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A PORTRAIT.
r«o cannot trace the llkenen now, old fellowl
I $hoald have had the grace
ale while I looked that way and not ruin
My youthful seraph’s facel
i, looks as If I tnennt to set forth straightway
To *«ek the holy grail.
Perhaps It did. I only found o’er all thing*
The serpent's deadly trail.
U Joes seem out of place among the portraits
Uf frail, fair women here.
A halo'd make a tine saint’s picture at It?
Ah. now. my boy. you Jeerl
you're thinking In your heart how many halos
Would make a saint of me.
Coafess. you cancot force yourself to grasp H
That I was ever he.
Well, yea, a skull and crossbones would lie
cheerful
Compered with that lioy’s face.
It's the Egyptian's death’s head at the revels.
W'e have up In this place.
I could have given them points, those old
Egyptians.
I’m sure a man’s dead soul
b eerier to have around at banquets
Beside the flowing bowl
Than any grinning skull they ewer pat there!
Confound his living eyeel
prink to him. Jack! We’ll give him that much
reason
for all their shocked surprise.
J. E. 8. in New York Sun.
IT WAS A DREAM.
Mrs. Warren ton sat in herllttle bine
*nU white parlor in a bernffled white
muslin, her blond hair in a classic knot,
I hex blue eyes filled with well bred ennai
upd her feet in coquettish bine and
white canvas slippers idly prodding the
lazy old Maltese tabby lying just out of
range of the rocker.
Mrs. Warreuton sighed deeply and
| looked at her guest sideways.
‘Good gracious, Bob, yon are enongli
[to provoke a saint P* she broke out, with
j sudden petulance.
“if you were anything bat the great
[dull boy that yon are," continued his
I hostess aggrievedly, "yon would tv*-
[that 1 am dying of stagnation. You’re
|the only interesting person I know, and
ow you come here and tulk about the
l weather and look out of the window
ud don’t offer an original suggestion or
i new idea when I’m fairly verging on
ntellectual starvation. Do something,
ay something or go home!"
"The weather is too warm for much
ntal energy, but I think if yon fanned
for five minutes I might evolve a
ought I'd go home only it’s shut np
the summer, and I’m sick of the
dub, and you are the only available
Basement."
Mrs Wammton arose majestically,
l herself of a large palm leaf fan
ud began fanning the thinker.
“You’re sure you’re thinking? Don’t
to go to sleep!" she exclaimed as
i brows unknitted Into peaceful sa
nity "Time's apl”
Mr. Vintou unclosed his eyes and sat
lit upright
“Yoa look." said he irrelevantly,
[like s Dresden china shepherdess in all
nose white raffles and pink ribbon. Pnt
i the big hat with pink rosea and yon
i play Phyllia "
"Is that all you've thought out?"
"No.” continued Bob radiantly,
p’n thought further. Yon play Phyl-
and I’ll be Strephon. and we’U go
i Arcadia"
••••••
"Suppose, Bob, yon should tip me
i"8trephon, remember, Strephon I"
upted Bob as he paddled out slowly
i the stream in the red glow of the
et akiea
["Well. Strephon, then!*’ and Mrs
[arrenton dabbled her finger tips in
i water and forgot to repeat her ques-
"I didn't know the Charles was
[beautiful. What’s all that green bank
bridges and shady nookery np
J "Arcadia, ” said Bob eententiously.
|Vra Warren ton leaned back, nestled
' pretty head against the shawls and
1 picturesque.
Vinton paddled Industriously and
l straight ahead toward his destina-
"You losk ever so handsome in your
Irt sleeves I always like men better
Itheir shut sleeves—they’re so much
• picturesque. Why don't you paint
next hero in shirt sleeves, pod-
t a canoe with a pretty girl—that's
r course, ’ ’ looking sentiment at him
[ Look sentiment at me, Phyllis, *nd
pill.” said Bob lightly.
[‘All right, Strephou, but what shall
I talk about?”
you remember, Phyllis, the aft-
n° u I taught you to skate out on the
|«h««? And going home in the early
P winter afternoon you slipped on
1 ice and hurt your ankle and cried—
[were only a gi rl j 3 what
^ttygirl, though!—and I put my arm
J 00 “d helped you home and
M yon a sweetheart kiss in the base
st vestibule. Thai was a good many
Pago, Phyllia.”
I W ^ re * nice ^oy, Strephon, but
l^ne always bold,” said Mrs. War-
|oo. And then she added, with a
>of coqurfry. "Wouldyou believe
li 6 v Va * en ** ne you sent me—the
i n abox with pink roses and Cupid?”
M*ed to think yon’d settle down to
FT^g me when you tired of flirting
* Jack Warreuton. That’s why 1
1 NelP^^ 1111)e * ore k® ever manied
Pallia, Phyllis" she interrupted.
But he did not smile.
P7 I mean—but my going off
r~® that wunmer was a fit of pique.
Luo* didnt care * and when I
7,, k Ton wen married, and I’m
»e acted like an angel ever since.
•u«r lr you ever did care?"
murmured Mrs. Warren-
"And now, ” the oontin-
li?” * oin ff to marry that nioe
at Newport and
ygoing Benedict and never
ylff^ d * ftemoonl to Arcadia
**£■*”**0* dying sunlight
*** *• tv» through th.
ATHENS, GA-, TUESDAY MORNING. APR'L 10.1894-
branches he
Ifcs. Warren ton leaned over and i*u
one hand timidly on the brown muscu-
*ar one still grasping the paddle.
"People are uever cross in Arcadia."
■he murmured.
wish yon’d be in earnest," he
broke ont passionately, "and not treat
me as if I were a boy. You’re too con
foundedly cold blooded. No—well—
that doesn’t sound pretty—bat I mean
tnaKo believe you’re human. You’ve al
ways kept me at arm’s leugth—lust far
enough so you could pull at my heart
strings when it amused you"—he broke
off suddenly—"I’m a brute.”
“No, Strephon. you’re a true hearted,
hot headed boy. flying off on * tangent
Oi«4 day and repenting tho next,” said
Mrs. Warreuton gently.
"As it is, Phyllia, why don’t you offer
to be a sister to me?” he suggested
whimsically, smiling. ‘Would yon
mind if I talked to yqu aimer- myself a
little? Or maybe you won’t care to hear.
But this Ih the last time we’U be in
Arcadia together, and though It willdo
uo good 1 wanted yoo to understand
“If I’d had a mother, maybe I’d be a
better man. I don’t, think you ever
knew how much you have done for me,
boy and man. I loved yon when yoa
were a slip of a girl In short dresses and
braids, and I said to myself: She is good
and pare. I will try to deserve her, and
then 1 will win her. ’
"But I didn't win yoa That was a
hard time with me. 1 was a little reck
less afterward, and I drifted into the
fast set for a time, but I had roy art.
aud that kept me from forgetting my -
self entirely.
"1 have come regularly to you to 1**
teased and smiled at, and you have
uever seemed to realize what your light
est look or word was to ma
"1 have been kept from the follies
and vices that have tempted me chiefly
by the thought, ‘1 will not deserve to
lose her respect. ’
“I used to drown of a life with yon
as its inspiration.
"And so as I find I can never love
any other woman, and that my love for
you might make me forget all things
else and make yon hate me some' day.
so 1 have asked a nice little girl to mar
ry me. She does not want my love par
ticularly, but my income and position,
and her family and iny family think it I
a good match. It is an experiment, and
1—I am the most unhappy of men."
There was a long silence when he had
finished speaking—a monotonous silence
punctuated with the regular plash of
his paddle and echoes of laughter aud
oar strokes from the rowers abroad on
the river.
He guided the boat about a shadowy
bit of island and then paddled slowly
along the homeward'stretch of .waters.
“Yon see, I am a mad fool, Phyllis,"
he whispered, “but yon are so cold, so
calm, so far above me, it sorely could
not hurt you for mere pity to let me
dream tonight"
"Strephon,” clw* sighed and touched
his sleeve ’y with her fingertips,
■’wouldn’t i! *;«• happiness if we could
be born again into another sort of world
out of these social tangles and sordid
limitations—into a simpler, hones ter
world?
“We’ve lived too long in this arti
ficial world and grown used to the pate
de foie gras; and theater parties, and the
symphony, and the society, and Paris
gowns, and English tailors, and summers
at Newport, and autumns at Lenox, and
the rest ever to go back to primeval Ax-
ROIALTMEETK
Emperor William Received on
the Italian Shores.
A GBAHD MEETING DT VENICE.
"But if we could, you and I—if we
oould—I think maybe we could have
been old fashioned lovers too. But I’m
a woman of the world, and my heart is
hard maybe, and I’m frivolous maybe,
and 1 flirted with you to pass the time
maybe—but, Strephon, yon are a man
of the world, too, and I never, thought
yon had a heart ’ ’
The miles of water were swept bade
■lowly t^y the paddle. The little bark
■wept on with the tide; the boathouse
was in view in the shadows.
Suddenly he pnt down the paddle. Hi
leaned forward and groped for her hand r
with his, and as he clasped them the
trembling fingers closed on his with an
impulse of strength seeking.
Bending closely, he saw her face Her
eyes were wet with tears.
“Forgive me," he pleaded hoarsely;
“forgive me!”
“There is so little love in this world
that we cannot afford to be thankless
for any that is offered. God knows the
heart aches for the lack of it, ” she whis
pered.
“Once, dear, once for all the years
that have been, the years that will be
Kiss me once!"
She shook her head gently; her hands
■lipped from his grasp.
“We have dreamed, ” she said gently
as they reached the shore.
“Yes, we have dreamed,” he repeat
ed.—Kate Field’s Washington.
The English Peerage.
Few of the members of the British
house of lords can claim descent or ever
distant relationship with the barons of
King John’s time who extorted from him
the Magna Charts. Of the 538 temporal
peers, no lees than 850 have been created
eince the beginning of the present cen
tury and 126 during the last century,
leaving only 62 whose titles were con
ferred prior to the year 1700. Of the en
tire number, only five can go back as far
as the thirteenth century.—Exchange.
Kindly Directions.
Footpad—Hold up y’r hands!
I .one citizen—1 haven’t a cent with
me. Jnst loaned-all I had to a friend.
Footpad (in disgust) — Go ahead.
You’ll find the idiot asylum three
squares to the left.—New York Weekly.
A Victim of Habit.
Ellen—Habits are hard things to
break.
Maud—Yes, indeed. There is Minnie
Bereleaf, who formed the habit of being
SB some years ago and has never broken
It jrii Lnnrtftn Tit-Bits*
While the German Monarch Was
on Italian 8oil German and Italian
National Hymns Blended Their Music.
German Sailors Drawn Up In Line on
Board and Be viewed by the Balers.
/
Venice, April 7.—The German man-
of-war Von Moltke, with Emperor Wil
liam on board, arrived at 11 o’clock.
The emperor was sainted by the fixing
of cannon, and King Humbert put out
to the German warship in a steam
launch to receive his imperial guest. As
the king reached the deck sf the
Von Moltke, Emperor William stepped
forward to meet him and the two
monarches embraced each other. A de
tachment of sailors which had been
drawn up in line on the deck were re
viewed by the king and the emperor,
after which the two descended tothe
emperor’s cabin, where they conversed
for a quarter of an hoar. King Hum
bert returned to the shore at 12 o’clock,
and shortly afterward the emperor fol
lowed him. While the emperor was
going ashore, the Italian and German
national hymns were played and sung
aboard of the 100 boats in the harbor.
These were crowded with people who
with those on the water front, cheered
as the emperor neared the shore. The
emperor went immediately to the Pal-
ais Roy ale where King Humbert met
him on the steps and shook hands with
him and conducted him into the palace.
At this point the cheers of the crowd
were renewed.
The king and emperor afterwards ap
peared in the palace St. Mark, where
they reviewed the procession composed
of the various societies carrying flags
and banners. The monarchs twice af
terwards made their appearance on the
balcony of the palace.
The Behring Sen Outfit Beady.
Washington, April 7.—Instructions
for the guidance of the Behring sea fleet
for the prevention of illicit sealing thin
season are now being prepared by the
navy department, and will vary con
siderably from those issued last year.
The territory to be covered is nearly
doable in area to that of last summer
and the fleet will be correspondingly
large.
IN THE HOUSE.
Beport of tho Sergeant nt Arm* Und*i
Consideration—Tho Senate.
Washington, April 7.—The report of
the sergeant at arms under an order ol
the house March 89 being presented,
and no quorum voting on the motion tc
consider the warrant discharged, a call
fit the house was ordered.. Two hundred
and twenty-three members responded
and the yeas and nays were again called;
The senate has gone into executive
session. The session was asked for by
Senator Morgan, it being his intention
to tal^e up the Chinese treaty.
A Democratic Caucus Called.
"Washington, April 7.—Mr. Holman,
chairman of the Democrat caucus, baa
issued the following call:-’
There will be a meeting of the Demo
cratic members of the caucus Tuesday
evening, April 10, at 8 o'clock p. m. to con
sider the questions of finance now nending.
(Signed) W. T. lloi.man, Chairman.
AN EX-CASHIER CAUGHT.
HI* Friend* Had Paid Up Hi* Shortage,
ilut That Did Not Save Him.
Memphis, April 7.—George A. Sadler,
formerly cashier of the Peoples’ bank of
Guthrie, Ky„ which suspended August
last through Sadler’s speculation, has
been arrested in Bonrlion county, this
•jtate, by officers of that county. The
day the bank failed Sadler confessed he
was short $7,195, and that his stealings
had caused the failure.
His relatives have paid back the
money, but the American Surety com
pany of New York, which was on his
bond for $20,000, determined to make
an example of him. Henco he was in
dicted for forgery,
Sadler >s a prominent member of the
Methodist church, and is a leader in the
Sunday school.
Oiled and Fired Himself.
Pittsburg, April 7.—John Schingle,
Of Allegheny, while drunk, made a mur
derous assault on his wife and baby.
They escaped from the house. Schingle
then saturated his garments and a quilt
with oil. He threw oil all over the
room and over the bed, then wrapping
himself in the quilt he lay down upon
the bed and applied a match to the
clothing. In an instant the blaze envel
oped everything in the room. The fire
man arrived promptly and extinguished
the flames, but' not until Schingle was
fatally burned.
Walali Gone to Washington.
Augusta, Ga., April 7.—Senator Pat
rick Walsh, appointed by Governor
Northen to fill the vacancy in the United
States senate caused by the death of
Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, left at 1
p. m. for Washington to take his seat
in the senate Monday.
The First on Record.
Colorado Springs, April 7.—At a
congregational meeting of the First
Presbyterian church Mrs. John Core
was elected a trustee. This is perhaps
the first instance of a woman being
elected trustee in the Presbyterian
clrarch.
A Negro Murderer Caught.
Tallahassee, April 7.—Sheriff Pearce
bos jnst captured Riley Walker, the ne
gro who murdered Detective Will Wal
lace, near Union Springs, Ala., abont a
month ago. The negro ’ admits his
guilt.
Congressman Wilson Gaining Flesh.
San Antonio, Tex., April 7.—Con
gressman William L. Wilson continues
to improve, and he has gained several
pounds in flesh, but the cough has not
*sft him, - ;
The Defense Seeking to Know
All About It’s History.
MAD ALIKE PUT ON THE STAND,
The Defense Questioned the Plaintiff Very
Closely Abont the Birth and Death ot
Her Child—They Then Called the Ma
tron of the Asylum When It’s Death Oo-
c erred—Other Witnesses.
Washington, April 5.—Judge Brad
ley’s remarks at the adjournment of the
afternoon session of the Pollard-Breck-
inridge trial about "human buzzards”
watching the “carrion” of sensational'
ism had an effect on the attendance, for
not one-third of the seats in the court
room were occupied at the morning
session. It was supposed when Coloiu l
Breckinridge finished his testimony the
defense would rest the case. There was
some surprise, therefore, when Miss
Pollard was called for the defense.. She
testified that her baby was born at noon
Feb. 8, 1888. She remained at the
place where the baby was born only
long enough to gain strength enough to
leave. She gave the baby np after hold
ing it in her arms two hours.
It was taken to an asylum on Four
teenth street—the Protestant Foundling
asylum—by an old colored midwife
named Aunt Mary. It-Waa at her house
$100 A YEAR
l FLEAS PRESENTED! SWs i,K0 ^_ TflE - cBo ^| the newsjn brief.
What-the Counsel Want Judge
Bradley to Charge.
THE BREACH OP PROMISE CASE
Both Side* Gave Happed Their Ground*
on Which They Want a Verdict—Hiss
Pollard's Wore Voluminous — Breckin
ridge's Were Short—The Beginning oi
tho End Is Now lu Sight.
Washington, April 7.—At 11 o’clock
Mr. Caledron Carlisle began to read, in
Jndge Bradley’s court, the voluminous
prayer on behalf of the plaintiff Lin th*
Pollard-Breckinridge suit. Major Shel
by followed with the prayers for the de
fendant and then the argument was
entered upon.
There were few spectators and very
little interest manifested in this purely
technical phase of the case. Neither
Mias Pollard nor Colonel Breckinridge
were present daring the hearing.
The instructions which Mr. Carlisle
asked tho court to give the jury in be
half of the plaintiff set forth that the
promise given was such as to constitute
a binding contract; that the plaintiff
bad married no one and had committed
no breach of that contract, and
that even if the assertions made were
true, which were denied, as
the baby was born. She pinned a note l relations sustain ad by the plaint
on the baby’s clothing with the name
“Diest-Carlyle” on it. She was reading
Thomas Carlyle at the time, and one o:
his heroes was called “Diest.” The
name was selected because it was very
different from Breckinridge’s or licit'
own. As soon as she was able she went
to the asylum with Dr. Parsons.
Questions that were asked by Butter-
worth as to her visit to the asj-lum to
see the child as to how. soon after that
visit the child died, who the undertaker
was, who nursed the baby in its illness,
and other inquiries were evidently made
to secure information that will enable
the defense to investigate the whole
troth abont the little foundling. Miss'
Pollard said she had gone to the asylum
only once because she pledged her word
not to go again. Dr. Mary Parsons,
the physician who attende l Miss Pollard
at the birth of the child called next by
the defense, bat she did not respond
after a long wait.
' Mrs. Liaie, the matron of the Found-
.ling asylum in 1888, was called and pro-
duced the record book of the asylum for
the term during which Miss Pollard’s
baby was born. The book contained a
slip of paper under date of Feb. 8, 1888,
which the witness said was pinned to a
child brought to the asylum on that day
by an old colored woman. The child
died April 18, 18S8, according to the
record.
It came out through objection from
Judge Wilson that he held that the
identity of the handwriting on the slip
was not proven to be Ml«s Pollard’s,
and that at heart there was doubt as to
its identity.
- Then Mrs. Lidie said in answer to a
question that the name on the slip was
“Dietz Downing” and not “Diest Car
lyle.” On the slip was written in a
feminine hand: “Please name my body
Dietz Downing.” Finally Mr. Shelby
offered the record book in evidence, bat
it was ruled ont on objection by Jndge
Wilson.
Dr. Mary Parsons was called to give
testimony concerning Miss Pollard’s
child, and Jndge Bradley said the de
fendants would nave to examine her as
their own witness.
After Breckinridge and his counsel
pnt their heads together, Dr. Parsons
was excused.
William B. Moore, who was chief of
vital statistics in the office of the health
department in February, 1888, testified
that he had examined the records and.
found no return made by Dr. Parsons of
a birth occurring Feb. 8.
When Mr. Moore stepped down Mr.
Bntterworth announced that the case
for the defense was closed.
England's New Naval Ship*.
London, Apri 15.—The Pall Mall
Gazette says the complete program of
the government in the expenditure for
the ensuing financial year of 17,866,100
pounds in the naval establishment as
announced in the naval estimates, in
volved the construction of 13 iron dad
warships, 87 cruisers, 64 torpedo de
stroyers and six sloops. The estimates
for 1894 exceed thoee of 1893 by 3,126,-
000 pounds.
The Iron Hall People Resist.
Baltimore, April 7.—The application
of James F. Failey, general receiver of
the Iron Hall, to have the funds of the
order in Maryland turned over to
him, is vigorously resisted in the
answer that will be filed in court
next week. There are 4,000 certificate
holders of the Iron Hall in this state,
and Charles J. Wiener and Joseph C.
France, the Maryland receivers, have
abont $100,000 iu their hands. Mr.
Failey asks that this money be sent to
Indianapolis to be distributed by him.
Jenkins Modifies His Order.
Milwaukee, April 7.—Jndge Jenkins
has modified his injunction order against
the striking employes of the Northern
Pacific railroad by striking ont the
danse which reads: “And from order
ing, recommending, approving or ad
vising others to quit the service of the
receivers of the Northern Pacific on
January 1, 1894, or at any other time.”
In all other respects the judge denies the
motion of the men.
April 2Q in Atlanta.
Atlanta, April 7.—Hon. H. H. Carl
ton, of Athens, has been iLVited to de
liver the Memorial day address in this
city, and has accepted. A monument
to the unknown dead in Oakland ceme
tery will be unveiled, and a number of
military companies from adjacent cities
and towns will take part in the 6treet
procession.
Floyd Goe» North.
Charlotte, N. C., April 7.—Billy
Floyd, whose fight with Rogers in Dar
lington nearly precipitated civil war in
South Carolina, was in Charlotte a few
days ago. He escaped to Marven and
Rockingham, this state, after the fight,
where he has been lying low. He has
left for the north.
with other men this would not invalidate
the contract; that the defendant’s con
tention that the agreement of marriage
between himself and plaintiff was not
intended to be kept, but was entered
into for the purpose of deception must
he sustained by a preponderance of evi
dence in order to nave weight with the
tiff’s claim, as she received th6 promise
in good faith and performed her part of
the agreement. That if the jniy find
that the defendant was secretly married
on April 29 last, and that thereafter
he made a promise to marry the plaintiff,
and by his breach of the contract so
made the plaintiff has been injured pe
cuniarily, socially, or otherwise, so as
to affect her means of gaining a living
in the fnture, the jury must bring in a
... .—ltifiTs rig]
Bne. The prayess of the plaintiff
14 in number.
Major Shelby read the prayers for the
defendant. These were contained in
eight brief paragraphs in substance as
follows:
The jury in order to find for. the plain
tiff must agree that’ the plaintiff and
defendant entered into a contract to be
come husband and wife. That if there
were no actual agreement to marry
then no statements in the presence of
others can be taken as a contract of
marriage, and particularly if the agree
ments were made pursuant to an under-
-standing for other purposes.
That as improper relations had ex
isted between the plaintiff and the de
fendant prior to tho alleged promise of
marriage, the burden of proof was on
the plaintiff to show that improper rela
tions with other men had not
prior to that time.
That as the defendant was married to
his present wife on April 29, 1893, any
agreement to marry after that was void.
That even if the jury find that a con
tract to marry was entered into, they
most take into consideration whether
the plaintiff had been guilty of lasciv
ious relations with other men unknown
to the defendant when the contract was
made, and must be instructed that the
defendant had a right to break the con
tract on attaining each knowledge.
That if the plaintiff made threats
against the defendant to force him to
promise to marry her then the jury
must find for the defendant. That if
the jury find that the contract had ex
isted and that after the making of the
contract plaintiff by threats on his life
placed the defendant in a state of ter
ror, such acts excused defendant from
marriage.
' Fir* on a Ship.
New York, April 7.—A fire occurred
at 5:80 a. m. on board the Old Dominion
line steamer, City of Columbia, just
arrived from West Point, Va., where
she is lying at her dock. The fire started
in the forward coal banker in the lower
bold, but after half an hour’s hard work
was put out. The cargo over the coal
bunker had to be moved. A bole was
then cat through the deck, hose ran in
and the compartment filled with water.
The damage will be very light. The
cause of the fire is unknown, but is sup
posed to have been from a combustion.
Mother and Three Children Drowned.
Cherokee, Miss., April 7.—While
Mrs. William Raymond and her three
children, on their way to Aberdeen in a
buggy, were crossing Buttahatchie river
near here on a ferry, the hone became
g ightened and ’ sprang into the river.
r. Raymond and the children, who
had remained in the buggy, were carried
into the river and drowned before they
could be rescued.
Miners Considering the Strike.
BoGttdale, Pa., April 7.—Contrary
to expectations, 16 delegatee showed up
at the miners’ convention. Most of them
represent works south of Uniontown,
where nearly all of the works are yet
idle. The question of declaring th*
strike off was officially under discussion.
Some of the delegates were strongly in
favor of continuing tho strike.
A Fatal Powder Explosion.
Pittsburg, April 7.—Three men were
killed outright and three others were
seriously injured by the premature ex
plosion of giant pjwder and dynamite
near the new works of the Westinghouse
Electric company now in course of con
et ruction at Briton station on the Penn
sylvania railroad, near Braddock.
Mello Not Downed Yet.
Buenos - Ayres, April 7.—Advices
from Rio Grand Do Sul say that Admi
ral Mello’s fleet, with the exception of
tho Aqnidanar^ forced the bar at thi
entrance to the harbor of Rio Grande
no Sol and that the insurgent troops
were advancing upon tbs city, g
Harmony Grovx, Ga., April 7 —Mr.
Wm. McK. Cobb, of Athens, and Mr.
Murphy, of Macon, representing the
New York Life Insurance Co., are in
the Grove for a few days.
Miss Mattie Watson, one of Jeffer
son’s fa*res6 daughters, spent a * few
d»ys this week with Mrs. A.H. Thur
mond.
Athens Presbytery oonrenes here
next Wednesday night. A large num
ber of delegates and ministers are ex
pected.
Mr. Linton Rhodes, formerly with
the Northeastern railroad, bat now tel
egraph operator at Carlton, Ga, on
theG-,0. & N., came np Wednesday
evening and is spending a few days
with friends here.
There seems to be a Hardman wave
sweeping over this senatorial district
and from present indications Dr. Hard
man will have a walk over in his race
for the state senate.
The last shipment of maohinery for
oar mammoth cotton mills has arrived
and is now being placed jn position.
By theflrstof May it is expected that
the factory will be in operation.
-An enthusiaatio democratic club has
been organized here with Hon. T. K.
Kiy, president, and Mr. J. M Carson,
secretary. This club will doubtless be
s power in the land for democracy.
MBS. WILLIS GOBS mi,
Hon. N. L. Hutchins held an adjou'n-
ed term of court at Homer thie week in
in order to try the oase of the State va
Mra. Willis charged with the killing of
her husband. It will be remembered
that the ease against Miss Willi* for the
sameeffsnse, resulted in a verdict of
not guilty as to her The court didn’t
have time iu the regular session to give
Mrs, Willis atrial, hence the adjourned
term. A great deal of interest was
manifested in this case, and there was a
brilliant array of legal talent on each
side, Solicitor-General Dick
and Judge A. C. Moss represented the
state, and Messrs. Hubert Estes and A
P. Wofford appeared for the defense.
After an interesting trial and some of
the ablest argument ever listened to in
any court bouse, the Jury returned to
their room and quickly returned with a
verdict of not guilty. And thus ended
the trial of a oa?e which has created a
great deal of interest.
A Railroad Contract Let.
St. Louis. April 7.—The Interstate
Construction company, of New York,
has been awarded the contract for the
construction ef that part of the Lake
Superior, Southwestern and Gulf rail
road extending from Springfield, Mo.,
to Little Rock, Ari., with branches, a
total distance of 285 miles. The work
is to be completed in two years.
Swadlth Editor* Prospecting.
Cincinnati, April 7.—A party of
Swedish editors en route to points in
Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi,
Bpenta few hoars here. They repre
sent the principal Swedish papers in the
United States and Panada, and are go-
a over the Queen and Crescent road
opk at the lands with a view to colo
nizing their people.
A Matrimonial Match Mad*.
Harrisburg, Pa., April 7.—Mies Alice
G. Yingst, ef San Beach, answered Har
ry Cratzer’s "wife wanted” advertise
ment in a Chicago paper five months
ago. Now she is on her way to Cceur
d’Alene, Idaho, to marry him. When
Mr. Cratzer sees her he will fttui that
he is to be blessed with 838 pound* of
wife.
Pacnilar Accident to a Thief,
Raleigh, April 7.—A special from
Winston says: Sam Phillips, colored,
in attempting to commit a theft in West
Winston at night was frightened away.
He ran into a barbed wire fence, tearing
the flesh from his jaw bcuee and chin.
One of his legs was broken, rendering
him helpless. He is still in a bod condi
tion. ~
Harrison and Bold Banqnstted.
San Francisco, April 7.—The Uni
versity club gave a banquet in honor of
ex-President Harrison, Whitelaw Reid,
Robert T. Lincoln, General Schofield
asd Dr. Theodore Woolsey, of Yale col
lege. The affair was private and the
toasts and speeches were not made pub
lic.
Telegraphic Sparks and Other
Li for Banner Readers.
A Lucky Chicago Capitalist,
Cripple Creek, Colo., April 7.—Da
vid Grauman, a Chicago capitalist, re
cently purchased the Deadwood mine,
on Squaw mountain, for $7,500, and
after developing to the depth of 12 feet
uncovered a body of $65 ore. He has
refused $25,000 for the property.
New Orleans' Decoration Day.
New Orleans, April 7.—Confederate
Decoration day was generally observed.
There was a military parade in the af
ternoon and the monuments and graves
of the Confederate dead were handsome
ly decorated witifflowers.
Balding tho Gamblar*.
Atlanta, April 7.—The city detec
tives are after the gentlemen gambler*
■gain. Two private clubs wers recent
ly raided sad an even two dozen young
men Were tak$n In,
There is a new order In the city cell
ed “The Anoient Reokless and Inde
pendent Order of Preverieetors.” This
order furnishes regular licenses for
liars This is an old institution, as
every newspaper claims to have a lot of
members in good standing on their
subscription lute.
-The diggers on^u. e Maooaj sewer
have struck for an increase in their nay
from eOo. to 75c. for 11* hours a day
work.
tundred men employed by
Venable-Bros, at the quarries at Stone
Mountain and Lithonta have struck for
$2 a day.
—-Torn Watson and his third party as
sociates have filled an application for a
eharter for “Oar Publishing Comps-
ny,“ which will print a weekly, and
perhaps a daily paper.
—The International Medical Congress
has closed its session at Roms. The
next session will meet in Russia.
—J. D. Foster, sheriff of Monroe
county, Ala., was shot and killed while
attempting to arrests negro.
—Another bomb explosion at Paris
badly injured two persons and slightly
hurt several others.
—The Lancashire cotton mill twis
ters and drawers have been given high
er wages and .the threatened strike is
off.
—The republicans won in the Rhode
Island election, patting Born in as gov
ernor, with a full state republiern tick
et and an overwhelming repablioan leg
islature.
—At the Cleveland house, Darling
ton, 8 C-, Dr. Payne shot and killed a
negro cook who had reported him as
being concerned in the dispentary tran
sactions.
—A discharged employe of the
Charleston poatofflee, named T. G. 8.
Nowden, has been arrested for threaten
ing to kill Postmaster Mo wry if he did
not reinstate him.
—In a riot at the eoke works n sr Un
iontown, Pa., H. C. Paddock, chief en
gineer of the Frick oompany, and three
of the workmen were killed.
—The plant of the American Rerrig-
erator Company, wbioh coat $50,000,
has been sold to A. & N. M. Block, ot
Macon, for $8,000.
—Bailiff Glover, of the Americas
county court, sold and made a detdto
a traot of forty-eight acres of land Tues
day, something unprecedented, and the
case has exoitod much oomment.
—Sheriff Bryan, ef Catoosa oonnty,
has arrested Jobn Phillips, a young
white man, a«cused of cattle stealing at
Charleston, Tenn.
-Mayor W. L Glessner says that
there are plenty of peaches on the Geor
gia Southern from Cordele south.
—Central railroad shop men have
been reduced to seven and a half hours
a day.
—William Rogers is on trial for the
murder of George Johns, in Charlton
county, in the fall of 1898.
—Mrs. Mattie Barnett bss been giv
en a verdict of $5,000 for damages
against the Rome railroad company.
—According to an order issued by
Judge Chetlain, of Chieago, Assassin
Prandergast will not be hanged before
Jnly2, and not until May 91 will the
investigation into the condition of hia
mind be commenced.
—Alice G. Yingtt, of Sanbeaoh,
Danphin county, P*., who is 28 years
old and weighs 888 pounds, started for
Ooeur D’Alene, Idaho, to meet her pro
spective husband, whom she has never
seen. Miss Yingst answered an adver
tisement signed by Harry Cratzer,
which she saw in a matrimonial Jour
nal about five months ago, and the en
gagement resulted.
—The carding, spinning and beaming
departments of the Arlington Mills,
near Wilmington, DeL, started recently
and next Monday the weaving depart
ment will resume operations. The
whole mill will then be in operation,
giving work to 500 bands. There will
be no reduction in wages.
—The Alabama State oonventionof
mine workers, m session at Birming
ham, has submitted tothe operators a
new wage schedule by which they
agree to accept a reduction of 10 per
oent in wages during the remainder of
the year, provided the operators reduce
house rests and coits of snppUes. It is
probable that the proposition will be
aooepted. The reduction wl’l effect 8,-
000 men.
—A dispatch from San Salvador says:
“A general revolution in all the Cen
tral American countries is believed to
be Imminent. Orders have been given
to the military forces to maintain the
strictest guard on the frontiers and to
search all persons entering or leaving
the republic. The entire army has or
ders to bw ready to march at auv mo
ment. There are indications that Nica
ragua is trying to foment trouble in
Costa Rica in order to have a pretext
for seizing that conntry. .r -
Highest market price paid l'or stock
peas at Ef. R. Bernard's.