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Edith Wilder’s
Journal.
By METTA E. S. BENSON,
Author of “Barbara Dare," “ Her True
Friend.” “ Dr. Vetnor's Love Af
fair*," ‘ The Missing King,"
•' Lovo'a Sacrifice," etc*
CHAPTER VI.
Junk 28.
We are quietly settled in our new
home. The front room, with its pretty
bay-window and airy sleeping-room ad
joining, is the sjiecial domain of out
Rose. My rooms are just over these.
I begin to think it a real luxury to be
poor, after all. I cannot well help it as
1 rest in the midst of a serene self-com
placency, after the animated hurry, the
Hashes of real genius and the promiscu
ous gathering together to furnish out
cottage.
It required considerable argument tc
induce Mrs. Owens to consent to the
proposed change. She had fallen into a
certain groove of labor which, from long
custom, had become comparatively easy
to her.
Hie is a woman of plain, practical
sense; rugged and out spoken, with a
keen di-trust of human nature gained by
her hard experience and a too c lose con
tact with the seething world.
“If there was a prospect that the
change would be a permanent one, 1
should not hesitate to accept of Miss
Wilder’s proposal, as such a life would
certainly be advantageous to you and
Dick. But I should dread, for you and
myself, a going back after a year or so,
to the old life again.”
“ And I think,” Rose said in repeat
ing her mother’s words to me, “that it
was only the knowledge that Dick and I
so much desire 1 it, that at last made her
yield a reluctaut consent.”
One thing we decided upon in the
very beginning, that we would be
home-keepers rather than house-keepers.
We would keep things dean of course,
but we would simplify the drudgery as
much as possible. We would have no
more conveniences and petty treasures,
that would take just so much of our
time and strength to keep them in order,
than was consistent with actual comfort
and a certain degree of re’inement. We
would bestow our best thought upon
the thousand lit tie excellences that
make life worth living; and upon people,
books, art and nature. Wc would exalt
our home and not allow it to debase us
by a too constant drudgery.
The days are full of work, even Dick
Ending plenty to do in the garden and
5n caring for his poultry ; but when the
tea things are removed, then the books
ore brought forth, for I still keep up my
plan of evening study,and both Rose and
Dick have fallen in with my habit. We
devote one hour to the study of ordinary
school books; a half hour to the current
news of the day; another to someone
of the world’s be-t authors. It is sur
prising how much I have accomplished
by adhering strictly to this rule. And
beside, many an otherwise lonely and
bitter hour, has been made wholesome
and sweet by living ideally in the society
of these superior minds.
Each week I receive a long chatty let
ter from Edna and always with a post
script from the Doctor. In the first,
which was written in the very room
where she had dreamed her girlish
dreams, she says:
‘ As we neared home the scenery grew in
beauty. For miles the road wound through
a valley between the mountains, and as I
watched them towering upon either side, I
could only think of the words of the poet,
-'For the strength of the hills we bless thee,
our God, our father’s God.
•'At Newport, which is attheheadof Lake
Memphremagog, we rested. And as I looked
across the lake to the glory of the mountains
beyond. I wished that you too, could look
upon the scene of exceeding beauty. The
Doctor voiced my unspoken thought, when,
after a long silence, he said: “How much
Edith would enjoy, this
“1 am so glad to have him remember you
in the midst of all our happiness. Oh,
darling friend, what have I done that God
has given to me the love of such a strong,
true, earnest man 1 But something dro|* out
of my joy When I recall that this should also
be your time of rejoicing, and that it it not. ”
Next week they are to return. It is
their intention to occupy the rooms
where Edna and I lived our brief home
life together. Edna will continue her
music, aud they will board with Miss
Jenkins, until they can plan for some
thing better.
Jiti.y 20
Friday morning, as I stood in the
open doorway waiting for a coming
street ear, Hose broke the silence that
had fallen between us, by crying out iu
such an eager, pathetic way:
“O, Edith, the world is so full of work,
and behold my helplessness!" For an
instant the thin hands shut out the glory
of her eyes and a quiver of pain, because
of the enfoiced stillness of her life, shook
her slight form. Then one of her rare
and happy smiles illuminated her whole
fare, beginning in her eyes and passing
swiftly downward to her l ps, whreit
lingered in an indescribable beauty.
“How foolish I am,” she said with her
voice dropped to the sweetest possible
tone, “God knows about it. I am one
of his grains of saud. ”
“And you lie so close alongside the
infinite ocean, Hose, that its great waves
beat ever against your heart.”
“Hurrah, for the strect-car, Edith,”
called Dick's boyish voice from without,
and stooping to kiss her I was gone be
fore she had time to repy.
All day Rose’s words lingered with
me, and when at last the day’s work was
done, and I walked slowly aiong the two
or three blocks thst lay between my
place of labor and the car-line running
past our cottage (Rose Cottage we have
named it, because of the nbundam e of
roses without, and the sweet, white Hose
within,) they seemed to take shape and
and walk beside me like a living presence.
If Hose cannot get cut into the rush
and whirl of the great world, then some
thing from the great world must be
brought to her. She has taught me tha
Godins His workers con-tantly intrain
ing. and when they are fully prepared
He puts the work into their hands, and
they do because they mutt, even if
it ’leads to a torturo beyond the
stake and faggot. The leaves rustled
softly overhead; the birds sang in low
trills; the flowers swung their sweet
censers in the air, filling it with fragrance,
and I walked in a dream, oblivious of
the sounds of activity all about me
dreaming of Hose and of some possible
“JfT OOUHTUT: MAY SUB KVRR MB RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRYn—jKwrvumos.
work that should come to rouud her life
into completeness.
“C-a-r-p-e-t-E. What doee that spell,
LouisJ”
It was such a sweet childish treble
that woke me from my dreaming that I
paused, half in awe, as if it had been one
of God’s sweet angels making vocal an
swer to my unspoken questioning.
It was, however, only two little chil
dren, a b y and a girl, dirty and ragged
with masses of tangled brown bait
framing in bright, pretty faces.
They were standing next the iron rail
ing that shut in a wide, rolling Inwu,
and the little girl held in liT-r hands a
piece of newspaper from which sho was
slowly spelling out the wo and. The boy
looked over her sliou;der with a superior
look of wisdom and perplexity upon hit
face. It was such a queer little look,
and such an unconscious bit of acting,
flint f felt like Intuduti" o alright Bit
I only smiled as the girl’s eyes looked
suddenly into mine.
“Carpets,” I said as quietly as though
I had been the person addressed.
“Thank you. Louis couldn't fink;
could you Louis?”
“NA ; but I knew it just the same. I
can read bigger words an’ that.”
“Who taught you to read so nicely :”
“Mamma,” the boy replied proudly.
“And where does mamma live.”
“O, way off ever and ever so far.
Louis and me are ’splorin’; ain’t we,
Louis i”
He nodded and smiled. “You see,”
turning to me in explanation, “mamma
was sick, and. papa, he sent us out iti
the street to piny so's we wouldn't ’sturb
her with our 'ternal racket, and after a
spell I says to Aggie:
“Le’s go ’splorin’ for the north pole,
and get freezed up in the ice, and make
folks come in ships to hunt us up.”
“Yes, and we’ve had just the bootifulest
time!” chimed in Aggie, with a little
gurgle of laughter.
“Are you sureyou can find your way
home again?”
“Yes, easy 'nough, when we want to,”
Louis rcpiied, with a defiant toss of his
head.”
"Can you tell me where your home
is?"
“It’s down by the river, in a great
big house, with lots of ether folks that
are dreadful bad sometimes and make
mamma afraid—don’t scale me,
though.”
“We didn’t live there one other time,
did we, Louis! But papa he drinks
some awful nasty stu.T. and then he gets
cross and strikes us sometimes—oil, just
dreadful hard! See there!’ and she
ahoved back the ragged sleeve of her
dress revealing the imprint of strong
fingers on the soft, pink flesh.
“Poor little baby!” I exclaimed pass
ing my hand over her tangled hair.
“You and Louis come with me and I’ll
take you a ride on the street ears. Will
you tell me your papa’s name?”
“Frank Adams,” Louis answered,
pleased at the thought of a ride.
I found just what I expected—the
whole neighborhood aroused and search
ing for the missing children; a father
Stirred out of a drunken stupor by a
dreadful fear; a pale, girlish-W cd little
mother lying upon a wretched bed,
feebly wringing her hands and moaning
piteously.
The children looked surprised at first
and then began crying, frightened at
the demonstrations of grief and joy
which greated them upon either hand.
Their little escapade had no other mean
ing to them than a happy holiday time.
Saturday morning Mrs. Owens dis
patched Dick with a basket of delicacies
lor Mrs. Adams.
In the afternoon Dr Brownlow re
ported the case to Hose:
“It is only a low, nervous fever,
brought on by the wretched conditions
of her life. She wept this morning to
know she had found friends who were
interested in her well being. The
thought, and the tears, acted upon her
system as a tonic. The husband has ele
ments of good in him; amanho and worth
saving, and I will do what I can for
him.” The next morning I said to Rose:
“r-hall I go to Church, or to Mrs. Ad
ams’s?” She looked into my eyes a
moment, smiling softly, before she made
answer:
“Then said .Tesus unto them, I will
ask you one thing; is it lawful on the
Sabbath-day to do good, or to do evil,”
to save live, or to destroy it ?”
It was so like Rose, this going straight
to the fountain head.
Taking Dick as escort, and with a
basket filled by Mrs. Owens and Hose. I
again visited this suffering but interest
ing family.
“It’s only the drink that does it,"
Mrs. Adams said, when her husband was
absent from the room. “Frank was such
a bright, handsome young man,and I did
love him so fondly, and love him still,
though I wish for my children's sake, if
for no other reason, 1 had heeded the
counsel of mv dear old mother and never
married a man who took only a glass
now and then.” 0, Miss Wilder! if I
could speak to every young lady
in the land, I would say to
them: ‘Shun the man, however,
fascinating he may be, whose lips tou h
w-ine! It holds a curse within its spark
ling drops! it is the destroyer of all
that is good aud noble; the harbinger of
vice and shame, and poverty, and woe!”
I shall never forget the earnestness of
her manner, or the deep emotion which
thrilled along her words. No temperance
orator ever moved me as did this feeble,
fever-stricken woman, who spoke from
her own bitter experience.
When I had made her comfortable as
possible for the day, 1 left her to the care
of her husband, who had not been drink
ing, I thought, though he seemed rest
less and a trifle irritable. At Rose’s re
quest Dick had immediately returned,
Hiking the children with him fo,rthe clay,
ane before I left 1 obtained Mr. Adams's
promise to come for them towards even
ing. 1 had hut little faith, however, that
he would keep his promise; but about 5
o'clock Aggie delighted us all by ex
claiming: “There comes papa!”
I had hoped everything from this
meeting with Hose, and wheu she smiled
up into his face and held out her frail
hand to him, I knew by the sudden tears
that filled his eyes, that his redemption
from strong drink was a certainty.
At first, the powerful sway lfosc holds
over the hearts of others was a secret to
me. Now, I know it is her rare gift of
sympathy. She lias a genuine interest
in the good and ill fortunes of her friends
and of all who come in contact with her.
She is sweet, simply and unconsciously,
as is her namesake—the rose. But no
adornments of learning or accomplish
mrnts, or beauty, could attract so
strongly as this one gift of earnest, un
affected sympathy.
Human hearts feel the power and turn
towards it for new strength and courage,
as flowers turn to the summer sunshine
for richer scents and deeper coloring. It
surrounds her with the halo of an im
mortal charm.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1889.
Junk 10.
‘ Why changes not the violet earth In
to bloom!” So I thought as I sat hv the
open window of my room in the purple
gloaming of the sweet dune day, and
feasted my eyes on the scene of beauty,
and drank in great draughts of the sweet
outer air. 1 have been in a whirl of ex
citement fora few weekstnd the quiet of
yesterday and to day seem very refresh
ing.
I worked ecrenely among the white
splendors of Joyce’s wedding outfit;
meeting Icon < oiutney with pleasant,
common-place gicetings day after day.
happy because my life was a busy and
in a certain sense a useful one, and in
knowing that, my year-ago lovo was as
dead as dost.
I hail not seen Mrs. Volney for months
until I went there some six weeks ago
to have charge of Joyce’s sewing, and 1
was surprised at the change in her fa: e
and figure. Hie was paler and thinner,
and I noticed that sna walked mote
slowly, and would pause midway of the
stairs in a manner that scemo I the more
pitiful, because of its proud sileuce.
Hie has von my admiration by her
very reticence. Whatever burden she
bears, it is without doubt, better that it
should be kept from the cold, c riou
gaze of the world, and with a Spartan
Ike courage she hides it n her heart.
With all her wealth, she is yet a loveless,
lonely woman.
Joyce took no note of these things,
but fitted from sewing room to parlor,
giving orders, singing strains of happy
songs, and filling the great rooms with
the echoes of her silvery lat ghter.
could see that iu many ways Mr .
Volney dreaded her departure, and tin
hou-e does seem like a great Mnusoleu
without her.
For my own part, I was glad when the
wedding was over. It was a very brill
iant affair from the scene at the church
to the royal feast prepared for the many
guests. Leon looked more handsome
than I had ever seen him before, and
Joyce—well, no lovelier vision ever
thrilled a poet’s soul.
She wore a dress of the richest white
satin, the skirt trimmed with a deep
bounce of white lace headed by puffings
of tulle. The body was high in the back,
in front showing the round, white throat.
The haßi-sleeves were trimmed with ex
quisite lace. The entire dress was orna
ment with bouuuets of orange blossoms;
sprays of the same fragrant flowers were
in her hair, and from her head th re tell
over her a white tulle veil, whose misti
ness but enhanced her beauty.
Her four bridesmaids were pure blonds.
They wore dresses of pale blue silk, with
garnitures of w hite lace and natural white
rose buds.
They are to pass the summer at fashion
able sea side and mountain resorts.
Joyce never made mention of the
change her coming wrought in my life
save once, then she said: “I am sorry to
have made you unhappy, Dith, but I
knew how it would all end that first
night."
June 12.
To-day Dick took from an inner pocket
of his coat a memmorandum book and
laid it upon the table beside which I was
sitting.
‘I would like you to look this book
over, Dithy,” he said, “and see that I
have tried to make a good use of your
gift of one year ago.”
I opened the book, and the first thing
that caught my eye was the word: “Foul
try”—written at the top of each page.
Dr. was placed in the corner of the left
hand page, Cr. upon the right side. The
little book was kept in such a neat, busi
ness like manner that I was at once in
terested and read it through to the close.
The fowls were charged with all he had
paid out for them, and given credit for
all they had produced. I took note all
the way through that the credit was far
in excess of the debtor, but 1 was hardly
prepared for the sequel to this story. It
was a note, given only the previous day
by Mr. Benton to Richard Owens for the
sum of $25,00, with interest at ten per
cent., and payable on demand.
“Why Dick!” i exclaimed, “can it be
possible that from the small beginning of
twenty fowls, you have gained so much
in one year?”
“I can more than double it next year,”
he replied, “if”—then paused, looking
over imploringly to Hose.
She smiled. “If you will allow him to
enlarge his park, he means.”
“That you may do in welcome, Dick.
And since you have proven yourself such
a wise and faithful steward, the garden
and all its belongings are yours to do
with as you please.”
"inanK you, Edith,” coming to the
back of my chair and putting his arms
about my neck as is his custom with Hose,
“if there is any manner of good in me,
it is because a fellow could not well be
very bad and live in the house with three
luchsplendid women.”
“A truce to compliments, Dick,” I re
torted, laughingly.
A moment later his merry whistle was
heard from the garden, where he was at
work among his strawberries.
“Beside the note,” Hose said, “Dick
has bought his own clothing.”
“Yes, and a few books, aud many lit
tle gifts for his ‘three splendid women,’”
I added laughing. “Then, too, he has
taken so much interest in the care of
small fruit, that he can talk more under-
than most men upon the sub
ject. In fact, I think it has been a year
of growth for us all.”
Hose was silent a moment, looking out
through the open window. At last she
said: “Yes, and a happy, peaceful year,
for which I thank the dear Lord.”
June 18.
Yesterday afternoon Hose and I re
turned from Benton farm where we had
been staying nearly a week. In the re
action which naturally followed the
worry of work, and the excitement of
Joyce's wedding, I found myself pos
sessed of a tired and languid feeling.
Mrs. Benton declared that a few days
at the farm would prove just the requi
site tonic; and so it did, for I returned
bright and strong as ever.
I found that a written message from
Mrs. Volney had alrendy been awaiting
me three days. She desired to sec me at
my earliest convenience. An indefinable
dread shook iny entire being. I shrank
from knowing why she wished to sec
me.
“I will wait until morning,” I said,
slowly filling a vase with flowers. But
I knew bv the look of Hose's face that
she thought I had best go at once. And
so, whilo the sun was yet an hour from
its going down, I passed slowly up the
broad stone walk which led to the door
of Mrs. Volney’s home, knowing full
well that every footstep brought me
nearer to some new phase of my exist
ence.
fro BE CONTINUED.]
TiElioion is tlie most gentlemanly
thing of tho world. It alouo will gen
tilize if unmixed with cant. Colei idae.
SOUTHERN
BRANCHES,
LOPPED HERB, TIIERK AND
EVERY WHERE.
New intxbpbisks—Movmxtrrs or ntueioci
BODIES —A KPa AYS, MISHAP*, ETC. —INDUS"
THUI. ITEMS— sorts.
ALABAMA.
Policeman John Manning, went to ar
rest a negro named Sunny Jones on n
warrant on Sunday. When Manning
said: “bandy, I want you,” the negro
replied, “No you don’t,” seized a Win
chester rifle and shot Manning dead.
Sandy fired through the door at Hirer
other policemen outside, and then dashed
off to liberty.
William Dallas, a young colored man,
employed at the Sloss furnaces at Bir
mingham, on Thursday, fell into one ol
the furnaces, and was burned to ashes in
a few moments. He was doing some
work at the top of the furnace, when he
suddenly lost Lis balance aud fell in
backwards. He had only time to ultei
a despairing shriek.
A fight to the death, in a dark room
occurred at Blocton on Thursday night,
between two miners named Jim Brown
and Fayette Davis, in which the former
was killed. The two men roomed to
gether and quarreled about a loaf ol
bread. They commenced fighting and
overturned the lamp, which was extin
guished. After a long fight Davis suc
ceeded in drawing his pistol and shoot
ing Brown dead. Davis escaped.
About eight weeks ago, the body of J.
W. Meadows, a railroad man, was found
about two miles from Birmingham. Sev
eral parties were arrested for the crime,
but no evidence against them being ob
tained, they were released. On Thurs
day, four negroes were arrested, ami it is
believed enough evidence h is been sccttr
sd to convict them of the murder. Their
names are Lawr. ncc Johnson, lienry Joe,
Liudsy Malnchy anti Gilbeit Lowe.
Upon the person of one of them was
found the watch and scarf pin of the
murdered man, and a number of pictures
and photographs which he was known
to have had in his pockets.
ARKANSAS.
Hon. C. It. Breekenridge, congress
man-elect from the 2nd district, visited
Little Rock on Thursday to confer with
the governor about tlie efforts living
made to catch the Clayton murderers.
The congressman told the governor to
let him know when he needed funds, to
speak as often as he needed money, for
all he needed and he (Breekenridge),
would undertake to go over ihe 2nd dis
trict and raise ns many thousands of dol
lars as was needed, to exhaust all human
efforts to bring the guilty to justice.
pi.orTim.
Fred Douglas, ihe well-known colored
orator, was the guest of the colored peo
ple at Jacksonville on Thursday. A
procession numbering five hundred, in
cluding the military companies, escorted
him from the station to the Sub-Tropical
Exposition, where lie delivered a short
address, congratulating the colored peo
ple of Florida upon their progress since
Emancipation.
Ex Pre-ideut Cleveland and party ar
rived at Jacksonville on Thursday by the
Plant steamer, from Entirpiise. which
stopped enioute at Orange Grove and
the winter residence of 11. B. Plant, at
Fort Gates. An informal breakfast wa
given them. No speeches or toasts were
offered. The breasfnst over, the party
took carriages aud visited the Sub-Trop
ical. “I make a prediction,” said Mr.
Cleveland, “and it is this: Jacksonville
is destined to be one of the liucst cities
in the South, and next year y.,u will
have a tremendous influx of Northern
visitors, for every one who comes here
goes away with regr-1. and I assure you
that I only wish I could linger longer.’
liKOHIIt
Joshua Burlz aud W. C. Houston, of
Atlanta, have been aricsted on a charge
of conspiring to liberate Revcire, the
Store Mountain murderer. I hey have
carried on an employment bureau in At
lanta for some time.
A young man named Blain, from Mc-
Intosh county, fell from a raft at the
“Wesley Horn rounding,” neur Darien,
in the Altamalia, and was instantly
drowned, being washed under the mass
of huge timbers, upon which he was
standing at the time he accidentally lost
his equilibrium.
A chase and duel with p’stols oecurcd
in Augusta, between a negro fugitive
and a policeman. Tom Jones was one
of the hands employed by Contractor
Redmond in bis work uu the canal after
the break in the embankment lust (all.
One Sunday, at Redmond’s camp, near
the canal, some of the men became in
volved in a row, and Tom Johnson shot
one of his fellow-workmen, and succeed
ed in making his escape. Policeman
Holly heard of Johnson’s presence in
Harrisburg, a suburb, and went to arrest
him on Sunday. When Johnson saw the
policeman about to arrest him, he drew
his pistol and fired. Policeman Holly
fired iu his turn, but did not wound
Johnson.
I.OIIINIANA.
Confederate Memorial Day in New
Orleans, was celebrated with great pomp
on Saturday. At the foot of the Lee
monument, Miss Winnie Davis, the
daughter of the Confederacy, and Miss
Mildred Lee, greeted the veterans, and
received the floral tributes dedicated tc
the great commander of the Confederate’
armies.
mimoitni.
A law and order meeting took action
in the mutter of the so-called White
Caps at Knoblick nnd Cygnet, who
warned foreign born workingmen to
leave the county, was captured by gangs
from those two towns. The gangs
elected officers nnd declared against pub
lishing the lawlessness existing in St.
Francis county. Shortly alter midnight
a terrific explosion occurred iu front of
Gcd. McCormick’s residence, the shock
jarring all the houses in the neighbor
hood. All outsiders nt the meeting
carried dynamite in slicks in their pock
ets. The general is one of the leaders of
the movement against the White Caps.
NORTH CAROLINA.
At Yorkville on Thursday, Charles
Colston, John C. Fenster, and Charles
McMenus, all colored, were tried for the
murder of W. C. Abernathy, white.
Colton and Feaster were convicted and
McManus was acquitted. The Jenkins
Rifles are on guard at the jail, but lynch
ing is not feared, as the people are satis
fied with the verdict.
north etitni.txt.
Thore is a white woman, Mrs. Maty
Layele, living four miles from Uo me,
who in Juno next, will be 114'yeurs old.
The extensive grist mill of W. 11.
Thorn, near Littleton, was couiplcteli
destroyed by tire on Su. day night. It
is thought to be the work of att incen
diary.
Governor Fowlc has issued a death
warrant for the execution of Eli Ward, a
negro burglar, at Jackson, Nnrlhuiup'on
county, May 80. Ward set fire to the
Jail recently and is now in jail at Halifax.
Hia execution wi 1 be public an I will be
the fourth during the present year.
Chas. M Dudley, u white man, was
instantly killed on Thursday at Wil
mington, on board the old bark Alhadoa
A colored man, John Johnson, had his
thigh cru lied. The accident was cans: and
by the falling of the ship's m tinyard
from a height of thirty feet to the tieck.
On Thursday night the planing mills
belonging to John M. Wilson, at Wil
son’s Mills, together witii a large ware
house adjoining, were burned. The
Richmond and Danville depot was also
destroyed. The main line of track was
so warped that trams could not | tt-s un
til it was repa red. The loss on the mll
amounted to about 825.000. James
Wallace went into the mill dining the
fire for his tools and was burned to
death.
Details were received on Sunday in
Raleigh, concerning the remarkable c sc
of the cutting off ol thee its of a lad,
named Curtis, iu Haywood county. It
appears that Palmar, who committed the
crime, was engaged in illicit distilling,
and having rea-on to auppi sc that young
Curtis had reported him, made a threat
that he wou and carry Curtis’s cars in his
pocket. Meeting Curtis Saturday night.
Palmer knocked him down, and wh l
his victim was insensible, cut Ins cars off
dose to his head.
tunnrhbbe.
Sheriff Greenlee, of Granger county,
was shot and instantly killed while at
tempting to arrest John Wolthargcn, an
escaped convict from the penitentiary.
Iu a collision of two height trains,
two miles Sou of Nashvidc, on the
Decatur division of the Louisville bi
Nashville Railroad, on Thursday, M.
L. Eby and Eirucst (’. Green, both
brakeman, were intnutly killed, and Al
bert Fiuck had his hack broken. Tne
trains wete running at about twenty-five
miles an hour at tue time of the acci
dent. An adjacent curve prevented the
engiuet rs seeing each other tilt it was too
iate.
The citizens of East Nashville were
both surprised and indignant on awaken
ing Sunday morning to find a railroad
track laid across First street. Some
weeks since,si veral manufacturers, whose
plants are located along the river front,
petitioned the Louisville A Nashville
Railway Company to extend a spur from
the main line down to the river, so they
might load and unload care right at tlp-ir
warehouse. To this proposition the rail
road people acceded, with the condition
that the right of way be secured from
the c ty. The citizens objected hut the
common council granted the request.
One of the boldest schemes for robbing
the county treasury has just been un
earthed at Murfreesboro, by Attorney-
General Moses Priest. In looking over
the cost of maintaining the cou-ty, his
attention was attracted to the fact that
costs had been allowed to over 800 cases
for burying paupers during the last
year, lhese figures being somewhat
large for a county of less than 20,000 in
habitants, he began an investigation
with the result,that not one-tenth of that
number of actual paupers had died dur
ing the year. One woman, according to
the book*, had been buried three times,
and is yet alive and well, in the town of
Murfreesboro.
WENT VIRGINIA.
At Charleston, a snow storm prevailed.
A heavy bdow is reported from the moun
tains accompanied by thunder and light
ning. It promises to be the deepest of the
Winter.
THE FARMERS MEET;
“Millions for cotton bagging—not one
cent for jute.” That is to be the farm
ers’ shibboleth in Georgia for the coming
campaign. Bv almost uiianim us ana
n very "enthusiastic vo'e, the Farmers'
Alliance of Georgia, representing 80,000
farmers, in session at Atlanta, Ga., on
Thursday, resolved that they would use
eolton bagging for the baliug of their
cotton—and would-not use jute under
any circumstances. It is said that three
fourths of the delegates came from their
county alliances instructed to vote for
cotton bagging under any and all circum
stances. While this obstructc I impar
tial consideration, it gives enthusiasm
aud earnestness to the movement. The
size of the bale will remain unchanged.
An attempt was made to reduce the bale
to 250 pounds, so that lighter osnaburg
would would h-’ld it, but this was not
done. Such a change would have re
quired a change of presses, compresses,
and a large amount of farm machinery,
which the Alliance did not think best to
undertake. It is the old size bale in a
new style dress that has been determined
on. And now it is a question of endur
ance and courage between the farmers
aud their plunderers.
UNIQUE THEFT.
Modes Brothers, of Detour, Mich.,
who are largely engaged in lumbering in
that vicinity, have packed up their goods
to leave for Canada. Hard & Ilornstcin,
of Buffalo, N. Y., held u mortgage of
$43, 000 on the mill of the firm and it
was due in a few days. Recently, the tug
Dowling, towing two vessels fiom Sagi
naw, lauded at Detour after a five clay’s
rough trip, presumably for a cargo of
lumber, but at night a hundred men,
concealed in the boat, came ashore and
began removing the machinery of the
mill and movable property on board. All
was loaded except the boiler, and w ork
men begau tearing down the mill. The
sheriff leceived notice to stop operations
at any cost, but no authority was scut.
Telephone and telegraph wires were cut
in three places. All was loaded by
midlight, and the tug vessels were on
their way to Spanish rivir, Canada,
where the firm has lately purchased a
site, before legal papers could be pro
cured to stop them.
THREATENED shooting.
The mayor of Leicester, England, re
ceived an anonymous letter warning him
that a plot had been arranged to shoot
the prince of Wales when ho attended
the race meeting, there. Though the
authorities placed but little credence in
the statement of the writer of the letter,
they took every precaution to insure the
safety of his royal highness.
THE GREAT
WORLD OUTSIDE.
EPITOME OF MOST INTEREST
ING MATTERS.
HERAT l.lllon AOITATIOM SI-HINO STORMS—
DEATHS OF rtIOSIINKNT PEOPLE—ACCIDENTS
naira, strietDKs, etc.
The cruiser, Charleston, at San Fran
cisco, Cal., is almost ready for sen.
Forty houses were unroofed in Balti
more, Md., on Wednesday by a storm.
Bridgeton, N. J., was visited by a se
vere cyclone on Wednesday, houses and
windows being blown down.
Xenia, Ohio, is excited over the at
tempt of a raol> of negroes to lynch Sher
man Jackson, who stubbed Frank Law
rence to death at a dance.
By completed returns of the Rhode
Island election, the Senate stands: Re
publican, 21; Democrats. 11; with four
to be elected. The House stands; 23
Bepublicaus, 37 Democrats; 12 yet to be
elected.
Advices received at Brussels. Belgium,
from Stanley Falls state that the Arabs
who havo arrived there, report that
Henry M. Stanley und Emin Pasha were
heard from in February. They were then
marching towards Zanzibar with several
thousand men, women and children.
They had 6,000 tusks of ivory.
The British man-of-war Calliope,
which escaped possible destruction in
Apia Bay during the ravages of the cy
clone by being able to put to sea, has
arrived at Sydney, New South Waies.
She reports leaving Samoa on the 21st of
March, and that the United States man
of-war Nipsic had been floated off of the
beach, the autives lending material as
sistance.
Police Lieut. John M. Haines, of Chi
cago. 111., was held to the grand jury in
bonds of $3,000 by Judge Altegeid on
Thursday, oo u charge preferred by Law
yer Frank H. Collier, who identithd the
lieutenant p -sitively as one of the two
men who lured Collier, of the La Salle
club, bv a bogus telephone message one
uigiit during the recent pdilic J excite
ment, and Band-bagged him iu the dark.
The recent hurricane in the South
Pacific ocean swept over 1,200 geograph
ical miles, embracing in its ira k the
IL-rvey and Society groups of islunds
The American ship, Red Cross, from
New South Wales, for San Francisco,
was driven ashore at Baratonga and
wrecked. The crew was saved. The
American ship, Ada Owen, was wrecked
at Ouara. Her crew was saved. Wreck
age from the British ship Suakim, trom
New South Wales, for San Francisco,
was seen at Aitutaki. No doubt the
crew perished.
A hurricane started on Tuesday in
Aberdeen, Dakota, and continued all
day. Roofs were blown off the Park
Place hotel and other buddings. The
storm in several places had the added
terror of fire. Yankton, Dak., reports
that Volin, a station on the Not thwestern
It ad, was burned. A thousand tons of
hay were burned, and all the lmrns in
the place. The fire invaded the largs
cattie corral and forty or fifty cattle were
b dly burned, the rest breaking through
the enclosure aud escaping. The de
struction was caused by a prairie fire.
The French Chamber of Deputies, by
a vote of 300 to 286, rejected the Benate’i
proposal to prostcutc summarily all
pap. rs guilty of libelling government
officials. M Cocarde says that Gen.
Boulanger being warned Tuesday that
the government was preparing for a
coup, arranged so that he would uot fall
into the government’s hands and left the
city. The police arc mystified. “The
general,” adds Cocarde, “will appear
when duty requires him. It is our im
pression tnat he has hidden temporarily,
perhaps in Brussels.”
In the Reichstag, on Wednesday, the
naval secretary, referring to the loss of
the German warships in the recent hur
ricane at Apis, Samoa, said that the re
port of t he German officer in command
there did not show that the lives or prop
erty of Europeans were endangered and
he was sure that the British warship
Cnliope would not have left Samoa if
the position hud been critical. He an
nounced that the government intended
to replace the wrecked German vessels
ns soon as possible, as the United States
government was about to send three
cruisers to take the place of the Ameri
can warships that had been lost.
FATAE DISEASE.
The terrible mortality of Rio Janerio,
Brazil continues. Rio appears to be rap
idly progressing toward the condition of
a pest house, and the deaths aver
age 156 a day. The epidemic is no longer
yellow fever, which disease, indeed, is
rapidly declining, but an uncompre
hended malady, termed there “pernicious
uttack,” which strikes down its victims,
almost wholly males, suddenly, and
proves fatal within a few hours. No
age or condition is exempt. Brazilians
me ns liable as the most recent immi
grant, and on one day forty-five persons
perished from it, yellow fever contrib
uting the comparatively small contin
gent of twenty-four to the day’s mor
tality.
WHIPPED THE FIGHT.
After a vigorous fight in Oskalooss,
Kansas, the female candidates for city
offices won the day by sweeping msjori
tics. At Cottonwood Fulls, Kansas,
‘.lie Indies were also triumphant, Mrs.
Minnie Morgan being elected mayor with
ail the members of the council of hei
sex. The contest for the mayoralty at
I eaven worth lay between D. R. Anthony,
Republican, and L. M. Hacker, Demo
crat. Susan B. Anthony, sister of the
Republican candidate, worked her: ically
for him, but Hacker was elected by
about 2,500 majority. Ncnrly 4,00(1
women voted duiiug the day, most ol
them casting their ballots for Hacker.
HE OBSERVED IT.
Representatives of every Catholic so
ciety iu New York city, were present at a
meeting held on Thursday night to con
sider what part the Catholic citizens
should take in the Washington Centen
uial Celebration. Judge Daily said that
there were many reasons why Catholics
should honor the memory of Wa-hing
t ui. He never failed to observe St.
Patrick’s day in the time of tho Revolu
tion, an 1 on tha day the British evacu
ated I) ston, “St. Patrick” was the
watchword given to the army.
NUMBER 25.
PICTURES OF
WASHINGTON.
MANY CHANGES BEING MADB
AMONG OFFICIALS.
CONUERSS.
NOTES.
The three officers mentioned as likely
to succeed Ad it.-Gen. Diurn of th*
army are Ools. John U. Kelton, William
D. Whipple and Chauncey McKeever.
Col. Kelton, however, as the ranking
Colonel of the corps, is considered most
likely to secure the coveted position.
The President made the following ap
pointments: Eben 8. Rand, of Maine,
to be appraiser of merchandise in tha
district of Portland aud Falmouth,
Marne; George C. Sturgis, of West Vir
ginia, to he attorney of the United Statea
for the district of West Virginia.
A heavy snow, wind aud rain storm
prevailed in Washington on Saturday.
The rain, which began falling some time
before daylight, at about 9 o'clock
changed to snow, aud from that hour
until Hfter dark, the air was dense with
great flakes driven before a strong north
wind.
The immediate relatives of those who
lost their lives in the great storm in Sa
moa, will be entitled to pensions under
the general law. The pension is (6 per
month for a seaman's widow, and $2 per
m nth for each child under 10 years of
age. Congnss will probably also ~ass a
special act making reimbursement for the
effects and baggage of officers and men
lost in the wrecks. This was done in the
case of the Huron, which went down on
the Ilatteras coast about fiftecu years
ago.
The ten delegates that are to rep
resent the United States at the In
ternational Conference to be held at
Washington this Fall, will have plenty
of interesting und important work to do.
The nutions represented will be the
United States, Mexico, the Central and
South American Republics, Ilayti. San
Domingo and Brazil. The conference
was suggested by Mr. Blaine in 1881,
and among the subjects will be propo
sals for the establishment of internation
al arbitration, uniform coinage, weights
and nieusHres, customs aud tariff*, and
plans fur the more frequent aud conven
ient interchange of commerce.
The Washington anniversary of the
American Tract Society was celebrated
in tin Church of the Convent at Wash
ington on Sunday. Justice Btrong pre
sided. Rev. Dr. Sherer, secretary, read
un extract of the year's operations, show
ing the total receipts (oue agency being
estiuiated)ats2 < JO,ooo;ihecxpcndituresa
little short of that sum. About 150 new
pnblicdions wereadded. Priming done
m New York in 30 languages, and abroad
in 150 languages or dialects. Donations
a-d 1.-gn ies, about 875,000. Over forty
five million pages of tracts were distrib
uted gratuitously. About 200 colporteurs
are employed, and over SIO,OOO sent
abroad in cash and publications.
SAVANNAH’S MISFORTUNE.
About 7 o’clock on Saturday night, I
fire broke out in the show window of D.
11. Hogan’s dry goods store, corner ol
Broughton and Barnard streets, in Savan
nah, Ga., while a mao was lighting a
gas jet. A moment later the fire had
run to almost every part of the building,
und those iu it had barely time to escape
with their lives. The fire communicated
to the crockery store of Jas. H. Douglas
A Cos., immediately east of Hogan's, and
it was all ablaze in a jiffy. The high
wind prevailing contributed to spread
the flames, and there was no possibility
of cheeking it. The fire then jumped tc
the four-story brick building known ss
Odd Fellows’ Hall. It was totally des
troyed. It represents a loss of $125,000.
Among its occupants was the Young
Men’s Christian Association nnd several
storekeepers on the ground floor. The
air was tilled with sparks, one of which
lodged on the steeple of the Independenl
Presbyterian Church, corner Bull aud
South Broad streets, four or five block!
from the starting point of the fire. The
church was totally destroyed, as was also
its liaudsome brick Sunday School build
ing, and four or five contiguous dwell
ings. The city has only four fire engines,
and as all were needed in the business
pint of the city no atrempt was made tc
tight the fire at the church. The loss ol
tue church, chapel and contents was
$200,000. At midnight the fire was
under control. The tire swept away all
the structures on the east side of Whitta
ker street, la tween York and South
Broad. It also swept along the north
side of South Broad from Whittaker esst
to within one house of Bull street, th<
structure left standing being a large
brick residence owned by Dr. Dave
Hopps, which covers a site which the
govermneut once endeavored tc
buy us a location for the United States
court and postoffice buildings.
Br ugbtou street, the main shopping
street, was swept from a middle point iu
the southern block, between Whittakci
aud Barnard, for over a hundred yard*
west, crossing B trnard. State street is
swept from Whittaker to Barnard, and
across Barnard half way to Jefferson, a
distance of nearly 200 yards. Going
south, the building next to the Whitfield
was destroyed, tbeu Hanley’s blind aud
sash factory, and the Guard’s arsenal.
Next comes York street. This was
swept for nearly two blocks from a point
100 feet west of Bull. The entire
block west of Bull on South Broad street,
on the north side, is destroyed, except
Dr. Hopp’s residence. Opposite is the
block on which the Presbyterian
church is situated. The personage
was saved. Hull street is south of
South Broad. The Sunday-School
building and Captain Flannery’s resi
dence and oneother on the west,are ruins.
The tire was unique in its jumps, and in
[U selection of the city’s choicest archi
tecture. From Hogan’s building to the
Presbyterian church is a quarter of a
mile. The flames overleaping all inter
vening buildings, seized upon the his
toric structure, so that little wooden
houses right alongside the flames were
in several instances entirely ignored.
Beginning with a tall building, the
sparks selected edifices of equal alti
tude, the strong wind preventing then
descent. The shower of sparks fell iu
great flakes in the southeastern part of
the city, a mile distant. The falling of
the walls of the arsenal, and other tall
erection®, created the sound of tremend
ous explosions. The loss was first re
ported at $1,500,000, but later, thelossei
were definitely ascertained to be within
$750,000. The insurance is $500,000.