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Edith Wilder s
Journal.
By METTA E. S. BENSON,
Author of "Barbara Dara," "Har Trus
Friend." “ Dr. Vetnort Lots Af
fair.," "Tha Missing King,"
" Love'. Baer nice.” sic.
CIIAPTER VIII.
Her gate dwelt on ms with anew
gleam of trusting affection as she con
tinued:
“Years and years ago, Edith, one
dearer to me than my own life—
one around whom every fiber of my
heart was woven in a net-work of
the teuderest love—so sinned as to bring
upon himself my bitterest eurse; and I
vowed that, living or dead, I would
never look upon his face again. For
years that one has been waiting without
the door of my heart, and 1 would not
bid lint eater.”
Suddenly she rose to her feet and
lifted her arms upward to their fullest
length. “O God, forgive mel I have
been a cruel women!” she exclaimed and
sank down again with a sort of moan.
For a moment she seemed unconscious of
my presence, as if memory was reviewing
the past. At last she cried in an agitated
hurry:
“You will not say that I ought to have
iorgiven him? You will not say that I
must forget my pride and forgive him
now that lam going to die, w : ll you,
Edith? I could not do it. I could not
endure the humiliation.”
“I can say nothing in my ignorance,
Sirs. Volncy, only that I will do all in
my power to help you. But what is this
erring one to you? Tell me that, and I
may be able to help you decide what is
your duty in this matter.”
She clutched my hands and holding
them thus looked into my eyes with the
agonized expression of one about to dis
close the secret burial place of his un
happy dead. In the strain of my imagin
ation, I could hear the angel “roll the
stone from its grave away.”
Her voice, in a low-toned eagerness,
broke the dreadful silence:
“lie was my son, Edith, my only son,
whom I loved as uo mother ever loved
before. H - was my idol. I never left
one slighest wish of his ungratilied, even
from the time of his wondrous, rosy,
beautiful babyhood until the very day of
his dishonor. And that is why I have
said to myself, through all these misera
ble years, that I could not forgive him.”
Perhaps that is one of the very reasons
why you should forgive him. And then,
too, the gentle Teacher has taught us to
pray: ‘Forgive us <nir trespasses as we
forgive thoae who trespass against us.’”
“But do you comprehend, Edith, that
he was guilty of a crime, a crime!" she
breathed with her lips close to my face.
“If justice had been meted out to him,
he would to-day be shut inside the walls
of a prison and with no hope of escape.
That is what has made it nil so hard to
bear. I had thought of crime sometimes,
but always as a long way off from me.
Had connected it with the soul of other
women; but never in any slightest man
lier with my own. And yet, Edith, how
can I die without ever seeing his bonny
face again?” She drew a picture from
the bosom of her dress and gazed upon it
for a long time with that growing pathet
ic movement about the eyes and mouth,
which conies along with the revival of
some tender recollection. After a little
she gave the picture to me. It was a
face like her own, but with features more
strongly marked—a bright, handsome,
happy face—and full of that strange,
winning power we name fascination.
“I can detecta hint of youthful self
assertion in the face, Mrs. Yolney, but
no shadow of crime.”
“Let me tell you,” she sard, speaking
very rapidly. “When he was barely
twenty he formed the acquaintance of an
actress, several years his senior, a very
beautiful bad woman, with mixed
foreign blood in her veins. He was
handsome, high spirited, lavish with his
money, ami therefore she used all her
arts to win him.
“When at last the story reached his fath
er’s ears, of course ho was shocked and very
angry. High words passed between them.
Then came the awful knowledge that he
had forged his father's name for a large
sum of money and with this woman had
sailed for Europe.
“Dear Heaven! how we lived through
it I cannot tell. As soon as possible we
sc Id everything except a few household
treasures, came to this western city
among entire strangers, and deliberately
severed every tie that bound us to the
past. In little more than a year my
husband died. After a while I found
Joyce and—well, you know the rest.
When Robert had been away a month, lie
wrote begging our forgiveness. A year
later a letter reached me through our
private banker, telling that the women
whom he had loved so madly had for
saken him for a man of wealth; that he
had found work to do, and that he was
trying to learn how to bear his trouble,
by looking on other lives beside his own,
seeing what their trials were and how
they were borne. Trying to learn wlist
was best in thought and action; and in
caring for these things, dull the agony
of remorse which hourly pierced his
heart. In the last letter he wrote:
•O, mother, I feel like a ban shed
soul, permitted to live constant y
within sight of a true, grand, happy
life, but which he has sinned himself
away rrom. ’ And ” the voice broke
off suddenly. My heart was torn. I
could endure the scene no longer.
“Mrs. Volney, tell me that this very
hour I may send a me sage that will re
call this loved exile. May I, Mrs. Vol
ney? May I?”
Tears came. Bhe could not answer,
save hv a slight affirmative movement
of her head.
August 9.
Hardly was the message dispatched to
her son'before Mrs. Volney began pre
paring for the glad home-coming. The
key to the long closed rooms was placed
in my hands, with the instruction to
make them as bpautiful as possible. It
also devolved upon me to prepare Martha
and James for the expected arrival. And
it did seem that Martha's “Now, did
you evers,” and “Well, don’t it beat
alls?” would never cease.
Very soon there had come an answer
ing cablegram:
"Liverpool, Aug. 5, IS—.
"Sail WwtaesUay on the America. Mel]
and happy. Robkbt Volxky.'
“jrr COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER HE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY!*— Jbffkmon.
Finer fids came 7ie often nwukffiu mr
during the night: “Will you look out
Edith, please, 1 fancied tho wind wo
rising. Are there sign* of a storm!
Ami I uni so thankful for the of
initiiiuce of Vo • moonlight, anil the tuln
white clouds that only half conceal the
a/ure deeps beyond. Or, she will cry
out suddenly :
“l hove been a cruel woman! I shall
be nunLhedt 1 shall never see my boy
again. Oil, Edith, how can 1 bear it.”
SKPTKMnun 2.
Robert Volnev has been liome three
weeks. "lis mother seems stronger than
when he came, and if a son’s lovo and
devotion could -ave her, then she would
not die: but there are signs that show
lier malady is reachiug its last stages.
Robert Volney's face,in contour, as
thought from the picture, is like li
mother's, with a predominating expres
sion of the countenance which declares
decision and earnestness of purpose. Hit
person it athletic, erect, and majestic.
When he speaks, the words come
rapidly and easily, and the tones in whi h
they are uttered show the speaker not
less quick of apprehension and judg
ment
Tliero are gray hair about his templet,
and the hard experiences of his life has
changed the careless expre-sion of the
pictured boyish face into one of thought
ful gravity. I have never heard him
laugh aloud; hut something passes into
liis smile which is beyond the power of
language to depict.
October 3.
Leon and Joyce have returned from
their summer touring. Joyce comes nearly
every day to see Mrs. Volney; brief,flut
tering little visits, the minutes filled by
rambling talks of life—her life—at fash
ionable resorts.
Both Leon and herself consider Robert
Volney an intruder. True, they have nut
put the feeling into speech. They do not
need to.
One evening when we th ee were sit
ting together, with blinds di awn up and
windows partly open, occasional sounds
from the street breaking in upon our
silence—a silence in which the very air
between us seemed vital with thought
Mrs. Volnev said, speaking very low:
“Edith, would you inind putting on
mourning for me when— when 1 am
gone? Ido not think, under the circum
stances, that Joyce will care to; nor do
I de-ire that si e should.”
I put out my hand and touched liers.
“I am glad you spoke of it, Sirs. Vol
ney, for I am sure 1 should have wished
some time to do so, and hesitated, uot
knowing if it wo dd p ease you.”
“Thank you, Edith.” All this was
said as quietly as though she was pre
paring for a tr p across th ■ sea, and only
leaving instructions for the things she
wished done during her absence.
“ And you will keep my grave as
bright and beautiful as possible? I do
not like to think it will seem lonely
there.”
“Always, mother, until I come to lie
be.-dde you,” Robert replied, stooping to
kiss her and letting his lace rist against
hers for a moment in a caressive, boyish
fashion.
“And promise me, Robert, that while
you live no woman shall have a better
right to be mistress of this home, which
is now yours, than Edith. For her pres
ence has been the greatest comfort to
me—and 1 want you to save her from all
unnecessary pain. In all the lutin' years
let her feel that in you, she has indeed a
brother.”
lie whispered something in reply, with
his lips close to her ear—words whose
import must have pleaded her, for she
carcs-ed his face with her wasted hand
and smiled softly, wh le ti e moonlight
fcli in silvery radiance upon her face.
And so the daysare drifting by,each one
bringing nearer a time when the night
watches will he over; when the last lov
ing errand will be done; when the e will
be no more low-voiced talk at evening
tide; when bed and couch will be vacant
and we shall miss the dear presence—
“ I.iko missing tbe delicate o tors
That out of the roses distill."
Then I sha 1 go back to Rose and the
old work-days again; but it must he that
ever after my life will be swayed by liolici
emotions, actuated by nobler purposes,
and spiritualized by richer thoughts.
() Rose! but for you 1 might have
missed these wonderful mouths of liv
ing.
NoVEMBF.II 8.
The pale November sunshine falls
upon my black dress as I sit here by the
window writing in mv journal.
Tho end came very suddenly. I had
gone to my room one early morning
leaving the two alone. I must have
falleu asleep, when I became vaguely
conscious of n voic e calling my name. It
must have been Robert, for I heard b ; m
hastening up the stairs. I met him at
the door, h s face was strangely pale, his
hand trembled as it grasped mine.
“Will you come to her, Edith? She
asked for you.”
Very white and still she lay among the
pillows as we entered the room. After
a moment she opened her eyes and found
us kneeling upon either side of her.
She smiled. “Oh, Edith, it is so
beautiful! Oh, Robert, my darling boy!”
and with her eyes fixed upon his, she
died, so calmly we thought she hud only
fallen asleep.
When she lay in her coffin surrounded
by flowers, that farewell smile still lin
gered upon her fa c, and glorified it.
Mri. Volney left a will. To James
and Martha she bequeathed u thousand
dollars each; to Jovca, ten thousand; to
me, there was twenty thousand, and to
Robert, the remainder.
The will made me very unlinppv,
Joyce had so long looked upon herself
as sole heiress to Mrs. Volney’s vast
wealth,that the disappointment was hard
to bear. For myself, I said at first that
I could never accept the munificent
legacy; but when I had talked the,mat
ter over with Rose, and afterward with
Rol ert, I was able to behold in faintest
outlines, the effect it would have on
other Eves through the effect it would
have on mine. I could thus act in unison
w.th my yearnings, and so make real my
ideal good.
I could devote my life more fully and
successfully to the work of rescuing
those who had wondered; giving aid to
the unfortunate, and saving what
I could of heart-break and ruin.
Beside, I fe!t more bound to ac
cept the bequest, when Robert told mo,
these things had be.-n in his moth
er's thought when she decided to leave
the money in my keeping. Therefore I
stooped my shoulders to the new burden,
though not without a severe inward
struggle, for I knew that responsibility
would be deepened and care multi
plied. One day Rose said tome: “You
have dow both the means and the leisure
to devote to painting, why not gratify
your taste in this •* ?’’
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, APRIL 25. 188!*.
“No, Rose, I shall never paint a picture,
or writo a book, or plan anv great pro
ject to help fni ward the world's ei ili/a
tion but I have given hand and soul
to this work w hich interests you and
l.ohcrt must At present this is the
task which presents itself to me as a
duty.
CIIHtSTMAS NlllliT.
This has been a very busy and happy
day, pre e led by other days of the most
delightful planning and labor. At
“ Rose Collage ” a least was spread th a
afternoon and all the morning. Mr.
Benton, I)r. Brownlow, and Robert
Volney were busy going to and fro to
the music of merry bells, and bringing
to this fea-t women with care-worn
far es and toil stained hands—women
who oust earn bread for the little
children clinging to their laded dresses
in a helplessness only a degree more p ti
fnl than their own : aged men and women
w ho had almost ceased to remember there
was a Christmas-time; men fiom homes
of enforced poverty and from haunts of
vice; homeless, ragged boys; little
children out of whose hearts want had
messed ail the joy of childhood—gath
ered them In from cheerless homes, and
from the by ways and hedges.
—"Wheresoever pity shares
Its bread with sorrow, want and sin,
And love tha beggar's feast prepares,
The uninvited Guest coni' s in;
Unheard, because onr ears are dull,
Unseen, because our eyes are dim;
He walks our earth, the Wonderful,
And all good deeds are done to Him ”
It was Robert who recited the words,
in a low monotone, as we stood a little
apart lrom the others for a moment,
watching the strange guests seated at the
long tables.
When the feasting was ended the door
ding into the back parlor were throw
open. The windows were darkened, l>u4
the lamp light revealed a cheerful sceoe.
At the far end of the room was sus
pended against a background of black
velvet, a large cross of white flowers,
with a cluster of red roses in the center
like a heart of blood. Upon one side of
the room there stood a tree filled with
such bright things as children delight
in; upon the other were tables and
stands piled with waim clothing of
every dcsciiption, and parcels of tea,
coffee, sugar, etc.
For an hour we were busy distributing
gifts. Then Rose said a few beautiful
words about the cress of flower-and the
wonderful meaning which it held for
Her. and for all humanity. Uuictly Mrs.
Jordan folded her hands in a iirief
prayer, and in the silence that followed
Edna's clear, rich voice, took up the
words: “.'esu-, lover of my soul." Mrs.
Adams joined in a low, tremulous
alto, which strengthened as she sang,
and vo.ee after voito caught up the
sweet refrain, until it sounded like a
burst of victory.
Edna, the Doctor, and Robert, re
mained for the evening. Robert lingered
a little after the o hers and I walked
beside him down to the gate with soft
•tar -Sne beve w* vA the crisp enow
under our feet. We spoke of his mother
and wondered if it was possible she
knew we were standing there. And
then he drew the white wool shawl I had
thrown about my head and .boulders
more closely around me, saying as he did
1°:
“You must not remain here longer in
the cold, Edith, liar 1 ai it is to leave
you,—to go away without you. Good
night, little sister.”
“Good night, Robert.” I turned slow
ly from the gate and slowly walked to
ward the house, warmed from the heart
jutward by the clasp of his hand, and
!he tender intoning of his parting
words.
A pun. 8.
Edna is living in a home of her own
now. It is a very handsome p'a.c, mid
way between Rose Cottage and the Vol
ney mansion.
In accordance with Robert’s wishes I
pur> hased Rose Cottage and had the
deed made in the name of Ho e Owens.
For a week now workmen have been busy
outside and in, painting, decorating the
walls, and doing many little odd jobs
that had long needed to I c done.
Under the treatment of Dr. B nwnlow,
Rose is slowly gaining in strength.
She Buffers from those exhausting days
of pain far less frequently, and ho has
well grounded hopes that he ean free her
from them almost entirely.
No twenty’four hours passes by in
which 1 do not see Robert Vol- ey.
Sometimes I pass part of a day at bis
home; and Martha, who stilt mourns for
Mrs. Volney. hails my coming with ar
dent expressions of delight, and watches
rnv departure with eyes half blinded by
tears.
We go together very often on our er
rands among “Rose’s people;’’ we ride
far out into the country, Lose or Edna
often accompanying us; we read the
same books, love tbe same people; hive
mutual interests, hopes, and fears.
Many times I say to myself that I
would rather have Robert \ olney for my
friend than to be the wife of any other
man. No slightest feeling of distrust
ever enters into ray thoughts of him.
While he lives I know that I have a
friend whose hand will he ready to clasp
mine at all times and under all circum
stance. He is so different from
other men I ha.e met. He lias sinned
deeply, gone down to the depths of a re
pcntencc no words can reveal,and sought
to atone for the crime of his passionate
boyhood by years of noble and generous
living. There is a restful inclining in his
eyes, as though his life was drifting on
nn ocean of peace.
JUke 25.
Yesterday afternoon wc were sitting
near his mother’s grave. It is a lovely
place. All that wealth, and cultured
taste, and fond love, can do to beautify
the spot has been done.
Wc had been silent for a longtime,
when Robert said:
“Edith, do you think a man who has
been guilty of a crime, has any right to
seek after that which would make his
earthly happiness complete .”
Under certain circuni tanccs I think
he would have such a right,” I made
answer slowly.
“And if those circumstances were
mine?" he questioned feelingly.
"Then I should say ijei, unreservedly."
lie took one of my ungloved hands in
both his own. and holding it thus,waited
a moment before he said :
“Have you not divined, Edith, that I
love you xvith an affection beyond that
of a brother? Knowing my past, aro
you willing to unite your dear life to
mine ?"
1 turned my face away from him- just
a trifle —and was silent. The hare possi
bility of living continually with this
man in the sacred relation of a wife
filled my heart beyond the power of
utterance.
He arose and stood at a little distance.
“O, Edith, forgive me—l have asked
too much!"
I also arose, my outstretched hands
meeting Ilia own eager clasp; his eyes
looking into mine, and with no other
outward sign to express the conscious
ness of bliss that grew out of this new
meeting of our lives, we stood tliero for
a time in silence.
Clothed in my bridal garments, 1 am
writing the last page of my journal.
Another hour and I snail be Robert Vol
ney’s wife.
TO RR CONTIN'TTKD.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Marat Halstead is critically 111.
Tho now cruiser Yorktown, was put
<n commission.
Tho President appointed M. D. Wick
eeham, of Alabama, to be United Slates
attorney for the Southern district of
Alabama,
A fores of Soudanese attacked and de
feated a party of Egyptians from Suaklni,
vsho were building a fort at Port Hailib.
The Egypt! ans lost ten killed and
wounded.
A telegram reocived in New York says:
“Passengers and crew of the steamship
Danmark lauded at Asores; 340 of (he
passengers on tho steamer Missouri bound
fee Philadelphia. The rest to follow by
the next steamer.”
Postmaster Henry G. Pearson, of New
York, died on Sunday. Mr. Pearson’s
deuth was from hemorrhage, caused by
egneer of the stomach. He was forty
five yeara of age. His death occurred ou
the thirteeuth anniversary of his wed
ding.
The Spanish Catholic Congress meets
i* Madrid. Cardinal Cenuvides will
preside and 1,600 clergymen and laymen
will be in attendance. The object of
the Congress is to pronounce in favor of
the restoration of the temporal power of
the Pope, and tbe entension of tbe in
fluence of the church in the schools.
There was serious rioting in Vienna,
Austria, arising out of the strike of the
tram car drivers. The workmen in sym
pathy with tbe strikers blocked the
streets and overenme the police. A fore,
of cavalry had to be called out to quell
the disorder. Many persons were injured
and a large number arrested. The so
cialists side with the strikers.
The steamer Everett, a raft boat be
longing to the Burlington Lumber Cos.,
was sunk at the head of Otter Island,
lowa, and five of the sixteen persons oil
board were drowned. The Everett was
on her way to Burlington from New
Boston Bay, when she was struck by a
terrific gale and sunk in twenty feet of
water.
The prefect of police in St. Petersburg,
Russia, discovered the existence of a
nihilist plot to assassinate the czar when
attending the funerul of Gen. Pauker,
r/n ster of Rhodes. The czar was im
mediately warned not to attend the fun
eral. A number of persons charged with
being implicated in the plot have been
arrested. The nihilists intended to use
dynamite on the czar.
The French ambassador at Brussels
informed Prince De Chimay, Belgium
minister of foreign affairs, that the
meeting of the Boulanger committee in
Brussels impressed the Paris government
unfavorably. The cabinet thereupon
sent an official to the hotel at which
Boulanger is stopping to warn the gen
eral that he must leave Belgium of hit
own accord, or the government would
expel him.
Capt. Blacklen, of the British steamet
Minnesota, just snivel at Tilbury on the
Thames, from Baltimore, reports that on
the 4th instant in latitude 45 degrees, 18
longitude 37, 50 W. he passed a lifeboat
painted white w.th the words “Dan
mark, Copenhagen,” in black letter on
the stern. Pieces of cigar boxes were also
in the boat. There was every appear
ance that the people who had been aboard
had been taken off.
West Depcre, Wis., was almost swept
out of existence by a fire Sunday. The
conflagration began in the Merswiukel
woodenxvare factory, and thence spread
rapidly till many lioucs weie in flumes.
There was a strong wind blowing, and
all attempts to subdue the fire proved
unavailing, despite tho efforts of the
people from the country, who came in
ami formed a bucket brigade. About
the same time an incendiary fire was
staited in another part of the town, and
the towua of Fort Howard and Green
Bay were telegraphed for aid. They re
sponded with engines and men, and
worked all night to subdue the fire. The
losses aggregate $250,000.
The biggest and fiercest fires New
Yorkers have witnessed in this genera
tion, swept the east bank of North rivet
clean from 59th street. It destroyed
properly, valued at nearly $2,000.
UOO, belonging to the New York Centra
railroad and at least a half million dol
lars worth of lard, fl > r, and the like,
belonging to other persons, notably, N.
K. Fairbanks, the great Chicago lard
merchant. It also destroyed two big
elevators of the A. & V., of the Vanderj
hilt system, a big brick l uilding strotch-(
ing from 59th to 60th street, and occupi-l
cd jointly by the Fuirbank lard refinery
and rcaiu stock and property of the New!
York Central system. One mun was
killed in his headlong flight from the
fire at the first outbreak. A number
were injured jumping f om the windows
of the burning building.
IMITATING “JACK.”
Capt. It. C. Jones, of the schoonet
Arthur, at Mobile Ala., on Monday
from Bay Island, and reports that at
Ruatan, last month, Hev. Henry Hobion,
his wife and her companion, a young
girl, all natives of Jamaica, were murder
ed by Joseph Burts. The family were
preparing to leave there for Belize, and
Bures was helping. Discovering that
Mrs. Hobson had money, Bures at night
entered the house and cut the throats of
all three persons. The mutilation of
the bodies of both tho womeD, bore a
strong resemblance to the murders com
mitted by “Jack the Ripper,” the White
chapel murderer in England.
A BRUTAL POLICEMAN.
Prof. Harrison has been committed to
Londonderry (Ireland) jail for trial at the
court of sessions on the charge of assist
ing besieged tenants at Gweedore.
While Prof. Harrison was being con
veyed to jail he was heartily cheered by
the populace. The sergeant who was In
charge of the policemen who urrested
Prof. Harrison, ordered his men to “beat
the devil out of them,” and Fathers
Gildyea, Boyle, Conyear, O’Brien and
O’Shea, and a reporter of the London
DaUy 2i*tci were roughly handled.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS.
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INTELLIGENT PEOPLE.
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iihupu BBFOITS - oaxaaii. sorts.
ALABAMA.
A trade was dewed in Birmingham for
tho purchase, by New York and New
Orleans capitaliats, of 100,000 acres of
coal and ore lands in the vicinity of Col
linsville and Fort Payne.
There is rejoicing at Birmingham
uraong tbe white Republican Protective
Tariff League, over the announcement
that R. L. Houston had been appointed
postmaster. Houston is about twcuty
five years old, and is a prominent young
business man.
ARKANSAS.
A stage running between Wngoza and
Walker, on the southern border of Okla
homa and on the bank of the Canadian
river, was "held up” and robbed late
at night. The driver jumped
into the river after being shot through
the arm and reached tho opposite bank
nearly unconscious. He walked to Wal
nut Creek and stated that the passengers,
consisting of two men and a boy, were
in the hands of the robbers and the coach
had been burned.
GEORGIA.
Henry W. Grady was chosen president
of the Board of Directors of the Confed
erate Home at Atlanta.
Chas. Hindall and Steve Jackson were
drowned in the Chattahoochee river at
Columbus while bathing. Both boys
were about 16 years of age and of good
familiea.
Glenn McCord, of Atlanta, who was a
witness ia the case against Eddlemiui for
murder, and through whose testimony
the prisoner was freed, was convicted on
Thursday of perjury.
Nine companies of tbe 4tli U. S. Ar
tillery will take post at Atlanta ia a few
days, and as many young Southern men
are among its officers, the society belles
Rre in a flutter of excitement. Property
in the vicinity of the new barracks has
jumped up amazingly in value. Post
“Hancock” is said to be the finest bar
racks of any in the country.
Atlanta celebrated Easter Sunday by
having the greatest fire in the business
portion of the city, since the burning of
the Kimball Houso. The property de
stroyed was a six-story brick building
on the corner of Alabama and Pryor
streetß, owned by Capt. Harry Jackson.
The fire originated in the paper ware
house of Wellhouse & Sons, and w 9 ac
cidental. Many lawyers occupied a por
tion of the building. The losses foot
up $125,000 and the insurance was but
$75,000. Sparks from this fire commun
icated to the roof of the rectory of St.
Philips church (Episcopal) several blocks
away and the building was destroyed.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Fifty thousand dollars was subscribed
in Raleigh for the building of a cotton
factory.
The funeral of Mrs. Toeodorc B. Ly
man, wife of the Protestant Episcopal
bishop were held at Raleigh on -Mouday.
Her body was taken to Baltimore, Md.,
for burial.
R. McNeil, who last year shot lus former
sweetliart, Miss Ida Hoe, at Carthage,
and who so near escaped lynching, was
acquited by the court upon the ground
that tho shooting was accidental.
A suicide occurred Sunday in Bertie
county. TV. J. Bishop, a man of per
fectly sound mind, went into an orchard
and blew out his braiDS with a gun. No
cause whatever can be assigned for the
act.
William K. Vanderbilt, worth $50,-
000,000, will build near Asheville the
most magnificent private residence in the
South. Some months ago he began the
purchase of property near Asheville, and
now owns 4,000 acres, on which he will
shortly erect a mansion. Tho cost of the
estate when completed wdl be over
$1,000,000.
Very heavy rains fell Monday, and
came in time to prevent more damage
by the forest fires around Raleigh, which
had proved the most disastrous on rec
ord. It is estimated that an area of one
hundred miles baa been burned over.
The losses of private property are largo,
while some of the finest turpentine lauds
are ruinsd for years. The rain proved of
great value to the crops, and was neoded
in all parts of the state.
Reports wero brought to Raleigh on
Sunday by negroes from near Clayton,
Johnson county, that the house of a
negro who had been especially active in
inducing negroes to emigrate, was invad
ed by masked and unknown m*u, and
tno negro so beaten that liia condition is
conaidered critical. The house of o
iienro preacher, who was also an enthusi •
astic ardvocate of the exodus, was also
visited the same night, it is stated, and
that. e was beaten.
OOIJTH CAROLINA.
The Council of Administration of the
Department of Georgia, G. A. R., has
authorized the formation of a post of
white soldiers of Charleston. There is
already a post of colored men In Beau
fort which is attached to the Department
of Virginia The post just formed in
Charleston, is composed of some of tho
best men of the city.
F. W. Mncusser, a Northern man who
settled in Charleston after the War, but
who has always voted with the whites in
the state elections, says he saw President
Harrison and that the
removals and appointments will com
mence on the Ist of May. The Presi
dent, he says, intends to ignore the old
party leaders and appoint young Demo
crats and Republicans to othce in tho
state.
Tennessee.
The Southern Stove Manufacturers z\s
sociation held a meeting in Clia timoogn
on Wednesday. Prices were raised oil
(he line of cheap cooking stoves. Uo
a 1 other lines remain about the same.
The Chattanooga City Council supple
mented Baron Erlanger’s and the Queen
& Crescent Route gift of $9,000 for a
public hospital at Chattanooga by an ap
propriation of SIO,OOO for the same pur
pose.
WEST VIRGINIA.
One of the most horrible accidents
that ever occurred in Brocton county
happened Wednesday. Perry Wiere, a
well known citizen, was felling a tree,
when it broke across a stump, demolish
ing his heuse and killing his wife and
three children.
TEXAS.
The movement inaugurated by tho
Austin Stateaman, in aid of tho Austin
Confederate Home, is rapidly taking
shape. It is universally commended by
all classes of citizens.
Considerable excitement exists in El
Paso, over the city government contest.
Krakaner, the Republican contestant,
who forcibly took charge of the city safo,
refuses to disclose the combination.
VIRGINIA.
Dr. Benjamin Blackford, of Lynch
burg, was unanimously elected superin
tendent of the Western Lunatic Aaylum
at Staunton, to succeed Dr. D. B. Cou
ard.
Judge 0. E. Stuart, of the corpora
tion court of Alexandria, died Wednes
day after a protracted illness He was
speaker of the Uooss of SM-- ,ates two
terms.
Intelligence from many counties con
firm the reports of great Injury done to
the pea, bean and pot to crops by the
recent heavy storms and continual heavy
rainfalls.
THE PROMIBED LAND.
Capt. Haynes, commanding the United
States cavalry at Arkansas City, Kansas,
on Thursday, received instructions from
the War Department to permit entries to
the Cherokee strip; the South bridgo
across the Arkansas river, the most di
rect route in the strip, being just three
uiilcs from the border. The road is nar
row, with a hedge on one side and a wiro
fence on the other. The rain has made
the mud hub deep. Before dark this
three miles of road between tho bridge
and the strip was blocked with wagons
and was impassable either way. Many
families slept on the wagons. There was
hesitancy about the start. “Why should
we wait any longer?” called out a Kansas
City man, who was present as a specta
tor. “A few minutes makes no differ
(nee. Follow me,” and drove across
the line upon the reservation. A tre
mendous shout went up from the boom
ers, and they went forward and over the
line. The'shout was taken up all along
(he line, and the entire cavalcade moved
forward. A. Williams, from Chautau
qua county, Kungas, with his wife and
live children, was the first settler to fol
low the carriage of the Kansas City msn.
Soon one thousand white covered wag
ons were in motion. The caravan had
traveled one milo into the Cherokee strip
when a sergeant from Capt. Hanes gal
loped across the plain. His approach
was a signal for consternation among tho
settlers, and fear that to start a few mo
ments abend of tune would cause the
millitary to tuin the boomers back.
Turning to the man who Imd assumed
authority for the early start, the settlers
dimandedthut he iuteieede. He ex
plained to the sergi ant that he bore or
i era from Capt. Hayes to give the boom
ers the word to proceed. A shout greet
ed the order and the long tile of wagons
along the I’oncß trail again moved.
From nn elevation five solid miles of
wagons could be seen, and ns the caravan
wound over the undulating prairie, it
presented a eight probably never to
be seen again. Every face beamed
with expectant pleasure, and there was
n t the slightest disorder. Perched on a
cracker box in tho first of the ten wag
ons from Kingman, Kns., Dan Sikes
flung an Amerii an flag to tho breeze.
As far as it oould bo seen, it was hailed
with patriotic shouts. For three hours
the wagon crossed tho strip line and
moved slowly toward the promised land.
On the ouiside of almost every wagon,
strapped to the side, were plows, house
hold goods and fanning implements.
Extra hones and bunches of cattle fol
lowed the wagons, often driven by wo
men and children. One farmer had
brolt a house from the bed of his wagon.
It was shingled and a stove pipe leading
from the modern cook stove made a
complete aparimeut. It is reported that
one hundred of the tough element started
at midnight for the border to sell whis
key and cigars to those who had any
money left. Plunder will bo their
next move. United States Com
missioner Bensell and Cnpt. Ilaycs al
lowed two men to construct
bridges at Salt crei knnd Chilliccoo creek,
and for their compensation they charge
the boomers twenty-five cents to cross.
The first serious affray among the boom
ers recurred about ten miles north of
Kiowa. Two boomers claimed a certain
quarter section, and a man named George
Kramer undertook to put tlie other,
Charlie lleidke, off the land. Both men
drew revolvers, and Kramer was shot
and instantly killed, lleidke was shot
through the groin and may die. Okla
homa Harry Hill and ten of the oldest
boomers In Kansas left for the territory
from Wichita, and Hill has not since been
heard from. The last heard of him was
from Puicel. He left that village Sun
day evening, saying that he would rido
over to Oklahorfiu city. Monday noon
bis dog was found shot through the
head. A reward of SSOO has
been offered for his discovery,
and this will lie greatly increased.
President Harrison might, in case of
serious disturbance, declare martial law
over the territory; but this could not be
done in advance of a breach of peace,
and the machinery of the government
would, it is feared, be too slow in meet
ing the great emergency that may arise.
Tbe only army regulation on the subject
provides for interference by tlio troops in
an emergency only in ease of interrup
tion to the cairiage of mail, or assaults
upon United States property, hut under
a somewhat strained construction it may
form a reason assigned for the use of
troops to prevent or restrain rioting or
bloodshed in the territory.
WANTS PEACE.
Prince Bismarck, of Germany, has is
sued an order in which he defines the re
sponsibilitiisof commanders of warships
with respect to the request of consuls
abroad. The chancellor directs the
commanders to examine for themselves
legal and political grounds for such a re
quest, unless the consul produces special
authority from the German foreign office.
Asa reason for his action, Prince Bs
marck refers to the recent events in Sa
moa where, he says, the unauthorized
request resulted in great losa of life and
injury to German interests, and the dan
ger was thereby incurred of Germany
becoming embroiled with a friendly na
tion, with no conclusive reason existing
for the intervention of armed forces.
SHE WILL STAY.
Mrs. Morrow, daughter of Sam Hous
ton, holds the post-office at Abilene,
Texas. Some of the politicians are try
ing to turn her out, but others espouse
her cause, and as she is a good busine-s
woman, President Harrison will not per
mit her displacement.
NUMBER 27.
OVER THE GLOBE. '
CONDENSATION OF CFTVOUB,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
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ANl> HCTCIDE*.
A package containing $15,000 is gold,
mysteriously diseppi ared lrom the office
of the Northern Pacific Express company
in Mrainard, Minn., on Thursday.
Vico Admiral Tchikkateheff, -of the
Russian navy, has submitted to the cear
a report on the condition of the navy.
I In it he urges the immediate construction
i of a number of cruisers.
At West Farm*, a farming hamlet,
lying midway between Westfield and
Montgomery, and live miles from West
field Centre, Mats., Joseph King a weal
, thy and ryell-kmnvn cltizon, 78 years of
age, was shut and killed by Edgar King,
hia eldest son, aud the house fired and
burned.
A gentleman who has been stopping at
the Hotel Richelieu in Chicago, 111., and
was registered as Sidney Walters* com
mitted suicide Thursday, in his room by
taking morphine. lie was an English
man, and a newspaper man of consider
able prominence iu London. He has
been engaged in newspaper work in
Philadelphia, Pittsburg ana Chicago.
A car was started on the We9t Seventh
street line in Bt. Paul. Minn., guarded by
four patrol wagons filled with policemen,
and ten mounted officers. The proceaii
ion started off amidst hoots and derisive
cheers from a large erowd which had
assembled. Forty-one cowboys from
raenhes near Garden City, Kansas, left
ICunsus City for M uneapolis, to take the
places of the striking street car men of
that city.
A mail car on the I.ako Shore road,
which left Chicago, 111., on Thursday
night, was robbed before it had gotten
out of tlio city limits. The thief secured
a pouch containing übout 100 pieces of
registered muii for Cleveland, Ohio, and
was r fling the contents in an empty bos
car when delected by a watchman. As
the watchman looked into the car the
man jumped out through a door on the
opposite side and escaped. He had
opened about a dozen registered letters
aud succeeded in getting away with theil
contents.
A disastrous wreck occurred at Cora
polis, Pa., ou the Pittsburg & Lake Fria
Railway, Thursday. As the express was
speeding along at a thirty-five miles an
hour rate the locomotive jumped the
track while passing a switch, dragging
the baggage, mail, smoker and three
coaches after it, the whole train except
the sleeper, boing thrown over the bank,
turning twice in the descent. Mail
Agent Bluckmore and a number of pass
engers sustained slight injuries, hut no
one was seriously hurt. The baggage
car caught fire almost as soon as the
train left ihe rails, but the flames wore
quickly extinguished by water from a
ditch.
WASHINGTON, D. C J
MO VEMENTS OF THE PREBIDENT
AND RIS ADVISERS.
xqTKS.
Secretary of Agriculture Rusk has dis
charged eighteen men employed in the
seed room of ids department.
From 100 to 150 fourth-class postmas
ters are now being appointed daily. Of
these about one-third are to fill existing
vacancies. Auother third are appointed
in the places of postmasters lemoved for
cause and the other third succeed post
masters who have served about fou*
years.
The National Academy of Sciences
held a meeting Wednesday morning, and
the following officers were elected i Pres
ident, O. 0. Marsh, of New Haven,
Conn., re-elected president for the term
of six years, nnd Prof. F. P. Langley, ol
tho Smiths nian Institution, vice-presi
dent for a similar term.
The charge d’affaires ad interim of
Corea, in a note to the Department of
Slate, says thut tho newspaper accounts
of ihe famine in Corea have been greatly
exaggerated. It appears that, owing to
the scarcity of rice in tho southern dis
tricts, the import duties were removed
from all food products, and cargoes of
rice were purchased in Japan for distri
bution among the sufferers by tho express
direction of Ms mujesty the king.
The President made the following ap
pointments: Robert P. Porter, of New
York, to be superintendent of census,
William H. Calkins, of Washington Ter
ritory, to be associate justioo of the
supreme court of the territory of Washing
ton; John B. Donnelly, of Louisiana, to
be marshal of the United States for the
Eastern district of Louisiana. Robert P.
Porter, the new superintendent of the
census, is an Englishman by birth, but
has lived in this country for many years,
aud is a naturalized citizen.
Among the Easter remembrances sent
to the Wiiitc House was a mammoth sugar
egg for Daily NcKee, President Harri
son’s grandchild. The gift came from.
Baltimore and was ns big as a basket.
The baby's name and ’’Eister, 1889,”
wore inscribed upon the egg. Through
a glass in one end a scene from Mrs. Bur
nett’s “Little Lord Fauntlcroy” may be,
seen. Another memento from another!
member of tho family was a hen and
brood of chickens, all done in sugar and
very life-like.
IRISH AFFAIRS.
Thirteen families at Falcarrh, in Ire
land, who had been evicted, but who
had returned to their homes, were again
evicted. Barricades had been erected,but
tho police met w ith no violent resistance. ■
The proposed nationalist demonstra
tion at Piltc wn, which was proclaimed
by the government, was held at Skougb,
in tho immediate vicinity of Piltown.
The police were completely outwitted.
While the crowd, headed by a band of
music, were returning from the meeting
they were charged upon by the hussars.
WENT DOWN.
The British bark “Wandering Mia
strel,” which sailed from Honolulu De
cember 10, 1887, has been heard from.
She was wrecked at the Midway islands
February 3, 1888. The crew escaped.
lAENTlltlliV
P. N. Burger of Natural Bridge, the
largest merchant in Rockbridge county,
has failed for SIOO,OOO.