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THE VIENNA PROGRESS. 'A*?* TXT- •• . — TERMS, $1. Per Annum. “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. [TO BE CONTINUED,] GEORGIA STATE SEWS. OUR LATEST DISPATCHES. Interesting Callings lor the Perusal ol The Happenings ot a Day Chronicled in 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 ** r