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f| * • .*{ { A h i 3 mcrprisc *5. ♦ ellaville PUBLISHING CO. LILLIE EDDLES; -on, ABDUCTED BY THE BUSH- P u 1 story of the War in the Southwest. --— 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,