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ESTABLISHED IN 18(5. NEWBERRY. S. C.. TI HRSDAY, JU'NEI,2r RC 15 ER -s) A GREAT FIRE IN NEW YORKJ Whole Blocks of Five and Six Story Buildings Ablu ie. NEW YORK, May 27.-Flames broke out at 1 :30 A. M., in the south end of the Belt Line stables on Tenth avenue, between 53d and 54th streets. The building was entirely destroyed, with sixteen hundred horses and nearly all the cars in the building. The flames were first seen by one of the night hands, who gave the alarm. The flames spread rapid ly and soon completely enveloped the building in their folds. It was a five story-building and cov ered a square, the block reaching back to Eleventh avenue. The up per stories were occupied by repair shops and combustible material, which blazed assoon as touched by the fire. The offices were situated in the east corner. They were in flames so quickly that there was no chance to save the books of the com pany. In the stables were over six teen hundred horses and several bun dred cars. Only ten horses and two cars were saved. The rest were all burned up. At 2 A. M. the walls of the build ing fell in with a terrible crash, send ing millions of sparks and blazing pieces oT wood high in Lhe air. The fire alarm of the three sixes had been made as soon as the fire chief arrived at the scene, and engines from all parts of the city with a'water tower and the hook and ladder companies were rapidly coming. The heat from the flaming building was so great that several firemen and two police men were prostrated. At 1.45 A. M. the flames, aided by the strong wind which was prevailing, had leaped across the wide avenue and communicated to the whole block en the east side between 53d and 54th streets. The block was com posed of six-story tenement houses and a coal yard. The terror stricken tenants poured out of the building like a swarm of bees, praying, fight ing and cursing by turns. The scene of terror was indescribable. The building burned rapidly, though the - fronts facing the svenue were of brown stone. By 2:30 A. M. they were completely gutted. The flames spread over the entire block of Ninth avenue. ;At 2:30 the next block below had caught on fire, and was burning fier'cely. The streets in* the vicinity, for blocks away, were filed with frightened, crying and woe-stricken tenants, fleeing from the ravages of the filamnes. The fire attracted thou sands of awe-stricken spectators. The tenement houses were thickly pepe.Every floor had from four i to five families. All were poor peo ple, who will lose all their property. The fire was got under control at 4 o'clock this morning. The stables, with their contents, and the frame houses on the opposite side of Tenth avenue, -and down 54th street, were destroyed. The loss will not be much less than $1,000,000. Elizabeth Walsh, 76 years old, one of the occupants of the house No. 540 West 54th street, which was burned, was sick in her bed. The police res cued her and brought her to the side.' 'walk, where she expired from fright and shock. - AFTER TIHE FIRE. NEW YORK, May 27.-The loss i5 now- estimated at' $1,325,000. Thbe fire raged from half-past 1 till day. break. The sun rose upon a scene of desolation, but with the tired fire. men masters of the situation. The bodies of 1.200 horses that had been smothered or burned alive were roast ing in the ruins of the stables. One wing of Jacob New's silk factory in 54th street and five brick tenements in that block have disappeared. Scarcely a trace was left of any of them save the corner tenement on Tenth avenue, the front of which yet stands. A row of frame rookeries on Tenth avenue, fronting the stables, *had been wiped out, and of the shanty settlement all the way down 53d street, from Tenth av-enue to within 300 feet of Eleventh avenue, nothing was left save blackened rocks and rows of dead goats, dogs, pigs and horses that had been burned to death ithe vai' scramble for life. iMore tnan 100 famnilies, to a great extent very poor people, had been rendered homeless, and one woman' had perished from fright in the ex citement. Any number of people, including firemen and police, had been prostrated by the consuming heat. Men, women and children wandered aimlessly over the ruins of their wrecked homes, bereft of their all and bewildered at the sudden and crushing blow. Their losses, though mostly insignificant in amount, were 1)accumulations of a lifetime. The in anrance is less than $500,000. The street ear company carried $310,000 insurace divided among 150 con panies. Noble Words. Jefferson Davis has given voice to many noble sentiments, clothed in words that impressed them strongly upon readers and auditors alike, but he seems recently to have touched a chord that has a far-reaching re sponse. In the course of a recent speech before the Press Association of Mississippi, Mr. Davis used these words: "But now those scenes and inci dents have passed. and they only live in mind and history. United "ou are now, and if the union is ever to be broken, let the other side break it. The army of the South will shine forever around the camp fires, and will shine to our children's children. The truths we fought for shall not encourage you to ever fight again; but keep your word in good or evil." Nobody dares doubt the loyalty of Mr. Davis to the Southern people during their separate national exit tence. and there is still lese room to question his devotion to them and to their rights during the period when those rights were counted as nothing by the government of the United States. No other man can more safely and consistently utter such a sentiment as that just quoted. From no other lips could these words iuve more effect upon those who were once wont to belittle and abuse him. Of the impression made by his re cent speech, some extracts from Northern papers will give a good idea. The Philadelphia Times, in com menting on the speech, says: '-With slavery the South got rid of its foolish and antiquated notions about the degradation of work, and with work and the development of the natural resources, which had been hid as in a napkin heretofore, the South has found out the source of real strength. It would take a man of much duller perception than Jef ferson Davis not to recognize all this, and it is to his credit that he has made up his mind to declare in words what he must have long felt in his heart." The Springfield Republican rejoices in Mr. Davis's sentiments, and thinks that "he grows more lively and modern every day." The New York Evening Post makes this deduction from the remarks of Mr. Davis: "For a long time, whatever else failed, the venerable bloody shirt shakers, like Senator Hoar, could fall back upon Jeff Davis and Bob Toombs and say that they were jnst as bad rebels as ever they were. But Toombs is dead, and now Davis has become reconciled. There is nothing to cling to, and Horace Greeley's memorable prediction may be said to be fulfilled: -Your at tempt to base a great, enduring party upon the hate and wrath necessarily engendered b'y a bloody civil war is as though you should plant a colony on an iceberg which had somehow drift ed into a tropical ocean.'" ~The Philadelphia Press has these good words to say : "There is nothing in the speech of Jefferson Davis at Meridian, Miss., that can provoke the suspicions of the most jealous lover of the Union. The ex-Confederate chieftain spoke for the Union and expressed the sen timent that 'if the Union is ever to be broken, let the other side break it.'" The Philadelphia Newcs says that this speech marks an epoch in American history, and sounds the death-knell of sectionalism. It con tinues: "-The strength of mind, the mental courage required to enable Jeff Davis to say ,to his people, "the truth'we fought for shall' not encourage you ever to fight again,' demands cordial recognition. For the first time in nearly thirty years the North can well afford to put aside resentment and to join the South in praise of Jeff Davis." It is a healthy sign when utterances of the leader-of the so-called Rebel lion is taken as sincere and is ap plauded as an evidence of genuine I patriotism. Jefferson Davis may live long enough to have the good will of every good citizen ofth Union. The Good of a Cyclone. A Cyclone out west picked up a barrel of whiskey and dropped it in a prohibition State. The people have since declared that ,a cyclone is a very respectable institution, and want to know how the country could get on withont them. DASHED TO THEIR DEATH. The Horse Shoe Bend Catastrophe. PITTsBUCG, IA., May 28.-Thi latest reports from the scene of th< accident at Horse Shoe Bend on thi Pennsylvania railroad last night stato that eight were killed and six injured Four were killed outright and other. have since died. The ill-fated trair arrived at Union Depot in this cit3 at 4 :30 o'clock this morning witi some ninety passengers aboard. Foi four long hours a group of anxiou: mortals paced up and down the pass age ways, lingering impatiently and in awful suspense as to the fate o1 their friends who had taken passagc on the fast line and were expected tc arrive in the city at 11 :55 last night Many were the inquiries of the de partment officials regarding the na ture of the accident of which all had heard, but either they could not o1 would not give the particulars. EVERY MINUTE SEEMS AN HOUR to the crowd, and when the shrill whistle at last signalled the arrival of the wrecked train all eyes were turned toward it. Almost the firsi person to .tep from the train was Miss McMahon, a school teacher in Florida, who was on her way home in Beaver Falls. this State. Miss McMahon, furnished an account ci the awful accident which overtook the fast train. HER STORY IN HER OWN WORDS. "I was sitting about the middle of the second coach from the engine, The train was running at a high rate when the accident occurred. The shock was terrific. I was thrown violently against the seat in front of me. The train stopped suddenly. In a minute all was confusion and I was at a loss to know what had hap. pened. I soon heard shrieks from the passengers in the coach in the rear of the one I was in, and I at once knew that something awful had happened. I raised the window and looked out. The sight frightened me. The entire sides of two coaches im mediately in the rear of the one I was in were crushed in. I could see the passengers climbing out over the coal cars lying on the adjoining track. The passengers who were not injured assisted in removing the killed and wounded. It was a sight that I will never forget. Several women in the car swooned away when they saw what happened." HEARTRENDING scENEs. .J. H. Peach, of the Belleville Mef. flin, this State, was a passenger on the third coach from the smoking car and related a graphic account of the heartrending scenes which followed the death dealing crash. "I was sit ting," he said "about four seats to the rear of Dale Graham when the trains collided. The entire side of our coach was crushed in and young Graham was literally buried beneath the ruins, but one moan escaped his lips and he must have died instantly, for he was about the first victim we set about to recover. When extri ated from the wreck his form was lifeless. The side of the car was crushed down on top of him, and this, with a large quantity of coal from the freight car, had crushed out the young man's life before any assist* ance could be rendered. I never want to witness such distressing scenes again. It makes my flesh uiver when I think of it. woMEN'S CRtI.S. The piercing shrieks of the women ingled with the agonizing cries of the men completely overpower me now, although when the sad calamity ccurred I managed to keep posses sion of my senses, and aided in res uing the victims to the best of my ability. We must have been run ning at the rate of thirty miles an hour at the time it occurred, and the freight, I should judge, was going about twelve miles an hour. The freight was heavily loaded, and the terrible rash caused a p)anic among the pass. engers. I am surprised that three times as many were not dashed into ternity." hILLED) AND INJURED. The official list of the filled and injured furnished by the railroad ompany gives six killed and eight inured. The names of the killed are as fol. ows: Dale B. Graham, son of ex. Speaker Graham of Alleghany; Wy. mer Snyder, of Shamokin, Pa.; Jno. Doris, of East Liberty; tihe news boy, Jno. H. Stauff'er, of Louisville, Ohio; Cha's.. Biedleman, of Brinsfield, No. ble County, Ind.; Chas. E. Morrell, of No. 75 East Fifty-Third street, New York. Two of tihe eight injured are reported dead, but the report is not confirmed. Neither train was rnning at high speed, or the disaster would have been greater. The acci ld en anaued by the breaking of an axle on the freight train, causing a freight car to drop toward the ad joining track the moment the passen ser train was passing. The President Off for a Week of Sport in the Adirondacks. WASHINGTON, May 2G.-The Pres. ident, accompainied by Mrs. Cleve land asd Col. and Mrs. Lamont, left here at 4 o'clock this afternoon for Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks, t in a special car on the Pennsylvania C Railroad. A small crowd of people, t including several military men, as sembled on the portico of the White House to see the party take their a carriages, but they made no demon 0 e stration. The trip to the lake will be made direct, with as few delays t as possible. All the members of the party seem to be in the best of health s and spirits, and the shotguns and fishing. tackle included in their bag- o gage show that they mean to have a pleasant time. Pig Iron Blasts for the South. t BALTiMOnE, May 2.-The IIon. c Wm. D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, who has returned from a trip of sev eral months to the South, .will be- D gin in this week's edition of the c Afanufacturers' Record a series of P elaborate articles upon the agricul- a tural and industrial progress and possibilities of that section. The d first article, w:Iich appears in to-mor- a row's issue, is devoted to the past, present and future of Florida, In- 0 cidental to his treatment of the sub- r ject. quoted, Kelley makes a strong b protection tariff argament. A Similarity. Chemists tell us that ninety per d cent of a man is water. So is most t of the railroad stock in this country. s -" + - - - C The Wrong Man Shot in Open Court. ST. Louis, May 2G.-A special from Rockvile, Mo., says: The shooting to death of John Vander a berg in the court room yesterday, during his preliminary examination, C on the charge of outraging Jennie Anderson, is now believed to be a horrible mistake, and notwithstand d ing she was the victim of soite man's s lust and identified Vanderberg as the man, yet her identification was that a uncertainty that usually fixes the crime on the first person arrested. COULD HE HAVE DONE THE DEED. :Vanderberg~ was cooking for a camping party four miles from the scene of the outrage at three o'elock that afternoon, and at five o'clock he was again in camp. The coroner's t jury censured' the Jiudge for not dis- I arming and watching the Anderson boys and Ed. Evans, from whom something desperate was expected, and they brought in a verdict of murder against Lint Anderson and t Ed. Evans.t CONsTABLEs OFF TIiEIR~ GUARD. Testimony shows that the consta bles were watching these men, bute were thrown off their guard by their composed manner while the Judge was reviewing the testimony. Scarce. ly had he pronounced "hold the de fendant in $10,000 bond," than Lint Anderson had sent two shots through Vanderberg's body and Ed. Evans fired two more. Friends of the mur- n dered man have been found, and de- d clare that they will prosecute to the c< end. Ic p -'Louder, G.abriel, Louder.". One of the best replies eve,r made ta is said to be that of the brilliant but n erratic Tom Marshall, of Kentucky, in 4 answer to one who interrupted him a while he was speaking to a vast au- p dience in Buffalo, N. Y. When Mar- it shall was eloquently picturing the 1: glorious liberty, and each sentence ~ tell from his lips as chaste and beau. tl tiful as the marble block comes from s1 tile sculptor's hand, some political ti opponent in tile aud.ience cried out: a -Louder, louder !' 31arshall did not d at first tumble to the trick, but on i being interrupted again by the same si cry, he paused in his magnificent t< flight of eloquence and1 said :t "-Mr. Presideit :-On the last and t' final day of this our mortal earth, tl when the angel Gabriel shall take T1 his departure from the blue domes ti of heaven, and placing one foot upon ri the rolling sea and the other upon t< the land, shall lift to his U.ps the J golden trumpet and announce in his a clarion notes that time shall be no y more; when amid the gushing melo- k~ dies of angelic choirs, he shall an- i nounce to the pale form of the res- d urrected dead that the day of imor- ti tality is at hand, and the souls of 3 men sball rise from the tomb, I have v no .doubt, sir, but 'That some d-d t< fool from Buffalo will start up and g c-r e.nt: 'Louder, Gabriel. louder?' " J A CROWNING OVATION. lontreal's Farewell Tribute to O'Brien on his Leaving Canada. MONTREAL, May 27.-What was lone here this evening in honor of Vin. O'Brien was meant as a crown ng demonstration. This was the irst place he spoke after "invading" Ia:iada. But the reception tendered him hen was tendered by Irish so ieties almost exclusively, while he reception to-night was not alone ' Irish societies, but by all other ity organizations, French-Canadian ssociations predominating. No soon r had O'Brien reached here last ight than a meeting of representa ive French-Cana ians were held in tichelieu Hall, at which the general entiment seemed to be in favor of ,viting O'Brien to stay there and ffering him all hospitalities. To this end Mr. Durocher, the pro rietor, and other French Canadians raited on O'Brien and made known heir wishes, but he was obliged to ecline. the torchlight parade was magnificent spectacle. While YBrien was speaking from the balco y of the St. Lawrence Hall, after his arriage had been hauled through the rincipal streets, one man trod upon nother man's foot. The man groaned rith pain, and people thought he was issenting from' O'Brien's remarks nd intent on creating a row. The audience "went for him" as ne man, and before he had time to ecover himself and explain, he was adly bruised and cut. His name is hort. He is editor of the Canadiar Vorkman, and is a warm sympathizer rith O'Brien. In the grand parade, after the eputations from outside towns, came Le carriage in which O'Brien was ated with Dennis Kilnride, H. J. ,loran, president of the National ,eague, D. Barry, president of the t. Patrick's Society, and J. B. .ane. At least 8,000 men carried torches, nd as hey filed pass St. Lawrence [all, on the balcony of which 1'Brien stood with the American ewspaper men and officers of the )cal League, there was set up; a eafening cheer. In the principal treets along the route the houses -ere illuminated and electric lights nd fire crackers flashed. O'Brien nd his friends stood on the upper allery of the Larins Hotel from 'hich the speeches were made. In eighboring streets there were at ~ast 30,000 persons. Not far away, t Ottawa and Young streets, was rother Arnold, of St. Ann's Chris an Brothers' School, with his dive undred students, standing and ap lauding until they were hoarse. 'hey sang the Irish national an ew, "God save Ireland." O'Brien, surveying the scene, irned to the Associated Press re orter and said he had never seen nything finer outside of Ireland, or ren in Ireland.. H. J. Cloran, president of the local ranch of the National League, pre ded. Saving Time in Court. Columbia Record. A good deal is said about the edless consumption of time by the ifferent courts of justice, and the ansequent expense to the several >unties. Sometimes the newspa ers compliment a Judge for baying, ia given time, done a great quanti rof work. There is a general im ression that the law's delay is fre ently exemplified in the hearing of cause, as stronlgly as in the various roceedings preparatory to the join g of issue. It is charged upon .wyers that they are seldom ready len they ought to be, and that, in icir cases, they fight too long over mall matters. The real truth is iat the postponement of a cause is lmost always attributable to acci ent or to neglect of the litigant. It equally true thpt as seemingly mall things must frequently de ~rmine an issue involving great ings t.o either side, go it is that ose little things often constitute e only fighting-ground in a case. h,e proper judge of these matters is ec lawyer .who has charge of the ghts of his client-subject of course, > a proper control by the presiding udge. Few lawyers care to prolong hearing in order to kill time. Law ers ought to know, and they do now, that to become tiresome either 1 argument or in examination is to amage their case even before a pa ent Judge--to say nothing of juries. lost lawyers prepare their causes eli beforehand. They are presumed > know their business, and they enerally do. When, therefore, either udge or juryman undertakes to say how much or how little importance to be attached to any point, before has been fully presented, he runs ti risk of doing injustice. A hast Judge is the next worst thing to a ignorant one. More than one ca: has been taken to the appellate conu because, in common phrase, the trii Judge "went off half cocked." Mot than one Judge in South Carolin has wasted valuable time in hurryin other pecple up. There is, of course, in the populi mind an idea that the chief functio of a Judge is that of a mere pesidin officer. It is told somewhere that certain Judge, growing impatient the delay in the trial of a cause, sai to the lawyer: "You must uude: stand, sir, that this courts sit ft for the dispatch of business." "Ah ! replied the lawyer. "I beg you Honor's pardon. I thought the cou sat for the administration of justice. This distinction might be studied t some advantage by those who deet it complimentary to say of a Judg that he beats the record in the nun per of cases tried per day. Nobody tolerates waste of tim where time is so valuable as it is i the courts of South Carolina. N< body can criticise a Judge becaus he urges pnnctuality upon ever3 body who has business in cour But there is a middle ground betwee sloth and impatience which ever Judge would do well to find. Tb one may cost the people money-th other may cost the individual som valuable right. Perhaps the Judge who attract most attention in urging against th wasting of the time of the court i the Judge who, being a good t8lkei does, most naturally, delight to hes himself talk. The juries make up a auditory whose attentiou is moi earnest, albeit it is compulsor3 Jurors and witnesses who happen t be tardy in attending court come i frequently for a measure of.norali; ing which, while serving in a gres degree to relieve the tedium of th proceedings, is nevertheless an ei pensive employment of the function of the lecturer or the Sunday-schoc superintendent. Witnesses whos vocabulary is inadequate to the ters statement of the facts they reall; wish to ttll, not unfrequently com in for a share of rebuke from J'idg or lawyer, on the score of savin time. Each functionary might rE member tbat his interruption nearl; always consumes more time thai would the homely statement of t man on the stand. One good means of expeditini business in court is to make use, a far as possible, of every moment c time. If one case can't (or won't be tried, it is better to go immediate ly into another. rather than bemosa the indifference of people to the d( mands of the court. In furtherini the proceedings, the skill of the pre siding officer is frequenty as valuabl to all parties as the learning of th Judge. How to apply that skil: without danger of unseemly baste,i a difficult task. The co-operatio: of attorneys with the presiding Judgi to the end of a prompt disposal c cases, will go further than anythini else to make it an easy one. 'The Virginia Elections. NOR:FOLK, May 27.-In Norfoll County the Republican straight ticke is elected by a large majority ove the Citizens' or Fusion ticket. As bury, colored, is elected Commor wealth's attorney, which is said to b the first time in the history of th State where a colored man has beel elected to this position. Portsmout1 City elected the Labor ticket. STAUNTON, VA., May 27.-In Au gusta County the general Democrati ticket was elected by from 500 t 1,200 majority. The Republican carry some minor offices, includin two of the six supervisors H ARRIsONBURG,YA.,May 27.--Semi official returns from all precints il this county show the following re sult of the election for county officer: yesterday : Harrison (Rep.) defeat Yancy (Ind. Dem.) by 700 majority for Commonwealth's attorney; Mes soley (Ind. Dem.) defeats Lewi (Rep.) by 150 majority, for Count: Court clerk; Martz (Ind. -Dem.) dE feats Black (Rep.) by 150 majority for Circuit Court clerk. The Re publicans elect a full board of supt visors and nearly all the distric officers. WINCH EsTER, VA., Itay 27.-red erick County elects the entire Den ocratic ticket, except one commis sioner. The Democrats did not hay a ticket in the city election. Cor cil was elected from three tickets the Temperance ticket, Citizens ticket and a ticket of Republicans supposed tn be non-natisan. s THE THREE C'S RAILROAD. it - A Rumor that it is Owned by the Soul e Carolina Railway. y . n Special to the ZNews and Courier. e AUGUSTA, May 25.-THE NEV t AND COURIER published last wee Lil the news of the probable consolidatic e of the Georgia and Carolina Midlan a with the Charleston, Cincinnati at g Chicago Company. President Mite ell, of the former company, said tV .r day that the plan of consolidatic n has been agreed upon and would t g presented to the joint meeting to 1 a held in Columbia on the 1st of Jun f The plan guarntees the'completiu 1 of the Midland from Black's to A, gusta, where conjunction will be mad r with the South Carolina. Railwa; giving Charlestion another Wester r connection. Plenty of money is sai t to be behind the combination, and " is reported here that the wealth 0 owners of the South Carolina Rai n way are the money power. They ai e tired of unfriendly connections .her I- it is rumored, and are moving for strong and straight connection wit e Ohio River points. n Gen. M. C. Butler is in the city t day, and as a member of the boar e of directors of the great Three C Company, he strongly favors the coi t" solidation. The proposed line wi n run through the richest mineral sei Y tions of North and South Carolin: e Virginia and Kentucky, and its con e pletion is regarded as certain. e . A Question of Taste. s - e Abberille Medium. s A short time ago the"Columbia Re ord and the Greenille News engage r in a discussion as to whether the tit] of "Mr." should be used in newspap< t articies. We cannot recall on whi . side the respective papers were a 0 rayed. We have positive views o a the subject. The name of a perso of any distinction-is enough withot t the prefix. Only the small fry shoul e have "Mr." put in front of their name This rule applies when the Christia s name is used and it is in good sty] , to use "Mr." only when the surnanc e is given. We would say Grov< e Cleveland and only use the pref when Grover is left out and we spea e of Mr. Cleveland. It would be al e surd to speak of Mr. Wade Hampto or Mr. M. C. Butler. It is better t say Wade Hampton and M. C. Butle We leave off the prefix when we:nan SWilliaam Shakespeare, Oliver Gol< Ssmith, Paul Hayne and other men < note. ,So it is in the case of women< Scelebrity. We say Susan B. Anthon: SHarriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Ande: son, Jenniy Lind, Christine Neilsoi &c. 2The best newspapers in the countr have left off these titles even in mal ,riage notices and obituaries excej where the bride or the deceased haj Spens to be married, or a widow, an e then "Mrs." is used. Half Told Horrors of the Fire ofth S~Paris Opera Comuique. ~, Special Cable Dispatch to the Star. f PAars, May 26.-Nothing sav Sruins remains of the pretty Oper Comique, destroyed by fire last nigli with., shocking loss of life. Thus fa more than sixty dead and charre bodies have been taken from the de C bris. Abopit twilight the walls fel t in with a great crash and aparty c r rescuers barely escaped with thei lives. Late this afternon the bodies c e eighteen ladies, all in full dres: B were found lying together at the bol 2 tom of the staircase leading from th a second story. These ladies al had escorts to the tWeater, but no rt -mains of men were found anywher anear where the women were burne > to death. 3 The library attached to the theate ;was entirely destroyed, with all it contents, including many valuabi -scores. Six thousand costumes wer I burned in the wardrobe. -The remains of three men and tw a women were found in the stage bos 3 where the victims had taken re,fug ,from the flames. It is ascertaine that many bodies lie buried in th a debris in the upper galleries, whenc i escape was exceedingly diifficult. Th government proposes to close severs 'of the Paris theaters because of thei deficiency in exits. -Forty bodies were taken from th t ruins in a terribly mutilated cond tion. The remains are principall -those of ballet girls, choristers an Smachinists. Five of the bodies ar Sthose of elderly ladies, and one c e them is that of a child. The fireme lowered some of the bodies from th Ifourth story of the theater by mean ~ of ropes. 'The streets in the vicinity of th burned thater were crowded all da? Doctors attended many persons who were bruised. Mr. Sewell, solicitor of the British Embassy, said that the audience showed great calmness when the alarm was given. When s the gas was extinguished he groped k his way to the balcony and saw peo. n ple in the street laying straw_mat d tresses to receive persons jumping d from the windows. He was ulti. . mately rescued by firemen. . The bodies of ballet dancers who n lost their lives by the burning of the e Opera Comique last night are lying e in heaps in the ruins of the theater. e. The number of persons killed greatly n exceeds the previous estimates. An 2 excited crowd surround the ruins, Ie which are guarded by a military cordon. Many distressing scenes n are witnessed. d Thus far 156 persons have made it inquiries at the hospitals and police y stations .for missing relatives .be 1. lieved to have perished in the Opera .e Comique. The excavated portions e, beneath the opera house are filled a with water to the depth of five feet, ,h and the firemen engaged in searching' for bodies have .discovered floating . about more than sixty corpses. d Owing to th dangerous condition of s the walls still standing, hc'v er,nmo ' 2. effort has been made to recover the i1 bodies, and nothing will be done in. that way until the safety of the workers is made more secure by the . removal of the tottering masonry. Workmen are now hard at work pulling down the walls, and attempts will likely be made to get the float. ing bodies during the night. It is now believed that fully 150 persons lost their lives. d e The Opera Comique was one of r the theaters subsidized by the French Lt government, which contributed $50, r- 000 a year toward its support. It a stood on the Place des Italiens, in - n the angle formed by the Boulevard it des Italiens and the Avenue de d l'Opera. It faced the Rue Favart . - the Rue de Marivaux and the Place n Boieldeu,- and was one of the land le marks of the- period of Louis Phil. *e lippe. It occapied the old site of the' r Favart Hall, which was also destroyed x by fire, and was first opened~to the k public in 1838. The interior construction was in n every way defective, and it has been 0 often remarked that should a fire r- ever break out a terrible catastrophe-_:, e would result. The structure was, - however, a very fine one, and ac fcommodated 1,500 people. As in the case of several other Parisian Ttheaters, ladies were not admitted .to rthe orchestra seats or stalls. Ba&) r- of every box was. a small saloon . ', where refreshments were served-be- - tween the acts. The ventilation was y unusually good, the air being1sup 7 - plied from the ceiling, while~in sund tmer it was cooled by ice, the fouled Sair finding egress from the openings d in the ceiling. 1 The Opera Comique was under the management of M. Carvalho, and~ ewas devoted to the representation-of of the lighter styles of national music. . It will be remembered as the house ' e where Miss Van Zandt was subjected, a a year or two ago, to a display of ill " t temper on the part of the audience A Remedy Suggested. ~ sLaure*ille Herald. Iisto be hoped that a time will come when those who administer t,he rcriminal law in South Carolina will ' be made to realize that whenever they compound a felony by turning4 criminals loose who are able to pay the costs and the prosecutor a fee, that they must suffer a penalty. Our laws are sufficient to punish crime but the failure is in the execution. e - It is no,t voing' too far to say that for every three persons who are arrested, and evidence is at hand' rsufficient to convict, two of that num 5 be- are never made to feel the pen.-~ e .. which the law prescribes. Trial Justices, especially, seem to forget that they have no power to withdraw prosecutions, but will frequently lib erate the person charged, if theo prosecutor is .satisfied with the price e he has received.- - e It is hoped that a time will come e when ne guilty man will escape, anid .it is also earnestly to be desired that ~ r some provision will be made by - which the labor of these petit offen4 --' ders can be utilized on the public highways, instead of being a burden upon the honest tax-payers. Let the Trial Justice system be abolished eand have one court in each county to investig'atr these trivial changes, and let the sentence of this court extend to one years labor on the public works j of the county. By this means 'crime will be decreased and at the same time our roads can be kept in' good conditioa.