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Men and women crowded in behind Lhom, peering and peeping under their elbows and between their heads at the doomed monarch. Fervent expressions of loyalty and goodwill greeted him from these bystandersâ€"ex- pressions not rebuked, nay, sometimes even echoed, by the very guards who kept them back. “God bless you1 Majesty!” exclaimed Geor geEflingham, in loud, {cmless tones, Inning his head at the same time with 11 studied reve1.ence The blessing was caught up and repeated by many a. broken voice, and the King. re- turning his Salutation, looked his old officer kindly and steadily in the face. Whether he recognized him or not, George was the hap- pier for that glance during his lifetime. 1 . He would fuin have remained near him now, would fain have done him homage and returned to his allegiance even at the block, but the press became more and more resistless, and he was swept away by the crowd to a. distance from which he could with difficulty watch the last actions and catch the last We1ds of the King against whom he had rehelled. He saw him emerge upon the fatal platform with the same dignified bear- ing. the same firm step. He saw him expostulate for an instant with those around him as he asked for a. higher block, that he might not stoop lower than became :1 Stuart even in his death. He could see, though he could not hear, that the King was speaking with animated gestures in vin- dication of his conduct throughout the war ; but the royal voice rose audibly with the last sentence it ever spoke on earth, and every syllable struck loud and distinct {ma trumpet- blnst, while it declared in the face 01 earth and heavenâ€" “ I have a good causeâ€"I have a gracious God, and I will say no more i" it is a serious matter for a man of middle ageâ€"by middle age we do not mean thirty or fierty, or fifty, 'or any term of actual years but simply that period at which the bloom is «off the fruit once for all~â€"it is a serious mat- eer, we insist. for such an one to have lost his proiession. A fortune kicked down can We built up again, like a child’s house of cards; the same skill, the same labor, and the same patience. will not fail to erect a similar fabric. while those who have studied most deeply the enjoyment of health aflirm that the pleasure of making money far exâ€" ceeds that of spending it. Friends may fail or (he, old and tried friends, but the gap they leave closes of itself for sooner than we could have supposed possible, and although we cannot quite Had Eifingham lived to a hundred, he could never have forgotten the picture that was then stamped indelibly on his brain. For many a. year after he never shut his eyes that it did not present itself in all the firm strokes and glowing colors of reality. The sea of white faces upturned and horror-hound, as the face of one manâ€"the spars and props of the scafloldâ€"the little groups that broke its level lineâ€"the sparrow that flitted across his vision and diverted his eye and his thoughts for an instant even thenâ€"the Bishop’s white rochet and the Parliamentary Colonel’s bur- nished helmetâ€"the masked headsman’s gi- gantic figure and the clean sharp outline of the axeâ€"the satin doublet and the veiled head bowed down upon the blockâ€"the out- stretched hand that gave the signalâ€" His case was not unlike that of other pow- erful champions of his party. Many n grim Puritan, though prepared to resist with the strong band and to the death all assumption of irresponsible power, all aggressive interfer- ence on the part of the Crown, shrunk with horror from so desperate a. measure as the sentence of his sovereign to a criminnl’s death upon the scaffold, turned away with disgust from those who had completed the ghastly work when it was over. The very men who had fronted. him so boldly in battle enter- tained a certain respect for the brave antago- nist they had defeated, and the soldierlike feeling with which years of warfare had sat- urated their English hearts especially re- volted from the slaughter in cold blood of a. vanquished foe. Fairfax himselfâ€"“ the Gren- eral,” as he was then termed par crcellcncc by his party, and supposed at that juncture 5150 be the most powerful man in Englandâ€" was not aware of the execution till it was over ; *but Fairfax could not have stopped it even had be known in time, for with all his prestige and .all his popularity, the Man of Destiny was |twice as powerful as he. The deed was now fairly done, and Effinghnm, shocked, re- pentant, and sick at heart, resolved to bear arms no more. The mourners looked significantly in each -other's faces, and so they bore the \Vhite King ‘Ieverently to his grave. Efiinghum was very restless, very unhappy. The dull despondency of resignation that had oppressed him for-so many months, that he had soothed and blunted with constant duty and unremitting labor, was indeed gone, but in its place was a feverish irritation, a morbid desire for change, an intense thirst for happi- neas, which is of itself the most paii ml o-f won. and fell so fast that it covered coflin and hangings and pall with a. pure and spOLICSS '*l‘0beâ€"fit emblem of his innocence who slept ‘50 sound beneath. Go to the coffee-house and take another, we resign ourselves to the inevitable with sufficient calmness, and go on much as we did before. Even a lost love may be replaced ; or should the old Wound be too deep too staunch we cover it up and hide it away. ashamed, as well We may be, to own an incurable sore. But the pro- fesssion, if really a profession, is a. part of the man ; other privations are but forbidding him wine, this is denying him water ; it is an every day went. a perpetual blank that irri. totes him at every turn. He would fain be in mischief rather than remain idle; be doing harm rather than doing nothing. It is never too late to make reparation for evil, and George Eftiugham, although he had put it 013 till the eleventh hour, felt a stern satisfaction in remembering that he had thrown up his appointmenton theKing’s con. damnation, and that he at least was guiltless of Charles Stuart‘s death. Efi‘ingham was a brave stout soldier, but he grew sick and faint. and turned his eyes away. A hollow groan, more terrible, more ominous in'its stifled earnestness, than the loudest shout that ever shook the heavens, told how Charles I. had been beheaded. and the reaction that placed Charles II. on the throne had already commenced. And one more scene closed the eventful drama. The faithful servants who had attended him to the threshold pf eternity did nct desert his mortal remains when he passed its portal. The Parliament was memorialized and petitioned till that body. already startled at what it had done, gave permission for his burial. The decency and respect that had too often been refused the living monarch were not denied to his senseless corpse. It was brought from St. James’s to Windsor in a hearse with six horses, like that of any private gentleman, and attended by four mourning coaches and the remnant of his Majesty’s household. The service for the burial of the dead appointed by the Church of England was not permitted to be read ; but good Bishop Juxon, stench to his post even when all was lost, stood read:7 with the Prayer Book in his hand to have used the proscribed ritual. In a vault at \Vindsor Castleâ€"his own old Windsorâ€"amongst his kingly ancestors, he was laid in his last resting-place. A few high-born Cavaliers chose the spot for his nburial ; a few devoted servants attended the vohsequies of the master whom they loved. He lay, like atrue knight, in St. George’s Hall, with the banners of the noblest order of rchivalry waving over him, and winter sun- beams struggling through the emblazoned windows to gild his rest. \Vhen they carried him thence to the vault wherein he was to die, the sky that had been bright and serene clouded over ; a heavy storm of snow came [CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE CHAPTER XLIII. A GRIM PENITEN longinps, and a rebellious (encouragement of that discontent which asks repiiiingly, “ Why are these things so ?" He could not forget Grace Allonhy, thzit was the truth ; worse still, he felt that he would not if he could. To deceive another is often. as indeed it ought to be, a task of considerable difficulty ; to deceive oneself the easiest thing in the world. One knows the dupe so well, his petty weaknesses, his contemptible pliancy, his many faults, which he cultivates and cherishes as virtues. It is a poor triumph truly over a disanned and helpless adversary, so we do it every day. Eilinghum considered himself a proud man; it was the quality on which he most plumed himself. Never to bow his lofty head to human being, never to yield an inch of his self sustaining dignity, this was his idea. of manhood, this was the character he had trained himself to support. Perhaps it was for his pride that meek Grace Allonby loved him. ‘Vell she might. She hml humbled it, and put her little foot upon it, and trod it into dust. ,wherein he lay on a sick bed ; to request, nay, After his last interview with her. this pride forbade him ever to see her more. Even after he heard she was still free, after gossiping Faith had poured such balm unconsciously into his heart, something told him that it was not for him to sue again, that he must leave everything now to her ; and that as she did not seem anxious to communicate with him, and he was determined to remain stern and immovable towards her, the possibility was that they would never meet again. This point finally settled. it was no wonder that an irresistible longing came over him to visit Lord Vaux at the lodging if necessary to demand, an interview with Mistress Cave, who inhabited the same house; not to shunâ€"Why should he ?â€"the presence of any other lady who might happen to he with them at the time. That would in- deed be ridiculous. It would look as though there were something between them, as though she could influence proud George Effingham in any one hair‘s breath of his conduct, as though he cared for her, which of course he did not nowâ€"not the least in the worldâ€"and this was the proof. Also a mor- bid desire came to possess him of justifying his conduct before these old Royalist friends, of disavowing his share in the King’s death, a crime on which they must look with un- mitigated horror, and of proving to them that, though a strict puritnn and a determined adherent of the Par- liament in its previous resistance, he was no regicide ; nay, hewas now no rebel. He had but fought for liberty, not revolution; he had opposed, not the King, but the King’s dishonest advisers. Under proper restricâ€" ‘ tions, he would wish to see the monarchy res- tored, and in the person of the late King’s‘ natural successor. Certainly he was no rebel. Sincere, earnest George Effingham was turn- ing sophist. He was turning coxcomb too, it seemed, e why did he linger so long over his prepar- ations to go abroadthat tine winter‘s morning. Why did he put on his sad-colored raimsnt with so much care, and comb out those iron- grey locks and that grizzled heard with such an unpleasantconsciousnessthat he was indeed turning very grey. He had not heeded his appearance for years ; it set him well now, a worn and broken man, to be making thought ' of his looks like a girl. He turned from the mirror with a grim sardonic smile, but he smothered a sigh too as he recalled a comely brown face that was not so had to look at less than twenty years ago. and he wished, he knew not why, he had it back again just for to-day. Pshaw! he was not going wooing now. He began to think he was turning foolish. Why did his hand shake so as he tied his points, and at that early hour why so restless and eager to be off ! Then, although the day was fine for walking, keen and brac- ing as a winter’s day should be, Ellingham felt very hot as he turned the corner of that street once so uninteresting and so undistin- guished from the thousand and one adjacent streets, its fellows. There must have been some peculiarity in the street, too, else why should he have traversed it so often, examining its ditferent houses so minutely ere he stopped carelessly, and quite by accident as it were, at the one he sought ? It was reassuring, however, to be admitted by Faith, with her inspiring glances and well known smile ; it was not reassuring to he turned loose into an empty room, to await my Lord’s leisure, on whom, by a pleasant fiction, this visit was supposed to be made, and who, as an invalid, could scarcely be expected to be astir at halanfter nine in the morning, the early hour, even for those early times, at which George arrived. ~The Royal Conservators of Music at Leipsic has brought to notice two highly pr.» mising youthful violinists, one a boy of thir- teen, named Rhodes, from Philadelphia, and the other a. Copenhagen lad of fifteen, named Von Dnmek. They were tried at a concert with the most difficult and technical music, and acquitted themselves in such a manner that the German critics say among the future Wilhelmjs and Joachims these two will surely have a place. “ We know-him,” cried several of thejury ; “he was the worst in the deck.” One of'the jurors went on the stand and testified that he saw the man run out of Placerville in 1852 for robbing hen-roosts ! He turned a widow out in a snow storm be“ cause she couldn't pay the house rent. Several old-timers in the court-room testified to the bad character of the dead ' man. One man swore that the brother of Boggstone put the tombstone up, and did it in the night. It was a monumental lie and a. disgrace to the cemetery. The jl-lI'y acquitted. and Mr. Boggs left on the stage for Bedie with the tombstone. Boggsâ€"If a man has the use of a tombstone since 1856 it strikes me he’s got his money’s worth. Besides, this stone was a lie all over. Bill Boggstone wasn’t a. kind and indulgent father. He was utliieving three-card monte sharp, and had killed feur' men. A manner sculawag never was born. When he first came out here in ’49 he used to shave off the corners of $50 slugs and pay ofi‘.’ his hands in old bills on the Farmers’ Bank of New Haven. The Courtâ€"~01], I see. But even if you die, as I have no doubt you will, why do you steal another man’s tombstone ? Do you real- ly think it’s the correct thing ? How the room reminded him of that other room at Oxford, of which everyvdetail was was printed so indelibly on his memory. Photography, forsooth. is no invention of this or any other century. It came with mankind fresh and perfect upon earth. When Adam left the garden and knew he should see it no more, he took with him into the dreary waste of the outer world an impres- sion of his Paradise that had not faded when his eyes were dim and his years had numbered nine hundred one score and ten. Eve,too,carâ€" ricd another in her aching bosom, though she could scarcely see it through her tears. Their children, one and all, possess the art and its appliances. Effinghams positive was no less vivid than that of his fellow crea- tures. “ Sacred to the memory of W. Boggstone. Died Jan. 3rd, 1856. A kind father, an in. dulgent husband, and a true man. Raquicscat in pace.” The Courtâ€"You have the appearance of being a pretty healthy man. Why do you expcqt to die. , Boggsâ€"I’m going to Bodie to start in busi ness, andâ€"â€" (From the Virginia. City (Nev.) Chronicle.) William Boggs was arraigned before Justice Cary,of Carson, yesterday,charged with grand larceny, in stealing a. tombstone from the cemetery. The tombstone was exhibited to the jury. It reads : Boggs acknowledged frankly that he had taken the tombstone. The name on it was so near like his éwn that, by filling up the super- fluous letters with plaster of paris, he could use it himself in case he died. STEA LING A T01“ BSTIDNE [To 11E CONTINUED.) Will She Remain Forever a De- pendency of England? Tonoxrc, Dec. tillâ€"The assertion that an independent or annexation feeling exists in Canada is laughed at by all the leading politicians here. One local leader to-day, who does not wish his name used, when ad- dressed on the subject ridiculed the idea, and said people were too content under the present state of things to give athought to such a matter, at least for the present. Being asked if he had read the opinion of Mr. McMastcr, M. P. P. for Grlengarrv, gin-‘fl in the New Ymk Hmald and tolewaphed to an evening paper, he said yes, and if Mr. Mc- Master were to offer himself for re-election now, and the paper containing that interview circulated among his constitntcnts, he would not poll 300 votes in spite of his personal popularity and thogjnfluence he could bring to bear. “Ten or fiftEen years hence,” hesaid, “ things may have taken a turn and something may arise which will bring the question of independence to the surface, but annexation, never! Why, ninetyqiinc men out of every hundred in Ontario would revolt against such an idea. ; yes, and would fight, too. Professor Goldwin Smith and a few men like him, who are al- ways discontented with the existing state of things, and would agitate any change, no matter what, may favor independence or an- nexation, but beyond their narrow limits the feeling has no hold and will not have for a long time to come. Undoubtedly there are men who look kindly upon some change in our State in one of the two directions mentioned, but they are mainly to be found in Quebec, and, I really think. if agitation for independence or annexation were to take deep root in that Province. it would lead to a break-up of the Confederation. There are too many with British blood in their veins in this Province to agree to annexation. We have no grievance like the Americans had when they fought for liberty. We govern ourselves, and are free to do as we please. Britain controls us with a silken rein and as long as she allows us to go our own way we shall be content to remain, not altogether a dependency,hut, as We are in reality, her ally." Other politicians and leading men spoke in the same strain, but most of the gentlemen addressed said they had given no consideration to the matter, and the subject, they thought, was so far from engaging pub- lic attention that they, did not intend to. Several remarked that it was sheer impudencc for a New York sensational paper to meddle in our affairs to the extent the Herald is try. ing to do. “ It will do us harm," one gen. tleman said, “in England, and may perhaps hurt our credit. It would, for-obvious reasons, he the worst possible thing for us werea movement for independence or annexation to obtain any growth in Canada just new.” Many prominent men, members of Parlia- ment, journalists and others have received a circular letter from the New York Herald, asking them to- give their opinion over their own signatures on the question of a change in our political State. A New York special to the Evening Telegram says : “ Sir Francis Hincks writes to the Herald : There are no conflicting inter- ests between Great Britain and Canedare- garding treaties, and in the case of the , United States it is notorious that the Im- perial Government has offered every facility to the Canadian Government to negotiate on the subject of reciprocity. 111 the case of France I have always hold that Canada has herself to blame for being placed in the disadvantageous position which she occupies. She admits French merchan- dise on the same terms as the most favored nations, while France does not reciprocate. Canada has only to place an extra duty on French imports until France sees fit to change her policy.” Mr. McMaster member of Parliament elect for Glcngarry, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. “I am not sur- prised,” he said, “ that Sir Francis Hincks should declare himself a staunch advocate of the permanency of the present system of Government in the Dominion. He is an Imperial pensioner, a politician of the old-fashioned type ; he is a man of great pol- itical experience, and has lived in three gen- erations. His mind clings to the past glories of the Dominion, when he wielded the power of administration and was the representative statesman of the country, but he is unwilling to understand the will of the _ . rising generation of Canadians and is radi- cally against everything which is not com- prehended within the compass of his own imperial policy. He has taken occasion to make several misstatements regarding the meeting at Montreal at which the Political Economy Club was formed, and states that, beyond one member of Parliament and two , other gentlemen, there were no influential persons present. All the speakers were of Conservative politics, but Mr. Bouthilier, who is a Liberal. A speech was made by Mr. Bray, who stated the subjects which the Club was formed to discuss, among which he mentioned Imperial federation, Canadian independence and Canadianâ€"American annexation. This was followed by speeches in which Messrs. Perrault, Bouthilier. Honde, Desjardines and Duga boldly declared themselves in favor of an independent Canadian Government, which was a certainty in the near future. I made a speech in which I declared my oplniou with- out fear, but I deny that I spoke in favor of annexation. That is all there is about the so- called annexation meeting. That there is a strong feeling in Canada in favor of annex- ation is hardly true, but that there is a wide- spread and earnest desire for independence in the future is an incontrovertible fact. Canada has passed through six political stages in the present century. Who, in looking at her his. tory, can deny that she will soon have another change. Statesmen in Canada have two sets of opinions; one fo1 private and the other for public life. There is no ques- tion but that the opinions expressed in private ‘life are the convictions of the , heart, while those expressed in public life ale simply political mockcrs. Sir Francis Hincks himself will not deny that the feeling in favor of Canadian independence is lodged secretly in the highest circles of Dominion politics. Canada is fast approaching that maturity at which the country generally as- ;snmes the responsibilities of independent government. Her tciritories are being conâ€"‘ nected by railroads and her soil populated thickly. When her population shall have mashed 19, 000 000 them must be an entire change of government and its systems. We desire to know our political status. Are we to be dependent on England 1? If so, We wish representation in the Imperial Par- liament. Canadas greatest revenue comes from the customs dues and still we me not permitted to regulate our customs, dues. It is claimed that we have such a: right, but I will move that that is an error to agreat extent. Canada supports an exponâ€" sivc customs seivice on its American bounda- ries for the purpose of taxing Ameiican cx-, portations. These taxes are imposed simply to counteract the duties charged on exporta. tions to the United States. This is entirely wrong. Both countries could save them- selves the expense of these costly customs services by abolishing the taxes altogether, and establishing a free interchange; but Can- ada has no power to treat with the United States on this basis. If she were to repeal all tax laws against American products and manufactures, it would appear disloyal and unfilial to keep them up against England. The question is assuming grand proportions. The merchants and railroad men are pro- nounced in favor of Canada’s future independ- ence for various reasons. Besides the summercial issues, there is a. deep na- tional question, which will prove a potent factor in the settlement of the matter. The representative Canadian abroad is a man from the colonies. An Englishman comes from England and alf‘renchman from France, but a Canadian is a. mere cipher who does not belong to any place in particular. The dullest and most ordinary member of the CANADA’S FUTURE ! British Parliament is a far greater personage than the most brilliant- and powerful Cana- dian statesman. There is no field for the ambition of young men. Even Sir Francis has held a, mightier position in his time than any young Canadian can ever obtain. I do not mean to say that we are not as happy as is possible to be under our present state of Government, but there is a, definite stage in the near future of Canada’s experience which will call for a change. It must be Imperial federation, independent government or an- nexation to the United States. The heart of the country does not appear to be in favor of annexation, as it is feared that the United States would then be too unwieldly a nation.” Mos'mEAL, Dec. 30.â€"The following- char» zicteristic circular letter has been received by journalists and others in this city 2 THE Harald, New Yonx, Dec. 27. DEAR Sm,â€"-Will you be so kind as'to ful- nish us with a. letter ovei you own signature giving your views on the subject of Canadian independence, as indicated in the Montleal correspondence published in today’s I1 erald. A similar request has been addressed to a number of prominent men and editors in the Dominion. Please send your reply by mail at as early 21 date as possible. Yours truly, JAB. Gannon BENNETT. The Herald‘s sensationalism hasoreated a good deal of indignant talk here. The papers editorially, with the exception of the Witness, have ignored it altogether. The reports of the interview with Sir Francis Hincks, which ap- pears in Monday’s New York Herald, has given great satisfaction here. (From Leisulre Hour. ) Load Macnhiav, after his elevation to the peerage, desirgus to acquaint himself with the ballad literature of the‘day, bought 41 handful of songs from a street patterer in Seven Dials. It 18 said that, piocesding on his way home, he was astonished, on suddenly stopping, to find himself surrounded by hali- a gscore of urchins, their faces beamingwith expectatiqn. “ Now. then." said the historian, “ what is The Natal Mercury publishes the following communication received from its “ Own Cor- respondent.” who writes from near Ulu'ndi :â€" " Colonel Villicrs found the Prince Imperial’s uniform, or at least an agent sent by him suc~ ceeded in doing so for him. Klass, for such is the agent’s name, was carefully selected and instructed by the colonel for this some- what difficult task. He is a follower of the Mameses, and has only one eye, with which he sees further than most people do with their usual allowances of two. He was brought up in a. Boer family and speaks Dutch fluently. Klass went to the neighborhood of the kraal Where the Prince was killed; here he discov- ered by careful enquiry, that Xabango, the man who slew him, had been killed at Uiundi; he was of the Bomambi regiment. Klass had some difliculty in discovering the relatives of Xubango’, who had the uniform of the Prince. but by various means succeeded in finding the different parts of the uniform in different kraals. He brought a patrol jacket, riding breeches, leather waistcoat, shirt, belt, re-' volver, an ammunition pouch, With twenty- one rounds in it, and a small bag with some coins. All the clothes, except the breeches, were pierced in front with numerous assegai holes. There was a satisfaction in this to be able to show the Zulus that no holes were found behind; he fell like a soldier and a brave one. ‘His back to the field and his face to the foe.’ The revolver is smashed. It ap- pears he was wounded first by an assegai. thrown from a distance of about ten yards. He emptied his revolver at his enemies, who closed too quickly to allow him to reload, so he shied the revolver at his nearest assailant, and drew his sword to defend himself. The Prince’s what I may call ‘historical watch’ has not yet been discovered. The Zulus deny ever having seen it. They have also given up the arms and ammunition belts of the men who were lulled with the Prince. There can be no doubt about the identity of the uni- form, except the shirt which belonged to one of the escort. Klass interviewed one of the party who attacked the Prime; and it is won- derful how any of the white men escaped at all. The Zulus discovered them approaching long; before they reached the kraal ; before they had off saddled the Prince and his party were hemmed in on two sides, and affairs were brought to a. climax by the Basuto dis- covering 'the Zulus in the long grass ; had it not been for this none would have escaped. The Zulus stated that the Prince's horse bolted and made away as he was trying to mount.” â€"-Some Norwich druukards got hold of a former companion who. for eight months, had kept a pledge of total abssinence, induced him to drink, and wheh he was helplessly intoxi- cated, paraded him through the stxeets labelled “A horrible example.” such persistence that she finally consented to marry him. The engagement, like many another similar one. proved short. lived, hewever. The poor girl found that she could not cultivate a love for the man of her unwilling choice, and rejected him finally and absolutely. When the baffled lover found every appeal in vain, he became frantic, and, striking a tragic air, invoked the curse of Heaven upon her. and called upon the spirit of his departed mother to appear at her bed. side in the dead of night with a lighted candle in her hand and thus disturb her sweet repose. This curse, uttered with the vehemence of distraction, fell with crushing force upon the mind of the agitated and superstitious maiden. She brooded over the portion that appeared most terrible to her,â€" hc nightly visitation of the ghoft-like form of the young man’s mother, clad in the gem l merits of the grave, until at last the imagina- tion resolved itself into such realistic shape that she actually believed she saw the spirit form approach her bedside, candle in hand, and heap mute imprecations upon her head. The shock of the apparition proved too great for her frail system. She sickened at once, and two days later, despite the eiforts of the attending physicians, breathed her last. In her dying moments the rejected lover ap- peared at the bod-room door, so the story runs, and assayed to approach the sick girl. She saw him. and, being too weak to articu- late, impatiently waived him out of her presence with uplifted hand. Still the pa- rents urged him to go in and see her, which he did, knowing the while that he was violat ing her dying wish not to see her any more In the announcement of the death of th young lady under such peculiarly sad circum- stances, heart disease Was' ascribed as the cause, in accordance with the diagnosis of the case made by the physicians. ~AMassfichp§etts woman tried to suicide because her husband wgugdu’t let her open his letters. When she reaovc‘md 13h? did ‘Qpen them and discovered that one of his Ixelmiyes wanted to borrow twenty dollars. it ?” “ Oh! that is a good un." replied the boys, “ after we’ve a-come all the way." “ But what are you waiting for 7” said he, astonished at the lads' familiarity. “ Waiting for? Why to hear you sing, to be sure 1” MILWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. 5.â€"â€"A romantic love affair. with a sad sequel. has developed in this city within the past week. The fam- ily of the heroine of the romance resides on Third street, between Grand avenue and Wells street. It seems that she had formed the acquaintance of a young man employed in the cigar manufactory of Edward Ascher- menu 62 Co. and {.‘elmitted him to call upon her. The acquaintance ripened into love on his part, but not on hers. Therefore, when he proposed marriage she rejected him. say- ing that she did not. and never could, love him. The parents of the young lady interceded for the rejected suiter with ’R‘IIE LATE PRINCE IIYII’ERIAL’S UNIFORIVI. A NIILVVAUKEE BOYIANUE. fllAOAIJLAY ASA SINGER \Vilh :1 Spice of ’l‘rngedy in ll. No: a Single Survivor othe 'Ezu' Hridge Disaster. (New York Sun.) Lennon, Dec. 29,â€"The consternation end amazement with which the news of the calam- ity at Toy Bridge. in Scotland, has been re- ceived here are deep and universal. It is el~ most the only subject 01 conversation. Thous- ands of people who either know that they had friends on board the train, or had reason to think they had, are besieging all places where the latest intelligence from the scene of the disaster is to be looked for. The bulletins are surrounded by crowds eager for the least scrap of information. It was at first believed that over 300 people had gone down in the ill-fated train, and that not one survived. Later inquiries greuty reduce the number lost, and it is now believed that there were not more than 75 or 80 passengers on board, all of whom, with the engineer and other train hands, were drowned. The manager of the North British Railway tele- graphed the following official account of the disaster from Leuchnrs at 4 o ’clocl: this morning: The bridge was constructed from the first on is novel principle. This was to dispense with the stagiiig grid scaffolding which {ire ganei‘glly used in bridge building. Th’é piers and girders were to be eyecped on shark), and floated out to their destinstipu. The con- sistency with which this princinlp was carried out would distinguish this bridge qum' ail other structures of the same kind, even'if its size @1151 importance were less remarkable, When the Toy Bridge was opened for travel two years ago, its construction was looked upon as one of the greatest feats of modern engineering. It is the longest bridge in the world, being built over an arm of the see about two miles wide, with a strong tide and powerful current. The bridge was begun in 1873, and was com- pleted some four years afterward. the formal opening taking place on the 26th of September, 1877. The bridge was declared open with much ceremony.the occasion being a general holiday in the district. and over 200,000 persons were present. The bridge joins the counties of Fife on the south and Forfar on the north of the Frith of Tay, and the northern end touches the score at a western suburb of Dundee. Its length is 10,- 612 feet. In height it ranges from 97 to 75 feet above the tide level. and consists of 89 spans, the widest being about 220 feet in ex- tent, and these cover the channel up which the coasting vessels proceed to Perth, between twenty and thirty miles up the River Tay, which debouches into the Frith, some miles above Dundee. The bridge was constructed to prevent the necessity of disembarking freight and passengers at Tayport, on the Fifeshire shore, and transporting them by steamer over the ferry to Dundee, n task atâ€" tended by considerable danger during the stormy winter months. The traffic over the North British Railway, of which the bridge is 8. part, is enormous. Several large girders, along with the lust train from Edinburgh, were precipitated into the river last night. There were nearly 300 passengers, besides the company’s servants, all of whom are believed to have perished. It is impossible at present to get an exact statement of the number of passengers on the train at the time of the accident, but the estimates of the persons at the sta; tion when the train made its last stop before entering the bridge, leads to the hope that the number of persons lost will not greatly exceed the smaller number given above. The Press Asssooiation’s dispatches estimate the number lost at 90, all told. Up to a late hour this afternoon only six bodies have been recovered, but the work of searching for the dead is going on steadily, and with less difficulty as the gale diminishes in force. ‘ Several of the morning journals here ani- madvert in severe terms upon the calamity, and call the strictest possible examination into the character of the structure. It is held that the gale was no more violent than what the bridge was ostensxbly calculated to resist without strain, even under the additional pressure of the passing train. A strict inves- tigation will be made. The train left Edinburgh at 4:15 in the afternoon. It consisted of four third-class cars, one first-class and one secondâ€"class and the brakesman’s van. Dundee was reached a few minutes after 7 o’clock. A tremendous gels was raging at the time the train mn upon the long bridge, but there were no np- prehension for its safety, as the structure was considered one of the strongest of its kind in the world. The bridge at its highest point is 92 feet above the water and 78 feet at the lowest point, and consists of immense iron girders, spanning piers from 145 to 220 feet apart. The gap created in the bridge, through which the train from Edinburgh was precipi- tated last night. is not less than half a mile in length It includes eleven spans of 245 feet each and one 145 feet across the central and navigable portion of the river, which sv- erages from forty to forty-five feet in depth. The train would fall about eighty-eight feet before reaching the water. It is not known whether the bridge gave Way while the train was crossing, or was swept away by the gale before it reached the spot. It was a. bright moonlight night ; but the wind was blowing a. hurricane. Several men at the telegraph signal box, at the north end of the bridge, say that they saw the lights of the train enter on the bridge. and cross the lower spans into the high girders, then they saw a. sudden shower of fire, which, with the lights of the train, seemed to descend with great velocity into the river, then pertect darkness followed. The train had been sig- naled to the operator from the south end of the bridge at 7;07 o’clock. Discovering no in- dications of the approach of the train, the alarmed signal man endeavored to telegraph totlie south end of the bridge, but between fourteen and seventeen minutes communica‘ tion ceased. The wires had been carried down with the broken bridge. After daylight this morning. steps were taken as rapidly as possible to ascertain the exact location of the train under the water, for the purpose of removing the bodies. The Provost of Dundee and a party of citizens who accompanied him in a steamer to the scene of the disaster have returned. A search was made about the bridge in small boats, but. no trace of any survivor could be found. Divers were sent down, but were at first unable to find a trace of the lost train. It was not known at what point of the vast ruinâ€"nearly 3,000 feet in lengthâ€"the cars went down, and many attempts to find it were made without success. At length, after infinite toil, their hands la- eerated and bleeding they reached the brink of the awful abyss. The magnitude of the calamity was then revealed to their horror: stricken eyes. Roberts although stunned and dazed fora moment, determined to push his investigation still further. 'He crawled out to the point where the high gridders be- gin, and found that the whole twelve gridders had disappeared. Eleven of them were 245 feet in width. and weighed 250 tons each. They formed a sort of 9. tunnel in the middle of the bridge. The waves roared beneath, around the bare iron piers, and one- third of the whole structure had vanished, leaving thirteen stumps of piers in the Firth. The news was conveyed to James Smith, master of the Tey Briage stutionnnd it spread like wildfire. Crowds from Dundee and the adjoining neighborhood, thronged the north end of the bridge. To ascertain the real state of affairs, two men volunteered to venture out on the bridge to make a. personal investi- gation. They were James Roberts, Locomoâ€" tive Superintendent of the North British Rail- way, and Jas. Smith,wh0 was in charge of the Tay Bridge station. As they advanced upon the bridge the gale seemed to increase in fury, and almost swept them off their feet. They persevered, however, and made their way forward slowly and with difficulty, slinging; at times to the rails to prevent themselves from being carried away by the fierce storm and flung into the boiling waves of the Firth, ninety feet below. THEE CALAMI'I‘! AT DUNDEE. THE \VRECKED BRIDGE In an article of which the substance is given in the telegrams, the Toronto Globe raises its voice vigorously against the Mom treal movement for independence, presenting as the great objection to it the argument that Canmla cannot) stand alone in the presence of the United States, but must inevitably be swept into the Union by the centripetal force of “kinship, community of origin, language and ideas.” For a people with whom it de- signs to own kinship the Globc calls usagreat many hard names; but then, on the other hand. it compares the position of Canada. to that of Mexico and Indian tribes. But “'0 do not remember to have annexed Mexico, though ceitainly when a Mexican province made itself independent and wanted to come in we did not shut the doors. â€"â€"-“ Does he know anything?”auxiously inâ€" quired'a friend; banging ox‘er the 13‘6eg of thé man who had just’fallen from the roof of‘a house. -‘ Don‘t“ know, I’m sure,” the‘ phy7 sician replied. “ He never did know any: filling, but you can’t tell what eifect the fall may have had upon him until he regains coni scioqanesg,” ‘ ‘ In a recent number of the Golos is found the following strange story, copied by that journal from the leading newspaper of War- saw: A Jewish peddler, recently travelling on foot through the Grodno district, was at tacked in a. wood by a footpad, who robbed him of all the money he had about him and then let him go. Proceeding on his way the plundered peddler met a mounted genderme. to whom he related his mishap, and who proceeded at once to search for the robber, accompanied by the plundered man. They soon came up with the object of their quest. upon whose person the stolen money was found, as well as two.clasp-knives and a pocket-whistle, of which, “unconsidered triiles,” the gendarmc took possession. Hav- ing bound the culprit’s hands behind him and attached him to the gctidarine’s saddle by a cord, they started for the nearest village, the peddler on foot, the police officer on horse- back. Presently it occurred to the latter that he might ascertain what sort of a tone could be produced by the confiscated whistle, which he accordingly‘put to his lips and blew with untimely vigor. Straightway there ap peared upon the scene a horde of armed brig~ ands, who surrounded the party, and after freeing their comrade from his boudsmt- tacked his captors. The gendarme put spurs to his horse, broke through the circle of his assailants, and got away with a bullet in his shoulder. But the unfortunate peddler. un- able to escape, fell a victim to the brutality of the bandits, who hacked his body to pieces and left his mutilated remains on the road. Preparations are being made by the district authorities to surround the wood in which this band of malefactors has fixed its headquarters. Such enterprises, however, are as rarely successful in Russia nowadays as they were of yore in the kingdom of Naples or the Papal States. No matter of what material the parts were construstcd, whether they were iiou receptaâ€" cles for concerto, huge lumps of lil‘lcliWOl‘k weighing over 200 tens, or iron girders of 190 tons, they were all finished on shore and floated to their destination. A large part of the foreshore on the Fife side had been leveled and provided With a. concerto floor, on which the piers could be built. For the. smaller piers the whole lower part up to low water was built up there, an iron shell with brickwork in it leaving a hollow in the center. As every six hours the tide left the level floor, there was no difficulty in this. At a. rising tide two barges were then brought alongside the pier and fastened to it, so that a. further rise of the water must necessarily lift it off its resting place, and keep it suspended between the barges, in which state it ‘ "is towed out to its destination “land lower by means of specially-constructed hydraulic apparatus till it stood on the river bed, after which the connection between it and the barges were severed, so that the rising water could clear the latter and leave the pier standing on the river bottom. It had now to he sunk to the rock, and for this purpose the top was closed and air pumped in, which by exerting the pressure on the water inside, would force it out below till the pier was quite dry, so that workmen could descend in it and excavate the material at the bottom. The pier would of course sink of its own weigh as the excavation proceeded, and when the rock was reached the working chamber at the bottom and the central shaft were filled with concerto, making the mass :1 solid piece of brickwork and concerto encased in iron and resting on the rock. For the large piers, founded on gravel. a somewhat dili'erent process was adopted. For these it became expedient first to construct an artificial rock. capable of carrying the enor- mous weight of the pier. superstructure and train. A cylinder of 31 feetdiumeter,0f1na.le- cble iron plates, was first built on the level floor of the foreshore. As far as it had to penetrate into the ground it was provided with a lining of brickwork. This height was generally about twenty feet. Above that point the cylinder consisted of iron only. Its purpose was simply to extend the. pier to above the water line. and thereby to afford means to handle the mass. to protect the divers working in it during the sinking,r against the strong current. and to give thosein charge of the work an opportunity of judging of its position. This part was only temporarily fixed to the lower or permanent part, and could be taken 011 and used again after hav- ing answered its purpose. When completely erected on shore the structure had it height of 40 or 44 feet, and a diameter of 31 feet, and resembled in appearance a. huge gas- holder. Its weight was about 200 tons. Two large barges, one on each side. were fastened to it, and as described for the smaller piers, the rising tide would lift it off its resting-plead, and it could then be' towed out to its destin- ation and lowered down on the river bed. It was a. curious andinteresting sightâ€"this pon derous mass handled with as much ease and precision as if it were a. small model instead of a, gigantic cylinder of 700 square feet ureaz and more than 28,000 cubic feet contents. Securely fastened to the barges it could Weather the strongest gales. The Tey, at the site of the bridge, is about two m1les broad. On both sides the bed is composed of trap lock but in the centre the rock slopes dqwn to toe great a depth to be 11,8efu1 and it covered by, first, a stratum of gravel, then send, and lastly clay and boulders. The gravel is found at depths of about eighteen feet, and so solid as to be quite Thirteen of the spans over that part of the river which is generally used for navigation are 245 feet long, and the piers are so high that at the highest water there are 88 feet of clear waterway left, more than sufiicient for the class of vessels plying from Dundee to the places above the bridge. The girders com- posing these spans are placed so wide apart that the trainseun pass between them! the roadway being fixed at the bottom of the girders. In other parts of the river this great height is not required, and the piers have therefore been kept much lower, the top of the span in this part being level with the bot- tom of the large ones, and the rails being laiul on cross sleepers resting on top of the girders. These high girders are the ones that toppled over in Sunday night’s gale, capable of Supporting the weight of the piers. These are eighty-five in number, supporting spans at varying lengths. Those piers which are founded on the rack consist of two cylin- ders of nine feet 811; inches diameter, while those standing on gravel, and supporting spans 9f the same length, have the diameter of these two cylinders enlmged to fifteen feet, and tlieii top weight is gleatly reduced by sull- etituting for the hemy brickwork above high water cast iron 00111111115. fixed togetliei by heiigqutel and diagonal transverse brac- ing. \Vlmt son 01 n Turnout a Russian Po- liceman Rained. AN UN'I‘IJI EL! \Vll lfl'l'LE. CANADA AND NIEXICO (New York Herald.) i â€"â€"M1s.Butle1 (M1ssThompson) whois still engaged 11an he1 picture of the “Defehse of Rorke’ s Drift, ” 11113 111161 11. 1111111911110 Rorkol 11 Drift from which to paiht e1ected in 111 gal:- den of the houée where, she 15 staying; at 0151. mouth. (F 10111 the New Haven Rog1ater ) The Rev. Caivin Wiiliams. a colored evan- gelist was brought before a Stoningtoh Jus- tice the other day, charged with kea‘ping‘ an unlicensed (10". Upon beinp asked to piend, he xcplied that; he would fl1st opbn the com with p1aye1. and immediately fell upon his knees and oifeied a ienicnt petition remem- bering particularly those engaged in his {iio‘é- caution. He then stated that the dog was the inoperty of his wife, who belonged to the 11:1: diun t1ibe. Judgmwt Was suspended for We weeks. (From the Red and Gun.) Here is a bit of evolution study. Our friend. Mr. A. W. Hubbard, of Mugogg, P. Q.. is in a. muddle. We do not wonder at his soul’s per- plexity. Mr. Hubbard set his traps for foxes. He found them full of skunks. Urged on by the market quotatxons of skunk pelts he ac- cepted the situation, removed the unsavory prey, and set the traps for more. Then came a new surprise. Set for foxes. the traps caught skunks; now set for skunks, they caught only crows. The baffled trapper could not eat crow; so accepting the belief that the traps wexe bewitched, he set them for the buds, and of couxso caught foxes! “ Don't mention it,” was the answer. “ If I took any trouble on your accoum it’s all right and you needn’t thank me. I’m always willing to oblige anybody who can appreciate it. Purty cold day, isn’t it ?"-â€"1)etroit Free! Press. A 001.0RED EVANGEhl-ST'S 09G. “ Why didn’t you 'tell me you had this money ‘3” domanded the policeman. “ Why didn’t you ask me 5’” “ Didn’t I say I took you fora. vagrant, and you didn’t deny it, either I” “ Well, I didn’t know anything about your city laws,” quietly replied the old man. I’ve got two married daughters, and I came in to buy each of ’em a $600 piano for New Year's, but 11' it’s ag’in any of your laws I’ll take the next train for home. I’m gitting yurty old, and I don’t want no fuss with anybody." ” Well, you might have saved youfself val] this trouble," said the oificer as he escorted him to the street. [IO‘V T0 ()A'l‘l II [ERO‘VS, SKUNICH AND KNOXES. ” Any friends here 1’” “ No.” “ I think you are a vagrant,” continued the officer as he took another look at him. “ Mebbe I am,” sighed the old man. “ And I think I‘ll take you down.” “ Well. I’ll go along." The oflicer egcorted him down to the sta- tion house, registered his name, and then proceeded to search his pockets. Each one panned out a “ wad" oimoney, making atotal of $1,000. “ My dear fellow,” said Lavender. “it‘s 31 very nice to talk about economizing and keep ing a right rigid account of expense and al that sort of thing, but I’ve tried it. Two weeks ago I stopped on my way home Satur- day night, and 1 bought just the gravest little Russia-leather, cream-laid paper account book you ever saw. and a. silver pencil to match it, I said to my wife after supper. ‘My dear, it seems to me that it costs us a lot of money to keep house.’ Em 1y yesterday morning 9. pooxly dressed and seedy looking person about fifty years old entered the Postotfice and pxoceeded to warm his hands at, one of the registexs He made 110 inquirie§ about mail. and after he had been lonflng around for two hours a police- man got his eye on him and asked : (From the Invergordon Times.) The winter medical sessions of the Glasgow Andersonian College was opened on Tuesday of last week, by Dr. Andrew Buchanan, presi- dent of the. Faculty of l’hyscians and Surgeons. Dr. Buchanan, in the course of an address on “The Age of Biology," alluding to the theory that fever often proceeded from contaminated milk, said he thought many of the citizens of Glasgow some time ago overstepped their province in delivering an authoritative opinion' on a subject of which they knew so little as the causation of fevers. Speaking of alcohol, he said if he was asked whether alcohol be a, good or bad thing, he was bound to answer, in accordance with his own experience and the experience of many trustworthy men commu- nicated to liimrthut he held it to be a good. thingâ€"s good gift of God to man, which hu- man perversity alone had converted into an intruinent of evil. (Applause) Now, how should such a gift be received at the hands of the great Giver of all good? Should they spurn it from them, and declare in their wis- dom that it was an accursed thing which they could not receive or should they receive it humbly and thankfully, and use it without abusing itâ€"that was, to use it that they might obtain from it the benefits intended for them, and amid the evils consequent upon abusing it? (Applause) It was to his mind, there- fore. quite clear that all who entertained these views of the beneficial action of alcohol upon the human body ought to partake of it : that they had a double sanction, moral and relig- ions, in so doing; and that for any man, directly or indirectly, to prevent them doing it was a wrong action. contrary to the dictates both of morals and religion. 011 the other hand, it was admitted on allsides that alcohol taken in excess was a poison, and destroyed every year innumerable human lives. It was admitted that the same unanimity that alco- hol deprived a man of the use of his reason, and so rendered a man dangerous to himself and to all who came near him. Alcohol was therefore a full and ever-flowing source of dis- ease and immorality and of crime. Total abstinence would never be acceded to by the majority of men, who felt in their own per- sons that alcohol did them good. and many of whom had, besides, a rational conviction that it was a substance eminently fitted to act beneficially on the human body. “ She sighed and said : ‘I know it does anvy, but I'm sure I can’t help it. I'm just E economical as I can be. I don‘t spend, half much money for candy as you do to; cigars.‘ 5‘ Well, sir, she waijust delightedrthogghfi it was a. first-rate plan, and the pocket ae- eount book was lovelyâ€"regular David Cep- perfleld and Dora business. Well, sir, the next Saturday night we got through enppex‘~ and she brought out the account book ’ as proud as possible, and handed it over for in: spectiou. On one side of it was, 4Received from Lavvy $50.’ That’s all right l Then' I looked on the other page, and what do, you think was there '4’ tbpent it all I” Then I laughed, and, of course, we gave. up the ag- count book racket on the spot, by mutual consent. Yes, sir, I've been there. and I know.what domestic economy means, I tell you. Let’s have a cigar.” “ Say, old 'man, have you any business here ‘9” Winter.” ll0“/ SIRE KEPT AN EXPENSE AC- CUUN I‘. “ I never take any notice of personalitiee‘ so I sailed right ahead. ‘I believe, my deep, that if we were to keep a styict accoung of everything we spend we could tell where to cut down. I’ve bought you a. httle account book, and every Monday morning I'll give you some money, and you can sen it down on one side. and then during the week you can set down on me other side everything you spend‘ and then on Saturday night we Can go over it and see just where the money goes and how we pan boil things down a httle.’ . DR. BDCIQANAN GEN Alfijflllul. Well, 1.10,” was the reply. Any work to do ‘2” No: I kmder thought I'd lay off this DQING A FAVQR.