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The Georgia Enterprise.
YOU'MU XXIV
fcERAL NEWS.
'fjOS OF CURIOUS,
EXCITING EVENTS.
K, !, from Li'mlon, ay: Wilkie
novelist, is dyiug.
ftL,-,. ' llmt three British men
been ordered to Crete,
m tin* town of Djurki ml, in Som
Hussi;i, him Lc*eii destroyed
Hbrth<|iKike.
Ko|.li, Mo., rellning company lias
fts.iKd by the sugar trust, and has
ft m n for the term of three years,
ft. Hitchcock,editor and proprietor
Bnialnt (Ni I).) World hu(purclius and
ft) will and plant of the Omaha Her
B| will consolidate the two pap rs
Bunk of the consolidated oil com
Bn St. Joseph, Mo., was struck by
Kg early Sunday m am ng and do-
Kby tire, Lore 875,000; insured,
ftfnn H. U. lloir, if Michigan,
Iv appointed United S atis consul
Km- mo, has Gated that under no
■stances would he accept this ap:
Bent.
■railroadshave refused reduced rates
■Gland Army men for the national
■pment at Milwaukee, and the Grand
■officers urge the posts to seed only
■e l number of delegates,
ft, Kelly, convicted of the murder
Bi.or O'Shea, nenr Geneva, ,N. V .
fttber Otl), 1888, was 1 a iged We .-
ft. His throat was so badly cut by
ft,, that he was drench and with
Bimerick, Ireland, on Thursday,
Kh-in the case of Matthew Harris
If the Irish 'limes for libel, for ns
Bthatho was an invincible, his
ft Ia verdict of £I,OOO fur the
ftutizens °f Johnstown, Pa., met
ftv mid protested against tiie mini-
tue relief fund is being dis
Bp. .Hie claim is that the state
Hsion is handling the funds instead
committee.
P. White, aged sixty years,
bu iness as an electric ptiys.cia
pace, 80-ten, Mass , dur
ftu mi l with his wife Saturday
Hit, itibhr.l and instantly ki led
then committed suicide by
himself.
Hatrli from Carlo, says: In skir
iftw: the Egyptian troops, the
■s have lost ninety mn. There
ent rumors in this eily to the
the eombined Biiti-h Egyp-
will be made on I) > g 'la in
Poster, of the United States
Topeka, for the district of Kan
a decision te the effect that
of Oklahoma lias legal audioi
that country is uniltr the juri>
ftof no Court.
th-bound train for Montreal,on
d Vermont ltoad, was ditched
a mile north of Brandon,
Wednesday morning. A doz
were injured, but none
The train l ands all escaped,
ftini! and five ears were badly
pfii.iyor of Cincinnati, lias directed
Hr to enforce the law against per
■k comm n labor on Sunday by nr
j^Bd 1 gin, CIS, lobar . lists, ire cream
■i stm.d pioprieti rs, barbers, etc.
does not eontemplate interfer-
street car drivers nor newspa-
mayor regards these works
ft; ; nts arc making to f rm a
illrste or trust at Newark, N.
i- tile center for patent leather,
of that made in this country
■amifacturcd there. The prelira-
me being taken, fo that when
■A. Halsey and Samuel Howell
jlßfrtim Europe the trust will lie
go into operation.
of the factories of W. 1 & I. M.
I mill J. M. Ciopley A Bro., at
Hr,>, N. 11., stturk Thursday, and
Bt hers are expected to follow.
Bhave been recently adjusted to
Bthc union objects. The firms re
■> recognize the trnion, however.
Have large orders ahead an 1 employ
Bhundred hands.
Bend government cruiser, “Balti-
B 'he third constructed by the
■ ('ram|), and tlie most formidable
■irw navy, started down the river
Wednesday mottling
days trial trij) at sea, for the
of making a thorough test of the
machinery and sea-going qual
B 'he vessel.
McAvoy, sped 31, foreman of one
i&S Medina, N. V., quarries, was
feet into the. air by a j>re-
Ml explosion Saturday. lie was
■y injured and died instantly.
Csppelln, Iris assistant, was
feet into the air. ilis eyes
W<ui out and he was otherwise
fiUßinjured.
■ occurred near Baltimore,
•t Two men are known
B 1 drowned, and a number of
■fcrronly escaped with their livi s.
'7 tfidges were washed away and
rs along the path of the flood were
ptjput of existence. The same day,
toOd-burst occurred at Fort Bribin'.
Beh., iu which Marsh Duncan and
■children were drowned, and a
■mount of property was destroyed.
■>rts were current on ’change in
K>, N. Y., on Friday that the firm
■nan Brothers & Cos., limited, man-
But the As-ociated elevators, were
Hbd in serious complications. It is
B 1 l | ia t eeruucates lor a large amount
B n in the International and Lake
■elevators are out, and it is further
that there is no grain to repre
■< min the elevators. Banks hold-
are amply secured.
■u'l William Zollinger, formerly
■nder of the fifth regiment, M ft G
■■" self fatal 'y 'and 2.30 o’clock Thurs
■leruoon, at his home in Baltimore,
IranM 5 '." un known. He served
■ confederate army during the war
Krl ir H reC, ’ rd for distinguished
Fti}-. He commanded the filth reg-
I during the great railroad riots of
I’ andh,s resolute bravery and good
I'crcHt? 't! OCCllsion gwned him
■ ortott. the coroner issued a cer
ate of accidental death.
| dispatch from Albuquerque, ft. M ,
L, anda y ni S bt a cloud-burst
prred on the Santa Fc road, afw
, a .L vu *^’ 9 Cit y. and all trains from
oofth, south, east and west are de-
Hacks for several miles are
' , UI a *'"y. anc f two bridges are gone.
118 1 lc uiost violent cloud-burst that
t ever occurred in New even
' h 1 steel mils being twisted into all kinds
, f shapes. Just before the burst oc
curred, a violent storm raged in the
mmiinnins and rain descended in tor
rents.
A FAMILY MURDERED.
AFTF.It ACCOMPLISHING TIIK BLOODY DEED
TIIE MUHDKItKII MEETS HIS FATE.
In Somerville, Mass., early Saturday
morning, Augustus Kosenburg shot anil
killed Mrs. Catharine Smith and her son
Thomas. Three other children were
shot, ono probably fatally. No cause is
known. Tho scene of the shooting was
at the corner of Dane atriet and Dane
court, Somerville. The ground floor is
used as a provision and grocery store,
conducted by Mrs. Smith. The neigh
bors were aroused at about ono o’clock
by a number of pistol shots, and the po
lica wore promptly notified. The police
entered the front door and encountered
the dend body of Thomas (Smith, who
received his wound probably up stairs
and succeeded in reaching the lower
landing h fore falling. A bullet had
entered his forehead. Mrs. Smith was
found in bed. The indications were that
she was shot while asleep. A!1 the
children occupied rooms in tho attic;
Mrs. Smith and Kosenburg occupying a
room on the second floor. Thoma 9 slept
alone. Willie, aged twelve, and Augus
tus, aged seven, slept together ltt a room
by themselves. The former was shot
through the body. Augustus was shot
In the mouth. The boy Charles, aged
five years, was slightly wounded. He
was In bed with his little sister Mabel,
one year younger. Five shots were fired
for the five persons. Kosenburg jumpc 1
from the window after accomplishing
his bloody work, and his dead body was
shortly afterwards found in Dane court,
about five huudred feet from tho scene of
the murders. There was no wound, and
from the froth at mouth, it is supposed
that he either died in a fit or by poison.
Kosenburg was the husband of Charles
Smith’s sister, who died a few years ago.
He had several children of his own liv
ing in Bow street court, Somerville. He
went to live with Mrs. Smith shortly af
ter the mysterious disappearance of her
husband. The couple were never mar
ried so far as any one knows. Physi
cians who examined Kosenburg say that
he was undoubtedly crazy.
MINISTERS SPEAK.
TUE MINISTERIAL UNION OF CHARLESTON
DENOUNCING M° DOW.
Sunday was a field day in the Charles
ou pulpits. At a meeting of the Miu
btcriul union, held on Monday last, a
erics if resolutions were adopted de
nouncing the crimes of adultery and mur
der, of both of which Dr McDow, the
murderer of Captain Dawson, had con
fcssed himself guilty, and of the latter of
which he whs a. quitted by a packed jury.
It was understood that the action of the
union was taken in consequence of the
publication in feveral uewspapets that
the verdict in tho McDow case had been
approved by the best elements in the
community. It was generally known
that a number of leading clergymen of
the city would preach Sunday on the
line set out by the resolution,
and hence the attendance at the
churches was unusually large.
Rev. W. T. Thompson, pastor of the
Scotch Presbyterian church, preached
from the text: “Fools make a mock at
sin.” The church is attended by Judge,
Magrah, Me Dow’s counsel, and Dr. John
Forrest his intimate friend, who, to save
McDow’s life, testified on the trial that
Dawson was a bully and a braggart, and
tiiat McDow had a wound on his scalp
the day after the murder. Dr. Thomp
son, who was an officer in the confeder
ate army*, has been outspoken In his de
nunciation of the crime, R ( i it had even
come to his ears that McDow, or some of
his friends, intended to go gunning for
him. At the Circular Congregntianal
church. Rev. H. M. Graut delivered a
fi rcible sermon, and dhs very emphatic
iu his denunciation of McDow. The Rev.
R. N. Wells, of Trinity Methodtst
church and soven other prominent cler
gymen delivered sermons on the 6ame
subject. McDow attended divine wor
ship at. St. John's Lutheran church, his
usual place of worship. The pastor is not
i mamhcT of the ministerial, union,.
THE GRAND ARMY
CONSIDERS THE RAILROADS UNJUST FOR
REFUSING THEM LOW RATES.
A Grand Army of the Republic circulai
against the railroads was formulated
Thursday, at Chicago, aud will be sent
out broadcast through official channels.
It says: “We have failed to secure for the
old soldiers the customary rate of one cent
per mile to the national encampment to
be held at Milwaukee, Wis., during the
last week in August. In view oi the fact
that n rate of less than oue cent per mile
has recently been given to the German
Turnvereiu national meeting nt Cincinnati
and a rate of one-half a cent per mile has
been given to Niagara Falls excursions,
there is a general feeling that the men
whose services and sacrifices nlone made
it possible for these roads to exist and
share in tho prosperity which has attend
ed the nation in recent years, are fairly
entitled at least to the rate which lias
been asked, dhe refusal of railroads to
give this ruto is an unjust discrimination
against tho veterans of the late war.” The
circular further advises all comrades, as
a mutter of self-respect aud self defense,
to forego the anticipated ploasure of meet
ing their comredus at the national en
campment by remaining at home, only
those attending who are duly elected
delegates, ex-officio of the encampment.
A BIG SALE.
AN AMERICAN STEEL FACTORY SOLD TO
ENGLISH CAPITALISTS.
The Otis Iron and Steel company, the
greatest manufacturing concern in Cleve
land, 0., has been sold to an 1 nglish
syndicate for 84,500,000. The sale was
made through President Charles A. Otis
and Treasurer Thomas Jop ing, who
went to London last Febtuary and re
turned with representatives of English
capitalists, who will float the securities
of the new company on the English mar
ket. The securities will consist of sl,-
500,000 of six per cent debenture bonds,
81,500,000 of eight per cent preferred
shares and f 1,500,000 common shares.
The plant employs 1,000 men.
The Young Men’s Christian A scoots
ft on has grown to vast proportions.
There arc 1,24 b associations in America,
1,392 in Germnnv, and even in Japan
there are 200. It is an interesting fact
that there is an organization in Naza
reth, where Christ lived, and at Jerusa
lem, where He wm crucified.
“JO' COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER HE RIOIIT; ItIOUT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY I" — Jefferson.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN TIIE SOUTH.
CONIIF.BSKO ACCOUNT OK WHAT IS OOINO ON OF
IMI'OIITAN'CK IN TUE SOCTHEItN STATES.
Phillips’ I-cgion Georgia volunteers,
will hold its aiiuiial reunion, at Marietta,
Gu., first Wednesday (7th) in August.
The nuuual reunion of tiie Third Geor
gia regiment, infantry, will ho held at
Fort Valley, Ga., on July 81st aud Au
gust Ist. u
A large steamer ‘‘Queen of St. Johns,
wus burned at her wharf nearWilmiuglon,
N. C., Wednesday night. The vessel
was principally used for excursions.
Frank Smith, of Smith Station, Ga.,
was (truck by lightning Tuesday while
standing in his store door and instantly
killed. He leaves a wife and several
children.
The weather has been excessively warm
at Staunton, Vu., for three days. Mon
day the mercury stood at 90 degrees,
Tuesday at 98 degrees and Wednesday
98 degrees in the shade.
The postal telegraph company reached
Birmingham, Ala , Saturday from the
north. A largo force of men are at work
pnttingup wires, and the line will be xe
teneled to New Orleans and Galveston as
rapidly as possible.
McDow who shot Dawson in Charles
ton, S. C., and was lately acquitted, lias
renewed his attentions to the Swiss maid
who was the cause of the shooting; anil
Mrs. Dawson lias appealed to the police
for protection.
A slight eaithquake shock was felt at
Charleston, S. C., at 9:47 Thursday
night. The duration of the shock was
about three seconds; movement north to
south, and motion vibratory, accompa
nied by a slight noise.
Col. L. C. Jones, superintendent of the
Carolina Central Kaiiroad, died at Wil
mington, N. C., of heart failure Friday
after a sickness of font days. He was an
accomplished civil engineer, ami one of
the most popular men in the state.
From Macon, Ga. : Mr. E. 11. Strick
land, the press operator in the Western
Union tel'graph office in this city, lias
been appointed agent at Macon of the
Covington and Macon railroad. Mr.
Strickland is an aff.hle and intelligent
gentleman, anti will render good sere ice.
Prom Nashville, Ga.: We are in a
severe wet, over twelve inches of rainfall
in the last thirty dais. Our river aud
creek swamps are inundated, aud our
uplands washed into the streams. Cot
ton is turning yellow and dropping its
forms. Corn is firing up, some of it to
the ear.
J. F. Noros, of Fort Payne, Ala., re
cently traveling salesman for Dorman &
Cos., music deal, rsof Nashville, was found
dead in his bed in his room at the Palace
hotel, Savannah, Ga., Thursday morning
at 9 o’clock. It is believed that the man
suicided, as he made on attempt a few
weeks ago to kill himself.
Warrior, twenty miles north of B'rm
ingham, Ala., is a prohibition town.
Saturday morning four of the leading
me,chants of the place were arrested by
a United States’ marshal for 6e'ffug
liquor without a license. The men ar
res ed were Martin and Oliver Parker,
Virgil ami Jack Warnock.
The Savaunah News announces a curi
ous hut most important discovery that has
been made by a citizen of Georgia. It
s <ivs: “A South Georgia farmer says he
prevents his cows from jumping a fence
by cutting off their lower eyelashes. This
makes the fence appear to be about three
times higher than it is.”
Hawes was sentenced to hang Friday,
July 18th. An appeal was taken to the
supreme court. Pending the decision of
that court the sentence stands suspended.
The supreme court will not convene till
December next, so that any further ac
tion is impossible before then. In the
meanwhile Hawes remains in jail at
Birmingham, Ala.
The planing mill and sash and blind
factory of Paisley & Wigging, at Wil
mington, N. €., were destroyed by fire
Wednesday morning. Two saw mills
were saved. The loss is from SIO,OOO to
$15,000, partly covered by insurance.
The schooner Vroman, lying at the wharf
loading with lumber, was burned. The
total loss is about $30,000.
The dead body of a man wus fouud
floating under a lot of loose lumber at
Snodgrass & Fields’ saw mill, at Chatta
nooga, Tcun. The body was in such au
ndvanccd stage of decomposition ns to
defy identification. But front clothing
and papers lotind on the body, it proved
to he John Cochran, a well-known work
ingman who disappeared mysteriously
about three weeks ago.
From Fort Valley, Ga: Everything
here in tho shape of humans, horses,
mules and oxen are taxed to their utmost
capacity in trying to ship the enormous
peach crop. For the past few days all
hands and stock have been wot king sev
enteen hours a day aud these hours must
bo adhered to for at least two weeks
longer or else thousands of bushels of
peaches will go to waste.
A Chat lesion, W. Va., special says:
Thursday evening, Frank Phillips,
one of (he llutfield-McCoy gang, for
whom there is a large reward offered,
was at Grundy, Va., and vicinity, hand
ling a Winchester rifle and a revolver,
with the remarks that he would “do”
the people. He was unmolested, and
during his wild career he struck William
Reiser, an attorney, on the head with a
revolver, dangerously wounding him.
A Farmers’ Alliance warehouse is be
ing built in close proximity to the other
warehouses on Pine street, Albany, Ga.
It is at present a large wooden frame.
Mr.’Will Mock, the contractor, says:
“The warehouse will fill up the half acre
entire, being 105 by 210 feet. It will be
covered throughout, roof and walls, with
corrugated iron from Cincinnati. I will
have it ready for them to weigh cotton
in by the first, of August.
THE EXPENDITURES.
At a meeting of the flood commission,
held nt Cresson, Pa., Wednesday, a com
mittee was appointed to prepare a brief
statement of the general relief woik per
formed. From their report it is learned
that in round figures the expenditures to
date for relief in the Coueinaugh valley.
Johnstown and vicinity aggregate sl,-
700,000. This includes the woik of the
Pittsburg, Johnstown and Phildelphia
committees and flood commission, also
disbursements of the state in the abate
ment of nuisances and the payment of
militia detailed for police duty. The
number of persons to be fed lias varied
from a maximum roll of 31,950 to the
present commissary roll of 7,000.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. .JULY IS. 1889.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF TIIE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
AProINTBENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTUKB NAITEKS
or INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The secretary of the treasury has re
ceived the resignation of Frank Bradley,
collector of revenue for the district of
Soutli Carolina.
Secretary Tracy has approved the re
port of the board of officers who recom
mended a site for the new murine liar
racks at Norfolk, Va.
Secretary Tracy has ordered a court
martial in the case of Captain Hairing
ton, who stranded the practice ship
Constellation near Norfolk, Vu., on the
18th ult.
The Attorney General has appointed
David F. Baily to he assistant United
States attorney fof tho western district
of Virginia, vice Hermans, who de
clined upon the ground that he thought
he should have been appointed district
attorney.
A dispatch has been received at the
navy department from Admiral Gherurdi
at Port itu-prinee, saying that ntlaiis at
Hij ti are quiet. He also reported that
there had been no change in tnepoli'ical
situation since his last report. Legitime
holds Port-au-prince and llippolyte re
mains outside of the town.
The Department of Agriculture nt
Washington, reports: In cotton states
May was cold and at most points dry,
and in June wet to excess. On the first
of July it was in some danger of injury
from excess of moisture, even in Texas,
Though early planted was in the n nst
ing-ear stage, anil in some places har
vested and a second crop planted.
The president lias made the following
appointments: Emuions Clark, of New
York, consul at Havre; Archibald J.
Sampson, of Colorado, at Acapulco; Bos
well Horr, of Michigan, at Valparaiso;
James F, Hurtigan, of the Districtof Co
lumbia, for the port of Trieste and all
other ports in Austrian domain; John J.
Chew, of the Di-trict of Columbia, to be
secretary of the legation nt Vienna.
At Washington. I). C., about three
o'clock Sunday morning, Artio Shirley,
a young man formerly of Richmond, Va.,
threw himself in front of a south hound
fast freight and wis crushed to death.
Shirley was about twenty-four years of
age, and was employed in Richmond,
lie was engaged to tie married to a young
lady of that city. She died a month
ago after a sudden illness, and Shirley
gave up his employment and went to
Washington.
The President, on Friday, made the fol
lowing appointments: Jesse Johnson, of
New York, to be attorney of the United
States for the eastern district of New
York; Eugene Marsnall, of Texas, to be
attorney of the United State* ior the
northern district of Tc* aa ! CbarL s.
Vari.au, of Utah, to be attorney of the
United States for the territory of Utah;
Elias 11. Parsons, of Utah, to be marshal
of the United States f,r the tciritory of
Utah.
The president will leave Washington
Friday for a short visit to Deer park,and
will spend several days of each week at
that resort until the latter part of August,
when he will visit Bar Harbor, as the
guest of Secretary Blaine. It is under
stood that the president has arranged to
meet members of his cabinet in Washing
ton on W duetday of each w eek, and re
main at Deer park nearly all the rest of
the time, traisaeiing all public business
at that placa which doe3 not require his
presence in Washington.
Treasurer Huston lias ordered that in
future the redemption of legal tender
notes by the Treasury Department shall
he made on a basis of tiie three-fifth title
in vogue in the redemption of national
hank notes. Heretofore, the former
were redeemed on the basis of the ten'hs,
that is, a mutilated note was redeemed at
a value proportionate to tne port pre
sented, counting in tenths. Under the
three-fifth rule if that part of the note is
presented it is redeemed at its full
face value, hut if less than tliree
fifihs is handed in nothing is paid
unless an nfli lavit is filed together wi ll
evidence that the missing portion of the
note has been destroyed. Thus under
this rule the persou presenting the note
gets all or nothing instead of a propor
tionate number of tenths of full value.
Ihe pi slmuster-gem ral gives out the
following concerning the repmt that he
had made au order reducing the rate on
government telegrams fi om ono cent to
one mill per word, lie says that he had
suggested this rate, and notified the tel
egraph companies to this effect. To
some of the companies objecting to tiie
rate, he had written a letter, which
stated among other things; “I desire to
say that the rate proposed was fixed
upon information furnished this depart
ment that your company has been mak
ing rates to various large corporations
that arc, in some instances, as low as tli ■
figure now proposed for government ser
vice. With notice of this fact, I would
not be justified in making for the govern
ment anew contract at higher rates than
were charged other patrons; especially so
in view of the privileges and benefits
extended to your company by acts of
Congress. I submit to your own sense
of right that tho government, under ex
isting conditions, is entitled to minimum
rates.”
FATAL COLLISION.
TERRIBLE RESULTS FROM TRYING TUE
SPEED OF A TRAIN.
Saturday afternoon a collision oc
enrred on the Western, New Y'ork and
Philadelphia Railroad on a sharp curve
near Petroleum Center, Pa. Master Mo
chnnic Newman, with Engineer Stone,
•were trying the speed of an engine, when
they suddenly collided with a freight
corning south, killing Brakeman Martin
Timlin, of the freight, and seriously
wounding Engineer Van Dresser and lus
fireman, of the freight. Engineer Stono
and Master Mechanic Newman were also
painfully wounded. Both engines and
several eats were completely demolished,
WORK RESUMED.
The strike at the Homestead steel
plant of Carnegie, Phipps <fc Cos., at
Pittsburg, Pa., was definitely settled
Sunday evening, and work will be re
sumed as soon as the furnaces are heated.
The workmen, it is said, have agreed to
accept a 20 per cent reduction instead o(
35 per cent, ns proposer! by the firm.
The scale will remain in force for three
years. Asa result of the settlement three
thousand men will again be working
with steady employment for three years.
THE RUINED CITY.
Lore found mo where amid my wasted years
1 sat and gazed with cold, unheeding sight
On fair sliafta fallen and scarred with time
and tears—
Palace and temple prono in pallid blight,
Whose gilded peaks once caught the sun's
first gloania,
When youth anil I dwelt in tiro land of
dreams.
I sat within the shattered porch of Fame,
Whose glittering pinnacles rose highest
there,
Upon whose shrines hope fed the rainbow
flame.
Till hope lay dead beneat h the feet of care;
Now through tho mouldering roof frost,
wind and rain
Blur its dark courts with many a blistering
stain.
Aud here fair Friendship had a royal dome;
Pride, Pomp and Pleasure each a house of
gold;
And, oh, more sweet than all, I built a Home
Wherein my days might ripen and grow
old:
Lo, through their hollow chambers wheel
and fly
The owl and bat with melancholy cry.
So on the lifeless ruins of the past.
While, like pale leaves of autumn, on iny
head
The dust of wan decay fell thick and fast,
I sat among my dying hopes and dead,
Alone and silent in the spectral gloom,
Crouched like a ghost upon a broken tomb;
Till Love, for which I built no sculptured
shrine,
Nor knew in dream-deluded
years,
Sought me with brow unveiled and ejes
divine,
And led me from that placo of dust and
tears,
Far. far away, o’er bright seas blowing balm,
To isles of ease in ultimate pure calm.
C. L. Hildreth , in Belford s Magazine.
BLENDA.
“The woman has behaved so badly, so
shiftily; those green-eyed women are al
ways shifty.”
The speaker was a tall, fair, florid
youth of some twenty-four years of age;
the locality was a smoking-room in the
house of Mr. Horace Ashton, the well
known surgeon, and the hour, to bo pre
cise, was five o’clock on a dull November
evening.
“l T ou see, sire first of all encouraged it, '
and led me to believe that she and her
husband would be very glad to see Tina
married to me (she is only Tina’s step
mother, you know), and then, .when my
big brother came on the scene and began
making up to my little girl—as he does
every heiress—why, then Mrs. Fowler
cooled off, like the snob that she is, ami
told Tina that she wasn’t to dance so
much with me, and that—in short, it
ns)a'i w ue. it was a hornu ,
don’t you think so, Horace?”
“It sounds rather unfair. But perhaps
Challoner doesn’t really want to marry
Miss Fowler.”
“Oh, yes, he does. He admires her
immensely, to begin with, and then she’ll
have five thousand a year. He’d marry
a witch for two more. You know what
he is; he doesn't care for Tina; he
doesn't care for anyone, but himself,
while I ”
“But I don’t quite see what I am to
do, what part I am to play, or how I can
serve you by coming to this supper party
to-night,” interrupted Horace, sharply.
He did not mean to be unsympathetic,
but he was very tired, ana he had heard
so often how much, how very much, his
young friend, Hon. Humphrey Challoner,
cared for the beautiful Miss Fowler.
“Well, I want your opinion and your
advice, which you cannot give until you
have seen the family. I want you to
take particular notice of Mrs. Fowler,
and to tell me what you think of her.
She is years and years younger than her
husband; and some people admire her
immensely. She is awfully vain, I
should add, and more accessible to flat
tery than any one I’ve ever met, and I
believe that yon might talk her over,
Horace, if you would only take the
trouble. Y'ou see, you are clever and
I’m not, and Challoner is an elder son
and a Viscount, and I’m a younger sou
with nothing; and Tina is only eighteen,
and does not come of age until she is
twenty-five, and she says it’ll kill her to .
wait so long, and—and altogether wc
haven't a hundred-to-oue chance of get
ting married unless somebody or other
intervenes in our behalf. Captain Fow
ler wouldn't oppose us, I'm sure, if he
were left to himself; but his wife is
against me, and ho is a mere lump of
clay in her hands.”
“All right; I’ll come to the supper,
then, as you are so anxious about it.”
“And you'll he there by 11:30?”
“Good.”
And, true to his word, at the hour
named Mr. Ashton presented himself at
the door of Captain Fowler’s residence, a
small house on the east side of Davies
street, Berkeley Square. He did not
look forward witli much pleasure to the
evening's entertainment, for he disliked
strangers, and lie hated supper parties,
but he was glad to oblige Humphrey
Challoner, of whom he was very fond.
Upon entering the dining room Mr. Ash
ton found himself in the midst of a very
lively party that numbered among its
members two pretty Americans, two
wealthy young Guardsmen —to whom the
Americans were laying siege—the Fowler
family, and Captain Challoner,whose ac
count of the family Mr. Ashton soon pro
nounced to be correct.
Mrs. Fowler was a distinctly pretty wo
man, but not a pleasing one. Her ex
pression lacked frankness, and her man
ner suggested an almost morbid vanity.
She had a little air of making a speech
every time she opened her thin lips. Miss
Fowler was- simply lovely, and fur too
charming to be married for her money.
Captain Fowler was palpably under his
wife’s thumb—a chinless being whoso
fluid character evidently took the impress
of the strongest hand that grasped it.
“A hopeless case,” thought Horace,
after the first few minutes’ talk with his
hostess, “This woman is an arrant snob,
and the bare idea of becoming mother
in-law to a viscount has turned her weak
brain; she won’t give in.”
Presently the conversation, which was
somewhat general, turned upon defective
postal arrangements. One of the Ameri
can ladies hud lately posted, with her own
fair hard, a letter to a friend in the Re
gent’s Park that had never reached its
destination. “Think how many an im-
portant communication may have heeu
lost I" she exclaimed,
“Letters are never lost," Captain
Fowler, speaking with all the assertive
temerity of tho weak. “if a i ettcr ig
rightly addressed and posted, it it deliv
ered.”
“Not always," interpolated Horace. “I
could tell a curious story—"
“Oh, do,” interrupted a chorus of fe
male voices.
“Ashton tells n story awfully well,”
exclaimed Humphrey Challoner.
“Please tell im your story, .Mr. Ashton ”
murmured Mrs. Fowler in a patronizing
tone.
| ‘*U is an incident, an episode, rather
Ghana story,” said Horace. “A story, we
are told, demands three tilings—a begin
i ning, a middle and an ending. My tale
j ,lIIS 0,1 L v beginning. And now to be
gin ; and I must make it short, for the
I hour is late.
i “due November day, five vears ago, I
| happened to conic in earlier than visual,
'it about X r. m., feeling very tired and
! desperately sleepy. I ordered tea to he
; brought up at once, but before I had fin
j islved my second cup I fell fast asleep,
| with a newspaper and some letters that
my servant had just handed me lying in
lmy lap unopened, and my fox-terrior,
; Nell, dozing at my feet. I must have
I slept, I suppose, for nearly an hour, wheu
! 1 suddenly woke with a violent start that
sent both newspaper and letteis flying on
to the rug, the former bursting its cover
in the fail.
‘•When I had sufficiently recovered
from the shock of this rude awakening to
make any move, I stooped down and
picked up the letter that was nearest to
me, and which happened to he lying seal
uppermost, and without even glancing at
the address tore open the envelope and
proceeded to road its contents. They
were startling, I must admit.”
“Was the letter from a lady or a gen
tleman, Mr. Ashton?" asked one of the
Americans.
“From the former, and it stated that
being weary of life aud unable to submit
any longer to paternal tyranny, she in
tended to avail herself of her darling's
oft-repeated request that she should fly
with him, aud that she, therefore, re
quested him to meet her ‘at the terminus
hero’ (where ‘here’ might be i know not,
for there was neither date or address af
fixed) on Tuesday next at 4:15. Iliad
scarcely had time to finish the letter, or
to wonder who could have written it to
me, when my servant entered with n
telegram demanding an immediate an
swer. While I was framing my reply
Cuthbert busied himself with making up
the fire, and in so doing came into active
collision with Nell, whom he never could
manage—and who at onco began to bark
in a way that drove me nearly wild. As
soon as my telegram was dispatched Ii
looked around for the cover of the ]
mysterious epistle, which I had decided
by that time ought never to have fallen
into mv hands; hut it was nowhere to he
seen. 1 .. > - . ... ..inn i u lie naa no
ticed it—a long, white envelope.
“ ‘I suppose, sir,’ he answered in an
agrieved tone, for he and I were often at
issue where Nell was concerned, ‘that
that was what the dog had got hold of
just now. I did try to take it from her, !
but I know you don’t like to hear her j
tiark. She dropped it at last, and I
threw it into the tire, hut it was just a j
mere pulp then. You couldn t have j
read what was written on it.’
“So the envelope was destroyed, and
with it had gone every chance of my ever
being able to restore its contents to their
destined recipient. Cuthbert then pro
ceeded to inform that he had only brought
me in two letters—blue ones—with the
newspaper, ancl there they both were, on
the table, still unopened. So this third
epistle, which was, unquestionably, never
intended for me, had evidently arrived
between the leaves of the Field , aud had
slipped out when the latter burst its cover
in falling from my lap. During the fol
lowing Tuesday afternoon, which was an
awful one, I often thought of the un
happy young victim to paternal tyranny
and hoped that she came to no serious
harm.”
“Buther name.Mr. Ashton,” exclaimed
the American, “were all dying to hear her
name. Was there no signature?”
“There was, but—good heavens! you’ll
be burnt 1” The last remark was ad
dressed to Mrs. Fowler, who, in stretch
ing across the table to reach some bontons,
had nearly set fire to her lace sleeve.
With great presence of mind Horace
seized her arm with one hand, whilst with
other he drew back the candle, but only
just in time to avert a catastrophe; and
then, as his eyes met those of his hostess,
it occurred to him, in a flash of revela
tion, that this diversion had not been
wholly unpremeditated. “Her name,”
he continued, after a moment s pause,
u W as . But, no! it is not fair to
give up the name; it was such an uncom
mon one, too.”
Oh, the look of relief that came into
those light green eyes! If Horace had
doubted for one moment the trutli of his ‘
suspicions, he was quite sure now that J
they were correct.
‘•lt could not have been a more un
common name than my wife s, said
Captain Fowler proudly, as if his wife's
uncommon Christian name reflected
luster upon the whole household. “I
should think, dear, that you were the
only Blenda in all England.
“Very possiblv,” said Horace dryly.
The following day, -Mr. Ashton, who
received patients at home throughout the
morning, was honored by a aisitfroui
Mrs. Fowler. She had hurt her wrist in
that little encounter with the candle, and
had deemed it wiser to consult a surgeon.
After giving the case his careful con
sideration, Horace hastened to assure his
fair patient that there was nothing amiss;
she had only been frightened, not hurt.
“That was a very interesting story you
were telling us last night, Mr. Ashton,
said Mrs. Fowler in a low, nervous tone,
as she was leaving the room. “Have you
kept that wonderful letter?”
“I have. I thought I had destroyed
it, but I came across it the other day in
turning out the contents of an old dis
patch box. But I mean to burn it. ”
“When?”
“Oh, before long. I cannot do it now,
for the letter is at the top of the house,
and 1 have at least have a dozen patients
j waitin'* to see me. But as you are so
1 much interested in the story,Mrs. Fowler,
; I'll tell you what I’ll do; I’ll burn the
I letter in your presence; I’ll bring it up to
Davies street ,
“Yes, yesl But when?” very im
patiently.
“Must I fix a date? Shall we say, then,
when I come up lo pay my visit of con
gratulation? Your step-daughter’s en
gagement to my old friend Humphrey
Challoner is nn open secret."
Mrs. Fowler turned crimson with
anger, ami for a moment made no reply;
then, as Horace was opening the door,
she jiaused for the second time:
“Mr. Ashton, don’t judge ms too
harshly. I was young nt the time—only
eighteen; and I was very miserable. You
don’t know, perhaps, the evil of an over
repressive system of education. But, be
lieve me, I thank God every hour of the
day that I was saved from eloping with
that—scamp. The miscarriage of that let
ter saved me. I went up to the terminus
(at Portsmouth), caught a severe chill
dawdling about in the cold, and was in
bed for weeks afterward. When I re
covered my father was—gone.”
“I do not judge you harshly, Mrs.
Fowler. Ido not judge you nt all. It
is not my place—and 1 need not add that
you may consider my silence a point id
honor. But you’ll plead Humphrey’s
cause with your husband; won’t you?
Ah! I know you will. Good-bye.”
“So my story lias an ending aftpr all."
thought Horace as he rang for his next
patient to he shown in, “hut it might
have had a very different one if 1 had
only glanced at tiie address of that letter
before breaking it sseal. It is strange how
the little thing and the great thing—that
which is forgotten as soon as ended and
that which is never forgotten—to our
lives' end hang together.” —London So
defy.
How Hot Water Saves China.
The entire absence of sanitary arrange
ments in Chinese towns and villages
being well known, it goes without say
ing that the laws of hygiene are utterly
and entirely neglected. There is no
isolation of infectious diseases, and no
attention is paid to causes of death un
less there is supposition of violence.
According to our ideas, therefore, Chinese
cities ought to he hot beds of disease,
subjected regularly to those terrible
epidemics which, with us, are invariably
associated with the neglect of sanitary
laws. Strange to say, such is not the
caso. Epidemics come and go without
any apparent reasons, appearing, per
haps, suddenly, causing a heavy mortal
ity for a short time, and then as suddenly
disappearing again, thus affording an
endless field of speculation to the foreign
savant. But, speaking generally, Chinese
towns enjoy an immuuity from these dan
gerous outbreaks almost as complete ns
that of well-draiued European communi
ties, and the cause of this puzzling and
curious phenomenon has been variously
explained. The fact is all the more
striking when taken in connection with
the contaminated water supplies of Chinese
towns, the effect of which on Europeans
has been manifested over and over again
in the heavy mortality which overtook
them previous to the adoption of precau
tions enjoined by modern sanitary science,
ine he A iU. * , v - -
ingeniously attributed by some people to
the universal habit of fanning, a practice
which is said to keep the atmosphere in
constant circulation. How far this ex
planation can he deemed to suffice we
must leave to experts to decide, but, so
far as a contaminated water supply is
concerned, we believe the real secret ol
immunity from its evil effects to lie in
the universal custom of boiling ail water
intended for drinking. Asa matter oi
fact, the Chinese never drink cold water.
Tiie national beverage, which, in a true
sense, may be said to cheer hut not in
ebriate, is tea, and this is always “on
tap,” even in the houses of the very poor.
The native aversion to cold water is un
doubtedly carried to extremes, and cer
tainly induces diseases which might
easily be avoided by a judicious system
of outward application. In the matter
of ablutions it must, however, be ad
mitted that the Chinese enjoy facilities
which, however little they are taken
advantage of, are far in advance of any
thing within the reach of the poorer
classes of our own favored land. Every
little hamlet in China has a shop where
hot water can be bought for a tri
fling sum at any hour of the day or
uiglit. Even in a small fishing village
on a remote island in the Gulf of Pechili,
where the writer spent six weeks under
very unpleasant circumstances during a
severe winter, this was the ease, and a
great convenience it proved.— National
Review.
Development of the Skull.
Dr. Dight, professor of anatomy iu the
American College at Beirut, Syria, gives
some very interesting results of his ex
amination of a collection of human skulls
which are stored away in an old
monastery in the Kedron Valley, mid
way between Jerusalem and the Dead
Sea. He has made a careful comparison
of these skulls with those of the same
race at the present day, and finds some
significeut differences. The Caucasian
skull has during the past thirteen cen
turies increased in circumference nearly
two inches, and has gained considerably
in cranial capacity. There has been no
increase iu width. The brain lias gained
in height and length, i. c., there has been
a development of the upper anil anterior
parts of the brain, the parts which we
should expect to increase by education
and civilization, as they preside over the
moral and intellectual functions. The
lower portions of the brain, in which the
lower or more selfish propensities are cen
tred, and which give breadth to the head,
have, in the march of the centuries,
failed to grow as rapidly as the higher
brain centers, hence the non-increase in
the width of our skulls.
The First ltridges.
The first bridges were of wood, and the
earliest of which we have any account
was built in Rome 500 year B. C. The
next was erected by Julius Cssar for the
passage of his army across the Rnine.
Trajan’s great bridge over the Danube,
4770 feet long, was made of timber,with
stoDC piers. The Romans also built the
first stone bridge, which crossed the
Tiber. Suspension bridges are of remote
origin. A Chinese one mentioned bj
Kirchen was made of chains supporting a
roadway 830 feet in length, was built
A. D. 65, and is still to be seen. The
first large iron bridge was erected over the
Severn in 1777. The age of railways
has brought a remarkable development in
this branch of engineering, especially in
the construction of bridges of iron and
steel. — Mail and Express.
No oleomargarine is imported into the
United States,
NUMBER 89.
A FANTASY.
What b a girl’s life, pray?
A little garden space
Within who*) every spring
She sees her beauteous fuse;
Where she is sole possessor
Of all she hears and sees,
From the fluting of the birds In summsT
To the honey of the bees;
Rosy wreaths and strings of pear] ,
All belong to the happy girl.
And what in a boy’s life, pray?
A quiet, shady nook
Where be has nothing to do but play
Nor ever read a book;
A kingdom of contentment.
Which every hour discloses
Some new delight of sense and sight,
Fresh" growth of sweeter roses;
A rich inheritance of joy
That crowns with light the hippy boy.
We might be more than happy
And lead such perfect lives.
If all of us were children
And none were husbands, wives*
But boys grow, and girls grow.
Together or apart,
Till some day each discovers
The other has a heart.
This halves their joys and doubles their
cares.
And ends in wrinkles and gray hairs;
In the feet that rock the cradle.
In hands that toil for bread.
The trouble about the living.
The sorrow above the dead.
What can we do, then? Nothing more
Than those who begot and bore us;
They make our lives before us
As theirs were made before,
W e must be up and doing.
Maidens flying and men pursuing;
Then hey! for billing and cooing.
And ho! for wooing and winning.
The world will never mend;
Love was before the beginning.
And will be after the end.
— R. H. Stoddard, in N. Y. Independent,
PITH POINT.
The Indian question—“ How?”
A perfect paradox—A beautiful plane
tree.
A man of small caliber is the greatest
bore.
Of what kind of timber is the post of
honor?
The Electoral College has no baseball
team. It is the only college of the kind
in the country. —New York News.
Friend—“ What’s the matter, old fel
low, you look haggard?” Author (of re
jected stories) —“I wish I was Haggard.”
The town which flies the highest
Sinks the deepest in the gloom;
A big delinquent tax list
Always supersedes a boom.
Female barbers are not having much
success. Gentlemen will not go to them
because they dislike to be cut by a lady.
—Burlington Free Press.
XJTIO OI me worst Ul uuisauuea is
The chap who’s up at early dawn
Making the lawn-mower zizizizizi z,
Rasping the whiskers off the lawn!
—Somerville Journal.
“You wish to marry one of my daugh
ters? The youngest will get 15,000 marks,
the second 30,000 and the oldest 45,000.”
“You don’t happen to have one still
older?” —Fliegende Blaetter.
One of the sad things connected with
the hard times in Persia is the fact that
many men with from fifteen to twenty
five wives have had to reduce the numbet
to three or four. —Detroit Free Press.
Old Lady (to her niece) —“Good graci
ous, Matilda, but it’s cold I My teeth are
actually chattering.” Loving Niece—
“ Well, don’t let them chatter too much,
or they may tell where you bought ’em.”
Tell me not in mournful numbers.
Life is but an empty dream,
While the maid of forty summers
Keeps her passion for ice cream.
—Texas Sifting*.
Selling Jewelry on Speculation.
“How much?” inquired a tall, stylishly
dressed mau, holding up a diamond scarf
pin and addressing the principal of a New
York wholesale jewelry firm.
“Thirty-five dollars—bottom price; it’s
cheap at that.”
“Good until when?” queried the man.
“Not. later than two p. m.”
“Then she goes,” and the stylishly
dressed mau placed the pin carefully in
his case, deposited it in his inside pocket
and walked out.
To a reporter the principal said:
“That’s one of our many customers
who take jewelry to sell on speculation.
At this time of year it is quite a common
thing for such persons to buy articles oh
speculation in that fashion.
“I shall kuow that if he docs not re
turn that pin by two o’clock he has sold
it, and will bring me $35. Ho may get
$45 or SSO for it. That, however, is his
affair”
“And a commission besides?”
“No; we don’t allow any commission
on such transactions. See here,” and he
brought out his memorandum book, “w
have no less than fourteen transactions
entered precisely of the same kind, vary
ing in amount from $25 to $150.”
When asked if he lost any articles by
letting them out in this way the principal
responded:
“It is so rare that I cannot tell you
when the last case occurred. Men like
him make S2OOO and S3OOO a year quite
readily. ’ ’ —Philadelphia Record.
Insuring Elevator Passengers.
A recent phase of accident insurance is
the taking of risks on passenger elevators,
which cover not only damage to the
elevator itself but promise to indemnify
the owner of the elevator for such sums
of money as he may be compelled to pny
to people who have been injured oi
killed by any accident to the “lift." The
amount of this indemnity is, of course,
limited, in proportion to the premium
paid and the holder of the policy is ex
pected to allow the elevator to be ex
amined by the company’s inspector at any
time and to conform to certain regula
tions and requirements in running it.—
New York Tribune.
Pisa’s Leaning Tower.
The famous Leaning Tower of Pisa hai
been put up for sale by lottery. The mu
nicipality of Pisa, having become greatly
straitened for money on account of ex
pensive improvements, offers the towel
for sale, in order to prevent the town hall
Irom being seized, and has adopted the
method of a lottery so as to get the high*
est price possible. —Chicago Tribune.