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The Georgia Enterprise
VOLUME XXV.
MOTHER 3 CORNER
Bwtwsr i and lorward the rocker gOM,
Wafting the bah}' h> sweet repose;
Close tot be cra.llc the mother croons
(.ailaliy. rork-a-by nursery tunes:
,^'nily rinjins she [mtientlv tries
siw; bring to the baby's eyes.
Srnute by minute the evening flits.
saiiin the chair she.lrowsily sits.
swtUiug and rubbiug the aching gums.
^ for Slumber that never comes:
Rama, the haby that fretful lies
L SJhng the room with its nervous cries.
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Softer an t softer the ditty grow
.
Vovrtiie little one s eyelids elosu
^atiDg at last into dreamland deap,
M, tk.v Mi’! iaby are fast asleep,
-Philadelphia Time -
PLICHTED HOPES.
lark i- tire season of reaping
The Hi?iR of the pro.niseful years
I>„|..,1 tbs sweet solace of weeping
iTer sorrows too deep for our tears!
Krsping that chaff when we dare nor,
Ereadream of the full ripened grain;
lirienaK o'er fair hopes t hat arc not.
Anil joy-bells that ring not again!
Sad is the season of reaping
When shudders tbe soul in the blast,
iiul shadows come stealth!}- creeping
From storm-shrouded vales of the past 1
Before us tile future lies yawning
With anguish, heart-hunger and pain;
Arid vainly we long for the dawning
Of dips that will come not again.
0,-eflt' is the season o? reaping
a re,, lmslu 1 are the laugh and the song:
Wlieu harvest hvnm echoes are sleeping
The limit's a, lonely and long:
rhedream field oflne slides,rted
Then ,vln mould the reaper remain
llileane, till v kin sad hearted
4 lv . that Will lie not again?
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CAST ASIDE.
V, one had ever accused , Ague, . Warm
t of being a nervous person, aud she had
! been, on the contrary, noted for her
[moln'ss, I the composure with which she
could hear and calmly dismiss the most
I eloquent mid impassioned lovers, ami the
! apparci,t hardness of her heart. The
, w*y that had made her the undisputed
Vile .<f two seasons was of the statues<|ue
1 order, perfect of form and feature, cold
I and yet winning, for she was without
j fortune, and yet had suitors who adored
her.
It was a mue days wonder when she
aliowcii Iter engagement to Gardiner
Lawrence to be announced. Gardiner
Lavrenee! A mau of genius, an artist,
1 Lut rt man whose total assured income
x- >ix hundred dollars a year, and who
tad y-t t.. chml. up the ladder to fame
r .....!"' 1 rue. he was a handsome
jm, v.nn a ready flow of conversation,
1 m traveled and read, and had dark eyes
!“ Wilu y * "Oman had sighed to have
r- ,\ t- n ... i lj upon her. I et that Agnes
arm-i-orild marry a poor man, an artist
!;: 1 ' i ’ ,,, r wn knew ! ° her best. " as a ms, vel to
I have siud sire was not a nervous per
»i .<■> • .a one December evening, when
H ™ L cb'ment was six mouths old. she
rt'tnlgeting house, about in the parlor of her
sunt s as restless as if every nerve
n her body was unstrung. She paced
‘faiul linwn the room, she struck a few
f '/ i M m thu w !»«»“«. novel, and sl) c read a page in
' every moment
■* glanced at the clock. As it struck
^ . in silvery tom s, the doorbell ran**,
™ a U-w moments later Gardiner Law
mis entered the room.
'•i drought you would never come,'
k '“id, impatiently, yet coldly.
'"in n*te -aid eight o'clock,” he
[tu-|"ied, trying vainly to match her own
|*1 f low-. that “Agnes! all is at look end at between me! It can
au us.
I"’'! you so truly, so devotedly, and I
w", believed iu your love as firmly as 1
1 '“ j 11 m v hope of heaven.”
.
’ the i bought we had settled all thatI”
" reply, still in that tone of ini
latnm-r md coldness. “You promised
Whim my letters.”
Lay. • -here. Since you no longer
-• me. they have lost their value, and
Ij 1 “<* de-ire to keep them."
' p''1 » “ealcd package upon the
7 :lll d turned, as if to go. For an
ta-tjut she stood quiet, and then the
- composure gave wav. “You
***•' *h» cried. shall not
' derived you so far. I
love . J’pu! ’ ’' 011 No! Gardiner, Gardiner, I do
““t Do not touch rue—do
embtac e mo. , diiAOl you v/1]} mult
stand: 1 live in poverty! lean
> lit' i d tUut love would com
all, but I did not understand.
nothin. 4 m .v 1*1 bllt 1 h k “ u ,r vt
.1 "
’ dfc in luxurv. Mv aunt
.'-"thing, aud 1 'believed she
- an iit'come reconciled to my
i-i '“j" -in..-; ymi. But she never will!
, Mr. Delmayne has of
se, f to ‘
‘‘.VI . ... ’"'• me_”
v 3 ° over the old ground again?”
yaniin 11 *»td, in quick, passionate ac
ioDij ’•Ym can lie the wife of a mil
' a man <»Ul enough to be
You i” your
.. 1 : i cau cat, have have control control of of
5V). " l! luxury-your heart desires.
P Ufl devoted that* you trample upon
, -\ a love a- was ever of
‘ w «l to „ womau, that crush
"an you a
wai “'1 your own, blight au
th» ,bat worked onlv for you! Let
W - be John Del
''"""■and l_l shall survive it!
les made of the stuff that
" ,m k lovers to suicide. Believe
tin-. I , m
m-v ! lm ' pile contempt upon
mart? O f 11 Wi!l 'R’ite buried. I will It
Ii„i 1}* now. but
’ ilQ ‘> n<> guest at your wed
uiu ' brighter smile than
bon t m""! ' formall *dk > ' and left the
im J K ' ' v fast and without
4,.. u
by his passion-
1 SjTrw d,. ' :,!| k into an arm-chair and
, tear- of her life; wept
.....‘ H herseil - -knowing that
1 :: 1 ',W.; ller h, ’ , ' r ‘ open to such
• •'«<* happiness :•; -he had
'fc~‘--*!l‘ -1 1 *-•> <i* mouths and
v j” : forever
J-Mauyue as Sara
tiin “2 tbr ' 1 w
autumn trip *jth „ ,.. u ,y of
Ifiven him ■aid -railed upon him,
eve ’> encouragement, while
ami “"'ing daily letters that,
:
own 'mutant love pleas of lump, for her wealthy suitor^her ’
she broke her vow?; tempted oZtancv ,
<epleU f aud ae
the offer of her wealthy lover
The engagement hail not lw-.» ‘
...
nounred on that December eveniu r when
Gardiner Lawrence returned to her the
'otters that no longer n,L *
to him. He was a wholoved deep
b', felt keenly the blow that h id fallen
sr&t‘v t™i, T |J **» ,v
fellow-art kit' fr jV n<i *. : i
* ‘ shared his studio, did
result J nf h 1 Cart *?*'*’ 1 he first
vjel(1 J"™ *“
fnead * dearest wish, and
SK£nST ° r th t0 lta,y D’** 1 '**. - hut H !
•Sidney y All van 1 f I neve J J* <■"»**} the
ocean. A boyish man, full of enthusi
Sidney no“ waahotlv° U - SCr ""Jofy' "
^ownralf wron.v the h W,r* ha ^the had thrown
nd Wn eont P ? , ^ V .^ jecte ^ ?
f the'nterl was H 1 ! 8 ,Y M !'■’ ti ™ ,
after tween Gardiner and
Agnes, engaged in making lists of art.
~dE 3 ? «*•*«
and an address of formal courtesy.
‘ Mr. Lawrence?” the stranger iu
quired.
“Mr. Lawrence is out of town.”
“Soon expected back?”
“Not for several years. Hois in New
1 °*’“ nex *’ d B,,t 1 f ° r wntc E “ ro l* telegraph, *» lu '
c * n «r
lf ?) Ur ^ USme8s . ls ‘“‘POrtant.
The stranger waa walking aboutslowly.
, 0 ^'“ at th ketcheS the Waik
g ® S 0,1 ‘ 0,1
* #Wm ’ and , ch# / , rs ’ cvet> «P° n tbc , floor ’
*“ ‘*^ t,on . f“
r
,
trait I wished to order. You have some
tine paintings here. Your own?”
“Some of them. Some are Lawrence's;
some by our friends. Everything, * as you
se e, is in confusion.”
“Is that yours?” said the old gentle¬
man, pointing to ahead, most exquisitely
) lain ted, only the head anti shoulders of
a beautiful woman,the hair falling loosely,
the large eyes looking dreamily forward.
“No. That is Lawrence’s.”
..j t j* a perfect face. Do you think
he would sell it?”
« A week ag0 would have fold you uo
money could buy it,” Sidney said,
bitterly, “but now I have no dobut he
will destroy it. It is a perfect fare, aud
it, covers a black, treacherous-heart
•‘You interest me. Is the story a sc
cret?”
“All the world will know it soon, li
is not a very original story, only the old
nne of money against love, with a broken
heart thrown in. The lady whose face
you admire has been my friend’s promised
wife for six months. A wealthier man
m8( ] e her break that promise. And
yet, tbe engagement is not public, but it
will soon lie, and then any one in society
ran tell you of the jilted lover, who has
jjone abroad to conquer his sorrow, and
leave the field clear for his rival.”
“All! Society then knew of this old
engagement. 1 am a stranger here. My
home is in Washington, and J know but
, few members of your society; so I had
not heard this interesting- story, that y Oll
sav "“Well, will soon be common gossip. ”
you see, both parties are well
known here.”
“I see. I regret to have missed seeing
Mr. Lawrence, but thank you for your
most interesting little narrative. Good
morning.”
“Good morning.” said Sidney, return
ing to his lists, and quite ignorant of the
mischief his boyish gossip had caused,
Miss Warne, in her latest Parisian cos
tuunc—a very dream of beauty—was sit
ting in her aunt's parlor, awaiting the
usual evening visit of her elderly admirer.
Mrs. Pratt, her aunt, was talkiug in a
monotonous ripple of the trousseau al
ready in preparation, (he bridal tour, the
wedding party with which she intended
to astonish society; aud Agnes listened
m silence, wondering if the rumor she
had heard that Gardiner Lawrence was
going abroad was true. A ring at the
door was followed, not. by tbc tall, com
mantling figure or John Detmayne, but
fiv Mrs. Pratt’s man servaut with a note.
A uote opened languidly, but which
stirred the reader to instant animation.
“Agues!” she eried, “listen! M hat a
horrible note!
w.jjadav: When I requested your permis- I
s i on to pay my addresses to your niece. was
totailv ignorant that she was already bt
frothed. Looking upon a promise of mar
^ as uit9 as binding as the marriage
" themselves, I horrified at my own
vo s am
action. I beg. madam, to withdraw my pro
The posal. wholly with my unpremeditated mart insult, to youi *£
niece, who wifl, I trust, pardon friend, me tor my
error . Most sincerely ‘John your Dklmaynk
_
There was a moment ot profound with sr
leace. Then Mrs. Pratt said, a
sigh fortunate the engagement has
‘-How need know
not been announced! No one
of this."
There was uo answer. Agnes seemed
stunned. circumstances, . .,
“Perhaps, it.ua,-— under the
Mrs. Pratt said, “wc had better
nothing ■" vet of the brokeu engagement,
Mr. Lawrence has gone abroad, they saj .
so there will be no apparent quarrel.
; “Nor real one!” cried Agnes. ‘I nave
been miserable ever since I saw Gardiner
last. I will write to him and end this
wretched estrangement. to-day,” Mrs. Pratt said.
“I heard Gardmei,
“that his uncle, Charles is ira
menseiy wealthy and has no cun 1Ll1 '
j lives in Florence, having weak lungs.
Did you ever hear of him?
“Yes. 1 never heard of h ^L
| but Gardiner is very fond m , -• You
arC it might be well to iu
- ‘Not at all. hut
quire about it.
Warnc held her old position as the most
! beautiful woman of the ^ ea M )l '• *
j danced, saug. flirted, as o <> • •’ ot the
.cold, haughty face gave no token
feverish eagerness with which
fora letter that never came. 111
-tokening suspense, and final .ig .
'despau. Hating value upon >” 4 rt- that hrffi ad
'he placed a happy I
not held even iu the 1
whose raemou 'lie dwelt lootim tbe 1 *.
at'kat. fluff it *» nu '
She knew, file. Even pov
absorbing love of her she
erty begin to lose its horror, «s
folded her love closer and c!c-'-
“JTT OOUNTRT: MAY SITS EVER RE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MT COUNTRY!"— Jmmoi.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10. 1800.
" r f " ends !alkpii fwI v «>f their
J lc " a from Italy; of the success . the artist
^ t Three ”'' ° f ,hc f:!mc hc *
le *P lcture Gardiner years passed, and the
d > Lawrence sent home
lmmedlat<?1 v :,t high prices, while
.
Jpnmalsamong . Is constantly appeared in foreign
the leading artists of the
Jf' unc, ?T? ®> an(1 his "* own mhentance of at a
i ,vsJt„T "**
•*«.S-— ........
5,1,1 will notaccept any offer’ n sh** sai«l
to Agnes, “let us try if the sMit of vom
lace will win your lover bark Gri« i
has not altered you, Agnes: vou are more
beautiful than ever. *
(i ™ » i-rfect day when Sidney All
yard and Gardiner Lawrence, working
busily in Iheir studios in Florence. were
interrupted by visitors in'; Two ladies one!
,kili -* attired - the elder
Cffu<ivc > cor,ii!,K hM r > f Wight at renew
ing an old friendship; the younger one
^ sileut ’ imd wit h a pensive melan
‘holy upon her perfect face.
Gardl “ M J ' a 'vrencc, looking into that
taco, felt not one quickened motion of
his heart; greeting her as calmly as if
'»«>' tad prtsl but jottrd.,,,
past years of separation, inquiries for
friends in America, congratulations upou
the success of the two artists. Then
Agues stood for a moment before a pic¬
ture, the portrait of a girl.
“Without actual beauty,” she said,
“what a lovely face that is. It is like a
Greuze, so child-like, so pure and sweet.
Is if a portrait?”
Sidney Allyard answered promptly:
“It is a portrait of Airs. Gardiner Law¬
rence,” he said, exulting iu the sudden
pallor of his listener's face; “she was
kind enough to sit to me so on after she
was married.”
Mrs. Pratt came to the rescue. She
saw that the blow had deprived Agnes
of the power to speak.
“Ah!” she said, “allow me to offer my
cougratulatious. I would call, but we
leave Florence to-morrow, We are
merely passing through. Agues, love,
we must not linger in this charming
studio any longer.”
Somehow, she never rememliered how,
Agues Warnc spoke her words of part¬
ing aud bade farewell forever to the
dream she had cherished for three long
years. Three months later she married a
French nobleman, who had left the Re¬
public in disgust and brought his title
aud fortune fo Italy, Her old dream ol
wealth and high social standing is grati¬
fied ; but never again will her heart throb
with love such as she onee held and
ruthlessly cast aside.— The Mger.
Counterfeiters.
Counterfeiters, unlike most other classes
of “crooks,” arc drawn from all ranks
of society. Many persons of worthy
antecedents drift into crime almost bj
accident. A fine engraver, for instance,
in a moment of thoughtlessness, tries his
hand at an imitation of a Government
note as a mere test of skill. Success in
deceiving his friends, perhaps by way of
jest, gives him a dangerous impulse on¬
ward, and in an hour of weakness the
temptation to use his powers for bad,
and finds him a ready victim. The same
may be true of a die-cutter or metal¬
worker who makes a matrix for a coin
even for the adornment of a bit ol
jewelry or as an advertising device. The
policy of the Secret Service has been
uniformly to discourage everything of
the sort. The statutes of the United
States on the subject are very sweeping,
and their interpretation by the courts
correspondingly broad. Where there is
plainly no fraudulent intent a person dis¬
covered making anything which could
possibly be mistaken for a Government
coin, or note, or bond, or stamp, or, in¬
deed, for any part of one, is quietly
warned from headquarters to cease. If
the work is finished it is ordered de¬
stroyed, and ou non-compliance declared
contraband, and confiscated. This often
seems like a serious hardship to innocent
makers of fancy goods, but the ma jority
of them yield gracefully enough when
the principle underlying the rule is ex¬
plained to them .—PitUbvnj Dispatch.
A Family of Speculators.
Thousands are to some people what tens
or units are to others. Sam AUerton,
lire big Chicago speculator, makes his
deals on the gigantic scale. Some time
ago his boy was to be married, and a
friend remarked to Mr. AUerton that he
supposed the latter would give his son a
good start.
“Humph,” replied Mr. AUerton, “that
boy of mine is worth three or four hun¬
dred thousand. Made it himself by spec¬
ulating. No use of did. my just doing the anything
for him.” But he same.
1 ‘There’s my daughter, beer- Kate,” he con¬
tinued. “She’s always a specula¬
tor. Why, I remember some years ago 1
made up my nriud the crop of oats would
be short, so I took a run around the
State, and what I saw confirmed my
suspicions, So, when I went home 1
took Kate on my knee—she was about
seven then—and I said: ‘Kate. I be
lieve oats are going to be short this
winter; what do you say to our bujiug
some?’ She agreed, and I bought some
in her name, and, bless you, the girl is
worth more than a hundred thousand to¬
day in her own right.”— St. Paul Pionect
Press.
Mothers Strangely Equipped.
The author of “King Solomon’s Mines"
and “Allan Quartermain” has had much
laid to his charge—from plagiarism to
downright lying, but as time goes ou it
becomes every day more apparent than
the only South African romaneist has a
considerable modicum of truth at the
bottom of his seemingly most bizarre
conceptions. instance, the Mapai, small
Take, for a
tribe of busli people living between the
Kaverezi and Yankotoi. who, among a
number of other curious habits, slit the
skin over both shoulders iu the form of a
loop, and which, by being upheld, per
mits a second cuticle to grow beneath.
A corresponding slit re made on
each side of ail the young ladies
of thi“ interestina - people. the
loops. when the girls develop mta
womanhood, forming tour “naiural
restioc piaoe- for a child, either at tbe
breast or back, the straps of flesh ou the
,boulders bciug for the hands or arena
and the others for each baby leg,-i
JthanrtHm (•'• ‘iuhm) Standard.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE¬
GRAPH AND CARLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN PROM DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
A fir ou the barge, George Kent, in
New Vork harbor, Thursday, destroyed
£ 1.000 worth of cotton.
M. T. Quimby A Co., of Boston, man¬
ufacturing jewelers, have failed. The
house ns- ..ue of the largest in its lino.
A pile of timber toppled over on foil!
workmen in Chicago, Ill., on Thursday, John¬
and John Thompson and Andrew
son were crushed to death.
of During the past ten months the imports
woolen goods amounted in value to
#47.167,428, against #44,010,800 during
the same months of 1880.
A Providence. R. I., dispatch to the
Globe says that inside of five hours, on
Thursday, ported twenty-one deaths were re
from grippe and pneumonia.
Pataka river. Indiana, has riseu at at
alarming rate during the last few days.
A tract of country twenty miles long by
three to four miles wide, is inundated.
A telegram from Victoria mines, near
Trinidad, Col., says that a cave-in oc¬
curred in that mine Wednesday morning,
and that five men were buried.
Seven great flour mill.-, at Milwaukee,
VYis., formed a combination Thursday,
with #5,000,000 capital, and an animal
output of nearly a million arid a half bar¬
rels of flour.
Judge W. S. Chisholm, of the.S. F. &
W. road, is critically ill in New York.
He was attacked with the “grip,” and it
lias assumed a more violent form, going
into pneumonia.
While engaged in leading a raid on a
nihilist club, iu Moscow. Russia, Solutu
ehine, chief of the secret police, w as shot
by a woman named Olga Charenko. The
woman then committed suicide.
An official decree has been promul¬
gated in Brazil and proclaiming guaranteeing the separa¬
tion ol church state,
religious liberty and equality: and con¬
tinues the life stipends granted by the
monarchy.
Bids were ojicned at the treasury de¬
partment for stone aud brick work on the
superstructure of the postoffice at Charles¬
ton, S. C., on Wednesday, the lowest
being that of 1). A. J. Sullivan, of
Charleston.
Dispatches from Zanzibar state there i>
much excitement and conjecture there¬
over the constant arrivals of British men
of-war. The British fleet now in those
waters is said to be the largest ever as¬
sembled.
t)n Thursday morning fir e was discov¬
ered in the West Indianapolis. Ind., hom¬
iny mills, and in an hour the immense
building, which covers a quarter ol ::ll
icre. was in ruins. The loss is #75,000.
The mill was one of the finest and largest
in the country.
At Johnstown, Pa., three more bodies
were recovered on Friday, victims of the
great flood, two men and one woman.
One of them was identified by the cloth¬
ing as a German named Yooghtley. The
other two were so badly decomposed that
they could not be identified.
It is stated that the stee't trade of this
country is to hc revolutionized by a
new process for making open than
hearth steel as cheap or cheaper made few
Bessemer steel. A test was a
days ago at Pittsburg, Pa., which was
airly satisfactory to those interested.
A London dispatch says: A ship laden
with.petroleum at Sunderland took tire
Wednesday, and burning oil floating on
the tideway set fire to three other ship S.
Great damage w as done before the con¬
flagration could be cheeked, and one fire¬
man was drowned while fighting 1 hc
flames.
Tin: grip is spreading rapidly 111. among
railroad employes at Galesburg, On
Thursday, the Chicago. Burlington and
Quincy officials reported forty-two train
men ill w ith the disease. All of the
trainmaster’s force are unable to work.
There arc very few cases elsewhere in the
city. i)r. Beall, physician of Washington,
a
D. (’.. was arrested about two weeks ago.
charged with robbing a grave in the con¬
gressional cemetery. On Wednesday his
ease came up in the police court, and the
doctor was convicted. He was sentenced
to six months’ imprisonment in jail, and
required to pay a line of #400.
Eighteen horses railroad were shipped from Pennsylva¬ in a cat
via tlie Central
nia to Newark. >'. J.. Thursday, and
when the car was opened Friday morning,
ifteen of the horses were found suffo
rated, only three of them being alive.
They had been shipped in an ordinary
height car, and the lack of ventilation
silled them.
The board of health of Boston, Mass.,
up to noon Saturday "the had received report.
)f 430 deaths for week, the largest
number ever recorded iu ib t city in seven
lays. Diseases of effective. the respirator' organs than
lave been terribly No less
.13 were from pneumonia, from eightv-two brou
.rom consumption, thirty-two
;hitis, and fourteen from influenza.
Exports of specie from tlie port of
1’ovk during the week ending Saturdav.
imounted to #548.784, of which $61,794
oold’and in gold, and #52.702 silver: *9.93H
!n $622,740 in silver, went t
Europe, and $54,788 in gold and $1,489
iu silver to South America. Imports of
specie for the week amounted to $63,893,
)f which #57.334 was iu gold, and #6 590
!n silver.
In the libel suit brought by Mr. Parnell
igaiiist the London Times, the court has
refused the Times' appeal against answer
ing au interrogatory regarding its circu
lotion at the time of ihe publication ol
tbe articles on { 'Parnellism and Crime.’
The court, however, allowed an appeal ol
the Time* against disclosing the names ol
parties from whom it received tlie infor
mat ton on which the articles were based,
Abatttoof , , ,,, ... two hours , . duration , ,. ...... , -
place off Annapolis, Md Saturday mm n
mg niter 2 o clock between the police
boat Daisy Archer .late Phipps com
maiming, and the dredging vessel \ir
trinis S. Lawrence, Captain John Litre.
Both cannon ami rifles were used. The
vessel W«- illegally dreduiov „n Tire i-i 1 -
P oint when sighted bv tlie Archer, which
chased her several mil.s before capturing
her.
The unprecedentedly low-tag. ofwatf'
in wonder the river aud chief at Burlington. topic L the . ” peoph
among
along the Mississippi. At that bt p nut n i
ing eight the inches low. r than it ha- white « •
sixty that section, years since aud it it still !«R p<;■>!>•
came lo
fast. The auction pipe of tli ■ waterwot k
had to be sunk Thurnday to ]ir«veut
cutting oft of tbc supply of water,
A specW from Topeka says: W. L.
E give to ii. the Topeka mau, who is en
flvacoring to induce the negroes of South
Carolina to emigrate to Oklahoma, has
air, aly succeeded in sending 801) negroes and
there. They are mostly from Topek i,
liar left during the past six months.
They have established a colony near
Kingfisher, and are opening farms and
building hous 4
A fast mail on the Union Pacific rose
was wrecked near Sidney. Neb., early
Thursday morning by a broken mil. Two
mail cars and baggage cam were burned
and most of tin- mail and all of destroyed. the bag¬
gage and express matter were
Thu passengers managed to get out of the
sle.'jw-m in their night clothes. Some of
them were bruised, but none seriously
hurt. The sli e|wrs were badly burned.
BaRgagcmaster Dobbins w as seriously in
iured.
A dispatch fronj Madison, S. D., ol
Saturday, says: The bank of South Da¬
kota has assigned to W. W. Daly. The
assets arc claimed to be ♦150,000; liabili¬
ties unknown. The assignee is engaged in
in looking over the books—which are
bad -hapo—learning how the concern
dm s stand. The assignment of the bank
forced the Labetlc Kauche Hors - ImjKirt
ing company to assign, its the ranebe and
bank were closely connected George L.
\\ right, late secretary and treasurer, is
assignee. The ranche s assets are about
#130,000, mostly iu land and horses.
A ST. LOUIS BLAZE.
ELECTRIC AND TELEGRAPH WmES ARB
CROSSED, WITH DISASTROUS RESULTS.
A St. Louis dispatch says: Shortly
before 7 o'clock Wednesday morning, a
fire started iu the basement of the
Western Union telegraph building,
corner of Olive and Third streets,
aud was completely gutted. The cause ol
the fire was a telegraph wire leading to
the basement of the building becoming
crossed with a broken electric wire.
Many operators made their escape,
in addition to the Western Union the
building was occupied by the Associated
Pres*, Daily Printing company, Allen &
Ginter Cigarette company, Bradley Print¬
ing Scroll company and one, or two other
offices. All the Western Union wiroa
were burned out, but active efforts
are being made to restore com¬
munication. They are receiving messages
at East St. Louis. The fire started in the
quickly basement that end all tire spreading inmates of upward no
the opera¬
ting room had had to fly for their lives mid
many of them narrow escapes.
AGAINST TOBACCO TRUSTS
HIE GROWERS OF VIRGINIA AND NOIDTI!
CAROLINA MEET LX CONVENTION.
I’he Farmers’ Alliance is justly proud aud
of its defeat of the jute campaign bagging trust against
it has begun an active
.fifTiu-. v... ,!g .reft tobacco. Delegate*
from the twenty-five counties of Virginia
and North Carolina which grow Oxford, bright
tobacco met Thursday morning at officially
N. C., to attend what was
nailed by the alliance an anti-cigarette is
trust convention. The convention c
strong body. Captain Williamson, ot
Caswell county, N. C,, was chosen chair¬
man. The convention at once took uj
llie subject of the trust, am
agreed ail to receive representatives manufacturer) ol
the groat cigarette
in the country. There appeared Ginter repre
sentatives of Duke & Sous, Alien &
King and Goodwin, who made statement)
to the convention. A committee «»
appointed to consider those statements
and report. Intense interest is mani
tested by every tobacco grower in thii
fight against the hated trusts. This in
terest.is felt by all, whether alliancemci
or not.
FALLING WALLS.
SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED AND A NUM¬
BER OF OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED.
An appalling N. A'., disaster Thursday occurred morning. ic
Brooklyn, winds of the
The heavy night before
shook flic new Presbyterian church at 296
Throop avenue to its foundation, and at
4.30 Thursday morning, one of the walh
fell with a crash on a three-story framt
building adjoining, and brought with it
death and destruction. The ruined
building was tenanted by the Mott and
Purdv reported families. The following Purdy, is a list aged ol
those dead: David
fourteen; Caroline Purdy, aged sixteen;
May Purdy, aged eighteen; Mrs. Caroline
Mott, forty-five. aged seventy-five; The injured Sarah Emma Mott,
aged Purdy, aged forty Robert are: Poole, aged
.7. :
thirty-six, and others who received onlv
slight injuries.
:
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; GERMANY MOURNS.
I THE REICHSTAG PAYS A ItIGlI TRIBUTE TO
j DOWAGER EMPRESS AUGUSTA.
!
At the opening of the rcichstag in
Berlin,Wednesday morning, the president of
formally announced the death Dow
a tribute g eT Empress Augusta, and paid a high
j to her memory. The house
j adopted a resolution its sympathy requesting the Emperoi presi
j dent to convey to
William, and then adjourned ordered as amarkol that
respect. Tlie emperor lias
the court go into mourning for three
mouths, and has fixed weeks. the period has for gen- also
eral mourning at six lie
j ordered that the theaters aud other places
of amusement be closed for a week,
l
MARCH OF THE GRIPPE.
j THE PLAGUE NOW SPREADING THROUGH
I OUT THE WEST.
I . that there
Physicians . . admit are a num
; ber of of la grippe in >o
serious eases
i Lhntoii, Ind., and Lyons, la., am man
ones. La Grippe m a so rap < .
. Burlington. Near
; spreading in sick; number of y a n
officials are a prommen
, physicians unable attend
arc to o iei.
i professional } duties and a number suffering of oper
t0 , efrr8ph offices are
K reported. Influ ." *
C nza is commencing iu earnest at Perue,
d fiftv bt , illL , reDO rted.
A FATAL MISTAKE.
;
A rAM[I , v sufferixc- from influenza
; TAKE STRYCHNINE FOR QUININE.
A terrible mistake was made in the
, l , im ; lv r>{ \] t . 1T iH Griffin at Dearborn,
m;,,],’ j guunlav night. The faroilv all
, 1( , ;, lfl , K . n7ai am j took strvehnim
... . - Griffin lire wife,
r , , q tliit ben and vtn. ..awl
were the victims. Tlie daughter
] i( j . u , ( [ j s uo hope for Griffin,
M|Griffin an , ( wu ] (f(VV ., bare chance to
pull through.
SOUTHERN 7 -NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS ANI) OCCURRENCES
wnicn ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA¬
SON’S AND DIXON'S LINE.
Wm. Muldoon. Sullivan’s trainer, gave
#200 bonds to appear on Governor Low¬
ry’s requisition.
The contract for the stone and brick
work on the postoffice building at Charles¬
ton, 8 . C., ims been awarded.
The American fish company of Florida
have made arrangements for making Ma¬
con. Ga.. their distributing point for the
South.
The Times-Democrat pronounces the
gravel roads of New Orleans a success,
and far preferable to the shell roads which
were first tried.
Dr. Lehardy is preparing an exhaustive
report on the condition existing at the city
quarantine station at Savannah, Ga.. and
Will propose several remedies that he be¬
lieves will br- effectual in removing what¬
ever difficulties wav at present exist.
A banquet was given by the real estate
exc lunge, of Richmond, Ya., on Wed
nesday to Hinton Helper, correspondent speeches
of the New York Hun. Several
were made in regard to the progress of
the south.
The summer temperature at Lexington,.
Va., for two months has put cherry,
peach and apple tri-es in full bloom, and
lilies, roses and other flowers are bloom¬
ing. The temperature on Saturday was
In the seventies.
While four boys, between the ages of
fix and tight years, were playing under
the edge of a sand bank in Jackson,
Tenn., on Tuesday, the bank caved iu.
burying mud. They them under dead about when ten extricated. feet of
were
Conductor Frank Layton, of the Ala¬
bama Great Southern railroad, was
knocked from his train by a water tank
ind killed Friday night. He was leaning
mit of the door of the caboose too far as
the train passed the water tank, and w as
)n the head.
Cardinal Gibbons was taken on an ex
(tirsiou around the harbor at < harlestnn,
8 . C., on Saturday morning, and at night
lined at the residence of B. O'Neil, where
tr reception was held. The ceremony of
laying the cornerstone of the new cathe¬
dral took place Sunday.
The stables belonging to Maey Bros, of
Versailles, Ky.. burned Saturday morn¬
ing, destroying thirty-five out burned of thirty
the right horses. Bell Among Boy, that those sold was
horse was at auc¬
tion by Jefferson & SaVuiau to J. J. Clark
for #31,000. It is said that Clark had re¬
fused # 100,000 for her.
The law class of Washington and Lee
university, of Lexington, Va., of which
Hon .1 Randolph Tucker, L. L. D., is
professor, organized Saturday for its final
celebration, electing J. T. Noel, of Rich
Knoxville, inoud, president, and There Frank Blair, of
orator. are twenty-one
seniors, mostly from the south.
Jackson, lire Mississippi senate, in session the at
on Saturday, suspended rules
uuil passed a bill creating a new county,
to be called “Jeff. Davis” county. It is
to be l oir. poM-d of parts of Sunflower,Bol¬
ivar and Culiomn counties, with Cleve¬
land, on the Louisville, New Orleans and
Texas railway, for the county site.
A preamble and resolutions were
adopted ting forth in that the Virginia legislature set
the monument to General
Robert E. Lee is nearing completion, that
sufficient funds have not been raised tc
pay for the same and calling upon citizens
of the state to take measures in every
countv'to raise the necessary amount. It
is understood that about # 8.000 will bt
required for that purpose.
Senator Williamson offered a bill iu the
Mississippi charter Jackson senate Saturday in to amend the
of several minor mat¬
ters, but the feature of general interest is
that it proposed to restriet the right to
vote for mayor and other officers
to those who can read and write,
or who own five hundred dollars’
worth of taxable property. The bill will
probably pass, and will be the first at¬
tempt to abridge suffrage in the state.
Mr. M. E. Born, a member of the state
executive committee of the Farmers' Al¬
liance. at Raleigh, N. C., was questioned
Thursday in regard to the effect of the
negro exodus He says 50 per cent of
the negroes in Lanier county have “ex
odusted” and that by March probably
75 per cent, will have gone. While
some of the large farmers are op¬
posed to this departure of the ne-.
gro labor, the poorer classes of white
people want all the negroes to leave. It
is a dec]) seated belief that such a separa
tion will prevent race troubles.
NEW YORK'S MORTALITY.
THE DEATH LIST OF WEDNESDAY THE
LARGEST FOR YEARS.
Returns to the bureau of vital statistic*
show that 250 deaths occurred in New
Fork city for the twenty-four hours end¬
has ing at noon been Wednesday. The like of this
never known in the history of
the department since the time of the
cholera. During four days of tliis week
S39 people have died within the city of
New York. The morgue is crowded to
its utmost capacity. Reports from Belle
rue hospital to the central office showed
tkat ninety bodies, the greatest number
in the history of that institution, were
there awaiting removal.
THE GAME FLUSHED.
AN AMATEUR HUNTER FIRES INTO A
OF CHILDREN VHTn FATAL EFFECT.
In Marion county, S. C.. Saturday
ifternoon, a crowd of colored children
overtook were returning from school, when
a negro bov named McLaurio,
who had been out hunting. Several
the children began “guying"
because hc had failed to secure auy game.
This angered the boy, who suddenly
without warning raised his gun, shot
the crowd of children, killing one
severely wounding four others, one fatally.
McLaurin was jailed, and expresses
regret for his terrible deed.
bank statement.
The iollowing is ine weekly
oi tire lissociatod banks for the week
ing Saturday, January 11 th:
•eaerTu
Laaus mcre»-»....................
Ipecie increase....................
-*«** tand-rs in -raase............. ;; 2 S J
GiroaUtiort Deposits increase................... 5 H.2
Bank- hold'# . .'o 4 ^
now 6 15.704* in exe.
the 23 per cent,-rule.
ABOUT CAMELS.
Their Efficiency as Transports —
Their Food and Humps.
A burden camel, writes a correspond¬
ent, cun carry more then half a ton of
load, though, have of courte, lv not at great them
spied. I frequen seen
loaded with 1,500 or 1,10(5 pounds and
moving under off at fweerable a fair gate. An average is
loal, circumstan.es.
about 60)1 pounds, ond tli.s a camel will
esu-ry easily, thirty mi], without day. pushing, tweuty
five or s a
Colonel Nf Min do told Major Way no
that in General Napier’s campaign efficient
against Sinde they had nn
corps of 1,000 men mount* d on 600
dromednr'es two men to ea h drome¬
dary, b .th armed with rifles anil sabers.
In battle the animals were made to
kneel in a sqca e, tinder the charge of
600 of the men, forming a base of opera¬
tions, from which the other 600 operated
an In intontry. of extremity the thousand
case
men could find ahelt r behind the
animals, rising bv which hobble were prevented the foie from leg.
a on
This «orp* frequently marched seventy
ni;les in twelve ho rs. 1 have heard
Some droireduriei. remarkable talcs of the speed liad of
An Arab told me 1 o
traveled £00 miles in a week on bis
dclool, but this was simply an example
of the orientd habit ol' amplification.
All, what lia s they are in the East! It
is true, however, that while a horse can
outrun lat will a dromedary in a short la -e, 500 the
er take a leal of TOO or
]rounds ai d make his fitly miles a day
for a month.
An odd thing in camel driving is that
they must not b , pushed. Toey will
set their own gait, moving slowly where
the road is unfavorable, and miking up
lost tiino of their own violition on the
good stretch s. The <amel has He one
great adx antegc over a horse. can
live off any thing, like a gent. He
browses on every shrub and plant that
grows, even the thistle and the prickly
pear. He can also travel, in emergency,
three, four, icon six omsoren days, ugly
without water or food. It is liis
looking hump that enable < him to do
this. Compos'd of gelatin, us fat, the
animal liv, s off it by re-al sort fcion. In
tbe Eart the condition of a . ame! after a
long hump. journey is judged by tiro size of his
It is not uncommon to ;eo the camels
come with in, after], ugand painful their journeys, hump
backs a most stra ght,
having nearly dir appeared. I wr s.iiiueh
surprised to leaiu that the hump does
not seem to br intimately eonne ted
with the animal’s vitality. 1 inant Ley
told me hc had often opened the hum] s
when thcybeoime so large from high
feeding ns to prevrut ill 1 saddle from
li largo ting properly, of and withont tin n injuring taken out (he
{) eres fat
generally annual or affecting his that health. camel It is
supposed, hot too, than cold the
thrives better in in coun¬
tries, but this is not true. Is e no iea
s n why the can e! elion the d not do well of
.• u 1 be very iif efiiJ in clinia o
Texas and on all of out South-western
pila ins.
AETER MANY YEARS.
A QUARTETTE OF MURDERERS CU'TURED
AFTER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF FREEDOM.
Eighteen" years ago, river, George in Woodson, southwest
a ferryman on New
Virginia, was murdered by four French men—
John French, Pale French, David
and James Durford, all of'Pulaski county,
Teun. Tiie reason was a refusal to ferry
them across the river, which was greatly
swollen. The guilty quartette fl' il the
country, leaving no clew whatever. Ten
years afterward 1 )avid French was capt ured
aud imprisoned. On Saturday, John anil
Pale French passed through Knoxville iu
charge of Virginia officers. After eigh¬
teen foum\ years of freedom, tliev ilarlem had been
in the backwoods of coun¬
ty, Ky. Pale French is a lawyer of some
standing, and an intelligent, educated
man.
A LOCK OUT
NINE LARGE SHOE MANUFACTOHIE8 IN
HAVERHILL, MASS., SHUT DOWN
Through some trouble with the Shoe¬
maker’s Union, a lockout occurred Satur¬
day at nine large shoe factories at Haver¬
hill. Mass. Jn at least five of these fac¬
tories the employes were receiving good
wages and were contented, nor was there
any anticipated trouble with the union.
The factories were running along
smoothly, and tiicre was no apparent rea¬
son for dosing. Three thousand peu-ms
shut out are mostly first-class men. The
loss will fall heavily upou the manufactu¬
rers as well as on the workmen.
TO HONOR STANLEY.
TUB AMERICANS TN LONDON TO BANQUET
HIM.
Henrv M. Stanley has accepted an invi¬
tation to attend a banquet to tie given in
his honor by "Americans in L .ondon.
The date o', the banquet earn not be
definitely fixed, but Mr. Stanley
has sent a cable dispatch staling
that he will probably be iu London about
the middle of February. Mr. Lincoln,
American minister, will preside. Ilewill
prescut to Stanley an American flag and a
massive silver shield wrought with Afri¬
can scenes.
A BUILDING FALLS
CRUSHING TO DEATH THREE MEN— CRIMT
> At. CARELESSNESS.
The north wall of the machine railroad shops
in the yard- of the Long Island
depot, iu Long Island City, fell with 3
loud crash Tuesday morning, burring
three men under several tons of brick.
The men were dead when taken out,every
hone in their bodies having been broken.
The building had been sold for removal.
The accident waa due to earelessnes iu
undermining the building, and the have con
tractor for removal aud his foreman
oeen arrested on the coroner’s verdict,
charging them with manslaughter.
The accession of Costa Rica and Ni
ca;apm to the plan of union of the live
Central American States will entry into
effect auoMii r . f the hop. fid and projects will add in
that part i f the c mtiuiut, another
and to the list southerly of federal “Unit republics 'd 8 >‘» f “.
more
There must be a cliaiin in that mane,
bit u]Kin by our revoiu iouaiy lathi rs to
cxpresi a great idex and c n- : crated j
tout n ted i ceeptnnce thio gh ai! cou
Kt-tutxn d cli ugwv It is pi r.taps mcU
for Cent .ill Amerii ft that she w-id '- u‘ n
vta-s before adopting a permanent her ntom o> non n
st.t t on which shad giv ot
domestic policy. Time m mi tm men.
math importance iu tbe for-i t.m o.
gOvermqentK.
NUMBER 14.
AT THE CAPITAL
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON¬
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT H^KRISOJ.—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OP OENEltAl. INTEREST.
The death of Repfc-entative Kelly, of
Pennsylvania, has rtervcd removes the from longest the house contin¬ the
man who
uous term, anil was therefore known as
“the father of the house.” Judge Kelly
has for many years Sworn in Ttte speaker
of each new congress. That duty now
will fall upon Samuel J. Randall, who
wiil now be known as the father of the
house. Vice-President Morton has ap
Manderson. pointed Senators Butler and Sherman, Colquitt Cameron,
to repre¬
sent the seriate at the funeral of the late
Representative Kelley. 8
Long before the hour of noon on nt
turduy. the galleries of the house were
filled with spectators anxious to do honor
lo the memory of Judge Win. D. Kelly,
w ho had for mauy years been a prominent
member of that body. called A few order, moments the
before the house was to
members of the senate, without formal
announcement, entered the chamlrer and
quickly took seats in the body of the hall.
A sable-covered bier stood in front of the
clerk's desk and a handsome floral tribute
was placed near by. At 12:10 tbe offi
ating clergymen, Drs. Butler and Cuth
Ix-rt, entered the hall, reading the begin¬
ning of the burial service. They were
followed by the committees of the senate
and house,’having amid charge solemn of the hush, ceremo¬
nies. and then a the
magnificent casket containing the remain,
I'll* of Judge Kelly was placed by on Dr. the bier.
burial service was read But
lcr. and prayer was offered by Dr. Cuth
bert. A benediction was delivered by
Dr. Cuthbert, and then slowly and sadly
the committees escorted the remains of
Hon. William D. Kelley from the chant
uer which had known him so long and so
well. The senators, headed by the vice
president, who had ocaupied a seat to the
right of the speaker, having left the
chamber, on motion of Mr. Benghaiu, of
Pennsylvania, the house, as an additional
remark of respect to the memory of the
Icceased, adjourned.
NOTES.
The discussion of the world's fair bill
by the house committee on foreign affairs
has resulted in bringing forward a propo¬
sition which it is suggested may aid in
the selection of a site for tlm fair by the
house. The committed has already de¬
cided that it will Teport a bill leaving
blank the name of the city where the fair
shall be held, but it is feared that if it
goes into the house in that shape and
without some arrangement in advance to
govern the method of selection of a site,
no agreement can ever be reached.
The senate committee to select .the site
for the quadro-eeutenuiul listened exposition,
on Friday, Washington city fo be the selected, -'ia'ni
of to
us Douglas presented Secretary by District-Commissioner Anderson, of
:
the national board of promotion
of tbe three Americas exposition; Major
Powell, chief of the geologic survey:
Myron M. Parker, president and of Washing¬ Felix
ton board of trade, General
Angus, of the Baltimore American.
Alexander D. Weddleburn. of Alexan¬
dria, Va.. committee, appeared before Saturday, the ways and
means on as repre¬
sentative of the legislative committee of
the national grange and farmers of the
Virginia state grange to demand equal
protection of farm, with iron and wool
manufacturers. He said that in his opin¬
ion protection protected manufacturers,
and enabled them to form combinations
aud trusts, to take money out of the far
mere’ pocket, but the grange recognized
that the country had declared for pro¬
tection, and he was not there, to advocate
free trade. He was for equal legislation,
bounties. and the protection He did of not farmers think by the means of
taxation present
system of of protected pins.” laborers to
the value of a “row
TRADE TOPICS
CONDITION OF BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK
ENDED JANUARY 11, BT DUN * CO.
It. G. Dim & Co.’s weekly review ot
trade says; Au easier money market and
colder weather hus helped business some,
but it cannot he denied that the opening
trade of the year has !hus for lwen a little
sickness disappointing for the widely prevalent
is, to some extent, responsible,
ns and it interrupts the operations of buyers
sellers in every direction and lessens
the retail trade, except in drugs,
COTTON EXPORTS
have been remarkably heavy for t lives
months, and are now falling behind last
year’s change, which is natural and must
be expected to continue. The movement
of wheat has not been large iu December,
with prices comparatively low, and can
hardly be expected to increase much with
higher prices. The rron trade is still in
doubt. Moderate lots are occasionally
offered below current quotations, while in
liar iron the feeling is less confident of
late. Undoubtedly the enormous build
ing last year sustained the iron trade. At
New York and Brooklyn the value or
new buildings was #95.000.000 against
#70,000,000 in 1888, aud in Philadelphia
the number was 9,435, against 7,fi75 in
1888, but construction at such a rate cau
not be expected to continue. The coai
trade remains dull and affects the for prices active of
stocks, though the. average higher
stocks is about 50 cents per share
than a week ago. But sugar trust stocks
have been pushed down to about 50, not
withstanding higher prices for raw sugar.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during - last week number for
the United States 334. Canada 39; total.
373 failures, against 322 last week.
THE MONTANA MUDDLE.
THB LEGISLATIVE DEADLOCK STILL IX
FORCE IN THE HOUSE ASD SI>NATE.
On Saturday at Helena, Montana,
Messrs. Sanders and Powers, who were
elected United States senators made by the re¬
publican house and senate, formal
application to Governor Toole tor certifi¬
cates of election. The reque-t was de¬
nied ou the ground that their election w as
illegal, and because of the fact that Gov¬
ernor Toole liad already given certificates
of elections to Messrs. Clark ami Ma¬
chines, elected by the democrats. The
egislutive deadlock eontinuis iu full
force, and the republicans have decided
to break it so far as the senate is con
cerned by unseating Mr. McNuntrn,
democrat, who is ineligible because of hi
being a federal official. This "will giv
the republicans full and free contre!', ol
the senate.