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Story of the War in
the Southwest,
BY ARVIDE 0. BALDWIN.
CHAPTER XI.—Continued
'SO, *6 mas’ go slow, Alarse John, ’ease
up is DO US0 frowin' away powder, an'
ai,a aetlin’ crippled, on account ob fool-
m dis heab fuss. We is all right
V au - „j K ht am de best time ter hunt
LA,id bushwhackers.”
From where our friends wore located it
Smut , impossible for their foes to leave
been seen, so a constant watch was
“ below and above tho
■tjdoo me openings r
■ q'dou’i see of any them, horse*, but Jeff. where They must they
■mplenty If?” ctm
Bgoimp?” Iqioe* yor see Jut Holler do hill an'
H ‘Yes. ”
■ qi.it *:u de 'ca'ilv. De bosses mu (lore, ”
■ »\vn it nvi'ii-s vnu think R o?”
■ I * 'Cast’ I knows it. I’se seed dem. ”
‘Well, Jeff, you are a good one!"
lierter ■ ’Yes. Marse John, Use a purty fair nig-
work when I likes de business.”
■‘•Youcertainly | must like Marso war, then."
I “Jes tollable, tollable, John.”
I “What about the horses?”
-tt’hen I was gwine up de paf dat go to
■dsplace whar Miss Lillie is, 1 heerd de
■fioklin ov a bell to de lef in de brush, an
■l jes went ont far ter see about de matter,
■is I specs, hosses was dere, an dey comes
■tad;’sometimes, I yer know. Well, I foun'
de bosses, Marse John, an’ lots ob dem.
■ lligebenin'.’’ Mebbewekui use some ob dose animals
I I ‘That is what I think, Jeff. But how
Imdknow does it com- that you are so well posted,
I light where everything is?”
I Tse been heah befo’, Marse John, ef yei
| dim-member correc’ly. ”
I “Thais tree, so yon have; and it seems
[ that you improved your time, too.”
[ “I ae a no ’eouut plantation nigger, Marse
[ John, but Use some 'dapted for wah, an’ 1
spec de reason am dat I spize de debbil
[snodder When the bushwhackers.” pretty well
suu was up a per-
son was toward seen the carrying something from
I map hill beyond which were
tkscapiives. The watchers supposed it was
food for them.
An hour or more later they saw another
one of the campers going in the samo direc¬
tion. They were not positive, at (hat dir-
tonce, but they believed it to be Edom
Woodsley. Ho walked slowly, and ihe two
men watched him closwly until bis head
wnk beyond the hdi.
his worth our while to follow this iudi-
lidaal, for our friends were correct in
thinking the person to bo Woodsley. 11
teemed that he was not in as healthy con-
uiiicn as he desired. His wound had in-
famod, aud without proper care was not
In doing as well as he could wish He was not
the best of spirits as he unlocked the
door of the rough log prison that held his
lovely
Lillie was silling by ono of the small
I loop-holes that answered for windows,
watching the birds flitting about in the
neighboring fited since trees. Her spirits had re-
■ ■ and she hearing that friends were near,
I when Edom was ap|.earing W her own self again
1 As she who oodsley entered,
■ saw the intruder was she rose
■ sbmptly, and her eves flushed as he came
I toward her,
I find "M 001 -* well, morning, ” he Alias Lillie. I trust I
you Baid as he readied out his
I left hand.
[ | my “You right will hand, excuse but me that for hand not offering to you be
| too ‘shaky’ now.” appear#
| the And he tried to laugh at
weak pun.
[ | nil I presence wish you upon would not when impose your know hute- how
distasteful me, you
it is,” she said, wiihout paying
any attention to the outstretched haud.
<*, my little beauty, you will like me
whea you know me better,” he siguifi-
t <»ntiy remarked.
God knows, I wish I had never known
you. Your wickedness has mude all my
misery.”
Y our hate has brought sny trouble upon
Tj Il at y° u ^ avo ^ a, j- k av0 attempt-
»d the life of one that loves you, Lillie Ed-
W’i J ) U eve u '’Ml be forgiven if you
,
Do not insult me again, and
when I am unprotected. I could never even
defenseless.” j , ° se friend who kas thus warred on the
. lou have not always been so defense-
l( «», it seems." And he pointed lo b3
wound.
“Ah! But I wish I had that weapon with
me whenever a coward offers an insult.”
it is useless to prolong this ill-feeling.
Let us be friends and then we can nnder-
*wnd envh olher. I am either a gentlema*
01 a devil, and you have tho power to say
well, }, shltil I’ll be in be the future, then, snd be
gentleman- if say a man, answered a
you can," she
‘‘Vo * 311 you will forgive all?” he aBked.
"Aud love me, Lillie?’
'Never!”
" You wildly
claimed. must! You shall!” he ex¬
I never can, and never will,” she firmly
rep ied.
Lillie Eddies," he exclaimed, “you will
ar ry me, or I will cut your proud heart
irom your breast! If kindness will not do,
win n 80 other means, for you can never
• lve to be another's. I will feed your pretty
teass to the buzzards first.”
zou can murder me, Edom Woodsley;
nt >' 0 U oan never call mo wife, "she un-
„ mnchingly
answered.
• will be mv wife before So -morrow
Zn , or life is I or
take >’ onr will close.
your choice!"
plied '™i ' 8 Preferable,” she carelessly re-
1 will return again to-morrow and re-
-veyour final answer. If vou do not con-
Bp , ut to become is
my wife, so mire as there
a rod in heaven 11 live to love
another." Au.l you w never lafthand above
togelbe'*’ he swung bis
UUd UiB lhm li|,s closed tightly
Lillie felt convinced that ho intended to
uo as he s rid, but sho did not despair. She
ew friends were near, and tho hope of
(siape gar e her sustaining courage,
rie turned about when lie ceased speak-
and op nod the door aud looked back.
Lemeinber, death!" to-morrow brings liappi-
or
Lillio deigned no reply to tbis, and be
pissed out.
" b 011 he had gone a sense of great reliof
(tne ove r her. Bh« knew she was in dauger
w wag. u aia xmoimmi
(ter her mi o s she (Otnplied with bis do¬
nUj Hh ° filmly llel0lramea nmr to
do that
CHAPlER XIL
A MYSTERIOUS RECOGNITION,
r, roc J ’« . 8 n0 and I r s it ? J seemod sluw > to that <ho the two men day in (he
, would
nex r wear away, hut night finally
t a. ways does, and ahvavs will,'no came, as
bow on matte,
x ous y wear# wa ting, and oar funds
pi epared to leave iheir place of conceal-
T ^ e bnshwhaoliors lmd built their evon-
. fire, and
log white clouds of smoke wore
circling Our far above tho trees.
friends foil relieved when tho last
light streak of departing day disappeared in
the west, and they began to climb down the
rocks.
Lip the river and across it onco more they
went, and directed their coiirso toward the
ravine that held tho horses. They carefully
crawled across the open space so that they
would not bo observed, but when oice
across disappeared, nearly all fear of being discovered
and they followed on tip the
ravine.
In a short t.rno the tinkling of the small
bells were heard, aud they knew the horses
wore F nigh.
our of tho best ones wore secured, and
then they cut the bells from those that wore
thorn anil began driving tho small herd nr
the ravine. When they thought thoy hail
gome far enough, ihey then changed their
eonrso, and passed over tho steep hill on
the left, still driving the looso auimals be¬
fore
When they reachod the opposite side
Ihey left the driven horses at tho foot of the
hill, in tha valley, aud then kept on down.
boon they cauie lo the clearing, in the
center of which was built the prison of the
( a; fives. They halted aud begin to reeon-
noiter. They found everything as Jeff had
found it tho previous in,Id. Thero wes
tho littlo log priso -house, sud there were
(he two men ou guard, one at the back and
one in front, pacing back and forth over
their beat. Everything wag quiet a; they
looked, but soon the sharp notes of thi
whip-poor-will rang out but a short dis-
lance away. Jeff started. The superstition
of hi. nee forau instant got the better of
him, but it was only for an instant, for be¬
fore the first sharp cry had died away he
iero\er d and again possessed his natural
coo'ness.
“It is against m,y inclinations and I dread
lo do it,” John whispered, “but our only
hope of releasing the prisoners is by a des-
peiato action. The two sentinels must be
got 'i way wiih, and wo hav it to do.”
“All right. Marso John, I hears yer."
“Which one will you take, Jett?”
‘‘Do 'whacker back er do house.”
“I'll take the other. Be sure and got
your man, Jeff. Shoot when I whistle.”
John g aneed around a moment and then
appealed to be satisfied.
“All ready now. Crawl close to that
attimp and get fixed, aud when I give the
ignal (Iron him. ”
The inygro got down on his hands and
knees- aud crawled along like a snake,
until he had reached the spot designated.
John did the siine, and the two arrived
at their stations at nearly the same iustaut.
I TO HE CO,NTIXUKI>.J
His Letter.
It is one of the postal laws that a let¬
ter or other mail matter dropped ownership into a
h tter-hox passes from tbe of
ihe sender the moment it goes into the
box, aud must go through the regular
course of tho mails and to the person
t o whom it is addressed before it can be
i ecuvcn>d. Amusing results sometimes
come from this law. A letter-carrier
was taking the mail from the box ono
afternooon when lie was hastily ap¬
proached by a young man with an anx-
ions face, who had evidently been run¬
ning for some distance.
“Here! Stop!” cried the young man.
“There’s a letter there in the box that I
want.”
“But you can’t have it,” said the post-
innii.
“Why, its my own; my¬
self. It’s addressed to—’’
“That makes no difference,’’interrupt¬
ed the carrier; “the letter must now go
to the person to whom it is addressed."
“Why, I—I—,” the young man be¬
gan, in a frightened and bewildered
tone, “it must not go to—to—her. I
made a mistake in addressing it. There,
that’s the letter—that one in the cream-
tinted envelope with the red seal! Please
let ine have it. ’
“Can’t do it," said the postman,
f "“I“wrote tell word
it. I enn you every
that’s in it. Great Scott, man 1 I would
not. nave that letter go for a thousand
dollars! I just must have it back,"
“You caii’t get it back from me,” said
tho postman, down with to increased, the office firmness. if you
“You can go postmaster
want to, and see the or sup¬
erintendent of mails. If they U give it
up, nil right.” moments later tho distressed .
A few closeted with the post¬
voting man was he
master, and stammering out that
lmd written a most interesting aud lm-
portant. proposition in ft letter to ft \ oung
lady named Helen Souther, and a note
accepting an invitation to another young
lady who also happened to be named
Helen—Helen Wilis.
Ho had not the slightest desire to mar¬
ry Alisa AVills, but sho would certainly
road, and perhaps accept, his proposal
if he could not have it again and put it
in an envelope that was now lymg at
home on his desk addressed to Alisa
Souther, but which Contained the note
not, intended for her.
The postmaster, having some discre¬
tionary powers in the case, and under¬
standing how harrowing the voting man s
feelings must be. restored the tetter to
the writer, who wont away, saved from
something too dreadful to think about.
— Youth's Companion.
A Big Contract on Hand.
zVgs^v if® 9.
“Ha, ha! I’ll catch a mouse 1”
£,s\ jUL
"7X 7 f
7
‘•Reg pardon, but did I hear my name
f* f —^
GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JULY 1#. 1888.
SOUTHLAND ITEMS.
PARAGRAPHS, SAD, PLEASANT
AND TERRIBLE.
Industrial progress—the excursion
FEVER—RAILROAD ACC1DENTS-BUICIDEB
DEFALCATIONS—COTTON REPORTS, ETC.
A Illinium, )
Ihe 2nd United States artillaty, ha
charge of the Gulf const defense*, natd
been ordered to Afont Sano, near Haute-
ville, where they are now encamped.
Oscar Cooper, u wealthy young planter
living Dear Town Creek, Laurens county,
was shot anil killed on Tuesday by Steve
The Binford, colored, a tenant of his farm.
ambush, negro Cooper waylaid and shot him fret*
children. leaves a wife and two
William "Willis, a young white man
employed Montgomery us a flagman on the Mobile &
stantly. Tuesday, Railroad, was killed in¬
the train by by being knocked off
Willis a low-bridge at Fort Deposit.
bml was a young married man, and
been married only a few mouths.
Florida.
L. AV. Vanhaulover has teen appointed
postmaster at Brevard.
W. G. Jones a most estimable young
man tv as drowned near St. Augustine.
Several Cuban tobacco planters are mak¬
ing arrangements to plant near Lake
A widow pension has been granted to Clara
H., of John II. Scott, of Zell-
wood.
Starke had a big fire, in which Dr. J.
L Gaskin’s mills were destroyed. Total
about .
.oss $10,000.
The American Press Brotherhood, of
Jacksonville, will make an excursion to
the Cincinnati, Ohio, Exposition August
1 st.
The Executive Committee of the Flor¬
ida Horticultural Society have selected
Sanford as the place of the meeting of
Ihe American Poraological Society next
February.
Tiie artesian well sunk at Sarasota, is a
grand euccc-s 5 . It has a depth of 400
feet, a six-inch bore, runs 150 gallons per
minute, and rises 23 feet above tide.
The water is very pleasant todriuk, with
a scarcely perceptible trace of sulphur.
Rev. It. S. P. Allen, while swimming
In Saddle creek, at Kissimmee, was
lirowned. The body was embalmed and
carried to Orlando for burial. He was
one of the first settlers of this place. He
opened the Kissimmee river for naviga¬
tion aud run the first steamboat.
Ororifin.
Airs. Ann Walsh, a respectable and el¬
derly lady, living in the southern por¬
tion of Augusta, fell in the canal on
Thursday, and was drowned before dis¬
covered. She leaves three children, all
grown.
Col. B. W. Frobeldiedat Monticello
after an illness of four weeks. He was
58 years old and was born near Alexan¬
dria. Va. He was a naval officer until
the War and resigned to enter the Con¬
federate States navy but was transferred
to the army, serving as an death engineer offi-
jer. At the time of his Col. Fro-
bel was cl ief engineer, vice-president
snd general manager of the Macon &
Covington Railroad.
Miflsourt.
That portion of Missouri known as tht
home of the bald knobbers, Christian,
Taney. Barry and Ozark counties, is
striving to surpass former records. D«
ring the last two or three months it is es¬
timated that at least 2,000 head of cattls
have been stolen in Taney and Christian
counties by the bald knobbers, uplanders,
as call themselves.
By the spreading of the rails on* fifty-
lb >t trestle ten miles west of Cameron, on
Thursday, the Chicago, Bock Island and
Pacific construction train with seventeen
men on hoard was precipitated to the
ground, a distance of thirty feet. killed The
fireman, Richard Jonee, was out¬
right. Engineer AVilcox was scalded
and died a few hours later. Brakeman
Cummings’ feet were crushed, and h«
also received internal injuries from which
he will die.
The boycott against Burlington cars
was put into effect by switchmen of Kan-
gas Citv. Wabasli and Chicago and Al¬
ton officials notified the Burlington com¬
pany that they would continue to receive
cars as usual. Shortly before noon on
Wednesday about twenty-five striker*
made an assault upon C. A. Scanlon, a
new switchman,’and beat him in a terri¬
ble manner. George Sheehan, a striker,
then had arrested for flouri-hing
li revolver, and said the assault was made
in self-defense.
TeniUMMiee*
Puring a storm ou AVednesday, two
negro men took refuge iu a barn one mile
from Chattanooga. The barn was struck
by lightning and one man killed and the
othor stunned, but he recovered in about
two hours.
During the administration of Gov.
Taylor, 217 pardons have been granted. in
Many of these, however, were never but
the state prison, or any other prison,
were pardoned after being sentenced to
fine or imprisonment before this sentence
was executed.
Jane Allred brought suit in the circuit
court at Chattanooga against the Nash¬
ville, Chattanooga & St. Louis K -Lroftd,
claiming damages iu the sum of $ 20 ,U 0 C
for injuries received on the night of June
10th. The plaintiff alleges that in get
ting off the train at AVhiteside, she was
1 hrown into a ditch and landed on *
stone, which caused moved injuries for so fourteen serious
that she could not be
days. Nash
Deputy Marshal Spurrier, of
viile, has arrested an old man ot more
than sixty years, known as “Humpy
Pennington. He i 8 of immense Duilclj
but has an unsightly physical deformity
that has given him the name of
“Humpy.” He has been running anil-
licit distillery ever since the War, but ha
never been arrested before. The rifle
that the old man carried was one that
was carried by his son, who was killed in
a feud about a year ago.
North Uarollaa.
Asheville has voted to put in a thor¬
ough system ol sewerage, to cost f 100,*
owd,
Vfrffflttn.
The gallery of the old Quaker church,
jn Alexandria, used as an Infirmary for old
colored During people, fell on Thursday night
an entei tainment for the benefit oi
the homo, precipitating ibe crowd to tlu
lower floor, and probably fatally injuring
the janitor and breaking his leg and oth¬
erwise colored. injuring fix or seven women, all
In February last, Rawlins & Hose made
a salu of the old Libby H. prison, at Rich¬
mond, to William paid Gray of Chicago,
HI. The price to he was $23,300.
On Februrary 87th, Mr. Giay made s
cash payment of $o,825. The other pay¬
ments were to be made in s x, nine and
twevc months, or sooner, at (he option of
Hie purchaser. Gray afterwards disposed
of the property to a Chicago syndicate
at a considerable advance. There is rea¬
son to believe that no more paymenti
will be made, and that the Chicago syn¬
dicate will tell the property at uuetion.
. South CfiroHn*.
The state board of ngTiculturewitl hold
a Farmers’ Institute at Laurens on July
20-27.
The Common Council of Charleston
decided to permit the ico cream saloons
to remain open on Sundays.
The delegates from the various sub-
alliances of the Farmers’ Alliance met in
secret session at Florence for the purposq
of peifecting an organization of a Statq
Alliance. The attendance was large, so
large that Barringer’s Hall was filled tu
snffocation. I he enthusiasm of the del-
ega es was unbounded. A temporary
organization was effected. Tho Farmers’
Alliauce is, comparatively speaking, a
new comer in South Carolina, but since
its arrival it has spread ani increased
with a rapidity unparalleled in the his-
tory of any organization of like character
in the State.
Hlaryfnnd-
The Furniture Workers’ Co-operative
Association assigned on Wednesday.
The bond of the trustees was $50,000.
Within the past two weeks nearly 300
men have been discharged from the Bal¬
timore A Ohio railroad shops at Alount
Clare. Last Saturday, 1U5 wen *erc
dropped discharge from the different departments.
The is due to the recent sale of
the sleeping car system to the Pullman
company, aud a general lack of work.
TiOiiiainita.
J. B. Carpenter, a notary public, has
gone to Mexico. Suits were tiled against
him for sums aggregating $20,000. It is
thought that there are enough creditors
to swell tho amount to $30,000. It is
understood that iu most cases the money
was placed iu his hands for investment.
Rcnincky.
The large training stable of William
Rue, at Danville, was burned on Thurs-
dny night. 1 lurty-three head of
trotters were incinerated. I he total loss
will be $75,000. Some of the trotters
were entered in Ohio and Now Y'ork
races.
SEVERE ACCIDENT.
Express train No. 52 left Orange Court
House, Va., south-bound, on time at 1:50
on Thursday morniug with Conductor C.
P. Taylor, Engineer Watkins aud Fire-
man Felly. About two miles south of
Orange is a trestle known as Fat Nancy’s
trestle, on the Virginia Alidland Rail¬
road, aud is one of the highest ou the
road, being fifty-nine feet above the
creek. Train 52 was on time, tinder
U P. Taylor, and moving at a slow rate
having been flagged. The engine had
crossed when the smoking-car the went
through the trestle, followed by mail,
express, passenger coach and sleeper,
which dragged the engine into the gen¬
eral wreck. The light went out instant¬
ly, and total darkness followed. Cries
for help aud screams of young children
added horror to the terrible scene and
people living in the neghborhood hurried
to offer ai-sistance. The engine went
down, the pilot end foremost, thus com-
municatiug no fire to the wreck. A A11 the
liglds were extinguished in the fall. As
soon as the accident occurred, the engi¬
neer, who was but slightly injured,
walked back to Orange and
telegraphed for asssistance. C. Cox,
pf Alexandria, of the engineer¬
ing department of tho Piedmont Air-
Line, was instantly killed; H. 8 . AiVhit-
lington, of Greensboro, N. C., postal
Clerk, lived ten minutes; If. C. Bright-
well, of Prospect, Prince Edward county,
Va., postal clerk, lived until he reached
the hospital; AV. B. Parrott, of Aiber-
aiarle county, postal clerk, badly in¬
jured; J. Q. AVest and J. L. AV althall,
){ Washington, D. C., postal clerks,
padly injured; Louis Jenkins, of Lynch-
purg, postal clerk, slightly injured; injured; Pot-
terfield, express agent, seriously
l. Jennings, of Lflichburg, a passenger,
luteroal injuries; Capt. C. P. Taylor, of
[Alexandria, who was in tbe car next to
;he smoker when the nccideut occurred,
svas hurt about the head and one leg
MIS injured.. The total number of in¬
jured are estimated at about twenty-five,
(t was one of the passenger coaches in
-he middle of the train that ran oil the
1bc track, causing the accident. It broke
jlown the trestle, dragging aad engine, back which the mail had
Mid baggage car point where the trestle
passed beyond the them down to ruin it.
broke, and pulling well loaded because
The train is always
M the through copneciion New Orleans, it makes Augusta be¬
tween Boston and
ind Atlanta. On an average it carries
□etween 150 and 200 pastengers. One of
,hc sleepers was destined by White Sul-
Dbur Springs to be dropped at Charlotte*
rille. TIPs car, however, was the last of
the train, and remained on the track.
FAVOR CONSOLIDATION.
Members of four Brotherhoods of lo¬
comotive engineers, firemen, brakemen
and switchmen, held a meeting at St.
Cloud, Minn., for tbe purpose of taking
steps looking to an amHlgftmation of these
orders. The sentiment developed was
favorable to their union, and a furthet
meeting for this purpose will be held in
Minneapolis four weeks hence.
SUMMER SNOWS.
throughout England , is
The weather has fallen the
abnormally cold. Snow in
suburbs of London, and the peaks oi
Hkiddaw and other mountains are eov
ered with snow. It is the hrst time snow
is k nowu to have fallen in that country
in July.
THE WOULD OVER.
CONDENSATION OF FACTS BY
•PHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
tOMKTHINO ABOUT CONVENTIONS, RAIL¬
ROADS, WORKING PEOPLE, CAPITALISTS,
EUROPEAN CROWNED HEADS, ETC.
Gen. Diaz has been reelected president
af Mexico.
Fire destroyed nearly all the business
portion of Suisun, Cal., on Tuesday.
The rale war in the West si ill contin¬
ues, another cut in dressed beef rates
having been announced.
banquet Gen. Boulanger, said in an hoped oration his sword at a
in Paris, he
would return to him before another year
had passed.
The British government hns instructed
Sir Charles Warren, chief commissioner
of police, henceforth to suppress Satur¬
day meetings in Trafalgar square,
London.
Advices from Horae state that the re¬
cent meeting of Irish bishops, which
seemed the Papal to reopen rescript, the surprised questions closed and di»- by
pleased the Vatican,
The Bethlehem, their rail l*a., mills Iron under Company will
start up the new
scale, which reduces wages from five to
twenty per cent, and guarantees contin-
uous work until January,
A dispatch from Rome to the Chronicle
mya Cardinal Aloran is about to go to
I Ireland by order of the Pope to urge
up(m t he Irish bishops more comnlete
submission to the Vatican,
A mot5on wag propoie d in the French
cbamber of to confiscate prop-
C rty in France belonging to Orleauist
princes and use asylum the proceeds for the
erection of an for the aged.
Farmers along the line of the Lake Erie
& Western Railway in Indiana are
greatly alarmed over the appearance
among their cattle of the dreaded Texas
fever. The farmers fear the scourge will
become general.
Fire destroyed flic lumber mills Mich., owned
by II. R. Morse, at Alpena, on
Thursday, buildings, and communicated causing to over 200
other a loss of nearly
half a million of dollars aud rendering
1,300 persons homeless.
Charles M. Kittridge, a private banker
of Denver, Co)., returned from tho
mountains on Wednesday after a vacation
of len days. He discovered he had been
robbed of $10,000. As Arthur White,
confidential clerk, has not been seen since
sconded last Thursday, it is thought he has ab¬
with the money.
The Chicago, III., newspapers arc en-
; n a W ui(i£ rates. A foil night ago
^ Times, which has been selling at
three cents, reduced its price to two
cents. The Tribune followed with a cut
from three to two cents, and including
its Sunday issue. The Daily News, which
has all along been a two cent paper, cut
down the to one cent.
Charles superintendent II. Wright, for in eleven the mailing years
assistant
department of the Detroit, Mich., post-
office, was arrested on Wednesday ou the
charge of purloining Smith, money who from the
mails. Inspector made the
arrest, claims that AVright has stolen
letters ever since he lias been connected
with the posioffice—about thirteen years!
Patrick Joseph O’Brien, Member of
Parliament for tbe north division of
Tipperary, was released from Tullamore
jail on Wednesday, his three months’
imprisonment for violation of the crimes
act having expired. He was immediately
conveyed to Kilkenny jail, months where he will
serve another three for an
offense of the same kind.
Chairmen and Ifoge Firemen’s nnd Murphy, of the
Locomotive arrested Chicago, Brotherhood,
have been at Ill., on a
charge of conspiracy. in which Mr. The Hogc much-talked
of circular, is alleged
to have requested the brotherhood men
to hire themselves secretly to the “Q"
roads, and then disable the engines, is
said to be the basis of the charge against
Hoge. Chairman Alurphy is charged
with being an accomplice.
An important decision, involving a ne-ft
point under the prohibitory liquor law of
Iowa, Iris been reudered by Judge
phelps, of the Burlington district court.
place Two years of business ago a saloon enjoined keeper, whose nui¬
was as a
sance, appealed and to the filing Iowa supreme
court, alter a super¬
sedeas bond, continued the traffic.
Recently proceedings him arrested were and fined brought
have have for con¬
tempt of court in continuing the illegal
traffic, notwithstanding an injunction.
The saloon keeper at once dosed up and
others will follow suit, as they admit that
further resistance to the law is useless.
The waters that have been sweeping
the valley of the Monongahela and the
waters of its tributaries for the last 00
hours, are again falling into their natural
channels. From Pittsburg to the moun¬
tain fartnesses of Randolph county, AA’est
Virginia, towns have been ravaged,
manufactories inundated, boats suak,
houses and growing crope have been de¬
vastated. The losses entailed by the
flood will not fall short of $3,0U0,000, a
large proportion of which falls upon the
people of the counties of Monongahela,
Marion, Taylor, Harrison, Lewis, Bar¬
bour, Upshur and Randolph, in AVest
Virginia. In Pennsylvania, the losses are
tn the counties of Allegheny, AVashing-
(on, Westmoreland, in Fayette and Greene,
the heaviest being Allegheny, Wash¬
ington and Fayette.
Louis Strohl, a young man about
twenty-three years old, was arrested at
Topeka, Kansas, on the charge of selling
and offering for sale for $ 1,200 ,a contri-
vance alleged to be for counterfeiting
gold coin, but which, in reality, only
brightens a genuine coin, it although giv¬
ing the impression machine that resembles was spurious. small
In shape the a
riock, being round, with a handle about
fix inches long. Thp face is four and
one-fourth inches in diameter, and the
instrument is about two and three-fourthsf
inches thick, opening exactly at the
The owner machine, pretended and that it
wag a counterfeiting i, he was
. tQ fell as w ea was ar-
regted _ On opening the case two
aickle .pi Ue a ca8eB) in each of which one
( ijjfvULjiecv ,^ 0 Q j t ) le gtamp necessary to make a
9* IW lu«. — ♦
NATIONAL CAPITAL 1
WHAT THE SWELTERING PUB¬
LIC OFFICIALS ARE DOING.
PROCEEDINGS OP CONGRESS —IMPORTANT
ACTS OF PRESIDENT CLEVELAND—AP¬
POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS, ETC.
ClINtmtSSlONAL.
On Thursday the Senate had a very
exciting sessiou in discussing Cleveland. some pen¬ In
sion vetoes by President
Ihe course of debate Mr. Blair, of New
Hampshire, and Mr. Butler, of South
Carolina, Iti got into an exciting wrangle.... Michigan,
the House, Mr. Ford, of
from tho committee on military affairs,
reported back a resolution for the ap¬
pointment of a special committee to
investigate the alley, d ovusions of tho
contract labor law. The balance of the
day was spent in the discussion of the
tariff'bill.
The appropriation for fortifications be
ing before the Senate on Wednesday, Mr.
f’ockrill ridiculed the scare about danger
of war ns farcical. The bill proposed uu
appropriation of fortifications of $120,BOO,000 which the for grand¬ a sys¬
tem
children and grein grandchildren of tha
present generation would never see used,
ife argued that earthworks could he con¬
structed in a few weeks, and was then
asked by Mr. Stewart where the guns to arm
them would bo obtained. To this he re¬
plied that lie favored the eucoursgemeut be condi¬
of t-teel works that could in a
tion to build the guns.. . In Iris alluded opening
prayer the House chaplain to
Air. Randall's illness, and invoked Di¬ tlio
vine blessing and protection upon
sufferer. A conference was ordered on
Midland forfeiture bill, and Messrs. Hol-
mnn of Indi um, Stone of Missouri, and
Payson ferees. of Illinois, Hatch, w ere appointed Missouri, con¬ sub¬
Mr. of
mitted the report of disagreement on
the agricultural appropriation bill, sta¬
ting that the point of disagreement making whs
the. Senate amendment an appro¬
priation of $ 100,000 for sorghum sugar
experiments. Air. Kyan moved concur¬
rence in the Senate amendment. He
pointed out the benefits which had ac¬
crued to tho agricultural interests of the
country fiom former appropriations for
sorghum experiments, t.nd he contended
that still further appropriations, would
result ther in still greater good. After fur¬
debate, Air. Kyan’s motion to concur
completed was ngreed tho to—yeas consideration 120, nays 98. This bill,
of the
and it slands as finally passed.
GOSSIR.
Air. Randall’s condition still excites
the apprehensions of his friends, but
there is a slight improvement in his con¬
dition.
Senator Pasco, ou Thursday, introduc¬
ed a bill to pay Salvador Costa, Duval
county, Florida, $850 for the sloop Alary
Lawrence, destroyed during the War.
The supervising architect postponed of the Trcas-
u y Department has the selec¬
tion of a site for the public building at
liallahassee, Fla., until after Cougre-s
adjourns.
The contract for the construction of the
public tvas awarded building to G. at Augusta. W. Corbett, Ga., of Wash¬ which
ington, [milding for shall $91,000, be completed provides in that eighteen the
piouths. Work on it will commence in
two weeks.
The number of bills introduced in the
fienate so far this session, exceeds that
l>f any other and falls Congress during its first
Session, only about two score
short of the number introduced In the
ficnate in the two sessions of the lari
Congress, which surpassed all proceed¬
ing Congresses in this respect.
Judge John V. Wright, of Tennessee,
Rev. W. N. and Cleveland, brother of the
President, (.'apt. It. II. Pratt, super¬
intendent of the Carlisle Indian school,
will constitute a commission to negotiate
with the Sioux Indians for a division of
their reservation in Dakota and the sur¬
render of a part to the United States.
Col. AV. P. and Cralghill, harbor engineer in charge
of the river work in Maryland,
Virgiuia, submits West Virginia and North Car¬
olina. estimates for next year, as
follows: James river, $400,000; harbor
at Norfolk, Va., $100,000; approaches
to Norfolk harbor, $100,000; Currituck
Sound, etc., 20 $20,000; New river, Vir¬
ginia, $ i 000 .
The House committee on manufactures
it the meeting on Thursday decided to
continue its investigation iuto subject of
trusts. It will shortly report the evi¬
dence so far tuken in the sugar and
Standard oil trusts, snd will then, in all
probability, within the next ten days or
two weeks, begin an investigation into •
the whiskey trust.
Senator Dolph, from the committee on
foreign relations, ou Wednesday report¬
ed favorably the bill to prohibit the com¬
ing of Chinese reported laborers in into the United
States, the House by Mr.
Belmont, chairman of the committee on
foreign relations, ns a substitute for all
bills before tho committee relating to
Chipese immigration.
Senator Daniel on Monday introduced
a bill directing the head of the interior
department, United State# commissioner of agricul¬
ture, fish commissioner and
secretary of the Smithsonian inslitution
to prepare suitable exhibits for the Vir¬
ginia expositum, to be bold at Rich¬
mond, beginning October 3d next.
Twenty-five thousand dollars is appro¬
priated hibit. to defray the expenses of the ex¬
Commissioner Obcrly, of the Civil Ser¬
vice commission, has prepared a special
Statement to show the difference in the
records made by men nnd women who
have appeared before the commission
For examination prior to entry into public
lervice. To the surprise of many, the
ladies have carried off the honors by au
increased percentage. Afany of the heads
»f departments are opposed to the em¬
ployment :hat of ladies, and they had hoped
the showing would have been just,
ihe reverse.
CANADA'S SHAKE.
A s’igbt shock of earthquake, lasting
neaily one minute, was felt at Belleville,
Madeira, Tweed and Workwortn, in On¬
tario or Monday night.
VOL. HI. NO. 43.
K SPRAY OF APPLE BLOSSOMS.
They lay on the broad, low window lodge,
Where the hand of a little child
Had placed them—dewy, nud fresh, an I
sweet—
And the grandmother had smiled,
And softly stroked with her wrinkled hand
The curty, tumbled head;
And then the needles bright, were still;
Unrolled the seowy thread.
For, borne on the breath ot the applo
bloom,
Bhe lived in the golden past;
She saw an orchard where blossom snows
Were falling thick and fast —
Falling upon the fair, bent head
Of a maiden In girlhood’s prints,
Reading a letter, worn and crease 1
From folding many a time.
“When the apple blossoms are here once
more,
I Rhall come back, Allaire—
Shall come for my answer-” The scented
wind,
Which ruffled the maiden’s hair,
Brought to her ears n well-known voice,
She turned in a startled way—
“I have come for my answer; what is it,
dear!”
What could she do but lay
Her hands in the eager, outstretched o
Ah! life is sweet in June,
When hearts keep time to tho liquid flow
Of life, and light, and tune;
Ami when, in her snowy, tioating’Yeil,
She stood on her bridal morn,
She w ould have but the tinted apple bloom
Her white robe to adorn.
Through the open window the western wind
Blew soft on the wrinkled face,
When a smile shone, sweet as that could ba
Which had lit her girlhood grace.
A little voice called her truant thoughts:
“Grandpapa sent me to see
If you know that the clock lias been striking
sixl
And he wants you to pour his tea!”
—Good Housekeeping.
PITH AND POINT.
A plane talker—The carpenter.
Diamond dust—Money paid fora soli¬
taire.
The way of the world—Twelve ounces
to the pound.
Artists ought to know how to draw
the color line.
Cats are tho poets of the lower ani¬
mals. They alone cultivate the mews.—
Pittsburg C/ironiele.
The painter of still life should natur¬
ally look lor his best subjects among the
moonshiners .—Boston Post.
When a burglar breaks into a house he
generally stq’als up stairs, and everything
else he can lay his hands on.— Life.
New York has a baseball club called
“The Girls.” It is doubtless referred to
as the Femi nine .—Norristown Herald.
How astouhhed some dead men would
lie if they could get out of their gravs
long enough to read their epitaphs.—
Life.
The judges are now nearly as well paid
as the baseball players, but the game is
not nearly so interesting. — Toronto
News.
“ A kiss goes further than a blow,"
Said Kit, the little wizzard.
“ It may perhaps,” was John’s reply,
“ Unless the blow’s a blizzard.
— Washington Critic.
Fair Friend—“And do you ever soak
your brushes, Air. Palette?" Antist—
“No, I'm happy to say I never was re¬
duced so low as that .”—Harvard Lam~
poon.
The cooking school lectures are closed
until fall to allow compounds the pupils to experi¬
ment on the new and give the
dyspeptics a chauoe to recover .—Boston
Qlo’.e.
Judges should certainly wear robes.
It doesn’t seem right to be sent up for ten
years by a man who wears a three-button
cutaway coat and a speckled trout waist¬
coat.— Life.
“I will shoot any man in Montana for
15 cents?” was the challenge month issued by
Isaac Davis over a ago, and yet
no one has come and forward given him and planked job.—
down the cash a
Detroit Free Press.
If, with the poets, we believe
That Adam sinned sacrifice to be with Eve,
We’re sure the he made
Eve’s daughters nobly have repaid,
For over all the earth since then
They kindly stooped —Boston to marry Courier. men. *3
“Speaking about clubs,” remarked Mr*
Cumso, who had just been elected a
member of the Manhattan, “they are the
sign posts of civilization. You never
bear of savages forming themselves into
societies for mutual improvement and
pleasure.” “Db, nonsense!”replied of Indian Mrs.
Cumso. “I've heard clubs
ever since I could walk.”— Tid-Bits.
A Devout Southern Dog.
Belonging dog to a prominent takes citizen delight ol
Orlando is a who great
in following his owner’s carriage and
always enters any house his owner does.
His owner is a church-goer, him and and this
dog always attends with likes to
get a place up near the minister. Last
Sunday the dog annoyed the congregation
by his constant scratching so much that
he was driven out of church. His dog-
ship determined not to lose his sermon
ftnc I immediately proceeded to another
church, and one, too. that his owner had
never the attended, discourse, and after there which paid he attention quietly
to
and sedately went home .—Savannah
News.
A Fanner’s View of Preaching.
Well, wife, town sermons seems tc me,
Are like tho ridin’ plow;
They’re easy, purty kmd-o’ tilings,
But don’t go deep somehow.
They take ye 9 over lots o’ such. ground,
An’ science styles an’ is the plow,
Both in the sermon
That one don’t feel it much.
To-day our preacher skinned along,
An’ ’peared kivrin’ to do of a the heap, weeds
A cuttin
He oughter halted plowed in the deep; end,
An’ when he at
An’ got his team ungeared, the
The devil laded to see tares
A growin’, I’m afeard. .
This scientific preachin’, plowin’, now, top,
An’science
Bot h run too shatter for the work
The pint has got to do.
You’ve got to let the traces out,
An’ change the clevis pin,
Then hist the handies, hold ’em tight,
An’ let the pint go in.
~Lu p. C<m, in Omaha World.