Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 February 1898 — Page 7

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-A SOOHHERN STORY ANTEBELLUM DAYS SY '.V?,

L^GA/VFTJETTE

[Copyright, IM17. by the Author.]

The overseer tilted liis broad shoulders sidewisc, the better to consult a huge silver watch by the light of the moon. A broad beam of white light fell athwart the recumbcnt form on the steps. Charlie had taken no part in the family council. His eyes were closed and his folded firms rose regularly with the rise and fall of his jeans waistcoat. Seth leaned forward and took him gently by the shoulder. "Blest if the boy ain't gone sound Lfileep! He's just tuckered out. He knew I wanted to finish that fence, aud he Btuck by me. Wake up, old chap! Nine o'clock. Bedtime!'' "Better blow the horn fus', Seth. I hoar them niggers in the dancchouse vat"

From a nail in the side of the back door Seth f.o--k down the long tin horn mid, putting it to his lips, executed a soft melody more in unison with the quiet serenity of the stars and ho tender, wan light of the moon tlian with its own sordid mission. It was the plantation tatoo.

As the melody of Seth's horn playing penetrated to the ears of the governor and his daughter-in-law it gave afresh impetus to the discussion that had filled all their evening. "That's another one of them, Adcle. That boy has real musical talent. Alartin's children are rather an unusual lot. 1 am sorry lie ever married. "Father!'' "Yes, sorry. What has ho brought children into the world for? No amount of beauty or brains will give them positions. They are overseer's children aud will be to the end of the chapter." "Strong need not necessarily remain under the bun. He has all the world before him. But tins girl"— "Yes, this girl. And, if I understand you aright, she is herself in .ignorance of her father's true position. You did wrong, Adele, very wrong." "I see it myself now, but my molives wero good. I knew the class prejudices of the girls with whom sho was to associate for five or six years. Schoolgirls can be so very inercilesa I thought it would militate against her reaping the full benefit of her opportunities. "Well, now that she has reaped the full benefit of the opportunities given her, what then?'' ""What then? I am troubled for the girl, father."

The governor waved his hand autocratically. "Make a governess of her. "But if she doesn't want to teach?" "Doesn't want to teach Do you supposo sho will want to settle down for life yonder?"

He jerked his head impatiently toward the quarter lot. "Scarcely. Poor child! If it were not for Adrien"— "Yes—but it isfor Adrieu. Don'tentertain the idea of having her about you a second, Adele. Young men can make awful fools of themselves sometimes. And there is temptation in that girl's face. Help her out of the mess 111 any oilier way you can contrive.

Early hours obtained at the mansion as in the cubin. There was nothing to assist the quiet, soberly shod hours in '•heir flight. The governor lifted himself from the depths of his deep Spanish leather chair by a firm grip on its elbows. With the courtesy of a past century he raised his daughter-in-law's smooth, white hand to his lips. It was his good night to her. Soft footed servants closed the long windows and the carved doors against the harmful dews of night.

In full orbed majesty the moon climbed higher over the trampled quarter lot, the grassless doorvard, the paintless framework, the sordid environment of the home to which Eliza Martin was coming back. It softened, but could not conceal, its unlovelinoss.

Higher still it had to climb before it could pierce the leafy crowns of the orange trees and the laurestinas that flung sheltering arms about the stately white pillared house whose lonely occupants were looking forward eagerly to the home coming of Adrien Strong.

OH APT Eli V.

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tient being when the soul's crying need for sympathy, its demand for audience of a nearer :ui(l more palpable ear than the ear of the: invisiblo One, presses with imperious importunity, when the temptation to examine the workings and the conclusions of one's own conscience by the light of outside criticism waxes too strong to be withstood.

That being is fortunate who in the moment of the heart 's indiscretion finds an auditor at once discreet and courageous.

Strong Martin's moment of temptation came to him when to the impenetrable darkness of his do:ot shadowed and perplexed consciousness was superadded the dense physical darkness of a starless midnight, when he and Seth apparently had tbe whole world to themselves, without in the least knowing what to do with it. When Canopus, all its spirit blue and diamond brightness eclipsed, stretched black and limitless over their unsheltered heads, seeming to touch the dark crowns of the tall trees that closed in about them, erect and shadowy sentinels guarding the small clearing known as Ncvitt's Landing.

He and Seth were waiting for the boat that was to bring Liza home. Much anxious thought and careful preparation had been expended in anticipation of that momentous event. Mrs. Strong had gone the length of proffering her own horses and carriage, with Dolbear, the highly accomplished ooachman nt the mansion, thrown in. The offer had traveled from the big house to the overseer's house ic company with a

liuge buncli ol Heliotrope 111 lragrant" bloom. Strong, as spokesman, for the family, had declined the offer with a promptness that bordered 011 ungraciousness.

By reason of his college training and consequent superior knowledge of the world Strong had stepped immediately into a sort of domestic dictatorship pressed upon him by the loving suffrages of the whole family. That matter of the governor's coach he had settled crisply. "No, we do not want it, mother. Let my sister begin aright She is coming home to us, not to the people up at the mansion. She has been kept in tho dark long enough. The wagon that takes you into town is quite good enough to bring your daughter out of it. She might as well learn from the word 'go' that she belongs to an entirely different class of people from the Strongs.

Seth nodded his shaggy head approvingly at each period. "Ban-in a sort of savage snap in your voice, Strong, I'm with you, bov, straight through. I like to hear such good, hard horse sense from the lips of him we was 'feared would come home sp'iledfor ev'rythiiig but books. You're gettin holt uv things by the right end, boy, and I'll back you up in it.

Ho further signified his entire approval of Strong's independent attitude by a vigorous slap on his shoulders, then went off whistling softly to see that the two mule wagon was nicely swept out aud to select a pair of reliable animals.

The longer he pondered Strong'.-: peculiarly acrid way of talking about tho people at the big house the more perplexed he grew. He mentally resolved to "get it all out of the boy" while they should be waiting for the boat, which was sure to be late that

He and Seth were waiting for the honl. night, it being cotton shipping season, and the Delia Dean always brought down her share and a "leetle over. "And him owin thegov'normore'n he can pay back in a lifetime. It bangs me. The boy's got a spite ag'in somebody up yonder He looks as savage as a meat ax. He does for a fact. What's come over him is what I want to know.

Strong was standing 111 tho family group that had comedown into the yard to superintend the departure. "Feteli your Sunday shawl, mannny. Girls always puts the very things they most needs at tho bottom of tho trunks. I 11 be bound, sissy'11 come prancii: oil that boat with nary blessed thing 1o wrap up 111. "Seth does beat all! He thinks of everything Me oughter hern a girl lnsselt.

Mrs. Martin smiled proudly, and detaching herself trom tho family group waddled briskly away on the errand 01 Seth devising

Each one found something to do for the invisible Liza. Charlie spread the parlor rug 011 the floor of the wagon, thereby covering up a multitude 01 smali sins 111 the shape of clinging cotton seed and wisps of oat straw. Ebon "steadied" the armchair that Liza was to sit 111 bv roping it. securely to the sides of the wagon. Seth cautiously circumnavigated the turnout to make sure that every bolt and buckle to whose trustworthiness their darling was to be committed was 111 place.

We 11 be travelin by faith aud not by s«ght tonight, he said finally, signifying his satisfaction with the arrangements by giving a facetious twist to the short look over the near mule's brow band. .Mrs. Martin returned breathless and panting, shaking tlie wrinkles out. ol her best shawl, diffusing a strong odor of gum camphor by the process. "Take it easy, mammy. You ain't no lightweight. Save your breath. That boat won't bo long before midnight, if then. All altoard, Strongie, my lad.

Both men clambered nimbly into position on the board laid across the front of the wagon. Seth gathered the clumsy leather reins uito a skilllul grasp. With 4 lurch and much jingling of trace i-iiains tbe wagon got under way. "Oh, Seth!"

Seth turned a backward glance in direction of the group still standing at the bottom of the steps. "You'll make Liza understand why we thought it best to fetch her home from Ncvitt's Landing 'stead of lettin her go 011 to town, where she'd have to finish the night on that wliarfboat with the bugs and things tor company?" "All right,, mammy," the patient fellow called back cheerily. "(Jit. up, mules. Mitch the plunk a little for'arder. Strong. Now then."

Strong adjusted the board as he was bidden. Pretty soon he brought his cigar case into view. It was one of the luxuries he had imported from collegeNo one objected to it at home. A wide nuirgin should be allowed a boy who had carried off the lirst honors, "and him not come of bookish folks. He extended the ease to Seth. vrho nodded his acknowledgment of the courtesy, but did not avail himself of it. "Not jus' at present I'll save it for deesert. I put afresh quid in when we was startin, and I can't afford to waste it It'll help to keep me awake while we "re waitin. Thank you all the same.''

Immediately after passing through the boundary line gate they plunged into a dense bit of woodland which noth­

ing but a lifelong familiarity enabled a man to thread. The wagou gave a violent lurch. Strong lurched with it. "Phew, but it is a black night no moon, no stars!" "But a full 'lowanee of stumps. Whoa, Jeremiah 1\\ bore you goin, Kit?''

Seth laughed and pulled his mules short to the left. "I don't so much mind givin you a shake up. but sissy's another sort of critter. I'm 1110s' sorry now we didn't borry the carriage from the madam. Old Dol is enough better driver than me. They say he's got eyes like a bat can see better in the dark than lie kin in the light. Learnt that when Mr. Gabriel was 'live." "That was Adrien's father. Do you remember him?" "Sorter. He worn't the steadies' fellow in the world, but he's gone, peace to his ashes. His capers never set me back any." "Drink?" "Drink and cards, or, rather cards and drink. The p.Meboaids started hun downhill the decanter finished him. But I merely said how 1 wished old Dolbear and the madam's carriage was goin to fetch sissy home in place of me and Kit, blast her lazy bones!" "I don't agree with you about the carriage. Why should we turn to the Strongs for assistance in every emergency? Must the Martins always be propped up by the Strongs? Can't, we possibly carry 011 our family affairs without their aid?"

Seth looked toward the excited questioner out of the comers of his blue eyes—a sheer waste of energy, for tho red glow of his cigar revealed' only the tip of a straight, delicate nose and a sensitive upper lip clothed in a silky brown mustache. "What's come over you. Strong? Yon —the last one in tho world to turn ag'in the gov'nor's people.

Strong struck his heel angrily against the low dashboard. "1 know what you want to say I, the governor's namesake, who have reaped a handsome benefit from my christening 111 shape of a four years' course at Shingleton college, am the last 0110 to say sharp things, or should be. 1 wasn't consulted about a choice of names. "That's so, but at one time you was that wrapped up 111 Adrien Strong, when you and him was little fellers, that you was ready to fight anybody who wouldn't admit he was made out of a superior sort of clay "I know it I know that too. But what's the use of flinging all my imbecility in my teeth at once?"

There was the soothing gentleness e_f a mother's lullaby in Seth's voice as lie answered: "I don't want to fling nothin in your teeth, boy. 1 was just sorter outdone to hear you peckin at the gov'nor's folks. They's been good friends to our people. What's come over you, Strong? You've been down in the mouth ever since yon come home. Don't be feared to speak out, lad. Maybe Buddy Seth (ran help you, like he usetcr when you got your fishin tackle all tangled up and couldn't ontangle it" "I'm in a worse tangle than that, old fellow, but 1 don't see how it won hi mend matters to talk about it "Git up, mules!"

Through the stillness the crack ol Seth's loug whip resounded clear and sharp. The mules broke sullenly into a heavy trot. The smell of a rank vogeiation tilled their nostrils. Tall, course coffee weeds smote them mercilessly with damp, ghostly fingers. An owl. disturbed by the unwonted noises below, lifted itself slowly 011 heavy winu and fluttered, complaining and plaint 1 ve. to a safer refuge. The night wind stirred the topmost boughs and set them a-sighing. It was not a cheerful drive Seth's thoughts had wandered from the sullen boy by his side to Liza. "I'm feared them weeds'll pester her mightily. If I'd had a head wutb a pum'kin seed, I'd 'a'sent out and had 'em chopped down early this morn in easy enough.''

Strong put out his hand to press the gaunt knee nearest to him. "Buddy Seth, you've got the biggest and the most unselfish heart 111 the universe 1 did not mean to be sharp with you a little back, but 1 have been wandering 111 a dark labyrinth for a month now to which this weed choked, mud rutted road is clear traveling

Seth slapped the hand 011 his knee triumphantly. "I knowed it 1 knowed it! You can't hoodwink the buddy that's been study in yon ever sence you was a little curly head chap in short petticoats Hut I don want to force your confidence. Strong. If you've got anything 011 your mind that's worryii you, and you'd'like to share it with Buddy Seth, why just you heave ahead. But I can wait 1 ain't, no ways impatient, boy.

From under the shadow of the trees out into the broad, farreaching fields, where the white bannerets of the open cotton swayed softly in their russet bolls, where the yellowing blades of the ripened cornstalks rustled against the sides of the wagon, where much travel to and from the ginhouses had cut deeper and more hopelessly into tho soft oo/.e of the road "Sissy won't enjoy this ride as much as she used to enjoy travelin over this very road behind Buddy Seth when the persimmons was ripe. Bless her heart! (Jouldn she put away the ripe persimmons, though? 1 hope she ain't Outgrowed all her cute little ways.

Strong diu not answer. He was not thinking of Liza. The moment of his temptation had come to him. Ho was wrestling with himself. Should he tell Seth everything? He knew 110 safer confidant could be found, but would it do any good? Would ho believe it?

From out tho broad, flat cotton fields into another and a narrower ship of woodliind, and then out upon the grass carpeted cliff called the landing, where far below them, yellow and sluggish, broad and resistless, the Mississippi river passed by them on its way to the sea

Seth drew rein abruptly. "We mifht a* well onhitch right

hero and let the beasts graze round. Plenty of time to harness up ag'inst we see the Dean's lights about Drake's bend."

They tethered the boasts Inconvenient saplings and left them to their own de vices. No sign of human habitation on their side of the river. Behind them rose the green wall of the l'ore.-t trees that, fringed the plantation 011 its water front. Below them, washing the green lower slojies of the cliff, the river with its ceaseless throb and How.

Across the tawny watery nxnanse the glimmering lights of a sleep:.ig uamiei Over them an onyx sky, pierced i.er, and there at. far intervals with a diamond point of light The time and the place invited confidences. "First thing a fire. I told tbe fellows 011 the Dean that we was lookiu for sis sy to comedown with them, and if they seen a light. 011 the clift, they was to put her out at Nev itt'a If they didn't see no light, they was to carry heron round the p'int to tho wliarfboat. You see, if it had been rsiinin tonight, I shouldn't a-liked tho little thing to lake this ride.

The fire was soon lighted, and by the crackling, leaping flames Seth looked into Strong's pale, troubled face. Two fallen logs furnished them resting places. Strong renewed his proffer of a cigar, which Seth accepted and pulled at with a vigor bespeaking unl'amiliaritv with tobacco in its most refined manifestation. "You put the lantern in the wagon, didn't you. Strong?" "Yes." "Well, then, there ain't nothin more to do but wait, and a longish wait it's likely to be. From under the sheltering cover of his hat brim he was scanning Strong's lace with tho tenderest solicitude. There were dark circles about thi.' boy's handsome eyes and a pallor about his temples that, "didn't look healthy, all of which might be laid to the account of overslndv, but those hard, bitter curves about his mouth were new and puzzling. Across the flames ol the beacon fire Strong thing a glance that was pathetic in its perplexity Sethi"' "Yes, Strong. "I've a yreat notion to tell you my trouble, only 1 dim see what good it will do. ".In,it. as you plea.se, lad. Don 1 speak just to gratify me. Only—it it's anything about money, don't be 'feared to speak out. I've been luvin a 111 tie by from my wages as lather helper, to stock Lit!le Neck, but 1 ain't quite ready to stock it yet, and if the money'11 bo any service to you" "It is not about money, Seth. At least, not the way you think. Does Little Neck really belong to yon now?" "Clean! Not a dollar of debt on it." "I am glad—very glad Yon am worth a dozen of me, old fellow Shake hands. "P.1I1 aw! Givin your old buddy taffy. But Seth's laugh was a pleased laugh and his hand grip'was hearty "You ain't begun yet We're goin to make a doctor of you. We re bound to have one gentleman 111 the Martin family.

Strong made a gesture of impatience and emitted a guttural sound lliatniight mean anything or nothing. They smoked in silence for a lew moments, and then, with violent, suddenness, Strong's heart committed its indiscretion. "Buddy Seth, it any one were to tell you that I had left college under suspi cion of Ix nig a t.hiel, what would you say or do/" "A thief!" Seth roared, sending the word far into the still night air "A poor, petty thief of gold trinkets and opera glasses and iji bills!" "I would r.av that the suspieiuner was a dnrned fool, and it you hadn't done it lor yourself I'd whale the life out'n him."

Strong laughed unpleasantly. "Then you would have had to whale the entire faculty and every Ix»y college except two. The suspicion seemed well founded. "Seemed!" Seth sprang to his feet excitedly "You don mean to tell me, Strong, that vou've come away from Shingleton without turnm things upside down and inside out 10 show em who the true thief was: Surely you sifted it to the bottom?'' "1 did not need to sift. 1 knew "And didn't toll:' Then von're ready to stand with the angels. Let me see if your wings am sprout 111?" "No, I'm not angelic in this matter It never once occurred to me that 1 could be suspected. Even now has never been put. into shape so that 1 could take hold ol it. That is the internal side of the mess. "But it you knowed who the thief JVtUS. why didn't von hand him over' Why didn't you tell the truth and shame the devil?" "I could not. "Could not? I ain't never vet seen the time when 1 wanted to tell tho truth and could not." "Dared not, then. "Explain yourself. Strong Martin, aud, by JVIOKJ-N' beard, ll you've showed the white feather you ain't no brother of mine and I won't own you. "Adrien Strong was the. t.hief, Seth— Adrien Strong, whose grandfather was my father's best friend, whose name I bear, whoso mother is my mother's only woman friend, whoso e.xposnre would have involved two families whom I love and reverence in bottomless wretchedness." "Adrieu Strong a thief"? Strong irtin, you are plum crazy—jest clean gone distracted." "There! You wore mistaken about the boat She is turning the bend now."

Both men were on their feet :uid hurrying the mules into the traces in another second. The hoarse fliroated whistle announced that their beacon fire had not been lighted in vain. Liza was aboard. In rattling haste they descended the steep bluff ro:ul. The steamer had made better speed She was flinging her staging far out over the tawny flood to be in readiness to drop it ujion the bank at the earliest possible moment Resinous torches were flaring in their iron vans at the boat's gunwales and at

the foot of the broad steps that led to the upper deck. Tho lower deck was a brilliantly lighted scene of bustling activity, tho mate expending a superfluity of exhortation, reprobation and command upon tho ebony roustabouts who stood in double file 011 either side of the clumsy stage plank.

Sctli and Strong stood in utter darkness. Their hearts were beating furious-

Strong and I.izu were -watktmi rapidly ininl him arm in arm. fe So many possibilities for weal or for were wrapped up in the girl they wero waiting for. Seth caught, the first glimpse of her as she came down the steps leaning 011 the captain's arm They were not quite ready for her. She stood between two of the flaring torches, peering landward with eager, lcrVely eyes.

They could sec the rounded grace of her slim form, tho proud poise of her pretty head, the air of composure that bespoke good breeding, the firmly planted little feet protruding from under the short skirt of her traveling dross—altogether a different sort of girl from any they had ever seen or been thrown into contact, with. Even the well remembered charms of Gabriella Strong paled beloro Liza's fresh, affluent beauty. "She looks like an angel!" said Seth in an awestruck undertone. "She looks like a young empress. By Jove, how well she holds herself!"

With a musical chant and a "heave-yo-hoy the stage swung outward and downward. Dusky figures ran nimbly ashore to plant it more firmly for the pretty, girlish feet that wero already crossing tho tawny chasm between bank and boat. Seth stepped larther back into the gloom. "Yon fetch her, Strong. Maylx* she's forgot Buddv Seth entirely. 1 might shock her. She can see that you are a gentleman outside and in.

With gentle force ho pressed Strong to the front and turned himself, wilii trembling hands and moist eyelids, toward the wagon, groping for the moth er's shawl to wrap about Liza's pretty shoulders. "It's ainazin what books can do for folks, body and soul. Amazin Them two shows lor it.

He was facing the river now and toward him Strong and Liza wero walking rapidly arm in arm.

CHAPTER VI.

By a fortuitous but somewhat unusual chance the somiweekly mail had reached tho ex-governor's hand before breakfast and he was devouring it with an avidity born ol insatiable greed and long fasting.

Two mails a week was rather slender provision at any time for a man who had once been the leading political motor 111 his state. It was deplorably inadequate at a tune when tho country was convulsed with grave issues tor whoso solution funic wisdom was taxed beyond its utmost powers.

Union or secession? There was nothing i" life much worth considering outside of that stupendous question. The papers bristled with pro :uid con. The nation held its breath. Would sectional hatred or largo idea statesmanship tip the beam.' Who might say?

With a feverish eagerness the old man, who had once held the helm I11111sclt, with steady nerve and tine, followed the wild tossing and pitching of the ship oi state. Union or secession? Would the good ship lounder or would she ride the stormy billows 111 safety? Into this rapt, frame of mind Mrs Strong's sott. cultured voice penetrated confusingly "1 think I shall have to talk to Eliza Martin.

They, the people of the. big house, wero sitting at, the breakfast table a pleasant, lotuly ceiled room, with a highly ornate Ireseo immediately overhead. Long, large paned windows opened upon a low side gallery Lamaique roses, lug. creamy, tragrant, rioted Irom the foot of its steps to 1 be comh of its fanciful roof. Through thenoar rosoiesiooii8 and tho fait her shining green screen of the osage oranges that, 1 ringed thopremisesavmd llash of red had caught Mrs. Strong's disapproving eye. ^uickas the darling of a swallow's wing in upper ether it 1 lad come and gone.

The lady frowned severely. Six weeks now since Seth and Strong had brought the girl home through the starless small hours and only by the flashing of thatred wing, the central ornament of an immensely chic riding turban, had her presence Ijeen made known to the mistress of the big house.

Tho governor glanced over the edge .t his paper impatiently. 1 lis daughter-in-law's voice was an arresting sound always. Being a woman, she was entitled to consideration. But the interruption was especially untimely just then.

She had disposed ot her share of the mail promptly. It was a mere scrap of a letter from Adrien, who had only remained in the rose scented ribbon fe& tooned chamber long enough to secure .« suitable traveling companion lx'fore leaving lioni" again 011 a supplemental tour of nil that was best worth seeing in his own country. "When tho governor looked over the edge of his newspaper. Adrien's mother was twisting his letter into a smooth white cylinder. "I beg your pardon, my dear?" Mrs. Strong repealed her remark with unconscious arrogance. iwiit 1 t.ltitilr thull buvft

Eliza Martin. She is assuming rather an unbecoming attitude. "Little KlizaV"

The governor's right band went up to his black velvet skullcap and set. it in rotary motion—a sure sign of perturbation with him. lie glanced restlessly around the room and wistfully at the pile of yet unopened papers beside his plate- What was ICliza Martin or any other girl in the universe by comparison with tho matter discussed in those coiled sheets? Mrs. Strong answered tho question of his eyes. "Oh, she is not here in the flesh. I shall have to ra^nd a. special messenger for her, 1 presume. She .. just dashed by on that little mare Seth has had in training for her. She spends half her time on its back.

The governor had been swallowing his coffee in cold installments he now gulped it by way of economizing time. "She is a pretty little thing," he took time to say. "The pony or tho girl?" "The girl. Dear me, of course tho girl. Quite a style, my dear. 1 saw her standing at the dish shelf 011 tho gallery at Ebon's. Trimming lamps, 1 believe. Unfortunately pretty. 1 should say." "Decidedly very unfortunate. I really call it a oitv.

TO HI-: CONTINUED.

LOT TLHY SCHEME.

tilro.il Aldcnniin's of lu Oit I rlt. MONTRAL, Feb. I I.—Alderman Rain-

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le, chairman of the city's finance committee, will introduce a scheme for the funding of the city's debt, which proposes to issue bonds

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lottery plan. Certain numbers will draw prizes. Ail the bonds will bear per ciint interest. In the alderman's own words the citizens will get an opportunity of securing a safe investment bearing Ii per cent, interest and at tho same time run the chance of obtaining ft fortune, while the city will gain the advantage of having its civic debt in the hands of its own citizens and effect an annual saving of $!100,000. The plan

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WILL. BE NO DISRUPTION.

I)r. tVolin EIILII'H I'hincli Will Not StUVtsr by t!* WllIxtniwulH of TriiHleott. NKW YORK, Feb. 14.—The church of Dr. John llall, the Fitt.li Avenue Pres. byterian, will suffer 110 disruption through tho recent, withdrawals of most of the elders and trustees. At the services yesterday it was announced that a meeting would be held today for the purpose of filling the seven vacancies on the board of trustees.

Six nominations for tfusteesbip will be presented to the congregation at this meeli.ig as follows: General Samuel Thomas, raidroad president .lames Talcottaud George, F. Vistor, dry goods merchants W. R. Stuart, hanker Jamos IJ. Britt.011, broker, and John W. Aueuicloss, a former trustee. The seveuth member has not been selected.

ANOTHER EXPEDITION.

I 11 ilniht« I'nili «.|-t.wi iind S|innlnh S|llliH :it. lnip l. TA.MCA, Fla., Feb. 11.—Almost, nndor tht noses of Edward (Javier,superinteudent of lJinkertous, and Spanish spies, a large Cuban expedition left Tampa and sailed from a point 011 Pease river.

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HIS HEAD SAWED OFF.

Iliuiilrli- liilf. 1,1,1, Overtook Ik Snwmill Linplo.vc. W A\ I.IEIA O,, I'T'B. II. WHILO ABUOR Adams, Head sawyer lor the Turner Sawmill company, was engaged at the mill as usual, he loll on the saw. with the result, thai his head was sawed squarely oil. for -to \ears he had been on11 nm 111.sly a sawmill employe, having 111 ver been the victim ol an accident bebire. lie lea\es a widow aud lour '•nihil 011 111 dest.it lite circii instances

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I'iiim I ml.. Fel.. H. William .larreii was arrested yesterday on the .strength of i'hoinas lie,id's simy thai' .Jail'ett had asked him to make some iiiniiov ai a widow h.ime. Jarretr, was

IV«II a preliminary hearing yestorduv 011 I he charge 1 if beiiiy implicated in the minder nl Mi-. St oil/,, an aged woman who was t,mad bound, gauged aud dead in IK 1 1,110. Rubbery is supposed to have been the motive. At the examination Heads story was not substantiated.

I ll- llcvil is In IIik III,"*. Li.T 1 S.i Ii in ()., I1 e,|I. |.|, Amos Noueiiscnwander lias been taken to the Toledo insane asylum. Religion turned ins 1111 ml. lie was a nephew ol Amos Stonier, who was taken to the asvlum a short tune ago, having lost Ins reason through religious excitement. Me killed a number ot hogs because they had the devil in heni

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PoKi'i.ANt), Or., Feb. |.|.—Tho steamship Oregon has sailed lor Dyea and •Skaguay, Alaska, with ,AJU passengers and 1,'JOO tons of freight, including 60 dogs, 41 horses and Ul burros. One hundred tons of supplies lor the government relief expedition were sent by tbv Oregon.

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