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BELIEF FOR CHARLESTON.
Help from the Grand Army of the
Ex-Governor Lucius Fairchild, of
consin, commander-in-chief of the
Army of the Republic, and Colonel E.
Gray, arrived at Charleston, S. 0.,
spent the day examining the effects
the mayor earthquake anil the committee and consulting relief. with
on
object of Governor Fairchild’s visit is
see whether it is necessary to make
appeal for to assistance the Grand Army of the Repub¬
lic for Charleston.
situation has been fully explained to him.
At a meeting of the relief
of the chamber of commerce, held
New York on Monday, Treasurer
Crosby Brown reported that he hail
ceived subscriptions to date
to $59,713, and he was authorized
send a further twenty thousands to
mayor of Charleston. Letters were
ceived from the vicinity of Charleston
asking for assistance, and they were re¬
ferred to the mayor of Charleston for his
consideration. Wm. E. Dodge, chair¬
man of the committee, stated that he had
received a letter from Mayor Courtenay,
in which he said that climatic and sau-
itary reasons pow compelled a return to
such homes afl were habitable. They
could live for A time without plastering
and with other discomforts, and the
people were all cheerful and more calm,
and added thaVt the people of Charleston
would hold as’ beyond price, through all
time, American their identification citizenship, with the com-
mon which came
to them in (their great trials. Strong to
help, strong forgfet to lift up, Charleston would
never all that had been done for
her.
Dr. Simionds, president of the First
National Hank of Charleston, suggested
that a building association should he
formed fto loan money at a low rate of
interest rebuilcling to the the people city, and of the Charleston suggestion for
was,-referred to a committee for consider¬
ation.
Colonel Sinn, of the Park theater,
Brooklyn, performance N. Y., states that the benefit
Charleston given at his theater for the
large sufferers, realized the very
sales of sum of $5,932. Of this sum the
tickets by the police brought in
$928, while the efforts of the firemen se¬
cured $493.
At Norfolk, Va., an envelope collec¬
tion was made for the benefit of the
Charleston earthquake sufferers, One
thousand, one hundred and forty-eight
dollars and eighty-three cents were real
ized.
The fund in Boston for the relief of
the Charleston sufferers amounts to $53,-
293.
CONFESSES THE MURDER.
A dTnnt-Hst <> Ainu Arliii«iYlt-d*es the Mtu-dei
of :11 nyor Itoxvmau.
Arthur Arthbuthurst, alias A. L. Pitt¬
man, alias Charles Walker, alias Parsons,
recently arrested tit Covington, Tenn.,
lias confessed to the sheriff of that
county of having murdered tlie late
Mayor Bowman, of East St. Louis, on the
20th day of last November. The sheriff
has sent the confession to the East St.
Louis authorities, and it is in substance:
“That, while walking in the outskirts of
East St. Louis, Arthbuthurst was ap¬
proached bv the vice president of one of
the railroads terminating in East St.
Louis, with a proposition to put Bowman
out of the way. The offer was accepted
and the price agreed to was $3,000.
Arthbuthurst says it was not his inten¬
tion to kill Bowman, but to kidnap him
•and lock him up in a private asylum,
with which he had made arrangements,
and use him as a meaps of extorting
money from both Bowman and his own
employer. He employed two New York
toughs to assist him. When they at¬
tempted to carry out their kidnapping
scheme Bowman raised an outcry for the
police, and he (Arthbuthurst) shot him
with the intention to disable him, and
was Boxvman. surprised to find that he had killed
paid the He then escaped, and short was
agreed price on the street a
distance from where Bowman fell. He
then went to his employer’s house, in St.
Louis, night. and spent the remainder of the
Early in the morning, disguised
as a woman, he took the first train for
Springfield, The Ill.”
confession then details his travels
through the South, and his final arrival
at Covington, Tenn., and his subsequent
arrest. He states that he makes the con¬
fession voluntarily, simply because of a
guilty conscience. He knows his em¬
ployer’s name, his place of residence, and
could easily identify him if he should
ever see him again. He refuses to de¬
clare the vice president’s name, but
promises to do so when the proper time
shall arrive.
THIRTEEN PERSONS KILLED.
A serious accident occurred on the
Nickel Plate railroad near Buffalo, N. Y.
The west bound express train ran into an
excursion train from Erie. Twelve per¬
sons are reported killed and fourteen
wounded. The accident seems to have
been caused by a misunderstanding of
telegraphic between orders. The collision was
on the Nickel a Niagara Falls excursion train
der Plate road, from Erie, un¬
management of J. W. Butler, excur¬
sion agent, and a local freight train. It
occurred in a cut on a curve just east of
Silver Creek, N. Y. Both engineers and
firemen saved themselves by jumping.
he excursion train consisted of one bag¬
gage car, one smoker and eleven coaches,
my those in the smoker were hurt, it
m!n S completely telescoped by the bag-
A FRIGHTFUL MURDER.
A -
A t fatal ^ and sensational shooting
occurred in Montgomery, Ala., on Tues
H Huffman j0 ® R °S erS 8h0t an<1 killed Cicer
A shotgun did the
A woman was at the bottom
h;l trou i , ,,e ' Huffman’s wife had
nm anil taken up with Rogers.
man \°} d her husband on Sunday that
sh« ® w °uld have him killed inside of‘
Thl Shc three
kc P f the wicked promise.
einen were close tq each other when
*. ‘> e “hooting took place The entire
r f«ts K d Huffman’s breast, inflict-
defth h °D ble W0Md and <»usin
5 been th - Rogers escaped and as
caught, ’
.
MEXICAN MATTERS.
1’rfNidf‘iit Diaz'* Dluttaajrtt to Conaresi^Tba
Cutting Allair.
In his annual message to congress,
read on the assembling of that body Wed¬
nesday, President Diaz said that Mexico’s
relations to foreign governments had
continued generally on terms of friend¬
ship and good understanding. There
had, however, recently occurred an in¬
cident which threatened to destroy the
harmony and cordiality existing between
this republic and its northern neighbor.
A case of small importance in itself, it
excited, in an unexpected manner und
owing to a conjunction of circumstances,
passions Grande. on either side of the Rio
“1 refer,” continues the message, “to
the matter of the American journalist
which has already came toowknowledge
by publications made in the Diaro Oiii
cial. We must congratulate ourselves
that in such an emergency the dignity of
the government and the good name of
the Country could be saved without
serious conflict, thanks to the prudent
and strictly legal conduct of the courts
and authorities of the state of Chihuahua
as well as to the good sense of our own
people and of the government of the
United States, which, when better in
formed, did not insist upon its demand
which gave rise to this transient diffi¬
culty. Texas papers have, on this ac¬
count, alluded to other cases of alleged
outrage on citizens of that country by
officials of our own. In their eagerness
to accumulate charges against Mexico,
they have referred, mistakenly, to ih:
case of an individual named Franrisees
Erresuris, author of various crimes com¬
mitted in our territory. It will suffice to
observe that Erresuris was of Mexican
nationality and was voluntarily delivered
by Texan authorities to a force of the
state of Coahuila without any previous
demand for his extradition. So that, ii
this case, it will be seen that as regard>
this supposed citizen of the United
States there is no occasion for a contro¬
versy between the two governments.
CANDIDATES AND VIOLINS.
A Novel Sight at the Head House, Chat¬
tanooga.
A rare sight, which, perhaps, may not
be witnessed again for centuries, was seen
in the Read House, in Chattanooga,
Tenn., on Tuesday night, non. Robert
L. Taylor, democratic nominee for gov¬
ernor, and his brother, Hon. A. A. Tay¬
lor, republican candidate for the same po¬
sition, occupied the same room at the
hotel. About 10 o'clock a crowd of one
hundred democrats and republicans called
on the gentlemen, and after a general
hand-shaking two violins were brought
into the room. Both Bob and A If Tay¬
lor are fine musicians, and when the mu¬
sical instruments were placed before them,
each took a violin and played a number
of tunes sight—the together. It was certainly a
novel two brothers sitting
side by side—and as they wanned up,
and the violins gave forth their delicious
strains of the old familiar tunes, the aud¬
ience of the distinguished brothers knew
no bounds, and applauded vociferously.
The music was highly enjoyed by every¬
one present.
EARTHQUAKE IN OHIO.
People living in the coal mining re¬
gions, embracing four towns anil quite a
large range of country, in Akron, O.. xvere
awakened at four o’clock, Sunday morn¬
ing nied by a low rumbling noise, accompa¬ distinct
by shocks of earthquake so
that houses were terribly shaken, anil ar¬
ticles on mantles were thrown to the
floor. Several years ago the earth set¬
tled several feet without apparent cause,
in this region, and the people are badly
frightened, fearing they will be swallow¬
ed up. To make matters more unpleas¬
ant a very large meteor Sunday morning
passed over, shaking up a portion of the
country, traveling close to the earth aud
thowing off heated particles every few
feet. The meteor illuminated tlie coun¬
try for a great distance, and is supposed
to have struck the earth near the eastern
part of the city, and the shock in that
locality was distinctly felt immediately
after the great fireball passed. Sunday
was one of special prayer by a great
many people.
PANIC IN A CHURCH.
During the celebration of early maos in
Pilgrimage church, in Radna, Transylva¬
nia, Tuesday morning, a panic was caused
by the accidental burning of the altar
curtains, which were set on tire by can¬
dies. People rushed from the building,
trampling the weak under foot, and num¬
bers of the occupants of the gallaries
leaped down on the heads of the crowd
below. Several hundred persons were
injured, many seriously. show
Later particulars from Radna
that fifteen persons were crushed to death
and thirty severely and one hundred
slightly injured during the panic in Pil¬
grimage church, at Vienna.
AN EPIDEMIC IN GALENA
An epidemic prevails among the in¬
habitants of Avaca, Iowa county, Mis.,
which has resulted fatally in of many dysentery, cases.
The disease is of the nature
ending, in cases of children, in spinal
meningitis and death. Thus far it 1ms
been confined to the limits of the village
and this necessitates the closing of
schools and the abandonment of all pub
lie meetings. The disease is similar o
that which prevailed with such ternbly
fatal effect in Galena a few years ago,
and in Spring Green, Wis., m 1884.
Much alarm is felt.
ACCIDENT ON TOE EAST TENNESSEE.
A terrible , accident ” ~T~ occurred a a l„h af
ni ' le f,0m ChaUan< ^ ga
d »7 evening, - on the East T- Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia Railway. The
northbound express tram struck a cow on
« sharp curve, while going mto Chat-
tanooga. The engine turned over ^a slight
embankment crushing the. engineer om
Buckley, and Fireman Cal * a *™-
death. Buckley’s body was not recover-
ed for several hours. The tracks of the
East Tennessee Cincinnati Southern
and Western and Atlanuc mlway were
blocked until midnight. No passenger,
weie injured,
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 23, 1886.
THE ODD FELLOWS.
The Grrntr.t Excursion on Krcorit.-Tha
SoTorrlsn Grnml Lodge.
large Saturday morning an extraordinarily
excursion left Chicago for Boston, Rail’
over the Chicago and Grand Trunk
calf, wnv sleeping fo^ixty The contract Pullma^and with % that roinminv wgS
coaches and coaches, fifty regular passenger
first twenty baggage ears. Tho
section of this remarkable train left
maining Chicago Saturday at 9 a. m. The re-
sections of the train left every
twenty minutes thereafter until tho entire
nurtv party "as was on on the the move. niovn
J his great excursion is going to the
Odd Fellows’ celebration at Boston,
whi le the sovereign grand lodge of the
world holds its meeting.
Thu Odd Fellows are vainly trying ta
Raftered * 8 •nto 1 eyer contrect' ' tltbZ ‘ e
Grauu Trunk for $13 for tlie round trip.
Since that date other competing compa¬
nies have made concessions.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
The Central railroad depot was the
scene of a disastrous accident between
the hours of one and two o’clock, Thurs¬
day morning, at Albany, Ga. It was re¬
ported that the cannon ball train from
Brunswick would be a quarter of an hour
beliind the schedule time, and Engineer
Green, of the Brunswick and Western
railroad, attempted to take advantage of
the delay to drill his cars. The cannon
hall eame in sooner than was expected the at
a pretty rapid rate of speed, anil obstructed at
time when the main track was
with Brunswick and Western freight
boxes
The cab was smashed and hurled from
the track. The engine was completely The
dismantled and is a perfect wreck.
fireman made a miraculous escape from
death, being bruised considerably by
sticks of wood thrown from the tender.
The engineer, Mr. Wallace Scoville, was
more unfortunate. Upon the engine, applying and tin-
brake he jumped from in
so doing broke his leg just above the
ankle, so badly that the bone protruded.
The physicians think possibility they can of save its hav¬ his
leg, but there is a
ing to be amputated.
SUSPENDED.
The Howard Couni; Bank of Gla.aew.Mo..
( lose* It* Poors.
James S. Thompson, president of the
bank, makes the following statement:
The assets of the bank are ample to pay
all depositors and stockholders in full.
Hard times and extreme difficulty in col¬
lecting induced the directors to turn
over the business to a trustee, who will
collect and pay off first the depositors
and then the stockholders, The assets
amount to $60,000. The liabilities do
not amount to quite that sum. One of
the largest creditors of the bank is the
Laclede bank, of St. Louis. It, how¬
ever, will not be seriously affected by the
failure.
REDUCED RATES.
A move affecting passenger tiaffic from
New York to the south and southwest,
will be made by the commissioner of the
Trunk Line pool, who will announce a
general reduction of from four to seven
dollar to all southern and southwestern
points. This is caused by the fact
that the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Air Line has grown restive un¬
der the continued cuts made by the Bal¬
timore anil Ohio via Cincinnati, ami in
recognition of the rights of the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia road,
this reduction is allowed by the trunk
lines. The new rates will be: New
York to New Orleans $25, Atlanta $20,
and other points on a similar basis.
RATHER NALTY.
The Canadian government has forward¬
ed to Secretary Bayard, through the Eng¬
lish minister at Washington, a demand
for the immediate and unconditional sur¬
render of the sealing vessels recently
seized off the Alaska coast by United
States vessels.
Accompanying the demand is a full
history of the case, with the text of the
treaty between England and Russia, as
well as numerous citations. The docu¬
ment covers over fifty pages of foolscap.
THE HNAKE AND THE CHILD.
William R. Dodson and Robert Coch¬
ran, Jr., killed on Star’s mountain two
huge rattlesnakes—one of which had ten
rattles and the button. It was found
near a chimney at a log cabin, and a two
year old child not more than a yard away
'admiring its beauty. His snakeship WHS
in an erect position, the young men say,
and seemed to be admiring the child.
The mother, who was standing near by,
rescued the child as soon as possible.
KILLED BY A FALLING ROCK.
A large rock overhanging West the mountain Virginia,
side in Jackson county,
yesterday became detached and rolled
down. The dwelling and barns of Les¬
lie Cummins were demolished. Cum
mi ns’s son Frank and a hired man, Ed¬
ward Jenks, were killed outright. Twc
other children of Cummins were so badly
hurt they will die. Several horse* were
also killed.
A CO-OPER 4 TIVE MINE.
Mine No. 3, the largest in the vicinity
of Huntsville, Mo., after being idle more
than five months, has just reopened on
the co operative plan. The miners are to
have the use of the company’s machinery
and to pay the latter a royalty division of one
cent per bushel, retaining for
among themselves the remainder of the
profits.
KILLED ABOUT A HORSE.
In a difficulty hU in Wilkes county, Sim
b,™ Ed.rf. e*. »d
killed him. Both of the parties were
from Alleghany county, N. C. The difli-
culty was about a horse.
An anxious inquirer asks- “Where
would you advise me to go to learn how
to play the cornet ! r To the woods, dear
sir; to the deep, dark, damp, dangerous
woods,
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Mme. Bernhardt will play but fourteen
weeks in ibis country,
Acomxdv written by LordiBaaoonsflald Is
40 Miss ^ \ iolkt C ameron at a Loudon Brings theatre, over &
,ort * ^ <° r ^ com '
Tbkbx are 150.000 person* engaged in one
capacity or another in Ixuidon theatres and
music halls.
Mr. Irving anil Miss Ellen Terry roap-
*!* 0 1 '°, n<lou Lyceum Theatre last
aU *
WuK - Munrat ,, Hauk 0 , has sung leading
parfo terent la over forty operas and in three dlf-
languages.
Minmjc Farmer, having Tor completed her
tour of Ireland, has sailed Austria for a
nine months' engagement.
Miss Mauy Anderson is going to play
L^reJT* 11 * * ““
Mrs. Langtry's costumes that she will
bring furnished to this country by The were made after draw-
mgs “ Lily ” herself.
Mademoiselle Erdody, who was eonsid-
•red the best soubrette on the Berlin stage,
has committed suicide with a revolver.
Mme. Trkbbz.lt, the contralto singer, will
come to this country soon with her daughter
Antoinette and commence a tour of sixty
ooneorts.
Rubinstein wih personally conduct the
first performances of his new Sixth Sym¬
November. phony in Leipsie, which will take place next
TiiREK live lions and two leopards are
among 1 h-> a tors in Kardou’s mast rpiece,
“Theodora,” now being performed at Niblo’s
Garden, New York.
John T. Raymond is ilL He fell in a faint
the other day when about to begin a re¬
hear al for the season, and it is thought he
will not be ablo to act for some time to come.
receive Albert $18,000, Niemann, the German tenor, will
beside having his traveling
expenses and hotel bills paid, for his three
months’ engagement in this country for next
season.
In Miss Annie Pixley’s new play next
season, “The Uea -on’s Daughter,” she imper¬
sonates the williul daughter of stem New
England parents, who goes on the stage
against their wishes, and shocks them very
hard.
A\ “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” company ap¬
peal el at Winnamae, Ind., under canvas,
and played so badly that the large audience
broke up the performance, and some even
went, so far as to throw brickbats at the per¬
formers.
Patti, who is the finest singer in the world,
is wonderful a lyric soprano, she and in addition to her
voice is an admirable actres*,
which gives a captivating efiect to her
melodious utterances. She has received
?5,000 a night, and is of course rich.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, received
$!’0.i,000 for giving up his throne.
Frederick Douglass has sailed fol
Europe with his wife on a long trip.
The Emperor of Russia has sent M, Pas¬
teur the sum of O-’O for his hydrophobia
hospital.
Walt Whitman is busy on a poem that
he tails “Senilia,” an aged man’s review of
life nearly gone.
Senator Leland Stanford, it is said,
makes it a matter of pleasure to give turf.
the purser, won by his hoi ses on tho
German military circles are already ninetieth pre¬
paring to celebrate the Emperor’s March 22 next.
birthday anniversary, on
Miss Harriet Goodwin, a niece of Gen¬
eral Stonewall Jackson, is a leading member
of tho Shaker Community at Alfred, Me.
Dr. J. L. Ingersoll. who had been nomi¬
nated for Congress by the Prohibitionists of
Wisconsin, is a brother of Colonel “Bob.”
Postmaster-General Vilas is quoted ai
saying that President Cleveland has prom¬
ise i to muke a visit West with him next
fall.
Miss Cleveland has and finally is making consented to
go to Chicago lease her to live, house at Holland prepara¬ Patent,
tions to
N. Y.
The picture of till late Vice-President
Thomas A. Hendricks alorns the new one-
dollar silver certificate* which have just been
issued. Mrs. Hendricks doesn't like the por¬
trait.
Senator John Sherman’s house at Mans¬
field, Ohio, is 1,800 feet above the sea level
—the highest point in the .state, and exactly
on the divide between Lake Erie and tb*
Ohio Kiver.
“Extra Billy” Smith, twice Governor
of Virginia, reached bis ninetieth birthday
last week. He is still quite active, phys¬
ically aud mentally, aud daily walks to War-
renton, Va., a distance of nearly a mile.
Bishop Whipple, Indians of Minnesota,walks that un¬
armed among the them when in disputes vicinity; is
apjiealed could to command oy the lives of hundreds arise, of
and
various tribes did he need them.
The blue of lox furs presented by the Czar
to the Sultan are described as two magnifi¬
cent pie ei, nia le up of the finest skins ami
measuring ea h three m Ires s piare. 'lheir
>a:u - is ie.-koae.l at 150,000 rou tries.
HEWSY GLEANINGS.
Mrs. Sublett, of Chetopa, Kas., is 113
years old.
California has earthquake insurance
companies.
The Denver (Col.) News has a gold mine
in the cellar.
Nk" your ", » receive.' 1 21, f *l8,5?5qnart*
oi milk in August.
Over $18,000,000 Massachusetts has been expended on
monuments in since 1861.
Ten thousand public school* receive finan¬
cial support from the government of Mox-
ico.
The snow is so deep among the mountains
in eastern Oregon that teams cannot travel
with safety.
If Daniel Pine, of Paw Paw, HI lives un¬
til December he will be iOO years old. Mean¬
while he amuses himself by hoeing and saw¬
ing wood.
Fifteen thousand dollars will be paid by
the navy department for each accepted de¬
sign for the proposed two-armoi ed 6,000-ton
war cruisers.
N h. kei.s are so scarce in tho Northwest that
merchants in Minneapolis and St. Paul have
written Last to have several barrels shipped
to them, off* ring to pay all expanses and two
per cent, premium.
A bridge two and a half miles long is to
be built over the Straits of M -ssina, thereby
connecting Sicily directly and Italy. It will cross
the water almost a uore the famous
Scylla and Charybdis.
A farmer of Moore Township, Canada,
has found in a swamp the skeleton of a
mastodon. The tusks are over four feet long,
the upper jaw is proportion. over three feet long, and
the ribs are in
A woman has arrived in Portland, Oie.,
from Montana, whose entire wealth i (insisted
of teu children, the eldest ten years old.
There were one set of triplets, two sets of
twins, and three "singles.”
\ Thkre is a baby in England waiting for
i standing three feet nigh, and
( thirty inches round the chest, measuring
He slipped quietly in at the door, but
catching sight of an inquiring face over
the stai rail, said: “Sorry so late, my
dear, couldn’t get a car before.” So the
(!Hffi tFtfJV full, too.” said the wife; and
urtkei i “marks were unnecessary.
Homo Way.
Life’s “fitful fever will be o’er,”
And we shall toss in pain no more;
In peace will hush tho breakers’ roar
Borne day.
These bitter tears will cease to flow,
Those piercing thorns will cease to grow,
And there will be an end of woe,
Some day.
Dark clouds will all have drifted by,
Above will smile the calm blue sky,
And joy will fill tho toarless sky,
Some day.
And we Bhall hear each other sing,
The rose will bloom in endless sitring,
The frosts of winter will not sting,
Some day.
The time will como when we shall be
From all those binding fetters free;
Sweet light will come to you and me
Home day.
— O. W, Crofts in Inter Ocean.
The Undertaker’s Story,
Perhaps I am more "sensitive to the
horrible than most of my fellow men—
am, in fact, more easily wrought upon.
At all event* I have fancied that at times,
when I have been telling this experience
of mine, I could detect certain indica-
cations that some of my hearers were of
that opinion; but I have not yet so far
failed in charity *s to wish any of these
scoffers put to a similar test.
I had run over to Paris, had spent a
couple of weeks in that bright city,
and was on my way home again.
I took a night train from Dover to Lon¬
don, and in the compartment which I
occupied there was but one olher passen¬
ger—a sharp, intelligent-looking man,
with a very grave face. We got into
conversation after travelling more than
half the distance in that silence which is
invariably adoptod by Englishmen when
they meet. After discussing general
subjects, a remark of my companion’s led
me to say that he seemed t6 have had a
very wide experience, and among nearly
all classes of society.
“Yes,” he answered slowly, and with
a marked hesitation. “Yes, I am an un¬
dertaker. I have had a good deal of ex¬
perience, and I have had my share, I
think, of remarkable adventures. I
never take this ride from Dover to Lon¬
don without a very painful recollection
of one such.”
Wo had still nearly a half hour’s ride
before us, and his manner, as much as
his words, aroused my interest.
“Do you care to tell it?” I asked.
A quick, involuntary shudder gave
to his voice a slight tremor, as he
answered, “I wish I could keep from
thinking of it, but I might as well tell it
as sit here quaking in silence over the
awful memory of it.” He paused a
moment, drew a long shuddering breath,
and then he commenced :
“A little over a year ago what I am
about to relate happened to me. I had
established a very good business, chiefly
among the upper class of trade people—
though, of course, I did not decline any
call upon me that promised a reasonable
profit. I received one day a telegraphic
despatch from Paris asking me to take
charge of a dead body that was to be
sent from Paris to London for burial. I
was to meet it at Dover on the arrival of
the night bi at from Calais, and make all
the arrangements for its further trans¬
portation by rail, and I was referred to a
well-known hanker ns security for my
expenses.
“This looked like good business, so I
lost no time in getting the necessary per¬
mits and wfint to Dover in the evening.
I had some details to attend to there in
order that everything might be in readi¬
ness and no time lost after the boat ar¬
rived. Then I had nothing to do but
wait. I set up reading to keep myself
awake.
“It was a beautiful still night in the
late fall, with an almost full moon, I re¬
member ; und the boat got in to time.
I received the box containing the body,
and saw it placed in one of the luggage
vans of the train; and in duo course ar¬
rived with it at Victoria station. One of
my wagons was there waiting to take the
body to my place, where I was instructed
to keep it until the next morning, when
the proper parties would call to make
arrangements about the burial.
8o far of course, there was nothing
specially remarkable about the affair. It
is a little unusual in such cases not to
find some one connected with the de-
c -ased accompany the body: but I hardly
gave that matter a second thought, I
hail no doubt but that the right persons
would appear later in the day.
“When I got to my shop, it still
lacked two hours of daylight, and, as I
felt no slight responsibility, I didn’t
think of going home, but made myself
as comfortable as possible in my office for
the rest of the night. You must hear in
mind that all the sleep I had secured was
a broken, uneasy slumber on the journey
from Dover to London, and when 1 went
to sleep in my chair, after stirring the
fire into a blaze, I slept very soundly—
very soundly, that is, for awhile, for it
was still dark when I woke up in a sud-
den and startling way.
“Have you ever wondered," theunder-
taker asked, turning his eyes full upon
mine for the first time since he had be-
gun his story, “what mysterious influ¬
ence that is which makes you feel another
presence in tba same room as yourself,
though you hear no one and see no one?
It’g a queer f -cljng at any time, but I
m
don’t know of any occnsion when it can
seem more queer and awful than when it
comes to a man locked up in the doad of
night with nothing but black plumes
and grave-clothes and palls and coffins
about him.”
He turned his eyes to tho floor again,
and a cold tremor crept through my own
flesh in the brief and ominous pause ho
made before he went on in a lower
voice.
“That was the feel hi g I had when I
suddenly woke from sound sleep to full
consciousness with a chilling shudder of
horror. I was sitting before tho fire-
placo, with my back to the door that led
from the office to tlse shop. 1 had pur¬
posely left tho door ajar. The fire had
died down to a dull glow, and it seemed
to me that a breath from the Arctic zone
had penetrated tho room. 1 cannot des¬
cribe the kind of cold it was. My very
bones seemed to be ice. And then I
felt that presence.”
The undertaker seemed terribly affected
even now by his recollections of that
night. It was impossible to resist tho
infection, and my own flesh was creep¬
ing in a very uncomfortable way. lie
made a strong effort to recover himself
and steady his voice, but, in spito
of all, it trembled with an ever-
deepening terror as he went on,
curdling my very blood in sympatnv.
1 ‘I had turned tho gas out when I sat
down in my chair to sleep, so that the
only light in the room came from tho
dying fire. I became aware of that pres¬
ence the very instant I awoke. Mind,
sir, this is not a dream. I was as fully
awake as I am at this moment. The
thing was there! It was at the back of
me. It was between mo and the door.
I had got to turn my head to see it. But
T knew it was there! Who it was, or
what it was, I didn’t know; but I was
sure that some living thing was standing
behind me motionless in the dim,
ghost.y light, and was looking at me.
My God, sir! it was awful to git still and
feel this thing, and try to make up my
mind to turn my head toward it! lam
pretty well accustomed to corpses, but I
can tell you that I did not feel just then
that the corpse out in the other room
was any company for mo.
“Well, there I sat—feeling that horri¬
ble gaze fixed upon mein utter silence,
and the death-like cold creeping through
my veins—striving, struggling to nerve
myself to look around and to face the
thing, whatever it was.
“Were you ever locked up in a tomb
at night?” the undertaker suddenly
asked me. I could only shake my head
in response; I could not speak.
“I have been,” he said, “but it was
nothing—nothing to those few minutes,
while I sat palsied with terror, with that
thing behind me? At last, in a kind of
nervous spasm, I sprang to my feet and
turned toward the door. The sight froze
me 1 There is no other word for it—I
was rigid. I could no more stir than I
could arrest the motion of this train now
and instantly. My very heart stopped
its beating. I wonder I did not drop
dead myself, for there—not six feet from
me—with the livid pallor of death on its
face, and its glassy eyes glued to mine,
stood the corpse!
“Then it began to approach mo. It
did not seem to walk—it glided; and
not till it reached me did it make a
single apparent movement. Then—just
stand up, will you? lean illustrate bet¬
ter what occurred.” I did so, and he
rose at tho same time, and we stood
facing each other in the compartment. I
was dimly conscious at the moment that
we were crossing Battersea bridge. The
undertaker, as ho went on, repeated upon
me the actions he described.
“Then this dead thing,” he said to
me, “slowly lifted its arms and laid its
icy fingers on my cheeks and moved
them gently downwards to my shoulders,
pressing hard against me all the time on
either side, as I do now on you, and
wherever the hands lay they seemed to
draw the very life out of the flesh be¬
neath them. Slowly—oh, how slowly—
they glided on downward from my
shoulders to my breast, beneath my coat,
like this. Try to conceive it—try, if you
can. Wherever they touched they drew
something away from me—some virtue
seemed to go out of me. And then the
frightful thought came to me that I was
dying by piecemeal 1—that I was parting
with something dear to mo as life—bit
by bit I could feel it ebbing—ebbing,
and nt last the horror grew to a convic¬
tion. This ghoul was drawing my life’s
blood into his own veins! was sucking
my substance! What I lost he gained?
He enriched himself by making me poor,
and it would end-’’
“Victoria 1” shouted a guard, opening
the carriage door.
“Bless my soul 1" exclaimed the under¬
taker, “are we in? I must hurry to catch
my train out.” lie seized his satchel,and
was on the step before I could got my
breath to say: 1 But the story 1 I want to
hear the end of it. ”
lie was on the platform now. “Oh |
there isn’t much more,” he called back.
“The ghoul succeeded—that’s alll”—
and he was gone before I could say an¬
other word.
As I followed a porter to a cab, and
ail the way home, I tried to conceive
what the undertaker could mean How
could the dead man have succeeded?
Here tf*e pndertaker was, alive and well,
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and telling me the story. It was very
annoying and disappointing to bo so
baulked after being so wrought upon.
The undertaker had left me no address,
so that I was, apparently, doomed never
to know the solution.
Only “apparently” however. When I
got out of the cab at my own door, I
could tlnd no loose change to pay the
the driver, yet I had some when I took
that train at Dover; my well furnishal
pocket-book, though that, too, I had at
Dover, was gone as well; anil my watch
and chain had followed suit.
It is painful to lose confidence in hu¬
man nature in this way .—London Truth,
The Garfield Family.
The Garfield home on Prospect street,
where Mrs. Garfield has lived since
President Garfield’s death, is empty and
for sale. Mrs. Garfield and her family
have gone to live at the Mentor farm,,
where, she says, she can find more peace
and comfort than anywhere else. Beforo
she went there the house on the farm
was remodelled and added to. Still, it
was much too small for the equipments
of the city house, and a few days ago a
private sale was held, at which a great
many things were disposed of at fabu¬
lous prices. During the unsettled period
Grandma Garfield went to her old
home at Solon, a village twelve miles
from town, and near Hiram College,
where her boy was taught and taught
others. The old lady is pestered almost
to sickness by autograph hunters, and
will attend to them no more. She is
6trong and very clear of mind, as of old.
Since the removal of Mrs. Garfield to
Mentor grandma has rejoined her.
One reason why thediouse on the farm
was enlarged was the need of a won*
where President Garfield’s effects and
papers could be placed. These have all
been arranged with the utmost care, and
placed in systematic order. The article*
«u the memorial room of the Prospect
street house have also been removed to
a specially built room in the Mentor
home, and a rare collection of tributes
from nearly every State in the Union,
and from nearly every civilized nation in
the world. Mrs. Garfield’s father,
Mr. Zeff Rudolph, is with her. He and
grandma are nearly of the same age—
about 83. Harry Garfield is at horn*..
He has returned from St. Paul’s school,
near Concord, N. II., where he has been
teaching. Janies R. is studying law
with Judges Boynton and Hale of this
city, and is going to make a good, and
perhaps a great lawyer. He is a close
student, and has his father’s retentive
and legal mind.
Molly is with her mother at Mentor,,
but often some* to town. She is Presi-
dent of the McAU Mission Society, an
organization for missionary work in
Paris. Mrs. Garfield looks well, but
lives very quietly, and retains her gar¬
ments of black. She gave $50,000 for
the Prospect street house, and has only,
as yet, been offered $45,000 .—Cleveland
{Ohio) Leader.
Petrifying Human Bodies.
A New York undertaker ard embalmer
*aid to a Mail and Express reporter that
he believed the time was not fardi-tant
when the lost art of mummifying bodiast
would be discovered.
“What struck me with that idea was
the great state of preservation the body
of Preller, killed by Maxwell in St.
Louis, was fouud when exhumed to un¬
dergo an examination by the physicians.
The body h d been buried some time,
and the lawyers for the defense imagined
that it would be so decayed no post
mortem examination could be made in a
scientific way to discover the traces of
disease such as Maxwell said he had.
The embalmer had done his work well,
and the body was in a fine state of pres-
ervation. I think some fluid will bo dis-
covered that will petrify flesh, and thus
the ancient Egyptians will be outdone.
That is my great hobby—to petrify the
human body after death. It will hand
down to ages yet unknown, the exact
features and proportions of the present
race. Our skilled chemists who dream
their lives away over the retort, it looks
to me, should turn their attention in this
direction. The bones of mastodons have
been preserved for thousands of years,
and why not man’s? Anything the brain
can conceive of I think can, in a meaa>
ure, bo accomplished in tim .”
Carried off by an Eagle.
The Greenvile (III.) Sun contains the
particulars of an att ck by a bald
eagle upon the 7-year-old son of Wash¬
burn Wright, near Mulberry Grove. As
the boy was on his way to the pasture
the bird swooped down on him, and,
fastening its talons in his clothes, raised
him in the air, soaring several feet with
him, when his clothing parted and the
child dropped to the ground, Tlie
youth's screams brought to him his
father, who was fortunately near-by, and
his presence frightened the eagle away.
Very Much of a Hint.
Dilly-dallying Lover.—Look at those
two birds, Maria. What a chattering
they keep up around the door of that
rustic bird house! It is charmingly rural,
isn’t itl”
Disheartened Maria (crisply)—Yes.
“What do you think they can lie say¬
ing to each other?”
“They are saying: ‘Let us get married
and keep house.’”— W
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