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THE VIENNA PROGRESS. o TEEMS, $1. Per Annum. “Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.” J03N E. HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor, VOL. XII. NO. 12 VIENNA, GA.. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 17. 1S93. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. 'HE LOWLIEST FLOWER. Ray, not too low! 1’alc, tender flower, halt hidden in the grass, The sun and dew and kindly winds that blow 'Will llnd you as they pass Ray. not too low! Pure, humble life, whose wayside graces meet Tew friendly eyes. God's watchlul angels know J.'ow fair yon are—hoar sweet! —Madeline S. Bridges, in Home Journal. ' CHAPMAN’S LABOR DAY. El' CHARLES M. HARGER. HE Hmv- ley claim certainly r~ looked shift- less. All through the hot days of July and the greater part of August the wheat shockshad stood in the fierce sun and torrid prairie winds, just as the company of harvesters left them. “Mother, what shall we do?” asked Joe, discouraged, as he knelt beside the widow’s chair in the rude cabin. “There has been but one thing to do so far, ” she answered. ‘ ‘It was bet ter to help those needing comforts worse than ourselves than to get in the wheat.” “So you have told us; but we have worked for Mr. Clark all summer nearly, and I don’t think we ought to do any more for our neighbor. He can pay us nothing and seems to expect us to continue.” Clark, the lame renter on the ad joining section, had been ill a great deal, and Mrs. Hawley had urged her boys to assist him with his herding and farming. Joe’s advice, however, won, and the next morning the Hawley boys pitched the heavy bundles of wheat on their own field throughout the drowsy August hours. They worked slowly, and the grain rattled to the ground from every sheaf as they lifted it to the wagon. “I’m ashamed to be working at this job so late in the season,” said Joe, stopping a moment. Gregg looked down from the wagon. “ Well, how was we to do it sooner? Wo had to help Clark, and mother’s been so miserable. ” “I know it; but it does look awful back-handed to see the wheat shocks (.-.standing in the field from July until ’most September—it’ll be that to morrow. Besides look at the grain we’re wasting,” as another shower of kernels rattled down when he went on with his work. It was discouraging—twenty acres of grain ahead of them and a likeli- k hood of the end of the dry weather any day. By noon two shambling loads had been added to the badly- shaped stack which they had begun a month before. By night the boys were wearied out and had broken one of their decrepit forks. “That means a trip to the store,” said Joe; and after supper they star tod. “I hope Clark won’t call us,” re marked Gregg, as the neighboring cabin came in sight. “Well, you know he was awful good to father before—before ho died.” Joe gulped down a sob. It was indeed a debt of kindness to the friend of their departed father that they had been paying. Their mother realized it, if they did not, and knew what the men had been to each other ns comrades in the war. There was no call to them ns they passed the cabin, but their quick ear caught the sound of a moan. “It’s Clark,” exclaimed Joe. “Let’s see what’s the-matter.” They approached the do.or; it was locked. Stout shoulders burst the slender fastenings. There on his lone some bed was Clark, crying almost like a child with distress. They could catch enough of the old man’s story to learn that his daughter had gone to the next county to visit, and that he bad been very ill since the night be fore. “You go fora doctor, Gregg,” were Joe’s orders ; and the younger lad hur ried away through the night while the other endeavored to make his patient easier. Around the store in the station agent’s office the committee was ar ranging for the observance of the ap proaching Labor Day. The town of Chapman had read the Governor’s proclamation and proposed to make of the occasion .a time of rejoicing. There was to be a procession, a picnic din ner, speeches, music and other attrac tions. Every settler and every towns man was to be called on to contribute to the celebration. The committee had nearly completed the list of resi dents, when Merser, the station agent called the name of Hawley. “The Hawleys can't drive in any procession that I manage,” said Blake, who was to be marshal of the day. “What have you got against ’em?” meekly inquired the postmaster. Blake glared at the little group from beneath very savage gray eyebrows. His fierce glances were most lost in the gloom, but his words were not. “We don’t want nobody in the parade that can’t drive n decent rig an’ that can’t keep their place lookin’ respect able—that’s why 1 object to ’em.” “Oh, well, those boys and their mother have a hard time,” replied the postmaster. “Since their father died last spring —or was it winter?—they've been buy ing potatoes by the quarter’s worth,” put in the other committeeman, Pier son, the storekeeper ; and I know they don’t have provisions enough to last sixty hours at a time.” “I ain’t sure they want to drive in l the procession,” remarked the post master, slowly. “When we asked for volunteers Mrs. Hawley- sent word she would send the flag her husband car- - ried in the war, but didn't say any thing about givin’ a team.” “Well, we don’t want ’em, anyhow,’’ persisted the obstinate Blake; ‘ ‘my chief reason is—” What his reason was never was known, for with a clangor and screech the 11 o’clock express came rumbling by, and Blake ran to the platform to put aboard the mail and speak to the conductor. - The long line of lighted coach win dows glided past the heavy Pullman fats with lamps turned low, that the passengers might sleep, rolled by him, I made a pathetic picture as their little and the green and red lanterns on the j forms, perched on the rickety load of rear platform were becoming dimmer j wheat, were outlined against the vast as the train sped away across the plain. I spread of prairie sky. Blake turned and nearly stumbled over I “Hurry up now, men! Get to a boy—a stranger. work!” were Pierson’s orders, as he “Hello 1 did you belong on the j set the example by doffing his regalia train ?” he asked. ! and the brass-buttoned overcoat. “No, I’m lookin’ for a doctor; be j Coats and vests were thrown aside, you one?” replied a piping voice. j sleeves were rolled up; and with an “Not much; come inside. Here j energy that astonished .Toe and Gregg boys,” he called to his comrad*s, ; until they could do nothing but stand “which of you is a doctor?” | and gaze in wonderat the proceedings, “Who’s sick?” inquired Pierson ; f the farmers and farmers’ sons, as well then, after a closer look, “bless me. j as many townspeople who had joined if it isn’t one of th’ Hawley boys! the novel expedition, took forks from what’s the matter, my lad?” \ the wagons and began loading the dis- Gregg instinctively knew he had ; colored shocks of grain, found a friend and quickly- told his Load after load was hauled up to the errand. stacks, and one mound of grain after “Poor old Clark!” ejaculated the another arose, until the year’s yield postmaster, “he’s always lookin’ for a j of the little farm was concentrated in letter with money in it. I’m afraid what looked like mammoth yellow he’ll never get it.” eggs of straw in the midst of the “Well come on, we’ll find a doctor,” j prairie, said PiersoD, rising; “and I believe “Now, young men,” broke out I’ll go out with you myself to see that Pierson, in pretended grnfiness, com- BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. “You will require careful treatment under my personal supervision for A Pastoral—A Woman’s Definition— The Reason—Answered —Dodged Sanctum Pleasantry—A Jjaud- lubbcriy Explanation, Etc. Now dips and sways the laden grain, The haycocks dot the mead. Thro’ leafy shades a golden rain Sprays fern and lissome reed. One snowy cloud, like ermine rug, Floats calmly o’er the scene. While yet the sleek potato bug Doth browse on Paris green. —Atlanta Journal. Clark don’t suffer He was as good as his word, and midnight saw three riders hurrying through the dry- grass, the long, steady “swish” of the horses’ feet making a kind of music as they cantered on. It seemed to Joe that his brother would never return. Patiently he bathed the suffering settler’s head, and tenderly as he could he straightened the crumpled sheets. The watch in the little cabin, so cramped and un tidy, was anything but pleasant; and it seemed that the whole night had passed when he caught the sound of approaching hoofs. “He is in a bad way,” pronounced the doctor, “and must not be left alone. If he gets much worse he can not be moved. Is there any place where we can take him?” “I know mother will care for him,” spoke up Gregg. “He and father went to war together, and mother thinks we owe him a great deal of care.” “I don’t see anything else to do,” decided Pierson, “although it seems like a big burden to put on these folks. ” “Never mind,” insisted the boy; “it is better than leaving him here. We have taken most of the care of him and his place this summer.” “What’s that? You’ve heljied him run his farm?” “Yes. Mother said we should; he needed it worse than we did.” “I’ve wondered how he got along; now I see. Well, come on; we’ll take him over for a day or two, and then we’ll get some one to care for him.” The little procession of four horse men made an odd sight as it slowly moved to the Hawley- cabin. Mrs. Hawley was anxiously- awaiting the re turn of her sons. “.I’ve got the fork, mother,” called Gregg; and indeed he had remem bered that essential implement. “But there’s something else,” called the doctor, as they lifted Clark down and carried him inside. “Just think of it!” indignantly ex claimed the storekeeper, as he got the physician to one side when the patient had been made comfortable. “This poor family the only- one out of this whole prosperous neighborhood to look after the old soldier in his troubles I I’ll stir up the boys at Chapman so they’ll think judgment has come to them ; and they’ll do something, too— see if they don’t. ” When Pierson left for the settle ment it was after a look over the claim and a careful estimate of the family’s situation. His first duty when he reached home was to call a meeting of the committee for that night. They met at the depot. “We were too fine,” he sneered, with more sarcasm than he had ever used in his lifo before, “to let them into our procession, and yet those three poor people have cared for that siok veteran while we let him alone. ” Blake winced, and the post-master clapped his hands gleefully-. It was long after the express went through when they adjourned, and then it was with promises “to keep it quiet.” Pierson the next morning sent his son Charles on horseback in one direc tion, while he himself took another. They bore a mysterious message to the heads of families, and it was nearly night when they completed their rounds. The day which was to mean so much to the community as the day when labor’s achievements were to lie cele brated, dawned bright and clear on the Hawley claim. Joe and Gregg were in the field early, struggling with the discolored sheaves and the rattling kernels. ‘ -It’ll be a labor day for us, sure en ough, ” remarked Joe; and he lauged at his own pun. “It’s been labor day for us all sum mer,” answered the other, bitterly. “Mother didn’t need to take care of Clark all the time.” “Well, but she thought she ought to do all she could. Never mind, we’ll get this wheat all stacked by Christ mas if we keep at it.” “Yes, unless we wait until next year and harvest two crops together,” with a feeble smile. Joe was apparently- thinking of something e'se. “It’ll be a big day. The storeman said last night that they'd probably have some fireworks. ” “Maybe we can see ’em from here— the prairie’s so level.” Joe looked from his place of vant age on top of the wagon load of bun dles off toward the settlement, as if to estimate the chances of such good for tune befalling them. Something met his sight that drove fireworks and nearly everything else from his mind. “What's that?” be exclaimed, point ing to a line of teams approaching from the farm. “Maybe it’s the procession cornin’ clear out in the country,” suggested Gregg, who had quickly clambered up by his side. Both had stopped work to gaze at the unwonted spectacle. “The storeman’s leading,” broke out Joe. He was right. Mounted on a fiery nag, Pierson, bedecked with sash and sword and wearing an old army over coat to give him a military appearance fitting the commander of so consider able a force, was issuing orders to the drivers with all the self-possession of a General at review. “Why, they’re turning in!” said Gregg, as the long line of teams filed into the field. ing to the side of the boys’ wagon when the last bundle was hoisted to cap off the final stack, “we’ve some thing to say to you. When the town has a Labor Day we want everybody to attend; and we have decided tj punish you both, as well as your mother for not doing so, by making you ride in the procession.” There was a twinkle that removed any- uneasiness his voice might have caused, and when lie repeated his or ders to Mrs. Hawley on going to the house, and showed her a wagon, half filled with clenn straw, in which to ride, they accepted the decree, one of the men having volunteered to stay with the convalescing neighbor on the bed inside and to assist the nurse Pier- eou had engaged in removing him to his home. Mrs. Hawley’s pale face brightened as she stepped into the vehicle, and she impulsively kissed the two boys who bashfully clung to her side. Down at the grove the wives and children of the settlers were ready, and on the arrival of the teams the procession started. The band played, the horses pranced, the children laughed and Pierson shouted his or ders more vociferously than ever. The center of attraction was the Hawley wagon, which led the long line that wound about the sparsely settled streets, and no one enjoyed the parade more than its occupants. It was well past noon when the pro cession returned to the grove and the bounteous picnic dinner was spread. Then came singing and speaking. The orator of the day, a judge from a neighboring county, omitted a good deal of the speech he had prepared in order to tell the story of the morning’s doings and the events leading up to them. “The chief duty of labor as well as of capital,” he said in closing, “is to help the helpless and lift up those struggling under burdens of trouble and care. The lesson lias been well learned by this community. This has been the noblest celebration of Labor Day I ever saw.” “Mother,” whispered Joe, as they were being driven home after the fire works that evening, “I wish Labor Day would come every week. ” “Perhaps,” she answered, “we can get along so well that we shall not need another day like this. We are rich in friends now, if in nothing else. ” Her prediction came true, for the Hawleys entered upon a brighter and more prosperous life.—The Independ ent. ANSWERED. Brown—“How often have I told you not to play ball in the house?” Johnny—“Every time you’ve caught me at it. ”—Judge. about two months before you are able to resume your labors in the bank.” “Doctor, you are fooling yourself. I am not Smith the banker, but Smith the street car driver.” “Is that so? Well, my good fellow, I don’t see what you came to me for. There is nothing the matter with you except that you are not a banker. Texas Siftings. stao a woman’s definition. Ethel—“Emma, what is party?” Mr.-. Knowitall—“A party where a lot of men get together and stagnate for the lack of women, dear.”—Puck. DODGED. Briggs—“What did you tell your wife when you got home so late Tues day night?” Braggs—“I told her she was the sweetest woman in the world. ”—In dianapolis Journal. THE REASON. Jasper—“I understand now why there is an eagle with outspread wings on so many of our coins. J umpuppe— ‘ ‘Why ?’ ’ Jasper—“It is to teach us that money flies.”—Truth. LANDT.rr.BEP.LY EXPLANATION. “What do nautical people mean by ‘tacking?’ ” said one girl to another. “Don’t you know that?” “Not exactly.” “Why, tacking—er—tacking is sail ing on the bias.”—Life. HARDLY EQUAL TO IT. “You say yon can write shorthand? said the eity editor. “I can, sir,” replied the applicant for a job. “When it comes to short hand I don’t knuckle down to any body. ” “Have you had any experience in re porting a meeting?” “Lots of it. I can take a full report of the proceedings in shorthand and put it in shape for the printers after ward. That’s child’s play for me.” “Report any kind of meeting, can you?” “Yes, sir.” “H’m!” said the eity editor, “there is a sort of convention at Saddler’s Hall in the next block. You may go and report the proceedings. Write the speeches out in full. ” The applicant for a place on the city editor’s staff took his note book and went away. And he never came back. When he got to Saddler’s Hall he found he had been sent to report the proceedings of a convention of deaf mutes. —New York Mercury. SANCTUM PLEASANTRY. “So this is your idea of wit, eh?” said the editor, as he read Wagg’s jokes. “Yes, it is,” said Wagg. “Well, the idea is certainly origi nal, ” said the editor. —Puck. IN TRAINING. A Womleriul Finny Curiosity, A wonderful piscatorial curiosity (long since forgotten by all except those whose business it is to keep a record of such things out of the or dinary in nature, science and art) was caught in Cape Fear River, near Fort St. Johnson, N. C., away back in the AO’s, and presented to Professor Silli- man, one of America’s greatest natu ralists. This rara pisces was nothing more or less (it could scarcely be more of a monstrosity) than a double catfish —two perfect, living fish joined breast to breast, much in the same manner that Chang and Eng were. When the Pro fessor made an incision preparatory to removing the entrails of the specimens so that they could be properly pre served, he found that there was no con nection whatever between the viscera of the two fishes, but that the con necting integment was hollow, so that a flexible rubber tube could be passed readily from the body of one into the other. Exactly in the middle of this connecting integument, at the point where the skin of the one left off and the other began, there was a dark col ored streak about the sixteenth of an inch in width which gave the queerly united pair the aopearance of having been cemented togeter. As one of them had to continually swim on his back and gather his food in that posi tion he was much smaller than the other—the natural result of his mode of living.—St. Louis Republic. ‘ ‘Charley proposed to me last night, and I accepted him.” “Why, he proposed to me yester day.” “Indeed? Well, he did it so pret tily that I was sure he had rehearsed several times.”—Puck. IT TAKES NERVE. “I can’t pay this bill, doctor. It’s exorbitant. I’m no better than I was either. ” "That’s because you didn’t take my advice.” “Ah—well—of course, if I didn’t take it, I don’t owe you for it. Thanks. Good morning.”—Tit-Bits. WORSE THAN AN EPIDEMIC. “When your practicing friend across the way has learned how to play th8 coronet he will entertain the whole neighborhood, ” said Mrs. Brown. “Yes,” said Mrs. Jones, “but by that time there won’t bo any neigh borhood here.”—Texas Siftings. ENLIGHTENED. Jones (doing a little preliminary sparring before announcing his ap proaching marriage)—“Now, Brown, you’re a friend of mine. Tell me can didly, why did you get married?” Brown (savagely)—“Because I was a dod-rasted, half-baked, idiotic lunk head !” (Jones decides to say nothing.) TRANSFERRED. Park Lane—“What do you think of this ready-made suit, old man? Since I got married, you know, I have got to be economical.” Baxter—“Of course. “But you don’t mean to say yon have given up your tailor ?” ParkLane—“Oh, no. My jvife has him now?”—Clothier and Furnisher. THE HORSE KNEW. Watts—“I tell you, old man, I saw the most remarkable exhibition of ani mal intelligence to-day that could be imagined. ” Potts—“What was it?” Watts—“A bridal party started from the house across the street from where I live and one of the horses attached to the carriage threw a shoe. Now, what do you think of that?”— Mercurv. Some (Jnaiut Epitaphs. Ill an article on quaint epitaphs, the London Funeral Directors’ Journal says: The following in Penrith Church yard is refreshing in these days of de ceit, on account of its candor : “Here lies the man Richard and Mary his wife; Their surname was Pritchard, and they lived without strife. The reason was plain—they abounded In riches They had no care nor pain, and the wife wore the breeches.” The owner ot this inscription, now resting in Hebburn Churchyard, was probably a democrat, and had seme little opinion of himself: “This humble monument will show, Here lies an honest man , You Kings, whose heads are now as low. Rise higher if you can John Dale was a courageous man This is the epitaph over his remains in Bakewell Churchyard, Derbyshire: “Know posterity that on the 8th of April in the year of grace 1737, the rambling re mains of John Dale were, in the eighty-sixth year of his pilgrimage, laid upon Ills two wives: This thing in life might raise some jeal ousy ; Here all three lie together lovingly.” One epitaph in Ilfracombe Church yard shows faith. “Weep not for me, my friends so dear, I am not dead, but sleeping here, My Sebt is paid, my grave is free, And in due course you'll come to me.” Not far from this we have an exam pie of quiet self glorification : “Here lies a kind and loving wife A tender nursing mother— A neighbor-free from brawl and strife, A pattern for all others.” Evidently marriage was not a failure in this case. What follows was formerly on tombstone in St. Thomas’s Church yard, Salisbury: “Here lies three babes dead as nits. God took them off in agie fits , They was too good to live wi’ we, So he took ’em off to live wi’ ’ee.” Who dares to utter the foul slander that it requires a surgical operation to get a joke into the head of a Scotch man ? Let him or her cast an eye over the following, and then sit silent for ever. It is on a gravestone in Stone haven Churchyard: “The place whaur Betty Cooper lies Is here or here aboot; The place whaur Betty Cooper lies There’s neen can fin’ it oot The place where Betty Cooper lie3 There’s neen on earth can tell, Till at the resurrection day, When Betty tells hersel’.” Dangers ot Cat-Kissing. The ladies who with perverted affec tion kiss their cats -and lap-dogs may be interested in learning the results of Signor Fiocca’s examination of the saliva of these animals. That of the cat is especially rich in all sorts of minute bacilli, and contains a new form seldom absent, and so fatal that rab bits and guinea-pigs inoculated with it died in twenty-fonr hours. The dog’s saliva contains an even greater number of bacteria, some of them of a particu larly disagreeable character, plus oc casional flukes and the eggs of intesti nal worms. Nor is the horse free from these death-dealing organisms. For among the diverse “bacilli, strep tococci, and spirillia, ” in its saliva were three forms of a noxious descrip tion. —London Chronicle. A Unique Handbag. The very unique handbag of a Wal nut street gentleman attracts attention wherever he carries it. He has jour neyed around the world, and the bag made the tour with him. He made it a practice to write on the leather sur face the name of each town and coun try he visited, and in the course of the trip the bag was completely covered. The pair found their way hand in hand to a number of smaller towns of Europe with unpronounceable names, and each one has been carefully | written on the bag, until the gripsack’s The visitors paid no attention to the 1 surface looks like a Chinese labyrinth bewildered occupaate of the farm. who 1 vusale.—Philadelphia Record. A CORDIAL GRIP. Stokes— ‘ ‘The president of your com pany seems to take quite an interest in yon dow.” Clarkly so.” The Wild Cossacks. The wild Cossacks, living away down in the southernmost part of the Rus- sian Empire, spend most of their time harassing the Turks. They are pecn liarly savage in appearance. Their uniform is the Cossack coat, full trousers, scarlet undercoat hooked up to the neck, big boots and, as an orna ment, they wear a bourka, a circular cloak made of coarse felt with Ion: shaggy hair on one side of it. This cloak is big enough to cover the rider and much of the horse. The most distinctive point in their dress, how ever, is the cylindrical hat of black astrakhan which they wear at all seasons. The top is of cloth or velvet. They form part of the Russian cavalry and live principally on plunder, steal ing, during their raids into Turkey, anything they can find, from a chicken to a child. —St. Louis Republic. Electricity and Windmills. The electric motor in country houses, or on a farm, may be used with a I windmill and the storage «f power “What makes you thiuk j produced applied to sawing wood, chopping feed and countless other Stokes—“I notice he has fallen into j outside purposes; possibly before Ion: the habit of shaking hands with you , it will run the mowing machine and when he comes into the office in the the cultivator, and take the place ol morning. Clarkly— ‘ ‘Yes; he thinks it’s cheaper than raising my salary.”—Life. horses and many men. But, most and best of all, it can be used now for lighting a house from top to bottom, in every closet and dark place, with anticipating things. perfect safety, with a soft, daylight The youth approached the father lustre, the wiring costing an average with more or less trepidation. of $2.50 a light in the first place, and “So,” said the old gentleman, after ' the current costing no more than gas. the case had been stated, “you want to i What more there is for electricity to marry my daughter?” * do in the house remains to be seen, “Not any more than she wants to : but apparently it is going to take the marry me,” he replied, hedging. : place of the fabled brownie, and make “Sjie hasn't said anything to me 'i°rk easy and life twice as pleasant about it.” * : there.—Congregationalism “No, because she’s afraid to.” “Aren’t yon afraid sir, more than ; she is?” said the father, sternly. Cold Booms the Optician’s Trade. Cold snaps are a great thing for op- The youth braced up. ticians. Sudden changes in the tern- “Well, perhaps I am, hesaid, “but perature from heat to extreme cold as the head of our family, I va got to j often causes the glass in spectacles t-c face it and set the pegs, ” and the old man smiled and gave his consent.— Detroit Free Press. WHAT AILED SMITH. A plainly dressed man, who intro duced himself as Mr. John Smith, walked into a doctor’s office in a Texas town and, having explained his symp toms, asked the doctor hew long it j any number of inconveniences. crack, as if trodden upon. Then it also has a bad effect upon the frames, and wearers of aids to the eye-sight are often startled by having their spec tacle frames suddenly fall apart at the bridge. A man accustomed to wear ing glasses is utterly lost withont them ; he becomes dizzy after a short while, experiences nausea and suffers Of would take to cure him. The doctor, j course the minute his glasses break he who had treated the visitor sitij every rushes off to the nearest optician.— possible courtesy, replied» i New York Journal THE NEWS IN GENERAL. TRADE TOPICS. Condensed from Onr Most Important Telegraphic Advices And Presented In Pointed and Reada ble Paragraphs. Advices of Wednesday state that Prince Bismarck continues to improve. The flint glass workers at Pittsburg, Pa., struck Wednesday. Six persons were drowned by the upsetting of the Orkney islands mail boat Wednesday. James Houston, for many years gen eral manager of the Associated Press in the United States, died in New York Tuesday. A general strike of the American flint glass workers has been ordered. This action is the result of the glass trust declaring that all factories would be operated by non-union men. The entire republican ticket in In dianapolis was elected Tuesday by a majority not exceeding 1,500. The average democratic majority two years ago was about the same. The British steamer Memnon, load ed with 2,000 bales of cotton, took fire Tuesday. The compartments were flooded with water. The extent of damage will not be known until the cotton is brought out. A special of Tuesday from Paris says: Count Ferdinand DeLesseps is hourly expected to breathe his last. All hope of improvement has been given up, and it is believed death can be delayed by the native tenacity of his constitution. He is not expected to live till daylight. Advices of Wednesday from Buenos Ayres, state that although the rebel ar my in the province of Santa Fe.has dis banded, small parties of rebels still make life and property unsafe in the rural districts. For a week they have been plundering and killing foreign settlers in Santa Fe. Word was received Tuesday from Tuskahoma, I. T., of a terrible triple murder which occurred about forty miles west of that city. The victims were Choctaws. Governor Jones says it was the result of the late political trou bles and the men killed belonged to the Jones faction. Particulars are un obtainable at present. A dispatch of Wednesday from Terre Haute, Ind., states that orders have been given by the managers of the whisky trust to start operations in the distillery at once at a capacity of 3,200 bushels a day, about half the full ca pacity. Other distilleries in the trust are starting up, aud a demand for the product is said to be strong. A relief train of six freight cars, provisions and supplies for the fever- stricken town of Brunswick, Ga., left Jersey City, N. J., Wednesday morn- on the Pennsylvania railroad via Washington. It will reach its desti nation in about three days. The train carried a large amount of flour, sugar and other staples, as well as tea, cof fee, delicacies and medicines. A London cablegram of Tuesday says: The government has received a dispatch from Rio de Janeiro announ cing that one of the forts in the bay surrendered to Admiral de Mellos. The dispatch adds that the city of Rio de Janeiro remains quiet in spite of the fact that several shots from the guns on board the rebel ships, sup posed to have been fired at the forts, fell into the city. The livening Record, a paper which appeared in San Francisco, Tuesday, the first time, and about tbe reliabili ty of which nothing is known, prints a story to the effect that the territory of Lower California has been purchased from the republic of Mexico by a syndicate of American and English capitalists, who propose to annex the pen insular to the United States. The alleged au thority is William Wrendon, an En glish capitalist. A Des Moines, la., special of Wed- esday says: The state convention of the Formers’ Alliance of this state has adopted resolutions, favoring anti-op tion bill and the Conger lard bill. A resolution favoring the free coii. age of silver and another favoring the free coinage of American silver, were vot ed down by decisive majorities. The money resolution ns adopted, favors a sound and stable currency of sufficient volume for the business of the coun try. After taking 5,182 ballots, the first judicial democratic convention in ses sion at Baltimore ended the deadlock Tuesday by nominating as chief judge Henry Page, of Somerset, and associ ate, Henry Lloyd, of Dorchester. The convention started to work two months It was made np of sixteen dele Report of the Past Week’s Business by Dun & Co. It is difficult to detect any signs of improvement. While there has been some addition to the number of manu facturing establishments and the num ber of bands at work during the past week, it is becoming painfully clear that the orders obtained do not suffice to keep employed at full time even the limited force at present engaged. Reports from other cities disclose a distinct cheek in business. There is, on the whole, less activity and less confidence regarding the future than there was a week ngo, and this is in many cases attributed to the uncer tainty regarding the monetary future which the delay in the senate causes. The stock of money in New York banks has increased rapidly, and the retirement of clearing house certifi cates at New York and at other cities shows a great improvement in the monetary situation. There is not as much encouragement as might be desired in the industrial reports for the week. An increased number of establishments is reported in operation, but the sagging of prices in print cloths and, some other cotton goods, and in the more important pro ducts of iron and steel, discloses great ly retarded business. The demand for iron products is, ol, the whole, less satisfactory than it was a week ago. Steel billets are selliug at Tittsburg for §18 per ton, and there is practical ly no demand for rails. In the manufacture of wool there is ..rill a remarkabble hesitation and the demand for consumption is much restricted, so that the purchases of wool at the principal market, notwith standing some speculative buying, have been only 2,620,995 pounds, against 6,727,400 for the same week last year. The movement of wheat has been fairly large and the price has declined about two cents, while corn has also yielded about one cent. Cotton is 1-4 cent higher, with other distinctions in crop |)rospects, and pork products are also somewhat higher—pork, 75 cents per barrel. Oil has advanced sharply, and after some reaction closed 2 cents per barrel higher than a week ago. It is possible that the surplus currency in circula tion has the natural effect of stimulat ing speculative activity. Happily, the changes thus far have not diminished the exports of products, which con tinue fairly large. Failures continue to decrease in number and importance, though not as much as hoped. The number reported for the United States for the past week was 320, against 184 for the same week last year, and in Canada 45, against 36 last year. The disposition to include all banking and financial failures with those of commercial and manufactur ing concerns during the past year, has led to estimates which do much injus tice to mercantile interests. SOUTHERN NETS ITEMS. Drill ol Her Progress and Pros perity Briefly NoteiL Happenings of Iuterest Portrayed in Pithy Paragraphs. TO THE NORTH. gates and representing four counties. Each county had a candidate. The counties paired off, made combinations and every vote stood eight to eight. The political leaders, headed by Sena tor Gorman, are credited with being instrumental in breaking the deadlock. The number of ballots taken breaks all records. The annual meeting of the Western nion Telegraph Company was held at New York Wednesday. The report, which was a very favorable one, was well received by the large number of stockholders present. The old board was elected with the exception of the following persons: Norvin Green, Jay Gould, Fred L. Ames, Henry Weaver, who died during the year, and Erastus Wyman, who declined re-election, and Sidney Shepard, who resigned in favor of his son. The places of the above named were filled by the election of John Jacob Astor, Oliver Ames, George Bliss, Louis Fitzgerald, C. Sidney Shepard and J. B. Van Even. Religious Convention. Second only in importance to the great World’s Parliament of Religions in the world’s congress was the evan gelical alliance which opened at Chi cago, Monday morning, and partici pating in the proceedings are Rev. C. ; H. Carter, the famous social reform divine of New York eity, Prof. Henry ! Drummond, Endinburg, and other • famous men in religious circles. Over I two thousand representatives of tha j vangeliea! bodies participated in the j naugural session, and the attendance j for tha entire week bids fair to be very j Governor Nor then Writes a Letter Tel ling of the Horrors of the Plague. Governor Northen has written a let ter to the people of the north to be used by Mr. T. J. Palmer, of Brunswick, who is going through the north and east to get subscriptions for the Bruns wick sufferers. The following is the governor’s letter: I understand that Mr. T. J. P.<liner, of Brunswick, is about to go to th: north and east on business, and (hat while there he will, by request, present the matter of the dire d stress of Brunswick b fore the people of those sec tions, to the end that som ■ help may be render ed the suffering people of that community. The story of (lie suffering and distress in Brunswick as told in the daily p:e33, has not been exaggerated. The half has not boen told. The citizens remaining in the plague- stricken town are shut in by strict sanitary cordon and are unable to leave the place and unable to support themselves, as there is no money, no business, no food in the city. Starvation faces the enlire population. Frost the only hope, is several months distant, and while the people of this s ate have been generous, the means of subsistence s nt to the city have be n inadequate and are being rapid ly exhausted daily. Uiilerssomething is dine lo king to the speedy relief of these unfortn ale people, star vation and death from bad food or from want of fool will add their horrors to the devas'a- tion of the plague. It would be a work of pro found charity if the people of the entire coun try, real zing the destitution and suffering of their fellow c'tiz ns in Brunswick, would come to their relief and aid science an l the seif- sacrificing devotion of nurses in rescuing this city from appai ent destruction. I should be glad to know that some move ment 1 okiug to this end is started among our h How citizens of the north and cas*. Besp.ct- fiiily, W. J. Noether, Governor of Georgia. The Clarksville, Tenn., Farmers' and Merchants’ bank went into liqui dation Tuesday. Depositors will be paid in full. Thirty-five new cases of yellow fe ver and two deaths was the official re port of the Brimswiek board of health for the twenty-four hours ending at noon Tuesday. No new cases of yellow fever were reported at Jesup, Ga., Wednesday, and no change has occurred in affairs since last report. All the sick are im proving as rapidly as can be expected. An organized body of sixty-five men arrived at Delrio, Texas, Tuesday on a freight train on which they said they had come through from Califor nia without paying fare. At each town on the road they were fed and they practically controlled the train. They elnimed to be mechanics and miners on their wayto Alabama,whero they expect to find work. The 70th annual session of the Hol- ston conference of the Methodist Epis copal church south, whose territory- embraces East Tennessee, southwest Yirginia and north Georgia met at Knoxville, Tenn., Wednesday morn ing, for a week’s session, Bishop W. W. Duncan, of South Carolina, pre- siding. Three hundred nnd fifty min isters and delegates are in attendance. A Middlesborough, Ivv., dispatch says: Middlesborough’s water works were placed in the hands of a receiver Wednesday, James A. Chapman being named. The works were built in boom times at a cost of half a million dollars, but the slow growth of the town and the failure of the steel plant to run, caused the waterworks to bo run nt a loss. The liabilities are un known. A wreck occurred on the Mississippi Valley road Wednesday morning at Laplace, twenty miles above New Or leans. The accident happened at 6 o’clock, when the track was covered with a heavy fog, nnd it was difficult for the trainmen to see far ahead. A southbound freight ran into a num ber of cars standing on the main track. Seven or eight freight cars were de molished and passenger traffic was de layed. Two of the crew were badly injured. A New Orleans dispatch says: Offi cer Toole had his throat cut some weeks ago in a jiatrol wagon by a des perate Italian whom he had arrested. The case of the Italian was fixed for trial Thursday. Wednesday night Toole was assaulted and beaten, after being waylaid aud probably fatally injured. It is believed that the Mafia is again at work, and that it was the purpose of the Italian’s friends to murder Toole in order that he might not be able to testify against their countryman. A STORK ON THE COAST. COMMENDING THEIR SENATORS Citizens of Memphis Ho’(l a Meeting iu Defense of Silver. Following on the heels of the recent action of the joint meeting of the Me-chants’ and Cotton exchange at Memphis that condemned acrimo niously Senators Bate and Harris, of Tennessee, for their attitude bn the silver bill, now in the senate, a largely attended mass meeting of leading citi zens of Memphis and Shelby county was held Thursday night to discuss the silver question. After lengthy- speeches a committee, consisting of ex-Congressman Casey- Young, Col. M. C. Galloway, E. W. Carmack, Holmes Cummins, Thomas Holmes, H. D. Greer and J. J. Du- puy, was appointed, who submitted lengthy resolutions eulogistically en dorsing the senators named and com mending them for their faithfulness and firmness in defense of silver. Some of the speeches were especial ly- bitter in their denunciation of Pres ident Cleveland, who was character ized as a s’ave driver, cracking his whip over the backs of the senators and representatives in congress. The meeting was composed almost exclu sively of democrats. WILLING TO GO BACK. lar The Striking L. & N. Shop Men Ask for Re-instatement. The striking shop men of the Louis ville and Nashville road at Decatur, Ala., realize that they have lost and are now desirous of getting back into their old places. Local officials of the Louisville and Nashville company are advised that the attorney of the com pany at Decatur was called on Friday night by tbe chairman of the shop strikers, who said that the men were willing to go back to work at the re duced scale of wages. The proposition I was also made that if taken back the i strike of the shop men on the entire j iystem would be declared off, A Repetition of f lie Disasters of August 27th Apprehended. A Savannah special says: The West Indian storm which reached here Thursday morning and has been blow ing a gale of forty to sixty miles an hour all day continued to increase in fury, but up to dark had not done any very great damage right in the city. The storm was reported at Titusville, Fla., Wednesday night and then had a slightly northwest direction. The City of Augusta, which left New York Wednesday, will meet the storm off the North Carolina coast in about the same latitude that the Savannah was struck by the last storm. There are eighten vessels iu the Tybee roads and at quarantine, and the chances are that if the gale continues they will all be wrecked, as in the ease of the last blow. All the vessels in port are seek ing places of refuge. FEARS FOR THE SEA ISLANDS. No reports have been heard from any of the sea islands, but the pros pect is that the storm will undo all that has been done for them in the way of shelter and that they will be as bad or worse off than they were be fore. No reports of any fatalities have yet been received. SEVERE AT JACKSONVILLE. The gale at Jacksonville is said to have been the worst they have had there since 1881. Brunswick also got the brunt of it, but the amount of damage there has not yet been learned. A Charleston special of Thursday night says: The West Indian cyclone ;is on us. The wires are going down to the southward and there is trouble to the northward. At this writing the wind is blowing in great gusts at from forty to forty-five miles an hour. No damage has been done except the wrecking of telephone and electric light wires. Three tides have been banked up, and at midnight it is expected, unless the wind shifts around to the south west, that the eastern, southern and western portions of the city will be under water. Neither of the Clyde steamers due Thursday have arrived. At this hour it looks like a repetition of the cyclone of August. ALTGELD ENDORSED In His Action Pardoning the Hay- market Rioters. A Chicago special says: That the democracy support Governor Altgeld in the pardon of the anarchists, and his denunciation of Judge Gary, was publicly demonstrated at the county convention Wednesday, When it reached Judge Gary’s name for re nomination, ex-Judge Moran, one of the most respected jurists in the city, was howled down and threatened with personal violence when he presented Gary’s name. Chicago Day at the Fair. Monday was Chicago day at the World’s fair. The fair officials estimate the attendance at 725,000. Two peo ple were killed while going to and com ing from the fair, while the hospital record at 6 o’clock showed a total of less than forty slight casualties. Two hours later the number had increased to 125,