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WEDNESDAY, JAS. 8. 189?T The Palace of a Clialdeai Sing. Hie mounds of Telloh are situated a o far fros tbe point of junction, [of th* rifer &ie] with the Tigris. The groa] of monads of which Telioh wrns th* principal all forme??parts or quarters o an important etty. The numerou bricks, kt scri bed stones, cylinders, an< statnes brought to light by the explore: revealed to ns very clearly the nairn and topography of this ancient town The raters of the etty all call themsel vei prince* of the city of Sippara OJ Sirpurra-a word which, I think, m earn the etty of the "great flame." Fron the same sources we learn the roya quarter, and apparently the oldest por? tion, was called by tbe name of Gi rsc Ki, or "the land of Girsio." loser ip tiona were found here of monarchs already Known to ns-Urbana, whose records were found at Ur, Erech, and S>t her sites; G ad ea and Duo gi, mon? archs whoso reigns had been approx? imately planed between B. C. 3000 and 2800-so that it was evident that the explorers had struck npon a city of great antiquity. The careful and systematically conducted explorations of the French explorer and his work - jnen soon laid bare the rains of a larg J and massively built ?difi?e, in? cluding evidently the functions of temple and palace. The building was of the massive style of construction, such as we -were familiar with in the W os was ruin at Warka, the ancient Erech, or the temple ti the sun-god at Sippara, since discovered by Hr. Rasgara. Although raised on a platform of .unbaked bricks rising to a height of nearly forty feet, the edifice at Telioh does not at first strike ns either by its size or its arrangement, especially when compared with the vast palaces of Sargon at' Kborsabed, or those of Sennacherib and Assnrbanipal at Nineveh. It forms a parallelogram covering an area of about 172 feet io length with s depth of 101: feet, while all the groups of the building are arranged at right augie? to the enclosing salb. These walls are of great thick? ness, being no doubt so con? structed to exelude the intense heat of the too, having a normal thickness of nearly eight feet, and are eon? str noted of large square bricks comen ted together by bitumen. Each of these brisks bears upoo it the inscription of Gudea, who calls himelf patesi or '^HesVkwg*' ef Sippara, and conse? crates the edifice to the god of the city Nin-Girsn. Thus from these bricks we learn at once the main facts re? lating to the etty, and the ?difie which formed its acropolis. It requires but a slight examination of the 'details of this plan to see that it is one with which we have been Ibng familiar. Its internal arrangement is exactly that of the palace of Sargon li. (B C 722) at Ko ors abad, and which .survives to the present day io the mod ern Oriental noble's house of Cairo or JSaghdad. h consists of three distinct portions: first, the large open court, wich the storehouses, guardroom, and offices on the left ; on the right the royal apartments, reception-rooms, etc. ; and behind these, seel oded and guarded by corridors protected by double doors, the most private portions, where the queen -and her attendants dwelt. These three divisions corres? pond to tue dur or fortress, the hekal or palace, and the purakJcu or harem in the Assyrian palaces ; and to the offices. selamKk, and harem of the modern. Oriental house. The antiquity of this arrangement is but another example of the wonderful conservatism of Oriental life. There is another por? tion which deserves special notice: this is the massive tower, approached, by a broad staircase, which was the siggurat, or watch-tower and observatory, attached, no doubt, to the temple o? the god Nin-Girsu, and which corres? ponds to the private mosque of wealthy Orientais. Soco was the abode of royalty of the great "priest-king** Gudea, who over four thousand years ago exercised dominion and judgment over the people of Chaldea. lu the ruins of this edifice and in the adjacent mounds the explorer found au astonishing number of memo? rials of this great ruler, and of the ikiogs who preceded him, showing by them most clearly the power and culture of the empire, and affording undisputable proof of the vast antiquity we most assign to the beginning of Chaldean civilisation.-From "Egypt and Chaldea in the Light of Recent Discoveries, by W. St. Chad Bosca wed, in Harper's Magazine for January. III Wm The Spartanburg Tragedy. SPARTANBUKG, December 29. The j coroner's jury remained in session last Dight until about ll o'clock, when they j rendered a verdict that Henry Palmer i came to his death by a gunshot wound inflicted by Constable Blayton while resisting arrest. There was a division of opinion among the jurymen and it was difficult for them to reach a verdict. The facts of the case are about as j follows : Henry Palmer had been selling whiskey. Constable Pearson j induced a man to go and purchase a j package from him. On that knowledge he had two warrants taken ont, ooe to i arrest Henry Palmer and his sister and the other to search the boase, instead of making the arrest in itbe day time, three constables, Pearson, Jackson and Blayton, accompanied by two or three other persons, one of whom said he was also a constable, went to make the arrest about 8 o'clock at night. Palmer was io the boose. Two women and a small boy were also there. A loaded shotgao was on the bed: The arrest was made. Palmer made an attempt to escape. A scuffle eosued. The con? stables swear that one of the women tried to ose the shotgao, bat Jackson captured it. Ooe witness swore that Blaytoo or one of the constables said .?Shoot him." Sooo after that a goo was fired from the outside or about the door while Palmer and Blaytoo were scuffling. Some of the constables say that the first firing was done in the boase. I The testimony conflicts. None of them saw any goo io the house except Palraer's, which was loaded when captured. One man outside had a gun. The impresssion prevails that he aimed to s hoot Palmer when he was attempt? ing to rash from the door and by mistake shot Blaytoo. That is the ooly plausible theory. Theo Blayton says he fired twice as Palmer was getting away. The second shot that brought bim down was some distance from the house. These are the facts of the case. Four constables, with one or two others, weot there fully armed to arrest a man who had no arms. 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