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THE VIENNA PROGRESS. n TERMS, $1. Per Annum. Hew to the Line, Let the Chips-Fall Whefe They May.’ JOHN E, HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor, 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! [TO BE CONTINUED.) 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