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The Georgia Enterprise. VOLT)MR XXIV. The Enterprise. I’UBLISllKI) WEEKLY AT COVINUTON" Georgia. ONLY 81 IN CLUH3 OF FIVE. IJgatcjrci at the Covington I’oatoffic# uaicoiiil class matter. Terms, 81,2 ft per annum. In clubs of five or more One Dollar. Six months 75cta. Four months, 00 cts always in advance. PATRONIZE The Old Enterprise. It “rides no fences.” Jumps no nominations $1 ,25 in advance. In clubs of five sl. Advertising Rates. Local Notices lOcts per line first inser tion —20 cents per month. Business Ad vertisements $1 per inch first time —50 ots each subsequent insertion. 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SIMMS & Go Real Estate Agents, COVINGTON, GEORGIA. Be sure to give us the selling and renting of your property. Rates of commission low. Valuable property on hand for sale. Try us. Titles traced and per fected. No pay unless a sale is made or rents col- R. L. SIMMS & CO. Franklin B. Wright, —COVINGTON, GA.— Resident Physician & Surgeon. Gynecology, Diseases Women and Children, and all Chronic diseases of a private nature, a specialtyl ] have a horse at mv command, which wil enable me to attend the calls of the sur rounding country, as well as my city prac tice. FRANKLIN B. WRIGHT, M. D FARM LOANS, By W. SCOTT, Covington, Georgia. I WILL Negotiate Loans on Farms in Newton, Walton and Rockdale counties on Five Years' Time. rpRY Farming with Cash, and see how -L you like it. Interest will cost you leu than Credit W. SfIOTT. (Wiltlß for tt> KrlooiUhlp (N. Y.) Rianm.) 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.