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Amen ran j ? rp i\» • 35 jjj / \ \ / W. F. BOWERS, Proprietor. JS. BOVVERS, Associate Editor & Publisher* . 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.