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LKSSOX OF THK PYRAMID. "WHAT I SAW C NFiRMATORY OF THE SCniPTURES." . TmIihuko IIi Iiih it Herl?*, of Heriiionn ou m in O?Mrtrttlouil 'n tho Hestern i.hikIh?Tho Wonderful i'jrrnujlti of Hi/-. Ii ?utt Mie LeMUUM It Touche?. BkOOKI/YX, Oct. 18.?The vast con gregation at tbo Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning was delighted by an ex quisite rendering, by Professor Henry Eyre Hrowno, ou tlic now organ, of Denlcr'a second sonatti in Q, Dr. Tal moge's sermon was the first of a scries he intends preaching ou Iiis eastern tour, entitled, "J'Vom tbo Pyramids to tlio Acropolis, or What I Saw in Egypt and Greece Confirmatory of the Scriptures." His text was Isaiah xix. It), 20: "In that day shall there bo an nlUir to tbo Lord in the midst of tbo land of Egypt, and ii pillar at the border thereof io tho Lord. And it shall bo for a sign and for a witness." Isutall no doubt here refers to tho groat pyramid at Gizeh, tho chief pyra mid of Egypt. The text speaks of a pillar in Egypt, and ibis is the greatest pillar ever lifted: und tho text says it "is to DO at the; border of llio laud, and this pyramid is- nt tho border of tbo land; and the loxf. says it shall bo lor a wit ness, mid the object ol this sermon is to tell wh it this pyramid witnesses. Tills scrim a is the first uf a course of sermons cr'itied, "From the Pyramids to the Ac lpt1 s, or What I Saw m Egypt and Greece Confirmatory of the Scriptures." We h <l. on ;. morning of December, 1880, liuuli lin Africa. Amid tbo bowl ing be itman at Alexandria we had come ashore and lake i tho rail train lor Cairo, Fgypl, aloug the banks of the most Ihorougclv harnessed river ol all the world - the i'ivor Nile. We bad at even tide entered the city of Cairo, the city where < hriat dwelt while slaying m Egypt during I ie lierodic persecution. It was our llrst night In Egypt. No des troy lug auRol sweeping through as once, but all the stars were out, aud the skies were Hilled with nngels ol beauty and angels of light, and the air was balmy ns an A met ican .lune. The next morn ing wo wito early awake and atliie win dow, looking upon palm trees in lull glory of le dago, uud upon gardens ol fruits and llowcrs at the very season when oar homes far away are canopied by bleak sides and tho last haf of the forest In* i;ouodowu in the equinoctials. JJut how can 1 describe the thrill of expectation, for today we are to see what all the world has seen or wants to see?the pyramids. We arc mounted {'or an hour and a ball's ride. We pass on amid bazaars stuffed with rugs aud carpets, and curious fabrics of all sorts from Smyrna, from Algier*, from Per sia, from Turkey. We meet camels grunting under their loads, and seo buf faloes on either side browsing in pasture Holds. The road we travel is lor part of tbo way under clumps of acacia and by long rows of sycamore and tamarisk, but al ter an bile it l* a path of rock and sand, and wo lind we have reached the mar gin of tbo desert, tho great Sahara dea ert, and wi cry out to the dragoman as we seo a huge pile of rock looming in sight, "Dragoman, what Is that?" His answer is, "Tho pyramid," and then it seemed as \<. we were living a century every minute. Our thoughts and emo tions were 'oo rapid and intenco for ut terance, and e. ride on In silence until we come to tbc foot of the pyramid spoken ol in the text, the oldest struc ture in all ihe earth, lour thousand years old at least. Here it is. We stand un der the idiadovj of a structure that shuts out all the earth and all the sky, and we look up and strain our vision to appre ciate the distant top, and are over whelmed while we cry, "The pyramid! The pyramid!" Each per.son in our party had two or I hi co guides or helpers. One of them unrolled bis turban and lied it around my waist and he held the other end oi the I ill ban as R matter of safety. Many of the blocks of stone are four or five feel high and beyond any ordinary hu man .stride uuless assisted. But, two Arabs to pull and two Arabs to push, I found myself rapidly ascending from height to height, and on to altitudes ter rific, and at. last at the tiptop we louod ourselves on a level space of about thir ty hit Equine. Through clearest at mosphere wolooked off upon tho desert, and off upon ibe winding Nllo, and ofT upon il o Spl lux, with ds Iculurcs ol everlasting ?l< no, aud yonder up n the ml fuels of Cairo glittering in the sun, und y< udtr upon Memphis in ruins, aud oil* upon ! v wreck ol empires Pad the bunh 11eii"> ol nges, n radius of view enough le fill the mind and shock the. nerves n.ul overwhelm one's entire be ing. Ali r looking mound for nubile, and a 1 odi k bad pictured the group, we descended 1 eaid the dominant color of the pyramid was ;ray, but in certain lights It seems loshake oll'the gray ol cen turies am! become a blond, and the sil ver turns to Iho golden, ft covers thir teen acres of ground. What an itnti quiu! 1 was at least two thou-and years old win n t; o baby Christ was car ried within sigh of it by his fugitive patents, Joseph mid Mary. The storms of forty centuries have drenched it, bom barded il, shadowed it, Hashed upon it, but Micro i I stands, ready to lake another forty cent tires of atmospheric attack if the world should continue to exist. The oldest buildings of tho earth are j uniors to tlito great sonlor of the cen turies, Herodotus Mi.\8 that for ten .years nrepara(i< ns were being made for the buildlug of this pyramid, It has eighty* two mil m OU0 hundred and eleven thousand cubic ba t of masonry. One hundred thousand workmen at one timo toiled in Its erection. To bring thctitoue Irom the quarries n causeway sixty leet wide was ballt? The top stones were lifted by machinery such as the world knows nothing of today, it is seven hundred and forty-six icct each side of the square, base. Tho structure is four hundred and lilty feet high; higher than the cathedrals of t'ologno, Strasburg, Rouen, St. Peter's and St. Puul's. No surprise to mo that it was fcput at the head ot the seven wonders of the world. It has a subterraneous room of red granite called tho "king's chamber," and another room called tho "queen's chamber," and the probability is that there are othor rooms yet unexplored. For three thousand years this sep ulchral room wan uuopcucd, and would have been until today probably unopened hsd not n supci'stitiou8 impression got abroad that the heart of tho pyramid was filled wifh silver and gold and dia monds, and under Al Mamoun an ex cavating party went to work, and hav ing bored and blasted through a hun dred feet of rock, thoy found no opening LKSSOX OF THK PYRAMID. "WHAT I SAW C NFiRMATORY OF THE SCniPTURES." . TmIihuko IIi Iiih it Herl?*, of Heriiionn ou m in O?Mrtrttlouil 'n tho Hestern i.hikIh?Tho Wonderful i'jrrnujlti of Hi/-. Ii ?utt Mie LeMUUM It Touche?. BkOOKI/YX, Oct. 18.?The vast con gregation at tbo Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning was delighted by an ex quisite rendering, by Professor Henry Eyre Hrowno, ou tlic now organ, of Denlcr'a second sonatti in Q, Dr. Tal moge's sermon was the first of a scries he intends preaching ou Iiis eastern tour, entitled, "J'Vom tbo Pyramids to tlio Acropolis, or What I Saw in Egypt and Greece Confirmatory of the Scriptures." His text was Isaiah xix. It), 20: "In that day shall there bo an nlUir to tbo Lord in the midst of tbo land of Egypt, and ii pillar at the border thereof io tho Lord. And it shall bo for a sign and for a witness." Isutall no doubt here refers to tho groat pyramid at Gizeh, tho chief pyra mid of Egypt. The text speaks of a pillar in Egypt, and ibis is the greatest pillar ever lifted: und tho text says it "is to DO at the; border of llio laud, and this pyramid is- nt tho border of tbo land; and the loxf. says it shall bo lor a wit ness, mid the object ol this sermon is to tell wh it this pyramid witnesses. Tills scrim a is the first uf a course of sermons cr'itied, "From the Pyramids to the Ac lpt1 s, or What I Saw m Egypt and Greece Confirmatory of the Scriptures." We h <l. on ;. morning of December, 1880, liuuli lin Africa. Amid tbo bowl ing be itman at Alexandria we had come ashore and lake i tho rail train lor Cairo, Fgypl, aloug the banks of the most Ihorougclv harnessed river ol all the world - the i'ivor Nile. We bad at even tide entered the city of Cairo, the city where < hriat dwelt while slaying m Egypt during I ie lierodic persecution. It was our llrst night In Egypt. No des troy lug auRol sweeping through as once, but all the stars were out, aud the skies were Hilled with nngels ol beauty and angels of light, and the air was balmy ns an A met ican .lune. The next morn ing wo wito early awake and atliie win dow, looking upon palm trees in lull glory of le dago, uud upon gardens ol fruits and llowcrs at the very season when oar homes far away are canopied by bleak sides and tho last haf of the forest In* i;ouodowu in the equinoctials. JJut how can 1 describe the thrill of expectation, for today we are to see what all the world has seen or wants to see?the pyramids. We arc mounted {'or an hour and a ball's ride. We pass on amid bazaars stuffed with rugs aud carpets, and curious fabrics of all sorts from Smyrna, from Algier*, from Per sia, from Turkey. We meet camels grunting under their loads, and seo buf faloes on either side browsing in pasture Holds. The road we travel is lor part of tbo way under clumps of acacia and by long rows of sycamore and tamarisk, but al ter an bile it l* a path of rock and sand, and wo lind we have reached the mar gin of tbo desert, tho great Sahara dea ert, and wi cry out to the dragoman as we seo a huge pile of rock looming in sight, "Dragoman, what Is that?" His answer is, "Tho pyramid," and then it seemed as \<. we were living a century every minute. Our thoughts and emo tions were 'oo rapid and intenco for ut terance, and e. ride on In silence until we come to tbc foot of the pyramid spoken ol in the text, the oldest struc ture in all ihe earth, lour thousand years old at least. Here it is. We stand un der the idiadovj of a structure that shuts out all the earth and all the sky, and we look up and strain our vision to appre ciate the distant top, and are over whelmed while we cry, "The pyramid! The pyramid!" Each per.son in our party had two or I hi co guides or helpers. One of them unrolled bis turban and lied it around my waist and he held the other end oi the I ill ban as R matter of safety. Many of the blocks of stone are four or five feel high and beyond any ordinary hu man .stride uuless assisted. But, two Arabs to pull and two Arabs to push, I found myself rapidly ascending from height to height, and on to altitudes ter rific, and at. last at the tiptop we louod ourselves on a level space of about thir ty hit Equine. Through clearest at mosphere wolooked off upon tho desert, and off upon ibe winding Nllo, and ofT upon il o Spl lux, with ds Iculurcs ol everlasting ?l< no, aud yonder up n the ml fuels of Cairo glittering in the sun, und y< udtr upon Memphis in ruins, aud oil* upon ! v wreck ol empires Pad the bunh 11eii"> ol nges, n radius of view enough le fill the mind and shock the. nerves n.ul overwhelm one's entire be ing. Ali r looking mound for nubile, and a 1 odi k bad pictured the group, we descended 1 eaid the dominant color of the pyramid was ;ray, but in certain lights It seems loshake oll'the gray ol cen turies am! become a blond, and the sil ver turns to Iho golden, ft covers thir teen acres of ground. What an itnti quiu! 1 was at least two thou-and years old win n t; o baby Christ was car ried within sigh of it by his fugitive patents, Joseph mid Mary. The storms of forty centuries have drenched it, bom barded il, shadowed it, Hashed upon it, but Micro i I stands, ready to lake another forty cent tires of atmospheric attack if the world should continue to exist. The oldest buildings of tho earth are j uniors to tlito great sonlor of the cen turies, Herodotus Mi.\8 that for ten .years nrepara(i< ns were being made for the buildlug of this pyramid, It has eighty* two mil m OU0 hundred and eleven thousand cubic ba t of masonry. One hundred thousand workmen at one timo toiled in Its erection. To bring thctitoue Irom the quarries n causeway sixty leet wide was ballt? The top stones were lifted by machinery such as the world knows nothing of today, it is seven hundred and forty-six icct each side of the square, base. Tho structure is four hundred and lilty feet high; higher than the cathedrals of t'ologno, Strasburg, Rouen, St. Peter's and St. Puul's. No surprise to mo that it was fcput at the head ot the seven wonders of the world. It has a subterraneous room of red granite called tho "king's chamber," and another room called tho "queen's chamber," and the probability is that there are othor rooms yet unexplored. For three thousand years this sep ulchral room wan uuopcucd, and would have been until today probably unopened hsd not n supci'stitiou8 impression got abroad that the heart of tho pyramid was filled wifh silver and gold and dia monds, and under Al Mamoun an ex cavating party went to work, and hav ing bored and blasted through a hun dred feet of rock, thoy found no opening ahead, and were about to ;ivc up the at tempt when the workmen heard a stone roll down into a seemingly hollow pluce, and encouraged by that they resumed their work and came into the under ground rooms. The disappoint nent of the workmen in Hading the sarcophagus empty of all silver nnd gold und precious stoues was so grcut that they would have assas sinated Al Muinoun, who employed then*., bad ho not hid hi another part of the pyramid as much silver and gold as would pay them for their work at ordinary Mies of wages aud induced them there to dig till they to their surprise came upon ni'cquato compensation. I wonder not that this mountain of limestone aud red granite has been tbo Li filiation of scholars, ol scientists, ot intelligent Christiaus in all ages. Sir John H?rschel, tho astronomer, said he thought it had astronomical significance. The wise men who accompanied Napo leon's army into Egypt went into pro found study of the pyiarnld. In 1865 Professor Smyth aud Ins wifo lived in the empty tombs near by the pyramid that they might bo as coutiuuously as possi ble close to tho pyramid which they wero Investigating. Tho pyramid, built more than four thousand years ago, being a complete geometrical ligure, wise men have concluded it must have been (Hv? incly constructed. Mau came through thousands ol years to fine architecture, to music, to painting, but this was per fect at tbo world's start, aud (Jod must have directed it. All astronomers and geometricians and scientists say that it was scientifical ly and mathematically constructed bj lore science and mathematics were born. From tho inscriptions on the pyramid, from its proportions, from tho points of t ie compass recoguized in its structure, from the direction in which its tuu..cls run, Irotn the relative position of tho blocks that compose it, scientists, Chris tians and infidels have demonstrated that the being who planned this pyramid must haVOknown tho world's sphericity, and that its motion was rotary, and how mauy miles it was in diameter und eir cumlercncc, and how many tons the world weighs, and knew at whai point in the heavens cerium slars would ap pear at certain periods ol time. Not In the four thousand years since the putting up of that pyramid has a single fact in astronomy or mathe matics been fouud to contradict tho wisdom ol that structure. Yet they had not at the ago when the pyramid was started an astronomer or an archi tect or a mathematician worth men tioning. Who then planned the pyra mid ? Who superintended its erection V Who from its first foundation stone to its capstone erected everything? it must have been Cod. Isaiah was right When he said In my text. "A pillar shall be at the border of the land of Egypt and it shall bo for a sign and a witness." Tho pyramid is Cod's first Bible. Hun dreds, if not tnousands, of years beforo the first lino of the Hook ot Genesis was written, the lesson of the pyramid was written. Well, of what is this Cyclopean ma sonry a sign and a witness? Among other things?of the prolongation of human work compared with the brevity of human life. So men die but their wotk Uvea on. We are all building pyramids not to last four thousand years, but forty thousand, forty million, forty trillion, forty quadrillion, forty quintilllon. For a while wo wield the trowel, or pound with the hammer, or measure with the yard stick, or write with the pen, or experiment with tho scientific battery, or plan with tin: brain, and for a while the foot walks, and theeyosees, and the ear hears, and tho tongue speaks. All the good words or bad words we speak are spread out into one layer for a pyramid. All the kind deeds or malevolent deeds wo do are spread out into another layer. All the Christian or un-Christian example we set is spread out in another layer. All tho indirect intluences of our lives are spread out in another layer. Then the time soon comes when we put down the implement of ioil and pass away, but tho pyramid stands. If one of those granite blocks that 1 just touch with my feet on ibis Decem ber morning in 188? as tho two Arabs pull me and the two other Arabs push me, could speak out and tell its history it would say: "The place of my nativ ity was down in the great stone quarry of Mokattan or Asswnn. Then they began to bore at my sides, and then to drive down great iron wedges, crushing against nie till the whole quarry quaked and thundered. Then I was pried out with crowbars and levers, scores of men putting their weight on the leverage Then chains were put around me and 1 I was hoisted with wheels that groaned under the weight, and many workmen had their hands on the cranks and turned until tho muscles on their arms stood out in ridges, and the sweat rolled from their dusky foreheads. " I hen I wan drawn by long teams of oxen, yoke alter yoke, yoke alter yoke. 1 In n 1 whs put on un inclined plane and hauled upward and bow many I iron tools, and how many human arms, and how many beasts et' burden were employed to get me to this place no one can tell. Then 1 had to bo measured and squared and compassed and fitted lin before 1 was left hero to do my silent work of thousands of years. Cod only knows how many hands were busied in getting me from my geological cradle in the quarry to tins enthronement of innumerable ages." My hearers, that I is tho autobiography of on-f block of the pyramid. Cheeps didn't build the pyramid. Some boss mason in tho world's twilight didn't build the pyra mid. One hundred thousand men built it and perhaps from first to last two hundred thousand men. So with tho pyramids now rising? pyramids of evil or pyramids of good. The pyramid of drunkenness, rising ever since the lime when Noah got drunk on wine, although there was at his time BUOh a superabundance of water All the salooniats of tho ages adding their layers of ale casks aud wine pitchers and rum jugs until the pyramid overshadows the QfOatSahara desert of desolated homes and broken hearts and destroyed eternities. And as the pyramid still rises, layers of human skulls piled on top of human skulls and other mountains of human bonos to whiten tho peaks reaching un to the heavens, hundreds of tbousiiids of peoplo are building that pyramid. So with the pyramid of righteousness. Multitudes of hands are toiling on the stoeps, hands infantile, hands octogen arian, masculine hands, female hands, strong hands, weak hands. Some clang ing a trowel, some pulling a rope, bouio measuring the sidea. Layers of psalm books on top of layers of sermons. Layers of pruyers on top of lavors of holy sacrifice. And hundreds of thous ands coming down to sleep their last sleep, but other hundreds of thousands going up to take their places, and tbo pyramids will continue to rise until the millennial morning gilds tho completed work, and tho totlors on these heights shall take off their aprons and throw down their trowels, crying, "It Is fin ished I" Your business aud mine is not to build a pyramid but to be one of tho hundreds of thousands who shall ring a trowel or pull a rypn or turn the crank of a derrick, or cry, "Yo, heave!" while lifting another hlock to its elevation. Though it bo seemingly a small work aud a brief work, it is a work that shall last forever. In tho last day many a man and woman whose work has never been recognized on earth will come to a special honor. Tho Ecumenical council, now in session at Washington, its delegates tho honored representa tives of lifty million Methodists in ull parts of tho earth, will at every soss'on do honor to the memory of John Wes ley, but I wonder if any of them will think to twist a garland tor the mem ory of humble Peter iiohlor, the Mo ravian, who brought John Wesley into the. kingdom of (iod. I rejoice that all th'a thousands who have been toiling on tho pyramid of righteousness will at last bo recognized and rewarded?tho mother who brought her children to Christ, the Sabbath teacher who brought her class to tho knowledge of the truth., tho unpretend ing man who saved a soul. Then the trowel will bo morn honored than tho scepter. As a great battle was going on tho soldiers wero ordered to the front aod a sick man jumped out of an ambulance in which ho was being car ried to the hospital. Tho surgeon asked him what bo meant by getting out of the ambulance when ho was sick and almost ready to die. Tbo soldier an swered: "Doctor, 1 am going to the front. 1 bad rather die on the Held than die in an ambulance." Thank (iod; it we cannot do much wo can do little, j This pyramid of rock seven hundred I anil forty feet eadi side of tho square base and four hundred and litty feet high which was tho tomb of Cheops wins for him no respect. If a bone of his arm or foot had been found in the sarcophagus beneath tho pyramid, It would have excited no more venera tion than the skeleton of a camel bleaching on tho Libyan desert; yea, less veneration, for when 1 saw the car cass of a camel by tho roadside on the way to Memphis, I said to myself, "Poor thing, 1 wonder of what it died."' Wo say nothing against tho marble or the bronze of the necropolis. Let all that sculpture and florescence and arbore scence can do for the places of tho dead br done, if means will allow it. Hut if after one is dead there is nothing left to remind the world of him but some pieces of stone, there is but little left. All around Cairo and Memphis there are the remains of pyramids that have gone down under th'o wearing away of time, and this great pyramid of which Isaiah in the text speaks will vanish if tho world lasts long enough; and if tho world does not hist, then with the earth's dissolution the pyramid will so dissolve. l$at the memories of those with whom we associate aro inde structible. They will be more vivid tho other sido of the grave than this side. It is possible for mo to do you a good and for you to do me a good that will bo vivid in memory as many years after the world is burned up as all the sands of the seashore, and all the leaves of the forest, and all tho grass blades of the Held, aud all the stars of heaven added together, and that aggregate multiplied by all the figures that all tho bookkeepers of all time ever wrote. That desire to b?i remembered after we are gone is a divinely implanted de sire and not to be crushed out, but, I implore you, seek something better than the immortalization of rook or bronze or nook. "Put yourself into the eternity of those whom you help for both worlds, this and tho ne:;t. Com fort a hundred souls and there will ho through all the cycles of eternity at. least a hundred souls that will be your monuments. A prominent member of this church wa:; brought to Cod by some one saying to her at the ?hurch door at the close of the service, ''Come again!" Will it be possible for that one so invited to forget the invite? A minister passing along the street evorv day looked up and smiled to a baby in the window. Tho father and mother wondered who it was that thus pleasantly greeted their child. They found out that he was the pastor of a church. They said, "We must go and hear him preach." They went and both were converted to (Jod. Will there be any power in fifty million years to erase from tho souls of thoso parents tho memory of that man who by his friendliness brought them to Co IV Matthew Cr inswick.an evangelist,said that he had the names of two hundred souls saved through his singing the hymn, "Arise, my soul, arise." Will any of thoso two hundred souis in all eternity forget Matthew CranswickV Will any of tho four hundred and sev enty-nine women and children impris oned at Lucknow, India, waiting lor massacre by the Sepoys, forget Have lock and Out ram and Sir David Heard, who broke in and effected their rescue. To some of you who nave loved and Served the Lord heaven will be a great picture gallery of remembrance, Hosts of the glorified will never forget you. Ah, that is tho way of building monu ments that shall never feel the touch of decay. 1 do not. ask you to suppress this natural desire of being remember ed alter you are gone, but 1 only want you to put your memorials Into a shape that shall never weaken ol fade. Dur ing tiits course of my ministry I have been intimately associated in Christian work with hundreds of good men aud women. As in Egypt that December afternoon, 1889, exhausted in body, mind and soul, wo mounted to return to Cairo, wo took our last look of the pyramid at Gizeh, And you know there is something in the air toward evening that seems produc tive of solemn and tender emotion, and that great pyramid seemed to be hu manized and with the lips of stone it seemed to speak and cry out: "Hear me, man,mortal and immortal! My voice is tho voice of God. 1 [e design ed me. Isaiah said I would We be a sign and a witness. I saw Moses when he was a lad. I witnessed t he long pro cession of tho Israelites as they started to cross the lied sea and Pharaoh's host in pursuit of them. The falcons and tlio eagles of many centuries have brushed my brow. 1 stood hero when Cleopatra's barge landed with hor sor ceries, and llypatia for her virtues was slain in yonder streets. Alexandor the Great, Seostris and Ptolemy ndmlred my proportions. Herodotus and Pliny sounded my praise. I am old, lam very old. For thousands of years I have watched tho coming and going of gen erations. They tarry on a little while, but they make everlasting impression. \1 bear on my sido the mark of tho trow el and chisel of thoso who more than four thousand years ago expired. He ware what you do, oh, man! for what, you do will last long years after you aro tioad! if you would bo affectionately remembered altor you are gone, trust not to any commemoration. 1 have not one word to say about any astrono mers who studied tho hoavons from my heights, or any king who was sepulcher ed in my bosom. I am slowly passing away. I am a dying pyramid, f shall yet, lie down in the dust of the plain, and tho sands of the desert shall cover me, or when the earth goes I w ill go. But you are immortal. The feet with which you climbed my side* today will turn to dust, but you have a soul that will outlast me and all my brotherhood Of pyramids. Live for eternity! Live tor God! With tho Bhadows of evening now falling from my 6ldo, I pronounce upon you a boned lotion. Take it with you across the Mediterranean. Take it with you across the Atlantic God only is great Let all the earth keep silence before him. Amen!" And then the lips of granite hushed, and the great giant of masonry wrap ped himself again in tho silence of ages, ami as I rodo awuy in the gathering twilight, this course of sermons wns projected. Wondrous Egypt! Land of ancient pomp and pride, Whore Beauty walks by hoary Ruin's slde/J Wheio plenty roigus and still the seasons smile, And rolls?rich gift of God?exhnustless Nile_ A BURNING WELL A ItemnrkHblo riieiiuincnou Id IHhcov ered In Kentucky. Crab Orchard, October 21.?What promises to be as great a wonder as tho Talking Oak of Dodona, has recently been discovered on the lands of a poor farmer living live miles east of hero, near the ltockcastle county line. It is a well, tho clear, limpid, drinkable waters of which are inilamablo as naphtha. Tho natives call it the burn ing well. It is about tltteen foot deop, extending down through a strata of slate rock. It contains a wooden pump-stock, and tho water, as it comes cold and sparkling from the depths of tho well, has no more oder of gas about it than pure Kentucky Bourbon whis ky. It has a slight mineral taste, and is exceedingly pleasant to drink, yet a dipperful of it coming in contact with llame will take at once, blazing up like gunpowder. Its discovery, if the na tives say true, was rather remarkable A party of excursiou'Sts trom tho springs here went out in that section in quest of ferns, fossils aud tho like. On i their return they spied tho well and stopped to got some water. An old lady, living hard by, brought a bucket and idled it with tho refreshing fluid for tho thirsty rambler >. and after each had drank she poured tho remainder on the ground near the well. Just at this instant a young dude of the p irty lit a cigarette and threw the match heo.l lessly to tho ground. It chanced to fall into tho poured out water, which took lire aud Hashed up instantane ously, amazing and frightening tho whole party. At the suggestion of one of the on lookers, more water was drawn and, to tho wonder of all, it took lire as ready as an explosive, scorching tho face and eyebrows of the rash experimenter who held tho match. Tho old lady's family has for years beon using water out of the well| perfectly ignorant of its con taining liery qualities. What adds to tho strangeness of the phenomenon is that there is no mineral deposits any where near. Iluudrods of people lor miles around have visited this burning well and drank as well as tested tho in llamubillty of its waters. Its discovery adds another celebrity to the numerous wonders for which Kentucky is famed the world over. Doittii oi h Hub v. The following from tho pen of Hill Arp Is as good as anything he ever wrote: "The baby is dead." That was the sad telegram that came to us from far away where one of our boys is living. It saddened the household, for we had never seen the child north", mother, and they were to come and visit us next month, and expected to be so hap py. There is trouble that is trouble? grief that is grief. The first child, and old enough to have twined around her mother's heart and absorbed her y cry .life. The father can love, too, ar.d ca ress and feel a father's pride, and he can weep and teel desolate. Time will temper his grief, but a mother never ceases to lament the death of her lirst born child. It has been more than thirty years since: we lost one, but the llttl? gar ments that ho wore were hidden away somewhere, and sometimes I see the mother fondling them as they lie in the old trunk?the trunk that holds her heart's best treasures. It was Sterne who said: "(Joel tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," and so in time the young mother's grief will be sweeter than it is sad, and she will rise from it with <t hope and a trust that she never knew before. A child in heaven is a bond that cannot he taken?it is not lost -it is saved. But still the pang of sjperation is very crushing to the pa rents heart. How Uio world shrinks up; how mean and insiguilicant are all its pleasures. 1 have felt that way, and been comforted with the feeling, and so I know has every parent who has lost a child. _ a General Hangman. Washington, 0. II., ()., Oct. 19.? Win. a. Burnett, ol this city, is down in Fort Stuirh, Ark., and in a personal letter recently received by a friend here Mr. Uurnettsays: "Fort Smith is quite an historic place. The old fort still stands, or at least part, of It. The walls were twelve feet high when first built, and they enclose about nine acres. The United States jail is in the center and to the south is the gallows. There are at the present time l it) prisoners con lined in tins jail, which is a large and substantial structure, and, when once behind these bars, it's dollars to dougn nuts a fellow Will not escape. Arrange ments aie being made lor another hang ing; but the people don't pay any more attention to a hanging here than they would to a dog light at home. The hanging is all done by ono man named MalTadon, about 1)5 years of age. il has broken ninety-seven necks on th same scaffold, and has swung elf as many as six ;:l ope time. Malladon gets $25 for every man he hangs. Some times the hangsrnan gets to talking about the men he has executed and cries like a child." ii?- cot Off Hoe ISam, Columbia, s. c, October 15.?Fred Ketnpson, an escaped convict went to the house of a woman in Lexington county who had been instrumental in securing his prosecution and convic tion for assault and battery with intent to kill, tied her up and tobt her that he would either cut her throat or chop oft her ears, aud that she might choose. Tho woman decided to loso her ears, and the scoundrel hacked them off with a dull knife, lie then untied the wo man and left tho neighborhood. 'i'h" Dreaded .il ii n ? . New Oklbans, Oct. 17.?Gnslauo Bnircizoun, an Ilalinn lugger owner, was assassinated last night. The affair bears all the marks of the Malia. There wan i jolly game of cards at an Italian sa loon near the French market, a quarrel, a Btatnpede, and ns tho victim reached the door\ he was riddled with bullets. The poliSVe'iavo arrested the proprietor of tho plaee aud several others, butthcro is no poof ns to who did tbo she.ding. White Man Lynched. Columbia. La., Oct. 21.?John Rush, a young white man, was lynched Mon day night for tho murder of linger Sterling, an old colored woman. Tho murder was a very brutal one and en tirely unprovoked. The case excited a great deal of indignation, nnd Monday night a i.iuh of masked men took Hush from the jail and hanged him horn the limb of a tree in tho jail yard. HIS SHIP AGAINST SEVEN. CAPT. INGRAHAM DEMANDED JL'ST'CE FOR AN AMERICAN. Iii? llatterlett Twice TiAlued on Iii? A: ob? ?luke'M Ship?A Sim y of the Early i \ - of our Navy ltcciillcil by Cai?t In<;ra haiu'o Death. Nkw Yohk, Oct. 12.?In these 'lays oi the rebabllitatton of tho United Staves navy we may recall with pride unalloyed with regret the good old days of .yore when all the world knew aud rcsnectcd the prowess of American war vessels. Aud tho death of Duncan Nathaniol In graham in Charlestou, S. 0., on Friday gives a proper oppoitumty to recall those days. For, as was suggested in tho obituary notice published in tho San of Saturday morning, this Duncan Nath aniel Ingruhnm was the hero of one of thoso remarkable episodes which made, other nations understand that the tail oi the American bird could not be pulled, plucked, twisted, trod upon, or other wise disrespectfully used under the guns of an American war vessel. There bad been Cant Paul Jones aud Commodore Perry and old Admiral Porter, who had fought English aod French and Portuguese and the Barhary Slates, and all maunor ol craft il lug Il igs legitimate or illegitimate, and all ot them had come oil" conquerors. Those were the days ot wooden ships and saihug craft, when tlio element ol romance was enhauccd by the big sails and the swarming over the sides with cillasscs and halberds and all that sort of thing. A go-.nl pu t of the oflicors then were of Southern families?sc ons oi houses that unhold themselves in something like feudal state. These young men came of excellent ancestry, of rvhich they were exceedingly proud, Ot these Duncan Nathaniel Iugrahain was one of the best examples. His father had been a naval Officer, a friend of Paul Jones and one of his com panions in that famous light beiweon the Serapis and the Don Hommo Rich ard. It was quite natural that the son should enter the navy. He was born in 1802, and when 10 years old was al ready i midshipmite. Promotion in those days was as slow as now, perhaps a little slower. So although this young man fought through the war ol 1812, he was still a midshipman. In 1818 or thereabouts, when the original David Porter went down to the Southern wat ers of tho United States to attend to the pirates who infested the small islands and the mysterious inlets ol the Gulf aud the Caribbean Sea, young Ingraham was aboard his vessel, aud saw pirates banged at the yard arm, and learned to be vigilant, quick, resolute ami uullinch ing in the best school ever naval O'.'icer had. Ingraham, lisen to a commander, served in tho Mexican war, and n low years after its close was sent to join tho squadron of the Mediterranean, He ras in command of the St. Louis, which is said to have been tho pride of the Amer ican navy and which was certain y a loriuidable ship for thoso days, i; was a sloop of war armed with two 50 pound ers. On Juno 22, 18?o, he sailed nto the harbor of Smyrna, in Asiatic i'ur koy. He lound that lie was just in tho nick o' time to take advantage oi one of thoso chances for fame Which come to every man, so it is said. In the revolution of Hungary against Au8triaiu 1848 <19, which Louis Koi sulh led, Martin Koszta was a conspicuous figure. When tho revolution '.\ is put down, Kossutll, Koszta and several .iii ers fled to Turkey and stopped In Smyr na, After long negotiations tho Turk ish Government refused to give them up. Then Kossuth and Koszta wont to the United Slates, where Koszta decided to settle. He engaged in business in New York, and in July, 18.r>2, declared under oath his intention of becoming a citizen ot the United Stale-i. The next year, having business in Smyrna, Koszta went there and remained for some time undis turbed, as indeed he might have expect ed, since Smyrna was not on Austrian soil. litil Koszta had so inllamed the Austrian Government against bun that a plot was batched to capture him. On June 21, 1853, a band ot Greek mercen aries in Smyrna, hired by the Austrian consul, overpowered Koszta, hustled him into a boat aud took him aboard an Austri in ship of war, the Iluzzar, which was lying m tho harbor. It is said that this ship was in command ol no 1< us a person than the Archduke John, bl'Olhor I of the Kmporor and admiral of the. Aus trian navy. At any rate, Martin Koszln was put in irons and Otherwise treated as a criin littl and dangerous poison. The next day, when all Smyrna was lalktllgaboill tins, a sloop of war, IhoSt. Louis, Com mander Ingraham, sailed Into the har bor, ("apt. Ingraham beard tho story of the kidnapping, and tho lact that tho kidnapped man was an American citi zen, from Koszta's friends, Capl In graham, who had been in n war In which tho United Stales had (aught Groal Britain a few lessons of rcspoi for American citizens, was up in arms at once, lie went abroad tho Huzza- and very courteously asked permission loste Koszta. Tho Austrian commander, af ter some hesitation, mauled the request. Commander lugraham assured himself that Koszta was entitled to II.c protec tion of the American Hag. Ho demand ed his release of the Austrian comman der, and, when it was refused, fccul a note to the nearest United Slatci ofll cial, Consul iirown, at Constant in >plo. I While he was awaiting an answer six Austrian war ships sailed Into tho har bor and look up positions near the Iluz zar. On Juno 2'.), before any answer had come Ironi Consul Drown, the St, ! Louie noticed unusual signs ol activity on board tho Iluzzar, and pretty OOU she began to get under way. Capt. Ingraham straightway put the SI. Louis in such a position thai the Iluzzar joiild not pass, and clean ! his decks lor action. Ths Iluzzar hove, to, and then ('apt. Ingraham went aboard and said to the Austrian commander, who received him with great eoVrlc : "What is the meaning of this i lOVO on your part?" We propose to sail for home," replied tho Austrian. "Tho consul basoi ilON d us to take our prisoner to Austria.'' "You will pardon me," said Capt In graham v??ry calmly. "But I hop .you will not leavo this harbor with the Am erican gentleman you have kidnapped. If you do I shall he compelled to . OSOrt to oxlrcmo measures." The Austnou looked around the har bor at tho lino of friendly war ships and then looked at the St. Louis, with her decks cleared, aud then sinilod pleasant' ly at Capt Ingraham aud said that he thought such remarks were extremely rash and that the Iluzzar would do as she pleasod. Ca) I tugrabam bowed und betook him self to the St, Louis. He had no sooner got aboard than lie said: "Clear the guns lor action!" And the Archduke had tho ploasuro of seoing the batteries ot St. Louis turned upon him. He realized that having tho wrong ride ol tho matter, he had put himself in a very bad positiou. The Huzzar was put about and sailed back to her old auchorave. The Archduko scut word to Cnpt Ingraham that ho would await the arrival of the note from Mr. Brown. On tho afternoon ot July 1 Cnpt Iu grah?m got his reply. The consul at Constantinople commended his courso, and told him to do whatever he thought best to prevent an outrage to an Ameri can. Late that evening Capt lugrahatn sent an oilicer aboard tho Huzzar with a note. The note formally demanded the release of Mr, Koszta, and said that uu lcss the prisoner was delivered aboard the St. Louis by 4o'clock the next after noon Cant Ingraham would take him Irom tho ?ustrians by forco. The Arch* , duke sent back ?>. formal refusal. At 8 o'clock on the next morning, July 2, Capt ingraham ouco more cleared his decks for action and trained his batteries so that the Huzzar would get their lull force at tho lirst dis .barge. The seven Austrian war vessels cleared their decks and put their men at tho j;uus. All t'ds while great excitement had prevailed in Smyrna, and when the cit izens saw these last hostile demonstra tions they cro vded the shores, eager to bee Ulla onosldo battle, which all knew would not cud so long as the American llago lloalo I above water. At 1U o'clock the Austrian sent an ofllccr to Capt Ingraham. This olllcer tried to temp rize, but Capt Ingraham refused to listou to him, He said: "To avoid the worst, I will agree to let the man bo delivered to tho French consul in Smyrna until your Government has a chance to act. But lie must, be delivered there or 1 will take him. I cannot fail. My cause Is just, 1 have stated the time." Again the Austrian sent a man to Cnpt Ingraham. But this timo Capt Ingraham refused to receive him. Then the Austrian consul general came out from Svmrna and tried his diplonmacy. Cnpt Ingraham simply repealed that the French consul must have Koszta by l o'clock or there would be trouble. At 12 o'clock a boat left the sido of tho Huzzar with Koszta ou it, and one hour alter ward tho Fr?lich consul scut word thai Ko /.la was in bis keeping. Later in (he day several ol tho Austrian war vessels Bailed out ol the harbor. Then came long negotiations between Secretary of Slate William I,. Marcy and ihc Austrian charge d'affaires at Washington, M. Hulsoraauu, at the end of which Austria admitted that the United Slates was right, apologized, and released all claim upon Mr. Koszta. Capl Ingraham got a gold medal and a vole of thanks Irom Congress, a cold medal Irom the citizens of New York, medals and other testimonials from sev eral American cilizeus, and a present of a Ihn chrouomoter and an engrossed leitet IVoni the worklugmen of Fugland, raised by penuy subscription. As a sort of addition to this incident la tho si ry of how J. Clarey Jouo?uaod Commander Ingiuham's uanio in a simi lar episode in 185U. Mr. Jones was thou iniuish r lu Austria. The Austrian Government was most anxious that no plans of the ibrlilicalious of Vicuna be made. A youug American studying mcdu inc in Vienna, was making some skelche oj theso forlifleatious one day In an Id c spirit and lu utter ignorance ?.i tho law agamsl it, He was arrostod and locked up Mr rones inquired iuto it. aud found out tho truth, and explained it fully to the Austrian minister, at the sumo time requesting Lho release ol'the. young Am erican. The prime minister refused to listen, and said that the young man should and would he punished. When Mr. Jones saw that the Austrian was ret ho said: "Then loregrct very much that I shall have to bid 31111 farewell." "Arc you going?" said the Austrian. UI am indeed sorry, and hope that your country will bo as ably agreeably repre sented by your successor." k,I fear that there will not be a suc cessor to mo very soon," said Mr. Jones. "I am compelled to demand an nud'euco with lho Kmperor. 1 wish to get my passports." ??What!" said the Austrian, "your passports? You do not intend to make of .oi> episodo so serious a matter?" '?It is a serious matter," said Mr. Jonei, "and reminds mo of the Koszta case, ('apt lugrnham is ?Uli cruising in tho Mi diierrnuoan, by the way, and I shall iu? able to put him in immediate knowledge ol this nllhir also. I have tin- honor lo hid vou larowoll." Tho Austrian minister did not know what lo make ol 1! is, But ho felt that Americans were not proper persons to punish i's examples, and, after dol.ay ing a 'I <> or tv> '. released the young medi cal student. With the 1 ulbreuk of the civil war Capt Ingraham resigned, and in March, 1801, entered lho Confederate service, lie wav then 59 years old, and was as i 11 il firsl 10 lho navy yard at L'ensa col.i and then !?? Charleston, where he ilisfinguidhed himself by breaking the blockade, Since lho war he had lived very quietly In his birlh'placc, Charles ton. II wn married lo a granddaugh ter 1 lenry ! ?aureus and John Randolph and through hlS wife was connected with some of the greatest olllcersin the Drills!) navy. ? New York Sun. .\ Denial of IliilniaoiMln'fl Dunili. Cincinnati, Oct. 19.?Dr, Francis Rivers luhl Slgltor Carlos del Rio. hue of tho millittiry stall' of President Bai? maccela, >l Chili, arrived hero yeslorday eu route lor New York. Neither could speak a word of ICnghsh. They had svith them Louis Bloch, of California, ns interpreter. Through him they said thai llalmacoda was not dead, all re ports 0 Huicido to tho contrary notwith standing, : nd I hat they expected to meet him in New York or in l?uropo, \ 1 mill Vive, Noanokk, \'a., October 1H.?The plaining mills and lumber yard of Hush I & Garner and four small residences ad joining wer ? burned this morning, and Thomas ih nen, an employee of the llrm, lost hi life, lie left the building when the fire broke out, but returned to got some clothing and money he had In his room, nnd was caught by the falling roof. Loss 930,000. lusuranco $8,000. _ ObMita;?] of I'ultii. Paris, Oct. 17.?News of wholesale change ol religious views comes from Cahors. It seems that the Bishop ol Cahors refused lho cclebratlein of a second mass in the church of the village of Mural on Sunday, and that in conso* quence of such refusal the pcoplo of Mural boenmo alienated from Cat holicism aud all embraced Protestantism* SHOCKING RAILROAD DISASTER. Wreck mt a 1'iMMDg? Tralm Near UatrM bur*, HI. Ualbsbuuo, 111., Oct. 21.?The Chi cago, Burlington aud Qulncy fast pas senger train No 5, which left here at 10:30 o'clock last night, met with a ter rible accident twenty-live minutes later | at the Tottery switch near Monmouth, sixteen miles wost of bore. Thotraiu was running at a high rate of speed. j The tacts show that the switch was partly open, aud the locomotive left tiie main track ami started on tho sido track; some of the cars behind kept on the main track, aud as tho result the whole train of seven cars, except the sleepor, was derailed aud turnen over ou side, the cars being scattered around I in great confusion. Thero was no tel escoping. There wero on tho engine Engineer A. A. Emery and Neils An derson, of this city, and George Court ney, a travelling engineer, wlio wont out on the trip to seo how the new loco motive worked. Anderson was blown from the cab by steam. Luiery and Courtney had no chance to escape and their bodies were found closo to tho lo-1 comotive. Tho baggage ami express men wero thrown across their cars, but miraculously escaped injury. A young man named Frank 8. Johnson of Avon, wh? with W.U. Hard, of* Abiugdon, was standing on tho steps of tho smok ing car attempted to jump off. lie was thrown under the wheels and killed. Hardy jumped and escaped iojury. The baggage car caught lire, but the tlames wtro promptly extinguished by Baggageman John bore. Oscar llim merman wan pitched through tho wiu dow of tho smoking car unhurt. He hurried back to stop two incoming trains. Tho saddest casuality happened in the chair car, just back of the smoker. In one seat in tho middle of the car sat Mr. (Joorgo Allen, his wit'o and baby. Sho was next to tho window, and as tho car tipped over her head was driven through the window and she was iu stantly killed. The baby war hurlod across the car, but, savo a cut on its head, was uninjured. Allen received bruises. He found bis baby first, then groped bis way from tho cur for a lan tern and returning found his wife dead. The scene after tho wreck is said to have been heartrending and panicky. Tho imprisoned passengers beat out tho windows of tho cars to efTecf their escape. A large force of surgeon and raiiroad ollicials went from hero and Hurliugton. In addition to the four killed eighteon wero Injured, but tho injuries of some wero so slight that they left on the uext train. Great sur prise is expressed that tho list of the dead is not larger. A .Shootlnu Scrapo In Itaruwell. Baunweli., S. C, (Jet. 17.?In a dif ficulty here today between II. C. Creech, John Creech and Charley Brown the two former were shot in the neck. II, C. Creech received only a tlesh wound aud Is doing well, but his brother, John Creech, is Yery dangerously wounded. All parties aro highly respected citizens, John Creech graduated lrom the South Carolina University lust June. The following is Brown's version ol the affair as given by his brother: Ou Thursday, the 15th inst, JobnC. Creech attacked Charlie Brown while he was attcuding to his business in front o: his store. ? list light ensued, in which Creech got the worst of it. Today Brown was Warned that John Creech and his broth er, Henry Clay Creech, were in town, and that ho had better be on his guard. Between 1 snd 2 o'clock Brown went to the Citizens' Savings Bank, and while transacting his business Henry C. Creech came in aud accosted Brown under the pretext of selling him a halo of cotton. While Brown was examining the sam ple, Creech accused Brown of having treated his brother unfairly on Thurs day, and grossly insulted him. Brown struck him with his list, and immediately John Creech ran in from the street with pistol In hand and flred ou Brown, w ho Immediately returned the shot, hitting John Creech In the neck. Ho then turned and shot Henry Clay Creech, in dicting a slight wound. Brown surren dered to the town marshal, who turned him over to the sherilf. Jolm Creech was taken to the Molair bouse. It is thought by the doctors this evening that the wounded man's condition is belter.? Tho State. The National Alliance. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 22.?The State Farmers' Alliance met in secret session to-day, with eighty-ono dele gates present. The following pro gramme lor tho meeting hero of the National Alliance was adopted: On tho first day, Tuesday, November 117, the addresses of welcome will he de livered at Toinlinson Hall by Major Sullivan and President Force, of the Stato Alliance, and response will be by J. F. Tillman, national secretary, and J. F. Willetts, treasurer of tho Alliance, i The afternoon will be devoted to ex ecutive session and In the evening President L. L, Polk will deliver his address. On Wednesday addresses will bo made by the president of tho F. M. B. A., National Lecturer J. F. Willetts, and in tho afternoon tho executive ses sion will bo continued. In the evening C. W. Macuno and others will speak. Thursday morning Jerry Simpson and Alonzo Wardell will speak and in tho evening John P. Stelle and Mrs. Anna L. DrlggS. Friday tho forenoon ad dresses will be made by I. II. Turner and 1$. II. Oliver and in the evening L. F. Livingston, II. L. Loucks, Saturday J. II. McLowell and Senator PclTer will speak, and at night T. V. Powderly and lien Terrell. On Monday evening Ig natius Donnelly will address the coun cil and on Tuesday, tho last day, AVil liam Erwin, Mrs. Lease, U.M.Hum phrey and J. W. Weaver will speak. Kevonllnc Alliance KecretH. Cl'AKKSBURO, W. Va., Oct. 22.? The members of the Farmers' Alliance in Tyler county arc excited because Jos. A.Twyman, an acknowledged enemy of the society, has been revealing its passwords and secrets. As he has never been a member of the Alliance, it has been a mystery whero ho obtained bis information, and Charles, his broth er, who was formerly a member, has been accused of breaking bis oath. Joseph publishes a card claiming that ho got Ills infsrmation lrom Sears and Carroll, the organizers, and asserting his right to impart it to whom be pleases. The matter will be referred to the national board at Wasbinton. Heath from .mOotv. MOBBERLY. Mo., Oct. 22.?Lust Tues day tho littto twelve year old boh of Mr. and Mrs. Newton Smith, of this city, was shot in tho knee-cap by a playmate with a largo rifle. Mrs. Smith was very careful about tho child, and for forty eight hours watched him continuously. This morning sho fell from her chair a corpse. It Is thought by the doctors that her death was caused by mental anxiety and long watching by the sido of her boy. A TALE OF LOVE. TEN HOURSTHE BRIDE of A roman TIC MARRIAGE.' A Hardware Saloeinan Kimum ?Fitltr tllrl from Drowning?Love at Flrat Sight ?Marriage at Midnight od Her Death Hetl. New Yoiuc,Oct. 18.?Louis P.Rol lins, a hardwaro salesman of 113 Colum bia Heights at Brooklyn, has just fal len heir to $230,000 through a romantic marriage. His bride was taken away from him by death ten hours after the marriage ceremony had been performed. Two years ago Mr. Rollins went to Charleston, Me., to spend his vacation. While out rowing in a lake one day he rescued a beautiful young girl, the duughter of a wealthy Boston lumber dealer, William Narcross. Kate E. Narcross was 10, and the belle of the Summer resort. She lived with her widower father at tho old Maino town during tho summer months and at somerville, Mass., during the winter. It was a ease of lovo at lirst sight be tween tho salesman aud Kate Narcross. When Mr. Rollins left Charleston he secured a promise from his sweetheart that she would be his bride. Mr. Rol lins went to Somervilo at every oppor tunity, and the mnrriago was put off from t Hildo time till Mr. Rollins could secure a permanent situation in New York which would not require him to travel. Two woeks ago Kate's father died, leaving tho bulk of his fortune to his only child, who had nursed him tender ly through a long (It of sickness. The strain of at tending to her father night and day was too groat for the dutiful daughter. She was takon ill the day of her fahter's funeral and never loft her room. 1'neumonin sot in and the phy sicians told Miss Narcross that she must die. "Send for Louis, we must wed before 1 die," was Miss Narcross' request. Mr. Rollins was on a long business trip through the west for a Chambers street hardware llrm. He hastened to the bedside of his Intended wife and arrived on the eve of the day before she died. At Miss Narcross' request tho Rev. A. R. Winship was called in at mid night. Tho physicians did not believe Miss Narcross could iivo till morning. "This is a very different marriage to what 1 had hoped for," was the dying woman's greeting to tho clergyman. Between midnight and 1 o'clock of the next morning tho ceremony was per formed. Immediately after tho ser vices Miss Narcross had a notary sum moned and she made her will, tho wit nesses being her husband, tho clergy man and friends in tho house. The newly made wifo signed the document that gavo nearly all of her property to her husband in a clear broad hand. Sho seemed to have gained new strength by tho marriage and tho physicians thought they saw signs ot a chango for tho better in Mrs. Rollins' condition. But it was too late, for a relapse fol lowed aud tho bride sank into a peace ful sleep from which she never awoke. "Good-bye, Louis, my darling hus band," were her last words. Tho heart broken husband followed his wife's re mains to the grave, and then returned to Chicago to settle up his business trip. He will return to Somervillo at o ice and settle up his wife's estate. The Charleston (Me.,) academy was also re membered by Miss Narcross. She had been a pupil of tho academy. When a reporter called at Mr. Rollins's Brook lyn residence, he learned a rather pecu liar story about another girl. It was said without names being given, that Mr. Rollins had been engaged to an other Brooklyn girl for several years. It was said she was tho daughter of a Brooklyn clothier, and that an explana tion of the queer midnight marriage might bo asked for on Mr. Rollins's re turn to Brooklyn. When Mr. Rollins was in Brooklyn ho was quite a favorite in a largo circle of friends. Ho was an excellent conversationalist and of good address, and ho made acquaintance quickly, Ho has been drawing a salary of ,i?2,0(X), but may now go into busi ! ness for himself. Their Last AHHlgumeut. Chicago,Oct. 15.? A dispatch from Crete, 111., says that two reporters of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, named Wash* burne and Henry, and McCafferty, the special artist of that paper, were In stantly killed last night at that place The two latter had been assigned to writo an article upon a midnight rail road ride on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad. Wasliburne was re turning from his vacation to act as best man at the wedding of another member of the inter-Ocean stalf. The threo men, with General Passenger Agent Stone, wore riding upon the lo comotive. Stone left them to go Into tho dining car, and a moment later the train struck a misplaced switch, and the locomotive plunged through an en gine house. The engineer and fireman jumped and saved themselves, but the three newspaper men wore killed. .mim Hlmtntor nt ManclioHter. Manchester, N. II., Oct. 15.?The fly wheel of No. 7 mill ot the Amoskeag corporation burst about0.30 A. M, tear ing through tho lloor of tho lirst and second stories. Two persons are be lieved to have been killed outright aud a doyen badly wounded. Tho excite ment about the mill gates Is very great. Eleven girls were employed in the draw ing room over the steam pumping room ad joining the engine house. When tho wheel burst they were carried to the basement In the debris. Seven of them were caught in the heavy timbers and iron beams and badly injured. One died threo hours later. An enginoer named Blinker was taken out of the ruins dead. Eleven persons were In jured and one girl is missing. Proba bly two or three more deaths will result. Kol? Cliokod tho Wheel.! Maimishuuo, O., Oct. 10.?The tlour ing mill of l\ Eugleman has been com pelled to shut down the last few days for a most unusual reason. The water wheel hits been completely choked up with eels, and every few hours it would bo necessary to clean them out. Fifteen to twenty would be taken out each time, some weighing nearly live pounds. This never occurred before, and is ex plained that several years ago tho fish commission planted a lot of young eels In the Mai mi, above Dayton, which have now grown up, and in numbers aufll cient to stop ajmilh_ Hie Cotton NttrtlMy. NEW York, Oct. 17.?Tho total vis ible supply ol cotton for tho world Is 2,595,402 bales of which 2,210.802 hales are American, agalns^l ,919,473and 1, 128,97? respectively last year. Receipta at all Interior towns, 257,081; receipt? on plantation^ 112,811; crop insight, 4,804,380. _# Lout, With AH on Hoard. Boston, Oct. 16.?Tho schooner Re becca A. Taulano, Capt. Nickerson, of South Chatham, carrying a crew of soven men is no doubt lost, with all on board. She left Newport News, Vh* August 28, lor Galveston. with a cargo of coal, and hau not been heard of since.