Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1885 — Page 7

HURLED TO DEATH.

k Derailed Train on the Burlington / ' Route Demolishes a Bridge i Soar Creston, lona. The Oars Thrown Into a Creek, and a Number of the Passengers Killed and Wounded. i tCreeton (Iowa) dispatch.) An appalling accident occurred on the Burlington Railroad at a small stream ten miles west of here this afternoon. As the New York fast mail approached the bridge a rail broke beneath the forward cars of the train. The rear coaches were thrown from the track fey the defection. They toppled along on the ties nntil they were on the bridge, when the two rear coaches and the sleeper careened and fell from the bridge into an icy abyss below, carrying down about twenty-five passengers many of whom were women and children. The escape from general destruction was marvelous, as the cars are badly wrecked and the fall a desperate one. The coaches fell bottom upward into the stream, crushed through tire ice, and, wedging into the chilly water, were.held until the front end of the train, could be pulled out and a relief crew returned. The scene at the return of the front cars was distressing in the extreme. A number of gentlemen whose families were in the coaches, being forward in the smoker at the time of the accident, were apprised of the distress that attended the wives and children by the agonizing appeals for aid and screams of pain that came from the battered mass of debris. A force of rescue was hastily organized, and, armed with axes, strong men hewed their way in to the imprisoned dead and wounded. The eeene inside of the cars was appalling. Many who were not killed were knocked unconscious by dismantled seats and debris, and lay limp and helpless. It was at first thought that .the number of dead was veigr large, but on recovery from the wreck, and on the arrival of medical aid, which was hastily procured by the company, many revived and were able to be transferred to this city, where every attention is being shown them. The following is a list of the killed and wounded: Kxudhb.— Robert Brown,Mount Pleasant, lowa. Mrs. Powell. New Albany, Ind. Mrs. W. 0. Carroll, Saquache, Col. Injvbhs.— A. B. Cole, Grand Rapids, Mich. C. EL Howell, sleeping-car conductor. G. R. Hawkins, conductor. S. J. Lindsey, Creston, lowa. W. J. Davepport, Burlington, lowa. Dr. W. «. Carroll, Saquache, Col. Mrs. M. Farrell, Prescott, lowa. Isaiah Waterman, Corning, lowa. The accident was one,of those unavoidable ones, and was undoubtedly caused by the sudden change in the weather.

A BATTLE IN TEXAS

Between Rangers and Mexicans—Many Killed en Both Sides—Alleged Barbarity of the Hangers. Laredo (Texas) special. A messenger arrived late last night with the news that a bloody battle had taken place at Carrizo Springs between a band of rangers under Sheriff Tomlinson and a large body of Mexicans from New Laredo. A flow days ago three Mexican horsethieves were caught near the Springs by some of the rangers, and are alleged to have been lynched. Some members of the band escaped and were pursued. The Mexicans started for the Rio Grande. Sheriff Tomlinson joined the rangers with two of his deputies, and the pursuit was pushed with vigor. Thursday afternoun the Texans overtook the Mexicans, who had been heavily re-enforced by other members of the band, and by a score of Mexican fugitives. As only half of them were mounted their progress was slow. The rasters were all armed with Winchester rifles and Colt’s revolvers, and were led by Cupt Shelley and Sheriff Tomlinson. They opened fire when within shooting distanec, and at the first volley a half a dozen Mexicans fell, and those who were mounted put spurs to their horses and fled. The others returned the fire of the posse and wounded five. William Marshal, one of the wounded, has since died. The Texans emptied their revolvers after their rifles were discharged, and the result was that tea Mexicans were killed outright, and it «s believed that fifteen others were wounded. Several es the wounded were captured by the’Tesans and a horrible story is told regarding their disposition. It is said that many ware shot to death on the field. The mast wimble information places the Mexican ferae at 120 and that of the Texans at fifty.

PERLSHED BY THE SWORD.

Exeeutien atHalle of Two of the Niederwald Celebration Anarchists. [Berlin dispatch.) Reinedorff and Kuechler, the anarchists, were bAeaded by the sword of the executioner at Halle yesterday for attempting to take Bee life of the German Emperor and others at the Niederwald celebration. Kuechlhrih were full of tears and he tottesedwa he was being led to the block. From ffee time of leaving his cell until his dee&h he did not utter a word. He was assisted by a Protestant clergyman, to whom fee l&quently turned. When Reinsdorf w handed over to the executioner, he exritoaned. with a loud voice, “Down with barbarisori Long live anarchy!" Immediately bfiCoro he had been singing tbe popular driidring song, Stiefel' mnsst sterben, bikt natdx a* jflng.” “Stiefel,” literally a boot, is the German equivalent for a “sdhdotier” ot beer, and as the Teuton tosses down the-iiqnor, he joyfully sings, “Boot, you tmufl die, young as thou art. ”

HERE AND THERE.

THKjjistares of the Mahdi bear a strong resenfflunse to those of Nicolini, Patti's tenon The Hew York and New England Railroad has supplied its dining cars with electridfigfcta. The Buffalo Commercial-Advertiser has reduced its price, and will hereafter be a S-ceni paper. The strawberry crop fa Georgia must be-ruraibg behind. The latest lie is to the et&ekflmba ten-pound trout stopped a millof Westboro, Maes., did not havea W during the year 1884. The fire departureat was called out once to put out a fce hi a fireight car en route through the town, wtefa was stopped for the purpose. ifcaa Bwbmaby. who was killed at Abu KmL has left the finished manuscript of a pcflffieal wevei, but it contains such merallegs orlttsfame of certain political adveraarifis Miiftit fa doubtful if it will be published. BBaowaßs Beatrice is said to be a toL esM*noM< amateur photographer.

THE BOOMERS.

The Oklahoma Settlers Hold a Convention and Adopt Resolutions. (Topeka (Kan.)tftipatch.l A State convention of Oklahoma boo men has been in session here, with about forty delegates present. Resolutions were adopt - ed to the effect that the use of the United States army to expel the settlers from theii homes in Oklahoma, who had settled on lands subject to homestead under the laws of Congress, has but one parallel in history, to wit: Interference with State legislation of Kansas by United States troops in 1856, in the old border ruffian days. They denounce as an outrage the use of United Sates troops to deprive the people of their homes and property with-> out any warrant of law. and that there is no excuse for the recent exercise of arbitrary power in the Oklahoma country, and denounce the invasion of any territory by an armed force unde? anjjpretense as among the greatest of crimes. They announce that they arc opposed to interfering with the rights of Indians to their lands existing under the laws and treaties of the United States, and will not defend men in the violation of their rights, and demand also that the protection of the Government should be extended to all settlers alike on the Government lands; that it is not a crime to settle upon Government land, but a right given to every American citizen bylaw; that the Indian title to the Oklohoma lands has been extinguished, and under the laws of the United States statutes the lands are subject to settlement, pre-emption, and homestead. The stand faken by Capt. Couch and his followers was commended. The action of the President of the United States in ordering Col. Hatch to shoot down “men, women, and children, whose only crime was a desire to occupy Government lands, ” was characterized as an outrage that would disgrace the worst monarchies of the old world. It also resolved that the boomers have a right to settle upon the lands, and that they will exercise that right. The resolutions are finished by declaring that “the ' dispatches 'sent by the Associated Press agent at Caldwell relating to the status dr settlement of the Oklahoma lands, and charging that there are now cattlemen holding large herds of stock inclosed by fence on said lands, are willfully false, and calculated to mislead the public.”

EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE.

Three Men Killed and Scores Injured. (Denison (Texas) dispatch.] A terrible explosion of gas occurred recently in a coal mine near Savanna, Indian Territory. There were 100 miners working m ths mine at the time of the explosion. Three are reported killed outright, eightynine are seriously burned, and forty-two are slightly burned or otherwise injured. The names of the killed are: John Houston, William Paxon, and Edward Griffiths. Only a partial list is obtainable of those seriously injured, among whom were Morgan Hughes, William Courtney, Peter Farrell, Frank Grimes, Robert McChellup, David Richardson, William Boyle, Hem-y Davidson, Peter Caribou, James Orlander, Charles Turpon, James Resch, George Farr, H. Kerr, John Gibbs, Thornton Miller, Peter Curren, and William Cameron. Savanna is a small village on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, in the very heart of the Indian Nation, about twenty-five miles south of McAllister and fifty milea north of Atoka.

IRON AND STEEL.

The Trade in These Metals Looking Up. [Philadelphia telegram.] A general improvement has overtaken the iron trade of the East, and is showing itself at present in an active demand for nails an improved demand for bars, andan active demand for bridge and plate iron. Nails havd'advunced to $2.15, and will likely advance to $2.20 or $2.25 within ten days, owing to the fact that there are no stocks to fall back on, and all tbe factories have been curtailing. Bars are SI.BO, and active, and inquiries are arriving .shewing that a good deal of business is to be done. Beams and channels have been reduced from 3J cents to 3 cents, and negotiations are pending for 3,000 or 4,000 tons of material, for which inquiry has been hanging on the market for some time. It is probable that the next large sales of steel rails will be made on a basis of $27, or possibly less. Small sales are made at S2B and $28.50. Crop ends are selling at S2O; old steel springs at $lB, and old rails at sl7 to $17.50.

CENTIPEDE COFFEE.

Curious Case of Poisoning in Texas. [Dallas (Tex.) speciaL] George Starling brought news to the city to-night that seven wood-choppers were poisoned at dinner to-day on Bois d’Are Island, about twelve miles from this city, and that William Stroud, John Haynes, George Tripp, and Bob McCall were" in a dying condition when he left, and that threa others, James Smeed, Thomas Lawrence, and William Bell, were suffering violently. The poison was in the coffee that they drank, and on investigation a worm was found in the dregs which was pronounced by the men in the camp to be a centipede. It is presumed it had been dipped up in a water vessel from the creSk near the camp. Physicians with drugs, etc., have hastened to the unfortunates.

IT WAS THE CAT.

The B*wnds That IHsturbed Grave ConL gresamen. [Washington special.] The members and attendants about the House lobby have lately been disturbed by catcalls and the crying of young kittens, coming apparently from the solid walls of the lobby. The bounds were mysterious and unaccountable. Workmen were sent for to-day to penetrate the wall to see if Poe's “cat" was walled'up in the masonry. The register in the vicinity of the sound was removed and out rolled three little kittens. Some homeless cat had crawled into the heating apparatus and finding her way between the walls had deposited her young there, where they would> be protected from the winter blasts. They have been named after three prominent lobbyists. Thebe is a big squabble in the Congregational Church at East New York over a Scotch deacon who, to help aid a church fair, consented to dance the Highland fling. The principal of the public schools at Halley, Idaho, is about to lose his place because he insists on pronouncing “Indian 1 * “Tnjmf' and piays brtliwrtU T Hewbi Ward Beecher has been elected President of the Bevemue Reform Club of Brooklyn. > Twaux smokes twenty cigars •

THREE MEN LYNCHED.

The Jellerson Murderers Shot and Hanged at Audubon, lowa, by Masked Men. A Desperate Resistance Made by Wilson and Smythe—Cicero Jellerson Submits Meekly. (Audubon (Iowa) special.) Early thia morning a mob hilled Joel J. Wilson, John A Smythe, and Cicero B. Jellerson, confined in the County Jail awaiting trial for hanging Hiram J. Jellerson, on April 2C last. On Saturday last Judge Toofbonrn granted a change of venue In the case, on motion ot the prisoner's counsel, and trial was set for Monday next.at Atlantic. This action enraged the people to such an extent that a masked mob organ- • teed and proceeded to the County Jail at about 2 o’clock this morning, and demanded the keys to the cell. The Sheriff refused, and endeavored to alarm the citizens of the town by tiring off his pistol. This the mob had guarded against by stationing outposts over the city and forcing all who endeavored to leave their residences to retire indoors. The crowd returned the fire of the Sheriff and at once proceeded with picks and crowbars to make an opening in the brick wall of the cell-room large*, enough tjo permit two persons to walk in abreast. Through this the crowd poured and commenced breaking the locks and bolts admitting them to the cells. One of tbe leaders, dressed in white and wearing a white mask, to distinguish him from the crowd, who wore black dominos, conducted the work of forcing an entrance. Once inside the wrought-iron corridor in front of the two cells, the leader demanded that the three Jellerson murderers —Smythe, Wilson, and Jellerson—come out. and gave assurance to the other prisoners, iour in number, that they enly wanted the Jellerson murderers. Smythe made a lunge with a. broom-handle through the. barred door of the cell at one man standing near, and punched him over backward, severely injuring him, and at this a man carrying a lantern held it np, and the leader shot Smythe through the leftj?ye, killing him.. One ot the persons confined in the call with the murderers was next ordered to step out. After this prisoner was once out, Wilson protested his innocence of the murder, but refused to come out, and two shot’ were fired at him; taking effect immediately below the rest shoulder, and he was hit in the month with an ir.m bar. ■ He then begged them to kill him outright, and not to torture him. Another shot was fired, taking efiect in the upper part of his chest, and he immediately fell dead. Hopes were thrown over the heads of Smythe and Wilson and their bodies dragged to the jail-yard fence, where they were strung up. The second cell was then opened and Cicero Jellerson ordered to step cut. As soon as he appeared a rope was thrown around fits neck and he was taken by the crown to a band-stand in the public square, about two hundred feqt distant. Here be was asked if he .was guilty of the murder of his father. He replied that he was. The rope was then thrown around the flagstaff surmounting the stand, and he was drawn up, while the leader said in loud tones: “As you swung your father up last April, so you swing now- between heaven and earth.” Aftertthis hanging the Sheriff was notified that the mob had dope its full work, and that the other prisoners were safely locked In their cells. The crowd then quietly dispersed. The jail is a neat structure, two stories high with an ell—both built of brick. The main building is used by the Sheriff as a residence, and the ell is the jail proper. Inside the jail Is a wrought iron cage consisting of two cells and a corridor in front made of bars closely interlaying and riveted. All the locks and levers opening the cells and corridors are in a steel box, and this had to be opened before the prisoners could be gotten at. The work of opening this was done quickly. The number comprising the mob is variously estimated at from fifty to 500. It was well disciplined, and every avenue of approach was guarded, and no one was allowed to approach nearer the jail than a full block. AVhen-each shot was fired in the first cell, Cicero would exclaim, “Oh, my God!" and when Wilson was heard to fall Cicero said to one of his companions: “If I live through it, don’t tell on me; but what I confessed to last spring was true. We killed father.” Wilson’s three sisters arrived to-night from Coon Bapids, and their grief was terrible to witness as they viewed the remains of their brother. His body was turned over to them by the Coroner, and taken by train to their home for interment. The Coroner’s-, jury rendered a verdict of death at the hands of a mob unknown. The Grand Jury was called before Acting Judge Henderson, and after a few well-chosen words and able strictures on the mob he.gave the case into their hands for consideration. Probably nothing as to the composition of the mob will be developed. The bodies of Smythe and Jellerson are still unclaimed. A local paper this evening expressed it as its opinion that had Judge Toofbourn been here he would have shared the same fate as the murderes. While the mob was working to gain admittance they reapetedly assured the prisoners that they only wanted the Jellerson murderers. As scon as a hole was made through the brick wall the lock to the iron door leading from the residence part to- the cells was spiked so that the Sheriff could not enter by that route. Peter UvraxTi ixx -Fixn A-vr.. To JT zxF ityaiL iiuw xu put? vvunty wall ivi vnu hiuiuui vt Kleever, was brought before the Coroner’s jury, and as an eye-witness his evidence may be interesting. He said: “I was in the jail last night, in the west cell, The mob came there about 2 o’clock, and I heard a noise of firing and heard some one say to the Sheriff: * Fire one more shot and down comes this jail.’ I soon heard picks at the jail wall and we got up and dressed. It_ took them twenty minutes to half an hour to get in. They then commenced on the entrance to the corridor. They were quite a long time at that. While at the door Smythe shouted three times: ‘Herbert, hain’t you going to stop this?’ Some one outside said: ‘We’ll stop it!’ Then they came in. Smythe poked a broom-stick into a man’s ribs and knocked him over. All had black masks over their faces. The man who did the shooting had a handkerchief over his face; one man had a lantern. When the man was punched in the ribs he stepped back and fired, killing Smythe. Crawford, who was In the same cell, said: ‘Be careful; there is one innocent man here.’ They tefld Crawford to come out, but Wilson told Crawford if he went out he would pound him. Crawford went out and they shot at Wilson, and somebody put a crowbar in his face. He said: ‘Great God, boys, don’t murder me this way! I never killed old man Jellerson, or saw him until I saw him the day he was in A man said: ‘lf innocent, why don’t you come out?’ Wilson said: “If I die, I die game.’ The man who had the lantern told the man with the pistol to shoot Wilson. He continued firing till Wilson was shot in the neck or lungs, when he felt I knew he was stmt in the neck or lungs from the gurgling sound. Then they dragged Smythe and Wilson both out. and came back to our cell and ordered Cicero to walk out I told him to go out. and he went. They put a rope around his neck and, shouted: ‘Mr. Sheriff, this is the man we want,’ and walked away. I don’t know any of them. I said to Cicero: ‘Your time is about at an end. If you are guilty of this crime yon are accused of, now tell me.’ Cicero choked up, but afterward he said the statements he had made were true.” .

Whites and Blacks in the South.

In his new book Judge Tourgee shdws, by a series of tabulated statistics, drawn from the census by decades down to 1880, that the colored race is increasing at a greater ratio than the white race in the South; that it already numbers one to every two of the white population, taking all the States together ; that in eight of these. States it averages 2.4 per cent less than one to one; that in three of the States it averages 3.7 per cent more than one to one; while by the increased migration of whites, added to the greater reproductive powers of the blacks, • the disparity increases at even more rapid rates. . ■ There are 83, £79 organized militia in the United States, and 6,580,506 menavaik able for military duty. A bronze statue of President Garfield will soon be placed in the Golden Gate Park, Ban Francisco. Capt. Mayne Retd left a posthumous novel, “The Pierced Heart,” which is soon to be published. Mrs. Blla Wheeler Wilcox is as fond ot roller skating as of writing verses. The Sultan of Morocco has just celebrated his I.OOOtf wedding.

CAPTURE OF KHARTOUM.

It Falls Into the Hands of the False Prophet the 26t4 of January. jy Gen. Gordon Either a Prisoner or Killed —Treacherous Arabs Flocking to the Mahdi. [London cablegram.) The streets are filled with an anxious and dismayed people, eager to catch the last syllable of intelligence from the distant Egyptian desert. Universal depression has taken the place of the jubilant gladness which a few days ago greeted the news of Stewart’s victory near MetemndP This exciting state of affairs is dne to the fact that intelligence was received this mo'-ning that Khartoum had been captured by the Arabian rebels. Nothing is.known of General Gordon, who is probably a prisoner in the hands of the victors. A Cabinet counsel has been summoned to meetatonoe. Gia Istone is fearfully disturbed by the news, and some people believe he will resign. According to the Daily Chronicle, the first telegram was received at the War Office last night from Gen. Wolsel-y the Daily Teledraph. asserting that it did so on official authority, published the report, which, no to noon, was not confirmed by the War Office. Shortly after noon the War Offic ? made public a telegram from Gen. Wolseley announcing that the fall of Khartoum took place on Jan. 26. Col. Wilson arrived at Khartoum Jan. 28, and was greatly surprised to find that the enemy were in possession of that place. He immediately starved on his return down the river and proceeded under a heavy fire from the rebels. When some miles below the Shublaka cataract CoL Wilson’s steamers were wrecked, but he and his whole party managed to reach an island in safety, wlffire they are secure. A steamer has gone to bring them back to the British camp near Metemmeh. Gen. Wolseley says he has no information regarding the fate of Gen. Gqydon. and does not know whether he is dead or alive. Further details reveal the fact that the first nows of the fall of Khartoum received by Gen. Wo'seley was brought by a messenger, who left the island where Gen. Wilson got stranded and came on foot to Gubat. Two messengers were dispatched to Korvi, via Abu-Klea and Gakdul. They reached their destination, which is regarded as owing to the news that Khartoum’s tall was not known in the desert The intelligence ot the disaster, however, has since spread far and wide. Some tribes that hitherto professed friendship for England have* declared for El Mahdi. The Arabs still hold Metemneh. The garrison there received the news of tbe fali of Khartoum with repeated salvos of artillery. When CoL Wilson’s flotilla approached Khartoum he was compelled to run the gauntlet of a heavv fire from both banks. The rebels had four Krupp guns on the river banks at Halfiychto bombard the steamers. When the British force reached Omdnrman numbers of rebels continued the fusillade. Things looked worae when it was discovered that the enemy was in possesion of the island of Tuti, just outside the city. The English still pushed ahead, but were dismayed to find that the garrison commenced firing upon them. No flags were flying from the public buildings, and the town appeared in undisputed possession of the enemy. The palace seemed gutted. Finding it impossible to land in face of the overwhelming numbers of rebels, the British were obliged to retire. The rumors concerning the fate of Gen. Gordon are many and varied, but all agree that El Mahdi captured Khartoum by treachery. The most reliable reports point to one Faraz Pasha as the traitdr. It is said that he, being left in charge of the ramparts, opened the gates on Jan. 26 and admitted the enemy. Some rumors state that EJ Mahdi, together with a few Levantines, is cdfiped up In the church. Others say that Gen. Gordon was seen wearing El Mahdi's uniform. The majority agree, however, that Gen. Gordon was killed. Col Wilson had three steamers, two of which were wrecked half-way between Khartoum and Metemneh. The third Steamer, bearing Col. Wortley, came On, and brought the news to the British camp near Metemneh. Lord Wolseley does not consider the British position at Gubat in any immediate danger. Gen. Stewart is doing well. All the British wounded have been brought back to the camp at Gakdul Wells.; A native reports that the Mahdi had 60,000 men in the vicinity of Khartoum, and he introduced a number of his emissaries into the city. These emissaries mingled freely with the native troops tinder Gen. Gordon, a,nd by bribes, threats, and working on their religions feelings induced them to mutiny. Seven thousand of the garrison deserted to the .rebels, leaving Gen. Gordon only 2,500 faithful soldiers. With this small force he attempted to hold the city against the Mahdi’s great army, but after severe fighting, in which a large number of rebels were killed, he was • compelled to surrender. Wilfrid Blunt, the friend and counsel for Arabi Pasha, sayA that it is his opinion that El Mahdi, being humane and well accustomed to the usages of war, will treat Gen. Gordon well.

CHARLES GEORGE GORDON.

A Sketch of the Remarkable British Soldier’s Career. Maj. Gen. Charles George Gordon comes of old Highland stock, but was bom at Woolwich, England in 1833. He was educated at Taunton and at the Woolwich Military Academy, where hd obtained his commission in the Royal Engineers. His earliest employment was at Pembroke, but he was ordered to Corfu during the Crimean war and soon was actively engaged. Here he made such a mark as to bring him distinguished employment wnen the war ended. Afterward he acted as AsMistant Boundary Commissioner in Bessarabia and Armenia. At this time the Chinese war broke out and he joined the army which was advancing on Irkin, and arrived in time to witness the surrender of that place and the destruction of the Summer Palace. In 1862 the Taiping rebellion had made great progress, and the insurgents had nearly arrived at Shanghai. Gordon and the British troops were engaged in driving them away. The leader of the rebellion, like the Mahdi, thought himself inspired, and*called himself the second celestial brother. Although Impeded by every imaginable opposition and obstacle, Gordon managed the campaign against the horde of fanatical rebels with consummate military skill. Several mutinies occurred in his troops, but by his firm manner of dealing with the ringleaders the outbreaks were nipped in the bud. His whole conduct of the campaign was such as to gain lor him the warmest admiration in military circles. The six years following this be spent at home, and were marked by good deeds done by stealth. He spent his salary as Toyal engineer on the poor and in teaching boys whom he had picked out of the gutter. His house was school, hospital, and almshouse in turn. After a brief service as Commissioner at Galatz, Gordon succeeded Sir Samuel Baker as Governor of the tribes in upper Egypt, and his first act astonished every one but his friends. The Khedive offered him a salary of <50,000, but he would only accept tio.ooe, his former pay at Galatz. He landed at Suakin February, 1873; reached Berber tn March, ascended the river in Match, and then started for Gondokoro. Here he began his work, and his policy soon relieved the Suffering people from ths horrible oppression, and curbed where it did not suppress entirely the abominable slave-hunters. He investigated the work personally, and abolished many abuses when he found them. He went among the miserable, degraded people, ministering to their wants with his own hand. In 1877 he obtained the command of the entire Soudan and was also deputed to look into the affairs of Abyssinia. This he did with good effect and then returned to Khartoum to rebegin his work as a reformer, linable to stop bribery, for x example, he put the money into the treasury. He established a water supply which, during the long siege, has proved priceless. After Gordon quitted the Soudan he returned to Europe, accompanied Lord Ripon to India, but resigned his post at Bombay; subsequently went to South Africa to assist in terminating the war in Basutoland, a task he failed in accomplishing. He again started for the Soudan in January, 1884, upon tbe sudden command of Gladstone and the Cabinet. His operations since that time have been closely followed by readers the world over. There are 671 convicts to the Kentucky Penitentiary, and for three months they have not done a day’s work, except those in the cook-house. ,'7-Ex-Gov. Hott, of Pennsylvania, tells that when he was in college (Lafayette) he and his classmates got board for 87 cents a Beverly Tucker, of Virginia, expects to have his volume of reminiscences ready for publication in November. Sitting Bull announces that he would like to bemads a citizen and allowed to vote.

ROSSA SHOT.

America's Famous Dynamite Chieftain Brought to Earth by a Woman. The Back of tbe Irisman Perforated by One of Hye Large Bullets. . (New York special] A Blender young woman, neatly clad in black and wearing steel-bowed eye-glasses, sent a summons to O’Donovan Roesa to meet her in Chambers street, near Broadway, at 5 this afternoon. She had previously met Roesa, and he hastened to respond to her message, which was delivered to him in his office, No. 12 Chambers street, by a District Telegraph boy. Rossa walked from his office to the place of rendezvous without any suspicion of impending danger. The greeting between the young woman and Rossa is describeefby those who witnessed it as being cordial. The couple remained standing on the sidewalk about two hundred feet from Broadway for two or three minutes and conversed in low tones. Then they stepped into the corridor leading from Chambers street into the Stewart Building. After a white they reappeared, and Roesa turned his face toward Broadway and started to walk away. The woman took a few steps with him, then stopped, raised her right arm, and there were a flash and a loud report. Hossa turned quickly, and beheld her within six feet of him, with a smoking revolver in her hand. A second report followed almost immediately, and the assailed man instinctively raised his hands, as if to shield his head. The young woman stood perfectly still and fired three more shots at Rossa. The bullets rattled on the stone and glass of the Stewart Building. City Marshal James McAuley was present at the time, and, breaking through the crowd that had collected even before the shooting was over, seized the woman, who still held the smoking pistol in her hand, and told her she was under arrest. The woman' offered no remonstrance, but allowed herself to be token through the mass of citizens and to the City Hall StationHouse. George W. Bartow, a merchant of 146 Reade street and Peter Y. Everett, formerly a reporter, who witnessed the shooting, accompanied captor and captive to the station, saying they would be witnesses. Wuen the woman had ceased firing o’Donovaii arose to his feet and made an effort to find his way back to his office on Chambers street, which he had -just left. He said: “I am shot,” trying to place his hand on his back under his shoulder-blade. After a few steps somebody in the crowd suggested that he should go to the Chambers Stree Hospital. A c-upleof men lent their arms, and Q'Donotan did as suggested and directed his steps toward the hospital. He walked all the way there, a d stance of nearly a quarter of a mile. He bled considerably on the way. Once in the hospital he was undressed and examined by Dr. Dennison. It was found that the bullet had entered his back directly below the left shoulderblade. The doctor pronounced the wound not of a dangerous character and began to probe for the ball. A great crowd of people had followed the wounded man down Chambers street and blocked the roadway in front of the hospital after the door was locked behind O’Donovan Rossa and his escort, Rossa had been placed in a cot in the same ward with Captain Phelan, who was stabbed by Richard Short in O’Donovan’s office several weeks ago. O’Donovan was within eight beds of Phelan. An examination of the wound by Dr. Kirby showed that the bullet had penetrated the back about half an inch above the left shoulder-blade. The boll ranged upward and inward toward the spinal column, but did not touch the vertebrae. The bullet is evidently lodged in the muscles of the back, and beyond a slight shock Rossa has suffered little. It was at,one time learned that the bullet had penetrated the lupg, but as the wounded man had expectorated no blood, this was afterward pronounced impossible. Had the spinal column been injured there would have been signs of paralysis, but none appeared. The doctors probed unsuccessfully for the bullet. They concluded that no large blood-vessel had been injured, and as O’Donovan is a fleshy, muscular man of robust constitution there was no danger to be apprehended. Rossa, in the Chambers'Slreet Hospital, made the following statement to Coroner Kennedy: “Saturday, Jan. 31. about 4 p. nu, I received a letter at my office, No. 12 Chambers street The message was in writing and was delivered by a mess ngerboy. The note stated that a woman wished to see me; that she was interested in the Irish cause and desired to assist it She did not care to go to my office and remain waiting there until I came. She would only ask for ten minutes’ time, and the boy told me the woman was at the telegraph office in the Stewart Building, Broadway and Chambers street I went with him and met her. I told her it would be well to go to. some hotel, as the telegraph office was no place to talk m. We came out and went to Sweeney’s Hotel. We went into the ladies’ parlor, and she said she would be able to give considerable money if anything good was done. She then said she would call Monday; Feb. 2, at 4p. m. Today she sent another message to my office and I went, to the same telegraph office and there I met the woman. She showed me o' paper which I was to sign. She then suggested that we go to some place. We walked down Chambers street toward Broadway, and when we got a short distance the woman stepped back and fired two or three shots at me. One of tbe balls entered my back. ” Rejoicing in London. [London cablegram.] The first news of the shooting of Rossa was bulletined in this city at midnight. It caused the wildest excitement among the people on the streets and around the popular resorts at that hour. Meh gathered in groups at corners to exchange comments upon the affair, and the general impression was that of satisfaction. Persons who had learned of the shooting stopped even these who were strangers to them to ask if they had heard the news. There were frequent hand-shakings of congratulation, and even hurrahs, and men rushed to the bars in the hotels shouting out the good news and landing as a heroine the assailant of the muchdespised dynamiter.

CHIPS.

Victor Hugo is now 83 years old. In Massachusetts there are twenty-three cities. The Sultan of Turkey is said to be every good amateur pianist. Thebe were nearly 12. ©Off marriages last yeajr in New York City. A woman of Tuckertown, Fla., is successfully running a saw- mifl. A child recently died in Rye, England, of fright caused by * boy wearing a mask.

SHAKSPEARE’S HOUSE.

The Three Antique Ladle* Who Have It in Charge. It would be ancient history to so many of my renders to write of the house Shakspesre was botn in t|»t I will not run the risk of being quite so tiresome. There is an idea prevailing that the three antique ladies who have the house and museum in charge are the last living descendents of the great poet’s family. This is fiction, unfortunately, but if the old ladies have not in point of fact any blood relationship to the Shskspeare family, they are thoroughly saturated with the conviction that the little house on Stratford-on-Avon is, with the events that have made it famous, the one important and imposing spot on the lace of the earth; that it is, in fact, the axis around which everything else revolves. They also believe firmly in the greatness of their own position as guardians of these world* revered relics, and, joking aside, it is one of great trust, and probably could not be confided to more zealous hands, The greatest care is taken that no accident shou’-d occur. Gentlemen are not permitted to I ring a lighted cigar over the threshold, a match is never lighted in the house, nor any kind of light or fire introduced. The building is closed at dusk to prevent the necessity of tbe former, and is heated by steam, which is conveyed through pipes from half a block away. The houses on either sides of the Shakspeare birth- 1 place were torn down a few years since to prevent danger from fire. During tbe tourists’ session hundreds of people daily ma'ie this pilgrimage, and hundreds and thousands of times probably the three little old ladies in their gran black silk gowns, with velvet spencers and what the English call “dress-caps” ornamenting their scant locks, repeat the explanatory remarks to group after group of viators, beginning with “Be kind enough to place umbrellas and walking-sticks upon this, the old table of the poet’s father, next turning your attention to this,the living room of the family, unchanged in any respect since the childhood of the great author. Alter the father of the poet died this room was rented for a butcher shop, which accounts for the defacing of the floor; look, also, at the chimney with its corner seats; here "William Shakspeare, as a lad, doubtless little dreaming of the groat future, before him, often sat on a winter’s evening after his reture from the village school. Visitors are permitted tp sit a moment in the chimney seat”—this in tones at once solemn and patronizing.. “We next have the second or best room in tbe house, and off of it our poet’s bedroom, but a poor place, ladies and gentlemen, to shelter the king of intellects.” And so from room to room. While our party is in the poet’s so-called bedroom, I hear the second old lady, who is evidently just beginning the tour with a company, chatting the unchanging refrain word for word as our old lady did at that point, and as we descend the narrow, crooked staircase, after seeing the long upper room which has the autograph of Sir Walter Scott cut with a diamond upon the window pane, we run against the of the third weird sisters just as she id saying: “But a po- r place, ladies and gentlemen, to shelter the king of intellects.• The Shaks; eare house is like two houses, now that there is a partitionwall catting it directly through the center from garret to cellar or groundfloor, which was put there “when the poet’s father met with reverses and rented part of the house as an inn.” This is now called the ’museum, wherein are collected the various relics of Shakspeare, his family, and a few interesting objects pertaining to his time, notably the form or de-k from the village school the poet attended, and vouched for by the authorities about Stratford as authentic. Every smallest object is religiously guarded as something sacred, and in noticing this care and solicitude one cannot but bless the happy chance which awakened these sleeping old villagers to a realization of the treasures in their midst.— Landon Letter,

China Within the Great Wall.

Of the ancient Great Wall, only a low rampart remains, with square towers diminishing towards the top. These towers are generally placed on the summits of the mountains across which the wall winds. I ascended one of them, the better to contemplate the view, but had no one with whom to share all the admiration that I felt at this moment. It is quite impossible to describe all that the eye took in—mountains, valleys, gorges, grass-cov-ered slopes, pastures, farms, lakes. The presence of man is to be felt; not of the local villages or town life, but the life of a great state. To the east, a superb valley dotted over with Chinese villages, surrounded with bushes rad trees; farther off, on several levels, chains of mountains, the tops of which were on a level with my eyes. To the west the ground undulates gradually towards the plain, beyond whioh are more mountains. On the south, magnificent pasture-land, intersected by the Great Wall with its ruined towers On our right, the Great Wall cracked and destroyed by centuries, and covered with plants; on our left, a slope towards the plain, laid out in artificial terraces, with fields of millet, oats, potatoes, and hemp. As to the Chinese, they are to seen everywhere, with long plaits and bareheaded, attired in a white shirt and blue trousers. The women are scantily clothed, and the children, whose heads are decked with flowers, are naked, or nearly so. What strikes one most is the sudden transition from the barrenest desert of yesterday to fertile and populous country of to-day. It seems like a village of small houses, covered with verdure, gardens and flowers, the whole extremely tidy and pleasant to the eye. This, then, is that swarming human ant-hill, China. Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must bo understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.—Jane Z’or/er. 7. ?