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* SUN AND LOVE WERE DEAD.
. k<J sy morn, no radiant noon,
111 ' 'urple glory in the Went,
i>. Siwilight, no start, no moon,
M 'V Y but darknesB, death and rest,
“ -, un dead, sweetheart.,
were
bun were dead.
- . \\ 111 . ^t'ord, a\ no soft caress.
from ould s,llne with love's sweet Are
ok touch of tenderness :
earth were worth desire,
Mary fi re dead, sweetheart
Avers /ore dead.
world with hlno-n,
0 arch of sapphire skies,
a I ill’ oil l' e disperses gloom,
‘ earth paradise.
, | 1|( a
••lvok V , , e is dead, sweetheart,
In Womankind
is vi IE FROST-LILY.
avillo
i toil ARNETTA J. nALUDAV
IDS O MSER
Walca had come.
This is the great¬
est festival of the
year among the
y X Norse peasantry,
and in Yik, the
cluster of little
h o u s es, which
nestle in the bend
of a great fjord,
John's the vigil of St.
Eve was
ing, kept with danc¬
and drinking
and song The
old belief of the
Northmen, that those born near the
sound of many waters are endowed
with a natural gift of music, made the
Vik fiddlers sought far and wide for
the June merry-makings of St. John’s
fete ; and before many houses in the
little village the Wolmar fire burned
brightly in token of the noisy betrothal
within.
i Somewhat removed from the gayety
and . revels of the night, the small
white dwelling of old Liof Thure nes-
tied in. the long grasses full of clover
blooms, .with a gravel pathed with garden
at one side, overflowing old fash¬
ioned pink and white rose trees; and a
long-white fence at the other, leading
down to a quay and the tossing green
fjord, which looked violet black in the
shadows of the night.
The family of Thure was an old one,
and had lived in the same spot for gen¬
erations, looking at the grand, gray,
fir clad mountains and the wild, moss
grown boulders, and listening to the
wash of the great water against the
little landing stage. The present oc¬
cupants of the place where old Liof,
who had never known a day’s variation
from his. accustomed routine
in his* life time; his six yel¬
low-haired, strone-lijnbpJ Sons, rfho
looked like nothing so much as pictures
of the old Norse -Vikings; and the
pride of her father’s heart, sweet, im¬
perious Gerda, the acknowledged beauty
of Vik, who looked at him with her
mother’s eyes and face, and spoke to
him in the tones of the woman whose
life had gone out eighteen years ago
when she gave to her husband the girl-
baby for whom he had so longed.
. Gerda was wilful and spoiled and
tantalizing. Her brothers had long
lost all patience with her because she
had laughed in the face of every honest
fellow who would have married her,
and because she loved many strange
things that had no beauty to the sons
of Liof Thure ; tho-magpies, which are
as much a part of Norse scenery as the
invariable birches and pines; the blue
gentians of the snow-capped heights ;
the yellow and white water-lilies of the
Norwegian tarns, and the lady-ferns,
which the first cold snow-winds of win-
ter tinged with bright scarlet. She
gave to the wind and the weather the
love that should have been a husband’s,
and worshiped the swift, wild rain
which made the moss and ferns so love-
ly, and the flushing of the waters and
the brilliant heavens above them when
the sun went down. She loved to paddle
her boat idly about the shores of the
fjord, watching the colors deepening in
the sky, and the gloom which spreads
itself over all nature as the day dies;
when she should have been merrymak¬
ing instead, with some Norst lover,
after the fashion of her people.
Of admirers, who wonld have will-
ingly become something dearer, she
,had had more than any other maiden
iin Vik. She was bright with an intel-
tligenee far beyond the average Scandi-
’navian girl, such as was that of Hor-
berg, the peasant painter of Sweden.
(She loved nature with the unconscious-
jness of the Greek and the passion of
(the German; but she was practical and
jwell Bkilled husband. in the arts She which could attract a
Norse prepare
the flesh of the reindeer most delic-
iously with cream, which is used so
(lavishly in Norwegian cookery; she
Trnew tho concoction of each of
the many cheeses beloved of
the Scandinavian; she could bake
great round rye cakes a foot and a half
iin diameter, and so flavor and dry
'them for the winter that they were like
confections „; and the large
Ichamber of her father’s house was
hung around with'her wardrobe, most
ofwhich was her own handiwork—snow-
white wool aprons with brilliant red
borders, linens, colored prints, cm-
broidered bodices, deer-skin coats,
snow shoes and winter boots; for Liof
was a well-to-do peasant, and had
■brought np his daughter in the belief
that plentv of cleanliness in the
matter of iraimant elevated the Nor-
twegian woman above her Swedish
But to-night there was r.o sound of
joy from the white house so close to
'the fjord. No light gleamed from the
(windows, and a hush seemed to have
Settled over the place, in marked
tract to the revels of the neighbor-
ood. Hweet-9melling odors of frag-
ant new-made hav filled the air, and
savage-looking cow, which wore a
CAEN V1LLE, FRANKLIN CO.VO A- A.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST % 181)3.
collar anil a tinkling bell, was just
wandering home from the far-off
fields, and wrb tho only sign of life
about the Thure homestead.
Old Liof had gone for a visit with
two Norwegians just returned from a
fifteen-years’ sojourn in the found Western old
States of America. They
Norway very slow after the nervous
bustle of the New World. The boyB
were making tho most of their holiday,
and had trudged away early in the
morning, each bearing gifts to his
sweetheart. join Gerda had persistently
refused to in the pleasures of the
festival of St. John, and had strayed
out this delicious night, going from
boulder to boulder, until she had clam¬
bered nearly to the top of the moun¬
tain through the lichen, whortleberries
and ferns.
She had moped all day, said the
great, rough brothers, Olaf and Byn
and Nils and Brun and Bolf; while
Jarl, the youngest and more nearly in
sympathy with his sister, had watched
her wistfully when she was among the
red-currant bushes of the garden and
whispered softly to his brothers: “She
will never forget him !”
One year before, upon this very
St. John’s eve, the little steamer
which came tri-weekly from the
Norse capitol, bringing with it
a breath of the great world,
in the shape of tourists who found
fjord-traveling a charming novelty,
had stopped at the little quay nearest
to Liot Thuro’s dwelling, late in the
afternoon, when the purest of purple
shadows were lying over the lake.
Gerda stood waiting for its arrival,
and the mate handed to her a small
parcel, which from its size and shape
one could easily guess contained a
pair of new shoes.
1 ‘Great heavens, what a lovely girl !*’
exclaimed a voice in English as the
boat moved away, and, looking upward
at the steamer’s tiny deok, Gerda saw
a man whose dark eyes spoke to her
plainly the sentiments which her Norse
ear failed to comprehend.
The superb fringes of her large, dark-
blue eyes drooped as she walked away.
He was an artist and an American, of
that she was sure, for he had had
sketch-book and pencil in hand, and
bore about him the general air of
assurance which characterizes the
American at home and abroad,
She had seen many, of them
who had passed through Vik,
finding a constant interest in
the exquisite scenery of the fjord,
the mountains of the waterfalls and
the stretches of green slope, with the
hay stacked on the wooden fences to
dry; she smiled again the next after¬
noon when she turned her boat home¬
ward after a long ramble, and remem¬
bered bis tone and glance.
The evening was coming on, and the
setting sun tinged the snow-tops a
pink, whilo the green grass on
mountain-side was covered with white
daisies, like a powder of pearls. Her
boat was filled with harebells
purplish heath-plants and ferns
mignonette, and as she reached the
small wooden bridge which stretched
across an arm of the fjord, she saw a
s t ran g er leaning upon the rail
watching her. It required no
glimpse to assure the Norse girl that
WH8 he ' vhos ® ‘^miration of her
been so outspoken upon the steamer
the^night before. In a moment he
at ; SU l! ',
Le *, mC h! p „ le exc,ai , . f ed ,
she gathered the boat s fragrant
tiny ln * craft lt!r fast, and although r j ia the ^ n '5 ^
“ wh f h he s P oke a Granger
ber, she needed 1 no dictionary to
tel 'P re t lu « *f tlons « s be walked
wwtd beside , her, and easily
ol d Llof Thure to accommodate him
u , boarder.
He was a landscape-student from New
Orleans, with dreams and a great
»«*«>“. aud 1)u kad cmne to paint
wild beauties of theN or se scenery
0 ,e glinting sunshine which
through the tall, swaying pines,
For six months he had lived in
family of Liof Thure, and had
enough of the Norwegian to tell
of -the distant city of liis birth, of
hopes, and his prospects and his friends.
He had learned to listen with
keenest pleasure to the sweet voice
Gerda during the long days and even-
ings, when ahe explained to him
lore of her country and the
of the North—of the castle of the pirate
Erik, and the three hunters turned to
stone—of the mystery of the parsley
bed and the milk-white deer and the
white worm of the witches; and
how the spectre-cross in the cn-
chanted garden frightened the Finnish
sorcerers. Gerda and he had taken
long strolls together over the gray
mountains and the little green patches
of field where peasant-girls in scarlet
and blue were raking the grass; or
they had wandered to the village at
evening and watched the boats heaped
high with hay coming in, or tho fish-
ing-smacks would gliding lazily the out to how sea ;
and Gerda tell stranger
the rose-colored haresfoot was dyed
with the blood of Charles XII. ; or of
the black stork that built its nest
among the anemones and dog-violets
of the marshes; and how a stalk of
clover wornbyaman was a sure charm
against women with false complexions,
hair and teeth; and the American,
looking at the cheeks of his companion,
which were dashed with a color richer
than the freshest peach-bloom, had
laughed and thrown away the trefoil
in his buttonhole as he told her in
broken Norse that it was needless,
And as the days went by, the
idea nt a picture which should show the
beauty of Gerda to the world filled his
brain, and the hours when she posed
to him as a model passed too swiftly
for them both
There was no word of love between
them, but day by day the American
saw the sweet womanliness of this
Northern girl, the rich nature still n.n-
developed, though responsive with
polgnam qjtistio Seeling to each vibration of
his own /&ered soul, the spirit of true
life, un < with the contractions
and highAnd ceijaloAies wide, of like conventionality, n
life tho blue Scan-
dinavianieaven above; he saw all this,
he felt t!« *^th inspiration of this continual
contact nature, -and yet he did not
tell he w Inf hir whole heart was hers,
because . p ,(he elder brother across tho
sea, whoVoulil have deemed it an un-
ehangoal**' blot upon many genera¬
tions of jpnancial prosperity, that tho
solo sliaij *with himself of many Ameri-
can dollafs should marry a Norse peas-
ant girl./
Finally the picture was completed.
There was the wide fjord stretching out
to the oc,wyi with silence ami solitude
on its wiVes, which caught the blood
red reflections of an angry skv. There
was not a'vessel in sight, and so well
had the artist caught the spirit of tho
Grene that the slow, majestic sweep of
the heaving rollers seemed to die out
without breaking, and to give place to
Mthers, anil against the gathering dark¬
ness the exquisite slenderness of a wo¬
man’s figure stood clear cut upon the
canvas She wore a white skirt and
white bodice, the dainty sleeves re¬
vealing more than half of the round,
dimpled arms, which hung down and
were clasped in front of her; from tho
white cap upon her head tho great
braids of pale-gold hair extended be¬
low the waist line; the eyes, which
were of the purplo blueness of water of
great depth, lookod outward over the
waves, and the whole face expressed
subdued force and sweet seriousness
It was the portrait of a woman whose
heart knew not yet the thrill of love,
but had experienced tho sadness of
some undefined longing.
It was a matchless picture, a master¬
piece mixed of the colors artist’s anil power labored j and as he
his over it,
but one name seemed suitable to the
American as lie thought of Gerda. “So
pure, so fresh, to cold!” lie had said
to himself i and when old Liof Thure
first saw the painting and read the
name of “The Frost Lily,” he wfts
quick to grasp its significance and to
realize what had prompted the stranger
in his house to call the gem of his
Norse collection by the name of the
most prized and the most unattaina¬
ble of the Scandinavian flora.
“It dies when they take it from the
snow-bitten waters of its mountain
tarns,” thought tho old man sadly.
“Does he think to take her away from
mo to the country across the waters?
The child would die in those great
cit'es?”
But he was wise in his way and said
nothing, although he could have
chosen- for his Gerda one of
white-skinned, serpent-eyed North¬
men of her own race Brown
and hair and beard did not accord
with the' Scandinavian^ ideas oj free-
dom and manliness. '
When majdc evkry detail of the picture
had been as perfect as brush and
colors and the critical taste of the
artist could) render it, the American
packed up his palettes and canvases,
and bade good-by to the snug farm¬
house where he had eaten and slept
and worked i for so many months.
When he said! farewell to Gerda, it was
in the presence of her father aud
brothers; tlihre was a close quick
pressure into of |the the hand, and which ho had
jumped him sledge wos
waiting to speed over the
snow away from his love to the near¬
est station of'the continental trains.
That was nearly the half a year ago ; and
through all long months tidi ngs
had come fr.yni him but once, when
ho had sent, a great medal of gold
which the picture had taken in some
famous exhibition, with the words,
“Gerda, in remembrance of Ralph I”
And it was upon all this that Gerda
was thinking, this anniversary of their
meeting, as sho, strayed aimlessly
the mountain side, and listened to
merry voices singing upon tho fjord
below, or the xush of some mountain
stream not far f rom her feet.
She paused <1 moment, aud looking
downward, taking off hot cap and
pushing back, the rebellious locks
thick, soft hai ;■ with which the
loved to play npon her temples.
was a quart sr to ten, and only
darkness; thore was a sweet, fresh
smell of fir and-, pine wood, and
from the drying! hay in the air, while
the moon had (risen, outlining the
mountain shades colored in deep violet
black; tho lights, red aud
white and green^ gleamed which the villagers
were burning in tho soft
dusk.
As Gerda turned to descend the
side, a little boat t darted out from the
shadows of the fj<i>rd, and rowed swift
ly through the long path of silver
light, which the moon rays threw upon
the waters. The road down the moun¬
tain so wound about it at intervals it
commanded a vitjw of the fjord, so
Gerda saw tho boi»t near the shore as
she herself approached the valley. To
the rower she jlaid little heed, simply
noting that he 1 wore the holiday cos¬
tume of the Norse peasant, in scarlet
and brown.
As the boat shot under the bridge,
toward the pier, the man looked up-
ward with a glad said cry. he, don’t
“Gerda!” “Gerda,
you know keei me?” 1
As the rasped upon the shore,
he leaped from the boat and held his
two hands out for Iters.
“Dear-Eves,”, he exclaimed in the
Norse love “Do you love
me?” ,
And V>es do but
net fefc '■> ( content
t
4 oC 4 m ~ t /■ It Few is
1 first
s^ stay
■ U m yestgr-
da ^ 11 ^pvhieh is
to '‘ijmiS “ Gerda,
and w ‘tfryon, sweet-
heart, tc*,.’ Iways if you
will have u*c,^ ;d au instant,
to press her head. ("V his shoulder ten¬
derly before he “ tinned “I could
not ask yon to . everything that
has made you wt. ’you are, and go
across tho seas v ’’■pio. There is
nothing about you /I wonld change
for tho world, and I am come to
you, Gerda. When jwo iin are married,
we will livo right lie this pure air
and amid all this gra scenery; our
life shall be the same pimple, primitive I
one that has made jou the woman
love. I am a Noreej 'in hereafter for
your sake!” J
Gerda looked into ’is eyes with rap¬
turous fondness. Thp moon hung in
the dark blue ether, lflie a round shield
over woods and hills mid waters, flood¬
ing the mountain path with ghostly
shadows and silvery flight, and as tho
soft beams fell npon her and ethereal-
ized her beauty, the American held her
to him in an ecstasy of tenderness.
Eyes?” “Have he you murmuroi}, nothin «fto ask he me, pressed Dear-
as
his cheek against hors. “Have you
nothing to ask me of the homo or
friends or family I have left ?”
“No,” armwered Gyrda, “I have
you, and I love you sa that there is no
room for any other interest in my
heart!”
Life’s golden panel iso opened for
them, and unquestioning and content
they entered in. —Komanoe.
WISE WORDS.
Dollars aro delightful.
The morning is the tonic of the day.
Every smile chases a wrinklo away.
Pleasure is time; happiness is etern-
Jt}'
Most people don’t know why they
marry.
A fool and a fast horse are soon
parted.
A flower has nothing to do but look
pretty and be sweet.
Beforo saying an unkind thing of
one think how you would like to have
it said of you.
Talebearers and talebearers are alike
guilty; the one hath de ril in his
tongue, the other in his ear.
Circumstances form the character,
but like petrifying while they waters, they too
often harden form.
To have given pleasure or benefit to
even one human being, is a recollec¬
tion that may well sweeten life.
The beloved of the Almighty are the
rich who have the humility of the
poor, and the poor" who have the mag¬
nanimity of the rich.
These two- things, contradictory as
they may seem, must\*ro together—
manly dependence an manly inde¬
pendence, manly, relia; ce .and manly
self-reliance. , $
They who (hovide riiiXch vfealth for
their children, but neglect to improve
them in virtue, do like those who feed
their horses high, but never train them
to character and success.
“To be employed,” said the poet
Gray, “is to be happy." “It is better
to wear out than rust out,” said Bishop
Cumberland “Have we not all
eternity to rest in?" exclaimed Ar
uauld.
Too Many Dogs.
The Savannah News says that the
papers of Georgia and of the neighbor¬
ing States are up iu arms against
sheep-killing dogs, and are clamoring
for some efficient legislation on the
subject. “There is no doubt,” it says,
“that a plague of worthless dogs exists
all over the South, to the detriment
of everybody, even their owners. But
how are they to be got rid of? Nine
men in ten who own dogs, no matter
how worthless, will fight for them, and
there have been numbers of tragedies
brought about through the kicking or
shooting of a dog too mean and worth¬
less to let live. The plan of taxing
worthless dogs out of existence has
been tried in the South and found
wanting. The people who own dogs
will not endure such a tax. They
guard their right to own dogs as jeal¬
ously as the right to own horses and
land, and the candidate for the Legis¬
lature who would let it be known that
he was an enemy of hounds would
hardly secure an election. Then how
are they to be reached ? The man who
solves the problem satisfactorily will
be a benefactor to the South. For
there are in Virginia, tho Carolinas,
Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and
Mississippi thousands of acres of
pasture lands that could, and would,
be devoted to sheep raising, if tho
dogs were removed. Until they are
put out of the way the wool industry
will not nmount to much in either
State.”—New Orleans Picayune.
Welding by Electricity,
Two Belgians have discovered a
method will of welding by electricity in which
he of immense use the arts.
Electricity forced into water separates
it into its component parts, bydogen
and oxygen. A glass jar with a leaden
lining is connected with a conductor
of positive electricity. A pair of
tongues connected with a negative
pole anil having insulated handles is
ll8ed to tak « «P a bat of iron,
for instance, and put the end in water.
The oxygen is forced to the leaden
lining while the hydrogen collects
about the submerged j»**al, which
hydrogen, quickly produces being an integjj conductor, heat. The
a poor
offers intense resistance to the c*c-
rent, and inis generates tae heat. It
)» shown the most refractor/ ores can
he fused by this process, and as it is
possible to p'roduce in this way large
crystal* of carbon, diamonds, rubbies,
and sappnires may 1 KI6 y the
process in any quantity desired.—
Chicago Timer.
A copy of the first dictionary, made
by Chinese scholars in the year 1109
B. C., is still preserved among the
archives of the Celestials,
TEACHING HOGS TRICKS'
NOT HARD IF THE TRAINER HAS
PATIENCE.
Always Conduct. Lessons In the Same
Way—Some Simple Trick* Tlvat
Any Person Can Teach.
A NY one can train a dog with
patience and a little knowl¬
edge of the canine character.
Some dogs arc more cosily
trained than others just as some boys
are better behaved than their corn-
panions. Bo kind to dog and tame
a you can
him and make a friend of him. Never
strike a dog if you do not want to
make a bruto of him and to end the
training process then and there Tho
more you beat a dog tho more stupid
ho becomes.
Tho limits of discipline permissible
in Gaining a dog are scolding and a
slight tlip on the nose or ear to accom¬
pany the admonitions In extreme
cases you may threaten him with a
whip or even crack it before him, but
never let him feel the lash. On the
other hand, whenever a dog has dono
what is wished, pat him, caress him
and encourage him in every way.
Dogs have an extremely retentive
memory for kindness as well as for
cruelty, and a dog is perhaps the only
animal which can road sorrow in its
owner’s face anil proffer sympathy in
an unmistakable way.
The first thing to teach a dog in the
training process is to make him bring-
back an object which is at first thrown
to him anil afterward simply thrown
uear him. The second lesson is to get
him to put it baok where he found it.
It is best to wait till a dog is a year
old before commencing the training,
but some animals begin to learn at six
months.
If there is any difficulty in getting
an otherwise intelligent dog to go
through his initiation as above, the
simplest plan is to prepare a collar
with spikes turned inward. A buckle
is so arranged that a slight pull on the
cord passing through it and leading to
the hand of the operator, will at onee
apprise the dog that he has done
wrong, without hurting him. To the
end of the cord is attached a sort of
paper windmill arrangement, similar
to those which are freely sold on tho
streets of the city. If this little paper
windmill is thrown to any distance
and the dog fails to pick it up it is at¬
tached to the cord and revolved before
the dog’s eyes. In the course of four
or five lessons the dog soon learns to
bring back tho paper windmill without
the remonstrance of the inverted spike
collar.
.The next thing is to accustom the
dog to distinguish between commands,
thus: fteekt Bring it bock! Give it
up ! It requires but little practice to
cause the dog to lay down tho object
or to bring it back after the laying
down process is repeated and the call
is made for another effort. It is really
the.first lesson, and till it is mastered
all succeeding efforts will be fruitless.
Always repeat the command in the
sai$e way. Never say to your pupil
“Bring this back” one time and
“Bring beck” the next time. If you
teach a dog a number of tricks always
make him do them iu the same order.
These rules may seem unimportant,
but they are not. They will save you
weeks of trouble
The next thing is to habituate the
dog to seek and replace an without object sim¬
ply by word of command, in¬
dicating where the object is. Then he
may be trained to distinguish between aud
objects, as, for instance, » glove
a key, always remembering that ho.
must not be whipped for mistakes, lmt
always rewarded by caresses and deli¬
cacies for any correct effort.
The dog, after distinguishing tho
form of objects, may bo taught to dis¬
tinguish colors. Ho will soon learn
tho difference between a white, blue,
red or yellow handkerchief. About
this time by the same process of com¬
mand, encouragement and reproof (of
the mildest kind), there will bo no
trouble in accustoming him to dis¬
criminate between such articles of fur¬
niture as tallies, bureaus and chairs.
The next step is a big one, but not a
liaril one. It is to enable the ilog to
know tho letters of the alphabet. To
do this the letters must be marked out
map size—at least eighteen inches to
each letter, anil each letter separately
mounted. You now ask tho dog to
bring you “A," after showing it to
him. A caress is his reward. If hi
brings B you scold him. You com¬
mence the trial on these two letters,
gradually adding C, D, etc. In doing
this tho animal must always have a
special drill on the newly added letter
that he may familiarize himself with
it. AVbcn you have once succeeded in
getting the dog to distinguish'between
accustomed and unaccustomed object*
you have got at tho whole secret o 1
dog tricks. single card
The dog will pick out a
from a pack after proper training. Al¬
ways the principle obtains in animal
training—a large object at first; a
smaller one of the same kind afterward.
In teaching the animal to bring you
either cards or dominoes, it is a good
plan to have a duplicate in your hand.
Show him 'this; then show him the
larger card or model domino on the
wall. Take the cards first, the domi¬
noes afterward. A dog which can dis¬
tinguish the four from the six of domi¬
noes has advanced very far in training,
but such a dog has never felt the in¬
dignity of the lash.
It is a good plan for any one wishing
to train dogs to feed them himself aud
allow no one else to do so. With dogs,
as with men, regular and careful feed¬
ing means methodical habits ; the re¬
verse means failure. A dog which can
perform tricks with cardsand dominoes
is worth all the money and time be¬
stowed by its owner, not to speak of
the pleasure derived and the weary
hours beguiled.—Mail and Express.
THROUGHOUT THE S0DT1
Notes of Her Progress and Prosperity
Briefly Epitomized
And Important Happenings from Day
to Day Tersely Told.
Tho Bristol, Tenn., Bank and Trust
Company decided to go into voluntary
liquidation Tuesday. They have $80,-
000 Unprofitable assets and owe depositors the $11,'5,000.
business is cause.
About. 500 negroes were shipped
from Birmingham, Ala., Sunday night
to Leavenworth, Kns. It is proposed
to replace strikers with them. Agonts
of tho mine owners will endeavor to
procure 1,000 more negroos.
The Laud Loan and Collection
Agency Texas, of Murphy and Bolanz, at
Dallas, made a general assign¬
ment Wednesday. The chances are
that the liabilities will reach $1500,000
and the assets fully that sum.
Tho new Farmers’ bank, of Mt.
Sterling, Ky., closed its doors Thurs¬
day morning. Deposits about $1100,000.
Tho bank holds $000,000 in first-class
paper, The depositors will be paid in
full. Tho capital stock is $250,000.
Jake -Schwartz, liquor dealer, at
Louisville, Ky., announced Tuesday
that ho had suspended. He owns $70,-
000, three-fourths of which, ho says, is
secured and with timo he claims he
can pay off the rest aud have some¬
thing for himself. He is a brother of
Moses Schwartz president of the as¬
signed Louisville Deposit bank.
The special dispatch from Ocala,
Fla., printed iu tho New York papers
Thursday morning, stating that tho
entire system of the Florida Central
and Peninsular Railroad Company had
been sold to tho Plant Investment
Company for $13,000,000, and that
tho new management would take
charge October 1st, is shown, on in¬
vestigation to be fals e
Henry Singleton, who murdered
Lula Payne in tho penitentiary at
Jackson, Miss., a few days ago, has
been indicted for murder and will be
tried at tho present term of court if
his condition will permit it. Single-
ton is now serving a sentence for mur¬
der. His case will porhaps be the on¬
ly one on record whore a life convict-
has ever before been tried beforo
court for murder.
The Llano Improvement and Fur¬
niture eompany, of Llano, Texas, wont
into the hands of a receiver Monday
upon the application of tho North
Texas National bank, of Dallas. The
liabilities of the company amount* to
$80,000, and its assets $1,000,000.
Tho company is unable to raise money
due, and a receivership was thought
best to ease up its difficulties and tide
over the present hard times.
The North Carolina state weather
crop report, issued Monday night, sayB
of cotton: “The nmount of sunshine
during the past soason was about nor¬
mal. Tho rainfall was again badly
distributed Drought prevails over
some entire counties, particularly in
Central, or tho chief cotton district.
Cotton, though small, looks healthy,
is blooming fast and is becoming rap¬
idly covered with squares.”
Tho failuro of the Louisvillo Ky.,
Deposit bank caused three Nashville
firms to go to tho wall Wednesday.
These failures aro comparatively small,
including two liquor dealing firms of
small capital and u vinegar manufac¬
turer and produce dealer with little
more than $10,000 liabilities. The
firms are Hulzbacher Bros. Loventhal
& Hon and M. J. Levy & Hon The
latter two firms are whisky dealers.
The Louisville, Ky., City National
bank suspended payment at 1.20
o’clock Monday afternoon. The bank
has a capital of $400,000. Three
years ago W. H. l’opo, its teller, fled
with over $70,000, and this was a hard
blow to the bank. Bank Examiner
Escott has been placed in charge.
Depositors will be paid in full The
bank was chartered in 18(55 and re-
chartered in 1885. It was pretty
generally known as Lerche’s bank,
its individual deposits were cash over
$222,000, and on Monday its was
reduced to $14,000.
AINSWORTH INDICTED.
The Grand Jury Places the Blaine for
the Ford Theater Horror.
The grand jury at Washington,
Monday, found a true bill against
Colonel Frederick 0. Ainsworth, chief
of recoiil and pension division of the
war department; George W. D/iut, a
contractor, who was employed to make
nn excava tion for an electric light
plant; William E. Covert, superinten¬
dent, and Francis Basse, engineer of
the building, holding them responsi¬
ble for tlio Ford theater disaster of June
9tli last, in which twenty-three per¬
sons lost their lives anil a largo num¬
ber of others were injured. It is un¬
derstood that tho defendants will not
bo arraigned for some days yet, as
their trial cannot take place before the
September term of tho court. The
grund jury formally find that in tho
manner described, in tho indictment
the accused did wilfully kill and slay
tho persons whose deaths aro under
investigation.
Arms for IfawAll.
A Han Francisco dispatch of Thurs¬
day says: A statement has been pub¬
lished that within the past mouth
have been shipped to Hawaii and
belief is that an attempt is being made
to place the natives iu a positiou to
effect a successful counter revolution
against the provisional government.
These weapons were purchased of a
Han Francisco dealer by a
person who refused to say who
were for.
NO. 31.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Development During
(lie Past Week.
The review of tlio industrial situation in the
Honth for tlio 1 past week shows the organization
nt New Orl leans, La., of tho Consumers’ loo
Company, 1,'t’il., capital tflkl.OOO, by Mining N. D.
Wallace and others; of of tho tho Keystone K
Company, barlloit at Roanoke, Va., ospitai $250,000, by
,fno. I 1 ', and ill ftSSOCt associates; the building c<
a $200,000 cotton mill till at lit Savannah, Mi Ga., by the
M> >l uthover Land Company; the organ zation of
$100,000, die me Star and Coleman, Crescent Texas, Coal by Company, J. W. Gibson capital
at
and oihers; of tho Northwestern Louisiana
Land and Immigration Co , at Benton, La.,
capital $100,000, by C. J. Hugh s and capital olhera;
of the Worthington Coil and Coke Co.,
$100,000, at Fairmont, W. Va.; of the Eads-
Nell Manufacturing Company at Atlanta On..
capital $50,000; anil of an Implement Greer’* Manu¬
facturing Co., with $25,000 capital, anil associates. at
Depot, M. c.. by W. C. Moore dates.
Twenty-seven new industries were established tablisbed
or inoorpoi atol during irlng the the week, week, together with
five enlargnients of f manufactories manufactories and 8 im¬
[Rirtant new buildings. Among the ho new indiw-
tries not above ve r.iorreu r, ferrod to distilleries at
Ben lonvillc, Ark., Ark., and and Jell Jedico, Tenn.; ; a a flour flour
and grist mill at Hickory Grove, N. 0.; an elec¬
tric light and pnw' r plant at Jethro. Tenn,
and iron works at Terrell. Texas. Coal mines
are to bo opened at Jcllico, Tenn., and chartered Hal-ey,
Ky., a crockery company plumbing lias been at
Lit'lo llock. Ark.; and heating works
organized at Richmond, Va., and a window
glass company at Wellabnrg, W. Opelika, Yh. Ala.;
A ropo factory is reported Morristown, at Tenn., and
wot dw orking plants at works at Charleston, 8.
Kil Kilgore, Tex.; basket Bonncttsville, 8. C.,
C.; handle factories at
and Front Royal, Va.; a lumber company or¬
ganized ut Alum Bridge. \V. Va.; and sawmills
reported at Blar.ips, Ark., Hollandale, Miss.,
Bosley, N. C., and lias c Oily and Oaklantk'Va.
Waterwoiks aro to be built at Ballingor/fex., the
and Berkeley, Vs. The enlargements mill Winchester, for
work include a flouring at Tex.;
Tenn.; a cotton compress at Bonham, an
oil mill at Wbitewright, Tex.: a coal mining
.company at Big Stono Gap, Va., and a sower
'company at Galveston, buildings Tex. $40,000 bank
Among the Knoxville, new Tenn.; aro churches a at Cor¬
building at Tex., aoollegobuild-
inth, MiHB., and El Paso.
mg at Richmond, Va.; a building $28 0tt0 jail Louisvillo, at Hnnta-
vili e, W. Va-; an oflleo at
Ky., end a school bn liling to cost $15,000, a*
Paris, T«x.-»Tradcsman, (Chattanooga, Term.)
HORRIBLE TORTURE.
The Dynamo Falls in an Electrocntlon
in New Fork.
A ghastly tragedy, tho sequel of an¬
other one, was enacted in the prison at
New York Thursday. Murderer Will¬
iam G. Taylor, who cut the throat of
a fellow-convict, was placed in the
electric execution chair to expiate with
his own life tho crime he had done.
He received a shock of 1,700 volts, but
the contact was not sufficiently pro¬
longed, aud when it was sought to turn
on the current again the dynamo would
not do its work. The man Blowly came
back toward consciousness, to prevent
which morphine was administered
while preparations were being made to
get an electric supply from^the city’s
dynamo plant. For one houw »ud a
quarter the doomed man suffered in¬
tense agony. A current from the city
electric light dynamo was passed
through his body and ho died immedi¬
ately. _______
DANGER FROM IMMIGRANTS.
Surgeon General Wyman Issues Orders
to Guard Against Cholera.
Burgeon General Wyman, at Wash¬
ington received tho following cable
Tuesday from Assistant Surgeon Gen¬
eral Young, of tho Marine hospital
service, stationed at Naples:
“Cholera prevails; condition is
worse A large, number of emigrants
are propariug for America. Isolation
on shore is impossible. Authorities
refuse to permit Intention on board.
Parties are transferred from the train
to the ship anil isolation on the way is
imperfect.” dispatch Dr. Wyman sent
To this
tho following answer “Refuse bill of
health unless all regulations aro com¬
plied with. Inform companies that
the full fine will bo imposed without
the bill.”
NEW ENGLAND’S TURN
To Experience the Financial Stringen¬
cy and Business Depression.
A Now York special of Tuesday says:
Bankers aro disposed to take u some¬
what loss favorable view of the gener¬
al business situation than they were a
week ago, especially toward New Eng¬
land and the northwest. Tho shutting
down of manufacturing interests all
over New England and tho private ad¬
vices received by the New York bank¬
ers as to the condition of the New
England banks continue to make the
prospect for a betterment of the con¬
dition in that quarter anything but
good. ___
The King Wants Peace.
Advices of Wednesday from Bang¬
kok state that M. Pavie, the French
minister resident, prior to his ropart-
uro, had a final interview with the
Hiatr.es foreign minister, who said that
his government was astonished that
Franco considered their reply to the
French ultimatum as a refusal to com¬
ply with its terms. It was impos¬
sible, he said to accept definitely
indefinite proposal France
had never defined her rights in Annara
and Cambodia; but tho king, earnest¬
ly desiring peace and a speedy declared settle¬
ment of the whole case, had
h'is readiness to abandon Annum and
Cambodia at the post that had been
attacked, as well as the territory near and
them, including Stungiren
Khong, although these places were
admitted to be Siam’s.
After the Lynchers.
A Memphis, Tenn., dispatch states
that the lynching of Lee Walker, the
rapist, and the subsequent burning of
the body and other attrocities, is
viewed with great indignation in that
city, and Sheriff McLendon is severe¬
ly criticised for his criminal lack of
firmness by the press and people.
Monday morning Judge Scruggs BUI
pended the sheriff, pending au placed mves
tigation, and the coroner was grand
in charge of his office. The
jury has been called to meet in special
session, and a few bench warrants have
been issued for the arrest of the rmg
leaders.