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THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE. VOLUME XXIV. The Enterprise. PUBLISHKJL) WEEKLY AT COVINGTON. ~ Georoil ONLY |l|tN CLUB3 OF FIVE. the Covington I’ostoffice m Meond clas* matter. Terms, $1,25 per annum. In clubs of five or more One Dollar. Six months 76cts. Four months, 50 cts always in advance. PATRONIZE The Old Enterprise. JK=== It “rides no fences.” Jumps no nominations $1,25 in advance. In olubs 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 cti each subsequent insertion. 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Seal Estate Agents, COIBNUTON, GEORGIA. 1 Be sure to give us the ■ling and renting of your property. Bates of commission low. Valuable property on hand for sale. Try us. Titles traced and per | fected. No pay unless a sale Hi made or rents col ■oted. |B. L. SIMMS & CO. franklin B. Wright, —COVINGTON, GA.— Ilsident Physician & Surgeon. Gynecology, Diseases Jromen and Children, and all Chronic pjfoleaseß of a private nature, a specialtyl ■■have a horse at my command, which wil* Igfnable me to attend the calls of the sur- Hpanding country, as well as my city prac tice. FRANKLIN B. WRIGHT, M. D IFARM LOANS, By W. SCOTT, | Covington, Georgia. I WILL Negotiate Loans on Form* in Newton, Walton and Rockdale counties ■ on Five Years' Time. ffpRY Farming with Cash, and see how ■ , 3'ou like it. Interest will cost you less ■ than Credit W, SCOTT. IWrul.n tot tb Frlndbl|> (N. TANARUS.) H.uilTSlt | 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. ITEMS OF GREAT INTEREST TO INTELLIGENT PEOPLE. saw mmanuua—axiLaoui naiui—hzavi miss —oooo chops AHsemxD nn this yy.i 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. nutm'n rnuu.—srnimrs—■rn* wxsteM booiT —DEATHS OV AHIMEHT HEW— An rMBIKI, MM 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.