—————————— THE NEWG. A nolle prosequi was entered in the Crimi- nal Districs Court of New Orleans in the case of Julge J. CC. Baumann and Dennis Richardsoa, colored, arraigned for the mur- der of Judge H nry Long. The sawmill of G. W, Favors & Co, near Columbus, Ga, was destroyed by the explosion of the boiler of the engine. Will Grizgin, white, aged fourteen, and Titus Heath, colored, wore killed; Sandy Tinsley, Johan Grant and Aaron Watson were fatally injured and four others painfully hurt. —— Jefferson Shank of Dayton, Ohio, was arrested on the charge of murdering his wife. .—Baron Shultz, why was the husband of Lady Anna Bishop, the once famous singer, died of typhus in New York, a va abond,———The body of Bishop Dwenger was buried in the Catholic ceme’ tery in Fort Wayoe, lod.——Frank Duffy, at ons time a well known politician in New York, shot and killed Georg: Cunningham in front of a saloon kept by Duffy in Fort Hamilton. —— Amos Whitely & Co.'s mower and binder works were transferred to a new company to be knowa as the Whitely Ma- chine Company, It has been incorporated under the laws of New Jersey, with a cap- italization of £10),000.—Charles Burg callad at thy residencs of Mr. and Mrs Waldo Whipple, in Butte, Mont, and cal- ling then to the door, shot bo'h of them and placed the pistol to his mouth and blew his braivi out. No cause can be assigned for the deed. — Mrs. Sarah Johnson, aged fifty- one years, living in St. Louis, was burned to death in her home. Mrs. Johnson was a paralytic and, while sloge in the house, in some unaccountable way her clothes caught fire and in her helpless. condition she was burned to death before discovered. The principal part of the town ot Edison, Washington was destroyed by fire. Loss £25,000, ——Mrs. Mary A. Forrest, widow of General N. Bedford Forrest, one of prominent Confederate commanders, died in Memphis, Tenn. James F. Black, alias Frank Woodruff, who was arrested on sus picion of being connected with the murder of Dr. Crouin, died at the Laosing Feniten tiary October 10. Black makes the seventh participant in the crime or witness at the trial who has since died.——Nine persons were injured by a terrific toler explosion in Adrian, Mich. - tev. Dr. Lyman Abbott defined the differences between the Roman Catholic and the Protes ant churches —— The McBeth Lamp Flue Works, the largest of the kind in ths world, burned in Elkwood, Ind. The warehouses were saved, Over 600 men will be thrown of out employ- ment, The loss is estimated at $100,000; fully insured.——The car-shops of the Fitts burg and Lake Erie Railroad, at Chartiers, Pa., were entirely consumed by fire, together with severa! freight cars and two passenger coaches, The fire was caused by natural gas. Loss, $65,00).——An infuriated mob attacked the house of Dean Hart, in Denver, who led the crusuade which resulted in the breaking up of Sunday amusements Denver. Madison G. Whittaker, a famous old Texas fighter, is dead.—— Fairhaven, the City,” so ealled, in Rutland county, Vt, was visited by the most disastrious fire in fts history. Fhe fire spread to a dozen buildings, and caused a los of over £5,000 ~joht A Davis, of Chicago, said to be one of the heirs in the famous Mon ana wiil case, fell down the stairway of the Driand Hotel, in Victoria, B. C., and is supposed to be dying from concussion of the brain — 8. J. Henry and C. J. B nd, the colored por- ter and conduc or of the seeping-car’ “Sal mon River,” were arrested at Buffalo for opium smuggling. Forty packages of opium were found under one of the seats in the car on its arrival, Toront York sleeper. A masked robber shot and killed Jefferson Thompson, a storekeeper near Newport, Arkansas Miss Maggie Twomy, a music teacher, was outraged and then murdered in Fort Worth, Texas -A man registering as George B. Tay.or, of London, Ont, committ.d suicide at the Mansion House, Buffalo, by taking poison From papers found on his person he is sup- posed to be KH. G. Haun, of Orangeville, Ount., county treasurer and manager of a bank at that place. The United States Banking Compaay, with branches at June. tion City and Sheridan, iu Ovegon, suspend- ed payment. Farmers coe the were in HSinte The car is a New is less than $50 (00 Miss Adeli e Holmes, assistant priocipa of the high school, and ber sister Frances died in Saginaw, Mich., of malignant diph theria, Susie another sister, principal of the Dolsen Scheo!, 's ill with the sume d » ease, and is not expected to recover, — lov, Father John T. Cullerton, pastor of the Roman Catholic Church at Raywick, Kr., has renounced bis faith and married bi cousin. Fire desiroyed the argest gra'n elevator in Indianapolis, which was owned by Frel. B. Hush & Co. ~The Owl tra'n of the Pennsylvania Railrowd crashed into a freight train near Nw Brumswes, NJ Two labore s were seriously hurt, and one is expocted to die. —~A locomotive dashed into asleigh near Passaic City, killing several destroyed the four-story bric: block in Bf, Bhoeh & Co. Losion stock and building $42,008, covered UY ipstrasce. Governor El jab T. Paxton judge of the District Court, indorsing the Hatch Astioption bill, and the Texas se. at ws, Coke and Mills, doing what is best under the circumstances, Explosion During a Test. Tho water works boiler at Naphanes a town of 1,800, twenty-f ve miles southwest supp led the electric plant and had just Leon The killed are N. A. French, of the town board; George Parker and Electrician John son, Injured, Jones and iwae Whistler, bollermakers. mn ns pms AIO ns Pus procesdl in the Ber pe wii begin in Pari, Pons » BLAINE 18 DEAD. The End Comes Unexpectedly at Jame: Gillespie Blaine died rather unex- pectediy at 11 o'clock Friday Morning. from the world a charsct:r w 0 was pror « nent in everythiog he undertook, caused bu littie surprisy. Tho news of it had been wu long«di-counted that the: e remained but the I neof at ro neeament at the bed of this dis. patch. It was a foregone conclusion that his Latiie with death would be the fiual feat of his life, Though the facts as to hisiilorsi hava from the first beso studiously concealsd through the official channels ¢ ammunication, was a sick man whe=i he returned to Wasi. ington to sett e dowa for the winter: deat: aud its bereavements added more and more to his ailments. He has grown worse and has continued oa his journey to the grave es fast as the days woull carry him, Selence and skill have furnished him the weapons of defense fora comparatively loug time, but b « death has furnished the end of the fight. He was a doomed man from the start. His miod bas been almost a blan ; for de of weeks, bs lu d woments having be n Tew, and at times far between: but his sical irame bas withstood the but phy- ravages of wasting disease until now, Dating trom the erad » to the tomb Mr, Blaine's Glsears bave been active ones. Al} the trials and tribulations that fall to the lot of a public man have been his, and have earned for him the peaceful ending of! a career which clossd when life's cradle ale its last flicker today Mr. Blaine, on bis deathbad was surron ed, just as he had bea d almost incessantly for weeds, by those woo were int own family aud those very closely associated nearest and dearest to tin. Ia fast, was oaly his with them tha have bean permitted to see or eveu hear from bim during ths last days his life Trained journalists, calling into r quis tion every honest means at their command sud resorting to ith journali w, h ve kept a ost watchful eye on every every possible means w in the line of legitimate nose went without®(and ax far as possible withir the pow femous “red house” where the cis tinguished stat sman breathed his Jast, Naturally enough there has heen a sition, both on the part of the family the attending physicians, to either « skit from time or distort in some way. th» real co the blsioe mansion; but, secuinte information ax to Blajioe's tion hes beea obtained and faichi #04) poried. It is quite saletosay that there are fo if, indeed, which could simple of watching and waiting th any journalistic experi irish 8 more thoroug an! cass of Mr. Blaine Every element of discomflort-—rain, s'e t and frosi—has the been A Iactor mn line of duty of noted the resend reporters w ho scenes and locidents at tle # for weeks past Johnson was suramoned to the of Mr. Baine early in the mourning i Rn w le in oO Fe WHA xn to tho fy 3 Fi-34 {pany dst WLR Hyatt, be left tie house were unusually pale, and when a the reporter for the latest news t] cant look in their faces answered ton “He is dead,” syd Dn passed away peaceiu’ly Johnson, the observed tha of The doctors aid not give exact of 10.45 the windows in the death, but it wes room chamber wore slightly rajsed The news of Mr. Blaine's death spread like wildfire. Crowds gathered on the sod visitors flocked to the house Dr. Hamlin who was pa sing the Grier house when ihe an® nouns ement of death was made at once en- tered and with the family for some time. Word wis sent to the President! immediate lvaliter 1he death. At 11.25 President Harrison accompanied by Private Halford and Lieut Parker, walked over to the Blaine mansiov The Presidevt showed marked siges of grief Wanamaker follosed hie President. re raioed Necrelary Postmaster Gone ral the foots eps of t The President's Proclamation. It my painful duty toa n unce 10 the peorle of the United States the death of James Gillespie Blain®, which occurred in thes city at 11 o'ch ek, “For a full generation this emin nt cit pens hes occupied a conspicucns ard influ n ti «dl position 11 te nation His first public servi o was in the legislature of his slate, Att rward for 14 years he a was member of the Na isnt Houce of Hepresentatives, and w. & thres times chosn its M; eaker. In i870, be was clic ed to the Senate. He resigned hi» seat in that body in 1551 to accept the pos tion of Secretary of Stats jun the Cabinet « { President Garfield. Aftor the tragic death of bis chief here igned from the Cabinet and devoting bi veell to literary work, gave to the putlic his “Twenty Years in Congres’ a most va uable and envurisg contribution to our po it eal Hterature, “In March, i180, ne again became Fo re. tary of Biate, and continued to exerc a, ths office untit June, 1822. Hix devotion to toe public loterests, hin marked ability ani h's exa ted patriotim bave won for hm the gratitude and affection of his eousirymea and the admiration of the world, In the varied pursuits of legislation, diplomacy and litera ure his genius has added new lus re to American cit zensh p. “As a suitabl: expression of the national appreciation of his g eat public services ai J of the g veral & rr. ow caussd by hs death | direct that oa the day of b's faneral all the departments of the executive branch of th government at Washington be closed, wid that on all p b je buildings throughout the United Sates the national flag shall be dis played nt half oa, ant thas 107 8 park d of 3) days the Department of State Le draped in mourning. “Hy the President. Brexs, Hannisox. “Jos W, Foster, Secretary of State” The Funeral. A public funeral was rnggestad, bul the wishes of the tay ity preva led and the core mw nies will be of \a private nature. They wil. be held at the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, whore Mr. Blasi we was a pew holder. De. Hamlia, who officiated at the fu eral of Mrs. Harrfion and hor fa hor, wil contuet th servic.s. The remains will be Lid to rest in the ten | ul Ouk bid in Georiet own, which forms JE cr ~dangh or. Ms. Covplnrer err nti ¢ Ma zion, Washington i Ths physician have officially made public the cause « f death as HBuizht's direase ag gravated by tubercular di ease of the lungs and followed by heart fadure, FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Senate, 251TH Day.—~1In the Senate, Mr, George couciided bis argument on the Anti-option bi, and after some col oquy, it was finally agreed to take a vote on the bill on Tuesday next. The Cherokee Ouatlet BHI was then considered and a number oi any ndments of- fered, but the bill pally wont over withoat action, 2001 Day In the Hennts a bill was passed autho izing the C omnis rs of to accept as proof of the ciiz nuship of an applicant for pen-ion the tact that be isa boua-fide resident of the conutry, The Hen- aethen adjourned out ol respect to the memory of Jus ice Lamar 2974 Day. —Fiibustering against the Jwkruptey bile was inaugurated in the Howe by Mr. Kilgore (Dem, of Texas, He wax seconded in bis endeavor by Mr, Plerce, of Tennessee, who suppl mented his ever til- iha teriug motion wich anotherwhich wascal. ciated to prevent action and the {| bustering cominued “Another waded day,” was the comunent «choad by a majority of memoers, But the tew Democrats oppessd 10 the bank: ruptey measure held flrm, and the Hose adjourned withoat action, thus exhausting the two dayr sssigne | to the Judic.ary Come mittee and the B.onuruptey bill, 2% DAY.—In the Fenate, the House ocon- crcrens reolution for thy masse bing of both housed Wednesday, Feb, Sth to count the electoral vots was pass A res. olution asking tie ety o Phisadelphia for the Litety Bell fo- exhilltiog nt hicago WHE referred, Bill to pay the widow of Dh, Kane, t eo exviorer, a pe.sion of fity dail rsa mouth was referred, Mr. «handler offere | a resolution loozing ty an nvestigat.on of the Whiskey Trust. A hil for the appointment of » commission to maken thiough mvest gatios of the 1 quo traffic was offered by Mr, Vest and went over, The Anti opt on bill was argued ty M Mills Hiv ork, Senator Ait hell tor the Comm tee on Claims, re ported favors * the bill introduced by Mr. Frew to adios the «lsurs of any state for moar hw its defense of the nite | States stor Gallinger pres nt eel pdment to the Naval Appiogs iation sppropriate RIKI IKF} LOW Fu tion of a diy dock at Ports Navy Yard, under a linit of tal cost for the dock, House. i th Hous» ne 0 Pensions on and My OTe Fa it Is Coast ras ts IN. H (JAF TE BT ire Day Lill came up after o number of down in adopted. Thee wos a parbameniary’ en tankiement when the bill was reported to the Houre, and when 1! is was smoothed out the bill was fiually passed alter a motion to rreommit 10 the. Commi tex Lommerce had been Aofeal «The New York and New ey Bridge bull then came ut filivos er ' pres rritesd Vs cotiderati n The «f the whole, pro- nn of the Sundry ind hal gotten h when an sdjourn- watner, of Alnbama, in a bill appropriating aims for thes Jusrantine buisness, and, were voltad it Was vid Bite nls the commities of the whole, on {hes the in commie deratic fren} Mr. } n the House st was had ond ipoesd 5 to seitie allowed FM.» Gamages van«wed by 1 © dedructy vessels while in 1 { the LU nted Males , house Mr nmitiee of the whole L, b this was de the Hankruptey bil ed out of AT Liilary re TH AY thas Holman op the Hundr, it fetes by the It : » Honse then adjours ay oF Justice | Neither the Antiortions bill out et 1 whi bh have iderat on 13 the Nenate v sf ow of cone ideation In tour of the » JE WH respect Lo : eI soem Day n the L LirTOSEy the alternates con bad a ate. Tas the taken 1 entits mt avy up ser tl Tot 1 Wf 13 i as of fy ¥e itiley Only exoeg bi and mitt Ar # sii Of ae td Mints, 1 the Cone erred 16 the ‘om A pagar iookinz to a farther in rease ot one batt'e ship, tao armored ©o felon ve wh tf bots, The rest the admis] i BIOTA n Navel oe on oe. boats apd o gi day eed pax | toh fe | ter LR f Ms Rupe fro re nd questi M of ne oclock up to ¢ Jomeed 1 of whether OMNS Be onurt of the Di not oon ad and was devo nomina’ ion +f the dumbia should be or mr pment doors One In the Hou appeals for the LEO The bu I wae reste | » and, while a few obstructions ys 1] tack, nme of then diam tr and the bill made fair progress Ti { appropriatios for ihe survey of public lands Was fof ob oct of the attack: but Mr», Holman kept hh s men in line, and smen ments to an in crease Of the appro ation for this purpose from R0L000 to $2.0 000 and $500.00) was cleared, 4 a bill to edtab District was wiry Civil Ap oi nitlee ore, Day 1 sh a con in item the « jovi ing PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS, Epitomof Newes Gloanel from Various Parts of the Blate, Tux Jury trying the case of Maser Work a verdict of guilty as indicted J. PF. Mirren, the alsconding clerk of the Columbia National Ban, returned and sur rendered to the autboritirs] He bas teen in i fon, Anstralia and India, Tur Adjutant General's offi e places the wut of the Homesiea ll 1iot to the State at (454.818 30 Insane Asylum, assaulted and killed Harrison Rank, another inmate, Tur expert Philadephia buflders will County the Werneravi le Asylum prejaratory toa report to Governor Pattison, J. K. BLATTESRERGER wos sentenced at snd $100 floe for tampering with a jury. through the Reading Treasurer's books as an expert, Battery BB, thinks sn sttempt was nade up a powder house, New orders Fave been rm ceived and the M Iton ear works will again be busy. Tex foe waa cleared ftom a Lancaster three people by Dunkarnd ri es Fire conmed $15 000 lows at Tyrone, Som nso III Ss Tin total no al bh Mie Suc Ay ” rg the Morgue, New Yor: City, dus was TTL Of theses 4520 wors nduits, Foien ls buried 2401 adults an 101 children, Toeres wore buried in the City Comatery (Potters Field; 2098 adults and 2351 children. Thers y disposed of during JAMES G. BLAINE His Public Career From Man- hood to Old Ace. TRIUMPHS AND REVERSES. i ! His Early Life asa School Teacher and a Journalist, leginning of His Political Career Speaker, Senator, Secretary of state, Presidential Candidate and Historian— Hix Bereavements and Hi-¥ated House In Washington The Blaine Houschold, BLAINE -YROM CRAP KEX 1X James Gillespie Blaine was bora on the | sist of January, 18 at West Brownsville vas built by War of The Gill standing belors Penn. ina b hits great. rand. father before the ths Hsvolution, which still stands, ves and Bialoes were prop of tion, Colonel Blaine, who was commissary. general of the Northern of Washington's army during the Revolat was James G, Blaines if When eleven years old, uncle, Thomas Ewing, ther’ father, Neal Gillaspie, shed sobolar, directa l his » hie attended Washi ton Collages, ington, Penn., graduating at th enitown, the Revol Depmriment jon, great-zran he went to live with Ohic, where his an B/OOSM- wdies, Later at Wash. aze of ather in BEY. or leaving Mus Lick win t eollege be tanzht +» Kv. [twas av uj sehool § rs that tb of the la -—lf o afterward be his wife Later to where he taught nod But after two years he aban fer, went to Maine, and and editor of the Kennelwe J Atl the birtn the Republ was a delegate to the Philadelphia Coaven- tion in 1856, which nominated After serving as Speaker the Maine Lag isiature, he was sent to Congress and began hie Naticnal ocareerin | with the out break of the war. During the orty-frst Forty-scond and Forty- thir | Congresses he was Speaker of the House, Mr. Blaine's administration of the Speak- ership i= commonly regarded as one of the rilliant and sucessful in the annals of He had rare aptitude and equip ment for the duties of presiding officer, and his compiete mastery of Parliamentary law, his dexterity and phys cal endurance, bis rapid dspatel of businows, and his firm and impartial spirit were recognized on all sides. It was during his occupancy of the Sp sak of's chair in 1574 that he took the floor and uecseded in defeating the passage of the original “Fares bill” The political revulsion of 1574 placad the Demorrats in control of the House, and Mr. Biaine becsine the leader of the minority. The evasion precadiog the Pres jential cons toast of 1576 was a pariod of stormy aud vi bement contention, 21 of May a resolution was sdopted in the Houss to in vestigate an alleged purchase by the Union Pacifier Ralirond Company of certain bonds of the Little Hockand Fort Smith @aiiroad Company, It soon became evident that the investigation was aimed at Mr. Blaine An extended business corrgoondencs on his part with Warren Fsber, of B witon, man ning through years and relating to various transactions, had fallen into the hands ol a clerk named Mulligan, and it was alleged that the production of this correspondence ay ol mt Noring { ihitary fntanoe rom Maine Le went sade hood ame Pailadelphia, stadial law ed law fy wi neh] studs Fares # of remont, MES the Ho On the transaction, wes traveling In Barone and both slider were seskine: to communicate with him, After finishint the reading of the letters Me. Blaine turned to thas Chsirs man of the Committee and demanded to know whether he badd received nny dispastes from Mr. Caldwell, Hecoving an evasive answer Mr, Dining asserted, sx within own know odge, that the Cosirman ceived seh a disoaten sntitely sxrmeralin zy And vou hava hile ympletely and mas from this cf jt.’ ni Caarze wer BL ALY In 1815 Mr. Senate to fill th signation of Sensto rill, winter was elected by the Leogisiatnrs § succeeding tera, His car was both ant and di had been in the House Ho was called the Senate to enter President ‘nbinet ag Necretary ol Niats, throurh Blasi Blaine was appomis i to the in ani the nex? y the in the Senat in Ti "1 8 1 tril tinguis wd, os {rar It wax wi 3d enol 8 Bre regs nliy ¢ with bim bout widay that g fatal bullet sng Gartleld received the asewsin retirament from the 1k J Cabinet, in Decamber, 1 From that date until be entered Mr, Harrison's Cabinet as Secretary of | be was in private life except during his CAampsign Ls During hie: Bisine wrots v Year: in Co a work of greal historical in goowrdancs with his oe 3 2 ad due to his earnest off ort was made In the McKinley Gill for the rorty trea which formed such pr of National policy The for the Pregdency in tirement Mr, i'wre value, tie t features Samoan diffical- 3 arising out of the { Italians at New Orleans and the tier, Lhe cations ivoching fAMTRE 46. un killing of American seamen al Valparaiso were also diepossed of while Mr. Bigine was at the head of the Stats Department. The events preceding and atten ding thy recant Minnean wis 4 Aanveqlion ar: OH rod sant al- most to need recsunting., Mr. Bains was indaced to permit his names Lod ussi nea cindidate, and resigasi « placs in the Cabinet. Waoether in public position ©F in private life, he alwava ramainel a central fi rure in National aff ir BLAISE'S LIFE IN WASHINGTON, For nearly thirty vears Mr. Baine been & resident of Washingloo, never gave up his homs anil home tife in Maine, wher: he hal a town residence in Augustasnnd a summer residence at Bar Harbor, yet he ton. has would confirm the imputation against Mr. Blaine. When Mulligan was sammoned to Washington Mr. Blaloe 1 himvenl! of the lettsre, with memorandum that contained a full index and abstr ot. Oa the Sth of June, 1874, he rose to a personal explanation, and aiter denying the power of the House the pro luction ant his willingness to of his rights, noth there as 8 Member of Congress tbat he tought the residence, 821 Fifteenta street, — A —————————— ny, X, PENN. “0 manv yesrs. ‘Thuis t th » 1880, when ho was ol ve J the Housa for the first hous he bon was ons ©’ a and was re. Hm i ! : : i i i i $ About the bezinming of his administration be purchases his late home, which is on the opposite side of Lafavetts squares, soi ws Know the Sewar] House, Toe old piace bad boea unoc-aoiel for syns vears and was in a dilapidated condition, It was notoriously uninexy, we tragedior having oncarred within its portals Daring Buchanan's siministration it was pie! ns a clubhouse. One day Phillip Barton Kw, tie vouee and handsoms Dis riot of Columbia, pd TAI a ————— fal just jefe 2 shot down Ly Congressman York. Mr. Key when Be was Sickles, of New was carried baci to Lhe iptrigus which Key had om with Buwcslen's wile wes encounter, Tw) this occurrencs the bou we 1 was for a time anoccunio J, was Lage: bv the then Nec etary of State, William H Seward, and pe swovad into §8 with bis far CREFVING vears afte hit of Apri M4, 188, while M 1 bed in one of the ug FOOmF, A , oak complexionsd, bros ghoulaerel man rang the door bwil an told the servant who admitisl him that be had a packace of medicine which the Se retary’s phvsician hal ordered to be deliv ered to him personals, The servant =r ow him to go upslairs sand th son, Frederick WwW. Seward, also but the stranger, making » departare, snddenilv sorang of th a revolver, almost on the same instant siashing the servant with a knife Hie then darted forwarl and reached the sick chamber where Soceretary Beward was sitting up in bed, The kaife gleamed again and Mr. Seward, weak and helpless, was stabbed in the face and neck, but ths band ages that swathed bis neck saved bmn froma mortal wound As the murders: intruder retreated he was again intercepted this time by Major Augustus H, Beward and an attendant, bul be shook them off, and running down stairs, leaped on hus bourse and rode of He was captured =» few dave later, and beng fully identified as lewis Payne, one of the me implicated in Pres dent ldncola’s death, was fried, condemned and ex ecntead with has fellow.ennepiratore Necretary of War Belknap was the next tenant of toe bouse of misfortune, and for » time the sober old adifice became gay wil the life of the Grant regime. Balore a twelve in Lhe 1s ward my + £ of the batt self and Mre. Belinap lay dead under i roof after a brief iliness. Then, aller the Belknavs vacated, it again did duly, as in the earlier days, as a boarding<house, but Washington ba { somehow got the impres- § tenants wera dog zed by au evil fate ¥ a time the Commissary Ueneral's staff held possession, then when they bad ing it was agein tenaniies:. It was abou! astonished his friends by at 83000 a yewr. Ho decurated and reno. | in whoa the attempt on Mr transformad the dingy old wide roomed house into a magnificent mod ern resdenca. Yet ail the changes failed 10 eradicate the characteristic attributed to the mansion by the superstitions Washington fans. Becoming its tepant, Mr Blaine has suoountered the greatest reverss to big am bitiong, and experienced the keenest sorrows of his lite MR. BLAISE'S ROUSEROLD. Of Mr. Bisinég's six children, thres—two pons and a daughter were saddeniy stricken down by deatn after rescuing mabarity. Hi sides: sos, Walker, a young msn fine paris, who eal given evidence of rare abilities snl Was Apparently destined to a brilliant future, died two years apo. Emmons, bis gaooivd son, A bright business man, in manner and character closely resembling his father, ats) died sud. deuly in the heyday of youth ani prosperity. A taird apd crushing bereavement was the death of the eldest daughter, Alice ‘who was matriel to Lieutenant Colonel John J. Coppinger... Is 1ollowed closely on the death of her brother, Walker ; whose funeral sue was at when seigsi by the fatal surviving ree, made an uafortunatle LA resulta of which en heron, the latter years of his father’s lite, Ove of the daughters, Miss Margaret, ie to M~ Walter Damcosols, She fa mous New Yorks musical director, and the other, Miss Harriet, # unmarried, Mr. Pe oF
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