1 Br H.KJDER HAGGARD, - - . . -CHAPTU II OOSTINl BI). - "And tli is in tbe tale they told ine-com-pleted, of course, from wbat I learned after ward and an odd one it fa. It seeniji. that my half brother married a Norfolk lady- 'tweet young thina and treated her liko a dog. He was a drunken rascal, was my half brother, and ho beat his poor wife and iihame fully neglected her, and even ill treated tbe two little gil ls, till at last tbe poor woman, weak as she was from suffering and ill health, could bear it no longer, and formed the wild ttea of escaping to this country and throw ing herself upon my protection. It will show how desperate she mast have been. She craped together and borrowed some money, enough to pay for three second class passage to Natal and a few pounds over, and one day, ' when her brute of a husband was away on the driuk and gamble, she slipped on board a jailing ship lu the London docks, and before he knew anything about it they were well out to. sea. But it was her last effort, poor, dear soul, and the excitement of it ' flnfched . her. ' Before they had been teu days at sea she sank and died, and tbe two poor children were left alone. Aud what they must have suffered, or rather what poor Jess must have suffered, for she was old enough to feel, God only knows. But I can tell you this, Kite has never got over the shock to this hour. ' It has left its mark on her, ah-; " But, let people say wbat they will, there is a power that- looks after the helpless, ami that power took those poor, homeless, wandering children trader its wing. The cap tain of the vessel befriended them, and when at last they got to Durban some of the passen gers made a subscription and got an old Boer, who was coming up this way with his wife to tbe Transvaal, to take them under bis charge. The Boer and his vrouw treated tbe children fairly Well, but they did not do one thing more "than they bargained for. At tbe turn from tbe Wakkerstrom road, that you came along to-day, they put the children down, for they had no luggage, and told them if they went along there they would come to Meiu beer Croft's bouse. That was in tho middle of the afternoon, and they were until 8 o'clock getting here, poor little dears, for the track was fainter then than is is now, and they wandered off into the veldt and would have perished there in tbe wet and cold bad they not chanced to see the lights of the house. And that was how my nieces came here, Capt. NieL And here they have been ever since, except for a couple of years when I sent them to the Cape for schooling, and a lonely niuu I wasswhen they Were away." "And how about the father?" asked John Niel, deeply interested. "Did yon ever hear any more of himf - "Hear of him, the villain!" almost shouted the old man, jumping up in wrath. "Ay, d n him, I heard of him. What do you think t The two chicks had been with me some eighteen months, long enough for me to leant to love them with all my heart, when one fine morning, as I was seeing about the new kraal wall, I see a fellow come riding up (mi an old, raw boned, gray horse. Up he oomes to me, and as he came I looked at him, and said to myself, 'you are a drunkard, you are, and a rognc; it' written on your face, and, what's more, I know your face.' You see I did not guess it was a son of my own father's that I was looking at How should I?" - 'Is your name Croft? be said. I . 'Ay,' I answered. So is mine,' be went on with a sort of a drunken leer. 'I'm your brother. "Are you 1 I said, beginning to get my back up, for I guessed what his game was, 'and what may you be after! I tell you at once, and to your face, that if you are my brother you are a blackguard, and I don't want to' know you or have anything to do with you; and if you are hot, I beg your pardon for coupling you with such a scoundrel.' "Oh, that's your tune, is itr raid he, with a sneer. 'Well, now, my dear brother Silas, I want my children. They have got a little half brother at home for I have married again, Silas who is anxious to have them to play with, so if you will be so good as to hand . them over, I'll take them away at once.' ; 'You'll tako them away, will your said I, all of tremble with rage and fear. " 'Yes, Silas, I wilL They are mine by law, and I am not going to breed children fofryoa to hare the comfort of the'r society. I've taken advice, Silm, and that's sound law,' and he leered at me again. "I stood and looked at the man, and thought of bow he had treated those poor children and their young mother, and my blood boiled and I grew mad. Without another word I jumped over the half finished wall and caught him by the leg (for 1 was a strong man ton years ago) and jerked him off the horse. As he came down bo dropped the sjambock from his hand, and I caught bold of it and then and there gave him the soundest hiding a man ever had. Lord, how he did halloa! When I was tired I let him get up. " 'Now,rI said, ' be off with you, and if you comeback here IT1 bid the Kaffirs hunt vou back to Natal with their sticks. This is' the South African Republic, and we don't care overmuch about law here.' Which we didn't In those days. - "'All right, Silas, he said, 'all right, you shall pay for this. I'll hav those children, aud, for your sake, 111 make their life a hell you mark my words South African He public or no South African Republic. I've got the law on my side,' "Off ho rode, cursing and swearing, and I flung his sjambock after him. And it was tbe first and last time I saw my brother." f "What became of him r asked John Niel. ."I'll tell you, just to show you again that there is a power that keeps just such men in Its eye. He got back to Newcastle that night, and went about the canteen there abusing me and getting drunker and drunker, till at last tbe canteen keeper sent for hit boys to turn, him Out. Well, tbe boys were rough, as Kaffirs': are apt to be with a drunken white man, and be straggled and fought, and in the middle of ir the Mood began to run from his' mouth, and be dropped down dead of a broken : blood vessel, and there was an end of him. That is the story of tbe two girls, Capt. Niel, and now I'm off to bed. To-morrow I'll show you round the farm, and we will have a talk bout bosinea. Good night to you, Capt tKkd;rodnlghtl" I- CHAPTER m. . kilt. FBAHK MULLKB. John Niel woke early next morning, feeling as sore and stiff as though he had been well . beaten and then strapped np tight in horse girths. Ho made shift, however, to dress " himself, and then, with the help of a stick, limped through the French windows that opened from his room on to the veranda and nrveyed tbe scene before him. It was a de lightful spot At the back of the house was the steep, bowlder strewn face of the flat , topped hill that curved round on each side, embosoming a great slope of green, in tbe lap : oMrbich the bouse was placed. . Tbe house itself was solidly built of brown stone, and, with tbe exception of tbe wagon shed and ' other outhouses, which were roofed with gal vanised irou that shone and glistened in tbe ' 'rays of the morning sun in a way that would have made an eagle blink, was covered with rich brown thatch. All along its front ran a . ', wide veranda, up tbe trellis work of which ' green vines and blooming creepers trailed pleasantly; and beyond, was the broad car riage drive of red soil, bordered with busby - orange trees laden with odorous flowers and green and golden fruit On tbe farther side of the orange trees were the gardens, fenced in with low walla of rough stone, and tbe orchard full of standard fruit - trees, and beyond-these again tbe oxen and ostrich - kraals, the latter full of longjiMoked birds -To the right of the house grew Uinvtug plantations of blue gum and black wattlo, -end to the lutt Vjasa broad stretch Ofrolti - - vated lands, ) nig so that they could be irri gated for wtater crops by cleans of water led from the great spring that gushed from the nvPtAin gije high above the house and gave its name of Mooifontein to the place. All these and many more things John Niel saw as he looked out from the veranda at Mooifontein, but, for. the moment at any rate, they were lost in tbe wild aud wonderful beauty of the panorama that rolled away for miles ami miles at his feet, till it was ended by the mighty range of the Drakensberg to the left, tipped hero and there with snow, and by the dim and vast horizon of the swell ing Transvaal plants to the right and for in front of him. It was a beautiful eight, and one to moke tbe blood run in a man's veins and his heart beat happily because he was alive to see it. Mile upon mile of grass clothed veldt beneath, bending and rippling like corn field in the quick breath of the morning, space upon space of deep blue sky overhead with ne er a cloud to dim it, and the swift rush of the wiud between. Then to the left there, impressive to look on and-conducive to solemn thoughts, the mountains rear their crest against the sky, and, crowned with tbe gathered snows of the centuries whose monu ments they are, from seou to aaon gaze majes tically out over the wide plains and tbe ephemeral, ant like races that tread them, and while they endure think themselves the mas ters of their little world. And over all mouutuin, plain and flashing stream the glorious light of the African sun and tbe spirit of life moving now as it nce moved upon the darkening waters. John stood and gazed at the untamed beauty of the scene, in his mind comparing it to many cultivated views that he bad known, and coming to tbe conclusion that, however desirable tha presence cf civilized man might be in the world, it could not be said that his operations really added to its beauty. For the old line, ."Nature unadorned adorned the mat," still remains true in more senses tbaii pne. Presently .bis reflections were inter rupted by tbe step of Silas Croft, which, not witlistainiing bis age and bent frame, still rah fii m enough and bo turned to greet him. - "Well, Capt Niel," "said the old man, "up already! It looks well if you mean to take to farming. Yes, it's a pretty view, and a pretty place, too. Well, I made it Twenty five years ago I rode up here and saw this spot Look, you see that rock there behind the house, I slept under it and woke at sun rise and looked out at this beautiful view and at the great veldt (it was all alivo with game then), and I said to myself, 'Silas, for five and twenty years have you wandered about this great country, and now you are getting tired of it; you've never seen a fairer spot than this or a healthier; now be a wise man and stop here.' And so I did. I bought 8,000 morgen (0,000 acres), more or less, for 10 down and a case of gin, and I set to work to make this place, and you see I havo made It Ay, it has grown under my hand, every stone and tree of it, and you know what 'uat means in a new country. But one way and another I have done it, and now I have got too old to manage it, and that's how I came to give out that I wanted a partner, as old Snow told you down in Durban. You see, I told Snow it mast be .... r BUS. a gentleman; I don't care much about the money, I'll take a thousand for a third share if I can get a gentleman none of your Boers or mean whites for me. I tell you, I hav had enough of Boers and their ways; the best day of my life was when old Shepstone rai. up the Union. Jack there in Pretoria and 1 could call 'myself an Englishman again. Lord! and to think that there are men who are subjects of tbe queen and want to be sub jects of a republic again! Mod! Capt Niel, I tell you, quite- mad! However, there's an end of it all now. You know what Sir Oar. net Wolseley told them in the name of the queen up at the - Vaal river, ' that this country., would remain English till the sun stood .still - in ' the heavens and tbe waters of the Vaal ran backward. That's good enough for me, for, as I tell these grumbling fellows who want the laud back now that we have paid their debts and de feated their enemies, no English government goes back on its word, or breaks engagements solemnly entered into by its representatives. We leave that sort of thing to foreigners. No, no, Capt Niel, I would not ask; you to take a share in this place if I wasn't sure that it would remain under the British flag. But we will talk of all this another time, and now come in to breakfast" After breakfast, as John was far too lame to go about the farm, tbe fair Bessie sug gested that he should come and help her to wash a batch of ostrich feathers, and, ac cordingly, Off he went The locus operandi was in a space of grass in the rear of a little clump of "naatcbe" orange trees, of which the fruit is like that of the Maltese orange, only larger. Here woro placed an ordinary washing tub half filled with warm water and a tin bath full of cold. Tfao ostrich feathers, many of which were completely coated with red dirt, were plunged first into the tub of warm water, where John Niel scrubbed them with soap, and then transferred to the tin bath, where Bessie rinsed them and then laid them on a sheet in the sun to dry.. Th morning was very pleasant, and John soon came to the conclusion that there ore many more disagreeable 'occupations in the world than tbe washing of ostrich feathers with a, lovely girl to. help you; for there was.no dohbt but that she was.', lovely, very type of .happy, healthy womauhood, as. she sat there opposite to him on the little stool, her sleeves rolled up almost . to the shoulder, showing a pair of arms that would not. have disgraced a statue of Venus, and laughed and. chatted away as she washed the feathers. ..Now, John Niel was not a suscepti ble man; be had gone through the fire years before and burned hn fingers like many another confiding youngster; but, all the same, he did wonder as he sat there-and watched this fair girl, who somehow reminded him of a rich rosebud bursting into bloom. how long it would be possible to live in the CUM house with her without falling under the spell ol her charm and beauty. And then he began to think of Jess, and what a strange contrast the two were. -"Where is your sisterf he asked presently. . "Jess! Oh, I think that she has gone, to the Lion Kloof , reading or sketching, I don't know which. You see, in this establishment I represent labor and Jess represents intel lect," and she nodded her head prettily at bim, and added, "There is a mistake some where; she got all the brains." "Ah," said John, quietly, and looking up at her, "I don't think that you are entitled to complain of the way that nature has treated you. - She Mushed a little, more at the tone of his voice than tbe words, and went on hastily: "Jess iathe dearest, best and cleverest woman in the whole World there, I believe that she has only one fault, and that is that she thinks too much about me. Uncle told me that be had told you how we came here first when was 8 years old. Well, I remember that when we J out our way on the veldt that night, and it rained so and was so cold, Jess took on ner own shawl and wrapped it round me over my own. Well, it has been just like that with bar always. I am always to have tne shawl everything is to give way to me. But there, that is Jess all over; she is very cold, cold as a stone, I sometimes think, but I when she doe. core for anybody it is auoujh (o frighten one. I don't know a great num ber of women,' but somehow I dont think that there can be many in the world like Jess. She is too good for this wild place, she ought to go away to England, write books and be come a famous woman, only," she added, re flectively, "I am . afraid that Jess' books would all be sod ones." . Just then Bessie stopped and ' suddenly changed color, the bunch of lank, wet feathers she held in her hand dropping from it with a lit tie splash back into the bath. Fol lowing her glauco, John looked down the venue of blue gum trees and perceived big in with a . broad hat and mounted on a splendid bl.-u.-k horse, cantering leisurely to ward tbe Iiousa "Who 18 that. Miss Croftr he asked. "It is a man I don't like," she said, with a littlu stamp of her foot "His name is Frank Muller, nml he is half a Boer aud half an Engliblimuu. He is very rich and very clever, aud owns all the land round this place, so uncle bos to be civil to him, though he does not like bim either. I wonder what he wants now." . - On came the horse, and John thought that its ri lor was going to pass . without seeing them, when suddenly the movement of B siu'x ilivss bet we. u the "naatche" trees caught his ove, an 1 he pulled up and looked round. He wjis a iare ami exceedingly handsome man, apparently about 40 years old, with clenr cnt features, cold, light blue eyes aud a remarkable golden beard that bung right down o 7er bis chest For a Boer he was rather smartly dressed, in English made tweed clothes aud tall riding boots. tAh, Miss Bessie," he called out in English, "there you are with your pretty arms all bare. I'm in luck to come just in time to see them. Shall I come and help you to wash the feath ers? Only say the word, now" fl LL.-4-'- AH, HISS BESSIK," HE CALLED OUT IN ENGLISH. Just then he caught sight of John Niel and checked himself; "I have come to look for a black ox, branded with a heart and a 'VP inside of the heart Do you know if your uncle has seen it on tbe place any where?" "No, Meinheer Muller," replied Bessie, coldly, ""but ho is down there," pointing at a kraal on tbe plain some half mile away, "if you wont to, go and ask about it" "Mr. Muller," said he, byway of correction, and with a curious contraction of the brow. " 'Meinheer' is all very well for the Boers, but we are oil Englishmen now. Weil, the ox can wait With your permission, Til stop here till 'Oom' Croft (Uncle Croft) comes back," and, without further ado, he jumped off his horse and, slipping the reins over its head as an indication to it to stand still, ad vanced toward Bessie with outstretched hand. As he did so the young lady plunged both her arms up to the elbows in the bath, and it struck John, who was observing the' whole scene, that she did this in order to avoid the necessity of shaking bonds with her stalwart visitor. Sorry my bands are wet," sbe said, giving him a cold little nod. "Let me introduce you. Mr. (with emphasis) Frank Muller Capt Niel, who has come to help my uncle with the place."' John stretched out his hand and Muller shook it "Captain?" he said, interrogatively; "a ship captain, I suppose?" "No," said John, "a captain of the English army.' "Oh, a rooibaatje (red jacket). Well, I dont wonder at your taking to farming after the Zulu war." "I don't quite understand you," said John; rather coldly. "Ob, no offense, captain, no offense. I only meant that you rooibaatje did not come very well out of the war. I was there with Piet Uys, and it was a sight, I can tell you. A Zulu had only to show himself at night and one would see your regiments skreck (stam pede) like a span of oxen when they wind a lion. And then they'd fire ah, they did fire anyhow, anywhere, but mostly at tha clouds, there -was no stopping them; and so. you ser, I thought that you would like to turn your sword into a ploughshare, as the Bible says but no offenso, I'm sure no offense." All this while John Niel, being English to his backbone, and cherishing the reputation of his profession almost as dearly as Ins own honor, was boiling with inward wrath, which was all the fiercer because be knew that there was some truth in the Boer's insults. He had the sense, however, to keep his temper out wardly, at any rate. . "I was not in the Zulu war, Mr. Muller," be said, and just then old Silas Croft came riding up, aud the conversation dropped. Mr. Frank Muller stopped to dinner and far on into the afternoon. His lost ox seemed to have entirely slipped his memory. There he sat close to the fair Bessie, smoking and drinking gin and water, and talking with great volubility in English, sprinkled with Boer Dutch terms that John Niel did not understand, and gazing at the young lady in a manner which John somehow found un pleasant ' Of course it was no affair of his, and he had no interest in the matter, but for all that -be found tbe remarkable looking Dutchman exceedingly disagreeable. At lost, indeed, he could stand it no longer, aiid bob bled out lor a little walk with Jess, who, in her'; abrupt way, , offered to show im the garden. '!.. - - --" -' v ' .;-. "You don't like that man!" she said to him, aa they slowly went down the slope in front of the house. ' . "No; do you?" "I think," replied Jess, slowly and with much emphasis, "that he is the most odious man that I ever saw, and the most curious. And then she relapsed into silence, only broken now and again by an occasional re mark about tbe flowers and trees. Half an hour afterward, when they arrived again at the top of the slope, Mr. Muller was just riding off down the avenue of blue irums. Bv the veranda stood a Hottentot named Jantje, who bad been holding the Dutchman's horse.- He was curious, wizened up little fellow, dressed in rags, and with ban like tbe worn tags of a black woolen carpet ' His age might have been anything between 35 and 60; it was impossible to form an opinion on the point ' Just now, however, his yellow monkey face was convulsed with an expression of intense malignity, and he was standing there in the sunshine cursing rapidly and beneath his breath in Dutch, and shaking his fist after the retreat ing Boer very epitome of impotent, over mastering passion, "What is be doing?" asked John. -Jess laughed. "Jantje does not like Frank Muller any more than I do, but I dont know why. He will never tell me.' ; CHAPTER IV. ' .- ; BESSIE IS ASKED Uf MARRIAGE. : In due course John Niel got over his' sprained ankle and the other juries inflicted on him by tbe infuriated cock ostrich (it is, by the way,' a humiliating thing to be knocked out of tune by a feathered fowl), and set to work to learn the routine of farm Ufa He did not find this a disagreeable task, especially when he had so fair an instructress w . . I , II - , . 1 . . .l . Ta'XZ anouE VaES an energetic and hard working temperament, ! he very soon got more or less into tbe swing Of the thing, and at tbe end of six weeks be gan to taik quite learnedly of cattle and os triches and sweet and sour veldt About once a week or so Bessie used to put him through a regular examination as to his progress; also she gave him lessons in Dutch and Zulu, both of which tongues she spoke to' perfection; so. it will be seen that be did not lack for pleas ant and profitable employment -Another thing was that he grew much attached to old Silas Croft Tbo old gentleman, with his hand-, some, honest face, his large and varied stock of experience, and his sturdy English charac ter, made a great Impression ou his mind. He had never met a man quite like him before. Nor was tbe liking unreciprocated, for his host took a wonderful, fancy to John NieL "You see, my dear," he explained to bis niece Bessie, "he's quiet, and he doesn't know much about fanning, but he's willing to learn, and he's such a gentleman. - Now, where one has Kaffirs to deal with, as on a place like this, you must have a gentleman. Your mean white will never get anything out of a Kaffir; that's why tbo Boers kill them and flog them, because they can't get anything out of them without . But you see Capt Niel gets on well enough with tiicin, I think he'll do, my dear, I think he'H do," and Bessio quite n greed with bim. , Anden it came to pass that after this six weeks' trial tbo bargain-was finally struck, and John paid over his 1,000 and took a third interest iu Mooifontein. Now it is not possible, hi a general way. for a youngish man like John Niel to live in the same -bouse with a young aud lovely woman like Bessie Croft without running more or less risk of entanglement More es pecially is this so where the two people have little or no outside society or distraction to divert the- attention- from each other. Not that there was as yet at any rate, the slightest biut-jff affection between them. OiUy they liked one another very much, and found It pleasant to be a good deal together. Iu short, they were walking along that easy, winding road that leads to the mountain paths of love. It is a very broad road, like another road that runs elsewhere, and, also like this last, it has a wide gate. Sometimes, too, it leads to destruction. But for all that it is a most agreeable one to follow band in hand, winding as it does through the pleasant meadows of companionship. - The view is rather Jimite.l, it is true, aud homelike lull of familiar tilings. There stand the kiue, knee deep in the grass; there runs the water; and there grows the corn. Also one can stop if one likes. By and by it grows different By and by when the travelers tread the heights of passion, precipices will yawn and torrents rush, lightning will fall and (tonus wi'l blind; aud who can know that they will attain at last to that far off peak, crowned with tne glory of a perfect peace which men call happiness? There are those who say it never can be reached, and that the halo which rests upon its slopes is no earthly light, but rather, as it were, a promise of a beacon a glow reflected whence we know not, aud lying on this alien earth as the sun's light lies on the dead bosom of the moon. Some say, again, that they have climbed its topmost pinnacle and tasted of the fresh breath of . heaven that sweeps around its heights ay, and heard the quiring of immortal harps and the swanlike sigh of angels' wings; and then behold! a mist has fallen upon them, and they have wandered in it, and when it cleared they were on the mountain paths again, and tbe peak was far away. And a few there are who tell us that they live (here always, listening to tbe voice of God; but these are old and worn with journeying men and women who have out lived passions aud ambitious and tbe fire beats of love, and who now, girt about with memories, stand face to face with the sphinx eternity. But John Niel was no chicken, nor very likely to fall in love with the first pretty face he met He hd once, years ago, gone through that melancholy stage, and there, he thought, 'was an . end of it Another thing was tiat if Bessie attracted him, so did Jess in a different way. Before be had been a week in tbo house he bad come to the con "lusion that Jess was the strangest woman ho had ever mot, and in her own way one of tbe most attractive. Her very iuipabsivenea added to ber charm; for who is there in this world who does not like to learn a secret? To him Jess was a riddle of which he did not know the key. That she was clever and well iuformed he soon discovered from, her rare remarks; that she could sing like an angel he also knew; but what was the mainspring of her mind round what axis did it revolve that was what puzzled him. Clearly enough it was not like most women's, least of all like happy, healthy, plain sailing Bessie. So curi ous did ho become to fathom these mysteries tnat he took every oppn-tunity to associate with her, and would even, when be had time, go out with her on her sketching, or rather flower painting, -expeditions. On these oc casions she would sometimes begin to talk, but it was always about books, or England, or soiiio intellectual question.- She never spoke of herself. continued next Sunday. "The play's the thing. Wherein I'll reach the conscience of the kin?.'?,. . And equally true is it that Dr. Pierce's 'Pleasant Purgative Pellets ' (the original Little Liver Pills) are the most effectual means that can be ns.nl to reach the seat of disease, cleansing I he bowels and sys tem, and assisting natu.e in her recuper ative work. By druggists. ' dawlw . . If there are any valid critxisms which the workingrnen of "North C rolina have agrainst the Democrat ic party let them be heard; they are yet to be put lolth. Certainly the organization of the Bureau of Statis tics is not one of "them. The ap pointment of Commissioner Jones i the most conspicuous recognition of the working people of the State in our opinion that could - have been made.. If.'any many deserves to re present thvorking people ot the State he d4 -Eyery fair minded, honest- workingfman will say so. SmiOtfi'Ad Herald. 7 . The Rral Estate Boom, "'- Tbe late advance in real estate is some. thing marvelous. 'The-;.succeB8 of Dr, Hart's Blood and Liver Pills is sjtill more remarkable. . No pill has ever given the universal satisfaction For cleansing the blood and for all bilious - complaints, headaches, constipation. - etc., . we -feel warranted in saying that- Hart's Blood and Liver Pills -have no rival. Give them a triaL ..- The new Insurance Law of this State should be carefully examined by sheriffs arid other law officers, so as to collect the taxes . required and see that the law is properly enforced.:- No doubt there are many . bo eus companies doing business in the S ate, swindling . the . people' out of many dollars and inducing- men to pay for life insurance policies o the neglect of their own just individual debts. Charlotte Democrat. ' . - Any , Small Boy, wltU a Stick, can kill a tiger, if the tiger happens to be found when only a little cnb. e)o con sumption, tl'at deadliest and most feared of diseases, in this country, can assuredly bee mquered and destroyed if Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" be employ ed early.. : . z ... .-. . dawlw ' Peanats at wholesale," at Moore and Eobard's. - . ' ... tf. The "Pinafore Steam" is one of the m ivs oysters are served at Turner's. lie Killed 1T1 Wan. and Bnr led Him. . - :'k Jacksonville (Fla.) special sayt: A handful of loose dirt has led to the detection of a brutal murder in the town of Seffner, in Hillsboro' county, this State. Last Monday Donald B. Hall, 23 years old, mys teriously disappeared from his place of business in that town, but no ef fort was made to find him until Wednesday, when Justice &. Greene heard that lie had had a dispute with R. R. Gibson, an extensive ba nana planter living south of town. Gibson ia a-weaJthy man, but he bears a hard reputation, and he was arrested on suspicion. The search for young Hall was continued without-success until late Saturday af ternoon, when a farmer's bov notic ed a few traces of white sand mixed with the mould of Gibson's banaria plantation, r. Further investigation showed there was a trail formed by the sand leading to the centre ot the inclosure. These plantations are hoed over every day and the trail was very hard to follow, but it was finally traced to a spot where there was a considerable deposit of it- The searchers began digging and uncovered the body of Hall after going down about tour feet. The ground was tightly packed and the eand had been used to fill up the hole. Hall had been shot through tbe lungs. His skull was crushed by a blow from the butt of a rifle, and his bead was nearly severed from his body by a knife-cut. A coroner's jury found a verdict of wilful murder against 'Gibson, and yesterday he had to be removed to the jail at Tampa, as a party bad been .organized to lynch him. HaU oved Gibson thirty dollars, and the murder was the result of a dispute over the terms of its payment. The Arkansas House, by a vote ot 48 to 39, passed a bill to prevent the mortgaging of unplanted crops A crazy man, by name of Wetter lind, recently terrorized the Swedish town ot Goteborg for more than -a whole week. He had locked him self in the top story of a bouse, whence he commanded a wide sweep of street, and marked and fired at everybody who approached. After he had shot oae man dead the firemen attempted to drown him out, but could not get near enough, as the man was a dead shot. They next made iron shields to protect them in their approach, but these proved too cumbersome. An ats tempt to dislodge the luna ic by throwing dumb bells charged with electricity had to be abandoned. A barricade was then erected around the house by the police and regular seiie laid to it. I he lunatic stood it for a week belore he was starved out, and was then seized by strategy too weak to defend himself. He had wounded a number of people from his perch during the singular campaign. t piOR EtNT. . An Elegant House, 10foom. Don't apply un less yon are able to pay the rent, ap 8 dtf -WATSON & WEST. CASH Wtll ha n.M h. D1DFV 1MVTJ L T trott, Michigan, at their Southern Furchastntr 1 . ...... - .. . t '1 1 ... . . r . . . . I . I Barks. Srel8, Flowers, Gums, Moswt. &c , &c. Merchants desiring to enter into the business will please correspond. Addrei PARKE, DAVI3 & CO. ep212t Chiriotte, N. C, I do not want the Earth, Bat want vou to know tliat on April 1st I will remove to the Corner Store former ly occupied by Redwood & Co.,' with a 'arger and better stock of groceries than ever. ' : ; " A. D. COOPER, mh 23 daw3m I .- . FINE GROCERIES I O 0 H ; ; Dotted meats," . - pates of gme, canned fish, ' canned fruits, FRENCH" PEAS; Extra Fine; ' FRENCH MUSHROOMS, . DEVILED CRABS', SHRIMP, C. and B: PICKLES, PIN MONEY PICKLES, JELLIES PRESERVES CANTON GINGER, GROSSE AND BLACKWELL's r ' JAMS, -'.; OLIVES, EDAM CHEESE, FINEST SALAD OIL INSTANTANEOUS. - CHOCO LATE, BROMA, COCOA NEW ORLEANS MOLASSES, PURE EXTRACTED HONEY, . FINEST KEY WEST & IMPORTED CIGARS TABLE SUPPLI E3 OF EVERY -DESCRIPTION, s.- 9 o H O a o 11 8 h W o M o AT- EE'S NV 03 SO UTlI MAIN ST.' telephone No. 33." . : THE a5s ROLLINS l?j?o;priet;ors. FOR GO TO Farmers The best accommodations for our custom- Messrs. J. Wiley Shook of Haywood. ers J. A Nichols of Madison, and Capt. Ben A'. Newland are with us and would be glad to serve their friends. ASSURANCE THAT ASSURES ! The Equitable Life Has Assets of $75,000,000 ; Issued in 1886 $111,000,000; The plainest and safest policy. Incontestable after two years. Loiaea payable on presentation of proots without delay. ULYSSES DOUBLED Y, Agent Dr. WM. D. HILLIARD, Medical Examiner. mh l-d6m Atlantic & H. C. R. R. TIME TABLE NO. . In effect IS M., Snndaj. January 17th, 1886. EAST. WEST. No. 51. No. so. Passenger. STATIONS: Passenger. Arr. L'Te. Air. L'ye. F. m. r. u. A. M. A. M. lilt 10 aa 10 19 42 S47 7 47 4M COS 6 07 bSt 6 54 1 82 6 2 R47 Golds boro LaGrange Kinston New Berne Morebead City Moreliesd Depot Telly Except Sunday, 1118 1128 1140 Train 50 connects with Wilmington & Weldcn train bound North, leaving GoltJsbom 11:85a.m., and with Richmond & Danville train West, leav ing tioldsboro 12:35-?. m., and Wilmington 6 Weldon Train Sooth at 4:54 p. m. Train M connects with Richmond Danville Traiu. arriving at GoUtslwro 4:40 p. m , and with Wilmington & Weldon Train from th North at 4:54 p.m.. GaieFear&Y.y.E'yCofflj'y. TRAIN NORTH. Arrive Leave BennettsvlUe, 8 20 p m Fsyetteville, 12 00 m 12 26 pm San ford, 216 pm 826pm Greensboro, 6 00 p m Dinner at Fayetteville. - -TRAIN SOUTH. Arrive. Leave. ' Greensboro . - . - oOnr Sanfbrd - , t 20 p m 1 4&.p Fayetteville -Ibupm 4)pn Bennettaville ' - " 1 80pm. j. Dinner at San ford. Freight and Passenger Trmih leaves Bennetts viUe Tuesdays, Thursdays ancfSasardaya at 3 80 p m, arriving at Fayetteville t 8 p m. 1 , Leaves Fayetteville on. Tuesdays, TharKjajl and Saturdays at 6 86 a m. and arrives at Bea nettsvRle at 12 aa. - Freight and passenger Train North leaves Fay etteville on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8 a m, (connecting at Sanibra with Freight rnd Passenger Trains to Raleigh), leaves Sanford at 11 80 a m, and arrives at Greensboro at640pm. Leave Greensboro Tuesdays, Thursdays and 8aturdaf at 6 a m, leaves Sanford at 11 15 a m, and arrives at Fayetteville at 2 4o p m. JNO. M. ROSE, Gen. Pas. Agent. I. W. FRY. Gen. Superintendent JgXAMINE OUR STOCK OF irnsrE SHOES in Bay State Sailer Lewen & Co. 'a, and ' other makers. ' BEARDE1C, RANKIN & CO. Jan 26 dtf : SUGGESTION TO PIETOBAtCO CHEWEBS - I have in stock a full line of tf.S. Gravelys "Extra Gkew v "anuui ma" in "ma i btch- Fine Fig Tobaoco Vnd Lucy Hunt, (a lead ing brand of fine 9 inchplug.) Ihese Roods are all made of the best Henry OountT Leatu erwood leaf, knd mannf artored by t. H. John son A Co., Danville, Vs., and are guaranteed to be finest on the market. - . --: ' 'A. "; S Frink Lowgliraii, Main Btn trd door abeve Bank of aahevUI lactase, & SMITH THE THE Warehouse. Assurance Society A Surplus. 01 , 00,000; Outstanding Assuranc $411,000,000. ,Mr.9S. MMOLTJE1VS PROSPECT BREWERY,' PHILADELPHIA, PA. V O. MULLER & CO., Agents, ASHEVTLLE, N. C. We herewith take great pleasure in introduces for export and family use this Extra Unality Lager Beer, Brewed cf the beet Barley and imported Bohemian Hops. It surpasses in fine tast.i), flavor, brilliancy and nutritious qualities any other Lager Beer, and ia strictly pure and unadulterated. Phygi i ians ad viae the use of this Beer, and wo tall your special attention to the follow ini; imalyeis t Bwdwei Larer Beer, I 'nir natinjr from the Prospect Brewery, in Philadelphia, Pa. Tl e updereigned, at the request of the Tec! nicrl Society, has completed an Analysis of the "Budwei". Beer, brewed etCliam Welters' Prospect Brewery, in Philadelphia, which analysis exhibit the following results : Specific gravity; V0124 " V Alcohol, WWe ,. Extract, - 4,92&o Carbonic Acid. 02e Ashea, . - : 00ic Tl is signifies that ihe"Budweia" Beer iu ib essential qualities is almost tka exact counterpart of the best Imported fohemiae Beer.' .v. A further examination, seeking adul terations, proves conclusively that it on buns naught of that nature. Da. D. H. iUxnxbaum, T-on; Chemical Works. Brideebors. Pt Uad-.lpb.ia, Oct. 28, 188L . , , Fir Hotels, Boarding Houses, Private Families and the Trade, the above Beer ii pu up in patent-stopper Bottles (pints,) ' and in export bottles (pints,) well corked, wired, toiled and labeled. We deler the Beer free ot charge to , any part of tbe city, and call for tbe ' empty patent stopper bottles, which are never soiu dui must always De returned with the crates. Having erected large refrigerator for the rtorage of Beer, we are enabled to kfter onr Beer nnnf. fnwh and in annA orde', and it will be furnished direct rod? our refrigerator lo our customers. - ' AL shipping orders will receive prom pt ' attertion. .' i . ap- S-df , . ; W.O. MULLER A 00. rjTt) LESSEK THE WORK OF . '. INVENTORY WE OFFER . a lot of medium and fin y ' r , . BETVBL AN KETP. - BED-COMFORTS - Heavy and Ljgbt Overcoats; at prime cost. . These goods are, tn ana attractive. BEARDEN,r RANKIN & CO. Jan 26 dtf