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Tlie Mistress of
Hazelwood.
By (JERALD CARLTON.
CIIAPI Eli XIV.—Continued.
Another (treadtui question—me extent
of her i juries? could not Ona of tho
■pin, hiitel man say.
two doctors nml his wife were attending to
hit then had indeed boon Join; for her all
Ilia' could lie done. He had heard tho doc¬
tor say that it was au "oxtromoly comp i-
catvd care;” that on no account was any
friend or relative to bo admitted into tho
room until the doctor loft it, and gave his
namission or refusal, ns a knowledge of
her injuries prompted. call in few
“Wait Here, sir, or a minutos
-yon cm do no good now. 1 will take tho
first chance of speaking to the doctor for
von. Von sh dl satisfy yourself presently,
iuy dear sir; but not now, when your doing
soniav cost the young Iudy her life. Dray
becalm! ■ 1’ra.V wait!"
Will pressed the mm’s hind, aud stag¬
gered away from the hotel.
From the road ho glaneod piteously at the
windows. There was ono which had its
blinds drawn.
Was the blind hiding the dying Emily or
a stranger? returned to tho station. Wild
He as ho
was he had the senso to properly employ
the time which must elapse before he could
be allowed to satisfy himself.
Iio went to the telegraph office, and sout
three messages to London one to Mrs.
Graham, one to Jack, uddres-ed to the in¬
surance office, and another to him, ad¬
dressed to his lodgings in Camberwell.
The wording of each of the telegrams
was the sumo:
Telegraph here. Did Emily start for
E— Junction this morning at 11;55.
Answer ”
Ono or two answers would in all like'i-
hood arrive after he had satisfied himself.
If theanswer said “no,” all would be well;
if the answer said “yes," and the young
woman lying at the hotel proved to be not
Emily, there would be only oue conelusiou
to come to, namely—that Emily was the
yomig woman who had received slight ex¬
ternal injuries, aud disappeared.
He questioned the station-master and a
cabman, and with this result:
They had both seen a girl between eigh¬
teen and nineteen, with a slight wound on
her forehead and a kerchief bound round
her h ad, emerge from the ticket office,
crying, aud apparenty expecting some
one.
decently They could not describe her; she was
dressed. The cabman had seen an
elderly w. mau accost her, and a minute
afterward, the two driving nw.iv in a car-
xiage. He could not say whether tb y knew
each other; but he rather fancied they did
not- that the elder woman hud simply taken
compassion offered on the young one, and kindly
her shelter.
Neither the station-master nor the cab-
man had seen either of the two before.
A faint hope illumined Will Trefoil's
jmind. He
returned to the hotel less wildly,
and a waiter showed him into the eofiee-
'room.
1 he hotel keeper and one of the doctors
entered immediately afterward.
Poor \\ ill almost smiled.
; “I think I have been mistaken,” he said,
his voice trembling; “but-”
Jhe doctor interrupted him.
lhero was positively no hope, he replied.
Less than an hour would end his patient's
sho sulferings. had There was nothing left to do¬
been deliiiom, but was perfectly
conscious now— sho was past feeling pain;
if would be well to withdraw ns quickly as
possible after he had satisfied himself that
the young Inly was not tho ono lie sought;
on the other hand, hts presence would do
no harm. All was virtually over.
de lollowod the doctor noi; elesslv up the
hutd stairs.
dying j hey girl. stopped outside the door of the
Hope was powerful within Will’s breast.
7 ho doctor placed his finger ou his lips.
ion know tho young lady you are seck-
tug very intimately?” he whispered.
Will nodded.
"i hen you will know before seeing the
Poor child whether rIig is the one you seek.
I lnve said she lias been delirious. Daring
her delirium she repeated several times the
Hume of apparently somo dear friend or
relative-
Wimt w ‘ ls the name?" gasped Tryfoil. la
* hoarse whisper.
1 he doctor’s hand was on tho knob of tho
r ' ond he smiled sadly as he answered:
,,
CIIAI’TER XY.
“GOOD BY, LOVE.* 1
Emily’s sweet little face was untouched,
»ml WilR as white as the bedclothes tuotuui
about it.
' faintly pleased expression flickered
"ver her features; but there was no great
’ ’ wise, no extreme joy when Will crept to
01 '-Aside, knelt there, and pressed her
hand to his dry, hot lips.
Hw eyes were cast upward when he cn-
.
*^ u> *<u, and she did not see hint un-
civ 1 he had kissed her hand; hut the faintly
pleased expression came to her at that
well-known kiss.
1 kn w I should not die without seeing
• ou "gain. This is a dreadful meeting, dear
,-H-dful 1 *; don’t hoi. like day. that—stupid Will, my Will, poor, don't. dear
, 011 1 jot cry
me leave tho world with the sa»-
i eat of sounds i I can boar to
'be. because i my ears. oh!
I am not a bit afiftid; but
wv poor love, 1 can t bear your grief; it is
o-se than the wounds wore at first—it is,
indeed. Don't cry! Never mind me; I'm
hut sorry; I don’t care for you an atom, my
° w “, mid J never did. Think that think
-
hat there are thousands far nicer aud bet-
, e ; 'han Emily iu the world. I’raclice while
,,*H1 i yon to forget me when I am not,
J rom tho moment Will entered that dnrk-
^ed room, till the moment he was carried
in a suta of insensibility from it, ha was
‘"‘I dnl to his love.
-Miss Bentley was completely forgotten,
tie was a boy n ;ain—a boy heartbrokon
110 ,, destruction of his idol.
nood was the old Will then. There was no
and for that which we prepare there
e “ 0,n is for deception.
-
I lie lamenta ble accident brought his lovo
“ a<, k to her, although at so horrible a
sacrifice.
him. 8ho would not die, however, doubting
Jhe smiled in a way which he could not
finders land, and placed her left arm geutlv
r "und liis neck. So she drew herself more
elosoly his. to liirn, until her face almost touched
s °fHy sho kissed his lips; aud then there
cuue hi'avonlike from her n faint sigh, aud a gentle
‘"hat I ripple of laughter. darling
J said has oome true, keeping —
111 te t it?” she whispered, still her
hi t arm around his neok, and now and again
tmtatog. bit && Yfikk ^
Limd. "Don’t you remember thin dear’-
0 a n S 00S Wii1 “#*-
t. r for how 8 hort . ’ no
o
lime, as I said, l’oor mother, poor little o‘ld
KHR-stovo and fruit shoo; dear-dear I f d
city, and sweetly, alittleZ'VtSiS happy evening
Wi,l. I am
to worst »ou all. it has When tho pain wag at its vorl
funny gone now I thought of you
m a way. The pain made face do
ruuny things, aud brought my
swearing used to_" them ' as your
^sssftuittraftfTi KprcSj SLV' '
0 ” 0 10
While the frown was there, he kissed for
I JO List timo the two little nerneudieular
from'her''],?,s Utla ^ ° f '"& tm « iided
1 hoTunity 6 Brought ” mUmUr6d * “ that was
'J beu she sighed and kept silent fora few
minutes, running her fair fingers through
his hair, and gazing with eyes whose
brightness gradually decreased into hi«
own.
lie loved her fhen wholly—loved het
more deaily than he had ever loved her.
When she spoke again her voice was
weaker, and tho light of sense which had il¬
lumined her fnco was fainter.
“I want to make my will, pet. I am so
rich. 1 want to bequeath mv Will’s love to
sadden some good woman; for I don't want him to
himself by remembering me too
much when I am gone. I want him to lose
mn in some ono *1 ha who is more worthv of
mm utoiigu sue coma never love trim, How¬
ever worthy, as I have. It is very merciful
of God to send you here to me at the last
moment. Will—to let me die with my hand
in yours. You must break it very gently to
my poor mother, Will. She has been very
good to m -—she won't grieve as you, but it
will be a great blow to her,
“'hack will be sorry, too. Shake hie hand
for me—kiss herfor me, and go ono evening
ono foggy evening—to the dear old city,
and say 'good-by’ for mo to nil our dear old
spots—won’t you, Will? I don't like, you
know, dear I don't like the nasty, cold
ground; but, of course, I think it would be
ess cold ne ir the city.
wifo—and “Oue day, perhaps,' you will take your
must—I can't you bear must marry, think of darling, you
to your being
left alone in the big world; my pet cannot
he ir to be left alone—my conceited, old pet
mu t be loved and looked at and admired,
or is
“So he must fall in love and marry,
though earth he mas n't off, do so till know—teke my little home
n the wears you his
wife, and, perhaps, some himself, sweet little like¬
ness of his wife and to 6ee my
grave; mi—perhaps perhaps he ho will will say some ‘Poor, kind foolish words
of say,
little Eni ly.’ "
Will’s agony was none the less awful be¬
cause it was silent.
Eveiy faint, plaintive word she uttered in
he sweet voice of resignation added to it.
•She wanted strength and life, and they
wera there in him by her side, and he could
not transfer them to her.
So young- so sweet—so good and so full
of lovo for him.
. the exhausting neck fight with
•loath. Her hold of his grew more
fptb'e; her bie ith came only by a grout ef¬
fort, each rising of her bosom was fainter
than th » previous one. Gently he unwound
hi r arm, aud laid her fair head on the pil¬
low. 8be c osed her eyes; he kissed her
Uair, and murmured her name. She only
clasped h r little hands in the attitude of
prayer. Her lips moved almost impercept-
blv; they seat forth no benediction sounds, but they he had saw
pon them the sweet
so often born ■—“God bless, Will.”
Priceless little Emily! To the very last,
in the simp’e prayer she murmured to her-
s. If. his name was brought iu, and his
earthly happiness pmyed for.
She unclasped her hands, round opened her
eyes, and gnzeil wildly the room.
Then sho smiled, aud held his hand be¬
tween her own, and putted it, and placed her it
lo her lips, and then she put it to
breast, aud folded hers softly over it.
Ko for some time she rested with the
calm ess of death over her, and with a
happy smile playing round'her mouth.
Th it quiet, qpaint, womanly spirit which
Iwd been so pr tty a part in Emily, was not
to be easily quenched. aud the threshold of
For tho last time, on
loath it asserted itself feehly. murmured
Without op niug her eyes, she
distintiv; accident smashed it
I wonder if the up
is well as me, Will? See!”
He quite understood her.
Her (truss Was thrown over a chair neat
'he bud, and something was hanging from
:ts bosom, nod dangling in the air.
' He placed the something iu her hands.
Tlte glass was broken, and there was a
mot of blood on its small white face.
She opened her eyes and looked at it;
hen as at the last “good-by,” her which with had hoi
.rought about this, he saw
left hand resting on her breast, as if sh&
had some dead bird in that hand, and was
trying to warm it into life.
'it was the little gold watch!
Another quivering sob from him—au al¬
most inaudible sigh of relief from her; and
then it fell from her hand.
“Ye S pet. It’s all over now. It has stop¬
. Will.”
ped “Oh, forever, God' Ob, my Emily!”
my ilarling!—one! one’.—for the last
“Kiss Good-by, love!" -
time, Will! form hts bei
While he held her in arms,
spirit left her.
CHAPTER XVI.
JACK GRAHAM S PLOT.
R was only after the lifeless dust which
Emily had inhabited was buried that W ill
understood his grief.
All the dire mental torments to which
nmn is subject formed his sorrow at her
^ being tho least acute of those
Ear from desolation; aud.
was the sense of his own selfish
regarding his loss even in a purely for
spirit and Miss Wentworlh’s passion
him us a mad delusion, there was a litt.e
load of agony for him to bear in the one
rsfieetion—”1 am unloved. received from the
The sympathy he per¬
about him'was painfully distasteful
sons longed make known tho depth of
yet he to from
his grief and to receive compassion und his
being who understood him
some
"AbTshe, poor,
stood him; now
^VhemCthe burial, he even, conceived eg which the followed idta ot
Emily's letter to Miss Bentley, un¬
bosoming writing a long grim gntf.afierce ex¬
therein his external cold a"d
citement mternaT’heat. accompanied by had
seized him till he
done so. she would answer lt-perhnps
Perhaps that Emily was happier in
her assurance would convince and solace
her new home
Tie wrote to her, therefore, but, when a her long sweet, wild
letter of his s rrow; arrived, Will was u able
sister-like answer
that letter proved to be the fiist
written
lying “»r> Graham ■'"?» s
bad set in mul Will was in
at Camberwell totally oblivious to
lodging
,V * called in.
nr U Brinsley was kSdemoptrative » 0U
wpi-ft yuifib ’
ELUVILLE, GFX)ROIA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 2, 1888.
well up in his profession, and ranch attach*
od to Jack and poor dead Kiiiilv, w hom he
hid met on a few occasions at h’s wu
house and Mrs. .
tho Graham’s chimin is, In
attachment which l)r. liriuslev had
formed for Jack Graham Hide was mi g i d
a keen, scientific interest, lie saw com¬
bined in this young ma n the most hi to o-
geneous mental and moral endowments’,
tnat he belonged to a ooiutiutly increas¬
ing class of individuals, produced by tho
growing intensity of our civilization and
tho high-pressure struggle lor existence;
Graham s character was a psychological
study, mid it was Dr. Brinsley’s resolve to
watch him closely, and try to gni le tho er¬
ratic mind of the young man into a more
healthy groove, lie did n it know that tho
nnnd he was s udjioo with a friendly inter¬
est was conniving with diabolic ncuten ss
his own entanglement in a deed of crime.
'then old that Trefoil had been stricken
down by fever, he at once volunteered to
devote his skill toward h.s recovery,
“It is a most maliginnt attack,’’' lie ob¬
served, after seeiug his patient for the first
time. “If he wore some other man, I think
I should fail. As it is, I feel inspiration.
He loved your sister, Jack, and she loved
him, and you know how 1 respected nml ad¬
mired her. If she were alive, his recovery
would bo the dearest of joys to her. Leave
him entire y to my care, aud t will succeed.
But as a doctor and a man, I shall bo very
proud if I pull him through."
(10 BE CONTINUED.)
The Etiquette of Parting.
The social etiquette that regulates tho
time a young man will tear himself away
from liis very best girl is not so rigid in
the rural districts as in the city. When
the clock hands swing around toward
ten and the pretty maiden by his side
reminds him of the fact, the city swain
goes home. Not so the youth in tho
rural district. Toward eleven o'clock
his Janie says:
“You know wliat time it is, Ned
Bangs?” do,” he replies, smartly.
“Course I
“Well, I guess you’d better put out
Cor home.”
“What’s the rush?”
“I’d say ‘rush’ if I were you, when it’s
most midnight.” if it’s daylight.”
I don’t care most
“Well, I do, and you shan’t stay here
one second after midnight."
“Bet you a cookie I do.”
“No you shan’t, I’ll call pa, see if I
don’t. ”
“Oh, yes, you will.”
“You’ll see.”
“I’ll risk it.”
“Oh, you’re perfectly horrid! Now,
you get your hat and clear out.”
“Oh, pshaw! youd be mad if I did.”
“You wretch! You’ve got to go right
iway for saying that.”
“You don t say so.”
“I do, too; and I—I—If you dare kiss
ue again!”
He dares.
“Oh, oh, oh! You are the meanest
fellow. I’ve a notion to box your
ttars. ”
“Box away.” going home?”
“When are you
“When I get good ready. ’
a
“Pa'll start you if he comes in.”
“He won’t come in."
“Don’t he toosureof that. If masees
the light she’ll scold.”
“Let’s put it out!” *
“No, you shan’t. You’d better put
yourself curt.”
•‘See if I do.”
“You’ll sit here with the eat then. 1
shan’t keep you company.” horses couldn’t
“Pooh! A team of
drag you away.” horrid, horrid thing!’
“Oh, you he all
But it is midnight before had goes, sit with
the same, and he hasn’t to
the cat either .—Tirl Bits.
Old Time Traveling.
1 was in Albany and went down to the
boat. The Hudson River is shaped like
a string. That’s the reason that the
boats are called “lines.” 1 saw a fellow
in a closet, and I said, “Be you the
clerk?” Aud he said, “I be." I asked
him if any one besides me was going
down. Ho said there was. Bo I bought
a ticket for a dollar and a closet for two
dollars,anil slept edgewise all night. We
passed the highlands in tho soft glow of
the nigh^.and the scene was magnificent.
I was fast asleep, but that did not pre¬
vent the scene from being magnificent.
Towards morning I fell off the shelf,
and I went out in tho front yard grinding of tho
boat. There I saw a fellow a
wheel. I had often heard of boats draw¬
ing water, and I thought he was drawing
some. I says to him, “Why don’t you
turn the wheel all the way around?”
Said he, “Don’t you know me?” Isays,
“Who be you anyway?” “I’mthe pilot?”
“Are you any relation to Pontius Pil¬
ate?" He relieved himself of a small
ocean of tobacco-juice. I thought that
must be the Southwest Spit that the
sailors talk about. He says, “Wait till
I pass that buoy, dead ahead." There
was » whole boat load of people, espec¬ who
ial lv me, all depending stuck on ft man in the
didn’t know an old post up
water from a boy! And instead of being
back by the rudder where he might have in
been of some use, he was stuck up a
glass case iu front of the boat! Well,
we landed in New York, and as 1 was
going ashore a fellow stopped me and
asked, “Where is your ticket?” “I have
it.” “Fork it over!” said the fellow,
getting mad. I says, “I guess not. I
paid a dollar for it.” Says he, “Yon
can’t go ashore until you surrender the
ticket.” Then, I forked it over, under
protest. I had expected to pay for go-
on the boat, but not for being per-
mitted to go ashore.
A Savage Tornado.
A paper in Iowa thus describes the
work of a tornado:— $ome of the inci¬
dents of the recent tornado at this place
are very interesting, inasmuch as they
forciblv demonstrate the natural law of
momentum and resistance. Iu 1. Belch¬
er's yard may be seen a coal-oil barrel,
which is made of the hardest oak, with
a small pine board sticking entirely
through it, the hole make by its entrance
being as smooth as if the board had been
lead instead of a soft wood. A cow, tho
property of J. W. Hambriok, was found
dead with a ham of bacon, which hail
blown and struck her hook foremost,
sticking iu her forehead. A pine lath
found in a standing oak tree, stick-
ing through the middle of a limb two
aud one-half inches m diameter, while
straws are to be seen sticking in the
thick, g’ruwa hard bark of trees os though they
tl* ere > . -
SOUTHLAND ITEMS.
PARAGRAPHS, SAD, PLEASANT
AND TERRIBLE.
INDVSTKtAL pnortnttstt—T11F. EXCBRSION
FEVER—RAILROAD ACCIDENTS-SUICIDES
DEFALCATIONS—COTTON REPORTS, ETC.
Alabama*
The neighbors of Jsmes E. Windham,
the man who killed P. W. Bailey, at
Ozark, the 8d of July, ware horrified
lo find him dead in tho woods. He had
threatened to suieide, and the deed was
done. There were no mark* of violence
about his person, and the general verdict
was that he poisoned himself by bis own
band, beiDg driven to the act by remorse.
Florida*
Twenty-four alligators were killed in
me night by a boy at Spring Garden.
The inland lakes in Volusia county are
lower at present than at any time during
the past ten years.
the The catapillnrs are Beriously certain injuring
pea and potato vine# in lo¬
calities in Pasco county.
The growers in and around Orlando
have netted 50 ceuts per pound for white
grapes. It is not improbable that in a
lew years grape culture in Florida will
become ono of tho leading industries.
Alachua county has a large acreage of
vineyards.
There is a man in Palatka who imag¬
ines that he is a teapot. Ho is perfectly
sane on every other subject, he but nothing
can convince It.in that is not a teapot,
and an earthen one at that. He sticks
out oue arm to represent the spout, bends
the other to represent the handle, makes
a hissing noise to represent the escaping
steam, and then, if any one comes near
him, is very uneasy lest they hit him and
break oil either his handle or his spout.
The relief measures to be inaugurate*! will in¬
by the Marine Hospital Bureau
clude a house to-house inspection of the
infected villages and the guarding of
them for a period of ten days, or until
the fever shall have entirely disappeared; premises
and also the disinfection of all
wherein the inmates have had fever.;
Guards will be immediately infecting placed other to
prevent the refugees from
places. Persons wishing to leave the in¬
fected villages will have to pnss the
usual detention period and have their
•dotliing fumigated.
CSeorffla.
Speaker Carlisle declined to leave
Washington, D. C., to deliver a speech
in Atlanta.
The 43d Georgi* infantry held a re¬
union at Ponce de Leon Springs, near that
Atlanta, and out of the 1,000 men
composed it, in 1861,only 13 were present.
Tho Augusta Exposition received an
application for space from one of the
biggest loom manufacturers in Massachu¬
setts. The exhibit alone will cost several
thousand dollars to place, and the six
fancy looms will be operated , by six
blooming Y r ankee girls.
The Columbus & Home, the Eufaula
& East Alabama, the Eufaula & Clayton,
the Columbus & Western, the East Ala¬
bama Railway Company, the Bueua
Vista A Etlaville, the Savannah & West-
ern railroads will be consolidated under
the name of the Savannah & YVest-
c rn. The capital stock of the Savannah
<fc Western will he $5,000,000, divided
into 50,000 shares of $1,000 each. Gen.
Alexander will be president paid of the W. Mel- new
company, The Central P.
drim and his associates $10,000 for the
name Savannah A Western with its val-
liable charter and franchise.
The Haines Normal and Industrial In¬
stitute is a boarding school in Augusta,
aud during the regular school term hr.d
325 pupils enrolled. During this vaca¬
tion there are only a few who remain
through the Summer, There were fev-
end cases of sickness in the school, and
as a preventive, the directed attending physician, principal
Dr. A. H. Baker, the
to give the children a quinine capsule
every morning. This has been done for
some time past. Sunday morning the
etrpply of quinine being exhausted, ont
of the teachers was dispatched to a drug
store for a new supply. The quinine was
weighed out, placed ina vial and labe!l(|l
by the clerk and delivered to the custo-
mor. YVhen carried back to the school,
the drug was put in capsules by the u rin-
ciipal und given to the children and one
teacher. It n n short time they showed drow-
peculiar symptoms of languor and
eincss and soon it became apparent to
, potent drug had
the principal taken and that the some children poi¬
been were
soned. The drug whs found to be mof-
phine, and for a few hours there was the
greatest excitement, as the scholars suc¬
cumbed to its influence.
Mississippi.
A daughter of Dolphs Miles, colored, three
of Benton, poisoned her father and
brothers. Two brothers are already dead,
and the third brother and father are not
expected to recover, The mother was at
church and missed her portion of the
poison.
North Carolina.
An incendiary fire at Pigeon river, de¬
stroyed 100,000 fectof choice poplartun- Kitland &
ber 'belonging to the firm of
Co. ; also a number of frame warehouses.
The trial of Cross and White, ended bank in of-
ficere, on the first indictment a
conviction. Crsss was sentenced to seven
y ears’ hard labor, and White to five years.
An appeal was taken. The bail was
fixed at $10,000.
Virginia.
The schooner John Oliver, Capt. Fos¬
ter, of Y'orktowD, and bound homo
loaded with coal, capsized and sank
off Sandy Point. The captain ami
crew were rescued.
The coroner’s jury assembled at tho
scene of the recent collision on tlie Nor-
folk & Western Railway, rendered its
verdict on Wednesday ns follows: “We,
the jury, find the Norfolk & Western
Railway Company guilty of neglect in
sending complicated orders not easily
understood by employes of the company,
as shown by the evidence adduced before
the jury, and for its failure to designate
engine No. 3, which would have pre¬
vented this collision', and it is the 3pin-
ion of this management jury that should tlie Norfolk be held &
Western dms-
res ponaible for the results of this
ter,”
Mouth t 11 rolltiit
Columbia has decided to rebuild its
almshouse, which was wrecked by the
earthquake two years ago.
Tho Ice Mitsion of Charleston, has dis¬
tributed nearly ten tons of ico among
poor people, so far, this season.
The people of Columbia lovo theii
sleep. The Council decided to squelch
the cries of street hucksters before 7 a. in.
the The South river Carolina phosphate miners have around
coast entered
into a pool to put up the prirc of rock.
This, of course, does not include the
laud miners. Tho production of river
rock amounts to nearly 20,000 toils an¬
nually.
A committee Wednesday was appointed books in Charles¬
ton’ ou to open of sub¬
scription for the there purchase Baltimore. of a steamship
to run between aud The
steamer is to be built outright, with a
capacity of 0,000 to 8,000 bales of cot¬
ton, and to have first-class accommoda¬
tions for lOG saloon passengers.
The reunion meeting of the Confede¬
rate veterans of the stato was held on
Thursday at Greedville, and able speeches
were made by nnmbers of prominent and
distinguished men. There were crowd 1,000
veterans present, and the tmtiro
was estimated at 10,000. Speeches wero
made by Senator M. C. Butler, Gen. P.
M. 1$. Young, Governor Richardson, cx-
Governor Haygood and Editor F. W.
Dawson.
Tpxhi
The first bale of cottou of the crop of
1888 was received at Galveston on Wed¬
nesday. It weighed 569 pounds, and was
classed as middling fair staple. It was
fold at auction at 12 cents per pound,
and will be shipped lo Liverpool via New
York.
Lieut. Flipper, tho colored officer in
tho United States army, who was dis¬
missed some years ago, and afterwards
joined the Mexican army, has turned up
at El Paso, with a story of two old gold
mines which he has found in Mexico,
ju-t bursting with ore.
Teuiicsif*.
The Knoxville Cold Storage company
will discontinue business.
Knoxville’s old city hall building was
sold at auction. A new building is to be
put up.
The Prohibitionists of Nashville are
making an aggressive campaign, and are
organizing trict. clubs in every ward and dis¬
Sam Watts, a clerk, and Charles Hum¬
phreys, a married miner, fought at Coal
Creek while on a drunken spree. The
latter was shot through the body and
will die.
Policeman W. T. Russell, who a week
ago killed Jesse Bishop while, it is al¬
leged, Bishop was resisting arrest, was
taken before Judge Shepherd on a writ
of habeas corpus at Chattanooga on
Wednesday. As a result of bail the in examin¬
ation, Russell was held to the sum
of $.5,000, w hich he readily gave.
RUSHING FOR LIBERTY.
A plot for the escape of four hundred
convicts at Pratt Mines, Ala., was dis¬
covered several days ago, but the prison
officials kept the matter so quiet that the
facts only leaked out on Wednesday At
slope No. l v about four of the seven hun¬
dred convicts are confined, into aud there is
only one entrance the mine at that
place. It seems that one of the veins or
leads at this slope hns been worked until
it was within a lew hundred feet of the
surface on the other side of the mountain.
Some of the older convicts some time ago
conceived a plan to dig out of the mine.
Others were let into the plot, and the
convicts would work turns on their tun¬
nel after completing their day’s plot task of
mining. The number into tho was
increased, until nearly all of the four
hundred convicts working in the slope
knew about it, aad aided in the work.
Saturday, it i* said, was the day set
apayt to force the tunnel through the
mountain and escape. After all the con¬
victs had entered the slope that morning,
the entrance was blocked on the inside,
and then they began to dig for liberty,
the tunnel lacking only a few feet of
completion, but the plot had been be¬
trayed, and the guards were on the look
out. The obstruction at the mouth of
the slope was removed and the convicts
were driven away from their tunnel, and
forced to return to work. The ring¬
leaders were puuished, and every pre¬
caution has been taked to prevent an es¬
cape by the tunnel route. Only three
months ago five convicts escaped from
Coalburg mines, by the recaptured. same means, and
only two of them were
“WHITE CAPS” SHOT,
“White Cans” in Crawford county,
Ind. whipped two womon nearly to
death—one will probably die—and then
proceedet to the house of and a reputable ordered
citizen in the neighborhood of their doings
him to spread the news the
as their warning. The plans of
“White Caps” had been overheard, and
the citizen had three friends with him.
He accordingly refused to do the bidding
of the “White Caps,” and was threat¬
ened by them. A fight ensued, in which
three of the “White Gaps” were shot, two
of them fatally. One of these is named
Gregory, a country merchant, aged children. fifty
years, with a family of grown
Another is a saloon keeper named Saun¬
ders, a worthless fellow. The wounded
men'have been hidden away, hunt for and them. the
country is up in arms on a
WON’T HAVE IT.
Mr. O’Connell, chief clerk of the New
York Court with of Common the authorities Pleas, has lodged
complaint at Queens¬
town, Ireland, in which he says his steps
arc constantly dogged by detectives, and
asked to be relieved of this unwarranted
surveilance. He alleges that since his
arrival he has visited religious aud char¬
itable institution* in Cork, and every¬
where he has gone detectives have shad¬
owed him.
YELLOW FEVER.
The brig Tencriffe, which arrived
Sunday, at Lewes, Del., from Havana,
lost two men at sea from yellow fever.
Two case* h ve been transferred lo the
Iroepital there,
VOL. III. NO. 45.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
WHAT THE SWELTERING PUB¬
LIC OFFICIALS ARE DOING.
I'KOCEEDINUS OF COMGKMS—IMVOltTANI
ACTS OK PRESIDENT CLEVELAND—AP¬
POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS, ETC.
COMiltEHSIONAI..
The Senate on Thursday r sttincd con¬
sideration of tho army appropriation bill,
the pending question being on the
amendment offered by Mr. llawlcy ap¬
propriating factory atJWartcrvlcitarsenal,New J|t750,000 for an armory York; gun
♦5,000,000 for the purclinso of steel for
high power coast defence guns; ♦500,000
for the purchase of submarine mines;
and ♦■500,000 for submarine controllable
torpedoes. Mr. Hawley’s omendment
was agreed to—yeas 24, nays 10, and tlic
bill w as passed, Tho Senate then pro¬
ceeded to the consideration of the fish¬
eries treaty in open executive session, and
was addressed by Mr. Wilson, of Mary¬
land, in favor of hs ratification. read and refer¬ Two
presidential vetoes were adjourned....The
red, and the Senate postotilce in
bill to provide for buildings
cities where there uro no other govern¬
ment offices, occupied the attention of
tlic the House. The report accompanying
bill explains its provisions. It pro¬
poses to establish a plan for tho con¬
struction of public buildings for tho use
exclusively of of the postotilce and department, which
uniform thataeter,
shall bo especially adapted for
the purposes of that department,
where the gross receipts amount to three
thousand dollars annually lor two succes¬
sive years. The extreme limit of tho
cost to tlte United States for any latild-
ing shall not, in any ca e, exfceed twenty
thousand Holla,s. Subject to these limi-
itations, it provides for three classes of
buildings, varying in cost according to
the amount of gross receipts.
The Seuate on Wednesday resumed
consideration of the navnl appropriation
bill, the pending question being on tho
amendments striking out of the bill the
item for the expense of a commission to
locate a navy yard on the Gulf Coast.
The subject was discussed at gre.it
length, Senators Call and Pasco favoring
the amendment to strike out, because
there was already a good naval station at
Pensacola. Finally, the amendment to
24. strike So out the was rejected. Yeas retained 111, nays in
the bill, modified, provision the was motion of Mr.
ou
Uuagan, by including tho Mississippi
river. The clause now appropriates #15,-
000 for the expenses of a commission of
three officers to be appointed by the Sec¬
retary of the Navy to report as to the
most dcsiruble location on or near the
coast of the Gulf of Mexico, or on tho
Mississippi river, for a navy yurd and
docks for shipping.... After disposing of
various private bills, the House took up
and considered the bill to establish a
United States land court and to provide
for judicial investigation and the settle¬ terri¬
ment of private land claims in the
tories of Arizona and New Mexico, and
the state of Colorado. On motion of Mr.
Smith, of Arizona, an amendment was
adopted exempting Arizona and from bill the
provisions of the bill, the with
the amendment was passed—70 to 24.
UOMtSIP.
Statesville, N. C., is to have a $75,000
public building.
Mrs. George L. Morgan, of Georgia,
was appointed a copyist in $900. the interior
department, at a salary of
Written arguments were presented by
the Board of Trade of Spartanburg, S.
CL, to tho Interstate Commerce Commis¬
sion, complaining the of a railroads discrimination
against town by the pass¬
ing through tho town.
The President on Thursday vetoed the
act granting Dardanellc the right Railway of way to tho Fort
Smith & to construct
and operate a railroad, telegraph and tel¬
ephone line from Fort Smith, Arkanstis,
through Indian territory to near Baxter
Springs, Kansas. Ilis message is of con-
siderable length, and he finds many und
serious objections to the bill.
Senator Palmer reported favorably
from the committee on education and la¬
bor tho bill appropriating $400,000fora
Colored Exposition in Atlanta next year,
will call the bill up for action next week,
or earlier if possible. Both he and Sen¬
ator Brown have been talking up the bill
considerably, and expect its passage.
Senator rainier says he has no doubt but
that it will pass without opposition.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Miller has made a preliminary report of
the operations of the internal revenue
bureau, for the fiscal year ended July 30,
1888. The total collections for the year
were ♦124,329,474, the previous as against $118,837.- Collec¬
301 for fiscal year.
tions were made up as follows: On spir¬
its, ♦69,800,156; on tobacco, $30,662,-
431; on fermented liquors, $23,324,218.
There was au increase of 278,220,900
cigarettes, and 50,421,207 cigars manu¬
factured during the year.
The committee on agriculture reconsid¬
ered its action of last week in referring
to the sub-committee the compound lard
bill and all adulterated food bills before
the committee, with instructions to report
by bill, or otherwise, in December next,
aud decided to report to the House the
Lee bill, to prevent the sale, manufacture
or transportation of adulterated articles
of food, drink and drugs, also a substi¬
tute for the Butterworth bill, defining
lard, and imposing a tax upon importation compound
lard, and regulating its sale,
and exportation.
Tlie Soldier’s Excuse.
A soldier who had just enlisted, was
placed on guard he over abandoned a cannon. his It was
not long before post
and went to a tavern not far off, where he
indulged in the flowing bowl. abaudon
“Fellow, why did you your
post?” exclaimed the captain who hap¬
pened “Captain,” to put in an appearance. reply of the in¬
was the
cipient son of Mars, “I’ve tried to lift
)hat cannon, and I am satisfied that no
one mau can < arry it away, and if more
than one of the enemy comes after it, I
can’t stand them off.”
The American system of ambulaRc*
•ervice lias been introduced in Paris, ,
IN THE SWING, .
Hero wo go to the branches high! < 1
Here wo come to the grasses low!
For tho spiders and flowers and birds and
Ixjve to swing whon the breezes blow.
.Swing,’little bird, on tho topmost bough;
Swing, little spider, with rope so fine; ,
Swing, little flower, for the wind blows now;
But none of you have such a swing as mine
Dear little bird, come sit on my toes;
I’m just as oaretul as I can be;
And olt, 1 tell you, nobody knows ___
What fun we'd have if you'd play with me!
Corns and swing with me, birdie dear,
Bright little flower, come swing in my hair
But you, little spider, creepy and queer—
You’d better stay and swing over there.
Tlie sweet little bird, he sings and sings, ’
But he doesn’t even lobk in my face;
The bright little blossom swing and swings,
But still it swings in the self -same place.
Let them stay where they like it best;
Let them do what they’d rather do;
My swing is nicer than all the rest,
But may bo it’s rather small for two.
Here we go to tho branches high!
Here we rome to the grasses low!
For the spiders and flowers and birds and I
Lovo to swing when the breezes blow.
Swing, little bird, on the topmost bough;
Swing, little spider, with rope so fine;
Swing, little flower, for the wind blows novo
But none of you haveBuch a swing as mine,
—Eudorg S. flu instead, in 8t. Nicholas.
PITH AND POINT.
A bad fit—Epileptic.
A bad spell of weather—Wether.
Down in the mouth—The tongue.
Tho book agent should wear a canvas
suit. hold¬
An old woman who paints—Ago
ing up a ting of truce to time.
Tho crank appears to be a person who
mows down tho mental weeds in a whim
sickle way .—Duluth Paragraphs)’.
Kind lady: “How old are you, my
little lellowf” Youngster: “I ain’t old
at all, ma’am; I'm nearly new.”
A Milwaukee Judge has decided that
a hen is not a domestic animal. He must
be trying to make a game of her.—
Picayune.
It seems to be settled that tho Gov¬
ernment cannot hold the Mississippi
river, no matter how often it levies on
it.— Nifiings. ad¬
An “anti-chap toilet cream” is
vertised. It will never become popular.
The girls are too fond of the chaps.-*
Detro t Free Press.
Ah, why di<l she make him leave her?
Ah, why so cruel, the fair! fever,
When a iioy he’d had scarlet
And it settled in his hair.
— Judge.
The civilized world spent years in try¬
ing to break into China. Now it is
making strenous efforts to keep the
Chinese from breaking out .— Plnltedel-
yhia Enquirer. >•,
Hear the wailing of the ladies,
Bee their faces worn and thin, r ■
And the eauseof all their sorrow
) Is—the bustle is called in! \ „
— Siftings. 1
The peat h crop is in a marketable con¬
dition. The fruit is large and luscious,
but owing to frosts in March and April
the baskets are guarled and dwarfish.—
Cincinnati Commercial.
“How do you like your new place, girl’s
Bridget?" asked the servant
best beau. “Not at all. Sure the mis¬
tress wears such small shoes that I can’t
get me feet into them .—New York
Journos. the
Taking the teuiporature—Rhe the trouble (at the
races'—“What’s He—“There on
jud;“ s’ stand, George I” heat.”
is ,ome dispute over the last
gh — “Aren't 'heir thermometers all
Teorge?’ — Siftings.
AsaiiJr forsea
* „.i a spinster for tea,
for talk and a soldier for fighting;
A baby for noise;
And ft circus for boys,
And a typewriter man to do autograph writ¬
banker ing. chink,
A for 1
And a printer for ink, for stick-
A leopard for Rpots, and a wafer
A crack baseball flinger
An opera singer, choir • kicking.
A shotgun, a mule and a for ’
t
A Great Feat In Nostrilology.
Limbs can he replaced and artificial
eyes made with success. The latest
achievement in the world of science is
the almost perfect reproduction of the
human nose. Nobody likes to lose will a
nose, but unfortunately accidents
happen, noses in be pulled off and then
surgery called to replace them
Not long ago ^ lady living up had town,
gays the New York her Telegram, during the do¬
misfortune to lose nose a
mestic episode and the surgeon who was
called to operation, attend her which performed is the the first fal¬ of
lowing performed in
its kind ever successfully
this country: One half the nose was
not injured and this half the surgeon tie
carefully cut and laid back, leaving
fiasal organ exposed. the bridge of
The bone which forms
the nose was then cut out and a piece of
bone of the proper shape and size, cut
from the breast of a young chicken, was
fitted in its place. This chicken bone
w*as united to the root of the nose on
the skull by means of small silver wires,
and the uninjured flesh of the nose was
drawn over it. Tampkins of cotton of the were
drawn in to give the nostrils new
nose proper shape. The artificial bone
in time became properly united to the
bones of the skull; the flesh grew to¬
gether aud now the lady has as perfect only a
nose as before the accident, the
blemish being a nearly imperceptible the flesh line
on one side of the nose where
united.
A Psalm of Trade.
“ Tell me not in mournful numbers,”
Advertising doesn’t pay;
For tho man’s non compos mentis
Who would such absurd thing say. :
“Life is real! Life is earnest!”
And the man who hopes to rise
To Must success expect, in any to advertise. calling,
•• In the world’s broad field of battle
In the conflict of real life,”
Advertising is the secret ’ ’
t
Of achievement in the strife.
“ Lives of rich men ail remind us
We can make advertising our own sublime;*
And by liberal climb.
To the highest summit
“ Let us then be up and doing,"
In this sheet our ads. Insert;
“ Still achieving, still pursuing,"
Business then will btj alert.