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THE HILL OF GOLD.
raggs-t mil Fence just loafed along
In a lePnroly %igzig line.
Down the Mill, of tho Hill, nn<l wanderoJ out
To tho murmuring slopes of pine.
And I had only to climb the Fence.
Or go through a crumbling gap.
To let gold spill down out of my arms.
And overflow from my lap.
And the Fence never carol a single bit,
For all II was there to guard,
And I might have doubled my goldeu spoils
Untroubled of watch or ward.
A o!<l iin>l yet the Hill
Broke splendidly on the eyes—
Gold clear out to the West, my dear,
And irold clear up to the skies !
An<l you ncoln’t say: “Oh, it’s n fairy
talc 1"
With that o-l<J, little scornful no 1,
*'or ft happens to be our own East IIlll
Grown over with golden rod.
-Funny K. Johnson, In Youth's Companion,
A Darning Combination,
HERE isn’t
y-rt ■jeyffl’PFyy one that I thing know
1 / ik Fjj } </H) : How thorough- to do
-
L v /’ Mused
Q# * r' - *-vq / curly-heail
*‘‘1 Jessie
( --4 ” Bower
a s
led her .pretty 1 white ’ y* forehead she wrink
into a
dozen fine little lines, the result of
tin' serious self-examination she was
undergoing.
“Let rue s'-e,” and she sat bolt up
right among tho numerous soft and
downy cushions that made the window
hi at her favorite retreat. “If 1 trim
a hat I got along pretty well if I pin
<*n the featuors and don’t have t> put
in anything, but that would never do.
1 eople want their hats to look as
though they came from a fashionable
milliner s and not be botched together
by a novice. It sail right for me,”
and she glanced over the table where
a jauuty little velvet toque was lying
with, it must be confessed, several
pins showing amid the Huffy pompons
1 nit adot ned the front,.
“I know I have a taste in . that diroc
t ion, but I could not face a hat brim
smoot hly to save my life. If it needs
a pulling or a shirring 1 can manage.
1 dliinry is out of the question, fori
would have to take a course of les
sons, and that would take time, and
what^l do must bo attended to at
The frown deepened on tho girlish
face as one after tho other the little
accomplishments on which she had
heretofore prided herself were now,
one after another, discarded as being
unworthy to bring aid to her mother
and herself in this most trying time of
need.
Who, like so many girls, had been
brought, up to do nothing really sen
slide that could be depended on to
earn her a lividihood, and which she
would now have appreciated far more
uglily man the smattering of music,
men " ! uing ‘ ,a ' ! i.sssac ' " icts 1 and H /'dences banners or paint- the
1 unpossi > o roses and lilies that
a r< .<» ori ’een her pridt ami io'
Bow sht euvmd Emma iviortdii, who
had a good position as typewriter and
stenographer. “I suppose I can go
ina store, she sighed, “but then
there is mother, ” and at the thought
of the delicate, fragile woman who
seemed more like her child than her
mother, the tears would well up until
at last they overflowed all barriers,
and Jessie gave herself up to the luxury
of a good cry.
Poor little woman ; hers was a sad
and trying position, though to the
casual visitor entering the room, with
all its dainty lcuickknncks, low, easy
chairs, well-filled bookcases and the
one hundred and one little trifles dear
to the feminine heart, it probably
would seem as though she had no cause
for tears; but how many homes could
show the same sad history and the fatal
mistake of bringing up its daughters
to do nothing. Jessie was the child
of the most indulgent parents. In all
her life she bad not known a care un
less it were the protracted invalidism
ot her mother. Even this after a while
ceased to affect her, other than that
she looked to her father for all help,
and he and she regarded the ailing
wife and mother as their precious
charge, from whom every unpleasant
thing must be kept, and for whom all
that made life sweetest and best should
be done.
Jessie being a bright girl had gone
through her school days winning
prizes and receiving tho congratula
tions of her friends, and the adoration
of her father and mother until, it
must be confessed, her pretty head was
rather turned by all the flattering at
tentiou, and she began to think she
w as just a little bit superior to Emma
Morton and other girls who were not
in her set, and who did not wear New
York dresses and have their shoes
made to order. Also iu her secret
heart she believed that she was uuusu
ally clever, and had serenely pitied
tho mi poor girls who had actually
learned trades or taken up profes
sums. lor she could do so many
thiugs well that really it seemed folly
to apply herself persistently to one
hing.
I he awakening had been sharp and
sudden when it came. Dr. Power,
stricken down iu the prime of life,
passed away, leaving his business af
fairs in a tangle that took mouths to
unravel, and which left to Jessie and
her mother only the house they lived
iu and a small income not sufficient to
pay the taxes.
Grief at her father’s death had for a
time bewildered and benumbed poor
Jessie, leaving her in a half-dazed con
dition, until the lawyer explained
ters to her then her dormant acul
ties were aroused and she was forced
to look the situation in the face.
dai s reverie was the result of this uu
pleasant knowledge, aud in her
room had come the bitter but self
evident fact that with all her society
accomplishments and the
of admiring triends, she was
unable to earn one dollar for
mother and herself. W iping her
on the scrap «u black bordered
that served her for a handkerchief,
>he walked over to the washstand
try. it possible, to obliterate the
ot tears before she went iu to talk
her mother, for must not
unpleasant be kept from the dear
THE MONROE ADVERTISER. FORSYTH, GA„ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1894. -EIGHT PAGES
lie woman, who bore her great trial
so patiently? well. '
Jesse had learned that lesson
With a deep sighyshe twisted up the
?tinny curls and turning to the work
basket picked out a pair of silk stock- 1
ings that needed darning sadly. For
a moment she stood regarding the j
sorry looking hole in the toe, and then
with a sudden flourish of the black
banner and a merry laugh that startled ,
the canary in his cage—so long had
been since he had heard anything like
it—rushed out of the room pell mell
into the sitting room, where Mrs.
Power was taking a sun bath, with a
weary face that touched Jessie to the
heart.
“Mother, darling, I have it,” she
cried joyfully as she kissed her.
“Have what?” smiled bewildered
Mrs. Power.
“Such a grand scheme, mother,” and
Jessie waved triumphantly the black
stocking, from the toe of which two
white fingers protruded. “And you
are in it, loo, dearest. You could
never guess if yon sat here all day and
thought and thought until you were
quite gray.”
“I am quite consumed with curi
ositv,” gently interposed Mrs. Power,
the sight of her dear girl’s happiness
being enough to bring a brighter light
into her own tired eyes.
“But what is it, daughter? I hope
not boarders.”
“Boarders,” sniffed Jessie.
you suppose I would have a lot of
troublesome boarders come here and
worry the lite out of us with their airs
and graces? ‘You won’t object, Mrs.
Power, to my just heating an iron,
will you? and, of course, you will al
low the use of your piano. My daugh
ter is taking music lessons, and would
like to practise a few hours every
day.
“ ‘And if you will please change the
bed in my room for the one in the
third Hour front, and oh ! I forgot, my
husband is likely to be detained at the
office several evenings in the week,
and would you mind keeping a little
something hot for him’—which means
a course dinner,” rattles on Jessie,
“I know them. No, ma’am; this is
ours alone—just yours and mine,
moinsey—with all the profits our very
own.
“But what is it, dearie?” Mrs.
Power is by this time quite overcome
by the flood of eloquence.
“A darning combine, madame.”
“A what?”
“A darning combine; there are
coal combines, iron combiues, rail
road combines, and why not a darn
combine? But to be serious,
mother, really T mean it. You see I
just had a pretty hard think this
morning in the seclusion of my
‘boudoir/ ns they say in the novels,
and the end of it all was 1 came to the
conclusion that I was about as useless
a bit of humanity as you could find in
a day’s walk until this stocking, dear
stocking,” and she kisses enthusiastic
ally that commonplace article of
clothing, “put just the loveliest idea
into my head, which, with your help,
will be the grandest and qS3St~Bovhr
scheme of the nineteenth century.”
“In what way am j help, ilarl
ing ? \ou know, dear, your mother
cannot t 0 y Qll ftS other girls’
•yJ*'''"*”—this with such a tender,
wistful look at the pretty Hushed face
opposite.
“You arc ten times sweeter and
lovelier than any girl’s mother I know,
and I wouldn’t exchange you for the
biggest, stoutest and heartiest woman,
in the world, though I would gladly
have you stronger for your own sake. ”
“Even yet I am in the dark as to
the scheme,” gently smiles Mrs. Power
after the impetuous caress that her
last remark had called forth.
“Now for the awful disclosure,”
laughs Jessie.
“Unfortunately for you and me my
numerous accomplishments were not
such as could be turned into solid ac
tual cash, and having at last come to
the conclusion that I would have to go
into a store—”
“Oh, Jessie!”
“Yes, indeed, I had determined to
swallow my pride and go right down
in the village and apply from door to
door for a situation, but thank good
ness, this stocking came to my rescue,
I can darn well, can’t I, mother?”
“Yes, dear, it’s really wonderful
how well you can make a darn look,
and as for picking up a thread you are
almost my equal.”
“Just so,” goes on Jessie, • i Well,
in this town there are no less than 1200
mortals who would like to have their
socks darned in the truly artistic style
commended by Mrs. Ferris Power and
daughter.”
“The students, Jessie?”
“The students great and small shall
be our patrons—you see, mother,”
wheedled Jessie, this is really the only
one tiling I can do thoroughly, and
why not make it. pay? What’s the use
of liviug in a college town if you can’t
make something off the boys?”
“What is your plan, dear?”
Mrs. Power is at last beginning to
see daylight, and a dawning hope and
confidence adds an unwonted sparkle
to her eyes and a faint pink tinge for
a moment flushes the pale cheek.
“That is only roughly outlined as yet,
but you and 1 will talk it over and, to
gether, I am sure we will make a sue
cess of it.”
“You would have to have printed
cireul rs,” suggested her mother.
“Yes, and after a while a call and
j delivery wagon, but at present I will
go after them myself.”
“What are you going to charge?”
“I think about ten cents a pair
would be fair, unless the holes were
unusually large and numerous, and
then say—fifteen.”
j “Don’t you think that ratter steep?”
: “Bless you, no, momsey. Y’ou
know yourself that darning makes a
sock as good as new, and isn’t it a
' great deal better to spend fifteen
j and cents lots than of thirty-five the rich boys for new ones,
wear silk,
I m sure, and they cost heaps more.”
“W hen are we goiug to begin?”
goes on Mrs. Power, who by this time
is quite as enthusiastic as even Jessie
could desire.
j “To-day—now—this minute — I will
go right down to the village and lay
in a stock of daring cotton and silk,
aud you may, while 1 am gone, com
pose the most taking circular your fer
tile brain can evolve.
A few days later Jes-ue, in her dain
ty black gown with all her pretty
golden curls drawn into a most
mg fluffy knot under the black toque,
with a bundle of circular* and an air
of bnsinese unmistakable, made her
appearance at the President’s house,
and after a little pardonable fear in
the august presence laid bare their lit
tie plan.
The grave eyes of the Professor
watched the earnest young face as Jes
tie warmed to the subject and a snspi
cious mist dimmed'for a moment the
keenness of the kindly eyes as the
small hands trembled over the refrac
torv knots in the string that tied the
bundle of circulate “My dear, 1
will help you in every way I can. I
consider it a very sensible plan, and 1
am sure the boys will be only too
glad to put work into such trust
worthy hands, A'our dear father was
a great friend of mine and I am sure
that he would feel very proud of his
little daughter conld he know how
bravely she had set to work to be of
real help to her mother,” giving a
fatherly pat to the golden hair. With
a warm hand clasp Jessie left him and
hurried home to tell the good news to
the Waiting invalid,
A very happy heart beat under the
stylish sealskin coat and a tender lit
tie smile hovered on the sensitive
month as she thought of the Profes
sor’s last words.
“Dear papa, I know he would ap
prove, and somehow I feel as though
he was very near and knew that I was
looking out for the‘little mother.’”
Very fragile looked Mrs. Power as
she sat in her easy chair with the
afternoon sun shining on the soft 1
brown hair just streaked with gray,
and a wonderful longing in the
motherly eyes that looked out toward
the sunset as if to follow through that
golden gate the spirit of the dear one
that had gone before.
“My darling, how happy you look,
I know you have been successful, for
your eyes look all ‘shiny,’ as you used
to say when you were a little girl.
\Y*s the Professor very stern and was
the ordeal as bad as you anticipated?”
“Oh, no; he was quite polite and
grasped my hand so tight when I went
away that lie made my ring cut me,
see?” and she pulled off her glove and
showed the wound.
“Poor little hand ? to think that it
is really all we have to depend upon,”
sighed Mrs. Power.
“Nonsense, mother darling, your
hand is going to help, too, and with
such a force as that we will get along,
never fear. The Professor said it was
a good plan and that he would help
me in every way he could. ”
“Ho was an old friend of your
father’s.”
“Yes, he said so,” replied Jessie,
but she did not add what he had said
regarding her helping her mother, for
it was a very sore point with Mrs.
Power to think that her tenderly
reared child should have to labor for
them both because she <vas physically
enfeebled so that such a labor" of love
would only end in her bringing on
some greater and more serious trouble,
It was a great joy to her that in this
new venture she could in reality lend
a hand and in tha.-4i§ettS8k}Il of the"
ptaiis foT the “business,” as Jessie
would insist upon calling it, they both
grew quite animated and for a time
forgot their troubles.
“They've come,” shouted Jessie,
fly into her mother’s room next
mot u xg with a dab of flour on one
cheek and dough clinging to her
bauds, for in the excitement of the
moment, I regret to say, she had
neglected to remove these evidences
of culinary occupation,
“Who?” ejaculated Mrs. Power,
somewhat startled as she conjured up
Visions of visitors who under a pre
tense of condolence has swooped upon
them to interfere materially with the
advancement of their plans,
“The socks, momsey, the socks,
Sarah is bringing them up, and, dear
me, such a great package,
“The Professor’s little grandson
brought them in his express wagon. I
verily believe those blessed boys were
in crying need of just such a scheme,
Great head, darling,” and Jessie
w iltzed about the room until every
livVle curl bobbed about like a cork on
an, ocean wave.
“I would suggest, as a senior mem¬
ber of this firm, Miss Power, that you
go and remove the dough from your
hands before we proceed to take ac¬
count of stock.”
“Just hear her ordering me about!
Isn’t it just too delicious!” solilo¬
quized Jessie, as she retreated to carry
out the order.
“Mother, I do not see what possible
need any boy has for fifteen pair of
socks of every conceivable hue. Just
look at this bundle.”
< « Who is the young Croesus?”
laughed Mrs. Power, as she sorted and
arranged according to the size of the
holes.
“I can't quite make it out, but it
looks like M. W. Chamberlain. Who¬
ever be is, he writes fearfully, ” said
Jessie, as she scowled over the slip of
paper that had accompanied the bun¬
dle.
“Chamberlaiu,” mused Mrs. Power;
“I once knew a Jacob Chamberlain
when I was » girl- I wonder if it
could be any connection of his?”
“Now, dearest and best of mothers,
don’t g*> weaving any romances over
these boys’ socks, for from the num
ber of them you and I will have all we
can do to get through by Saturday
night. I really don’t believe they ever
had any socks darned before.”
This remark of Jessie’s did seem
reasonable, for after they were all
sorted out they made a very formid
able array, but if Jessie could have
heard the warm, earnest appeal of the
Professor to the students assembled in
the chapel after her departure, and
had seen the tremendoas rummaging
through bureaus and closets that foi
lowed this speech, while her little cir
eulars were sown broadcast, she would
not have been surprised.
“Can you realize that every pair of
these means ten cents, madam, and
some of them fifteen,’’ smiled Jessie,
with a comprehensive sweep of the
arm that took in even those unsightly
objects in the fifteen-cent corner, as
she had laughingly dubbed the table
strewn with the wrecks of many a
' struggle.
“Yes, dear, and I can also realize
that unless we get to work we will
never earn even ten cents- what is it,
Sarah ?” as this personage appeared in
the doorwav.
, “Please, ma'am, the little boy that
came with the work”—Sarah would
j not demean herself by saying “socks”
—“said as I was to teli Miss Jessie
that he wonl<l call for and deliver tha
bundles in his little wagon, so she
would not have the trouble of that.'’
“Isn’t that just splendid: every one
is so kind to me,” beamed Jessie.
“And why shouldn’t thev?” sniffed
Sarah. ’’They know a real lady when
they see one, even if she is obliged
through unfortunate circumstances to
earn her living bv the sweat of her
brow.”
Elirah was an old and privileged ser
vant, who had been with Mrs. Power
since Jessie was a babv, and who iu
dulged in flights of eloquence which
were at times simply appalling,
“Of course, Sarah, we all know vou
think that I am perfection, but if you
don t go down and stir up the furnace
the ‘sweat of my brow’ will be cold,
clammy beads of perspiration, for it is
vfold up here, and for raerev’s sake
take those cookies out of the oven/’
for a strong smell of burnt cake now
reminded the young housekeeper that
you cannot successfully carry ou two
distinct operation at the same time.
By Saturday afternoon the socks in
great packages, with the owner's name
and the bill on top, were carried by
the little expressman up to the col
lege, and in a short time he was back
with the money carefully wrapped in a
salt bag.
“You are my little express messen
ger,” said Jessie ; “but vou must not
let any highwaymen rob you. Now,
suppose I employ you at twenty-five
cents a week to carry the socks to and
fro and to look after the money?”
This plan was hailed with delight,
and there was never a more faithful
little helper than the small mau that
trudged back and forth, business' taking 5 the
greatest pride in his and
keeping his accounts most accurately,
carrying the money in a leather bag
which Jessie provided, and of which
he was intensely proud.
Every week the business grew, and
pretty Jessie, with a new and unac
customed feeling of independence,
went about her daily task with a heart
that had lost all the old feeling of re
pression, and even Mrs. Power ap
peared to grow stronger under the
health-restoring process of constant
occupation for thought and hand. One
day, as Jessie was about starting on
one of the necessary shopping tours
for silk and darning cotton, there came
a ring at the bell, which she answered
in person/Sarah being at that moment
particularly busy below stairs prepar
ing a certain dainty dessert of which
her young mistress was very fond,
Standing on the veranda was a tall
youth, whom Jessie had prior to this
discovered to be the owner of the
many very holey, but very expensive
silk socks. The M. W. Chamberlain,
whom all the students called familiar
ly “Mac” and who voted him the best
fellow alive. Having heard that Mrs.
Power had been acquainted with his
father, he made up his mind to use
that as an excuse for calling. Jessie’s
sweet face having been secretly ad¬
mired by him as he passed. •
freqjvejjt^ -q tbs streets of the old
college town. .His first call was fol¬
lowed by many "fibers, Mrs. Power
heartily approving his gentle man
ners and deferential ftAitude towards
both Jessie and herself, until one day,
he came to her ~ .mi tm \ her
as was orly to Tie expected,
in a frank and manly way of his
love for Jessie. Of course, gradua¬
tion had to come first. But at the end
of two years the darning combine was
broken up and a new partnership en¬
tered upon, the one stipulation being
that Jessie should darn only those
socks belonging to a certain M. W.
Chamberlain. —Philadelphia Times.
Keen-Sighted Gulls.
“Any one who has watched the
gulls and other fish-catching birds
along our coast must have discovered
how keen is their sight and how cuu
ningly they discover a school of fish
long before a fin has disturbed the
surface of the water,” said Captain E.
M. Bates, of New Bedford. “Often¬
times when at sea I have tempted the
vision of gulls that happened near my
ship, to the great amusement of the
passengers. I remember one occa¬
sion when the ship was going along at
a pretty rapid rate, I noticed s num¬
ber of gulls following closely in our
wake, apparently on the watch for any¬
thing that might be thrown overboard.
“Going to the cabin, I procured a
small biscuit, and, returning to the
deck, prepared to show the passen¬
gers the wonderful powers of vision
possessed by these birds. Breaking
the biscuit into small pieces, the larg¬
est of which was less thau an inch
square, I dropped it into the seething
waters, just under the bow of the ves¬
sel. It was of the same color as the
hissing foam into which it was dropped,
and by which it was, of course, rapidly
carried astern. Once dropped, it was
utterly invisible to our eyes, and we
could only guess as to its whereabouts,
but before it had fallen thirty yards
astern a large gull detected it, and
with a headlong dart dipped into the
foam and secured it. With equal dex¬
terity the other bits were picked up,
one by one, the gulls at last venturing
so close to the vessel that they seemed
to be watching our movements with
their large, bright eyes.”—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
A Ludicrous Mistake.
A fanny thing happened on Pine
street Thursday. The head of the
family said: “I will send Mrs. Brown,
the washerwoman, up this morning,
I think you will like hex - .” The lady
of the house was busy in the kitchen
when the back door was gently touched,
and a modest, quiet-looking woman
stood without. She was admitted and
asked to take a seat. After a while in
which she was busy with other things,
the lady of the house said: “Come
this way. I’ll show you. ” Sbe led
the visitor out into the shed, pulled
down some tubs, and told her to take
off her things and, turning quickly,
went back into the kitchen again, in
about two minutes there was a grand
ruction in the shed and in came the
quiet little woman with eyes ablaze,
“VYho do you think I am ? I'm no
scrub. I’m surprised at you. I only
just called because I’m your next
neighbor and I wanted to ask you to
lend me some baking tins until ours
came.” There was a slam of the door
and the swish of skirts. Ten minutes
later a voice was heard at the screen
door: “Please, mum, I am sint to
i wash.” It was the original Mis. Brown,
j —Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
FLOOD IX TEXAS.
THE LEONA RIVER BECOMES A
RUSHING TORRENT.
Whole Families Drowned and Towns
Completely Annihilated.
A terrible catastrophe befell the
thriving town of Uvalde, Texas, Thurs¬
day night and there is mourning in
many households. The calamity was
entirely unexpected. The treacherous
Leona river, swollen to a raging tor¬
rent by recent rains, rushed without a
moment’s warning down upon the
town, submerging and wrecking many
houses and drowning a number of peo¬
ple. In this arid section such destruc¬
tiveness by the elements has never be¬
fore been chronicled.
In the excitement it is not definitely
known how many have been drowned.
It was about 2 o’clock in the morn¬
ing when the flood came. Just as the
storm broke over the citv a terrible
torrent of water rushed down the
Leona river, overflowing the banks of
that stream and flooding the lowlands
on either side to a depth of several
feet. The east side of the city is built
on lowland and was directly in the
path of the water. All the houses in
this part of the town were submerged.
There were a number of miraculous es¬
capes and the rescuers and the rescued
performed many heroic acts.
An earthquake shock of some mo¬
ments’ duration was distinctly felt
during tho night. At one place near
the city about a quarter of a mile of
heavy Leona cracks appeared on each side of
the river, having apparently no
bottom.
The loss to the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company is enormous, forty
miles of track and many bridges hav¬
ing been washed away. A rough esti¬
mate of the loss to property in general
and the railroad company will, as far
as known, reach a million and a half
dollars.
A Later Account.
Another and later account says that
the deluge did not come from the
clouds, as was at first supposed, but
that it came out of the ground and its
bursting forth was caused by an earth¬
quake which rent the earth at several
places along the Leona river, near
Uvalde. The cracks in the earth with
the water pouring therefrom are still
visible. Tho Leona river, so-called, is
a dry stream ten months of the year,
but it is known that a subterranean
basin and stream of water exists umler
neath the dry bed, as flowing artesian
wells are obtained by boring a few
hundred feet. It is supposed that
this artesian basin of water is now
escaping through the cracks caused by
the earthquake. The shock of the
earthq uake was distjne&y felt at Uval
i; ' ami at points for many miles
around.
THE FLOODED DISTRICT.
A special from San Antonio says:
The scene of destruction and desola¬
tion in the flooded district for a dis¬
tance of 100 - iles west from here and
extending ... . th from Southern
Pacific railway to the Rio Grande 200
miles away, is simply terrible. Thous¬
ands of acres of pasture and farm land
is under water.
It is estimated that the damage to
crops in the valley of the Leona river
will reach $500,000, while in the val¬
leys of the Saco and Sabine rivers the
losses will be fully as much or more.
Many thousands of cattle, horses and
sheep were swept away. Up to Friday
night all telegrams received by South¬
ern Pacific railway officials and for the
press came by the roundabout way of
El Paso, Pueblo and Kansas City, all
direct communication with Uvalde and
other flooded towns being cut off.
Latest reports received are more
alarming than the earlier ones. It is
still a matter of uncertainty as to the
number of lives lost, but additions to
the list of drowned are constantly
coming.
About one-half the houses of Uvalde,
a town of 2,300 people, were carried
away, and there is much suffering
there,but no more fatalities are report¬
ed from that place. Nothing has yet
been heard from the settlement of
seventy-five families several miles be¬
low Uvalde, but thero are still grave
fears that many if not all of them were
swept down by the torrent.
ARCTIC EXPEDITION FAILURE.
Dr. Cook’s Crowd Narrowly Escape a
Watery Grave.
A cable dispatch from North Sidney,
N. B., says: The fishing schooner
“Rigel,” of Gloucester, Mass., arrived
Wednesday morning with the passen¬
gers and crew of the ill-fated steam¬
ship “Miranda,” which left New York
July 7, carrying Dr. Cook’s arctic ex¬
ploration party. The Miranda left
Sukker* Tappan, Greenland, August 9,
for Holstenberg.
The vessel struck a sunken rock out¬
side of the harbor. There was a heavy
wind and sea prevailing, and a large
hole was stove in the bottom, and
the ballast tank was filled with water.
The pumps were useless. The tank
did not burst and the Miranda suc¬
ceeded in getting back into Tappan
safely, but was not regarded as
fit to return to St. Johns with
her passengers. A relief party,
consisting ©f Drs. Wok, Rogers,
Thompson and Dunning, of Y'ale Uni¬
versity, Lod, of Harvard and Porter,
of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nolgy, set out from Sukker Tappan to
Holstenberg, 140 miles distant, with
five Esquimaux in an open boat, for
assistance. The journey was made in
five days under stormy conditions.
The schooner “Rigel” was by chance
met with. The passengers and food
were transferred to the “Rigel” and
the “Miranda” then started for Labra
dor with the “Rigel” in tow. On ac
count of the bursting of the water
tank of the “Miranda the crew and
offieers were transferred to the “Rigel”
August 23, and the “Miranda was
left to her fate.
No Blame on the Superintendent.
The committee of three members of
the International Typographical Un
ion, appointed to investigate the
charge of mismanagement against the
superintendent of the Printers’ Home
at Colorado Springs, after a thorough
investigation has completely exhonera
ted the superintendent.
TRADE TOPICS.
Dun & Co.’s Report of Business for
tho Past Week.
R. O. Dun Sc Co’s Review of Trade
for the past week says :
“The activity which came with ex¬
hausted stocks, and was increased by
the removal of uncertainty about tho
tariff, has continued with heavy
entries of foreign goods since
the bill became a law. But
the people who know best are say
ing ‘improvement will como,’ rather
than ‘improvement has come.’ Tho
gain is not yet what has been expected,
aud business, if good in comparison
with last year, is still poor in compar
ison with years preceding. Presum
ably there has not been time to feel
the full effects of the change, and a
gradual gain will be more healthful
and encouraging than a spasmodic rise,
but the expansion of commercial loans
has suddenly ceased, prices of maun
factnred products show weakness rath
er thftU strength, and there has been a
reaction in the stock market.
“August has ended, but the ulterior
demand for money still merely bal
auoes tho receipts of superfluous cur
renc Y from ea8teru points, although
cro P 8 aro movin g ( l lnt « freely. The
recent material increase in demand for
commercial loans appears to have been
due to payments for sugar imports,for
whisky taken out of bond, and for im¬
ported goods taken out of the custom
houses, and has dropped off sharply.
The unavoidable conclusion is that tho
desired increase in domestic distribu¬
tion has not yet reached such propor¬
tions as to influence the loan market.
“The mills are not running full,
though the stoppage at Fall River
looks every day more like au effort of
the operatives to force curtailment of
production in order to lift prices and
make reduction of wages seem un¬
necessary. So far, print cloths have
advanced a quarter, but without cor¬
responding advance in other goods,
; and while the demand is encouraging,
it does not compare with years before
tho last. Neither in cotton nor woolen
mills has there appeared this week an
increase in production. Iu woolens,
orders for spring goods of certain
qualities lmvG been quite large, buy¬
ers concluding that prices are about
as low as they will be. Tho
demand for products of iron
and steel has increased, but
prices tend downward where any
change appears, as there is not enough
business yet to employ tho works in
operations. Steel bars are sold at 1
cent at Pittsburg; wire nails 1.05
cents, with bessemer iron at $11.65,
several additional furnaces having
gone into blast. An encouraging sale
of 40,000 bundles of cotton ties iu
competition with foreign ties duty
free, warrants the hope that current
prices in other branches may bo low
enough to meet the coming rivalry,
and a sale of mesaba ore at $2.25 de¬
livered at lower lake ports is reported.
“There is a better demand for struct¬
ural worit, though one considerable
contract for Cuba was broken off by
the advance in Spanish duties.
“Failures are still few and small.
For the third week of August reported
liabilities were $2,976,518, but for the
three weeks only-$.8,214,470, of which
& 1/34,414 o 838 were of manufacturing and
of trading concerns. The
average Was only $11,521 per firm fail¬
ing. The failures this week have been
188 in the United States, against 356
last year, and 40 in Canada, against 29
last year.”
bribery rampant.
The New Orleans Grand Jury Un¬
earths Much Rottenness.
After indicting eleven members of
the city council, including its presi¬
dent, and besides the city engineer,
the term of the New Orleans grand
jury expired, and it was discharged by
Judge Moise after presenting a report
which is the most scathing denuncia¬
tion of the crookedness rampant in
the city hall.
The first subject treated of was the
sale of railroad franchises by the city
council for ridiculously low prices.
An investigation of the books of the
New Orleans Traction company, which
now lines own nearly all of the street car
of the city, shows remarkable
discrepancies. For instance there is
the sale of the extension of the fran¬
chise of the New Orleans City and
Lake railroad, for which the city re¬
ceived $700,000. The Traction com¬
pany’s books show that $800,000 was
paid to Henry Bier, the broker, be¬
sides a commission of $80,000.
I he books of Mr. Bier do not show
where the extra $100,000 went to, and
he could not produce his ledger, as he
said it had been lost, The traction
company’s books show the disappear¬
ance of $65,000 which was paid to
Maurice J. Hart, who is the manager
of the Rosetta Gravel company, and
who is generally supposed to have en¬
gineered the railroad deals through
the council. The gravel company’s
books do not show any entries of these
cheeks.
As to contracts, the report refers to
the jail contract and recites all the
crookedness connected with it. A
deal, which failed to go through in
connection with this contract, was said
to have netted this official and the
members of the special committee of
the council $5,000.
Favored legislation in the interest
of a certain paving contractor is
strongly commented on, but there was
no possibility of getting at sufficient
evidence 10 indict for bribery. The
fact that vit one member of the city
council re- ionded to the request of the
grand jury to assist in exposing crook
edness is cited, and the new garbage
scheme is vigorously denounced.
Franchiser granted to the Jllinois
Central railroad are shown to have
been given rosardless of public inter
est.
Twoindictnents^irbriberyaccom
panied the report. ' One was against
Councilman Ian A. Mayer, and the
other against Alderman John M. Clark,
The former wa* charged with feloni
ously and corriptly proposing to re
ceive a bribe frim Narcesse Lucas for
a steam boiler privilege. The indict¬
ment against Clark was for receiving a
bribe from W. t Evardell, clerk of
National Rice Mill Engine Co.,
j I September 12, 189i, for favoring an
ordinance giving the company permis
sion to lay a pipe :rom its mill to the
i river. Mayer ha- been indicted be¬
fore, but this is lie first indictment
against Clark. He is the representa
live of the Ninth wird.
LATEST DISPATCHES
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO TIIE
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
\ urief Summary of Daily Happen
ings Throughout the WorUI.
The Middletown National bank, at
Middletown, Pa., of which Charles W.
Raymond is president, closed its
doors Thursday. The cause of tho
failure is supposed to be the discount
jug of the paper of certain oorpora
tions and individuals who find it im
possible to pay.
Ch ief j ust ice Mclver filed an order
ftt Co j umbia s. C., Thursday calling
au extrft session o{ t he South Carolina
supreme court, to be held on Septem
bor 12thj to q eoil j e upon the constitu
tiouality of the dispensary act of 18911.
This is done by consent of the attor¬
neys for tlie state and respondents.
A dispatch from Fall River says:
Tho indications are becoming strong
that a majority of the striking mill
operatives will resist the reduction in
wages until cold weather at least.
They claim that the print cloth market
has so improved that there is now no
excuse for a reduction in wages, and
declare that they will stay out until
victorious.
The strike of the union carpenters
of New York City, against the present
system of “lumping” is rapidly spread¬
ing. Already 1,200 men aro on the
strike and it is asserted that at the
headquarters of the strikers that be¬
fore the end of the week there will
not be a union carpenter at work in
tho city. Several contractors have
agreed to the terms of tho men.
The New York city police commis¬
sioners Thursday afternoon held a se¬
cret meeting at police headquarters.
When the meeting was over it was an¬
nounced that tho board had found
Captain Stephenson guilty ol receiving
bribes from merchants so that they
might evade the ordinance regarding
the blocking of sidewalks and ho was
dismissed from the force. The action
of the board was unanimous.
Joe Henry Lloyd and Charles L.
Wilson, both white, have been arrested
and lodged in jail at Manning, S. C.,
for counterfeiting, by deputy Charles
L. Emanuel. Mr. Emanuel says ho
found seven molds for counterfeiting
in all denominations from a nickel to
one dollar. It is thought that there
are several more who will be arrested
in a few days. The counterfeit money
has been passing around for about six
months.
The break iu the ranks of the mill
owners at New Bedford, Mass., is wid¬
ening. A number of them favor a
compromise with the strikers, and
steps to this end have been taken.
The manufacturers want to start up at
a reduction. This proposition the op¬
erators have rejected, claiming that
when the market reaches 3 cents tho
time will come for an increase in
wages rather than the restoration of a
reduction.
A Shanghai dispatch says it is re¬
ported that the Japanese have threat¬
ened to withdraw their promise not to
molest Shanghai unless the Kiang-nan
arsenal there bo closed. The motive
for tho threat is not apparent, but is
surmised that the Japanese are anxious
to provoke the British to interfere.
The Kiang-nan arsenal is now iu a
state of inactivity, and, under any cir¬
cumstances, its productive capacity is
small.
The big strike of the coat makers at
New York lias been practically settled.
The fight was short arid hard. It was
directed squarely against the,-sweating
system, and the workers gained the
day. Thursday morning 7,000 of tho
14,000 coat makers, who have been out
since Sunday morning, went back to
work on their own terms. The other
7,000 will probably be employed by
the first of next week, though there are
many details yet to be settled.
A careful investigation made at Pitts¬
burg, Pa., Thursday morning by the
Leader, of the facts surrounding the
rejiorts of the death of an immigrant,
John Walther, at Cumberland, Md.,
gives no ground for the assertion that
the death was due to Asiatic cholera.
Dr. J. Guy McCandless, of the bureau
of health, stated that he had received
a report from the inspectors sent to
look after the quarantined corpse of
the dead man and that every member
of the party was well and no signs of
the least disorder were evident.
The Wisconsin democratic state con
vention met in second session at Mil¬
waukee. Governor Peck was renomi¬
nated on the third formal ballot.
Judge Rose, from the minority of tho
committee on platform, presented the
following, which was adopted as an
amendment to the platform: “We de
nounce the treachery of United States
senators, who, claiming to be demo¬
crats, have joined with the republicans
to defeat the full measuro of tariff re¬
form.” This was adopted as an amend¬
ment to the platform and then tho
platform, as a whole, was adopted.
INDICTED FOR MURDER.
^ ,e U ran d Jury at Memphis Returns
Indictments Against Lynchers,
A Memphis, Tenn., sjiecial says:
The investigation into the lynching of
the six negroes, near Millington, in
this county, is being pushed with vigor,
aud the grand jury returned indiet
rnents Thursday afternoon against Do
tective W. S. Itichardson, who arrested
the negroes and led them into the
hands of the mob; A. Atkinson, the
man who drove the wagon on the night
of the lynching; Jeff Laxton, a mer
chant of Kerrville, supposed to
have been the leader of the
mob; Mike Strickfadden and
James Sisselly, members of the
vigilants. Richardson, Laxton and At¬
kinson were ont on $5,000 bail each
but were rearrested and jailed imme¬
diately after the finding of the indict¬
ments. Ed A. Smith, a farmer, living
near Kerrville, has also been arrested
charged with the same crime.
Reports from Kerrville and Milling¬
ton state that the lynchers have be¬
come alarmed over the firm stand
taken by Governor Turney and Judge
Cooper, and are making preparations
to leave the countx-y.
When a pugilist “takes the cake/*
is it pound cake?