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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. . .................... 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? * * h ............... 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. : ' ; 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.