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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BAJSTNER| BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1885. NO. 37. VOLUME XXIX |j|I X?ABK DAYSj by HUGH CONWAY, | Author of " Called Back." | CHAPTER IV.?AT ALL COST, SLEErj J Dead! Before I kneeled beside him , and, after unbuttoning his coat, laid | my hand on his breast, I knew the i the man was dead. Before 1 turned the lantern on his white face I knew j who the man was. Sir Mervyn Fer- I rand had paid for his sin with "his life! It needed little professional sk'll to | determine the cause of his death. A ! bullet fired, it seemed to me, at close j quarters had parsed absolutely through the heart. lie must have fallen j without a moan. Killed. I knew, by the hand of the woman he had wronged. A sneering smile yet lingered on his Bet features. J could even imagine the words which had accompanied it, when swiff. arwl ctiiUnn withnnf. nnfi inn ment's grace for repentance or confession, death had been meted out to him. At one moment he stood erect and full of life, mocking, it may be, her who had trusted him, at the next, before the sentence he was speaking was completed, he layed lifeless at her feet. With the snow-flakes beginning to form his winding-sheet! Oh, it was vengeance! swift, deadly vengeance! But why, oh why had she wreaked it? Philippa, my peerless Philippa, a murderess! Oh, it was too fearful, too horrible! I must be dreaming. All of my own thoughts of revenge left me. It was for the time pity, sheer pity, I felt fur the man, cutolf in the prime of his life. "While I knew he was a-live I coulct look forward to and picture the minute when we should stand coolly seeking to kill one another; but now that he was dead, I hated him no longer. Ah! death is a sacred thing. Dead! Sir Mervyn Ferranddead, and slain by Philippa! It could not be true! It should not be true! Yet I shuddered as I remembered the passion she had thrown into those words, "Basil, did you ever hate a man ?" I gave a low cry of anguish as I remembered how I had hurled from me the pistol she had let fall? the very weapon which had done the dreadful deed. Killed by Philippa! Xot in a sudden burst of uncontrollable passion, but with deliberate intent. She must have gone armed to meet him. She must have shot him through tl*#* V? An *?4>. mnaf OQOn him fiill LilU UCtUb, lilUOU Uitio 0WU liiiii ?.?? Then, only then, the horrible deed which she had wrought mast have been folly realized! Then she had turned and fled from the spot in a frenzy. Oh, my poor girl! my poor girl! Utterly bewildered by my anguish, I rose from my knees and stood for a while beside the corpse. It was in that moment I learned how much I really loved the womam who had done this thing. Overall my grief and horror this love rose paramount. At all cost I must save her, save her from the hands of justice; save her from the fierce elements which her tender frame was even at this moment braving. And as I recalled how she had sought me yesterday with the tale of her wrong?how she had wildly fled from me, a few minutes ago, madlv, blindly into the night; as I thought of the injuries she had suffered, and which has led her to shed this man's blood; as I contrasted her in her .present position with what she was when first 1 knew her and loved her, the pity began to fade from my heart; my thoughts toward the lifeless form at ray feet grew stern and sombre, and I found myself beginning, by the old code of an eye for an eye, to justify, although |I regretted Philippa's fear ful act. Eight or wrong, she was the woman I loved; and I swore I would save her from the consequences of her crime, even?heaven help me!? if the accusation, when made, must fall upon my shoulders. Yet it was not the beginning of any scheme to evade justice which induced me to raise the dead body and bear it to the side of the road, wuere 1 placed it under the low bank on which the hedge grew. It was \the reverence which one pays to death made me do this. I could not leave the poor wretch lying in tht very middle of the highway, for the first passer-by to stumble" against. To-morrow he would, of course, be found. To-morrow the hue and cry would be out! To-morrow Philippa. my Philippa, would Oh, heavens! never, never, never! So I laid what was loft of Sir Mervyn Ferrand reverentially by the side of the lonely road. I even tried to close his glassy eyes, and I covered his face with his own handkerchief. Then, with heart holding fear and anguish enough for a lifetime, I turned and went in search of the poor, unhappy girl. Where should I seek her? Who knew what her remorse may have urged her to do? "Who knew whither ber horror may have driven her? It needs but to find Philippa lifeless on the roal to complete the heaviest tale of grief which can be exacted from one man in one short night! I clenched my teeth and rushed on, I had tho road all to myself. Xo one was abroad in such weather. Indeed, lew persons were seen at night in any weather in this lonely part of the country. I made straight for my own house. The dismal thought came to me, that, unless Philippa kept to the road she was lost to me forever. If she strayed to the right or to the left, howjm such a night could I possibly find her-?" My own hope was that she would go straight to my cottage; sc thither I made the best of my way. I i she had not arrived, I' must get what assistance I could, and seek for her in the fields to the right and left of the road. It was a dreaay comfort to remember that all the ponds and spaces of water were frozen six inches thit-k! I hesitated a moment when I reached her late residence. Should I inquire if she had returned thitherV No; when morning revealed the ghastly event of the night, my having done so would awake suspicion, Let me first go home. Home at last! In a moment I shali know the worst. I opene.l the slide of my lantern, which was still alight, and threw the rays on the path which led to my door. My heart gave a great bound of thankfulness. Tnere on the JUU\>, liUb VL'O UUiiLL'iilLOU UV IllUlt? recent flakes, were the ] rints of a jmall foot, rhilippa, as I prayed but scarcely dared to hope she might, had some straight to my house. My man opened the door for me. It was well I had seen those footprints, as my knowledge of Philippa's arrival enabled me to assume a natural air "My sister has come?" I asked. "Yes, sir, about a quarter of an hour ?go." "We missed each other on tuo road. What a night!" I said, throwing off my snow-covered coat. "Where is she now?" I asked. "In the sitting-room, sir." Then, lowering his voice, William added, "She seemed just about in a tantrum when she found you weren't at home. I expect we|3bali finu her a hard lady to please." William, .in spito of his stolidity, occasionally ventured upon some liberty when addressing me. His words greatly surprised me. I forced myself to make some laughing rejoinder; then I turned the handle of the door and entered the room in which Philippa had taken refuge. Oh. how my heart throbbed! What would she say tome? What could I, fresh from that dreadful scene, siy to her? Would she excuse or palliate, would she simply confess or boldly J justify, her crime? Would she plead ! her wrongs in extenuation? Would she assert that in a moment of ungov- i ernable rage she had done the deed? No matter what she said; she was still i Philippa, and even at the cost of my own life and honor I would save her. 1 Yet as 1 advanced into the room a shmhler ran through me. Fresh to j my mind came the remembrance of i that white face, that still form, lying ! as Iliad left it, with the pure white j snow falling thickly around it. Philippa was sitting in front of the j fire. Ilf-r hat was removed; her dark : hair disheveled and gleaming wet with ] the snow which had incited in it. She ' must have heard 1110 enter and close j the door, but she took no notice. As 1 approached ner she turned her shoul- j der upon mo in a pettisli way, and as i one who by the action means to signi- ! fy displeasure. I came to her side j and stood over her, waiting for her to ! look up and speak lirst. She must speak lirst! What can 1 say, after all j that lias happened to her to-nigiit >' But she kept a stony silence?kept her eyes still turned from mine. At ; last 1 called her by her name, and bend- j ing down, looked into her face. Its expression was one of sullen an- j ger. and moreover, anger which seemed j to deepen as she heard my voice. She j made a kind of contemptuous gesture, ) as if waving me aside. Thilippa," I said, as sternly as I j could, "speak to me!" I laid mv hand upon her arm. She 1 shook it off fiercely, and then started to her feet. "You ask me to speak to you," she said; "you, who have treated me like this! Oh", it is shameful! shameful! I come through storm and snow?come to you, who were to welcome me as a brother! "Where are you? Away, your wretched servant tells me. "Why are you away? I trusted you! Oh, you are a pretty brother! If you had cared for me or respected me, you would have been here to greet me. Xo! you are all in a league?all in a league to ruin me! Now I am here, what will you do? Poison me,of course! kill me, and make away with me, even as that other doctor killed \ and made away with my poor child! I lie did! I say he didh I saw him do it! j All, all, all,?even you?you, whom I j trusted?leagued against me!" n.n.i fwamKltnflr wifh f.OITIOT11. OHC V??W V'.CIHUllUfj uou , Her words ran one into the other. It | was us much as I could do to follow ! theiu; yet the above is but a brief con- I densatson of what she said. With I unchecked volubility she continued to heap reproaches and accusations, many of which were of the most extravagant and frivolous nature, on my head. At last she was sjlent, and reseated herself in her former attitude; and the sullen, discontented, illusecl look again settled on her face. And yet, although I, who loved her above all the world*, was the object of her fierce reproaches, no words I had as yet listened to came more sweetly to my ear than these. A great joy swept through me; a tide of relief bore me to comparative happiness. Whatever dreadful de-d the poor girl had that night accomplished, she was morally innocent. Philippa was not j accountable for her actions! Asa doctor. I read the truth at once [ The rapid flow of words, the changing moods, the vehement excitement, the ; sullen air, the groundless suspicions? ! one and all carried conviction, and j told me what was wrong. Mrs. Wil- : son's words of yesterday, which warned I me that Philippa's health should be inquired into, added absolute certain- ! ty. | My professional brethren who may j happen to read this will understand ! lue when 1 say that, although it is long | since I have practiced as a doctor, I { am sorely tempted, as I reach this j stage of my story, to give in detail the particulars which induced me to ar- I rive at such a belief. Xo physician no surgeon, lives who does not feel it his duty as well as his pleasure to j an accurate account of any out-of-the- j common case which lias come under | his notice. But I am not writing j these pages for the benefit of science; ! and having no wish to make my tale assume the authority of a hospital report, shall restrain myself, aud on j technical points be as brief as possi- j ble. In short, then, Phillapa, had fallen a victim to that mania which not un- ! commonly shows itself after the birth i of a child?that dread, mysterious dis- i ease which may, at the moment when everything seems going well, turn a house of joy into a house of mourning, a disease the source of which I have no hesitation in saying has not yet been properly traced and investigated So far as 1 Know, mere is no monograph on the subject, or certainly thert was none at that time. Still, it is admitted by all the author ties that this species of insanity if not untrequeutly produced by a severe mental shock, especially when that shock is accompanied by an overwhelm- : ing sense of disgrace. Such being the case, it is small won-' der that Phillipa, waking yesterday morning to receive the intelligence that i her marriage with Sir Mervyn Fer- ; rand has been a farce, should have j been thrown into a state extremely i susceptible to the attuck of the disease. I Ller careless exposure of herself to the 1 wintry air. when last night she sought j tne and claimed my aid, most probably hastened the attack of the foe. Mrs. Wilson had noticed her strange manner. I myself have remarked upon her | rapid changes from calmness to excitability. It was clear to me that , even when she visited me last night themis:hief had begun to develop it-I g?lf. I blamed by blindness bitterly. I ought to have seen what was wrong j Considering her agitated state, I ought ' to have been warned, smd have taken precautions; but rhad attributed those j lUfnl nhdnnea fhu nxvininrr nf Wllifih UV4I|? ' ? 0 was now only too plain too me, to the natural agitation experienced by a passionate yet pure minded women, who found herself deceived. Oh, had i but guessed the real cause, or rather the way in which her grief, had affected her, all tlio dark work of that night might have been left undone! Although in many ways it added to the difficulties and dangers which sur. rounded us, the discovery of the truth I was an unspeakable relief to me. No I right minded man could now call the poor girl guilty of crime. The man's blood was indeed on her hands: vet she had shed it, not knowing what she did. iler frenzy must then have been at its height. The idea of his coining that night must in some way have occurred to her. The desire to see him must have driven her to go and meet him. Her wrongs?perhaps the dread she now felt of him may have indliced her to arm herself; perhaps she carried the weapon for self-protection. Any way, she was mad when she started; she was mad when she drew the trigger; she was mad when she broke from my grasp; she was mad now as she sat by my lire, eying me with morose, suspicious glances. She was mad?and innocent. Her manner toward me troubled me but little. It is a well-known peculiarity of the disease that the patient turns, with hatred from those who were the nearest and dearest to her. Fits of sullen, stubborn silence, alternating with fierce outbursts of vituperation, are the most common characteristics of the mania! Hideous, startling as it is to see the change wrought in the sufferer, the malady is by no means of such an alarming nature as it seems. In fact the majority of cases are treated with perfect success. But all this is professional talk. Again I say that the discovery of hillippa's state of mind was an imense relief to me. My conscience was cleared of a weight whicn was pressing upon it. I felt braced up to use every effort, and thoroughly justified in following whatever course I thought best. Moreover, a new re- i lationship was now established be- j tween Philippa and myself. For ; awhile every feeling save one must be banished. AVe were now doctor and patient. After much persuasion, I induced : her to let me feel her pulse, As I ex- j pected, I found it up nearly to 120. J This did not alarm me much, as in the j course of my practice I had seen sev- J eral of these cases. The nrelimiiiarv [ treatment was simple as A JJ C; at : all cost bleep must be obtained. Fortunately, 1 had a well-stocked | medicine chest. In a few minutes I i had prepared the strongest dose of! opium which I dared to administer, j Tr> anrh n rnsn t.hft nrpspnt I know that no driblets would avail; so I ! measured out no less than sixty drops of laudnauui. Sleep the girl must have. That poor seething, boiling brain must by artificial means be forced to rest for hours. After that rest I should be able to say what chance there was of saving life and reason. But preparing a dose of medicine, and making a patient like this take it, are two different things. I tried every art, every persuasion. I implored and commanded. I threatened and insisted. Philippa was obdurate. Poor soul! She knew I meant to poison her. On my part, I knew that unless she swallowed that narcotic tonight her case was all but hopeless. I rested for awhile; then I sent for lukewarm water. After some resistance she suffered me to bathe her throbbing temples. The refreshing coolness which followed the operation was so grateful to her that she let me repeat the action apain and again. A softer and mora contented look settled on her beautiful face. I seized the moment. Onco more I pressed the potion upon her. This time successfully. My heart trembled with joy as I saw her swallow the drug. Xow she might be saved! I still continued the comforting laving of her temples, and waited untiJ the drugtook it3 due effect. By-and-hy that moment came. The large dark eyes closed, the weary head sank heav ilyon my shoulder, Anil I knew that Philippahad entered upon a term of merciful oblivion. I waited until her sleep was sound as the sleep of death; then I summoned my man, I had already told him that my sister was very ill. Between us we bore her to her room and laid her on the bed. I cut the wet boots from her cold feet, did all I could to promote warmth and such comfort as was possible under the circumstances. Then ]j left her, sleeping that heavy sleep' which I prayed might last unbroken for honrs, and hours, and hours. [to be continued.] THE WAR I EGYPT. Defensive Operations of the British Forces. Extracts from Gordon's Letters and Telegrams, a dispatch from Korti snys tlmt General Buller has an ample supply of food and water. The prisoners who wero captured in the skirmish on the 17th state that 2,000 Arabs from tho vicinity of Metemneh wer? encamped near the British front" Tt-- J..1 KJ 4.^ ? mo VUJCIS liueuueu uu juuno u night assault upon the British lines. Half of tho men were eager for tlio attack, but th? others were disinclined. The attack, there, fore, was postponed. It was also stated that tho Mahdi had written a letter promising reinforcements, impressing them to follow and harass the British troops while crossing the desert. Tho Mahdi's most active general, Abdullah Khalifa, was in command of the Arabs at Abu-Klea. The arrival of General Brackenbury's column at Abu-Hamed will be a welcome event for the British, sinco there will then, for a few weeks at least, bo a possible lino of communication with Korosko, above the Second Cutaract. This line is ?>o5 miles long, and there is only one point at which water is found, but steps will doubtless be i taken to forward stores of water to El Murad in advance, and by forced camel marches tho I distance can bo covered in nine days. At i best this line will be an indifferent one, but | anything is preferable to the isolation of the past several days. A grand durbar was held at Korti in the presence of the Kabbabisli and other sheikhs and tho British troops. Lord Wolseley personally invested tho mudir of Dongola with tho order of St. Michael and St. George. The mudir asked Lord Wolseley to convey his thanks to tho queen for this mark of distinction. General Wolseley received a visit at Korti from a number of friendly chiefs. Ho announced to them that it was tho fixed dotermination of the British to recapture Khartoum and to avengj the death of General Gordon. The papers continue to publish extracts from the telegrams and letters of General Gordon as they appear in the Blue Book on Egvpt One of these letters, dated Decem??:. icoi siege, and has the following narratives: "Once the river rose. We drove off the Arabs in four fights. We fired their towns. We sent two expeditions to Sennaar. We had a fight on Sept. 4. We were defeated with heavy loss, our square getting always broken. It has bt?en quiet since. We fired o.OOO.OOU rounds in these different fights. The Arab Knipp guns often nulled our steamers. We nave lost three steamers and built two. All tho captives with the Mahdiare well. Statin Bey is well treated, but he is kept in chains. The nuns among the captives ostensibly married the Greeks in the party in order to save themselves from being compelled to marry Arabs. There is a mysterious Frenchman from Dongoln with the Mahdi. Don't let the Egyptian soldiers come. Take direct command ot tho steamers | at Meteninoh and turn out the fellaheen." In a letter to a friend at Cairo, dated December 14, General Gordon wrote: "It is all up with us. I expect a catastrophe within ten days from the present time. It would not have been so if our people had kept me better informed of their intentions. My adieux to all." A native has reported that tho Madhi has offered the Egyptian garrisons in the equatorial provinces of the White Kile and Sennaar a safe conduct out of Egypt upon condition that they give up their arms. The queen has sent an autograph letter to Miss Gordon, sister of General Gordon, expressing her majesty's sympathy with the lady in her bereavement by the loss of her heroic brother. A Curious Superstition. Since the uavs oi tnc lirst i.ora matham probably 110 public mail in Great Britain has been so atllicted with gout as the Kev. Charles II. Spurgcon. According to all accounts it amounts to an almost continuous torture. It is wonder| fill how such a man, suffering as he does, manages to preside with such success over an institution like the Metropolitan Tabernacle. Jlr. Spurgeon's only interval of comfort, it would seein. is during his brief whiter sojourn ot Mentonc. A sympatheiic friend in Germany has just ' sent the reverend gentleman a peculiar ] prescription, lie recommends him to keep in his room a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons; and he encourages him to hope for the happiest results. In some parts of South (lermany, it appears, it was at one time a common bci lief that gout could be cured by such ; means; and to this day in that part of ! Kurope turtle doves are called "gout pigeons. ' :>ir. opurguou u;is nu man iu the cure, but recommends the keeping of doves in the house metaphorically, as :i euro for many a plague in the family. "May the voice of the turtle," he says, "be heard in our land.''?Xnc York HtrnU. Soudan advices stato that tho dreaded Kamsin winds have begtjn to blow over the country, and have assumed almost the intensity of siroccos. The wind is hot and is accompanied by blinding clouds of sand which cuts like needle points. The troops j can only find shelter by lying down with their | faces to tho earth until the storm has passed I over, when they struggle out of the sand almost choked and blinded. Tho cavalry I horses have suffered terribly from tho effects of the hot blasts,and many of them have been j so injured that they had to be shot. It is supposed that the Kamsin winds will provail for about a month. Mauciie.se del, Grili.o, tho beautifu daughter of Mine. Ristori, was able at a 10 cent diplomatic reception at the \Vhit< House, to converse with all the guests in theii own language excepting only the Japanese. STEWS SUMMARYj Kanlcrn and middle State*. TnE Marvin Safe company's factory, a j large eight-story building in iNew York, has : succumbed to tho flames. At the time of the j fire .MX) safes, valued at $100,000, wero stored I in the building. The total loss is about $230,000. Peter Schroeder, an attendant at the ! Blocksloy almshouse, Philadelphia, has been i arrested, charged with instigating another | emplove, a colored lad, to fire the building, i whereby twenty of the crazed inmates lost j their lives. Isadino, tho colored boy, de- i tailed circumstantially how, at Schroeder's ! request, he had sot" firo to the building, j Schroeder was arrested, charged with con- | spiracy to commit arson, and Mullen, another i attendant, was held as an accessory after tho ! fact. William C. Kingsley, a prominent Dem- j ocratic politician of Brooklyn, and ono of tho : founders of the Brooklyn bridge, is dead, j The fortune left by him is estimated at mil- I lions. Horace V. Feiiran", deputy postmaster at Batavia, X. Y., committed suicide by shoot- j ing. A defalcation had been discovered in j his accounts. The wife of John L. Sullivan, the notorious ; Boston pugilist, has brought suit for divorce j ?i tho charge of habitual drunkenness and | brutal treatment. I.v tho United States district court at iNew Haven, James M. Meoch, Charles Webb and William Roath, of Norwich, pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzling of the funds of ; the Merchant's National and Shetucket National banks in that city, of which they were officers, and were sentenced to hard labor in the State prison. The two firstnamed wore sentenced to five years arid tho last-named to four years1 imprisonment. John W. Rubright, captain of a canal I boat lying at a New York pier, was annoyed | by boys snowballing him, and fired off his pistol. The bullet struck Patrick Dugan, aged nineteen, a laborer on the pier, causing instant death. Rubright was arrested. Son Hi and West* Great destitution, arising from drought and ruined crops, prevails in Gilmer, Braxton and Calhoun counties, W. Va, which are remote from railroad communication. Cattlo ar? being killed for foo.l and much sickness exists among tho people. Frank Jamks, the noted outlaw, has been released from jail in Missouri,the chief witness against Lim having died. The trial of Joseph C. Mackin, William J. Gallagbor, Arthur Gleason and Henry Biekl, on the charge of conspiring to affect the result of an election for State senator in Chicago at the presidential election in November, resulted in the conviction of Mackin, Gallagher and Gleason and the acquittal of Biobl. The trial lasted two weeks and aroused great ' public Interest The Oregon legislature adjournod without having elected a United States Senator to succewi Senator Slater. The failure was due to tho inability of two factions of tho Republican members, who are in a majority, to agree upon a candidate. This for the present leaves Oregon without one representative in the uatioual Senate. Irving Lang (colored) was hanged at; Greenville, N. C\, for the murder of Moses j Barrett during a quarrel. The murderer and | his victim were farm hands. State Senator W. C. Montgomery, ono of the wealthiest and most prominent citi- | zens of Southern Indiana, committed suicide at Gosport. Cause, ill health. Two passenger trains close togother were run into by a freight train near Chebanse, 111., and a fearful crash followed. Ono passenger was instantly killed, and eight or nine others injured more or less severely. Michigan Democrats and Greenbacker3 have fused on a State ticket, tho principal nominees being two candidates for supremo court judge. Washington* The Senate appropriation committee struck cut of the postoliice bill the proviso reducing i ho pound rate on newspapers sent from the office of publication from two cents to ono c e:it. Tiie Senate confirmed thj nominations of Stephen F. Wilson, of Pennsylvania, to bo Associate justice of tho supreme court of New "Mexico, and Charles H. Bums, of New Hampshire, to bo United States attorney for the district of New Hampshire. According to Librarian SpofTord's annual report tlio library of Congress contains S44.0S7 volumes and *18."),000 pamphlets, an increase of 111,-40 volumes over the previous year. The findings of tho court martial in the case of Judgo Advocate General Swaim, charged with conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, and with neglect of duty were: Of the first charge, not guilty, but guilty of conduct to tho prejudice of "good order and military discipline, in violation of the sixtysecond "article of war: of the second charge, not guilty. Upon these findings the court sentenced the accuse 1 "to be susjx?nded from rank, duty and half pav for the period of i. 1..- 1? VI,? oAm?nn<iA/l tmc o rv_ IW U jt-uif. x n<r vuui V r. ovuiviiwva* ???.-? . proved by President Arthur. Lieutenant-Colonel A. P. Morrow, Sixth cavalry, who was tried by court-mar- j tial on the charge of ti iplicating his pay ac-; counts, has been sentenced to forfoit all right to advancement in his grado for the period of two years, so that at the end of that time he shall still bo the junior lieutenant-colonel of cavalry. The two safes of the Adams Express company, which were in the car that was burned at the recent railroad collision near Washington were opened in the office of the United States treasurer. The charred money which they contained amounted to more than $110,030, most of which has been identiQod and ?ill bo redeemed. Foreign* Mn. Gladstone, the Englsh premier, is reported to be much dejected and weighed down by the series of disasters to the British forces in the Soudan. A dispatch from Korti says that General Sir Redvers Buller in his retreat from (iubut was compelled to halt at Abu-Klea wells and intrench his troops in a position there, in order to safely defend himself against El Mahdi's men, who wore gathered in largo numbers, and continually menacing the British forces. An immense crowd of spectators in Lon- I don witnessed the departure of the grenadier I guards, one of England's crack rogiments, | for the Soudan. They were adJressed, pre- j vious to departure, by the Princo of Wales, and the streets along which thoy marched were decorated with flags and banners. The war spirit in England seems to have been thoroughly aroused. On the other hand the Irish weekly newspapers generally display a feeling of jubilation over tlio British reverses in the Soudaiu A cable dispatch says that "London's scare about dynamite is really becoming childish. At all public buildings every one with a dor is cnauengcu, ann laminar ana usoiu passageways are closed." The Russians are rapidly advancing in the direction of Herat, and a conflict with tho Afghans is expected to occur any day. Meanwhile this step of Russia is causing alarm in England, and the London limes threatens war with Russia if she should seizo Herat. A Congress of dynamiters, consisting of i eleven delegates, three of them from America, j | is reported to have been held in Paris. Resolutions to punish England were adopted. Ax extraordinary "execution" is reported from Exeter, England. A man named Lee, under sentence of death for a woman's murder, was placed three times 011 the gallows for execution, tlio machinery each time failing to act. Finally he was taken to his cell and respited. Letters of tho late General Gordon from Khartoum have been made public, and show that he did not, as was reiKu ted, express confidence in his ability to hold the city indefinitely against the False Prophet's followers. Six paupers perished in the destruction by firo of tho poorliouso at Wohlen, Switzerland. During the debate in the liritish house of commons on Sir Stafford Northcote's motion of censure against the government for its Egyptian policy there was a noisy exhibition 1 or ill reeling. upon motion ol rrcnuer (uauBtono Mr. O'Brien, the Irish editor and homo rule member, was suspended for a week. The steamer Alleghany, bound from Cardiff for Gallc, has been lost, Her crew, numbering thirty persons, were drowned. Ok Colonel Burnaby (killed in tho Soudnn) London Truth says: ".Man)' years ago ha passed as tho strongest man in England and used to twist a poker round his neck and carry ponies up stairs. Then ho luid an illness, and subsequent to this ho never renewed these feats." Dutch Sign-Boards. The Dutch have the reputation of being commonplace anil wholly immersed in business. Vet Holland has produced learned scholars, great painters and noble champions of human rights. A traveler found even the signs on Dutch streets interesting, because indicative of tho originality of the people. He says: It was some time before I understood what was meant when I read "lire and water for sale. It seems the poorer people make no fires, but buy boiling water nd red hot turf with which to prepare a yir tea and colTee. th ;i i,aby is born a small placard of if . hite lace is hung upon the red satin and w c js SJC|C) his symptoms door^ i/ 5ome 0I'ed on a little bulletin arc daily record ousc, thus saving j board atlixed to the 0Ublc of making I tliose interested the fr and replying to inquiries, decorated with The country house^ are ntieman seems legends. 'I lie retired go should know anxious that all the worldaints in huge of h' ? couteut. So lie pouse such scnlcttefs on the front of his ht Care," "Uig 1 timents as these: "Withou," "My PlcasJ Enough,"''My Satisfaction and Fricndt urc and Life," "Sociability Companion. J ship Within," etc.? Youth's X MORE FIGHTING. Details of a Fierce Battle Near the City of Kassala. Five Cities in the Soudan Holding Out Against El Mahdi, The following particulars of the battle near Kassala have been received from Suakini: "The Hadendowns attacked the Kas sala garrison, which, under the commandant, j had sallied out to cover the entry of a convoy of grain. Tho garrison made hasty defence works on an open plain west of the city, and received tho onslaught of the Hadondowas with such a terrible firo that tho latter fell back in confusion, with heavy loss. The friendly Shukoorie tribe, who brought tho grain for Kassala, ttwai attacked the Haden" dowas on tho flank and rear, while tho garrison troops advanced to attack their front. Tho Hadendowas became panic stricken, and fled in all directions. Their chief, Is-aolfllatti. was killed. Tho Shukoories occupied and destroyed Phillik. the headquarters of Mussa, second chief of the Hadendowas. The difficulty of the garrison at Kassala has been increased by the appearance of the Italians at Massowah. This interferes with the authority of Major Chermside, who was preparing an immense convoy of provisions, munitions and money for Kassala. These measuees of relief for the beleaguered city are now at a standstill. Kassala is tho second city in the Soudan. It contains 20,0J0 inhabitants, and has a garrison of :S,000 men. It is the keystone in the line of frontier strongholds which are holding out against tho Mahdi. Kassaln, Sanheit, Amdib, Ghira and Gullabat are all resisting tho False Prophot. Kassala has already been beseiged for a whole year. Major Chermside has offered to send re-enforcements, but the Commander has refused to accept any, as he is unable to provide them with food. Unless England or Italy sends speedy relief Kassala will share the fato of Berber and Khartoum. Dispatches from Korti say: "The mudir of Dongola has been informed that the Mahdi has gone on a steamer to Elbeh. General Brackenbury destroyed the village of Ha bed, Suleiman, with 500 men, women and children passed through that village on the 17th, flying northward from the loft bank of the Nile." The war office has adopted a plan to supply General Graham's army with water in its advance across the desert from Suakim to Berber. by laying pipes in sections. ?Tho British army estimates for tho year ISifG are announced. They amount to ?17,820,700. This sum includes tho expenditures of the Soudan expedition. Sir. Henry iU. {Stanley, in an interview, thought that the reason why General Gordon did not make his escape from Khartoum by steamer was the fact that he was a fatalist. His death is more serious than the fall of Khartoum. Had he managed to cscape, his life and presence would in tho end havo secured victory for the cause he represented. A letter has been received at Korti from a nun who was taken prisoner when Khartoum fell into the hands of the Arabs, and who is now kept in captiviey in El Mahdi's camp at Omdurmau, a few miles below KhaTtoum. She confirms tho statement that El Mahdi's troops massacred the soldiers of the garrison and many peaceable citizens, and she says that the number of persons slaughtered was fully 2,000. LATER NEWS ' Striking weavers and about 200 Philadel plii'x policemen camo into collision with the result that several of tho former received broken heads and seven were arrested, while of the latter a number were knocked down. George D. Noremac,* a professional pedestrian, has finished a long tramp in New York city, having covered 5,100 miles in 100 days on a wager of $2,000. A strike umong the employees of the Wabash railroad was inaugurated at Springfield, 111., and extended to other cities. Representative Robert Locjax, a Re u: iw*- nf *ua ttlmat'o lA^iolohlKA JMiUllUlU IIK-UiUDi VL L.1JU AI UliVSin IOIU VU1 V, dropped dead of heart disease while on hi? way to tho house chamber at the capitol in Springfield. It will l>e remembered the Illinois legislature has been a tie in joint convention, and in consequence of tho death of MrLogan it will be necessary for the IlepublL cans to refrain from voting if they wish to prevent the election of a Democratic United States Senator. President Cleveland wrote a rpply to a letter sent him by a number of members of the outgoing Congress rejecting legislation repealing the coiingeof the silver dollar. The President is understood in the letter to have expressed himself in favor of such legislation. The National theatre, tho most prominent placo of amusement in Washington, has been destroyed by fire. Tho loss on tho building and contents is put at $150,000. In the British house of lords tho Marquis of Salisbury moved a vote of censure on tho government's Egyptian policy. The motion was greeted with loud applause. A number ot artillery officers and scientists wero testing a now patent fuse at the Royal School of Gunnery at Shoeburyncss, firigland, when a t-iTiblo explosion occurredThree men wero killed outright and severa' others were fatally wounded. Among the latter were somo of the most prominent officials of tho government laboratory at Woolwich. The sceno of the explosion presented a sickening sight. Somo of the wounded had their faces carried away, others had their legs torn off, and men were lying about in every direction groaning in their dying agonies. At Abbeyfeale, a village in Limerick coun. ty, Ireland, eleven farmers, with their families, wero evicted for non-payment of rent. The marriago of Princess Beatrice, Queen Victoria's youngest daughter, to Prince Henry of Battenberg, will take place on the Isle of Wight in July. V/ATEIt CONGRESSIONAL, NEWS. Senate. Mr. Sherman reported to the Senate a a amendment to the sundry civil bill to provide for the erection in tho District of Columbia of a statue to tho memory of General Lafayette at a cost of J?.j0,0j)0.... Tho naval appropriation bill was reported tf the Senate. As it came to the Senate from the committee on appropriations it called for an aggregate of $17,0Sfl,:j:>7, which was a not increaso of $2.3<>l,.r,03 over the aggregate Of the House bill and an increase of $2,70S,SC3 over the amount appropriated last year. House. By a vote of 150 nays to 118 yeas tho Houso decided that it would not discuss tho amendment in the sundry civil appropriation bill authorizing tho secretary of tho treasury to suspend in wholo or in part tho coinage of silver dollars. The amendment was thereupon withdrawn by Mr. Randall Tho fortification appropriation bill was reported to the House. It provided for an appropriation of $!' ')'?, 1)00. THE BIG SHAFT. Comparing; Wattlilngton Monnmcn' with Other l&lgli Structure*. The Washington Monument is the highest structure in the world, its capstone being55") feet above the ground. It stands on u spot ?near tho Potomac, and closo to tho White House?approved by President Washington in 1 ?.iI, and can be seen from all parts within | twenty miles of the olovntod ground on which it is erected. The cornor-stono was laid July 4, 1S-I8, | when Robert Winthrop, then Speaker of th>' I House of Representatives, made the principal address. Tho cap-stono was put in position | Dec. ii, 1884. It was originally intended that ' Mr. Winthrop, who still lives, but is in very I feeble health, should dedicate the monument, j Mr. Winthrop's health prevented this, but he | prepared a speech and Congressman Long, of I Massachusetts, read it during the ceremonies. A comparison of tho height of tho Washi ington Monument with some of tho highest structures and memorials of tho New | and Old worlds will bo instructive. Tho tigI ures in feet are: The Washington Memorial .. 555 Cathedral at Cologne (towers) 511 The fi'roat l'yramiu 4*0 Cathedral at Strasbourg (spire).. 408 ! i vMin<imi nt-. Amiens (central snire) 422 I St. Peter's, at Koine (to top of dome).... 405 i St. Paul's Cathedral (dome) Cathedral at Milan 3-Vi The Bartholdi Statue !WJ St. Mark's, Venice 323 Capitol at Washington (dome and statue) 3o~ Lincoln Cathedral, England (tower) 390 Brooklyn Bridge (towers) 2*7 I Trinity Church (steeple) 2^ ! Statue of Liberty 22!) j Philadelphia Cathedral (dome) 210 London Monument 202 Nankin Porcelain Tower..... 200 Washington Monument, Baltimore lflf! j Arc do Triompho, Paris 100 : Colonnn Venrtome, Pans 144 | Trajan's Pillar, Rome 130 i | Pompey's Pillar, Alexandria 114 ] "Gonnania" Statue 110 St. Charles Borromeo 100 Colossus of Rhodes 105 "Bavaria" Statue !)0 Statue of Memnon 65 I - - ' < ' . / - SUMMARY OF CONGRESS Senate. Mr. Miller, from the committee on agriculture, reported favorably, without amendment, the House bill for the protection ot forests on the public domain Mr. Hoar introduced a bill for the relief of seamen. He said that it was almost a transcript of the Massachusetts law relating to the pledge of seamen's wages, and permitting such pledge only for tho support of their wives and children. It was referred to the committee on commerce... The agricultural appropriation bill was passed. On motion of Mr. Plumb tho Senate resumed the consideration of tho postofflce appropriation bill. Tho Senate retained in tne bill (contrary to tho recommendation of the appropriation committee) tho legislative provisions inserted by the House of Representatives fixing the postage on newspapers sent from the ofllce of publication to regular subscribers at one cent a pound; but cut out tho discrimination against sample copies, making the rato mentioned a uniform rate for all newspapers sent from the oflico of publication whether samplo copies or otherwise. Business was then suspended for the ceremonies attending the dedication of the Washington monument. The navy appropriation bill was discussed. An amendment appropriating >1,780,000 to build a steel cruiser was adopted. On motion of Mr. Boutelle, of Maine, an amendment was adopted providing for the return of the steamer Alert used in tho Greely relief expedition with tho thanks of this government, to the government of Grent Britain; for tho transfer of tho steamer Boar to tho treasury department to bo used as a revenue cutter in Alaskan waters, and for the use of the steamer Thetis in the navy as a surveying vessel. In this shapethe bill was passed. .... The postoflice appropriation bill was next discussed! On motion of Mr. Brown, tho Senate retained the House provision permit ting newspaper articles to tie markc! without increase of postage. The bill was then read a third time and passed without division. It then went to tno House of Representatives for concurrence or nonconcurrence in the Senate amendments. The chair laid before tho Senate a memorial from tho legislature of Wisconsin urging the placing of General Grant 011 the retired list of the army After discussion Mr. 1 Jawes' bill was passed authorizing the President to negotiate for tho purchase of the remaining rights of the Seminole, Creek, and Cherokee nations of Indians to tho Oklahoma lands....A number of pension bills were passed, after which Mr. Cockrell called up the House bill already favorably reported by him, to provide for tho settlement of the claims of officers and enlisted men of the army, for loss of private property destroyed in tho military service of tho United States. Mr. Cockrell said that the bill would not cover such things as carpets, watches, etc., but only articles deemod useful, necessary aud reasonable for officers and soldiers to hafre when 011 duty. On the suggestion of Mr. Sherman tho timo for presenting such claims was limited to two years; as so amended it was passed. In debate on the army appropriation bill the sentence of tho court martial against Judge Advocato General Swaim was donnnnnivl Kw Xfoouro T11 rrn 1 la Dawao flnrl TTnnr* and defended by Mr. Hale Mr. Allison reported the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, and asked its immediate consideration. Tho bill was takt>n up and its realing proceedod with.... Mr. Morrill reported favorably from the committee on public buildings and grounds a bill to provide for tho erection of a fire-proof building in tho city to contain tho records, library and museum of the medical department of the army at a cost not to exceed $200,000. Honae* Mr. Surnes submitted tho conference report on the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill and it was agreed to A bill was passed granting a pension of $50 a month to the widow of Major Thornburg, but whon Mr. Hewitt, of Now York, called up a Senate bill granting a pension of $50 a month to tho widow of Commodore Cravens it was rejected At its evening sossion the House passed fifty pension bills. Mr. McKean, of Now Jersey, called up the bill appropriating $2o,0 )0 for tho improvement of A\ ushington's headquarters at Morristown, but it was objected to On motion of Mr. Payson, of Illinois, the Senate amendments were concurred in to House bill forfeiting tho Texas Pacific land grant....On motion of Mr. Hopkins, of Pennsylvania, Senate amendments were concurred in to House bill prohibiting tho importation of contract labor....Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, introduced a bill to open up the Oklahoma lands for homestead settlement The sundry civil appropriation bill was reported. It appropriated $22,200,1?7, a reduction of tho estimate of $10,120,225. A section of the bill authorized tho secretary of the treasury to suspend in whole or in part the coinage of silver dollars from July 1, 1SS5, to Juno 30, 18-Sfi. Mr. Buckner called up tho Senate bill authorizing the Commercial National bank of Chicago to increase its capital stock to $2,00;>,000. In opposing the bill, Mr. Weller, of Iowa, attacked tho national banking system, declaring that it was the auty oi every patriot w swiko is a death blow. The bill was passed Discussion on tho river and harbor bill was resumed. Mr. Holman offered an amendment providing that the monev appropriated for the improvement of the Mississippi river shall be expended under the direction of the secretary of war and in accordance with tho plans approved by him. After a short and noisy discussion tho amendment was adopted. The Bpeaker laid before the House a comtmnication from the secretary of tho treasury recommending the appropriation of f'ir>,000 for the revenue marine service in Alaska The deficiency appropriation bill was passed with amendments... Another scene occurred in the House during debate on the river and harbor bill....Mr. "White, of Kentucky. secured the Jloor on a motion connected with the call of the House. His presence was the signal for cries of "louder," "leave to print," "vote," etc., and general shouts and confusion, while Mr. Weaver, of Nebraska, in the guise of a par1 iamentary inquiry, asked whether the man with tho most mouth was entitled to all tho timo of the House. There was an interchange of remarks between Mr. White and other members, and a scene of noisy confusion followed. Finally Mr. Browne, of Indiana, moved that in the judgment of tho Houso language usod by Mr. Gibson, of West Virginia, was unparliamentary and in violation of its rules, and that he is subject to the censure of the House. Tho motion was tabled by Vol yeas to (Xi nays. A TERRIBLE AFFRAY. Fatal Flalir on a Toxa* Train between JVInrftlial* and their Prrnoiirro Henry L. Gosling. Usiled States marshal for Texas, and Deputies John Manning and IVilliarn Loring wero bringing to San Antonio two prisoners?Pitts and Yeager?era" victed of robbing tho Soutliwick postoflioe in Burriett county, and having life penalties. Marshal Gosling had consented to let tho wife of Pitts and tho sisters of Yeager sit beside them on tho train. Pitts' mother in-law was seated near them with another wonmn, while Benham, a brother-in-law of Pitts, and four other men were immediately in front of them. The women passed pistols to the manacled prisoners,.and they suddenly . onemd Are 011 their captors, instantly killing Marshal Gosling and mortally wounding Deputy Manning. Then they jumped from the train, but not before they had run the gauntlet of a fusillado of shots from Deputy During and many passengers. In the melee Pitts' mother-in-law was latally and Yeager's sister dangerously shot, both having several wounds. Deputy Loring organized a posse and went in pursuit of tho prisoners. Pitts was found dead, his body riddled with bullets, and Yeager w.n recaptured, having been seriously wounded, and taken to the jail at New Braun fols, wliero tho women who usaism.ii nn-m m escaping had been conveyed. Pitts1 motherin-law died at night. Marshal Gosling was a widely known Uepublican politician, and had been defeated for treasurer of Tennessee by Marshal T. Folk. When Polk becaino a defaulter and fled he was captured by Gosling. _____ PROMINENT PEOPLE, General Wolseley has received $40o,000 in bounties for his military services. Mr. Burnaud, the editor of London i'ttnch, is the father of eleven married daughters. Professor Richard A. Proctor is lecturing in tho youth on astronomical topics. General Cox, of North Carolina, who led the last Confederate charge at Appomattox, bears the scars of eleven serious wounds. Jav Gol'ld, tho New York litiRiicicr, has gono on a trip South, embarking in his yacht at Charleston, S. C., lor a u extended cruise. Mr. Oscar Wilde now favors the aboliI tion of the coat and waistcoat, and luss pronouncsd himself in l'avor of the rustic smockfrock. j Sir Herbert Stewart, tho wounded hero of Al<u Klca and Gubat, is a teetotaller, lie is a man of irrepressible spirits and untiring patience. Bradlaukii, tlio English atheist, announces that ho will bo returned to parliament for several constituencies at the next election, and will sit for Northampton. The venerable American historian, Georgo Bancroft, recalls with delight that ho discussed Byron with Goetho at Weimar, and Goethe with Byron at Monte Nero. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jn., now a judge on the supremo bench of Massachusetts, was an ollicer in the Federal army, and was once left for dead upon a Southern battie-field. Dn. Tanner, tho faster, is a resident of Dona Ana county, New Mexico, where ho is dovoting himself to tho propagation of a new religion, founded on a now Bible, revealed to a new prophet. A number of New Haven women have been selling their hair to raise money for the necessaries of life. Their husband's have none to sell. I FIRE'S FATAL WORK. Two Families in New York and West Virginia Wiped Out. Five Persons Killed in Philadelphia ?One Day's Record. The newspapers are happily rarely called upon to chronicle such a terrible' day's record of fire as is given below. In New York city a policeman's whole family of six persons and in "West Virginia another man's family of Ave wero swept away, while in Philadelphia one of the best known residents, one child, his 6ister-in-law and two servants met a horrible fate. Minor disasters by fire on this day were I also numerous. Details of the various calam | lties are as iouows : ijf new york citt. Late at night flamos were seen to issue from the second floor of the four story offlco building on the northeast corner or Beaver and William streets, New York. Two families, comprising ten men, women and children lived on the top floors. Mr. Jaede, who keeps a restaurant in the basoment, his wife and young child were rescued by the firemen. Mary Leary, servant for Policeman James Murray, who was the janitor of tho building, was aLso rescued. Policeman Murray had three young children. His wife, his motherin-law. and the children were seen at a window early in the fire, but the firemen could not find them in their rooms. It was said after a while that they had oscaped to tho roof of an adjoining building, and that Murray, who had been on patrol duty in the precinct, had met them outside and taken them to a placo of shelter. This was b9lioved until it was discovered that Murray was missing. The truth became known at 1 o'clock A. M. when a fireman came from the William street oxit bearing in his arms tho remains of a child. It proved to bo tho corpse of Maggie Murray, tho policeman's youngest child, two and a half years old. Othors soon after emerged from the same door, bearing tho bodies of Jimmie, seven {ears old, and Danny Murray, five years old. he children hod been founa lying lif?less, | huddled together under the window out of which their mother was last reen calling for help. Close to them were found the bodies of Mrs. Murray and her mother, Mrs. Venous. Policeman Murray's body was found on the first floor. Ho had run up from a fire on South street when tho alarm came from Beaver and William He tried to get in the building by tho door on tho "William street side nri failrv? Thon nt: 11 -Hu he went ud a lad | der that had been put up on the Beaver street tide, in search of his family, and no more was seen of him. His body was found on the first floor. in west virginia. A terrific natural gas explosion occurred at Wellsburg, W. Va., seven miles down tho river, early in tho morning. The explosion was caused by gas leaking in tho cellar of a two-story brick building occupied by R. Helsloy & Brother, cigarmakers. This building and one adjoining occupied by Luke Wallace, saloon-keeper, which was also of brick, were demolished. Tho debris took fire. The intense cold gave the flames full sway, and they sproad rapidly to two adjoining frame buildings,which were consumed. The shock of the explcsiou shattered the glass in tho windows and shook the plaster from the ceilings of nearly every residence in the town. The inhabitants were startled, and ran into the streets, not knowing what had happened. The whole family of Mr. Helsley,consisting of himself, his wife,"hiothcr, and two children were instantly killed. All the bodies were easily recovered, except that of the youngest child, aged eighteen months, which was I burned to a crisp. John Walters, aged seventeen,was missing, ! and was supposed to be buried in tho ruins, j Mr. Walters, hi? wife, and two other chil| dren, were badly injured, and some of them ! were not expected to recover. Soveral other | persons wore reported fatally injured. in philadelphia. Between 0 and 7 o'clock a. m. fire broke out in the house of John G. King, No. 15 59 t?: ?* onh thrt pncriripq ruitJ SU1 OCL, J. uunuoi^uiu, uiiu ~--0 being engaged at another fire, the flames made rapid progress before propor .assistance could be had, and threo dwellings were partly destroyed. The occupants of King's residence wero asleep in tne upper storle3, and were aroused by the heat and smoke only to discover that the usual means of egress had been cut off. They ran to the windows, anrl most of them jumped out. Mr. King appeared at the fourth story window, and was seen to make an effort to jump out, but was so overcome by tho heat and smoke that ho fell back into tho flames. Hi3 charred body was found after the fire was extinguished j Mrs. King appeared at a window crying ! for help. A mattress was held by the flre1 men, and sho was told to drop her baby first | and then jump herself. She aid so, and re! ceived sovero but not dangerous injuries, j The baby was also Injured, but not fatally. Miss Jennie Hamilton, aged 2o, sister of | Mrs. King and daughter of Dr. Hamilton, was burned to death while hanging out of a j top window. Sho hung there in sight of tho helpless spectators until her fingers were burned off, and then fell to the frozen ground. John King, five years old, dropped from tho fourth-story window and dieci from the concussion. Olio colored and one white . female servant were roasted to a crisp, while a third was taken to a hospital with severe burns. " ~e Jir. JVlUg Wlis a mau vi iiiucpciiumiu mitune, not m busine*. Ho was a member of the most aristocratic club in the city, and was a prominent figure in society. Mrs. King ana her sister Jennie were leaders of fashion and centres of attraction wherever thay appeared. FIRES IN OTHER PLACES. The blaze which caused the delay in bring| ing tho firemen to the assistance of tho King | family in Philadelphia broke out in a fourstor}' business building on Market street The flames soon spread to an adjoining building, causing a total estimated loss of $125.00;). A fire which broke out in New Britain, Conn., in a livery stable, soon spread to a large wooden block in Church street and j thence to Main street. The flames got be| yond tho control of tho local flremon and aid I was telegraphed for from Hartford. One | engine was sent from that city. Ed. Rowley, j an occupant of tho livery stable wns burned j to death. Numerous firms were burned out, I and the aggregate losses were estimate at noj.coo. Flames which started in SchifFs wholesale I ? V P nntalrl\r cmivmrl | gTOCerjr IU V/Iianuw, *>. .... : to an adjoining dins storo, and both fcuildj ings, with their contents, valued at $50.00), } were destroyed. One of two drunken women I who upset a lamp in the upper stjry of I SehifFs building and caused the fire, was j burned to death. ! A firo in Texarkana, Ark., destroyed tho ; Marx brick block and burned out numerous j business firms. Tho total estimated losses are *200,000. The Chappanua Mountain institute, at J Clmppaqua, X. V., used as a Quaker boarding school for fifty children, was totally destroyed bv a firo which broke out in the night. Tho children were all saved after heroic efforts on tho part Of tho teacher. The chil: dren and teachers, driven out into the cold I air in their night clothes, were taken care of ' temporarily by their neighbors. j Beside the aliovo the telegraph reported | about twenty other tires in various parts of the country on this day, with damages run| ning from $1,000 to $20,000. IiEWSY GLEANINGS, Pirn mines of Montana last year yielded' P2 ?.4"? ?,0 K). Tin: he are now twenty-three cities in Mas-' s.ichusetts. There are SS.SOG milo? of telephone wire i in tho United Stnt'.'S. Making bricks of cork constitutes one of | tho new German industries. Boston- is looking forward to a population i of 1,000,000 in the year l'.'OO. Di king hist year thoro wero 2S9 murders in Ohio and 178 in Kentucky. There are said to he ?.*i,000 men and women out of employment in New York city. Six American ladies are on tho list for the next presentation at the English court. So far Iowa has moro visitors to the New | Orleans exposition than any other Northern State. It is said $.100 to $1100 per aero is an ordinary profit in Bermuda from an aero of onions. The skate factories in Richmond, Intl., have increased to nineteen, with a capacity I of :{,000 pairs a day. A woman in the city of Mexico gave birth I to seven children in <>ue day. The babies died, ! but tho mother survives. Oveh 20,000 Germans are employed in London, monopolizing almost entirely tho barber, tailor and waiter trade. Boston has an apple mission, which disj tributes from 4,000 to 5,(h)0 bushels of apples among the poor every year. England sent to tho United States $2,0S4,7S0 worih of cutlery and hardware in l&N'l ami $1,(S11,2*JJ worth last year. Nova Scotia is not often spoken of as a gold producing land, yet since lMiO its mines havo produced ?{$,000,000 worth ol' bullion. Every penitentiary hi Texas is provided with a kennel of three or more bloodhounds i for the purpose of hunting escaped convicts. On several transatlantic ships telephones | are now used between tho bridge and tlio wliecl-huu.se, instead o? sj>caking-iuucs, as heretofore. There are employed upon all of the German railways :i(M,7ol persons, who received pay in the aggregate last year to the amount of S7D,ifjo. Ax old negro, seventy years of age, has just been sentenced to one year in the jHJiiitenliary in Xcwtoii county, Miss., for marrying a whito woman. A new electric automatic compass has been invented, the needle of which, by opening and closing a circuit, will ktop a ship on her course without the aid of a "man at th6 wheel." WASHINGTON MONUMENT. Tlic Dedicatory Ceremonies at the Rational Capital* : ^ TO /'A t # j|0 jF y urn ipi| comparing the monument. 1. The Washington Monument, 555 feet 2. Cologne Cathedral, 501 feet S. The Great Pyramid of Cheops, 486 feet. 4. St Peter's, Rome, 405 feet 5. St Paul's, London, 3ti5 feet > 0. St. Murk's, Venice, 323 feet. 7. The Capitol, Washington, 307 feet 8. Brooklyn Bridge Tower, 287 feet 9. Trinity Church , New \ ork, 284 feet the dedicatory ceremonies. After an interval of thirty-seven years since the foundations were first ISid, the tallest monument or structure of any sort in the world has been formally dedicated, to the memory of George Washington in the capital city which bears his name. The ceremonies both at the monument ground.* and at the Capitol were of the most imposing and impressive character. The weather was intensely cold, the thermometer at 11 a. m. ranging fourteen degrees above zero, but the day was clear and bright, and the event proved a memorable one in the list of Washington pageants. The near approach of the inauguration ceremonies swelled the crowd of visitors, and at an early hour the streets presented an unusually animated appearance with the numerous military and civil organizations and the | crowds of spectators marching toward and converging near the base of the grand shaft, I r.r?r TVia miMnnr raramnnira Hactati at the foot of the monument at precisely the hour appointed, 11 o'clock. The grand stand was filled with distinguished invited guests? President Arthur, his cabinet, visiting governors of fcitaU's, Senators and Representatives, the members of the Monument commission, Colonel Cusoy, engineer in charge, the diplomatic corps, and others participating in the presentation. Senator John Sherman, chairman of the joint congressional committee, presided and opened the exercises with a brief address, reviewing the history of the monument and paying an eloquent tribute to Washington. Prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Suter, of Alexandria, Va. An address by the venerable W. W. Corcoran, president of Jhe Monument association, who was present, but unequal to the task of speaking, was then read. Tho MaSonic ceremonies by the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia were brief. Tho proper functionaries declared that the Suare, the level and the plumb had been apied to tho obelisk, and that its corners were found to be square, its courses level, its walls skillfully erected according to plan. Grand Master Myron M. Parker scattered corn and poured out wine and oil?emblems of nourishment, refreshment and joy?and in the course of the ceremonies brought into use certain Masonic relics with which General Washington was intimately connected. Colouel Thomas L. Cnsey of the United States engineers reviewed tho work done under his supervision, and then, turning to President Arthur, said: "Mr. President, for, and iu behalf of the joint commission for tho completion of the Washington monu merit, I deliver to you this column." The President's address finished the ceromonics at the monument. Then the military wheeled into line, the civic bodies and distinguished participants in the proceedings of the day sought their carriages, and the procession, under the marshalship of General Sheridan, took up the line of march to the capitol. President Arthur reviewed the procession and then, accompanied by his cabinet, the diplomatic corps, the Monument association, the supreme court justices and LieutenantGenural Sheridan and stuff, walked to the Houso of Representatives. The large audience in the hnll arose as they entered and gave thorn a round of applause. Senator Edmunds occupied the Speaker's desk and conducted tho exercises. Prayer was offered by the Rev. S. A. Wall is of Pohick church near Mount Vernon. Then Senator Edmunds expressed his regrets that tho Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, who as speaker of tho Houso delivered tho oration when the corner stone of the monument was laid in 1848, and who was to have delivered tho dedicatory oration, was absent, on account of sickness, and introduced ex-Governor Long, of Massachusetts. Governor Long then read Mr. Winthrop's oration. The address gives with great detail the history of the movement from its inception to its completion, and comEliments the individuals and associations who ave been connected with the work. Then, after describing tho monument, Mr. Winthrop narrates vividly many of the deeds of Washington, and gives an analysis of his character as a soldier and a statesman. After ex-Governor Long had finished reading, Senator Edmonds introduced John W. Daniel of Virginia. Mr. Daniel gave a graphic sketch of Washington's life and worlc / The benediction was pronounced by the chaplain of the House, and tho ceremonies were ended. In the evening there was a grand display of f oworks in the monument grounda An immense crowd was attracted by the sight, aiul it seemed as though the entire populaion ?hv hod turned out to do honor to the occasion. The grounds nnd streets leading thereto were thronged with people, nnd the roadway around the monument was packed with carriages. The President and a number of invited guests, including several cabinet officers, viewed the sceno from the windows of the White House. TJ&AIN DISASTERS. Six Railroad Acridcntn in Ono Day? liOM of Lifo< At 3 a. jl a passeugor train, drawn by thre j engines, bound west, ou the West Shore railroad, ran into a freight train at Canajoharie, N. Y. The three locomotives wer# dej molished, and Engineer Andrew Shiner and i Fireman G rover Penny were instantly killed. I Other train hands were severely in| jured. Tho freight train bound east I stood on the main track aroun d a curve out of the villago, when tho passenger truin was seen coming at a spoed of thirty miles an hour and only a short distance away. I Tho whistles of both head engines blew I fiercely, but in an instant the crash camo. The pecuniary damage indicted by the smashup is estimated at J 1:25,000. A west-bound and an east-bound train collided at Toll Uate, W. Va., with such terrific ' elFect that the two trains were piled on each I other and many of tlio cars completely I wrecked. Engineer Lloyd L. Barron, Firej man John Maustreet, and Brakeman J. M. Mclntyre, of one train, were killed. J. J. Bartlett, fireman, aud Anthony Cannon, enI gineer of the other train, were fatally injured, j The loss to the railroad company is heavy. The accident was caused by disobeying orders. By an accident on the l>ake Erie and WestI era "railroad u-ar Arrowsmith, HI., several passenger cars of a train were ditched and a | number of passengers injured. Four cars of a stock train in Illinois were derailed by the breaking of a flange on one | of the wheels. About -00 head of .sheep and | eighty head of cattle were in the cars, and ' over half of them were killed. j An express train ran into a way train at [ Delhi, twelve miles from Cincinnati, and sevI eral of the passengers were hurt by jumping. ; At about the same hour another express , train ran over a broken rail thirteen miles ! north of Cincinnati, and two sleepers and a j passenger coach left tho track. Three pasI sengers wero seriously injured and a number } of others badly bruised. ? GENERAL STEWART, ! F'cath of Another Prominent I'nglivh Officer in ICgypt. A disj>ateli from Korti brings intelligence of tlio death of General Sir Herbert Stewart j w ho was wounded at the Zereba fight of Jnn! nary 1!'. This death, the dispatch adds, has . cast n profound g!oom over t ho whole army, j General Stewart was forty-two years of age. I He h:ul served with distinction in the Zulu j war ami in earlier operations in Egypt. In | iho present campaign (!enoral Stewart was j put in command of the expedition of 1,51X1 men l sent across the desert fiom Korti to Metem| noli by way of Gakdul Wells. His recent j battles at Abu-Klea and near Gubat on Jan| iwiry 17 r.n 1 l!i are fresh in the public memj ory. He was wounded early on the day of \ tlio second li^lit in a preliminary skirmish. I Oucen Victoria sent her pers mal congratula<i ins to G mi. Stewart his bravo victory and promoted him to be major-general. General Hols'-lev recently expressed the opinion that General Stewart was one of the bravest, oflicers he had ever known. It was expected until within a few days that he would recover from his wound. SAVED FROM .DISSECTION. ,| STBA3TOB ZXFZBX2VCE OF A HAXWS BX-SOLDIBB. He Hear* ihe Funeral Service Held Over His Apparently Dead Body ?Saved by a Wink. One of the many good deeds of Mrs. .<* Sarah Sampson of Bath, to whom Congress is asked to give a pwiion, was the ?*S| nursing back to life of a soldier boy, who ntiw is a prominent business man in " '|fs a Maine city, a man w<;ll known politically and socially throughout the State, and a '-fk favorite everywhere. This gentleman has had an experience through which few men have passed. He literally has attended his own funeral. He told mo the following remarkable story upon the condition that I would withhold his name: "When the war broke out," said he, "I was a puny boy of seventeen years, ,-iM one of the sickly kind not worth their feed. I lived in Waterville, and enlisted y'M with the famous Waterville college com- ;#|s| pany. I was so inferior a fellow physi- Vi cally that they set out not to take me, . M but 1 was bound to go, ana eleven omen . said they would go if I went and would stay at home if I did not go. So I went 2% to the front with the third Maine regi- ' meat of infantry, and November, 1801, {'$ found me in Camp Howard, Alexandria, ' $8 Va. The camp was named for General O. O. Howard, who commanded the regiment. "?? "You can judge of what kind of a *^jB| youngster I was from the fact that at the : first battle of Bull Run the first licuten- : ant of my company loaded my gun for 'Well, one day while we were in camp . Jjl at Alexandria we were ordered out to Fairfax court house on a short expedition and I took cold. I aggravated it by lying on the damp ground after m^ return, and the next thing I was stricken with diphtheria. Some of my chums. ' ' had me removed to the hospital tent and told the officers that I must have alt done for me that care and money could . "They were very good, to mc, but I ?*fj grew worse. A great sac formed on my throat. It grew so large that I could see :J&? it as I lay in my cot, and it protruded .. from under my' chin. I became speechless, and remained in a sort of stupor. I ^ could hear and was dimly cognizant of what was going on around me. My face at last swelled so that I could not use my eyes, and was practically blind. The surgeons, Dr. McCrure, of Bangor, and ; Dr. Hildreth, of Gardiner, told me I \ '-'M must die. I took a ring off my finger and told my comrades to send it home liS to my mother. I sent a dying message to her, and awaited death. I was recon- ;v3j ciled, and in my semi-unconscious state, *;|aS quite comfortable. I suffered no pain. -.All i:~Ka rranr nftH nn/1 T annlr dpenpr '"~2& JJ1J 11UIWG giun vv/?v. MM-. ?. ? ? j into the stupor. I heard them say I was . ^ dying. I had lingered along until it was new in January, 1862. Dr. McCrure took hold of my wrist one day, threw it down after trying to feel my pulse, and /vj I heard him say: 'The boy is dead; his -?|?SS pulse has stopped. Take him out.' ' -- fx "I could not make a sign or a noise, * but I had sense enough remaining to t-ix think of my jack-knife. I thought they would wrap me up in my blanket and bury me, and it popped into py head that I might dig my way out with my jack-knife, although how I was to do it, not beinc able to move a muscle, I can't tell you. "My friends gathered around me and I % heard their expressions of grief. The ' M time was set for my funeral. The com* .^$2 pany was drawn up and the chaplain, tho J Rev. Mr. Leonard, who preached in Bangor, before and after the war, prayed and made brief remarks. The ceremony was not enjoyed bv me, but ray mind was so .;|S much dulled that I did not fully realize the danger of my situation. "They took me into the dead-house and laid me down. Soon the doctors came around and took out their knives. 9j I knew what that meant. They were . going to dissect me before I was buried '^3 in order to find out something aboutthat enormous sac on my throat. 1 had to silently face the prospect of being carved alive. "'Doctor, I guess you had better v|8 upuraic, vaiu uui^wu uuuiwm w mm. geon McCmre. "Dr. McCrure bent over me, lancet in ^ hand. I made a desperate effort to move, to speak, to let them know by j some sign that I was yet alive, but all my horror and despair could not even ' make a nerve twitch. Dr. McCrure thrust his lancet into the sac at my throat. A stream of foul matter rushed out. The skin on my face relaxed, and as he bent over me he saw my eyes open ^ and saw me wink. The thought that I was alive thrilled me to the marrow. I saw his face grow pale and heard him confer with the other doctor. They carried me back to the hospital tent. I met %; Dr. McCrure many times afterwards, and he told me that he never in his life received such a start as he diU when my eyes opened that time. "Mrs. Sampson was the wife of the lieutentant-colonel of our regiment. She J 3 toon a kind interest in me, and her "A nursing saved my life. She watched over me and fussed with me like -? mother. I was only one of her charges! The other invalids, as well as I, received ji her attention, and I tell you she seemed like an angel to all of us. " I was a long time rallying. Weeks passed before I could speak. They took me out on the field to see a brigade drill one day. The movements excited me so that I felt something give way in my throat, and I yelled. It startled those about me. It seemed like a voice from the tombs, they said. I could make only one sound, and I kept that agoing till it made the others in'the hospital almost crary?I was so tickled to think I could speak, you see. I had to begin anew ;|S and learn to talk over again. I was weak for a year, but made a complete re- > . ;* covery. It did me good. I have been more robust and healthy every way. I have not -had any kind of a humor since. I have outlived nearly all the /Ja boys who were my chums and took such good carc of me. Major Small, of Oakland. and Mrs. Sampson are about the 33 only survivors of the participants in the scenes I have tried to describe to you. Dr. McCrure, Dr. Hildreth and the lfev. Mr. Leonard are dead. Every time Mr. Leonard saw me between the close of the war and his death the tears came to his eves and he spoke of having preached my funeral sermon. Mrs. Sampson wrote mn o loHorinst after I was married, and told me to tell my wife that she wouldn't have had me but for her, I guess that's so."?Lyticuton (Me.) 1'itnes. Douglas's Lincoln Story. Senator Douglas, who served in the Black Hawk war with President Lincoln, used to tell a good story about " Old , Abe's military exploits, lie enlisted in ' a cavalry company, which started off in fine spirits to engage in the deadly fray. * Arriving at a point 011 the prairie about two hundred miles from the Indian lines the party bivouacked lor the night, picketed their horses and slept on their arms. The method of picketing their horses was that in common use?ifastening a huge rope, some eighty feet in length, to a stake firmly planted, and then using smaller lines of considerable length, one end attached to the animal's necK, and the other to the main rope. During the night the sentinel imagined 4 he saw the Indians and immediately discharged his old fusee. The camp was aroused in an instant and each sprang to his saddle. '-Old Abe" shot out in the darkness on his charger, until the ropes "hove taut," when over he went, horse and himself, headlong. Thinking him self c night in an Indian ambush, lie gathered up, mounted, and putting spurs to his horse took the opposite shute, but soon brought up as before, horse and rider tumbling headlong. "Old Abe" got up, thinking lie was surrounded, and shouted: ' (Jent'emen Indians, I surrender without a word. I have not a word to offer. All I wunt is quarter." Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may overlook it altogether. So it is with your moral improvement. AVc wrestle fiercely with ? vicious ^habit which would have no hold upon us* if we .*9cended into a higher'moral atmosphere.