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. * . ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER.! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1885. NO. 34. VOLUME XXIX. DARK DAYS: BY HUGH CONWAY, Author of " Called Back." CEiPTER I.?A PRATER AND A YOW. j When thi? story of my life, or of such ] portions of my life as presents any outof'the common feature" is read, it will be found that I have c^-i*jutted errors of judgment?that I have Binned not only socially, but also against the law of the land. In excuse I can plead but two things?the strength of love; the weakness of human nature. If these carry no weight with you, throw the book aside. You are too good forme; I am too human for you. We cannot be friends. Read no further. ******* I need say nothing about my childhood ; nothing about my boyhood. Let me hurry on to e:irly manhood; to that time when the wonderful dreams of youth begin to leave one; when the impulse which can drive sober reason aside miiaf ha inrlAArl o ofrr\r*rr rmo TcVinn WW, iUUV. V.V4, (? VUV) I UVU one has learned to count the cost of every rash step; when the transient and fitful flames of the boy have settled down to a Bteady, glowing fire which will burn until only ashes are left; when the strength, the nerve, the intellect, is or should be at its height; when, in short, one's years number thirty. Yet, what wa3 I then? A soured, morose, disappointed man; without ambition, without care for the morrow; without a goal or object in life. Breathing, eating, drinking, as by instinct. Rising in the morning, and wishing the day was over; lying down at night, and caring little whether the listless eyes I closed might open again or not. And why? Ah! to know why you must sit with me as I sit lonely over my glowing fire one winter night. You must read my thoughts; the pictures of my past must rise before you as they rise before me. My sorrow, my hate, my love must be yours. You must, indeed, be my very self. You may begin this retrospect with triumph. You may go back to the day when, after having passed my examination with high honors, I, Basil North, was duly entitled to write M. D. after my name, and to set to work to win fame and fortune by doing my best toward relieving the sufferings of my fellow crcatures. You may say as I aid then, as I say now: "A noble career; life full of interest and usefulness." You may see me full of hope and cobrafje, aud ready for any amount of hard work, settling down in a large provincial town, resolved to beat out a practice lor myself. You may see how the usufil initiatory strupples. my footing gradually grew firmer; liow my name became familiar; how, at last, I seemed to be in a fair way of winning UCCCS3. You may see how for a while a dream brightened my life ; how that dream faded and left gloom in its place. You may see the woman 1 loved. No, I am wrong. Her you cannot see. Only I myself can see Philippa as I saw her then?as I see her now. Heavens! how fair she was! How glorious her rich dark beauty! How different from the pink-white and yellow dolls whom I have seen exalted as the types of perfection! "Warm Southern blood ran through her veins and tinged her clear brown chcek with color. Her mother was an Englishwoman; but it was Spain that gave her daughter that exquisite grace, those wondrous dark eyes and long curled lashes, that mass of soft black hair, that passionate, impulsive nature, and, perhaps, that queenlike carriage and dignity. The English mother may have given the girl many good gifts, but her beauty came from the father, whom she had never known; the Andalusian, who died while she was but a child in arms. Yet, in spite of her foreign grace. Philippa was English. Her Spanish origin "was to her but n tradition. Her foot had never touched her father's native land. Its language was strange to her. She wa3 born in Englaud, and her father, the nature of whose occupation I have not been able to ascertain, seems to have spent most of his time in this country. When did I learn to love her? Ask me rather, when did we fir3t meet? Even then as my eyes fell upon the girl, I knew, as by revelation, that for me life and her love meant one and the same thing. Till that moment there was no woman in the world the sight of whom would have quickened my pulse by a beat. I had read and heard of such love as this. I had laughed at it. There seemed no room for such an engrossing passion in my busy life. Yet all at once I loved as man has never loved before; and as I sit to-night and gaze into the fire I tell myself that the objectless life I am leading is the only one possible for the man who loved but failed to win Philippa. Our first meeting was brought about in a most urosaic way. Her mother, who suffered from a chronic disease, consulted me professionally. My visits, at first those of a doctor, soon became those of a friend, and I was free to woo the girl to the best of my ability. Philippa and her mother liyed in a mall house on the outskirts of the town. They were not rich people, but had enough to keep the pincn of poverty from their lives. The mother was a sweet, quiet, lady like woman, who bore her sufferings with resignation. Her health was, indeed, wretched. The only thing which seemed likely to benefit her was continual change 01 air nnu scene. After attending her for about six months, I was in conscience bound to indorse the opinion of her former medical advisers, aud tell her it would be well for her to try another change. My heart was heavy as I gave this advice. If adopted, it meant that Philippa and I must part. But why, during those six months, had i Xflet, passionately in love as I was, won the girl's heart? Why did she not leave me as my affianced bride? Why did I let her leave" me at all? The answer is short. She loved me not. Not that she had ever told me so in words. I had never asked her in words for her love. But she must have known?she must have known! When I was with her, evary look, every action 01 mine must'have told her the truth. Women are not fools or blind. A man who, loving as did, can conceal the true state of hisfeelings must be more thau mortal. I had not spoken; I dared not speak. Better uncertainty with hope, than certainty with despair. The day on which Philippa refused my love would be as the day of death to me. ? -*? * ' i T ^ _ n-? i o a i iicsidc, wnat naa i xo oner nen Although succeeding fairly well for u beginner. at present I could only ask the woman I made my wife to share comparative poverty. And Philippa! Ah! I would have wrapped Philippa in luxury! All that wealtn could buy ought to bo hers. Had you seen her in the glory of her fresh young beauty,you would have smiled at the presumption of the man who could expect such a being to become the wife of a hard-working and as yet ill-paid doctor. You would have -felt that sHeshould have had the world at her feet. Had I thought that ahe lored me, I might perhaps have dared to hope she i would even then have been happy as my wife. But she did not love me. More- I over, ahe was ambitious. She knew?small blame to her?how J beautiiul she was. Do I wrong her I when I say that in those days she looked for the gifts of rank and riches from ibe man who loved her? She knew that she was a queen among women, and ex- j pected a queen's dues. (Sweetest, are my words cruel? They are me craiesi i cave spoiten, or snan speak, against you. Forgive them!) "We were friends?great friends. Such friendship is love's bane. It buoys false hopes; it lulls to security; it leads astray; it is a Btaff which breaks suddenly, and wounds the hand which leans upon it. So little it seems to need to make friendship grow into love; and yet how seldom that little is added! The love which begins with hate or dislike is often luckier than that which begins with friendship. Lovers cannot bo friends. Philippa and her mother left my neigh- ; borhood. Then went to London for j awhile. I heard from them occasionally, and once or twice, when in town, called upon them. Time went by. I worked hard at my profession the while, striving by sheer toil to drive away the dream of my life. Alas! I strove in vain. To ; love Philippa was to love her for ever! I One morning a letter came from her. I tore it open. The news it contained i was grievous. Her mother had died suddenly. Philippa was alone in the world. So far as I knew, she had not a relation left; and I believed, perhaps hoped, that, save myself, she had no friend. I needed no time for consideration. That afternoon I was in London. If I could not comfort her in her j great sorrow 1 could at least sympathise with her; could undertake the management of the many business details which arc attendant upon a death. Poor Philippa! She was glad to see me. Through her tears she flashed me a look of gratitude. I did all I could for her, and staid in town until the funeral was over. Then I was obliged to think of going home. What was to become of the girl? Kith or kin she had none, nor did she mention the name of any friend who would be willing to receive her. As I suspected, she was absolutely alone in the world. As soon as my back was turned she would have no one on whom she could count for sympathy or help. It must have been her utter lonelinesj which urged me, in spite of my better judgment, in spito of the grief which still oppressed her, to throw myself at her feet and declare the desire of my heart. My words I cannot rccall, but I think?I know I pleaded eloquently. Such passion as mine gives power and intensity to the most unpracticed ipeaker. Yet long before my appeal was ended I knew that I pleaded in vain. Hereyes, her manner, told me she loved me not. Then, remembering her present helpless condition. I checked myself. I begged her to forget the woids I had spoken; not to answer them now; to let me say them again in some months' time. Let me still be her friend, and render her gach service as I could. She shook her head; she held out her hand. The first action meant the refusal of my love; the second, the acceptance of my friendship. I schooled myself to calmness, and we discussed her plans for j the future. She was lodging in a house in a quiet, i respectable street near Iiegent's Park, j She expressed her intention of stay- i ing on here for awhile. "But alone!'' I exclaimed. " Why not? What have I to fear? Still, I am open to reason, if you can suggest another plan.1' I could suggest no other. Philippa was past twent3'-one and would at once succeed to whatever money had been her mother's. This wn3 enough to live upon. She had no friends, and must live somewhere. Why should she not stay on at her present lodgings! Nevertheless, I trembled as I thought of this beautiful girl all alone in London. Why could she not love me? Why could she not be my wife? I needed all my self-restraint to keep mc from breaking afresh into passionate appeals. As she would not give me the right 4-s\ /lionAca r\f "hor fiifnro T prnilfi tlo -) - ? I nothing more. I bade her a sad farewell, then went back to my home to conquer my unhappy love, or to suffer from its fresh inroads. Conquer it! Such love as mine is never i conquered. It is a man'3life. Philippa j was never absent from my thoughts. Let my frame of mind be gay or grave Philippa was always present. Now and then she wrote to me, but her letters told me little as to her mode of life; they were short, friendly epistles, and gave me little hope. Yet I was not quite "hopeless. I felt that I had been too hasty in asking her for her love so soon after her mother's death. Let her recover from the shock, then I will try again. Three months was the time which in my own mind I resolved should elapse before I again approached her with words of love. Three months! How wearily they dragged themselves away. Toward tne end of my self-impo3ed term of probation I fancied that a brighter, geyer tone manifested itself in Philippa's-letters. Fool that 1 was! I augured well from this. Telling myself that such love as mine must win in the end, I went to London, aud once more saw Philippa. She re ceived me kindly. Altnougn ner garu | was still that of deep mourning, never, I thought, had she looked more beautiful. Isot long after our first greeting \ did I wait before 1 began to plead again. She stopped me at the outset. "Hush," she said; "I have forgotten j your former words; let us still be ! friends." ''Never!" I cried passionately. "Phil- i ippa, answer me once for all, tell me I you can love me!" She looked at me compassionately, j "How can I best answer you?" she said, j musingly. "The sharpest remedy is j pjrhaps the kindest. Basil, will you ' understand me when I say it is too late?" I "Too late! "What can you mean? I H is another?" The words died on my lips as Philippa, drawing a ring from the fourth finger of her left hand, showed me that it concealed a plain gold circlet. Her eyeg met mine imploringly. "I should have told you before," she said softly, and bending her proud head; "but there were reasons?even now I am pledged to tell no one. Basil, I only I show you this, because I know you will! take no other answer." I rose without a word. The room ca m?r} whirling around mc. The onlv thine which was clear to my sieht wis that cursed gold baud on the fair white hand?that symbol of possession by another! In that moment hope and ail the sweetness of life seemed swept away from me. Something in my face must have told her how her news affected mo. She came to me and laid her hand upon my arm. I trembled like a leaf beneath her touch. She looked beseechingly into my face. "Oh, not like that!" she cried. "Basil, I am not worth it. I should uot have made you happy. You will forget?you will find another. If I have wronged or misled you, say you forgive me. Let me hear you, my true friend, wish me happiness." I strove to force my dry lips to frame some conventional phase. In vain! words would not come. I sank into a chair and covered my face with my hands. The door opened suddenly, and a man entered. He may have been about forty years of age. Ho was dressed with, scrupulous care; but there was something written on his face which told me it was not tne lace 01 a goou man. i iuslfrom my chair he glauced from me to Philippa with an air of suspicious inquiry. "Doctor North, an old friend of mv mother's and mine,she said with composure. "Mr. Farmer," she added; and a rosy blush crept round her neck as she indicated the newcomer by the name which I felt sure was now also her own. I bowed mechanically. I made a few disjointed remarks about the wrather and kindred topics; then I shook hauds with Philippa and left the house, the most miserable man in England. Philippa married, and married secretly! How could her pride have stooped to a clandestine union? What manner of man was he who had won her? Heavens! he must be hard to please if he cared not to show his conquest to the light of day. Cur ! sneak ! coward ! villain! Stay; he may have his own reasons for concealment?reasons known to Philippa and approved of by her, Not a word against her. She is still my queen; the one woman in the i.i ,-0 worm iv mc. ?T anu oug uoj v?vu^ jo | right! | I passed a sleepless night. In the i morning I wrote to Philippa. I wished her all happiness?I could command my pen, if not my tongue. I said no word about the secrecy of the wedding, or the evils so often consequent to such concealment. But, with a foreboding of evil to come, I begged her to remember that we were friends; that, although I could see her no more, whenever she wanted a friend's aid, a word would bring me to her side, I used no word of blame. I risked no expression of love or regret. No thought of my grief ihould jar upon the happiness which she doubtless expected to find. Farewell the one dream of my life! Farewell Philippa! Such a passion as miue may, in these matter-of-fact, unromantic days, seem an anachronism. No matter, whether to sympathy or ridicule, I am but laying bare my true thoughts and feelings. I would not return to my home at once. I shrank from going back to my lonely hearth and beginning to eat my heart out. I had made arrangements to stay in town for some days; so I staid, trying by course of what is termed gayety to drive remembrance away. Futile effort! How many havo tried the same reputed remedy without success! Four days after my interview with Philippa, I was walking with a friend who knew every one in town. As we passed the door of one of the most exolnolvp nf thr> rlub9. I saw. standin? on the steps talking to other men, the man who 1" knew was Philippa's husband. His face was turned from me, so I was able to direct my friend's attention to him. "Who is that man?" I asked. "That man with the gardenia in his coat is Sir Mervyn Ferrand." "Who i3 he? What is he? What kind of a man is he?" - "A baronet. Not very rich. Just about the usual kind of man you see on those steps. Very popular with the ladies, they tell me." "Ishe married?" "Heaveu knows! I don't." And this washer husband?Philippa's husband. I clenched my teeth. Why had he married under a false name? Or if she knew that name by which she introduced him to me was false, why was it assumed? Why had the marriage been clandestine? Not ojily Sir Mervyn Ferrand, but the noblest in the land should be proud of winning Philippa! The more 1 thought of the matter, the more wretched I grew. My ti:st impulse was to demand an explanation, then and there, from Sir Mervyn Ferrand. Yet I had no authority so to do. What was I to Philippa save an unsuccessful suitor. Moreover, I felt that she had revealed her secret to me in confidence. If there were good reasons for the concealment, I might do her irretrievable harm by letting this man know that I was aware of hi:? true position in society. No, I could not call him to account. Bat I must do something, or iti Mmo f A n?v r*riuf mot? Kn row_ dered doubly deep by self-reproach. The next day I called upoa Philippe. She would at least tell me if the nariio under which tile man married her was the true or the fal30 one. Alas! I found she had left her home the day before?left it to return no more? The landlady had no idea whither she was gone, but believed it was her intention to leave England. After this I threw prudence to the winds. With some trouble I found Sir Perrand's town address. The next day I called on him. lie also, I was informed, had just left England, His destination was also unknown. I turned away moodily. All chance of doing good was at an end. Philippa had departed, aocompanied by the man who, for purposes of his own, passed under the name of Farmer, but who was really Sir Mervyn Ferrand. I went baclc to mv home, and amid 'he wreck of my life's happiness mur mured a prayer ana registered an oath. [ prayed that honor and happiness might be* the lot of her I loved; I swore that were she in any way deceived, I would with my own hand take vengeance on the man who deceived her. For myself I prayed nothing?not even iorgettulnesa. I loved Phillipa: I had lost her forever! The past, the present, the future were all summed up in these words 1 Tto be continued.! NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Embroidery in woolen braid appears on the velvet bonnets made to wear with braided suits. The pretty little frills of bright color are again in vogue this season a3 a means of brightening a dark skirt. A Parisian who had heard that the last census of France embraced more than 20,000,000 women called France a lucky rogue. The short jacket with a wide sash is called Spanish in Paris, and is much worn both in the day time and in the evening. Flower wreaths in China are laid on plush photograph frames. The wreaths are painted on a flat surface not molded in relief. Women who are the most loved by men are frequently the least liked by their own sex; and with good reasons generally. Many of the most charming women that a man meets in society are among the last women he would ever have the courage to marry. White silk plush, ornamented with large pearls strung in loops, constituted the dress of the bride at a recent New York wedding. V?? Kft/lnl ?o r\f illncmn if 1Q it uwu iui; unuai twu to \jl *?*uoh/m ? *w set far forward on the head, but wlien it is of lace it is set back and only drapes the shoulders. Beautiful garnitures for white ball costumes worn by brunettes are composed of the leaves of the India-rubber tree mixed with coral. The most fashio nable bridal necklace is a string of pearls. With ordinary evening dress dog collars of Rhine stones are fashionable. The attempt to banish the metal but" ! ton from the street costume was a failure. It has returned, and is handsomer 1 and more expensive than ever. Flowers are cut from brocades, outI lined with gold thread and sewed upon ! a background of silk to make the waist| coats oif rich costumes in solid color/ I Young girls' white tucked frocks are very often made with short tucked | sleeves, with a little silk puff at the top ' matching the color of the sash and ribbons. i Five sisters, the youngest of whom was ; fifty years old, and who had not. met all together for forty years, held a reunion | at the house of their father, in Milwau: kee, recently. 1 Au immense rose, called "Iler Majes ty," and having blossoms six or seven ; inches across, is now in the New York forcing-houses. One of its buds is enough for a breust-knot. Ornameutal hairpins are becoming ec; centric. A new Frcnch pattern is headed with a tortoise shell ball, with a small gold shell containing a naked infant rest; ing on its surface. One of the London tailors has bought I out wash-leather bodices, to be worn in I the bail room with skirts of brown illusion. Alligator skin may follow, and I perhaps the day of birch bark is not far , away. Colored lace matching the sleeve is j now used to fasten the long gloves worn I with evening dress to the gown. The lace is full, and is deep enough to allow j the wearer to move her arm with perfect ! freedom. I Birds that have apparently dipped J j their beaks and claws, and sometimes i even the tips of their wings, in tho Pac: tolus, or, in plain English, birds with j i oilt on/1 IiaoL-c nre mnrh iispfl rin ' | 5"- ?**? ? dark bonnets. Handkerchiefs are no longer displayed I peeping from the pocket or hanging from ' the fan handle or belt or bosom. The depth of the pocket or reticule is the place for the handkerchief, according to the latest dogma of fashion. I The short jackets worn with street 1 costumes this winter are m..Je w.thcut | \ plaits in the back, and have the seams j sewed to the fur border. The fronts are j no longer than the back, but much ' shorter than those worn lately. . Bridal costumes are invariably high I J to the throat, of course, but some American bridesmaids like to display their shoulders, and little sleeveless satin jackets, with deep trimmings of white marabout, are prepared for them to wear in church. Marabout also bor- | derB their skirts and draperies, so that the jacket seems a part of their frocks, j MOMENTS FOR MERRIMENT. HUMOROUS STORIES FOUND I IT OUR EXCHANGES. Storm Signals?Everything In I?uck? Caught?The taw AH on Ifoih SldcN?ISuying Lacc> "How dy do, Mr. Brown, nice weather we're having?" "Yes, but there'll be a change soon." "Think so?" "Yes, know it." "Why? Morning papers say so?' "No; saw the storm signal." "Where?" "Look up street at that gate; sec tho red headed woman up there waving a dish rag at me? That's my wife."? Merchant- Traveler. Everything in Luck. "Ha! ha! *ia!? he chuckled as he held up a ten-pound turkey for the inspection of a pedestrian, "but do you see this?" ah?yes. iiuy uimr "No, sir-ce! I won him!" "How?"' "Got him on a raffle." "Ye-c-s. How long you been at it?" "Not over three months." "Is this your first?" "Yes." "Any idea of how tnucn it cost you?" "Of coursc?pot it all down here in my notebook. This oird. sir--this bird has cost me $17?not a cent over that. I know men who have thrown away ifi.j j without getting so much as the leg of a chicken, while I've a ten-pound turkey for $17. Luck! Ah-ha! Um!"?Detroit Free Press. Caught. The tocsin sounds from the tower. It is my hour to put peas in my shoes and walk around the block until tea time, for telling a book canvasser yesterday that I had just received a copy of the book, "Forest's Footprints of the Algonguins," from the author, who was an old college chum and an array comrade of mine. The ajrent looked me in the eye, while, with many courteous regrets I made this statement, and then, turning to the steel portrait of the author on the title page, asked me if I could recognize my old chum and army comrade. It was the face of a motherly looking woman of about G5, and a foot note stating that she died among the Indians in the winter of 1820. Dearly beloved, my sins never count anything against me. I always get caught?Burdette, in Brooklyn EagleK The Law All on Both SI des. "Mr. >Lawyer, I want to ask you a question," said a countryman with a bandage about his head, to one of our most honorable lawyers. "Yes, sir; take a seat. What is the nature of the case?" "Waal, ef you wer a hunt in' on your naber'6 premises an' he'd tell you to git off or he'd knock you off, and you wouldn't go, and then he'd try to knock you off, could ye bring suit agin' him for tryin' to knock you off?" The lawyer then looked at the bandage around ttoe man's head and replied, in an emphatic way: "Most assuredly, and collect heavy damages." "Waal, then, I reckon I won't do nothin1 more about it." "Why, why not, my friend? You could certainly get heavy damages. The law is all on your side." "I reckon not, mister. You jist now said the law was the other way." "How's that? I probably misunderstood the case." "Well the feller come in my orchard and was shootin' rabbits when I ordered him off; buthe wouldn't go. So I went at it to kuock liim off, but I got the worst of it, as ye can see. I reckon he must be one of "these 'ere boxiu' fellers." "Ah, ahem! Yes; just so. That puts the case in another light. Of course you can sue him for trespass and assault und battery." "Waal, I reckon I won't do no more in the matter, as you said he can also bring suit agin' me and collect heavy damages." "No, hold on, Don't go. You've got the law all on your side." " So has the other feller. Good day, sir."?Kentucky State Jounal. Kuyinff I-aco. She was fond of lace. I had heard her talk of lace and lace it should be. So I marched boldly into a swell dry goods store, with a good deal of style and a small amount of money. The dry goods man I knew. The boss waited on me himself and seemed more than friend-, ly when I confided to him that I pro{?osed to buy something in lace for a ady, I said: "Something in lace." I was afraid I should look ridiculous if I gave it any particular form or application. "Good?" "Certainly; as good as you can give me. Something fit for an impressionable young woman, of whom you're not quite sure." "All right; I presume you don't want any tiling but the real thing?" "I would not dream of it. Expense i9 not so much an objection." I did not really mean that. He smiled and led me into a corner. "You're a friend of mine," said he; "you shall have something choice." "I am glad I came here," said I to myself. 1 Some ladies who had overheard the word lace gradually approached the corner and began to display an indifference to the proceeding. My friend brought a box, a plain looking paper box, and opened it. "Now here's something good." A suppressed murmur of admiration arose from the ladies around us. "Ah, that is something worth buying," said I with an air of a connoisseur, beginning to feel for a $20 gold piece ] had somewhere. "Do you like this? Well, I won't tell you what we sell it at, but as you are a friend and I don't want to make anything out of you?" "You're a good fellow. Some day I will?" "I can let you have it for $2,000." I usually have considerable presence of mind. I hadn't it with me at that moment. My face betrayed me, and a grin began to spread over the features ol the ladies. In a moment I recovered. "I will take that?" The ladies started and examined me all over. The facetious dry goods man started. "Box," said I aside, "and you can put in two holes out of the pattern.-'?Han Francisco Chronicle. _ Jai>aueso Dentists. The Japanese dentist, says the New York Sun, does not frighten his patient with an array of steel instruments. All of his operations in tooth drawing arc performed by the thumb and forelinger of one hand. The skill necessary to do this is only acquired after long practice, but once it is obtained the operator is able to extract a half dozen teeth in about thirty seconds without once removing his fingers from the patient's mouth. The dentist's education commences with pulling out pegs which have been prossed into soft wood; it ends with the drawing of hard pegs which have been driven into an oak plank with a mallet. A writer in the Union Mediate says that no human jaw can resist the delicate but powerful manipulation of the Japanese dentist. Wished Slio Was an Orphan. A little Newport, It. I. child o/, rich parentage, carefully nursed and richly clothed and guarded tenderly by its elders, was driving by the orphans' home tho other day, when it caught the sound of many childish voices in the yard where the children were at plav. It eagerly asked: "Oh, uiamina, what is that?" "They arc poor little orphans, without any parents," impressively answered the mother,hugging he;- darling closer. "Oh, mamma," exclaimed the child, crossing j his little hands over his velvet gown and drawing .1 deep sigh, ''how I wish I was | a poor little orphan!" The mother ap! preciated the situation, and has since given her child companionship of its own stature and a little more freedom from fine clothns and coustaut nursing. In Paris they line the hoods of rubber waterproofs with bright-hued silk. FOUR MEN LYNCHED. j An Old Man's Murderers Meet an Awful Death. Dragged from Jail by a Crowd and Summarily Hanged. The following dispatch from Audobon Iowa, gives particulars of the summary punishment dealt to four men in jail at that place charged with murder: Hiram Jellerson, an .old and inoffensive cripple, was taken from'his bed on the night of April 23, 1834, and waa hanged to a tree. His son Cicero and son-in-law John A. Smytho and Joo J. Wilson were arrested. Cicero maae a confession, admit ting his guilt and implicating the other two. They were indicted by the grand jur.y, but secured a continuance. On Wednesday Judge Loofborro convene! the court hero and the case was called for trial, when the defendants filed a motion for the change of venue on the grounds of the prejudice of the people. Without ruling on the motion the judge adjourned court until Monday. Onthat day Judge Anderson toon his place and announced as Loofborro's ruling that the venue would be changed to Cuss County. The announcement created j great indignation, and it ii alleged Judge Loofborro was in cousequence compelled to leave town. Last night over two hundred citizens held a secret meeting, when it was determined to lynch the prisoners. Guards were stationed on every street leading from the jail at dusk and mounted men patrolled the town in order t> frustrate the intention of the sheriff to remove the prisoners by special train to Atlan. tic. At 4 o'clock this morning the men were taken from the jail by a mob of about four or five hundred men and hanged to a treo. Jefferson was the first dragged out, and was hanged on the grand stand in the public square. Smythe and Wilson resisted and were sbot in their cells and then dragged out and hanged to a rail fence. The mob was composed of many of the best citizens. Tho sheriff was on the Bcene but was powerless. Another man named Ryan, confined in the jail for a different murder, was also lynched. Tho mob surrounded the jail and every movement was most excellently made, showing no haste or confusion, but steady, determined work, by a lot of men who had grown weary of the law's delay. They guarded every corner of the city against tho approach of citizens, and after being refused the keys by the Sheriff locked him and his family in one part of the building and effected an entrance to the cell room by tearing down the brick walls. The locks to tho iron cages in which tho prisoners were confined were deftly cut and then all tho rest was easy. The Coroner viewed the bodies of the four men and returned, as usual, a verdict in accordance with the above facts. The excitement had died down by noon. There were four other prisoners for minor offences in the jail at the time, but they were not disturbed, although terribly excited. The four men lynched were all young men and had resided here a long time. Hiram Jellerson, the murdered man, was the father of seven children, two sons and five daughters. Smythe had married one of tho girls, but they lived unhappily. He had accused his wife's father of au unnatural crime with the daughter and had angered tho others. They hung the old man to a tree, after dragging him from his bed chamber to a thicket fully 200 yards away. Suspicion pointed t<> the son and he was arrested. In the young man's early confession he told how the murderers dragged his father over tlio frozen grou.id, how he struggled and how the ropo was drawn over a limb and all hands pulled him up. BULLETS AND BILLIES, The Slionting of Ro?a?Trouble at a socialist -'Ucctlng. O'Donovan Rossa' editor of the United Irishman,was shot in the back near his office in New York, by a young English widow I named Yseult Dudley. The two were walking together on Chambers street, when the woman slackened her pace and drawing a pistol held it close to Rossa'a back and fired. He fell, and she fired four times at his pros, trato form, but without effect. The woman then walked away, menacing tho crowd who followed her with her pistol, but was soon arrested and taken to a station house. Rossa made his way to tho Chambers Street hospital. Examination of his wound I showed it was not serious. Mrs. Dudley is a handsome young Englishwoman and is by occupation a trained hospital nurse. She declared she had shot Rossa because he was a dynamiter, and was responsible for the attempts to blow up public buildings in Loudon. Under pretence of rendering financial aid to the dynamiters she had j formed Rossa's acquaintance and at the first opportunity tried to kill him. The news of Kossa's shooting spread with wonderful rapidity throughout Loudon and caused tho wildest excitement. Crowds of people surrounded the bulletin boards, and at almost every corner there was a group of men jubilently discussing the event. Many men beo!iiiAnf ft'onfin in flin oTiiKnpfln^A r\t their feelings. Strangere to each other effusely shook hands with the strong fer vor of life-long friends. Then they wouldlink arms and rash in squads to the bars of the nearest hotels, shouting as they went: "Hossa is shot." Many thousand toasts were drunk to the health and happiness of Mrs. Dudley, who was lauded as a heroine. Investigation showed that Mrs. Dudley was once imprisoned in England for attempting suicide, and for a year was an inmate of an English madhouse. To the rejxjrters and doctors in New York she is a mystery, appearing quite rational in many respects, while in others she seems rather flighty. She expresses no sorrow for her act, but regrets she did not kill Rosso. Shortly after Rossa's shooting there was an exciting scene at a meeting of rival bodies of Socialists, in Concordia hall, on tho East side of the city. Tho meeting had hardly opened when the crowded room was in an uproar. One party of Socialists, under direction of their leader, Justus Schwab, tried to prevent the other body from continuing and indulged in yells and cat-calls. Then holice-Captain McCullagh, and six other policemen,all dressed in citizens' clothes, elbowed their way to the front, and when their leader was near the platform he threw open his coat, displaying a gold badge, and cried: " I am captain of tho police hero! You must stop this fight at oncj!" "Yes!" yelled Schwab, "so he is. Fire him out! Down with the police!" Ani | mated bv this battle-cry, a burly man hit j Captain McCullagh in the back of tho head I with a chair. Half a dozen Socialists jumped I upon the captain, but Sergeant Haggerty and I the five officers beat them back. The policei men struggled hard and finally reached the I platform. "Down with the police!" shrieked ! the Schwabites. A dash was mado at tho i platform. The policemen stood shoulder to j shoulder and drew their revolver.*. "The first man who advances a stop will bo shot like a i dog!" said Captain McCullagh. Then ho whispered to Officer Robinson, ''Hurry to the station house and Bring tho reserv&s." Rob[ inson made his waj' out and to the police station. Meanwhilo the officers k?pt their [ pistols pointed at the crowd. The faction I light continued. Ten minutes later thirty I policemon rushed up tho broad stairs. "Boys, I turn this mob out, was the captain's only j order. The long night sticks rose and foil j like flails, and at each fall a man dropped to j the floor. The 1,500 Socialists rushed pell| mell for tho street. It is estimated that 'iOO j I men were clubbed. In the scramble on the 1 stairs Peter Braun, a musician, had his left I leg broken, and was taken to Bellevue | hospital. Schwab was arrested. | THE PATENT OFFICE, j | Summary of tlie Work Done During ' I,an Vcnr. The annual report of tho United States j commissioner of patents for the year ende< 1 j December Ul, 1KS4, just issued, shows that there was received during the year from all sources fl,07.'>,7!)9, and that there was j CXpCIliJOU Jlii WAvcno v/i iau|<M vivi | expenditures of $105,211). The fees for appli| cations amounted to $070,175. The receipts ' for l>S8.'i were $1,140,240. Tlio report shows j that there is in the treasury of the United I States a balance on account of tho patent j fund of $2,781,C!>5. A summary of the work of tho office for the year shows t fiat thero were issued 20,207 patents and designs; that 110 patents wore reissued, and that 1,021 trademarks and 512 labels wero registered; 12,:>01 patents ex! pired during the year, and patents wero i withheld in 2,S39 cases for non-payment ! of tho final fee. Of tho patents issued 10,1 013 wero to citizens of the United States and j 1,284 to citizens of foreign countries. The I commissioner again calls attention to the in- j ' adequacy of room and of facilities for con| ducting the business of tho office, and to tho j unfitness nf the rooms for occupation by i human beines, and says that several deatlis I have already occurred from disease coul tracted in tho foul, damp rooms. i NATURAL GAS EXPLOSION. i I | ITJnny Peraon* Severely Injured In Pittuburg, Pcnn. j Three explosions of natural gas which oc; curred almost simultaneously in Pittsburg, j Penn., created great alarm throughout the I city. The first explosion took place in tho ! cellar of Mrs. Hamersdorfer's shop at about ! 10:35 a. m. The next explosion was in tho cellar of Morris's saloon, and the third occured in George Mueller's saloon across tho street. About twenty persons in all were injured. Of these Annie Mueller, Jacob Stern, Dr. Ziegler, Lizzie Smolder, Willie Oxenhart, Wm. Kota and George Kinzer were badly hurt. Tho damage to buildings and stock is estimated at from $15,000 to $20,000. NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and middle states* New York literary circlet have been roach excited over the mysterious disappearance of 8. 8. Conant, editor of Harpers Weekly. It was foared bis mind had given way through overwork, and that he had committ?d suicide. President-elect Cleveland was called upon at Albany by Hon. John G. Carlisle, Speaker of the House of Representatives. The interview between the two lasted until nearly midnight, and the subject under discussion is supposed to have been national government matters. Twenty-three persons were injured, two or three with probably fatal result, by an accident which caused an express tram going at a high rate of speed to leave the rails near Jersey City, N. J., and crash into a train of loaded coal cars on a side track. The pecuniary damage is put at $100,000. President-elect Cleveland had a long interview with Mr. Hendricks and Speaker Carlisle, presumably about the cabinet appointments. An explosion outside a dry goods store on Grand street, New "York, shattered the windows of several stores and created consternation throughout the neighborhood. One of the dry goods firms has had trouble with its employes, and it is thought that dynamite i was used to bring it to terms. General John W. Phelps, of Guilford, Vt.wasfounl dead in bed by a neighbor, his family being absent on a visit. General Phelps was born in Guilford in 1813. sarved through the Florida, Mexican and civil wars, was the anti-Mason candidate for President in K30, and was a frequent contributor to leading magazines and newspapers. President-elect Cleveland spont three days in New York for the purposo of receiving Democratic Senators and Representatives at Washington who had expressed a desire to see him and found it inconvenient to make a journey to Albany at this stage of the session of Congress. Many prominent Democrats called upon him. Two fires in New York the other day did great damage. The first broke out in a largo marble building on Barclay street, and caused aggregate losses of $350,000. A fireman fell from a ladder un 1 broke his neck, and a boy was seriously if nol fatally burned The second fire broke out later in the evening in a seven-story iron business building on Wooster street, which was completely destroyed, entailing losses of about 1-500,030, South and Weil, The Illinois legislature deadlock was broken by the election of Elijah M. Haines (Democrat) speaker by a majority of two. Leland Stanford, Senator-elect from California is said to have arranged to leave his fortune of $15,009,000 to the State of California. The State dent of California, $.1,000,000, is to be paid, and the large balance is to be usod as a fund for a thorough system of popular education. A horrible traffic In white girl babies, who are sold to Chinese dens for $60 apiece, has been discovered in San Francisco. T.ipavfttk; Mer.mw was hnncffd at Corn ing, Ark., for the murder of Franklin Hale. The tragedy occurred one night in May, 1881, when the murderer, a member of the Ku IClux Klan, went to Halo's residence, and calling him out, Bhot him to death. Melton was betrayed last year by one of his former companions, but protested bis innocence to the lost. The South is to havo a new railroad, running from Wilson, S. C. via. Fayetteville, N. C., to Florenco, S. C. Henry Calexhausen, of Durand, Wis., battered his wifo's brains out with an axe, and then hanged himself. In the United States Court at Fort Smith, Ark., five men?four whites and a negrowere sentenced to be hanged April 17 for murders committed in Indian Territory. The wife and eleven-year-old son of Rev. C. H. Snell were murdered in their house near Inkster, Dakota, by George Millor, a hired man. Mi'ler, whose motive for the crime was robbery, tied to British territory. The Colorado legislature has resolved to investigate the charges made by Senator Hill that he was deleated for re-eloction to the United States Senate by the free use of corruption money. Hon. James K. Jone?, an Arkansas Congressman and ox-Confederate soldier, has been elected to the United States Senate ! from that State &3 successor to Senator Stewart. More than 830,000 cattle are said*to have perished in Indian Territory owing to the severity of the weather. Three men?Cicero Jellerson, John A. Smytho and Joel Wilson?were imprisoned in jail at Audobon, Iowa, for the murdor of Jellerson's father, who was also Smythe's father-in-law, last April. A judge having granted a change of venue to another county, the citizens uecamo so incensed that three or four hundred of them broke into the jail [ the other morning and hanged the three i men, together with another man named Kyan, alno imprisoned for murder. An entire train of cars was blown from the track into a ditch near Georgetown, Col., and of the twenty persons on board eighteen were more or less injured. _ By an explosion of gas in a coal mine near Kav&nna, inaian Territory, inreo miners i were instantly killed, eighty-nine seriously burned and forty-two slightly injured. Washington* President Arthur has sent a communication to the House recommending the return to England of thr> steamer Alerf, which was presented to our government by Great Britain to aid in the search for the Groely expedition. The last public debt statement shows the decrease of the debt during January to bo $9,420,046. Decrease of debt sinco Junta 30 1864, $40,921,910. Cash in the treasury $-100,341,804 Gold certificates outstanding 134,279.530 Silver certificates outstanding 141,19(3,701 Certificates of deposit outstanding 30,130,000 Refunding certificates outstanding 253,003 Legal tenders outstanding 340,081,010 Fractional currency outstanding (not including amount estimated or destroyed) 0,909,008 DURING January the coinago executed at the various United States mints was: 100,5"0 gold pieces, worth $2,128,300; 2,5*28,297 silver pieces, including 2.385,030 standard dollar*, worth $2,439,019.70; and 4,293,00) minor coins, worth $74,190. Total coinage, 7,328,377, worth $4,042,187.70. Mrs Laura de Force Gordon*, of California, has been admitted to the bar of iho United States supreme court She is the second woman allowed to practice before that court. The secretary of war has reported to ConB'ess that there aro 6,583,500 men in the nited States who are avail.il l.? for military . duty, andJhat in the organized militia of the country tuore are 7,311 commissioned officers and 83,979 non-coiumissioiic I oiiiiers and privates. In Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennossee and Oregon there is 110 organized militia. Tux court martial assembled at Washincr* ton concluded the proceedings in tho iSwaini case, forwarding their records and findings to the secretary of war, and began tlio trial { of Colonel Morrow. New charges, nlle^iug ( fraud and conduct unbecoming an ofikor and | gentleman, havo been preferred against Gen- j eral Swaim. President Arthur has transmitted to J Congress a message concerning "the generous | offer made by Mrs. Grant to give to the gov- j ernment in perpetual truss tho swor.is and military and civil teslimonitl.-t lately be- j longing to General Grant. The Presi lent j says that these gifts and mementoes are of j national interest, and he a>ks Congress ! "to take suitable action to accept the trmt ! and to provide for its secure custody, at the : same time recording tlio appreciative ; gratitude of the people of the United States to the donors.'' He also urges the j passage of a bill "looking to a national rec- j ognition of General Grant's eminent services by providing the means for his restoration to ^ the army on the retired list." i Foreign. Extra precautions have been taken to j protect the British museum, as information > lias beou received that the dynamiters have ! threatened to blow it up. Insurrectionists in Bolivia have seized a ' number of government .vessels and captured ! a town. M. Olivier Pain, a prominent French j communist, is reported to be in command of j the False Prophet's forces at Metemnoh. Ax express train running at a high rate of j speed near Sydney, Australia, was thrown I into a creak by the weakness of the bridge ] w nidi it was crossing. Forty passengers ! were killed. A heavy storm in London culminated in a terrific peal of thunder?an almost unprecedented event in that latitude at this soason? and raisid a groat commotion throughout the citv. as it was supposed that dynamiters were i again at work and had blown up more of the i public buildings. France and China are taking vigorous measures for an active campaign again.teach other. Paius is to spend $40,000,000 in public improvements. A Bkitish force is reported by a rebel deserter to have captured Metemnoh ami to have sent steamers with troops and stores to General Uordon at Khartoum. (t'Likrt Cunningham, alias Dalton, suspec!e.l of complicity in the recent explosions at the Tower of London and the houses of fiarliament, was examined at How street poice court, Ixmdou. Strong evidence tending to show that he caused the explosion in the Tower was given. When arrested in the Tower after the explosion, the prisoner had refused to give any account of himself. In his luggage had been found a detonator, used in tlio explosion of dynamite. Since the recent dynamiteexplosicns nnny ' employers in London and other l?ngli>h cities aro discharging their Irish employes. Jno of the largest publishing houses in* London ! dismissed from its employ every person of ; Irish birth. The London police arrested another man ! believed to be an accomplice of Cunningham, charged with causing the recent dynamite explosions. ? The French have captured tho coal mines of Kelung from the Chinese, sustaining a loss of sixty killed and wounded. The Chines? loss was heavy. Portugal has annexed both banks of the Congo river, Africa, and the contested coast line. A British convoy sent to Kassala was attacked by Arabs, who were repulsed aster losing 250 of their number. The convoy's loss was fifty killed. A London dispatch says that Mrs. Dudley, who shot O'Donovan Rossa, in New York, was once imprisoned in England for attempting suicide, and for a year was an inmate of an English madhouse. LATER NEffS The Hotel Brunswick, one of the leading New York hotels, has made an assignment, with liabilities placed at $250,000. During his thre9 days' visit to New York Mr. Cleveland received a large number of Democratic Senators and Representatives in Congress and other prominent Democrats in his parlors at th3 Victoria hotel,and listened to their suggestions of names for places in his cabinet and of measures of party and national policy to bo followed out. For declaring that ho understood the com. mlttees of the lower house of the Connecticut legislature were made up by corporation in nuence, n momoer was suspenaea unm nQ apologized. A YOUNQ man living in Louisburg, N. C., on a wager drank a quart of whisky in less than forty minutes. Ho died two hours afterward. The Illinois Republican legislative caucus, renominated General Logan for the United States Senate, and the Democratic caucus put in nomination Congressman W. R. Morrison. Tho Illinois legislature is a tie on joint ballot The President has asked Congress to authorize him to accept the Japanese government's offer to give the United States a plot of land in Tokio for the use of its legation. A oreat battle has boen fought in the Gallabad country, Egypt, with a large force of Baggara rebels detached from Sennaar. After a sovere struggle the fcaggaras were uttorly routed, losing six thousand men and four emirs, one of whom was a nephew of the MahdL TEE WAS IN EGYPT. Occurrence of Chlof Events in Their Chronological Orders* For six years Egypt and her subjects have been rushing to her present anomalous condition of affairs. The following table shows the chief events that have occurred during this period in their chronological order: 1879. Feb. 20?Dismissal of Nubar-Wilson ministry. June 26?Deposition of Ismail Sept. 4?English and French comptrollers generally appointed. 1880. April 4?Appointment of commission of liquidation, 1881. Feb. 1?Military riot at Cairo, headed by Arabi. July?The false prophet raises the standard of revolt in tho Soudan. Sept 0?Arabi demands execution of political programme. , Sept. 14?Cherif Pasha's ministry formed. Nov. 4?Lord Granville's note to Sir Edward Malet threatening intervention in case of an outbreak of anarchy. Dec. 23?Meeting of notables. 1882. Feb. 2?New ministry under Mahmoud Fasha Baron.li. March 12?M. de Blignieres, the French comptroller general, resigns. May 16?Sailing of British fleet for Alexandria. May 25?Resignation of ministry. June 11?Riot at Alexandria. June?The false prophet captures and massacres six thousand Egyptians under Yussuf Fasha. July 11?Bombardment of Alexandria. June 30?Dispatch of English troops to Lower Egypt Aug. 15?Arrival of Sir Garnet Wolseloy. Antr l'1?.ThnfnlsAnmnhpfc defeated at Barn. Sept. 8-14?Town,of ?l Obeid. capital of Kordofan, attacked* three tiuios by the false prophet, who is finally repulsed, with a loss of ten thousand men. Sept. 13?Defeat of Arabi at Tel-el-Kebir. Oct. 24?Two battalions of Egyptian regulars and 8o0 Bashi-Bazouts, reinforcements Bent to Kordofan, totally destroyed. Oct. 31?Lord Dufferin sent to Cairo to reorganize the government. Nov. 4?One thousand Egyptians killed in a successful attempt to reinforce garrison at Bara, in the Soudan. Dec. 3?Arabi sentenced to exile. Dec. 31?Lord Duflerin's reorganization scheme completed. 1883. Jan 5?Bara surrenders to tho false prophet. Jan. 15?El Obeid surrenders unconditionally, and thejfalse prophet takes up his residence there. Fob. 21)?Abd-el-Kader enters Sennaar, after defeating force# of the false prophet March 4?General Hicks arrives at Khartoum, and takes command. April 29?General Hicks defeats rebel force of five thousand in Sennnar, killing five hundred, including the false prophet's grand vizier. May 12?The false prophet defeated near Khartoum, and flies to Kordofan. Aug. 12?Two thousand rebels attack Sinkat, and are defeated. Sept 8?General Hicks marches out of Khartoum with an available fighting force of seven thousand Egyptians. Oct 5?General Hicks starts from Duem for EI Obeid. Nov. 3-5?The false prophet defeats General Hicks at Kashgate and El Obeid, and destroys bis army. Nov. 0?Egyptians defeated at Tokar. Dec. 2?Five hundred black troops and two hundred Bashi-Bazouks sentout fromSuakim to reconnoiter, and cut to pieces by the rebels. only fifty escaping. Doc. 18?Baker Pasha leaves Cairo to take charge of Suakini. A 1884. Jan. 9?Now ministry formed under Nubar Pasha. Jan. 19?General "Chinese" Gordon dispatched to Egypt. Jan. 26?Genoral Gordon leaves Cairo for Khartoum, as Governor General of the Soudan. Feb. 4?Baker Pasha defoated by the rebels near Tokar, with a loss of 2,000 men. Fob. 11?Tewfik Bey endeavors to cut bis way out of Sinkat with (WO followers, all of whom are killed by the rebels. Feb. 17?General Gordon arrives at Khartoum and assumes the direction of affairs. Feb. 21?Tokar surrenders to the rebels, some of the native garrison escaping to Suakim. Feb. 29?The rebels defeated at Fort Baker, near Triukitat, by a force of 4,000 British ! troops under General Graham. March 27? Close of the English campaign by the burnin:? of Tamanieb. March SO?News received of the defeat of General Gordon on the 10th at Holflyer. April?The rebels massacre the refugees at Shendy, slaying 450 of them. May?El Mahdi captures Berber. July 2?News received of the massacre of 3,000 people at Debbeh by rebels. July 7?News received of the defeat of the rebels at Debbah with a loss of 2,000 men by the surrender of Dongola. Aus. 1?The British house of commons votes a credit of ?400,000 for the Khartoum relief expedition. Sept. 21?News received of great victories achieved by General Gordon over the false prophets. Oct. 3?General Gordon recaptures Berber. 1SS5. Jan. 10?Defeat of the rebels at Aboo-Klea by General Stewart Jan. 20?The rebels again defeated near Metemneh by General Stewart, who is wounded. A SIDE TO DEATE A Sleigh Filled Willi Peoplo Struck by an Kxprcwi Train. A terrible accident occurred near Port Clinton, Ohio, about 2 a. m., by which three ntifl envarn] nthftM PC13UH3 1U.-.U l.lV.l ?..v. were probably fatally injured. A ball was given in Port Clinton, and among those who nttendod was a party of ladies and gentlemen from Oak Harbor, who went in a largo sleigh. In returning homo, at a point three miles west of Port Clin' ton, they wore obliged to cross the track of tho Lake Shore road. The party reached the crossing just aa tho east-bound limited express came along. Tho members of tho party were so clos.-ly muffled about tho head that the train was not seen or heard till tho horses had stepped upon tho track. The horses and sleigh wero i.urled high in the air and far away from tho track into tho deep snow. The vehicle was smashed into splintoisand tho horsc-s instantly killed. Threo of the occupants of tho sleigh were caught up by tho pilot of tho locomotive and tho others hurled into tho snow. Stephen S. Hall, of Detroit, and Jennio Whipple, of Wauseon, wero instantly killed. Mrs. John Vogel, Mi's. Charles Vogel and Mrs. Abel Thierwechter, of Oak Harbor, received terrible injuries. Mrs. John Vogel has since died, and it was belioved tho other two ladies would recover. John Vogel's leg was broken, and Charles Vogel was more or less severely bruised. Tho dead and injured wero taken aboar<l tho train ami carried to Oak Harbor station, whence tho injured wero couveyed to their homes. The State of Maine paid last year $2,74.r) a3 j bountios on bears, tho numbor of bears killed being 540. THE FAIL 07 KHARTOUM. The False Prophet in Possession of the City. Treachery Accomplishes General Gordon's Downfall, London dispatches say that Ilia feeling of exultatioo, which greeted the news of General Stewart's victories on his march to the Nile and his success in reaching Gubat has given place to a feeling of depression on the receipt of the news that Khartoum is in the hands of the Mahdi, that General Gordon is a prisoner to the rebels if ho is not already killed, and that the object of General Lord Wolseley'sexpedition bas been defeated. Lord Wolseley has telegraphed to the war department that Khartoum has fallen, but he says that he doss not consider that the British position at Gubat is in any immediate danger. When it is considered that General Stewart, in order to gain his position at Gu* bat, had to fight two desperate battles with the Arabs?one at Abu-Klea wells and another <aw c* auviuu ut u lUiUJO 9MUIU yjL neh?and that in each of these battles ho lost a number of men, it will bo realized that the fall of Khartoum is a matter of great importance to the British force at Gubat.* The march across the desert was a perilous one to Gen. Stewart's army. The return march will be still more jwrilous. The garrison of Khartoum was expected to take part in this march and to muke up for the men lost in General Stewart's army in its passage to the Mile. Now the general is left at Gubat without any hope of reinforcements frotn Gordon, and unless a relief expedition from Great Britain can reach him in time he and his army will be destroyed. The war office received news of the fall of Khartoum, the dispatch coming direct from General Wolsjley. The general announces that the town of Khartoum fell into the hands of the Arabs on January 26. Colonel Wilson after the victorious march across the desert which ended in the encampment of the English at Gubat on January 18, started up the Nile for Khartoum to communicate with Gen. Gordon. He went in one of the steamers which Gordon had sent down the Nile, with news that he still held Khartoum, and was able to hold it for years to come. Col. Wil6on arrived at Khartoum on Jan 23, and found to his surprise that the town was in the hands of the rebels. A native reported to the colonel that tho Mahdi had 60,000 men in the vicinity of Khartoum, and that a number of these managed to make their way into the city on the plea that they were friends of General Gordon. These emissaries mingled freely with the soldiers of General Gordon, and by bribes, threats, and working on tho religious feelings of the soldiers, induced them to surrender tho garrison! Seven thousand of the garrison desertel to tho Arabs, leaving to General Gordon but 2j500 faithful soldiers. With this small force he attempted to hold the city against the Mahdi's great army, but after a severe battle in which great numbers of the rebels were killed, he was obliged to surrender. This was all that Colonel Wilson could learn of the events attending the surrender of Khartoum. Whether General Gordon was a prisoner in the bands of the Mabdi or whether he had been killed in the battle he did not learn. When Colonel Wilson found that Khartoum was in the bauds of the enemy he concluded that it would not bo wiso for hitn to attempt to land, and he started at once on his return down the river toward Gubat. On his way down he was subjected to a continuous firo by the rebels, but his steamers passed through this fusillade uninjured until they reached the Shublaka cataract A few miles below this cataract the steamers of the British expedition were disabled by the Are of tho enemy, but the soldiers managed to reach au island in the Nile, where thoy are now securely entrenched. From here a dispatch was sent to the British camp at Gubat giving tho news of Gordon's surrender and the wreck of the expedition, and a steamer has been sent to the island to | rescue the shipwrecked soldiers. General Wolseley, in h's dispatch to the war office, | says that he does not know whether General ! Gordon is dead or aliva He has still some i hopes that Gordon may be holding the citadel in the town, but these are based simply on Gordon's well-known characteristics for daring, and not 011 any information which Colonel Wilson was able to obtain. The first news of the fall of Khartoum received by General Wolseley was brought by a messenger, who left the island where Colonel Wilson was stranded and came on foot to Gubat. Two messengers were dispatched to Korti via Abu-Klea and Gakdul. They reached their destination in safety, owing to the fact that the news of Khartoum's fall had not reached the desert Intelligence of the disaster, however, has since spread far and wide. Some of the tribes that have hitherto professed friendship for England hive declared for the Mahdi. Tho Arabs still hold Metemneh. The garrison there received the news of the fall of Khartoum with repeated salvos of ar(iHm-tr WVion f.'olonel ? Wilson's flotilla approached Khartoum it was compelled to ran the gauntlet of a heavy fire from both banks. The rebels had four Krupp guns on the river banks at Halfav to bombard the steamers. When the British force reached Omdurman, numberso rebels continued the fusillade. Things looked worse when it was discovered that the enemy was in possession of the island of Tutti, just outside tho city. The English still pushed ahead, but were dismayed to find that the garrison commenced firing upon them. No flags were flying from the public buildings, and the town appeared to bo in undisputed possession of tho enemy. The palace seemed to have been gutted. Finding it impossible to land in the face of the overwhelming numbers of the rebels, the British were obliged to retire. The rumors concerning the fate of General Gordon aro many and vpried, but all agre* that the Ma'adi captu.ed KhartoGm by treachery. The most trustworthy reports point to one Faraz Pasha as the traitor. It is said that he, being left in charge of I the ramparts, opened the gates on Januarys | and admitted the enemy. Some rumors state | that General Gordon, together with a few I Levantines, is cooped up in a church. Others | say that General Gordon has been seen wearI ing the Mahdi's uniform. The majority agree, however, that General Gordon has bee'i killed. The excitement in Loudon and everywhere throughout tho British Isles where the news had penetrated .is at fever heat. Tho clubs and public resorts of overy description aro thronged with crowds of people eager to catch the last syllable of intelligence from tho Egyptian desert Tho position of Gen. Stewart is well understood to bo one of imminent danger, and unless something is done promptly for his relief he will be sacrificed, with his little army, to the Aral? who surround him. ?*>rl SfpftnH nra on ppowdcdf that it is almost impossible to push one's way through thorn. Most people take a gloomy view of the position of the British troops in the Soudan, anil the gladnesswbich has been felt in England ever since the news of Generai Stewarts successful arrival in the neighborhood of Meteinneh has given way to a universal sentiment of depression. Expressions of dismay and forebodings come from all sides, and mingled with these ore expressions of sympathy for Gordon and of commendation for the policy of General Lord Wolseley, who insisted on taking the Nile passage to his relief, thus wasting, it is claimed, many valuable days. The war efflre is besieged with army officers who are tendering their services for active duty in the Soudan, and numerous telegrams are being received from officers throughout the country asking for assignments on the rescue expedition for General Stewart should the government decide to send an expedition for this purpose. The capture of Khartoum has created grave fe.-ir.-i, especially in army circles, for the safety of General Stewart an I his little army, and a number of army officers express the opinion that unless reinforcements are hurried forward to Korti the fall of Khartoum may lead to disasters to the forces under Wolseloy and General Earle. It is statod that Commander Cameron, tin African traveler, has offered to start at once for the Soudan to assist the British in their campaign airainst the rebels. Orders have been sent t> Portsmouth Haven to begi.i immediately the titling of troop ships. The City of Klinreoiiiu. Khartoum is the chief city as well ns the capital of the Soudan country claimed by Egypt. It is located on the peninsula formed by the junction of the Blue and White Nile. The dock yards and principal landings aro on the Blue Nile. The water in the river is about 1,-!0) feet above the level of the sea. There is an extensive quay on the banks of the river, wiure the principal commerce of a country as large as all India naturally centres. The provinces of ihe Soudan aro not commercial to any great extent, but these great rivers bring to this point a great number of ships. Tho principal pro luc'ions are ivory, hides, senna, gum Arabi<a, and beeswax. It will b: seen that all these productions are natural, and not the result of industry or cultivation. The inhabitints of that vast country are notoriously indolent, and some 0110 has sai I that bees are the only industrial creatures in that whole country. A great part of the city lies low, so that at high water it is Hooded, which renders it un healthy, but it is belie veil that some day f remedy for that evil will l?e provided. The gar dens around the city are extensive,and contair long rows of date palms,many of which are hall a century old,and have become very valuable The view of the city from the opposite side o: the river is verv tine. The city is l,50l) mile: from Cairo, i'ho climate is severe. Fron June till October tho tlierinomo'.er range: from H5 degrees to 100 degrees in tho shade and is about SO degrees in winter during thi daytime. Edisox, tho inventor, is only thirty-seve years old. Ho wears short, brown hair, bu no beard. His gray eyes are remarkable fo their enormous pupils. | MM ABROAD. || A Battle Between tbe French and Chinese. | Arabs Repulsed in an Attack Upon .4 a Bri tish Convoy. *|j|| ! Admiral Conrbet telegraphed to Paris > -' j that the French forces, after a severe fight, have carried tho Chinese works com- ' manding the Helung mines. He states that the French troops lost nine killed and fifty- ' , ^hree wounded daring the engagement and '* |js that the Chinese loss was heavy. The dispatch received by the government '3^22 from Admiral Courbefe gives the following account of the battle between the Frenah v and Chinese for the possession of tho co*l mines in Kelung: "With 1,500 men and ^ four guns, we moved upon the enemy's works $& and carried several of them. Tho works captured menaced our positions on the south- jHI east. We stopped half a league from our ~ _ *jg works and GOO motors from a strongly forti- < ' r fled plateau. As soon as our troops are rested '/ we snail continue our advance. The enemy ; made a vigorous resistance, and their muaketry fire was very effective. Our soldier* 3gi displayed great dash. Two of our officer* ^ and seven of our men wero killed and fiftythroe were wounded during the engage- . Advices received in Paris state that Gener- ''"IS als de l'lsle and Negrler are advancing upon -?3 Langson from different directions, each in 'Va! command of a column of 0,000 troops. Advices from Hong Kong state that only ' -J3 three French vessels are now engaged in the blockade of the southwest coast of Formosa.- v Ja The French are destroying hundreds of fish- ing and trading craft, killing their crews or ?ending them to Kelung. The inhabitants ct '"-M Hong Kong are indignant that such operations should be allowed. Tlie Campaign in the Soudan> Major Chennside has arrived at Suakim. :'-3h The Arabs made an attack on the convoy " sent to Kassala. A stubborn fight ensued, resulting in the repulse of the Arabs, who ;-~v?? left 2.A) dead upon the field. The convoy lost fifty men in killed. Five thousand Abyssinian troops have been sent by King John to relieve the garrisons at Galabat and Goerah. ;5S| Further Suakim advices state that the ' Italians have occupied Beilul, forty miles north of Assab, and sent the Egyptian garri- vis son away on an Italian man-of-war. A ' v2 French gunboat is watching the movements of the Italian Red Sea expedition. The tribes around Massowah are joining Osman Digna. The German government has congratulated the English government upon the result of the Soudan campaign. The porta '*2> has sent direct complaints to the English and ' & Italian governments against Italy's action on the Red sea coast of Egypt Colonel Freemantle, commander of the \Vg| troops at Suakim, telegraphs that a troop of . '.?9 Hussars and a troop of Egyptians have made :'f a reconnoissance as far as Handoub and burned a rebel camp en route. While re- 3 turning they were attacked by the rebels -';&3 One Egyptian was wounded and eight Hussars and three Egyptians are missing. A special despatch from Alexandria sayB: "Osman Diana's troops attacked a scouting force of Bri'ish from 11)2garrison at Suakim / last night. Eight of tho British were killed ;' and several were wounded. It is reported that two well-known German -5 officers and one Frenchman were among the .>&j killed on the Muhdi's side in the recent bat . ' -.vS ties in the Soudan. ^ SUMMARY OF CONGRESS : J Senate. The chair laid heforflLth3J3enate the credentials ot John C. Spooner, States Sector from Wisconsin for six year*, from Marcn 4; also tbe credentials of re-election of Senator Vest, of Missouri....A message from the President was received, inform- . > Jij ing Congress that the government ?of Corea desired tue services of one o&more American military officers as iustructors for thearmy of Corea. and recommended the passage by Congress of a concurrent resolution authorizing the President to comply with the desire - / expressed. Also the President's message re* commending the return of the steamship Alert to the British government... Discussion of the Inter-State Commerce bill wa3 carried : /? on by Messrs. Cullom, Harrison, Coke, Ma- $ hone, Beck, Ingalls, Hoar, Plumb,Van Wyck and Sherman. Mr. Morgan introduced a bill to revive and '5^3$ amend the act of Congress of August 1>, 1876, to encourage and promote telegraphic communication between America and Asia The credentials of William M. Evarts as Senator from New York were received and referred Tho consideration of the interstate commerce bill was resumed, and; after '<*3 somejebato, Mr. Cullum'a bill was substi- v"';$a tutecWor the Reagan bill, which pass ad the House. '. The Senate, by 4'3 yeas to 12 nays passed ^ Mr. Cullom's Inter-State Commerce bill. It provides for a commission of nine membars, Vo oue to come from each judicial circuit of the ^ United States, and each to receive $7,500 salary. They are to investigate the questions ' ,.S: relating to commerce between the States, especially the matter of transportation, . !. and report annually to the secretary of tho interior. During me nrsc year mey must mquire into the subject of maximum and mini- - v mum charges, pooling, the watering of stocks, and unjust discriminations. The commission has authority to hear and determine charges of extortion or unjust' discrimination by transportation companies....Mr. Morrill r. spoke against and Mr. McPherson in favor of t the House bill providing for the retirement and recoinage of the trade dollar. Home* Mr. Holman of Indiana introduced a bill which provides that any person who shall ' , give any of bis property to be used, dircctly or indirectly, in securing a vote for or appointment to any office under the govern- c ment shall be punished by a tine not exceeding $500 and imprisonment not exceeding one year Mr. Belmont introduced a resolution asking" the secretary of state to inform the house whether or not any representations have been either formally or informally madatothis government by the British government growing out of the use of dynamite in London, and, if such representations have been made in writing, to trans mit complete copies of all communi cations tuat have passed between the two governments on the subject....The motion of Mr. Bayne, of Pennsylvania, to suspend the rules and pass a bill increasing to $1,500,000 the limit of appropriation for the public building at Pittsburg, Penn., was agreed to; yens 1U3. nays 18. The resolution of Mr. Eland was adopted, asking the secrotary of the treasury fur information as to whether the Clearing House association at New York or any national bank had refused to receive silver dollars or certificates in the settlement of their' bal- ' ances, and whether any official of the gov- '^90 ernment had acceded to such a practice; also whut amount of gold came into the treasury in exchange as par toy silvsr dollars or certificates during Januriry, wnac amount of silver coin was in the treasury " on January 1, 1ST!), and every year thereaf- ~J3SX| ter, not held for the redemption of silver certificates, and what amount of the receipts of the government have Le n received in silver , coin and certificates since that date.... In debate on the River and H ubor bill. Mr. Breckenridge, of Arkansas, an I Mr. Jones, vSgSM of Alabama, advocated the improvement of -W'SS, Galveiton harbor according to Captain Eads ? plans. Mr. Price, of Wisconsin, complained iijj that his State had not been justly treated, ; and both he and Mr. Washburn, of'Miunesota, objected to the Galveston harbor provisPROMINENT PEOPLE. : I Robert BE0W.vis0.the po3t, aged seventyj three, is about to marry. | It costs Jay Gould about $5)0 for every j mile ho travels in his yacht. Wilkie Collins, the novelist, has just i celebrated his sixty-first birthday amiiver: sary. 1 J. I. Case, the owner of Jay-Eye-S ?e, has I lost about $1,000,00) in ba I basinet veature3 i within the last few j-ears. Of the five correspondents who stvrt?don | the march from Gakdul to t!io Nile three j have been killed and one wounded. j Mrs. Garfield is expected to make a trip South, during which she will visit a gold i mine which she owns in North Carolina. The ex-Empress Eugenie has not lost all j interest in things mu:i lans. S ho went all j ever a cracker factory in E.igland the other I day. Miss Tillie Frelinghcysex, daughter of , ' tlie secretary of state, is said to ba the most ! popular unmarried lady in Washington so; ciety. 1 Mrs. Senator Bayard is a tall, slender, I eljgant woman, nml dro3-5es ri.-hly mi l with ! refined taste. Sho is the molu>r of nine i 1 children. i Edison", the inventor, is only thirty-seven t i years old. He wears short, brown hair, but I "no beard. His gray eyes are remarkable for i j their enormous pupils. 1 | Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, i who is the oldest living Senator, Ins been in ; Congress just tuirty veal's. xic is over &ia 1 ! feet tall, but stoops a little. , The only Methodist F.pis?opa! bishops in I America are Bishojw Bowavin, Harris. Fos; i tor, Merrill, Andrews, Warren. Foss, Hurst, . | Walden, Mallalieu ami Fowler. Bishop t j Ninde is in India, and Bishop Taylor in West . J Africa. i j Lei,and Stanford, who has just been f I elected to tho United Slates Senate from C il. ! ifornia, was born near Ali any, X. Y..March f !), 1821. He was a student at Cazunovia se:n< ' inary in 1S44, and General Jos>:>h II. Ilawi ' ley and General H. W. SSfK-u:n." l>.->th no.v in i I Congress, were then his s' ho:>hVl lows. > | Ex-Sexator Yulee, o: l'lor'I., isbuill9 j ing one of the finest private houses in Washj ingtonat^a cost, with tin ground of ?liK),? j 000. It was Yulee, says tiiu New Yi-rk nj Graphic, who eseapod from the falling CVn? t | federaey hy wav of an onun boa\ embarking r ; at the Florida Iveys and landn; in Cuba. I Like Benjamin, Yulee is of tho IIebr;w raoa. 1