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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.