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THE VIENNA PROGRESS.
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VOL. XI r. NO. 34
VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
BETRAYED
A DARK MARRIAGE
MORN.
A Romance of Lone, Intrigue and
Crime.
BY MRS. ALICE P. CARRISTON.
cnAl>TKR XXXI (Continued.)
r ,or nn instant hi; eyes jested on Eu
gene with a stupefied surprise nml almost
bewilderment; then he raised his arms
over his head, and his two hands struck
logether with a shnrp sonnd. At this
leiriblo moment Cora seized the arm of
Eugene, and threw him a look so pro
found, supplicating and tragic that it
alarmed him.
lie roughly pushed hor from him,
cros-ed his arms, and waited the resnlt.
The t-'enntor walked slowly toward him.
All at once bis fa~o became inflamed with
a purple color, his lips half opened as if
about to deliver some deadlr insult.
lie advanced rapidly, his hands raised;
but after a few steps the old man sud
denly stopped, beat the air with both
hands, as if seeking some support, then
staggerod and fell forward, striking his
head agair.Bt the marb’o manLlpiece,
rolled on the c rpet and remained motion
less.
Then there ensued in this chamber a
sinister silence.
A stilled cry from Eugene broke it. At
the same time ho threw himself on his
knees by the side of tho motionless old
man, touched first his hand, then his
hei rt.
He saw that be was dead.
A th’n thread of Idood trickled down
his pale forehead where it had struck tho
marble; but this was only a slight
wound. It was not that which killed him.
Wbat had killed him was the treachery
of those two beings whom he had loved,
and who, he believed, loved him. His
heart had been broken by the violence of
the surprise, tho grief and the horror.
One look of Eugene told Cora EUiston
she was a widow.
Slie threw herself on tho divan, buried
her face in the cushions and sobbed aloud.
Eugeno ft 11 stood, his back agiinst the
mantelpiece, his eyes fixed, wrapped in his
own thoughts
Ho wished in all sincerity of heart that
be could have awakened the dead and
restored him to life.
Ho had sworn to deliver himself up to
him without defense if over the old man
demanded it of him for forgotti n favors,
betrayed friendship and violated honor.
Now ho had killed him. If be had not
slain him w,tb his own bands, the crime
was still there in iis most hideous form.
He saw it brfo-.e him, he smelt its odor,
he breathed its blood.
An uneasy glanco of Cora recalled him
to himHolf, and ho approached her. They
then couversed together in whispers, and
he ha ily explained to herthe line of con
duct sho should adopt.
bhe must summon the servants, say
the Senator was taken suddenly ill, and
that ou entering her room he had been
seizod by an apoplectic stroke.
It was w ith some otfoitsho understood
she was to wait long enough befo’e giv
ing the ttl rm to give Eugene sufiicient
lime to esenpe, and until then she was to
remain in this frightful tete-a-tete alone
with tho dead.
He pitied her, and decided on leaving
the house by passing through his uncle’s
rooms.
Corn immediately rang violently, and
Eugene d il not retire till he heard the
sound of hastening feet on the stairs,
The aparlmont of the Senator com
municated with that of his wife by a
short passage. There was a suite of
apartments—first a study, thon a sleep
ing-room. Eugene traversed this room
with feelings we shall not attempt to de
scribe, and at last gaine 1 tho street.
The surgeon testified that Senator
Sherwood Elliston had died from the
rupture of a vessel in tho heart.
Tw o days after the interment in Green
wood took place, at which Eugene Cleve
land attended.
The same evening he left New York to
‘join his wife, who had gone to Roxbury
the preceding week.
CHAPTER XXXII,
TKEMBLINO IN THE BALANCE—JEALOUSY,
One of the sweetest sensations in the
world is that of a man who has just es
caped the fantastic terrors of nightmare,
and who, awaking, his forehead bathed
with icy sweat, s >ys to himself: “It was
but a dream!"
This was, in some degree, the impres
sion which Eugene felt on awaking the
morning after he arrived at Roxbury,
when his first glance fell on the sunlight
streaming over tho foliage, and when he
heard beneath his window the joyous
laugh of his little child.
He, however, was not dreaming; but
his soul, crushed by the horrible ten
sion cf recent emotions, had a mo
ment’s respite, and drank in, almost
without alloy, the new calm that sur
rounded him.
He hastily dressed himself and, de
fending to the gnrden, raised his son in
his arms.
He embraced him with unusual tender
ness, and bending over him spoke to him
in a low voice, and asked after his mother,
about his plays, with a singularly soft and
sad manner. Then he put him down, and
walked away with a slow step, breathing
the fresh morning air, examining the
leaves and the flowers with extraordinary
inteiest. .
From lime to time a deep, sad sigh
broke from his oppressed bosom; ho
passed his hand over his brow as if to
efface the importunate images. He sat
down among the luxuriant verdure,
cal’ed to the nurse to bring his son
agam to him, held him on his knee, in
terrogating him again, in a low tone, as
he had already done, then drew him
toward him, and clasped him tightly for
a long time, ns though to draw into his
own soul the innocence and peace of the
child's heart.
Flora surprised him in this gush of
feeling, and remained mute with aston
ishment. He rose immediately and took
her hand.
“■What splenum care you take of film!
he said. ”1 thank you for i*. He will be
worthy of you and your mother.”
She w«i8 so surprised at the soft and
sad tone of his voice that she replied,
stammering with embarrassment:
“And worthy of you also, I hope.”
“Of me?” said Eugene, whose lips were
slightly tremn’ons. “Poor child, I hope
not!” and rapidly withdrew.
Flora and her mother had learned, the
previous morning of the death of the Sen
ator The evening of Eugene’s arrival
they did not speak to him on the subject,
and wero cautious not to make any al
ius on to it. The next day and the buo.
seeding ones, they practice! the same
reserve, though very far from suspecting
the fatal circumstances which rendered
this souvenir so painful to Eugene. They
thought it only natural he should be
pained at so sudden a catastrophe, and
that his conscience should be disturbed;
but they were astonished when this im
pression prolonged itself from day to
day, until it took the appearance of a
lasting sentiment.
They began to believe that there had
arisen between Cora and himself, proba
bly occasioned by the Senator's death,
some quarrel which had weakened the tie
between them.
A trip to New York, which he made
some two weeks after his arrival, was to
them a confirmation of the truth they be
fore suspected, but his prompt return,
his now tastes, which kept him at Box-
bnry for some time, seemed to them
favorable impressions.
He w as singnlarly e id and pensive. He
took long walks alone. Sometimes he
curried his little son with him, as though
by chance. He sometimes attempted a
littie timid tenderness with his wife; and
this awkwardness on his part was quite
touching.
“Flo,” he said to her one day, “you ore
a fairy; wive your wand over this place
and make of it nn islcnd in mid-ocean.”
“You say that becanse you know how to
swim,” she rejoined, laughing and shak
ing her head; but the hea t of the young
woman was joyful.
“Y’ou embrace me now every moment,
my dear child,” said her mother to her.
“Is this re illy all intended for me?"
“ My beloved mother”—while embracing
her again—“I assnre you he is really
courting me acain. Why, I am ignorant;
but he is courting me and you also, my
mother. Notice it.”
Sirs. Leland did notice it. In his con
versation with her, Eugene seemed to
wish to link all that was good in the past
with his new life; to forget the rest, and
pr iy of them to forget it also.
It was not without fear that these two
charming women abandoned themselves
to their hopes. They remembered that
they were in the presence of an uncertain
person; they little trusted a change so
sudden, the leason of whic h they could
not comprehend. They feared it was
some passing caprice, which would re
turn to them, if they were its dupes, all
the r misfortunes, without the dignity
which had hitherto attended them.
They were not the only ones struck by
th's transformation. Mr. Norton and all
his friends noticed it. Even the inani
mate things—the woods the trees, the
heavens—should have borne the same
testimony, tor he looked at and studied
them with a benevolent curiosity with
which he hod never before honored them.
In truth, a profound trouble had in
vade! him and would not leave him.
More than once, before this epoch, his
soul, his philosophy, his pride, had re
ceived a rude shock, but he had no less
f mrsued his path, rising after every blew,
iko a lion wounded, but uuconquered.
In Ir impl ng under his feet all moral
belief which binds the vulgar, he had re
served honor like an inviolable limit.
Then, under the empire of his passion,
be said to himself that, after all, honor,
like all the rest, was conventional. Then
he en ountirod crime—he touched it
w ith hi9-hand-—horror seized him, and he
recoded.
He repulsed with disgust the principle
which had conducted him there—asked
himself what would become of human
socioty if it had no other.
The simple truths which he had misun
derstood now appeared to him in their
tranquil splendor. He did not yet dis
tinguish them clearly: he did not try to
give them a name, but he plunged with
secret delight into their shadows and
their peace. Ho asked for them in the
pure heart of his child, in the pure love
of his young wife, in the dailv miracles
of nature, in the harmonies of the heav
ens, and probab’y already—in the depths
of his thoughts—of God.
In the midst of this approach toward a
new life he hesitated.
Cora EUiston was there.
He loved her yet vaguely. Above all,
he could not abandon her without a kind
of baseness.
Terrible struggles agitated him.
After having done so much evil, would
it be permitted him to do good and grace
fully partake ofthe joys he foresaw?
These ti: s with the past, his fortune
acquired through his uncle, his fatal mis-
' tress—the specter of that old man—would
they permit it?
And we may add, would Providence
suffer it? Not that we would wish lightly
to use, as is often done, this word Provi
dence, and to suspend over Eugene Cleve
land this menace of supernatural chas
tisement.
Providence does not intervene in hu
man events except through the logic of
her eternal laws. She haB only the sanc
tion of these laws, and it is for this rea
son she is feared.
At the end of the month Eugene re
turned to New York and to his Counting-
Business over for the day, before re
turning home, he paid a visit to Cora.
He had neglectedher a little of late; in
fact, had only visited her at long inter
vals, as politeness compelled him.
Cora wished to keep him for dinner, as
she had no guests with her. She pressed
him so warmly that, blaming himself all
the time, he consented. He never saw
her without pain.
She always brought back to him those
terrible memories, but also that terrible
intoxication.
She was never more beautiful. Her
deep mourning embellished yet more her
languishing and regal grace; it made her
pale complexion yet more fair, and it
brightened the brilliancy of her look.
She had the air of a tragic queen, or of
nn allegory of night.
In the evoning an hour arrived when
the reserve, which for some time had
marked their relations, was forgotten.
Eugene found himself as in olden times,
at the foot of Cora—his eyes in hers, and
l overing with kisses her lovely hands.
She was strange that evening.
She looked at mm with a wild tender
ness. instilling, at pleasure, into his veins
the poison of burning passion; then es
caping him, the tears gathered in her
eyes.
All at once, by one of those magical
movements of hers, she enveloped with
her hands the head of her lover, and spoke
to him quite low beneath the shadow of
this perfumed veil.
“IVe might be so happy,” she said.
“Are we not so?” asked Eugene.
“No! I, at least, am not, for you are
not all mine, as I am all yours. ThiB ap
pears harder now that I am free. If you
had remained free—when I think of itl
or, if you could become so, it would bo
heaven!"
“You know that I am not so! Why
speak of it?”
She drew nearer to him, and with hei
breath more than her voice, answered:
“Is it possible! Tell me.”
“How?” he demanded.
She did not reply, but her fixed look,
caressing and cruel, answered him.
“Speak, then, I beg of you!” murmured
Eugene.
“Have you not told me—I have not for
gotten it—that We are united by ties
stronger than all others; that the world
and its laws exist no longer for us; that
there is no other good, no other had for
us, but our happiness or our unhappiness?
Well, we are not happy, and if we cou'd
be bo—listen, I have ihou.ht well over it!”
Her lips touched the cheek of her lover,
and the murmur of her last words was
lost in her k sses.
Eugene roughly repulsed her, sprang
up, and stood before her.
“Cora,"he said, sternly, “this is a trick,
I hope; but trial or no, never repeat it,
never! Remember'”
She also quickly drew up her figure.
“Ah! how you love her!” she cried.
"Yes, you love her; it is shs you love—
I know it, I feel it, and I—I am only the
wretched object of your pity or of your
caprice. Even Mildred Lester is no
longer remembered. Very well; go back
to her—go and protect her, for I swear to
you she is in peril!"
He smiled with his haughty irony.
“Let us 6ee your plot," he said! “So
you intend to kill her?”
“If I can!” she said; and her superb
»rra was stretched out as though to seize
s weapon.
“What! with your hand?”
“The hand shall be fonnd.”
“You are so beautiful at this moment,”
said Eugene, “I am dying with the de
sire to fall at your feet. Acknowledge
only that you wished to try me, or that
you were mad for a moment."
She gav6 a savaje smile.
“Oh! you fear do yon?” she said, coldly;
then rais ng again her voice, which as-
snmod a malignant tone, “yon are right;
I am Dot mad; I did not wish to try yon;
I am jealous—I am betrayed, and 1 shall
revenge myself, no matter wbat it costs
me, for I care for nothing more in this
world! Go, and guard her!"
“Be it 6o; I go,” said Eugene, with
flashing eyes. He immediately left the
room and the house; he reached the
Grand Central Depot on foot, and that
night reached Roxbury.
Something terrible there awaited him.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
DESPAIR.
Oscar Slyme had been making the
most of his time, though thus far mat
ters had not turned out as he had expect
ed or desired.
Baffled in bringing about Eugene’s ruin
through the Senator, he determined to
separate him from Flora, whom, notwith
standing what had happened, he still
loved as much as he hated Cora Elliston.
He dare not go to her himself, but
while in the service of the Senator and
Warren Leland he had become acquaint
ed with a connection of the Leland fami
ly, a sour-minded old maid, who affected
religion and ali the virtues, nnd professed
to despise wealth,and the pleasures of
this worlJ, and who, as a matter of
course, hated her younger, prettier, nnd
more fortunate relative, Flo, and all her
family with an intense and perfect hatred.
Oscar Slymo knew and understood this
woman thoroughly, and determined to
make her his tool.
He went to her, told his story—a fear
ful story it was—and when he saw she
was almost bursting with the information
she had received, suggested that she
should go to Roxbury and pay the Le-
lands a visit, especially, as he happened
to know, Eugene Cleveland was out of
the way.
She jumped at the idea, snd the very
next eastern-bound train had her on board
as a passenger.
It is almost needless to say that Mrs.
Leland and Flora were greatly astonished
when informed that their connection,
Miss Pliebe Craven, had arrived to pay
them a visit. They could not understand
it. Their intercourse with her had al
ways been very constrained. Neither
their character nor their religion coin
cided with hers.
After a moment’s reflection Mrs. Leland
■aid:
“Of course we must receive her and
treat her well. You go down, Flo, and
entertain her for a while. I will come
later nnd relieve yon.”
"Very well, mamma,” and with a re
signed sigh Flo descended to the recep
tion-room. '
At sight of her Miss Pliebe started to
her feet, and rushing forward, threw her
arms about her neck and kissed her. Flo,
however, did not return this greeting quite
so cordially.
In truth, she had no great aversion for
her. maiden relative; she simply contented
herself with not liking her; but Pkebe
Craven hated Flo intensely, and now she
had found a good occasion to prove it to
her, and she would not lose it. What
wonder, then, she began with a kiss?
The death of the Senator hnd destroyed
all Slyme’s high hopes of the fortune
which he believed he would receive for
opening the eyes of the deluded old man;
and in his rage and dis ppointment he
had been very bitter against Eugene.
Phebe learned through him that Eugene
had been in the chamber of Mtb. Ellis
ton the night of the Senator's death. On
this foundation of truth she did not fear
to frame the most odious suspicions; and
Slyme, haffled in his vongeanre, and like
her in bis envy, had aided her.
On Flora’s invitation, she again took
her seat, but forced hor young relative
into a chair by lrir sile, and still held
her hand.
Soon she affected to make the Sena
tor's death the theme of conversation—
shed a few tears over her old acquain
tance, and k'ssed Flo's imprisoned hand
with a burst of tenderness.
“llv Door little thine!” she said to her;
"it is for you also I weep, for you will
be yet more unhappy than heretofore, if
that cjn be possible.”
“I do not understand you, Phebe,” an-
iwered Flora, coldly.
“If you do not understand me so much
the better,” replied Miss Phebe, with a
ihr.de of bitterness. Then, after a mo
ment’s pause: “Listen my dear little
thing! this is a duty of conscience which
I comply with. You see, an honest crea
ture like you merits a better fate; and
your mother, too; who is also a dupe.
This man would deceive the Almighty
himself. In the name of humanity, I
feel bound to ask pardon for both of
them.”
“I repeat, Phebe, that I do not under
stand you. ”
“But it is impossible, Flo! Come, it is
impossible that all this time you have
suspected nothing."
“1 suspect nothing, Phebe Craven,”
Flora, “because I know all.”
“Ah! continued Phebe, dryly, “if this
bo so, I have nothing to say. But there
are persons, in that case, who can accom
modate their conscience to very strange
things.”
“That is what 1 thought a moment
since, Miss Craven,” said Flora, rising
abrnptly.
“As you wish, my dear; but I speak in
your own in'srest; and I shall reproach
myself for not having spoken to yon mo e
clearly. I know your husband better
than yon will ever know him; and the
other also. Notwithstanding you sa7 60,
you do not know ail, let me tell you.
Senator Elliston died very suddenly, and
after it is your turn! Be very careful,
my poor child!”
“Oh, Phebe Craven!” cried poor Flora,
becoming ghastly pale, “I will never see
you again while I live!”
She left the room on the instant, ran
up-staire, and fonnd her mother.
She repeated to her the terrible words
she had just heard, and her mother tried
to calm her; but she herself was dis
turbed.
She went down to Miss Phebe, and
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supplicated her to have pity on them
and to retract the abominable innuendo
Bbe had thrown out, or to explain it
more fully. She made her understand
that she would inform Mr. Cleveland of
the affair in case of need, and that he
would make it unpleasaut lor her.
Terrified in her turn, Miss Phebe judged
the belt method was to destroy Eugene
Cleveland in the estimation of Mrs. Le
land,
She related all that had been told her
by Slyme. She informed her of the
E resence of Eugene at the Senator s
ouse tbe night of his death. She
hinted at certain reports that were circu
lated, and mingling calumny with truth,
redoubling at the same time her affection,
her caresses and her tears, she succeeded
in giving Mrs. Leland such an estimate
of Eugene’s character that there were
no suspicions or apprehensions which
the poor woman from that moment did
not consider legitimate as connected with
him.
Miss Craven finally offered to send
Slyme to her, that she might herself in
terrogate him. Mrs. Leland, affecting
an incredulity and a irauqnillity that she
did not feel, refused, and shortly after the
mischief-making old maid returned to the
city.
On rejoining her daughter, Mrs. Le
land exerted herself to deceive her os to
the impressions she had received, but she
did not succeed; for her anxious face be
lied her reassuriDg words.
Accustomed so Jong to thiuk, feel, and
suffer toge her, these two women now
met, so to speak, in the some reflections,
the same reason'ngs, and in the same
terrors. They went over in their memo
ries all the incidents of Cleveland’s life
—all his faults; and under the shadow of
the monstrous action imputed to him. his
faults took a criminal character which
they were surprised they had not Been
be r ore.
They discovered a series and a sequence
in his designs, all of which were imputed
to him as-crimes—even his good actions.
Thus hiB conduct of late, his strange
ways, his fancy for his child end for his
wife, his nSBiduous tenderness toward
her, was nothing more than the hypo
critical meditation of a new crime—a
mask which he was preparing in advance.
IVhat was to be done? Wbat kind of a
life was it possible to live ia common
under the weight of such thoughts? What
present—what future?
These thoughts bewildered them.
Next day Eugene could not fail remark
ing the singular change in their counten
ances in his presence; but he thought
they had suspected ho had been to e« !
on Cora, and so were offended.
He smiled at this, for as a result of his
reflections during the night he had deter
mined to break off forever his intrigue
with Cora Ellislon.
For this rupture, which he had made it
a point of honor not to provoke, Cora had
herself furnished him a sufficient pre
text. The criminal thought she had con
fided to him was, he knew, only a feint to
test him, but it was enough to justify his
abandonment of her. As to the violent
aDd menacing words she had used, he
held them of little value, though at times
the remembrance of them troubled him.
Nev rtholess, for a long time he had not
felt his heart so light.
This wicked tie broken, it scemod as
though he had resumed, with his liberty,
his youth an! virtue.
He walked and played a part of the day
with his child. Just as night fell, clear
and pure, he proposed to Flora an ex
cursion in the woods. He spoke to her
of a view which had struck him shortly
before on such a night, and which would
plenge, he said, her romantic taste.
He would not permit himself to be
surprised at tbe disinclination she mani
fested, tho disquietude which her face
indicated, or at the rapid glance she ex
changed with her mother.
The sjime thought, and that a most
fearful one, entered the minds of both
these unfortunate women at the same
moment of time.
They wero still under the impression
of tho shock which had so weakened
their nerves, and Eugene’s sudden prop
osition, so contrary to his usual habits,
the hour—the night and the solitary
walk—had suddenly awakened in their
brains the sinister images which Phebe
Craven had laid there.
Flora, however, with an air of resolu
tion the circumstances did net seem en
titled to demand, prepared immediately
to go out, then followed her husband
from the house, leaving her child in
charge of her mother.
They had only to cross the garden to
find themselves on the edge of the woods
which almost touched the dwelling, and
Which stretched to some distance beyond.
Eugene’s intention in seeking this in
terview was to confide to his wife the de
cisive determination he had taken of
delivering up to her, absolutely and
without reserve, his heart and life, and
to enjoy with her his first taste of true
happiness.
Surprised at the cool distraction with
whioh Flo replied to the affectionate
gayetyof his language, ho redoubled Iris
efforts to bring their conversation to a
tone of more intimacy and confidence.
While stopping at intervals to point ont
to her some effects of light and shadow in
their walk, he asked what visitor she hid
seen yesterday. She named two or three;
then lowering her voice against her will
mentioned Phebe Craven.
“That one,” said Eugene, “ydu had bet
ter not have seen. I no longer recognize
her.”
“Why?” asked she, timidly'.
“Because she is a bad vomsn. When
We are a little more intimate with each
other, you and I, I shall edify you on her
character. I shall tell you all—all, un
derstand. ”
There was so much of goodness in the
accent with which he pronounced these
words that Flo felt her heart half com
forted.
The phantom disappeared, little by lit
tle, from her mind, and she commenced
to say to herself that she had been the
sport of a bad dream and of a true mad
ness, when a singular change in her hus
band’s face renewed all her terrors.
Eugene, in his turn, had become ab
sent and visibly preoccupied with ronie
grave care. He spoke with an effort;
made half replies, meditated, ihen
stopped quickly to look around him, like
a frightened child.
There was an extraordinary similarity
in the thoughts which occupied them
both. At the moment when Flora was
trembling for fear near her husband, he
was trembling for her.
He thought they were being followed;
he thought he heard in the thicket the
cracking of branches, rattling of the
leaves, and finally the sound of stealthy
steps.
These noises always ceased on his stop
ping, and then commenced again the
moment he resumed h ; s walk. He
thought, a moment later, ho saw the
shadow of a man pass rapidly among the
underbrush behind them.
Finally he had no. doubt that they were
dogged—but by whom?
The repeated menaces of Cora Ellistoa
against Flora’s life—the passionate and
unbridled character of this woman, soon
presented itself to his mind, and suggest
ed this mysterious pursuit, and awakened
these frightful suspicions.
fTO BE CONTINUED.]
Gladstone is Ailing.
A cable dispatch from London says:
Mr. Gladstone is confined to his bed
on account of a severe cold.
A colony to be operated on strictly
Communistic principles has been or
ganized in Vienna. It is to include
Americans, Englishmen and Ger
mans, and will settle on lands in the
Kenia district of British EastAfrica,
about 250 miles above the mouth of
the Tena River. The colony will in
clude some well-known Anarchists
and Socialists of Austria.
GEORGIA STATE NEWS.
Interesting CnUings tor the Perasil of
■ the Casual Reader
General Manager Gabbett, of the
Sam road, si a lea that the road would
certainly be built into Savannah at an
early date. If the Central was unwil
ling to sell the Eden extension from
Meldrim to Lyons, he 6aid his road
would build in. They seem determin
ed to get into Savannah at once, and
if they ^aunot get terminal facilities
from the Central, Mr. Gabbett says
there will be no trouble about securing
them from the Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad.
Deputy Revenue Collectors Johnson,
McElmurray, Elder and Edwards cap
tured a blind tiger distillery in the
northern portion of Wilkes, on tho
line of Elbert county, a few days ago,
and arrested on the spot a man who
gave his name as John H. Dunaway,
and carried him to Augusta, where he
will answer to Judge Speer for his of
fense. The officers destroyed the dis
tillery, which they said was a most ex
cellent plant of ninety gallons daily
capacity. They captured 100 gallons
of whisky and about 2,000 gallons of
beer.
The details of the joint debate be
tween General Evans and Mr. Atkin
son, the two candidates for the demo
cratic nomination for governor, have
been arranged at a meeting of repre
sentatives of each side. The place
and date of each meeting is as follows:
Griffin, Wednesday, the 21st of March;
Athens, Friday, the 23d of March;
Rome, Monday, the 26th of March;
Hawkinsville, Thursday, the 29th of
March. The debate at each of the four
places shall begin at 11 o’clock a. m.,
at places to be agreed upon by the lo
cal representatives of both sides.
Judge J. L. Mershon, of Brunswick,
has filed a bill in the United States
court at Savannah against a large num
ber of the stockholders of the Ogle
thorpe National bank, of Brunswick,
which failed last May. The bill is
filed in the name of J. W. Bennett, re
ceiver, appointed by the comptroller
of the currency, Mr, Eckles, and states
that certain stockholders have failed
to pay the assessment of §75 per share
on their stock as required tinder the
order of the comptroller. Tho amount
of the assessments thus unpaid is £39,-
000. Receiver Bennett asks judgment
against all those who have failed to
pay. Savannah stockholders have had
to pay nearly §30,000 in assessments
on acount of the failure of this bank.
Dr, J. L. M. Curry and Dr. D, C.
Gilman, trustees of the Slater fund,
visited the Georgia State Industrial
college at Savannah recently. They
were in charge of Chairman P. W.
Meldrim, of the college commission,
and Chancellor Boggs, of the univer
sity. In the party were Commission
ers W. R, Hammon and P. J. Cline.
Dr, Gilman and Dr. Carry were favor
ably impressed with what they saw,
and questioned the instructors and
teachers closely with regard to the
principles and methods they adopted
in teaching. There are now over one
hundred boys at the college, and they
made a splendid showing. Dr. Curry
said that he was favorably impressed
with the WoTk and that the college had
great possibilities. He said there was
one thing lacking, however, which the
trustees of the Slater fund required as
a precedent to making a donation, and
that was a state appropriation. This
college is given a portion of the lnnd
=orip fund, but no direct appropria
tion from the taxes collected. “We
belli those who help themselves,” said
Dr. Curry, “and what we do depends
largely on what the state will do for
the institution.*’
Colton—Mdstri* or SIAtc.
Colonel R. T. Nesbitt, state commis
sioner of agriculture, contributes an
article to the April number of The
Southern Cultivator, from Which the
following is an extract:
Cotton has been, for years, emphati
cally our “money crop”—that is, it
not only brings in most of the cash,
but absorbs every dollar of it, and of
ten the little gleaned from other re
sources of the farm. It has gradually
become a rapacious and unrelenting
master, but can yet be reduced to a
most subservient and profitable slave.
It has been conclusively shown that,
outside the cotton grown and consumed
in other countries, that is, in Asia, Af
rica, South America and Mexico, the
United States furnishes 75 per cent of
the cotton of commerce. In other
words, the world is dependent on the
southern farmers for three-fourths of
the cotton which it uses and which
cannot be produced elsewhere. From
thiB simple statement it will be seen
what a power we hold among the na
tions of the world, and what a lever to
lift ontselves and our section into pros
perity. But without home supplies of
food and forage, we lose the immense
advantage which this monopoly gives
us. Abundant home-raised provisions
must be the fulcrum on which our le
ver rests.
When our cotton crop is made we
can neither eat it or wear_it until it
passes into other hands, but if our ne
cessities in these points are such that
we are obliged to part with it we are
compelled to take whatever price the
dealer offers. Hence the crowding of
the cotton crop to market as soon as it
is gathered, though the price lie below
the cost of production, and though the
new year finds ns with only the paper
receipts to show for our twelve months’
labor. If a man has plenty of home
support he can afford to wait. The
world is obliged to have his cotton.
During the civil war the enforced sus
pension of cotton production caused
the price to reach the fabulous figure
of §2.85 per pound.
Knowing these facts, if the farmers
generally are fortified with ample pro
visions for family and stock, they can
quietly await a renu’jierative price for
their cotton. It will not do for a man
here and there to adopt this policy —
it must be universal, and when our
barns and cribs and smokehouses are
full, we can afford to look calmly ou
while the dealer endeavors to secure
our cotton for less than it cost us to
produce it. Is not this the situation
in a nutshell? Does it not compre
hend : reduction of the acreage, les
sening the cost of production, the
prosperity of agriculture, the very ex
istence of our state and section as a
healthy portion of the body politic?
What more powerful appeal can be
made to the interest, the common
sense, the patriotism of our southern
farmers? And the decision rest 6with
them. Unlike the agriculturists of
many other countries, there is no pow
er which can dictate their course.
They must decide whether they will
still further risk the bondage of a largo
cotton crop and possible, nay probable,
debt, or less cotton, ample provisions
and certain independence.
These “thoughts” are suggested and
emphasized by the fact that the final
decision must now be reached, as to
what portion of our crops 6hall be
planted in cotton. In deciding this
question let us remember that it is not
the number of bales, but the profit in
t hese bales which most nearly concerns
our welfare. Let us also keep in mind
that with the same labor we can, by
judicious selection of land and manur
ing, nearly double the yield, while all
other expenses, except picking or gin
ning, remain, about the same. Remem
ber, too, that the better the land, the
mire manure it will bear, hence it fol
lows, that we can, in a measure, sub
stitute fertilization for labor. We can
manure good lnnd with less risk, and
by employing, as far as possible, im
proved and labor-saving implements,
render ourselves in part at least, inde
pendent of that most uncertain factor
in the farm problem. Again, let it be
repeated, don’t waste labor and ma
nure on dead poor land. Where there
is so much to choose from we can con
centrate both on the best spots. Leave
the rest, either to be reclaimed by ju
dicious treatment, or by kindly mother
nature.
[AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
ODE LATEST DISPATCHES.
He Hap!® el a Day CimicM ia
Erlel aid Concise Paranjas
And Containing the Gist of the News
From All Parts of the World.
A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark.,
says: Boundless, the four-year-old,
which won the American derby at
Chicago last year, worth §50,000, pulls
up lame in a right fore tendon after
going over the Little Rock Jockey
club’s track. Boundless had just beeu
ridden a mile in 1T181, and it was after
this run that the lameness was discov
ered.
Southbound vestibuled train No. 5,
on the Shenandoah division of the
Norfolk and Western railroad, was
wrecked between natural bridge and
Buchanan. Engineer Jacob Hardy
was instantly killed and Fireman Will
Noftsinger was badly injured, though
not fatally. The disaster was caused
by a landslide from the bluffs along
the St. James to the tracks.
It is reported that a syndicate of
prominent Chicagoans has sent a large
sum, §100,000 or more, to be invested
in Atlanta real estate, provided an ex
position is to be held there, as proposed.
The gentlemen comprising this syndi
cate are prominent men, who have for
some time been looking to the south
for a field for investment, and they
have selected Atlanta as furnishing the
most favorable opportunities now in
view of her exposition movement.
A terrific explosion of a bomb oc
curred itl frotit of the chamber of
deputies at Rome, Italy, Thursday even
ing. Two persons Were dangerously
abd several less seriotlsly injured. The
bomb must have been charged with
material of very high explosive force,
as every window for some distance
aroubd was shattered, railings were
twisted, heavy stones moved from their
places and maby evidences of the tre
mendous power of its contents were
apparent.
Herman Clarke, of the firm of Hun
ter) Clarke & Jacobs, at New York,
which failed a day or two ago, has not
been seen by either of his partners
since last Sunday. Last Saturday the
rise in sugar began which culminated
on Tuesday sixteen points above its
start. Clarke had sold calls on sugar
right and left; most of them were un
der 90 and some of them were as low
as 84. By Saturday the last figure
had been passed and it is thought
Clarke, knowing that he had wrecked
his firm, took flight then.
Advices from Yladrid state that the
cabinet sat for seven hours discussing
financial questions and the difficulties
arising from the resistance to taxation
in the provinces. Eventually all the
ministers resigned. The disruption of
the cabinet had been threatening since
last fall, but was deferred by the
agreement of the ministers to patch
up their differences until after the set
tlement of the country’s dispute with
Morocco. Queen Regent Christiana
has instructed Premier Sagasta to re
construct the ministry.
A petition has been presented in the
federal court at Birmingham, Ala.,
asking that V. Lee Cowart, a young
lawyer of prominence who two months
ago was appointed by the department
of justice as assistant- to Examiner Cham
bers, be debarred from practice in that
court. The petition, which is in the form
of an affidavit, says the affiant ex-Depu-
ty Marshal G. C.Reid, believes Cow
art has been a notorious violater of
state and national laws; that he has
been an illicit distiller ; that he aided an
embezzler to escape from the Winston
county jail and that he is a man of ex
ceedingly bad character.
WAR SHIP WANTED.
Our Representative at Xicaraugna Asks
for Oue.
The department of state has received
the first official information of the op
erations of the British naval forces at
Bluefields, near the mouth of the Ni
caragua canal. It came in tho shape
of a dispatch from United States Min
ister Baker at Managua. He says that
the United States consul at San Juan
Del Norte, Ylr. Braida, telegraphs him
that the soldiers from the British war
ship Cleopatra have been landed at
Bluefields and strongly urges that a
United-States war vessel be sent at
once to the place. There is no expla
nation in the minister’s dispatch for
the reason for the landing of the Brit-
ish-forces.
Affairs ot Goyement ant! News ot
the Departments Discnssei
Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo
ple and Their General Welfare.
Two hundred thousand dollars of the
fifty million dollar loan have not been
taken tip, the subscribers defaulting
and failing to make the necessary de
posit within the time named.
General Gordon, of Georgia, has in
troduced in the senate a bill to estab
lish a bonded warehouse at Atlanta.
He also introduced a memorial from a
number of prominent drug firms of
Georgia protesting against the alco
hol provision in the Wilson bill.
Tbe president, Secretary Gresham
and Captain Robley D. Evans arrived
at Washington Tuesday afternoon on
their return home from their gunning
trip in North Carolina waters. Good
luck fell to the lot of the sportsmen,
for there was a large collection of wild
swan, geese and ducks on the deck.
The president sent to the senate
Wednesday night a further statement
of Hawaiian matters, accompanied by
a brief message of transmittal. Tbe
correspondence included three dis
patches from Minister Willis, one
dated February 10th, acknowledging
communications from the state depart
ment, and others dated February 14th
and 15th, respectively.
The secretary of war has received
from Second Comptroller Mansur his
decision in the case of General Sickles,
which, while setting forth strong con
stitutional arguments against the qual
ifications of any retired army officer
to enter congress, finds that General
Sickles cannot be divested of his re
tired pay, amounting to §5,025 an
nually, and continues to hold his mili
tary office.
The democratic members of the
senate finance committee have begun
the fifth week of the consideration of
the tariff. It is not thought that the
bill will be submitted to the senate
before Monday, the 19th instant. As
soon as the debate is begun, the major
ity will insist that the daily sessions of
the senate be held from 10 to 6 and
that no other business be permitted to
interfere with th? discussion of the
bill.
Once more the committee on finance
has delayed the tariff bill, or, to be
more correct, the protectionist demo
crats have delayed the committee.
There have been so many delays that
there is no feeling of certainty as to
when it will be reported. The com
mittee is still struggling with the trusts
which are backed by protectionist
democrats who say they will vote
against the bill if their interests are
not protected.
The rooms of the senate committee
on judiciary, wherein proceedings are
usually conducted in the utmost se
crecy, were thrown open to the public
Wednesday morning and for more thon
an hour the committee listened to ar
guments favoring the proposecVchange
in the constitution intended to provide
for the recognition of the existence of
God. A number of clerical looking
gentlemen and many ladies made up
the audience.
In the United States supreme court
the case of the Plant Investment Com
pany, of Connecticut, against the
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
Railroad Company and the trustees of
the internal improvement fund of the
state of Florida was remanded to the
circuit court to be dismissed for want
of jurisdiction, the result being an af
firmation of the decision of that court.
The suit was brought by the invest
ment company to enforce the convey
ance to it- of certain lands included in
the grants to the railroad in payment
of the services of the pdaintiff company
in the construction of the road.
The Completed Tariff Bill.
The Wilson tariff fcill, which passed
the house of representatives February
1st, was laid before the full member
ship of the senate committee on finance
Thursday morning, in the amended
form upon which the democratic ma
jority of that committee had finally
agreed, after one whole month of con
sideration and numerous changes of
front upon all the more important ob
jects of taxation. Simultaneously with
the presentation of the bill to the full
committee it was given out for publi
cation through the press. The chief
features upon which public interest
centered were the provisions in regard
to the tariff on sugar, iron ore, lead,
wool and its manufactures, cotton
manufactures and the internal reve
nue taxes on whisky and tobacco.
The duty on sugar runs from 1 to
14-10 cents a pound. The actual dis
crimination between raw sngars and
the products of the trust is 4-10 of a
cent. But the trust, by this duty, is
given i of a cent a pound advantage
over all imported sugars. Still, with
all this, Haveineyer and his lobby
song that they have been treated bad
ly. That is to create sympathy
in order that they may be sure
to get tbe schedule through the senate
as reported. The lead trust and the
whisky trust also get all they demand
ed. Tho whisky tax is raised to $1.10
a gallon anil tue bonued period ex
tended to eight years. The southern
senators, as a rule, are very much dis
satisfied with the bill. The kickers
are also expressing dissatisfaction, but
agree that the bill will pass in time.
“In time,” however, may mean three
months or more.
CORBETT’S CONFIDENCE
Is Expressed that He Will Easily De
feat Pete Jackson.
James J. Corbett, the champion
heavy-weight pugilist of the world,
says he cannot fight Jackson in June,
but will meet him sooner if the prop
er inducements are offered. Of the
proposed match with Jackson, Corbett
had this to say : “Jackson is a big
clever fellow, yet he is not as shifty as
Mifchel, or as dangerous as Sullivan.
It is almost ten to one that I will de
feat him, as Jackson has certainly de
teriorated, while I have advanced.
Again he has but one style of lighting,
and despite the fact that he has a
marvelous reach, and is much heavier
than I am, yet he is on this form not
the difficult problem to solve as either
Mitchell or Sullivan.”
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
Tho review of the industrial situation in the
South for the past week shows that improve
ment is now the rule in Southern industries snd
mechanical circles. The number of [newly
established industries is above the average.
Enlargements of manufactories to meet in
creasing demands are in large numbers, and
enquiries for machinery of ail kinds oontinue
to be heavy. During the past week the textile
and woodworking industries have been especi
ally active. Prices for iron and coal continue
to be low, but there is an increasing demand
preventing accumulation of stocks in first
hands. Reports from ali points in the South as
to business conditions are uniformly encourag
ing and satisfactory.
Forty-nine new industries were established
in the South during the past week, prominent
among which are: The Bandcroft Coal Com
pany, capital $200,000, at Charleston W. Ya.;
a $10,000 ice factory at Dallas, Texas; the
Petersburg Iron Works, of Petersburg, Va.,
capital $100,000; the Dodson Printers' Supply
Company, of Atlanta. 6a., capital $I00.(XX);
the Spring Creek Oil and Oas Company, capi
tal $100,000, of Spencer, W. Va-, and the Bart
lett Paving Company, at New Orleans, La.,
capital $100,000. Electric lighting plants are
to be built at Cochran, Ga., by W. H. Mobbler,
and at Georgetown. Texas, by M. P. Kellev <k
Co. Lawler 4 8ons will istablish flouring
mills at Martin, Tenn., and others will be built
at Clifton and Morgan, Texas, and Quebec,
Tenn.. A $40,000 water and light company
lias been chartered at Bastrop, Texas, and a
$100,000 coal and lumber comp.iny at Charles
ton, W. Va. Cotton mills aro reported at Ab
beville, S. G: Newport News and Petersburg,
Va., and wood working plants are to be built
at Little Rock and Center Point, Ark , Apala
chicola, Fla.; Abbeville, Ala., Port Royal and
Sumpter, S. C., Charlotte, N. C., Colmesr eil
snd Oik Cliff, Texas, Meridian, Miss., and
Hamilton, W. Va.
Among enlargements of the week are brick
works at Rome, Ga.,; a tannery at, Alexandria,
Va.;cotton mills atNewnan, Ga., New Orleans.
La., and Pacolet, S. C.. and wood working
plants at Cargile, Ark.,- Meridian, Miss., Bris
tol. Tenn-, and Portsmouth, Va.
The following important new buildings are
reported: Business houses at Cordele, Ga„
Louisville, Ky., and StarkBVille, Miss.; a $30,-
000 court house at Furs.vtli, Ga-, and a $50,000
one at {5u!p air Springs, Texas; a $25,000 office
building at Fort Worih, Texas, and an opera
house at Memphis, Tenn.—Tradesman (Chat
tanooga, Tenn.)
TALMAGE WILL STAY.
He Reconsiders His Resignation from
Brooklyn Tabernacle.
The Rev. DeWitt Talmage has again
changed his mind in regard to resign
ing the pastorate of the Brooklyn tab
ernacle. A few moments before Dr.
Talmage began his sermon at the
morning service last Sunday, he told
the congregation that he had a few
words to say to them. He then read
the following letter, being several
times interrupted by applause:
“Dear Brethren of the Board of
Trustees of the Brooklyn Tabernacle—
Your urgent letter is at hand. I had
fully resolved to resign my position,
not only becanse twenty-five years of
my Brooklyn pastorate will soon have
passed, but because of financial entan
glement, resulting from a series of dis
asters, which would have crushed
any bank, or insurance company, or
worldly institution-. Now, by the
blessing of God, upon your man
agement, our church is put out
of all embarrassment and, I hope, has
seen its last crisis, I am persuaded by
what you say in your letter of yester
day, and what I hear from all sides,
and after seeking divine direction, I
now, and here, declare my intention
to remain your pastor. What I have
suffered at the anticipation of parting
from this noble and devoted flock and
from the expected removal from this
beloved city, in whose affairs I have
always been deeply interested, no one
can estimate. And now, with more
faith and high expectation than I ever
had at any previous point in my his
tory, I joiD you in a new campaign for
God and the world’s betterment.”
After Dr. Talmage had finished read
ing the letter, he was loudly applauded
for several minntes.
ROBBERS BLUFFED.
A Plucky Express Messenger Saves His
Train from Robbery.
Train No. 5 on the Mobile and
Ohio, was held up three miles below
East St. Louis by three masked rob
bers. At the point revolvers the des
peradoes compelled the engineer and
firemen to accompany them to the ex
press car. A third man stood near
the car and when he saw the engineer
and firemen jump from the engine
yelled to the express messenger to
open the door and stated that if he
did not he would hit the door with a
stick of dynamite. The messenger
refused and told the robber if he
came iDto the car he would kill him.
It appears that the robbers were not
prepared for a fight, for, upon receiv
ing the express messenger’s answer
they left.
BRECKINRIDGE ON TRIAL.
He is Sued for §50,000 by Madeline
Pollard.
Congressman William C. P. Breck
inridge, of Kentucky, has been place L
on trial at Washington for his social
reputation and political life, in the
begining of the suit which Madeline
Vinton Pollard lias brought against
him to determine whether he shall pay
§50,000 for alleged seduction and
breach of promise. Judge Bradley,
who will preside at the trial, entered
the court room and after the crier liml
called the court to order the judge an
nounced the case of Pollard vs. Breck
inridge as the first case of tho panel.
The center of attraction in the court
room was the white-haired defendant,
who did not seem to show any trepida
tion on being stared at and discussed.
There was no trouble in securing a
jury, which is composed of white men.
Russo-German Treaty.
The committee of the German reich-
stag having in charge the Germ an-Rus
sian treaty have rejected the amend
ment offered by the conservatives lim
iting to one year the time when either
party to the convention shall be enti
tled to give one year’s notice of its ab
rogation. The committee then adopted
a number of articles including that
fixing the term of duration of the
treaty at ten years as originally pro-
Roseberry Takes Possession.
A London cable dispatch says: The
offices occupied by Mr. Gladstone, as
premier, have been formally taken po-
session of by Lord Roseberry. The
new premier was cordially greeted _by
the retiring premier upon liis arrival
at the rooms in the official residence
in Downing street.
“Heaven is not reached by a single
bound” nor the other place by a single
■tumble.
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