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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOMIMK XXIV.
R‘ut llid Kricnd.hlp (S. Y.) Rssmwm]
!h Wilder’s
Journal.
E. S. BENSON,
of ••Itarliara Dars,’’ “ Ilor True
W, •• 11, V.fi -.r’a l/>ve Af
,J fa:r , "Tho Mis ling Ring,”
M “ Lovo a .S.l 'niico.” otc.
CHAPTER XTT.
tail intrusted my attorney with all
facts in the case, and left
lim the newspaper, which I had
lately preserved, containing an sc
ud the burning Shcatre, and with
fc’g name among the list of those
fad perished in the flames.
i-0 obtained Ilia promise to call
iicr the following morning and find
course she was iikely to pursue in
liter.
fas nearly 10 o'clock when he called
r hotel, and after some delay wt s
feat she had not yet arisen, and that
Lome could be obtained from the
I made to awaken her. Somewhat
L ihey waited a half hour, and u
I effort being alike unavailing the
L;s opened fri m without. A bush
tror fell upon the little group who
|u the room
llle lay upon tho bed like one just
asleep. Her bead inclined a little
| side and rested carelessly upon
kt urned arm. Her abundant black
prown bn k upon tlie pillow framed
still, white face.
id,” said my attorney afterward
>iog the siene to me, “it was
beautiful face even with the
pallor of death upon it, that 1
illy lit and it in my heart to blame
r your boyish madness. ’
his practiced eye also took in the
kdiugs of tlie room, and he uo
m unfin shed letter lying upon the
L At a glance h ■ decided that it
lie as well if its contents were not
Ito the publie, and unobserved by
Iprs concealed it about his person,
fcst-mortem examination disclosed
let (hat her death had been
■bran over dose of chloral. A
lontaining a small quantity of th s
tc was found upon a stand near her
she liad been in the habit
of chloral to produce sleep and
■ i "bertl exclaimed while my
“after all the love and admira
luid receive and from the multitude
one care.' 1
y ’Htlnuk, I dith,” lie replied in a
voice, “it is one of the laws of
that it should be so.” Then
moment—“ There is the letter I
MHdo of. 1 will light the lamps that
read it.”
vvi.tten in a , < ar miming liaod
the finest of cream-tinted
ptH I will copy it.
IT 1i \ : 1 readied this city,
a of my hopes, last evening; am
a ttitle nervous; but n'impoite,
where he lived of wliom I was
I and dispatched a note to him
morning. Ah, mon Vieu , I can
w happy lie must haye been
ling it! I learn also that he has
rpiiet young creature, who is as
00l ua himself in squandering
ton the miserable unfortunates
trill. This evening I was told
freezing manner by a red-faced
an, that M . Yolncft attorney
it upon me in the morning,
men Ami, if only I had been
made my marriage with the
cent a real one, instead of al
■ou to assume the role of a
serious-faced priest! Hut I
tot of the future then, or how
2 a ew thousand would be to
■y that has now come. I must
i extreme caution, for if they
ove the marriage they will dis
t it was no marriage at all, and
ve no longer any power over
lie letter ended, and with it
lerous acts.
became of the—the body, Hob
piircd after a time,
money and the proper address
t ’ were found among her be
in answer to a telegram he
that the remains be forwarded
lis request was complied with.”
1 into Robert’s eyes pondering
iin my mind. He must have
, for he drew my hand into his,
dith, I did not look upon her
in death. I had no desire. All
lit was for you, as my best
must always be. Not to the
of other things—friendships,
sWssßßnu labors but these growing
aearA- my love of you.”
r .;‘W of ns eared to talk for a time
Biter tra, and in the silence 1 sought to
fatnonrthc meaning of his words—‘these
growingdearer for my love of you,’
In June I was able to walk about the
house and y aid, daily gaining in strength
'BOmctimes I.would rest in the hammock
for hours watching Hick at his work
I 111 my baby in my arms. My
dimpled darling, wdth features so
Dbert’s, but who looked up lit me
rent shadowy eyes, which, even to
ivily fringed lids, were like my
illy Dick wpuld wheel Hose’s
ut under the tall trees, and we
talk, or read, or dream, as our
moved us.
isionally, too, Dick would leave
rk, and taking the baby in hi*
iru, Doyisn arms, would lavish
ter etger, joyous caresses, which
\ r baby heart completely, for she
4 icstow upon him her rarest smiles
! quiet in his arms while he carried
o| h, sometimes in the shadow
mes m the sunshine, and talked to
tne things which interested him
S though she understood aud an
l his Various plans. 1
day Hose's eyes filled with tears
watched them, and turning to me
,l y said i “Edith, Dick will have
; to live after lam gone, would
ud naming your baby Hose? H e
of his poor dwarfed sister and the
is so full of temptation, I have
linking that my name if often upon
- 1 might keep a memory of me fresh
mind and restrain him sometime
VS, from wrong doing.”
re followed a moment in which I
<ht of sensible ob .ects and turning
nd in upon my inner consciousness,
that the fears which had often dts
my heart, fears which had
um to linger at Hose cottage even
when 1 knew that Hubert was lonely in
our homo w ithout me—had not been
imag.nary but red. dose was going
away from us.
beu 1 could I said, going down
upon my kuues beside her chair: “Host
ito you really think that—that you are
tailing?'’ J
“<>, 1 know I am, lidith. It begun
last winter, before that 1 bad been bet
ter. I questioned Dr. lirownlow last
week, and lie could give mu no hope, ex
cept to iiTiove the suffering. If it were
not for tho-el love, and for the work, I
should be glad to go. O, so glad I” A
thrill of joy shot through the quiet voice.
I took her hand and bowud my face
over it, trying to think what the going
away would menu for her, and for tlie
lest of us who would remain behind.
Dick's returning footsteps intruded
upon tny thoughts. I lifted up my face
and saw Hose smiling softly, as obeying
a sign from her he laid his sleeping bur
den in iier arms.
“Dickie, w hat name would you prefer
should I c given to this dear baby, sup
pose you could have your choicer”
Some inward feeling struggled for ex
pression through her simple words.
Dick took o f lis st-aw hat, and
twirling it on the finger tips of liis up
raised left hand, replied, with a slightly
embarrassed laugh: “Why, it would be
Rut , of course.”
“Then, Hose it shall be,” I replied,
“and in pleasing you, Dick, I please
myself tibo, for 1 think no other name is
quite so beautiful.”
“It’s .lolly of you to say so, Dithy, and
that’s a fact. In return for your kind
ne-s I solemnly pledge my life in the
ser.ice of Miss Hose Volney.” There
was a sparkle in liis gray eyes as he bent
to kiss tlie sleeping face. A moment
later his merry whistle came back to us
in a pretty melody from the far end of
he garden.
Finally 1 lay on the grass at tier teet
tvhilo she talked to me. A warm, west
wind went cooing among the branchei
of the trees; yellow sunshine trickled
down through the cool, green leaves;
white, low-lying clouds tioated over
head, half concealing, half revealing the
far blue depths beyond; a thou and
sweet scents and sounds from the visible
world came drifting in upon us, and into
all these there blended the divine liar
mouy of her voice.
I had questioned her: “O, Hose! do
you suppose that our human love can
outlive the shock of death!”
“If you were to go away from me,
Edith,ac ross the sea. perhaps, and sliou and
remain for years, would I torget you. do
you think, amid the cuiet scenes of my
home life? There would be your favorite
scat by the window; a Dower you had
loved; a book you bad read; a lit of
unfinished work just as you had laid it
down; a picture with the shadow of
your soul in the eyes and your smile on
the lips; a song you had sung in some
happy hour; or an animat you had
caressed. I should treasure those things
and set them apart as sacred almost,
not for the things themselves, but be
cause I loved you, of whom these were
tha constant reminders. And you,
wandering at will in the midst of charm
ing associations, and among the most
delightful scenery; lingering in the art
galleries of the Old Wot Id and in places
lich in history, would you forget Hose
Cottage and its inmates? Could you put
out of your memory the low-voiced
talks we have had at e entide, tie les
sons we have learned, the sorrows we
have borne together, the joys we have
shared?”
“No, no, Hose, I could not forget
these things; they are too closely inter
woven with every subtle fiber of my
soul."
“It will be just the same in this longer
going away, Edith. 1 can fancy that
there will be hours of quiet withdrawal,
when I shall sit alone aud recall this very
scene. The green grass, the scent of the
roses, the trees, Dick at work out there
in the sunshine, this dear baby— ours,
Edith—asleep in my arms, and your eyes
looking up into mine with such an
eager, earnest questioning in their
depths.”
I raised myself to a sitting posture.
“Don you think, Hose, that there will
be hours of quiet self-introspection there
as here? Hours when we shall sit alone
with memory recalling the pa t, this
human, struggling, erring, inrth-past?”
“Why not, Edith? lie who has gone
to prepare a place for us loved to linger
in nature’s solitary retreats; wept o er
the sins of Jerusalem, and prayed a’one
amid the starry stillness of Gethsemane.
He understands all our human needs.
He has sounded the depths of all our
human fears, and loves, and longings. I
am sure we shall be satisfied witli what
ever awaits us in that home ot many
mansions. ‘lf it were not so I would
have told you.’ No words in all Christ's
ministry have comforted me like these
They are so full of assurance. You can
almost catch the brooding tendernessof
his voice as he utters them: ‘Tf it inert
nut to.' You may be certain that, after
having entered into our humanity with
us, He will be sure to prepare a sort of
human heaven for our reception, if,
after death, I should enter a realm ot
such all-absorbing nnd perfett bliss as to
forget about you, and mother, and Dick,
and the work, why, it would not be
Rose, that’s all. And,
” * The world of pain were better, if therein
One’s heart might still be human, and desires
Of natural pity drop upon its tires
Some cooling tears.’ ”
The sweet voite dropped into silence
and the shin ng face seemed unconscious
of my presence.
It was a Sabbath evening in August.
A full moon threw its clear white light
down upon the earth. The heat during
the day had been oppressive, and the at
tendance at Rose’s afternoon meeting
unusually large. Just at sunset Robert
and 1 bad gone for a walk. Naturally
our footsteps turned in the direction of
his mother’s grave. “This is my favor
ite resting place,” Robert once said.
“Here I forget sorrow and care, and am
a boy again.”
No sense of gloom attaches itself to
the place for cither of us; but we arc
uenaded by a serene kind of haDiii
ness wmen calls tortn alt the love and
tendernessof our natures. That night,
I remember, we liad been planning for
our work, go as to give it a permanency
that should reach fat into the years. 1
do not think I had ever before felt it so
clearly impressed upon my mind how
much we both had to be thankful for in
this meeting of our lives, and in the
helpful, inspiriting contact of other live!
with ours.
Returning with my soul full of these
thoughts, I found linse, wearied with the
labor of the dav, had already retired.
Dick had turned her bed facing the w in
dow so that she could catch the night
breeze, and look out upon the garden
bathed in moonlight. She called me te
come and sit by her. i found her lying
among tie pillows, her face white and
peaceful, her eyes like a fisme of soul.
I told her where I had been; talked to
tier a little or our plans for the future,
and uf the quiet feelln.-a which came tc
me always from one of tlu se visits to tlx
“Silent City.” An exultant smile illu
minated her face while I talked.
“Yet there is one thing,” I said,
“which troubles mo. You know tin
skeptical tendency of my nature, and
now, when I most need to walk in the
light, all is darkness. Von are slipping
away from me, and all my pretty theo
ries; all my belief in the truths von have
taught me; all my faith and hopo are
slipping away with you. ' I drew both
her hands into mine and held them close.
“With death so near, have you no tears,
Rose?”
“No fears of what?”
“That with the body dies also the
soul? Don’t bring meany old-time argu
ments. Hose, I want some evidence ol
immortality that tins come to you through
your own life and its experience.”
The smile on her fnce deepened.
“llow often I hive heard you say,
Edith, as you looked up from a book you
were reading: ‘Whata wonderful econo
mist God is, Hose.’ Every slightest tiling
in the universe was created for a purpose
—a wise, intelligent purpose. And in
your biology you remember admiring
the gradual steps by which creation had
progressed from the unthinking Infu
soria up to man, the master-work. Only
yesterday I heard you repeating tc
Robert a thought of Thomson’s, on this
•abject ol economy. Do you recall it?"
“It was this, I think:
“ ‘Let no presuming, impious railer tax
Creative wisdom, as if ought was formed
In vain, or not tin' adunraole ends.
Shall little haughty ignorance pronounce
Hi-works unwise, of which the smallest part
Exceeds the narrow vision of her mind?’’’
“What is true of the material world,
Edith, is also true of the inteliilectual
and spiritual. When 1 think how igno
rant even tlie wisest are, since beyond
the power of microscope, and telescope,
anil human mind, the constantly widen
ing sphere of knowledge is ever encircled
by the unknown. I feel that an eternity
is none too long in which to grow w ise.
And would it not be cruel to endow t
human soul with such insatiable desires
as enable men to overcome all obstacle:
in their search for knowledge, and the
allow it to end with death when tin
quest was lut just begun; Nothing it
the material world is made in v ain. Mine
is more than matter, Edith. Even oui
dreams are but the shadow of a substanct
which is hid away somewhere in Hit
eternities. (Sometime we shall find then
no longer shadows, but immutable truths,
ar vital breathing things whose presenct
shall become a blessed power. Before 1
knew you I was always looking forward
to a possible life, a life that in every way
corresponds to the one you have so gen
erously let me into, and with each ad
vancing step I have found the way open
ing wider and wider before me. I havi
come down almost to the end, and yet !
find my heart is full of unsatisfied hopes
and longings. Somewhere I shall find
their realization. For lain Dot
going into anew and radically dif
ferent life. It is only a continuance
f this ono and governed by the same
laws. Unty turning a page to begin a
new chapter in life’s 1 ook, written by
tlie same hand, and bearing the impress
of the same author. Why, Edith, there
is no putting the eternal life aw-ay from
us. It throbs iu every heart, and finds
expression iu every spill, it is impossi
ble for us to shut ourselves away from
its presence or its blessing.”
“But, oh, Hose, I must let you go
away from me. out into that awful
silence. The thought of it chills and
dept eses me ”
She turned her gaze toward the
garden for a time and without replying.
At last she said in a low, hurried voice:
“All my life, I—Hose Owens—-have been
shut into this helpless, suffering body.
1 have tried to be cheerful and make the
most I could of life. Yet, O, these
bounds of my narrow confines, with
wna* a smothering power they nave snut
down upon me. Can you not find some
corn fort even for the ‘silence,’ in the
thought that my imprisoned soul is so
soon to be free? That in a little while I
shall be able to realize some of the higher
imbition of my life, and that my dwarfed
capabilities will blossom into a broader
might.”
It came to me like a revelation —all
that she had suffered, and a hint of the
happiness which awaited her.
“I will try, now and always, to enter
into tlie jov with you, Hose.” After
ward I kissed her and left heralone with
the happy smile on her lips, and the face
among tlie p Hows like the shining of an
angel's.
The days went rapidly by, Hose clung
toiler work until tlie last. She entered
into all our plans aud labors as cheerfully
and earnestly as she had ever done.
Words of hope and comfort dropped
hourly from her lips. Indeed, she eeined
more than ever to forget herself in her
thoughtfulness (or others.
It was a lovely night,—the tenth of
September.
rshc bad been unusually bright and
cheerful that day, nnd at bedtime she
clung to her mother a little in saying
“good-night,” and whispered something
to Dick that sent him out of the room at
last with the tears on his boyish face.
As I sat down beside her, she asked:
“Are you afraid to remain alone with
me, Edith?" There was a cnange in her
voice nnd n sudden pang of fear shot
through my heart. I knew that she felt
herself dying. “Has it come to that,
Hose?”
“I think so.” We said nothing more
then, only presently she asked, reaching
feebly out to put her hand in mine: “Do
you remember that first time you came
to me, Edith, that beautiful morning
when you brought me the roses ? There
we e drops of dew among their petals, 1
remember that, too,” she said, smiling.
“Dear, true friend, don’t be afraid of the
silence into which I am going, for in the
midst of it I shall be waiting for you to
come to me again, and with roses in your
hands. O, how much we shall have to
say to each other then. ‘And there shall
be'no more death, neither sorrow, nor
crying, neither shall there beany more
pain. ” There were brief pauses between
the sentences, and a sort of ocstisy re
vealed itself in her voice.
“You will not forget Dickie, and
mother, and—-and all tlie others, will
you, Edith?”
My warm, quivering lips met her
wasted, dying ones in a kiss of promise.
“Dear Edith!—l —shall—not—leave
you—comfortless. I shall—be with you
—often ; but you will not see me.”
* * * * * *
During the days in which she lay so
quietly among the flowers, they whom
she had helped, and comforted, and
saved camo silently in to look at her.
Tears fell on the still face with its peace
ful smile, and the children she loved
kept her vacant chair tilled with bright
blossoms
One day, at sunset, strong, tender
hands carried her to the cemetery and
there we left tho form of her we liad so
“MY COUNTRY: MAY SUM KVKR HM RIOIIT; RIOUT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY /"— Jefferson.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, MAY ‘hi. 188.
fondly loved, asleep beneath a covering
of fragrant flowers. Afterward vve placed
at hor Iliad a small block of white mar
ble with only “Hose” carved upou it.
All this was done in accordance with
with her request.
Eor nearly three years Rolicrt and I,
with Mrs. Owens, Richard and little
Rose, have wondered about the Old
World. Sometimes resting here nnd there,
for days, or weeks, or months, as our in- ’
clination led us. During this time
we have all worked with the greatest
industry and enthusiasm, with tlie one
exception of our baby Hose. She has
done nothing but grow beautiful and
winning with every passing year. She
is the pet, the sweet, whito, pure idol of
our household. The touch of her baby
fingers have smoothed the bard lines of
care out of Mrs. Owen’s face and brought
back to her heart the brightness almost
of her own young motherhood.
Dick (Richard Owens now) is a
tall young man of nineteen ;
broad-sh uldcred, deep chested, with
a smooth, clear, earnest, happy
face, arid a deep, musical voice. His
mind inclines strongly to the legal pro
fession. He has studied the histories
and the laws of these foreign countries;
has observes! closely the customs, in
clinations and conditions of the different
classes and nationalities, and he can
write and speak several of their languages
as well as his own. Robert is always
busy, learning, seeking, doing. Growing
more tender more thoughtful, more noble
as the years go by.
For myself I have more than realized
the dreams of my girlhood. I, that
same Edith Wilder, who once worked in
Mrs. C'hilaom's kitchen, and slept up un
der the eaves with the roTins and her
dreams, have studied the works of the
old masters in the Louvre at Haris;
painted for months in the Royal Galleries
at Naples: and studied the works of
I aphael and Michael Angelo at Home.
People —criti s—have said of my copies:
“ They are supe b, faultless.” When
not at my pa : ntii‘g, Ilmve studied, with
Richard, French, German and Italian.
For a year now wo have been at
Florence, the fairest city of the earth,
and here, too, I have painted from sun
rise to sunset, growingstrong and happy
as life takes to itself daily, new and
grander meanings. Through it all Hose
—ray saint Hose—has never been for
gotten. More even than Robert (if such
a thing could be) she has been the in
spiration of my life. Sometimes into a
quiet hour when I sit alone and softly
call her name, then:
“ With a slo w and noiseless footstep
Comes that messenger divine,
Takes the vacant chair beside me,
Lays her gentle hand in mine.
And she sits and gazes at me
With those deep and tender eyes.
Like the st irs, so still and saint like.
Looking downward from the skies.
Uttered not. yet comprehended,
Is the spirit’s voice'ess prayer.
Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,
Breathing from her lips of air.”
Next week vve shall sail for home, and
there is a feeling of eager expectancy in
all our hearts. During our absenco Mr.
Adams has occupied Hose Cottage, aid
with Edna's assistance has kept up the
Sabbath afternoon meetings. When we
return it will be rebuilt and enlarged
into a sort of home for the friendless.
One wing of tlie building will be set
apart for the use of Edna and myself.
Here we shall teach music and
painting, charging a tuition to those
who are nble to pay for instruction,
but developing talent wherever we find
it among the really poor. And thus the
years will go by, bringing tlieir changes
—sorrow and death with the rest—but
our happiness is built upon the rock, and
although it may be disturbed it cannot
be destroyed.
THE RNP.
ELECTRIC EXPRESS.
AN INVENTION WHICH PROPELS A CAR
RIAGE TWO HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR.
Anew scheme of transportation is to
be introduced between New York and
Boston, whereby large packages of mail
and even cars containing passengers, can
bo whisked from one place to another,
a distance of 200 miles, in less than an
hour. This would be equal to a speed of
four milis per minute. An experiment
with the new machine was held in Bos
ton in the presence of many siientists,
including Prof. A. E. Dulbear, of Tufts
college, who announced that he was
thoroughly satisfied of the success of the
system. The machine consists of a mag
netic car hanging from a single rail,
where it follows a streak of electricity.
With one horse power it is said that one
ton can be thus transported a distance of
1,440 miles a day at a cost of thirty
cents. This, in mail matter, would rep
resent 2,880,000 letters, nnd by this sys
tem packages of mail could be sent off
every five minutes if necessary, thus pre
venting large accumulations. The sin
gle track is to be carried on tri
pods some distance above the ground,
and the car will pass through coils of in
sulated wire at intervals. In the experi
ments the carriage exhibited was mount
ed on a wooden track, on posts about
three feet high, with an ascent of six
inches in fifty feet, and it ran on one
wheel at each end. The scientific prin
ciple involved is said to be that by which
a hollow coil of insulated wire will draw a
magnet into itself, and in tlie aerial rail
way the cur passing through n coil cuts
off tlie current, which goo* on to one
ahead.
STATESMAN DEAD.
Allen Thorndykc Rico, the newly ap
pointed minister to Russia, died sudden
ly nt the Fifth avenue hotel, in New
York, where he was a guest. Mr. Rice
had been suffering from throat affection
for a few days past, but was not sup
posed to be in any danger. Ho took his
bed three or four days ago, suffering
irom tonsilitis.- His tonsils had former
ly given him considerable trouble and
had been clipped. Dr. Fuller says the
glottis swelled suddenly nnd shut off the
breath. Such cases are of very rare oc
currence, and this instance was unlooked
for, though every precaution had teen
taken, it is thought that Col. Elliott F.
Shepard, editor of the New York Mail
and Kuprctt, will be appointed minister
to Russia to sueceed Mr. Rice. Col.
Shepard will ask for the appointment at
at once.
ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE.
Dispatches from what is termed Middle
California, report an earthquake at about
3.15 Sunday morning. At some points,
especially iu the San” Joaquin valley, the
shocks were quite severe, and in a few
cases, the tops of chimneys were thrown
down. The shock was sufficiently
heavy in San Francisco city to awaken
nearly all slumberers.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
ITEMS OF ISTKRRST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THK SOUTU.
AM ITEMIZED RKCOIID or WHAT 1 OOINd
ON or IMFORTANC'E IN TUB SOUTHERN
STATES.
Rev. Bdm Jones, the Georgia preacher,
is holding a ivmarkable revival meeting
at Danville, Va. Thousands of people
flock to the tabernacle daily to bear him,
and three huudred people have promised
to change their lives.
Fire broke out on Sunday in tlie ba
kery of Henry Holm, in New Orleans,
L‘ Tha tire spread down Josephine
street, destroying several double tene
ment houses an Josephine street and five
on ltosseau street.
A negro who had committed burglary
near Columbia, La., was captured on
Sunday. While the sheriff was return
ing to Columbia with the prisoner,a party
met them, and, taking tlie negro from
the sheriff, hung him to the nearest tree.
On the place of J. N. Bryan, about
three miles from Marshnllville, Ga., a
little negro übout two and a half years
old, was found under one of the negro
houses with its skull crushed and one
arm aud shoulder broken. A little
brother, nine years old, under the lash,
confessed to the murder.
A wagon containing George Wright,
his wife aud three-year-old child was
struck by an cast bound “cannon ball”
tiain on the Eust Tennessee, Virginia A
Georgia Railroad at Warham, Tenm, on
Sunday. Wright and tlie child were
killed instantly, Wright t>eing thrown a
distance of 200 feet. The train was
running at the late of fifty miles an
hoar.
A terrible accident occurred on
Sunday at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to
a party of colored people who were re
turning in two skiffs from a trip to the
Louisiana shore. The wind and waves
were high, and the people in one of the
boats became frightened and capsized
the boat, aud nine out of ten passengers
weie drowned, a little girl beingthcouly
one that reached the bank in safety.
Carrollton, Ga., was greatly shocked
over the death of the pastor of the M.
E. Church, Rev. A. M. Thigpep, which
occurred Saturday. He had not been
very well for several days, but no un
easiness was felt until shortly after noon
on Saturday. l)r. W. W. Fitts was
hastily summoned to his side, only to
find him in a dying condition caused by
an overdose of morphine administered by
himself.
A fire on Saturday destroyed the ex
tensive dock and w arehouse of tiie Ches
apeake & Ohio Railroad in Norfolk, Va.
The origin of the fire is not known, but
it > thought to have been from a cigar or
urgiirette, thrown in the warehouse by a
passenger, who came off the steamer
which landed that evening, and which
was the lost one to stop at the wharf.
The loss will amount to about $75,000,
only partly insured.
A storm of cyclonic character swept
across noithcrn Texas Saturday. The
dwelling house of J. Aterbury, south of
Bonham, was demolished, and iiis wife
seriously injured. At Forest City, in
Montague county, a school house was de
stroyed. Two children were killed and
many seriously hurt and three are miss
ing. Another school house at Stephcns
ville was blown down a few minutes af
ter school liad been dismissed and two
children somewhat injured. Great de
struction to crops occurred.
Tlie shooting which occurred at Trin
ity, Ala., in which W. A. Fighlman shot
a man named Dickerson, who has since
died, culminated Sunday night in a very
serious affar at Harrisonburg, where
Fighlman vias confined in the parish jail.
Quite a large body of men were intent
upon taking Fighlman from jail nnd
lynching him. The sheriff summoned a
posse who determined to defend the
prisoners. Some thirty shots were ex
changed by the respective parlies, but
only one man wounded—a young man
named Goss from Troyville.
Judge John McManus, one of Bibb
county’s most popular citizens, died Sat
urday, at the residence of his son, Leon
ard McManus, in Mueon, Ga. The fu
norafcservices were held at the Catholic
church. Judge. McManus held various
public offices since befoie the war, and
was never defeated but once in his life,
ana mat occurrea at tnc last race tor or
dinary of Bibb couniy, after having
served as ordinary for twelve years. llis
defeat coupled with general failing
health, preyed a great deal upon his
mind, aud at last sickness culminated in
death.
The northern part of Tu-kaloosa coun
ty, Ala., has for some time been over
run with illicit distillers. It is a wild,
rough country, along the Warrior river,
and with their stills concealed in tlie
caves, the moonshiners have defied the
law, and it has been a long time since a
revenue officer ventured in that locality.
Made bolder by their success, tho moon
shiners have recently become a terror to
the law-abiding citizens of the conmiu
nity. Thursday about fifty of the best
citizens of that locality held a mass
meeting and adopted resolutions, and
then a vigilance committee was orga
nized to aid the officers in breaking up
the stills and capturing the moonshiners.
A wreck occurred at Stone’s river
bridge, nine miles from Nashville,Tenn.,
on Saturday. The afternoon train of
the Tennessee A Pacific Hoad, known as
tlie Lebanon brunch of tlie Nashville A
Chattanooga Hoad, set tire to tlie bridge,
over the Stone river. The crew of a
construction train, not far from the
scene, heard that the bridge was burn
ing, and the engineer, William Morgan,
backed the train down to fight the fire.
He ran the train out on the bridge, und
tlie crew were pumping water on tin
bridge when one span gave way, letting
one car of tlie train fail. This dragged
the train off. and it fell forty feet into
the shallow stream. Three were killed
and seven injured.
The largest crowd that evt-r gathered
in Mount Olivet cemetery, Nashville,
Tenn., wus attracted there Thursday by
tho ceremonies incident to the unveilling
of the beautiful monument erected ovei
the Confederate dead. The Confederate
Monumental association was organize:
aoout two years ago for tbo avowea pur
pose of erecting this monument, and it
was unveiled In the presence of about
eight thousand people. Hon. William
C. P. Breokenndge, of Kentucky, made
the oration of the day. The base of the
monument is fifteen feet square, and is
composed of four blocks of different sizes.
Then comes a die, on which the shaft
rests. The shaft is surmounted by the
figure pf a Copfederate soldier of white
Carrara marble. This was earveu in
Italy, and weighs nearly 4,000 pounds.
The statue is nine feet high, und stand*
on u granite pedestal, auil with overcoat
on precisely thrown hack, exposing belt,
cartridge box, bayonet and canteen. His
gnu is grounded. Tlie soldier wears a
soft felt bat, well thrown back, und the
countenance nnd general nppearsnee of
•he statue is that of a typical soldier,
arouud the shult is wrapped the Confed
erate flag, showing the thirteen stars.
The whole monument stands forty-tlve
feet high.
ALLIANCE NEWS.
TCRPKMriNB TIKLD.
Jeff Lucas, of Donniny’s mills, Wil
cox county On., got 6!"' gallons of
i-piiltt turpentine out of 50 barrels of
crude turpentiuu and distilled it in two
days.
CATERPILLARS.
Sumpter county, 8. 0., is infested
with small caterpillars which cat the
gum leaves, but do not seem to do any
barm. A gentleman who las observed
i hese insects states that hogs and fish
are about the only things that will eat
them.
GOING TO FIGHT.
The Waynesboro, Ga., Farmers’ Al
liance has fallen gracefully into lino nnd
has decided to lock arms with tlieir
brothers in fighting the bagging trust.
And, showing that they are in earne st,
they have placed tlieir orders for 5,100
yards of cotton bagging.
SOUTH CAROLINA MOVEMENT.
A meetiDg of the business agents of
thirty-two Alliances of the Farmers’ Al
liance was held in tlie court-house ut
Greenville, S. C. The nio-t important
matter acted upon by the agents was
making a move to establish, in tlie city
of Greenville, a central businesa bureau
with a county agent, to arrange the mat
ter of prices of supplies between the
merchants nnd farmers. It is intended
that this action shall take iffect at us
early u day its possible.
FARMERS LISTEN!
We clip this extract from the Chicago
correspondence to a trade paper:
“Oats have improved iu value, owing to
an urgent casli and speculative demand.
Thet South hat tought freely and is itill
hungry. This has had the effect of re
ducing our small stork still fuitlier, the
reduction being 46,310 bus. for the week,
leaving only 207,126 bus. as total stock
in store. There is a large short interest
still in the May option, and unless bold
eis of contracts can get a fair settlement,
we are liable to see higher prices rule for
present month.”
ROW TO DO IT.
Here is our own state of Maryland,
fruitful in hill and stream, hut largely
undeveloped; possessing all the attri
butes of soil and deposit for high cul
ture, with a climate which ever her own
wanderers bless on their return. Her
farming, her dairy interests, her cattle
breeding, her mining,her manufacturing,
her fisheries—all her blessings sadly need
advertising,Ho invite cmigiation of the
better class and the development of her
vast opportunities. The coming exposi
tion is a strong, searching, entering
wedge, and if properly followed with
sledge-hammer blow’B will be long re
membered by this and coming genera
tions, as the initial forceful effort of these
gentlemen, well worthy our prompt and
hearty support. — Baltimore, Md., paj>er.
ABOUT FLAX.
Prof. Willetts, the Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture, of Washington, D. C.,
has under consideration a letter from
Ireland, which he thinks may offer a so
lution of the economic problem: “What
shall take the place of wheat on farms
where it can no longer he raised at a
profit!” The writer, who lias been fa
miliar with flax-growing aud linen man
ufacturing since 1840, says in liis inter
esting communication: There are only
two establishments wenving—one at
Webster, Muss., aud (lie other at Apple
ton, Wis., the latter doing but little, and
neither weaving anything finer than
crash. There is nothing iu the climate
or soil conflicting with the assertion, that
just as good flax aud li> en may bo pro
duced in every state in the American
Union as in any country. Germany now
spins and weaves the finest linen,. and
she has no essentially differing climate
from America. Many things become
successful in America from tho facility
with which the people take up and adopt
any improved processes and applhinces,
and this may be the salvation of the
linen industry, of the importance of
which there is no question. 1 here is
everv reason why the American farmers
should produce 1,000,000 acres of flax
for both seed aud tiber, oyer and above
what is now produced, which would give
12 000 000 to 15,000,000 bushels of seed,
worth as many millions of dollars, and
2 500,010 tons of flax straw, worth $50,-
000,000, and Irom which 500,000 tons of
flax fiber would he obtained, worth
$100,000,000. Once established, Amer
ican invention would, as in all other in
dustries, soon woik up an industry to
consume ibis material. I wUh the state
experimental farms to grow a small
amount in each state, ana such private
faimers ns are disposed to do the same.
The flax should be sown on any good,
mellow soil which has been manured the
past year, it active chemical fertilizers
may be employed to a reasonable extent.
The seed should he sown at the rate ot
two and a half bushe’s on an acre of
land, brushed in, and no further atten
tion is needed, excepting that any large
weeds may be removed until the flax has
“turned” for half its length, when it
should be pulled, cu'ed and eared for to
keep it bright, in the rame manner as is
done with hav. The seed may be taken
off by rippling or by toller threshing,
and there will he a market for jll flax
straw thus grown at S2O per ton. Ihe
crop should give two and a half tons of
straw to an acre, and tweho to fifteen
bushels of seed. The cost of pulling is
in Canada $5 per acre. Prof. Willett*
has informed the sender that the subject
of his letter would be earnestly consul
ered by tlie Department, which would
lend its aid to any effort to increase or
diversify tha agricultural industries of
the country. .
SAMOAN AFFAIRS.
The best indication that the gamoat
conference is ncariug a successful close
is found in the fact that Emperor Wil
liam has invited all members to a recep
tion at the Schloss. Only a few days
ago the delegates were informed that an
audience could not be given for a week.
The proceedings at Saturdays sitting
showed such progress toward an Msured
Fettlement on every point; that Prince
Bismarck decided to expedite the re
ception.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDBNSATION OF CURIOUS,
AM) EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FJIOSI EVERYWHERE—ACCIDBNTH,
STRIKES, FfHER, IIUCIDES, AND IIAF
I‘t.NINOS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Disastrous storms swept over parts of
Austria Saturday. Three persons were
killed.
Lord Salisbury has returned thanks for
America's congratulations on the escape
uf the British man-of-war Calliope.
Tho large now machine and repair
•hops of the Lehigh A lluttimp River
Railroad at Warwick, N. Y., were burned
Saturday.
Judge Ermslcn, of the police court of
Cincinnati, dismissed 700 ca<e. of ar
rests madg last year for violation of the
Owen Sunday closing law.
The claims for damages arising out of
tho Chefoo riots have been settled by
the Chinese. The English and American
flags have been rehoisted, the Chinese
troops saluting them.
A syndicate of Philadelphia capitalists,
headed by Thomas Cochran, has pur
chaser! grapahune rights for the world
outside of the United States and Canada.
The price paid was $500,000.
Richard Rigott, the forger of the Par
nell letters and who suicided in Spain,
had his life insured for J 5,000 in the
English and Seotish Law life office. Tho
fact that he committed suicide docs not
affect the policy.
The Spanish steamer Emiliano, from
New Orleans, La., April 25th, via New
port News, for Liverpool, has arrived at
Queenstown, England, with cotton in
her fore main holds burning. Three
6eamcn were overcome nnd rendered
senseless by smoke and heat.
Hockford, 111., experienced a most
terrific thunder storm Saturday. Several
houses were struck by lightning. A
young man named Keeler, who was fish
ing on tlie dam, was knocked off by a
bolt of lightning aud either killed-by the
shock or drowned.
Archbishop Ftthan, in the presence of
40,000 people, laid the corner-stone of
De La Salle institute, at Chicngo, 111.,
the first Homan Catholic institution in
the West designated for exclusive use as
a high school. The building will cost
$200,000.
Employes of the lapweld and buttweld
departments of the National Tube Work*
Cos., at McKeesport, Pa., tried for an ad
vance in wages of ten per cent. Two
thousand men are out. Employes of the
galvanizing and rolling departments also
threaten to join the strikers. About
6,000 men are employed in this plant.
A disastrous fire "broke out Thursday
in Saint Sanveur, in the house of Mrs.
McCann, on Vallier street, in Quebec,
Canada, ana spread with great rapidity
through the wooden district which sur
rounds it. The streets burned are por
tions of Vallier, Chenel, St. Peter and
Ste Maria. Nearly 500 small houses
were destroyed.
The families of W. P. Sheretz and W.
P. Denham were spending the day fish
ing in Lake Trout, Bartow county, Fla.
The twelve-year-old son of Denham
stole away from the party and went in
swimming. Getting beyond his depth,
he began screaming, when Miss Sheretz
went into the water to assist him. The
boy clutched her frantically and both
were drowned.
Tlie Almy Manufacturing Cos., manu
facturers of ladies’ fine clothes, Phila
delphia, Pa., has made a general assign
ment. The company's mills arc among
the largest in the Kensington district,
and employ about 400 hands. It is ex
pected that the embarrassment will be
only temporary, and that a settlement
can be made without difficulty. The
indebtedness of the company is estimated
to be upward of $200,000.
The steamship Columbia, which has
just arrived at Astoria, Oregon, bound
from San Francisco to Portland, reports
the loss of the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Co’s magnificent side-wheel
irou steamer, Alaskan, which foundered
at sea off Cape Blanco while on her way
from Portlund to San Francisco. The
steamer fortunately carried no passen
ger*, having on board only her officers
imd crew when she went down. Fivfe
men are reported drowned.
A dastardly attempt was grade Thurs
day night to wreck a passeuger train
36, bound west on the Fitchburg Rail
road at Shelbourne Falls, Mass. The train
leivis that station nt 10:54. Shortly be
fore this hour the track walker found a
pile of ties on the track at a sharp curve.
He attempted to remove the obstruction
and was vigorously stoned by some un
known persons, if the obstructions bad
not been discovered, a terrible smash-up,
attended with loss of life would have
resulted.
The theater at Worcester, Mass., burn
ed Thursday. The fire apparently
started in the renr of the building near
the 6tage. Explosions followed caeli
other in rapid succession, and in a short
time the roof foil in. I!av Pt ite hotel
stands in closo proxmity and its uar
wall was blistered and was only raved by
heroic work by the fireman. “Faust”
was played that night by Lewis Morr.-
son and company. Mr. Morrison pieces
bis company’s loss at SII,OOO, including
costumes.
Meddie Munifec, a laborer nt furnace
No. 4 of the Tennessee Coal, lion &
Railroad Cos., (Ensley City, Ain., plant)
met a terrible de.th. He went up on
the ore elevator, and was engaged in
dumping some ore into the receiver. He
turned toward the elevator-way, but was
overcome with gas and fell just before he
reached the elevator. Instead ot land
ing on the elevator, lie fell under it and
was plunged to the ground below, a dis
tance of eighty-five feet, breaking ins
ueck.
BISMARCK WILL STRIKE.
The “scene” in the German Reichstag
between Prince Bismarck aud Herr Rich
ter is the sole topic of conversation in
political circles. In consequence ol
Prince Bismarck's remarks, the liberals
have resolved not to attend the fruin
sclioplien to be given by the chancellor.
When Herr Richter uttered the exclama
tion which aroused the wrath of the
chancellor, the latter, turning angrily
tow-aid the liberal members, and
pointing liis finger at them, raid:
“1 do not know what he refers to, but I
regard it as an expression of hatred. You
gentlemen have borne me for years. As
a Christian, I cun pocket it but as chan
• cellor, as long as I stand here, I will
tnku a striker and insult an insulter.
NUMBER HI.
SOUTHERN POLICY
Til* FARMERS ARE UMANIMOU* m TUB
CROICB OF COTTON FOR WKAPFIBO.
A correspondent had a special inter
view with L. L. Polk, vice-president of
tho National Farmers’ Aillauce, who re
turned to Raleigh, N. C., from th. con
ference of the Alliance nnd the Wheel at
Birmingham, Ala. Col. Polk says that
there was some things done at the confe
rence, which have not until now been
made public. The result of the
conference was thnt the Alliance has for
mally declared that it would use only
bagging made of cotton to rover cotton
bales. It was also decided to give spe
cial notice to all members of the Alli
ance to sell no cetton seed, of fhe pre
tent crop, for than twenty cents per
bushel, and not to make any contriKJts
for the sale of any c tton seed of the
coming crop until advised to do so.
This is directed at the cotton oil trust.
The third matter which was arranged
was for the supplying of all Allisuoaa
w ith school books and stationery at spe
cial prices. It wus discovered that there
is a trust composed of book publisher#
and dealers, nnd this action was an at
tack upon this particular combination,
which, it was found, was putting a big
profit upon its goods. Col. Polk says it
lias been stated that rite vote on use of
cotton as a covering for cotton was not
unanimous. He says this is false. Upon
a call of the stales, each delegate voted
for it, und afterwards, to make the de
cision more emphatic, the convention, as
a whole, voted for it unanimously in a
rising vote, umid much enthusiasm. This
is not an act of resentment, prompted by
a feeling oT anger on the part of (he Al
liance. but it is the laying of a founda
tion of a sys cm of manufactures which
will utilize Southern textiles, Southern
capital and energy, pud Southern mills,
operated by Southern men. The action
of the bagging trust in jumping upon
the Alliance has opened the eyes of the
Southern burners. There will be an am
ple suppiy of bagging for tlie use of tho
million members of the Alliance, and
whatever affects that grant Order affects
all the other farmers. All these matters
were thoroughly discussed, and it was
found, after the most careful investiga
tion, that it will pay to use
cotton as a covering. It is the
greatest movement ever inaugurated in
the South, nnd no trust baggage will be
sold or even handled. The cotton is the
cheapest textile, and tlie conference did
not arrive at its definite conclusion until
it was satisfied that it was the true pol
icy to utilize it for this specific purpose.
OFFICIALS KILLED.
AN EDUCATIONAL ROW IN ARKANSAS RE
SULTS IN SEVERAL DEATHS.
For several days excitement has been
high over the proposed school election at
Forest City, Ark., and A. M. Neely and
G. \V. Ingram, both colored, have been
making speeches, advocating the ousting
of the whites from the control of school
affairs. Neely lias been a controlling
element in the politics of that county for
some time, having almost absolute con
trol of the colored people. An election
for school commissioner broke up in a
row that resulted in the death of three
citizens —Sheriff B. M. Wilson, Deputy
County Court Clerk Tom Purhnm and
Town Marshal Frank Folbre. The last
one killed was A. M. Neely, the negro
who started the whole trouble. Neely,
liis father and liri ther, took refuge in
the Advocate building, where the killing
of D. M. Wilson, Thomas Parham and
Frank Folbre occurred the day before.
Every iffurt was made to get at the
Neely s, but they proved unsuccessful, as
the negroes were well barricaded. Sev
eral shots were fired into tlie building,
without avail, iu the hope of scaring the
negroes to surrender. Acting Sheriff
Van Bclzard persuaded old man Neely
and h s other son to come out, promising
them a safe conduct to jail and a fair
trial. A. M. Neely did not appear.
The sheriff’s posse was not more than a
hundred yards distant with the two pris
oners, when a number of other members
of the posse raided the Advoeats build
ing, aud A. M. Neely was discoveied se
creted under the floor, and was riddled
with bullets, at least ten shots being tired
into him. It was thought that others of
the Netly crowd were concealed under
the floor. Tlie posse made an extended
search, but found no more. This last
killing created a great deal of excite
ment, and the people were afraid of a
raid on the town by negroes. The act
ing sheriff wired Governor Eagle the
facts and asked for help. Tho governor
replied that he thought the civil author
ities could preserve the peace, aud he
did not want to order out tne militia
unlers other means failed. The feeling
was so high against Neely that his death
was looked for every moment from the
begiuning of the riot, and now that he
has been killed, it is thought that tho
feeling will subside.
MURDER MOST FOUL.
JEFFEUSON DAVIS’ NIECE ARRESTED FOE
I’OIBONINQ HER HUSBAND IN ENGLAND.
Mrs. Maybrich, a niece of Jeffersor
Davis, and a Freuch-Cauadian aristocrat
by birih, has been arrested nt Liverpool,
England, on the charge of poisoning hci
husband with arsenic. Maybrich, wh:
was a prominent merchant, died with
symptoms of slow poisoning. Hi!
brother, Michael, known as Stephen Ad
ams, musical composer, and other rela
tives, hesitated to act on the reports cir
culated ns to the cause of death. On
Saturday, the county magistrate, Col.
Bidaell, accompanied by the chief of
police, went to the Maybrich residence,
but were told the lady was ill in bed.
Medical men were summoned, and aftei
an examination, they pronounced her fit
to hear the charge. The officials went tc
the bed room where the woman lay,
haggard but composed, and the magis
trate directed that she be removed to
Kirkdale jail, where she is now being
attended by doctors and a nurse.
JUTE BAQQINQ.
The farmers in session at Birmingham,
Ala., resolved not to use jute bagging,
but, at the request of the representative
of the bagging trust, the question waa
reopened. The trust was anxious to
make terms, but not enter into* contract
for the entire season. The original res
olution, pledging the farmers to use only
cotton bagging, was called up again end
unanimously adopted. It was further re.
solved that the state alliances in each
cotton growing state, would erect fac
tories for the manufacture of the cotton
bagging.