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VOLUME 1.
In Tioklo now ah funeral roads lead to
the death furnace, w herein 5,515 human
bodies have been burned to ashes this
* c;,r - _ 'M
Several hundred lernale waiters in
cheap New Yoik restaurants arc in re
volt because they are not only underpaid,
but are not allowed sufficient whole-on e
food, _ t t
George Augusta S-da writes from Mel
bourne tint laboring men in Australia
earn eight shillings tor a day’s work (f
ciitit hours, eat meat three times ft day
an 1 h ive no H ate cnurch to support or
State drones to feed.
Cures of sciatica tire reported a* hav
ing taken place, in Paris utter a single
application of I)r. Dcbove’s method of
freez ug .he skin above tin? painful parts
with a -pray of chloride of methyl. The
operation is said t be applicable also to
facial neuralgia.
The n legroph system <*f the Drl teh
i-lands, under the control of the post
office, no>v amounts to 150,009 miles, ami
employs 17,00) instiuments. The tan
daul rate is twelve words for a sixpence,
address inelu le*l press messages al no
now average n mi'limi words a day,
A large pump has been at work in the
Grand Central Mine at Tombstone, Ari.,
without diminishing the water in the
lower levels for the last three months.
If has just been discovered that the water
pumped out found its way back into the
tame and was simply being handled over
and over again.
The persons who invested in the di
ving >iK*cnlalicn to obtain £IOO,OOO worth
of gold which ws sunk years ago in the
ebip Alfonso XII., off the we!*t coa4 of
Attica, have b-en rewarded by a harvest
of gold from the gray sand fields. The
divers have got nearly all the gold and
have sent it to E iglabd.
The new G .u inan iron-clad Oldenburg
will be of entirely novel constructs n
Ills a broadside ship, with ten-inch
guns—live on each side, two above and
three below deck, but the whole five can
be concent rated on the same point with
sufficient force, it is estimated, to disable
eveu the stronyc.-t iron-clad.
The native wi c.< i nni trout the Held
the body of the Prince Imperial, when
he lost his lite lighting in S mth Attica,
was presented with a dini m l ring and
pen-ioned by the E u-pres* Eugenie, lie
came to M issachueretisaud was tost sigtit
oi, but the liog Has found last week in a
Boston pawn sto p.
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A number ot he saloon keepers of At
lanta are arranging to leave in July.
They h ive virtually given up the light.
Philadelphia anti Broi kly’u, N. Y , art
the favorite otj-ctive points. Several
saloouist*, win s<> license expired on Jan
uary 1, have decided not to renew them,
and wili -u-pti and hu-iness.
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CdlVe-drinkers may te interested in
knowing the re-'ulr of experiments made
with that beverage in France, as report
ed to the Paris Academy ot Sciences*
The experiments, which were made on
dog*, showed that while moderate quan
tities of entice always increased I lie pro
cess of nutrition and the respiratory
movements, too largo doses produced re
tardation of the heart and diminution ot
tire nirririve processes.
The L’liicet stvs that “children wio
ire allowed to g> hare four ed enj *y al
most perfect immunity from the and inger
of ‘cold’ by accidental chilling of the
leer, and they are altogether healthier
and happier than those w ho, iu obedi
etice to the usages of social life, have
their lower extremities permanently in
valided, and, so to say, carefully swathed
and put aw ay in rigid cases. As regards
the poorer classes of children, there c:n
be no sort comparably liefter they should
go barefooted than wear b mts that let in
the wet ami stocking* that are nearly al
ways damp and foul.”
On a steamer tli.tr aH*l*-l recently from
New York for Liverpool there was a
drunken steerage passenger in the uni
form of a United States soldier. During
the entire passage he subsisted on whis
ky, ami on the arrival of the ship at her
destination he disappeared. A month
1- tir the same steamer was preparing to
leave port. .Just.as the gang-plank was
to bo withdrawn, the military passenger
reeled on to the ship, flour hiring a pie
paid steerage certificate, O.i the home
ward passage lie admitted that lie had
not been sob *r for a moment. He had
no money whatever, but obtained all ihe
liquor he wanted by going Into saloons
and p< s’ng as rht* military represen a'.he
of a great and free people.
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WOMAN AND HOME
Various FamPi.tr Womanly Superiorities
.i'l Virtual*.
Signor Max in Detroit Free Press ]
Personally, 1 i iVo list Ih.v gxil im
pulses that, were not traceable to women.
This is a:i acknowledgment which I have
alvvays felt esp *cj illy ho*t<re 1 to make.
From tin long-'-uiFodug, puicnt and all
believing mother, wh > looked fondly on
even the turbulent pranks of youth,
down t > the friendships that, have adorn
ed and sweetened and smooth# 1 my later
Iff*?, women have Ili 1 nn under ever
lasting and grateful debt. I say this
•nan-fashion, i trending to avoid mere
lientimeufaiism; and in that morel I shall
try to settle the iir<t installment of my
debt by taithfulness of endeavor to illus
traie srni' of the lamiihir womanly supe
riorities and virtues. I think ow that
if every man were to record bis expeii
en re of e e-ti a that h*ve enriched him
out of the induite aggregate of woman’s
saeri-ib’e we should in tune have a lit
feranue oa which to be found a useful
and beautiful uew tension.
LIFE EVER LISTING*
Springfield Rcpr b’ican |
By the ro idsi.lc it grovn,
JJt : its white crown.
Where the blushing wil l rose
Wuß down.
To-d *>y I met my lova
Of long ato.
Her hair was silvery white, and yet, the low
Sweet voice that charmed mo
In the olden days
SHI! ppoke in soft tv modulated ways
Of book*, an t art, alb it wrinkle* lay
W here once 1 watched the senile*
And dimples play*
My love—and yet ’twas not.
How was it time
Ha t spare ! to eye and voice their gracious
prime ?
* How laid his touch on cheek,
on lip ar.d hrow.
Saying, Thy friend is vanished, buried now—
Yet never reached that inner, sacred ;hr.tne
Save to enrich, adorn.
And irake divine?
Go lea-n tin secret. Ch mged we all must be;
Lifef om within is innvr:a’ity.
A SECOND MAB.JIAGB*
D-jm'rct’s Month’y.]
His parishioners watched the Rev. Mr.
Brown with peculiar Interest as he left
the graveyard, leading his tw'o little
girls by the hand. They w'ondered,
knowing how much she had been to him,
how he would endure the terrible blow
of his wife’s death. His face was like
marble as the collin was lowered into the
grave; there was no outward sign of
anguish, but no one doubted for a mo
ment that he suffered keenly. He had
been rather a mystery to his congrega
tion always; but they knew him to be
capable of deep feeling, in -pite of his
cold, Impassive manner. A ncisy, de
monstrative show of grief would have
been impossible to him. He was a man
of great tranquility of mind, and with
little energy of disposition. He took all
that Providence sent him very dutifully,
without any effort to change or amend it,
no matter how objectionable it might be;
and lie possessed in perfection the art of
“putting up with” whatsoever befell
him.
lie was not a favorite with his flock;
but he was by means unpopular. The
poor 1 ved I.an, for liis hand was always
ready to go to his pocket at a tale of dis
tress, limited as were his means, and his
reproofs were always of the mildest sort.
The rich, though they had little to sav
for him, had nothing to siy against him.
They invited him frequently to their
houses, entertained him handsomely,
and h ire very complacently with his
habit of falling into a brown study at
the dinner table. As for the younger
i orthm of his flock, his good look*, hi*
rich chestnut hair, and dreamy eyes had
earlv impressed them prof undly, and
they sang his praises without stint.
ft was a source of regret to many of
of the young ladies—and a few of trie
older ones—that Mr. Brown was a mar
ried man. Many years before he had
come to the church at Bar-tow, he had
wedded a gentle, sweet-t mper and girl,
who fairly worshiped him, and who
proved herself a good wife and a devoted
mother. Their wedded life had flowed
on as calmly as a meadow brook, undis
turbed by any petty domestic jar* or
troubles. It had never occurred to Mr.
Brown that it might not go on forever.
He did not notice his wife's failing
health, and as she was one of the kind*
who never complain, he was utterly un
prepared for her death It stupefied
him; he could not understan lit It
seemed to himself incredible, impossible,
and he felt bewildered and half puzzled
even when he heard the sod falling on
the coffin.
He went back to his lonely home with
his two little girls, and shut himself up
in his study, where he lay down on the
well-worn lounge, a dull pain in hi*
head. It seemed to him that hi3 lost
Laura must know how much he needed
her. He could not r alize that she was
gone. lie lay there, half expecting to
see her enter and to feel her tender touch
on his brow, soothing away the pain as
she had often done when he was brain
weary. But hour after hour went by.
and no one came near him, and he heard
only the voices of his children as they
talked loudly to tbe cook in the kitchen
The next day he went out as it-ual,
pursuing his accustomed round of duties
as tranquilly and patiently as ever. His
parishioners were loud in their expres
sions of admiration to eaeli other as they
saw how well he bore his great sorrow,
and they were very kind to him, espe
cially in the matter of advice. His •‘dis
tressing situation” was the subject of de
bate in almost every house in Barstow.
It was talked over at the meetings of the
se wing circle, the reading club, and the
Indian Belief association, an l it was
unanimously agreed that the best thing
the poor widower could do was to em
ploy a governess, who would also act as
housekeeper and general manager.
But it was not an easy matter to find
the right kind of a woman for the place,
though there were many applicants for
it. It was decided that only a middle
aged, res ectable, quiet woman, who
would be incapable of scheming to All
the late Mrs. Brown’s place, and who
will be competent to tike charge of v ’,.?
little girs, would do, and such a one was
hard to find.
It was Miss Anastasia Bowen who at
length found just the right person, and
as Mr. Br wh vras willing to do just
what Miss Bowen thought best, that lady
took the responsibility of installing Miss
Susan Piper in the parsonage without
further delay.
Miss Piper was neither old nor young;
she had no prete nsions whatever to good
looks, and she was so exceedingly shy
that if the minis er spoke to her on even
the most trivial topic she blushed as red
as a peony. But these sitid Miss Anas
tasia, were such trilling drawbacks- si
almost to be looked upon in the light of
advantages under the circumstances. .
CABTEBSYILLeTgEOEGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1886.
Miss Piper was, as Mr. Brown soon
saw, a very good woman, exceedingly
conscientious and painstaking, bhe did
her best for the two little girls— healthy,
happy, pretty little creatures of 9 and 11
yo rs—who learned the simp’e lesson she
gave them from pure love for her, not
because they feared her displeasure.
Probably there was no lady iu Barstow
who took a deeper in crest in tire house -
I hold affairs of the bereaved widower
than Tvliss Anastasia Owen. She was,
in spite of the fact that youth had long
since left her, of a sentimental turn of
| mind, and the pale, high-bred face and
gentle manners of Mr. Brown had in
spired her with an intense admiration for
him, which, after the death of his wife,
r pened into an undisguised attachment
which was patent to every one but the
object of it. Not a chance did the spin
ster lose of seeing her idol, and scarcely
a day passed that she did not run into the
parsonage on one excuse or another.
But the minister, absorbed in his books
and the memory of his and aid Laura, was
utterly and sublimely uncon scion; of the
passion he had inspired. The idea of a
second marriage had never entered his
mind. lie never eveu asked himself
whether he lised Miss Bowen or not, but
so constantly did she press her advice
respecting every subject upon him that
he grew to depend upon her in a great
measure, and often consulted her upon
different household and church matter
never touching, however, iu any matter,
whatever upon the subject of matrim
ony.
The fact that she was making no head
way in spite of her tireKss effort*, in
*pite of the attentions she lavished upon
the two little girls, at last dawned upon
Miss Anastasia, and she set herself to
work to discover the reason. Sire came
o the conclusion, after a careful review
of the ground, that Mr. Brown was too
comfortable by far. Miss Piper attended
most assiduously to his creature com
forts, and thesociety of his ehil Iren pre
vented any feeling of great loneliness.
“He wouldn’t hold out a month if he
was left utterly alone,”incd!titedthe am
bition* lady. “If he had no one to see
after him or to talk to, he\l be apt to
think of me. There’s no one else he’d
turn to. He’s one of the kind to take
vhat comes nearest and is most con
venient.”
In which last conclusion Mi*s Anas
tasia was quite right, as my story will
prove.
She decided that no t : me was to he
‘osf, and that it was best to begin opera
tions at once. So, after -carefully map
ping out a course ofae lon, she repaired
to the parsonage and asked bo .ally to see
Mr Brown privately. *
Miss Piper.meek and humble as usual,
f xhibioed no surprise at the request, but
ride haste to show the visitor at once
into the minister’s study, where lie sat
reading at h s desk.
The intention of “having a talk” on
•me imprr’ai't subject was written
lair ly on her hard, lean face, and Mr,
drown iai I down his book at once and
•repnred to listen to whatever she had
• -mie to say.
“I hope I’m not disturbing you, Mr.
■irown, ’ began Anastasia, with a little
ervous cough as she took a seat. She
relt quit** agitated, and an unwonted ro’-
' r brightened her sallow cheek. Hei
lission was so important, so much hung
upon its success, that it was not strange
lie was not quite as calm as usual.
“No, oil no,” answered Mr. Brown,
ill* a faint sigh, as lie glanced at hi*
cloved b ok. “i am always glad to have
ou cotnft. I hope there is nothing
vrong?” anxiously.
“'idle truth is, Mr. Brown, I have come
<> see you about the girl*. They are not
• as well as I could wish. Mis-
Pipcr is a good woman, but she can’t
have the authority a—i mother wou!d
have, you know, and she let* them go
.bout as they please, and they are grow
ing up rude and wild.”
Mr. Brown looked startled. It did
not occur to him to question Miss Anas
rasia’s statement*. He took them iu good
faith always, being simple enough to be
lieve her to have his interest at heart.
“Why, you were the one who recom
mended Mi*s Piper to me,” he said at
length, “and I have been well satisfied
with her.”
“She does the best she knows how.”
siid Miss Anastasia, “but she hasn’t
sufficient authoritv t> govern them prop
erly. Ah, poor little creatures, they
m ed the care of a mo her.”
This# wa a bold ftroke. A flush rtg l
to the minister’s high, pale brow, but he
gave no other sign of emotion. Any ref
erence to his dead wife pained him, even
now that she had lain in her grave two
years, but of course he did not say so.
“You are very kind to take such an in
terest,” he murmured a little, indistinctly.
“What would you advise?”
“I would advise their being sent to
a hoarding school, Mr. Brown. I have a
friend who keeps a select seminary at
Woodstock. She will be delighted to
take charge of Flora and Annie, I am
sure.”
“I should not like to part with them,”
said Mr. Brown meditatively. “And —
and —what would become of Miss Piper?
I woulu’ot like, to hurt her feelings, and
she loves the girls dearly.”
“There’d he no cause for her to fee!
hurt. Tell her simply that force of elr
cuinstances compels you to dismiss her.
A month’s notice will he sufficient.”
“It will ho very unpleasant,” said the
! minister in trepidation. “And where
; will she go? She has no home but this,
| and not a relative in the world.”
She must get another situation,” said
Miss Anastasia. “She can begin now to
look for one. You can tell her of the
contemplated change till* tuning,” and
after promising to write at once to the
j principal of the teuiluary at Wooditock,
Miss Anastasia lelt, walking home in a
state of bliss bordering on ecstasy. She
f-.de sure that she had put in the hrst
wedge th t would life ht r toward a home
in the parsonage, m l already began to
plan the’ changes she would make in its
arrangement.
But a shadow had been thrown over
Mr. Brown’s peaceful life. Ilis soul was
fi ted with despair unutterable at the
c lought of that conversation he must
h ive with Miss Piper. The mere possi
bility of her shedding tears made a shud
der run through his frame. He could
no. make up his mind to speak, and day
after day passed, until it tacked only tw o
weeks of thd time when the seminary
wis to open. Then at last he spoke.
He Citne in the sitting-room, where
s -e sat and truing his socks by the light of
a s udent lamp, the girls having gone to
Do *. She looked up in surprise as he
9 tiered, for he seldom left his study un
til midnight; bu' not the faintest intui
ton had she of the blow which was to
fill upon rn-r.
“Miss Piper,” began the poor man,
feeling profoundly wretched, “I—l—
have decided to make a change,”
“A change!” the sock Miss Piper was
dirniug fell from her hand. She began
it tremble, and her face tu-ned deadly
pile.
“Ye3. Mils Anatasia thinks—and of
course—I —it is all forthe beat, you know
—Flora and Annie ought to go to school,”
faltered the minister.
“And you wish to give me notice, I
suppose, sir,” said the little governess in
a tremulous ag?rievei| ton*, that stabbed
Mr. Brown to the heart. “When do you
wish me to leave, sir ?** looking at him
with a quivering smile.
“Oh, any tints; suit yourself—your
own convenience, ” stammered Mr
Brown.
“Do you want me to get the girls ready
sir,” she asked, Hying to speak elieer
fu’ly.
“If you will be so good,” he answered.
Her quiet resignation made him utterly
wretched. lie would rather have B*en
her hysterical or indignant a thousand
ti nes over. 4^
“I will see to it, sir.”
And then he left the room feeling like
a criminal. But as he reached the study,
he happened to think that Flora and An
nie were yet to be told of the impending
change. lie would go back and a3k the
little governess to tell them for him, for
he was sure of open rebellion.
ll<* pushed open the door of the sit
thig-room again, hut started hick con
scious-stricken, for Miss Piper, w ith her
face buried in her arm*, was kneeling by
the sofa, while a melancholy sound of
sobbing and crying, pitiful to hear, ’ed
the room.
* My dear Miss piper,” he said for
lornly, “I atn so sorry ”
She started up, and tried to wipe away
her tears with the sock which she still
field.
“Excuse me, sir,” she filtered, “I—l
couldn’t help it. I am so fond of the
gh ls, you knowr. and I’d begun to feel
s > much at home here.”
Mr, Brown walked up and down the
room,, with his hands clasped behind
him and his head on his breast., for sev
eral moments without speaking. The
sobs in the poor little women’s voice
struck him to the heart. He was turn
in-; her out of her only home. And she
had done her duty toward the girls, cer
tainly.
“Suppose T *ou stay here, “MiasPiper,”
oe said suddenly. “You can keep house
for me anyhow.”
A deep flush dyed in the pale face of
the little governess.
“Oh, no, I couldn’t indeed,” she cried,
in a horror-stricken tone. “It would be
impossible.”
“You nnifiht —tay as my wife, Miss
Piper,” cried poor Mr. Brown, deperate
ly. “Oh, Mr. Brown, you don’t mean
it! You’re very sorry for me, Pm sure,”
cried Miss Piper, the thought flashing
through her mind, however, that per
haps it was love, a * not pity, after all,
and lie had only jusc discovered the state
of his heart as lie was about to lose her.
She had read of stick things in novels.
Why should it no: bo so in her case as
well?
“I—l—don’t know —it is the only way
you can stay,” stammered Mr. Brown in
a confused manner.
“Well, if you think it beat, murmured
the blushing little governess. “I’m sure
i’ll try to nuke you happy.”
“I don’t doubt that,” said Mr. Brown.
And thus it was that the minister’s
second marriage came about.
I need hardly say that Miss Anastasia
was furious. No words could adequately
describe her surprise and chagrin. The
very course she had taken with a view to
installing herself in the parsonage had
installed Miss Piper there. All her
plans have come to naught. Her castles
in the air had fallen to the ground with a
cradi. Her visits to the parsonage ceased
entirely. She no longer considered it
necessary to advise and counsel Mr.
Brown.
The minister never found cause to re
gret his second marriage. The little
governess proved a devoted, dutiful wife
and a fahhfol sfeymother, and she never
dreamed on what a slender thread he r
happiness had hung, nor could imagine
why it was that Miss Anastasia Bowen
treated her as a mortal enemy.
The New York oleomargarine manu
facturers deny that they sell their pro
ducts under the name of butter, and
charge that the deception of the public
which has come to be so common is due
to the fraudlent practices of retail deal
ers. The dairy interests, to say noth
ing of consumers In nearly every part of
the country, are moving to secure the
restriction of the sale of bogus butter as
j the srenuine article. It is to be hoped
j that success will ultimately ciown their
• efforts—and uot too ultimately at that.
A wicked deception.
A Memphis Bean Jilts a Lonisville Bslle.
Memphis, Tenn\, December 31,—Mem
phis is startled by the announcement of
the marriage of Charles N. Grosyenor,
of the firm of Overton A Grosvenor, and
Miss Olivia P. Hill, daughter of the lead
ing cotton tnan of Memphis, and recently
president of the cotton exchange. Gros
venor and Miss Hill have been in love
with each other for four or five years.
Her parents, however, objected to the
match, and she refused to marry him.
About three months ago he pressed his
suit, and was forbidden the house. Sev
eral weeks ago a young society belle of
Louisville, Ky., came to Memphis to visit
Grosvenor's sister and the and Grosvenor
formed an attachment for eUch other
w hich resulted in a matrimonial engage
ment. The marriage was set for Decem
ber 30tb, in Louisville, Ky. Several
Memphis ladies had left for Louisville to
attend the wedding, and presents valued
at $2,000 had been sent to the bride from
this place.
List Sunday Miss Hill telephoned
Grosvenor to come to *ee her. He re
fused, and said he could not see her until
lie came back Iroin Louisville with his
bride. Monday he received two letters
from her, and lie was weak enough to
call upon her. She then confessed that
she had loved him all the time, in spite
of the objection of her relatives, and said
she was desperate. “If you marry that
woman,” she said, “I don’t know what
I’ll do; I may commit suicide; life will
not be worth living.” Last night they
met at the house of James C. Beil, a mu
tual friend. Grosvenor and his friends
begged her to give three days iti which
to explain the case to tha Louisville lady.
“Now or never,” said the determined
young lady.
Grosvenor was by this time in a state
bordering on insanity. He had not ex
pected anything of this iflhd, and though
engaged to the other, still loved Miss
Hill. Ilis wannest friends pleaded with
him for the postponement, and also
pleaded with Miss Hill, but her response
was: “I have compromised myself so far,
and I can go no further. It is now or
never.” Two ministers refused to per
form the ceremony, but finally Mr. La
mar, who knew nothing of the facts,
united them in matrimony. It is hardly
necessary to sav that Memphis is Indig
nant, Grosvenoi’s warmest friends con
demn his action, at the same time they
find paliating circumstances. Univer
sal sympathy is expressed for the de
serted girl, who created a most favorable
impression, and there is some talk of
burning Grosvenor in effigy. The Louis
ville lady has no father or brother, and,
it is said, has spent all her money on a
trousseau. Grosvenor is associated in
business with one of the most estimable,
honorable and wealthy citizens of Mem
phis, John Overton, and Miss Hill’s fath
er is worth half a million. After the
msrriage Grosvenor and his wife left the
city for Nashville, their plans for tbe fu
ture being entirely unknown. A hand
some New Year’s reception na* been an
nounced at Mr. Hill’s but is uncertain
now as to whether it will take place or
not. It is understood that the immediate
relatives of the parties are simply heart
broken.
THE NEWS AT LOUISVILLE.
Louisville, December 31.—The an
nouncement of the marriage at Memphis
of Chas. M. Grosvenor and Miss Olivia
Hill has created a profound sensation in
society in Louisville. There is every
reason why it should. Grosvenor was to
have been wedded Thursday to a well
known society favorite of this city. The
wedding was announced a week ago, and
the young lady li d prepared her trous
seau and made all oilier arrangements for
the wedding. She mef Grosvenor while
visiting at Nashville in the autumn of
last year. He is a club man of Memphis,
and has been a social lion there for five
years. The Louisville girl to whom he
was formally presented on a notable so
cial occasion at Nashville, was a debu
tante of last season, and a warm favorite
in the upper circles of Louisville society.
She is noted for her beauty and amia
bility. Grosvenor seemed captivated,
and paid immediate court. He is a hand
some fellow, and a finished man of the
world. The young lady accepted his at
tentions, and when she came home was
engaged to marry him. lie visited her
here afterward, and obtained her moth
er’s consent. It was announced early
last week that the wedding would take
place here on Thursday of this week at
the residence of the bride’s mother. The
relatives and several immediate friends
were invited, and all arrangements tor a
wedding tour had been made. Grosven
or came to see his bride-elect on the day
before Christinas, and gave her a hand
some diamond necklace for Christmas re
membrance. He left for Memphis on the
evening of Christmas, and was expected
to return to Louisville Wednesday night.
In the meantime, however, it seems that
he had seen Miss Hill, in whose twain of
swbins he had previously been a devoted
attendant. He forgot the little woman
who was waiting for him in Louisville,
and quietly married the other, the
daughter of Napolean Hill, the richest
man in Memphis. Whether or not he
lias made any explanation to the family
here or not is unknown, but he w'ill be
required to make explanation in any
event and may be called to account in
another way. His perfidy has amazed
the whole town, and within two hours
twenty Louisville gentlemen have voted
him a demisable cnr. The young lady’s
friends do not feel that she has lost much
in losing such a fellow as Grosvenor.
They congratulate her on the other hand
that she has escaped one so perfidious
snd contemptible. The fellow need hope
for no recognition if he should ever come
to Louisville again.
| DIVIDED DEMOCRACY.
Cineinnati Enquirer.]
The sporadic report that the Democrats
in Congress are at war with each other,
while true, is not new 7 . There never has
been the hour since the Democrats had
control of the House of Representatives
that they were in a bond of union. The
trouble is there is no National Democ
racy. The party, while it is united in
a common bond to defeat the Republican
party, is not united in any other effort.
There is as much difference between the
Democrats of New York, New England,
Pennsylvania and New 7 Jersey and those
from the Southern and Western States as
there is between day and night. On all
economic and fiscal questions the New 7
York, Pennsylvania and New England
Democrats rely upon the aid of Republi
can votes to defeat the measures advocat
ed by the Democrats of the South and
West. It is for this reason that Randall
had his fangs taken out.
The Democrats of the West and South,
however, realize the necessity of New
York’s electoral vote to gain the Pres
idency. It is because of this when they
meet iu National Convention they are
ready to subscribe to any pia form which
will insure success in New 7 York. Every
four years the party docs a little dissem
bling to gain the estate, and in the in
terim they quarrel like cats and dogs.
It now being the interval the party is
again quarreling with itself. It has a
New York President and a New York
Cabinet, so far as power is concerned, to
deal with. Three-fourths of its Repre
sentatives in Congress despise the Presi
dent’s recommendations as to Civil Ser
vice reform, and denounce his silver and
tariff views. Nay, more, they wili re
fuse to stand by the President on the
silver question, and give him only per
functory support as to Civil Service re
form, because the fact is the} 7 are power
less to repeal the law. Some day, under
the discipline of adversity, the party wi 1
throw off the shackles of its Eastern
allies and assert itself. It will appeal to
the country on questions upon which it
is willing to unite or be dafeated. Not a
few of its leaders now beleave that de
feat is better for a principle than victory
without any.
The only chance the President now
has of gaining his point to repeal the
Bland silver law is an alliance with a
very small minority of the Democratic
party with the Republicans. It was just
such an alliance w 7 hich defeated the tariff
bill in the last House.
With these elements of discord, is it
any wonder that the Republican side
taunts the Democrats with the cry that
the party appeals to its political enemies
to save it from itself? Is it any wonder
the Republican party organs constantly
recall what is the undisputed fact, that
the Democrats In Congress are at war
with one another ? -
The history of the Eastern w ing of the
part l7 show’s that it has ever been at sixes
and sevens with its brethren of the West.
The South and West opposed the sham
resumption of specie payments. The
East supported it. The South and West
favored the payment of the bonded debt
in greenbacks. The East united with
the bondholders for gold. The South
and West are committed to revenue re
form, the East to a high protective tariff'.
Now comes the silver battle. While the
chances are many that the existinglaw
will not be repealed, it w 7 iil be found, if
otherwise, that the result is brought
about by a very small faction of Eastern
Democrats pooling their issues with the
political enemy.
It can well be said that the President
has not yet inspired any policy calculated
to establish National Democracy, that is
to say, of a kind which will pass current
in New York as well as in Missouri. In
fact, he has not enunciated any thing
like a policy which is acceptable to the
party's representatives. He has, on the
contrary, driven a wedge into it to widen
the breach.
When Blaine wa3 Secretary of State he
foresaw that his own party was drifting
as the Democratic party now is. His so
called South American policy, which
Arthur nipped, was to morally estab
lished the principle that the United
States should dominate both North and
South America. Ilia scheme was to
weld not only his party hut the people
in a bond of union by appealing to their
patriotism. While CO: desiring to ac
quire territory, his object was by moral
force to squelch the periodical rebellions
in the South American Republics, so that
they might develop and grow, and thus
aggrandize the United States by securing
the trade of our sister Republics rather
than having it diverted, as it now is, to
European countries. Had he been let
alone he would have made, at all events,
a foreign policy which would have won
applause.
What now seems to be needed on the
part of the National Administration is to
offer something, no matter what, that
will unite the Democratic factions under
one broad wing. Offer something which
will command enough of public interest
to subordinate the quarrels and jealous
ness which now exist between these sec
tions. Otherwise the attention of the
country will continue to be directed to
the lamentable fact that there is not
enough of broad statesmanship in the
Democratic camp to unite its following
to the accomplishment of some fixed
purpose. Just now the Eastern Democ
racy holds the relation to its Southern
and Western allies of a step-mother over
a large family of grown up children.
Either the step-raither must be coerced
or the family ever continue to be a most
unhappy
The little son of the Mayor of New Or
leans hurt himself with a roy pistol; the
next day somebody with a toy pistol shot
the Mayor’s dog, and on the day follow
ing the issued a proclamation against the
NUMBER 49.
WBONGUY QUOTED.
Albany Nows and Advertiser.!
The Macon Telegraph In the editor**!
of Thursday’s issue excoriates Senator
Colquitt severely for remarks purporting
to have been made by him in his recent
prohibition speech at Mt. Vernon church
in Washington. The Telegraph bases it*
criticism on this quotation from that
speech:
“When I was Governor of Georgia I determined
never again to hold a public office until my Si ate
should make prohibition a public issue ind
should need me to carry its banner to the front*
That time came and I am here.”
Now, this remark is from the Voice,
a journal published in New York and
devoted to prohibition. We do not think
that Senator Colquitt uttered such lan
guage. This remark carries with it the
idea that Seuator Colquitt was elected
Senator on the prohibition issue. Well,
everybody knows such was not the case.
There was no such issue at the time. It
is true that noted historian, I. W. Avery,
in his biography ot Senator Brown, says
that “religion and morality were at
stake in the campaign in 1880,” and that
in that mighty contest with the “wicked
and bar-room crowd” all united against
him, Gov. Colquitt served religion to
Georgia.
But even such an enthusiast as Col.
Avery would not claim that Gov. Col
quitt carried the banner of prohibition to
the front and was elected Senator on that
issue. The remark as quoted by the
Voice is not true and we cannot believe
t hat Senator Colquitt used such language.
There is a mistake about it somehow.
Hence we cannot accept the conclusion
of the Telegraph that the incident shows
Senator Colquitt’s desire and intention to
overthrow the Democratic party in Geor
gia. The Telegraph is a bold, fearless
paper, and expresses its opinions strong
ly and tersely. But its conclusions
strike us as rather premature. Rather
than give credence to such report of his
speech as the quotation from the \ oicc,
which is silly and foolish upon its face;
rather than lj§ten to Northern prohibi
tion journals in their suggestions that he
be selected to ride behind John Peter St.
John in the next presidential election,
and suspect the Senator of working up
the “incipient boom” in such a scheme
in his own behalf, we prefer to give him
the benelit of the doubt, and regard the
whole matter as a mistake.
A SEIUIOM ON MATRIMONY.
Savannah Timas.]
Atlanta, Dec. 28.—[Special.]—Yes-
terday was a regal Sabbath. It would be
an impossibility to conceive of a lovelier
Lord’s Day. The churches were tilled.
The most notable sermon, and well worthy
of report, was that by Dr. McDonald at
the Second Biptist Cbarh last night,
upon the subject of the way that hus
bands should treat their wives.
lie selected his text from the 25th
verse of the sih chapter of Ephesians:
“as Christ loved the church.”
He said that the true religion of Christ
teaches all the relations of our lives;
takes in 'the entire circumference of our
beings. If Christ does not create natural
relationships, he blesses and beautifies
them, “Husbands love your wives.”
A husband is the head of his wife, and
wives must be in subjection to their hus
bands. There are those that object to this
sort of phraseology. There are bad men
sn the world, and men who mistreat their
wives, but this is no reason why flippant
fools should sneer at the teachings of St.
Paul. Paul was inspired, and we should
stand by all his teachings.
Subjection of wife to a husband does
not mean slavery to a desperate tyrant;
but subjection such as the church bears
towards Christ. A woman should select
a man whom she is willing to be subject
to.
A husband's duty is to provide for his
family. A man who marries a woman
that she might support him is not a true
man, and the woman who gets him has
a poor husband.
Husbands should be engaged in honor
able employment. No woman can be hap
py when her"husband is not honorably
employed. No man has a right to subject
his wife to suffering and poverty as long
as he is able to work.
A sensation was created at Acworth
Wednesday by the narrow escape of two
young ladies from being burned to death
on the streets, and two gentlemen being
seriously burned in extinguishing the
lire. The ladies had met at the hall of
the Acworth Amateur Club to decorate
-it for an entertoimnent. Misses Jennio
and Addle Stokely, sisters, left the hall
together to go home. As they passed out
of the door they locked arms. At the
same time some one threw' a lighted fire
cracker at them, which exploded near
them, but they give it no thought, and
proceeded together towards home. When
they had had gone some 200 yards, J. J.
Northeuttuuid J. S. Collins, who were
just behind them, discovered the ladies’
clothing in a Maze. They sprang to
them, and soon succeeded in tearing
away the burning fragments, and reliev
ing the young ladies from almost certain
death with a few serious but not danger
ous burns. The gentlemen had their
hands very bally burned.
Thank God! The several conference*
of the Methodist Church have, as far as
their voice has been heard, resolved to
cling steadfastly t> their significant
title “South,” despite the anxiety of a
fewr of their clergy who are seemingly
pregnant enough with sycophancy to
their Northern bretbern to uneburth
them in 1841, to burst. As long as tfct
| name of that grand old man, Bishop
O. Andrews, is venerated, and
his noble virtues cherished, the
“South,” w ill be a tali-manic word with
Southern Me ho lists, which “Our Broth
er in Black,” Scney, bequests, or any
thing of can’t expunge.