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»:00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
BETRAYED;
-OR-
A DARK MARRIAGE
MORN.
A Romance of Loue, Intrigue and
Crime.
BY MRS. ALICE P. CARRISTON,
CHAPTER XXXL-(Continued.)
For an instant his eyes rested on Eu
gene with a stupefied surpr se nnd almost,
bewilderment; then ho raised his arms
over his head, and his two hands struck
together with a sharp sound. At this
terrible moment Corn seized the arm of
Eugene, and threw him a look so pro¬
found, supplicating and tragic that it
alarmed him.
lie roughly pushed her from him,
cros-ed his arms, aad waited the result.
The t'esator walked slowly toward him.
All at once his i'a>e became inflamed with
a about purp'e color, his lips half opened as if
to deliver some deadly insult.
He advanced rapidly, his hands raised;
but after a few steps the old man sud¬
denly slopped, beat the air with both
hands, ns if seeking some support, then
staggered and fell forward, striking his
hoid agairst the marb'e manttlpviece,
rolled on thee rpet end remained motion¬
less.
Then there ensued in this chamber a
sinister silence.
A stifled ory from Eugene broke it. At
the same time he threw him»elf on his
knees by the’side of the motionless old
man, touched first his hand, then his
he rt.
He saw that he was dead.
A thin thread of blood trickled down
his pale forehead where it had struck the
marble; but (his was only a slight
wound. It w 'S not that which killed him.
What had killed'h.m was the treachery
of (hose (wo beings whom he had loved,
and who, be believed, loved him. His
heart had been broken by the violence of
the su'piise, the grief nnd the horror.
One look of Eugene told Cora EUiston
she was a widow.
She threw herself on the divan, buried
her face in the cushions aud sobbed aloud.
Eugene st 11 stood, his back agiinst the
mantelpiece, thoughts. his eyes fixed, wrapped in his
own
Ho wished in nil sincerity of heart that
be could have awakened tho dead and
restored him to life.
Ho had sworn to doliver himself up to
him without defense if ever the old man
demanded it of him for forgotti n favors,
betrayed friendship aud violated honor.
Now he had kills t him. If he hod not
slain him 'v.th his own hands, the crime
was still there in its most hideous form.
He saw it befo;o him, he smelt its odor,
he breathed its blood.
An uneasy glauce of Cora recalled him
theu to himself, conversed and together he approached in whispers, her. They and
ho ha-ily explained to her the line of con¬
duct she should adopt.
8bo must summon the servants, say
tho Senator was taken suddenly ill, and
that on entering her room ho had been
seized It by an apoplectic'stroke. effort she understood
was with some
she was lo wait long enough befo o giv¬
ing the airrnr, to give Eugene sufficient
lime to escape, and until then she was to
remaiu in Ihis frightful tete-a-tete alone
with tho dead.
He pitied her, nnd decided on leaving
the house by passing through his uncle’s
rooms.
Cora immediately rang violently, heard and
Engene d d not retire till he the
sound of L;aliening feet on the stairs,
The apartment of the Senator com¬
municated with that of his wife by a
short passage. There waB a suite of
apartments—first a travorsod study, then this a sleep¬
ing-room. Eugene shall attempt to room de¬
with feelings we gair.o not the street.
scribe, and at last i Senator
The surgeon testified that
Sherwood EUiston had died from the
rupture of a ve -sel in tho heart.
■Two days after the interment in Green¬
wood took place, at which Engene Cleve¬
land attended.
Tho same evening he left New Y’ork to
join his wife, who had gone to Eoxbury
the preceding week.
chapter xxxii.
TREIIBI.ING 151 THE JIALANCE—JEALOUSY,
One of the sweetest sensations in Ihe
world is that of a man who bus just es¬
caped tho fantastic terrors of nightmare,
and who, awaking, his forehead bathed
with icy sweat, s iys to himself: “It was
but a dream!”
This was, in some degree, the impres¬
sion which ,E a & erie felt on awaking the
morning after he arrived at Roxburv,
when his first glance fell on the sunlight
st) ’aing over the foliage, and when he
heard beneath his window the joyous
laugh of his little child.
He, however, was hot dreaming; but
his soul, crushed by the horrible ten¬
sion of recent emotions, had a mo¬
ment’s respite, aud drank in, almost
without alloy, tho new calm that sur¬
rounded him. himself and, de¬
He ha-tiiy dressed
scending to the garden, raised his son in
his arms. unusual tender¬
He embraced him with
ness, and bonding over l»im gpoko to him
in a low voice, and asked after his mother,
about his plays, with a singularly soft and and
sad manner. Then he put him dow n,
walked away with a slow step, breathing
the fresh morning air, examining the
leaves aud the flowers with extraordinary
inteiest. sigh .
From time to time a deep, sa t
broke from his oppressed bosom; fie
passed his hand over his brow as if to
efface the importunate images. He sat
down among the luxuriant verdure,
cal ed to the nurse to bring his son
aga n to him, held him on his knee, in¬
terrogating him again, in a low tone, ns
he had already done, then diew him
toward him, ond clasped him tightly for
a long time, as though to draw in*o his
own soul the innocence and peace of the
child's Heai t.
Flora surprised him in this gush of
feeling, and remained mute with aston¬
ishment. He rose immediately and took
her hand.
“What splendid care yon take of dim:
he s*id. “I th^nk you fer i . He will be
worthy of you and your mother.
Shew s'so surprised at the soft and
sad tone of his voice that she replied,
stammering with embarrassment:
worthy rf I , hope. „
“And yen a.so, lips
“Of me?" said Eu:ene, wbo=e were
slightly - tremu ous. “Poor child, I hope
not!” an 1 rapidly withdrew.
Flora and her mother had learned, the
previous motning of the death of the Sen¬
ator Tbo-e-ening of Eugene’s arrival
they did net speak to him on the subject,
aud were cautious not to make i-uy al¬
ias on tort. 'Ihe next day and the sue
cetding ones they pr icticsi the same
r. serve, though very far from suspecting rendered
the fatal ........ Yhiefc
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this Fouvenir so painful to F.ngene. They
thought it onlv natural he should be
p.iiued that at so sudden a catastrophe, and
his conscience should ho disturbed;
but they were ; stonished when this im
pressiou prolonged itself from day to
day, lasting until it took the appearance of a
sentiment,
They began to believe that there had
arisen between Cora and himself, proba
hlv occasioned by the Senator’s death,
Eome quarrel which had weakened the tie
between them.
Atrip to New York, which he made
some iwo weeks after his arrival, was to
them a continual on of the ruth they be
foie suspected, lint his prompt return,
his new tastes, which kept him at Eos
bury favorable for some time, seemed to then)
He singularly-s impressions.
was d and peusive. He
took long walks alone. Sometimes he
carried his little son with him, as though
by chance. He sometimes attempted a
little timid tenderness with his wife; and
this awkwardness on his-part was quite
touching.
“Fio,” he said to her one day, “you nre
a fairy; w .ve your wand over this place
and make of it nn island in mid-ocean.’”
“You say that because you know how to
swim,” she rejoined, laughing and shak
iug her head; but the hea t of the young
woman “You was joyful.
embrace me now every moment,
my dear child,” Raid her mother to her.
“Is this re lly all intended for mo?”
“My belovedmotber”-wh.leembracing
her again—“I assure you he is really
courting but he me acain. Why, I am ignorant;
is courting It.” me and you also, mv
mother. Notice ’
Mrs. Leland did notice it. In his con
vernation with her, Eugene seemed lo
wish to link all that was good in the past
with his new life; to forget the rest, and
pr ,y of them to forget it also.
It was not without fear that these two
charming women abandoned rememb themselves
to their hopes. They red that
they were in the presence of an uncertain
person; sudden, they little trusted which a they change so
tho reason of could
not comprehend. They feared 'it was
soma passing caprice, which would re
turn to them, if they were its dupe*, all
the v misfortunes, without the dignity
which had hilhoito attcndel them.
They were not the only one- struck by
this transformation. Mr. Norton and all
his Mends noticed it. Even the mani
tnate things—the woods, the trees, the
heayens—should have borne tho same
testimony, tor he looked at and studied
ihem with a benevolent before curiosity honored with
which he had never them,
In truth, a profound trouble hud in
faded him and would not leave him.
More than Once, before ibis epoch, his
soul, his philosophy, his pride, hud less re
ceived a rude shock, but ho hud no
pursued his path, rising after every blow-,
like a lion wounded, but unconquered. moral
Ju tr inipl ng under his feet all
belief which binds the vulgar, he had re
served honor like an inviolable limit.
Then, under the empire of his passion,
be said to himself (hat, after all, honor,
like all the rest, was conventional. Then
he cn ou'.itrrod crime—he touched it
with his hand—horror seized him, and he
reco led.
He repulsed with disgust tho there—asked principle
which hud conducted him
himself what would beoomo of human
society if it had no other.
Thc simplo truths which he had misun
dersiood now appeared to him in their
tranquil splendor. He did not yet dis
tinguish them clearly; he did no’t try to
give them a name, but their ho plunged shadows with aud
eer-rat delight into asked for them in tho
their peac3. He
puro heart of his child, in (he pure love
of 1 i young wife, in the daily miracles
of nature, in tho harmonies of the heav
ens, and probab y already- in the depths
of his thoughts—of God.
J the midst of atod. this approach toward a
nevi ife he hesi
0o>’. EUiston was there.
Ho loved h yet vaguely. Above all.
ho could not abandon her without: a kind
of baseness.
Terrible struggles agitated him.
After having done so much evil, would
it be pei milled him to do good and grace
fully partake of the joys he foresaw?
The-e tb s with ihe past, his fortune
acquired through his uncle, his fatal mis
tress—the specter of that old man—would
they permit it?
And we may add, would Providence
suffer it? Not that we would wish lightly
to use, as is often done, this word Trovi
dence, and to suspend overEu ene Cleve
land this menace of supernatural chas
tisement
Providence does not intervene in hn
man events except through the logic of
her eternal laws. She has only the sane
tion of these laws, and it is for this rea
son she is feared
At the end of the month Eugene re
turned to New York aud to his counting
room.
Business over for the day, before re¬
turning home, he paid a visit to Cora.
He had neglected her a little of late; in
fact, had only visited her at long inter¬
vals, os politeness compelled him.
Cora wished to keep him for dinner, as
she had no gnests with her. She pressed
him so warmly that, blaming himself all
the time, he consented. He never saw
her without pain.
She always brought back to him those
terrible memories, bnt also that terrible
intoxication.
She was never more beautiful. Her
deep mourning embellished yet more her
languishing and regal grace; it made her
pale complexion yet more fair, and it
brightened the brilliancy of her look.
She had the air of a tragic queen, or of
an allegory of night. hour arrived when
In the evening an
the reserve, which for some time had
marked their relations, was forgotten.
Eugene found himself as in olden times,
at the foot of Cora—his eyes in hers, and
lovering with kisses her lovely hands.
She was strange that evening.'
She looked at litm with a wild tender
ness instilling, at pleasure, into his veins
, passion; then
the poison of burning gathered in her es¬
caping him, the tears
eyes.
All at once, by one of those magical with
movemi nts of hers, she enveloped spoke
her hands the head of her lover, and
to him (juite low beneath the shadow of
this perfumed veil.
“We might be so happy,” she said.
“Are we not so?” asked Eugene.
“No! I, at least, am not, for you are
not all mine, as I am all yours. This ap¬
pears harder now that I am free. If you
had remained free—when I think of ill
or, if vou could become so, it wo ild bo
heaven!”
“Y’ou know that I am not so! "Why
speak of it?” with hei
She drew nearer to him, and
breath more than her voice, answered:
“Is it possible! TeU me."
“How?” he demanded.
She did not reply, but her fixed look,
caressing and cruel, answered him.
“Speak, then, I beg of you!” murmured
Eugene. told me—I have not for
“Have you not
gotten it—that we are united by ties
stronger than all others; that the world
and its laws exist no longer for us; that
there is no other gool. no other bad for
ss. but »wb3ppine«s or ear unhappiness?
HAMILTON, HARRIS COUNTY, GA., APRIL 20, 1891.
Well, we aro not happy, aud if we con’d
be so—listen, I have thou ht well over it!”
Her lips touched the cheek of her lover,
and the murmur of her last words was
lo;t in her k sses.
! Eugene roughly repulsed her. her, sprang
up, and stood before
j I hope; “Cora,"he but trial said, sternly, “(his is repeat a trick, it,
or no, never
never! fu-memberl”
She also quickly drew up her figure.
“Ah! how you love her!” she cried,
“Yes, know' you love her; it is sho you love—
I it, I feel it, and I—I am only of the
wretched object of yotlr pity or your
caprice. E-.on Mildred Lester is no
longer remembered. V-ry well; go back
to her—go and protect her, for I swear to
yon she is in peril!” his haughty irony.
He smiled with
"Let us see your plot,” ho said! “So
you intend to kill her?”
“If I can!” she sail; and her superb
arm was stretched out as though to seize
& weapon, hand?”
“What! with your
“The hand shall lie found.”
are 80 beautiful at this moment,”
said Eugene, 1 am dying with the de-
811 oul , 6 th:,t f? at vlshecl ?°, ur *. to et - tr Acknowledge that
>' ' J Iue > or
fon wore mad lor a moment, „
ga'© “ savage s iuile.
Oh! you fe r do you? sho said, coldly;
then ™ 3 11 «. a e al “ Ler T olce ’ ' vb ‘ ch a8 “
Burned malignant tone, „ right; .
a mad dld you are
? 1 am am ” 3 ea!ons ot , ’ J am l , f “ ot ™5' W18h od and 10 *7 1 8ll,dl
revenge myself ', no matter what - it costs
m0re ln th,s
"T/ ' !l “ d b’ua r ' b i
® e u 8o; 1 «°> sanl . Eugene ., with ...
fla8hm ® e / e ”; He immediately . left the
r°om and the house; he reached the
Gr f d D t pot ou foot - and that
B! ° ht reached Roxburv
bomething terr ible the re awaited him.
chaptek xxxill.
despair.
Oscar Slyme had been making th*
most 0 f his time, though thus far mat
ters had not turned out as ho had expect
e q or desired.
Baffled in bringing about Eugene’s ruin
through tho Senator, he determined to
separate him from Flora, whom, notwith
standing what had happened, he still
loved as much as he hated Cora Elbston.
Ho dare not go to her himself, but
w})i i d ia ( p e sorv jce of the Senator aud
Warren Lei ,nd be had become acquaint
ed with a connection of the Leland lami
jy ; a S our-minded okl maid, who affected
religion and all tho virtues, tho and pleasures professed
t Q despise wealth and of
this world, and who, as a matter of
course, hated her relative, younger, Flo, prettier, and all and
moro fortunate her
family ith an intense and perfect hatred,
Oscai Myme knew and understood this
woman thoroughly, and determined to
mil k e her his tool.
H e went lo hev, told his story—a four
story it was—and when ha saw she
wa3 almost bursting with the information
B tj 0 p a( f received, suggested that sho
ghould go io Xtoxbury and pay the Lo
i am know, j g a visit, Eugene especially, Cleveland as he happened out of
to was
the way.
she jumped at the idea, nnd the very
next eastern-bound train had her on board
as It a passenger, almost needless to (hnt Mrs.
is sav
Leland and Flora were greatly astonished
when informed thut thufr connection,
Miss Phebe Craven, bad arrived to pay
them a visit. They could not understand
it. Their intercourse with her had al
ways been very constrained. Neither
their character nor their religion coin
cided with hers.
After a moment’s reflection Mrs. Leland
said:
“Of course wo must receive her and
treat her well. You go down, Flo, and
entertain her for a while. I will come
later and relieve you.” with
“Very well, mamma,” mid a re
signed sigh Flo descended to the reeep
tion-room.
At sight of her Miss Thebe started to
her feet, and rnshing forward, throw her
arms about her neck and kissed her. Flo,
however, did not return this greeting quite
so cordially, had aversion for
In truth, she no groat contented
her maiden relative; liking she simply her; but Thebe
herself with not
Craven hated Flo intensely, and now sho
trad found a good occasion to prove it to
her, and she would not lose it. What
she begun with a kiss?
death of the collator had destroyed
all Slyme’s high hopes of tho fortune
which he believed _ he would recei ve for
opening the eyes of the deluded old man;
and. in his rago and dis ppointment ho
Jl ad * >a nn very bittei against F.ugene.
J . , learned througa him that Eugene
had been in the chamber of Mrs. LIlis
H" 1 l ^ e n H!kt of the Senator s dea h. On
tn ' 8 foundation of truth she did not fear
to frame the most ofiious suspicions; and like and
blyme baffled in Ins vengeance,
her in ins envy, had uided her.
On Flora’s invilatioD, sho again took
her seat, but forced her young relative
into a chair by litr si le, and still held
her hand.
Soon she offer ted to make the Sena¬
tor’s death the theme of conversation—
d few her old acquain- “
gh-. a tears over
tance, and k ssed Flo’s imprisoned hand
with a burst of tenderness.
“Mv Door little thing!” she said to her;
‘it is’for you also I weep, for you will
be yet more unhappy than heretofore, if
that c >n be possible. understand ’ Thebe,”
“I do not you, an*
jwered Flora, coldly. much
“If you do not understand me so
the better," replied Mis3 Thebe, with a
jbr.de of bitterness. Then, after a mo¬
ment's pause: “Listen my dear little
ttiing! this is a duty of conscience which
L comply w th. You Bee, an hone-t crea¬
ture Hike you merits a better fate; arid
your mother, too, who is also a dupe.
This man would deceive the Almighty
himself. In the name of Humanity, I
feel bound to ask pardon for both of
them." 1 not under¬
“I repeat, Phebe, that do
stand you." impossible, Flo! , Come, , it . is
“But it is
impossible that all this time you have
suspected nothing.” Thebe Craven,
“I suspe t nothing, all."
Flora, “because 1 know
“Ah! continued Thebe, dryly, “if this
be so, I have nothing to say. But th ere
are persons, in that case, who can accom¬
modate their conscience to very strange
things. ”
“That is what I thought Flora, a moment rising
since, Miss Craven,” said*
abruptly. wish, dear; but 1 speak m
“As you my reproach
vour own in erest; and 1 shall
myself for not having spoken husband to you better mo:e
clearly. I know your
than yon will ever know him; and the
other also. Notwithstanding you te!l say so,
von do not know all. let me you.
Senator EUiston died very suddenly, and
after it is your turn! Be very careful,
r “Oh°Phebe Craven!” pale, cried “I will poor Flora,
becoming gbastly I live!" never see
you again while
She left the room on the instant, ran
up-stairs, and found her mother.
She repeated to her the terrible words
she had just heard, snUE’er mother tried
to ca’m her; but the herself was dis¬
turbed. down to ... Mis* Phebe, . and ,
bbe went
supplicated her to have pity on tnern
and to retract the abominable innuendo
she had thrown made out, or her to understand explain it
more fully. She inform Mr. Cleveland
that she would of
the affair in case of need, and that he
would make it unpleasant Miss lor Thebe her. judged
Terrill, din her miu,
the bed method was to destroy Eugene j
Cleveland m the estimation of Mrs. Le
land.
She related nil that had been told her j
by Slyme. She informed her of the
presence of Eugene at tho Senator's
house ttie night of his death. she
hinted at certain reports that were eireu
luted, aud mingling calumny with truth, |
redoubling at (he same time her affection,
her caresses aud her tears, she succeeded
in giving Mrs. Lelsn 1 such an estimate
of Eugeue’s character nppreh. that there which were
no suspie ons or nsions
tke Poor woman from that moment did
nm consider legitimate as connected with
Vise Craven finally offered to send
Slyme to her, that sho might herself in
teiiogato him. Mrs. Behind, affecting
mischief-making aKsasM&tssagsts: old mud returned to the
city. rejoining her daughtor, Mrs. Lo
on
land exerted herself ip deceive her ns tj
lied her reassuring words.
Accustomed so long to think, feel, and
suffer togeher, these two women now
met, so to speak, m the same reflections,
the same reason ngs, and in the same
terrors. Tliev went over iu tlieir memo
ries all tho incidents of Cleveland’s dife
—all Ins faults; and under tho shadow of
the monstrous notion imputed ch to him, his
faults took a criminal racterwiich
e W6t6
hc ore
They discovered a series and a sequence
in his designs, all of which were imputed
to him as crimes—even his good actions,
Thus his conduct of late, his strange
ways, his fancy for his child and for his
wife, his assiduous tenderness toward
her, was notliiug more Ilian tho hypo
critical meditation of n now crime—a
mask which he wrs preparing in advance.
What was to be done? W bat kind of a
life was it possible to live in common
uniter tlio weight of such thoughts? What
present—what future?
’These thoughls bewildered them.
Next day Eugene could not fai! remark
ing tho singular change in their counten
nncea in his prosencc; but he thought
they had suspected ho had been to fell
on Cora, and so were offended.
He smiled at this, for as a result of his
mfned °to B break’off foilver bis iutrlgim
with flora Ellis,on.
1 or this rupture, which he had made , it
a point of honor not to provoke, sufficient Cora had
lierself furnished him a pre
text. The criminal thought she had con
fided io him was, he knew, only a feint to
test him, but it was enough to justify his
abandoument of her. As to the violent
and menacing words she had used he
heldthem of little value, though attunes
tho remembrance o£ them Iron Tea him.
Kev rthelesa, for a long time he hud not
felt his henrt so light. broken, it seemed
This wicked lie as
though lio had resumed, with his liberty,
hi He°w t 1
nl ked and played a part of the day
wiOi his chUd. Just as night fell, clear
and pure, ho proposed woods to He Flora spoke an to her ex
evasion in the
of a view which had sirnck him shortly
before on such a night, and which would
plei.se, he said, her romantic taste.
lie would not permit himself to bo
surjirisod at tho di-in' iination she mani
tested, tho disquietude which her fare
indicated, or at the raiiid glanco she ex
changed with her mother
f>arful fearful n'nT one mtmd entered 1 the^mindB the minds of of both both
these unfortunate women at tho same
moment of lime. ■
They were still iinder the impression . .
of the shock which had so weakened
their nerves, and Eugene« sudden prop
osition, ro contrary to bis usual habits,
the hour—the night and tho solitary
walk—had suddenly awakened in their
titled to demand, followed prepared her immediately husband
to go out, then
from tbo house, leaviug her child in
charge of her mother.
They had only to croBB (he garden to
find themselves on tho edge of the woods
which almost touched the dwelling, and
■wTUcTi stretched to Rome instance beyond,
Eugene’s i; tention in seeking this in
tervi -w w is to confido to his wife the de¬
cisive determination ho had taken of
delivering up to her, absolutely and
without reserve, his heart and life, and
to enjoy with her his first taste of true
happiness. Surprised the cool dis’rac with ...
at ion
which Flo replied to ho the redoubled affectionate h;s
gayetyof his bring language, their conversation to
efforts to a
tone of more intimacy and confidence.
While stoppi, g at intervals to point out
to her some effects of light and shadow in
their walk, he aski d what visitoi she h ot
seen yesterday. 8he named two or three;
then lowering her voice against her will
mentioned l’hebe Craven.
“That one,” said Eugene, “you had bet
ter not have seen. I no longer recognize
her.”
"Why?” asked she, timidly, When
“Because she is a bad woman.
we are a little more wtimate
character? ? shall teU yoWl-aU? urn j .
der-tand.” in
There was so much of goodness tho ■.
accent with which he pronounced the^e
words that Ho fe er ear a com- ,
°Tbe phantom disappeared, little by lit- !
tlo, from her miud, and she commenced
to say to herself that sho had been tho
sport of a bad dream and of a true mad
ness. when a singular change in her hug
bS Eugene? 0 hfJ'lum. had ab
in become
sent and visibly He preoccupied spoke with with effort; some
arave care. an
made half replies, meditated, :ben
stopped quickly to loo* around him, ,ike
There was an extraordinary similarity
in the thoughts which when occupied f lora them
both. At the moment was
tremblin/for fear near her husband, he
Wa TIfl tr ttmnlhfthc 5 r v were being ?hieket followed
lmthougut he heard in the the
cracking of branches, rattling of the
leaves, and finally the sound of stealthy
• l X
These noises always ,„ ava ceased nT11)ja on his fclon stop
ping, and then commenced again the
K3K •• 2
Finally he had no doubt that they were
dogged—but by whom?
.^•WJisssifflS^s -Ia..
presented itself to his mind, and RUgge-t
c i this mysterious pursuit, and awakened
these frightful suspicions.
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WHAT IS GOING ON AT UNCLE
SAM’S 11EA DQUA RTERS.
Comment Concerning Transactions in
the Various Departments.
Senator Morrill, of Vermont, reach¬
ed his 81th year Saturday and was
congratulated by a number of senators
from both sides of the chamber,
Tho president Thursday nominated
Commodore Francis M. Ramsay to be
rear admiral; Captain Thomas 0. oel
fridge, to be commodore; Commander
Philip H. Cooper to bo captain. Post
mHsters: Mississippi,Joseph cjovfm, 0. Smilev,
at WeMon; William E.
Burch, at Hawkinsville.
ft is understood that Secretary
Gresham, who has been confined to his
t * a J 8 contemplates *“? .* “ spending «* sevoial ~*!
>
days at Ohiekanmuga buttle field bo¬
fore the end of this month. As soon
, lK the Behring sea and Mosquito mat
.WM,.
v> its hum will make tjuito n southern
tour, lasting about two weeks,
Senator Hill’s speech is still the talk
f ‘ ftl , no&t , at Wnul.inotm. W ash ngton.
! Inc dcmociftts e \ tr urn > “IK ull indignant fit the
threats he made, but all declare it to
Vie as strong an argument against the
income tax as could bo made. They,
0 f course, admire a bold, fearless man, mis!
but they think Mr. Hill made a
take in the threats he indulged in.
The speech without them would have
been more effective.
... 18 8ftld . , among the ,, North , T „ Carolina ..
delegation at Washington that Gov
ernor Carr will appoint either Con
gressman Henderson or Alexander to
Kuccee q Senator Vance. Personally /
g ,, g Alexander Alexander , n JL wliou , ,■ presents , . the
Charlotte district. They are close,
personal friends and Governor Carr
succeeded Mr Alexander ns president
the tlio North North Cnvolinn ' Molina I annus Alii- Alii
tt,10e «<‘vcral years ago.
Tlie verdict of #15,000 damages
a g a j ns t Breckinridge in the Pollard
Breckinridge case was a surprise to
Washington. Almost every one ex
pcctcd tho jiliy to lull to ftgroo.
Breckinridge may appeal. His friends
say he will not resume his duties in 1 lie
n ?° '* 1V<M l.. 1 /
Ho „ fears that his colleagues ,, will snub
him or show their Contempt for liim in
in some manner It is said that lie
will go to Kentucky immediately and
begin ” stumping ° his district for re-eloe
’
«
Senator Walsh, of Georgia, offered
his first bill in the senate Saturday.
It was a bill to effect a minor reform
111 the judiciary. A resolution of
ftcred by Mr. Quay, to give a hour
mg in the senate chamber to a Com
mittee ot the workingmen s ntjttocm
tioiiH of tho United States in oppo
position „ to , the *i tariff tnriff liill bill, wus m, laid | n hl
tm the table by a vote oi yeas, .il,
nays, 9. At 1 p. ill., the further ur
gent deficiency bill was passed, and
the tariff bill taken up, when Mr.
( ^ ^ uft / y “ddressed the senate in opposi-
1101 •
Col. W. L. Nugent, of Meridian,
Mies., attorney of the Gulf and Ship
£ s i ttul i Railroad Company, f made an ar
gument . , before f ,, hecictary nmilli ... ot tho
interior department in support of the
company’s claim for 7(5,800 acres of
Mississippi, “B 40 0 °0 have already
boon allowed. With (Ins amount of
J njl d Captain W. H. Hardy, president
of the company, says they will he able
, resume work , on the road , and , finish ... ,
it to Hattiesburg. Tins land in tlio
finest pine timber laud in the state and
j H wt dl worth half ft million of dollars,
Wednesday the house committee on
interstate and foreign commerce heard
Representative Grosvenor of Ohio, in
support of his resolution directing tho
committee * to investigate the legality
h { Oovernor Tm ’
South Carolina, in the seizing . . the tel- .
egraph lines of South Carolina during pro?
the recent disturbance there, and
Yentillg -^ th(( transmismon of press dis
* tch< Grosvenor said that under
Bie statute , . . and decision of the su- ,,,,
promo court of iho United States tele
graph dispatches were subject to in
terstato commerce law, and that states
}m d no authority to interfere with
,, ltm
‘
L. H. Campbell, , of • counsel for * com
missioner of patients has filed in the
8U P rcrac c, ' urt of thc J htftt ‘' H a
motion to dismiss the appeal of the
state of Bonth Carolina from the jndg
me nt of the court of appeals for tho
j,j H , r jct of Columbia in what is known
as the Palmetto trademark case. The
motion is based on the ground of a
lack of jurisdiction. Governor Till
man appealed to the commissioner of
tfjatfj f or a registration of the trade
mark “Palmetto,” to be applied to in
toxicating liquors sold under the dis
pensary law of South Carolina. The
application was refused by the com
rn j Hfl i oaer (J f patents and his action
tiou sustained by the court of appeal;,
No More Deadlocks.
There was no democratic quorum
pre8ent i„ the house Friday morning,
Mr. Reed took advantage of it and be
gan filibustering against the approval
of the journal. As nothing could be
done, tlie democratic leaders decided
t0 ™}i° nTa the h 0U «« a “ d have a ‘ lem0 -
cratic caucus. In r that caucus it was
j^ded that the house rules should be
rr i<{»>« r •»>»~
counted as to make a quorum. That
wa8 agreed upon in the adoption of a
mittee on rules should report to the
bouse a rule by means of which mem-
VOL. XXIII. NO. 18.
Iters present and not voting may be
taken in account in determining the
existence or non-existence of a quorum,
aud to compel the attendance of absent
members. ”
ZEE VANCE DEAD.
NORTH CAROLINA’S JUNIOR SEN¬
ATOR DIES UNEXPECTEDLY.
For Years lie Was n Conspicuous Eig
ure in Uublic Life.
Senator Zebulon B. Vance, of North
Carolina, died at his residence in
Washington Saturday night from an
apoplectic stroke. The senator had
not boon in good health for Hie past
year, and in the early part of the ses¬
sion of congress was compelled to
abandon his senatorial duties and take
a trip to Florida in the hope of recup¬
erating. Itis trip proved beneficial and
on itis return to Washington he was
able for a while to partially resume his
official duties. His improvement, how¬
ever, did not continue long and for the
last few weeks he has been confined to
his bed. lie was practically an in¬
valid, but lately lias been able to re¬
ceive a few intimate friends and super¬
intend the looking after the interest
of his constituents. During the past
week ho has been reported us doing
well as could bo expected and the se¬
rious change for the worse was wholly
unexpected.
Shortly before 11 o'clock Saturday
morning lie had an attack of apoplexy
and became unconscious, regaining
consciousness only a few minutes be¬
fore liis death.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Tlio Industrial Situation as Reported
for tho Fust Week.
T1,e r< "' ir,w of 11,0 A " lAion in ,ho
Boutll t or u, 0 past week shows that ilio farmer*
aro which actively engaged in r> planting fields cold in
crops Time were injured has by elapsed tho recent show
W0lltl101 - enough to
llmt lllc '"J' 11 '? wiw very oxtensivr, although Hie
not, so great as was ut first anticipated. the in
fact tiiat it was so great indicates tiiat
n“; i St 9 °l B ? 1 ow t m 1 o ^Mirfar^ SKi"
profitable branches of Simtlmni agriculture.
T » maik.V U. a little firmer, will, no
increase in I ho output. A review of the year
shows that tho coal miner* have fallen but lit-
1,0 behind the average in their outputs, but
have sold on a narrower margin. Them is more
activity in the lumber market* and etooks aro
drawing down. Moicuntile btwincHs is improv
iug steadily, oollcotlons arc good, and mouejr U
wttesiaUished or
incorporated during manufactories the week, together with
six enlargements of and eighteen
important now buildings. The following aro
among tho important now industries of tho
week; Tin; liuilhy J.un.h r Ai-mo-nnn-nor a, >*
<'f I’arksburg, AmerilnTnipUmont^amifae- W. Va., capital *100,000; the
j^ooofthe capdal *50.000,
'uring Co., of Il„uston, Texas
^ LjmOe ’jranuracturing W.
|!oom ^27,000 Go., of Hinton, biick plant
Va., capital $50,0- 0, and ft
at Birmingham, Ala. Magnolia, Ark..and
Brick works are reported ‘canning at Mobile,
Alexaudria Va .. a fac ory .t
Ala.; a chair factory at Greensboro, N. O., aud
cotton mills at Athens, Ga., Ooucird, N. 0.,
Hampton Court House and Greenville, 8, 0.
l/MuX'Sat ville’ ;"finmdrlos JctWand and'
Turn. machine shops at
Morristown, 'IVi.n,, and Pulaski, Va.; a match
factory at Atlanta, Ga„ ami cotton-eed oil
mills at IIopo, Ark., »ml Gahsville, Norfolk* Texas. Va., A
shoe factory is to he built at
a sugar refinery at Perry, U. The new wood
working plants reported for tho week
, vro jjrcwton, Dunham and Heflin, ColumbiiH, Ala., Cftr- Ga.,
robullc, Fla., ( ordele and Point and
Frankfort, Ky., Bay Ht. Louis, WTst
jyo.000 chnrrif aV MoWIo'aU‘ a°r’6 OHlono
„ t , Jackson Mian., ami ono to cost. $10,000 at
Valdosta, Ga., a $10,000 residence at Chari'-s.
ton, 8. C., and two *10 000 acliool buildings at
IIearne,l«x. -Trade-man(CtmttanooKa.Tenn.)
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD DEAD.
Ho Was a 'Distinguished Author and
Jurist.
David Dudley Field died suddenly
at his home in Now York of pneu¬
monia. He was horn in Hadden
Conn., February ]3, 1805, and was M., the
eldest of four brothers—Henry
Cyrus W. and (Stephen being the other
three—all of whom have achieved dis
^ ,oD ' 1 , ', lvul graduated , , , , from
VV 1 ,! f\ H c '! iic ^ m “?*
the l ’ ar N<; ' V York C,ty “
1828. He early became prJtioe, prominent,
ftfl(r (:U , V( . n rg . wrote
, ca,. 0 „ nm j, ju ot |. of tho Judi
«iary ■ .System, u , which . . ho , followed , , , up
r with a pamphlet on the same line
1 ho result of this agitation was that
the constitutional convention of 1846
recommended a general code and a tfe
; orm of the pnu . tic0 0D the line of his
suggestions. the
In 1866, Mr, Field undertook
prepatiou of an international code,
which he presented to tho social
science congress after seven years’
work. This work attracted the atteu
lion of the jurists of the world, and
was translated into several tongues,
Mr. Fieid wus originally a democrat, nn
til the nomination of Fremont in 1850,
when he supported that ticket. Dor
iug 1870 he served two months in con
press, filling the unexpired term of
Smith Ely. From that time on he act
ed w ith the democrats, aud was on
tiiat side in the Hayes-lildeu contest, of
Mr. Field has published a number
works of high literary value besides
bis great lawbooks, on which however,
bis fame chiefly rests. He has lived
for several years at 22 Unimercy park,
enjoying remarkable health and vigor
up to the time of bis death.
i Strike on the Great Northern.
Stop work Friday, ., April . .. 13th, at
, ,, SUTiS
•««» r* w ’•
was sent to every station on
U ” N ,‘ )rt ? er “ from La
rs',
Lnion. The effect m ee o
pretty effeetna y tie up the dne at He¬
lena, Great l alls and Bpokaue.
BILL ALP’S LETTER.
WIIAT THE PHILOSOPHER SAYS
IN HIS WEEKLY BUDGET.
He Opines That People Attach Too
Much Attention to Politics.
Old Dr. Abernathy, or Rome other doctor, said
that lie was the test physician v?ho amused tho
patient until nature rnfored him. Our law
makers at Washington have been practicing and on 1
the people tiiat way for about a year,
verily believe the patient is getting well. Th* y
have fooled ns with hiead pills and sweetened
water and fed us on hope and promises nntii
the reaction has come, and now we don’t care a
darn whether they do anything or not. As
Cobe says, “It's all optionary with me.” Busi¬
na resuming its natural clmnuels. Tho
wheels of industry are turning. Hetrendunenfc
and reform at homo have off cted more than
silver bibs or tarifY legislation. Adversity good has
taught tut nil a lesson, and now another
crop will set the country all right. The people
have been footed with the idea tint congress
could give relief. The average American citi¬
zen is a simple minded, credulous creature, lie
knows no more about this silver question I thau
Ido, and I don’t know whether know any¬
thing or not. How should I know, when rny
teachers all differ so widely, and one man tolls
me ono tiling and another Hays it’s nor. so? It is
amusing to read the interviews with represent¬ to
ative men in Atlanta, Borne of them went
school with my boys—some of thorn don’t know
what seigniorage means, but all of them arc
like Jack Bunsby—they “have an opinion as is
an opinion ” Borne say Cleveland is a great
statesman and some say ho i * a fool and sonic
Hay ho is a knave, and ban sold out to tho gold
bugs and wilt make enough by this veto to re
tiro mb a millionaire. I was up at Hanford tho
other day and a man told mo contlden ially
that another man told him that he had just
come from Washington and it was norated
there that Grover went a-flsliing at Egg harbor of tho
and got on a bender and Mn ow’d soiUe
eggs at his friends. I don’t believe that—do
you? But about politics—rny opinion importance is tiiat
the p ople attach too much to
them. There are men around Clear Water
talking politics while their wives are at homo
sewing tor a living everywhere. and supporting Tho la the family. discon¬
That is tho way zy,
tented men are lying around waiting for relief
while the pale-faced wife is doing all the work.
Tho love of office scorns to he a passion with a
largo cl&sft of people. They brood over it and
scheme for it and hanker after it. It does
look like a great man who i« worthy of high
office would naturally bo retiring and modest,
and not bo everlastingly setting up his .claims—
his claims—-his services to the party. Tie* wild
rush for the succession before Benater Colquitt
was buried was disgraceful. It was like some
of them Atlanta lawyers who hear of a railroad
wreck and rush wildly there and importune the
injured man for the case while the wurgeon is
setting his broken limb, or they offer their
servic*. s to tho bereaved widow before her hus¬
band is buried, These are not fancies—they
are facts, and it is a sign of falling from grace done
when the people allow such things to be
without rebuk—without scorn and contempt.
There are men in every s'ate who, like old
Bob Leo in the army, ore above the spirit of
detraction. Buch a moil I thought was
General Evans, and that is why I wanted
him for governor,and lam sorry ho over agreed
to take the stump and bo hawked at by tho
politicians. There was no necessity for it. Every
little jack-a-uape who is sidewiping around will jump to
get tho orthography of a little office
up and down and say I’m tor thin, or I’m for
that, when if he would go to work he could
earn more Monwi unnm^> th*** h** mtU
waiting for oflioo.
But tho issuo ih uron tlio country- The old
partlor will bo lorn asunder and new ulign
monu made, and maybe that will break up tlio
solid hou tli and tbo almost solid north, and
bring about a new era like there was in too
parties when whiga and denmcartH divided the
people. There are thousands of good demo
cram down south who favor a protective ti'.rlti,
and they will turn to a puny that will give it.
There i« bound io be a ih-vv deal of 'lie cards •
a now move on the chock board, Tho old issues
have been brushed up and worked over until
they are threadbaro. Mr. Cleveland may he •
right, hut bo is not with the party-certain people y
not with the party in Georgia, and for iiieome our tax
say they want moro silver an
and tlio removal of tho ten percent, (ax on
state banks- will work dili¬
But, after all, tbo man who
gently and attend to bis own business will get
a 1 tlio free silver lie needs, lax or no tax, tann
or no tariff, and bo won't have to borrow money
from statu hanks or any other bunks, lb' 1
Almighty Father may afflict him, but nobody
else. It makes me tad to think how He has ar
flicted thousands by tlx; lab- wintry blasts that
have destroyed tlio frnit and the crops, but Wq.
can’t help tiiat by legislation,- Bint, Akp,
Atl inta Constitution.
A VERDICT OFMURDEB
Returned by tlie Jurors In the Darling¬
ton, 8. C., Tragedy.
A Columbia, S. 0., dispatch says:
Tho military court of inquiry that sat
at the inquest over Darlington’s dead,
with the regular jury, has reported
that the killing of Normentby Consta¬
ble McLendon, and Redmond by Cain,
was felonious murder. Tho report
says: believe had McLendon
“We firmly
not interfered the chief of police would
have had no trouble in preserving We or¬
der and avoiding the tragedy.
conclude from the evidence tiiat Frank
E. Norment came to his death from
the effect of a gunshot wound inflicted
by ono J. D. McLendon and that tho
said killing was felonious murder; and
that W. P. GaiJJurd, C. B. Mo
Dowell, J. C. Murphy, J. L. Nun
namaker, R. M. Gardner, John Fel¬
der, J. M. Bcott, L. H. McCants, Wil¬
liam Livingston, O. C. Cain, E. C.
Black, J. W. Holloway, W. JL Bry¬
son, .Tack Holling and Ww.U AJwoua _
are accessory. R. H. Pepper
“We conclude that
came to his death at tho same time
and place from tho effect of a gunshot
wound inflicted by one Lewis Red¬
mond, and that the said Lewis Red¬
mond came to his death at tho hands
of O. C. Cain, and that the said kill¬
ing was felonious murder. Redmond
was running from the constables and
Cain shot him in the back with a Win¬
chester rifle.”
REORGANIZING TIIE MILITARY.
Governor Tillman Wants Men Who
Will Obey Him.
A Columbia, S. C. special says:
Governor Tillman has begun to dismiss
from the military service of the state
those companies which failed to re¬
spond to his call during the Darlington
trouble. He has written a letter to the
captain of one of the companies which
failed to respond, telling him that he
did not want such “recreant sons of
South Carolina” in her military ser¬
vice. The reorganization of the mili¬
tia of the state is going on speedily.
Many new companies, who will in the
future be loyal to the commander-in
chief, have been organized and asked
to be mustered into service.
Make money honestly il you can.
If you can’t it is time to sum up your
character in *c epitaph.