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? --. . . . ... ..... . -r-^.^ _ ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNEII .BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1885. NO. 49. VOLUME XXIX fhe Song of The tJibbet. [As rccitod by Mr. Lawrence Burrctt in his n?w pl?y "The King's Pleasure."] Louis A l. was accustomed to hang criminals in groups in tho forest. There's a forest, on whoso branches Scrctching forth like withered anus, Clusters hang, of fruit, that blanches In tho sun?!<ut never warms. 'Noath the leaves aro ravens tenting, Kites aro hovering on tho wine: Round about?tho harvest scenting, In the orchard of tho King. Ye who lovo or pity cherish, Como not near those lirlcn bouahs litre must hearts in terror perish, Or to rebel thoughts arouse. "What's this sound tho wind is bringing? Do the fowl birds dare to sing? 'Tis tho crcek of corpses swinging In tho orchard ol tho King. KNVOI. l'rince! within that orchard bleaching, i IUCK as waits upon n mi hi^, Clusters hang, lo consHcncc prcnchinj, lu tlic orchard of the King. ?Alfred Thompson DARK DAYS HUGH CONWAY, Author cf " Called 3\ck." CIIAPTER XVI.?"W11EKE AKE TIIE SNOWS THAT FELL LAST YEAK?" I I Although, while engaged in tho labur of writing this story, 1 have many times regretted that I am nothing moro than a plain narrator of facts ; and incidents, not a master of fiction, j I think I have not yet feit the regret so ! strongly as at tlitr moment when 1 be- j *k.^?knnfAi. H'hn c.^miipp of I Kiu UU9 UUaptCi* Xiiu cvn.vv. J the life drama in which l'hilippa and I played parts so painful, so full of gripf, and even if brightened by a rav of joy, of joy fallacious and of uncertain tenure?these acts I have found little difficulty in describing; I had simply to throw my mind back to the pictures of the past and reproduce them in words. The task, whether well or ill done, was not a j hard one. But now, when in one moment and as if by magic, everything changed; when sorrow seemed to be simply swept out of our lives; when that poor abject wretch's confession of guilt, forced from him in some mysterious way, not only left our whole future bright and cloudless, but consigned to rest all the gho3ts of the past, whose shadowy forms had hitherto dogged ourstep3 and denied us the happiness rightly due to those who love as we loved; now it is that I feel | my short-comings acutely, and wish ! my pen was more powerful than it is. ! And yet a word will describe the i state of my own mind as, when the j last solemn words were spoken by the judge?spoken in a voice which . showed emotion and distress at being j compelled to condemn a fellow-crea-1 ture to death?I carried my fainting ; wife from the crowded, recking court, j The momentary sense of rapture j passed away; bewilderment sheer be- J wilderment, is tho word for what was ; left. I could not think. All my rea-; soning faculties had left me. In fact, 1 I believe that had Philippa not i swooned, and so needed my mechani- j callv given care, I myself should have ! fallen senseless on that threshold j which an hour before wo crossed, j thinking we were going to endless, misery. I remember this much. As I laid j Philippa on one of the hard wooden ; benches in the stone corridor I kept repeating to myself, "Innocent, my ; love is innocent; that man is guilty." I suppose this continual reiteration was an endeavor to impress the tremendous fact upon my brain, which for a time was incredulous, and refused to entertain it. I threw up my wife's veil and bathed her face with water, which was brought me by|a kindly policeman* Presently her eyes opened, and consciousness returned; she strove to speak. My presence of mind was fast returning. "Dearest," I whispered, "as you lovo me, not a word in this place. In a minute we will leave it." She was obedient; but I knew from 1 the wild look of joy in her eyes that , obedience tasked her to the utmost, i She was soon able to rise, and then I we walked from the court, pushed j our way through the crowd who wait- I ed in the streeet, busily discussing the ! sudden termination to the trial, threw I ourselves into a cab, and in another! moment were alternately weeping and j laughing in each.other's arms. It was, however, but for a moment. ' Tho inn to which we drove was close ! at hand. There we were shown into : a room, and were at last free to give the fullest vent to our pent-up feelings. It would ba absurd for me to attempt to reproduce our words, our disjointed exclamations. It would be sacrilege for me to describe the tears 1 we shed, the embraces, the loving ca- i resses we lavished on each other. 1 Think of U3 an hour, one short hour | ago! Think of us now! The curse laid | upon us by that awful night removed ' forever! Our secret kept, or secrecy, if j still advisable, no longer absolutely J needful. Philippa, in spite all I had J seen, in spite of all she had tohl me on I that night when lhal found her, a 1 wild distracted woman, in a storm I tho wildest that yearo have known, guiltless or her husoanct's aeatn: innocent, not only as she had in my eyes always been, but also, what was far more, innocent in her own eyes. Small wonder that for nearly an *~~ Hour we sat with our arms twined around each other, and used few , words which were more than raptur- ] ous exclamations of love and joy. There! I can not, will not describe ' the scene more fully. I will say no more, except this; when at at last we ] grew calmer, Philippa turned to me, and once more I saw terror gathering in her eyes. "liasil," she said, "it is true?it must be true?" '"True! of course it is." "That man, the prisoner, could not have pleaded guilty when he was innocent." "Why should he? It meant death to him, poor wretch." "But why did he confess?" "Who can tell? Remorse may have urged him to do so." Philippa rose, an l her next words wore spoken quickly and with excite-1 monf "No, I did not do it. The thought the dream haunted me, but 1 did not believe it until I heard those men talk of the way he died. hen it all came back to me, The mad storm, the dead man over whom I stood; even then | I don't think I actually believed it. It was when you told me how you found we, that I lost all hope." "Dearest, forgive me. I phould have believed in the impossibility of . UiQ act even in your delirium, even if I had seen it done. Philippa, say you forgive roe." She threw her arms around me. "Basil, my husband." she whispered, you have done much for me, do one tiling more; find out the whole truth ?find out why this man killed him, how he killed him; find out, satisfy me that his confession was a true one; then, Basil, such happiness as I have never even dreamed of will be mine!" "And mine!" I echoed. I promised to do :is she wished. Indeed the moment I had recovered my senses, 1 resolved to learn everything that could l?e learned. Once and for all I wold clear away every cloud of doubt, although that cloud might be no bigger than a man's hand. But Philippa must not stop in Tewnham. Her strange conduct during the trial, her fainting-fit after it, were bound to have attracted the attention of those present. No doubt she was looked upon as a friend of the prisoner, who wiis overpowed by the sudden and awful ending to the case. Still, she must not stay at-Tewnham. Wo went to London by an afternoon train. The next morning I again ran down to the place at which the trial was held. I ascertained the name of the convict's solicitor, and as soon as I found him at leisure requested the favor of an interview. I found him apparently a worthy, respectable man, but of a nature inclined to be choleric. I told him 1 called on him because I was much in ir? flOkja rvf tlin PAni'lVt. Wil lClC3l.ru ill inv. vuou vu luv wii ..v? ., .. liam Evans. Mr. Crisp, that was hi3 name, frowned and fidgeted about with some papers which were in Iront of him. "I would rather not talk about the case," he said sharply. "Nothing for many years has so much annoyed me." -Why? Your client only met with his deserts." "True?true. But I am a lawyer, sir. Our province Is not to think so much of deserts as of what we can do for a client. It is hard to try and b .'rve a fool." "No doubt; but I scarcely understand your meaning." "Meaning! I amid have saved that man. There was no evidence to speak of against him. "What did it amount i to? A pistol of a peculiar make found in a field half a mile away from the scene of the murder; one man who could swear that the pistol was my client's property?a pawnbroker, to whom he wanted to sell it. Festively sir, that was tho whole case for the Crown. Never so disgusted in my li fn npvfir!'1 The excitable little man's looks showed that his disgust was not assumed. So the pistol which I had thoughtlessly hurled away h:ul, aft< r all, furnished the clue and brought the criminal to justice. Although I was now quite satisfied that the right person was to suffer for the dark crime, Iresolved to get all the additional information I could. "Butwhy did he plead guilty?" 1 asked. Because he was a fool," rapped out Mr. Crisp. '-It was like committing suicide. I don't care a button for tha man himself; but I confess I was annoyed at seeing my case all knocked to pieces by his obstinacy. I went to him; if you wero in court, you no doubt saw me. I begged him to withdraw his plea. I told him I could save him. Yet the fool insisted." "Did penitenco or rem; rse urge him?" "I don't know. He cculd have had more time for penitence and remorse if he had let mo save him from the gallows. No; he says, 'Its no good? not a bit of good. You don't know all I know. There's some one in court who knows all about it?saw it all done. She's come to hang me.' I have no idea what ho meant." I started. 1 knew what trie man meant. lie, in common with every one else in that court, had turned and looked at Philippa as she rose from her seat and addressed the judge. It was the sight of Philippa that had taken away the wretch's last hope of cscape. "I wash my hands of the fellow, of course," continued Mr. Crisp; "but I 4-lilft fa innniro if' onir UIU liltlU LUC 11UUU1C M'J lUljUllu il Hil l witnesses for the prosecution had been allowed to enter the court. I am assured they were all kept in waiting outside." I sat for some moments in deep thought. The solicitor looked at me, as if ho fancied I had already taken up as much of his valuable time as he could spare. "Is there any way of gaining access to the condemned man?" I said. "Could you. for instance, get an order to see him?" "No doubt I could; but I have no object in seeing him." "1 will give you an object," I said. I want you to see that man, and, if possible, get a written, or at least dictated, confession from him? not of the bald fact that he is guilty, but of all j particulars connected with the murder." Mr. Crisp looked surprised, and expressed his opinion that it w-as all but impossible to obtain what 1 wanted. I had taken rather a fancy to the brisk-spoken, sharp little man. lie seemed to mo trustworthy; su that, after consideration, 1 determined to confide to hitn my reason lor making this request. Und ?rthe assurance of professional secrecy, I told him briefly so much as I thought lit of Philippa's and my own connection with the events of that night. He listened with an interest which augured well for the reception which awaits the somber tale I now give to the world. Ilis curiosity seemed excited, and Ik promised to st-e the convict and, if pos sible, learn all I wanted to know. 1 l?ffc iiiv address, and bade him cood day. I did not care to linger at Tewnham; so I walked down to the railway station intending to return to town h\ the next train. As I waited on tin platform a down-train came in. A sudden impulse seized me. The da\ was still young. I had time to span I crossed the bridge, entered the train, and In a nuarter of an hour wns :ti ttoding. 1 went there because 1 was impelled by a desire to once more visit the actual scene of the beginning of all these troubles. I walked that road which Sir Mervyn Ferrand had walked that dark aight. But oil, bow changed everything was! Yet not more changed than our own lives. It was a^glorious afternoon in September. The rain of the preceding day bad left the earth moist and fresh. The fields, on either side of the road, were gleaming with that bright pure emerald which they wear after the ruthless scythe has swept away the ripe grass and the marguerites and other (lowers which grow among it; or else thsy were filled from hedge to hedge with a golden sea of waving corn, or sheaves waiting to be garnered; for the harvest that year was not early. The wild roses were \ong over, but fragant honeysuckle I ami other wild flowers still made gay the hedgerows and banks. The birds had awakened from their August silence, and were singing once more. The great sleepy cows lav under the shade of the trees. The largo mows of new bay stood side by side with their dingy-looking, b'lt more valuable, elder brothers. The whole land seemed wrapped in a happy autumnal i repose. The scene was calm, peaceful, [ and thoroughly typical of England, j So beautiful it was, so full 1 now felt ; of love for my native land, that bad l these nacres been then written. I shoiiM upon my return homo, have erased ali my glowing description of Seville. A breath of soft but fresh air came blowing from the far-away downs. 1 drew in a deep draught; *1 I threw bac'\ my shoulders and stood erect. I laughed aloud in my great \ happiness as a comical picture, familiar to mv childhood, of Christian loos1 ing his bur?len, rose before my mind, | andscemoil to be the exact thing wanj ted to illustrate my own case. Yes the burden I had borne had fallen j from my back forever! Ah! here is the spot?the very spot | where Sir Mcrvyn fell. It was then1, i just under that cluster of ragged-rob ins, I must havo placed his corpse, little thinking that the kind white i snow would hide it, and save my love and me. Oh, how I prayed in those j days that the bitter weather might j last; that its iron grip would hold the : world fast until l'hilippa's health and j strength returned! it did so and I saved us! < . :-V yctigad .'? j , ?' ii % : * 'Si 4 "Where are the snows that fell lasl I year?" Ah! should I not rather sing, i "Where is the grief of yesterday?"' | Gone like the snow. Other snowmaj i fall, other grief may come, but last ' year's snow and yesterday's grief are gone forever! Nevertheless that spot was to suggestive of horrible reminiscenses for me to linger long over it. I turned away, and in my great happiness could whisper to myself that I forgave | the dead man for the ill he hail [ wrought. May his bones rest in peace! I walked along the road, right on unI til I came to the cottage in which, like I a coward who could not face his troub! les, I had spent those aimless, miserable months. It was untenanted. Half defaced auction bills were in the windows and on the doorposts fur sonic ! months ago the furniture had been [ sold. I paused and looked at the win| dow by which I'hilippa had entered, | and felt that since that night I had I passed through more grief, passion, j fear, hope and joy than would lill an ! ordinary life time. Then I turned and I shook the dust of my feet. Never ! again would I come within twenty i miles of this place. I hurried on back to rhilippa and happiness. CHAPTER XVII.?CLEAR SKIES. Although England was now tome and to my wife a land very different from the one we quitted somo eight months ago, we were anxious to get j back to Seville, if only to set at rest i my mother's fears. She, poor woman, j as a letter showed, was much exerj cised as to what manner of business I could have in ado us leave her in so unceremonious a way. The moment the glad truth had become known to me, 1 had telegraphed, saying that all was well with us, and that we should soon join her. Two things only detained us. The first was that wo wanted the convict's confession. Although Philippa said little on the subject, I knew that until it arrived she would not be quite happy. There was with her a haunting dread that the man, in the hopes ot: mitigating his sentence, had pleaded guilty to a crime of which ho was innocent. Even the aceurato account which I gave her of my interview with the solicitor did not quite satisfy her. So we waited impatiently for the full explanation, which might or might not come. The second thing which kept us in London was this. I determined that b.-fore 1 left I would have the fact that when I married Philippa I married LadyFerrand fully acknowledged. I found my way to the gentlemen who were winding up the dead man'salTairs and stated my case to their incredulous ears. At first they treated me as an impostor. But not for long. Indeed, my task was half done. They had already, without any asistance from Mrs. Wilson, ferreted out the date and particulars of the death of tho first Lady Ferrand. They had but to insure themselves that the marriage-certificate which I laid before them was no forgery, and surrender at discretion. It was a poor estate, tho administrators told ma Sir Mervyn had died intestate. He had during his life-time made away with nearly all he could aienate. Still, there was some personal property, of which my wife could claim a share, and a certain amount of real pruperty, on which she was entitled to dower. But it was a very poor estate. I cut them very short I told them that, let tho deceased's wealth be great or little, not one penny-piece of it should soil my wifo's fingers. If Sir Mervyn Ferrand's heir was in want of tho money, it should, provided he was a different stamp of man from his immediate predecessor, be given to him a fno gift. If not, some hospital should be benefited by it. All I wanted was, that it should bo clearly understood that Sir Mervyn Forrand left a widow. The administrators, one of whom was, by-the-by, the heir, evidently l?>:>ked upon ms as a most eccentric personage. Perhaps it was for this reason, or?as I do not wish to cast unmerited blame?perhaps it was because the estate wound up to nothing ?well, anyway, even to this day wo have received no communication, much less remittance, from the administrators; nur, to tell the truth, have I troubled them again. Philippa's marraige admitted, 1 washed my hand of all the Farraad brood. The confession did not arrive; but I persuaded Philippa to leave England. Mr. Crisp could send whatever he had to send to Seville just as well as to London. .So once more, and this time ill all but perfect happiness, we I took that long journey which was by j now quite familiar to us. The joy, the wild joy, with which i Philippa threw herself into ray mother's arms checked all the upbriiidings and reproach which were apparently merited. Our return was like the return of a prodigal son and daughter. Laughter, tears, and happinessl Although I told my niolher nothing as to the object of our mysterious journey; although she asked me nothing; although no word evidencing I her knowledge of what had passed has ever crossed her lips, I know that all has been revealed to her; that Philippa ! has sobbed out the whole strange tale on her breast. I know it by this, that since the day of our return my mother's deeo love for mv wife has shown itself even tenderer, sweeter, and deeper. Yes, I was spared the telling of the tale. My mother's eyes the next day showed me that Philippa had given her the history, as I have civen it here, from bejjininft to end. No, not quite tho end. Sit by me once more, as I asked you at the lieginning of my story to sit by me; but this time, not by the sido of a smouldering lire, but out in the fair, gay patio of our Andalusian home. Philippa and I are aide by side. The post has j just come in, and brought me a bulky j packet, on which, in a clerkly hand, is written my name and address. I tear the wrapper open with eagerness. I know what it contains ^Philippa knows. I wish to read it first alone, but tho appealing look in her eyes turns me from my purpose. After ail, there is nothing to fear, there can be nothing which she should not know. So, with our cheeks all but touching, we read ! together. Sit by us, lean over my shoul{ der, and read with us. "The confession of William Evans, now lying in Tewnham gaol under I sentence of death : j "On the fifth of January, this year, I I returned from New Zealand. I worked my passage home. When J re ic.hed London 1 had hut a few shillings in my pocket. 1 ftiU no articles 01 vame which 1 could sell. All I owne l, ex: cept iny clothes anil tho littlo bit of 1 money, w;is a pistol which a man on j board the ship had given me. It was I a pistol of his own invention. lie had several with him, and said lie wanted i to get tho sort known. Why ho gave it : to me (iod know; but he did, and a . couple of cartridges. "I spent my money?all but a shil, ling or two. I tried to ?it work, but 1 none was to bo ha 1. Then 1 remembered that I onc>) ha I a friend who 1 lived n."ar Koding. I went there by train. 1 had just money enough to pay my fare. 1 found that the man 1 knew had left the place t wo years ago. 1 walked back to the town penniless and desperate. "The lirst thing 1 did was to go to the pawnbroker's, and try and sell the pistol. The man wouldn't buy it at any I price. Ho said his shop wai full of j pistols. I went away, and walked to the railway station to tpy and earn a few pence somehow. 1 was in despaii ?all but starving. if;; , . - A... ; "About seven o'clock the train from , London came in. A tall gentleman camo out of the door of the station I ' asked him if he had any luggage I ; could carry for him. lie told me to he ! off. Then I asked him, for pity's sake, to give me a shilling to buy some food. . lie cursed me, and I began to hate him. "He stood under the gas lamp, i and drew out a great gold watch ! and looked at the time. Then he asked a man near which road he must take to get to a village named Cherwell. The man told him. I saw him walk away, and I knew where he , was going. "I shall bo hanged next week; thero ' is no hope for me. J3ut I tell the urKnn T our fhof. follnw 'ia T ti Uliii u ugu i. uiy uunv) wuu i?.j jl. i have been, I had never committed such a crime as the one which at that . moment entered my head. That tall man had money, jewelry and good I clothing; I had nothing. I was starving. fcjo I ran on, got before him, went miles up the road, and sat down in the bitter cold on a heap of stones, waiting for him to coine, and making' up my mind to kill and rob him. 1 knew I must kill him, because ho was so much stronger and biggnr than I was. My pistul was loaded. "lie came. I saw him in the mocffllight. I stood up as he came near and, God forgive me, pulled the trigger, and shot him through the heart. He fell like a stone, and I knew I. was a murderer. "Oh, if I could I wou.d have undone the deed! I stood for a long t.imo before I dared to go to the body and steal tho things for which I had committed the crime. Then I nerved myself and went to take tho prico for which, unless God is merciful, I had sold mv soul. "I never took a . .i.thing. .lust as \ was about to begin I hc:irtl the sound of feet. I looked up, and saw a woman J or a spirit coming to mo. I dropped I the pistol in terror. 1 felt sure sh! J saw me, I looked at her under the i moon. Iler face was white, lier lips were moving, her hair was all llying about. She came straight to where the dead man lay, then stopped and wrung her hands. I fled away in deadly fear. I ran across several fiel'ls. I dared not stop. I thought that apirit or ghost was following me. "I ran on until tho snow began. I must havo died in that snow-storm If I had not found a half-roofed cowshed. I crept into this, and lay all the night and part of the next day. I was the most wretched being in the world. "Hunger at last drove me out. I got through the snow somehow, and reached a house, where the people saved me from dying of starvation. But nothing could make me go again to tho spot where I had done the murder. My life sinco then has been one of agony. Even now that I am going to be hanged I am happier than I have felt for months. May God forgive my crime! [the end.] a mftoieath. A Noted Swimmer's Leap from Brooklyn Bridge. Living Only a Few Moments After Striking the Water. Robert Emmot Odium, a Washington swimming teacher, has mot liis death by jumping from the Brooklyn bridge. When the bridge was in course of erection Odium i wanted to leap from the dizzy height,but was ! prevented by the authorities. Since then he ; had often expressed a desire to attempt the j feat, but wa3 threatened with arrest by the ! police in case lie mado tho trial. How he evaded tho police, made tho jump, and met with the fate of Sam Patch, who lost his life by leaping from a great height at Rochester j many yoars ago, is told by the New York papers as follows: It was 5:30 p. sr. Captain Boyton and his friends looked lip from tho tugboat and met the eyes of tho profossor, who stood on the | edge of the bridge abovo and smiled as calmi ly as though 140 feet jumps wore trifling matj tors. Then ho softly stroked his hair, which was combed over his forehead toward the right, braced his legs close together, planted his left arm down along his side as though responding to an order on parade. For a moment he steadied himself, stretched his right hand to its utmost limit aliovo his head, took a deep and prolonged breath and sprang into the air. At tho moment ho jumped a cry broke from tho great c?owds on tho bridge and thoso aboard vessels in the river. Captain Boyton, on tho tugboat, was about tho only j man in tho thousands who remained calm. | Ho surveyed tho descent of his reckless friend I with tho cool precision of a professional man. i For tho first hundred feet Odium still lioHl | to his original attitude and shot straight away like an arrow; then ho was turned partly on his right side by an irresistiblo forco which he struggled vainly to oppose. He whirled his right arm through tho air seeking a support of some kind, but he could do nothing. "Oh," ho said, in a low tone, just as no was about striking tho water. Then he struck with a terrific crash, partly on his right side. His plaintive cry was drowned in tho largo surge of tho waters and the tremendous noise which arose from tho multitudes on tho I bridge overhead. "When he reappeared on tho surfaco he still continued to throw his right hand around as though imploring aid. A lifo preserver was flung from tho tugboat, followed by Captain Boyton, who pitched himself headlong into tho river, clothes and all, and swam vigorously for tho ! unfortuuate professor, who was about fifty yards away. He took him under his left anil I and made for one of tho small boats, in j which ho safely secured his charge. They I were both soon transferred to the tug, whicn hurried back back to her starting point at Old Slip, where all on board went ashore. The distance to the water, counting the fivo feet or so of bridge railing, is 140 feet, and from tho time Odium jumped until ho struck tho water tlireo and a quarter seconds passed, j three-quarters of a second more than Odium himself had calculated upon. Ho only sank | about five feet before he returned to the surI face. On the tug boat ho was rolled | in blankets, and it was then noticed ' that the great forco of the fall had ! burst the tight-fitting trunks in several j places and nearly torn tho little red jacket to I shreds. He was conscious for a while,* but Captaiu Boytou noticed tho fatal symptoms 1 of blood and spittle oozing between his lips. I ? liifia tn flio mmli. ! cation of restoratives; and during this revival lie looked around quietly, and liis eyes once j again meeting those of Captain Boyton, ho asked in an extremely weak voice: t "Well, what kind of a jump did I make?'' "Splendid," said Boyton. j "Am I hurt much I" i "Not at all, Bob, old man," said Boyton. "Keep up your courago. You'll bo all right | in a little." I "I know I'll be all right," he said, in a stilt | feebler voice. | It was (!:1!> when the tugboat Charles Itun! yon moored at her landing place, and then it j whs found that Odium was dead. I The crowd from the tug boat went ashore ' with solemn faces, and Captain Boyton's ! pleasant smile gave way to gloom. The body was taken on a stretcher to the First Precinct station, and the names of Captain Boyton and some others of tho party were taken J down by the sergeant j Professor Odium was born in Washington, and his mother and sister now live there. Ho I was thirty-seven years old nnd gained | considerable notoriety as a long distance : swimmer several years ago. In 1878 ho started a natatorium in Washington which wis successful for several years. Ho has several times jumped from great heights into the water. In 1880 at the Ilnnlan-Courtnoj' race he jumped from the Aqueduct image into tne rotomac, nn(i later irom wo top of tho smokestack of the Lady of the Lake, a distance of more than 100 feet. Of recent "years he has been employed as swimming instructor at tho Hygeia hotel at Fortress Monroe, and last fall ho saved from drowning at that place a son of Schuyler Colfax. His last employment was at V< illard's hotel, Washington, which he pave up to go to New York to make this jump. Odium's mother and sister did all tlioy could to prevont his making tho jump, and sent telegrams to the chiefs of police of Brooklyn and Now York asking them to interfere. At their solicitation Major Dye, chief of police of Washington, tolrgrapliod i the chiefs at New York and Brooklyn to tho tame effect. Minnie Hauk has been singing with great ' success at tholmperal Opera-house, Berlin, in ''Carmen," "Mignon," "l'h'o Daughter of tho Regiment' and "Faust*" The emperor has 1 conferred upon her the honorary title of j '"linperal Chamber Singer," a distinction i | shared by only three othor foreign prima . donnas, Adelina l'atti, Mme. Jenny Liud Uoldschmidt and Artot-Padiiio. Oampani.ni will sing no more. Ho will now a-isuni) tlu management of an Italian | company, an 1 with tho Corti brothers run an ^ j Italian opera combi iod with tho ballet "Ipx colsior" as performed in Milan, in opposition to Mapleson in London tho prosent season. -V i. ' NEWS SUMMARY Fflnicrn nnd Mldtllo States. H. M. Mu.vsell, ono of the jurymen who acquitted Short of trying to kill Captain l'helan in O'Donovau Kossa's iiowspa[>er offico, New York, was sentenced to thirty days' ! imprisonment and to pay a fine of $250 for misdemeanor and contempt of court. During the trial Mimsell visited the scone of assault. For the first time in many weeks. General Grant, 011 the lath, took a ride in a Now York | stroet car, riding to Eighty-sixth street and j back to Sixty-sixth, the street 011 which he i Charles H. Rugo, the colored murderer I of Mrs. nnd Miss Maybee, was hanged in the i Queens county (Long Island) jail, walking to 1 tho gallows steadily aud showing no signs of i fear. I Pursuant to Governor Hill's call, tho Now j York legislature, immediately after adjournI ment, met in extra session to consider only j tho question of taking the State census, j An epidemic of suicide has broken out in i tho vicinity of llornellsvillo, N. Y., eleven | cases of self-murder having occurrcd in ouo i week. ! The second six-day roller-skating race in ! the Madison Square Garden, New York, ntI tracted little attention, and was a financial failure. Snowden, tho winner, covered 1,106 | miles, beating the score of Donovan, the dead winner of tho first race, by seventy-five I miles. W. Royst was second with 1,148 milos, ' and Maddox third with 1,106 miles. Crowley, tho New York police-sergeant found guilty of assaulting a young girl at a ball was sentenced to seventeen years and six months' imprisonment. Mayor Grace made a spcoch of welcome j to tho brewers of the United States at their i annual convention, held this year in New , York. 1 A New York policeman stoppod Louis Francois, a French workman, as ho was j going toward tho North river at 2 a. m., with j a sack upon his back, and asked him what it | contained. Francois replied that it was his wife; tlmt she had died suddenly, nnfl Hint, lm wns nbnnt, to throw her i body overboard to save funeral expenses. Tho Frenchman and his ghastly burden wore taken to tho station-house. Tho coroner | stated that tho woman had probably been strangled to death. Francois neighbors say that ho was very quarrelsome and often tnalI treated his wife, who had frequently said he J would yet kill her. John Blajsdei.l, absconding bookkeeper I of tho Westamon mills, Fall River, Mass., is I charged with being a defaulter for $4-1,000. i George W. Gkii.es,a painter employed on tho Philadelphia City liall, was killed tho j other day by falling from a dome. He is the : fourteenth man killed in tho building. Frederick T. Frelingiiuysen*, ex-secro! tary of state, diod after a prolonged illness I at his homo in Newark, N. J. Mr. FrelingI huysen was born at Millstone, N. J., in I 1817; graduated from Rutgers college in I 1836; was admitted to the bar three years later; was appointed New I jersey's attorney-general in 1801 and reapI pointed in I860; soon after was appointed I United States Senator and served until 1877, I and in 1881 President Arthur appointed him secretary of state as successor to Mr. Blaine, which position ho held until the -1th of last I March. A wife and six children survive him, Sonth and Wcit, The Illinois legislature now stands on joint j ballot: Republicans, 103; Democrats, 101. Tiie house of a Norwegian farmer named Henry L?wiston, living near uwatonua, Minn., was burned, and fivo of his seven children perished in the flamos. Six persons?three men, a woman and her ; two children?wore drowned by a sudden rise | in Card creok, Kansas. Many cattle have been lost and much damage to property has resulted from floods in Southern Kansas. A cyclone in Osborne and Rooks counties, Kansas, dealt death and destruction throughout its entire course. Among the killed are Rev. Mr. Grimes, wife and child. About fifty iwrsons were reported injured, some fatally. Forest fires have done great damage in various portions of Michigan, destroying numerous houses and an immense amount of standing and cut timber. In Clare county 1,000,000 feet of logs were consumed. At I Oscoda a firo broke out on tlio lumber docks, I and before the flames could be checked 5,0;J0,000 feet of lumber were burned. Many vil[ lages in Michigan were surrounded for hours by fire. J. B. Russell, a resident of Cuthbert.Ga., in a fit of despondency shot his two young ! sons to death; then fired a revolver at him j self, inflicting a probably fatal wound. , The man who recently robbod an express I train near Bloomington, Ind., has boen enp' tured and confessed his crime. Ho is Chesloy Chambers, a farm hand, and hitherto a man I of excellent character. Davis, the express i messenger assaulted in the car by Chambers, cannot recover. Weber, tho wounded baggageman, will get over his injuries. Tho roooery aim ussuuiu wtv> uirj ui wiu m\.ou I daring railroad crimes on record. ; T. A. jETEli.a prominent and popular citi| zen of Liberty, Va, was shot and killod by a i young man named Terry, who is said to have | been insane. A party of twenty men gained J possession of the jail by force, took out Terry and hanged him. The seventeen-year locusts have mado 1 their appcaranco "in the vicinity of Bridgej port, 111., wliero they have been found in i largo numbers. A desperate fight, growing out of nn old j feud, took place between three brother* of I tho West family and three of the Longford j fnmilj', in front of a chur. li near Madison, j Flo., while Sunday-school was in progress. i istols ami knives were drawn, .ind two men j were fatally and three wrior.sly injured. , Yice-Pkksiije.nt ilkxur.i 'ks proposes to go West, so'>n, and III" other day mad-! a farewell vi-it o;i the President, to* say go<xl-byo j t istil fall. V'ltu.l.viA's commissioner of agriculture e.'tiniutes that the State's wheat crop will I not exieed 001,0>0 bushels this year against I *.,ii bushels in ISSl. He finds the condition of wheat and oats wretched. I At the first National Commereia! conven| tion. held in Atlanta, (Ja., :!00 delegates ro j presenting the business interests of twentynine States were pie sent. A permanent organization was effected,and it was stated that | this was tho most important and larg-stcommoivi il ronv?!iition ever held in America. A Coxfedkkate soldier's home was opened a few days sineo near Richmond, Va. Two men were instantly killed nnd another < was badly injnml by the explosion of a gasometer at the Kt. Louis gas works. TVnililn;;(oni Dt'RIxr. April thero arrived in the princii pal customs districts of the United States immigrants. A census of Washington and G eorgetown, gathered by the police force, shows a populaj tion of 204,000, an increase of 21,000 over the | 1-SS0 census. j The money appropriatorl for the ngricul* | tural department has given out. The President has appointed Fr ank H I Pierce, of New Hampshire, to bo United States consul at Matanzas; to be collectors of customs?J. L. F. Cottrell, for tho district of St. Marks, FJa., and John J. McGuiro, for I the district of Pensacola, Fla.: to bo collector I of internal revenuo?John T. Hillsman for the fifth district of Tennesson. ! I.\ tho court of commissioners of Alabama j claims judgment has been announced, with interest at four per cent, from February 7, 1*1)4, in favor (if Jenas Strauss and Levi Strauss, surviving partners of the firm of J. Strauss lirother & Co., for $ *>( ,being tho largest award for months past. F. A. SwiTZLER, of St. Louis, has boen i appointed chief of tho bureau of statistics of the treasury department, vice Joseph Nimino, Jr., who resigned by request. Foreign. ! Mr. Lowell, tho retiring American min! ister to England, just before his retirement I dined by siiecial invitation with Queen \"icI toriaat indsor Castle. His successor was j received with many courtesies by the KngI lish authorities upon his arrival at Soulh ampton. Mr. Lowell. afterward presented I Mr. l'helj* to Lord Granville, tho foreign affairs secretary, and to tho queen. The revised Old Testament meets with i considerable sharp criticism, as well as with ' much praise in England. Tho first orders for the new work amounted to a million copir??. A r.REAT battle is exported to bo fought soon at Khartoum between 121 Mnhdiand the I rival false prophet The latter has collected an inunen.se force of followers and they are advancing to attack the Madhi. Hundreds of officers and soldiers from the remnant of Lord Wolsjley's Nile expedition are arriving at Cairo. The czar has presented General KomaroflT, ; the Russian commander at Penjdeh, with a ! valuablo "sword of honor," and warmly commends him for his mi Hi try services on the Afghan border. ! Rjiitish workingmen are concentrating everywhere upon labor candidates for the coining election for members of parliament, and they are showing unexp.'cte 1 political J strength. Qikkn' VirroniA is looking out for her . II..: LI.,,r !>?? prospective son-in-inw, i rint-c m-iuj <>. ,.mtenlierg, who is to innrry her ynungot daughter. Princess Beatrice. Tiio <|ueen 1ms conferred tlio Order of tho (>'arter upou ' Prince Henry, nml has intimated to Premier Gladstonotlmt u !at government otllce with j littiu or no work attnehed would lie aeceptai lilo to tho prince. , SriciOES are common events at Monaco, the great Euro|to:;n gambling jilace. Fiftyfour cases of .self-murder have o.currod this season, tho last one being that of a willow 1 who killed her only child, a beautiful girl of I fourteen, and then blew out her own urn ins j with u pistol. She lost $10,000 in one tiny. Mexican' troops havo hail a bloody bnttlo with tho Yaquis Indians, near Misa Mcxio. The Indians hud ?0U and the Mexicans about j eighty killed. Burton and Cunningham the two men I tried in London on t ho charge of having been the authors of the recent dynamite explosions ; in public buildings, wore found guilty and sentenced to )H!tial servitude for life. Both , men were alleged to havo come (rTh; AmeriI ca. While sentence was pronounc Jilgktie lord j mayor and Mr. Phelps, our new minister to I England, were present. ^ i f . A fire has destroyed (he village of Somerset, Canada. About 10U hous>s wero burnod and many people rendered homeless. Russia lias made new demands in her negotiation* with England, insisting that Zullikar and Maruchak, in Afghanistan, bo considered as in Russian territory. The ameer of Afghanistan has hitherto considered the possession of theso place.5 of "vital importance in maintaining the integrity of his doniiu- J ions. The looses of the rebel half-breeds nn 1 their Indian allies during the series of fights with General Middlcton's troops just previous to Riel's surrender reached about 10J in killed and many wounded. A large number of Riel's lialf-brecd followers have surrendered. C'oloner, Ottku ma le an attack on Chief Poundniaker, 1!iol's Indian ally, and, after a severe battle, capture 1 him and tojk 12'J prisoners. Tho battlo was fought in Eaglo Hills, Manitoba, and UU.U' miua tno iussuuio against orders. Twenty one Canadians and ninciteen Englishmen were killed. No trace of tho teamsters tak*-n by Pouudniaker a week previous wn3 found, and it was supposed that they had b .-en massacred. Lord Duftekin is reported to have written to tho British government, giving an alarming nccountof the effect produced upon tho native Indian subjects by the yielding of tho English ministry to Russia's demands in regard to the Afghan frontier. English and native papers of India deploro England's surrender to Russia. A St. Petersburg paper asserts: "The Russian minister at Washington has asked tho Russian government wlint reply to givo to tho numerous olTors of American Irishmen to serve under tho Russian colore in tho event of war with England, as ollicers, doctors, spies, torpedo divers and commanders of cruisers. .Several Irishmen havo offered to furnish privateers and torpedo boats at their own expense. Am u'ican ship owners have declared their readiness to man a small war fleet and volunteer for Russian service." President Zamhvar, of Ran Salvador has resigned and left tho country. General v: 1? fill? l,:? nlnnn Tl.la r>nf. r?f nn nj^iiuiua iiii.i mo 4 ? unsuccessful effort osi tins part of Zaldivar t > oflTect a Central American union similar to that projected by the lato President Barrios, Advices from Panama stato that the rebel Gytan, with ~,00'l followers, made an assault on the '.vails of Carthagena, a seaport of Colombia. After a severe battle tho insurgents were ropulsed with a loss of 800 men; and the rebels finally withdrew in their flotilla to Barranquilla. Eckert, tho American who commanded the flotilla in the assault cn the city, was killed. One wing of tho attacking land forces was led by Prcstan, tho reb^l who arrestod Americans at Aspinwall and subsequently burned tho city. General Santo Domingo Vila, tho lawful president of tho state of Panama, with 4,000 armed men has arrived at CarMiagena. The British admiralty havo decided to have the combined naval reserve squadron, including fourteen first-class men of-war, proceed to Bantry bay, Ireland, to engage in a naval demonstration of extraordinary magnitude. Torpedo experiments will take place on a gigantic scale, and the demonstration will concludowitli a sham naval battle of a magnitude beyond all alYairs of tho kind over heretofore undertaken. The czar of Russia will review the entire Russian fleet between Cronstadt and Sveaborg in June, when there will also be various manreuvrcs and coast attacks. Ai.phonsb de neuvii..le, a great Frencli painter of battle scenes, is doad m his fiftieth year. After five hours' sanguinary fighting at the town of Armenia, in Salvador, Central America, tho Salvadorian army routed tho revolutionist-! under Medendez, and captured a large quantity of arms and two cannons. Tiie Canadian authorities havo decided to try Kiel, the insurgent leader, by civil law. The French Canadians to a man declare that Riel must not be hanged LATER NEWS The Pennsylvania legislature has passed i congressional apportionment bill which re | districts tho State. Vt> a vi' ttntibftit nf Pittsbur<r. Penn. aged sixteen, shot and killed Lizzie Lipj>ech four years old, tried to kill the child's mothoi and then committed suicide. A hay famino oxists through the Moliawl valley, New York. Farmers have beo; obliged to turn out cows to grub tin eartl for lack of hay. Good hay sells readily a from $17 to $30 dollars per ton. Howard Cooper, tho negro convicted ii Baltimore of felonious assault on Miss Kati. Gray, of Baltimore county, was sentenced ti be hanged. The case of Mackin and Gallagher, th< Chicago politicians convicted of fraud at thi last national election, will go to tho Umtcc States supremo court. Marshal Henry Ai:er, of New Straits ville, Ohio, and an cloven-year-old boy wen shot and both fatally wounded by Alber Guest, who was arrested. A body of 20( naskod men broko into the prison, forcibly rcscned Guest and riddled his body wit! bullets. Secretary Manning has ordered tho dis missal of flvo clerks in tho office of the sixtl auditor of the treasury on the general chargt of inefficiency. Further appointments by tho i'resuient To 1)6 collectors of internal revenue?William C. Thompson, for the 2d district of Iowa: Byron W. Webster, for the 3d district oi Iowa. To be collector of customs?Roberl M. T. Hunter, for tho district of Rappahan nock, Va. To be surveyor of customs?Daniel 0. Barr, in the district of Pittsburg. Tc ; be attorney's of tho United States?Henry C. Mlon, for the west district of Virginia; Cy. renius P. Black, for the east district of Michigan. To bo marshal oi the United States?Albort C. Gibson, for tho district of Louisiana. To bo Post masters?D. V. O'Loary at Albany, N. Y. L. W. Caldwell at Warrenton, Va.; William I II. Ritenour at Harrisonburg, Va.: John A[ it. Varner at Lexington. Va.; George II. I Head at Leesburg, Va.; A. P. Bibb at Uni" I versity of Virginia; Bruce Gibson at Winchester, Va.; Mrs. Mary H. Long at Char' lottesville, Va., reappointed; John F. Regan at Terre Haute, Ind. The Alabama claims court, whoso term expires on December 31, still has 1,972 cases on its docket, and it is believed over 1,000 of I them will have to remain unadjudicated. j Riel, tho captured leader of tho rebellion | in Manitoba, is said in an Ottawa dispatch I to bo an American citizon, and to havo taken | an active part in tho Montana territorial alections a few years ago. I A nEM\RKA?LK sceno took place tho other | Jay in tho British house of commons, when j Premier Gladstone's voice was for a long time | drowned by tho repeated cheers of tho mem! bers opposed to his policy. The acmonstra tion showed that tho Gladstone government ( had a long nnd bitter fight to retain power on i its hands. : A London dispatch states that "the govorni ment's persistent refusal to announce tho j state of tho peace negotiations with Russia ! lends t-> confirm the now universal belief j that tho hitch is of tho utmost gravity.'' Tho J fact that a portion of tho troops ordered | home from the Soudan wero stopped at Alj sxandria was deemed significant Meanwhile ! Rreat Britain nnd Russia continue their | warlike preparations. I Mexican troops have had another bloody i battlo with the Yaquis Indians. The Mexican | loss was fifty-seven killed and many wounded. Tho Yaquis stronghold was taken. The steamship Isere,with Hart hold i's statue | jf "Liberty Enlightening tho "World"' on | board, started from Rouon, France, for Now I I i'ork on tho 81st. LOGAN ELECTED. ' The Long Pcndlor k In (ho Illlnol* legislature Ended. In joint session of tho Illinois legislature i at Springtiolcl on tue mu, uenerai nuuu />. j Logan was elected United States Senator! There was a great jam both on the floor of | tho house and in the galleries. There were I present fifty-one Senators and 153 Representa" | tives. "W'hentbovoto was taken a dead silence ] prevailed. Mr. Denis refused to vote. Tho i Republican senators all voted for Logan, i giving him twenty-six votes. When Mr. j Sittig was called, in a long speech explaining his position, he voted for Logan under pro! test. Tho announcement was received with tho wildest cheers. This gave Logan 10'i i votes. On the call of the absentees tho Democrats voted solidly for Judgo Lambert Tree. General Logan, who was present, was con' ducted to the speaker's chair and made a 1 speech. Mass meetings in honor of his eloc tion wore also new in various cuius mm towns throughout Illinois, by enthusiastic Republicans, and the Senator received nunwrj oua congratulations by telegraph from his : friends. John A. Logan was born in Jack-ion ! countr, III., was educated in tho common l schools and in Louisville university; en' listed as a privato in an Illinois vol! unteor regiment, and becaino quartermaster , in the war with Moxico: was elected to the | Illinois legislature in 1*52, VW, '."iG and '">7, and to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Conzresses. Ho entered tho Union army nt the outbreak of tho war as a colonel and reached the rank of major-general. Ho was a Representative in the Fortieth and Fortyfirst Congresses, and was elected Senator from Illinois by the Republicans in 1S71, serving until March tf, 1877; was elected to Bucceed Senator Oglesby two years later, and in the last campaign ran for Vice-President pa the Republican ticket THE OLD TESTAMENT. Its Final Publication in tho Revised Form. Changes That are Made in Familiar Passages, DUpatcho3 from London state: Yesterday afternoon the vory first copy Issued of the complete new version of th9 Biblo was proson ted to the queen, separated into five gorgeous volumos, royal edition. At midnight copio3 in inexponsivo form were delivered to tho press for comrmnU The public here and in Amorica will bo given an opportunity to purchase it next Tuesday, which, by a remarkable coincidence, will be the Feast of Pentecost, which commemorates, according to tradition, the rovelation on Mount Sinai of the Decalogue. Tho committee of revision was appointed by the Established Church convocation on the 6th of May, 1870. Of tho sixteen mombers then appointed only six survive. The revisors sat altogether 793 days of nix hoursTho whole work was pone over In session threo times. Tho first time a bare majority carried an alteration. Tho alterations then mado were printed and circulated among tho revisers, who had tho advantage botoro trie Gecoaa revision began of suggestions by the American revisers. On tho second revision a two-thirds majority was necessary to confirm the alterations. Tho third revision was devoted to objections and points roserved. The now Bible appears with both of the Testaments bound together. The preface opens with a statement of the general principles on which tho revision has been conducted. The revisers have borne in mind their duty not to mnkeanew translation, buttorevise that already existing, and have departed from it only where they disagreed with the translators of lfill upon tho meaning of a word or sentence. The terms of natural history are only changed where it is certain that tho authorized version ]b incorrect. Where it is doubtful or there is an alternative tho rendering is given in tho marginIn some words of frequent occurrence, the authorized version being either inadequate or inconsistent, changes have been introduced with as much uniformity as practicable. For instance, "tabernacle of the congregation" has been everywhere changed to "tent of meeting." In regard to tho word "Jehovah," the usage of tho authorized version is followed, the revisers not thinking it advisable to insert it uniformly in place ;of "Lord" or "God," "'UIaU In cmnll nanlf.fllfl rftnrA ?Y unit, nuua imiivuu m oiuuti Wnt the words substituted by Jewish custom for the Ineffable Name. The -word "grove" (Judges vi.,28) hos been replaced by "ashera" with its plurals "asherim" and ''asheroth." In the poetical books "sheol" replaces "hell," which naa been changed in prose passages to "tho grave" and "the pit," with "sheol" in the margin. In Isaiah xiv.,where "hell" is used in more of its original senso, the revisers have left "hell"in the text, putting "sheol" in the margin. "Abaddon," which has hitherto been kftown to English readers of tho Bible onlv from the New Testament (Revelations ix., 11), has been introduced in throe passages?once In Job and twice in Proverbs. The term "meat offering" has been changcd into "meal offering," the former term having ceased to bo the generic name for all food. A new plural ? "peoples" ? has been introduced, although sometimea this becomes "Gentiles," when the contrast to the chosen people iM marked. All headings of chapters have been dropped, as in the revised Now Testament, and the text has been divided into paragraphs, but tho old chapter and verse divisions have been retained in the margin for convenience of reference. By this means the revisers have been enabled to rejoin Psalm x. to Psalm ix., and Psalm xiii. to Penlm xii., and to begin Isaiah liii. at chapter lii., verse 13. The several days of the creation are made prominent by breaks of a line between the verses. This expedient has enabled the revisers to make uso of the dialogue form and to show the dramatic character of the Song - ~ ??i- 1.? -a ? or songs, tue iirst cnupiur ui nmu, iui ? ample, is divided into seven speeches. Tho Psalms aro definitely divided Into five books, the Inst four beginning respectively at Psalms xiii., lxiii., sc., and cvii A striking Improvement is the printing of all poetical passages in poetical form. This has boon done In the Psalms, Proverbs, Job and the Canticles, but the Prophotshave been loft in prose form. The songs of Lamecb, Jacob, Miriam, Moses, Deborah, and Hannah, the psalms of Jonah and Habakkuk, and David's Lament, In second Samuel, L, appear in versified ballad'. Tha origin of Josntm's miracle "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon," Is indicated bv its verso character; bo, also, is the triumphal cry of Samson (Judges, xv., 16). Examination of tho more familiar passages and phrases discloses the fact that care was taken in preserving intact household words of the Ola Testament The old literary form has been held sacred, and tho rovisers cannot bo charged with any pedantic straining after tho original text; but not all tho familiar features of tho Scriptures have escaped untouched. Tho high priest no longer casts lots for tho scapo-goat; he does 60 for Azazel. The summary of each day's work at the creation now runs according to the formula, "And there was evening and there was morning oneday," "there was evening and there was mornine a second day,"and so on, giving a suggestion^! successivejstages,with long intervalk Tho "apples of gold" oC rrcverfts xxv. 11 are now encasec.'in "figured work" of silver, not in "pictur e' "Vanity and vexation of spirit" (Ecclosiastesxii. 17) has become, "Vanity and a striving nfter wind." "Ifappy is tho man that hath his quivor full of them"' (Psalms cxxvii., 5) has boon changed into "Happy is tho man that hath filled his quiver with them." Reuben's curse,- Genesis xlix., verso 4 "Unstable as water, thou sluilfc not excel," now reails, "Unstable as water, have not thou tho excellency." The following changes also grato nqainst associations: The authorized Genesis, chapter vi., verse 4: "There were giants in the earth, in tlio.se days'' is revised. "Tho nophelim were in tho oarth in thosa days." In tho authorized edition, Job xxxi.. verse 35. "Oil, that ono would hoar mo! Behold, my de-ire is that tho Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book," i.s revised, "Oh, that ono would hear me! Behold, my desire is that tho Almighty would Answer m % and that I liaa tno muictinent wliich my adversary hath written." Tho authorized Psalm viii., vers! 5. "For thou hast inodo him a little lower than tho angels," is revised, "For thou hast made him a little lower than Go<l." The authorized Psalm cxvi., verso 11, "I said in my haste.all men aro liars," is revised, "I said when 1 mado haste to escape, all men are a lie." Ecclesiastes xii., 13. "Lot us hear the conclusion of the whole matter?Fear (J o 1." (fee. has been revised to road: "This is the end of tho matter; nil hath born heard Four God." &c. Proverbs xiv., 0. Fcols make a nick at sin: but among the righteous thero Is favor. Revised reads: "The foolish scorn tho guilt offering, but among the upright there is gooJ will." The above are nearly all of the passages in which a shock is given to old associations. In other passages tlu're aiv found variations which cannot l>e called rash alterations; for instance Isaiah, chapter lii. versa lo, in the authorize.! version rends: "Behold my servant shall ileal prudently, he shall bo exalted and extolled and be very high." The revised reads: "Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, lie shall b" lifted up and shall bo very high." Isaiah liii., 15. in the authorized version is: "Ho is despised ai:d rejected of men; a man of sorrows an l acquainted with grief; and wo hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised and we esteemed hint not" I11 tho revised this roads: "He is despised and r.J jectod of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and as 0110 from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not." Tho same chapter, verse 1, is changed to " TT~ 1.^ ?*/"? " roan: "jie wns aum-icu, idi no v|?.in.u Lis mouth, ns a lamb that ho led to the slaughter," etc. In the Fifth Commandment, "Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee," becomes " Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon tho land which tho Lord thy God givetb thee." Tho following are examples in which tho actual task of revision isdis'inctlyseen: Authorized version. Genesis xxii., 14: " In tho mount of the Lord it shall be seen;" revised version, "In the mount of tho Lord it shall bo provided." Authorized?Psahn xii., i?: "I will set him in safety from him tlir.t pull'eth nt him." Revised?"I will set him in safety nt whom they mock." Authorized?rsnlm lvviii., 4: "Extol him that rideth upon tho heavens." Revised? "Cast up a highway for him that rideth through tho deserts." Authorized?Psalm lxviii., 1!): "Blessed be the Lord, who loideth us with benefits." Revised?"Messed be the Lord who daily bearctli our burdens." Authorized-Plsahn lxviii., 3i), "Rebuke the company of spearmen." Revised?"Rebuke tho wild beasts of thereo.ls," Authorized?Psahn lxxxvii., 7: "As well the singers as ths! players on instruments shall lie there. All my springs aro in thee." Revised?"As well Use singers as they that \ danco sav all my fountains are in thco." - . . . Oil il A nrl Aiitnorizeci version?i^xouun *ia.,-v, it was a cloud ami a darkne s to tlicin. but n gavo light by night to these." Revised? "And thero was the cloud and tlia darkness, yot pave it li^rlst by night." Authorized?Job xxviii., 4, "Tho flood that breaketh out from the inhabitant; even tho waters forgotten of the foot, they are dried tip, they are gmio away from men." Revised?' I to breaketh open a shaft; away from where men so.ionrn they are forgotten of tho foot that passeth by, they hang afar from men, they swing to and fnm." Authorized?Job, xxxi., IIo: "Behold, my desire is tliat the Almighty would answer me." Revised?"Lo, here is my sign above, let tho Almighty answer mo." Authorized?Job, xxxvi., IS: "Beware lost He take thee away from His stroke." Revised?"Beware lest thou bo led away with thy sufficiency." Authorized?Psalm, cxli., 5: "And let Him reprovo mo; it shall be an excellent oil which shall not break my heart" Revised?"And lot Him reprove me; it shall bo oil upon the head; let not my head refuse it" Authorized?Isaiah xl., 3. "The voice of him that crieth in tho wilderness, prepare ye tho way of tho Lord." Revised?"The voice of one that crieth, prepare ye in the wilderness the way of tho Lord." Psalm ii., 12. 'Kiss the son" remains, and references to entirely different versions are given in tho margin. Similarly, in Genesis xlix, 10, "until Snilohcarne," iskopt, but "till ho camo to Shiloh" is noted as an alternative. In all these cases, as in many others, there seenu to have been a strong minority among the revisers which held out for tho alternative readings, and succeeded in putting them in the margin, which contains most ol the scholarship of tbo revision. The first verse in both th&anthorized and revised versions is the same. The first alteration occurs in the second verso, where, instead of "And the earth was without form and void," wo read "And the earth was waste and void." The text of the story of tho creation is without other striking variations. The same may be said of the description of the fall and tao flood. In the ten commandments are some verbal alterations, the most striking being that the sixth, ' 'Thou shalt not kill," (Exodus xx., 13), becomes, ''Thou shalt do no murdor." Deuteronomy, Chap, xxxii., verso 5. "They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of" his children," is revised : "They havo corrupted themselves, they are not hu children: it is their blemish. A VIRGINIA TBAQEDY. A *?tnte ori'lclnl'ft Son I-ynelie 1 fot Shooting a Prominent Citizen. A Lynchburg (Va.) dispatch gives the following particulars of the tragic occurrence at Liberty which resulted in the death of two mon, l>oth prominent in the community: UmVfnn Towv enn f\f f*?nar*1 Terry, superintendent of the State penitentiary, who shot T. A. Jeter, a prominent business man and one of the most popular citizens of the county, for calling a dog by his sister's name, was hanged by a crowd at an early hour this mornine. About fifty mounted men rode up to the jail in Liberty at about 2*4 a. m., and demanded admittance. Thoy mislei the jailer (Kirkwood Bell) by telling him thoy had a man to put in. When the door was opened one of tue party pointed his pistol at Bell and demanded the keys, which he said ho didn't have, and refused to tell where they were They were not to be pub off, however, and immediately search* 1 his room and found them. Thoy then went up stairs into Terry'i room and brought him out, and left in less than fifteen minutes. As soon as possible Bell and a friend who stayed with him gave tho alarm, but all to no effect The party had joined another party ^waiting it at the warehouse of Joter & Newsom ana proceeded at once to the scene of the hanging. Subsequent developments show that Terry was insane. He was a good-natured fellow, aged twenty-three. Between him and Jeter there had always existed the most friendly relations. Jeter was a particular friend of General Terry and his family, and held them in'the highest regard. General Terry, who Is superintendent of tho State penitentiary, and now resides in Riuhmond.sent a fine dog to Mr. Jeter some time ago, which was highly prized by the recipient, who gave her the name of Lettie, tho nam3 borne oy tho youngest daughter of Terry. Hairston Terry went into Liberty on Saturday morning,and to the People's warehouse, which is owned by Jeter & ftewsom. Mr. Jeter and several other gentlemen were standing in front of the warehouse when young Terry approached. The dog Lettie was lying near. Pointing to the dog, Mr. Jeter said, in a jocular manner: "Wlur hnrnn'h vein Iwn nrnnnd to sefl vour kinsfolk?" Those words were immediately followed by two pistol shots, and Jeter fell with two wounds in his abdomen. Five minutes later he wa3 a dead man. Terry gave himself up. He had two pistols upon his person. Jeter was a widower, and leaves three daughters. A week ago Terry's mother requested a physician to examine her son, saying that she feared his brain was disordered. In Richmond he gave many proofs of unsound mind recently. About the time he was to have been oxamined bis father was stricken with paralysis, and during the commotion caused By this calamity the young man was lost sight of. RIEL A PRISONER His Captnre Practically Ending (bo War in Manitoba. Tho capture of Louis D. Riel, tho half-breed rebel leader in the uprising against tho Canadian government, has practically put an end to the war in Manitoba. A dispatch from Clarke's Crossing, Northwest territory, gives the following account of his capture: Riel was captured at noon yesterday near Batouche, having beon found in the road unarmed a little south of Batouche in company with three men. Scouts Howie and Armstrong brought him in on foot, loaving their horses in the bush and walking quietly. Few knew who he was when he was brought into ? narvf/MM mflria right for General Middleton's tent, where they delivered their charge safely. Riel appeared unconcerned, but begged not to bo shot. Ho appeared careworn and anxious. He spoke of not being the head man in the rebellion,and then commenced praying. He was strongly guarded and had little chance of escape. What ho had most to fear was violence at the hands of the infuriated soldiers, who were anxious to see him hanged or shot at once. Ho assumed a penitent air, perhaps believing with the influence of French Canadian friends in Quebec to get ofF. Riel will havo to bo tried in the district where he was captured, and cannot be taken to Winnipeg or Ottawa. The Dominion government, it is thought, will issue a special commission, and send up judges to try him. He cannot be tried by court-martial under the circumstances, as General Middleton promised in a letter to him that ho would protect him until the government decided his case. | Everything is quiet around Batouche, and white flags are flying from all houses. Most of | tho prisoners have been allowed to return to their homes, but the ringleaders will be taken to Princo Albert. Corporal Code, of tho Ninetieth Rifles, who was wounded at Fish Creek, is dead. A dispatch from Ottawa says that "Riel's rapture practically ends the half breed revolt, and unless further trouble occurs with the Indians the Northwest rebellion will bo at an end. Canadians unanimously praise General Middletou for his remarkable and speedy success, which has been accomplished in a quiot, calm manner." THE NATIONAL GAME. i The Southern professional clubs are kept busy trying players. So far the Southern league clubs havo been well patronized, Macon Having tho largest | crowds. *1 1 rtrtt-f PrnvI/lnrtPA ni'fll [ XIEll pucuers Uiuuc luon ??^?. . $7,000, and yet tho championship is not assured her. The New* York State league championship season is now in full blast. Rochester seems to have the strongest nine. Fowleb, tho colored player who made quite a reputation in the >iortliwestern league last year, is now playing with Keokuk. St. Loi'is is enthused over Ni col's brilliant right field play. Scarce a game but that ha throws out a man at lirsc on seemingly safe hits. The Philadelphia club was the first league team whitewashed in a championship game this season, nnd Detroit was tue first to win an extra-inning game. Me'ii.vxo.v, who has beau playing first base for the New York club, has been reI''leased, and has signed with the St. Louis i League club at a salary of $"J,4U0. The Brooklyn club will play thirteen of j its announced fifty-six games at Coney Island. | every one on Sunday, and with the strongest j 1 clubs in the American association. The longest hit ever made on the New j Haven ball-grounds was that by Lyons of thu ' Yale nine, who sent the ball from the home- j plate over to tho running-tra k, 4~/J feet. | The championship season of tho Southern and Eastern Now England associations have j begun. Springfield leads 111 the former, Bid- j ; deford and Brockton are regarded as the strongest clubs in the latter. Governor IIobixsox, in a letter to Presi- j j (lent Sotlell, 01 IllO DUSiiUHK, iK.nuu..ivihi-M the receipt of a complimentary season ticket \ niul promise:t to attend some of the games in 1 j Boston it' his public duties will permit. j ( The Cincinnati Enquirer says: The term j "Chicagoed,'- as applieil to a contest in which one or the other ot baseball teams plays nine innings without making a run, came into existence shortly after the famous tour of the Cincinnati Red Stockings, in 18(59. At that time there was a great spirit of rivalry between Cincinnati aud Chicago, and tho j Windy City was jealous of the baseball lau* I rels of the Queen City, and determined, if | possible, to rob it of them. They organized 1 for tho purpose the strongest professional team that they could rake and scrape to- j gotber, and announced that they had a world | beater. Almost the first tea nf that the Windy j City crow tackled was the famous Mutual club of New York. The (iothamites shut j them out nine successive innings, and as it j was tho first time such a foat had been accomplished, it was at once dubbed by all the I papers as "Chicagoed," and by this term all such contests have been known. The following is the base ball record up to I recent date: national leagub. Won. Let. i IToii. Lo$t' Chicnco 7 -l I Providence 0 4 , Detroit 3 7 I St. Louis 6 4 1 New York 9 2 | Philadelphia...7 5 bosion 3 8 | Buffalo 1 S ; american association. Raltlmorc 9 9 Athletic 6 14 St. Louis U 6 Pittsburgh...12 9 Cincinnati 14 7 Louisville.... 11 S Brooklyn 7 12 | Metropolitan..fl 14 1 ea9tkrn i.eauub. .MllHJII.-U. ?# l~ttl|V ?OiVt * ? . Virginia 9 1 I Norfolk 5 B Newark 5 2 I Jersey City....3 G Trenton 7 2 I Wilmington...! 9 9SB A CALAMITOUS ME M Many Lives Lost in a Cincinnati Bnilding. Working Girls Smothered to Death ?Affecting Scenes. At 1:30 p. m., a few days ago, bystapderf ' &?? on the south side of Sixth street,, between Walnut and Main streets, in Cincinnati, - ^ heard a muffled explosion in the second story of No. 10, a flve-story brick building, occapied from the second story up by SuUivan & "? Co.'s steam printing works. This was followed by puffs of flamo and smoke from the open windows in every story from the second to the roof. The fire \ seemed hottest in the second story, and V the great throngs that immediately filled the street in front of the building saw that all retreat from the three upper stories was cut xyf off. There was no fire escape to the build* ing, and the little narrow stairway within coiled around the elevator, which served as a " ':-M flue to conduct the flames upward. A line of -?V? telegraph wires In front of the building proved a barrier to the patting up of the fin wooers. Just as the ladder wagon ran oat of the 'sPm engine house, only two squares distant, a woman leaped from the fifth-story window -J&a and was dashed to death on the sidewalk Another followed her and met the same fate. ?. JgJ Two strong men tried to catch them, bat _ were dashed to the pavement and severely Injured. All four of the fifth- . ; story "windows were full of men and girls. In one stood John Sullivan, a cousin of one of the proprietors of the printing works, , ' 'Jg The employes of Kinsoy, in the adjoining ,-*9 building, climbed on the roof and let down an '?f& old black rope. All other means of escape had been cut off by the flames. Jonn Sullivan hnd his hand on the rope ready to leap out and let himself v %- ; down. Behind him stood two girls, whose terror-stricken faces appealed for ndp. -K'&bI Ho turned from bis contemplated movement ' and placed the rope into the hands of one of the girls and bade her lot herself dowD while he stood encouragingly above. Amid the breathless silence of the crowd sha slowly made her way to the pavement, and then, with the fire almost lick- _ sag ing his hair and a terrible death staring him in the face, Sullivan placed the rope in the hands of the second girl, who bravely slid ' - ^ down to safety. When she reached the pave ment a wild shout of enthusiasm went up ' from the crowd that as yet did not realiz? 1 how many lives were going out above where the smoke poured lrom tho windows of the fourth floor. Snllivan then took' vJjaj hold of the rope, while the '' vjiaK flames were sweeping about him, and the . hearts of all stood still as band over hand be descended. But he was too late. The fire .'%* had burned the rope on the window sill and it , gave way when ho was opposite tho fourthstory window, and the brave boy passed swiftly through the air to his doom. Tears ' sprang to the eyes of many, and a groan sJM from the throng of spectators drownea the dull thud of his body as it struck the pave- ryB After the hero Sullivan was killed there were others in the windows begging to be JaM rescued One was a man hanging from a windowmll by the tips of his fingers. Men on rffiag fA hnM until W1C UUVCUlCUb Ui^w Uiiii ?v w? - irfM^M the firemen held up a tarpaulin under the .'\ window and shouted to hiin to let ga Ho swung out from the wall, . camo down, crushed the tarpaulin to the side- 1 walk, and was killed. The firemen held the ?&? tarpaulin higher and told a woman to jump. ifl She was hadly hurt, but is alive. The flr?, -?' ;;V men had littlo to do in subjecting the flames, '. ?S3 which was accomplished in a few minutes. . ; Their chief work was rescuing the dead. , gSH "When I was able to get into the fourth story," said Chief Wisby, "I had no sospic- ion of what I should find there. The home -,v^2SS is not gutted. Tlie fire was chiefly in the fifth story, and the damage in the fourth was not gr^at. Hencc I didn t expect to meet such a V; sight as I saw. In the smoke that still filled ~ the fourth floor I counted ten dead girls lying upon benches, tables, and { other things, or stretched upon the floor, / sH with not a hair singed. I don't wonder * *>% at it, however, as, excepting a hatchway, I was unable to find any way up or down from that floor, although I suppose there most be a stairway. It was a terrible sight, the worst I ever saw in my experience. They lay in all conceivable positions where they had lain down or had fallen while seeking < some avenue of escape from the suffocating smoke. There should have boon a fire escapo on the house. It would have saved all those lives." The scenes at the fire were heartrending. ' > Mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers . sry and friends crowded forward against the cor- . ^? 0 don of police, wringing their hands and moaning piteously. The police were powerless to stay the crush, and even a rope cordon was broken through. Whenever a dead body < was taken out there was a harrowing >/?: scene. As the minutes passed the throng was augmented by hundreds, until lives became endangered by the passing patrol sj? wagons. The bodies were taken out rapidly through the front door on the ground floor east, and were carried into the establishment of J. K. Kinsoy, No. 21, where Dennis SnJlivan afterward made an effort, with the assistance of male employes of the printing office, to identify them before a patrol wagon V should arrive. " . */ 'vS The scene at the undertaker's was such ai would melt a heart of adamant Outside wai - ly. a great crowd of men and women. Thej were very quiet, except the broken-heartec relatives, who were sobbing inconsolably. Ai soon as the bodies could be arranged, rela tives were admitted. It was hard to identify the dead In one case a policeman of Covington, Ky., identified nis sisters, Ltzzii <2 and Dollie Handel, who were twins Mrs. Meiers found the body of hei HaucVitor onH hnrl to be led awav from thr terrible sight Mrs. Leaban bad tho awfu ^ experience of finding her three daughters among the dead. The three girls who jumpec from the windows of the blazing buildinj had no appearance of being scorched, bu ogj they were badly bruised. Tho total numbo vSj of the dead was fifteen. Four persons wen injured, two of them?a young woman and i printer?with probably fatal result. GENEBALGEANT. Steady rrogrcHs ot the Dlieaee?What a Conaultatlon Showed* General Grant rested quietly all day Sun*i day. Tho pain in his throat was controlled^ by a free use of cocaine, so that it gave him little discomfort. He did not get into a sound sleep until about 1 a. m. Ho was not kept awake by pain,but seemed nervous and unabl? to quiet his mind. The dose of morphia wa8 reduced slightly from that given to him since a relapse on AY ednesday, and this also aided to prolong the insomnia. After 8 a. M. he 3 dozed two hours and then got up and was dressed. He ate little for breakfast, was somewhat depressed, and did not speak except when spoken to. A consultation was held at 2 p. m. by Drs. 1 Douglas, Sands and Shrady. The condition of the general's throat did not admit of an .Vj extended examination. When the instru- % ment used to light up his mouth touched the ulcerated surfaces it would cause a spasmodic contraction of the throat, which would induce coughing, and tho sensation of ehokinc. The disease was found to have made progress sineo the last examination. Tho infiltration had extended over a larger portion of the palatal curfain, though there was a decrease in the inflammatory condition. The small fungoid excrescences which were - ' Jg noticed at the last consultation of the right side of the roof of the mouth bad increased in size and virulence and indicated a tendencv to still further rapid advancement. Theas growtlis are looked upon as an ominous sign, and others of a similar character arc- expected. 1 he area of worm eating aurfaco had extended, which is taken as an indication that the disease is advancing inwardly and has reached the subjacent tissue. 'fho general condition of the patient was fair and much better than might be expected from tho local condition. The only change recommended in the treatment was in regard to the kind of tonics to be used. As soon as tho consultation was over the invalid fell asleep in his chair. When he awoke he felt depressed and complained that *1." ail JU ?.uu i uuur naa wivcc. nu paoocu vuo , ? afternoon and evening dozing in his chair, the only time that he brightened up being when S. B. Elkins called to see him about iusk. Dr. Douglas callcd at 11 p. M. and said ihat the condition of the patient was unchanged, had not improved, though he was m not suffering from pain. . MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, r Ferdinand Hiller, the celebrated German composer and pianist, is dead. Lord Tennyson is writing a histQrical drama, a sequel to "Thomas a Becket." ~ Miss Genevieve Ward, the actress, is, with her English company, in New Zealand. John T. Raymond, the actor, says he never read or heard read a good play written f by a woman. Mrs. Lanotry has bought an original play bv W ills, and Sydney Grundy's adaptation oI Sardou's "Maison Neuve. ^ It is reported that Carl Rosa is coming to America next fall with a carefully selected company of English artists, to play a series nt Fnnrlich nnorn thrnilollOUt the COUDtrY. v' v^v. Christine Nilsson says she will retire from the stage next year. "I shall not stay upon the stage," she says, "to hear it said, 'roor Mme. Nilsson! Her voice is all gone.''? Professor Tosso. the composer of the once famous air, "The Arkansaw Traveller," is living quietly at Covington, Ky., in his eighty-third year. He was born in the City of Mexico. S. S. Stratton has just compiled a "bill of mortality " of the musical profession during 18S4. The death-roll contains 210 names. The average age is sixty-one years and two months, against fift3--nine years and six months in 18!vi. The three years combined give an average of sixty years and a few ) days. a