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GEORGIA TEL APH BUILDING
ESTABLISHED 1826.
MACON. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 1882.
VOLUME LVI-NO 8
OF£ R THE tv A Y.
Mo fresh yob ng beauty, laughing eyed.
Who reckons lovers bjr the score,
But lust • swept old maid who died
-.While I was yet In pinafore.
She lived upon the shady side
Of that old-fashioned country street,
A spreading chestnut greenly tried
To screen the door of her retreat.
A tiny garden, trim and square,
A snowy flight of steps above,.
And tweet suggestions In the air
Of all the flowers the poets love.
Within the trellised porch there hung
In a burnished c
A parrot in I
A foolish Mid, whoso mocking tongue
Burlesqued the piping tones of age.
A branching apple tree o'ctspiead
A rickety old garden scat;
No apples rare were e'er so rod I
Or since 1
> hare tasted half so sweetl
In memory’s enchanted land,
I see the gentle spinster yet.
With watering-pot in ml tened hand,
Gaze proudly at her mignonette..
And when the spring had grown to June,
She'd sit beneath the apple tree.
And dream away the afternoon,
With some quaint volume on her knee—
A gray-robed vision of repose,
• A pleasant thought in Quaker guise;
For truly she was one of those
Who carry Heaven In their eyes.
—Chamber'! Monthly.
YOUR MONEY ORYOUR LIFE.
A Tale or Jfy Laud Indy.
BY WILKIE COLLINS.
[Concluded.]
TUB SECOND EPOCH IN MR. CO SWAY'S
LIFE.
Four years elapsed before llie Albicore
returned to the port from wbicb she bad
sailed.
In that interval tbe death of Cosway’a
patents bad taken place. Tbe lawyer
who managed bis alliairs during bis ab
sence from England wrote to inform him
teat bis Inheritance from bit late father’s
“estate” was eight hundred a year. His
mother only possessed a life interest in
her fortune; she had left her jewels to her
son, and that was all.
Coswn’s experience of tho life of a
naval officer on a foreign station (with
out political influence to hasten his pro
motion) had thoroughly disappointed him.
Ho decided on retiring from the service
When the ship was “paid off.” In the
tneaullme, to the astonishment of his
comrade, he seemed in no burry to make
use of the leave granted him to go on
■bore. The faltnml Stone was tbe only
man on board who knew that be was
afraid of meeting his “wife.” This good
friend volunteered to go to the inn, and
make the necessary investigation with all
needfol prudence. “Four years is a long
time at Ler
ma;
m
• age,” he said. “Many things
n in four years.”
o.u hour later Slone returned to.the
ship, and sent a written message on bmrd,
addressed to his brother officer, in these
words: “Pack up your things at once,
and join me in the boat.”
_!‘Wbat news?” asked the anxious hns-
loskod significantly at the boat-
. and only answered, “Walt till we
n shore.”
'•‘Where are wo going.”
“To tbe railway station.”
They got into a carriage, and Stone at
)once relieved his friend of all further
suspense.
{ “Nobody Is acquainted with the secret
JrJ your marriage but our two selves,” be
> -gun quietly. “I don't think, Cosway,
i need go into mourning.”
You don’t mean to say she’s dead!”
have seen the letter which announces
/’ btone replied. “It was so
thst I believe 1 can repeat it, word
for word: ‘Dear Sir: Wo have received
information of the death of oar client.
Please address your next and last pay
ment, on account of tin lease and good
will ot the inn, to the executor of the late
Mrs. Cosway.' There, that is the letter.
arSir’ means the proprietor of the inn.
told me your wife’s history in two
A. After esnying on tbe business
her customary intelligence for more
three years her health failed, and
ent to London to consult a physician,
he remained under tbe doctor’s
next event was the appearance
it, instructed to sell the business
Aience of the landlady’s declining
And the death at a later time—
is the beginning and end of the
,3i tune owed you a good turn,
-and fortune has paid the debt.
ASAy best congratulations.” .
driving in London, Stone went on at
nee to his relations in the North. Coa-
,-*> proceeded to the office of tho family
bwyerfMr. Atherton), who had taken
,re of his interests during his. absence,
AM In father and Mr. Atherton had been
>/*Vtclioolfkliow§ and old friends. He was
/allectioiiaiely received, and was invited
o pay a visit the next day to tho lawyer’s
ifa at Richmond.
(mi will be near enough to London
tend to your business at tho admiral-
Vr,” said Mr. Atherton, “and you will
.jfiieet a charming visitor at my house who
Tfi one of the mostcharming girls in Eng-
. ■ Valid—the only daughter of the great Mr.
> VAestail. Good heavens! have you never
" Vieai d of him? My dear sir, he’s one of
S Ajja partners of the famous firm of Ben-
\flpavr, Restail & Bensh&w.ӣ
TtCosway was wise enough to accept this
t? t piece of information as quite conclu-
iflt/c. The next dsy Mrs. Atherton pre
sented him to the charming Miss Restail;
and.Mrs..Atherton’s young married daugh
ter (who'bad been his plsyfellow wbcti
they were children) whispered to him half
in jest, half In earnest, “Make the best
of your time; she isn’t engaged yet.”
Cosway shuddered inwardly at tbe bare
idea of a second marriage.
Was Miss Res! all tbe sort of woman to
restore his confidence?
She was small and slim and dark—a
graceful, well-bred, brightly intelligent
person, with a voico exquisitely sweet
and winning in tone. Her ears, hands and
feet were objects of worship; aud she had
an attraction irresistibly rare among the
women of tbe present time—tbe attraction
■of a perfect natural smile. Before Cos
way hatl been an hour in the house she
■discovered that his long term of service
on foreign stations had furnished him
with subjects oljeonversation which favor
ably contrasted with tbe commonplace
e sip addressed to her by other men.
iway at once became a favorite, as
Othello became a favorite in bis day.
The ladies of tbe household all rejoiced
in tbe young officer's success, with tbe
one exception of Miss ltesUl.’s companion
(supposed to hold tbe place of her lost
mother), one Mrs. Margery. Too cautious
to commit herself in words, the lady ex
pressed doubt aud disappointment by her
looks. She had white t air, iron-gray eye
brows and protuberant eyes; her looks
wero usually expressive. One evening
she caught Mr. Athertou alone, and con
sulted him confidentially on the subject
Mr. Cosway's income. This was the
first warning which opened the eyes of
the good lawyer to the natore of the
“friendship” already established between
his two guests, lie knew Miss Itestall’s
illustrious father well, aud be feared that
nught soon be bis disagreeable duty to
Cosway’a viait to an end.
certain Suuday afternoon, while
Vtu.-rtou was stiil considering how
laid most kindly and delicately sag-
to Cosway that it was time to aay
ibye, an empty carriage arrived at
the villa. A cote from Mr. Restail was
delivered to Mrs. Artherton, thanking her
with perfect politeness for her kindness
to his daughter. “Circumstances,” he
added, "rendered It necessary that Miss
Restail should return home that after
noon.”
The “circumstances” were supposed to
refer to a garden party to be given by
Mr. Restail in the ensuing week. But
why was his daughter wanted home before
the day of the paity?
The ladies of the family entertained no
doubt that Mrs. Margery bad privately
communicated with Mr. Pestall, and that
the appearance of the carriage was the
natural result. Mrs. Atherton’s married
|danghter did all that coaid bo done. She
Mips
her
own sluing room. Tbe young lady ap
peared in the ball with her veil down.
Cosway escaped to the road and saw the
last of the carriage as it drofe away. In
JiUle more than a fortnight his horror of
a second marriage bad become one of the
dead and burieu emotions of bis nature.
He stayed at the villa until Monday
morning, as an act of gratitude to his good
friends, and then accompanied Mr. Ath
erton to London. Business at tbe Admi
ralty was the excuse. It imposed on no
body. He was evidently on bis way to
Mbs Restail.
“Leave yonr business in my hands,”
said tbe lawyer on the journey to town,
“and go and amuse yourself on the Con
tinent. I can’t blame yon for falling in
love with Miss Restail; 1 ought .to have
foreseen tbe danger, and waited till she
left before I invited you to tbe bouse.
But I may at least warn you to carry the
matter no further. If you had eight thou
sand instead of eight hundred a year,
Mr. Restail would think it an act of pre
sumption on your part to aspire to his
daughter’s hand, unless you had a title
to throw in the bargain. Loo]
‘VlMf |*jr|j,
tbea —-w. ufcwwsiieak-
iqg
Cosway promised to “look at it in the
true light.”
The result, in his point of view, led him
into a change oi residence. He left bis
hotel and took lodgings in the nearest by
street to Mr. Itestall’s palace at Kensing
ton. On the same evening he applied
(with confidence due to previous arrange-
ment) for a letter at the neighboring post-
office, addressed to E. C.—the initials of
Edwin Cosway. “Pray bo careful,” Miss
Restail wrote. “I have tried to get you
a card for our garden party. But that
hateful creature, Margery, has evidently
spoken to my father; I am not trusted
with any invitation cards. Bear it patient
ly, dear, as I do, and let me know if you
have succeeded in findings lodging near
lus.”
Not submitting to this first disappoint
ment very patiently, Cosway sent bis re
ply to tbe postoffice, addressed to A. R.
the initials of Adeia Restail. Tbe next
day the impatient lover applied for anoth
er letter. It was waiting lor him, but it
was not directed in Adela’s hand-writing.
Had their correspondence been discover
ed? He opened the letter in the street
and read with amazement these lines;
“Dear Mr. Cosway: My heart sympa
thizes with two faithful lovers, in spite of
my age and duty. I enclose an invitation
to the patty to-morrow. Pray don’t be
tray me, and don’t pay too marked atten
tion to Adeia. Discretion is easy. There
will be twelve hundred guests. Your
friend, in spite of appearances,
“Louisa Margery.”
How infamously they bad all misjudged
this excellent woman! Such was the
natural conclusion at which Cosway ar
rived. He went to the party a grateful,
as well as a happy man. The first person
known to him, whom he discovered among
the crowd of strangers, were the Ather
tons. They looked, as well thoy might,
astonished to see him. Fidelity to Mn.
Margery forbade bim to enter into any
explanations. Where was that best and
truest friend? With some d.fliculty he
succeeded in finding her. Was there any
impropriety in seizing her band and cor
dially pressing it? The result of this ex
pression of gratitude, was, to say tbe least
of it, p, rplexing. Mrs. Margery behaved
like the Athertons. She looked astonished
to see bim, and she put precisely'the
same question, “How did you get here?”
Cosway could only conclude that she was
joking. “Who should know that, dear
lady, better than yourself?” he rejoined.
“I don’t understand yon,” she answered
sharply. After a moment’s reflection,
Cosway bit on another eolation of the
mystery. Visitors werefnear them; and
Mrs. Margery had made her own private
use of one of Mr. Restail’s invitation
cards. She might have serious reason for
pushing caution to tbe last extreme. Cos
way looked at her significantly. “The
least I can do is not to be indiscreet,” be
whispered and left her.
He turned into a side walk, and there
be met Adeia a’, last.
It seemed like fata'Jty; she looked as
tonished, and said, “How did yon pet
here?” No intrusive visitors were within
heariDg this time: “My dear!” Cosway
remonstrated, “Mrs. Margery must have
told you when she sent my invitation.”
Adeia tamed pale. “Mrs. Margery?” she
repeated. “Mrs. Margery has said noth-
ing to me; Mrs. Margery hates you. We
■nwbwatUs cleared op. No; not now;
I must attend to our guests. Expect a
letter; and for heaveu’s sake, Edwin, keep
oat os say lather** way. One of our visi
tors whom he particularly wished to see
has sent an excuse, and fie is dreadfully|
angiy about
She left him before Cosway could ex
plain that he and Mr. Restail bad thus
far never seen each other.
He wandered away toward the extremity
of tiie grounds, troubled by vague sntpl-l
cions; hurt at Adela’s cold reception of
bim. Entering a shrubbery, Which SMm-l
ed intended to screen the grounds, at I
this pou,t, from a lane outside, he 41*1
covered a pretty little summer hoove]
among the trees. A stout gentleman of
mature years was seated alone In this re-|
treat, lie looked up with a ir >ivn. Cos
way apologized for ills.inning him, an.!
tutored into a conversation as sc a:: of
politeness.
“A brilliant assembly to-day, sir.”
The stout geotlemau replied by an in
articulate round—something between a
grunt aud a cough.
“A splendid house and grounds,” Cos
way continued.
The stout gentleman repeated the in
articulate sound.
e^Cosway began to feel amused. Was
tbe old gentleman deaf and dumb?
Excuse my entering into conversation,”
he persisted. “I feel like a stranger.
There are so many people whom I don’t
know.” *
Tbe stout gentleman suddenly burst
into speech, Cosway bad touched a fibre
at last.
“There are a good many people here
whom i don’t know,” he said gruffiy.
“You are one of them. What’s your
name!’” .
“My name is Cosway. What is yours?”
The stout gentleman rose with fury m
his looks. He burst out with au oath,
aud added the intolerable question al-
ready three times repeated by others,
“How did you get here?” The tone was
even more oflensive than the oath.
“Your ago protects you,” said Cosway
with the loftiest composure. “I am sorry
I gave my name to so rude x person.’’
“Rude?” shouted the old gentleman.
“You wan’t my name in return, I suppose?
You young puppy, you shall have it; my
name is Restail.”
He turned his baefc and walked off.
Cosway took the only course now open
to him. He returned to bis lodgings.
*i be next day no letter reached him
from Adeia. He went to the postoffice.
No letter was there. The day wore on to
evening, and with the evening there ap-
peered a woman who was a stranger to
him. She looked like a servant, and she
was the bearer of a mysterious message.
“Please be at tbe door that opens on tbe
lane, at 10 o’clock to-morrow morning.
Knock three times at the door and then
say ‘Adeia.’ Someone who wishes you
well will be alone In the shrubbery, and
will let you in. “No, sir; I am not to take
aDjthlng, and 1 am net to say another
word more.” She spoke and vanished.
Cosway was punctual to his appoint
ment. He knocked three times, he pro
nounced Miss Restail’s Christian name.
Nothing happened. Ho waited awhile
and tried again. This time Adela’s voico
answered strangely from the shrubbery in
tones of surprise: “Edwin, is it really
you?”
“Did you expect anyono else?” Cos
way asked. “My, darling, your message
said ten o’clock—-and here I am.”
Tbe door was suddenly unlocked.
«I sent no message,” said Adeia, as
they confronted each other on the thres
hold.
In the silence of utter bewilderment
they went together; into the summer
house. At Adela’s request Cosway re
peated the message, ami described the
woman who b»4 delivered it. The de
scription applied to no person known to
Miss Restail. “Mrs. Margery neve? sent
yon tbe invitation, and I repeat, I never
sent you the message. This meeting has
been arranged by someone who knows
that I always walk In the shrubbery after
breakfast. There is some underhand
I work going on ” She checked herself
■considered a little. “Is it possible
- Jkbegau and paused again. Her
eyes filled with tears. “My mind is so
completely npset,” she said, “that I can’t
think clearly of anything. Ob, Edwin,
we have bad a happy dream, and it has
come to an end. My father knows moro
than we think for. Some friends of ours
are going abroad to-morrow—and I am
to go with them. Nothing I can say has
the least effect on my father. He means
to part us forever, and this is his cruel
way of doing it.”
She put her arms arouud Cosway’s neck
and lovingly laid her head on bis shoul
der. With tenderest kisses, they reiter
ated their vows of eternal fidelity until
their voices-^altered and failed tbem.
Cosway tilled up tbe pause by tbe only
useful suggestion wbicb it was now in bis
power to make—he proposed an olope-
larcnt.
Adeia received this bold solallon of tbe
[difficulty in wbicb they were placed ex
actly as thousands of other young ladies
Lave received similar proposals before her
time, and after.
She first said positively “No.” Cosway
|crsistcd. . She began to cry, and asked
lim if be bad no respect for her. Cos
way declared that bis respect was equal to
any sacrifice except tbe parting with her
forever. He could and would, if ahe pre
ferred it, die for her, but while be was
alive he must refuse to give her up. Did
he expect her to go with him alone? Cer
tainly not. Her maid could go with her,
■, if her maid was not to be trusted be
would apply to his landlady, and engage
“a respectable elderly person” to attend
on her until tbe day of their marriage.
I Would she have some mercy on him and
just consider it? No; she was afraid to
|consider it. Did she prefer misery for
the rest ofher life? Never mind his hap
piness; it was her happiness that be bal
In bis mind. Travelling with unsympa
thetic people; absent from England, no
one could say how long; married when she
did return to some rich man whom she
bated—would she, could she, contemplate
that prospect? She contemplated it
through tears, she contemplated it to an
accompaldment f sigbs.;kis»ea and protes
tations—she trembled, hesitated, gave
way. At an appointed hour of the coming
night, when her father would be in the
smoking-room and Mrs. Margery would
he in bed, Cosway was to knock at the
door of tbe lane once more, leaving time
to make all the necessary arrangements
in the interval.
The one pressing necessity, under tbe
circumstances, was to guard against the
possibility ofbetrayal orsurprise. Cosway
discreetly alluded to tbe nnsolved mys
teries of the idvitation and tbe message.
“Have you taken anybody into our con
fidence?”
Adda answered with some embarrass
ment, “Only one person,” she said—“dear
Miss Bensbaw.”
“Who is Miss Bensbaw?”
“Don’t you really kn>w, Edwin? She
is richer even than papa; she has inherited
from her late brother one-half share m
tbe great business in the city. Miss Ben-
shaw is tbe lady who disappointed paps
by not coming to tbe garden party. 1 was
miserable, dear, wben they toon me away
from Mr. Atherton’s. Sbe happened to
call the next day, aud sbe noticed it, ‘My
dear’ said sbe (Miss Bensbaw is quite an
elderly lady now), ‘I am an old lady, who
has missed the happiness of her lifo
through not having had a friend to guide
and advise me when I was young. Are
you suffering as I once suffered?’ She
spoke so nicely—and I was so wretched—
that I really couldn’t help it. I opened
my heart to her.”
Cosway looked grave. “Are you sure|
she it to be trusted?” be asked.
“Perfectly sure.”
“Perhaps, my love, she has spoken I
about us (not meaning any harm) to some
friend cf ben? Old ladies are so fond of
gossip. It’s just possible—don’t you think
so.”
Adeia lmng her head. “I have thought
it just pcssible myself,” sbe admitted.
“There is plenty of time to call on her to-
day.*&I will set out doubts at rest before
Miss Bensbaw goes out for her afternoon
drive.”
On that understanding they parted.
Toward evening Cosway’s arrangements
for tbe elopement were ccmplctcd. He
was eating bis solitary dinner when a
note was brought to bim- It had been
left atthe door by a commissioner. Tbe
man bad gone away without waiting for
an answer. Tbe note ran thus:
“Miss JBcnshaw presents her compli
ments to Mr. CoSway; and will be obliged
if be will call on her at nine o’clock this
evening on bozmess wbicb concerns him
self.”
This invitation was evidently the result
of Adela’s visit earlier in the day. Cos
way presented himseli at the bouse, troub
led by natural emotions ot anxiety and
suspense. His reception was not of a
nature to compose him. He was shown
into a darkened room. Tbe one lamp on
the table was turned down low, and tbe
little light thus given, was still further
obscured by a shade. The comers of tbo
room were almost In absolute darkness.
A voice out of one comer of the room
addressed him in a whisper:
“I must beg you to excuse tbe darkened
room. I am suffering from a severe cold.
My eyes are inflamed, and my throat is
so bad that I can only speak in a whisper,
bit down, sir. I have got news for yon.”
“Not bad news, I hope, ma’am?” Cos
way ventured to inquire.
“The worst possible news,” said the
whispering voice. “You have an enemy
striking at you iu the dark.”
Cosway asked who it was, and received
no answer. He varied the form of in
quiry, and asked why the unknown per
son struck at him in the dark. The ex
periment succeeded. He obtained a re
ply.
“It is reported me,” said Miss Bensbaw,
“that tbo person thinks it is necessary to
give you a lesson, and takes a spiteful
pleasure in doing it as mischievously as
possible. The person, as 1 happen to
know, sent you your invitation to the
party, and made the appointment which
took yon to the door in tbe—Wait a little,
sir; I have not done yet. The person has
put it into Mr. Restail’s head to send his
daughter abroad to-morrow.”
. Cosway attempted to make her speak
more plainly.
“Is the person a man or woman?” he
said.
Miss Bensbaw proceeded without notic
ing the interruption.
“You needn’t be afraid, Mr. Cosway,
Miss Restail will not leave England. Your
euemy is all-powerful. Yonr enemy’s
object could only be to provoke yon into
piauuing au elopement, and, your arrange
ments once comnleted, to part you and
Miss Restail quite as effectually as if yon
were at opposite ends of the world. Spite
ful, isn’t it? And, what is worse, tho
mischief is good as done already,”
Cosway rose from bis chair.
“Do yon wish for any furthor explana
tion?” asked Miss Bensbaw.
“One thing moic,” he replied, “Does
Adeia know of this?”
“No,” said Miss Bensbaw; “It is loft to
you to tell her.”
There was a moment of silence. Cos
way looked at the lamp. Once roused,
as usual with men of h.’s character, his
temper was not to be trifled with.
“Mias Bensbaw,” he said, “I dare say
you think me a fool; but I can draw my
own conclusions, for all that. You are
my enemy.”
The only reply was a low, chuckling
laugh. All voices can be moro or less
effectually disguised by a whisper—but a
laugh carries the revelation of Us own
identity with It. Cosway suddenly threw
off the shade over tbe lamp and turned up
the wick.
The light flooded the room, and show
ed him—His Wile.
THE THIRD EPOCH IN MR. COSWAY’fl
LIFE.
Three days havo passed. .Cosway sat
alone in his lodging, pale and worn; the
shadowjalready of his former self.
He had not seen Adeia since tbo dis
covery. The only way In which he could
venture to make tho inevitable disclosure
was by letter. Through Mr. Atherton
(to whom he had at once revealed his
position) he was able to make mqairles
at Mr. Restail’s house. Tbe answers sim
ply Informed him that Miss Restail was
suffering from illness.
The laudlady came into the room.
“Cheer up, sir,” said the good woman.
“There is better nows of Miss Restail to
day.”
Ho raised bis head. “Don’t trifle with
me!” be answered fretfully, “tell me ex
actly what the servant said.”
The landlady repeated tbe words. Miss
Restail has passed a quieter night, and
has been able for a few hours to leave her
room. He asked next if any letter had
arrived for hitn. No letter bad arrived.
If Adeia definitely abstained from writing
to bim, tbe conclusion would be too plain
to be mistaken. She bad given him up—
and who could blame her?
There was a knock at the street door.
Tbe landlady looked out. “Here’s Mr.
Stone come back, sir!” ahe exclaimed
joyfully—and hurried away to let him in.
Cosway never looked up when his friend
appeared.
“I knew I should succeed,” said Stone.
“I have seeu yonr wife.”
“Don’t speak of her!” cried Cosway.
“I should have murdered her wben I first
saw ber face if I bad not instantly left the
bouse. I may be tbe death of tbe wretch
yet, if yoa persist in speaking of ber I"
Stone put bis baud kindly on his friend ’s
shoulder.
“Must I remind you that yon owe some-'
thing to your old companion?” he asked.
“I left my father and mother, the morn
ing I got your letter, and m7 one thought
has been to serve you. Reward me. Be
a man, and hear what it is your right
and duty to know. After that, if yon
like, wa will never refer to her again.
Cosway took his hand, in silent ac
knowledgment that he was right. They
rat down together. Stone began:
“She is so entirely shameless,” lie said,
“that I had no difficulty in getting her to
iak. She so cordially hates you that
i glories in her own falsehood and
treachery. In the first place, I may tell
yon that she has a certain right, if alio
pleases, to call herself ‘Miss Bensbaw.'
She is really the daughter of the man who
founded the great house in tho city. With
every advantage that wealth and position
could give her, the perverse creature mar
ried one of her father’s footmen. From
that moment ber family discarded her.
With the money procured by tho sale
of her jewels, her husband took the inn
which we have such bitter causo to
remember—and she carried it on after
his death. So much for the past. Wo
may now pass over a long lapse of years,
and get to tbe time at which you and I
were on the South American station, be
ginning to think of the happy day when
our ship would be ordered back to Eng
land. At the date at which we have now
arrived, the last surviving member of her
family—her elder brother—lay at the
point of death. Ho bad takenliis father’s
K ‘ co in tho business, besides inheriting
father’s fortune. The los3 of his
wife (leaving no children) rendered it nec
essary that he should alter his will. He
deferred performing this duty. It was
only at the time of his last illness that he
had dictated instructions for a new will,
leaving his wealth (excepting certain
legacies to old friends) to the hospitals
of Great Britain and Ireland.
His lawyer lost no time in carrying out
the instructions. The new will was ready
for signature (the old will havmg been de
stroyed by his own hand), when the
doctors sent a message to aay that their
patient was insensible, and might die m
thst condition. He did die in that con
dition. Your wretched wife. S§ heSt of
kin, succeeded, not only to the fortnnd,
but (under the deed of partnership) to her
late brother’s place in the firm, on tbe one
easy condition of resuming the family
name. She calls herself ‘Miss Bsnsbaw.’
Bat as a matter of legal necessity she is set
down in tbe deed as Mrs. Cosway Bensbaw.
Her partners only now know that her
husband is liviDg, and that you are tb
Cosway whom she privately married.
"Will yon take a little breathing-time, or
shall I go on and get done with it ?”
Cosway signed to him to go on.
“ She doesn’t in the least care,” Stone
proceeded, “for tbe exposure. 1 I’m the
the head partner,’ says sbe, ‘and tbe rich
one of tbe firm; they daren’t turn their
backs on me.’ You remember the in
formation I received—In perfect good
faith on his part—from the man who
now keeps tbe inn? The visit to the
London dosor, and the assertion of
failing health, ./ere adopted as the best
means of plausibly severing the lady’s
connection (the great lady now !) with
a calling so unworthy of her as the keep
ing of au inn. Her neighbors at the sea
port wore all deceived by the elratagem,
with two exceptions. They wore both
men—vagabond* who had pertinaciously
tried to delude her into marrying them in
the days when ahe was a widow. They
retused to believe in the doctor and the
declining health; they bad their own
suspicion of tbe motives
which ied to ths salo of
the Inn under very un
favorable circumstances; and they de
cided on going to London, inspired by tbe
same base hope of making discoveries
which might be turned into a means of
extorting money. Their contemplated
victim proved equal to the emergency.
The attorney whom she had employed to
manage tnq^leof tbe lease and good-wiii
of the b.n was not above accepting a
haudsome private fee. He wrote to tbe
new landlord cf the inn, falsely an
nouncing bis client’s death, in tbe letter
which I repeated to you in the rail
way carriage on our journey to Lon
don; and he deluded tbe two inferior
rogues, when they ventured to make in-
qoiiy %l his office. Yon and I were de
ceived, in our turn, by tbe lawyer’s letter.
Your natural conclusion that yon were
free to pay your addresses to Miss Restail,
and the poor young lady’s innocent con
fidence in ‘Miss BenshawV sympathy,
g\re Ui!s unscrupulous woman tbe means
of playing the heartless trickon yon which
is now exposed. Malice and jealousy—1
have it, mind, from horeelf!—were not her
only motives. ‘Rut for that Cosway,’ she
said, (t spare you the epithet which she put
before yonr name), ‘with my money and
position, I might have married a needy
lord, and sunned myself in my old age in
tins mil blaze of the peerage.’ Do you
understand how she hated yon, now ?
Enough of the subject! The moral of it,
my dear Cosway, is to leave (biq place,
and try what change ofscetia will do for
you. I have time to spare ; aud 1 will go
abroad with you. When shall it be ?”
“Let me wait a day or two more,” Cos
way pleaded.
Stone shook his head. “Still hoping,
my poor friend, for a line from Miss Res-
tall ? Yon distress me.”
“I am sorry to distress yop, Stone. If
I esn get one pitying word from her, I
can submit to the miserable life that lie*
before me.”
“Are you not expecting too much ?” >'
“Yon wouldn’t ssy so if you were as
fond ofher as I am.”
They woie silent. The evening slowly
darkened, and the landlady came in as
usual with tbe candles. Sbe brought with
her a letter for Cosway.
He tore it open, read it an instant,5*nd
devoured it with kisses. His higbly-
wreugbt feelings found their vent in a
little allowable exaggeration. “She saved
my life !”be aaid, as he handea tbe letter
to Stone;*
It only contains these lines:
“My love is yours, my promise is yours.
Through til trouble, through all profa
nation, through the hopeless separation
that may be before us in this world, I
live yours, and die yours. MyEdwiu,
God bless and comfort you.”
THE FOURTH XFOCH IK MB. COSWAY’S
UPS.
The saparation had lasted for nearly
two years when Cosway and Stone paid
that visit to the country house which is
recorded at the outset of the present
narrative. In the interval, nothing bad
been heard of Miss Restail except through
Mr. Atherton. He reported that Adeia
was lerdi'-.g a very quiet life. The one
remarkable event bad been au interview
between. MUs Bensbaw and herself. No
praise,
forgiven tbe woman who bad 60 cruelly
injured her!
Tbe two friends, it may be remember
ed, bad traveled to London Immediately
after completing the fullest explanation
of Cosway’s startling behaviour at tbe
breakfast-table. Stone was not by nature’
a sanguinary man. “ I don’t believe in
our luck,” he said. “ Let us be quite sure
that we are not the victims of another de-
ceptio
Tin
be accident bad happened on the
Thames; and the nowspaper narrative
proved to bo accurate in every respect.
Sumo personally attended the inquest.
From a natural feeling of delicacy toward
Adeia, Cosway hositated to write to her
on the subject. The erer-heipfal Stone
wrote in his place.
After some delay the answer was re
ceived. It enclosed a brief statement
(communicated officially by legal author
ity) of a last act of malico on the part of
tbo late bead partner in the house of Ben-
shaw &<Co. She had not died intestate,
like her brother. Tbe first clause of her
will contained the testator’s grateful rec
ognition of Adeia Restail’s Christian acj
of forgiveness. The second clause (after
stating that there were neither relatives
nor children to be benefited by the will)
left Adeia Restail mistress of Mn. Cos
way Benshaw’s fortune—on the one
merciless condition thst she did not
marry Edwin Cosway. The third clause
—if Adeia Rostsil violated the condition
—handed over tho whole of the money to
the firm ip tbo city, “for the extension of
the business, and the benefit of the sur
viving partners.”
Some months later Adeia came of age.
To the indignation of Mr. Restail, aqjjl the
astonishment of tbo “Company,” the
money actually went to tho firm. Tbe
fourth epoch it. Mr. Cosway’s life wit
nessed his marriage to a woman who
cheerfully paid half a million of money
for the happiness of passing her life, on
eight hundred a year, with the man whom
she loved.
But Cosway felt, bound in gratitude to
make a rich woman of his wile, if
work and resolution could do it. When
Stone last spoke of him he was reading
for the bar ; and Mr. Atherton was wait
ing to give him his first brief.
Note.--That “most improbable” part
of the present narrative, which is con
tained in tbe division called The First
Epoch, is founded on an adrentu:e which
actually occurred to no less & person
than a cousin of Sir Walter Scott. In
Lockhart’s delightful “Life” the aneedete
will be found as told by Sir Walter to
Capt. Basin Hail. Tho remainder of the
present story is entirely imaginary. The
writer wondered what such awomau as
the landlady would do, under certain cir
cumstances, after her mairiage—and here
Is tile result.—Belgravia Annual.
Farlijuseat
Loxdon, February 22, 5 p. m.—Sir
Stafford Nortbouta’a motion expelling
Bradlaugh from the House ot Commons
passed by a vote of 20 to S3. -
In tbe House of Common*, Mr. GlalP
stone, tills afternoon, stated that Lord
Randolph Churchill’* motion lor the issue
of a new writ for Northampton would re
lieve tbe House from its difficulty, but as
Bradlaugh bad not sal during the debate
his conduct was not such as according to
tbe wording of tbe rules would vacate his
seat- Gladstone adhered to his position
Uial the House had acted beyond its pow
ers In preventing. Bradlaugh ftom taking
the oath, but Bradlangh’t conduct, be
said, was an act of flagrant disobedience
to the House, but not to the chair. Con
cerning the government’s position, and
throughout, Gladstone said he had re
solved to leave the direction of tbe ques
tion to tbe majority, giving it his assi t-
ance as far as possible. [Laughter fro
the Conservative benches.]
Sir Stafford N'orthcote complaim
tbe conduct of Gladstone, but sj^it
was not for him to assumo a leadej^F du
ties, and therefore confined hi^jelf to
moving as an amendment tbaLdp&d laugh
be prevented from euteriug jjprprecincte
of tbe House.
Lord Randolph CharcUVBeclsreu this
motion to be milk and }gKr, and said he
would vote against itj®/ord Churchill’s
motion that a new.
Northampton was
vision.
A motion bl
ber for Dublin;
ty of profanatj
hie of sitting
was withdraw)
tions to pronoi
qualification,
cuuion of
demanded that;
bar of the H<
the motion unfArorably, _■
the bar and tool.* seat. Inconsequence
of tbit fresh it of disobedience and of
Gladstone refill ng to act, Sir Stafford
Northcote witbJpw bis first motion and
moved that BraJraugh, having disobeyed
tho chair and being in contempt of tbe
House, be expelled. Gladstone supported
this motion, which was passed by a vote
of29to83. Bradlaugh voted with the
minority; Gladstone abstained. Bradlaugh
then quietly left. Upon motion oi
SirStatfordNortcotea new writ for North
ampton was ordered, Labouchere atating
that Bradlaugh would bo a candidate.
London, February 22.—Davitt and
Patrick Egan were nominated for Meath
to-day to fill the seat in Parliament made
vacant by the resignation of A. M. Sulli
van. Egan withdrew, and as no opposi
tion appeared, Davitt was declared dnly
electer
TUX &KXXV STXItlCATE.
•it be issued for
l without a di-
Jjydiij (Libefal mem-
1st BfsdUugii is guil-
rand is thereiore incapa-
ao House of Commons,
ecause of legal objec-
:ingon the question of
During the dis-
point, Labouchere
Bradlaugh be beard at the
The House receivi:
A Confederate Deputation at Mentor.
Cleveland. February 22.—C. A
Withers, James D. Campbell, B. T. Knipe
and Ferdinand D. Swartz, tbe committee
appointed by tbe cx-Confederate soldiers
resident in Cincinnati and ;ts vicinity, ar
rived here this morning, bringing with
•hem a memorial tribute to the late Pres
ident, prepared for Mn. Garfield. Tbe
resolutions are framed in Tennessee color
ed marble, highly polished and cut
from a single block about two feet square.
The United States coat of arms is inlaid
in Mexican onyx at each corner. The
committee called upon Mrs. Garfield this
morning and ]& formally present
ed the testimonials C. A. Withers, for
merly adjutant general of Gen. J H.
Morgan’s staff, made tbe presentation ad
dress, as follows;
“It is with mingled feelings of gratifica
tion and regret that I have the honor,
madam, of presenting to yon this memo
rial of the ex-Confederate soldiers of Cin
cinnati. It is gratifying that we trnth-
fnliy and feelingly unite our voices in
commendation of the lamented dead with
those oi tbe many thousands of a common
pie. The occasion which called for
h a sentiment is as painful in its recol
lections and as deeply deplored by tbe
people of the South as by those of any
other section of the country, the una
nimity with which these resolutions were
passed and the expressions conveyed in
tbo resolution speak more than any words
of mine, and you can rest assured, madam,
that in them is voiced the tribute of ail
old soldiers ot tbe Booth to the sterling
worth of the late President.”
Mrs. Garfield, by agreateflort, repressed
her emotion, whil3 the aged mother of
the late President wept freely. Tbe late
President’s widow, her voice trembling
with emotion, replied to the address of
General Withers as follows: “Gentle
men, I am very grateful to you, apd to
those from whom this beautiful gift comes
—ioritssake^and for tbe sentiment ex
pressed.’’
. Pswsrlal CwbMssIIm that (ok.
trols 4.SSO Kiln «e toad u< Owoa
*0,000 asros el Hleli SSlaacrsl B,entile
—One ot tbe Mout Comprebeatalva
BjraSenaa la tbo Ceealey.
Ctov land Spociat to Cincinnati Gazette
Tbs first trip over t.ba Eastern division
of tbe New York, Chicago and St Lem is
railroad by any passenger car was made
to-day, when an inspection was made by a
small party of gentlemen interfiled in the
road. Tbe mymbert of tbe party were
Calvin 8. ItaKe, vice-president; Dan. P.
Eeies, diijgfor; Lewis Williams, general
manageanu. L. Terrel, genera! counsel;
J. A. liHia, chief engineer ; H. L. Mor
rill, s^Klntenuent of construction, and
balIMr dozen others. Tbe party got
at tbe crossing of the Cleveland
it'sburg track in this city, tbe limit
rhich rails have been la’d, at 0:30 in
morning, and rode to Couneaut, on
he Ohio aud Pennsylvania, and distant,
sixty-five miles from Cleveland.
During tbe trip your correspondent
while in conversation with a member of
the party (any one of whom wilt readily
be accepted as sufficient authority )^icured
some facts which show that theNew York,
Chicago and St. Lonls railway is but a
part (about one-fourth) of tbe great sys
tem of railways that is to be operated by
tbe syndicate owning it. Tbe leading and
moving members of this syndicate are
Geo. 1.3eney, John F. Martin, A. A. Lowe
SBrc*., E. H. R. Lyman, A. W. White,
W Rrtitf-rt “ 'P Bihi V^nr
AnierlcMn cart lia Uclasd.
jjohddn Truth.
It Is really becoming ii.
whether pnblle mfet]'
sary tor us to adopt U
carriages. Now that the facility ofcccanittliig
Every one who gets Into an empty carriage does
so ot the rl-k of a man following him and cut
ting hia throat. The appliances f»r stopping
the train in case of assult are absolutely useless
nnlesatlie criminal bo an utter fool, for he
could au-lly plan his attack in a manner to hin
der his victim from touching tho signal. A
murderer might in niuo cases out of ten escape
by jumping out Of the carriage when the car
riage Is slacking speed. If Lcfroy had done'
this, 1 doubt whether Mr. Gold’s murderer
would have ever been discovered. Only a few
days ago I wits In a railway carriage. Opposite
mo was a gentleman, and Ihe oilier seats were
uulcu&ntcd. We sat watching each other the
whole way. I thought my vie-a-vi* had a bad
countenance; and he, I suppose, thought the
same of me. Whenever lie felt In h’ls pocket
for hL handkerchief, 1 made ready to throttle
him.
Ormls Brown Ussrd Front.
Kaneae City Timet.
Grntz Hrown has struck it in New Mexico.
The last time he struck it was in 1WT2. but It
failed to pan out, owing to lack of capital and
confidence in the president of the board of di
rectors. Since that time the Governor lias done
yeoman service for U:o cause of temperance
and his windfall is carrying out Oh- taw of
compensation.
Tl»« Pyrotechnic Explosion.
Chester, Pa., February 22.—The cor
oner’s jury Investigating the cause of tbe
explosion at Jackson’s fire works factory
rendered a verdict censuring the city au
thorities ior permitting such a dangerous
business to be carried on in a populous
locality; also for not enforcing the ordi-
nance in reference to powfler and other
explosive’ material? witbln its limits.
Tho jury further find that Professor Sam
uel Jackson is highly censurable lor main
taining in tbe midst of a populated dis
trict an establishment attended with all
the dangers of a fireworks manufactory,
and that Charles Van Horn,
ui assnring the chief of tbe fire de
partment that there was no
further danger after the second explosion
thus leading him and other members of
the fire department Into further danger, is
also highly censurable, and in view of
the above the jury recommend that the
coroner hold said Samuel Jackson and
Charles Van Horn for appearance at the
next term of tbe court, Jackson and
Yan Horn will be arrested immediately.
Delaware county court meets at Media on
tbe first Moudsy in March. Frances
Oakes, another of tbe victims of the ex*
plosion, died to-day, making eighteen in
11.
» ■ - ■3~.T’
AagflnafiiMH.
Augusta, February 22.—Tile racing
tntetlng closed to-day with fine weather
fcnd a good attendance. The track was
In fine condition, The first race, one
mils for two year olds, pUrAC $123, Barney
Lyou ffpu; Lillie Monroe second, Guilford
third. Time, l’AOJ. Tbe second race,
three-quarter dash, purse $100, five
started—Colonel Sellers won} Farragut
second, Montague third, Independent
fourth. Radcliff’s rider wes thrown.
Time, 1:23. In thfl third race, one
mile dub, purse $100, three
started. Tom MontMfUe won; Giencock
seoond, Radcliffe third. Time, 1:48$ In
the lut race, a mile and a half for all
ages, Kano sold as the favorite, al two to
one. Four started. Keno was soon lead
ing, pushed by Bonnie Castle, with LilHe
Monroe and Franklin disputing for third
place. For the lut half-mile Keno and
Bonnie Lutle ran beautifully together,
making a close contest down the home
stretch. Bonnie Castle won by a nose;
Keno second, Franklin third, Lillie Mon
roe fourth. Time, 2:41J.
THiKuii'i Mission.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
General Sherman is about to start on a tour
of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
While iu New Mexico Genera! Sherman should
Walstoii H. Brown, 2. of
York, G. R. Cummlng3, W.B. Howard of
vfclcago, John S. Nwvberry, James Mc
Millan, of Detroit; Dan H. Eells, John
Rockefeller, H. M. Flagler, H. B. Payne,
H. L. Terrell, of Cleveland; Gen. Sam
Thomas, Charles Foster, of Columbus;
Calvin S. Brice, of Lima. O; Col. E. W.
Cole, of Nuhville; C. M. McGhee, of
Knoxville; W. T. Walters, of Baltimore.
Tbe syndicate now controls a total of
4,250 miles of railroad, and owns 20,000
acres of the richest lands in tbe country.
Tbe roads may bo divided into four dis
tinct systems. Tbo systems are com
posed of the New York, Chicago and St.
Louis, the Peoria, Decatur and Evans
ville, and Lake Erie and Western, the
^hio Central, and the Virginia, Tennes
see and Georgia railroads, formiug one of
tho most comprehensive and wide-spread
systems of the country.
Tbe first is the road now being com
pleted, theNew York, Chicago and St.
Louis, reaching from Buffalo to Chicago,
a distance of 321 miles. During the com*
ing year this road will be extended from
Valparaiso, Ind., to Joliet, 111., and will
there make an alliance with the Chicago,
Perkin and Southwestern, now In opera
tion. This latter line will also be ex
tended during tbe same time to Hanoibal
and Quincy, and from there direct con
nection will be made with Kansu City
and all points southwest, by means of the
Hannibal and St. Joe. At Chicago, the
New York, Chicago and St. Louis will
make connection with the Milwaukee and
St. Louis for the Northwest. A close
alliance bu also been made with
the Northern Pacific. At Bnfialo connec
tion wilt be made with the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western extension, now
nearly completed with the Etle and tbe
New York, West Shore and Buffalo.
These roads, so joined, will form a contin
uous line across tho continent, connecting
New York with Portland, Oregon.
By order of the syndicate, the Pullman
comoauy is now building at Chicago a
special outfit of palace, sleeping and hotel
cars, which are to bo run over tbe trans
continental line from New York to Port
land. They are to be or special style and
distinguished from the other care now in
use, and negotiations are now in progress
by which tho New York, Chicago and St.
Louis will receive another connection with
the Pittsburg and Western, now building
from Pittsburg to Youngstown. Tbe pur
pose is to extend tbe latter line to Cleve
land. Tbe exact plan for this has not yet
been adopted. At Fort Wayne and Eel
River Junction tbe New York, Chicago
and St. Louis makes a connection with
tbe Wabash and St. Louis Pacific, for St.
Louis and Gould’s entire Southwestern
system, with which intimate business re
lations have been established. R. C.
Cummins is also president of tbe Peoria,
Decatur and Eransville, with 250 miles ot
road in operation, and the Lake Erie and
Western, with 365 miles of road. The
Peoria, Decatur and Evansville is to be
extended through Kentucky and joined
to tbe Southern system. Tbe Lake Erie
and Western is also to be extended
daring the year from Mancie
to Indianapolis and Bloomington to Peo
ria. This will join tbe two roads and
place tbem practically in one system. Tbe
Ohio Central has just completed a consol
idation with tbe Atlantic and Northwest
ern of West Virginia, and has thereby
secured lines extending from Toledo and
Columbus through the HockiDg Valley
coal fields to the Ohio river. It will cross
the Ohio at Point Pleasant, and will thence
continue up the Kaoawba Valley through
Charleston to the Kanawha Falls, form
(tal L. J. GAKTKXUL.
■ HIomII sQwSMstv tear
Governor—Mis Visas sal PsslUM
Brlsfljr Mated- Dr, Pelsoata f»r-
EtMfortwSI-.-Ttse Allseed (salt.
UtnDtaled.
Poet Appeal.
For reTer&l mouths past great anxiety
has existed in the public mind throughout
the State to know what position General
Lucius J. Gartreil would take in the coming
campaign. Hundreds oi friends all over
Georgia have been pressing him to define
his position. After repeated solicitation,
the Post-Appeal is glad to announce that
on Saturday one of its reporters obtained
the following interview:
“Gen. Gartreil, it has been understood
for several months that yon will be an in
dependent Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor at the election to be held next fail,
and the people throughout Georgia are
auxicus - that you should make some dis
tinct declaration on the subject”
"I have not hesitated when approached
on the subject to state that, iu obedience to
the earnest solicitation of friends, t would
allow the use of my name aa a candidate
for Governor at the election in October
next, and that, at the proper time, I would,
in an address to ray fellow-citizens, for
mally and fully set forth the principles and
rules of conduct by which I shall be gov
erned in the eventof my eleotion.”
“Then I may announce yoqr candidacy
as a fact?” asked the reporter.
“It was not my purpose this early to an
nounce iny CSUdidsoj^ but as the canvass
seems already to nave oeen opensu, a yleiu
to tbe gene re 1 desire Of my friends in mak
ing this announcement, and in doing so I
trust it will not be inferred that I wish to
create any division or politics 1 excitement
among our peoi Id. Nor is it my intention
or desire to disorganize or disrupt (even
were it in my power to do so) either the .
national Democratic or Republican parties.
I realize aud shall insist upon the great
right of the people to select by a free ballot
and fair oount, their own servants and
agents to administer their government for
them and for their benefit without caucus
dictation or the application of the party
lasb.”
“Yon are then an independent Demo
cratic candidate for Govornor?”
”1 am; and if eleoted it will be my oara-
est desire, by strict and unremitting atten
tion to the duties of this high and responsi
ble office, to see to it that tbe laws are ao
administered as to advance the prosperity,
protect the rights, and promote the welfare
of all the people of our boloved State.
The people are entitled to efficient, impar
tial and good government. It is not only
the right but the duty of freemen of aU
classes to demand it. To secure this end,
I believe—and cannot better express it
than in tho language of a distinguished
Georgian—’That every child should have
the opportunity of requiring a oommon
English education in schools forever mode
free by a liberal support from the State
government.’ ... . „
“That monopolies, by which a privileged
class exercise a controlling power over the
property and labor of a multitude of citi
zens, are opposed to’be genius and spirit
of our government; and we will steadily
resist every mtasure or system that tends
to concentrated political power or undue
business opportunities in tbe hands of the
few atthe expense of the many.
“That the present system of leasing the
State oonvicts must be wiped from our
statutes as a foul blot upon our civilization
and humanity.
“That party proscription and sectional
prejudices have greatly retarded the mate
rial development and growth of our State
—which material prosperity X desire and
will diligently foster; and to this end wa
will use every moral and legal means to
suppress proscription and to liberalize sec
tional prejudice*—recognizing the unity of
the common Federal government, and
equality of all men before the laws.”
“You indorse, then, the platform of
principles recently formulated by Dr. Fel
ton?”
“I do.”
“What about the alleged coalition in
Georgia?” M .
“X do not believe that any coalition has
been formed, or even contemplated. In
the progressive and liberal movement now
sweeping this State I rejoice that the peo
ple have become alive to their trueiuteresta
and that men of nil parties who think and
act for themselves have resolved to unite
for the patriotic purpose of securing good
government.”
“General, I thank yon,” and the reporter
retired."
owns 10,000 acres in fee. The entire
liue from Coming to Charleston will be
completed during the summer. Messrs.
A. A. Lowe & Brothers, prominent mem
bers of tho syndicate, are large owners in
the New River coke region, and have now
in operation on their lands 1,400 coke
ovens, tbe coke from which compares on
equal terms with the Connellsville region.
The consolidated company, known as tbe
Ohio Central, is also exclusive owner of
th8 Ohio Central coal property or about
13,000 acres in Perry and Athens counties,
O.,on which the company is now working
twelve mines, with * cspsoRy of putting
out 2,000,000 tons per annum.
The fourth division of tbo grand system
owned by tbe Seney syndicate Is located
in tbe South, and is now known as tbe
Virginia, East Teuueysee and Georgia
Air-Line, and is composed of tbe East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railway,
1,453 miles; Norfolk and Western and
branches, 4,03 miles; Shenandoah Valley,
230miles—total, 2,100 miles. The roads,
consolidated, are posy operated under o.nq
management. The roads extend from Ha-
berstuwnj Md.i to Metilpbis: from Chat;
unoogk to BrufisiVlSEj dd the Atlantic;
and to Meridian, Miss., the illiCA dividing
at Rome, Ga. It also has a line to Nor
folk, Va. A contract has been made With
______ . _ popu
will perhaps be interested to know some
thing about the every day work of their
favorite song wntera ana composers. It
must be understood that but very few
music makers depend upon their compo
sitions for support. With many of them
music is but a pastime from the harder
labors of life. Eddie Fox Is a “nigger
minstrel;” C. D. Blake Is a Boston piano
dealer; Theodore Moiling is a Brooklyn
music teacher; Frank Howard is teach
ing music m Hamiion, Ohio; H. P.
Danlts is a clerk in .a New York music
bouse; George W. Persley is a teacher of
the guitar in Chicago; John T. Rutledge
is a clerk in a Memphis music store;
D. C. Addison is on the
staff of the Musical People;
Ciro Pinsuti is a voice teacher In London;
so is Fabrlo Campana; G. D. Wilson has
a music school and orchestra at Nyack-
on-Hudson; S. W. Bischoff Is a blind mu
sic teacher residing in Washington, D. C^
Karl Mertz is professor of music hr the
Oxford, O., fe male seminary; Th. M Axial,
author of “Twickenham Ferry,” is a Lon
don librarian; Stephen Adams is the nom
de plume of a favorite English vocalist;
Harrison Millard used to be in the New
York custom house; Pierre Latonr is con
nected with a Philadelphia music publish
ing house; Thomas P. Mestondorf is an
officer in the Louisville house of correc
tion.
tb* Rsneyovlalaa IasnnscUsa.
London, February 21.—Tbe Man
chester Guardian's correspondent at K&-
eusa says the ilerzegovhiim", after four
Says’ siege, have captured Fort Ustuka-
lina, commanding the defile oi the upper
Drina, between Falcha and Garazza. Tbo
Austrian battalion form 1 .^ t ‘ ne 84rr | s ^
were pursued with great ’.GJs to Garazxa.
Two cannon were captured. Tbe whole
population on the upper Drina has joined
lirtbe insurrection. Fateh a is surround
ed bjf three insurgent decisions, and tbe
cotamandant of the place is treating for
Its suh-ender: The foregoing dispatch to
the Guardian Is An insurgent account qf
the affair. The Austrians maintain a
strictly defensive attitude in Herxegovi-
the Louisville and Nashville and Great - 0 uslv n^narin
Southern for the me of the line from Ca- nx > but arfl HreuuP^ r -.,* r !_,
lera to New Orleans, aud one with C. P.
Huntington fora junction with the Ken
tucky Central division, by which ac less is
bad to Cincinnati by a short line.
!«
Extfaaofftsc the j&obee tor a I'ttrvinff
Unite.
Meriden (Conn.) RertuKlican.
Wiiisted i* very much excited aver the mar
riage of one of 1W priest*, ho was very popu
lar iuaon* the Catholics there. There Isa mon
astery in that town—the orih* one in the State—
where priests known aa the order of JeMllta
have their headquarters, and live somewhat ae-
cluded. similar to sisters, although not quite so
secluded or retired These Jesuit fathers go
out to various Catholic churches* conduct
"mtsrionV" or revivals of two or three weeks'
duration, doing real laborious service, taxing
their mthtal and bqdity strength. To this aae-
rirtcinK order the married priest once belonged,
but more recently he was oflieJatin# a* <usaiatnnt
at St. Joseph's f nurch. His name Is the ftev.
Edward Agutli, and he was married about two
weeks since by a Methodist clergyman, in New
Haven, to a Miss* Welsh, of Wins ted, who had
been employed in New Haven. The priest left
Winsted ostensibly to visit Boston, on a visit to
his superior, but not returning, the truth leaked
lie has opened a restaurant in Bridge*
out.
certed movement agaiiut the Crivaslans,
who number ono thousand. Gen. Jana-
novies, the Austrian commander, has left
liagusa to lead tbe operations.
riurxiHi the Jury
In a country place in North Carolina
some time after tbe war, they elected as
justice ot tbe peace an old white-haired
negro, ignorant bat honest, and well
liked. His first case was a jury trial.
After the pleading was over the counsel
informed his Honor that he could charge
the jury.
“Hid 1 . Charge de jury ?”
“Yes, your Honor.”
“Wal, gemmen ob de jury, it ’pears de
case am trew, an’ I got to close it wid da
charge. Considerin’ de ’tperience you
hah got, I tmk l will charge jou two dol
lar an' half piece.—Detroit Free Press.
Never try to raise a family without a
good newspaper, provided it contains the
advertisement of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup;
Ive die Apache Indians a moral lecture, j port, where he appears to be dotns s good bust- this valuable medicine ii necessary t-i
hey do not seem to be afraid of the troops. ness. ‘ l3;p your children la good health,
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