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The Georgia Enterprise. VOLUME XXIV. The Enterprise. I’UBLMIIKD WEEKLY AT Ü— BOVINGTON Georgia. ONLY 81 IN CLUBS OF FIVE. LEnt, ■red at the Covington Postoflice u second class matter. Terms, 81,25 mtr annum. In clubs of five or more One Dollar. Six months 75c.ts. Four months, 50 cts always in advan 'e. VATIIO N I Z E The Old Enterprise. It “rides no fences.” Jumps no nominations $1 ,25 in advance. In clubs of five sl. Advertising Rates. ■ Local Notices lOcts per line first inser tion—2o cents per month. Business Ad vertisements $1 per inch first time —50 et* pib subsequent insertion. 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R, L. SIMMS & Go ; Real Estate Agents, jbOVINGTON GEORGIA. Be sure to give ns the selling and renting of your property. JRates of commission tow. valuable property on hand for sale. Try us. Titles traced and per fected. No pay unless a sale is made or rents col lected. I R. L. SIMMS & CO. franklin B. Wright, —COVINGTON, GA.— |esident Physician & Surgeon. d'.-li-trics, G ynecology, Diseases BBomen ami. Children, and all Chronic ■leases of a private nature, a specialtyl aßhavo a horse at ray command, which wil. Tenable me to attend the calls of the sur rounding country, as well as my city prac tice. FRANKLIN B. WRIGHT, M. D K Ifarm loans, by w. scott, Covington, Georgia. I" WILL Negotiate Loans on Farms in ■L Newton, Walton and Rockdale counties ■>n Years' Time. ■IARY Farming with Cash, and see how ■a- you like it. Interest will cost you less ■aan Credit W. SCOTT. [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.