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The perils of the desert vanished when they were once facud. Gen. Gordon, as he advances, [sweeps away film last vestigea of Egyptian oppression and misruie. He ap- points native rulers and rallies tribe after tribe to his side. His genius, not Mr. Gladstone’a, saves the Ministry in this emergeucv. Scouts report Osman DigL-a massing his men near a defile closing the road from the coast, at the spot where he defeated Tahit Pasha. It is supposed his plan is if he fails to reduca Tokar before the arrival of the English troops to give battle Mi the de- file . The position which was presented by four privates was numerously signed, and purportei to be endorséd by the whole Egyptian army, which objected to being employed in a. Christian expedition. Gen. Sir Evel§n Wood declares the signatures to be forgeries. The muiiuy has not shaken the confidence of the English oificers in the Egymianfitropps. _ Gen. Gordon has had a. proclamation posted at Khartoum recognzing E1 Mahdi as the Sultan of Kordofau, remitting half the taxes, audplaciug no restrictions on the slave trade. The Aruba of Khartoum express great sntififaction. There is the best reason to believe: the disbandment of the Egyptian army, al- though not abéslutely decided upon me an urgent measure, is yet (Equally mauled. An order was received from London to- day that no officers of the Egyptian: army be employed in the presenn expedxtioxz. The order creates fresh confusion, as u. dozen officers are already on the way to Sunkim. The rebels fired on the forte to day, but soon retired. Tokar is hotly pressed by the rebels, who have turned against the town a. number of Krupp guns recently cagtured {pom the Egyptians. Reports from Token: are contradictory, but they indicate that the garrison will be able to hold out. Gen. Gordon’s arrival at Berber on Monday morning was known here in the afternoon. The copious despatohea since published have relieved public anxiety and removed the greatest immediate danger which threatened tha Ministry. Some shots firedvbir the rebels to-day reached the military headquarters. Baker Pasha. had a. narrow escape. Aspeoial says what; the country now watches is the movements of troops to Suakim and Gen. Gordon’s progress to- ward Khartoum. Gen. Wood, the moment he received orders having acted with characteristic energy, by Monday it is expected that the whole force will be in motion, and before the and of the week 5,000 troops will be at- Sua‘him. A very severe gala raged over Belfast on Jan. 23rd, doing great damage. Alderman Patrick Murphy was sworn in High Sheriff of Kilkehny on Jan. 17th. Lord Mayor Cleary. of Dublin, will pro- bably be a. candidate for the M. 1?. vacancy in Meath, and young Justin McCarthy for that in Cork. Gen. Wood complains of the disorganizaâ€" tion of the Egyptian army, mused bytbo despatch of most; of the Egyptian officers to Suakim. In case the Mahdi marches north, as he threatened, Gen. Wood will claim the support of the English troops. The fieath is announced of ColonelBlood Smith. of Fedamore House. He was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Clare Militia, and a. Sub-Land Commissionex. Gen. Sir Evelyn Wood is sending & corps of Egyptians 2,000 strong up the Nile to maintain communication between Assouan and Korosko. The first division sets out from Calm today. Patrick Clancy, stationmuster, Ballin- graue, was fired at on Jan. 24th, and shot through the head, as he was waiting the approach of attain from Tmlee to Lime- rick. The Times says Gen. Gordon’s proclama- tion as regards slavery means the present mission has nothing to do with slaves, and not that he desires to encourage the trade. Admiral Hewitt, who is in command at Suakim, has been trying to negotiate with the aheikhs supposed to be friendly on the Red Sea. littoral‘to'the south of Triukitat ; but all his advances have been repelled. Since the fall of Sinkat all the Arabs are hastening to array themselves under the standard of Osman Digna, the leader of the rebel forces. In the Irish Land Court one week‘ re- cently four estates, situated in the counties of Tipperary, Dublin, Limerick and Mayo respectively, were offered for sale ; but not even a. single bid was given for any of them. The date now appointed for the concen- tration of the forces at Suakim is Feb. 28th. The advance movement to relieve Tokar will begin about the 55h of March. General Gordon’s lVIis'sion to the Rebels Successful so Far. A last (Sunday) night’s London cable- grsm says: The preparations for the war in Egypt which England is now making indicate that the Government anticipates a more serious campaign than a. mere expe- dition of relief to Tokar. Besides ordering a flying column consisting for the most part or marines to operate from Suakim, the Government has directed the main strength of the expedition to operate from Trinkitat. An immense transport train has been col- lected at Cairo sufficient to supply the expe- dition with material for 7,000 troops. It is supposed that after effecting the relief of Toke: the expedition will force a. road to Berber, so as to enable Gen. Gordon to bring down the garrison and fugitives from Khartoum. Between Ismsilia. end Suez more than 1,000 camels have been collected for_the expedition. Gen. Graham, the oommauéer-in‘ehief of the expedition, will make no forward move- ment for the relief of Tokar from either Suakim or Trinkitab until his forces amount to 5500 English troops with com- plata equipments. “ Only think of it I” exclaimed a. Chicago girl, “ I weigh 120 pounds in my stockings." uDo you?” replied her cousin from St. Louis, glancing at the feet of the first speaker; “I wouldn‘t have believed it. How much do you weigh altogether? ” Thjy never speak a2} thgy passjgy. . - Women are gradually making greater headway in the paths of industry hitherto occupied wholly by men. The latest atep in this direction is the application of a. woman in San Francisco for the position of driver on the ears of the City Street Rail- way Company. She has not yet been appointed. u ’Misa Louise Alcott has had a curious ex- perience in the matter of falling in love. She declares that although now 50 year! old she has never felt the slightest touch of love for a man; but that she has frequently fallen in love with pretty girls. For this reason she thinks she has a. man’s soul in a. woman’s body. “ Dear me I” cried Mrs. Blossom, as she laid down the paper, “ it does seem to me as if the militia fellows are always in trouble. Here’s an account oI a recent in; apeotion where the company turned out fifty-three men. Too bad, ain’t it ‘2” THE REBELS ATTACK England’s Energetic Preparatiuns for the Expedition to the Eondan. THE SOUDAN UPRISING. Latest from Ireland. For and About “’omeu. SUAKIM‘ The Population oi the l’eullcntim‘iee aran ‘Vhlu They Did Last Year. The annual report of the Inspector of Dominion Penitentieneejust brought down to Parliament shows there was in the year 1882 83 a. net increase of fifteen in the con: vict population of the Dominion. The Kingston returns show a. decrease of 66; St. Vincent de Paul, a decrease of 8; Dor- ehester, increase 24 ; Manitoba, increase 43; British Columbia, increase 22. The number remaining in confinement at ~King- ston on the 3031 June leet was 512 males and 23 females ; tetci 535. During the year 129 males and 7 female convicts were re- ceived, and 194 males and 8 females dis- charged. At St. Vincent de Paul the total number of priscners on the 30th June was 389. all males; received during the year, 112 ; discharged 120. At Dorchester the number in canfinement WM 120 males and 5 females; received during the year 57; discharged 33. At the Manitoba. institu- tion the number of prisoners at the and of the year was 96 males and 3 females ; re- ceived during the year 73 ; diecherged 43. In British Columbia. the number in confine- ment was 74 ; received during the year 39; discharged 17’ The value of labor per- formed in each penitentiary was as follows: Kingston $19,457; St. Vincent de Paul 343,992; Dorchester $12,369 ; Manitoba. $2,831 ; British Columbia. $38. The expen- diture in connection with each institution was: Kingston $102,916; St. Vincent de 138411881659; Dorehester $41,860; Mani- toba. 4£6,165 ; British Columbia. $19,847. Sir John Macdonnld [mid he was .an officer of the Quebec Government, and with the consent of that Government tie-per- iormed certain duties in connection with the cffice of High Commieaioner, for which he received $2,000 a. year. Sir Leonard l’illey said, in reply to Mr. Lister, that it was the intention of the Government during the present session to legislate regarding the benefifi mutual iu‘ surnnce sonieties. Sir John Macflnnaldâ€"It is the intention of the Government so to provide by & peggnigry grnfnt. _ ' Mr. Cdngain asked a. question regarding the employment of the {1011. Hector Fable in Paris, France. An Old Man and [lie Wile Ssabhcd In Death. A Vinnetlm, 111., dospatch says: J. L. Wilson, an aged resident here, and his invalid wife, were found dead in their cot- tage yesterday. The body of Wilson was found on the first floor, his head and body showing a number of blade outs, which had been made with 9. sword, belonging to seen of the dead men, which had been hanging; up in the house. His wife wes found lying on the bed upstairs with several stabs in the body. The position 0! the remains showed that she had made frantic efforts to protect herself from the assassin. The motive of the murder appears to have been robbery. A gentleman guest whom Wilson had been entertaining has disappeared. Wilson was wealthy, and always kept .& large sum of money about the premises. The house had been thoroughly rifled. Mr. Irvine asked whether it is the inten- tion of the Government to make a provision for paying the inspectors appointed. or to be appointed, under the Liquor License Act of. 1883, in counties which have adopted She Canada. Temperance Act or Dunkin ct. Sir Leonard Tilleyâ€"No additional secur- ity has been taken by the Government. I am advised by the Minister of Justice that a. debt; due to the Crown has, by law, a right; to precede other debts of the same degree. Instructions have been given to seek to enioroa this right; against the assets of the bank. If the Government ' is not: able in this way to realize the amount of their claim, Mr. Ogilvie will be called upon to make good the deficiency. Mr. Bolton asked, Has the Minister of Finance. since the suspension of the Ex- change Bunk, demanded or obtained any Security for the repayment of the $100,000 advanced upon the strength of the Hon. A. W. Ogilvie’e‘ letter of guarantee? If not, has he caused any legal proceedings to be taken for the recovery of the said Bum ? If no such security has been obtained, find if no legal proceedings have. been taken for the recovery of the amount of the said advance, in it the intention of the Govern- ment to institute such proceedings, and, it 30, against whom and when? A \Vomnn Fatally Shot at Her Own Fireside. A last (Friday) night‘s Knoxville (Tenn) 1 deapatch says: James Hunter, a wealthy farmer living seventy-five miles east: of here, in Green County, lately received a. large sum of money. He, with his wife and other members of the family, were sitting round the fire last night, hislwite being in a rocking chair, when a gun was fired through the window, three bullets passing through Mrs. Hunter’s head, killing her in. stantly. It was supposed it was intended to kill James Huntep, bus his wife rocking to and fro received the shot intended for her husband. Two brothers named Moore have been arrested on suspicion. They had a. rifle carrying the same sized bullet that was found in Mm. Hunter’s brain. Their tracks correspond with those found at ; Hunter’s window. Mr. Carling said, in reply to Mr. Jackson, the matter of making a new post-office, to be called Lansdowne, in Township Wood- house, County Norfolk, was now under consideration. Mr. Wheeler asked whether it is the in- tention of' the Government during the present session to re-adjust the tariff on grain so as to allow 4; bushels of wheels, the quantity required to make a. barrel of flour, to be imported on the same duty as that charged on a barrel of flour. 81: Leonard Tilley said the intention of the Government on this and similar subjects would be communicamd to the House when he made his financial statement. “ I say, Mr? Painter, can you do a. job for me to-day f2” " Certainly, certainly ; what is it ?" ’“ I' want a. sign painted.” “ All right; what kind of a sign ‘2" “A sign 9! rain.” LEXib, dpdging a. paint-pom 'I‘We're down on boas stealin’,” said the chief of the vigllantea to the horse thief they were about to string up, “ and we are pleased to see, you areiu a-cord filth us.” i The new cottage at Rookwood Asylum will be occupied by chronic patients, of when: it will accommodate sixty. FIFTH PARLIAMENTâ€"SECOND SESSION. 00mm PARLIAMENT. VOL. [IORRIBLE MURDEBS. DIABOLICAL CIKINIE. CRIHE I IN CANADA. The Suflcrings o! the Russians wlm are Elem lo Siberiaâ€"Au Awtul lhecmd. Few of those who have endured the horrors of hard labor and exile in Siberia have committed to paper their sad cx~ patience. The protopopa Avvakum did, and his letters still feed the fanaticism of the raskoluiks. The melancholy stories of the Menshikoff, the Dolgorouky, the Biron, and other exiles of high rank have been transmitted to posterity by their sympa- thizers. Our young republican poet Ryleefl, before being hung in 1827, told in a beautiful poem, ” Vainarosky,” the suffer- ings or a little Russian patriot. Several memoirs of the “Decembrists” (exiled for the insurrection of December 26th, 1825), and the poem of Nekrasoff, “The Russian Women," are still inspiring the young Russian hearts with love for the prosecuted and hate to the prosecutors. Dostoevsky has told in a remarkable psychological study of prison life his experience at the fortress of Omsk after 1848; and several Poles have described the martyrdom of their friends after the revolutions of 1831 and 1848. * * * But, what are all these pains in comparison with the suffer- ings endured by half a million people, from the day when, chained to iron rods, they started from Moscow for a two or three years’ walk toward the mines of Trans- baikalia, until the day when, broken down by hard labor and privations, they died at a distance of five thousand miles from their native villages, in a country whose scenery and customs were as strange to them as its inhabitantsâ€"a strong, intelligent, but egotistic race 1 What are the sufferings of the few, in comparison with those of the thousands under the cat-o’mino tails of the legendary monster, Rozguildeefl, whose name is still the horror of the Transbaika- lian villages ; with the pains of those who, like the Polish doctor, Szokalska and his companions, died under the seventh thou- sand of red strokes for an attempt to escape ; with the sufferings of those thou- sands of women who followed their husbands and ior whom death was a release from a life of hunger, of sorrow, and of humiliation; with the sufferings of those thousands who yearly under- take to make their escape from Siberia and walk through the virgin forests, living on mushrooms and berries, and inspired with the hope of at least seeing again their native village and their kinsfolk? Who has told the less striking, but not less dramatic, pains of those thousands who spin out an aimless life in the hamlets of the far north, and put an end to their wearisome existence by drowning in the clear waters of tho Yenisei? M. Maxi- mofl has tried, in his work on “Hard Labor and Exxle,” to raise a corner oi the veil that conceals these sufferings ; but he has shown only a small corner of the dark picture. The whole remains and probably will remain unknown; its very features are obliterated day by day, leaving but a faint trace in the folk-lore and in the songs of the exiles, and each decade brings its ‘ new features, its new forms of misery for the everâ€"increasing number of exiles.- Prince Krapotkine in Nineteenth Century. Mr. Hardy brought down the 16th Annual Report of the Inspector of Public Charities and Aeyluma for the Insane ; the 16th Annual Report of the Inapecta: of Com- mon Jails. Prisons and Reformamrios ; and several returns ordered by the 11:; HE. Mr. Ross (Huron) stated that as he had not been able to lay the accounts before the House he could not make his financial statements until Wednesday. He could promise the accounts and estimates to- marrow. Mr. Meredith moved the sccend reading or a. Bill to amend the Municipal Act. He stated that the plincipul clause proposed 8. change in the constitution of the Boards of Police Commissioners. The House would be aware that the Board was nowcomposed of the Mayor, County Judge and Police Magistrate. He proposed that two mem- bers of the Council should be added. He also proposed that a. city may by by-law enact that the auditing of its accounts may be carried on monthly in the current year as it was done in Toronto; and pro- posed to alter the law as to sinking funds. The Bill was read a. second time and re- ferred to the Municipal Committee. A Wellsnd despetoh says: At the Court House, Welland, yesterday morning,he£ore Judge Baxter, two men named Richard Hanna. and David Hanna, were charged, with having assaulted James Wilson with j intent to murder him. Wilson lives at the Junction, is a colored men and a. farmer, and-lives a quiet, peaceable life. His wife, or his woman, is a. white woman, and they, together with their family of four children, live 1n n shanty with but two rooms; all of them sleep in one small apartment. The warren: also called for the arrest of Jerome Hanna, but so far all efforts have failed to secure him. VVileon and his wife were aroused one night, and Wilson arose and went to the door, and almost simulta- neously a double shot was fired, one of the ,bullets embedding itself in the door-post. Considerable evidence was heard at the trial, and the Judge, after a. euutioning address, dismissed David Hanna, saying that he believed that he was present on the night of the outrage, but that there was insufficient evidence to convict him. The other prisoner, after being congratulated by the Judge on the lucky escape of Wilson from the intended desth-desling bullet, was sentenced to eight years at Kingston. Mr. Pardee pointed out that if the Bill went to the Municipal Committee is would be considered on the established principle, as the Government: were not rcsponsible for a, measure till it was oomidared in committee. Mt. Ermatiuger moved the second read- ing of a. Bill to amend the Municipal Act, to make the property qualifimtion for reeves, deputy-reeves and voters in incor. porated villages aind townships uniform for mggioipal purposes. Mrwareyâ€"Earl of Onslow, That the Bill to amend the Synod and Rectory Sales Ac_t_ma_._y not pass. Mr. ClarkeKW. Toronto) â€"Coopers’ Union of Toronto, for the enactment of a manhood suffix-age. Mr. Claike (W. Toronto)â€"Coopera’ Union of Toronto. That assisted passages to im- migfarfls mayfle gbolished. W Petitions were presented by Mr. Awreyâ€"Charlea Marshall and others, of Saltfleeb, That the Bili to confirm the union of the Methodist; Church of Canada. we}: net} pest-.11. The most fashionable ornaments for the hair are orescenta, stars, sprays and combs of Rhine crystala, often so fine as to be mistaken for diamonds. QNTARIO LEQISLEFEUEE. Eight Years in me Penitentiary. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1884. IIORflufls 0F SlBl‘Jilt. "is Eloquence Saves Ills Flil'h' and Shutters Ihc (Dpposuion. The New York Sun's spacial csblc says : Great is the tongue of Gladstone, end with one speech he has ab8011«,?5i_,3 revolutionized the sitnuliuu. Up m (sea guesdsy the position of the Cabinet was miserably bald. The Liberals howled as loudly against them as the Conservative press. Their supporters were openly mutinous or mourned in abject depression. Even the most faithful could not pluck up courage to give Gladstone anything but a. faint cheer. The Conservatives were noisy and exultant, and just before Gladstone rose on Tuesday the capture of Sinkat apparently filled the Ministerial cup of humiliation to overflowing. When the Premier sat down the Liberal ranks were closed up in one solid body, and the Conservatives were once more flabby and forlorn. Not more than five or six Liberals were expected to shirk voting, and the conclusion of the fight became at once so foregone that though the talk was kept up there has not been one good speech in the attack on the Ministry ever since. The indirect effect of Glad- stone’e success is to further break up poor ir Stafford Northcste, who is now denounced from all sides as the reel onuse of the failure of so promising an enterprise as the attack on the Government. There is an open agitation in favor of making Lord Snlisbury sole leader of the Tories, and preference has been shown for Churchill‘s militant tactics by his election as President of an important Conservative committee, in spite of Northoote's hostility, and perhaps still more by the deference he receives in the House from those who once disliked and derided him. A Lady Phwicinn, Once a l’ullenl, TQ'HS of “01' Experience. At the regular bi-monthly meeting of the Society for Promoting the Welfare of the Insane. in New York, a, paper written by Miss Mary A. Brigham was read in which she said: “ Of all diseases, the most mysterious, the most intricate and difficult to treat, and at the same time which shows an alarming increase among all classes, is insanity. It demands and must receive that merit more in accord with the laws of humanity than has been accorded it. The history of insane asylums has been for ages one long ghastly chapter of inhumanity and sickening brutality, and every investigation made within the past: decade, when honestly conducted, has revealed a state of affairs, especially in the asylums of this country, which is a disgrace to our boasted Christian civflizstion. Dr. Busch‘e new book on Prince Bis- marck consists of small gossip about; Bis- marok’s private life. Among lhe anecdotes Busch tells how when Bismarck was Prue- eian Ambassador at Sr. Petersburg the Austrian Government: employed a. Jew to bribe him with elm-go sum of money to support the cntentc cordiale betWeen Prus- sia. and Austria, The Jew felled. He tells also that two weeks before the declaration of war between Prussia and Austria, Bis- marck proposed that Pruesia. and Austria. should ubice their armies and fall together upon France, dividing equally whet portion of French territory they mighs arguire. “ Medical science tells us that all the implements of tortnrcmthe chains,irons and ringsâ€"are done away with. But what has taken their place ? Are not the strap}, the cords, the muffs, the blinded rooms, the chairs, the cribs in daily use in our asylums? Do not the insane suffer from the old spirit of tyranny and neglect? Do they ,not hear the contemptuous word, the cruel taunt, the insulting and evaeivc repliis to civil questions? Do not patients experience the ignorance of doctors and the neglect and abuse of attendants? Do not lows with the flats, with straps or with keys form the daily part of the unprotected life of many patients in our asylums who are unreasonable enough and sensible enough to feel the cruelty of it all? It was a treatment of punishments then it is a treatment of puniehmanls to day The system under which these at) ifllllB are ‘governed is a system that makes but never cures ; 9. treatment contrary to science and common sense, and is an outrage on com- mon decency and common humanity, and the patients have no protection from physi- cians who do not know a. sane from an inssne person ; no protection from cruelty, i abuse and neglect." Clelia, the daughter of Garibaldi, is to be married to Prof. Graziadei, ot the Inter- national College at; Turin. The professor made the young lady’s acquaintance thggugh his pupil Maullo Garibakii. Thé' Prinfieés Ludwig Ferdinand, of Bavaria, bi3t81‘ of the King of Spain,has prgduggd a._sms.ll volpmg of pogmp. Victor Hugo has subacribgd 5,000 francs for the relief ofthe homeless of Paris. It is announced that the Duke de Morny is to marry the daughter of Baron Roths child at Frankfort. Worth has just completed a euperb dress for Mre. Mackay. It is of white velvet. with a pile of unusual length and softness, cut in princess form, with watbeau back, and terminating in a. long court train. The front is trimmed with hundreds of wings of red-breasts. The sweet is decollcte, and bordered with red feathers. The train is edged with red leathers, and feathers form the epaulettes. Lang gloves of red kid are worn with the dream, and slippers of red velvet with the toes ending in tiny robins. The latest title bestowed on Gladstone by the Conservatives is “ Elan, the heart- less old mam," and a satiric German jour- nalist proposes his elevation to the House of Peers as “ Lord Gladstone of Siukat.” At the conclusion of the paper, Mrs. M. Eugenia. Barry, the Secretary, explained that Miss Brigham had been confined in an nsylum, and that upon her release her representations to the authorities of Massa- chusetts had been made the subject of an official investigation which showed that the charges of mismanagement were exactly and entirely correctâ€"New York World. Lady Randolph Chureuill and Lady Mandeville overshadowed all the English competitors as tam-maids at the Inter- nntionzsl Peasant festival, and the visitors were flceced unmercifully. the rulta being to return no change. fllrs. “ Bonanza ” Ulnrkav's New Drenâ€" Gladslone’a w ru’ Tillerâ€"Victor Hugo’s Libcrnlhyâ€" Eiaugmers ul Garibaldi and Bolhuchllzl to be filnrrkdâ€"Bis- Illnl'l'k’fi Inner Life. The Duke of Mulboro’ has added to his unpopularity by announcing the sale of his pictures, which have been two centuries in the family. His excuse is that Blenheim Paiace in too large for his income, mm that Lord Randolph Churchill got all the Spare cash of their father. BRUTALITY T0 'l‘llE INS; GL ADSTONE ’8 POWER. LONDON GOSSIP. During the height of the festivities she was invited to dance by what seemingly was a. stranger. Her husband at the time was temporarily absent. She, feeling strangely and irresistibly attracted toward the masked gentleman who asked her for the honor of a waltz, although he was appar- ently a. stranger, reluctantly consented. During the deuce she became fully con. scious of the most singular and unaccount- able impressions. At its conclusion the supposed stranger drew her apart from the throng, and in a quiet and obscure corner unmasked, showing the even yet dear, famili‘i-r features of the gentleman whom she had loved for m'sny years. He had known her even meshed as she was. end sought this opportunity to convince her of how terribly she had been deceived five years before. Then and there, in that scene of festivities, surrounded by go.ny and fantastically dressed crowds of laughing people, amid the sweet sounds of music, in an atmosphere perfumed only with merri- ment and contentment, the culmination of a sickening life sorrow was unfolded. In a. very few moments this gentlemen drew from the pockets of his rich and hand- comely decorated costume documents and papers the import of which at once convmced the lady that five yenrs before she had been the victim of a. most terrible deception ; that this gentlemen was guilt- less of the infamous social crimes with which he had been charged, and that her own husband, prior to marriage, had lied to her and had deceived her in the most cruel and heartless fashion. This Indy is a. woman of the most decrded and energetic character. She at once parted forever from the gentlemen before her, who eagerly pleaded that he might be permitted to see her, if it was only once more. Thus she parted with the only man she ever loved, with feelings in her heart which no tongue could describe. Then she sent for her husband. and both at once left the ball- .rcom. That night she talked with him for the last time in this world. The first thing the next morning she went in her carriage to the office of a. prominent notary public on St. Paul street, this city, and legally made cmost solemn oath that she would , never again speak to her husband. Deceiver] by Her Husbandâ€"«She liogis lers an Oath Never to Speak lo Him Againâ€"A Terrible Resolve “'ell Kept- A Baltimoreflzld.) report says: On Madi- son avenue, in this city, there are living a married cou 1e who, for the past five years, have exists surrounded by the most in- tense atmosphere of mental gloom. Al- though the husband is actively engaged in business, making money thereby rapidly, and possesses many companionable and social characteristics ; although the wife is a refined, maturely beautiful woman. with the usual hereditary trait of conversational ability so common to, her sex developed in her case to an extraordinary degree ; although three attractive and lovely chil- dren complete the domestic roll call of this particular family, yet for the past five years not one solitary word has been exchanged between this husband and wife. They each day partake at the same table and at the same hour of three solemn,‘silentâ€"as far as they are con- cernedâ€"meals. The children, of course, chatter some, but the father and mother sit dumb like monumental statues in a. snowstorm. Each night they occupy the 1 same room, but not one word ever escapes their lips. A recital of the cause for this most remarkable state of daily affairs, especially as far as as the lady,is concerned, portrays a most extraordinary and roman- ticlife drama. Ten years ago the lady who now successfully enacts the role 0! the “Silent Wife ” was a beautiful society belle of this city. Among her suitors at that time were two persistent young men, both armed with culture, education, wealth and energy. One of those she loved and ultimately formally accepted him, and they became publicly betrothed. The other, as may be safely surmised, then took a back seat in the arena of life for the time being; but he did not mourn in obscruity and despair for every lengthy period. In an evil hour, by the moat subtle arts, he succeeded in convincing the lady that the gentleman to whom she was engaged was a perfidious libertine and had betrayed a certain young lady with whom she was casually acquainted. When an explanation was demanded by the lady, the accused returned an indignant reply, and the result was an open rupture. The ‘ rejected suitor now had the opportunity? which he had sought for, and again laid a i most vigorous siege to the citadel of this j belle‘s heart. In a moment- of desperation and pique the young lady accepted this once rejected young man and hastily mar- ried him, Five years after the marriage this lady, accompanied by her husband, went to a fancy dress ball given under the auspices of a charitable organization in which she was deeply interested. During all these years of her supposed happy mar- ried life she had never seen or exchanged words in any way with the gentleman to whom she had once been betrothed, and who, in true reality, was the only man she ever loved. In an interview which today your repre- sentative had the honor to have with this heroic woman, she said: “I will talk to you freely, but I rely upon your honor as a gentlemen not to give our name, or any name in connection with my life, to the public. But you may publish the facts in any way you see fit. I was like a great many other girls were and are and will be until the end of time. I was hasty, impul- sive and easily convinced. In other words, I made up my mind in a. minute, and then eoted out the impulse the next minute. And I believed nearly all I heard. I know from what you have said that you are thoroughly familiar with the fact that I was terribly deceived some years ago. You know that that changed the entire current of my life. I speak freely to you, because the way my musband and myself live together has been meat and drink for the gossips for 3. long time. And when any one asks me why we live in this way, in my own defence I freely tell them. Now, you will naturally inquire, in view of all the facts, why did I not, it it were possible, got a divorce from my husband in place of living in this most extraordinary manner. Well, I will continue to be frank and tell you. It was solely on account of the children. Ilove them with all the inex- pressible devotion of a. mother's heart. My husband loves them, too, of course. We both want them with us. If the case had gone to the courts there would have been a long, bitter contest over the possession of the children, and then, probably, the eldest would have been given to the father and the youngest to me. When I told him I :would never speak to him and he must never speak to me or I would at once leave him, he begged me terribly hard to have me alter my decision. But I would not. I was and em as firm as the rook of Gibral- tar in this respect. I said for the sake of the children I would continue to live with A ‘VIFIL’S [RE VENGE. new WHOLE N0 ],387 NO. 50. “ When I was on duty in the Fourth Pre- oinct several years ago I met a. man about 35 years old one morning. He was coming up Clinton avenue and I was standing at the corner of De Kalb. I paid no particu- lztl' attention to him, but I do remember, now I think of it, that his head was bent forward so that his chin rested upon his breast. As he passed me very slow1y I saw that he was worried. I said to myself so he crossed the street : ‘Ho'n been caught in some game over in New York and the lads have soaked him.’ Two nights after- wards I met him again. He was coming down the same street. He hadn’t been drinking. When I stopyed him he looked up rather suddenly, and he gave me a cord. After I had read his name and found that he was one of the psrtners in a. wholesale establishment on Broadway, over in the city, he said: ‘My business or some- thing. I don't know What it is, keeps me awake nearly every night. When I go to bed early in the evening I do nothing but roll and toss about, and when I retire at midnight or later it‘s just the same. I don’t sleep more than one night a week on an average, and so I come over to Brooklyn, where very few people know me, and walk about until I think I’m tired enough to drop ofi through exhaustion. Some nights I can go home after a. couple of hours’ walk and go to sleep and other nights it is im- possible to get a. wink.’ " “ Brooklyn, they say, is the bed-room of New York. Well, to 9. certain extent it is, but besides it Is a midnight promenade for citizens who have little use for a. bed- room. L “That mum who went around the cor- ner,is he the same man?” asked the re- porbgr. "Yes,sir; butJAIet’a see. four and five are nineâ€"-yes, I first saw him in 1875, and thah’a nine years ago. Changed? Why I’ve never seen a man grow old so fast in all my life. When I first met him he had been in business five years. His hair was black and he couldn’t have been more than 35 years old. I remember that's what I thought he was at the time. But now I shouldn’t know him if I didn’t meet him nearly every week. His face has grown haggard and his hair and heard are as gray as a rat. “ I was thinking when I spoke of some- thing that every policemen on night patrol must have noticed in Brooklyn. I refer to the number of people who are seen wander- ing about the city at night. It has been a study to me ever since I name on the force, and as I said before it’s one of those things I can’t account for. I‘ve been on duty in this city for nearly seventeen years, and in five different precincts. During that time I’ve endeavored to solve the problem of night-walkers, but without success. Some peculiarities of that class have come under my notice as a policeman, and I will toll you What I’ve learned. “ Now from learning a little of his his- tory I have made it n point to look into this subject of nightwslking, and it is astonish- ing the number of men who allow the cares of business to worry them so that sleep is the furthest thing from their minds at night. I could point out not less forty menâ€"some of ’em are lawyers, others are in Wall street and still others are merchantsâ€"if you were only on post with me for a. Week. The business they transact during the day is all gone over with again at night by those active brains, an insomnia. is the result. There was a. failure down in Wall street not long ago, and I see by the papers that the man who went under is suffering from mental strain. I might have given the reporters something about that case, for the man has been a night-walker for nearly a. year. He can’t sleep, and on several occasions when I have met him at 2, 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning he has complained about his head and of the continual wretchedness his business, stocks, bonds, and even his money caused him. When I heard it I thanked my lucky stars that I was a. Brooklyn policeman at a. thousand a your. flow the Busy Life in New York (Mu-n ll'lurders Sleepâ€"Lawyers, Brokers and [flu-chants who ‘ank Illc Slrcets to Brooklyn at Night. (New York World.) “ Ic's one of those things I can’t account for,” said a. Brooklyn policeman a. few nights ago. The officer was a. tall. broad- ehouldered man, perhaps a. little gruff in his manner, [or he was a. patrolman in a. “bad” precinct, where voice and facial expression soft; and gentle are not often needed. Yet withal he was a. man for Whom the expression, “ Beneath this rude exterior," etc., might well be suited. He had called the reporter‘s aitention to a. man closely muffled in a heavy overcoat who was disappearing in the darkness down the street. The officer tried the Knob of a store door, and then, in answer to a. look of inquiry, continued: Notary Public of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore. As far as can b3 ascertained from the neighbors and persons who might naturally be supposed to know the most about this sad and novel case, the wife has inviolately kept the singular and stringent vow which she has legally taken, and from present indications bide fair to maintain it; until the hour of death. “I had a. talk with a doctor about this matter a couple of months ago, and he told me that this insomnia, I think he called it, was getting to be a. very common com- plaint. He was astonished when I told him that I met men on my post who had come from New York to find relief for their troubled brains. State of Maryland, Baltimore City, Set: On this third day of Jenuery,A. D. 1678, personally appeared before me, the subscriber,e notary public of the State of Maryland, in and for the City of Baltimore, Mrs. -â€"â€", and. made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that she resides in the City of Baltimore and State of Maryland; that from this time henceforth and forever she will never speak one word of any kind to her husband. And she further made oath on the Holy Evengely of Almighty God that it he hereafter directly addresses one single word to her, the said Mrs.â€"â€", the will at once leave him and never again see him. And she further made oath on the Holy Evangely or Almighty God that the will never, from this time henceforth and forever. hold direct written communication with him, the said â€"â€", in any way or manner whatever. There are about 16,052,283 children of “ school age,” which varies in the different States from 4120 16, in the United States. A lady 70 years old, residing in Belleville, Tex” has 3qu cut four new teeth, and them are Indications that she will soon have a; full set 0: natural grinders, him if he so desired, but it; must all be as I said. He at last reluctantly consented miller than have me leswe him, and for five years past we have lived this dreary, oheerless life. I will Show you the affidavxt you have twice, during your visit, asked to see." Then she handed your correspondent the following emphatic and forcible afli- davit : VICTIMS 0F INSOIVINIA. Rev. A. R. Bartlett, formerly pastor of the M. E. Church an Birmingham, and now of Schoolomfi, Mich., in response to a. tale- gram, replied : One of the members of the firm of White- head 62 Mitchell, proprietors of the Birmingham Eccentric, {mm a. fraternal vislt to this ofiicu yesterday, and in the course of conversation Mr. Crombie’a name wan mentioned. ” I knew about his sickness,” said the editor, “and his remarkable recovery. I had his obituary all in type and announced in the Eccentric that he could noé live until its next. issue. It was certainly a. most wonderful case.” ” Yes. I think I have,” was the reply, “ and it has been :1 valuable lesson to me. I am certain, though, there are thousands of men and women at this very moment who have the same ailment which came so near killing me, and they do not know it. I believe kidney diseme is the moat deceptive trouble in the world. It comes like a. thiefi in the night. It has no certain symptoms, but seems to attack each one differently. It is quiet, treacherous, end all the more dangerous. It in killing more people to-dey than any other one complaint. If I bed the power I would warn the entire world against it and urge them to remove it from the system before it is too late." “ Mr. W. A. Crombia was a. member of. my congregation at the time of his Hick- ness. The prayers of the church were re- quested for him on two diflerenfi occasions. 1 was with him the day he was reported by his physicians as dying, and consider his recovery almost a miracle.” Not one person in a. million ever comes so near death as did Mr. Orombie and then recover, but the men and women who are. drifting toward the same end are legiena To note the slightest symptoms, to realize their significance and to meet them in time by the remedy which has been shown to be most efficient, is a. duty from which there, can be no escape. They are iortunate who do this ; they are on the sure mad to death who neglect it. The domestic troubles of Prince Frea- eriek Charles of Prussia. and his indignant and jealous wife are stated by the Vienna Frcz'e Pressc to have been a. topic of private conversation in Berlin for years past. Two years ago the disturbance betwaen the Prince and his spouse assumed such an aggravated character that the Emperor was himself forced to take a. hand in it, and, under the plea. of sending the Prince away on a long journey through Oriental countries. to virtually banish him for a, time from the Prussian capital. The Prinee was not even permitted to return from his involuntary tour for the purpose of attending at the funeral of his aged father, Prince Charles. The Prince‘s wife, before marriage, was Duchess von Anhalt. She now lives in rigid retirement at Dessau. There are three daughters and one son by the marriage. “Finally, one Saturday night, the misery culminated. Nature could endure no more. I became irrational and apparently insen- sible. Cold sweat gathered on my fore- head; my eyes became glazed and my throat rattled. I seemed to be in another sphere and with other surroundings. I knew nothing of what occurred around me, although I have since learned it was con- sidered as death by those who stood by. It was to me a quiet state, and yet one of great agony. I was helpless, hopeless and pain was my only companion. I remember trying to see what was beyond me, but the mist before my eyes was too great. I tried to reason, but I had lost all power. I felt that it was death, and realized how terrible it was. At last the strain upon my mind gave way and all was a blank. How long this continued I do not know, but at last I realized the presence of friends and recognized my mother. I then thought it was earth, but was not certain. I gradually regained consciousness, how- ever, and the pain lessened. I found that my friends had, during my unconscious- ness. been giving me a preparation I had never taken before, and the next day, under the influence of this treatment. the bloat- ing began to disappear and from that time on I steadily improved, until to-day I am as well as ever before in my life, have no traces of the terrible acute Bright’s disease, which so nearly killed me, and all through the wonderful mstrumentality of Warner’s Saf Cure. the remedy that brought me to lifeeafter I was virtually in another world.” A will to be valid does mi: require to be long. All extroueous matéer, such as “ In the name of God, amen,” ” Being in sound health of mind and body,” may be left out. “ I, John Smith, leave all that I may die possessed of to my wife, Mary Smith, and in the event of her dying before me to --â€"â€". Witness“. Signed John Smith, is quite sufficient and will hold good in on y court of law. The shortest wills with the least verbi- age about them are the best. That of the Frenchman who went out fox-hunting in England for the first time was short am} to the point. When he came to the first stiff Jump, just as his horse was coming to it, he turned round in his saddle ant! shouted, “ Take notice, I do leave every thing to my vifej’ GENTLEMEN,â€"Y0ul‘ Hop Bitters have been 0 great value to me. Iwas laid up with typhoid Iever for over two months, and could get no relief untilltricd your Hop Bitters. To those suffering with, debility or any one in feeble health, I cordially recommend them. “You have had an fiuusual feiiae'iiréfigé. Mr. Crombie," said the writer, who had beggpreagmpgaly listfaningflto the Vsecital. “ I had been having most peculiar sensa< tions for along while. My head felt dull and heavy ; my eyesight did not seem so clear as formerly; my appetite was uncer- tain and I was unaccountably tired. It was an effort to arise in the morning and yet I could not sleep at night. My mouth tasted badly, I had a faint all-gone sensation in the pit of my stomach that food did not satisfy,while my hands and feet felt cold and clammy. I was nervous and irritable, and lost all enthusiasm. At times my head would seem to whirl, and my heart palpitated terribly. I had no energy, no pmbition, and I seemed indifierent of the present and thoughtless for the future. I tried to shake the feeling off and persuade myself it was simply a {cold or a little malaria. But it would not go. I was determined not to give up, and so time passed along, and all the while I was getting worse. It was about this time that I noticed I had begun to bloat fearfully. My limbs were swollen so that by pressing my fingers upon them deep depressions would be made. My face also began to enlarge, and continued to until I could scarcely see out of my eyes. One of my friends, describing my appearance at that time, said : ‘ It is an animated something, but I should like to know what.’ In this condi- tion I passed several weeks of the greatest agon_y. (Detroit Free Press.) One of the most remarkable occurrences ever given to the public, which took place here in our midst, has just come to our knowledge and will undoubtedly awaken as much surprise and attract as great atten- tion as it has already in newspaper circles. The facts are. briefly, as follows: Mr. William A. Crombie, a young man formerly residing at Birmingham, a suburb of De- troit, and now living at 287 Michigan avenue, in this city, can truthfully say that he has looked into the future world and yet returned to this. A representative of this paper has interviewed him upon this important subject, and his experiences are givgn to the public for the first time. He sai : A Miracle that Took Pluce in our Midst a. momma 683 mew mew. Chicago; 11 A MODERN RESURRECTEON. Unknown to the Publicâ€"The Details in Full. [low to Make a ‘Vill. The Royal Divorce.