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THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
volume XXIV.
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N Irccubnck party is ..bout
!„ „ , ,:ung for an international
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jH family have made $1100,01)*
( . ,|, more property than
-M i uitcal States this year.
venerable Mrs. Polk is now the
.. ■ t . I 'resident from the
States.
9,- question of women sitting in
jjH. , in Knirland lias been de
ia the negative.
[H... pi ~ ,-d i ri.it Britain lend the
jHp states so far as exports to South
are concerned.
the first six months of the
S„, year 1522 miles of new track
SHlanlio the various railroads in the
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jB, .p.r-’ii.n lit leprosy in India is ns
elnracter. It is reported
Bm :i Urn gener and Ini' be.
with the disease.
tiiioi-ii.il authorities report
Ht.,,1,1 never uas a period whin so
Biuioiiiie going oil in purely
and i onimereial eiiannels.
■H, I • , lias suppri ssed the
...i domain- Thtre
Ht: I about till.
jXi't- tills body ill the Kussias,
in the Baltic provinces.
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H] . London, was
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will l>e held in the
States in 1803.
ti. Washington s'co“Talk
■He , uid owned by
Hu s:ns there owned bv
than lend
by men in Europe!”
eoiiies Mr. David A. tv. 11s, oie
jHh." I>'mi // ■■././, and aliows tliat
de-pair ■•( eittiup into colleje
*> ehi n paired to ]iass upon
in n are
fMH'd | pa-- la-tore they receive
■' Ami yet 'll. Wells
ie and in ui, and Hart aril
made him an LL. 1).
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i'ivill hr distributed for
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i' ai l ’a lhal rlartviritv is I'orr
§H S ' Coi'.iicl Thoni
!‘ countryiie
• v -' l| ;.i I ii and the plains in India
"'an
B^B 1 railway. He considers
§V"i’, |"".,ri furnished by tile luki
HH 1 now wn.-tc.
t' l do iiir work lie is projectin';.
Vi irk Sim says: “Ail over
1 ncwspaoirrs are begin-
B" olcarly that this city is the
It looks as til..urn'ii all of
I ‘ l ' l v 'soon be in agreement
.Sm h '- TANARUS“ -tinn. We trust that from
'Jjß""' '"'"ttrd tin y will strive to pro
iaß* 1 ' ”f Ho- enterprise, v, hii-li
!"■ advantiifreoii.s to the whole
l rii,eil States.”
Ml!."" 1 ’■' -oientifie progress
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ZB' 1 !'"""’ h, Of the laws Of
the force
the win(l wiK'n it blows,
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S ' muskrats and makes
•■moonlm.ee with
9 """■W- Kven the barometer
9,. ""reliable at. times.
9 *“ regards
9 - "mM, except,ha, wa. Shan
9 l y have " * ‘spell of weather.”
9’ h < ' :,ro!i " a has 11:1,1 bad luck with
ofos. remarks the Atlanta
• Il " Hev - >r- Hawk, -, spent a
9," nii >terial and writing
B ali, ;r;. rynf thC . Statc ’ but after
‘ ,s eollcctions were sold to
9 ° rk Hi “ torica l Society. Mr.
■ Ilisa, CUmcnts > bllt tbey have
■St h , JudKe Mnrti " was
■ hls historical work by the
i„ u , „ m „JZ
■nsL ,"‘ el John H - Wheeler made
■ were ! n <: ° Uections ‘ bn,
Bd tl,r 'V at pUbllc auctiou and scat-
Bmmt' f**"'"' l- before
■ e P g a history of the old North
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM IVt-
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDI IMBED ACCOUNT OK WHAT IS OOINII ON Or
lUroRTANCN IN lUK SOUTHERN STATU.
Bill Westmoreland, a negro desperado,
was hanged at Jacksonville, Florida,
Thursday morning for the murder of his
wife last Spring.
Dr. J. B. Woitham, a prominent citi
zen of Winchester, Va., committed sui
cide Monday, by shooting himself
through the head. No cause is assigned
for the deed.
At Augusta, Gu., Thursday night, a
negro was beaten and chas.d into the
canal and drowned. His pursuers, two
white men named Davis and Bennett,
are under arrest.
Matthew Gibbs, supposed to lie the
oldest man in the state, died at his home,
mar Center, N. G., Monday morning.
Mr. Gibbs was 108 years old, and died of
sheer old age.
The dreaded cotton enter pi Her has ap
peared at llawkinsvillc, Ga. A prom
inent planter of I'uliiski county reported
on Wednesday that lie had seen them in
his cotton.
Revenue officers brought to Charlotte,
N. C., on Wednesday, thirty-six barrels,
containing two thousand and three hun
dred gallons of corn whiskey, which had
been seized on the premises of Jacob
Jenkins, in Gaston county. N. C. This
is the biggest haul made by officers in
many months.
A special from Lexington, Ky., says
tlie Arlington hotel at Blue Lick Springs,
was burned Monday morning. A hun
dred guests were at the hotel, all of
whom escaped. Loss, $3 ),000; insurance
$17,000. Senator Blackburn and ex-
Chief Justice Margin and family, were
among the guests.
The first bale of cotton of the season
was received in Augusta, Ga., on Thurs
day, from Danielson & Palmer, of Millen,
The cotton was grown by J. D. Parker,
of Screven county, who holds up the
recoid for that section with ns much
success as Primus Jones' does that of
southwestern Georgia.
The heirs of brothers William F. and
George W. Norton, deceased millionaires
of Louisville, Ky., have decided to give
$6,000 to the building fund of the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary,
moved there from South Carolina a few
years ago. Both brothers made princely
gifts to the seminary during tlieir life
time.
Rozzell’s family, of Charleston, N. C.,
consisting of a wife and three children,
on Monday evening were going to see
relatives in Union county in a carriage,
and when driving along n precipice, the
carriage capsized, throwing Mrs. Kozzell
and the three childien out. All the
children are badly injured, and it is
thought Mrs. Itczzell cunnot recover.
Extensive preparations are being made
at Knoxville, Tenn., to celebrate the
103d anniversary of Davy Crockett’s
birthday ou the farm where he was born
near Limestone. AmoDg the guests will
he R. P. Crockett, of Granberrv, Texas,
the only living son of (lie frontiersman,
and the only living grandson of Colonel
K. 11. Crockett, of New Gaseny, Ark.
A special from Live Oak to the Times-
Union, of Jacksonville, Fla., says: The
first bale of new crop upland cotton was
delivered here Tuesday by the Florida
Central and Peninsular railroad, for
shipment to Savannah over the Savan
nah, Florida and Western railroad. It
was from W. It. Wilson, of Tallahassee,
and was consigned to Perkins & Sons,
Savannah, Gn.
At Carbon Ilill, Walker county, Ala.,
on Wednesday, Superinteudent C. P.
Seymer, of the Kansas City Coal and
Coke Company mines, was shot from
ambush while riding horseback. Some
time since he brought several officers up
to stop the moonshiners from selling
mountain dew to the miners. It is sup
posed the moonshiners shot him.
A band of cattle thieves is getting in
work in the section of Florida cuntig
uous to the Apalachicola River. The
band has been depredating upon the
herds of cattle for some time, and many
farmers have been their victims. The
community is thoroughly aroused, audit
would not be safe for the farmers to get
in sight of the gang which is said to be
composed of two white men and two
negroes.
A dastardly attempt was made at Lex
ington. Ky., Tuesday, to assassinate
D. L. Baxter, a well known newspaper
correspondent, by the explosion of a
deadly machine which was left at the
Leader office directed to that gentleman.
There was sufficient dynamite in the
parcel to have blown up any building in
the city, and it only failed to accomplish
its deadly purpose because the percussion
matches failed to ignite.
On July 2G, a tiro broke out in one of
the shafts at the Pratt coal mines of Al
abama, and a miner and sixteen mules
were caught in the mine below the tire.
The fire was extinguished the latter part
of last week, and the miner was soon
found dead. The mules were much
farther back in the mine, and were not
reached until Tuesday, when fifteen of
them were found alive. They were in a
terrible condition, and too weak to stand
on their feet,
On Monday night, at Birmingham,
Ala., Dr. L. LiChstein, recently of New
York, experimented on himself and a
patient named L. D. May, with the
Brown-Scquard Elixir. Both are now
writhing in mortal agony, the pain hav
ing begun several hours afterward and
increased ever since. Nervousness, a
chilly feeling and symptoms of blood
poisoning make their condition danger
ous. The lamb had been dead one hour
and forty minutes before the injection
was made.
THEY ORGANIZE.
THE PEAR GROWERS SEEKING MEANS TO
PROTECT THEIR INDUSTRY.
The pear growers and shippers of
Cairo, Ga., have organized an association,
and will petition the other localities of
the pear belt to do likewise, and then
meet at some central point and organize
a general association, the purpose of
which will be to devise ways and means
to protect their industry.
THE SEASON OPENS.
A special from Albany, Ga., snys:
“The cotton market has opened, and the
warehouse men are now beginning to
look busy. Hon. Primus Jones has
marketed fourteen bales from this year’s
crop. The fleecy staple will be coming
in very briskly in a few days.
“MT COUNTRY ; MAY SHE EVER UK RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRYF —JI
JUDGE TERRY KILLED
WHILE IN Till'. ACT OK KI.AI’PINO Tnit
NACK OK CHIEF JUSTICE FIELD.
Upon the arrival of the southern over
land truin ut Lathrop, Cal., at 7:30
o’clock Wednesday morning, United
Stales Judge Stephen J. Field and Dep
uty United Stales Marshal David Nagle
walked into the dining room for breuk
fast, and sat down side by side. Soon
after, Judge David S. Terry and wife
came in. They were proceeding to an
other table, when Mrs. Terry, evidently
recognizing Justice Field, did not sit
down, but retired to the train for some
unknown purpose. Before she reached
it, however, and just as she had left the
dining room, Judge Terry approached
Justice Field, and, stooping over him,
slap] ed his fare. At this juncture Dep
uty Marshal Nagle arose from his seat
and shot Judge Terry through the heart.
The causes w hich leu tip to the tragedy
are as follows: Juage Terry was mar
ried to Sarah Althea Ilill, who claimed
to be the wife of cx-Senator Sharon,
while prosecuting her claim against the
Sharon estate. This brought him into
resentful attitsde toward Justice Field,
who last year rendered a decision in the
United States circuit court, denying her
claim to be the wife of Sharon. Mrs.
Terry created a scene in court during the
reading of the decision, charging Jus
tice Field with being corrupt, and as
she refused to remain quiet, Justice
Field directed that she be removed from
court. When the deputy attempted to
carry out the order of the court she be
came involved in a personal quarrel with
fliat official, and Judge Terry interfered,
drawing a dagger from his vest. He
was disarmed, and both Terry and his
wife were adjudged in cpntpmpt and
committed to jail. Newspaper uitjeles
were printed intimating that it would be
dangerous for Justice Field and
Judge Terry to meet personally,
from which fact it was deemed prudent
to have Nagle, as deputy marshal, to ac
eopipnny tfie chief justice while on his
visit to the coast. David S. Terry was
at one time phief justice of the supreme
court of California, and fias always been
a prominent figure in the political his
tory of the stale.
WASHINGTON, D. 0.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND lIIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The treasurer of the United States has
issued instructions, subject to the con
venience of the treasury, to the assistant
treasurer of the United States at New
York, to supply notes and silver certifi
cates of small denominations to banks
ordering them in sums not less than
SI,OOO.
Secretary Windom, on Wednesday,
conferred the name of Lot M, Morrill,
ex-secretary of the treasury, upon the
new revenue cutter now fitting out at
Baltimore for service at Charlestou S. C.,
and vicinity. Congress appropriated
$75,000 for the construction and equip
ment of the Morrill.
The chief of engineers has prepared
his report on tho improvement of
Charleston, S. C. harbor, together with
recommendations for future operations,
to be submitted to Congress. The state
ment of Capt. Abbott’s report for the
condition and needs of the Jetties was
adopted. The improvements will cost
$350,000.
The telegraph system remains un
changed. Postmaster General Wana
maker has entire charge of the whole
matter, and is in conference with I’r, si
dent Noryin Green, of the Western Un
ion, in regard to it. Whije it is expect
ed that an agreement will soon be
reached, none has yet boen arrived at, so
far as is known at the department.
The department of state lias received
from the legation at Pekin, China, under
date of the third of July, uu account of
the death and extraordinary life work of
Hev. J. Crossett, independent American
missionary to China. Ilis career appears
to have been a most rematkable one,
characterized by absolute self-devotion.
He died on tho steamer Eldorado, eu
route from Shanghai to Tienstsm, on the
first of June last. He leaves a widow
living at Schuylerville, N. Y.
First Comptroller Matthews has de
cided that tho appropriation, s<’>oo,ouo,
made by the act of f.ungress, of March 2,
1889, for “agricultural experiment sta
tions,” can be used for the benefit only ol
forty stations, for which estimates were
made, namely : $15,000 each for stations
in each of the thirty-eight states, in the
territory of Dakota, and the agricultural
department, and that no part of the ap
propriation can be used in the establish
ment of such stations in any of the terri
tories, with the exception of Dakota,
that being the only one included in the
estimates upon which the appropriation
was based.
RICH LAND COMPANIES.
TUB STOCKHOLIIKItS OF TIIE IJLYTON LAND
COMPANY REFUSE TO SELL OUT.
The stockholders of the Elyton Land
Company met in Birmingham, Ala., on
Tuesday, and refused lo ratify the sale of
the company’s property to the Birming
ham Lund company for $3,500,000. July
13 the directors of the Elyton Land
company gave the men who were ar
ranging the consolidation of all the land
companies in the city an option on the
company’s property for $3,500,000, tire
option subject to the action of the
stockholders. The stockholders decided
the price was too low, and refused to ac
cept it. This action will cause a reor
ganization of the Birmingham Land
company, but the consolidation will go
through", all the companies in tho city
except the Elyton being absorbed.
This will give the city the two richcs-t
land companies in the United States.
A BIG SUIT.
A LAND AND COAL COMPANY SEEK TO RE
COVER PROPERTY AT SJU,-
Th('°°iiobcrt Morris Land and Coal
„ of Now York, ou Monday,
r U ?' hill in equity against tlin Philadel
flht and Reading Coal and Iron compa-
P the United States circuit court at
Pa alleging that they are
1 jttsburg, “ f of cou f lln a timber
Northumberland county, Penn
land in tbe defendant is in
sylvania, and t and and ig rap id!y re-
P° BE fn a the coal and timber from it,
HoO tons of coal being taken out
annually- The property m dispute
worth $30,000,000.
COVINGTON. GKOItGIA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 22. 188',*.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE ACCIDENTS, srUIKEI,
KIRKS, AND HAPPENINOB OK IS 11.1.1 ST.
Forest fires arc raging in Ok gun and
Washington.
Bodies are still being found in the
debris at Johnstown, Pu.
Another bag of mail lias mysteriously
disappeared from the Nashville, Tenn.,
postofßoe.
The Montana convention, by a strict
party vote, jwssed a proposition by
which all county officers will line to be
re-elected.
King Humbert, of Italy, has appointed
Mr. Thomas A. Edisou the great inven
tor, grand officer of the Order of the
Crown of Italy.
The mayor of Cincinnati has notified
theatrical and baseball managers tbit
Sunday performances and baseball games
will not hereafter be permitted.
4- terrific cloudburst occurred at Pat
erson, N. J., Wednesday morning. Cel
lars were flooded and choked so that the
water spurted out of manholes to the
freight of ten feet.
The United Stales ordnance building
at Sandy Hook was struck by lightning
Thursday morning and burned to the
ground. All tho fine instruments in the
building were destroyed.
In the constitutional convention held
in Helena, Mont., it was decided that
Helena should remain the Capitol until
1892, when the question shall he voted
(Hi. Woman suifrage was defeated by a
tie vote.
Ififi Burke, the Cronin suspect, was
identified on Monday by Mr. and Mr-,
Carlson, owners of the cottage In which
Dr. Cronin was murdered, is the man
who rented it from tin ur, giving the
name “Frank Williams.”
At the Keokuk, lowa, races Thursday,
Satellite trottad six miles iu sixteen min
utes, fifty-three and Ihne quar
ter seconds, breaking all records. Hie
last mile was made jn two minutes and
forty-three and a quarter seconds.
Governor Foraker, of Ohio, declined
to issue a warrant for the extradition of
Richard Carroll, general superintendent
of the Queen uud Crescent, wanted by
Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, as an
aider in the S.ullivan-Kilrain prize tight.
An investigation of the accounts of W.
E. Denny, assistant postmaster at Boone
vile, Ind., who is charged with embez
zlement in hia office, shows that the
shortage amounts to $0,090, and miy
reach more. Denny has not yet been ap
prehended.
While all advices indicate that there
has been no rioting in the Counellsvilie,
Pa., coke regions sine# Saturday, matters
are considered to bs in a precarious con
dition, and an outbreak of the Hunga
rians at any time w ill not surprise the
operators.
The storm which passed over the Mis
souri Valley Monday night was the most
disastrous known to that section. Over
twenty persous, it is said, were killed by
lightning, and the damage in animals
killed, ruined crops and w ashouts w ill
run over half a million dollars.
At New Y’ork, Monday, the grand jury
presented to the court of general sessions,
two indictments against Eben S. Allen,
as president of the Forty-second Street
and Grand Street Ferry Bailroad Com
pany, charging him with forgeries. The
spurious stock issued is a trifle over
1,000 shares.
At Pittsburg, Pa., the announcement
was made an advance in
Bessemer pig iron from $15.50 and $lO
per ton to $10.50 and sl7 per ton. The
advance was made in view of the pros
pective advance iu coke freight rate*.
The trade is looking up, and is more en
couraging than for months.
The Curton building, at the corner of
Clinton and Van Buren streets, Chicago,
111., which was gutted by fire some weeks
ago, collapsed Thursday morning, bury
ing a number of workmen in the ruins.
The work of removing the debris was at
once begun, and until it is complete the
exact number of casualties will not be
known.
The general passenger agents of the
leading railroads of the United States, in
session at Cape May, N. J., on Wednes
day, considered the question of reducing
Summer excursion rates from Southern
cities to Eastern ami Northern nvorts,
and the equalization of fares from New
Y’ork to Southern territory, as ssked for
by the Southern passenger association.
It was decided to reduce rates for socie
ties and conventions.
A dispatch from Truckee, Col., says:
A disastrous fire occurred here lucsday
afternoon, burning all east of Bridge
street and north of the railroad to the
round house. The American Hotel,
Irvin’s stable, the Methodist and Catho
lic churches, two school houses, Eden’s
lumber yard, Good Templars’ hall aud
thirty dwellings were burned. Many
families are homeless. Loss $95,000.
Dispatches from Kansas City, Mo.,
say : All through trains on the Burling
ton & Missouri, in Nebraska, have bien
abandoned. No trains have reached the
city over that road since last Tuesday,
when the great storm occurred. Until
Thursday, trains have been sent out
from there regularly over that road, but
they could not get beyond the washouts.
In some places, tho tracks are reported
to be under water from two to eight
feet.
VALUABLE ORES.
FINE SPECIMENS OF GOLD AND IRON ORES
FOUND IN nARRIS COUNTY, GA.
Mr. A. W. Fuller, of Shiloh, Harris
county, Ga., exhibited, ou Tuesday,
some specimens of gold and iron ore,
which experts say contains 05 per cent
of iron, the quality of which is said tn
he 20 per cent, better thun any that
has yet been found near Birming
ham, Ala. This piece of ore was taken
from a place owned by Mr. M. Carlisle,
located about three miles from Shiloh.
Ore containing gold was found on the
Grant place, only a half mile from Shi
loh. A good deal of excitement pre
vails among the mountains of Harris,ow
ing to recent discoveries of valuable ore,
and the report that experts have offered
$209,000 for the Warm Springs property,
owing to the discovery of minerals there
on, bus hut added to tho excitement. It
has long been thought that the moun
tains of Harris were full of valuable ores,
and it is likely that the lale discoveries
will result in a thorough investigatiou of
the matter.
IS IT TRUE!
THREE HEGIIOKS SAID TO HAVE ENTERED
A KIUIIY FURNACE.
A special from Birmingham, Ala.,
says: A most remarkable religious cruzu
bus seized the negroes near Bessemer and
intermediate country. For somo Kiiue
past hh old negro named Tobias Jacksou
lias been proclaiming himself as Darnel,
the prophet, nnd and ung all kiuds of sin
gular, wild n 1 q i er things. Saturday
last lie r . i e i three young negro men
that they were representatives of Shad
rack, Meahack and Abednego, three
children of faith, who entered the fhry
furnace of Nebuchadnezzar of old. He
claimed that tlie furnace where irou is
melted and cast into nil kinds of forms
was tlie furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, and
tliat they coaid enter it and pass through
without the smell of lire. Three uc
groes, calling themselves the threo chil
dren of Israel, under tlie in
fluence of their new prophet,
deliberately entered Hie gate of tlie
cupalo of the furnace and rushed head
long into the white heat of the melting
iron. When they failed to come out,
Jack-:on, the prophet, proclaimed that
he saw them rising in tlie air with the
smoke of the furnace, attended by angels
and said tliat they would revisit the
earth next Sunday.
FOREST FIRES.
RAGINO WITH FEARFUL HAVOC IN TUB
CHEAT NORTHWEST.
A dispatch from Portland, Ore., says:
All the northwestern country seems
to be burning up in forest fires. The
smoke has been so dense in Portland for
the last two or three weeks that for a
time it was impossible to see fur up the
street, and the gun and moon looked
like great balls of file. In the harbor
the smoke has had the effect of a fog,
and steamers have been required to blow
their whistles every few minutes to avoid
collisions. It is estimated tliat tlie to
tal damage by the forest fires iu the
northwest thisyear will amount to $500,-
000. Several thousand cords of wood
have been consumed. Wednesday the
flames swooped down upon tlie settle
ment of Cedar Mills and left the country
barren. People, in some instances, had
scarcely time to escape, and had to hurry
through the woods, the fire being so
thick aloDg the regular roads. An ex
tensive fire is raging in souihern Oregon,
and a number of houses have been
burned. Many of the forest fires are the
work of tramps.
TIRED OF WAITING.
MINING COMPANIES MAKING ARRANGE
MENTS TO EMPLOY NEW MEN.
A dispatch from Streator, 11!., Bays:
Anew phase of the raining situation has
developed, which will give the st-iking
miners more trouble than they had pre
viously anticipated. It is said on good
authority that the Star Coal company,
whose mine is located at Ivangley, have
completed arrangements by telegraph by
which a full quota of men to ruu their
shaft will, inside of thirty days, be
landed there from West Virginia. The
Chicago, Wilmington and Vermillion
compuny, which has always given em
ployment to at least 2,000 meu, is also
said to bo negotiating for men from otfrer
points. This company operates mines at
Braidwood, LaSalle, Seatonville and
other places, and has grown tired of
the repeated strikes. If the miners of
these places desire to resume work, they
will have to do it quickly, the operators
say, as they do not propose to stand idly
by and see Southern operators take ail
the contracts and let the market for their
products be forever destroyed.
VERY /ESTHETIC.
A MAN WHO HAD TOO STRONG A PENCHANT
FOR CURIOSITIES.
William Jones, for twenty years a
trusted employee of E. 11. Butler* Cos.,
educational publishers of Philadelphia,
has disappeared. He is said to be short
in his accounts with the firm to the ex
tent of $40,000. Jones is a batchelor,
and lived alone in an old fashioned resi
dence in Germantown. He is said to
have had a passion for collecting rare
books, engravings, and antiques of all
sorts. His house was filled from cellar
to garret with valuable effects. Every
nook and corner was stuffed with antique
furniture. The walls were heavy with
rare plates from masters’ works. The
shelves of his hook eases were weighted
with rare and uucut volumes of standard
authois. Connoisseurs have already pro
nouced his effects one of the most valua
ble private collections in the city. All
of the collection has, it is said, been
turned over to his late employers in par
tial restitution of the shortage.
HIGH WATER
NEBRASKA IS VISITED BT HEAVY FLOODS—
GIIEAT DAMAGE REPORTED.
The heavy rains have swollen the
streams in southwestern Nebraska to an
unusual height. Uailroail traffic is con
siderably interrupted, and much damage
has been done to property. At Beatrice,
ou*Blue river, houses on bottom lands
were flooded, the people escaping in
boats. Anew paper mill was swept
away and other small building* were
wrecked. Salt creek and Salt basins are
one vast lake and the water has as yet
shown no signs of subsiding. From three
to five hundred houses are flooded and
the people have moved out of danger.
WILL NOT HANG.
WOOLFOI.K GETS A NEW LEASE ON 1113
LIFE.
Wednesday afternoon, at Macon, Ga.,
Judge Gustin refused to accept the brief
of evidence as submitted by tire attorneys
of Tom Woolfolk in tlieir motion for a
now trial, and ordered that the stenog
rapher's report be made the brief of ev
idence in the case. Judge Gustin also
granted the supersedeas, ns the motion
had not been completed. Therefore,
Tom Woolfolk will not hang on Friday,
August 16th, the day appointed. The
hearing on the motion will now actively
begin since the brief of evidence ha?
been decided upon.
DREADED CATERPILLARS.
Considerable anxiety has been caused
recently on the sea islands, and, in fact,
in the entire lower portion of South Car
olina, by the appearnuce of the pestifer
ous caterpillar, the bete noir of the
cotton planters, which, it is said, has at
tacked the cotton with such a force that
the crop is alreudy damaged agreat deal.
love.
“Shall I give your love to your mother “
He said to the maid ot three,
For her mother hail gone to a eouutrjr
Where presently he should ba.
What calm in the eyes of azure,
What snow on the innocent brow,
How sweet was that voice of slow music:
“My mother has my love now p
—Harriet P. Spofford, ia fit. Nicholas.
THE FATEOFANUSHER.
BY ANNE RICHARDSON KAHLK.
The sconu was a young man's boudoir.
If such uu anomaly can exist; the time,
late in tho evening, when confidences find
easiest expression; the people were the
boudoir s owner, in a neglige conqiound
of dress clothes and a smoking jacket,
and tlie friend of his bosom, somewhat
similarly attired, with the comfortable
abomination of a cigarette between his
fingers.
“Just let me read it to you again,”
said he of the smoking jacket, straight
ening himself in his chair, and taking a
worn looking paper from tho table.
“Something may suggest itself to you. 1
want to have it all right, you know, so
that when the notice is mentioned I shall
be. ready with a good suggestion, Now,
tuen, listen: Miller—Waldron.—On
Wednesday, tlie 88th Inst., at the Church
of the Seven Angels, by the Right Kev
erend Arthur St. John Forbes, D.D., as
sisted by the Reverend Francis Willard
Mason, George Northrup Miller and Ada
line Bell, daughter of the late Major-
General Sylvester Waldron, United States
Army.’ How is it? Does it go?”
“Go? I should think so! All those j
capitals w ill sparkle like diamonds in the
sun. But, Miller, I wish you would
count me out of the affair. How many
weddings do you suppose I have played J
usher for this spring? Six—no less.”
“Well, make it seven. There's luck '
in odd numbers.”
VThere wouldn’t be in this case. I
was just ready to swear off from all social
dissipations, and go into training until
fall, for the sake of my health. There's
Greene, he’s a good fellow; have him.”
Miller shook his head. “I won’t have
Greene nor anybody else,” he said, clasp
ing his hands behind his head and throw
ing himself back in his chair. “I’ll have
you. I’m sorry if you’re feeble. I wish
you could be best man. There’s plenty
to get and little to do in that situation;
but Ada’s brother—oonfound him! —l
had to ask him.”
“Of course. I don’t grudge him. the
honor; but you know Wednesday i drill
night for me, and—”
“I'll pay your fine.”
“Hang the fine!”
“With pleasure; but if you don’t mind
the fine, I’m sure I don’t see why you
mind cutting. They will work you harder
than I shall. I won’t oblige you to carry
a gun.”
“Thanks. I'm oqual to the gun, I
believe.”
“I’ll tell you what it is, Brooks, you
have been in no end of a sulk since there
was a doubt about Miss Howard’s being
maid of honor. I must say I think it’s
shabby of you to desert me on that ac
count. Still, I will be magnanimous, and
tell you the news, although it would serve
you right if I didn’t. She has accepted,
after all; her father has consented to her
coming to town for the occasion. Why
he wanted to refuse at all I can’t imagine.
But it is like him; everybody knows what
he is.”
Brooks laughed with a more interested
manner than he had shown heretofore.
“I don’t,” he said; “what is he?”
“Why, haven’t you met him?”
“Yes, but only once or twice,and then
not for more tlran n minute. He is a
handsome man.”
“Oh, iron-gray hair gives any man a
distinguished look, and he is tali and
straight, which helps out the idea, but
he is a perfect tyrant. I have heard that
he is positively cruel to his daughter;
that he bought this place out of town
purposely to keep her shut up, and that
he won’t let a man look at her. Now
there was Radford. It seems that ho
went out there to offer Miss Howard his
hand aud heart, and was fairly rushed off
the place by his host."
“Sensible man. Who told of it—Rad
ford?”
“I don’t know; it was told. I admit
that, excepting financially, Radford is
not much of a catch. He liasn tas much
strength of character as a little wee mon
key; but I must say I think that he
might have been declined with thanks.
I suppose it sounds heartless, but peculiar
advantages belong to a girl who hasn t
any father.”
Brooks rose to his feet and dropped
iris cigarette end into a receiver; then
turning an animated countenance toward
liis host, he grasped his hand and shook
it warmly. “I’llsee you through, Miller,”
he said, “if it takes the last prop of my
failing constitution.’
After this the wedding preparations
went merrily on, One eveuiug, liow
evor, hardly a week before the great
day, tlie happy bridegroom sought out
his friend Brooks, witli a wrinkle on his
brow and a troubled sympathy in his
manner. “It’s all up, man, he
said, with desperate frankness.
“Great heavens! what do you mean?”
exclaimed Brooks, aghast.
Miller laughed a little. “Oh, it isu t
as bad as that,” he said, “only Miss
Howard can’t come; she lias sprained
her ankle. Lucky it was no worse. She
was thrown from her horse. Her father
must be an idiot to let her ride horse
back. I suppose lie wanted to break her
neck.”
Brooks laughed in spite of his dis
appointment. “Oh, you re not yourself
at all, Miller dear, Miller dear,” he said;
“aud small blame to you. However, as
vou sav, it is lucky it is no worse.”
“Yes; hut what shall you do?”
“I? I shall send her out some flow
ers, and a note to say that 1 am sorry.”
Miller looked relieved. “Aud you’ll
he on hand yourself all the same?” lie
said.
“Do you take me for a child?” an
swered Brooks, with some asperity. “Of
course I will."
He was as good as iris word.
“You're a trump, Brooks,” Miller said
to him, in a hasty aside at the reception.
“You have outdone yourself to-night.”
“Don't say a word,” returned Brooks,
in a low delightful voice. “I have a
note from Miss Howard in my pocket,
asking me to come out to-morrow after
noon and tell her about it. So I am
playing society reporter to-night, seeing
everything and everybody.”
Miller laughed. “Alas! poor Rad
ford 1” he said, significantly.
On the following afternoon, therefore,
a pretty young lady with an interesting
pillowed foot was relating circumstan
tially the story of her temporary invalid
ism and its cause to a brown-moustached
young man seated near by, who showed
an absorbing interest in the subject.
It was an attractive picture for con
templation ou a warm day. A shady ve
randa, with a gentle breeze coming
toward it over an odorous velvet lawn; a
small afternoon tea table set forth with
fruit and cooling beverages, and a young
and attractive pair of people luxuriously
disposed to enjoy their beautiful sur
roundings and each other’s society.
It was a reality doubly fain in the eyes
of the young man, who was exchanging
for it the monotony of business routine
in the dusty city. Not. that, his lot was
a hard one. An only son in business
with ills prosperous father is ill the ma
jority of cases rather over|iaid than over
worked; still, such a day, such a situa
tion, and such a companion formed an
unusual combination. It. was the first
tote-a-tete that he had ever enjoyed with
her wherein the certainty of an inter
ruption was not imminent. But now—
now no carriage waited at. the curb to
bear her from liiui; no partner all too
pronqit. would come to claim his waltz.
Brooks had known for many a day that
there was more happiness to be found iu
tha society of this young lady than in
that of any other, but the difference had
never shown so plainly as now.
Presently she raised a great hunch of
rare roses which lay on the couch beside
her, and held them admiringly ahovc her
eyes. “These are the second you have
sent already 1 ” she said. “I understand
something from them.”
“So much the better,’’ he returned,
! boldly. “I intended that you should.”
She glanced at him over her flowers,
and then fastened her eyes upon them.
“1 understand, she said, that you are
very extravagant and very young.”
“Young!” he echoed, paying no heed
to the less shocking adjective. “By that
you mean foolish, I suppose. However,
the flowers pleased you, didn't they?”
“Yes; but they did not please papa.”
Ah! there was mention of that beto |
noire at last. He had almost forgotten
its existence. “Your father—is—hard
to please, is he not?” he said, haltingly.
“I think that I have heard that he wui
not always quite amicably disposed
toward such as I.”
Sire covered her face completely with
the roses at this, but when she spoke ho
could divine nothing from her manner.
“Papa likes to have his own way, "she said,
half apologetically. Then, seeming to
cast concealment to the winds, “He has
a high temper,” she confessed. “You
know some people have, but his is some
thing quite terrible, the storming, raving
kind; not toward me—he is the dearest,
most devoted father in the world; but
toward young men, especially young men
who send me flowers, he is quite violent
sometimes.”
He nodded seriously, thinking of Rad
ford's fate; at least that fate should nol
be his. “I shall meet Mr. Howard at
dinner, shall I not?” ho asked, wishing
the flowers in Jericho which so entirely
concealed her face. “I suppose that if
man conducts himself like a gentleman iu
his presence he is trented like one.”
“Oh, certainly—that is, sometimes—
nearly always. But he has been asking
a great many questions about you since
these came. He says that he has known
your father all his life, and has always
admired him. Still, papa is hard to
please; although he likes your father he
may not like you. You are not your
father, you know.”
“Aud you are not yours,thank heaven;
! so let us dismiss the subject, and defer
! the evil hour as long :is possible. Will
! you put down those roses, or shall I take
them?” He stretched forth a hand toward
them, but she avoided it.
“You have not told me a word about
the wedding,” she said, hastily; “I am
dying to hear about it. Begin at once.”
“Oh, certainly,” he acquiesced, with
| reckless gayety. “The spinster and the
bachelor will now discuss the wedding.
As you know, I was one of the ushers,aud
if you have ever been glad that you are a
young lady, continue to rejoice, for no
one can turn you into an usher.”
“Is it hard work?” she asked.
“Do not tell me that you have ever
attended a wedding without seeing that
it must be drudgery. Imagine a fellow
—shall I start there, or go back to the
very beginning?”
“The beginning of your existence, do
you mean?" she asked, laughing.
“Tbe beginning of the wedding,” lie
answered, with lofty majesty. “I am
too young to have a past.”
“So you are. The wedding, then;
and do your very best this afternoon; be
entertaining, for lying still for so long in
clines one to blue dragons of the bluest
kind, and I want you to fight them oil
for me.”
“St. George for England!” he cried,
laughing. “The tight begins! Imagine
a church, large, gray, a trifle damp per
haps, lights turned low, but over all a
gala air. The chancel is decorated in its
white garments, aud forty million roses
throw tlieir beauty and fragrance over all;
together with potted things, of course,
palms and hydrangeas, tall lilies and
miles of smilax.”
“Smilax in pots?”
“No, not in pots, but everywhere else.
Enormous candelabra stand about, lighted
and festooned with greenery, and high
above everything is a great crescent made
with twinkling lights like little stars.
Now! Enter eight conspirators! I am
oue. The sexton is thereto admit us;
the organist and a few favored friends
are already in the loft. A mob besieges
every oue of the doors. That is ttie
stuffing of the assembly, so to speak;
without it the nooks and crannies which
one could not till with invited guests
would be vacant, and give the cheerless
look which lights and flowers could not
soften. Now we admit this stuffing, and
it tears its componant parts to shreds try
in" for places from which to see. Good!
The nooks and crannies are filled, aud
still they come. They are vandals. They
stand up in their seats; they walk up
each other's skirts. These arc Indies,
you understand; at least they were ladies,
until the rumor of a wedding turned
them centuries back into barbarians.”
“Splendid!” interrupted the audience,
laughing. “Why do you not report for
the papers?”
NUMBER 44.
“Too young,” he answered, dryly. “I
must have experience first.”
“I am blighted by your sarcasm!” she
rried, continuing to laugh. “Please ex
cuse me for living, nnd go on with the
story.”
“Listen, then, for the plot thickens.
The organist is playing anil teaviug off
at his pleasure, and any ingredient of the
stuffing would, at this moment of excite
ment, be willing to stand upon the fore
head of its fainting neighbor to get a
better view. Presently we are summoned
to the vestibule. The bride has arrived.
Misa Waldron has eight bridemaids iu
green, and a special (your substitute) iu
pink, who walks in beside her. They all
liave bouijuets as large as hay-sticks, and
are positively silent with fright. Now—
wraps off! Here we go! ‘Doo! doo!
dy-doo!’ That is the weeding march as
performed upon the organ; it must go
through that, once, and then the doors
arc thrown back. All the people in the
rhureli turn wrong side before, and those
st. the sides sway forward, giving an ap
pearance of the walls falling in. We
leave four pews between each two of us,
and six between the last pair of bride
maids and the bride and special.* No one
comes after the bride, which is fortunate,
as her dress is no less than a mile long
behind. We reach the chancel steps; the
eight maids in blue slide before us eight
youths in black. The bride and her
special are next the rail, as per rehearsal.
Miller and young Waldron arc there ready
to receive them. ‘Wur-r-r-r!’ tliat is the
service.”
“Don’t be flippant,” said the audi
ence reprovingly.
“I give you my word that was all that
I heard of it. The organ continues to
play softly; the bride gives her hay-stack
to the special, and ‘wur-r-r 1 on it goes.
There is some juggling with the ring,
anil the bride’s brother-in-law nearly dies
of stage fright as he gives her away.
Now they kneel. Well done! I see the
benediction. Up again! Good! The
organ roars its loudest, and the bride
faces about without turning her train
under side up, which is the master-stroke
of the performance, and sails down the
aisle, Miller and all, while the crowd
simply grinds itself to little bits and goes
away piecemeal.”
“I think you are very frivolous,” she
commented, laughing.
“Aud I think that you are very un
grateful. Have I not amused you and
fought your blues with might anil main?”
“Yes, certainly; but—”
“Do not distress yourself over my
frivolity; it was a frivolous wedding. No
single person there was awed or even
serious—not one. The bride was obliged
to count the pews and be careful that her
train did not turn over. As for the
crowd, they could hear nothing, and de
voted themselves to trying to see, that
they might not have come entirely in
vain. We had two rehearsals’ and Ido
assure you that the service is the very
least part of the whole.”
“I should not wish any one to say that
of my wedding, "she confessed, seriously.
“Nor I,” he assented, speaking as
seriously, but with a daring light in his
eyes. “I shall try to have a very differ
! ent kind if you approve.”
Five minutes later the grating of car
riage wheels on the gravel drive at the
other side of the house made itself heard,
succeeded by hasty footsteps, which fol
! lowed the sound of a calling voice.
“Papa, papa,” cried the voice, “come
I here! come here as quickly as you can.
' Papa, this is Mr. Brooks, and he has
asked me to marry him, and he kissed
1 me, and won’t say that he is sorry. Tell
him your opinion of such conduct.”
There was an instance of silence. A
stern, steady gaze on the part of tht
older man; a firm front and a steady gaz t
on that of the younger. Then this ter
rible father, this tyrant with a violent
temper, turned quietly toward his child
and took her hand in his.
“Tell me what you think of t.he re
quest, little daughter,” he said, bending
over her, “and I will tell Mr. Brooks what
I think of the other.”
“You behaved magnificently,” she saic
to her accepted suitor. “If you hac
seemed a bit afraid, I should have been
provoked with myself for caring for you.
You see I have never had a man friend
who was not in terror if papa showed his
face. Just because papa is splendid and
silent, they fairly grovel before him. 8c
when I found that you did not quake al
the monstrous idea you had formed of him,
I was tempted, to see if you could b
made to quake. * It was a test, but I was
on your side all the time, hoping that
I you would win.”
I “A kiud of fairy-tale ending,” h
-.aid, lauglring. “If the young man
guesses the riddle he marries the princess;
if not, off with his head!”
“With the difference that this young
: man would have married the princess in
] the end whether he had guessed the rid
dle or not. Still I like the fairy-tale end
ing. Let us hope for that by all means.
Do you know what it is? ‘And they all
I lived happily ever after.’”— Harper's
Bmar,
Skull Development-.
By comparing modern skulls with those
of the same race in an old monastery in
the Kedron Valley, Dr. Dight, the Ameri
can College of Beirut, Syria, has shown
that thirteen centuries have added two
inches to the circumference and three
and a half cubic inches to the capacity of
the Caucasian skull. The braiu has de
veloped in the parts presiding over the
moral and intellectual functions, growing
higher and longer, without increase of
the lower portions, which give breadth
to the head, and in which the selfish pro
pensities are centred.
A Mystery.
What urt thou, O thou strong, mysterious
Might!
My being's deep
That mov’st?—that, still, by day and night,
Yea, e’en in sleep, .
At thine approach I tremble, weep and sigh.
Say, whence dost wield
Such sovereignty that, though I. fain would
fly.
I yet must yield?
And, ah! why art thou so strangely, wildly
sweet?
And wherefore art
In thine attained bliss, so short, so fleet,
To human heart?
Say, hast thou learned the whirlwind’s secret
force.
That, over hill
And dale, sweeps all before it in ite course,
And then is still?
Nay, rather art thou born of that soft
power,
The gentle breeze,
That, wooing, bends and thiiiis the shudder,
ing flower- —
For thontf a sneeze!
—.Yew York Trilmru.