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Newspaper Page Text4KJ*!ssb “ HUB VOL. XXII ADVENTURES BY HENRY M. STANLEY, Author of “In Darkest Africa,” "How I Found Livingston.'' Copyrighted by The Constitution “I have a poor memory for legends.” said Bujomba, one night while we were in camp at. Bengal "but I remember what a young Mtongouh (colonel) Saruti related to Mtesa after bis return from an expedi tion to the frontier of Unyoro. What a head that man had, and such eyes. Mtesa was ever fond of a good story, and loved to question those whom It? sent to distant countries, until you might say there was nothing left in a man worth hearing after he had done with him. But Saruti did not need any questioning. lie talked on and on without stopping, until Mtesa could not sit up longer for sheer weariness. L'hese are among the things he said that he had witnessed on his journey. You must not ask me if I believe all that he said. Ail 1 can say is that they might have happened, or been seen by many men, but 1 never could quite understand how Saruti alone was so lucky as to see all the things he talked about". Anyhow, he v.as very amusing, and Mtesa laughed heartily many times as he listened to him. “Kabaka. I think my charms which my father suspended round my neck o ust be Very powerful. I am always m luck. 1 \ s * '« : r >■ :■ ■ m THE WILD HOG DEFENDS HERYOI’NG. hear good stories on my journey, I see strange thiir-s which no one else seems to have come across. Noxv, on this last journey, b\ the time 1 reached Singe, i came to a little village, and 1 was drinking banana wine with the chief: he told me that there are two lions near his country who have a band of hyenas to serve as soldiers under them. Tney semi them out in pairs, sometimes to one district and s mu tinies to another, to purvey food for them. If the peasants show tight, they go back ami report to their masters, and the lions bring ail their soldiers with them, and bother them until they are glad to h ave a fat bullock lied to a. tree as tribute. When the lions see this they lake the bul lock and give orders that tile peasant who pavs his tribute shall be left in peace. 1 lie chief declares this to be a fact, for he has Lad a proof of it repeatedly. At the next place which is Mbag tve, the man Buveah, who is in charge, told rue that, when he went a short lime before to pay his respects to the Nluzitnn, the ora cie of the district, that, tie mei about thirl v Kokorwa on the road hunting close together for snakes and that as soon as they saw him they chara-'-i al him and xvouid hav • killed him bad he not run up a tr e. lie tei® nti* that th nigh they are not much bieget than rabbits they are very savage am! make traveling alone very dangerous. 1 think they must be some Kind ot small [%• haps the old men ot the court may be better able to tell you what tiny “A e next village of Agondo a smart little boy called Km liana was brought to me. who was said to have been lately play ing with a young friend ot the same age at io: g stick and little stick (tip-cat.) His friend a id Si nt it a gr< at way and Rutmina had to fetch it from the long grass. While searching for it one of these big serpents which swallow goats and calves e.inght him and coil 'd himself around him. h ho ich he screamed out tor help, Rutuaua laid his stick across his idlest and. clutch ing hold of each end with a hand, held fast to it until help came. His Irieitd ran a tree and only helped him by seteaming. As the serpent could not. break the boy’s hold on the sitek, he was unable to crush hi' ribs, but when he was nearly exhausted tllr vilklg‘*!’S rjllllO out with speurs illld shields. But these fellows Were SO stupid tli.it they not know how to kill (h»* Serpen; until Kutnana shouted to them. •Quick, draw you bows and shoot him through the tieek.’ A man stepped for ward then and when close to him pierced his throat with tin arrow and as the ser pent uncoiled himself to attack the me,. Butuan.i f'dl down. The serpent, was soon tpeari'd and the boy was carried home. 1 think that boy will become a great wor rier. , . "At the next village th" peasants weie much disturbed by a multitude ot snakes which h.id collected there for some reason- Tin y I .1.1 several long black snakes which had'taken lodging in the ant hills. These llaii already killed live cows and lately had ta'-en Io attacking the travelers along the road that lead.- by the ant hills, when an Arab, named Massoudi. hearing of their trouble, undertook to kid them. He h;id some slaves with hi” l and he clothed their legs with buffalo hide, ami placed cooking pots on their heads, and told, them to go among the ant hills. \\ hen tin' snakes came out of jneir holes he shot them one by cue- Among the reptiles he killed were three kinds of serpents, which possessed horns. The peasants skinned them, and made bags of them to treasure their charms. One kind of horned snake, very thick and short, is s:iid to Ja.v eggs as large as those of fowls. Tin* iiubarasassa. which is of a gray ish color, is also said to be able to kill elephants. "I then went to Kyengi, beyond Stiigo, nnu th ■ peasants, on coming to gossip with It:. , ]■:upset tile with terrible stories of the mis. 1 def done by a big black leopard. I' seems h - hml first killed a woman, and had carried the body into the bush: and another time had killed two men while OF SARUTI. they were setting their nets for some small ground game. Then a native hunter, under promise of reward from the chief, set out with two spears to kill him. He did not succeed, but he said that h" saw a strung ■ sight- As he was following the track of the leopard, he suddenly came into a lit'le jun gle. with an open space in the middle. A large wild hog, followed by her litter of little pigs, was rooting about, and grunting as pigs do, when he saw the monstrous black leopard crawl toward one of the pigs. Then there was a shrill squeal from a pig gie, and tin* mother looking up discovered its danger at which it furiously rushed, clashing her tusks and foaming at th? mouth. The leopard turned sharp round and sprang up a tree. The sow tried to jump up after it. ami being unable to reach her enemy in that way. she set about working hard at tin 1 roots. While she was busy about it the peasant ran back to obtain :i net and assistants, and to get his hunting dog. When he returned the sow was slid digging away at the bottom of the tree, and had made a great hole all round it. The jugs, frightened at seeing so many men, trotted away into the bush, and the hunter and his friends prepared to catch him- They- pegged the net all about the tree, then let loose the dog, and urged him to ward the net. As he touched the net. the hunters made a great noise, ami shouted, at which the leopard bounded from the tree, with one scratch of his paw ripped the dog open, sprang over the net, lapped one of the men on the shoulder, ami was running away, when he received a wound in the shoulder, ami stopped to bile tin 1 spear. The hunters continued to worry him, until at last, covered with blood, he lay down ami died. “One day, beyond the Kyengi, 1 came to the thorn-fenced village of some Watusi. who, it seems, had suffered much from who, it seems, hail suffered much from The headman's little boy was looking aft'?r some calves when the cubs came ami quietly stalked him through the grass. Tim headman look it so much to heart that as soon as he heard the news he went straight back to the village and hanged hintself to a rafter. The Watusi love their families very much, but it seems to be a custom with these herdsmen that if a man takes his own life the body cannot be buried, and. though he xvas a herdsman, tiny carried it to the jungle, and after leaving it for the vultures they returned and set fire to his hut, and burnt it to the ground. When they had done that, ihe nasi collected and had a long hunt after the young lions, but. as yet they have bet'll unable to find them- “When the sun was half way up the sky. 1 camo from Kyengi to some peasants, w'no lived near the forest which is affected by the man monkeys called nzike (gorilla). 1 was told by them that the nzike know how to smoke and make lire just as we do. 11, is a custom among the natives, when they- see smoke issuing through the trees, for them to say, ’Behold, the nzike is cook ing his food.’ I asked them if it. were true that, the nzike carried off women to live with them, but they all told me that it was untrue, though the old men sometimes tell such stories to frighten th<> women, and to keep 1 hem at home out of danger. Knowing that I was on the king’s busi ness. they did not dare tell me their fables. “By asking them all sorts of questions, 1 was shown to a very old man with a while beard with whom 1 obtained much amuse ment. If appears he is a great man at riddles, and he asked me a great many. "thio was, ’What is it that always goes straight ahead, am! never looks back:’ "1 tried hard to answ'er him, but when finally he announced that it was a river, I felt very foolish. ‘‘He then asked me, AVliat is it that is a loiip outside and meat inside?’ /‘Th? people laughed and mocked me. Then he said it was an egg, which was very tru<‘. ’’Another question ho gave mo was, AVhat is it that looks both ways when you pass it?’ "Some said one thing, and some said another, and at last he answered that it. was grass. “Then he asked me. ‘What good tiling was it which a man eats, ami which he constantly fastens his eyes upon while he eats, ami after eating throws a half "1 thought and thought of it. but I never knew’ until he told me it was a roasted ear of Indian corn- “That old man. was a very wise one. ami among some of his sayings was that ‘When people dream much, the old moon must be dying.’ • f He also said that ‘When th" old moon is dying the hunter never need leave home to seek for game, because it was well known that he would meet nothing.’ "And he further added that at that time the potter need not try to bake any pots, because the clay would be sure to be rot ten . ‘‘Some other things which ho said made me thing a little of their meaning. "He said., ‘When people have provisions in their huts they do not say let us go into another man’s house and rob him.’ “lie also said, ’When you seek a crook back you do not: ask him to stand straight, imr an old man to join the dance, nor tic..' man who is in paiu to laugh.’ "And what he said about the traveler is very irue. The man who clings to his own hearth does not tickle our ears like him who sees many' lands and hears new st>- "The next day I stopped at a village near the lake of Kitesas call Mtukura. The chief in charge loved talking so much t im: he soon made me as well acquainted with the affairs of his family as though he courted my sister. His people are ai-customed to eat frogs and rats, and from the noise in the reeds and the rustlings and squealing in the roof of the hut I slept in, 1 think them is little fear of famine in that village. Nor are they’ averse, they tell me to iguanas and those vile feeders, the hyenas. “it is a common belief in the country that it was Naraki. a wife of Uni. a Sulton of I’nyoro, who made that lake. hil? passing through she was very- thirsty and cried out to her Mirzimii (spirit)’ the Mtizimu which attends tin kings ot I nyoro and which ar*' most potent. .Vitd all at once there was a hissing Hight of tire stones —me- teorites—in th? air and immediately afier there was a fall of a monstrously large one, which struck the ground close to her ami made a great hole out of which the water spurted ami the water coniinued 10.-iidng up until a lake was formed and buried the fountain out of sight ami the rising walers forme*! a river, which has run north from the lake ever since into the Kato. “Close bv this lake is a dark grove, sacred to Muzingeh, the king of the birds. 1( is said that ho has only one eye, but once a year he visits the grove, and, after build- ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY. JUNE 27. 1893. ing his house he commands all the birds from the Nyanzas and the groves to come and see him and pay their homage. For half a moon the birds, great ami small, may be seen following him along the shores of the lake like so many’ guards around a king; and before night: they are seen re turning in the same manner to the grove. The parrots’ cries tills the natives when they come, and no one would care to miss the sight and the glad excitement among the feathered tribe. But there is one bird called the Kirurumu that refuses to acknowl edge the sovereignity of the Musingeh. The other birds hav*' tried often to induce him to associate xvith the Muzingeh, but Kirurumu always answers that a beautiful creature, with gold and bln*' leathers and such a pretty crest, was never meant to he seen in the company’ of an ugly' bird that possesses only one eye. “(In the other side of Lake Mturkra is a forest, where Ihingu. the king of the animals, lives. It is to Dungu that all the hunters pray when they set out to seek for game. ll** builds first a small hut. ami after propitiating him with a small (nece of flesh, he asks Dungu that h*' may be successful. Then Dungu enters into the hunter’s bead, if he is pleased xvith the offering, ami the cunning of the man becomes great: his nerves stiffen ami his bowels strengthen, ami the game is secured. When Dungu wishes a man to succeed in the hunt, it is useless for the buffalo to spurn the earth ami moon, or for the leopard to cover himself with sand in his rage -the spear of the hunter drinks his blood. Bui the hunler must not forget to pay the tribute to the deity, lest he be killed on the way home. “The friendly’ chief insisted that I should become his blood fellow, and to stay with him a couple of days. Th*' witch doctor, a man of great inllui'iice in the country, was asked to unit*' us. He took a sharp little knife and made a gash in the skin of m.v right leg just above the knee, ami diil the same to th*' chief, and then nib bed his blood over my wound, ami m.v blood over bis and xve became brothel's. Among his gifts was this beautiful shield, which I b"g Mtesa. my kabaka, to accept, because 1 hav*' seen none so beautiful, ami it is too gooil for a colonel who Wants to serve his king. "1 am glad that T rested there, because I saw a most wonderful sight toward even ing. As xve xvere seated under th*' bananas, sucking xvine from our gourds, xve heard a big he goal’s bleat, and by the sound of it. xve knexv it xvas neither for fun nor for love. It: was a lone of anger and fear. Almost at the sum*' time one of the boys rushed up to us and his fact' had turned gray and he cried: ‘There is a lion in the goat pe*i ami th*' big he goat: is fighting xvith him!' They had forgotten to tell me about this famous goat, xvhieh was call ed Kasuju, after some great man who had been renowned in war, and he certainly' was worth speaking about, and Kasuju was xvell-knoxvn round about for his won derful strength ami fighting qualities. When xve got near the pen with our spears ami shi* I Is. the he goat xvas butting th*' lion, xx'ho was young, for he had no mane, as h“ might hav*' butte*! a pert young nan ny goat and baaing will* as full a note as that. of a buffalo call. It: appears that Kasuja saw the de stroyer crci-ping toxvard one of his wives, ami dashing at. his Hank knocked him down. As we lookeil on from the outside xve saw the Kasuju was holding his own very well, and xv*' thought that xve xvould not check the tight, but prepare oursi'lves to have a good east al the lion as he attempted to leave. Th*> lion xvas getting roused up ami xve saw th*' spring he mad*', but Kasuju nimbly slept aside and gave him such a slrok*' that it sounded like a drum. Thi-n Kasuju trotted away in front of his tremb ling xvix’es ami as the lion came up xve xvatehed him draw his ears back as he rais ed himsi'lf on bis him! feet like a. xvarrior. The lion ail vanned to him ami ho likewise rose as though he would wrestle xvith him, xvheu Kasuju shot into his throat with so true ami fair a stroke that drove on*' of his horns deep into the throat. It was then the lion’s claws began to work, and xvith every scratch poor Kasuju’s hide xvas torn dreadfully, but h*' kept his horn in the xvouml, and wished home and made th** xvound large. Tbi'ii th*' lion sprang free ami th*' blood spurted all over Kasuju. Blinded xxith his torn and hanging scalp ami xveak eneil with his xvounds. he staggered about, pounding blimiiy’ at his eni'iny, until the lion gave him on*' mighty stroke with, his p.aw ami sent him headlong, ami then si'izeil him by th*' neck and shook him, and we , J ! |l l l!'l p| ■■ o -h;, ‘-f ? \ hyf l 'Aw:-*.®. ■ :« g • . ' ... V'. ■A v ■, wM X '■ ‘A 1 --'' ' ■" ; ■ ’"J- < , -it,. •- ' J? - <e* ■ THE GOAT ATTACKS THE LION. hear*! the cruel crunch as the fangs met. But it. was the Last effort of the lion, tor just as Kasuju xvas lifeless the lion roller, over him dead also. Ibid my friend told me this story i should not haxe believed him, but as 1 saw it with my oxvn eyes I am bound io believe il. We buried Kasuju hon orably in a grave, as xve xvould bury' a brave man, but the lion xve skinned anil I have got his fur xxith the ragged hole in the throat. "The singular light xv*' hail witness*'*! furnished us all with much matter tor talk about lions, ami il brought in the story of a crocodile ami lion light xvhieh had h*ippen el some time before in the night. Lake Mtukura swarms with crocodiles, and sit uated as it is in a region of game, they must b" tat xvith prey. One night a lull grown lion xvith a tine mane cam*' to cool his dry throat in th*' lake, ami xvas qnatb.ng xvater, xvlten he felt his nos*' seized by some thing that rose up from beloxv. From the traces of the struggle by the xvator’s edge it must have been a terrible on*'. Th*' croc odile's long daws had left *leyt> marks, shoxv ing how he must have been lifted out of th*' [Continued Six Column Fifth I’age.] FOUR HUNDRED LOST. SINKING OF THF WAUSniP VICTO- ItlA. IN THE MEHLTEItEANBAN. Another Warship Kan Into Her, and Before the Boats Could be Lowered t he Victo ria Sauk—Excitement in Loudon, London, June 23.—A tragedy of th*' sea xx'ithout parallel in th*' naval annals of recent times occurred today. The British battleship Victoria, th*' ilagship of the Medi terranean squadron, has compiled a check ered career by sinking off Tripoli, after a collision with the Camperdoxvn, a sister ship ; of the squadron. This tragedy, resulting | in the loss of 4(J() nien, including the vice i admiral of the squadron, had not been j * qua led in fatal results since the sinking ; ot th*' lioyal George in 1782, when (><•*• ; souls found their shroud in the ocean xvaves. Details of th*.' disaster are meager, and tlie responsibility for this xvoefnl loss of life has not been fixed. Hom*' of the ships of the squadixm xvere maneuvering, xvheu th*' prow ram of the < amperdown struck th*' Victoria forward of the turret in tin* starboar*! side- 'Through th*' enormous hoi*' made by her sisier ship, th*' xvaler poured so rapidly in that she was sinking before an effort could be made to man the boats. Fven in the face of impossibility, the sailors strove to close the break, but, in the midst of their labor of desperation, the mighty hull turned completely over and went to th** bottom, fifteen minutes after th** Victoria hail received the fatal bloxv, th*' water closing over her, and th** brave hearts that xvere prepared to bat 11*' xx ith all enemies of their eonntry had ceased to beat, because the mistake of a friend xvas more deadly than designs of any' foe. She XX u s lo<» Unwieldy. Th*' loss of this ship, xvith its attending terrible saerific*' of life, is looked upon as confirming the opinion of many naval ofli ci'i’s concerning the warships of th*' present day. While tile \ietoria might have been unmatched as to eltieicney' in destroying a seacoast fortification, experts say' she xvas decidedly' too unxvieldly for serious maneu vering off seaboard. Naval engineering, they point out. has never progressed as rapidly as architecture, awl the stupendous mass of the ten-thonsand-ton xvar ship can not be controlled as xvell as the ollicers might, desire. Txvin screws were the desider atum- They proved excellent indeed, but Hie delay' and waste of energy' in propelling Hu l leviantlians is still a drag. There is but little doubt, in the minds of those xvho have knowledge of naval architeetnr*' that the loss of th*' Victoria xvas mainly' du*' to th*' defects referred to above. It is prob able that either the Camperdoxvn or the A ietoria could not lessen the impetus re ceived from its engine unrequited. It is also commented that while scarcely' any thing has be*'ii done to nullify Ib*' action ■of the ram. the navies of the -vxrld have given hardly a thought to th*' lifeboat. Taking il altogether, th* disaster is regard ed bx naval people as a severe lesson to the navies of th*' xvorld. ’I lie Shi» i>n<l 111*' Admiral. The Victoria xvas a twin-screw battleship, of 10.070 tons and of 1-1,000 hors** poxver. She mounted fifteen guns. Th*' Camper doxvn is also a first-class txvin-screxx' battle ship. She is of 10,000 tons’ anil 11,500 horse poxver, and carries ten guns. V*ee Admiral Sir George Trion xvas comc'ander-in-chief of th*' Mediterranean station. He xvas made a vice admiral Au gust 20, 1891. Bear Admiral Albert 11. Markham, of the Trafalgar, the flagship of the rear ailmiral in th*' Mediterranean, has telegraphed to th* 1 admiralty, from Tripoli, under date of today, as folloxvs: 1 regret to report that while maneuvering off Tripoli this afternoon lhe Victoria and (’iiiupei’iloxvu collided. The \i tori:* sank in fifteen minutes in eighteen fathoms of xvater She lies bottom uppermost. The Can.'ptr (hiwn’s rams struck the Victoria forward of the turret on the starboard side. Twenty-one ollicers were droxvned. Two hundred and twenty-five men xvere droxvned. The injury to lite Camperdoxvn lias not yet iti'-t* fully ascertained, but it is serious and xxill nee's si,ate her going on dock for reuaii's. I pro pose to send the survivors to Malta. List of Officers Droxvned. The eoniplemi'iit. of otiieers and crew of th*' Victoria comprised HIM) men- The list * of otiieers droxvned includes, besides \ iee , Admiral Trion. Captain Morris, Lii'Ulen ant Monro. I'Teet I'aymaster I’ieord, First I’.ngineor Forman. Engineer Harding. As sistant 1 aigini'i'i’s Dcadnian, Ilatherly tin I Seaton. Gunner Hoxvell. Boaisxvain Har mon. Carpenter Meade, Midshipmen Grieve, Flakes. Lanyon. i’eidy. Gambler mill Scarlet, Cadet Stooks and Clerks Allen and A change hml recently been made in the commander attached to the \ ietoria, Charles L. (ittley, having been detached anil succeeded by Commander Fellicome, xvho xvas saved, as xvere also th** captain, th*' Hou. Maurice A- Bourke, anil lifteen other ollicers. XX here the Collision Occurred. The first dispatches concerning tile ac cident led t<> the belief that the disaster ha*l occurred off the coast of Tripoli, in northern Africa. Later advices shoxx’ that the scene of th*' calamity was near Tripoli, a seaport town on the eastern Mediter ranean- The eastern Mediterranean has prox'ed a most unfortunate cruising ground for the Victoria, for it was in this part of th*' sea that she met her serious last year the Victoria ran aground off the Greek coast, near I’atea, and she was only’ float*'*! off after an immense amount of labor anil large expense. Due to Carelessness. It xvas said that this accident was due to earelessiH'SS. -V boat's crew from the Victoria xvas sent to mark with a buoy a shoal, th*' existence of xvhieh xvas known to the Victoria’s otiieers. The shoal is a short one, and extends out: from the shore. I The boat's crew xvas instructed to pro ceed along th*' shoals from lhe shot - *' until ten fathons of water xvas reached, and then I to mark the spot xvith a buoy. When I within a hundred yards of the end, the lioat got off the shoals, anil, as the next sounding showed ten fathoms of xvater, the buoy' xvas launched. The Vietoriti then came along at <t good rate of speed at right angles to the shoal to take a position for torpedo practice, and. passing xvell outside th*' buoy, struck the shoal and remained fast. Th*' Ho“. Morris Bourke. captain of the Victoria and a son of th*' late earl of Myo, xvho is the young est post captain in the British navy, was held responsible for th*' accident, and was severely reprimanded by a courtmartial. As soon as th*' ollii'ers of the \ ietoria saxv that there was danger of their ship foundering, orders xvere given tc close the collision bulkheads in order to keep th*' water in the compartment into xxhich the ('amperdown hail shov-'d a ram. The sailors tried to obey' th*' order, but tin* sliip xvas making xvati'r too fast to alloxx' the closing of the bulkheads, and. xvhile tli*' mi'll xvere still trying to shut them, t’ni' vessel, xvith her immense guns and heavy top hamper, turned over and carried them doxvn. l?xclt«tnent in Lnndon. As soon as the nexvs of the disaster be- I cam*' knoxvn in London, the duke of Edin burgh, xx ho was lately promoted 1o the position of admiral of Hi*' licet, visited th*' admiralty ami conferred xvith the ofh eials there. A meeting of tin' admiralty' boanl was held, ami a telegram ot m struetions xvas sent to Bear Admiral Markham. The news of the calamity has caused the most intense excitement, not only among those who bail friends on board the ill-fated ship, but among all classes of the population. The admiralty office in Whitehall is besieged by relatives ami friends of th*' ollicers and crexv, re porters seeking further details of. the disaster and people attracted by' curiosity. So dense xvas the throng in the vicinity that th*' admiralty olliciais were compelled to summon the police to restrain th** crowd. No information has been received, at th*' admiralty sine*' the receipt *>l Rear Admiral Markham’s first otlieial telegram, xvhieh is above reported. All official tele grams in regard to th*' loss of the ship xvill be sent at once to the queen, at YVindsor castle- As soon as her majesty' received Admtr.'il Markham’s dispatch, which xvas immediate ly forwarded to her. she gave orders tor th*' postponement of th*' state ball that xvas to have been at Buckingham jialaee tonight. Ol:t<lMone Inform* tho Common*. Nir. Gladstone xvas greatly shocked xvh*'n he was informed of the sinking of the Victoria anil th" great loss of life that, hail attended the foundering of th*' vessei. The prime minister informed the holts*' of commons of the accident and paid a most, gloxving tribute to tic.' xvorth of Vic*' Admiral Trion, xvho, he said, xvas one of th*' ablest and most este.*me*l officers in lit*' service of her majesty. Mr. Glailstone saiil that, there wer<* 511 ollicers. seamen ami boys ami 197 marines on .board the ship- It xvas feared that of this total of 718 souls (>3O hml been lost. He was sure the deepest sympathy' of the house xyould b*' felt for Hie brax’e men xvho had found an early’ grave in the service ol their coun try, and that it xvould be extended to their relatives and friends. The Rt. Hon. George Hamilton, formerly’ first lor*! of the admiralty, endorsed every thing Mr. Glailstone said (nthe Lords. In lhe house of lords, Earl Spencer, first lord of the admiralty, referreil to Jhe disas ter in terms similar to those of Mr. Glad stone- Among those saved. is the Itt. Hon. Lord Richard Gilford, Vice Admiral Trion’s Hag lieutenant, .and the eldest son ami heir to the earl of Clanwilliam. The details of the accident are meager, and tire received in a straggling manner, owing to the remoteness of Tripoli. J'eil in a Faint. The queen has sent. Colonel Carrington to express her sorroxv an*l sympathy’ to Lady Trion- On the evening following th" afternoon of the disaster Ltuly Trion, xvno arrix’cil from Malta three xvei'ks ago, xvas holding her first reception' of th*' s*a<**n. Two hundred guests xvere present. Wh- ti the news of her husband's death reached her she fell in a fab . , Royal sum lions on th*' programme tor next: week have been postponed- The lord mayor Ims opened a fund for th*' benefit of th*' needy families xvho lost members in the disaster. Th*' nexvspapers are tilled xvith articles describing the vessels ami xvith the obituaries of the most conspicuous lives lost. All public leaders ar*' extending con dolence to th*' friends of the drowned men. Every’ leader I'tilogizes Admiral Trion- Tile Daily News says editorially: An’.erica. xvill thrill at the nexvs, coining as it does, xvith the Noxv York cheers for our squadron hardly died away. Are xv*' to pay so much in millions and broken hearts only to learn that th*' apartment sy stenv is a delusion ami a snare? The Tinies says: The inipiiry’ into the caus es of this disaster must he searching anil ex haustive, the punishment, if blame be found to exist, adequate and unllinehliig. The true lesson is not that maneuvers at sea are too luizanlous. but that only by incessant jirai tn e of evolutions at high speed can the navy be fitted for tli*' necessities of xvar. Sviniml by <>f Il>*> F.mpoi-or. The duke of Edinburgh has received Illis dispatch from Emperor William 11: Words cannot express nur horror. Wo all sympathize with your British comrades. As a’ token of our sympathy your ensign is hy ing from the mainmast of our vcs-wls with our own ensign at half-mast, according to my orders. The duke of Edinburgh replied: Th- British navy feel deeply lhe sympnthy oxpressed by your majesty and our brother officers of the German navy for us in this great disiister. Interview with Ford <«eor?x»‘Hamilton. An interview xvas had today xvith Lord George Hamilton to ascertain hts vtexts as to the disaster. He said timi without a doubt lhe Camperdown s ram hml cut away , the plating on the Victoria outside ot sever al of her transvers? bulkheads. H.id t*us not been the case the bulkheads could have been closed and the water kept in one. or at the most two, eonijiartmeiils and still tin vessel xvould have tioated, bur will* the plating torn away outside the several plate- Jh'ads the inll'DV of water woiitd have been enormous ami there would hav,' been no time, even if it would have ataih'.l any thin''' to close the bulkheads. The cans*' of the collision, he said, xvas as yet a mat ter of conjecture. Simill Vessels the Safest. In discussing the disaster this evening, Lord Brasser, for sometime the sei'fetary' of the admiralty, said that the sinking of the Victoria supplied a strong argument amiinst building mor.' big meii-of-xv.tr. It was evident, he said., that the A ic:orias 'irmor afforded her no protection from the ('amperdown’s ram. While fully convince,! thill smaller vessels xvere safer than large nlies he thought it wiser to distrmute the country’s naval strength among less pre tentious meti-of-xvar. rather than among a f*",v monster battleships. Il xvas poor policy to put so many eggs in one basket. _ \ court circular issued this evening says that. "The queen received the news with the deepest grief and her heart bleeds for the manx’ homes plunged in misery.’’ Th" queen xvill publish tomorroxx’ a spe cial k'tter of condolence xvith the families allliete*! by the disaster. Beading tl>o List. London, .lune 24.—1 t. xvould be hard to describes th" feeling that prevails every xvhere in the kingdom in regard to the calamity that, has befallen the country in the loss'of th*' battleship Victoria, ot! ’1 ripo li, Syria, and the drowning of so many of her "ollicers ami crexxi. Sorroxv for the dead and sx’mpathy for the relatives and friends of those xvho went down xvith the ship is xvidespread. In some quarters, indignation is expressed that such an ac cident should occur, but so far as knoxvn tliet'" is no foundation for this feeling. The lack of details cause,l by the remote ness of the scene 'of the disaster alloxvs of no expression of definite opinion, ami full reports of th*' accident are eagerly awaited- It is not believed a full story of the sad accident, can be obtain*',l until th*' arrival at Malta of the Camperdoxvn which ran into the Victoria. Many of the croxvil still linger about the admiralty office axv’aiting the possible re i-eipt of further nexvs. It is stated this morning that an effort xvill be made to re cover the bodies of those xvho xvent doxvn in the Victoria. Th,' bodies tire in 401) feet of xvater and it xvill be almost impossible to recover them. Funds tire being started in different parts of the country to aid those who have lost PRICE 5 CENTS their supporters. Gratifying subscriptiont are being made to these funds and it is be lieved that large sums of money will be raised. Among the prominent subscribers a)e tn,' lord mayor of Loudon and Queen V ietoria. A dispatch to the Exchange Tel,'graph Company from -Maha states that th,' Vic toria was cut. in two aft of the barborre Most of those xvho lost their live s w,'ro droxvned by being drawn under the water by th,' suction caused by the sinkim' ship Vice Admiral Sir George Trion was picked tip shortly after the foundering .if his ilagship ami carried on board th*' bat tleship Edinburgh, one of t] P . (]*.*., under his command, where he died shortly after ward. America Sympathizer. Washington, June 21.- Today the following enbh'graui was sent to the i mte.i States am bassador in Lon,lon: "Washingtom i>. c., j IIIje Bayard, Am. bassailor. Loudon: (ojixey i,, | l( . r majesty expressions ot heartl.,, sorrow of the i,resi dent oi the i mte,l Stall’s by reason or Ilia appalling catastrophe io the Victoria. “GRESHAM.” DEPAIIIUKI; OF EtI.ALIE. Txvo Trucks Loaded xvith Her Trunks—ller Apui tmeuis on the Steniust.lp. New York, June 24.- Large trunks and small trunks, trunks covered with leather and xvith checks. Trunks on*'hundred and fifty-five of them in every shape—this moil ing bioeked the hallways and sidewalk of Juan Al. Cheballos’s rcsidcu*:*' and attest*'.! with weight that lhe Infanta Euialie xvouid sail today for her native hind. They made tin imposing display—that collection of trunks, and drove Mr. Cheballos’s men into tragical despair. The entire lot was loaded on two immense trucks before Eu ialie had opened her eyes- ollieially al least—■ and were sent rumbling off to the steamer, arrangements having been made for a break fast; of the informal sort. The breakfast xvas partaken of at. 1 o’clock. There xvere ten in the party in cluding the ladies and gentlemen of the prin cess’ party 14*1 Mr. Ciieballos. At. 12 o’clock the party left Nir Cheballos’s res idence and xvere conveyed to the pier, xvliertt they embarked on th*' French liner L;i Totiraine, xvhieh sailed al 1 o’clock foi Hax’i'e. Amping the flowers and other remembrances xvhieh Euialie found in iter steamer parlor xvas a. closed xvieker basket: i containing twenty pounds of choice candy I ami decorated xvith ribbons representing Spanish colors and an American eagle. Mayor Gilroy had ordered it. to be sent to the Infanta Euialie on board the steamship to consol*' her on her homexvard passage. The princess and her suite occupy eight cabins on th" promenade deck in almost the center of the ship. As the princess and her suite drove onto the dock the band belonging to La Touraine ! played the national air of Spain. With the royal party are Mr. Pedro Jovar and Nir. de Bustamaute, secretaries to tile duke and prince.. TJiere are also two maids and seven servants. These latter ar*' booked in ' the second cabin. UNUSUAL SUN SPOT ACTIVITY. An Exceptionably Humid "uramer May Be it Store for l’s. From The Nexv Y’ork Herald. We printed the other day a letter from Professor Parkhurst describing the present remarkable spots on the sun. He says that “the xvhoie surface of the sun seems to be unusually active.’’ A few days ago, Professor Holden, ot the Li’k observatory, telegraphed that: a. large group of solar spots xvas then visible. The dia meter of the prineiplal cluster of spots in this group exceeded very many times that of the earth. But sine*' Professor Holden’s observation another group of spots lias been brought in to view by solar rotation, the largest of xvhieh is on the eastern limb of the sun. According to the theory of Dr. Feeder, it is xvheu spots are on the eastern limb that they most effect xveather ciuiditions on the earth. As Professor Parkhurst says, if the theory be correct, it. is to this spot rather than to the group reported from the Lick observatory that; our recent hot xvave xvas due. The telescope shoxx’s at times that the spots are great cavities or depressions in the photosphere caused by some tremendous disturbance from beneath the surface. It appears evident, therefore, that the sun’s •"ui't'gy is nox'.' increasing, and. if th*' recent “hot: xvave” was due to increased radiation of solar heat, we should be prepared for an exceptionally hot or humid summer. MEETING OF HI<11!-FLIERS. A Conference on Aerial Navigation to I’.a Helrt in < Chicago. June Lit—Among the various con gresses'to be heli! in I’hicago this summer there is to be a confei'i'iici' on .'u iial naviga tion August Ist to August Uil. Tl,.’ local or ganizing coimiiittee is composed of i’iigin*'ors anil of college professors in about equal numbers ami the object is to prolong the discussion of scientific principles involved as well as to ascertain what nexv proposals there may be in the air. Tile secretary, Professor A. I’’. Zahm, of Notre Dame. Ind., said today that with this in view some eighteen topics have been selected upon xvhieh papers <a.ve been invited, such a< the resistance of air. best forms of propellers, motors, strength of materials, the flight of birds, the types ofl Hying' mtti'hiites, kill's, construction, operation and improvement: in balloons, etc. Responses liave been received xvhieh promise papers upon each of these topii-s from experts In England. France. Denmark. Australia, anil Egypt, as xvell as from this country, and the dis, ussions ought to prove interesting. Chattahoochee. Sweets sings the Chattahoochee on its way; toxvard the sea— ’Die curling Chattahoochee. Tlie whirling Chattahoochee — And the mockingbirds make answer to Its music xvild and free; The blue skies bend above it. Tlie green hills lean and love it And th*> Chatiahooeiiee singeth of the sntn« mer and the sea! Sweet sings the Chattahoochee with radiant, rippled tides— The dreamy Chattahoochee, The gleamy Chattahoochee — The Alabama hilltops from the Georgian !♦ divides; But floats tills song above them: “I lave them, and I love them; The green fields are m.v lovers, and the great hills are nty brides!” Sweet rings the Chattahoochee to the east and to the west— The olden Chattahoochee, Tlie golden Chattahoochee; But a secret in its bosom makes it love tha sunset best: For its soul seems ever sighing For tl lost love unreplying. When Night steals from the mountains and 19 folded to its breast. Sweet sings the Chattahoochee of the passion of the past— The arieving Chattahoochee, 1 Team-weaving < hat tahoochee. And whatever be its secret still it holds—en folds it fast; But when glooms the Night above you. Still that, song: “I love yon—love you! And tit** sweetest rose that blossoms near my bosom is the last!” FRANK L. STANTON. Mr. Morrison’s Uniqne Pedestrianism. From The Qu’ Apelie Vidette. Mr. Janies Morrison, of Abernethy, received a sex-ere kick front his horse last xx’eek while on his way to town, on his left shin.

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The Atlanta constitution. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, June 27, 1893, Image 1