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(Written for tbe FrirmUhtp (N. TANARUS.) Rkoihtir ]
Edith Wilders
Journal.
By METTA E. S. BENSON,
Author of " Barbara Dare," “ Her True
Friend.” *‘l)r. Vetnor'e Ixivo Af
fair.,” “The Missing Ring,”
“ Love's Sacrifice,” etc.
CHAPTER V.
Then slowly opening the door, I was
greeted with the odor of violets, borne
in on the cold outer air. Instantly there
followed a sweet ripple of laughter, a
little rush and rustle
“Why Joyce!” and I sprang forward
to meet her.
“Dith, you old darling!” she ex
claimed, half smothering me with her
caresses.
Clinging to each other, we passed from
the hall way into the room where I.con
was sitting. There was a smile on his
face as we entered.
“1.c0n,” I explained, “this is my sister
Joyce, Miss Volncy, Mr. Courtney.”
A light of intense a lmiration hone in
his eyes as he greeted her, I felt a strict
ure of fierce pain at my heart. How
lovely she was! Her golden hair, her
radiant face, the indescribable charm of
her entire person seemed to till the room
with a brilliant brightness.
“Really, Dith,” she said while amov
ing htr rich outer wraps, “1 do not be
lieve you would have come to see me for
a whole month.”
“Pray, how did I know you were
home! I supposed your school was not
closed until August.”
“Oh, bother the school!” and she
made a pretty grimace. “Truly-, Dith,
taken all in all—the conjugating of
French verbs, the dreadful rules, and
the still more dreadful fo d—l was
driven nearly distracted. I think I was
quite out of my senses for a week or two.
Then my quarterly allowance came; after
that, expostulations, pleadings, tears, a
pleasant join-nay, and the freedom of
home life again.”
Leon laughed at her terse, childish
recital.
But how did Mrs. Volney take the un
expected home coming? ’ I asked, as she
drew the ottoman close beside my chair
and seated herself thereon in a sort of
graceful abandon. .
“Oh”—with a little Unarming over the
word—“she was more pleased than oth
erwise, I fancy. But you wish 1 had not
returned. Why,! wonder!" Ami she
looked at Leon with a bright, enchant
ing smile.
“Because I think it would have been
greatly to your advantage to have re
mained,” I replied.
“Do you know, Dithv” (she could al
ways make easy shifting from a dis
agreeable subject !, “that you grow abso
lutely pretty with that light in your
eyes, and a hint of pink in your checks.
Then she clapped her hands softly,
while a merry laugh bubbled over her
lips.
“Pardon me, Dith, but I cannot help
laughing when I remember what a gro
tesque little object you used to appear
when you lived at Mrs Chilsom’s. Have
you forgotten the first visit you made at
Mamma Volney’s? I would laugh aloud
for days afterward, whenever I recalled
the curious picture you made in that
scant brown lawn, coarse, ill-fitting shoes,
and to crown all that horrid old hat of
Mrs. Chilsem’s, which was a whole size
too large for you.” Again that rippling
laugh.
“I would give ‘my kingdom,’”
she went on mercilessly, “ for your pho
tograph as you looked that day.
‘ • Dear old Dith! Why, I have really
offended you. What do you care now—
it is all over? ” And she began caressing
my hand, the one whereon was Leon's
ring.
But I did care; although I had tried
hard not to reveal the pain caused by her
careless words. I.eon is so fastidious, I
do not like him to know of my forlorn
childhood; beside, I had suffered too
keenly at Mrs. Chilsom's to make any
thing connected with that time a subject
of ridicule.
It may be a false pride, but I do like
people always to see me at my very best.
I never go about even before Edna with
uncombed hair or clad in slovenly gar
ments. Anything bright and pleasing
which comes to me I love to share with
my friends; but my griefs and wor
ries, if possible, I shut away from human
sight and bear them alone. And so
Joyce’s words were like painful sword
thrusts.
Toying with my hand she observed
the one ring that adorned it. Her face
flushed.
“How did you become possessed of
that superb diamond, Dithy? Does it
mean —” and she gave Leon a coquettish
side glance. “Your pardon, Mr. Court
ney: now a ring more or less upon my
hand would not signify;’’ spreading her
beautiful hands, sparkling with jewels,
palms downward upon her lap, “but a
a diamond upon IJith’s —ah, that is quits
another thing.”
“I think, Miss Volney, if you question
vour sister she will tell you that her ring
has a meaning.”
“And wlint does Dith’s ring mean to
yon, Mr. Cos irtney?” with a charming
affection of shyness.
“Avery dear possession,” he responded
gravely, an expression of fondness dark
ening the eyes which sought mine.
“There! I have ferreted out that secret
most adroitly. 1 have found mv level—
a lady detective. My name shall go
down to posterity; my deeds adorn tho
pages of a sensational novel! Children
receive my blessing!” and rising to her
feet sho extended her hands above us in
a mock benediction.
At nine o’clock Mrs. Volney sent after
her. Leon walked he ide her down to
the gate.
“Vour sister is very beautiful, Edith,”
he said, as we lingered a moment in the
open door way while the sound of the
bells came back to us like peals of merry
music.
Anui. 20.
Goldenly green the grass is growing
where the snow has boon. Out in
the old elm this morning a robin
sang a iittle forlornly it see med to
me. Or was the forlornness within my
self? 1 only know I am tortured by a
scuse of loss. A brightness and glory
has gone out of life. Some tender buds
that blossomed in my heart are wither
ing.
“MY COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER UK RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY I™ —jßrrtiiaoN.
There are uo more evenings alone with
Leon; no more wonderful, low-voiced
talks of the joy that thrills us; of tho
rare, snoot hopes that cluster about u
day now drawing near our wedding
day.
Joyechas suddenly found her sister's
society necessary to her happiness.
Evening after evening she comes flutter
ing in with a pretty bird like motion
which is natural to her, and so abso
lutely does she appropriate (.eon's atten
tion to herself tiiat through an entire
evening we rarely exchange a half dozen
common pla c thoughts. lie is yield
ing slowly to tiio ( harm ot her exceeding
beauty ; is drifting bark into the careless
trilling manner which so annoyed me at
the beginning of our acquaintance.
For a time the deeps of his nature
were stirred, and I believe, hut lor Joyce,
he might have developed into a tender,
true, earnest man
Pear heaven, that I should feel com
pelled to write this of uiy flower faced
sister! There is, however, a fatal strand
of weakne-s in his character, and there
are times when her loveliness fills and
satisfies every throb of his being: when
he is mastered by her bewildeiing
beauty, and sense and judgment protest
in vain. And so lam trying to put the
dear dreams aside: to face the reality
without a throb of cowardice. But 1
find:
“This is truth the post s ngs,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrow
Is remembering happier things.”
May 2.
I was belated at my work last night.
A dress him' be finished, and having
worked rapidly since early morning I
was tired and nervous. I thought of
i.eon; of what he had brought into my
life, and of all he would take away in
going. And although 1 knew in that
hour it had been only an idle dream
which ha I held me fer a time in its
thrilling grasp, yet regret was strong
within me, and f could see nothing clearly
e cept the image of my own helpless
misery.
Presently I reached. Mrs. Volney’s. The
magnificent furnishings of the gas lighted
rooms was partly revealed through half
drawn curia ns. and from the music room
came broken sounds of melody, as of
joyous chords struck at random. In the
deep darkness without I stood and
wati hed them —Joyce and Leon.
She was at the piano, her white
fingers to) ing with the keys, her radiant
/ace uplifted to his as he stooped above
her.
In that supreme mom it I think I
must have hated her. She had so much,
so luxurious a home, beauty, accomplish
ments —why could she not have left me
in peace with my one possession? Then
better thoughts urged themselves fore
ir-n Tills w as on;y one oi ttie myste
ries of our human lot. Joyce was my
sister—the very counterpart of my own
beautiful mother. She loved this man
'.who was my plighted husband. These
"tho- .Irtwronvcyefl tinny inlnd a vision
of reasons, which slowly merged into
one brief sentence — I must renounce him.
Mat 5.
I have had the evening to myself and
have been resolutely gathering up
Leon's little gifts and putting them out
of sight. Artistic trilles, scattered here
and there about the room: books he has
read and that are full of his pencil marks;
a knot of flowers he faslened at my throat
one day with a delicate caress and a lov
ing word. That was weeks ago, and their
beauty is vanished, but a faint odor lin
gers among their faded leaves.
“ Some time,” I say to myself, “I may
be able to look upon these things un
moved.” But even as I say this, my
heart is heavy with sorrow and the tcan
fall fast, remembering how much they
have been to me—how meaninglm they
are now.
Dear God! is it always to be thus?
Are there no lasting joys, no hopes that
strike such deep root into the soil of our
being that no chance or change can hin
der their growth?
A volume of Tennyson’s poems fell
open before me, and I read:
“ [Since we deserved the name of friends,
And thine effect so lives in me,
A pare of mine may live in thee,
And move thee on to nobler ends."
The doctor and Kdna have delayed
their marriage one mouth. T understand
why they have done so and am very
grateful.
Mat 10.
“You have been equal to the strife.
You have grown strong,” liose said
when, taking advantage of a leisure hour,
I drew a low chair close beside her own.
“Howcan you tell, Bosel”
“I can read it in your face. And the
light of hope and courage that hitherto
burned in your eyes burns clearer now
and with a steadier flame.”
“But it has been hard to bear, Rose.
How hard I do not think I could make
you understand if I tried, which I shall
not. We have no right to be always
tucking our troubles down into othci
people’s hearts. ”
“That is true, as a rule; but there are
exceptional cases. Sometimes a sorrow
revealed is half borne. Besides there is
the promise, that if we are willing to
help another bear his burden our own
shall be proportionally lightened.”
“And yet 1 have heard you say, Rose,
that suffering and sorrow were the agents
by which God lifts us into a more exalted
plane of living. Then, should we not
endure every intensest throb?”
[she looked into my eyes steadily fora
moment, with that rare and tendei
smile of hers which is ever a sermon ol
itself. At last she said:
“Many of our burdens were not dc
signed, Edith. I believe we were cre
ated for a full measure of happiness; bu!
since we cannot live our lives alone, the
acts of others often reflect unhappily
upon us, and frequently our own vision
is so obscured by the shadows of our de
vires that we go astray. Was not this
true in your case? Were you not daz
zled by the splendor offered you until you
yie’ded to Leon’s impottunitics against
your better judgment? At first you did
not cate for him with any feeling of affec
tion, but he was a man who had never
had a wish thwarted in his whole life,
and the difficulties you placed in his way
but added zest to his wooing. Tout
quiet bravery, your pure, true life, com
bined with certain peculiar personal
charms, ehallertged his admiration and
called forth the best emotions of which
he was capable. Perhaps he will be a
better man all his life than if he had never
known you, and you are not impovet
ishedby the giving, arc you? ”
lam licher a thousand fold. I have
passed through an experience which
must forever intensify the significance of
the acts by which I am bound to others.
I have renounced much but 1 have gained
still more. Although in outer seeming
my life will go on just as before, yet to
me there is an appreciable difference.
Something has come and gone; but 1
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 18811.
i have gained a wisdom I could not lino
gathered from hooks. It cannot he put
into tin in '’
“No,” Rose I'cpl cl, after a moment’s
si c iice, 1 there are certain thoughts and
bearings that must grow into our lives by
actual experience. I think God meant
ii so. It is the way by which Ho sancti
fies our sorrows and transforms even our
mistakes into .a ‘vantage grouud ’ for
further and grander effort."
Cur hands met in a mutual clasp, and
the eyes that looked into miuo were
large with tears.
May 24.
This was to have been ray wedding
day. Edna remembered, but was sileut,
only laying beside my plate this morn
ing a bunch of pansies with the dew
upon them, and for which I thanked
her with a smile. It was such a delicate
token ot sympathy and love. Who but
Edna would have thought of it?
The great wide earth is mad with
bloom and fragrance.- All day the sun
shine has crept like a caress into the
room where I sat at my work, fashioning
bridal garments for a fair young girl.
Fate is sometimes a cruel jester.
I am a trifle quiet to-day—sorrowful,
almost—and yet. after a close question
ing of my heart, I know that there is no
throb of regret withiu its deep emo
tions. It is only a keen sense of some
pleasure lost from the early years of my
life. Already lam beginning to com
prehend Rose's words: “The grandest
lesson of life, Edith, is to learn that
real happiness lies within one's own na
ture.”
Every day I see the world growing
larger about me, and I move tranquil in
the midst.
“My desolation does begin to make
A better life.”
There is something very beautiful in
(he idea of selfhood - that I, Edith
Wilder, struggling onward with the toil
ing masses, helping and being helped,
am yet an independent factor in the
great problem of existence.
Less than a year ago, when Edna and
I began our home life, it just seemed
that I had been suddenly set into a niche
of paradise. 1 had reached the goal of
desire! I had stooped to quaff at the
fountain of perpetual joy! Now, I know
that the best of life is not reached at a
bound. That there are heights into
which one must ascend, not swiftly as
the eagle in his upward flight, but
slowly, painfully, step by step.
These things have been born out of
my new experience:
"For I, myself, with these have grown
To something larger than before."
.Tune 3. /
T i—r I'.tl- V nOW,
for Edna and 1 are living so much in
these days that are lessening one by one.
The bridal garments are taking shape
slowly, in our leisure moments, and i
there ar * wonderful y’c t— ehe .ec
and loving, backward glamies over the
year that has gone. And sometimes into
the midst of happy talks, there are sud
den clasping of hands and eyes that grow
dim with tears. It is hard to loose old
ties and drift into new relationships
however fond our anticipations may be.
Haider sometimes than can be put into
speech.
June 16.
It is all over. The pleasant assembling
of friend; the sacred vows; the con
gratulations; the good-byes. Very
bright and pretty Edna looked, as she
paused at the car door and blew back a
last kiss from the finger of one
dainty, gloved hand.
Ordinarily Edna is not pretty, but
there are times, when, under excitement,
her face flushes into a color and expres
sion that astonishes and dazzles even
those who know her best. “Dear friend,
may all the j ath of your future years
be strewn with joy and peace!”
This was the wish that came stealing
down my thoughts for her. as I turned
away from the moving train that was
bearing Dr. Brownlow and his wife be
yond my vision
(), the desolation of our little home as
I returned and began putting things to
rights. There stood the piano, with a
book of Sonatas open at one of Bee
thoven a, jut as she left off playing, last
evening. There is not a thing my eyes
rest upon, or my hands touch, which is
not in some way connected with Edna.
The happy days are ended forever. She
will be my friend always, but nevermore
in the dear olden sense. I had kept up
bravely through it all, but I broke down
in the midst of such thoughts as these,
and falling face downward upou the
Door sobbed out my sorrow alone.
In the afternoon I went down to Rose
to unfold to her my plan for anew home.
After the wedding had been duly dis
cussed, I saiil:
“Rose, I have nearly perfected a plan
whereby, with your consent, of course, I
can live with you.”
“A plan to live me, Edith? Tell it,
please. ”
“And you would like it, then, I know
by your face.”
“Like itl Oh, Edith 1 if the dream
only can become a reality.”
“I see no reason why it cannot. There
is a lovely cottage upon Wildwood ave
nue, and the owner, a lady whose hus
band lias recently died, is very anxious
to rent it. It is really a desirable place.
There is a wide, green lawn in front with
a few fine old trees: a rose tree rims riot
over a side veranda; at the right of the
house is a small flower plot, and just be
yond a large grape arbor. At the
back of the house there is not a
yard of ground that does not
serve some purpose. There arc fruit
trees of different kinds, bushes of rasp
berries. a small plot of strawberries, a
vegetable garden, and at the far end a
we ll arranged park ami hen-house con
taining a few choice fowls. The latter
I thought to buy for Dick, and allow
him to have the proceeds for his own
use. It will l>c an encouragement to
labor, and il he learns to care for all
these things in a right manner, he will
not find many idle hours.”
“And I should like him to have some
Buch employment, for he is too much at
large in the street now, breathing in a
poison from the rude talk of older boys
and of coarse, vulgar men, which I fear
he will never live down, lie is a bright,
loyal-hearted boy and I want him to be
come a clean, pure man.”
“I know you do, Rose. And Dick
was not left out of my thought when I
was planning for onr home. But now
for the business part. I will rent the
house and contribute my share beside to
the household fund, if your mother will
consent to my proposal."
“But would this arrangement be quite
fair to you, Edith?”
“I think so. True, my expenses will
be a trifle more than during the year
past, blit my income will also be larger.
A number of ladies for whom I have
worked, have banded together and re
tained my services for the corning year
at the rale ot ten Hollars a week. 1 was
offered a lucrative position in Madame
Korucy’sestablishment; but these ladies
seemed to think that no one could please
them eo well ns myself,
“And really, Rose, I have sought iu
every possible way to perfect myself in
mynrt —for dressmaking in un art. It
requires as fine an nrtistic sense to make
■ perfectly fitting dress and adapt it in
every detail to the wearer, as it does
to paint a picture or write a poem.
Jad I believe the only reason why
women arc so often out of lucrative em
ployment is that they are not painstaking
enough. They give more thought to the
?sln that is to a* cine from the work
ihan to the work itself.”
“Is this the result of nature or educa
tion?”
“Of both, I think. Wifehood and
motnernoou seem to be woman s natural
realm, and comparatively few girls are
trained for a self-providing career. But
really, Bose, wo must turn a leaf down
just here, and leave this conversation
to he am'in tie /."
And I said good night, with tho
understanding that Dick was to bring
tne their decision tho following cveuing
upon the suhje. t of cur new home.
Ito he continued. 1
THE WORLD
AT LARGE.
PICK UPS HERE, THERE AND
EVERYWHERE.
EUBOFE GETTING HEB AMIIIRB AND NAVIES INTO
CONDITION—THE CABOH FIELD—EHOOBESSIVE
IDEAS BEING AGITATED.
Heavy snow storms prevailed in Aus
tria on Thursday.
A Genevan banker who lost by copper
speculation, has committed suicide.
English newspapers welcome the nom
ination of Mr. Lincoln as U. S. minister.
Twenty-one business houses were
burued down in Dixon, 111., on Thurs
day.
Advices from Rome, Italy, say that
Pope Leo's fainting fits have become
more frequent and alarming than ever.
Detectives have arrested a dangerous
counterfeiter named L. S. Brown, at
Minneapolis, Minn., in the act of casting
a number of coins. His plan was to
thiuly plate the coins. He is an old
soldier, and draws a pension.
•> -)r Thursday morning, Vernon O.
I irnpson, of Norfolk, Va., died from the
el ects of gas asphyxiation in New York.
Ti e gas was fouud turned on in his room
t tin ( rj ~nwestern hotel, but whether
1 -a v-sudnt or design is not known.
-1 was alive when found, and a
—, !
.'reward
All the mills were running in Fall
River, Mass , on Thursday except the
American Linen Mills, nearly all with
their full complement of weavers. The
linen''mills were not ready to start on ac
count of the non-completion of some re
pairs to the machinery. It is expected
they will be ready to start at once.
The weavers were given their old looms.
There were some exceptions, however,
which caused some unpleasantness.
TELEGRAPHIC,
The German printers of New York
City announced on Sunday, that they
would demand $3.50 a day and go on
strike if refused.
The Council of State, at a meeting held
in Luxembourg, resolved to invite the
Duke of Nassau to become the regent of
Luxembourg.
While Father Agostino was preaching
in the St. Carlo church, in Rome, Italy,
a bomb was exploded. Great excitement
followed and several women fainted,
but the preacher continued his sermon.
Postmaster General Wanamaker made
bis first public utterance on Sunday in
Philadelphia, Pa., on the question of
high license and prohibition. He de
clared in favor of the consti
tutional amendment, aud exhorted tho
audience he addressed, to work, pray and
vote for it.
At a meeting of Central Labor Union,
in New Y'ork on Sunday, a communica
tion was read purporting to come from
Jny Gould, through Washington Davis,
railroad contractor, stating that “Mr.
Gould was willing to hand over to the
Union $11,000,00 I in gold, with interest
from 1809, if the Central Labor Union
would be willing to adopt the plan for
co-operative industry proposed by Mr.
Gould.”
John A. Duff, a well known theatrical
manager, was attacked with a stroke of
paralysis, in the box office of the Stan
dard theater, of which he wss manager,
just before the opening of the inatiuee
performance on Saturday, falling from a
chair and to all appearances, lifeless.
An ambulance was summoned, and he
was conveyed to a New York hospital
and tt.ence to his home, where he died
on Sunday.
SPANIARDS REJOICED.
Queen Victoria paid her expected visit
to San Sebastian, Spain, on Wednesday.
She was accompanied by tlio Prince and
Princess Henry, of Battenberg and mem
bers of her suite, including Lady Church
ill, Sir Francis Ford, British ambassador
at Madrid, and representatives of Queen
Regent Christina met the royal visitor at
Irun, on the frontier, where a train was
waiting to convey her majesty to San
Sebastian. The queen, upon alighting
from the train, kissed Christina on both
cheeks. Alter mutual presentations the
two queens entered the state earrings
and drove to the castle, attended by a
brilliant military escort. Victoria form
ally received the mayor of the town.
Her m ijesty afterwards witnessed a se
ries of Basque dances and games in the
square from a window in the town hall,
and was hinrtily cheered when she ap
peared upon the balcony after the enter
tainment was concluded. From the
town hall the party drove to the railway
station where Victoria and Christina
exchanged affectionate adieus.
TO BE PUNISHED.
The French cabinet decided to nk the
Chamber of Deputies to prosecute Gen.
Boulanger. The refusal of M. Bouchez,
public prosecutor, to sign the indict
meat against Boulanger, on the ground
that there was not sufficient bads for tho
charge of conspiracy, caused a great sen
sation. If M. Boucbez should persist in
bis refusal he will be suspended from
office.
SOUTHERN
CULLINGS.
NEWSY ITEMS MOST INTEREST
INGLY BRIEFED.
ACCIDENTS ON TIIE BAII.BOADS, ETC. —DEATH Of
OHIHFNT PEOPLE —TFMFKUASI K, SOCIAL
AND RELIGIOUS ITI-MX.
AI.ABAUA.
“Yea, I cut the nigger's head off and
I'd do it again.” This was the admis
sion made by Jane Simmons, a ne_r>
woman, when she was arrested in Blount
on Sunday. The woman had cut iff the
head of a negro nanie.l Dave Brooks, a
miner, with an ax. 'I ho cr.mc was
committed at Orcontu, a small town on
the Birmingham Mineral Railroad, about
thirty-five miles north of Birmingham.
B. M. Huey, Jr., agent of the Southern
Express Cos., at Blocton, on Thursday
prevented the robbery of the company’s
< flice by killing the woull-be robber..
The snfc in the office contained about
$6,000 belonging to ihe Cali aba Coal Cos.,
besides several smaller sinus. About leu
p.m., Huey and a friend were seated iu
the office, when ll while luan, with bis
face blackened, entered and pointing a
bull-dog revolver at lluey, ordered him
to throw up his bunds. Instead of doing
so Huey reached for his pistol, which was
lying on his desk. Seeing the movement
the stranger fired, the ball passing
through Huey’s right shoulder. Grasp
ing his pistol in his li ft hand, Huey fired
and shot the mail through the body.
The would-be robber ran out the front
door, and fell dead us he reached the
street.
Alt KANSAS.
John Chambers was tried in Texar
kaua on a charge of highway robbery,
committed near Bassett last November.
Chambers and a pal named William Bull,
engaged to work for a Mr. Giles, and
learning that their employer bad, on No
vember 1, come into possession of sev
eral hundred dollars, they held him lip
in the road as he was cn route home and
relieved him of his money. The jury
found a verdict of guilty with twenty
years in the penitentiary. He has been
identified us an ex-convict from Georgia,
and received the verdict with a light
laugh.
Plummerville, the town where the
ballot box was stolen, and Col. John M.
Clayton was assassinated, is writing its
history in blood. Sunday, the thugs
added another chapter, ending the life
01 a well-to-do colored man by the name
of Joseph P. Smith. Tbe leading de
tective agencies in the United States
have for weeks been working on the
Clayton case, and it is generally believed
that tho web woveu by
be a number of arrests made as soon as
the newly appointed U. 8. district attor
ney and marshal for that district take
their offices. Smith was a very valuable
witness iu working up the Clayton as
sassination. Joe Smith was engaged at
Plummerville gathering testimony, and
it was thought he would be able to do it
quietly and successfully, but the result
proved otherwise*. Two colored men,
Ed Williams and Thomas Edwards, tes
tified at the coroner’s inquest that they
saw the shooting. There were very few
words exchanged before a man named
Richmond drew his revolver and opened
ti eon Smith. Constable Dick Gray and
Deputy Sheriff Tom McGee secured
horses, and in less than three hours cap
tu id the murderer and placed him in the
county jail at Morrilton, where he is now
confined. The murderer is uot over
eighteen years of age.
FLORIDA.
Secretary Adams, of the Sub-Tropical
Exposition, at Jacksonville, announces
that eighteen military companies from
the Southern states have already signed
the agreement to participate in the inter
state prize drill April 10, 11 and 12, and
enough more will sign during the present
week to swell the total to thirty com
panies. Three thousand dollars are of
fered in prizes.
GEORGIA.
Atlanta is going through the throes ot
a rapid transit fever, and if plans now
projected are carried through, it will be
one of the best “railroaded” cities iu the
country.
At the session of Dooly superior court
just closed, the grand jury discussed and
decided upon the erection of anew
courthouse at Vienna. A committtee
was appointed by tbe grand jury to pre
pare plans and specifications.
Young Moore, the U. 8. postal clerk,
on trial at Atlanta for tlic murder of
Legislator Hunt, was on Tbuursday
found guilty with a recommendation to
mercy, aud will be sentenced to life im
prisonment. He was very much pros
trated when the verdict was announced.
John Weathers, wbo killed his brother
last Christmas, was taken from Monroe
jail, and he goes up for three years. It
is u short service for the homicide of his
brother. He leaves a wife and several
small children in absolute destitute cir
cumstances, and all of his relatives are
poor people. Starving children arid wife
iu rags clinging to a departing father in
stripes, was indeed a sad spectacle.
F. C. Jones had an altercation with
a special policeman, Robert Walker, in
Albany on Wednesday. Jones hail ad
vanced towards Walker in a threatening
manner, and some claim had drawn a
knife upon him, when the officer drew
his pistol and fired twice, shooting Jones
through the right arm. When the po
liceman fircil, a number of little girls
were directly behind Jones, and they
were terribly frightened.
KENTUCKY.
Deputy Marshal Russell Wireman
raided some moonshiners at the Cros9
Forks of the Kentucky river, in Knott
county, and captured ten prisoners.
These he lodged in jail, and then went on
another raid with four bailiffs. They
arrested J. Draughn, J. Adams and Jesse
Crum, and started bark to I’rcstonburg.
They had only gone a short distance
when twelve men, armed with Winches
ter rifles, stepped out from behind some
rocks and opened fire on Wireman, their
bullets being apparently directed at him
alone. The officer returned the fire with
his rifle, ns also did the special Imliffs
null several rounds were exchanged. One
of the bullets struck Wireman in tbe
head, anil be was wounded in several
other places. Two of the attacking party
were killed. The men who committed
the murder are supposed to be the same
ones who fired upon Deputy Marshal
Greer and were indicted during the Feb
ruary term of the U. S. court at Louis
ville.
I.OtINIANA.
Thomas Rigby, one of tho wealthiest
men in New Orleans, and for many years
president of the Vicksburg ct Meridian
Railroad Cos., died on Sunday, aged
ninety years.
Ml BUM) I'M.
A well-dressed man, apparently about
80 yuars of age, went to the Hotel Parle
in RtreWbts, accompanied by a good
looking, neatly dressed woman, regis
tered us H. M. Waite and wife, of Flor
ida, and the couple were assigned a
room. During the night, Waite drank a
great deal of beer and bad his supper
served in his room. The next morn ng
the woman left the hotel and did not re
turn. Later, Mr. Waite was fouud in a
dying condition with a bottle of mor
phine near him. Soon after being taken
1 1 the hospital, Waite died. The police
are* looking for the mysterious onian,
and the body of “8. M. Wuite, of Flor
ida,” lies on a slab in tho morgue uni
dentified.
NOIKTII CAROLINA.
Large crops of Idsh potatoes on th
farms along tho Dismal Swamp canal,
arc entirely destroyed by water.
The grand jury of Perquimon has
found a true bill forthe murih r by Ifeniy
Lowe, who shot ex-Sheriff Wood’s
brother. The defense will be insanity.
Wiley Reed, colored, living in Carabus
county, while filling a lamp, left tho
wick burning. An explosion took place,
severely burning Reed, and fatally in
juring tiis son, who died.
Several Beaufort citizens have been
dealt with by the White Caps and arc
staying at home nights. This is the
only county in the state in which the
White Caps have eo far begun their
operations.
In Granville county, Spencer Weaver,
a half-witted white man, killed his sis
ter-in-law by sti iking her on the neck
with a stick of wood. The victim was
Mis. M. Longwis, who, having no home
of her own, spent a portion of her time
with her aiater, Mrs. Weaver. Sheoften
quarreled and fought with the man who
hud killed her.
A warrant was issued at Franklin for
the arrest of Lee Lyons, a desperate
negro just out of the penitentiary. When
Officer Porter presented his authority
for the arrest, Lyons refused to be taken
to the magistrate before whom the war
rant was returnable. Tho officer sum
mooed help and went hack toarnst
Lyons, who stationed himself in a corner
of a room armed with a hay fork, and
said lie would kill man who put his
hands on him. He said that he had a
pistol, and under noeircumstanccs would
lie surn nder. The officer used reasona
ble effoits to make him surrender and
stand trial, aud finally, after remaining
" ih to
iron*) c.n f - w ith whrit
the latter ordered him to be shot, at the
same time firing on him himself. Six
bullets were at once fired into Lyons,
from tbe effects of which he died.
SOI Til CAROLINA.
All Charleston is up and in firms foi
Port Royal for the naval station. The
executive committee cf tlie Chamber of
Commeice held a meeting on Monday,
Mayor Bryan indorsing Port Royal.
The report of tbe special committee
appointed by tlie diocesan convention of
the Protestant Episcopal church to try
and arrange a settlement of the color
question, which led to the secession of
nearly all the Charleston churches two
years ago, is just published. The report
recommends a comnri mise which pro
poses to admit such colored clergymen
to the convention who have been in con
nection with the church twelve months
prior to May, 1889. It also proposes n
separate convocation for tlie colored
churches under the ministration of tho
bishop.
TENNESSEE.
Ground was broken on Thursday at
the line between Georgia and Tennessee
for the Chattanoga Southern Railroad,
to run to McLcmore’s Cove, penetrating
an important mineral and coal region.
The road will connect with tbe Chatta
nooga Union Railway at the state line.
VIRGINIA.
Governor Fitzhugh Lee has been elect
ed president of tlie Balcony Fulls Mining,
Manufacturing, Furnace and Lund Im
provement Cos., width was recently or
ganized at Lexington. The authorized
capital of the company $5,000,000. Two
or more furnaces and other large man
ufactories are to be built at Glasgow’.
MATTERS IN
WASHINGTON.
OF COURSE, A CHANGE BEGETS
A CHANGE.
NOTES.
Reports to the navy department from
Capt. Schoonmaker, commanding tho
warship Vandalia, and Commander Mul
lan, commanding tlie Nipsic, both at
Apii, Samoa, confirm the telegraphic re
ports to the Associated I’ress.
The Interior Department states that
the President’s proclamation, will throw
open to homestead entry on Apiil 22d,
about 1.800,000 acres. The amount has
frequeetly been stated in newspapers at
between five aud six million acres.
Mr. Tanner, the newly appointed
Commissioner ot Pensions, holds that
when an old soldier presents a claim
which is manifestly good, but which he
cannot quite substantiate by the required
technical proof, the pension office should
help him to secure that proof, instead of
arbitrarily ruling against him.
The Secretary of War has prescribed
regulations governing the issue of arms
for military instructions at colleges, un
der which each college or university
where an army officer is stationed, will be
allowed two 3-iacli rifled guns of wrought
iron, valued at $450 each, two carriages
and appurtenances, 150 Springfield cadet
rifles aud a corresponding number of
bayonet scabbards aud appendages.
The Signal office reports, that in the
Gulf States, the general effect of the
weather was favorable for tho planting
of corn, cane ami rice, which is about
completed, and for cotton planting,
which is now in progress. More rain is
needed in Texas aud Alabama, while some
injury resulted from heavy rains in por
tions of Mississippi. Reports from Ten
nessee and Arkansas, indicate that the
fruit crop is iu good condition and up to
the present date has not been injured by
frost.
NUMBER 24.
WARSHIPS
WRECKED.
DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE IN TUB
HARBOR OF APIA, SAMOA.
AMERICAN AND OEEMAN VESSELS I'EBTBOTED--
iieave loss or Lire—the united state.
WITHOUT raoTECTION.
Rear Admiral 1,. Kimberly, command
ing the U. 8. squadron telegraphed the
Navy Department on Saturday : “Hurri
cane at Apia on March 15. Every vessel
in the harbor on shore, except the Eng
lish man-of-war Calliope, which got to
sea. The Trenton and Vundalia are total
losses. The Nipsic is beached, ruddei
gone, and may be towed.” The news of
the disaster created a profound sensation
at the Navy Department, and everybody
from the secretary down, freely expressed
their regrets. Secretary Tracy could
not see cause to condemn any one. The
officers in command of the vessels wera
competent men and had doubtless adopt
ed all proper precautions against disas
ter. But these hurricanes, which had
assumed cyclonic proportions, wore sim
ply irresistible, ns was proved by the ex
"tent of the loss of vessels.
By the destruction of the American
fleet at Apia, the Navy Department finds
itself confronted with a serious problem.
Short of the China station, where there
is a small fleet of wooden vessels, at least
one of which can never hope to success
fully cross the Pacific, there are almost
no American vessels worthy of name in
the Pacific ocean which can be sent im
mediately to Samoa. It would not be
wise policy to allow events there to drift
along without the presence of one or
more American naval vessels. The hos
tile armed factions on the islands are no
longer uuder the restraining influence oi
a man-of-war representing any civilized
nation, and property rights, at least,
might be insecure if life was not in jeop
ardy. The Trentou, which was Admiral
Kimberly’s flagship, was the best wooden
vessel in the American navy, and the
hi st ship of the old navy. The Yandalia
was another tine vessel and had been
thoroughly refitted in Mare Island navy
yard, nt considerable expense, just be
fore she sailed. The Nipsic was a vessel
of the old War navy, but after six years’
repairing at the Washington navy yard,
she emerged in 1879 as a practically new
vessel, little but the old keel remaining.
The latest telegrams stato that tbs
hurricane burst upon the harbor sudden
ly. Thu German man-of-war Eber wai
the first vessel to drag her anchor. She
became unmanageable, and was driven
helplessly on ttie reef which runs around
the harbor. The shock caused A' Ban i<
lurch and t s .stfigg W m „ s ,
tjf her men were vm tbe fiat i . -. r ,4
scarce a sou! of them escaped. Tne Ger
man warship Adler was the next to suc
cumb. She was lifted bodily by a gigan
tic wave and cast on her beam ends on
the reef. A terrible struggle for life en
sued among the officers and sailors.
Many of them plunged into the raging
surf and struck out, some reaching the
Bhore in safety. Others clung to th<
•'>Kg> D g until the masts fell. Of those in
tlie rigging, only two gained the shore.
The captain of the Adler and several
other officers were saved. Meantime,the
United States steamer Nipsic had been
dragging her anchors and drifting to
ward tbe shore. The captain, however,
managed to keep control, and ran her on
a sand bank. Boats were immediately
lowered, and the whole company were
saved with the exception of six men.
These were drowned by the capsizing of
a boat.
The United States steamer Yandalia
was carried before the gale right up tc
the reef. She Btruck with a terrible
shock, hurling Capt. Schoonmakei
against a Gatling gun, and he fell
stunned. Before he could recover, a great
wave swept the deck, and he was washed
away with others into the sea. The ves
sel sank fifty yards from the Nipsic.
Several of the officers and men were
washed overboard and drowned. Others
perished while making desperate effort!
to swim to the shore. Some remained
for hours in the rigging, but heavy and
swift succeeding waves dashing ovej
them, carried them off one by one.
By this time night had set in. Many
natives and Europeans had gathered on
the shore, all anxious to render assistance
to the unfortunate crews, but owing tc
darkness they were wholly unable to be
of service.
Soon after the Vandalia had sunk, the
warship Trenton broke from her anchor
age and was driven upon the wreck ol
tlie Yandalia, whence she drifted to the
shore. The bottom of the Trenton was
completely stove, and her hold was half
full of water. As morning broke, the
German man-of war Olga, which had
hitherto weathered the gale, although
much battered by the heavy seas that
constantly broke upon her, became un J
manageable, and she was driven upon!
the beach in a tolerable fair position.,
The following is a record of the officer?
and men lost: The Eber, captain and
all other officers except one, and seven
ty-four men; Vandalia, captain, four of
ficers and forty men; the Nipsic, seven!
men; the Adler, altogether fifteen per-j
sons. Mataafa sent a number of men to
the assistance of the ships. They ren
dered splendid aid in trying to float the
Olga.
Queen Victoria cabled, through Lord
Salisbury, to the British legation in
Washington, D. C., on Sunday, direct-'
ing that her earnest sympathy be ex
pressed to the President of the United
States on the terrible naval misfortune
at Samoa, and the deplorable loss of life.
M r. Ed wards, British charge, accompanied
by the Secretary of State, waited upon
the President, and read to him fho
Queen’s message. In reply, the Presi
dent expressed his warm appreciation,
and that of the whole people of this
country, of the Queon’s considerate sym
pathy on the calamity that had over
whelmed our naval forces at Samoa. A
more formal reply to the Queen's mes
sage would be made, the President said,
through the Department of State.
Fort Lewis, La Plata County, Col.,
is said to be the highest military post in
the world, being 8,500 feet above sea
level At present there are six com
panies of iufautry and two companies
of cavalry, with twenty one officers sta
tioned there.
“Lenses of rock crystal taken from
the ruins of Nineveh,” said a member
at the meeting of the microscopists, in
Cleveland, the other day, “suggest
that microscopes may have been used
in those days.” No one knows, indeed,
who did invent the magnifying glass.