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The Georgia Enterprise. VOLfME XXV. AdWxDrifbv", Fn » it- 8 mad ston* u®* a ****** good ship strewed the sfcnnd; > hopes that sailed from land N*J, wrecked on that foreign ■ Ayoatl. *ita hope ■ liwIzxWsa* jetoottoope strife, P Jj, his plan- were crossed, [ He himself was lost, of life: thousand aims G,pi •JJfcejwMoB -ailed and plans well plan'd the longed-for-land, — Natvrr. {NJ0TINA BLIZZARD ■ I L -— ,rewad<ws hurricane of snow and , r h wait over W. oue grr»t. SS level 1 Indents w* trmie ’become™ fliriirinire and , '^ a no doubt ' khisior vof , ,u the vast . reg.on • over I the sturm swep.. ua* ,t in connection with bay-hauling rt t „£ the marshy, unsettled town of low tbft. there occurml au in Mii !u (extreme peril, of fortitude and mH jMt exercise of the faculties amid ! iange-r. which, at the time it came func a »as ilniost lost sight of in our 1 r] ' ,| widfsore id calamities! ., J( . ' our UTinr.-pared neb-h C* . re C newiv settled tirniHes LCl, ^ r iilwav Station districts'was of (I,, -hinh'settled ‘i,< ,L‘i Sailor ,h 5 , K t .S: 7hK the of Lowland aud Gull Lake furnished thousands ofof kthh tract, a dozen miles in ex liifarhiick from the railway as hay Kr hik'd with profit, are scattered |j l imulatc until they dot the prairie Ukg dies fn become for the time fhe [Lp.jtth. feature of the landscape U-tearn station large hav b-rns U'i presses to which from tiU until baled' April the bay is hauled ’ re civ for ^Sng shinn ent who were hav at VeMhe -rreat st<,r,n were “tie rilek h«d his small brother Orr, a Urtewn •rrrss-«• h*T°in tlm" frame* 7* i i 3 thc of ! • 'UWnal«wu,t „n,..,i f .t n ^ | I Uihs bLJrd.^Luh, to! Aval s!, , ' i ■ uui fin#* that- n;.iz* h .* In' » n" I hr )S v mger r than h to himself but i older ■Orr, obtained the permi^ion of their |kr ■lie; to might go home with at recess, their in order liiiiir go brothers to tbc bay-field. Their mother ■ lint promised that they should go upon warm day after sleighing came. per arrived at the house just as Dick lOrrelrove up for a lunch, before go [ifter ■would their last load for the day, and. be dark before tlmy could wok, the girls, too, got each a slice pri and cold meat to munch on the hover eras: his horses sawrt kone when standing, of thc bottom boards of the ! Lind seated Jeanie and Carrie upon ‘ t. Then, little dreaming what j it them, the brothers aud sisters riled 8 swiftly ..ut upon s new sleigh road, ! them for several mile* over a tie almost as level a- a barn floor. it haystacks were reached and i ! t k boys worked at their loading, i little girls raced about, tumbled to by or rolled snowballs as thev 1 d. fo load of hav taken from thc ' was loin of » stack around which the ! ’ tad drifted thawed and frozen i i much of the outside hav had to be ' loose with an axe or freed with i 'el, hath „f which implements Dick i »d for that purpose. It took much tr than usual to load upon ibis **». and evening w-is already draw- ’ r: ■■■'JFa finally the little girls were 1 W upon th-load and the team was N toward home ! been mild and thawing all day, indeed that Dick had feared | ! tie their last trip with a sleigh 0 W should come again; f but a* hc I | upon the lo; „, (() tolt for home. • ; He told told his Ins heo*w brothers and i sisters , *>, that ,* p it i Soulfi . , mow before they got home, 'and had bettor “cuddle down” in % and throw the horse blankets ibeir ] S p s . ff (J drove forward for m ' u utes, urging the horses to a hot. and uneasily glancing toward '" nsr gray bank, which rapidly U''ast „ th< west and north, and threw a ’ ’ ;i [ an 'i told in advance, a* it ap Tjffied. ^ ar kness came on rapidly, aud # . C °* j ft-k's TOar 8 ' w ^ nd broke upon 'V «« a bHzz.wJt -1 he i to tUoUght s* •„ I for -^ ’ •WwcJ n P d an<l b L r kne bor , ' v * the «P dln 0 ' lt S he cr i St, ‘tame , u P° n thal mowed 1 froia any house, for the near ;, iH I ak!- U ' ®* tW0 VRS m fhat des and of n farmer half across to the ! °utho» t a wrrilv-« ii,.,', tttUch *“*»««« time to tWnk or to ! i" ,a them. before the great storm , Dot bing le ss tHan a hurricane ! i»< tlle t >*8 unwieldy rack fireened with I i that, K ° the li/fl,- o-irlo .“•right, 1 tUtn and the hnr£ „ mm P -i ,„i Driv sleet *b« their heads iwav from f m the !^ c m burst, which j rirove doKn r at . the of to- , ln . VJn gict. i! « d ,imtantly with thi* , Dick . iffthe*^ sW , top pfcd Iu ltb the Tbc animills and CWl ' d not L, •‘ iUCCd 1 '*‘ lines, vheirheai i>ut they ^ttb«2 ‘ st n otm ' 10 They ,u «* stood if , - as 4l*--t.’ tah„'„® otllei fierce blast of wind and '' ff ' ac d more furious sween i»ii ! ? c * ne came almost immcdlatfiy pletely q, ls l lmet bc n tbc rack was lifted com kay, yw .to riders. sled and overturned <*-i,rnta wirt, witb thett WM # cousid „ able ’ the road, md were hurt by the fall. ^Thty bad^alT «fS 'i jump, t ? w Ve ami or ° U d the of the ’ '“ “ sweep rack. As they scrambled to their w stiff wind was so filled with h ^ S': of Dtck the hay still securely beneath Us fr ani( ..‘ ’ held to one of the lines er' and the horses stood shivering with auSde^ cold, for the «n dropped far temperature had below the fns zin.r „oint •-Get behind the nek out ,,f to * wind!'' he screamed to the v, who were 31° clinarinv to °‘ h ' r ,n tl> eud^vo ' ? w ° r } ae ra S^°g " wind ' Th,.,- n > l uni. and, hugging . . ’ ‘-uri-. . , c ; framework, found them , IlUrwh 'p‘n7 ' ' n oI ow , “ I C d ■ le '- wlnrhsl l t 1 C 'i CUtring over th.- v ,,lllSt top ' k ‘TL instinctively S . ,n t Wi r Hn l that to at , .. children the Iwre on -de<i and to drive them to a place of safe- all ty only meant certain death \o them In the first place, it would rwmiro ,u their strength to clino I on Moreovi elln - they “ could not endure half-hour \v‘^ 0 f fi uc h exposure to th<* sto-m ' cn' darkness cornin'^ s>Ih on o„l th L ' nir r dle<l i w ;th drivim. h, in™ .. oTe ' sT* l> 0 3 sibUitv J of hi bt n « ' l ,le t l " hnd a __ C ,, * on ' be f " uu< * G run "/“'’kiK'*"’I ■ »- varf, sb ^ u d be ahle , 11 ° to T "T’-'* drive . and 7 ' , '' keep x ’n if the he <?h! Ur “ a a!iVC a " • 1 His plans were quickly made, aud of a tw,c *' hw ” s ' r " cou,d not have made them . with gieater good sense-, or ^wn T‘ a braver spirit in their exe "* , ^e u , harness front his horses and turned them loose. Then. without waiting even to see which dire, tion the animals took, he ran to his brother and sisters. _ .... . . . , they started from home, their mother T‘ 1 fh at Jci ' n, “ ilud Carri<> should ,lr< -‘ss warmly, , ami take cloaks and com f 0 rt f” with th «“- T1 “’ se «>ey b « d P<» '' n buforc thc , 8torm and Dick. beU digging in the hay for a few min Ute * ' eeo tbc b " anis of thc ™ k < d » «wrc*l the horse-blankets upon b'een whicli ™ innately sitting ^hen the load overturned. W hae di ^ f " r h ” b '" ! P«: cs . lh<-m to $«* »“ lh( ' r ' > while he tucked the blankets around them. Frightened and hushed by the terrific storm, they obeyed without a murmur, and. the brave young f " llow tol,) that must -cuddle close together *a<I never i>o<m» 1 ontsidn*' till they heard him call them . He said that hc would go aud bring them something to eat as soon as lie ould get back from Mr. 'Waldeman’s across Gull Lake, and then after the blizzard was over they would all go home. He knew thc snow would drift over them in a very few minute*, aud be¬ that if they kept quiet then breath would warm thc “nest,” and no keep them alive for many hour*. But he knew also that such blizzards been known to last with unabated outlast such a storm. Therefore, his was to reach help if possible, K et 't to them the moment it should possible to breast the blizzard. Gull Lake lay over a mile distant, di ) to the southeast. It was one mile a b,llf ;lc ross it,and on the other side *y Waldeman’s ranch, a large group of dwellings, barns and shedding ': enclosed by a large yard which along thc lake shore for forty or mort ' Dick hoped that he might be able to h this ranch aud to find it. Buttoning his overcoat tightly about. lim nnd pulling a “Norwegian cap” *ich he'wore tightly down over his ears, set out. going directly with the storm, ram, ‘ {rom lhft northwest. He started at a stiff run. The wind ' arl ) lifted him off his feet at every “‘P’ au<i cut th) ' backs ot hi * leg« •’tad sidRa of hUcheeks icily. lf e soon found it impossible to tell he was going directly with the or not, as it blew in changeful gusts Thirled violently about him. But ud he r eachcd a ' nib \ it_ of at lak length , e sho , re and J found 10nt ; upon the me. to shut them and allow himself be carried over the ice by the wind. A Qf ^ ^ he was al)lc t0 kcep his but often lie was thrown forward actually blown over the rough ice rods. Thc skirt of his overcoat oc blew over his head, and the bitter wind pier, 1 every part of his body. It was a rough and terrible experience glad getting across the lake, and he was M had not attempted to take his broth ers and sisters with him. When hc at length reached the south en. bank he was so chilled and ex hmisted that he could scarcely keep his at tdL all The The bank bank was high 8 at the P 0,Dt ”' hcr ^ h( ^ 11 vLkwas t he ranch fence as the high bank west ■ of that. So and „ . , he turned, a enia e } crawled eastward, g ■< tion by the wind. a long tiuie be torcedns way along the edge of thc ice, which wm swept bare, guided by the sense ot ee - ing aud the direction ot the wind, but at and joyfully discovered it to be a fence. 4s it afterward proved, it was an ex ten-ion of the cattle-yard, a corner of which was built ”ff down into the edge of ! the 0r d water for the stock, dha a t Up ,'ni fhUh sed it by even perished. a few feet he would undo a n have ^ X be discoveiy ^ ^-i^“. im new Ul > at and arouse ^ [ ao ultic 3 . He ouce ' climbed thetenre ^followed t inside over . i ;r the yard.and then, by . 0 it until he came to a connect cattle-shed. of tb,se , . , ■ i Once in the shelter ; , his numbed arms and stamped ms restareq, smu i feet untit circulation partly the barn, anrt ! then felt his wav along to J giffdedly re ach the ranch W eg eotfid the through glimmer the of storm. a light which hc see COUNTRY: HAY SHB BVKR UK RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, UY COUNTRY /* —Jnrraaos. COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY >7. JtsitO. f *?* **! 00 ® ed * nd wanned '* mm he 'P men shoulc ««« his brother and sis* j i f oun<i that c h ““ « *** e ' escajwd with ' °° ly , * 1,il, , . * ht fr06tin 8 of his face and fin • =3r*?-“r tssas. 1 fi^l 5 * moments he would m Id 1 tl T - j *’ Ito™, frost He’etmld an l ° ^ ° Ut int ° tb< j 'e ,m»w ,lt hcr no encouragement . uu j hi i *. v!l r ght, . when he discovered that the s f 10w would was 00 ^nger falling, and that the soon be clear. R e toused the ranch hands at once, as two of them had agreed to go with him, In a short time the men were up. Some bot 9° ffe,! was drunk, a jug of it was titled from the pot, and a hori sharp-shod harnewed. The we* blindfolded, their heads wrapped til in blmi kets to protect them from blinding drift nlrtTwest which was still driving S hard tnr,l from f r Z tbe Th;« nu > - 0 a , , f sleiirh mlfflII fill l tk I rol k, ?‘® * n<1 , wr »P’- Th®’ 5 ' ^“ ise ^ es ^ ^ttornof the tk*'- tU e !ml A v ^ ‘ ,ut acr ‘>s* the lake in the very teeth ( of the wind. after .7'° some horie8 snorting W< ! re old ami antI tossing steady, of and. the heads, as a protest against the novelty of i omplete “blinds,” took .a steady hard trot ever the corrugated ice. O" reaching the farther shore of the lake and ascending to the prairie, Dick, with his head completely muffled to the eves, took a standing position and. bracing W-jf, directed the move meets of the driver. The short distance ‘ be of the «’» d «“ at >led him to hit the hay-road at » P««t so close to the overturned rack that he caught sight of the top. of it 113 the Y WPre P ass,n g ««ae rods distant. A moment later they had halted and tlie team and Dick had pointed «> e »poi where his companion* were Then - Utterly overcome, he ! bre W h \ mS £ U U ‘ ,0n thp drift « d burie,i hi-“ h«e . mhis arms. His .. gnef.and . BUS P«“ 9e * tb * moment were almost beyond , ' u,ilireDCC - Hc llad n0 that th( < h ilciren could have survived such a fear M ^ But five minutes of silent digging occupied his companions, and at <>f that time both of them gave a ^. c,oud nf "W*® rose «P from the blankets. ™ck « on his feet instantly A moment later the three young Jo/dans "ere dragged forth, alive, but stupid «j» «W and a drowsiness which would no ^ ^® ve them alive many hour* longer. Yet they had escaped any serious frostbite, and a dexterous rubbing, shaking and jouncing restored their'eir culation and their senses. They were bundled into the sleigh amid robes and comforters, and, despite the severity ol the weather aud the drifting snow, were taken immediately toward home, where their welcome must be imagined. One of Dick’s horses perished in the storm, hut the other turned up alive and well the next day at a farmer's stables twelve miles south of Gull Lake.— Youth’* Companion. * »*• *•»« - ■ •** A shaggy and valuable Ncwfoundl&nc dog is the household pet in the family ol John Jones, a mason, who lives it Brooklyn. This animal was the innocent cause of the arrest and arraignment be fore Justice Kenna in the Gates Avemw police Court, of Edward Cook, a bright i ft d 0 f thirteen years, who has been em¬ ployed for several months past in the bakery of Charles Hillman. The little fellow was arrested for stealing Mrs. Jones’s pocketbook. The dog was the thief, and only by accident was the in¬ nocence of the lad established, Edward delivered several loaves oi ] )rca ,] to Mr. Jones’s family every day. when he went to the house on Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Jones who usually re ecired thc bread, was absent, and he Mt the order on the dining room table and returned to the bakery. Mrs. Jones subsequently came down from an upper room and missed her pocketbook, that contained $45, and which she was posi tive was lyiug on the table when she went up stair*. She immediately sus pected the boy and caused his arrest. He edited his innocence in the most positive language, but was locked up The police searched the lad, but found missing wallet, but could not find it. While she was engaged in the search tht favorite pet dog lay stretched before tin fireplace. Tne dog was allowed to roan: about the house at will. His kennel was in the yard, and every night it was th ( custom of some one of the family to pre pare tbc dog's bed there Mrs Jone, went to thc kennel at dusk and her, found the missing pocketbook. It la; in the middle of the kennel and the teeth marks of her dog m the leather con vinced her that hc, and not young Cook bad committed the theft. She foun« the money intact and hurried to therata tiou house, but the police could not res /lease Edward except on an order from , ttJ nagistrate or a bad bond. After an other hour's confinement the lad secured his liberty and yesterday morning was ;) 10 norablv discharged from custody. Had s t h e property not been found the boy mi"ht have spent many days in jail . waiting fe the disposition of the charg, againsz m York Herald. _ Terrible Tragedy , „ Kecal ed. , A Sierra Nevada Mountains recalls thc fr 4 **n ( rj c fate of Donner and his party, fifty ; w ho perished ia the snow at t - t twentv-six miles from Emigrant P' i> onn ei Lake now marks th, *^1; “ ]j onn er's SierrL party were emigrants ^ thP in the oAen days. came ' snow bound, aud they atr - f . r . k and everything in their ’ M »f which thev c ^“P tba t Id „ , le r killed and . devoured , two two Indians todies jriho who wandered in. ■ survived t, each other, va y tell the horrible sto . - ; ----— - Ta ) ue of the horses exported from $2, tv,minion of Canada in 1889 was - including $2,169,792 worth fftates. AT . „ THL CAPI1AL (x 4 DTT A T WEAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON¬ GRESS IS DOING. APPOINTMENTS BT PREstDEST HAKBISOX— MEASTHE8 OP SATIOWAf, IMPORTANCE AND ITEMS OP GENERAL INTEREST. The resolution heretofore offered in the 6cn * ,e bT Mt Chandler, calling on the at tornev-general «-S5io» for information as to the fui^Statesmatahalinthenortherndis- tf W. B. Saunders, deputy tnct of Florida, was taken up on Wed nesdny and Mr. Pasco proceeded to ad dress the senate in explanation of the facts and circumstances of the case. Mr. Pasco had not concluded his statement when the hour of 2 o'clock arrived, and the education bill came up as unfinished business. Mr. Blair, however, yielded ,h « lioor to Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, on whose motion the senate bill appropnat ing $100,000 for a public building at Fort Podge, Iowa, was taken from the calen dar and pas»ed-Mr. Gall calling attention to the fact that this waa the fourth pub llc bttxtding bill passed for Iowa at this session..... On motion of Mr. gtoek bridge, the senate bill appropriating Pausing; $ 100,000 for a public building at Mich., was taken from the calendar and passed..... Mr. Blair then resumed bill. his argument in favor of the education In the house, on Wednesday, Mr. But terworth, of Ohio, from the committee on patents the bill presented a favorable report upon of representatives providing for the appoint nient on the part of the .United States to the international iudus trial coAference ft Madrid, Spain. April U 1890. . .Mr. liowell, ol Illinois, chairman of the committee on “ectioTcasc tbf^esT'vIrginta ofAUrinlnvs tnle^d Pe^on p )r consideration next AVednesdav ' . Mr. Rejd of Iow in behlllf of lhft jud i, i» r v committee, called uf> a bill to regulate the sittings of the United States courts in the dristnet of South Carolina, and it passed. The house then went into committee of the whole for consideration of the bill authorizing the appointment of an as¬ sistant secretary of w ar. The bill was favorably reported from the committee of the whole to the house, and the Oklaho¬ ma bill was taken up. The remainder of the day's session was occupied in the dis¬ cussion of the Oklahoma bill, but with¬ out action... .Saturday afternoon. March 2 lid. was set apart for delivery of eulo¬ gies upon the late representative and Edward .1. Ray, of Louisiana, Thursday even¬ ! ing, April lid, was fixed for the delivery of eulogies upon the late representative S. 8 . Cox, of New York. Ou Friday the conference report on the bill to increase the pensions of totally disabled pensioners was presented ill the senate, and was agreed the to. The senate proceeded to considerateon of bills on the calendar, under the eighth rule (unobjected cases), and passed the following bills, among others: Granting pensions to officers and enlisted men of the United States army, members of the Society of Cincinnati, of Aztec Society, National Association Veterans of the American War, Military Order of Loyal Legion of the United States and of the Grand Army these Republic orders. to Increasing wear badges the adopted by for public limits of cost buildings, as follows: San Francisco (site), to $800,000; Sacramento,Cal., to $000,00(1; El Paso, Tex., to $200,000; Omaha, Neb., to $2,000,000. Making appropri¬ follows: ations Annapolis. for Md.; public $75,000; buildings Kansas as City, Mo., $2,500,000; Los Angeles, Cal., fad¬ ditional) $350,000: Alleghany, $50,000; Pa., $250,000; Beaver Falls. Pa., Atchison, Kan., $100,000: Selma,' Martinsburg, W. Va., $123,000; Kan., $150, 000: Zanesville, O., Emporia, Kan , Danbury, Conn., and Waterbury, Conn , $100,000 each: New London. Conn., $100,000; Youngstown. O.. $100,000. There were still other public business buildings on the calendar. When that, was closed, no other business was disposed session, of, and after a brief executive the senate adjourned to Monday. the In the order house, on Saturday demanded, morning, Mr. regular Mississippi, being proceeded ad¬ Hooker, of world's fair to bill. dress the house upon the He spoke in favor of Washington. Mr. Mills, of Texas, in a short address also favored Washington as the site for the fair. Mr. Morse, of Massachusetts, an¬ nounced his proposed opposition exhibition, for one reason, that the wereVer held, would involve if loss to the treasury of the United States of several million dollars. Mr. Bianchard, of Mills’ Louisiana, in reply to Mr. rc marks said the discovery by Colunbtls argued that the south had more benefits to expect from the fair than any other sec¬ tion. The fair would call the attention of capitalists of the world to the fields and forests of the south. Mr. O’Ferrall, of Virginia, said that the city of his choice was Washington, where beauty and grand i-ur aml magnifieienee filled the eye. Mr. Gibson, of Maryland, was in favor of one spot which commended itself as a place and ' ‘ mos rcsa in wealth vote*■ r '’’Wilson, Tools and next for Chi cago. of - - VvNmirof Misso^and O N«^l £**£*>* Indiana spoke ^X^^rict - lM St. opposite’ Louis), and St. Go includes East q{ Mis30uri< an n Mr . 0 uth ( 0hio .’ advocated tlie claims of ’ Mr M of Illinois, was m ch; g ason, General Kerr, of favor of Chicago. of IoW8< 0wen o{ Indiana, and Springer, luinoig) spoke for Chicago. Messrs. Fitch Flower, Dunphy, Lansing. Spinol hearty *. Wallace. Raines, Turney. and Farquhar, all of New gran deur could behest seen-Washington. world Mr. Houk, of Tennessee, wanted a s fair at which our wonderful wealth, skill and energy could be exhibited. To have it anywhere except at the national capital would take from it much ofitsimpo: lance. Mr. Wilson, of West Vir J ginia, favored the national capital, fa y; r Vandvro. of California, argued in restate and emphasize the that would influence his vote. Each the four cities was worthy of the fair, | The exposition was to give the people the old world not an insight into great Sut manufactories and industries only, to show them our great country, The exposition Hiould be held at the cen ter of the country. St. Louis was nearest and Chicago next. He would J York, ^ again ^ pressed the, claims faquha. Ac-rk 1 by offering in behalf of New 000.000 and a cosmopolitan visitors. people Mr. Can know how to care for tiler, of Massachusetts, closed the j„ words, saying the country could trust the house to discharge it* full and he hoped ‘question for a favorable ppon the The house, at eveuing session passed forty private jicu- r sioa bills, and at 10.25 adjourned. sons. i Wm. The OffV'ident Bowers on supervisor Wednesday of the nominated } F. census for the second Georgia district. j Senator Edmund- introduced a bill Saturday to punish parties interfering : with United Statis officers in the due charge of duty. The house amendment to fhe bill tc haye statistics of mortgage indeWedness obtained in the next census was non concurred in, and a conference was asked. The first assist all t postmaster general fourth on Saturday appointed the following At Good¬ class jxistmastcrs for Georgia: win, Franklin county. E. L. Cawthron; it Round Oak, Japes county, J. W. T urk. The Presmcnt, on Friday, scut to th* senate the following nominations: Post¬ ryville; masters—Virginia, Florida- -Edward Charles K. C. Lee. Weeks, Ber Tallahassee; Natchez; Mississippi—Henry Alabama—William C. T. Grif- Ew¬ Sn, ing, Gadsden: Georgia—Madison Davis, Athens. The reports of tlie action of tlie body upon the British extradition Wednesday, md which was printed in tlie papers, was the cause ol the- question being consid¬ ered. Among accomplish the measures desired suggested end, as likely to cfenr the was one to entirely the senate wing of the capitol during executive sessions of all persons excejt senators and those em¬ ployes whose dijties require them to lie present. The pension appropriation bill for tlie next fiscal year was reported- Tuesday from the committee on appropriations. It carries with it $98,472,401, being $59,- 791 less than tliu estimates and $10,668,- 761 more than the bill for the current fiscal year, though there is an estimated deficiency of $21*898,834 in the pension hill expenditures for this year; so that the is really $4.930 073 less than expenditures will be this year. Air. Carlton's bill to establish n federal court at Athens, Ga., to be known as the eastern division of the northern judicial district of Georgia, passed the house on Wednesday. The following counties are included in the new district: Banks, Clark, Elbert, Franklin, Greene. Haber¬ sham, Hart, Jackson, Morgan, Madison, Oglethorpe, Oconee and Walton. At the requesf of Mr. Candler, Rahim, Towns, Union nnd White counties were stricken out of the original bill. The news of the arrest of seventeen citizens of Sharon. Ga.,charged with con¬ spiracy and intimidation against Post¬ master Duckworth, caused considerable comment among the Southern members Tuesday. As soon as Representative Attor Barnes heard of it, lie went to see nev General Milier, and asked an expla¬ nation. The attorney-general replied charges that he had ordered the arrest on based upon representations made to the department that there was interference with a United-States officer in tlie dis¬ charge of his duty. The senate has confirmed the following nominations: Alabama, J. R. Supervisors Wilson, fourth of district. census: Florida—Charles L. Partridge, fifth dis¬ trict. Georgia—Isaac Beckett, fifth dis¬ trict; W. A. Harris, sixth district ; Ma¬ rion Hethune, fourth district: C. C. Ha¬ ley, first district. Mississippi—E. Ousley, third Al¬ drich, first district; J. E. Lockey, district. North Carolina— C. P. third district. South Carolina—F. TV. Macusker, fourth district; S. J. Poinicr, first district; D. Yates, second district. Tennessee—H. R. Hinkle.fourth district; J. R. Walker, fifth district. Postmas¬ ters: Alabama, Andrew J. Locke, Eufaula. Georgia—L. II. Peacock, Bain bridge. Florida—F. A. Harrison, I‘a latka. Mississippi— James TV. Lee, Abendeen; Edmund II. Thompson, Wes son; Joshua Stevens, Maeon. North Carolina—Mrs. Ada Hunter, Kingston. Virginia. H. Anderson, West Point. A GOOD SHOWING. NEW ENTERPRISES STARTED IN THE BOUT 11 WITHIN A WABK. The list of new enterprises organized in the south during the week show un predented activity in the sale of mineral and timber lands in large tracts and or¬ ganization of a company with local and outside capital to build new towns aud establish new industries. This activity is general, extending from Virginia to Texas. Among the large $1,500,000 enterprises coal re¬ ported for the week is a and iron company in Birmingham, the contract for buildings for a $500,000 cot¬ ton mill in Florence, Ala., purchased and by Alabama capitalists; of two furnaces mineral property for $900,000; a $500,000 cotton mill in Arkansas, a $250,000 car-building company in Atlanta, a *250,000 brick and title works in Brunswick, a $200,000 phos¬ phate company in Florida, $200,000 cotton mill company hi Georgia, $10,000 pulp making in South mill Carolina, $100,000 cotton in North Carolina, $200,000 cigar¬ ette machine company iti Roanoke, Va., twenty new iron furnaces at Pulaski, A a., two other* at Johnson City, Tenu.. one at Bristol, by Pennsylvania Va., iron and makers: large at Begstone Gap, a other number of others taking enterprises, shape requiring at points. Gigantic of capital, backed in many millions many cases by capitalists in Europe, as well as iu the north, are being formed for opera¬ tions in the South. THE PLOT EXPOSED. DASTARDLY ATTEMPT TO POISON A JAIL FULL OF PEl/rLE. A dispatch from Pikcvilie, Ky .. says Ellison Mounts was hanged murder here Wedusday for participating in the of Mis/ Alafeir McCoy and her brother After th< execution the officers found a plot which, if successful, would have resulted in the escape of the prisoner and the probable Through the confession of !he jail cook the discovery was madix The Hatfields had paid the cook $200 to place a drug in the food of the jail guards drug the night before the execution. The was found to be strychnine. The cook was immediately arrested. All the outlaw gang have fled to the mountains of M'est Virginia, where it is sure death for of fi c ,re to follow. All the lawless person* who are responsible W for this outrageous ^ are West Virginia. The sheriff is having the necessary jiapers :>r ranged to secure requisition for effort the would i, e murderers, and every will be made to bring them to justice. SouW they he brought back during the present intenseexeitcii.ent every one of them would be grazed instantly with indignation mot bed, as the people are ( a m?EM NEWS. CONDENSED FROM THE TKLK ORADM AND CABLE. that —■— from dat to dat j happen throi ohoit tub would, cuujcd from variocs eouwm —- ! Tlie auniversarv of Washington's birth- j : w M generally olwerved. -Iuhu A Adler ovwall mam.tacturers, i Baltimore, failed Thursday : . Governor Hill, of New York, signed he world’s fair bill on Thursday. A boiler exploded in the sawmill of Hunter, near Richmond, Va., wound- Sat irday. Three persons killed, six The Paris Herald says President Carnot decided to pardou the Duke of Or¬ and send him under escort to the It is the intention of the Russian gov¬ to commence at once the con¬ of several large iron clsds and , Jeremiah. O’Donnell was on Saturday of’jury briliery in the Cronin at Chicago, and sentenced to three in the penitentiary. George Dowell, of ChiUicothe, Mo., set gun trap for a -thief. Mrs. Dowell did know the trap had been set and into it and was killed. WiUinm Crock, of Adamsburg, dynamite Pa., at- by to dry a stick of it on a stove. Result, one man and a house Mown to pieces. The American Cotton Seed Oil com¬ filed articles at Trenton. N. J.. on increasing its capital stock $20,000,000 to $30,000,000. A special train with over one hundred citizens left Chicago for Wash¬ Thursday night. They go to urge as the site for the world's fair. An explosion occurred hi a colliery aear Decise, France, Tuesday lives night. lost, It not known now many were already thirty-four bodies have been A cabinet meeting was held »( Paris at which it was decided to set the sentence of two years’ imprison¬ imposed on escorted the duke of frontier. Orleans, to have him to the Sentence was passed u[h>u the Navuss# in Baltimore Thursday, George 8 . Henry Jones and Edward Smith sentenced to be hanged on March Fourteen others were sent to the from two to four years. At New York the world's fair confer¬ report was adopted in the assembly u vote of 119 to 1, The senate on Wednesday afternoon bill asrreed to the con¬ ference report. The now goes to the governor, w ho ha* announced that he will it. Four weeks ago U. E II. Smith, who the Corbin Bunking Co., of New York city, ami who Elrny. had opened dis¬ a large plantation investigation store at his La., affairs, appeared. which closed An Wednesday night, of shows a deficit of $48,000. A cablegram Coral from London says: Pas¬ senger steamer Queen, from Gath erbury, 1ms been sunk off River Tees in Colliston with the Rotterdam steamer, Brineo. All persons, including tuptain aud officers of the Coral Queen, have been landed. Sixteen lives reported lost. The Manufacturer »’ Record gives facts aud statistics showing that tbc exports from twenty leading Southern ports were $6(1,959,788 greater in 1889 than in 1888. The largcrt increase in proportion was at Brunswick. Oa., where the exports for 1889 nearly doubled those for 1888. It was re|K>rted at New York ou Satur¬ day that the modest sum of $ 1 , 000,000 had been offered by a syndicate, through the law firm of Tracy, McFarland, Ivins, Boardmami & Platt, of No. 35 Wall street, for the franchise of the entire na¬ tional league, w hich embodies ten clubs. A fire at Toledo, D.. early Friday morning destroyed the Breckinridge tin box qnd fruit can factory of E. P. A Co.; A. H. Holdcrmau’s elevator factory, and James 11. flortz. junk dealer, aud badly damaged theater $105,000; Pope’s theater, insurance $90,000. Loss of the A dispatch of Brehmo Tuesday,from A Baltimore, importer*, Md., says: A. Co., German street: 11. P. Towles A Co., fur¬ nishing goods. Baltimore street; and fi. A. 'Welsh, notions. Lexington street; tiled deeds of trust for the benefit of their creditors. T he bonds filed arc respect¬ ively $24,000, $40,000 and $1,000. An Alliance Land Exchange lias been opened at No. 511 Ninth street, north¬ west, Washington. 1). for in the Hie purpose south¬ of aiding Alliance farmers ern states in selling their surplus lands to the best advantage.. The fee for entering the land, when not less than 100 acres, is one cent per acre. No other charge is made. At New York, Thursday, the George grand ju rv handed indictments against A. Pel!, James A. Simmons and ex -Presi¬ dent Wallacli, of tlie Lenox Hill bank, charged jointly with conspiracy in defying the State banking law-. The charge against Pell, Simmons and Wal lach was grand larccuv in the first degree, in taking $31,000 worth of bonds. The Western Watchman, it prominent weekly journal of St. Louis, on Monday, printed pondent a in letter which from he its Roman that the eorres says cou gre-gation of universal inquisition has is¬ sued a decree signed by Cardinal Monat • md Vatican, published aliolishing in the the official lenten organ fast of aud the ibstinence this year. Exports of specie from thc port ot New York last week, amounted to $1,- 206.780. of wdiich $572,180 was in gold sud $694,600 in silver. All the gold and $7,500 in silver went to South America. *ud $687,100 in silver was shipped tc Europe. Imports of specie of which for the $16,231 week amounted to $34,150. was in geld and $17,940 silver. The Pacific mail steamer. China, ar rived at San Francisco, Friday, iron: Hoag Kong and Yokohoma, China. Thc people state that the storm which swept along Boshu coast on January 24th, was very disastrous. About 1,000 fishing boats, with between *,o00 and ... is i ; wmen drifted out to sea and Dine Uuu '^ ed J?**' " h h aboard, were lost, i ! A MILLIONAIRE DEAD. ; JOHN Jacob astoh swctmcs to av at , TACK OF PERITONITIS. John Jacob Astor, leader of the great family Jacob of that name, and of' grandson of John Astor. founder the family in .America, died Saturday at New York at the age of. sixty years. MARDI QRA 8 . THE Alt NIVAL JX NEW oil LEAKS—A j fiinxrAirr pageaxt. ■ The gmnd street pageant of the kmg oj the carnival at New Orleans moved j promptly follow-: at noon on Tuesday, composed i as Mounte.1 detachment house- | hold troo;)*; platoon of household troops; , Bceuff Gras and attendants: king s own ^ ^t^carnH^a^fvJi t< cars; consisting revealing of nineteen theme moving tableaux the jQugtrated: ralers of anckot timea. His majesty. Ilex, seated impersonating Urukh, of Chaldea, is npon a gorgeooa his throne, and waves his sceptre to loyal subject* as he passes along: Justinian, of Byzantium; Shalmonezcr, of Assyria; Chi Solomon, of Israel; Ching Wong, of Ram na; Zenobia, of Palmyra; esis, of Egypt; Alexander, of Maeedon; Abdumnan, of Spain. William, conqueror of England; caleph Cyrwi of Media; Almansour, of Bagdad; Genzeric, king of Vandals, in Africa; Blank; Xoce, of Rome; Albion, of Lombardi: Merez, of Egypt; of Persia, The streets on which procession moved were crowded with It is generally admitted to bo the most brilliant mareli gras season that New Orleans has ever enjoyed. WYLY ON TRIAL. DICK HAWES REITERATES TIIK STOUT OP IDS CONFESSION. The preliminary trial of John TYyly charged with complicity in the Hawei murder, Wednesday. was begun at Birmingham, Ala., on Hawes, the condemned murderer, was placed upon the witness stand. He simply reiterated the story first said published he called Ids “eonfession." He gave John Wyly $200 to put his wife and daughter out of the way, and said all the other stories and letters written by him were false. After all the evidence was in, the court announced the defendant discharged, The deciaioo was received with three cheers by the crowd, aud nearly every one present pressed forward to eongnitulate VVvlv. The courtroom was crowded to its ut¬ most capacity, and hundreds of ladies took advantage of this—their last oppor¬ tunity—to see the notorious murderer. TO CLOSE THE FACTORIES AND TO KEEP THEM CLOSED UNTIL A SET¬ TLEMENT IS REACHED. The ini-nibores of the Manufacturers association of Woburn, Mass., at a meet¬ ing Tuesday night, voted to close every leather factory represented closed in the until associa¬ the tion and to keep them men return to work at the factory ol Beggs A Cobb. This means an enforced idleness of nearly two thousand men as a Tlie result manufacturers, of the recently it is adopted claimed, price have list. ail adopted arbitrators and arc uow and paying living the pricelist strictly of the are up to the letter of the decision of thc board, which was practically an increase in wages over what thc men formerly ob¬ tained of about 5$ per cent. They claim, hnwoter. that the men are not doing us they agreed to do. and that they have re¬ peatedly violated the agreement. THE DAM GIVES WAY. A GREAT DISASTER TV ARIZONA - MART PEOPLE DROWNDD. The fine large storage dam built across Passayampa river by thc Walnut Grove Water Storage Company, two years ago, at a cost of $300,000, gave way Saturday morning under thc great pressure of th* heavy flood aud swept everything before it. Forty person* are known to have lost th/dr lives, und the dam which held the water back wa» 110 feet long at the base und 400 feet at the top. It was 110 feet thick at the base and ten feet at the top. forming a lake three miles in length bv three fourths of a mile wide nnd one hundred and ten feet deep. Of those known to have been drowned were: J, Haines, wife and four children; II. Boone and daughter, John Silby, Joseph Reynolds, Mrs. McCarthy and S. McMiller. THE GRIP IN MEXICO. T£»BIBJ,£ WOHK OP THE XiUDV AMtXNO THE POORER CLASSES. Private letters from Mexico state that the grippe in has been more there widespread than aud persistent its ravages any¬ where else on the American continent. A letter dated the 14th instant and received at San Antonio, Texas, on Thursday, says: • The progress of the influenza here and its results have been truly ter¬ rific. The greatest fatality is among the poorer classes, who live generally in house* which afford no protection against the elements, and they have died ai/so lutely like sheep, sometimes 125 a day. Just now thc supply of coffins has been exhausted and many bodies have been buried without them.” GEORGIA TO AUSTRALIA. A SCHOONER LOADED WITH GEORGIA TINE LUMBER WILL SAIL FOlt ADELAIDE. A special of Saturday from Savannah, Ga.. says: There.is a large sehooDcr now in the river loading with lumber for Ade¬ laide, Australia. This is the first time, so far as can be ascertained, that Georgia pine has been sent to that great island, many thousand miles away. Large quan¬ tities of it are shipped to South America, and occasionally some goes to Europe. The new departure in this growing export will be watched with much interest. MUST BE EDUCATED AND CAPABLE OF READING AND WK/flNO BEFORE THEY CAN VOTB. A Pierre, S. D.. special to the Pioneer Press, says : “In the senate on Tuesday a bill was introduced to amend section 1 , article 7 of the constitution, so that it will become necessary for any person to be capable of reading properly any article of the constitution or any section of com¬ piled laws before being a legal voter. AN ICE TRUST FACTORIES IS CHATTANOOGA, TENS., COM¬ BINE INTO A TRUST. The three icc manufactories of Chatta ;joga, Tenn., have combined to dispose les of all their product to the Central Company organised, for the purposes of the trust. The price of ice has been ad¬ vanced sixty-six and two-thirds per cent Consumers are raising stock to build an •dependent factory. NUMBER 2«. SOUTHERN NOTES. INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL POINTS IN THE SOUTH. iENERAt. PROGRESS ASD OCCCRSBSCBe WHICH ABE HAPPENING BELOW MA¬ SON’* AND DIXON’S LINK. (Officers of six cavalry companies, Wednesday ol Virginia, met in Richmond and organized the first regiraeut of Vir¬ ginia cavalry. Fire broke out Wednesday morning in Levy A Wolfson’s crockery stove, New Orleans.- and four stores of the Touro block, on Canal street were burned out. ( .1 plain John C. Cheney, a prominent Alliancenien, has lieen elected general manager of the Southern will probably Exposition iden at Montgomery,Ala.,and of the with its tifv the AUianeeman state agricultural exhibit* this fall. The managers of the Semi-Tropical generously ex¬ position. a Ocala, Fla., have set apart Tuesday, February 25th. at “Alliance Day,” on which all Alliance men will be cordially welcomed without the usual card of admission. The Mississippi senate ou Friday pass sd the* lie nee bill repealing by the each law iu- re quiring a dejiosit of $25,000 the <111 illln coiupany doing business in State; also the bill making changes in the present judiciary and chancery court dis¬ tricts. The Proyrmite Firmer, at Raleigh, N. C., edited by President L. L. Polk, »t the National Alliance, has entered upon its fifth volume. It has always been a first class Alliance aud farmer’s journal, and has won deserved success all along the years that have passed. A meeting of colored citizens was held Thursday night at Nashville, Term., the at which it was decided to begin publication of a weekly newspaper there at an early date. The capital stock will not be less thnu $10,000, and of this $3,- 800 has already been taken. Saturday night at midnight, at ouc of the largest government distilleries of . 1 . B. Lame, at Salisbury, N. C., it boiler exploded with fearful results. Two men were killed, two others latally injured and several others seriously injured. .The distillery building was blown to for pieces. miles The explosion shook the earth around. * A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C. f says and : It is learned that the (Jape Fear Yadkin Valley railroad will build a line from Bemg'ttsvillc, 8 . C., to Charleston, on the south, add also build from Mt. Airy to some point on the Norfolk and Western railway on the west. These connections, when obtained, will make it one of the most important roads in The state. General Charles E. Hooker, member of congress from Mississippi, delivered an address at Baltimore Saturday night be¬ fore a large audience, and under the sus pices of t Ihe Baltimore Light Infantry, Jeffer¬ O. S. A., on the life and character of son Davis. Mr. Hooker, in closing his address, advised all southerners to giv. hearty allegiance to the reconstructed government. A C08TLY SMOKE. rOBACCO WARKUOCBES BCHSSD IN RICH¬ MOND, VA. ceeding Saturday night windows fire was discovered pro¬ from the of the Durham Stemming mond, Va, and The Tobacco spread factory at Rich¬ fire with fright¬ ful rapidity, and the adjoining factories of Alexander,Cameron & Co., and Came¬ ron & Tver were sOon a mas* of flames which the firemen were powerless to suh due until the building* and contents were destroyed. The factories burned were all four story brick buildings. The loss ol Cjimeron & Tyer is estimated at $300. 000; Durham fertilizing mills, $20,000, fully insured. The Sultan’s Secret Ways. 1 have seen the,Sultan several times during my stay in Constantinople, writes Frank G. Carpenter. I saw him twice at tlie mosque, and T saw him when he made his annual procession across the Golden Horn to Stamboul to kiss the mantle of Mahomet, which is preserved in the old seraglio. I hav e ruetsoinoof the most noted oi his ofii cials, and have had numerous conversa tions witli men who have lieen con¬ nected with liis palace for years. The Sultan likes to veil his doings witii se¬ crecy, anil only tho barest details of his private life are known to the genoral public. Within tho gates of his great palaces only his intimate friends and his most trusted servants come, nnd 1 am told that he has such a fear of nssasi naton that lio aboflt has men liis continually at his on guai d, both person, doors and about his watch-towers. Tlie palaces of Yildiz are all built on hills. Their grounds contain many acres, and they consist of ravines through which flow babbling brooks, of forests and lakes, of parks and of gardens. They rise almost straight up from the begin¬ ning of the Bosphorus, iris and the thirty or forty pa’aces which majesty owns hero all command views of thc surround¬ ing country. Notwithstanding this ele¬ vated position, the Sultan still fears plot few tings aud assassinations. He trusts people implicitly, and he seldom goes to bed at night' himself He sits best up until he 1 o’clock, amusing himself as cush¬ can, and then throws into a ioned chair aud dozes on till daybreak, He when he retires to his bed to sleep. has those about in whom he thinks lie can confide, but the fate of his pre¬ decessors warns him to beware. During the thirteen years of bis reign he has had several revolutions, and he was frightened almost to death when the czar oi Russia was assassinated. A Conscientious Toad. E. L. Holdridge, of South Butler, N. y., i s the owner of a toad which lias de¬ veloped a remarkable degree of tracta bilitv aud intelligence. In eating, the toad" has been trained to use a small knife and fork, and it is-taid to handle these implements with the grace and skill of an epicure. At the conclusion of the meal the toad regularly mouth, uses act a small ifapkin to wipe its an which it performs with becoming teach¬ grav¬ ity. Mr. Holdridge is toothpick, at present but it is ing tlie toad to use a imple still awkward in the use oi that meut. The toad readily walks upright, aud apparently ignores the ohara-. ter ist e hop of its raterual auces ors in tree act of loco.no*ion. It is also affirmed that the toad is developing a d-grt e of cons fence, as it has been known to she 1 tears of remorse upon several occasions -when reprimanded by Mr. Holdridge tore some impropriety or breach of eti¬ quette at the table.—!Times Democrat