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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUME XXIV.
■SOLTUKKN NEWS.
H’A'l/.s' OA' INTEREST FROM VA
■ I‘OINTS IN THE soulll.
H( ( v Ur Vt, chancellor of the t ni
■,'h „i Pi .li.lu, on Thursday presented
■ll,'i,l,f'.i ' college, Tiffin, Ohio, a
■ ies valued ,U SOO,OOO.
■ip, liny Huston died ut Murphy, K.C.,
■ r .| r . she wi one hundred and
■ntr-oue years ohl, a pensioner, und
Kit'iiilitii'l the battle of Kings moun-
Bn.
*r|„. ]/urlient and Viticulturist , news
K,„ r ostinmtes that the wine product of
Bifornia will not exceed 12,000,01)0
■llcins this year. This is a reduction of
■kiii.OUO gallons from early estimates.
(The Georgia legislature passed the
■cstern A Atlantic railroad lease hill on
■ednesday by a vote of 130 to 11). By
|c provisions of the hill the road is
lln leased without restrictions of any
In.
William McClosky, Catholic bishop of
ie Louisville diocese, has ordered the
using of St. Joseph's college at linrds
wu, Ky. Ihe reason is that a faculty,
ich as was desired, could not be made
1 for the ensuing year.
One drug house in Vicksburg, Mbs .
ceivcd orders for lifteeil tons, or 30,000
muds of Paris green a few days ago.
lis fact demonstrates the extent of the
•prehension felt by cotton planters
interning the cotton worms in the large
ea of country tributary to or trading
itli that city.
A sharp shock of earthquake occurred
Los Angeles, Cal-, at 0:13 Tuesday
euing. The entire duration of the dis
rbanco was about ten seconds. The
brations were of such force as to stop
peks and crack ceilings. lhc shock
is the most severe experienced there in
|ny years.
The United Slates circuit court, ut
p Fiancisco, was officially informed
icsday that the charges of murder
ainst Justice Stephen .1. Field had
on dismissed by the Stockton court,
idgc Sawyer accordingly dismissed (be
bi as corpus proceeding in the quse of
stilt Field.
It is repoited from Birmingham, Ala.,
it Jim Snow nud George Hanks, two
(laws, who were members of lhc
npson gang in the bloody Simpson and
ovten feud in the western part of the
untv, wire captured Thursday and
Igcd in jail there. There is a reward
|4OO fur the capture of the two men.
The trustees of the Stutc Agiicultural
il Mechanical college, met at ltaleigh,
C\, on Saturday in special session, to
et a president of '.hut college. The
ction resulted in the choice of Oaloni-1
tx, Q. Holliday, who is n native of
rgiuis, and for five yean has been
mident of the Florida agricultural
lege.
The carpenters’ strike in Birmingham,
a., which .lias been in progress for
irly a week, is virtually ended. An
irease of five cents per hour all around
s been conceded by nearly all the
itractors. The carpenters had theud
ttage of striking ut just the right time,
more than 2,000 buildings were going
I under contract.
bout one hundred negro miners left
miiigham. Ala., oil Tuesday for Mex
i. They go to work in the coal mines
one of the interior states of that rc
bUc. High wages and liberal inducc
!uts of various binds are offered the
grbes. Most of the m gro miners at
tmingham are ex-conviets, and learned
e trade while serving their sentence.
Another big railroad (leal was made
ursday at Nashville, Teun., by which
. William Morrow becomes principal
uer of the South Nashville Street
llway company, and Mr, Wm. Dun
1, the president, retires. The capital
ick of the company is $115,000, and
< r half of this controlling interest was
Id by Dur.cin to Dr. Morrow.
The annual cotton statement of Mont
imery, Ala., shows that total receipts
r the past year, 1888-80, were 108,507,
id for 1887-88 receipts were 107,508.
uiing tho month of August last year,
eeiptj were 1,791 bales and fi r the
me mouth this year 4,000 bales. Cot
nis opening very rapidly, and com
native high prices will hurry it on the
urki t.
At Monlevullo, Ala., Saturday night,
'inther developments are awaited will
iterest.
■ The committee of the Southern Rail
■ay ami Steamship association, at Allan-
V. Ga., concluded its work on Thursday,
■lie rates recently adopted hy the Centra
■lad of Georgia and the Piedmont Air
■me were considered. It was decided tc
■|‘T l the same schedule on all the roads,
■nh theexeeption of the marine insurance
■suse of the Georgia Central and Suvan
■ah fast freight line. The price on all
■ads except this will be 1.10, and In
e Georgia Central it will be 1.08, al
■ wing for the marine insurance, which
■ UI so have to be paid.
■ dlie funeral services over the remains
rs. Julia JackVih Christian, dangh
■ ,';’ htonewall Jackson, who died in
Hmd.fl ' tt; ' 0n Fridtt y, took place
H.rclfnt ‘r'® l ." B at 'he Presbyterian
■ . Lexington. The church Was
R. I “ lllre population of the
■esi 1"i ? ut ,' F *'e body was interred
KtonJsu r f i‘ th , tr ’ ocncr ttl Thomas J.
■K- o- . i* ' nc * <Son - Many of the bat
■riiti l "i , V,ttraDS ot the Confederacy!
im remain. and in tears, watched
lffcr?n n .i HK t 0 r, st - Choice floral
| .... ° came f ro ® many places.
P'urfollfnfTvu ° f l ' lu business of the
for J,!|y l lSH^ tStern Railroad company
Same month . “ 3cco l ) with tlie
Barniuits tr.' i Jear ' shows the gross
44T. he 1457, BBoj an iucrease of
of t2B iio PeMt ' Sl an increase
Increase oV “teg ♦ l ,‘ B ' 2oß * an
months for the seven
i"gs were “itVos? a Bl / 4 thc roB3 earu
-1254 in-i **i js -,4.4, an increase of
pond’j ? m pai.:d witli the corres
-825 tifl(f of 1888- > expenses, #l,
earning;, of net
*1,764. an increase of
eotton j., r l Jr °b l b , t the sale of seed
county of r ?“ ldwi " and 'be
to 15th of in ! 1S f i rom 'J 10 04 August
provide nenaJG mb f 6r ° f onch year nnd ,0
same als P o , f °, r . a v ‘°l a tion of the
eotton i„ n l >rohlblt ‘he sale of seed
the Ist dav of* Unty Wa *hington from
Uecemb in P I U h BU *° the 24th da ? of
Benalii bs t nr (f 30 * 1 . ? tar > and to provide
m * or ‘he violation of the same.
John Lawrence saw a light in Ids uncle's
lime and went inside lo see about it
Burglars were inside and opened tire on
him, unit when nil wus over and the
burglars gone, Lawrence lay dead, shot
through tho heart. Both of the burglars
were captured on Sunday. One of them
lias contested. When found they were
Jp a tree within fifty feet of where the
aiurder wavs" unlimited.
Thursday morning, ut Monroe, Ga.,
while workmen were tearing aw ay an old
barioom, u human skeleton wus uu
'Drilled in thn cellar. Excitement run
high, and many theories wcresuggisted.
Several times in the history of Monno
men have disappoint'd suddenly and
wore never heaid of. The building is
quite old, and ut different times in its his
tory It has been occupied by bad men ns
i barroom and gambling house.
St. Augustine,, Fla . was in n fever of
excitement Wednesday, over the discov
ery of a hidden Spanish treasure in nn old
house, corner of Bridge and Murine
streets. An old colored inun dug up
near the foundation of the chimney fifty
two Spanish coins in a rusty metallic
pot about ten inches deep and two in
ches across the mouth. The coins arc
very old, the latist being dated 1800
and several of them nntedating 1700.
A GOOD REPORT
FROM n. O. DUS * CO., FOR WEEK ESPINO
AUGUST 31.
Following is a condensation of R. G.
Dun & Company’s review of trade for the
week ending Saturday, August 31 :
‘•Business in nil parts of the countiy
continues to improve with the stim
ulus of large crops. Chicago reports nn
immense increase in the receipts of grain
and provisions, with n considerable gain
tn the sales of dry goods and clothing.
Milwaukee finds trade improving; at
Deli oil and St. Paul the pievious im
provement is mainttdncd; at Omaha
business is very goo-1. The iron business
is expanding, and at Philadelphia nn
improvement is noted in wool, groceries,
iron and steel, and their piodnets, and in
coal, with a good trade in drugs and
chemicals and tobacco. At Bosion the
sales of wool are larMr, reaching 2,100,-
000 pounds for the week, and the dry
goods trade is large, with prices well
maintained. A heavy demund for export
is observed in leather, both sole and
splits, and a good home demand, while
hoot aud shoe factork-fare well employed
at last yeur’s prices, and I, rge building
operations make the lumber trade more
active. The Tennessee Coal and Iron
company gives notice of an advance of
twenty-five cents in its prices for pig
iron, and the rise in the price of coke at
Pittsburg insures some advame in pig
iron there, while bar, plate und stmetu
ral iron are in ttiong demand, and the
works better employed than they have
been before for several years. An in
crease of wages is reported at several es
tablishments, and the building of seve
ral more furnaces. Expoits from New
York for four weeks exceed last year’s
by nearly twenty-two per cent. Stocks
have advanced just $2.50 per share iu the
week, and 1,200,000 shares have been
sold already at li-ing prices. It is an
encouraging fact that the important
failures of recent weeks have not pro
duced a large crop of minor disasters, by
many apprehended. The volume of
trade is still much above that of lust
year, and clearings show a gain of 8J
per cent, outside of New York. In the
speculative markets the general tendency
has been toward lower prices, though
wheat advanced on extravagant reports
of shortness in European crops. But
the average of prices lor all commodities
is about one per cent, lower than n week
ngo, and even in wheat, later sales indi
cate a declining tendency ns in other
grain and provisions. Business failures,
occurring throughout the country during
the past seven days, as reported to R. G.
Dun & Cos., mercantile agency, by tele
graph, number for the United States 189
and for Canada 22, or a total of 211, ns
compared with a total of 200 lust week,
and 211 the week previous. For the
corresponding week of last year the fig
ures were 220, made up of 202 failures in
the United States and 24 in thedomiuiou
of Cunado.
IMPORTANT REBOLUTIONB
ADOPTED BY TUB COTTON COMMITTER OF
TDK FARMER'S ALUANCK.
At a meeting of the national cotton
committee of the Fanners’ Alliance,
held iu Atlanta, Ga , on Wednesday, the
following resolutions were passed : Re
solved, That the national cotton eornmit
mlitee recommend that the farmers of
the south sell no cotton during the month
of September, except what tuny be abso
lutely necessaiy to meet the obligations
which are past due. Resolved, That the
national cotton eommittic instruct the
president of each sub-Alliance, wheel or
union, or some person appointed by liirn,
to meet the president nnd secre
tary of his county Alliance on
the 28tli of September, at the
county seat for the purpose of rcccivtog
instructions from the national cotton
committee. lie-solved, That each secret
tnry of every cotton state be charged
with the duty of placing those resolu
tions immediately bofore their respective
county presidents, and charge all ex
penses of printing and postage to the
National Alliance. Resolved, That the
farmers be urged to take special care in
sheltering their cotton from the damag
ing weather. Resoived, That every
newspaper in the South in sympathy with
the farmers is requested to publish these
resolutions. (Signed) li. Sltdge, Chair
man, Kvlo, Texas; A. T. Hatcher, Grand
Cane, La.: W. R. Lacy, Winona, Miss.;
S. D. Alexander, Charlotte, N. C.; L. F.
Feaihcrstotic, Forest City, Ark.; Al. L-
Donaldson, Greenville, 8. C.; W. J.
Northern, Spartn, Ga.; R. F. Kolb,
Montgomery, Ala.; B. M. Ilord, Secre
tary, Nashville, Tenn.
BTAtIngTtHEIR WANTS.
THE LEGISLATIVE COM.'. T.'EE'S REPORT
TO THIS MISSISSIPPI ALLIANCE.
At Jackson, Miss., the committee on
memorials and legislation made their re
port to the state alliance Saturday, and
it was adopted. It contains the follow
ing recommendations to the legislature.
That money be appropriated by the state
to encourage foreign immigration; that
so much of convict labor as is necessaiy
uc employed in tunning a bagging fac
tory as a state enterprise; that railroadj,
banks, etc., be required to pay ad valo
rem instead of a privilege tax; urging a
law establishing a state agricultural bu
reau and providing for the teaching of
agriculture in the public schools; that
the next legislature call a constitutional
convention; that a law bo adopted re
quiring the inspection on hoof of all beef
cattle.
"MY COUNTRY: MAY SUE EVER RE RIUUT; RIOIIT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY /" Jm-rans.>n
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. 1889.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
news i huh tvntvuu—lCClDZST*, sratatt.
nan, AM- ■xprnsiMiis or ixrxuzsr.
George Fawcett Rowe, playwright and
w riter,died in New York Thursday night.
The Bank of England bus advanced it*
rate of discount from three per cent to
four per cent.
An earthquake wus experienced on the
Russian frontier Tuesduy. In the village
of Khenr.oiik 129 per.oiis were buried
alive.
Emperor William, of Germany, has
presented his portrait to laird Salisbury
as a souvenir of hi* recent visit to Eng
land.
The barbers’ national convention, l ulled
to meet in Pittsburg, Pa., next Tuesday,
has been indefinitely postponed. The
purpose of the meeting was to organize
a national union.
The jury of the Paris exposition recom
mends that a gold medal be awarded to
Boston for its educational exh bits. Sim
ilar rceemmendations have been made in
fuvor of Carroll university, aud the Uni
versity of Virginia.
An investigation of the accounts of W.
E. Denny, assistant post muster ut Boone
vile, Ind., who is cnaiged with embez
zlement in his office, shows that the
shortage amounts to SO,OOO, und may
reach more. Denny bus not yet been up
prehended.
Tuesday evening a bomb, ten centime
ters in diameter, was thrown from the
rear of the chamber of deputies into tbe
Piazza Colena, in Spain, during the
progress of a conceit. The bomb ex
ploded, wounding seriously six geu
durmes and a child.
John S. Mackintosh, wool puller of
Milton, Mass., assigned on Tuesday.
His liabilities are estimated to be in the
neighborhood of $100,090. The assign
ment was caused by the embarrassment
of Brown, Sleese & Clark, and George
Holds.
The shoe fuctory of A. C'ohurn, Son <k
Cos., at Ilopkiuson, Mass., was burned
Tuesday morning. Over three hundred
workmen arc deprived of employment.
One storehouse attached to the factory
was aho destroyed. The loss is esti
mated ut $250,000,"fu11y insured.
At Chicago, 11. J. Iluhkamp, one of
the proprietors of the Times, prccuic.i
warrants -Tuesday for James J. West and
his secretary, Charles F. Graham. He
charges them with illegally issuing 1,000
shares of the stock of the Times com
pany.
In accordance with a law recently
passed, fhe French government, on Sat
urday, took formal possession of the tel
ephone stations. The company protested
against the government’s uetioii is illegal
and only submitted to force.
Horace F. Shepard,of Sharon,treasurer
of the Shepard & Morse Lumber Cos., of
Boston, Mass., failed and made an assign
ment to Oscar A. Martin, of Straugh
ton, and 11. A. Nash, of Boston, La
bilities SIOO,OOO, assets light.
Rev. C. A. Nybladr, of Galesburg, 111.,
lias instituted suit against thirty promi
nent citizens of thut place, charging
them with false imprisonment und de
famation of character, and asks for $25,-
000 damages. Last fall Mr. Nybladn
was anested on a serious elnrgc. He es
caped tiiul bicause the case was dis
missed.
A certificate filed in tho county
clerk’s otlice on Saturday, shows (hat the
capital stock of the Commercial cable
company, of New York, has been in
creased from $6,000,000 $10,000,000. It
wassigned by directors John W.Mackey,
George S. Coc, Hector DeCaslro, A. B.
Chandler and DeCastro.
It is reported from St. Louis that the
fast mail tntin which arrived in that city
Saturdny night over the Vandalia Road,
wus robbed at Terre lluute, Indiana,
while the mail clerks and train hands
weie at supper. It is said that one
pouch, containing registered letters, was
taken. The pouch was supposed to
contain about SIO,OOO.
The trial of the six men, Burke, Wood
ruff, Coughlin, Beggs, O’Sullivan nud
Kuuze, charged with the murder of Dr.
Cronin, on May 4th, was begun at Chi
cago, on Tuesday. Probably no ease in
the history of the city has attracted such
wide-sptead attention as the Cronin
murder case, anil the tiial will be
watched with great interest.
A special from Republic, Wis., says:
Reimond Holzhey, the lme highway
man, who has terrorized Northern Wis
consin for live months past, robbing
trains, waylaying stage conches and
holding up pedestrians, was captured
there Saturday morning. Ho zliey con
fesses to all the stage and railroad rob
beries.
Counsel for Lazarus Davy and David
E. Harman, of New York, has obtained
from Judge liarrett,of the supn mecouit
a writ of injunction restraining
the Mobile und Ohio railroad company
from paying in cash the interest due Sep
temlcr Ist, on its general mort
gage bonds, and from pledging or selling
any of its bonds for the purpose of pro
viding money to make the payment of in
terest.
It was announced Wcdncxday that 11.
C Frick & Cos., the largest coal operators
of the Connellsville, Pa., region, t ad se
emed control of the J. M. Shoonmnkcr
coke plant, which includes 5,000 acres of
coal land, 1,500 coke ovens aud 400ea,s.
This will give Frick & Cos., conttol of
over 9,000 coke ovens in that region.
Begining with Monday the selling
price of coal will be advanced from $1 to
$1.83 to furnace men, $1.50 to dealers
and $1.85 to foundry meu.
After being shut down for sixteen
years the Ironton Pig Iron works, with
a capacity of 1,200 tons of pig iron per
day,located a few miles north of Buffalo,
N. Y , on the Niagara river, was started
up on’Wednesday by Cincinnati-parties,
who have leased the plant for five yiars,
with the privilege of putchase. The re
newal of this enterprise, which originally
cost half a million of dollars, has created
much enthusiasm in manufacturing cir
cles in Buffalo.
Tho case of Deputy Marshal David
Nagle who shot nud killed David 8.
Terrv' was tukeu up in the United States
circuit court at San Francisco on
Wednesday, for the purpose of fixing the
time for faking testimony and hearing
arguments on tbe question of jurisdiction
of the federal court. Mr. Turner, one of
the attorneys representing the state, an
nounced that as both his colleagues hud
retired from the case, he would follow
.i _i r crumple. This leaves the state
without counsel in the Nagle esse. The
hearing wm postponed until next week.
William Murlrio Speer, secretary of
the World's Fair committc) at New
York, on Thursday received the fo'low
ing letter from ex-President Cleveland,
dated at Saranac Inn: “I acknowl
edge the receipt ol untie ' of my ap
pointmint as a member of the com
mittee on permanent organization for the
ictei uatiiinid ex|Hisition of 1892. Isluill
be very glad to 00-opcrute as a member
of such committee with other citizens of
New York to make the exposition a
grand success.”
A disastrous tiro and loss of life oc
curred at Spring City, Pa., early Sutur
day morning. Flames weie discovered
in the Amciionn Wood Paper com
pany's works. The tkiiues spread lap dly,
uml before they coni 1 Ira checked, one of
the inrge buildings, three stories high
and tilled with valuable iiincl.i icry. was
' ompletely destroyed. A short time af
terwards, the wall on the northeast fide
bulged out, and about thiriy feet of it
fell with a crash. Oliver Monshwer was
instantly kil’cd, and William Robinson,
Charles Seifeit, William S< haefler und
Henry Seaser were more or 1 as injured.
The.loss will reach $90,000; covered by
n.suiarce.
THE WORLD’B EXPOSITION.
GREAT PREPARATIONS USING MADE FOE
THE FOUTUCOMtNO WORLD’S FAIR.
New York has certainly entered heart
and soul into ihe pre iiuinary arrange
ments for our great international exposi
tion of 1892, and when this mighty city
commits herself unreservedly to auy en
terprise, the ultimate accomplishment of
the undertaking is prac ically guaran
teed. Therefore, the history of Ameri
ca's forthcoming world’s fair may be
epitomized in one word of reliable pro
phecy—success. Mayor Grant is being
congratulated l>v everybody upon the
excellent judgment he has di played in
appointing the various committees. Hil
wisdom in tho discharge of that duty
reached its climax in his selection of the
finance committee. There prob.ibly
never was such u galaxy of millionaires
as-ociatod together on any one hoard of
management. The combinid wealth of
the twenty-live men composing that
finance commit’ee amounts to over
$500,000,000 or an average of $20,000,-
000 apiece. The following is extracted
from a report of the first meeting which
was held iu the governor’s room in the
city hall on Saturday: The committee
consists of twenty-five members, ap
pointed by the muyor, with the mayor
aud the secretary of the genc.-al com
mittee members cx-officio. Of the
twenty-seven membeis, only seven were
absent. Mr. Ilavemcyer, Mr. O'Dono
hue, Mr. Pierpont Morgan and Mr.
Huutiugtou aie iu Europe, ilr. Mills,
Mr. Jesup, Mr. Shepherd and Mr. Van
derbilt were ouf of town, und could not
return in time for the meeting. Those
present were: William L. Bull,.Presi
dent of the Stock Exchange; Calvin 8.
Brice, August Belmout, Samuel D. Bab
cock, Robert Dunlap, Jay Gi uld, Henry
B. Hyde, John 11. lum..n, Eugene Kelly,
Frederick A. Kurshoedt, John McKes
son, Herman Oelrichs, Oswald Otten
norfer, William Rickafeller, Chatles
Stewart Smith, William Steinway, J.
E I ward Siimnoi s, Jesse Seligmau, the
mayor and the secretary.
EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE.
A DISEASE SUPPOSED TO BE TEXAS FEVER,
RAGING IN SOUTHERN KANSAS.
Reliable news of the greatest impor
tance to cattlemen in all sections of the
United States comes from tke southern
line of Kansas and pasture lands of In
dian Territory. There bus been for some
time a suspicion among cattle dealers
thut herds of native and Texas cattle
which range in the territory were afflicted
with the Texas fever. A man named
William Johnson has just returned from
a tiip to Oklahoma, and passed through
the country where the herds are pastured,
lie says that not only are the natives af
flicted but thorough Texans are dying
by hundreds in the pastures south of Ar
kansas Oily. The symptoms are exactly
the same ns the Texas fever but thorough
Texans have never been known to die of
the disease. lie says tattle are beiug
shipped to market from the [asturir
where carcasses are lying in hundreds and
of the same brands of those shipped und
that they uro considered good rough for
dinners’ slock and everything gora.
The cattlemen are becoming much
alarmed. Among the cattle raisers it io
the actual belief that the disease is not
Texas fever, but something even more
serious. It is said the managers of the
Kansas City stock yards will take imme
diate action in the mattor, and try to
prevent the shipping of cattle from
points where the disease is raging.
A GREAT STRIKE.
A MONSTEIt MASS MEETING HELD BY
BTRIKF.IIB IN LONDON, ENGLAND.
Two thoutand coal heavers and barge
men have joined tho already tremendous
ranks of the strikers at London. 'Jhe
c-ouneil of the strikers held a meeting
Saturday evening, aud af.cr a long dis
cussion decided to continue the strike.
A monster meeting of strikers was held
in Hyde Park Sunday nfternoon. Burns,
the socialist agitator, and other labor
leaders, made speeches. Resolutions
declaring that the men would continue
the stride until their demands were fully
conceded, were unanimously adopted.
It is estimated that 150,000 persons took
part in the demonstration. During the
progress of the meeting a collection was
taken up for the beuefit of the strikers.
Money was received in hats and open
parasols, and a huge sum was obtained.
Five thousand railway men held a meet
ing at Darlington and decided to strike
unless shorter hours of labor wore
granted. Mass meetings of dock
inen and others were held also at South
wark, at which the strikers
voted to form a separate committee for
south London in order to have a belter
voice in the conduct of the strike. In u
sermon at York, on Sunday,Canon Flem
ing expressed sympathy with the strik
ers. Meetings of sympathy are being
held throughout the countiy.
THE BLACK DIAMOND
TO MAKE ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT SEALING
IN BEHRING SEA.
The Black Diamond left Victoria, B.
C. on Thursday, ostensibly for a trip up
the coast to refit, but it is said that she is
really off on a sealing cruise in Behring
sea, where the owners believe they have
the legal right to hunt seal. This action,
shows what ihe popular feeling is there
in regard to the United States’ jurisdic
tion iu Behring sea aud her power or her
policy to enforce it.
WASHINGTON, 1). C.
VO l EM EN TS OF THE FR ESI DENI
AND DIS A D VISERS.
A I-POlN'r HUNTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHEII MATTIES
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITM.
The state National bank, of Knox
ville, Teun., has been authorized t-> be
gin business with a capital of SIOO,OOO.
The bonds purchased by the treasury
di-; urtmeut on Tuesday, reached the un
usually large total of $5,895,000. They
were all four per cent, registered Irand
and were bought ut 128.
The total amount of bonds purchased
by the treasury in the last three days, is
nearly eleven iniliioas. For these bonds
the government paid about fourteen mil
lion dollars. The treasury surplus was
seveuty millions ten days ngo, hut Ins
decreased to about forty-two millions.
ltccejpts of government from internal
revenue during last month were sll,-
485,952, showing au increase of $1,307,-
733, as compareil with receipts for July,
1888. Th s increase was distributed
through all of the sources of revenue
except the oleoumrgurinc ami bunk tax.
Thctrea-urer of the United States ins
issued instructions, subject to the con
venience of the treasury, to the assistant
treasurer of Ihe United Stitei at New
York, to supply notes and silver ccVt ti
cates of small denominations to banks
ordering them iu sums not less than
SI,OOO.
The Argentine Republic lias appointed
three delegates to the Int r. ulional
American oungress. They are Don
lb,quo Pena, at present minister to Uru
guay; Don Manueal Quintana, a promi
nent lawyer who has never held office,
and Don Ninciente Quest a, m.iustir to
the United States.
Charles R. Flint, of New York,
and Henry C. Davis, of West Virginia,
buve been appointed delegates on the
part of tbe United States to tbe congress
of American nations, to meet iu Wash
ington in October next, in the place of
ex-Governor Whyte, if Maryland, and
J. R. C. Pitkin, of New Orleans.
The state department has been in
formed by the United States minister to
Venezuela of the prevalence of fever at
Caracas, which has been erroneous’y
termed yellow fever. It is for the man
pait confined to a district where the
ilruinage is defective, but if taken in
time the disease yields readily to medical
treatment, and is in no sense epidemic.
The treasury department was lecentiy
informed that a large number of Cuban
cigar-makers were coming into Key West
in violation of tbe contract labor law.
The emigrant agent at Key West was
thereupon asked fo- a statement, und in
response he has reported to the ilepait
ment that these Cubans are constantly
passing into and out of the United
States, but that there is no evidence of
the existence-of contracts for tmploy
ment, which would make thiir entry il
legal.
Postmaster General Wnnnmakrr and
President Norvin Green hail a eontulia
tion, Saturday, respecting the telegraph
service furnished the government by the
Western Union Telegraph company. It
is understood that satisfactory progress
is being made toward au agreement upon
the lines laid down by the poslma-b r-gi n
erul. The question of rates to be paid by the
government for telegraph service is th
point at issue, but by no means tho prin
cipal question, ns Postmnster-Ginend
Wanamaker’s plans contemplate a consid
erable enlargement of the functions of the
pcst-office department in the direction of
co-operation with the telegraph compa
ny’s service to secure a cheaper and bet
ter service.
A COMPANY ORGANIZED
TO MANUFACTURE FINE STRAW BAGGING
IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
It was announced in Charleston, S. C.,
on Saturday that a company had been
organized and will at once enter upon the
manufacture of cotton bagging from the
fibre of the pine straw. Toe factory will
be ouilt at Summerville, twenty-two
miles from that place. The site is in the
thickest pait of ihe pine foiest in the
state. The company li ive also been of
fered the privilege of gibbering pine
straw from a tract of territory covering
thousands of ucres, so that ihe ma'erial
lor the manufacture of bagging w.ll cost
nothing but the price of collecting and
hauling it. Several bales of cotton cov
ered with pine stiaw bagging were re
ceived at Charleston last year aud sub
jected to the severest test of screw,
hook, fire and water, and stood it even
better than common jute bagging. The
new factory is expected to commence
work as soon ns the building and ma
chinery aro erected.
HEAVY INVESTMENTS
TO BE MADE IN SOUTHERN MINERAL ANE
TIMBER LANDS BY RICH SYNDICATES.
The Manufacturer's Record, at Balti
more, Md., learns from uiithoritive
sources, that a New York syndicate will
make liberal investments in tbe purchase
of ono or more fully developed extensive
iron properties in the south, if they can
be hint at reasonable pi ices.
Large propeities that have been
making good profits aro what they
arc after. Ihe Record also reports tUq
sale of the Embrecvill* Iron works, com
prising about 45,000 acres of timber and
mineral lauds near Jonesboro, Toon,, to
an English company who will, it is re
ported, develop the property on a Urge
scale at an early day, and the organiza
tion of two companies, w ith a capitul
stock of $1,000,000 .each, w ith General
W. S. Rosecrans, register of the United
States treasury, president of one, to build
a town at Waynesboro Junction, in tbe
valley of Virginia, and develop the large
i on properties there.
A COLLISION,
IN WHICH SEVERAL PEOPLE ARE KILLED.
AND OTHERS DANGEROUSLY HURT.
An excursion train to Burlington,lowa,
from the Horse Breeder’s meeting at Rut
land, Vt.,and a stock train bound south,
collided Saturday night four miles north
of Middleburg. Both engines, ohe cat
and a part of another car of the excur
sion train and ten or twelve stock cars,
loaded with hogs, were wrecked amt
piled in a heap. The dead are: Conduc
tor Hiram Blodgett, of trie exclusion
train, and one passenger, whose body ii
under the train, nud cannot be identified.
The engineers of both trains were dan
gerously hurt, and several of the passen
gers on the stock train were seriously in
jured.
SCYTHE SONO.
Mowers, w eary ami brown an,l With*
What Is the wont UMthtnka ye know.
Endless over-word that the Scythe
Sings to tho blades of the grass belowt
Scythes that swing in the grass and t-lovsr,
Something, still, they say a, they pass;
What is the word Hint over sad over.
Sings the Hcytho to the flower* and grass)'
Hush, ah hush! the Scythes are saying,
Hush, uml tie,si not, and tall asleep;
Hush, they uy ho the grasses swaying,
Hush, they sing hi the elover deep!
Hush 'tia the liillaliy Time Is singing—
Hush, and heist not, for all thiugs pass.
Hush, all hush' und the Scythes are swing
ing
Over the clover, over the grass!
—Andrew Litnij.
DRIVEN AWAY.
BY JAMES FRANKLIN FITTS,
I am sitting in my Grandmother God
frey’s rocker at the window of the east
room looking out upon the family bury
ing-grouud at the foot of the hill, the
meeting-house on its summit, and the
Merriranc, which winds round it, in the
distance. Here, fifty years ago, she used
to sit with her knitting in the after
noons.
Siie dearly loved to talk, and, us I
wns her favorite, many of her quaint ob
servations were addressed to me. One of
them I now recall, as it has a certain re
lation to the matter of this narrative.
More than once, us I sat near her, have
I seen her kind brown eyes fixedly re
gard me over her steel-bowed spectacles,
and heurd her say, with perfect gravity,
“My dear, I think you’ll he an old maid.
You’re a liobie through and through,
and most of their womenfolks were that
kind. Indeed,” she added, reflectively,
“I came near being one myself."
The prophecy of the good old sou) has
been fulfilled, hut it was my choice that
made it so. IVhen I was twenty-four,
Joshua Goss came back on a visit from the
West, whither he had gone ten years be
fore to seek his fortune. He was of the
pushing, thriving New England type,
already prosperous iu his new home be
yond the Mississippi, and promising to
become rich, jierhaps famous.
I had corresponded with him occa
sionally since he went away. I had been
his fuvorite among the girls at school,
aud was not surprised when he told me
one day that his chief object in coming
back ut this time was to induce me to :
cast my lot with his.
It wus in this very room that he asked !
me. Little Percy, only four years old
then, had come iu tired from his play,
climbed into my lap, nnd fallen asleep.
Joshua waited for my answer seriousiy
nnd anxiously. My heart said yes, but I
looked at the child, and duty bade tne
say no. It cost me a dreadful pain, yet
I did not hesitate.
Very frankly I answered that this little
orphan in my lap was my charge; that
my brother Ephraim would never marry,
and that my duty forbade that I should
leave the old home. Joshua listened.
He did not remonstrate nor argue, but
I had never seen upon his face just such j
an expression as it then had.
“For your own sake, Patience,” he j
said, iu u trembling voice, “I hope you
have chosen wisely. Whether so or not,
I know you too well to try to alter your
resolution. Good-by 1"
I gave him my hand—for au instant—
watched him as he slowly walked down
the road until the turn hid him front my
eyes, and then my life went on again the
same os it no interruption had occurred. :
His life since then lias not been uu
known to me, nor to the country. ;
Should his true name be given here, it
would he recognized as that of one whose
voice hus often been heard in the Senate
of the United States.
When Percy was four years old and I
twenty-four, Ephraim was twenty-six,
and we three were the survivors of the
long line of Ballnrds, Godfreys, Robies,
Hulls aud what not, running back fur be
yond the War of the Revolution, who
had dwelt in this ancient homestead mid
tilled this rocky farm.
In the last two years death had Iteen
busy with us. First, Grandmother God
frey, full of years and ready to depart,
was laid by her fatherrs, and within the
twelvemonth both our parents were
stricken down by the terrible scourge
that visited the vllloge that summer.
They were carried to one grave on the
same morning, while Percy picked clover
tops In the yurd, and laughed as the long
procession moved toward the hill.
In the six or eight years following I
think we were happier than ever ogam
while Brother Ephraim lived, for those
were the years when Percy’s sweet child
ish ways and cunning prattle filled the
house with sunshine and music, and be
fore any troublesome question as to his
future had come in to divide us.
God's blessing and compassion, after
our sore tribulation, seemed given us in
this dear child. He was not at all like
us, either in looks or actions; he never
was, Ephraim and I were dark, almost
sallow, like our father, and we had his
slow, thoughtful speech and ways; but
the child was like mother, fair, blue
eyed, with all her lightness of heart and
cheeriness of voice.
The picture that comes hack to me most
vividly from those old days is thut of
Ephraim, stern und serious, even when a
young man, as he read the Bible aloud ut
ourearlv bedtime ill his strong, nasal
tone, and bore with a patience that he
would not have exercised toward another
the interruption caused by Percy’s put
ting his chubby bands upon the page.
The hoy grew up bright, quick ami af
fectionnte, but not over studious. He
was full of fun and spirit, nnd hated con
finement, 1 date the beginning of our
troubles about him from the time that a
copy of “Robinson Crusoe” fell into his
hands.
Tho hook absorbed him. He was thir
teen years old ut that time, but he said to
me, with all the gravity and positivcueßS
of a man, that he could never be any
thing but a sailor. I thought little of
what he said at the time, and treated it
as a mere boyish whim; but he never
changed his mind.
He was almost seventeen when he left
us for the sea. I think of what occurred
before that day with pain and sorrow,
but it must be told. It was one night
after Percy bail g°u e U P to his chamber;
Ephraim liad been sitting some time in
silence, aud I saw there was something
on his mind. At last he spoke:
I'Putieucc, thjtt perverse boy will be
the reproach and disgrace of our Uvea.
He is bent on going to sea.”
I knew something of Ephraim's stern
will, hut I had not often seen him eo
aroused. He tried in vain to repress his
linger as hu continued :
“For a hundred years our fathers be
fore us lived here, doing their duty In
the way that God had called them. They
tilled the land, and were not ashamed of
their calling. There have been no
rover* nor VHgalMinds among them, so
far ns I have heard; but here we. have
iui idle, shiftless fellow, too proud to
work on the farm, who must needs go off
nnd herd with profane and rum-drinking
sailors."
Useless as it was to argue with him, I
could not l>ear to hear him *|>cak so of
Percy.
“Ephraim, pray don't wrong him. He
is not proud; he does not despise labor;
he is a loving aud truthful boy. My
heart is son' enouglt to think of his
leaving it#fn that way; but I remember
how different he is—”
Ephraim rose, candlestick in hand,
and cut short the discussion before it
had fsily begun.
“I am bis guardian; I stand iu the
place of his father; I know what is for
his good; I will never consent. He is
almost h man. and quite able-bodied.
Do you know that I am [laying five and
three-pence a day for labor? lie shall be
informed of his duty to-morrow.”
I hoped that the explosion which was
now to occur would be ir my presence,
that 1 might stand between these two
hftltlirrs, so different in age and temper,
altd try to moderate their passions; but
it was not to tie.
Nothing was said on the subject at
the breakfast table. When the meal was
finished, Ephraim said to Percy that he
wished to see him alone, and walked out
behind the barn. Percy followed him.
At noon Ephraim returned to the house
alone, his face darker and sterner than
before.
“Where Is Percy?” was my anxious in
quiry.
“I do not know,” he replied.
My heart was heavy with uppreheußton.
Other questions that I asked he would
not answer.
The day passed, und supper-time came,
but not Percy. I thought I should be
sure to hear what had passed between
them before another day, but Ephraim
continued to be morose an- silent, and
1 passed tile most unhappy night that I
had known since our parents died.
As we sat mute and oppressed at an
other aud almost uutasted breakfast, tbe
door opened. I looked round and uttered
a cry of joy, for Percy stood there, his
hand on the door-lateh. He looked very
tired, aud his shoes were white with
dust.
“I couldn't go this way,” he said, “so
I walked all night to come back aud just
say good-by. Ephraim, don’t blame me.
I've tried to think as you do,but I can’t.
I know I've tried your patience, and I
want you to forgive me. We must part
friends.”
He took a step toward the table, and
held out his hand.
“You disobey me; you quit this house
without my leave,” said Ephraim. “Un
dutiful hoy, never speak of forgiveness,
nor offer me your hand, until you have
ceased to rebel 1”
He left the room, and during that last
twenty-four hours that Percy remained
under the roof, Ephraim saw him no
more.
A brief letter to mo from Boston told
me that our truant had shipped for a
voyage to Canton. He put the world
between us at the start, aud not uuother
letter was received by us from him.
Almost ten long years passed before uny
intelligence of him reached us. They
were years of secret grief for me, which
only the cares and labors of the house
made tolerable.’ Not a day but I thought
of Percy; not a night but 1 prayed for hi*
safety. I used to scan the marine news
iu the paper to find something about him,
and for his sake I was doubly kind and
hospitable to the blue-jackets who some
times came our way.
We filled these years with hard toil,
and the unvarying round occupations that
our situation afforded. There was rest
aud the comfort of coming nearer to God
on the Sabbath; there were the prayer
meeting and the choir meeting, and an
occasional visit with a neighbor.
But It seemed as if the larger part of
my life had left me witli Percy. I had
known that he was dear to me; but not
before the sorrowful morning of our part
ing had I realized how closely my heart
was bound to him.
His name was never spoken between
Ephraim and me. Sometimes I fancied
tlurt some of the petitions which my
brother offered iu his prayers must be in
tended to refer to Percy; and once when
he read the chapter containing the story
of the Pnxligal Son, his voice grew
husky, and he finished it with difficulty.
But he never mentioned Percy's name,
nor did he encourage me to do so.
The 10th of March, 1859, lives in my
memory as the darkest day of my life.
Ephraim had gone to the village after
supper, and ifid not return till near nine
o'clock. The candle-light was bad and
I did not sec his face well when he came
in. When he had hung uji his hat. and
turned round I was scared by his looks.
“What is it, Ephraim?” I asked.
He took a oopy of the Boston paper
of the day before from his pocket, and
handed it to me, [minting as he did solo
a paragraph which reported that the ship
Emma Montford had arrived from Cal
cutta, and that the master reported the
loss of Percy Ballard, able seaman, who
had fallen overboard, while reefing.
We sat there together till the candle
had burned low. The selfishness of my
own (-unsmiling grief possessed me; I
hardly thought of Ephraim until he
spoke. He sat with his elbows resting
on the table,and his gaunt hands clasping
his head.
“God humbles and smites me to-night
for my hardness of heart,” he said.
“You never knew what happeued on
that morning when I took the boy aside
to reason with him. I did not reason; I
was harsh und tyrannical with him.
When I peremptorily forbade him to go
to sea, he tried to coax and persuado me.
I cut him off with a stern command; he
ausw’ered me shortly, and I chastised him
severely.
“Think of it, Patience!”—Ephraim’s
voice was broken. “I beat him like a
dog. He ran away; but his great heart
reproached him, and he came back, peni
tent and weary, to ask my forgiveness.
You saw me—you heard me. Pride and
NUMBER4ti.
hardness filled my heart, and I—l re
pulsed him.”
Hi* fane was turned from m; if then
were not tears in hi* eye*, his voice be
lied him. For an hour longer, before 1
went to tny sleepless bed, hi* heavy tread
sounded from the chamber above, a* h<
paced the floor. The door was open and
tho light wits burning ss I passed along
the halL I looked in and saw Ephraitx
kneeling by the bedside.
Thereafter came a dreary stretch o)
years, in which I toiled, suffered and
prayed. Our affairs went from bad t
worse. Ephraim was not the same muz
after that night. The remorse that af
flicted liis spirit seemed also to hav,
stricken liis laxly, aud he wasted into the
mere shadow of his former self.
I tried to cotuaih- aud comfort him, at
did also our good minister, but even in
his dfcitress of mind he seemed as far re
moved from human synqxtthy and influ
ence as he had ever lieen. Often in the
night, when I awoke to think of Perry
as I last saw him, the deep and earnest
tones of prayer from the adjoining mom
told me that Ephraim was wrestling for
the |Htrdnn which his abject spirit almost
declined in advance to receive.
He, too, soon slept in the tamily bury
ing ground. Poor, self-accused brother'
I have suffered, but never as he did.
In I letter times and witli average sea
sons, I am vain enough to think that,
though a woman, I could have managed
the place with the average prosperity.
But the crops failed, and then came on
the war-time, when help was scarce, aud
the demands of labor were high. Next
the barns were burned Ity lightning, aud
most of the stix-k perished in them.
Witli each new misfortune I nerved
myself for new efforts; but I came at last
to realize that I was contending against
hope. Years were piling their weight
upon me; my strength was failing. Yet
I struggled on.
For two yeats the interest on the old
mortgage which dated back to fatht.-r ,-
timn bail not been paid, und threats ol
foreclosure had reached me. The pros
pect of being turned out of this dear old
home was rudely thrust upon me. I
could think of nothing else. I was
thinking of it one evening, just at dusk,
as I stood at the dome
A. poorly dressed mau, leading a Itttlc
girl, came out of the obscurity of th
road, hesitated and stopped. His fact
wag half concealed by hair and beard,
and his shabby dress prejudiced me
agaiust him; but tbe roll in his walk be
tokened the sailor, and inclined me at
once to charity.
“We’er hungry, ma'am—sissy aud
me," ha said in a gruff voice. “Some
bread and milk, please.”
I motioned them into the kitchen.
“Go in there,” I said, “and I will coin*
in a moment and get ypu some food.”
I was gone no longer than wus necessa
ry to bring the lamp that I had left light
ed in the sitting-room. At the kitchen
door my feet were arrested by the specta
cle of the man's impudence. He had
actually gone to the buttery, brought out
a pan of milk and a loaf of bread, dark
as it whs, anil nut of a dipper full of the
milk, he was giving the child a drink.
I was very indignant. "How dare you
take such a liberty?” I asked.
He turned his face over his sbouldei
to me, and the merry expression of hi*
eyes stopped my scolding abruptly. He
spoke—tnis time in a voice that I knew
at once.
“Why, Patience, this is the way 1
used to do, you know.”
I did not faint; but I must have
dropped if he had not caught me. “O
Percy!” I sobbed, “has God given you
back to me?”
“Yes, sister. AVbere is Ephraim?”
I pointed toward the hill.
We talked so late that night in the
sitting-room that his little girl went tc
sleep in my urms. The report in the
newspaper could not have referred t
him, as he said that he had never seen
the ship Emma Montford.
Bronzed and bearded as he was, he had
the beaming eye and the laughing voice
of his youth; but when I told him more
about Ephraim, his eyes moistened and
he wits silent for a long time.
latter he told me the story of his wan
derings which I put iu a few words.
He had sailed to almost every quartet
of the globe, and In the first year of hie
absence be had twice or thrice written tc
me. For some reason I did not receive
the letters. As he did not hear from me
J he became careless, and for a long time
was a wild and reckless rover.
Later, he settled iu Australia, where he
married and reared a family.
“I thought I was happy in those days,”
ha concluded. “But when, one after
i another, my beloved wife and children
were taken from me—all but Clarice —my
j eyes were opened to my ingratitude and
selfishness, and I said to myself that these
; afflictions were judgments upon me.
Away off there on the other side of the
i globe I grew homesick for the old place
and the dear, familiar faces—and here I
am.”
His words filled me with delight, aud
also pained me, for how could I tell him
| that the place was about to be sold? He
was quick to see the change in my face,
and asked me what was troubling me.
He would have to know soon, and it
! seemed better to tell him at once. His
eyes actually brightened as he heard me.
“Is that all?” he asked.
“All? why, you don’t comprehend me.
I told you there whs two thousand dol
lars and two years’ interest due on the
mortgage, and—
He drew a leather wallet from his
pocket, and tossed it into my lap.
“There, Patience, examine that at
your leisure. You’ll find three thousand
dollars in it; you can use what's over to
fix up the old house. Fudge! be quiet!
it’s only a drop out of what I have ac
cumulated. Did you suppose I’d been
farming off in rich Australia for so many
years with nothing to show for it?”
I was laughing and crying all at once.
“You looked so shabby, Percy, I did
not think —”
“No more would any one. But you
might expect that wheu I did come back,
ull my boyish fun would come with me.”
This happened one evening loug ago.
The years since then have brought to us
all the happiness that was forshadowed
in Percy’s return. On this mellow Indian
summer afternoon my heart is filled with
joy and gratitude.
From the east window I see Percy
and Clarice as they stroll among the
mounds in the little enclosure where oui
parents and Ephraim are sleeping. He
told me ob the night of hi* return that