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WASHINGTON NEWS.
THK >KW ORLEMI WIJ.KrTOB-
Mine EIVIM TKOI ILK.
Washington, April 28.—The Cabi
net wrestled all day yesterday with
the Louisiana oollectorship. The
prize nearly went to Gen. Anderson,
the President and Secretary Sherman
botfe desirlfig his apitointment, and
* his name was withdrawn at his own
request. Gen. Bussey has the heavi
est mercantile recommendation, but
the Cabinet fears he would be weak
before the Senate on account of re
cent financial misfortunes. McMillan
has the highest political recommen
dation, but gossip about his over
anxiety to get into the Nieholls Leg
islature is against him. No conclu
sion was reached. Judge King, one
o I tbd Kellogg-Packard Supreme
* Jttdges, is in the field thi morning.
This custom-house ease will bring
the new policy before the Senate very
early in the soesion, and the nominee
must be one whose political, social
and financial character, and personal
appearance cannot bo assailed by
the disaffected Republican Senators.
Charges are made against Mr. Van
Buren, American Consul at Kana
gawa, for scandalous practices and
dereliction of duty.
The State Department has advices
of a state of war between Russia and
Turkey. No official notice will be
taken of the fact until notice is re
ceived by the ministers of their re
spective countries here.
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Heavy Failures.
New Yoke, April 28.—The an
nouncement of the failure of E, N.
Robinson & Cos., yesterday caused
consternation in the Stock Exchange.
The firm was regarded the wealthi
est on the street.iNo suspicion—deal
ing largely to the moment of the
announcement. Mauy present had
their checks in their pockets, some
received only a few moments before.
Boston, April 28.—May & Cos., the
largest house in metal and hardware
here, has suspended. Liabilities
six hundred thousand dollars. The
failure was occasioned by bad debts
and general shrinkage during the
past four years. Their own indebted
nes is principally in Pennsylvania
and abroad. Assets not stated.
Robinson & Cos., will be able to
pay in full.
Hr. E. T. Baird Convicted.
Richmond, Ya., April 28.—The se
l .1 eet Committee of East Hanover
Presbytery, in session at Petersburg,
have had under investigation the case
of Rev. E. TANARUS, Baird, formerly Secre
tary of the Presbyterian Publication
Committee, whose accounts have
heretofore been reported compli
cated to the amount of $22,000, and
yesterday reported to the Presbytery,
before whom he was tried. Late last
night the trial was concluded, and
the body voted unanimously to sus
tain the charges of appropriating
funds of the Publication Committee,
arid to depose him from the ministry,
and to suspend him from the commu
nion of the church. Dr. Baird’s
whereabouts are unknown. He has
been missing since Monday last, and
it is believed he has left these parts
to avoid arrest on a criminal prosecu
tion for embezzlement.
TF.LESHAFHIC SIMMIBI.
New Yoky, April 28.—The jury in
the Emma mine case found a ver
dict for defendants.
Philadelphia, April 28.—The strike
of Reading Railroad locomotive en
gineers is practically abandoned.
Boston, April 28.—Sam Freeman,
colored, committed a rape on a girl
aged 12 years, named Barrett, at
Lancaster, Mass., which resulted in
the death of the victim. The girl
was on her way home from school.
New York, April 28.—White Star
Line has advanced freight from 25 te
40 shillings per ton.
Cornelius J. Vanderbilt has em
ployed Scott Lord and Jerry Black
in his suit against his brother Wil
liam for 1,000,000 dollars-
Tlie hufz Canal.
London, April 28.—A Reuter tele
gram from Paris states that the
Khedive is reported to be favorable
to the neutralization of the Suez
canal, negotiations for which are
progressing. He is willing to sell his
1,500 founders shares.
Judge Wright t he Inventlgatcd.
Columbia, April 28.—A resolution
appoining a committee of five to in
vestigate the official conduct of J. J.
Wright, '' Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court, passed—76 to 13,
THK EASTERN SITUATION.
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English Naval Preparations Hurried.
WAE MOVEMENTS AND INCIDENTS
EXSLAXO PRKFAKIA'e A I.AKOK
ARMY CORFU.
UuftsiaiiN Badly Whipped at lliitnuin.
London, April 28.— Admiral Hobart
Pasha and uommuuder-in-ohief Ab
dul Kerim Pasha held a council of
war at Rustichuk.
There is great excitement among
the civil population. It is stated that
by decree of the Porte, Russian sub
jects must quit Turkey immediately.
The dockyard authorities at Ports
mouth have orders to prepare the
Miuatour, Hercules, Triumph, Active
and Inconstant for sea. The Gov
ernment has also ordered the speedy
completion of all men-of-war build
ing in the Clyde. The Urquet will
procoed to the Mediterranean.
Russian troops have not moved
westward beyoud Burboschi.
The Prince of Montenegro tele
graphs the Porte that he will hang
all officers captured if the Turks
murder civilians.
The Turks will not occupy Kalafat.
This obviates the danger of collision
between Turkey and Roumania.
The Turkish fleet off Odessa has
not yet received orders to bombard
the city.
Twelve thousand troops left Con
stantinople fur Trebezand. Several
English correspondents accompanied
them.
The Turkish gunboats have cap
tured three Roumanian vessels.
The Roumanian troops around
Bucharest have commenced moving
towards the Danube.
The Russians lost two thousand at
Batt.aum.
Both Porti and Fort St. Nicholas
have been bombarded and partially
destroyed.
Manchester, April 28.— The Guar
dian says: “It is rumored that there
is a conflict of opinion between Lord
Beaconsfield and some of his col
leagues as to the part England imme
diately shall take iu the Eastern
question. This, however, is certain
that an army corps of 40,000 or 80,000
men is being rapidly prepared for
dispatch to any point where English
interest may require its services. It
is highly probable this corps will
rendezvous at Malta or Gibraltar.
The Command will be officered by
Lord Napier of Magdalia.”
London, April 28. -The Pall Mall
Gazette of thia afternoon says: The
Danube is declared closed to naviga
tion by tho Russian commanders.
Lloyd’s confirm this, arid say that,
neutral vessels must leave as soon as
loaded. No inward-bound vessel will
be allowed to pass after Sunday.
The Russians at Batoum wore com
manded by Grand Duke Michael.
They were badly repulsed. The Rus
sians were driven across tho frontier.
Germany is endeavoring to induce
the Porte to reconsider his intention
of expelling Russian subjects.
The Turks crossed the Danube to
day at Silistria.
The Joliau Government has issued
a proclamation of neutrality.
Her Majesty’s steamer Thunderer
is ordered on special duty Thursday.
She will carry one lieutenant, two
sergeants, two corporals, forty-five
gunners, privates of marine, artillery
and light infantry. Her total com
plement of officers and men will be
345.
As ihe Russian army advances,
proclamations will be issued to Chris
tians and Musselmans, ordering them
to remain quiet and attempt nothing
against each other. Christians who
desire to take part in the war may
approach the. lines, where they will
be armed and uniformed,and enrolled
under a special division. Swift pun
ishment wilt follow massacres.
Gen. Tchernayeff is at Kischeneff.
Ee will have some command.
A. WONDERFUL RUSSIAN MARCH.
The Russian march to Galatz was a
wonderful performance, made in fif
teen hours on foot, without a halt.
This saved the bridge.
Ship Mews.
New York, April 28.—Arrived: Mosel,
Harding, Nida, Tasita, Ventura, Marid,
Joaquin, Franklin, Ansio, Ada Evans,
Montano and Algeria.
Par me Coast Crop*.
San Francisco, April 25.— The
wheat crop reports throughout the
State, telegraphed this evening, are
hardly as promising as the previous
returns, and the indications are that
in many of the principal wheat-grow
ing counties the yield wiil be light.
In Oregon there is a most encour
aging prospect. Good judges esti
mate that Oregon and the eastern
portion of Washington Territory will
have 5,000,0(10 bushels of wheat for
export.
WJ3ATIIEK INDICATIONS.
War Department, )
Office of Chief Signal Officer, )
Washington, April 28, 1877. )
For South Atlantic and Eastern
Gulf States; southerly, veering to
colder north and west winds, clouds
and rain, followed by rising barom
eter and clearing weather.
Large stock of bummer Gassimerea,
suitable for boys wear 25, 35,60, 65, 75 and
SI.OO, at Kirven’s.
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COLUMBUS, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 29, 1877.
lUHTRI HU THIN OKTIIKHIV F. It AN
HARBOR APPROPRIATION'.
News from Holm.
The President has not asked pubMc
printer Clapp to resign.
Mr. George A. Gustin, for several
years private secretary to the Post
master-General, has been appointed
stenographer to the President. Tele
graphers will remember Gustin’s
"clicks” from Augusta, Ga.
The appropriation for rivers and
harbors was $5,000,000. Two millions
of this sum was expended by order
of Gen. Grant, and since then nearly
two millions have been allotted,
leaving a trifle over a million
iu reserve. Of this balance, the South
gets—for the Mississippi, Missouri
and Arkansas, balance $25,000; Oua
chita, Ark,, balance $11,200; Yazoo,
Miss., $14,000; Little Kanawha, W.
Va., $7,000; Hiawasee, Tenn., $11,000;
mouth of the Mississippi, balance
SIO,OOO. Appomattox, Va., $15,000;
New River, Va., $15,000; Cape Fear
river. North Carolina, $15,000; Nor
folk harbor, $35,000; Pamlioo river,
N. C., $15,000; Perquinons river, N.
C., $2,500; Nansemond river, N. C.,
$5,000; French Brood, N. C., $10,000;
and this exhausts the appropriation.
Dispatches reoeived by the Navy
Department from Commander
Schley, dated off Vera Cruz, April
15th, on board the Essex. He re
ports that tranquility exists through
out the republic. Peace and confi
dence since restored with the ac
knowledged election of Gen. Diaz,
and that the interests of countrymen
on the coast are in no way menaced.
The Governor and" other officers at
Vera Cruz have been exceedingly
courteous. The Essex expected to
leave the first week in May for Key
West for supplies. All -in good
health.
Judge John E. King succeeds Col.
Casey as Collector ef Customs at
JNew Orleans.
John W. Easby relieves Isaiah
Hauscomb as Chief of Bureau of
Construction in the Navy Depart
ment.
Cameron’s “Across Africa” says
that on the death ofaUrua chief it
is the custom “to divert the course
of a stream, and in its bed to dig an
euormous pit, the bottom of which is
then covered with living women. At
one end a woman is placed on her
hands and knees, and upon tier back
the dead chief, covered with his
beads and treasures, is seated, being
supported on either side by one of
bis wives, while his second wife sits
at bis feet. Tho earth is then shov
eled in on them, uud all the women
are buried alive, with the exception
of ttie second wire. To her custom
is more merciful than to her compan
ions, and grants her the privilege of
being killed before the huge grave is
filled in. This being completed, a
number of male slaves—sometimes
forty or fifty—are slaughtered and
their blood poured over the grave;
after which the river is allowed to
resume its course.”
A Minnesota woman cleaned her teeth
with corrosive sublimate to make them
pearl white, butshe won’t do so any more,
no matter what agents say.
Mothers do not let your darlings
suffer with the Whooping Cough, if
you have a remedy so near at hand.
Use Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup, and the
little sufferers will soon find relief.
Price, 25cts.
Mood Advice.
Now is the time of year for Pneumonia,
Lung Fever, Ac. Every family should
have a bottle of Bosehee’s German Syrup.
Don’t allow for one moment*that cough to
take hold of your child, your family or
yourself. Consumption, Asthma, Pneu
monia, Croup. Hemorrhages, and other
fatal diseases may sot In. Although it is
true German Syrup Is curing thousands
of these dreaded diseases, yet it is much
better to have it at hand when three do
ses will cure you. Ono bottle will last
your whole family a winter and keep you
safe from danger. If you are consump
tive, do not rest until you have tried this
remedy. Sample bottles 10 cents. Reg
ular size 75 cents. Sold by your Drug
gist. .
mehl 3 dAwtf Gilbert A Thobnton .
FItKMI ARRIVAL*
AT
THE NEW YORK STORE.
Spanish Lace Scarfs.
“ Net and Laces.
2,000 pairs KID GLOVES, of ail grades,
including Harris’, Prevost side cut, 7 but
ton Kids, which can only be had of us in
this market.
Also Jugla’s embroidered bock Kids, and
Harris’ seamless.
1,000 PARASOLS. The most complete
assortment in Columbus.
CORSETS of any grade and kind.
GENTS FURNISHING GOODS.
Good check MUSLIN UNDER SHIRTS
at 75c.
Ladies UNDER VESTS.
500 MOSQUITO BARS.
Gordon A Cargill.
A Card.
To all who are suffering from the er
rors and indiscretions of youth, nervous
weakness, early decay, loss of manhood,
Ac., I will send’ a recejpe that will cure
ycu, FREE OF CHARGE. This great
remedy was discovered by a missionary
in South Ame.rica. Send a self-addressed
envelope to the Rev. Joseph T. Inman,
station D, Bible House, New York City.
feb9 6m .
Fur Fanry Work.
Gold, Silver and White Perforated Card
Board, also a great variety of Peforated
Mottoes at J. Albert Kibven’s.
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THE PUZZLE-KEY.
A STORY OF LIFE IN NAN I RAN.
CISCO.
It seems more and more like a dream as
the days go by. Such an aimless existence,
a life so purposeless, the old feeling comes
over me now, surrounded as I am by (he ones
1 love. The same terrible unrest 1 feel now
sent.me to California years ago, there to la
bor and toil, to dig arid wait, hopeless, des
pairing. it is a beautiful country, thissuiiv
set laud, full of roses and dreamy days aifd;
sweet perfumes. Still it is a country ol sad
experience, wasted lives, of wild and terrible
longings. How 1 came to go there I have
hinted, and when after repeated lailureshere
and there as a miner, as a ranchman, as a
shop keeper, it was hut natural 1 should drift
to San Francisco. There you are lost in the
crowd, the atmosphere buoys you np,
strengthens you. gives you courage tor a
new race. Misery loves company, and I
had plenty of company in San Francisco,
though 1 spoke to none. It was easy to tell
those w ho, like myself, had staked their all
and lost, and then found refuge in the GoU
den City. 1 knew all such by intuition, and
they knew me, and they passed me by like
shadows, and were lost in the crowd.
Looking back now I think there is not a
street in all that big, mad city that 1 do not
remember. I know every fool of ground, and
even the shadows that glide across the bay
at nightfall seem familiar. The quaint
bouses built upon the earthquake sand seem
as old friends, and the hundreds of faces 1
saw once, I see now, with the same marks
of age, grief, and crime upon them. When
l had nothing else to do—and I was idle
many months-I counted the buildings, stu
died the architecture, speculated on the own
ership, and now in my mind 1 do the same,
and a tall building on Montgomery street
rises up before me with a strange signifi
cance. It is standing yet; it is one of the
tallest buildings of the street, and the oldest.
There is a frowning look about it, a freezing
expression, as though it were alive, though
it is only brick and mortar ifit had walked
off some time in the night, if I had missed
it in the morning, 1 should not have been
surprised; it looked so queer. Day after day
I walked by it a dozen times a day to and
fro, and somehow it was always with a feel
ing of dread, a superstitious desire to hurry
away, and mnre than once, looking back at
the grinning structure have 1 made myself
conspicuous by leaving it behind me on a
run. There is something inexplicable about
it. lam not a coward, lam not supersti
tious, yet this huge k ick building, with its
frowning front, its shadowy angles, exer
cised over me a strange and unnatural
power. 1 tried to shake it off; the effort
proved in vain. Mote than once I boldly
walked toward it. determined to face it and
pass by slowly like other men; but 1 lost my
grip every time and went, by hurriedly,
w itn my heart thumping like a sledge ham
mer, and the trowning brick structure mock
ing me with a sneer. Then l would laugh
at myself for being such a cow ard, and lor
a week or two avoid the building, avoid the
street, keep out of reach of the strange infiu
ence entirely. But I could not control my
thoughts. I grew nervous, rritable, and
complatning. The magnetism of the build
ing was too much for me lw as drawn ir
resistibly toward it like a slave.
What Nvas the matter with me? Was I
going insane? 1 asked myself these ques
tions as f passed by one day, and just then I
stumbled against a young man who stood
with arms folded looking fixedly at the buil -
ding across the road When I stumbled
against him he did not heed me; quieily
moved aside, that is all, and let me pass
But for this strange indifference and his pale
face 1 should not have noticed him, but now
I saw Ihat he was young, that he was tall
and slim, that he was dressed in black, that
his face was like marble, and more than all
else, that his eyes were fixed intently on that
strange puzzle across the road. I passed on.
The next day I saw the man again; he was
standing with his arms folded, just as I had
seen him first, his face even paler than be
fore. I glanced at him and passed by. I pas
sed arid repassed a dozen times, each day the
same; he was constantly at his post. Who
was he? I gathered courage to ask a police
man one day. The answer was not satis
tory; it only added fuel to the flame.
‘Some loon with his head out of balance,’
was the reply. ‘There are many such here.
This chap are a queer moke; keeps lookin’
at that buildiri’ all the while Wonder if he
thinks it's alive? I don’t give him much at
tention, or sympathy either, for that matter.
Gone into bankruptcy like a good many oth
ers. It’s just as well. A fool for luck I sup
pose.’ ,
This is all the policeman could tell me, so I
put on a bold front and walked up to the man
himse'f.
‘Who are you?’ I said, shaking him rough
ly. ‘Speak to me.’
He turned quietly, and looking me full in
the lace, said in whispered tones:
‘Don’t disturb me. lam looking at some
thing.’
‘Of course you are,’ I said, ‘your eyes are
on that building across the way.’
‘Yes.’
‘What do you seel’
‘Go ’way. What do you mean?’ he cried
savagely. ‘What right have you to question
me, a stranger? Go ’way, I say. I am
looking at nothing.'
I was sharp enough to see the turn he
made to get rid of me, and I knew that his
opinion, good or bad, depended upon my re
ply. So I answered him cautiously.
‘I know what you are looking at,’ 1 said,
‘ it is no more of a puzzle to you than to me.
Like yourself lam lost in the mystery. If
you can help me out, do so. Anyhow, let
us be friends.’
He looked at me with his large, lustrous
eyes, his pale face was close to my own,
his hand trembled on my coat-sleeve, and he
whispered:
•The building isn't haunted—l don't be
lieve in ghosts I never see anybody go up
there nor come down. But before I tell you
anything, I’ll ask you who you are.’
‘A miner.’
‘Retired?’
‘Yes.’
‘On what allowance?'
‘Two meals a day at the Miners’ Restau
rant.’
‘And you sleep?’
‘ln a hogshead on the wharf.’
‘Good. We fare much alike. 111 invite
you to my quarters. But maybe ’
‘Having the best quarters myself, I'd in
vite you to miue.’
‘Very well. It is dark now. Look across
the way. The lights are burning in the
building from top to bottom. Look now;
don't you see them?’
So far as I could see, the only lights in the
building were those in the stores on the
ground floor, and yet my strange friend had
said the structure was alight from top to bot
tom. Surely he was mistaken or trying to
deceive me. I said:
‘Fifty windows with not a light shining
from them. Where are your eyes!’
‘Ha! ha!’ hp laughed. ‘I thought to fright
en you a little As you say, the windows
are all dark—all bnt one. Strange that you
do not see that one. It is the right hand
coraer at the very top. See!’
I followed his hand with my eye, and there,
under the over hanging roof, was a light
burning with a cold, yellow lustre.
‘Now you see it!’ said my friend, taking
me by the arm.
‘Yes. What docs it mean?’
‘That's what 1 am trying to find out. A
light that burns night and day means some
thing. This one is never out —never. The
window is always aflame. Come and go as
you will, it is there the same. Three months
ago I noticed it lor the first time. Have I
slept any since? But very little. It has
‘bfeen my constant watch. I am held as a
A terrible influence controls me. 1
go, I come, but 1 am never at rest only w hen
here. And another thing. Look closer,
look with all the strength of your eyes.
What do you see! A blood-red key hanging
in the window! Do not start, do not run
away, stand firm, and look. Am I not speak
ing the truth?’
1 could not deny it. There the key hung
in the pale, yellow light, meaning something,
meaning nothing, who could tell?’
‘A mockery,’ said the pale young man by
my side. ‘l'll tear it from its place in the
window, or lose my life. Are you brave
enough to go with me?’
*Y es.’
‘When?’
‘To-night—now. But first tell me who
you are. Ido not know even your name.
You may he a thief.’
‘Very true;' and the young man laughed.
‘I do not blame you for not trusting stran
gers. Too much confidence in people did
the business for me. First let me tell you
my name. It is Harry Knight. I have lived
here a good while. 1 know the city well,
and l have made money here. I had a little
inheritance to begin with; I put it into stocks,
and they went up. I made money. I tried
again, and they went down. I lost money.
1 made it a business. I won and lost. 1 lost
and won. At one time I could have retired
worth sixty thousand dollars. I didn’t do it,
for I wanted a greater sum. I tried to fight
my way up; no use; luck was against me.
All I could do was to see others win and
lose. Credit? I could borrow a cent of no
one. I was known on California street as
•the young man without a head.’ I am con
scious of my weakness now. lam bank
rupt in pocket and 1 fear in mind. Come,
it is growing late. Let us go across the
road.’
We went at once without fear or hesita
tion. The steps were wide at first, then nar
row and winding, and it was the darkest
road imaginable. Would we ever get to the
top, 1 wondered, and could we find the room
where the light was burning. It was not
such an easy task, after all. We groped
around in the darkness many minutes belore
we had a clew to guide us the right direc
tion. A faint glimmer of light in a distant
corner of the hall, and we approached it
softly and tapped lightly at the door. Need
I say the door was opened, but by whom? A
figure so light I could have crushed it with
my two hands, a pale, young face, crowned
by clustering, yellow curls, a little girl of
ten summers, dressed in rags.
She did not invite us to come in; she only
stared at us, and finally said:
‘What do you want?'
‘Don’t be alarmed,' I replied. ‘We have
not come here to bring you trouble. Shall
we sit down?’
She pushed out a couple of stools, and we
seated ourselves thereon.
‘The room is large.' whispered Harry
Knight, ‘and filled with—the Lord only
knows what all. And see! the window is
all aflame, the light is there burning as 1
saw it from the street. Shalt I tear it
down?’'
‘No;"wait, 1 I cried, ‘Don't you see that
we are not alone. Behind the curtain is a
man working at a low bench. I see his
shadow.'
‘That is grandpa,’ said the girl, starting
up. ‘He won’t speak to you. he don’t speak
to anyone but me. No one ever comes here
—no one. .Do you want to see what he is
doing?’
‘Yes.’
She took us around where he was at work
arid we saw an old mail beut nearly double,
gray bearded, gray haired, with shaggy eye
brows, and that look about him that comes
only from long suffering and many disap
pointments. He was bending over a low
bench, doing some strange work that we
could not understand; he was counting and
arranging beads, while now and then he
would stop and cover a page of coarse
brown paper with queer hieroglyphics. And
so intent was he at this that he did not no
tice us, his mind was turned inward, he saw
no one, nothing but his work.
‘What is he doing?’ I asked the girl.
‘Making a puzzle, I guess,’ she said.
‘He is puzzle enough himself, I should
think. Who and what is he?’
•He is my grandpa,’ said the girl, shaking
her yellow curls. ‘He is not very rich now,
though once he had lots of money. But he
thought he didn’t have enough, and so lost
all he had trying to get more. It was very
foolish.’
‘lndeed it was,’ 6aid Harry Knight, ‘I un
derstand that part of it. Another ruined
stock merchant, and this one has lost his rea
son. As mad as a March hare.’
‘Yes, he’s crazy,’ sighed the girl; ‘I think
he is. He rented every room in the building
and paid cash in advance. It took all he had
He wanted to be alone, he said, that is why
he rented the rooms. The up-stairs is ours,
all of it. Now I run things myself. I buy
everything. You see Ido beadwork, make
lots of pretty things, and sell them in the
streets. We get along somehow'.’
I thought it best to inquire her name, and
she answered:
‘Grandpa calls me ‘Bluebell,’ but I’d as
lief be called Peggy. He calls himself
King Victor, the Lord only knows why. It
don’t matter.’
‘What is he making now?’ I asked; ‘work
ing so hard and so persistently.’
‘A puzzle, I told you. When he gets it
made he says he can win every time in the
stock market. He made a key and hung it
in the window. See.’
It was made of coral beads, very large,
and every curve and notch was perfect.
Back of the key W'as hung a yellow curtain,
and between the two was a candle burning
but dimly.
‘You saw it from the street, I supposs,’
went on the little prattler. ‘lt is hung there
ro attract attention. He is making another,
a smaller one, to hang around the neck; it
w'ill be a charm to win back all his money,
and a good deal more. 1 don t know who
will wear it. The right person will be
tempted here, grandpa says; so he hung the
key in the window' as a sign.
[ was looking at Harry Knight when
these last words w'ere spoken, and 1 noticed
that he started, that a strange brilliancy
filled his eyes, that he grew cold and dis
tant.
‘Let us go,’ he said; ‘let us go. We have
stayed too long already.’
1 was cohscfous that he was trying to get
rid of me; I could tell it in his face,
in his voice, in his actions, and I thought
1 knew his motive for wishing me away,
but I said nothing, and together w'e went out
into the night.
He stayed with me that night, or preten
ded to, really he only saw where I slept and
then went away, and I followed him. And
the last I saw of him he was going up the
rickety steps adown which he had come
from the room of the crazy broker not an
hour before.
1 have as much curiosity as anybody, but
I may as well own it, l had not the courage
to follow this strange young man up the
winding steps, so I walked across the road
and looked up at the blood red key hanging
lit the wiudow. But 1 could Bee nothing
else, hear nothing, and the night passed, and
when the gray dawn was come 1 went back
to my stolen bivouac on the wharf hot and
feverish. But I was too restless to stay long
in a place and all that day I walked Mont
gomery street, looking up at the buildings,
heeding no one, heeded by none, watching
and waiting. And anew surprise came
with the night. 'lhe building was there just
the same, the window was there as 1 lelt it,
but the key that hung in the window was
gone. Even the yellow light burned feebly
and cold, and there was a deeper sheer on
the building than ever before.
So the night passed, and the next day and
the next, and all was the same. I saw no
one, I heard nothing new; the key was gone,
the light burned dimly in the window, the
building was dark, and I was in despair.
Once I caught sightofthe little girl Bluebell,
but when she saw me she hurried away with
her basket of beadwork under her arm, and
was lost in the crowd.
Then I took to loafing on California
Street where the disease is stock-gambling,
and lost myself in the excitement of seeing
others win and lose. So a week passed,
when one day who should I see the centre
of a group of excited men but my strange
acquaintance, Harry Knight.
‘He is the devil’s own,’ said a man at my
side, as he noticed on whom my eyes were
tastened. ‘He started with a little or noth
ing, and now he is worth his thousands.
He don’t bet like an)body else, he goes it
with a plunge and comesout first best every
time. To-day he has ‘busted’ the market.
If he is not the brother of Satan, who is
he 7 ’
I turned away and sought my lonely re
treat on the wharf, I was filled with a
strange wonder. I could hardly trust rnysell
to think.
That night I slept unusually sound, and
the gray of the morning found me still sleep
ing, but I aw'oke with a start as these words
were spoken close to my ear:
‘A man murdered and thrown into the
bay. Come and help me fish him out.’
I reached far my hat at once, and as I
took hold of it 1 heard the jingle of coin,
and my surprise was greater when I
counted out a hundred dollars in gold,
I saw it all at once. While I slept.
Harry Knight had been there and left the
money. A token of slight regard, that is
all.
But the man murdered and thrown into
the bay. who was lie?
I saw the men drag the body out, I ex
perienced a strange sensation, and when I
saw the features of the dead, the form
and face, I felt, like sinking into the
ground, for the murdered man was Har
ry Knight.
I need not try to portray my feelings.
What was said or done will not interest
you in the least; go with mo to the in
quest.
It Was a clear case of murder. Tho
knife of the assassin had penetrated the
heart ot the young man, killing him in
stantly. I took a look at the body, and
there on his hare breast was a blood-red
key made of beads, held by a blue
ribbon running around the neck!
My first impulse was to claim it, get
possession of it,something within me said
"Beware I touch it and you are lost!” And
I let it alone. Then at the moment there
was a flutter behind me, and a little girl
with yellow hair pushed through the
crowd and cried :
“Let me have it—the key, the key! I
want to give it to grandpa."
“it is valueless; give it to her,” said the
coroner.
She look it and fled away like the wind.
I don’t know why I did it, hut I fol
lowed her as fast as I could go. I knew
very wsll where she was going, and just
as she was crossing the road to go up
stairs I caught sight of her with her yel
low curls flying in the wind. There was
a wild rush of vehicles in the street at the
lime, two unmanageable horses dragging
a street car thundered by, there was a
childish scream, and rushing up, with my
heart in my throat, I saw the yellow curls
lying on the ground and the little form
crushed and bleeding almost beyond rec
ognition.
Quickly a crowd gathered around her,
but she spoke but once and to mo.
“Give this to grandpa,” she whispered.
“It will kill him if it is lost. It’s a puz
zle. Give it to him at once, I say.
I took the key from her hand, that
strange puzzle-key, and the next moiaent
she was dead!
Then I turned, and a rushing coach
knocked the key from my hand, and it
fell under the wheels and was crushed to
pieces and ground into sand.
What could Ido now? What more is
there ior me to tell? There were stronger
and bolder men than lam to break the
news to the old man. So I will end this
sad tale by saying that at Stockton,Cal., in
the insane asylum, may be seen a gray
old man, bent nearly double, with many
■colored beads scattered around him, work
ing at some strange deviee, tireless, un
complaining, still.
And as I saw him first, so I saw him
last, working away at his puzzle,
J. M. Hoffman.
Mendota, 111., March 15.
IUKA.
The Hon. Ben Wade, of Ohio, made a
Western tour, aud stopped at a town of
“groat expectations,” called luka. One of
tho magnates ol the town—of the future,
was enlarging upon its prospects, when
tho following bit of “warm frost” was
thrown on it by the Honorable Wade.
luka has since dried up:
“It is,” exclaimed an inhabitant of the
region, engaged in doing the honors, “a
beautiful plaeo.” "Why,” rejoined old
Ben, "the country looks as if it was cov
ered with cigar ashes. Nothing will grow
in such a soil.” “Oh,” was the answer, “it
is very fertile, and after it has been culti
vated and irrigated, it will bloom like the
rose.” “Yes, but there is no water In
sight,” said Wade. Tho inhabitant of
luka, no whit discomfited, replied, “There
is a beautiful stream about seyenty
miles off, anil when we get it here, the
place will bo like Eden.” “But," growled
Ben, “there are no housos, and I don’t see
any people.” “Very true,” was the an
swer, we ain’t thickly settled yet, but the
people wifi come in good time. luka only
just needs good society and water to make
it perfect.” “That’s all they need in hell,”
said the Ohio Statesman, savagely.
Victor Hugo thinks the balance of the
world would return to heathenism if Baris
should be destroyed. Yes; what would
this world have known about striped
stockings but for Pjiris?
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
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MO* ICY A *ll HTIM'KN.
LONDON, April '2B. Noon—Consols 84 1-16.
2:30 p. m.—Gonsols —mouey 93 13-16, account
93 11-16.
PARIS, April 27.—2:00 p. Rentes 103f. and
10c.
NEW YORK, April 28.—Noon—Gold opened
107.
NEW YORK, April 28.—Noon-Btocks active
and irregular, but bettor prices for the moment;
2; gold 6% ; exohange long, 4.88; abort,
4.9o;Governments active and steady: State bonda
qniet, except Mouth Carolina’s which are lower.
NEW YORK. April 28. Evening Money
easy, at 2S@3; sterling 8; gold 67; Govern
ments dull aud steady—uew 6’a 11J4; Mtatea qniet
and nominal.
BANK STATEMENT.
The bank statement shows: Loans, decrease
I Tji million; specie, increase % million; legal
tender*, increase 3 million; deposits, increase
2% millions; reserve, Increase 2% million.
CXITTOH.
LIVERPOOL, April 28.—Noon—Cotton steadier;
middling uplands 6%A, Orleans 6>tfd, sales 7,000,
speculation aud export 2000, receipts 6500, no
American.
Futures opened l-32d better, but have since
become weaker; uplands, low middling clause,
May and Juno delivery, 5 23-32d; June and July
66 J3-I@2B-B2d; July aud August 5J,d, August aud
September 5 31-3‘2d.
1:00 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause,
May and June delivery, 6 11-lfld.
2:15 p. m,—Uplands, low middling clause. May
and June delivery June and July 6 13-Jfld,
July and August 5 29-32; August aud September
Od.
2:30 p. m.—Futures firm; uplands, low middling
clause, September and October delivery 6 1-16*1.
NEW YORK, April 28.—Noon—Cotton quiet,
but firm; uplands 11; Orleans 11 % ; sales 2p7.
Futures opened firmer, as follows: April 10.88
@11.00; May 10.28@11.00; June 11.68; July 11.16
@.18; August 11.25(5).‘28.
NEW YORK, April 28. Evening Cotton
quiet, but firm; middling uplands 11; Orleans
II > 8 ; salas 207; net receipts —; gross 1701.
Consolidated net receipts 1400; exports to
Great Britain 2646 jto France —; to continent
876; to channel —.
Futures closed steady; sales 63,000; April 11.06
@.07; May 11.06@.07; June 11.13; July 11.23;
August 11.34; September 11.31@.32; October
11 17@.19: Novemver 11.09@.ll; December 11.10
@.12; January 11.22@.25, February 11.32@.36.
GALVEBTON, April 28.—Cotton quiet; mid
dling 10?i; net receipts 83; gross 86; sales 1412;
exports to Great Britain —; France —; to chan
nel —; to continent —; coastwise 39.
NORFOLK, April 28. Evening Cotton
quiet; middlings
—, sales 150; spinners —; exports to Great Brit
ain JCOttBtWISO 10i3.
BALTIMORE, April 28.—Evening Cotton
quiet; middling 1116-16; net receipts —; gross
68; Bales 126; npinners —; exports to Great Brit
ain —;continent —; coastwise 36.
BOSTON, April 28. Evening—Cotton dull;
middling 11 ' 4 ; net receipts 94; gross 1077; sales
—; exports to Great Britain —.
WILMINGTON, April 28.— Evening —Cotton
dull aud nominal; middling 1034'1 net receipts
—: sales —; exports to Great Britain—, coast
wise 8.
PHILADELPHIA, April 28.—Evening—Cotton
quiet; middling 11 %; net receipts 130; gross 134;
sales 79; to spinners 64, exports to Great Brit
ain —.
HAVANNAH. April 28. Evening Cotton
dull; middling 10%; net receipts 91; gross 91;
sales 261; exports to Great Britain 1336; to conti
nent —; to channel —; coastwise 100.
NEW ORLEANS, April 28. Evening—Cotton
steady; middling 10%; low middling 10*£; good
ordinary 9% ; net receipts 270 gross 920; ssles
2600, exports to Great Britain 390; to France —;
to continent 875; coastwise —.
MOBILE, April 28.—Cotton buyers'and Hellers’
apart, quotations nominal; middling 10%; net
receipts 63; gross—; sales—; exports to Great
Britain —; 10 France —; to continent —; to
channel —; coastwise 461.
MEMPHIS, April 28.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 10ft*. receipts 135; shipments 971; sales
650.
AUGUSTA, April 28.—Cotton quiet; middling
10% ; receipts 23; sales 143. j
CHARLESTON, April 28. Evening— Cotton
quiet, aud little doing; middling 11%; net re
ceipts 208; groBS —, sales 100; exports to Great
Britain —; to France —; to continent —; coast
wise —.
1* KOVIBIO.VH. AC.
NEW YORK, April 28.—Noon- Flour advancing.
Wheat held, 3@6e higher. Corn l@2c better.
Pork dull—new mess sl6 60. Lard steady, steam
$10.82&. Freights firm.
NEW YORK, April 28. Evening Flour
shade stronger ank unueitled, light export and
moderate home trade demand; superfine Western
aud btate $8.60(5 $9.50, common to lair, extra do.,
$9.55(a)511.2d, good to choice do., $7.80@510.00.
Southern flour quiet; common to fair extra $8.60
(§)59.60; good to choice do., $9.65@f 11.25. Wheat
no change, very moderate inquiry tor export and
milling demand; No. 2, Milwaukee $1.85, un
graded sl.i>o, red Western $1,40; straight do.,
$1,85. Corn excited and higher, good business
doing, mainly for home use and speculation; un
graded Western mixed 70, yellow Southern 71%,
white do., 71, steamer yellow 69. Oats higher;
mixed Western aud State 49@64. Coffee, Rio, %c
higher, in lair demamd, 16^4@20.V for gold car
goes, 16*4@21*4 lor gold job lots. Sugar very
Arm; 9%@% for fair to good refining, prime
Muscovado 9 %; refined shade firmer, for standard
A, granulated aud powuered 12, 12 forciushed.
.Molasses—foreign and refining grades firm at
43@50, grocery grades firm and good inquiry,
at 40@57.f0r New Orleans. Rice firm, and Jair
inquiry—Carolina 6@6, Louisiana 4
Pork shade firmer, new extra $16.60 Lard opened
higher and strong, prime steam slo.3o@s 10.32 >£.
Whiskey firm, at 13.- Freights to Liverpool firm,
cotton per sail 0%, per steam 6%, corn 6, wheat
0%.
CINCINNATI. April 28. —Evening Flour
in good demand; family $9.25@59.50. Wheat
quiet and firm; red $195@52.16. Corn fairly
active at 54@58. Oats scarce and firm at 60® 65.
Rye quiet and steady at SI.OO. Barley steady;
prime fall 60@75. Pork firm, demand fair. $ 16.96
@516.00. Lard quiet and nominal, steam SIO.OO,
kettle $10.76@511.00. Bulk meats firm, demand
improved— shoulders held at $6.60, short rib
sides sold at short clear sides $8.26.
Bacon quiet and 8%, for shoulders, clear
riband clear sides. Whiskey steady and firm at
9. Butter dull: choice Western reserve 19@20,
Contral Ohio 16@L6.
BT. LOUIS, April 28.—Evening—Flour quiet
and firmer; double extra fall $7.60@58.25, treble
extra do.. $8.50@59.25. Wheat dull; No. 2 red
fall, $1.17 bid, cash sales $1.16, May No. 3 do.,
sl.lO bid. Corn higher for cash, fluctuating for
options; No. 2, mixed, 63@63%. Oats higher;
No, 2, 43. Rye firm and inactive at 96% bid.
Barley quiet. Whiskey firm at 9. Pork in good
demand at $16.36. Lard dull at 10 bid. Bulk
meats dull and lower to sell—clear rib sides 8 bid.
Bacon inactive—s6.2s, and $9.00@
12%, for shoulders, clear rib and clear sides.
LOUISViLLE, April 28. Hour firmer; extra
$7.00@57.25, family $8.00@58.50. Wheat, market
bare; red $1.70, amber $2.00, white $2.00. Corn
steady; No. 1, white 62, mixed 60. Rye active at
85. Oats firmer—No. 1, white 48. mixed 46. Pork
tirnier at $16,00. Bulk moats steady—shoulders
$5.75, dear rib sides $8.25@37X, clear sides
$8.60@62V. Bacon firm—s6.s3, s9.oo@l2>£, and
$9.87>a@60, for shoulders, clear rib, and clear
sides, augur-cured hams strong at ll@ll%.
Lard steady and good demand; choice leaf in
tierce 11%, do., iu kegs 12. Whiskey firmer at
1 04@5. Bagging dull at 12#@13.
BALTIMORE, April 28 —Oat* quiet. Southern
fair to prime 50@63. Rye, no sales, at9B@sl.Co.
Provisions quiet and steady. Pork $17.00 Bacon
—shoulders 7, clear rib 9%. Hams 19%®13%.
Lard, refined ll@li> 4 '. ( offee quiet, buyers and
sellers apart; jobs 16 %@9l %. Whiskey firmer at
13%. Sugar steady at 11%.
Knoxville Wholesale Produce Market.
KNOXVILLE, April 26 —Since last week's re
view considerable activity is manifested in the
leading staples of East Tendessee production.
Corn has advanced from a nominal at 45 to an
active demand at 60@52c, with an upward ten
dency
No wheat arrivals, consequently no saiga to re
port. Quoted at $1.40@51.65.
Flour has advanced 50c per sack, with small
receipts.
We notice no change in the bacon market and
it is thought the war in Europe will have tome
little influeoce on the price of meats.
E oa per dozen. Poultry, live 6c. per
pound, dreaded 10c. Butter 10@16.
Dried Fruit nominal; Apples, 2@2>£. Peaches,
quarters, none; halves, 6@B.— Tribune.
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