The New Era, 1884-10-03, Page 8October 3 '1.884.
THE NUTT FAMILY POISONED.
Two Plotters ot the wow& !Uniontown
Avenger Dead --The water tit the
' en Poisoned. •
Intense excitement has been caused at
"Uniontown, Pa.'by the discovery of an
atrocious attempt to take the lives of the
members ot the Nutt family. The well
/rem width the [amply of water ueed in
the Nutt household Wae drawn wais polsoned
by isome unknown miscreant. Two- of
the young ladies are already dead and
other members of the family are ill. As
far as can be athertained, there is no
apparent motive for the deliberate crime,
and all efforts made thus far to trace the
person or persons engaged in the horrible
affair have proved a signal failure, The
Arst intimation of the coming horror was
the announcement on Friday evening of
the sudden death of Miss Annie Nutt,
sister of Miss Lizzie Nutt (whose
betrayal by N. L. Dukes was followed
by the tragic death of the young girl's
father and [subsequently of Dukes,
who was slain by James Nutt), a girl of
16 years. Up to Tuesday last she had
been in the enjoyment of perfect health.
On the following day she and all the other
members of the family were taken sud-
denly ill. In twenty-four hours Annie was
dead. The explanation given by the
family was that she died from indigestion
caused by eating a -large -quantity of unripe
feuite--Next-morni-ng-rhoweveretheshorria.
bla suspicion gained._ _our/may...that the
Nutt family had been poieoned, and that
Miss Annie was the first victim. This
was confirmed by an examination et the
wafer of the well situated in the rear of the
house, into which it was found poinwhad
been thrown. Dr. John Fuller, the family
physician, has 'advised the holding of a
poet -mortem, and although Mrs. Nutt vas
at first unwilling, she Malty gave her
consent. In the evening hliss Nettie Nutt,
another of the sisters, expired, and the
news of her death was quickly circulated
through the town, intensifying public
opinion over the horrifying revelation.
The water in the well is being Analyzed,
and all are - awaiting with intense
Anxiety the report of the physicians. In
the absence of any known motive for the
mime the story of the Nutt scandal and the
tragic events which followed it are being
excitedly discussed ; and, while there may
be no truth in it, the theory is advantied
that some friend of Dukes has resorted to
this despicable act to avenge his killing by
Miss Lizzie Nutt's brother. Young James
Nutt, the avenger of his sister's honor, who
is at home, and also his sister Lizzie, were
both made ill, but their condition is -not
e• critical.
The story of Mies Nutt's betrayal, •the
murder " ot her father by Dukes, his
acquittal, and subsequently his death at
the bands of young Nutt, and the letter's
trial and acquittal, were given such wide.
spread- notoriety -that therwillate-retelled-
readily. The shooting of Capt. "Nutt
°rested a sensation throughout the entire
• country. He was cashier of the . State
Treasury and Dace, his slayer, was a
member -elect of the Legislature. Dukes
was arrested afid after an exciting trial
was acquitted. James Nutt, a cold-
blooded, passionless young man, was
aroused by the verdict, and it was expected
that he would avenge his father's death.
Dukes knew this and on one occasion
said : "Jim Nutt mity.shoot me some time,
but he will never come before my face and
do it. He will shoot me from behind when
I can't see him." The friends of Nutt
never allowed him to forget the death of
his father, nor the manner in whit) his
sister's character had been assailed by
Dukes. They were ever urging him teekill
Dukes. -Thie had an effect on the boy (he
is only 21 now), and when Dukes met him
on the 'street, one day Nutt thought he
laughed at him and told his mother Of the
occurrence. That settled Dukes' fate. A
few days later Nutt concealed himself near
the post -office and SS Dukes advanced he
shot him in the back. Dukes lived only a
short time, On his person were found a
revolver and a bowie -knife. Nutt surren-
dered himself and was subsequently tried
and acquitted.
ME RETRACTED..
How a Warlike Editor Forced a Penn-
ell' Spetiker to Detract.
An Ironton, U., despatch says: The fol.
lowing story, too good to keep, has resisted
all efforts to suppress it, Allen 0. Myers
made a political speech here on Saturday
night in which he said that W. B. Tomlin-
son, editor of the Busy Bee, a Republican
paper printed here, had a negro mother.
Tomlinson was absent at the time, but the
news was [tarried to him. He sent Myers
word yesterday, demanding a retraction of
suoh remarks as had reference to his
mother. No answer came, whereupon
Tomlinson brought Myers to by at his
hotel at dinner.
"Do you know my mother ?"asked Tom-
linson fiercely, at the same time displaying
a revolver of the largest calibre and advis-
ing bystanders to keep their distance.
"No," answered Myers.
"Then stand up• and hold up your right•
hand," thundered Tomlinson. Myers
obeyed.
"Now," addeE Tomlineen savagely,
while covering Myers with his revolver,
"swear by the eternal God that what you
said in your speech about my mother was
a lie, and that you knew it was
a lie. Swear three times." Myers obeyed
and Tomlinson walked away. Tonalinson's
father was: illed at Ripley early in the
war and his mother still lives there.
The Nile lliapcdition.
A London cablegram eat% t The rumor
current yesterday, and whieh was published
its a fact by some of the afternoon papers,
that Gen. Lord Wolseley had ordered all
troops intended for the relief of Gen.
Gordon at Khartoum stopped, created an
immense sensation in military oiroles.
Members of the camel corps were especially
downcast at the proepeot of being obliged
to forego the pleasures of a novel active
service, for which they had been making.
the most extensive preparations. Last
night later despatehes 'show that Lord
Wolseley's telegrams wore misinterpreted
or that the War Office people became eon -
fused, for it now appears that the only
detachment which has received oedema to
suspend preparations for the Nile campaign
is the one stationed at Malta, whicb is
composed entirely of infantry. All the
others will proceed to Egypt acoording to
the original programme.
The Btitieh public ha a again elevated
Gen. Gordon to the pedestal of a hero,
from whit% he was unceremonieuely tune
bled on the receipt of his despatch advis-
ing Turkish rule in the Soudan, The
papers are now full of praises for the pluok
and energy which he has shown in nosing
the siege of Khartoum with each rotten
material as he had under hie command.
is popularity is fully re-established, and
is likely that Gordon ana not Woleoley
'll be remembered in history as the hero
the 1:3011dan•
NATIQNALISIT MEETING. •
Michael Davites Ilsorprise party -Tim
Keil Coats and Bright Bayonets-.
Tho "Witid•Up.
A London othlegram gays The Irish
National League meeting at Castiewellan,
County Down, yesterday (Sunday) was
quiet and orderly, a circumstance whit% is
amply explained by the fact that the road
WWI lined for a mile with the red coats And
bright bayonets of British regular troop.
The speakers were Mepers. Wm. Oliver,
M.P., and Michael Devitt. The latter
treated his auditors to a genuine surprise.
He declared that he was second in coat -
mend of a political army, which was
invading the Province of Ulster with a fixed
portion and with a confident expectation of
victory, The Nationalists had now one great
and absorbing deeire as far as the uorth of
Ireland was concerned; that was for
political unity between the Orangemen and
Catholics. Mr. Devitt begged his hearers
to lay aside their religious differences of
opinion for the oak° of the patriotic duty
which is incumbent on Orangemen and
Catholics alike. Let religion give way for
once to patriotism, he said, and then, and
then only, shall we get home rule for Ire-
land. The audience, which was composed
almeet wholly of Catholics, was taken
entirely by surprise at these outepokep
advances toward the friendship of the
Orangemen. A few men in the nroeitt
raised a cheer for Devitt and union, but
most of them stood in mute astonishment,
as though discrediting the evicithee of
their senses. Two inferences are drawn
shere—from—thissasepisodaaataatlastle-
wellath .. The ' first a is that Messrs.
Davitt and • Parnell have settled
their differences, and that the former is
once more the trusted lieutenant and
mouthpiece of his chief. The second con-
chal= is that the Parnellites have -
determined upon a, new plan of titetios in
seeking a coalition with the Orangemen, in
order by their aid to defeat the. Coneerva,
fives at the next general election. It is not
believed that the Orangemen will ever
consent to a such a (mention.
Great excitement prevailed in Newry
last evening on the return of the National-
ist profession from Castlewellan, where a
demonstration was held yesterday, during
which a- daturbanoe,o6ourrede-The streets
'were crowded and much cheering and
hooting was indulged in. Stones wore
thrown and windowe smashed. The police
at CastieWellan charge&the mob and made
several tweets. The mob thereupon
attacked and wrecked the pollee barracks.
Several persons were injured during the
attaok. Two black flags were floated from
the market house. The disorder continued
until e late hour. • •
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THE DAUGHTER'S. ELOPEMENT
Breaks trp the Mome—The
Mosher, Driven Crazy, Attempts
A. PTQW York despatch says: The truth
about the recent severe illness of Mrs.
.-Morosiniamothersof -Victoria-Morosiniew he
eloped with a coachman a few • days ago,
comes out at last. It appeare that she has
on three occasions SMOG her daughter ran
away attenapted suicide. Thursday morn-
ing, September llth, she drank a large
quentity ot laudanum. It Wall discovered,
and medioa1 aid restored her. The same
day the again attonepted suicide, but was
diecovered in time to be prevented from
swallowing the fatal draught. On the 13th,
when alone, she got a more powerful opiate
than laudiimn. Of this drug she took a
larger dose, and wassdisooveredanseneibla
011 the floor. A doctor, • who was at once
summoned,'worked over her an hour before
he succeeded in arousing the faintest spark
of life; before morning, however, she was
out of danger. From that time•ehe bee not
been left alone a moment. Last Sunda
Ittre. Morosini was a raving maniac, an
the had relapses ever since.. On Wednes
day Mrs. Alorosini and her daughter Jun
sailed for Europe .on the steamer Aurani
. The entire family will soon go to Florence
where they will henceforth make their
home. thirds of the way across e ree W
THE LOBD BIATIMBANQUETTED.
A prominent American's ‘"Jolly Good
Fellow Spread to the Lord rianYor ot
Loudon.
A last (Tuesday) nightet London cable-
gram says: Mr. Henry V. Gillis% banquet
in honor of Lord Mayor Fowler was given
this evening, and was a brilliant affair,
Consul -general Merritt in a speech testi-
fled to the ever inoreaeing friendship
between England and America, and pro-
posed as a toset the Legislatures et the
two countries. The sentiment was
reeponded to by Sir Robert Walter Carden,
M. le for Barnstaple, and by ex-f3enator
Thomas W. Ferry, of Michigan, for Eng.
land and Americie, reepeotively. Senator
Ferry dealt upon the unity of interests
between the two countries, and said that
even the Frenqh press recognized their
kinship, and joining Great Britain and the
United States together poured out the
vials of it wrath impartially upon both.
He bespoke the interests of the English
people on behalf of the World's Indllettial
and Cotton Centennial Exhibition about to
be held at New Ortega. Loyd Mayor
Fowler, reeponding to the toast, The
Guest of the Evening," deviated a large
portion of his remarks to congratulation
upon the unity between the two countries,
and the mutual advantages resulting
therefrom, Speeches were oleo made by
General Roddy and Mr. Stanley ;the
latter, in the course of his remarks, said he
had spent the last five and a -half yeare
among colored people, trying to bring them
out of darkness intolght and civilization,
in which effort he believed he, had happily
13°91/'t!ut"qtful. s
GlENERAL GORDON
Blokes Brilliant Onslaughts en I he Rebels
A Cairo cablegram says: Tile Medic of
Dongola, telegraphs to the mutt urities here
that a messenger from General Gordon
hae brought eighteen deepatolies.Two
were for the Sheikh of the Kabbabish
tribe, which were delivered. Two were
directed to a soninaaw of the Sheikh, who,
however, hadbeen previously • publicly
exeouted byeorder of the Matidi's Ameer,
in order to overawe the people and com-
pel them to join the Mahan- The Ameer,
mt-t-h-lbaleet-e-hiate, was afterwards killed
in battle. The meseenger who brought
the despateheeemports that on the 24th of
July General Gordon's troops slaughtered
the rebel army sent rgainst him from
Kordofan. Another battle wee fought on
the 30th of Augast, which remitted in
General Gordou forcing the rebels to raise
the Mega of - Khart'
oum during which
Sheikh Sdi, his son andfollowers were
killed. ' The above reports are confirmed
by Khatem Elmoos Boy, who is holding
Halfiyeh with Egyptian eOldiettr. The
Thaggieh and other tribes have come.ein
and tendered their submission. Sennaar
is now in perfectreeourity. The population
of Berber has recovered from its fright
GONE TO STAY.
Permanent Occupation ot the—sloudam
Probable. •'
, A London "cablegram says : There is a
steady improvement on the London Stook
Exchange in the price of Egyptian bonds.
This is due to the general belief that the
=ergo* aotionof the Government in send.
ing reinforcements to Egypt means a
revereal of the scuttling out policy, which
was proclaimed in Gjadstone's 'famous
maxim, rescue' and retire. ,It is evident
now that the British troope have gone to
Egypt to stay, and that the outcome of
Lord Wolseley'e expedition will be the
permanent ocoupation of the Soudan, and
its industrial development by meant) of
railroads and modern agricultural methods.
Thisview is strengthened by the reoom-
meodation which it is•believed is contained
in the letter from General Gordon, which
is on the way to the Government. The
burden of the letter will, doubtless, be a
plea for the retention of Khartoum, and in
the preliminary letter, already reoeived
from General Gordon, he eapresses a strong
belief that if his advice be followed, he can
ensure the permanent pacification of the
Soudan. On • the other hand, if his piens,
be rejeeted, he predieteeterious disaster, all
of which will be, chargeable to the English
Government.
SEASICK VOYAGEURS.
Sate Arrival ot the Ocean at
tiydnei, V. 11.
A Sydney, (C. B.) despatch says; The
OcearsKing, with the Canadian contingent
en route for Egypt, arrived off Sydney on
Friday morning before daybreak, but (adag-
io the fog they had to wait for some time
before being able to secure a pilot and get
into the harbor. There hae been a great
deal of seasickness on beard, and the
gallant voyageur) eufferea all the torturee
of a first sea voyage. The vessel coaled at
the International pier, and in a few hours
proceeded On her passage to the mat.
Everything went emoothly on board during
'the passage to this port, but the men were
delighted with their two hours' run on
shore. On Wednesday while off the Bird
Reeks a strong . nor:west wind raised a
heavy sea, and, the dining tables were
generallyedeeerted. The India= suffered
moat severely trope eloknese, but after
rounding Cape North the water beearne
comparatively Binoeth, and Soon all signs of
depression vanished.
Lovers [Druck by Lightoing.
A Dover (N. itt.) despatch says: Theo.
dore Rouleau, aged 18, and Hortenz Pazo,
well- 16s both Frenoh-Canadians, of
Rochester, who were aeon to be married,
vsent to a ball on Tuesday night. About mid-
night, arm in arm, they left the dance hall
for home while a heavy thunderstorm pre -
veiled. They had not gone far when Rot-
• leau was Amok by lightning and fell dead.
• The girl had her hair and ofie arm and
hand badly burned. She is Mile, but muth
ehooked.
Parrot in Beaton min repeat thelLord'e
rem.
defendant disappeared through the door of
an adjacent hall. There was a direct con-
flict in the statement of the principals on
the question as to which of ' the two was
the aggressor whether in using his walk-
ing stick the clergyman was employing it
to strike the, plaintiff while the latter was
• guarding his head from the blows with his
bends, or whether the plaintiff was attempt-
ing to strike with his hands and. the
defendant was only ming his stick for the
purpese et warding off the blows of Welsh's
fists. The jury found a verdiot for plaintiff
with $25 damages. Full costs were allowed.
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A.atoUNG HAND.
Twelve-vcaroold Girl Eollawlog in Vic-
toria,* Footsteps.. •
A Boston deepitteh' (34.13 A 12:year-old
girl, of Framiugham, on Friday packed a
valise with diamonds and bonds te the
amount of 11751000 belonging to her mother,
a wealthy lady, and started for Boston to
meet a young man and 'elope with him. She
was arrested and the valuables recovered.
The girPs name is Sadie Robinson. She
is a daughter of C. E. ,Robinson. Her mind
has been 'filled with noneeneical ideas about
runaway 'marriages. She said Friday
morning she took the valise when she went
to aohool in Boston and gave it to a woman.
She told a blood -curdling story of having.
her life threatened' unless she complied
with, her demand for money. She saidshe
met the woman in Albanystation, and.gave
her the valise contateing the ..valuables.
The valise and valuables were recovered in
a drug store where .Sadie had left them,
promising to call for them to -day. She
confessed she loved a young man whose
name she refused to give, and had taken
thei'fwiththahe intention of eloping. •
'THE BRUSSELS mos
Parade the eltrectit on the Anniversary
of the Itcyaution ot 1t430. '
A last (Tueslay) night's Brussels despatch
Bays: To -day is the anniversary of the
revolution of 1830. Veterans paraded and
deposited wreaths on the monument of
the revolution. The populace made a great
demonstration against the Government at
the monument. One of the veterans said,
"Our ancestors fought to make Belga=
free. She 18 no longer so. Belgians will
never. be Ronntniste." Dense orowde fol-
lowed the processione singing 44 Braba-
[tonne " and iMarseillaise." Two Republi.
can editor) Were arrested, The gendarmes
dispersed the crowd, which colleoted in
front of the office of Le Patriot. The polioe
seized a quentity of Republican and Sooialiet
pamphlets.
Cholera still remains in the-tural -dies
triets of Soothern France. Setae fifteen
new villagee have been vaited during the
week. Over half of them are in the
Pyrenees Orientate. • In the larger °Hies
there have been Maly oecaelenal deaths. In
Italy up to date the deaths number 6,328,
a thousand and more than the total for
France. Probably a toolath will elapse
before the disease is mastered or ib
burns belt oat, .rurther ravages in the
[Mueller cities may be expeeted. In Spain
there be been a total of atle death&
SIX 1..CPPLA OBIRINIAN
An insane Widow Leaps Overboard On
Nearing Port with Her Children.
When the Hamburg steamer Hanimonia
landed her steerage passengers at Castle
game' on Saturday six little children, the
oldest a girl of twelve and the youngest a
baby of lees than two years, stood huddled
together in the crowded rotunda crying
bitterly. Tlee little ones were orphans,
and had been made so by the Insane act of
their mother, who threw heron into the
Flea from the deok of the steamer while it
was approaching New York on Wednesday
last. The woman was Atm. Ludwille Karl,
She was a widowasherahueband having
recently died -and a native of Kemenel,
Bohemia. She was coming to this country
with her children to join her husbandet
brother, who lives in Chitago, and who had
advanced money to pay the passage, the
widow being in destitute circumstance& It
is supposed that the poor woman's trou-
bles affeoted her mind, and that in a
moment of insanity she left her birth on
the steamer on Wedneeeay night and
jumped overboard. There was no witness
of the aot, but some of her clothing was
found on the deck. The brother in Chi-
cago was telegraphed to by Superintendent
Jackson. If he will receive and care for
the little orphans they will beoent to him.
Otherwise the COMMISSiOnerS of Emigres
tion will be obliged • to end them back to
Europe as paupeOmmigrants.
BLVEISEARD CHAMBER.
Gluistly Discovery in the Clelltir ot it
Prati4tut-Motel4Leeper
The Premien police believe that America,
is harboring at this moment a wholesale
murderer whose many crimes have bat
been brought to light. His name is Sievert,
and he wae until recently the proprietor
of a public -house known as the. ()ruche
Hotel, at Iturzig, in Pomerania. Heats a
ehoemaker by trade, and is a tall, muscular
moan with a florid complexion and Yellow
hair. A few weeks' ago Sievert sold out
his hotel and left Pomerania. 'The new
landlord took possession recently, and on
searching the premises was horrified at
finding six corpses, in various stages of
decomposition, concealed in a oellar. • The
bodies -were- all of men,, and all had evis
dently been murdered at different times.
They have all peen identified ae the retaahas
of travelling mane:lints who had been tem.'
porary lodgers in Sievert's tavern and who
had mysterioustfdisappeared. They lived
at varietal remote portions of the kingdom,
and there has been hitherto no Olue to the
fate of either of them. It is now evident
that they were murdered for their money
by Sievert. and concealed in the cellar 'Mgt
the aseassin"liemene alarmed and sold his
place, stipulating that the purchaser should
not take possession until a certain time.
The police claim to have positive informa-
tion that Sievert has fled to America, and
detectivee will ba i3ent to iamb for him.
Illero-ot-the-Itoehies.--
._ Long before Horace• Greeley had made,
him famouscHenk Monk was a hero amoug
the heroes of the PROifil. coast. He was,
perhape, the first man to use the short
double-barrelled shotgun, whieh Vela-
Farge's messengers made famous in their
bloody battles with stage robbers. The
aote are Hank Monk was math a reckless
river that, while every one was proud of
the honor of. having once crossed the Sier-
ras with him, no treasure messenger was
willing to make a regular thing, of it. For
it was universally conceded that it was only
a question of time ,wheo :rteuik 'Monk, and
now famous "Tally -ho" stage along with
the six homer), would be tumbled from tbe
heights into one of the innumerahle gorges
that lay yawning under his narrow span of
road around the mountain peaks. It wat
•the ingenuity of Blank that introduced the
[short double-barrelled shotgun. But he
did not carry it under his cloak, with meek
lifted and finger on trigger. Nothing Of that
sort; hie hands were too full of the ten or a
dozen reins for that. He eimply had the gun
pointed down, on the side of his leg, with
the muzzle just peeping through the sole of
his heavy boots. And no one wee per-
mitted to know of the. presence of this arm
at all. It was known that he =rad his
bowie knife down the back of his neck eo
as to be in easy rem& when he pushed bath
his broad hat to get a good leek at his
enemy; but the now famous shotgun no
the knew anything about; tios not even
after he had twice been attacked and had
thrice beaten off the robbers. I am told
that the first time he wad this weapon he
stepped the stage, and was slowly handing
down the treasure box to the leader, when,
getting hie leg in range, he emptied a load
of buckshot into the robber's heart. A
second shot into the crowd of surprised
robbers and he dashed away with all his
desperate speed down the mountain. And
even then no one knew who fired the shots.
The robbers believed it wan all the work of
the paseengere inside the stage.-Jhaquin
Miller in the Philadelphia Press.
•
. The •Duke ot suttheriand"s Palestine
• Canal •
An interesting map is now being • pre-
pared at Mr. Stanford's for the Duke of
Sutherland, on whioh is shown in great
elaboration the configuration of the country
through vehioh it is propelled to form a ship
canal from Mount Carmel to the Red Sea.
This map is 'mainly based on the surveys
by Prof. Hull and Col.' Colville, and will
exhibit lime of equal attitude at intervals
of 200 feet,of absolute height. From the
map when completed 'it ie prop:ad to con-
struct a model in rouiot whi h will be
enclosedin sides of plate glees up to the
level of the highest mountain peak, and
made watertight. Water will then be,
introduced, and, being drawn off by Ups
till the level of the Mediterranean is
reached, it will be at once apparent what
will be the magnitude of the great inland
sea, extending from the waters of Mtrom
to the desert of Arabia Peartea, Whith
would be formed by letting the Medi-
terranean flow into the valley of th,e Jor-
dan. A fine undertaking, surely! But
what will the explothre any to the sub-
mersion of Jericho and Capernauna, add
half the famous althea!f both the Testa-
ments 2 -Pall Mall Gazette.
• .
Jznin
MoAuhrit, the evangelist • who died
at New York on Thursday, and was buried ,
yesterday, was a shining example of the
possibility of reform. He had been it river
pirate, a prize fighter, and a highway tob-
ber, and yet he, emerged frone Sing Bing
prison glorfying in his religious conversion,
and burning to tioW the seeds of the gospel
among the brutalized men and women with
whose life hie femme associations had
made him familiar. His zeal and uriflag.
ging energy in thist work put to shame some
who we -ad -have
shrunk from laboring at his aide ha the•
oause of religion. He undoubtedly Lamm.
pliabed much good, yet the best lesson
Jewry McAuley taught was that even in the
most depraved human hearts there exists at
the bottom a spring Of reotitade which
only needs to be touched to exhibit its
virtues. •
deepateh trete London dates that
England ie sounding Germany and the
United Statee on mediation ip China.
P A.LutaNE.
CHAPTER 1.
IN DARKNESS AND IN JAIME%
I have a reason for writing this tale, or iti.
would not become public property.
(incein a moment of confidenceti made
a friend' acquainted with sortie curium oir-
=metes:toes connected with one period of
my life. X believe I. told hint to hold hie
tongue about them -he Bays not. Any
bray, he told another friend, with embel-
lishments 1 suspect ; this friend told
another, and BO on and On. What the tale,
grew to at last I shall probably never learn;
but since I was weak enough to trust my
private affairs to another I have been
looked upon by my neighbors RS a man
with a history -one who has a romance
bidden away beneath an outwardly pro-
Baicloirifeee.
Fyeelf 1 hould not trouble about
this. 1 ehould laugh at the garbled versions
of my story set floating about by my own
indisoretion.„ It woulamatter little to mo.
that one pee Weed has an idea that I was
once it Communist mid a member of the
inner oirole of a secret society -that
another bus heard that I have been tried
on it capital charge -that another knows I
was at one time a. Roman Catholic, on
whose behalf a special rairaole was per -
termed. If I were alone in the world and
young, I dare say I ehould take no steps to
still these idle rumors. Indeed, very young
men feel flattered by•being made objects of
ouriOsiti and [speculations ' •
Tifil am not every young, noram-1
alone. There ia one who, is dearer to me
than life itself. One frora whose heart, X
am glad to say, every Shadow left by the
pato; is rapidly fading -one 'who only
wishes to live her true, sweet life without
mystery or • ooimealrdentsawiehes to be
thought neither better nor worse than the
really is. It is the who shrinks from the
strangeand absurd reports which are ily-
ima about as to our antecedents -she wno
is vexed by those leading miestions soute-
tiuioC
athed by inquieitive friends and it is
Lor ter sake ehat I look up old journal), call
beoh old memories ot jqy and grief, and tell
every one who cares to read, all he can
possibly wish to knew, and; it raay be, more
than 'he has aright to- knote, of our lives, -This
done, my, lips are. healed 'forever OS the
subject. My tale is here -let the inquisi-
tive take his anewer from it; not from me.
Pethape, after all, I write this for my
owu sake as well. I also hate mysteries.
One mystery which I have never been able
to determine may have given me a dislike
to everything which will not admit of an
easy explanation.
To begin I muskgo back more years than
I care to enumerate; although I could, if
necassary, Axabe day and the year. 1 was
young, just past twenty-five. I was rich,
having when. I came of age succeeded -to an
ineorae of about two thousand it year; an
Moome which, being drawn from funds, I
-wasatblestoteettjoy-withouteresponsibilitiese.
or anxiety as to its stability and endurance.
Alteough .sinde my twenty-first birthday I
had been my own master I had no extravaa
gent follies to weigh inc down, no debts to
hamper me. I was without bodily aohe or
pain; yet 1 turned again and again on my
.pillow and said; that my life for the future
would be little more than a curse to me.
-
Had- death juitt.Sobbed 'mc. of one Who
was dear to ine 2 No; the only ones I had
over loved, any father and mother, had died
years ago. Were my ravine those peon -
Her' to • an unhappy lover? No; my eyes
had. not -yet looked with passion into a
WOM&O'S eyes -and now mould never "do so.
Neither Death nor Love made my lot them
the most miserable in the world.
•-I•waifeyoung, rich, free as the winct. to
followany own devices. I ootild. leave Eng-
land to-nmerow and visit the most beauti-
ful placers on the earth those places I had
longed and deteriadneil to eee. Now. I
knew I [should never s see them, and I
groaned in anguish at theahought. My
limbs were strong. I could bear fatigue
and •expoeure. I could'hold my own with the
best walkers and the' Emitted runners. The
.thase, the Eport, the trial.of endurances had
never been too long or too arduous for Me-
t palmed my left hand over My tight arm
and felt the muscles firm as of old. Yet' I
was as helplese as Samson in his captivity.
For,. even as Samson, I was blind I
Blind! Who but thevie-tint cen even
faintly •comprehend the significance of that,
word? 'Who • oan read this and gauge the
alepth of any anguish aS I turned and turned
on any pillow and thought of the fifty year)
of darkness which might be mine -a thought
which made me wish that when I fell asleep
it might' be to wake no more? ••
Blind 1 • After hovering around me for
years the demon of darkness , had at last
laid his hand upon me. After letting me, •
for a while, almost (Meat myself into
security, he had swept down upon. me,
folded me itt hie sable wings and blighted
my life. Fair forms, sweet sights, bright
colors, gay scenes, mine no naore 1 He
claimed them all, leaving me darkness,
darkness, ever derknese 1 Far better to
die, and, it may be, wake in a new world of
light-" Better, I" I cried •in • my despair,
"better even the dull red glare of , Hades
than the,darknees of the world l" ,
This last gloomy thought of mine shows
the state of Mind to- which I was reduced.
The truth is that, in spite of hope held
out to me, I' had resolved to be hopelees.
For years I had felt that my fee was lying
in wait for me. Often -When gazing= sone°
beautiful objeot, some fair Beene, the right
to enjoy which- made one fully appreeiate
the„gift of sight, at whisper seemed to reach
niy ear-" Some day I will strike again,
then it will be all over." I tried to laugh at
my fears, but ciould never quite get ridof.
the presentiment of evil. My enemy had
ettuth once, Why not again?
Well I can remember his first appear-
ance,hie iirkt attack. I remember a light-
hearted. soltoolboy so" engrossed in sport
and 'study that he scarcely notioed how
strangely dim the eight of one eye was get-
ting, or the , curious 'change which was
taking plisoe in it appearance. I remora;
her the boy's father taking him to London,
to it large dell -looking house in a (inlet, dull
street. • I -remember our waitingad a room
in whiela were several other people; moot
of whom had shades or bandages over their
eyee. Such a doleful gathering ib was that I
felt much relieved when we were conducted
to another room in which sat a kind, pleas-
ant -spoken man, called by. my father Mr.
Jay. This eminent man, after applying
something which 1 kuow now was bella-
donna to my eyes and which had the effect
or a abort time of wonertulIy inaproving
my sight, peered into my eyes by the aid
of strong .lenees and mirrore-1 remember
at the time wiehing mime, of thew lenses
were mine -what eplend burning glasses
they would make! TuentePlaced me with
my beck to the wiudow and hold a lighted
candle before my face. All these proceedings
seemed so tunny that I was half inclined
to laugh. My father's grave, anxious face
alone reetrabied me from so doing. AS
Boon as Mr. Jay had finished his retharoht
bo turned to my father-.
,.nota the candle afi X held it. Let it
thine into the right eye first. New, Mr
Vaughan, what de you see? How many
candles 1 mean 7"
"Three -the 0110 in the untie email atal
brightbut upside down."
" Yea I now try the other eye. How
many there ?"
My father locked long and carefully:
"1 can oely the oue," he toad, "the
large one."
14 This is celled tee catoptrie test, an olds
fashioned but infallible test, now &Imola
superseded. The boy lb mitering from len-,
tinter cataract."
This terribly bounding name took away
all my with to laugh. I glanced at my
father and was surprosed to notice hie te-00
wearing an exprateion of relief.
"That may he oured by an operation,"
he said.
Certainly ;,1)14_ iv MY. judgmontatitte,
not well to meddle, se long as the other
eye remains unaffected."
Is there danger ?"
" There is always danger of the disease
appearing in the sound eye; but, of course,
it may not happen. Come to me at the•
first sign of suoh it thing. Good morning."
The great specialist bowed ue oat, and 1
returned to my school life, troubling little
about the matter, aa it caused me no Pains
and, although in less than a twelvemonth
the eight of one eye was completely
obscured, I could see well enough for every
purpose with the remaining one.
But I remerabered every word of that
diagnosis, although it was years before I
recognized the importance of it. It was
only when compelled by aeoident to wear
for some days a bandage over my sound
eye that I realized the danger in which 1•
stood, and from, that moment felt that a.
Merciless foe watt ever waiting his time.
And now the,, time had come. In the
-arab staY--enaltheetdr-With-allethat
One wild wish for at my -command, the foe
had struck again. • .
,He came •ueon me swiftly -far nuke
swiftly than is, his custom ha such oaths .
yetit was king before I would believe the
worst -long before I would , confess to
myself •thak my failing:slight and the ..
increasing -fogginess of everything Ilooked
at were due tu moke than temporary weak
nese. I was hundreds of miles from home,
in a ,country where travelling is slow. A..
Weed being with roe I had no wish to make
myself as ouisence by cutting our expedi-
tion short. feo I said nothing for weelm,
although at the end of each week my heart •
sink at the fresh and fearful advances made
by the foe: At last, being unable to bear it,
sorin fact conceal it longer, I made known .
my condition to my comrade,. We turned •
our faces homeward, and by the time Lon-
don was reached and the long journey at
an end, everything to me was blurred,
dim and obscured. I could just see, that
was all! • •
I flew to the eminent oculist's. He was
out of town. Had been ill, even at the
point of death. He would not be back for
two inonthe, nor would he see any patient
until his health was quite restored.
I had pinned any faith upon this man.
No doubt there was a skilful ' oculist in .
London, Paris, or other oapitals ; but it
wasmy fancy.that, if I was to be savedvI
could onlyebasandly kir Jays,Dying-men----e•
are allowed their whims; even the felon
about to be hanged can choose his own breakfast, so 1 -ltd on undoubted right to
*Moose my own surgeon: I resolved to wait
iil darkneses until Mr. Jay returned to Isis
duties. . • •
was f eolith. I had better have treated
my self he other clever hands. •Before:
month was over. I.hati. lost all lope, and at '
ahe toad a six -Weeks I ' was aimost
dis-
traoted. Blind, blind, bland! I should be '
blind' forever Bo entirely had I led '-
heart that I began to' think -I would not ,
have the operation performed at all. -Why
fly against fate ? Forthe rata of my life I
was doomed to daikness. ' The subtlest'
skill, the most delicate hand, the most
modern appliandeiewould never restore the
light Math lost. . For ' me the world was
at an end. ,. • • • . ,
Now that you know the cause, can you
not imagine me, after. weeks of darkness,
broken in spirit, and, as I lay sleepless that '
night, almost wishing that the alternative
refused by Job -to curse God and die-.
were mine 2 If You are unable to realize
my coAdition, read the above to any one
who has lost ha sight. He will tell you
what his feelings were when the calamity
,first came upon him. He Will understand
the depth of my woe 1
1 was not left entirely alone in my trou-
ble. 'Like, Job, I had comforters ; but,
unlike Eliphuz • and company, they were
good-hearted fellows, who [voice with cheer- .
ful conviction as to the certitinty of my
recovery. I was not go grateful for these
visite as I should have been. I hated the '.
thought of any one seeing:me in my help-
less condition. Dayby day my frame of
mind grew more and more desponding and
morbid. -,
•• My best friend of ale was a bumble one.;
Priscilla Drew, an old and trusted servant •
of my mother's. She had known me from
'earlieet Childhood. When' I returned to '
England I could not bear the thought of ,
trueting my helpless aelf entirely to
stranger's care, so I wrote to her and beg-
ged her to some to me. • I could at -least
greed and lament before her without feel-
ing shame. She came, wept over me for it
while, and then, like it Blamable woman,
bestirred herself th do all she could to miti-
gate the hardness of nay lot. t3he found
oomfortable lodgings, installed her trouble-
some charge there'd, and day and night
was ever at his beak and call. Even now, ,
ae I lay awake and tossing in mental
anguish, she wee sleeping on an extemporized
'bed just outeide the folding doore, which .
opened from my bed -mons to the Fitting -
sluggish air which crept in through the open
mom. • ,
Ib was a stifling ttight in August. The
window made little perceptible difference
in the temperature of my room. Every
thing seemed !still, hot and•dark. The only '
sound I could home was the regular breath-
ing of the sleeper behind' the door, which
she had left en inch or two ajar in order
that she Might catch my faintesb call. I
had gone early to bed.. What had I to wait
up for now? It' was [sleep and sleep alone
which brought forgetfulneee, but to -night
sleep refused to come to me. I struck my
repeater. X had bought"' one ia order that
might, at Iciest, know the time. The
little bell told the it was just past 1 o'olocls.
Cravipg for sleep •I [sighed and flank back
upon my pillow. ,
(To be continued.)
Mr. John Motley is about to contribute to
the eerieof "Englishmen of Letters," of
which ho is editor, it sketoh of John Stuart
Mill, A literary judge, of high Conserve-
tive tenth:3'00as, has been stopping with
Mr. Freud() at a setteide resort, with a
vieof preparing a sketch of darlyle for
the same eerie& Swinburne is reading
the pro* of a new batch of songs (sidled
4 A Midsumnar Holiday."
Xt is reported that Prince Bismarok Will
°Oat the Prince of Wales at Abergeldie
Castle, •
It is expeoted that the three Emperers
will iStill0 &Joint letter shortly affirming the
pacific character Of theaate meeting.
Rev. Dr. Newraait Hall, of LondOn,
preached to a large congregation at Mount
Vernon Church, Boston, yesterday nativn.
ing, and in Tremont Temple in the aftere
no= and evening,