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VOL. XII. NO. 40
VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1891.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
England is about §1,000,000 a week.
Nearly 490 tons of mail matter are
handled daily by New York letter car-
It has been figured out that the cost
of the United States Senate, an ex
pense borne by the people of the
United States, is 8-3400 a day.
Edmund Y’ates says that Queen Vic
toria offered to make Mr. Gladstone
an Earl or Mrs. Gladstone a Peeress in
her own right; but tin Grand Old
Man declined.
London’s debt was increased last
year by SO,000,000 and now amounts
to §150,055,000. The revenue of the
city for the last fiscal year was $23,-
165,000. •
Joaquin Miller says that there is no
danger that the giant trees of Cali
fornia will be exterminated, as you
may find small sequoias in almost ■
every dooryard in the State.
Lord Chief Tustice Coleridge has de
cided that it is best that elerymen
should not take part in criminal in
vestigation. He declined to swear the
Eev. Thomas Coney to serve on the
Grand Jury # + . the Berkshire Assizes
recently.
THE NEW CHURCH CHOIR.
BT FLORENCE JOSEPHINE BOYCE.
Tea, sister Ln, I must confess
That on this Sabbath day
A cloud has rolled across uiy breast
That ne’er ’ll be cleared away.
Fer artor five an’ twenty year
That I've that choir blest,
An' raised my voice in helpful chcel
An’ strove ter dumy best;
An’ arter all my darter’s done,
The orgin for ter p[av,
They've brought in youngsters, one by ont
And crowded us away.
An’, whut is wuss, the choristaff,
Tergethrr with his wife,
Are slickin’ ter the yellin’ gang
An’ holdin’ up tber strife.
An’ thar's my darter Mary's beau,
Whose bass has oftou rung
Through tii&‘ ar’ church, as salt and lov?
As ba38 wus over sung.
But now they’ve got ernuther one,
In all ther'change erbout.
Who yells uutil y»’’d realy think
He’d yell his palate eout.
An’Georgia Brown, the orgiuist,
I coulden't help but sneeze
Ter see ther way she got up thar
An' thumped upon ther keys.
An' ther sopranoes yelled a piece,
In which ther tenors jined,
An’ them two parts jest squeeked {an
squalled
Ernough ter Bet one blind.
An' of ther altos, sister Lu,
I will not sp p ak one word,
Fer they du as the others du,
An' that i3 too absurd.
But once for all, I wish ter say,
Beforo tbo hours grow late,
An’ my pure soul has passed away
Beyond ihe golden gate :
When I am taken ter that church,
Ter ne’er come back agin,
I do not want that new church choir
Ter squeal the final hymn.
VaITSFIELD, Vt.
Ths Arizona people are indignant at
the stories of their lawlessness, which
have been published recently. They i
are reported by tho New OrleanE ; A Story of Early Colo-
Picayune to say that such reports are
false, and that if they can catch the
newspaper man who started them they
Will lynch him out of hand
nial Days.
The Baltimore Manufacturers’ Rce
ord reports that there are now in the
South 400 cotton mills, with 2,763,870
spindles and 62,052 looms; capital
invested, §97,000,000, as against §21,-
-.976,000 in 1880. In 1860 there were
Sn the South ^161 cotton mills, with
667,854 spiudles. North Carolina has
the largest number of mills
Ferris, the man of the World’s Fall
wheel, offered §40,000 a year to the
projectors of the new Manhattan
Building, on Broadway, in New York
City, if they would build a tower on
it and give him the elevator rights.
The Manhattan will be the tallest and
ugliest building in New York, alleges
the Chicago Herald.
There is no such a thing as “next
Senate,” and so long as the Constitu
tion lasts there never will be. The
Senate of the United States is an
eternal body. It never dies. It is to
day exactly the same assembly which
met for the first time in 1789. Every
second year it undergoes a change of
membership, the terms of one class of
members expiring. But that ehaugo
neither ends the old body nor makes a
new one.
’ Effingham B. Wilson, of Brooklyn,
has discovered somewhere on Long
Island a perfect mine of Indian arrow
heads. He keeps the secret of the lo
cation to himself, and, according to
the New York Mail ami Express, is
obliged to keep a sharp lookout foi
inquisitive spectators, who would
like to follow him when he starts out
to make a collection. Mr. Wilson has
been offered a large sum for the arrow
heads he has already in hand, but the
offer was refused. When the collec
tion reaches 3000 heads it will be tho
most extensive in the country.
Key. Christopher Dowidat, pastor ol
a Lutheran church at Oshkosh, Wis.,
has expelled a printer from his church
for being a union man, declares the
New York Press. Ho says unionism
is against the commandments of God.
“To strike is taking advantage of the
capitalist, and this is against the com
mandment ‘Thou shalt not steal.’
Further, you shall honor your em
ployer the same as a child honors its
parents. God made rich and poor.
God will not let a Christian starve.
Those people who are suffering in the
cities are not Christians.” Mr. Dowi
dat believes that- the workingmen
should take what they are offered by
the capitalists and thank God if they
can get anything at all. If they can’t
get work it is God’s will.
The mining craze seems to have
struck some portions of Georgia and
Alabama pretty hard. A score or
more of new gold mines have been
opened in these States within the last
three or four months, notes the St.
Louis Republic, and a good many old
ones are being worked as they were
never before. George Huntington
Clark predicts in the Manufacturers’
Becord that in the immediate future
the gold fields of Georgia are going to
surprise ihe old doubters as much as
the development of Southern iron did.
The richest gold mines of that State
are as yet untouched, he says.
Georgia’s gold belt covers a strip oi
country from twenty to iorty miles
wide, and extending across the State
from northeast to southwest, embrac
ing about 7000 square miles. It run!
into Alabama and spreads out ovei
some 3500 square miles more in that
State. Georgia’s mines have so fai.
produced over §16,000,000 worth ol
gold and silver, "or more thsn those o
any other Southern State except
North Carolina,
BY CHARLES C. HAHN.
CHATTER VI
A FUnfl'AN MAIDEN,
HE hardly knew
She was a wonrnh, so
Sweetly alio crew,
was the cxpcrienc<
of Dorothea Hiilaiy,
Tho most delicatelj
tilted flowers are
found iu c o 1 d e i
climes, rlid the vio-
let of the forest is
sweeter than the
rich golden-rod of
August sun and
fertile prairie lands.
So Dorothea grew in the forests of the
new world, not very warm, not with
flaming colors, or a luxuriance of pas
sion, but in her face and in her soul were
the tints of heaven. Her ever, were a
clear brown, innocent and trusting, r«nd
on her lips hovero l a perpetual summei
calm, llight a3 to heart and brain, she
won her way among the stern Puritans
with an extreme gentleness, and yet e^rly
she learned to endure and to obey. Even
while a girl, one could see that she would
be a queen in marriage aud a most per-i
feet wife. Uncons -iously, in her eyes
were depths clear and full of loie for hoc
parents and for her lover. And yet she
nnd ever one black shadow at her feet —
tho memory of her father and the sus
picion that sbo herself was following in
nis footsteps. And as the years passed,
the shadow not only lay at her feet, bnj
rose and flo .ted over her, In these days
«he sometimes murmured to herself a
passage from an old book which she had
round in her father’s chest:
“Mother Mary, hear me and give me
grace to bear my heavy load.”
She meant it as a cry to her own moth-
sr, an l did not know that the words wer*
a prayer to the mother of God.
Xeverllieh ss, perhaps the Blesset
Virgin heard her.
Traces of hor early life with her fathei
wore never effaced, In fact there were
tinges in her character which were evoi
appearing like the recurring colors of the
evening twilight, and Dr. Lennox nevej
strove to blot them ont. When mingling
with tho pioneers or their staid, young-
oi l children, she could bo as dignified and
prosaic as they. But when the}’ were
gone and she was alone, or with hei
adopted father, all the influences aud les
sons of her early life appeared. She
looked upon tho trees of the forest and
the flowers growing at their feet, at the
running brook and the stars and the
clouds overhead as the real things of the
world, and hence nearer and dearer to
her than men.
So ofttimes she was content to sit fot
hours beneath some tall oak tree, which,
thick-leaved, sighed over her little head
with an ancient melodv as oid as trees or
the hills or nature. At such times there
appeared in her soul those characteristics
which were like golden tints in the skv,
coming at the close of the day, as tho
bustle and worry of the world were dying
away and the peace of the evening twi
light reigned.
A glorious child, dreaming alone
In silken folds, on yielding down,
With tho hum of swarming bees,
Into droamful slumbers lull'd.
Some warm summer days she would
wander knee deep through tho meadow
grass, along the little brook which cir
cled half around the town. No bird
would sing on these d iys, nor would any
cloud pass across the skv, and the day
would increase from bent to heat. Those
were dreamy days, which a poet or a
painter would love, and at such times all
of Dorothea’s early lessons iu nature
would come back to her. She would bend
over a little struggling flower, hidden by
the tall grtss, and speak to it as if it
were a friend. Even the coarse weeds,
in which none else, unless it may have
been the Doctor, could see aught but
ugliness and Adam’s curse, appealed to
her. The broad meadow was a great bed,
and she drew tho tops of the ernBS ten
derly between her fingers and dreamed—
oh! who knows of wlmt a child dreams at
such a time? On days when there were
clouds in th* sky and a breeze was
blowing the shadow of the former
fell upon and floated over the bending
grass and she imagined the field to bo a
miniature sea.
And to sit there, half hidden by the
grass, and look out at the tall treetops
which surrounded the village, nnd out
into the sky beyond an l overhead. Ah!
what a quiet happiness that brought, nnd
what fancies, quiet and dreamful, filled
the child’s mind. There was a lonesome
ness in it, too. that was not altogether
unpleasant. For somewhere beyond
those woods she belie-ed her father lived,
and the same sky was over them both.
There was a little poem, or rather the
fragment of a poem, which her father had
once taught her, and although she diet
not at first probably understand it, th^
rhythm was pleasing and she often re*
peated it to herself:
The shadows on the Western slopes,
The sky tints at the sot of sun,
May thrill us all alike with joy,
But he who paint s them will be one
Among a thousand, if he catch
And mirror back the beauties shown
In globing sky and shadowing hills,
And His, the master hand alone.
Sometimes come floating thro’ the mind
Or surging thro’ the human breast
A thought, a feeling rich aud rare,
A gift to man, if but expressed.
And when one can, with rhythmic words.
Move in our breasts sensations deep.
And strike tho chord our own soul wept,
For hjm the poet’s name we keep.
The verges always recalled her fathei
and made her sad, yet she clang to then:
with childish persistence and chose tc
be sad in memory with him, than light
hearted without And yet, this loneli*
uosg- never came to her.
But sometimes iu the falling day
An image seemed to pass and say,
“But thou shalt be alone no more.”
The image seemed to be that of the
mother whom she did not remember, but
whose portrait she wore upon her breast,
and in her heart came a nameless feeiina
of peace.
Fora pioneer, Dr. Lennox possessed a
fine library, and many of the books wore
so quaint and old that it was a wonder he
was allowed by tho church to keep them.
To these books Dorothea had tree ac*
cess, and no doubt ihe natural bent of
her mind was fostered by them. Stories
of the Crnsades and of knightly deeds
Coreled many a page, and the stories
w ere woven into her dreams. At an early
day also she came upon a botany, and
with the help of Jier foster-father became
skilled in analyzing the flowers which
grew in the meadows and in the forests.
There was a school in Sagnaucky kept
in a small cabin, one of the first erected
ond the first deserted by its owner when
he became wealthy enough to build a
more pretentious home. Here the Puritan
children were gathered day by day to
memorize the alphabet and struggle with
the mysterious orthography of the En
glish language. It wob disagreeable work
lor the majority of the children, but
Dorothea’s dreaminess made it a ro
mance to her. Each simple tale which
Bhe found iu her reader had its interest,
and she supplied the clouds and the
flowers to make it beautiful. In after
years these days wore among the most
pleasant in her*memory.
CHAPTER Vji.
tK THE MINISTER’S STUDY.
Mr. Granville’s study was in a corner
of tho houB9 and looked out upon the
street. It was a Very cozy room, furnished
With a moderate library and writing desk
and a snug fireplace, in which the various
k nds of wood snapped and blazed in
their season. An arm-chair made out of
twisted boughs of hickory stood by the
fireplace. In this room the minister spent
most of his time, for the years had added
to his load until he was glad to retire
from his family, and so lose sight of their
straugo and painful condition. So, after
having finished his sermon for the com
ing Sunday and read for the hundredth
time his favorite volumes, he was wont
to move h:B great arm chair from tho
table to the side of the fireplace, and,
leaning back in its Capacious depths,
give himself up to thought. Here, sur
rounded by tho cheerfulness which every
Work-room gives, the minister could at
times forget his sad affliction and grow,
for a few minutes, comparatively happy.
But generally in these half-hours iu the
dusk ho sat brooding over his trials and
disappointments and tbo calamity which
had fallen Upon his family. The dim
suspicions entertained ten years ago had
been increased and rendered more vivid
by the perusal of tuch works as Cotton
Mather, and frequently after his sermons
were fini-hed he indulged in long sittings
by his fire pouring over those stories of
witches and witchcraft which so stirred
New England and spread fear over her at
the beginning of her life.
It was a cool evening in early autumn
—in fact, the anniversary of the trial
With which our story opens, although
Mr. Granville did not remember it. The
trial itself, however, was very distinct in
his mind* as was every point in his ene
my’s life. The man had spent long hours
meditating upon this Oue absorbing
theme, and recalling every event or word
in Mark Hillary’s lifo* tmiil he had be
come a monomaniac, and Uie thought of
this rough wood-chopper was scarcely
ever absent from his mind. Every scrap
of intelligence concerning him had been
carefully preserved and studied. Every
word tho man had ever uttered in the
minister’s hearing, or in tli9 hearing of
any who would communicate it to the
inihister, hr.d been noted and dwelt upon
during thefefc after-seriiioil meditations.
He hail made a study of the man’s life,
and had cron gone to the trouble of in
quiring into his antecedents minutely.
But all this was nothing compared with
the awful anxiety his disappearance gave.
Long hours the 'minister sat iu h s study
speculating upon it. Sometimes ho
paused at the end of a paragraph in his
Sermon to gaze abstractedly out of the
window nnd recall that last act in Mark
Hillary’s life.
Then, again, this was a favorite theme
for his evening reveries, and often ex-
tende 1 them far into the night, until his
family.- and, indeed, all Sagnauck, were
wrapt in sleep. So the poor man wearily
wore his life away.
On this particular evening ho had been
even more troubled by his gloomy
thoughts. Iu his imagination he could
fed an unseen presence in the very room,
and in his heart hope died, as he said to
himself:
“The man or his spirit is near."
This feoiing was so strong that he
Rrose and did what at no time before had
he courage to do, or •which his sense of
honor would allow. He went to his desk
and took out a little pauk.ige Which had
been intercepted on its way. to Dorothea
two years before. This evening he tore
off tho wrapper, and in his hand lay a
piece of birch bark, such as was often
used by the Indians and by some set
tlers for wiitiug paper. Upon this bit of
bir= h was this sentence:
“Dorothea: Obey the one who keeps
you a,nd the one who watches over you,
but whom you cannot see, will always
provide for you.”
“ ‘Obey th-? one who keeps you.’ That
is damning,” murmund the minister,
nnd his lips turned pale. “It is a message
from the evil one, nnd I have had it con
cealed in my desk. No wonder we have
been afflicted. But, is it not necessary',"
he continued, after a pause during ■which
lie was plunged in deep thought, “is it
not necessary ihat I keep it for testi
mony?”
But while he was yet undecided wheth
er to cast the evil bark into the fire, oi
lay it away and brave the danger in the
work of convicting a wittAa, the case wai
settled by a rap at the door, aud, hastily
Dpening it, he admitted the pioneel
Sqoire.
“Come in, Squire, come in,” the min
ister said; “you have come just as 1
wanted you. I have for some months
wished to speak to you upon a subject
that is troubling me. Sit down, I pray
|OU.
“You remember Mark Hillary, who
disappeared ten years ago,"he continued,
after nis guest was seated in front of tin
blazing fireplace; “and you are also well
aware of the strange manner in which ri}
child has been afflicted."
“Does she grow no better as she be
comes older?”
- “Not at all. In bodily health she is
6ome stronger, but her attacks ha v e
taken a more violent form. At one time
I might have considered her frail health
as the cause, but as 6he grows strongei
her whole soul shows itself to be in ar
abnormal condition. If I could hav€
doubted it at first, when she wa> ill, I
cannot now, when she is well. My pool
child, I fear, is the victim of the Evil
One.”
“And who do yen suspect?”
“His daughter!”
The pronoun may seem very indefinite
but it was not to the Squire.
“Just before you entered I was reading
a note which I wane to show you. I
have kept my eye on this daughter, an 1
have discovered, among other things,
that she is in communication with some
one, we know not whom, unless it is as
I suspect. This note, which I wish to
show yon, was intercepted. I have kej»t
it in my desk for some time, but to-night
opened*it. See what a convicting docu
ment it is,” aud the minister Landed the
birch bark to the Squire. “’Obey!’ It
it is written by one who has an hori'y.
‘Obey the one who keeps you.’ Who L
it thatjkeegs her?^ Evidently it refers tg
! the Evil One, to whom she belongs,
j ‘And the friend you know but cannot
j see.’ Who would th-.it be but the autboi
! of all evil? ‘Will always provi !e foi
| yon.’ Is not that full testimony to hei
league with the devil? He whom she
cannot see will provic^:”
While the minister was m iking these
running comments the Squire read the
note through, holding it at arm's length.
“What shall you do with it?” he asked
when the min gter had finished.
“That is just wh t I wished to consult
you about. Shall I preserve it as evi
dence against this—person, or shall I
bum it? I must confess tn ;t I was
strongly tempted to do the latter, think
ing only of the safety of my family.
But perchance I had better keep it,” con
cluded the minister, with a sign.
“By no means, I beg of you, my deal
sir,” responded the Squire, earnestly.
“He who holds the devil’s writing will
foou have the writer in his house. It is
by God’s grace that he has not come to
claim his own ere now.”
But just as the minister was about to
drop the piece of bark into the fire, the
study door opened, hi3 eldest daughter
entered* and the minister, instead*
dropped it upon the table near him.
Achsah was clad in white from head to
foot, and to the two men, whose imagina
tion was excited with thoughts of witch
craft, she appeared like a specter. And,
Indeed, the appearance of the girl at such
p moment and in such a manner was
startling. She was now tall and slender,
and her height was greatly increased by
the long robe of white; her face was pale
and would have appeared deathlike had
it not been for the piercing black eyes,
which seemed to gleam with an unholy
light, as she stood in silence and gazed
into the fire. A log upon the hearth
broke in two and fell between the and
irons and blazed up afresh. As the flames
sprang Up and illnmin ted her face with
their rosy light, the imagination of tho
Squire saw plainly the traces of some
strange power which was working upon
her, and he felt as if he were indeed in
the presence of an unfortunate one ovor
whom the evil one was hovering. He
shivered and involuntarily passed hie
hand over his eyes.
“Achsah, what do you want?” asked the
minister, anxiously.
“I came in for that,” said the girl,
pointing to the birch bark. The two men
looked at each other in silence. Achsah
reached out her hcncl and took the note,
walked stiffly across the room and laid it
upon the open desk by the window. This
done, she returned, sat down upon a
stool at her father's feet and became ab
sorbed in watching the flames in tho fire
place as they leaped up from the burn
ing wood.
Horror-stricken, the minister and the
Squire sat in silence also, watching her.
Soon the door opened and Ashubah, the
younger child, came quietly in. and, with
out heeding the group by the fire, walked
directly to tho desk and took up the
birch bark, which she gazed at as ii
charmed and unable to turn her eyei
away.
Achsah arose from her seat, went ovei
to her sister end without uttering a woid,
took the note from her and laid it back
upon the desk.
Ashubah made no protest but returned
With her sister and sat down on the op
posite side of the fire.
Neither uttered a word or appeared con-
scions of the Squire’s presence. Both
seemed to be in a tiauce, so still wer«
they, end so supernatural was their still
ness for ones so young.
The Squire watched Achsah, who waf
seated in the shadow of the fireplace ueu
him, the more closely. For about five
minutes, but which to the excited mar
seemed like an hour, she sat perfectly
toot ionless. Hot first emotion was s
ihudder, and then the Squire saw a look
of fe. r pass over hor face and transform
her features. Ilei eyes ttirned to thi
window. In looking arotind to follow
her ga/.e, he saw that hor sister was nfi.
fected in the same way, and that ths
minister was pale and trembling.
“Our enemy is near!” he gasped, as li€
met the Squire’s eye.
Looking then towards the window, tc
See what ha 1 so terrified the gifts, he saw
a black fantastic face peering into the
loom from the outer darkness. Tile light
from the fire fell upon the window and
made the sight meet ghastly. It was a
large heal, surmounted with a fantastic
cap, from which the Squire could see two
small horns protruding. The face was
d rk, except in places where touches of
paint illuminated it, and wor® a malig
nant sneer as its sharp black eyes watch-
ad the cowering minister and his daugh
ters.
“Did you see that face?” asked the
Squire in a low voice which trembled
with fear.
“No, but I knew it was near. You see
the effect. O* God have mercy!” And the
minister bowed down and hid his face iri.
his bauds.
The girls, however, never took tlleir
eyes frdm the particular pane of glass at
which the face had appeared. And it was
curious to note the different effect this
apparition had upon the two. Ashubah,
after the first shudder, recovered her
calm manner and placid face, while
Achsah, from trembling passed into ail
exulting state and sat smiling and re
turning grimace for grimace with the
head outside.
If the Squire for a moment supected
this face to be that of some boy bent
upon a frolic, the suspicion was soon
d’spelled, when, after the minister had
hid his face in his hands, he saw his eyes
bent intently upon an object lying upon
the desk. It was watching the note which
jfcchsah had placed there. She also, it
seemed, had observed the look, for she
.arose and started toward it. But before
she could reach the desk a pane of glass
.was dashed in, a black, hairy arm thrust
quickly through the aperture and a hand
grasped the note. Achsah uttered a cry.
The Whole was done so quickly that
when the minister looked up, startled by
the sound of breaking glass andAchsah’s
cry, the arm had been withdrawn and the
piece of bark had disappeared. The cry
of the girl was answered by a harsh,
grating InUgh, which was echoed fiom
the woods around, and for half an hour
peals of diabolical merriment were heard
about the house until they died away in
the distance.
CHAPTER Vltl.
AFTER FIVE YEARS.
Five more years passed in the history
of Sagnauck since Mark Hillary's disap
pearance, and Dorothea, the girl-witch,
wag seventeen years old. She had grown
up in these woods of New England free
and untrammeled by the affectations of
fashion.
Like a sturdy plant which needed only
sun and air, she grew. It need hardly be
said that her face was fair. Indeed,
from it she deserved the name of w tch,
for truly it was one molded to bewitch
the hearts of men, and many of the young
pioneers there were who also felt its
power.
She was of medium height, with a body
well built. Her hands were finely shaped;
her hp.ir and eyes were brown. It was of
the latter a poet has written:
“Brown eyes seem some rich, temptirg wine
That might lead one to love th- m all too well.’
And again:
“I know fail well two deep dark eye3,
If brown or black, ’twere sometimes bard to tell.
Right black in anger, brown in tenderness ;
But when the long dark lashes hdlf disguise
Their light, the usual fearless frankness flies,
And then there lurks in dim. secret mistiness
A gleam so subtle in its shado’.vynesa
I fear to glance, lest there should sudden ri3e
A flood of passionate tenderness, so deep,
So strong, that it were all in vain to fight
Its mighty tide; to brave it were unwise.
Lest I should be, if o'er me it should sweep,
Soul-blinded by the glorious dark light.
Till all the world seems naught but two dark
: ceived from gome unknown person, une
’ evening, about a year after she was left
alone in Sagnauck, the minister was
walking through the words north of the
: village, when he heard two persons con-
| versing, and, approaching, discovered
i Dorothea. Her companion disappeared
| as soon as the minister’s footsteps were
| heard and the latter conld not identify
i him. But the visitor wore the garb of an
: Indian. Dorothea’s reticence with re-
! gard to the visit added to the minister’s
: belief in her guilt.
j After this first visit, Mr. Granville was
j on the alert to detect Dorothea in other
* delinquencies. He made excuses to be
| much fiom home, and seldom failed to
j follow her when she was sent upon any
i errand which would take her into the
i forest. So the man of God became a spy
i upon the poor gir^
And his labors were not without result.
Twice during that year he came upon her
in the forest holding secret converse
with some unknown person, and as these
meetings were always at night they con
firmed the suspicions about the girl. It
Was also learned that after these inter
views Dorothea always had a supply of
money about her, and that once she
brought in from the forest a bundle of
furs, which were made into a cloak fot
her protection in winter.
One night in October, as the minister
was prowling about in tbe woods, going
where his diseased fancy led him, he
suddenly found himself in the little
opening in front of Hillary’s deserted
cabin. At the same moment a man
dressed as an Indian came out of the
cabin door and hastily disappeared in
the woods. Mr. Granville, on tbe scent
for anything which might convict the
girl, entered the deserted place and be
gan a minute search. He was rewarded
by finding a small package—a piece of
folded birch bark.
“No doubt it was a message from her
master to Dorothea," and he carried it
home with him.
An enmity, too, had arisen between
Dorothea and Achsah Granville. The
latter could not meet the former without
her little weazined face drawing up into
a scowl, and once she cried out that
Dorothea had hurt her, although the two
girls were several yards apart. This had
occurred in front of the meeting house
one Sunday morning as the people were
coming out from preaching.
“You child of the devil!” the father
cried. “Will nothing satisfy you? Why
do you so persecute that poor girl?”
“Child of the devil!’’ Dorothea an
swered, “Methinks that is rough speech
for a holy man of God. But bow can I be
Dorothea, ‘God’s gift,’ and come from
Satan?”
“You need not play upon words with
me, for I know you. Tell me, if you are
God’s gift and not the devil’s child, who
it is you go into the woods to meet?”
“That I may not tell, reverend sir.”
“Noj the truth you say now. It would
be to your shame to mention him whom
you meet.”
“Nay, sir,” Dorothea answered, blush
ing; “there is no shame about it. But
w hom I meet does not concern vou, and I
shall not tell you/’
“Perhaps you will not deny, then, tint
vou receited fiom him money and furs?”
the persecutor said, in a fury.
“Have you been a spy Upon me? Was
it not enough for you to drive my father
from his fcotne? Have you no mercy that
you follow and persecute a helpless
Child? Whether I receive aught from any
One does not concern you. And now
let me go on my way, for it is not seemly
for you to ho l d such converse in front of
the meeting-house on the Lord’s day.”
And without waiting for a reply, Doro
thea made her way to her adopted home,
[to BE CONTINUED;]
; GEORGIA IN BRIEF.
Many were the lovers who came to her,
although 6ach parent warned hie own sou
against the wiles of the maiden, for now
the suspicion of the minister had grown
to be so positive that the girl really bore
the reputation of a witch.
This was augmented by the detection of
wteral mygt^noqs yisjtg Dorothea rj-
dosh Hillings* I’llilosnjiily.
It iz a good sign when prAize makes
a niftn beiiave better.
“When X see a poor and proud aiisto-
krat purtiklar about punktillio, lie al-
itus puts me in mind ov a drunken
man trieiug tew walk a crack;
Our Wants, after awl, make most ov
3Ur happiness. When We liav got atvl
tve want, then cums fear lest We lqze
wllat we iiav got, and thus possession
fails tew be happiness.
Idangels are like a kohl bath—very
dangerous while von stand stripped on
the bank, but often not only harmless
but invigorating, if you pitch into
;hem.
. Take awl the prophecys that liav
;um tew piass, and awl that hav caught
du tlie center and failed tew cum tew
time, and make them npi into an aver-
ige, aud you will find that buying
stock on the Codfish Rank ov Nufottnd-
land, at CO per cent., for a rise, iz, in
comparison, a good speluilating bizzi-
leBS.
It iz awl important that fashior
i hou Id be perfumed with az mutch
morality az possible, for it controls
more people than law or piety duz.—
Aew York Weekly,
His Hair Was Not Painted.
“I was in Colorado^in 1875.” said
Harvey C. Smartwoud of Canon City,
Col., to a Washington Post reporter,
“before the influence of the white
man was dominant. The Indians
around what is now Meeker had seen
but little of the white man, and knew
cOmparaiively nothing of him or his
ways or habits, except from hearsay
and tradition. I mean to say that
there were many of them to whom
the white man was as much of a
curiosity as an Indian would be to a
New York Bowery boy.
“As you see, nature saw fit to give
me a shock of carmine-colored hair.
When I first went among the Indians
they all thought that it was painted,
just as they universally paint their
own bodies and faces and heads. An
old chief came up to me one day and
looked at my hair very carefully.
‘Ugh,’ said he, and then turning to
the guide who had our party in
charge, he asked him to ask me
where I got the kind of paint that
would color and would not be greasy
or look dauby. The guide told him
my hair wasn’t painted, but be
wouldn’t believe him. He came over
and once more scrutinized my locks,
running his hand over them and then
looking at his fingers.
“I didn’t know what he was after.
I had an idea that he was calculating
how nice my red scalp would look
hung+about his dirty old body, and
was inclined to resent it. Our guide,
however, laughingly told me what tbe
oid chief had said. Two or three
more of the bucks gathered about us,
and they and the guide had a pow
wow. Finally the guide asked me if
I would object to putting water on
my hair. He said the Indians
wouldn’t believe it wasn't painted
until they saw that water wouldn't
wash the color out. Of course I took
some water and rubbed it on my
hair and then showed my hands to
them. It took four or five days of
wondering examination to convince
them that I hadn’t found some par
ticularly tine paint and got myself up
in a bright red suit of hair.’
Thebe is a woman ln Ohio who was
one of the little girls in George
Washington's funeral procession.
She is Mrs. Priscilla Spooner. Mrs.
Spooner recently celebrated her l(X*th
birthday.
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED HERE
AND THERE OVER THE STATE
And Condensed Into Pithy and Inter
esting Paragraphs.
The governor has appointed John G.
Hale to be solicitor of the county court
of Dade county.
Mr. S. T. Fleming, of Bowersville,
recently killed a lieu that performed
tbe rare feat of laying three eggs in
one day.
* * *
Mr. A. J. Lewis, who lives near- Ar
lington, has an old gander that will
celebrate his fortieth birthday some
time in May.
m * *
The International and Cotton States
exposition company has been fully or
ganized and the work from now on
will be pushed with even greater vigor
than it has been in the past.
* * *
The commissions of the captain and
lieutenants of the Macon Volunteers
have been issued. The three officers
are Captain Charles Q. Carnes, First
Lieutenant James P. Stevens and Sec
ond Lieutenant Sam B. Hunter.
The governor has named the Green
ville Banking company, of Greenville,
to be the state depository for Meri
wether county, the last legislature
having decided to put a depository at
that city. The bank has made a req
uisite §50,000 bond.
* * *
In the ease of J. A. Couper, inter-
venor, against the receivership of the
Marietta and North Georgia railroad,
etal., an order was taken confirming
the report of the special master
awarding §4,000 in damages to the in-
tervenor.
* * *
The Fidelity Life and Accident In
surance Company, capitalized at §200,-
000, has been organized at Atlanta,
and a majority of the stock will be
owned by Atlantians. This new en
terprise, coming, as it does, npon the
heels of the exposition movement,
shows that the old Atlanta spirit is
still alive and active.
On motion of counsel for the de
fendant in the case of W. H. Dyer
against the receivership of the Georgia
Pacific Railroad company has been re
moved from the superior court of
Carroll county to the federal court.
The cause of removal is local prejudice
aud influence and inability to secure
justice in the home court.
Commissioner Bradwell has com
pleted the - work of sending to the
school authorities of the different
eonntier. in the state the first quarter’s
payment for the teachers. Every
county has been settled with except
three or four, where there was some
irregularity in the papers, which have
been returned for technical correction.
The monthly report of Revenue
Agent W. H. Chapman lias jnst been
eampiled. The report shows that in
the district of Georgia during the
month of March, 1894, forty distiller
ies were captured and destroyed, 940
gallons of spirits seized, 18,675 gallons
of beer taken and forty-three arrests of
illicit distillers made. The report
shows also that a large number of fer
menters, horses, wagons, pistols and
rifles were seized.
* * *
Governor Northen has issued his
proclamation offering two rewards in
the following eases: On the 15th of
March in Sumter county the smoke
house of J. H. Rogers was broken into
and its contents all carried oft' Lv some
unknown person or persons. The gov
ernor offers §50 for the arrest with
proof to convict of the burglars. On
the 10th of March in Houston county,
Lucius Brown was killed by Bristol
Gaines. Gaines has escaped and the
governor offers a reward of §150 for
his arrest and delivery to the sheriff of
Houston county.
The Christian Endeavor convention
which meets in Atlanta will be an in
teresting assembly, and a large amount
of important business will be transact
ed. The meetings will be held at the
First Christian church. Dr. C. P.
Williamson, the pastor of this church,
who is the chairman of the convention,
is an excellent presiding officer. The
convention will be in session for three
days, and n number of interesting
speeches will be delivered. Among
those Whose who will make addresses
during the convention are Bev. F. W.
McAuley, of the Ohio State Union;
Rev. W. B. Jennings, of Macon, Ga.;
Rev. M. A. Matthews, of Dalton, Ga.,
and Rev. Wallace Sharp, of Augusta,
Ga.
Seveial men of wealth and influence
have been prospecting recently in
Cherokee county, and some deals have
been made that will lead to others,
and, it is hoped, the early develop
ment of the resources of the section,
which is so rich in gold, iron, mica,
etc. Some important gold deals ate
reported to have been made by Mi. 17
T. Hillman, who is vice president of
the Tennessee Coal and Iron company,
and Dr. Nabors, of Birmingham, Ala.,
both of whom are weathy themselves
and represent unlimited capital for in
vestment. Mr. C. H. Foote, of the
Chicago Steel works, was also on hand
representing himself aud a party of
Chicago capitalists, examining the
gold fields of the section with a view of
investment and development.
« * *
The biggest failure Athens has ever
known, and Georgia has not had a
larger one in many years, was that of
Mr. Bufe Reeves. Mr. Reeves’ name
has always been synonomous with suc
cess. Seeing that his assets could not
equal his liabilities, he mortgaged ev-
srvthing he had in favor of his credi
tors and left himself not a cent. To
him, more than any one else, does the
sympathy of the entire community go
out The mortgages covering proper
ty in Clarke county amount to §108,-
621. A general mortgage on the Fon-
tenov farm and Btock in Greene comi
ty, given to the National bank, Ex
change bank and University bank, of
Athens, and a number of smaller croft,
itors, amounts to §60,000. There are
other mortgages on property in Ogle
thorpe nnd Oconee counties. The lia
bilities will be about $300,000, with
assets nominally §200,000, valuation
considered high.
Joseph K. Brown.
A few days ago Hon. Joseph E.
Brown, ex-governor, ex-ehief justice
and ex-United States senator of Geor
gia, celebrated his seventy-third anni
versary. It is needless to say that, at
the home of the distinguished states
man in Atlanta, the day was one of
rejoicing in the large andloving family
circle that- gathered about him. But
that rejoicing was not confined to those
nearest and dearest to the illustrious
Georgian. It extended throughout the
multitude of his fellow-citiz6ns,who in
years past testified their approval of
nnd confidence in him by repeatedly
elevating him to the highest offices
within their gift. Few citizens of any
state have risen so high, accomplished
so much, and been so richly honored
by the people as Joseph E. Brown.
Though of his own volition he has re
tired to the privacy of unofficial life,
he has not been forgotten by the peo
ple of his state, and his wisdom and
counsel are still often drawn upon. In
these declining years, the sympathy of
the people goes out to him in the
physical affliction which has befalleD
him.
LATEST DISPATCHES
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE
TIME OF GOING TO PRESS.
Happenings of Interest Presented In
Brief and Pithy Paragraphs.
LAID TO REST.
REMAINS OF SENATOR VANCE
BURIED AT ASHEVILLE.
Thousands Pay Homage to the Dead
Statesman.
At the hour of noon Wednesday th6
remains of the late Senator Zebulon
B. Vance were deposited in their rest
ing place at Asheville, N. C., over
looking the beautiful French Broad
river—a fitting spot for the last repose
of this great man. The funeral train
arrived just after dawn, from Kaleigh,
with committees of both houses of con
gress, the governor and other officers
of state, and three cars of distinguish
ed friends of the dead senator.
Notwithstanding tho late hour at
which the train passed Hickory, Mor-
ganton and other stations, large crowds
pressed into the funeral car and de
manded to see the remnius. The dem
onstration in Asheville was the great
est of the occasion. The body was
placed in the First Presbyterian ehnrch
at 8 o’clock, nnd from that hour until
11:30, thousands of people from his
native county of Buncombe passed to
take a last look.
An immense crowd of confederate
veternns, followed by the different
fraternal organizations, the Asheville
Light Infantry and the Bingham
school cadets, filed by. Mrs. Vance
spent a half hour iu private with her
dead husband, and asked that she be
the last oue to see his face. The pro
cession was then formed, reaching
almost from tho church to the ceme
tery, a distance of two miles. The
crowd that marched out to the ceme
tery is estimated at 10,000.
A hotel, grist-mill, thirty-two busi
ness places, also an Episcopal church,
telegraph ond telephone offices, post-
offices and the steamer Excelsior burn
ed at Huntsville, Ontario, Thursday.
Loss estimated at §120,000 ; insurance,
§40,000.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says:
Seventy men went to work in the Ten
nessee Goal, Iron and Railroad Com
pany’s mines Thursday. Vice presi
dent DeBardeleben says he will have a
full force in a few- days, and doesn’t
want any of the old men. All is quiet
at the mines.
The coal miners’ strike in the mines
of Bell, Lewis & Yates, at Rochester,
Pa., has spreud to the other mines of
the company, and also to those owned
by the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal
and Iron companies. The Btrike prom
ises to be one of the greatest that has
occurred in many years east of the
Mississippi river.
Congressman W. L. Wilson arrived
at New Iberia, La., Thursday, on his
return from Mexico. He was received
by Captains Cade and Pharr aud in
company with them visited several
points of interest nnd will be given an
insight into the magnitude of the sngar
industry of that section. Mr. Wilson’s
health continues to improve.
News has been received of a terrible
fight between the notorious outlaws,
Bill DHiton and Bill Doolan and an
other outlaw, said to be Bitter Creek,
and a number of deputy marshals,
about forty miles east of Perry, O. T.
The three outlaws and a woman aud
her little girl were shot dead, as also
were two deputy marshals.
A cable dispatch from Vienna, Aus
tria, states that a great fire rnged iu
Neu-Sandre and virtually the whole
town is iu ruins. Many persons are
missing and are supposed to be dead.
The injured have been removed to
other towns. Hundreds of families
are stopping in the fields. They are
without sufficient food or clothing and
many cases of extreme distress are re
ported.
CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY.
A Whisky Dealer in Louisville, K}\, in
Serious Trouble.
Two suits, highly sensational in their
nature aud seriously involving Paul
Jones, a big whisky dealer, have been
filed at Louisville, Ky. W. H. Thomas
& Son are the plaintiffs in both. One
of the suits is against the Kentucky
National Bank, and it is to eDjoin the
defendant from selling §50,000 of stock
in the J. G. Mattingly Company, be
longing to the plaintiffs, and held by
the bank as collateral on a loan
of §50,000. The bank also claims
the stock as collateral for an indi
vidual obligation ol W. H. Thomas to
the amount of §21,000. This the
plaintiffs deny, asserting that the stock
is pledged alone lor the firm debt of
§50,000. The other suit is against
Paul Jones as president of the J. G.
Mattingly Company, The two actions
are involved, Jones being also vice
president and director of the Kentucky
National bank. It is charged by the
plaintiffs in effect that there is a con
spiracy between the bank and Jones to
freeze the plaintiffs out of their stock.
THE AQUIDABAN’S KATE.
How the Vessel Was Sunk in a Naval
Engagement.
Details of the naval engagement
which took place off Desterro, the cap
ital of the state of Santa Catherinn,
April 16th, between the insurgent bat
tleship Aquidaban and Ihe federal fleet
have been received from Rio de Ja
neiro. The battle was of short dura
tion aud resulted in the sinking of the
Aqnidaban. While-tlie insurgent ship
was engaged with the government war
ships the federal torpedo boat Gustave
Sampaio approached her. A hot fire
was opened upon her by the Aquidaban
and the torpedo boat was struck sever
al times, but she succeeded in project
ing three torpedoes with snch accuracy
that all of them were effective and the
rebel ship went down in a few minutes.
Many of those on board were drowned.
National tirain congress.
The national grain congress, which
convened at Wichita, Kan., was largely
attended by grain meiT from all over
southern Kansas ami Oklahoma, Lou
isiana, Texas, Arkansas, Nelnaska, Col
orado, Florida, Alabama, South Caro
lina, Iowa and Minnesota. The object
of the congress was to formulate plaus
to secure an outlet for southern and
southwestern products on the gulf of
Mexico.
The banking capital of the United
States is estimated at §5,150,000,000,
greatest in the world,
7,000 MINERS OUT.
Tlie Strike in Alabama Growing Very
Serious.
Monday’s developments in the miners’
strike in Alabama show that every mine
in tho Birmingham district except those
at Warrior and in Tuscaloosa and Walk
er county, is shut down. Fully 7,000
men are ont. No attempt has been made
to put in negro labor at the Blue Creek
mines, where trouble is threatened.
Armed deputy sheriffs were on hand,
but the negroes refused to work, fear
ing violence from the strikers. The
strike is growing, and the situation i»
becoming more serious.
TI1E SITUATION IN TENNESSEE.
A Knoxville special says: James R.
Wooldridge, of the Wooldridge Jellico
Coal company. Speaking of the gen
eral strike of coal miners which has
been ordered on the 21st by the United
Mine Workers of America, says that
all the miners of district No. 19, of
which the Jellico district is a portion,
have signaled their intention to strike.
Work has been very light, in the dis
trict the past season, and the indica
tions are that they will not he able to
hold out long without assistance, but
it is more than likely that the strike
will remain on until August 1st. The
Jellico district is now paying the high
est prices in the United States, and
any result will necessarily he beneficial
to the operators.
A convention of the operators and
miners of the district has been called
to meet at Jellico on the 20th to con
sider a new contract. The supply of
eoal for the southern states will not be
entirely cut off, as the Tennessee, Coal
Iron and Railroad Company have
about 2,000 convicts digging for them
in Alabama and Tennessee. Unless
the organized men use violent meth
ods to close these mines, the strike
will prove a bonanza to tlie lessees
of convicts, as it will be the only com
pany in the United States to operate
its mines.
Big Blaze at Buffalo.
The American glucose works, at Buf-
alo, N. Y., the largest of tlie kind
in the country, have been desttoved
>v tiro. Several firemen were injured
md iaken to the hospitals. It is ru-
nored that some of the employes of
the works were caught by the flames
;mi bnrued to death. The total los3
is about §1,200,000, on which there is
in insurance of about §500,000.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
COKKKCTED WEEKLY.
<«’rori;rie*.
Coffee—Koasted—Arbuckle’s 24.10 Kt 100 lb.
cases. Lion 24.10c, Lcvering’s 24 10c. Green-Ex
tra choice 21V*c; choico good 20%e; fair 191-^C;
common 17%al8}^c. Sugar Granulated
4%c; powdered cut loaf 5%;
white extra C 4c; New Orleans yellow clari
fied 4a4%c; ye low extra C 3%*4c. Hyrup—
New Orleans choice 45c; prime 35@40c; common •
20(%30c. Molasses—Genuine Cuba :>>(^38c*, im
itation 22(^25. Teas—Black 35@55c; green
40@60c. Nutmegs 35@85c. Cloveh 25@30c;
innamon 10($12J£c. Allspice 10(65llc. Jamai
ca ginger 18c. Singapore pepper 11c, Mace
$1.00. Rice, Head 6c; good 5j^; common
4V*c; imported Japan 5@5%c. Salt—Hr.wley’a
dairy $1.40; Virginia 70c, Cheeae-llats !2%@13;
White fish, half bbl*. $4-00; pails 6>c;
Mackerel, half barrels, $6.00(^3.50. Soap.
Tallow, 100 bars, 75 lbs *3.00@3 75.
turpentine, 60 bars, 00 lbs, $2.25 a 2.50;
Candles—Parafine 11c; star 11c. Matches—
400s $4 00; :100s -*3 00a3 75; 200s $2 00a2 75; 60s
5 gross $3 75. Soda-Kegs,bulk 4V{c; do l lb pkgs
5%c; cases, 1 lb 6%c, do 1 and l / % \b* 8c, do%lb
&%€. Crackers—XXX soda 5%c; XXX butter
6%c; XXX pearl oystersY.^cishell and excelsior
7c; lemon cream 9c; XXX ginger snaps 9c; corn-
hills 9c. Candy—Assorted stick 6c; French
mixed \2a\2 x / % . Canned goods-Cond^nsed Milk,
$6 00a8 00; imitation mackerelf3 95a4 00. Sal
mon $5 25a5 50: F. W. oysters $175; L W
$135; corn $2 50 a 3 50; tomatoes $2.00
Ball potash $3 20. Starch—Pearl 4e; Lump
4-v;~nickel packages $3 10; celluloid $5.09.
Pickles, plain or mixed, pints $1 OOal 40; quart*,
$1 50al 80. Powder—Kille, kegs $3.25; i^kegi,
$1 90; V A kegK$l 10. Shot $1 50 per sack.
Flour. Grain nml .Heal.
Flour—First patent $4 50; second patent
$4.00; extra fancy $3.25; fancy $3 15; family
$2.75. Corn—No. 1 white 5c. Mixed,
55c. Oats, Mixed 44?; white 46c; Tex** rnst
proof 48c. Seed rye, Georgia 75a80c.
flay—Choice limotby, large t tales, 95c.
No. 1 timothy, large bales, 95c; choice
timothy, small bales, 90c; No. 1 timothy, small
bales. 80c; No. 2 timothy, small bales, 823^0.
Meal—Plain 52*; bolted 50c. Wheat brau--
Large sacks 87j^c, small sacks 99c. Cotton
seed meal—$1 3 ! ) per cwt. Steam feed—$1.10
per cwt. Stock peas 60a65c per bu. White,
60a65. Boston beans $2.65a2.75 per bushel.
Tennessee, $ 1.75a 2.00. Grit*—Pearl $2.85*
< oimrrv Produce.
Eggs 9al0 Butter — Western creamery
22a25o. choice Tennessee !5al8c; other grades
l*2%al5c. Live poultry—Turkeys 8(®10o per
lb; hens 25 and 27^c. spring onickens
large 15 to 40c; small spring 10al2^c. Dressed
poultry-Tnrkeys 12%al5c;ducks 12al.5c; chick
ens 10al2>£. Irish potatoes, 2.50(®2.75per-
bbl. Sweet potabies 50a60c per bu. Honey-
Strained RalOc; in the comb 10al2V*o* Onion*
$1 50a $1.75 per bu. $3.00a3.50per bbl. Cabbage
lal l-2c per lb.
ProviMiop*.
Clear rib sides, l»oxed Tc. ice-eared bellies
10c. Sugar-cnrod hams lOl^alS^c. according
to brand aud average; California, 8.8^c. break
fast bacon 11 >;c. Lard, leaf 81-4. Compound
ay+ts-i.