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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.