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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUME XXV.
History of o a ti i
lie
Marriage. MdinagO.
BT MISS -MCLOCK.
CHAHERllt.
He two partners and their Wires sat
|W^ 8 S intentionally made a small
itdinuet of four only, for the
rf .on e accidental business of
SUauWco. which concerned the firm of
This, however, was
fena opteri’ur up ” nud indigo “pretty
M phraseology which
glistened not at all, with an
1 »Miy and abstracted air. .She
i iktongh with more than fiuo-ladr tndiffet
tore the need ul duties of her post as
I ** 1 A “ d ooutinually, in the pauses
WiverMtion, and often during the
B'Stofit, her ejes wondered from
tols where she sat to the expanse of Up
to sunshiny sea or river for it
lonoded by long, low walls and hillocks
wed'" T ’ a,ay t0 <he d,m > suuset-col
to
They were dining, not in tbetr magnifl
reot dicing-room at Bnkenhe.rd, but in
pwsrfefex’SS*
L summer, , h of efly on account of some.
M Wv or other his acquaintance having
I » little strongly on the extremely
.sof Lady Howorbank; for he
au . v Pleasure or any good (hit was
fliinly suggested to him, tho,rub he was
r>t acute at dinning her need of it.
LS r B tho°nli a k »li l “! “° °\
£ tn ! S n : ‘/‘T W ,T m '! c h
iitke to „ h r, . jet si e rather liked , this .
jli feg e, where the Ralt breeze was not too
It amused her to wander about,
pi watch l the rabbits playing ba k ‘ among d, U °i‘he the
C K* tln * n * b ® ' U ;, C fi f f ,]> or "h'ch ! : e s this ’ shore
iiT l at t hb ' ! "7 cono T
IMII.V me r mod, , or know , anything in the
rid about them, save that they were very
.feewed to iT" belong BRO,lu to another ‘.‘ e life
i.Kuful s of somebody which had once brought her
toem ; she had kept in
te work-box—faaeetf, kept still for that
rf- 11 was no harm;. she bad a way- of
piu; things, even trifles, so long that
te mere force of habit she kept them ou
B, otten for years and years.
Inc gre it peculiarity of her character
to that, though weak to resist, she was
tefcliagly ksmal persistent to retain. Such
es are not rare, but they are the
Mdifficult to deal with, nad the saddest
pill one’s made experience effort of life. entertain Mrs.
bowle vie no to
indeed, that good lady always on
pined k ike open herself-but window, sat watching idly looking the silent out
W hke creep np and down along the Mersey,
long mysterious trail mide by the
F» of some vet unseen steamer, the
W “puff, puff” of whose engines was
fdfor h»ay, miles off round across the the quiet river— of the
even curve
fclike shore.
1^) pt sat lilac she-gentle pales lk, her Emily rich Bowerbank— jewelry, and
phtnl lace hanging over her thin white
p-a pretty sight, even though she
ptopale, pllr and a great coutiast to large,
Knowle, resplendent m claret
pel No almost satin, and with a brooch on heart. her
Uei conversed, as big but ns paid her the own custom
■tribute of silence to their respective
F’ >>" both were startled by a sen
p, winch, indeed, made Mrs. Knowle
Papas Ita it'she had been a young girl
Nre.l teens, and then sit mute with her
py-thc-by, on the plate.
Knowle," said Kir John,
P‘ 0 g back, nnd folding his bunds with
'contented aspect of a man who, always
jpei 4 t*\ yet keenly enjoys the after-din
itioiir of wine and dess rt, “I have al
forgot to ask you, what has become
y 1 ! anil Ktenhouse, who left us -was
l*i) or four years ago?—very much
hst i.HMok.jR'u my wish, you remember. You got
.>a'!fohn,” house at Bombay?”
”)'• replied Mr. Knowle, a
■flibrnpUy. ” ‘‘Bass the wine, Emma, my
1
Jshe ! there still? and how is he getting
"ell enough, I believe. He sometimes
iles to ns, tfiouji not often. Sir John,
• claret is lvally capital.”
ocltbink. but,” added he. with the
fctency of au unBensitive man, who
«not be driven from Lis point, “to rc
lo Ktenhouse. I wish, when you write,
would tell lLm Mr. Jones is leaving
1 la plain truth, (here is not a man I
®a 'ike as senior clerk so much as Sten
pe—Jol m, wasn’t his name—Johu
hhowle. “Accurate as clock work,
trouble you for your mit-craoker,
l-l, id lus h -lpmeet, with a warn
bld sticking to his point
r,il l turns, • ( fully agree with you,
f " atlt -\’ ld *'hat shll I keep was about to say was
J 8 young 3 ° 11 could up acquaintance
lo hi man, you uot sug
in to return home and
souse? We would make it worth
te
■tiidisl,i, ... u lan .
Vh e ' deome Sir ’ John
r , ’ ‘
Ale as d '°. oklI1 g Emil hot and red, the
Knmol y stood aside to
td;" pered ‘Send ns in ihatToodlad Rome
> b u t " b «
l l 1 7 ,u S-room, she found
00 ae M , d “ alf hour there
^W« h!° au
y Weibaak -
tecomfortab]-' b ef ai1 to grow
CnTaS fr>rn?® f tf “y “he alarmed, and Emily
Of their r mcr intimacy,
. or been
eaa 8 e use, and good
0 i! ,.j. this reserve,
FINE JOB WORK
-done at—
THIS OFFICE!
COVINGTON GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 27. 1890.
•face circumstances were
make - .
the slightest allusion to «iefcfan»er
'pt'.macy. ‘ h *' r P al P fu nor l wiations to mtrade of thrpasu upon the we^nt
little by little, seeing (hat Thus
Jesired unbroken, the siienceshe
was Lady Bowerbank
|,tv warrant ‘ 811,1 lira. " wa Knowle » never warm’' enough^to
her in dome whatnow
was natural impulse, to seek Emily all
over the house, bid her open her he irt and
then soothe and comfort her if she f
■So she sat, rery nnsiouslv, rou
drawing-room, alone in the
S '? not likin - even to make in-
8 **"« until the mi stress reap.
* skI oiehf aWli t# If pale , before,
she was ,.' now lastly; her eyes red, with
i,ii\ 15 8 r onild 'hem, as if she had
^okhc7'%r And . M * he 88 ‘ down, and
- dr8 - hnowle’s perplexed remark about
"*.'«? r£ T^L fot waIki “ 8 -
yttttsiS?£Sifa-A'te where two bright of
risen; spots carmine had now
large cue on either cheek making 7 the,
oyes ),b larger and more‘far-awav than
eter e remembered with a sudden
gpa6m of memory, th it m.-ttv round wh?n mer
ry. p,,, girlish face of Em.W Kendal aud’made it
c mt(J her house a
^ brightness in the dark rooms and fi «ed
BaDbeam among ther-are, walks
e8peciallT JoL on thc Saturday n>, Snn w
when stenhouse left hm hard count
i cam. toUsk^nlbiradisrthMe 0jgm88 ’ ““ d
i ' '
*rj-£ ..y y (!oiU . j u not leave Ti, a]one - •,
„is c* „
eT er " proof ^ Ua^ft °iroa o^erer ou»ht“o bound' bo P 'nn*
lo tho Xr chain IowIrbauk which the
Ebbing heartof Mr^nowKs Ladv Sh, fell
M ahonlder
shall '
to goiXodv VO u i d e if I do not speak sneak to to
”
That was tmn Tndo A Ivor not i.nropi,. bear'^
Jou bravc. strong wnmen who can
much. Of course, her duty was silence—
total silence to shut her secret un in her
beait that and never breathe to living So son! he!
she had not dared to br. athe
own hu9band . But tins duty, like a few
! | more duties in her short, sad life, Emily
had uot Btr englh to fulfill. She saw them
; all, Clearly defined enough; perhaps, if she
had hftd anvl)odv Ly beside l.er to help her to
do thelu , t might, weak as her nature
was, somehow or other have been done.
But her only strength, her love, had been
taken from her, and now her life was a
nlero fragment all n melancholy incomplete
cess, in which aims and aspirations re
mained onlv such, and never developed
j nt0 active perfection. Whether the course
was right or wroug, dignified or said, umli K nt
tied, it was qu te true wbat she that
glle must „ ive hcT confidence to sorno one
_ mng t speak out. or she would die.
-Well speak then, my poor child. Be
assured I will never tell' anybody—I never
d ; d , 0 » know ” (For just at that moment
she bad forgotten Mrs. Smiles, her only
breach of confidence )
sy M j_L'i VO u were very good to it,” me once,
aild haven't forgotten sobbed
Kmil „ “It was a terrible, terrible tirno;
i wonder I lived through it. But I think
u has shortened mv life. I shall never bo
a u old woman I feel that.”
“Nonsense, mv dear. What would Sir
j ohn fiay to such talk, I wonder?”
Emily neither smiled nor sighed. “Sir
John aud 1 are very good friends- he is
exceedingly kind to me. Do not suppose
1 have a shadow of complaint to make
aga j D st my husband.”
U was noticeable that she always called
h im “mv husband—Mr. Bowerbank,” and
a {t,, rwa rd “Sir John.” As plain “John”
tho fond familiar Christian name of other
(imop she never hii/or by anv possiblo chance
s , 10 ke either of to him.
“Mv dear, if vou had any complaint
to make I'm not the woman to listen to it.
wives shouldn’t grumble against then-bus
bands. ‘For better for worse’ runs the
chnrch service. If Edward had his little
tantrums-whicb all men have, bless ’em!
_ w hv,l’d bear them as long as I could,or a
Pioneer; if he grew bad, I’d try to meucl
bim . jj- b e con ij n t be mended, but turned
out gnc h a villain that I actually despised
j^jh— whv, I’d run away from him! Ay,
(} 10ua h he w r as mv husband, I’m afraid I
B l 10 uld run awnv from him. But I’d do it
qu j el | Vi m y dear, quietly. folK.' I’d And just I'd hold never
a |,uso him to other mv ’
"And I will hold mine—have I not done
jj bitherto?” gasped rather than spoke poor
Emily. “I have a peaceful homo, far
, leace fuller than Queen Anue street ever
was-” oncilt and she shuddered involuntarily. “I
to be thankful for it, and I hope I
an ; Ho knows nothing— Sir John, I mean
—and he never need know; he would not
cire. I owe him much kindness; I shall
never wron<’ him; that's impossible. But”
here her feeble fingers clutched with the
S tifflitness of despair on Mrs. Knowle’fl
“Vou and she looked up at her imploring
lj-joumusf v must do u one u thing for me. Prom-
1S ® fiver 1 never make maae promises p™ without telling °
Edward Knowle.
a ;r “T ~
1 m tfStyf ssaiussM. K £*sr*& ju
■CtLd.aw*». wnst wanBgtoyMij
your husband if
he likes—even a lie, necessarj must it,
be a lawful lie—but he manage
that some one, you know who, do
come back to Liverpool. „
“I understand. You are quite tell ngnt. d
“He must not come, I Y°°- “
voice Cffew sh «B with some
rJr? 5 ;«'t
s sak w
tween us -hundreds, ttonsantls 01
be quite sure *
Let rue sound of
T wSftquHe nsed to know his step along the g
well. I must not see hun—never,
nevermore!” if 1help , w D it it vou you never n
“No, my dear: ‘'Sure
shall,” said Mrs. 8
she held the sbHnkmg, herself an fi
in her wins, crying ftt «;
feeling very angry quite certaia nwhat hat. But m
thing, she was not
" Will you tell me one thing. both •
erWk?” asked she, when they
"MY COUNTRY: MAY SR EVER EE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY /*—Jumssox.
----
Hk™ * *** iugt tk “ d <mt 1 «k oat Irts- of
L,e^ h ° W re> and 8,iU my
toward’ u are - hia warm
d b i™ ,m 8 ’ ’C a J d 6 *r, m just 8 r, Rk say. l position in two
‘
hoT‘ t j e s '- , yyo, ‘ d,dnot ^-' hQ btto -
the If* T,wef a9krd me-that is, not
« t>me, as he promised. He prom.
tho'a y °r know ’Jsolemnly, faithfully, that
wi day *i ca “ e of a K* h ® would claim me,
! 8kould . be married.’"
-y‘ w th “without vour father’s consent?*
he 8 ald lt wouid b« right, and
would f T, .
come to me. But lie never wrot* or never
came.”
« Wh . strange . thing!
a sa’d Mm.
“^»S rp, * 1#a “ And * et 1
’ n0 1 “°™ llj an the marriage, could be
KheVown counsel fleSUated ' “ d fia,Uly
ssi^assIskj MSttsJfcSWS
*?• honr arter hour, all that day; and I
d “«ed myself sick at night, lest pop.
P 1 ^ 1 * 1 notice I was unhappy. And th n I
h ’®' 1 0D . hoping and hoping all next day,
,in< 'nll the day after—every day for a wees.
And for man y weeks, post after post I
* atc h ed > and day after day I never crossed
‘h® door-sill for an hour wittiont coming in
“l»ectm« to fin.l h.s letter or his card,
But he never wrote-he never came. Aud
‘^.u 1 heard he had gone to India, and
Emil J dropped her head, and the pass,
ing light and energy which had come into
wss
' I)o vou bIame him?" asked Mrs. Knowle
.
Roftl .v, with her head turned away. “For,”
R he owned afterward to her husband, “I
was frightened out of my life lest the poor
uer 'hat might set her asking questions.”
- No> x Jon t blame He had
been go wronged, so insulted, no
* onde r his P>‘ d e took up arms and
h creature ® n M . to , me tight , for. 1 * Or, as perhaps hut a he poor had
some body else he liked better. VourLiv
®^ 00 ‘ K'r's are so pretty, you know; «nd
«'»“y 8 Bked pretty people,” added
hm ,‘ T ’ w,th .? feeb )e smde ’ d never waa
p E e 7 , pet ^*P 8 h ,Rh t b
’1 ““ ? “ ‘
»f™.d of people saying • he married a plain
«"*'“„«“ cried 0 “ey Mrs. Knowle, . indignantly, ... ..
ooward £11 never ‘ believe that Hewasnt such a
“Well, well, whatever it was, does not
matter now. He did not want me-did not
care for mo—and other people did, and mj
lather was urging me perpetually to marry,
I could not help myself-indeed 1 could
not,” .a<bd . 1 ,. a Mp a, ? tv. k»ua» *o
Rether in a hopeless resignation. I was
woru out—literally worn out and torn to
pieces—and so I married Mr. Bowerbank.
There was a long silence, through which
'be large dining-room clock kept ticking
aud ticking, with a remorseless diligence, itself;
unvarying and unwearying as Time
and through the open window, from across
the now darkening river, came dim voices
of sailors in ships slowly dropping down
the Mersey, outward bound.
At length Mrs. Knowle roused herself,
and said;
'My dear, I am very shall glad you have
trusted me to-night; you that never Mr. repent Sten
>*• 1 f l Qlte agree with you
bouse must not be asked to come back to
Liverpool; Edward will manage it so as to
satisfy Sir John. And, after to-night, you
aud I will never name him again,
No. no. That is, she hesitated
_ Emily a 1 piteous hesitation,
But her friend had none. Decidedly
not > Lad y Bowerbank. When a woman
' s once married, she has no right even to
think of any other man but her own hus
'' aud - loii kiraw Sir John isaierygood,
1:lnd gentleman, and very fond °f jou
And you have many a blessing and for
all you can tell, it may please (tod to send
you one day a greater blessing still.
Emily shook her head.
“I k*ow "hat you mean, but I don t
, hope that. I don t even wish it. con
not do mv duty to a child. Better live on
a s 1 n ™ living jast pleasing Kir John a
. lf
an ^ and by my whole story will be o er,
aQ d I myself, as some Scotch song says,
“I With nrysolf the green tn the grass mid groi ^Kk-yard g ^ ^
.
It’s curious, she added, but sometimes
in this mass of bricks and mortar, and
these wastes of sea and sand, I feel an
actual pleasure in the words, green gras,
growing ‘Vou over talking me. nonsense, my dear. ,
are
said Mis. Knowle, sharply, thongh he,
tears were running down in showers,
you 11 live to be an old woman as old,
and as stout, and as comfortab.e as me.
“Do you think so. Well, I hope I may
Be half as good and as kind, answered,
with a grateful look, poor Lady Bower
bank. and with
And then the lamps .
came tn,
them Nir John Bowerbank and Mr. Knowle,
both in exceedingly cheerful spirits, hav
ing apparently settled quite to their satis
faction tll e knotty business point to ar
rang0 which they had dined together.
jxszg&ty sstfx s s ** z
Kswaa l£SiSt sssr* •urs*s.
!£“PEfS Si
wor ds. looked exceedingly grave,
j-^Vtbat, “There has been foul plar somewhere;
wife.”
“Why—what do vou know?”
“J 0 bn Ktenhouse did ask* her to marrj
, went up to London on purpose,
and was refused. He didn’t tell me much,
bo le{ f a u as much as that, or some
«.
tf
dipping away .from me ,hen, old woman.”
She gave him a kiss—the pUcid, tender
“Men don’t ».hink 60 much of these
v Emily! Well for
her she’s got a good man for her husband.
fw all that . a , you say, my love, I m
1 certain there has been foul play some
! where.” [to cosnsum]
: be
THEBE is nothing that will warm up
When Mr. Day married Miss Field,
he gained the field but she w<si> the
day.
AT HE CAPilAL.
WHAT TH FLFTY-FLRST CON
GESS LS DOING.
APP01NTMES1BT PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASCRHOF NATIONAL .IMPORTANCE
AND ITEM OF GENERAL INTEREST.
In the h«se, ou Wednesday, Mr.
O’Neill, of Pmsylvunia, presented the
remonstrance if thc business men of
Philadelphia f*iust an increase Referred. of duty
on oranges an lemons. Mr.
Cooper, of Ob. a member of the com¬
mittee on eleoons, called up the Mary¬
land contestei case of Mudd against
Compton, it eing agreed that debate
should be limit! to six hours, at the end of
which time therevious question should be
considered as -dered. After considera¬
ble argument, .ud pending a vote, the
house adjourut.
Vice-Presidet Morton having returned
to Washington fter a two weeks’ abscuee,
occupied the -hair at the opening of
Wednesday’s ession of the senate.
An unusually ,rge number of petitions
were jiresentednd referred, comprising
some for and sue against the Sunday rest
law; some foriree coinage of silver and
several from labor unions against
the employmet on government works
>f any but Tnited States citizens.
The resolution ffered by Mr. Voorhees
last Monday, c to the agricultural de¬
pression, was teen up and Air. Voorhees
addressed thc suite in relation to it. He
spoke of the den strong current of auxic
ty, discontent nd alarm prevailing in
farming eommaities and said that lie
proposed the to aidhem in the inquiry as to
The causes Blair of le existing depression. then
educiional bill was taken
up as uufinishediusincss, and Air. Pierce,
of North Dakot, addressed the senate.
He hoped, he sal, to have an oppor¬
tunity the of votiujlo postpone the bill till
second 'uesdny in December
next. Air. ivarts addressed the
senate m support of the bill.
Air. Call spoke 1 favor of the bill, lb
had voted for t before (he said) and
would do so nox He supported it be¬
cause it was a lonation, without condi¬
tions other than such as had been con¬
tained in the igricultural colleges bill
and in the bill for experimental
stations. Air. Bate obtained the floor,
and the bill wnt over. Air. Allison,
from thc finaire committee, reported
back, with annulments, house bill to
simplify lection of the law in (McKinley’s relation to adminis¬ the col
revents
tration bill,) anf it was placed ou the
calendar. The .enate then adjourned.
the Another Democrat was turned out ol
house on Thtrsdav. This is the fourth
seat that has beei vacated by the Demo¬
crats. The tnai turned out was Barnes
Compton, of Marland. He has served
five years in the louse, and had Dec ome
uue 0 / me mosidistinguislied Republican menu icrs.
However, there wa> a young
named Mudd, who wanted his seat. There
was no bolting from other party. Every¬
stood man was on hand in or paired, of Mudd. arid the vote
159 to 145, Lvor
Thursday was a sal day for poor old
“Grandma” Blair. The educational bill
was buried beneath tie cold, cold sod by
his colleagues in the senate. Thc vote
stood 30 to 32 against the bill. However,
when Blair saw his bill had been buried,
he changed his vote from aye to no, in
order to move a reconsideration. Every
member in the sena e was either paired
or voted. The Georgia senators were di¬
vided. Both Tennessee senators voted
against the bill, ns did tie Arkansas anil
Texas men. The South Carolina. Ala¬
bama and Alississippi senators were di¬
vided, senators Hampton, Pugli and
George voting for the bill. Senator Pasco,
of voted Florida, it. and the two Virginia senators
for Tlie republican vote against
thc bill was larger than ever before. Mr.
Blair made a motion to reconsider the
vote, which motion was entered; and
then, on motion of Mr. Edmunds, the
senate executive proceeded busiuess. to the consideration of
Immediately after the reading of the
journal on Friday, the house went into
committee of the whole (Air. Burrows,
of Alicliignn, in the chair) on the pension
ippropriation bill. After a lengthy de¬
bate on both sides, the committee rose
wd tlie bill coming passed.... A from number of pri¬
vate bills, over last week
were passed, among them one for the re¬
tirement of John C. Fremont, with the
rank of major-general.... Ou motion of
Mr. Robertson, of Louisiana, a bill was
passed appropriating $25,000 purchase to enable
the secretary of war to 2,500
tents for tlie use of people driven from
their homos Mississippi, by floods, and now Louisiana, prevailing in
Arkausas, . , .
On motion of Air. Alorrill, of Kai
(acting on instructione from the commit¬
tee on invalid pensions>the resolution
adopted ri<n?for calling on evidence the secretary taken of by inte
a copy of
committee appointed by him tc investi¬
gate the management of the
office under Commissioner Tnuinr.
house, then at 3 o’clock, took a
until 8 o’clock, tlie evening sessbn to
for the consideration of private
bills.
The Sherman trust bill provok'd a
debate in the senate Friday afternoon.
Senator Sherman made a course
ment of the purposes aimed at ly the bill.
Trusts, he contended, were the
of high tariff which fostered tieni.
the only way to suppress them wis to
the ax in the cause which nude
possible, A bill long running till delate
lowed. The went over
when the forthcoming debate wil
bly attract widespread his motion attention.
Blair renewed to
the vote of Thursday, rejected, bv which thc
cational bill was and Me
moved to lay that motion on tie
No action was taken.
NOTES.
The president, on Wednesday, nomina
ted to be postmasters:
S. Smith. Marion: South Caroline
gie L. CarsoD, Aiken; .Joshua E
Florence.
health Mr. Randall is better is steadily improving. than
at present any
during his long illness. He seems
dent that he w ill be able to resume his
scat before this session close-.
The republican committee members Friday of tlie
and means on
ed the sugar schedule aud had under
visement advalorem a proposition duties. to substitute There,
ific for was
some d’wiissinn upon the rate to be
upou raw silk, but no decision
reached in either case.
Judge Crisp, of Georgia, appeared
fore the river and harbor commmiftee
Thursday asking for an appropriation
the Oconee, Ocmulgee and Flint
The committee will give them, but
seems now that the cpances in favor
the river and harbor bill becoming h
aje Very slight.
The senate, on Thursday, confirmed the
nominations of A. R. Nininger, Tnited
States marshal of the northern district of
Alabama, and the following postmasters:
South Carolina. W, W. Russell, Anderson;
Tennessee, C. S Moss, Franklin. Vir¬
ginia, P. E. Griffith, Winchester; Lewis
P. Summers, Abingdon.
In executive session of the senate Thurs¬
day afternoon, the nomination of W. W.
Russell to be pcst-master at Anderson
courthouse, liy South Carolina, was confirmed
a party vote on a call of the ayes and
ii. This nomination has been held up
for some weeks on the objection of South
Carolina senators.
Major McKinley’s tariff bill, which was
to have been presented on Friday to the
full committee, is not yet born, and there
is no telling when it will make its ap¬
ciates pearance. Major McKinley and his asso¬
are beginning to find out that they
ha' e an elephant on their hands. On all
sid< 8 opposition is vigorous and intense,
ami the committee is trying to hammer
the bill into shape, and get it reported to
the house before it is emasculated beyond
recognition.
Au application from Mrs. Thomas J.
Jackson for a pension for the services of
her late husband, General “Stonewall”
Jackson, in the Mexican war, was filed at
the pension office Friday. General
Longstreet was the witness. To the
above was added tlie affidavit of Dr.
Joseph Graham, who was present at the
marriage July 15, 1857. of Lieutenant J.
Jackson aud Miss Alary Ann Morrison.
Mrs. Jackson will receive a pension of
$H per month from January 29, 1887, thc
date of the passage of the Mexican Vete¬
ran’s Bill—some $304 up to this date.
The committee on agriculture, on Fri¬
day, reported favorably to the house,with
amendments, of the Conger bill, defining
lard, and imposing a tax upon and regu¬
lating lard. the Thc manufacture, bill, its etc., of compound
in main features, is
similar to the oleomargarine law, which
the committee says has given general sat
isfuetion, and the wrongs to be prevented
and the benefits to be secured are in their
jeneral character the same in both eases.
The report concludes with the statement
that the stupendous compound lard commercial trade ns carried fraud,
on is a
which it is the duty of congress to sup¬
press.
The civil service commission has in the
course of preparation a circular examination of instruc¬
tions to applicants for for
the appointment to the government de¬
partmental service. A considerable por¬
tion of it is devoted to the discussion of
the question: “Wheu may an appointment
he expected?” In connection the with this
subject, it is learned that, while quotas
of several eastern, northern and western
states are generally exhausted, those of
the .' outliern states, especially ineligible*
for 1 ppointment from the clerk registers,
«io uu lucuuo full, llio fin t Vioiu^, U in
stated, that competent clerks who can
pass thc necessary examination from either
Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Texas,
Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, North
Carolina, South Carolina or Kentucky are
reasonably certain of appointment.
TOUGH ON CANADA,
THE EFFECT OF THE NEW UNITED STATE!
TARIFF ON HER TRADE.
A dispatch if from the framers Ottawa. of Out., the says:
[ appears as United
■State-; tariff changes had studied the dis¬
tinctive products and increased of each the duties province of
Canada, on them
atcordingly. The new schedule aims at
Datario in tlie matterof barley
lid apples at Quebec and New
Bnmswich on horses and hay, and at
Nava Hcotia and Prince Edward Island
on potatoes and other vegetables. Nova
Scotia also gets hard hit 111 the shape of
increased duties on fisli. Those who have
locked into the details of the new tariff,
thiak it is a direct blow ut Canadian
Irate with the United States. The duty
unhorses is now twenty per cent.; the
prcposal is to raise it to thirty per cent.
Caiada sent last year 17,277 horses, val
nee at $2,113,728, to thc United
States. The increased duty is
leveled against that trade, and
wil full most heavily on Ontario and
Quebec, whence 10,000 of the horses
were drawn. The duty is on cattle, be for¬
merly twenty per cent, to raised to
$ 1 * per head where the cattle are over a
veer old, and $2 per head where less.
Caiada sent 37,300 cattle, valued at
$488,200, to the United States hist year.
The duty on these imports would be, un¬
der the old rate, $9,764. Under the new
rate it would reach, old. provided the cattle
ire all over a year $373,090. Eggs,
now free, it is proposed dozen. to Canada’s tax at the
rate of five cents a ex¬
ports last year were 14,011,017 dozen.
The tax at five cents would be $700,000.
ft is in barley that the greatest damage
will be done. The present duty on bar¬
ley is ten cents per bushel. It is pro¬
posed to increase thc rate to thirty cents.
Last year Canada sent 6,984,504 bushels
to the United States. The present duty
on this quantity is $993,450. The new
duty would aggregate $2,980,350.
J* J. Bruner, editor and proprietor
the Carolina Watchman his published
Salisbury, died at home in that
on Sunday. He was seventy three
old. and the oldest and one of the
known editors iu North Carolina,
edited thc Watchman regularly
1839.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.
biemingiiam, DETROIT and ___________ _
the 8U
A special disastrous from Birmingham occurred says:
most fire that ever
that city, broke ou
artE. •
The lores' and insurance E.
ell undertaker, on stock $15,000,
tag $25 000 insurance $5,000
snrc“ Clothing company, loss $5,000, fully
McGuire & Wood saloon, i,-’
$3,000, . insurance $ *1 non.
,. i
wholesale liquor de- ,
,
iTDetrolt, Mich!’Fire was
Sunday morning in the rear o' Gray
Baffy s six-story r .. The
rollt rou at Zter nuim i cLir A.U wTpany u
ment, the Ostler Pr g J l - -
CarroU Cigrar manufactory caught
1 ' snd were burned to the gronuffi
urf Ferovl ^eeu P fire
.tof S M sti.re
Eemaster t (J., tugs." wfth The loss is
■nated at liO^OQQ, some
ALLIANCE NOTES.
WHAT THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS ARE DOING.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER,
GATHERED FROM VABIDES SECTIONS
OF THE COUNTRY.
The Alliance officials in Georgia have
given prompt denial to the Washington
story that the order intended to scoop up
all the Congressional districts thia year.
The Farmers’ Alliance now has 70,000
members in Kansas, and is growing at the
rate of 3,000 a month. It is ten months
yet until election. Ninety thousand votes
thrown one way will play the mischief
with the plans of thc politicians.— Atchi¬
son Globe.
From every county comes the cheering
news that the Alliance is growing
tical stronger. lessons Alliancemcn arc learning prac¬
of economy and eo-ojieratiou;
those wdio had the courage and patience
to stand by the principles of the Alliance
order art beginning .—Solid to reap the benefits of the
South.
***
Why is it that the journals pretending
to be such friends of the Farmers’ Alliance
do not come out squarely and endorse the
sub-treasury plan and the railway plat¬
form of the National Alliance, which de¬
mands that the railways must be con¬
trolled by the people in the interest of tlie
masses, and that the farmer should re¬
ceive same privileges as are accorded the
banks and bond-holders? Y'ou cannot
carry water on both shoulders any longer.
If you are with us say so, and if you are
not, show your Colors .—Southern Farm¬
ers' A/lionte.
***
The Farmers'Alliance is going ahead
with its owu business. “What have
they done?” some will ask. Read this
and just think for a moment and then
you will answer for yourself: “They
have done a great deal for the laboring
people.” What did guano sell for at
this time last year? and what is it selling
at now? Look at the difference in the
price of cotton last fall and last fall year.
Just look at everything in proportion principle as
well as cotton and guano. The
of thc thing is euougli for any man.—
Buchanan (Ga.) Messenger.
Neither the race problem nor sectional
difficulties intruded themselves at tli(
great national convention of fanners and
laborers at St. Louis. Delegates from
the Colored Farmers’ Alliance were re¬
ceived by thc white Farmers’ Alliance
and matters pertaining to their mutual
interest were considered. Northerners
and Southerners, brothers in the Alli¬
ance, clasped hands at that convention
and which left all the the thrill fierce of blowing fraternal of fellowship dead
em¬
bers cannot chill. If jioliticians will cease
meddling, the Farmers’ Alliance and In¬
dustrial Uniuti will solve thc race problem
and re-unite fiw to o-loug estranged sec¬
tions of our beloved country.
President V
Polk of N. F. A. and I. ’ll.,
knows more concerning the condition of
thc Alliance throughout the country than
any man in the South, and when ques¬
tioned as to Alliance matters, he said:
“Although the growtli of thc Alliance in
the South lias been wonderful, the
growth of the order in the Northwest has
been still more phenomenal. In Kansas,
great strides are being made in thc right
direction, aud the organization has more
than doubled since the St. Louis conven¬
tion. The farmers of the west, although
they are not troubled by any
particular jute bagging grievance oppression such of the as South, the
still Imve great obstacles to overcome.
They feel the effects of the reduction in
prices, and living they find it almost impossible
to make a profit from their pro¬
ducts. They are trying to break the
combination of the buyers, and 1 have nc
doubt they will succeed. One feature of
the National Alliance assures me above all
else of its success. It is killing out sec¬
tionalism, aud building up a national
spirit which will be a benefit to the whole
nation. ”
***
Among the resolutions adopted at the
recent Convention of the National Alli¬
ance, held at Atlanta, Ga., was the fol¬
lowing: “Whereas, at New Orleans in
September, 1889, a conference was had
between prominent representatives of the
cotton growers of the South and mem¬
bers of the cotton exchanges in tlie Uni¬
ted States, an agreement w r as entered into
which was to take effect on the first day
of October thereafter, fixing the taro on
cotton covered bales at sixteen pounds,
and on jute covered bales at twenty-four
pounds, which And, was satisfactory to Alli¬
ancemcn. whereas, by the opposi
sition of several important cotton ex¬
changes this agreement was rendered a
nudety. And, whereas, we invited the
cotton exchanges of this country to a
conference on this same subject at St,
Louis 011 Deceinbor 5th, 1889, which
they refused to notice by letter or other¬
wise. And, whereas, our president, Col.
L. L. Polk, recently urged upon these
parties to express their wishes or plan for
an adjustment lie held of in Atlanta, this question, Ga., March at a meet¬
ing to and only received 19,
1890, one reply and that was
with encouragement, from Mr.
James Tobin, of Augusta. And, where¬
as, after a careful consideration of th«
whole subject in all its phases, we,
the presidents and accredited representa¬
tives of thc State Alliances of the cotton
section, in conference assembled in
Ga , March mh, 1890, do
mously reaffirm the equity and justice
^™“ ndS ° U thi8 SUb j eCt; aml d °’
Resolv ^ ) That we llrg „ the
men of the cotton states to stand by
action of the St Louis supreme council
"" of cot ‘ on
fibre than jute, ( and - that eacL Al
te .‘ aud ,s hcrcb >' ,n strU f ted to dc '
said cotton-covered . bales . in
to be provided, and,
’ ranees, as can be had thereon, and to
j ow S!t i() cotton-covered bales there to
u *i o) fed also. That your national
state officials do hereby pledge their
’-f and unceasing efforts in
half ot the people to obtain full and
facilities for ,l, marketing That their president, cotton.” *
1!l;SIJ l ve our L.
^ bc ili8tructed to lbc
iu tbe cott ° n * tates that tbe wtlook
^ atti Coft
® es ° 1 v?d ’ That tb «
u
“
accurate crop re.jirts.
NUMBER M
Resolved, That the assembled, representatives do oi
the i-ottoii States, here as
esrt that the compound lard Lull now
pending in congress is unwise, special,
and class legislation, and will increase thv
burdens of one class of producers and
only benefits a monopoly that l>y no means
manufacturers a pure article of hog’s lard,
and members of congress are hereby most
respectfully and earnestly requested to
opjiose the passage of said measure.
L. L. I'olk, president N. F. A. and I.
U.; S. M. Adams, president Alabama Arkan¬ al¬
liance: W K. Morgan, delegate, Florida;
sas: W. I. Vason delegate. L.
F. Livingston, president Georgia Alliance
T. S. Adams, president, Louisiana; G. B.
Dimes, delegate, Missouri; K, B. Alexan¬
der, delegate, North Carolina; E. T.
Stackhouse, president. South Carolina;
8 . I). A. Duncan, president. Texas; R.
VV. Coleman, delegate, Mississippi; J. B.
Buchanan, president, Tennessee.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND occurrence;
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA¬
SON’S AND DIXON’S LINE.
The Pan-Americanists will leave Wash¬
ington on their Southern trip aliout the
10th of April.
Bills repealing the charters of Frank¬
fort. Henry County and Grand Lodge
lotteries passed the Kentucky house of
representatives, Thursday.
Dr. M. A. Rust, one of the oldest and
most prominent German physicians ladder in
Richmond, Yu., fell from a on
Thursday at his residence and was in
stantly killed.
The Southern Baptist convention will
meet at Fort Worth, Texas, in May next.
This is a large aud able religious Baltimore body.
It covers the territory from to
Texas, and represents over 2,009,000
Baptists.
According to (he monthly statement ol
the railroad commission, just issued at
Columbia, the railroads of .South Caro¬
lina earned nearly $9,000,000 nctiujanu
ary. an increase of about $140,000 over
the corresponding month of last year.
Thc Dallas, Ga., cotton mills were
completely destroyed by owned lire Frida; by
morning. The mills were ;
company of Dallas gentlemen sod the lus
is about $15,000. with only $<,500 in
surinee. The mill was ill comparatively felt
new, and tho loss w be by it
owners.
On Friday, miles near Biocton, Birmingham, Bibb county, thc
Ala., forty south of
(lend bodies of four negroes were found in
the woods. Three had Wen shot to death,
and the head of the fourth one had been
severed from the body with au nx. An
inquest was held, but it was impossible U
learn how the negroes came to their
death.
HEMINGWAY'S SHORTAGE.
MISSISSIPPI’S EX-TREASURER SHORT IN HIS
ACCOUNTS $315,612.19
A Jackson, Miss., dispatch rays: The
legislative committee finished its investi
gation Hemingway of the accounts Wednesday of aud ex-Trcasurer presented
on
their report to the governor. The com¬
mittee says: “After a thorough, compe¬
tent and painstaking examination of tho
books of the department, and all the
vouchers thereof which were attainable,
we find that the ex-treasurer has not ac¬
counted for $315,012.19, and he is in¬
debted to the state for that amount.” Ol
course suit will be instituted at once.
The report of the committee would indi¬
cate that the shortage occurred in his last
term. Colonel Hemingway will make a
statement.
AN UNFORTUNATE MAYOR.
HIS DWELLING TWICE BURNED DOWN ill
HIS POLITICAL ENEMIES.
For over a year there has been a bittei
war prohition between element the prohibition in Colorado and Springs, anti
Col. The feeling was so bitter that two
months ago the residence of Mayoi
Stockbridge, a prominent ground. prohibitionist,
was burned to tlie The loss
was $ 11 , 000 , and it is rumored bis polit¬
ical enemies had a hand iu the matter.
At a meeting of the republican and lib
oral bridge parties Wednesday nominated night, for Mr. Stock and
was mayor,
Thursday morning his new residence was
fired and burned to the ground.
BLUFFTON8 GIFT.
S1IE SECURES THE LOCATION OF THE NEW
METHODIST UNIVERSITY.
Bluffton, Alabama, makes the munifi¬
cent gift of $500,000 to the Methodist
Episcopal church for the location of the
educational institution known as the Un¬
iversity of the Southland. Rev. C. L.
Mann, D. D., who has it in charge,
that $1,500,000 will be expended on
main building, which will be 300 feet
300 feet and seven stories in height,
an inner court 200 feet square. The
terial to bc used is white marble
and sandstone. Ground will be
April 15th, and work on the
pushed rapidly.
THE RETIRING CHANCELLOR
EMPEROIl WILLIAM OFFERS HIS
AND A DUKEDOM TO BISMARCK.
A special edition of the Berlin
Sameiger contains thc imperial Bismarck
cordially thanking appointing Prince him Duke
his services and
Laueuburg, colonel-general of
and field-marshal-general: Bismarck also interim min
ing Count Herbert
ixter of foreign affairs aud
Von Caprivi chancellor and president
the Prussian ministry. Prince
has made arrangements chancellor to at
the palace of the an
date.
JACK FROSTS WORK.
--
* great damage to the Tennessee
crop by the freeze.
-
0n atc0 uut of the late frosts, it is
ceded by the fruit raisers of
pea^andfiftU 1 Deceit of the
by theirost b’ut mfi-V r’eVcM give
good fete
f ULRliEM MA\ c
, O •
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE¬
I GRAPH AND CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FUOM DAT TO DAT
THBOIGHOCT THE WORLD, CLXXED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Five hundred lolling mill men are out
011 a strike at Pittsburg, Pa.
The New York court of appeals has de*
cided that the electrical execution act is
constitutional.
Janie- J. Slocum, thc baseball player
convicted of murdering liis wife, wo on
Friday nentenced to death at New York
The Illinois democratic central
mittee has decided to call »tate [■Oil
vention, to meet at Springfield oa June
4th.
The strike of thc English coal miners
has ended. Wages will be advanced 3
per cent., and the men will resume work
at once.
Major-General George Crook, U. S. A., 4
in command of tlie department of Ali ■1
died ut the Grand Pacific hotel, at
Chicago, Friday morning of heart disease.
General Robert Gumming Sclientk.
congressman, soldier and diplomat, and
leader in public affairs a generation or
more ago, died a Washington D. C., Sun¬
day evening of pneumonia.
Dr. Harrison Wagner, whose numerous
suits against the Adams Express company
lias attracted so much attention, lias come
to ed grief. in Washington, He was, on Wednesday, charged arrest¬ with
D. C.,
forgery.
There was a long meeting of the sugar
trust in New York on Thursday, mid be¬
fore it ended interested parties every¬
where had information that a cash divi¬
dend of two aud a half per cent bad been
declared for the present quarter.
The “Newark,’’lust of the cruisers built
for the government by Cramp A: Sous, of
Philadelphia, was successfully launched
Wednesday afternoon. The vessel was
christened by Miss Grace H. Bautelle,
daughter of Congressman Bautelle.
Senator Voorhees will be the principal is
counsel for Air. Kincaid when he put
ou trial for tho killing of Voorhees cx-llepresonta- had
tive Tntdliec. Senator lias
several long consultations with Air. Kin
raid, and has marked out the line of de¬
fense,
A special of Wednesday from Henley,
Wis., says: A great fire is raging in Ger¬
mania mines and threatens a heavy ilte
of property. Five miners penned in the
burning mine have recovered. perished. Thc Loss bodies the
of two have been to
miuing company $ 100 , 000 .
A special from Canton, Ohio, says:
The Canton glass works, one thc largest
anil most successful in the country, was
totally destroyed by fire Sunday morning. Two
Loss $ 00 , 000 , insurance $35,000.
hundred workmen are thrown out of em¬
ployment.
Judge O’Brien, of llie New York su¬
preme court, on Friday granted dividend leave to
the sugar trust to declare a of
two and a half per cent, on $50,000.000,
provided the portion due the Northltiver
refinery was deposited with the court,
pending the suit.
Both branches of the providing legislature that of
Ohio have passed a bill
railroad employes who have worked
twenty-four consecutive hours, shall not
resume till they have had eight hours’
rest. Twelve hours arc to constitute u
day’s labor. The fine for violation is
$150 in each case.
A dispatch of Thursday from Berlin,
Germany, says: The labor conference is
working with unexpected committee rapidity liusprac¬ and
success. The Sunday arrived
tically finished its labors, having
it a compromise, advising obligatory that only rest for on
church holidays be
women, young persons and children.
John F. Plummer, tlie well-known
republican politician and (bade dry goods assign¬ mer¬
chant of New York, 1111
ment Wednesday. startled The elry goods the failure trade
was a good deal when
was announced. The liabilities are
stilted to be $1,000,000. The firm is one
if the largest commission houses in the
business, and has been in existence many
years.
THE BOLD BOOMERS.
organizing for another raid on tub
CHEROKEE STRIP.
The Cherokee Strip Homesteaders’ as¬
sociation has issued a secret circular, dated
at Guthrie, Arkansas City, Winfield and
Cold water, Kas., March 11th, which re¬
cites that: “The administration having
given evidence of its entire sympathy clamoring with foi
the thousands who are
homes in the great domain, now wholly
given over to the cattle barons, to the ex¬
clusion of many worthy settlers, it has
been deemed organize expedient secret for association, prospective
settlers to a invasion of
having for its object the the
Cherokee strip at a given time. Accord¬
ingly, on the 22il day of April, at 12
o’clock, a concerted movement of boomers
will be made on all sides ol
the outlet. We have good will reason be to
believe that the settlers un¬
molested if the movement assumes suffi¬
cient proportions.” The mutter was
brought to the attention of advised thc president
on Wednesday and he that a
statement be given to the press to effee t:
“That no matter what the proportions strip will of
the raid, the settlement of the
not be allowed until it is made lawful.”
The patrol of tbe Cherokee strip by the
forces of the United States army was be¬
gun Wednesday.
THE SUGAR TARIFF
RAISES A HOWL AMONG THE LOUISIANA
FLANTFgtS.
The Louisiana Planters’ association
held a meeting at New Orleans on Friday
and adopted a series of resolutions pro¬
testing against a reduction of the tariff or
sugar without a corresponding reduction
on all other protected articles; protesting
igainst the duty on sugar being changed and
from specific to au ad valorem tax.
also against the standard being raised
thirteen to sixteen Dutch standard, color
test. __
CRAYON GREENBACKS.
A YOUNG ARTIST TRIES HIS HAND AS
COUNTERFEITING.
A St. Joseph. Mo., special says: Fred
Jones, aged nineteen years, a crayon
artist, was arrested Thursday for counter¬
feiting United States $5 treasury notes.,
Jones’ - method of counterfeiting was pe¬
culiar. He used no dyes, but made crayon
copies of genuine notes. The counter¬
feits are pronounced by offeers to be ex¬
ceptionally 1 deceDtive.