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WRECK OF A NEW SHIP. . Nearly Foundch In II Bl}: Storm wlth nu ‘ on Baird â€"Two Men Swept lulu the Son ~Cnbln and Engine-Room liclugcd ' 'by “‘nVcs. Battered and sea-worn the British -. Gladiolus arrived in New York recently. It started from Newcastle, England, twenty-Boyer) days ago, with a light cargo A succession of lu-uvy gales stuck the ship on the 27th, 28th, and 29;}: of Janu fly. and broke ovary hr at but one. ()l Thursday, the 19d), signals uf differs were seen, and Chief Mate Lash wens: olfin the only Eva??thle bowl, and burl; oil the crww of the Benn“ ll Timur from their sinking stunner. Final; Illute Ru- ert Thompson had a broken leg, and Seaman Crawley n cmsbcd ban and arm They were all lnkeu on board the Gladi~ olus and rho leg was set. and. mm fixed by the second angineo-r of the (llaniolus The leebl -,_ wreukrd men were looked af- ter with the greatest tenderness. Charles H, Napier, second enriueor of the Bellwcll Townr, kept a recvrd of the events of their unlucky voyage. He says :â€" “lt was the Banwrll Tower's first voy- age. She was built at Huudcrland, and went to Baltimore in ballast. A general cargo of grain and cotton was taken on board, and on Tuesday. JAN. 13, we start- ed, thirty men in all. Toe ship went aground at the pier iu Bilrimore. We stayed for F. few days, and on Saturday, the l7th, got away again. The cargo was found to be on fire at midnight, and when it was put out we went; back to Baltimore for the second time, shifted the cargo and took in some more coal, and on the 20ch we sailed again. “All Went well till Tuesday Jan. 27, when the wind increased to a fresh breeze and soon a hurricane swept the deck from stem to stem. At 6 P. M. the stoke hole was battened down, but the seas didn’t mind that, and went down in the engine- room and bunkers and washed the coals around. At midnight the topmast was carried away. In an hour more the boats were smashed, and the mldshlp steering gear broke early on Wednesday morning Two stowaways turned up, and made thirty-two in all of us. The ship lay helpless. All hands were clearing away the wreckage, wnenanother big sea carri- edraway the remnants of thestarboard lifeboals against the chart room and wheel house, and washed them away, and smashed tho ventilaéors and skylights. “A little after 5 o clock, when every- body was struggling to get things clear, the Wind frcslxeued worse than ever. Second Officer James Pendor was work- ing away with the sailors getting rid of the wreckage. So was First Mate Robert Thompson. The second mate saw a blgger wave than any coming, and he yelled : “ ‘Lonk out ! See it coming 1’ “Before any of them could look out the wave came. It knocked off the bul- warks, and pinned the first mate to the deck under the timbers with a. broken leg, and Seaman Crawlsy, with a smashed hand and arm. Then it swept away everything, and took Second Mate Pend- er and Seaman Olav Oscar Johnson. a Swede, overboard. They didn‘t say a word. Nobody saw them again. The big wave struck over the deck, and when it had passed they were gone, and there were three feet of water in the engine- room, and the wet coal was floating around in the bunkers. “‘Capt. Tiddy was on deck for forty- eigh: hours, and it. was a miracle be THE BRITISH ARMY. in Recliuanaland there are at the Cape and Nata tfio cavalry corps. (rhe 6 ‘ forqu us and‘13ih hussars), four outta! of artillery vtfi-wo cnulpmirs and a so i»- ;g-f engineers, hearl) live butfalurrc of n- lfln'ry, and some (JPIZCtht n's ( f the com- {HIE-Banal: and transpirt corps At St. Helena threats 3 bultn‘y of artillery and {some engineers’ infantry. The “Hat Africa. softlemvnls and the Gold Quart. n: lorry are gaxiisoned by col- . nial corps, but in Yhn Manrmua Ithere are a battery of al‘llllvr} , Blvnlu urginecrs, and three Companies of line regiment. C») lun takes two influence of aifill. 1y, 9, detachmt nt of engnarrs, av d a battalion of infanvry; and Hung Kong and the Straits settlemrnls thr: e batteries (f ar- tillery. a detachment if engineers, and two line batta‘i ma. -~â€".__.___ Wonders of the Cable. It seems almost incredible that a man on a vessel in the middle (f the Atlantic should be able to converse with another in London or New York. Yet such is the fact, and it is but another of the won- ders of electricity that have been starf- ling civilizuion for Ibis past half century. We read of the cable steamer Faraday going on". in the tracklcss wastes and picking up the cable at any given point, and talklng to both continents at once. When submarine navigation on the Jules Verne plan is pmfectsd, it will probably be the rucular thing to tap the cable as the Vessels go along, and receive election returns and Wall sweet quotations in the cabin. A man might, for instance, send a message like this to his wife : Latitude 46 degrees 7 minutes, longitude 32 de- grees 18 minutes west. How is the baby ? A storm is raging above, but; “one wants but little here below.” Then fnr an absconding bank cashier or presi- dent. what a great thing it would be to be able to go down and pick the warrant for his arrest of the cable as it slipped, along] There would be many things in favor of these iron fishes besides the cable- facillties, and they would no doubt be de- servedly popular. For instance, there need be no seasickness, for when a storm came up they could, like Captain Cor- coran, generally go below and wait till the clouds rolled by. But when the shaft broke or the piston rod exploded, there would be no need for floating around loose waiting for another steamer, at the mercy of the wind and tide. The vessel could‘ just drop down to the bottom and the passengers put on rubber suits and walk arhore. Talking of the cables recalls the mishaps that attended the laying of the first At- lantic cables. One of them was made in two sections. A vessel started from Ire- land witb the other, both infending to meet in the middle of the ocean and splice the main brace. After “paying out” for many days, they at last met at the appointed place and proceeded to sol- der the cables together. To their aston- ishment they found that the cables were spun or twisted. in difl’erent ways, one from right to left, and the other from left to right. They tied a lot of Weights to the cable when it had been spliced and let it drop to the bottom, waiting around a day or so to see if it was all right. When they took it up it was found that it had begun to unwind, turning over and over like a. porpoise at sea. Next they tried to anchor it, but the unwind- ing process still proceeded, and it got all twisted and tangled around the anchor. ‘thhing was to be done but to take up one end and anchor the other till a new lls Strength and Slnflonklblswsfllon of 182.000 Hen. " Ata time when so many drafts are about to be made’on th‘e Blini'sh army, the London Tamas furnishes the fo‘llo wing interescing d‘iflallfl, showmg in what por. Lions of the globe British.tr0op‘saro now stationed, Will] theirapproximafe force 1: garrison and on acuve service, which have just been prepared from (.fl'icia swurces. The lash returns shnwed, it is understood, an eilr'dlive Strr’lwih - f Shunt, 182 000 of all armsâ€"Hz , rhirty-rvne regh Ulrnisof cavalry, twenty-four bviterirs <1f1‘uypl l1 rse arnllcry, seventy-ml bat, Leries of field artillery, mnelysix batxer “e; of garrison artillery, scvmty-‘lwo rc- g marlin of infantry (or 148 battalion»). two divnsinns, one troop, and forty corn» panes of engineers, besides commisssnat and transports medical stafl'cmpg, are Dealing first with the home commuids. itnppcau that the northern Command, the largest in the lringoom, which in- cmdes nearly 75,000 volunteers, besides } yeomanry and militia, has two regimen ts of regular cavalry, two divisions of the coast brigade, and six batteries of field aiti.lery, besides depots, and llve battal- ions of mfantrv. The master!) command (Mall-Gen. White, C. 13.), with head- quarters at Gulch-ester. has one cavalry regiment and 1w; depois of that arm, three batteries and a depot of artillery. a section of the commissariat and trans- port corps, and three infantry battalions. The western command (Maj -Gcn. Sayer. C. B ), has in proper. ion to others a large force of artillery~ two batteries of horse, three of field, and seven of garrisonâ€"be- sides a division of the coast brigade and depots, a company of (he commissariat and transport corps, and four battalions of infantry. The southern command has altogether one division and twelve bat- teries of artillery, two companies and a section of engineers, a section of commis- sariat and transport corps, and six bat- talions of infantry. The force of the Chatham district consist; of eleven com panies of engineers, a division and five batteries of artillery, one company of the commisrariat and transport corps, and two battalions of infantry. In the south- eastern command there are two regiments of cavalry and nine depots (Canterbury), one division and seven batteries of artil- lery, a company each of engineers and of the commissariat and transport corps, and four battalions of the line. The home-district command has three regi- ments of household cavalry and one of cavalry of the line, a battery of royal horse, and a division of coca» brigade ar- tillery, one company each of engineers and of the commissariat and transport corps, and six battalions of the guards. At Wooiwich the force is made up of a. large body of artillery, two batteries of horse, besides depots and the riding es- tablishment, and seven batteries of field and garrison. The Alder-shot command, which completes those of England and Wales, has three regiments of cavalry, eight batteries of artlllsry, a division, troop, and chapel: of royal engineers. three companies and two depots of the commissarist and transport corps, and seven line battalions. Taken altogether, there are thus in the nine military districts of England and Wales twelve regiments of cavalry, sixty- five batteries and seven divisions of- ar- tillery, a division, "trooplandgomm companies of engineers, about aflozen companies of the Commissarial; andrtrans- ' .. pm. naaM J yawn!!! ll Ib'fl” (I, ’1 v ll emu-«DE: Int/l FIG. 1. :,A Handsome Residence. We.:have pleasure in presenting to our readers the accompanying plans of a; neat and substantial country resi- deuce. They may be very suggestive to those: intending to build this year._ We Ire not in a position to give an estimate of thecost, but that would depend very much on the quality of the material used and the locality. Any practical builder can do that at home. These plans first appeared in our ex- cellent contemporary, the Rural New- Yorker, from which we take the following brief description :â€" The cellar and basement are seven feet high ; the first story ten feet, and the second story nine feet six inches. It has a roomy and well finished attic This house is built of brick as high as the second floor ; above that it is finished in shingles cut to ornamental patterns ; but its structure can be variedâ€"it can be all brick or all frame as may please the owner. The first floor plan is given at Fig. 1 ; and that of the second floor at Fig. 2. In both the lettering and figures sufficiently explain the arrapgement. RIO'I‘ING AT A REVIVAL. â€"_ A “male Congregation Becomes (‘ra‘zyu‘j A religious revival. which has been in progress for several days at a. place called Wells Bottom, Ohio, culminated in a riot, during which three persons are reported to have been killed and several severely injured. Friday the pastor wrought the congregation up to a pitch of intense ex- citement by proclaiming that a noted in- fidel named Dongelhad seen Jesus Christ and had been converted. Mrs Mills, an excitable woman. leaped on a be rich and uttered a loud shriek. Great excitement followed. 'The organ struck up a tune and Pastor Dodge yelled to the people to shoucas loud as they could, so that the Lord could hear the news of the triumph over the evil one. The command was literally, obeyed, and the people became erased by excitement. The interior of the church was wrecked, the pulpit and bible torn to pieces,and Dr. Dodge hurled through a window. Don gel was lifted up by the 'women and carried down the isle. The excitement continued until daylight, at which the everything portable was smashed- to pieces”. ' THE ART 0F “CAR. Taught on the Baltic Fit-lawn“) (‘onlcst In the Somlanr England‘s Foe-s not to be Despised. France and England and every civiliz- ed nation will soon learn, and the fact is being somewhat forcibly. if not rudely, turust upon them both in Touquiu and the Sundan, that war is the best teacher of its own art, and that the brave barbar- ians who to-day meet them courageously with only spears and bull-hide shields will face them with Remington rifles and Krupp cannon to-morrow. To the thoughtful studert of the Egyptian em- brogbo, England's peril lies in the fact that the Arabs are cum-goons, numerous beyond knowledge, acclimated and fast acquirir'g the arms and art of civilized war. Grant to {no hundred thousand of the followus of the Mahdi scientific leadership, modern weapons and en- trenched within their natural 'fastnesses, with a climate deadly as is theirs to Western life as their great natural ally, and England with all Europe joined COULD NEVER SUBDUE THEM. his money to the preacher at the murderous blow, hi5 Bkéi-Btf: He.then attacked the people with the. saline weapon; plubbing several of them terribly. On Saturday Dongel became a raving maniac and carried all Satur- ' dsy nigh-ti meeting. Dongel addressed Dr. Dodge as’Ju’das Iscariot and ordered him to leave the pulpit, striking 'him a fwith'a club, fracturing One woman was: low: England fifty thousand t but whether the arms and the leadership to, make his fol- lowers eflicient against the‘fieldiof battle. The great question that looms up above all others at the present moment and makes anxious the hearts of those who and English lives is, not Whether she can send ten or twenty or roo‘ps to -Wolseley’s aid, Mahdi can English troops on If he can then Eug- obtail‘l the to places' close to the decks. wasn't wushcd overboard. There was no mateleft, and he had to do evarything We expected every moment that the Cap tain would be taken away too. In the forenoou on Wednesday, the after steer- ing gear was coupled, but it was knocked The cast iron standards that are bolted through the deck and strength- ened by wrought iron stays snapped off The same sea carried port corps, and thirty-eight battalions of infantry, or aboutrsixty bhcfigsnd'éf all ranks. " ‘ The average strength of the army in Scotland was last year only a little over three thousand, and there is reason to believe that Maj -Gen. Macdomild's North British command does not now even come up to that number, the force being repre- sented‘ by one cavalry regiment, one bat- seciion could be completed. The Ameri- can end was accordingly taken up and rought 'i‘to ’N‘ew 'Yoi-ki- A long while afterwards a clerk was sitting in the cable office at Valentin, Ireland, using the new cables which had since been put down, when suddenly this old sf-ripof wire on the bottom of the Atlantic began to talk. A cable vessel mhfldggpfioyt and picked if up and it was cha’ft’ering away at a great _ . .. . _ rate to the astoni‘he clérk. _ It was fmllfilnlfieidt The fight .then became land willibe beaten not only out of the away two after derrwkE and th‘? port bu]. fiery, and a diViSion 0‘ artillery) and two joined to aribl‘lier3 a’dd' ~afterwards 8911‘” Klafl‘iflefi’fi'ralpeflom Werfil..f.1'lght- Bou‘dan. but out of Egypt also, albeit walks’ and the“ there wasnor’hmg on the infantry bfl-Wélioflfi- worked well for many yclii'b.â€"[New York fully eaten; The Pastor, it is said. is Italy should send a hundred thousand deck‘ and the waves had fullsweap over ' ' ‘ 1 Insane. Full particulars of the occurrence have béep’i’eceived‘. ' '"l Cost of the-Woolwich Infant. Thoilé who‘h‘avc no; a. eighrys‘osgun, known also by its alias of ' Woi>lwicli In- fant, wil elfhsps’be, interested Etc loam: , troops to England’s laid. ‘For these‘de- .sert Arabs are of the bravest, as were all their ancestors, from‘ time immemorial before them ; l 'BORN FOR WAR. I toughened by the habit'cf endurance for extreme fatigue and inspired for fiercest battle bvl'a faith ath’at: teaches them that was gradually unmanageable. for twenty hours. The water was grodually gaining; sea made it worse, and the 225 feet 'of the boat’s length. ,She settling to port and was! 'No one was able to get along the deck Tons and tons of,wat- er‘poured down into the engine room. 1 Every, weex-pecssd to In the three military districts of Ire- land, commanded respectively by Maj.- Gen. Knight. Maj-Gen. Lord Clarion, and Maj -Gen. Young, th ,que shows a decrease in strrngtli“ com art with last year, when the average was about. twen- ty-four thousand. The force now distri- buted over the island comprises six regi- ments of cavalry, thirteen batteries and Graphic. . ‘ W...“- av; A Great woincnfi‘s‘ilollege. Thomas Hallowsy is a. very rich Eug- ishman who is .mmimfldilg the largest women's college on the.g.lobe.. It is being erected as an ‘ofleringtof respect to the memory of'his dead wife.‘ The location is .. .. A . . , a . k b t 1 . h _ at Mount Lee, near Windsor Park, not the mucosfiof 0119.06, those mom.er be who dies. in bloody strife is sure of ‘9’“ “3°”- NOW 0“: W“ m- T “9- two divxsiom ofartillera two companies far-from London. Arrows)“is ninety- millef‘y,‘ ’ The fcéybwiug figures, I, may. Heaven. » England and Europe have was nobhmg but match "'0‘?ch The ten of engineers, ion? “of commissariat and state, a ' dial," rid tl‘lepalcuiations Have ' 0 been mall’s 'b’cxélélflly .that, as' will b9 seen, evbu'farthinéls are brought to [don count."‘f‘dn .pighty ton gun, themâ€"or rather, to be‘ particular, the eightyfiou‘ gnuâ€"cir'dered to, hb'made at, Woolwich an authority. dated 20th’April, 1878, cost precisely £9026, 13s. yllid. 1 Of this sum £6576, 165.’2§~d.» " represénts‘ this~ cost of . the material used. £1597, ‘ 93. 85d. the labor expended on it, and £852, 8s. what is described as “indirect; expenditure. " The figures will, Irbhiuk, be a. surprise to most peoples . N o wonder war has become in modernldays an affair of pockets as well as prowess. ~' -' A Communistic Fallacy. V, The world owes no man a living, but it gives him a chpnce ifhe wants to pitch in and make one. , ' The domains that the world does alive mankind aJiving is as dangerous and as much at variance with the true econom of life as communism itself. In fact it is the staff from which flutters the red flag of the commune. Their principal rallying cry is : I “The world owes us a. living, and we are going to have it." . . There isa living in the world for every man, but he must make it. 7 Those who are smart enough to make and save more than is necessaay to meet their daily wants are under no obligations to give the surplus to those who are too lazy, y land and Franco tried the mettle before,'and all the chivalry world, aflsmo wits holly as make head my a that swarmed’up‘ The most porrentbus news ning has flashed from the d to western read worl of dreadful tiding Wounded, or Earle i“ d has fallen, but’ them, and that: the Bri surprised to‘ 41m) ‘ run BLAZE or But whether that West, if it rather that siege guns and‘fKrupp‘ csrm session, with trained gunner of these“ s is‘ REMINGTON muss. day has come as yet or . not it surely will come soon that the persists in war, will have to meet the East: on equal terms, both armed with like weapons and marshalled with equal skill,.and when that day West is beaten. pcsscssims, force of arms for years is blindel‘ than a bat. ' and mercy, the peaceful as fineness "of friendly witholdipg of hersel ous enterprises can England keep permanent control of lying. empire; peril presses; : looks, to the‘thoughtful, even the Eastern men of the western cl, could scarce gaiust the Islam‘ hordes darkly against them. 'that the light» ir‘far ofl’ desert ers in the last week not that Stewart is sad or Khartoum libs Mahdi has on in his pos- s to manage ‘ish " troops are find themselves charging up dawns the He who thinks that Eug- csn hold their Eastern much less extend them, by next bwanty By justice (1 potent in- bornmerce and a Visa i from further peril- , especially, her vast out- In the meanwhile the This Egyptian business to be only the keep thefirc going would work. night every ‘ managed to At daylight no wheel house, noboats, nothing. bite to eat. Then the‘Gladlolus. “Very luckily, distress, and bore down. had only one seaworthy boat, tempt to rescue us. Mate Lash and Second Engineer Errick- son Were in the brave crew that came to aid us. It tea. k three trips to get us 011‘. In the second the gunwale of the boat was stove. The first mate was let down in a‘sllng. Capt. Sinclair and Chief Eu- giueerJohn Ireland were in the last boat. We .ilcst our clothes except the few we had on, and everything. All the oliicers and crew of the Gladiolus treated us with gloat kindness, and I’d like to express my gratitude to them." c_â€"._.¢.Hâ€"â€"â€".__ firemen and four, engineers worked to so that the pumps “Slowly we settled to port, and-when darkness began to close luon us, that one expected to die. ' All night we worked hard and there was no sleep. The wind lulled a little and we keep the boat from sinking. there were no chart-house, no bulwarks, n‘o Coffee was made, and for the first sime in forty hours the men had a at 8i; A. M. We sighted she saw our signals of She was in ballast and not damaged so much as we. were, The waves were high, and they and it was not very tight. and it was dangerous to at- , iffVoluniueera were called for, and Chief transport corps. and twenty-six infantry battalions, or four battalions less than, last year. . . The channel islands. pomssrthreeii'bst- teries of artillery and two battalions of infantry, about two thousand officers and men. India absorbs a very large portion of the British army, nearly sixty-nine thousand of all armsâ€"viz , Bengal, seven regiments of cavalry, forty-two batteries of artillery, a company of engineers, and thirty-one..bsttaliorm of aiujanbry idmaa dras, two cavalry cups, sixteen batteries of artillery, a company of engineers, and nine battalions of infantry ; Bombay, one cavalry corps, nineteen batteries of artilr lery, a company of engineers, and nine battalions of infantry; total, cavalry, ten corps ; artilery, ssvenly~seven batteries ; engineers, three companies ; infantry, forty-nine battalions. In the West Indies England has a couple of batteries of garrison artillery, and, besides a line battalion, some colo- nial corps. Canada has three batteries, a company and section of engineers, and a line battalion ; and Bermuda two bat- teries, five engineer companies, ands. bat- talion of infantry. v '- Malta has seven batteries of British 11-; “ tillery, two companies of engineers, four line battalions, and the fenciblc artillery; and Gibraltar, seven batteries, four en- gineer companies, and four line battal- ions ; while Cyprus is garrisoned by the headquarters of the 1st West Kent and a six acres of beautifullyvlecated ground. The building is to be rectangular in form, measuring 520 feel? fromicast to West, and «376 from north to south. -, v- The plan is simple, ,..C.9nsist.i.ng .9; mo long blocks. each six stories high, running parallel to each other and conns’cfié‘dl’fifiuhe middle and at either and by lower cross buildings There are tobe accommgrlations for 300 students, eacfl'havingfiflribdms. Every sanitary provision has been observed in the construction of thecbifldisg, which is nowl near completion. This institution}; designed to give a. mitable education to women of the middle classes. Every student is to be allowed to have complete freedom on religious matters; but the internal government will be that of an orderly Christian household. The total endowmentof Mr. Halloway will amount to about $5,000 000. In the past the ed- ' nation of women was considered of minor importance ; but this college for women will, when completed, be the costliest in- stitution of learning ever bibught into beâ€" ing by a single benefactor. No worthier tribute could be paid to the memory of a beloved wife, . V. M The National tobacco manufactory in France, which is a monopoly, is becoming very unpopular. The complaint is that no regard is paid to the wants of its cus- tomers, and that anyOne purchasing a box of a certain brand can not obtain the du- plicate a short time later. It is the same trouble with popular brands of cigarettes, _ . _ . beginning of many and most serious em- “ A good man never dies,” says a. company of engineers. and the company will be compelled to shirtless, or dissipated to make their own brollments and they would that England pllllosopbur. ii that is the case we shan'l’. Irrespective of the force of irregulars open new factories and pay some defer- llvmg. was safely and forever out of in. waste any more money on physicians. organized in England for special servrcs once to the public.