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The Georgia kxterprlse.
VOLUME XXIV.
■(JEKKIiAL HEWS.
Dif v.'.'.'t Tiny OF CURIOUS,
■ AM) EXCITING EVENTS.
ftx KBOM ZVXIIVWIJI.IIE- ACCIDENTS, STBIEKS,
K, ASU hattenini.s or intebebt.
Henry Wood, president of the
M Mining company, dropped dead
Ki, dtliee nt 7 Nassau street, New York,
■Wednesday.
■Thursday, at Lima, ()., while playing
la wheat bin, which was being drawn
■ into a car, Ben Marks and Judsou
E>rton, two young boys, were drawn
■o the chute and smothered to death.
ICoiirisr Deßruxelles says that Prime
(mister Bccrnnert (who is also minister
Ftinauce) will present parliament at
lussels, a bill authorizing the issue
(bonds to tlie amount of $2,000,000
r the Congo railway.
Tunis Labee was banged in the county
(I, at Patterson, N. J., Thursday morn
g, for the murder <f his wife. The
urdcrer wrote a farewell letter,in which
! forgave everybody, and expressed the
>pe that everybody would forgive him.
The marriage of Prince Frederick
sopold and tho Princess Louise of
ihleswig was solemnized at Berlin,
ondsy. The emperor and empress and
any royalties were present at both the
viland religious ceremonies. A grand
inquet followed.
The new rules providing for trading in
Itroleum futures went into effect on
tursdav at Pittsburg, Pa., and com
etely upset things at the petroleum cx
lauge iu that city. The brokers did
it seem to understand the new system
and but little business was transacted.
Mrs. Hayes, wife of Ex-President
itberford B. Hayes, died last Tuesday
jrning at Fremont, O. At the bedside
ire members of the family, together
th Mrs. Mitchell, of Columbus, cou-in
Mrs. Hayes; Mrs. Huntington, cousin
Mrs. Hayes; Lacy Keeler, Mrs. A. H.
iler, and physicians.
George McCann, who was awaiting
al for the murder of his wife, hanged
nsclf in his cell at the county prison,
iladelphia, rally Tuesday morning.
b cell was but a few yards from that in
ich Mrs. Wlriteling wus nt the
e awaiting execution. He hanged
self with a pocket handkerchief
cned to the door knob of his cell,
it Johnstown, Pa., Acting Surgeon
ter, of the Fourteenth regiment mid
laboring camps, repoited Wednes
morning that within the last twenty
r hours forty-nine laborers were taken
ously sick with symptoms of typhoid
'er. Many of them were sent home,
J others are being cared for in the
ipital.
'wo verdicts were rendered Tuesday
two murder cases at Atlanta, Ga. The
t was that of M. T. VVhitlock,charged
h the murder of J. C. Belding. VVhit
c was found guilty of manslaughter,
sentenced to ten years in the p-ni
tiary. The second verdict was iu the
s of Arthur llayne, tried for the mur
of the Italian fruit vendor, Christo
ne. The jury found him “not guilty.”
L terrible accident occurred Wednes
;morning at Bledsoe, on the Chesa
ke A Nashville railroad, running
p Galla iu to Scot.svdle, Ky. The
lenger train ducat Gallatin at 11
Dck jumped the track, and the pas
}er and baggage cars went down
ut sixty feet. About eight pers ins
e seriously injured, and several child
were more or less hurt,
ohn T. Bobbins and Henry F. Hall,
ling under the firm name of the Rob-
J & Son Iron and Steel Manufacturers,
cli and Vienna streets, Philadelphia,
, failed Wednesday. The liab.lities
said to be $120,000. and assets $70,-
Most of the firm’s papers are held
‘hilndelphia, the Kensington National
k being creditor to the extent ol
,300.
Inc of the gieatest failures in the his
y of the uoithwest occuried Wednes
fat St. Paul, Minn. The Eureka Im
ivement Company, of that city, mak
; an assignment with liabilities between
)0,000 and one million dollars. As
s have not been estimated. Most of
! outside creditors aie in Chicago, Los
igeles, Philadelphia and New York,
e company was engaged in land deals
3 an electric motor enterprise.
‘Bed Nosed Mike,” who murdered pay
ster McCliue and the stable boss,
gh Flannagan, in October last, was
ged Tuesday morning at Wilkesboro,
He gave to one of the clergymen
> attended him a confession of his
ne, covering fifty-two pages Italian
mscript. '1 ho confession has nol yet
ti fuliy translated, but he admits hav
killed both McClure and Flannagan,
ugh he asserls that he acted under
ipulaion.
A HUMAN FIEND.
SAID TO HAVE POISONED HER
■fUSUAND AND TWO SONS FOR MONEY.
Lizz e Brenan was arrested at
Mass., on suspicion of having
the death of her husband and two
•Otto by poisoning their food with arscu
-Ihe Brenans had six children, and
MfS. Brenan succeeded in insuring the
lives of all, including herself and her
husband, for sunn ranging from $;100 to
|2,000, tlie policies being made payable
to herself. The husband, Michael Bren
l, died about ten months ago under
ispicious circumstances. James Brc
m, a sou, died suddenly about six
eeks ago. She supposed his life in-ur
ice had been increased, but on claiming
at his death, she found the increase
id been made by mistake in policy of
s brother Thomas. It was Thomas’
n next, and he died on Thursday,
hianas wa9 taken violently sick about
ro weeks ago, and went into tile coun
y, where lie rallied. On returning
he was taken sick again
P d , led iu ? r eat agony. All medicines
vo ’® en seized by the officers, who be
6ve Wrs - Brenan deliberately poisoned
le members of tho family. '
KILLED BY A BURGLAR.
|A burglar entered the house of John
at . LaCr ? ie . Wis., Thursday
[night through a window in the room oc
icupied by his two daughters, Kate and
ijeua. The girls were awakened while
the robber was searching their clothing
na ’ the youngest sister, aged
tighteen years, attempted to esrape. yhe
stumbled and fell and before she could
arise she was seized by the burglar who
P unged a knife into her body, killing
her ms antly. The assassin them went
to the bed and made a thrust at the oth
llwt r?' 6 " 1 ’ however, to evade
be knife. The family were aroused by
e noise, but the burglar escaped.
WOOLFOLK GUILTY.
IIIS TRIAL ENDED AT PERKY, OA., WITH
THE A HOVE VERDICT.
On Monday, the jury in the case of
tlte Woolfo k murder declared as their
verdict, after having retired for only
forty-five minutes, that Tom Woolfolk
was guilty. The jury was called, and
Foreman Joe Frederick gave it to Solic
itor Felton, who slowly and distinctly
said: "We, the jury, find the defend
ant guilty.” A poll of the jury was
asked for by the defense, and so ordered.
Each juror said the verdict was his,
Tho verdict was received in absolute si
lence, very few having left the court
room while tho jury was out. Though
tho verdict is iu accordance with the
convictions of the people, there was
positively no demonstration of approval
when rendered, except possibly the
pleased expression on the expectant
faces. It. a. and J. W. Woolfolk, cous
ins of the prisoner, left the courthouse
and town after the jury retired and bo
lore the verdict was rendered. The
aggregate exact time occupied by tho
aiguinent on both sides, after the evi
dence was all in, was thirty-one hours
and thirty five minutes; by tho prosecu
tion thirtcin hours ami twenty nine
minutes, by the defense eighteen hours
and six minutes.
When court opened on Tuesday morn
ing, Judge Gustiu asked the prisoner if
he had anything to say, why sentence ot
death should not be p’ss and upon him.
With subdued emotion and hands
clasped tremblingly in front, Woolfolk
answered; "Nothing, except that 1 am
an innocent man.” Captain Rutherford
then naked that sentence be postponed
until a motion for anew trial could be
perfected, as the case would be carried
to the supreme court if anew
trial is not granted. This
request was denied, and Judge Gustin
proceeded to pass sente nee, which pro
vides that Thomas G. Woolfolk shall be
hung in Houston county on the lGtli of
August next, between 10 a. m. and 3 p.
m.. in an enclosure, to which no specta
tors will be admitted, save the relatives
and friends designated by the con
demned, the guards chosen by the sheriff,
and Drs M. W. Hav sand C. It. Mams,
examining physicians.
WASHINGTON, 1). C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND IUS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The President on Wednesday ap
pointed William Walter Phelps, of New
Jersey, envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States to
Germany.
The President on Wednesday appointed
the following postmasters: William E.
Clarke, at Newberne, N. C\, vice Mat
thias Manly, removed; O. D. Foster, at
Fredericksburg, Va., vice Frank T.
Forbes, removed.
Thu pension office on Tuesday made
requisitions upon the treasury depart
ment for $15,00(1,000 out of the appro
priation to be available July lsr. i bis
amount will he placed to the cred t of
pension agents on the first or second of
the coming month. There are said to be
between 8,000 and 10,000 fir-t payment
vouchers awaiting the depositing of this
money.
The following postmasters of the fourth
class were appointed for Georgia on
Thursday: Cordelc, Dooly, Ella Logue,
Lewis A. Harper removed; Owensby
ville, Heard, J. T. Wilson, D. W. Zaohry,
resigned; Melville, Chattooga, August
McLeod, W. O. Eaton, resigned; Stiles
borough, Bartow, John E. Hammonds,
lliley Milam removed; Camp Creek, M.
J. Smith, William Thomas removed.
An evidence of the fact that the ad
ministration will make a number of
changes the beginning of the present fis
cal year, has been furnished. Attorney
General Miller called for the resignation
of all hut one of the attorneys who rep
resent the government before the court of
claims. These resignations are to take
effict on the Ist of July next. Among
those who will be cut oil is cx-Represen
tative Wilson, of Wist Verginia. At
kins, who was once collector of customs
at Savannah, is an applicant for one of
the p’uces which *vill be vacant.
Ex-Senator Bruce nud Fourth Auditor
Lynch headed a delegation of colored
Republicans who waited on the Presi
dent Wednesday afternoon, and present
ed an address adopted at the Jackson,
Miss., conference, on June 13th, in re
gard to the political situation in the
South, ami expressing the utmost conti
dence in the President’s policy towards
the colored people in that region. The
President thanked them for their confi
dence, and said that they could rest as
sured that he would do the best he could
towards all classes. He commended the
conservative stand taken by them, and
said they would have his assistance in
every endeavor to improve their political
status.
Twenty-seven postmasters were ap
pointed by tho President on Tuesday,
among them the following: Joseph 11.
Manly, at Augusta, Me., vice L. B.
Fowler, removed; A. W. Shaffer, 11a
leigh, N. C., vice Samuel A. Ashe, re
moved; Hansford Anderson, at West
Point, Va., the office having become
presidential; Louis DeLaßue, at Ash
land, Va., tlie office having become
presidential; William Wortli Logan, at
Woodstock, Va., vice J. 11. Rodeffer,
commission expired; William 11. Gibb j ,
at Jaikson, Miss., vice Weit Adams, de
ceased; Byron Lernly not having been
confirmed by the Senate, James E. Ever
ett, at Yazoo City, Miss., vice Claiborne
Bowman, commission expired.
WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER.
TROUBLE BETWEEN HUNGARIANS AND
NEGROES AT HAVERSTRAW, N. T.
There was a bloody riot betrveen the
Hungarians and colored men working at
DeGroat’s brick yard, at Jones Point,
Haverstraw, N. Y., Monday. Four
Hungarians were shot. One is dead,
another is dying. The riot was started
by the Hungarians trying to drown a
colored man. A friend of the colored
man, named Morton, drew his revolver
and fired seven shots. Then the fight
became general, and knives and stones
were freely used. Officers from Haver
straw virited the place Monday morning
and arrested four of the ringleaders
But the trouble has not ended. Sheriff
Shankey has been sent for, as the Hun
garians will not allow tho colored men to
go to work. They have driven them
from the banks. The whites outnumber
the negroes four to one.
"ItY COUNTRY: MAY SUE EVER HE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY I* — Jefferson.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT or WHAT IS OOINII ON or
mroBTAKCK IN TIIE HOCTHISUN STATES.
Frank Smith, of Smith Station, Ga.,
was struck by lightning Tucsdny while
standing in his store door and iustantly
killed. Ho leaves a wife and several
children.
The keeper of Bosa Grau 1c lighthouse,
near Jacksonville, Fla., has discovered
tho skeleton of John Cone, a young man
from Jasper, Fla., who wai drowned near
Punta Gorda last March.
Adjutant-General Mclntosh Kell lias
issued a call for a convention of the mil
itary of Georgia. The meeting will take
place at the capitol in Atlanta on Mon
day, the 15th of July.
Mrs. Ann M. Pierce, wife of the late
Bishop George F. Pierc°, died at “Sun
shine, near Sparta, Gn., on Wednes
day, at the uge of 78. She was a nota
ble landmark of Methodism, a truly
grand exemplar of the religion she pro
fessed, and was universally esteemed.
The lesult of the locil oplion election
in Harrisonburg, Va., shows forty-six
majority for license. The contest was
very exciting and a large vote was
polled. Two years ago the district
voted dry by a majority of 291. Li
censed saloons will be opened in a short
time.
Three negroes and one white man
made their escape from the jail nt Ir
wiuton, Ga., Tuesday. It will he re
membered that they made an effort about
three weeks ago, hut the noise was heard
anil the attempt failed. By some means
they tore the iron bars out of the window
in the hack of the jail, and as the back
of the jail is partly concealed by a patch
of corn, the fugitives easily effected
their escape.
At Hawkinsville, Ga, on Thur-day
night, Charley Horn killed Will Nich
ols. Both were colored, and about the
same age—fifteen years. They had been
to church, and while there had quarreled.
The quarrel continued after leaving
church. After walking some distance,
Horn pulled a paling off the fence and
struck Nichols on the side of the head
over the left ear, crushing his skull.
Nichols died within two hours. Horn
was arrested.
A vein of iron ore, nine miles in length
w ith an average thickness of seventeen
feet, has been discovered in Bed moun
tain, only a few miles from Birmingham.
Chemists and experts say it will make
Bessemer steel—in fact, lias less phos
phorus than much of the ore now in use
in Pennsylvania for making steel. An
analysis made by chemists shows the ore
to contain metallic iion 45.87, silicon
22.18, phosphorus 0.06. Several mines
will be opened at once, and the ore fully
tested for steel making.
The safe in the railroad office at Buena
Vista, Ga., was blown open Monday
night, evidently by professional safe
blowers. They effected an entrance into
the office by prying (he door open, then
boring a hole through the top of the safe
and inserting the powder. The force
the explosion tore the bolts loose
injuring the lock in the least 1 “ e
glars took nothing but tne „,? as “; ,
this they got about S6O. The Central
Railroad lose 9 9°°i a,K ' the Southern
Express Corot >an y an< * Mr. L. A.
Jackson ‘be agent, loses $25. No clew
whatever to the perpetrators.
S. Lieberman, a barber, who went to
Chattanooga, Tcnn., about two months
ago from Cincinnati, suicided Tuesday
morning at the Lookout Mountain Point
hotel, taking a deadly dose of morphine
and chloroform, mixed. Lieberman
made all preparation for his rash act.
lie went over town and paid up all his
accounts; left his watch, money and
several diamonds he wore with his wife,
telling her he was going on a brief visit
and was afraid he would lose them. He
went to the Point hotel, where he regis
tered for the night, and in the morning
was found dead in his bed. No cause is
assigned for his act, except that his bus
iness was not good. There are rumors
afloat that his domestic relations were
not of the mi st pleasant nature. His
wife is a beautiful woman, and Ihey have
been boarding at Voigt’s Palace hotel.
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
MANY LIVES LOST BY A RAILROAD COLLI
SION IN PENNSYLVANIA.
A triple collision of freight trains oc
curred near Latrobe, Pa., forty miles east
of Pittsburg, on the Pennsylvania Rail
road, about 2.80 o’clock Wednesday
morning. Thirty cars were wrecked and
seven persons killed, four of them un
known. A freight train, west bound,
left Latrobe and had just reached a
bridge abouj fifty yards west, when it
collided with an extra freight train com
ing in an opposite direction. Another
cast bound lreight was standing on a
side track on the bridge, and the wrecked
trains crushed against it, enusing one lo
comotive and a number of cars to go
over the embankment into the creek, a
distance of fifty feet. Engineer Cald
well and his fireman were supposed to
have been killed instantly. Their bodies
are still in the creek. Brakeman Miller was
terribly crushed. The bodies of four
tramps were taken from the wreck.
There was nothing about their clothes
to identify them. They were stealing a
ride and were coming west. The cause
of tlie accident lias not yet been learned.
A dispatch from Greenburg, ten miles
from Latrobe, states that a party of
about twenty-five workmen from Johns
town were stealing their way home on a
freight train when the accident occurred.
Tne wreck caught fire from lime and the
men were cremated. The story is not
credited, and Pennsylvania railroad offi
cials know nothing about it. Iwo men
injured in the accident were carried
to Pittsburg. Ouo of them, named
Flannagon, says that he is a Johns
town laborer, returning to Pittsburg,
and thnt twelve persons were on tho car
with him rvhen tlie accident occuired.
He knows nothing of their fate.
The debris of the wreck was being rap
idly cleared away, and up to 8 o’clock
Wednesday night ten bodies had been
recovered. Thirty-one cars went down
over the bridge, and are piled upon each
other in the water. A carload of lime in
the center of tho train was the last to go
down and it was scattered over a pile of
shattered cars. Then the debris took
fire It is probable that thirty people
were killed in the wreck. The water in
the creek at the point where the acci
dent occurred, is about twelve feet deep,
and It is expected ten or twelve bodies
are in the bottom of the creek.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JULY 4. 1889.
DAWSON’S MURDER.
m’dow, on the stand, explains how
HE KILLED HIM, AND WHY.
The horrible story of tho murder of
Captain Dawson, in Charleston, 8. C.,
was told on the stuuil Wednesday by tho
only living eye-witness of the tragedy—
T. B. McDow, his slayer. "I was Bitting
in my silting room; heard theoillce gong
ring; went down stairs and opened tho
office door; Dawson asked if this wus Dr.
McDow; I replied yes, and Invited him
in, closing the door; Dawson (aid, ‘Dr.
McDow, 1 have just been informed that
you have been guilty of ungenllemanly
conduct to one of my servants.’ I re
plied, ‘lt is untrue.’ Dawson said, ‘I
give you to understand that I am re
sponsible for that girl, and you must not
speak to her again.’ I replied I would
speak to her as often ns I de
sired until I was convinced that lie had
authority to prevent me. ‘Then,’ said
Dawson, ‘lf you ik> 1 will publish your
conduct in the papers.’ ‘And if you
do,’ I replied, 'you infernal scoundrel,
I’ll hold you personally responsible. Get
out of my office.’ At tliut time Daw
son struck my lint off with his cane and
hit me with his hand, knocking me down
to the lounge. The two blows were al
most simultaneous. He followed me up
and struck mu again. I drew my pistol
ami, raising, tired at him. I had my
pistol in my hip pocket. I habitually
carry u pistol. Have done so every since
I emered the practice of my profession.”
lie tired the shot, he said, because lie
didn’t know I ut the next blow would
hurt him seriously. Immediately after
he shot him Dawson turned and beg in to
stagger, syaing, in broken language and
almost inaudible: “You have killed me.”
Witness replied: “You tried to take
my life; now I’ve taken yours.”
Dawson, he said, fell with the back of
his head to the gnund. “I stood for a
moment; then stooped down and felt
his pulse. Next I dragged him by the
feet so ns to get his body in a recumbent
position and thought of calling for med
ical assistance, but saw death approach
ing and wondered if I could do anything
to revive him. He was dead, however.”
He professed to have a most indistinct
recollection of what took place after the
shooting. He remembers seeing a po
liceman on the corner when ho rang the
gong. The body was at that time in the
closet. He had removed it. Ho had
no difficulty in getting the body into the
close!. He broke the nails off and tore
open the door. As soon as life had left
the body he closed the windows of his
office and taking the dead man’s hat and
cane threw them in the privy, got a
spade and returned to the office, picked
the body up under the arms and
dragged it out of the office through
the hallway to the closet
and put it in the grave. There were no
bruises on the dead man’s fuce when lie
put it in the hole. Then ho tiied to
take the body out again, but it was too
heavy. Then he laydown in his sitting
room to rest awhile; went °oc aurt
brought the candles, and rcturninsr suc
ceeded in getting tt><= out. He
raised the bodv U P> ‘Bagged it hack,
brushed t hu J uit *' rom s clothes, wiped
the lA>od from the face of the corpse
nP d laid it out. Then he went and
fished the cane out of the vault, washed
it off and put it on the sofa. He hunted
for the hat, but couldn’t find it. When
he had arranged everything he went out
to surrender himself. He gave ns a rea
son for removing the body from its
gn.ve, that he wanted the benefit of the
giving up of the corpse at the same lime.
MRS. WHITELING HANGED.
THE WOMAN WHO POISONED HER WHOLE
FAMILY IN PHILADELPHIA.
Mrs. Whiteling, who poisoned her
husband and two children, was hanged
Tuesday morning in the jail yard at
Philadelphia, Pa. The drop fell at 10.07
o’clock, and the body was lowered and
removed at 10.41. The woman's bearing
throughout the terrible ordeal was the
most remarkable exhibition of fortitude
and resignation to her fate. During the
entire morning she never for a moment
showed the slightest evidence ofweakncss,
and frequently expressed her pleasure at
the prospect of “meeting her husband
and children.” Several physicians who
were present at the execution, and who
have, more or less, frequently been with
the condemned woman since her incar
ceration, expressed surprise at the wo
man’s exhibition of calmness in meeting
her death, although they agreed in the
statement that she has ut no time shown
any evidence of an unsound mind.
Physicians say her death was instant
from strangulation, though the heart
continued to heat spasmodically for
sometime thereafter. The body
was turned over to Dr. Alice Ben
nett, of Norristown hospital, for the
insane, for an examination of the brain,
after which the body will be buried by
the side of the murdered husband and
children. The only witnesses of the ex
ecution wete the sheriff and his deputies,
prison officials, physicians, and about a
dozen newspaper men. This was the
first execution of a female ill Philadel
phia county. There have, however, been
several women hanged in other counties
in Pennsylvania.
HANGED TO A TREE.
A KENTUCKY MOB STRINGS UP A MAN WHO
IS CHARGED WITH MURDER.
A mob went to the jail at Shcpardsvillc,
Ky., at 1 o'clock Wednesday morning
and demanded of Jailer Bowman the sur
render of Thomas Mitchell and Charles
Aided, confined there charged with the
murder of a pedlar named Joseph Lavine.
Bowman refused to surrender the mm
and took his stand in front of the door
with a shotgun, declaring he would kill
the first mau who tried to pa>-s. Mrs.
Bowman, hearing the threats andfeating
her husband would be killed, ran far
ward and gave the mob the keys, beg
ging Bowman not to provoke them. The
leaders then unlocked the doois and
went to the cell where the prisoners were
confined. The jailer followed, begging
them at least to spare Mitchell, who he
believed was innocent. They yielded to
his intreaties, 'telling Mitchell he might
lhank Bowman for his life, and binding
Ardell they took him to the woods, about
a mile and a half from town, and hung
him'to a tree.
NOT YELLOW FEVER-
A dispatch from New York says:
Surgeon Duncan, of the steamer Colon,
was discharged at 10 o’clock Wednesday
morning from Swinburne Islaid hospital.
He is tlie supposed yellow ftver patient
ovc-r whom the receut excitement was
raised.
FARMING HINTS,
GARNERED FROM SOUTHERN
ALLIANCE SOURCES.
Rose culture is on a boom in the vicin
ity < f Atlanta, Ga.
Griffin, Ga., expects to ship ten thous
and bushels of peaches this season.
The Surry county, Va., Alliance are
moving tiie matter of organizing tho pea
iut growers.
The Allianco of Oconee county, 8. 0.,
has s ived $4,000 in the reduction on the
price of fertilizers.
The Summer session of the State Agri
cultural Society of Georgia will he held
it Codartown, August 11th.
rlie State Farmers' Alliance of Geor
a will meet iu Macon on the 20th of
August. It will be an important meet
ing.
The John 11. Dent Allianoe of Floyd
county, Ga., have their scalping kuivei
-’uirin-ued for light weight millers anU
i (l „, ?rs of corn meal.
The Horticultural Society of Georgii
will meet in Griffin, July 31st and Au
gust Ist and 2d. President P. J. Berck
maus is preparing an attractive pro
gramme.
Dr. A. F. Pharr, of Decatur, is one ol
the most successful grape growers in the
stato. Major G. A. Rumspeck, of the
same town, has a vinevard of twenty
acres that yields enormously.
Tho Atlanta Horticultural Society is
investigating the matter of peach yellows
in Georgia. This society meets every
Saturday in the quarters of the Depart
ment of Agriculture iu the new capitol.
Hon. W. J. Northen, one of the con
tributing editors of the Southern Cultiva
tor, is of the opinion that the far Tiers
will stick on cotton bagging and says so
in the July number of the Southern Cul
tivator.
The Interstate Farmers’ Association,
organized in Atlanta in August, 1887,
will meet in Montgomery, Alabama, on
August 20th, of this year. Hon. L. L.
Polk, of North Carolina, is president of
the association. The attendance will he
large.
The county Alliance met at Cuthbert,
Ga., and after consultation purchased
the Rawles & Perry guano house, which
they will convert into an Alliance ware
house for the handling of the coming
cotlon crop. The price paid was seven
bmdred dollars.
Edgcwood (Ga.) Alliance is n plucky
organization. They are arranging plans
for a co-operative cotton seed oil mill,
an extensive cannery, and a grand county
exposition in DeKalh county of the work
of Alliance men. Major W. B. Hender
son is the live president.
The late Road Congress in Georgia is
ittracting attention. Several Southern
states are moving in the matter of hold
tr.p •imiiar meetings. It is said that one
county 000-0.-- •-- oi.t.onrihed for ono
thousand copies of the proceedings
the Georgia Road Congress.
THE INTER STATE FARMERS’ ASSOCIATION.
This body was organized at Atlanta,
Ga., in August, 1887, and is composed oi
representatives from Alabama. Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennes
see, Texas and Virginia. These repre
sentatives (five or more from each con
gressional district) are appointed by the
vice presidents of the states respectively.
The vice presidents are: li. F. Kolb,
Montgomery, Ala.; L. P. Fcatherston,
Forest City, Ark.; J. T. Petterzen, Pen
sacola, Fla.; John P. Fort, Mount Airy,
Ga.; John Dymond, Bellair, La.; J. T.
Henry, Greenwood, Miss.; Elias Carr,
Old Sparta, N. C.; E. B. Mclver, Pal
metto, 8. C.; L. D. Yarrell, Bellficld,
Ya.; B. M. llord, Nashville, Tenn,; G.
B. Pickett, Decatur, Texas. The n-so
ciation will meet in the city of Mont
gomery, Ala., on the 20tli of August
next. Reduced rates, on all lines of
railway, will bo secured, as also at the
hotels and boarding houses of that city,
and will be furnished to dele
gates in due time by the secretary.
Composed of leading practical agricul
turists of the south, this body will rep
resent the enterprise and progressive
thought, which new conditions and iui
roundings have evolved, and which must
solve the great economic questions
now confronting us. Let every state be
fully and strongly represented. Important
questions, affecting the material advance
ment and industrial development of the
south, and especially the promotion of
her great agricultural interests, will be
considered.
A TRAGEDY.
OOV. NORWOOD, OF BIRMINGHAM, ALA.,
AND TWO ITALIANS, KILLED.
Gov. Norwood, of Birmingham, Ala.,
contractor on the Cumoerland Valley
extension, was murdered Saturday at his
camp near Cumberland Gap, by an Ital
ian, known as Tony Crnvasso. Cravasso
and his brother were bakers at the south
end of Cumberland Gap, and had sold
bread to some of Norwood’s men, and
had requested him to hold the men's pay
till they could collect their bills. Nor
wood told them he could not withhold
men’s pay except on garnishee, and di
rected the Italians to a magistrate. Sat
urday they called on Norwood and
asked if he had their money, lie told
them he did not have any money for
them, and walked out of the commissary
store and entered a cabin adjoining.
Just as he stepped in the door, ionv,
who had followed him, shot him iu tin
back, killing him almost instantly. The
Italians escaped to tlie woods, but they
were captured Saturday night in Ten
nessee. They were brought back to
Kentucky Sunday, and were being con
ducted to the Piilcville jail, when Judge
Lynch took them fn charge and gavi
them a trial, resulting in the hanging ol
the elder Cravasso,and the sending of the
brottier to jail. The officers started for
Pineville with the younger Cravasso, and
as they were traveling along the road, a
Winchester rifle Tracked on the moun
tain side, and the prisoner fell iu tlie
road a corpse. _
DEATH FROM SEWER GAS.
Thursday afternoon, at Kansas City,
Mo., Thomas Linquest, John Winter,
John Best, Otto Albach and Georgo
Schultz, were making a sewer connection
at the corner of 18th and Flora avenue,
when, by mistake, Linquest knocked a
hole in the sewer vault. The escaping
gas overcame him and he died almost
instantly. Winter and Albach jumped
into the ditch to rescue him, and they,
too, were overcome by the foul gas.
Winter died in a few hours, and Albach
is in a serious condition.
IF I HAD THE TIME.
If I had the time to And a place
And sit me down full face to face
W Lh my better self, that stands no show
In my daily life that rushes so;
It might be then I would see my soul
Was stumbling still toward the shining goal—
I might tie nerved by the thought sublime,
If 1 bad the time!
If I had the time to let my heart
Speak out and take in my life a |iart,
To look about anil stretch a hand
To a i-omrade ipiartered on no-luck land;
Ah, Ciod! If I might but just sit still
And hear the note of the whip-poor-will
I think that my wish with God would rhyme
If I had the time!
i If I had the time to lcaru from you
How much for comfort my word could do,
And I told you then of my sudden will
| To kiss your feet when I did you ill—
If the tears aback of the bravado
Could force their way and let you know—
Brothers, the souls of us all would chime,
If we had the time
Washington Post.
AUNT ABBIE’S BROOCH.
ET FLORENCE B. HALLO WELL.
“I think you might lend me that old
brooch, Aunt Abbie! It is just what I
need to complete my costume.”
Becky Alger turned from the window
where she had been standing for the last
half hour, and began to walk up and
down the floor. Avery discontented
look was on her pretty face.
“IV ell, I won t lend it. so you needn’t
ask me again,” said Miss Abbie, who
was carefully and conseientionsly darning
a small hole in a pair of old black cotton
gloves. “The young people of the present
day are beyond my comprehension. The
idea of your wanting to flaunt around in
a public place in anything so sacred as
that brooch!”
“I wouldu t flaunt it. I’d simply pin
my collar with it, nud it’s just what I
need. Really, Aunt Abbie, 1 can't get
along without it.”
“Nou’ll have to,” rejoined Miss Abbie,
grimly, “for I’ve no intention of lending
it to you, no matter how much you talk.
Why, I don’t wear that brooch myself,
except on rare occasions. If I let you
have it, I shouldn't know a minute’s
peace all the time you were gone. You'd
be sure to lose it.”
“If you thought I wouldn’t lose it,
would you lend it to me. Aunt Abbie?”
“Perhaps so; but as you are no doubt
aware, Rebecca, you are careless to the
last degree. I’ve always regretted my
folly in letting you take that lace
handker ”
“O Aunt Abbie,” interrupted Becky,
impatiently, “that was five years ago! I
was only a child then. You ought not
to bring that up now. I promise I won’t
lose the brooch.”
„uuY°!ia a v I ? % n W s W,“" MR
Miss Abbie, with a little laugh that
irritated Becky. “I could replace the
handkerchief, but never the brooch.”
Becky gave a long sigh, gathered up
her sewing materials, which were
scattered on every chair and table in the
room, and went out. She was going up
stairs, hut changed her mind, and went
into the kitchen, where her sister Amy
was making cake.
“There's an expression on your face
that tells me that you and Aunt Abbie
have been talking brooch again,” said
Amy, as her sister came and stood beside
her. “What is the use of it, Becky?
You know she never changes her mind
about anything.”
“I know it; this was a last attempt,”
answered Becky, disconsolately. “But
how am I to fasten that lace collar in
front?”
“You’ll have to use a common pin. It
wouldn't do to put on anything modern,”
said Amy, measuring a cup of white
sugar.
“Aunt Abbie has a heart of stone!”
cried Becky. “As if I could lose the old
brooch!”
“Well, Becky, you know you arc
rather careless you must admit that,”
said Amy, very gently. “Aunt Abbie
can’t forget that you lost her best lace
handkerchief five years ago.”
“Oh, I’m sick of hearing about my
carelessness and that wretched lace hand
kerchief!" and Becky dropped into a
chair. “I wish I had never consented
to go into this concert. It has been all
worry from the very beginning."
“They couldn’t get along without you,
Becky; you know that. And your cos
tume will be the prettiest there. That
old brocade would stand alone.”
But Becky only sighed again, and her
countenance did not lighten. She felt
that nothing could comfort her now.
She had taken the most intense in
terest in the Old Folks’ Concert, and
had been as gay as a lark over the
fashioning of the dress she was to wear,
until, in an unfortunate moment, she had
remembered Aunt Abbie s brooch, and
had asked to borrow it.
Miss Abbie had refused point blank
even to consider the request; but Becky
was a girl who, when she set her heart on
a thing, could not endure disappoint
ment, and she had argued and pleaded
with Miss Abbie until the old lady was
out of patience.
The concert was to take place on Thurs
day night, and Becky hoped against con
viction that her aunt would relent; but
the old lady was obdurate to the last.
Miss Abbie had intended to go to the
concert, but while Becky was dressing,
she put her head in at the door to say
that she had been sent for to sit up with
Mrs. Mills, a friend who had been ill for
a long time.
“So I shall not be able to hear you
sing,Becky,” she added, “and I can’teven
stay now to see how you’ll look in that bro
cade dress. You ought -to have let me
see you try it on.”
“I’ll put it on for you to-morrow, Aunt
Abbie,” said Beckie, who was engaged in
powdering her dusky head very liberally.
“And and won’t you let me have that
brooch?”
“Yes, when I’m ready to say good-bye
to it forever,” answered Miss Abbie.
“By that time you’ll have learned to be
more careful of things,” and she went
away on her neighborly errand.
Becky stamped her foot in vexation.
“I wish I hadn’t asked her again!” she
thought. “I wish I’d never seen the
hateful brooch!”
When she was all dressed, she was
obliged to acknowledge to herself that
she looked very well indeed. The old
fashioned gown was very becoming, and
the delicate lace of the wide collar soft
ened her complexion. If she only had the
brooch to fasten it I
“I’ll see how it looks on me anyway.
Aunt Abbie couldn’t object to my trying
it on,” she thought. She threw her
cloak and nubia over her arm, and crossed
the hall to her aunt's room, which was
just opposite her own.
Miss Abigail never locked Iler bureau
drawers, and in the upper one wus the
small faded velvet case containing the
brooch. It was a very handsome piece of
jewelry. Pearls and small diamonds sur
rounded tiie antiquated picture of Becky’s
great-grandfather, and the gold rim was
heavily chased. Becky lost no time in
pinning this ancient heirloom to her col
lar, and then gazed at herself in the glass
witli much complacency. How tiie dia
monds sparkled! The brooch seemed to
enrich her whole costume.
“I might wear it, anyhow. I shall be
back long before Aunt Abbie, and she
will never know. Oh, it is such a temp
tation!” thought poor Becky.
It was not, however, a temptation that
would not, probably, have been yielded
to had not Amy's voice at that moment
called to her from the foot of the stairs:
“The carriage has come, Becky. They’re
waiting for you.”
Becky hesitated just an instant. Then—
“l will wear it!” she muttered, and
thrusting the ease back into the drawer,
she turned out the gas, caught up her
cloak and rushed downstairs.
“Let me see how you look,” said Amy.
But Becky, flushing hotly with the con
sciousness of the borrowed piece of jewelry
at her throat, said she cbuldn’t stop, and
hurried out to the carriage waiting at the
gate.
The concert was to be given in the
Town Hall, A dressing-room had been
fitted up at one end, r.nd into this Becky,
with half a dozen other girls wius ushered
on her arrival. A temporary dressing
table had been made of a large table, over
which hung a mirror, and about this the
girls crowded as soon as they removed
their wraps.
“VVe have no time to waste. It is
almost eight o’clock,” said Carol Cresson,
as she gave a finishing pat to her hair,
and away she hurried, followed by all
except Becky, who had taken off the
brooch in order to put the lace collar a
little lower down, and had been waiting
a chance to get before the glass.
“O Becky,” cried someone behind
her, “I’mso late! Do help me! Just
tie this horrid bow! I can’t do a thing
with it, my fingers are so cold!”
She turned and saw Florrie Goddard,
who had just come in, and was throwing
off her cloak and nubia. Becky lent her
aid at once, and was pulling out the
loops of the how when Mr. Starr, the stage
manager, put his head in at the door.
“Young ladies, we are waiting foryou,”
he said. “Come; the curtain is about to
rise.”
Botli girls follotved him immediately,
fi'iil' rnft Mtar cft'iflr&SßSS* agUkSSfifer
in the middle of the second song, she
happened to put her hand to her throat.
The shock of discovering that the brooch
was not there made her brain reel. Every
particle of ‘color left her cheeks, and the
song died on her lips.
She went through her part mechanically
after that, not conscious what she was
doing. People in the audience said they
had never heard her sing so badly, and
wondered what made her so white. How
thankful she was when at last she was able
to leave the stage 1 She seized upon a
small boy iu one of the wings, and with
the promise of a reward of fifty cents.seijt
him in search of the missing broooh.
With what agonizing impatience she
waited his return—only to be told that
the article could not be found.
“It must be there,” slie said, frantically.
“I’ll go myself and look.”
But her looking was in vain. The
brooch had disappeared.
Poor Becky 1 what she suffered can be
easily imagined. She looked like the
ghost of her bright, happy self when, at
eleven o'clock, she reached home, and
hurried upstairs to her sister's room. Amy
had retired, but sprang up, lighted the
gas, and unlocked the door when she
beard Becky’s imperious knock.
“Why, what’s the matter, Becky?” she
cried. “You’re as white as a sheet.”
“I feel worss than I look," said poor
Becky. “Amy, something dreadful has
happened; “I've lost Adnt Abbic’s
brooch.”
“Lost Aunt Abbic’s brooch!” repeated
Amy, sinking into the nearest chair.
“Becky, you surely never—”
“Yes, I did. I borrowed it without
her leave. It was awful, I know, but I
wanted it so much. O Amy, don’t look
like that. I feel bad enough as it is.”
And then Becky, heedless of her
dainty silk dress, threw, herself on the
bed, and wept until she was almost hys
terical. Amy tried to soothe her, of
course, but could say nothing comfort
ing. Indeed-, comfort of any kind was
out of the question, for the terrible fact
remained that tire brooch was lost, and
would, in all probability, never be seen
again. And the thought that Aunt Abbie
must be told weighed on both the girls
like a nightmare.
“But you needn’t tell her to-night,”
said Amy, “for she has been in bed two
hours, tit least. She didn’t have to sit
up with Mrs. Mills, after all.”
Becky was so pale, so nervous and so
depressed during the next few days that
Amy wondered Aunt Abbie did not re
mark upon it. Every morning when
Becky rose she said to herself, “I'll tell
her to-day,” but wtien night came, the
terrible confession bad not been made.
The longer she deferred it the greater
grew her dread of making it.
“I can’t tell her, ” the poor girl would
say when Amy urged her not to put off
the evil hour any longer. You know how
she’ll look; she’ll wither me with one
glance. I shall never have another happy
hour after she knows about that brooch.”
“You're not having many happy hours
now, I think,” rejoined Amy. “And she
must be told some time, Becky.”
Becky groaned.
“Just the fact of losing the brooch is
enough to make me wretched all my
life,” she said. “But to have to tell Aunt
Abbie —that is awful! Amy, I was
weighed yesterday, and I’ve lost three
pounds. Now don’t tell me I haven’t
suffered. It's a wonder my hair hasn't
turned white.”
Five days after the concert Aunt Abbie
announced at breakfast that she bad ac
cepted an invitation to visit a friend in an
adjoining town, and would leave home
the following morning.
NUMBER 37.
“I’ll get my things ready at oner,” the
said. “Becky you can lend me your large
satchel. I’ll be gone so short a time it
isn’t worth while to take a trunk.”
Becky wont upstairs ufter breakfast to
get the satchel, and Amy, who was dust
ing the balusters, followed her into her
room, and carefully closed the door.
“Becky, you’ll have to tell her now,”
she said. “There's no help for it, for
she always takes that brooch when sho
goes visiting.”
“Yes, I know it,” said Becky, in a
voice of hopeless despair. “I thought
of that the moment she spoke about go
ing.”
“Perhaps she won’t be as severe os you
think,” said Amy, trying to say some
thing comforting.
To this Becky made no answer save by
a look. She took the satchel out of the
closet, stood for a moment gazing at it
vacantly, and then went st raight into her
aunt's room.
Miss Abigail was sitting by a window,
sorting out from a box full of handker
chiefs those she desired to take with her.
Sho looked up and smiled pleasantly
as Becky entered.
“Oh, you’ve brought the satchel," she
said. “I’m much obliged.”
“l’ou needn't be obliged to me for
anything, Aunt Abbie. You’ll just hate
me when I tell you something. Oh, I
can’t hear to tell—it seems so awful—and
1 know just how you'll feel. But—hut—
I took your brooch that night jot the con
cert, Aunt Abbie. 1 did want it so much,
and I was sure I wouldn’t lose it, and—
and I did lose it. I put it down on the
dressing-table for a moment while I tied
a bow for Florrie Goddard, and Mr. Starr
came to hurry us; and so I went off and
forget it. I know you’ll Dever, never
forgive me, Aunt Abbie. Your precious
brooch 1 There’s nothing I can ever do
to make up for it. Oh, lam so wretched
over it. I’ve nearly died.”
She paused, choked with sobs, and
with the tears streaming down her face.
She expected a torrent of angry words, a
terrible blast of bitter reproach; but noth
ing of the kind came. Miss Abbie did
not even look up. She went on quietly
sorting handkerchiefs.
Becky stopped crying, and stared at
her, amazed.
“Aunt Abbie, you can’t have heard
what I’ve been telling you!” she said.
“Oh, how can you be so calm? If you
only knew- what I’ve suffered these last
few days!”
“I do know," said Miss Abbie,quickly.
“I’ve seen you "suffering.”
“But you didn’t know why I—”
“Yes, I did,” interrupted Miss Abbie.
“I knew all about it."
“Knew I’d lost your brooch? Then
why didn’t you speak to me about it?
How could you help speaking?”
“There was no need of it. I thought
it better to let you speak to me. And I
wasn’t much disturbed, for,” —here Miss
Abbie rose and went to her bureau—“here
is the brooch,” and she took out the faded
fhilyCti MfiJSSiffish and dis
hed.
“Oh, is it really, really?” cried Becky,
hysterically. “Where did you find it,
Aunt Abbie?”
“On the table in that dressing-room
at the Town Hall,” answered Miss Abbie,
slowly and distinctly. “I found, on go
ing to Mrs. Mills's, that her sister had ar
rived unexpectedly, and that therefore I
wasn’t needed. So I concluded to carry
out my original intention and go to the
concert. On reaching the hall I went
into the dressing-room to put my bonnet
straight—a man having run into me and
knocked it to one side—and the first
thing I saw on the table was, my brooch, ”
with severe emphasis. “I was so upset 1
had to go home, and didn’t stop for the
concert at ali. Of course I knew you
must have taken the brooch, and with
your usual carelessness—”
“O Aunt Abbie, I’ll never, never be
careless again 1” cried Becky, laughing and
crying together as she rushed to her aunt
and threw her arms about her. “Thil
has been a lesson to me.”
“It ought to be, goodness knows,” said
Miss Abbie. “And, Becky, I’ll tell you
what I’ll do.”
“What?” asked Becky, eagerly, wiping
away her tears.
“If this should really prove to be i
lesson to you, if you never are careles*
again, I’ll leave you this brooch in mj
will. You don’t deserve it, but—l’ll and
it.”— Youth's Companion.
The Chess Tournament
Upon the whole the chess tournament
that has been concluded is probably the
most interesting that has ever been held.
With the exceptions, which, it is true,
are very noteworthy exceptions, of Stein
itz and Mackenzie, it comprised almost
every living player of the first rank. In
one respect it is not to be compared: with
the tournament thnt was held in New
York thirty-two years ago this summer.
It has not equally “shone in the sudden
making of splendid names,” or, rather,
of one splendid name, the most illustri
ous in the history of chess. It was the
American Chess Congress of 1857 that
first made known beyond his own pro
vincial eitv the genius of Paul Morphy.
Although the performances of Morphy
were unprecedented and remain un
equaled, that congress also brought out
another player of the first rank in Louis
Paulsen, in precociousness very nearly as
remarkable as Morphy, and, in the special
faculty of blindfold play—that is to say,
in the number of games he could carry
on at once without confusion —superior
to Morphy, and to every other chess
player, past or present, except Zukertort
and Blackbume. Morphy’s supremacy
would have been attested even if he had
not made his triumphal tour of Europe
by his victories over Paulsen, who is, oi
very lately was, still an active player,
who took part in nearly every greal
tournament from that of New York in
1857 to that of Frankfort in 1887, and
who has very seldom entered a tourna
ment without winning a prize. Thaf
supremacy was even more curiously illus
trated last year by the defeat of the then
champion, Mr. Burn, in a match with
Mr. Owen, who in his prime had played
a match with Morphy, receiving the odds
of pawn and move, and failing to score a
single game.
The last tournament has not brought
out a Morphy nor an Anderssen, but in
Tschigorin there has appeared a playei
of the first class, who, although not
quite anew player, has by no meant
enjoyed the experience in international
contests of many of the competitors
whom he has defeated. —New Tori
Timet.