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P0E1IC MDSING5.
1IT 8. MOOBE.
T„ .very some gifted colloge, huge,
In either school or
Hsu risen to illuminate
Onryouth with useful knowledge.
But tho’ a man may store his mind
With much of useful matter,
Ti„'n ,11'itlior gain nor yet retain
Unless lie learn to scatter.
Whot good to think and tlion allow
Our gathered thoughts to slumber,
Ami have onr lunula, like old cock lofts,
A stem lor useless lumber?
For tho' we soek and find the truth
We never cun retain it,
rnloss we try ns hard to it. keep
As e'e 1- we did to gain
And truth possessed who don't lioeomos obey it; n pest
To ill mo the heavier
While duty grows delay it.
Tho longer wo
Tho luw which wo don't wish to keep
Is always harsh and cruel;
Thus what wo Late we r< jewel. ekon vile,
l!ut u list wo lea o h a
What sigoifl' s philosophy it?
[[vo tko while abuse
For hotter have good common sense
And know well how to use it.
still we should have our tnindB well stored
With truth imd useful learning,
And wo should practice what wo know
White after wisdom yearning.
Then shun the curBe of Igcoranoa
And darker superstition,
Nor keep a talent unimproved
To send you to pordition.
Get love and storo it in your heart,
Anil guard tho sacred treasure,
’Twill throw a charm on everything
And make your life a jdeasure.
Love lubricates tho wheels of life,
And swoetens every duty.
Ami makes tho roughest pathway seem
An avenue of beauty.
limn FORTUN Ei
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Tbe Stolen Heiress.
A TALE OF NEW YORK IN 1835
BY PROF. WM. HENRY PECK,
AUTHOR OP
% The Queen's Secret , n u The Tower of Gold,”
‘ The IMf-Brecd“IfarohVs Hate, 9
* The Bride of Barcelona” Etc,
CHAPTER XXXV.
TOE DAME AND HER SERVANT.
The clouds gathered fast nnd dark while
Dame Grippard was became on her quite lonely way, and
the closing day stormy ere
6he arrived at her cottage.
The sun had long been invisible amid
the rain aud clouds when she drove into
her 6fal/le-yard, dismounted from her ve¬
hicle, and pursued her noiseless way into
her kitchen.
In the kitchen she found Maggie Dilkei
busily Verneena engaged in preparing sapper for
and hers -if. That of the dame
hadalready for her been made ready and set aside
coming. Quick of eye, she instantly
noticed that Maggie's heavy and usually
stolid features were now very lowering and
ootiile from great discontent evidently
seething in her soul.
The dame, after gazing keenly at the
woman for a moment, said:
'Now. then, Maggio Dilker, what's the
matter grand-daughter?” with you to-night? And wkoro is
my
The woman lifted her heavy eyelids stow
!y and sullenly, not nt all startled by the
sudden nnd unannounced coming of the
dame, stared at hera moment, and replied,
curtly:
“Skes in her room, Mrs. Gripjrard.
Where should she be?’’
“I am very glad to hear this," said tie
dame to herself. “As I live, I had some
fear that 6ke might have gone to stay with
some of our neighbors for the night, as she
has often done when asked to sit up with
the sick. She is always ready to take such
trouble upon herself for others, the sim¬
pleton.
“Aud what is my grand-daughter doing,
Maggie?" she added, aloud.
herowu, “Packing up everything that is rightfully
Mrs Grippard,”answeredMnggio,
as curtly and sullenly as before.
“Hum! And why is she doing that, Mng-
g'e?”
“Because she is going away, Mrs. Grip¬
pard. ”
This reply made (he dame start with sud¬
den consternation. If Verneena quitted
the cottage before eating again in it, tha
plot 1 tame Grippard had schemed for the
roniden s abduction would be blown to tho
winds as a thing of naught. Sho hastened
t° exclaim:
“What? Does she intend to go away from
the cott'ge to-night—and immediately?”
Not till to-morrow morning, she told
®®, Mrs. Grippard. And I am going, too.
That’s flat. ”
“Hum! And why is she going?—nnd why
are ///,„ going?”
“Miss Verneena keeps her reasons for
Roitig *°do, to herself, as she has a perfect right
her, Mrs. Grippard. Hers are good enough
s^Sk for of course, and mine are good
No doubt, me, Mrs. Grippard. ’’ But what
you insolent hussy.
are yours, Maggie Dilker, I'd like to know. ”
oath “Long in ago, Mrs. Grippard, I swore nn
my heart that never would I stay a
uav under your roof after Miss Yerneena
should not be by my side to cheer my work.
* d R °on starve for food, Mrs. Grippard, if
1 got no more to eat hero than you allowed
me when J first took service with you. I
soon saw that, if Miss Verneena did not
share with me the victuals she buys for
herself wi,'h her own earnings, that the liv-
ln j' skeleton would be a fat woman by tho
side of me, nnd so I took my Bible oath
never to linger with you after the blessed
young lady quit you—nnd I wonder she has
jot W|, s. Grippard! done that samo So, many I'U just a day forfeit ngone, my
month’s now,
wages rather tha ~ stay with yon,
Mrs. Grippard—and if yo a don’t like it you
may Are lump it. ” grand¬
daughter you after going to live with service, my Mag-
you leave my
She’s promised to have me after she is
Warned and has a home of her own—which,
please God, I hope she soon may have!”
(-. You may go now, if you like, Maggie
Huker, double though I was about to offer you
wages to livo with me nt Old Au-
“At Old Anchors!" exclaimed Maggie,
shuddering. ' *11 Anchors “You think 1 would livo last at
after what happened there
night! ’Ton mv soul, Mrs. Grippard, it’s
cra *y you are—and crazy would I be to con-
sent to live j n that terrible place for a mill-
10u dollais a day. Old Anchors, indeed!”
“And what happened so terrible at Old
Anchors last night, you simpleton?”
Miss ' As Yerueena if you didn’t know, Mrs. Grippard. about
th told me all flbd know
“ awful suicide of poor Mr. Bratton last
night in Old Anchors, liis ghost will be
wandering “Avenged over the ptaoo till he is avenged.
..“The upon whom, hftn Maggie?”- himself.
one that made kill
Urippnrd. Tho one that was the death
him. They say he owed you so much
from in, Mrs. tho Grippard." prison you^boonsuro to put put him him
,
“Ytu nre a sunerstitinna vr
I r,r;„.:r,r,z:;, rent placed” 8 ’ h UU
or sell the *
"You are welcome to do that ami 1 h» b
chased bv the ghost Mrs Grinrmr’.t *
daughter’s , “but tell m^ MagJe dtrmv mand ’•
lover enter this 1 i«hha wdb bel
to-day?”
“Hor Ini-nri an., i-______ lover*’’ 111 . baS
lotd me that she ha* n6Tel
“but a
she has 7,., 1U « tlUl ) tbe .1, Y moan to
trv to elnn« T l b‘ s cottage this
night cLlT 1 to tcb ftbo t all very
too to L ‘‘; b “*“*» ; v *; “ 1 1,0111 “ toll niRht, that
you io-ibv v.r? bun nocompany her here
MaLie in » »Ta" ge '.l kRg ' e Dllkur ’"
^ ZAA uuusual quickness
“I saw a ndsome young gentle-
diem min t in come thA into th h<! 80 ’ .t’ M grippard. He !
yar eTen ’ IIe bel P ed
as% , Camage llko a
prince ^,5““ and a8 lf ® bc was a born , pnncess,
oair 1bo v are as ba; isome a
hade as He . . er to u ‘ e 8 at °.
her U10ant< d j a noble-look- ,
IftAv/wf thlt blt : b bad
a °f a °y ridden
‘ b ® carn ;^ 6, and rode away like ?
prince again. i The b.t of a boy got into
^A^ maKadnv « 8 8eat ’ aild tbe carriage
^way toward the , city, empty. When
g near the hazel thicket out yonder, a
un U nn UI G,n^ f°°!inan tbe s 1 board^ tbick(,, ' behind—and 1 al ‘d jumped
that ,,, a the last . I and all know about
the saw, 1
neodn’t matter, Mrs. Grippard, and so you
asking worry yourself, nor me, either, by
tired of me the any more questions, for I am
same. That’B Hat ”
“Ah," reflected the dame, “the man that
jumped doubt, up behind the carriage was, no
Balbata's first mate — Urbandt.
Doubtless he spied after Hawksworthy
from the time the carriage quit the vicinity
of Old Anchors. Here. Maggie,” she added
aloud, and giving Maggie a key; “take this
key to the feed chest Go to the stable and
give Ajax a double feed of oats and corn.
The poor beast must be nearly famished.”
Maggie, “Nearly famished, do you say!” muttered
as she quitted the kiteheu. “It’s
beast enti.ely starved with the hunger the t>o«r
has been ever since he became one ot
your family, Mrs. Grippard.”
The dame heard these muttered words.
Her eyes flashed vengefully, and as she.
hastened to her bedroom she said to herself:
“insolent wretch! If 1 did not intend to-
use your tongue in my plans of this night
and hereafter, I’d give you a dose to still it.
forever!”
She quickly procured in her bedroom,
from a secret drawer of her private desk, an
article which she intended to use. She
then hastened with noiseless steps to place
herself near the partially opened door of
Vemeena’s bedroom. She was now able to
see the maiden and at the same time remain,
concealed.
Yerneena was engaged as Msggie had
said. She had no suspicion that the evil
eyas of the dame were gazing keenly at her.
Dame Grippard watched Yerneena only a
few seconds. Satisfied that Yerneena would
continue busy for some time, she glided
away and into the kitchen. There she
flashed her scrutiny in every direction, lis¬
tened toward the stable awhile, and then,
deftly and swiftly mingled a tasteless and and
colorless narcotic powder with the tea
food which Maggie had prepared Maggie for Ver- al-
neeca’s supper. She knew that
was ate of what she prepared for the
maiden.
Long before Maggie returned from the
stable the dame was again near Vemeena’s
bedroom door. She tipped gently on the
half-opened door, and tottered into the
room with steps of feigned feebleness.
Yerneena glanced at lrer, but said noth,
mg. The old woman pretended to sink
rather than seat herself in a chair, panted
as if for lost breath and infirmities. anB
whined, in broken accents:
“Oh, my! How tired out I am! This has
been an awful day on my feeble strength,
rnv dear child! Oh! But, dear me! Worse
than anything that has happened at Old
Anchois is what Maggie has just told me.
my dear child. That is, if it is really true.
Can it be true. Oh, my dear grand-daugh¬
ter, are you really going to desert me in my
old age and increasing infirmities? Going
to desert/»e—your poor old grandmother!
Going to desert me to-morrow!”
“Dame Grippard,” responded Yerneena,
severely, snd gazing steadily at the old
hypocrite, “in my departure from your roof
forever there is nothing that can be rightly
catted desertion. Maggie has told tho
truth. 111m going to leave you and your
so-called protection to-morrow, forever.”
“Hear her! And after all the faithful
promises which I have made to her this
very day! After I have sworn to her that
she may marry her lover whenever and
wherever she mav 'in desire! Bight here, this
very night, and this very room, if she
wants to!” exclaimed Dame Grippard,
clasping hor hands and lifting her eyes
te irfully toward the ceiling.
’I o all this Yerneena made no other re¬
ply than to dart a glance of utter scorn and
contempt at the old woman. When Pettis
had carried to Yerneena the message that
sho and Edward couid depart from Old
Anchors, and not tarry there longer for the
dame, he had whispered to the lovers that
Dir ' Grippard had declared to him her
-.v>n to write to Edward’s father that
ve.y oay, and ask the Colonel to hasten to
New York to prevent the marriage of the
devoted pair. Pettis, of course, had asked
the lowers not to betray him to the dame.
“You will make no reply, my dear?
whined the dame, feigning to sob from the
bottom of her soul. “ Oh, at least tell me
Where you are going! I ask to know, for
you are so young, so sweet and so beauti-
tiful, and so inexjrerienced to go out into
this wicked world unprotected. Of course,
Hawsworthy wilt Be protector. ”
Mr. your Grippard,
“I am going to AlBany, Dame
answered Verneena, coldly. “Why, or how
I am going there does not concern you. 101
henceforth nothing in common is to exist
between you and me.” ,,
“It is plain,” said the dame to , herself, ,
“that l&flr lover has made her more defiant
of me than ever—and she was bad enough
in that respect before this day, the Lord
knows.”
“My dear child,” she added aloud, “youi
singular and very unnatural conduct has
made me so sick at heart that I fear I am
going to pains be very aronnd ill to-night! poor heart!” Oh,, such
stramre my and dis¬
Here the dame rolled her eyes
torted her features as if her whole frams
was rent with ineffable inward agony.
“Oh, I feet as if I had swallowed poison,
dear child! I may have done that. ”
my Yerneena continued to attend to her own
affairs. She put no faith as yet in the body. ex¬
istence of any illness of the dame’s
“My dear Yerneena,” gaspingly probable that whis¬ I
pered tbe dame, “it is very
bavo poisoned myself. Just now in my
bedroom I chanced to pick up and eat a
cake which I placed on my desk-lid tins
morning just before wo set out for Old
Anchors. Oh! And now I remember that
I was mixing some rat poison on the Jid last
night. Oh! And now I remember that I
did not clean off the hd after mixing the
rat poison on it. Oh! This is tlread/ul. I
am sure now that the cake which I have
« llH t eaten got much of that horrible ra
po iiOTi on it. Oh, you should pity me, my
c hildF’ fnlt of anguish
The dame s voice was so
that Verneena looked toward her '’’iriously
lo her astonishment the visage of the o d
woman was now ghastly speckled pale, streaked with with red
bluish stnpes, and
ELL AVI LLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. APRIL 12/188S.
l,plo<c fc ! *- Her »>'<* ghu eif with real lior-
ror. Hor features oxj.ro *g efl snddon and
boundless torror and torribj o pain.
''st- ftss, fJs
". OI,mu ly clutched K,,iau « oonvulrivol; / to hor feet, fu-
i? ou ? hor robe and skin ncrosi
u r breast, uttered a loud i uul sharp scream
1 . ^ 'A A A fr lbo
l.V ,° IU wltU
11 e1 ^ PJ>ee ‘ 1 ftml
1 thought she was mer jly trying to de-
ceive me for ■ome viii .pttl ‘pose," saidVer-
n tho . 0 ‘‘ n:i *° benelf, au ct e iziug aft. r where
,lani ° hnd vauishe d; * but it is very evi-
dent that she is res tty very it I, and it in
possible that she may liave poisoned 5 hor-
self in the way she s» d ”
In truth, tho d ime 1 nil poisoned herself
while in her bedroom by tasting too freely
ot « drug while in sear 5h of that which W(1
have seen her use in th » fc tchen. The dis-
covery that she had point* red horself came
; upon her consciousness, a moment after slio
;bad begun With to feign illnews to deceive Ver-
“ CL ‘ nn ' this sudden and terrific COll-
eeiousness writhing fieret pains began to
dart thiougli her breast, Hen e her snfl-
den and headlong flight from Verncena’s
>oom to her own, for she knew that if sho
should fail to swallow., , antidote to tfio
poison I each she of could not l,vo would many hours, and
ha.’ the hours be one of
hor able agony.
“If sho has indeed poisoned herself,’'
thought Yerneena, as she resumed her
packing, “the jusli je of heaven v ould seom
to be in the fact. Dor iast night sho woul 4
have poisoned tin to death b»d she carri ad
to satiety her hatred of me.”
New President of Switzerland.
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AVilliam Frederick Ilcrtcnstein, re¬
cently elected President of Switzerland,
was Vice-President last year. lie belongs
to the Canton of Zurich, the second in
importance in the Confederation, Berne
being the first. President Ilerteustein
is about sixty-tluee years old. lie was
born at Kyburg, Canton Zurich. After
receiving a good academic education, he
entered the service of his native Canton
as forest officer, whence ho was promoted, of
after some years, to be inspector the the
forests of Zurich. During nine
years from 1870 to 1870 he was a member
of the government of that Canton. Sinco
the second of those dates he has been a
member of the National Assembly and of
the Council of States, also Vice-Presi¬
dent, as previously stated. Since 1872
Mr. Ilcrtcnstein lias been a colonel of
artillery. lie has been head of the
Military Department in the Swiss Coun¬
cil. ~-Inter- Ocean.
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He—‘‘D o you know, Miss brain Mabel, is I
have discovered why my so
active?”
She —‘‘No, Mr. Minuswit. What is
your theory? ’ often start
IIe—“I t’s because I so a
train of thought.” ‘Limited.’”
“She —“Ah, yes! The
— Tid-BiU
Drunk and in Luck.
Tho Portland Press tells this little real
life storv: Benjamin F. Chadboume,
of Biddeford, and General £ Mattocks,
of Portland, were sitting together in a
car on the Eastern road, bound for Bos¬
ton, Saturday, and had their attention
attracted by a drunken man. Just be¬
yond Greenland the latter left the car to
go into tlie one ahead, and the next in¬
stant lie was seen to stagger and plunge
headlong from the platform. The train,
which was running forty miles an hour,
was stopped at Hampton, and went back
to pick up tho man, who was found near
the place where lie fell from tbe car, sit¬
ting bolt upright in the ditch beside the
track, leaning his head against his hand.
It was thought he was badly hurt, and
the conductor of the train ordered iris
removal to the baggage car, and, whereupon bracing
the man opened Iris eyes
up, ejaculated: “Guess not; I bought don’t
er fus’ class ticket to Boston, an’
propose to travel in a baggage car.”
Then he climbed into one of the passen¬
ger cars and the train proceeded on its
way.
A New Test.
I know a married couple who have a
bright child, who I presume has heard
her father pitch into her mother about
those buttons or socks or something, and
I supposed she stored up mother. the knowledge
to make a point on her Any¬
way, they were at breakfast and the little
girl was rather quiet. Suddenly she
spoke up in a very severe tone:
“Mamma! Arc you a moral woman?”
“What do you ask such an extraordi¬
nary question for? I hope i am.”
“Well, you didn’t darn my socks last
”—San Francisc’) A Chronicle.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
INTERESTING DOTS A ROUT OCR
UNITED STATES’ OFFICIALS.
Ileswlp About tgo While Iloiieo—Armv nnd
Nnvjr Alntterw-Our UelatloiM Witli Ollier
Couuli'leii nnd Million*.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, House bills to remove
the political disabilities of William W.
Maekall, of Virginia, and in regard to
terms of United States courts at Vicks¬
burg, Miss., were reported from tlic Ju¬
diciary committee and passed. Mr. Wil¬
son, of Iowa, addressed the Senate on
ttio suhj<Tt of the president's annual mes¬
sage. The Senate then proceeded to tlic
consideration of tho bill to provide tho
establishment of a bureau of animal in¬
dustry to facilitate the exportation of fine
stu f -k and their products and extirpate
contagious diseases pleuro-pneumonia and other
among domestic animals. After
a couple of hours spent in the reading of
the bill and report, aud of various com¬
munications (ono of them from the com¬
missioner of agriculture, criticising the
hill adversely,) and after some discussion,
the bill was laid aside without action....
A dead lock has occurred in the House
on the direct tax bill, and the day was
spent in roll calls.
In the Senate, the bill for the with¬
drawal of public lands in Mississippi
from sale at ordinary private entry, and
to re-district them for homestead set¬
tlers, was reported from the committee
on public lands nnd placed on the calen¬
dar. The 3enate took up the bill to re¬
imburse depositors of the Freedman’s
Savings and Trust Company, for losses
incurred by the failure of that company.
When the bill was last before the Senate,
Mr. Vest had objected to the provision
to pay "legal representatives” of depos¬
itors, nncl Mr. Evarts had suggested the
amendment of “personal representa¬
tives.” Mr. Platt insisted on taking up
the unfinished business—the bond pur¬
chase bill—and so the Freedman’s bank
bill went over without action on any of
the amendments... .After the reading of
tbe journal in the House, an effort was
made by friends of the special order—the
direct tax bill—to make an arrangement
by which the final vote upon the measure
would bo insured, I Mr. Breckinridgo,
of Arkansas, objected to the projiosition.
Mr. E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, thereupon
moved to limit tho geueral debate to ono
hour. Opponents of the bill then rc-
sjrtod to filibustering tactics. The en¬
tire day was consumed in voting upon
dilatory motions submitted by opponents
of the bills, Messrs. Oates, of Alabama,
and Beckcnridge, of Arkansas, being
most active in this respect.
The Senate, after two hours spent in
secret legislative session, opened its
doors. During the secret session, Mr.
fisheries Riddiebcrger’s resolution to consider the
treaty in open session, was the
only subject of debate, but several Eena-
tois ventured to discuss briefly the merits
of the treaty itself, being however,called
to order for so doing, Messrs. Edmunds
and Hoar made a strong fight against the
resolution... .The House proceeded to
the the committee consideration of measures reported The by
following on military affairs. iri-
bills were passed: Appror
nting $200,000 for the construction of nn
arsenal for the repair, storage and distri¬
bution of ordnance and ordnance stores
in Columbia, Tenn. Providing for the
promotion of officers of the army after
twenty years’ continuous service in ono
grade. A bill was passed, appropriating
$15,000 for the construction of a road to
the national cemetery at Baton Rouge,
La. The House then went into commit¬
tee of the whole for the consideration of
the Senate dirict tax Dill. Mr. Oates, in
opposing the bill, said that the tax paid
in Northern states, with the exception of
Delaware, had been paid in by the state
assuming to collect it from
the people aud retaining 15 per
cent. as it was entitled to.
In the Southern states after the War the
tax had been called directly from the
people. There had been many the irregu¬
larities in that collection. For last
twcuty years, though the law remained
unrcpealed no attempt had been made
to enforce it, $7,000,000 had been col¬
lected, leaving $2,500,000 uncollected.
Mr. Elliott, of South Carolina, favored
the bill, and gave instances of irregular¬
ities in collections in the direct tax in
the Southern states, mentioning
the fact that the entire town of Beau¬
fort had been sold for the payment of
tux.
GOSSIP.
Attorney-General Earle, of South Car¬
olina, argued a case before the United
States Supreme Court, Louis D. DeSaus-
surc against Peter C. Gaillard, involving
the validity of $000,000 of South Caro¬
lina bonds.
Under the f revisions of the direct tax
bill, which is under discussion, Georgia
will receive back from the government,
provided the bill passes, the sum of
$117,082; Alabama, Carolina, $18,285; Florida,
$4,700; South $222,300; Ten-
nessee, $302,004; North Carolina, $377,-
452.
There is no doubt that President
Cleveland will sign the river and harbor
bill, provided the Senate does not un¬
reasonably increase the items as they now
stand. In a recent conversation with a
leading member of Congress the Presi¬
dent referred to the surplus in the treas¬
ury, and in making ahasty calculation as
to tend the to appropriation decrease the amount bills which included would in
theriverand harbor bill. The gross amount
provided for in the bill is a trifle in ex¬
cess of $19,000,000.
BISMARCK’S OBJECTIONS.
The proposed Battenberg, marriaga and of Princess Prince
Alexander, of
Victoria, of Prussia, for reasons of state,
meets with great opposition from Prince
Bismarck, and the people generally side
with Bismarck. The affair is a love
match, and Queen Victoria will go to
Germany to endeavor to bring the mar¬
riage about. Bismarck threatens to re¬
sign if the marriage is sanctioned.
The Into Chief Justice Waite was seventy-
two when he died. Justice Bradley is seventy-
five, Matthews sixty-eight, sixty-four. Gray Harlan fifty-five,
Blatchford sixty, Field
seventy-two, Miller seventy-two and Lamar
lixty-three.
SOUTH LBN GOSSIP.
ROILED DOWS FACTS AM) FAN -
Cl ES1 MER USTINGLF STATED.
trrlilenm nn I.hihI nnd on Sis New Enter-
P'Lrn Muli-iili-a- IU-ll|[iun*, Tfiupernnee
ninl Moelitl .Under*.
The Augusta, Ga., exposition will be
open from October 10, to December 15.
William Porter, a young farmer of Co¬
lumbia, Tenn., committed suicide, l>y
taking morphine.
The dry-goods house of John Gilgan &
Co., of Nashville, Tenn., lias assigned fot
the benefit of their creditors.
Fifteen persons have left Oconee
County, 8. C., for Utah, and Mormon
"missionaries” are making many converts.
Cross, tlic Raleigh, N. C. bank pres¬
ident aud forger, 1ms confessed, and
says Cashier White is blameless in the af¬
fair.
Out of 1,200 applications for Confed¬
erate soldier pensions in North Carolina,
nearly one-third were rejected for irregu¬
larities or fraud.
Augusta, Ga., has inaugurated a cook¬
ing cltiss among the fashionable young
ladies, and it promises to develop into a
delightful craze.
The steamer, Gen. II. D. Rucker,
which left Memphis, Tenn., for St. Louis,
burned near Mount Pleasant, Mo. She
was valued at $10,000.
John Hawkins, assistant postmaster at
Newberry, and Mrs. S.’C., and $500 disappeared,
his trail, Herbert, the postmistress is on
which leads to Florida.
Judge Sharp, of Lexington, Ivy., has
been appointed state treasurer by Gov¬
ernor Treasurer Buckner, to succeed defaulting
Tate, The nomination was
confirmed by the Senate.
Jesse Hall, agent of the Comanche and
Wichita Indians, in Indian Territory, has
been indicted by the grand jury of the
northern Texas district, on the charge of
embezzling United $11,000 belonging to the
States government.
There is a remarkable outbreak of mea¬
sles at the town of Manchester, in Cum¬
berland county, N. C. The population
consists almost entirely of factory opera¬
tives, as some large cotton mills are lo¬
cated there. Nearly every operative is
sick, some dangerously so, and all the
mills have been forced to shut down.
Eight prisoners confined in the Miller
county jail, nt Texarkana, Texas, with
augers, furnished them from tho outside,
bored through tlic walls of the jail, mak¬
ing their escape. The greater number
were confined for forgery and burglary.
Bloodhounds have been placed upon the
trail of the fleeing parties.
Henry Rosenhurg, a millionaire banker
of Galveston, Texas, in a communication
to the board of school trustees, donated
$40,000 for the immediate erection of a
substantial public school building, for
tlic education of white children exclus¬
ively. Mr. Rosenhurg is a native of
Switzerland.
The stockholders of the Market street
bridge, over the Tennessee river, at Chat¬
tanooga, Tenn., have arranged to begin
work on that structure soon, and it is to
be completed inside of ten months. The
bridge will cost $200,000. It will have
a fifteen-foot span in the center, aud will
be built by the Decatur Bridge Company,
of Decatur, Ala.
J. H. Rcnneker, lumber merchant of
Charleston, S. C., assigned and it is
stated that liabilities were $30,000 and as¬
sets $40,000. It now turns out that liabili¬
ties will reach perhaps $70,000. Rcnneker
was doing business with J. C. Rigby,
owner of two lumber mills in the coun¬
try. Rigby flooded the town with ne
gotiable notes at thirty-sixty and ninety
days, indorsed by Rennekcr.
The United States man-of-war Rich¬
mond, the flagship of Rear Admiral Luce,
commanding the North Atlantic squad¬
ron, while seeking anchorage at Key
West collided with the Swedish bark
Lima. The flagship her had and considerable
damage railing,(while done to the bow lost quarter¬ her jib-
deck bark
boom and bowsprit,)but in mny the be Pensacola patched
up in time to take part
sham-fight.
The board of trustees unanimous of the University
of Tennessee, by vote elected
Prof. Lanuon Scribner, at present chief
of the bureau of mycology in the Depart¬
ment of Agriculture at Washington, D.
C., to tlic chair of botany nnd horticul¬
ture in the University of Tennessee; also,
botanist to the agricultural experiment
station of Tennessee. Prof. Henry E.
Summers, of Cornell Univcreity, N. Y.,
was elected professor of zoology and en¬
tomology, and Prof. Wm. E. Stern, for¬
merly of Massachusetts experiment who sta¬ is
tion and Houghton farm station,
now at the University chemist. of Goettiug, Ger¬
many, was elected
SHARP DIED.
Jacob Sharp, the railroad briber, died
at his late residence in New York. liis
two daughters and grandson, George
Sharp, were present. Mr. Sharp’s doc¬
tors said, “His recent sickness, as is pret¬
ty well known, was brought about by
cold contracted during the blizzard in
Rome, N. Y. lie had been a very sick
man for several years. 1 was convinced
in my own mind that his term of life
was short. lie had been unconscious for
several days before his death, aud died
without recognizing his relatives around
his bed. When we were alone in his
room, he looked up aud abruptly said:
“Doctor, I don’t think I shall ever live
to be tried.” He spoke earnestly, and
without laying another word, lay back
on tho pillow and closed his eyes. But
for the cold, which indirectly caused
his death, Mr. Sharp might have lived
for several years, despite the other
troubles. The immediate cause of death
was heart disease, though he had been
troubled with heart and kidney troubles,
aud diabetes, for several years.”
PREACHERS KILLED.
Rev. Clayton Mumma, of Reading,
Pa., and Rev. John Connard Leaver,
Lancaster county, Pa., while walking on
the tracks of tlic Pennsylvania Sclmyl-
kill Vallfy Railroad, near Bushoitg Fur-
nace, were struck by a passenger train,
Mumma wtos almost instantly killed and
Connard was so badly injured that he
died.
VETERANS’ REUNION.
The arrangements for tho reunion ol
the survivors of tho army of the Potomac
with tho survivors of the array of
northern Virginia nro progressing Curtis very
satisfactorily. Hon. oration, Geo. Geo. Win. Parsons
will deliver the
Lathrop the poem, and Bishop Horatio
Potter, of New York, tire address of wel¬
come. Some distinguished Confederate
general will be (elected to make the re¬
ply to the address of welcome. The re¬
union will be on tho 1st, 2d nnd ltd of
July next at Gettysburg nnd will con¬
clude witli a grand banquet. The presi¬
dent of the United States, Geu. Sic r-
raan, Gen. Sheridan, nnd many other dis¬
tinguished officers on botli sides of the
contest will be present. The following
is the committee from the Army of die
Potomac and Confederates can address
any of them for further information:
Gen. John C. Robinson, U. S. A.; Gen.
Aimer Doubleday, U. 8. A.; Capt. James
Beale; Gen, Francis C. Barlow; Maj. C.
A. Rice; Col. W. L. Tidball; Gen. Dan¬
iel F. Sickles; Gen. Joseph B. Carr; Gen.
Clias. K. Graham; Col. W. C. Church;
Gen. E. D. Keyes; Gen. D. W. Couch;
Gen. Daniel Butterfield; Gen. F. J. Por¬
ter; Gen. 8. W. Crawford; Gen. C. A.
Whittier; Gen. M. T. McMahon; Gen. T.
W. Hyde; Gen. J. F. Hartranft; Gen.
John G. Parke; Gen. C. G. Howard,
Gen. Charles Devins; Gen. Carl Schurz;
Gen. II. W. Slocum, Gen. II. A. Bar-
num, Gen. Geo. S. Greene, Gen. A.
Pleasant, Gen. J. B. McIntosh. Gen.
John Hammond, U. S A., Gen. II. J.
Hunt, U. S. A., Col. Andrew Cowan,
Maj James E. Smith, Gen. Nathaniel P.
Banks, Gen. II. A. Williams, Gen. N.
W. Day, Col. It. B. Erwin, Maj. Ohas.
Appleby, Gen. E. L. Mollineaux, Gen.
Benjamin F. Butler, Hawley, Gen. N. M. Curtis,
Gen. Joseph R. Gen. George H.
Sharjre, Gen. E. Tremaine, Gen. Maj. J.
B. Fassitt. Officers Army of tho Poto¬
mac Society; Gen. Horatio C. King,
Secretary, 38 Park Row, N. Y.; Col.
Samuel Truesdell, Treasurer, 18 Broad¬
way, N. Y.
DEATH HOVERS NEAR
Emperor Frederick of Germany during
his sleep is watched constantly by either
Dr. Ilovell or Dr. Mackenzie, who, when
there is any excess of coughing, go to
the emperor’s assistance. The necessity
for this precaution was seen with recently
when tlic emperor was seized a se-
vcrc fit of coughing—during wkich a
piece of cartilage was detach led which,
hut for the instant assistance of Dr. Mac¬
kenzie, might have caused ^suffocation.
During the Easter holidays the empe¬
ror was received with enthusiastic greet¬
ings and ringing hurrahs along the route.
The weather was extremely mild, and ns
tho carriage was driven slowly the empe¬
ror was fully seen. lie saluted by rais¬
ing his hand and his liat. lie looked
thoroughly well set up, the only trace
of illness be,mg his waxy complexion.
Despite the semblance of heulth and his
increased power, however, German ex¬
pert opinion that the disease will have an
early and fatal termination is still un¬
abated. The end will come quickly when
it does come. Any night a sudden crisis
may declare itself. It will be announced
to the public and intimation will be followed in a
few hours by an of the empe¬
ror’s death. The report that Dr. Mac¬
kenzie will take a prolonged leave is un¬
true. The reaction amoug the Berlin
populace in his favor is complete. As he
drives to Uuter den Linden by himself he
is greeted with William cheers and salutes. The
Crown Prince goes to Eins. The
state of his health continues to cause
grave disquietude.
BAD BUS INE88.
Secretary llnynrd’a Pacific Utterance*
Cause the lUoora to Oefy Uncle Haul,
The situation remains unchanged at
Tangicrs. the The correspondents say that
United States war ship Enterprise,
which in appearance is not imposing, is
the laughing stock of the Mediterranean.
A few days of firm, dignified action after
the arrival of the Enterprise would huve
settled wards, the difficulty. Two days after¬
Spanish however, tho local French and
papers there republished a cable-
gr. m which had appeared in the Madrid
NjK/ca under a Washington date, stating
that Secretary Bayard, on being inter¬
viewed, had said that Capt. McCalla, of
the sible Enterprise, had orders under no pos¬
this naive contingency to use his guns. Had
remark, with which Secretary
Bayard is credited, not been uttered
there would never have been the slightest
danger ference. or necessity for armed inter¬
Now, however, some show of
earnestness will have to be made. The
Moors are intriguing to get rid of Consul
Lewis, hoping to secure his recall and
the return there of the former consul,
Matthews. The latter’s real name was
American Matheo, and he was a Spaniard by birth.
Consul Lewis 1ms received a
reply from the Moorish government de¬
clining to accede to the demands of the
United States with reference to persons
under consular protection imprisoned at
Rabat. Fears are intertained that the
American government will adopt vigor¬
ous measures against the Moors.
PRISONERS CREMATED.
Just before daylight tha jail at Friar’s
Point, Miss., was discovered on fire. Des¬
perate efforts were made to release five
prisoners it contained, b\jt without suc¬
cess, and they perished in the flames.
They were William Gray, under sentence
of ten years for arson and robbery; Fred
Powers, a partner of Gray’s, who was
also under sentence of five years for rob¬
bery. Powers, under arrest for an as¬
sault with intent to kill; Andy Brown,
(colored) under death sentence for mur¬
der, and a negro boy, aged fifteen, who
was crazy. Gray set the jail on fire, as
lie had threatened to do so. The jail
was a substantial brick building, a por¬
tion being occupied by chancery and cir¬
cuit court clerks, who succeeded in sav¬
ing the county records.
EUROPEAN FLOOD8.
Reports from the flooded districts in
Germany, stale that the Rhine and
Warthe are subsiding somewhat, but that
the Vistula has broken out again and now
covers from 300 to 400 square miles with
its waters. Seventy-nine villages have
been submerged and 30,000 inhabitants
are homeless.
VOL. in, NO. 2T
WOULD AT LARGE.
REN PICTURES PAINTED RY A
COUPS OP ABLE ARTISTS.
Wlmt I* Uelsi ou North, tint nnd Won
nnd Aero** ti>« Water—The t urning Hu¬
t-open a slorin.
Benjamin Harriaon Brewster, ex-United
States attorney-general, died recently in
Philadelphia, Pa.
Two railroad watchmen were murdered
in Chicago, 111. A report that strikers
did it proved groundless.
The entire cost of the Western rate
war, now ending, to the railroad com¬
panies involved lias been $15,000,000.
Aimer Ingalls Bergen, late president of
the Pacific National Bank of Boston,Mass.,
a noted defaulter, has died in Canada.
Rockville, Conn., was almost totally
destroyed by a fire which started in the
basement of the Second Congregational
Church.
Jake Sharp, tlio' 1 New York railroad
briber, is to be tried again. His counsel
flooded the court witli certificates of his
ill health.
A movement is being made by lawyers
of tho country to raise a fund for tho
benefit of Mrs. Waite, widow of the lato
chief justice.
Prince Bismarck has just celebrated
his 73d birthday, aud received many
presents, n family. large proportion coming from
the royal
A union of the interests of the Knights
of Labor and Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers is being agitated with every
prospect of success.
Ono of the largest fires ever known in
the town of Amesbnry, Mass., where a
large proportion manufactured, of the carriages of the
country are $500,000. took place re¬
cently. Loss nearly
The Czar of Russia and Pope Leo have
approved the preliminaries Russia and of a Vatican. conven¬
tion between the
When details are settled, Russia will ac¬
credit a minister to the Vatican.
The ladies, whose election to the offices
of mayor nnd council at Oskaloosa, Kan¬
sas, caused some excitement, took the
oath of office nnd assumed their official
duties. They declare for luw and order
aud public improvements.
A train on the St. Paul Railroad was
derailed near New Hampton, Iowa, .and
plunged into a creek. The engineer and
fireman were instantly killed along with
ten passengers nnd three times that num¬
ber more were injured.
Claus Spreckles, of San Francisco, Cal.,
located Philadelphia, his opposition sugar refinery at
Pa., purchasing a site on
the Delaware river front, paying a half
million in cash. Tho refinery is expected
to be in operation within a year.
TENNESSEE BRIEFLETS.
Thomas Meechan, of Chattanooga,
foolishly exhibited a roll of $1,000 while
buying a drink in the Brunswick saloon.
A man of shady reputation named Sihler,
grabbed the money, but was captured and
jailed....A serious collision took place
on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad neai
Spring City, and several cars were
smashed up, but no lives were lost....
M. F. House, chief clerk in tho treas¬
urer’s otticc, has completed the quarterly
report of the condition of the treasury.
The total receipts amount to $714,781.71.
1 he total disbursements amount to $019,
181.25... .James B. Pickens, for several
years chief of police of Knoxville, bul
at brickyard, present engaged as engineer at Jones!
across the river, met with i
serious accident. lie lost his footing
and fell among the wheels of the brick
machine.... Nearly all of the pokei
rooms at Knoxville have closed up.... Misi
Rebecca Bates, a beautiful young lady,
about eighteen years of age, is confined
in the Cleveland jail, a raving maniac.
The unfortunate young lady’s home is
near Charleston, and until a short
time ago she was a bright intel¬
ligent society belle of that place....
Every large wagon factory in the South
was represented at Nashville at a meeting
at the Maxwell house. The meeting was
secret, but committees were appointed on
systematizing the prices and on guaran¬
tee funds. It Is denied that a trust is
the object or that any substantial l!ht advance
in price is contemplated, outsiders.... that is the
view entertained by A very
heavy shower of rain fell at South Pitts¬
burg, accompanied which by sharp the flashes South ol
lightning, one of struck That portion of
Pittsburg Pipe Works. the testing and
the works known as
weighing department was soon in flames
and was totally destoyed, involving a
loss of less than $1,000.
PENSACOLA’S SHOW. !
i
Orders were issued from Washington,
C., for the vessels of the North Atr
squadron to rendezvous at Pensa¬
Fla., April 17, for the purpose of
fleet drill and exercises, both afloat and
The following named vessels
will participate: Richmond, Galena, At¬
lanta, Yantic and Ossipee. They will
probably visit New Orleans prior to the
The citizens of Pensacola are ar¬
ranging for tv grand reception during tho
visit of the squadron.
HIGH LICENSE.
A St. Paul paper publishes interviews
with about 200 prominent representatives
of Minnesota, regarding the workingsof
high license in that state, where the lawj
has been in effect for about eight
months. It is agreed that the law has’
worked well in all cities, and that the
effect has been good not only in the sense
of an increased revenue, but in lessening
the number of saloons and in bettering
the character of those that are in opera¬
tion under the law.
HOTEL MOVED.
Hotel Brighton,at Coney Island, N.Y.,
was successfully moved 120 feet back
from the ocean, Six powerful building locomo-
tives were used, The will be
pulled as far as tho tracks have been pre¬
pared, 200 feet. There was a large crowd
of spectators present, including many invita¬ la¬
dies. Some of the latter, upon
tion, were allowed to ride. The hotel is
440 feet long and 200 wide, with a cal¬
culated weight of 5,000 ton*.