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VOL. XII. NO. 2
VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY. DECEMBER lit, 1893.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
THE FIFTY-THIRD
ia Regular Session
l’I,e President’s Message Read Before
(lie I'm) Uouses-Routine Business.
THE SENATE.
r,Tji u Ai -,—Five senators, heretofore
the absentee list for this session,
were present l£t>nday. They were:
Colquitt of Georgia, Irby of South
Carolina, Lindsay of Kentucky, Mor
gan of Alabama, and Perkins of Cali
fornia. In the absence of the vice
president, at Augusta, Ga., the senate
was presided over by Mr. Harris, of
Tennessee. Mr. Hoar introduced a
resolution, asking by what authority
Commissioner Blouut had been ap
pointed, and proceeded to comment
upon the fact that the information
which had been given to the senate
under the seal of confidence had been
supplied by the state department to the
representatives of four newspapers
that were known to be thorough-going
supporters of the administration.
Mr. Hill, in view of the complaint that
the minority had no opportunity to
report on the election bill, moved that
it bo referred to the committee on
privileges and elections. The senate
on motion of Mr. Gorman, proceeded
lo the consideration of executive busi
ness and, at 2 GO o’clock, adjourn
ed unlil Tuesday.
7th Hat. The resolution offered by
Mr. Hoar, calling on the President
fur information ns to the appointment
of Mr. Blount as paramount commis
sioner to Hawaii, avbs not presented to
the senate in the morning hour, Tues
day, but went over iu order to permit
Mr. Collttm to address the senate in
opposition to the bill to repeal the
federal election law.
8th Day.—After the routine morn
ing business in the senate Wednesday
was disposed of, the Hawaiian resolu
tion offered Monday lust by Mr. Hoar
was laid before the senate and Mr. Frye
addressed the body.
7th Day—In the Senate, Thursday,
the committee on privileges and elec
tions, bv .» party vote, decided to re-
1 'H -, ]Hffr'L'fie house bill to repeal the feder
al election laws. The minority was
given a reasonable time Avithin which
F to submit its views. The house bill
) repealing the federal election laws
was reported back favorably from
’ (ho committee on privileges and
elections and placed on the cal-
j endin', notice of a minority re
port being given on the part
of Senators Hoar, Mitchell, Higgins
and Chandler. The senute joint reso
lution relieving the employes of the
record and pension division of the
war department injured in the Ford’s
thentre disaster from the operation of
(lie law restricting tho amount of sick
leave with pay, was passed. Mr. Yoor-
liees introduced a bill for the coinage
of silver dollars, retirement of small
denominations of gold and paper and
for other purposes. It was referred to
the committee on finance. It directs
(lie coinage into silver dollars of stand
ard weight and fineness, of the seign
orage or profit from the coinage of
silver.bullion, under the act of Feb
ruary, 1878, and July, 1890. The sen
ate tLcii adjourned over until Monday.
* only the builders, and instructing the
■ committee on naval affairs to make a
thorough investigation and ascertain
I whether there had been any collusion
between the contractors and officials,
and report by bill or otherwise. Ref
erred to the committee on naval affairs
Mr. Myers, of Louisiana moved to go
into a committee of the Avhole to con
sider the resolution providing for a
joint commission to investigate the
personnel of the navy, and filibuster
ing began at once. The resolution was
agreed to and the house went into a
committee of the whole on the bill ad
mitting Utah as a state. The bill was
passed without division at the close of
the debate the only . amendments of
much importance incorporated in
the enabling act being oue by
Mr. Powers, of Vermont, prohib
iting polygamy forever, and another
by Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, reducing
one-half tho land granted to the state
common school purposes. Just
before adjournment the resolution of
Mr. Hitt, calling for correspondence
in the Hawaiian affair, amended so as
to include au extension of Ike period
to be covered by the correspondence
to March, 1.389, the beginning of the
Harrison administration, Avas taken up
and passed.
9th Day. —In the house, Thursday,
Mr. Dockery, from the joint commit
tee to investigate the various executive
departments, called up the hill to im
prove the methods of accounting iu
the postofliee department. This is a
bill to change the money order system.
Without any discussion the lull was
passed. Mr. Latchings brought in an
order from the committee on rules,
setting aside a time after the second
morning hour and continuing each day
thereafter, until concluded, for eon
sidering the bills admitting Arizona
and New Mexico to statehood.
1
THE HOUSE.
6th Day.—The committee on rivers
and harbors is about to begin active
work, and was given authority to sit
during the sessions of the house. Mr.
Wheeler, of Alabama, succeeded in
having Tuesday and Wednesday set
apart for the consideration of the bill
to admit Utah as a state, despite the
objections, of Mr. Dingley that the
matter was too important to be brought
up during the morning hour. District
of Columbia bills were then taken up.
Tho ways and means committee
have changed the time when the
tariff bill will go into effect
from March to January 1, 1894.
A bill fixing the time and places of
holding federal courts in Nebraka was
passed. Mr. Culberson called up i
bill to revive the act for the consider
ntion of claims arising under the cap-
lures and abandoned property act for
tho purpose, if possible, of affectin
agreement as to its consideration. Mr.
Reed refused to allow the agreement
to be made and the bill was withdrawn.
A bill was passed making it com
pnlsory for all steam vessels o
one thousand tons burden to have
when nnder way, one engineer and
one helper in the engine room, and all
such vessels to carry two licensed en
gineers. Tho bill, by its provisions
is not applicable to ferry boats which
run less than ten hours daily. Mr
McRae, of Arkansas, called up a bill
instructing the secretary of the inte
rior to reserve from sales out of tli
abandoned Fort Cummiugs military
reservation in New Mexico, as much
land as is necessary to ensure a per
petual spring of water for tho use of
the public and the Rio Grande, Mex
ico Facific railroad. Without objec
tion it was passed. The house then
took up a measure affecting the Dis
trict of Columbia, and at 3:30 o'clock
adjourned.
', 7th Day.—There was a small at
tendance of members in the house
Tuesday morning, although expecta
tions had been raised that the day
would be prolific with interesting in
cidents owing to the fact that the bill
admitting Utah territory as a state
had been made a special order after
the morning hour. Mr. Meyers call
ed up the resolution providing for a
joint commission to investigate the
rank, pay and other matters re
lating to the personnel of the
navy. It was objected to by
Messrs. Kilgore, Sayres and others.
The house resolved itself into commit
tee of the whole for the consideration
If the bill for the admission of Utah.
|lr. Kilgore, avIio opened the debate
advocacy of the bill, explained the
provisions of the bill. Speeches were
Jiado by Messrs. Rawlins, Moore and
jarter. Messrs. Simpson, of Kansas:
kmith, of Arizona, and Fence, of Col-
irado, interrupted Mr. Harter to re-
[ly to bis reflection on the west. A.
[ie conclusion of Mr. Harter’s speecht
5:30 o’clock, the house adjourned,
8th Day.—In the house, Wedues-
lav, Mr. Holman offered a resolution
Getting forth thatinorethan $1,000,000
was paid in premiums for building
vessels for the new navy ; alleging that
OUR LATEST DISPATCHES.
me flappings ef a Day Ciirouiclefl in
Erie! and Concise Paragraphs
And Containing the Gist of the Sews
From All Parts of the World.
Forty of the leading coal operators
of the Pocahontas region arrived at
Roanoke, Va., Thursday from the
southwest and held a meeting to con
sider the coalmining interests of their
section.
Commissioner Lyman, of the civil
service commission, has resigned as
president of the commission but not
as commissioner, and has been sue
ceeded in the presidency by Commis
sioner Proctor.
A cable dispatch of Thursday from
Paris says: Mr. James Gordon Bennett
has returned to the city after two
months’ absence, during which he has
passed considerable time in the Riv
iera. Mr. Bennett has completely re
covered from his accident, which will
leave no serious effects.
The officers of the National Guard of
the state of Tennessee met at Nashville
Thursday night to elect a successor to
Brigadier General Sam T. Carnes, of
Memphis, whose terms of office expired.
The candidates were General S. T.
Carnes and Major H. C. Ward, of
Nashville. The officers met in the su
preme courtroom and after the usual
preliminaries, nominations were made
with eloquent speeches. On the first
ballot Ward was elected, receiving 23
votes to Carnes’s 18.
The delegates of the American Fed
oration of Labor in session at Chicago
Thursday refused to take action on a
communication touching on the ques
tion of the tariff'. Tho matter came up
in the form of a communication from
the plush workers of Bridgeport,which
declared that after the passage of the
McKinley bill, their wages had been
reduced and that their employe
threatened further reduction in the
event of the passage of the Wilson bill
The communication was laid on the
table and the delegates fought shy of
any discussion on the subject.
A business block at Buffalo, N. Y.
known as the Arcade, was destroyed
bv fire Thursday morning, and Robin
son's Music theater and Shea’s com*
hall, the latter the finest building b
tween New York and Chicago, are in
ruins. The fireman of the building i
missing and it is supposed he perishei
in the flames. The flames also de
stroyed the Yerta building, occupied
by Faxen, Williams A Faxen, whole
stile grocers. The building was valued
at $200,000. They were insured for
about $5,000 and the loss in their
goods exceeds that amount. The to
tal loss bv the fire is placed at $1,500,
000.
The bank trials which have been in
progress at Nashville are over for the
present. Judge Sage, Thursday, grant
ed a continuance to George A. Dazey ;
charged with conspiracy Avith Frank
Porterfield to defraud the Commercial
National bank. The ground of the
continuance was the failure of the
government to give the defense ample
notice of the ease on which Dazey
would be tried at this term of court
The witnesses for the defense were
scattered from Connecticut to Texas
anil as the defense did not knoAV what
drafts were to be relied on by the gov
ernment to make out its case, they
were not in position to say just what
they expected to prove by each wit
ness.
PRENDERGAST WAS AGITATED
While the Story of His Terrible Crime
Was Being Told.
A Chicago dispatch says: Assistant
States Attorney opened the trial of
Prendergast Wednesday with an ad
dress to the jury, in which he outlined
the plan of the prosecution. Mr
Todd paid a tribute to Mayor Harri
son and referred t-o the similarity of
his assassination and that of Lincoln
and Garfield. Attorney Wade will
open the case for the defense.
Mr. Toid said that the prisoner
actions at the time of the murder in
dicated that he was sane. The attor
nev called particular attention to the
assassin's well developed sense of pres
ervation as evidence, by the way he
cared for his personal safety during
and after the shooting. As Mr. Todd
told the story of the shooting Pren
dergast turned pale and shrank into
HE FARMERS’ CONGRESS.
lo Boly Mis its liraal Session at
cry Few Relegates the First Day--
Routine of the Convention.
The National Farmers’ congress be
gan its annual session at Savannah
uesday noon. Very few delegates had
arrived, and when the congress assem
bled less than fifty were present.
President Smith, of Kansas, was ab
sent, and Yiee President D. G. Purse,
f Georgia, presided. Hon. P. W.
Meldrim, of Savannah, in behalf of
the governor of Georgia, welcomed the
delegates to the state. Judge C. B.
Rounds, of Maine, responded to the
welcome.
The address of welcome in behalf of
the State Agricultural Society was
made by J. T. Wade, of Georgia, in
:ie absence of President Waddell. Hon.
Daniel Needham, president of the New
England Agricultural Society, respond
ed to the welcome by the agriculturist.
In hisaddressColonelNeedham touched
upon various matters, one of which was
the educational question. The great
underlying principle of agriculture is
knowledge—is the public school.
The mayor of Savannah welcomed
tho delegates to the city. Hon. B. F.
Clayton, secretary of the congress, in
his response outlined the work before it.
The roll of states was then called
and the following states were found to
have delegates in attendance : Alaba
ma, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Mississippi, Kansas, Nebraska, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Penusylva-
a, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont,
irginia and West Virginia.
Secretary Clayton moved that all
the delegates on the lists sent on by
tho governors of the different states
and also those holding proxies be en
titled to seats iu order to fill out the
lists from some of the states if there
were any such persons or delegates pres
ent. The motion was carried. Vice
President Purso then announced the
committees of the convention.
The first business taken up by the
congress at the afternoon session was
resolutions. Thoso approving of im
proved waterways and of free mail de
livery Avere referred to the committee
on resolutions. Also ft resolution on
business association by farmers for
mutual interest by President Clute, of
the Lake City Fla. , agricultural insti
tute.
A resolution as to the relations of
farmers and railroads were offered by G.
W. Slaughter, of Tennessee deprecat
ing the disposition manifested by far
mers to antagonize railroads and to en
courage legislation intended to ham
per and restrict railroads in their op
eratiou.
The first address before the congress
is delivered by Colonel Daniel
Needham, of Boston, Mass., upon the
Inter-Dependence of Business Rela
tious Between the States.”
General Burkitt, of Mississippi, who
was to have delivered an address upon
the subject of “The Agricultural South
and West,” was too ill to leave his
room. General Burkitt’s address was
read by Professor Sauls, of Missis
sippi. The first portion of the ad
dress was confined to a discussion of
the agricultural conditions of the
south, owing, he said, to low prices;
tho demoralization of labor and bad
seasons, the farmers of the south were
not to-day in as prosperous a condition
as might be desired. However, Gene
ral Burkitt said in his address he had
had good labor an3 fair conditions and
had little complaint of this year
The address took somewhat ot a po
lit-ical turn when General Burkitt
turned on the silver question and de
dared that President Cleveland had
destroyed the democratic party and
that the Chieago platform was a mere
dodge, and was so intended at its
adoption, He appealed to the great
west to join with the south iu resisting
the great money power of the east
He urged that they combine their
forces to secure the remonetization
taries and tne improvement Or several
the most important harbors on onr
gulf and Atlantic coast. The mem
bers are also in favor of rural free
mail delivery and call upon congress
and the jiostofiiee department to ex
tend the free delivery of mail into the
country as fast as it can be done with
out enormous increase iu the net
expense of the postofliee depart
ment, and demands that there should
not be any lowering of the present
rate of letter postage until mail is de
livered at least three times a week in
all townships having a population of
n or more per square mile. In view
of the great benefit not only to agri
cultural interests, but to all others ac
cruing from a Avell conducted system
of improved highways, the congress
urges upon the governors of the sev
eral states of the Union to specifically
call the attention of their state legisla
tures to the importance of action in
devising such a system.
The congress, just before adjourn
ment Thursday afternoon, elected the
following officers: President, B. F.
Clayton, of Iowa; vice president, G.
M. Rvals, of Georgia; secretary, J.
Stahl, of Hlinois; assistant secre
tary, W. G. Whidby, of Georgia; sec
ond assistant secretary, T. J. Apple-
yard, of Florida; treasurer, Henry
Hayden, of Iowa. The next session
will he held at Parkersburg, W. Va.,
October 3, 1894.
silver and a change of financial eondi
tions that would result iu the improve
ment of the condition of the agricul
tural sections of the country.
Tho discussion of tho addresses was
then announced and Colonel N
ham’s address was taken up. Mr
Tewkesbury, of Pennsylvania, inquired
of Colonel Needham if he had any
well-defined plan by w hich the govern
ment was to obtain possession of the
railroads of the country. Colonel
Needham cited the Union Pacific.
The discussion grew quite interest
g and there was a disposition to go
into the whole history of the Union
Pacific steal, which threatened to grow
lenghty. The subject proved a ver
interesting one and the members seem
ed to thoroughly agree w ith Colonel
Needham that the government should
take possession of the railroads if it
was found to its advantage to do so.
Colonel Needham said that in an
swer to a general question as to wheth
er it would be proper for the govern
ment to control and operate all the
railroads of the country he had said
that the government had an opportu
nity for an experiment on this line V
taking possession of the Union Pncifl
for its indebtedness, and that
had a precedent for so doing
the ownership and operation
railroads by Australia. He bad not ad
vocated that the government should
own and operate all the railroads of
the country. Very little was done at
the night session. Hon. J. H. Slaugh
ter, of Tennessee, read a paper on co
operation among farmers, and H. J,
M. Stahl, of Quincy, HI., on our na
tional wealth. At the close of the ses
sion the congress adjourned until
Wednesday night.
trial trips were calculated to bentiIt y g 0 jjair w jth ijl-coacealed agitation,
Tliursday’s Session
The farmers' congress re-assembled
at 10 o’clock Thursday morning. The
report of the committee on resolutions
was continued. The congress declared
itself in favor of all economical im
provement of waterways and harbors by
liberal appropriations, expended sys
tematically in conformity with a com
prehensive plan prepared by a board of
competent engineers, and commend es
pecially to the favorable consideration
of congress the connection of the Missis-
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
AMs of Goraincnt and Nm of
the Departments Discussed.
BETRAYED;
•hamber. A few moments later she has
tily descended the stairs, with hat and
shawl on, and quietly left the house.”
“Why did yon not tell me all this be
fore, Mr. Henley?” asked Mrs. Yeraon,
somewhat severely.
A. DARK MARRIAGE
MORN.
And then she stopped short, and a thrill
of terror shot through her Icing, and al
most made ht r heart stand still.
There, directly opposite, sat the very
man who had watched her persistently in
the waiting-room, and now, as then, his
"It was my impression that her bus- eyes were fixed steadfastly upon her.
Romance of Loue, Intrigue and
Crime.
BY MRS. ALICE P. CARRISTON.
Moles of Interest Concerning the Peo
ple and Their General Welfare.
The war department, Wednesday,
awarded a contract for 5,000 pounds of
smokeless powder to the California
powder works, at Santa Cruz, Cal.
The house committee on judiciary,
Tuesday, after a lively discussion,
voted to report favorably on Bailey’s
bankruptcy bill.
The house committee on coinage,
CHAPTER V.
IX PCBSUIT.
The muffled figure that bad disappeared
in the darkness slowly returned and once
more stood, with an air of irresolution,
in front of the house.
A light in the basement attracted her
attention.
After an instant’s hesitation and a hasty
glance about her she entered the gate and
knocked on the window.
The servant girl came forward, and
pressing her face against the glass, peered
out at her curiously.
The woman made an eager gesture, indi
cating that she desired to speak with
her.
Grumbl ngiy the girl left the window,
and a moment later opened the door.
The stranger stepped into the entry,
and quietly removed the shawl in which
she had been muffled. The servant gazed
upon the face now fully revealed, with a
look of unequalitied astonishment.
The stranger’s hand quickly sought her
pocket and then was extended toward the
guileless daughter of Erin.
“I am making you some little trouble,”
she said; “please oblige mo by taking
this."
“Bless
burst out
find it in m* 5 heart to take—well, well, if
you will have it so—an’ phat can I do for
ye now, dorlint?”
“Do you know the gentleman who left
this house only a moment ago? Please
tell me that?”
“Know him, is it? I do, thin, an’ phat’s
more, it’s no good av him I know.”
“There is a young lady here, whom he
calls to see, is there not?”
“There is.”
“Is—is she very pretty?”
“She’s purty enough, sure.” Then see
ing an indescribable look of pain, or
annoyance on the other’s face, she has
tened to add, in a soothing tone: “But,
darlint, not half so purty as yer own
swate self.”
“Has he been coming here often to see
i ye for a perfect Indy, as ye air.”
ut Bridget. “Snre, thin, I can’t
weights and measures Wednesday voted
to begin the consideration of the Bland ' her?” asked the stranger, hesitatingly,
bill, re-enacting the free silver coinage “Often, is it? Sure, thin, it s weari
law of 1837 on the second Wednesday
in January.
Judge Charles H. Simonton was, on
Monday, named by President Cleve
land as United States circuit judge for
the fourth judicial district. There
we arm
out the carpets, he is, wid his comin’s an’
his goin’s. Why, till widina wake or so,
he’s been cornin’ almost ivery night, to
say nothin’about Sundays.”
“But the lady’s brother is his friend.
Might he not come to Eee him?”
“Och! T say triad to ye. Phat was he
here to-night for, thin, wid niver a soli-
band had privately sent for her, ” answered
the guest: “and I thought, therefore, un
der the circumstances, it was best to keep
qu et. I see now I was in error.”
“A persistent enemy is working against
is,” exclaimed Eugene, bitterly. “Not a
moment is to be lost. She must be found
at once, or it will be too late!”
He had a singular premonition that
iome one, he knew not who, was conspir-
ng against his happiness; and he re
called for a second a strange Ecene of a
few days ago.
“W’hat mean you?” demanded Mildred’s
aunt, in a terrified voice.
“I mean.” answered the unhappy bride- j
groom, “that the note which took me
away from here half an hour since was a |
base and ciuel forgery, and it was done |
in order to get me cut of the way, so that j
my wife might bo enticed from this
house. Let hae go to her room for a mo
ment.” And, taking three steps at a time,
he bounded up the staircase.
On reaching Mildred’s room, he looked
eagerly about the floor. Iso note was
there.” Mildred had found it—he was
satisfied of that now—and he shud
dered to think what the result might be.
He sank heavily into a chair. Be was
almost discouraged. He could hardly
conti ol his thoughts for a moment.
At length the image of his young and
broken-hearted wife, wandering about the
almost deserted streets in the darkness of
the night, rose up before him, and he
started to his feet with the fixed purpose
of finding her.
Where could she have gone?
He had hardly framed the question in
nis mind when the answei' was suggest
ed to him:
“Why, to Meta's, to be sure.” And once
more he rushed down the stairway.
The guests had been gradually dropping
off. They had seen that their presence
was becoming embairassing, and so had
the good sense to retire.
Now a few only remained.
“I think I know where she has gone,
Mrs. Vernon,” Eugene said, eagerly, “and
I will go there at once and seo if I am
right. I shall be back very soon; so, if
she should return in my absence, please
keep her here. Tell her not to leave the
house again on any account. ”
“You may be sure I shall do so,” said
the lady, emphatically. n
“Have you a carriage, Mr. Cleveland?
asked Mr. Henley, who was ono of the
few remaining, now stepping forward.
1 “I have not, ” answered Eugene. “I dis
missed the one I had at the door.”
“Then take mine, by all means. It is
waiting without. ”
“A thousand thanks. I will gladly
avail myself of your kind permission.”
“Do so; and if I can be of the slightest
service ”
“No, no; I think not; and yet, my mind
iB in such a whirl, I ought to have some
one with me; and you, being cooler,
might be able to give me a word of advice
when I most Deed it. Ye3, if you are
willing, I shall be glad to have yonr
will be no big scramble for the seat he tary sonl ° iu the ’ house, barrin’ the girl
leaves vacant. | herself up there, an’ me down here? It
The caucus to consider the tariff j wasn’t the brother he wanted to see, I’m
bill will probably be held. Tuesday she is aH alone? -
evening. If Chairman Vilsons re-j “gh e is, on’she's hardly been out ol
port is finished by that time—and the b er roomB these three days, but has kept
chairman thinks it will be—the bill by herself up there a-cryin’ av her eyes
will be reported to the house on that out, so she ha* But sure, miss, it’s sick
- , I ye air. Och, hone, an’ phat’s the matter?
uale ‘ . I God send the spalpeen av a man is noth-
The senate committee on privileges in . to ye .»
and elections Wednesday morning dis- I “No* no,’’gasped the poor creature, “lie's
cussed in an informal way, a bill to nothing to me. He was my husband-
repeal the federal election law, but, for an hour, but-oh, God! that I might
owing to other engagements of senators t d / yer hns baud! Luk at that now!” ex-
on the committee, no action was taken ; <q a j med Bridget, with an expression oi
and the bill was laid over. | blank amazement on her face. Then a
The state department has received feeling of pity seizing her, she quickly
the following from Captain Picking: adde ' .. , T
1T °. r ° «gjt down here, darlint. sit down, I
Rio de Janeiro, December 12. Cor- I Here, take this glass of wather.
pus islands and Lnchada are in pos-, pbat in tho wurruld can I do for y e,
session of Admiral do Gama, the insur- 8a y?”
company.
‘Then come;” and the two left the house
together.
ent commandant. The former is well
fortified and continually firing upon
the custom house and naval arsenal
with small arms. Consul Burk, at
Pernambneco, wants a vessel as a pre
cautionary measure, martial law hav
en aptek vi.
IX THE SHADOW OF DEATH.
As the carriage containing the unhappy
bride • whirled swiftly onward toward
Forty-second street, Mildred sat bolt up
right on the hack seat, her hands clasped
in her lap, her lips tightly compressed,
and her eyes fixed and staring before her,
but seeing nothing.
She had merely said, in answer to the
hackman’s careless “Where to, miss:’
"The Grand Central Depot,” and then
had sunk into a state of apathy, from
which she was at length aroused by the
stopping of the carriage, the opening of
the”door, and the waiting driver’s busi
ness-like "Here you are, miss.”
She accepted his proffered assistance,
anil, as she stood upon the sidewalk,
hastily took out her portmonuaie and
dismissed him with a liberal fee. Then,
after a hasty glance around, she went
into the waiting-room by the ladies’ en
trance.
Tho window of the ticket office was
open. She hurried toward it.
“When does the next train that stops at
Riverside leave here, if you please, sir?”
she asked, iu a low and trembliug voice.
“Eleven thirty-five,” answered the ticket
agent, glibly.
“Oh! so late? Is there none before
that?”
The distress and bitter disappointment,
If I might trouble you to get me a car
riage,” poor Mildred murmured.
“Throuble, is it? I’ll have a carriage
here for ye in less than no time, ” and
snatching up a cheap bnt gaudy shawl,
which she threw over her head, the girl
hurried from the house, conscience-smit
hs been declared. All is quite there.” j ten not a little, yet not well seeing how
° ClmaKos in .he Wilson Bill. she could retract any of the absurd state-
The following are the. more impor- j m ^ e wag fifcav iy a g good as her word in „ „
tant changes in the tariff bill, a revised tbe ma tter of time, however, for three ma de plainly manifest by the tone in
copy of which was laid before tbe full minutes had scarcely elapsed when a ! which the words were uttered, fixed the
committee on wavs and moans Monday j carnage wife in waiting before the door, agent’s attention, and, being human, he
mm “no-. * ‘ and, after refusing a further oiler from wa g affected.
mi °i t i v u , voi .ed noor Mildred, the contrite girl helped her j “No, miss,” he said, not unkindly, the
1 he schedule of cotton > ant is lamt an a saw it roll swiftly away. train you should have taken has been
on an average of about live pel* cent, | at that now,” she muttered to her- j gone some little time,
and a new' class is created, not exceed- Bel f # “What divilment there is in the : ° “There is no other that stops at Kiyer-
in <r 12 cents per pound in value, on j wurruld. AV ho cudbelave that wid so^swate ; gjde until eleven thirty-five, bat the nine-
Tvhmh the rate is °0 mr cent Yarns ' a face she carried so sad a heart? Sure, I ! thirty train, which will leave very looe
valued.^af 6 over 12 aniFnot exceeding 20 wish 1 hadn't thold her all I did; but the j now y stopB at Cos Cob, and. that, yon
cents per pound are put at 25 per cent.
Up to 30 cents per pound, 30 per
The sight of this person made her for
get for a time that Eugene might surmise
she would hasten at once to her mother;
and it was not unlil after the train had
started, that she wondered if he were
aboard, and. curiously enough, if, in case
this wretch continued to persecute her
with his attentions and should offer her
further insult, he would defend her.
On and on flew the train. Faster and
faster it sped away in the darkness.
Station after station was passed so
quickly that they seemed almost close
together rather than miles apart. At
length Port Chester was passed. The next
station would be Greenwich, and then
Cos Cob.
Mildred was thinking what she would
do in case the obtrusive stranger should
I leave tbe train at the same time with her-
j self, when all at once a shrill whistle
j broke on her ear, then came au appalling
! cry from far ahead, and the next moment
the carshe was in scemedto shrink up into
i nothingness.
Forone moment she retained her facul
ties, and in that moment she saw a timber
fall and crush in the head of the I eauti-
fnl girl in front of her, she saw the mother
sink prostrate by her dead daughter's side,
she saw a horrible look of abject terror
settle on the face of the stranger, and
then she saw no more.
AVhen she once more woke to con
sciousness she was lyiug on the ground,
surrounded on every hand by the dead and
dying.
”On the track above was a waiting train,
evidently but just arrived.
At the foot of tho embankment, down
which they had plunged, was the wreck of
the doomed cars, now burning fiercely.
Mildred raised herself on her left elbow
and looked about her.
By the light of tho burning cars she
could readily distinguish objects, and at
no great distance she saw a form which
she at once knew to be that of the mother
of the young girl whe had sat in front of
her
A little further away, horribly burned,
was what she felt rather than knew to be
all that was left of the girl herself.
Something moist trickling down her
face and a terrible pain in her head, made
her essay to raise her right hand.
The attempt was a failure, and then
she knew that her right arm was broken.
At that moment she saw coming toward
her, with conciliatory look and fawning
manners, the detested stranger. He
had something in hi3 hand. It looked
like her own hat, and, involuntarily, she
attempted to put cut her hand to take it.
The effort caused a spasm of pain; a
faintness seized her, her head whirled,
and she fell back unconscious.
“Good!” exclaimed the stranger, in a
tone of satisfaction, and hastened tc
where the dead girl lay, after crushing
Ihe hat he carried a little more—it was
pretty well crushed already.
In a few minutes he returned, accom
panied by a strong-limbed man, evidently
a farmer.
“This is my poor darling,” ho said,
pointingtoMildred. “Take her up gent y,
I fear she is badly injured. Carry her to
yonr bouse, and have the carriage ready
as speedily as possible. I will join you
presently. I wish lo do what I can foi
one or two of these poor sufferers. Ah?
aow thankful I ought to he that God's
great mercy spared me while so many wero
hurried into eternity.”
The young farmer muttered something
not overcomplimentar.y to the manage
ment of the railway, and raising Mildred
as tenderly in his arms ns a woman
might, bore her away.
The fearful scene was alive with men,
>nd oven women, hastening from one
group to another, and doing all in their
oower to alleviate tho sufferings of the
wounded. Being thus occupied, these
rood Samaritans had little time for auy-
;hing else, and so the scheming stranger
aassed unnoticed.
“Now, then,” he mattered, as his late
sompanion disappeared w.th his uncon
scious burden, “what I have to do mast
i»e done quickiy,” and once api roaebing
the body of tbe young girl, he bent over
it and scrutinized it closely.
“No, she could never be recognized in
the world,” he muttered half aloud. “Her
hair, what little there is left, is the same
color as the other’s. Her dress and outer
garments are all burned. Her hat I have
disposed of, and this one shall take its
place. Now, then, if, as I suspect, Mr.
his unconscious companion, and the
horses had just started, when two men
slowly approached bearing a body be
tween them, while two more followed
after.
One of these last looked up for an in
stant, and his eyes rested on the form of
the unconscious young woman.
The next moment the carriage had
passed and was gone, and Eugene Cleve
land knew not how very near he tnd been
to thwarting the black scheme of those
whose purpose it was to wreck his life’s
happiness.
CHAPTER VII.
THE PEIVATE SECRETARY.
The night of the horrible accident had
passed. The new day had come, with its
heavy burden of cares and sorrows and
cent; up to 40 cents per pound, 35 per
mane spalpeen av a man, he niver gave ; know, is only just across the river.'
me ther worth av a cint, an’ I as good as “Oh. thank you, sir; I will take atickel
axin’ him, too.” to Cos Cob,” and having secured it she
Thus quieting her conscience, Bridget sea ted herself in an obscure corner tc
cent - over 40 cents 40 per cent. All' returned to her kitchen, while the car- | wait until the door should be opened and
laces’ and embroideries, of which ! riage containing the broken-hearted Mil- j s he should be permitted to take her seat
ii • ,, , ,T 1 1 i„ ' dred sped onward toward Foilj-second , m the cars.
flax, jute, cotton - and other vegetable, 6 j ree ^ j p icm ty, e very moment she had de-
fibres, are raised from 35 to 40 per j Meanwhi ; 0j Engene Cleveland had re- ! scended from the carriage, by that pays-
cent. Saxonv, wilton and velvet car- . - t yi g yfrnon house, and, after terious intuitive feeling which,
t -IP ... or I. A Ik „ I lui : * ... , l. _ 1 _ J A _ ~Leo Aarrvoa tta Dll T4 0BRA
pets are advanced from 35 to 40 pel'} j eltinr , himself in by the same way he had | greater or less degree we all possess, she
I , P _ 1 , _ I 1. I.. M 1 m n A ,1 Ilt-ITITTI llV ffW ff TP Wit M Oil I
cent. Velvet and tapestry carpets are . made his exit, hastened upstairs, hoping
advanced from 25 to 30 per cent., and to gain his wife’s room " n °kserved.^ ( _
some advance is made in tapestry
Brussels, treble ingrain and Venetian
carpets. An advance is made in wool
Dutch carpets from 20 to 25 per cent,
and iu druggets and bakings and felt
carpeting. A like advance is
made in other sarpets not
specially provided for. Tin
plate is changed from au advalorem
duty of 40 per cent to a specific duty
of fl-5 cent per pound, and the reduc
tions are not to take effect until Octo
ber 1st, next. Pocket knives and ra
zors are fixed at a uniform rate of 45
per cent. The duty on pearl buttons
is again fixed at a line measurement,at
a rate of one cent per line, and the ad
valorem duty changed from 40 per cent
to 15 per cent. The provision for ivory-
on the free list is amended so as to
read: “Sawed or cut into logs,”
instead of simply “sawed or cut.”
CARPENTER APPOINTED
As Pension Agent for the Entire South,
Embracing Eleven States.
A Knoxville, Tenn., special of
Tuesday says: Major D. A. Carpen
ter, the newly appointed pension
agent for the entire south, embracing |
But he was not to be so fortunate. As
he was passing through the main hall,
Mrs. Vernon herself suddenly darted
from the back parlor, and, seizing him
eagerly by the arm, exclaimed, in a voice
quite loud enough to attract the atten-
tion of all in tbe adjoining rooms: ;
“Where in tbe world hive you been for
the last half-hour or more, Mr. Cleve
land, and, in mercy’s name, what has
taken yonr wife away?”
“Mywiftk'”
“Yes, indeed. It seems to me you both
left us very unceremoniously.”
“Mildred is not here then? You mean
to tell me that she is gone?”
"Certainjy; that is exactly what I say.
I missed her suddenly, and, having some
thing I wished very much to speak to her
about, 1 hunted for her high and low.
But it was ail of no nse; she was gone;
and at last I noticed that her hat and
shawl were cone, too.”
A feeling of unutterable dread—of ter
ror- entered the bridegroom's he.irt, and
he looked around him almost helplessly.
At this moment one of the gentlemen
who bafi bslpsff tc form the group that
had gathered about Engene and his wife
at the momant the forged note had been
handed to him stepped forward, and said
had been made painfully aware, without
seeing any one, that she was being closo-
ly watched.
Now, for tbe first time, she mustered
courage aud looked about her.
All at once her eyes rested upon a man
at no great distance from her.
He was leaning, in a studied attitude,
against one of the huge fluted columns,
and his gaze—indeed, his whole attention
—seemed fixed noon herself.
Miiiked shuddered, why. she knew not.
She had never seen this man before,
and there was nothing about him to sug
gest that he was iu any marked degree
different from other men; and yet her
pure womanly instincts made her shrink
from his gaze. . ....
Minute after mmnte passed, and still
he*stood there, with eyes, apparently, foi
nothing but her face.
At length the gong sounded, the door
was thrown open, and a loud voice called
0I “Nine-thirty! New Haven way,” and
; with a feeling of intense relief Mildred
j rose and hurried forward,
i For one instant she was stopped at the
door while she showed her ticket, and
i then, after being directed to her tram,
j she Fastened onward.
} At last she had found the right car and
! seemed a seat. . , ,
Tne one directly in front of her was
Eugene Cleveland was on that train that
1st came up, I’m ready for him,” and
eleven states and disbursing about ; called you away, appearing all the time
$7,000,000 annually, will take charge v
of his office the 1st of January. The
appointment had been expected for
several weeks. Major Carpenter re
ceived a dispatch Monday afternoon
notifying him of his appointment.
The major held the office before during
the last half of Cleveland’s first ad
ministration.
Bishop Lyman Dead.
Rt. Rev. T. B. Lyman, bishop of
North Carolina, died at his home at
Raleigh Wednesday morning of heart
failure. Bishop Lyman was born in
Boston, October 1815, and was seven-
tv-eight years old. He served as a
priest in Maryland, Pittsburg, Rome,
Italv. aud San Francisco and was con-
sippi and great lakes by means of aship secr ‘ ate(1 ass ; s t a nt bishopof North Car-
canal, the substantial improvements of 1 - n
the Missisijippi and itg principal trihn*
It so happened, Mr. Cleveland, that I
particular]v no iced jour wife after your i not occupied. -vii n
own somewhat abrupt withdrawal, aid 1 In that next forward™ a middle-aged
»“»!•■ *»“?_«".on 1 h. P .
hers will be a far happier lot than mine.”
Then, as she sank back into a comer by
the window:
she stepped into the hall, and seemed tc
hesitate whether to go up-stairs or to re
turn to the parlors. Just then the bell
rang, and another note was handed in.
“It was for her. She took it, and al
“She has her mother with her! Oh! if
I can only reach my home and throw my
self into my mother’s arms, before Eu-
most immediately retired to ’her own ‘ gene finds me. I shall be eo
just came up,
raising himself, he was about to walk
away, when he saw a group of three or
four men, one of them carrying a lantern,
coming toward him.
“Luck favors me!” he exclaimed in high
glee, “Here comes the young husband,
sure enough, and the conductor is with
him.”
“If she was aboard the train after our
last stop, she must be off here some
where,” the conductor was saying. “We
have looked everywhere else.”
“Ah, here are a few.” he suddenly added.
“This poor woman, I remember her d s-
tinctly. She was seated near the young
lady you described, she and
“Great God! can this be she—can this
be Mildred?” suddenly broke in Eugene,
as be stood before tbe remains of the un
fortunate young girl, who, in life, had so
closely resembled liis bride.
“I think not—I hope not,” hastily ex
claimed bis friend, at the same time en
deavoring to turn him away.
But an object lying close by hadcaugh!
Eugene’s attention.
“That’s her hat,” he cried out. “I know
it. Yes, this poor, disfigured body must
be all that is left of my once beautiful
Mildred. God help me; how can I ever
bear it?”
“Ah!” suddenly exclaimed the con-
ductor, turning upon the stranger; “yon
were in the same car, and near these peo
ple. Do yon know who this was?”
“Don’t know her name.” responded the
man, glibly. “She was a;young lady
traveling by herself. Sat in the seat
directly opposite the one I occupied,
noticed her in tbe waiting-room of the
Grand Central Depot. She seemed to be
in trouble; wanted to take a ticket to
Riverside, hadlo take one to Cos Cob.
“Alas! all hope is now gone. It is,
indeed, my poor Mildred,” and Eugene
bent over tbe form of his supposed wife
Tbe stranger having accomplished his
abject, hastened away. Soon he arrived
rt a farm house, and to his great relief
saw a carriage waiting before the door.
He hurried in.
“We’ll start at once," he said, sddress-
.ngthe farmer, whom he met in the hall
And then he entered the room where Mil
dred was lving upon the lounge.
“Mister/ said a vomao, coming in just
as he was raising the unconscious girl ii
his arms, “1 tell yon a doctor ought tc
Eee that poor child at once; her head i:
badly injured, and her right arm broken.
“A surgeon, and as good a one ai
there is in this country, will see hei
in less than half an hour, of that
ion mavbe sure,” said the man, warmly,
and as the somewhat mollified house
wife stepped out of the way, he carried
Mildred to tbe carriage.
Ht had taken his seat by the side oi
pains.
The day, too, wore away, the shadows
of another night fell, and deepened more
and more the gloom that pervaded the
rich bnt spirit-depressing library of the
Hon. Sherwood Eiliston.
Presently tho door opened, and a woman
stood upon tho threshold of the room.
A glance into the apartment caused a
frown to settle on her glorious brow.
The servant had neglected to light the
tudy lamp.
She took a step forward and touched
he bell. A foot-man appeared with sur
prising celerity.
“A lighr," she said, pointing to the ar
ound burner, and then sank wearily into
the great easy chair that some time before
had been occupied by her husband’s
nephew.
Tho lamp was lighted, tho porcelain
shade properly adjusted, and the sorvant
retired. Then Cora Eiliston turned eager
ly to the evening paper she held in her
hand.
It did not take her long to find the
heading she was in search of.
ANOTHER HORRIBLE RAILWAY
ACCIDENT!
A BEGCIiAB TBAIN BUNS INTO A SPE
CIAL, IS TELESCOPED, THROWN
DOWN AN EMBANKMENT
AND TAKES EIRE!
Twenty-three Passengers Killed and
Burned! As Many More Wounded!
A Completo List of the Victims.’ 1
It was this list that fixed the lady’s at
tention, and eagerly she scanned the
names.
Yes, it was there!
“Mildred L. Cleveland, wife of Eugene
Cleveland.”
Dead! Ah! that was more than she had
hoped for. That was almost too good to
be true. Where was Oscar Slyme? How
dare he stay away so long, when be must
know she was dying to learn exactly what
had happened?
Once more she looked at the heading,
and then slowly and carefully read the
article through from beginning to end.
“If there is no mistake—if the girl is
really dead, nothing could have happened
better,” she murmured. “Luck will have
played into my hands wonderfully;
but ”
A discreet knock at the door attracted
attention.
“Come in,” she called eagerly, and the
stranger of the Grand Central depot, of
the train, and of the scene of the accident,
slid, rather than walked, into the room.
Oscar Slyme was the private secretary
of the Hon. Sherwood Eiliston. He was
a man of, it may be, thirty-five years of
age. He had been called handsome, and
by some even distinguished-looking, and,
perhaps, in a certain degree, he was so.
He, at least, believed in his own good
iooks, and secretly flattered himself on a
certain resemblance to the august person
age whose secretary he was. Partly from
nature, and partly from tbe constant imi
tation to which he submitted himself, this
idea had some foundation, for he re
sembled the stately Mr. Eiliston as much
as a vulgar man can resemble one of high
polish.
lle was the son of a small manufacturer
in Connecticut; had received from his
father on honestly aoquired fortune, and
had dissipated it in the various enter
prises of his adventurous life.
The influence of his college, however,
obtained for him a place in the Depart
ment of Slate at Washington. He left it
to come to New York and study law;
placed himself with an attorney; attempt
ed literature without success; gambled at
ono of the most fashionablo dens, and
lost there.
He had successfully knocked with fever
ish hand at all the doors of fortune, and
none had opened to him, because, though
bis ambition was great, his capacity was
limited.
The subordinate positions, for which
alone he was tit, he did not want. He
would have made a very good schoolmas
ter. He sighed to be a'poet.
He would have been a respectable vilo
age rector. He pined to be a bishop.
Fitted for an excellent private secre
tary, he aspired to be a member of the
President’s Cabinet. In fine, ho wished
to be a great man, and consequently was
a failure as a little one.
But he made himself a hypocrite; and
that he found much easier. Ho fortified
lumself on the one hand by fraternizing
with the fiee-thinkers of the Ingersoll
school; on the other, by joining the
orthodox people of a certain very religious
community.
By these influences he contrived to se
cure the secretaryship to tbe Hon. Sher
wood Eiliston, who, in his efforts lo bring
about his olection to the Lniteil State3
Senate, needed tbe services of a person
possessing certain qualifications, and in
his general contempt of the human
species he judged Slyme would answer
his purpose quite as well as another.
Now, as doubtless the reader under
stands, Sherwood Eiliston was anything
bnt what is called a really good man;
hence, familiarity with him was morally,
fearfully prejudicial to the secretary. It
bad, it is true, the effect of stripping off
his devout mask, which he seldom put on
before his employer, but it terribly in
creased in venom the depravity which,
disappointment and wounded pride had
secreted in his ulcerated heart.
Of course Mr. Eiliston never took the
trouble to demoralize his soeretary; but
contact, intimacy and example sufficed to
do this.
A secretary is always more or less a
confidant. He divines that which i3 Dot
revealed (o him, and Slyme could not bo
long in discovering that hi3 employer s
success in life did not arise, in morals,
from too much principle— in politics,
from excess of conviction—in business,
from a mania for scruples!
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