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9 V J he Irwin County News. Official Organ of Irwin County. JA8,T MAUN D, Publisher! nCU’JIDa THE HEIISS. i. The niftht was clear, tbs sleighing good The cutter ;-»\t not wide, |ghe snuggle 1 e.03e beneath the robe ■ To her fond lover’s si e. "The horse was spirited and jumped With frequent tugs and strains, Until she innocently said: ■ ‘‘Da let me hold the reins!" ir. They’re raarriei now, perhaps because She was so helpless then. She loves him weP, auf he lores her— Well, in the way o" ram; And yet in all their sweet deli ght One sad thought makes hint wince; She held the reins that winter’s night, She’s held them ever since. —Somerville Journal. MRS. DUSENBURY, jtfegSlr URLED like a kitten in tlie depths of Mr. BwfPt A chair, 8t. Maur’s great half easy lost J) among the crimson cushions, sound iaSp M* ur looked the ’ image of shocked ^rnay ^»;iug to and the profound library for indignation book which as, a ■Planted to show to his friend Dusen- pury, ho found the very young lady for rv\horn idly they had already waited dinner ■mfortably three-quarters of an hour, dozing Hen in his study-chair, and not dressed for dinner yet. It was some ■rments before he could articulate for Hazement. ■tmd,” ‘Upon—my—word, really, upon— he managed to say at last. up at the sound of his Batimplcd Hduriv cheeks pink with fringed eyes bright as ','Jamts, Hisorder. and her soft black curls HSl "k, is that you?” she said, H. rosy-tipped fingers, and her white lids again, as ^^PWRined to be roused from her ft Iss—St. yet. Maur.” never called her St. Maur except hr extraordinary occasions, and she j a'little at the M b you aware that dinner has been ■for you a full three-quarters of tell, I” I’m very sorry you without opening her [it grew slightly red in the ft and contumacious girl 1 1 Ruby St. Maur, that your jnd is waiting in the parlor It’ho?” Ruby exclaimed, Ight up very straight, and eyes to their utmost ^^pitbury, awaits the gentleman in the I ex- |WI»Repair rry, you pnr- at once to shortest your dressing room, and join us in the possible space of time. Mr. St. Maur spoke in his sternest, most unanswerable tones, and left the apartment in such a state of indignation that no forgot tBe book he came after, and returning for it, found that con¬ tumacious girl still lingering there. On seeing him, she asked, very coolly: “Papa, who is Mr. Dusenbury, any¬ how ?’W “Mr. Dusenbury is the man you are to marry, and that is enough for you. O J with ybu.” “Presently. I can dress enough for Mr. Dusenbury in ten minutes. It’s the sttaiejold he hunks that disowned his sou because couldn’t make just such a dusty old skeleton of him as he is him¬ self. Isn’t it, papa?” Papa’s brows lowered ominously. “Miss St. Maur, I desire you to repair instantly to your dressing room. Do you hear?” “Allons, papa.” She kissed her fiugers to him, balanc- ing herself archly ou the threshold of the door, and still lingering in roguish defiance. “Do you know what color the old parchment bundle in there particularly abominates?” “You’d be sure to wear it, eh?” Mr. St. Maur said, boiling over with wrath, “I desire that you attire yourself with your usual care, I’ll put you on a diet of bread and water, miss; see if I don’t. Dinner has been waiting an hour, I tei! you, and I’m literally in a starving con¬ dition.”' She danced back into the room. “Dear papa, let me bring you a lunch ii bile you’re waiting.” He lifted his cane in mock threaten- .2 “Off with you, witch! Will you go?” She laughed, made a great affectation of dodging the uplifted cane, and van- ( Ten minutes after, Rue to her boast, Nhe dashed into the parlor, a gorgeous little oeauty to have turned half a dozen such heads as that ot the auti- ■ousted specimen of the genus homo who sat conversing with Mr. St. MaOC- and tnkiug monstrous pinehe3 of snut be- ! tween the words. j • That, must have been the reason the- I called her Ruby: she was sue t a "wge- ous Jittfe creature in herself; all fipagklv flash, and with an almost bin baric I SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., FEBRUARY, 24 1893. fondness for rich and glowing colors, which, however, seemed 6nly tho fitting setting for her peculiar stylo of besuty. ,Her dress now was a claret-colored satin, clasped at throat and wrist with orna¬ ments of white topaz, and her curls were looped back from her face with a gold dart set with the same stones. Dinner was served at once, both gentle¬ men seeming in a famishing condition, and Ruby presiding in such a manner as to call forth most approving glances from her proud and gratified papa. As for papa’s dear friend, Mr. Duseu- bury, he divided bis attentions between the dinner and Miss St. Maur, and was evidently as much bewitched as it was possible for him to be. “Capital, capital! matters couldn’t have gone off better, after all,” Mr. St. Maur murmured to himself, after bis friend had gone, walking the parlors and rubbing his hands together in great glee. “Dusenbury’s a gone case, that’s evi¬ dent. Ruby, my dear, you behaved like an augel.” “Did I, papa?’’ that young lady re¬ plied, demurely, glancing at him from under her jetty lashes, while the least bit of a smile twitched threateningly at the dimpled corners of her rosy mouth. “I’m glad to see you haven’t got any school-girlish notions in your head, Ruby. I was uot without fear that you intended to be perverse in this matter. It's a splendid match, child, splendid. Dusenbury’s very rich—most thriving firm, really, in the city—and we're think¬ ing, child, of consolidating our two houses—‘St. Maur, Dusenbury & Co.’— do a magnificent business then, perfectly magnificent. I was afraid Dusenbury would bolt from the scheme. But he won’t now, if this matter goes on as it’s beguu. Why, Ruby, you’ll be the proudest woman alive when you’re Mrs. Dusenbury.” “I dare say I shall, papa; but what’s become of the old cormorant’s sou?” “Mr. Dusenbury’s sen was a bad fel¬ low, I’m afraid, and lie’s well rid of him.” “I don’t believe he was bad a bit, now. His father just wanted to make a withered old hunks of him like himself, and because he couldn’t do it he disowned him,” Ruby exclaimed, with irate em¬ phasis and a rosy peut. “I know one thing': If I ever get the power Hunt Dusenbury’s father shall do him justice.” Mr. St. Maur stared in a speechless astonishment from which he did not re¬ cover till after Ruby had given him her good-night, kiss and swept like an indig¬ nant little queen from the room. “What a strange child she is really, upon my word,” he muttered then. Miss Ruby St. Maur was a somewhat indolent, luxurious little body. She was very fond of curling herself away among silken cushions and dreaming sometimes waking vision. She was occupied pre¬ cisely thu3 one morning, of which I am going to tell you. She looked like a feminine edition of Cupid asleep among the roses, though she wasn’t asleep, or if she was she was decidedly talkative in her slumber. “Now, then,” she murmured, bring¬ ing her little rosy palm emphatically down upon the cushions, “if I could bring that fastidious Hunt to the point, I’d fix matters in a twinkling. What is it to him if papa has got money? it isn’t papa’s money he wants—it’s mo, and why ho can’t say so I’d like to know. I suppose, now, if I was his washerwo¬ man’s daughter he’d find a way to tell me he loved me in very short order, but—” “Mr. Dusenbury,” announced the ser¬ vant at the door; and, not seeming to have heard, Ruby sat still, and pretend¬ ed to be very sound asleep indeed. If this were Mr. Dusenbury, he must have druuk at the fountain of youth since yesterday, for this gentleman could not have been more thau twenty-five, and he carried himself with the handsome grace of Apollo. As the door closed behind him he ad¬ vanced slowly down the parlor, not see¬ ing the sleepiug beauty till he came be¬ side her, and pausing then in rapt, ad¬ miration before so charming a picture. It was an admirably counterfeited slumber—the jetty lashes uutremblingly prone upon tho velvetry cheeks, the breath comiug at regular intervals through the rosebud mouth, It wasn’t much wonder that Mr. Hunt Dusenbury caught his breath, and murmured: “I wish I dure!” The lips of the fair sleeper moved slightly, and bending to catch a faint utterance, he heard something that sounded wonderfully like his own name with a caressingly expressive prefix. Mr. Hunt Dusenbury rather doubted the evidence of bis own ears, but he acted quite a3 though he didn’t, for, slipping an arm under the little curl- dressed"head, he drew it to his shoulder, bright and when Ruby opened ber wide, eyes in profound astonishment, he kissed them shut again, murmuring: you?”’ “Ob, Ruby, Ruby, my darling, I love She flushed like a rose under his . kisses, but she could a t resist the temp- tation to be tantalizing, so she said, pouttngly: “Well, Hunt, what if do? You you know papa has got ever and ever so much money, and I’m all the girl he s uot, aud I don't know how you can have the audacity to tell me that, under the circumstance?.” Hunt looked perplexed a minute, but he caught the mischievous sparkle of Ruby’s roguish eyes, and sealed them ugaic with his hjps. “Confess now,” he whispered, laugh- “In Union, Strength and Prosqjerity Abound.” ing; “be good, Ruby, and own up hon¬ estly, as I havo. If you don’t, I’ll tell what you said in your sleep just now.” “Oh, I wasn’t asleep, liunt, I only pretended to be.” “You—did?” Hunt looked horrified incredulity, and made a movement to withdraw his arm, and put the little head back upon tho cushion, muttering something that sounded like, “Tho young couquette!” but Ruby, stealing an arm around his neck, said, half saucily, half in earnest: “Don’t scold, now, and I’ll confess. You sec, Hunt, you were so long in com¬ ing to tho point, and—and—somebody else came a wooing last night.” “Somebody else?” Ruby laughed. “I sha’n’t tell you who; a regular old money bags, though, from whose clutches I wauted you to rescue me.” “Ruby, I wish I ever could tell when you are making fun of me." The other Dusenbury came again very soon—“Moneybags,” Ruby called him— and did the honors for him more be- witchingly than ever. How entertaining she was and how delighted Papa St. Maui was. And then, in a few days, Moneybags came-again, and this time lie brought Miss St. Maur the most magnificent present with him—a set of rubies that made her pretty eyes sparkle with de¬ lightful vivacity. “These,” he said, significantly, “are for the future Mrs. Dusenbury.” “Oh!” Ruby said, innocently, “I thought they were for ina.” “Do you like them?’’ “I never saw anything half so beauti- ful.” “I’d give you them, and a great deal more besides,if you’d promise to be Mrs. Dusenbury.” Ruby played with the sparkling stones, and looked persistently at her slipper at lea3t two minutes. Then, lifting to her aged suitor a pair of eyes, whose radi¬ ance dazzled him so that he didn’t know whether bo was in his counting room, and somebody had thrown a brick through tho window, or a thunder storm had come up, and the lightning was playing fitfully around his wrinkled old face. “If I’m going to be bribed,’! she said, sweetly, “it must be with something more than a ruby necklace.” “Anything in the world, sweet girl, to the half of all I possess." “You are not in earnest, Mr. Dusen¬ bury, of course not. You gentlemen are a great deal fonder of making promises than you are of keeping tlmm,” Ruby said, archly. “Never was so much in earnest in my life; get me pen and paper and I’ll show you.” Taking him at his word, and tantaliz¬ ing Mm with roguishly expressed doubt, Ruby danced away and brought Mm tho required articles. He did not expect to be taken so at his word; but humoring her whim, as he called it, Moneybags drew up, in regular business form, a paper in which he obligated himself to bestow on Miss Ruby St. Maur the half of all ho possessed the day she became Mrs. Dusenbury. Ruby kent up a constant fire of jest and laugh and general witchery, but took possession of the document in triumph, and promised Moneybags that she should claim tho fulfillment of the obligation it contained at an early day. Both Mr. St. Maur and Moneybags were in A week dropped slowly away, and Moneybags quite neglected his business at the counting room in order to dino with his old friend, St. Maur. He really seemed to be getting humanized. One night Miss St. Maur kept dinner waiting again, til! the two gentlemen grew somewhat impatient, and Mr. St. Maur, summoning a servant, sent to in¬ quire after her. Before the servant returned, however, Ruby herself came—not in dinner attire, however, nor alone; but with bridal flowers iu her hat, and het little snowily gloved hand confidingly resting upon the arm of Mr. Hunt Dusenbury. “Really, upon my word,” began Mr. St. Maur. “You won’t let papi3Cold, will you?” Ruby sard, putting out a coaxing hand to Moneybags, and in a comically aud¬ ible aside, “Shall we kneel down, Hunt?” Moneybags looked fiercely at the little olive branch Ruby held out to him about half a minute. “Humph,” he growled, “I suppose you're married?” “Oh, yes,” Ruby said, placidly, “it’s ail right. I’m Mrs. Dusenbury fast enough." Moneybags tried to look Plutonian grimness, and frowned till his gray eye- brows bristled. But it wouldn’t do. The humor of the thing wa3 too ap- parent. Besides, he was glad of an ex- ettse to welcome back that young hope- ful of his. So, melting suddenly, he shook Ruby s small hand cordially, grumbled something about its being bet- ter so, and, turning to Huut, “Glad to see you, ray boy, and if you 11 let this young sunbeam you ve caught sparkle at the head of my table at home, you may sit at the foot m it aud you may study law all the days of your fife for aught I care. Mr. St. Maur could but follow Money- bags' example, and they all went out to dinner, which still waited, as gay a partv as jou often see. New lork Kfrvw. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ITEMS. MieiSEl Holes From all EOCtiOUS Of the Ui!IiS!l States 811(1 Enrolls. The Vermont World’s Fair commis¬ sioners ha”o decided to dediente the Vermont building on May 10. The county insane asylum, four miles from Dover, N. II., was burned last week »nd forty-four lives were lost. Tho Duke of Marlborough left .the bulk of his property to the Duchess, the late widow Humiuersley of New York. The Harvard class of ’55, with which Phillips Brooks graduated, is agitating a $300,000 memorial chapel to t.ic dead bishop. The Evangelical Alliance of Boston has petitioned congress to prevent tho sale of firearms and whisky to the na¬ tives of tlie Pacific Islands. The Russian colony near Chester¬ field, Mass., lias proved a failure, and it is sit’d that by tlie end of next week all the farms will be deserted. At Montreal live stock exporters have received definite word from Washington that Canadian cattle will uot be permitted to be sent through the United States for export to Great Britain. Dr. Severus La Chapelle, of Mon¬ treal, a member of the Dominion Par¬ liament, acting for a Canadian com¬ pany,’has purchased front Dr. Iveeley, of Dwight, the Dominion. right to open Keeley institutes in tho Frank Cronin has brought a novel suit for $8,000 against the Seventh Avenue hotei, Pittsburg. Ho was a conductor in the Pullman service, and lost his position because the hotel clerk failed to call him in time to take his car. The Carbon Steel Company has signed a contract with William Crump & Sorts for furnishing all the boiler plates for three new Inman Line steamships. The plates will be the widest and heaviest ever made in America. Sixty leading French, Belgian and GCFftian insurance companies having formed a syndicate to insure European visitors to the Chicago World’s Fair against death or disability on the journey or during the sojourn in Chi¬ cago. The World’s Fair Catholic educa¬ tional exhibits committee has issued a communication against the exhibit of indecent uictures in the ex " position buildings, anti signatures ille being secured front all parts of die country in support of tbo movement- The first section of the long-heralded Krtipp gun exhibit lias arrived at tlie World’s Fair grounds. Tho install¬ ment required 31 flat cars for its transportation. The Krtipp exhibit will be given a separate building re¬ sembling a feudal castle. A committee composed of Frank 8. Ilainbletou, John Gill, William A. fisher, li. B. Sperry, of Baltimore, and Joint S. Williams of Richmond, has been organized for (he protection of the bondholders of the Savannah, Ainericus &. Montgomery railroad. At New York a meeting of the Rus¬ sian Club has been field to protest against the singeing of tho proposed extradition treaty between the United Slates and Russia, _uiider which the people who attempted tlie life of the (Jzar would be treated iiLe common criminals. J. E. Laconic, who, with other pros¬ pectors left Colorado Springs some time ago to loc tie gold mines in the reservation of the Navajo Indians, lias returned. lie says they were driven out by the Indians, who threaten any and all invaders in their gold fields. Daniel Sweeney, an American mer¬ chant who lias returned on the steamer „tty of Panama from a three months’ trip through Central America, reports that Honduras,Nicaragu t and Salvador are under martial law and ;Hat it is dangerous for a stranger to travel there. The civil service commission lias summoned Collector of Customs T G Phelps, of 6an Francisco, to Washing¬ ton, for ihe purpose of answering charges that he removed certain cus¬ toms employes because they refused to contribute to the republican campaign fund. The first case ever recorded in New York city of the suicide of a China¬ man was received at the coroner’s office the other day. Tlie man was Clue Buoy, 19 years ofd, who lived at No. 22 Mott street. l(e took parts green because iris Chinese sweetheart would not marry him. The secretary of the navy approved the findings today iu regard to the distribution of tlie Chilian award for tlie families of those killed and injured at Valparaiso, October l(i, 1891, in the attack on the seatin = of the Haiti- more- The board an-a « the cas- $ 1.00 a Year in Advance. unities into four classes and assigned a proportionate amount of the $75,- 000 . At Toronto. Out., a meeting of the short horn cattle breeders’ assoei- a(io » il "’ iis Jellied that plcuro-pneti- tnouia existed in any part of Canada. It was decided to withhold exhibits of Canadian cattle at the World’s Fair unless quarantine regulations of the United States as proclaimed by Sec¬ retary Rusk, are modified. Owing to the unusually cold weather which has prozeiled in Cuba during the.past few weeks, the cane continues to ripen with much rapidity. 'Tho saccharine richness of the juice is greater than ever before attained at this early period of the season, but unfortunately the purity of the juice is rather unsatisfactory. Jt, is esti¬ mated ihal the sugar crop will be Short 200,000 tons. The dispatch vessel Dolphin lies raised on board two four-inch, rapid- firing guns, in lieu of her six-inch rill •; recently carried amidships. Tho two four-inch guns are catried on' Hie boats and in positions admit ting prac¬ tically of a direct ahead tire. The Dolphin is the first ship in the United Stales navy to be given rapid-til ing guns of large calibre. At Pittsburg, Pa., Henry Batter and Carl Nold, the anarchists charged with being accessories before the fact to the attempted assassination of II. C. Frick, chairman of the Carnegie Steel company, limited, were found guilty as indicted. The extreme penalty for the crime is seven years in the peni¬ tentiary. Two years more will be added for conspiracy, of which they were convicted on Thursday. Inauguration of Cleveland. The work of committees having charge of the ceremonies incident to the inauguration of President-elect Cleveland is progressing satisfactorily. Gen. McMahon and Col. Corbin, who liave supervision of the arrangements of the parade, are daily receiving ap* plications from military organizations all over the United States for posi¬ tions in tho line. More than 100 or- grnizaiiins (including Tammany) have lints far ret orted a probable strength of over 17,000 men to form in line on March 4. The governors of l ho following named tv nolified the committee they will be in line accompanied by members of their staffs, and, in many instances, by in¬ dependent military companies: Dela¬ ware, Pennsylvania New Jersey, Con¬ necticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Louisiana and Wisconsin. It is almost certain a majority of the governors of (lie remaining states will be present, blit as yet fney have not notified tlie committee. Pennsyl¬ vania, as usual, will send the largest representation of any state. Its full national guard of 8,500 men will lie in lino. New York will send its crack organizations—the .Seventh and the Sixty-ninth regiments—and prob¬ ably Company A, of the Tirteenth reg¬ iment, Brooklyn. Tho following independent organi¬ zations have notified (he committee to reserve positions in the line: Georgia Hussars, Monumental City Guards and Baltimore Rifles, Palmetto Guards of Charleston, 8. C.; Cleve¬ land Troop and Alliance Guards, Ohio; and the Fortwith Fcncibles, Texas. There is every probability that tlie inauguration of March 4, 1893, will surpass all its predecessors. . Sent to tlie Pen for One Day. Judge Christman nt Jackson, Miss., has passed a novel sentence upon a voting while boy in Circuit Court, now in session at Raymond. Tho boy, .Joseph Holliday, is about 17 years old, and was tried for arson. He pleaded guilty, but the lawyers and friends of the youth brought the facts before (be court in such a light that (he judge satv lit to sentence him to Ihe penitentiary for only one day. Shot ill Harding brought him Saturday morning, and he was put in stripes, and lias been working out his sentence all day. Three hundred citizens sent, up a pclition to the governor to par¬ don him, so that be would not lose bis citizenship, but under Hie new code Hie governor w ,s powerless to grant pardon, Hie law requiring a pc¬ lition lo be printed for 30 days be¬ fore pardon can be bad. Tbo boy will have to appeal (o tbo legislature to restore his citizenship. Big Batch of Bandits. Brigadier-General Frank Wheaton, cotnufiuider of the military depart¬ ment at San Antonio, received a tele¬ gram Saturday from Capt. John G. Bom ke, of the Third cavalry, stating that he had just returned to Fort Ring- gold from detached service in the field, and that he brought, in with him fifteen bandits, who were captured by bis troop in Starr county. In addi¬ tion to the captured bandit prisoners he brought in four others, who sur- rendered peaceably. This is the big¬ gest piece of work yet accomplished by the United States troops on the lower Rio Grande border, and Capt. Bout ko is h’ghly commended for the success of bis scouting expedition by the military authorities. VOL, 111. NO. 12. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. Summary of tie Proceedings of tlie Fifty- Second Session of Cairo FOKTY-FIltST DAY. Senate. —The senate took up unob- jectod to house bills and passed a num¬ ber of them, including sixteen pension bills. The bill for the relief of the assignees of John llonch, to pay the balance due on the despatch boat Dol¬ phin, $8105, was also passed. The bill to require automatic couplings and continuous brakes on freight cars was discussed. The senate refused to consider the New York and New Jer¬ sey bridgo bill. Thu senate ratified the Russian extradition treaty with amendments. FORTY-SECOND DAY. Senate.—M r. Morgan has intro¬ duced a bill which will give the pres¬ ident power tn establish a temporary goverum nt in Hawaii pending the es- tablislnm nt of a permanent one. The car coupler bill was dismissed. Boi se. --1 he opening fealuro of the tension was the- spontaneous expresion oi: regret manifested by his colleague a! the voluntary retirement of Mr. Blount of Georgia, frotn tho ‘eat which he has iiilcd for twenty years. Never before in ilie history 6f congress has a member been so honored The house then, in committee of the whole (Mr. Hatch in (he chair), proceeded to the consideration of the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. There was no and the bill was read for amendments. When the committee rose the bill was passed. The Military Academy appropriation bill was then taken up. There was no opposition made to the bill, which was passed without division. Public bus- mess was then suspended to enable the house to pay tribute to the late J. W. Kendall of Kentucky. After re¬ marks by Messrs. McCreary, l’aynter, Caruth, Bunn, G. W. Stone, McKin¬ ney, Smith, Weaver, Wilson and Belknan, the house out of respect to the memory of the deceased adjourned. rou t Y-TUIliD DAY. Senate. —The whole of Ihe day’s session after the morning hour was devoted to (lie discussion of the auto¬ mata car-coupler bill. House __The house filibustered all day against tho ttnfi-i ptio'.i and bankruptcy bills. FOllTV-lOi; UTH DAY. Senate.— The vice-president pre¬ sented ihe memorial of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce favoring the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands. The conference report on the bill to restore to the public domain a portion of the White Mountain Apache Indian reservation was agreed to. The tail- road car coupler bill was further dis¬ cussed, but went over. The legisla¬ tive, executive and judicial appropria¬ tion bill was referred. House. —The legislative appropriation bill was dis- cuised.. FORTY-FIFTH DAY. House. —Tho electoral votes were counted in joint session in the house, and the result was declared. The leg¬ islative appropriation bill was consid¬ ered. FORTY-SIXTH DAY. IIouse-TIic friends of silver sustain- ed Ihe demand for Ihe previous ques¬ tion on the silver purchase bill. Tbo legislative bill was passed. The repeal bill was passed bv a vote of 152 to 143. forty-seventh day. House — The invalid pension ap p- operation bill was considered in committee of fie whole. Without closing the general debate the com¬ mittee arose, and the house took a re¬ cess until S o’clock, (he evening ses¬ sion being dc\ oted to the considera¬ tion of private pension bills. Het,ter 'J uke Them In, Too, Among those who arrived ost Hie Australian Monowai at. Sau Francisco, were ex-American Consul A. Rick and Mrs. Rick, from Btilurilari, Gilbert Islands. Mr. Rick said bo received a let.ior front (be Stale Department last November ordering hi in to close his office and return home, as the seizing of ihe islands by England made bis fur;her slay there unnecessary. Mr. Rick shut np shop November 2(!lhand sailed for Sidney. He says the old king made a pathetic appeal to him to interest the American government in his behalf, as he claims bis people pre¬ fer an American lo an English pro¬ tectorate. lie says American trade will soon be ruined, as Hie British traders ate favored by I heir govern¬ ment and the feeling against Ameri¬ cans is strong. The natives prefer to deal with Americans, but they are given to undoi stand that it will not bo healthy for them lo do this. —. . - May IJestinic if it Chooses. Some two weeks ago the Vicksburg Electric Street Railway company, af¬ ter a hearing by Judge Gillatul, was granted permission to continue laying its track between Cherry street cross¬ ing and the Washington Hotel, upon giving bond m the sum of $1,000. Thu h >nd was made Saturday evening ami tiled with the circuit clerk, but whether the road expects to resume construction at ouee is not known.