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. BURNED TO DEATH.
Many Children’s Lives Lost in the
Brooklyn Orphan Asylum.
Their harred Remains Discovered
in the Ruins,
first reports 'stated that only two or three
livos were lost -at the partial destruction by
fire of St. John’s Catholic Orphan asylum in,
Brooklyn. In the hurry, and fright
and excitement of getting the able
bodied children out of the burning asylum
the bedridden little ones in Sister Mary Jose¬
phine’s quarantine ward, on the top floor of
the infirmary were forgotten. The woman
whose special duty it was to care for them had
been nearly killed by a fall from the roof in
attempting to escape, and was on her way to
the hospital. She died soon afterward with¬
out letting any one know definitely whether
any children were in the ward when she
left it. In the ashes underneath their room,
bones representing- nine little bodies were
found on the following day, with other re.
mains representing certainly one and possi¬
bly two women. Of the children in the
Home, estimated at 785, though those in
charge can give no certain number, 1 all
but forty-eight were accounted for on the
following ficial night. Only a preliminary super:
examination nf the ruins was made, and
. it thought
was more than probable that other
bodies would be found iu u thorough search.
The list of victims numbered eleven, and it
was believed that it would reach twenty when
the investigation was ended.
Sister Anthony, who had another ward on
the floor below that in charge of Sister Jo
sophine, children managed, with assistance, to get all
her out iu safety. They had been
trained in the school room to march out with¬
out confusion in case of fire at a signal from
the tedeher. When she learned of the fire
she said:
been “Now, children, remember what you have
Those taught, who and you will get out safely.”
were able to do so tramped
down the stairs as deliberately as though they
were ill going out to recess. Others, who were
too to rise, wore soon carried out by strong
arms, and put in places of safetv before the
firemen arrived. When the high wind had
swept the flames across a narrow passageway
to the root of the main building the efforts
of the fireincn were turned princi¬
pally iu that- direction. No one
dreamed of anybody being left in the infirm
iV’ v ~i in and the tin roar
ing inside the r- Mus Art! :, a great fufffiade/
About midnight,p-fter everything wavnuder
control and people began to-'talk matters
over, children somebody inquired floor, for who the half-blind in
on the upper were no
condition to get out by- themselves, and whom
everybody else , seemed to havo forgotten.
A few firemen poked around in the red
hot ruins, but they soon found it impossible
to do anything id that direction until daylight.
The most definite information attainable was
that eleven children suffering from ophthal¬
mic. that intlainmatioii, kind, confined common the in institutions isolated of
were in ward
and had not been accoimtedJbr. But nobody
knew for a certainty. No one had been al¬
lowed to go near them but the sister whose
voice was stilled in death.
As soon as daylight McGroarty, made an examination
possible Company Foreman No. jumped of Engiue
14, into the steaming
mass of ruins with a shovel and began to look
around. Early as it was po-ople stood around
ami watched him anxiously. Amid a mass
of iron beams, bent and twisted by file heat,
he saw a child’s tody, burned aud charred
beyond all possibility of recognition—the
limbs separated from the trunk and the
skull nothing but a blackened bone.
which It was lying about the where the staircase ended
ran from engine room to the
attic. Evidently the little fellow had run
down stairs and had been unable to llnd his
way out of the nit of fire and smote. The
iron beams had fallen in such away as to pre¬
vent tlie roof from smothered falling on him. He hud
doubtless been to death. Calling
a few men to help him. Mr. McGroarty began
to turn over the debris for Jiodies which be
felt only too sure of finding buried in it.
Tho firemen did not have to look long, or to
go far beneath the surface. The remains
of four more little ones were found in a
heap they close had to the blackened wall, as though
huddled until! together in a corner,
and staid there the floor gave way
and dropped them into the pit of fire
beneath. In less than bodies!—eight an hour the fragm cuts
of certainly nine picked children and
one adult—had been out from tlit
smoldering heap. TIi- y were tied upinsouked
blankets and earned in t^io 1- tho sewing room,
about the only room iu asylum fit for use.
Boon after 9 o’clock the {firemen went home
* for needed rest,leaving three men to “drown”
the ruins and a squad ot policemen to keep
the crnV'd v.:jth.i:i roflspnnhle hounds.
During the early' morning hours there Epis¬ were
copal many hospital, affecting whence scenes in find kirge about number the of the
a
children had been removed during the night.
Mothers, fathers aud relatives of the little in¬
mates of the burned ii stitution, who had
spent the whole of Alie ni; lit going from house
to house in the i uniediate vicinity
of the burning building searching
for their children, gave full expres¬
sion to their agony- as they passed from placo
to sions place without finding them. Those aud expres¬
of grief, however, every now then
gave place to shouts aud tears of joy, as one
after another the little ones were recognized.
Some of the incidents aud expressions were
touching who in tho hail extreme,.ns well-nigh succumbed some of tlie to poor the
women,
menial strain and anguish attending their
search, would clasp their children to their
breasts amid sobs and wild unit endearing ex¬
pressions. ‘Oh,
Irish me darling whose boy,” uncovered exclaimed hair all dis¬ old
hevelled woman, and with weeping. was
her ey es red “I
thought you was burned to death an’ I’d
never see yer dear little face any more,
Jimmy,” anil she hugged and kissed her little
flaron-Uaired child, whose ‘oyes were filled
with tears.
“I’ve seen many affecting scenes in my
life,” said the superintendent, “but never
anything real joy ’’—and compared to this—never shriek so startled much
as he spoko a
all in the adjoining ward. There a poor woman
named Hartigau, of East New York, had
fallen in a swoon, riht* had arrived at-the in¬
stitution but half au hour before in search of
her child, she seemed beside herself with ex
citemeut, seemed and as she scanned the little faces it
as if the poor woman's heart would
break. Her eyes were dry, but they betrayed
suppressed emotion. As she entered a ward
on the west side her eyes vested for a moment
on dimpled-cheeked a seven-year-old little curly-headed and
fellow boils .who was the center
of a group of a dozen at play.
“Oh, Willie. My UoSt, he’s safe!" l she
WEST BOWEBSVILLE, GA„ SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1885.
shrieked, and rushed to his sitfe with the
fieetness of a Jeer. The next moment the
poor mother had fallen insensible at her darl¬
ing's shoe. feet, her left hand touching his little
The child was momentarily frightened by
the sudden appearance and fall of his mother,
and the other little fellows ran out of the
room,-crying “Lady dead! lady dead! v
When a couple of the nurses arrived hur¬
riedly beside on the scene little Willie was on his
knees his mother, caressing her and
smoothing Mamma back her hair. "W’at’s*matter
mamma? sick? Det up mamma
an 1 tiss me." lisped the little fellow, great
Jears falling from his eyes. The woman was
soon resuscitated with the aid of restoratives
and the endearing* expressions as she caught
her, again, boy up in her arms, kisftig him again and
was something to BS remembered.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS
Senate.
Mr. Hill called up Ills resolution declaring
it to be tile sense of tbe Senate that there was
no reason for the suspension of the coinage
of silver dollars or for the issue of
silver certificates. The bill was dis¬
cussed w ithout action by Messrs. Sherman
and Allison.... JIf. Logan and Mr. Sherman
presented several protests from tobacco and
liquor manufacturers and labor organizations
against the ratification of tho Spanish treaty,
ami Mr. Logan then submitted petitions
signed by 7,000 Union soldiers, asking Con
SrtSs to purchase for tilt- national capital
Miss Ransom's portrait of General George II.
Thomas... .Mr. Miller reported favorably
from tho committee on foreign affairs the
bill to authorize the President to accept invi¬
tations from foreign governments to interna¬
tional expositions and to appoint eomnusston
ero at tho thereto, disposition qrf :'q,: ■ luting : Into
of the President to cover
necessary disbursements iu such cases... .Mr.
Miller introduced a bill for the protection of
the forests on the public domain.
Mr. Beck spoke against the bill to suspend
the coinage of the silver dollar.... Mr. M or¬
gan made a speech against the bill admitting
Southern Dakota as a State. Mr. Garland’s
substitute to this bill was voted down, and
then tho bill passed the Senate by 84 to 28, a
party tlie House. vote. From the Senate tho bill goes to
A large number of remonstrances against
the ratification of the Spanish treaty were
presented and referred. A bill was referred
by- which the President was authorized to
send to the proposed exhibition of American
Arts and Manufactures, to bo held
iu London, England. 1*80, the govern¬
ment exhibits now at the New Orleans
exposition, and appropriating $ 801 ),900 to de¬
fray- tho expense... .After some debate the
navy -ill was passed substantially as it came
from ;he committee... .The inter-state com¬
mence hjllrame up, and Mr. Slater/' -fitted
a propofrtrtAnendmpnfc to be )noveV»._ him. j
% Moypioiri , or_tt* v
Air. Ve? Yfi ibtfnitterl to the Senate a joint
resolution f,'daring that without the consent
or authority of Congress the proposed Nica¬
ragua secretary surveying of the expedition ordered by the
recting the secretary navy not was illegal, and di¬
to enforce the
orders for the expedition until Congress had
taken final action on this resolution....
Mr. Van Wyck introduced a bill to increase
the pensions of widows and dependent rela¬
tives of deceased soldiers aud sailors, and to
grant pensions to invalids and dependent sol¬
diers who served three month
iu the war of the rebellion.... Mr'
Cuflum eal'ed up the Inter-State
Commerce bill, which provides for a commis¬
sion of five members, to be anpointed by the
President and Senate, who shall supervise all
pertaining the States to the regulation of com¬
merce among and Territories and
the method of operation of transportation
coinnaiiies.
House.
two-thirds Upon motion of Mr. Wilkins, and by a
vote, the House agreed to suspend
the Thursday, rules and January adopt a resolution setting aside
lii. for the consideration
of the McPherson and Dingley National Bank
bills. The McPherson bill passed the
Senate last session. It authorizes national
banks to issue notes to the par value of tlie
bonds deposited as security, provided tlie
total amount of notes does not exceed the
pend capital the actually rules paid in.... A motion to sus¬
and pass a bill to establish a
department of agriculture was passed by Kill
to fi9.
A resolution for a holiday recess from De¬
cember 20 to Ja,imary 5, 1885. passed the
House. ..The consideration of tlie inter-state
Commerce bill was resumed. By a' vote of
142 to 98 the House kill the bill for u board of
commissioners of inter-stale commerce, re¬
ported the by thirteen of the fifteen members of
therefor commerce what is committee, known and substituted
Seventeen Republicans as tho Reagan bill.
voted for tho sub¬
stitute.
Tho House resumed 1 lie consideration of the
inter-state commerce bill: tho ponding ques¬
tion being on the motion to table tlie mo¬
tion to recousider the vote by which the
House on the previous day adopted the amend
mint offered by Mr. O’Hara providing against
discrimination. The motion to recon¬
sider was tabled. Yeas, 149; nays, 120.
Mr. Crisp offered an amendment providing
that nothing in this act contained shall be so
construed as to prevent any railroad company
from providing separate accommodations for
white and colored persons. Mr. Breckeuridge
offered ns a substitutefor Mr. Crisp’s amend¬
ment an amendment providing that notliing
iu this act shall be construed to deny to
railroads the right to provide sopar
ate neatnnmodations for passen¬
comfort gers as they safety, may deem best for tlie public
or or to make such regulations
as relate to transportation between points
wholly wilhia the limits of one State. Mr.
substitute Brockenridge’s Mr. amendment was adopted as a
lor Crisps amendment; yeas
188; nays, 127, and Mr. Crisp's amendment as
so amended was agreed to. Yeas, 187; nays,
181.
1 he consideration of the Inter-State Com¬
merce bill was resumed. Tho motion .to
table Mr. Goff’s amendment, to prohibit
railroad companies from making discrimina¬
tions on account of race or color in trans¬
porting dale passengers, was carried. Mr. Barks¬
furnishing s amendment, providing that the
of separate accommodations, with
equal faculties and equal comforts at t hesume
charges, shall not "be cor-i l and a discrimina¬
tion, was adopted; but Mr. Horr’s motion, to
add to that amendment the words “provided
that such separation shall not be made on
tho basis of race or color,” was lost.
.... Mr. Curtin offered a j >int resolution
which requests the President io direct that
the government exhibit now on display at the
New Orleans exposition be sent to the pro¬
posed exhibition of American arts and manu¬
factures hi 1886, and appropriates $800,000
for that purpose.
The English court of appeals has granted a
new trial in the case of Mr. Charles Brad
laugh, the who was found guilty of illegally vot¬
ing in house of commons.
“UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED j '? PALL.” —Washington.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Boston has her first Roman.Catholic mayor
in Hugh O'Brien.
Governor Eaton, of Colorado, according
to the Greeley Tribune, cleared $50,000 by the
past year’s farming.
John G. Whittier celebrated his seventy
seventh tage Amesbury, birthday a few Mass. days ago in his cot
at
Miss Emily Faithful, the well-knou
English Mormonism lecturer and writer, is: attackii'
on its outposts in. Scotland.
Mrs. Hendricks, it is said,does not
to take a particularly prominent
Washington ministration. society during the incomino’ ad¬
Captain Pin, of the British navy and late
member of parliament, proposes to build a
railroad from Cheyenne to Hudson bay and
to raise $200,000,000 for the Nicaragua canal.
It is said that Mr. Gladstone does not like
to wear the big bouquet that always adorns
his coat-lappel when ho speaks in the house
of commons, but his wife insists upon his
doing so.
Mr. E. W. Gosse, now on a visit to this
country, has been warmly received. He is
tho lecturer on English literature at hhe Uni¬
versity of Cambridge, and is learned in the
languages and of literary northern Europe, besides being
a poet critic of note.
daughte^oYZrace considerable Greeley’ Slent^ in fc’po^Xf C^f
artistic the
fashionable residences of Washington there
is a beautiful pencil-sketch of a sleeping toby,
taken from life and drawn by her
Miss Mary Gwendolen' Caldwell, of
last October. She and her younger sisters
are orphans. miili'i Their father was a Virginian,
men 1 .. i-I.-en. Each parent
left them a fortune, and they possess about
two millions apiece. No young lady, in this
country at least, ever made so magnificent
educational endowment. “Personalty,” she
says, “I should prefer to see tho university
built at the South, for though born and edu¬
cated at the North, my family are Southern¬
ers and my feelings are Southern.' 7
CONGRESSMEN INJURED,
Two far Load's of mouse members
Upset by a iiunaivay tar.
A 11 accMmt
several Congressmen is described in the to!
lowing dispatch from Washington:
It began to snow here lioforo noon, and
this afternoon by 4 o’clock, when members
began to leave the House, the Peuir
avenue car tracks running sidc^BjJH
Capitol Hill ujsm tho south
grade capital here had is become steep very and sbpajl id^|
ivghr.li og very injIWfli. ^BJjjjgp
a Tf.ii... dB
way company all was unpreparedA- vcrA^H
and, as of their horses iii-rsi|H rtrt ;
they gave orders to have tlie
from tlie cars, so as to let tlie curs
locked by a single brake upon the front
each cap. It was a very safe proceeding for
thd horses, but, as it proved, rhe risk was
transferred to the passengers.
Just before 4 o’clock a single t ar, contain¬
ing It had a number of members, slid down safely.
to wait at the foot of the hill, how¬
ever, as there was a double car stuck upon
the turn just beyond. Down followed a
double car packed with members. It slid
down at quite a rapid rate, but the brtiko
hold it very well, notwithstanding the
icy tracks and the heavy load. When
a & a ^a t d<^/^L^ I ^d t m>wS^°tett
the top of the hill. The brake slipped before
it had gone but a low feet, and ft came down
like a flash of light and crashed right upon
the second ear and drove it with tremendous
force u[ion tlie single car. Two of the
cars were upset and badly smashed. Mr.
McAdoo, of New Jersey, had his head driven
througifca glass. car window, and had his face cut
open by badly One of his fingers was broken.
He was shaken up beside and tod to
be carried home. Mr. Hemple.of South Caro¬
lina, was knocked senseless. Although no bones
were broken lio sustained a nervous shock.
Mr. House, Leedoin, had the finger sergeant-at-arms of the
hisknee one cut off, an artery
opened and badly bruised. Mr. Cobb,
ot indiana, received a very severe shoe,?;
but had recovered this evening, al¬
though Mr. he was still quite
lame. Eaton, of Connecticut,
though was very lie badly liid bruised bones and shaken up, al¬
no broken. Ho moved
with diffioul'.y and had to to hel|>cd home.
These are the members'w’iio were flu-n o*C
severely slight injured. Fully a score of others re¬
ceived bruises. The only wonder is
that there was not an actual loss of life.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The Standard Oil company 'employs 9 i.tw
men.
Tennessee bus sixteen coal mines in suc¬
cessful operation.
Farmers near Fresno, Col., are marketing
green corn and strawberries.
Walla Walla. Washington Tnyj^K
has forty six l 'bines.
there.
It is said that James Gordon
start a Loudon edition of the
Herald. H ;
The exports of leaf tobacco
United 40.1,282. States for the year aggrec^^^H; -
.
Great Britain counts lli,0u0
in her railway service, and 12,00.1
sailors iu her navy-.
death A father in Louisiana and sou prison, are under and sJIHhce J of
a foi separate
aud distinct murders.
destroyed Property by to fire the iu value tho United ol' UO,<Joo,OUl» States was and
Canada the past year.
An artesian well at White Plains, Nevada,
has reached a depth of 2,100 feet, or more
than one-third of a mile. 1
IMMIGRATION to Canada in deer ,using, ex
of ponditures the are increasing, and the revenues
Dominion are falhng off.
A worm which thirty yearn ago destrovei
many of the pine trees in North Carolina, is
again making havoc this season.
i he statue of Garfield at the foot of iiapi
tol hall hill, the Washington, House Representatives. will directly face Nhe \
oi. ot
AT too present rate of increase the popula
..
The United States owns about te.OW.OOU
aa-es of land in tlie state ot' California, worth
less for agricultural purposes without irriga
tion.
A block of Itafiun marble weighing
tweuty-eight the tons,the largest ever brought to
port, was unloaded iu Ban Francisco re
° e “ tly
W IT H a view . of ni , levin tin; the genera' ,
agrarian crisis iu Europe, tue International
Agricultural the congress mil meet iu Death dur¬
ing exhibition of 1885.
Mf'Sll'AL, AND DBAMATIC.
•V $ * '• p
$klj<$ARET Mather is said to be tlie hard
Hinong American dramatic artists.
nvyoMAS J e(ly K. w,lioh Narrexo wiM be has produced written in amusi- Boston
ib d in April.
in 'vRtlky CAMPBRLia travels -With u The
Slave.” He thinks, however, that
■‘I'fax” W’is is his best play.
said that Miss Forfcescue will star in
Beriea so soon as Lord Garinoyle pays his
Ke broach ot promise bill.
Homing parts in English the Ristori army Company officer is just playing
thaiake of seeing for
the country.”
whl Grimaldi's Mathews, the famous clown who
most apt pupil, is living at
hea 011 ’ Englttml ’ eighty years old, hale and
ty
The celebrated pianist. Rafael Josef)'y, is
exacted For touch to of appear beauty in and America of execution this season. he h
Veer. a i
no
Sjss Kate DeJongr, formerly prima dona
wit 1 l .tlie Hess Opera, will shortly head
corUc a
ill Lew opera Y ork company now being organized
; R. am) Mrs. William Peak, the aged
to
pafied tliree score and ten.
1fUtoKriS ^Gau.vtt, musical PST*' director > of the
oolite h?m be produced m New v York, n ? lnal comic
jSroi 'be traveling dramatic companies
SSTKX* • 0 it T"
sr bail is busi
YJvMi'ANiNi, Uoii'.l of the cattle tenor, owns It-&1\, wher© two hundred I10
farmer, 114 iionv
gA new,as \er, linen manufacturer, wine-maker, miller, silk
airier. cattle-dealer
% 4 i;i,otta Patti, who is confined to her
hrtv^ ni Pans with a broken leg, the result
udgyiry oft a ‘ carriage next accident, will come to this
season under management of
s SU-akosch.
tn. profits to Moody and Sankey on the
hAil: saJ.loftneu- reached revival hymn books are said to
naif a million dollars. No other
p,Actions thoj' popularity, in _ that field have approached
m
JH.U5. Alrani -will sail to-day for New York
£ ‘VSf
tllrLjgn HtW’Husband, the winter Ernest months, Gye, and eoncertize
will accompany
(ARLKs booth, 'Ihaver, that who is managing Ed
tom says crowded houses are the
that tho star has achieved a notable
here will bo several revivals of
New Way to l* a y Old Debts,"
‘ The Apostate” and other
given.
I.SSION'AL NEWS.
■P^^W,euale.
submitted to the Senate a joint
^plution authority declaring that without the consent
pr of Congress the proposed Nica¬
ragua surveying expedition ordered by tlie
Secretary of the navy was illegal, and di¬
recting the secretary not to enforce the
orders for the expedition until Congress tod
taken final action on this resolution....
A f. tan Wyck introduced a bill to increas 1 -
flie pensions of widows and dependent vela"
U f* of <leoeas8 ‘ l so!dl «rt «»*» sailor*, aud to
grant pensions to invalids and dependent sol
'lifers who served three month
in tlie war of tho rebellion.... Mr.
Outturn raffed up the Inter-State
Coinmel-ce bill, which provides for a commis ■
sion; of five members, to be appointed by the
Fresideut and Senate, who shall supervise all
matters pertaining to the regulation of com
nlerce among tlie States and Territories and
the method of operation of transportation
companies.
House.
t The consideration of the Inter-State Com¬
merce bill was resumed. Tlie motion to
tlible Mr. Goff’s amendment, to prohibit
railroad companies from making discrimina¬
tions on account of race or color in trans¬
porting- passengers, was carried. Mr. Barks
oale’s amendment, providing that the
furnishing of separate accommodations, with
equal facilities anil equal comforts at the same
tion, charges, shall not lie considered a discrimina¬
was adopted; but Mr. Horrs motion, to
odd to that amendment the words “provided
(hut such, separation shall not be made on
S the basis of race or color,” was lost.
.... Mr. Curtin offered a joint resolution
which requests the President to direct that
die government exhibii now on display at the
New Orleans exposition be sent to the pis i
posed exhibition of American arts ami manu¬
factures in 1880, and appropriates $KIO,O0O
for that purpose..
The News of Polk’s Election.
A Nashville letter says : In those days
there was no railroad stretching its iron
arm into this State, and no telegraph
wires threading their way and flashing
intelligence throughout the country, and
the conveyance of news was necessarily
slow. Even in that early day tlie State
of New York was au important factor in
the election, and without her vote no
candidate could succeed, and Mrs. Polk
states that in her far-away home news
from that State was anxiously looked
?“• night 'A** 61 ,* to h ° Nashville, Hle aDd “ eWfl sevciai Cam °
prominent 01 gentlemen, fnends of Mr.
forthwith F ^' took to carriages Columbia, and a distance proceeded of 4fi
miles, arriving there at 8 o’clock in the
morning. Thus it was iu the silent
hours of the night that James K. Polk
was notified that he was chosen to take
the highest seat in the nation, with only
th .^ ew “ ends w eai ' ied
1 f . "A g If ^ ( aDX -
to be ’
]??? ^oovey the good
tidings. When little Columbia awoke
the next morning she waved her hat
dent joyously of the to congratulate United States, the new Presi
and after
ward turned out en masse in one grand
demonstration.
We often do morn good by our svui
puthy thttw byjour labor*.
HENRY CLAY’S FAREWELL.
'The Last Appearance ot the Notable Old
Will* on the Rostrum.
Henry Clay’s farewell to the Senate
on the 31st of March, 1842, attracted a
large crowd, and every available placo
was oecnpied, the ladies having not
only floor. filled their gallery but invaded the
When Mr. Olay rose between
one and two o’clock to make his farewell
speeoh in a chamber which he had
entered nearly thirty-six years before
all eyes were upon him. "Senators of
all parties took their seats and gave the
most respectful attention. Members
from the House flocked in and occupied
the privileged seats round about the
chamber. Then came the address, for
it was more of an address than a speech,
the report of which was only the body
of a beautiful oration without’ the soul.
Tk® picture presented in such a cougre
gation of people was not only in’all fair
enough and perfect enough its
proportions to charm the eye, but it
was a scene which might s£ss,ff£ have iriveu
pride excited, a reeling but little less
than one inspired. The ladies who were
all hope and buoyancy a moment be¬
fore, were now “LikeNiobe, all tears.”
Mr. Olay, in speaking of himself, of his
friends, of the noble State of Kentucky,
where he had been received as a son
forty-five years before, was himself
quite unmanned. Others were much
more affected and many of the oldest
Senators were in tears many times
while Mr. Clay was speaking. He re -
tired from the storm and turmoil of
peblic life to the bosom of bis family iu
the State which he-»loved, and which
had honored him for nearly forty years.
To leave the councils of the nation for
one’s own altar and home was next to
leaving the world itself in the hope of
enjoying another brighter and better, a
consummation which almost every public
man might covet. 1 he wildest ambi
tion of Mr. Clay s case might have been
fully satiated. He had been at the
head of a great and triumphant- party,
He had shared its confidence in pros
perity aud m adversity. He had adrnira
tion such as has rarely been given to
any man in ™ age. His inends were
legion, and they clung to him to the
ast with all the tenacity of holy aifec
tion. He left the Senate with a iepnta
tion for statesmanship for patriotism
for elo’jitenue winch a ny man might
with all mankind, and with a commence
I^JtifnY reYr d Thil i, ^-retirement I8he 8 0f h a l! ®
T wpi *'. e ® ou d , ^ ave D0 f f 0 ® *° 8 ’ a “ d
r, » S ?i? ; k
P nst a ct .^ ™ r -
rvittomYr. 6 tlf tlle creaentials . of Mr.
Crittenden whom he spoke of in the
n t0 Wh T
his L- willmgness iro to
crarofrv^ 6 Th^cf 8 ^! 0f i ^ ®j ate
iLrJroh Hi a ^ fin? 1 T eB iad ff taken y I® his T seat,
“ th l„i at ^ f Q 6 nat ? r r ° m
r h0StS 01 f
triends. Ben. Perley Poore.
The Irish Peasants.
Mr, Timothy Harrington, iu describ¬
ing life in the western isles, told the
story of a peasant who said to him on
one visit that he “intended to go to
America next month.” Abont a year
afterward Mr. Harrington returned "and
again met the peasant. “I thought you
had gone to America,” he said.
“And sure I did, then,” said the
peasant, in Irish. “I was there, but it is
glad I was to get back again. 1 came
near dying with tlie hunger in New
York.”
“How’s that?” asked the agitator.
“I never heard of any one dying of
hunger in America.”
“Sure, but I came near it,” said the
islander. “You see, there’s none of the
Americans can talk a word of the Irish,
and so every one I spoke to couldn’t
udder stand a word I said to him; and no
more could 1 make it out what they said
to me. But at last I met a Connemara
man, and he took me to a boarding¬
house that was kept by a Kerry woman,
lie where ^ot they a!! job spoke the Irish,‘and then
me a to drive horses; but
when I found that the very horses didn’t
understand the Irish I came right back
again.”
A Millionaire Sentenced.
Alexander Buntin, the millionaire of
Montreal, was sentenced to jail for bav
iug received and helped to pay to him¬
self $10,000, an nudue preference claim,
some days after thau the Exchange Bank
failed, more a year ago. He was
at that time a director. When he be¬
came aware that bis act was illegal he
paid back the money with interest, but
the jury declared against him and tbe
Judge was by law compelled to sentence
him to two days’ imprisonment while de¬
claring that he was sorry for it. Buntin
is. father-in-law to Count Uguiecioni, of
the Italian royal household, and was al¬
ways regarded business as upright. circles is Sympathy
for bim in as wide¬
spread as the consternation among the
bank directors.
In the Montana cattle towns a news¬
paper, a shave and a glass of whisky all
cost the same price, namely, 25 cents.
The payments from the Treasury
during will this month on account of pen¬
sions amount to nearly 813,000,000.
The hop crop in mu eh larger than
last year. The gain on the Pacific coast
is said to be 80,000 bales of 180 pounds
each.
VOL. I. NO. 1.
WHAT A MISSIONARY SAW
BUltYlNC* A ( ANNlBAh KlN(k
The Brutal Human Sacrifices of the Fc*
tisli Prlfits of the I* old Const.
A returned gold missionary tells from the Afri¬
can coast a reporter of the
New,York World some woeful stories of
the cruelties of human sacrifice practiced
by the fetish priests. The disposition of
these people is so mild it is a mystery
how they can indulge iu the practice of
such cruelties, such as human sacrifices,
for which they have become famous.
The missionaries believe that but for
the fetish priests, who are exceedingly
shrewd aud who have a strong interest
iu perpetuating these bloody sacrifices,
as their power is based on them, the
country could be easily civilized. Under
the reign of Gnezo, the late King of
Dahomey, human sacrifices had become
comparatively Grery, rare; but fetish his successor,
a slave to the priests, has
revived them, and now they are prac¬
ticed with greater cruelty than ever.
The number of slaves who annually
perish in this way is estimated at several
hundreds. The King of Dahomey is,
as is known, the most ferocious and
powerful ruler in the whole region.
During ten months of the year he
makes incumions into the neighboring
territories, capturing a large number of
slaves. In this work he is chiefly as¬
sisted by his two celebrated regiments
of Amazons. The prisoners taken dur¬
ing these expeditions are divided into
three classes. One olass is sold to the
slave merchants of the interior ; an
other, chiefly women, are fattened and
sold to butchers, who, revolting as the
fact may be, even to relate, openly "third sell
human flesh in their shops. The
class is reserved for the religions sacri¬
fice.
the season of the “grand customs’
victims are sacrificed in the fetish for
^ On the ninth day after the instal
men t 0 f a new king, he and his suite,
preceded by his fetish priests, moved in
procession to the sacred wood where the
gr aY6 of the late king had been dug.
The sacrifice began. Seven slaves were
killed and their blood mixed with earth
to f orm a kind of plaster with which the
grave wa8 lined< The heftds of the
8even vict i ms> with food of all kinds,
were deposited at the bottom. The body
of tbe king was next lowered into the
TEen^ere-aSem drapefVHP
nine o{ hig women
brightest-colored posely garments “tafin”
intoxicated with orram.
Believing themselves to be the objects eVery
of an ovation, they east smiles on
side 38 the . v P a88 ® d through the throng.
On reaching the edge of the open grave
tll ' were made to kneel, and before
the had au sn9 p icion W6 re stunned by
a blow on tbe b«d aQd atiU alive,
npon the body ot their r0 yal spouse.
Earth was then thrown in to cover the
living and dead. The sacrifices to the
go j s are marked by greater and more
varied refinements of cruelty. The
shrines resemble dog-houses-appropri
ate dwellings for their idols, which are
hideous-looking monsters. These cere¬
monies begin with a dance. In front of
the shrine a cLjle is formed by the
leaders of the people sitting down, while
the rude multitude remain standing.
hand, Holding a tuft of human the hair in his
a priest dances iu center, the
circle uttering savage cries, clapping
their hands bells, or playing tamborines wild instruments
resembling night and cym¬
bals. During the the fetish
priests provide the god with one or
more victims. The most common form
of sacrifice behead the toJOgnn, human the offering god of and war, nail is
to
the body upside*down to a tree, the head
placed above the feet.
At other times a young tree is
stripped o| its branches, and bent held by down kind by
means of a rope, so a
of trigger. With the exception of the
head, the victim is inclosed in a wicker¬
work globe and suspended, head down¬
ward, or liis head is incased iu the
stumps of the leaves which form the
crown of tho palm tree. The priest
loosens the rope, the tree springs back
and the victim is left swinging in the
air. Birds of prey soon dispose of the
body.
Horace Greeley’s Peculiarities.
I worked on the Tribune under Mr,
Greeley, says a newspaper correspond¬
ent, and though I saw him every day, I
never yet heard him say “Good morn¬
ing,” or “Good “Good-bye.” evening,” “How inquire do yon
do?” or or after
anybody's health. But he scrupulously
answered every letter that came to him,
and answered it on the spot, so that the
writer mail. generally His got the reply in the
next conscience was abnor¬
mally developed on this thousand subject, and he
probably wrote twenty letters
that did not need writing, and died the
sooner for it. On tbe street he seldom
spoke to even his nearest friends, unless
lie had business. I have known bim to
enter a street car down-town, sit by the
side of a friend, and ride a mile with ■
out speaking him a word, “Let then suddenly
nudge and say, me take your
paper," read the paper friend’s for another house, mile, hand
look out for the
the paper to him just before reaching
it, and part company without speaking
to him or looking at him. He did not
believe in that expenditure of foroe
which conversational civilities require.
Longevity —Recent statistics on the
comparative longevity qf the sixes show
that under 15 years there are more boys
than girls, but over 75 there are more
.Wiimeu than men, und from the ages of
90 to 100 the proportion is abont three to
one in tnvoy pf wouifn.