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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
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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. ;
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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
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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.
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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
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'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
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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 '
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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.
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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