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vor, XII. NO. 41
VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
GRANDMA'S HONEY BREAD.
BY OZIAS MIDSUMMER.
tV« tested the sweets and the sours of living,
I’ve drank the rare draughts and the dregs ol
-the cups;
t’vo jcyod In receiving and joyed in the giving,
My life's intermitted in life’s dow’hs and ups.
Arrayed I behold now its comfort and dread,
With the brightest spot in it—Grandma’s hcuej
bread.
At home there were apples, and doughnuts, and
cookies.
And buns, and molasses, and bread o’er and
And puddings and jellios and pieces the more,
But nothing there seemed quite so good as the
bread
That I got at grandma's with honey instead.
Ah, well I remember the buggy and “bossies.
The happy bright days when we all sped
away
’Mid “birdies" and “sheepies, and “lambies
“bossies,"
The river side sporting, to ap^nd the whole
day
Wilh dear, good, old grandma to visit, ’twaB
said—
But I well remomberod the honey and bread.
And I too remember the scenes at the moetim.
The Rhouts and the welcomes, the trounces
and throws,
The laughter, tho joys, and the gladness at
greetings,
Tho sights and the sounds, the confusion, all
those;
But best of them all mem’ry knows what
said
When grandma said, “Got him some honey and
broad "
You see It was thus that, amidst the con
fusion
(For we’d just arrived at her vine-shaded
door),
Bho mentioned so quickly tho thing to my
notion,
Wns from the known fact I had been there
before,
Ar’.l scare? ovor landed before I had said:
“M*» kuows nos dot wery uood 'oney and bread.
Chicago, ILL
A Story of Early Colo,
nial Days.
BY CHARLES C. HAHN.
CHAPTER VIIT {Continued.)
These meetings between Dorothea and
Achsah at length became so painful to
the latter that tho minister exerted alibis
power to pre\ent them. He allowed his
daughter to go out with no ono but him
self, and while taking their solitary
strolls he caiefully avoided those places
who'e they were likely to encounter
Dorothea. Hut there was ono place in
which ho could not avoid the young
witch, for such she was now called by
the settlement generally. In tho meeiing-
house on Sunday and on lecture days the
whole population were obliged to gather.
Here, lor an hour or two on those days,
the two were obliged to sit, and although
it was God’s house, the minister was
never easy lest tho devil’s power might
liud some weak place in his prayer aud
break through, even in that sacred place.
Consequently he changed his own family
pew to a remote corner from Dr. Len
nox’s, where Dorothea sat, and contrived
ns much as possible to keep his daughter
from the sight of tho girl.
He had it irumind several times to for
bid Dorothea from entering the meeting
house, but his deacons dissuaded him.
Then, tco, the minister knew that the
time to strike an open blow had not yet
come. For Dr. Lennox, with whom
Dorothea iived, and to whom she had be
come as a daughter, stoutly denied nil
insinuations against her, and had pub
licly 6tnted that ho would fight for her as
for his own ilesh and blood.
Dorothea’s bcauty|also had its influence
upon a great many of the congregation,
principally the young men of tho settle
ment. As has been stated, she had grown
* up a comely girl, the equal to whom there
was not in Sagnauck, and, despite the
reputation given her by the minister, and
_ the oudenco before them with regard to
Achsah Granville, Dorothea’s suitors
wore many.
Neither was there over any jealousy of
her in the hearts of the other maidens of
tho village, for Dorothea possessed that
opeunoss and good-heartedness which sel
dom fails to make friends. Then, too, her
readiness to serve a neighbor, to watch
by the sick, to nurse a fretful child, or do
p.ny of the many : eta which a good-
hearted worn in can do if she will, made
her a favorite with her elders. True, they
half believed her false, but they silenced
themselvos w th the fact th:it nothing
had really been proven against her, and
that to them she had always been kind.
Somo, no doubt, were influenced by the
thought that, did she possess the power
ascribed to her, it wore bettor to treat
her veil and secure her favor than to in
cur her emnity.
It was a troublesome young life; and
had not Dprothea been supported by Dr.
Lennox and his wifo, she, long before
these five years had elapsed, no doubt
would have commits d some act of in
discretion, or allowed some outburst of
temper which would have given the min
ister good cause for proceeding against
her as he had against her father. But
this worthy couple watched over her as
they vonld over their own child, and
many times succeeded in soothing her
feelings when severely tried, and in in
ducing her to forgive end, if possible,
forgot, the wrongs done her.
In one instance the Doctor's well-
meaning plans came near hastening on
the end ogainst which he was guarding.
Like all medical men of the colonies in
those days, he had been educated in
England, and was consequently fairly
well acquainted with nervous diseases.
To him tho girl Achsah’s trouble
seemed due entirely to physical causes,
although hG could not understand just
how it was brought about. He accord
ingly decided, one day, to bring the girl
into Dorothea’s presence and test the
effect it would have upon her, doubting
not that her fear of him would hinder
any deception.
By a liitle maneuvering he was able nt
length to secure the girl’s presence in his
office and then sent for Dorothea.
Scarcely had she entered when Achsah
began to show unmistakable signs of
soaio outside influence being brought to know all the signs for detecting witcher.
bear upon her. Her face rapidly changed and has he not asssted in the burning of
its expression, Lor arms dropped to her j one in merry Salem?”
ms tcsi tho Doctrr had never imagined.
He h id suppose-], that when the two girl.)
ere brought together, away from the
nrrister’s influence, he would be able to
ontrol Achsah’s trickery, as he had called
t and that nn unanswerable argument
vould be found against the minister’s
; ;arges. But the result had been just the
• pposite tc what he had wished, and the
-cene in his office had been one, he
; new, which would but injure tho one he
lesired to help. And his fears wera
-peedily realize -, for that very night the
xcited minister called upon him, and,
fter denouncing his treachery’, en
ounced his intention of having Dorothea
Arraigned for witchcraft.
CHAPTER IX.
A LOVE IDYL.
In the midst of all these troubles the
a eveiest experience of youth came to
Dorothea, and iu it she was hr.ppy,
during the past year a stranger had come
to Sagn.uck from old Engl md.
Many of the colonists had emigrated
from the country in which Oswold Castle
stood, and knew, by reputation, at least,
of Lord Oswold. Tho coming of his
\ounger eon, Egbert, was like the com
ing of an old friend to those even with
vhom he was not personally acquaint
ed. He came, too, bearing with him the
l»atent for a large grant of land near Sag-
uai.ck, a patent which bore upon it the
great seal of the King himself. Even in
New England, where men were supposed
to be taken for what they were worth in
char cter, rather than for what they were
worth in Lous s and barns, these facts
gave to the younger son of Oswold a
warm welcome.
But the young man had a personal
character which would have made him
welcome iff time when it should become
known, and S.ignauck was not long in
finding it out.
In appearance Egbert Ingram was of
medium height, and tho picturesque
dress of that age set off his manly figure
to advantage. His hair was typical Sax
on. light and w ivy, and his eyes were of
that dead-gra hue which denote strength
of will and hone-ty of purpose
His advent created no small stir in the
village, for he was the first to come
direct from old England since the settle
ment had been made. From him could
bo learned many things with regard to
the old homo, and the s:a‘e of affairs in
England. Fresh from a more refined at
mosphere, he brought with him. too, an
influence which was speedily felt. Old
phrases fell from his lips," new ideas
came from him, hints of other ways of
living were dropped, books and pictures
were spoken of, and tho little settlement,
which had dropped down into its own
way of life and unconsciously adopted
its own peculiar vernacular, had anagree-
able diversion. The elders remembered
the more courtly words they had been
accustomed to in their youth, and almost
unconsciously 7 began to use them again.
His stories of England also gave new
subjects for thought and conversation,
nd the little world, bound in by a circle
or denBe woods, found an opening out
into a greater one, which it was learning
to forgot.
The younger members of the village,
many of whom had thought of but little
except the clea-.ing of forests and the
Limiting of corn, of-work on week days
and of preaching on Sunday, were pleas
antly surprised to hear, such familiarity
with books and paintings, towers and
a3u6S, and lords and kings. It was like
a glimpse into fairyland. *»
And yet one should not imagine from
this that Egbert Ingram was an egotist
who had thrust his own personal likes
and dislikes upon the others. He was
too much of a gentleman to allow the
least with whom he oame in contact to
imagine that any other life could be
more congenial than that of an honest
pioneer in the woods of America.
It w s rather bv questions that he was
drawn out, and what he did in changing
the current of thought in Sagnauck was
brought about more by the pioneers
themselves than by him.
Y'hen Egbert Ingrain left England he
was given a letter of introduction to Dr.
Lennox, who urged him to make his home
under the physicinn’8 roof until he should
become settled, either upon his own land
or in tho village. This necessarily
brought him much with the Doctor’s
adopted daughter, Dorothea, and between
the two sprang up a friendship such as
the latter h td never enjoyed before. Un
der his tuition she began the study of
sevor ;1 books, which Egbert had brought
with him, and in particular did she de
vote herself to the mastery of her mother
tongue. She loved al-o to listen to her
companion's tales of old courtly life, and
so well did he recount, and so w ell did
6he listen, that before many months
passed she felt as if she were nearly as
miliar with the manners of England’s
nobility as if she had lived among them.
This friendship was very sweet to
Dorothea, and m it she for a time almost
forgot the cloud that hung over her.
Then came ono of her encounters with
the minister. For the first time Dorothea
fe t a sense of shame in connection with
Mr. Granville’s persecution.
Would Mr. Ingram hear of it? And
would he side against her? Would he,
too, believe the tales that were told about
The loDg winter months had been so
pleasant, anl now that spring was open-
ng.she had felt as if new life had begun
to unfold in ber. And was all this fancied
happiness tc pass away, too, under the
dark cloud which covered her young life.
The meeting with the minister had oc
curred in the afternoon, and, with some
what of the superstition in her which
then pervaded all New’ England, she
asked berself: *I do wonder if the spidei
and tho rabbit had anything to do with
it? I saw a spider in my room soon after
~ arose, and as I was walking through the
woods a rabbit ran across the path in
front of me.”
Her reverie was broken by the approach
of Egbert Ingram, who, seeing her stand
ing alone in the yard before the Doctor’s
home, approached and greeted her.
So, Mistress Dorothea, I find that,
not content with bewitching men with
your fair face and brown eyes, you must
needs call in the aid of his majesty of
the lower regions. ”
“And do you believe it?” Dorothea,
with sad face, asked, feeling as she did
so that if ho believed in her guilt there
as nothing she cared to live for.
Do I believe it?” Egbert replied. “How
can I disbelieve such a learned and holy
man as Mr. Granville? Does not he
over my neart tnat l cannot oreai i«
All I can do is^to make terms with the
witch."
An hour after, when Dr. Lennox re
turned from a professional visit and was
told of Dorothea’s engagement, he was
pinch relieved.
“I am glad of it, Ingram, glad of it.
for Mr. Granville is so excited over that
unfortunate affair in my office that he is
determined to drive the poor child from
the settlement. But as your wife she
will be in a position too strong for him
;o assail. So I would urge you to marry
in all haste.”
And Egbert, quoting from an old book,
mswered:
“Let me lay lance in rest for this dear child,
Because I never 3aw a maid more sweet."
sides, and her whole body became limp.
For an instant the Doctor’s faith in his
adopted daughter was shaken, and be
glanced up quickly at her. To his hor
ror aud the confirmation of his fear3, she
too was visibly affected. Her eyes were
steadily fixed on those of the girl shrink
ing back in the chair, and her face wore
a look which the Doctor had never seen
there before. It was pale, and the mus
cles of the face stood out in relief. Thus
she remained for several seconds, then
gradually resumed her usu d manner, and
a contemptuous smile rested upon her
lips.
The Doctor was about to speak to
Dorothea when his attention was called
Achsah. With a shu Ider she slipped
from th) chair and lay upon the floor,
her limbs contorted and her month foam
ing. While the Doctor was hastening to
procure certain medicines which he
thought might relieve her, she cea?ed her
struggling, end by the time he returned
to her she had straightened her form to
its full length and lay upon the floor with
the rigidity of a cataleptic fit. He laid
her upon* a couch and administered a
potion which soon revived her. She re
mained weak for som6 time, but the
Dcctor learned that whatever her trouble
might be it w..s not beyond the aid of
medicine.
“Un’ess"—he eculd not help the
thought-“unless Dorothea had with
drawn her spell. '
That so seriom would be the.result of
Dorothea made no reply, and her down-
past eyes and troubled face told him that
the subject was one too serious to her for
jesting.
“I beg your pardon, Dorothea.” Egbert
continued in a lower tone. “I did but
jest, for the charge seemed to me too
ridiculous to be treated seriously. How
long have they so worried yon?”
“Nearly all my life. At least, ever since
lather disappeared, which was over five
pears ago.”
“Poor child! And is there no one to
help you bear these insults:”
“Yes; father aud mother Lennox al
ways have been my friends. But it is a
bard life-a hard li;e, with all the world
igainst me. ”
“Nay, Dorothea, not the whole world,
Dut only a very small part of it. There
ire other lands where you might never
aear from this troublesome minister, for
1 know that he alone behoves the charges
igainst you.”
“Yes; but they are far away, and Sag.
uauck is all the world to me. Here I
must live and here I must die.”
“Then, Dorothea, allow one man, who
would die for you, to become your pro
tector. Little one, do you not know that
I love you? I should not have spoken of
this just now had it not been that you
need some one to help you. Dorothea,
will you be my wife?”
“Even when mon say I am a witch?"
“Yea, Dorothea, for in»e2d
tt* for hare you not cast Sf
CHAPTER X.
A PRIMEVAL WEDDING.
Dr. Lennox took pains to annonneo
Dorothea Hillary’s engagement at once,
and that same evening called upon the
minister and used such arguments as
prevailed upon the latter to give up, for
ihe present at least, his idea of prose-
juting the girl.
Both the Doctor and Ingram were anx
ious for ar speedy marriage, and before
inother month had passed, and just as
the forest flowers were blooming, Doro
thea Hillary gave herself to Egbert In
gram, and .he maiden passed away among
the flowers of early spring, and the new
life c.tme among the flowers in Mar.
The marriage was a joyful one, for all
/oved Dorothea, and the little settlement
made the day a festival.
Many were the gifts which were brought
lo Hillaiy’s cabin in the woods, for there
Ingram and his wife had decided to
begin their wedded life.
In the evening after the youth had gone
an incident happened which made Mr.
Granville believe that he had done wrong
in allowing the nuptials to be celebrated,
for that gentleman had cultivated his
d seased imagination to snch an extent,
lhat long after the villagers had retired
to their homes he wandered about in the
woods brooding over his trouble. He
meant to be just, and perhaps merciful,
but his breast was tilled with conflicting
emotions, as a brand from the burning,
he wished to save her—but on the other
hand came up before his then primitive
mind, the facts concerning the girl, and
he found that he was not doing his duty
in not bringing her to trial. As he was
walking aimlessly about in the woods he
saw a powefully built man, in whom he
thought he recognized the dead Hillary’,
approach the cabin, and following him m
single file were a half-dozen Indians, each
healing a bundle on his back.
Egbert and Dorothea were seated in the
cabin talking over the events of day, and,
as is the custom of lovers, repeating their
vows of allegiance to each other, when a
rap at the door attracted their attention.
The seven men whom the minister had
seen silently entered and ranged theii
bundles upon the floor around the man
and wife.
This was done without a word, and the
six Indians withdrew, leaving their
leader in the cabin. Dorothea Ingram
arose from her seat by the side of her
husband and went Jo him. As she ap
proached the man extended his arms and
clasped her to his bosom.
“Dorothea, my love, may this day be
the beginning of a happy life for you. 1
am not much at praying, but I will pray
to-night that God may make your hus
band" faithful to yon. Here is my wed
ding present. If you were poor it would
make you wealthy, for each bundle it
made up of the choicest furs, and here ii
a purse filled with gold and 6iiver, and,
even though your husband is wealthy, my
present will not come amiss. Besides you
mast not go to your husband empty
handed."
With a kiss from the young bride’s lip*
the man departed.
CHAPTER XL
PURITAN LAW.
A year passed by—a year laden with
happiness to Dorothea. She and hei
husband have made a happy home in
Hillary cabin. The settlement had now
jrown to such an extent that their farm
had become quite valuable.
Egbert was away part cf the time look
ing after his land, which lay some three
miles inland, but as was natural the
greater part of his time was passed at
home.
With his own hands aud with the help of
others he cleared several acres of ground
about the home, and in another year the
rich black loam would have a heavy crop.
Dorothea had her girden, in which
vegetables grew, with hero and there a
bed of flowers. Climbing vines had also
been planted at each side of the cabin
door and, before fall, had spread their
luxuriance over the side and around it
with their green leaves.
But the minister had not been idle.
The scene he had witnessed the evening
after Dorothea’s wedding could never be
banished from his mind. It had rankled
in his bosom like some poisonous weed
spreading its fibrous roots and feeding
upon his heart. He was now thoroughly
convinced of Dorothea’s evil, and wa3
restrained from proceeding against her
only by the position which her husband
gave her. But at length even this did
not protect her, and he gave notice one
Sunday morning, after preaching, that
the next day Mistress Dorothea Inghram
would be asked to appear before the offi
cers of the church to answer to the charge
of withcraft.
The announcement created great ex
citement, and many were the friends
who were indignant, but Mr. Granville
had consulted with the deacons of the
church and it was ihe r opinion that
Dorothea had best be put o~n trial. If
she were innocent she would be cleared.
If guilty, it was best to havo her guilt
known.
The rest of the day was one of intense,
though repressed, excitement, and the
people gathered tothe afternoon preaching
with the expectation of hearing some
thing more with regard to the all-absorb
ing subject. But they were disappointed.
Mr. Granville came behind the tall,
Puritan pulpit, and, after the hymn and
the prayer and the reading of a chapter
of the Scriptures, announced his text:
“I am He that blotteth out thy trans
gressions as a cloud; and a3 a dark
cloud thy sins.“
The plain board meeting house stool
at the end of the one long village street,
and was surrounded by forest trees. The
oak and the maple, the birch and the
hickory beat their branches on its roof.
In front grew the wild ha\vb?rry, which,
in its season, was loaded down with
bright, red berries, and in the rear were
the graves which marked the saints who
had gone to heaven.
It was a strange sermon, and so im
pressed the listeners. The subject seem
ed to have nothing to do with the great
fact which was filling the minds of the
congregation. Mr. Granville preached
as he had never preached before, and the
people listened with wondering awe. Was
this the decrepit man who had wearied
them with his platitudes about Gods
judgment and foreordination? Was this
the man whom they had grown to look
upon as stem and*nnforbidding—who
preached rather an unforgiving God than
a God of sinners?
Ihe minister said: “Beloved, the
clouds are an emblem of sin. They float
above ns in God’s air and are so dark
th*t they hide the sun from us. They
come from earth, they risi from the
brook, the river, the ocean, and no man
sees them rise. And yet, when they leave
ns and rise to that clear space which be
longs to God, they stand out in clear re
lief and are beyond out reach. They
float in God’s air and hide from ns the
Ban.
“So with our sins. They come from
us and ofttjmeswa know not of them even
as they are rising. But when once they
have gone upward, they gather and we
eee the blaqk cloud between us and God.
They form on earth, in our hearts, but
when they have risen, no man's hand can
reach them. They then belong to God, I
“There is then left to us noth ; ng. But
God has said that even as He scattereth
the clouds so will He drive away our sins.
They may be dark and threatening, anl
nothing that we can do can drive them
away. But He has promised that His
hand shall stretch out and take them
away."
The sermon closed with these words:
“God is love and He is merciful, and He
will stretch out His strong hand and
take away the dark cloud which hangs
between Him and us; and all that we
have to do is to fall upon our knees and
beat upon our breasts and cry, ‘God, be
merciful to me a sinner.’ "
The minister ended and gave out a
hymn, which was sung by the choir in the
gallery. Then the choir received the
benediction and departed.
The sermon was the cause of much dis
cussion in the village, particularly in the
doctor’s household, where Egbert and
Dorothea stopped that night. Egbert
said:
“I never have understood Mr. Granville
before. Take courage, Dorothea. He
means to do right, and if we c in but
prove to him that his distorted imagina
tion is wrong, from being your enemy he
will turn to be your friend.”
The next morning the whole village
fathered in the meeting-house. It
was a solemn occasion. Prayer was
offered by the minister, and a Puri
tan hymn was sung, af er which Dorothea
was brought before the pulpit to answer
the charge which her lifo-lcng enemy
had been preparing.
The first acc sation was with regard to
her evil influence over the minister’s
daughter. This Dorothea denied, and in
rebuttal Doctor Lennox told of the inci
dent in his office, giving as his opinion
that Achsah’s trouble was mere nervous,
ness, and that the herbs of the forest, if
rightly applied, would prove a restorative.
This statement of his created a favorable
impression. Then the minister arose and
said:
“Mistress Dorothea Ingram, who have
yon met in the forest during the last five
years?"
The congregation waited, breathless,
for the answer.
“Reverend sir. I might answer your
question were it not for a promise to*one
to whom I am bound by the most sacred
ties ”
“Stop!" cried the minister. “Speak not
in this place of sacred ties which bind
you to the evil one.”
The congregation experienced a shock
and believed that the minister was right.
Before Dorothea could reply the minister
asked aga ; n:
“ Will you tell me now who visited you
on the night of your mar Triage and gave
yon snch presents as no other maiden in
the village could hope to receive?"
To this Dorothea answered:
“Who it was that visited me my bus
band knows, and if he is satisfied, i
does not concern you."
This also, as the minister saw, created
a favorable impression in Dorothea’s be
half. But his work was not yet done.
Drawing a folded slip of paper from his
pocket he said:
“My brethren, ye have heard the man
ner in which this woman huth eluded the
guardians which would condemn her.
Here is written proof against her. I
found it in her cabin two years ago. It
was left there by a man who entered the
place after night-fall. I found a note
written on birch-bark. I took it home
and kept it for two years, and Deacon
Bethnal saw it, and was a witness when
that same note was taken away by the one
who wrote it, ‘The Prince of the Power
of the Air.’ But, so deeply had the
words burned into my mind, that the next
day I rewrote them, and here they are:
“‘Dorothea! Obey the one who keeps
you, and the one who looks after you, but
whom you cannot see, will provide for
you.’
Brethren," continued the minister,
“what more proof is needed? Mistress
Dorothea has refused to tell who it is
hath met her in the woods, and who it is
that provided for her on the eve of her
marriage. Behold! hsre is his own com
munication. You will note that he said,
‘Obey!’ because be has a right to com
mand. ‘Obey the one who keeps yon.’
Who coaid thi3 refer to? Satan. ‘And
the one who keeps yon.’ Who was it
kept her? The evidence is clear. It was
the evii one. And if anything more is
needed, the last part of the note is suf
ficient: ‘Ihe one whom you cannot see
will provide for you.’ Whom could she
not see? The devil, who has been pro
viding for her and protecting her."
After this speech the officers of the
church and the village consulted together.
The evidence to some was plain, but
others put a more favorable construction
npon it. The latter, however, we:e in
the minority. Puritan law was strict
and the verdict was announced that, as
tho charge of witchcraft had not been
fully proved, but grave doubts remained
in the minds of the judges, Mistress
Dorothea Ingrain should at noon that day
receive twenty lashes npon her bare
back. And the merciful judges praved
that this might prove the salvation of
her sonl.
[TO BE CONTINUED.J
ON TO WASHINGTON.
ARMIES OF INDUSTRIALS MARCH
ING UPON THE CAPITAL.
Fables of History.
The story of King Arthur and his
round table is a myth, although what
purports to be the round table is
still to be seen in a south of England
town.
Alfred the Great did not visit the
Danish camp disguised as a minstrel.
There is no good reason to believe
that he could either play the harp or
speak Danish.
The maelstrom is not a whirlpool
which sucks ships down into the
depths of the ocean. It is an eddy,
which in fair weather can be crossed
in safety by any vessel.
Queen Eleanor did not suck the
poison from her husband's wound, as
she did not accompany him on the
expedition during which the incident
is alleged to have taken place.
The ‘Alan in the Iron Mask” did
not wear a mask of iron. It was
black velvet secured by steel springs.
The wonderful Damascus blades
that cut the bars of iron in two were
not superior to the Toledo blades
made to-day.
Seneca was not a half Christian
philosopher, but a grasping money
lender and usurer, who died worth'
over .£3,000,000.
Caesar did not say, “Et tu, Brute.”
Eye-witnesses to the assassination
deposed that “ he died fighting, but
silent, like a wolf.”
Richard III. was not- a hunchback,
but a soldier of fine - form, some pre
tensions to good looks, and great
personal strength and courage.
Blondel, the harper, did not dis
cover the prison of King Richard.
Richard paid his ransom, and the re
ceipt for it is among the Austrian
archives.
Caesar did not cross the Rubicon.
It lay on the opposite side of the
Italian peninsula from the point
where he left his own possessions and
entered Italy.
The Bridge of Sighs at Venice has
no romance worthy the name. Most
of the unfortunates who cross it are
petty thieves who are sent to the
workhouse.
Fair Rosamond was not poisoned
by Queen Eleanor, but. after a long
residence as a nun in the convent of
Gadstow. died greatly esteemed by
her associates.—[The Million,
The Crusade of the Commonwealers
Spreading all Over the West.
From all over the west comes the
news that the cruoade of industrials is
spreading. Over a dozen armies are
now in the field. In all the large
towns, companies are rapilly being
formed. The armies, detachments
and divisions now in tjie field
in the west Are: General Kel
ly, 1,000 men, Neola, Iowa; Gen
eral Fry, 1,000 men, Terre Haute,
Indiana; General Fry’s second divis
ion, 900 men, McLeansboro, Illinois;
General Grayson, 100 men, Platt-
ville, Colorado; General Galven,
200 men, Loveland, Ohio; Ser
geant Randall, 500 meD, Chicago; 100
men at Little Falls, Minnesota; 500
•men at Butte, Montana; 100 men at
Monmonth, Illinois; 200 men at Ot
tumwa, la., Captain Sullivan, 1,000
men, Chicago; 150 men at Anderson,
Indiana; and General Anbrey,- 700
men at Indianapolis, Indiana. Be
sides these armies, large numbers of
lecruits are pushing forward to the va
rious lines of march with the intention
of joining the large bodies.
coxey’s main abmy.
After three days’ stay in Hagers
town, Md., the Army of the Common
weal broke camp Monday morning and
made for Turner’s Gap. Just after the
departure of the Commonweal army,
considerable speculation was aroused
by a dispatch from Washington, stat
ing that a troop of cavalry had started
from Fort Myer, bound for Freder
icks. There is a rumor that the Com
monwealers had been making overtures
to the strikers iu the coal region, and
there was the possibility of a deluge
of miners seizing trains to rush down
and striking the lino of march some
where in Fredericks or Montgomery.
FIFTH BEGIMENT IN OREGON.
A special from Portland, Oregon,
says: The fifth regiment of the In
dustrial Army, six hundred strong, ex
pects to leave for Washington at once.
Tho officers hepe to secure railroad
transportation, but it is hardly proba
ble that tho railroads will accede to
their demands.
PREPARING FOB HIM AT WASHINGTON.
The Commissioners of the District
of Columbia will issue a proclamation
or statement concerning the coming of
Coxey and his army. It is understood
that this action will be taken at the
suggestion of President Cleveland.
Fears that the arrival of Coxey will
mark the concentration in Washing
ton of elements bent cn disturbing
law and order, have been impressed on
the commissioners by many prominent
men, and the president has also been
told by some of bis advisers that it
would be well to take measures to show
the intending evil-doers that the au
thorities will brook no interference
with the maintenance of law and order
in the district.
The president was loath to take ac
tion in the matter in the name of the
Federal government, but believing
that some positive steps were necessary,
he suggested that the district commis
sioners, as the repsesentatives of tho
local authority, issue some sort of
statement to offset the rumored inten
tions of the extremists to mark the ar
rival of Coxey the opportunity for a
demonstration that might develop into
a serious riot.
MOULDERS TO GO TO WASHINGTON.
At a meeting of five hundred union
moulders, at Chicago, it was announced
that the three unions of Chicago would
send five hundred men to Washington
to present their grievances to congress.
They will move on trains. Delega
tions from a dozen towns in Illinois,
Indiana and Wisconsin are expected
to join them.
OUR NEWS SDM3IART
MADE UP OF ITEMS FROM AIL
PARTS OF THE WORI.D
HALLS OF CONGRESS
DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH
HOUSE AND SENATE.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
For the Past Week.
A review of the industrs&l situation in the
south for the past week shows that the strike
among the coal miners in the Birmingham and
Jellieo districts of Alabama and Tennessee has
unsettled business for the time being. It has
not proved to bo as general as was predicted,
bat several thousand men have gone out of the
mines. Impartial observers believe that tile
strike will be a sit rt one, partly because the
demands of the sinkers are considered to be
extreme, and also becanse there ia a lack of
funds with which to support them while oat of
work.
In addition to the redaction in freight rates
on iron pipe to northern points recently an
nounced a reduction of a similar kind has' been
made to* southern and southwestern points,
to take effect May 1. It is unfortunate that
these redactions are counter-balanced by labor
troubles. As it is claimed that fuel supplies
are sufficient for a month to come, it is hoped
that an adjustment will be made lx fore that
time expires. In other indnsirial lines reports
are encouraging. The effects of the cold wave
have pot proved as disastrous as was antici
pated.
Forty-six new industries were established or
incorporated during the week, among which
are the Lee Coupling and Manufacturing Co.,
of San Antouio, Texas, capital $500,000, a gold
mining company at Charlt 6ton, W. Va., with
the same capital, and a $200,000 compress at
Galveston, Texas. A $75,000 barrel fac ory is
to be built in Memphis, Tenn., a $50,000 lum
ber plant at Western, Ark., an electrical com
pany $50,000 capital has been chartered at
Hillsboro, Texas, a manufacturing company
with the same capital at Austin, Texas, and a
$25,000 fertilizer company at Dotken, Ala.
A canning factory is reported at Natchez,
M:ss., car works at Gainesville, F.'a., a cotton
compress at Waco, Texas, and electric light
companies at l’alatka, Fla., and Wes- Point,
Mias. Knitting mills are reported at Vaidese,
N. C , and Winchester, Va., ironworks at Bir
mingham and Oneonta, Ala., Lynchburg and
Suffolk, Va., and mining companies at A tna-
vide, Ky- f B.ne Springs and Helenwood, Tenn.
Oil mills are to be built at Opelika. Ala., and
Lakeland, La., a pottery established at .Merid
ian, Miss., a shoe factory at Augusta, Ga., a
sugar refinery at Glencoe, La., and a tobacco
factory at Winston, N. C. Woodworking plmts
are to be established at Bectw, Ark., Inverness
and Jacksonville, Fla., Worth, Gx., Lancaster,
Ky., Jackson, Tenn., fciheva, Va., and Hunting-
ton. W. Va.
There is also reported ten enlargements of
manufactories, three new waterworks and
twenty important new build ngs, among which
are, a bank at New Martinsville, W. Va., a
$150,000 office bnilding at Nashville, Tenn.,
business bouses at Harmony Grove, Ga.,
Greenville, Tenn,, and Houston, Texas, a c art
bouse at Dublin, Ga., hotels at Fairfield and
Jacksonville, Fla., and Knoxville, Tenn., sekod
buildings at Ozirk. Ala., and Marietta, Ga.,
aud a $100,000 university building at Gallatin,
Tenn.—Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
Showing AVhat is Going On In Our
Own and Foreign Lands.
Jessie Seligman, the well known
Xew York banker, died at San Fran
cisco Monday.
A Chicago dispatch says that a strike
of four thousand employes of the Put
man ear company will be declared on
May 1st
A Washington special of Monday
states that BepreseuJutive "Jerry Simp
son is rapidly sinking and hope of hie
recovery*abandoned.
A Washington special says: Repre
sentative Jerry Simpson’s illness took
an unfavorable turn Sunday evening,
his condition being complicated by
the return of an old kidney trouble.
One hundred and four fresh cases ol
cholerine, or cholera, is reported at
Lisbon, Portugal. The disease is rap
idly spreading to the towns and vil
lages in the interior. The Spanish
authorities have adopted rigorous pre
cautionary measures against the disease
all along the frontier.
The American minefs of Para, 111.,
have decided not to join the strikers,
and only a little more than half of the
foreigners voted to go out. Six hun
dred Americans will resume work as
usual, but the strikers threaten to stop
them, and there is danger of a serious
conflict of citizens with Americans.
Late reports from Summerville,
Mo., the scene of the recent cyclone,
say the town is not much injured, but
in the country the damage is great.
Mrs. Tan Keel, three children, a hired
girl and hired man were killed. Five
dwellings and many other bnildings
were blown away, and a large number
of people injured.
In the Clearfield and Beech Creek
coal regions of Pennsylvania there are
upwards of one hundred mines and
out of this number there is not one in
operation. The suspension is com
plete through both regions. There is
not the least excitement, but the mi
ners are very impatiently awaiting
news from the regions in Maryland and
Virginia.
The mortgage bond suit of the Cen
tral Trust Company of New York vs.
the Richmond and Danville railroad,
in Washington, decree of foreclosure
and sale, which was issued by the
United States circuit court for the
eastern district of Virginia on the 13th
of this month, has been signed by
Judge Hagner, of the district supreme
court.
The Mobile and Ohio railroad tax
case, appealed from the supreme court
of Tennessee, was reargued before the
United States supreme court Tuesday.
The question at issue was as to the
force of a statute of the legislature of
Tennessee, under which the officers of
the state claim the right to subject the
property of the corporation to taxa
tion. The company officials claim
that, under its charter, the corpora
tion is exempt from taxation.
The Marion circuit court at Indian
apolis has declared the apportionment
act of 1893 constitutional. The action
to test the validity of the act was
brought at the instigation of the state
republican committee, which took the
ground that the democratic legislature
of 1893 had foisted a gerrymander
npon the people and so divided the
legislative districts of the state as to
give them the worst of the deal po
litically. An appeal will be taken to
the supreme court.
A sensational feature of President
Debs’ address to the American Rail
way Union meeting at Minneapolis
was his attack upon Judge Jenkins, in
which he said: “Jenkins is the most
corrupt scoundrel that was ever out
side of prison walls. He is a man
whose whole life, both public and pri
vate, is rotten to the very core, and I
stand prepared to prove it, too. Jen
kins is a disgrace to the bench upon
which he sits, and to the people who
elevated him to the position.”
Attorney General Moloney, in an
opinion rendered at Chicago decided
that the gas companies of that city are
maintaining a trust in violation of law
and he will institute proceedings at
once to have their charters annulled: -
The attorney general made the
sensational statement in connection
with the decision that ho had positive
knowledge that at the time he was
speaking, the trust was 60 altering
their books and records as to make a
lavorable showing at the trial of the
case.
NO AUDIENCE FOR COXEY.
The Senate Refuses to Grant Him s
Special Hearing.
A Washington dispatch says: By a
vote on the Peffer resolution, the sen
ate Monday showed that it had no
sympathy with the Coxey movement.
The resolution was put npon its pas
sage and was voted down by 26 to 17.
All the democrats except one voted in
the negative. The resolution was to
appoint a committee to receive the
representatives of the army and hear
them. The senators are perfectly
willing to receive aDy petitions from
the army and have them referred to
the proper committees, but to appoint
a committee to hear from them spe
cially is more than the senate has ever
done for any body of men, and natu
rally they refused to do it for Coxey
and his army.
SIX WERE DROWNED.
The Discussion of Important Measures
Briefly Epitomized.
Immediately after tho house was
called to order Monday morning, Mr."
Hepburn raised the point of “no quo
rum, ” on the approval of the journal,
and the roll Call was ordered. The
journal was approved; ayes, 213 ; nays,
none. The house then proceeded to
the consideration of measures relating
to the District of Columbia.
The O’Xeill-Joy election case, from
the eleventh district of Missouri, came
up in the house again Tuesday through
an effort by Mr. Bartholdt, of Missouri,
to have read a series of resolutions
adopted by a mass meeting of citizens
of the district, denouncing the unseat
ing of Joy. He was unsuccessful, how
ever, the speaker ruling that the reso
lutions presented no question of privi
lege. The hoHse then went into com
mittee of the whole and took up the
postoffice appropriation bill for the
year ending June 30, 1895.
The house, at 12 :40 Wednesday, re
solved itself into committee of the
whole for consideration of the diplo
matic and consular appropriation bill.
At 1:45 Thnrsday the house went
into committee of the whole and re
sumed the consideration of the diplo
matic and consular appropriation bill.
THE SENATE.
In the senate, Monday, the creden
dentials of Thomas Jordan Jarvis sT
senator from North Carolina to fiil the
vacancy caused by tho death of Mr.
Vance, were presented by the vice
president and placed on file. An effort
was made py Mr. Peffer to get beforo
the senate again his resolution for a
select committee to give hearings to
Coxey’s army. He made a motion to
take it up, but on the yeas and nays
only 17 senators voted for it, including
Mr. Hawley, who probably desired to
give Allen an opportunity to reply to
his remarks, and 26 against it. At 1
p. m. the tariff bill was taken up and
Mr. Quay, wbo was entitled to the
floor, yielded it to Mr. Washburn, who
proceeded .to address the senate in op
position to the bill.
Immediately after reading tbo jour
nal Tuesday, the senate went into ex
ecutive session. The object of the
session was to dispofae of tlie Florida
nominations; among them that of Geo
W. Wilson, to be collector of internal
revenue for the Florida district, and
in which no decision was reached.
After a half hour spent in executive
session, and another half hour given to
morning business of no importance,
the tariff bill was taken up at 1 o’clock.
Mr. Mills addressed the senate in sup
port of the bill, closing what is desig
nated as “general debate.”
In the senate Wednesday, after tho
introduction of a bill and resolution
on the subject of the expected arrival
in Washington of Coxey and his fol
lowers, the tariff bill was, at 1 p. m.,
laid before the senate, and Mr. Harris
asked unanimous consent to have the
bill taken up each day at 1 o’clock,
p. m., and consideration continued till
6 p. m. Objection was made by Mr.
Aldrich, acting for the republicans, to
continuing daily sessions later than 5
o’clock. Mr. Harris then put his re
quest in the shape of a motion, and on
objection, it went over. Mr. Harris
gave notice that he wonld submit this
motion every day until some result is
reached. Consideration of the bill was
then begun, paragraph by paragraph,
and Mr. Vest took the floor.
In the senate, Thursday, the Hon.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis, the new senator
from North Carolina, was sworn in.
The Coxey movement was brought
prominently to the front when Senator
Allen’s resolution of Wednesday was
considered. Mr. Vest opened in a
strong speech in which he denounced
in unmeasured terms the lawlessness
of the men in the west who are seizing
trains and committing other rash acts.
He said if these men intended to
be peaceful and conys here and
looked over the capitol and buildings
as other citizens, did, there was no ob
jection, but any resolution tendering
welcome to those who were breaking
the laws of the United States were out
of place. It was the duty of the sen,
ate to set the seal of its disapprobation
upon these acts of lawlessness. Other
speeches were made on the same line and
after a long discussion Mr. Allen’s reso
lution went over without action. The
senate, by a vote of 5 to 6, agreed to
take up the order for tho daily meet
ing of the senate at 11 a. m. The or
der was then agreed to, Mr. Aldrich
stating that there was general assent
to it on the republican side. The tar
iff bill was taken up and Mr. Higgins
made a speech in opposition to it.
THE EIIuST CLASH.
DEPUTY MARSHALS AND COM
MONWEALERS IN BATTLE.
Industrialists Capture a Train and
are Arrested by Troops.
A Washington special says: In ad
dition to the request of the judge of
tho United States court, the United
States district attorney and the United
States marshal for the district of Mon
tana for federal aid in arresting the
Hogan contingent of the army of the
unemployed for seizing a train at
Bntte, Montana, against the mandate
of the United States court. President
Cleveland has received the following
from the governor of Montana, which
was given to the press:
“Helena, Montana.—To the presi
dent of the United States—Informa
tion reaches me by wire that tho Cox-
eyites, fleeing the 6tate with a stolen
train, were overtaken at Billings by
the United States deputy marshals who
were trying to serve a writ emanating
from the United States court. A fight
ensued. One deputy marshal was
wounded aud the leader of the Cox-
eyites was wounded. The deputy mar
shals were overpowered and driven off
with revolvers and other weapons.
The mob then surrounded the deputies
and now hold them prisoners. The
train of the Coxeyites is within a few
hours’ run of Fort Keogh. It is im
possible for the state militia to over
take them.
“As governor of Montana I hereby
request you to have the federal troops
at Fort Keogh intercept, take into cus
tody, arrest and hold these Coxeyites,
subject to the orders of tho United
States court issuing the writ referred
to. If the Coxeyites pass Fort Keogh
before orders can emanate from yon
for their apprehension, I request that
federal troops be ordered to overtake
them. Promptness is required.
“G. E. Bickarts,
“Governor of Montana.”
TROOrS TO ARREST THEM.
When these facts were reported to
the department of justice they were
brought tothe attention of the president
with the recommendation of the attor
ney general that the federal authority
be supported by troops, that being
the sole alternative left to the govern
ment. Tho president at once called
the general commanding the army into
the consultation, and after considering
the matter, General Schofield was di
rected to call npon tho commander of
the department of Dakota, in which
military department the affair took
place, to send a sufficient force of
troops to arrest all persons engaged iu
the unlawful seizure of the Northern
Pacific train at Butte, Mon., and to
hold the train and persons until they
could be delivered to the United States
marshal for Montana subject to tho
order of the United States district
court.
THE SOLDIERS HAVE THEM.
Later advices from St. Paul, Mint.,
are to the effect that the Coxeyites
were arrested by Col. Page’s troops at
Forsythe, Mon., forty-six miles west
of Fort Keogh.
ANOTHER AT TERIiE HAUTE.
A dispatch from Terre Haute, Inch,
says: That contingent of Coxey’s
army under command of Gen. Louis
C. Frye forcibly took possession of an
eastbound freight train, leaving the
city at 3 o’ecloek. The officers of tho
army claim to have paid the railroad
company for transportation as far ns
Brazil, twenty miles cast of Terre
Haute.
LATEST DISPATCHES
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE
TIME OF GOING TO PRESS.
Happenings of Interest Presented in
Brief and Pithy Paragraphs.
Further News of the Sinking of the
Steamer Los Angeles.
A special from Monterey, Cal., says:
A Popular Hotel Burned.
The Saranac Lake House, at Sara
nac Lake, N. Y., has been completely
destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
§125,000. The fire was of incendiary
origin, but the fiend is not known.
There was §40,000 insurance. The
bookings were larger for the coming
season than ever before, and principal
ly of guests from the south aud south
west, to whom this was a favorite
resort.
To Issue Licenses.
The liquor question has been brought
to an issue in Greenville, S. C. At a
meeting of the .city council, called to
take action as to the right of the city
to issue licenses, the discussion was
long and at times animated. A test
vote was taken,which resulted in a vote
| of 6 to 4 in favor of issuing liquor
i licenses.
were cast upon the beach near the
light-house—those of Timothy Nolan,
fireman of the steamer; Fitzgerald, a
passenger, and a hostler named San
ders of Los Angeles. It is also known
that S. N. Sheridan a passenger from
Ventura, and a Chinaman from Los An-
, geles, were drowned. The Los Ange-
Lost His Case. j es wafi all 0 ;d steamer and was crowd-
Watlington, the man who sued the ed with passengers from southern Cali-
Baleigh and Augusta railway for §5,000 j fornia ports bound for the Midwinter
damages on account of being struck j f a j r a t San Francisco.
by a cow which had been hurled from I !
the track by an engine, lost his case | , , . _
in court at Raleigh. The verdict was , * female tack maker in France is j
in favor of the railway cempanv. fortunate if she makes §1.16 per;
' ‘ ! week.
Flour For Glasgow.
The Noel Mill Company at Estell
It is known that six lives were lost by j Springs, Tc-nn., have finished loading
the loss of the steamer Los Angeles, ; the second train of flour for export to
at Point-snr light-house. Three bodies Liverpool ami Glasglow. It will be
dilivered to the Johnston line of steam
ers at Port Royal for 'transportion to
Liverpool.
Ogden Elected.
H. N. Ogden, democratic candidate
for congress from the Shreveport, La.,
district has been elected to fill the un
expired term of M. C. Blanchard.
His majority is about 5,000.
Most men look out for number one;
most women claim to look ont for
number two—at the shoe store.
It is better to be an April fool than
a chronic one.
Two hundred and fifty-two fresh
cases of cholera were reported at Lis
bon Thursday.
The National line steamer Helvetia,
Captain Froliche, lias been abandoned
in a sinking condition oft' Cape Finist-
cere, Spain, and her crew and passen
gers landed at Gibraltar.
A telegram received at tbo miners’
headquarters at Columbus, from
Thomas Farry, dated Fire Creek, West
Virginia, says that, twenty-one mines
in that state are closed. They employ
3,500 miners.
The Indiana Republican State Con
vention adjourned at Indianapolis,
at 4 o’clock Thursday morning, after
having been in continuous session for
eighteen hours. A full state ticket
was completed and agreed npon.
L. W. Johns, the. general superin
tendent of the Tennessee coal, Iron
and Railroad company, at Birming
ham, Ala., has secured at Weir City,
Kan., 200 negro coalminers to go into
the Birmingham mines in jilace of the
strikers there.
Attoruer-General Olney was inform
ed Thursday that the miners of tho
Couer D’Alene mines, in northern
Idaho, had assembled to the number
of 600 men, and threatened to capture
a train and move east. The civil and
military authorities have been advised
to take proper measures to prevent
violence to property.
Governor Flower, of New York, has
vetoed the annual appropriation bill
because the republican legislature re
fused to amend the bill by striking out
the section to allow the attorney gen
eral to designate all counsel employed
by state commissioners. This action
of the governor will probably delay
the adjournment.
The debenture holders of the Cen
tral railroad held a meeting at Savan
nah Wednesday,.but eame no nearer a
determination of the matters before
them than at the former meeting. The
agreement which has been drawn had
received only §610,000 worth of signa
tures and it has to have $1,000,000 be
fore it can become operative. The
amount was increased to about §700,000
at the meeting aud the committee will
canvass for further signatures before
another meeting is called.
There is a woman in Ohio who was
one of the little girls in George
Washington’s funeral procession.
She is Mrs. Priscilla Spooner. Mrs.
Spooner recently celebrated her 100th
* birthday.