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VOLUME VIII. CHURCH DIRECTORY. METHODIST—Douglasvu le —First, third and fifth Sundays. Salt Springs—Second Sunday and Batifrday before. Midway—Fourth Sunday and Satur day before. .. W. R. Foote, Pastor. BAPTlST—Douglasville—First and fourth Sundays. Rev. A. B. Vaughn, dm tor. ' " * MASONIC. Douglasville' lodge, No. 289, F. A. M., meets cn Saturday night before the frst and third Bundays in - each month. J. R. Carter, SY.-M.,' W. J. Camp, Sec retary. COUNTY DIRECTORY. Ordinary—;g. T. Cooper. Clerk—B.'N. Dorsett. Sheriff.—Henry Ward. DeputyJJberift—G. M. Souter. Tax Receiver—E. H. Camp. Tax Ooliactor-TxW-A. Sayer. Treasurer-o-Samuel Shannon. $1 rvoyor—John M.. Huey. Coroner—F. M. Mitchell. SUPER# .COURT. Meets on thinOfor Jiys in<January, and July and holds t n-6 weeks. 01. Geifi.'’-—Hon. Harry M. Reid. Clerk—B. N. Dorsett, feeriff-—Henry Ward. ~ • COUNTY COURT. Meets-jn quarterly session on fourth Mondays in February, May, August and November and holds,until .all the cases on the 'docket are called. .In monthly sessidtf it meets on the fourth Mondays in each month. Judge—Hon. R. A. Massey. Sol. Ocul.—Hon. W. T. Roberts. Bailiff—D. W. Johns. * ; 7 ORDINARY’S COURT. Meetsf for ordinary purposes on first Monday, and. for county purposes on first TueaQiiyf in each month. • Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper. justices’ COURTS. 780th Dist. G. M. meets first Thursday m efteh ! month. J. I. Feely, J. P., W. a. (ta, N. P., D. W. Johns and W. K C’a. * 780th Dist. G.M, meets second Satur day. A. Ji. Bomar, J. P., B.A. Arnold. N. F., ‘S, 0. Yeager, L. C. 784 Dist. G. SL meets fourth Saturday Franklin Carver, J. P., 0. B. Baggett, N. P., J. 0. James and M. 8. Gore, L. o’s. 1350th Dlst. G. M. meets third Satur day. T. M. Hamilton,' J. P., M. L. Yates, N. P.y S. W. Biggers, L. C., S. J. Jourdan; L. 0. 1360th "Dist. G. M. meets third Satur day. N. W. Camp, J. P., W. S. Hud son, N. P., J. A. Hill., L. C. 12715 t Dist. G.'M. meets first Satur day • 0. C. Clinton, J." P., Alberry Rembreo, jfr, P., L. C. Gkt—G, M. ;n<x>ia fourth Fri day. George W?“t3mith, J. P C. J. Robinson N, p», ——L. C. 1278 d Djst.«G. M.'meets third Friday. Thomas White, J. P., A. J. Bowen, N. P. W. J. Harbin, L. C. Profbasfonai Cards. THr a. massiv? ATTORNEY AT LAW DOUGLASVILLE, GA. (Office in front room, Dorsett's IhiiliUug. > Will practice anywhere' except Ju |he County Court ef'Donglius county. “7 W. £ JAMES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will practice in all the courts, Slate tu Federal. Office on Court House Square, ~ ' DOUGLASVILLE, GA. ~wi. T. ROBERTS, ~~ ATTORNEY AT LAW, DOUGLASVILLE, GA. Will practice in all the Courts. All lega bustnew will receive prompt attention. Office Ma Pour t Rugae, <X I>. CAMP, ATTORNEY AT LAW. DOUGLASVILLE, GA. • Will prtvtic® in ait the courts. AU business iutr'istea to him Will receive prouiplsttentioa. . b. g7lrlgg£ ATTORNEY AT LAW, DOUGLASVILLE, GA. Will practice in all the courts, State and JOHN M, EDGE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ■ * DonatAßviLtr. <ia. W practice in all the courts, and promptly attend to AU bnsineas entrusted to his care. J. S. JAMES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DOUGLASVHXI, GA. WIM rwaelkw in toe courts of Douglass, UmswWS. Carroll. PaulJiag, Cobb, Fulton and ftiwrekw coundea, Prompt attention given ton bnteoM. ~j~ h. McLarty, ATTORNEY AT LAW. IWUUYIUE GA W nmetko tn at! the c.-uri*, toih Si ate and 1 JOHN V EBGL ATTORNEY AT LAW, DoeaiASViixa ga 10BPRINT1N8 NKAH.I OOMS I! IB “STO” ffiNl THE WEEKLY STAR THE SOUTHERN STAwT NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED UP IN PARAGRAPHS. ARKANSAS. The mill of the Traskwood Lumber company, Saline county, was burned Saturday night. Loss quite heavy with no insurance. Henry Adams, colored, was jailed in Pope county last week for murdering an , infant supposed to be his child by a white woman. In a difficulty in Mississippi county on Saturday last Tom Catton was killed by a young planter named Lee Wilson, who shot his victim four times. Wilson sur rendered. A little boy named Pink Moore was caught by a revolving wheel in Hill’s gin near Clarksville, Johnston county, last week, and instantly killed, his back and neck both being broken. > TEXAS. John Harrison, of Liana, committed suicide at Lampasas, by taking an over dose of morphine. The Paris News announces that the re port started by one McPherson,that in an affray in Arthur City three men were killed and one wounded, was a baseless canard. While a slaughtered beef was being hauled up the limb of a tree in Scotts ville, Andrew Humphrey mounted the limb to guide the rope, when the limb broke and Humphrey fell to the ground, striking on his head and breaking his neck. Charles Green was shot at a saw mill on the Natchez river, near Burke, a few days ago, one ball taking effect in his breast, just below the left nipple, the other penetrating his back. The wounds , are probably fatal. Green says he was shot by a man named Strikes, a Dutch man, once after he had fallen. The par ties seemed to have been drinking. Both are white, LOUISIANA. Three wagons from the Choctaw na tion, filled with immigrants, arrived m Vermillion last Monday and will make that parish their future home. The ginhouse of Mr. Edmond Brous sard, living about eight miles above Ab beville, was burned down the early pait of this week with ten or fifteen bales of cotton. It is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. The ginhouse of Mr. L. D. Spears, of ward one, Claiborne Parish, was de stroyed by fire last Friday night. Several bales of cotton jvere lost bfejflagW to different partie 3Mrt!c*tnTfMffer from the loss, as there’was no insurance on the property. - ‘ A young man named Ratcliff, living several miles above Arcadia, was seriously if not fatally injurned last week by the explosion of a shell, which he was at tempting to drive into his gun with a pocset-knife, the brass end of the shell striking him in the forehead. A white man named Cornelius Coyne late section hand on the Texas and Pa cific railroad, near Edgard, was found dead on the Carie Plantation road at 9 o’clock Sunday morning last. The coro ners jury rendered a verdict that he caam to his death from an incised wound in the abdomen, causing fatal hemorrhage, sup posed to have been inflicted by one Jo seph White, who is now in custody. On Saturday last Mr. Reese Poag was shot and killed at Oxford station, DeSoto parish, by Mr. B. B. Dickinson. Both were prominent young men, highly con nected. They had had a trifling quarrel some days before, and Poag became crazed with whiskey and attacked his former friend, who was compelled to shoot him. Mr. Dickinson surrendered himself to the sheriff, and upon a pre liminary examination by Judge Hall was discharged from custody upon the ground that he acted in self defense. SOUTH CAROLINA. Earthquake shocks were felt at many places throughout the State on Tuesday morning. At Charleston, Columbia, and Orangeburg the shocks were severest. Lee Gaston, who killed his son-in-law, Will Estes, made application before Judge Witherspoon, at Chester, for bail on last Saturday, The judge, after hear ing the testimony offered at the coro ner’s inquest, signified his willingness to grant him bail in the sum of $5,000. So far, only ninety-three persons, all told, have gone to Arkansas from the line of the Port Royal railroad, and they have gone, not from dissatisfaction with the eight box law or the priority lien law, • but liecause of hard times and the desire | for new things. If similar inducements were offered, it would be easy to get more white people to go than the colored > people who have taken their depart ire. j The case of R B or “Dick” Jacobs, ; ciiArged with the killing of tenant Dock ’ Hughes on Christmas day, was brought up before Judge Norton at Pickens, i Thursday, on application for a writ of ; habeas corpus. After hearing the ease, ; Judge Norton granted the petition and fixed the l»ond at $2,500. Jacobs was re leased and returned to the city in the af ternoon. In view of the evidence given at the inquest, and the verdict of the coroner’s jury rendered therefrom, the amount of the bond has excited much surprise and unfavorable comment. The tide of public feeling is much against the defendant, and his release on slight »e --curity has not tended to abate that senti ment While Deputy Marshal J. B. Elkins was riding along in the read at the foot of Glassy mountain, twenty-five miles from Greenville, Wednesday morning, on his way to join the raiding party of Deputy Collector Black, he was fired on by a man who stepped into the road from the buslii s behind him. The gun was loaded with No. I abtA. and a dozen of them were lodged in the deputy’s lack and shoulders. Captain Elkins’ returned the fire with a pistol, but with lesa success. His wounds are not serious, and be at once returned to the city. The would-be wssswain wm as a veteran mooadjiaer, and probably a partner in one of the illicit stills destroyed by , Cfebnel Bade on tbs ame raid. FAWNING TO NONE OHAItITV TO DOUGLASVILLE. GEORGIA. TUESDAY, JANUARY «. 1887. FLORIDA. Work is being rushed on the new hotel at Key West. The street railway at Fort Meade has been completed.- e Many of the Lakeland streets are being paved with clay. The taxable property of the city of Cedar Keys has increased $30,000 the past year. The Spanish consul at Key West has agreed to clear the steamers of the Tam pa and Havana line at any hour of the night in order to expedite mails. Surveyors are laying out the new town of Hamilton Diston, called Fioridelphia, on the west bank of Lake Kissimmee. It will have broad streets and avenues and five parks. The gin house and contents, with the engine and appliances, belonging to Mr. E, T. Dickerson, at Greengood, in Jack son county, was destroyed on Thursday night of last week. The incendiary, one Payne Wheeler, was caught a day or two later and confessed that he had been hired by a white man to do the work. General G. W. Bently, manager of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West rail road, has agreed that, in consideration of $5,000 guaranteed, he will build a broad gauge railroad from the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West road to DeLand, and have the same in operation by the 15 day of next January; providing that a free right of way be furnished him to tewn. A BIG SALE. The Largest Ever Made tn th® Senth. The rumors of the recent sale of the Woodstock Iron and Steel company, at Anniston, Ala., and the Anniston Land and Improvement company, of their property, to a syndicate, have been con firmed, the trade having been consum mated. The syndicate buys the prop erty for six million dollars, which is the largest capital cash transaction that has ever occurred in the South. This property includes the celebrated Wood stock iron furnace, with its thousands of mineral and timbered lands, the renowned Annistsn Inn, the perfect system of waterworks and electric light and all other property previously owned by these corporations. The Woodstock Iron and Steel company will at once erect two large coke furnaces, costing about five hundred thousand dollars, which amount is for in the treasury, and has perfected arrangements for a standard gauge road to Gadsden, Ala., to be as the Anniston and Cincinnati railroad. This road having made a traf fic arrangement, for through business with the Cincinnati Southern railroad, will greatly add to the shipping ficilUm at reduced rates the product of the fur naces here, the Clifton Iron company in suring a heavy paying freight to this new road. , ASSIGNMENT OF A CATTLE FIRM. AFailsre Which Cnnnea Much Surprlacln Texas. Tho Dolores Land and Cattle company or Texas, which was chartered last year with a stated capital of $3,000,000, have made an assignment. The ranches and cattle belonging to the company are situ ated in Demmit, Kinney and adjoining counties, and were assessed last year at $250,000. Th’j ranches comprise over 300,000 acres, stocked at present with 16,000 head of cattle. The papers of as s’gnmcnt as filed here and signed by Messrs. Seabright and A. F. Robins, show in round figures liabilities of half a mil lion dollars, and the assets float up at about $510,000. The assignment creates great surprise and regret, cn account of the high standing of the persons con cerned in the enterprise. The assets, however, as compared with the liabilities, indicate temporary embarassment, which, it is hoped, will be eventually overcome without much loss, if any, to the credit ors. SOUTHERN REPUDIATED BONDS. The Govornmeat Ur*ed to Sue tho Star®® to Enforce Their Payment. The United States government holds in trust for the benefit of the Indian tribes $1,710,000 of bonds issued by Southern States, ou which default has been made. About $50,000,000 of the same defaulted securities are held by private parties in New York city. E. L. Andrews, attor ney for certain New York holders of re pudiated bonds, nas written to Secretary Lamar, urging that the United Statessue the defaulting States, claiming that the United States has power to bring an ac tion against any one of the repudiating States, while a private individual cannot. Secretary Lamar has referred the matter to Attorney-General Garland. If the United States should bring the desired suits and win them, the individual hold ers of bonds would profit along with the government, which annually now makes good to the Indians the interest which the States refuse to pay. LOUISIANA ORANGE CROP. But One-T«®th the Quantity «f Last Year Prad«e®4. The orange crop of Louisiana i* ail har vested and in market. It is, as predicted, less than one-tenth of the. average crop, nnd oranges are retailing now at thirty to fifty cents per d izen,against ten to thirty cents this time last year, and scarce at these figures. There will be none for shipment north, as usual. In fact a great many Florida oranges have been import ed and are for sale this year, a decided novelty in New Orleans, which has hith erto been exporter; but while the crop is a failure a more favorable report comes from the Plaquemine orange district, for the trees are not as severely injured and not as many of them killed by the cold of last January, as was imagined at first. AN'CmiEft FAXLURE. The failure of Lonnon Pels, a leading dry goods merchant of Newport, is an nounced, The creditors are St Louis, New Orleans, Memphis. Louisville, Cin cinnati. Boston. Chicxigo and PhHadel iJ»i ♦ merchants and manufacturers, Lis hilitiea will reach $40,(50; a»eU. ■ RAILROAD DISASTERS. Collision® Between Passenger and Freight Trains. - A fast train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at an early hour Wednesday. f morning collided with a freight train' near Tiffin, Ohio, wrecking both trains. f Twenty-two bodies were burned beyond 5 recognition, and many more’ injured se verely. It is a fearful sight and calls to mind the Ashtabula horror of the winter > of 1877. ‘ A MASSACHUSETTS WRECK.' ' <; A passenger train on the Boston and Albany railroad was wrecked near West. 1 Springfield. Mass., by a collision with a' freight train. The wreck caught fire and one passenger and one sleeping coach 1 were burned and several person sseriously injured, and one was killed, ■ beiag . burned so badly that no one could recog nize him. ACCIDENTS IN ALABAMA. Near Livingston, on the line of the ! Alabama Great Southern railway, Tues -1 day night a construction train was 1 wrecked and Captain Joe Lewis, an‘old passenger conductor, and a fireman 1 named Fowler were killed. The wreck . was caused by the engine striking a cow • and derailing the train. • . „ [ A second accident occurred at Rees ville, where a freight train was derailed, six cars demolished and two brakemen se verely injured. - - ■ i T> A FEDERAL VETEKAN’S SUICIDE. Caleb* L. Bryant, of Belleville, Ohio, died at a restaurant in Birmingham Thursday, from an overdose of morphine. He took eighteen grains of the drug, it is supposed with suicidal intent. Among the papers found in his pockets was a certificate of honorable service in com pany I, seventh regiment of Ohio, which showed that he enlisted June 19, 1861, and was discharged December 20, 1862. There was also found in his pockets a United States pension certificate,showing that he drew eight dollars per month from the government. Others papers showed that he was a member of the Belleville Masonic Lodge, with All dues paid up. SHEFFIELD BOOMING< E . , An interesting feature of Sheffield's boom was the meeting of the stockhold ers of the Sheffield and Tuscumbia street railway company Thursday. The capital stock of fifty>thousand dollars was all represented, and a further subscription of thousand dollars was re fused. Os tfic capital stock twenty per cetu , er ten thousand dollars' was paid in. The board of directors' was organ ized with of F. D. WrSr- AlmoUf secretary, and the route 1- taken to prosecute dispatch. TEXAS QUAKING A slight shock of earthquake occurred H Paige, Tex., Wednesday morning which lasted two or three seconds. The colored servants at the Williams house were greatly alarmed at the rattling of, dishes and pans in the kitchen. In one store a number of cow-bells, suspended from the ceiling, chimed. ' In other 1 store, tin-ware and stove pipes around the caves of houses were shaken down. Sev eral clocks stopped. The shock was felt for several miles around, and evidently passed from south to north. A few say they heard rumbling noises. No serious damage was done. \ SHOT THREE TIMES. _ Geo. Hill, one of the commissioners of LaSalle county, and a leading citizen of Tuchig, was assassinated last Suh- I day. Hill was an important witness at the coroners inquest on the recent killing of Sheriff McKinney. He was shot three times, but lived long enough to state that ■ his assassins were Captain Silas Hay and Frank R. Hall. Captain Hay was father- j in-law of the late Sheriff McKinney. The ; State Ranger and local authorities are scouring the country in >earch of the as ; wissins, who fled immediately after firing . ; on their victim. Hill was a man of I ! wealth and high standing. BNOW BALLS END IN BI LLETS. A special to the Montgomery Advcr : tiser from Demopolis says that two white : I men, an 1 good citizens,’ named Cochran | i and Chadwick, indulged in a snowball | I battle, which wound up in a serious dif j.ficulty. Cochran was shot by Chadwick 1 and died almost instantly. The men I were brothers-in-law. OUR INDERTEDNEAB. The debt statement just issued shows the decrease of the public debt during : the month of December to be $9,358,202,- I I 32; cash in treasury, $444,015,791.1’9; i gold certificates outstanding, $97,214,- 605: silver certificates outstanding sll7, - ; 246,670; certificates of deposits outstand- I j ing $6,510,000. The Tillie Mnilh Mouuuicnt. ! A design by Sculptor R Schmid for a I monument to 'T'illie Smith has beep ac I cepted by the committee in Ilacketts- I town, N. J. The plaster cast is now in New York. On a granite base will f stand a bronze figure of the heroine who | i sacrificed her life in deren<» of het I honor. At her back will rise a tate i I white cross. The figure of the girt is a : I trifle more than six feet tall, and the whole monument will be about thirty . | feet high. The sculptor desi«ned.4he I cross to be of w hitt marble, but it may | have to be of iron, if there is not money I enough raised to make it of marble. f The heroine is represented as. being forced backward. With her left hand t . she grasps a serpent, and with he? right hand she presses to her Lead a myrtle crown. The upturned face Lm» >s to the cross. The figure is drappt-d. | Thia nK’niment will cost more money I than has been pledged to pay for h, aud 4 Mr. Schmid propose* to place the piss ter cast on exhibition to add to the | monument fund. M St • . " 1 X . ......... U" - I —-77- | - THE BARTHOLDI STATUE. ; Not like those temples of the olden times, Built by the bleeding hands of toiling slaves, The corner-stones laid over new-made graves, In bold commemoration of dark crimes; ' • Not like the mystic Sphinx, whose ' face Left to the world no lesson and no grace. Is this majestic emblem of the Free! No history of wrongs, her wearing mars— “. But, rival and companion of the stars, She lifts her glorious torch, that all may see This symbol of a Nation’s Motherhood, Fair Liberty, the beautiful, the.good! Stupendous triumph of ambitious art, Helped by a million eager, eanest hands • - - Up to the lofty height whereon she stands, She knits two great republics heart to heart And, smiling frorfi our country’s open door, • Welcomes..the homeless wanderer to onr‘ . shore. > ’ ’ —Ella Wheeler Wildcat. OUT OF THE DEPTHS. “I tell you, Hawks worth, I know what I’m talking.about, and I don't believe in any. chicken-Tieartedness when it com eq to a clear matter of justice; and if I caught tramp, beggar or thief on my premises, and could prove he'd been tak ing anything belonging to me, I’d show him no mercy whatever.” And Captain Whip pieton brought his strong fist down on the railing by which he happened to be standing with a thump which made the metals ring again. '*’ He was on his way home from the Mariner’s Club rooms, and had encoun tered the Chief of Police, Marshal Hawks- : worth, who had been telling how some’ young thieves were destroying the peace of some of the residents of Prince ave nue, but how hard it was to arrest mere boys. Captain Wipperton’s fine house was a little way out of the city proper, and npw, after having chatted with several friends on the shipping news at the club, he was on the" way home to eat his Thanksgiving dinner. ' ' ‘ ■ The Captain was rather given to blus ter and flourish, but was strongly sus pected of being a kind man at heart, though some wondered that, well off as he was, he never seemed very charitably disposed. His housekeeper dispensed small charities occasionally, but the Cap tain, a bounteous provider where his own .table was concerned, thought but little Os thewantsof the.“ Great Outside.” “Rather a strange time to be talking of justice and tramps, ” said the minis ter, as he cheerily joined the two men at the railing on his way home from church. “I hope,” he added, a genial smile overspreading his benevolent coun tenance, “we shall not forget the Giver of all gbod-giffs this bright Thanksgiv ing Day,” and the minister passed on?> I i Hawksworth started for phe | fetation, and Captain AVhippleton turned I toward home, visions of a savory meal ’ preceding his heavy footsteps. * . • Athirt distance from his own door his reflections received a sudden shock as he saw a boy dart out of the side gate, a suspicious looking bundle in a fiandker cbief dangling in one Land. The boy without looking either to the right or left darted along the road, soon turning into a'side street. “ Oh, I’ll catch you, you young ras cal,” said the Captain to himself as he i sprang along with surprising i gility, con- I sidtring his we'ght. The boy, still without turning, sped along, the Captain following with equal .swiftness. The child led him a long race, and many persons along the lower part of the city where he was now traveling gazed curiously at the large, I well-dressed -man evidently bent on reaching a given point within a limited ’ time. The narrow streets grew still narrower as the boy, apparently fancying himself more secure on his own soil, slackened his pace, so allowing his unseen fol- | lower to gain upon him rapidly. At length he turned into a contracted court, ■ and entered a door just as Captain Whip- Sleton entered the alley. The boy also isappeared round the top of a flight of ■ stairs just as the Captain entered the i outside door. For two reasons the Captain went over the stairs guardedly. He wished ■ to make no noise, and he half feared the rickety stairs would give way beneath what he styled his “ uncommon heft.” \ I i At the far end of the first landing was a room with the door ajar. The Cap tain approached and listened, a boyish voice was saying: “Now then, let’s sit right up in our -little bed, and see what we’ve got for a I nice Thanksgiving dinner. Up-a-diddy; that’s it! Now then, what’s in this bun dle. we wonder.” ' The hall in which the sturdy. Captain was Standing'was almost as dark as pitch, but a window at the end of the little room into which he peeped enabled him I •j to se..' the boy he had been pursuing. I He w as, while talking in this cheerful ' | stra'n. also lifting from a bed of raga I the emaciated form of a young girl. At first the Captain thought her a mere ' child, but when she spoke he found him self mistaken. Opening the handkerchief, the boy ■ held up some fresh looking biscuit, the ; remains of some broiled chicken, a few j fried potatoes and a mass of potato I i skins. “Now you see, Janie,” he ran on, ‘Tm a-goiu’ to hyper round an’ git a smart; lire i:i no time, then I'm n-goin’ to boil j these pnrin’s an’ have a feast. Rich ■ folks they don't mind how they peel [ potatoes , "why, there’s mos half the in- » side left on these skins'' i. “Where d d you get these nice things, I p little brothers’’ The voice whic h put the question was |. thin, weak and anxious. i „ “Uh, I ketched them up in a kitchen j jtist in time to save somebody the trouble | o’ throwin’ them ou ‘ Ob,. Bony I” sa’ l the troubled voice. I I “dan t you know < al will be grieved if | youdo so! I could i*t eat things you took j ' without they was ,rive you. ’ Why didn’t ’ • you ask some one ”, • . . I ’ “I tell you t.M only Ravins. J in- i ’ listed tbeehild. -thing! as was pitched into an old basin to be headed but. Hope ■ you don’t c dl that nothin’ wro-. g, talcin’* f i what was goto’ to the piggies. Why. 1 ; you ain’t got no idea, Jaaie, you ain’t, | whnt feast* r’ch folks thrown away; bull like's not if I’d a-aiked they’d a sent me » > aWuy Without even the leavin’a’’ I ' Uaptaiu Whippletou easily recognized I the remains of his abundant Thankagiv- 1 ing breakfast,and not being used at all to such seenes, his eyes were getting blurred disagreeably, and a great lump In his throat seemed threatening to choke him every moment. But the low -voice be gan, again: “You know, little, brother, mother, she knew all about the Bible, and nights, when she lay, a-dying, she used'to repeat things she knowed to me, and I remem ber, ma, she. used to say as ’twas better to starve than to take what wasn’t our’n, and Miss Limpscy, my Sunday-school teacher, she said what I've often and often told you, Bony boy, we must obey God first of all, and He certainly will care for ms.” . .. There was a tremble in the poor voice which made ■ Captain Whippieton swal low so hard he nearly strangled in his ef forts to suppress a cough. “Bony,” pausing in the midst of the fire he was making,- asked in a voice so piteous its tones lingered in. the Captain’s memory i long afterwards. “Why don’t your teacher ever come to see you, I’d like to know; and say, j Janie, you don't ’speck God wants a cove i and his poor, sick sister to starve, do I you?. I worked like time’n Caesar all last! week an’ only got money nuff to buy these chips and coals, for I won’t let you freeze, Janie, a*nice ole sister that’s took care o’ me from a baby, when I nothin’ but a bag o’ bones an’ got named after my own ’pearance. Why I ! bless you, Janie girl. I could a-flccced j - these rich folks like sixty! Therewarn’t j no one in the kitchen, an’ there stood a big chicken pie all ready for the table— my! how she looked, and how it must a-tasted!” Bony paused, a dreamy look of delicious imagination transfixing his far ioff gaze for a moment, then he went . i on .“And then there was vegetables, dr-I anges, nuts, puddin’s, pies. Gracious! i You never saw anythin’ like tke things I they had—but all I took was a pan o’ ole leavin's. You don’t call that bad for a hungry cove, do you? Thanksgiving Day i too.” Only to God alone was known the ; heroism involved in the sick girl’s re ply - “I’d rather you’d take them back again, dear little brother.” “Well then, I will!” impetuously burst out poor Bony, gulping down a great sob*. “I’ll take’em all back and beg i ’em—” - “No, you won’t!” thundered the Cap- ' tain, bursting pell-mell into the little room; “no, you won't, because I won't have it! You just come with me, little feller, and I’ll give you half that chicken ! pie you saw, and a few slices of turkey beside. -Then you shall have some! potatoes and turnips and squash and * onions and cranberries. I'll sling in a!» jiie and a taste of pudding, too, and a few oranges, and jim cracks, like tea and sugar, for Janie over there. Come, we’ll start right along. You needn’t ; look-so frightened; I only hollered like a hurricane because my throat nurt, and I couldn’t in aster my voice somehow; and I tore in wilder than a nor’easter because I—l was in a hurry.” Then ho added in a voice tender as a woman’s, turning to nanie: ' | “My poor child, how long have you lain here, and what’s the trouble?” *" : *Tt's my hip, air,” answered Janie,her eyes dilated, and still only half recov ered from the Captain's unex pected entrance had given her. “I fell and broke it; but one of these days I may walk again when I get a doctor to it. But please don't blame poor Bony, sir; i he meant no wrong, I’m sure. We want • to belhonestpeople, indeed we do, sir!” \ “Well, well,’’ said the Captain,gruffly, • “the first thing’s to get some dinner down both your throats. Throw that stuff away, there. Come on, my boy.” Marshal Hawksworth, on his way from •the station-house to his Thanksgiving dinner, suddenly encountered Captain; Whippletof striding along by the side of a small, ragged boy of about ten years, as between them they carried a great market basket, which evidently taxed the Captain’s herculean strength, for it was evident the boy's share of the burden was only a mere pretense. For the first time since he peered into Janie’s narrow room, his conversation concerning his tenible threats as to tramps and thieves, recurred to Lis mind upon seeing Hawksworth’s face. ■ “Halloo!” -shouted the Marshal, “what’s up ??’ “Oh, we’re bearing away to a shallow port,Bort o’ loading up for a fresh cruise, ” shouted back the Captain without stop-; ping. : When Janie’s astonished eyes beheld the wondrous supply contained in the great basket, her first remark was: “Qh, how splendid! mw what a ’thanksgiving dinner Granny Beers shall have'.” • “Who’s Granny Beers? inquired the ; Captain. She was an old bed ridden woman on ! the next floor above, who at the time of her mother’s death, years before, had been very kind to Janie. Impelled by some sudden impulse, I Captain Whippieton told Janie to keep what he had brought, it was all for her and Bony. He would attend to Granny f Beers. Slowly ascending the creaking stairs, he reached another miserable room, | where a very old woman was slowly fad- * ■< ing out of life with consumption. Before Captain Whippieton had sat by ; her side fifteen minutes, he had heard | more of genuine thankfulness, and seen ] ’ more of real resignation and content i, than ever in his life before. The housekeeper declared afterward ' that “Captain Whipjrieton. dear soul, ’ did act the queerest that Thanksgiving ! Day” of anything she ever heard*. Run- : ning about with first one basketful of j provisions,, then another, until she ‘‘ter- ' taiiily thought the man gone Clean crazy.” When Captain Whippieton started out the next day to consult his doctor about Janie, and to call again on Grandma; Beers, he came upon the minister and Marshal Hawksworth, and the latter be gan sportively: ' i " “Well, Captain, c lught any thieves or tramps yeti I thought my>elf something >of the kind had you pretty well in tow ; yesterday.”. To the Marshal’s surprise the tall, pow der ftil Captain flushed visibly through his swartify skin, and finally replied with a huskineia. which claimed tfie hearer’s ; gravest attention: 4 I “Yea, Hawksworth, I suppose I did . c->tch a little tramp or something akin to one, yesterday, but it was only that the . Almighty, who JUndly feeds us all, NUMBER 49. — —.. might teach me a lesson. I believe, now, that vengeance is not always justice; what looks like justice is not generally what GoiJ calls mercy.” Then no added with charming humility from such a .towering figure : “Here I’ve been taking God’s boun ties for years and years without ever a truly thankful feeling in my sinful old heart. Since I gave up the seis I’ve often fretted over not having enough to do. Bless your heart, man, some of the best, most graceful and loving of God’s creatures are a’l but starving within sight of my own door! I’ve found oc cupation. From this time forth I pro pose to recognize some of the claims, human and divine, which, in my ignor ance of their existence, I've shirked like a thief heretofore. ” “They do say,” remarked the City Marshal, a few months later, “there ain’t a kinder or more charitable man in the place than old Captain Whippieton. j He didn’t used to be just like that, but I guess something kind of woke him up i about Thanksgiving time. I suppose he ! knows all about it.” —*“ Yes; the Captain knew.— Golden Rute. English Rural SnperstitifW. There are workingmen in secluded hamlets who - still cling to their ances tors’ faith in astrology and in the “voices of the stars.” as translstcd to mundane I comprehension through the medium of I the prophetic almanacs. And this not vaguely, tentatively, but with a robust credulity which can shape and govern their every-day actions, their buying and selling, their sowing and reaping, their ! contracts, whether social, commercial -or We quote » boos fide? A skilled country mechanic, a ntan of distinct pretensions to ability;'"lost his ’ situation after fifteen years of apfwoved ! service. He sought another, but at first ! unsuccessful y. Trade was depressed, and the outlook sombre. An opening offered in a somewhat novel quarter. The inquiry was made if he would commence work on the Monday succeeding his en gagement. He hesitated, and lugubri ously demurred. “I will come on Tuesday, without fail,” he said. “Why not on the previous day?” curi ously asked the employer. “It’s a bad one, sir.” “Abad one I How? .1 don’t under stand.” “By the almanac, sir. I wouldn’t marry on that day if I were ever so deeply/ * smitten by ‘Cupid’s arrow,’ as they call;, - it on the valentines, and if it were a choice between then and never; and I wen’t start at a new job on Monday next . for any master in the country. Sorry to disoblige, sir.” ’ *■ * ‘ Remonstrance and ridicule were alike vain. “No, no; I mayn tbe able to ex plain it—there’s a heap o’things in the world that we can’t tell just the why and the wherefore of—but I’ve proved, and that’s better than explaining it;” “iu fact, there’s a proof here in this little bit of business. My almanac told me I was - to have changes this year. I 4 round, but couldn’t so-MUch as guess " where they w&IX to come from. But you all the almanac was and I’ve noticed it scores of times.” Thia same artisan stood sponsor on another occasion for a statement so cu rious as to be worth reproducing as a specimen of the humor noi simply of rural, but of technical superstition, also. He was descanting on various occult in fluences of the heavenly bodies-ia fa vorite topic with a congenial audience. < ‘ The moon’s power is Very remarkable.■” , he said; “as is well-known and admitted, it rules the tide*. And it likewise makes a wondcrul difference to timber. You may hardly credit this, but it’s a matter of experience again. Timber felled when the moon is waxing planes or cuts up nigh as easy again as the very same sort, and age, and growth of tim ber felled when the moon is on the wan?. It s queer, but true.”— Ctuvdl, Sugar Statistics. The ordinary sugar of commerce made from sugar cane and beets. There is very little difference id tht cf the two varieties. The bulk of the cane sugar is grown iu the tropical North and South America, the Fast and We«t India Islands, British India ahd Southern China. The beet sugar ispro duced chiefly in France, Germany, Bus hian Poland and Austria-Hungary. The relative amount of cane and beet sugar i? very nearly epial, the prospective crop of cane sugar for the current year in what are known as exporting countries, being 2,44-",0t0 tons, while the prospec tive crop of beet sugar will not be far from 2,523,000 tons, making a total available supply for the year of 4,080,000 tons. .Statistic-s show, however, that sugar, like some other good things in the world, is not distributed evenly. Great Britein consumes more sugar per capita than any other country, and the United States come next in the list. For the year 1885 the consumption of sugar, so far as it can be traced by rulia-’ ble figures, was as follows: I one. Ton*. United States.. Other European Great Britain.. .1,•»:}.«« countries 333,000 Fraace...... .. l»7O,OO0 Hon - exporting German Empire 338,000 counUlee I,GOO,''IOO AuatHs IsS.OOO ———- Holland 4 ;,ouo Total 5.432,009 This statement, allowing the last year’s crop to have been as great as the prospec tive crop for 1880, would lexve 1,14'.',000 tons on hand or to have gone into con sumption unaccounted for. The per capita consumption of Great Britain was a trifle over GO pounds; that of the United States 4V.J povgds; that of France was scarcely 80 pounds, and that of Germany still 1< sa. The consumption for the United States varies somevhat, according to the condition of business. While in 1885 it was 84L& pounds per . capita, in 1804 it was 51 and in 1883 only 47.6. — Philadelphia Timet. The I‘ragcdy of Life. - (S<ene First. ) Fonsonby--“Ybu' see the fbntisen ta!?’’ DeTwirliger—“Ya-as.” j| Poasonby— ‘ My father was aboijt the irst man to enter that hotel when it was X gened.” i Scene Second > First Old .Mechanic—“see that yoang ‘ iudc across the way.” Second Ditto—“ay.” First Old Mechanic—“l knew his father well; he used to be a porter in tfef Uotilincntai.”— Pkiladeiphta Calk