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V*CON~, MARCH 9. 1875.
Butler and Speaker Blaine.
The feeling between General Butler
and Speaker Blaine, rajs a Courier-
Journal dispatch of the 1st, is exceedingly
bitter, and, if the opportunity shall pre
sent itself, there is no doubt that it will
show itself in what may prove to be the
most exciting scene of the session. The
extreme Radicals, led by Butler, are in
censed against the speaker on account of
Tiio opposition to the force bill, and the
more conservative on the other hand are
indignant at the attempt of Butler to
drive tfa—B into the support of such
Measures, and of tho third term plot,
which is the foundation of them. But
ler boasts that in passing the bill he
gained a great victory over what are
called tho weak-kneed Republicans led
by Blaine, while upon the other hand
Mr. Blaine claims thatButler, in limiting
tho operation of the act to four States,
when he intended to make it apply to
the whole country, was practically
defeated in his outrageous and rev
olutionary schemes.
Crop Iilens;
Tho Savannah Neics calls attention to
the fact that as a kind of concession to
those who favored tho re-enactment of
the lienliwin tho interest of the small
farmers, whoso prosperity depends alto
gether upon their ability to negotiate
loan3 upon the security of their growing
crops, the Legislituro passed a law so
amending section 1978 of the code of
1873 that the liens of landlords therein
provided for, shall arise by operation of
law from the relation of landlord and
tenant, as well as by special contract in
writing, wherein the landlord shall fur
nish tho articles enumerated in said sec
tion, or any of them, to the tenant, for
the purpose therein named, and that
said lien may be enforced in tho
manner provided in section 1991 of said
code; and that whenever said liens may
be created by special contract in writing,
as now provided by law, the same shall
be assignable by the landlord and may
be enforced by the assignee in the
manner provided for the enforcement
of such Hens by landlords.
Compliment to Congress.
Tho New York Commercial Bulletin pre
dicts that now Congress has adjourned
trade will revive. That is a backhanded
compliment to Congress—a3 much as to
say that public distrust of the National
legislature is so great as to awaken
feelings of insecurity among capitalists
and business men. It is regarded as an
inflammatory, disorganizing body. That
is, what the great central organ of the
mercantile interest substantially pro
nounces it.
And an illustration in point occurred
in Louisuille the orber day. Large ship
ments of merchandise for Arkansas were
held up for several days, waiting to see
how Congress woul l dispose of Grant’s
scheme to upset tho State government
there; and not until Poland’s resolution
was passed recognizing the Garland gov
ernment and declaring it should not bo
interferred with, were these goods per
mitted to go forward. When that passed
forty-odd shipping merchants of Louis
ville united in a card of thanks to Po
land for not plunging Arkansas into tho
confusion and chaos of revolution. By
and by, at this rate, the people may
have to thank Congress for not setting
the country on fire.
Civil Rights in 8outb Carolina.
The besotted negroes of this unfortu
nate commonwealth, who are tbe exem
plars of tbe effects of universal suffiage,
and, iu consequence, havo brought uni
versal ruin and bankruptcy upon both
races, are by no means content with the
sop doled out to tbem by the retiring
Congress. We find, therefore, that they
bave resolved on a State supplemental
civil rights bill, of their own. in tho mon
grel assemblage, yclept a Legislature now
in session at Columbia.
It seem3 that the proprietor of an
eating-house at Yemassee, some time lost
year refused to allow some of tho lousy
and odorous members of the General
Assembly to eat at his table, for which
offence he was duly arres'ed and tried.
But, alas 1 it was proven in court that the
establishment had no license, and
Judge Mayer decided that under the cir
cumstances tbe indictment did not lie,
ns the civil rights bill only applied to
those establishments for the carrying on
of which aUcense was required.
Tho correspondent of the News and
Courier thus describes how these sapient
black-a-moors proceeded to right them
selves :
Hence, this bill makes the offense in
dictable in any case, whether a license
has been taken ont or not, and brings all
tsiT“rn, inn and hate' keepers under tho
provisions of tbe law whether a license is
required for the carrying on of their busi
ness or not Under the rnle3 of the
House a two-thirds vote is necessary to
take up a bill out of its order, nnd as the
Conservatives did not vote,And the Re
publicans could not vote a*qnorum, all
attempts to get up tbe bill failed until
the evening session, when three Conser
vatives voted against its being called up,
which just gave the quorum, and the bill
was taken up, the vote being 61 ayes, 3
noes, and 64 being the quorum vote. The
bill being up, there followed a debate of
a very savory character. Finally a vote
was reached and the bill passed by a vote
of 66 to 26, tho Conservatives all voting
no.
Those threo dunderhead Conservatives,
so-called, should have been pelted with
rotten egg3 in tho pillory, and treated to
a free bath at the town pump.
In addition to tho above, they passed a
resolution protesting against the re
moval of Federal troop3, their convenient
pimps and tools to enforce these rascally
edicts.
Verily, Carolina is reaping a bitter ex
perience for her folly in tamely submit
ting to negro domination. Wo tell tho
dingy Ethiopians who ore styled citi
zens, and invested with tho right of
suffrage, they can’t override their superi
ors in Georgia, and if they aro wise will
sing small and stick to their vocation 03
laborers. If they doubt this let them
look at the fate of Tunis Campbell and
Aaron Alpeoria Bradley,tho Wahoo Chief
of tho seaboard.
A glimpse at tho forlorn visages of the
two Cuffee’s in tho House of Representa
tives will help also to enlighten their un
derstandings.
This ia the first time in the memory of
man, says the Salt Lake Tribune, that
Great Salt Lake has been frozen, and the
mercury has not been below zero this
winter. Here is a nice question for sci
entists to explain.
Adjourned Sine Dio.
Congress adjourned sine diei yesterday
at 12 o’clock, in accordance with consti
tutional limitation. The force bill, we
take it for granted, perished in the Sen
ate for want of time. All the appropria
tion bills passed and there will bo no call
for an extra session, a matter of gratnla-
tion. Arkansas, too, by the passage of
the Honse resolutions should be shielded
from the oppressive and revolutionary
designs of tho President. After a little
ferment among the colored people over
civil rights we look now for the South to
settle down in a condition of comparative
qniet and repose.
With all its faults it cannot be said
that the action of the last session has
furnished any substantial encouragement
to the President and his carpet-hag and
negro backera to carry ont their malevo
lent policy in the Southern States. It is
true the House passed the force bill—
the civil rights bill is a law, and so would
the force bill havo been had it reached
the Senate a few days sooner. But
Grant’s scheme to upset the government
of Arkansas, developed in his special
message, failed ignominiously, and his
force bill, which was planned for a uni
versal dragonnade in the interests of a
third term, was crippled so as to apply
to only four States, and lost at that;
while the contest over these schemes
was well nigh fatal to the little harmony
subsisting m tbe party.
The Radical Congress parted, wo have
no doubt, in exceedingly bad humor, and
looking for worse. It is a truce before
open war. The third term casts its
gloomy shadow over their horizon and
leaves little prospect of anything short of
an irreconcilable war of factions. It is
conceded that with the carpet-bag organ
ization in the Sonthem States and the
office-holding power and patronage in the
others. Grant can command a renomina
tion in tho next Radical convention; and
it is almost equally apparent that a con
siderable part of the Radical party will
fly tho track and refuse to support him
for a third term—so that there will be
three candidates, if not more, in the field.
The same kind of a triangular fight
which gave the country up to Radicalism
in 1860, will, we trust, work its deliver
ance in 1876-
Meanwhile, the general re3nlt of this
session has been enfeebling and injurious
to tbe party. The majority started out
with a hundred schemes to repair the disas
trous effects of the lost fall elections, and
wound up by aggravating them all. The
civil rights bill, which was subsequently
repudiated by tho people at the polls,
they have made a la v. All the whole
system of slander and persecution of the
Southern whites, which was pointedly
rebaked by the people in the ridiculous
failure of Attorney General Williams’
outrage operations, they hare industri
ously sought to re-enact even at the ex
pense of the most absurd self-stultifica
tion. While they have practically ac
complished nothing in the elimination of
schemes to save themselves from defeat
at the expense of the public liberties,
they have only displayed a still more
abandoned recklessness of all public and
popular interests. And they have finally
separated, as we believe, without hope—
without confidence to themselves or in
each other, and in tho conviction that a
well deserved and ignominious defeat is
before tbem.
Beast Butler Sad and Pro
phetic.
Notwithstanding his profound antipa
thy to newspaper men, Beast Butler has
requested a renorter of tho Washington
Star to interview him to the extent of
two columns of that paper, and in hie-
usually bland and suave style obligingly
famished the reporter with the interview
ing questions and responses, all neatly
written nut and ready for the press. He is
sad, and prophecies wars and disasters to
tke common country. It may be, as the
Baltimore Sun says, that the lamenta
tions of this Jeremiah come fmm the fact
that a nipping frost of muddy politics
and trenchant newspapers has untimely
cut him off in the very flower of his po
litical youth and beauty, and relegated
him to normal nothingness. His last
howl is in these touchingly pa
thetic words: “ But I am sad in view
of tho future. To me—while I hope I
am not needlessly alarmed—there has
been no darker day since I left Washing
ton in December, 1860, to go home to
Massachusetts and advise Governor An
drew, in view of tho immediate future, to
put the militia of Massachusetts at once
on a war footing, as I then did. I saw the
danger then from seeing the temper of
tho Southern men, not of the Southern
statesmen. I see it now through ths
same medium. Domestic wars are never
planned. All history shows that nations
drift into them against the better judg
ment of the sober and right-thinking
men of both contending factions; and it
is only my trust in an overruling Provi
dence in favor of the destiny of this coun
try that gives me substantial hope now.
ind I yet hope, above all things, that
my forebodings aro nnfonnded and un-
sub3tantiaL”
In regard to tbe force bill ho says he is
afraid it will not get through. The civil
rights bill, he says, carries ont all the
principles for which Snmner contended,
and while it leaves ont schools, which is
the only essential difference from Sum
ner’s bill, yet the principle "enunciated
is a living declaration that schools sup
ported by the pubUc taxation of all
should be open equally to all.” He has
not much faith in tbe Louisiana compro
mise, and is generally disgusted with
Southern people and politics not like
him3e), Republican.
Some notion of Butler’s project, as
suggested by his "apprehensions," may
be obtained from the following extract
from his oDservations in this so-called
interview:
"In tbe Presidential contest in 1876 the
people will never submit to have a Presi
dent elocted by tho votes of the Southern
States, controlled by Kuklux nnd white
raiders, by intimidation and force.
Whichever party prevails—and as I
believe that force in elections is the
ruling power there, and not tho peaceful
ballot—I fear tbe commotion which may
arise out of the very counting of the vote.
The means of doing it in a convention of
the two houses are so feeble and so cum
brous, that in any counting of votes
where there is a sustantiai contest there
will be only anarchy aad confusion.
“ The contest between Burr and Jeffer
son was final, because it was an election
in the House of Representatives, which
has itself a casting vote. The counting
of the votes of electoral colleges, the
honesty and propriety of whose election
are in dispute by the House and Senate,
may be a very different thing, and the
only hope of peace may be that at
that moment we shall have a man of firm
ness and patriotism in the executive
chair.
Plausible but Fallacious
The argument of Mr. Bacon against
the Texas Pacific railroad bi'l, whilst
sound as a nnt on the old Democratic
platform of opposition to all internal im
provements by the General Government,
yet does not apply to the present status
of public opinion and facts. Nine-tenths
of the Northern Democracy, and a large
portion of tho party South, backed, as
was recently shown, by elaborate decis
ions of the Supreme Court, justify tbe
construction of routes of national import
ance for the “regulation of commerce
between the States.’’
However we may differ in theory, and
denounce the principle iu practice, still
it is tut fait accompli, and has been firmly
inaugurated and established in the
country. Predicated upon this recogni
tion of tho right of Congress, millions
have already been expended upon the
opening of harbors, the cleaning out of
interior rivers, and the construction of
gigantic railroad to tho West, a mere
fraction of which has inured to the bene
fit of the Soutn. For her, outside of
few thousands to remove the wrecks at
Savannah and Charleston, and an occa
sional small appropriation for other har
bors on the Atlantic coast and the Gulf
of Mexico, nothing absolutely has been
done.
Now, we submit that it is not the part
of wisdom when we are required to bear
our full quantum of the cost of all these
improvements, to sit with folded hands
like a querulous child, and refuse to ask
our share of the national bounty. It
would be all very well if we were not
forced to bleed for the aggrandizement of
the more powerful section.
But our talented Representative avers,
that the measure before the House was
“practically an effort” of the friends of
that great manipulator of Legislatures
Tom Scott, to manipulate the Georgia
law givers also, in his interest. We think
he is simply mistaken; most certainly so as
to the objectionable features of lobbying,
such as bribes, the promise of political
preferment and lucrative situations.
If Mr. Scott lobbied at all, though he
did not charge the existence of such in
fluence directly, which the writer capi
tally doubts, it was simply by presenting
hi3 case upon its merits through the
medium of the press.
But what if the scheme does help Tom
Scott in his vast railroad combinations ?
The true question is, will tho Texas Pa
cific benefit the South ?
If that be conceded, and who can
doubt it, then wo care not whether the
great Pennsylvania manipulator, or his
satanic majesty himself, puts his shoul
der to the wheel. Of course every town
and seaport in Georgia cannot expect to
be one of the termini, but if that grand
arteiy passes through the capital of the
State, as the programme announces, and
through other salient Southern centers,
this is far better than nothing, and for
tunately a perfect net-work of railroads
already in existence, can receive and
bear to tho seaboard the teeming pro
ducts and commerce of the far distant
West. Of course, to preserve the nation-
aUty of the enterprise, it was necessary
to provide for the convenience of through
passengers going North, hence the de
flection through the heart of our State
in that direction, after traversing thou
sands of miles in extreme Southern lati
tudes.
But again we make the distinct an
nouncement, that unless the Government,
and consequently the t3X-payers of the
country, can be guaranteed against the
loss of a single dollar, by the corporators
of the road, for the endorsement of their
bonds, we are utterly opposed to it. Let
there be no more credit mobilier specu
lations. With such guaranties, predica
ted upon good and tangible securities, we
favor tho construction of tho road, and
would regard its completion as the great
est possible boon to the South.
Mr. Bacon is correct in hi3 assertion
that the past Congress of the United
States was inimical to os, and sought to
the last, to press the South to the wall,
by the agency of the wicked civil rights
and force bills. Bat let it be remember
ed that through the aid of the true men
of the North, in that body, tho unjust
tariff bill was defeated, Grant thwarted
in his nefarious Arkansas usurpation, the
civil rights bill shorn of many of its
worst features, and the infamous force
bill virtually killed. Last but not least
to the noble people of that section are
we indebted for the glorious revolution
lately achieved in one of tho branches
of that Congress.
Hence, it ill becomes us now to har
bor evil thoughts, or utter harsh words
against the North, in whose returning
sense of justice rests our only hope of
deliverance from grinding oppression.
And we are sure our patriotic Representa
tive will assent to this also.
Once more, then, we say, give us back
the amount the South has been mulct
by taxation for the Northern Pacific,
and abandon all such schemes in future,
or give us our rightful share in such in
vestments hereafter. This is asking for
simple, even-handed justice only.
The New York Postovfice Building
Work on the new postoffico building, snys
the Commercial Advertiser, advances stead
ily, between 500 and 600 men being con
stantly employed; but the progress made
seems very slow to tho outside observer,
on account of the extent of the building
and the multitude of details. From tho
second floor up, there are from 15 to 25
apartments on each floor, all to be care
fully finished, the various premises re
ceiving attention from artisans of almost
every class connected with the building
trades. The flooring of the halls, all laid
in different colored marbles, is of itself a
heavy job. The work was commenced
in the year 1870, say five years ago, and
nearly a year more will be required to
make the whole complete. At the pres
ent time the left wing of the second floor
may bo said to be ready for occnpancy,
several of the rooms being now used bv
the architect and his assistants for their
offices. Tho cost of the building will bo
about $7,000,000.
Postal Daws and Regulations.
Pago 213, section 346. "Contractors
and mail carriers may carry newspapers
out of the mails, for sale or distribution
among regular subscribers; but when
such papers aro placed in the postoffice
for delivery, postage must bo charged
and collected. Contractors and other
persons may also carry books, pamphlets,
magazines and newspapers (not intended
for immediate distribution) done up in
packages as merchandise, and addressed
to some bona fide agent or dealer.”
From this law it will be seen that pa
pers can be carried without going through
the mails.
TUG GEORGIA PRESS,
At the Court house sales in Chatham
county last Tuesday, the following stock
sales wero made. We quote from the
Savannah Advertiser:
Fifteen shares Railroad Mutual Loan
stock, seventy-two dollars paid up on
each share, for $1,800. One share of the
Coast Line railway stock, with seventy,
dollars paid in on the share, was sold, to
wind up an estate, for $51. Twenty
thousand dollars, State of Georgia bonds,
secured by mortgage on the Western and
Atlantic railroad, sold, for the benefit of
an estate, for $15,100, or a*- 75J. Twenty
shares of' Southwestern railroad stock at
$78, and 103 shares Central railroad stock
in small lots from $55 up to 58 per share,
closing firm. This stock was sold to meet
a loan over due.
The Federal Marshal sold the follow
ing property:
Lot No. 189, in the 27th district of
Sumter county, containing 202 j acres, by
virtue of an execution in favor of Mc
Lean & Stokesbury vs. John V. Price, to
Hardy Morgan for $300. The west half
of lot 48, the west half of lot 49, and tbe
east half of lot 55, in the 10th district of
formerly Monroe, now Upson county; each
containing 101J acres, under exeeu: ion in
favor of Wo. B. Bowers vs. Peter P
But's, administrator, to Benjamin W.
White for $110. Lots 158, 159, 132, and
half of lot 133, in the 2d district of Wil
kinson county, by virtue of an execution
in favor of Eugene Kelly vs. Ethelridge
Ogburn, to William F. Cannon for $1,100.
At Augusta the only stock sale
was of ten shares of the Augusta Real
Estate and Building'^^iociation—$42
paid in—at S32 per share. At Columbus
seven shares Engle and Phenix stock, at
$104 per share. At' Atlanta, no Etock
sales are reported. The shi riff of Ful
ton county sold fifty city lots for taxes
and realized during the day $10,000 from
sales and collections.
Mbs. Maria. Ratcliff, one of the old
residents of Augusta, died Wednesday
morning, ag“d 63 years. She had lived
in that city sinie early childhood.
The Augusta Constitutionalist, of Wed
nesday, say3:
The Fruits of It.—A lady passing
down Broad street Monday, was met at
or near Washington street by two dark
complexioned beings, in petticoats and'
flashily dressed (Once upon a time they
would have been denominated imps of
darkness.) Tin- lady moved to one side
so as not to come in contact with them,
when they also purposely moved to the
same side of the pavement, and one of
them brushed against her and threatened
to knock her down.
At Savannah, the Advertiser sajs civil
rights cropped out on Wednesday in a
demand made by a negro to be waited on
at a restaurant, which was refused, and
the chap walked out.
Wk learn from tbe Atlanta News that
Gov. Smith has appointed W. J. Brown,
Judge of Dooly County Court, vice J. H.
Woodward, resigned.
The same paper says on Tuesday "two
landslides occurred on the Air-Line rail
road, stopping entirely the running of
trains. One occurred about sixty miles
from this city, and the other thirty miles
south of Cnarlotte, N. C. The up freight
train ran into the slide on this end of the
rood, smashing up two cars and damaging
the engine. The down passenger train
ran into the slide near Charlotte, but no
damage was done. The track bas not
yet been cleared, and probably will not
be until late to-day. No trains arrived
or departed on the road yesterdav."
Z. D. Harrison, Esq., has been re
elected Clerk of the Supremo Court for
sit years. His salary was fixed by late
act of the Legislature at $4,000 per year.
Heretofore tbe fees of the office—about
$8,000 a year—constituted his compensa
tion.
A Rohe special, dated the 2d instant, to
tbe Atlanta Herald, says:
The floods are upon us. Tho rivers
have overflowed their banks, ana the wa
ter is now six inches deep on the sidewalks
of a square of the city. To-morrow it
will be into twenty business houses. It
is now raining in torrents, and tho waters
rising rapidly.
Tho same paper has tho following
On Monday afternoon and night the
heaviest rains o: this year camo down.
From what wo can gather from a few ex
changes, and now and then a special dis
patch, we learn that the overflow is still
on the increase north of us. Yesterday
(Tuesday) communication was open on
the State road as far as Ringgold, but
we learn tho temporary structures over
tho Chickamauga, where the bridges
wero swept away a few days since, were
seriously damaged night before lost, and
early yesterday morning. The present
rain (Monday night) will, of course, add
its volume to the already overflowing
courses, and tho repairs of that great
thoroughfare proportionately impeded,
However, we were told that the reg
ular train would be sent out last night,
and also tbe 8:30 train this morning. If
the last rains had not interfered with the
work, it is probable that trains would
have gone through to Chattanooga by
this evening. A dispatch received yes-
terday states that the water from the
Tennessee covers tho track from Chatta
nooga to Boyce’s station, seven miles
this side of Chattanooga, but that it was
slowly receding, and no material damage
had been done to property of tho Stato
road at Chattanooga. Parties who re
turned to the city yesterday, and who
were at Ringgold and vicinity night be
fore last, report the heaviest fall of rain
yet, and the smaller streams rose with
remarkable rapidity, and it is fair to pre
sume that the larger ones are booming at
this time.
Thb Herald has tho following compli
mentary and justly merited reference to
our Senator, Col. Thos. J. Simmons:
Tho resolution of thanks offered by tho
Hon. Wm. M. Reese at the close of tho
session to Hon. Thos. J. Simmons, Presi
dent of the Senate, was a fitting tribute
to a most admirable presiding officer.
Firm, courteous, able and impartial, as bo
is, Col. Simmons has discharged the du
des of his high office with fidelity, zeal,
and marked ability. From every quarter
he has won golden expressions of opin
ion and the Senate may well congratulate
themselves upon having such on accom
plished, efficient, andbusines3-dispatching
officer. Col. Simmons is, by virtue of his
office as President of tho Senate, Lieuten
ant Governor of tho great and growing
Empire State of Georgia, and is thereby
ex-officio Governor during tho absence or
other disqualification of the Governor.
He is a tall, portly, fine-looking gentle
man, with rather thin light hair, and
long, flowing light-colored whiskers. He
is a man of high morality and hi3 integ
rity is pronounced. Should tho State
ever be deprived of tho services of Gov.
Smith before his term expires, for any
cause they, need havo no apprehension
hut that the affairs of State would bo left
in safe hands with Hon. Thomas J. Sim-
The Atlanta Constitution has tho fol
lowing particulars of a hurricane which
visited Fulton county Monday evening:
It struck Fulton county at tho lower
edge of Stone’s district, and left the coun
ty near the upper corner of Buck Head
district. The hurricane struck Stone’s
district on the Green and Howell’s road,
about one mile this side of the residence
of Mr. C. C. Green. A large honse belong
ing to Mr. Thomas W. Jones, not far dis
tant from the chnrch, was blown com
pletely over and demolished. Mr. Jones
and his wife were in the house at the
time, and went over with it, but fortu
nately escaped without damage. Furni
ture and bedclothes were saturated with
tered over a half acre of land. The heavy
logs were twisted and shattered as if they
were feathers. The cabin was filled with
negroes, but none were Beriously hurt.
Tbe Methodist Chnrch, known 03 Green’s
Church, could not stand the fury of the
tempest a moment. It was blown down,
and was literally torn all to pieces. It
was a large one story frame building, and
during the week was used as a school-
house. Mr. Carlisle, living a little beyond
the church; bad his fodderstacks blown
down off his premises, but where to no one
is able yet to say. Mr. Carlisle spent yes
terday hunting up his fodder, but didn’t
find any of it worth mentioning. Mr.
Carlisle’s house wa3 injured, and his
fencing all gone. A strip of woods on
the Carlisle place between two fields
owned by Mr. McDonald, felt the full
fury of the blast. Not a solitary tree is
left standing, but have been hurled in
masses upon the ground. The score as
reported, along Green & Howell’s ferry
rosd almost baffles description. Fences,
orchards, and the largest trees are all
lying prostrate and every few yards the
road is blockaded with timber and rub
bish stream across it Sweeping on into
Casey’s district the tempest played havoc
on the place of Mr. John A. Casey. His
residence was injured, his gin house de
molished, and his fences blown to pieces.
We have not received the names of
other parties in this district who suffered
but know that there weie many. Nearly
half the trees are blown down, the largest
and stoutest in many instances being
torn up by tho roots, and hurled across
the roads. Fences in the way of the
tempest were swept also lately out of
existence, while the damage to fruit
trees and shrubbery is enormous. The
blast seems to havo come down upon
Buckheaddistrict with concentrated fury,
at least greater damagelias beSb reported
here. We commence with Sardis church,
which is now no more. This Methodist
church .is familiar to most of our readers,
who m iy have attended the meetings held
there in times past. It is located on the
Roswell road, about one mile north of
Buukbead, and some seven miles from
A taota Its church was a stout two
story building, the upper portion or hall
being used as a Masonio hail. Its de
struction shows tho resistless fury of tbe
wind, as it. was a very heavy building,
well calculated to withstand any ordina
ry tempest, and had often done so
timu3past. A Mr. Armstrong, who re
sides on Maurey’s creek, left Atlanta
Monday evening before tbe storm came
up, to return home. He had with him
a wagon and a pair of stout mules, and
bis sou, a young man. When he neared
Sardis church he saw that the tempest
was about to break upon him, and he
drove under shelter of tho side of
the church for protection. A mo
ment later the tempest struck it and
after a few rockings from side to side the
whole of tho vast edifice was blown over
upon the little party. One mule was in
stantly killed, tho other badly injured, the
wagon demolished, and Mr. Armstrong
and his son buried under a mass of ruins.
Tbe church was literally scattered for a
half acre around, the immense rafters
and beam3 being snapped like threads
The buried gentlemen cried out for
assistance, and some of the neighbors
came to them. They had to bo cut out
from under the ruins of the chnrch with
axes. Both of the Mr. Armstrongs are
severely bruised and cut about tbe head
and body, but their injuries are not con
sidered dangerous. Their escape is almost
miraculous. A log school house near the
church was demolished. It was not only
torn to pieces, but even the window sills
were blown away. A graveyard used to
be adjacent to the church, but it is not
there now. Tho fencing and palings
around the graves wero blown away, and
the whole ground so levelled that a passer
by could sprinkle salt over it. Head-
boards and foot-boards went with the pal
ings. A mile beyond Sardis chnrcb, and
on Nancy’s creek, was a tenement bouse
owned by Mr. William Langford, and oc
cupied by negroes. This was blown
down and destroved, but tho darkies were
not hurt. On Mr. Langford’s place the
stable was blown off from over his mules,
but without injuring tbem. Mr. Silas
H. Donaldson’s house, also abont a mile
from tbo chnrch, was so badly shaken
that the family ran out into the rain.
They preferred being out 'doors in the
rain, to taking the chances of being
killed by the house falling upon them,
which was expected every moment.
Mrs. Jame3 Smith, a widow lady
living on Pace’s ferry road,
about one half a mile south
west of tho church, had her house
blown to pieces, also every out building
on tho lot blown away. Mr. Tom Pope
living near Howell’s mill, suffered the
same fate. His dwelling was blown over,
and tho buildings on his place were swtpt
off t On the place now owned by Mr. A.
P. Bailey, formerly owned by the widow
Ellwaro, about a quarter of a mile beyond
Howell’s mill, the fencing was totally de
stroyed, and nearly $1,000 worth of fine
timber blown down. Every house on the
place, including the dwelling, was demol
ished ; stock houses, corn cribs, etc., are
in ruins. A Mr. J, J. Lynes and family
occupied one of tbe houses on his place.
IVhen the house began to go over, he ran
to the back door. The door fell upon
him and instantly afterwards he was cov
ered with the ruins of tho building. He
was pulled out seriously injured. A gash
was cut in his head some threo or four
inches in length, exposing the skull. He
was otherwise braised about the face and
body. His wife and little boy stayed in
tho house and escaped without harm.
All of their furniture and wearing appa
rel were totally ruined by exposure to the
weather during the whole of Monday
night. Mr. Emory, just beyond Nancy’s
creek, had his house blown over. No one
hurt. The trees and fences are scattered
across tbe road in this district so as to
render passage impossible.
The Columbus Enquirer says tbe re
ports of suffering among tie poor of that
city havo been greatly magnified, and
that there is now no possibility of a
soup bouse being established. Also that
the North and South railway cannot bo
sold before the next session of tho Leg
islature.
off of his horse and beat him unmerciful
ly after he fell, and in company with the
other negroes left him in the road, where
he lay for two hours in an insensible con
dition. On regaining consciousness, he
with difficulty proceeded to the house of
Mr. S. V. Sauls, where he was kindly
cared for and medical assistance procured.
He still remains in a precarious condi
tion. His assailant, whose name we did
not learn, has not been captured.”
We find these telegrams, announcing
damage to Alabama railways, in tbe Co
lumbus Times of Wednesday:
Union Springs, Ala., March 2.
Tho Mobile and Girard railroad bad
one hundred feet of its embankment
washed away to-day at five o’clock, be
tween hero and Thomasville, a distance
of six miles to the wash, and if the ritin
continues it will be worse by morning.
Trains on time will go no farther than
hero to-night. Hear of no other washes
on other roads. Cloudy and raining
lightly now.
Special to tho Times by S. & A. Line.)
Montgomery, Ala., March 2.—Heavy
rains havo been falling in this section for
tho past twenty-four hours. Tho river
is unusually high. A washout on the
Montgomery and Eufaula railroad, about
twenty-five miles from this city, stopped
tho northern bound night mail train in
tho wilderness. The passengers will
probably bo returned early to-morrow.
It is thought that the damaged track
cannot be repaired for several days,
Franklin county, in tho Ninth district,
has declared most emphatically for Mr.
Hill for Congress.
The News says the sale of the Griffin,
Madison and Monticello railroad was
postponed last Tuesday for sixty days.
The Irwinton Southerner says as Mr.
Samuol Meredith, Jr., of Laurens county,
was riding along near Harvard’s store, in
that county, on the 24th nit-, he was “as
saulted by a negro, beaten nearly to
death, and robbed of $30 in money and a
pistol. His assailant was accompanied
by several other negroes, and when they
met Mr. Meredith and he this negro
commenced a dispute about some busi;
Tlie Cost of Grantlsm.
From tho New York Tribune March 3d.)
The following comparison between the
expenditures of the National Government
in the last complete year of Andrew
Johnson’s Administration and the fifth
year of Grant's is so simple and so easy
to verify, and at the same time so sug
gestive, that we venture to ask the read
er to cat it out and keep it in his pocket-
book for future reference. The facts
contained m it demolishes every speech
made in the last three years by Mr.
Dawe3, or Mr. Garfield, or Mr. Boutwell,
or any one else claiming for the present
Administration the merit of economy.
There are four branches of publio ex
penditure regarding which no compari
son can be fairly instituted between 1868
and 1874. These are (1) the interest on
the public debt, the principal of which
was greatly reduced by the surplus reve
nue-! of the intervening years; (2) the
cost of the War Department, which in
1868 was enormous, on account of the
paym mts of bounties voted by Congress
to the soldiers; (3) the payment for pen-
sions, which are greater in 1874 thau in
1868, and (4) tbe expenditures incident
to the collection of the internal revenue,
’Deluding taxes refunded and drawbacks,
which items we exclude from the com
parison we are about to make, because
most of the taxes collected through that
Dranch of the public service in 1867 and
1868 have been repealed. The totals of
tbe four classes of expenditure above
named, omitting, however, in each year,
the expenditure under the War Depart •
ment for "forts and fortifications," and
"rivers and harbors,’’ were respectively
as follows, for the years named :
1868. 1874.
Interest $140,424,016 $107,119,815
War 117,911,753
Pensions 28.7s2.387
Internal revenue 10,802,453
SJ.58S.591
29.038,415
DOST AND FOUND.
gentleman of great wealth, who had w'
in the service of King Victor En,„
aad had suddenly d?ed of hea£
about four months
answered she had known the
very well, but had not heard of
“You knew him in London,
when he was attached to the Italii» ™
bassy herof” ““
“Yes.” “Excuse the apparent im*.
tinence of my questions—thev are dee^i'" *
relevant—you knew the Chevali„. - y
Rome, in 1857, after your marriage f“ i?
did. “Do you know if he had
sion to hute you with all the vindict^!'
ness of his fierce nature P” “l know if'
professed to love me desperatelv ..yl
rejected him.” “But afterwards - 1
1857?” Lady Henley hesitated
tried to pay me attentions then which?
did not see proper, as the wife of anothV
to receive. I did not tell mv husbana
then, wishing to avoid trouble! but I h«
reason to believe he ueeply resents
cold way in which I fretted hi«l‘ h0
God!” she cried, as a sadden thouS^
flashed on her mind, “You do not 2*
to tell me that man kidnapped my child!’’
“Calm yourself, Lady Henley, or you will
not be able to hear all I have to tell
He did kidnap your child, I have evert
reason to believe.” er 7
“ Tell me—tell me 1 quick! Does
live?” '•
“ She does—she is well—she is j 0TeJ
—she is everything that the fondest tl
rent could wish—the loftiest mat t-T
quire.”
“Where is she?” cried .both parent-
“ bring me to my child!” J|
“She is coming—she i3 on tho ocean
now. I came to prepare you to receive
her. See, this is Bertha,” and he placed
a photograph in the mothers hands, who,
weeping and praying, devoured the pic!
tore of the lovely girl with kisses.
“The first thing to be done,” eay
Father Francini, after the parents had
regained their composure, “ is to estab.
lish the identity of the child beyond per.
adventure. I have here the clothes which
she wore when stolen, and a pictcreof
her taken very shortly afterwards. I did
not wish to harrow your feelings by gi T .
ing you a needles* pang, and so, before I
decided to come to you, I have traced
out minutely all the chains of evidence,
and I find them perfect. These articles
were all unmistakably identified by the
nurse who was with the child, and she
rapturously recognized the little picture
before a hint wa* given her of tbe oriri-
_ , , ~ • ~ - i aionerien tool ner ana me enua ana na i»» 8
- 4-92,9-0,608 $1,6.404.920 nur3tS to A-rerica, and going directly to
All the economy which Mr. Dawes is j Sau i t . Ste . Marie. plungSd into the resin-
A Komantic Episode of London So
ciety.
[Note.—Incredulous readers may be moved
by the first paragraph of the sketch which follows
to look for the name of Sir Honcrieff Henley in
the British baronetage, where, we can assure
them beforehand, they will not find it.)
Correspondence of the World.)
London, February 7.—In social circles
the sensation of the week has been the
return to life, so to speak, and to her fam
ily of tbe beautiful Bertha, only daughter
of Sir Moncrieff Henley, Bart., of Hove-
Leavington Manor, Hants. The young
lady’s exceedir g grace and beauty, her
rare accomplishmenns, together with the
remarkable aud almost incredible adven
ture Bhe has gone through, promise to
make her the belle of the season, if her
jealous, doting parents can be persuaded
to spare her to society. Her adventures
indeed are almost as strange as those of
Casper Hauser, but not near so rad in
their course, and happy instead of tragic
in their ending. It makes one almost
shudder to think of what might have
been the. sequel of her long imprisonment
beneath an impenetrable incognito con
trived with demoniac art, but for the sud
den accident which terminated it; but
as it is, she has burst upon her parents
and societv like Minerva, full-armed with
joyous youth, beauty, culture, and the
singular charm of wonder and eagerness
for the enjoyment of the new life into
which she has come. The legend of the
Psyche moth, that a moment since was a
dull chrysalis and now is a spirituelle
butterfly waving its gaudy wings and
sipping delight from every flower, seems
here realized aud made matter of fact.
Her singular history is as follows: In
1854 Sir Moncrieff Hpnley, a Hampshire
Baronet (the title dating from 1674) of
greet wealth and large possessions, mar
ried the beautiful Miss Blatcbford-Ad
derl',' a reigning belle. Indeed Lady
Mary Egerton Henly remains one of the
queens of society, though grief has turn
ed her hair white as silver. In 1855,
Bertha, their only child, was bom. Af-
tirtha child’s birth. Lady Mary’s health
failed her, and she threatened to become
a permanent invalid. She wa3 sent to
Italy and Greece, and spent a' winter on
ti e Nile, and traveled elsewhere, but
without substantial restoration of her
health In the spring of 1859, in accord-
63849J | ance with the advice of physicians, Sir
- j Moncrieff took her and the child and
in the habit of parading in his periodical
speeches for and against increasing taxc3
is in three of the four items above named.
Let us now see how the eomparisonstaiiiis
with the remaining expenditures. The
total expenditure in 1863 were $370,339.-
134, from which subtracting the four
classes mentioned above we hava left an
aggregate of $77,418,497. The same pro.
ous pine woods of the Canadian Wilder
ness in the west of Ontario, where, build
ing a lodge on the borders of a small lake,
he and his family roughed it in true back-
woods stylo for a season. The country
was full of Chippeway Indians, bat these
were invariably friendly, and besides Sir
Moncrieff bad a sufficient retinue of ser
vants to insure his safety. The rather
cess applied to the total of $2So,738.800 ■ severe regimen had the most beneficial
expended in 1874 gives us $109,333,880, e ff ect upon Lady Maiy’s health; the
sho" ing an increase in the six years of threatened decline was entirely averted,
$31,915,383, or more than forty per cent., 1 the roses returned to her cheeks and her
as shown by the following table s form gained a charming embonpont which
Navy 425,73403 SM.IstsS? » ha * f Ve J aince **■*“*• the ° f
Forts, rivers, harbors... 5,.‘*54,897 7,775,8SG August she was so well that preparations
Indians 4,100,682 G.692,462 were made fora speedy return to England,
Miscellaneous 42,2ii7,415 63,933,495 ^t this moment a frightful calamity
Total 477.418.407 $109433480 fell upon the happy family. Just before
Increase in six years 31,915.383 du-k one evening the nurse was walking
Note.—We have taken from the expenditures with tho child, a sprightly little girl of
of 1874, the sum of $15,500,000 received from the f our - ear8 , by the edge of the lake, when
Government of Great Britain and inveatedfortha 7 *_ ’
benefit of the Alabama claimants. i she was seized from behind, gagged,
, I !£2K£JrS > sid'£S.L25
d**bt a or that too much 13 paid for pen- . , 3 B r* j
8 i. on s ° r bounties to soldiers.^The charges almost ^nsei^ble^roiiHMght
i ssks 5^ *
millions in the amount paid for bounties , Tae “““» n " r “* “
to soldiers and interest on the debt. The ent,re, y J*
extravagance complained of is, if any- i soonerrestoredtoconsciousnessthan she
where, in - he expenditures embraced in - fel1 “ t ? a bystericalcondition that pre-
our second table, and tbe figures that we ! he f f romgivinganybuttbcmost
bring together are conv.nemg proof that “Cerent replies to the questions of the
the extravagance charged really does ex- ?*omzod parents. She really tad noth-
ist. When Mr. Dawes and Mr. Garfield ,n * to tell » h w , ’ ? that , ^
throw all the expenditures of the year eapt-i' 3 f. e emed to bo Indians, and had
into one lump and prefer a claim to praise . apparently escape
for frugality on the results obtained by a j uano °- ...
comparison of such gross amounts they A hue and cry was raised, immed'ate
aro guilty of an attempt to impose on tho ; pursuit was made, and oil tbat love and
public. ' money could do was done to recover the
But the Government was by no means ! little Bertha, but all in vain. Not the
economically conducted in 1868. For i slightest trace of her oc uld bo found, nor
this opinion wo bavo the very best au- j was anything further ever heard of her
thority in the annual report of Secretary i until a few days ago. The Indians, who
McCulloch for that year, in which he : were thought to have carried her off, were
states that “no department of the gov- | placed under the strictest surveillance,
eminent is cenducted with proper econo- j and a large forco of detectives employed,
my,” and makes an estimate of what for ! hut without avail. Ten years later, in
the next ten years the average annual ex- j J 869. a Canadian half-breed, named Frau-
penditures should be. This estimate of i cois Bois d'Arc, a man of deeperate char-
Mr. McCulloch compares as follows with I sc ter, died at New Westminster on Frazer
the actual expenses of 1874:
Estimate. Actual.
Civil servico $10,000,060 $69,011,531
War S5.0ii0.000 42413,027
Navy 20,000,000 30,932,587
Indians and pensions 30,000,009 35,730,877
Total $125,000,000 $178,618,983
General Garfield claims a great deal of
merit for that wonderful company of
statesmen, moat of whom will to-morrow
forever disappear from the publio eye,
that they have reduced the grand total
of the expenditures to $270,000,000,
which, allowing $100,000,000 for interest
on tho debt, ia just $170,000,000 for tho
real running expenses, being $8,618,985
less than those oflast year, and $10,483,-
637 less than those of 1873. Whether
the result will bo as favorable as ho pre
dicts it is too soon to tell, but we shall
not give the name of retrenchment to a
reduction of ten millions where we have
aright to demand forty or fifty. Not
only the opinion of Mr. McCulloch, but
the whole experience of tho country from
1790 down to 1869, and the axample of
the British government (which costs less
than it did twenty years ago, though tho
trade and manufacturers of that country
have doubled in the interval), all go to
show that tho thirty per cent, which has
been added to tho ordinary current ex
penses of cur government since 1863 can
bo weeded out, to tho great benefit of
the soil and its useful productions,
rain, and of course ruined. A log cabin | ness transaction that had taken place
on the place of Mr. C. C. Green ia scat- previously, when the negro knocked him
Tbe Delaware Ice Gorge.
The perilous situation jn the Delaware
river is described by a Port Jervis cor
respondent of the New York World, as
follows:
The greatest ice gorge known in tho
Delaware valley still chokes tho channel
of tho river from a milo below to nearly
four miles above here. This great mass
of ice is wedged in to a depth of thirty
feet, and fills the river from bank to
bank, a distance of seven hundred feet.
It comprises all the ice that was in tbe
river for twenty milos above here. Tho
water in the river has worn a channel be
neath this immense quantity of ico of
sufficient size to overcome tho influence of
back-water. The river i3 constantly fall'
ing, and there i8 no other way for tho
ice-jam to be moved than by a freshet.
The river most rise at least three feet
before the ice can be moved. Up the
river there are miles and miles of ico,
piled np many feet. This will start be
fore the great body at this point moves,
and, coming down upon the high water
that must carry it, will sweep the entire
lower part of this place and the suspen
sion bridge across the river. Tno ice
from a mile bolow hero to the water gap,
forty miles, is Btill unbroken.
So universal is the fear of a destructive
flood here that tho hundred families driv
en from their homes by the flood yester
day are taking out their goods and will
not reoccupy the houses, and property on
the flats is offered at one-quarter its value,
and no buyers can be found.
Never in tho history of the horse, says
the New York Commercial Advertiser, has
the market been so doll or the prices so
low as at the present time. Sound road
horses, without speed, that were formerly
bringing $300, will not now fetch over
$150; trotters that can show 2:40, and
that lately brought from $2,000 to $2,500,
can now be bought for from $800 to $1,-
000; while 3:00 and 2:50 horses, that, a
abort time since, $600 and $800 was
thought to be low for, are a bad sale at
from $250 to $500.
River, Victoria, and before dying con
fessed that he and another half-breed
named Jean Greuse, dead long since, bad
carried the little girl off. Tr.e story he
told was that tbe two had been banting
in Manitoba, and had been hired by a
dirk man, a stranger and a foreigner, for
two thousand guineas to do this very
work. They had ridden from tho Lake
of the Woods across country, avoiding
settlements, and had camped near the
Henley Lodge for a week before the op
portunity occurred which they sought.
In escaping they had ridden straight to
Lake Superior and there embarked on a
vessel waiting for them. There was a
woman on the vessel who received the
child from the dork man. Francois and
Jean were paid, put ashore at Grand Por
tage, and advised to leave that country,
which they did at once, going to Cali
fornia. Francois thought it was the dark
man’s purpose to drown the child in the
lake. This story, so i mprobable in itsel f,
was sifted closely by Sir MoncriefFs
agents, but led to no disclosures, and, as
it was universally conceded that the
child must have been dead long since,
nothing further was done.
I pass over the terrible sufferings of
the parents so atrociously bereaved.
Lady Mary might have lost her health
again, but that her husband'a condition
absorbed all her faculties. He, when ho
was compelled to abandon all hope of
recovering his child, fell into a state of
melancholy that came very near involv
ing tbe loss of his mud. Lady Mary re
turned to England with him, and only
conquered the madness which threatened
him after two years of heroin struggle,
iu which the devoted wife put away
privily the bereaved mother’s woo le3t it
should injure her husband's chances. It
was then her hair turned white.
When he recovered sufficiently, Sir
Moncrieff Henley was persuaded to enter
pnblio life, and so, gradually. Time the
consoler had opportunity to do its work.
The bereaved couple returned to society,
and regained the serenity and composure
of ordinary life, though it is raid Lady
Henley could never see a child of Bertha’s
age when lost without the tears coming
to her eyes.
Just one week ago, when Sir Moncrieff
and Lady Henly had been only a couple
•f days returned to town from celebrating
tbe Christmas festivities at Hove-Leav-
ington, a carriage drove up to their door,
and a couple of cards were handed in.
They were those of tho Most Reverend
William Bernard (Ullathome) Roman
Catholic Bishop of Birmingham, and
Father Gutieppe Francini, S. J., Rector
of tho Academy of the Sacred Heart,
Chateau Riches, Province of Quebec,
Canada. Tho reverend gentlemen, who
said they came upon business of the ut
most importance, were invited in, and
received by Sir Moncrieff, who is a per
sonal friend of Bishop Ullathorne’s. The
Bishop asked if Lady Henley could be
conveniently present likewise, as the
matter concerned her as well as her hus
band. Lady Henley was summoned, and
then Bishop Ullathorne said i “I have
simply come with Father^ Francini to
vouch for him in the fullest manner. He
has a strange and touching narrative u>
make to you, and I wish to assure you
that you'may place the most implicit
confidence in him and his disclosures.”
With these words the Bishop took his
leave.
Father Francini, a man of sixty years,
tall, commanding and venerable in ap
pearance, begin by asking Lady Henly if
she had ever known a certain Oavaliere
Mails Lurgan-Bsglione, a Flerentixe
Lady Henley’s tears and emotion
showed that she too recognized the poor
little girl’s quaint backwoods costume,
her dainty moccasins and coquettish rib*
bons. These are things which a mottc:
never forgets.
“It remains for me to tell you Bertha's
story,” said Father Francini. “Before
becoming Rector of Canadian Academy
in 1860, £ was principal of a college of
my Order in MontreaL Here, in the
spring of 1859, 1 received a visit ftom.
the Cavaliere Maffei Lurgan-Baglione,
whose mother was Irish, and her brother,
rest bis soul! my college companion and
most intimate friend. The Chevalier
said he was on his way West, on a hunt*
ing expedition, and had called upon me
at his uncle’s request. After a good deal
of talk he told me he had in Italy a child
—an illegitimate daughter—bom to him
of a lady of high rank, and that circum
stances made it necessary to keep the
child out of the way; but he wished her
brought up in the best manner aud en
dowed with every accomplishment, etc.,
for which he would provide most liber
ally. I mentioned to aim the fact tbat I
was to be transferred next year to the
rectorship of the Sacred Heart at Chateau
Riches, and that the sisters there wero
entirely competent to take care of the
moral and intellectual culture of any
child. I heard no more upon the subject
at that time, but next year, when I was
established at Chateau Riches, the child
was brought to the convent by a French
woman, who claimed to be her nurse, and
had accompanied her from Italy. She
brought letters and remittances from
Cavaliere Baglione to me, and, not
doubting the statement of facts which
he had made to me, I presented the
child to the Mother Superior, she was re*
ceived and has remained there until the
present time, except for three months,
during a recent vacation, when, under
certain restrictions and accompanied by
her nurse, who has never left her, she
visited the family of a school companion -
somewhere in New York. The Chevalier
was very particular that sho should be
well taught, and very liberal in his al
lowances, sending us for her and the
maid .£1,000 per annum.
*' Your daughter is a charming young
person, universally beloved, and the sis
ters at the convent are greatly distressed
at parting with her.”
Father Francini went on to slate' that
the Ca valiere Baglione had died sudden
ly in September while at his villa near
Campo Basso, and that his heirs, in
-•oai-ching among his papers, bad found
documents leading to the identity of
Bertha, and an account of how she was
carried off, together with the articles de
scribed, etc. These were only accident
ally opened—providentially, the Father
said—at the instance of Signora Baglione,
the Cavaliere’s young wife. They were
in a box marked, “ In case of my sudden
death to be burned unopened.” The
Chevalier’s wife, however, was of a jeal
ous disposition, and insisted upon having
the mystery unraveled.
“What, then, do you think were bis
intentions towards my child?” asked
Lady Henley in a tremulous voice.
Father Francini said that as soon as he
received notice from Baglione’s heir’ he
went to Rome in person, saw the evi
dences, and by communicating with per
sons here, found out all about the Hen-
leys. He was then shown the Cheva
lier’s will, which, after stating Bertha’s
whereabouts, declared her to be his child,
bom of Miss Mary Egerton Blatchford-
Adderley in 1853, the year befoie her
marriage to Sir Moncrieff Henley, and
directing his heirs to send the girl, after
paying her a legacy of 60,000 lire, to
Hove Leavington Manor, to her mamma,
with his compliments.
“That was this scoundrel’s culminating
blow, then f said Sir Moncrief, while his
wife trembled aad grew pale.
“ Yes,” said Father Francini, “ but I
think the blow would still have failed,
even if the documents had been destroy
ed, because, tbe moment his word had
been discredited with me, I should have
had my eyes opened to the connection be
tween his visit to me and the little girl’s
disappearance. As it is, though all of ns
knew of your lost child and the search,
and noted the striking resemblance be
tween our pet and the descriptions of the
child, we were so sure of the actual pa
rentage of Berta Lardo, which wa3 the
name she went by, that I nor none of 03
for a moment suspected her real identity-
If you know a person to be A you knoff
by the rame evidence that she is not B-
That was an illustration of the consum*
mate art of this social bandit.”
“But, why did he keep the documents
at all?” asked Sir Moncrieff. . „
I asked his brother that question,
said Father Francini. “He shrugged m3
shoulders, ‘Who knows?’ he answered.:
‘Maffei was a good hater. That **■
probably a provision in case the husband
died.’ ‘How then?’ I asked. ‘Oh,’ he
said, ‘the wife knowing her own inno
cence, the husband dead, the charge o.
adultery would hurt nobody.’ ‘But ho?r
could he hurt the wife, then?* *WbJ»
by poisoning the child and then sending
the evidence to the mother to show that
her child was living and all that np to a
certain date. Why, he kept every oneoi
her school-girl letters to “dear uncle,
from the first one written to the one re
ceived a month ago.” No wonder yoa
shudder, madam; he was a terrio-
n 1” ,
And have you brought me tno«.
letters ?”
Yes.”
And does my child know of me i
She does.” . _.
When will the ship arrive. Father
Francini?” . ...
My dear lady, your daughter ^
ing lot you
her nurse and two sisters fro® tn*
Tent.”
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