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Edith Wilder’s
Journal.
By METTA E. S. BENSON,
Author of “ Barbara Dare,” “ Her True
Friend.” “Dr. Vetnor’e I<ove Af
faire," "The Missing King,"
“Love’s Sacrifice," etc.
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CHAPTER 11.
Unsuccessful in our search, we thrco
women, agitated by a nameless fear, met
at the low gate and paused there a mo
ment in consultation. While we stood
thus llert Hall, a neighboring boy, came
rushing up the street, hat in hand. At
sight of us he cried out: “Oh, Mrs. Jor
dan, Charley has fell in the river!”
She was oil like the wind. I followed
her, and at the corner of the second
street saw a man approach her, bearing
in his arms a little limp, dripping figure.
I hope never to sec again such an ex
pression of despair as was upon the face
of Mrs. Jordan when site gathered her
unconscious boy into her arms.
“ O, God, my baby! my baby!” she
moaned between her kisses.
The man brushed away a tear with his
large, rough hand. “Give me your
directions,’’ he said in a voice so gentle
that it seemed to have been given to him
by mistake, “and I’ll find a doctor for
you at once. I’m sure hell come round
again, lady, for I caught him as he went
down the second time."
“ O, thank you,sir! and may God bless
you for your kindness.” Even in th s
moment of torture her true lady hood
asserted itself, and this kindly courtesy
welled up from her agonized heart.
Clasped close in one of the wet dimpled
hauds we found a bit of twine with a
l>ent pin attached to the end. This told
the story—Charley had been fishing.
While I write I near his mamma in the
next room talking to him in a low,chid
ing voice, that holds in its undertones a
great fear and a great thankfulness. I
never thought before how terrible a
thing it is to be a mother; to have God
hand down to you out of His infinitude
a white, immortal soul. You hold the
plastic, intangible thing in your keep
ing; you may fashion it almost to suit
your will.
Indeed, I am learning a great many
things beside the art of making dresses
here in this little household. I am learn
ing how beautifully and bravely two
frail women can perform their life-work
—bearing burdens designed for broader
and stronger shoulders with a quiet kind
of dignity that ennobles them; with a
sweet, womanly graciousness that im
presses me more than I can reveal.
August 3.
Monday afternoon Joyce came, bring
ing with her a dress pattern of the love
liest blue silk, just the hue of her eyes.
How exquisitely beautiful she is in her
dawning young ladyhood.
“Mama Volney,” she said to Mrs,
Jordan, “has her work done at Madam
Forney’s, upon Main street, but I pre
ferred to come here, because of Dith, I
suppose. You may make it as you
please, so that it is not prim, but with
plenty of grace and flutter. Dith, if you are
ever a real dressmaker I hope you will un
derstand the fitness of things, so few do.
Now I would like my dress, when fin
ished, to resemble in a certain sense this
flower,” touching with her jeweled fin
gers a sweet, red rose that peeped in at
the open window.
“ You would like it to accord with
yourself,” I responded, “ just as the rose
harmonizes With the leaves by which it
is surrounded.”
“Why, Dith, that is just the idea, but
it sounds almost like a book to hear you
say it. Don't turn into a writing genius
and so spoil my little dressmaker,” and
her low, joyous laugh floated through
the room.
Joyce has such a pretty, queenly bear
ing; lam so shy and silent. If I could
only tell my best thoughts—but I can
not. When the occasion demands them
they flee to some secret place of my soul
and leave me dumb. I am so dissatis
fied with poor little Edith Wilder. Will
she ever approach nearer my ideal of
womanhood, or will she shrink and cower
all her life ? This is in part the out
come of your work, Mrs. Chilsom. You
might have helped me, but you hindered,
instead.
* * * * He *
Somehow I am very much interested
in a young lady who boards just across
the way. Mrs. Jordan thinks her a music
teacher, for she is away nearly all the
time and always carries a roll of music
with her. I often hear the sound of liei
piano at night, and sometimes full asleep
with the full, rich tones of her voice
stirring the air about me into charming
waves of sound. I cannot understand
why I think so much about her, but it
comes lo me in a vague sort of way, that
her life aud mine are to meet and
blend, like two harmonious tones of
music struck in the same chord. lam
afraid this book is coming to be what
the old maple was at Mis. Chilsom’s—
a something to tell my foolish fancies to;
a place wherein to lay my dreams.
August 24,
Edna Vincent. What a pretty nama
it is, and it belongs to the young lady
who boards over the way. She came in
this morning to talk with Mrs. Jordan
about a dress she is to have made. I had
felt so sure I should like her. and I do.
She is a little below medium height,
with soft black liair that waves back
from her face, and leaves a short fringe
of natural curls about her low forehead.
Her eyes are black, with an intense scin
tillating light in them which is their
charm, and that individualizes her.
Before she left she crossed to the win
dow where I was sitting, drawn there by
the fragrance and beauty of the roses.
“Oh, how lovely they arc!” she ex
claimed, bending her face to them.
“And the air all about them is full of
their poetry,” I answered, stirred out of
my shyness" by her caressive act.
A look of swift, glad surprise flashed
into her eyes; “I understand,”she said,
“the poetry of perfume.” She put out
one strong, white hand, and touched
mine, at the same saying in a low voice:
“1 predict we are to be friends.”
October 4.
It has been a long time since I have
written in my journal. The work hurries
bo that I have been too tired at night for
cnything but sleep, I find there are
“Mr COUNTRY: MAY SIIH EVER UK RIGHT; RIGHT OH WRONG, MY 00UNTRTf" —Jeftwuon.
great inauy Mrs. Chi Isom’s in the world,
albeit, they come—“in u lovely, silken
murmur, like an angel with its wings.’’
Their work must ho done upon time,
and without blemish. Tired eyes, ach
ing shoulders. and delicate nerves tlint
under constant tension become infinitesi
mal points of tortuie, are things they do
not consider.
To day as I was sitting by the w indow
sewing, Mrs. Volney and Joyce rode by
in a pretty basket phaeton, drawn by a
span of shining black pones. Joyce
blew a kiss from the tips of her daintily
gloved fingers, and Mrs. Volney deigned
me a very formal bow.
My heart was full of hot anger at sight
of them. I was so tired and nervous I
nould not keep the tears back.
llcre, in the quiet of my room, moved
by better emotions, I am heartily
ashamed of that childish outburst of
temper.
December 23.
Mr. Benton came in last evening with
abrimming basket of “( hristmas i.ifls."
“1 am coming to eat my ( hristmas din
ner with you,” he said, depositing his
burden upon the floor, “I shall come
early, and stay late,and make you all the
trouble I can,” and lie was gone, leaving
behind him the sound of his laughter.
This morning he came while yet the
e.-ispiness lingered in the air, before the
aunshiie bad melted the frost work from
the trees, and took Mrs. Jordan and
Charley for a dash about the city.
Mrs. Abbott, invited Miss Vincent to
partake of our Christmas cheer, and all
in all we had a very enjoyable time. Mr.
Benton is a man of genial nature and
habits ami lie filled the house with jc-1
and laughter.
It i- eight o’clock now. MissA'inccnt
has gone; Charley lies asleep in the room
beyond, whose door stands ajar, so that
I can see Mrs. Abbott as slie sits reading
in an old family Bible that is so much
her companion; and below stairs are Mrs.
Jordan and Mr. Benton, their voices
coming up to me in a pleasant mur
mur.
I am trying so hard to he true in all
ways—to be leal, and earnest, and brave;
but there will be times, like this one,
when a feeling of isolation enfolds me in
its desolating clasp, until I grow afraid
of 1 fe itself; afraid of the great earth,
and the vast space which is all about it,
md that reaches out and out, into a lim
itless somewhere. lam so small in com
parison that I can only cover my face
and cry out like a little child frightened
it the dark. How strange it is that one
can feel so solitary when the world is
full of beings like oneself. I wonrlei
what it would be like to he all in all tc
; ust one among the many millionsf
Aprii. 12.
The wedding was a very quiet affair.
Mrs. Jordan looked really handsome in a
dress of bron/e-green silk, and a fragrant
cluster of pale pink blossoms among the
white lace at her throat; Mr. Benton was
in his happiest mood; Charley bubbling
aver with delight; but Mrs. Abbott was
very quiet, sad almost. It was the
change she shrank away from. It is sc
natural for old hearts to cling to ae
ustomed ways and faces. And yet I
knew that with it all she was glad, for
Mr. Benton is a well-to-do-man. Mrs.
Benton has engaged work for me from
among her patrons, which will take at
[cast three months to perform. I am to
lew at tlie house of these ladies for one
dollar a day—six dollars a week. The
query is—what will I do with so much
money? Beside, Mrs. Benton lias very
kindly offer# l to come for me each
Saturday night, and return me to my
work on Monday morning, and so I shall
not be quite adrift upon the world.
Benton Farm, May 5.
lam delighted with this new mannej
of labor. I have more responsibility,
but the charm of novelty makes the hard
work seem less wearying than at Mrs,
Jordan’s.
Mrs Camp, at whose house I have been
for more than a week, says lam a real
artist in my line of work, and my future
success is a certainty. Dear heaven! the
future mut hold something better than
cutting, and plaiting, and planning
than folds o‘ satin and falls of lace, and
talks of fashion. Without doubt Mis.
Camp believed she was giving what
would seem to me the highest meed of
praise.
We are such two-fold creatures, ihe
world never knows us but in part.
We reveal to those we love best, and
at rare intervals, thoughts nnd emotions
that lie too deep for the common herd;
but into the “holy of holies,” no foot
fall save our own, or the sweet angels
whom He sends, ever break upon the sa
cred silence.
I have slept under this woman’s roof
have sat at her table; we have been
brought into hourly contact; aud yet slit
has no faintest conception of the sweet
atmosphere of feeling in which I dwell:
or the visions that constantly flit before
me, exquisite in coloring as one ol
Titian’s divine pictures. She only knows
that in my hands fine fabrics and bits of
elegant trimming grow into forms thal
delight the eve.
Charley lias just laid above my written
words a bunch of pretty pink blossoms,
with the scent of the woods still linger
ing upon them.
“Please, Dithy, don’t write any more.
It seems so big, and just bootiful out
doors to-day. What’s the matter with
us, that we can’t go for a walk?”
I laughed a little over his unconscious
slang. Beside, this is the fifth walk ho
has insisted upon since our return from
church. I cannot refuse him, however,
for the world is beautiful to-day with
color, and scent, and sound; and to
morrow I shall bn compelled to remain
within doors.
June 12.
O, these wonderful June days! How
the great underpulse of the dear old
earth throbs with the rapture of its full,
free life! I am no longer homeless.
Miss Vincent and I have made for our
selves just the cunningest little home in
the world. It is only one of the wings
of a rambling rcd-brick house, that has
held its place for more than a quarter ol
a century, while the city has grown and
broadened until the shadows of the pin
nacles and towers of stately mansions
touch it upon either side. In the yard
are roses and grand old trees, and a
fountain with green moss clinging to its
stone-work, and the crevices of the broad,
Hat stones of which the walk is con
structed encourage the growth of the
same green lichens. All these things
lend s peculiar charm to this place I now
call home.
Home! What tender meanings press
into that brief Anglo-Saxon word! At
first it seemed a little odd for two girls
to set up housekeeping all by them
selves: but now I look upon it as tiie
most natural thing to do. If girls aro
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1889.
driven to self support, why should liny
unt heroine liome-o a e it
It is certainly baiter than a hoarding
house, or being dependent upon another
lor an abid ng place, however willing
that O' In I M fail
The home of Mins Vincent's girlhood
is among the hills of Vermont, and sire is
agiaduate from Seminary of the
same State. With tine American inde
pendence she lias come to this land of
stiangers to win her fortune. In onj
way she will sin iced, for she has energy,
cniciprisc, peisistemc; the nbility to
open tor In-rseit an avenue of employ
ment and tow.dk therein steadily. And
back of the will, the spirit, the daring,
lies the eaielul tr lining of years for her
chosen work.
“You were brave to come,” I said,
when she lmd to!d me her story during
one of our quiet talks.
“It was my dreams that led me, more
than iny spirit of bravery," she replied.
“I u‘cd to watch the sun ns the great
bills roe up and hid it from view, and
fancy that something beautiful was wail
ing lor me far oil beyond the mountains.
1 have thought of late,” and I knew l y
her voice, that h r face had saddened a
little, “that should I find it—this un
known something of my dreams -it
would very soon fade away as did those
beautiful sunsets.”
• Vo . but after the darkness of night,
there was the morning again,” 1 inter
posed.
“True, Edith, and if the night of dis
appointment comes I believe I tan lie
brave enough to wa't trustingly for the
day dawn, he it grief or joy, which the
dear bod may send.”
“And you will accept ns from Him,
whatever comes:” 1 questio n'd.
“Why, yes, would not you?”
“I do not know. It must be I am a
natural sceptic, for I cannot understand
what the personality of God can be like,
nor in what sense lie can be mindful of
ibe events, glad nr grand or pitiful,
which crowd themselves into our every
day living.”
•‘No man, not even the wisest, can
understand what the personality of God
is, Edith, ‘lly searching I cannot find
Thee out.’ is as true to-day as when the
words were first written. But that in
some manner lie does care for us, I do
firmly believe. Nor do I need further
proof of the l ather’s tender watch-care
than the rare, sweet, touching sympathy
which Ho gave to the merest trifles.”
She arose and crossed to the piano,
and presen'ly the room was full of the
low. sweet strains of Beethoven’s match
less music. I closed my eyes and seemed
to feel the soul of the great master throb
bing through the divine harmonics, as
her fingers called them forth from the
white keys. There is the ring of true
music in .Miss Vincent’s playing. She
seems to catch the inspiration of the
composer’s mood, until she is borne be
\ondlicr own depths by the waves of
some indefinable emotion.
Something of this I said aloud when
at last the music ceased.
“You darling,” she made fervent
answer, “you a> e part of that someOiing
I fancied was waiting for me beyond the
mountains, and this much I shall never
lose.”
I think I understand the premonitions
of coming loss, by which she is shaken.
Fred Hammond is a tall finely-formed
young man, with the haughty air of a
prince royal, and clerk in one of tlie
city’s finest stores. He is utterly self
contained (if the word means to contain
only self), and I do not like him, al
though I should not care to say as much
to Miss Vincent, for she imagines just
now that she cares a very great deal for
him; and I can understand, too, how it
happens that she docs care for him in a
tender way that borders upon love. His
life came into conjunction with her own
in the days of her loneliness, when all
about her were new, strange faces. Be
side.hc can be a very pleasant companion
when he chooses, and lie chooses to be
that to Miss Vincent at this present
time,"
July 15.
Sirs. Volney and Joyce called this
afternoon. They have several weeks’
sewing, and therefore 1 am to be with
Joyce a part of every day. It is almost
too good to be true, for I see her so sel
dom of late, and in September she goes
to a young ladies’ school to remain a
year. .Mis. Volney seems very proud of
iier, and it is not strange at all that she
is, for Joyce is wondrously beautiful.
Edna (I am not to call lnr .Miss Vin
cent any more) has helped to plan a
course of reading for my few leisure
moments, and is also to teach me some
thing of music.
Meanwhile the one inherent gift of my
nature is to lie untouched. But with
ca h added year of my life the dreams
grow anil strengthen—dreams of outline,
color, and expression that I long to re
produce upon canvas. Sometime - I can
not but rebel against the pitiless circum
stances which hedge me in, and feel that
it is indeed, a cruel fate which will not
allow me ihe cultivation of my “one
talent.”
In these lugh, abnormal moments I
forget my gift l’or dressmaking, which I
have mastered so thoroughly that my
work is eagerly sought after. And yet
it is not at all a despicable ta’out, for
it brings me clothing, books, the com
forts of this quiet home nest, and some
thing, now and then, for those less
fortunate than myself.
July 21.
I have found out anew way to Mrs.
Volucy’s which consideiably shortens
the distance. In going this way I enter
upon one of the oldest streets of the
city, and one morning, as I passed to
my" work, I saw a white face at one of the
windows of an old tenement house—a
face half child half woman, and with a
child’s clear soul shining in the great
eyes. That pain-stricken, patient, pure
face! I have carried the memory of it
about with me for days—as one carries
a loved picture next his heart. The
memory. and the old thought
which came along with the first sight of
it, that this was another life that was
somehow to make a part of my own. For
I have read, or heard someone say, that
our lives are like blocks of patch-work
that fit, piece by piece, and with even
one mi-sing the pattern would not be
perfect. This morning I gathered a
bouquet of roses—red, white and palest
pink, and with the dew still upon their
fragrant petals- gathered them as an cx
tuse. I must speak to the owner of that
lace.
[to be continued.!
IN PRIVATE LIFE.
Ex-President Cleveland visited his
aw office in New York cily ou Thurs
iay, and made arrangements with his
jartners to commence law practice right
i way.
SOUTHERN
CULUNGS.
NEWSY in:MS MOST INTEREST
-INQLY HRIEKED.
4ecu)' xm os rua uaimioads, etc.—dkvtii or
rfeuMI.VENT PEOPLE—TESPEUANCB, SOCIAL
AND DELICIOUS ITEMS.
At.A It AVI A.
I.lbert Ste in s, the principal clerk at
the Evergreen postoliice, is short in his
accounts and bus gone away.
The Southern Yellow I‘ino Lumber
Ass ciatiou met in Birmingham on
Thursday. About thirty of the largest
mills in Ihe South were represented.
11 e ouly important business transacted
was the adoption of a resolution to
maintain the pnseut prices of lumber
until May 1, when they will lie ad
vanced.
A imsi lions murder was committed
near B!;miiigli on on Thursday. A. W.
Busby, i merchant living near Gate City,
lour iv lea east of Birmingham, was shot
dead at his own fireside. He was silting
by the side of his wife with one of liis
little child ren in bis lap, when the assas
sin tired lhrougb a w indow. The ball
struck llusby in the left ear, passed
through his bead, and he sank to the
floor dead.
In the city court at Birmingham on
Thursday, S. 11. Minger obtained a
judgui. ut for $6,000 damages against the
Ely ton Land Cos. Minger was a member
ol th' lire dcpailinenl, and while going
to a lire, Ihe reel was overturned by
striking the mils of the defendants'
dummy, which were above the street
ginJc. Ho was thrown on the front reel
and crippled for life, for which he se
cured the above damages.
The Quarantine Conference met in
Montgomery. An interesting paper was
read by Dr. D. W. Burgess, of (fie Uni
ted States marine hospital service, sta
tioned at Havana. He urged greater ef
forts lo prevent yellow fever from being
brought to tliis country by sleainshiirs
and in smuggled goods. The resolu
tions offered by Dr. Wilkinson, of New
Orleans, were adopted, calling on the
government for a better patrol service on
the coast of Florida. Surgeon General
Hamilton said the United States govern
ment should have u physician to every
consulate in foreign ports where yellow
fever and other infectious diseases are
liable to break out, in order to secure to
the government, through the consular
agents, reliable information for the pro
tection of the American people. Reso
lutions indorsing Dr. Hamilton’s propo
sition was offered by Dr. Foster, of
Georgia, and was adopted by the confe
rence.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Near Rockingham, a cat, belonging to
a colored man, carried to his house thr
foot and a part of the leg of m infant.
The cat’s trail was followed a few hun
died yards fr< m ihe In use. An arm and
the head of an infant were found, having
been simply covered up with leaves.
The child was a week old, and bad been
placed in the woods when alive mid left
to die.
Samuel Hodges, a widower in Rich
urnnd couutv, 75 years of age, it is alleged
went to the home of Robert Norton,and,
by promises, enticed from home Nor
ton's thirteen-year-old daughter. He
went to Rockingham, and by statements
as to her age, procured a license to marry
the girl. A preacher was induced to
perlorm the ceremony. When the couple
walked the street, suspicion was at once
aroused by the disparity of ages. The
gill was questioned. It was soon made
manifest tlrut she was an innocent viciim.
Hodges would not relinquish his claim
to his wife, and when people made ready
to use force, he fled, and is m hiding in
the woods.
Letters received at Raleigh state, that
the negro exodusters, who have gone in
such numbers from Duiham to .Missis
sippi, are not having such delightful
t mes ns they looked forward to. Sam
Ruffin, Tom Holt and others went to
Mississippi with the tiist of the largo
parties. High discovered plots and
exposed them, whereupon Ruffin nnd
Holt attacked High, and in a quarrel on
arriving in Mississippi, ltuffin was shot
in the arm and Holt in the leg. This so
exasperated the Durham negroes that
they endeavored to kill High. The feel
ing against him ran so strong that Mr.
Richardson, the great cotton planter
who employed these laborers, to save
High's life, had him shipped away in a
box. labeled as mcrclmud.se.
NO! Til (WRtU.IN\.
At Darlington, Joseph W. James, n
young w’hite man, an 1 Lewis and Robert
Arthur, two n- groes, have been convict
ed of the mtmljr of James’ father.
On S.tunlay at midnight, a party oi
young m u who hid been diiuki. g and
gambling n a burro m in the upper part
of Cbaric-ton, got in o a free tig:lit in the
street, and one of them, Win. Munzen
m.iier, was killed, h s throat being cut
with a razor by O. \\ itr, a young man
from Aug us: a.
The conviction and sentence of three
negro lynchers in Pickens county for
doing what th >u amis of white men have
done—hanging a man on account of a
negro girl—is begiuii g to rube a storm
on all sides, which will hardly be quieted
unless the goveri or grunts the men a free
pardon. A peculiar phase of the verdict
in tlie cisc is, that the only white man
who was included in I lie indictment and
who led the lynchers was acquitted.
For the first time in the history ol
South Carolina, three lynchers have been
convicted in tbu courts. At Pickens,
Tours lay, Bolton, Heyward and Wil
liams, colored men, charged with mur
d.-r, were found guilty, with a recom
mendation to mercy. Three others,
charged with the same offense, were ac
quitted. The ease is a remarkable one.
It is the first one on record, in the histo
ry of the stale, of a negro lynching a
white man. The man lynched was a
half-witted mountaineer, and bis vieiiui
a young negro girl.
TENNESSEE.
Outlaws attacked a railroad camp near
Cumberland Gap, and a tight ensued, in
which several men were wounded.
A boy passing along a Nashville
street, ou Sunday, wanted to light his
cigarette and stepped behind a cotton
bale to shield bis match from the wind.
Accidentally he touched the lighted
match to a bale of cotton, lying on the
pavement in front of E. Hancock & Co.’s
warehouse. The cotton ignited and the
flames quickly communicated to other
hales ou the pavement and at the end of
fifteen minutes were badly burned, caus
ing damagu to the extent of about $250.
liltdKßlA.
Riv. Sam Small is stirring up the peo
[ilu in Atlanta to go in for pmldbiliot
again.
U. F. Hover, an alleged anarchist,
who styles himself “Grand Worthy Sngt
of the Co-operative Workers of Amer
ica," is busy stirring up tlio ignorant
class of Atlanta's colored people. 11c
comes from Hickory, N. 0.
A fatal accident occurred on Saturday
at the residence of Judge Clairborne
Suead, on Greene street, in Auguatn.
IH little ami, age 10, while playing po
liceman and soldiers with two colored
boys, killed one instuntly and wounded
the other. 'I hey were playing prisoners,
and he was the policeman. They made
a break for liberty and ho ran in to tho
house und seized a gun, which ho did
not know was loaded, aimed it at them
and pulled the trigger. The shot entered
tlie face nnd head of one of tho boys
killing him instantly. The little fellow
ran in to his father and asked him to
kill him, ns lie lmd killed a boy, but
did not intend to do it.
I.OI'IKIA\A.
Faranta’s theater in Ni w Orleans, was
burned on Thursday, and a number of
adjacent buildings, including the Con
ciu of rhe Holy Family, were bidiy
anmge 1. The “Muldoou’a P.cuic’’
i oiupuuy hit their cutir - waulrobe, and
(he Fo epaugh band lost all their uni
forms and instruments.
A GUIDE’S STORY.
A hull-breed hunter and trapper, who
arrived at Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Sun
day, from the extreme northwestern part
of the territory, reports the atrocious
run-sac re ol a parly of five French tour
ists in Yellowstone National l’ark. The
bearer of the news heard the story at
Canyon City, anew mining town near
the park, where Hank Kerry, guide and
sole survivor, reported the slaughter.
Ferry said Ins charges included M. Le-
Clairc nnd wife, J. Vinoentaud wife, aud
Paul (List, latherof Mine. Vincent. He
entered the service of the sightseers at
Virginia City, Montana, contracting to
show them through the Park in violation
of United States statutes. The strangers
were very wealthy, and Slid they jour
neyed overland from San Francisco for
Ihe express purpose of going through the
Park during the absence of the horde of
Sommer excursionists. The parly en
joyed themselves hugely in the Park, af
filiating with poachers who were
slaughtering game for hides. Their
i auip was always headquarters for pro
lessional hunters, whom they supplied
with luxuries. The guide’s story of the
murder, which he soya was committed by
the lndiaus, leads like a dime novel, and
w ill be thoroughly investigated by "the
United States officials, aud Hank Ferry,
who is a great rascal, will receive attention.
Officers at Canyon City have orgttnizeel
a posse to secure tlie bodies of the mur-
Jerel people and, if possible, avenge
their deaths. They will proceed with
all possible liasle, as the place is isolated
and wolves are liable to devour the re
mains before the park police or hunters
-tumble on them.
TRULY HORRIBLE,
On Spruce Creek, a father with nine
motherless children, joined w ith a wretch
of a woman in attempting to destroy the
lives of his entire family. Frank Couk
w riglit, the father of the children, is a
farmer in good circumstances, who,prior
to tliis tragedy, had stood well with his
neighbors. His children are from three
\cars to nineteen years old, and because
they had objected to their father’s bad
conduct, they bad been severely chas
tised by the use of the lash and driven
from homo out into the cold, and often
into driving storms. This has been go
in,r on since Conkwright lost bis wife,
iin° upright woman, more than three
years ago. As the children grew they
protested the more, until the father,who
had become desperate, joined with Sal
lie Holden and her cruel brothers—Jim,
Bill and Noble Holden—in a plan to ex
terminate the entire family. A bot
ile. of deadly poison was procured,
Jim, the woman’s brother, entered the
■anne room nnd crept stealthily to the
led nnd administered a dose, first to a
little hoy aged three years, and then to a
daughter nine years old These two
poisoned unto death, the fatal dose was
then mixed in molasses and the drinking
water to be taken into the stomachs of
Ihe rest of the children at breakfast. Tho
Imy died, arid in the afternoon tho
daughter was nl*o a corpse, and in ihe
meantime the other children, except the
eldest son, aged 1!) years, who was sus
picious of his father, had taken the
poison. The neighbors arc justly enrag
ed, and nothing short of heavy stout
walls and iron doors could protect th.‘
urisoners from the wrath of ait mdiguaui
people.
ENGLAND’S NAVY.
In the English House of Commons on
Thursday, Lord George Hamilton, first
lord of tlio admiralty, stated that the
delay in supplying the navy with guns
was due to the failure of the system ol
lining. The government proposed tc
build 8 first class men-of-war of 14,000
tons each, and two of 0,000 tons, 9 first
class cruisers, 28 smaller ciuisers, 4 of
the Pandora type of cruisers and 18 of
the Sharpshooter type of torpedo vessels.
The total tonnage of all tlieso vessels
will be 318,000 aud the total cost £21,-
500,000. Lord Charles Bcrcsford com
plained that the government gave no
real reason why just so many siiips—no
more and no less—should be built. He
gave notice of an amendment declaring
that England’s naval strength to out
equal the navies of France and any other
great power combined.
A NOBLE WORK.
Tlie'N. Y.,Citizens Committee to aid the
cx-Confcdcrate bomout Austin,Texas,ba
received the following: “Atluuta, Oa.—
To Oliver Downing, of Post 15 O. A. I’.,
of Massachusetts, Secretary—Sir; Hav
ing consigned to the New lork Cotton
Kichange one bale of cotton, contributed
try cotton men here, and one bale of do
mestics, contributed by Governor Bul
]ock, president of tbo Atlanta Cotton
Milts, requesting tbo exchange to sell
them and turn the proceeds over to
Chauncey M. Depew, treasurer, the Geor
gia Railroad Company transports them
Free. The interest shown in this matter
by the Federal soldiers touches the
southern heart deeply, and makes us fed
like bowing our heads in shame at the
rantings of such fools as Rosser. Youis
truly, ti. 11. Phelan.” Mr. Phelan is a
prominent cotton dealer in the South'
The sales of the bales will be watched
with great interest. Among the contri
butions received arc: Maj. Gen. .1. M.
Schofield, *oo. and P. T. Baruum, *25.
MATTERS IN
WASHINGTON.
OF COURSE, A CHANGE BEGETS
A CHANGE.
COXGKESS.
Vice President M rlon was not present
ut tire opening of tlie Senate on Thurs
day, and Secretary McCook read a nuts
from Mr. Mort< n. staling that he would
be absent from the session. Thereupon,
Mr. Sherman offered a resolution that
during the absence of the Vice Presi
dent, Mr. Ingalls should be president ot
ihe Senate pro tern. An amendment for
that resolution was offered by Mr. Har
ris, substituting the name of Mr. Voor
hees for that of Mr. Ingalls. The
amendment was rejected—yeas 27, nays
29, und the resolution was agreed to, Mr.
Ingalls thereupon entered upon the du
ties of presiding officer pro tern, tho oath
of office having first been administered
to him by .Mr. Sherman, and it was or
dered that the President of the United
States be notified of Mr. Ingalls’ election.
The Senate then adjourned.
NOT It St.
Si notary Windom has begun tho re
organization of ihe Treasury Department
bv the selection of George O. Tichenor,
of Illinois, ns Assistant Secretary, ia
place of Judge Maynard, resigned.
Tho three sick Congressmen—Buch
anan, of New Jersey, Spinola, of New
York, and Lee, of Virginia, were all re
ported to be improving Sunday, and if
is thought none of them are in immediate
danger.
One of the first things the State De
partment will dispose of is the appoint
ment of de‘--gates to the Samoan confe
rence at Berlin. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler,
John A. Kasson and William Waitet
Phelps will be sent to represent tho Uni
ted States, and they will be accompanied
by ex Consul Gen. Sewell und Augustus
Cowherd, of Illinois, who negotiated the
treaty between the United States and
Samao.
On Thursday, the first cabinet meeting
of the new administration was held. It
is understood that it was an informal
meeting of the newly appointed cabinet
officers, called in order that they might
become acquainted with one another,
but from what leaked out, there is a very
general feeling, w hich is encouraged in a
very marked degree by the more promi
nent members of the party, in the confi
dence of the cabinet leaders, that every
Democrat, no matter how largo or how
small his position, must go.
The weather crop bulletin issued by
Ihe Signal Office eays: The season has
been favorable thr. ugbout the central
valleys and Southern slates. The season
is well advanced, aud lurm work is in
progress from Texas to Minnesota and
Dakota. Notwithstanding the deficiency
of moisture in the Winter wheat region,
the report indicates that the weather in
that section has affected this crop favor
ably. Reports from Tennessee, Arkansas
and the Gulf States show that tho
weather has been favorable for farm
work, which is well advanced, and crops
are in good condition.
Mr. Townshend representative from
Illinois died on Saturday. Mrs. Hitrri
inn sent a beautiful bouquet of flowers tc
Mrs. Townsend, accompanied by the fob
lowing note, expressing ber sympathj
and that of the President: “Executive
Mansion, Washington, I). C.—To Mrs.
Townshend : I was very much shocked
to hear of tho sudden death of your hus
band. Your grief is too sacred to ap
proach with words. Accept tlieso flow
srs with my heartfelt sympathy. The
President desires to add his sympathy
with mine. Sincerely yours, Carrie S.
Uarruon."
TELEGRAPHIC.
The weavers at Fall River, Mass., an
firm in their determination to strike.
For some time past they have been un
successfully endeavoring to get recog.
nition of their organization. The man
ufacturers refuse to recognize this or
ganization.
A passenger train on the Trans-Caspiar
Railway in Russia wns on Sunday throwr
from tlio (rack in a tunnel, owing to 1k
removal of rails by train wreckers. The
result of the derailment was frightful,
the killed and injured numbering fifty.
The band robbers who tore up the track
were captured.
A sensation has been in Cashmere by
the unearthing of a plot against the life
of tho British Resident. The discovery
was made through letters left by tho late
premier of Cashmere. These letters re
veal the design on tho part of tho Ma
harajah to poison the British Resident,
besides other treasonable plotting*.
The steamer Cobeau arrived in New
on Sunday, bringing news of a bloody
battle between Legitime’s nnd Hippo
lite’s forces, and the massacre by tb<)
victors. Legitime's men were so elated
over l heir success at Grandsaline that
they immediately commenced to pillage
ihe town. One drunken soldier shot
one of the prisoners for some trifling
matter. Tliis was the signal for a gen
eral outbreak on the part of tho soldiers.
They rushed at the prisoners, shooting
and stabbing them right nnd left, and
tlie undisciplined borlo proceeded to
break into houses and smash furniture,
ibuse the women and behave generally
like demous, winding up the atrocities
by firing the town.
Where Cauliflowers Thrive.
It is not generally known that nearly
eight tenths of all the cauliflowers which
come to tliis market are grown within a
belt of about thirty miles on Long Is
land. From Sou tbold to Biverhead
almost every farmer is devoted to their
o ultimo, the climate and soil being par
ticularly adapted to their development.
The past year the product wus much
more than sufficient to supply the de
mands of the cities, so little houses were
erected near the railway stations, and
scores of chore boys were set to work
cutting up the flowers and pickling
them. There is usually great fun in the
preparation of the pickles, so tkore is
generally no lack of volunteers for the
work. .
A somewhat singular incident in the
growing of this plant is that in no other
locality on Long Island, or for that
matter in the New England or Middle
States, have the farmers met with any
success in its perfect production. The
result is that Suli'olk County has a
monopoly of cauliflower, which gives an
inoomo of nearly 8200,000 a year Aew
York Thnct,
NUMBER 21.
THE WOULD
AT LARGE.
PICKUPS UKIIK, TUKRE AND
EVERYWHERE.
\ CUBOVI OETrINO ÜBR armies and natieh into
CONDITION —THE I.AUOB FIBLD—•PBOOBBBS1T1
IDEAS 11 KIM I AMITATID.
Isnac V. AVilliatnson the venerable
millionaire philanthiopist, (lie 1 in Phil
adelphia, Pa., on Thursday.
The British man-of-war Sultan hai
been wrecked on the island of Comin, in
•he Mediterranean.
Ex-President Cleveland was, on Thurs
day, elected an honorary member of the
New York Chamber of Commerco.
The Minnesota House of Representa
tives on Thursday, refused to submit tc
the people an amendment in favor of the
prohimtion of the liquor traffic.
Eal>or organizations which took sides
with the strikers in the recent tie-up of
Atlantic avenue railroad, in Brooklyn,
N. Y., have placed a boycott on that cor
poration.
A writ of mandamus was sued out
against Governor Wilson, of West Vir
gin, on Thursday, by Gen. Goff, to com
pel the former to surrender the office of
governor.
The British ship Vandalia, from Perth
Amboy, N. J., for London, England,
with petroleum, has been sunk off Bog
nor by a collision with au unknown
steamer.
A marked increase in hostility to for
eigners is noticeable throughout China.
Tim native soldiery at Chcfoo are sus
pected of plotting to attack the foreign
settlement.
Dr. Tanner, member of Parliament for
Cork, who was arrested for violating the
crimes act, was tiied at Tipperary, Ire
land. He was convicted and sentenced
to imprisonment without hard labor.
The British vessel El Dorado, 270
tons burden,has passed through the Pan
ama canal from Aspinwall to Cliagres, a
distance of tifteeu miles. This is the first
foreign vessel that has passed through
the canal from one port to auother.
El Tiempo, conservative journal, says
it sets in President Hurrison’s inaugural
address a menace to the peace of the
Spanish American republics, especially
Mexico. The same journal also expresses
a fear as to the policy which Secretary of
State Blaine may adopt.
The physician who made the post
mortem examination of the body of
Pigoit, the British informer who com
mitted suicide at Madrid, Spain, declares
that he never saw such a well formed
skull and brain, the latter indicating a
man of superior force of character and
imagination.
A dispatch from Rome to London,
England, says that President Harrison’s
cabinet fully satisfies the Vatican, and
that information has reached the propa
ganda that under Harrison’s administra
tion the relations between the United
States and the Holy See will be of the
most cordial character.
Chance has led to the discovery of a
jure for hydrophobia. In Ayacutho,
Peru, a man was bitten by a mad dog,
ind shortly after the dreaded disease de
veloped. In his madness the man rushed
from the house, aud falling among a lot
jl “peuca” plants, some of the juice ol
ihese plants entered his mouth, and he
swallowed it. He was carried to his
louse, and soon regained his health.
A dispatch, from Oklahoma, I. TANARUS.,
says that the situation in Oklahoma is
growing critical. Between two and
three hundred men have taken up claims
in the immediate vicinity of the place.
Nearly all the valuable land on the river
bottom from the neighborhood of Fort
Reno on the west to the Pottnwattomic
reservation on the east has been taken,
and is held by the usual squatters.
Scores of men are slipping in on all sides,
nud nn influx of boomers by railroad hai
begun.
Duels of Stupid Rams.
It may perhaps throw some On
the obscure causes of the stupidity of
sheep to see them tight. To watch two
rams engage in a duel, which they do in
a most gentlemanly manner, as if it
wero as much a matter of etiquette as
an engagement with swords in the en
virons of Paris, is better than most
farces nowadays. Perhaps there are
some ten or twenty rams in a yard or
corral, and presently two put their
heads together. Probably they are hav
ing a conversation, and in it some de
batable matter orops up, for one shakes
bis head impatiently as if doubting the
word of his interlocutor. The insulted
ram looks up, advances a step or two,
and they rattle their hoias together. In
stantly all the other gentlemen gather
round as the two intending combatants
march backward step by step with an
admirable slowness and deliberation.
Thev are the two knights at the ends of
the lists. There is an instant’s pause,
and then they hurl themselves violently
forward to meet forehead to forehead
with a shook that ought to break their
skulls. Then the solemn backward
march recommences, the pause is made,
and the two belligerents leap at each
other once more, and the terrible thud
is heard again. Sometimes they run
ten courses before one turns dizzy and
declines the battle, but oftener five or
six blows make the thinner-skulled turn
away, to be contemptuously hustled in
the rear by the conqueror. Occasionally
the sight of one set of dueiists inspires
the unoccupied lookers-on with a noble
ardor, and couple after couple join in
to march backward side by side and
tubli forward in line to meet the oppos
ing forces. It seems to me that there is
no more interest in this than in the
mere farce of the display. However
such a habit arose it can hardly now be
advantageous to the species, and must
tend to lower them in the scale of intel
lect, for while the thiokest skulled
remain lords, those with the most room
for brains often get their craniums
cracked with fatal results. This may
help to explain the very uncommon
idioov of domesticated sheep, just as the
duelfo among the Anstralian blackfel
lows may throw light on the dull, thick
headedness of some of the native hu
mans in that country. For their favor
ite method of dueling—at least it was
that of which I heard most—is to taka
two clubs, and, having drawa lote m
some manner for the first blow, to strike
the loser on the head as he bends down
witli the utmost force possible. If that
blow is not decisive, and it is not always
bo, it is the turn of the other man to do
his best, and so on until a skull i|
cracked. —CornhiU Magazine,