University of South Carolina Libraries
ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER.! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1885. NO. 35. VOLUME XXIX.' DARK DAYS; HUGH CONWAY. * Author of *' Called Back." CHAPTER II.?A VILLAIN'S 1JL0W. They tell me there are natures stern | enough to be able to crush love out of their lives. Ah! not such love as mine! Time, they say, can heal every wound. Not such a wound as mine! Sly whole existence underwent a change when Philippa showed me the wedding-ring on her finger. No wonder it did. Hope was eliminated from it. From that moment I was a changed man. Life was no longer worth living. The j spur of ambition was blunted; the do- i sire for fame gone; the interest which I j had hitherto felt in my profession van- | ished. All the spring, the elasticity, i seemed taken out of my being. For j months and months I did my work in a j pcrfunctory manner. It gave me no satisfaction that my practice grew larger. I j worked, but I cared nothing for my work. Success gave me no pleasure. An increase to the number of my patients was positively unwelcomc to me. So long as I made money enough to supply my daily needs, what did it matter? Of what use was wealth to me? It could not buy me the one thing for which I craved. Of what use was life? No wonder that such friends as I had once possessed all but forsook me. My mood at that time was none of the sweetest. I wanted no friends. I was alone in the world; I should always be alone. So things went on for more than a year. I grew worse instead of better. My gloom deepened; my cynicism grew more confirmed; my life became more aimless. These arc *not lovers' rhapsodies. I would spare you them if I could; but it is necessary that you should know the exact state of my mind in order to understand my subsequent conduct. Even now it seems to me that I am writing this description with my heart's blood. Not a word came from Philippa. I made no inquiries about her, took no steps to trace her. I dared not. Not for one moment did I forget her, and through all those weary months tried to think of her as happy and to be envied; yet, in spite of myself, I shuddered as I pictured her lot as it might really be. But all the while I knew that the day would come when I should learn whether I was to be thankful that my prayer had been answered, or to be prepared to keep my vow. In my misanthropical slate of mind I heard without the slightest feeling of joy or elation that a distant relative of mine, a man from whom I expected nothing, had died and left me the bulk of his large property. I cared nothing for this unexpected wealth, except for the fact that it enabled me to free myself from a round of toil in which by now I took not the slightest interest. Had it but come two or three years before! Alas! all things in this life come too late. Now that I was no longer forced to mingte with men in order to gain the means of living, I absolutely shunned my kind. The wish of my youth, to travel in far countries, no longer existed with me. I disposed of my practice?or rather I simply handed it over to the first comer. I left the town of my adoption, and bought a small house?it was ittle more than a cottage?some five miles away from the tiny town of Roding. Here I was utterly unknown, and could live exactly as I chose; and for months it was my choice to live almost like a hermit. My needs were ministered to by a man who had been for some years in my employment. He was a handy, faithful fellow; honest as the day, stolid as the Sphinx; and, for some reason or other, so much attached to me that he was willinn f A Arm An mt? KAIYAI T fltn 4U? bu ^UIVIW VU Uij UCiMttli IUC UUL1CO of housekeeping which are usually relegated to female servants. Looking back upon that time of seclusion, as a medical man, I wonder what would eventually have been my fate if events had not occurred which once more forced me into the world of men? I firmly believe that brooding in solitude over ray grief would at last have affected my brain; that sooner or later I must have developed symptoms of melancholia. Professionally speaking, the probabilities are I should have committed suicide. Even in the depth of my degradation I must have known the dangers of tne path which I was treading; for after having passed six dreary months in my lonely cottage, I was trying to brace myself to seek a change of scene. I shrank from leaving my quiet abode; but every day formed afresh the resolve to do so. Yet the days, each the same as its forerunner, went by, and I was still there. I had books, of course. I read for days together; then I would throw the volumes aside, and, with a bitter smile, ask my- j self to what end was I directing my I studies. The accumulation of knowl- j edge? Tush! I would give all the learn- j ing 1 bad acquired, all that a lifetime of research could acquire, to hold Philippa for one brief moment to my heart, and j jieiir iier suy suu lovcu wo; 11 in ine whirl of men, in the midst of hard work, I found it impossible to conquer my hopeless passion, how could I expect to do so living as I at present lived? There! my egotistical descriptions aro almost over. Xow you know why I said that you must sit by the fire and think with me; must enter, as it were, into my inner self before you can understand my mental state. Whether you sympathize with me or not depends entirely on your own organization. If you are so constructed that the love of one woman, and one only, can pervade your very being, fill your very thought, direct your every action, make life to you a blessing or i a curse?if love comes to you in this j guise, you will be able to understand me. That night, when I first presented myself to you, my wounds seemed less i likely, than ever to heal; forgctfulness 1 seemed further and further away. Some- | how, as my thoughts took the well-worn j road to the past, every event seemed re- j cent as vest rday, every scene vivid us if' I had just left it. Hour after hour I sat gazing at the glowing embers, but seeing only Philippa's beloved face. How had life fared with her? Where was she at this moment? The resolve to quit my spplnsinn was made anew bv me. I would go iuto the world and find her?not for any selfish motive. I would learn from her own lips that she was happy. If unhappy, she should have from me such comfort as the love of a true Triend (an give. Yes, I would leave this wretched life to-morrow. My cheek flushed as I contrasted what I was with what I ought to be. No man has a right to ruin his life or hide his talents for the sake of a womau. I had another inducement which urged me to make a change in my mode of life. I am ashamed that i have not , spoken of it. That morning I had received a letter from my mother. J had not seen her for six years. Just as I entered man's estate she married for the second time. -My stepiatlier was an American, and with my tears my mother left me for her new home. Some months ago her husband died. I should have gone to her, but she forbade me. She had no children by her second husband; and now that his affairs were practically wound up sne proposcu returning iu England. Her letter told me that she would be in London in three days' time, and suggested that I should meet hor there. Although of late years we had drifted apart, she was dear, very dear to me. I hated the thought of her seeing me, her only child, rcduced to such a wreck of my former self; yet for her sate I again renewed my resolve of leaving my seclusion. Yet I knew that to-morrow I should forswear myself, and sink back into my apathy and aimless existence. Ah! I knew not what events were to crowd into the morrow 1 But now back to the night. It was mid-winter, and bitterly cold out of doors. My lajap was not yet lighted; the glow of my fire alone broke the darkness of the room. I had not even drawn the curtains or shut the shutters. At times I liked to look out and see the stars. They shone bo peacefully, so calmly, so coldly; they seemed so unlike the world, with its strife and licrce passions and disappointments. I rose languidly from my chair and walked to the window, to see what sort of a night it was. As I approachcd the casement I could see that the skies had darkened; moreover, I noticed that feathery flukes of snow were accumulating in the corner of each pane. I went close to the window and peered out into the night. Standing"within a yard of me, gazing into my dimly-lit room?her face stem and pale as death, her dark eyes now riveted on my own?was a woman; and that woman was Philippa, mv love! For several seconds I stood, spellbound, gazing at her. That I saw more than a phantom of my imagination did not at once enter into my head. In dreams I had seen the one i loved again and again, but this was the first time my waking thoughts had conjured up such a vision. Vision, dream, reality! I trembled as I looked; for the form was that of Philippa in dire distress. ; ? ! - ^nAT?nrft/l I li was seeing iuu uuuu nun,u wivim her head grow whiter and whiter with the fast-falling snow which aroused me to my senses, and made every fiber thrill with the thought that Philippa, in flesh and blood, stood before me. With a low cry of rapture I tore asunder the fastenings of the French casement, threw the sashes apart, and without a word my love passed from the cold, bleak night into my room. She was wrapped from head to foot in a rich, dark fur-trimmed cloak. As she swept by me I felt she wa3 damp with partially thawed snow. I closed the window; then with a throbbing heart, turned to greet my visitor. She stood in the center of the room. Her mantle had fallen to the ground, and through the dusk I could see her white face, hands and neck. I took her hands in mine; they were as cold as icicles. "Philippa ! Philippa ! why are you here?" I whispered. "Welcome, thrice welcome, whether you bring me joy 01 sorrow/' A trembling ran through her. She said nothing, but her cold hands clasped mine closer. I led her to the fire, which .1 stirred until it blazed brightly. She kneeled before it and stretched out het hands for warmth. How pale she looked; how nnlike the Philicna of old 1 But tc my eyes bow lovely I As I looked down at the fair woman kneeling at my feet, with her proud head bent as in shame, I knew intuitively that I should be called upon to keep my oath; and knowing this, I re-registered it in all its entirety. At last she raised her face to mine. In her eyes was a somber fire, which until now I had never seen there. "Philippa! Philippa!" I ccjed again. "Fetch a light," she whispered. "Let me sec a friend's face once more? if you are still my friend." "Your friend, your true friend forever," I said, as I hastened to obey her. As I placed the lamp on the table Philippa rose from her knees. I could now see that she was in deep mourning. Was the thought that flashed through me, that it might be that she was a widow, one of joy or sorrow? I hope? I try to believe it was the latter. We stood for some moments in silence. My agitation, my rapture at 8eciugher once more seemed to have deprived me of speech. I couid do litt!e more than to gaze at her and tell myself that I was not dreaming; that Philippa was really here; that, it was her voice that I had heard, her hands I clasped. Philippa it was, but not the J'hilippa 01 old! The rich, warm, glowing beauty seemed toned down. Her face had lost its exquisite color. Moreover, it was the face of one who has suffered?one who is suffering. To me it looked as if illness had refined it, as it sometimes will refine a face. Yet, if she had been ill, her illness could not have been of long duration. Her figure was as superb, her arms as finely rounded, as ever. She stood firm and erect. Yet I trembled as I gazed at that pale proud face and tho^e dark solemn eyes. I dared not for the while ask her why she sought me. She was the first to break silence, "You are changed, Basil," she said. "Time changes every one,'' 1 answered, forcing a smile. "Will you believe me," shecontinued, "when I say that the memory of your face as I sav/ it last has haunted even my most joyful momeuts? Ah me, Basil, had 1 been true to myself I think I might have learned to love you." She spoke regretfully, and as one who has finished with life and its love. My heart beat rapidly; yet I knew her words were not spoken in order to hear me tell her that I loved her passionately as ever. "Ihave heard of you once or twice." she said, soltlv. "You arc rich now, they tell me, but unhappy." " I loved you and lost you," I answered. " How could I be happy { " ?< A ?wl mon onn litr? tliig?" .qho said, sadly. "All men arc not alike, then?" "Enough of me," I said. " Tell me of yourself. Tell me how I can aid you. Your husband " She drew a sharp, quick breath. The color rushed back to her check. Her eyes glittered strangely. Nevertheless, she spoke calmly and distinctly. "Husband! I have none," she flaid. "Is he dead?" " No " she spoke with surprising bitter ness?"No; I should rather say I nevei was a wife. Tell me, Basil," she con tinued fiercely, "did you ever hate a man? " " Yes," I answered emphatically and truly. Hate a man! From the moment 1 taw the wretch with whom Philippa fled I hated him. Now that my worst sus picions were true, what were ray feelings? I felt that my lips compressed them ? ? 1 T 6eives. l Knew iuai wucu * sumw iu> voice was as stem and bitter as Philippa's. " Sit down," I said, "and tell me all. Tell me how you knew I was here?where you have come from." Let me but learn whence she came, and I felt sure the knowledge would enable me to lay my hand on the man I wanted. Ah! life now held something worth living for! " I have been here some months," said Philippa. "Here! In this neighborhood?" " Yes. I have seen you several times. I have been living at a house about three miles away. I felt happier in knowing in case of need I had one friend near me." I pressed her hands. " Go on," I said hoarsely. "He sent me here. He had grown weary of me. I was about to have a child. I was in his way? a trouble to him." Her scornful accent as she spoke was indescribable. "Philippa! Philippa!" I groaned, "had you sunk so low as to do his bidding?" She laid her hand on m_v arm. "More," she said. "Listen! Before we parted he struck me. Struck?me! He cursed me and struck me 1 Basil, did you ever hate a man?" 4 'I threw out my arms. My heart was full of rage and bitterness. "And you went away with this man rather than become my wife!" 1 gasped. Neither my love nor her sorrow could stop this reproach from passing my lips. She sprang to her feet. "You!" she cried. "Do you?think?do you im [ agine? Read! Only this morning I learned it."' She threw a letter toward me? threw it with a gesture of loathing, as one throws a nauseous reptile from one's hand. I opened it mechanically. "Yes," she said, "you were right in thinking I had falleu low. So low that I went where he chose to send me. So low that I would have forgiven the illtreatment of months?the blow, even. Why? Because until this morning he was my husband. Head the letter. Basil, did you ever hate a man?'' Before I read I glanced at her in alarm. Her words followed one another with headlong rapidity. But who could wonder at this mood with a woman who had such a wrong to declare? She grew j calm beneath my glance. "Read," she said, beseechingly. "Ah, God! I have fallen low; but not so low as you thought." She buried her face in her hands while I opened und read the letter. It was dated from Paris, and ran so: "As it seems to me that we can't exactly hit it off together, I think the farce had better end. The simplest way to * "My make inv meaning clear is to tell you that when I married you I had a wife alive. She has died since then; and I dare say, had we managed to get on better together, I should have asked you to go through the marriage ceremony once more, However, as things are now, so they had better stop. You have thfc satisfaction of knowing that morally you are blameless. If, like a sensible girl, you are ready to accept the situation, I am prepared to act generously, and do the right thing in money matters. As I hate to have any thing hanging over me unsettled, and do not care to trust delicate negotiations to a third party, I shall run across to England and see you. I shall reach Koding on Wednesday evening. Do not send to the station to meet me; I would rather walk." The letter was unsigned. My blood boiled as I read it; yet, in spite of my rage, I felt a grim humor as I realized the exquisite cynicism possessed by the writer. Here was a man striking a foul and recreant blow at a womnn whom lie once loved?a blow that must crush her to the earth. His own words confess him a rogue; and yet he can speak coolly about money arrangements; can even enter into petty details concerning his approaching visit! lie must be without shame, without remorse; a villain, absolutely heartless! I folded the letter nud placed it in my breast. I wished to keep it, that I might read it again during the next twentyfour hours. Long hours they would be. This letter would aid to make them pass. Philippa made no objection to my keeping it. She sat motionless, gazing gloomily into the lire. "You knew the man's right name and title?" I asked. "Yes, from the first. Ah! there I wronged myself, Basil The rank, the riches, perhaps, tempted mc; and?Basil, I loved him then." Oh, the piteous regret breathed in that last sentence! I ground my teeth, and felt that there was a stronger passion than even love. That man and I meet to-morrow," I told myself, softly. "But you spoke of a child?" I said, turning to Philippa. "It is dead?dead?dead!" she cried, with a wild laugh. "A fortnight ago it died. Dead! My grief then; my joy today! See! I am in mourning; to-morrow I shall put that mourning off. Why mourn for what is a Happy event? No black after to-morrow." Iler mood had once more becomc excited. As before, her words came with feverish rapidity. 1 took her hands in mine; they were now burning. ICDliiKrhnn rlfloroat Imfnlm Vftii TCill x -"Yr'i ? "? see that man no more?" "I will see him no more. It is to save myself from seeing him that I come to you. Little right have I to ask aid from you; but your words came back to me in my need. There wa9 one friend to turn to. Help me, Basil! I comc to you as a sister may come to a brother." "As a sister to a brother," I echoed. "I accept the trust," I added, laying my lips reverentially on her white forehead, and vowing mentally to devote my life to her. "You will stay here now?" I asked. "Xo, I must go back. To-morrow I will come?to-morrow. Basil, my brother, you will take me far away?far away?"' "Where you wish. Every land is as one to me now." She had given me the ri<rht.a brother's right, to stand between her and the villain who had wronged her. To-morrow that man would be here! How I longed for the moment which would bring us face to face! Philippa rose. "I must go," she said. 1 pressed food and tea upon her; she would take nothing. She made, however, no objections to my accompanying her to her home. We left the house by the casement by which she entered. Together we stepped out on the snowwhitened road. She took my arm, and we walked toward her home. I aSKCU ucr WllQ wxiom sue was a-.uy ing. She told me with a widow lady and two children, named "Wilson. She went to them at Sir Mervyn Ferrand's command. Mrs. Wilson, he told her, was a distant connection of his own, and he had made arrangements for her to look arter Philippa during her illness. "What name do they know you by?" I asked. "He said I was to call myself by the false name, which, for purposes of his own, he chose to pass under. But I fe3t myself absolved from my promise of secrecy. "Why should I stay in a strange house with strange people by Sir Mervyn Ferrand's request, unle-s I could show good cause for doing so? So I told Mrs. Wilson everything." "She believed you?" " She was bound to believe me. I would have no doubt cast upon my word. I showed her the certificate of my marriage. No one else knows it except her. To her I am Lady Ferrand. Like me, she never dreamed to what man's villainy can reach. Oh, Basil! Basil! why are such men allowed to live?" For the first time Philippa seemed to break down. Till now the chief characteristics of her mood had been scorn and anger. Now, sheer grief for the time nnnpnrpd to swccn awav every other ?ri ? i emotion. Sob after sob broke from her. I endeavored to calm her?to comfort her. Alas! how little I could sav or do to these ends! She leaned heavily and despondingly on my arm, and for a long while we walked in silence. At last she told me her home was close at hand. "Listen, Philippa," I said; "I shall come in with you and see this lady with whom you are staying. I shall tell her I am your brother; that for some time I have known how shamefully your husband has neglected you; and that now, with your full consent, I mean to take you away. Whether this woman believea in our relationship or not, matters nothing. I suppose she knows that man is comiug to-morrow. After his heartless desertion, she can not be surprised at your wish to avoid meeting him." 1 paused. Philippa beut her head as if assenting to my plan. "To-morrow," I continued, "long before that wretch comes here to poison the very air we breathe, I shall come and fetch you. Early in the morning I will send my servant for your luggage. Mrs. Wilson may know me and my man by sight. That makes no difference. There need be no concealment. You are free to come and go. You have no one to fear. On Thursday morniug we will leave this place." "Yes," said Philippa, dreamily, "tomorrow I will leave?I will come to you. But I will come alone. In the evening most likely, when no one will know where I have gone." "Hut how much better that I should take you away openly and in broad day U??lllf UO U U1UIUV.1 uvuui 'No; 1 will come to you. You will not minu waiting, Basil. There is something I must do first. Something to be done to-morrow. Something to be said; some one to be seeu. What is it? who is it? I cannot recollect." She placed her disengaged hand on her brow. She pushed back her head a little, and gave a sigh of relief as she felt the keen air on her temples. Poor girl! after what sho had that day gone through, no wonder her mind refused to recall trivial details nnd petty arrangements to be made before she joined me. Sleep and (he certainty of my sympathy and protection would no doubt restore her wandering memory. However, although I again aud again urged her mind, she was firm in her re solve to come to me alone. At last, very reluctantly, I was obliged to give way on this point; but I was determined to see this Mrs. Wilson to night; so when we reac hed the house I entered with Philippa. I told her there wa3 no occasion for her to be present at my interview with the hostess. She looked frightfully weary, and at my suggestion went straight to her room to retire for the night. I snt down and awaited the advent of Mrs. Wilson. She soon appeared. A woman of about five and thirty; well but plainly dressed. As I glanced at her with some curiosity, I decided that when young she must, after a certain type of beauty, have been extremely good looking. Unfortunately hers was one of those faces cast in an aquiline mold?faces which, as soon as the bloom of youth is lost or the owners thereof j turn to thinness, become, as a rule, sharp, j strained, hungry, and severe looking. "Whatever the woman's charms might once have been, she could now* boast of | very few. .There were lines around her mouth ! and on her brow which told of suffcr; ing; and, as I judged it, not the calm, j resigned suffering, which often leaves a j sweet if sad expression on the face; but ' Perce, rebellious, constrained suffering,. ' such as turns a young heart into an old i one long before its time. As she entered the room and bowed to me her face expressed undisguised surj prise at seeing a visitor who was a stranger to her. I apologized for the lateness of my call, then hastened to tell her its object. She listened with ; polite impassibility. She made no comj merit when I repeatedly spoke of my sostyled sister as Lady Ferraud. It was clear that, as I'hilippa had said, Mrs. j Wiison was convinced as to the valid nature of the marriage. I inveighed | roundly against Sir Mervyn Ferrand's heartless conduct and scandalous negi lect of his wife. My hearer shrugged I her shoulders,and the meaning conveyed I by the action was that, although she re| gretted family jars, they were" no con! cern of hers. She seemed unite without interest in the matter; yet a suspicion that she was actiner, indeed rather overacting, a part, crossed my mind once or twice. "When I told her it was Lady Ferrand's intention to place herself to-morrow under my protection, she simply bowed. When 1 said that most likely ' we should leave England, and for a j while travel on the continent, she said j that my sister's health would no doubt be much benefited by the change. "I may mention," she added, for the first time taking any real part in the ! talk, " that your sister's state is not j quite all it should be. For the last day or two I have been thinking of sending for the medical man who attended her : during her unfortunate confinement, lie has not seen her for quite a week. I mentioned it to her this afternoon: but she appears to have taken an unaccountable dislike to him, and utterly refused to see j him. I do not wish to alarm you?I merely mention this; no doubt you, her brother, will see to it." The peculiar stress she laid on the word "brother" told me that I was right in thinking the woman was acting, and that not for one moment did my asj sumed fraternity deceive her. This was j of no consequence. "I am myself a doctor. Her health will be my care," 1 said. Then I rose. "You are related to Sir Mervyn Ferrand, I believe, Mrs. Wilson?" I asked. She gave me a quick look which I At- t I TTT migiu mean uuyinuig. " \ye are connections," she said, carclcsslv. "You must have been surprised at his sending his wife away at such a time*" "I am not in the habit of being surprised at SirMcrvyn's actions. He wrote to me and told me that, knowing my circumstances were straightened, he had recommended a lady to come and live with me for a few months. When 1 found this lady was his wife. I own 1 was, for once, surprised." From the emphasis which she laid on certain words, I knew it was but the fact of Philippa's being married to the scoundrel that mortified lier, nothing j else. I I bade licr good-night, and walked back to my cottage with a heart in which sorrow, pity, love, hatred exultation, and,it may be,hope, were strangely and inextricably mingled. [TO BE CONTINUED. J GENERAL EARLE DEAD. I Killed by Arabs While Leading a Charge. Another British Victory, but at a Serious L03S. Major General Earle, whose column of Britisli troops, numbering 2,50') men and comprising cavalry and camel corps, Las been killed in action. The London Standard's correspondent with General Earle's column ?ends the following despatch, dated Dulka, The British troops advanced to attack the enemy, who hold a strong position on the hills. After some fighting the enemy was l completely surrounded. Finding it impossij ble to dislodge the rebels from their fortified position General Earle ordered the troops to I charge. General Earle was killed while leading: the attack. The Black Watch regiment captured the | position at the pointof th-j bayonet,the cavalry | taking possession of the enemy's camp. General Brackenbury, upon the fall of General I Earle, a.ssumed command and ordered the , remaining positions of the enemy to bo stormed. The troops actod promptly, made a gallant attack, and soon captured all the enemy's positions. The fighting lasted five hours. There was great slaughter among the enemy. Thoso who survived escaped by swimming the river. The British force consisted of the Black| watch and South .Stafford regiments, a I squadron of Hussars, two guns of Egyptian i artillery, the Egyptian camel corps and a j section of the field hospital corps. The troops at once set to work to form a zareba. In the meantime the enemy fired several shots from | tho high hills. Our pickets advanced and j drove back the Arabs who had del ncended the hills to make on attack. j Night ensued anil guards were posted. I Everything passed quietl}' during the night. ; Tuesday morning the troops formed and ad| vanced to the enemy's position, marching in two parallel columns. Two companies of the j South Stafford regiment and two guns occupied the ground directly in front of the enemy to attract their attention. At S o'clock our "uus opened the attack, and for some time a desultory fire was maintained. In the meantime the main body of our troops was advancing steadily over almost impracticable : ground, pushing the enemy before them and 1 seizing each sucoossivo ridgo by a short <loI terinined rush. The forward movement was continued until the advanced troops reached the right rear of the enemy, which rested on the river. Tin's completed the movement whereby the rebels were surrounded. The enemy's position was a very strong one. It was on rocky ground, and was strengthened by loopholecl walls from which they main: tained a heavy, well-directed fire. General Karlo had 110 artillery, and commanded his troons to charge. It was more of | a scramble than a charge, but the Arabs were driven from the heights at the point of the J bayonet, and fell ba;-k slowly toward the j river. All that then remained to be captured j was the little fort 011 the river bank. As the I British column advanced it was met by a steady and well directed fire from behind sand and watlings whi' h composed the Arab fort, ami many men of the attacking party were killed. General Karlo again ordered his men to charge, and put himself at the head of the column. lie was killed during the charge, j The fort was ultimately captured, but at u terrible cost. Jn addition to uenerai I'.nno i three officers and eight men were killed and I thirty-five men are wounded. General Earlo was second in command to | Lord Wolseley over tiio British troops in the (Scudan. | THE GEEELY EXPEDITION. | j I.lent. Kiwliiigfjur)"N Diary Mio;?liig that IlItM'h (ta'.l Feeling Prevailed* The diary of Lieutenant Kisliugbury, of the Greoly party, which has been copied in the signal office at Washington and thrown open to inspection, covers 1.7) pages of foolscap and begins August ! , 1SS 5, after tho nb.niI donment of Fort Conger, where the party ! had spent two winters. ! It appears from the diary 1 hat Lieutenant [ Kisliugbury was suspended from duty b>j Lieutenant Greelyontiie'JOtliof August, 18*1, just two weeks after the arrival of the expedition at its destination. lie was virtually | under arrest from that time until April j 1S84, when ho was returned to duty j j and notified l>y Lieutenant Cireely that lie ! j was next in rank and shoi.ld command in tho I event of the hitter's death. Under dato j I of tho 10th of May, 1884, Lieutenant Kislingbury writes that Lieutenant (ireely came to j him and said they had misunderstood each i otner rortftree yt-ars, tnat ms (lYisuiiguurj .-J ; conduct had been manly and commendable I throughout, and ho (Gree)y) begged pardon. I Only a few days later, however, the coinI munding officer, according to Lieut Kislingbury's account, insulted hitn by calling him | a iiar, and their jiersonal relations again be- i | came hostile. The greater part of Lieut. Kis- j llngbury's diary is taken up with criticisms | and complaints of Lieut. Greely, toward j whom ths writer seems to have entertained j feeling of bitter resentment. Among the acts j of the commanding officer which are unfav- | orably commented upon are the putting under i arrest of Dr. I'avy, whom Kislingbury char- j acterizesns "the most sensible atid hardest- j working man wo have along;" the swearing ' at the men and the threatening to shoot one | of them (Cross) without any reason whatever. The whole diary is a record of bickering, bad feeling and dissension. "Josh Billings," whoso real namo_ is Henry W. Shaw, has tumished ono Now York publication a half column of miscellaneous contributions every week for the lasl nineteen years. Ho is now sixty-seven years old, and has lately given up housekeeping and taken rooms at a New York hotel. GEN. GORDON KILLED. Betrayed Into El Mahdi's Hands j and Stabbed to Death, " i A Terrible Massacre Follows the Fall of Khartoum. A dispatch from Korti says: "Colonels Wilson and "Wortley, who were with the expedition to Khartoum, have arrived hero* They made the journey from Gubat in four days. They brought the news of General Gordon's death. It was learned that one of the treacherous pashas among General Gordon's forces marched tho garrison to the side of the town nearest Omdurinan, saying that the rebel attack was expected at that point. In the meantime another traitorous pasha opened the gates at tho other end and allowed the Mahdi's troops to enter, and they oocilv ooT?f.iirpf1 t.lio fnu'n CJftnor/il Gor- 1 don was stabbed just as ho was leaving the government house. i The London Daily News, which appeared i in mourning out of respect for General Gordon, published the following from Gakdul: "The natives who cscaped from Khartoum , say General Gordon was killed while in the act of leaving his hotise to rally the faithful j troops. The latter were cut down to a man, and for hours the best part of the town was the scene of merciless slaughter, not even : women and children being spared. All t'?e notables were killed, except the treacherous pasha? and their followers." The following additional details of the i killing of General Gordon and the fall of i Khartoum are at hand: On the day of the i capture, which is variously stated as Jan- j uary 2t> and 27. General Gordon's attention was attracted by a tremendous tumult in the streets. He left the so-called palace, or government building, in which he I had mado his headquarters, in order f to ascertain the cause of the disturbance. Just as ho reached tho street ( he was stabbed in the back and fell dead. i The tumult was caused by the Mahdi s troops, who had gained access to the interior of the town through treachery, and who were soon in complete possession of the place, including the citadel. A fearful massacre of the garrison followed. The scenes of theslaugh ter are described as surpassing the Bulgarian atrocities and rival tho worst horrors of the Sepoy mutiny. The panic-stricken Egyp- | tians were captured in their flight and put | to death with the most fiendish tortures. , Some were transfixed with spears and left , to bleed to ticaui. most 01 cue victims wefo mutilated in the most horrible manner. Eyes were gouged out, noses were slit, and tongues were toru out by tho roots. In many cases the mutilated parts of the victims' bodies were thrust into their mouths while they were still living. The massacre included many non-combatants and tho Egyptian women were subjected to shameful indignities. More than a hundred women and young girls were given over to tho Mahdi's j followers to bo used as slaves. After tho slaughter many Arabs were seen rushing about tho streets with the heads of Egyptians impaled upon their spears. Tho next night was spent in a saturnalia of blood and de- , bauchory. i Since the capture of Khartoum tho Mahdi has repaired the fortifications, and has made tho placo well-nigh impregnable. He has made it his permanent headquarters, and is said to have an abundance of guns, small arms, and ammunition. General Gordon's Career. The career of Major-General Charles George Gordon reads more liko a romance than a simple recital of historical facts. His popular title of "Chinese" Gordon made his name known to every civilized nation on the face of I the earth over 20 years ago, an 1 since that time ho has been almost continuously i before the public gaze as a mill- J tary hero of uncommon attributes, beginning his life as a soldier in the trenches be- j fore Sebastopol, a simplj lieutenant of engineers, ho rose to the highest rank ever given I , to a foreigner in China, after having subdued ! J a formidable rebellion, thin transferred his services to the government of the khediveof Egypt, wliero Tie won fresh laurels in his ( fight against slavery and barbarism in ] the Soudan, returned to a comparatively ' peaceful life in tho service of his own gov- ! ornment, and finally went back to the scene 1 of his former struggles in Africa to bo killed i 1 by a follower of tho False Prophet Froba- ' bly the story of no other military man of the ] jura furnishes a more romantic history than j that of "Chinese" Gordon, and tho fact that I ' his death resulted from the delay of his own | country in sending to him tho relief which he ; I needed until it was too late to make it effect- | ] ual will add to the heroic interest which at- i i tached to his fata "Chinese" Gordon was born at Woolwich, j j England, January liS, His father I | was a major-general in the artillery and his elder brother had preceded him in the pro- J , fssion of arms. In 1855 Gordon proceeded to the Crimea, ! j where he served several months and won dis- | | tinction for military skill in detecting the I j plans of tho Russians. In 1 SCO, when the ! difficulties with China assumed a serious form, i , a large Anglo-French expedition was sent out j ( for the purpose of bringing the Chinese gov- | ernment to terms, in which he was eminently | successful. ! When tho Chinese subsequently applied tc j the English general for a trustworthy officer 1 to command tho foreign drilled contingent. Captain Gordon, then not more thau thirty | years of age, was named. In almost all his j engagements Gordon found it necessary to Ik j at tho front and often to lead in person, but ho never recognized danger, and a shower of i bullets was to him no more than a hail-storm. I Gordon left China in 1864 and returned to , England still a captain of engineers. He was . given a consular appointment on the Danube, whence ho was summoned in 1874 to Egypt by tho lato khedive. Tho new task was a ! very difficult and perilous one. He had to I deal in the Soudan with difficulties which | were onlv partially known, while he had to | reconcile instructions that wore often iucom- I patible with the facts of the position. For years lis toiled in the causo with unflagging zeal. In January, 188-1, at the request of the British Government Gordon undertook thejiacification of the Soudan. His arrival at khnrtourn was hailed with dflight by the people. At first there seemed some chance of success, but day l>y day t lie forces of the victorious ' Mahdi closed more relentlessly about the dovoted city, until the place fell into their pos- j session and Gordon's life was forfeited in the i cause for which he had so long and bravely ! battled. General Gordon was fifty-two years old the I /lnt* liofAi?Q tn'o rlnof.li A SCENE IN THE HOUSE ! An Official'* Right to Act Without HIi Emblem of Office Oinpitted. Following ore the details of an unusually 1 lively scene which occurred in the House of Representatives pending discussion of tho ! river and harbor appropriation bill: Mr. White, of Kentucky, undertook to | road a speech in reply to Mr. Willis, who | called him an obstructionist Inst week. He called his effort a question of privilege. Mr. ; Blackburn, who was acting as Speaker, beat I a tattoo with his Ravel and bellowed that I White's remarks did not constitute a ques- I tion of privilege. White persisted in speak- j itig and Blackburn directed Deputy Sergeantat-Anns Ike Hill to make him stoj). Hill rushed down the aislo and partly pushed Whito into his seat amid protests from the Republican side of the House. "White decline! to stay down because Hill hadn't his badge of oflice and Hill went back and got his mace and proceeded toward Mr. White, who took his seat, but who in a moment was again on his feet to a matter of personal f privilege. "When I was occupying my place ! on this floor," ho said, '"tlio sorgeant-at arms j came to me?a citizen?without tho sem- | bianco of authority, and attempted to seat i me." The Speaker pro tem.?Tho sergeant-at-arms I went under tno direction of the chair, the | chair having repeatedly ruled that tho gen- | tlemnn was not in order and requested him to | take his seat, which he i>ersistcntly refused to do. (Applause on the Democratic side). "I desire to debate tho question/' said Mr. j White, The Shaker pro tem.?Tho chair does not j desire to hear tho debate. Tho chair doclines I to hear the gentleman further oil tho question ! of personal privilege, on the ground that it is j not a question of privilege. "1 desire to ask,"said Mr.'Kelley, "whether | a person, with no insignia of oflice, may place j violent hands on a member and push him ] from his seat/" i A*\wnnl tf win wi?li trv" rrinil spvornl ' *' J,- I voices from the Democratic side. Tho Speakor?The chair hears 110 appeal. "1 think that this is 11 question of tho highest privilege," broke in Mr. Cutcheon, of Michigan. "And tho chair differs from the gentlomen," replied the speaker. Mr. Hammond, of Georgia, made the point j of order, which was sustained by the chair, | that 110 appeal having boon taken debate was not in order, and Mr. Townsliend, of Illinois, | niOTed that tho House go into committee of ; the whole 011 the postoflico appropriation bill, j which was agreed to. Pending going into committee, Mr. White ; again claimed tho floor 011 a question of privilege, and proceeded to sharply criticize the I conduct of the Sj>eaker, denouncing him us a j Cromwell. This crowded the aisles with mem- I Ikji's. and nearly all were involved in the dis- i cussion, some of the men about Mr. White ! claiming that the sergeant-at-arins had 110 j right to foreo tho member to his seat without tho mace in his hands. For a few moments [ there was tho utmost confusion, and a jxsr- | feet cross-liro of words, members becoming j very angry. Tho House finally proceeded ' with the postoflico bill, but some of the Re- i publican members got together and prepared a resolution for the expulsion of Hill, which they said they would press unless amends Wi>va mndn to Mr. White. .- " I The total nurnher of theatres, including places licensed for theatrical performances, in Great Britain at tho end of tho year was 445, compared with :;.3S at tho end of ISS.J. Of existing theatrical place.- of amusement, I London takes the lead with forty-six, LiverI pool coming next with ten. NEWS SUMMARY Eaaicrn and ITllddle State*. The British consul at New York refers to the shooting of O'Donovan Eossa by Mrs. j Dudley as "a silly crime." He disclaims that i the consulate takes any int erest in her case. Nine convicts were whipped at Newcastle, Del., eight for larceny and one for burglary. The latter received twenty lashes and stood for one hour in the pillory. The others received ten lashes each. . During his three days' visit to New Yorb President-elect Cleveland spent Sunday with Samuel J. Tilden at Greystone on the HudEon. A.v oil train standing on a railroad bridge at New Brunswick, N. J., was telescoped bj ft freight train running into its rear. Saveral of the cars toppled over upon the buildings, below, the oil tank3 took fire and the scattering oil ignited the factory buildings in the vicinity. Two men and a lot of valua ble lurses were killed and property aggregating upward of half a million dollars was destroyed by fire. Rev. T. Dewitt Talmaqe preached od "the blasphemy" of Ingersoll's lecture in Brooklyn, and advocated the suppression of such teachings by the police. Much excitement has been created in Erie county, N. Y., by rich oil discoveries. Thousands of acres of land have been quietly leased by oil speculators. An* enormous loss will result from a Are in the Ebcrvale coal mines at Wilkesbarre, Ponn. Gangs of men fought the fire from four different points, The latest traffic of the smugglers between Buffalo and Canada is in dead bodies for Canadian dissoction rooms. Ex-Mayor Franklin Edson, of New Yoi k, was sentenced to fifteen days impris- j jnment and condemned to pay beside a tine if I-TjO for contempt of court in disobeying in injunction granted by Judge Miles Beach, >f the court of common p'.ea.<, on December >0 last, restraining him from nominating successors to a commissioner of public works and t corporation counsel, whose terms had expired on December 10. The ex-*iayor will . any the case to tho court of appeals. Three men wero blown to pieces while at work in a quarry near Harrisburg, Penn., by tho boiler's exploding. A fire in the Genesee Brewing company's works, Rochester, N. Y., was followed by an explosion which severely injured five men and Mused an estimated loss of $100,000. South and West. An investigation of the Kentucky records Is alleged to have shown that during tho past fifteen years a system of robbery has been carried on under cover of law which has reMilted in a loss to the State of about $2,000,00O. Tnnnv T a <**t*onv n naonv\ nltnrtra/1 Tvff.V* murder, was taken troin the jail at Biand Court-house, Va., by a band of white man and riddled with bullets. On the sam? night Bon Hawkins, a negro accused of the murder of an old peddler, was hanged to a tree by lynchers at Franklin, Texas. Many horses in Illinois are suffering from glanders. Director-General Burke has submitted the following statement respecting the New Orleans Exhibition for the information of the President and Congress: Receipts from stock and donations, $.384,168; United States government loan, $1,000,000;" installation, receipts, $03,948.30; gate receipts, $73,292.70Total, #1,751,408.99; expenditures, $2,070,831.94; deficit, $319,422.9a. TV inter wheat in Illinois and Indiana is safe and promises an immense yield. Seven persons were killed and sixteen wounded by a train's dashing through a bridge at Crcston, Iowa. Fifteen persons who tarred and feathered TV. H/^Pailey while acting as attorney in a liquor caso in Scott township, Iowa, have settled the matter by each paying him $500, Hon. Thomas A. Hf.xdricks, Vice-Presirlent-elect, lias been on a trip to the Now Orleans exposition. Frank Abner, a fifteen-year-old boy, residing near Hock Creek, 111., being reprimanded by his grandmonier, waited until she was asleep and then brained her with nn ax. A great snow storm in the TVest has caused a partial suspension of business in many places. Most of the railroads were Lilocicaaerl by huge snow drifts. In some sections the blizzard was accompanied by llmnder and lightning. In Chicago the snow Jrifts caused an almost complete cessation of ^nfRp and at Dps Moines. Iowa, the fifteen railroads centering there were blockaded. Tho storm was followed by extremely cold weather. Complete darkness suddenly following a thunder storm in the daytime caused many people in Louisville, Ky., to think that the snd of the world was near. Hiram Atkins, a wealthy old farmer, and his three children were burned to death in their handsome house near Norwich, Ohio. No traces of Mrs. Atkins, a young wife and step-mother lo the r.hildren, nor of Emanuel Porter, the hired man, could be found; and investigation led to the belief that the two, together with Mrs. Atkins' mother, had fired tho building and then fled. Eleven coal companies at a meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, decided to insist upon reducing the price of mining. Wilbur Peters, of Wooster, Ohio, shot and fatally wounded his sweetheart, Miss Laura Chester, as she was leaving a rollerskating rink with another young man; then Peters inflicted a fatal wound upon himself. A Terre Haute (Ind.) dispatch says that tho boiler of a rolling mill at Brazil, twenty miles away, exploded whilo about fifty men were gathered around warming themselves. Ten men were reported killed, and about twenty more injured. Washington* Secretary Chandler's report to Con gress shows that the expensa ot' tho expedition which saved Lieutenant Greely and his men was <759,205. A fire at the United States signal service office destroyed or damaged a large numbei of valuable records and instruments. Senator Palmer's recent address favoring woman suffrage is the first set speech evei delivered in Congress on the subject - * * * * 'i - ?fl.u The board or directors ot tue uarueiu memorial hospital at Washington have asked Congress for an appropriation of $15,000. The nospital is supported by charitabli contributions, but is now much in need of funds. Foreign* The interiors of public buildings in Loudon are now protected by a special detective force. A dispatch from Gibraltar says that the vicar-general of that diocese has been murdered. A butcher, supposed to be insane, attacked tho priest in the sacristy of the cathedral and stabbod him to death. It is stated that 2,000 Italian soldiers now in Egypt will bo allowed by Italy to co-ooer- | at? with the British troops at Suakim against the Arabs. Reinsdork and Keuchleh, the anarchists, wiio were sentenced to death at Leipsic, J l'or attempting to cause the death of tho em- I pcror and other royal persons at tho Neiderwald celebration,1 were executed at Halle. One execution took place in the prison, and was made by the sword. The sentence of Uupsch was commuted to penal servitude for life. The French troops in Tonquin have destroyed five Chinese forts. Their losses during two days' lighting were 21 killed and 102 wounded. The British government has substituted a chargo of high treason for the previous charge of conspiracy against the alleged dynamiters, Cunningham and Burton. Great military preparations are being made in England to reinforce Lord Wolseley in Egypt. The British force under Sir Charles "Wilson which was stranded on an island in tho Nile alter its return from Khartoum was rescued bv a body of English troops from Gubnt. The Arabs poured a constant lire into the English troops, but were repulsed. Cardinal M'Cabe, archbishop of Dublin, is dead. * The Turkish newspapers hnvo been oflidally prohibited from publishing news from the Soudan or comments upon the situation there. Thirteen* man wore killed and seven badly burned by un explosion of gas in a coal i*., PiVtnu o. mntv. the center of the Nova Scotia coal fields. The explosion occurred while the men were at the bottom ot the mine, '-Y-iOO feet from the surface. I/A Trill cox; Iti;SS!0\A l< XEtVS. Senate. The resolutions offered by Mr. Ingalls nnd Mr. Hour relating to the electoral count were on motion of Mr. Hoar roferrod without comment to the committee on privileges and elections A resolution offered by Mr. Sherman was agreed to, authorizing the president of the Senate to appoint a committee o^ three Senators to make tho necessary arrangements for the inauguration of tho President-elect on March 4 Messrs. Sherman, Hawley and Hansom were appointed tho committee.... Tlr; army appropriation bill and the bill repealing tho pre-emption and culture laws were passed. 19?tlNC. On motion of Mr. 1J times, of Missouri Senate amendments to tho consular and dip lomatii: appropriation bill were non-concurred in, nnd Mr. Barnes, Mr. Townshend and Mr. Washburn were appointed conferees. On motion of Jii". Hancock, of Toxas, the Senate amendments to tho pension appropriation bill were non-concurred in, and Messrs. Hancock, Follett nnd "Washburn were appointed conferees.... Nathan F. Dickson, of Rhode Island, ap. peared at the bar of tho House nnd took tho oath of ofllee as a Representative to succeed Jonathan Chaso, clected Senator....At the evening session the House discussed tho post, oflice appropriation bill without taking any action. AN ASYLUM HORROR. Many Lunatics Burned to Death in Philadelphia. Unable to Help Themselves, Tliey Perish in the Flames, Many raving maniacs were burned to death in the insane department at Bloekley almshouse, Philadelphia, in a conflagration which needed nothing to make it tho most horriblo disaster of the kind ever known in the history of tho city. The fire originated in the wing of tho old building of the insane department which fronts toward the Schuylkill river and directly ] east of the main building of tho almshouse. lq the north building where tho fire broke out there were sixty separate cells for violent patients?twenty on each floor. In addition to this there was a large room on each of the threo floors in which cots for twelve 'men were placed, all of which were occupied when the fir a hrnkA ntifc. At the time ttaero were iusar.o patients in each of the twenty colls on theso three floors, ten in the larger room of the first floor and twelve in each of the largo rooms on the second and third floors. From all tho conflicting accounts to be obtained it appears pretty certain that the Sn?t alarm was given by an insane patient on tho first floor of the main building. This man, Joseph Nadine, occupieda room adjoining the stairway and tho drying room with about twenty other quiet patients, when about 7:50 o'clock ho saw smoke issuing from abovo the door which opened into the wing in which the cells wero situated. He ran to the big iron-gratei door fronting on the main corridor of the building and cried out "Fire!" This fearful sound reached the ears of Joseph Shroeder, the attendant of the ground floor, who was in his room directly opposite the one from which Nadinahad given tho alarm. Attendant Shroeder thus relates somes of the horrors of the dreadful night: ' 'As soon as I heard Nadine's cry I rushed to the foot of the stairway, and after a abort attempt to check the fire, at once set to work to get out tho patients. First I unlocked the door of the room in which Nadine and his companions were. They ran out at onco. Ey this time the flames were gathering in fury, and dense volumes of smoke were ascending into the unpcr stories. 1 succeeded in unlocking the doors of all the cells on the first floor and although with difficulty in some cases, in getting all the inmates out I had no time to look after them further than to run them into tho yard, for the flames wero getting so fierce that it was almost impossible to breathe in the now fiercely burning building. The smoke in the upper stories was so thick that breathing %vas impossible. While I was getting the men out below, the attendant, William Strain, was rlninor fh? camfi for tho inmatas of the second floor. I met Mr. Hanna, the night watchman, who was also helping, and wo went up to tho thin! story, but were driven back by tho flames, which had forced their way through the stairway and were creeping along to the cells of the doomed inmates. We ran around to the other stairway, near tho new buildings on the west, and by that time seme firemen had arrived. All the inmates had been gotten out of the second story, so that there remained about twentyeight on the third floor, twenty in tho cells and eight in the largo common room on the west end. "Tho unfortunate occupacts of the cells were being smothered to death by the smoke and perhaps blistered and burned by the flame3. Their cries were heartrending. Home of them cursed and swore, others laughed heedlessly, and others yelled with pain, with such awful cries as would have appalled tho hardest heart The firemen, myself and a patient named Rafferty, crawled on our hands and knees to such of the men as we could reach and dragged out fourteen,eight of them a'ive, four suffocated to death and two so horribly burned that thov died before we could get them out of the building. We could not see any of the men in the cells of course, but could hear their horrible cries above tho roaring of the flames as they came to realize what a horrible fate was in store for them." While Shroeder was going through this terrible experience the flames were extending to tho main building of tho department. Tho wing in which the victims were being burned alive was wrapped in flames, which were shooting many feet into the air and illuminating tho city. At midnight twenty-seven dead bodie3 had been taken out, and it was then estimated by tho superintendent that the death list would foot up to seventy-five. The lire was in full blast before an alarm was sounded. Each one of the 070 inmates seem?d to l>e driven wild, and no words could describe their actions. Thero were no women in the new wing, and not many sick men in tho wnrds The women occunied rooms ani colls in the main bouse fronting on tho hollow square, and except those who were locked in all were rescued. Nearly all tho live* were lost in the immediate neighborhood of the stairway, at the foot of which the fire started. No lives were lost on tho first and not more than half a dozen on the second floor, but few of the inmates of the rooms and cells on the third floor, and the junction of the buildings, escaped. The open shaft, surrounded by the stairs, formed a perfect draughtway through which tho flames fairly raised to the upper part of tho house. The 07G inmates who were turned out of the various wards wero, as far as possibb, and as soon as could be, provided for in the ont wards and other parts of the almshouse. Many of them, however, escaped into the city and wandered about the streets, where some were captured by the police and either returned to the institution or locked up in the stationhouses. The bulk of them were taken to the hospital, and a large number were placed in the clinical lecture room of the hospital. The women were stowed about the hospital as far as possible, and all were finally cared for. Among tho dead is James Burke, who killed three of the inmates of the institution in the twenty-two years he was confined there. For twenty years his hands were chained to his body. Iierriges, another victim, was the man who was dficovored in 1870 in a Philadelphia shanty, where he had been confined in chains by his parents for twenty years LATER NEWS. I | Two executions occurred in Pennsylvania tho oilier day. At Philadelphia Richard Treuko was hanged for murdering Mrs. Au{ gusla Zinnn, tho wifo of his friend and bene" factor, during n quarrel, and at Hollidays* biii-g Dr. L. M. Beach suffered a similar fate ! for wifo murder. A Boston dispatch says that socialistic ideas are spreading throughout Massachusetts. A Fall River (Mass.) mill corporation is about to transfer its entire plant to Mexico, where it will manufacture print cloths, employing Mexican help. Five men at work in a Chicago sewer wore overcome by noxious gases and smothered to death. A Dorni.E execution took place a few days since at Little Rock. Ark., the victims being Rush Johnsou and Lige Parker, colored murj derers of two white men. A day after Miss Mary Cox, who lived in Springfield, \V. Va., was buried her grave j was opened by friends and it was discovered | she had been buiied alive, the girl's body and j the coflin showing evidence of a terrible ! struggle that she had made to escape. j Lord Wolselev asserteJ there were some I doubts of the death of General Gordon and of i the fall of Khartoum. i The French troops in Tonquiu have had ! three days of hard lighting with the Chinese I and lost heavily, but made steady progress. Miss Eva Mackay, stepdaughter of tho i California bonanza king, is now a princess* i having b?en married in Paris, where she has ! - : l- i mrj in nnn Forclinand Julien Colonna, prince of Ciulatro, an officer in the J Italian army. Tiio brido is about twenty" two years old and the bridegroom twentyBove.'i. NEWSY GLEANING Post-Cards have been introduced in China, i Maine paid bounty on 541) bears last year. i Fifty-one farmers are in the legislature o' i Michigan. j About 1000 letters daily find lodgineut in j tho Dead Letter Ollice. | I.\* 1S-4 there were upward of 2^0 hotels I burned in this country. A prune orchard of 13,030 trees is being ! set out near Uilroy, C'al. J Boston is to have a crematory for tho in cineration of dead bodies. Wisconsin is taking a prominent positior I among tho tobacco growing states. j Many passenger coaches on the Westerr railway, in Franco, are two stories in height Boston men wear sealskin coats mon than those of any other section of the coun try. i The largest potato starch factory in th< world is at Caribou, Me. Its capacity is fron 200,GOO to iJoO.UUO bushels. I Larue importations of limed eggs aro be i ing received in New York from Antwerp j Copenhagen and Hamburg. The Mormon temple at Salt Lake will ye I require more than four years for its eompJe j tion, and will cost $:>,ouu,ooo. I Lynn and Haverhill, Mass., together madi I nearly enough shoes in 1884 to shoe half th< I population of tho United States. ! SUMMARY OF CONGRESS __ Senate. The chair laid before the Senate the credentials of re-election of Senator Jngalls, o.' Kansas; also a letter from the secretary o' tho treasury, recommending, on tho basis or a report of "the supervising architect of thtreasury, that the limit of appropriation al lowed for the erection of a public building at Louisville, Ky., bo increased to $1,500,000. .... Mr. Palmer addressed the Senate in favor of the joint resolution providing for a constitutional amendment prohibiting the disfranchisement of citizens on account of sex. ? The consular and diplomatic appropriation bill was passed. The Senate passed a resolution accepting General U. S. Grant's swords, medals ana other testimonials tendered by Mrs. Grant and William H. Vnnderbilt A bill was passed authorizing a retired Jist for noncommissioned officers and privates who have served twenty continuous years in the army ....The pension of the widow of General Georgo H. Thomas was increased to $2,003 a year, and a pension was voted to tho widow of Colonel Charles G. Halpine... Mr. Van "Wyck's amendment to a private pension bill providing that all soldiers' widows or minor children who are or may become entitled by law to $S a month shall hereafter receive $12, was agreed to. Mr. Blaire's amendment to pension every soldier *.vho served three months in the last war and was now disabled through no fault of his own was lost... .Mr Miller reported a bill to make the commissioner of agriculture a cabinot officer Mr. Pendleton l. j t_t_ i.ni x _ ? .qo inn reporieu uis uui 10 pay iu v^uiuu ? wi,ivu, the sura due from tbo Chinese indemnity fund. Mr. Cameron,of Pennsylvania, called up his resolution concerning tlie improvement of the merchant marine. It directs the committee on finance to inquire whether it would be expedient to expend the surplus revenue of the United States, or any portion thereof, for the purpose of reviving the shipping and export trade by allowing a rebate from tariff duties on foreign goods imported in ships built nnd owned in the United States, and by also allowing a premium on Americau grown products and articles of American manufacture exported in American vessels, and to report by bill or otherwise. Mr. Cameron made a long opeech in favor of tli9 resolution, which was referred to the finance committee.... Mr. Beck made a speech on the Anti-Silver .Coinage bill. He favored the redemption of the trade dollar, but opposed the suspension of the coinage of the standard silver dollar ... .A bill was passed appropriating 1650,000 for the purchase of a site for the extension of the postoftice department building in Washington. After discussion the pension appropriation bill was passed with amendments, and went back to the House....The anti-fencing bill was passed, making it unlawful for any person or association to enclose public lands to which, or to any portion of which such person or association have no claim or color of title. The creation, maintenance, or control of any such enclosure is forbidden. An interesting scene occurred in the Senate upon its return to the Senate chamber from the count of the Electoral vote in joint convention in the House. No sooner had Mr. Edmunds taken the chair than Mr. Conger was on his feet. He said he desired to have go on record his protest against the declaration of Mr. Edmunds in joint convention. John Sherman said that without entering into any argument he coincided w ith Mr. Conger. Mr. Ingalls took the same view and offered a resolution formally declaring the dissent of the Senato from Mr. Edmunds' declaration. Mr. Bayard objected and the resolution went over. Mr. Hoar then offered a -wAlnt.AM rArtiUnflr thn fntfll . thft Vfttfl a 1C9U1UV1UI1 IbVIUUlg buw kvowt w. ...v , ..v and declaring that nothing further was necessary to make finally binding and legal the result of the count. This also went over under objection. Mr. Edmunds said the Senate was in no way responsible for the declaration made by him. Ho made it on his own responsibility. He said if he had exceeded his authority, or had not fulfilled his duty, he would resign at once his office. The declaration made by Mr. Edmunds at the conclusion of the electorial count, and to which some of the Senators took exception, was as follows: " And the President of the Senate makes this declaration only as a public statement in the presence of the two Housos of Congress of contents of the papers opened and read on this occasion, and not as possessing any authority in law to declare any legal conclusion whatever." Home* j 'Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, reported adversely a joint resolution tendering the thanks of Congress to Commanders Schley and CofBn and Lieutenant Emory of the Ureely relief expedition; laid on the table.. .Indiscussion of the river and harbor appropriation bill two heated colloquies took place?the first between Messrs. Hiscock, of New York; and King, of Louisiana, and the second betwiwu Messrs. Young, of Tonnessce, and Willis, of Kentucky. At one point in the debate between the latter two, the confusiou become so great that the chairman directed the sergeant-nt-arms to see that members were seated, and the quarrel was not resumed, though the angry feelings of the two gentlemen were not abated. The House at its evening session passed twenty-six pension bills, including onegranting a pension of $10 each to the minor children of the late Lieutenant Kislingbury.and one increasing to $5U the pension of the widow of Commodoro Fillebrown. The first scene in tho House after the morning hours, was ono of reconciliation. Mr. Young rose tc "a question of privilege," and informed the House that in his criticisms or the River and Harbor committee on the previous day, he had said 6ome things which lie did not intend to say; that he appreciated highly the energy and ability exhibited by Mr. Willis, and desired to withdraw his remarks reflecting upon that gentleman personally. Nobody objected, whoreupon Mr. Willis also confessed that' in toe eat of debate'' he had used language in regard to General Young which he now desired to withdraw. As before nobody objected, and thus harmony was restored....The river and harbor appropriation bill was considered further without action. By a vote of 140 to 117, the House refused to continue bevond noon the consideration of the river and narbor appropriation bill There was another scene in tne House, caused by Mr. White, of Kentucky, trying to read a speech in reply to Mr. Willis, who had railed him an ''obstructionist." Mr. Blackburn, who was acting as Speaker, refused to permit Mr. White to go on, declaring his speech was not a questi<*i of privilege. Mr. White persisted in speaking, and Mr. Blackburn directed DeputyrSOTgeantat-Arms Hill to make him stop. As HiJl did not have his mace Mi. White refused to sit down, and there was a hubbub at once. Finally Hill got his mace and Mr. White took his seat Mr. Townshend explained that the postoffico bill appropriated $52,253,200, which was $3,212,800 less than the sum given for the current fiscal year. Mr. Kelley moved an amendment of that part of tbo journal of the House which referred to the scene which occurred on the previous day between Mr. White, of Kentucky, and the deputy s?rgoant-at arms. The journal, lie said, rutul that when the deputy procured the mace and proceedod toward Mr. White that gentleman "took his seat."' It should read that he "had taken his seat.'" On Mr. Reagan's motion Mr. Kelley's motion was tabled, and then Mr. Keifer moved that a committee be appointed to report on the question of fact concerning the previous day's proceedings. Mr. Reagan moved to lay Mr. keifer's motion on the table, and after discussion this was carried by-154 to ."12 ami the journal was approved The speaker announce ! the appointment of Messrs. Clay, of Kentucky, and Keifer, of Ohio, as teller on the part of the House during the counting of the electoral vote. In joint convention of both Houses, Senator Edmunds presiding, the electoral vote was rounied. At the completion of the count the Senato returned to its chamber, and the House took a recess of fifteen minutes. On the House being again called to order Mr. Keifer offered a resolution reciting the resuit of the joint convection of the two Houses and declaring that it is the sense of the House that the Constitution and laws have been duly executed, and no further declaration of these fact? is necessary. Mr. Springer said it s?enied from the announcement of the presiding officer ol the joint convention that there was no docla ration of the vote. Contrary to all procedenl t he Vice-President had simply declared that.il appeared from the count mado by the teller! that (J rover ('levelnnd received a certain nuin berof votes, bi t had di claimed any intentlm to make any official declaration of the resul of that vote. He prefenvd that the mattoi should be referred to t he judiciary committee The Speaker sa id: 'The presiding officer o the joint convention, in making the an nouncenient of the vote, announced tho re suit that had been found, and simply adde a disclaimer of any authority on his part as pr siding officer of the Senate or of tho joint coi vent ion to make any declaration a tall." Aft* further debate Mr. Keifer s resolution wj tabled by M5 yeas to l'.'i nays. Mr. Cla then presented a joint resolution which pn videa for a committee of :? Reoresentativi 1 ?.? O.....if ???? Hendricks and notify them of their electk which was adopted after considerable discu sion. PROMINENT PEOPLE. General McCr.ei.lan is writing two a tides about his campaigns. Colonkl Bcrnaby, slain at Abu KIw could speak well in seventeen langu ishes. J. n. Nesmith, recently United Stat Senator from Oregon, has become hopeless! insane from domestic troubles. Dr. Graham. who died in Louisville, Ky a few days a<,'o, was I'M years old and ha been a close friend of Dauiel Booue. i'AMKs Russell Lowell an I John Greoi leaf Whittier both will talca part in tl Newburyport (Mass.) 'JijUth iinnive.;a;y lie: June. ( M. Brisson, the present preibent of tl French chamber of deputies, is much t.ilki of for the next president of tU.> republic. ! holds Gambetta's mantle. General Granv does his literary woi without stenographer i.r anianin-ni-K bi Colonel Frederick 1). Grant, li:s son, hel him by copying his MS. an 1 by looking o references. THE ELECTORAL VOTE jj How it Was Officially Connted by Congress. Meeting of Both Houses in the Hall of Representativesi Au immense crowd collected in the national. capitol to witness the counting of the electoral vote by Congress in -/$?J3 joint convention. The convention was to assemble at noon and the House was to meet al - ' ^ 11. Before 10 o'clock the conveyances lead- 3S ing to the capitol were crowded, and the cor - J ridors about the House were jammed with people crushing to find seau in the gal- r* leries, which were already filled. The - ? floor of the House was arranged in the usual fo-g manner. Extra chairs were placed in all va- - - 5! j cant spaces for the Senate, for the diplomatic ' f i corps, ana ior such oiuer uuiuu^uuiuu ' y.tta sons as wero to bo admitted. The House - rj somewhat strained its rules, and adopted a resolution admitting to such scanty vacant places as there were upon the floor families ot ' members. A Washington dispatch gives the following account of the proceedings in detail: In the House of Representatives on motion of Mr. Keifer, the clerk was directed to inform the Senate that at 12 o'clock, the Hon* - ''-A would be prepared to receivo that body in conformity with the provisions of the concurrent resolution, relating to the counting of the electoral vote3. At a few momenta ...wjS before 12 o'clock, the Speaker pro tern. requested the members to clear tlie first two rows of seats for the accomodation of Sena- c ^ tors. At precisely 12 o'clock the Senate was announced, and headed by Mr. Edmunds (Rep.,- . Vt) and the oiHcers of that body, the Senators filed in and took the seats assigned them, the president of the Senate seating himself by acting-Speaker Blackburn. . ? Mr. Edmunds in calling tho assembly to order said: "The two houses of Congress have met in pursuance of the Constitution and law?, and the concurrent resolution, for the pur- >' pose of executing the duty required by the Constitution and laws in the matter " of counting the electoral vote for Presi- . ."M dent and Vice-President of the United States, cast by the electors of the several s?=3j States for the term commencing March 4, ' * JS 1885. The tellers appointed by the two -,;vjaH Houses will please take their seats." The tellers?Senators Hoar and Pendleton, and Representatives Ciay and Keifer?having taken their places at the clerk's desk, Mr. - ; v'-5 Edmunds said: i&H "The President of the Senate will open the certificates of tho aeveral States in alphabetlcal order, and now opens the certificate for the State of Alabama. He hands to the chairman of the tellers on the part of tbr^~>a Senate the certificate from Alabama received by mail and to the chairman of tho ~ ZgS tellers on the port of the House of Representee tives the certificate received by messenger.* The certificate was read by fcienator Hoar and announced ten electoral votes for Orover Cleveland, for President and ten electoral votes for Thomas A. Hendricks for Vice* President. Mr. Sherman asked unanimous consent ^ that only the operative parts 01 iue wtnu- .--,a catesbe read, the formal parts being In- ?'*)? spec ted by the tellers. This was agreed to, and only the statement of the votes cast '>*3 (voro read The votes of the other States were an- " r*!*? nounced in a similar manner, showing tho following result: 7't^S Arkansas, for Cleveland & Hendricks 7 votes . California, for Blaine & Logan. 8 " .^35? Colorado, for Blaine & Logan 3 u . Connecticut, for Cleve.and & Hendricks.../ 6 " ^ Delaware,for Cleveland & Hcndricks 3 " Florida, for Cleveland & Hcndrtcks 4 " Georgia, for Cleveland & Heudriclu 12 " Illinois, for Blaine & Logan 22 " jltafi Indiana, for Cleveland & Hendricks 15 " ? .rags Iowa, for Blaine & Logan 13 " Kansas, for Blaine & Logan 9 " Kentucky, for Cleveland & Hcndricks 13 " Louisiana,for Cleveland & Hendricks 8 " Maine, for Blaine & Logan 0 " : '/i.jSSS Maryland, for Cleveland & Hendricks 8 " Massachusetts,for BJaine & Logan.. 14 Michigan, for BJaine & Logan LJ " Minnesota, for Blaine & Logan. 1 " Mississippi, for Cleveland & Henclricks 0 " . "yaffH Missouri, for Cleveland & Hendrkks 16 " Nebraska, for Blaine & Logan 5 " ' >2 Nevada, for Blaine & Logan. 3 " 13 New Hampshire,for Blaine & Logan 4 " New Jersey, for Cleveland & Hendricks 9 " -*)*>. New York for Cleveland & Hendricks 36 " North Carolina, for Cleveland &, Hendricks 11 " t. J".. J Ohio, for Blaine & Logan 23 " . - "Sag Oregon, for Blaine & Logan 3 " Pennsylvania, for Blaine & Logan.. SO " ^ Rhode Island, for Blaine & Logan.. 4 " Cfa South Carolina, for Cleveland & HeuHfiMra 0 Tennessee,for Cleveland & Hendricks 12 " \ Texas, for Cleveland 6c Hendneks.. 13 '* lUV Vermont, for Blaine & Logan 4 " -J 'yd Virginia, for Cleveland & Hendricks 12 " " West Virginia, for Cleveland & Hendricks 6 " Wisconsin, for Blaine & Logan 11 " i|S Total Cleveland & Hendricks 219 " < Blaine & Logan 182 " Cleveland's majority 37 M ' The certificate of New York was read by ' '^3 Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, announcing thirty-six* votes for Cleveland and Hendricks, and ai "i some vague rumors were in the air thw ^ morning that trouble would be made over . the counting of the vote of New York, n t, .-fi murmur of relief went jrp when Mr. Clay 4 finished the reading and announced that tha -$3 certificate of electors was cerit&^l to by Grover Cleveland, Governor. A mamtastation of applause was promptly suppressed by a Mr. Edmunds, who ordered the sergeant-atarms to arrest "any gentleman or other person" who disturbed the order of these pro- fig ceedings by applause or other mauifestaMr. Edmunds then rose and said: "I have now opened the certificates of the electors of " all the States, and their votes have Men re- -Sb ported. Tellers will now make their computation and report the state of the votg." Again the tellers had devoted theniSahTj to figuring for several minutes, Senator Hoar t read and handed the resnlt of their comipyjA- - - Jj tion to the presiding officer, who said: " Senators and Gentlemen of thr">v-H House of Representatives: The teliers have reported to the presiding officer the '7A state of tho vote, from wLieh it appears that Grover Cleveland, of the State of New York, "j has received ait) votes for the office of Preti- "J dent of the United State*: that James G. 1 Blaine, of the State of Maine, has received ; 182 votes for the same office; that Thoiu. 8 A. j Hendricks, of the State of Indiana, has received 219 votes for the olllce of Viciv President of the United States; John A. Logan, of the State Illinois, has'received 1S2 vot"> for the saimaH office Wherefore, I do declare that Cleveland, of the State of New York. received a majority of the votes of the wbJjW ?.? number of electors appointed as UieyapptJagg in the certificates reail by tho tellers, and jpM appears to have been elected President of I t niioi States for four years commencing the 4th clay of March. ISfS, and that 1lluuM3^H A. Hendricks, of the State of Indiana, hasi^^^H ceived a majority of the votes of the number of electors appointed as they appcgHI, in the certificates read by the tellers, and p ^ appear to have been elected Vice-Presidc*^?? of the United States for four years coinmeiiffl^B cing March 4, 1885; and the president cf ttraHp Senate makes this declaration only as a puli 'JzE lie statement in the presence of the Houses of Congress of the contents of the .yj papers opened and read on this occasion, and ;> ? not as possessing any authority in law to dd- ^ 1 clare any legal conclusion whatever." ! Here the immen-e audience broke into ap- _Jj ' plause and cheers, which the prodding offic?* * attempted to suppress, but with little sua* ' ?3j I The Senate at 1 ; >() retired to its chamber, -Jj and the House took a recess for fifteen m n- - "j utes before going on with its regular bud* A DESPERATE FIGHT. 'I ' T?a? Ranpon Punishing 3Icxlrtui I i- CaUIc Thieves. a| i A messenger arrived at Laredo, Texas, 9 ? with the news that a bloody battle had taken fl >. place at Carrizo Springs, between a band of i rangers imder Sheriff TonUinson and a largo ? party of Mexicans from Neuva Laredo. ? A few days ago three Mexican horse k thieves wure caught near the Springs by so:ne II of the rangers and are alleged to have ED 3 lw*?n lvi*fhe:L Some members of the H band escaped and wore pursued. The Mexi- M cans started for the ltio (irande. Shorjff Tomlinson joined the rangers with two of bio H deputy sheriffs and the pursuit was pushed 9 with vigor. On Thursday afternoon tha Texans overtook the Mexicans, who had b -en r. heavilv reinforced by other member* ' of the band and by a score of 1 Mexican fugitives. As only half ? of them were mounted their progress was slow. The range's wero all armed with Winchester rilles and Colt's revolvers, end iy were led by Captain Shelley and Sheriff Tomliason. They oj>eued lire when within sh:oting distance, and at the first volley a half-a, i dozen Mexicans fell, and those who ware mounted put spurs to their horses and fltxL The others returned the flra ' of the pos.se and wounded five. William ? Marshal, one of the wouinled, has^smee died. x The Texans emptied their revolvers, after their rilles were tired, and tile result was that 13 ten Mexicans wsre killed outright, aud it i? 'd believed that fifteen others wero wounded. Iy Several of the wounded were raptured by the I Texans aud a horrible story is told regarding I i-k their disposition, ltissaitl that many w?re it shot to death on the field. PS The most reliable information places the j at Mexican force at 1','0 and that of the Texan* at fifty. ... 4 A