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SIEGE OF-EOCKNOW.

REV. DR. TALMAGE RELATES THRILLING DEEDS OF HEROISM.

Accompanied by a Soldier Who Survived That Awful Ordeal, the Eminent Divine KccrJIg the Tnrritjle Sepoy Rebellion—A

Great General and Devout Christian.

BKCOULYN", NOV. 25.—Rev. Dr. Talhiage today began his series of round tlie world sermons through tho press, tho first subject selected being LuckVow, India. Tho text chosen was Deuteronomy xx, 19, "When thou shalt besiego a city a long time in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an a-c against them."

The awfulost tiling in war is besiogement, for to the work of deadly weapons it adds hunger and starvation and plague. Tjsvgej!'0!:t is sometimes "necessary, bur my text commands me:.-ey ovui in The fruit trucis must be spare.*! because they afford food for a:i. 'Tbor. sfc:»!t not destroy the trees tin of by forcing an ax against them. lint in my recent journey round the world 1 louv.d at Lucknow, Indi:i, Uio remains of the most merciless bcsicgement of tho ages, and I proceed to tell you that .story for four great reasons—to show you what a horrid thing war is and to make you all advocates for peace, to show you what genuine Christian character is under bombardment, to put a coronation on Christian courage, and to .show yon how splendidly good people -]i\

As our train glidtd into tho dimly light(1 station I asked the ^nard, "Is this Lucknow?" laid he answered, "Luckiiow," at the pronunciation of which prop name strong emotions rushed through body, mind and soid.

An F.ye'.vitncss.

The word is a synonym of snll't ring, of cruolty, of lieroism, of horror such as is suggested by hardly any other word, "We have for 35 years been reading of the agonies there endured and the daring deeds there witnessed. It was my great desire to have soma one who had •witnessed the scenes transacted in Lucknow in 1857 conduct us ov the place. "We found just the man. He was a young soldier at the time the greatest mutiny of the ages broke out, and he was put With others inside the residency, which was a cluster of buildings making a fortress in which the representatives of tho English government lived and which was to be the s-cx.no of a em'.uranco and a bombardment the .--tory of which poetry and painting and history and secular a.id sacred eloqnene° have been trying to dtpief. Our rsc rt not only had a gcud memory .? w'.mf had happened, br.t had talent enough to rehearse the tragedy.

In the early pax cf 1 all over India the natives wero ready to break out ill rebellion against all foreigners and especially against tho civil and military representatives of the English' government.

A half dc::cr. causes arc ::..or.d _fpe,the tooling of discontent and i-nsur-roction that was evidenced throughout

India. Tho most of these causes wero ruero pretexts. Greased cartridges were no doubt an exasperation. The grease ordorcd by the English government to be used on these cartridges was taken from COWo or pigs, and grease to the Hindoos is unclean, and to bite these cartridges at tho loading of the guns would bo an offense to the Hindoo's religion. Tho leaders of the Hindoos said that these greased cartridges wero only part of an attempt by the English government to inako the natives give up their religion hence unbounded indignation was aroused

Another cause of the mutiny was that another large provinco of India had "been annexed to tho British empire, and. thousands of officials in the employ of the king of that province were thrown out of position, and they were all ready for trouble making.

Another cause was Raid to be tho bod government exercised by some English officials in India.

The simple fact was that the natives of India wero a conquered race, and the English wore the conquerors. For 100 years the British scepter had been waved over India, a?id the Indians wanted to break that scepter. There never had been iu love or sympathy* between the natives of India and tho Europeans. There is no ic now.

JViOi't: .ho iime of the irr'Tt. the Eii, ii.-h government usi-ou mum power i-x the hands oi tho native. Too inanv of them manned the forts. Too many of them were in governmental employ. And now the time had come for a wide outbreak. Tho natives had persuaded themselves that they could send the English government flying, and to accomplish it dagger and sword and lirearms and mutilation and slaughter must do their worst.

Horrors of the Siege.

It was evident in Lucknow that the natives were about to rises and put to death all the Europeans they could lay their hands on, and into the residency the Christian population of Lucknow hastened for defense from the tigers in human form which wero growling for their victims. The occupants of the residency, or fort, were—military and noncombatants, men, women and children —in number about

I s-uggest in o::o sentence some of the ehiif v. oi 1 which 1hey were subjected whe.i I ay that these people were tho roM'-'-ncy five months without a single change, of clothing some of the time the Irat at 1:20 and I'50 degrees the pb-cf black wnh flics and all a squirm •with vermin tiring of the enemy upon llr mi cea-ing neither (lav iu.r nn'lit tho hotpilal crowded with the Oying smallr.-ox, scurvy, cholera, adding their rh o» that ot shot and shell women broueht up all comfort and never having known want crowded and sacrificed in a cellar where, nine children Wire1 born iess and less food no water excel that, which was brought, from a well under the enemy's lire, so that th v.r.trr obtained was at tho price of

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blOcid the stench of added to the effluvia of corp.* waiting for tho moment wheu of 60,000 shrieking Hindoo devils\ break in upon the garrison of the i., dency, now reduced by wounds and sickness and death to 976 men, women and children. "Call me early, I said, "tomorrow jnoruinft, and kt us be at the residency before the sun becomes too hot. At 7 o'clock in the morning we left our hotel in Lucknow, and I said to our obliging, gentlemanly esoort, "Please take us along the road by which Havelock and Outram came to the relief of the residency. That was the way wo went. There was a solemn stillness as we approached the gate of the residency. Battered and torn is the masonry of the entrance. Signature of shot and punctuation of cannon ball all up and down and everywhere. "Hero to the left," said our 'escort, "are the remains of a building the first flor of v-h!i in oi*ur days h«-t '.x.ai used as a banqueting hall, but then was used as a im pi.ai. Ao ims part mo «.uiputarions took place, and all such patients died. The hr:'t was so great and the food so insufii. ieiit that the poor fellow.'! could no* it cover from th-j loss of biood. Tin ail died. Amputations were performed without chloroform. All the anienth.etics were exhausted. A fracture that in other climates and under other circumstances would have conio to easy convalescence here proved fatal. Yonder was Dr. Fayror's house, who was surgeo'i of the place and is now CjUc( 11 j».loi'iu's Ctoetor. 'ihis upper room v'.:.s 1 he officers' room, and there Sir Henry Lawrence, our d?ar commander, was wounded. While he sat there a shell struck the room, and some one suggested that he had better leave the room, but he smiled and said, 'Lightning never strikes twice in tho same place.' nardly had ho said this when another slieH tore off his thigh, and ho was carried dying into Dr. Fayrer's house 011 the other side of the road. Sir Henry Lawrenoe had been in poor health for a long time before the mutiny. He had been in tho Indian service for years, and he had started for England to recover his health, but getting as far as Bombay the English government requested him to remain at least awhile, for he could not be spared in such dangerous times. Ho came here to Lucknow, and foreseeing the siego of this residency had filled many of the rooms with grain, without which the residency would have been obliged to surrender. There were also taken by him into this residency rice and sugar and charcoal and fodder for tho oxen and hay for tho horses. But now, at the time when all the people were looking to him for wisdom and courage, Sir Henry is dying.''

Our escort describes the scene, unique, tender, beautiful and overpowering, and while I stood on the very spot where the sighs and groans of the besieged awl laorrsied avwl broken hem-ted met i&e-wd$Ki bitiifttev and the dtimoiusto hiss bursting shell, and the roar of oattrs-ici, inj os.yci'i: gnvo mo tno puieioul»rs.

Tried to I) His Iuty.

"As soun as Sir Henry was told that ho had not many hours to live he asked the chaplain to administer to him the holy communion. Ho felt particularly anxious for the safety of the women in tho residency, who, at any moment, might be subjected to the savages who howled around the residency, their breaking in only a matter of timo unless re-enforcements should come. Ho would frequently say to those who surrounded his death couch: 'Savo the ladies. God help the poor women and children!' He gave directions for the desperate defense of the plaoe. He asked forgiveness of all those whom ho might unintentionally have neglected or offended. lie left a message for all his friends. Ho forgot not to give direction for the care of his favorite horse. Ho charged the offioorr, saying: 'By no means surrender. Makn no treaty or compromise with the desperadoes. Die fighting.' He took oh arge of the asylum he had established for the children of soldiers. He gavo directions for his burial, saying: 'No nonsense, no fuss. Let mo bo buried with tho 111011.' He dictated his own epitaph, which I read above his tomb: 'Here lies Henry Lawrence, who tried to do his duty. May the Lord have mercy on his soul.' Ho said: 'I would like to have a passagoof Scripture added to the words on my r. 1 e-11 "X, :OV'! Vlong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him." Isn't it from Daniel?' So as brave a man as England or India ever saw expired. Tho soldiers lifted the cover from his face and kissed him beforo they carried him out. The chaplain offered a prayer. Then they removed the groat hero amid the rattling hail of the guns and p-at him down among other soldiers buried at the same time.'' All of which I stato for tho benefit of those who would havo us believe that the Christian religion is fit. only for women in tho eighties and children under 7. There was glory enough in that departure to halo Christendom. *5

Wsitor at a Life's Itisk.

"There," said our esccrt, "Bob the Nailer did tho work. "Who was Bob tho Nailer?" "Oh, he was tho African who sat at that point, and when any one of our men ventured across the road I10 won hi drop him by a rifio ball. Bob was a sure niiU'ksniaii. The only way to get across the road for water from the well was to wait until his gun flashed and then instantly cross beforo I10 had time to load. Tho only way wo could gi.t rid of bun \vas by digging a mine iecr the house whei.o I10 was h'dd* W!" tie house was blown up, Bob (lie Nailer went with it." I said to hie., "Had you made up y«ur minds what you and tho other sutrereis would do in case tho liends actually broke in?" "Oh, yes:" said my oxcart, "vv'e had it. all plaimi d. fov the probability was every hoar for nearly live months (hat rhev would break in. Von must remember if- as ],('.(() nuainst (if\000, and for tee latter par* of the time it was

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&t 60,000, and the residency earthworks around it were not for such an attack. It was only the mercy of God that we were I jassacred soon after the besiege-

We were resolved not to allow

ourw.ives to get into the hands of those desperadoes. You must remember that we nnd all tho wompn had beard of the butchery at Cawnpiu', and we knew what defeat meant. If unable to hold out any longer, ".ve would havo blown ourselves up and all gone out of life together. "Show me," I said, "the rooms where the women and children staid during these awful months." Then we crossed over and went down into the cellar of tho residency. With a shudder of horror indescribablo I entered tho cellars where (3^2 women and children had been crowded until the whole floor was full. I know the exact number, for I counted their names on (he roll. As one of tho ladies wrote in her diary—speaking of

the floor lilting ir.io each otiic.r iiko bits iu la -*»'•, ii'Ciii their husbarn! the promise that the husbands v-'i iiiId shoot them rather than lei: them fail into the hands of those desperadoes. Tin. wuiiKii within tho residency were kept on the smallest allowance that would maintain life. No opportunity of privacy. The death angel and the birth angel touched wings as they passed. Flies, mosquitoes, vermin in full possession of the place, and these women in momentary expectation that the enraged savages would rush up 1 1 them, in a violence of which club and sword and torch and throat cutti would be the milder forms.

Oar escort told us again and again 01 tho bravery of thase women. They did not despair. They encouraged tho soldiery. They waited on the wounded and dying in the hospital. They gavo up their stockings for holders of the grapeshot They solaced each other when their children died. When a husband or father fell, such prayers of sympathy wero offered as only women can offer. They endured without complaint. They prepared thoir own children for burial. They wero inspiration for the. men who stood at their posts fighting till they drojjpecL

Tlie Guns of Relief.

Our escort told us that again and again news had come that Havelock and Outram wero on the way to fetch these besieged ones out of their wretchedness. They had received a letter from Havelock rolled up in a quill and carried in tho mouth of a disguised messenger, a letter telling them he was on the way, but tho next news was that Havelock had been compelled to retreat. It was constant vacillation between hope and despair. But one day they heard tho guns of relief sounding nearer and nearer. Yet all the houses of Lucknow were fortresses filled with armed miscreants, and every step of Havelock and his-army was contested—firing from housetops, firing from wi.-ndown, firing from doorvyays.

I ask'td «or frienil*'if be thought'tliat the world famous stjpEy vi a Scotch laas in ie.r dcl.iKun hearing the ..icoich bagpipes advancing with tha SGOICII regiment was a true story. Ho said ho did not know but that is was true Without this man's telling me I know from my own observation that delirium sometimes quickens some of tho faculties, and I rather think the Scotch lass in her delirium was the first to hear the bagpipes. I decline to believo that class of people who would like to kill ail the poetry of the world and banish all the fine sentiment. They tell us that Whittier's poem about Barbara Freitchio was founded 011 a delusion, and that Longfellow's poems immortalized things that never occurrod. The Scotch lass did he-ar the slogan. I almost heard it mj'self a.s I stood inside the residency while my escort told of the coming on of the Seventy-eighth highland regiment. "Wero you present when Havelock came in?" I asked, for I could suppress tho question no longer. His answer canni: "I was not at the moment present, but with HCtfno other young fellows I saw soldiers dancing while two highland pipers played, and I said, 'What is all this excitement?' Then we came up and saw that Havelock was in, and Outram was in, and tho regiments were pouring in." "p

Show us where thoy came in," I exclaimed, for I knew that they did not enter through tho gate of the residency, that being banked up inside to keep tho rdcrf.iy. o**t "Here it a"".?: "red my escort. "Herts it is—tho embrasure through which tlioy came.

We walked up to the spot. It is now a broken down pilo of bricks a dozen yards from tlie gate. Long grass now, but then a bloOd spattered, bullet scarred opening iu the wall.

As we stood there, although tho scene was 37 years ago, I saw them come in —Havelock jjale and sick, but triumphant, and Outram, whom all thooquastrian statues in Calcutta and Europe cannot too grandly present.

Dclivertiiice at Lost.

"What then happened?" I said to my escort. "Oh," lie said, "that is impossible to tell. The earth was removed from tho gate, and soon all the army of relief entered, and somo of us laughed, and some cried, and some prayed, and somo danced. Highlanders so dust covered and enough blood and wounds 011 thoir faces to make them unrecognizable snatched the babes out of their mothers' arms and kissed them ae.d passed the babies along for other soldiers to kiss, and the wounded men crawled out of the hospital to join in the cheering, and it, was wild jubilee until, tho fust excitement passed, tho story 1 how many of tho advancing army had be a sk'.in 011 the way Iv.gan to have tearful effect, and tho story of suffering that, bad been (.•ndii'v.d inside tho fort, and the announcement, to children that they wc.ro fatherless, :nd to wives that they were widows, submerged tho shout:- of ,|oy with waiiing of agony. "But. \.e:e \ou not embarrassed by tli arrivi.l of Havelock and 1,-i00 men who brovn.'ht r.o food v. itli them?" IIo answered: "Of coursw wo were put on

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smaller rations immediately in order that they might share with us, but we knew that the coming of this re-enforce-ment would help us to hold the place until further relief should come. Had not this first belief arrived as it did in a day or two at most and perhaps in any hour the besiegers would have broken in, and our end would have come. The sepoys had dug six mines under the residency and would soon have exploded all."

After we had obtained a few bullets that had been picked out of tho wall and a piece of a bombsheH we walked around the eloquent ruins, and put our hands into tho scars of the shattered masonry and explored the cemetery inside tho fort, where hundreds of tho dead soldiers await the coming of the Lord of Hosts at tho last day, and we could endure 110 more. My nerves were all a-tremble, and my emotions were wrung out, and I said, "Let us go." I had seen the residency at Luc-know tho

and lie told me many interesting facts cciiavnl.:. ti be.-iegement oi' vhat place, bur this morning I had seen it in com* any with one who in that awfnl LSuT of the Indian mutiny with his own fjvo had fov.rht tho besiegers, end with hu ci,'ii '..ir had licvurd the yell of the miscreants as they tried to storm tho walls, and with his own eyes had witnessed a scene of pang and sacrifice and endurance and bereavement and prowess and rescue which h".s made all this Lucknow fortress mid its surroundings tl Mount Calvary of tho nineteenth century.

Honors For tho Hero.

On the following day, about four miles from the residency, I visited the grave of Havelock. The seenes of hardship and self sacrifice through which ho had passed were too much for mortal endurance, and a few days after Havelock left tho residency which he had relieved ho lay in a tent a-dying, while his son, whom I saw in London 011 my way here, was reading to the old hero the consolatory Scriptures. Tlie telegraph wires had told all nations that Havelock was sick unto death. He had received the message of congratulation from Queen Victoria over his triumphs and had been knighted, and such a reception as England never gave to any man since Wellington came back from Waterloo awaited his return. But he will never again see his native land. He has led his last army and planned tho last battle. Yet ho is to gain another victory. Ho declared it when in his last hours he said to General Outram: "I die happy and contented. I have for 40 years so ruled my life that when death came I might face it without fear. To die is gain. Indeed this'was 110 new sentimentality with him. He once stated that in boyhood with four companions he was accustomed te seek tho "seclusion of one of the dormitories for purposes of devotion, though certain in those days of being branded as Methodists and canting hypocrites. He had in early life b&en ium&ursed in a Baptist church. lie acknowledged God in every victory v.i say -, 11. uuu 01 hm ui.ap.~.uCh&& that heov. es it "to the power cf the Enfield rifie in British hands, to British pluck and to the blessing of Almighty God on a most righteous cau^e.'' lie was accustomed to spend two hours ev,ry morning in prayer and Bible reading, and if the army was to march at 8 o'clock he arose for purposes of religious devotion at 6 o'clock, and if tlie army was to march at 6 o'clock he arose at 4.

Sir Henry Havelock, the son in whose arms the father died, when I came through London invited three of the heroes of Lucknow to meet ine at his tablo and told me concerning his father somo most inspiring and Christian things. He said: "My father knew not what fear was. He would say to mo in the morning as he camo out of hi« tent, 'Harry, havo you read the book?' 'Yes.' 'Have you said yeur prayers?' 'Ytm.' 'Have you had your broflkfawt?' 'Yes.' 'Come, then, and let u« mount ami go out to be shot at and die. like gentlemen.' The three other heroes of Lucknow ai that table told of General Havelock other things just as stirring. What a speech that was Havelock mado to his soldiers a*i I10 started for Cawnpur, India: "Over 200 of our race are still alive in Cawnpur. With God's help

will save them from death. I

ran trying you severely, my men, but I know what you are mado of." Tho enthusiasm of his men was well suggested by tho soldier lying asleep, and, Havelee' riding aha:.':, bis herse stur-'Wi-d over tho soldier and woke bim, and the soldier recognizing tho general cried out cheerily: "Make room for the general! God" bless the general!"

Havelock's Gruve.

A plain monument marks Havelock's grave, but tho epitaph is as beautiful and comprehensive as anything I havo ever seen, and I copied it then and there, and it is as follows: "Here rest the mortal remains of Henry Havelock, major general in the British pzmy and Knight Commander of the Bath, who died at Dilkoosiia Lucknow of dysentry produced by the hardships of a campaign In which ho achieved immortal fame, 021 the 34th of November, 1857. Ho was born on the 5th of April, 17S)o, at Bishops, Wermouth county, Durham, England. Entered tho anny 1815. Came to India 1823 and served there with little interruption till his death. He bore an honorable part in tho wars of Burma, Afghanistan, tho Mahratta campaign of lS4o and the Sutlej of 1845. Retained by adverse circumstances in subordinate position, it was the aim of his life to show that the profession of a 'Christian is consistent with the fullest discharge 01 the duties of a soldier, lie commanded a division in the Persian eve edition of r, 7. ]n tho terrible convulsion of that year his genius and character wero at length fully developed and known to the world. Saved from shipwreck 011 tne Ceylon coast by that providence which designed liim for greater things, be was nominated to the command of tho column destined to relieve tho brave garrison of Lucknow. This object, after almost superhuman exertion, he, by tlio blessing of God, ac

complished. But he was Bot spared to receive on earth the reward he so dearly earned. The Divine Master whom he served saw fit to remove him from the sphere of his labor in the moment of his greatest triumphs. He departed to his rest in humble but confident expectation of far greater rewards and honors which a grateful country was anxious to h-riov. In bim the sk:H of a commander, the courage aud devotion of a soldier, rite learning of a scholar, the grace of a highJv bred gentleman and all tlie social and domestic virtues of a husband, father and friend were blended together, and strengthened, harmonized ami adorned by the spirit (if a true Christian, the result of tho influence of the Holy Spirit, 011 his heart, and of an humble reliance on the merits of a crucified Saviour. II Timothy iv, 7, 8: 'I have fought a good fight. I havo finished my course. I have kept tho faith. Hcncforth rhoro i« laid up for me a crown of righteousness which tho Lord,

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I 1:. i: m'urr-ilVt :r? I.ut I -a Id v.'hil:. hi-undiiig at Kaveioek's grave, Vv'hy does not England take his dust to herself, and in Westminster abbey make liim a pillow? in all her hi:-.tory of wars there is no name so magnetic-,

yet she has expressed nothing 0:1 this man's tomb. Jlis widow reared the tombstone.!. Do you say, •"Let him aleep in the region where lie did his grandest deeds?'5 The same reasea we have buried Wellington in Belgium, and Yon lloltke at Versailles, aud (-5rant at Vicksbur-g, and Stonewall Jackson far away from his beloved Lexington, a. Take him home, O England! The rescuer of the men, women and children at Lucknow! His ear now dulled could not hear tho roll of the organ when it sounds through tho venerable abbey the national anthem. But it would hear the samo trumpet that brings up from among those sacred walls the form of Outram, his fellow hero in tho overthrow of tho Indian mutiny. Let parliament make appropriation from tho national treasury, and some great warship under some favorite admiral sail across Mediterranean and Arabian seas, and wait at Bombay harbor for the coming of this conqueror of conqueror, and then, saluted by the shipping of all freo nations, let him pass on and pass up and come under the arches of tho abbey and along tho aisles where have been carried tho mightiest dead of many centuri«s.

Somo audiences and some readers are so slow of thought and so stupid that they need an application made of every subject. But the people who get this sermon have made the application for themselves already. I challenge you to say whether or not I have kept 11. promise when in the opening of this discourse I said I would show you fnorthings—what an awfal affair wsu' if, what genuine Christian character is tinder Ji^ien c, what is the euionw.ion of Christian courage and how .'•plondidly good people die. And hero endoi my first sermon of the round the wt rid series.

Gigantic Extinct Birrth.

The giant cf all tho feathered bipeds was the, colossal epiornis of Mudagasc ar. The scientific announcement of the discovery ot tho remains ef this gigantic species of bird was made by GeolTroy St. Hilaire, the great French savant, on Jan. 27, 1851. Tho specimen.of which he gave a description had been found in a guano bed and "stood over 12 feet in height. The egg found among tho bones, described by the scientific Frenchman, was iu large as a two gallon jug, an experiment proving that it would hold the contents of six largo African ostrich eggs, or 148 common hen eggs.

The giant 1110a, which is believed to have bat rocentlj- become extinct in New Zealswtd, was larger in point of weight and bulk than the epiornis, but it only stood 9 feet high, quite high enough, however, when it is known that its v,'eight was not less than 1,000 pounds.

Tho great auk is another species of bird but recently extinct. Tho most remarlcablo thing about this largo auk is the fabulous prices now asked and given for specimens of its eggs. Quite recently an ogg of this species was sold iu London for §1,225.—St. Louis Repablic.

Trstrrvtetvs.

It appeal's that Mr. W. S. Gilbert is not tho first or tho only distinguished Englishman to ask compensation for an interview. Tho New York Sun's correspondent in London once upon a time wrote to Mr. Gladstone asking him for an interview 011 the Irish question, and in tho course of a conversation which followed with Mr. Gladstone's secretary it was learned that a foo of $500 would be expocted in payment for the interview, it being understood that-Mr. Gladstone should write it himself, and thus make it authoritative. Lord Roberts fixed tho prifvof *100 for an interview upon \y toned war between Englai rtussia on another occasion.— .Herald.

Kscapcd to Die.

The skeleton of man, with a rusty pair of handcuffs about tho wrists, was found in tho Creek country of the Indian Territory by a deputy sheriff a few days ago. The bones of tho skeleton were broken and strewn about, evidently by wild animals. The growMimo rein undoubtedly told tho story of .some prisoner who bad escaped from his gm.wds only to perish in the woods.—Detroit. Free Press.

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A "telltale" milk jug has been devised in England. It, is a glass nieas-uie, graduated at every quarter pint. Below the pint and halt pint, marks three lines are etched, showing tho thickness of cream which should appear in lfulk of average quality, in good and in very good milk, thus moasuring both quantity and quality.'

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OVERDUE PTEAMERS.

Fears For the Safety of Thred Ocean Vessels.

ONE OP THEM PROBABLY LOST.

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Overdue Wr-.-rhiijce Seen bi Mid-Ocean by an Iiirotiiiiig Steamer. Piui.AoK'.i'iiJA, Nov. 2j.—The American liner Indiana. Captain Towvsend, from Liverpool and (,Jueeiito\vr. ,'or tliis port,with a crew of

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sei's 11.e raa. I« white ami tin ii-iiue visible on on: end. On tl: which was parri'.iilr .v.ibn letters, no doubt the name from which it had floated. latitude ioiijj'ir.'.ide ''I. tie further to the southward than the eoar. a pursued by h- I mi!" na. Captain liUiite:' .nfidcn iha.:- ii. eaeie »V.un a passenger ship that heal m»** with recent disaster.

Pilot hieheSiiuger, who was in charge of the Calvin, s.iys that the raft describe'! by Captain Hunter closely resembles .those carried by the American line boats, ('lose to the raft was floating a wooden bucket.

The Calvin met. with terrific gales from the 1-Oth to the -0th inst. ami damaged her steajn steering g'! «r.

The Red Star steamship Pennsylvania, Captain Rodgers, from Antwerp, is also five days overdue, but (Captain Hmith, of the Wdnte Star steamship Britannic at Now York, Saturday, reports passing her on the 20ih 111st. in latitude -1T, longitude -U, apparently all well.

The British steamship Robinia^ from Antwerp is also overdue.

NO HOPE FOR THE IVANHOE.

The Vessel and All on Hoard Were I'llt"y doubtedly Lost. VICTORIA. B. C., Nov. "Jo.—That the wreckage reported ashore on the northwestern end of Vancouver island is that of tlie ill-fated Ivauhoe, is now proved beyond a doubt and when the steamer Mischief returns it is more than probable Captain Foote, her master, will have definite news of the iato of tins longmissing ves.-el.

The coasting steamer Maude ve turned last night from the west eoa..l having gone a- far north as Kvnka sound. The weaiher during the trip was too rough to permit much investigation and the «»y.}'siin had" irwt B.eird- tartkig #f 'riie repot'** kiviu^lat o\ st. aiuor JtiysH-ry lasf- wcefc. :\lmo.v. bis first \iL.r 1 .--.j, v. oL h. l-aonoe: "1 tfSKSSfl eksre is no fud ,r hope of the ivaivo"," he said. "-he's made another of the long list of \e.-,.-ols bati.tu pieces

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island. When we were at Barclay sound we heard of her. Two white miners called last Tuesday at an Indian's hut near th? ent'"'.i'ee 1o the so ami and hanging on Uiw vsaii tne fir&u thing they noticed in me place "was one of the Ivanhoo's Life baovs. •'There was uo doubt as to isle identity, as the ship's name aud her port were clearly marked. They waited for some time for tho Indians to return so they might question them about the buoys, bat all Laud* wore away fishing and tiicrvi was 110 knowledge wnou they would be back. Tka ui«n lookfltt

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but could seo no othur signs of wreckage, to they camt* down and reported all they had wn to me, requesting I, make known the. tact 011 reaching port. "At A largo uuiaber of Jxdians along Barely sound jvutfc now have rwcoutly, amytxi up tne coast, it is most likely the !tsi» oe c-s had been brought from liyuka or Fore Scott. I hjtd no* hoard ot the wreckage found there xs royM*tod by the steamer,. Mystery's euginuer, but tiu-s would appear to oorrubate if. and settle it.* ideutity as that wt tit* iranhwe." llf»vy BS-MVT on the '.-sites.

BCFFALO, NOV. 2t.—1here appears to have been a heavy blow up the hike somewhere 011 Saturday, for everything.::::.: is overdue, liners as well as other steamers. it is reported ilia' the oi" steamer Cwry ran over Long 1'oinf. T.:c aiieb.jeiw "t rleft Ashtabula for here at 10 a. m., on?. Saturday, hart uof yet readied re.

WEDDING STOPPED.*

Tlio W011 Id-Ho 100111 Aln- u!y llad it Wife I aud Child Living. DKXVKR, NOV. -ti.—Waiter E Hull, stenographer in .Fudge Ldyiiiis court, after taking the Iveeley care, relapsed,.. ., into his former lubilous habits and his friends have noticed t-iiat of I ate his^ mind seemed to be aftee-l-cd. Une of his halucinations is that ho is a single man although he has a wtfe aud child living at Holvoke, Colo.

He became engaged to Alls* Mattio Miller ill this city and the marriage was to have taken place last night. JudgeGlynn got wind of the aiiair and ar-: rived at the house of Alrh. Miller just as Kev. Dr. Kerr H. Tuppcr was about to# .- pronouuee the words that would ha\o made Hall a bigamist, Tho ceremony was skipped and Hall was arrested, lie is a son of W. I'. Hall, a prominent atlorney of Holdredge, isob., and is a college graduate. at.il llunawiiy.

Sr LonvNov. 2i. —Whi'e the family ot Colonel W H. Phelps, woo connected wo',a the legal department ot the Missouri l-aeilio rn.lway, were out dnv nig yesterday afternoon, too noivo took^ Jngni si 'id ran iswuy. l.'i.elp-J became pame-MricKon and jumped from^ the carriage, reoeivtm injuries from which she (i'.eu .soon alter. .1

iM'Ml.ticrs Itio nod.

CHICAGO, JNOV. ^(.--Tho esiablish-^ss incut oi tho Coldblast Feat her company, (i(i to tS W e:»tYan Huron s.reet, wtw burned last night. Tlie loss IN placed:.,® at. fcfo.OOU. Devoe & lieyoolds' Paint company, the same buduiug, loas $4,000. insurance unknow n.