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THE VIENNA PROGRESS.
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“Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.”
JOHN E HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XII. NO. 38
VIENNA, GA.. TUESDAY, APRIL 10. 1804.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
I
i>ARL7H3.
I^* 1 ‘-"tee- «•few*i*al Jwem
aunown. ii is one of the sweetest Gem* ever
published in the English language— Q; JT, A.J
r roaid with sweet bluo ejes
Lhokqdjijjiwrttfi with a shy surprile
Bbcfln^f‘1 asked her name;
Awhile fhe bent hergnidoa boad,
>vhtle o’er her face soft blushes spread
Like boot* stvift rosy ;
Then Ibiking up, she softly said,
JJy nAme is ilamuia'B Darling."
me.” I cried;
grow wide;
4 Tejl me your mother's narrie, my dear,*
Apd stopping low I phused to hear—
Ino little maid seemed muling;
. Why, DiUtnnift’s name s like mine, you kiiow,
Bht jtjgt bbcftU'ae we love her so;
ANfe cS.il her MAmraa Dferling."
"Tell me your pupa's i
The little maiden’s eye. ,
JMy papa? Don't you know?
Why, ever eince the baby died
MfemmA nt;d I have always tried
To fcheer 1 ini from bis,sorrowing;
Ahd n y mAinma and I love beat
Tb call him Papa Darliug,”
"What did you call the boby, dear?*
fl t J38 ' v * r ^ anie qni o low but clear :
“The baby—bh, l wonder what
They call him iiow in hr Avon ;
Pul we had 'only ono name here:
And that wie Baby Darling.”
B^ift vipars flow by, and once again
That littlfe maid ao tender
blood by my side, but she had grown
like lilies, tall aad slender ;
Tills titnp 'twits I that celled her nami
And swift the blushes grew like flame
At rosy mist of morning;
1 clasped her In inv arms and kissed
My tender-hearted Darling.
Mark, iHtn a brief "Chine dlorig,- started ! Game. The minister *»s t young man,
for fhe village. Tfci* was r8t the fignrS ’ *»«>t jet forty years o’.d, and bai come to
the little man had been expecting t6 tut. I U*6 seitlem-nt full af hea th with *he
He had been proud bf his commission I dtlier colonists hire rears before. His
and had thought with elation of appear- taUldf, when he repiOTed to Ssgnuuck to
held back by the dam of logs, rushed
down tumultuously through the sluice
gates, turned the great wheel which set
the machine in motion, escaped and vent
on its way though the woods, a little
angry with dam and wheel, but rather ! lug upon the street of Sagnarick with hig : become the pastof of the Puritan flock.
A Story of Early Colo-
iiial Days,
"tv- CHARLES C. HAHN.
3ltAt’TKK i.
A COt.ONI.tr, BETT/.FhIknt.
LL night long the
woods had re-e lioed
*!ha sweet trill of the
New England nightin
gale. Toward dny-
l)i eak I he vesper and
'? the h ir bird had taken
tip the song, nnd set
their leafy homes
ringing with their
voices.
The morning broke
coo! aitd exhilarating.
All around the settle
ment circle 1 the deep
forest, so dense
aud luxuriant that the
sun never penetrate! its doepest
glad s, nor entirely drove away
tho night Horn beneath its in-
/ nermost trees, which interlaced
as\ branches to bar the intruder out.
Kr~~ > So thick was the forest that no
grass, save here and there a sol-
* itary blade or cluster con
cealed the rich black lcaui, (ho productive
fnims of future geuerations. But
the dainty blue v.olet and other
wood flowers bloomed in their season,
in scant profusion. Now, however, only
the latest of summer's colors brightened
the earlh or perfumed the loify arches
with their fragrance. Instead, the ground
was beginning to be covered with an
irregular mosaic of dead and dying au
tumn leavos. The trees, too, were dis
playing the aame diversity of color As
one looked down into the depths of the
forest he could trace every shade of greeu
and brown, with here an I thore a scarlet
fringe. Here is all oak with leaves still
green as spring, and farther on a distant
cousin who is coming out in colors such
as artists imver hope to imitate with
paint aud brush; while st nding side by
side with this gay young gallant is a more
unfortunate brother doomed to pass into
bis winter's sleep in dusky, ugly brown.
Tho long feather-limbed elms aud branch
ing maples that have not yet been touched
by frost, protected, perhaps, by other
trees, proclaim their respective family
tr«)ts, and wave aloft tboir family colors
of a lighter tint of green than the hard-
wooded oalc; while those which have felt
the first touches of winter's pioneersmau
are gracefully turning themselves into
the more subdued of autumn colors, more
delicate, if loss gorgeous, than the colors
" 'he oak. Somotimes tho poison ivy
s in and out among the branches of
frieudly tree and mingles its bright
nvos with the green of its supporter,
in the tree is brown, as pei chance it
b6, the brilli'JSl colors peoping out
a beneath or behind tho more robei
leminas one of n gayly plumaged
flirtinjfTts feathers within its cage or
captive peering out from behind his
..son bars.
In Sagnauck alBO s gns of autumn were
visible, and tho thrifty pioneers were fol
lowing nature in tlieir preparation for the
long winter months. The gardens were
being robbed of their spoils, aud im
mense mounds marked the places where
the cropB of potatoes nnl turnips and ap-
p’es had been covered with thick layers
of straw nnd earth, to protect them from
tho severe New England cold.
Yellow enrs of corn showed themselves
through the lower chinks of the log
granaries which before another mou‘h
would be filled to the very brim. Be
side the kitchen doors lay golden heaps
of mammoth pumpkins and loug-necked
squashes, which were being constantly
diminished by the busy housewife and
her daughters, who cut and hung them in
long festoons from the kitchen rafters.
Embryo woodpiles, which before another
month would be heaped high as the
house i nd again dwindle down to theii
present size by spiring, marked each
home. Shelter for cattle was being made
more secure, aud the pens were filled with
hogs, which had nothing to do all day
long but munch Ihe yellow ears of com
and grow fat for Christmas killing.
Upon tho inlets which had been cut
from tho settlement, into the woods to let
the waves of human work and life far
ther out, were rows of corn shocks, not
unlike in npipeaianee the Indian wigwams
which a century before may have graced
their very site. These little indentations
of tbo forest, like so many arms reaching
out from the town to reclaim the land and
wrest it from tho woody giants which
held it for miles around, had been the
result of five y. ars of honest toil, of fell
ing of trees ami grubbing of roots, until
now so much of the rich black earth had
been reclaimed and was yielding an abun
dant harvest. This harvest the sturdy
boys of the colony wore attacking as
though it were an Indian village to be
ransacked, and, having laid the wigwamB
low, proceeded leisurely to separate them
into piles of yellow ears and great heaps
of fodder—the one rich winter food for
the cattle; the former to be hauled to the
mill by the creek and ground into meal
for family ash-cakes, bread, and pud
dings.
This mill, which was owned by the
colony, was a picturesque bu ldine,. had
been brought from tho mother country in
pieces and set up here by Saenanck
Creek, whioh wonnd around the east and
south of town. The pilgrims had done
their best to make it prosaio, but by
some unwritten law a mill is alwayB pic
turesque, build it prim end straight as
we will. The very rudeness in structure
of Sagnauck mill added to its beauty.
Anything elso than unplaned planks
or riven boards for the roof would have
been out of plac e among the trees whioh
grew up to its very walls, nnd the leaves
which beat a tattoo upon the roof with
every wind th it blew. A dam had been
merry w thal over jts regained freedom
All night long t e woods bad re-echoed
the trill of the nightingale, and all day
long the sound of the woodman’s ax made
sweet music for the wives at Sagnauck.
Down deeper in the forest and farthest
from the settlement—so far, in fact, that
tbe sound of his ax could but ^faintly bo
heard at the edge of the wood—the man
who had blazed the way aud led the colo
nists to their new home was preparing
h's winter fuel on this autumn morning.
But no woman's heart woUldhave quick
ens t its beat for a moment with
thoughts of the chopper, had one heard
the ring of his ax, or known it
whs his. For Mark Hillary was the
bla k sheep of Sagnauck, and up to date
ra 1 succeeded in acquiring for himself a
reputation for roughness and, if not for
crime, the near approach to it, which
caused his respectable neighbors to look
upon him aa little better than a heithen,
if Dot worse. The minister said ‘'worse,”
nnd in truth his con tuct, and open ridi
cule of thorn institutions which our
Puritan forefathers held most dear, gave
ample reason for his low repute among
them. With a strong will-power, aided
by great physical strength, he had all his
life spurned control and resented any
thing which savored of compulsion or
restriction upon his rights or freedom of
thought and action. Thus ho h id come
»t ouce in contact with church and sta'e.
Early in life Mark Hillary had crossed
the ocean aDd lent his BlreDgth in build
ing up the New England, hoping in her
lo find the froedom he had not secured in
old England, to when he encountered
the rigid laws of the Puritan govern
ment, which prescribed not only whit hi
mnst believe nnd do, but what he must
believe nnd think, his nature rebelled,
and. being called to account once dr twice
for some careless remark concerning lha
Puritan faith, he abjured religion aud
took the position of open antagonism to
the church. Theu, bo ng badgered by
both church and state, both of whiqh had
been founded to allow freedom of belief,
he became cynical and took caie to spare
no one, not even ' he Piev Henry Gran
ville, if opportunity afforded a sharp
lepartee.
And yet a close observer must hove
been able to detect some good in the man.
Jf he abjured his fellows, he at least
found friends among the lower animal*,
and he was thoroughly at homo in the
forest. His "plube was in the front,” he
was wont to say, and, in time* ha grew
accnstomod to add, “as far from the
white man as possible." SO, after a year
in the settlement, he had bnilt him a
cabin in tha woods, half a mile west, add
rarely entered the village except on Sun
day and lecture days.
No doubt this seclusion had much to
do with the low repute he fell inlo, for
the man who despises the smallness of
his companions is rately loved by thoBe
he esteems so poorly, especially if he
takes no pains to conceal his opinion.
But out there by himself he communed
with nature in liis rough way, was happy,
and would h ve been a tolerably decent
man had he boen left alone. He knew
evory bird around his cabin, and watched
over their nests as though they were his
own property.
“My village,” he sometimes said to
himself, “whut more need have I of
friends?"
He took genuine pleasure also in sit
ting at evening in his cabin door and
watching the tall trees, straight and stiff
in tbe calm summer, or bowing before
the storm which now and then passed
overhead. Once he was heard to speak
to them as if they had been endowed
with life, which speech, being carried to
the minister, cinsel no little concern in
the society, and was carefully filed away
to be brought out at some later day, when
chance should be given to force this
heathen into conversion, or when hie
offenses had accumulated sufficiently to
givo*pretext for driving him away.
Un this Fame morn ng at nine o’clock
the ministi r left his sermon unfinished
upon his desk, end, with a very severe
look upon his long, slim f ice, walked
wilh quick, nervous step down the one
street of r'agnmck.
The ltev. Henry Granrille was a tall
and well-built man, but his emaciated
body, suukeu, sallow cheeks, and the
nervous twitch of bis muscles as he
rested, stood or walked, showed that his
once strong constitution had been broken
either by loo lengthy sittings by the study
1 imp or by some secret trouble, whioh,
commencing wilh the mind, had gradu
ally spread through his body until the
whole man had become its prey. The tall
frame was now little more than a skeleton
and he habitually bowed his head—not in
self-depreciation, but through weakness
and nervousness. The reverend gentle
man would have found it a difficult task
to have hidden from justice had he ever
committed a crime. He was at all times
aud in all places Henry Granville, and
could no more have changed his charac
teristics or concealed h;s peculiarities
than the typical leopard could change his
vari-colored skin. The minister was al
ways recognized as far a3 he could be
seen. His long black coat, which no one
ever saw him without, unless it might be
his wife, and tumor said that he even
slept in it; the nervous twitching of his
body, raising his shoulders and lowering
his head; his long etrides in walking—all
these were familiar to each person, great
or small, in the settlement, and never yot
had he been able to appear at one end of
the street but that Dame Prouty, who
old enemy following in submissive Cap- consisted of a wife and one Child—a girl
tivity. His peace of mind was ndt in- ; He had Como to the new land in the first
creased by the cutting witticisms Which ! flh g h Of youthful ambition — affibi-
Hillary fired at him continually, and : Rons th dO stern Work fof hl3
which were ail the more galling because stern G6d; and had at once thrown
the poor fellow felt his inferiority in ndt | himself into the arena, ready to combat
being able to understfiud them all. i Popery and witchcraft; Popefy he had
Arriving at the Squire's house Hillary I studied in the old Country until he knew
entered with no more ceremony than he j ft haart. He could discourse fluently
would have entered the poorest cabiu in ; against apostolic succession and the BTt-
the village, and with a hearty salutation ! premaejr of St. Peter; he had the subject
td the Magistrate said: ‘ i bf indulgences doWn to a fine point, and
“The chutch must lovo me well to seril I Could shdw up the infamy of Peter—
for me lii the midst of woodchopping. : ytlept, the Pope—in great style: he wa'S
Seems as if I am about the most populir I sl^o well vetoed in the r.tua', aud could
man in S gnauek, at least you send for ! show the most prejudice 1—for extempori
me oftenei thin ohv other. I'ixl readv— prayer—that ihe devil lurked in the pray*
fire away. The meeting's opeii.” tt’itfc I er-tiook. As for bisbdps, priests, afic
a glance at the min ster, who squirmed in ’ deflrons, he leveled them all at one fel
his chair, and haif fose intending to re- i blow; for did not bishop^ find presbytef
buke such lightness, but whom the Squifo l mbah tne some in the New Testament;
motioned to remain seated, Mark sai
down.
The charge was real, in which it was
s ated with all due form, that Mark
oor ; Hillary, of Sagnauck. Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, had on several oco sions
offended the sacred laws of Sagnauck, his
Majesty the King, broken the peace of
Sagnauck, aud done lasting injury to
God’s church by denying the power of
God, denouncing His holy word, and in
dulging in his vicious propensity fdr
sneering, and by ridiculing (he holy men
of old whose livos were given us for pat
terns of life.
“Mark Hillary," began the Squire, after
the charge had been read, “you are here
charged by the Kov. Henry .Granville,
first, with having elated opeitlv that the
ten commandments were not to bb
obeyed. What have ybu to say to the
Charge?"
“I never said exactly that,” replied
Hillary. “But what I did say was that
where we are commaiided to make n6
image of anything in heaveii or on
earth or pnder the earth, that it is not
binding, because, if binding, you, Squire,
must take down those pictures from your
walls; and I also said that where we are
told to observe (he Sabbath day is not
binding, or, if it is, we aro all breaking
God’s law, for no ono observes that day.
We all keep Sunday, not Saturday.”
“Blasphemy!" ejaculated the Rev.
Henry Granville.
“Again, you are charged with speaking
lightly Cf thfe Holy Bible, the sacred book
Of God, and ha\e not only ridiculed the
holy men therein mentioned, but have
denied that we aro to bo governed by
those bcbks known as the Old and New
Testaments.”
“Certunly, Squire. Was Duvid such a
saintly man that we should follow his
example? Didn’t he steal a man’s farm
and kill another to get h s wife, when
he alre idy htid a hundred or more?
How many wives does llev. Henry Gran
ville think a man ought to have? And, as
to that old book, I confess I care little
for the first part of it, for it is only a
history of tbe Jews, aud I'm no Jew.
Some parts of the New Testament are all
tight find some are not. Paul runs down
hiatrimony, and, while running it dowD,
says he thinks he has the spirit of God.
If he thought so, I don’t. And, as for
sending that Blave back to tbe man vvho
claimed to own him - - I know you ail
believe in one mail owning another, but I
don’t; and I dop’t believe that what Paul
s rid then will hold good n hundred years
from now. It may to-day, but that* does
not make it right.”
“You hear him!" again interrupted the
minister. “His own words bearwitness
against him."
“Again,” continued the Squire, “you
aro charged with denying that the "in*
Bpired words of our Lord, the New Testa
ment, are to be the ;ule of our lives."
"No. 1 never, lor I read them every day,
What I did say was, that you worshiped
the book ins ead of God. And I deny
that God wrote it. Christ founded His
Church and left His apostles to run it. ”
(Groans from the minister.) “They wrote
to different churches according to the
chinches’ needs. Some of them are
good for ns, some are not."
“Lastly," said the squire, “I have here
what purports to be a poem, in your hand.
Is it yours?”
“Yes; I see no reason for denying it,“
quoth Hillary, af;er looking at the manu
script.
In measured tones the minister theD
read the following:
GOD IS DEAD.
The God or ages, God of might and power,
Tile mystic, dread 1 AM, who thjough the past
'Puled a!I the universe, lay still in death.
The glorious symphony of earth aud sky
Had ceared, and death-like silence reigned in
heaven.
Tn state the Monarch lay before the Tin-one;
His pall a shm-ng.clo'ld of light, so bright,
go ter ible tha t none dnro turn his eyes
Upon the bier; and none dare lift tho" pell
And ;:au' on that great One, whom men had
thought
Could never die.
The deepest silence. Then
Came slowly, lowly, sa lly forth the deep
Majestic funeral march. The heuvenly choir
Was mute. The air its elf of heaven broke forth
And throbbed with low, sail tinges for its King.
Softly it came, mysterious chanting, such
As men or aDgels never heard before.
He died. Through space confusion ruled.
Around
Our earth the long pent storm of ages burst
Its barriers aud swept across its face.
Stout treeB were bent. Tha very mountain!
bowed
Before tho storm. Loud peals of thunder rolled
From pole to pole. The vivid lightning flashed.
The sea was in a fury lashed, and waves,
High as tbe heaven, broke upon the shore.
Tbe dead, who iu their graves had slept arose.
And in white garments, weird and wild, came
forth
From every lend and deepest* ocean depth,
lived at the onpoRite extreme nnd waq And walked upon the earth. The bouIb of thosi
l ^ Long .deal, whose bodies wore corrupt, blew
near-sighted, had not recognized him, if
she chanced to look his wav.
On this paiticular morning the minis
ter was even more nervous than usual,
and a deep cloud, portending severe dis-
ploisure from some cause or other,
darkened hi3 brow. And as he passed
quickly down the street he scarcely raised
his eyes from the ground to reply to the
respectful salutations tendered him by
those members of his flock whom he met.
But, hurrying on, he paused not {or an
instant untilhe entered the gate of the
great house of the village, and, after a
shirp rap with the iron knocker, was ad
mitted into the office of the pioneer
'Squire.
CHAPTER II.
THE TRIAL.
Pausing th s morning in his work, Mark
Hillary saw John Atlee, the ooloni il con
stable, approaching. Then leaning upon
bia ax-handle, he waited until the con
stable had stopped end bide him good-
morning, when, without paying auy atten
tion to the situation, he demanded:
“What do you want, Atlee? Y'on haven't
:om6 out here just for a friendly talk, I
know, so just spit out what you have
and go. ”
The officer's face changed color under
this rough greeting. For Mark Hillary
had been particularly hard upon several
of Atlee’s weak points, and a most bitter
snmity had sprung up between them.
But he quickly reg lined the usual malig-
aant look which always marked his face
when near Hillary, and, in the manner
which his soul thought would be most
iggravating to the rough iconoclast, re
plied:
“I’m sorry to come ou'cheer on such
&n errand, being as me and you used to
be such cronies; hut an ’umhle officer o’
j the law must do his dooty, if it is nn-
| pleasant. I’ve got here in my pocket a
writ for yon, Mark Hillary, which bids
you come before the magistrate and
I p ead guilty or not guilty to a charge of
i blasphemy, so I guess you’d better
lounge along with me.”
“The church and the state keep up this
nagging pretty well,” was Hillary’s re-
i joinder. “ Wonder which one of my re
marks tonched the parson’s flank this !
here
And there before the storm with Bhrieks and
moans—
Unearthly mists from heaven and hell—and
cried:
*0. God is dead 1" In plaintive minor notes.
The sad refrain whioh mingled with the chans,
Df white-robed, wandering dead, who walked
the earth
And cried “that God, who was the king of souls,
Was new no more.”
All nature bowed before
The storm of ages, and all nations bowed
Before the storm which rent the soul—ths
storm
Through all the eons feared, and which now It
Had burst, through all eternity should roll.
For God was dead. No rower was there to staj
The tempest, nor the wave of dark despair.
E'en Satan, in the lowest depths of hell, i
That tempest feared, and bowed befl’to the
doom -i
That then approached him, for etenllty,
Even in hell, was now tenfold a curse.’
The power which hell's existence caused was
gone,
But in its place there sprang more direful
powers.
Which could not be controlled, and which could
not
Control.
Then suns whirled into flaming suns;
Stars into stars : and onctL and buds and Btars
Were one in wildest chaos. Frightened men
And flitting sonls. archangels, devils, saints
Fled here and there, and sought in vain for rest.
The soul was pierced—divided—and its shriekB
Were heard above tbe roar of storm and flood.
And heav’n was now no more, for heav’n is God
—And God was dead.
Loud cried a voice from near
The Throne! Swift passed a bier on wheels of
fire)
A flash of light shone through all epaoe, and
God
Was borne to his last resting-place!
And over all the 6ca and darkness rolled,
Surrounding, guarding, holding down the mass
Which now flew on and on through spaoe.
Having read the blasphemous verses,
I the minister sut down as if the case were
ended. No questions were put to the ac
cused, or he might have explained this
last charge as easily as he had the former
ones. The Squire and the minister con
sulted together for a few moments, and
then, apparently more to please the min
ister than from a sense of justice, the
former pronounced sentence according
to the rigid laws of the Puritans. Hil
lary was fined the sum of £5 10s.
“I won’t pay it!” he exclaimed, and in
default was takea into custody by the
constable.
and was ndt a deacbn a inon fbt apart to
servb tables and lb’ok aftef the widows?
And when it bame to eahd’fes and ifi;
cense; he hid only but to ask where eithef
wag cbinmahde.l by Christ, aud his oppo
nent w^s Sileflced, 6t so he thought. It
is true thfit when he brought forward thO
latter argument seine of the weak of un
godly odes asked whbre in the Bible ha
found sanction fof infant baptism, aud
for women coming 10 commnnidnj but hi
passed them by as scoffers.
BUt when he cable to Sagnauck lie
found another altrneti e subject for in-
veriigation. The mystery of Popefy; ahd
candles, nnd iucense had Id t its charms
because he there met with no believers
iff tbe bhiir bf St; l’et6r. Consequently
ho had turned his study to the next most
inviting subjoct:
Puritan he was to the bore. Mediievsl
and mystical he was through and through.
If ho hfid not tide tU^srical subject td
study, he mnst sretire another.
So from Romanism he glided iutd
witchfcraft, and each Was alike mystical
find unknbwn to him.
Add I do not blame him. In fact, If
any careless words df mine. So far, have
led tbe reader to believe that I tin tin-
frietidly tb the Ref; Hfenry Granville; I
wish he would disabuse himself of tbe
idea at Once. He is not my ideal of a
man or of a minister, but he is my
warped ideal of a Puritau student. I
Wish I had lived when he aid. r shouid
have believed iu witches and fairies with
him.
So, having found nb more use for his
philippics against J)bor St. Peter, long
since bead, and his Successor, the Pope,
ho tufned the chnhnel of his thoughts to
the next mystical subjoct which was
worrying the minds of men around him.
He read with doep interest the weird
stories of Cotton Mother and believed
them all; i nd, in time, so thoroughly
did he become imbued with them, th it in
euety stfeam he saw a nymph, in every
tree i demon, aud in every old woman the
possibilities of a wilch. He knew all
the infallible signs by which one of those
devil’s o*n children could be detected,
ahd, it was reported, hau even been pres
ent on the occasion of the burning of one
Of them at Salem, all of which gave his
Word Upon the subject much cr.edonco in
tbe settlement.
But, it was not until he had oome to
Sagnauck that he had auy personal ex
perience with these fearful emissaries of
the evil one. Soon rfter he hud settled
In his Hew home, Mark Hillary had
called upou him and the same dsv his
daughter had gone into convulsions. Af
ter shut first visit, Hillary, whose rough
speech made no favorable impression up
on the minister, seldom entered the par
sonage. At first the minister thought
little of the pioneersmau in connection
with the 6udden nervous att ek of his
daughter, but as time passed, he lo rned
to look upon tLe former ns a man who
had sold himself to tho evil one in ex
change for that most iufernnl passion,
power over his fellow-m>m. The minis
ter saw that his child was of that pecul
iar temperament which made hor sensi
tive to the influences of the unsetn world.
At first her experiences with regard td
Hillary had been general, but strange.
She seldom mentioned his name or be
trayed any four of the man, but whenever
he passed her upon the one village street,
or in the woods around the settlement,
she unconsciously shuddered.
Once, gossip s.rid. when Hillary unex
pecially came upon her and the minister
as thoy were walking hacd in hind along
the fcauk of Saeuauck Creek, she utteroci
a piercing shriek and fell down upon the
grass, foaming at the mouth.
M another time they came upon him
when ho was gazing at the stout treci
bowing before the wind, and was mutter'
ing to himself as was his custom at such
times. Achsah convulsively seized her
father's hand aud bade him hurry away.
“For do yon not see,” she said, “he is
m king the trees bow to him." And the
father believed that her sensitive nature
bad enabled her to detect an evil power
which he could not.
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THE LOST IS FOUND.
,x i*iii , i iuuifia lUULUo'l VUO parboil o T1H It K lllla
thrown across the creak instbelowr the ‘ time.” And he burst into a loud laugh
deep pool, around which the willows
grew, sweeping their long limbs over the j
surface aud under which ihe boys passed
iqurs with hook and line. The water.
CHAPTER IIL
THE MINISTER'S DAUGHTER
_ w I have 6aid little as yet with regard to ,
had been hanging upon the limb of a tree, j ihe Eev. Henry Granville; in truth, have i him alive.”—[St. I’aul I’ioneer Press,
' I only mentioned him and his emaciated
as, perhaps, Hillary meant it to do. ;
Throwing on his loose blouse, which I
After Thirty-Seven Years of Sepa
ration Brothers PVleet.
One of the most interesting case
where the extremely unlikely hap
pened was recorded byT. 1\. Slateler,
general agent of the Northern Pacific
passenger department at San Fran
cisco, at the office of General Piissen
ger Agent Fee. Thirly-seren years
ago he and his brother parted, be
came lost in the shuffle during tlie
war, and until a few days ago each
thought the other dead. Both broth
ers lived in Minnesota since the war
until four years ago, when T. K.
Stateler accepted his present posi
tion in San Francisco. The sad
feature of the affair is that when he
heard of his brother from a friend a
few days ago it- was to learn that he
was dying. Immediately he hastened
to Minnesota, and when in the city
was en route to Clarissa, where his
brother lies dying. When seen by a
reporter he related the following
story :
“There were three brothers of us,
Martin V. being the eldest. I was
the next, and my brother Erastus was
the youngest. My younger brother
enlisted in 18fil in the Fourth Mis
souri Infantry. My brother Martin
enlisted in 1808 in the Hundred-and
thirteenth Illinois Infantry. My
youngest brother served until Febru
ary or March. 18(52, when he died at
St. Joseph. Mo. I found him just
after my enlistment, which was Feb
ruary 2, 1862, just in time to bury
him.
“At the time of my enlistment I
was in correspondence with my elder
brother, who had gone east in 1857.
Such correspondence was continued
until his enlistment and capture,
which occurred some time in the lat
ter part of 1868. After his capture
our correspondence ceased. I never
heard from him from that time until
the early part of this January, lie
lies now very sick with the dropsy at
Clarissa, Minn.
“The very peculiar part of it is the
fact that he lived in Minnesota from
1870 nn to the present time, and I
form 1870 to 1S88, at which lime I
left for San Francisco. I am now on
my way to see him, and I hope to find
Hie Cssoal Reader.
Athens is to have a new enterprise
in the way of s knitting mill.
* * *
Over two miles of sewer pipe has been
laid in Brunswick, and still the good
work goes on.
• « *
The city council of Athens has wiped
out the specific license tax, as far as
possible on business men.
Watfen Davis of Dalton, found a
package conteing .$3,700 in money the
other day. It was wrapped in an old
newspaper.
* V *
A new building and loan association,
the Equitable, hag been organized in
Savannah to succeed the old Equita
ble, recently wound tip with an accu
mulation of more than $100,000 in real
estate In less than seven years.
* « *
The sale of the Marietta and North
Georgia railway has been postponed
until May 8th. The road was adver
tised for sale last Monday, but the at
torneys representing the Central Trust
Company asked for postponement. It
was granted by Judge Newman who
stated that there would be no further
postponement.
* * *
The Southern Baptist College, for
Women; located at Manchester, within
eight miles of Atlanta, is rapidly ap
proaching completion. The building
is so far advanced towards completion
that before the opening of this year’s
school season it Mill be in first-class
shape, and ready for the reception of
pupils,
♦ * *
The branch railroad from Odessa to
the rock quarry near by will soon be
ready for the cars. The re-opening
of this qttaffy will be a great benefit
to the toWn, while the branch road
Will greatly facilitate the rapid ship
ment of the granite. The quality of
the stone is said to be superior to that
of thefamotts Stone Mountain granite.
* * *
About the only consolation that the
fruit growers of sontli Georgia have
left is the satisfaction of knowing that
the meddlesome circnlio got his foot
into the recent cold snap so deep that
he will not be likely to trouble them
soon again. They were out in full
fol’Ce, and no doubt would have done
lunch damage if it had not been for
the freeze killing them along with the
peaches.
* * *
Extensive preparations are being
made for the fair to be given at Macon
next October Under the auspices of the
Georgia Agricultural Society and the
Macon Exposition Company. One of
the principal features and attractions
of the great exhibition will be the
races. The offer of $10,000 in purses
and added money for stakes, has
aroused interest among all horsemen,
and the outlook is that the finest
horseflesh in the south will be seen on
the Macon track this year.
* * *
General Gordon is endeavoring to
have the appropriation for the three
hew federal prisons for Georgia made
at once. The house committee oil ap
propriations failed to make any pro
visions for these prisons. General
Gordon will go before both the house
nnd the senate committees and argue
that the sum of $1,500,000 called for
in the bill, be appropriated atouce. If
this is not done he will move to amend
the gen iral appropriations bill, when
it reaches the senate.
* * V
An important trade which has just
been consummated is that of the sale
of Grier’s almanac to Mr. J. Sheehan,
of Atlanta. This publication, which
is one of the oldest in the country, has
been in existence for nearly three-
quarters of ft century. For many years
the almanac was published in Macon
by Messrs. J. YV. Burke & Co. Re
cently, however, the publication was
transferred to New York city,although
its ownership remained unchanged.
Mr. Sheehan has made a fortunate in
vestment iu the purchase of this ex
cellent and time-honored piece of
prooerty. The main office for the al
manac will be Atlanta, but a branch
office will be established iu New York
city.
For (ieorsin Hiver*.
The River and harbor bill has been
completed and adopted by the com
mittee. Among the items are the fol
lowing: Brunswick harbor, mainte
nance, $10,000; Cumberland sound,
$170,000; Darien, $25,000. The ap
propriation for Savannah was included
in the sundry civil bill. Rivers in
Georgia provided for as follows; A!ta-
maha, $10,000; Chattahoochee, $30,-
000 (of this $5,000 is to be expended be
tween West Point and Franklin); $10,-
000 for anew steamboat, the remainder
below West Point; Flint, $8,0Q0; OcU-
mulgee, $10,000; Savannah river be
tween Savannah and Augusta, $15,000;
above Augusta, $6,000; Jekyle creek,
$1,000 ; Coosa between Rome and East
Tennessee, Y’irginia and Georgia rail
road bridge,$110,000; inside water route
between Savannah and Fernandiun,
$20,000. The secretary of war is directed
to report whether the works projected
for the improvement of the Savannah
harbor, when completed, will afford
Brief Mi Coac.se Paragjanlis
And Containing the Gist of the Jfewrs
From All Parts of the World.
J'. H. Marshall, a boot, shoe and hat
dealer, at Lynchburg, Ya., has made
an assignment; liabilties $4,600.
Paddock A Fow' .r, fruit brokers
and general coyimission merchants, of
New York, have made an assignment.
The liabilities are estimated at over
$100,000.
Fonr men were drowned in the Chat
tahoochee river opjiosite Columbus,
Ga., Thursday afternoon. Five men
were out fishing in a boat aud attempt
ed to descend the slough near what is
known as No. 1 rock. The boat was
capsized and all except ono man went
down.
The bodies of two negro men were
found floating in Mulberry creek, nine
miles from Selma, Ala. The two were
tied together with a rope, and their
ears were ent off. They are believed
to have been the murderers of Miss
Jessie Rucker, in Chilton county, sev
eral weeks ago.
Dispatches from Connellsville, Pa.,
state that the signal for a general
movement of the strikers from the
southern end of the region across
Youngbiogheny river into the north
ern section has been given and the in
dications are that the strikers are mak
ing n decisive movement of the strike
and mob.
The annual convention of the South
ern Wholesale Grocers’ Association
was held in New Orleans nnd delegates
from most of the soutnern states were
present. The convention was held in
the old Royal hotel, one of the most
historic buildings of New Orleans, and
the statehouse in the days of recon
struction.
The contract for building tbe new
county courthouse at Montgomery lias
been let and Birmingham got a good
share of the pie. Hopkins A Bros, were
awarded the plastering contract aud
George F. Wheelock was given the
galvanized iron work. The Dew court
house wiii be an exceedingly handsome
structure.
A special from Providence, R. I.,
says: In last year’s election the dem
ocrats secured forty-one members of
the house, aud fourteen iu the senate.
This year they elect but three senat
ors and three representatives. Gov
ernor R. Russell Brown will have 6,000
plurality in the state. Brown’s vote
last year was 21,830, aud Baker’s 22,-
015.
A cable dispatch from Paris says:
The excitement caused by the explo
sion of a bomb in a restaurant on the
Foyott, Wednesday night, has not
abated, but rather increased, and the
fact that a bomb exploded in front of
the palace of Luxumburg, conviuats
many that the original intention was
to blow up the senate chamber. Foyou
restaurant is badly wrecked.
CoXey’s army gained 209 recruits at
Pittsburg, Pa., most of them Hunga
rians and Slavorians and densely ig
norant, With no knowledge whatever
of CoXey’s purpose. Borne of Coxey’s
supporters fear that this element will
make the army a disorderly body. As
it now stands the entire force numbers
about 500) consequently the question
of feeding and caring for the men has
become a very serious one;
A Columbia, S. C., dispatch says;
The action of the state executive com
mittee of prohibitionists, which has
adjourned, probably means a state
ticket in the coming campaign against
the Tillman faction. L. D, Childs
ptefeided at the meeting of the com
mittee. Heretofore the prohibitionists
have never been in tbe field iu South
Carolina as a political party. The
committee issued an address calling a
state convention to meet in Columbia
in June.
The Norwegian bark Asia, lumber
laden, passed down the Mobile, Ala.,
ship channel Thursday from the city
to the gulf drawing twenty-two feet
and seven inelie.s of water. The plan
of improvement under the present ap
propriation contemplates a depth of
twenty-five feet in the channel and
this test shows that the government
work is being carried out skillfully.
Before this dredging of the channel
began the deepest draft vessel which
could come to Mobile was nine feet.
TBE FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS
There Is No Chinese Language
‘Chinese
A writer holds that “Chinese lan
guage” is a misnomer. “There is,”
he says, “no such thing as a Chinese
language any more than there is :
European language. A Canton inar.
cannot understand an Amoy man,
and I have seen twoChinamen sitting
together with a third one acting as an
interpreter. Pidgeon English is the
common tongue of commerce. !
has a vocabulary of less than a thou
sand words, but is sufficiently flexi
ble to answer any purpose.” M ere
China but an island or a series of
islands, instead of half of a large con
tinent, and were thus open on all
sides to the omnipresent language
carrying British steamer, it is within
the bounds of probability that pigeon
English would, ere now, have replaced
the national tongue to such an ex
tent as to cause intense alarm ti
reign in the Chinese Chauvinistic
camp.—[New Orleans Picayune.
in Regular Session
Daily Summary of Routine Business in
the Two Houses.
the house.
The O’Neill-Joy contested election
case .came up in the house Monday
morning after the reading of the jour
nal. The pending question, being to
lay on the table a motion to reconsider
the vote declaring Joy not entitled to
the seat. It "resulted, yeas 147, nays
12—no qnormn. Patterson moved to
adjourn. Democrats voted._“no,” and
the result was, yeas none, nays 169,
j A call of the house was theu ordered
The fight over the O’Neill-Joy con
tested election case was immediately
resumed when the house was called to
order Tuesday morning. Pending the
question, being a motion to lay on the
table, Burrows’ motion to reconsider
the vote by which Joy was declared
not entitled to his seat, Patterson, who
had charge of the case, expressed a de
termination to keep the house in ses
sion until the case is acted upon. He
said at the outset that ninety-
three democrats, fourteen more
than a quorum, were in the
city, and unless a quorum developed
absentees would be arrested and
brought to the bar of the house. The
republicans refused to nnswer to their
names, bnt the democrats rallied
bare quorum of 167 to 12, aud amid
some applause the speaker announced
that the deadlock had been.broken and
the motion to lay on the table was car-
ried. ( On a vote of 155 to 28 O’Neil
was declared entitled to the seat of
Charles F. Joy, the sitting republican.
There was a democratic quorum in
the house Wednesday morning and
after several roll calls Mr. English, ■ of
California, was seated. Mr. Bland
theu called up the seigniorage bill and
moved its passage over the president’s
veto. After a sharp skirmish the mo
tion prevailed and the vote taken. The
result was: Ayes,144; nays, 114. Thus
the famous measure was killed.
Mr. Campbell, of New York, intro
duced in the house Thursday a bill to
quiet the title to Anastasia Island,
Florida, by relinquishing all claims of
the United States to it. The house
journal was approvng without objec
tion. J. F. Izlar, the newly-elected
member from South Carolina to suc
ceed Mr. Brawley, was sworn iu. The
senate bill to enforce and give effect to
recommendations of the Paris tribunal
of arbitration for protection for seals
was passed.
THE SENATE.
Two high stacks of thick books on
the desk of Senator Voorhees, when
the senate met Monday morning, indi
cated that the eloquent Iudianian was
ready to pull the lanyard of the open
ing gun in the senate tariff debate.
The first two hours of the morning
were consumed by routine business,
but as the hands on the senate clock
moved around towards the hour of two,
the senate galleries commenced to fill
np. It was 1:50 o’clock when Senator
Voorhees openedthe discussion.
The Behring sea bill passed the sen
ate at Tuesday's session Senator Mor
gan stated at the time that perhaps a
similar measure was being passed in
the British parliament.
Among the petitions aud memorials
presented in the senate Wednesday
morning was one by Senator Gordon,
of Georgia, being a protest of Baptist
churches at Atlanta, Ga., against the
constitutional amendment proposed by
Mr. Morse recognizing Deity in the
preamble to the constitution. It was
referred to the judiciary committee.
The President scut to the senate
Thursday the following nomination:
Postmaster YV. B. Cunningham, at
Athens, Miss. At 2 o’clock the tariff
bill was taken up and O’Ferall rose to
address the senate. He yielded, to
allow Mr. Call to move to go into ex
ecutive session. The motion was op
posed by Mr. Harris, who demanded
the yeas and nays. The motion was
agreed to: yeas 31, nays 19. The
senate then proceeded to executive
business.
How the Rainfall is Measured.
To some it a»y be in ihe line of In -
formation to know how rainfall is
caught and measured, and what tha
amount thus collected and estimated
signifies in a practical way. One fre
quently reads in the newspapers about
so many “inches” of rain having result
ed within a given period from a storm
at a certain place in the country. What
s understood by this almost every-
lay occurence? It means simply that,
if the surface of the earth were level
snd would not absorb rainfall, bnt
rather hold it in a metallic basin, the
earth would be covered with water to
the depth indicated by these inches
and hundredths of inches. Of course,
any kind of a vessel properly exposed
will serve to give a general idea of the
average amount that has fallen, but,
in order that the knowedge of the
amount collected may be of scientific
or practical value, it must be obtained
by a uniform method of catching the
rain as it falls.
The gauge that is now almost uni
versally adopted by meteorologists in
all parts of the globe is a cylindrical
sheet metal vessel with a circular
mouth, called a collector, which is
eight inches in diameter. This cob
lector is funnel-shaped, the funnel
opening into a receiver two and one-
hnlf inches in diameter and twenty
inches deep. The collector rests upon
—and the receiver is encased within—
a six-inch vessel, which serves the
double purpose of support and over
flow. An idea of what the gauge looks
like may be gleaned from the accom
panying cut. At the top (a) repre
sents the eight-inch collector. In the
sectional area shown (b) represents
the receiver and (d) the collar or con
tact of funnel and receiver. This
collar is sufficiently loose to permit
the water to pass into the overflow, in
case of an exceptionally heavy rain
storm.
During the occasion of a storm the
amount of rain water in the gauge is
measured twice each day by Observers
weather bureau rain-gauge.
Treasury Figures.
The debt statement issued last Tues
day shows a net increase in the public
debt, less cash in the treasury, during
the month of March of $13,745,472.
The interest-bearing debt is increased
$9,038,930; non-interest-bearing debt
decreased $20,847; cash in treasury
decreased $4,712,339.
Elephantine Roars.
YY’hat animal can make the most
noise? The elephant. During the
breeding season in the forests of India
a.sd Ceylon the trumpeting and roar
ing of the animal is continuous and
terrific and can be heard for miles.
The feline family are vant* to scare
their prey thoroughly by their own
overpowering noise. Thus the roar
of the adult Ron is terrific, the wind
pipe being enlarged so as to give the
animal alarger volume of air propor
tionately than any other animal.
The male gorilla has an awful, loud-
sounding voice. YY’hen attacked it
utters a short, jerking, acute bark,
like that of an angry dog. To this
succeeds a low growling, which might
be mistaken for distant thunder.—
[London YY’orld.
of the Weather Bureau at 7 a. m. and
7 p. m, It is measured by inserting
a rod, which is scaled in inches and
tenths of inches, until it touches the
bottom of the receiver. It is allowed
to remain long enough to become
thoroughly wet, when it is taken out
and the number of inches and tenths
of inches observed. It must be re
membered, however, that the sectional
area of the collector, with its eight-
inch diameter, is fifty square inches,
while the sectional area of the re
ceiver in which the rain is measured
is only five inches square. These sec
tional areas, therefore, are to each
other as ten to otie. That is, the
amount measured in the receiver is
ten times the depth of what would
have been collected in a flat basin
with a surface area of fifty square
inches. Hence, ten inches of water in
the gauge are equal to one inch of
actual rainfall; one inch in the gauge
equals one-tenth of an inch of rain,
and one-tenth in the gauge equals one-
hundredth of an inch of rain. When,
for instance, eleven and five-tenths
inches are measured by the rod in the
gauge, it is entered on the records of
Weather Bureau as 1.15 inches of
actual rainfall. Thus, the amounts
are recorded and expressed decimally
after the manner of dollars and cents" ”
in the currency of the United States.
Courier-J ournal.
Tlie Obedient Egg.
Some curious tricks can be per
formed with eggs prepared in the fol
lowing way: Pierce an egg with a
pin, and empty the contents of the
THE OBEDIENT EGG.
, . , Germany, whose population is YY’hen the hard times have come,
safe anchorage for vessels lying in Ty- about 50,000,000, had 21^621 physi - j j 1QW we me et the crisis? asks
bee roads; if not, whether there is | cians in 1893, against 20,500 in 1892; p ro f essor Felix Adler. YV'ith the
necessity for so constructing them, that i3, an increa.se of 1,121. That ! ser( , n : ltv anc [ courage of stoicism,
giving, if so. such plans aud changes; makes about 4.37 doctors for every £ j] our nat j 0I ? } s we u armed
us may be necessary. A survey has ^ 10,000 inhabitants, but they are not U 0 thus meet adversity. YY> move in
been ordered between Spirit island ■ equally divided throughout the Em- crow( j,. alK [ crowds may be angry,
and the Charleston and Savannah rail- ! pjre; for in some regions there are not j mt flre ’ never n-looinv, because con-
road and the secretary of war was di- j even two doctors for every 10,000 in- tact ex hilarate« and'encoura^es. In
rected to prepare the project and make j habitants, while in other districts ' hard time s retrenchment becomes a
estimate for the cost of improvement, j there are thirty of them for the same dut But we nee j le9S instruction
i number of population. Germany j n the art of how to retrench than in
A Republican Yictory. ! possesses also 91a dentists and 4,9»o
Dispatches from cities and towns j druggist*,
throughout the state Of Ohio indicate ! Bdwaud \Y at.kln, the great hug-
that in the election, Alliance, Hamil- j ! lsh railway magnate is actively engaged
ton, Wooster, Dennison, Urichville, I !n an . cffort to P r< ? m0 , te . the o{ , ::
; ’, ’ « tyt * # x r\ I i canal across Ireland, from Dublin to
London, Waverly. Washington Court L, alway Bay He thinlc , that a can;1 i
House, Fostena, jLansneld, xuqua*. w hi c h would carry the largest ships
Wapakoneta, Lima, Crestline, Akron, j coulli be cut for about $40 ? o:>0,000, and
Canton and Toledo went republican, says, as the principal argument in it3
In Dayton the democrats re-elected f tt vor, that it would materially shorten needy, they need our help more, not
the mayor and carried all their city the route from England to tlie United less, when the waves of commercial
ticket. * States • 1 depression overwhelm them.
the art of how not to retrench. YY'e
are apt to begin at the wrong end;
and we do this when we retrench in
tlie education of our children or in the
dispensation of our charities. Hard
times should emp.iasize, not min
imize. the importance of develop
ing the mind and character of our
children; and as to the poor and
shell. When the interior is quite dry,
ponr into it some line sand until a
fourth of the shell is filled. Then seal
the hole with a drop of white wax.
You can then place the egg on the
edge of a knife or the margin of >■
decanter, and it will stay where J
put it. Take care to shake the e\
well before placing it in any of thesk
positions, and thus bring the centre\
of gravity to the place where you de
sire it to be. To make a disobedient
egg introduce into an empty egg
shell some grains of shot and sealing
wax. Close the hole, and hold the
shell over a flame until the wax inside
has melted. The shot and wax will
then adhere at the bottom of the egg.
YYhen cool place the egg on the table,
aad it will stand upright, like the one
shown in our illustration. The egg
will be a source of mystery to your
friends, as it will refuse to assume any
other position.
When Prince Louis Napoleon met
his untimely fate in Zululand, Marshal
MacMahon hastened to condole with
his royal mother: “I am very happy,
nadame, at the circumstances that
lave arisen which give me the occa
sion to condole with you. Your son
died a soldier, and you ought to be
orlo.fl **
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