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The Georgia Enterprise. VOLUME XXIV. The Enterprise. *"i*UBLMIKI> WEEKLY AT _ . ■■■- OOVINOTUN Georgia. i ONLY fl IN CLUIiS OF FIVE. lEuMVa nt the Covington Postoffice sjrtilatad clans matter. Terms, $1,25 per annum. In clubs of five or more One Dollar. Six months 76ct. Four months, 50 ets 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 ct each subsequent insertion. 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H _____ Be sure to give us the selling and renting of your property. Bates of commission low- Valuable property on hand for sale. Try us. Titles traced and per t fected. I No pay unless a sale |is made or rents col lected. I R. L. SIMMS & CO. franklin B. Wright, —COVINGTON, GA.— Resident Physician & Surgeon. f ►aS'OlistPtrics, Gynecology, Diseases fomen and Children, and all Chronic of a private nature, a specialtyl Vlinvc a horse at niv eomtnand, which wil* enable me to attend the calls of the sur- HP’ounding 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 :fl on Five Years' Time. I TTRY Farming with Cash, and see how I 7- Joa like it. Interest will cost you less K than Credit W. SCOTT. (Wrlt(ii for the Friendship (N. TANARUS.) Ueuimtbh J Editti Wilder’s Journal. By METTA E. S. BENSON, Author of “ Barbara Dare,” 11 Her True Krieiul.” “Ilr. Vetnor’s Ix>ve Af fairs," "The Missing Ring," "Love's Sacrifice,” etc. CHAPTER VII. I was met at the door by Martha, Mrs. Volney’s hous keeper, and who has been in her employ for such a long term of years that she considers herself as one of the family. “Good afternoon, Miss Wilder. Mrs. Volney is in her room, and wishes to see you at once. She knows you arc come, so I nec ln’t climb the stairs again. But just lay oft your hat, pleaso, it’ll seem more chirpy to her 1 think.” “Why, Martha is Mrs. Volney really ill?” drawing oil my glo .es, as 1 turned to question her. “She ain’t far from it, I can tell you. And I knew by her tone that she, too, liad noticed Mrs. Volney’s failing strength, and not without alarm. Mrs. Volney was seated by the open window. She turned her heal as I pause 1 at the door, and smiled faintly. “Good evening, Edith. Take the chair by the window yonder, please, the bree/.e seems very refreshing after the sultriness of the day.” Smiling, I made answer: “ There is always something beautiful, to me, in the approach of night fall. Mrs. Vol nev. It brings with it such a sense of quiet and peaceful folding away.” Her face saddened. “On the con trary, and especially of late, it impresses me with a feeling of gloom horror almost. But have you heard iroin Joyce?” I half rose from my chair. “O, no ac cident has happened I” she hastened to reassure me. “ Here is her last letter. Read it if you like.” It was brief and full of herself—her social triumphs, tiic high admiration she everywhere excited, and Leon's pride in this univesral acknowledgment of her beauty. “81. c is very happy,” Mrs. Volney said when I had finished reading. “After her own manner, yes,” I re plied. “But you wished to see me, Mrs. Volney.” “I sen 1 , "for you, Edith, to solicit a very great favor of you. lam unusually lonely since Joyce’s marriage. lam not strong enough for the demands of society, and there is some trouble with my eyes, so that 1 can read but a few minutes at a time. I can think of no one whom I could have about me as a companion save yourself. I like your quiet,thought ful ways, and the unobtrusive kindness which has always characterized your intercourse with me. I will make your salary double that you are earning at present, and you shall be free to go and come as you please, with the privilege of a daughter.” She must have read negation in my face. “Do not deny me, Edith! If you understood how much I really need you I am sure you would not refuse my request. ” . What could I say after such an appeal, but that I would consider the matter until morning. * * * * * * “There can be no choice of action, Edith, to him who clearly sees the right." It was Rose who uttered these words, Rose, with my hands clasped close in her own, the moonlight touching her face with a halo as of glory. “But think of it, Rose, I was driven from a quiet home nest last year by the happy event of Edna's marriage. With out a murmur I sought another, and now that lam so contented, O Rose, why should I be disturbed, 1 exclaimed, with a burst of passionate tears. “Conic, Edith,” she said after a mo ment, “let us find if (here are no blue sky and sunshine in this picture. You will earn more money, have more leisure, and can therefore be more helpful to ‘my people,’ as you call them.” “But these are watery sunbeams. You have not created sunshine yet.” “You must wait the coming days for that, dear. It may bo you will find in this new and broader pathway, work so ennobling, duties so sacred, that you will count ail other delights your life has known as dros3 in comparison.” “I cannot think that, Rose, when I recall what dear delights have beautified my life.” Yet I drew a certain sense of comfort from her words, and had time to think of the difference my going would make in other lives than mine. “And what of your mother, and Dick, and of yo irself, Rose?” Ail the light faded out of her face, leaving only a grayish pallor behind. “We must go b ek to the old manner of living again.” “Listen to me, Rose. Mrs. Volney is is no more to me than any other chance acquaintance. She is a proud, aristo cratic woman, who lias paid me without stint for the services I have rendered her, but beyond this Las never ques tioned— ‘was 1 sad or happy?’ Now that she has come into a time of weakness she turns to me for some possible good she fancies lam able to give her. For this woman's sake are you willing to relin quish the enjoyments and advantages of this dear little home, and with your mother and Dick go back to the old ten ement house.” She moved uneasily, as •thougti she felt the red-hot pinchers tearing at the quivering flesh. Then she grew quiet mid her face passed slowly into one of its higher phases. “ Yes," in the lowest possible tone of voice, in which 1 could detect no slightest quiver of indecision; but there win some subtle sound in its deep under tones that instantly pictured before my mind the Garden of Gethscmane. I arose and walked the floor to and fro, then rime and knelt beside her. “ Rose, you have scaled my fate. I will goto Mrs. Volney in the morning apd remain with her as long as she may de sire; but in the meantime you shall promise to abide at ‘ Rose Cottage.’ 1 want a home into which l can feci free to intrude at all sorts of odd hours. I want to come sometimes and sleep fn the room which is inexpressibly dear to me be cause it is so near your own. O Rose, I would rather die than that this home tie which unites our lives should be sev ered! You will not refuse me ?” “Put in that way I cannot,” stooping to seal our compact with a kiss. And "UT COUNTRY: MAY SHE KVKR MB RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MT COUNTRY I" —J*rKß<iN thus, with her face close to mini*, she ut tered a few words of prayer,—such beau tifill, glad, earnest words -and my min.: pictured another scene; I saw the great hosts of Israel coming up out of the ses when she does not feel equal to the ef fort: ami myself be as cheery as possible at all times. Yesterday morning when we returned from our usual early ride, and James, (the man of all work) assisted Mrs. Vol ney from the carriage, she said : “Drive as far as you would like to, Edith, Martha in safety, and in the midst of them was Miriam, singing her song of praise. July 2. I have been two weeks with Mrs. Vol ney in the new role of companion. My duties are very light and pleasant. I have only to tend aloud to Iter at times; brighten the rooms with fresh flowers; write her letters; entertain her callers will do all that 1 require until your re-’ turn.” I thanked her and fumed the ponies In the direction-of Rose Cottage. Taking Rose with me I drove out to where the road wound between fields of growing grain, which the warm west wind transformed into billowy, beryl tint ed seas, and came to us ns we rode along, laden with the peculiar sweetness of new mown hay. After a mile or so, a strip of dense Dcputiful woodland came down to the very roadside. Woods that were lull of slumberous shadows, fresh earth scents, tall graceful ferns, and bright lmcd blossoms. I alighted and gathered ferns, and flowers,and little tufts of ex |uisitc moss, so that Rose might hold them in her hands, and carry they back with her into the noise and dust of the city. Her face was radiant, and her eager exclamations of delight seemed almost pathetic when I remembered that all her life long she had been shut away fiom the quiet re treats of nature. ‘ You do not appear unhappy,” Rose said, as we rode slowly homeward. “I am not,” I responded, “and I am surprised at the ease with which I have become accustomed to my ncwmauncrof life.” “It has proven one of the pieasant wayside things God is always keeping in st ire Jo surprise ut with when we brave ly go forward in the way lie would have us walk, whatever it may cost us of per sonal sacrifice. You will be finding those little surprises all along the road, Edith.” “I used not to believe in this personal supervision of God: but with the richer thought of to day I am able to under stand how ho can make a human heart, wet by the tears of its own sorrow, fra grant with the flowers of faith and joy as easily as be can set the fields abloom after a time of fierce storm or gentle rain. •And I see with this broader vision, Rose, because I have sat at your feet and listened to your teachings.” A look of pain flitted over her face, then vanished, leaving it radiant. “ No, I will not shrink away from your words of honest praise," she said meditatively, “for I remember a time when I sat in the deepest darkness, feel ing that life, —my. life, because of its pain and its helplessness,—was a curse. At last there moved into the rooms next to our own, a man and his wife aud children, and the wife’s grandmother, very old, and feeble, and totally blind. It was in mid-winter. They were dis tressingly poor and very often were both hungry and cold ; but the spirit of that helpless old grandmother pervaded the entire household and made it the most beautiful family I ever knew. “Why is it,"lasked her one day when mother had led her into our room to keep me company, “that you are always happy? Tell me the secret of your jov?” “Balces alive, child, it ain’t no secret! “But it must be, grandmother, since in spite of your desolate sur.oundings you are so happy.” “That's just it, child," she replied with a little quaver of laughter I shall never forget. “Happiness don’t come from the outride of a body, but from the inside. And when once you’ve found its source, its for all the world like a nat’rel spring of water, it keeps bubblin’ up and fillin’ ye so full there ain’t no room for worriinent. And bleis God, child, it’ll be so through all eternity.” “Happiness comes from within,” I repeated the words over and over, until the thought took root in my heart, and grew, and blossomed, so that life was rich with their fragrance—content, peace, joy. None of us are solowlv that we may not set some tiny wave of bliss in motion, that shall grow unceasingly in width and power until it reaches the far shore. And where is that, Edith?” “Why, there is none rose, Rose. It is —forever.” “Wonderful, is it not, dear?” I just reached out aud touched her hand—the one that held the flowers— and the silence between us was unkroken until we said “good-bye” at Hose Cot tage. Sundat Afternoon. I have just returned from “Rose Cot tage.” Every Sunday at ii o’clock Rose holds her meetings. Strange that in finding Louis and Aggie Adams, I should have found Rose s work; but from the day when Mr. Adams eaine for his chil dren until the present, not a Sunday has passed that he has not come to sif at Hose's feet with the rare devotion of a Pilgrim seeking some sacred shrine. Mr. Adams had a long and severe struggle with his habit of drunkenness, but bv the help of Dr. Brownlow and Rose, he was able at last to conquer h s besetting sin. For months he has been a sober and industrious man. He has a comfortable home in a quiet and respecta ble neighborhood. There is a marked change in the apparel and bearing of him.elf and family and it would be im possible, I think, to find a happier wife than Mrs. Adams, or two children more lovable in every way than Lou sand Aggie. This work of Rose’s has grown very gradually. At first it was only Mr. Adams and the children, aud Mrs. Owens always had ready some bit of refresh* meat, and Rose would give to each of the children a pretty card with a motto upon it, which they were to commit dur ing the wuek, ar.d from our small library Mr. Adams was told to select a book to occupy his leisure hours. After a time he asked the privilege of bringing an old comrade along with him who was try ing to reform. And Aggie came one day leading by the hand a shy little ragged waif, between whom and Edna there sprang up a mutual love. The child possesses a marvelous gift of song, and only to-day Edna said, passing her hand caressingly over the auburn tinted hair: “The world shall hear from my little girl some of these days.” Sometimes Dick would bring in a homeless little bootblack or newsboy with his Sunday papers under his arm. And if one came once he was sure to COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, APRIL 18. 188!). come again and again, bringing other* with him, until ut last Dr. Brownlow suggested the fitting upof n la r ge, pleas snt room, and for wh en wo hud no other us ■, in which to hold these weekly meetings. Edna furnishes cards for the smaller children, and through the kindness of Mr. and Mrs Benton we have several copies of the Youths' (,'o-n/nrni n and the Youths’ Tem/uraooe Hunter to distribute among the attendants. Dr. Brownlow solicited funds from some of his more wealthy patrons, and by each one of us putting a shoulder to the wheel, Rose lias a library for “her people” of more than 100 choice volumes. At these meetings Rose has always some bright, beautiful things to snv, —iimplc, earned, hopeful, helpful words —and men, women and children sit en tranced before her; Edna has charge of the singing; Mr. Adamsand Dick look after books and papers; and so Rose seeks to have each one learn the secret of a happy life, by finding some work to do; and herself is happy, because she knows that her life is not being lived iu vain. That the influence of her gentle deeds will survive her, ns the subtle sweetnes* which clings to the roue, long since dead as dust. July 12. For day* thf heat has been intense. The flowers droop their sweet heads in the yellow glare of the mid-day sun, and even the shadows of the tall, umbrageous trees, and the perpetually falling spray of the fountains, seem unrefreshing. I am conscious that Mrs. Volney is slowly failing. There Jias coine upon her of late a slight, hollow cough, and a daily chill, hardly perceptible, but a famt foreboding of life’s decay. That the secret sorrow which she is enduring is accelerating, the death of this proud and susceptible woman I have not a doobt. This morning I placed her couch in such a position that she could obtain a full view of the fernery, and where the falling mist of a small marble fountain made low, slumberous music in the air. She was silent for a long time, while I sat by an opposite window sewing upon a dress for one of Rose’s little girls. At last she said: “Will you bring a book from the library, Edith, and read aloud? I think I must be a trifle nervous this morning.” She said this last with a sad, flitting smile. ’ “ 1 will do so with pleasure, Mrs. Vol ney; hut what shall it be, prose or poe try? Wise or fool sh?” Again that fleeting smile, as I paused midway of the room to question her. “Let it he prose, and something that will set me thinking. Sometimes it is better to think other people's thought* than your own.” I came back with one of Emerson’s books in my hand, —his “Letters and Social Aims.” I named the subjects in their order. “Read the one on ‘lmmortality,’” she said When I came to that part where ‘the modern Greeks, in their songs, asked that they may be buried where the sun can see them, and that a little window may be cut in the sepulchre, from which the swallow might be seen when it comes back in the spring,—she turned her face toward me and smiled, though her eyes were large wilh tears. “It may be a very foolish thing to tell you, Edith, but 1 have often thought that sometime the robins would come in the early spring, and sing their half plaintive, wholly sweet songs about my silent resting place, and that I should lie there dumb and unheeding. There is something inexpressibly saddening in the thought.” I was surprised into silence by the pretty poetry of her words, so different from any I had ever before heard her utter. 1 tried, too, to think what Rose would say to her, then trusted my own intuitions and replied : “Your thought is a very beautiful one, Mrs. Volney, and I think we can com fort ourselves with the assurance that if it will make us one whit the happier to know when the robins ret rn in springtime to the dear, familiar places, the knowledge will not be denied us, nor can the little thrill of gladness that always comes at sight of the first robin. For Rose—my Baint Rose—has taught me that death is simply birth into a beautiful life, with a glori ous new body for the freed spirit, and witli al! the old loves and ideals, just as much a part of us as now, only tenderer, clearer, more intense.” She spiang from the cofich and walked the floor hastily to and fro, with the palms of her hands turned outward, as though to ward oil a cruel blow. “An eternity!’’ she cried. “O, God forbid! I could not endure it! Better the dreamless sleep of annihilation than that!” She sank upon the couch, pale and panting for breath. Quietly I went and knelt beside her; rearranged her pillows, and passed my hands over head aud hands in slow, ca ressing touches, which calmed her almost instantly. “O, Edith!” looking straight into mv eyes, and with such unutterable longing in the depths of her own as must have brought an answering gleam of sympathy into mine. I bad never seen Mrs. Vol ney'a face so pale—the lips pressed to gether with such a look of pain. I had a feeling that the moment was not far distant when the secrecy was to bo broken. But 1 could not speak. I could not say: “Confide in me, Mrs. Volney. Let me help you bear this burden which is wearing your life away.” Even if I could have trust and my voice I should have feared wounding her. I waited for her to speak, but she remained silent, and ufter a time turned her head a little away from me, with her eyes fixed as on something incorporeal. The sac ramental moment passed. I went back to the window aud to my sewing again,conscious of a disappointed yearn ing—a shutting out from something that was a part of my own life—and I could not hinder my imagination from taking a slow flight ovei what seemed possibili ties. July 28. Mrs. Volney's physician was late in coming to-day, and he lingered longer than usual with her,in a low and earnest conversation. When at last he was gone, I found her lying upon a conch drawn up before the open window, her face very pale and turned toward the west, where the sun light lingered in a rosy flush. Bhc moved slightly at my appioach. “Edith,” she said,almost in a whisper, “at last I know the truth. When th* leaves fall from the trees I shall die." “ I tried to speak, but the words were hindred by struggling sobs, and great tears that fell fast. I knelt down beside her and she laid one of her weak hands upon my bowed head. Whea I had grown quiet, she said. •till in that low voice: “Is it possible, Edith, you c ire so much for me?” "I do indeed love you, Mrs. Volney, very, very dearly; hut 1 am selfish to acid to your sorrow, when I should seek to gi\c you coinfort, instead.” “ You have comforted mo more than you know. Edith, for if you do really love me, then I can trust you, and I must trust someone! I can no longer bear my burden alone " Some tremulous emotion pos-cd into her entire being to that alio •poke with intense effort. [to UK eovrisui'n.l THE GREAT WORLD OUTSIDE. XIHOME OF MOST INTEREST ING NATTERS. ÜBKAT LiBOU AOITATIOX— SPUIN'! STURMS DEATHS OF POOMINKNT PEOPLE—ACCIDENTS FIBES, SUICIDES, ETC. Dispatches from India say* hundreds of houses have been destroyed by fire at Surat. The loss is placed at $1,000,000' The jute mills of Buchemm & 1. ell, Brooklyn, N. Y., were destroyed by fire early Thursday morning. Lot*, $400,- 000. On the appearance of Boulanger at a soiree on Thursday night, in Brussels, the French embassy immediately took their departure. Ex-President Grover Cleveland was elected a life honorary member of the Manhattan Club, at a meeting of the board of governors. The Catholic arcl b shop of Philadel phia publishes a statement in answe r to inquiries about his views ou the prohibi tion amendment. He is against legisla tion as a remedy, and says an appeal to individual conscience is the true remedy. The steamship Chattahoochee, of Savannah, Ga., arrived in New York on Wednesday, three days overdue and pretty well stove up. She encountered one of the heaviest gales ever experi enced on the Atlantic coast, aud came near being wrecked. It has been discovered that, owing to the faulty construction of a New Jersey law recently passed in regard to city governments, Trenton will be without a mayor for three weeks, ami that the newly authorized fire and police com missioner cannot be appointed. Sebastian Merdam, a German farmer, of St. Cloud, Minn., was engaged in plow ing Thursday. Four of bis chil dren playiug in the field and fol lowing the furrows, found the roots of wild parsnips and all ate of them, and became violently sick. Three of them died in terrible agony. On Thursday, President Lowery, of tfie Minneapolis and St. Paul Street Car Cos., issued an order reducing the wages of all employes. The company claim it is losing money, and that it must retrench in order to float bonds wi'h which to build new cable lines. The men are sul len and uncommunicative, and a general strike is looked for. The town of Fairburg, 111., has been quarantined on account of the prevalence of scarlet fever. There are more than twenty cases of the disease in the little town, and six deaths have occurred. The families, in which the disease pre vails, are not permitted to leave the premises, and provisions are furnished them by a committee appointed by the town board. The tugs Saugatuck and Cuyler, hav ing on board United States Marshal Waters, of Grand Rapids, Sheriff Mc- Kenzie, of “Soo,” and Sheriff Metcvier and thirty deputies from Detroit, Mich., all heavily armed, left to capture the barges having Moiles Bros., mill aboard, and a desperate conflict between the op posing factions is feared. The barges are now lying behind Trout Island, in American waters. They arc badly cut by ice and the captains are afraid to venture out into the lake with. them. This is the milt which the owners were endeav oring to carry to Canada to avoid debts in Michigan. Rev. Sam Small conducted one of the most exciting temperance meetings of the prohibition campaign at Pittsburg, Pa., on Wednesday night. Ho was de nouncing the liquor dealers vigorously, as “law-breakers,” when Jacob Kellar, a wealthy liquor dealer, objected. “He is one of them,” cried a man in the audi ence. “You’re a liar,” cried Kellur. The latter became demonstrative, and was ejected from the church amid great excitement. Resolutions were passed requesting the court to refuse Kellar a renewal of license. One old lady tccamo so much excited that she rushed up to Kellar as ho was leaving the church, and struck him in the face with her fist. FIRED ON ÜB. Capt. Stubbs, of the schooner Carrie A. Bucknam, which arrived at New York on Wtdmsday from St. Domingo City, reports that when off Saona lalan 1, at about noon, he sighted a vessel team ing towards his vessel ,from laud, then distant six or eight miles. The craft proved to be a Dominican war vessel. She laid her course to intercept the Bucknam, but could not do so owing to the strong breeze then prevailing, and fell astern half or three-quarters of a mile. When nearly in the schooner’s wake, much to the surprise of the crew she fired a shot which struck the water ouly a few yards from the Bucknam’s stern. She then gave chase, but with a good breeze the schooner soon distanced her. After keeping up the chase for about two hours, she gave it up and, putting about, steamed for land. What her errand was oan only be conjectured, os the Bucknam was far outside of their jurisdiction and on the high sous, where they could have no legitimate right to overhaul her. The American flag was flying at the schooner’s peak all the time, it having been hoisted us soon as the •tcamer was made out to be a war vessel. HARRISON ARREBTED Russell Harrison, son of President Harrison, was arrested in New York on Thursday, on the charge of having pub lished in his paper, the Montana Live Stock Exchange, an article taken from a Buffalo paper, accusing ex-Govcrnor John Schuyler Crosby, of Montana, with hav ing stolen jewels from a Washington lady. ihe total appropriations made by each of the several Congresses since 1874 are as fob lows: Forty -thi rd, $1549,791,991: F< >r ty fourth. $594,643,272; Forty-fifth, .$703,605,953; Forty-si xth, $727,6%,003; Ft >i*ty-seventl i , $777, OSS, 94*; Forty-eighth, $655, ‘269,: Forty-ninth, $746,243,514; Fiftieth, $817,878,- 075. Total, $5,627,817,561. DRAMATIC STORY. INTERESTING DETAILS OF THE GREAT STORM IN SAMOA. USAVE AMERICAN SAILORS—THE NATIONAL AN THEM PLATED WHILE DEATH ArPBOACMED— GERMAN OmCIALH ACTING gUEEB. Intelligence has just reached- Ban Francisco, Cal., by mail, of the recent terrible disaster iu the harbor of Apia, Samoa. *ceue* on tho Vnn dalia had distracted attention from the two other men of-w r ar, which still re mained afloat, but in the afternoon the position of the Trenton and Ogla had changed and they were almost on tho reef near tho point where the Eber struck. The Trenton was coming down upon the Olga and a collision seemed inevitable. The condition of the flagship was must pi table. At 10 o'clock in the morning tier rudder and propeller had been carried away by fooling with a piece of wreckage. The shock was so great that the pilot wheel on deck was whirled around like lightening and every spoke in it was broken. The two men who were at the wheel at the time were thrown violently to the deck and one had his leg broken. To add to the discom fiture of the steamer, water poured in through the hawser pipes and flooded the decks. The hawser pipes, which are large openings in the bow through which the anchor chains pass, were unfortun ately locatodon the berth deck, instead of on the gun deck above, as is usually the case. In a short time the firemen were up to their waists iu water and all the fires were extinguished. From 10 o'clock in the morning uutil 6 o’clock in the evening, when she grounded, the Trenton held out against the storin with out steam or rudder, rad her escape from total destruction on the reef was miracu lous. Bkillful management was all that saved the lives of every man on board. Lieut. Brown, the navigator, ordered every man into the port rigging so that tlie compact mass of humanity could be used ts sails, aud ut the same time keep the weight of the vessel on the side next to the storm. Tho crowds on shore rushed down to the water's edge aud peered through the blinding storm to hear the crash which would send both men-of-war aud their load of freight to the bottom. Running up the flag sud denly, the, stars and stripes were seen flying from the gaff of the Trenton. Pre vious to this no vessel in the harbor had raised a flag, as the storm wrs raging so furiously at sunrise that the ceremony was neglected. It seemed now as if the gallant ship knpw she was doomed and had determined to go down with the flag of iter country floating above the storm. The Trenton was not able to get out into the bay again after her collision w ith the Olga. Bhe was about 200 feet from the wreck of the Vandalia and was slowly drifting toward the shoal. It was now after five o’clock, and the light was beginning to fade away. In half an hour the Trenton had drifted on to within a few yards of the Vnndalia's bow, and the men who were in the rigging of the lat ter vessel trembled with fear as they saw the Trenton approach. Feelings hard to describe came over hundreds who watched the vessels from the shore. The storm was still raging with as much fury as at any time during the day. Sud denly a shout was borne across the waters. The Trenton was cheering the Vandalia. The sound of 450 voices broke upon tho air aud was heard above the roar of the tempest. “Three cheers lor the Vanda lia!” was tlie cry that warmed the hearts of the dying men in the rigging. The shout died away upon the storm, and t here arose from the quivering musts of the sunken ship a response so feeble that it was scarcely heard upon tlie shore. Tho men who felt that they were looking death in the face, aroused themselves to the effort and united in a faint cheer for the flag-ship. Those who were standing ou the shore listened in silence, for that feeble cry was the saddest they hnd ever heard. Every heart was melted to pity. The sound of music next came across the water, The Trenton l and was playing “The Star Spangled Banner." A thou sand men on the sea or on tlie shore, had never before this heard the strains of music at such a time as this. An indescribable feeling came over tlie hundreds of Americans on the beach, who listened to the notes of the national anthem mingled with the howl of the storm. For a moment only were they silent, and then they broke forth with a :-ry that rent the air and reached each of i lie struggling men on the rigging of the Vandalia—men who had exhausted every means during the whole of that awful day of rendering some iis-istance to their comrades now seemed inspired to greater efforts. The storm was raging furiously at mid night, and tlie stern of the Trenton was forced back against the reef. The waves continued to beat over her, put her draught was so great that after she had settled entirelv ou the bottom she was still about her usual height out Of water, and there seemed to be no great 1 anger of Inr going to pieces before the men on board of her could be taken off. Little could be done on shore but wait for morning. Long before a rav of dawn appeared, crowds began to gather on the shore again. By 5 o’clock the wind had abated, though tlie sea was still very rough. However, natives volunteered to man a boat to go out to the Trenton. Semnnu, chief of the Apia district took charge of the crew. It was still very dark, and the trip was a most perilous >ne, but the natives put tho boat through the current in safety and reached the I,OW of the Trenton. They wore given i hawser, which they to*>k back to the ihoie and made fast. But, little was one. however, until daylight. All hands were ordered to remain on tho ship, as, tho storm having subsided, there was no immediate danger. As soon as it became light, four more haw sers were stretched from the Trentcm to the shore to guard against danger in the event of the storm coming up again. Two boats, manned by natives in charge of Chiefs Semanu and Latunae, com menced the work of removing the Vandalia’s men from tho After the storm had subsided, and after the officers aud crews of the wrecked vessels had come ashore, evidence of tho awful destruction was presented on every side. Tho German survivors remained in that part of the town where the property of the German Trading Cos. is located, but the Americ ans were to be seen everywhere. The officers had lost their uniforms, and were dressed as common sailors. Admiral Kimberly was tho last to leave the American flagship Trenton.. The admiral was asked in regard to his own experience during the storm, but had little to say of a personal nature. Ho continued: “Tho Arcs of the Tren- ton went out ut ten o'oiock in tlie morn ing, nnd our rudder and propeller Were carried away ut (be same time. No one Can realize the forco with which the rudder was struck. I suppose a piece of wreckage fouled it. The pilot’s wheel whirled around with terrible velocity. Every spoke in it was broken, and one of the men ut the wheel hud a leg broken. It would have been impossible tor us to steam out of the harbor as the British warship Calliope did, us our engines were not towerful enough. We had on every pound of steam that wo could carry, and with three anchors we were not able to hold up against the storm. We fought aguinst it as long as we could Jo so, but were finally driven back upon shore." Consul Blacklock’s orders pro hibiting the sale of liquor to tho sailors bad u good i ff at, anil very few druuken men were to be seen. The town is still under a marine guard, aud Mataafa’i police hare also assisted in maintaining outer. Men from tlie Tren ton uttd Vandalia have sepurate barracks, and have rented temporary tents for shelter. The Nipsic men are still living aboard their vessel, aud the German sur vivors are quartered iu a warehouse be longing 11 a German firm. Working parlies arc kept busy all the time on the wrecks of the Trenton and Vandalia, aud articles of every description are washed ashore from the vessels and piled togeth er in a large yard. Divers have been at work, and many articles were saveel iu that way. Although 140 men lost their lives during tho storm, there have not been more thsn forty bodies recovered. For the first day or two, the bodies of Americans were buried in a cemetery connected with the London mission, and the bodies of Germans were buried in tho French Catholic cemetery, but it soon became impossible to identify the bodies, and owing to the warm climate, it was necessary to bury them where they were found. American memorial services were held in the latge yard in which the Trenton men have their quarters. Tho services were very brief, and were conducted by Chapluin McAllis ter, of the Trentcm. Over sev en hundred men from the three American men-of-war were present,.but uone of the German officers attended. The storin does not seem to have changed the political situation of Samoa so fur as the natives are concerned. Both p irties are still camped in the same positions they ItHVo occupied fur several months past. Mataafa's men have nut given the slightest intimation that they intended to take advantage of the unprepared con dition of the Germans, und it is not like ly they will make any attack upon Ta maße’s force pending the Berlin confer ence. The German consul, Dr. Knappe, is still pursuing the spiteful course, which his always characterized his ad ministration of affairs there. Notwith standing the noble work of the Samoans during the storm, Dr. Knappe posted printed notices, a few days later, decl r tng that the Samuans daily steal produce from German plantations, aud warning the public not to purchase anything from them. TELEGRAPHIC. Darien claims that she will ship 120, 000.000 feet of timber this year. The steamer Rio Grande, of the Mal lory line, wus damaged $25,000 by fire at her dock in New York on Sunday. The German bark, Emilie, which left Pensacola, Fin., March 2d, for Brake, was abandoned at sea. Three of the crew were drowned. James Lawrence CareW, member of Parliament for North Kildare, Ireland, who was sentenced for four months im prisonment for offences under the crimes act, is ill in the hospital of the Belfast jail. The steamship Scrvia, which arrived at New York on Sunday from Hamburg, reports, in a dense fog, struck the pilot boat Commodore Bateman about mid* Ship, sinking her at once and drowning Pilot Jolut llandrian and a colored cook, Harry Halford. A private letter received in New York on Saturday from the city of Mexico, says: “Four of the men arrested on the charge of being implicated in the derail ment of President Diaz’s train a few days ago have been shot. The execu tion wus carried out very quietly.” Twenty thousand men threaten to quit the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and tie up its trains. Com pulsory insurance is the cause of trouble. Every employe in the service of the company, and there are 20,000 of them, has been given to understand that he must sign a contract or be discharged. At a banquet at Versailles, Deputy Laugerre read Gen. Boulanger’s speech. He contrasted the doings of the present sham republicanism with the doiugs of the Republicans of 1789, and said that on tlie hundredth anniversary the re forms then initiated will be completed. MM. Laugerre nnd llerissue were atrest ed on leaving tbc banquet hull. They protested on the ground of the inviola bility of the Chamber of Deputies nnd were released. THEY ARE ANGRY. The coming centennial in New York is to bring about another secession on the part of South Carolina. The adju tant-general of the state has issued per mission for eight or ten companies of the white militia to go to New York as an escort to the governor of the state. Among these is the famous Washington Light Infantry of Charleston, who had made great preparations for the trip. They proposed to carry with them the historic Eutaw flag, which was borne by Col. William Washington in his tight with Tarloton during the revolutionary war. A letter has been received from Gen. Cruger stating that the committee declines to recognize the right of the Washington Light Infuntry to any place of prominence in the parade, and that the Old Guard Veterans battalion and the Boston Tigers are also to be forced to parade with the militia. Some of the Federal War veterans nre angry too, be cause Gen. Cruger declines to recognize any veteran organization outside the membership of the Grand Army of the Republic. AGAINST CIDER. An interesting liquor ease has just been decided at Mount Pleasant, lowa. The defendants were tried on the ordinary liquor selling indictment. The witnesses bail, as shown by the evidence, bought cider in the defendant’s restaurant; the question was, whether or cot cider is dusted with intoxicating liquors. Judge Travers ruled that while cider is at first a non-intoxicant, it becarno intoxicating in the course of time. NUMBER 26. SOUTHERN BRANCHES, LOPPED HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. KN rP.RPIUHKfl —MOVEMENTS Of BXUOIOUS DODIKS—AFFUAYB, MISHAPS, ETC.— WDUS- TttlAL ITEMS —NOTES. lURAHA. I The saw mill, planing mill and ball 1 million foet of lumber,belonging to O. A. Dukes, four miles southwest of Clan ton, were totally destroyed by fire on Thursday. Loss, $25,000. The Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Cos., will erect a steel plant in Birming ham. It will be remembered that new directors and officer* were elected at the annual meeting of the stockholders in Nushville, April Ist. The new board hs* decided to erect a plant in tht city for the manufacture of steel by the basic process. In Walker & Terry’s saloon in Bir mingham, Will Stone was shot through the head and instantly killed by Mr. Terry, one of the proprietors of the place. Thu negro had been cleaning up the saloon and a dispute arose about the payment of the work. Terry threw a bottle at the negro, and the latter picked up a stick, when he was shot dead. A spirited meeting of white Republi cans wsa held in Birmingham on Wed nesday, and organized by chosing these officers: Ex-Govcrnor W. H. Smith, president;L. E. Parsons, vice-president; Robert Barber, Montgomery, secretary. Tbe organization has an executive com mittee composed of two members from each congressional district and a vice president in each county. Resolutions were adopted favoring white immigra tion, home protection, Federal aid to open rivers und harbors in the state, and the organization of a Republican Pro* tective Turiff League. GEORGIA. Governor Gordon decided another con tested election case on Saturday, that of F. I). Van Brockle vs. J. D. Morgan, for the sheriffship of Bryon county. A suffi cient number of illegal votes to overcome Morgan’s maj irity were not clearly proven to be illegal, and the governor decided not to disturb the result shown by the returns. Col. Lyman B. Goff, a successful man ufacturer of Pawtucket, R. 1., who has been in Georgia for several weeks, has organized a company with SIOO,OOO capi tal for the manufacture of yarns, twines, knitting cotton, etc. It is proposed to erect anew mill at Pottersdale, near Covington, utilizing the fine power at that place. Many people visited the ruins of the house of Mr. Woods, near Clayton which was burned and in which six persona were burned to death. Mr. Woods, be ing a millwright, is away much of the time, and did not know of the disaster until he walked up to the spot snd saw nothing but a heap of ashes. When told that the bodies of his wife and five chil dren were in ashes, he became uncontrol able, and had to be borne away. Mrs. Woods must have been awakened by the flames to find herself in the midst of the conflagration, and rushing to the chil dren, ull were suffocated and burned to death. There was a camping party near by, who rushed up to the fire, but not in time to save life. LOUISIANA. Beginning with Slay 1, all vessels from the tropical parts of America will hs subject to quarantine at New Orleans. MARYLAND. A great sugar refinery is to be estab lished in Baltimore, with a capital stock of $1,000,000. Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, has issued a circular letter to the Catholic clergymen of his diocese, directing that a special meeting be held iu all the churches April 30th, the hundredth an niversary ol tho inauguration of George Washington ns president of the United States, and that the church bells be rung for hdf an hour as an expression of joy and thanksgiving. MIBSOURI. Tlie carpenters’ strike in St. Louis it still on, with no evidences of weakening on cither side. Both the Masters' Builders Association and Carpenters’ Brotherhood, hold regular meetings, the lutter daily, but cannot come together on tlie one point of recognition of the brotherhood. On hours and renumcra tion both agree. President Cook, of the Master Builders’ Association, says, how ever, that he docs not believe the master builders will recede from their position, and the prospects for a settlement of tho differences are very slim. The new statue of the Virgin, in the chapel of the Convent of the Sacred Heart at St. Louis, has provoked consid erable criticism, even from the inmates of the convout. It is described as being a young girl in the bloom of youth, ana when it arrived the nuns were more than astonished; but they were assured that it was done in Rome under the supervis ion of one of the highest authorities of the church, the desire being to have the Virgin considered in her youth as well as in her maturity. The statue stands seven feet eight inches high, and was carved from a single block of Carrara marble. NORTH CAROLINA. During a recent gale, Portsmouth,near Oceracouk inlet, was submerged, drown ing cattle, sheep and hogs. The wate* rose into manv houses and there was great destruction of property. Inhabi tants took to house tops remaining there uutil the storm was over. Great suffer ing was experienced, but no lives were lost. TENNESSEE. A fire occurred at Dayton Sunday, en tailing a loss of $22,000. It caught from the ovens of a baker. The principal losers are: Bickuell & Johnson, $3,000; J. W. Hudson, grocer, $3,500; Garden hire building, $5,000; A. W. Frasier, $1,500; H. Spiuly, two brick buildings, $4,000. None of the buildings were in sured . A syndicate of capitalists from New York, New Orleans, Memphis and At lanta, havo just consummated the pur chase of 03,000 acres of land in Sequo chee Valley, about three miles from Chattanooga, adjoining tho city ol South Pittsburg. The price paid for the property, which controls coal, iron and timber "land, was $540,000. The prop erty is to be developed on a grand scale.