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On one of the i loveliest lakes iu thH mlfif - k ill man lllllllnl 1 i ff t . r4itautiful Mipoii me. were first U UU B turned jllj It was twojyears ince Tom Wat VK liis and It Ptoud of our four years' $lerience and our brand new lipskins, liad left Amherxt with tiiiingled feelings of joy and regret i-TVni; weift immediately into the vofliee of a famous New T!ntr!,,n.i ? jHui uiiig paimr, s anu made bis way ; itojulily up on its editorial corps. vli had gone'into partnershin vcitu -O " j pnjj father, and worked like, a slave, ; .'1est he should be ashamed of me; i Jfortlihad an jimmense reatxt tnl v n?f-janu i Knew ne despised lazi- - finess.! ;-,f i( -j " f .; ,., . i-.. 1 Having thtmJwoTked two years Nithout interruption, Tom and I jlmt i j felt i hqt ,we had 1 earned a v(ienKiou4.udJ by a little planning, wre Wauaged Co get off together in . .September' of the comparatively ttitventful yenr eighteen hundred ;:and eighty. s - Ve both voted for the mountain instead of the sea, ! aud for New Voi;k: instead jof ; New Hampshire; I ivjej started ont determined to Jsetl Ml that we could of the North iomts. r ' ..f '. j $ :: -- fl . S wie had jbotlijogged on thus irarj.through life without meeting visniy. young woman wh6 seemed ab Jsuli tely essential to our happiness, wei could look lorward . to a com 'pletei rest from the use of the pen. jThere would be I no Jove letters to swrit4 every night when i tired and diill ' an - tx'casional postal card, jwhereon wer'p scribbled' a few .words in pencil, would satisfy our . frie.nds at home, j t Nejther did jwe set out with any idea of meeting our late. We went to enjoy the woods and. each other ; we gather summed thau sought society, especially that of ladies. j After a day on Lake George we jtook thej eastcr i f)Ute to the woods, .pending a night at Eliza bethtowu. Theiice wei tramped to Keene the Wear 'mountain: streams, deep,- cool r'ko(Mls, and gr4iul towering peaks, tnoreitlian making up for the hard ; loads! and: thick dust, $o that, t LI hough tired, tve werel more than satisfied with our Jirst day7s ex- nerie:ces. "i 1 jAslwe had re ;olved to 0 the mountains, we climbetl the. cloud-1 'Cleaver, Tahawas; wespeutashiv eriug; night on Whiteface ; whence fwe watchedLake 11 acid brighten 'upder the morning sun; we picked ;a'.:foiir leaved clover from John B rowjn's grave ; at North Elba; we started a deer in the Indian pass, fajpd sawj our guide kill it; and, to pi.rowp !j alty wes came out of the ; i floods jhy way pf thej lakes. " ! Our!guide wps a wiry little fel ' :"dw too sjigh .to carry a. boat, we lliought until we watched him in a . vrestling-matcji, when he showed ' liimselt ( tough j as whip cord, and .e had no fears. ) .'. l -Stsirting from the lower Saranac ijoti-aj dull afternoon, a gorgeous iuiiisetMit up the clouds aud lakes jis we rowed swiftly aloug; then, as tuu ncu purpie faded, i the crescent : tlirouirii the clouds', anu crimson moon broke aud we had 1 bur first exerEe!ice kf carries" in this ;tnicertain twilight.; It was Sulyliajshort alkho tver, and ' Jtlienf we. glided, across th black waters5 of Kound Lake in an utter silence, save for the plash of the 'Mats and the screaraj of the loon or ' thtghthawk. i -. j ' - fiU Ntixtlay we wound along the Raqiiette rivers, whose waters were I low; and. ! whose shores, even thus M early,! glowed with aittumu color. N fJur nights were 8ent at hotels, Iwhiclitwe reachetl (late and left larly : our days, in rowing and carrying." Almost lost under the ' inverte'd boat,! our guide led us through' the rib vegetation of the jcarriesU without1 wandering even when! the fire, still raging; had ob . iterated every trace; of a trail to oil r unaccustomed eyes. f 1 -Grccasionalty! we heard the in- - bpiigruous souiid ot human yoices Other than our bwn aud came; upon fi similar boating pa-ty. Now and theiJlwei heard the baying of dogs, and knew that some: poor deer was in distress, or j we saw an nncom -moil bird, and listened to its wild jtote : but for the most part, there fere"few signs !of life of any ; kind, V and! tire silence wasicomplete ; the seus'o of loneliness, intense. II What wonder, tnen, that Maud jseemed ! almost! fairy-like to. eyes - 3)iigii!iaecustiiiieit to siicli beau- tg As we came (out upon Kaquette '- ike wk1 felt as if we were approach t lfiig!c vilizatioti ; clearings, with UacW StiaiUies or more jncuMiiiuua, t tne ind is wild Kireech. but a ventaoie Vteiiui! whistlj -aud 111 the dis taticelwe can jflst distinguish a lit tle tiig Htandingit the dock. Pre sriiiiv coming; nearer, we had a ;vieV of tlie passengers, among VhoW wlh ,t',e September sun gilding her lifown jhair, we hrst aivi Maud. i: j -r , y , X'say -we,") for Tom's subdued thistle told me that! his heart had feh ismitteniby this nut-brown o wir i us mine, one wa chattering merrily with her brotn :i4.yn&"father, who stood close by. liV-T cduld heat their voices, ana Maud and li.-.u;.Vrmisli the names. Ni.u. jU uhiih the1 brother and '. TT I . . addressee! each 1 other, out it- " 4 I I a nrv l.J.ii.ii'ih-'inorei Apparenu, uu- Viothin COttagj?s becupied many o ;i.uAiii 'mill " linrk ! what sot tlr mp ry i f tmt f No herdn's screams, or - IS-elAhev werU talking oms; for, : rhp Httlej tngf having started just Wwcytne alongside, our plucky lAU guide deiermiiied on a race. ThU wiiid was' Against him. but he . ireid hi! t and, though the Snrr 1! aU1 of, u8 ,into Sy arrow Marion river, the cheer ithe psengers slewed that they iSered him victorious, while Maud beamed unon him in n wo v that made as both wish j,hat we held the oarsl . She stood in the bow of the little steamer with the venerable woods behind her; but their green branch es and shadowy spaces , were for me only a background to intensify the picture of her youth and beau-' ty. With, the sight of her I felt that I bad had enough of loneli ness, and a longing came over me,1 Such as I had sometimes felt in college, when the soft tone of a woman's voice reminded me of home. . , i , As wesped among the lily -pads, rich with the some autumn colors which the maples wore, we had the good I luck to find several . belated blossoms. The tug was making its way slowly, for the channel was narrow aud. winding; and as we were j quite wear, I fancied that Maud looked enviously at my trea sures. Lifting my hut, I tossed them' at her feetr , i She did not blush, she did not scornfully cast them into the water, nor ask her brother to throw them back to me; she simply nodded her thanks with evident delight, and, with the - utmost grace, she fastened the lovely lotus flowers in her belt. - - Docs this strike any oue as a bit of j flirtation! What man could keep a flower with a lady near on whom he "might bestow it? The lilies sought their rightful owner, and I simply helped them on their rightful way, while Tom looked at the three he had gathered as if un willing to imitate me, aud equally unwilling to keep them. "It was a shame to pick them," he said, and laid them back upon the wa ter, j ; - . . 'j The steamer now shot ahead, aud uur ume lom us mat its passen gers would "carry" across to Eagle lake, where another steamer would receive them, while onr carry was a shorter oue further up. Tom and I both received the news unwillingly, for. we could not bear , to have this bricrht vision vanish so soon. Should we never again 1 see Maud? We looked at each other, but said nothing. . vy nen at Jength we shot ont into Eagle lake, after the last of our carries there was no sign of any steamer; and, as we rowed on, the sun set and the moon rose, but we were still alone. ; -On: Blue Mountain lake we heard the steamer's whistle once more, aud in the distance saw. its column of smoke and sparks as it puffed off to another part of the shore. We felt like grumbling at our choice of hotels, but it was now too late to change ; so hungry, tired and disappointed, we climbed the steep hillside, j Our appetites did not fail us, however, (how could they in that air T) and after supper we walked up and down the broad piazza, looking upon the moonlighted lake and mountains with a tiugeof saduess as we thought our outing was so nearly over, and we roused upon the maiden whose beauty had charmed us. ; Next morning) we drove'a milef in the early twilight in order to take the stage. Ve foqnd only one unengaged, outside seat, and Tom iusisted on my taking that. Was he really generous, or did he have an intuition f I asked my self, as suddenly our acquaintances of yesterday came down the steps and entered the stage. Maud wore her lilies and nodded pleasantly as our eyes met ; but she took a seat directly opposite to Tom. j It seemed to me a very uninter esting road. I saw little but the blackened trees and the bu rut wil derness. I was sadly bored by a talkative seat-mate, but there was no chance of relief nntil we reach ed Cedar river, where the stage was 1 exchanged for aj Concord coach. j ! j I found that Tom bad made great advances: in the acquaintance of the little party to which Maud be longed, and which I now joined. We all climbed on top of the coach, aud I though the sun was hotter than ever, and the dead trees quite as ghastly, I no longer objected to riding outside. j Maud's; father proved a good na tured man, .whoso hay fever had driven him to v the woods; and on the shore of Raquette lake, he with Maud and Jack, had beeu camping in a back shanty, and without a guide. ! j They told us of their experiences in a frank, jolly way, that made. camping seem tlie most tiesirame kind of (life imaginable. Maud looked 011 us with evident pity when she; found that we had been less thairlthrco weeks in the woods, and' that bur camping ex(erience8 bud I becu only with a guide. But we retaliated with a golovring ac count of our boat trip, which fas cinated her, mid she immediately implored her father to take her through the lakes uext summer. Slu'4 had learned to fish, row and swim, though Jack laughed at the idea of her swimming where the water wasn't over her head. She gos enthusiastic lover her rowing, however ; aud said she could cook fish! as well as j catch them, and make splendid pancakes; and we doubted none of her accomplish-, metits. i i . Ilowswiftly onr six horses sped over the rough road 1 Long before we wished it we rattled into North Creek, where the railway station made us feel that our happy moun tain life was at an end. ' We found that onr paths would diverge at Saratoga, so we made the most of the fewv hours left The car seemed close after our out dosr life, aud we wondered if civi lization were worth while, after all. As we rumbled along, talking merrily in spite of the noise, a saucy gust of wind caught Maud's bat and wnirled it out of the win- dow. ' ; M j . , , "What shall I dot" she appealed .a to ns; for Jack was laughing, and her father evidentlv puzzled. : "That's the only" hat I had with me, and I can't go bareheaded." ! "I might lend you ; this," said Jack, offering; his straw, which was very much the worse for its camp ing experiences. .-.'!' "I can do better than that,", said I, Jack's suggestion having re minded me of, something; and I soon pulled out a skull cap of the same general color I as her dress. "Would't this dot : I have some pretty wings if yon want to trim it." ' . j:! - -r She chose a gray 6n out of my store, with which her deft fingers soon transformed the cap ; and when it was on her head she looked prettier than ever. We four ad miring masculiues : cohgratulated her on her success, aud I was in clover. Tom was distanced agaiu, for he, too, 1 had a cap, which he would have been only too happy to see on thaf graceful bead, if he had only thongLt of it.' But there was little time for regrets. Already we were . nearing Saratoga, and must part with our friends. Good byes are seldom pleasant. Perhaps it is well that they are often hurried. A few words, a touch ot the baud, and she was gone, j ' '' Did We ever see her again 1 Which of us won her t Was one made happy, the other heart brok en, and jour friendship thus shat tered forever I No, dear reader. It is possible for two men, who have fallen in love with the same girl, to be conj tent to 1 hold equal puces in her affection - if she is only eight years old. fouthe?u Iron la the North. ' ! Philadelphia Time. Everybody remembers the boast ful prophecy, made by a prominent secessionist prior to the opening of the latejeivil war, that secession in the Sou h would cause the grass to grow in the streets 01 Northern cities. The prophecy was never fulfilled of course, the grass-growing, if ahy occurred, being confined to Southern cities instead. If any one hadjbeen bold enough, at that time, -however, to declare that within a quarter of a century South' em pig jjron would be sold in Pittr burg and Philadelphia he would have ben deemed a greater luna tic, if possible, than the grass grow ing prophet Yet the prophecy which might have been uttered aud wasn't h'as beeu literally fulfilled, Southern pig iron to the amount of 76,000 tons having been marketed north ofjMarylaud and east of the Ohio during the first ten months of the preseut year. . j An industrial revolution equal in effects t making Newcastle a prot itable market for foreign coals is enough o take away the breath of men who have been educated to be lieve thiit New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio make, iron by a sort of a divine right for- the rest -of ' the United j States. Naturally such' men see impending ruin to jthe Norther iron industry. - The seventy-six thousand tons of Southern iron sold in Northern markets is but a dj-op ' iu the bucket, to be sure, amounting to less thait two per cent! of the. total iron output of the country; butthe fact that it has appeared iu Northern markets "in ever so small a quantity has. been sufficient to cause a great deal of uneasiness in certain iron 'circles, leading to ominous shakings of .the head aud dark forebodings for the 'future. :,: ' -' : j j : ' A careful survey ot the iwhole situation should serve to allay some fears and cause a wise preparation for changes that are inevitable in the future iron industry of the country.1 j The amount of Souther.! iron sold iu the Northern market is small yet and will probably never be large. I But for the fact that a large proportion of the Southern iron output is the production of Northern capital the little that has been distributed in Northern cities would hardly-' have found its way here at all. But the South is going to piodnce its own iron in the near future, instead of .buying it from the North as, formerly. This may be taken for granted and there is no use of fighting the inevitable. Its people have tired of risking all their industrial eggs in the single agricultural basket, as of old. They are getting -ready to manufacture their cotton as well as to growit.to utilize the wealth of lumber which their forests contain and the irou and coal of which their mountains are full, j Instead of being a cause for gloom and foreboding, however, this should be a cause for a congratuia tion and rejoicing on the part of the people of all sections. Thj devel opment of diverse industries in the South will do niore to beget a com monlnterest and sympathy bet ween the sections than all other influ- ences combined. The old antagon ism grew largely out of the want of common industrial interests. This cause of antagonism is now .to be removed,' and the representatives of a common country having com mbn industrial interests can cer tainly find a way when working in harmony and to a common end of providing markets for the surplus production of both North and South. The few tons of onthern iron in the Northern market may canse momentary uneasiness to men who can see only the preseut effect of the extra drop in a bucket al ready full. To the broad minded, far-seeing man it is but the an noucement that at last the North and South have met on a common plane with common interests and that henceforth they are to work together to promote the general prosperity of the whole country. The1 Leak8ville'(7irerte of last week announces that it will cease to exist after that date, but will be 'succeeded by the Henry New8f pub lished at Martinsville, Va. GREENSBORO -y. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1884. Five miles from Little Eock there is a switch; and as the south bound passenger train approached it the engineer observed . that the switch was ; open. Thinking something was wrong, he stopped the train. It consisted of an engine, a bag gage and express cat-and two pas senger coaches. There were seren-ty-iive persons on board, including train hands and three women. ! As soon as the train stopped five mask ed men took . possession of the en gine and every car.!' The leader was tall and slender, .'resembling Frank' James in his figure. 'He first appeared on ":th platform of the rear' coach, which- was filled with passengers, , and entering it, shouted: 4 "Throw up jour hands, or die." This scenes was enacted in every car on the train. The robbers were completely disguised. They were of medium size. Their white masks covered their heads with the exception of the eyes and month, rough, ragged holes being cut in the masks through which their eves shone. Everv one- of !tl;.fT"e.l,aV?lL tI"??.0!"r,L inside ont. Their coats were old and ragged.' ' They began shooting over the heads of the passengers to intimidate them. -The first shot was aimed at the engineer. The conductor, Patn Rice, and the ex preds messenger, Honeycntt, .were in the j baggage car. f On hearing the shot the conductor rushed to ward the engine. As he left the door of the baggage car, he was fired upon, five balls whistling in unpleasant neamess to his head. Entering the forward cars the roo bers covered the panic-stricken people with six shooters.' They drove the engineer and the express men and baggagemen into the pas senger coaches, while one of the gangopeued the two express safes. .The passengers in the rear car were not molested uutil the ban dits completed their work in front. While they knew that an attempt at robbery was being made, they were afraid to move.! The valua blestnd money of all in the smok ing car were taken, the passengers being requested to hold up their hands.' ." IIOW THE HANDS WENT UP. When the leader who entered the rear car shouted! to the pas seugers to throw up their hands or die, every baud went up, and after the robber had looked around to see that every hand I was . up, he said: "I'll only detain you a mo ment. After the safe is opened you will all ; be invited to contri bute to the missionaries." lie stood in the door talking in cessantly iu a jocular manner aud watching his comrades at work on the safe. Occasionally he would shut the doors, but immediately put his head iu again and remind the people that their: hands must remaiu up. While j he was doing this, the others were at work on the. safe inJthe expresscarjuid the leader , getting v impatient at their slowness, called out iu a loud jVoice : uIf you can't get the safe open, chuck it out aud blow it open." But . the safe ' was opened and then the whole! gang, went to the last car., One big, burley fel low, with a large sack, -went through the car and -snatched the 'watches and jewelry j and money from the unresisting passengers. .The work was not done expeditious ly, and took three 1 quarters of ail hour from the time the first shots were fired uutil, iff was all over. The money and : watches secured amounted in all to about $6,000. j A FAINT RESPONSE FROM THE PAS- 1 SENDERS. L As soon as the 1 last passenger was attended to, the leader saying "Yon will all stay here for ten min utes," an ominous gleam of-revolvers was;8een, and in! response to the demand of the leader that they should swear to obe his mandates, a feeble and forced 'Yes" came from the passengers. ' I The " bandits disappeared 111 the darkness and in a few minutes the demoralized passengers screwed up enough courage to venture out and the tram was brought into Little Rock. , j j ' j Bloodhounds were put on the trail of the robbers, and before noon Joseph Cook, J. G. Jones, John Clifford, Charles Campbell, ami. a boy named Parker, had been, arrested. Three of the men arrest ed have been identified as having been among the robbers. ! Banting Mountain In Virginia. A telegram from Monterey, High laud county, Va., Dec. 8th, says : For some weeks past rumors have: been in circulation about subterra nean fires in one of the mountains on Back creek, in this county. The' phenomenon was fully investigated yesterday by Mr: Sylvnuus, of this place, who visited j the mountain. Ascending the summit, the ground was so hot that ho and Mr. Edwin Wade, who accompanied him, could hardly walk upon lit. They then began to dig, and on reaching a depth of twelve inches found the earth smoking and! burning. Mr. Sylvanus has prepared a report calling the attention of savants to the phenomeuou. 1 He says the earth, froio'i its surface to the fire, Was in a high state of perspiration. Upon exposing the burning sub stance to the air it glows with livid beat, sparkling and crack- j ling, and sends forth volumes of smoke. Two columns - of smoke came out of the opening made, one of a dark red hue,! and the other black, each retaining its distinct; color nntil i it disappeared from sight. The substance dug np look ed like brick dust,' and could bo squeezed into a ball like wax. J-Gen. Albert Pike, though seventy-five years old, has just made an extended tour through Texas and was everywhere heartily re ceived. The old man still persists in always appearing in Confederate gray I Trailed y Bloodhovndm. On the Mornincr I of WWlnpjwtav one week ago, Alexander Godwin went to the house of his. brother, Btephen Godwin, who was a bache lor and wealthy stock-raiser. AH was still inside, and on opening the door he found, his brother lying dead ou his bed in a pool pf blood, wfth his head crushed and his brains oozing out. ; Mrs., Gregory, bis housekeeper, was lying on 'an , other bed in the same room, with a dreadful fracture in.her temple, and was . otherwise badly , mangled. Dick Gregory, her son, . was found in an adjourning room, lying dead from a similar woaud. ; There were no signs of .robbory about the house, j Mr.Godwin's trousers were found on a chair by his beside with money in the - pockets. His gun was missing, and his hprse and buggy were also taken away. I Intense, excitement followed the discover. A local award of $500 was at once offered. Telegrams were sent to the Governor-urging .that the. State also offer; a reward. itermtoed. n'pofa. Thre I was bat A vigorous nursuib was at one f oiie cine?- and tbafrwat to follow the buggy wheeel tracks, which led out along the banks of the Flint River southward. - Dr. 1 Fairclotb, who had been out professionallyduring the night, declared that he had met a buggy, and that its occupants were Mosses Keaton, his wife and child. The pursuing party pushed the chase through swamp and morass, sometimes; having sight of the track, again losing it, and thus giving the criminal the advantage ot time. ' l M i : : , ; j - Upon reaching 'Decatur County, Sheriff Burkett joined in the pur suit, and it was decided to bring in the aid of dogs to i better keep the sceut. On the Georgia line and through Florida to Jackson Conuty the party pushed. ! Here, in a re giou of swamp, land?, all trace seemed lost, aud two days were spent in an endeavor , to regain it. 11 ope was almost abandoned, j At last another trail was struck due north. It was not long until it was discovered that it lay not more than half a mile parallel with the down ward trip, back through to Georgia and within 200 yards of the house where the tragedy had been com mitted and still north of this until a farm house was reached, where it was discovered that the fugitives bad sold the horse and buggy and were pursusing their flight on foot. The trail was followed until Jhe murders were captured. ! On the return trip to Mitchell County with their prisoners, Kea tou fully confessed i the crime. Ue implicated several others aud says that robbery was the cause, as God win always kept (large sums of money on his persou. lie used an axe aud a razor in the horrible deed. A noise outside gave the murderers the idea that they would be caught, when Keaton sought JjLUffbuLhence;did uot secure one cent "of booty, only the gun for protection and the convey ance for flight. Taking his wife with him he proceeded through to Florida, and, hoping the better to avoid detection, decided td return north and reach north Alabama, when he would be secure. The chase was over 400 miles' in a Btraight line and must have been near 1.000 when the variations are taken into account. . It is doubtful if he will be allowed to reach a trial, so outraged are the people at his crime. I Wa St. John Bought. For some time past there have beeu vague rumors as to the part the Prohibition ticket played in the late Presidential election. Within the past few days the;, have taken definite shape, and the story now is that St. John was bought up by the Democrats to re main in the field to draw' voters from the ranks of the Republicans. The sum named is $38,000. Prominent Republicans do hot deny that their party endeavored to secure St. John's withdrawal, but there are two explanations of fered for their failure. One is that they were simply outbidden by the Democrats the other, which is said to be the generally accepted one, is j that early in the. fight St. Johu agreed with the Republican managers to make his campaign a harmless one, and to eventually withdraw from the field, if neces sary, so as not ; to 1 injure the Re publican chances, the considera tion being $35,000. After the Ohio October election, it is said, the Re publicans felt that they needed no assistance, and seemed loth to abide by the arrangement. It is said that $38,000 then beiiig offer ed from the other side, St John accepted the offer and remained in the field, thereby drawing voters from the Republican ranks. This is given as the reason whyj the re port that events immediately pre ceding the election would insure the election of Blaine meaning St. John's retirement did hot ma terialire. These are the stories as talked about by those who are sup losed to have beeu on the inside. One of the prominent Republicans of the District of Columbia is known to have stated the other day that St. John would have with drawn from the field, for a consid eration offered, and given the elec tion to the Republicans, but that the Democrats made a higher bid. The Republican offer, as he.stated, was $30,000, while the Democrat made it $50,000. : ' GallirantlBs" Wive. The latest cure for gallivanting wives is to shoot them in the leg. This is the remedy put into prac tice by a Washington city husband last week who was promptly ar restented for an attempt at murder, aud who as promptly explained to the Court that he did not intend to kill his wife, but only to prevent her from "gal ivanting around with other men." , Mnrter by Wholesale. A, telegram to the i New York Herald from Omaha, Neb., Decem ber 6, say 8 ; Meager details reach ed here to-day of one of the most diabolical wholesale! butcheries ever committed in this state the killing of five persons: by one man, followed by the suicide of the' mur derer, t The scene of the slaughter is the; town of Walworth, Custer couuty; a locality without telegraph ic facilities, which fact accounts for the time taken for the story to reach the outside world.' Although the crime was committed Wednes day night the news did not reach here nntil tonight, and even now the Tacts are not all, known. The victims of the horrible , affair were John Fiuley, a widower, about six ty years old ; Mary Fiuley, his daughter,, aged sixteen; Fannie Fiuley, Mary V sister, agefl elgh teen; John Williams, a suitor for Mary's hand, and Charles Watkins, Fannie Finley's lover. . j Tha; perpetrator was Thomas or Timothy Furquin, who was a re jected; suitor of one of the young ladies, it is not known which. All parties were residents of the tdwn wherej the tragedy occurred. The jnotive for this horrible butchery was jealousy. The two young la dies have for some time been re ceiving the attention of Watkins and Williams, and it was generally supposed that there was to be a double wedding about Christmas time, louug Furquin has always beeu considered . an exceedingly quiet, i industrious and inoffeusive young fellow, and though it was an open secret that he had been an admirer of aud suitor for one of the Fiuley girls and had been rejected, no oue ever thought fiat he was capable of such a crime. He has for some time been giving tokens of his unfriendly feelings toward the young men who proved successful in winning the favor of the girls, but no one seems to have ever heard him make an opeu threat. On Wednesday night the two Fin ley; girls, in company with their lovers (W atkins and Williams), at tended a dance. Young furquin had asked one of the girls to .go with them, but she declined 011 the score, it is believed, of a previous engagement. This seems to have been -the acme of bis bitterness over his unrequited love, and !to have driven him iuto a murderous frcuzy He did not go to the dance, but laid in wait for the party, nur sing his hatred and planning rev enge. When the party drove npto the gate bt the Fiuley homestead after their night of pleasure Fiir quiu Was there with a donble bar reled shotgun loaded with "blue whistlers." The party were in! a spring; wagon, just large enough to coinfortably carry the four. The jealous man was hidden. Unseen by his victims he leveled his gun and fired both barrels in quick succession at them. The contents of the gnu literally riddled the bodies of all four, killing them almost! instantly. Hearing the shooting and the death screams uf his daughters, Mr. Fiuley rushed from the house to his own death. The murderer struck the old man a blow over the head with the butt of the guii, and repeated the blow nntil his brains were-beaten out. The murderer then completed his horrible work by blowing : out his own biains with a revolver. -''-.Such is the story of the horrible affairs as obtained from a number of sour ces and reports, ;'all of them more or less iu f heircbariictercontradictory, but all! agreeing in their general features. . One report says that the murderer burned the house after committing the crime, while an other says that b;s body was found on the!" river ba'nk some distance from tlie others, indicating that he had some idea of escaping from the slaughter, but changed his mind. Canulbals Sentenced to Death. J Captl Dudley j and the mate of the wrecked yacht' Mignonette, who were found guilty of murder in killing the boy Parker for fowl to! keep themselves alive, were, last week, senteuced to death. j The court room was crowded, and the scejne during the pronouncing of sentence was; most impressive. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge read the judgment of the court, citing authorities at great, length. The court declared that the taking of human! life could only the justified on the1 plea of self defense. The commission of murder for the sake of preserving one's own life was unjustifiable. Of course it was a duty to preserve one's own life ; but duty often required one not to save biit to sacrifice his own life. The court must apply the law ajd declare that I the prisoners were guilty ;of wilful murder, for which there was no justification. If this judgment was too severe the court must leave the prisoners to the clemency of the Crown. The pris oners Were asked what.they had to say before sentence was pronounc j ed. Both Capt. Dudley and Mate Stephens pleaded for mercy in view of their terrible -situation when the deed was doue. IonI Coleridge said it was the jury's privilege to recommend the prisoners to mercy, and then he sentenced them to be hanged, but without the black cap. Beer PrlvUeirea. Recently two young men i of Yonngstown, Ohio, with $2,000, went to New Orleans, th ir inten tion being to purchase the exclu sive beer privilege on tne exposi tion grounds. They called on the manager, stated their business and asked what the.' privilege was worth. "Well," responded the manager, I have just refused $65, 000 for it from one party because I thought it was too low. If you have $100,000 to invest yon can so cure the privileges of selling beer to the thristy thousands who will attend the Exposition, otherwise you can take a walk." They walk ed out, ana iook a una. r - I j: ' y Dynamlntte In the Kitchen. . . 1 Stephen Young, a well -to do farmer jof Stafford Corner,' New Hampshire, had occasion to drill tbrongh a rock for a well in the rear of j his house. He employed George L. Goodwin to do the; work, ass:sted by Z. Taylor Berry. A basket of Atlas powder cartridges was used in boring the Well, one of which Goodwin attach ed to a battery to test it. ; It failed to explode. Then he placed the cartridge and"" the ba tery in the kitchen in a basket containing oth er cartridges. Toward evening his grandson, George Young of UoweU, and his fiancee, Miss Sadie Green field, and two or three neighbors Visited the honse. They were hay lug a : good time, when George Young, heariug of the dynamite, went to the kitchen toexamlne it. The wires had not beendiscohnect ed, and in some was by 'established the electric connection more suc cessfully than his grandfather had done. An explosion followed that mas beard within a radius ot fifteen miles. ; The lower part of the bouse was blown put, leaving the ! posts stauding, and also a part ot the se eond story. Seven persons were in the rains, and one, Miss Greenfield, Was thrown from the parlor-and fonnd lying on the ground outside the house. She was seriously in jured, but will Jive. George Good win ran out of the house with bis clothes on fire. He was taken to the house of a neighbor, where be died.! ! ' ... . ft George Young, 25 years old, who was handling the dynamite, was the first oue found in the ruins. His clothes were on fire and had to be torn from him. He was obnsci ons, i but terribly burned.! "Mr. Stephetj Young, 83 years old, was not so badly bruised as the others. He may! recover. Mrs. Mar Ann Young, 60 years old, was found be neath the timbers and was thought to; be iri a dying condition. Ella Beady Is 17 years old. She was getting supper, and was pissing from the dining room tothekitchen, and as she opened the door was thrown back senseless. When she recovered she was lying in the din ing room, on the floor, with a large beam across ner cnest muq was Joshua Brock.l She rescued! by was so; badly burned aboiit the eyes that she is nearly blind. She was also burned severely about the face arms, and neck, and her re covery is doubtful. Taylor Berry, 30 years old, was found in the rear of the house. He is terribly jjbum ed and j bruised. His clothes; were in flamesjbut were immediately tak en from his body. He canno live. 1 The ruins soon caught fire, bnt all were removed before the flames bad gained great headway. I 1 1 The scene of the explosion has been visited by crowds, but not b fng marks the spot except a pile of bricks ; from the four large jbbim heys. Money and'. notes of consid erable value were lost. The Position of Cangres. j World. The position of tiie Democratic majority in the House has chaug ed. Before the election it was fol ly amounting to a crime agaiiift the party' to distract public attention from the one issue of reform bj raising an idle tariff agitation aud risking the false cry and stigma of Free Trade. The Democrats who Were guilty of the folly were play ing into Republican hands. The. were weakening the Democratic fortifications trom the inside for the advantage of the enemy. 1 It was not their fault that they did not defeat President Cleveland. They lost him a great portion of the Labor vote. They came fvery near losing him New York. New Jersey f j aud Connecticut. They gave the Republicans the sole Issue they had in the campaign. ( i Nor was the risk taken blindly. They declared last session (that "revenue only" was more precious to them than Democratic success. They preferred defeat to relinquish ment of tariff agitation. They ex pressed their willingness to go down with their kindergarten; flag flying. ( They went down,. bnt their, flag was not fljing. It wasjtorn into 8b reds aud trampled upon by the Chicago Convention and the. Democratic voters. They did not carry the Democratic down With them. Ires lent i But they did much damage,! nev ertheless. The Democracy hail not only to fight Blaine alone biit to fight Horizontal Folly as well! 1 Now; that the election ihovef and the Democrats are masters of the situation some of the foolish agita tors of last session express the ppin ion that nothiug should be ploue with the tariff this session. They are wrong, as usual. Agi tation is no longer a political lln 11 der. Free Trade is dead andl bur- ied. Democracy is pledged totltev en ue ilteform. It has won the Presidency and secured the first necessity, Administrative iteionn and Purification. It is not out of place nor out of time to now Mani fest! earnestness in the caule of honest taxation and honest protec tion of Labor in preference to Mon opoly.L I I Kevenue Reform agitation isnev er out' of place when it is not au obstacle to more important agita tioin I Down with the SurnlUS ! At ay with needless war taxes 1 Doctoring the Language. IT.iu SiAino.1 a nnor ornrri haA been coined to take the place of old maid, jit is bacbelette.,, Why not "bacbe les8.', i We have an 'actor and ac tress, instructor and instructress, master and mistress, then why not bachelor and bacheless. We have enongh blamed foolishness in the English language already. 1 A- telegraph line is being es tablished aloug the Ductown branch of the W. N. C. Railroad between A8hevil!e and Charleston W SERIES, NO, 938 - . Tb Tragedy of the Rival, j ; The doubly fatal affray between Wm. Moore and John Adams, two prominent young men living near IlIcKlnney, Tenn., causes wide spread comment and is in all re spects the most sensational inci dent that has occurred in that sec tion in years. The young men were rival suitors , for the hand of a beantifnl tnbnntain belhK tho daughter of a wealthy farmer re i J! 9 a ! a Mn ' a siuiug in ineir eouuiy. rue rival ry was of long standing, bnt the young men were fast friends and they did not permit . it to lessen their regard tor each other, i Be . centlv the vounir ladv befran I to show i a- marked preference for Adams, and their engagement soon followed. Moore. - on becoming cognizant f the. fact, ceased his attentions aud seemed to accept nis aereat gracefully. The friendly relations between the you men continued, and they frequently al- iuuou noiiie upproHcuing . mar riarge. - " r 5 . ' - y -; i ' Last Saturday they went "hunt- , in?, and' after a dav's successful sport they started home, each laden with game, and were" chatting io the best of spirits. In the course or meir conversation Atiams spoke of bis approaching nuptials and boasted of the superior attractions which had won the lady's heart. Moore seemed nettled by the tauntM of his quondam rival and re tor toil sharply. At this Adams began to taunt him, and intimated that he lacked the qualities to win a fe male heart, and from this a hot 1 quarrel arose. Moore suddenly be came white with rage and jealousy,' and throwing his gun to his shoul der he leveled it at the deriding rival, and before he took a second thought fired. Adams recieved the load iu his breast. --. He staggered and reeled, but in falling caught " himself and fell 011 bis knees. The blood gushed forth from a score of -wounds, but con-' sciousness till remained. - Nerv ing his strength with the despera tion of a dying man, he shrieked, "You shall not live to win her," and fired on his adversary. -The aim was true,and Moore tell to the ground on bis face, bis head riddled with shot. The rivals lay in death throes within a few feet ot each other for, some hours, and when they were discovered Moore Was dead, but Adams Was still alive, and had strength remaining to re late the circumstances ere he diet I shortly afterward. The Whole History of Man. It is told of Dabshelm, th king. that his library was so large it re quired a hundred brnchmans to care for it aud a thousand drome daries to transport it. I He ordered all useless matter wedded out, and aTter thirty years' labor it was re-' duced to the carrying capacity jrf thirty camels. . j '' . Still appalled by the plumber pf volumes, lie ordered it condensed to a ' single. -dromedary load and when the task was completed age had crept upon him! and death awaited him. Then Bid pay offered to condense the whole into a min or e's reading. He wrote . ; i I. The greater part ot science consists of but a single; vord per haps the whole history of man con tabis bnt three-borii, suffered, died ! -: r ' , II. LoVe nothing but what i good, and do all 1hou Invest to do ; think nothing but what is true, and seak not all thou thiukest. . j III. O rulers! tame onr piiN S10118, govern yourselves, and jit will be on I child's plniy.tn govern the world. j . lVr. O rulers! O people! it can never be repeated often enough to yon that there is no happiness with out Virtue, and no virtue without the fear of God. 1 ; lie Forgot to Akk. New Haven New. A good story was told at the Scoville house in Wilerbnry yes terday, during the: settlement of in number of election lets. . lurii the Polk campaign much interest was taken in Waterbury in the re sult, and party strife ran high he tweeu the Whig and Democrats. Waterbur was only a Utile village! at that time aud it had no railway . communications. Jt was also be fore the days of Ihe telegraph,:aiid a uurfilter of ioliticiam made up a ! purse a ud Jn red Col. BichanlWel ton, proprietor of the 'New llaveu stage line, to make a xpecial trip to New Haven and get the returns. The crowd waited-jnixioiiKly on the tavern KtepM 41II tlironb t he -afternoon of the day f Col. Wi-I ton's trip, and when he came in , sight with hoises smoking from their long drive, he stood up in his wagon aud called to the exjtecifant crowd : ew York's gone t,iHK For whom ?n arose on side. , i every The colonel jumped from his wagon,' hesitated for a moinetit. scratched bis head, and then blurt ed out: ' . f t 'Well, I swau, I forgot to ask.r The feelings of the HIiticiau. can be U'tter imagined than de scribHl. - , . A Railroad fteertt. Rocberter Port-Ejnrec..j - "I don P7 understand how t railroads can afford to reduce t fare to one cent a mile.? ' "Oh, it's very simple." . - - ie ie! They have-to n.ake upilic iu some way." ! :A, 'They do.",, ' ' i -!,.., "iiowr .-,.J Make the sleeping car porter divide with the company." ' r MistakingCleveland f'orCraui. Th express companies are doing a good business returning pup, easy chairs, white mitre, slipper, one legged frogs, suuff boxes, kit tens, cigar-holders and white tab bits with pink eyes, from Albany. G rover Cleveland's name sceiiitt to' have been confounded with that of Ulysses Simpson .Grant. -1 'U 4. : . V-'- 's::'i yBM: . !' ' ' ' ' ;' . i- " r t':i - :" ;!!.!-.;'' . ' '"' .::! !. - I':'--, - . ; i V.