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[Written for the Friend.ship (N. Y.) Hruimtbii )
Edith Wilder s
Journal.
By METTA E. S. BENSON,
Author of “Barbara Dare,” “Her True
Friend.” “Dr. Vetnor's Dove Af
fairs," “The Missing Ring,"
“Dove’s Sacritlco,” etc.
CHAPTER 111.
I reached the old tenement house and
there, as usual, was that glorious shin
ing face in the window. I assing up the
broken and decayed walk, and into a
long, nariow hall. I rapped lightly upon
the first door to the right.
“Enter!” It was a low, pleasant
voice and I liked the word ‘enter,’ it
seemed to have dropped down from out
the dim old Bible times.
I opened the door and found myself in
a plainly furnished but tidily kept room.
Near one of the high front windows, in
a very uncomfortable lookingchair, was
seated a girl with a dwarfed, misshapen
body, and the face of a saint. Upon a
table close beside her were materials for
needle work of many devices and colors.
She smiled as I approached, her. “I
am Edith Wilder,” I explained. Ido
sewing about the city, arid in going to
and from my work have been attracted
by something I saw, or fancied I saw, in
your face, and that is why I am here.”
I laid my bouquet upon her lap. She
let it remain untouched there for a mo
ment, while she put out both her thin
hands to meet mine.
“O, I do thank you so much for com
ing! I have been thinking about you
for days. I saw you in my dream one
night; the next morning you passed by.
And I thank you too for the-e,” taking
up the flowers. “But how strange that
you shoUld have brought me roses, 1 was
named out of love to them, for I came to
my mother when the roses—her best
loved flowers—were in bloom. Rose
Owens, that is the whole of it,” she said,
smiling, and motioning me to a chair
near her. In our half hour of conversa
tion, she gave a brief sketch of her life.
Her father has been dead six years, her
mother finds steady employment in a
tailor shop. She has one brother, Dick,
a boy of fourteen.
The cause of her deformity is an af
fection of the spine, the result of a fall
in her childhood. There are days of
comparative comfort, when she can sit
by the window and busy herself xvith
trifles of exquisite needlework, for which
she usually finds a ready sale. But there
are other days full of a keen, torturing
pain, of such suffering as cannot be put
into words. I wonder at her patience,
her cheer, her rare sweetness. As com
pared xvith Rose Owens's, how bright
and full and free my own life seems.
And yet there have been solitary places
through xvhich I have passed with weary
feet and low cries for help, lias this
frail, suffering girl been sent to aid me?
He knows xvho-c laws are written upon
our human hearts
July 30.
On my first visit to Joyce, child
though 1 was, I discovered a peculiar
look on the face of Mrs. Volney that im
pressed me in an unpleasant manner;
but now, with a keener sense of percep
tion, this expression of harshness, mar
ring the delicate cast of her features,
takes more definite shape, and I seem to
understand that it is the result of some
bitter, relentless spirit warring contin
uously with the better angels of her
heart. Something, some other life it
may be, presses upon her own, with the
force of a lasting pain.
I may never know what it is, for Mrs.
Volney is a proud and reticent woman,
but I ilo know that some secret dread
shadows her life.
Unmindful of these things, Joyce is
very happy in the thought of school
going; but more, I surmise, with the
beautiful wardrobe which is being pre
pared for her.
August 2.
We were in the sewing-room this morn
ing, Mrs. Volney, Joyce and I, in ear
nest discussion over the make-up of a
rich, wiuc-browu silk.
“There is the postman, Joyce,” said
Mrs. Volney. “Go, please, and fetch
the mail. My Fashion .lovriuil comes to
day, and possibly we may find some
novel design for your dress.”
Joyce was back in a moment, her
hands full.
1 ‘Mamma al ways has as much mail as the
President,” she said, laughing lightly,
and laying letters and papers upon the
table beside which Mrs. Volney was sit
ting.
“Ten, here is the Jaurnil, you may
examine it, Edith,” said Mrs. Volney,
tossing it in my lap. Then she uttered
a stilled cry; her face was white with
some strong emotion, her eyes were fixed
upon the letter lying uppermost. I had
never seen a letter bearing a foreign
post-mark, but I knew intuitively that
this one had come from across the sea.
Without offering a word of excuse,
she took the letter in her hand, and
walked slowly from the room.
“Mamma always acts just so strangely
when she receives one of those great,
horrid letters. We shall not see her
again to-day, possibly not to morrow,”
•Joyce said, the frown deepening between
her pretty brows.
“How provoking 1 when I wanted so
much to see that shimmering pie-c or
silk transformed into a diesß,and I should
not like you to cut it without her ad
vice.”
“Do these letters come often?” I
asked, ignoring the dress difficulty. It
seemed such a trifle to me compared to
Mrs. Volney's suffering.
“No; once a year, perhaps. I wish
there would never come another I”
“Hush, .Joyce! you do not know what
you are saying. That may be a dreadful
thing to wish.”
Mrs. Yolncy holds a secret in her life
—a real heart secret and it sets het
apart from all other women whom 1 have
met. It is quite like a page out of some
old romance.
nvrfrST •?.
Mrs. Yolney came into the sewing
room this morning for the first lime
since the arrival of that mysterious let
ter. Hhe took up the subject of Joyce’s
diess just where it bad been left, with no
word or sign—save face sigus—to tell
that she had suffered, or that the silence
of hours lay between this talk of fashion
and that other one.
Joyce tells me that there is a door
leading into what mu t be a ute ol
rooms, just Hernss the hall from her own,
ami which, to her knowledge, has nexer
been opened since she has been onu ol
Mrs. Yolncy’s household.
“Oh, there Is surely a skeleton in
Mamina Volney'a closet; but wlmt care I,
so long ns Ido not hear the rattling of ils
dry hones,”so Joyce said one day, end
ing the words with one of her low,
happy laughs.
Bat I care, and mingled with mj
pity for Mrs. Volncy's sorrow is a vague
feeling. That the shadow of this soerot
hangs about my oxvu life: that those
closed rooms contain something notun
like a dear pretence towards which my
heart continually turns.
August 18.
lam giving a little time at present t(
Edith Wild r and her necessities Al
though lam busy from morning till late
at night, yet it is such a free sort of la
bor, that it seems a delightful holiday.
It is my oxvn xvork, and I can drop it
at any moment and go out into the old
fashioned flower garden among the
birds and the blossoms; or I can gather
up a bit of it and go down to Rose Ow
ens's for a chat. Rose is embro.dering n
satin cushion for Sirs. Volney, and she
sits at her work in a very pretty new
chair, in which she can wheel herself
about from place to place without assist
ance. ‘
I seem to have entered on anew phase
of existence in having found a life to
which my own has coine as a rescue
from an almost unbearable loneliness. 1
have a huger home in the world; a vital
interest in something outside the drains
of my personal needs and desires; and I
am beginning to understand that life has
purpose beyond anything I had pre
viously imagined.
The chair in which Rose tests, even at
her work, was bought with money 1 had
laid aide, little by litlle, for the pur
chase of a handsome summer silk; but
this sacrifice of my girlish vanity ha
co'iie back to me full freighted with joy.
For in a thousand way* Rose reveals her
pleasure in its possession : and the rich,
dark crimson making a pleasing foil to
the delicate, blue-veined face, ministers
to my love of artistic effects, and thus
becomes a source of real enjoyment.
Edna, too, is taking a vacation, and
we aie crowding the day* with work and
dooks, xvith music and converse, and
with such rare intervals of silence as can
only fall between two people xvho
thoroughly understand and love each
other.
And thus the summer is slipping away
with such wonder of glory in its sunrise
and sunset, such dreams in its flowers,
such thrills in its winds and its voices.
August 2 t.
Yesterday was my eighteenth birthday.
Mrs. Benton did not forget and drove
down for us, Edna and I, very early in
the morning.
Mrs. Benton grows absolutely pretty
With the flush of happiness upon her face
and all its outlines rounded into curves.
“What a great shining beauty of a
horse,” I said.
“And xx’hat a lore of a carriage.”
chimed in Edna’s low voice, as she rested
amid its cushioned easiness.
“Yes, my lady drives her own, in
these days. Horse and cariiage were Mr
Bouton’s latest gift.”
Notwithstanding the lightness of her
manner in uttering those words, I knew
she felt a pleasurable pride in their pos
session. How could it be otherwise after
those years of toil and privation ?
The dew was yet on the wayside grass
as we rode along with brief interludes
ef dreams between the pleasant talks.
Every tree and bush was jubilant with
bird-song, and the low west wind pa s
ing through orchards of ripening fruit
and over fields of late clover-blooms came
up to us laden with sweetness.
Mrs. Benton drove to the little build
ing midway between house and barn,
which is her husband’s oliice, and where
she knew he would be waiting for her re
turn.
He came out at sight of us with a
merry greeting. Then from somewhere
beyond the house we heard Charley’s
shout of joy, and in an instant he was
beside us, with flushed cheeks and
tumbled hair.
“Oh, Dithy,” pulling at my hand,
“I want you to come with me, right oil
this miuute, to see old Goldie's chickens
—I putted the eggs under her my own
self; and they’re nicer—why, nicer than
they had at the Pair in that in’bater,
Dithy! But papa says, p’r'aps they’re
all naughty little roosters.” I laughed
aloud to see the sudden drooping of his
lip corners.
“Bu 6 the roosters are very pretty, 1
think,” I replied byway of comfort.
“Yes, to be sure, they’re pretty enough,
but then they don’t lay no eggs. That’s
what I feel about.”
lie soon forgot his sorrow, as they
same at the sound of his voice, twelve
of them, in their pretty new dresses,
part feathers, part yellow down.
O, say, Dithy, but there’s something
nicer even thau these! Guess what it is.”
His blue eyes sparkled, and the dimples
came and went about the mysteriously
puckered mouth.
“Oh, little ducks;”
“No, indeed,” with a superior smile.
“A lamb?”
How his laugh rippled out. “Womans
can’t guess at all,” he said superbly.
“It’s a whole nest of little cats. They're
real splendid; and so funny, too, with
their shut-up eyes. Bight here in the
wood-house they are, where they was
borned.”
“Grandma thinks she has a claim upon
Edith as well as you, dear,” Mrs. Benton
said, coming down the walk and step
ping up behind him.
llow brief the day seemed, and so
brimming with happiness.
Monday Morning.
We have just had a call from Mrs.
Jenkins, the old lady of whom we reni
and who occupies the other part of the
house. Most of the time she has a few
boarders —young, unmarried men—more,
I think, that her life may not drop into
utter stillness than from any pecuniary
reasons.
“I have anew boarder,” she said after
a few moments, “and a line young man
he is, too. Perhaps you've noticed him?”
“Why, no; at least I have not,” Edna
replied.
•• He is Dr. Brownlow,” she proceeded
to enlighten us, “ a partner of Dr. Bates.
He seems quite delighted with your
music—sings sometimes himself, I take
it and if you do not object I should
like to come in with him sometime to
hear you play and sing.”
*• ] shall certainly be delighted to en
tertain in my very best manner, both your
self and Dr. Brownlow, when you know
him a little better, replied,” Edna.
“ Do you think I would take a young
man into mvhou-e, who was not perfectly
respectable?” was Mrs. Jenkins austere
rejoinder. “I have known his family for
"MY CO US TRY: MAY SHE KVKIt )IR ItlOUT: RIOIIT OH WHO NO, MY COUNTRY r-Jurrmw*.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 21. 18811.
years, anil they are as good as any in the
country.”
“I intended no offence, Mrs. Jenkins,
and siui u things are iim you say, why.you
can come in with the doctor at any t mo
you please."
Mrs. Jenkins bowed loftily, it must be
confessed. “Thank you, perhaps xva
may cnll to-morrow evening ”
Fred llammou I is u traveling mail
tioxv; consequently we see him only at
rare intervals.
“I am really glad of his absence,"
Edna s.dd onu night when we were out
in the flower-garde i. We were standing
by a bed of August’s own white lilies as
she spoke, and the moonl t air was heavy
with their sweetness. “1 am finding nut
that I can live without him very well. In
fact, it is quite u comfoitnble sensa
tion.”
“Then I, too. am glad,” I made an
sxver. “And do you know, Edna, I have
a conception that a noble, true woman
has no right to give lo r love (which is
the very best thing she has to give), into
the keeping of a trifler a cum who
arizes it only while the newness lasts!"
“But these lilies bloom and cxhalu
their sweet breath, whether one pause to
admire, or passes them by unheeding.’’
“A flower is only a senseless thing; bnck
of its beauty and its odor lies no strong,
subtle will that can do, or not do. It
must obey the law of its nature, an i
bloom."
“And a xx oinaa must obey the laxv of
her nature and lire. Oli, Edith, you do
not understand i"
Her face was hidden among the lilies,
but there was a sound of tears in lict
voice.
Tears amid the sxvcetness of that wide,
warm night! No, Ido not understand
Tt Ksn.xx Aftkunoox..
Man proposes, and—things happen at
they will. Tills evening I)r. Brownlow
was to have called; but Edna precipi
tated the crisis, and he came this after
noon instead.
It was only a misstep, a trilling fall,
but it resulted in a sprained wrist.
Edna”,fainted. I ran for .Mrs. Jenkins;
Dr. Brownlow had just risen from a late
dinner—and that was how it happened.
I noticed iu what a skillful yet tendur
manner he bathed and bandaged the
round xvhite wrist. Edna endured in
silence until the last bandage was ad
justed; and then began to tremble, and
as she lay back among the pillows I
placed upon the couch for her, sobbed
like a hurt child.
“I.et her cry,” said the Doctor in a
gentle voice, it will do her good. I will
call again before evening,” and xvith Mrs.
Jenkins he xvithdrexv from the room.
“ There, I’ve made a mess of it, have
I not f” said Edna aftera little, and with
a loxx-, nervous laugh.
“ Well, I rather think you have.”
“ How did he look, Edith ?”
“ Who ?” xvith assumed surprise in the
rising inflection of my voice.
“ Why, the Doctor, of course.”
“ Oh, well, he looked ont of a pair ol
luminous blue eves, and his hands were
white, and strong, and well trained.
That is all I remember.”
“And bis voice is something to dream
about!” Edna exclaimed, with a smile
and a vivid flush. Then she turned her
face away from me and xvas still.
I pas-ed into our pretty sleeping room
ami left her alone with her dreams.
“Ah, why
Should life all labor be ?
J rt-t us alone. Time driveth onward fast,
Aud iu a little while our lips are dumb.
Let us alone.”
September 2.
The Doctor seems to be unmindful ot
the fact that Edna’s wrist no longer re
quires professional treatment, or at least
his calls do not cease. Brief visits as a
rule, full of jest and laughter; with an
occasioual evening of music and talks
that drift on and on, into the deeper
streams of life—the two getting _vory
often beyond my depths and leaving me
interested, but silent.
Edna has gained a force of character
by contact with the world unusual to so
young a woman. It is easily seen that
the Doctor is surprised at her fine per
ceptions, her ready application of abstract
principles, her knowledge of the world
and its ways. He seems to delight in
leading her on from some trifling topic
into a discussion which soon merges it
into deeper significance. She dispute!
every inch of the ground with a charm
ing 'tenacity that calls forth his best
effort, and her clearness of vision rarely
leads her into false paths.
From my vantage ground of observa
tion I am studying these two, who un
consciously have dropped into a close but
Unobtrusive intimacy. They have con
genial natures, similarity of tastes, amt
each is possessed by a desire to be and to
do, which gives to life a peculiar zest and
brings out all the higher capabilities of
the soul, borne far reaching fate has
drawn them together.
I have my dreams for them.
Mr. Hammond called one evening, but
found the Doctor ahead of him. He
seemed at once to comprehend the situa
tion, and like a wise tactician, quietly
withdrew.
September 5.
A distance of many miles lies between
Joyce and me, for the first time iu oui
lives. She clung to me a little at the
last. “Dear old Dith,” she said, “I am
afraid I shall miss you sadly.”
That was all—but it was something
coming from Joyce.
September 12.
Something a little out of the ordinary
way came into my life to-day. Nearly
two weeks I have been sewing at Mrs.
Courtney’s. She is a very pleasant lady,
with graceful, high-bred ways—a woman
“to the manner born,” who has nevei
known one ungratified desire which
money conld procure.
She has but one child—a son—and lie
just returned from an after college tour:
a brief European trip “Ho is tiie hand
somest, great darling in the world,” his
mother said the day of his arrival, “and
such spirits as he possesses! No one can
remain sad for five consecutive minutes
where Leon is. There has been such a
sense of desolation brooding over our
home during his absence. And now, to
have him back again, is like coming into
a paradise ”
At times during these days I have
heard him passing along the hall with a
quick, easy tread, and whistling softly a
strain from some opera, or singing in a
rich, full voice the words of some old,
tender love-song. Very often I have
listened to the sound of his voice from
the rooms below in converse with his
mother and the many friends who daily
come and go; and no voice among them
is so melodious in intonation, no laugli
rings out so free, careless and happy as
his own.
From my work of silence I have spec
ulated about him. Not, however, after
the manner of moiit girls, for no gleam
of romance ha* colored my dtearns; but
I considered his past, hedged in by love,
every want supplied, every taste grati
fied. I thought of Ills present; of hi*
strong young manhood with its environ
ments of refining influence*; its tempta
tion to drop into a narrow, selfish, sens
uous existence. 1 wondered did his
soul possess any latent forces that would
enable him, if need be, to fight for place
and power; or would even the attributes
which noxv make the clmrtn of his life,
be destroyed if he were exposed to such
fierce flumes as many men and women
travel through daily.
Mrs. Courtney xv.is out shopping this
afternoon. The house wus therefore
very quiet, and I was busy with my
work—a lovely luauve colored satin •
snd my fancies, when suddenly tin
silence was broken by the swift rush of
feet up the broad, softly-carpeted stairs.
Onward came the footsteps through the
wide hall and into the very room xvhere
I sat at work.
[to be contisued.l
THE WORLD
AT LARGE.
HCK-VPS HERE, THERE AXI)
EVERYWHERE.
EUBOPE OETTINO IlElt ARMIES AND NAVIES INTO
CONDITION—THE LABOR riELD— PROGRESSIVE
IDEAS BEING AGITATED.
The Austrian government has ordered
the Danube Navigation Cos. to hold as
many steamers as possible ready for an
emergency.
The steamer Lord O'Neil (British)
Ferris, from Baltimore, which arrived at
Gltsgow, Scotland, lost four men over
aoard during a gale.
The bark Funny Schofield, from Cal
:utta, arrived ut Jersey City, N. J., on
Thursday, with a scurvy-stricken crew.
One of the crew is dead and two more
are likely to die.
The largest judgment yet awarded to
any of the numerous properly owners
who have sued the Elevated tail road for
damages, was given to the Sixth Avenue
surface railroad at New York in a deci
sion haeded doxvn by Judge Ingram.
The awards aggregate $'.>5,000.
A battery of boilers at the West Point
boiler works of R. Genroe A Sons, of
Pittsburg, I‘a., exploded on Thurs
day, completely wrecking the plant und
killing half a dozen men. The explosion
occurred just afternoon; the whistle had
founded and many of the workers had
left the works to get their dinners. The
concussion shook the buildings for sev
eral squares. The boileis were inspected
six months ago and were thought to be
in first-class con ;ition.
Several men are imprisoned in the
gangway of the Black Diamond Mine,
near Mount Carmel, Pa., and they xviil
probably all perish. While they were
at work mining coal, the cracking ol
timber in the gangway gave xvarniug
that a fall of coal xvas about to take
place. The miners da-lied doxvn into
the narrow tunnel, endeavoring to es
cape, when sudea nly a mass of rock and
coal fell in front of them, choking up
the entrance into the main callerv.
TELEGRAPHIC,
Travande & Cic bankers, of L’Mans,
France, have suspended. Their liabili
ties amount to several million francs.
It is expected that Count Herbert Bis
mavck and Counselor Crave! will repre
sent the Germans in the Samoan confer
ence.
The British steamer Cromoa, at Liver
pool, from West Point, collided with
the pier head, and stove her stem plates.
Fire broke out in her cotton hold.
A dispatch from Tien Tsin, China,
says that that the natives have risen on
the Ivwang Si frontier, and they have
destroyed ten block housis and killed
one hundred Frenchmen.
Ohio is going to spend 8.1,000 on a
monument in the National Cemetery at
Chattanooga, Tenn., in honor of Capt.
Andrews and the other Federal railroad
raiders who were hung in Atlanta,
Ga., duriug the War, for running away
with u locomotive ut Big Shanty.
Lieut. Carson, commanding troop G of
the sth United States cavalry, arrived at
Oklahoma, I. TANARUS., on Sunday, from Fort
lleno. The would-be settlers were
warned of the soldiers coming and scat
tered in every direction. Several hun
dred, however, were surrounded by the
troops, who drove them before them like
cattle —men, women, children and teams.
Houses, tents, dugoutr, claim founda
tions and marks were destroyed. The
leader, Hill, has been arrested. The rest
of the party will be conveyed to the
Kansas line and there dismissed, though
their property may be confiscated.
Owing to the recent burning of the
lower works at Anaconda, Montano,
Marcus Daly, superintendent of the Ana
conda, has ordered the Chambers Syndi
cate mines to shut down, and 000 men
ure out of work. The loss is estimated
at over $1,000,000, and there is no insu
rance. The works burned were 320x000
feet, and contained forty of the great
roasting furnaces. About fifty per cent,
of the machinery is a total loss. The fire
was undoubtedly incendiary. It broke
out in the center of the ore house, where
there was no fire of any sort. Eighteen
hundred men are out of employment
He Wanted to Catch Fish.
“I have changed my mind about tak
ing you with me on that fishing excur
sion next week,’’said a fit. Paul husband,
lifting liia eyeglas-es from the bridge of
his nose and twirling them between his
lingers as he looked intently into the
flame of the lamp. “I have conn to the
conclusion that it will be belter for all
concerned if you slay at home.”
“I’m not surprised, John,” replied the
wife, hotly. “I’m not the least bit sur
prised. You never keep your promises.
This mikes the fifth time in the pad
month that you’ve promised lo take me
to some place with you and then changed
your mind. I never heard of such a man.
You must be going crazy. What is
your reason for breaking your last prom
ise? I'd like to know why 1 can’t go on
the fishing excursion with you ”
“Because,” said John, without a
tremor in his voice, “because I have just
read here in the Scientific Monthly that
tisii can hear a person talking a half a
mile away.— St. Paul l/lohe."
Delaware still continues the use of
whipping posts and if you waut to know
how it suoeeeds, she will send you fig
ures to prove that she Iras twenty per
oent. less of minor offeuoes thau auy
equal population in the world.
SOUTHERN
Cl LUNGS.
NEWSY ITEMS MOST INTEREST
INOI. Y BRIEFED.
ACCIDENTS ON THE RAILIIOADS, ITC. MATH ol
I’UOMINKMT mn-LK—'IT.Mri.UA.M E, SOCI.Xt
AND HKUCIIOCS ITF.MS.
mntxiA.
In the criminal court at Birmingham,
on Thursday, the case s of John and Jult
Wyly, of Atlanta, charged with beii ;
accomplices in the Hawes murder, win
set for trial May oth.
At Bessemer, on Sunday, Dennis Dor
sey was shot and killed by 1). A. James
The txvo men were employed at the rol
ling mill, ami had been paying attention
to the same woman.
A crowd of Irish laborers went out ii
the woods about one mile from Birming
ham, to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
They xvcrc well supplied with whiskey nuc
beer, and before night many of then
were drunk. Late in the afternoon, txvx
of them agreed to settle a dispute by t
fight. 1 his lead to a general fight, it
which pistols, knives and stones xverr
used. A painter, named Thomas Mullin
was struck on the hea l xvith a stone am
his skull fractured, and will die.
Extensive expeiinicnts in steel making
are to be made in Birmingham. Jacol
House, of Pittsburg, is there, backed bx
a strong company, to test what is knowt
as the “Duplex system,” a combinntiot
of the Ilisscmer ami the basic processes
James Hender-on, inventor of the basil
process, which bears his name, is on ham
is the representative of a New York com
pany with a million dollars capital, whicl
proposes to thoroughly test the Hender
son process.
0. Festout, city marshal of Aberdeen
Miss., arrived at Birmingham on Suudax
from Edgefield, S. €., in charge of E. It
Smith, a detective, charged with tin
murder of Sim Ward, colored. The ne
gro, Sim Ward, xvas one of the murder
ers of Col. Hamilton, at Aberdeen, Inst
December. Smith was employed ti
search for him, and about a month ag(
arrested the negro in East Alabama. Hi
started with his prisoner to Aberdeen,
but at a secluded spot in the woods, shot
the negro and left him lying by the road
He lived long enough to crawl to a houst
a mile away and tell the story of tin
crime. It is said the negro’s ears wen
cut off and he xxus otherwise mutilated
ARKANSAS.
J. R. Underwood, a prominent plant
er, was assaulted on Thursday at Clarks
ville by John Wiff*>rd Stewart, who fin and
two loads from a gun and then used his
gun ns a club, but Underwood dually
succeeded in getting to his man, and
then cut his throat fiom ear to car
niaiai.it.
A malignant form of pneumonia fex'ci
is prevailing in and around Clayton.
A negro girl and a negro boy, the girl
about eleven and the boy seven or eight
years of age, were arrested in a Georgia
Railroad passenger ear in Atlanta, about
h alf past eleven o’clock at night in a
state of beastly intoxication.
On Sunday, fire was discovered in the
second story of the Walker building, in
West Point. The ground floor was oc
cupied by Causey A Satterwhitc, grocers,
and Hodman A Lanier, as bottling works.
The second floor was used as a shot-shop,
barbershop and sleeping apartments. The
odor of burning kerosene attracted the
attention of some of the citizens wlic
were passing, which ltd to the discovery
of the fire. Suspicion rests on J. L. Car
penter, a shoemaker, who is under arrest.
lion. Charles Estes, president of the
John P. King Cotton Mills, of Augusta,
gave notice to the banks that if they al
owed the city to hypothecate with them
any claims against him on account of the
special tax, they would be buying a law
suit. He gave it as his opinion that the
installments were sufficient to meet the
freshet damages, and declared he should
pay no more. Further investigations
seemed to have changed his mind, how
ever, and he has gone forward and paid
the tax iu full.
MARYLAND.
The American bark Agnes Barton,
bound from Nassau to Baltimore with a
cargo of phosphate rock, was driven
ashore on the Virginia coast during the
prevalence of a heavy northeast gale.
Of her crew of ten men only four were
saved.
TENNESSEE.
The State Senate has adopted a resolu
lion providing for the removal of th<
remains of John Sevier from Alabama t(.
Hie National Cemetery ut Knoxville.
The sum of §SOO is to be appropriated
for the purpose, and an effort will be
made to erect a monument.
VIRGINIA.
Mngruder Fletcher, a colored mar
charged with crime about a white womar
at Tasley, was lynched by a party o)
men. Jailer Samuel Metzon was aroused
at midnight by party of masked men,
who demanded the keys of the jail.
Metzon refused to give them up. lit
was told that if he did not, his house
would be burned. The lynchers weuttc
the cell of Fletcher and told him he was
wanted. He was at once released, and
was carried out. lie made no demur,
whatever. The doors to the jail were
fastened by the lynchers and the keys
turned over to the jailer. The negro
was then hurried iff and hung to a limb
of a pine tree on the edge of the road.
A verdict was rendered that Fletchei
came to his death by being strangled and
shot by persons unknown to the jury.
Fletcher had four bullet holes iu him.
His neck was not broken.
A PRACTICAL MAN.
Maj. Gen. Baird, U. S. A., has writtcr
a letter from Washington, 11. C., to the
Citizens’ Committee in New York, en
gaged in raising funds for a national
Confederate Home at Austin, Texas.
Gen. Baird opens in this way: “The
fact that a portion of our countrymen
are in distress and need pecuniary aid, is
a sufficient appeal to the generous and
kind-hearted. It is not necessary, nor is
it magnanimous, to inquire how they
came to want. I have strongly indorsed
Gen. Shcrm in's proposition to open the
homes provided for our scarred and hon
ored veterans to thoso disabled in dif
ferent causes.” Gen. Baird concludes:
“While the distinguished leaders of the
rebellion hold high positions in the gov
ernment. and are welcomed in all oui
own social gatherings, it seems to me
strained sentimentality to pronounce the
one-legged Confederate an unfit com
panion for our own battle-bruised, but
much respected old soldiers.”
A sou mm QUESTION.
HO IF lO Pith VENT TIIK RISE AND
'i lIFAD Ot YELt.OW H Vt.ll.
Dr. W. C. Van Bibber, a prominent
physiran ot Baltimore, Md., has published
a paper recently read by him before the
Baltimore Academy of Medicine, upon
tho prevention of yellow fever in the
South. Dr. Van Bibber's treatise is a
notable contribution to the 1 tcruture of
the terrible rcourge, and abounds in val
uable suggestions ns to the beat means of
guarding against its rise and spread. Ar
gument* ate forcibly presented in favor
of improved sanitary mithoda, aid a
more enlightened system of quarantine
In Southern cities. Upon the question of
proper sanitary . 'millions, Dr. Van B.Li
ber says;
“In 1881, a paper was read before the
American Public Health Association, at
their meeting in Savannah, Ga., under
the title of * Two Suggts ions Concern
ing Healthy Buildings.’ The first sug
gestion made was ‘to build houses upon
arches or peers in low flat grounds.
Man has the privilege of building under
hi* own control. He must t ike the
earth a* he finds it, but one style of
building may be more healthy, conven
ient, and salubrious in one situation than
another. Instead of springing the
houses out o/ the ground in loiv, flat sit
uations, it is better to interpose a stratum
of air between the house and the ground.
If the house he built xveli up off tbe
ground, and the earth paved beneath it,
with no enclosed yards, then continued
cleanliness could ho ea-ily maintained.
The surface ventilation of the air would
be one prominent advantage of this style
of building; surfaeo drainage, an easy
abat ment of certain nuisances, xvith
consequent increased hcalthfuluess and
comfort would be the result.
“If Macclenny ami Jacksonville and
Decatur had been built iu this way, and
had been kept according to the intention
of such a style of building, their inhabi
tants xvouid have been saved the recent
epidemic. This plan of building the
houses well off the ground, upon arches,
columns or pier*, w ith clean hard pave
ments of btick or concrete underneath
and artiund tie in, I regard witli great
favor; it would not only be an improve
ment in itself, but would bring after it
many other improvements. The objec
tions which have been raised against it
arc the expense, the inconveniences und
the danger from violent storms. The ex
pense might be a little heavier at first,
but if all did it, this increased expense
xvouid soon be equally distiibuted —if
the house cost more to build, the work
men would get more for building it, ami
in this xvay it would not be considered a
burden amongst the poor. As to incon
veniences, if there he any, they are not
worth balancing uguinst the gain, and
habit woula soon make it cease to be
felt. The danger from violent a orms
could lie overcome by the supports ol
of chimney stucka sprung irom the
ground, or by supporting towers or
beams, by means ot which the houses
could be firmly secured, and all danger
averted.
“It is difficult forsome minds to divest
themselves of the early bius which they
have lid from infancy, from building on
the ground with cellars, and pils and
sinks. These tire not suited to low Hat
lands in a warm climate; a sufficient
standard of cleanliness cannot be main
tained in their presence, or where they
exist. The question os to how high the
building-line should be] off the ground,
is an important one, if it ever comes to
be considered os a matter of statute cn
ac ment.”
Upon the subject of the quarantinr
of the future, Dr. Van Bibber says:
“Let us speak of the attractive quar
antine of the future. In this, you will
see four houses situated nt a proper dis
tance from each other, in the most ac
cessible point of the state, built and ap
pointed in a manner not only to make
them most efficient for the comfort of
ihe sick and afflicted citizens and stran
gers, but to serve also as schools and
models to teach private citizens how they
can preserve amongst themselves con
tinued cleanliness and give no foothold
to preventible diseaso. The humblest
man in the commonwealth cannot then
plead ignorance as to how he should and
must build his house and manage his
domestic affairs, so as to preserve his
own health, not injure that of his
neighbor, nor impair the reputa
tion of bis state. These four
buildings should have ample communi
cation with each other and the out
side world by telegraph, telephone, and
what other appliances the future may
have in store. Then no one who is quar
antined will feel himself isolated or
harshly treated. The visitor from abroad
and the denizen can alike receive and
send messages from and lo all points.
“In these establishments, all knowl
edge of yellow fever is to be centered;
here the disease can not only be treated,
but studied under the most favorable
circumstances; ami from them, all nee
egsary rules for its picveatiou should
emanate. They should be under the control
of the bo rd of health, who should be well
selected ami thoroughly competent, and
they should sec that nothing be wanting
to make the establishment as homelike
and attractive as the most agreeable re
sort."
HER CAREER ENDED.
The condition of Miss Mary Anderson,
tiie actress, who lias been resting ic
Philadelphia, Pa., preparatory to filling
an engagement in that city, is reported
to be somewhat worse. The engagement
fur next week was cancelled by Managei
Henry Abbey, and at the same time the
announcement made that the actresi
would be unable to fill any of her en
gagements for the balance of the season,
and her dati son the Pacific coast were
cancelled, and her English company of
50 people disbanded. The rumor that
Miss Anderson is insane has gained cir
cillation. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, under
whose care the lady has been since her
arrival there, when requested to affirm
or deny this rumor, positively refused
lo say anything about bis patient’s con
dition.
SHOCKING !
The steamer Caroline Miller arrived at
New York on Sunday night, with news
from Cape Hayticn, llayti. The captain
said that twelve of Legitime’s soldiers,
who had been taken prisoners by Hypo
lyte were shot in the public square at
Cope Hayden the day before the steamer
left. Sympathizers witli Legitime’s had
endeavored to get the men released,
and Hypolite bad become distrustful ol
many of his officers. He therefore put
them to death. The U. S. warship Ga
lena was anchored at Cape Hayticn when
the Miller left, and no doubt could havr
prevented the massacre.
NUMBER 22.
MATTERS IN
WASHINGTON.
OF COURSE, A CHANCE BEGETS
A CHANGE.
toNiat i:<s.
In the Senate, oil Wednesday, a reso
lution authorizing the committee on
coast defenses to sit during recess and
:o employ a clerk, was introduced and
•eferred to the committee on contingent
Upensos. Ihe Senate then proceeded
to the consideration of executive buai
jess, and confirmed the following nomi
lationa: A. C. Mellette, governor ol
Dakota; L. 11. Richardson, secretary ot
Dakota; Cornelius A. Hanford, of
Washington Territory, chief justice ol
the supreme court of the territory ol
Washington; George W. Irvin, of Mon
tana, marshal of tho United States, foi
the territory of Montana; Smilie N.
Chambers, of Indiana, United States at
torney for the district of Indiana;
George 8. Batchellor, of New York, as
sistant secretary of the treasury, vice
Hugh S. Thompson, resigned; AlbertG.
I’orter, of Indiana, envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary United
States to Italy; John A. Enunder, ol
Illinois, minister resident and consul
general of the United States to Den
nark; Walker Blaine, of Maine,
ixaininer of claims in the
State Department. The confirma
tion of Walker Blaine was but of
the usual order and mado by unanimous
consent, as a compliment to his father.
The position to which he is ; p minted is
practically that of legal adviser or “law
llicer” of the state department, and its
incumbent necessarily occupies espe
cially confidential relations with the Sec
retary.
NOTES.
The S gnal Officer re-ports a cyclone on
the Carolina coast, developing increased
Intensity. Violent gales all along the
coast. It extends as far as New York,
and is very dangerous.
Ex-President Cleveland and Ex-Secre
laries Bayard, Fairchild und Vilas left
Washington on Sunday at 3:40, iu s
special Pullman car, via the “Atlantis
Coast Line” for St. Augustine, Fla., en
route to Cuba.
It is announced officially, that Gen.
Lougstrcot, of Georgia, is to have the
position of Begistrar of the Treasury, the
position now held by Gen. Bosccrans.
11 is hearing is very much impaired, or he
would get a better place.
The rate at which uominations are be
ing sent it. by the President, leads to the
belief that the present session of the Sen
ate will he longer Ilian was anticipated.
Such being the case, a disposition was
manifested in the caucus on Thursday to
xinsidcr Southern election matters under
he Hoar and Chandler resolutions.
gigantic combination.
The most important deal in the steel
trade ever made in the country was an
nounced on Thursday, in the consolida
tion of the North Chicago Bolling Mill
Cos., the Juliet Steel Cos., and the Union
Steel Cos. Negotiations to this end have
been going on for two months, and they
were practically concluded on Thursday.
The news was kept verj quiet, and only
leaked out through trade circles. The
name of the new company has not yet
been decided upon, but it will be an en
tirely new one. The capital will be $20,-
000,000, of which between $5,000,000
und $0,000,000 will be issued for cash
now in the treasuries of the respective
companies, and the balance will repre
sent the valuation of the three plants.
The combined works will form the larg
est plant in this country, and will
probably rank second only to the es
tablishment of Krupp, in Germany.
Steel rails are the principal product of
the mills, and in rail-making the new
company will have no competition intho
West worth speaking of. Bolling mills
nt St. Loui9 and Springfield, Ills., are
not running, and the Cleveland mill is
working on structural shapes and agri
cultural implements. The steel rail out
put of the country is turned out at nine
mills, or at least so much of it that other
concerns figure for very little. By the
consolidation of the three Chicago con
cerns, local competition will be de
stroyed, and a better price realized foi
rails. Already plans are being formed
for securing to the utmost the advantages
of the union.
STRIKES.
The Full Biver, Mass., weavers stiff
present an unbroken front, and the num
ber out is increasing. The shut down of
the King Phillip and American linen
mills bus added 2,000 to the number of
idle operatives, and has brought the
strike home to the great body of opera
tives outside of the weavers. There was
a meeting in the park one morning at
tended by over 4,000 sirikers, who mani
fested the same enthusiasm as at the be
ginning Following in the wake of
the Iron manufacture!s in the Schuylkill
valley a id points near Philadelphia, Pa.,
firms throughout the Lebanon valley
have reduced their puddiers twenty-five
cents per ton and other employes in
proportion. At Light’s rolling mill, in
Lebanon, the puddiers have accepted q
reduction from $3.75 to $3.50 per ton,
and employes nt other places are holding
the matter under advisement... .Fifty
iron workers, employed by the Lookout
Iron Company, in Chattanooga, Tenn.,
stopped work on last Thursday uuder
aiders of tbo Amalgamated Asso
ciation of Iron and Steel Workers, on nc
eount of the proposed reduction in
wages. It is believed that the troublo
will soon be settled satisfactorily.
SOUTH CAROI.INA.
William Stcger was detected in an at
tempt to bum the bakery of John Koch,
at Elizabeth City, in which Koch re
sides. There is a general feeling of relief
that the culprit is in jail. All the fires
that have oiiginatcd in connection with
the bakeries heretofore, and the burning
of insured propci ty of incendiary origin,
are laid to Steger.
Ten days ago two convicts escaped
from a gang at work on Broad Creek
canal, Raleigh. One of the convicts was
found dead with his eyes picked out.
I lis comrade went to Hyde park to gel
food, and reported that he remained with
him five days, when death released him.
Neither of the men had a mouthful oi
food for the entire week and wero in
hiding in the woods.
There is no doubt that flying macliinoi
will be invented, but when it comes t<
the general public, accepting that form
of transportation the ease is different,
A seat in a parlor car comes about as
near being a good thing as the average
person wants.