The Brussels Post, 1894-6-22, Page 2THE DEAN AND IIIS T 1E r
CHAPTER XL
Things went on hi this way for severe
Weeks, it ma very well bay() been Rix or
seven or even more ; I will not really aa•
dertake to gay, I know, however, that I
had heard Prem Sir henry several times.
''With ahortrhan4 clerks et hie diepoeal, his
tendency to be prolix grew upon him, and
I actually believe that the tedious lettere
he gent me were rough draft of despatches
afterwards toned down, mellowed and
varnished for the Foreign Office.
I used to road them, having nothing much
else to do, and dutifully to acknowledge
them and answer any questions they might
contain. And in a dull methodtoal kind of
Way folded them up and docketed them,
and put them away in a despatch•box. This
was really the only responsibility which
nay'merriane at this time entailed upon
me.
Mrs. Fortescue still stopped on, and
hewedno intention of going. She remind-
ed me of one of those funny little animals
which you see at the Aquarium—the her•
mit crab.
Mr. Hermit Crab has powerful claws,
and a well•armored chest, but the remain.
der of hiebody is hopelessly soft and unpro-
tected. So he fixes himself,tailfirst,Intosome
convenient shell—usually that of a deceased
Whelk, hiding his defenceless portion within
it, and boldly thrusting his mailed half out
at the door. When he is tired of his par.
tioular shell he gives it up for another, and
if he sees a smaller hermit than himself
with a more comfortable home, he promptly
lugs him out of it and takes possession
himself. This wee Mrs. Fortescue all over.
At present ehe had a shell that suited
her. But she was ready apy day to change
it for abetter. She had not even the com-
mon industry of the spider which constructs
its own web, or the caddie worm which
builds ite own house.
But on the other hand she was distinctly
amusing,and in many ways very useful. She
was a parasite, no doubt, but one of those
aroeud but Serge oboyt me (101'4 you,
Sorge 2" hearing And Merge, g hie name in the
leterregation, looked up with an ugly
kind ofrowl, fawned with los Mail, and,
in Obedience of the gesture sunk to heel,
and slouched along behind Ile. Hie manner
in ite canine fashion was so distinctly
belligerent as to almost make one foal
uncanny.
Presently, Ioannot tell how, T found Mr.
Sabine talking to ms in it low tone, but
earnestly and almost passionately. I knew
that I ought not to listen. I knew that I
ought to leave tum then and there, to seek
any refuge, to eecape from him under any
pretext. And yet I listened and 'let him
talk on.
I bad read before then how the serpent
fasoiuittee its prey, And how the snake
charmer in hie own turn asserts the ultimate
superiority of man of fascinating the ger.
pent, No one who has ever been in the
East doubts for a moment that certain
Hitidoos possess this particular skill, just
ae certain men --Van Amburgh, /Carter,
Bided, and Macoomo are born dump/eters,
before whom the savage basalt quails.
Now this man liad this particular kind of
power, whatever it may be and however ao.
quired. There was nothing supernatural in
it.
Van Amburgh would have laughed m
your face if you bad told him that he re-
lied upon anything beyond the power of
hie own nerves consciously exercised. So
it seemed to be with Mr. Sabine. He had
made up his mind to have his own way, he
took it, and he had it without the show of
a diepu te.
For myself I ought hardly to say that I
began to abandon all -idea of resistance to
his wishes ; for, to be exact, the very word
abandon implies quite as much a conscious
resolution as is involved in the act of laying
down your arms or hauling down your
fiat somehow found myself drifting, as a
sailing vessel will in a strong current when
there is not so much as a capful of wind
to fill her sails or give her the way to hold
to her helm.
I knew perfectly well what was going to
happen. I could see it all before me as
did Tennyson's "Lady of Shalott" when,
"Seeing all her own mischance with a
ghastly countenance she looked down to
Camelot."
Why should I trouble? Why weary
myself ? Destiny was stronger than I and
would work things out in its own way.
parasites that give no annoyance. On the, One evening, about the beginning of Nov -
contrary, she always had some happy Bug• ember—us a matter of fact it was the very
first day of that month—Mr. Sabine called
gestion as to how the day ought to be
spent. She took all the trouble of house-
keeping off my hands. She could guess
my humors, and new to a nicety when to
speak, and when to keep a tranquil and
golden silence.
And I think I may honestly say, that in
my case at any rate, she was exempt from
flattery, which is the besetting weakness
of parasites. If anything, she was frank,
and would even take me to task with such
justice that it was impossible to be angry,
and with such geniality and humor that it
was equally impossible not to be amused.
In fact, I really believe that she had
found me useful at the outset, and had
ended by liking me as it was her nature to
like anybody.
Mr. Sabine eoonbeoame a regular visitor.
There was no yachting at Brighton, he ex-
plained, because it was a lee ehore, and
harborless. The Brighton Harriers were
beneath contempt, the thing was a gallop
from first to last, withno hunting in it,
and if there was a check for more than ten
seconds, the hounds were lifted. It was
no more hunting than circus riding in
horsemanship.
For himself, he had long ago come to the
conclusion that one of thegreatest pleasures
in life is to do nothing in your way and at
your own time. And hsthus found sufficient
occupation.
When Mrs. Fortescue pressed him as to
how he dealt with nhe "wicked old enemy,"
and begged him with much coyness to teach
her his infallible secret of perpetual youth
and spirits, he answered cheerfully that he
feared the methods whioh ho employed were
beyond a lady's reach.
He used, he explained, to commence the
day with a plunge into the sea from the
bathing station under the end of the pier;
then he allowed the weather to guide him.
Sometimes he would play tennis; at others
he would go out with the fishing boats; at
others walk or ride on the downs. Some-
times he would drive tandem, a secret, he
added, which not even Americans had ever
mastered, although American gentlemen
were our equals in moet things, and our
betters in not a few.
Cricket, tandem, and tennis ; were all
peculiarly English. They all required
nerve, health, high animal spirits, and con.
eiderable patience and practice ; and it
was for this reason that he was so fond of
them.
Of course Mrs. Fortescue had nothing to
say in reply,
The least approach to common-sense was
always sufficient to neutralise her babble of
common -place. And Mr. Sabiee combined
the strongest common-sense with a humor
which, as he pleased, could be either genial
or exasperating. Mrs. Fortescue certainly
did not seem to find it genial.
Some few days later I was out alone, Mrs.
Forteeoue had got what she called a sick
headache. I turned on to the Parade and
was leisurely making my way towards
Hove, when I recognized a springy step be.
hind me, and the next moment Mr. Sabine
was at my side,
I was more than usually disposed to wel-
come him, for I was irritated out of meas-
urewith the Dean, with my husband and
I might almost say with the world gen or-
ally.
Mr. Sabine seemed to divine thie, and
almost majestically accommodated himself
to my humor
I remember he had with him an immense
hound almost as large as a oalf,andbrindled,
with white Leet and a white blaze on hie
cheat. I inquired about the monster, and
Mr. Sabine told me that it was a bear
hound from the kennels of the Czar at
Moscow, and that he had obtained it
through the Russian Ambassador at
Faris.
"Look et him," he said, as, half in play,
and hall by way of reminder towards good
behavior, ho gave the brute a gentle kick
in the ribs, "he will tackle a Russian bear
almost as big and as heavy as a dray horse,
and enjoy the businees into the bargain ; as
0 ouldtearhiethro t
lot a, man unarmed he would a
out in a moment.'
"A nice sorb of an animal to take about,"
I remarked.
"I have been warned once or twice," he
lk'oplied, "that it wee dangerous to have him
in the afternoon. It was five o'clock, and
twilight was past. Mrs. Fortescue was
indisposed, a bad eiek headache had con-
fined her to her room. Such, at all events
was her exouse ; although I believe that,
as a matter of fact, she was awaiting the
arrival of certain very special cosmetics
from town, for the fresh air of Brighton
tries the complexion terribly, as poor Mrs.
Skewton found out.
After we )tad some tea Mr. Sabine seg-
gested a stroll, and I gladly threw on a
heavy cloak and sallied out with him on to
the Parade. We sauntered down the King's
Road, and as we made our way along a
smart man in quiet navy blue and gold
buttons, with a broad gold band round his
cap, stepped forward, touched the peak of
hie cap, and fell beck again.
" I had quite forgotten to tell you," said
Mr. Sabine carelessly, "my yacht is lying
here, Would you care to nee her? We
can go on board for a few minutes."
We went down some battered old atone
steps and picked our way over the shingle
where a four -oared cutter was lying in
wait every man at his thwart and the cox-
swain in the stern,
In a moment we were off, and before I
knew it I wee on board the yacht. It was
so dark that I could make very little out ;
but I distinctly remember the quiet luxury
and comfort of the cabin, which was fitted
in dark walnut with deep crimson velvet
and gold and lit by swinging lamps most
carefully trimmed.
We seemed to have been expected. Any-
how, a steward, unordered, brought in a
variety of dainties worthy of the " Arabian
Nights," and 1 just remember tuoning riot
like a schoolgirl with a cup of chocolate,some
superb grapes thickly covered with their
own bloom and some little marvels of
French confectionary, all of which appeared
and disappeared.
Mr. Sabine having obtained my permis.
cion, by way of formality, to light a cigar,
and having accomplished the process sat-
isfactorily, removed it from his mouth and
gravely commenced .
"Suppose, Lady Craven, at this moment
you begun to hear the engines throb and to
feel the vessel vibrate, and found that we
had weighed anchor and were under steam
for the South ?"
I just hesitated for a moment. Then I
looked at him and said defiantly :
"Yon would never do such a thing.
You know ae'wellps I do that it would be
cowardly. And, whatever you are, you
are not a coward."
He seemed pleased and laughed merrily.
"No," he said, "it would be a very
cowardly thing to do and very treacherous.
I always prefer fair fight. It is utterly
untrue that all is fair in love and war. It
is not fair, for instance, to buy a man's
daughter at the price of kis debts, a. posit
tion, and an income. I value nothing
myself for which I have not fought. Look
there,"
He pointed to the cornice of the cabin,
and I saw in a small glass ease, grinning
through reeds and sedge, the head of an
Indian tiger. Beneath in a small case hung
a heavy hunting knife.
"I killed him with that," he said; "Hp.
ped him up, in fact, before he had time to
perform the same service for myself. Here
is one of his claws." And he detached
from his watch -chain an immense talon set
in 8 filagree of gold.
"And here, if the sight of it will nob
make you scream or faint, is the scar."
And he drew up his sleeve above the elbow.
There, clearly enough, ran down the whole
length of the arm a long, deep ecratoh,.
looking ae if some oruel steel hook had
dragged like a ploughshare through the
thigh.
I could nob help a little cry.
" Oh, no," he laughed, you need nob be
afraid of me, Lady Craven. I love you too
cdeoply not to respect you, and I have full
faith in my own star. Everything in this
world conies to the man who trustshimeelf,
whether his object be an embassy, ora pearl
beyond the price of empires. Come; let
me see you ashore."
He blew a shrill call' on a whistle and
offered me his arm up the companion. At
the eida of the veesel lay the long boat, and
after 0veryfew strong, sharp strokes her
was grindingonthe ehn le
bow w
g
on the beach and held
Hoe ran out luta
hand, pIn a second 1 wee by his side. We
Were exactly opposite the street leading to
Montpelier Read, and in Avery few mie.
eta I Wee at my own door,
Pit.1788EL$•PO 17.
"I deserve eomothing;" he said, with a
few leugb, "for my seledeniel In act Blip,
ping obi ae, if I reoolleot my triton Jaye
rightly, ,Taeon did. But 1 will not millet
myself upon yon to -night; I ellell try to
find you in to•morrew, Meantime I think
1 shall for 0000 in a way stroll round to the
club and haus a game of billiards. I feel
exactly in the nerve for it,"
I had taken off my right glove and
given him my hand. He caught my hend
end ,reieed itte his lips. The glove he
thrust into the breast of hie coat, and he
thou stood bareheaded in the street for ane
or two brief seconds mail the door had
aloaed upon no,
Mrs. Fortescue had heard that I was out.
Apparently the news had restored her, for
she had come down to the sitting-rnom and
was patiently awaiting my arrival.
"Where ori earth have yowl bean, dear
Miriam, at this unearthly hour, and in this
terrible weather?"
I looked her full in the face. "1 have.
been to and fro upon the earth, lure. Fort -
moue, something like Satan in the Book of
Job, who went about looking for an honest
man. 1, however, have been looking for an
honest woman, and, not finding her abroad,
have come home to yourself.!'
"You are joking, my dear," simpered
lire. Fortesoue, as a bright redpatoh burst
out upon each cheeltl;'blaeing luridly through
the powder and enamel.
"No, Mrs. Fortescue ; on the contrary, I
never was more in earnest in my life. And
now that I am home at last, and really very
tired with the Rea air, I think 1 shall go
straight to bed."
"Won't you have any dinner?"
I declined all creature comforts, and in
their place ordered an ample supply of hot
water to be taken up to my bed -room.
Then I eat for a while before the fire and
watched its ruins crumble away into bridges
and mounbaiu•passes, and ab lash I arose
with a superetitious,kind of shudder, and,
after a brief good -night to M'Ire. Fortescue,
made my way to my own room.
The day had thoroughly wearied me out,
and I was soon asleep. My sleep, however,
was disturbed by dreams, not so much
terrible as amusing.
Somehow or other we were all on board
the yacht together, and my father, in a
moment of abject depression from Bea -
sickness, had proposed to Mrs. Fortescue
and been accepted by her. And Sir Henry
was writing ceaseless despatches, and talk-
ing to everybody. And Mr. Sabine was
at the wheel, and I was seated close by
him.
And then the Rea and the sky together
turnedinto one glorious glimmer of slim
purple light. The waves fell. Our path lay
through great beds of water.lillioe, theetars
hung down from heaven, as if you could
reach out your hand and pluck them like
ripe fruit. And then, somehow, there stole
over me the sense rather than the sound
itself of dim far-off music, and my tired
eyelids closed on my tired eyes.
CHAPTER XII
One afternoon, about a fortnight later, I
was in the drawing•room, reading. It was
a dull day, and I was tear the fire, which
crackled cheerfully. The particular book
that interested me happened to be, by a
curious kind of coincidence, Eeckford'e
"Vethek,"
I had given orders that I was not at
home, so 1 was not troubled by a loud
knock at the door. Te my surprise, the
person who had knocked came etraight in,
straight up the staircase, threw open the
door and entered the room.
It was Sir Henry himself, and he was
obviously in a state of the most extreme
and violent excitement.
I rose to my feet and advanced to greet
him, bat be waved me back with both hie
hands, and I could see he was quivering
with emotion.
In a few seconds he sufficiently recovered
himself to sit down. I, for .my part, re-
mained standing, not to give myself any
advantage over him, bub simply in utter
bewilderment. ,
When he found speech at last, his utter.
an0e was slow and labored,. and I cannot
help admitting that I was seized with a
fear lest he should be taken suddenly with
a fit.
"I have heard everything," hu said, or
stammered out, "and I know everything.
Explanations and exousee are out of the
question. I have come down to -day,
against the express advice of my solicitors,
to let you know as much, and also to tell
you that in this world we shall never
meet again. I could wish it had been
otherwise. It is a sad ending to my
life, and it is absolute ruin to yours.
But we cannot undo what has been
done, I suppose—T know you never oared
for me ; but I had hoped you might learn,
at any rate, to like me. That hope is now
past, and ie only remains for both of us to
forget, if we can possibly do so." And
here the old man fairly broke down.
I was so astonished, that I could hardly
ask what he meant, and what had happened
to so agitate him.
"Don't pretend ignorance," he replied,
"you underetand me perfectly well. Heaven
knows this miserable business gives me
more pain than it does you. Your father
I do not suppose, will trouble himself.
But I have my own honor to guard, and
where that ie ooncerned, I am resolute and
immoveable."
Again I looked at him in blank bewilder-
ment.
"I do not euppose you will marry him,"
he proceeded. In fact, I am sure that he
will never merry you, and had never the
slightest intention of doing so, under any
conceivable set of nircumetancee, whatever
he may have led you to believe or suppose.
I may say good-bye, I cannot say God bless
you; but I hope that the remainder of your
life may he happy, and its end brighter
than that of mine, is now destined to lie."
Again I advanced towards him, and again
he motioned me away. Then ho passed
through the door, and I heard him descend
the stairs with slow stops and make his
way into the street From the window I
saw him get into afly, and motion the Sy
man to drive away.
I sat dawn for eome few minutes and
wondered ; itub my wonder did not help
me to any solution of the problem. Then I
hastily hurried on a bonnet and cloak, and
made my way down to the Parade, where I
walked slowly along, revolving the situation
and wondering dazedly what might come of
it.
Never, I suppose, could woman have felt
more helpless and isolated in this world.
My father, the Dean, was the frailest of all
broken reads. Jackson had evidently some-
how been making mischief for her own pur-
poses. Mr. Sables had gone to town, as I
knew. Mrs. Forteaene was the only soul
to whom 1 could turn ; and I had never
fanged for her so much •
as I did at that
minute.
As luck would have it I mob her within a
veryfew seconds he wee making her way
eve . She f3
homewarde aid quickened her pace as she
saw me.
"Why, Miriam, what le the matter with
yeti? You look ae if you bad aeon to host;
and I believe you are trembling. in feet,
On nes you aro, We cannot go to Mat,
ton'e with you looking like thea, Now just
eotne with me,"
She seized my arm, hurried me along for
some few yards, and thou 4regggecd me into
a ohomlete$bop, where she atimmeistered 0
compound whish ehe ordered utiheeiteting,
ly, One taetloee triliee at bhnes like tunes,
and I noticed that the eliamise seamed
amused at her professional knowledge,
We left the shop, and made the best of
our way home, Mrs, Forteeoue motioned
me to the sofa and said, "Lie down my
dear ohild, Then elle rang the bell sharply,
and inquired for Jackson.
Miss.Tack:inn had gena out, '
"+ That lo all right' laughed IVire. For,
teooue, as the door closed, Then she locked
the door itself, and gently and deftly
inserted her pocket.haudkerehief into the
key -hobo. Then ehe mune and eat clown on
the edge of the sofa by my tilde.
" Now,. my dear, I can. gueee pretty well
what' is doming ; but et the same time, I
am (lying to hear all about it from yourself
in your owu way. Of course, you have
heard from that old mummy, and he has
threatened all kinds of things."
" Sir Henry has been here," I replied.
" Whew 1" firs. Fortescue fairly whist-
led in her amazement, " I never knew such
a mummy so galvanized before. Come here
himself, has he? And did he condeecend to
articulate speech, or wee he diplomatic and
unintelligible ? Or de he tear lila wig, and
creak hie stays with emotion, genuine or
feigned ?"
" Not at all," I said. " None of these
thfnge. The matter is far more serious
than you think, and of that I am oon-
vinced. He was very deeply moved,
and evidently in earnest. Ile told me
that we should never meet again, and
that 1 was disgraced forever, that he had
left the whole matter to his solicitors, that
he should refuse to see me, and that he
should take no explenation or excuses."
"Oh, indeed," said Mrs Forteeoue, snap.
ping her lips • together smartly. "Oh,
indeed, what a vary big man to be sure 1
Almost too big to condescend to he Am,
bassador, even at SGPetersburg. Well, my
dear I should say for my part, if I were
you, that the whole thing was a lucky
riddance of bad rubbish, and should be
disposed to feel correspondingly thankful.
And is that really all?"
" That is all," I answered. " Surely it
is enough."
"Enough, my dear 'Miriam," said Mrs.
Fortecue. "Quite enough. I do not see
how thiige could possibly have turned out
better."
Thin was a novel view of the situation for
me, and Iwondered what it might mean.
" Look here, my dear," and the little
woman began to check off her points upon
her fingers. "You are rid of your father
for life, that is the first clear point you
have scored. You are rid of your husband,
who gays he is never coming bank. Mind
you keep him to that prontine. Well, that
is the second point. Yon have not a mag-
nificent but a very good income. You are
entirely your own mietrees, and of course
the old fellow cannot live for ever. What
there is to grizzle about I fail to eee."
"Sir Henry is going to divorce 'me," I
stammered out. ' I shall be disgraced for
ever," and here I fairly broke down.
" Divorce you!" cried Mrs. Fortesoue.
"Where are hoe proofs ? He can't go into
Court on his suspicions, you know. Sus.
picions go for nothing, even in diplomacy.
Where are his proofs?"
At this moment there was a knock at
the door. I held up my finger for silence,
and then quietly undid the lock. It wa,
the houaemeirf—a pleasant girl enough, too
honest to have been listening, and too
simple to have understood anything if she
had.
" What is it, Mary?" I asked.
"If you plaaee, my lady, Miss Jackson
has just gone away, my lady, and have
told me to tell your ladyship that her
wages is paid up to date, and that she'll
send for her boxes tomorrow morning."
Mrs. Ferteaeue looked at me and laughed.
"Voila lavipere dans les flours. That
woman was about as bad and treacherous
an egg as ever was batched into a basilisk
or cockatrice, or whatever you call it.
Now we know everything, my dear. 'Tell
a lie and stick to it, which is the eleventh
commandment with promise.' Dear me,
dear me, what fools we must have been !
Do you know Ireally feel, as if I should
like to have that wenn stabbed in the
hack, or tied up in a sack and thrown into
the 'sewers ; ter otherwise unpleasantly die -
posed of."
(TO lilt oo eT:NUSn,)
A Story of Future Wealth.
There is reason to hope that the world
may be greatly enriched through the results
of an important series of observations and
experiments now being carried on to deter-
tnine just how certain plants manage to
assimilate nitrogen from the atmosphere.
It has been discovered that such plants ae
peas, beans, and clovers have their roots
nvaded by myriads of minute organieme,
which may be either bacteria or parasitic
fungi.
These organisms in some unknown way
incite the planta to increased activity so
that they are able Lo assimilate free nitro.
gen from the atmosphere, and thereby to
supply, through their own subsequent de-
cay, an abundance of nitrates, nitrites,
ammonia, and other nitrogenous substances
to the soil. Efforts are being made to deter-
mine whether some other stimulus, beeidea
that furnished by the origanieme referred
to, may not be applied to plante which will
enable them still more effectually to aeeimi-
late nitrogen from the air for the ulimate
enrichment of the Boil. Tho importance of
these investigations may be judged from
the following statement made by Prof. H1
Marshall Ward, a leading authority on the
physiology of plants:
This question,be it emphatically stated,
promises to be of more importance to agri.
culture in the future than any legislation
as to prices, ate., that we oan conceive;
for if it turns out that the acquisition of
free nitrogen by the land, or what amounts
to the same thing, theptante growing on it,
can be economically promoted, the farmer
and !Greeter may have the control of
sources of real wealth not yet dreamt of."
Thus is seiene0 sometimes able greatly to
increase the bounty that nature bestows up-
on man.
Oddly Expressed.
Probably no nation in the world is so
much given to " Hibernicieme" as the
French,
A eign whioh .is not infrequently seen
over the doors of shops and reetaurants fn
Paris which are undergoing repairs and re.
furnishing is the following :
U T 01? RL'oridxlx0,
tl7A8En 01' A000 N
A apociels of ape, closely resembling the
African gorilla, has been diecoyered on the
Mosquito Coast, Nicaragua,
� A SLE SA.1 IB AT,
ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT TiiB
BUSY YANKEE.
Nefglinet9y Interest in IRR Weinge—flat,
ler$ of Moment ,and Wren 'l nihered
I?rOns We Deily iteeordh
The United States ranks gevenbh as a
naval power.
Portland, Orc„" is said to have 120
mthionairos.
Lowell makes 145,070 miles of cotton
elobh every year.
baOlsaalveofetoncotton; handles every year 700,000
Brooklyn le called the City of Cherches,
It hue over 300.
Troy,N, Y., makes ever$4,000,000worth
of etot•ee every year.
Cincinnati manufnotures every year
$230,000,000 worth of goods.
Hartford is said to be the richest city of
its population in America.
A bald eagle carried off a bottle of hair
restorer from Perryville, Pa.
The production of orangea,in Florida this
year ie estimated at 4,000,000 boxes.
Richmond, Va., has one cigarette factory
that manufaoburee 800,000,000 a year.
The inmates of the Kankakee insane
asylum have organized a baseball club.
President Tagalle, of the Big Four Rail-
road, once taught school for $11 a month,
Muskegon, ;1'Sich., is one of the world's
chief centres for the manufacture of toys.
Mrs. Mary nlayer, accused of poisoning
herquitted. husband at Racine, Wis., was ac -
St. Louis is a loading shoe manufacture
point, having 30 faohories making 7,000,000
a year.
Peter ,Tackeom the pugilist, as found a
oig lost brother in Boston in theperson of
amen Jackson.
Samuel W. Sharkey left Pittsburg on
April 1 en a trip around the world for a
wager of $10,000.
The old Jefferson Davie' mansion in Rich-
mond i to be used ae a museum for reline
of the Confoderaoy,
The Whitney Opera House Bleak on
Griswold Street, Detroit, sold to Stephen
Baldwin for $300,000.
Receivers for the Northern Pacific have
filed their report for March, showing an
increase in earnings.
The California Midwinter Fair will close
July 1. Ithasprovr a decided0ucoees
timeancially and otherwise:
Charles B. Elliott,, oily clerk of Green-
ville, Ohio, has confessed to the forgery of
city warrants in excess of $1,000,
Thomas Niles,one of the oldest book pub-
lishers in Boston, and a member of the firm
of Roberta Brothers, is dead.
The city of Cincinnati increased herpopu-
lation 15,000 the other day by the annex-
ation of five suburban villages.
The manufactures of St. Paul amount to
more than $80,000,000 a year. The city
was originally known as rig's Eyo.
Kansas City, Kae., is separated from
Kansas City, Selo., by the state line, which
rune through the middle of a street.
Salt Lake City was laid out when land
was worthless, the streets are wide, and
each has a rivulet running through it.
Large shipments of gold have had no ef-
fect on the money rates, National banks
have more money on hand than state banks.
Rev. William E. Shinn, arabidAmerican
Protective Association orator of Buffalo,
was requested to resign by his congrega-
tion.
There are 40,000 Hungarians of one sort
or another in New York, including 30,000
Hebrews from the Kingdom of Hungary.
Chief Justice Bleeekley, of the ,Supreme
Court of Georgia, who is 77 years old, has
become the father of a fifteen pound boy.
Henry Barnes, of Lawrence, Mass., is be-
lieved to be the oldest O i.dfellow in the
United States. He wait initiated in 1826.
More than 7,000,000 bales of cotton have
already been marketed, according to the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange statement.
There is an old French couple in New
York, neither of whom, after a residence of
forty years in Americo, can speak English.
Discovery hag been made that congress-
men have been drawing salaries for em-
ployes who do not exist and pocketing the
proceeds.
In an egg just broken for sae in the
family, Hamilton, Ohio, was found the eye
half of a needle, in which was a thread five
inches long.
Three sailors who plotted to kill all aha
officers of the barque Reaper, and who did
murder Mato Fitzgerald, are to be hanged
fn San Francisc
A Pybhian Uni
o.
versity is being built at
Gallatin, Tenn., for the education of chil-
dren of members of this order. It will cost
about $200,000,
The village trustees of Mancelona, Mioh•,
have adopted an ordinance forbidding any
one in town to own a billiard table, or to
play billiards or pool.
Nearly every charitable institution in
New York city, without distinction of race
or creed, is a beneficiary under the will of
the late Mr. Jesse Seligman.
JUNE 2 r 1894
A hospital oar, Raid to he the fist of los
kitt'd in the world, hoe been put into service
by the Central Ilailwey of New Jersey, and
etationod at Mauclt Chunk.
Available stooks of wheat in the United
Stator and Canada ares Bast of the Rooky
Mountains, 75,753,000 beehols; west of the
Rookies, 8,899,000 bushels,
The City Connell of El Paco, Texas, bag+
pasecd an ordinance forbiding women from
wearing on the streets of the oity what i
known ae a divided skirt.
The statue of Boujarniu ]I'ranklie whie
stood in front of the Electric building at th
World's Fair, hes been presented to t
"University of Pennsylvania.
The eetaago of Los Angeles, Cal. is
veyed sixteen miles out into the le
ocean, and there finds an exit thirty
below the si.rfsce of the Water,
Berry Barber, on old negro of T
hosoee claims bo poseese prophetic fi
nails:- One weep before any event of g
importance the nails on his left hand t
green.
There is ono business' man in New Y
who deals in nothing but celery, probe,
the' only man dealing exclusively in cel
in the United Statee, perhaps in the wor
Brooklyn: has eight miles of water Ir
where over 7300,000,000 are 'stored ev
year. It ie the fourth American city.
manufactures, producing over $180,000,0
a year.
A DESPERATE DEED.
A Trait p Sleets a Conductor on its
Grand 'trunk. ftallway,
A Jordan despatch says :--A serious
shooting affair occurred here on Monday'.
evening. Train 50, 79, loval freight, pulled
into the eiding at this plaoe to allow the.
Pacific Express to pass. Five tramps were
tealiag a ride on the local, and Conductor
Turner, who was in charge, attempted to
Tut them off, but they refused to leave.
he gang followed the conductor into the
caboose, where one of them drew a re-
volver and began firing, hitting Turnor in
the head once and twice in the shoulder.
Brakeman Lynch immediately gave the
alarm, and the tramps made off to the
woods half a mile east of the station. The
village constable was immediately summon-
ed by telephone, and be arranged a posse,
who started after the desperadoes. • The
posse surrounded the fugitives in Daniel
Honeberger's woods. The tramps began
firing at the sten as they advanced, and the
constable and his men returned the fire.
Seeing that the constable's party were not
tobe scared, they surrendered. A boy,
one of the party of tramps, identified the
man who shot Turner, The man with the
revolver gave the boy a gold ring as a bribe
to hold his tongue. The doctors think
Turner will recover.
KILLED, BY HAIL IN VIENNA.
A Dlgaalrorla Storni Devnahtlea 11te Par 10
Gardena,
A Vienna despatch says :—A violent hail
storm passedover this city this morning.
Within five minutes the parks and gardens
of the city ware devastated. Many persons
were seriously injured by the falling hall
atones and several are reported killed. The
atorin lasted fifteen minutes, The thermo.
meter dropped from 80 to 80 degrees in that
time. The hailstones fell in sheets and the
wind blew a hurricane. No such storm
has been known here since 1848. When the
atone broke several hundred artillery men
were drilling on Simmering Heath, The
horses bolted and several men were unseat-
ed and the guns passed over their bodies.
Three officers and 14 privates were injured.
The stones varied in eine between walnuts
and egge. They lay in masses all over the
street. Many oldroote collapsed under the
loads left by the storm. Gangs of men were
employed for hours after the storm in
shoveling the ice into carts and throwing ib
into the river- It is estimated that half a
million windows wore smashed. There are
known to have been three persons killed,
presumably by lightning. In some parts of
the country the crops were ruined. Many
laborers near Balaton Lake had their heads
cut by the hailstones.
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