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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.