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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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 '
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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.
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