The Eaton Democrat, 1875-06-03

The conduct of the widow of the lamented Abraham Lincoln has boon criticised by many people since tho death of her husband. Borne have accused her of serious indiscretion, while others have pitied her and pronounced her actions tho result of mental weakness. She has certainly been credited with some extra extraordinary - ordinary extraordinary freaks of conduct within the past ten years, as was averred yesterday by a score of her friends and acquaint acquaintances. - ances. acquaintances. Her eccentricities have frequently been the subject of comment, and her methods have been anxiously studied by members of her family, as well as by life-long friends of President Lincoln, who have ever been interested in the welfare of his relict; and it has become a matter of serious consideration with them as to its cause. Gradually tho ter terrible - rible terrible truth has dawned upon their minds that her reason has become partially de dethroned. - throned. dethroned. Those who have known her intimately knew her to be of a very ex excitable - citable excitable nature, and since the assassina assassination - tion assassination of her husband they have observed peculiar traits in her character which rmov never noticed before. All her former actions are now ex plained, with the motive which prompted them, and the public will pity the poor woman who has lived alone, almost en entirely - tirely entirely apart from her near relatives and friends for so long a time; universal sympathy will take the place of .censure, for her actions will be understood now. Mrs. Lincoln has never been consider considered - ed considered a woman of strong nature, and, being so closely connected with a man' of noble purposes and sound judgment, the con contrast - trast contrast was the more striking. It has been mistrusted by her near friends and rela relatives - tives relatives that she has been the victim of mental aberration, and they have studi studiously - ously studiously avoided making the discovery pub public, - lic, public, but have striven to conceal the fact, in tho hope that she would eventually recover. In this, however, they have been sadly disappointed, and yesterday disclosed the secret to the people of the nation. At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a large concourse of people assembled in the County Court-room. Among them were observed some of the most promi prominent - nent prominent citizens of Chicago lawyers, judges, merchants and capitalists; men who are seldom seen in places of this kind, to the neglect of their business, unless something of more than usual im importance - portance importance is to occur. It was evident a jury trial of no little moment was about to take place. At length the solemn arrangements were completed, the door was opened, the crowd parted from left to right, and in walked no less a personage than Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, accompanied by Mr. S. M. Turner of the Grand Pacific hotel, and one or two others. She was assigned a chair at the end of one of the tables, near the outer railing and facing the court. Her son, Robert Lincoln, entered almost immediately, in company with Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, who was retained, at the request of Mrs. Lincoln, as her counsel. All being in readiness, the bailiff announced that the trial on hand was for the purpose of testing the sanity of Mrs. Mary Lincoln, and by the direc direction - tion direction of the court proceeded to call the roll of the jurors. The testimony of the witnesses was unanimously to the effect that Mrs. Lin coln had been subject to actions such as no person of sound mind would ever exhibit. Some of the testimony was of the most startling nature, and served to ehow a great degree of forbearance and patience on the part of her son and her friends. From tho nature of a portion of the evidence, Mrs. Lincoln is believed to have beon for a number of years a confirmed Spiritualist, and a part of her faith seems to have been that the depart departed - ed departed spirit of her dead husband was con constantly - stantly constantly hovering near her, directing her movements and counselling with her upon every subject of possible interest to her. It appears that she even went so far as to make preparations for her death, which she firmly believed would occur on the 6th of September last. She seems to have had no appreciation of money, in one sense, though she was declared by all the witnesses to be fond of driving what she considered " a good bargain." She has evinced a ma mania - nia mania for shopping, and has accumulated a large amount of valuable goods, which, however, did not appear to have been se selected - lected selected with a view of benefiting herself. She would purchase the most expensive and absufed articles of toilet and house hold goods, such as she might never an ticipate deriving any benent from. Her insanity has assumed a variety of shapes, and while she has invested thousands of dollars of her income in frivolous and fantastic ornaments, she has not ex exhibited - hibited exhibited any startling manifestations of them in the way of personal decoration. In tho closet of her room, at the Grand Pacific, it is reported there are hundreds of packages intact, as they came from the stores, that have never been opened. Following is the verdict of the jury : We, tho undcrsiiracd, jurors in the case of Mary Lincoln, aliened to be inHauf, having heard the evi evidence - dence evidence in the cam, aro satisfied that the iraid Mary Lincoln if innanc, and ia a tit person to be sent to a Stato honpital for tho inaane ; that she is a resident of the State of Illinois and the County of Cook ; that her age is 5f years ; that the disease is of unknown duration ; that the cause is unknown ; that the dis disease - ease disease is not hereditary ; that she iB not subject to epilepsy ; that she does not manifest homiciJal or suicidal tendencies, and that she is not a pauper. Mrs. Lincoln has been taken to Dr. Patterson's private insane asylum, at Batavia, 111., where she will receive every attention that filial affection can suggest. t

A. farmer in Jackson county, Mo., recently ditched and destroyed one hun hundred - dred hundred and twenty bushels of grasshoppers in three days' work. Thk New York Herald calls the Brooklyn trial the " Trial ot Endurance." But whose endurance is most tried t We presume it must be the jury's. A Chicago editor mentions the fact hat Weston, the pedestrian fraud, is again walking against time, and cruelly exclaims : " If he would only walk up very hard against a barrel of nitro glycerine !"... Some one proposes that the descend descendants - ants descendants of the original signers of the Declar ation of Independence shall meet in 1876, at Philadelphia, and -have a first-class powwow. Thk late John C. Breckinridge was one of three of the most exalted Masons in the United States Gen. Albert Pike, of Arkansas, and CoL De Saussere, of South Carolina, holding equal rank. It is estimated that three-tenths of the goods imported in New York are smuggled, and that the government does not derive over 79 per cent, of the gross revenue due upon importations in that city. As this is the season of gush and love love-making, - making, love-making, this item will interest senti sentimental - mental sentimental youths and maidens: "When you write on a postal card to your sweet sweet-: - : sweet-: heart, use ink made of a solution of 10. grains hyposulphite of soda in 16 tea tea-spoonfuls - spoonfuls tea-spoonfuls of water. This is .colorless, bat on being exposed to heat turns black." One of the crew of the ill-fated Schiller was arrested in Hoboken for being drunk, a few days before the vessel sailed, and sent to jail for five days. His time expired the day after the Schiller sailed, and he escaped the fate of most of his companions. This statement is made as a matter of news, and not to encourage bibulous persons in the habit of getting drunk in the hope of thereby escaping marine disasters. Thk New York Herald publishes a sen sensational - sational sensational dispatch from London to the effect that it has been discovered in En England - gland England that Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the celebrated Evangelists, are in the employ of P. T. Barnuin, the great show showman, - man, showman, whose object is to found a new re religion. - ligion. religion. . The story runs that Moody and Sankey are put forward as a counter counterpoise - poise counterpoise to the novelty of English and American uaruinaia. A MOB old revolutionary party lives at Lodi, Ohio. His name is Homer Griffin. He is 111 years old, has only one arm, never smoked nor chewed nor snuffed, but (alas !) has been an habitual consumer of ardent spirits for over a century. He can still work in the gar garden - den garden and chop wood with his remaining arm. His first vote was cast for George Washington, who was consequently elected, many others following young Mr. Griffin's example. At the recent election in St. Louis, the new system by which the judges of election count the ballots every hour was followed with the most satisfactory re results. - sults. results. The returns were all in early, and it was shown that the hourly an announcements - nouncements announcements of the number. ef votes cast was an effective preventive of some of the frauds that have heretofore been noticeable on the part of judges of elec election. - tion. election. With an increased number of pre pre-cincta.to - cincta.to pre-cincta.to reduce the pressure at the polls and render voting more convenient, this new Bystem will doubtless meet the gen general - eral general approbation, and should be univer universally - sally universally adopted. A New York disatch saysJudge Neil Neil-son - son Neil-son is outlining his charge to the jury in the Tilton-Beecher scandal case. His Honor's ideas of what the Judge's charge should be are somewhat different from the practice which has obtained .with some of the Judges in the State. Judge Neilson is opposed; as a general rule, to any comments by the Judge upon the testimony as presented. He believes in confining his charge to an outline of the case as presented, the points of law involved, and points in the evidence that .are entitled to particular consideration. The charge will proba probably - bly probably occupy from a day to a day and a half. A New York letter-writer, gossiping about New York journals and journalists, says the Tribune probably has more out outside - side outside contributors than any daily in the country. As many as twenty-five or thirty men and women of ability, learn learning - ing learning and reputation furnish editorials from time to time; among them Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Lucia Gilbert Bunklo, Octavius B. Frothingham, Re becca Harding Davis, John Fiske, Julia Ward, Howe, Henry James, Edmund -: Clarence Stedman, Kate Field,' Thomas Hughes, Moncure D. Conway, Wm. B, Alger, Gail Hamilton, John G. Whittier and Richard Henry Stoddard. The rate is $10 to $15 a column ; sometimes, though not often, $20 and upward. Mb. James Lice, the eocentrio Cali fornia millionaire, has made a new trust deed, differing from the one revoked in a very few particulars. The donation for statuary at the State capital of $250,' 000 is changed to $100,000 for statuary at the City Hall is San Frucicoo. Th

The Findlay, Lima and Southwestern Telegraph Company, recently incorpor incorporated - ated incorporated with a capital of $10,000, aro pro pro-paring - paring pro-paring to build a telegraph lino between Findlay and Celina, along the Lake Erie and Louisville railroad. -.. The success of the Springfield, Jack Jackson - son Jackson and Pomeroy narrow-guago coal road is assured, as every dollar of the $800, $800,-000 - 000 $800,-000 required to build the road has been secured. Preparatory work upon the road will be commenced immediately. A nice old revolutionary party has been discovered at Lodi., Mr. Homer Griffin, who is 111 years old, and has only one arm, never smoked nor chewed nor snuffed, but (alas!) has been an habitual consumer of ardent spirits for over a century. He can still work in the garden and chop wood with his remain remaining - ing remaining arm. His first vote was cast for George Washington, who was conse consequently - quently consequently elected, many others following young Mr. GrifOn's example. Kev. Enwra W. House, assistant edi editor - tor editor of the Western Christian Advocate, died at his office in Cincinnati, sudden suddenly, - ly, suddenly, last week. He. had been for many years in that position, and was no doubt a victim of overwork. His duties were laborious and exacting, but he always performed them with unswerving fidelity and without complaint. Ho was widely known throughout the Methodist denom denomination, - ination, denomination, and universally respected and beloved. Otjb Secretary of Stato claims that Ohio is the first in the Union in the quantity of winter wheat sho produces ; in the estimated value of all farm pro productions, - ductions, productions, including betterments and ad additions - ditions additions to stock; in value of all animals slaughtered, or sold for slaughter; in value of all orchard products; in valuo of all milch cows; in value of all butter and cheese ; in amount of improved land; in value of cattle other than work-1 ing oxen; in value of live stock, and in amount of land in farms. A meeting of rcpresetatives of the press and prominent citizens of Colum Columbus, - bus, Columbus, was held a few days ago, at which committees were appointed and stops taken to make the social part of the com coming - ing coming Editorial Convention, which meets there on June 3, a grand success. An excursion to the coal fields over the Hocking Valley road, a visitto the Agri Agricultural - cultural Agricultural College,' and a social reception tendered by tho citizens, are among the festivities provided for. All editors in the State, whether members of the asso association - ciation association or not, are Invited to attend the coming convention. Crimin An negligence was punished in England recently, in the case of a " night inspector" of a railroad, who " forgot that he had ordered one train forward,' and so ordered another right into it, oc casioning a terrible collision, by which many lives were lost. He was tried for manslaughter last month, found guilty, "with a strong recommendation to mercy," and sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment, with hard labor. A case almost precisely similar in Ohio, where the guilty person was a young woman who acted as telegraph operator, resulted in the poor creature's dismissal from the company's service ! The splendid success of tho rccen musical festival at Cincinnati emphasized the lack of a suitable building for such purposes. At a recent meeting of the festival managers a letter was read from a prominent public-spirited citizen, named Benben P. Springer, tendering them the munificent sum of $125,000, to be used for the construction of a suitable musical hall. It is confidently believed that this will be followed by other dona donations, - tions, donations, and that the next festival will be a genuine jubilee, in a magnificent new building. The Legislature of Ohio, at its last session, made an appropriation for a fish hatchery establishment, and tho Fish Commissioners, some of whom had in vestigated the subject in Europe, lately visited Michigan, and after an inspection of the manner in which the business of propagating fiish is conducted in that State, concluded that N. W. Clark, of Northville, had the most complete sys tem. His plans have been adopted by the Ohio Fish Commissioners, and Mr. Clark appointed to superintend the erec tion of the hatchery house. The family of Mr. Stark, of Columbus, recently had a little unpleasant experi ence from eating poisoned chow-chow, which happily did not result in anything serious. Dr. JJeckwim was called in and administered tho usual antidotes, which soon removed all fears of serious results. A portion of the chow-chow was analyzed and found to contain ar arsenic. - senic. arsenic. The theory is that arsenic is used for the purpose of imparting an elegant coloring. The article is prepared in a large kettle, and the arsenic usually settles to the bottom, thus relieving the chow-chow of any of its dangerous quali qualities. - ties. qualities. Sometimes, through carelessness in bottling, the dregs are also token up, and in such cases there is danger of fatal rwulU if the proper antidotes aro not apeedily administered.

The excitement, once kindled, was stimulated by lying announcements of the sailing of great fleets for Louisiana, laden with merchandise and colonists; of the arrival of vessels with freights worth " millions;" of the establishment of a silk factory, wherein 12,000 women of tho Natchez tribes were employed; of the bringing of Louisiana ingots to the mint to be assayed; of the discovery in Arkansas of a great rock of emerald, and the dispatch of Capt Laharpe with a file of twenty-two men to take possession of the same. In 1718 Law sent engineers to Louisiana, who did something toward laying out its future capital, which he named New Orleans, in honor of his patron, the Regent The royal paper rose rapidly under this new demand. Other schemes fol followed, - lowed, followed, until John Law, through his va various - rious various companies, seemed about to "run " the kingdom of France by contract, farming all its revenues, transacting all its commerce, and, best of all, paying all its debts! Madness ruled the hour. The depreciated paper rose, rose, and still rose; reached par; went beyond par, until gold and silver were at a discount of 10 per cent. The street named Quin Quin-campoix, - campoix, Quin-campoix, the center and vortex of this whirl of business, a mere lane twenty feet wide and a quarter of a mile long, was crowded with excited people from morning till night, and far into the night, so that the inhabitants of the quarter sent to the polios a formal complaint that they could get no sleep. Nobles, lackeys, Bishops, monks, merchants, soldiers, women, pickpockets, foreign foreigners, - ers, foreigners, all resorted to Za Hue, "panting, yelling, operating, snatching papers, counting crowns," making up a scene of noisy confusion unexampled. One man hired all the vacant houses in the street, and made a fortune by sub-letting offices and desk-room, even placing sentry sentry-boxes - boxes sentry-boxes on some of the roofs, and letting them at a good price. The excitement spread over France, reached Holland, and drew to Paris, as was estimated at the time, 800,000 strangers, places in the public vehicles being engaged '"two months in advance," and commanding a high premium. t There were the most extraordinary ac acquisitions - quisitions acquisitions of fortune. People suddenly enriched were called Mississippiens,aad they behaved as the victims of sudden wealth, unearned, usually do. Men who were lackey one we.k kopt lackeys the next A garcon of a wine shop gained twenty millions. A cobbler who. had a stall in the Bue Quincampoix, made of four planks, cleared away his traps and lot his boards to ladies as seats, and sold pens, paper and ink to operators, making two hundred francs a day by both trades. Men gained money by hiring out their backs as writing desks, bending over while operators wrote out theii. con contracts - tracts contracts and . calculations. One little hunchback made a hundred and fifty thousand francs by serving as a pupitre ambulant (strolling desk), and a broad broad-shouldered - shouldered broad-shouldered soldier gained money enough in the same way to buy his discharge and retire to the country upon a pretty farm. The general trade of the city was stimulated to such a degree that lor while the novel spectacle was presented of a community almost every member of which was prosperous beyond his hop3s; for even in the Rue Uumcampoix itself, although some men gained more money than others, no one appeared to lose anything. And all this seemed the work of one man the great, the incompara incomparable - ble incomparable "Jean Lass," as he was then called in Paris. It was a social distinction to be able to say, " I have seen him." His carriage cbuld with difficulty force its way through the rapturous, admiring crowd. Princes and nobles thronged his antechamber, a duchoss publicly kissed his hand, and the Regent made him Oontroller-ueneral of the Finances. This madness lasted eight months. No one needs to be told what followed it how a chill first came over the feverish street, a vague apprehension, not con fessed, but inspiring a certain wish to " realize." Dread word, realize ! The tendency to realize was adroitly checked by Law, aided by operators who desired to "unload;" but the unloading, once suspected, converted the realizing ten ten-de'jjy - de'jjy ten-de'jjy into a wild" ungovernable rush, which speedily breught ruin to thou thousands, - sands, thousands, and long prostration upon France. John Law, who in December, 1719, was the idol of Paris, ready to perish of his celebrity; escaped with difficulty from the kingdom in December, 1720, hated, despised, impoverished, to resume his career as elegant gambler in the drawing rooms of Germany and Italy. Harper's Magazine for June.

Tho Chicago Times, of Mav 23. has extensive telegraphic reports of the cast- ward march ot the grasshopper pestilence. from which we take the following ex tracts : A dispatch from Liberty, Mo., rives the following discouraging report of the progress of the pesta : " The warm weather of tho last few days has caused the grasshoppers to increase alike in numbers and voracity, and matters are becoming worse here, though in some localities they are said to be dying. At this place, there is a nightly illumina illumination - tion illumination of gas and coal-oil dispensed. Nu Numerous - merous Numerous torches appear in nearly every garden, and millions of grasshoppers, dreaming sweetly of tho harvest of the morrow, are rudely awakened, and meet death at the hands of the fire-fiend. In this manner much has been savtfd, and it is now the common way of fighting the insects. In portions of tho county they are now making depredations on wheat and corn, which wero hitherto but slightly injured. A prorninent attor attorney - ney attorney of this city has- just returned from Bates and Cass counties. In the former, he coiiiirms the report of perfect desti destitution. - tution. destitution. In the latter, the "hopper is sweeping everything, and farmers are making no futhor efforts at crops." Au Atchison telegram gives the follow ing account of the ravages of tho pests in Kansas: " If any difference could bo detected this morning, the grasshoppers appear more abundant than ever, at least in Atchison. In the southern and western portions of the city the ground is literally covered with them, and they appear to be going in a body toward the southeast. But very few are noticed with wings, and they appear to be flying away shortly after the transformation. From certain localities we hear the most dismal reports of their depredations. In portions of Doniphan county, especially along the line of the railroad, they are reported as destroying everything corn, wheat, flax, barley, and oats hardly leaving a spear to mark the fields. Farmers are righting them desperately, by every means known. In Brown county wholo neighborhoods work to gether, pursuing some systematic and thoroughly tried plan, and bushels of the little rod logs are disposed of. The samo course is being pursued in many parts of Atchison and Doniphan coun counties. - ties. counties. Nearly every farmer we have con conversed - versed conversed with from Atchison and tho coun counties - ties counties adjoining express themselves as somewhat discouraged,' but not at all disheartened, and they are even now making arrangements to plant as soon as the pests take their departure " Lawrence, Ma, semis tno iollowrng report: " The grasshoppers received a severe punishment here to-day by a se severe - vere severe storm of hail which passed over-the city this afternoon. Thousands of them wero pelted to death by hail stones, which were, so large that many wmdows were broken. As tho season advances the 'hoppers grow larger. It is evident the damage will not be as serious as at first supposed, still tho crops have re ceived very great injury, and not more than half a growth of wheat may be ex expected." - pected." expected." A Leavenworth (Kan.) telegram says : "Observations confirm previous reports that the grasshoppers are on the move. Columns of the insects can be seen skip- pine along in a southwesterly direction. Many iarniers are going over iiieir corn cornfields, - fields, cornfields, replanting the hills that have been destroyed. Owing to the backwardness of the season, many say they will con continue - tinue continue to plant corn until the middle of Juno, with a fair prospect of a crop." The report from Lexington, Mo., is equally gloomy: " The grasshoppers are still with us, in countless numbers. Myriads of tlicni passed through this city to-day, going east. It was quite amusing to see wholo families men, women, and children fighting them, in a vain attempt to keep the " nasty littlo critters" out of their gardens and flower flowerbeds. - beds. flowerbeds. Farmers on the prairies are burn burning - ing burning them by the millions. They organize into platoons, drive the grasshoppers into a ravine, throw straw on them, and set it on fire. One farmer says he has kept them out of his .fields by burning them off of the fence every night." Kichmoud, Mo., reports: "Grasshop "Grasshoppers - pers "Grasshoppers are here by the million. They arc destroying gardens and meadows, and several pieces of corn and wheat in this locality have been nearly destroyed by thom, They commeuced going in a northeast direction thismoruilig, making a clean road."

After a protracted trial, the St Louis Repub lican has been assessed one cent damages for sailing a 1 wyer a "shyster." Tho issue of the Chicago Inter-Ocean lot May 21 was probably the largest daily paper ever issued in this or any other country. It contained the delinquent tax-list of Cook coun county, - ty, county, and the whole paper embraced IS full sheets of 8 pages each. 111 pages, and 8C4 columns. Thirty compositors were employed 36 days in putting it in type, working 104 hours per day. The manuscript copy of this enormous tax-list weighed 275 pounds, and occupied 13,370 pages. The grasshoppers arrived in Kansas City last week on their Eastern journey. They marched into town and covered the sidewalks, fences, yards, etc., and the citizens, instead of going to church, devoted the day to destroying the pests. Darnel OLcary, the pedestrian, has just ac complished at Chicago, the marvelous feat of walking 500 miles in 153 hours. As might have been anticipated, the at tempts of parties of miners to roach the Black Hills and their arrest by tho military are caus causing - ing causing trouble. The Gordon party was stopped by a company of soldiers while they were in the State of Nebraska. They refused to be arrested, preferring to fight The officer in command of the detach detachment - ment detachment was sent ts Fort Laramie and to Camp Sheridan, and a company of men with a Catling gun started fcr his assistance. The miners also sent out couriers, and intelligence was convoyed to about 580 other prospectors, who wcro on thoir way to the lulls, to hurry on and join in a resistance to he soldiers. 3) can while a dispatch was sent -to Gon. Sheridan, asking that the Gordon party bo set at liberty ; and the General ordered their unconditional re release, - lease, release, provided they wore in the Stato of Ne Nebraska - braska Nebraska when baited. He further states that prospectors will not be allowed to enter the Big Horn country. Kansas epicures have tested the grasshoppers as food, and find them very palatable. The grasshoppers appear to be making but slow progress in the West They are being de destroyed - stroyed destroyed in great numbers by every means at the command of the farmers, and it is now hoped that their devastations will not be as great as was at first approhended. The officers of the secret service, in search of evidence to be used against the Chicago distillers, conceived tho idea that the freight bills of the several railroads would show how much spirits had been shipped within a given time, and by comparing these bills with the books of the distillers and gangers, an approx approximation - imation approximation of the amount out of which the gov government - ernment government had been defrauded might be ob obtained. - tained. obtained. Tho officers had some trouble with the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne company, but finally received abstracts of bills of lading, which furnish presumptive evidence of gigantic frauds. McWaters, the notorious Western desperado, who was under sentence of twenty years' im prisonment in the Nebraska State Prison at Lincoln, has finally ended his career, being shot dead by the guard in attempting to lead a revolt of the prisoners. Kansas City dispatches stato that the grass hopper scare is rapidly abating, and that, as a feeling of rejoicing has generally taken the place of dread and gloom among the people, the Chief Executive will soon be called upon to issue a proclamation for a day of thanksgiving instead of fasting and prayer.

of tho pastor, who worked moat heroically, and was personally instrumental in saving many lives. One family of four were in the church, and all were lolled. Many wore pulled out by tho arms and fcot so badly burned that they lived but a few hours, the flesh peeling off on being touched. Some were taken out with scarcely any flesh remaining on their bones. Those who were too badly burned to recover were put under the effects of morphine, and passed away without a struggle. While the exercises were being held over the dying the most intense quiet prevailed, and the rough laborers knelt upon the floor, with un uncovered - covered uncovered heads. But about tho Morgue and in tho streets, tho waning of the multitude was pitiful to hoar. Ono girl escaped from tho gallery by jump jumping - ing jumping on the back of a man, who carried her out while her sistor, who was with her, was burned. Several members of one of tho hose companies were playing ball near the church when the fire broke out ud a relief steamer was out for practice, so that tho firo department was promptly on the Bpot Scenes at the doors are described as torriblo. They wore blocked with struggling people seek seeking - ing seeking exit Outnido people cleared tho way sev several - eral several times, but as often it would become blocked up again. Windows were broken open and sev several - eral several escaped in that wav. Lewis Langlara, of the Riverside Mill, went in to render assistance, when a littlo girl came tumbling down before the door under thn fnet of tho throng. Though be burned his hands baldly in doing it ho was able to pull her out out littlo injured. A vounr woman beat out ono of tho window frames and jumped to the ground safely. An old woman of 00 wont to, tho same opening, and, hesitating to jump, she was nulled inside bv tho hair bv a brutal fl. low. Ho jumped clear and sho foil and was seriously injured. i tamiiy of hve, four got out alive, ;one httle girl of 12 years being binned. She was tcarf ullv sounht bv her littlo brother and it IohI discovered dead. John Lynch, a mason, fhidinir the neonle pressed in at the bottom of tho church rinnr. pulled many down who were on top, thus sav saving - ing saving a dozen lives. Ex-Constable Casey describes the scene as he saw it with a glass from the top of the Hutch Hutch-ingB - ingB Hutch-ingB House Block. The whole affair was over in fifteen minutes. Ho could plainly seo through the blazing rafters people running about Large black spots could bo Been in tho flumes, and half a minute later these spots wont out in a brilliant light which was succeeded by a dark flame. Levi Roberts, who. with his familv of fonr children, wero in tho gallery, saved his three daughters by forcing them out of the door, but ins ooy, a Dngut lad or 11, perished in the flames. Miui peuplu nci badly injnred by jumping from the gallery windows. Annie Hibbert and a child 6 years of age escaped from the build building - ing building after their clothing had become ignited, and many persons had their limbs broken at attempting - tempting attempting to escape.

TTpon a time a neighing- steed. Who grazed anions' a nnmerous breed, With mutiny had fired the train, And spread dissension throURli tho plain. - On matters that concerned the state Tho council met in frrand debate. A colt, whose eye-balls flamed with ire. Elate with strength and youthful fire. In haste stepped forth btfore the rest. And thns the listening throng addressed : " Alas ! how abject is our race. Condemned to slavery and disgrace ! HhaU-wo our servitude retain, Because our sires have borne the chain 7 Consider, friends, yonr strength and might, Tia conqnest to assert your right. How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we designed for daily tod, To drag tho ploughshare through the soilj To sweat in harness on the mad. To groan beneath the carrier's i' ial ? How feeble are the two-legged kind ! What force is in onr nerves combined Shall then our nobler jaws submit To foam and champ the galling bit ! 8ball haughty man my back bestride 7 ShaU the sharp spur provoke my side? forbid it, friends ! lleject the rein ; Yonr shame, your infamy disdain. Let him the lion firBt control, And still the tiger's famished arowl. Let us, like them, our freedom claim.' And make him tremble at our name.:' A general nod approved the canse, And all the circle neighed applause. When, lo 1 with grave and soicmn pace, A steed advanced before the race. With age and long experience wise ; Around ho cast his thoughtful eyes, And to the mnrmurs of his train Thns spoko the Nestor of the plain : " When I had health and strength, like yon The toils of servitude I knew. Now grateful man rewards my pains, And gives me all these wide domains. At will I crop the year's increase ; My latter life is rest and peace. I grant to man we lend our pains, Help him to cultivate the piainB ; But doth not he divide the care Through ail the labors of the year 7 How many thousand stmctnres rife To fence us from inclement skies 7 For us he bears the sultry day. And stores up aU our winter's hay. He sows, ho reaps the harvest's grain ; We share the toil, and share the gain. . Since every creature was decreed . To serve each other's mutual nocd, Appease your discontented mind, And act the part by Heaven assigned. The tumult ceased. The colt submitted, And, like hia ancestors, was bitted.