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I. 1 " ( 3y-P; K. HALE. Fayetteville St., Second Floor Fisher Building. BATES OF 8UB8CKIPTIOS : One copy one year, mailed post-paid $2 00 One copy six months, mailed poet-paid. ... 1 00 No name entered without payment, and no paper sent after expiration of time paid for. fflft ADVERTISING BATES. . j - - i U. i Advertisements will be inserted for One Dollas per square (one inca) for the first and Fifty Cents for each subsequent publication. Contracts for advertising tor any space or time may be made at the office of ths RALEIGH REGISTER, Second Floor of Fisher Building, FayettevlUe - Street, next to Market House. VOL. II. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1885. NO. 55. IIS W4 HKK FOBTUNB. TCarlott Perry .J Will he come this year will he come the next t Will he come to-day ? 8he lightly blew With sweet red lips the thistle-down, Whispering, Tell me oh, tell me true ! Does he love me well does he love me well t No doubt in her heart the maiden knew, But in whispers soft she said again, Thistle-down, thistle-down, tell me true 5 For every maid in the wide world knows That sweet, pure prophecy. Dolly drew Her little mouth into rosebud shape, Saying, Oh, thistle-down, tell me true ! Yes, he loves you well. ' Oh, he loves you well ! When will he come ? He will come to-day ! This is the answer the thistle-down Gives to her heart, as it flies away. "And Dolly that night, at the garden-gate, And Harry, the fanner, brave and brown, l.wk into each other's eyes and say, ' A iirophet true is the thistle-down." THE CONSPIRACY. Warren's Diary of a Detective. The repudiated or unacknowledged claims upon the British Government, some of them for fabulous sums, amount to a respectable national debt, and scores of individuals fall into poverty and untimely graves, in vain pursuit of a glittering bubble, ever dancing before their eyes, and ever just only just beyond their reach. The advent of a new First Lord of the Treasury is the signal of a general revival from uneasy slumber of demands, which, shamefully ignored or neglected by his predecessor in office will, write the unteacnable solicitors, "be sure to meet with due appreciation from the distin guished statesman, to whom the favor of a gracious sovereign and the suffrages of , . J 1- 1 5 i . 1 . . an enngnteneu peopie nave in trusted tne honor and interests of the great British nation which honor and interests can never be more effectually promoted than by doing justice to the meanest alike with the mightiest of that sovereign s subjects." It is surprising, too, or at lea9t it would be surprising to those who do not from experience know how slight- a thread of colored cobweb will retain persons other wise sane in the consuming idleness, gradually changing to equally idle des pair, of the tool s paradise of visionary hope, to observe upon how slight and fanciful a foundation they continue to erect their air-drawn castles. I once knew a mathematician, of all men in the world. whom the following merely formal note uplifted to the seventh heaven from the slough of despond into which he was fast sinking, with some hope on his mends part that he would at last touch the bot tom, and rebound therefrom by his own latent energy into the clear and healthful atmosphere of genuine working-day life: "I am directed' by Lord Melbourne to acknowledge the receipt of your memo rial and accompanying vouchers, and to state that the matter shall receive his earliest attention " In less than six months afterwards the mathematician was a confirmed lunatic! Since I left the police force, I have been more familiar with these hallucinations, and it happened that once whilst therein, 1 was brought, in the exercise of my voca tion, in contact with one of the most im portunate, inexorcisable of the "ghosts" by which the halls and passages of the Treasury and other public offices are con stantly haunted; an intimacy which, it will be seen, led to curious revelations and results. This person, one Alexander-Tyrrell, was about thirty years of age, and had inher ited, two or three years before I made of ficial acquaintance with him, about eight hundred pounds in cash, and a claim upon the English Treasury for the same num ber of thousands, from his father, which claim, as far as I could or cared to under stand the bill of particulars set forth in the bundle of documents exteriorly known, at all events, to every clerk and messenger at the Treasury, and by them facetiously denominated "The Kelp Papers," was for looses sustained by Tyrrell, senior, a manufacturer cf kelp from sea-weed, on the coast of Kent, who, at the suggestion or command of Sir John Moore, during the alkrm previous to Trafalgar of French invasion, gave ud his premises, buildings. ic for the use and occupation of the troops assembled there ; incurring thereby the destruction of an immense quantity of partially prepared kelp, and the ruin of his business. Tyrrell's father died in 1830, just as he was more sanguine of success than he had at any time been during the previous fiveand-twenty years,t,in conse quence of Earl Grey's successiqp to office, and the bequest of a thousand pounds, by a distant relative, enabling him to press the -siege at the Treasury with greater vigor-than ever. ; Death, albeit, always unwelcome, and never more so than when the hand grasps, or its owner fancies it is about to grasp, the prize of all life's exer tion, suddenly interposed at the critical moment, his coming having probably been hastened by the agitation into which the change of ministry and the unanticipated legacy threw the old man's care-cankered mind and body; and his only son, Alex ander, found himself, after his father's debts and funeral charges had been paid, in possession of eight hundred pounds in money, and a bill for eight thousand, drawn upon but not accepted by the British government. Now Alexander lyrrell was a young man of compressed but naturally elastic genius, who, thus suddenly liberated from parental control &ud the much sterner arirw of novertv. forthwith expanded into a swell of first-rate brilliancy; and carried on the war with such spirit, that at the end of less than jwp years, he found; upon a rough calcu jation, hurriedly gone into, after awaken ing one morning in the custody of a sher iff s officer, that he was worth about twenty pounds in cash, after relieving himself of aiiu omcer, wherewith to face aoout two thousand pounds of debtl Thus beset Alexander Tyrrell bethought himself of his important ciaim upon the national exchequer; and the treasury clerks, who ftad congratulated themselves upon the death of "Old KelD." were surprised and disgusted by the apparition of Kelp the jyuner, wno moreover quickly mam 'ested a combative persistence in his pur pose, which the rudest rebuff, the most supercilious insolence, utterly failed to re press or mitigate. More than that, the obstinate claimant of eight thousand pounds, which he assured them "was iiai necessity of his cruel and unexampled position," began at last to assume, concur- -"'j nn tne cultivation of bis mous- lCties, an air of occult mnnuA rinrklvVn terpreteVl by warning hints at the risks in- "'t-u oy omcial personages who sys- matically perverted or dammed up the uatain of justice. Matter for merriment " to any one moderately skilled in pnysiognomy that had once seen his good """Si gooa numored, knavish face, wherein braggart was written plainly enough, but of courage, moral or physical, not the faintest sign. wnetner, However, from fear or fussi- ness, one of the officials, choosing to treat the affair seriously, had Alexander Tyrrell taken before a Magistrate, by whom he was bound over-to keep the peace to wards all the king's lieges, and notably the British government and its employes, an undertaking which the terrified young man gave with a firm resolution, I am quite sure, not to break it. He was not, however, forbidden to strut solemnly past the office doors, as the clerks were arriv ing or leaving, and glare at them with all tne fjyromc-satanism he could force into his weak light-hazel eves a pastime which, in conjunction with a continuous succession of anonymous letters, written in a woman's hand, but it was not doubt ed dictated by him, and addressed to the lords and secretary of the treasury, caused an intimation to be given to the authori ties of Scotland Yard, that it would be well to keep a sharp eye upon Alexander Tyrrell's movements, and, the more heed fully, that it was reported he had con nected himself with the Chartist politi cians who were agitating the country. I was selected for this service, and of course entered upon it at once, though with no great alacrity, till my zeal was quickened Dy a glimpse of circumstances, pointing to more serious issues than swaggering Alexander Tyrrell's imaginary murderous or treasonable designs. True, he occa sionally attended the meetings in John Street but more from complaisance to wards his sworn friend David Close, man aging clerk ic a city attorney's office, and enthusiastic champion of the five points, than from any pleasure or interest he him self took in Chartist oratory, wildly as he cheered every denunciation of govern ment villainy and oppression. The sad truth was, that the deposition of the min istry and transference of the treasury to the friendly gentlemen that dispensed their liberal eloquence from the John Street platform, would, taking the most sanguine calculation, be brought about too late for him ; for so pressing were his needs, that delay was destruction ruin! His experience in furnished lodgings had been, I found, during the last twelve months, large and various, and in so swift ly a descending scale that his present domicile was a back attic in Great Wind mill Street, which moreover his landlady had given him peremptory notice to quit, lest peradvenrure her sheets and blankets should go the three-golden balls' way of her lodger's last shirt. Thus desperately circumstanced, Alexander Tyrrell may be forgiven, sworn though he had eternal enmity to the vile British government, for presenting himself at the Albany Barracks, and intimating his willingness to enlist in the Guards. Being very young-looking lor his age, and standing nearly six feet in his stockings, he was provisionally accept ed, received earnest of the kihg's bounty, and my surveillance of the gentleman's movements, was, I imagined, at an end. I was mistaken : it was about to seriously begin. A still youog, and no question very handsome woman, before her fresh, country complexion she was from Christ church, Hampshire and bright, girlish eyes had been grimed, quenched by con stant daily and nightly toil in a wholesale millinery manufactory, and other beauty marring agencies, presented herself at the barracks in a state of semi distraction and informed the commanding officer that Tyr rell was in his thirty second year, and bound by a solemn engagement, sealed by a fatal pledge, to marry her directly he received the first instalment of the money due to him from the government. She gave the name of Lydia Lock wood; and it being known that I took especial inter est in the new recruit, 1 was commissioned to ascertain the truth or falsehood of her storv. It was true enough, poor girl ! She loved the fellow with the devoted ap prehensiveness with which a solitary wo man cast into the ingulhng whirlpool f London labor life attaches herself to a man who from motives of real or simulat ed affection promises to lift her up from those gloomy depths to the peace and sun shine of a cheerful home, tier faith, too, in his honesty of purpose towards herself, was but momently shaken by his attempt at enlistment, and she unhesitatingly sold her scanty furniture to a broker in order to raise the smart-money required, she was told, to insure Tyrrell s discharge, lhis she offered him : but, much to my surprise, when a few days afterwards I chanced to hear of the circumstance and I should suppose to her's also he declined receiv ing it, the commanding officer having, he informed her, determined, in consequence of her representations, to cancel his pro visional engagement without charge Money, however, it was soon apparent he must have somewhere obtained, and to a large amount, inasmuch, that he and his now inseparable crony David Closs, wno had moreover suddenly lost his situation, forthwith entered upon a course of riotous living ; that Tyrrell himself dressed again as in . his buckish days, and presented Lydia Lock wood with the means of mak ing quite a fashionable appearance : A riddle to read this, especially as Closs was indebted to his employer when discharged had been therefore discharged, and only saved from appearing at a police office by compassion for his wife and family. The attorney, Mr. a , apprized oi tne aasn insr style of life assumed by his late clerk, bethought him that he might not have discovered the whole extent of that per son's defalcations, and a more rigorous in vestigation was gone into, without, how ever, producine any enugniening result, and the mystery but for an accident might have remained unsolved. The two inenas. wno naa ueen muuiKinif witu . - i , i - i j i i :.L their usual freedom at the Wrekin tavern, got into a brawl with some of their boon associates, when going home, which ended in a fight, and a night's lodging at a police station. There, as the custom is, they were searched, and a note was found in Tyrrell's pocket, a copy of which I was in possession of early the next morning. It was from Closs, and" had been received early the previous day. I transcribe it ver batim: " Dear Tvl : If there is much more of Lydia Lock wood spooneyness, we shall both of us have a capital chance of finding ourselves double-ironed in Newgate. That's a fact. That vulture Levy was waiting for me when I got home last night, and an infernal jobation he gave me. , He swears we obtained his three hundred pounds by false pretences, and that if the bill is not paid on the day it falls due, and it wants but about three weeks till then, he will give us both into custody forthwith. A pleasant prospect, eh ? What with the drink I was full of, and the old brutal vil lain's threats and abuse, my head so aches and throbs that I can scarcely lift it from the pillow to scribble this note. . I shall. however, be at the Wrekin to-night, when I hope to hear that you have made up your mind to go in and win, -, tsy , it s enough to make one's hair stand on end to find that dread of a wench's tears and tongue stands between a sensible man and twenty thousand pounds ! If that young feather-headed fool did not know me per sonally, I myself would run the risk of transportation to clutch such a prize, whilst you, lucky dog that you are in not being tied np not at least by a legal hal ter run no risk whatever. There must, mind you, be no more shilly-shallying: Newgate or twenty thousand pounds is about the size of it, and a fellow must have a queer sort of nut on his shoulders that in such a case hesitates for choice. We'll have a roaring jollification to-night, and to-morrow or next day you must be off, per mail, to Bristol. Yours faithfully, D. C." Closs and Tyrrell were discharged upon payment of a fine ; and neither appeared to suspect that the strictly " private and con fidential " note had been looked into ; or perhaps Tyrrell had not told his crafty friend that he had.it about him. How ever that might have been, I was instruct ed to accompany Tyrrell to Bristol, and take a hand at the game by which the con federates proposed to transfer twenty thou sand pounds from some other person's pos session to their own. The "vulture Le vy's " case and grievance were easily fath omed. Closs, whom Levy knew as B 's managing clerk, had introduced Tyrrell to the usurer as a person who was entitled to, and would shortly receive, a large amount of money from the treasury, but who, meantime, was in pressing want of three hundred pounds, which representation had induced Levy to advance the required sum iiponTyrrell's note for f ourhundred pounds. With, however, that rogue-rob-rogue af fair, I had not to concern myself; neither, to confess the truth, did I set about that which- was confided to me in very dexter ous fashion. Tyrrell, whose handsome, well-stocked portmanteau bore a plate upon wmcn was engraved " Alexander Champneys Tyrrell, Esq., Hill Street, Berkeley Square, secured an inside place to Bristol by the night coach instead of the mail, and I, finding that the said passenger-coach was then full inside and out, and that the faster mail would reach Bris tol full an hour before the coach, deter mined, after first seeing Tyrrell off, to travel by mail. I did so, and was in punctual though covert attendance when the night-coach reached that city ; but, to my chagrin and dismay, without Alexan der Champneys Tyrrell, Esquire, who, for some reason, ungucssed of by me. had alighted at Swindon, where, one of the passengers, from some remarks and inqui ries he had made, thought he intended re maining some time. Very strange that Tyrrell, intending to go no further than Swindon, should pay his fare, as he had done, to Bristol ; and was his halting there a trick or an after-thought f Did he, per chance, know and recognize me whilst watching him from the White Horse Cel lar, Piccadilly, and in consequence, thus double, as it were, to throw me off the' scent ? I could hardly believe that could be the case, so careful had I been to keep well in shadow during the whole time that I bad been upon his track ; but whether so or toot, it was essential to lose no time in again striking Ihe trail; and by eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, was in Swindon, then a quiet country vil lage, where I learned from the landlord of the Swan Inn, that a gentleman answering to the description I gave had breakfasted there, and directly afterwards hired a post-chaise, which had taken him about eight miles on the Wanjnnster Road, to the Black Horse, a road-side public house, where he had alighted and discharged the chaise. In something less than three hours I reached the Black Horse, on' foot, not to attract notice or inquiry, and found my self again too late and completely at fault. A gentleman from London had been there, hired 'a lad to show him where the Ben netts ' lived, been absent something over two hours, and, soon after returning to the Black Horse, had hailed a return Bath post-chaise that happened to pass, and set off therein for that city. I further ascer tained that John Bennett was a farmer and widower in middling circumstances, who had two grown-up daughters living with him, one a comely young woman that folk said would shortly become the wife of William Rowcliffe, a native of that part of Wiltshire, but who, for some time past. had been living with his mother at Bris tol. It was on my tongue to ask if there was any talk of a fortune having been left to the comely young woman or her sister; but I restrained myself, and, being too much knocked up to think of journeying further that day, I determined upon in venting some excuse for calling personally upon John Bennett before following Tyrrell to Bath. I accordingly waited early the next morning upon Mr. Bennett a sour.: hard-grained, wiry fellow, and about as great a niggard of his words as he was by reputation of his money. " JNo ; 1 have no old wheat to sell, nor barley either. The gentleman that called yesterday was not a buyer, and therefore cannot have fore stalled you. Yes, that young woman is my daughter. As to handsome, why, handsome is as handsome does; and as that seems all you have to say, I have something else to do than stand gossiping here;" and so saying, the curmudgeon slammed the door which he held m his hand whilst we were speaking in my face. 1 A practised reader of the meanings of men does not, fortunately, depend alto gether upon speech for their interpreta tion ; and the brief perusal 1 bad obtained of the faces of Mr. Bennett and Clara Ben nett was not without its value. Both father and daughter I saw only the elder of the two sisters were much and pleas- uraDiy, yet anxiously, excited, inis me man's dilated, glittering glance, and his nervous clutch of the door handle, resem bling that of one suffering from the reac tion of a previous nights debauch the varying complexion of the young woman as she gazed at me with intense suspicious scrutiny now bright and glowing, now shadowy and pale as stone, but for the hectic spots that lent a fire they needed not to her piercing black eyes, plainly tes tilled : whilst that the previous day's visi tor was in some way connectd therewith required no further proof than Alexander Champneys Tyrrell's fashionable card, held in her fidgeting, restless fingers. Neither could I doubt that Tyrrell suspected or feared that a police-agent was at his heels a fear suggested by the possibility which might have occurred to him that David Closs's confidential note had passed under "detective" scrutiny, and that my visit, the visit of any questioning stranger,' had been . in consequence . adroitly provided against; though in what light his ingenui ty had placed the probability or possibili ty of such a visit, or the purposes and character of the visitor, I, of course, could form no conjecture. . Further inquiry having elicited nothing in respect of the Bennetts towards enlight ening me as to Tyrrell's object in turning out of his way t as it seemed he had done, to have some half .hour's conference with them, I hired a gig, and followed the quarry toBath. There no tidings of the gentleman could be obtained, and I vent on to Bristol, where, for a time, the lame ill-fortune attended me. Tyrrell could neither be seen nor heard of; no one that I questioned knew either a Mrs. Rowcliffe or her son, and I was mentally debating the expediency of inserting an advertise ment in the local papers to the effect that a person of that name, formerly resident in the neighborhood of Swindon,;. Wilt shire, might, by sending her address to Richard Sampson, Esq., 16 Wine Street, hear of something to her advantage. This, however, was so every-day, transparent a ruse that, supposing the Rowcliffes to be connected with the enterprise in which Tyrrell was engaged which, after all, was a wild surmise of mine, for which I could have given no intelligible reason could hardly fail of being seen through and de feated by a man whom the consciousness of a guilty purpose would render especial ly keen-sighted in the detection of such very common man-traps; and I was still undecided, when fortune or accident rem edied the mischance, that had so long, reckoning by my impatience, separated Tyrrell and myself from each other. I met him one afternoon about three o'clock in Redcliffe Street, and so sudden and unex- Eected was the rencontre that I could not elp starting and changing color as my eyes met his a want of presence of mind which, however, convinced me of what I had been in some doubt of, namely, that I was personally unknown to the fashionably-attired gentleman whose stare and simper as in condescendent reply to my respectful question he assured me I was mistaken in supposing him to be Captain Augustus Fancourt, of the regiment, then quartered in Bristol were delight fully pleasant and refreshing. He was accompanied by a young, vulgar coxcomb, very sprucely attired, and displaying in his strutting gait and pretentious manner, a consequence as new and ill-fitting as his nne, reaay-maae clothes. They were on' their way to the coach office, which they reached just in time to secure two outside places by the morrow's day coach to Lon don. Those were the only vacant seats;' but determined not again to lose sight of my slippery customer, I managed to make a private arrangement with the coachman, who, for a consideration, agreed to take me up at some distance on the road, and run the chance of an information against the proprietors of the "Eclipse" for carry ing more than the stipulated ten outsiders, a venture which, fortunately for the tenta tive mission in which I was engaged, he, on that particular day indulged in some what to excess. At the place where I was di rected to await the coach I found a young ish, decently dressed workingman, John Fentum by name, bound for London by the same conveyance ; and, under favor of a similar bargain to mine, though entered into by him from an economical motive. The "Eclipse" soon made its appearance, and its driver at length yielding to our importunity, agreed to give us a lift as far as Bath. Room was made for me in front, immediately behind the coachman, and by the side of Tyrrell and his youthful friend a remarkably wordy young blade, should say, at all times, but more abun dantly so than usual it appeared on that occasion, and after the passing away of a flush of angry vexation, excited, or deceived myself, by the unexpected and unwelcome sight of Fentum, who had quickly climbed up to the dickey : his nat ural eloquence being stimulated by an un usual flow of spirits, the exhilarating fine ness of the day, and the flattering smiles of a pretty and prodigiously genteel young woman on the box-seat After the fashion of a malapert youth, he was equally conversant with all topics ; talked of the (Jarlist War of succession, then raging in the Peninsula, with Tyrrell an indirect recognition of that gentle man s military moustache; to me, but loftily, with patronizing condescendence, of the new reformed House of Commons, which he pronounced to be a despicable failure; and to the damsel on the box-seat of James's or Bui wer's last novel ; the whole profusely interspersed with hints, quite as interesting to me as they could be to the said damsel, charmingly conscious as she did her best to look, that the young gentleman, whom a whim and the genial weather had, for once, induced to travel on the outside of a stage-coach, had lately come into possession of a large fortune. Not unamusing all that, and might be in structive, the more probably that Tyrrell anxiously strove to confine his protege eloquence to national themes ; at last with success, and the inflated young man, seiz ing the favorable opportunity afforded by the coach passing over a track of green sward, burst out with a flaming apostrophe to "Glory and Greece! The Sword, the Banner, and the Field !" apropos of what I do not remember; but if not quite intelligible, it was very sonorous, and the admiring silence which followed its deliv ery remained unbroken, -till a voice from the dicky called out "Billy, I say, Billy I" each "Billy" emphasized by a poke in the small of the elocutionist's back with the point of John Fentum's umbrella; which person, stretching himself over the roof of the coach, claimed acquaintance, in that very disgusting fasshion, with the sudden ly extinguished orator, whose face, flam ing with shame and rage, was, however, kept determinedly in the direction of the spires of Bath, spite of his remorseless tormentor's persistent iteration of "Billy," presently amplified into "I say, Billy, your mother served me a pretty trick this morn ing : fobbed me off with two stale buns at the price of new ones : a shameful imposi tion, 1 call it I" uttered in so ludicrous a tone that every soul on the coach the victim, of course, excepted burst at once into explosions of laughter, which were only repressed by the tact of the coachman who, any thing but desirous under the circumstances,- of irritating a legitimate passenger, or permitting others to do so. caused his leaders to suddenly prance and curvet after a fashion that instantly checked the general mirth; and when the alarum had subsided, it was time for me and Fen turn, in accordance with our understand ing with the coachman Bath being less than half a mile distant to descend from the roof of the "Eclipse," and not attempt to resume our places till at about the same distance on the other side of that city "Who is that chattering puppy, whose comb you cut so cleverly?" I asked Fen tum, as we trudged on after the coach. "Who is he? Why, William Rowcliffe whose mother keeps a bread-and-bun-shop in Broadmead, and a friendly chap, too, till the fortune they say he's come to sent his brains a-ballooning. He cocked up his nose, and pretended not to know Jack Fentnm, when I met him yesterday with his grand friend; but I have paid him quite twenty shillings in the pound upon that score. As to his mother, she's a very decent, good sort of woman : and it's all chaff, mind you, about the stale buns." "I suppose so. By-the-way, is that swell in moustaches the friend you speak of ?" . ..yYes: he's a government man, and brought down the news of William Row cliff e's fortune." A government man, is he? What kind of a government man?". , "Ah, there you nonplush me. I only know that Mrs. Rowcliffe told me herself that; she had seen letters with 'On His Majesty's Service,' printed on the outside, directed, to him. . and signed by prime ministers.,.. He's a first-rate nob, depend upon it, and I wish now that I had mot curry-combed young Rowcliffe's tender bide quite so roughly." f l might have been as well, perhaps, not to have done so. Are you sure of 'work wlien you reach London?" ,Yery far from sure, worse luck." : 14 Where shall you hang out till you do? erhaps I could recommend you to cheaper lodgings." : 'lt ain't likely, mister, that you could. seeing that I shall take up with my mar ried sister, at No. 9 Rupert Street, Hay market, That is the West End, is it not?" 'Well, perhaps , so, considering it is neither the east, south, or north end. Is Mrs. Rowcliffe, the widow, a marrying woman, think you?" 1'A marrying woman ! Oh, I say, mister, yon are a squinting round that corner, are you? But its no go, my friend; Mrs. RQwcliffe's a widow bewitched, though she don't advertise herself in that capacity, and folk generally don't care to talk about it4 7 A widow bewitched I" ' vYes; meaning thereby that her hus band is gone abroad upon government ac count, for having once upon a time forgot to sign his right name. But so much talk, do you know, Mister Londoner, makes my throat feel uncommon dry." No doubt it must do so; and here, luckily, is the 'Ring of Bells,' where we can moisten it." I left Fentum in the enjoyment of that agreeable pastime, and walked quickly to the inn, where the "Eclipse"' changed horses, and the passengers were permitted to snatch a hasty breakfast, which, on that morning, was partaken of by John Bennett and his daughter Clara, both in gala dress, and the young woman girl, rather who seemed to be in fragile health, all smiles and blushes. They were of course there by appointment, and I noticed that Alexander Champneys Tyrrell was superabundantly gracious towards both father and daughter; whilst the ostensible lover, Rowcliffe, looked glum and uneasy, as wishing to be gone rather than pro long or dally with the flying moments. The criterion by which I judged was, however, a very imperfect one, being merely the reflection of their faces and gestures in the large chimney-glass of the breakfast-room, obliquely visible from the i slightly opened folding-door through which, being, of course, anxious that neither Bennett nor his daughter should glimpse their late visitor, I furtively peeped at tne party wnose conversation, amiosi the clatter of knives and forks, was unin telligible, though not so entirely so but that I gladly comprehended Bennett and his daughter had no intention of accom panying their friends to town. I remained but a few minutes in observation; and, hastening off, was overtaken in due time by the coach, and at about seven o'clock the same evening I saw Alexander Champ neys Tyrrell, Esq., and William Rowcliffe, Esq., safely housed at the Hummums Hotel, (Jovent Uarden, where, less than two hours afterwards, they were joined by David Closs and Lydia Lockwood, both dashingly dressed, and, it seemed, in gleeful good humor. The plot was thickening, and rapidly too. True, but what teas the plot; what catastrophe did it foreshadow, and which were the villains, which the victims of the play? Puzzling queries these, and not even partially answered by the occurrences of the next fortnight: continuous parties of pleasure; visits to the theatres, at which William Rowcliffe was always Lydia Lock wood's beau ; and researches on our part at Doctors' Commons, from which it re sulted that no legacy, large or small, had fallen to any one of the name of Rowcliffe or Bennett, It almost seemed that we were laboring under some inexplicable delusion, chasing shadows, not tangible realities; and I was in the very act of writing to the commissioner, begging him to appoint some other officer to pursue the wearying, bootless investigation, when a lady, de sirous of speaking with me, was an nounced. "No lady, Mr. Waters," exclaimed the person that followed close behind the ser vant, girl; "no lady, but a wretched, wronged, outraged woman I Do yuu not recognize me?" she added, tossing pas sionately aside, and tearing by her violence the costly veil which covered her face. "I know you very well." "Lydia Lockwood I" "Yes, Lydia Lockwood, one of the con spirators whom you, stanch blood-hound of the law, have been, I more than sus pect, for some time closely tracking, Well, sir, I am here to inform you that there are two conspiracies afloat, in one of which . I am a cheater in the other the cheated I" "If this, Miss Lockwood, be a confes sion, let me warn you that all you say may be" "Used against me hereafter," broke in the infuriate woman, whose eyes glared with a fiery rage that cast a light as of in sanity over her white, haggard counte nance, though her speech was constrain edly calm and measured unnaturally so. "Be it so; there is no terror for such wretch as I in any 'hereafter' over which magistrates have power. Yet will I not be tamely, unresistingly sacrificed : other and guiltier lips than mine shall taste the bitter potion of which it was hoped, is hoped, ,! alone shall be compelled to drink. But enough of vain words, You have re ally discovered nothing as yet, with all your practiced cunning." "Nothing of very great importance, "Nothing of the slightest importance ; nor without me could you do so till it were too, late to profit by that knowledge. The avenging bghtning will be hurled by my hand my band alone I jnow nearken, sir, and needfully. Tyrrell imparted to me that it had come to his friend Closs's knowledge, in the course of business, that one Rowcliffe was entitled to a large sum of money that , had tain unclaimed for long time in the Funds or Consols, and which, be could only obtain by Closs's aid That being so, it was but fair, they argued, that Tyrrell and Closs should have a share in the prize, and, that they might be certain of doing so, it was arranged that Tyrrell should go to Bristol, acquaint Rowcliffe in general terms with his claim bring him to London, profess great friend ship f oi him, and, with my help entangle. fascinate him. Oh, I could tear my heart out to know that, in giving credence to such trash, I showed myself to be the vain fool they took me for : I was even to ball promise myself in marriage to the bus ceptible,, inexperienced simpleton and, with them, work upon, him till he con sented to share the riches that had, as it were, drobped to him from the clouds. That accomplished, the promise which has lured me to ruin, destruction, crime, was to be immediately fulfilled, and but" suddenly broke off the unhappy young woman, and, speaking with accelerated rapidity, "but I need not waste sentiment upon Mr. Waters. Well, all this was a tissue warp and woof of unmitigated lies. William Rowcliffe was entitled to no money ; but a girl was, one Clara Ben nett, who it was known, loved Rowcliffe puppy and simpleton that he is but that is nothing hew ; and the plan of the confederates was more correctly Closs's plan, for he alone had the brains to con ceive it; was this: Tyrrell was to see the Bennetts at Swindon ah! you know all about that, I dare say under pretence of procuring William Rowcliffe's address, which was already so well known to them that Closs knew both him and his mother personally ; he had been, I think, engaged in -defending the elder Rowcliffe, who was convicted of some crime. WelL Tyrrell, having obtained the address, and accidentally mentioned Rowcliffe's pretended accession of wealth, was to af fect, whilst passing himself off as a very great man, sudden but involuntary admi ration of the girl ; with a view, of course, to an ulterior well-meditated purpose. Everything fell out as desired and antici pated. Rowcliffe's empty head was turned with his imaginary high fortune; Clara Bennett was no longer good enough for him, and the insolent booby told her so to her face, as he himself boasted to me last Thursday afternoon, a few hours after her arrival, I am sure at Tyrrell's suggestion, in London, accompanied by her father. A terrible scene ensued ; the young woman fainted, and, upon recovering, found that, though the recreant swain was gone, Alex ander Champneys Tyrrell remained, who had no longer any hesitation in declaring his devotion for her; and the upshot was, that the scorned and slighted girl, urged by her father, dreading to encounter the sneers that would await her should she re turn home unmarried, fell into the trap set for her ; and on the day after to-morrow Clara Bennett will be Mrs. Tyrrell ! Only think, will have the honor of being Alex ander Champneys Tyrrell's lady-wife 1 ho, ho ! Well, one can but laugh to think how strange a world this is we live in, and what fearful slips sometimes occur 'twixt cups and lips. 'Pon my word that is rhyme, if you take it in time is it not, clever Mr. Waters ?" The longer I listened to Lydie Lockwood the stronger grew my conviction that she was positively insane; or that but no, that was not the excitement of drink; not originally or chiefly, at all events. " 1 our disclosures, Miss Lockwood," I hesitatingly began, " would " ' lo the devil with your Mist Lock- wood I" she fiercely interrupted. "To the devil, did I say ? ah 1 true - words are often spoken in jest ; false ones by solemn oaths 1 You were going to say, no doubt," she added, with renewed vivacity, " that could ion those wretches without your help. True ; but it glances across me that my purpose might not hold, and that it were well to place the matter beyond my own power. I shall not tell you, either, how I discovered all this. Enough that I have discovered it, and by . Well, good bye ; at ten in the morning after to-mor row, remember, if I should forget it which, however, is not very likely that the parson will ask if there is any just cause or impediment why Alexander Tyr rell and Clara .Bennett should not be joined in holy wedlock. Just cause ! O thou all-seeing Chnst ! she was gone. A few sentences will finish this narrative. Clara Bennett and her father, apprised by me of the true 'state of affairs, left London for Swindon the next evening; and in the following day's evening papers there ap peared this paragraph: '"Determined eciciDE. iarly this morning a young woman was seen to throw herself off West minster Bridge into tne river: she was drowned. Her name is Lydia Lockwood 1" A FRENCH SENSATION. Ingenuity of Gallic Criminal. Paris Cable Letter. A sensational trial, bristling with truly Borgian enormities, began last week in the Assize Court of the Seme. An exotic in dividual named Mielle, alias IS Homme femme, alias La Gfrosse Nana, was tried for the murder of a well-to-do poultry mer chant named Lebon. The evidence shows that Mielle and Le bon entered the former's apartments at No. 23 Rue de Lyon. Shortly afterward the concierge heard the voice of a man crying, "lelp, help I" "1 l'a$$attn .'" "A.u $e- eours.'" A body was beard tailing with a heavy thud ; then came a sort of death rat tie. The concierge, terrified, exclaimed. "Mielle is murdering somebody 1" and ran to Mielie's rooms. Mielle replied, "It is nothing." The concierge said, "If it is nothing, then open the door." This Mielle refused to do. The concierge ran out and got a policeman. Mielle then opened the door of his apartment, and with a pleasant smile, said : "My dear friend, I have just had a little family quarrel. We are all li able to such quarrels, and mine is now happily ended." ihe policeman was satisfied and retired Soon afterward Mme. Mielle entered the room and seeing her husband covered with blood and his shirt torn to shreds, asked, You devil, what have you been doing now ?" Mielle said, "A friend of mine came to see me and got drunk and tried to jump out of the window. To prevent a catastrophe I had to hght him. Hence the debris." Mielle then locked his wife in her bed room and was heard working with carpen ter's tools for several hours. Mielle then disappeared. A long black trunk was also removed from his rooms at the same time This happened last April On May & a sailor fished out of the Seine, near the statue of Henri Quatre, the upper part of a man's body, the vertebral column bear ing marks of having been severed by a carpenter's saw. Next day another sailor discovered near the same place a man's head. Ten days after, a pair of thighs, then a pair of feet and a pair of arms were found floating in the Seine, all these sec tions bearing the marks of having been separated by means of a saw. These frag ments of the corpse;-when put together, enabled the police to identify them as the remains of Lebon, the poultry merchant It now appears that Mielle, while his wife was locked up in her bedroom, had sawn the body of his victim into about twenty sections and packed tnenvinto a long black trunk, which he threw into the Seme on April 29. Mielle was discovered by gendarmes at Barsur-Aube. He plunged into the river -and swam across to the other bank. The gendarmes did the same, but Mielle was a good swimmer and distanced bis pursuers. After an exciting two mile chase over fences and ditches he was finally captured. Lebon s watcn, jewelry and money were found in Mielie's pocket. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. WHAT IT DID IN SIXTY DATS. Pnblle Acta. Chapteb 1. An act for the relief of the sureties of William R. Young, late sheriff of Buncombe county. J. R. Jones, surety, authorized to col lect in behalf of the sureties on Young's bond, arrears of taxes for 1881, '82 and 83. Usual provisions in case of affidavit of payment. If Jones dies or becomes in capable, sureties may select another. 2. An act to stop a special election in school district number eleven in Cabarrus county. As the citizens of the district desire an act to establish a graded school, an elec tion for special tax to supplement school- fund, ordered to be stopped. a. An act to repeal section 3424 of The Code, relative to fishing in the waters of wnite uak and JSew rivers. Section making it unlawful to use in White Oak and New rivers nets with meshes less than one and a half inches, re pealed. t 4. Act for the relief of W. J. Maddrey, late tax-collector of Northampton county. Authorized to collect arrears of taxes for 1879 and 1880. Usual restrictions. Authority to cease December 31, 1885. 5. An act to give the county of Madison an additional week of court. Court to begin first Monday of March and August and to continue three weeks. Provision for jurors and witnesses to ap pear and an additional jury for third week. 6. An act to amend section 2727 of The Code. In special elections for Congress, re turns to be canvassed as soon as Secretary of State notifies members of the Board of State Canvassers that all are re ceived ; not later than ten days. 7. An act to establish the Edenton Graded School. Incorporation of schools for whites. Organization and details. Apportionment of school money. School to be kept forty weeks, if possible. Patrons to elect trus tees to succeed those named in the act. 8. An act authorizing the recording of certain wills in the county of Haywood. uertain wills on hie in Haywood Supe rior Court Clerk's office, but record lost. Clerk required to record such wills, with evidence of former probate, and wills deemed duly probated. w. An act to allow James R. Blacknall, late sheriff of Durham county, to collect arrears of taxes. Authorized to collect arrears for 1881, 82 and '83. Usual restrictions as to per sons making affidavit of payment. Bond not relieved. 10. An act for the relief of A. J. Price. sheriff of Union county-. Authorized to collect arrears for 1881, '82 and '83. Usual restrictions. Bond not relieved. 11. An act to amend section 1262 of The Code of North Carolina. Registration of conveyances made valid when probate made before any clerk of a court of record of another State. 12. An act to change the time of hold ing, the Superior Court of Davie county, and providing one additional week for each term thereof. Davie Superior Court (spring term) to begin last Monday in February and con tinue two weeks ; fall term, last Monday in August, one week; Yadkin, second Monday in March, one week, and first Monday in September, two weeks. Pro cess made returnable accordingly. 13. An act to authorize the commission ers of Halifax county to fund and pay the debt of said county which has not been funded. Six thousand dollars of bonds author ized : provisions for special tax for interest and sinking fund; $1,500 may be sold to pay small claims. Provision for payment of bonds. 14. An act to amend an act entitled "an act to authorize the commissioners of Hal ifax county to fund and pay the debt of said county," ratified 'twelfth day of March, 1883. Tax to be levied in June instead of Au gust. Action of commissioners in June, 1883, validated. Lxcess of tax applied to outstanding bonds. 15. An act to amend chapter two hun dred and sixty-three of the Laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two three, in relation to the drainage of streams in Forsyth county. County Commissioners to appoint five commissioners, upon petition of one-fifth of land-owners on any stream. Lsnal regu lations concerning hands to be furnished, &c, for drainages. 16. An act to repeal chapter three hun dred and thirty-seven, Laws of one thous and eight hundred and eighty-three, re pealing the act allowing the commission ers of Rockingham county to levy a special tax. Repeal of act authorizing Rockingham county to levy special tax. 17. An act to provide jurors for the Superior Court of New Hanover county. special venire of a number to be desig nated by Judge to be drawn by member of County Commissioners from day to day and summoned by Sheriff. 18. An act to amend section 3408 of The Code. Qill nets permitted in Scuppernong river, Tyrrell county. 19. An act to amend section 677 of The Code of North Carolina. Corporations (except railroad, banking and insurance) to be formed by setting forth name, business proposed, place, length of time, subscribers' names, capital stock and shares. No tax on benevolent, religious, scientific or literary associations. Clerk may amend articles. 20. An act to allow the Louisburg Rail road Company to settle with the board of directors of the penitentiary for work done for said company by convicts, with coupon bonds of Louisburg township or of the town of Louisburg. Explains itself. 21. An act to repeal section 2832 of The Code in reference to the hunting and killing of deer in the counties of Tyrrell, Washington and other counties in this State. The section in reference to prohibiting the killing of deer between February 15th and August 15th, not to apply to counties east of Wilmington and Weldon Kailroad, 22. An act to prohibit the sale of spirit ous liquors within two miles of Lebanon church in Franklin township, Sampson county. Cider, and home-made wine excepted. 23. An act to amend chapter one hun dred and thirty-seven, section one, of the acts of 1873 and 1874. Prohibitory limits as to Friendship church, Harnett county, reduced from four miles to one mile. 24. An act to prohibit fast driving or riding over iron bridge in Lenoir county. Misdemeanor to ride or drive over the iron bridge over Neuse river faster than walk. 25. An act to amend chapter 140, Laws of 1883, relative! to the killing of wolves in certain counties. Reward for killing wolves in Madison, Haywood, Transylvania, Swain and Jack son, raised to $10. 26. An act to amend seetion 8850 of The Code. i Weights and! measures amendments: rough rice, 44 pounds ; Indian corn, 56 pounds; corn meal, 48 pounds; bolted corn meal, 46 pounds; oats, 32 pounds; peas, 60 pounds; clover seed, 60 pounds; peanuts, 22 pounds. 27. An act to. establish the township of North Catawba tn Caldwell county. 28. An act to repeal all laws prohibiting the taking of fish from the Catawba river. All laws prohibiting taking of fish from Catawba river repealed, except that use of dynamite, Code:3405, is not repealed. 29. An act tio authorize the commis sioners of Swam county to pay certain school claims. To pay L. M.Medlin $14.45. 30. An act to; amend chapter 21, section 3837, volume 2 pf The Code. Crows and hawks may be hunted any night except Sunday night 31. An act to increase the revenue of the State and of, counties. property bid. on lor united states at internal revenue sales only exempt from taxation when j actually used purposes. i. for public 82. An act to amend section 2327 of The Code, so as to include Northampton and McDowell counties within the provis ions of said section to obtain redress for stock killed or injured by railroads. Northampton; McDowell, Wayne, Dup lin, Caldwell, (Rockingham, Alamance, Chatham, Johnston, Craven and Edge combe added to law making killing of live stock by railroads in certain counties an indictable act on part of president of company, engineer, &c. 33. An act td amend section 2004, chap ter 49 of The Cbde. Tax for charter or amendment of char ter of railroad reduced to $25. 34. An act to prevent stock from run ning at large land to repeal all laws re quiring fences within a part of Alamance county. j Stock or nofence law for Alamance county; usual provisions about impound ing stock, tax for fences, etc. To apply to Boon Station, Morton's, Faucett's, Pleasant Grovej Melville, Thompson's and Graham townships. 35. An act concerning public schools of Fayetteville. I Surplus school fund, after ten months' school, may be transferred from District No. 1, colored, ito White Graded School, Fayetteville. 36. An act tcj amend section 696 of The Code of North Carolina. When an act amending charter of a cor poration does mot change the business, no tax for such amendment. 37. An act t change the time of hold ing the Superior Courts in the counties of Carteret and Pender. Carteret, 15th Monday after 1st Monday, March and September. Pender, 8th Monday after 1st Monday, March and September. Usual provisions about process, recog nizances, etc. I 38. An act to amend section 456 of The Code, concerning sales of real property under execution. No real property to be sold unless notice posted, and four weeks advertisement in newspaper, if ene be published in county. Cost not to exceed $3. 39. An act i to prevent the riding or driving over the grading of the Taylorsville extension of the Atlantic, Tennessee & Ohio Railroad.) Made a misdemeanor to ride or drive over newly graded railroad from Htates- ville to Tayloreville. Notices of the act to be posted along line. 40. An act i to authorize the Board of County Commissioners of Swain county to pay certain school teachers the amounts due them. County Commissioners to pay teachers for services in;i883, 1884 and 1885. 41. An act ho amend chapter 25, Laws of 1881. I . New Commissioners to drain Second Broad river, Butherford county. 42. An act to amend subdivision five of section u85 of The Code. Burning grass or sedge standing on land, indictable. 4$. An act to prevent fast riding across bridges in Chatham county. Fast riding across bridges over Haw, Deep, Rocky 0r New Hope rivers indict able, r ine 44. An act ito authorize the Board of Commissioners of Wake county to continue to levy a special tax. Special tax lor lHo-oo, extension and part of 1883, japplied to debt for jaiL 45. An act to amend section two thou sand and fifty eight of The Code. Injuring, leaving open, &c, gate lawfully erected across; highway subjects to penalty of ten dollars j if maliciously done, indict able. I 46. An act; to prohibit fast riding or driving on Charleston bridge across Tuck asegee river ih Swain county. Fast riding, kc, indictable; .magis trate's jurisdiction. 47. An act to extend the provisions of section one thousand nine hundred and eighty of The Code, relative to the time when railroad corporations shall begin construction ef their roads. . Limit of time in charters of Carolina and Chesapeake, Rutherfordton, Marion and Tennessee, and Cumberland and Catawba Railroad Companies, within which construction of railroad must be be gun, extended two years in eacn case. 48. An act to amend section ZBiJZOi ine Code. I Johnston county excepted from the op eration of the law against killing deer in certain months. 49. An act to authorize the Commission ers of Davie jcounty to pay certain school claims. ! To pay certain teachers named, for ser vices in 1882: and 1883. 50. An act to amend sections 824 and 826 of The Code. Form of Undertakings in claim and delivery, for tplain tiff "and defendant, al tered; "damages for deterioration and detention iff return can be had," fcc., "value at tie time of wrongful taking, &c." j 51. An act to provide for separate schools for Croatan Indians in Robeson county. j Separate schools, Indians to select teach ers. Apportionment of fund, &c. 52. An act to repeal chapter , 126 Laws of 187$. Amendments to road law in Alleghany, Ashe, Wataega and Rutherford repealed. 53. An act to amend section one thous and and eigftty-two of The Code, respect ingmalicious injury to personal property. Wanton injury to personal property, though not through malice to the owner, a misdemeanor. ( Continued on 2d page. ) i:
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