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A TALE OF NEW YORK IN 1835.
BY pm m HENRY PECK,
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• The Ihtf-llrced" “ Harold's Hate, 9
• The llride of Barcelona," Etc.
CHAPTER XXVII — Conttkced.
“Well, what of that, Senora?” ho nstred,
w ilb « vain effort to appear at his ease, “I
iaro nothing for that.”
barno Grqpard returned the letter to hot
pocket, cackling horribly to herself, ami
said quietly: letter written last night by
“This was be delivered this
James llrutton, to to me
morning. That is beforo wbut he it means, murdered Captain.
Me wrote it just murdered was by —
tnii I repeat that he was y ou,
or by your connivance. ”
The Captain, hot as fire and cold as ice
in rapid alternation, stared at the dame in a
helpless way, unable to utter a word.
liiidhobetn sure of escaping tho con-
se|uences of another murder, ho would
Iheu and there have leaped upon her, and
strangled her with his own hands.
l utat this instant both ho and the dame
hoard the sound of approaching footsteps
The sound was made by the undertaker
ind his nssislanls, on their w ay to take
rhargeof the body of James Bratton till
Iho wishes of his widow should be fully
ascertained in regard to its future d sposal.
Th y in sed tho open door of the room in
which the Captaiu and the dame were
s ated. They were seen by the pair, nnd
•l-othems Ives saw tho pair in the room.
They passed theu on in continued silence, to after tho Captain: bowing.
The d me
' VVI.re I was just now in the room to
which those men aro going, nnd after 1 had
gazed for a moment at tho dead faeo cn the
bed, I chanced to wish to take a look nt tli
contents of a waste-basket, which stood
partially under the writing-table in the
middle'ot tho room. You are 1 bleuing,
Captain.''’
“Oh, tiie yes, Senora—I nm nil attention,’
gasped Captain, his heart in his throat
"Good, Captain. You will hear some¬
thing will h will surprise you and that ft b
low below—your dear Secretary Bazilio
The waste-basket was nearly full of shreds
of letters and papers which Bratton nc
doubt lore up last night.”
But B zilio swore to me this morning.’
Iho igbt tho freshly terrified Captain, “that
ho burned to ashes every letter written Iasi
night by Bratton. ”
“Vou are trembling, Captain, and well
you may,” loutinnedjjhe dame, exultantly.
"I had already wondered that Bratton had
left no scrap of writing for his wife, tc
whom he was foolishly devoted. I won¬
dered if he had written to her. and after¬
ward tom the letter to bits. I havo befo't
to-day found ft clew to important secrets it
bitsof paper iu waste-baskets, Capta n.”
“May she be strangled some near day!’
he ejaculated in his heart.
“I had hardly pat my Augers into the
"ust-basket, Captain, when they grasped
l!.o letter whose superscription I liavo just
ihowu to you. There was a rn.au in tho
room—left there to guard the body-—but he
did i ot look at me. He was loo .ing ent of
window. I broke the seal and read th ■
latter nnseen by that man. Are yon very
attentive to all I am sayiDg, my dear Cap-
tajp?"
nottouch “Certainly, Senora, though the affair does
me as you imagiue. ”
to Terhaps the not, Captain. Wait, Hear me
end. The letter informed me tbit
iwtou intended to vacate Old Anchors
this very day. Also, that yon paid to him
*■ 11 bout sunset lust afternoon five one-
thousand pound Bank of England notes.”
Here tho astounded Captain nearly
bonmled from his seat.
1’atieace, my dear Captain. James
Hatton set down the individual numbers
those five notes.”
Joints ot Castile!” menta’.’y ejaculated
‘he terrified
Bratton n’so states in this letter, Cap-
■ ln , that ho yesterday received by the
ghsh m iil packet—which you may re-
P arrived at noon yesterday, Captain
,, thousand U1 England notes to the amount of
four hundred pounds!”
Captain at ' 8 nows to me!” thought the
hratton a'so sets down in this letter,
D ' ! ho ‘mlividual numbers of these
»ni ttilts-' •? 18 1,11(1 * down the others. He
se
full also, mat it was ms intention to pay
e m to-day, here at Old Anchors, if I
quests nie-erery penny he owed me—and re-
me in this letter to meet him here
rw V ’ to rece ive all he owed me. Now.
aptam Alfonso , Iialbata—for the present—
s luolt as l( James Bratton com-
muted suicide last night? Eh? Now. my
]!•. tlear of (ll Captain, five thousand who is the pounds fortunate
0 you and
din " on yesterday at about sunset,
• Rwnsaad
811 and odd pounds which lie
t-'n'i' < d fi.v yesterday’s arrival of the
tD Rl;sh . mail packet? Eh?”
Mibata bad now hoard for the first time
w great a booty Bazilio had obtained by
ihipchai ' md rol)1)er v of the unfortunate
Jrit U -
Baziiio’s treacherous concealment
*' 1 m cr ® trifle in the Captain’s mind
“pared , with what had become known to
wine Grippud,
chapter XXVIII.
TIIE CaI>TAIN CONFESSES.
Uv e llie Captain casting wildly
eon’? n „, 4 1118 was
m terrified mind to find some
Sll0D reply to Ha 1 ” 0 Grippard’s aud
® 8i <i shur|dy ’ 6h ° 8K1,i P e(1 nis arm ’
Biatil 0 IZ Balbata? Roin ff It (0 will ,r y bo t0 110 useless. 0,lt of You lbil!
umJi” 110 yonder 11 nK ’ n —!’i deed. | zilioand Listen, Urbandt—com- Captain. Von
"ill f^miber when above, wnit-
iuir / Jr llie scuttle to we be were removed by the
conin!\ Swe lmd conversing of intended
our
cornel' fTF'ced aQd Whon to 1 a9ke(1 down you this lf d y° u here lul<1
in 01 All °hors. pay iy, pounds
stp-ii tho five thousand
Madv le !> uirod b y me, y5n said you were
'lisntoi tools out y° ur pocketbook nnd
tioi nli t0 me several' one- tbonsnnd-
i o ank , of England and said, in
voii- Ur ,„ ro ant notes,
te aj- ft thanuer, ‘See, Senora! I aiu
Yon.. , 1 '?- v cash for what pleases me.’
!» WmcmberaU that, Captain?”
Can t „i!, a ® V I' u r l °hab!y ch crest-fallen, so, Senora,” replied the
I ■!?? nm' ellul >' on "“‘‘h Captain. I have
a ,„ tu' 6 !ltl(1 keen so, Especi-
ally fm. ’ a memory.
numbrr p J lllm,)0rs °f bunk notes. The
T mo uppermost of the notes you
and one 'ri? ■*hat 10 " Ils one-hundred-thousand
not? v' is easily remembered, is it
ri thp ii° W ’, Erahon's England letter notes states paid that by you ono
lo dred.iiv® him v , tlcliI
ootisand y afternoon was one-bun-
aod one. Now, iuy deal
yours; way itom YotJu?, BrUton’N \vC nooklth* k bookb 5 ck t0
. .
i 4 f'
lltose ssraivns J areUO lOW
notes to m8 > ow'"
to “Renon make\wetoW^m.b 1 ?!! ,td ^ ,‘ ,0 8 «‘ ^ ,oru,, " c
hands vou lmTomenn i* ( l0ux , i
my toernoctfom!-,' are not in tlm ,i«„ " Uttt , tuwj
nm 1 and\?n -
"This mere? Cy ’ ! «,i olll «r, „ BalbaU. , 1 ,
nm ’»phtin*ti« roi n»*« i ’
< voi SOUt
speedy 'navmsa h l! U 1 0 *' be or M'-nreU
thousand dniiura ™v: v robb, 1
James llrattou iast ‘
force p“rfiof nioht r tows*
vou. under the ™ m
i ’ami nnt- h tou of Ven,eeU! ‘ Ro -
! iStuSl whb.h T 1,1 € n 'one nDR can ,or . pincg_within ?* 8e}l -
her truer, » ' ouslia ^agin tbe wor k
I this verr (lav ”
! ; She seemed to take hnr»« ^a?ifn ■ *
ifving the burly 8p.ni, h wUh hM
terr.fic eyes as she leaned forward in her
chair and glared into his face.
stahwavfed ° f RO eone comin « n P th(1
U ^° p ,lielr cars a® they gazed
' ' 1 °m er s fi .y es --hi s a gaze of dis-
. .
v . vind,cllTe triumph,
Kim
“Balbata b vou at’least it \hl S
der of ,Tames IIrat(om Confess
lo mo, or I will shout, ‘Murder!' while this
person coming un is passim? this door
Confess, or I will denounce vou as the as-
sassm and robber of James Bratton! List-
en! You hear approaching stops* If vou
th ° mUrJer l ° “ e b6f0re that
.«rson—
« T r ear, r Senora. , Bazilio
me, did the deed!
hJiiioVki fvJ »i-n .u lh f, ma of “- *“ y "° mo r did ‘ h « r 1 t
wish l h B
“Enough!” commanded the dame. “The
person will hear! He is alone. He is
another of the undertaker's assistants. I
know him. He is coming to us.’’
A moment later tbeman who hod ascend-
room said:’ 6 lookedk*bowed'to^the^ma* ’ ’
‘Tlense tell me where to find Mr. Crape-
field, Dame Grippard.”
You ^ “Keep straight on in the passage, Harly.
will soon hear him and others,’’ re¬
plied the dame, and tho mnn walked or.
She then turned to the Captain and oon-
tinned, sueeriugly:
“I am glad yo i bid your face from that
man, what Captain. It is as pale as paper. Bah,
a coward you are, after all! But yon
did well to confess as soon ns you did.
Another in-tant’s delay would have heard
me The denouncing Captaiu you to that man.”
ly, prowled mopped his forehead hasti¬
a curse, took the five one-thou¬
sand-pound Bank of Enginnd notes fr. m
his pocketbook, bold them toward the
dame, and said, gaspingly:
”Seuo:a, take these!”
“Not yet, Captnim TVait a while. Go
on With what vou were about to sav ”
“ I was about to repeat, Senora, that I did
not wish lliemm lobe killed. In fact, I
told Bazilio not to ki 1 him. Bazil o
planned and executed the wbolo affair.
But tako these notes as an installment of
the sum yon demand from me. Tho saint!
alone know where I am to obtain the bal¬
ance spe (lily! Here are tiie notes. Bazilio
has the others. And by heaven, Senora,
he rot>1 ed me in not lethng me ev, u sus¬
pect that he had obtained so treat a sum by
the deed! TVhy not take these five notes
now, Sonora?”
“TVait, Captain. Another mnn is coming
up the steps. All, it is the Swede! Here,
Jansen, here!” she added loudly, for the
Swede was about to pass on to look again
nt his dead employer. “I have something
important to say to you, Jansen. Come!”
Jansen, nevertheless denpisiugnud concluded detesting comply the wom¬ with
an, to
her request, and did so.
"Th rok you, Jansen. 1 havo preseutlv,” an apology
to make to xou, and will do so
said the dame, ftffab y, as Jansen halted
wi bin the room. “Now, Capta n Balbata,”
she added, “will you be so kind as to pay
into Jansen’s hands the money of which
yon spoke just now to me? Do, my dear
friend. ’’ this
The Capla n knew very well that
“Do, my dear friend,” really meant—“if
you refuse, I will put tho hangman's devoted¬ rope
iu the gras,) of this Swede who so placed
ly loved his ma'-ter 1 ” He nt once
the five notes in Jansen's hands. Tho
8wede accepted them with a stare of amaze¬
ment. “TVo do
“Ho, ho!” cackled tho dame.
not intend to make you a present of the
notes, my good Jnnscu. Tou h ive a pencil Well,
nnd note-book, of course? Yes.
record in your note-book the numbers of
those five notes, please. Theu give the
notes and a duplicate list of their numbers
me, and take care to keep your list till I
for it, my good man. Captain Balbata
pays them to me, yon see.
“Thank vou, Jansen. And now let me
beg your pardon for having even intimated
ihat you could have harmed your late em¬
ployer and for all the bitter and unjust
things I have said to nnd of yon This day.
Oh. 1 am sure you will forgive a petulant
ind afflicted old woman like me, my good
nan!”
“I will bear vou no all have
pard. I forgive you for that you
laid of me, but I cannot forgive you tor
what you have said of Mr. Bratton. He
was a good and an honorable man, Dame
L ‘ think he murdered,
' And do you still was
Jnnsen?” she asked. Grippard. Some
"Indeed, I do, Dame
day it will all come out.” _
“Oh, 1 hope so, Jauseu. And now, my
good man, will vou do me the favor to go
below to the counting-room and ask Mr.
Pettis to come right up to this room with
his inventories, and to bring with him Mr.
of your first mate. Car tain? I desire to
speak to h m also.” Urbandt, Senora,
is Herman __
“His name fool in which
but as he is almost a matters
do not pertain to ships and the like, and
kn ows notl.ing of my affairs, it will bo well
if he remains below while we converse with
B * 7 Captain. You know best, of
Very well, Mr. Bazilio Alfanti
course. Jansen, say to
that Captain Balbata wishes to speak to
him before mo iu reference to the cargo
and s liplies desired bv the Captain for the
next voyago of his brig.^ I think that was
what you said, Captain.” all that, .
“ Yes, Senora. The man can say
if he pleases. ”
departed. A moment ... later ,u~ the
Jansen the dame, with con¬
Captain whispered to
centrated fierceness: nnd fast, , .
“Do not drive affairs too far
Senora Grippard! The man Bettis is a
constable. If I so much as suspect, after
he appears, that you intend to betray me to
uitn, by tho soul of my mother I will shoot
vou dead with this!” .... the lapel ,
Hero tho C iptain threw nsido
of his coat and revealed the butt of a pis-
toh lfe hid the weapon the next instant,
soying sternly: through her head
"I once shot a tigress between the jaws
avtie i my own head was
of the beast!” to.iny in-
"Be ca'm. Captain. It i* not day
tenet to j®[ r ^°" Whm the
comes— j oes _ w hen I shall des re
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, MARCH 8. 1888.
*° P la y tigress upon your thro it, nuy threat
»W''»v matow.lt not <IUW 0 u>« to host-
7 ,he *Ki».?! 7 .es»tts
l' resent cvoumstauces! He may be
I did not wish U.bmdt to come up.
¥m J "» m ■»"» Uibandt UnoW*
nothing H of what was done hero last uiglit.
6 « nut 11 ’ afo 111(11 to have over me in
wh , at you have discovered. I can trust him
' only , far and farther "
‘'foul* so no d’fellow,
it a dud-witt Captain.
It ever fear tnat he will see or hear aught
to avottso his suspicion. He is un ass! A
sleepy-headed ass. or Bratton would not
bMn *" td f r ? d lH9t “'fi’” 1 - Eettia
shah
der “first, tel meal vou know of tho tuur-
try '^ptaia. Take good care not to even
to conoeal the slightest fact from me.
You know my power to punish you. Re-
member it Captain!”
•oSJvrhluSv'* CUUe ’ a “ d repHed
“By gaia my soul, Senora force's I am not likelv
| 0 a ohanoo to if > ii„r I i-„ n ™
nothing 1 have of how the deed was done, save as
been told hy Ba/.iliu. I now know
that he deceived me in regard to the
amount of money he obt.ined by the
l’. 1 '?*' 11 is noesible that he may have
U ° d '“ 0I * ot *** about how U ™ °°“-
f lol(1II1 n j t 1 ted * f' „ 1Io "' evcr ’ y° u 8ha11 hear a11 te
118 (llea r a l’ 1 d , y narrated to Dame Grip-
. A, “ “ n L Lad b take *?“ ‘ oU1 bagtodo to him by
™ !l »' 7 »°t bun
other Sters! alld ta^bSfthM engage®!
several minutes when the dams whispered
wamiugly:
!omiu “Enough! I hear Pettis and Bazilio
S n l'‘ Bo calm.”
[to be continued. |
Using Ip the Scraps.
-
T,lft utilizing of materials formerly
Wasted lias been frequently referred to
in theese columns, and a long list of the
articles made from such waste was spec¬
ified. The Baltimore Sun, referring to
this subject, mentions three waste mater¬
ials now utilized in that city:
“Every resident,’’ the writer says,
“can recollect the immense piles of waste
tin from the can shops that used to glit¬
ter in the hollows of East Baltimore, and
upon every dump the in that section of a doz¬ this
en years ago. first use
waste was by a poor man from the north,
who obtained permission Wick’s to set up shop a ma¬ iu
chine in Smith and can
this city. Here lie bought scraps for al¬
most nothing, and cut out tin button
stock to send East. Afterwards the
stamps for shaping the buttons were
introduced, and the individual reaped The a
large fortune for Iris enterprise.
next use of tin scrap was for smelting. when
The tin at first refused to flow
subjected to the heat of tlie furnace, it
was discovered that it would pay to cut
the tin coating would chemically, then smelt and nnd that flow. the
sheet iron
Out of this grew the manufacture of sash
weights, and few of them are now found
that are not made from tin scrap. Sev¬
eral foundries use all that is made.
The scrap was pounded into wads by
stamping it in large buckets.
“A most interesting feature of all
businesses using leather is that not one
particle of tho leather is wasted. Our
shoe factories alone sell annually mainly fifty
tons of waste. This goes to a
firm in Philadelphia, who pay $7 a ton
for it. A large amount is sent to Lynn,
Mass., and other points, where tho
leather is ground up, mixed with a me¬
dium, nnd pressed into buttons. The
remainder that is not so used is treated
chemically, turned into a gelatinous fertiliz¬
mass, dried, and ground leather into pieces .a that
ing fail dust. The sole
from the block of the heel stamper
are sorted into two lifeaps. The very
fine pieces are put with the waste. Tlie
scraps, presenting a surface of a couple
of square inches, are barreled up an.l
sold to parties in New York or Boston
ff 0116 “ nt ft 1)0 ! ln(1 > wh( ; r ? P. ut
through a peculiar machine. Tins in-
strument splits tho pieces nearly
through. Then it opens the piece thus
cut like a book. Thence it is delivered
from between rollers, and is large en¬
ough to be again sent to the factory to
be cut up into heel lifts.
“There is another small but impor¬
tant industry which goes to prove how
ordinary wastes of business may ba
turned to acoount. This is a work of
long standing, ahougli photograph not generally gallery
known. Iu every
there is annually a large amount of waste
silvered paper. This is all thrown into
a box and is bought or exchanged for
nitrate of silver. The comparatively gallery
snrnll amount collected in one
aggregates a great mass when all the
gallcries are considered. This paper is
burned, and the silver that is extracted
from the residue pays sufficiently at
least for a good living. The- time was,
not very remote, too, when the coal tar
from gas houses was a nuisance in every
harbor. Now every bit of the tar is
utilized, and some of the finest dyes
ever known are made from it.”
%
No More Elephants.
The savage King of tlie Matabele, iti
South Africa, has probably never heard
of the game laws of civilized nations,
but it has occurred to him. that some¬
thing should he done to save the ele¬
phants from utter extermination, and
he has set about the task. He has is¬
sued an order that white men be no
longer permitted to hunt the elephant the
in his large territory. Ho says that
Dutch and English hunters have left
very few elephants alive, and that lie
will not permit the noble animals to be
hunted again until they have largely trade in¬
creased in number. The ivory
south of the Zambesi is no longer profit¬
able, because so few elephants fall in the
way of tho hunters. No part of Africa
is now rich in ivory ezoept the unhunted
region of the Congo basin.
Deceivers htt.r.
Mrs. llemlricks t>o caller)— 'No, l
didn't read the story, Mrs. Hobson. “'T
husband read it, and told me; that it
ended dreadfully, and I Uon t like .hat
itvle of novel. ’ rprised)—“Why, r it .
Mrs. Hobson (s: and they
atded beautifully, chapter.” were
tied in the last look hei
Mrs. Hendricks**with a set on
face)—“I’ll speak to Mr. llendrickt
about it again.”
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UNITED STATES' OFFICIALS.
' lion. S limit White llon.e mill
I p 11,i- — Army
Navy ainttpi * Our Hrlattous With Other
t'oiinlrir* mill Nut|nn«.
! CONGUKSSIONAI,.
Tu ' hc S(, " tc lll( ' resolution reported
. h Mr. Sherman
>’ requesting the Prrri
lent to uegotinto a treaty with the cm-
peror of China, to contain a provision
that no Chinese laborer shall enter the
was taken up, discussed
"IS the pending question being on the
. jmendnun tiered by Mr. Wilson,
to of
to add the words “from infirmities
of age.” Mr, Reck said that he under-
1 stood the meaning of the amendment to
i'* }' tliat every th one who vith «erved Mexico,on in the in late
1 ° r ' "j ar ' any
• 1,1(111111 y " “b «nd who was suffering under
,hu “iufirmities of age” would be entitled
*<> a pension of #12 a month.... On mo-
' tion of Mr. Dnrgan, of South Carolina,
j the House passed the Senate bill autlior-
izing the Secretary of War to transfer to
the trustees of 1‘ortcr academy, of Char-
| leston - certain property belonging
to the government and formerly used as
an arsenal. Mr. Belmont called up the
joint resolution authorizing the President
to arrange a conference to beheld in
Wa»hi.igton, in 1889, for the purpose of
promoting arbitration and encouraging
the principal commercial relations be-
tween the United States republics of
Central and South America and the cm-
,£ (lire of adopted. Brazil. Nobody opposed it and
"as
In the Senate several petitions and re¬
monstrances revision of the were presented tariff against legis- any
present or any
lati on tending to cripple the industries
of the country. The dependent pension
bill was then taken up. Air. Wilson, of
Iowa, moved an amendment to insert the
words “from infirmities of age,” so ns to
pension all ex-soldiers suffering “from
infirmities of age,” or from mental or
physical disability. In tho debate which
took place on the amendment, Air. Plumb
delivered an eloquent eulogy on the army,
referring particularly to the fact that
when the War closed, the army could
have placed one of its leaders at the head
of the government and could have dic¬
tated its own terms, but had asked noth¬
ing except to he permitted to disband
and return to peaceful pursuits. Mr.
Vest delivered a long speech saying that
of the 2,300,000 men enrolled as soldiers
during the four years of the War, there
were application from 1,200,000 for pen¬
sions on account of disability. Such
military execution, he said, had never
been known in the history of the whole
world. The had Confederates had thought
that they poor powder and ordinance
stores and yet making due allowance for
tlie bility, effect would of climate in producing Confed¬ disa¬
it appear that one
erate soldier, half-clothed and half-fed,
had disabled three adversaries... .In the
House, Air. Holman, of Indiana, from
the committee on public lauds, reported
a bill to secure to actual settlers the pub¬
lic lands adapted to agriculture,
and to protect forests on the public do¬
main. Ordered printed and recommitted.
Air. Dockery called up and the House
passed, the bill relating to postal crimes.
It provides for who the fine gives and imprisonment evidence
of any person false as
to the character of securing of any publication admission for
the purpose its to
the mails as second-class matter, and for
fraudulently the punishment changing of persons forging orders or
money and
postal notes. Moffat, Euiogies upon late Repre¬
sentative of Michigan, were then
pronounced, and the House adjourned.
gossh>.
j An order was issued for the discontinu-
aDCC 0 f a number of signal service only sta¬
lions. Pensacola, ^ Fla., is the one
discontinued in g ou!h .
The President has directed that the
•new military post at Highwood, and near
(Chicago, Ill., he known designated
as Fort Sheridan, iu honor of Lieut.-Gen.
Sheridan.
Secretary of the Interior Yilas has re¬
organized the force of Iris office employed
on the land appeal cases, with a view to
greater efficiency. The office is nt pres¬
ent 1,900 cases behind.
A delegation of distillers and Washington whiskey
duil | (TS f rom the West are in
p ()1 . (j, e purpose of asking Congress to
pass a bi'l granting an indefinite exten-
sion of the bonded period,
q'he Senate has confirmed the nomina-
t; ous 0 f T. J. Moreno, United States
.Marshal for the Southern district of Flori-
da; Commodore Gherardi to be rear
admiral, and a large number of naval and
military promotions; and Ella Lewis, to
be postmaster at Gallatin, Tenn.
The will of the late W. W. Corcoran
was offered for probate. The greater
portion of the estate, which is valued at
$3,000,000, is bequeathed to his three
grand-children. The sum of $1,000,000
is left to tho Corcoran art gallery, half had the
will stating that a million and a
already been given to the institution;and
$50,000 to the Louise Home, a half mil¬
lion having already been devoted to it.
In the report of the Commissioner of
Agriculture, considerable attention is de¬
voted to the subject of farm animals in
the various states. The State agent iu
South Carolina reports that live stock are
iu a, normal condition, and there is a
marked improvement in their care and
keep. In North Carolina stock-raising attention is
beginning to attract the of
progressive farmers, and the result has
been the importation of some fine stock.
The cattle, horses and mules are better'
fed and housed than formerly. In Geor-
gia there is a tendency to increased care
in the breeding and general care of stock
of all kinds Owing to the effect of the
j j adoption ' of what is there known has been as the abso- local
^ ti m stork i, lWj an
ruduction of ,h c number of cattle,
j | hot complementary £ increased. to this result the
j Ua been
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i WINS.
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Tw^ity-Cffbt voted for prohibition counties in under Michigan the lo-
have first
CR i option l*w. The county to go
“wet” is Washtenaw, which voted by a
majority of 1,540 against prohibition.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
I'ni'lorlea, tlotian Hilt*. Fertilizer Work*.
( nr *li<>i>«, I’ublte linltitinit » Fie.
A company is being formed to start a
cotton factory at Evergreen, Ala ...TV.
T. Conn & Co. contemplate starting u
tracker factory at Alilledgeville, Ga ...
C. C. Hhcpperson will start the manufac¬
ture of clothing at Columbus, Ga ..
Philip Doha A Sons will erect a new fur-
nil tire factory at Macon, Ga ...W. S.
Walker contemplates establishing a soap
factory at Jacksonville, Fla .. .Thereare
prospects of a shoe factory being started
at Lynchburg, Ya . .. Efforts are being
made to start a canning factory at Char¬
leston, W. Vn... There is talk of aconi-
pany being formed to start a fertilizer
factory at Raleigh, N. C.... Efforts are
being made to organize a cotton mill
company at Greenslxiro, N. C....R is
reported that a clothes pin factory will
be started by Couch & Allen, at Koyser,
N. C... .The Bessemer, Alabama, Cotton
Manufacturing Company, capital stock
$200,000, has been incorporated to build
a factory... Isaac Stephenson, of Wis
cousin, and others, have lands purchased in Louisi¬ 30,•
000 acres of pine timber
ana .. It is rumored that the spoke and
handle factory moved at Calera, Anniston Ala., will .It prob¬
ably be to Price, and ... others, is re¬
ported that erecting C. E icc factory at Talla¬ con¬
template Gn... .It is an reported that If. W.
poosa, is negotiat¬
Wadleigh, of Boston, .Mass., Gadsden,
ing to establish a tannery A. Crapp, at of LaFav-
Ala....T. S. & F. and
ette, Ind., will move their saw mill
sash, door and blind factory to Talla¬
poosa, Ga.... A building to cost $25,000
is to he erected for the Macon, Ga., public
library, and work is to be started at once.
.....]'. TV. Aloon, of Muskegon, Mich.,
will start a factory to manufacture
ice chests at Fort Smith, Ark....It is
reported that the Chattanooga Scale
Company, of Chattanooga, Tenn., are ne¬
gotiating to move their works to Cartors-
villc, Ga.. .TheDeFuniak Springs, Fla.,
Lumber Company arc adding a furniture
factory to their mills.... N. G. Olds &
Sons, of Fort TVayne, Ind., are contem¬
plating starting a*branch spoke and han¬
dle factory at Charleston, TV. Va .. The
real estate agency is raising money with
the ultimate view of starting some kind
of a factory at Fayetteville, N. O... .TV.
C. Scott, and others, have chartered the
Mutual Loan and Trust Company, capital
stock $50,000, Birmingham, to deal in Ala... and improve .Eighty
lands abort
thousand acres of pine timber lands in
Arkansas, AIisaissippi and Louisiana, have
been purchased by A. G. Van Schaiek, of
Chicago, 11L, and associates... .The Mari¬
etta & North Georgia Railroad Company
contemplate building a branch road from
Mariettu to the Georgia Pacific Railroad
at Austell... .The TVaco and Brazos Rail¬
way Company, capital stock $1,000,000, railroad
has been chartered to build a
from TVaco, Texas, to Cameron.. . , TV . J.
Griffin and W. O. Temple, of Elizabeth
City, and AI. J. Sawyer, of Camden, have
organized the North Carolina Pine Lum¬
ber Company to deal in and develop tim¬
ber lands.
A GREEN HAND.
A dispatch from Rock Island, Ill., says
that passenger train No. 1, oil the Chica¬
go, Milwaukee & St. Paul road, was run
into by a freight on the Mendola branch
of the Clinton, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, at
East a mile south of Fulton
Junction. Tlie Milwaukee engine and
mail and express cars were all demolished
and tiie baggage car turned over. P. R.
Welhclm, of that city, was probably fa¬
tally injured, and Thomas Morrison was
seriously hurt. Both were on the Mil¬
waukee train. In the “Q” engine call
were the engineer, fireman, conductor and
ported Ro id Master fatally Deigrist. hurt. The The latter is re¬
all the track and cars were piled
up over the telegraph
wires were all broken. Blame for the
accident is laid on the “Q” engineer, a
green hand, who lost control of his en¬
gine and did not stop at the crossing.
FORTUNE WIPED OUT.
The furniture factory of Potter &
Stymus, at Forty-second street and Lex¬
ington avenue, in New Y’ork, caught fire
and was destioyed, with approach other buildings million
adjoining. When The losses firemen arrived a they
dollars. tlie
saw what a formidable fire they had to
cope with, and Second Assistant Chief
McCabe, without a moment’s hesitation,
sent out the ‘ three sixes” alarm, bring¬
ing to the scene twenty-one engine companies com¬
panies. eight hook and ladder the
and a water tower. It took firemen
three hours to get the fire under control.
Of tlie entire block bounded by Third
and Lexington nvennes, Forty-first and
Forty-second streets, there remains stand¬
ing only a short row of houses on Third
avenue.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
The colored university of Alabama, re¬
cently located in Montgomery, received
an adverse decision recently from the
Supreme Court. The last General Assem¬
bly passed an act in February, 1887, ap¬
propriating $10,000 for tho purpose of
mu •ting tlie university, and also the sum
of $7,500 annually for the support and
i maintenance of the institution, the money
to he taken from that part of the general
school fund set apart for the education of
negroes. L ist Summer, W. E. Ellsbury
and others, as citizens and tax-payers,
filed n hill in the city court praying for
an injunction board against the governor, state
treasurer and of trustees, to enjoin
them from using the money appropriated.
HE VETOED IT.
Governor Green, of New Jersey, has
vetoed the local option his objections high license bill,
The governor mivs arc pro¬
sented in obedience to constitutional di-
rection, hut with no idea that any reason
which can hc urged will have the any effect
upon the final passage of bill. The
lull classifies licenses with three grades—
] for towns of 8,000 and less population,
i between 3,000 and 10,000, and 10,000
and above. The license fees are graded
also—$100, $150 and with $250. Prohibition, liber*,
i he says, interferes personal
depreciates the value of property and de-
stroys an industry in which millions of
inoncy*is employed. invested and thousands of cifi-
:cns i
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SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
ROIUI) von '.V PACTS AN It FAN-
Cl ES INTE If 15 ' TING I. Y S TA TE V.
tri'l.lrnift on I.■>ii•! mill «» Sen—New Enter-
prl*f«- 1 *iin , l(tea--ltellfftoiit, Temperance
anil Nnrinl illnttcrn.
Plans are on foot for a city hospital in
Athens, Ga.
Eighteen persons escaped from the
Shreveport, La., jail.
George TV. Barber, of Milwaukee, Wis.,
has bought a large tract of Bartow lands
in Georgia.
Tlie thermometer at Lynchburg, Va.,
recently registered eight degrees above
zero—-the coldest of the winter.
The monument to tho memory of the
late Bishop Pierce " ill be erected in
Sparta on the 1st of next September.
GeorgeS. Iluincs, brother of Col. 11.
S. Haines, has been appointed superin¬
tendent of the Brunswick & Western
Railroad.
The ninth an mini commencement of
the Southern Medical College took place
in Atlanta, Ga., in the presence of an
immense crowd.
Peter AlcCartney, a veteran counter¬
feiter, has been arrested in New Orleans,
La., for passing one dollar silver certifi¬
cates altered to fifties.
Norman Lawshe, a son of Col. Peter
I.awshe, formerly of Gainesville, slioot- Ga.,
committed suicide in Atlanta, by
i tg himself in the head with a parlor
line.
Dr. TV. II. Tutt, who has recently re¬
turned to Augusta, Ga., and is building a
handsome dwelling, offered to put his
valuable residence site iu as $15,000 in
stock of a Summerville hotel company.
Sa’es of leaf tobacco in Danville, Va.,
for February, amounted to 410,000
pounds. Total for five months was 14,-
800,000 pounds, or nearly 0,00#! 000
pounds more than for the same time last
year.
The Georgia Midland announces a re¬
duction of rates between Columbus, Ga.,
and Atlanta to $2.90. This is about one
dollar less than the present rate, and
menus a war between tlie Georgia Mid-
land and the Central system.
The wagon and oxen that were confis¬
cated by United States officers a few
days since nt Anniston, Ala., with a keg
of illicit whiskey, were stolen from the
stables and of 8. Kelly by unknown.parties
gotten safely away with.
A convention is in session in Atlanta,
Ga., to effect a permanent union of some
fifty Congregational Methodist churches,
several Free Protestant Methodist
churches, with the Congregational
churches of Atlanta, is one that will at¬
tract attention throughout the-South.
The Georgia railroad commission, at its
have meeting, issued a circular which will
the effect of bringing the cent into
general circulation throughout the state,
for after the first day of May all railroads
will collect exact mileage for passenger
fares, thus creating a demand for the
cent.
The Presbyterians of Atlanta, Ga., are
discussing among themselves various
plans for establishing in that city a Pres*
byterian college. The idea seems to be
to establish at Atlanta a Presbyterian
character university of the South of such
as to attract patronage from
other states.
Revenue Agent A. H. Chapman, and
Deputy Collector Colquitt, assisted by
two Alabama deputies, made a raid in
Franklin and Monroe counties, Alabama,
Thev seized six large distilleries, with
six stills and fixtures, nml destroyed 103
fermenting beer tubs, nnd 11,000 gallons 8 of
and other things. ’
.... Dr. John J. . Davit, .. citizen of ,
once a
Carrollton, Ga., having practiced medi-
nm: t here a number of years ago with Dr.
\. T\. lilts, was accidentally killed in
(ass county, i exits, where lie lias been
living for a number of years. Hc was
out hunting, and while getting over a
fence he toll, his gun was discharged, the
contents lodging in his head.
The dynamite factory of tlie Dixie
Powder Company, located five miles from
Chattanooga, which Teun., was the scene of an
explosion, resulted in serious in¬
jury to George M, Perry, the superin¬
tendent and one of the proprietors. Per¬
ry was soldering in a tin funnel used in
tin cartridges, when the red-hot iron
come in contact with a small quantity of
uitro glycerine, causing it to explode.
F. A. Brynner, r drummer represent¬
ing the Celluloid Novelty company, of
New York, was found in room 13 of tlie
Planters’ hotel, blood at Augusta, Iris Ga., pillow with
brains and over face, the
and the sheets, and a Smith & Wesson
pistol in his hand. Blood was congealed,
showing that tlie shooting had occurred
during the night. and The diamond coroner found scarf
$15, a silver watch a
pin on the dead body, but no clue to the
cause of Bynner’s mysterious death.
Some excitement was reported at New¬
berry, S. C., on account of the presence
of R. A. William, representing himself
ns the „ tnu , ehng .. agent . of f t he Memphis ,, ... &.
Little Rock Railway His mission was
to get negro emigrants for Arkansas and
take them over Ins line. He went about
his work rather mysteriously,and excited hit-
the ill-will of the farmers, who are
tcrly opposed to any negroes being taken
away. He left the place, him. taking about a
dozen negroes with
A terrible burning occurred near Dean’s
crossing, near Greenville, 8. C. Robert
Perrv and his wife, two colored people,
and their children, left their homes to
visit William Williams, a neighbor, for
After being at Williams’s house a
short time the children, accompanied by
Joe Williams, went home to build a lire,
’
After a short time . an alarm , of , fire ,. was
given. Perry and his wife ran to their
tiome and found only the burning cm-
hers and the charred remains of the eliil-
drcii.
WILL BE WELCOME.
The Toronto, Canada, Mail says that
la t year, 577 families left one consulai
d strict of Ontario for the United States.
It cites the case of ono family who left
for Virginia, taking with them household
effects, Wooded stock and cash to the
amount of $35,000.
VOL. Ill, NO. 24.
! WORLD AT LARGE.
I’E-V PICTURES PAINTER RY A
CORPS OP avia: ARTISTS.
Wliwr U (i»lni on North, East and Writ
and Across tlic Water—Tho Coming Kn«
ropenn Morin.
Snow storms of unusual severity nt<p
prevailing in northern Italy.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt
at San Francisco.
In the New York Court the complaint
against Gould and Sage have been dis¬
missed.
Judge Gildersleeve, of New York, has
decided that Dynamiter Mooney must go
to the Utica insane asylum.
The Gloucester, Alass., Council lias
passed resolutions protesting against tho
ratification of the fisheries treaty.
Clara Louise Kellogg is suffering
badly, tis, complicated at Fishkill, N. whooping-cough. Y., from bronchi¬
with
Surgeons at San Remo now take a
gloomy view of the Crown Prince’s exhibited con¬
dition, owing to tho depression
by him.
An avalanche in the valley of Morobia,
Switzerland, lias killed ten persons and
many cattle and destroyed a large number
of houses.
Five shares of the New Y’ork Sun Pub¬
lishing company, par value $1,000 each,
were sold at tlie New York real estate ex¬
change for $3,350 each.
The Kansas roof City of a nearly collapsed completed and crushed hotel
at
through eight stories to the ground. dozen One
workman was killed and about a
. .
1 "R 1 rf;( “
The _ Wisconsin Supreme Court lias de¬
clared inoperative tins law enacted by the
last Legislature, which permitted habit¬
ual drunkards to be confined in an asylum
not to exceed two years.
Dispatches from Massowah says King
John, with Rasslula and a large army, is
advancing upon the Italians, and that the
advance gvard arrived at Osmara to pre¬
pare quarters for King John.
The Democratic National Convention
! having been called for tiro game date upon
which the National Prohibition Conven-
j tion is to assemble at Indianapolis, it is
probable that the date of the latter will
lie changed to a week earlier.
The Venezuelans aro expecting an
armed expedition of the Y’urnari, of the and British that to they the
gold fields
are preparing to resist the invasion ol
their territory. Tho richness of the gold
mines in the disputed territory is almost
marvellous.
M. TVilson, son-in-law of ex-President
Grevv, of France, who has been on trial
for complicity in the -legion of honor
I decoration scandals, has been convicted.
He was sentenced to two years’imprison¬
ment, to pay a fine of 3,000 francs, and
to he deprived of his civil rights for five
years. Tho sentence is generally ap¬
proved in France.
The Union Square theatre, with all its
contents, in New York City, was des¬
troyed by fire. The Morton house, ad-
M? 1 "* °" two sides, was badly damaged
- end the Star theatre was in imminent
<J au g cr f° r some time, but it received no
dalua g e > « ce I>‘ lo »*? lienor decorations
from smoke. F ivc firemen were injured
by falling timbers, but not fatally. The
Henrietta company had finished a rehear-
sal only a few minutes before tlie fire
'‘t’’ 10 oul -
A Southern Pacific fast train running
at a high speed, struck the Medina bridge oyer
the (.ondo creek, in counj,
fjgbty nlllea wust of ban Antonio, Texas,
rlic str, lctllre ,' vas apparently all right
but as the , engine reached the further end
the timbers gave way, and the remainder
of the train, consisting of a heavy loaded
f re ' 1} ,ht car and the caboose, went down,
cnlB hi„g into the creek. The cars fell
, u jj y fifty feet before they struck bottom,
and we re shivered into splinters. G. F.
ptheridge, f ’ a well-known stock man,
wag ns tantly killed, as well
flg Q eor , ro Hardestey, brakeman, tho
]. dter p e i n g mashed to a pulp. Conduc-
tor George Davidson and Brakeman L.
Hall, had their legs broken.
A BAD FELLOW.
John P. Fuller, a “call” member of
the Providence, arrested It. I., fire iuccndiary. department, He
has been as an
was seen in a yard early one morning
where a fire had just been started in
some oil barrels. lie ran to fire, his engine
house but gave no alarm of which
was put out by people living near by,
who had seen Fuller’s actions.
"HELD UP !”
An express train on the St. Louis, Ar¬
kansas & Texas Railroad was made the
object of an attempted robbery at King- the
land, Ark. The robbers smashed in
doors and got away with $20,000.
Her Hand in the Wrong Pocket.
A laughable incident of tho street was
the one witnessed the other day in window front
{ jewelry j /ed store in whose show
( o^ents. isplft a gorgeous array of gems
, all lying in a bed of
w , litest cotton . Among the throng gath-
(>] . ed in froIl{ . of t j lis t lisplny were big a ulster man
ftnd ]ds wife packets The man wore a
w ; tll w j de at either side. Tlie day
was co j dj and ti, 0 nose of tho woman
needed frequent attention, which she
gave it by reaching in lier husbands
ulster pocket for a handkerchief appar-
entlv kept there for family use. It cor-
tainly was a most convenient place But
in a luckless moment the husband lelt
the wife’s side and moved a little nays
off, that lio might better attracted inspect Ins a atten- pmee
of jewelry that had
tion. The wife unaware ot Ins ebango
of ],, ls0 mado SO me remark about the
’ alld then shoved her hand into
■ e]er
t)u , 1>ot : ke t ,,f the ulster that was by her
side ftnd Drought forth a big and red
handkerchief, which she proceeded to
use without delay'. madam,” said gruff¬
“Excuso me, a
voiced stranger at her side, “but that’s
mv handkerchief, and—”
For answer the poor woman threw the
handkerchief in the man’s face, gave ut¬
terance to a little scream, and sought
protection on the arm of the ulster to
which slio had been duly wedded. A
word explained all, and a titter went
round the crowd, —Chicago Herald.