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SCHLEY P,1 & & t 1 fm ■ y Tn iapmtjum. Y ENT 15 \ 3 / 7 ^ I ' A. J. HASP, Publisher. 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, - VOL. 1. NO. 52. m ■ 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 > m .