Norwalk gazette, Friday, January 8, 1897 · page 11

 

 

 

 

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LIKE A LAVEROCK IN THE LlFT.

 

It’s we two, it’s we two, We we two for aye,
All the world and we two, and Heaven be our
stay. .
Like a laverock in the lift, sing, O bonny
bride!
' All. the world was Adam once, with Eve by

his side.

What‘s the world, my lass, my love—what can
it do? ,,

I am thine, and thou art mine; life is sweet
and new. _

If the world have miss’d the mark, let li
stand by,

For we two have gotten leave, and once more
we’ll try.

Like a laverock [in the lift, sing, O bonny
bride! '

It’s we two. it's we two, happy side by side.
Take a kiss from me, thy man. now the song

' .4 begins

All is made afresh for us, and the brave heart
wins.
‘ When the darker days come, and no sun will

shine
Thou shall dry my tears, lass, and I’ll dry

thine. , _ '
It's we two, it's we two, while the world s

away,

" Sitting by the golden sheaves on our wedding

a day.

DECEIT 0F DEVOTION.

'A good deal of water has flowed un-
der the bridge since then. I was a
novice at the Ec'ole des Beaux-Arts,
where I had arrived from my native
village, and as I necessarily received
a very meagre allowance from my pa.
rents I boarded at a modest “pension”
in a. quiet little street on the out-
skirts of Paris, at Montrouge.‘ The
meal hours were at noon and six
o’clock, and I soon remarked that
when those hours came around a big
bell, like the bell that announces the
suspension of work in a factory, was
set ringing. This puzzled me greatly,
for there was not a factory, or even a
workshop of any importance, in the
neighborhood. At length I discovered
that the ringing came from a miser-
able little dwelling—house opposite,
whence I had occasionally seen an
itinerant cutler issue and start on his
rounds, leading a sedate old horse that
was harnessed to a very small ped-
ler‘s cart, very much the worse for
wear. My curiosity'was aroused, and
one morning at luncheon, when the
hell rang, I questioned the boarding-
house keeper about it.

She gazed at me with indulgent pity,
and said: “Why, it announces the din-
ner hour of Rizel’s workmen, of
course.”

Rizel was the name printed on the
cart ot' the itinerant cutler. I con-
cluded that she was poking fun at me.

“Rizel's workmen!” I re—echoed,
with depreciating incredulity.

“I am not joking,” she went on se-
riously; “I said that it announced the
dinner hour of Rizel’s workmen, and
so it does. Hasn’t anybody told you
about it?”

“Of course not,” I remonstrated,
“otherwise I.should not have ques-
tioned you.”

-“Well, I will enlighten you,” she
said.

“About twenty years ago the Rizels
were master cutlers. Besides a shop
in the centre of Paris they had a fac-
tory and carried on a wholesale trade.
When their parents died the two sons,
John and Edward assumed control of
the business. Edward, the younger,
managed the shop, and John, who was

 

.far cleverer, managed the factory. He

was a very skillful workman, and
used to toil at the trade as hard as
any of his men, with whom he lived
ion=terms of the most cordial camara-
derie.

“The brothers were devotedly at—
tached to each other. There was nev-
er the slightest cloud between them.
What John decided upon Edward rati-
fied without question. They would
have died for each other. ., One day
when the question of marriage was
brought up by John, Edward ob-
served:

“ ‘va we both marry, our wives may
quarrel and cause trouble between us;
whereas, if only one of us takes to
himself a wife there can be neither
jealousy nor dispute, and nothing can
come between us. You are my senior,
marry if you wish to; I shall remain a
bachelor.’

“John would not at first entertain
such an argument, and asserted that
he would remain a bachelor. But be
counted without Cupid. Shortly after
the above conversation he fell madly
in love with a daughter of one of his
customers, and married her, after vain-
ly endeavoring to persuade his brother
to follow his example.

“It would, however, be impossible to
imagine a more united family. John’s
wife was a good, afiectionate little wo-
man, who adored her husband, and Ed-
ward loved her like a sister. _ .

“Suddenly their happiness was
turned to sorrow by a catastrophe
from which they have never recovered,
and probably never will. Eight months
after his wedding J ohn’s right eye was
destroyed by a steel splinter. This ac-
cident in itself was terrible enough,
but it was nothing to the terrible con-
sequences that followed. Notwithstand-
ing the care with which he was sur-
rounded, and everything that science
could do for him, after months of ter-
rible suffering, John became stone
blind. The operation necessitated by
the ablation of the injured “eye induced
complete, and incurable paralySis of
the optic nerves. ’

“John had been the very soul of the
business. Edward knew absolutely
nothing about the manufacturing part
of it; and even had he possessed suf-
licient initiative to assume direction of
the factory, his sister-in-law was too
crushed and broken by' her despair to
replace him in the shop. Moreover, the
money they had subceeded in saving
had largely melted in the hands of the
surgeons, physicians and druggists.
Edward, being unable to attend proper-
iy to the business, the 'latter went
from badto worse, and though he
made superhuman efforts to avert it,

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the final crash came, and they found
themselves reduced to penury.

“Yet during all the trouble, amid all
their sorrow and worry, while the edi-
fice built up‘with so much labor was
crumbling about their heads, Madame
Rizel and Edward never allowed the
blind man to know anything about it
Both were animated by the same no
ble anxiety—to make the sufferer be-
lieve that the business continued to
prosper.j While their creditors were
knocking at their door and they knew
that failure was inevitable, and that
poverty stared them in he face, they
choked back their sobs, and with tears
of anguish in their, eyes talked cheer-
fully about the activity of business and
the orders that were pouring in.

“And when all was over, when they
had been forced to give up the hope-
less struggle, and, the shop having
been sold, they came to live in yonder
house, after buying a horse and cal-1
with which to peddle cutlery in the sub-
urbs, they kept up, and continue to
keep up, the illusions of the blind manI
whom grief and suffering have con-
fined to a bed of pain, from which he
will soon be released by death. In
order to do this they reserved the old
factory bell, which now hangs in the
little garden in rear of the house.

“At noon and six o’clock in the even-
ing, the hours when the workmen
used to be rung out, the wife or
brother sets the bell a—ringing, and
John’s pale and wrinkled face lights
up with a feeble smile as he exclaims:

“ ‘Ah! there go the boys!”

“On New Year’s day, when the work-
men were accustomed to call in a body
and pay their respects to him my
husband and about a dozen of the
neighbors troop upstairs to shake
hands with him and drink to the ‘guv-
'ner’s health. And be thanks them and
calls them his dear comrades, and
chinks glasses to the success of the
firm.

“All! sir, it is sad enough to make
you cry your eyes out.”

This was the story told me by my
boarding-house keeper, and it has re-
mained graven on his mind as one of
the most beautiful examples of devo-
tcdness and charity of which I have
ever heard.

 

HIS UNMARRIED AUNT.
G bbon Owed the Best Pleasures of His
Life to This Friend.

Of Gibbon the historian it is written
that "the true mother of his mind was
.1 maiden aunt,” and as well, it is re-
rcrdml, that she was through his child-
llUL-ll the guardian of his health. In
uywreciation of her untiring devotion
and waichfulness he has expressed

himself in language of most affection-_

ate remelnberance.

“Many anxious and solitary days',”
says the grateful nephew, “did she con-
sume with patient trial of every mode
of relief and amusement; many sleep-
less nights did she sit by my, bedside
in trembling expectation that each
hour would be my. last.” _

As opportunities occurred, it was this
Aunt Catharine Porten who taught
him reading, writing, and arithmetic;
all of which, as he writes later in life,
“were acquired with such ease and
pleasure that~ no remembrances of
weariness or pain are associated with
these lessons of my youth.”

His mother, somewhat of a society
woman, and by nature, as the record
goes, “lacking in due consideration of
most important matters,” seems not to
have addressed herself to the needs of
her boy, the only survivor of a family
of children, and very fortunate it was
that this “dear unmarried aunt” de-
voted herself to the culture of his mind
and to the care of his health.

All through his school career, which
was entered upon" at the death of his
mother, when he was but ten years
old, young Gibbon kept up a hearty,
cheerful correspondence with his be-
loved relative, recounting progress un-
der different masters at different
schools of learning, jotting down
everyday details with a zest and fresh-
ness indicative of an earnest wish to
make her the sharer of all his joys,
sorrows, and aspirations, and regard-
ing no hour weariness that he could
fill with glimpses'of enjoyment for this
patient, loving, life-long friend.—_—Har-
per’s Bazaar.

Nothing Like Electricity.

New uses for electricity are constant-
ly being discovered. A fish dealer runs
a wire up through his' counter and
shoves it into a huge block of fish, and
then labels it “Electric fish.” Any one
curious enough to touch the fish with
his fingers receives a very perceptible
shock, which. convinces him that the
fish is correctly labelled.

Yesterday a local dealer in pickles,
who has a dozen varietieson display in
pans set on top of the difierent casks,
had a wire run along with. a little
branch of copper wire running, into
each pan. This charged the pickles so
that any one putting a finger in the pan

.to sample one received a smart shock.

Just whether this was intended to keep
people from sampling the pickles or
as a joke on those who intended to do
so, is not known; but after plltting a
finger near one pan no one attempted
to touch another. If one took up the
pan or put his hand on the pickles he

"received no noticeable shock, but the

sensitive end of a finger put near a
pickle received a rather unpleasant jar.
—Ol'egonian. ~

 

He Had Tried It. i

Hayseed—Where is the durn' gas-
light in my room? ,

Hotel Clerk—You will find the elec-
tric light near the window. -

Hayseed—Do you mean that old
fish hook in a glass case? ~;I turned
the crank and the fish hook got red
hot. Then I shut her off for fear it
might bust.—-Harper’s Bazar'.

THE CUBAN' nuclei
A Madrid Rumor That General Gomez '2
llay Shortly Surrender.

SENATOR MONEY MISSING.

It Is Thought, However, That He Is Safe.
Dissatisfaction In Spain Over Wey-
ler's Incompetence—Tho Steam-
er Bermuda at Bermuda.

MADRID, Jan. 5. ——Privatb telegrams re-
ceived here from Havana say that it is pos-
sible that Maximo Gomez and other influ-
ential Cubans will surrender to the Span-
ish authorities. '

News From Spanish Sources.

HAVANA, Jan. 5.—Governor Porua; the
secretary of the government, the Marquis
Palmerola; the chief of police, Senor Bar-
rera, and Police Inspector Perez visited
Guanabacoa and breakfasted with the ES-
culapius union and the military governor,
Fonsdeviela. The party afterward visited
the city council and the civil hospital.
They were satisfied with their inspection
of that building and admired the excellent
order maintained. The hospital is direct-
ed by the sisters of charity.

General ’Weyler has returned to Havana.

Mr. Walter B. Baker, the United States
consul at Sagua la Grande, arrived here
and is stopping at the Hotel Inglaterra.

Colonel Pintos, while reconnoitering in
the mountains of Limonar, has had a
brush with the insurgents, during which
eight of the latter were killed, among them
being three prefects. The troops also de—
stroyed three camps and prefectures, a
number of cultivated fields and burned a
multitude of bohios (huts).

Francicso Pacron, classed as a rebel in~
cendiary, was executed at Cabanas fortress
today.

General Melquizo, with the Valladolid
battalion, has reconnoitered and surprised
an insurgent camp at Jugua, killing three
insurgents. "

Detachments from the column reconnai-

Rincon de Isabel, Lena Cruz, San Joaquin
and Pinar, burning over 400 huts and de-
stroying everything likely to afford food
to the insurgents or their horses.

South of the hills of Lajas and Pilotos

his follov'vers.

Senator Elect H. D. Money of Missis-
sippi, a member of the house committee
on foreign affairs. is missing from the Ho-_
tel Inglaterra, where he put up on his ar-
rival here. It is believed, however, that

American newspaper men have also locat-
ed themselves.

Unrest In Spain.
LONDON, Jan. 5.—The correspondent at

is becoming impatient at the unaccount-
able inactivity of the executive in Cuba,
which is inexplicable, considering the favor-
ing circumstances—the opportune death
of Macao, the breakdown of the attempt to
induce the United States government to
adopt an active policy and the consequent

rope in favor of Spain.
to one or two crying evils. Either the
home government is deplorably lacking in
initiative or the .military chiefs in Cuba
are incapable and unworthy of confidence.
Perhaps there is a little of both. Anyway
public opinion is unanimous regarding the
latter.

“Private advices reveal that a. state of
maladministration is prevailing in the is-
land of a most scandalous character. Even
the government organs do not altogether
deny this and say nothing of the Liberal
papers which are being prosecuted for de-
manding reforms in the administration in
Cuba. This prosecution is an ominous sign
and a dangerous action on the part of the
government while public feeling is as it is.
Possibly Senor Canovas’ decision as to the
reforms in Puerto Rico is a. tacit recogni-
tion that he cannot longer run counter to
public opinion."

A dispatch from Madrid says that, owing
to the government’s prosecution of the Im-
parcial, Heraldo and Correspondencia,
those papers have agreed to withdraw their
correspondents from Havana. '

It is understood that Senors Canovas del
Castillo and Sagasta opposed the proposal
for a temporary coalition ministry to settle
the Cuban question.

Correspondent Delgado’s Plight.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-—The state depart-
ment has been informed that Henry Del-
gado, t New York Mail and Express cor-
respon out, now under arrest in a Spanish
prison near Havana, is likely to die un-
less a surgical operation is performed upon

 

him. The Mail and Express, believing
that the Spanish authorities, while not dis-
posed to have this operation performed
themselves, will permit it if the expense is
met by Delgado, has offered to meet the
charges if the state department will secure
the permission. The department has ad-
vised the publisher of the paper to com-

municate directly with Consul General Lee ,

. on the subject.

In Prison Four Days.
NEW YORK, Jan. 5. —-Professor A. do
Bion. arrived per steamer Seguranca today
from Havana. He says he was arrested in

, Guanabacao and confined in police head-

 

quarters as a suspect. He says he had but
just returned from- Key West, whither he
had gone from Havana three days previous-
ly to meet a friend. He was confined in a
cell withcllt chair or bed for four days,
when he was released without any explana-
tiion other than that a mistake had been
made. Professor de Bion‘ isa Frenchman.
His family lives in Brooklyn. He has
been 12 years in the tobacco businessin
Cuba. He is not an American citizen".

The Bermuda at Bermuda.-

ST. GEORGE, Island of Bermuda, Jan 5.
—-The British steamer Bermuda, Captain
Scott, alleged to be a. Cuban filibuster,
which left New Yerk on Dec. 31, passing
out of Sandy Hook at about 11 o’clock on,
the morning of that day, arrived here to-
day. Under ordinary circumstances the
Bermuda should have‘ reached here in
about three days, but she was .24 hours
late, probably owing to fog and rough
weather. It would not have been possible
for her- to land a filibustering expedition
on the coast of Cuba in the interval be-
tween her lcaving. New York and her ar-
rival here.

[Representative Low's Views.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-—Representative
Philip B. Low (Rep., N. 55‘.) arrived in
Washington today. In speaking of the Cu-
ban situotion in congress hesaid: “I have
promised on the stump and Off that as a
member of congress Iwould do everything
in my power to - bring about American
prosperity and welfare. In the light of

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this promise I cannot contribute to the up
setting of business and the prolongation of
uncertainty by voting for the Cameron
resolution, should it ever reach the house
of representatives, or anything like it. ”

The Commodore Disaster.

J ACKSONVILLE. Fla, Jan 5. Nothing
further has been heard from the eight miss~
ing men of the steamer Commodore, al-
though Cubans here still have hopes that
the survivors will be picked up. The four
men who landed at Port Orange Sunday
morning were Major Julio Rodiquez Baz,
Manuel Gonzalez, Louis Sierra Medorar
and Jesus Alvarez, all Cubans. Captain
Murphy and others will reach Jacksonville
soon, when a thorough investigation will
be made. .

ORUSOE’S ISLAND.

 

a comma SUNK

Filibester Steamer and Her Cargo at
the Bottom of the Sea.

ALL on BOARD WERE SAVED.

The Ova-loaded Vessel Began to Leah,
and Her Pumps Refused to Work—A
Rumor to the Effect That There
Was Treachery on Board.

t

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. 4.—-The fili-
buster steamer Commodore, which has

 

of Captain Powles Disproved.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5.—-The story pub-
lished upon authority of Captain Powles
of the British ship James Kerr relative to
the disappearance of the island of Juan
Fernandez is untrue. Chilean papers un~
der date of Nov. 30 gave accounts of the
results of a scientific expedition recently
dispatched to Juan Fernandez. Further:
more, a large cannery for packing lobsters
is established at Cumberland bay, and the
last steamer from New York carried to
Valparaiso from Panama 3. quantity of
material for this cannery.

The Chilean government is sending some
30 families to the island as colonists and
fishermen to develop the piscatorial re-
sources of its surrounding waters. Every
month a schooner plies between Valparaiso
and Cumberland bay, so that communica-
tion has been made with the settlement
since its alleged disappearance.

The Powles yarn originated during the
early part of 1896, when a series of heavy
earthquake shocks occurred on the main-

i land of Chile. Another British vessel at
that time sailed into Valparaiso with the
news that when passing Juan Fernandez a
, column of smoke had been seen, and the
:7 ship received a violent shock. The captain
' thought the Selkirk island had been swal-
lowed up.

 

tered the hills of Capiazo, Arroyo de Agua, ‘

the troops surprised the camp of Ranchu- .
elo, the insurgent leader, killing three of i

he has gone to Matanzas, where two

Madrid of The Times says: “The country 1

reaction of‘ public opinion throughout Eu- :
All of this points '

The Chilean maritime oflicials sent the
transport Casma to the island, and she re-
turned in three days with a large consign-
ment of lobsters. This afforded conclusive
proof of the existence of land.

Connecticut Business Review.

NEW HAVEN, Jan. 5. —The report of
Bradstreet’s shows that the total number
. of business failures during 1896 in Con-
necticut was 280, as compared with 225 in
1895:“ The total assets were $905,730, as
compared with $1,010,424 in 1895; liabili-
ties, S2,189,450, as compared with 32,425,<
750 in 1895. During 1896 incompetence is
assigned as cause for 89 of the failures, in-
experience for 29, lack of capital for 94,
unwise credits for 26, extravagance for 1,
neglect for 3, disaster for 18 and fraud for
20.
The Tollgate Riots In Kentucky.
. VANCEBURG, Ky., Jan. 5.—Owing to the
, recent disturbances and the threats of the
organizations against tollgates, Judge
Garrison H. Hillis announces an extra.
term of court on Monday, Jan. 11, to de-
vise plans by which the tollgates can be
! legally diSpOsed Of instead of being de-
stroyed by mobs. Most of the stockhold-
ers have agreed to assign their holdings in
the roads to the courts.

 

The Angonis Routed.

LONDON, Jan. 5. —Advices received here
from Blantyre, the mission town of' Brit-
ish South Africa, announce that the Brit-
ish force sent last month against the An-
goni Zulus under Chief Chikusi, who had
invaded southwest N yassaland and burned
a British mission station, besides mas-
Sacring the inhabitants of a number of
villages, has routed the Angonis, with
heavy loss. ' .

An English Crop Review".

LONDON, Jan. 5.-,The Mark Lane Ex-
press, reviewing the crop situation today,
says: ‘ ‘ 'The usual increase of cold in J an-
uary will not be unwelcome to agriculture.
On the continent the outlook is satisfac-
tory. Rains have fallen in Australia, but
too late to be of any use, except in Tas-
mania.”

 

Steamer Creole Sails.

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—-The Cromwell line
steamer Creole, which was in collision
with the Wilson lino steamer Hindoo in
the lower bay Saturday afternoon, and
which has since been at anchor on account
of the fog, passed out at Sandy Hook to-
day on her Way to New Orleans.

Deadlock In the Idaho Legislature.

BOISE CITY, Jan. 5.—-The Populists and
Democrats are in a deadlock over the or-
ganization of the legislature. The Demo-
crats demand the speaker and control of
all of the important committees. The leg-
islature met at noon today, and the new
state officers were installed.

The French Elections.

PARIS, Jan. E.—The official return of
the results of elections held yesterday to
replace one third of the members of the
senate whose terms are expiring show
that 69 Republicans, 18 Radicals, 3 So-
cialist-Radicals and 12 Reactionists have
been elected.

The Blue Cut Robbery.

KAI'SAS CITY, Jan. 5.—-The detectives
working on the Blue out train robbery
case today brought in another suspect, ar-
rested near Glendale, and whom they claim
was with John Kennedy, the leader of the
gang, now under arrest, on the night 0
the robbery.” .

Mr. Bliss Invited to Canton.

NEW YORK, Jan. 4.—-The Hon. Corne-
lius N. Bliss, treasurer’of °the Republican

mentioned as Mr. McKinley’s secretary of
_the navy, has been requested to visit Mr.
McKinley at Canton. .
The ISO—rhbuy Plague.

. BOMBAY, Jan. 4.-—Business is utterly
paralyzed owing to the spread of the
plague. The volunteer artillery is assist-
ing the overworked health officers in com~
bating the disease.

 

 

Baroness Hirsch’s Gift.

PARIS, Jan. eq—Baroness Hirsch has
sent to the Pasteur institute $80,000. A
portion of this money will be used for the
purpose of erecting biological and chemical
laboratories. ‘

Rubber Works to Resume.

BRISTOL, R. I., Jan. 4.—'-'I'he works of
the National India Rubber company here,
which have been shut down for several
weeks, will start up tomorrow on full time.

Ex-Pay Inspector Guild Dead.

BOSTON, J an. aim—Charles Fox Guild, re.
tired pay inspectOr, U. S. N., here, is dead,
aged 55 years. . .

 

 

Death of Father Joseph.
PARIS, Jan. 4.'——Father‘Joseph,ihead of
the Christian brothers, is dead.

 

 

national committee and most prominently p

landed successfully in Cuba several large

The Place Is Still In Existence—The Yarn 1 consignments of arms and munitions of
I war for the patriots, has gone to the bot-

tom'oif Mosquito inlet, on the coast of

, The Commodore left Jacksonville on
, Thursday night, having been cleared by

the customs authorities to carry a cargo of
I arms and ammunition to the port of Nuc-
vitas, Cuba.

Yesterday she was found stuck in the
mud three miles below the city. She'was
pulled 011‘ the 'shoal by the United States
revenue cutter Boutwell, which conveyed
her-safely across St. John’s bar. -

It seems that the Commodore was over-
loaded at the start, mainly with coal, and
that she come near oapsizing While cross-
ing St. J ohn’s bar.

Yesterday Captain Murphy was astound-
ed to discover the hold full of water. , He
immediately set the crew to work bailing
with buckets and started up the steam
pumps, but to no purpose.

Left to Her Doom.

The water rapidly gained and finally ex-
tinguished the fires while the vessel was
yet a long distance from the shore. It was
then imperative that the men should take
to the boats, which they did, leaving the
ill fated Commodore to her doom.

The Commodore’s-papers show that Cap-
tain Edward Murphy is master of the ves-
sel, and that Frank P. Grain is first mate,
Felix de los Rios second mate, James Red-
ding chief engineer, Ed B. Ritter assistant
engineer.

The crew is as follows: ,Franco Blanco,
C. B. Montgomery, Paul E. F. Rojo, Julio
Rodbar, Ramon Hernandez, J. Hernan-
dez, William Higgins, Jose Fernandez,
Murray Nobles, Manuel Gonzales, Miguel
Fernandez, Jose Alvarez, Buenafestusa
Singy, Emelio Masquis, Joseph Dehancy,
Gravier Marbury. Modesto Leon, Santiago
Diaz, Luis Surra, P. D. Pernercousi, W.
A. G. Smith, R. A. Delgado and Stephen
Crane, the novelist.

The first boat to land was one contain-
ing Delgado. Paul Rojo, Franco'Blanco
and nine others, who reached New Smyrna
in safety and immediately wired to Jack-
sonville requesting the dispatch of the
Three Friends to assist the Commodore,
l which they hoped might still be afloat.
5 The owners of the Three Friends here
a wired to the secretary of the treasury ask-
: ing permission to send their boat to the
rescue, but received no reply. .

All on Board Saved.

Later in the day another telegram was
received stating that Captain Murphy,
‘ with Stephen Crane and 14 other men, who‘
had taken to the other boat, had landed
safely at Ormond, 20 miles above New
Smyrna, and that the Commodore was a
total loss. - ‘

This information, which is incontro-
vertable, has greatly disheartened the Cu-
bans in this city, who had hoped great
things for their cause from the result of
this expedition.

The point at which the Commodore
went down is said to be about 15 miles off
the coast of Florida, approximately 100
miles belowthe St. John’s bar.

There seems to have been no difficulty
in saving the lives of all on board. It is
said that Captain Murphy had been warn-
ed by rivermen before leaving , J ackson-
ville that the Commodore could not stand
the heavy cargo of coal with which she was
loaded, being old and constructed of wood,
but that he ‘paid no attention to these
warnings. ' .

There are vague rumors afloat of treach-
ery, but these can be traced to'no substan-
tial foundation.

'l Florida.

 

More Weyler Edicts.

HAVANA, Jan. 4.-—General chler has
issued from his camp at Bayete two edicts?
hearing date of yesterday.- One of them
prohibits the storage or sale of hardware,
saddlery, clothing, provisions or medicines
in unfortifled towns.

It also absolutely prohibits the re-.
moval of such goods from the towns in the
provinces of Pinar del Rio, Havana and
Mil-tanzas without a military permit.

It is ordered that eight days after the
date of the edict all stores in unprotected
villages and hamlets must be closed and
their goods removed to stronger places.
This applies also to stores on unfortified
sugar estates in the provinces of Santa
Clara, Puerto Principe and Santiago de
Cuba. Those persons who violate the edict
will be considered insurgent sympathizers
and will be tried as such.

The other edict orders the formation of
zones of cultivation around the towns and
allots for the cultivation of vegetables,
etc., a piece of ground free of charge to
each family concentrated in the towns un-
der previous edicts. .

These persons will be allowed to hold
the land free of all charges for six months

pressed. An exception is made, however,
in the case of those families which have a
brother or b usband in the insurgent ranks.
To these no land will be allotted.

Our Navy to Aid Spain. .

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Increased vigi-
lance in the filibuster patrol along the
Florida coast is to be exhibited by the
government, and no effort is to be spared
to prevent the violation of neutrality. Not
only have orders for the return north of
the cruiser Newark at Key West been
countermanded, but orders have been is-
sued for the dispatch boat Dolphin, here-
tofore utilized wholly as an executive
yacht, to proceed to the Florida coast at
once. As soon as she can be made ready
the dynamite gun‘boat Vesuvius will be
sent to supplement the naval and revenue
cutter force, and if necessary the torpedo
boats Cushing and Ericsson will speedily
follow them. All these vessels are admira-
bly adapted to the work, particularly the
torpedo vessels, which can enter all the
lagoons and cruise among the keys.

Can't Keep Maceo Dead.

HAVANA, Jan. 4.-—It is again positively
asserted in many quarters here that Maceo
is still alive. It is sold that he is delirious
and that his jaw is i raken, but that he is
in no danger of death. it is said that he
is attended by llr. Pancho Domenguez and
.that as soon as the way is clear Maceo will
be placed aboard a verisel bound for New
York. when ‘ will have a better chance
to recuperate. - - ’

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urinal-Is EAlLl-r Ar CHARTER.

Attorney General McCormick Reluctantly
Concludes That It Cannot. Be Attacked.

HARRISnURG, Jan. 4.-—A ttorney Gen
eral McCormick has announced in a formal
opinion that the commonwealth cannot
successfully attack the charter of the
Reading Railway company, which will
operate the Reading Railway company
and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron company. He arrives at this con-
clusion after a careful examination of the
charter of the Excelsior Enterprise com-
pany, which subsequently changed its
name to the National company, and which
is now the Reading Railway company.
The attorney general decides that the com}
pany held meetings and transacted busi-
ness previous to the adoption of the con-
stitution of 1874 and that it has since
held meetings annually.

In conclusion the attorney general says:
“After due consideration I reach the con-
clusion most reluctantly that the common-
wealth of Pennsylvania cannot now suc-
cessfully attack the charteri i rights of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railway com-
pany, at least the rights of such a nature
and character ashad been exercised by the
corporation prior to J an. 1, 1874. My
view of the whole matter is that the char-
ter of the company authorized it to do the
kind of business in which it engaged prior
to January, 1874, which business was of
the same general character as that in
which it proposes to engage for the pur-
pose of controlling the stocks of the rail-
way company and the coal and iron com-
pany. -

“'1 Le 'wisdom of the framers of the cons
stitution of 1874 in denying to the legisla~
ture the power to grant special charters
becomes painfully apparent in considera-
tion of the manifold powers granted by
the charter of the Reading company, and
the only consolation of the present ques-
tion is that they are not responsible for it. ”

HEB. AGONY SCARED HIM.

Nellie Drank the Poison and Died, but Her
Sweetheart \Voakened.

CHICAGO, Jan. 4.—Because their parents
thought them too young to marry, Nellie
Uren, 1-9 years of age, and Obhie Health,
one year younger, decided to commit sui-
cide. The girl killed herself by drinking
carbolic acid, butthe nerve of the youth
failed him at the last minute, and he stood
by and watched his sweetheart die. The
young couple visited a down town thea-
ter, and after the performance they walk—
ed the streets discussing their troubles.

Late in the night they decided that the
time to die had come and entered the coal-
shed of Adolph Christensen, which is
fully 12 miles from the theater where they
had been earlier in the night. Here they
passed the bottle of acid back and forth
several times, neither having the courage
to drink.

Finally the girl drank half of it, and as
.soon as she felt the efi'ects of the acid she
begged young Health not to drink it, and
he began making efforts for her relief.
She died within a few hours, however.
Health said he intended to drink, but the
sight of the girl’s agony was too much for
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THE BANSHBE WAILBD. ”’

And Then the Bogollde'anI-ted Toward
the Lakes of Killarney.

LONDON, Jan. 4,—The weirdness of the
bogslide into the lakes of Killarney, which
is the-sensation of the day, is enhanced by
a story that about a week ago uncanny
noises were heard in the valley at night-
time, which the peasants of that vicinity
describe as resembling the wailings of a
banshee. .

These sounds, it appears, aroused a feel.
ing of terror, and numbers of the peasants
consulted their priests, who endeavored to
reassure them. The subsequent calamity,
however, caused universal consternation
among the peasantry, who are seemingly
convinced that there was some supernat-
ural connection between the two adults.

In the meanwhile a great mass of hog,
covering 700 acres behind the portion
which has already slipped into the lakes,
has begun to slide, and people are in dread
of a still more terrible avalanche, .

 

National Coast Defense; ;
TAMPA, Fla, Jan. 4.—The‘ meeting
called for Jan. 20 in this city to organize

a national coast dofensu and naval reserve ,

association will be a. very important one.
Replies from the governors of all states
and commercial organizations in every
important city to Governor Mitchell indi-
Cate that there will be a large attendance.
Chicago will be well represented. At this
meeting two representatives from each
state will be chosen as members of the as-
sociation, one prominent civilian and a.
member of the naval reserve. Secretary
Herbert has ordered a man of-war to Tam<
pa for the occasion.

”The ASSets “'ill Shrink.

CHICAGO, Jan. 4.——The Security Title
and Trust company, receiver for E. B.
Dreyer & Co., bankers, who were involved
in the failure of the National Bank of Illi-
nois, has made a report showing resources
of $1,595,692 and liabilities of $1,484, 433.
It is certain, however, that the assets will
shrink when an attempt is madeto realize
and that the concern will not pay dollar
for dollar.

Fatal Fooling.

BOSTON, Jan. 4. —-William Blanchard,
aged 16 years, was accidentally shot in the
woods about Chebacco lake while fooling
over a gun with Edward May, 17 years
old, yesterday. Blanchard died while be-
ing taken to the hospital. The boys were
out hunting, and according to May’s story,
began to fool, the gun being discharged,
the ball piercing Blanchard’s forehead. '

Peace Assured In Peru.

LIMA, Peru, via Galveston. Jan. 4.—
The reviews by the Peruvian press of the
past year generally cOmplimen‘t the hon
esty of the government of President Pierc-
la. It is asserted that peace has been firm-
ly secured and that plenty of capital can
now be obtained for the purposes of legiti-
mate business.

Bram Guilty of llInrder.
BOSTON, Jan. 4.—After more than .24
hours’ deliberation the jury in the case of
Thomas M. Bram, charged with the mur-
der of Captain Charles I. Nash of the
barkentine Herbert Fuller on the high seas
July 13, 1896, returned a verdict of guilty.

England's Growing Navy. .
LONDON, Jan. 4.—It is stated that the
British admiralty intends to introducea
new class of torpedo destroyers of a. mini-
mum speed of 33 knots. Twenty vessels.
it seems, will be ordered immediately of
this class. '
Sugar Thrown Overboard.
S'i'iiT'l'l", .7231 -’-.—-The British steamer
Lord chgh, which sailed yesterday-for
Philadelphia, grounded outside of this
port. Several thousand bags of sugar were

 

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