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The Georgia Enterprise.
,’OLHME XXIV.
I height of ambition.
elt, upon * fertile plain,
ntentod wight,
more ho longod to gain
taneo-purpled height
but reach the top,” quoth ho,
r y near the stars I’d he!
e sought to walo the peak
ch ho oft hail dreamed;
„l „ day—he walked a week—
t no nearer seemed.
re 1 tug and toil,” quoth lie,
•e it slips away from me.”
* * * *
itain slope was bloak and high—
[■rags and bowlders gray;
id the top; alas! the sky
it as far away.
it a climb I’ve had,” quoth he,
v the stars will mock at me'”
that spread beneath his gaze
in distant dim,
he scene of early days
Id such hope for him.
Id is very flat,” quoth he,
e hills I used to see!”
u instead, in Youth’s Companion.
an With a History
!Y DOUGLAS SLADES.
t see those three palm trees,”
ajor, a gray-headed “ranker,”
rted a wife and a family of six
■nsington out of his pay.
the best part of his regiment
command were winding their
the desert, through thick,
ib. between treacherous look
rallel ranges.
make out those palm trees,”
Major; “Lieutenant Lovett,
guide at the first sign of his
sc.”
uint Lovetts gone with two
1 and the guide to the tops of
o reconnoitre, sir.”
nt Lovett and the two files of
■ came back, and the Major
re, for a volley from the ridge
iim lifeless.
after officer, sergeant after
ell, marked out by their uni
listinctly as if they had been
The Arabs evidently had some
mong them well up in English
: column fought its way on
At last there was only one
led or non-commissioned offi
imooth-faced boy, fresh from
i rushed through Sandhurst,
e magic of discipline held the
her. And then he, too, was
by the sharpshooters, and if he
l Crimean veteran the effect
lave been more instantaneous,
rho were half of them little
recruits, commenced a suave
tell man rushing for the near
er thorn bush to shelter liim
i minute from the murderous
ets which poured from the
re Arabs had been waiting for
altures waiting for a lion to
irang out of the shrub with
nife to make shambles,
ment one of the rank and file
card to where the dead boy
in hand, clutching the colors
ad seized as the color-sergeant
k as lightning he caught hold
and and waving it in the air,
out the command: ‘ ‘Form
[uarc.” The men, when they
miliar signal and heard the
rd of command, sprang into
i with one accord. They were
iment and not a flock of sheep
hepherd. They had a strange
'; a fine man enough he must
once, but his ruined complex
odshot eyes,with their look of
are, told the tale of dissipated
11, the men felt that they had
imong them once more, and
let nor blade could make any
on their firmness, though
ers diminished wofully fast,
' to their commander being
•ank and file like themselves,
ooters could not pick him out.
inition was failing, and they
in a few minutes death must
as surely as it did an hour
each was cowering to save
len suddenly they heard the
machine gun and saw the
rdes of Arabs mown down,
if every one but the man with
hot eyes beat high. He did
his life. In another moment
1, pierced to the heart by a
by an Arab in his flight—at
V. moment later the General
it the head of his cavalry, and
rce appeared at the top of the
le Arabs were in full flight,
isars were ordered to complete
It appeared that there had
le treachery. The regiment's
>nc of the enemy, who had led
• trap and w T ith the enemy was
n the service of the English,
ipped away at the earliest op
t'd taken the alarm to the Gen
ad hastened to the rescue with
his fullF force. The General found the
soldier* crowded around a fallen comrade,
amsnin private uniform, with the re'd-
Hnttcolors in one hand and an officer's
BiHHpii the other.
He leaped from his horse, and while
HHKrrd men told the story of the man
presence of mind had saved them
the dead man’s tunic and
shh® for he had caught a glimpse of a
gold chain round the swarthy
The chain was attached to a
wallet, brown with sweat and wet
hi from his death wound.
next his skin. The General
it reverently, and, as In* examined
Ifß' rough soldiers standing around
moved, for tears rolled down
[ lie wallet, contained only
things— a tress of hair, fair and
*B> tlie miniature of a beautiful young
fHwith a delicate, high-bred face, and
worn by being carried about in
.£■ P"eket, addressed; •Captain the
Charles Le Grey, White's.”
inside was cormietcd and the
■tmg splashed with tears; the note was
brief:
a !”* last darling—After thisterri
rni,, K 1 ui never, never marry you—
■heavZT F° y ° l ’ Ugain - But ’ b y ”‘y hope
i mn yours and yours only till I
hhe "' h ose fondest wish on earth' was to
™y<*nr wife, q q >
Gwendolin Carbis,” said the
in a husky voire, and he kissed
letter and miniature fondly, and re
ning them to the wallet, put them iu
P° c ke4 “Bring the body to my
tent,” ho commanded, and they hastily
knocked up it stretcher, and on it they
laid the body of Pte. Harris, with the
boy-ofticcr’s sword in liis hand, and the
tattered colors of the regiment laid over
his body as if he had been by commission
as well as by fuct their comwaudcr.
• CHAPTER n. 1
The Castle of Doom, where the long
line of the Earls of Morvnh hail reigned
in fcudttl splendor, commanded St. Ives
Ray, and, like most of the Cornish castles,
was quite close to the sea. On the ord
nance map it was marked Carbis Castle,
but for generations and generations Corn
ishmen had called it the Castle of Doom,
for its owners hud always met with some
horrible fute. Not one Earl of Morvali,
not one Baron dc Carbis before them, had
died in the natural course, and the gloomy
Norman keep it n the brow of the beetling
cliff, with the waves roaring in the gal
leries they had honeycombed beneath,
seemed itself omninous. And now the
long line of Morvah had dwindled down
to two persons, Pctrock, eighteenth earl,
and Lady Gwendolin Carbis, the Lily of
Cornwall. The earls had been all sorts,
soldiers of fortune, bandits, debauchers,
spendthrifts, blacklegs; they had only
tallied in coming to a violent end. Earl
Modrcd, the last, had been a miser and
usurer, so grinding, so fiendishly brutal
to liis debtors and tenants that a family
of stalwart sons, ruined by one of the life
tenancies in vogue in Cornwall, and en
forced upon their father's death with more
than ordinary heartlessness, had turned
upon their miner and killed him, though
they all swung for it afterward. His
miserliness made him keep up the family
tradition; it had also an effect upon this
history, for he left his savings to his
daughter, which made her tlie richest heir
ess in the west of England. Earl Petrock
had no very distinguishing vices except his
ungovernable temper; he was a member of
two or three crack fast clubs, at one of
which he saw much of Charles Le Grey,
the brother of a peer and a Captain in the
Itifle Brigade. How Captain Le Grey
lived was a mystery; he had long ago
squandered his patrimony. Lord Morvah
knew this, but for a man of his tempera
ment the Captain had a strong fascina
tion. The Morvah blood was wild enough
in all conscience, and there was nothing
in gambling or daredeviltry that would
stagger Le Grey. He had lived life to the
dregs. At last, in an evil moment, the
Captain thought of Lady Gwen Carbis’s
jointure as a means of satisfying his cred
itors. Lord Morvah was one of his most
intimate friends, and he imagined that his
consent went without asking. Hers was
a more delicate matter. She might not
think so well of a debauche. Making her
acquaintance was not difficult; he had
only to learn from mutual friends what
houses she went to, and as a member of
the same set there were sure to be some
where he would have the entree. So it
proved, and Lady Gwen proved an easy
victim. She heard so much of his ex
ploits from her brother, and she, too, had
the wild blood running strongly in her
veins. The pure young girl gave her
whole heart to her blase hero, whose ex
ploits, it must be admitted, had many of
them been on the battlefield.
Not so Lord Morvah. Captain Le
Grey might be good enough to be his
friend, but he was not good enough to be
his sister’s friend, much less her lover.
Lady Gwen's spirit was equal to her
brother's, she was her own mistress, and
marry Charles Le Grew she would. Lord
Morvah forbade him the house.
CHAPTER 111.
On the highest point of ground of the
St. Ives peninsula in Lord Morvah’s park
stood a disused engine house, such as one
sees dotted all over Cornwall, like castles
battered in the civil war. One of the
Earls had had the resemblance heightened
by adding battlements and putting in
windows. It did for luncheon at shoot
| ing parties, for it saved going down to
the castle and back, and the telescope at
1 the top swept land and sea for miles and
I miles.
Outside this tower one autumn morn
ing,while the mist was still thick enough
to hide everything a few miles away,stood
j Captain Charles Le Grey. He was kept
| soma time waiting, and occupied the time
j —for his breakfast had been of the very
1 scantiest—in picking the glorious black
berries that grew across the mouth of the
[ disused and unprotected shaft. As it is
j usual in breakneck places, they grew to
| perfection, but he had to use the greatest
precaution in gathering them, for it was
hard to make out where was terra firma
and where only matted vegetation veiled
the black abyss below.
At length from out of the midst
emerged a beautiful young girl, having
the fine nostrils and the short upper lip,
and the slender, well poised figure and
feet which we associate with high breed
| ing, as well as the slcy-colored eyes and
j sun-colored hair which have hi en goodly
in the eyes of man since Helen of Troy
made them the fashion. She flung her
self into his arms passionately,
i “My darling, my darling, they shan’t
! separate us.” Then recovering herself
| quickly, she held up the key of the tower
I and entreated him to release her and
open it. “The mist will be off soon and
my brother may discover my absence.
From the windows of the tower we could
mark his movements.”
“Stay I” cried a voice, furious with
passion, “your brother has discovered
your absence.” And Lord Morvah ap
peared, carrying a horse-whip, attended
j by two or three of his servants with cud
gels. Captain Le Grey was unarmed ex
cept for the walking stick he had used in
climbing the hill. Lord Morvah made a
dash at him to horse-whip him. The
Captain eluded the blow and the peer fell
forward. There was a crash of breaking
brambles, then a horrible silence, and
then —it seemed an age afterward—a yet
] more horrible splash.
The Earl of Morvah was extinct. The
servants struck at Le Grey with their
cudgels, but Lady Gwen stepped between,
white ns a sheet, though too thunder
struck to weep. “Lord Morvah is killed;
you are my servants; leave this gentle
man alone and go to the nearest mine for
a relief party. Captain Le Grey—
Charlie—go with them. I entreat you
to return to town. I cannot see you
now; I will write to you at your club.”
She never saw him again, lie received
the note found upon him when he died
his hero death in Africa, lie was too
proud, or knew Lady Gwen too well, to
j attempt to alter her decision, and an
| without her property his affairs wers
i desperate, he resigned his commissioe
and enlisted in the ranks of another
regiment as Private Harris.
A plucky miner was let down the slmfl
in a bucket, anil brought up the body ol
tlie Earl stone dead, but hardly bruised,
for he had fallen into deep water; only,
whether it was due to the passion in
which he died or to his fall through ac
many feet of air, the expression of his
face was ghastly beyond description.
Those who saw the last Earl of Morvah,
lying on a tavern table awaiting the
coroner's inquest, were haunted hy the
scene till they died. The Castle of Doom
was suffered to decay. It teemed to have
fulfilled its bode when its last owner fol
lowed the tradition of hia family. Tlie
remainder of the history is contained in
two letters.
I. From Major-General, the Hon. John Le
Grey, commanding Her Majesty’s forces
at the Battle of VVadv Issok,to the Right
Hon. laird Hexham Privis, Northumber
land, Eng:
My Dear Brother—Our favorite but too
wild brother Charles has finished the stormy
career which opened so brightly. I arrived
just too late to save him at the battle ot
Wady Issek, where he had saved the regi
ment in whose ranks he was serving by hit
gallantry nnd presence of mind in assuming
the command, which, as a former Captain, ol
coarse, he was qualified to do, and when it
was routed by all its officers being cut down.
(Hore followed a full description of the
liattlel. I send you a lock of his hair, which
I cut off before we buried him, and the
private’s uniform in which he met his death
so heroically. He was buried in a spare uni
form of the Captain of his company, killed
in the same action. Our dear old brother
made up for his life with his death. I can
assure you 1 wept over him like a child when
1 found him only just dead, after having been
lost to us for so many years. 1 have kept the
sword he died with. I feel so thankful that
I arrived in time to give him a last kiss ami
follow him to his grave. I have much more
to write, but my heart is too full. I am, my
dear Hexham, your affectionate brother,
John Le Grey. Maior-General.
11. From Major General the Hon. Le Grey,
Commanding Her Majesty’s Forces at the
Battle of Wady Issek, to Sister Gwendo
lin, at the Convent of the Watchers,
Rome:
Madam—Herewith I beg to return to you
the miniature of yourself which you gave to
my late lamented brother, Captain Charles
Le Grey, together with the letter written by
you to him. The stains on the letter and pict
ure are blood, for he was carrying them next
to his body when he fell fighting gloriously in
the service of his country at the battle of
Wady Issek. [Here as in the last letter, fol
lowed a descrxrtion of the battle.] Madam,
you must excuse a stranger venturing to ad
dress thus, but I felt that you would like tc
hear of the noble ending of one who had such
a tragic influence on your life. Madam, ex
cuse a had, untidy letter from a sorrowing
brother, and believe me your faithfully,
John Le Grey, Major-General.
The poor sinful body of Charles Li
Grey does not lie in the sands of th<
desert, hut in the great Cathedral whose
golden cross shines over the last beds ol
Nelson and Wellington, whither it was
transported at the cost of the last of the
house of Morvah. A memorial brass, incon
spicuous, but with an exquisite relief ol
the battle showing him in his private's
uniform holding up the sword to give th<
signal for forming the square, records
that it was erected by Sister Gwendolin.
in affectionate memory of Private ths
Honorable Charles Le Grey, of the Queen's
Own, late Captain in Her Majesty's Rifls
Brigade, who fell in the moment of vic
tory, while gallantly commanding his regi
ment after it had been denuded of its
officers at the battle of Wady Issek.—
Times-Democrat.
Three Men Attaeked by Weasels.
George Gray, an employe of Farmei
Bull, near Pine Mill, Penn., went out in
one of the farmer's fields to haul away
some stone piles that had been lying in
the field since last fall. He had thrown
on the drag but a few stones from one ol
the piles when a weasel jumped out ot
the pile. Gray kicked at the animal as
it was passing him, and the tierce little
brute turned on the man and sprang foi
his throat. Its teeth closed on Gray’s
flannel shirt at his chest. In tearing the
weasel loose it. set its teeth into Gray’s
arm, tearing the flesh down for three
inches. The taste of blood seemed to in
crease the fury of the weasel, and Gray
had all he could do to keep it from spring
ing on his throat. He at last succeeded
iu stunning the weasel by a kick, and
was about to hurry to the house to have
his wounds dressed when six other weas
els, one after another, trooped from the
stone pile and made a combined attack on
Gray. They swarmed upon him, biting
and tearing his flesh on the leffs,arms,and
body. Fearful for his life, Gray turned
and’fled, followed by the weasels, which
chased him clear to the house, over hall
a mile away, inflicting still further wounds
with their sharp teeth.
Gray's shouts for help brought a son of
his employer and another man out of a
barn, where they were they were thresh
ing. and the two ran to Gray’s aid. Even
these re-enforcements did not daunt the
weasels, and before they were routed,
which was not until three of them were
killed, they had inflicted many ugly
wounds on their foes, and the three men
were covered with blood from head to
foot. Gray was confined to his bed. It
is well known that weasels will fight to
the death when cornered, or will attack
a sleeping person, but for them to fight
three men in nu open field,- assuming the
aggressive at the start, is something un
heard of before in that region of hunter,
and trappers.
Profit in Flowers.
The florists must do a profitable busi
ness or there would not be so many o 1
them. To judge by the prices charged
one would say the business was very re
munerative. It is not generally knowr
that the leading florists sell their old stock
to the sidewalk venders, who undersell
them from thirty-three to fifty per cent.
The florists claim that only inexperienced
people will buy from the sidewalk vend
et-s, even if they undersell them, because
their flowers, worn and faded, will not
last, but will fall to pieces almost when
touched. The florists preserve their floral
beauties in refrigerators, and they will
not last a second handling entailed by th<
street vender. —New York Star.
Wanted an Object Lesson in Hanging
It is said that when the Shah of Persis
last visited England he was taken tc
Newgate and shown, among other arti
cles of virtu, the gallows. In this engine
he invinced the greatest interest, and,
expressing a desire to see how- it worked,
asked the Governor to hang a man. The
Governor explaiued that he had not a man
ready for the experiment, whereupon the
Shah expressed his contempt. “Hang
one of these,” he said, pointing to his
suite. Needless to say the Governor did
not comply. —San Francisco Chronicle.
The Virginia peanut crop for 1888 was
very short, the smallest that has been
grown since 1867.
“J IY COUNTRY : MAY SIIK EVER UK R1QIIT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, MAY 1
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
mous POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
an iTtMizrn account or what is ooin# on or
IMtOUTANGK IN TUI SOUTUKBN STATES.
The business interests of Dublin, Ga.,
received a severe shock Sunday mornli g
by ill) destruction hy fire on Sunday, ol
ten blocks of stores, aggregating a loss
of nearly $50,000.
Some of the wholesale merchants of
Savannah, Ga., are talking of having a
101 l introduced in the Legislature making
it an offi ns 3 punishable by a heavy fine
to underbill goods,
A hrakeman on the Jasper branch of
the N. & C. Railroad, named Frank
llogc, was caught between the bumpers
of the passenger coach whilo making a
coupling at Chattanooga, Tenn., was
mushed almost into pulp and was killed
instantly.
William Jackson, of Sampson, N. C.,
went to the town of Dunn, taking his
little girl with him. As they were re
turning home, Jackson walking and the
little girl driving, the horse became
frightened, ran away and immediately
killed the girl.
Grand River, near Chilltcothe, Mo., is
greatly swollen, and bottoms are flooded.
Great damage and some loai of life is
reported. Three teams and wagons were
found lodged in the driftwood around
the bridge at Jimtown, three miles
southeast of the city.
The nineteenth annual s< ssion of the
Colored Missionary Baptist Convention
of Georgia was held in Atlanta, Ga.
There were 52 associations, 1,500
churches and 167,000 colored Baptists
represented. There w r ere about 400 del
egates present.
The recent discharge of conductors in
the upper division of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad, was followed by the
discharge of three on the South nnd
North division, runuing between Mont
gomery and Decatur, Ala. No cause is
given. The conductors are simply served
with notice to quit.
St. Coleman, the rich merchant of
Macon, Ga., died on Sunday. A strange
fatality has recently attended Mr. Cole
man's business firms, two of his partners
and himself dying within two months.
About two months ago N. M. Solomon
died, and about six wi eks ago diaries
Wright died, and now comes Mr. Cole
man himself. The surviving members of
the firm are W. H. Burden and Eugene
Harris.
The jury in the case of Louis Claire
nnd John Gibson, ehrrged with murder
ing Hon. Patrick Mealey, on New Year’s
morning 1888, in New Orleans, La.,
rendered a verdict of “guilty without
capital punishment.” This is the second
trial Claire and Gibson have had with
similar results, the verdict iu the first
case having been Bet aside by the bu
prerne court on the ground that the tes
timony of a material witness for the de
fense had been improperly excluded.
Augußta,Ga., business circles lias spent
the past week, in discussing what is gen
erally looked upon as a sensation of un
usual magnitude, involving, ns it dots
the most prominent young brokers in
ihe state. James U. Jackson is the man,
and rumor has charged him with being
over $30,000 short in his account with
George R. Eager, president of the North
Georgia Improvement Cos., which virtu
ally is the Marietta & North Georgia
Railroad Cos. He is a relative of Maj.
Jackson, whose troubles several years
ago afforded considerable discussion.
Suit has been entered in the United
States Circuit Court by Charles Edward
Lewis, of St. Louis, Mo., against the
City of Shreveport, La., for $76,300.
This is the amount involved in the dona
tion made bv that city for the depot of
the Texas & Pacific Railway. The
United States Supreme Court lias decided
that the bonds upon which the money
was loaned were illegally issued, but this
time the holders eotne into court and say
they w ere induced to loan the money on
representation made hy the mayor nnd
council of Shreveport, it having been
loaned by mistake.
The civil engineers and those of the
Savannah, Amerieusifc Montgomery, col
lided iu the upper part of Tattnall coun
ty, tw r o or three days ago. Tlie Central
corps started out ten days ago to locate
the Eden extension west towards East
man. Col. Hawkins has had a corps in
the woods for three weeks, running s
line from Mcßae to Savannah. To the
surprise of both parties they ran plum
against each other this week. Ihe Cen
tral men were surprised to find their ri
vals so far north. No blood was shed,
nnd each party went on its way. Where
the two lines are to strike the East Ten
nessee, they are fifteen miles apart.
D. W. Harvey, when opening a now
road about two bundled yards up on the
side of Pigeon mountain, near LaFay
ette, Ga., a fiat rock was moved. Be
neath it was a stove pot, that contained
$2,688.60 in specie. Fifteen years ago
there was a find near Trion. S me
bunds were at work cutting down a hol
low post oak. As it broke off the stump,
a Mexican dollar rolled out. Wi en a
thorough search was made, a number ol
them were found. All were counterfeit.
Some shover of the queer had iu timcii
past used this oak as the keeper of his
secret.
THREE VERY BAD BOYS.
Chief of Police Wood, of Philadel
phia, Pa., received a telegrom from Jer
sey City, signed by John M. Deemer,
requesting him to arrest three boys who
left there on a train over the Pennsyl
vania railroad. Two detectives were
accordingly detailed and when the train
arrived at Sroad street station the boys
were arrested. At the Central Police
Station they gave their names as C. E.
Burges, aged 14; Volncy Gilbert, 14,and
Charles Dupret, 15. The boys were
walking arsenals. Each was provided
with a rifle, cartridge belt and revolver,
and a search of their baggage brought
to light a small bra>-s cannon, ammuni
tion "therefor and fully 2,000 cartridge*.
In addition to this, they hnd fishing
tackle, dark lanterns, base-ball outfits
and tho other paraphernalia of sports
men. All there accoutrements were of
the finest kind. They had through
tickets from New York to Louisville,
Ky., and one of the lads stated thattheir
destination was Sacramento, Cal.
RECEIPTS OF S. S. S. SOLD.
It is reported that Lamar, Rankin &
Lamar, of Atlanta, Ga., have sold all the
receipts of the S. S. 8. to a Western firm
for f1,000,000, and Lamar, Rankin &
Lamar reserve all accounts and bills now
on the books end their plant, worth
1200,000.
LUCKY TENNEBBEEANB.
A PEDLKII’S HYHVrkKywill me DIVIDED
A MONO KOMK DESERVING PEOPLE-
Slutc Representative Jones, of Benton
county, passed through Nashville
on his way to Plainfield, N. J., to look
after a large fortune left to some of his
clients. About fifty ycais ago a man
named Latimer was tramping through
North Carolina with a pooler's pack on
his back, when he fell in.love with a
poor girl mimed Sarah Mitchell, Whom he
saw working in a field, lie at <aioe pro
posed to her father to work in the girl’s
place for his beard,-if she would go to
the house, i.t a few weeks he married
the girl and tne two went to Plainfield,
N. J., to live. They prospered, and fivo
years ago L.timer died worth $1,000,-
000. Half of this he left to hjsrelatives
and half to his wife. A few weeks ago
the widow and, a, leaving something over
$500,000. One half of this she willed
to the childrrn of her brothers an l sis
ters, who had removed to Benton and
Humphreys '■ountles, Tenn., soon after
she had gone to New Jeisey. Mr. Jones
says the $250,000 will come to about
twenty heirs in liis county nnd Humph
reys, nnd will lift them out of | overly
into affluence. • One of the family, A.
H. Mitchell: . ! s a trustee of Benton coun
ty, and gets by the will $40,000.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STILIXEA,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
Dispatches from various places in
Northern Ohio report a severe white frost
on Thursday night.
Emperor William, of Germany, treated
King Humbert, of Italy, to a military re
view ou Wednesday.
The Agawam Woolen Company’s
mills, situated in Agawam, Mass., wete
entirely destroyed by fire.
The steamer Dispatch, of Port Town
send, was burned to the water’s edge at
Seattle, W. TANARUS., on Thursday.
Two hundred and fifty policemen and
soldiers assisted in the evictions on the
Elphart estate in Ireland, which took
place on Thursday.
The British man-of-war Surprise wi s
run a-hure at Syracuse on. Sunday after
colliding with and sicking the steamer
Nesta. The man-of-war’got full of wa
ter. f*
A fire broke out fa the office of the
Bellows Fall*./ Vt. Timet, destroying the
building and injuring the mammoth
block adjoining. The probable loss is
about $20,000.
Sheriff 11, nderson, who has been on
guard the last twb weeks st Slatonville,
111., a mining town, telegraphed for re
inforcement*. A-riot is anticipated, as
the striking miners of Spring Valley,
LiiSalle anr r* treat or have threatened to
clcie th -* IS ‘• by force. The coa l
mines at Slstonville are tho only- ones in
operation in the northern part of that
Btate.
CHICAGO’S HORROR.
A DETECTIVE CHARGED W'ITH DECOYING
A MAN TO A HOUSE TO BE MURDERED.
Dr. P. H. Cronin, of Ireland, and a
resident of Chicago, 111., was murdered
a few days ago. One reason for the re
mbval of Dr. Cronin was the minority
report which he bad prepared ns a mem
ber of a committee of the National
League, which had been appointed to
look into certain rumored misappropria
tions of League money. This report of
Dr. Cronin is said to have implicated a
number of prominent officials, and
would have been read before the meeting
of the League next January. There was
scarcely an Irish benevolent, political,
literary or social society of which he was
not a member. He was an ardent sup
porter of the policy of Parnell, and was
prominent in Irish American political
movement. His friends attributed his
disappearance to a conspiracy of his
Irish political enemies, and asserted that
he had several times said to his wife: “If
I lose my life, or anything happens to
me, Alexander Sullivan will be the one
back of it.” A member of the Chicago
police force is implicated in the taking
off of Dr. Cronin. The officer in ques
tion is Detective Daniel Coughlin. On
the morning of the day on which Dr.
Cronin disappeared, Coughlin engaged
at a livery stable, not far from where
Dr. Cronin lived, a horse and buggy,
which he said a friend of his would call
tor that evening; that he called and was
given a white horse similar to the
one attached to the buggy in which
Cronin was decoyed away; that the time
of going and the description of the man
corresponds minutely, both with the time
when the man came for Dr. Cronin and
with the appearance of the man himself;
that Coughlin subsequently cautioned
the livery stable keeper to say nothing
about the matter. Coughlin was
a member of one or more societies of
which Cronin was a membi r and
they were enemies. The matter was
finally brought to the attention f Chief
of Police Hubbard, who seems inclined
to take a serious view of the matter and
promises to probe it to the bottom. It
is reported that C. I Long, who sent
dispatches from Toronto to several Chi
cago papers to the effect that he had seen
and conversed with Dr. Cronin in that
city several days after he was murdered
there, has been seen in Chicago within
the past week. The rumor cannot now
lie verified. The whole affair is a singu
lir one, and seems to bear out the theory
of the police that it was a political mur
der, and that Detective Coughlin is cog
nizant of the particulars, if he did not
take part in the actual murder.
A CLERGYMAN SUICIDEB.
Henry Greenfield Schorr, a handsomt
young man, assistant rector of St. Paul’!
Episcopal church, in Baltimore, com
mitted suicide in his room Sunday, by
shooting hims If through the head. On
a table was found this”note: “Balti
more, Sunday—Many will condemn me,
God will have mercy. Please tell my
dear, aged parents, No. 905 East
ern avenue, but do it in a
gentle manner. Bury me from
Bt. Paul’s house, and do not send my
body to my parents, for it would kill
them if you do. 11. Greenfield Schorr.”
He was twenty-nine years old and grad
uated from the Philadelphia divinity
school five years ngo. He was a constant
smoker and had some heart trouble. Ho
was subject to periodical fits of depres
sion, some say became a young lady of
the congregation did not return his af
fection.
K). 18811.
WASHINGTON, 1). 0.
MO VRMSNTB OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
ArronrnrevTß, DECisioim, and other matter*
or INTKMkHT FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Secretary Windom signed the sailing
orders of the revenue steamer Rusk, di
recting that she sail immediately to Ou
nalasks, and then t<> cruise diligrntly in
Behring Sea to protect Alaskan fisheries.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Clarkson appointed 367 fourth-elan post
masters on Thursday, the largest hatch
made under the administration. Among
them were J. T. Hightower, at llluton,
Pickens county, Ga.. and J. G. Connor,
at Tallulah Falls, Rabun county.
The United States steel cruiser Boston,
now at New Y'ork, will be ordered te
Hayti in a day or two in command ol
Capt. O'Kane. Secretary Trary says
that the order is in pursuance of re
lieving frequently vessels on West In
dian stations when they aro exposed to
yellow fever.
At last, the 4th United States artillery,
with their magnificent band, all under
command of Col. H. W. Closson, have
domiciled at Fort McPherson, near At
lanta, Ga., and the Gate Ciiv fashiona
bles are happy. Germans, hops, picnics,
concerts, etc., will enliven Ihe life of the
Atlantians.
The Indian Defence Association, com
posed mostly of Eastern people, and Sec
retary Noble of the Interior Department
are having a warm quarrel. The trouble
is caused by the Sioux Reservation
schools, and the will endeavor to protect
the Indians by inducing President Ham-
Son to influence and overrule Noble’s
action.
The recent change in station of two
artillery regiments is giving rise to nu
merous protests, and it is said that a
strong effort is being made to have the
details of the Fourth artillery from Fprt
Adams, Newport harbor, to Atlanta,
Ga., revoked. Atlanta is the new army
post, and the objection to occupjirg it
on account of its being unhealthy, has
been suggested, but the health authori
ties of the city have filed affidavits at the
War Department as to its salubrity.
Mose Mims, a section hand working on
the Augusta & Knoxville Road, a few
miles from Augusta, Ga., was run over
and killed Sunday. He had been paid
off and wanted to come to town, hut the
boas refused to let him off, declaring that
he could not spare him Irom the work.
An engine with a couple of flat cars
started off towards town, the carp in
front, nnd it ia supposed the negro tried
to steal into town by hiding himself un
der one of the cars on the brake shaft.
Fourth Auditor Lynch, who has the
distinction of being the only colored bu
reau officer in the service of the govern
ment, has performed an act which caus- s
some comment, iu the selection of Miss
Sommcrville aa confidential secretary, an
office entirely within his own jurisiic
t tion. There are three features of this
appointment which make it particularly
notewoithy. In the first place the ap
pointe is a woman ; in the second she is
colored, and In the third she is a near
relative, being the auditor’s sister-in-law.
It is reported to the Navy Department
that the United States steamer Y’antic,
Commander J. C. Rockwell, arrived at
New York Saturday. On May 21, in
latitude 38, longitude 68, while on spe
cial duty destroying wrecks, she was
struck by a hurricane from tho south,
which lasted three hours. She was
thrown on her beam ends, and lay in
that conditiou for one hour. To right
the ahip, the launch, which was full of
water, was cut away. This proved un
successful however, and the foremast
had to be cut away. Three small boats
also were lost, and the main and mizzen
topmasts and part of the bowsprit were
carried away. Some of the crew were
slightly injured. The Y'antic had been
running away from a southeastern cy
clone for two days previous.
FRUIT AS EVIDENCE.
FIVE SUPERSTITIOUS MURDERERS FUR
NISH CONVICTING PROOF.
During the trial of Gilbert Lowe at
Birmingham, Alh., for murder, the testi
mony of Ben Elzej disclosed the fact
that the superstition of five negro mur
derers was largely instrumental in the
identification of their victim and their
arrest. One night last January, Bin
Elzey, Lawrence Johnson, Joe Ilalachi,
Gilbert Lowe and Henry Joe, all negroes,
found J. W. Meadows, a white man
drunk on the streets; learned he had
about |IOO dollars in money in his pock
et, and they took him ont on Red Moun
tain and robbed and murdered him.
Meadows had a cocoanut in his hand
when murdered. One of the negroes
picked it up and was going to eat it, so
Elzey testified on Thursday, but the
others told him if he ate the fruit the
ghost of the dead man would haunt
him. This frightened him, and ho left
the cocoanut laying by the body. It was
six weeks before the body was found,
and then it was little more than a skele
ton, and could not be identified. The
shell of the cocoanut was still laying by
the body. A fiuit dealer, hearing of
this, remembered selling a eocoauut to a
drunken white man, who
from his place in company with five ne
groes. This was the fir*t, and one of
the most important links in the chain of
evidence which led to the identification
of the body and the arrest of the mur
derers.
THE SOLDIERS AHEAD.
The Brunswick, Ga., Riflemen are
mad. They went into camp to drill for
the St. Simons’ encampment, and Satur
day afternoon received orders to break
camp and move. The order camo not
from Lieut. Morris,now in command,but
from an irate and wealthy citizen who
claims that the orders are given so loud
at 6 o’clock drill as to disturb his morn
ing slumbers. Rather than put up with
it, he purchased the lots whereon the
camp is located at a cost of $3,500, and
the boys had to move in short order.
'lhey have arranged for grouuds only
one square further away, and now they
will raise a noise sure enough. They are
going to fire a salute at six every morn
ing and have decided to have the drums
beat the long roll every night and to
march by the obnoxious house.
HISSED.
When Kyrle Beilew, the English ac
tor, appeared with Mrs James Brown
Potter on the stage in Chicago, 111., the
audience hissed. There was no other
demonstration, and the performance
went on.
TEXAB ROBBERB.
* TRAIN IIKI.D t!P NEAR DALLAS, AND TUB
KOBUKRS SECURE CONSIDERABLE CASH.
An eastbound Texas and Pacific pas
senger traiiurcached the crossing of the
Santa Fe, between Dallas, Texas, and the
fair grounds, Tuosday night about 9
o’clock. At this point two men boarded
thu express ear, knocked Messenger Itay,
of tlie Pacific express company, in the
head with a six shooter. They bound
his hands, and at the muzzle of their pis
tols, forced him to hand over the key of
the safe. The train, while this was go
ing on, was making its usual s[>eed, the
crew aud passengers being utterly obliv
ious lo the thrilling events transpiring in
tlie exprcaa car. From the safe it ia esti
mated the robbers took $5,009. In a
deep cut, one half or three-fourtl a of a
mile east of where the robbers boarded
the train, they pulled the hell cord. The
engineer answered tho signal, thinking,
of course, the conductor wanted him to
stop. The train slowed up. While the
S|ieed was being slackened, the robbers
jumped off and fired two shots at tbc
messenger. Not until the train came to
a standstill, was the robbery brought to
the notice of the passengers and crew.
By this time, the robbers were out of
sight, leaving no clew behind. The
train proceeded on to Mesquite, and from
that point the fact of the robbery was
communicated to the officers st Dallns.
It has leaked out that the rubbers were in
Dallas an hour after their work was fin
ished, aud that they opened the package
of money there, and buried the paper in
closing the notes. Noticeable absence ol
several suspicious characters, who have
been seen on the street* the last few
days, was remarked by an officer next
morning. Hs accounted for this by in
timating that they have been implicated
in the robbery. The express company
claim it is unable to give an accurate ac
count of their loss, or even approximate
it.
GOODROADS.
KECOMIIEND ATIONB Or THE GEORGIA
CONGRESS, ASSEMBLED IN ATLANTA.
The three days’ session of the Road
Congress assembled in Atlanta, Gn., cul
minated on Thursday in the form of a
bill to be presented to the Legislature in
July. The principal feature of the bill
is this clause; “That all male persons
between the ages of 16 and 50, except
ministers of the Gospel in charge of one
or more churches, and all persons who
are physically unable to work for them
selves, shall be subject to work the roads
such number of days as may be fixed
each year by the board of commissioners,
or ordinary, as the case may be, not to
exceed eight days in the year, under the
direction of the contractor of the road
to which they may be assigned, and such
contractor shall be charged with the
amount of labor assigned to his road at
the rate at which the hands are allowed
to commute their labor, as provided in
this act.” The committee a 1,0 submitted
the following resolution in conjttwatioß.
wilh the proposed act. It was unani
mously adopted; “Resolved, That it is
the sense of this body that the convicts
of this state should be used in improv
ing our pqblic roads and bridges, and
that this law ahould be done as quickly
ns possible, with due regard to existing
le ises, and that the best interests of the
masses of our people demand immediate
legislation preparatory for such use of all
convicts available now or made available
in the future by the expiration or for
feiture of leases now existing. Pro
vided, however, that exception should
bo made in cases of ortmlnals, who
should be more cautiously and severely
punished.”
The most practical apeech of the ass
sion was by Judge Eve, of Augusts, who
said: “In Richmond county we have
cloth tents. The convicts are quartered
in them, aud the tents are moved from
place to place through the county. Our
convicts have a shackle upon them with
a chain which reahes to the waist ami is
fastened by a belt which prevents its in
terfering with them at work. At night
the tent is pitched near a tree and there
is s long gang chain upon which these
chains attached to the convicts are
slipped, and it is locked upon the tree,
and there is one guard who is required to
be on duty the entire night to watch the
convicts, the rest of the guards remain
ing in the camp. During eleven years
wc have worked them in that way and I
am confident we have not had ten es
capes, and ut night I think two would
cover it, so the inode we adopt has proven
quite successful. I would like to tell
here another thing, that work on the
public roads adds greatly to the health
of convicts. During eleven years, we
have worked them in this way we have
not had a single death from any local
cause or any cause attributable to
their confinement in the ehaingang.
There have only been two deaths in eleven
years. One was accidentally killed by a
guard who got drunk whilo off duty and
by the careless use of a pistol, killed one
of the convicts. Ho was prosecuted and
died in the penitentiary. The other was
a convict Bent from Burke county, a
white man and a tramp, who died witli
two days after reaching the camp, and a
post mortem examination demonstrated
that he died from dropsy of the heart;
otherwise we have nothad a single death.
“What is the estimated cost, Judgo Eve,
of each convict worked by your county
per day, including medicine, food, slock,
etc., that you use in working the roads,-
tools, and things of that kind ?” was asked.
“The cost of maintaining tho ehaingang
on the roads of Richmond county, in
cluding guard hire, stockades, medical
care, food, clothing and everything
except the road machines and imple
ments, mules and carts, was last year 31
cents per day.”
The following resolutions were passed:
“Resolved, That the memorial to be
prepared shall embrace these ideas: 1.
That the convicts of the state be util
ized as far ns possible. 2. That the
labor of the state bear its fair propor
tion of the burden. 3. That the prop
erty of the state shall bear its fair pro
portion of an ad valorum tax. 4. That
a large discretion be left to each county
as to tho amount and character of the
work to be done. 5. That in any laws
that shall be framed, the interest of the
public shall bear against and not with
the person or persons in
charge of the road working."
“Resolved, That the president and vice
president of this congress shall consti
tute an advisory committee, whose duty
it shall be to determine the question ol
the future meetings of this congress,
with power to determine the time and
call the body in session. At fouro’clock
the congress adjourned, subject to the .
call of the advisory committee.”
NUMBEK 32.
IMPORTANT STATISTICS.
IOHS FACTS AND TIOURES THAT WILL BE
INTERESTING TO THE ALLIANCES.
Thn May report of the statistician ol
tho Agricultural Department at Wash
ington, D. C., contains thu result of sn
investigation of the deficiencies of sup
plies of ench European nation, especially
in the production of American agricul
tural products that aeeK foreign markets.
Asa single year's data would be mis
leading, tlie averngo imports and exports
of ten years are taken to obtain the net
deficiency of the supply. The net Eu
ropean deficiency is thus shown as to ce
reals, fibres, butter, cheese, etc., in con
nection with European production. The
investigation was made pursuant to a
resolution passed at the meeting of the
National Grange held in Topeka, Kan.,
last Fall. Homo of tho figures given in
tlie statement prepared by Mr. Dodge are
startling.
As to wheat, he says, that Europe il
practically the only market that Ameri
cans can have for this cereal, and Europe
Imports only 144,000,000 bushels a year,
raising 1,290,000,000 bushels, more than
half of the world’s crop, aud twice that
of all America. Of the European defi
ciency, the United States supplies 95,-
000,000 bushels. In oats and barley
there is a very small international trade.
Europe importing net only 19,000.000
bushels of oats, aud the United States
exporting 2,500,000 bushels. Of barley
this country imports 7,500,000 bushels.
Rye is the great bread grain of Europe
and Central Europe, and Russia alone
produces more than the United States.
Europe imports not less than 10,500,000
bushels, aud tho United States exports
less than 3,000,000 bushels. The re
ceipts of European countries requiring
maize do not make half as much as the
product of Illinois or lowa or Missouri.
Great Britain takes nearly three-fourths
of the total, or 62,000,000 bushels, and
that country exports 08,000,000 bushels.
Europe imports over one.bilHon pounds
of rice, but none of it comes from the
United States. Of., potatoes Europe
grows more than it needs, while the
United States supply their deficiency
from Canada and Germany; Only Great
Britain, Belgium and Portugal, of tho
European nations, do not produce enough
butter and to spare. To make up the
deficiency, 25,000,000 pounds, the United
State* exports 24,000,000. It requires 140,-
000,000 pounds of cheese to supply the
European deficiency, of which 118,000,-
000 are furnished by the United States.
Of course Europe has to import all its
cotton, the average annual imports being
2,636,000,000 pounds. The United
States sends of this 1,850,000,000 pounds.
Mr. Dodge says: “This country is only
exceeded by Great Britain in cotton man
ufacture snd should, ere many decades
pass, occupy the first place. There has
been greater relative advance in the con
sumption of cotton in continental coun
tries during tho past ten years than in
Great Britain.”
Europe gets from South America,
Asia, Africa and Australia, two or three
_ tjjpies as much wool as it ihiports from
the~Unitcd States. The 1-teT Oefteiency
of Europe is 780,000,000 pivnnds, slipht-
ly moro than is produced 1 there. The
United States produces four-fifths of the
wool manufactured here. The aim of
the wool grower of this country is to
supply the home manufacturer if possi
ble; never to export raw wool. If there
ever shall be a surplus, it will bring
more money to the wool grower if sent
abroad in the manufactured form. The
United States import net sixty-nine mil
lion pounds of wool every year. The
statement shows that Europo produces
■bout as much tobacco as the United
States —500,000,000 pounds annually
and could easily produco all it needs;
but American tobacco is desired for two
reasons: it is cheap and very desirable
for fortifying the European product,
so the United States furnish 242,000,000
pounds of the annual deficiency of 324,-
000,000 pounds. In conclusion Mr.
Dodge says: “About one-tenth of our
agricultural products is exported. No
othor nation exports so long a propor
tion, yet the articles shipped abroad are
few. They arc cotton, tobscco, meats,
breadstuffs and cheese. All other ar
ticle* together are but 3 per cent, of the
exports. Tho enlargement of the surplus
must inevitably reduco the price both at
home and abroad. More cheese could
be sold if its reputation for quality
should be kept up and there were more
disposition toeater to fastidious or pecul
iarforeign tastos. Butter exports could be
enlarged if ihey were of better quality.
Evaporated or preserved fruits, the or
anges ot the Southern or Pacific coasts,
wines from California may seek profita
ble market as surplus stocks as a safety
valv to the home market.
“What agricultural products are now
imported that our country and climate
aro capable of producing?” In response
to this inquiry, sugar is first to be sug
gested. Our wheat and flour sold will
scarcely pay for the sugar bought in the
present aud immediate future, and the
home demand would not be uncertain,
but peremptory and insatiable. Flax
and hemp should bo more extensively
grown, displacing foreign fibres coating
millions and furnishing material for the
bagging of cotton wool and hops. Other
fibres of sub-tropical regions should be
produced along the Gulf coast. Im
ported fires, with their manufacture,
altogether amount to a value more than
two-thirds as much as the munificent and
boasted cotton exports of the United
States.
A BOSTON MYSTERY.
A bomb was thrown through a win
dow of the house of Mrs. C. M. Weld,
ia Jamaica Plain, Mass., near Boston, by
some unknown person. There was nc
one in the house except a servant girl
named Rogers, who was in the kitchen,
and she fortunately escaped unhurt.
Tho sido of the house was partially
blown out, and a large hole was made in
1 he kitchen floor by the force of the ex
plosion. The missile was made of a
piece of gas pipe about a foot in length,
filled with bullets and with both ends
closed by caps.
A GREAT CANAL.
The steamship Alvena sailed on Sun
day for Grcytown, Nicaragua, carrying
fifty men and a quantity of implements
and stores for the commencement of the
work on the Nicaragua canal. The first
work to bo done will be the building ol
the pier atGreytown, the erection of per
manent quarters, hospitals, warehouses
aud slips, and ihe putting up of tele
graph wires along the line of the pro*
jected canal.