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The Georgia Enterprise. Vt'I.OMB XXIV. The Enterprise. PUBLIS l I KIT wICK KLY AT yVINGTO n7.” Georgia ';i,.s[ly #1 In clubs of five. the Covington Postofßce mutter. Terms, $ 1,25 • N, *|annum. In clubs of five or more le Dollar. Six months 75cts. Four mtlis, 50 cts always in advance. ————————————— AT H ONIZ E n he Old Enterprise. L. v 7’ 5 “rides no fences.” * limps no nominations 1,25 in advance, pi clubs of five sl. ’"I Advertising Rates. llarH Local Notices lOcts per line first inser n—2o cents per month. Business Ad rtisements $1 per inch first time —50 eta jh snbsequcnt insertion. CONTRACT ADVERTISING: ace. | 1 mo. | 3m. | 6 in | 12 m. inch $2.50 I 5.00 I 800 12.00 4.00 | 8.00 | 12.00 18.00 6.00 I 12.00 I 18.00 27.00 jl’m 7.00 | 15.00 | 25.00 40.00 12.00 I 25.00 I 40.00 60.00 18 00 40.00 60.00 100.00 i ! j When any issue of interest to the u- ople of this county arises it may he pended upon that The Enterprise ll be ready to discuss in a way and ‘burner which no sensible man can /•construe or misunderstand. We i "and ever ready to labor "For thelcause that lacks assistance, 7"jr the wrong that needs resistance the future in the distance, -nd thfrjfood that we can do.” Georgia Methodist a FEMALE 18888-9. Fall Term begins August 29, and ha oses Dec ember 14. SpringtTerm begins January 9, and 7 oses Jutte 19. is I Board $lO to sls per month. 7 RATES OF TUITION. iw. Tuition and Incidentals Fall Term, months? $B to sl7. Full corps of teachers. Apply for atalogue. by. i. T. McLaughlin, A. M„ ■“ovington, Ga.] President. Cl SIMMS & Go ;i HI Real Estate Agents, > ~ BoVHIGTON ; GEORGIA. 1 ; ■3e sure to give us the ■jelling and renting of four property. Bates of commission ]ow. Valuable property on ■hand for sale. Try us. Titles traced and per fected. TSTo pay unless a sale is made or rents col lected. ] R. L. SIMMS & CO. Franklin B. Wright, —fcOVINGTON, GA.— Resident Physician & Surgeon. MTObst etrics, Gynecology, Diseases Women ami Children, and all Chronic diseases of a privute nature, a specialtyl 1 have a horse at my command, which wil. enable me to attend the calls of the sur rounding country, as well as my city prac tice. TeRANKLIN B. WRIGHT, M. D 3jHKORU FARM LOANS, 3!v W. SCOTT, gKbvington, Georgia. Negotiate Loans on Farms in -*- Walton and Rockdale counties 'pST Farming with Cash, and see how like it. Interest will cost you lesi W. SCOTT. (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.