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1 story of the War in
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BY ARVIDE 0. BALDWIN.
CHATTER IY.
THIS ESCAPE.
Fart of the roof at the rear of the hut
bail 6uecumbed to tho weather nnd hail fal¬
len in. As the darkies crawled up and stuok
their woo’y heads above tho split boards
that covered the roof the sun was beginning
to tinge tho tops of tho trees. In their
depths could dimly be seen the horses
cropping the thin grass that grew among
them. had decided ,
The plan they upon was a
bold one, and hardly seemed probable of
bein?a success; but, hard nevertheless, life death was
piefernble to tho iu the cotton
fields along the rivor, and as neither had
ever labored ia tho fields it would have
been beyond their endurance to do so now.
They were houso servants in the Eddies
mansion, and their position was easy, and
now their great hope was hid onco been more to get
back to where they so kindly
treated, and to what was in reali'y to them
a home. *
Syivu, who appeared herself to be the bravest of
the two, took upon to do tho more
dangerous part. She told her companion
to bo ready, and, when sho saw that she
had secured the horses’ brid'es, to climb
oat of the roof and let herself down and
crawl into the brash that grew near.
“Don’t yer make no noise, -honey; ef yer
does, yer is gwine ter be killed, shore!’’
After ihus cautioning her, Sylva took the
largo tin pail and boldly opened the door
and walked out.
The men, half asleep, turned thoir faces
toward her, nnd ono or two growled curses,
to which sho moufa,” replied nr.d by telling them to
“shut the r continued on.
They saw she was alone, and had tho ves¬
sel, and supposing she was going ter water
they grunted and wore soon asleep again.
As she passed throngh under the old shed
where the bushwhackers had deposited the
saddles and bridles the wily negress
tumbled remained ticud’ong there to instant, the giound. but Sho”only
au when she
arose she hud two of tho bridles in her pail,
Rrnl iho decept on was so perfect that Nancy,
sho was w.uohing from the top of tho hut,
was no; suro she had secured the coveted
articles, and thought that the stumble was
only an accident. If any of tho gang saw
tho act they must also have thought it only
a ludicrous accident.
Once near the spring nnd she w as cut of
eight. Hastily hiding tho pail, sho c'uteked
Ike bridlev, and, keeping out of sight iu the
brash, ran rapidly to tho horses.
In the me ultimo Nu.cv had crawled out
of the roof and let herself ge.'iLy to tho
pound in the rear of (he hut, and getting
down upon her hands rapidly crawled into
ike brash. A few momoi.tv ouly sufficed
to hung h r to the spot where t’.ylva and tbo
ho:Bes v.oip. A few seconds more were
consumed in bridling, nnd then tho animals
were led out to where then van 10 danger
of being seen, and were yuickly mounted.
1 ontinuiiig in tho woods (hey rapidly bore
sway from the captors, and ps they kept tho
fan to ihcir backs it was only a short ride
'■> thc rivtr, into w’luch they plunged. AYh u
they had reached the western bank a gient
1 ' 0 l | c of escape took tho pla.e of fear, and
tte hvo urged their steeds on at a more
Rpitl pace. For a wbiie they kept on the
o.lgcs, hut it was not long before they be-
(P>ii to see the telly of do : ng si and im¬
mediately changed to a diagonal course
fci’o-s (In in. Although tho traveitrg wav
severe on the animals, it win their on v
hope of eluding pursuit. \ p and (hv.v:
hie hills they continued to urg - their jnd b
inimnls, and whoa evening camo they ha
reached the divide a:ul were soon on t n
hire Road again.
T'ijeii they reached this old family laud
mark thoir hearts throbbed-with tbankfui-
JJ breaking es8 ' and out they with coil'd wild barely shouts r of train jov. The' firm
W come into tho road south of the I’ddleV
plant it ion. but with their kuowledgo of tl <
location they were enabled to take I he righ
direction, and after another hour of hard
using the p antation gate was reached, an
toe poor, tired darkies’hearts neatly bur-;
'vdh gladness when they again beheld tli
big house.
I he clatter of (heir hovses’ feet on the
stones aroused the househo’d, and the ire-
fivoes came fiom all parts of thoir (juartei'.i,
ract juth fear o through’ curiosity. W hen tb ■
that tho two missing women had rc-
mrnod became knowu tho slaves soerued
almost besido themselves, and hysterical
Pandemouia *kite reigned for a time. Even the
people could hardly coutaim them-
«fo /Ihere Vhome7.il h h°a7K n d mamml ° 9 (mUBC8)
ge ( Plantation great consternation on
•he females when it was discovered that
*“°rt had had disappeared, and ovary
‘hem by been made to find some trnco of
^Ys, but making inquiries along the high-
®® 6 ‘but none had could be found, and returned, when
ol been sent out
j settled over the people, for the miss-
ri hiVhe ““
8 ml VOnteS maDS ’° D
John Lpiarters
Properly ordered the tired animals to be
cared for, and the returned cap-
cn-,l en We a * , re uuc tdkou h of lnto the th0 best dining-room the house con- and
m > After they had satisfied their bun-
W ’ John had couUnued questioning them,
:“‘^ a ® e onto ^hich additional proved to information cerlninty gained that it
w as ,he a
,, same gaug of rascals who bad re-
f | y visited him that had stolen the
ihe ° 8, Ho uow begi\n to see the condition
doinp 0 ! 11111 '-!, was in nnJ tho necessity of
nrov^ s °molhing; hut what could ho do tho to
'Pat Ho was at once to keep decided iqfon one thing, called nnd
one of tho a night-watch so ho
““a after most trusty men servants,
8 and explaining the danger of unfaith- if ho
woniv i„ wdlingly °°wardice asked him
th* act as watchman auring
t If °t tbe ni3ht ’ c z « , ,
al8 ^ y a or any udder nigger off displace
Eai *R'u and 80m e'uu 'a drap. Marse John,
Jeff H lhceua?
tewa a 1 , ,
7tld ^‘““^known whatt hTve d7ne he
Tni! St han(lB a?l(1 a dw-ky funeral.
{‘“brought L ’
^ out the old squirrel rifle
pbe nl 1 °fUn seen Bervico on and about
kr.il h ,an ‘atioD, and when he Landed tbe
sed arm to Jeff sj^rpad grip of pleas-
E£5» nstSiXA
J«L» ;,r.a b„t lit,,. „ iiu ,, daiky’s
Ka. b “‘ “• k, “* u «“ trust him
tssfi •^fpsttsssttsts fer Iu «* **.
{■* w ilono . WM «“.v. away *Rh with, flit iu brule force S
place. You and sister know lukos ita
stanut wlmt yo i mnsl
mnuiu bu!U ; im «<».
n^ Wt?for7nn^ friends.' 0 a . SS’tata ,ldIa y l0,niiditifl
norm to you
Jeir with you, and, by keepingoff the main
road, you may get through. 1 mu«I remain
but you need not.” ’
Wo cannot Kave you, son. Jf there is
re'tilv"' 11 allsL#r ° il *” was tbo
mother’Boulv ectid
“I had exr « would hare ZK5 trm.hv
and, in order to protect my
property, and myself. I thought best tonre-
pare for the worst, and"—[here bo left
room, n:id shortly returning, laid upon
h«n£n«.«i ,1 0r i.“^onishea Indies,
i a
homo gan^VeTolvers^—"^"^"^ , 0 ! brou' ^ , hT < tlie-o
with mo when I enme."
“O, dear son! I pray wo may never have
te rosort to such means to protect ouc-
BelTes -
Ao one can wish so more than I, but if
H ever becomes my duty to do bo I ahull
URe these implements nnd use them freely. ”
And h s face showed great determination.
It was now evident that the family would
not bo separated.
r.ighf, Nothing unusual happened during the
but in (he morning Jeff brought up
near the door on.) of the horses (hat tho
negroes had lidden homo tho evening
previous. lie called John’s attention to the
nn mal, but that gentleman could not sea
any “D.it peculiarity boss about it.
Woodsley," ar belong to young Marse
said J< lf, showing tbe nnukB.
“You are right. Jeff; so it docs. Tho ras¬
cals have stolen from h m, too. This ani¬
mal must be taken home at once.”
CHAPTER V.
VAT.VAIU.E IN'FOIIMATION.
“It look m ghty strange hew flat hoss u e
stole Lem Mu: so Woodsley ami he not ax
fer im when I.-o dar."
Jeff did not litre Woodsley, that was evi¬
dent, and now ho began to show his sus-
pinion of tho honesty of that young man.
“Wait.” raid Jehu, as Jeff was leading
tho animal away. “I will inyse'f return the
animal to its owner.”
John Eild on Vn rv that the time had
come when it w is not safe to go unarmed;
consequently revolvers Luck before led ho started ho had his
around him under his
coat.
Taking another horso— a very fine one—
to return with, h proceeded on his way
toward Ihe Wcodslry plantation.
While traveling ih^j YViro Road, his chin
resting on Lis breast, n:;d fooling sick at
heart over the gloomy prospects before him,
ho was S'ldJeii'y brought t> a halt by a
(stride long-haired, hick ule, specimen earing of directly hummity, in
n sorry u np:
bi-i pa:b. 'J hi'i peculiar individual had on a
rair of home-spun clothes that had been
made without any attemet at a fit. They
w: rc wholly for use nnd uot for ornament.
Across the sad die-bo v ho carried an anti,
quoted etogte-bnnto shotgun, that was morn
dangerous to its owner belied than anydriug ho
might rhoot at, or i lsc it its looks.
“Howdy?”
Tim individual's nt p nrance wa3 go sud¬
den, so strikingly imlicro is, that John
caught l it breath before answering.
“Good moruttig, sir?’’
“Wh it be yer?" \V. do mean?"
“ What nin I > at you
“Be you a ‘ Fed?
"Tiori is none of vourbusinoss!” was tho
iedion nt answer.
" Look a byar. stranger,” and he look twisted wise,
his nock amt r printed o;:o eye to
“I re ckon j on La. ”
” Well, jiif-t reckon on.”
“ Whar'd yer gi! i h it thar t’other Iiobs?’’ tho
store go in in finked, n in;! the horse, ad
pav : g t o .Vte■■I’.liou in Eddies'remark.
” fhat is Mr. Woeds'eyk horse. I’m tak¬
ing ii linne.”
“Woodsley. Woodsley: that’s thar feller
what lives in the brown houso back yander,
a tot it?”
“Yes, ho is the man.”
“Then yer must be his friend, keh?”
“Why, y-e-s, of course.”
“Wkoop-ee.” he yotled, and loudly too,
when John admitted the fact, it was evi¬
dent he believed him to be one of the gang,
or friendly to them.
"Gimmoyer hand.” And he rode up along¬
side and extended his long, skinny, dirty
hand to John, who was too, much agentlo-
man to refuse to take it. Ho gave tho
stranger a hearty grasp, I
"her man is not ter hum. jq,ss came
frum thar. He’s down on ther river with
ther boys. eh?’ And John began to show
“He is,
some interest. house last night,
“Yes, I was thar at ther
nn’ they done tole me that he was gone
thar.” hypocrite, but here
John Eddies was no
was a chance to got some information of
value just uow, and he could not afford to
let any pice sense of feeling prevent lam
from golting it, consequently he com-
meneed to adroitly question his now ac-
quaintance. “Do belong?” he asked , ,
you v
n °H it.”
“BeUefgo think some “!hme. of
”
what they .
“I don't exactly know are going
to do.” v hosscs, good .
“Goto’ ter hev money,
clothes, an’ not cost anythin’ nuther. My
old woman an’ young ’uns ’ill live high,
yer can reckiu.”
“How will you get them?
’unswlli wato Ipt" som'uv tbe'o big uns’
plantations an’ pile ther things out. They
don’t peep-ef they does^they die. ...
“Have you aYreaay got anything that
way?” 4uthin but this ’ere mule, and I s
gwine to trade him oft for a good hoss Id
when I find the chap thats got one. of
take your’u thar ef yer wasn t one us.
John’s ire began to rise, but he was not
done v ith the man yet, and he controlled
his feoliugs. with last night at
“Who stayed asked. you
Woodsleys? he
dJn\°iS!rT«t what got from camp,
c „uple ev niggers down away ter ther river."
an - they didn’t go on He listen-
John made no remark. was
j ug His open-mouthed neighbor was mak-
. interesting, tie paid no
tog himself quite silence but contmuea.
attention to Eddies
“ Tha F’f an ^tuTvind^tlat ves over to
toe cuis—lots ev niggers, I want good ’er git hosses, thar befo an a
heap of gold hid. loijm
they run him. .Yer’d better go
™
ESS*"™’'* “ Koon^ter-morrer, I reckon.” 0
“Will young Mr. Woodsley . be there? ,
“ T her men told mo be would. Heis some
struck arter ther ole mansparty gal. lord
better go." ffgBil
, [to be CQNn
ELLAVILLE, ( - - EOI GIA, THURSDAY, JUNK 7,1888.
SOU ” THERN 1,1 lh -’ SPRAY SI IiA 16. S
, INTERESTING
FACTS BRIEFED
«“ hvmasiiy.
m „ n ~„,
accidknts-industbul progress.
Alabama 'iu
0f 83 saloon keepers Birmingham
““'f »0 have paid the state nnd county
lict ''' 8e lor 1888 > aiul °" e paid no license
fnr 188 7. A deputy sheriff started
1 Saturday who and arrcskcl a out 20 of the*©
liuvo not paid. They were released
on bonds of $4,000 each.
On Thursday night an a! tempt was
nnde to l»urn the Lane grammar school
building Savings in Birmingham A quantity of
and kindling wood war placed
under the building, saturated with oil
and set. on fire. The fire department ar-
rived iu time to save the building from
‘"iou, damage.
F “:
„ F° k COUDty , watermelons ftre .
ln m « r
, <et
’
R. C. Breland, of DeLand, has cut
«i” h n.f„" d bu * 1 "* - * •“
o
One ,. hundred . I . dollars , ,. a foot , was
ter ground on the square, at Ocala, by a
uew-comer ed. recently, hut was not accept-
Wm. J. Munroe, o, Sumter, planted
five acres in cabbage last season, from the
proceeds of which he added $789 to his
Dank account.
Work has been commenced on thc new
furniture factory in East Gainesville, and
the completion of the City and Suburban
Railway to Newnan’s Lake is now an
assured fact.
Frank P. Fleming, of Jacksonville,
was nominated ter governor by ihe Dem¬
ocratic convention on the fortieth ballot,
after a tedious contest of two days, and
tbe nomination was made unanimous amid
great enthusiasm.
Thc French Government has consented
to defray the expense of carrying the
members of a family named Commeau,
now living at Jacksonville, back to
France. 'I he laws of Frauee, by special
enactment, provide a fund to be applied
to the repatriation of such subjects as
may be desirous of returning to their
domestic firesides in “la belle France.”
Some years ago a state memorial asso¬
ciation was formed for the purpose of
raising funds to erect a suitable monu¬
ment in the capitol grounds at Tallahas¬
see to the memory of those good and
brave Floridians who lost their lives in
the Confederate States Array. The
monument bad been selected and order¬
ed, and it is now the intention of the
committee to have the monument erect¬
ed and rt ady to be unveiled at the
assembling of the Legislature in April,
1889. The monument will be tbiity-five
feet high and cost about $10,000.
Cieorgia.
A Democratic mass meeting held in
Atlanta was easily captured by the Pro¬
hibitionists, who proved they were well
organized and officered.
For about a year, the people of Thom¬
son have been annoyed at the operations
of a bold and successful series of bur¬
glaries, most of them perpetrated in the
rooms of young ladies. Recently, Mrs.
Willie Burnside, of Augusta, who is
visiting her mother, Airs. Basford, found
Allen Sturgis, a young negro, under her
bed, and he was arrested, and he impli¬
cated four others who were arrested and
bailed out. Sturgis was left in jail, as
he could uot get bail, and Saturday night
he was lynched, the colored being Baptist hung church. on an oak
tree near
I.onl»iann.
The Legislative caucus, at Baton
Rouge, ^States elected Judge E. D. White, Uni¬
ted Senator for the term begin¬
ning March 4, 1891.
The small steamboat, Fulton, exploded
on Thursday at Paso a Hontre, Ed¬
ward Perkins, pilot, was instantly killed
and Capt. NV. P. Baddle fatally wounded.
There were seven men on the boat. Two
colored deck hands were badly hurt.
At Milnburg, a resort on Lake Ponch-
nrtrain within a few miles of New Or¬
leans, 'on Wednesday, one man was
killed and ten others injured, it is feared
mortally, by a lightning stroke. About
5 o’clock in tbe evening a sudden storm
came up from the lake, and a large num-
ber of people sought refuge in a tent in
one of the gardens. The storm lasted
but a few moments, but during its height
the tent was struck with the above re¬
sult
Jay Gould „ is seriously'ill seriously Hi in m his his private, private
car at Kansas City. lie will go at once
.on™ While York...... thc Mississippi boat, In-
river
LaCro.se Wi- ” ^ to "' n >’ a att to °
Hannibal, Mo., two lower Hues collapsed ,
nn( l ten men were blown overboard oi
jumped in the water to drowned, escape the deluge
()f steami Five were all boat
hands.
„
Yorkf A young white man named Edward
a nephew of Dr. York, of Wilkes
C0U ntv, who was tho last stabbed Republican
can djdate for governor, was on
Saturday ‘ 7 ni‘ T ht by ’ another young white
- of Reese, at
m»n Dy me
Holly Grove. ihe young men were
traveling th ‘ g „‘ 4
\ 0 rk was recently , , married, rr! and the oc-
currence grew out of an old feud be-
tween him and Reese m regard love to York with s
bnd(J> I5ot h men had been in
the woman Y r ork married. She rejected
had sworn to kill York.
Mr Greene, a defeated candidate for
ji le nomination ter lieutenant governor
on t be Republican ticket, has caused a
sensa (.j on by the public announcement
pl'ace Pritchard, who was nominated
or the " V he wanted, is a murderer,
j ng 0 f an h old man by the nnme of ft Snjder k f
a nd his son, m the mountains. Rills of
indictment were entered in the^ state
court * he ch . ar 3 es P r f r ” d
j ttW 0 f Ed. W. R*»y» wll ° wa8 tned
3Iica . murderers of
one 0 f ^[ ie mine
^jjtchell county, and who afterwards
made his escape from Asheville jail.
Ilelnu'nre.
By in accidental explosion of dynn-
mite, Thomas A. Martin and Kendall
Palmer, workmen engaged in destroying
«"
blown to atoms.
Non ill Cnrollnn.
1 Icn ^ Full «. » jwng white man, of
Columbl _ , ** accidcntljr killed himself with
his shot gun whilo ongagod in conversa-
l the i_ oa muz/.lc with , a under lady ’ J?® hi. arm, huld thr when, B u “ from ' vith
*°™ e unknown cause it was discharged,
him instantly.
Henry Fuller, a young white boy, liv-
* n CT in Pickens couty, 8. C., was shot nnd
instantly had killed l,irrcl on h Wednesday, ntin duller
turning ! >ct n l home 8, l * (lie K. ® yard nd nftcr leaning n-
was in
«J* on his gun, which was accidently dm-
£V?gcd, the wdiole charge going through
h*s ! l ! s J body. iear t llm * tearing a frightful hole iu
Mrs. Lewis L. iVingo was killed by
lightning Her husband in Spartmlburg and dren on Hiuwdny
efti were at work
“ thc f! eld \ and °“ tllc C0DU “8, of th ?
storm they took refugei in . a stable , and
t*r‘a.“ii escaped unhurt Shortly d after A the
Wingo the floor of of !Sr the ,
cn one rooms.
The children house in was the not damaged, when and two
room tlic stroke
caraCj C3[ . ai)ca altogether unharmed.
Some weeks ago Annette, the daughter
of W. M. Maness, a well-to-do white
farmer of Darlington county, was strick-
en with dysentery, but tho disease soon
yielded to the treatment of a regular
physician. In the Arnjy meantime, a corps of
the Salvation came along, and
with it Miss Mattie Gordon, a faith cure
girl’s physician. bedside, Miss and Gordon ioon appeared at the
induced her to
leave off the doctor’s medicine, and adopt
the faith remedy. As a consequence, the
disease nothing took check a firmer it, hold, and with
to and raged with more
violence than ever the patient died.
Virginia.
Judge N. B. Meade, of the corpo¬
ration court of Alexandria, died at Mar¬
shall, Farquier county, of disease
of the heart, from which he had
becu suffering ter some tim<\ He was on
his way to his country home.
One Beautiful China Woman.
Njy Yoo Nnm is the Chineso name
l>orno by a bountiful girl who arrived on
the steamer Belgio nearly a month ago.
When the steamer was released from
quarantine Circuit and pretty Court Ng Yee was taken for
to the to arrange
proper bonds for her release on a writ
ojf habeas corpus, she created no little
sensation among tho officials, attorneys
and reporters present. of Instead of hav¬ Ng
ing a Chinese ensto countenance,
slightly Yee possessed an large oval face, a nose
Roman, and figure round, (lark eyes,
pearly teotli, a that many an
American beauty would give worlds to
possess, Such was Ng Yee's appear¬
anee, and her actions in court were
decidedly anti-Chinese. The ordinary
Chinese girl’s demeanor when among
those not of her own race is proper to a
preciseness. She holds a handkerchief
to her face, never smiles, and under uo
circumstances maiden expresses aunt would surprise — into in
fact a prim such go Ng
ocataeies over a ward. But
Yeo had no one to shake a warning
finger at her; she had all tho latitude
possible and took advantage of it. She
peered out of the corner of her eyes at a
reporter in a most he bewildering way,
then pouted because where was she too modest
to saunter over sat nnd say
nice tilings to her. She was well up in
all tho artifices known and by by the thought¬ girls of
the present day, those
less airs she wrecked her own happi¬
ness, for she will be sent back to China.
Consul Bee heard about the waif, and
as she lacked proper credentials lie pro¬
ceeded to investigate her case, as it
is quite probable she was shipped to
America for immoral purposes. The
Consul said yesterday; far “Her case is a
remarkable one, so as I have gone.
Both of her parents were not Chinese—
of that I am certain. Sho has Portu¬
guese blood in her veins, and her very
appearance disproves tho statement of
Lee Kong You that the gill is his wife’s
sister. He says that she was born in
America, and that she returned to
China in 1878. Who purchased her
ticket to this country, and by whom she
was sent, 1 have not learned as yet, but
I will bring her to tho consulate on
Friday and hear her story. Sho will
probably be remauded.— San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Kind of Wives Wanted.
JZSXShIa T - i K has SWJsiJBS a thoologicai
’ oked great deal of criticism
j feruling p rov a pub-
by the theatre and by
lishing an their college paper the fol-
lowin g.racy description of tho kind of
gj r ]s they want for wives: “The buxom,
bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked, who darn full-breasted, stocking,
bouncing toss, can a frocks,
mend trousers, make her own
command a regiment of pots and ket-
ties, feed tlio pigs chop wood, rnOlc the
cows, .^^to hiusV J b
ifuly commnv the sort
of gul for me and and teranvwortliv f i any man ’
to mairy. Hit y L} ; Ki P P’
lollmg^oreweduip, wasp-waistcd, putty-
faced, consumptive, novel-devouring mortgaged, daughters music-
murdering, and idleness; not fit
of fashion you are
matrimony any moro than a pullet is
2<x>k after a family of fourteen chick-
The truth is, my dear girls, you
‘ more liberty and loss fashionable
, - , more kitchen and less parlor
pudding nnd less piano, more frankness
an d less mock modesty, more breakfast
ftn d less bustle. Loose yourselves a
little, enjoy more breathe liberty and less re-
f-traint by fashion, the pure afc-
mosphero of freedom, ami become some-
thing ns lovely and beautiful as the God
“ tu ™
“Papa is Melting His Snow.”
Brown was engaged ,he in dyeing black
*?^ ^ «< —v
I " Tl is youngest olive branch had stolen
“sjf 'st-rSTSL*. father rubbing » like *.
watched her away a
, fellow ; 4 ‘papa is melting his snow.”
_ Judge*
ABOUND THE GLOBE.
j
ITEMS GLEANED FROM TELE¬
PHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
INTERESTING DOT8 ABOUT THE NORTH,
EAST AND WEST—THE EUROPEAN SITU¬
ATION—DOINGS OF KINGS AND QUEENS.
T f P r « s y is J3F» diu g nt » dreadful rate
*« ,, Roma, Thirty cases have been offl-
tlull J reported in Darpart alone.
The German police now refuse to allow
j ?* lu ^o people Emperor to throw Frederick’s flowera carriago and petitions
* n w hen
: driving.
! Tli i St. Paul knitting works, at St. Paul
, Park, Wis , burned on Thursday with
most of the contents, Loss, $117,000;
insurance, $77,000.
The trouble between Emperor Fred-
crick and liismarck, in regard to reforms,
appeared to affect the health of the em-
peror unfavorably,
The Blandon Iron Company, near
give Reading. rolling Pa, mill, which operates an enten¬
has closed indefinitely
on account of the low price of iron.
»*
,, h® v e issued an address declaring that the
fects Pope morals a decree only relative and does to Irish affairs af¬
not interfere
wllh P 0 ' 111 ^.
^ fire which broke out in the Hotel
R° T> m ®> Panama, at two o clock Sunday
! uornin S) entirely gutted ten large build-
ln £*- I*- ls estimated that $300,000
v,orl1 P ro P or ty was destroyed,
tho One hundred rescript, farmers, encouraged by
Landlord papal Hussey’s have bog bought Ahabeg, turf from
at in
County Kerry, Ireland.. Hussey had been
rigidly boycotted for four years,
Thc English gunboat Mistletoe visited
the Minqiliers group of tho Channel Is¬
lands and warned thc French to quit
Maitre lie, upon which tho tri-color
was recently raised. It is claimed by the
English.
There has been a falling off ln tbe
price of seats of thc cotton exchange,
at New York. Some years ago seats were
woitli $6,0,0, The sale of three scats
under the rule recently realized $970,
$900 and $955.
The vigorous enforcement of the Ger¬
man frontier regulations commenced on
Saturday nt Strasburg. irregular A number of
travelers with papers were
turned baek, and direct trains from Paris
were almost empty.
The bark Monrovia failed for Liberia
on Sunday from New York, carrying
thirteen colored families from Gainesville,
Florida, who are to settle there. They the
are emigrating under the auspices of
African Colonization society.
In the Methodist Conference in New
York on Wednesday, the six new Bishops
were consecrated with impressive cere¬
monies. The name of the Freedman’s
Aid Society was changed after much op¬
position to the Freedman’s Aid and
Southern Educational Society.
Bismarck had a long interview on
Thursday with Emperor Frederick, re¬
maining unt 1 5. p. in. Afterwords thc
emperor and empress drove in an open
carriage to Cunnewald. They returned
at C p. in., when the emperor paid his
first visit to the mausoleum since the fun¬
eral of the late Emperor William.
The Missouri river has begun its rava¬
ges again, and since Thursday morning
has cut one hundred and fifty feet into
the shore on the Nebraska side, directly
opposite Sioux, City, Iowa. Several years
tgo a good share of the original town
rite was engulfed, Iowa and last Summer a
large tract on thc side wus swal¬
lowed up.
A suit has beenstarted in New York, to
restrain the controlling stockholders in a
baking powder company from being too
magnanimous with themselves in the
matter of salaries—the president gets
$50,000 a year and the vice-president
$30,000—develops the fact that baking
powder makes the profit rise. Thq, divi¬
dends of this company have regularly in¬
creased from 73 per cent at first to a
ratio of 450 per cent for this year.
Preparations are being made in ter Russia,
under the authority of the czar, the
celebration next July of the ninth cen¬
tennial of the Greek Church in his em¬
pire. The scene of the grandest pomp
and chief ceremonies will be in the an¬
cient city of Kief?, the capital of Chris¬
tianized Russia, and in the magnificent which
old cathedral of St. Sophia, near
stand the palace of the Greek Metropoli¬
tan and the Petcherskoi monastery.
A monster meeting was held to the
city park at Cork, on Sunday, to take
action with reference to the papal re¬
script. Tho meeting endorsed the reso¬
lutions adopted by the Irish bishops, at
their recent meeting in Dublin. William
O’Brien, member of Parliament, in a
speech, said that the people had the sup¬
port of the bishops. The leaders of the
Irish movement, lie said, wished to drop
the rescript agitation, but they would
continue it if necessary.
ANOTHER CANDIDATE.
Gen. Clinton B. Fisk was nominated
for President by acclamation by the pro¬
hibitionists, at Indianapolis, Ind. Rev.
Sam Small was one of the candidates
named for vice-president, but he refused
to allow bis name to be considered. The
national committee was announced.
Southern members are as follows: Ala¬
bama— L. C. Colson, T. F. Whitton,
Arkansas—T. J. Rogers, J. L. Palmer,
Florida—I. J. Morgan, S. H. Cummings,
Georgia—Sam Small, A. A. Murphy,
Mississippi—J. C. R. Benton, Gambrell, Henry North Shaffers, Caro¬
lina—D. W.
South Carolina—James A. Tate, W. S.
Smith, Virginia—J. W. Newton, R. II.
Rollens. John A. Brooks, of Kansas,
was nominated for vice-president, and
the convention adjourned sine die.
RECKLESSNES8.
A collision occurred on the Cheyenne
and Northern branch ef the Union Pacific
Railroad, near Bordeaux, Wyo., on
Thursday, between a work train and a
passenger engine, which resulted in the
death of a passenger, Conductor Haden,
Fireman Elm and Brakeman Mayfield,
and the probable fatal injury of engineers
Brooks and Marsden, and serious injury
of four other employes.
VOL. III. NO. .‘17.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
HOW CONGRESS IS SPENDING
ITS TIME AND ENERGY.
OFF1CIAI, ACTS OF TllE I’REBIPENT—AP¬
POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS—WHERE
T1IE NATION’S MONF.Y UOE8—GOSSIP.
CONG1MMHIONAI*
In tho Senate, on Thursday, Mr.
Faulkner offered a resolution (which
w as agreed lo), directing the Secretary
of War to furnish information ns to why he
has not ured the appropriations of $15,-
000 and $2,000, made in 1880 and 1881,
ter the improvement of Shenandoah
river iu Viiginia and West tho Virginia.
Tho conference report on bill
to establish a depart mint of labor was
presented and agreed to. A number ol
bills from the calendar were authorizing passed,
among them the House bill
thc construction of bridges over the Ten-
nessee river at Guntersville, Ala., and
Chattanooga, Tenn. Conference com-
mittces on these bridge bills were or-
(b red, and Messrs. Coke, Cullum and
Dawes were appointed. Mr. Call offered
a resolution, (which went over), direct-
ing the attorney-general to repoit
whether Anastasia island, near St. Au-
gustine, Fla., is tho property of tho
United States, or whether it is covered
in whole or in part by the
Spanish grants confitmod and rec¬
ognized as valid by tho United States... .
In the House Mr. O’Neil, of Missouri,
presented the conference report on his
bill to create a department of labor,
which was nccepted, and the bill passed
in substantially the same shape as it
came from the Senate. Committees
were called for reports, nnd then on mo¬
tion of Mr. Mills, and without a negative
voice the House went into committee of
the whole ter the consideration of tho
tariff bill, and was debuted ter some
time. Messrs. McKinley, of Ohio, and
Spinola, of New York, wdio held tho
report from the military committee,
sought to secure consideration 1 for the
bill to revive the rank of general of the
army, to be filled by Lieutenant General
Sheridan, hut objection was made by Mr.
Kilgore, of Texas, and the House ad¬
journed, pending a division on a motion
to table Mr. Peters’s appeal from the
ruling of the chair on his point.
tlOSSIP.
The Pr. sident returned to the House
without his approval, the bill building providing
for the erection of a public at
Columbus, Ga.
The very latest report from the bedside
of Gen. Sheridan is unfavorable, and a
decided change from Ids condition iu the
latter part of last week, when he rallied
under the inspiration of the news thnt
Congress laid raised his rank to that of
full general, equal to thc honor conferred
on Gen. Grant.
In tho case of the Woodstock Iron
company, located near Anniston, Ala.,
thc Secretary of the Interior, on Thurs¬
day, decided thnt the purchase of unoff-
crcd lands by said company under pro¬
visions of section 1 of the act of June 15,
1880, was illegal, nnd directed the can¬
cellation of all unpatented entries to said
company.
Senator Sherman, from the Committee
on Finance, on Wednesday reported fa¬
vorably, with amendments, the bill to
reimburse tho depositors of the Frecd-
men’s Savings and Trust Company for
losses incurred by the failure of that
company. The bill appropriates $1,000,-
000 to be placed to the credit of the
commissioner of the company.
Mr. Clements, of Ga., introduced a
bill on Monday to pay the deacons of
New Hope Baptist church, in Bartow
county, $050 for the use of the church
building by tho Union forces iu ’04.
Also a bill to pay Nathan Bright $4,823
ter property taken from him by the army
of the United States. Also a similar
bill to pay Frank Henderson $1,608.
Pensions liavc been granted as follows
to people of Florida: Original invalid,
Samuel Puleston, Monticello; original
widows, etc., Mary J., widow of John
W. Brannon, Jacksonville; Mexican
widows, Olive, widow of Neill Monroe,
Foit Meade; increase (old war), Nathau-
iel F. Chapman, Bartow; Mexican sur¬
vivors, Alfred Iverson, Kissimee; Mexi¬
can widows, Martha C., widow of Pres¬
ton 8. Brooks, Jacksonville.
The Secretary of the Navy issued an
order for a court martial to convene at
the Navy Department ■ for the trial of
Capt. Thos. O. „ Selfridge, „ 1# United - States a . .
Navy. Sclfridge is charged with neglect
of duty on three specifications. The first ,
I8 lor not having applied ter and ob- !
tuined thorities permission conduct from thc Japanese practice au¬
to target is on
Japanese territory. The second for
not having taken proper steps to ascertain
if the practice could be conducted vith
safety, and the third is ter having left
unexploded shells on an island. It will
be remembered that several natives were
killed while examining an unexploded
shell whi .h had been left on an island.
BIG STEAL.
defunct The investigation Maritime bank, of the in affairs court of at tho St.
John’s, Neb., has evidence developed adduced some start¬
ling facts. The justi¬
fies the suspicion that Mr. McClellan, the
manager, kept two sets of books in order
to conceal the true condition of the
bank’s affairs from the directors. One
of the liquidator’s clerks swore that the
deficiency of thc bank, alter deducing
the value of its assets, was over $1,300,-
000.
ROUTE CHANGED.
As a result of the negotiations between Eastern
the French government and the
Railway Company for a change of the
t oute of trains, in order that eastward-
bound passengers might not be obliged
to pass through Alsace-Lorraine, the
railroad company announces train service
to Switzerland, Austria and Italy, via
Dole, thus avoiding German territory.
A Profitable Practice.
Citizen (to Physician)—“You have a
large practice among the wealthy and
fashionable class of people, haven’t you
doctor t”
Physician—“Oh, my, yes; why many '■
af the finest monuments and tombstones
in Woodlawn cover former patients of
mine .”—New York Epoch.
DAFFODIL3.
“I stand, ns once I stood of old,
Upon a meadow’s green and gold,
This sunny April day;
Tho little daisies kiss my feet,
Tho blackbird’s eall is dear and swoat,
And care is far away.
“A solemn peaoolios on my heart),
So lately wont to throb and smart,
And chafe at human ills;
l lift my face to feel the breeze,
That wanders through the building trees,
And shakes the daffodils.
“now swoet they show to weary eyes,
Those hardy yellow blooms that rise
f)n slender fluted stalks!
They need no culture, thought or care,
Cut spring with springtime, free and fair.
O’er ail our common walks.
“On meadow gro n, by leafy hedge,
j n woodland shade and rusty sedge,
By little lowly rills;
While yet the north wind blows his blast,
Before the storm and sleet are past,
loiugh out the daffodills.
“They rise tins year from last years grave,
And all their golden tassels wave
As blithely now as then,
So I, who love their beauty so,
Rise up this year from last year's wo
Andgather (lowers again,
<«what though from many a dream I part,
r feol the springtime in my ha
My tired sorrows cease.
I whisper to the yellow flowo
‘This yoar shall bring me summer hours,
And deeper, surer peace.’
"What though tho feet that walked with
mine
Through tost year’s days of shade and shins
Among my native hills,
Have wandered from my side and I
Stand lonely under (tod’s blue sky,
Among the daffodils-
“What though tho hand which held my own
In love’s own clasp, while love's own tone
Grew tender unto pain,
Has left my poor hand thin and cold;
I bring the trusting heart of old
To these bright flowers again.”
—All the Year Round.
PITH AND POINT.
Hand-sewed—An oat field.
An epitaph for n faithful car conductor
•—“He took his last fare well.”
All’s fair in love—especially the ob¬
ject of one’s love .—Hurling on Free
Press.
Three scruples make a dram, but many
men take the dram first and let tho
scruples come in at the second table.
Fr<«t had the “boss” girl, ho oft did boast
When courting Nellie Moss:
Three years in holy wedlock joined, 1
He buds she Brill is boss.
— Yankee Blade.
Johnnie—“Mamma, why do they call
ministers doctors?” Mother: “I can’t
tell, Johnnie.” Johnnie—“Perhaps it’s
bec ause they are the pillars of the church,
mamma. — Yonkers Statesman.
“ Will you bo kind enough, pa,” said
Bobby, in a low, well-modulated ton§ of
voice, “to give me another piece of “you’ve pie ?”
“No, sir,” replied the old said man; Bobby, with
had enough.” “ Ma,” told polite¬
a dubious air, “you me that
ness always pays.”— -New York Sun. ,
! n the spring tho gentle urchin plays with
marbles on the walk .
In the spring the politician oils his mouth
for future talk.
In tho spring the latest fashions on the dude-
lets do appear.
In the spring tho long haired poet works his
muse to got zwoi bier.
—Minneapolis Tribune.
A writer in a Louisville paper says ha
is surprised to observe, in reading what the
wedding notices in the city papers,
a large proportion of the brides are work*
ing girls. He would probably be more
surprised still, however, if the papers
said they were working men.— Judge.
Mathematical (a fact).—Visitor—
“Well, my little man, have you any
brothers?” Freddy—“Yes, I have one,
but my little sister Steila has two.”
Vis'tor—“Why, how can that be?”
Freddy (in some astonishment)—“Me
and my little brother,of course!”— Grip.
Over-Trumped.—Two drummers were
disputing as to which of their firms had
the more extensive business. “Out
travelers,” said one, “have so much to do
that they are away ter nearly the whole
year.” “Nonsense,” answered the other.
“That is nothing. back all .—Fliegende Ours sometimes BlaeU
never come at
ter.
Slung Terms for Money.
p £? ro bablv b *^ every ®a ”” country possesses Sse do-
cu J s ' | terms in e very day
it> coin9 0 r instance, .J a “nickel”
very well {]efincs the five ent pJece
currency, and a “red cent” is equally
expressive, In Scotland the man who
“flies kites” is probably not worth a
“boodle,” which is an imaginary coin,
slightly here. differing England from the same would term
In the same person
not be worth a “mag.” A “kite” is an
accommodation bill; a “mag” ia the
smallest copper coin of the realm. On
thc race course one hears talk of betting
a “pony,” which is $125, or winning a
“monkey,” which is $2500. A when “ quid the ”
only ha^ reference to tobacco
term is used by sailors. Among lands¬
men it means $5. Small gamblers play
for “bulls” and “half-bulls;” in other
words, five shillings and half crowns.
Little boys occasionally toss ter “Joeys,” cab
or fourpenny pieces, and a hansom
driver will expect you to tip him with
a “tanner,” which is what he callsa six¬
pence, while the common appellation ol
a shilling is a “bob.” These terms are
commonly in use all over England.
The Oldest Mason in the World.
Colonel Edward Sumner, of San Fran¬
cisco, has been visiting his daughter,
Mrs. Ada E. Taylor, on Locust street.
Colonel Taylor is tho oldest Free Mason
known to be living to the world. He has
been a Mason for seventy-one years. He
was born in 1790. A remarkable fact is
that he can read without the aid of
glasses. In the war of 1812 he was a
member of a transportation company in
New York which was and engaged in trans¬
porting munitions troops. He came
to California in 1850, but returned to
Wisconsin a few years after. He served
in the Wisconsin Legislature during
1859-60. In 1863 he once more came to
California, where he has3ince remained,
Colonel Sumner is a descendant of the
Sumners who came to America in the
Mayflower .—Santa Cr\u Sentinel,