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SCHLEY - COUNTY ENTERPRISE
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BOLD TRAIN R0B9ERS.
Xlirco Mon Capture a Train in
Broad Daylight.
Intimidating Federal Soldiers and
Robbing the Passengers.
In broad daylight n fow days since the
mail and express train on the Fort Woe
and Beaver Railroad, stopped at a water
tank just north of Bellevue station,
jeventy-fivo miles north of Fort
Worth. A few minutes before the
I train arrived three men had ridden up to
»b vise two hundred yards from tho tank,
tied their 1 orses and ordered dinner. They
I walked 1 isurely toward the tank, and about
that time tho train pulled in. One of the
robbers withdrawn pistol ordered Kngineor
Ayers aui his fireman aud O. G. Miller, an¬
other Ml:hirer who was riding in the cab, to
aliight. which they did. Ho then marched
them through some thirty them feet taking from all the tram and
went the valuables
they bad. VV Idle this was going on the other
moa went through th.s train. One of the
passengers, who the was looking out of tho win¬
dow an divining 1 saw operation with the train
men, the situation, wont iuto tho
for'.ardcirs aud exclaimed:
■Tat un ity your money nn i valuables; we
will bo robbed.” At once the passengers
wrote 1 ail they could and awaited results.
soldiers Inthesmokhig-car belonging were five United HUitcs
negroes) to the Twenty-
fourth Infantry, hargo under command of Gap-
tain Connors ia 1 of two deserters who
were I- ing taken to Leavenworth from Fort
Sill. B le u it was seen that tlio sol lion s were
going ti fight, j begged several him passengers wont to
ConuM-an t> submit tamely,
saying the women* and children were
greatly alarmed aud that all the valuables
were h. l ion away. Connors reluctantly con-
sented to do as requested. By this time tbe
two men had l ea ned tho Soldiers, and cover-
ing thrm with revolvers, demanded their
pi t i's, w hich the soldiers surrendered.
‘•How miti h money have you got? asked
one of the robbers.
“Only -> i0 to foed my prisoners with,’ an¬
swered Connors.
‘You can keep it, thou,” and the rohbers
pawi coach: on. They said to ladies in tho lust
tid “I anything a lies, you need not be afraid, wo won’t
.Many e of tho trom you.” And they did not.
in _ passengers recreted their
money various ways, giving most of it
.with tlicir diamonds) to several ladies
aboard. Miss Kate Haas, of Fort Worth,
His. t. .. charge Chambers, of nnd other valuables.
of Pottsdam, N. Y., ro-
ce ved fo,iH)0 and some diamonds, and Mrs.
U itti. k. of L'ar thu. o, Mo., took her hits-
bantsgoid lars. watch and several bundled dol¬
Mrs. V. ittick was greatly incensed at tho
oceedings and boldly stood up in the car
asked i. tho forty men were going to sub¬
to such an outrage at the hau is of two
0 worth Abo of it S!S,<KX) in money and
diamonds and other
wore left by tho robber*
the r haste to get through tho
and because they- did not search
ladies. They were evidently novices in
business, and went away with the paltry
1 of s lid, three gold w at lies, ten silver
watches five revolvers aud one gold ring.
'1 !;•■ robbers loft tlio train at the rear of tho
tl eper, mounted horses standing near by
and rode raj idly a.vav.
The train was then hurried on to Bellevue,
'•heve telegrams wore sent to Superintendent
1 rost, 11 fc t ort Worth, who immediately se-
i.'. 1 . eili-ring ^. Orewardfor each robl er
in l.ss than an hour five posses of officers
an! ' iti ens were in pursuit under Sheriff
Me! am, of Montague; Marshal Black, of
Bowie, aud otiio; 3 .
The men w.to all dros-red ia cowlroy style,
nn rod from livo feet seven inches tosix leet
i’i lie ..lit, and all ha i sandy lieardsof about
t: ri-e weeks’ growth. Tho tallest man had a
> unit :n h s left eye. Tney made no effort to
conceal their fa es. and talked and joked
with the pas augers a they robbad them.
FIVE SAtLOSF L03T.
Tlicir Boat Overturned While Help-
jug a Disabled Steamer.
■While performing an art of heroism First
0 v, r BarthiDmow H.'Henry, of the steam-
(•!):•> Kmckarbocker ot tbe Cromwell line’o)
it: r: on. and four brave me rubers of tho re*
s i's creiv lost their livos tbe other morning
ia the terrible storm of win 1 aud blinding
snow which swept the New Jersey coast.
The Knickerbocker arrived at New York
frmn New Orleans after n tempestu HIS
nn'n -e'of seven days. When tlie Five Fathom
I.ightho iso li nl been rea bod, which is 1 .0
miles distant from New York city and off the
roast large ot New Jersey, the lookout with sighted a
schooner in the di.stauoe the dis¬
tress signal flying.
First O il: er Henry prop s <1 to the Cajv
lain that men I 0 .-out to hr relo-f. lie prom-
oli' ;‘>h> lelf. and asked that four men
When - row bo detailed to a “company him.
the crew learned what was wanted
I sir of tho Hi: mt experience. I of t lie sailors vol-
uuteerod theirscrvices. With groat difli ulty
sad danger the lifeboat, which was a new
obs •-11 of tie- most improved 1 attorn, was
loiverej. uikcers and men jumped in an 1
I;-Gl-' ''cabled l away on their errand of mercy to the
aij hour s it hooner in tho distance. roach Nearly
J-hooner, took tho bout to tho
fi -he aud every bow ami then on her
i|i 1 wn, list to tho breathle s passengers
an crew, who were watching her from tho
ste.nirr r.Mung in tho trough of the sea.
At 1 1 st the schooner was reached. 8he
P rn '"i..l to lie the Alary D. Creamer, bound
to Philadelphia. Her captain said that her
rudder had broken, an 1 that she was help-
1; ' s. She wantoi to be torved to Philadel¬
phia.
Th'so on board tho Knickerbocker then
twicer Henry take a lino from the
crviiso:- an Is: w the boat’s crew pull town: d
the Eire:: rbocker. As tho 1 rew rowed
away the line from the schooner' was payed
? halt u f> 1,1 t.hadistance le by little. had Finally, boon accomplished, when about a
wave like a mountain enure and struck tli3
lifeboat broad ile.
the towlino parted in twain, tho lifeboat
capsized and her comma riding olliror and
crew wore soon struggling in the water,
it seemed hoars but it was in reality only
a law minutes when the boat wo s righted and
three of those struggling with tlio waves
were seen to clamber iuto bor. Tho other
two were never seen again.
Again tho boat procee led laboriously on
Journey. First ollicor Henry took the
one of tlio sailors at the oars and
pulled with tho remnant of his crew. The
passengers towing on tlio stea n r saw him cease
sclt t» the „ u ,e- Heat that time lashed hiiu-
seat ou which iie - at
file wind still continued to blow the tre-
aen Ions galo, and the billows see.nod higher
ihati ever bofnro. But on and on tho boat
until “’’if it .'Hth was within a jn-ogress bniliug hardly perceptible ofthottux-
°t i sva b hers tlio easy steamer’s decks.
, on
then thrro rolled a threatening wave from
tie northwest, higher by far than any which
.'’y jerrihc preceded blow. it, Once anil struck she the capsized, life boat anl u
111 tliri-o be more
“38 the mem oulil distinctly seen liat-
fhe waves,
next wa e that came took the boat 011
an.o' Join'd re ^’ the I 111 '* hull w Wh of tremendous (he forro It flung it
eve in steamer. was
m an instant aud sunk out of sight.
i„„, l ' ar )'Gy bad tho life-ti<-at gone it) the bot-
tbe b >dy of a man was seen float
ttia'nl b;er steamer's side. It was that of
Henry. brought Lines were thrown and
w«rn " e ,'° on duck. They
liJjJ life lu t M state-room he occupied in
1 * r «. brought to the city. The
18 of the sailors wore not found.
"II1ILE #ALE EVICTIONS imminent,
th' '' k Y )0 e ° 1 , evi * and tlonH Wcstropp threatened on
Kilt, '' estate* iu
ire nrenl^ prepwmg U ' ll ’ t0 V C1 “ r< '’ Irelon<1 - Ten wit 3
THE YEAR 1887.
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Eclipse* for 18b7.
ifn-r, will be four Eclipses this year -two 0 f ths
Snn slid two of the Moon.
The first Is a Partial Eclipse of tho Moon, Febru¬
ary t’niteJ 8rh, MW o'clock in partial the morning, eclipse, and visible In (he
States as a also in the
Pacific Ocean and Asia.
The second Is nn Annular the Eclipse of tUsSun,
February Ible In tile 2Jd, United 7 59 States; o'clock visible in afternoon; In Sooth Pacific tnvls-
Ocean and western coast of South America.
tbe third is a Partial Eclipse of the Moon, Angust
31, at 3:33 o'clock in the afternoon; Invisible in the
United Slates; visible In Western Asia and East
Europe. The fourth is Total Eclipse of the Snn, Angnst
a
18th, 11:13 o'clock in ths evening, and Is invisible
In tlio United States. The eclipse will be total at
licrlin in Herman v. Kontgsberg, Yeddo In Japan,
anil llicode Oro in the Pacific Ocean.
Morning Stars. Evening Stars,
Venus, after Sen t. 21st. Venus, until Sept 'flat
Mars, after April 24th. Mars, until Apnl 84th.
Jupiter, Nov, until April 20, Jupiter, until Nov. after April 20,
after S. 8.
Saturn, until Jan. 9, after Satnrn, after .Jan. 9, un¬
July 18 , til July 18. Feb. Tth,
Mercury, until Keh. 7, i Mer airy. Hfter
after Mar. 21, July 2S, 1 I May 2fth, Sept tilth.
Nov. 7.
f’lunetn Brightest.
Mercury, March 5th. 18th, July 1st, setting 17th, December then jost
after the Sun; April August
I'ith, rising then Just before the Sun. Venus, August
tuth. October 29th. .Japiter, April 20th. Mats, not
this year. Saturn, January 9th-
The Four Sen sous.
Winter begins December 24, ts-tfi, and Iasi E2US
Spring “ March 20, 13S7. “ “
Summer “ June 21, “ “ “
Autumn “ September 23, “ “ “
I.EAPINtl I'UOM A MOVINCJ TRAIN.
O. 11. Jenne, a retired merchant, of
Elgin, 111., accompanied by his wife and
brother-in-law,F. L. McClure, proprietor
of the Elgin Canning Works, started on
a trip l ist week for the benefit of his
health. He had been suffering from
melancholy and it was down. feared that his
mind would break He was
watched carefully, however, and all
went well until last Thursday, when the
train was passing through Indian Terri¬
tory and running- down grade at thirty
miles un hour. Suddenly Mr. Jenne
sprung through the car window. Ilis
wife caught his clothing, but could not)
hold him and he dropped stopped to the track.
Quickly the train was and backed
up to the spot. Mr. Jenne, strange to
say, was still alive and could speak. He
had suffered internal injuries from which
he died.
IRISHMEN ARRESTED.
The I'rluis Apjircacliina in lelshAflairii
John Dillon, member of parliament foi
east Mayo, William O’Brien, editor of
United Ireland, Matthew Hains, member
for east Galway, and David Sheehy,
member of parliament for south Galway,
«ere arrested Thursday in the town ol
Loughrea, county defraud. Galway, The charged with
conspiracy to trustees' in prisoners
have been acting as conduct¬
ing the plan ot dissatisfied the campaign and been
receiving from tenants the re¬
duced rents refused by landlords or land¬
lords’ agents. At the time of making
the arrests the police took away from Mr.
Dillon 80 pounds which he had just re¬
ceived in trust from tenants. The four
gentlemen were taken before a magistrate
mid remanded for a week.
THE IRISH DIFFICULTIES.
The order of business in the coming
session of the British Parliament will
probably be as follows: The session will
open with the introduction of a Coercion
bill, including special provisions for the de¬
suppression of boycotting. It was
cioed that local Government measures
affecting England and Scotland shall
have precedence over legislation on the
same subject for Ireland. The result of
this will be that no Irish business except
such ns relates to coercion and to the bill
extending the ecope of the Ashbourne
Land act will be transacted.
ANNISTON ALA. BOOMING.
The large body of land of the Oxana
Land company has been sold to a rich
syndicate. Several furnace* will be built.
VV. G. Ledbetter, of Winston, N. I’., has
purchased three hundred acres of mineral
land from the Cooper’s, inside the incor¬
porate limits of Anniston. W. 11. Wil¬
liams, of Anniston, purchased Glover, the rich five
mineral lands of Doctor
miles north of Anniston. A furnace will
be built on all. In consequence of these
sales real estate is excited.
UEN. HANCOCKS WIDOW.
The friends of the late General W. 8.
Hancock have as a tribute to his memory,
raised a sum of money to purchase committee a
home for his widow. The
having the matter in charge has decided,
after consultation with Mr». Hancock, to
purchase a home in Washington D. V.,
where, therefore, she will hereafter make
her hom*.
MINERAL LANDS BOOMINL.
A report has just been received of an-
zither sale of mineral land on the line ji
the Norfolk and Western railroad near
Roanoke 7 Vu amounting ,7c to $20,000.
1 Ins makes an aggrt gate of sales <
$100,000 in the last two months.
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Tin,- posl AND - tbe LEAGUE.
The Pope had it conference with Car-
dii.-il flimponi and nrenared instructions
to .v the r-i Irish bishops V,; W>n Mi chirgtng lira [no- them to
ke ep their clergy scrupulously within the
limit* of duty in regard to the antt-reut
movement in ireland
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. DECEMBER ‘33, 1886.
McQUADE’S GUILT.
THE “ BOODLE” ALDER MAS i <>\-
VIVTED AT LAST.
Tiir Jury on lli» Meroml Trlnl ltnulrr u
Vnrdlrt Within Fifteen 'limit..
It will be remembered that the first trial ol
Alderman Mcyuado, charged with
ms" largo bribe to pa-s the Broadway
horse-ear charter In New York, resulted in
no verdict, notwithstanding that the Alder-
manieaccomplices te titied to the illegal acts
of bribery in order to save themselves. Be-
iause no corroborative evidence was
offered at the first trial,
Jedge's charge wat favorable to the
prisoner, and the jury was discharged utter
being out a long thno and being unable to
come to a decision, nine standing for
till and three for conviction. At this-second
trial the testimony of the two accomplices,
with corroborative evidence, was offered,
and the result was reversed. We give the
closing^ scenes of the trial from the
York papers as follows:
The second trial of ox-Alderman Arthur J.
Mcghiade, on a charge of re eivinga Broad-
in connection with the grant of the
way franchise ended early last evening
111 the conviction of the defendant. 1 be
result was quickly reached when the iase
was on e submitted to the jury. The trial
occupied which were nineteen spent in court obtaining davs, a jury. twelve The of J
District Attorney, and a strong charge by
Re order South. j
before The case 7 was and submitted the jurors to the retired jury shortly to the j
p. st., 1
Grand Jury room.adjoiuiug the court room,
under tbe < hargo of the court officers. Ju
less than fifteen minutes-the jurors informed I
Jime finer Curry, who' was prepared I
meilintely cominum rated to Recorder Smyth. ! j
who had just sat down, with the counsel and j
attorneys dinner for served tho people, the to District-Attor- a hastily pre-
m
nevs office. Without waiting to finish
their meal the Re-order and his companions
ha-tened to the court-room. Mctjuade, his
brother and his lawyers were already there They
occupying their ac ustomed seati
were evidently prepared for the worst.
believing that if a verdict had been
reached so quickly it mud be agaiust them,
since they pinned their only hope upon a
disagreement jrKStetyasftKsa: among the twelve.
of the Recorder’s charge had heeu spoken.
there were less than fifty persons in the room,
few haying expected that an
would be come to so soon. Ihe faces
of the jurors wore an expression which
ill concealed the conclusion they had reacbe 1.
All appeared to feel keenly positions the responsible and
tics attached to their one or
LCtopBy ttt Pr ^ nel '' V Pr ^‘ 0i '
“Haseyou agreed upon a verdict;” asked
Assistant Clerk Moser when the jury were
seated and the crier had caUed the assembly
t °'°\Ve r iiave," responded Foreman Henry !
Ottenberg deliberately. verdict?” asked the clerk. , 1
“tV hat is your
“We find that the prisoner is guilty of the
charges lOUtained ill the fnstcount ot the
indictment,” was Mr. Ottenberg s firm and |
distinct reply. word guilty MeQuade, who to
At the up
this moment bad retained the perfect com- 1
ia iront of him and drew hiniseit out ot •
his chair until he almost stood erect
and then sank hack again. The color rose j
quickly recovered his self-possession, how
ever, mid when he turned around to speak
t> ms brother he appeared as little
disconcerted as the most disinterested spec-
tutor. (J noral Tracy, Mr. New.ombe and
ex-Senator Grady, the they prisoner’s lawyers,
sat as stolidly as though were not, con-
After thanking and complimenting them the jury
tbe Recorder discharged Tombs tube and sentenced Mctjuade I
was taken back to the
{ssssf.s“■ on the following Friday. The maximum j 1
F 1
OLEOMARGARINE. |
stnlialli'* ami Fl«ur*» Showing the Oper*.
■ ion ofllie New Tax l.aw.
The Secretary of the Treasury has trans-
mitt -rl to the Senate a report, prepared by
Mr. Miller, Commissioner of Internal Reve¬
nue. in answer to Senator Ingalls’s resolution
calling for information about tbe operation
of the Oleomargariu • law.
By this report it appears that since Novem¬
ber t, the date at which the law went iuto oper¬
ation, spreial taxes provided for therein hive
been a-sensed on thirty-four manufacturers
of oleomargarine, ou kOt whole ale dealers,
and on 2,415 retail dealers. The number of
pounds of oleomargarine assessed at two
cents per pound was 4,4:>J.l 74. The pi iocipal
collections were in the First Illinois district,
where 2,(ilJ,70'J pounds were taxed, The
other districts where the colie tions wore
aliove tho average were as follows: Colo¬
rado, 101.951 pounds: Kansas;‘378,551 pounds; First
Third New York, Massachusetts, 191,979 pounds; 155,894 pounds; Second New
York, 1355,454 pounds; Rhode Island, 284,-
JLli pounds. establishments, ton
(»f the manufa taring
are in the First Illinois district, five m Kan-
sas, three in Second New York, three in
Thirteenth Ohio, and fivo in Rhode Island.
None of the other districts contains more
than two factories. The wholesale dealers
First Michigan, Rhode Island and Louisiana.
There are not more than four wholesale deal-
ers in any one of the other districts
Third Massachusetts is next with 294; the
Twenty-second Pennsylvania, 181; Rhode
Island' 177; First Pennsylvania, 157; Fifth
ibM York,
First Ohio, 75: Kansas, 72; First New In
65; Eighteenth Ohio, 57; Colorado, 49.
the remaining district* the number of retail
Healers range from one to thirty-one.
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA,
National At<1 Invoked to Stamp Out
the Cattle Scourge.
The Committee of the Consolidated Cattle
Growers’ Association of the United States,
appointed to prepare and present to Congress
a bill for the extirpation of conta-
g i OUS pleuro-pneumonia and like dis-
eases among cattle, have been in Con-
ference at Washington, with Members of
Congress haveperfectod and government leading offi<iats. They
^“'tTf' a bUl, the features of
a ami
executive ability, whose functions pay
are to be suspended by the President when-
ever the public safety will permit and re-
stored whenever he deems necessary; the
conferral on the Commission of ample powers
to discover, quarantine, appraiso, slaughter,
and pay for diseased and exposed cattle and
to establish rules and regulations therefor, to
havethe force of law when approved by the
j-resident; the linpositionof penalties for ob-
struction of officers or concealment of dis-
«**<», an! the power to em —-r loy the best
veterinary skill to be foun . with other
needed assistants, andtomake necessary appro^ri*- ex-
pendituras. The bill eah. for tb*
vtou of |l,QQO,OOJ,
DESTROYED BY FIRE,
AN AWFUL DISASTER TO A MIS¬
SIS >' VVl STEAM no AT,
The Fluent float on the Hirer Hurnctf, With
Thirty or Fort? of Her PnocnfifM.
The steamboat .T. M. White, from
Vicksburg for New Orleans, was burned
at y| ue y to „ e , Point Coupe, three Di¬
f our miles above Baton Rouge. She had
a number of passengers onboard, Her
cargo consisted of 2,100 bales of cotton
and 0,000 sacks of seed. Several lives
were reported to have been lost, butCapt.
James T. Muse, who was in command,
telegraphs that only one person, the por- Thu
ter of the boat, is known to be lost.
boat and her cargo are a total loss,
The J. M. White was built in 1878 ut a
cost of 4225,000. She was regarded by
many as the finest nnd fastest ever run
on the Mississippi river. She was owned
by Oapl. John IV. Iobin. Her cargo
was valued at $90,000. I he insurance
on the boat is $20,000, - and her eargo is
undoubtedly fully Mstited.
W hen the Y\ hite took fire she was U-
. mg at Point Coupe taking on cotton.
8h<- had on board 3,500 bales of cotton
iU td 8,000 sacks of seed. This makes a
cargo valued at $150,000. Thomas Barry,
second . of the White,
engineer was on
duty when the fire broke out in the cotton
im jdsliip. He savs that for a time he
.« ”'i"
it finally gained such headway they could
do nothing with it. Barry states that the
t j re spread 1 so rapid'ly * _ that the boat in a
, minutes, • . was wranned ^iap]>ea in in flames names
lie thinks there were ton or a dozen
lives lost, iueliiding a colored fireman
an( j t „- 0 colored chambermaids, one of
*mmm* »"»* Wa.hlj.ston Tlio
second cook, coloted, was also lost. He
also reports the loss of Captain Bird
Floyd, : superintendent £ of the Vidaliarail
wit his wife and daughter, o > who
were passengers, lie knows nothing as
to the number of passengers that were
aboard, but thinks there were not very
many. Ile believes there were some wo
men and children on deck.
Evidence is accumulating lost that there
were many more lives than the story
of the engineer given above would indi
<««, »«»>< «* «.
Iroin the steamers
" list
The following is a as far as ascer-
tained of white persons daughter, missing: 5 L. H.
Stafford, , wife ... and . of \ id all a;
G. Wash Floyd, a well known steamboat
man; Mrs. Murray, from Natchez; Miss
A , s yp-Cabe, of West Feliciana, name^ anti
two other lady passengers, un-
known. Three men undone woman were
w alking on the hurricane roof when the
roof fel| in and a u doubtless disappeared in the
fa™*- They were burned to
dentil. Two white men, names unknown,
i a charge of a premium drowned. ox, jumped over-
| m ., r( j au <] W cre Mrs. Dr. Wade,
. ... cst f e. elii n 1.111,1. ■ made .. a most mr ,ct miracij m j rann
" .
lous escape, but is almost frantic with
grief at the los.-> of her sister, Miss*M r
She speaks in glowing terms of
r , f ,bi "'?i? « ?•
Y\ <i^h r loyu, 3>nO SrtCiificea T his life in
trying to save the lady passengers. All
officers of the White were saved.
w.le, ol Ottowa, S' »«?„«• Ills, j- r. m
Captain Henry C. Brown, State engin-
eel ; "now a- a. mssemrer passenge on on tne the White v nue,
estimates the loss of life at thirty-six.
He gives the names of the following per-
sons w p 0 were saved, but were all
sjigl'tly injured and were left at Point
Coupe: John .Stahl, pilot; Hortense
Smith, Mrs. Smith, of Racine, Wis., and
a gentleman and his wife, from Chicago,
"»>«■ ”»>■»-. about
thirty cabin passengers and a number of
negro cabin passengers in the “bureau.”
The number of deck passengers is un¬
known.
Mr. Brown savs: “Trash Lloyd, formerly
a clerk on the Willis Hayes, ran through
the cabin calling up the passengers, and
nob}” 1 —t life trying to save othars.
Capo, Sri (i S?. commander of the White,
had been ill all day and was in bed when
the fire broke out. The chief mate was in
charge of the steamer. I had about ten
feet start of the fire, and although I rati
rapidly forward, when f reached the bank
the fire was within twenty-five feet of me.
I had on only my underclothing when 1
reached the bank. 1 did not see a soul in
the cabin as I ran through. The cabin was
in full blaze at the-time, and the flames
were ra pidly eating their way tothehurri-
cane deck.
BLIND, BUT REACHED CANADA
Mr. Storer’s Business Frirnds Sny that He
Has Fled Owing Them £30,0)10.
For lullnv ; / yeiir s William Storer has
been engaged . ,, Ihc . . diy-
in commission
goods business at No. S.'lti Church street,
New York, lie enjoved ' friends the full coufi-
of his business and of the
a.
came near being elected vestryman of the
Lutheran church, of which he was a reg-
ffiar member. His sight had always been
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denty blind. His friends sympathized
with him in his misfortune, but were
i.ffi t0 gee that t |„ i oss of ],j s s i„ht did
*•••« .P revont from . attending to hie
business, and the merchants on Church
gneet thought that Mr. Storer was con-
ducting a successful business enterprise
„ nti , t Pri day morning, when he dia-
peared. llis creditors, employees and
friends have since been comparing notes,
and have come to the conclusion that
Mr. Storer's indebtedness will iinum; t to
$30,000.
THROUGH A TRESTLE.
A passenger train on the Chapel Hiil
branch of the North Carolina railroad
Chapel went through a trestle half a mile from
Hill, last Wednesday night. Six
ot eight people were seriously hurt, m
eluding Conductor Brown, Engineer
“ridge Builder May, aud N. A
Stedman, of Raleigh. Nobody was
killed.
t oi.MSiox . . IN .hx-ivi t Mtc. I » .
.
A collision . occurred on the 1 ,
and Western railroad, near Cripp'
| ( ....m lam tiou Ttu-dav morning, where
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By , two engines . weti wrecke . i a . .... ,. x
ploded. No lives were lost, but one en
.-irieer ' j named 8. J. Roberts, wv
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000
A Rsng ofvUftst.
O waary JUan4»! that, aU tljp day,
Were set td;lla.bor bardanU^ipg:
Now softly fall (be shadows gray,
The bells are rung for even song.
Au hour ago the golden sun
Bank slowly down quo tho west;
Poor, weary Ruuds. yBut- toil is done,
T’ia time for rest: —’tis time for rostl
O weary Feetl that many a mile
Have trudged along n weary way.
At last ye reach the trystiug stile;
No longer four to go astray.
The gently bending, rustling trees
Rock tho young birds within tho nest,
And softly sings tbe quiet breeze:
“ 'Tin time for rest!—'tis time for rest!”
O weary Eyesl from which the tears
Fell many a time like thunder rain;
O weary Heart! that through the years
Beat with such bitter, restless pain,
To-night forget tho stormy strife,
And know wliat heaven shall send is best,;
Lay down the tangled web of life,
’Tis time for rest!—’tis time for rest!
—Flo retire Tytee.
The Widow's Pumpkins.
It was a brilliant October morning,
the grass all sparkling with honr frost,
the trees waving their rod-jeweled arms
to the sunshine, and Eliakim Ellis was
driving serenely down llay Hill.
“I aiu’t a poet,” thought he, “but if
I was, 1 could write a lot of rhymes
about like this. Why, it’s poetry all
the way through. And—eh?—how?-
wliat? Who’s that?”
It was the Widow Hepsy Hall, stand¬
ing at the door of her little one-storied
house, and beckoning with her long,
lean arms toward him. The farmer
drew his rein.
“Hold on Sorrel!” he apostrophized
his steed, “You ain’t never in a hurry,
when I want you to be, so I calcerlutc
you can stand still a bit now. Wal, Mis’
Hall, what can 1 dew for ye th.s morn¬
ing?”
I’ve got some pumpkins that I want to
sell,” likely said ones.” the l^low Hepsy. “Drellul
“Pumpkins?” echoed Eliakim. “Why,
bless you soul, Mis’ Hall, pumpkins is a
dreg in the market, just now. The
pumpkin crop has turned out powerful
good, thunk Providence, and our folks
is feedin’ ’em to the caows."
A shadow of dire disapi»ointuieDt crept
over the old woman’s face, as she stood
there, unconsciously picturesque, against
the ourly hop-tendrils and crimson wood¬
bine leaves that garlanded the doorway.
The tears came into her dim eyes.
i i Then 1 may as well give it up,” said
she, in accents of dispatr. “For 1 haiu’t
nothin’ else to sell; and Belindy had set
such store on my cornin’ down this
autumn afore cold weather set in.”
. • Eli?” said Mr. Ellis; good-uaturedly.
“You was a-goin’ down down to Beliu-
dy’s, eli?”
“I can’t without no money,” said the
Widow Hepsy Hall. “And I was sort
o’ calculatin’ on them pumpkins. Th u
corn hain’t amounted to nothin’, and
tho weasels has tuk all the poultry, and
the dried berries mildewed that last dog
days weather, and the carpet-weaven’
business is awful dull; so what be I to
do?”
“Can’t ye put off your visit?” said
Eliakim, thoughtfully flicking the top
off a cluster of saucy ox-cved daisies,
that grew close to his wagon wheels.
“Belindy’s little boy’s got the croup,”
said Mrs. Hali, lugubriously. “And her
husband has fell off a scaffold and broke
his leg. And if ever I'm wanted there,
it’s now.”
“1 swan !” ejaculated honest Eliakim,
as he realized what the double meaning
of poverty and misfortune was. “Fetch
me them pumpkins; I’ll buy ’em any¬
how.”
“I’ll let you have the lot for a dollar,”
said the Widow Hepsy, wistfully.
“They’re jest out in the corner lot.”
“Ain’t eh?”
“Bless me! who’ve Igot together’em?”
reproachfully retorted Mrs. Hall—“and
not a soul about the place, and me with
that crick in my back.” 1
Eliakim Ellis’ heart smote him. Who
was he, to complain of a little extra
trouble, when the Widow Hepsy was so
much worse off than himself?
So lie alighted, and led Sorrel labor- I
iously down the stony cart track toward
the corn field, where, amid the harvested
shocks, gleam <1 the ruddy gold of pump¬ I
kins innumerable.
* ;
“Pumpkins!” screamed Mrs. EJlis, j
when her husband drove into the door-
yard at noon. “Pumpkins! Why, Elia-
kim Ellis, what on earth are you bring-
ing pumpkins her* for? Ain’t we got the
barn-chambers full, aud the lots full, aud
the very cattle won’t eat ’em? Be you
clean gone crazy?”
Mrs Ellis was a high-cheek-boned
female, with projecting front teeth, and
hard, greenish eyes, like badly-colored
marbles. She was one of those who
wots hip gain as the fire- worshippers fur
down before the sun. “Money is
money!” was her favorite axiom. And
Eliakim felt his heart sink within him
as he faced her stern, uncompromising
ease. be began.
“They’re jest a few—”
“A few!” shrilly echoed his wife.
“The waggin is heaped full! And we
a-throwin’ of ’em uwuy every day !
That’s jest a* man’s calculatin’ 1”
“Jest a few ” said Eliakim hiti hinsr
desperately on the first section of his
ipeach, “that I’ve Drang down her* to
srl for Mrs. Hall. There ain’t much
market up that-a-way, you know,
Loisy.
“And," lie added to himself, “good¬
ness knows how glad I’d be to sell ’em
if I had the chance! I ain’t lyin’, uo-
how!"
Miss Ellis gave a prodigious sniff.
“Don’t you fetch that there truck
inside of tho door-yard, ’Liakim!” said
she. “Jest dump ’em on the roadside
and let the neighbors’ hogs cat ’em up
as quick as they can!’’
But Mr. Ellis took advantage of a tin-
peddlcr coming along on the other side
of the street, and engaging his help¬
meet’s attention, to smuggle iu the load
of pumpkins,
“1 won't watte ’em anyway,” said lie.
“If anybody’s hogs is to eat ’em, it may
as well be mine.”
That afternoon, when lie came in to
supper, a thing happened which had
ucver before befallen him in all his mar¬
ried life.
He found the tea-kettle cold, the Gra¬
ham gems unbaked, the table unspread
and his wife crying piteously.
“Eh!” said Eliakim, blankly. “What
in-a 11-crcation’s— the matter now? You
ain’t sick, be you, Loisy?”
“Yes, I be!” sobbed Mrs. Ellis.
“Heartsick, Liakim. Oh, what liev I
done? I’ve sold them old gray pants
o’yourn to the tin peddler, and never re.
membored how I’d put that there hundred
dollar coupon bond you gave me to keep,
in the pocket, because I calculated no
burglars would take a pair o’rngged old
panst. Oh, dear! oh, dear!”
For one minute Eliakim Ellis stood
silent. A hundred dollars was a
hundred dollars to this hard-working
man, who could only save and scrape by
littles.
But he looked at Louisa’s pale, woe¬
begone face, and his great, tender henrt
rose up within him like the billows of
the sea.
“Don’t fret, Loisy, my gal,’’he said,
cheerfully. “It was only au uccideut.
'Taiu’t wuth frettiu’ about.” Aud he
bent down and kissed her forehead—a rare
occurrence in their undemonstrative
household. “We’ll go to work and make
it up as fast as possible, my dear.”
“Oh,’Liakim!” sobbed the good wife,
“I don't deserve you should be so good
to me. I’m a cross, see din’ ereetur,
nnd—”
“Tut. tut, tut!" goodhumoredly inter-
rupped her husband. “Guess 1 ain’t
goin’ to hev nty wife abused this a-way.”
“And I’m sorry I spoke so short about
them pumpkins,” added Louisa, dole¬
fully.
Mr. Ellis whistled under his breath.
He was almost disposed now, to regret
that he had paid out that dollar for the
Widow Hepsy’s pumpkins.
“However, it’s done,” he said to him¬
self, “and it can’t be undone. Loisy’d
best be left in the dark, 1 guess, about
it.”
He was alertly ktaraie^lie tire, while
Mis. Ellis moved i.-.
very energetic
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Al ‘1 who -Ill'll '1
m M
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in
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i"
He held out the folomi^
rnent. Eliakim looked odd.
“Fetch on Diogenes num
said lie, “1 calc'lute loEfl
man at last!”
“Get out!” said the tfl
don’t want none o’ your -sv,
fun poked at me. But 1 tell you y
dew want. Them there puinpkirj
"'* s c,niri ’ ,n wlu ' u 1 eJtch H
sauce-pan and two dippers for thq
pants with your good lady, I’ll gL
five rents apiece for ’em.” ]
“Done!” cried Farmer Ellis, joyfully”
“There’s to be a big dinner up to
Stapleses Hill,” went ou the tin-peddler.
“And they re goin to bake two hum tc
pumpkins-pies, and ii!l the pork and
beans that's to be had. And there’s
goin' to be a corner in pumpkins. I’ve
got my wagen out here, so 1 gm-ss we’ll
load upright uwuy.”
And Bins the liundred-dollur coupon
bond was returned, all safe and sound,
by the tin-peddlcr, who, was as honest
as he was shrewd, and the Widow
Hepsy Hall’s pumpkins were aatisfacto-
rily marketed. So much so, indeed,that
Eliakim even purchased out of the
profits « snuff-colored merino gown,
which he left at the widow’s door the
very next lime he drove past.
“It’s a oity she can’t share more o’
the good luck, said he,
Mrs. Hall found the gown, neatly
wrapped iu paper, at he door when she
came home from cranberry ing in the
i swamp, and she never knew where it
1 came from. But she made it up, and
wore |P it to her daughter Belinda’s in the
J j city. But houe-t Eliakim has not yet to!d
j Louisa, his pumpkins, wife, that and he paid bought dollar Widow for
Hepsy’* a
them in good hard cash.
“It ain’t best to tell women every-
, thing!'’ ratid hc r U.Un
VOL. LJ. NO. 13.
Delay.
Always to-morrow and never to-day.
8<> tho winter wears t ill the bloom of May—
Yet vGmt i-i a month more or loss f' you aay.
But, ns May goes over th • purpling hlU,
You lead before and J follow still
From end to end of the mouths, until
Mv passion wars,with the autumn weather
To tbe vary end of its tender tetter;
For, uever apart, yet never together,
We walk as wo walked In the bloom of May;
Rut at last your "to-morrow” ia my
“to-day,”
W lieu wlmt is a month more or less?" I say.
Novak Pen-y in Independent.
i-lMOBOl’S.
A last farewell—A shoemaker giving
up his business.
Yoked garments are much worn—By
oxen. They are gored.
A trade union —X marriage between
business rivals to promote trade.
Schoolmartn to little Josio: “Where
is the North pole?” “At the top of th«
map, inarm.”
The tailors and dressmakers are th*
individuals who dwell most on the eter¬
nal fitness of things.
“Nerve food” is advertised. This U
the kind of food the man cat* who wants
to occupy two seats in a crowded rail¬
road car.
A little girl calling with her mother
at it new house where the walls were
not yet papered, exclaimed: “What
a bald-headed house, mammal”
Some western papers look with horrot
on the use of the word “woman" in re¬
spectable society. One of them recently
chronicled the finding of a “lad’y*
skeleton.”
“Here, you,’’howled a customer at
a restaurant to the waiter; “can’t you
see that I don’t wear laceshora?” “Yes,
sir.” “Well, then, what do you mean
by bringing me this shoestring in my
soup? Take this back just as quick a*
you can and bring tne a plute of soup
with a button hook in it.”
Rubber Milk.
Tiie method of treatment for congeal¬
ing rubber milk in tbe Para district is a*
follows:
Small cups are attached to the trees,
and, when filled with juice, are emptied
into tin pails of a certain size, having
closed lids, the cups being again at¬
tached to tiie trees. After going th*
round of the trees, the contents of thi*
pail are emptied into another usize larger
and so on, tilbthe covered pail of largest
size is filled and ready to be strapped on
to the saddle of a mule for removal. By
this plan the natives are saved the trou¬
ble of condensing and preparing th*
milk for market, by smoking. The large
can of rubber milk, on arriving at th*
magasin is elliptic 1 jpto a bath of water,
tiie ti'iiipraaUj^ '.^HBtalfliMhLjmitcd
to the inh^^M
ence.
iu till
WIT
alD
and c of it a w ad t'i»>
_ th-'Towl aud I
I wanted for my supper
disliked to t.liink the alligator had
beaten me. Poising my rifle 1 hesitated
an instant between the demands of pride
and appetite, aud, decidmg to kill the
>tor, banged away. The turkey flew
off with a screech and the ’gator never
budged. By this time I was ‘madder
than a button’and paddled up to‘stir
up’ bis laziness, when a reckless poke
revealed that 1 had been shooting a
dead carcass. Ihe shot of the day be¬
fore had got in its work and the alli¬
gator had crawled out (as is their habit)
to die in tiie sun. Then 1 wished 1 had
shot at the Detroit Free Prett.
quicker Than Wall Street.
“No, 1 wasn’t cleaned out in Wall
street,” he replied as ho choked back a
heavy sigh. “Wall street was too slow
lor me ' I got my $7000 on a Monday;
on Tuesday l invested iu a short-horn
bull; on Wednesday morning I got up
(iu <j found that he had been kicked to
by a *40 horse.”
“Did you have anything left?”
“Onto about $13, and I paid that to a
fellow to kill tho old horse and haul both
bodies to the wood*.” - Wall Ntrw «