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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
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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"
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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*
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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.