecoming ap
parel, and the thought of it crept into this
hour of joy with a sharp thrust of pain.
All the poetry of life—the roses and
gladness—fell to Joyce.
No, not quite all, for growing close to
the one window of my small, low room,
wa3 a grand old maple. So near it grew
that I could step out through the open
window upon one of its stout limbs and
thus reach the body of the tree, where
another limb had been growing and
crooking itself for years into a very com
modious and comfortable scat. I fancied
there—l half believe now with a far
deeper sense of the reality of things—
that that gnarled limb was grown on
purpose fur me; for .without that one
little nook over which beauty and
dreams held royal sway, how could 1
have endured those years at Airs. ( hil
som’s? Here 1 sat, when earth and sky
were full of the silver radiance of moon
light, or pensive with the faint shining
of l he far-olt star*, or when the wind crept
around the corner of thu old houso
with a low lamenting that foretold the
cumin;: storm, and dreamed the home
away; dreamed ami questioned as no
child ever will, save one whoso heart is
starve l Tor human love. i had no pro
tecting parent aims to rest in, ami so I
drew clo'O to the great heart of nature,
and, clinging there, learned to see vision*
in the sky; to hear voices among the
leaves, aud to read a p h-iu in the simplest
flower. Beside, Mrs Chilsom was a
strict churc h attendant, and this brought
to mo anotln r source of joy. the Suhbatli
scnool. its nooks were so much to mo
—chatty stories, biographies, works of
travel, histories and during the week
each one became a friend that I hado
farewell with a genuine throb of regret.
Therefore, the poetry was not all for
Joyce, for now ami then a rhythmic verse
flashed into the dull prose of my oidi
nary life.
But about that visit to Joyce.
“O, Dithy!” she exclaimed ns she
raught my outstretched hands and pressed
her sweet lips to mine. “ 1 thought you
were never to come. It seems like an
age that I’ve been waiting, and we are to
have such a jolly time, too. Alanuna
Volney says we are to have our supper in
the Rose arbor all by ourselves, and that
Martha shall wait upon us like we were
big people, you know.” •
“ O, Joyce,” said I, half dismayed, as
we entered the great hall and I caught
sight of the magnificent rooms opening
upon cither hand.
“I had no idea that it would be so
very beautiful. It matt be, it is like
heaven.” She laughed, a low, sweet rip
ple down in her white throat.
“ You’ll get accustomed to it after a
little, Dith. It most took nty breath
away after the dingy rooms upon Trail
street, but I don't mind it in the least
now. One can get used to most any
thing, I guess.”
While she talked she removed my hat
(one of Airs. C'hilsom’s.done over,and my
especial abhorrence),and taking my hand
conducted me to a cool, shadowy room
opening from the conservatory, where
Airs. Volney sat reading, she received
me graciously enough, and yet there was
an indefinable something about her pale,
proud face, even with the smile of wel
come upon it, which repelled me, and 1
was glad when at last we were alone in
Joyce’s room.
What a contrast to mine was this blue
and drab room, with its gilt-mounted
bed-room suit, its snow-white toilet ap
purtenances and all its dainty appoint
ments. Through the open window cam<
the sweet breath of the summer wind
gently swaying the foamy lace curtains.
There were pretty, costly trifles scattered
about the room: there were pictures, and
books, aud fresh cut flowers in the vases.
“Yon must be very happy, Joyce, in
such a lovely room that is all your own,”
I said.
“Yes,” lingering over the word, “I
suppose I am, only at first the nights
were terrible. I had never slept away
from you, Dithy, you know, ir. in- whole
life, and I did miss you so, aud used to
cry for you every night. So Mamma
Volney had Alartha come and lie on the
couch there, and she would tell all sorts
of queer stories until I fell asleep. And
beside,l used to think about mamma and
how dreadful still and dead she looked
when the folks came and put her in that
horrid old tight box, and shut up her
beautiful eyes so she couldn’t see us any
more and know how hard wewerecry
ing.”
She nestled close up in my arms, as
she had always done —so close that her
golden curls fell over my brown lawn.
“Can it he possible. Joyce, that you
have missed me so much:”
“Indeed I have; and I fretted about it
till Alanuna Volney sent James to that
dreadful old Airs. Chilsom’s with a note
asking you to come, and she has prom
ised that I shall see you ever so often
after this, if I won’t cry any more.”
Very soon, with the elasticity of child
hood, we forgot the sorrows of the past
in the joy of the present. There was so
much to be seen—so many things to be
talked of—so many fairy-like nooks to
lie explored—that the hours of that
never-to-be-forgotten afternoon went by
unnoticed. At five o’clock we had sup
per in the Rose arbor—and such a supper!
Even Airs. Volney herself came out to
superintend its arrangement. But it
ended all too soon, and Joyce accompa
nied me as far as Blackstone street, and
there, with her warm kisses lingering
like fragrance upon my lips, I turned
away to hide my tears and hastened back
to the old wearying life again.
How humble, how destitute of all
beauty, my little room up under the
eaves seemed after Joyce's. I was never
so rebellious in my life. ’I could not even
kneel to repeat the sitngle prayer my
beautiful, dead mother had taught me,
but crept into lied and sobbed myself
into an uneasy slumber.
While I live there will hang upon the
wall of my memory a picture which the
brush of an artist could never have pro
duced. It is the picture of a small, low
room, its bare, smoke soiled walls
adorned by bits of drawing, flowers,
human heads, landscapes—the crude
work of an untaught child, yet showing
in the boldness of design the fervor of
an inherent gift.
Painting had been the one passion of
my father’s soul from boyhood. He was
born into a home of poverty, and after
years of trouble was just gaining for
himself a place in the realm of art when
mamma, a petted cliil 1 of wealth and in
all her sweet, starry girlishness, came
into his studio one morning aud—
“Once get a seent ot musk into a drawer
And it clings hold like precedents in law.”
Not a proud father could displace the
affection which took instant root in
these two young hearts. Thus, along
with her helplessness, and her beauty,
and her loving, she brought a father’s
curse. I only know in' part the bliss ami
sorrow of the years that followed, until
death came and left Joyce and me, two
helpless waifs, adrift upon the great
world’s restless tide.
* * * * * * *
Things that of themselves are the
merest trifles, in their consequences
sometimes influence the whole after
course of one’s life. Mrs. Chilsom was
having a dress made in a shop upon
AVashington street. Saturday night
found her prostrated by an attack o<
nervous headache. The dress must Ins
had, and I was commissioned to go for
it in her place, and with many an in
junction “to fetch all the pieces, the
thread that remained and the extra but
tons, if any such there chanced to be.”
It was a pleasant half-hour's walk to
Washington street. A woman of perhaps
thirty years answered the door-call. She
wore a well fitting dress of some -oft gray
material,adorned by a pretty white apron
and a knot of bright ribbon at her
throat.
Her face, though not in any manner
beautiful, was pleasing in expression,
"MY COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER UK RTQHT; RIGHT OH 1 VRONG, MY COUNTRY /’’—Jrpvichbon.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 7. 1882.
sml he bore about her the imh-flnnMe
air of age tie-woman. Surrounded by
the advantages of wealth and high social
standing, she would have been a lady.
Having been forced by < iivtiinsluin os
into this menial position, site was a lady
still.
This much I noted almost instantly,
even before I said: “1 have come for
Mrs. Chilsoin’s dress.”
, “Ah, \os, but you will have to waitn
little; it is not entirely finished. 1 uni
very much hurried in these days.”
She smiled as sho spoke, and placed a
chair f > titer near an open window.
It was a homc-iike pltr-e. A band
some carpet covered the floor; there
were well selected pictuict upon the
walls, and tin- whole furnishing of thu
room betokened cheer and comfort. .
sudden impulse was born within me and I
said, without time for thinking: “i on
say you are hurried, I wish I might routs
and work with you.”
“There in tide in the affairs of men,
which, taken at the flood, leads on to
fortune;” and that half hour in which I
waited for Mrs. Chilsom’s dress, proved
to be the turning tide of my destiny.
Sitting beside this woman who. I felt,
had known sorrow, I was emboldened to
tell her in part the story of my life. In
return she told me this much of tier oan
life: Herself and mother, both widows,
lived alone, dependent upon their laltor
for support. About working for her
she would talk the matter over with her
mother, and [ was to call for their de
cision sometime during the following
week.
This was the first real “ waiting time”
I had ever known, and [ am afraid I did
not bear it very heroically. 1 tried to
recall stories I had read tf martyrs who
had quietly folded their arms ami smiled
while the flames devoured them : tried to
remember some of the wonderful things
men had planned and words they had
written while lingering out a living
death incarcerated in noisome old prison
cells. It was all in vain. I could not
look backward. All the young activity
within me rushed forward in a warm
current of desire toward a possible event.
Every waking hour was fully occupied
with alternating images for and against
the probability of my becoming an in
mate of Airs. Jordan's household. Every
one comes to just such places now aud
then in the course of his lifetime, I sup
pose. Places where “Desire has
trimmed the sails and circumstance
brings but the breeze to till them.”
Whoever has thus waited in uncertain
ty for the failure or fruition of some
hoped for good, can understand the per
petually changing moods by which 1
was controlled during the hours tlial
intervened between that Saturday nigbl
and the Wednesday following.
Airs. Chilsom scolded and threatened.
I was never so careless in my life she
said. But, oh! what dreams I had,
while, with all possible serenity, I per
formed my daily tasks. Dreams ol
freedom; of a future apart from Mrs.
Chilsom; of a release from the disc tec
aide drudgery ol a boarding hour s; ol
adequate compensation for labor pi r
formed, and the added sen-e of self
retpect that would naturally come with
the independence of carrying one’s own
purse, and being extravagant or econom
ical according to one’s own desire or ne
cessities.
Wednesday night, when the prepara
tions for the early Thursday morning
breakfast were all completed, I slipped
out unobserved, and fairly flew along the
gas-lighted streets until I reached the
home of Airs. Jordan.
Aly answer was all I had hoped for.
I was to remain with them six months,
after that the magic door of the wide,
wide world would he open before me.
What wonderful possibilities it con
tained! what avenues of joy! what
palaces of hope!
I waited until morning to tell Mrs.
Chilsom of tho nrouosed change, and 1
shall never forget the storm which the
disclosure evoked. She paused in the
midst of her p’e-making, her face grow
ing fairly purple with rage.
“Edith Wilder,” she cried, “you are
the laziest aud most ungrateful little
hussy on the face of the earth. Hain’t
you alius had enough to eat and a plenty
of comfort’ble elothin’, and hain’t I al
ius ben strivin’ to make a good Christian
girl of you ? 1 wonder my soul ain't
completely emptied of all the grace of
charity long afore this, with the dread
ful worry you’ve ben to me from first to
last. Ail you’ve ever cared for waz to
set around, and make pictures and read
books, and me a slavin’ myself to death
to take care of you. AVell, you can go,
but you needn’t think Ell ever take you
in agin if you starve in the streets.”
Unmoved by her ravings 1 went quiet
ly about the work of the day, filling in
the odd moments with preparations for
departure. I could even smile at her
words, for I knew that Airs. Chilsom's
tongue had lost its venomed power.
It was May-time when I came here; it
was July now, and I think I would rather
die than go back to Airs. Chilsom’s after
this touch of real home life. We are a
very quiet family. Mrs. Jordan has but
one child, a bright, beautiful four-year
old boy—little Charley.
One day his mamma said, while a tear
splashed down upon the pretty striped
silk she was working upon: “I wish I
could go out into the country a little
way this afternoon behind a fast-stepping
horse. It would he something to stir
me up, for I do grow so tired of it all at
times—the work and the worry, I mean.”
After a moment Charley looked up
from his play of building a train of cars
out of his blocks and numberless spools:
“You shall go, mamma,” lie asserted, a
smile like sunshine illuminating his face,
“for Charley just told a white-winged
angel all about it. Shall Charley go,
too, mamma?”
“Yes, dearie,” stooping to kiss his
sweet mouth, with lips that quivered in
spite of her bravery.
I was so glad it happened as it did,
for less than half hour afterward Air.
Benton dashed up to tho gate with a
span of spirited dapple grays.
“Nellie,” he called, in his genial
voice, “bring the boy and come out to
tho farm for an hour. Don’t you dare to
say no,” seeing her hesitate. “I’ll have
you hack by 5 o’clock, sharp.”
She came back almost as radiant as
Charley himself.
“There, that will do for a whole week,
won’t it, dear?” as she put aside liet
hat.
“Yes, but wasn’t it jolly though,
mamma? When I'm a big man, I’ll have
a nice splendid farm, too, and horses
that can go like the very old fury.
Tell you, didn’t that beautiful angel
hear what I asked him quick?”
How pleasant it is to be xvriting down
these every day occurrences in u book
that is my very own.
Just hero at the end of this introduc
tion to my journal, I wish to write
these words: lam content. And I write
them here, that however my life may
ebb and flow, 1 cannot be forgetful o)
this tidemark of its calm pleasure.
July 20.
The quiet of our homo-life was broken
in upon to-day by something iikiu to a
tragedy.
Airs. Jordan and I were very busy with
tho usual Saturday’s hurry of finishing
up, when Airs. Abbott came into the
room with a tiny cake she had baked fot
Charley.
“Ho is playing in the yard,” Airs.
Jordan said in answer to her inquiry.
But he was not there. The gate stood
slightly ajar. Alarmed, we called hit
name, we searched for him through the
house, in the yard, up and down the ail
jaccnt streets’ and with an auxicty that
grew moro intense with every pussius
moment.
[to be continued.]
ALL OVER
THE WOULD.
.1 MOST IN TURKS TING MEDLET
OK CAREFUL CULLINOS.
IVIIATIS OOINO OX IN FUBOt'E DISTISOnsHEn
men head —France's ikhil —oibsany and
ahe united states.
Jacob E. Goodman, cashier of the
Cook county, 111.. treasurer’s office,disap
peared with $7,000 of the county’s
funds.
Ibe report of Sir Julian Pauncefort’i
ippointment as Brit all minister to the
United States, is officially confirmed in
London.
Storms in Spain hive interrupted com
munication. Selioedlen Pass in the cati
on of Übi, Switzerland, is obstructed
by an avulanclic.
Eleven produce merchants, convicte i
'f selling oleomargarine for butter, were
fined from SIOO to 8250 and costs in
Pittsburg, Pa., on Wednesday.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt
it Marion, 1m1.,0n Wedues lay morning.
Repot ts from a number of towns in that
-tate indicate that the shock was gen
eral.
Two natural gas explosions in Pitts
burg, Pa. wrecked five buddings and in
jured a number of persons, one fatally
md two others quite seriously. One oc
curred in that city on the south side and
the other at Tarentum.
A meeting of the creditors of the Pa
cific Guano company, Gliden & Curtis,
John AI. Gliden and G. AV. Dove, was
held in Boston, Mass. A summary of
Assignee Ropes’ report shows the iiabil
it is of the Pacific Guano company to be
$2,487,800; assets $422,284.
The Norwegian bark Carlu, from Pen
sacola, Fla., for London, was nearly
severed in two in a collision on Thursday
night in thu English Channel with the
British steamer Pascal from Loudon Ro
sario. A passing vessel rescued the crew
of the bark, and landed them at Folks
ton.
Prime Alinistcr Crispi, of Italy, has re
signed. lie was to have spoken in the
Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, but
after a cabinet council, lie decided upon
resigning in order to avoid the inevitable
hostile vote on the government measure
I roviding for additional taxation. Such
a vote would have rendered it difficult
for Crispi to form anew cabinet.
Father Clarke has beett arrested at
Avoca, county Wicklow, Ireland, for
making speeches tending to excite the
people to commit an unlawful act.
Father Kennedy, who was imprisoned
for attending meetings ** suppressed
branches of the National League, has been
released. On being liberated, he ad
dressed a crowd which had gathered to
greet httn. In the course of his speech
he said that when the laws enslaved the
people, they were not obliged to submit
•to them.
The house of Herman Umberger, an
aged farmer, living near Jennerstown,
Somerset Cos., Pa., was entered by two
masked men, claiming they had a sesrcli
warrant for jeweliy that had been stolen
from a pedler iu the neighborhood a
short time ago. Umberger innocently
accompanied them through the house,
and when he was forced to open a trunk
containing $13,000, he placed the money
in his pocket. They then ordered him,
at the points of revolvers, to hand It
over. This he strenuously objected to,
when they fired five shots into his body,
killing him almost instantly. They took
the money and fled in the darkness.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
The St. Louis express, passing St.
George, Ontario, on Monday, went
through a bridge just east of tlmt sta
tion. A broken tire ou one of the en
gine wheels caused the rails to spread,
and the first passenger ear, Pttllm in cm
and dining cir went through the Middle
section of tho bridge. Tho Pullman
ear, which contained most of the passen
gers, was thrown clear off the bridge,
turning completely over, and landing
right tide tip. St George is on the
Oreat Western division of the Grand
Trunk railway. The dining car con
tained übout seven persons beside the
waiters. Supper bad just been an
nounced, and in a few minutes the ears
would have been filled, and all must have
perished. The following is a list of the
casualties: Killed.—George Leggatt. ol
Mitchell; William AVcmp, of London:
D. E. Sivan, of Woodstock; A. AV.
Francis, of Woodstock: Mr. McLean, ol
the firm of AlcLean & Belirer, of De
troit, Mich.; Capt. Moore, of Brantford,
of the Salvation Army; Air. Beers, ol
Woodstock. Twenty-six otheis were
more or less seriously hurt.
ANNEXATION DESIRED.
In the house of Commons at Ottawa,
Ontario, lion. Mr. Laurier. leader of
the Opiiosition, in a brilliant speech
inoved a sweeping resolution that Cana
da enter into negotiations w.th the
United States, and that the modus vi
jvendi he continued. L mrier spoke elo
quently and ut length. He was followed
and replied to hv Sir John Alaedonald.
HELPING BOULANGER.
The Count of Paris has instructed
Count Dillon to sit with the central con
servative committee, thus openly espous
ing Boulangism. Sbereaikers has re
signed his seat in the Chamber of Depu
ties ns a protest against the anti-Bou
langist action of the government.
“Tub President has nominated J. Lee
Tucker* of New York, to ho Deputy Fifth
Auffrtor ot the Treasury, vice Alfred E.
Le4ris, removed, and Janies C. Perry, ol
Nprth ( arobna, to ho an Assistant Surgeon
In the Marino Hospital service.
WASHINGTON
PHOTOGRAPHED.
LIVELY TIMES-ASSERTION OK
A MERIC AN PRINCIPLES.
liONURKMH.
In the Senate, ou Thursday, the fol
lowing bills were passed: Senate bill
appropriating $25,000 for the construc
tion of an iron bridge from the military
teservatiou at Fortress Monroe to Eliza
beth, Virginia; House hill authorizing
the constructs n of a bridge over Bt.
Johns river, Florida; Senate bill fora
bridge across Tallapoosa liver, near
Jttdkin's ferry, Alabama. At the even
ing session of the Senate, Mr. Harris
calliil attention to the fact that no quo
rum was present.... In tho House, Air.
Hatch, of Missouri, presented the con
ference report on the agricultural appro
priation hill, and explained how the dif
ferences between the two Houses (mainly
relating to sugar experimentation), had
been adjusted. The report was agreed
to. The Speaker having laiel before the
House the Semite bill for the protection
of salmon fisheries in Alaska, Mr. Dunn,
of Arkansas, offered an amendment di
recting the President to cause one ot
more United Statiß vessels to cruise in
Behring’s sea and i thcr Alaskan waters
and seize all vessels unlawfully engaged
in seal hunting. The amendment was
adopted and the hill wai passed.
At the evening session Mr. Ermentrout,
of Pennsylvania, offered a resolution,
which was adopted, without any addresses
being delivered, accepting in the name
of the nation, tho st dues of Governor
Muhlenbt rg i nil Robert Fulton,presented
by the state of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chip
man, of Michigan, presented a similat
resolution accepting the statue of Lew is
Cass, the gift of the state of Aliehigan.
In the Senate, on Wednesday, Air. Platt,
from the committee on teritories, re
ported two bills for the admission ol
the states of Idaho and Wyoming. As
soon as the bills were printed, he would
ask for their consideration. Air. Hour,
from the committee on privileges and
elections, repotted an amendment to the
deficiency bill, which was referred to the
committee on appropriations, appropri
ating $25,000 to enable the President of
the United States to offer a suitable re
ward for the detection and conviction of
persons who illegally carried away and
destroyed the ballot boxes of l’lummcr
ville, Ark., at the last election
for representatives in congress
and for the presidential electors.
Air. Riddlebcigcr mude several itieffec
tual efforts to submit a motion to go into
executive session Tiie House went
into committee of the whole ou the In
dian appropriation bill. The pending
amendment appropriating $1112,000 to
pay the Seminole Indians for lands in
the Indian Territory ceded by them to
the United States, was agreed to. The
lands acquired 2,087,000 aeies, are made
open to the settlement and homestead
law.
NOTES.
Col. E. C. McLure, of South Caro
lina, appointment clerk of the Postofficu
Department, died suddenly on Thursday
of heart disease.
President Cleveland appointed Brig,
Gen. Orlando B. Wilcox (retired), gov
ernor of the Soldiers’ Home at Wash
ington, vice Gen. Hunt, deceased.
Secretary Fairchild, on AVcdnesday
afternoon awarded a contract for the
transportation of government moneys
and securities to the United States Ex
press Cos., of which Hon. Thomus C.
Platt is president.
Representative Glass, of Tennessee,
from the committee ou agriculture, ou
Tuesday reported adversely the bills to
punish dealing iu futures iu agricultural
products, and gambling transactions on
articles of American farm industry.
President Cleveland granted a pardon
to Henry Jones, convicted in Georgia of
robbing the mails and sentenced in July,
1887, to five years’ imprisonment in the
Albany, N. A’., penitentiary, less seven
months, on account of time served there
on previous sentence.
President Cleveland signed the hill
granting a pension to Gen. Sheiidans
widow and the bill authorizing placing
Gen. Rosccrims on the retired list of the
army as brigadier general. He also sent
Rosecrans’ nomination to the Senate to
be brigadier general, to date from I eb
ruary 27th.
Two members of the Tennessee dele
gation in Congress are too ill to attend the
sessions of the House. One of these, AI r.
AVhitthorne, lias not been present at all.
lie has been confined to his hotel ever
since the opening of Congress. The
other, Air Neal, is quite ill at his hotel,
and seems to have suffered a general
break down in health.
Air. Arkell, editor of the Jwlje, paid
an election bet to Russell Harrison. He
bet the young man a hat that his father
would not carry Indiana. The hat is the
most expensive ever made in America.
Three artists decorated the satin-lined
interior. The lmt is worth SIOO. Air. Har
rison will wear it on Inauguration Day,
mid then use it for decorative purposes.
A mysterious letter received by the
President-elect on AVodnesdny afternoon
from the AVhito House, proved to be an
invitation to Gen. Harrison and wife to
dine that evening with the President
and Airs. Cleveland. The invitation was
accepted, and at the hour named the
guests left the hotel, their first excursion
of tho day into the open air, for the
AVhite House.
The following nominations were con
firmed: Postmasters— Andrew J. Sturgis,
Crystal Springs, Copiah county. Aliss.;
John H. Davis, Tallapoosa, Ga.; Alargaret
y. Davis, Biloxi, Aliss.; Stephen C. Wea
ver Daytona, Volusia county, Fla.:
John S. Yearwood, Sweetwater, Monroe
county, Tenn.; Jeremiah G. Fowler,
Millcdgevillc, Ga.; John B. Roberts,
Sandersville, AVashington county, Ga. ;
John C. Hunter, Union, S. C.; Dayton
Hale, Columbus, Aliss.; Samuel B. Thomp
son, Lake City, Fla.: Leroy L. Brinkley
Edeuton, N. ('■ AVilliam Rosecrans to
be brigadier-general, to be retired.
President-elect Harrison arrived at the
National Capital on Tuesday. There
was no demonstration except that made
by a score of bootblacks, who halloed:
“That’s him: he’s the President now.”
He stepped off the train carrying the
S3OO hand satchel presented by the
Commercial Travelers’ Association, and
after assisting Airs. Harrison and Baby
McKee to alight, he started for the line
of carriages, which were in waiting. As
ho did bo, he dropped his valise aud
stumbled over it, and as he stooped to
pick it up, Airs. Harrison remarked
something about it being an ill omen, at
which toe general laughed heart 11 ”
Col. Britton then bundled thu President
elect and his wife ait I baby into a car
riage, and thu other no inhere of the
party enter, and tin tr vehicles, and wer
drivi n away. President Cleveland had
sent hli own private carriage to the de
pot, it being his intention t > extend
every courtesy within bis power to his
successor, but Gen. Hartison was in anrh
a rush, that ho got into the wroug cal
flayo -
IT FELL THROUGH.
The Purnell Commission resumed its
itting on Tuesday, in London. After
he ojK'uing of court, Sir Charles llus
- II arosu and stated tliut Richard Pigutt,
lie witness against Mr. Parnell, went to
ho rci-idence of Henry Lnbouchorc, anil
the presence of George Augustus Haiti,
Uiuil a confess on, stating that the
l iters upon which tho Timet based its
i ..urges against Irish members of the
House of Commons were forgeries, and
ho therefore wished the arrest of Pigott.
Ihe true story of how the conspiracy
gainst Parnell was detected, is one of
lie most romantic and extraordinary
narratives in the liistoryof polities. The
videnco by which the conspiracy wus
exploded was sent to London from Lin
coln, Nebraska, by Patrick Egan. With
out the evidence complete in detail and
invincible ut every point, the Timet
would undoubtedly liuve won, notwith
standing the spuriousuess of the letters.
Up to July of last year, Parnell, his
counsel and colleagues, were wholly at
sea. They surmised, conjectured, in
vestigated clews aud found each of them
false. They knew the letters wert
forged, hut ihe forgeries were so adroit,
ihe text of Ihe letters, to say nothing ol
the penmanship, w as so like the habitual
phraseology of Egan and Parnell, that it
was clcir the crime had been committed
by someone having access to the corres
pondence of both. But although the
most astute detectives and the most in
genious ol English 'joluitors were in the
case, every effort to discover the forget
proved futile, aud Parnell and his confi
dants were, if not hopeless, at least de
pressed and disheartened, until last June.
Bigot had written to Egan once asking
for a confidential address to which
he might tend information, aud Egan
concluding to learn what it was, secured
this address, which proved the key to
the forgeries. Egan, who is methodical
iu habit, had saved liis coriespondeuce
for years. Instead of keeping a letter
press lie had been aceustoined to writing
on the fly leaf of the letter received bit
answer to it, and then copying the
answer to be sent to his correspondents.
T hus he bud the letter and answer to
gether. He searched his volumes of let
ters until he found I’igott’s. By compar
ing them with the handwriting on
the forged letters, he saw that
he saw that he had the f. rger. He sub
mitted the letters written by Pigott to
experts, together with fae similes of the
forged letters. They immediately de
tected the characteristic peculiarities
which were confirmed under microscope.
Egan had Pi.-ott’s letters and forgeries
photographed, and in that way made the
evidence clear against Pigott. ’lhe for
ger has fled to Holland.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The lower house of the Legislature
parsed a rnilvray commission bill almost
precisely similar to the Georgia act. Tho
mutter promises to become a political is
sue iu the state.
The legislative joint committee on
pensions on Tuesday, reported favorably
a bill to levy a special tax of four cents
on the hundred dollar property valuation,
and twelve cents on the poll for the Con
federate pensioners. This will raise
something on r SIOO,OOO, or more than
three times the sum now appropriated.
Several hundred more colored people
have left Wayne and sutrounding coun
ties for Kansas, and there are three hun
dred now at Goldsboro awaiting trans
portation. Four hundred have left
Durham county. Three hundred have
left Wake county, and several hundred
more are preparing to leave in a few days.
Howard Anderson was hanged at
Goldsboro, on Wednesday. Death oc
curred in seven minutes. 'Jhe prisoner
was stubbornly uncommunicative to the
last. He made no talk or profession
whatever, lie was a while man, and his
crime was the murder of a poor old bar
becue vender, named AVilliam Porter,
ut Goldsboro, lust July.
LeltieLore, a fifteen-year-old daughter
of John Lore, of Davidson county, mf
fered a terrible death iu a grist mill. She
was in the mill with her uncle, who left
her there alone while he went away.
During his brief absence the girl’s clothes
enrue in contact with a rapidly revolving
shift, and when her uncle returned he
found her dead, and with her head
beaten to a shapeless mass striking the
floor many times each minute.
Death by freezing is extremely rare in
North Carolina, but a particularly sad
ease was learned Wednesday. Two
boys, aged six and eight years, children
of John Cottle, of Richland*, Onslow
county, were sent by their mother w ith
corn to feed hogs in the woods near the
house. They started just as the snow
began falling, yet no uneasiness was
felt, as they had frequently performed
this duty. When evening came they hud
not returned, and a violent snow storm
was raging. Great anxiety was felt for
their safety. The dead bodies of the
hoys were found by one of the searching
parties in a tangled thicket about a mile
and a hulf from their home.
TENNESSEE.
A tragedy is reported from Pcrryville,
at the point where the Tennessee Alid
land Railroad crosses. Two gamblers,
Dick Harrison and Harry Thurman, were
there. A company of six or eight work
men who had just drawn the.r wages
attacked them. One workman was
killed outright and another fatally cut.
Thurman was badly but not fatally hurt-
Knapsacks for Books.
Tho German doctors are exhorting
parents to provide young girls between
the ages of eleven and fourteen with
knapsacks for carrying their school
books, ns the tendency of carrying them
under tho arm or in portfolios or bags
hung from Ihe arm is to distort their
figures. In many parts of Germany
this equipment is already in use, and to
tho nua customod eye of tho stranger
nothing is more comical than sud
denly to come upon a crowd of little
girls"trooping out of school, each provi
ded with a knapsack for the march.
The next funniest thing to be seen
among school children on the Continent
is the long pipe or the bilious cigarette
of tho diminutive Dutch boy.
Dr. Francis Wharton, Solicitor of the
State Department, and a prominent author
of legal works, is dead in his sixty-ninth
year.
NUMBER 20.
THE SOUTH
AT LARGE.
A aRE AT ERA OK PROSPERITY
AND PR OGRESS IMPENDING.
THE I.ARHR FIELD—FA HR F. 118 AND BCSINFSS WEN
ACTIVE— SOKETHINO ABOUT RAILROAD ACCI
DENTS, WUBDEBS, SUICIDES, VIBES, ETC'
ALABAMA.
Charles 11. Remington, of Chicago,lll.,
arrived at Montgomery ou u Louisville
aud Nashville passenger trsin a raving
maniac, and armed with a Winchester
rifle. Remington caused great excite
ment and uneasiness among the passen
gers on the train by his ravings and
frantic conduct. lie was captured by
the police officers, taken off the train,
carried to the police station, disarmed,
and lodged iu a cell for safe keeping.
oninM.
Tho stnto capitol has been turned over
to tho Commissioners.
An accident occurred on the South
western Railroad on Thursday, by which
six freight curs were wrecked. The
wteck occurred about fourteen miles
from Columbus.
An enthusiastic meeting of citizens,
preside 1 over by Governor John B. Gor
don, was held ut Augusta on Thursday
uiglit, for the purpose of expressing
gratification at the failure of the charges
imu-lit against Air. Purnell by the
London Timet.
AVilliam Collins’stables and storehouse
in West Point wire burned down on
Tuesday. All the carriages and buggies
were burned. The horses, contrury to
ill old theories, rushed out of the burn
ing building as fast as cut loose. As to
he origin of the fire, it is believed to be
incendiary.
John L. Adams, the Macon forger and
faster, is very weak, lie has now finished
bis eleventh day at fasting, and his con
dition seems more deplorable than at any
other time. Tie says he has no taste what
ever for food, and does not wish any one
to insist on his eating. He was taken
out of jail Tuesday by Sheriff Wcscott
and carried home, where Adams’ mother
and relatives can nurse him and make
him eat. Ilis condition is critical; he
lias but little strength from his long
fasting.
Governor Gordon was compelled to re
fuse a pathetic petition on Tuesday. A
lady from Gadsden, Ala., implored
him to pardon her two sons, who were
sent to the penitentiury of Georgia for
fifteen years. She was old and blind and
needy, and as she spoke, her lips tremb
led, and her wrinkled cheeks were wet
with tears. It was the same old and
beautiful Btory of a mother’s love, and!
melted the heart of the governor.
She had spent her last cat in coming
to Atlanta, and he said it was beyoud his
power to grant her touching appeal. He
gave her a puss to Gudsden, and dis
missed her with his wannest sympathy.
Anthony Macarthy, a colored man,
who runs the Fields place, six miles from
Albany, arrested another colored man
on Thursday, charged with the murder
of a man and woman in Lee county, lie
brought liis prisoner to town and had
him lodged in jail. The prisoner is
known as Charley Cooper. Accompa
nied by a negro woman, Matilda Hicks,
who he claims as his wife, he drove up
to the Fields place, left the woman there
and drove off across the Flint, searching
for a farm to rent. He procured a place
to suit and came back fur his woman.
During his absence Matilda commenced
crying bitterly. Susan King, a tenant
upon the place, asked what troubled her
so much. She at first refused to tell,
saying it was something dreadful. At
last, being prevailed upon, she confessed
that Charley, her partner, had murdered
two persons. Site said they were both
employed by an old mun and woman,
who owned a faun about three mi lei'
from Smithvillc, upon the edge of Lee
and Terrell counties. Charley coveted
the old people’s mules and spring wagon,
find determined to possess them. On
Tuesday he killed them both, shooting
the old mun in the throat, and the old
woman in the temple. Upon hearing
the woman’s tale, Macarthy called up
three of his hands, arrested the negro,
tied him witli plow lines, brought him
to town, and turned Lint over to the
jailer, together with the wagon and
mule, Churlie’s double barrelled shot
gun, loaded with buck shot, as well as
in ax stained with blood, some of
which had been scratched oil.
KENTUCKY.
An unusual epidemic is reported froa
IMxon, the county seat of Webstel
county, thirty miles south of Evansville.
It is considered by local physicians to be
a form of meningitis.
MARY I,ANI>.
Catholic bishops of the province ol
Baltimore met on Wednesday at the resi
dence of Cardinal Gibbons, to select
three names to be sent to Itomc as theii
choice for the vacant bishopric of Rich
mond, Va. The names selected will nol
he made public, but it is understood that
the list is headed by the name of Very
Reverend A. Van Deveyer, vicar general
and present administrator of the diocese
of Richmond.
MISSOURI.
F. Turley, sheriff of Carter county, was
instantly killed and his deputy fatally
wounded at Low Wassie, a small station
on the Curreut River Railroad, in Shan
non county. John Thompson, who
formerly kept a saloon in Van Buren,
had a forged note, and the sheriff in
tended to arrest him on Wednesday.
Thompson and a man named Taylor,
who is said to be a half brother of Thomp
son, got on the train at Winona, and
were met at Low Wassie by Sheriff Tur
ley. Thompson jumped off the train.
The sheriff followed and caught hold of
him, when he called for help. Taylor
then ran up and shot the sheriff four
times, killing him instantl.v.
(SOUTH CAROLINA.
The steamer “Morgan City,” Capt.
Gardner, for New York from Galveston,
with cotton, lost her propeller of Hat
teras, in a strong northeast wind and
heavy sea. and lie British steamer Apex,
hound to Coosaw, from Baltimore, went
to her assistance, and towed her to
Charleston.
VIRGINIA.
Ex-Councilman William Sears Wood,
one of Richmond’s oldest merchants, died
Thursday aged 87. C. C, Mcßae, oi
Manchester, ex-city attorney, also died,
aged 07.
Ex- United States Senator John W.
Johnston, died in Richmond on Wednes
day, in the seventy-eighth year of his
age. He married a daughter of Gover
nor John B. Floyd, and was a nephew of
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.