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marith aud sing I
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in the morning
Tint -"SSTJXWT rd ’milt a thousand words ,
, u their
r 1 -1 ilai’v miss way; heart
' „ni- tf-ii-lrr
i waited long day
r , , ijiti,. void that perhaps I somo
Wo-ild h.i’.o ripened into song
iv a child with nut brown hair,
1 ,,f summer lilao;
1 , •,. asleep—
, , .■)■ .1.1 nail felt
A. i s sere only »wo; out
Ir.Hi-v light put
T I: l T ' ‘i h^own-uah-.-d "by-sad-by baby (led
fcto'.bs
V nru-ave, cnly ono!
,, , ,„(,thor-broast grow cold
r.n tnv hirdiing blown away
wiud Sam “O , l , bold ,, ;
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, ,j,|pa;- Sow. r, its petals crushed
i -dci* your foots top, sphel
: j'.'W fh -it was life s fair hour,
jl .Vbriofwss all its pride I
lonif [ a iittto power word, y«t liiiKlit who know;
In-.A., it”, u prior gk rifled
u mirlit have
f‘lu Lv, o I life's ul'. net vours after-glow or iniliol I
Poi i.iinweth what is best I
v fit ,o touch of a vanished hand
A,ju on ilia mother's breast!
El
— OR,-
fhe Stolen Heiress.
h TALE OF NEW YORK IN 1835,
EYPR0F. WM. HENRY PECK,
AUTHOR (7F
‘Thr Qvtcn's Secret, • - The Tower of Gold,*
‘the Umf-Itncri,” “Jlnrohrs Hale,"
* The Lvie'ie of Uurcclona ,” Etc.
CHAPTER XXVL
CONSTERNATION OK THE CAPTAIN.
M'lioi I),i;ae Grippartt again placed hor
bn-! U|iou tho Captain’s offered arm, and
bs .hoy moved slowly from the door of the
iie»ii man's bedroom, her harsh features
tore Yen-dark with suppressed rage and
kvaoMitPtled gloom. Her eyes gleamed
im or lh- ir heavy black brows like coals ol
[(:c. Her wide, deep, and thin nostrils rose
jiuil Kii'.io foil quivered is she breathed with restrained hard and fast. desire Ifei tc
(fill M'M (he air 6iie with had screeches while of vindictive in the fnry
seen deao
■ - :o--m had given her much matter foi
lliltcrost and swiftest thought. She plotted
■forg:on and revenge as she moved slowly
■on with weil-feiened decrepitude.
I 11 bon nrarly at a stairway-landing on the
Is’.mt “°or she halted and whispered to the
ItIf I bin:
'Let ns t ike seats iu this room. YYo will
llo.r.v the iloor'wido open, so as to command
laTOiv o; the landing. No one will be able
Itoponp or down without being seen by us
f W;1 converse. Those in tho counting
Boom will not grovy impatient for our re-
F«ni. Y on have intimated a desire to with-
fit» from tfie compact which we have al-
pady nearly agm d to sign. (Line, we will
[tahabout I They wero that soon m itier seated in this in the room.” indi-
Ktof?' room
°'° ie to each olhor ’ and nimost
first objection to the com-
iract, Captain,” said the dame, iu the un-
,1° m wliieb most of the following con-
I'ersn.iion I Since I ▼as maintained.
have discovered that Senorilt
PjolamK g i.aiea his .over face is and so rich, and keenly, since Senora I huv,
0 too manner
come to view tho business as mort
pmgerons ppondeil (ho than you have portrayed it,” re-
L 619 Captain, politely but firmly.
'"? ’’eh, very audacious, very per.
Mdtind 'fL? clever. Ho would search foi
ihe girl-perhaps not find her to-
roo m-, tile nex( dllV 0r withjn a montl
“c would find her."
Be „ will ’L'rill vanish to-night, also, Captain
never see to-morrow."
EftiSr ram i' J® nW:lre But You intend by vhoso that he shal it
■ ' means
“Of c ,° u !' se your aid. Captain.”
» Kn -
' 1,1( 'upht yon would say, Senora
" , au,i clevcr liko him nol
C.„r, In j !'!, i!la, !“ to vanish. men I shall are need
Ktln,;, V.' U ,:lt " 18 ' st the 1 twenty-five ,0 thousand in advance —
Inr mil nm P nv you
SSi ° n ~ t0 nb ' luCt the
P'°n. Captain." kelp in that v
LJ°« Ij! tJ.® blip, 80 dangerous of course, that Senora; 1 refuse but thi
ri now
If vl to P«y you that sum in advance
„fi,. 18 PGze-or so-called prize—ii
hninni Itpr :V’kd redemption by her lover
, o:
L. tlmi t," ie .' " s e; ”’ dm nn sole English and lawful jury shall heiress deoidi ol
, Vou have declared her tc
bp wi,. - to me
()’„ -you shall recoivo ten hundred
failh L n ‘'“Bars for your Bhare. Mj
ji.,, lmvo to assume all tho danger here: i
, °', e r W| G not be handle!
i pn , . easy to
“W’t 81 in ever .V line of his face."
tain. 'o will speak of that presently, Cap-
Ikmt; *’ cnuw hile admit that Yerneena Ro-
I -? IS "'Oi'drously beautiful."
L‘ ! d1 R°land is indeed woudrouslj
1 f Senora. But at presenl
I ' not
In,. I won J’ 011 ty-five thousand dollars to me.’ lady
p-tenth ,,, ever seen or known any
L"; as lovely?”
i,dy 68 to that, Senora, I onc«
a'lm lt? i w b° was iu mv opinion full'
y o S Seuolit “ Roland.”
biii t!le Captain sighed, scowled, and
thonV.i iJ? e ro< * mustache nervously. Ilii
“ e w back twenty-one years, to thi
Pute. ,1PU he was young and of good re-
sen.v, that:,! lh } P1 « ’beena ,a< b'. Boland Captain? wonderfully So much re-
si
'onr 1 started visibly when you first se
S?), -ir* 113 morning—eh?” on her in the room under tin
a Bta,?e a«t Dame Grippard foi
cl «ini<ia“ m amazement, and then ex-
“I y ? n obBel "ved that fact?”
Captai„ U Bt remembered that I did,
v Ut , to ,be
was nct'tbo °, aw e ‘he matter lady before whom us— Yer-
fteecn B0 “derfnlly . resembles—but
a nint U( ri , wail
SBW <he ta'dy?» lo “ K “SO is it since yot
A little yonrB a 8°- Senora.
'6 Spain, Enplnno ’ a ,! 1 officer "/,'. 8 ' 1 of was the at that navy Gnu ol
toe i e8eive<l
la s of Loudon ' iu ,be highesi
.®«t -
£ n nk notas Cautain Balbata _ , , 1
Jw flamiBB ' interrupted “ l\$P. ar !, 3 1)01
la Captain's with ounce t - ol
* antecedents. s
will “By my life, no. Senora! 11 at of that we
nay no more.
7 “Perhaps Uftvu mu." said the dame drviy
‘be ou donbtlesH forgotten (ho name who?, bi
young and noble English fesembles.» lady
"Ne'vr’r S Won derfnl)y
••engraved fower onmwfm^ 11 "!™, 1
rzi tbreejears l,ut 1Urt old, e , l and ‘wes. fall I of WHS passion. then twenty,
* k! 61,0 * 1m.
° S " m a " about eight
ten—the present age of Senorita Yerneena
If IT*?' M ' fir ext V i -I ,iet lllet her ber at * at dinnerparty a hnntinc
. .. r‘ n(1 ln8
; nf ‘ t he ‘V. n t time 1 niet ber at
vanf„,?A ^tilured . to ask n°bility , . ai d , gentry. Then 1
Idresses her to permit mo to pav mi
1 n to heA She gently refused, and
soon nfter lenined that sbo was alreadl
f .° nn Eng ish baronet of enormous
weadh. I never saw her again, but her im-
nor !“?i yet! 1 'S Senorita TOt faJei1 Rolands in heart. wonderful I love
semblance to that lady re-
eagerly—for caused me to lean
a time—toward acceptance ol
Proportion, Dame Grippard “
» fectly the • 3° u F «y you still remember per¬
name of the lady with whom von
were so mta.uatod. Was it not Lady
Ethol.a 1 erchur? Was she not tho only
•d of Lord Henry, tho Earl of I’, rclair?'
. Ah. exclaimed the Captain,
springing from his chair, nearly
nbovc “You as he heard the
name. knew that lady!”
Yery well, indeed, Captain. But heat
me further As Yerneena is tho daughtei
of Lady Ethella, should she not resemble
her mother?”
Again the amazed Captain nearly sprau r
from his seat. Staring wildly at the dame,
whose grimace of exultation was fearful tc
whiaper: .bo d, ho asked in a diep and agitalec
Is Senorita Roland the daughter ot
Lady Ethella Perclair?"
In truth she is, Captain. The daughtei
of tho Indy whom you madly loved twenty,
one years ngo-the daughter of tho lady
who knew yon only as tenor Del Burretn,
of the Spanish navy.”
Th! Captain now sprang erect, trembling
vio.ently, damo. aud g’aring menacingly at the
She had just uttered his (rue name:
a name which he had disgraced in Spain
twenty years before,'and by which he had
never been called si.ee the day he was ex-
pel'ed from the Spanish navy for theft, and
outlawed for au assassination in which he
b id participated.
The dame returned his glare of threat
with one of defiance and derision. He
leaned toward her with a scowling visage,
black with scarcely suppressed rage, shook
his finger fiercely in her face, aud said in a
deep and growling tone, as if from the yery
center of his enormous chest:
“That name, Sonora, was the name of a
man who has been dead twenty years! It
will bo very dangerous for you to utter it
when more than you and I are together.
Remember this warning!”
“You cannot frighten me. Captain. Sit
down again. Tho man is not dead, though
his name may he. lie is alive enough to
be bai.ged when I say the word to bring his
neck into n noose. Sit down, Captain.
Remember that you aud I are to be friends
and pmtners. We are to share in a small
fortune of five hundred thousand or mart
pounds sterling-long England.” waiting foronr hand¬
ling in merry
The Captain wiped his heated brow, and
secretly cursed himself for having showed
so much wrath to one who evidently cared
less for it than ho would have cared for the
roar of a tied buffa’o. He sat down si-
len lv.
“I do not fear to tell you what I am about
to do, Captain,” in continued the dame, “foi
you are more my power than you can
ever hope to havo mo in yours. To betray
my secret will not put a penny in yom
purse. But wero I to set the law toward
that brig of yours, how long would it be
before you and all your crew would bo in
prison as dealers and utterers of counter¬
feit money—counterfeit notos of Spain,
counterfeit notes of Franco, counterfeit
notes of England, counterfeit notes of the
United States?”
“Take care, Senora! Threatened dogs
guard themselves," growled tho Captain —
secretly terrified . and hot with suppressed Senora.”
rage. “You cannot frighten me, frighten
“I am not threatening merely to Now-
you. Captain. 1 am warning you.
listen to what I have to tell yon. I dis¬
covered yosterday that a great 1 hnve fortune, held secret ovei
which for sixteen years
and sure control so far ns its inheritance by
the rightful heir is considered, was about
to slip from my grasp forever. I instantly
re.sa’ved to take swift steps in retain toy
power. You used to know me in England
twenty-one years ago, Captain.” Sen¬
“That is very probablo, I perceive,
ora; but I have no recollection of ever hay,
ing seen you till wo met here in this city—s
few ”
was a housemaid in the
Lady Ethella l’erclair, Captain, when you
proffered love to her. deliver 1 am love-letters the womaij to
whom you ] aid to
Lady EtheTa. I delivered but one to her.
She' read that, tore it to bits, and com¬
manded me never to dare to bring anothei
from you to her."
“Ah! But I gave you several, and yoi
took pay for all, and told me yon had giver
all to her. ”
“I did, and I lied. I am not ashamed h
admit that to you. Captain. The i, as now
Cajilain, it was my policy to nlways go
what money I could, so long as the getting
of it did not scorch my good name. Di
you remember the name of the gent/emai
who married your l idy love?"
“I might remember it were it mentioned
in my hearing for iny attention. Senora. 1
remember the name and title of her father
that she was bis only child, and that he hac
no near relatives besides. She was to inheri
from nim an immense fortune. That fact
first made me desirous to be her husband.
But I quickly began to adore her for he]
beauty alone. Had she accepted me 1
should havo been a- better man than I liavi
been. What was the name of tho baroneti
—that is, of her husband?”
“Sir Edward Hawksworthy, Captain.” My
"Ah! l remember (hat name now.
faith, it is also the name of Senorita Bo-
land's lovor below! I fancied in thocnpoli
that I had heard that name before—and i
longtime ago! Yes— EdwardUawksworthy.
But wliat does this coincidence mean, Sen¬
ora?”
“It is simply a coincidence. Captain, and
nothing mqje. Sir Edward Hawksworthj
never was the father of a son. This young
officer is not in the least related to th«
Hawksworthvs of England.” Senora."
“A very strange coincidence, for th«
“ VeR, for the name of your rival
love of Lady Ethella l’erclair was the
same as that of your rival for the love ol
her daughter. ”
“This lad below will not be my rival,
Senora, if I am to pay anything ia advance
for the privilege! AU may he as you so
confidently assert, but too much remains
for the decision of a jury in England.”
“You emphatically refuse to pay me
twenty-five thousand dollars here to-day,
and to sign tho contract which I showed to
you. Captain?” emphatically 1 do, and I defy you.
“Most tofindany counterfeit
Senora, andthe world
money aboard my brig! And ns for what 1
may havo done years ago in Spain, please
remember that we are not in Spain, but in
ihe good city of New York, where n«
criminal deed can be even pointed toward
me. ”
“Wha*’ Not even the murder that wai
done in the cupola of Old Anchors last
nigbt, Captain?”
El,I Jl ' i IJ GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MARCH I, 1888.
He started violently, turned very pale,
Jlnred at her in sudden dismay. Before he
sould speak, slio added with quick fierce,
ness and clutching his arm:
Remember (hat I can have you hanged
by (he neck till you are dead, in this good
ci ty of New A or*. Captain, for tho murdei
of •jaiues Bratton! You murdered him lust
night, iyAhis lioaso—in his bedroom, Al¬
fonso Balbita— or whatever other name
you may ch .o«e to bo tried under for the
murder, man! I say it! I! Now, dare re-
fuse to fifty mo twit-o twouty-five thou¬
sand dollars hero this day!"
CHAPTER XXYU.
TUE LETTER OK THE HEAD MAN.
It was evident that too Captain was foar
fully to: ror-smitten by the daino's aecusa-
t'ud especially her emphatic inannei
in lmrli git at him. Ho glared, he stared
ho cast rapid ami aOrignled g’ances it
every direction. She saTl sternly;
“Y'on are guilty, Balhaia. That is per¬
fectly plain to mo. 8ball I proceed tc
make the same plain to others, or will you
instantly consent to sign (he contract _________
which 1 showed you yesterday, and which
1 ha e wiih me now?”
Senora Grippard,” gasped the Captain,
again mopping h s Lot and steaming foro-
hoad, "if Senor Bratton was murdered 1
RWcar to you I had naught to do with
the deed. Bah! His death has just
been legally declared to bo suicide! You
not frighten me, Benora. I admit that
7 was sonu-whaf stattled for a moment by
your sudden aud vio’ent mauner. Bahl
Listen. I can easily prove, by ten or more
persons, that I was iu my room al my
hotel every minute of last night-from
eight at nigbt, mil d you, till nine this
mdrning. Bab! I owe you no reBpect,
Seniua, for accusing me of such a crime!”
“Do not talk so fast, Captain. Can you
prove oven by one person (hat your secre¬
tary, supercargo, or whatever ho is to you
—I mean this Bazil o Aifunti—was iu yom
hotel evesv hour of last night? Ho! 'You
luru very pale again, Captain! And cau
you prove that this new first mate of yours,
'bis Urban It, was iu your hotel every hour
"llo. as to th .t man, I-”
“Wait a moment, Captain. I know non
that you owed James Bratton five thousand
pounds sterling—twenty-five thousand dol¬
lars, say. His clerk, Townly, told me the
other day that you had once borrowed that
amount of Bratton-obtained the loan by
false pretenses, remember. 1 gathered this
morning from what was said by Pettis that
you and this fellow Bazilio Alfanti were
here about sunset of yesterday—that Brat-
ion went with you to where he had sta¬
tioned men to keep keen watch upon your
brig. When I said in the room under the
cupola Braiton, that I believed the Swede had mur¬
dered you and this Bazilio—whom
I have always detested—exchanged glances
of delight—I know now that they w re
glances of delight. I did not suspect so
much then. In fact, I suspected nothing
then. I began to suspect you and Bazilio
and your man Urbnndt only after rendiDg
this letter. Bead the address. It is the
handwriting of James Bratton! Read it,
Captain. she ” said this she hold cautiously, for
As
tho Captain’s perusal, the back of a folded
letter.
“Saints of Spain!” mentally exclaimed
the astounded Captain, as he read on the
back of the letter these words, in the hand¬
writing of the dead man:
N- “To. ” Mrs. Helen Grippard, Yorkville,
Y.
TO BE CONTINUED.
A Senatorial Darling.
A Washington dispatch furnished says:—A good this
deal of amusement is
winter by the wife of a certain Senator,
who always calls her husband “Darling.”
He isn’t such a one as the term would
be ordinarly applied to, being big and
burly and not very nice about his per¬
son, but she seemed to think it a very
pretty pet name, nnd uses the term of
endearment on all occasions. Whether
she is addressing him in private or pub¬
lic, or whether she speaks of him to
others, she always says “Darling,” and
does it so frequently that when “ Dar¬
’ everybody
ling ” is referred to now
knows wlio is meant.”
“ Darling has such a Jjail cold,” she
said to another Senator's wife the other
day, “that I am going to put him to
bed when he comes home. ”
“ Darling went to the Capitol early
this morning,” she remarked to another,
“to attend one of those horrid com¬
mittee meetings. Wlmt dreadful things
they are! I positively hate them.
Why, Darling says that‘if it wasn’t for
Iris committee work he could spend lots
of time with me.”
Tho other Senators have “ caught on”
so to speak, aud now seldom alludo to
tlieir colleague by any other term—in
his absence only, of course. One Sena¬
tor came very near making a blunder
the other day by using it at the wrong
time. He entered the committee room
a little late, and as he took off his coat
and gloves looked around the table, at
which half a dozen or more Senators
were seated, and asked :
“Where’s Darling?” frantic gestures to¬
There were some other end of the
ward a book-case at the
room and the late comer blushed deeply
and looked alarmed, “Darling” could was not
behind a map-rack, where he
bo seen, and if he overheard the remark
lie showed no sign.
When He Was in Rome.
He was tanned by tempest and foreign
sun, and he was the center of a group of
young ladies who insisted on hearing of
the countries he had visited, so he
started: Rome-”
“When I was in
“Oh, you’ve been in Rome! How de¬
lightful ! Did you sec the catacombs?”
“Lid you see any gladiators?” look like?”
“What does a forutn
“And the baths?”
“And “When the I temples?” Rome-”
was in
“Do tell us about it!”
“I always did love Rome.”
“It is too delightful for anything.” V., caught
“When I was in Rome, N. I
the typhoid fever, and nearly all my hair
came out .”—Nebraska State Journal. m
It >V,as Dawn Stairs.
ITo was havitfg his boots blacked on
the Post office steps, and he suddenly
asked of the boy: house in Detroit!”
“Is there a custom
“Yes, sir.”
“Where is it:”
“Right up stairs.”
“Has it any | articular custom?”
“No, sir; the particular custom is
down stairs.”
‘•What is it?”
“It’s our custom to charge double
price when a fellow wears over No. 10’s.
A dime, if you please.”— Detroit Free
Free.
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
BOILED DOWS' FACTS ASD FA V-
CIES INTER ESTINOLY STATED.
IcriilentH oil Lain! anil on Sea-Npw ■Kilter-
prim‘N-HiiioiiItf»!i--HelItfion«, Temperance
uinl Noelnl Matters.
Pulaski county, Georgia, has voted in
favor of “dry,” by a majority of about
100 .
All the stamps, money and registered
packages at Floral College, N. were
stolen recently. The depot was at the
name time entered aud robbed.
An unknown miscreant changed tho
switch of the Port Royal Railroad trade
between Yemassee and Port Royal, and
the locomotive of an up-freiglit train ran
off and was b tilly damaged.
Excessive and incessant rain has fallen
at Montgomery, Ala., and streams are all
up. A washout occurred on the Louis¬
ville & Nashville Railroad near Geor-
giana, and delayed trains fifteen hours.
Mr. Paupert, an employe of the New
Orleans, La., Cotton Exchange, was dis¬
covered to have robbed it of $20,000.
Haupert, who was under the treasurer of
the Exchange, had aecessto its securities.
S. II. Cate, a prominent committed preacher suicide of
Chattanooga, Tenn., which he had
by drinking poisonous whiskey into drug. No is
put some melancholy feeling cause for
known except his
weeks previous.
Bill Givings, of Augusta, Ga., watch¬
man on the South Carolina Railroad
bridge , ., over the , Savannah ,, , river was
killed by an incoming passenger tram
Givings was about forty years of age, and
leaves a wife living in that city.
The grand jury of DeKulb superioi .
court has found four indictments against
Maj. -I. W. Green, general manager of
the Georgia Railroad, for running freight
trains on the Sabbath day later than the
htmr allowed by law.
Governor Scales has ordered the en-
campmeut of the North Carolina state
guard to be held at Wriglitsville, 15tli neat and
Wilmington, beginning July entire force
continuing seven days. The
will be put under canvas.
The switchmen and yardmen Birmingham, of the
Georgia Pacific railroad, at
Ala., about fifty in number,struck against
a reduction of wages. The company or-
dered a reduction of 25 cents per refused day in
the wages of the men, and they
fzv Tvm-k
P. Adams appeared at Chattanooga, and
Tenn.. about seven months ago
opened a law offiee. Tyre Williamson
arrived in that city from Florida a day
or two ago, and happened to recognize
Adams on the street as a man who was
wanted in Florida for horse stealing.
Tl^c Library Exposition opened at
Chattanooga, Tenn., under estimated most aupici-
ous circumstances. It is that
at least 5,000 people were present. The
Exposition promises to be a great suc¬
cess. The proceeds will be used to pur¬
chase a library for the use of the public.
, Paris mountain, which is situated about
five miles from Greenville, S. C., pre¬
sented a grand sight, the whole mountain
being covered by forest tires. It is re¬
ported that the fire is rapidly nearing the
residence of Colonel I. P. Hunt, but
yet no damage has been done beyond the
burning of trees.
The Augusta, Ga., Exposition directors
elected John W. Ryckman, who is now
there, general manager. Mr. Ryckman
has had considerable experience in that
line. He was connected with the New
Orleans, Kansas City, Louisville and At¬
lanta expositions, and is recommended as
an energetic gentleman.
A boiler in a shingle mill at West Mil-
ville, La., on the Texas and Pacific rail¬
road, exploded, instantly killing Charles
Hill, of Toledo. Ohio, and John Stephen¬
son, of Beaumont, Texas, both white,and
Seymour Banks, of 1’laqueniine, seriously La.,
colored. Thirteen others were
hurt.
It. E. Looby, formerly chief train dis¬
patcher of the Kansas City Railroad, was
run over by a train and killed in the
Union depot at Birmingham, Ala. He
resigned his position recently, and was
boarding a train for New Y’ork, when he
fell under the wheels and the top of his
head was cut off. Looby came from
Watertown, Wis., where his parents re¬
side.
Both houses of the Legislature of Mis¬
sissippi have passed a bill Confederate providing sol¬ for
the pensioning of the
diers and sailors of the state who lo6t a
leg or an arm iu the service, or were in¬
capacitated by wounds for manual labor,
and who need such aid. They are to be
allowed $30 a year. The provisions of
the bill include the unmarried widows of
soldiers who were killed, and the disa¬
bled colored servants of soldiers.
W. L. Chambers, now in New Y’ork,
telegraphs to Montgomery, Ala., that the
line for the proposed new railroad be¬
tween Montgomery and Maplcsville the is
now being located, to ascertain cost
of building the road, and if the estimates
submitted by Mr. Chambers are verified,
the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
Railroad Company will indorse the bonds
of the Great Northeastern, and the road
will be pushed through.
The Alabama Supreme Court affirmed
the decision of the City Court in the case
of Yellowstone Kit against Hon. F. C.
Randolph, judge of probate. Judge
Randolph required Kit to pay a license
tax of $375 for peddling medicines with
music. Kit paid it under protest, and
entered suit in the City Court to recover,
and Judge Arrington decided that he was
not a peddler and entitled to recover.
The case was appealed, and again de¬
cided in Kit’s favor.
While workmen on ihe railroad bridge
at Oconee, Ga., were engaged in some
difficult job, John McNish, a young white
man, fell a distance of fifty feet into the
water below. He soon came to the top
of the water and began to swim, but as
the water was very swift, he was soon ex¬
hausted, but just as lie was nearing the
bank, hopeless and drenched, lie man¬
aged to grasp a limb, which he clinched
between his teeth, and swung to it until
assistance reached him.
The British bark Crown Jewel, from
Oran, Africa, for Philadelphia, landed at
Delaware breakwater the master and
crew of the schooner Edward G. Taulane,
of Somer’s Point, N. J., which wasaban-
iloned water-logged on February 12th in
latitude 115.18, longitude Hi.10. The
Taulane sailed from the Satida river,
Georgia, with on February 8th, for New
a cargo of lumber consigned to the
Hilton lumber company. She sprang u
leak and was subsequently abandoned.
F. Y. Anderson, of the Alabama State
Land Company, at Birmingham, Ala., is
the defendant in two damage suits grow¬
ing out of aland transaction. Some time
ago Anderson organized a company and
sold to the company a large tract of land,
deposits. representing it, to contain valuable kaolin
The company was organized
to manufacture pottery nnd a large sum
was paid for land. J. A. Stratton and J.
H. Carr sued Anderson for $70,000, claim¬
ing that the kaolin deposits in the land
bail never materialized.
I he following books have been adopted
by the board of education of Dougherty
county, published Georgia: Sanford> arithmetics,
by Lippincott company, Phila¬
delphia; Webster's dictionaries, and
Sw inton’s word books and primer, Ivi-
8on Taylor & Co., New York ; Heed and
New Kellogg's grammars, Sheldon <fc Co.,
York. The readers will not he
changed, being mainly Appleton’s, as
well ns the geographies of I). Appleton
A Co., New Y’ork, being mainly used in
the public schools of the county.
SERGEANT JASPER
Remembered and Commemorated By
A Splendid Memorial.
The event of the day on the occasion
of the unveiling The of the statue erected to
the memory of hero, Sergeant a Jasper, p'
at Savannilh Qa wa9 the flr riv|l i of lvS -
idcnt cleve)aml flnd rt The p re sj-
dent’s first greeting to the Forest City
was the boomin'! of a cannon. The dis-
charge was the signal to the largo crowd
at the depot that the train was passing
the White Bluff crossing. The gun was
tired by a detachment of the Chatham Ar-
tillery. Before the roll of the shot died
away, the locomotives in the yard started
to shrieking and the din that followed air
was terrific. For three minutes the
resounded with the jangling of bells, the
screeching of whistles, and the roll of the
artillery. Mrs. Cleveland was all smiles.
» n ‘ l the President bowed their ac-'
knowlodgement handshaking to the crowd. There plat- was
* mom ent of on the
forln - some elegant bouquets were
presented Mrs. Cleveland. Hhe smiled
sweetly^and exclaimed: 'What lovely
flowers.
Taking Colonel William Garrnrd’s arm,
Mrs. Cleveland was escorted beneath tho
bunting into the office, into llm long
room. President Cleveland followed with
Alderman Thomas. The President and
Mrs. Cleveland stood on the north side of
the room, and the other members of the
party stood in a scmi-circle. The party
glanced around the room a few seconds at
the palms, flags.aud bunting. The com¬
mittee had hoped to keep when them two found or
three hours at least, but they
that they could not, they determined to
show them the city at any rate.
The party passed out to Liberty street
entered the carriages in waiting, and
started off in a fast ahead trot. A the squad carriages, of the
cavalry rode off of
and the rest of the company closed be¬
hind. At South Broad street the artillery
left the procession, and the cavalry alone
acted as an escort.
After the presidential party turned had gone,
the great crowd in the city its at-
t-Htion to the event of the day. The un- it
i oiling of the Jasper monument, and
was a grand event. At 9:30 the military
and civic oiganizations formed.at South
Broad and Bull under the direction of
J. M. Sorrel, Grand Marshal; C, C. Hard¬
wick, Cnicf of Staff; Aides—C. M. Cun¬
ningham, Tnylour Walthour, R. M. De-
mcre, O. M. Carter (IT. S. A.) E. P. Law-
ton (U. 8. A.), J. P. Overton, George S.
Haynes, Johu Sullivan, Frank Buchanan.
After marching through the principal
streets the line proceeded to the Jasper
monument.
As far as the eye could reach down the
surrounding streets could be seen throngs
of assembled people, all pressing obtaining earnest¬
ly forward in the vain hope of
a position near enough fell to from the platform the mouth to
catch the words that
of Gov, John B. Gordon. Amid the mu¬
sic, the governor, escorted by Captain J.
R. Dillon, and followed by his staff, the
Jasper monument association, and the
mayor and aldermen of Savannah, ascen¬
ded the platform and occupied the chair§
that had been reserved for them on the
north side of the monument. Af ter the
gentlemen were seated, the young ladies
representing the thirteen original states
ascended the platform and took their po¬
sitions in thirteen chairs around the base
of the monument.
Col. John Screven, speaking for a few
moments to the concourse "the of people closed gath¬ by
ered to celebrate occasion,
saying: “Is it not meet that a battle-
scarred veteran should pronounce the
eulogium of so brave and gallant a pa¬
triot as Sergeant Jasper.” He then intro¬
duced Gov. Gordon, orator of the day.
At the conclusion of the speech, tho
ladies took the positions assigned them,
preparatory to the unveiling of the Carolina mon¬
ument. Georgia and South
stood at the bas^ of the shaft, ready to
unveil it, at a given word. The others
stood by the cords, on the east and west
of the platform, waiting to raise on high
the flags that covered the statue. The
orator gave the words commanding the
monument to be unveiled, and Misses
Brandt and Nisbet cast away the cords
that bound the flags around the monu¬
ment, and the other young ladies lilted
them from the statue. As the flags floated
on high, the cheers and continued ap¬
plause from the assembled people, showed
that the spirit of ’70 still lives fresh in
the hearts of the people of Georgia.
Iu the afternoon there were several
boat races, to which everybody went, and
a pleasant afternoon was spent. At four
o’clock the banquet given the Macon
Volunteers by the Chatham Artilery be¬
gan. The banquet kind was one of the grand- the
t st events of the ever seen in
South and lasted until a late hour.
CRISIS IN FRANCE.
Several Paris journals fear that a gov¬
ernment crisis will ensue should ihe cab¬
inet insist upon the Chamber of Deputies
voting a sum of money on account of the
secret service and declare that it will
m*ke the vote a question of confidence.
VOL. NO. 23.
A ROYAL GREETING
ACCORDED TO Fit ESI PEST AJ) D
MRS. CLEVELAND.
IitiiiiniNf'Crnwrirt Mm* il»« *froet» and ( l»e**r
Tlit'in4^1 vm HoiiriM',—Visit Ifl
i lie Sub. Troplua’—Inch!«•!»!«•
The presidential train arrived safely at
Jacksonville, Fla., no incident of note
having taken place on the route from Sa¬
vannah, Ga., and was greeted the acclamations byasdutc
of twenty-one guns and
of an immense concourse of people. The
party was escorted to the St. James hotel
by the state military reception committee
in carriages, and a hand playing patriotic
airs. Mayor Burbridge rode in the car¬
riage with the President and Mrs. Cleve¬
land, which was decorated with flowers
and evergreens. Afier the marshal presidential of the
party had taken lunch, the with
day, Major HurkLshiiner, twenty
aides, formed the procession. Following,
was the order of procession: First Di¬
vision—Police and platoons;marshal and
his aides; First Florida battalion, with
hand; the presidential party in carriages,
the carriage of President and Mrs. Cleve¬
land being drawn by six black horses:
Wilson’s battery, mounted Second as a Florida special
escort to the President; in
battalion; congressional party carriages; car- in¬
riages; press association in
vited guests in carriages. Second Divis¬
ion-Key West hand of colored men;
uniformed Knights of Pythias; Inde¬
pendent order of Red Men; Perry Guard
of colored state militia; Duval Guard ol
colored state militia; Jacksonville Typo¬
graphical Uuion, No. 102, anil Jackson¬
ville Fire Department. Other organiza¬
tions and citizens followed. '1 he line ol
march was along the decorations principal streets, of all
which were gay with
kinds, including evergreens, bunting,
festoons of oranges and orange floaters.
Masses of people in holiday attire lined
the route, and it is estimated that 100,-
000 citizens and visitors witnessed the
procession, including thousands of north¬
ern tourists.
On the arrival of the another procession salute at
the Exposition building, detachment
of twenty guns was fired.by The a President,
of Wilson’s battery. and vis¬
Mm. Cleveland and their party
iting congressmen were met at the north
entrance by the reception committee of
the sub-Jropicnl exposition, with Direc¬
tor General Paine and officials of tho as¬
sociation and were escorted to a platform
in front of the north gallery. The mili¬
tary then entered anil stacked arms, ex¬
cept the guards on duty. Heats were re¬
served on the the platform for representa¬
tives of the city, state aud United States
government, disiinguisheil ettizens and
committees.
When the President, Mrs. Cleveland
and the accompaning guests were seated
Col. J. J. Daniel delived au address of
welcome. When quiet had been restored,
the President replied. greeted with
The President’s reply was
most vociferous and long continued ap-
President Cleveland resumed his seat,
but applause aud cheering continued to
break out anew at short intervals, and at
length 0. II. Jones nnd stepped suggested forward that Un¬ to
tho President
people desired to see Mrs. Cleveland.
He acted at once on the suggestion, and
as Airs. Cleveland arose, he took her by
the hand and led her to the front. Then
broke forth a perfect tempest Five of cheering thous¬
and storm of poured hand-clapping. their greeting,
and throa’s forth
and hundreds of waving handkerchiefs
showed that the ladies shared the enthu¬
siasm and joined in honoring the first
lady of the land.
This ended the formal part of the cere¬
monies. The ladies and gentlemen on
the platform came forward nnd were pre¬
sented to the President and Mrs. Cleve¬
land, Secretary and Mrs. Whitney, Col.
and Mrs. Lamont, and then the party re¬
turned to their carriages and were driven
to the hotel.
The President’s public reception was
held at night at the St. James hotel, last¬
ing two hours. President Cleveland, es¬
corted by Judge Settle, and Mrs. Cleve¬
land, escorted by C. E. Jones, entered
the parlors, anil when the reception
ended over eight thousand persons
were still in line.
The Presidential party goes to St. Au¬
gustine as the guests of Air. Palatka, Flagier. At
night they will go over to and
then to Sanford and Indian river, re¬
turning Friday night. Charleston A stop of one
hour will he made in Satur¬
day morning.
President Cleveland passed Ashley
Junction, near Charleston, S. C., but did
not stop in the city. Mayor Bryan had
an interview with him. The President
will stop in Charleston on his return trip
for one hour. Arrangements have been
made for his entertainment while there.
A national salute will he fired, the city
will he decorated, nnd citizens, soldiers
and civic societies will turn out to do him
honor.
CAUGHT!
Very recently a man nnd woman, driv¬
ing a stylish double team, stopped all
night at the residence of • Mr. Manncs,
who keeps a store three miles from Union,
Franklin county, Mo. When the morn¬
ing papers arrived, however, the descrip¬
tion given there of W. B. Tascott, the
murderer of Amos 15. Snell, the Chicago
millionaire, tallied exactly with that ol
the stranger. It attracted the attention
of Col. A. W. Mauphin, who called the
attention of Sheriff Ehlers to the matter.
The, latter proceeded to the farm house
where the traveler had stopped description overnight of
and obtained a complete
him and, also of his fellow companion.
He then telegraphed the chief of police at
Chicago for a further description, and it
corresponded so fully with that of Tas¬
cott that Sheriff Ehlers at once started in
pursuit and caught the man, who is no
doubt Tascott.
ARE SATISFIED.
The London Chronicle thinks that the
Canadian fisheries treaty is an amicable
bargain. In the nature of things, it says,
Canada’s concessions may appear to be
larger than those of the United States,
but it would have been useless for Mr.
Chamberlain to extort such terms as
would lead to a rejection of the treaty by
the American Senate.
WORLD AT LARGE
PEN PICTURES PAINTED 1\Y A
COUPS OF ABLE ARTISTS .
Wlmt la •ilium on North, Knot nnd Went
noil Ai-rnm tho Watrr-Th« Coming tin-
ropenii fetorm.
Russia continues to send troops to the
frontier.
A tnnn has been arrested at Coleraine,
Ireland, with a quantity of dynamite in
his possession.
Gen. Boulanger, of France, will issue
a protest against the use of his name for
election purposes.
The miners’ joint committee nnd Mas¬
ter Workman Lewis have Reading agreed, and strike all
fear of u renewal of the
is dispelled.
Graff, Bennett & Co., irou manufactu¬
rers, of Pittsburg. liabilities Pa., liavo assigned
with secured amounting to
$000,000, and unsecured of about $700,-
000 .
The heavy rain and melting snow havo
greatly swollen the Potomac, anil much
damage from tho freshet is feared. Tim
eastern part of Hagerstown, Md., is al¬
ready four feet under water.
A bomb was found at the Philadelphia
it Reading Railroad freight house, at
Shamokin. It contained several pounds
of powder, and building. xvns placed closely against
the wall of the The fuse had
been lighted, hut went out before reach¬
ing the powder.
Reports from all parts of the Schuyl¬
kill, Pa., region indicate that there are
fewer men working at the mines, in con¬
sequence of the new trouble arising be¬
cause of the Reading company’s old peromp-
toiy refusal to take hack all the men,
ns was understood by the Corbin-Lewis
settlement.
Thompson Dickson, treasurer of Marion
county, Ohio, and Robert Beatty, his
deputy, were arrested on a charge of em¬
bezzlement. The amount of shortage as
shown by an examination, just com¬
pleted by the auditor, of tho state, is
$0,503. The office of treasurer will be
declared vacant by the county commis¬
sioners, and the treasurer-elect will take
his place at once.
Articles of incorporation of the Du¬
buque (Ill.) Personal Liberty League have
been filed with the secretary of the state.
The ob jects of the association are to se¬
cure information regarding the operation
of prohibitory laws in other states; to
apply for and obtain, by any and all
legislation, the repeal or modification of
the prohibitory law in Iowa, and to secure
compensation for losses sustained by
reason of the existence and enforcement
of such laws in Iowa; to render to all
members of the association, wlio may re¬
quire the same, aid in defending their
rights of person anil property, ami to
obtain by legislation the enactment of a
license law iu the state.
TREATED LIKE SERFS.
The Congressional investigation com¬
mittee in session at Pottsville, Pa., resum¬
ed its inquiry into the coal strikes in Hazel.
Almost the entire, day was given miners, up to ,
hearing from two representative the leg¬
one of whom is a member of state
islature, accounts of the conditions of tho
life which prevail among coal miners.
They are represented ns being little bet¬
ter than serfs. In debt to their employ¬
ers almost all their lives, with scarcely
ever more than two-thirds of full time
time employment, subject to numberless
petty exactions, besides the one greatone
practiced through the “Company Store”
system, they are described as seldom see¬
ing a dollar in money, and are even taxed
a fixed sum for doctors’ bills, which
is collected by tlic employers, and are
charged with a given amount of coal for
fuel, whether they burn it or not.
FATAL BASEBALL GAME.
While a game of ball was in progress
between the students of the Chattanooga,
Tenn., University, J. C. Johnson, of
Bodily, a spectator, and also a student,
took exception to a ruling of tlic Half-Moon umpire,
Ben Magill, who resides at
island, Tenn., when Magill picked terrible up a
baseball bat and struck Johnson a
blow on the left side of the head, fract¬
uring his skull from the temple to the
back part of the head, from which he
died a few hours afterward. Magill, tho
murderer, is still at large, having left the
city on foot and fled to Georgia. He is
only 18 years old.
THE TWIGG8 SWORD8.
Rowena Guailclln, now the wife of a
prominent London lawyer, but ofNew during
the War she was a Miss Florence,
Orleans, and a cousin of Judah P. Ben¬
jamin, has been before Consul-General
Walls, at London, England. She claims
that Gen. Twiggs, of Louisiana, gave her
three valuable swords—one presented another by to
him by the State of Texas,
the City^if Augusta, Ga., and the third
by Congress for services in the Mexican
war. When Gen. Butler took possession
of I'Ttw Orleans he made Miss Florence
give up the swords, and sent them to
President Lincoln at Washington.
DEATH BY CARELESSNESS.
An explosion of dynamite occurred in
a rock cut on Fourth street, Duluth,
Minn., nnd eighteen men were killcdand
injured. The explosion was caused by
some cartridges fused that had not ex¬
ploded, and the men resumed work about
them. A few taps on the drill served to
set off the unexploded cartridges, with
results as stated.
Tlic End of Time.
“At the piano again, Charley, I see,”
said his pretty cousin as she entered the
room. responded Charley,
“Ya’as, Maude,” hour
“I’ve been plaving for nu or more,
merely to kill time, y’know.” Charley,
“For an hour or more 1 Why, York
time must be dead by now.”— New
San. ________
Dakota Weather.
“Mamma,” said a little Dakota boy,
as he came into the parlor, “whore is
papa?” “He is crawling the chimney, dear,
up day it it."—Epoch,
to seowhat kind of a