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Hie Stolen Heiress ,
n TALE OF NEW YORK IN 1835.
BY PROF. WM. HENRY PECK,
AUTHOR 0»
• PI qntm S Srrrrt, The Tower ,, ofOolj, , .
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• I I,r III’/Hrrf'1, Harolds Uate,
• il,tBride o/Tarctlona, Ltc.
CHAPTER XXIV.— Continued.
„ tha - be mutterea
nrnT0
It*lamented dark-faced master:“time foreigners will prove. who were And
if the two yesterday afternoon,
in (he counting-room inquest to-day, have not
a,! here at the
something to do with the deed, may I
hi shot in the back with shot only fi; to
till fuels! Time will prove the truth!”
D .ring the progress of the inquest Bal-
tsita and Unziiio had secretly exchanged
_ lnT glances-sometimes of satisfaction,
son’etimes Ms of belief alarm. earnestly, While Jansen and try- was
t „,lifting so
inn to prove its truth so trembled resolutely, the
of tho two villains more
(tea thev had done for m any a day.
■j be oiit'nw, always on his guard to keep
Palbnta unsuspicious of the least secret in¬
timacy b twee i himself and his sod, rarely
allowed his eyes to meet those of Bazitio,
even covertly. the dame had continued . to
Meanwhile apparently staring at
tedect and plot, hut really with sharp
vncar.cv the while, a
uni covert sidelong glance at Vernoeni
;, 01 n time to time, as her intended plot
rapidly tool; place in her mind.
At! a -1 the dame's attention was attracted
by tho sound of approaching which footsteps
jiiovo and down the stairway led in¬
to the counting-room. present the inquest
A!! who hod been at
iwo scon entering the room. The Cor-
■ r,:,.r was in advance, seemingly in great
■ ta-fi’.
■ I V, d, Mr. Addfsst,” cried the dame,
fen.,:: i lly. a: d fixing her eyes upon
I ■ those itin Coroner, “what save vonr ver-
I diet.-'
I "Suicide, “Undoubtedly, Dame Grippard!” suicide.” replied the
f ica.r.
I i CHAPTER XXV.
I THE O'." o. IKS UPON TUB DEAD MAN
For seven! moments after the Coroner
I hnl atm.omcvil tha verdict to her, Dame
I I Crifjiard remained moodily 6ilent. No
one uttered a word aloud. Edward whis-
I I pend mi order to a man to hasten to so-
car,' the sen ices of an undertaker, and the
■ man Lurried away to obey.
I I suddenly the dame raised her eyes and
snapf ed a! I'ettis:
I I A n any money found on the body?”
''Al eut threr! hundred and forty dol-
I tars, d.ime,” replied Pettis, giving to her
I the [ ocketbool; which hail been found on
I I Bratton's person. “I have obeyed all your
I orders, il.ime, and attached everything in
tho l.otiso nud on tho place.”
[ I body?” “loa did well, Pettis. Where is the
I Jansen, entering the counting-room
I from ah: ye at this moment, heard the
I dames quest,on, and replied to it curtly:
* Air'. Bratton’s body is in his bed-
now
I room, and on his lied. A man is there to
I guard it ttH im undertaker arrives.”
| b.inie Gnppard darted a glance of hate
I at the .Swede, a d turning again to tho
I Coroner, said, dubiously:
I “so you c.r, perfectly sure, Mr. Addfast.
I that ho ci,min ited suicide?”
I j Jly have dear Dame Grippard, I assure you
wo mi reason whatever to doubt
I that. Put now I must hasten to hold an-
I I Malty, oilier inquest people < lsewhere. killing themselves Another suicide.
esiensii'cly to-day, are But, quite
wijjpard. Good-day good-day, Damo
Love all. The bereaved
my d, iqros sympathy.”
J he t on nor, and many others who had
followed him from the cupola, then
hastened to depart from Old Anchors, and
Beveral did not fail to spread the report
j that Damo Grippard’s cruelty toward the
GMortanute shipchandler had caused him
to kid himself, aud that he was by no
therms the first of her debtors who had
commuted tin same deod to escape from
her merciless cluteho •.
t Sympathy," muttered the dame, as tho
omm'i s last words lingered in her mind.
evJrX' mi'rn 'ii„i'r 1 I,1Cl a X \. h K .f ° od °S° (1< lb8t ? es needa Rym , pathy
ttood hrf t ,‘ Xi i 1 lfly -‘ ;' 0 th ous " nd Jol
“
a But . I r want to see
Ihe bodv-t n ° 1 W1 ‘I see lt-now! Cap-
lainBa tfltn»» I
reinmuZV “At Nr., « „ np . T >ilvd s service, . always, ,
“U bo 7 m ”-
I n T 1 not believe ho is . dead , ,
ont-tr ’
i aVC Boen his body witb my ow “
tTes "
"Oh l Sane,™ I ! 1 T assure you he , is . dead. , ,
Wi l can he 1
_A°rimUir, ''Vei n Captain. You will give me
«» ftu< ^ acu ompany me to his bed-
.
is he a .^ enora ““.l >” replied !*® dome. the Captain,
She i 118 0 1
m. 11 /! as if iu . k‘' eut nccd of its
Atinglv' I’lpio t In, “ t0 Vemeena ,. and said, in-
*
sryvjcafaasjsr’JK if? ?*? stars
• both follow the sea and its charms,
lid j S tlJ you <b at dear Yerneena
M r tt \ "'lysworthy my betrothed lovers
-;hn ', <bat , is are did
» i 801 ncthirig which I not
JoweiX m, t" 8 Sll )eet; before last night.
*l with
retold ! ? ilea ' hM^ “ uo h dcUghted „'l,T
!, shter ,^ , oho: ”^ an naval
'.ieiite, »heand the young
' 1 rnav m uT.y just ns soon iis they
uv liT tl1 K ra< i ^ rrow * Ver if lll °. v w the '«h, marriage but in
| tionM | u e8, “ecna,
v here v ’’ uc<l in our little cottage,
tom ■r 011118 ''? grown up so d ar to me
Ii:it v(m, Blhood. 1 have great hope
aore ii A 1 " .’?' 1 ' 1 wil1 ,earn 10 esteem me
•he nieiiX, ,?| C8 ed 1 “? the W -”, ftbove so fast , (ha ! ,
^:<' (‘autiin i •. 0 /i^ C \ t0 UUer “ ZVl
111 rememh,r„ llb ^1 that she
n °re strpiif n « r i 0t was evmc.ng
,ii e " Ali of lung than a weak person
0 „l. 1 I’ausod to catch breath. Then
k" l '“ ,n . l,< ’"'ed to the lovers with
iivp “sX; :; 1 1 ''!. sa,d ’\ mas-
Ullion H wk8Worthy , U iudeed . tob0ft ,
r n™?! e0n n tu,! ,cd in having won
Be iful lovn ‘‘ ! ‘ ud U of ! 80 ' wonderfully beau-
lair a ' y “sSononta . Ro''and. I have a
lo y on ?8 wif ? in s P am to
'Bom J ?°, u , \\ . s fiexoted, and so I - can
lastly v/ino’' ,, r ,, 10 be ove tbllt ex,sts be
ween “
“suonta, • and the noble Lieu-
enaut' y j. beloved wife is now on the
ion on tier way to join in this city.
Cos, :ity I,. W| f® will me soon be in this
■■
‘kaifie-ui' J, d ’“ sbedur,cd “ covert and
i;d“ V ™ Ia , n f 'cineet , e Bame received Grippard. the Gap-
.'.i:,., i ft
.a, 'n, d V ,I8r r politeness courteously
!tJ V i'i retiiV* naj£lu ff no response save to
to Bazilio^ ?M
lying lo'ileccive th esi
q
At this moment Ibo dame, about to de-
mit wilb lh > Captain. turnod her eyes for
be Inst timo so that their gaze was oanght
Jy that of her former husband. He turned
bs away and Lis instantly, but in a careless man-
ier, faco also, so that onlv its no'so-
ess profile iemlined visib!o to the dame.
'Come, Captain,” she said the next in-
ilnnt, and beginning to hobble toward the
i airway,' we will haston above, for after 1
SuSoT* AStf 1 hwemno11
As soon as they were on tho landing of
* RDt bft "' ,lm '
he Csntnin'. P moment heavily on
‘ I.et us ten here a I am so
eeblo, dear (aotain! So Now! f««i
Wronger-a little stronger. What did yon
111 that man, Captain? What did—oh, I
tm so weak! Hut who is that man? ’
1 du d 6°iuaTr beU0M ' UUt ° f wba ‘ “ aa
lo i
• TI, , irg°at Tonr , ,
nun who was stand soeretary's }
lide in the counting-room’”
' Why * 1 Introduced him to yon when we
™ ,c "!, ,Lo r0 <’“ under the cupola,
j 50110r *'
“if yon did I did not observe the intro.
luctiou. Come, his name? ’
“Ilennan Urbandt is bis name, Senora.
lie is the first male of my brig. A very
sxcellent mare- in some respects, Senora ’’
t w t lie first time I ever heard that
-if'vmir n’lotn -mV 1 Wa * nCt tbe na *“*
flic, time—nor'at ,
v.tytlic last m,y overtime”
“Oh, nrv first mate Delgado whom von
inow, Senora, died at sea a few days ireo.
Sonor llazilio engaged this man 1 rbarnlt
is our first mate this morning-"
“Ah not befoio this morning, Captain?
Thon this Urbandt is utterly a stranger to
“By r.o means, Senora. He served
iboard my brig some years ago as seeond
nate. ”
“Indeed? And has he ever been in Hub
lity before now? I have somo curiosity
sonoerning him him, Captain. I think I have
leen before to-day.”
“That is possible, Senora, Urbandt has
icon iu this city many times during his
ife.
Damo Grippard made no response to the
ibovo for several momenta, but moved on
ii silence with the Captain, musing some-
whatas follows:
“Been in New York many times during
bis life, has he? I am sure ho would have
recognized me if ho is Thomas Iierton
Brackly—as for nu instant I feared just
now! He must have often seen me during
the different times he bas been in the city.
f move m public and on the docks very
sen. This man sure y, has seen me
many a time. Jr lie is Brackly be would
Jortainly have recognized me, iiavo aud come
forward and claimed all I in tha
world. No, it is not possible that this man
is Brackly.”
Not ng the dame's air of uneasiness aud
lr.ocrta’nty, tho Captaiu said in thought:
“1 wonder if sbo has recognized Urbandt
is Bevis-the man who some three years
igo hilled the m reliant Barry? Urbandt
told a.e he was called Bevis when ho did
that work. I wonder if she saw him when
he was called Bevis, and has a suspicion
now that ho is that man? Perhaps she has, still
and is scenting tho reward which
stands against Bevis as tho murderer and
robber of Barry. My faith, I must turn
her mind from rnch suspicion, or she may
have Urbuidt, or Bevis, or whatever his
real name may be, arrested before I have
had a chanco tc use him in abducting (ho
girl. He is the very hind of a man we
shall need in each work.”
He sa d to (ho dame, in a careless way:
“By the way, Sonora, Urbandt was a city
watchman iu New York when a merchant
uamed Barry was killed and robbed. I er-
haps yon remember that affair, Senora?
Dame Gnppard reflected a moment, ana
then replied* affair. The
“I do remember that aosns-
sin escaped. But I neve* saw the assassin
nor the man he killed. That was about
three years ago. So this man was a watch-
man then?”
"Yes, Senora, and tried very hard to
capture* the as-R.ssin."
"lias he ever spoken of me to yon, Cap-
“IL «» d.». ,w to JJ,
" r o5 LT»! Ever, 0 -ewLoh.s wealth, wen
yon once, and heard of Urbandt vonr great
often speaks of you. has often
seen you. Ah, Senora, he is (he very kind
of a inan we may need very much in the
little matter we have before us—the matter
rou and I were speaking of yesterday
morning, and this morning also while we
were waiting for Jansen to force the scut-
Jo, you will remember. 1 .have.not* yel
TSLSB; ”w!2riS»«r.Jl;Szi!
io and Urbandt in the business.”
“My suspicion was folly,” mused tho
lame. “I was a fool indeed to fancy for the
frftc , tioD o{ au instant that Brackly noseless was
,! ive> and that he might he this
fellow below. Still there was something
tbo of his eyes that startled me to
tho very conter of my heart for an instant,
f ; ab i Hraekly has been dead and buried
years, and even his ghost has not
Ihown itself to me in ray dreams .luring
Hi th it time. He would have found me
out long ago had he been olive and aware
how much monev he could force from me.
^ nn ,j we re my dear son—my own dear
Marvino—alive now, this great prize of
wealth and beauty should become ray boy’s,
m d not be even talked of to tbis villainous
n ( . r o the m a
xsssr&ss ?."£»« s
,-oted.” ’ of disp’easure in
“Yes, I am aware your
;b .,( Captain. You spoke of it when we
„, er g waiting for the scuttle to be opened,
t care nothing for her lover. You then
id the same. ”
ja . Bt tbe
Senora e >* !" m % 1
’ pole pole, . if his
fearch the e:ut h , from to
jeloved vanishes without his knowledge!
Listen to me. During the inquest father's it became letter—
i wi' pparen t to me from his
lr h lie read aloud to the jurv- that he is
(h 9 son of a very rich man—the only son
D f n man who adores him. He will, there-
fore not lack friends and funds to aid him
in tho search he may—nay, which he will
be sure to make to find his intended wife.
Vh Senorn ' 1 "“T.dwid^ after all, not to
undertake > this affair.
-You n iay decide not to undertake the
t ffair, ' Captain?" sneered tho dame, tight-
#nin j, er dutch on the Captain’s with- arm.
'You have consented. You must not
Jraw. ”
“xiut vou must not demand so great replied a sum the
in advance, Senora Grippard,” “Twenty-five thousand
Captain, scowling. for what
Jollars in advance may prove a
myth is too ] nrg0 a sum for my paying
down. It is nearly all the money I can
and for time, Senora. ’
- ' omraan d now, some about that
“\y e will say no more now,
Ca „ t , UUi ftR we are before Bratton’s bed-
f00ffl door. >Vait here in the hall. I will
r{ ,j 0 in von in a few minutes. I wish only
m satisfy certain doubts which are upon my
m ind, Captain.” doubts be satisfied,
“May all your soon
g enor0t ” responded the Captaiu, as the
%£* ‘‘Now'whata fool°tht
ELLAVILLI, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 23,188S.
,b l beast of a woman is to still doubt that
tfiattou is dead! I will not agr e to pay
Aventy-tive tbousand dollars in advance.”
Itn minutes elapsed before the dime
Janie from the bedroom. The Captain havl
beeomo very impatteot before she ajipeared.
He said, ra'hor shaipl}*:
“ Well? I hope your donbts are all satis-
fled now, Senora. ”
pravely. lXrfectly, “But Captain,” she answered, very
let us go to another room.
We will talk there, ”
TO l, " : mSTIS,;ER|
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Thp ‘? ,,e * Uo " or Charity Fairly Con-
sUleietl.
-
“I war’ axed las’ nioht how din „i«l
stood on the queshun of elmritv ” said
Hroth<,r Gardner asthe meeting opened
m due form and the thermometer mark
^ Declnb ^ l degrees stands in jist Elder whar’ Toots' it lias corner. allns
ltood ’. buffin’ has occurred to change
® r minds.
“When a poo’man meets wid accident
w sit ‘ knt ’ ss di « olnh has sunthin’ to help
him . along,
“When de wife of a poo’ man am left a
helpless widder, dis club am bound to
help her.
“When a man who has lost a limb
appeals to me for bread I shan’t refuse
liouor^°^ ^ #melIs ° f
u '.'! iU 'f- y B IX ' S llilt , fur , an’ no
b,rdor p , have no use fur dc tramp,
-
Every piece of bread handed out to him
1,1 simply a premium on laziness. He
tramps bekase he doan’ want to work.
! l human sponge. Instead of
tonkin , fur work he ar’ lookin’ to
escapo
" 01 ”'
large “libery nickel handed out to a beggar,
rvoid or small, is an ineouragement to
honest work. libery penny in-
courages vice an’ indolence.
“We hev’gone to an expense of tens
of thousands of dollars fur a county
house, but yet we mils' raise tens of
J d to take keor of de ebery people y'ar for ho a poo'
UI) n am
00 high-toned to go out dar, but low-
. loned nuff to walk boldly into dc Poo’
Master s office, lvbcry dollar wc raise
' vice. s a premium So on indolence, poverty and
hundred long as charity will puli two
or three families through six
months of de v'nr, de husbands ar’ not
,r Vv ino to break dar backs lookin’ fur
work, an’ de wives ar’ not gwine to wor¬
l - v ab ont to-morrer.
t<r ,^ / 1 ^ i b ^Bheri ti am not , all n right, . , . its
not our fault. De Lawd made man an
pronounced him perfeok. He made de
heathen jist as we find him to-dav, an’ I
doan’propose to interfere. If dis club
had any heathen fund set aside, I
phould b-3 in favor of usin’ ebery- dollar
of it right heah in enlightened America,
whar de Lan d’s Sabbath day is given up
to lager beer, shootin’ matches, base
ball au’ excursions.
“Dar’ am mo’ downright fraud an’
swindlin’ bein’ practiced frewout de
world to-day in de name of charity dan
under all odder disguises, an’ it ar’ high
time dat people ob sense put deir foot
:lo\vn. Let us now attack de reg’lar or¬
der of bizness.”
What Are Shooting Stars?
What do we know as certain facts
with regard to shooting stars? 1. They
ire vas tly more numerous than auy watched one
ha8 of who has not
them ,, continuously for many nights.
Astronomers who have kept a record for
many years assure us that the average
aumber seen clear by moonless one observer night is at four- one
place on hour, a which is shown by calcu-
teen per
latiou to be equivalent to 20,000,000 They
daily for the whole earth. 2. are
no j. tg^pstrial phenomena moving in the
'zl;TSZ- S 3
jompareble to tlioee ol planet, seldom and
»omets. Their velocities are
under ten miles a second tho or velocity over fifty, of
and average about thirty,
the earth in its orbit round the sun be¬
i n g eighteen. 3. They are of various
jomposition, comprising both which a large
majority fire of smaller particles of the earth’s aro
se t on by the resistance burned and
**>$ itmogpheve and entirely up **
*»•? **«, *-*«
reach its surface, and a tew larger only ones,
kiiow-n as meteors, which are part¬
ly fused or glazed by heat, and reach
die earth in the form of stony masses.
I. They are not uniformly distributed
through space, but collect in meteoric
swarms or streams, two at least of which
•evolve around the sun in closed rings
which are intersected by the earth’s or-
ait, causing the magnificent displays of
shooting stars which are seen in August
ind November. 5. They are connected
with comets, it having been demon- ,
sfrated by Schiaparelli that the orbit ot
.he comet of 1060 is identical with the
August swarm of meteors known as the
Perseids, anil connections between
lonicts and meteor streams have been
f oum ] in at least throe other cases. The
6.
Their composition, as inferred from the
larger meteors which reach the earth, is
identical, or nearly so, with that of mat-
ter brought up from great depths by vol-
canic eruptions. In each case they moin- con-
pist 8 of two classes—one composed nickel,
. . « .
tlie T othei ,. ' of , stony j. matter, matter consisting consist ng
_
mainly of compounds of silicon and
magnesium. Most meteorites consist of
compounds of the two classes, ill which
the stony parts seem to have broken m-
fragments t y violent collision and be-
3om e imbedded in iron which has been
f USO(1 1)y t j ie ] ieat i nto a plaster or pasty
!ondi tion .-Contemporary Review.
One Better.
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I3S» YM w’’'
m r>»
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“O Maud, what do you think! My
C anarv bird hus laid a egg!” tnu:h; laid
“That ain’t nothin’ V-Life. mv pa
two stair carpets yesterday
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
fATRRESTING DOTS A ROUT OUR
UNITED STATES' OFFICIALS.
About n,!* White Ilontt©-Ann J nod
Nnvy ilfnftera -Our He* Jut ions With
thlior Nntions,
congressional.
On motion of Senator Hansom, the
Senate bill appropriating $500,000 for the
srection of a light house at or near Dia-
nonet Slionl, off Cape Hatteras, N. C.,
was taken from the calendar and passed.
The Senate took up private pension bills
on the calendar. When the calendar was
exhausted, there lmd been Mr. 108 Hiehardso^ private
tension of bills passed from ,.. the House
North Carolina, corn-
‘nittcc the «n resolution printing dialing snbrjiUed a report
u P on fin inquiry
88 to whv members of Congress could not
procure books standing to their ered.t on
the books of the doorkeeper. There,
[ )ort allows that of there copies is a of small five shortage publica-
in the number I
tions, and it makes note of the fact that
a shortage of 4,000 volumes in the pub-
lication of the agricultural report for 1879
was made good by Mr. De that frees, the pub- of
lie printer, he procuring book number dealerin
'dmaes Washington. from aprivate the
Ihe House met m
evening for debate upon the Pacific rail-
road telegraph bill. The speakers were
Anderson, Wisconsin; of Lind, Mississippi; Minnesota; Guenther, Ander- of
of
son and Hopkins, of Illinois. All fa-
vored the bill, and held that subsidized
roa ds should be compelled of their to fulfill charters lit-
erally the requirements
and maintain telegraphs; and that their
contracts turning over to Western Union,
control of the telegraph illegal, void service and against along
their lines were
public policy. There railroad was nobody pres¬
ent to champion Uniou. t lie companies
and Western
In the Senate, Mr. Beck introduced a
bill to reimburse states for interest paid
on moneys expended iu raising troops for
Hie War of the Rebellion. Referred.
The Senate then resumed the considera¬
tion of the Blair educational bill, and was
addressed by Mr. Hale in opposition. A
paper contributed by a constitutional
lawyer on constitutional objections to the
bill, was read by Air. Morgan, and after a
brief speech by Mr. Saulsbury against the
bill, the debate was closed by Mr. Blair
in a final argument in advocacy of the
bill. Tin* bill was then passed, yeas, 39;
nays, 29. The bill appropriates be “expended annually
for eight years, sums to to
secure the benefit of a common school
education to all children of the schora'
age, living in the United States.” Then
are to be separate schools for white and
colored children.... In the absence of the
Speaker, Air. Cox, of New York, presided
over the House. AH*. Morrow, of Cali¬
fornia, presented resolutions of the San
Francisco the Pacific chamber delegation of commerce, in Congress urging
coast
to use all possible means to defeat any
tjetion which contemplates and a change in
the present duty on sugar, the estab¬
lishment of a bounty system. Air. Phelan,
of Tennessee, from the committee on
commerce, reported a bill for the con¬
struction of a revenue cutter for use at
Charleston, 8. C. Air. Burnes stated
that the committee on appropriations
offered au amendment completion making of an build¬ ap¬
propriation for the
Alik, ings at the following points: Aberdeen, $138,-
$4,000; Charleston, S. C.,
000; Jackson, Aliss., $1,000; Lynchburg,
Vn., $2,000; Pensacola, Fla., $2,000;
Richmond, Va., $33,000.
A resolution instructing reporting the Senate the
Committee on commerce (in
river and harbor bill) to set out important
facts bearing on each item, and was agreed reported to.
by Mr. Jones, of Nevada,
The resolution for inquiry into the
causes of inefficient mail service was taken
ip. Speeches attacking the post-office Plumb,
department were made by Alessrs.
Platt and Manderson, and Afessrs. Reagan
and Saulsbury championed the depart¬
ment. The resolution went over without
action. The Blair education bill was
then taken up ns unfinished business, and
Mr. Hawley addressed the Senate in op¬
position to it. The bill appropriat¬
ing $10,000 for the Sub-Tropical passed. Expo¬
sition at Jacksonville, Fla., communica¬ was
.... Among the executive
tions presented to the House, w»s one
from the Secretary of War, in response to
the House resolution calling for informa¬
tion relative to the plan and scope of the
comniliationnf official records of the War
and Rebellion. Referred. Mr. Richard¬
son, of North Carolina, from the com¬
mittee ou printing, reported the the printing Senate
conearrent resolution for of
7,000 additional copies of executive doc¬
ument 51, on the subject of dairy pro¬
ducts. The committee on commerce re¬
ported a bill authorizing the removal of
the quarantine Referred station committee from Ship Island, the
Aliss. to of
whole. The committee on labor reported
adversely the bill to provide for the
licensing of railroad conductors. Mr.
Clements, of Georgia, introduced a bill
for a public building at Rome, Ga.
GOSSIP.
Senator Riddleberger’s desk was again
decorated with flowers, this time the
compliment being a handsome national
flag of flowers.
The House Committee on Tetritories
considered the questions of Dakota, relating to tho
admission as states and New Mexico. Montana,
Washington It was
decided to formulate nn omnibus enabling
act for the four territories.
The House committee on agriculture
decided to report favorably the Hatch bill
to create a new executive department to
be known ns the Department of Agricul¬
ture. Portions relating to the labor bu¬
reau omitted in the proposed the request new of department the
were at labor
committee.
After daily sessions for the last two
weeks, the fisheries commissioners com¬
pleted their labors and signed the treaty,
xvliich, it is believed, will result in a sat¬
isfactory settlement of the disputes that
have existed for almost a century between
this government and Great Britain over
the North Atlantic fisheries.
The direct tax lull, which was reported
favorably by the judiciary committee, and
will undoubtedly pass, will refund to the
1 people of Georgia $117,982.80 of taxes
collected on land during the War: Ala-
omni Mississippi, ffeta Moritlu, ip4,7(\0;
$1177,452; |l 11,01)8; North ('nrolina,
South Carolina, $222,876;
J’ennesscc, $iJ92.004. The < ntirc amount
to \»i- n funded is $17,iVill, 1185, of which
Hie South gets $3,093,370,
Mr. Carlton, of Georgia, will introduce
a bill for a public building at Ath¬
ens, Ga., to cost $100,000. lie will also
introduce a bill asking for an appropria¬
tion sufficient to allow the engineer tc
mvvey and make an estimate of the
amount needed to make the Savannah
river navigable above Augusta us far up
as Andcrsonville, S. lie will also ask
the river and harbor committee for an
appropriation work the Oconee sufficient river to complete the
on us fur up ns
Scull shoal.
The interata'e commerce commission
rendered a decision in the case of William
II. Ilcurd vs. the Georgia Railroad com¬
pany. The commissi .a holds that the
petitioner, a colored passenger on de¬
fendant's roads between Atlanta, Ga., and
harleston, S. ( who , had , | paid . , hrst-elass ,
fare was subjected o undue and unreas-
onable prejudiceanddisadvantage; being
compelled to travtl in a car of inferior
accommodations, of which only one-hall
was assigned to colored passengers, th*
other half being used as a smoker for both
white and colored passengers; and that
it is the duty of carrier, under the law,
to furnish to passengers paying the same
fare, equal accommodations and protec¬
tion, without di-crimination oil account
of color. But if the separation of white
and colored passengers is expedient foi
adequate unlawful, reasons, if the sucli a separation is and not
accommodations
comforts for colored passengers are iu all
respects equal to those for white passen¬
gers paying tbc same fare.
SERIOUS FIRES.
Manufactories, Hotels ami Newspaper Of¬
fices Destroyed in Hie North-
The entire building burned. of the Elmira, N.
Y., Advertiser was Nothing was
saved but a few files. The bindery,com¬
posing room and editorial employes all
had narrow escapes. The Sunday Tid-
ings office, next door south of the Adver¬
tiser, was also totally destroyed.
The large four-story furniture store
of J. M. Robinson & Sons, one
of the finest between New Y'ork aud Buf¬
falo, was also burned. Charles Bently,
a member of hook and ladder company,
No. 1, was struck by a falling wall and
fatally injured. Steamers were sent for
from the Reformatory, La France fire en¬
gine manufactory, Corning, Oswego and
Horselieads.... A big fire is raging over
several blocks situated west of the Union
Depot, in Providence, R. I., and involv¬
ing a number of big brick buildings par¬ and
tially occupied by manufacturers the
jewelers, several hotels, including
Aldrich house, and stables and carriage where
houses. The four-story brick block,
the fire started, was the Robinson house,
owned by William H. Robinson’s widow,
and it was filled with carriage stock,sash
and blinds and other inflammable mate¬
rial. The whole block, enclosed by
Fountain, Eddy Union and Washington
streets, was totally cleared out....
The extensive works of the Collis Paper
Manufacturing company, at North Wil-
brnhain, Mass., caught fire in the morning
and was destroyed, The fire w r as
discovered in the fifth story,
where the storage department spread is
located. The flames soon to the
elevator shaft, and then made rapid
progress. The main building was 200
feet, 60 feet wide, five stories high, aud
had a large extension. It was built of
brick, and contained many thousand dol¬
lars worth of machinery, some of which
may be saved. Loss estimated at a
quarter of a million dollars, covered by
insurance.
BOLD OUTRAGE.
Hoy Stolen in < lmimnoo*a, Tenn., nn* 5
A
Carried Oil In the Mountains-
A band of Gypsies camped on Lookout
Mountain, were riding along Boyce
street, in Chattanooga, Tenn., when one
of them threw- a lasso and caught James
Williams, a 11 year old boy, around the
neck. lie was hauled into the wagon,
and, notwithstanding his cries, he was
compelled to surrender. The capture
was made in the residence portion of the
city. The hoy was taken to the moun¬
tain, when he again began crying and
wanted to return home. He was tied
with ropes and brutally beaten, so that
his body is covered lvith s ripes from
head to foot. After Hie terrible beating
had been administered he was taken and
tied to a tree and left there for a few
hours, until the Gypsies could get watched ready
to move on. The little fellow
his chances and managed to untie the
ropes, and while the Gypsies had their
backs turned, made his escape and ran
all the way to the city, The cireum-
stances were reported at police head*juar-
ters and Deputy Sheriff Spencer, armed
with a warrant and summoning a posse
of men, started in pursuit of the Gypsies
who are living on the mountain. The
injured boy is badly hurt and is in a seri¬
ous condition.
ABOUT COTTON.
(Lenny & Violett’s circular of New Or¬
says: “The market opened with£*
better tone in Liverpool and New Yoik,
and our market responded w ith an ad¬
vance in the first half hour of five to six
points, a very steady feeling prevailing. and dur¬
New Y’ork declined somewriiat, advance
ing the balance of the day our
was lost, but the closing is very Liverpool steady,
supported by a firm closing in
and an active demand for spots here, re¬
sulting in larger sales than for seme
weeks past. The general sentiment
seems favorable to cotton now, and a
healthy tone is the result. Th*; market
closed easy. March, 9.90a9.91; April,
10.00al0.01; May, 10.10al0.ll; June,
10.21al0.22; October, 10.00al0.01; No¬
vember. 10.39al0.40.
CORNER IN Bl'GAIt-
Men in the sugar trade in New York
were excited over the report that the
members of the sugar trust had decided
to ship large quantities of the best refined
sturar to London, in order to keep up the
price of refined sugar in this country by
relieving the market here of any surplus
and creating a shortage, or what wo’tld
practically be a “corner” in sugar.
VOL. III. NO. 22.
WORLD AT LARGE.
PEN PICTURES PAINTED BY A
1 OIIPS OF COMPETENT ARTISTS.
Wliat Ii t<Soiiig on North* Ka#t end Wrat
nud Acio*ci the Sona-Tho <'online
Hiiroprnfi Hi or hi.
D. H. Locke, “Petroleum V. Nasby,” I
died at Toledo, Ohio.
The Anti-Poverty society of New York
has tiled application for incorporation. .
The directors of the Sandwich, Muss.,
ae company have voted to close their
works
The bonds which Frank McNcaly
stole from the Saco, Me., savings bunk,
have been recovered by bis brother Har
V y, who went to Europe in search of the
fugitive.
David B. Hilt, treasurer of Philadel¬
phia Lodge Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks, is said to lie about $3,500 short
^ hig accou „ ts . Ml , H i,t is an insurance
orok and has becn treagurer of the lo-
ca , lod ® , of Elks siucc 1881 .
James ( urtice, colored, a palace ear
conductor, has brought suit against the
management of the Windsor Hotel, at
Montreal, Quebec, charging that he was
forcibly ejected from the hotel on account
of bis color.
Fearful snow Switzerland storms prevail the on the is
Continent. In snow
. even metres deep, and numerous ava¬
il itches have occurred, attended by loss
of life. One outlet of St. Gothnrd Rail¬
way tunnel was blocked by snow, aud a
train was detained inside the tunnel for
an hour.
At Shenandoah, Pa., the news of the
intended calling out of the colliery en¬
gineers and firemen, has raised a storm of
indignation even among miners, who de¬
clared that the step would be the most
ruinous that could be taken, as it would,
hv flooding the mines, throw them cer¬
tainly idle for months.
Gen. Lawton, United States Ministe r
at Vienna, has American, accepted from relative Harry of Presi¬ Far-
ber, a rich a
dent Cleveland, who is studying law at
tin* Vienna University, the offer of $1,-
000,000 to the American government,
with which to endow a university at
Chicago on the Vienna model.
The lockout of shoemakers at Cincin¬
nati, Ohio, has resolved into a fight be¬
tween two assemblies, district assembly
No. 48 and national assembly No. 216.
The shoe manufacturers favor No. 48,
because because it lias it lias headquarters ordered there, end as of well the
as an
lockout. No. 216, on the other hand,
tells the men not to go back until the
manufacturers will agree to recognize the
rules adopted in May last.
THE PREACHER SKIPPED,
And Took Willi Him n Wry lllooming
Young Widow.
There is great excitement in Cleveland
county, North Carolina, over the elope¬
ment of J. P. Steirs, an ex-preacher, and
Mrs. J. Beam, both of whom were re¬
cently convicted of crime, the woman
being sentenced to jail for three months
and also fined $200. Pending an appeal
to the supreme court Steirs was released
on bond. The direct cause of the elop-
ment was charges by interested parties,
who suspected something wrong; that
Andrew Benin, husband of the woman,
had been poisoned. Beam has been dead
nearly two years. Ilis body was exhumed
recently, and several witnesses examined
by the coroner. This frightened the
guilty pair, who took the Air-Line train
at Gaston for the North. Another in¬
quest was held over Beam’s body, and
many witnesses were examined. The
stomach and intestines were taken out
The and taken last jury to rendered Raleigh for examination.
a verdict accusing
Mrs. Beam and Steirs of the niHrder of
Beam. Prior to the latter’s death Steirs
and Beam had a store seven miles from
Shelby, and after Beam’s death the busi¬
ness was continued by Steirs and the
widow. Steirs is forty-five years of age,
and leaves a wife and ten children. Mrs.
Beam is a handsome woman, about thirty-
five years of age, but leaves no family.
She was Beam's second wife. The last
seen of the guilty pair was at Gaston,
and there is some belief that they have
gone to Texas.
8TUANGE ACCIDENT.
A n orderly of Rossville hospital, New
York, was instructed to move a patient, second
named Charles AIcClane, from the
floor of the hospital to the third, where
the doctors were about to perform raised an
operation ou McClane. The orderly
the elevator to the seeond floor and went
for the patient. Having placed moved McClane him
on a folding cot, the orderly
to the shaft, re-opened the door, and
without looking to see if the elevator waf
there, rolled the cot forward. During
the orderly’s nbsence to prepare the
patient, the elevator had been rent up a
it*.rv, and McClane was precipitated
through the shaft clear down the cellar,
KAID ON AI.AHAMIAN*.
Deputy Revenue Collector John Miekle
returned to Montgomery from Randolph
and Clay counties, aud reports that the
following large illicit distilleries have
been captured. Bethel Wheeler’s still,
Fern Cliff, Larkin *fc Duncan’s still, the
stills of Isaac Barnes and J. M. & S. A.
Nieholis, Harty Coffee’s still, John Fit-
ncr's still, near Wheelerville, Randolph gal¬
county, six large fermenters and 300
lons of mash. Tom Taylor and Lute
Yates, Wedowee, Randolph Harrel’s county, still, a
large still, and Andrew &
containing 2,000 gallons of la'cr.
SCHOOL IN LUCK,
The Gammon School of Theology,
in Atlanta, Georgia, has received
a magnificent gift from E. H. Gam¬
mon, of Batavia, Ill., for whom tha
institution is named. In 1883 Mr. Gam¬
mon gave the school $20,000. For sonic
time he has contemplated supplementing institution
that gift. He now gives the
$180,000, making $200,000 in all that he
has given. The institution, is no lowrer
connected with Clarke University, Kot is
“standing alone.” It has boo^-ht the
ten acres of ground fronting on the Mc¬
Donough road, and will ipike a beautiful
park there. Two har.usome houses for
professors are to be Erected.
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
non.t o non \ facts asii fan¬
cies INTER EST1NGLY sTA TED.
Atwlilciitff cm I.nutl and nt Sea—
Mc*u' I£at«rprli«i~ ICWigioti^, Koclal and
Tc* in par n nee Matter#,
The Mississippi Legislature hasapnlicd
,be pruning knife to ait appropriations,
*"*}.' rtll,0 c,,t « {nr .°« M‘l*nditnrw “bout 23 per of cent, money. ou all bills
A ! m11 bl « bpe « Introduced in the Flor¬
; dn , ^‘natc to compel railroads to furtmn
ronveiucnt and comfortablo accommoda¬
tions for passengers, white and black, the
same, however, to be separate.
Another railroad accident occurred on
Ihe Port Royal & Augusta railroad.
About 5:!)0 o’clock one morning the
third section of the up through freight
train, No. 74, ran into tho second section
nt Beech Island, 8. C.
As a freight train was approaching
Oougbisvillc, while Ga., John Mabry, a colored
nrukeman, die caboose to box attempting slipped to step and from fell
a car,
between them. The deceased was ulxiut
23 years old and lived in Carrollton, io
which place his remains were sent.
Fayette Malone, a railroad contractor
at Norris station, Ala., was shot and se¬
riously wounded. The shooting Mcthoflst was
done by Rev. John Sugarth, a
preacher. M lone was very drunk and
after abusing Sugar.h drew his pistol,
hut the latter who was armed fired two
shots,
Louis Edmunds, colored, was accident¬
clerk ally shot and killed by Paul Roberts, a
in the store of W. A. Kelly A
Bros, at Monticcllo, Ga. Edmunds had
borrowed a pistol from Roberts,and went
in the store to return it, ead in putting
it in a drawer it fired, hitting him in the
abdomen.
The Cisco bank, of Texas, wsa .robbed
by four men, who entered on r’.if, pre¬
tense of wanting abill changed, “1 eld up”
tlii> cashier and two customers, who were
in the bank, cleaned out the safes of
about $6,000 and some valuables on t. tor-
age, mounted their horses and escaped,
tiring a salute with their revolvers as they
rode out of town.
Edward Best, of Philadelphia, James
Parker, of Indiana, mid William Andrews,
of Richmond, were arrested at Norfolk,
Va., for robbing the post-office at Salis¬
bury, Md. Best had on his person about
$200 in money, a tin funnel for using
powder to blow open a safe, and a bull¬
dog pistol. thread Andrews had $100 and a
spool of for in use ns a signal $500 cord. in
Parker had $150 money and
stamp*;, and a bu 1-dog pistol. The ex¬
tent of the robbery was about $1,500.
An attempt was made to wreck a freight
train on the Alemphis *fc Charleston Rail¬
road at Paint Rock, sixty miles west of
Chattanooga, Tenn. A freight ear stand¬
ing on the siding was run down tho
switch so that it projected about two feet
over the main track. A west bound
freight train running at the rate of
twenty-five miles an hour, struck the car.
turning the engine over on its side amt
wrecking the whole badly train. hurt. The engineer
and fireman were
Brack Cornett, better know as Captain
Dick, the desperado and leader of the
notorious train robbers, was shot and in¬
stantly killed while resisting arrest, by
Deputy Sheriff Alice, of Frio county,
Texas. Cornett’s gang were the original
Texas train robbers, having had no con¬
nection with the Burrow-s aud Block band
recently broken up, and they were as
successful in their cureer as the renowned
Frank and Jes-ie James gang which ex¬
cited such terror in Missouri some years
ago.
J. II. White’s dental office at Elizalxith
City N. C., w as robbed, kerosene thrown
on the 4»or and a stove overturned. The
building was only partially burned. De¬
tectives were put at work. A kerosene
bottle was found, and also foot-prints
which W'ere clearly those of a lame man.
Supicion has centered on Dr. L. B. Dob¬
son, a dentist, whose office is not far
from that of White’s. Dobson has been
arrested and part of the stolen property
found in his office concealed in an old
trunk.
IlKHREW CONVENTION.
The twentieth convention of District.
Grand Lodge No. 5, Independent Order
B nai Britli, was held Alorris, at Baltimore, of Tarboro, Md.,
with President Henry There sixty-
N C., in the chair. wore
nine delegates present, representing Virginia, Georgia lodges
in District of Columbia,
and North and South Carolina. The
chief business wns the leport of board of
control of the orphan asylum fund, which
reported that the building of the asylum
had been begun at Atlanta, Gn., aud it
would probably be completed before the
slose of tho year.
BAI-INO OF COTTON.
The national board of fire and marine
underwriters at New York have investi¬
gated the recent cotton fires, and have
decided that the fauR must be laid to the
planters. The underwriters contend that
the sewing of bales is so faulty that large
spaces are left, which expose the cotton
to danger from fires. adhered Rules and regula¬ in the
tions which must be to
baling of cotton, if planters and shippers
wanted insurance, will be issued.
the COLONEL’S GENEROSITY.
An Atlanta, Ga., committee of ladies
having charge of the erection of a tem¬
perance tabernacle called on Col. L. F.
Grant, whose liberal public received spirit has so
often shown itself. lie the com¬
mittee quite cordially, and agreed taber¬ to
donate a site for the temperance
nacle. The committee will now turn its
attention to formulating designs for a
tabernacle that will seat at least 10,000
people. The edifice m ill be used for
holding large temperance, educational
and other mass meeti ng s,
WHAT HR SAYS.
Frank M. Irion, who lately levanted
from Birmingham, Ala., has written
from Havana, Cuba, saying he would sail
for America on the next steamer, anti
would be in Birmingham claims in a short him. time His
to settle all against
shortage amounts to about $30,000.
They are never alone that are accom¬
panied by noble thoughts.