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A Irwin County News.
Official Organ of Irwin County.
JAS.T SIAUND.pnbllghci':
CO M M 6 FT-f H1NG s'.
Give nia dear Lord, Tby magic common
things,
Which all can see, which all may share—
Sunlight and dewdrops, grass and stars and
sea—
Nothing unique or new and nothing rare.
Just daisies, knapweed, wind among the
thorns;
Some clouds to cross the blue old sky
above;
Rain, Winter fires, a useful hand, a heart,
The common glory of a woman’s love.
Then, when my feet no longer tread old
paths
(Keep them from fouling sweet things
anywhere),
Write one old epitaph in grace lit words:
“Such things look fairer that he sojourned
here.”
—The Spectator.,
WITH MAIMED RITES,
RS. CARNEGIE’S
last word’s had
been, “For heav¬
fr. en's sake, Letitia,
YJ' don't let it be late
r. again to-day 1” It
< wasluncheon, and
luncheon to men
m > who have spent
the morning on
f the moors is im¬
portant. At 12.15,
therefore, just fif¬
teen minutes be¬
C*LZ fore it was neces-
■ sary to start, the
wagonette was, by Mrs. Carnegie’s
orders, at the door, the baskets put in,
and Mrs. Carnegie in the breakfast room
worrying her sister, Mrs. would Mainwaring,
by assurances that the girls make
them late, as usual.
“Dollie was ready half an hour ago,”
said Mrs. Mainwaring. “I saw her in
the hall.”
‘'Dolly is not going with us. I don't
often take her ovt. It wouldn’t be fair
to the two others.”
“But it is not fair to Dollie to leave
her so much at home. She has not gone
out with us once since I came.”
“Don’t distress yourself about Dollie;
she is quite haopy.” "she"make
i “How does herself so?”
“Oh! I don't know. AVe are going to
be so late. She gardens, she sketches,
she does all kinds of things. I don’t
tliink she milks the cqws, but she cer-
thinly feeds the chickens. ” ’
“Ob, Letitia!”
'“Why do you say, ‘Oh, Letitia;’
ought I to know whether she milks the
cows or uot?”
“You ought to know a great deal
more about her than you do. There is
such a thing as getting tired of garden-
ing and feeding the chickens.”
“Yes, I know, but that hasn’t hap-
pened to Dollie yet, and you see going
out is so much more important to the
other girls. Just think, Evie is twenty-
fci.x and Agnes is oniv a year younger.”
\ “But Dollie is twenty-one.”
“An age when amusement is not un¬
palatable.” I must, do
“My dear, you worry me.
ivy duty to the eldest—but I wish they
would come.”
“Ana while you are marrying them
Dollie will marry herself, and probably
uot to your liking. In a fairy tale she
would fall in love with the gardener,
who would, of course, be the king’s son
in the ample and effectual disguise of a
shabby coat and cap; in real life, she
may perhaps give her poor little affec-
tions to some photographer from Glas¬
gow, who is talcing a holiday at the
‘Biue Bonnet. ’ )>
“Oh, Cecilia! Dollie is not a girl of
that kind. She is as good as gold, and
perfectly bidable, and she shall go
everywhere when Evie gets engaged.
Has it struck you that Sir Philip is in
love with Evie? I am almost certain that
girls! he it, and I am delighted. Oh, here the
come. How charming they both
loofc l”
Mrs. MainwariDg, who had so lately
seen Dollie in her plain morning dress,
locking like a sweet flower refreshed by
ths dews of heaven, did not particularly
admire the two tailor clad girls who were
playing at being in the country. They
were pretty, but worn out and faded by
a long London season, and yet they had
only come North to recover strength to
go through another.
They had no liking for scenery unless
it were accompanied by a large amount
of human interest, and while they trod
the heather pined to have the London
pavemeDt beneath their feet again and
London shops before their eyes.
“And what have you been doing this
afternoon, Dollie?” asked Mrs. Mam-
waring at tea time.
Dollie blushed (her aunt thought be¬
cause it was so unusual for anyone to
take any interest in her employments),
and said, “sketching in the gien, aunt.”
“And you bad a dull little luncheon
all alone by yourself, in that great din¬
ing-room?”
“No, I was working so hard that I
could not spave time to come in. I ate
all the bread I had taken with me to rub
out with. I wish you would come to
the glen, aunt; it is so pretty."
“Dear child, I am much too old to
scramble. Alay 1 sec your sketch?”
Dollie brought it. Her mother looked
Rt it, too, and was startled at its merit.
“Why, Dollie!" she exclaimed, “yon
have improved left-hand wonderfully is excellent.” 1 That bjt
in the corner \
Again Dollie colsred. “I had some
‘‘In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound.”
SYCACAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., MARCH 31, 1893.
heip there, mother,” she said, '•'•an artist
who comes to the glen sometimes—”
“An artist, Do'lie! What do you
mean?”
“I mean a gentleman, mother. He
strayed in by accident three weeks ago
when I was there painting. He has of¬
ten been to work there since, and when¬
ever he comes he gives me really beauti¬
fully hints. He has taught me—”
Here her mother's attention was dis-
traded by a servant with a message, and
Mrs. Mainwaring finished Dollie’s sen¬
tence for her, “to color, my dear, yes, I
see that he has taught you to do that l”
She was not, however, looking at the
sketch, but at her niece’s rosy cheeks.
“Ho gives you hints about your paint¬
ing, you say?” continued Mrs. Carnegie,
who had seen nothing of this.
“Yes, mother,” replied Dollie, rising
to escape as quickly as she could.
“Take care that he is not teaching her
how to fall in lore, said Mrs. Main war¬
ing. child! No.”
“That
“That child I Yes! Be quick and
stop it.”
“I will—I really will. Just now it is
hard to attend to anything but Erie and
Sir Philip, but when that business is
settled Dollie shall always be with me.
Did you see how ho watched Evie at
luncheon?”
“No, I tnought he was rather vexed
or disappointed about something."
“I hope not. Evie may perhaps have
been making some of her stupid speeches.
But he loves her, I am sure 1 I am so
happy about it that I am not able to
think of anything else.”
“So it seems,” thought Mrs. Main-
waring ; so she spoke to Dollie herself
and gave her much good advice. From
Dollie she learned that the landscape
painter’s name was Fleming, that he was
young, good-looking and clever, lived in
Edinburgh, was quite a gentleman, and
not at all the kind of man that Aunt
Cecelia seemed to imagine.
I Two days afterward Aunt Cecelia was
ra ^ er unexpectedly summoned home,
but be ^ nre n om 3 s ^ e again spoke to her
31ster about tbe danger of allowing
DoIlle to sit f( ? r bours sketching in the
S^ ea- Being informed that Dollie had
beea forbidden to go there, Mrs. Main-
wann S advised her sister to assure her-
self that Dollie had understood and was
obeying this order. This Mrs. Carnegie
dld > aad tben once more S ave her who le
mlad *-° Philip aac l Evie. Why did .
be not Propose? The day of his departure
was drawing veiy near,
R-came two days earlier than had been
anticipated. A rich oid bachelor, Suncftr- uncle
of Sir Philip, who was then in
Kndshire, despatched this telegram to
him: “Am ill, and must have rest.
^ ave a harge party here, and can get
none * Come at once and help me, or i
f^all in arriving? . c ^. e ou ^ ri gk fc * Why are you so long
Te “ “mutes after the telegram came
. ^ b ' b P followed Mr. Carnegie to the
stud F a stud y iu which no book was
ever °pc n ed bat that vvhic.i he Had gone
t0 ^ etob Bradshaw. Airs. Carnegie
thought she knew what Sir Philip had
gone to do, and tried to be patient while
she awaited the result.
In a quarter of an hour her husband
came and said: “My dear, I have had
a great surprise—a very great surprise—
it almost amounted to a shock.
aat noa \ ense > Charles! A ou must
known what was coming.”
“Why should I? Youdidnt.
“Indeed, I did.^ I have known for
* ea da J s * bat &lr A bIb P waat ed to
marry Evie. .
‘‘Bat he doc3n t .t is Dolhc.
*
Even if Sir Philip did happen to be in
love with the young daughter he was
still Sir Philip; so, after Airs. Carnegie
was sufficiently recovered to tit a new
heroine into the romance in which she
was so much interested, she sent out
emissaries in search of Dollie. No one
could find her, until at last an under¬
gardener, being much pressed by Mrs.
Carnegie herself, said, with evident re-
luctance, that Miss Dollie might, per¬
haps, he thought, be painting in Lady-
well Wood.
To reach this wood a cornfield had to
be traversed, and just as Airs. Carnegie
was half across it she saw Dollie in the
distance, bidding farewell to a gentle¬
man with a sketching bag on his back.
The unhappy lady stopped short in hor¬
ror. “This must,” she thought, “be
that odious artist Cecelia Alainwaring
was so afraid of. How can Dollie dare
to see him, when I have forbidden her?”
' “Dollie,” she exclaimed, “this is
shameful! I have been trusting you all
this time, and you, it seems, have been
breaking your word I”
“Oh, no, I have not! I have not been
near the glen, and I have never se3a Mr.
Fleming uutil this morn ing 1 Don’t look
like that, mother, I am speaking the
truth, I was on my way to tell you all
about it.”
“Tell mo nothing of that kind! I
want to know nothing.”
“But you must kuow, mother—you
will be forced to know. Mr. Fleming
lias a3ked me to marry him, and I have
said I will.”
“You have I Well, girls do stupid
things, sometimes; but the sooner you
undo this the better!”
“Ah, you are angry because you still
think that he and I have heen deceiving
you,” said Dollie, tenderly “but, mother,
we have not. We really have not seen
eacn other since you spoke to me, until
to-day, and how he found out where I
was sketching I don’t yet know."
“Apd you never will. You will not
see him again.”
“Oh, but let me tell yon how it all
happened and you will see how different
everything is from what you imagine.
He came to Ladywell Wood—I could
not refuse to say a word to him once he
was there, could I? Besides, I think he
came on purpose to ask me to marry
him.
“Say no more about that, Dollie, it
only vexes me. You must have known
that you would never be allowed to do
it.”
“Mother,” Dollie began, but her voice
failed her.
“Make no appeal to me, Dollie. I am
sorry for you, of course, if you care, but
you won’t care long. Be a good girl,
and do your best to dismiss thi9 from
your mind at once and forever, and go
to your room now and write and tell that
man that you intend to do so.”
“Where is Dollie?” asked Mr. Car¬
negie when he and Sir Philip came.
She was here a few minutes ago, but
she has been sketching in the sun, and it
has been too much for her. She had to
go to bed with a Rightfully bad head¬
ache.”
“Then I shall not see her unless I stay
till to-morrow,” said S:r Philip, after
expressing much sympathy.
“Oh, j?ou must not do that—you must
not offend your uncle, besides, Dollie
may not be well enough to see you to¬
morrow.”
Sir Philip sighed woefully. will
“She is not seriously ill. If you
take my adviee you will go to-day, as
your uncle wishes; you will stay at Glen-
findie as long as he stays—I think you
said he would be there a month—and
when you have done that you will do us
the great pleasure of seeing you back
here. Don’t distress yourself about see-
ing Dollie. It is much better that you
have not seen her. You would not have
been able to get her to say what you
wish without a great deal of persuasion
certainly not in one day—even if she had
been well. She has not the slightest idea
that you care for her, and she is very shy
and timid.”
Sir Philip departed, and Air. and Mrs.
Carnegie repaired to the study to write
to Mr. Fleming. Their daughter, they
said, might have been temporarily led
away by persuasion, but now saw, a3
any one with any judgment must sue,
that a marriage with him was out of the
question. They enclosed a letter from
her which would inform hiin of the true
state of her feelings, and trusted that he
would see the propriety of leaving the
neighborhood at ones.
“But can yon get her tp write that
letter?” asked Air. Carnegie.
“Oh, yes,” replied his wife, and went
to Dollie’s room, which she did not leave
until she had succeeded.
Two tears had fallen on Dollie’s paoer
while she was writing. Mrs. Carnegie
had seen the blisters which they raised,
but Dollie had suffered so cruelly while
writing the leter, that it was impossible
to insist on her making a clean copy. So
it went with its blisters to Fleming and
strengthened his conviction that Dollie
was acting under coercion.
He wrote to her, but his letter was re
turned by Air. Carnegie unopened, with
the words, “You have had your dismis-
sal from my daughter, and you have had
it from me. I request you at once to
leave this neighborhood. will Should you
persist in remaining, request.” steps be taken
to enforce this
Fleming became desperate, and being
powerless in other ways, called the wis-
dom of the serpent to his aid, and wrote.
“I find it so hard to believe that your
daughter’s mind can have changed so
suddenly that I entreat you to let me see
her alone for ten minutes. If you per-
mit this, and she then speaks as she has
written, I give you my word of honor as
a gentleman to accept her decision as
finat, and to leave this place at once.”
“What a nuisance the man is!” ex-
claimed Mrs. Carnegie. “Vile shall have
to let him come bir Philip returns next
r ? c~rthe a ° f thl “ S
S o ° n ”
So, with great reluctance, Mr. Came-
gie replied, “Since you refuse to believe
the truth, and insist on giving my daugh-
ter 12, this pain, you herself may come to-morrow tell
at when she will you
what her wish is. You may see her for
ten minutes, but her family will be pres-
sent.”
*
“But he is a gentleman, thought Mrs,
Carnegie, when Fleming entered the
room where she, her husband and their
two eldest daughters were assembled to
receive him. Air. Carnegie felt Dollie’s
hand trembling on his arm as he led her
down, and had at last to support her lest
her feet should fail her altogether.
At the drawing room door he kissed
her and said:
“Be brave, darling, it will soon be
over You could not have married him;
but I will own that he is better looking
than I expected.”
“Is he?” she exclaimed eagerly. “Are
you quite sure that you would never have
said yes?”
“Quite! Stick to what has been agreed
on, and let us get quietly over it.”
AU eyes were fixed on Dollie as sue
came in, looking pale, ill and scarcely
able to staud. No one spoke—all
waited to hear ths words that were about
to be said. How would that faltering,
frightened girl get through her set
speech? They had expected that all that
was about to be said would be said with-
in range of their hearing, but Mr. Fiem-
ing went to meet her, and then turned to
the family group and said:
“As this interview has been permitted
entirely to satisfy me that Mis? Carnegie
is acting in accordance with her own
wish, yon will not object to my taking
her to the other side of the room. It will
not be a private interview even then, but
if we cau exchange a few words unheard
I shall be more able to accept them as
final.”
Something in his manner terrified Mrs.
Carnegie. What wa3 he saying? What
might not he be trying to persuade thing Dol-
lie to do? She was a weak little
—they ought not to have afforded him
this opportunity, for the girl who had
yielded to her parents, when they had
asked her to do what was contrary to
the'wish of her heart, might yield to her
lover when he asked a reverse.
“Charles,” she whispered, “we have
been fools to let him see her! Who—”
“Do be quiet, my love,” said Mr.
Carnegie. “It can’t be helped now.”
Buthe was sitting, watch in hand, long¬
ing as much as she aid for the ten min¬
utes to come to an end. Fleming was
talking so serious and Doflie listening so
intently.
“Time is up!” Mr. Carnegie ex¬
claimed, almost joyously, as he put his
watch in his pocket, Then he half
crossed the room and said: “Dollie hare
you told this gentlemen by word of
mouth what he refused to believe when
you wrote it?”
“She has told me all I want to know,"
said Fleming. “Thank you, sincerely,
for alio wing me to see her. Thank you
also for insisting on being in the room
with us, for I have something to say
which requ’re3 the presence of witnesses,
Before those here assembled I declare
this woman to be my wife. Now, Dollie,
speak!” And before any of the unwill-
ing witnesses had recovered from the
shook of hearing these words, Dollie had
faltered forth*; “I declare this man to be
my husband.”
“What does this mean?” cried Mr.
Carnegie, who knew something of Scotch
law.
“It means that we are married! Don’t
be anxious about your daughter’s future.
I am not a Lord of Burleigh, but her
home will be one in which we can re-
ceive you if you will come.”—London
Biack and AVhite.
WISE WORDS.
A bird doesn't sing by note.
Friendship is love disinfected.
Love is a spray of forget-me-nots.
Babies are sunbeams with clothes on.
There are volumes in a woman’s eye3.
Lr'.rn to e .plain thy doctrins by thy
life.
Flesh without a thorn in it isn't hu-
man.
Kindness out of season destroys
power, is worth pound
An ounce of action a
of talk,
Happiness doesn't always ride in a
carriage,
Blessed are the sorrowful who carry a
cheery face,
Fine manners need the support of fiaa
manners in others.
A soul occupied with great ideas best
performs small duties.
Iu this world it is not what we take
up, but what we give up that makes
rich.
To speak out and to offend, with
some people, are but one an 1 the same
thing, agonies in
There are three supreme
Bfa; _ the agony of jealousy, the agony of
fearing you have mistaken your talents,
aad * be a g oa J °f ennui,
“God bless you,” is the old-fashioned
summing up of sincere affection, wit'h-
out the least smirk of studied civility,
jn men of the highest character and
no blest genius there generally exists in-
satiable de 3 lre of honor, command,
power, and ^ "dorr,
'
Tfaere is b 2auti Ser of complexion.
Qr f 0 r behavior, like the wish to
scatter joy and not pain around us.
^ith meekness, humility and diligence
a PP*f t0 the duties ot your cou-
dltlon - ^ are tbe seemingly little
tbl “S 3 wblch make 110 nolsc tbat do the
business,
Knowledge of books in a man of bu3i-
usss is a torch in the hands of one who
is willing and able to show those who
are bewildered the way wnick leads to
prosperity.
Tomatoes aud Cancer.
In a late issue of the London Times
appeared a letter to the editor containing
the following: “There is a very preva¬
lent idea that, eating tomatoes is au ex¬
citing cause of oaucer, and for the last
two years we have been so inundated
with letters on this subject that the AIe$-
ical Committee of the Csacer Hospital
would be greatly obliged by your pub¬
lishing in the Times their opinion—viz.,
that tomatoes neither predispose to nor
excite cancer formation, and that they
are not injurious to those suffering from
this disease, but are, on the contrary, a
very wholesome article of diet, particu¬
larly so if cooked, We shall also be
greatly obliged by other papers making
this generally known.”
A Gnu ot Extraordinary Power.
For a lightweight gun of estraordia-
ary power, the Cail, invented by Colonel
de Bange, of the French army, is at-
true ring much favorable attention
abroad. It was only a few weeks ago
that it was given first preference in com- field
petition wita the Krupp and other
guns at Constantinople, and now it hai
won like distinction in Brazil.—New
Orleans Picayune.
$ 1.00 a Year in Advance.
GENERAL NEWS.
Current Events of General Interest
Epitomized and Grouped.
A glass trust was organized at
Springfield, Ill., a few days since.
The Commercial National Bank of
Nashville has suspended.
Six bombs were thrown in different
parts of Rome last week.
Mrs. Cleveland has declined to ac¬
cept the presidency of a Kindergarten
Association.
The export of gold from America
is becoming alarming to our best
financiers.
It is understood that the capital
stock of the tanners combine has been
fixed at $50,000,000.
It has practically been decided to
keep tho World’s Fair open every
night until II o’clock.
In the main House of Representa¬
tives the woman's suffrage bill was de¬
feated by a vote of 03 to 54.
A heavy storm passed over parts of
Mississippi, Tennessee, Illinois, Wis¬
consin and Minnesota tho past week.
It is said that 500 Chinese, many
having smallpox, are waiting at Vic-
toria, B. C., to get into the United
States.
By a vote of 31 to 19, the Minne¬
sota Senate passed a Senate bill ex¬
tending full suffrage at all elections to
women.
Au eanhquake, lasting thirty
seconds, was felt at Helena, Mont., a
few days since. No serious damage
is reported.
The World’s Fair $300,000 appro¬
priation bill has passed the New York
Assembly, and the bill now goes to the
governor.
The second annual Convention of
the Southern -.Wholesale Grocers’ As¬
sociation convened in St. Louis the
past week.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen¬
eral Maxwell, when he took charge of
his office, found 6,000 resignations
awaitiug him.
The Dismal swamp Lottery Com-
pany’s place in Dismal Swamp', Va.,
lias been broken up, and the
charge arrested.
The Cumberland, Md., tin mill lias
gone into the hands of receivers, The
mill was established after the passage
of the AIcKinley bill.
Ex-Congressman J. II. Blount,
special commissioner of the Hawaiian
Islands, has sailed from San Fran¬
cisco on the cutter Rush for Honolulu.
A syndicate of English capitalists
are preparing to make steel iu the
Pittsburg district on a scale that will
make them rival the Carnegie Com¬
pany.
The Chicamatiga and Chattanooga
National Park Commissioners are
after “Point Lookout,” which they
claim should be made a part of the
National Park.
Up in the Mononga’nela Valley the
coal miners are on a big strike, and
have declared that nothing but starva¬
tion will drive them from the stand
they ha”C taken.
The Georgia Pacific Railroad Com-
pany lias closed a contract for the
building of 100 barges to be used In
transporting of Alabama coal down the
Mississippi river from Greenville.
A vagrant law out in Missouri pro¬
vides for the sale of those convicted
for a term of months to the highest
bidder. George Harder, a 25-year-old
aegro, brought $19 last week.
Governor Turney of Tennessee, who
has been unable to leave home since
his inauguration, lias so far recovered
as to assume control of the affairs of
State at Nashville.
A movement is on foot to have the
remains of Ex-President Jefferson
Davis removed from New Orleans to
Richmond, Va. An imposing monu¬
ment is then to be raised over the re¬
mains.
The Indianapolis city council have
appropriated $75,000 to assist in de¬
fraying the expenses of the twenty-
seventh national encampment of the
G. A. R. to be held in that city next
September.
Governor Northeu of Georgia has
announced that he will be in the race
fcr Senator Colquitt’s seat granted next year. that
It seems to be laketi for
Colquitt wilt not seek re-election on
account of poor health.
One hundred and seventy weavers,
ployed by the Johnson Manufac¬
turing Company of North Adams,
Mass., struck recently for more pay,
aud iu consequence the entire mill,
employing 400 bauds, has been shut
down.
Sixteen Mormon converts, obtained
m the southern portion of Mississippi,
in charge of Elder Smith have just
left for Salt Lake City. At Mem¬
phis they expected to meet a batch of
thirty more from Tennessee and Ala¬
bama.
VOL,III, NO. 47.
It is reported that John H Inman of
New York has just bought 25,000
shares of Tennessee Coni, Iron and
Railway Company’^ stock from 11 F
DcBitrdeieben of Birmingham, and
that after May let he will become tho
president of the company.
The Aetna and Standard Rolling
Mills, at Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, the
lav -ost in America, will probably be
con* "•"d with a capital stock of
* 2,SCO,001 " ’"d into 15.000 shares
,„ pitferred stoc'r, and 8,000 com-
tic l CUi •
The South Carolina truck farmers
have taken steps for applying to the
interstate railroad commission for a
reduction in rates on fruit and vege¬
tables to Northern points. They have
called on Northern dealers to assist
them in making their application.
AY. C. Rippey, tho would-be assas¬
sin of J. \V. Mackav, hinted today
that when liis case came to trial his
defense would he temporary insanity.
He said that he was not in his right
mind for some time previous to his
.attempt upon Mackay’s life.
At the City of Mexico, representa¬
tives 'b’f Chicago capitalists have ar¬
rived to arrange for an extensive
packing house. They expect to re¬
ceive concessions from the govern¬
ment. Branch houses will be estab¬
lished in tho principal cities of Mexico.
The president and vice-president are
Presbyterians, and so are three mem¬
bers of the cabinet, viz: Bissell,
Smith and Olney. Secretary Herbert
is an Episcopalian. Secretary Lamont
is a Catholic. Secretaries Gresham,
Carlisle and Morton belong tp no
church.
Purvis, Mies., bn "the "New Orleans
and Northeastern Railway, one hun¬
dred miles south of Meridian, was
burned by incendiaries one night last
week. Nearly the entire town was
swept away. The fire was applied to
three buildings at the same time and
spread with such rapidity it was im¬
possible to check it.
Ex-President Harrison is to be ten¬
dered the presidency of the Indiana
State University at Bloomington, by
the trustees of that institution. Tho
immediate management of the institu¬
tion will be placed in the hands of one
of the professors and if General Har-
son ace epts he would have to give the
university only a limited am tot
s fmsk&i'atlSiti&S,——'
l’resident Diaz is very anxious to
establish closer trade relations be¬
tween Alexico and the Central Ameri¬
can and South American countries,
and iu order to establish this proposed
interchange of commodities, President
Diaz lias sent an authorized commis¬
sioner to Central America to bring the
matter before the governments there.
Advices from Carrollton, Ga., states
that a band of masked men visited
four houses on the Alabama line and
whipped several people almost to
death. Two women were outraged
and several men brutally beaten. The
locality is in the mountain country
where there are many moonshiners.
The trouble seems to have grown out
of an old feud.
The project of spanning the East
river, at New Y’ork, with two more
giant bridges, more massive and
heavier than the pioneer Brooklyn
bridge, has had interest rekindled in
it by the action of the aldermen grant¬
ing the necessary funds. As soon as
Mayor Gilroy’s signature is affixod to
(lie resolution, the East River Bridge
Company can begin its task, and rear
up its twin bridges.
Stephen Langford, a wealthy farmer
of Madison county, Kentucky, has lmd
made for his occupancy a stone coffin
weighing about 1,500 pounds. delivered It was
finished in Lexington and to
him last week, and is now stored in
his house awaiting developments. Mr.
Lanford is 80 years eld, but is in
good health. lie says lie wants to as¬
sure the fact that Iris body shall be
preserved from polecats, minks and
such animals.
W. K. Burton & Co., enterprising
real estate dealers of Chattanooga,
have established a bureau of informa¬
tion iu Chicago for the period of the
World’s Fair. Their idea is to. work
k system of “reverse excursions”
;fom Chicago to Chattanooga, and in
bupport of the enterprise they have
already secured liberal inducements as
to rates by the railroads. The scheme
is one full of importance aad may be
of great insignificance to Chattanooga
in securing hundreds of visitors who
might not otherwise come as far
Soutj^as this city.
Secretary Hoke Smith, of the In¬
terior, has deeidert that rlie Southern
plied Pacific with Railroad the Company requirements never of com- its
grant in the matter of localintr its
road, and in consequence has forfeited
its i ights to lauds under grand. This
decision operates to o; on these lands,
aggregating many thousands of acres
in Southern California, to settlement
and entry. Tho commissioner of tho
general land office has been accordingly
(lite.cted to lake such s'eps us mav be
necessury to restore them to >he public
U.-ttish tVroefcs.
Within the last thirty years there
have been on tho British loss coasts 22,312 66,377 live*-.
wrecks, with the of