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GORDON'S TRAGIC DEATH.
•DESCSIBED BY AN EYEWITNESS
OF THE SACK OF K" \RTOUM.
Struck Dotvn After He Had Sur¬
rendered by Generals Who Had
Been Sent to Take Him Alive.
The New York Sun prints “an abso
futely authentic account of the last
hours of General Gordon, the hero of
Khartoum, whose lonely tomb in the
centre of the Soudan is venerated even
by the MaEdists as that of a saint.” The
account, which has been collated with
various documents and reports, and offici
illy declared to be true, is furnished by
Demetrio Georgio, a Greek, who recently
arrived at Suakin from Khartoum.
Georgio was born at Berber, and was
present at the capture and sack of Khar¬
toum. Here is his-story as told to Gen¬
eral Grenfell:
■‘I was at Khartoum the night it that was
taken. The Nile had gone back so
a part ol the city was open, Gordon did
not construct fresh trenches and ramp
parts, because he thought there was
sufficient troops to defend the city.
There were three thousand, I think.
The gaps and all round about were held
by a large force under Farig Pasha.
That especially "bight the Farig blacks, moved his the troops,
from gaps,
saying the soldiers were wanted on the
jther side. Gordon had perfect con
Sdence in Farig.
“The attack took place at two points. resist
At the largest gap there was no
mce. If the British army, or even a few
af them, had arrived even one hour be¬
fore the attack took place, Khartoum
would not have been taken, and Gordon’s
troops would have fought to the last.
Fang had sent word to the Mahdi:
‘Unless you attack to-night all is lost.’
[n that night all was blood and flames.
The city had passed over from the com¬
mand of Gordon to tUe Mahdi. It was
i dreadful night. I shall remember it
;o my dying day. The air echoed with
horrible shrieks, yells, lamentations and
wailings, and smelt of blood.
“I had three friends, Greeks, I
hastened to rescue them. I had two
Mahdist uniforms given me by an Arab
friend. One I gave to one friend, putting
on the other myself., It was nearing
daybreak when I took my friends to my
house. Some Arabs rushed in telling
me I ought to go to the Government
House—the seraglio, they railed it -at
once, I l asked asJxea why. wny. They iney replied: repuea:
‘All the great officers of the Mahdi have
gone there to kill Gordon Basha.’
“When they saw that the third friend
had no Mahdist garment on, they slew
him.
“We were then taken into the court¬
yard. I saw Gordon Pasha smoking a
cigarette on a balcony facing the river.
We had entered at the back of the
palace, entering the yard where the syca¬
" Qemetrio, the
more tree is. Georgio Soudan
principal medical officer of the
and the provinces, and Nicola I.emin
dita, the Greek Consul, were with him.
Five hundred dervishes, who had been
sett by the Mahdi with special orders to
takp Gordon alive, siood at the foot of
the staircase. I went up the stairs, being
sent by the men below, who were vocif¬
erating : ‘Gordon Pasha! Gordon Pasha!’
“Gordon coolly left the balcony.
‘Fly,’ said the other two, ‘while there is
yet time. Go in at the little door and
take the boat.’
“ ‘Shall I fly and leave my post?’ indeed, Gbr
don replied, indignantly. ‘That,
would be a disgrace. I shall not fly.’
“He then went into his. inner room
and donned his full uniform and sword.
Then he came out and grandly drew
himself up to his full height. On his
visage was a look of scorn.
“ -Whom seek ye?’ he asked, on gaz¬
ing at the sea of angry faces.
•‘Gordon Pasha!’ they cried.
“ ‘You want him, do you? I am he.
Come up hither,’ Gordon urged replied. Demetrio
“On being again Consul fly, by Gordon
and the Greek to re¬
plied: ‘For shame! Would you have
me abandon my post ignominiously?’
He could easily have escaped at the rear
then.
“As Gordon stood boldly facing the
dervishes several superior Mahdist Gen¬
erals came up. The dervishes allowed
them to pass. They ascended the stairs
and asked for the Pasha. Gordon met
thepi saying: ‘I am he,’ and handed them
his sword in military fashion, intimating
that he knew they had taken the place,
and that consequently he surrendered
according to the usages of war. But
Nassas, one of the Generals, snatched
hold of his sword, at the same time, in a
brutal and most cowardly manner, strik¬
ing Gordon an unexpected blow. The
Pasha would have fought desperately treated
had he thought he would not be
in an honorable manner. He fell, roll¬
ing down the stairs. A» he rolled,
another General speared him on the left
side inflicting a dangerous wound.
“Thus died Gordon. I was there, a
spectator to the ghastly deed. I got out
of the way when he rolled to the bottom
of the stairs. Some say that Gordon
was cut up to liitle pieces, but others
relate that they embalmed his body and
took it to the Mahdi. There were bodies
cut up, but I am inclined to believe that,
these were the bodies of the Consul and
the doctor.”
Paper Door?.
The paper doors now coming inlo use
re claimed to possess the advantage
over wood of neither shrinking,swelling,
cracking nor warping. They are formed
of two thick paper boards, glazed stamped and
Bolded into panels and together
with glue and potash and then rolled
through heavy rollers. waterproof After being
covered with a they coating
»nd one that is fireproof, their are
painted, varnished and hung in
asual way. — Burlington {If. J.) Gazette.
The Judges of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania now wear bla.k silk
tfowna.
F0PU1.AU SCIENCE.
The movement of glaciers in summer is
four times that made in winter.
Bars of wrought iron wiil expand or
contract 151200th of their length for
each degree of heat.
One ton of coal is capable of yielding'
an amount of force equivalent to that of
six and two-thirds men.
The tooth with which young cobras
cut their way through the egg is shed as
soon as it has served its purpose,
There is no material, according-to the
best lire insurance authorities, that can
be used for construction equal to brick,
The new electrolytic treatment of cop
p er solutions in Spain results in seven tv
eight per cent, pure electrolytic copper,
It is a startling fact that from one -th rd
to one-half of all persons born into the
world die before reaching the age of live
years.
In testing forty two boys between nine
and sixteen years of age for color-blind¬
ness not one made an error in matching
the colors.
The preservation of vails in use is due
to the formation of magnetic oxide pro¬
duced by the compression of the rust on
the metal.
As the moon revolves around the earth,
it also makes just one revolution on its
axis, thus keeping the same side always
toward the earth.
A French subterranean river has been
explored for a mile or more by M. Martel,
who derives from his investigations a
theory of the origin of canons.
Dr. Ifruss, a chemist of Munich, has
succeeded in decomposing cobalt and
nickel, both of which have hitherto been
supposed to such be "piemen place tary for substances emptying
Choose a
carboys, or any other containers ol’ acid,
as will sutler the least injury should the
vessel be broken, or any of the acid be
spilled.
Professor Ayrton estimates that the
power wasted at Niagara Falls exceeds
that which could he produced by the
annual consumption of lad,000,00o tons
of coal.
The microscope often reveals impuri¬
ties in diamonds, particles of organic
matter and. bubbles of gas being com
mon. Quartz, chlorite, pyrite, hematite
and topa : have also been seen.
The scientist I.euwenhock says that
he had oftfu compared the si e id' the
thread spun by a full grown spider with
a hair from his beard, and estimates that
it woukl require more than 100 spider
threads to equal the diameter of the
hair.
The latest things in torpedo boats in
France is the Gymnots, a submarine
.craft propelled by electricity. Hie can
be driven under water* at a fair rate of
speed, and in her latest trial made a run
of 1700 feet when submerged to a depth
of twenty-live teet. A half hour is the
longest time she has thus far remained,
under water.
There is strong evidence that wood
subjected for a certain length of time to
the heat of steam pipes may eventually
reach a state of carbonization, when,
with the addition of moisture, exposure
to a draught of air or under the influ¬
ence of friction caused by expansion and
contraction of the pipes, it may break
into flame.
It is said the largest gun in the British
Navy is capable of throwing a projectile of
weighing mile 17,000 pounds at seconds, a velocity the
over a in four
momentum being equal to that of )!7,2l:>
tons of metal tailing one foot. It re¬
quires 370 pounds of powder to fire this
shot at this velocity, so any one versed
in the prices of steel and saltpetre can
calculate the cost of every shot that these
guns will throw. It will be found to be
about $1000.
First Man to Utilize Natural Gas.
General .Tack Casement, of Oli'o, who
was the first man to utilize natural gas
in this country, was in New York a day
or two ago. lie ran a drive pipe into
the earth, next to lps house and at secured Faines
ville, over twenty years ago,
a supply of gas, which has ever since
served him for light, heat and fuel. In
a group of gentlemen who were talking
about natural gas, a curious theory was
propounded, which the General com¬
mented upon as an unanswerable con¬
undrum. “The ,-aid one of the gehtlemen: North¬
crust of the earth all over
ern Ohio, if it is penetrated, reveals the
presence of natural gas. It must be now
confined in vast chambers, and to a large
extent the gas assists in holding up the
outer shell of the earth. As it is al¬
lowed to escape, what takes its place?
Nobody knows. will Is it not have possible escaped that
some day the gas the of to,
such an extent that entire surface
Northern Ohio will sink down to fill up
the void? South of hake Erie the land
rises rapidly to a summit from 40 to 100
miles away from the water. Imagine
this all dropping suddenly down while
the water of Lake Erie pours over it and
the great inland sea enlarges its borders.
It might be and it may be.”— 2\ew York
Graphic.
Night in Massowali.
The Italian troops at the far and deso
iate Red Sea station of Massowah sutlei
untold tortures from a climate that is
simply infernal, and in which there is
little difference in temperature between
the blazing day and the sultry, breath¬
less night, The soldiers often move
their pallets to the streets or court yards,
and sleep under the open sky, and an
artificial dew-fall is brought by native
attendants, who sprinkle them with
water from their guerbes, or sheepskin
vessels .—Frank Leslie'$.
The possibilities productions of the and South in horti¬
cultural are always must
be enormo us.
Cincinnati has just passed her 100th
birthday.
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Duels of Stupid Hams.
It may perhaps throw some light on
the obscure causes of the stupidity watch of
sheep to see them fight. To two
rams engage in a duel, which they do in
n. most gentlemanly manner, as if it
were ns much a matter of etiquette as
an engagement with swords in the en
v irons of Paris, is better than most
farces nowadays. Perhaps there are
some ten or twenty rams in a yard their or
corral, together. and presently Probably two they put hav¬
heads are
ing a conversation, and in it some de¬
batable matter crops up, for one shakes
his head impatiently as if doubting the
word of his interlocutor. The insulted
ram looks up, advances a step or two, In¬
and they rattle their horns together. gather
stantly all the other gentlemen combatants
round as the two intending with
march backward step by step an
admirable slowness and deliberation.
They are the two knights at the ends of
the lists. There is an instant’s pause,
and then they hurl themselves violently
forward to meet forehead to forehead
with a shock that ought to break their
skulls. Then the solemn backward
march recommences, the pause is made,
and the two belligerents leap at each
other once more, and the terrible thud
is heard again. Sometimes they run
ten courses before one turns dizzy and
declines the battle, but oftener live or
six blows make the thinner-skulled turn
away, to be contemptuously hustled in
the rear by the conqueror. Occasionally
the sight of one set of dueiists inspires
the unoccupied lookers-on with a noble
ardor, and couple after couple side join in
to march backward side by and
rush forward in line to meet the oppos¬
ing forces. It seems to me that there is
no more interest in this than in the,
mere farce of the display. However
such a habit arose it can hardly now be
advantageous to the* species, and must
tend to lower them in the scale of intel¬
lect, for while the thickest skulled
remain lords, those with the most room
for brains often get tlieir craniums
cracked with fatal results. This may
help to explain the very uncommon just the
idiocy of domesticated sheep, as
duello among the Australian blackfel
lows may throw light on the dull, thick¬
headedness of some of the native hu¬
mans in that country. For their favor¬
ite method of dueling—at least it taka was
that of which I heard most—is to
two clubs, and, having drawa lote in
some manner for the first blow, to strike
the loser on the head as he bends down
with the utmost decisive, force and possible. it is If always that
blow is not not
so, it is the turn of the other man to do
his best, and so on until a skull is
cracked .—Gornhill Magazine.
Repealing an Old Blue Law.
Where is to be a bill introduced in the
Connecticut General Assembly urging
the repeal of one of the statute laws of
the State. The old blue law impos -s a
fine of $10 upon any one who permits of a
ram to go at large between the 1st
August knd the 1st day of December.
A ram is apt to butt during these
months, and has always been looked
upon with fear. Since protection to the
wool growers has been assured the wool
industry has received an impetus
throughout the gras-y slope of Western
G'onnecticui. The law in reference to
rams is about to be brought to a test be¬
tween two farmery on Turkey local Hill, technic¬ near
Derby. It involves some
alities. One of the farmers is to bring
suit against his neighbor permitted for damage his
done by the latter having The defendant
ram to go at large.
claims that his ram escaped on the 30th
of last November, and did no damage
until the next morning, which was Dec.
1, and therefore he is not liable to a
fine as the law was off. The farmers
living around Derby are anxious to
have the law repealed. The Connecti¬
cut Legislature is composed largely of
farmers, and the repeal of this statute
law is liable to receive c ireful and ex¬
haustive attention .—Brooklyn Citizen.
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