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FRIGHTFUL DISASTER AT VIENNA.
FRIGHTFUL DISASTER AT VIENNA. 'A THEATRE BURNT DOWN. LOSS OF 500 LIVES. TERRIBLE SCENES. Atetrible disaster has occurred at Vienna. On Thurs- day evening at 7 o'clock a firp- broke out at the Ring Theatre just before the performance of one of Oilen- bwh's operas. There were some 2,000 people in the boilding. Tbeftames burst out near the stage, As yet it to too soon to speak accurately as to the cause of the disaster, but it is understood to have originated in an explosion of ga<. In a moment the stalle W<\8 in lames. The big crown chandelier fell. The nppei galleries were crowded, the stalls and pit were yet quite filled. At the cry of Fire I' the whole audience rose to its feet and made a rush for the doors. In the passages, on the stone staircases,and at the principal entrance in the Sing Stras-e, there were scenes of frantic terror that defy description. The shouts of those who were tiding to escape mingled with the shrieks and grean-i of the dying; the women and weaker persons swooned and were ermhed to death as they were carried along by the stream, while others were thrown to the ground and trampled to death. Many persons sprang oat out of the windows of the second floor. For 10 long minutes there was no help from oat- ride. Though in the interior of the theatre the flames were xprradinu rapidly, there was not a ray of light in thr passages along which the occupants of the gallerieM had to pass, and the panic-stricken erowii could not find the way out, but crushed and trample I one another to de..th in total darkness. On the stage itself some 200 persons -ere assem- bled, b"lIid," -cene-shiftrrs, engineers, and a crowd of Mp<rna(nf-)oa And ballet girls, the latter being mostly engaged in the preparation of their toilet. The same panic which had seized the audience drove them to seak for fafety in instant flight, with the same result that they were plunged into bewildering confusion at the one xmall door which formed the only means of exit. Fortunately, however, most of them itnecpcdcd, in spite of the panic, in escaping without serious injury into the street. Sixty p-rsons were saved by ladders and by jump- ing d.-xen at a time into cloths held extended to recei*- them. The greatest efforts were made to save life. The calamity was so sudden and unexpected that the Vienn i Fire Brigade could not reach the spot in time to check the danerer. Pumps, hydrants, and ttf-a") fire ngines were powerless. All they could do wan to protect the neighbouring houses. The flames Ihrlited up the sky, and were seen from a great di«t»nc?. The theatre is quite burnt out, only the walls remain standing. The brigade brongiit out the bodies by the score. Up to 10 p.m. 145 had been recovered. By mid- night fu 'y • 300 were got out. There were then eetimMe I t.. he at least 200 more in the house. SOlDe of the ho, liel1 are fearftilly disfigured-in some eases th* head. in others the hands or feet, being burnt off. Several persons broke their arms in ■priiiKinir from the windows into the sbeeta held for their reception, and four of them, who sustained sever* itij ^ies, were conveyed to the hospital. From an eXHiniinttion it has been found that in nearly all ease" the deaths were caused by suffocation. Mo«t i>f the bodies which have been identified up to Mm I,ro-ellt are those of tradespeople and miaor effi ials. Th" chief cause of this horrible catastrophe was that in the confusion the irin partition separating the .take frmn (he body of the theatre was not let down, and i he tire consequently was not confined, as it mi/ht have been, to the xtage. Th Ring Theatre is the building in which Mdlle. Sar-th i'ernhardt appeared in a series of perform- ance- during her recent visit to this capital. It Wi< an exceedingly handsome structure, quite in ke pi»»g with the i-plendid edifices which have risen up Wt hiu the pMt few years upon the broad belt of gruu i form-rlv occupied by the walls of the old city. The Rinor, or circular boulevard, in which the theatre it, qn»-#tion is situated, is a broad thorough- fai-, plant* <1 .vith treed and lined on either side by pain, and public and private buildings of imposing architecture. Th* mark* of sympathy are general and unanimous. Ti.. K> ich ra h »i d the Municipal Council at once fcdjonI t.ieir ittiiigq, business has been suspended rn ti<e R<>'ir*c, and a collection was made for the ttiHer. rill -1 he children and families of those killed,and the :-v*t'»r» iind »ctre-«ea who have in a moment been depuvod of their means of livelihood. Besides the eonti ihutioris made on the Bourse,which now amount to npwardi of 28,0008, all the newspapers have opei e ) subscription lists. The Emperor has given a iu¡. "11111 for fhe immediate distribution amongst t :Osc who are in particular need. The various tinns of undertakers heve combined to provide the victims of the catastrophe with fitting burial. The fnnerai fM masse of the victims is fixed for Sunday afternoon.
MR. BRIGHT AT LLANDUDNO.
MR. BRIGHT AT LLANDUDNO. SPEECH ON EDUCATION. On the evening of Thursday after the laying of the fou't. Ut ion «t.>n* of the new board schools at Llaa- duditu ov Mr. Bright, a crowded meeting was held In the St. George's Hall, and an address pre- sented to the riifht hon. gentleman by the inhabitants of the town. In the coarse of a lengthy reply, Mr. K ;11\ said it was a melancholy fact that in the past th, duty of providing education for the great majority of O ir young people had been almost entirely In, ecte.i. The rich universities had been la«i«h of affording facilities for higher edn- eation for the rich almost exclusively. The 5ram mar and endowed schools had not been con- ucted in accordance with the wishes of the founders, ot-the reqtiiremertk of the public, while an far as the mass of the people was concerned their education wa. neglected. But the Government were now reaping the consequence of that neglect, and the poor house and prions were memorials of the un- wisdom of pa»t Governments. Had education been diuBminatfid through the land centuries AGO M it Was no there would be an immense accession of pro- speritv. We saw in Ireland what results from erroneous legislation, and the continuance of erroneous legislation, through successive centuries, with regard to land; and if it were possible to say that there should be no change whatsoever in the laws affecting land in this country the time would not be very remote when we should have suffering and confusion in Etigiaad that would make us greatly regret that we did not at an earlier period apply some remedy to the evils which exist now. The question of pauperism was connected distinctly with the question of education, or rather of ignorance, M it was also connected with the Question of crime. Considering that we professed to be a Christian ooun. try we were shocked almost continually by the occur. t*line, not only of a multitude of offences, but of very »r • vous crimes, and during a long period we had bail the most barbarous criminal code to be found in any Christian nation. We need not be surprised, therefore, that we had poorhouses very large and in f-'t numbers, that we had prisons not quite so ■mn'rous, Wit very large, and offering a sort of dark sb.&,io to the landscape wherever we looked upon it. If you have poverty in the cottage, depend upon it th re is HOIJI ething wrong either with the people or with the Governm ent under which they live. We had now b'gun a new and a better system. Instead of adding more poorhouses and more prisons, we proposed to ad large commodious establishments and buildings for the education of our people. After contrast- fug the cost of education and the appliances of education a generation since to what they were to-day, Mr. Bright said he knew he should be eritised am not being a scholar himself. Having p-ss^ed in review the leading events of the period from (S;{3 to tlie lweieiit hour, touching upon the extension of the franchise, the repeal of the Corn Laws and of the paper and stamp duties, Mr. Bright concluded as follows 1 believe that, looking to our home affairs, we may expect, with regard to our legislation, that. we m ty have greater justice done between class and class, and' when the terms class and class may he in time almost obliterated by the effect of our be- coming a united people and nation. With regard to our foreign affair*, may we not hope, as to that looking to the put-to the page of Rlory- hum glory, of glory based upon misery and blo,,dsiwd, that page shall be a new page written, and i that the historian of the future shall record in it, fot the atTvanta^e uf our children and our children's • children, and that we have come to a time of a i higher civilisation and of a higher and purer national ( tnoia ity.
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Information has beett received at the Colonisa Oflto»'«>f two further murders by natives in the W: st»rn Paciifc, namely, that of Mr. Lyttleton at (PortWebber, and Mr. KleinschmidtatUtuau. In oonxequence of the numerous robberies which have recently been, committed in Warsaw and the neighbourhood"the police are acting with vigour. A day or two ago 75 persona were arrested who failed to give a satisfactory account of themselves. On Thursday the lodge-keeper of the county gaol at CAinbrid^e, together with his wife and daughter, were brutally assaulted by one of the prisoners, ana the keeper, whose nnme Is Sexton, is, it Is feared, fatally injured. The prisoner was being employed at WOlle, and attacked Sexton with a heavy weight, bat- ter ng in his skull, and his wife and daughter, coming to hid assistance, were served in the same way. £ 4ddres>>ing a meeting at Oldham, Mr. J. K. Cross, I M.P., said he had the heartie»t sympathy with the object of the "fair" traders in all they said about ob- i taining good markets for British manufactures and the consolidation of the Empire, but it was the means by f which they wished to attain this object with which he disagreed, because their good intentions pointed to the downward path of national ruin, and that was the- geihfrqp which ha iwrid hee»—iwewn
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(■All Riyhts Rtttrvtd.) 1 "SIIADOWS IN THE SUNLIGHT." 1 BY E. OWENS BLACKBURNE, AUTHOR OF "The Love that Loves Alway," "Ths Queen of her Race," "A Woman Scorned," "What are the Wild Wavss Saying?" "Illustrious Irishwomen," &c. CHAPTER XXV. DIPLOMACY. A toli-zrptm for th' masther. ma'am," saja ROil" Dogherty, as fhe hands Kate the -feliow enve:opc. Kare takes it from her at the door, and stands in the doorway, so that !htt woman may not enter the room Roses suspicious r.atureirumedistely fancies there must be something1 the matter from Ktte', rather nervoils manner, and she tries to circum- vent her mistress by laying her band upon the handle of the door, and ^ayivg suavely I'm goin' in t' lock np the toings, ma'am." Oh! never mind exclaims Kate, hastily "nevei mind, Rose. Your master is tired. and wants a rest. I don't want him to be disturbed, so I shaU lock up the sideboard myself." y "Very well, mt am." Rose can searcely conceal the annoyance and disappointment she feels. And yon had better sit by the baby, Rose, for the present," says Kate, as she shuts the door, and her Abigail unwillingly and slowly mates her way up stairs. "She thinks she's very clever," soliloquises Rose Dogherty as she seats herself by the fire in Kate's bedroom, and looks ai the haby asleep in the cot beside it, but I'm yer match for all that. Yer not worth bem' his wife. He, that's so good, an' so kind, an' so han'some! I feel it a shame an' a disgrace not t' tell him, out at wanst all I know aT yer wickedness." So Rose Dogherty sits and thinks. Time has not blunted the keen edge of thJl woman's strange and unreasoning love. The utK-r necessity for her keeping her feelings concealed and weU in sub- jection only seems to feed this hopeies* flame. She has well nigh made hertlelf indispensable to Wil- liam French but sbtlcannor. conceal from herself the bitter truth that she has become nothing more than a habit to him. Not by any meaus sensitive minded, save where* her mafer is concerned, her heart sometimes sinks as ht, looks at her when he addresses her. For Rose Dcgherty always faucies he looks at her plain face with loathing whereas, the truth iI, William French hM become so accustomed to the woman's appearance that he scarcely notices her, and certainly her looks do not give him the least trouble. Rose Dogherty loves as she hates-utterly, fiercely. In a gentfo nature, such as Kate's is, the love is tenderly passionate, offered up to her beloved, adored husband, a- incense upon the altar of her heart. But Ro -e D, -ghei ty's passion is as a raging flame, blown into a fierce heat by every wind which beats ht-r back. Meanwhile Kate French has returned to her nuband's side. His appearance terrifies her. Thereisan odd, ashen look on hi-* lac, his ree:h chatter; and he sits there with drooping head and half-closed eyea now and again muttering inco- herently. Kate," he again says. Yes, dear I" Kate's voice is trembling, and her face is verv pwle. Added :o her horrorof s -eing William in this plight, is her consternation at his knowledge of what took place in the churchyard. But he takes no notice of her reply, and again exclaims huskily- Kate!" Yes, dear," she repeat. can I do anythi rj for you ?" It Wine," he exclaims, "I am thirsty, parched I I want some more, wine Kate's heart quails all she listens. Surely William mutt be mad I Her terror at the fact of Ch r!es Felton'g visit being known to her husband is for- gotten. The telegram is thrown aside on the table, and Kate comes over and lays her husband's heavy head on her boj-om. Wine!" he again repeats, wine give me some, or give me whisky or something I must have something." He pushes her away, and tries to rise. In doing 10 he staggers and would fall does not Kate IIUPP irt him. He sinks down upon the chair, but not seiore ne has seized the decanter and has poured what remains of the sherry into the glas, William French tosses it off, and the glass falls from hfe nerveless hand. Kate is honestly alarmed. For a minute she thinks of summoning Rose Dogherty but the indden recollection of the woman's sneering face and cold, cruel glances deter her. William lies in hifl chair helpless, and Kate brushes back the hair from his brow, and wipes it with her handkerchief. His brow seems on fire. So do his hands. Kate fa now crying bitterly, the more bitterly, because 10 silently, and so few tears fall. Is there anything King to happen to her William, she thinks. Per- ps this sorrow has come upon her because of her treacherous conduct. The thought is maddening and in her agony Kate falls down and clasping her husband s knees. wails "Oh! William I William I my darling, in the morning I shall tell you all!" He opens his heavy eyes and looks vacantly be. fore him. William, she says, taking his limp, burning hand. But he makes no reply. Don't you know me r" she continues, rising, and putting her arm around his neck. "Look at me, William, it is I—your Katie- your own wife." William's eyes rest upon her now with a look of half-recognition but he says incoherently— Felton—where is Felton ? They said he was in Dundenny with Kate." Who said that, William ?" asks Kate, eagerly, but steadily; and determined to find out if she can. Kate kissed Felton, and Felton kissed Kate— and —Felton—and—Kate—" his speech becomes thick, the curious .hen shade on his face pales, and Kate stands gazing despairingly at him. Per- haps she ought to give him some water, and put some on his burning forehead. There is none on the sideboard and Kate, going to the door. culls to the cook to bring her some. She re-enters the parlour and shuts the door. No sooner has she done so than Rose Dogberby follows her into the room, a jug of water in her hand. I heard yeh cailin' in a hurry, ma'am." she ■ays deferentially, an' I thought I'd be quicker wid th' wather nor Bridget." Kate is too angry even to thank her Stan ing 10 as to shade William from the woman's g ize. she oaya in a voice in which the wrath is too poorly ooncoaled- Leave it on the table." But Rose Dogherty is not to be baffled. Quietly advancing te the sideboard, whence she has a good view of William's face, she says in an indifferent Toice-- Here's a tumbler, ma'am," and then. catching right of her master, she starts, and exclaims- God be good t' us, ma'am I an' what's the matther wid the masther?" "Nothing)" briefly responds Kate, struggling hard with her impotent anger. Bedad, ma'am, there is somethin' the matther." persists Rose, coming nearer, sure ma'am, th' masther's sick, for he doesn't look like himself at all." "Your master did not feel very w 11, and I made him take a glass of wine it has made him feel drowsy, and he wants to get asleep, as he is very tired." Kate feels she is doing a perfectly right and justifiable thing in thUM lying, when it is for the take of saving her husband's reputation. "Wouldn't it be betther for th'masther t'go t' bed?" suggests Rose, apprehensively. "No Oh I don't worry about it." Kate infant losing her equanimity between excitement and an- noyance at Rose having seen her husband in this plight. "The mafter wishes to take a sleep here, so let him do so." Yet Rose loiters. Kate does not like exactly to order her outof the room. The woman is looking about for some excuse to remain and her eye catches sight of the yet unopened telegram npon the table I hope there's nothin' wrong,ma'am," she Bays evilly. -• Why r "Was the telegraph bad news, ma'am ?" Kate is standing beside her huxband, hold! y his hand, her back half turned to Rose Doght r y. Without looking roundshe aaya :— I am sure I don't know—I didn't open it But, ma'am!" exclaims Rose in a rest etftrl\y j •qpaaahitf fcmo, MH t it bad aot t' open a tele- ¡ naph at wanst,for no one 'ud sind it, unless th1 ar In a hurry about somethin' or other." Rose likes to know everything, and she is dying with curiosity to know what the telegram iF about. I CHAPTER XXVL AVENGED. jdKate feels she is willing to do anything wl i-h flay shorten the interview and get Rose Dogherty cut of the room. It is a professional call, very likely, and y car master will attend to it when he wakens." If I was you, ma'am, I'd open it," she ogwin IIIggeste, "you know there might be an answer wanted. An' yeh know th' masther has no saycreta from you, ma'am." Is it all fancy upon her part, or is it actually true that Rose Dogherty lays an unpleasant em- phuis upon the last sentence. Time was when Kate, did she suspect such a thing to be the cabs, would have angrily asked Rose what she meant by speaking to her in such a tone of voice. Perhaps it would be better to open the tele- gTMn," the replies, wearily, without turning her head open it, Rose, and read it." The w< man obeya. There is no sound but Wil- liam's heavy breathing. Rose opens the telegram, and her sharp eye quickly notes the contents. A eurious expression flits or a minute over her fea- tures. A gleam of malignant joy irradiates them, as she holds the telegram well over the light ol the amp, and reads as follows From Charles Felton, Shelbourne Hotel, Stephen's-green, Dublin. To Doctor French, Kilmahoo. "I am very ill. Come up to me at once. All 8D be satisfactorily explained. Lose no time." Kate stands as one paralysed as she listen" to the words of the telegram. Utter horror and despair seize upon her soul, and she says, with a pitiful assumption of being unfeignedly surprised at the contents— "Dear me, and so Mr. Felton is in Dublin." "So it seems, ma'am," is the dry rejoinder. "Arbn't yeh surprised t' hear it?" Rather," repliea Kate, who is trembling lest the may in any way betray heruelf give me the telegram." Rose Dogherty hesitates for a minute for one Of those minutes into which seems compressed the feelings of years. And the simile is, to a certain oxtent, a true one, for we do not often all at once arrive at a determination, suddenly, as it seems tons, but the sadden resolve is rather the sudden crystalisation or essence of that which has been fermenting in the mind for an indefinite period. It is this which has given rise to the saying. love at fint sighV the common-place of which is that we each have an ideal, and grasp eagerly at the first convenient human peg upon which to hang it, and then call it by the high-sounding and grandiloquent name of love at first sight." The hate and desire of revenge, of years, has this minute culminated in Rose Dogherty's breast. Something impels her onward, she wonders at her- telf, and asks herself what is this sudden and ttrange emotion which thus rolls her, darkling, down the torrent of her fate. Ma'am," she says, in a low, hissing tone, "I know everything." Kate gives a start, almost imperceptible, but it does not escape the lynx eye of Rose Dogherty. Controlling herself with a violent effort, she says Everything! You are clever,Rose, but may I ask you what you mean by such words 1" I mean this," Rose continues in the same tone that I saw you wid MiathEr Felton in the church* yard at Dundinny." "Then," aaya Kate, with ominous calmness, "it was you who told that to my husband ?" Rose is not prepared for this; she had ex- pected at least entreaties and bribes to keep the matter secret. She glances at William, he is sound asleep with that odd ashen look upon his face. He tould yeh I" is all she says. "Yes." Did he till yeh this ?" exclaims the woman quivering with baffled rage. "Did he tell yeh that I'm the only wan he spaiks to an' opens his heart to, an' that he set me t' watch yeh 1" She pauses, astonished even, at her own lying audacity. "Did he tell yeh that?" Pale as a statue Kate slowly turns round and confronts the woman. She knows in her miserable heart and soul she has done wrong, that she has basely and treacherously acted towards her husband She has, but vainly, tried to pursuade herself that her conduct is justifiable since she has done it all for the sake of trying to retain his love. And to her husband Kate French means to confess her ruilt-but no one else-and although she may have been base and deceitful, she will not allow another to say one word in depreciation of him. If he is to De judged, line will judge him when she hears his Story from his own lips. Woman I" exclaims Kate, her face deadly pale, and her bright eyes flashing fire and scorn at her hearer. How dare you speak to me in such a manner I Were it not that I mean to confront yon with your master and to brand you a liar out of your own mouth, were it not for that, I say, I would turn you from my doors this minute! Go now! leave the room I" she commands imperiously, pointing to the door. As she speaks, William moves uneasily on his ehair, tries to rise, and falls heavily on the floor between the two women. Kate flings herself on her knees beside him, whilst Rose Dogherty stands and looks at both The woman's face is deadly pale save where the 8c4rs thew up seamed and livid, and one bright scarlet apot burns on her forehead, looking like the brand Of Cain. Help me to raise him," eries Kate how can you stand there stock still! Don't yon see your master is ill "I see's he dhmnk," she replies brutally, "and what's more, it's you that dhruv him t' the dh'ink I He tould me yeh'd do it," she adds as aLe leaves the room, thinking she may as well be hung for a aheep as for a lamb. Kate is utterly dazed between shamed pride and bitter humilation of spirit. She will not bel t ve Rose Dogherty's assertions at the same time she knows ehe has been so basely deceitful herself that her lower human nature urges her not to quite disbelieve what Rose Dogherty has poisoned her mind with. So as she sits on the floor, with her husbard's head on her lap, her tears raining upon his insen- sible face, of a truth William French is avenged. But Kate begins to become frightened at his appearance. She is shivering, and deadly cold herself; her husband ia shivering, but his skin is burning. Hastily placing a pillow beneath his head, she rings the bell and summons Pat. "Your master ia ill," she says quietly, as he gives an exclamation at seeing the prostrate figure. I thought as much meself t' day. ma'am," he replies compassionately. Shure he had th' si. k- nets in hi* face whin he wint t' th' dispinsary at Dundinny this mornin' I gave him some sherry,as he seemed ill," ex- flains Kate, and I fear it has gone to his head, at, we must try and get him up, and put him to bed." It is all easier said than done. Pat deftly takes off his master's cravat and shirt collar, and tries to induce him to rise. William French faintly understands what he is being told. With considerable difficulty, and the additional assistance of Bridget, a brawny-arioed country girl, they manage to raise him, and finally to get him upstairs and into bed. I beg yer parain, ma'am, but I don't like the looks av th' masther," says Pat, as he looks at the flushed face on the pillow, and listens to William's uneasy moans. During the years Pat has been a doctor's servant he has seen to much illness not to recognise i he common forms of it. He sees that it is not all the sherry which is the cause of William's uneasi- now. ""He'll be better after a night's rest," says Kate, who is quite convinced that the sherry is alone to blame. "The masther is not well, ma'am, this three days apast," replies Pat, earnestly. i, Now, ma'am, will yeh let me just take th' tax-cart an' go over for Docthor Sharpe 1" But Kate, not wishing to have another spectator of what she considers her husband's degradation, answers- Never mind it, Pat; I know h.'ll be better in the morning." (To be tontinutd. Lieutenant H. H. Kitchener, director of the survey in Cyprui, has been shot at by a native while engaged surveying in the Limasol district. He escaped unhurt. George Reader, a defaulting poor-rate collector who had absconded from Birmingham was traced to Birkenhead, and a police-constable met him at Seacombe Ferry ana apprehended him. Reader drew a revolver and shot himself through the head. Death was instantaneous. He was accused of embezzling £6CO. The Standard learns that the Borneo Trading Com- pany haa received permission to fly the British blue ensign with a distinguishing badge on board the yacht of the governor, and any vessels of the com- pany carrying an armament. All other vessels of the company used fee trading purposes will only fly the distinguishing badge.
|IRELAND.
IRELAND. INCREASE OF THE POLICE. It is announced from Dublin that the Irish Govern- ment have resolved/on immediately increasing the police force of the country. The proposition is to enlist a considerable number of recruits for a limited period; and it is understood that this is for the special purpose of instituting a system of nighl patrols. The recruits are to be taken mostly from the army reserve, and army, marine,and police pensioners. ANOTHER CONSTABULARY CIRCULAR. The FreemanJournal states that the follow- ing circular has been issued to the Irish eonstabu- lary "Every effort should be made by the constables in charge of stations to get some person who wjuld, or^consideration of a substantial private reward, give private information of outrages about to be com- mitted, and should the constabulary on such information succeed in making a detection and "neat, the reward would be paid by the. con- stables and no mention would ever be made of the informant's namo. The reward will. be increased in pro- portion to the seriousness of the offence and the num- ber of detections made pn the occasion. Of course, the most likely persons to give information are those who are engaged committing such outrages, and are in the confidence of the raiders and know accurately when such outrages are about to take place. The sub- inspector will confidentially communicate with the constables in his district, with the view of carrying out the arrangement.. soon as possible. The infor- mant is to be told that he will not be required under any circumstances to preeecute in any such cases, and that his name will never be mentioned to any person for giving information except to whom he will give it, and by whom he will be paid the reward, which will vary according to the nature and extent of the out- rage, from JNO to £40.£50, £60, £10, £80, and £ 100." ANOTHER SHOCKING MURDER. A shocking murder has been committed at Mulli- navat, county Kilkenny. A small farmer and labourer named John Long, and another named Brien, were drinking in a pub ic house, when an altercation took place. They left the house together with Long's wife, and were proceeding home, when the woman went into a shop to make a purchase. They followed her in, and, having taken more drink, began to fight. Long struck Brien with his clenched hand in the face. Tne latter knocked him down, and while he was on the ground literally kicked his brains out, Brien has been arrested. OUTRAGES. Two houses were on Thursday night malieioasly burned at Frank ford, King's County, because the occupants had paid their rents. Patrick Halloran, the herdsman of Mr. Enright, J.P., Trinaderry, who was shot near Ennislast month while sitting at his fireside, has died from his wounds. Tuesday's Gazette contains a return of the agrarian outrages committed in the month of November. The total number is 520. ThetDtal for each province is: Ulster, 44 Leinster, 129; Connaught, 110; Munster, S37. Two men, Connor and M'Cormick,have been brought up at Longford, on remand, charged with being con- cerned in sh )oting one Lawlor, a letter-carrier. Connor was discharged and M'Cormick committed for trial. On Thursday night a farmer named Michael Flynn, residing near Castleisland, was attacked in his house by a midnight gang of armed men. They fired several shots at liiin, lodging pellets in his right thigh, winch is fractured in several places. His life is ia great danger. No arrests as yet have been made. A special magisterial investigation has been held in the Bruff police barracks into charges preferred against 13 men of participation in the recent riot in the town, when the presiding magistrates, the police, and the military, were hooted and stoned by a large crowd. All the prisoners were returned for trial. A party of arn-ed men visited the house of a man named Peter Shanly, at Derryard, co. Longford, and warned him to pay no rent, and stated that if he did so they would "visit him again." While leaving they shot a large dog. Shanly and his son, hearing the shot, pursued the ruffians and fired after them. At the Dublin winter assizes Owen Norman and John Kelly were put forward to receive sentence for the murderous assault on Constable Glennon at Glas- nevin. Mr. Justice Hatrison characterised the assault as a most aggravated one, which had seriously en- dangered the life of the constable, who was still in peril. John Kelly, who struck the blow which caused such serious injuries to the officer, was sentenced to 10 years'penal servitude, and the other to seven years. THE LADIES' LEAGUE AND THE SUS- PECTS. r £ ° Mrs. Keating, of the Galway Ladie* Land League, received a communication from the Executive Council in Dublin informing her that from the following day the Executive Council would not he reiponsible for any debts contracted by the local branch in.catering for the suspects. The an- nouncement was received by the suspects with the greatest indignation and surprise, as they had under consideration the propriety of following the example of the other gaols, but had not finally decided on thedate. Une nf the indignant suspects says, A more wanton and flagrant insult has never, I believe, been offered to any body of men. This indignity, under the circumstances, is the greatest offered yet." Another says, "I imagine that it will serve the case of the Government more than anything that has yet transpired, as a number of men wholly unprepared for either the insult or the sacrifice are certain to peti- tion the Government for their release on any con. diiions." Several of the imprisoned suspects are, it is said, suffering from the effects of the prison diet, and those in Limerick Gaol complain bitterly of the manner in which their food is prepared. Five addi ional sub commissioners have been ap- pointed unde; the Land Abt. Eivil Fitzwilliam ha< lullscribed jBl 000. an.1 two other Irish landlords je600. to the funds of the Irish Property Defence Association. The Rev. Dean Quirke, the parish pric.it of Caqhel, hai refused to allow, collections to be made at the Chanel gate for the inspects' food fund. It is rumoured in naval circles that the Channel fleet will remain off the Irish coast until the condi* tion of the countiy becomes more promising. The Cork board of guardians have granted £1 per week outdoor relief to the wife of a suspect to continue during her husband's incarceration. A suggestion is, nnder consideration in Dublin to amalgamate the three property protection and do. fence as .ocintioiis now in operation in Ireland. iMotice* has been posted in the Rathmore district offei ing a reward for information as to the names of farmers wh.) tlave paid their rents. The police tore them down. Mr. James O Conner, sub-editor of United Ireland, has been arrested at the office of the journal. 33. L wer Abbey-otreet, Dublin, under the Coercion Act. The editor and cashier of the paper are alreadv in Kilmainham 7 On Thursday, at the Dublin police-court, a man named Joseph Swan was remanded, charged with wilfully setting fire to the Kevin-street police bariacks. Swan was employed at the barracks, but wa< under notice of dismissal, and when arretted at- tacked a sergeant and stabbed him in the chest. At Newbridge a large meeting of farmers has been held, when the fullest promises of support were giv.-o to the cuntinuance of the Newbridge Harriers lliiiif, which, owing to opposition, had been temoo- racily siupi.nded. Not a single farmer raised his v no againxt the hunting, and the meeting was most en; hufi;i'tic. :\fr. Herbert Gladstone, who was asked while at Ennis to receive a deputation of tenant-farmers, de- tltBed to do so, but offered to have an interview with Air. Par-on", the promoter of the movement. Mr. Parsons, in his turn, declined the interview, saying it would be useless, and some irritation exists lUll ng his friends. The boycotting of the Marquis Drogheda, at his residence at Moore Abbey, co. Kildare 1, Still continued All hIS labourers have left, and Emergency men had to be brought down from Dublin o do the work on the estate, but no one in the locality will supply them with provisions. The Marchioness s obliged to assist in all the household duties, and superintend the milking 01 the cows. The sub-commissioners have delivered judgment in several cases at Listowel, and reduced the rents in amounts varying fr'iir -i,*0 22 Der cent. It ia understood that appeal* will be entered in several ca-e*. Much excitement prevails among the farmers at Lixtowel at the resu ts. The commissioners arrived in Traleo in the evening, where 119 cases are d.)wn for adjudication. At a large meeting of tenant-farmers,held at Castle- vei nan, near Banbridge, resolutions were passed stat ing that while the recent Land Act has been a gre 't noon to the tenant-farmers of Ireland, they must ex pi ess their disappointment that the Coinmmis- •doners have so far failed in their administrative functions that the judicial rents fixed by them in lmny cases are inadequate to the interests of the tenant-farmers, and fall short of the spirit and inten- tion of the Act.1' The Comber branch of the co. Down tenant- farmers' association have passed a resolution stating that the greatest .statesman who ever legislated f r the amelioration of the wrongs of Ireland has p:t-sed all Act which is capable of doing justice to the tenant farmert if it be fairly and fearlessly admi. nistered. The tenants on the estates of the Marquis of Down- shire, the Maiquis of Drogheda, Lord Masserene, Lord Cloncurry, and Mr. Phillip Newtown, m Kndare and Wicklow, have resolved to pay no r.;nt until all the suspects are released. In many case* the houses of tne tenants have been visited by" Captain Moonlight" and his men, who posted copies of the No Rent manifesto on the door as wnli a, notices threatening death to anyone coming tu lerms with his landlord. j
TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT. THREE TRAINS IN COLLISION. FIVE PERSONS KILLED. Å dreadful threefold collision occurred on Saturday morning, on a branch line between the Noth London and the Great Northern Railways, in a tunnel cioxe by Canonbury station. The branch line in question is not more than a mile and a quarter in length, and of this distance about 500 yards Is occupied by a tunnel running underneath the high ground of Highbury. The line is worked npon the block system, and as a great number of people having business in the City travel upon it trains are run at very short intervals. There are three block signal stations between tbe Fin"bury Park Junction and Canonbury one at Finsbury Park; another about midway within a j quarter of a mile of the northern end of the tunnel; and the third is at the southern end of the tnnnil. The branch is worked by the staff of the North London Railway for the Great Northern Railway Company. When the 8.54 a.m. train from High Barnet reached the southern end of the Highbury tunnel the train was brought up by the North London signalman at the junction box, who tele- graphed back its arrival to the Great Northern signalman at the midway box. From this moment, unhappily, there appears to have Ween a most unfortunate and indescribable misunderstand- ing between these two signalmen, the effect of which was that as the next three following trains-two from Finsbury Park and one from Enfield- arrived at the midway signal station, they were severally tele- graphed forward and successively struck into each other with terrible force in the darkness of the Highbury tunnel. The first train managed to get out of the tunnel with some difficulty, and was the earliest to convey Intelligence of the colli- sion to the Canonbary station. But before any assistance could be afforded the two succeeding trains has crushed into each other, the engine of the Enfield train telescoping that which had been ju>t previously wrecked, partially mounting' the debris and doing serious damage Co many passengers prostrate and helpless from preceding shocks, when the engine of the fourth train ran violently into the guard's van of the third, thus completing the wreck of three trains within the short compass of a tunnel less than 600 yards long. The shock of the several collisions had extinguished nearly all the lights in the carriages, and the horror of the catastrophe was increased by the almost total darkness in which the tunnel was en- veloped. The cries for aid and assistance on the part of many passengers were drowned by the noise of the pleirn escaping from the several engines. Several per- sons who were unhurt escaped from the debris and made the best of their way out of the tunnel before any assistance arrived. When aid came and lights were obtained, the injured persons were first extricated aiid conveyed, on shutters hastily obtained, to the mouth of the tunnel, and thence to the German Hospital. Those who had succumbed to their injuries in death, to the number of five, were next extricated from the debris of the crushed sarriages and conveyed to a mortuary. The scene in the tunnel was all but indescribable. It was quite dark. No one there could see the horrors around and about him. It is known, however, from those who had the ill fate to be present, that the experience was agonising to an ex* tent beyond precedent even in railway disasters. Not only were the wounded groaning and shrieking from beneath the wreck of the carriages, but in every direction the uninjured and affrighted passengers were madly groping for light and air in the midst ot the darkness and in an atmosphere charged with scalding steam. Some, in their blind leap from the carriages, were pitched headlong on the line others, before at- tempting escape from the wreck, had first to dis- entangle themselves from the dead and the dying. The official list gives 20 as injured, some of them very seriously, but another account says that in addi- tion to these there are 55 other persons more or lesi badly hurt. BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRY. Most important evidence was taken on Monday at the inquiry by Colonel Yolland instituted by the Board of Trade respecting the accident at Canon- burv, and it is in no way prejudging the issue of that inquiry to say that the cause of the disaster is now clear. The first witness examined was Henry Hills, signalman at Canonbury Junction, who declared repeatedly that he had never given clear to the Great Northern line. He received successive calls of Be ready," and warnings "Train on line;" but to these he replied by giving seven beats," which meant in the North London code that the line was obstructed or blocked, though not absolutely. This caution was not understood by the man on duty In the Great Northern as an absolute, but as a permissive block." Almost the only im- portant discrepancy between the two witnesses was whether it was true in the first instance that six beats were sent, whieh would have been taken as an absolute stoppage. The question then arose as to two interpretations of the block system and the dis- tinction between that which is permissive and that which is absolute. Hills, the North London s'gnal* man, understands them to be both the same thing." He sent seven beats because he got no answer to six. William Hovey, on the other hand, the Great Northern signalman, understood the permissive block to mean that the driver should proceed with caution. The evidence on this point was so surprising that it led Colonel Yolland to ask, II I. it permissible for a signalman to in* troduce the permissive block system on the Great Northern at his diacretion ?"—& question which elicited from Mr. Oakley, general manager of the Great Northern Railway, the decisive reply, Such a permission is not given to any signalman." a Hovey confessed that he had to look to his instructions to see what the "seven beats" meant, that he had not time to read through all that was said, but he concluded it meant the permissive block," and so sent the traihi on-and he did this, as he declared, without receiving "Line clear" for either of the four trains between 8.59 and 9.14. All these trains were despatched into the tunnel, out of sight of each other within 15 minutes, and during the whole time, as Colonel Yolland pointed out, the indicator needle stood at blocked," having never once moved. Yet this witness has been four years and a half a relief signalman, and six years and a half an ordinary rignalnian-in all 11 years-and was appointed in the former capacity because of his great experi- ence and he himself admits that had he received the seven beats on the Great Northern system he should have stopped everything."
COLLISION AT MAN-CHESTER.
COLLISION AT MAN-CHESTER. A railway accident, resulting in injury to 15 per. sons, in some cases of a serious nature, has occurred close to the Central Station of the Cheshire Lines Committee, Manchester. Two trains, one from Chester, and the other from Glazebrook, timed to arrive within 20 minutes of each other, were late, and whilst the Chester train was standing just outside the station the one from Glaxsbrook ran into it. The accident is attributed to the dense fog which prevailed.
A SHEFFIELD GHOST STORY.
A SHEFFIELD GHOST STORY. For more than a week great excitement hot pre- ni!e,¡ in Pearl-street, Sheffield, owing to an impres- sion getting abroad that the cottages in a yard known as Johnson's-court were haunted. The "ghost has indulged in mysterious rappings late at night in the lower rooms of these houses, and whether the' knock. ings are doni by someone as a joke or not they have resulted in most jerious consequences. Mrs. Coldwell, a mid wife, has been so terrified that she was seized with apoplexy, brought on by excitement and fright, and died A crowd, numbering more than 1,000 people have gathered in the street for some nights pask, and the police have nad to be called in.
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A fatal lailwey collision occurred to a goods train which left Wolverhampton about 4 am. When nearing Wellington, Salop, the engine broke, and another heavy goods train, fotlow. following in its wake, dashed into the rear. The ei)gine of the second train was completely smashed, and several trucks damaged. The guard of the first train was killed, but the driver and stoker of the Second escaped unhurt. There has been a great fire at a distillery in Eapaume, near Rouen, the damage being estimated at 2,000,000f. The Duke of Edinburgh has sent a present of 10 brace of pheasants to the Seamen's Hospital at Greta. wich, of which he is president. Since the accession of the present French Admiral. ty Minister, both Government foundries and private w, ,i kg have been very busy with the manufacture of naval artillery. The 34 centimetre guns for the large ironclads are made at the former, while those of from 10 to 14 centimetres for the cruisers and large avisot are entrusted to the latter. The Right Hon. W. E. Forster will not, as at pre- sent arranged, return to London nntil after the Christmas holidays, when he will come over to atte"(i the meeting of the Cabinet, whieh, it Is erstood, »s to be summoned early in January.-—
! WISE AND OTHERWISE.
WISE AND OTHERWISE. Cream of ta ta The accompanying kiss. When a donkey kicks does he do it on his own be- hoof ? A profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial. We are paid for our suspicions by finding what We suspect. Strong language utterly fails to bolster a weak argument. k?Ve'h young dream" usually merges into matri- monial nightmare. Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life.—Douglas Jerrold. <« b i110?88! de*ler» describing a used-up horse, said he looked as if he had been editing a newspaper." Cultivate cheerfulness, if only for personal profit. You will do and bear every duty and burden better by being cheerful. If people said and did only what it was abso- lutely necessary to say and do, this would be a wolrld of silence and leisure. A Yorkshire woman is so cleanly that she uses two rolling pins—one for the pastry and the other for her husband's head. the difference between the preacher, the builder, and the architect of a church ?—One is the rector, the second is the erector, and the third the director. The Syracuse Herald agriculturist has seen an Ohio man who has struck a new idea. He has grafted a lemon on to a watermelon vine and raised melons filled with lemonade. A wicked and unfeeling correspondent writes to know if the tune the old cow died of was written in beef flat. Having never read or sung the tender lines, we are unable to stake our reputation on the subject. A young man who was kicked off the front door- step, while endeavouring to serenade his sweetheart, by her enraged papa, was too cautious to call him an old pirate, but he did not hesitate to designate him a free-booter. An aged negro was shewing the scars of the wounds inflicted by the lash when he was a slave. II What a ptcture exclaimed a sympathising looker- on. Yes, responded the coloured brother, dat's de work ob de old masters." A New York bachelor makes the pertinent and rather novel suggestion that a number of thrifty womer. might put themselves in the way of a fortune by opening a shop for mending men's clothes, darning stockings, sewing on buttons, Ac. Durinsr some continuous snow-storms the railway from Syracuse, US. A., to Oswego, was greatly ob. structed. A train which was blocked up on the road had to offer its passengers the usual amount of star- vation and impatience in the place of progress. Among the passengers was a lady with a little boy, for whom she had paid half-fare. The conductor, on his ninety-ninth round-taken, probably, for the purpose of passing away the time—stopped in front of this < m'*a? the tickets and looked at the boy. '.This boy is too large to travel for half-fare," said he. He wasn't when he started 1" retorted the another. In a French duel recently, just after the principals had crossed swords, a voice was heard calling, Stop a moment, gentlemen." They lowered their wea- pons, rather hoping that the seconds had agreed on some plan of healing their wounded honour without the necessity of fighting. But, alas, it was only the surgeon, who, being one of the advanced school, carefully took from his pocket a bottle containing a solution of carbolic acid and wetted the points of the swords with it. Then, with the air of a man who had drne his duty, he said, "Now, gentlemen, proceed: you may kill each other, but you run no risk of blood-poisoning." Ha.te.-A motherly-looking woman entered a D Jtroit post-office and handed the stamp-clerk a letter marked "In haste," and inquired if there was *?y,?»tr^<cJ?arge for writing thereon. "Oh, none at all. How soon will the letter go ont ? "In about 40 minutes." No sooner than that ? Well we might hire a special train and get it off in about 20 minutes." Would it be too mujch trouble ? Oh, none at all." She thought for a moment, turned the letter over three or four times, and finally said, I guess I won't ask you to hire a special train, but if you will be kind enough to telegraph my sister that I have written her a letter to tell her that I can't come till Monday, and to be at the depfit to meet me, and that mother didn't go to Toledo after all, I shall be ever so much obliged. Good morning." f < SCOTCH FBOVEBBS. Ye re maister o' yer ain words; but, ance spoken, yer word* may maister you. God never sen's mouths,but He sen's meat forthem. Raise nae mair deils than ye're able to lay. Naething should be done in a hurry but catchin' fleas. Sharp stomachs mak' short graces. There was ne'er eneuch whar naething was left. Bend the back to the burden. Be a frien' to yoursel' and sae will ithers. Better be alane than in ill company. Do the likeliest, an' God will do the best. Every man kens best whar his ain shoe binds him. American Slang.—Quite a lot of new slang has been opened up for trade. This is nearly altogether family slang for the use of ladies, and if they wish to be abreast of the times they will take out their pencils and tablets and note down the speci- mens. 'Catouche" is a very new word, and mean nice, sweet, pleasant. Coffee, for instance, may be catouche so may John Henry or Eliza Jane. When a girl is "flick," she is knowing. If she is "fency," the is just the reverse of knowing. If you wish to con- vey to your heart's idol the idea that you adore her tranneendant beauty, just tell her she is "oppressive." A Johnny-boy" is a new variety of the geaus homo who knows how to dance like an angel-supposiog that angels would so far forget themselves as to dance -who wears good clothes and who is an idiot in °ther respect. The feminine equivalent of the Johnny-boy" is generally called "Evangeline." If you disapprove of a place, or a person, or a party, you may either refer to it as a "snide," "gummy," or toppy. Excessive admiration wrecks itself upon expressions in such- words all "balmy," "harmonious," •gullitive." "Gullitive" seems to mean a great many things. It is a sort of non-committal word, whioh can pe ased to fill up a sentence or express a doubtful opilliora.-Detroit Free Press. Colonel and Mrs. Solon were among the promi- nent guests at the social given by Mr. and Mrs. Judge Jenks on Cottage Hill last week. Mrs. Gene- ral Jo bes, sister of Judge Jenks, and who returned from Paris only a month ago, was present. The natures of the Colonel and the Mrs. General aftsimi* lated, and in each other's conversation they whiled away the pleasant evening hours. The madam. represented the latest in Parisian art, and the. Colonel O-itdid himself in his efforts to prove America was not in the least behind the capital of fashion. How delightful this evening is," said the General's wife. u the language of dear Paris, it is so au fait." Yes,' said the Colonel. "It is,it is or, in our dear American lingo, it takes the cairn." On dit Am- ricans are so ready with jeu de mots have so many jeu d'esprits, my dear Colonel," saia Mrs. Jobes, twirling ner fan and bowing as she complimented her nation. The Colonel promptly twisted a bow side* ways and replied: "I tumble; e pluribus unum." II Ah, in my dear French, that means the same I suppose as tout ensemble." "I s'pose so," said the Colonel, "a sort of riokshay way of parley voo Franahay," and he put his thumb in the sleeve of his vest and put his head on one side as if he would aay. I know what you're talking about." "Do you notice the ignorance crasse of the lower orders 1" asked the General's wife. I tumble," said the Colonel putting on a sad look, "and I have often believed ongway was induced by nix fer shtay." And the Colonel said under his breath, "I guess that'll fix her. 111 noticed to-day the leaves were falling, and soon, very soon," said the lady, "we will need grande chere et beau feu." "You bet," said the Colonel, I use red flannels myself. Nothing else will stop the rheumaticks." "What does this brilliant assemblage remind you of, Colonel 1" Well, I hardly know," replied the Colonel. 'Tisn't exactly like a shindig, nor like a hoedown it's like a—a—" II Soiree, Colonel, a soiree," said the lady, helping him out. "So it is, so it is. Just like a swayree. I did not notice it before because I didn't have my on." And thus the distinguished Mrs. Jobes and Colonel Solon enjoyed the company of each other until the p»rty broke up. Then Mrs. General Jobes bade him "Au re voir, "to which the Colonel gallantly replied So long." An old darkey was endeavouring to explain his unfortunate condition. "You see," remarked he, "it was in dis way as far I can remember. Fust, I my fadder died, den my mudder married agin; and den my mudder died, and den my fadder married agin and somehow I doesn't seem to have no parents at all, nor no home, no nuffin." A young fellow riding down a steep hill, doubting if the foot of it was boggish,called out to a clown that was ditching, and asked if it was hard at the bottom. "Ay," answered the countryman. It is hard enough at the bottom, I warrant you." But in half-a-dozen steps the horse sank up to the saddle-girths, which made the young gallant whip and spur and utter oaths. You rascal," said he to the ditcher, "didst thou not tell me that it was hard at the bottom ? Ay," said the ditcher, but you are not half-way to the bottom yet." How delightfully absurd of you, Cicely dear, to be sure," said her friend last evening. "Absurd, dear. What is absurd?" "To think that you should be engaged to Eugene. Why, I've been engaged to him myself three times." A certain Dr. Sayers, an army chaplain, was the clergyman in charge of the spiritual interests of the soldiers in Fort St. George, Madras, and he used to like to tell his lads occasionally a piece of his mind in the plainest terms from the pulpit. So he closed up a sermon on one occasion with the following: 1. My brethren, this is a 'charity sermon' I'm preaching. I want rupees, mind you—I want rupees, and not dirty pieces of paper in the bag, having written on them, Sayers, old chap, how are you V I won thave it, mind you, I won't, I've ataod it lonf •aoiigfc!" .J' —
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A WORKHOUSE SCANDAL.
A WORKHOUSE SCANDAL. During an inquiry into the conduct of one of the nurses of Birmingham workhouse, who had been dis- charged by direction of the medical staff, several nurses and pauper patients declared that the medical officer-, resorted to a scandalous mode of punishing tef) octory inmates of the infirmary. The doctors had no p. wer of punishment whatever, but they neverthe- less directed blisters to be placed upon the neck, and shower-haths to be administered whenever they cli. se. The effect of these punishments bad been t. cause paupers to absolutely refuse to re-enter the infirmary. Upon these facts being reported, the work. house committee passed resolutions declaring their entire want of confidence in Dr. Simpson, one of the -itaff, and asking for a Local Government inquiry into the whole of the cases.