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The Georgia Enterprise. VOLUME XXV. THE OLD WIT* BT rmos BSOWX. nr th® beU the oid man waiifn* ..t <• • *, ' (to and tender, Wierc h 8 aged »!!e lay dying; and the wght shadows brown f!0 ' 1 s i inr t ' 6 soW«,XU;r‘ 1OW Ch “* d tbe Going down. •“'•.SSiLSlSjSS-- “Z“ t . carelTof tbS),* ' ,UEria * ind Au i the o d v»au, weak an«i tearful, trembling as be bent above her, ne*ar , \p% •Are tbe children in?" she asked him. Could be tell her? All the treasures “ •ajaaf ur ■■ But her -»»sMsur* Long ofo; And asstn »t« cMisd at <tr»-fall, in the old dimmer weather, •Where te little Charley, tether? Frank Robert—tiave the? corue ? They are safe,’’ the old man faltereJ—“all children are to^tther fcafe at liomo. " Then he murmutx»d gentle aoothittga, but grief choked grew and strong title an i stronger. Till it a I him aa he held and kissed hef wrinkled hand, lor her soul, far out of hearing, eould loudest word* no longer Understand. Btill the pale lips stammered questions, lulla¬ bies and broken verses, Nursery prattle-ail heeds, the language of a mother loving midnight While tbe round the mourner, left sorrow’s bitter mercies, Wrapped its weeds. There was st.llaess on the plllow^and the mail listened lonely— Till they led btui from the Chamber, with harden on his breast. For the wito of eventy years, his manhood early lots Lay and only, at rest. ■Fate will you-well,-’ he babes sobbed, “nly Surah; meet the before me ; 'Tie a little while, for neither can the • Ions alddo, •til ’ you il come and call soon, I kuow me heaven v-ill restore me ““-our side. * If was even s„ lco spridj-time, fa tha of wiutrr treading, lictutoly shed Its orchard bl 03 soin» ere the man c’nscd hie eyes. Aud the y buried him by Harsh and they thetr “diamond wedding” In the skies. IU UTILE The History of a Marriage. BY Mrss MUI.OCK. P swts&ttsrjMs them also that have have stern power s strength endurance, which, live through if they the only to will enable them still to live on'—-Uv* bly, heroically, until they come to ence the mysterious internal force of ration which heaven haw mercifully parted constituted to every mind; sound which body and turns evil good, and transmutes dull misery which into that achve battling with sorrow in produces a deeper peace than even hap piness. others, like llnt here and (here are poor Effiily Bowerbank, gifted with strong per sistency of loving, and almost no strength—no other persistency souls; in anything; climbing sweet, gentle sensitive «ioom a aids, who, if they hud a prop to days; cling to fZTitt hountoousiy all their d but, b t®h m 8 n y wh°eratrv to e e a r th toon wither away, and have no use nor beauty in their lives ever after. the result This may sot be noticeable outside; may ZTo^o^SS! h-the^hearts “^“'broken® ^Why'd ihould he so whv, above ali,Provide.,ce .hould allow it -should permit the bad gentle weak ones to succumb to the strong OSes, and the virtuous to be sacrificed to the vicious — the unselfish and much tnduring to those who have neither tender i'JX-vSfftsfe: Rw^*s.w.«ri7 wi - [j.’‘oew h ,iaiarjr£u~» it. She recovered s: from . - her 'C' andb P ace y. ln d «8 ber ree * husbaod re ?““ 8d ® {“““Ltd bo, ! 8eb J 4oms mcaplbie 5o2, anTbesW „ dor ^ &** her into tedious habit eonvaleseence. of going ► hwdmner. SirJohii a So?r; one. She was, to»appeorauce C V 8101 e nr 8he ” a e S.^Uns rr: ‘Wli or ^dtoen bsyoud he ■Gradually or the week, gradually G beyond that o one perceived 1 it—not Ge 1 the day. consumption, . for the f‘ was pot in a fch r found -no disease in the lungs; it W a^Lf ®a C ^dual P *rn 1 ktog o“ ah 'sowers of the bodv, and sometimes - Of tbe mind* until mental griefs I 7** to wound and of bodily suffering, j weariness and feebleness, there is L gtofeiy ,e 8pec*iallv none. Not surrounded a painful by death all the to when ’ that wealth or kindly care could t ^ «iin»-4he 'evervtliintr iu short, except the I one amulet of life, which j 1 »Ukenawnv Itecognize from her ^^‘th&m^i^eud! do not half clearly triage, had he not meant it to be hing needful—not absolutely though to ion of a human soul, it is > o, ™nt„re perfect nfloner development, than we sin- and, j V ^Hy^bappiness. u Those who | tato hat is called “a love af whic at they never can undo; wealti impossible Inman to rebuild; nvai'i love! beings that 'pf j ' o it family affection, - success, can t or A V, boi bll / indl.y ” tre valueless when A big „ nr ns* -Mr. Kendal's £ i Salem carnf* £ he had It he Wiiich I e ay. will ? car coming ! fair n - of e last 1 , J^Psh exist-| riered one will an(l^gt- gOBw^ stenhou<e do He had . ? The lne fdilSfc U1J? Welf> uowl ® often i long with . the however, j i Ar tjadft la I B ’ aty DCe Bower- I* 19 s “d ! **- sudden death ! ierS; ef 5me had, since that ! tween them. It once impossible been breathed it could be- | was f be, between any two honorable women. 1 Nevertheless, the elder matron thought of him a deal more than she would have I FIE JOB PBIKTIN 6 A SPECIUTT lik«a (o own, md made many Inquiries about him1 through ber husband, but they k!! Udil” resulted m™*!? m nothing ^ 'v”!) beyond 1815 Bom< the wll fact '“ re that m India. Mr. Knowle had contrived ; to pre vent all offers being made to him of re S!n B En ? Un 'V ' occasionally he , was heard , of, io f”- ttnowles great satisfaction, though SZa^n^c.^VCtWrae^ But she took a romantic int rest, most un wi°* ble old ij *** matron, *0011 a in very the practical man and and sensi- bis for she jonng onunes; never ceased to believe, ??* ********* repeatedly to her husband, * lovcr a n d 80 bepnt a man as , , °z,‘s be discovered, she Was as certain as sue was of her existence that there had been something wrong somewhere. And it may eg me right yet, who ii? SSSvSSfi: Vu--, v :? n ?* ^ ic ked~and it s much over SMSJwrsatfTS forty-three ifaen. Folks even do sometimes take the wrong pefson-be come widows and widowers — and then meet their old love and get married, and end their days happily together, after all.” •■ri no” Jn-w tt®'® , KraT *° y ° U need think ’ ' He gave no more e»nlnna!ion for he », that he often rode round two miles out of his way td business in order to inquire how Lady Bowerbaok was that morning. And Mrs. KnoWle, from paying a formal least'twioe • 6 Sum got Slowly dse into least twice a a w.‘Il week ng aud ‘a spending . f er m° the morn- at mg tamed with Emily. And by degree# she re to the old tender fashion, and called her not lAdy Bowerbank,” but One morning the two ladies were sitting together, One working- for Mrs. Knowle s Ungers were never empty Of work—and the teresbiinnoir a 8 ic° 8 all^?™s*fnti? r - nttem P !ia " t0 *~ e fA. the in about ^l.^n‘;Ston the t me of 0 iit,ot dl ™t’r, fl fa; and near, there was scarcely a family who had not to mourn their dead. Lady Bow erbank, without giving any reasons for svnTamv 2 t e ®a d t n ° ne We ™ rw d k tha I nfitr mill S Lj| Q I,* 6 riKi' 08 ' ) ™ u?ht mm 9®^ m 0 (were, biddenHer? . I thev weri not for tor thev seemed to rouse her nut of he,self in I I feel for afflictions compared to which her own were nothing. fcf She also began to ex h ®sur lf i“ n d hT” f e 11 h in Vri? that d Uer hu sbaad d a, ld U,f ‘ fi th ri ,'lM an raakm t «' ont , iini- , ‘ .“A[“ “ d i r the safferera o ' and ,n scl) emes for heir ISXV'£“ml."' crss-«wiru3J5*i^‘ l f 4X:!S . «».?*>■ r-V* b »” 1 1 nave ^aone so lime good in m> 1 I f t’ d°. U W i | n 0 tw lime."’Jatho^ ft t her do it- an 1 npu'nX.^ she snen< melancholy charities, her husband grndg , n g nothing- he never did. He was a very good man Many a letter lie wrote j u . t e( tigatin|! difficult case., and manv a time he drove out to lunch in the middle of the ,i„_ V - h e that used never to take even a I half-holiday from business-in order to t e u his wife some pieceof news, orask how .hn was or brino her some little delicacv from market or hot-house, if she chanced ' ( 0 h 3 especially fanciful or feeble that day; f or B h e was very fanciful, as sickly people 0 fp, n ar6 but she strove against it in a pathetic wav; and Mrs. Knowle noticed how invariably she tried to look grateful and ple8 sed at Sir John's little attentions and to smile steadily as long as he remained in *? room - ?° a 1 ^aT^mv^dear 'v'titCl „ "'Ta'id t f forvob f j d ^ d b Hhoa-h i t is not Q R f . Knowle at hast had' ■ • Jr.''" * ‘’“wd’r^h^'tirat^Sldy* The two ladies ,r * ed . iu . ad pobtev*®. Bow^nlc, it ^nd-en-Mrs'Hamilton , von That w jdow “ith three waL R^eilly, vo» mow. whoso hn S haml shot at and who ran ..,.1, hom^ . letter of thanks - a h« isromine vy next mail.” gecondhu9band ghe has mttr ried the gentleman who saved her life and that of her three children, and brought her bun <‘reds of miles across coantry andthrmigh b “Mpenny and aniFhe H» is »P» pretty ■?' well » off, Ln* per ^ p0 °{- ’ 0 “, a U ’ ^vc 0 , til igk so,Mrs. Knowle, for VO., know the person-oar old clerk, John Stenhonse.” “John Stenhonse! Married!” exclaimed Mrs. Knowle; as, with an agitation she could hardly conceal, *h. glanced toiwri^ thei soa^w er a erful j ',-^ ected g . T • d ,' dv h e , se ]f seemed' to have passed quite harmlessly'over showed Emily. of She scarcely turned or any sun emo tion beyond a feeble fluttering of the fingers, which were soon stilled and folded upon one another over her heart—an involuntary attitude of hers, something like Chantrey s figure of Resignation. should not the “Why on earth young man he marr.ed? said Sir John, smiling. M> deal- lady, you look as vexed as if you want ed to have him for your second! I must certainly tell Knowle of this. What do y0 ^ a /Bowe^an°rs r a b , a d U ^e,ly; “I think people should ialways marry whoevei they choose, and that nobody should lam o criticise them for it. Nobody but them selves can know the whole circumstances., “Quite right. You are a sensible woman, Emily,” eaid the old man, looking tenderly at his young wife, who yet seemed so much nearer the other world than he. “YVell, I must go back now, for I am full of business. You’ll wait here to dinner, IDs. Knowle? Mrs. Knowle mattered some excuse con cerning “Edward." She looked exceed ingly nervous and uncomfortable still. “Well, do as you like. Only stay as long as you can-stay and grumble at your friend Stenhonse and his marriage. By-the-by, I think I shall write to meet them at South ampton; it would only be civil, aud I liked Stenhause. YVhat shall I give him—your good wishes?” 1!Yixd°nvinl, 0 '"said Ernilv, half rai.ung her self from the sofa. “I knew him once - we met at Mrs. Knowle’s. He will remember ms—Emily Kendal.” “Very well, my dear.” After Sir John was gone, Mrs. Knowle took her friend s hand in hers and held it, but she dia not attempt to speak; she I ter ally did not know what to say. Lady Bow erbnnk's manner, so gentle, so . frightened omposed, had completely pnzz’ed, believe nav, it natural, but her. She could no; It was natural: there was 1 o affectation of "jrr go us trt: mat sag ever he bigot ; right or wrong, mt countrt i^—imamox. COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. APRIL 10. 1890. A AT 1 TUP 1 JIE D L AI A PITA 11 A Li I - WHAT UA1 THF TDE rlFTY-FIIlSI FIFTY FIRST COY- I U.\ GRES8 IS DOING. appointments by president Harrison— MEASURES OP NATIONAL IMPORTANCE AND ITEMS OK OENERAI. INTEREST. he0OUS6 . uict . cu06M<iy it H ocloclt, . « more than fifty members were jwes p oL the chaplain absent. and tbe journal not prei ttreu for reading. In the morn As£ iiur hour ’ <™»“« on motion ™.*,J of Mr Turner, “ of «. the s«vf constriictioii ?",r of a rr bridge 1 ■""'"'"is across the ° COnee Hirer at Hubliu, Ga ; At the in stance of tile committee oil commerce* bills authorizing the construe tion passed. Ainong them, one provid- 7 S3 »«* *-*• ■» biH tof the admtouon of ItWto m * bi-aska, stilte m ill ”' e charge ,lm °n. Mr. Dorsey, opened of Ae- the of tht 1 hill, debate With a speech in its favor. The Only opposition to the admission of Idaho tame front the Mortnons. Thev protested against the provision of the constitution which disfranchises »t~..5.—»*.< bigamists and jiolvg ^ association which encourages bigamy, Pending until flirt her debate On the matter went over Tucker, Thursday. the motion of Mr. of Virginia, senate bill was passed appropriating $11,000 for the eon struct itm Of a road from the city of Staun y (>1) y.. t'G t<> the National i? Cemvti-rv i-5 neat ri "V mt. ll °vvV .1 ‘“a o In the senate, on Wednesday, Mr. Ed ,m, nds, from the judiciary committee, reported batik the anti-trust bill m the form of a Substitute, and said that there was one section in the bill as reported, which he thought went further than it ought tO ^cn go. He would probably ’would not be the matter be taken U P> but so *de other member of the committefc would take charge of it.. .. the resolution offered by Jfr. Hale to change l~ back the daily hour of meeting Edmunds to o’clock was taken up. Mr. moved to amend by making it take effect on Monday the 14th, instead of nest Monday. The Edmuns amefidraent was rejected, yeas 37, nays 29. The resolu tiou then agreed to. The conference rc I ,ort 0,1 thc dcficiea ^ biU was P*” 8<,nt< ‘ d and a g roed to - r he fenate then proceeded to the consideration , , of the Montana election case, the majority report being "««»■ in <;■ favor r™«.-i of Wilbur T. Sanders and * «i»« »2 •»*>» ”», ber, r >«^ whirh adopted, «• pf New York, was aud and Messrs. Iliscock, Bqnire Kenna «« ®PPointedto reprint the senate at Ins funeral. The senate adjourned, Afteralivelydebateinthehouse bn Idaho, lhnrs day afternoon the admission passed of bv the the bill was declared g^ker, hy a vote of 131 to 1. ln th „ 8cna , on Thurs(1 a V , on motion - of Mf , 6en tc biH to privileges exfend to p run ort Fernandina riroanama, ra„ Fla the mi privilege, of oi the statute <w to the immediate transpor tation of dutiable goods taken from eal eudur was passed. The Montana coutes ted election case'was taken up as unflush ed business, and Mr. Gray resumed his argument dcmociatfc iu gup.^t 0 f the claim of the «wo claim.,nts-Clsrk and - . t ter finally went untf. Monday. The house bill to amend over the census law by providing for til e enimi cration of the Chinese population was If™ J the call '" dar ) a f d ^ ) rrad . wi * h AUvv reading the journal, the house, on Proceeded to the consideration of various private rasnsion bills, and five of them were passed. 1 he house then went into committee of the whole on the pn vate calendar. The bill for thc allowance of '(‘itaiu claims for stores aud supplies sWttsntaftttirc ^s^jAys&sz b,H «- 1 he house, at its evening,session, >*<!».*-** passed thirty private pension bills, and, ; J“ *t 10.80, adjourned until Saturday. A, **??, ' s h c-alled ;'“ «j> by the military tom- f ov ' “‘‘"V T the V**** ,h ‘7 ’ am, f f » then f } f“ ,he e reor ' £" ,t0 mn se '; * e " regiments “ o " rce not more a than ™> Wel . ve bat t ( : ni ; 8 each ' wltb tbe snme “i t . and battery organ,ration, as now ts ' except that there shall lie but , one first lieutenant and one second lieutenant to each battery. At 3 o'clock public business was sus¬ pended, tribute and the house proceeded to pay to the memory of Newton W. addresses Nutting, of New York. After eulogistic by Messrs. Payne. Blanchard, Baker, Grosvenor, Peters, Sherman and Henderson, of Illinois, the house, at 4:15, adjourned. Among the petitions presented in the president senate on Saturday was one from the of the Methodist Episcopal church mission, protesting against passage of thc bill for the de portatiou or imprisonment of Chinese found in this country without certificates. Also remonstrances from the American Baptist mission, thc Baptist ministers re¬ cent conference at Boston, and churches of Dorchester, Mass., against the pending legislation in reference to the Chinese. Also a resolution to the board of com¬ merce of San Francisco, against the repeal of the Chinese exclusion act, and for additional legislation effectually tion. to prevent Chinese immigra¬ Bills were taken from the calender and passed as follows: To authorize the secretary of the treasury and )«-<q>er ac counting officers to restate, settle and pay to the owners of private dies thc balance of commissions due them and appropriating $35,000. Appropriating fireproof building $300,000 for for an the additional national museum; for tho appointment of an as¬ sistant general superintendent and chief clerk of railway mail service, with salary of $3,000 acd $2,000,respectively, (house bill). After a short executive session the private bills on the calendar wete taken up, and 113 bills were passed in just one hour. The senate then adjourned till Monday. NOTES. The house aotnmittee on naval affairs Friday directed a favorable report on the McAdoo bill to prevent the enlistment of aliens iu the navy. ed A before delegation of glove importers committee appear¬ the ways and means Friday to urge the substitution of specific for ad valorem duties on gloves. .'Ir. Lodge, of Massachusetts, presented strength about it, no high, heroic eelf-sup pression. Emily lay, pale, indeed, but not paler than usual, her exes open, and fixed with a soft, steady gaze on tbe white spring clouds that sailed m mountainous masses across the dark blue sky; treat heights and i i when depths of heaven, into which the it is loosely held to earth, seems to j pierce with an intense a d yet calm desire, everything “I am glad of this—Veiy glad,” she said, aftet along pause, and without ant explana Ron. be “He ought to be married, and he will sure to make a gcod, kind husband to wbomevet he chooses for bis wife, and no doubt he has chosen Wisely and well.” ,2J& “An’ ri. “Tlr mance. “lam sure of it The man who could love one woman so faithfully as he once loved Mrs. Knowle turned round eagerly. JtaonanetA r-isiK ate myself sets* tilt little while But he s did j a ago. come back, to the very dax, and claimed ! me. Only_1 was never told. ” j “And whose doing was that?” ; “My Mrs- father s,” Knowle almost started from her ch a jj' ', What f n ^ocidoe-—” . Hush, it is too late now. And beeides, tsnaszfsrstxTSi ■» i Knowle s band and put it to her heart, “He which Sees was heating violently it good and irregularly’ husband, I ; not know -my mean. Was he not good to me this morns j i, kl)ow lg ? lt *” Nobody an<i knows smiled. it, X think. But I sh » “I am quite i certain-safely certain that I am dying." j “Don't say that. You must udt --yoU ought not.'' And Mrs. Knowle tried a‘lit tie to reason her out of that conviction, j which seemed to be the source of all her j ! strength, and the soothing of all her sor j r0 ws. “No—no. This world has been a little ! too hard for me,” Emily said; “but in the other I may begin again, and be strong, ; I .S^-ShMsTym, * on ® .. ee A » ^ t nnghl him® i tVntU, ! hnM,han X onto hav» married ilt »d- Nobody ought, loving another per- 1 son a!1 the tima - dnt I was so Weak—and j- 1 Never mind. It does not matter I ,,ohn “ aa married, ^ , you vo see, „ 6ftid said M JIw. ‘ j JbSJiatkm o“°"A . e ' im at . rt ^J ' uu ith an salutarily”^ ‘‘ ? lmk P artI . i , ng 5 f Irom Be “ se a of vague *“* i irarre^s that fact Sh 7ohn Bowerbank’s wife. Both the wrath and the ,. au!ion pa39etl harmlessly over the i gentle spirit, that was already loosing its ca j,i es trom earthy shores, and feeling soft, '»“■;» •«« —»“• S2.S“*“rut^r"vr ,■ sS, 1 *“t-«**>~•)“»• ; jj, j 0TO her vt , rjr mue h_ waen I am quite « one I hope she is a good woman.* ' 8 °>” 8 “ W Mr8 ' Kn0wl8 ralhe ' • ' Wonld you mmdfrymg . to and out? 1 | don't acquaintance mean that I with am every them, likely but I to should have any like to know about him and her. And something about her three children, too. I He will have to work hard to maintain so la, K>‘ il fanul J% ! Very hard. It was strange how the two women | seemed to have changed place*. Emily talked, Mrs. Knowle was all b« l silent. “ lm are sure you don'* mind making I Jhese inquiries? Or I "into «^k m J has j fund. bette ,-to Yes, ask perhapfcwwr my ail, u wih oe ! ; ’ 1 am sure lie "“In M«ca wanted-by getting John St-nhouse into the firm again? Do you i«an that? and do you wish.it, Emily? P-^ewH^e ^ned her'e’yes w^’riea^ind Wocence “Sure- forrow of “hem ’steadfb “o^ibs 0 ! “ce-®I Knowle s s,! °“ ,d R ° the ft f, midof bie comm « to Liver “ pool-notnow ...... headon Mrs Knowle fairly laid her the . sofa pillow and sobbed. 1 hen she rose up, saying m a cheerful voice. «-* ■ftrssu™., * .. -_-=== How He (Jot Even. ^ . half f wilted \f ^ f„tu,v , ral ay fol . t time . Having seat ed himgrif, he did not see the use of \ keeping a bit of cardboard, so he threw Iris ticket out of the window of the car riage. Consequently, at the station where the tickets were looked at, he had to pay. Athis journey’s end he had )o acknowledge ^ that he had been “ don6 ." A f e weeks later some men in a railway carriage saw this same man laughing immoderately to himself in a corner of the compartment. They in quired the reason of his merriment. He replied by telling ttiem what he had suffered on his first railway journey. concluded he, triumphantly, j « IVe done » ein this time> » | “Well, e„m’anioDS what hav r e you done^” ' asked j Wby, ..., I’,, replied .. , he, . ve taken . a re . turn ticket, and I amt a-gomg back again .”—Caleutta Times. A Good Reason. “Bay, chum, would you mind lend jng me votir dress suit this evening? ° j A j, invitation to a wedding «■ ” I What s the matter .. with wearing i your own? W ell, yon see, old man, 1 was out I calling on my girl last night, and her father's dog borrowed the basement of i j niv ' pants.” --—-7—-: i Paee,vt—“ Who is the laziest boy in your class, Johnnv?” “I dunno.” Par e nt—“I should think you would know ! W hen all the others are industriously ; " g '.G stndvint. ’ ^ fl,! their ,° lesaons SfiOUS wh 18 be , " bo a -ts idly m his seat ! and ? watches the rest, instead of working himself?” Johnny—“The teacher, ” Ir would be difficult to say which man deserves the greatest amount of sympathy, cigar, the one the who has a match and no or one who has a < i gar jjro.sAa and nothing to light it with.— We Stale Journal. The word —--———;--; offering —- like matrimon is a ial engagement. It begins with an offer and ends with a ring, A. noon — ; ;—7— the finest conscience is - Opiate. a and petition from the New England hhoe Leather association against the impo¬ sition of a duty upon hides and skins. The nomination of John R. Mizelltobe United States marshal for the northern district of Florida, was confirmed by the I senate in secret session on Wednesday. It it understood tliat thc attorney-gen era! will take an appeal from the decision of the court of claims, which members makes tjp of government for their responsible loss of to salary through congress the Silent defalcation. A dinner was given at the white house Wedn. -si bv by the president nnd Whiuiaw Mrs, Harri«.m. iu iiono, 0. Mr. Reid. United Htatcs minister to France. The decorations were beautiful, and thc company was a brilliant and distinguished one. CURRENT NEWS. CONDENSED FROM THE TELE¬ GRAPH AND CABLE. THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAT TO DAY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Thc stockholders of organized the Chicago World's Fair Association in Chicago on Friday. In consequence of the discovery of a conspiracy among thestudents, St. Peters¬ burg (Russia) university has been closed. The Horace Greely homestead burned to the ground Thursday morning at Chap paque, N. T. Thc servants had a narrow escape. The ship A. McCollum, from Rio Janeiro, is detained at quarantine near Baltimore. Three of its sailors died of yellow fever while on passage. The Mill Owners’ Association of Bom¬ bay has resolved lo close spinning mills eight days every month and weaving mills four days every montli for three months. The Manchester, England, Guardian reports that, there arc few important transactions, and inquiry for heavy goods is moderate. demand. The best prints are firm, with a steady F. R, Townsend & Co., dry goods and commission merchants, at 73 Worth street, New York, assigned rating Wednesday. The firm has had a of $125,000 to $200,000 iu mercantile agencies, The czar and czarina recently paid They a visitto the Russian military prison. and conversed with the prisoners asked them to state the causes which led to their imprisonmeut. The czar ordered the reduction release of of sixty of the of prisoners, sixty others. and a sentences In accordance with thc views ex¬ pressed by tho emperor of Germany re¬ cent ly, a cabinet ordor has been issued forbidding duelling council in the army honor, except in case- eiiere the oi to which all circumstances shull have been referred, shall declare a duel is necessary. Jules interview Simon, at Paris, the great said Frenchman, ho considered in an Emperor William sincerely solicitous for the welfare of the working classes. He said that, the decision of thc labor confer¬ ence will be a great stride for Germany, but in only a few minor points will they advance French legislation. Late information received by Mr. Val¬ entine, Brazilian minister at Washington, shows affairs in Brazil to be quiet and peaceful. The government, it is said, is endeavoring to arrange mutters so that the first general election under a republi¬ can possible, form earlier of government than next can September, take place, thc il time, originally fixed. A Philadelphia special says: Rhodes A Bro., operators of the Acton, Kriowlton and West Branch mills, in Acton town¬ ship, Wednesday. Delaware The county, failure Pa., is attributed suspended to the textile genera] fabrics shrinkage and to the in lack tht; value of market of ail for manufactured stock, of which a largo amount is now stored up. THE INDU8TRIOU8 SOUTH. MANY NEW MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES ESTABLISHED—GEORGIA LEADS. Reports compiled by the Tradesman indus¬ of Chattanooga, Tenn., of the new tries ertablished during thc first three months of 1890, in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia. Kentucky, Louisiana. Mississippi, North Carolina, South Caro¬ lina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia, show a the total of period 808 against a total of Tradesman 691 for same in 1889. The reports from sli sections of the southern states indicate greater activity in the planting of new industries in the south at present than any other The previous time notable in its history. shows most that sixty-four feature in the report cotton and woolen mills were established during the three months against thirty three in the corresponding leads with quarter Ala¬ last year. bama, Georgia and South fourteen, Carolina each North nine, Texas eight. During the three months twenty electric light works were organized; Georgia leading with ten. Forty-three flour and grist leading mills, North Carolina the aud Virginia during each the with seven; total same 0 quarter last year was fifteen, Forty-three foundry and machine shops were organ¬ ized, Tennessee leading with eleven and Alabama next with ten. Twenty-three blast furnace companies were corresponding organized, against seventeen in the quarter last year; Alabama seven, Georgia six, Kentucky ten, Tennessee five, Texas and Virginia one each. Twenty-seven ice fac¬ tories were organized, against twenty four in the same period last year. Forty- oil nine mining companies, eleven twenty-one roiling mill mills, seven potteries, railway companies companies; against fifty-street in the corresponding seventeen period of last 6*7 year; wood eighteen working waterworks establish¬ companies; 1 of 180 in the ments, against period an aggregate of last A corresponding is the fact year. that no¬ ticeable feature not a single natural gas or oil company has been reported in the past three months as organized in the South. EMIN PA8HA. % ENTERS THE GERMAN SERVICE—WILL RE¬ TURN TO THE JUNGLES. Zanzibar dispatches say: Emin Pasha has finally accepted the proposals and made has to him by Major ’Wissmann, entered the German service. He will re¬ ceive a salary of £1,000 a year. He has given up the intention of returning to Europe, and will leave Bagomoyo about the middle of April for Victoria Nyanzn. He will be accompanied by a large under cara¬ van and 200 Soudanese troops command of German officers. His deci¬ sion meet* with strong disfavor in Zan¬ zibar. ALLIANCE NOTES. WHAT THE ORDER AND ITS SI EM HERS ARE DOIXG. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER, GATHERED FROM V ARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY. If the cotton crop of 1889 is as large as that of 1888, 49,000.000 yards of bagging will be required to wrap thc crop. The *** farmers are falling into line. Hur¬ rah for the farmers! We like to sec the under man in the fight come out first best once iu a while.—Allen (Kansas) Tidings. Flic *** Farmers Alliance is spreading rap¬ idly over the state of Ohio. The Grange lias also taken on fresh life and its mem¬ bership has about doubled during the past six months .—Southern Mercury. * Borne Alliances appoint committees to go around, visit families who do not ap prcc ate the importance of education, and talk the matter up with them, and in¬ duce them to In come interested in edu¬ cating their children. The Netc Era (Amherst, Va.,) states. We find those who are fettling up their accounts with us are generally Fanners’ Alliance men. An Allianceman always does the square thing. With this accom¬ plishment success is assured. The Kan-us Alliance, 100,000 stroug of white farmers, in resolution demanded that congress should legislate for their interest, ‘-that the people believe tliat white eitizeus of Kansas have some rights as well as the negroes in the South.” Chocktaw , *** Alliance (Grayson county, Texas) invested $1,200 in a gin and paid Ihe entire amount out of the profits in two years, and last year made 40 per cent, on the $1,200 invested. This is co-oper¬ ation in the right direction.—Southern Mercury. , The , , futmers *% of Central Illinois arc or¬ ganizing very fast and erecting elevators and co-operative stores. There are 40 000 members of the Farmers’ Mutual Ben¬ efit Association in forty counties iu Illi¬ nois, and lodges are being organized at thc rate of 100 per week. The Kansas »** State Grange and the Farmers’ Alliance have united, and agreed upon an iron clad platform. tificates Among the being things, issued they in favor silver cer¬ unlimited quanti¬ ties, and w aut the Australian ballot sys¬ tem adopted .—Southern Alliance Farmer. To tho Alliance *** would brethren we say, this is the time of year to practice the fundamental principles of our blessed order Make the farm self-sustaining, plant, more corn and has cotton; let the strong help the weak, and the time will soon come when we will be a happy, in idependent Clipper, people.—War ran ton (G«.) *** Some of the old machine politicians seem very much afraid that the Alliance will damage itself by dabblingin politics. Be easy, gentlemen, the Alliance can take care of itself ; and while it is not a politi¬ cal organization, yet the members have their opinions on this as well as other in subjects — and when reformation is needed that line, they arc ready for the work. —Southern Alliance Farmer. The regular quarterly meeting of thc AUiancemen of Cherokee eouuty was held at Canton, Gil., 011 Wednesday. The meeting was a very enthusiastic one, aud the attendance large. The following preamble and resolution adopted; was presented and unanimously hereas, The Farmers’ Alliance has been accused of entering into politics, and for a fact will enter politics, but not as an alliance, but as citizens who are looking to the best interests of the country, Therefore, be it resolved, That the Cherokee County Farmers’ Alliance, duly assembled, respectfully request the executive committee of this county, to appoint individual primary elections in which each of the county can have a voice in saying who shall represent them in the federal and state offices to he filled this year. A committee, consisting of the presi¬ dents of the several sub-Alliautes in Cherokee, together with the couuty presi¬ dent and secretary, was appointed to to formulate plans by which steps may be taken towards the building of inarm facturing enterprises iu Cherokee, The sub-treasury plan was indorsed by the county Alliance, aud a request made that the sub-Alliancesof the county takt- ac tion thereon at once. There are about thirty sub-AUiances in Cherokee county, with a total membership of about 1,500, and the order just now is iu a flourishing condition and gives promise of being ot great benefit to its members. The New Y’ork * ** ★ Press has been doing some alliance work lately. That is, its correspondents aud in thc east, west, north south were instructed to send iu re¬ ports of the relative strength of the al¬ liances in different states, and the result has been a surprise to the Press, and its probable future influence upon the eoun try is made the basis of lengthy editorial comment. The Press thinks that the growth months, of from the its alliance in the past six small beginning in Kan¬ sas, is startling and has grave political significance. It says: “Take the census of 1880. Out of 14,- 744,942 males of all ages engaged in Vari¬ ous occupations 7,055,983, or almost one half, were pursuing agriculture as all avo¬ cation. This is, therefore, the largest single The element of our voting population. compact union of the farmers of the country iu a political organization would overthrow all other parties, be¬ cause it would be impossible to combine the other elements and classes solidly against them. Thc general character oi the farmers of the country makes it cer¬ tain that they have the independence, tenacity of purpose and integrity will to stand together. The labor unions not beai comparison with the Farmers’ Alliance, because in the unions are gathered mostly men who labor by the day and live from hand to mouth. The farmer is self-sup¬ porting—a pendent only sovereign of the soil, inde¬ on his own exertions. We shall watch the Farmers' Alliance with thc interest that it challenges as the latest, greatest, and possibly the most form id able force in American politics." Ax Indian burial place discovered in Uav 1888, near tbo 'Yinthrop Centre dapot. in W inthrop, Putnam Mass., is being excavate* 1 by pro¬ fessor and his assistants ot Harvard College. Several skulls and one whole skele¬ ton have thus far been found. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE or THE GEORGIA STATE AU.IAKCE MAKE AW INTERESTING REPORT. The committee of three, Livingston, Brown and Pope, made the following re port on thc policy of the Georgia State Alliance as to the enforcement of that clause of the constitution relating to cor¬ porations M remaining competitive; Lerkas 1 Paragraph 4, Sec. 2 Art. 4 of the constitution of Georgia declares: •The general assembly of this State shall have no power to authorize any con,ora tiou to buy shares or stock in any other corporatiou iu the State or elsewhere, or to make any contracts or agreements whatever with any such corporation which may have the effect, or be intended to have the effect, to defeat or lessen com¬ petition in their respective businesses, or to encourage monopoly; and su -h con¬ tracts aud agreements shall l>e illegal and void." * Your committee respectfully suggest the enforcement of the above constitu¬ tional clause in its full ami original intent; to-wit: That corporations shall remain competitive, eaiitii-s, not for given points or 1<> but for the whole people ami ihe interstate entire-state; ami that the jKiwers of the ami state railway commissions be so enlarged as tliat they may co-oper¬ ate one with the Other iu regulating clas¬ sifications and rates, ami the warehouse features of railway ears and depots. Aud these regulations should he based ui>on a reasonable cost of construction, equip¬ ment and running of roads, and not upon w atered stocks or high prices paid fot stocks for purposes of consolidation and control. Railroads must i-ec-ogtiize the interest and rights of the people in chartered cor¬ porations, be and the laws of the State should such as to empower the railroad com¬ mission to enforce the same, and the com¬ mission should be made to do its whole duty in the premises. L. F. Livingston, A. F. Popf,, H. C. Brown, Committee. TO ALI.IANCEMKN. The Executive Committee of tho Geor¬ gia State Alliance, with the President concuring, Alliancetnen do the most earnestly urge all in State to demand of any candidate for any State office, or legislature, seeking to represent them in the Georgia ortho United States congress, to pledge themselves, if elected, 1. To support and do all in their power to further legislation iu compliance with the foregoing adopted resolutions. 2. To a revision of the present public school system, thereby affording more extended facilities for common education. 8. To such changes in the penitentiary system as will ameliorate the condition and treatment of the convicts, and as soon as possible the system he so changed as that all able-bodied male convicts shall be worked on the public highway*, and tliat special houses provisions lie made for work¬ for women and children. 4. To a reduction of state and national be taxes. Asserting that only should taxes levied for revenue, and that to an eco¬ nomical and judicious administration. 5. That in the revision of the protec¬ tive tariff, the burdens now resting on the agricultural and laboring classes, shall be lessened to the greatest possible extent. 0. That our representatives in the na¬ tional legislature shall advocate the pas¬ sage of such laws as will prevent specula¬ tion and combines, that seek to interfere with prices of prime necessities and pro¬ ductions. 7. To an abolition of the national banking system, and the' substitution of legal treasury and notes in lieu of national bank notes, in sufficient volume, in conjeetion with gold and silver, to do the business of the country on a cash basis. 8. That thc sub-treasury bill of thc Nationul Alliance now pending in con¬ gress, or some better system for the relief of the struggling masses_, be passed. Felix Don cut, Chm’n. A. F. Pope, A. W. Ivey, T. J. Stephens, J. G. Taylor, Committee. I concur in the foregoing. L. F. Livingston, Pres. • TO ALI.IANCEMKN IN GEORGIA. The demands of the executive commit¬ tee to uR candidates seeking State offices, members of the House of Representatives, State Senate, or United States Congress, sent you for consideration and adoption, should have your immediate attention, and when adopted do not fail *•> demand an unequivocal answer. L. F. Livingston, Pres. Ga. S. F. A,, apd I. U. THE CHINESE BtLL. MISSIONARY SOCIETIES PROTEST AGAINST ITS PASSAGE. Representatives the of the board of foreign missions of Presbyterian church, American board (Congregational 1, Pro¬ testant Missionary Episcopal board. American Bap¬ tist union. Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church, Amer¬ ican Bible society. Evangelical Alliance and Society of Friends met at New York 011 Thursday to consider the Chinese enu meration bill now before the senate, with sionary special reference work and to property its bearing in China. upon mis¬ The senthncDt of the meeting was strongly opposed its to the bill. It was urged that adoption and would lie a violation of the treaty apprehensive rights, all who w ere present were that it would endanger thc personal safety of American mission¬ aries now resident iu China, and greatly hamper them in their work. ANOTHER FURNACE. ALABAMA’S ALREADY LARGE IRON INDUS¬ TRIES BEING SUPPLEMENTED. Furnace No. 3, of the DeBardeieben Coal and IroB company, at Bessemer, Ala., was blown in Wednesday with elaborate ceremonies. Fires were lighted by Vice-President Milton H. Smith, of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, who was present with a party of directors oi that road. Another furnace at the same olace will be blown in next week. WOMEN CRUSADERS ATTACK A BEAR WAGON AND SMASH ITS CONTENTS. A dispOth Horn F.nuiu S lo., St'taWiStfS”rS; Armed with opened their campaign. stopped Gtts sledge hammers, thev Thomas’s beer wagon' aud into smashed thc street, six barrels, emptying Kansas the beer City expecting Saloon mei) at are a visit from the crusaders, NUMBER 26 SOUTHERN NOTES. INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL | FOISTS IN THE SOUTH. J j JEXERAl PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES WHICH ARE' HAPPENING BELOW MA¬ SON’S AND DIXON’S LINE. A gang of forgers of Italian and Span I , s h bonds ,ms been capture*] * at Trieste, '' _ er,d Tboma F Anderson, e “ * , V a mem , * r f the »mous Louisiana returning boar<! " f \* A to d ‘« i ln w 0r ' le: ' OT "( dhesday, , aged seventy years, The Tennessee state democratic execu¬ tive committee has fixed Tuesday, July loth, and Nashville as the place for hold¬ ing for a convention to nominate a candidate governor. While six Ikivs of It. II. Bakersviile tud K. I’. Wommaek, ranging in age from eleven to nineteen years, were piay tug in a sand cave Wednesday, near Ver¬ non. Texas, the bank caved in on them rad all were killed. 'Hie Methodist district conference, held it Jackson, Miss., adopted strong resolu¬ tions Lottery, condemnatory of the Louisiana State and instructed copies to be sent to Governor Nichols, of Louisiana, anil Postmaster-General Wanamaker. A delegation of cigar aud tobacco man¬ ufacturers, principally from Key West and Tampa, Fla., entered a protest be¬ fore the ways and means committee, in Washington, schedule on Wednesday, against the tobacco in the new republican tariff bill. A telegram from Birmingham, Ala , Wednesday, says: Mrs. Kate Katoji, precari¬ of Round Rock, Texas, is lying in a ous condition at Woodstock station, be¬ low here, on thc Alabama Great South¬ ern railroad. She was en route to Ciu cinnati, and walked off the train white iu Iter sleep. aud Aunapnugh best & dry Cobbs, one oi the in Lynch¬ largest known goods firms burg, Va., made liabilities an assignment Wednes¬ day. Their foot up about suffi¬ ♦88,000. They have turned over cient property to liquidate their indebted¬ ness in full. J. It. Hidden, treasurer of the Ptriaski Bank, of I’ula.-ki City, Va., was waylaid, robbed and brutally murdered near his home, Wednesday afternoon. Two white men, arrested, suspected nnd of the excitement crime have been Lynching is feared. great prevails. bill Friday morning filed by at Robert Chattanooga, Tenn., in the a was Morrison Chancery Court, asking an injunction against Mountain the Railroad Chattanooga ulld Lookout Wslkins company, K. and W. 0. Peeples to restrain them from scribed disposing of 8400,000 Lookout worth of Mountain the sub stock of the company. A mortgage deed from thc Richmond. Fredericksburg and Rototmic Railroad company to the Central Trust company, of New Y’ork, was filed for record in the clerk’s office of the chancery court at Richmond, Va., on Friday. The deed is to secure the payment of $3,000,000 in bonds for double tracking the road, and is for half a million dollars. A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says: Frank J. Hellcn, a young sporting man, left the city Monday with $2,000 in money belonging Stanley bad to placed Nat Stanley, the a saloon in Hellen’s keeper. money bands to purchase a saloon for him, and the young gambler, instead of buying the saloon for his friend, left the city. A re¬ ward hits been offered for his capture, and detectives are on his track. A dispatch commission from before Meridan, Miss., says: The whom was tried the condemnatory proceedings, on Wed¬ nesday allowed the Vicksburg and Meri¬ dian railroad $40 per mile for the right of-way over its lines to the Postal Tele¬ graph and Cable company, which is seek¬ ing New Orleans by way of Vicksburg. Work is being pushed on this new tele¬ graph line to reach New Orleans td as early a date as possible. FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION. Hl\ MEN ARE KILLED WHILE BORING A TUNNEL FOR OIL. A qietial A terrible from Santa Barbara. Cal., says: accident occurred at Adams’ camion, near Santa Paula, Friday morning, Oil where the Hardiron and Stew¬ art company is boring a tmmel for oil. An explosion sheet of gas flame occurred iti the tun¬ nel aud a of shot out, blowing away a building one hundred feet from the mouth of the tunnel. Two men wen terrible burned; one of thenijdying short¬ ly after. A force of men were put to work to close the tunnel, and during the afternoon another explosion took and place, eollasping the whole tunnel hurrying in the ruins five men, who are certainly dead. UNDER WATER GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI AGAIN INUN¬ DATED BY A BROKEN LEVEE. A Greenville, .Miss., special of Saturday beeii says; The levee which has so long mi tish the point, great danger of breaking at Cat¬ Boliviav near Connally plantation, in laud county, about twenty miles hv above Greenville, gave way Fridav morniug ceived, and from tbe latest reports re¬ the crevasse is from 1,’iQO to 1,800 feet aud increasing. The water reached Greenville about :i o’clock Sat unlay morning. The main business street, is now one sheet of water aud the water is making its w ay over the sidewalks into •he stores. A great many people had to vacate their residences to seek high qmu lers on account of the sudden rise. A JUTE GROWL. MAKUFACTl'KEBS- WANT A MOTIK HARMON¬ IOUS ARRANGEMENT OF DUTIES. Th/ee New Y'orkers appeared before the committee on ways and means, at Washington, harmonious on Friday, to request duty- a more arrangement of the reduce proposed it on iu jute correspondence manufacturers, with so as the to placing of the raw material on the free list. They would argued that increase the effect the of the change be to protec¬ tion on the manufactured products t thirty per cent from ten per c^nt. DEATH IN A COAL MINE. AN EXPLOSION KILLS THREE MEN AND SE Adi„,vh, ro ,„Av i , k „b.„,r VTi By an explosion of gas m >,,,.4 the Susquehanna coal mine, at Aanticoke. three met, wem killed, four rertouslyra jured aud two s tg y mj 1 . » is supposed to have lg 1. < ’ • 1 lam P-