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PUBLISHED EVEfiT raUKBBA.T BY J. J. STEWART, Editor and Proprietor. SALISBURY, N. C. PRICE OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year..... Six Months 00 Three Months....; ...... .50 Advertising Rates by Contract, Reasonable. r Entered in the Post-Offica at Salisbury as econd-elasg matter. , 7 ImMftwm. READABLE ITEMS CAREFULLY GATHERED HITHER AND YON. Social, Temperance nnd lleilgtons Move menta Fires, Deaths and Suicides Rail road Operation and Iiriprorement. A contract was let in Chattanooga, Tenn., for building oae hundred miles of the Chattanooga, Rome & Columbus Railroad. Twenty milee of this road were placed under contract two months ago, and it is nearly all graded for that dis ' tance, ready for the iron. An attempt was made near Yorkville, S. C, to wreck a passenger train on the Chester & Lenoir Railroad, which is op erated by the Richmond and Danville. An iron rail was fastened across the track near the point where the train goes on a high trestle. The erjgine fortunately knocked the obstruction off without sus taining any damage. M. R. Miller, an employe of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad, was at work in East Rome, Ga., repairing a car which was standing on the track, when the switch engine, backed towards him. He did not see or hear the engine, and the engineer did not see him. He was crushed between car and engine and instantly killed. Dr. J. .W. Fewell,Dr. R. II. Hope, J. J. Hagins and J. li. Johnson, proprietors of the four drug stores of Rock Hill, "a dry town" in South Carolina, have been indicted by the grand jury of York county forfeiting whiskey without pre scription. ,; They, with their clerks, were arrested recently between midnight a :d 'daylight, and taken to Yorkville, where the Circuit Court i3 in session. Luke Russell, a respectable young far mer, son of R. A. Russell, living near CaWeston, Craven county, N. C, was shot and killed by Bill Williams, col ored. Hussell went with a posse of cit izens to arrest Williams for stealing cot ton. He started up into the second story of an outbuilding to search for Williams, when the latter fired a load from a gun intohis breast. Williams made his es cape. ( The water works 'recently constructed by Col. Zeb Ward nt Little Rock, Ark., was ro nave 2 be eli opened recently but the center wall dividing two ing two hew reservoirs placed on a mountain, 250 feet above the cty, gave wav and allowed ten million gallon! of wTWto fun d own the Moun tain side into the river. The lower res ervoir was full and water from the upper rushed into and caused it to overflow in -a column at least ten leet deep. 1 The directors of the Ely ton Land com pany at Birmingham, Ala., have decided to establish" a loan and trust company and a savings bank, with a capital of $500,000. The will loan noney on real estate and other securities on long time, and if they find a demand for it they will loan as much as five million dollars. They also agree to take seventy per cent, of the stock of any new manufacturing establishment which would be of value to the city, . s Four boys, ranging in years from 14 to 17 years, and recognized as being from Americus, were seen at the Rome, Ga., depot the other night. One of them was Bleeping the sleep of utter exhaustion in the waiting room. When approached by a gentleman formerly from that city they stated that they had run away from home, were looking for seven others to join them, and intended to tramp through Florida. To use their language, "they had painted the town red," and then ran away. The Methodist church at Franklin Ivy"., has been undergoing repairs, and a committee appointed by the church to look after the work visited the building one afternoon, and were invited by the workmen to go upon the scaffold and make an examination. A fiufv in the timbers of the scaffolding causing structure to give way, precipitating committee thirty feet to the ground. the the Jo scph W. Crow, a merchant, was killed outright, A. S. Walker, a lawyer, had Ins back broken, J. S. Haldce, proprietor of the Boisseau housed had his back broken, George B. Knapp, grocer, had both hips broken and was injured inter- Dally. W. R. Jackson had both legs broken and was injured internally. Several boys were playing around a lumber yard, in South Nashville, Tenn., when one of them, John Sheehan, peeped through a crack and saw a dead man on the lumber, with which one car in the yard was loaded. He reported his dis . covery, and an examination wss at once wade , By papers in his pocket, the i man is supposed to be Thomas Lee. A small memorandum book shows that he ! was in the employ of the Louisville & i Nashville Railroad from October 10 to October 2G, and that he paid to a Miss Nancy llambright in Birmingham, Ala., his board in full up to October 27. He was a man of about 20 years, black hair and had on a checked shftt. His head "was broken and his body badly bruised, and both knee caps broken. TIIU INDIANS FIGHT. (Jen. Ruger had a parley with the Crow Indian Chiefs, and demanded that Sword Bearer aiid all other hostile Crows be surrendered for punishment. After some talk, the chiefs said they would go to their camp? and consult the medicine man. The cavalry were then! drawn up on an eminence fronting the Indian po sition, and the Indians soon began riding about and sinTin" war songs. At the end of the time allowed, the Indians to come in wit ii TWl.VnnnovMan. the cav- ary advanced, the infantry took posi- tious and the Indians opened fire. At t.ie tirst volley Corporal Chas. Sampson, JJ.tn.op K'( fst cavairy, was shot dead. Private Eugene Malloy, of troop K, was wounded four times. The Indians took posui.,n in the rifle pits and in the brush. ll(,V likiss rifle threw its first shot be- , JiV Lile Horn. The next fell in tne Imhna camp, and one -Indian and a horse was kilk-a. The cavalry now ad iVniCtl!iUpoa the Indians, driving them JSni iVbrush- Sword-Bearer was tHT 1 AVarlvall of the Indians came inSmT aDcy' 0Qly about twenty es ,K the,hilIs- The latterj are now being pursued by the cavalry. . THE I0RLD OYER. EPITOME OF THE INTERESTING NEWS 'OF ZDHE DAY, Wre'Irish Trouble LiImb Agitation Every. where-What is Dl North, East; West aid Acmm the Sea. iLord Stanley, of Preston, will succeed the llarquis Lansdowae. as governor-general of Canada. ." At Moon City, Iowa, Thomas Jefferscc, a colored horse jockey and Miss Martha Fairer, white, a young lady of very .re spectable parentage, elojped. The pa rents will make no endeaver to rescue ;their daughter. The Chicago, HI., club .house was de stroyed by fire. Loss $150,000, and sev eral persons lost their Utos. ' Great ex citement prevailed in saving the Palmer House, directly opposite, as the guests thought , the hotel was on fire, arid rushec1 into the street half-clad.. At a violent meeting of anarchists held in Marseilles, France, a resolution was adopted to warn American agents in France of vengeance in the event of the execution of the condemned Chicago an archists. A copy of the resolution was conveyed by a deputation to the Ameri can consulate. Several members of the Hew York baseball club were intoxicated when they entered the grounds to play a game with the New Orleans nine. Secretary Kano wan called oo. the police to eject them from the grounds. When the officers at tempted to arrest them, Mike Kelly tried to prevent the arrest, but no attention was paid to him. An explosion of molten steel occurred at the works of the Springfield Iron Com pany a few miles north of Springfield, 111. The entire city was shaken by the force of the concussion, and windows were rattled as though by an earthquake. Four tons of liquid metal were allowed to flow through some mishap, into a wet receptacle, and a frightful explosion en sued, and twenty men were burned. An encounter took place between a sheriff's posse, commanded by Hon. Daniel Caifray, and the .Attakapas Ran gers, commanded by Capt. Code, at Pat terson, La., on one side and a crowd of negro strikers. Several of the strikers were apprehended and the others were ordered to disperse, but instead of obey ing they showed a disposition to resist. An engagement ensued in which several of the negroes were killed. An engine attached to a freight train on the Fort Wayne Railroad struck a street car at 1 ederal street crossing m Allegheny City, Pa., and two passengers who jumped from the car were caught under the wheels of the engine and ground to death. Their names were John Culp,-teller of the Odd Fellows1 Saving Bank, of this city, and Miss Har riet Weyman, a sister of Weyman Bros., the tobacconists. The. accident wa; caused by thegatemao, Stewart Cunning ham, raising the safety gates too soon. New York, and after going through ttic lower part of the house, ascended to the sleeping apartments for more booty. The first room entered was occupied by a daughter of Mr. McCreery and her hus band, Albert Wrangler. As they entered the room, Mr. Wrangler was aroused and made an attempt to seize hs pktol. One buralar threw a blanket over WrangfeFs head and that of his wife, and told them not to remove it under peril of death, and stole $1,500. A Cook With $10,000 Per Annum. From the London Figaro. I had more than once been told of the mysterous French chef in London who earns more than the salary of an Under Secretary of State by the exercise of his skill as a taster, but I have hitherto al ways remained somewhat skeptical as to his existence. But now Max O'Rell gives ns such authoritative details about this eminent cordon bleu that his presence in our midst can no longer be doubted. Moreover, curious readers by going to the Cafe Royal some day soon after noon may see this mysterious professor of astronomy in the flesh, for he is ac customed to take hifidcjeitger thereabout that time. He is a' tall, tlnn, and geh-tieruanly-looking individual, and not, infrequently" rnay be seen, his meal con cluded, leaving the Cafe Royal in the same well appointed broughan in which later in the day he makes his profession al rounds. For he is not the cook of any club or aristocrat in particular; he is rather what may be called a consult ing chef, and it is his daily task to visit the kitchens of the houses he has on his engagement list. These houses are those in which a dinner party of importance is to be giv en, that night, and it is the duty of the chef when he arrives at the first on his list to alight, proceed to make his way to the kitchen, and there to go fnrtmgh the process of tajting all tljg njadg dish es included in the rh'efixi, especially into those Into the composition of which sauces and other complicated concoc tions enter. It is then his business to suggest a pinch more salt in this one, a dash of sugar or garlic, as the case may be, in that one, a drop of farragon or a sprinkling of spice in the other one. For two guineas, which is his noi mal fee, he, in short, puts the finishing and ofter the most important touches to a West-End dinner, and as, during the season, he has often four or five1 such engagements booked for one night, it can be readily seen that he earns an in come of upward of 2,000 per annum without difficulty, and has also the rare satisfaction of following a profess ion that cannot fail to be in the most liberal sense of the word "to his taste." A LIVELY TI3IE. A special train of passenger and flat cars, bearing John Robinson's menagerie and circus people and their animals, from Fort Scott, Kansas, came into the Onion depot at St. Louis, Mo., enroute to Cin cinnati, where they are to winter, i he train pulled out to Crossbridge, and while passing over a "puzzle switch"-' in the depot yard3, a flat car flew the track, followed by others, and ran into a freight train'on a side track, demolishing two or three cars and killing George Squirts, a canvtfsman and badly injuring two othtt circus man, named Fuller and Isle, hi the smash-up some of theanimal cages on the flat cars were broken, and a tiger, two lions, a leopard, a jaguar, an ibex and a vulture escaped. The wildest kind of commotion prevailed. Depot officials and policemen ran frantically1 about shout ing warnings and there was a general and quick stampede from the yards to the streets beyond. One by one the other animals were found and, after more or less trouble, were captured and returned to their cages, but it was not until nearly dark that the work was over and the ex citement allayed. Tyro masked ttfTgifuS entered the resi' r.t ttnini.nl Tl7 l-TAjS V. -M I llfihl Tl (T- PICTURES OF iTUE DOINGS AT j THE NATZO-XAL CAPITAL. Tbe DenartniMiM (inr n. nn.i ...... Again The Nttkft'i FJaaacea-Appoiat- f meats and Uasaeval Personal. WAS STaA HOAX ? v An attempt was made to kill or maim Chief Justice Waite, of the United States Supreme Court. About half . nast six a small box was seattto his house, through I t.uo apcuuu ueiiTery. postal service.- At was a pasteboard box, about ten inches , by six,, looking somethia like a valentine box and was addressed in a small cramped and apparently disguised back-hand writing. It was found to be a skilfully constructed infernal machine. Before it reached the justiee'-s .house, however, the box was stamped n one-side by the post office employes and the force with which the blow wa3 struck in stamping, caused the wire to slip through i the hook and eye, thus severing the necessary connec tion . The chief justice received the box while at dinner and opened it, but with out being harmed, the wire ,?rMch was to have exploded it having been detached, a3 already stated. Judge Waite did not attach any importance to the .affair, and said he thought it a sensaticnalhoax. ErEMCERED CI,BVELA?fii. After the reception of the Inter Semi nary Missionary Alliance at the White Ur;'. ', II. Garabed, an Armenian mis-Mt-n ', was introduced to the President and Mrs. Cleveland. During the inter view, Mr jGarabed presented Mrs. Cleve land with a package of rose oil cad a handsome pair of slippers of blue velyet smbroidered with gold. The slippers were made by his sister. Mrs. Cleveland in return presented Mr Garabed with her photograph and autograph. A BOGUS WIDOW. The Pension Bureau has received in formation of the conviction at Indian apolis, Indiana, of John H. McQuoih alias MeCown, upon the charge- of ob taining a pension upon jforged and fraud ulent papers in the name of Maiy Jones, a myth. McQuoin has been drawing a pension in the name of this mythical widow since 1870, except for a few months when he wa3 a fugitive from jus tice. A STARTLING FIND When Anarchist T.inps's Ceil AVas Searched The Governor of Illinois Threatened. The cells of the seven condemned an archists in the county jail at Chicago,Ill., were searched and four loaded bombs were found hidden away in a wooden box which was concealed under a pile of newspapers in a corner. Lingg and En gel were led' from their cells- to the con sultation ca,ge, and the search began. Engel's cell was first entered, and thor oughly examined. The bed and bedding were looked over, the cracks in the walls, and the table thoroughly explored, and the clothing hanging around the cell scorched, but beyond "a few empty cigar boxelj gom- fruit boks and papery nothing was found, liien the ueputy sheriffs enteied Lingg's cell, while its former occupant planted himself -in the corner of his temporary prison and watched thejn with eager eygg. - He was pale as aeath and Trembled like aii aspen leaf as the searchers moved around in the little stone-walled room. Suddenly two of the three men inside jumped out to the corridor, while the third man held at arm's length a small wooden box, which he carefully Carried to the jail office, and laid on Jailer Fotz's desk. The box con tained four pieces of gas pipe, each about six or seven inches in length, filled with some heavy substance and plugged at both ends. - jailer Fotz picked up one which wa3 closed at one end with around iron stopper, and one ot the officers pro nounced it a veritable dynamite bomb. Just then Sheriff Matson arrived at the jail and ordered that the dangerous wea pons be l eplaced in the box and sent to a chemist for analysis. There was no doubt as to the result of the examination. Then the' cells of Fischer, Parsons, Spies, Schwab and Fielden were searched in the order named, but no forbidden articles of any kind were found. The prisoners will got, be allowed' to exercise as much as formerly, and the number of visitors will be restricted. Governor Ogle&by was thunderstruck when he received the news of the finding of the bombs in Lingg's cell. Jle read and reread the dispatch, and a cloud of gloom and anxiety swept over his face, as the full import of the in formation dawned upon him. "I can say nothing,'1 said he to the Associated Press representative, "I must say nothing whatever in reward to this matter." It has just transpired that Governor Oglesby 1 " j 1 j i i r . 1 nas, wiinin me past iew uuys, receiveu several communications threatening vio lence if he refuses to exercise, executive clemency in behalf of the condemned an archists, . JtEME.-UBERlNO BRAVE MEN. Copies of the act "to carry into effect the last clause of article 7, section 1, para-graph 1, of the Georgia Constitution, and the amendments thereto," has just L'een published. It provides that anyone who enlisted in the service of the Con federate States, or of Geogie, who was a citizen of Georgia on the 26th of Octo ber, 18S6, who lost a limb or limbs while engaged in said service, and by reason of said service, or who may have received wounds which afterwards caused a loss of limb "or limbs, or who may have been permanently in jured while in said service, and who may be a bona-fide citizen at the time ot making application for the bene fits herein provided for, shall be entitled to receive once a year the following com pensation for the purposes expressed in article 7, section 1, paragraph 1, of the Constitution to-wit; Total loss of sight, $100; loss of one eye, $15; for total or partial loss of hearing, disabling party from ordinary pursuits, $15: loss of leg above the knee, $35 ; loss of leg below the knee, $'25 ; loss of arm above the el bow, 30; loss of arm below the elbow, '20 ; permanent injury from wounds, ren dering leg or arm substantially and essen tially useless, $25 ; permanent injury to any part of the body, rendering partj permanently and practically incompetent for the performance of ordinary manual avocations, $2o. J. (J. liannon, one of the most loyal-hearted young men in Macon, Ga., has started a movement foi the eternal perpetuation of the names ol the Confederate dead buried in Rose Hill cemetery. Some years ago the graves ol all the Confederate soldiers buried there were marked with painted boards, bear ing, so far as could be learned, the name and rank of each individual. From lone neglect, ' the mounds of these soldiers have sunken in, and the boards at theii heads have crumbled so that dark oblrv ion will soon cast its gloomy shadovj over the last record of those brave mer who fought and died for the South, HACON'S PEEEEST- rw, Vrefl.rtM, Paris L.t'. r,Pf"J jd Went J of "VFet Good-" t! UlB' The JIacon Volunteers marched down flriiihwrrv street. Macon, ta., :on, a., escorting "Mr., and Johnson :esidence. Mrs. Jefferson Davis and stB doughty Mrs", Hays and Davis. At the Union V.Kr. they formed in line, dth) tinguished party to pass -thKgn.tne crowd. .There was no speech 'Ug,anJ 3 soon as the party entered tbe,cai svere safelv seated, the engineer ,pUJea the rope,ithe beli iang, and the di.tui guished . guests wcnTofl.to Beauvfr Therc were numerous present ten(H" them,:but.aene were more agpreciaieu ttaa the collection from lacn; Mr. .Crawford sent along a servant tc laek.after.the party until their s:ue an taI nt.thcir oU home. The li.t made up bv -Judse C. J. Harris, for the Uene&t oi; Mr. Davis and his family, has beea kept a profound secret, when it was forwnrdec. in oace section, of his special car. Je-wui not know what-the people of Macon have done for him until he arrives at Beaovoir. The foilovin5 is the list: Judgs C.. Harris bottfas sherry wine, J. Craw ford, IZotel Lanier, 1 box cigars 3 toot tips; wti JsVf-v a hnfr.lpq brandy. 1 ootile gin, 2 battles sherry, 1 bottle Indi whis key, 1 bottle claret, J. D. Ilardcmau J box dears. Lamar. Rankin & Lam ir , bottles Martell brandf bottles whiskey. Sol tloa winnu 1". W TTnTvf. wines, N Gans 1 box cigars, Jonn luganj 1 bottle brandy, Anthony Vannucky dozen imported wines, gallon olive oil, J. E. Chandlns 1 box cigars, X. Bins wangcr 1 bottle sherry, 3. Danneburg bottles Rhine wine. J. Dinkier 2 bottles Rhine wine, Edward O'Consell 1 box Ci gars, Y. A. Davis 1 bottle champagne, Samuel Weichselbaum 2 bottles Hen nessy brandy,S. Altmayer 6 bott'e? Rhine wine, M. Nussbaum 0 bottles claret, L. Cohc & Co. 2 boxes cigar's, M. Putzel 3 bottle; champagne, C. H. Rogers 1 package jugs of Curacao, G. E. Barker 2 bottles ol California win-, J. Valetino 4 bottles ol Virginia wine, A. Ulbman 2 bottles im ported gin, Cox & Corbin G bottles rye whiskey, Sol Iloge G bottles wine, War ren Johns 2 bottles whiskey, Flemmiru & Johnson h dzen bottles Irish whis key, John Hurlev 2 bottles wine, Dun woody Bros. 2 bottles wine, V. T. Kar braurn' 3 bottles champagne, Payne & King 1 bottle brandy, Col. Lee Jordan bottles of sherry wine, J. H. Bonner 4 bottles brandy, S. R. Jaques 3 dozen champagne, J. F. Hanson 100 imported cigars, Rankin & Co. gallon whiskey, T. C. Detnpsey 6 bottles claret. Browr House 6 bottles champagne, TV. T. Shin holser 1 bottle brandy, A Gebiau & Co. 1 box cigars, Louis Yannucki 6 bottles Italian wine, B. II. Ray 100G.-R.ci-garos, Robert Coleman 100 G. R. cigaro?, Sam Baer 1 bottle Medoc wine. Lamar, Rankin & Lamar took charge of all the articles sent them and boxed them up neatly, the donations filling five large boxes, which were sent off intact, to be delivered to the Davis party on their ar rival at Beauvoir. P0IS0HED SUPPER. The Participants in a Meal at a Bali, Hen! to a Sadden Death. George C. King, who resides four or five rxales southwest of Lamar, La., gave a dance and supper at his residence. After supper was nearly over, all the guests were taken violently sick and a doctor was sent for, who pronounced the sickness caused by poison of some kind and was unable to Tender much relief. George King, J. Ben King, Walter Bell, Lee Ford, John O'Brien, Jr., Miss Minnie Brown, all white, and Zeke Hill, colored, have since died, and wife of Zeke Hill and his six children, Asa iord and six children, white; Mrs. Louis King and children, Fronie "Walker and child, one of the Durham boys, Bruce Spiers and Hilliard Butler, wife and children are dangerously sick. Abe Washburne was quite sick, but is out of danger. No motive can be assigned for the dastardly deed. ' The cook is not supposed to be guilty as she is dangerously sick and her husband and one or two of her children are dead. LYNCHED, George Hart, colored, who murdered foung Ed. Waldrup, near Waverly, last rear, was taken out of jail, at Opelika, Ala., by a mob of about 75 masked men, md carried where the crime v.-as com mitted, where he was hung. A placard was pinned on his back, saying: "The person who cuts this man down will suf fer the same fate." The mob came into the town about 11 at night, and was so orderly that no one knew they were there until the sheriff reported it. When they arrived, they procseded to the jail and demanded the keys from Sheriff Gordon. He refused to surrender them, whereupon six men overpowered him and took the keys from hirn. A CARELESS OFFICER. The usual experiments were being con ducted in the harbor of Newport, Rhode Island, near ihe station, and several tor pedoes had been successfully fired. The last one was a spare torpedo, and while this was being run out from the boat, in which were seven or eight officers and men, it suddenly exploded before it had been immersed in the water. The shock was tremendous, startling the city and injuring several of the sailors. The cause of explosion is unknown, but it would seem that the officer in charge of the battery must have turned the current on too soon, as the torpedo could not have exploded unless the battery was on. TOJl WOOLFCFLK. Tom Woolfolk again looks on the faint glimmerings of his native skies through the chequered bars of Bibb county jail, at Macon, Ga., where he was taken a few days ago.. He is quiet and uncommuni cative, and exhibits pretty much the varne apathy of feeling that he has shown ince that fatal 12th of August, when he viewed, unmoved, the dead bodies of murdered family. It is generally sup posed that he will have a trial without delay. So soon as the gra'nd jury has considered the case, if ,a true bill be found, he will be put on trial for his life. INDIAN TROUBLES. 1 A Special -messenger arrived at Vaniti, Indian Territory, from Tahlequah, and reports that the greatest excitement! pre vails at the Cherokee capital. He says over half the inhabitants of the city have left, taking with them their stock of household goods, and have sought refuge in the timber from the impending war on the assembling of the Council. The dispute is over the election of a chief of the Cherokee nation. Both parties claim t that their candidate ia elected. THASK35Glv,NO iil0B-7pr tbo rth displays. Whose prernof P JS" SS0 Ther praisi Amid Q oecsars of the flow And - ui-aias-tbe harvest fill? The etemal.ehcccs, of the hills. IN THE RAIN On a gloomy erening in vTP.mW . young may Tea .he couatrj rod lebr out of iL l.i? Vlllaofft nf "NT r. region nnd ad a was an isolated region, and she had met no one excent ?rom hfs tired gazed at her with some surprise as he made her an uacouth ,al,t:Hion ' r.if bv noSJ0Ung kd iLU Violet Den- th s Lam.' WaS Ve "J not of this locality, as one aW t glance hat to the tip of her dainty boot, she wa her' Her Pnce here just now was due to the. fact that &e had lingered late at a country boa,iS invakd aunt, after the gay season of the watering places was over: This was the iiiai cy-cuiujj Or Her T) lew stray drops had fallen. Reflecting that she had neither waterproof nor umbrella, she began to feel very apprehensive, and not without reason, for ia a few minutes more she found herself in the midst of a steady settled downpour, which soon drenched her. bhe couldn't help laughing at the idea of her absurd appearance, and was plodding bravely on, when she suddenly become aware of a bugy approaching her. 11 It contained one person only ayoun gentleman, who had the air of a man of the world, and was dressed in the rough textuicck well fitting equipments suited to a hunting expedition. The rain was coming down in torrents as he approached Miss Dennis, and he gave her a very bewildered gaze, and lifted his hat automatically as he passed. The next instant an expression of won der, doubt and surprise came into his face, and he abruptly tu rne;l his horse and came up to her side, springingfrom the buggy and addressing her with much earnestness. , . "Pray let me drive 'you to your desti nation," he said, baring his head to the rain and looking at her scrulinizingly. . "Thank yon very much, but Idon't mind the rain, "said Mis? Dennis: "Ee 'side?, I am half way there, and am al ready wet." "Allow me to insist, though I have no right," he said, with a manner that was extremely deferential, despite its hurry. "It is. really the only thing to do." Almost before she knew what she was doing, Violet found herself walking toward the'buggy, and the next instant the young man had taken from it a man's rubber coat, and was holding it out for her to put on. At this Miss Dennis drew back, somewhat haughtily. She was often called haughty by her friends, and sometimes laughed at by them because of it. "Oblige me by mitting this on at once the young man' said, in a voice that had such an imperious ring that Violet was actually surprised into com pliance. An instant more a firm hand under her elbow had assisted her to her seat, and the young man had taken a seat beside her, and carefully drawn the rub ber blanket around her. "Where to?" he said, turning "and facing her, and as he did so, broke into abroad smile. There was nothing in the smile but pure amusement, but, none the less, she resented it. "To 'Mrs. Harper's boarding house, at this end of the village, if you know," she answered distantly. "1 do not know, I regret to say. But you will direct me, please." Miss Dennis merely bowed in reply. "I do not know this country at all," the gentleman went on, "and vo j, I sup pose, are alm'ost as much a stranger to it." This was unendurable! What right had he to be trying to find out things about her? She avoided looking towards the handsome, brown-bearded face so near to her, and answered, in a chilling tone: "On the contrary. I know it verv well." "Then you live in this neighborhood?" he asked, in a surprised tone. "I beg your pardon," said Violet, se verely, not that she did not understand mm, but that she wished to intimidate him so that he would not repeat the question. . "I asked if you lived in this neighbor hood," her companion said, quite una bashed, and with a' twinkle in his eyes that would probably have angered her further still if she had deigned to meet his gaze. "-N'o, I do not live in this neighbor hood," answered the girl, icily. "I am sure the neighborhood is vastly the joser thereby."' "Violet threw back her head with a mo tion of haughty indignation, whereat the stranger broke into a little merry laugh. At last the drive came to ai end, and it was with infinite "satisfaction that she pomted out Mrs. Harper's house. 1 am m iir.li AVil i rrorl vau " c a forced herself to sav. 'though I regret exceedingly having trespassed on your kindness." " "Don't mention it, I beg of you," the young man answered,, airily. "I con sider myself infinitely the favored party, x sure you. I am indebted to you for uudrming drive, whicli lias had no tt ' excePt its shortness." eu, surely! This was beyond all Ficeuent! How could a man look u ef entially a gentleman and be so ill uonoxiOUSf iolet wm in a j.y? "uue ne saia: I hope I may be i permitted to learn ".v name ot mv charminr drivinnr r-mn- panion, that I may know by what title I am to cherish her in my memory. In 1 Virn, I" ms off er my card. " c uaa taken out his pocketbook, and S?1W.eiteinded a sma11 bit of pasteboard toward her; but she would not even tjiauce at it . oe Kinu enougn ro let me get outr' said Miss Dennis, in a voice of tlT i yi COQtroHed indignation. "I have inanked you for your assistance, but T navp nn r . "n to know your name, and . a'"lJJ none to acauaint vou with ""tic. And. riZ 6l-arcely giving him time to -"cena irom the buggy, Violet spran wi goring his proffered hand, a toward the gate. Before she tJf reached it, however,, the words, iy coat, if you please: excuse my men wumng lt thecked her, and she was vuugea to submit to the humiliation o w the big rubber coat, and ae was now returning from th, ,7;i. J. D- lludgms ij constitutional which she made a re WaxleDaum j . cue was walking rapidly for & Co. y Dotnut liierc an imminent thm-.nnYrr vm. She felt thav returning shS would nnt it. to he was s.ii tno- ng man received the at him. Asvel.: coat, he said y tQ ia???,y,f!oci" W Vthis tirae r the utterance of his name, per n&J??e al t ofleaT- the bouse, shot? He I'1 IaI1rhed to nimselfa laugh amusement and resumed his of genuine r-n the bu-gy. ccmmS iQ y dis: seatmtael'Uc,W' t , VA com fted by lilU uo AMU re- ceived. frr her nart. was fhAr. oSd and indigQant;bn e. ?UShlS& Bhe reflected that she mg a Eensip.e p , KflSeed have no apprehensions for ing, and neeu " , . tne iaiu'ci . . f a - onfl sne saia nothing of iue - anyone rad.enture gj.? 's train had i f7 .xt morning, the brown-bearded left,, next raw Harnn,-. gLnu ----- rcnraIlce to asie for Aliss ay m the world, Dtfonis, in 111 . . .r' .t,:a.irdlo enc un to Her. ?,UJ v. inforoea by the serVant that AM ? Dennis had returned to her home in the citr and so he was comnelled to re trnce hi's steps with a somswhat dejected anddisappointcdyisage. . T,Iis Dennis's city home was a very elegant and luxurious one, and on Thanks-o-iuno- evening its decorations and fur-isMn-s were to be seen to the best advan tage by reason of the splendors of lights and flowers which prevailed everywhere. There was to be a grand family dinner given in special honor of a young gentle man a somewhat distant relation, recent ly returned from a prolonged stay abroad. He had landed in America some weeks back but was now first come to this his native city to pay his resrects to the family with due form and ceremony. Violet was Ipoking her very ; loveliest to night, ia a beautiful white silk with natural flowers, and there was unques tionably a look of eager anticipation m the eyes which she constantly turned to wards the door. And there was really sufficient reason for the heightened color that shone in her cheeks to -night, for this young cousin, Arthur Darcy, had been long ago settled upon, bv ailVne friends of both parties, as a most suitable match for her. The young people were naturally so congenial and so drawn to each other, that the thi would probably have come about of itself if their kind friends had not been so obtrusiye, and finally roused Miss Den nis's haughty spirit, so that when young Darcy oifercd himself she said she had no fancy for being married to order, and met him with a flat refusal. Stung by the rejection, Darcy sailed for Europe immediately, and it was not until after he had left that Violet had begun to feel that, perhaps, she had "made a mistake. She was not a girl to repine, however, and she was young and ardent and fond of society, and she had been a very gay and popular feature therein during these years, but she had never had her heart , so really touched by any one as it had been by the cousin she had by her own act, banished, and although she had not been enough in love to pine for him, she felt exhilarated at the thought dTseeingl him ao-ain J again. When the door opened at last and he came in, looking very quiet and elegant in his evening dres3, with his smooth shaven checks and brown mustache and somewhat bronzed Complexion. Violet thought him a good deal changed, and yet she told him she woujd have knowD him anywhere. "I was scarcely more than a lad when I went a wav." he said, "and these are the years in which a man changes most. You are changed, too, Violet, and for the better which you have not had the grace tc say to me. I should have known you, of course; but with you it is dif ferent. There is an infallible mark of identification." ."Oh, you still remember the three little moles, do you i" said Violet, putting her white hand up to her .cheek and laying her finger upon three tiny dark-trow n spots near the corner pf her right eye. Thcv were no larger than freckles, and as the'v heightened the effect of her brilliant complexion, her admirers were apt to dwell upon them as one of her chief beauties. "Of course I remember them, said Mr. Darcy, "and as they are ineradicable, you could never succeed m hiding your identity from me, if you went to the ends of the earth." , . There was rather a tender in o oa in his voice a? he saia TiV,hP sound felt her heartalittle st.ned by the sound tones. i- r? DA ATI O standing apart iora momem beardher as she said, playful . . It was you who went iu the earth---cot 1. , mn " he aid. art. ' .i who seni, was you wno nau brought "and it is you me bank " voluntarily,'- said Violet, with a touch oi we. r , ' T..... "butsureis ' " 1 3 and unmis- iy, ne ansc - v takablv, for an .nUv fnr fnrthi-rl n. n nnn ii mu" j There wasu" rr- . - conversation oei onno.,nCCd. and a very soon dinner .fc m they were separa fclf & . &t He nau lingered i Z Quests had gone, ana now alter a Tv. Zute alone, they were qua have kDOwn me any. ,"So lMJe asked, looking down wnere, lunAw as she stood beside him. nerer fail to know your eyes," "I could she said. Thy uaic iiui changed.' , u. heart changed." he "Neither iiEvery now and then. said, gentij- usej to faI1 . t when 1 wfr;uriD doubts about you. I the most tort in(i idiot that I was had ma!e never come back to you, that I J coulj never have loved me and that J0" c0Uid send me away like at all, I k n0w that perhaps maybe that. I tfl'-bIy i was mistaken. Was I?" well, Pfj-now," said Violet, not pre- 'V7r mmedie surrender. 'There's pared tor ' T affavs have about von one feep : trouble or worried" nr aTt !c any one has treated me u T thin when 1 . badly, IJ;Do father or brother that mkes itishi3f vouwhen I want some one to metbl .of me- XoW a thinS happened take car" notl0rtheashe proceeded to give him M 7t of the ,e Qd presumptu- an accho had ketf advantage of ous BLessness t lQrce himself upon her he-P -Dtance, to which he listened her acq0 aad at the end answered, patien. Relevantly: -And go some - to'-i 0U ve known me anv-ares,-T -where T'meertain 'i?Vei 7$- en my eyes AlP ,y aToiding them-and tHZii1ZhIn bea aU over it raaii- uau oeen m a most ,. iw;'t,d res;--! pouring ram, in ei'i of a 'Wlnte' evening" the t-1" -c TS1-1" . wirtlf in . ndnvBor the isolation.WtheVXh? the rubber coat,nor the dra JSl nor aisguisea irom me r Confess I some doubts until had the- .you got into . oorf- . ---" ua jrood vio-,,. ne the thrM littl. !" . .,1 saw WQ- w..vv muiC3 Hmci entitled toil ' beyond possibility of ke Ihe fancy seized me thent P:a7 a part sec if you still retained the o'd hau-htv that I look form va:n h the per.onT pf this , meek maiden bpjp f t ? a "itf k- Shi"' wii too astounded, so hn-mt ou. - mys -If known, but you wouia neither read mv card nor hear niy ame. You ran and lett rne relentWy, but T had a horse I could not leave, 60 I reeved to rectify matters by Mlh ncxt darand sending my card, knob- VOu would, come down at once, and picturing vour supr.s?, wnea I exnlainJ mv double identity. I had gone down to' oin sjmo friends in saootin'r. ar.H ovn-otml to be- some d.ivs ia the nei'libn!hojd. You. maj imagine ray disappointment, there lore, whea I calicd only to learn that you were "one. It was sonic time before .Violet quite forgare him .ur the ruse lie had prac ticed, hut he made his peice at last, and before they parted, he took from his pocket a bright and sparkling object which he slipped upon her ringer. MVill you accept that from me, V lolet?" he- said. i bought that jewel lo in-ago, because it was a very pure ana per -ot one, resolving that if I ever nskd any woman to marry me, I would offer it to her. Somehow I have never bee a- ab'.e to fancy it on any hand but yours. Will you take it, Violet, and with it a .ieart that has been faithful to you thioughout. all these years of separation?'' 1 : Violet still wcar3 the ring,and it serves as a guard now to another, which, though it has no jewel in it, is a thing more precious still, which Arthur Darcy put on her hand before the winter that fol lowed that Thanksgiving Day was over. AUELLVUXCH. ! Deacon Sharpley's Lawn Mower, antl. the Way it was Used. fFroni the Boston Transcript. "I tell you what," said 'a suburban friend of the listener, as the street car condactorvame around bearing a par ticularly big and imposing bell punch, "there is a deacon in our church tluit" ought to be made to carry one of thosb; things when he makes his collections, if ; ever anybody ought to be made to wear I one." "Why ? What has the deacon done?" "I'll tell you the whole story, and whon I've done I Want to know whether if ii had happened to you, it wouldn't have destroyed your confidence in some body. You see, I live next door to Deacon Shapley, and my vard is sepa rated from his just by a light picket fence. I was.Avhac.king away at the grass od my little lawn the other night with a ferass lk;l wasjust finishing the job, and wonderiaK wnetner l snouia ever do ricJi enoue n tw' swell out wun a lawn mower, when the deacon came out and . loaned over the fence. 'See here,' said he, 'you're getting quite a lawn here, and so am I. We don't either of us have tL4-ll'0 LUOlULOaiUl 4A li XX XXXJVXf but together we might have. Say we go snucks on one ?' I told him that I thought it was a good idea, and would go in with him on a machine. He said he would manage the purchase, and would tell me how much lialf the cost was. So I let him go on and buy tho lawn mower, and he brought a receipt ed bill for &12.50 in his own name. I gave him' the $G.25, and left the machiner and the receipt in his hands. "Alxmt two weeks after that :I'1 seen the deacon shoving the lawn mower around in his yard in great style in tho meantime I thought my grass had got up enough to warrant cutting, and went over to the deacon's to get the machine. The deacon was out, they said, but the I thought it was a little queer that the deacon had lent our machine, but I went down to Mr. Smith's and got it. I thought they looked a little cross when I took it, but I took it just the same and mowed my lawn. Next night the dea con came and got it again and mowed away a while in his back yard. A few1 days after that I thought it was about time to mow once more, and went over to the deacon's after the machine. No; machine anywhere around, I asked at'i the back door -, (t ' ' 'Where's the lawn mower? " 'Mr. Smith came and got it a little while ago,' said the deacon's daughter. "Mr. Smith! What business had he with our machine? I didn't ask, but I trotted down to Smith's. I found Smith very complacently oiling the lawn mower, and apparently, getting it ready; for action. " 'Well,' said I, 'I came ovr after that lawn mower; but as you seem to be get ting ready to use it, I suppose-1 can wait.' " 'Hum, said he, 'I guess the deacon and I keep it pretty busy.' " 'So it seems, 'said I, kind of sarcasti cally. . . V'Well, we have got our money's worm out oi it, you Know, says ne. 'That struck me as a mighty queer remark, and I couldn't help saying, 'I should think you d want to get Qno yourself.' . ' Well,' says he looking up a little surprised, 'I own half of this one.' " 'You you own half of this?' says I, astonished. "'Why, certainly,' said he; 'Deacon Sharpley and I bought this lawn mower together.' "I tell you that took me completely down. The deacon had completely played us off, one against the other, and has got me to pay for one half the machine, and Smith the other, calculat ing to tret the use of it to mow all hi own grass for nothing. Jf he had been as cautious as he was sharp, and kept the machine in his own barn, or else in stead on going after it himself, I suppose Ve might have kept agoing that way. But since we've found it out, Smith and. 1 get along first rate, but tho deacon has to hire an Irishman to mow his grass with a scythe. " "And that's the reason why I think the deacon ought to carry a bell puncljt when he take. up a collection. Don't you think it would be a good scheme?" A citizen of Gainesville, Ga.whose- pet cow suddenly showed sympioma w going dry, consulted a cow doctor, who deeided that she had the "hollow tail," and split the tail, inserted a quantity of salt and turpentine, and bound it up. Going out the next day to see how the cow was getting along, her owner caugnir a half -grown pigf which he kept in the same lot, busily engaged in sucking the cow, and this accounted for the falling off of milk. He at once took the band age off of the unfortunate cow's taiL
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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