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.•Cnwonnl) IDmlg Stats, VOL. 6.—NO. 36. THE WAR IN SOUDAN. TERRIBLE DISASTER TO THE BRI TISH FOWS. Great Excitement in London —Dynamite Outrages Eclipsed— Khar to um Captured by the Rebels—General Gordon a Prisoner of War Very Little Hope for Stewart’s Army— Mr. Glad stone, Reported as Contemplating Resign ing. London, Feb. 5. —A dispatch from Gen eral Wolseley states that Khartoum has fallen, and that it is reported that General Gordon has been made a prisoner of war. Mr. Gladstone has called his Cabinet to gether for the purpose, it is stated, of re signing. The greate t excitement prevails THE ABOVE CORROBORATED. London, Feb. s.—'l he confirmation of the fall of Khartoum has caused the wildest excitement throughout the city, far exceed ing in intensity any that has been aroused by any of the startling events of the past few weeks. The Government officials and their sympathizers hope that the news will turn out to be greatly exaggerated, and express their belief that Gordon has not yet been driven from the Citadel in the centre of the city. Mr. Gladstone, on hearing of Gen. Wolsely’s despatch, proceeded at once to his official residence at Downing street, and immediately issued a summons to the mem bers of his Cabinet, requesting their presence at once. Mr. Gladstone appeared to be greatly agitated, and his action in calling a meeting of the Cabinet is, it is believed, for the purpose of tendering his resignation. THE STREETS ARE THRONGED with people anxiously discussing the omin ous intelligence and gra*e fears are enter tafned that none of Gen. Stewart’s little band will ever recrcss the desert. Not since the passage of the Dardanel es by t’ e British fleet during the Turco-Russian war has there been such wi'd excitement in th s city. On every street corner groups of ex cited people are discussing and speculating as to the result of this new disaster in Egypt, and on the action of the ministry. As the news spread throughout the city the crowds began to gather in front of the War Office, newspaper offices and o'h-r n ws centres, for the purpose of obtaining the latest information. The report was subsequently confirmed by the announce ment that dispatches had been received at the War Office from General Lord Wolseley dated at Korti, in which he states that a native courier from Metemneh had arrived at his headquarters with the STARTLING INFORMATION that Col. Wilson had returned from Khar toum, to which place he had been des patched with a small force on a steamer found at Metemneh at the time of iis cap tore, and repor'ed that Khartoum had been captured by the eni-nir, and that General Gordon had been made a prisoner of war. Col. Wilson, said that all along his retreat from the ill fated «ity he was constantly harrassed and subjected to heavy fire from the enemy’s guns. Many of the shots struck the steamer, but, without d< ing serious damage. Everything went c mpa rative!y well until within a short distance of Metemueh, when his vessel ran ashore on one pl the many islands and was toally Co). Wilson stales that Khar toum fell on the 26th of January, and he arrived oft the city two days after its fall He expressis belief that the capture of th' city was brought about by th® TREACHERY OF SOME NATIVES that General Cordon had pressed into his service. Colonel Wilson with his little force, at last accounts, was still on the island in which he was wrecked, awaiting a steam er to take him to Mete imeh. . The courier reports “adds General Wolse ley,” that the fall of Khartonm has cast a general feeling of gloom throughout General Stewart’s camp, and that fears were freely expressed that unless reinforcements soon arrived their fate would, in all probability, be soon sealed.” A TRIBUTE TO GENERAL LEE. General Lord Wolseley, in a private letter, says,: “I have personally known but two heroes in the course of my life; one was General Lee, the other, General Gordon.” ANOTHER ACCIDENT AT SEA. The Steamer William Kennedy Overhaul ed in a Crippled Condition—Her Otii ctrs, Crew and Part of the Merchan disa Saved —'I he Ship Forced to be Abandon* d in Mid-Oc< an. Special Dispatch to Savannah Daily Times. New York. Feb. 5 -The steamship Tallahasse, Captain Fisher, which sai’e 1 from Savannah February 2, has arrived here with merchandise and passengers. On the third of February at 3:30 in the after noon she passed the steamship Wm Kennedy of, and from Baltin:'.;, for Charleston with her shaft broken at; leaking badly. The Tallahassee took her in tow, intending to run into Cape Henry. After towing her one hour, she parted her hawser, and finding the leak gaining rapidly and with a bad sea and night coming on Captain Parker and the officers transferred thecrew, numbering 21, without accident, to the Tallahassee. The crew departed for Baltimore to-day on the 1 p. rn. train. Probabilities. Washington, Feb. s.—For the South Atlantic States, local rains, partly cloudy weather, westerly winds, shifting to north erly in northern sections and slightly colder, except in the extreme portion, and station ary temperature. All Bosh. New York, Feb. s—Herr Most said last night that the story of impending Socialist riots in Pittsburg was all bosh. Abandoned. New York, Feb. s.—Mr. Jay Gould has abandoned his Southern trip. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1885. FROM ATLANTA. An Ovation to Vice-President Elect Hen dricks—Savannah Excites Surprise in Base Ball Circles—Pretty Lula Hurst Atlanta, February s.—Vice-President Hendricks is here to-day on his way to New Orleans. He arrived at 4a. tn-, and was tendered a magnificent breakfast at 9 o’clock at the Kimball House. After that a reception was held at the Young Men’s Li i brary. The reception amounted to an ova tion, for Atlanta is wild over the grand old I Democratic leader. He left at 1 p. m. for New Orleans. 1 Considerable surprise was created here by 1 the appearance in the Constitution of the ■ base ball news from Savannah. It is well . known here that the Atlanta club is not in I the Southern League, but is in the Soutjh -1 eastern League. Every club in Georgia, except the Clinches of Augusta, is in the Southeastern League, having seceded from f I the Southern League, as is also Chattanoi ga, | Montgomery and Birmingham. The Atlanta base ballists are astonished that Savannah ! should join the Southern League, when it I paiticipated in the formation of the South- ■ I eastern League, and when its going into the Southern will shut it out from playing with i either Macon, Columbus or Atlanta. It is earnestly hoped here that Savannah will • remain with the Southeastern which has a , compact and popular circuit made up of i Atlanta, Chattanooga, Montgomery, Macon, Columbus, and the Browns of Augusta. It is said that every game played in Memphis, : New Orleans, or Charleston, will be at a i loss, owing to the distance of those cities, and the jumps required to get to them, and • their indifference as to base ball. Themana gers of the Atlanta club state p siiively that they do not belong to the Southern League, . but seceded from that League because of the distance to New Orleans, Memphis and . Charleston, and because of other reasons . which they considered good and sufficient. , Mr. Clarence Knowles one of the managers ■ of the Atlanta payers, said to the Times’ ; correspondent to-day : “Weearnestly hope . i hat Savannah will stick to the Georgia , clubs and not make an alliance with Mem phis, Nashville and Charleston, which must prove ruinous from a financial point ol view. . The Southecstern League is under the • full protection of the National Arbitration , Committee, their papers having been re ■ ceived to day by Mr. Walter R. Brown, . Secretary. Lulu Ilurst is in Atlanta to day. She is wonderfully improved by her recent travels, and is no longer the angular, awkward girl 1 she once was. She is as pretty as a pink, dresses stylishly, laughs and talks like a society queen, and is quite attractive. She has traveled all over the United States, and I says she admires most the lovely scenery of I California. She will be at DeGives’ Opera | House here on the 16th. Oscar Curry, who was killed in the East Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia Railroad accident at McDonough, right; before last, : was buried here to-day AN AGED CRIMINAL. ’ Horrib’e Talc From West Virginia. . | Cincinnati, February 5. —A special from Petersburg, West Virginia, to the j Times-Star relates a horrible story of hu , I man depravity. It says that Elijdt Elijah Wease, aged seventy-five, was ar rested for the murder of Hiram Ault, in Oc tober, 1861. Wease was arrested at the time and confined in jail at Moorefield. He 5 was then removed to Harrisonville, but was released by the Union soldiers. I There were only two witnesses to the . murder, George Reed and Annie Gunn. Reed was killed in the war. Anne Gunn . disappeared. Wease went to Virginia and t stayed till two years ago and then came | back. Recently a sister of the murdered . man visited in the West. She there met , Anne Gunn and was told the story of her brother’s murder. She came back and had j Wease arrested. The fact of his former ar i rest was proven and he was bound over to the grand jury. ’ Later in the day the astounding discovery . was made that Wease was captain of a band > of desperadoes, who committed robbery and murder. Twelve murders are charged to the j old man. He has confessed to six, among others that of his own son. The method wa . I t.o take the victims to a place called the j “Leap” and thiow them over. At the place de-ignated, the remains oi five men were found at one time They were discovered by dogs bringing the leg and arm - f a man home. The murderer was not suspected then. The men killed, with exceptions, were killed because they 1 were Union men. He also confessed burn- ■ I ing ninny houses. The whole country is laroused. Owing to the lack of ’ legraph facilities I names and details are difficult to get at. j New York Stock Market. ( New York, Feb. s.—At 1:30 p. m. to- ■ day quotations were : Union Pacific ... 4D% Missouri Pacific 96 Western Union Telegraph Co 61% Pacific Mail »»...».., 55% Lake Shore ....»...»»» 62% Louisville and Nashville 24 Texas Pacific 12% Denver and Rio Grande 8% Michigan Central 55 ; Delaware, Lackawanna & West’n «... 93% Northwestern 92% St. Paul 73% Cliicago,Burlins:ton and Quincy 120% Oregon Transcontinental 12% Northern Pacific 38% Rock Island 100% Jersey Central 33 Memphis and Charleston i. 27% East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (com) 3% EastJTennessee, Va. & Ga. (pld) 5% Philadelphia and Reading 16% Omaha (com) 26% Omaha (pfd) 87% New York Central 88% Kansas and Texas 18 - Erie 12% Chicago ’Change. Chicago, Feb. s.—Wheat opened firm and higher, 79 for March, April 80; May sold at 85. Corn firm, March 37J, May 40}. Gats steady, 30 j for May. Lard firm at $7 00a7 02}, March $7 15 bid. Pork firm, May sl2 70. ROSSA’S NEMESIS. THE ENGLISHWOMAN WHO SHOT HIM. > Interview by a Reporter—What Bhe I Has to Say for Herself A Pronounced JEnglisli Woman Subject to Fits of Excitement—lnsane on the Sub ject of Russa. Philadelphia, Feb. 5.—A New York I correspondent of the Times sends that paper the following interesting interview concern ing the woman who shot Rosea. No. 60 Clinton Place, where Mrs. Dudley I has been living, is one of several large , boarding houses for business women, kept . by Mrs. Sarah H. Legget, a respectable and , benevolent Quaker lady, well known in this city. It is the rule to require references, and none but respectable women are enter tained. Men are seldom seen on the prem ises. A reporter brought to the house the news of what Mrs. Dudley had done, and horrified the good natured housekeeper. “I know very little about Mrs. Dudley,” , said Mrs. Brown, “except that she stayed here a few days and paid her board.” “Did she bring you any references?” “Yes, she did; she mentioned the name of Dr. Thomas.” “Which Dr. Thomas?” “Really, I cannot say which. The name of the reference was apparently so respecta ble and her appearance was so prepossessing that I neglected to inquire, as I ought to have done. She said she was a trained nurse, having studied, not at Bellevue Hos pital, but in Paris, and that she had been recommended to Dr. Thomas and had at tended patients fir him. Ido not know the name of any patient she attended, but she told me she was going out to attend a pa i tient for Dr. Thomas a short time after she first came here.”; AN ENGLISH WOMAN. “When was that?” “I should say it was about three weeks ' ago. She remained away until about three 1 days ago, when she came back and asked me whether she could have a room. I told her ‘ | she could, and she took a small one alone up 1 stairs, the same that she had before. She told me that her patient had died. She said i she was an English woman and a widow and had lost her children as well as her hus ; band.” ’ “By a dynamite explosion?’’ “She did not say that. She told me that 1 she had been in this country but a tew ■ weeks.” “Did she have any baggage?” “Only a satchel, which she left here and which is here now.” “Did you ever hear her say anything about O’Donovan R ssa?” “No, 1 never did, but have heard some of i the ladies say that she spoke excitedly • I about him and the dynamite horrors in j England. I saw her last this afternoon, about 3 o’clock or later. She came to me and gave up her key and went away. She I said she thought she woo hi not be back to- I night. She was calm and placid and’lady j like as usual. From what little I saw of her .[judged her to be well educated. She I talked like one accustomed to society.” BUT LITTLE KNOWN OF HER. Seated in the parlor chatting after dinner were a dozen of the ladies who board in the house. “I think you will learn me st from the housekeeper,” said one matronly bust ; ness woman. “We know very little of Mrs. Dudley and nobody in the house was inti mate with her.” “Was she a pronounced English woman ?” inquired the reporter. “Indeed she was,” said a young business woman. “She talked very hard about this country and she did not like American girls. She spoke often about O’Donovan Rossa and the dynamiters.” ‘ Was she here at the time of the blowing ■ | up of the Tower of London and Parliament j House ?” “Soon after, and she was never tired of > ■ talking about it.” I “Yes,” chimed in a round-faced, merry • j business woman, “I heard her talk very I i bitterly against Rcssa. She had read much I , about him and his doings and she felt very • I much excited about the work of the dyna : I miters tn England. She had several copies lof Kossa’s paper here, aud said many times ; I that this government ought to stop such teachings here; that no such work wou’d be I j allowed in England, that the government oi I this country was rtsponsible for it. She ; once said passionately that she believed Rossa would cieet himself s .me of the vi r .- , lent work that he is fond ot advocating. She ■ spoke as if she thought he deserved fit.” “But dropped no hint of her personal in- > tentiors toward him?” “Why, no; she was such a lady-like, edit- i cated woman and so frail that you would never expect her to do such a terrible deed.” INSANE ON ROSSA. “Do yon think she was in her right mind?” was asked of another business wo man. . “Well, I must say that she did not seem to me to be perfectly sane when she got ■ talking about Rossa and the dynamiters, i She did say some things that left an im pression on my mind that she had had a ! relative injured in some of the dynamite explosions. I would not be certain, but I have an idea that she has been led to this ■ terrible deed by some conviction that Rossa ' was instrumental in making her a widow.” “I do not think she had any mere per- ' sonal motive,” said another business woman. “She was as much of a devotee of England ! as Rossa claims to be of Ireland. She be lieved that she was doing a patriotic duty i in shooting the enemy of her country. She was never tired of talking about it, and, ’ though she never spoke of assassination, she ' did talk in away that, now that I recall it in the light of her shooting of Rossa, makes it certain that she was convinced “that she had a patriotic mission to shoot him.” “BUCHU-PAIB I.” Quick, complete cure, all Kidney, Bladde ".nd Urinary® Diseases, Scalding, Irritatio. Stone, Gravel, Catarrh of the bladder, $1 Druggists. FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. This Morning’s Work in Both Hotise?. Washington, D. C,Feb, s.—ln the Senate to-day, Mr. bherman introduced a bill to authorize medals to be struck off'in connection with the inauguration of the Washington Monument. lOn motion of Mr. VanWyk a concurrent resolutions was adopted calling I on the Secretary of the Interior, for a report as to the amount due the United, States by i the Union Pacific Railroad Company, j In the House, Mr. Belmont, from the j Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported a 1 resolution calling upon the President for I copies of further correspondence in I relation to the Congo Conference. Adopted. | Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, from the | Committee on Rules, reported back ' Mr. Holman’s resolution to amend | the ' new rule which went into effect yesterday, I so that an objection shall be called for after J a debate cf ten minutes instead of prior I thereto. Mr. Reed, of New York, denounced the rule as one of a progressive system, which has been going on for a long period to ob struct the transportation of public business. The whole session, he contended, had been wasted un'il now. Ther wasbutjfour weeks left, and that time was mortgaged by the appropriation bills. A DOUBLE TRAGEDY. Two Men Kill Each Other. Albany, Ga, Feb. s—Tn5 —Tn Worth county Sheriff Shivers and Mr Boatright were con versing ytslerday, when suddenly thev were seen to draw revolver”, clutch each other and fire. Both men fell dead, their i arms grasped together. New York Produce Market. j New York, Feb. s—Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat—No 2 red winter Feb ruary at 90J.’ Corn No. 2 mixed at I 50} for February. Oats—No, ; 2 mixed at 3'j. Pork dull; i miss 13 25a13 50; barely nominal, tnrpen ; tine dull at 31, rosm quiet, strained to good ' 1 25al 271, sugar refined quiet, cut loaf 6 5-8, granulated 6j.>6}, tallow firm, prime i city 6 3 16 MR. POTTS’ DE\L IN PORK. Technical Phrases that Puzzle a Good Housewife. Syracuse Standard. “I think, my dear, March pork is a good i purchase,” said Mr. Potts, taking another pinv -ke an t skimming o er the morning | paiqir | “I guess w.» don’t ne-d any, thank you,” said Mrs. P ilis ‘lf you -ee any good Octo- I her butter an . where, •. i might send up a |jar” r “You don’t ’in'»rst.nnd me, myd--r 1 Imein a little sp> i-ulation. Let me show von I now it works. Now, I buy 250 barrels ol pork at $12.37 j n barrel.” “Heavens and earth, Mr. Potts, where are you going to put it all?” “Don’t be so fast, wife. I don’t er r see I the pork, myself, or have anything to do i wit It, it.” i “I thought, you just said you were going to send up 250 barrels.” “No,-1 didn’t. The pork I am going to i buy is way off' in Ch icago.” ‘How do you know whether it is good or not, then?” “Dear me, wife, what do I care whether it j is good or bad? I merely go long.” “You mean you go along minding your own business.” “No, no; that’s a technical phrase. Let me explain it to you. You see when I go long, the bucket shop goes short.” “Short?” “Short, Mrs. Potts.” “Short of pork.” “Why don’t they get some more, then?” “Good Lord, wife, the whole thing is plain as day. Here I go to a bucket shop and buy 250 barrels of pork. That don’t you see, makes them bears and me a bull.” “Don’t you know any better, Mr. Potts, than to talk like that before your own children ? I should think you’d be ashamed of yourself, sir. You get worse and worse, every day.” I “You don’t know what you are talking . 1 about, Mrs. Potts. When I buy 250 or 500 i barrels of pork, it shows I feel like a bull.” | “[should think you’d feel like an iciot.” j “I buy 250 barrels of pork, as I said be fore, Mrs. Potts, and cover it with margirs” “What kind of margins?” “Oh, 5 cent margins to begin with.” “I shouldn’t think margins as cheap as that would be good for anything. You'd better let me pick them out for you, Mr. Potts. Men never know about such a things.” “I buy 250 barrels of pork. Mrs. Potts, and hold on to it until March.” “I thought you said you wouldn’t have any to hold on to.” “As I said before, Mrs. Potts, I buy 250 barrels of pork and hold on to it until March comes, and the pork, according to my way of thinking, is worth a dollar or two more a barrel than I gave for it, and I’ll be any where from $250 to SSOO ahead. What do you think of that, Mrs. Potts?” “Where is the SSOO coming from?” “From my deal.” “What deal?” “The deal I just told you about.” “I haven’t heard a word about a deal,Mr. Potts. I guess you’re out of your head this morning. I don’t know what has got into you lately.” Worth Squabbling For. Washington Star. Imagine an area about the size of the United States, rich in soil, teeming with natural wealth, traversed in every direction by great navigable rivers, and sustaining a swarming population, and we get a faint idea of the importance of the Congo ques tion. The Congo region is a very rich plum, a second India, in fact; and Eng land’s rivals, which have seen their neigh bor gobble up the prize lands of Asia, do not mean to let her repeat history in Africa. J tTry L. Fried’s BLOO -white »blrts for fit and i'lallty. FAST MAIL SERVICE. ; THE NECESSITY FOR ITS CONTIN j j L ANCE. An Interview With Prominent Railroad * 1 and Business M+-n—How (lie Commer i | rial Interests of Savannsh and Oth er Citiea Would be Affected by its Cessation—A Matter for Prompt Attention of Con gress. • Richmond, Petersburg, Augusta, Wil mington, Jacksonville and Savannah, are at present interested to no little extent in th, ; action of Congress regarding the making cf Jan appropriation forsustaining the fast rail- I way mail service between New York and t Jacksonville,or it might be said,between the former place and New Orleans. Congress ! votes an appropriation for the purpose ol | running an extra fast railway mail train be ’ tween these points, and unless the appro j priation is again made before the adjourn ment of the present Congress the fast raiL way mail service will be done away with at least for the time being—after the first of i June, at which time the fund appropriated will have been expended. “This fast mail service is a special one,” si-id Capt. R. G. Fleming, Superintendent of the Savannah, Florida and Western Rail way yesterday to a Times reporter. “The I government furnishes the railroad compan ies with the plan of the ca s they want for the fast mail, and the companies build them. The government makes the schedule upon which they are run, specifies the speed at which they shall go, and pays a certain sum per annum to the companies for running j the fast mail cars. Os course the railroads | have the privilege of running other cars in the train besides the mail car. At present daily trains are run between New York and Jacksonville, and should the appropriation be discontinued, the fast one, which runs on j a schedule of 36 miles an hour, would be I taken off, and the local train would have to | do the whole work now done by both. The , cause of this lies in the fact that it does not I pay us to run this fast mail train directly, i but in an indirect way. We manage to build I up the business of the road in other ways, | thus saving ourselves.” ! “What, in your opinion, is the cause cf the non-recommendation of the appro; na tion.? It is an important one, the govern- - ment is able to stand it, and all are inter- l ested in it, both North and South.” I “As to that, lamat a loss for an answer j and can say nothing. It may be that th. sub-committee, whose duty it i«, has had too much work to do, hence could not get to ' 'jor it may be remissnesS on their part. Ido : : | not know which it is, but it remains paten that nothing has been done, and little time i remains in which something may b- , | done. Congress adjourns soon, the 1 inauguration is approaching a; an anil will bring confusion with it, hence th. appropriation must be made soon, or th time will have passed when anything can I done There is scarce a doubt in my l ino lhai Congress would pass the bill immedi ately should it be properly pressed lii important, as before said, but I will explain in detail what it means to Savannah am: other places to lose this service. Train No IS leaves New York at 9:30 p. m. Sunday, I and arrives in Savannah at 11 a. re. Tuesday . ' Train No. 40 leaves at 4:30 a. m. M inlay, and arrives in Savannah at 6:41 a. m. Tuesday, bringing the Monday morn ing papers from New York, a? i well as all letters in twelve hours less ' ' time than train No. 48 does. Keeping up a j speed of thirty-six miles an hour, train No. [ 40 slowly creeps up on No. 48 until she | overtakes her at Fort Mudge and gets into Jacksonville thirty minutes ahead of her In plain words, we now get Mondays’ mi ru ing papers and mail from New York on Tuesday morning. Take off the fast mail and Mondays’ papers will be read here on Wednesdays, or twenty-four hours later practically. Not only will this be a se rious drawback to the local interests of this section, but there are large private interests also to be thought of. “No, I do not know what the amount of the appropriation is, but it is not too large for the Government to stand.” “What difference will it make between New Orleans and this place in the receiving |of mails? I mean to say, will New Orleans i reap any advantage by the change?” I “None, whatever. There will be the loss i of a day’s time all along the line, hence New Orleans will be on the same basis with other points, and Savannah will not be at a dis advantage as compared with New Orleans But should Charleston have this fast mail service to the exclusion of Savannah, then it would be a disaster of great importance to the commercial interests of our city.” The reporter called on a number of prom inent merchants on the Bay, and asked an expression of their views on the subject. There is a singular unanimity of opinion among them. No one wants the fast mail discontinued. No one thinks it would be a public disaster to do so, but all think it would be a great drawback to the business of Savannah. It would occasion considerable loss as the merchants here could not turn their capital over so fast as they do now by 24 hours, hence it can be seen that the interest on the mil lions of dollars passing through the mer chant’s hands, specially cotton factors,would amount to no inconsiderable sum, the loss of which would be entirely borne by our mer chants. ’ Among other things the going back to the old regime would be a step of retrogression instead of progression and fraught with much inconvenience to the banks and those doing business with them. One result would 1 be the raising cf the price of exchange, for ' interest on one day would have to be calcu ' lated on all. transactions. This would 1 amount to many thousands of dollars loss to those interested and would be borne by Sa vannah capitalists. Then the risk tak- 1 en in business transactions would be materially increased froth the fact that a factor or bank would feel more confidence ’ in a risk which could be closed in 36 hours 1 than in one requiring 60. A man’s paper might be good at the end of 36 hours and I worthless at the end of 60. If not a disaster to many, it looks like the next thlsg to it, S6OO A YEIR i and would be a terrib'e inconvenience, as it • would upset the banking business in a great measure for awhile, at least, and increase - i the risk no little. In a word, this is a mat ter in which the private and mercantile interests of both the North and South are ■ ; concerned greatly, and as the time for the I passage of the bill is quite limited, it be-* I hooves Congress to take the matter in hand I and give it tbe promptest attention. THE GRATE OF ROSSA’S MOTHER. i An Almost Forgotten Chapter of Local His tory—l he Great Dynamiter’s Mother Buried in St. Lawrence Cemetery. Charleston News and Courier. The shooting of O’Donovan Rossa in New- York on Monday last revives a page of local history in Charleston which will not be un interesting just now. At the time of his imprisonment in Ireland O’Donovan’s name was as familiar as a household word throughout America, and especially in Charleston, where some of the members of his family resided. It was whilst he was in prison that his wile, Mrs. O’Dono van Rossa, visited Charleston on a lecture tour. She is remembered here as a lady of refinement and culture. On her arrival she was received by a num ber of prominent Irish citizens, who showed her the most marked attention. That was in 1868. The little woman was then giving I readings and recitations throughout the country for the purpose, as she avowed, of raising funds to secure the liberation of her husband. Her recitations at Hibernian Hall were attended by quite a crowd, and she was introduced to the audience by one of the prominent citizens and was afterwards entertained at his residence. Soon after this O’Donovan mide his escape from jail and came over to America. At that time his sister, a Mrs. Webb, whose husband was a member of the police force of Charleston, resided in King, near Tradd street, in this city. In 1870 Mrs. j O’Donovau, the mother of the self-styled i Ros-a, came to Charleston to visit her j daughter and died while here. O’Donovan , was notified of her death bv telegraph, he I being al the time in New York, but did not come on to attend the funeral. The old lady I was buried in St. Lawrence Cemetery, where j her remains now lie. A gentleman, who went on to New York some time afterwards and met Rossa, spoke to him of his mother’s , death. Rossa told him that he intended to ■ visit Charle ton shortly to look after her grave and either to erect a monument over i it or to remove the remains North. But the I promise wes never fulfilled. , WHAT CHARLESTON IRISHMEN SAY ABOUT ROSSA j The shooting ot Rossa was di-cusseJ ' pretty freely on the streets of Charleston yesterday, and the opinion was very gener i ally expressed that he deserved a worse j fate. “It’s only a pity that the bail did nut put an end to his vile iife,” said one prom inent Irishman “I’ve no sympathy with the ras al. I heard His wife wh?n she was here collecting money to get him oil of : prison, and I contributed my share to that object. If 1 had known what a curse he ‘ would become to the Irish cause f would not have contributed to that lund.” “My sympathies,” said another gentleman an ex-President of the Charleston Land i League, “are with Mrs. Dudley. Il’s a pity she didn’t kill him. O’Donovan and his ■ crew are fools if they think they can carry on their devilish work succtssfully. They : don’t know the English people. English men, whatever else you may say of them, are not gas bags and blow hares like O’Don ; ovan and his crowd. They know how to die I for their country. Tney’ll single out the last one of these dynamiters wherever they I may be and they’ll kill them one by one un til they wipe out the whole tribe. Ireland will never be freed by dynamite, and the sooner Irishmen recognize this the better it will be for Ireland.” “It’s a great pity,” said another Land Leaguer, “that something could not be done to silence men like Rossa. I don’t endorse the pistol policy, because it’s hard to tell where it will end; but I’ve no sympathy with men of the Rossa stripe. They do more to injure the cause that we are trying tojuphold than any other set of men. You can say that not one dollar of the money raised by the Charleston Land League has ever found its way to Ros-a’s capacious pocket. We want Home Rule for Ireland, but we want to get it in a fair, legitimate and peaceful way. We don’t believe that dynamite is an in strument of civilization, and, even if we did, we wouldn’t send our money to Rcssa.” There were a good many other expres sions of tbe same opinion to be heard on all sides, but very few cf those who expressed opinions were willing to have their names published. One old gentleman, a policeman, said he had heard that the British Gov ernment had given Mrs. Dudley $75,000 to shoot Rossa, another said: “That woman has a gold mine. In less than a month she will be covered with money from sympa thizers in England. It is doubtful, however, if she will live to benefit by the money.” Exempt From Taxation on Brains. Detroit Post. “It’s a shame,” said a young dude, “thia confounded tax, tax, tax is what is running this country. I’m sick of it.” “Do you think’ there is too much taxa tion?” said the young lady he was boring with his wisdom. (She said it because she couldn’t think of anything else to say ) “Too much I I should say so. They tax ns for everything. Why, confound it. the ' first thing we know there will be a tax on brains.” “Ob, well,” said she with a sigh of relief, “that won’t matter.” “How so ?” “Nothing, only I was thinking that if you went up to pay your tax on brains, the treasurer would up and tell you you were exempt before you ever got near the coun ter.” * , Wliy She Left. Mistress: “What! going to leave already? Why, you have not been here half a week.” Maid: “I know it, mum, but I can’t stand i it here. Things run too smooth like, mum.” > “Why, what can you mean?” s “You see, mum, I has always been in r places where they kept three servants.” 1 “Oh! Ycu are lonesome then?” r “No, mum, not lonesome; Jbut you see I , iultscs the confusion a