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SENSATION IN A CHURCH.
Catholic Cliftdrnn of St. L.oul to b
Kept Out ofllio Public Schools.
St. Louis dispatch: Tho Rev. Father
James McCaffrey, of St. Patrick Catholic
church, in this city, created i ensation
Monday morning by announcing from tha
pulpit that the Catholicchildrenof his par
ish who attend tho public schools will here
nfter be barred from the celebration of tha
holy communion. "What I mean is," said
tho priest when questioned, "that we hava
no time to prepare children who attend
public schools for their ilrst communion.
Vo liavo a largo school hero and nil tho
teachers necessary. We can teach every
child that is brought to us, and no one can
Ret away on tho plea of poverty, for we will
teach them free. They must bo taught in
the parish schools if they nre to become
Catholics. They are in no way prepared to
receive tho sacrament in tho public
schools. Now wo don't propose to per
mit our children to attend tho pub
lic schools and then come hero and get a
apocial preparation for their communion.
The children who go to public schools aro
not fit to receive their first communion.
They havo received no religious training at
nil, and what I say now is that they shall
not bo given their first communion in this
church." Vicar General Brady has been
appealed to, and seems to side with Father
McCaffrey. Father Joyce, a leading priest,
says: "wo aro doing all that wo can to
prevontour children from going to the pub
lic Bchools. This evil is great. There is a
largo number in every parish in St. Louis.
Tho ovil is not confined to St. Louis. It Is
in every largo city of tha country. Tha
Catholic clergy must do everything they
can to ovcrcomo it. Wo must educate our
own children. They aro educated in tha
public schools merely as an animal would
be educated. Their aoula aro not attended
to."
THE POLITICAL WOULD.
Tho Colorado republicans nominated
Hon. Samuel II. Elbert, of Denver, for
judge of the supremo court. Resolutions
were adopted indorsing tho resolutions of
the Denver silver convention of last Janu
ary; denouncing tho importation of con
tract labor; favoring arbitration in labor
troubles, and demanding a strict enforce
ment of tho civil servico laws. ISx-Secrc-tary
Teller mndo a speech advocating tho
unlimited coinngo of silver and defended
his administration of the interior depart
ment. In the Dakota constitutional convention
blanks of election in tho form provided by
the schedule report, were filled in with tho
names of the stato executive committee.
Tho convention then took a half hour's
recess for tho republican members to hold
n caucus to decide upon putting a stato
ticket in tho field, and to elect county
boards. Hon. A. C. Millet, chairman of
tho territorial republican central commit
tee, was instructed to issuo a call for a
etato convention for tho purpose of nomi
nating a state ticket.
In tho New York democratic stato con
vention Roswell 1. Flower wns nominated
by acclamation for lieutenant governor;
Frederick Cook, of Rochester, wns nomi
nated on tho first ballot for secretary of
6tate; A. A. Chapin, present incumbent,
wns renominated by acclamation for
comptroller; Dennis O'Brien, present attor
ney general, was renominated; Lawrunco J.
Fitzgerald, of Cleveland, was nominated
for stato treasurer by acclamation; Nathan
Sweet, of Albany, wns renominated for
etato engineer and surveyor.
The Special Delivery System.
The post uiiihter general is about to issuo
nn additional circular of instruction to
postmasters where tho special delivery ser
vice has been established. Among other
things tho eirctilnr will adviso postmasters
to impress upon the senders of letters bear
ing a special delivery stamp the necessity
of an accurato address, giving tho namo of
the street and number of houses wherever
practicable, or, failing in that respect, an
indication of tho business of tho person
addressed. This last precaution is deemed
necessary in small towns where no system
of numbering houses prevails, and where
thoro may bo two or moro individuals
bearing similar names. Tho public will
also bo reminded of tho advantngo to bo
derived from writing requests for returns
of non-delivered matter upon tho envelopes.
Chac-iiim Pasha, formerly Minister of
War in Egypt, lins been naturalized in
Italy, thus transferring his immense
property, generally supposed to belong
to tho dissoluto ex-Khedive, to tho pro
tection of that power. Thero is great
disgust in oilicial circles at Cairo over
this pieco of sharp practico, and tho
Khedive has emphasized his wrath by
degrading Chnchiin and forbidding his
return to Egypt.
1 Ho that has no charity merits no
'mercy.
A century plant The burial of a
oentnnnrian
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CONFEDERATE BATTERY.
n
Tho Hoy Cannoneer of Klrliiuoml.
Tho Pnrker Bnttery (Confederate)
Association, of Richmond, Va., have
made n pood selection of a historian.
The battery was largely composed of
boys, who required written permission
from their parents to enlist. It was
organized in tlie spring of 1SGL', and
after service, East and West, saw the
last of the war at Appomattox. Its
storv is given to the world in a book
in which the lights and shades of war
aro genuinely mingled. The realities
of fighting and marching with a bat
tery are doubtless as graphically pic
tured hero as in any volume to be
found. The author was not a seces
sionist, and his mother wept when
she saw tho Hag of the United States
hauled down in Richmond. Ho en
listed, however, because ho was a Vir
ginian, a distinction that in turn
would havo given trouble to tho
Southern Confederacy if it had suc
ceeded in its war for separation. The
boy battery had its baptism by fire
at tho second battle of Manassas,
where it waspostedin alineof eighteen
guns between Jackson and Longstreet.
The guns broke one of the most
dangerous of tho Union infantry
charges, that of Porter with about
five thousand men. The light at this
point lasted half an hour. Leo had
placed tho guns so thickly thero that
tho cannoneers almost elbowed each
other. "Every man wns at his post.
No talking; no ducking of heads. All
was intense- earnestness. Tho face
was flushed; the eyes full; and the arm
stronger than is wont. It was a strug
gle for life. It seemed that the very
lieavcns wero ablaze; or that two
clouds, surcharged with electricity
and wafted by opposing winds, had
met in terrific struggle."
The battery had several men wound
ed in that battle. At Antictam it
passed through a fearful ordeal, losing
twenty-ono'men in killed and wound
ed. When tho Confederate army fell
back across the PotomncatSheperds
town the author noticed General Leo
standing at tho ford giving directions
oven to teamsters. Soon nfter that
campaign tho-livingin the Confederate
army became less elaborate. Only
commissioned officers had servants.
Tho commissary issued littlo except
fresh beef.
The battery had but one man wound
ed at the battle of Fredericksburg.
During tho following winter, tho Con
federates had many amusements in
their winter-camp. The private
soldiers fought snow-ball battles; but
ono of their most relished diversions,
was to yell a: citizens in tall hats:
"Come down out of that tall hat, and
join the soldier-boys, and help whip
tho Yanks," was the cry. A hundred
voices would take up tho shout with
"conio down! como down! I know you
nro up there, 1 see your legs."
The author was captured, with
about a third ot his company, by
Sedgwick's charge at Chancellorsville.
Tho prisoners wero treated well, and
in three weeks, havingbeen exchanged,
wero back at tho front.
At Gettysburg, Parker's battery wns
among theseventy-iivoguns with which
Leo rained iron upon tho Union posi
tion as a prelude to Pickett's great
charge upon tho heights. Lee's artil
lery suffered heavily, during this bom
bardment, and expended nearly all
their amuninion. Parker's battery
nlono fired 1,1-12 rounds. Jts loss
was three killed, and ten wounded.
The retreat from Gettysburg was be
gun in torrents of rain, but Leo's army
was held well in hand, and pursuit of
it, even by fresh troops, could not
have been pushed rapidly.
When Longstreet was onlcred to
Georgia, Parker's Battery went with
the two divisions, but did not arrive
in time to tako part in the battle of
Chickamauga. The battery was post
ed on Lookout Mountain for a time.
A Union picket in front of them was
heard ono night to remark that
things went wrong at Chickamauga,
.but "as soon ns Longstreet goes away
we'll givo you tho d dest whipping
you over had in your Hie." The bat
tery moved with Longstreet to East
Tenncsseo, where the living was hard
and tho fighting without tangible re
sults. More than that, the Confeder
ates wero for tho first timo hostile.
Tho men of tho'region wero either hid
den in tho mountains or were in tho
Union army. Tho women wero spirit
ed, not to say saucy. During an en
gagement near Bean's Station a wom
an camo out of a house and ordered
tho Parker gunners to "move them
things out of my yard." At this mo
inent a gunner's leg wns struck by a
pieco of shell, and his pocket book
thrown out upon tho ground. He
said: "Well, I always thought tho
Yankees wero mighty smart, fellows,
but I didn't think thoy could pick a
fellow's pocket a milo off." It was
not considered safo for a Con
federate to sleep in nn East
Tennessee cabin about that time.
Tho bnttery returned to Leo on tho
Rnpidan and remained with him to
tho close of tho war. In tho Wilder
ness nrtillery could not bo used,
and tho battery was not engaged.
"During this campaign, when tho inces
sant fighting and marcliinghad truned
might into day, and wo had hardly
time to eat, wo wore joined by tho bat
talion of heavy infantry which had
been stationed for a long time in tho
defense lino of Richmond. Thoy had
seen no active service, and ono of our
boys nsked a privato of this battalion
how long thoy would stay with us.
'I don't know,' was tho sincere reply;
'but wo can't stny over Sunday any
how, for wo didn't bring any clean
clothes with us.' "
"Soon after tho bnttlo of Cold Har
bor, on tho ad of Juno, 1801, I saw
General Lee. He was riding slowly
past our battalion, which had halted
on tho roadside. He was apparently
in deop abstraction, his head slightly
bowed, and eyes seeming not to range
beyond his horse's mane. Ho himself
was probably thon in doubt as to tho
next movo of his groat antagonist.
Thoro was in tho battalion a simple
witted fellow nicknamed Possum.
U'his man planted himself in front of
General Lee, and, looking up into his
face, grinned and said, 'Howdy do,
dad?' General Lcc, rc&scd from his
reverie, looked up, and, in a kindly
sad voice, answered, 'Howdy do, my
ninn?' and rode on."
In the campaign around Petersburg
the Confederacy ordered out the last
reserves. They came in citizens'
clothes, and looked so rueful that
their presence was discouraging. Food
for me'i was scarce, and the horses
.gnawed the trees in their hunger nnd
died by hundreds. On the night of
April 2, 1805, the battery cautiously
moved away from the work it had
occupied solong, and plodded west in
the darkness along melancholy swamp
roads. In the morning it reached
Chesterfield Courthouse." Explosion's
in the rear told that Richmond had
fallen. After an hour's rest the bat
tery toiled on again. That night some
of the company was missing, and fhe
Captain made a speech urging bis men
to bo truo to tho last. Tho Union
cavalry swooped in like Cossacks here
and there in the retreating lines, tak
ing each time a few men and wagons,
niidnerhups a gun. In one of these
dashes the author was captured be
fore he or his comrades had a chance
to pull a lanyard.
This faithful little history abounds
in sentiment, descriptive passages and
anecdotes, as well as purely military
facts. Tho author, though not a
preacher, had a pious training, nnd
sometimes acted ascliaplain. Beforoa
battle soldiers often camo to
him to talk religion, and to
tell him they liad just been
converted. At Gettysburg, during a
lull m the firing, one of his battery com
rades informed him that he had felt a
spiritual change. Thero was a marked
reform in this convert "until wo were
pleasantly encamped somewhat re
mote from tho(enemy, but not longer.
Laugh as we may after tho war about
the noisy artillery, and how littlo it
was feared compared with tho cold
gleam of tho infantry bayonet and the
deadly whiz, of theminie, I confess that
to my ear there was something mourn
fully suggestive in the booming of can
non and shrieking of shell. The ininie
may hit, nnd the object of its wrath
may live to tell the tale; but when the
solfd shot or bursting shells find their
victim, it generally leaves him a disor
dered mass of quivering flesh."
Tho authorat theend is able to avow
his belief in the indestructability of the
right, and to say, "Perish the wrong,
whether hid beneath Southern gray or
Northern blue." Tho book has nine
heliotypo portraits of ofliccrs.
AUKELL'S STKANGE STOKY.
Going TliroujjH it Situ of l'lio Hut Not
Kllluil.
Saratoga Correspondence New York World.
One of tho most active of tho men
darting in and out of various con
ferences was W. J. Arkell, the pub
lisher of the Albany Journal, and a
new forco in Mohawk Valley politics.
Ho is very earnest in his advocacy of
tho claims of Joseph W. Drcxel. Mr.
Arkell, who is only .'J 1 years of age,
lias a mo4 remarkable history, lie
is tho son of Senator Arkell. Ho was
in his father's factory when he was 17
years of age, at the moment of a ter
rible gasoline explosion. Tho work
man who was with young Arkell was
blown out of sight." Not enough was
left of him to be gathered together for
identification. Young Arkell, who did
not lose consciousness, covered his
mouth and eyes and made a dash for
the door. Tho building in which this
explosion took place became filled
at once with a black smoke. The
boy butted his way with his
head through five doors, going
literally through fire. In this
passage ho became frightfully burned.
The time of the accident was winter.
When he finally reached the outer air
ho rolled in Hie snow and left in tho
jsnow the front and back of both his
hands and the covering of much of the
lower part of his face. Ho was burn
ed so hopelessly that the doctor for a
long timo despaired of him. Senator
Arkell, who was on ono of the upper
floors of tho building when tho explo
sion took place, escaped by dropping
from a window down a fall of twenty
five feet upon a strip of bare rock.
His son was in bed for two years.
His face was so badly burned that it
was impossible for the natural skin
to recover it. His hands wero equally
afllicted. Senator Arkell discovered
in his readings experiments in tho way
of transplanting skin from one per
son to another. Ho asked tho sur
geons in chnrgo of his son to try this
experiment. Tho result was ono of
tho most interesting known in tho
history of surgery. Upon tho face of
young Mr. Arkell thero wero trans
planted 850 pieces of skin from tha
arms of various peoplo. Tho result is
that his face was entirely built up, so
that to-day, while he bears very heavy
scars, ho yet looks very well consider
ing what lie- has been through. He
has indomitable courage and pluck,
and aspires t o a high position us a
publisher of nowspapers.
A Slerrti Arolcnno.
From tho Virginia City (Nov.) Chronicle
News reached Candelaria from
Bishop Creek that a volcano had burst
forth in tho mountains sixty miles
southwest of Bishop Creek. A party
of frightened aheap-herders rodo into
tho latter place. Thoy wero covered
with dust and nshosand had numorous
holes burned in their clothing. They i
reported that they wero startled by nn I
unusual rumbling noiso aud trembling
of tho ground. At first they mistook I
tho noiso nnd rumbling for thunder,
but it wns quickly followed by a tre
mendous oxplosion, and on looking up
they weronppnlled at seeing a mountain
not far away bolching forth a column
of flames and smoko several hundred
feot in hoight. Tho air was soon filled
with fiory cinders and hot ashes which
camo down upon them in clouds. I
Tho affrighted men immediately
drovo their sheop to a placo of safety
and rodo to tho nenrost sottlomont
with tho startling news. Several par
tios havo started from Candelaria and
Bishop Creek for tho sccno of tho erup
tion, which is near tho deserted town
of Mnmme,h, recently described in the
Chronicle. Tho bright pink glow ob-1
oft-able in the southwesternhoriou
tho past two nights doubtless lias bcin
caused by tho orupaiop.
SHERMAN'S 1MJOS13 rOKM
U
Anil How It lun llron Honilort-il Into
Vort.
IlKAIMJt- UtTKIt I'lPTKKNTII A it MY Coltl'8, 1
t'ninnon Wis HIaok Kiver.
Autnixt S, ISOtt. J
Hon. K. M. Stanton, Secretary of War.
Sin-. I take the liberty of asking
through yon that something be done
for a lad named Arion P. Howe, of
Waukogan, III., who belongs to tho
Fifty-lifth Illinois, but at present at
home wounded. 1 think he is too
young for West Point, but would be
the very thing for a midshipman.
When" tho assault at Vicksburgwas
nt its height, on tho 10th of May, and
I was hi front near the road which
formed my lino of attack, this young
lad came up to me, wounded and
bleeding, with a good healthy boy's
cry. "General Sherman, send some
cartridges to Col. Malmborg, the men
are nearly out." "What is the mat
ter, my boy?" "They shot me in tho
leg, sir: but I can go to the hospital.
Send the cartridges right away."
Even where we stood tho shot
fell thick, and I told him
to go to the rear at once, I would at
tend to tho cat ridges; and off ho limp
ed. Just before hu disappeared on
tho hill he turned, and called as loud
as he could "Calibre 51." I havo not
seen the lad since, and his colonel
(Malmborg) on inquiry, gives mo the
address ns above, and says ho is a
bright, intelligent boy, with a fair pre
liminary education.
What" arrested my nttcntion thon
was and what renewed my memory
of the fact now is that one so young,
carrying a mUsket ball through his leg,
should havo found his way to mo on
that fatal spot, and delivered his mes
sage, not forgetting tho very impor
tant part oven of the calibre of his
musket 51 which you know is an
unusual one.
I'll warrant that tho boy has in him
tho elements of the man, and I com
mend him to the Government 113 ono
worthy tho fostering care of somo
ono of its national institutions. I
am, with respect, your obedient ser
vant, V. T. SnnuMAN-,
Major General Commanding.
c.vi.THiti: vi rrv-Kouu.
"Say, General, payl" the courier snid
(A boy ot thirteen yearn),
"Our tvjiiiiiout'H Meant of powder and load;
MohI out, the Colonel fourn.
Tho men, they have held the ground, whilo I
Thin iiu'HtmKe swiftly bore.
Bo quick, and send 'em a fresh supply I
It'n a calibre lilty-four."
"Now you nre young," tho General snid,
"To run mj ntern a race;
Some older man inisht como inntond,
Through Mich n dangerous place."
'They couldn't be spared," the hoy began;
"I'm tho youngest of tho corps;
And ho but, hiiy, bo quick old man!
It'tt aealibro lifty-four."
"Now your hurt," tho General said;
"There's blood hero on your breast.
Go back to the rear and tako by bed,
Aud havo some needful rest."
"Not much!" said tho boy, with halt-hid
sneer;
"I can't bo spared no more;
Mv regiment's nowhere nigh the roar
it's calibre fUty four."
"Hut whoro'syourhorso?" tho Genoralsuid;
"Afoot you cannot bo?"
"Oh, a cannon ball toro off his hcail.
And didn't como far from me;
And bullets wurbled round, you bet
(Ono through my right nrin lore);
But I'm a home, and colt to letl
I'm calibro fifty-four."
"Your parents, boy?" tho Genoral said;
"Where nro they? dead it HceniH."
"Oh, they aro what tho world calln dead,
But come to mo in dreams;
They tell mo to bo brave nlwuy,'
Ah father wiw before.
Then mother kisses mo but, sayl
It's a calibro fifty-four."
"They'll booh bo hero," tho Goncral said,
"Those cartridges you claim;
My staff's host horso you'll ride, instead
Of that on which you camo."
Away tho boy, his spurs sharp sot,
Across tho Held of goro.
Still shouting back, "Now don't forgot! ,
It's calibre fifty-four."
Will Carleton in Harper's Weokly.
A Pow'fnl Lediiro on Tempcr-
I m ico.
From tho Foxboro Keportor.
i rM,., nr rwnwl 1 1 ,lw,.3 nnnnn r,l1 m n r,
and thootherayoungono. Thoyoung
ono took off his apron and started out
ot tho door.
"Yo'sgwan to got a drink, Jim?"
asked tho elder.
"Pat's what I's gwan to do."
"Go and git yo drink. I yoost tor
do de snmo ting when I wuz. young.
hen I wuz fust married (fall was a
gin-mill next door to tho shop wha' I
wucked, and I spent in it fifty and
sebenty cent's a day outon do dollnh
an' a half I calmed. Well, onomawnin'
I went into do butchah shop, and who
should como in but do man wat kep'
do likkor shop."
. "Gib me ten or twolvo pounds po'tor
houso steak,' ho said.
"Ho got it and went out. Isneakcd
up to do butchah and looked to sco
want monov I had lof.
"'What do you wan'?'" said tho
butchah.
"'Gib mo 10 cents wuf of libber,' wuz
my remark.
"it wuz ail Jcouiupaviur. rowyo
o nndgotyo' drink. You'll eatlibbor,
ut do man wat soils yo' do stuff will
havo his no'terhouso steak. Do man
behin' do bar eats po'teriionso-do
man in front eats libber. I ain't
(touched tho stud in thirty years, uir I
pm oatin' po'torhouso myself." .
Of tho seven Prosidonts who havo
hold tho office in tho last 28 years five
aro dead; two Hayos and Arthur
are alive; while of tho sovon candi
dates for tho difforont terms in thoso
28 years five Fremont, McClellan,
Jsoymour, Tilden and Hancock nro
nhvo, untl only two DJiUbu and
Greely aro dead.
AN IRISH .110.
A correspondent of tho Rockland
(Me.) Courier-Gazette visited Iroland
recently, nnd writes home in the fol
lowing amusing style:
"Can you direct mo to Mrs. Kelle
her's?'' 1 said, accosting a biuenrmed
woman, w ho had just picked up a bun
dle of baby that had rolled out of an
open door.
"Tich bcynnt, sir," she cheerfully
responded, unceremoniously lucking
the baby tinder one arm, that she
might the more freely " point with the
other.
On the corner of two streets oppo
site a public pump stood a small two
story structure, built of stone, of
coursik, unci plastered over with mor
tar of yellow hue. Above the door
appeared the name wo were searching
for. We pushed into a low, small
shop, whose stock intrude consisted
of baker's bread, milk, nnd otherstom
achic necessities, to which was added
the dispensing of such liquors ns the
thirsty population might lequiro and
pay for. Behind a sort of bar were
congregated a number of men and
women, whom I took to bo friends of
the house, ami ono of these, a stout
proportioned lady, with lnr hair
combed very closo about her head,
stepped forward and wanted to know
what we would have.
"Is this Mrs. Kelleher?" I asked.
(Instant attention on tho paitoi
tho people behind the bar.)
"It is, sir," she replied respectfully.
"Well," I continued, "can I find Mrs.
Mahoney here?"
(Attention of peoplo behind the bar
visibly increasing.)
"You cannot, sir," was tho reply,
in rather less of a brogue than wo had
yet enconn:ered.
"Mrs. Manny, the old country, pro
nunciation of Mahoney, M-s. Manny,
who is my cousin, sir, is. not living
here now, but ut Mr. Jones' tho con
stable's an' a dnivnt place it is, too.
Would ye bo afther wanting to see her,
sir?"
"Yevy much," Isaid.
(Peoplo behind tho bar getting al
most too impatient to wait. A bare
headed woman starts forward.)
"Plaze, sir," thobarchcaded woman
exclaimed, "I can run and fetch her."
"In how long a time?"
"Oh, sir, not above fifteen minutes
jist."
"All right," Isaid, "start alongnnd
tell her," I added, "that a gentleman
from America wants to see her who
comes direct from hen daughter No
rah." "What!" tho woman screamed,
while hereyes stood straight out from
her head, from No rah Manny?"
"Aye."
"Then sure," sho' exclaimed, whilo
her face stretched and wreathed with
joy, "its myself that won't bu gpno a
jilly."
And with that sho was off liko a
shot, whilo the peoplo behind tho bar
have by this time fairly exploded with
excitement. As wo started out tho
door the propriotoross hailed ns.
"Houldon, gentlemen, hould on!"
sho called, while sho made speed to get
through the littlo half-door leading
behind I ho bar and for which sho was
a very snug lit.
"She's going to hug you," whispered
the judge, as he stooped; and faith I
though sho was but sho stooped on
the very verge of- that demonstra
tion, and fervently ejaculated:
"An' sure you don't mean to say
that Norah is after living at sorvico
wid yor own blessed self?"
"Sho certainly is," I replied with a
North American smile.
"Tho likes of that!" shecried, look
ing alternately from mo to tho now
completely petrified observers behind
the bar. "Well, its right glad hermoth
er w:ll bo to meet yez!"
Hereupon, after several intorchangcM
of liko remarks, tho judge and I passed
out, promising to return directly, which
promise, after a short walk along tho
narrow, crooked streets, wo fulfilled.
A fine looking old lady, in a white cap
and tho provailing long blaekcapo and
hood, meet in at the shop door.
Sho wns trembling violently with
emotion, and as she was introduced as
Norah's mother and wo shook hands
sho burst into tears. I fail utterly to
bringing tho scene beforoyou thecuri
ous littlo shop, thoiutcrcsted and sym
pathizing knot of Irish peoplo at the
background, and hero tho judgo ami L
and this old woman, handsomo Btill in
epito of her yearn of struggling toil, quito
brokon down at this unexpected meet
ing with ono so short a timo frcm her
girl beyond the sea.
"Your health gonotlomon, an' God
bless yez!" heartily cried thohostoss,
and with loud acclamation tho toast
was drank, whilo tho judgo nnd I bow
ed our acknowledgements courteously.
At this juncture n singular looking
individual hugging a bagpipo of seedy
appearance undor his arm, trotted in
at tho open door and hobbled slowly
across tho uneven floor,
"It's Blind Jerry, tho piper," whis
pered a woman who sat on a bench
noxt tho judgo
"An1 it's noble gontlomin yez is, I'm
certain of," tho blind nipor ejaculated
as ho ambled past and sought out a
Btool "Noblo gontlomin hero's yoz
health, and God's blessms on yez!"
As wo both turned to curiously re
gard this singular accession to our
number, tho woman next tho judgo
intimated with many a nod and wink
that Mrs. Kellohor could turn a reel
with tho host of them. Tho judgo im
parting this valuable information to
me, I promptly called for a display,
thon and there, of that lady's terpsi
cherenn accomplishments.
Ah, bo off wid yo, Mrs. Fitzgerald,
for Buggostin' it! Mrs. Kelleher re
proachfully said: "Why, I haven't
llung a step this ton year an' it's not
for mo, oh! ns I am and 180 pounds,
to bo dancin'!"
But Mrs. Mahony informed ua in an
undertono that Mrs. Kelleher had on
ono or moro occasions 'danced down
a man,' nn achlovment rarely accom
plished, let mo tell ywu, and wo re
doubling our soliciation, the Indy was
finally porsundod to givo us an exhibi
tion of hor powers, nnd a pleasant
'jed young woman in a new Bilk dross,
who had dropped in to ;eo what wart
going on, being prevailed on to stand
up as a partner, and the blind pipor
having, after a tremendous deal of
backing and filling, got his asthmatic,
bagpipe to wheezing, at it they went
amid unbounded applause.
Arrah? then, but now they did go ifc
arms ukiinbo now heel now toe
now shufllu whist but never wns thro
anything toequalit. Step it uptherc,
Jerry! Faster! man! Now they'ro at
it strong! Whoop! how tho floor
shakes! how the very, rafters rattle!
Musha! but wns there over a reel liko
imto this ono, with the weighty Mrs.
Kelleher, burdened by her size, but
warming to the work" mightily, look
ing her opponent square in tho eyo
with the sternness nnd gravity that
the occasion demanded. Jerry, man;
are your pipes a-shl-'pin? Faster, yo
spalpeen! do you hear? Ah, thin! rat
tle it out with the heels now cross
now swing tare-an' hounds, but what
nm could stand up before it! and
all in ii heat the reel was finished
and the crowd applauding, and Mrs.
Kelleher panting, Illind Jerry, who had
followed "every note of his pipes, with
grotesque contortions of ins mouth,
wiped the perspiration from his sun
tanned brow, and drank to us again
with the utmost satisfaction.
A Double Execution in Paris.
Pakis, Aug. 1 0. Tho two notorious
criminals Gaspard, who murdered
tho old man Delaunay in tho Ruo
d'Angoulemo, and Marchandon, who
cut tho thront of tho Creolo lady,
whoso servico ho had entered, accord
ing to his custom, for tho purposo of
plunder wero guillotined shortly after
daybreak this morning. It was ex
pected that tho wretches would bo re
prieved, as Gaspard had had an ac
complice, and Mnrchandon's friends
had mndo energetic ellorts tosavehim
from thoguillotine. Their appeals.how
over.wero rejected, and both the crimi
nals wero handed over this morning to
t heconunon executioner.M.Grovy hav
ing signed their sentences beforo his
departure for tho country on Satur
day. At 1 o'clock this morning tho Placo
do la Roquette, outside the prison of
tho condemned, was full of peoplo, who,'
as is customary on such occasions,
had remained up all night to witness
what, in tho annals of recent sensation,
was an exceptional sight, namely, a
double execution.
At 1 o'clock a moving light wns seen
appioaching. It preceded a largo dark
mass scarcely discernible through tho
enveloping darkness. This was tho
ear conveying tho terrible bonis do
justice, or guillotine, which hadonco
more been removed from its resting
placo in tho vicinity of tho prison. lb
was followed by Deibler and his assis
tants, and was well guarded by police
men. Turning tho corner of tho Ruo
Folio Regunault, tho ghastly caravan
lumbered heavily into tho Palnco do
la Roquette, and stopped beforo tho
door ot the jail.
Tho guillotino was promptly dis
mounted, and by 2 o'clock everything
was ready. Deibler, having superin
tended tho preparatory measures,
wont into the jail with two of his men,
and thero was then a long spell ol
waiting and expectation, during which
the day dawned on tho impatient
and chattering crowd that filled tho
Placo do la Roquette. At -i o'clock
tho numbers wero increased by work
men and others who wero obliged to
bo up early, and barricades wero put
up by the police to provont tho peoplo
from filling up tho approaches to tho
placo of execution.
A long, narrow basket was now
placed near thoblock of tho guillotine,
and at ten minutes to fi tho huge,
heavy, and gloomy doors of tho prison
swung open amid a deadly silenco,
only broken by the sharp rattling of
tho gendarmes' swords as they wero
drawn from their scabbards. Jas
pard was tho first of tjio felons led to
death. Tall and muscular, ho walked
firmly between two priests, whoso
ministrations ho had rejected until tho
approach of his term.
Hisfacowas palo and his features
contracted convulsively as ho neared
tho guillotine. Hero ho stooped to
ward tho prison chuplain, tho Abbo
Fauro, ana embraced first tho priest
and then a crucifix hold by tho latter
in his hand. Ho was now seized by tho
executioners, h head was placed in
tho lunette, and, nfter an awkward
pause, during which Deibler seemed to
havo lost momentary control of his
instrument, tho knife descended, and
the headless trunk of tho criminal foil
away from tho bascule. Tho head was
then put into tho basket.
Tho guillotino was now washed, and
everything set in order for tho noxb
oxecution. After tin interval of sovon
teen minutes, during which tho clamor
ous crowd scorned to have lost its
grotesquo gayety, tho doors of tho
prison again opened, and Marchandon,
looking liko a palo boy of 17, tottered
feebly out, supported by tho Abbo
Fauro and tho other priest who had
assisted Gaspard.
Tho criminal was evidently moro
dead than alivo. Ho still woro tho
patent leather boots with pointed too
caps which ho had on when arrested,
in his country house at Complegno.
Aftor having convulsively ombrnced
tho priests ho was caught sharply by
Diobler and thrust into tho lunotto.
Tho knifo again refused to work, and
nearly four seconds elapsed beforo it
fell on tho criminal's neck. When it
did so a doublo jot of blood spurted
out for nearly two yards, and sprink
led tho adjacent ground. Tho bodies
wero then taken, escorted by mounted
gendarmes, to tho Ivry Cemetery for
mock burial, a' tor which thoy wero
handed over to tho School of Medicino
for the usual oxponmontal purposes.
- im hi
Mr. Dorrick A.Rauphorn,a wealthy
farmer of Orange county, Indiana,1
was taken ill several days ogo of
phucumnnia. Shortly aftor tho two
physicians who woro in attendanco
pronounced him dead, and nrronge
inents wero being mndo to protmro the
remains for thocoflin, when all atonco
tho corpse started up in bed and "ask
ed for a glass of water, Mr. Rnup-,
horn breathed freely, and ia now d-
clarcd out of danger. '
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