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.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!
<
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% :
* '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.
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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.
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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.
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