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Lev lson's Victim
[Prom the Belgravia.]
" Have you seen Horace Wynward ?"
" No. You don't mean to say that he
is here?''
" He is indeed. I saw him last night;
and I think I never saw a man so much
changed in so short a time."
" For the worse?"
" Infinitely for the worse. I should
scarcely have recognized him but for
that peculiar look in his eyes, which I
dare say you remember.'
"Yes; deep-set gray eyes, with an
earnest, penetrating look, that seems to
read a man up as he talks to him. I'm
very sorry M hear of this change in him.
We were at Oxford together, you know ;
and his place is near my father's in
Buckinghamshire. We have been fast
friends for a long time; but I lost sight
of him about two years ago, before I
went on lily Spanish rambles, and I've
heard nothing of him since. Do you
think he hits been leading a dissipated
life—going the lace a little too vio-
lently
" I don't I:now what he has been (M
-ing ; but I fancy lie must have been
truvelliug during the last year or two,
for I've never come. across 111111. fit Lon
don."
" Uid you speak to him htst
" No • I o•unteil very hutch to get
hold of hiiu for a rely minutes' chat, but
I uouldn't manage it. li, (,vas in one of
the gambling 1,111111 4 I saw him, on the
opposite side or the table. Till' l'ol,lll
was ermvile,l. Il was shoaling lool:itig
on :It the gallle over the heads of the
player;. You 1(1111w how tall he is, and
what a 1,11-pieuotis figure anywhere. I
now Ii n( one minute, :mil in the noXI
lw hail disitppe:u•ed. I lull the rooms
iu searell of him, but he was not to be
neon anywhere about."
" I shall try awl limit hint tip tii-tniir
rtily. lie 111114 in. stopping utouc ol'the
hotels. There can't Le 11111111 (finality
In finding him."
spa:l:els were tAvo young English
:nen ; the seene a little lamp-lit grove
or trees outside the I.tirsaal or llik.rnmil
spa. 'Flue elder, I h•nrge Theobithl, MILS
a barrister or the Inner Tentple ; the
younger, l'ratteis Lorrlniore, son and
heirorayoung inghitinshiresioire,
and geutlemaii at hinge.
" NVliat xvas the change that struck
you so painfully, I leorge .' Lurriuunr
inked, bet \visa' the pull"; or his cigar;
"you couldn't have seen mach or Wyn
witril the gaming
table."
" I -dtw mill , enough. llis face has a
lia,;gard cs pression--he looks
like a man who never sleeps; and there's
a fierceness ;Wont the eyes a i'ontritc
lion or the prows --a kind of restless,
searching look - Jr he were on the
watch for slime one or something. In
short, the poor fellow seemed to me al
together queer—the sort of man one
would expi et to hear of in a mail-house,
or viinimitting or something
h:ei that. kind."
"I shall certainly hunt hint out,
It %%amid lie only a kindness to do so
old Ibllotc, as coo .ifif Ito have Lech in
timate. t4t,i exelainied
bald, pointing suddenly to a lig, , llle ill
the distant,. "Do you see that tall man
under the trees yonder? I've a notion
It ' s the very matt Nve'rc calking or."
They rose I . flan the bench on whirls
Ihey had ling smoking their
cigars for the last half hour, walled
ill bile dirt,tioil of the tall figure pacing
slowly under the pine trees. There uvas
no uusLd:iug that 111lISCUlill' frante—six
feet two, if an inch—and the peculiar
carriage of the head. Vratilt Lorritniire
touched his friend im the shout
and he turned round suddenly, and
faced the tits,' young men, staring at
them blankly without a sign or recog
nition.
it \l'a, iutlrril :L haggard fart
\rill, a latent fierceness in tilt• lieep-set
gray cyr; tiVer•liathoWvil by strongly
inarlted black 1,11,w,, bin a lave wit it'll,
.eon at !Weds liaVe beru
Vel'y
\V VII \Varti,'
I:110W
Ile hold MO blab hands. 'lire
other tool: one or Ilium slowly, looking
al hint like a Wall ,ild,ll.lllS ;kW:11:01101
'' Yes," he said, ' I Itnew .
.you well
tonaigh ,t:Lrtled
me just this moment. I \vas thinking.
Ilow well you're loolting, tplii fellow !
\ \\'lnit you here too, Theobalti !
" l'es; I sans' you in the raffle: last
night," answered (;eorge Tlteol'ald
hey s h oo k bawl-, ycfli were gone
before I could get a vilalirt• 01 speaking
In you.
" .\t the I lute! des Etrangers. I shall
he till' to-morro \‘',"
" Hill a \\say ill ,Ilt•1i :t hurry,
11,W:we," said I.'ralik ; it
yt.il Walilt•ti tt) rut us."
nut Vpryuld eonipany just
nuts';nuts'; gi tart- to rco snarls
said Frank, "don't you
You are Ilc4. Ilg \Try
I lorat•e, certainly. 1 lave you keen ill:'•'
'• Vo, I noecr ; 1 ;Lill Made of
iron, you know."
Ilut thore's something wrong, I'in
" ksontething Ivrong,, but not
that tall: or friendship can mend."
,• Don't say that, llurtrc. Cunu• to
breal:fast milli utr O,IIIOITo :ltd toll
ute
. yolll' t roubles."
"It's a 01111111011 story enough, I shall
only Lore coll.
" I think you ought to know tile bet
ter thall 11:11:'
" Well, I'll collie, if you like," I !mace
in a ostler roue.
" I'm not very much given to rontide in,
friendship, but you Were (m, , , a kind of
younger brothel' of Mille, Frank. 'Sc.,
I'll come. IIoW long have you been
here "
" I only l . :11110 yesterday. lam al the
Couronne where I • discovered my
friend Theolialil, happily for tie at the
bildr ,/'hole. 1 :titi going to go bail: to
Buckinghamshire next week. Have
poll keen at Crofton lately '.`"
"No; CrorMll has been huh up for
the last two years. 'Phi ,
:opt there are men
to keep the gardens ill order. !shouldn't
dike the idea a itiy mother's dower gar
dens being neglected; but doubt if I
over shall live at Crofton."
" Nut when yo marry Horace?"
" Marry ! Yes, when that event oc
curs I may change my mind," he an
swered, with a seorithil laugh.
"Ali, Horace, I see that there is a
woman at the luol.ll or your troutilc !"
Ile did not answer this, but began the
talk of ittilitlerent subjects.
three young men walked fur
sums Wes illlder the pines, smoking
and talking in a fragmentary manner.
llmare Wyn ward had an absent-mind
ed way, which was not calculated to
promote a lively style of conversation ;
but the others indulged his humor, and
did not demand uuuoh trove him. It
was late When they shook hands and
separated.
`:\t tell o'clock to-morrow, Horace?"
said Frank.
"I shall be with you at tell. Good
night."
Mr. Lorrimore ordered an tixeellent
breakfast, and a little behire ten o'clock
awaited his friend in a pretty-room
overlooking the g,ardens of the hotel.—
He hod been dreaming of Horace all
night, and was thinking of 111111 IN he
walked up and down the room waiting
his arrival. As the little clock on the
mantlepiece struck the hour, Mr. NVyn
ward was announced. His dress was
dusty, and lie had a tired look even at
that early hodr. Frank welcomed ldm
heartily.
" You look as if you had been walking,
I lorace," he said, as they sat down to'
breakfast.
" I have been on the hills since five
o'clock this morning."
" So early
" Yes; lam a bad sleeper. It is bet
ter to walk than tone tossing about hour
after hour, thinking the same thoughts
with maddening repetition."
" My dear boy, you will make your
self ill with this kind of life."
"Don't I tell you that 1 am never ill?
I never had a day's illness in my life.
I suppose when 1 die I shall go down at
a shot—apoplexy or heart disease. Men
of my build generally do."
"I hope you may a long life."
" Yes a long life of emptiness."
" Why shouldn't it be a useful, happy
life, Horace!"
"Because it Was shipwrecked two
years ago. I set sail for a given port,
Frank, with a fair wind in my favor,
and my ship wentdown in sight of lurid,
bn a summer's day, without a moment's
Warning. I can't rig another boat and
make for another harbor, as some men'
can. All my world's wealth was ad
ventured in this one argosy. That
sounds tall talk, doesn't it? lint you see
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there is such a thing as passion in the
world, and I've so much faith in your
sympathy that I'm not ashamed to tell
you what a fool I have been and still
am. You were such a romantic fellow
five years ago, Frank, and I used to
laugh at your sentimental notions."
" Yes, I was obliged to stand a good
deal of ridicule from you."
" Let those laugh who win. It was
in time last long vacation before I left
Oxford that I went to read, at a quiet
little village on the Sussex coast, with a
retired tutor, an eccentric old fellow,
but a miracle of learning. He had three
daughters, the eldest of them, to my
mind, the loveliest girl that ever the sun
shone upon. I'm not going to make a
long story of it. I think it was a case
of love at sight. I know that before I
had been a week in the humdrum sea
coast village, I was over head and ears
in love with Laura Daventry, and at
the end of a month was happy in the
belief that my love was returned. She
was the dearest, brightest of girls, with
a disposition that won her friends in
every direction, and a man must have
had a dull, unimpressional nature who
could have withstood her charm. I was
free to make my own cliMee, rich
enough to marry a pennile4 girl, and
before I went back to Oxford I made
tier an offer. It was accepted, awl f re
turned to the university the happiest of
men."
;le drank a cup of coffee, and rose
from the table to walk up and down the
room.
"Well, Frank, you would Imagine
that nothing could arise to interfere
with our happiness after this. In word
ly circumstances I was what would be
eonsidered an excellent 'notch l'or Miss
Daventry, and I had every reason to be
lieve that she loved use. She was very
young, not quite eighteen ; and I was
the first man who had ever propJsed to
for. I left her with the most entire
vonlidence in her good faith ; and to
this hour I believe in her."
There was a pause, and then hu recut
nu again:
" corresponded, of course. Laura's
letters were charming, and I had no
greater delight than in receiving and
replying to them. I had promised her
to work hard fur my degree, and for her
sake I kept my promise and won it. My
flrst thought waste carry her the newsof
my strecess, and directly after the exam
inations wereover I ran down to Sussex.
I found the cottage empty. Mr. Daven
try was in London; the two younger
girls had gone to Devonshire, to an lau t
who had gone to school there. About
Miss Daventry the neighbors could give
me no positive information. She had
left a few days before her father, but no
one knew whereshe had gone. When I
pressed them more closely, they told are
that it was rumored in the village that
she had gone away to be married. A
gentleman from the Spanish colonies, a
:\ Ir. hevison, had been staying at the
cottage for some weeks, and had disap
peared about the same time as Miss
Laura."
" And Sou hclicce thatiihe lead eloped
with him.."'
•
To this day I nm ignorant as to the
tuoiner of her leaving. Her last letters
wcia.ionly a week old. She hail told me
of this 'Mr. Levison's residence in their
household. lie was a prosperous mer
chant, a distant relation of her father's,
and WaS staying in Sussex for his health.
This its all she said of him. Of their
approaching departure she had not
given me the least hint. \o one in the
village could tell me Mr. Daventry's
London address. The cottage, a fur
nished one, had been given up to the
lndlord, and every debt paid. I went
to the post office, but the people there
had received 110 directions as to the for
warding of letters, nor had any come as
yet for Mr. Daventry."
"The girls in Devonshire—you ap
plied to them, I suppose
" I did ; but they could tell me noth
ing. I wrote to Emily, the eldest girl,
begging her to send me her sister's ad
dress. She answered my letter imme
diately. Laura had left home with her
Lather's full knowledge:mil consent, she
said, but had not told her sisters where
she was going. She had seemed very
unhappy. 'rite whole atrair had been
sudden, and her father had also appeared
much distressed in mind.. 'Phis was all
I could ascertain. I put tut advertise
ment ill the Titile.q, addressed to Mr.
I)aventry, begging, hint to let use know
his Nyhereahouts, but not hint; ,•ande of it.
I croployed a man to hunt London for
him, and hunted myself, hut without
avail. I wasted mouths in this futile
search, 1111 W uu one false track, nom on
moth I.
And you have long ago given up all
hope, I suppose?" Frank said, as he
paused, walking up and down the room
With a moody face.
"(liven up all hope of seeing Laura
Levison alive? Yes; but not of track
ing her destroyer."
"Laura Levison! Then you (think
she married the Spanish merchant:"'
"f am sure of it. I haul been inure
than six months on the look-out for Mr.
Daventry, and hail begun to despair of
finding him, when the man I employed
came to me and told me that he had
found the registry of a marriage between
Michael Levison and Laura Daventry,
at an obscure church in the city, where
he bad occasion to make researches for
,mother client. 'the date of the mar
riage was within a few days of Laura's
departure from Sussex.''
" Strange!"
" Yes ' strange that a woman could be
,so tickle, you would say. I felt con
vinced that there had been something
more than girlish inconstancy at work
in this business—siome motive power
srti glire li c e u r i , o , t , t i t e ir „s this n, sac-agrirrilngtoe.
l was confirmed in this belief, when,
within a very short time of the d iscov
cry of the registry, I came suddenly up
on old I)aveutry in the street. He
would fain have avoided me, but I in-
sisted on a conversation with him, and
he reluctantly allowed me to accompany
him to his lodging, a wretched place in
Southwark. lie was very ill, with the
stamp of death upon his face, and had a
craven look that convinced me that it
was to him I was indebted for my sor
row. I told him that I knew of his
daughter's marriage, and when and
where it had taken place, and boldly ac
cused hint of Lavine brought it about."
" Ilow did he take your accusation?"
" Like a beaten hound. lle whimper
ed piteously, and told me that the mar
riage had been no wish of his. But Lev
ison hail possession of secrets which
made him the veriest slave. Little by
little I wrung from bins the nature of
these secrets. They related to forged
bills of exchange, in which theold man
Lad made free with his kinsman's name.
t was a transaction of many years ago ;
but Levison had used this power to in
duce Laura to marry him ; and [begirt,
in order to save her father from utter
ruin, as she believed, MO consented to
become his wife. Levison had promised
to (I() great things for the old man, but
had left England immediately after his
marriage, without settling a shilling on
•his father-in-law. It wan altogether a
most wretched business; the girl had
been saerifieed to her father's weakness
and ray. 1 asked him why he had not
appealed to me, who could no doubt have
extricated him from this difficulty, but
he ',mild give me no clear answer. He
evidently - had an overpowering dread
or Michael Levison. I left him, utterly
disgusted with his imbecility and sel
fishness; but for Laura's sake I took
care that he wanted nothing during the
remainder of his life. He did not trouble
ine long."
" And Mrs. LeViSOll ?"
" The old man told me that the Lev
ens had gone to Switzerland. I follow
ed post-haste, and traced them from
place to place, closely questioning the
people at all the hotels. The accounts
I heard were by no means encouraging.
The lady did not seem happy. The gen
tleman looked old enough to be her
father, and was peevish and fretful in
his manner, never letting his wife out
of his sight, and evidently suffering
torments of jealousy on account of the
admiration which her beauty won for
her from every one they met. I traced
them stage by stage through Switzer
land into Italy, and then suddenly lost
the track. I concluded that they had
returned to England by some other
route ; but all my attempts to discover
traces of their return were useless.—
Neither by land nor by sea passage
could I hear of the yellow-faced trader
and his beautiful young wife. They
were not a couple to be overlooked
easily ;and this puzzled me. Disheart
ened and dispirited, I halted in Paris,
where I spent a couple of months in hope
less idleness—a state of utter stagnation,
from when I was aroused abruptly by a
communication from my agent, a private
detective—a very clever fellow in his
way, and well in with the police of civ
ilized Europe. He sent me a cutting
from a German newspaper, which dis
scribed the discovery of a corpse in the
Tyrol. It was supposed, from the style
of the dress, to be the body of an En
glish woman; but no indication of the
name or address had been found to
give a clue to identity. Whether the
dead woman had been the victim of foul
play, or whether she had met her death
from an accidental full, no one had been
able to decide. The body had been
found at the bottom of amountain gorge
the face disfigured from the full from
the height above. Had the victim been
a native of the district, it might have
been easily supposed that she had lost
her footing on the mountain path; but
that a stranger should have travelled
alone by so unfrequented a route seem
ed highly improbable. The spot at
which the body was found lay within a
mile of a small village, but it was a
place rarely visited by travellers of any
description."
"Had your agent any reason to iden
tify this woman with Mrs. Levisou!"
" None, except the fact that Mrs. Lev-
Ison was missing, and his natural habit
of suspicion. The paragraph was nearly
a month old when it reached me. I set
off at once for the place named, saw the
village authorities, and visited the Eng
lish WOlllllll'S grave. They showed me
the dress she had worn—a black silk,
very simply made. Her face had been
too much disfigured by the fall, and the
passage of time that had occurred be
fore the finding of the body, for them
to give me any minute description of
her appearance. 'they could only tell
me that her hair was dark auburn, the
color of Laura's, thick and long, and
that her figure was that of a young
WOlll3ll
" Adler exhausting every possible in
quiry I pushed on to the next village,
and there received confirmation of my
worst fears. A gentleman and his wife
—the man or tur , •igu appearance but
talking English, the woman young and
beautiful—had stopped for a night at the
chief inn of the place, and had left the
next morning without u guide. The
gentleman, who talked (lerman perfect
ly, told the landlady that his travelling
carriage and servants were to meet him
at the nearest stage MI the home jour
ney. He knew every inch of the coun
try, and wished to walk across the
mountain in order to show ins wife a
prospect which had struck him particu
larly upon Iris last expedition a few
years ago. The landlady remembered
that, just before setting out, he :asked
its wife some question about her watch,
took it front her to regulate it, and then,
after—some peevish exclamation about
her carelessness, put it into his waist
coat pocket. — The lady was very pale
and quiet, and seemed unhappy. The
description which the woman gave me
was only too like the wonnin I was look
ing for."
"And you believe there had been foul
play '."'
" As certainly as I believe in my own
existence. 'rids onto Levison had
grown tired of a wile whose affection
had never been his; nay more, I have
reason to know that his un resting jeal
ousy had intensified into a kind of ha
tred of her some time before the end.—
From the village in the Tyrol, which
they left together nut the bright October
morning, 1 trucked their footsteps stage
by stage back to the point, at which I
had lost them on the Italian frontier.—
In the course of my wanderings I met
with a young Austrian officer who had
seen them at Xilan, and had ventured
to pay the lady some frivolous, harmless
attentions. lie told me that he had
never seen anything so appalling as
Levison's jealousy ; not an open fury,
but a concentrated silent rage, which
gave alt almost devilish expression to
the man's parchment face. He watched
his wife like a lynx, and did not allow
n moment's freedom front his presence.
Every one who met them pitied the
, beautiful girlish wife, whose misery
was so evident; every one loathed her
tyrant. I found that the story of the
servants and the traveling carriage seas
a lie. ; The Levisons had been attended
,by no servants at arty of the hotels
'where I heard of them, and had travel
led always in public or in !tired vehicles.
The ultimate result of my inquiries left
little doubt that the dead W o man was
Laura Levison, and front that hour to
this I have been employed more or less
in the endeavor to find the man who
murdered her."
"And you have not been able to dis
cover his whereabouts'."' asked Frank
Lorriinore.
" Not yet. I . :WI looking for him."
A useless quest, Horace. What
would be time result of your finding hin.'
You have no proof to older of his guilt.
You would not take the law in your own
" By the heaven above me, I would l"
answered the other, fiercely. " I would
shoot that man down with as little com
punction as I would kill a mad dog."
" I hope you may never meet him,"
said Frank, solemnly.
Horace Wynward gave a short, im
patient sigh, and he paced the room for
some time in silence. His share in the
breakfast had been a mere pretence. He
had emptied his coffee cup, but had eaten
nothing.
" I am going back to London this af
ternoon, Frank."
" On the hunt for this man':"
" Yes. My agent sent me a descript ion
of a man calling himself Lewis, a bill
discounter, who has lately set up an
office in the city, and whom I believe to
he Michael Levison."
The office occupied by M. Lewis, the
bill discounter, was a dismal place
enough, consisting of a second door in
norrow alley called St Guinevere's
lane. Horace Wynward presented him
self at the office about a week after his
arrival in London, in the character of
agentleman in difficulties.
He found Mr. Lewis exactly the kind
of 'nail he expected to see; a Wan of
about fifty, with small, crafty, black
eyes shining Out of a sallow visage that
was as dull and lifeless as a parchment
mask, thin lips With a cruel expression
and a heavy jaw and bony chin that be
tokened no small amount of power fur
evil.
Mr. Wynward presented himself un
der his own name, on hearing which
the bill discounter looked up at !inn
suddenly with an exclamation of sur
prise.
"You know my name?" said Horace.
"Yes, I have heard your name before.
I thought you were a rich man."
"I have a good estate, but I have
been rather imprudent, and UM short of
ready money. Where and when did
you hear my name, Mr. Lewis
" I don't remember that. The untie
sounds familiar to me, that is all."
" But you have heard of MC a! , a rich
man, y•ou say?"
" I h
had an impression to that effect.
But the circumstances under which I
heard the name have quite escaped my
memory."
Horace pushed the question no fur
ther. He played his cards very care
fully, leading the usurer to believe that
he had secured a profitable prey. 'rhe
preliminaries of a loan were discussed,
but nothing fully settled ; and before
leaving, 11 - 6 race Wynward invited Mr.
Lewis to dine with him at his lodgings,
in the neighborhood of Piccadilly, on
the following evening. After a few min
utes' reflection Lewis accepted the invi
tation.
He made his appearance at the ap
bpointed hour, dressed in a suit of shabby
black, hi which his sallow complexion
looked more than usually parchment
like and ghastly. The door was opened
by Horace Wynard in person, and the
money-lender was surprised to find him
self in an almost empty house. In the
hall and on the staircase there were no
signs of occupation whatever; but in
the dining-room, to which Horace im
mediately ushered his guest, there was a
table ready laid for dinner, a couple of
chairs, and a dumb waiter loaded with
the appliances of the meal. The room
was dimly lighted by four wax candles
in a tarnished candelabrum.
Mr. Lewis, the money-lender, looked
round him with a shudder; there was
something sinister in the aspect of room.
" Its rather a dreary-looking place,
I'm afraid," said Horace Wynward.—
" I've only just taken the house, you
see, and have had in a few sticks of
hired furniture to keep me going till I
make arrangements with an upholster
er. But you'll excuse all shortcomings,
I'm sure—bachelor fare, you know."
"I thought you said you were in
lodgings, Mr. Wynward?'
" Did I?" asked the other absently;
"a mere slip of the tongue. I took this
house on lease a week ago, and am
going to furnish it as soon as I am in
funds."
" And you are positively alone here?"
inquired Mr. Lewis, rather suspiciously.
' Well, very nearly so. There is a
char-woman somewhere in the depths
below, as deaf as a post and almost use
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING MAY 4, 1870
less. But you need'nt be frightened
about your dinner; I had it in from a
confectioner in Piccadilly."
He lifted the cover of the soup tureen
as he spoke. The visitor seated himself
at the table with rather a nervous air,
and glanced more than once in the di
rection of the shutters, closely fastened
with heavy bars. He began to think
there was something alarmingly eccen
tric in the conduct and manner of his
host, and was inclined to repent having
accepted the invitation, profitable as his
new client promised to be.
The dinner was excellent, the wines
of the first quality ; and after drinking
somewhat freely, Mr. Lewis began to
be better reconciled to his position. He
was a little disconcerted, however, in
perceiving that his host scarcely
touched either the viands or the wine,
and that those deep-set gray eyes were
lifted every now and then to his face
with a strangely observant look. When
dinner was over, Mr. Wynward heaped
the dishes on the dumb waiter, wheeled
it into the next room with kiis own
hands, and came back to his seat at the
table opposite the bill discounter, who
sat meditatively sipping his claret.
Horace filled his glass, but remained
for some time silent, without once lift
ing it to his lips. His companion watch
ed him nervously, every moment more
impressed with the belief that there was
something wrong in his new client's
mind, and bent on making a speedy es
cape. Ile finished his claret, looked at
his watch, and rose hastily.
" I think I must wish you good night
Mr. Wynward. I am a man of early
habits, and have some distance to go.—
My lodging is at Bromptom an hour's
I
rule from here."
" Stay," said Ilorace, " wo have not
I)egnn business yet. It's only 9 o'clock.
want au hour's quiet talk with you—
Mo. Lovison."
• .
The bill discounter's face changed. It
W 11,4 nlnicoL illlpOSSiblO for that solid
mask of parchment. to grow paler, but u
sudden ghastliziess 001110 over thlilllllll ' S
evil countenance.
"My name is Lewis," ho said, with
an artificial grin.
" Lewis or Levison. Men of your
trade have us many names as they
please. Whelk you were traveling in
Switzerland, two years ago, your name
was Levison ; when you married Laura
Daventry your name was Levison."
" You ore under some absurd mistake,
sir. The name of Levison is strange to
me."
" Is the name of Daventry strange to
you too? You recognized my name yes
terday. When you first heard it I was
a happy man, Michael Levison. The
blight upon inc is your work. 0, I
know you well enough, and am provided
with ample means for your identilica
lion. I have followed you step by step
upon your travels—tracked you to the
inn from which you set out one October
morning, nearly a year ago, with a com
panion who was never seen alive by
mortal eyes after that date. You are a
good I ;crinan scholar, Mr. Levison ; read
thm."
Horace Wyn ward took out of his
pocket-book the paragraph cut from the
Oerman paper; and laid it before his
visitor. The bill discounter pushed it
away after a hasty glance at its con
tents.
" \Vhat hari thin to do with me?" he
qsked.
"A great deal, Mr. Levison. The
hapless woman described in that para
graph NV:LS Once your wife—Laura Day
entry, the girl I loved, and who returned
my love; the girl whom you basely
stole from me by trading on her natural
alfeethrn for a weak, unworthy father,
and whose life you made wretched, un
til it was foully ended by your cruel
hand. If I had stood behind you upon
that lonely mountain pathway in the
Tryol, and had seen you hurl your vic
tim to destruction, I could not he more
convinced than I am that your arm did
the deed ; but such crimes as these are
diftieult—in this case perhaps impossi
ble—to prove, and I fear you will es
cape the gallows. There are other
circumstances in your life, however
more easily brought to light, and by
the aid of a clever detective I have made
myself master of some curious secrets in
your past existence. I know the name
you bore some fifteen years ago, before
you settled in Trinidad as amerchant.
You were at that time called Michael
Lucas, and you fled from this country
with a large sum of money, embezzled
from your employers, Messrs. Harwell
& Oliphant, sugar brokers in St. Nich
olas lane. You have been "wanted" a
long time, Mr. Levison, but you would
most likely have gone scot-free to the
end had I not set my man to hunt you
and your antecedents."
Michael Levison rose from his seat
hastily, trembling in every lim Ho-
race rose at the same moment, and the
two mcnstood face to face—ono the
very image of craven fear. the other cool
and self-possessed.
"This is a tissue of lies"' grasped Levi
son, willing his lips nervously with a
handkerchief that fluttered in his trem
bling fingers. "Have you brought me
here to insult me with this madman's
talk"."'
" I have brought you hero to your
doom. There was a time when I
thought that if yuu and I ever stood
face to face, I should shoot you down
like a dog; but I have changed my
mind. • Such carrion as you are not
wurth the stain of guilt upon an honest
man'; hand. It is useless to tell you
how I loved the girl you murdered.
Your savage nature would not compre
hend any but the basest and most sel
fish passion. Don't stir another step-1
have a loaded revolver within reauh,
and shall make an end of you if you
attempt to leave this room. The police
are on the watch for you outside, and
you will leave this place for a goal.
Hark ! what is that ?"
It was a footstep on the stairs outside,
a woman's footstep, and the rustling of
a silk dress. The dining-room door was
ajar, and the sounds were very audible
in the bare, empty house. Michael Lev
ison made for the door, availing him
self of this momentary diversion, with
some vague hope of escape, but within
a few paces of the door he recoiled sud
denly with a hoarse,gasping cry.
The door was pushed wide open by
light hand, and a figure stood upon the
threshhold— girlish figure, dressed in
black silk, a pale, sad face, framed by
dark auburn hair.
" The dead returned to life!" cried
Lei icon. " Hide her, hide her! I can't
face her! Let me go!"
Ile made for the other door, leading
into the inner room, but found it locked,
and then sank cowering down into his
chair, covering his eyes with his skinny
hands, The girl came softly into the
room and stood by Horace Wynward.
" You have forgotten me, Mr. Lev
ison," she said ; " and you take me for
my sister's ghost. I was always like
her, and they say I have grown more so
within the last two years. We had a
letter from you a month ago, posted
from 'Trinidad, telling us that my sister
Laura was well and happy there with
you—yet you mistake me for the shadow
of the dead ! "
The frightened wretch did not look
up. He had not yet recovered from the
shock produced by his sister-in-law's
sudden appearance. The handkerchief
which he hebl to his lips was stained
with blood. Horace Wynward went
quietly to the outer door and opened it,
returning presently with two men, who
came softly into the room and approach
ed Levison. He made no attempt to re
sist them as they slipped a pair of hand
cuM on his bony wrists and led him
away. There was a cab standing outside
ready to convey him to prison.
Emily Daveutry sank into a chair as
he was taken from the room.
"o,lllr. Wynward,",she said, "I think
there can be but little doubt of my sis
ter's wretched fate. The experiment
which you proposed has succeeded only
too well."
Horace had been down to Devonshire
to question the two girls about their sis
ter. He had been struck by Emily's
likeness to his lost love, and had brought
her up to London with him in order to
identify Levison by her means, and to
test the effect which her appearance
might produce upon the nerves of the
suspected assassin.
The police were furnished with a com
plicated mass of evidence against Levi
son in his characters of clerk, merchant
and bill discounter; but the business
was of a nature that entailed much de
lay, and after several adjourned exami
nations the prisoner fell desperately ill
of a heart disease, from which he had
suffered for years, but which grew much
worse during his imprisonment. Find
ing his death certain, he sent for
Horace Wynward, and to him confessed
his crime, boasting of his wife's death
with a fiendish delight in the deed,
which he called an act of vengeance
against his rival.
"I knew you well enough when you
came home, Horace Wynward," he
said, "and I thought it would be my
happy lot to compass your ruin. You
trapped me, but to the last you have the
worst of it. The girl you loved is] dead.
She dared to tell me that she loved you;
defied my anger, told me that she had
sold herself tome to save her father from
disgrace, and confessed that she hated,
and had always hated me. From that
hour she was doomed. Her white face
was a constant reproach to me. I was
goaded to madness by her tears. She
used to say your name in her sleep. I
wonder I did not cut her throat as she
lay there with the name upon her lips.
But I must have swung for that. So I
was patient, and waited until I could
have her alone with me upon the moun
tains. rt was only a push, and she was
gone. I' came home alone, free from
the worry and fever of her presence,
except in my dreams. She has haunted
them with her pale face and the one
long shriek that weal up to the sky as
she fell."
He died within a few days of this in
terview, and before his final trial could
take place. Time, that heals almost all
griefs, brought peace by and by to Hor
ace Wynward. He furnished the house
in Mayfair, and for some time time led
a misanthropieal life there; but on pay
ing a second visit to Devonshire, where
the two Daventry girls lived their sim
ple, industrious life in their aunt's
school, lie discovered that Emily's like
ness to her sister made her very dear to
and in the following year he
brought a mistress to Crofton m the per
son of that young lady. Together ti n
paid a mournful visit to that lonely
spot in the Tyrol where Laura Levison
had perished, arid stayed there while a
white marble crass was erected above
her grave.
Iter. Horace Cook—Marriage °flit° Elop
ing Young Ludy—A Lover of how° Faith
Could Not be Shaken.
Since the final scene at the New York East
Conference, and the vote NV LIS cast whioh
declared him criminally unlit for the
Methodist ministry, the Ilev. Horace Cook,
according to report, has been engaged in
packing up hie effects preparatory to start
ing to the West. Ins destination will
probably be Minnesota. For several weeks
the disgrace ho had brought upon him
self weighed heavily, and he might have
sunk under the burden of it only Mr the
devotion of his good wife who stuck to 111111
like a true Christian through good and evil
report, and succeeded in endearing herself'
to him more than over before.
Among the number of his fast friends are
several ladies who were converted through
his efforts at the Seventh Street Methodist
Church.
mlss ItArrlE JouNsox,
the young girl who was the companion of
Cook's Hight to Philadelphia, since her re
turn has not been followed up so closely by
the newspapers, and a short sketch of her
life from that tinie will be particularly in
interesting. While yet quite young, and
before leaving schwa], she became an object
of admiration to a young business man in
the city. Ile loved her, but her father was
unwilling that she should be married at
such a tender age, and postponed tho mat
ter indefinitely. An engagement really
existed between the young people, when
Hattie began to receive attention from
Cook. As a matter of course the young
man never suspected that there could be
anything wrong, and continued his visits
to her house up to the day of the elope
ment, when the news of the affair reached
him. He felt the disgrace very keenly, but
cherished no unkind thoughts towards
Hattie.
When she was restored to her family,
with the word of Cook that she was still as
pure as " the beautiful snow," the young
lover returned to his allegiance, and ap
proached the poor girl as affectionately as
ever. lloireolv forgave her indiscretion,
and declared that'the love he bore her was
still warm and true, and proposed to marry
her with all duo despatch. Mr. Johnson
questioned him very closely upon this state
of his feelings, and was somewhat surprised
to tied him so ready to forgive. For a few
weeks ho continued to call every day at the
house, and pay court to the young girl, un
til her heart was sincerely touched by
Iris onset fish devotion, and site consented
to be his wife, on condition that in after life
he should never allude to her girlish folly.
It was then arranged that there should be
a short probationary season during which
time he was to search his heart thoroughly,
and she was to have her dresses
When she eloped but few articles of cloth
ing were taken, as Cook intended to pur
chase a splendid outfit for her in Philadel
phia.
In twoordance with the arrangement the
young couple were joined in wedlock, and
after the usual festivities, left the city on a
wedding tour. The marriage was published
in one of the papers, but attracted no no
tice, owing to the name of Johnson being
now almost as huniliar as Smith. The bride
and bridegroom returned to the home of
the brides father in the ordinary C , ,llret . of
events, but they eventually procured a
snug little home for themselves, and are,
at this writing, living as happily together
as if there had uneven been such a nian iu
the world as Herace Cook.—N. Y. .hunday
Robbery of the Rothsehilthi---11olf 0 Mil
An employee of the Rothsehildsmf Faris,
has just robbed these bankers of a very
large amount. Details of the case, though
not complete, are still sufficiently clear.—
It is stated that a careful scrutiny of the
accounts and books of the bullion depart
ment has shown a deficit exceeding two
million live hundred thousand francs, or
one hundred thousand pounds. The per
petrator of the robbery is Charles Tassius,
a man of forty-nine years of age, of German
birth, but long resident in France. lie is
said to have been a great lover at once of
music and beer. He was the President of
the Lioderkranz, a musical association, and
a partner in a brewery. I lie position at the
Messrs. Puthschilds was that offmanager of
the bullion department, and in that capaci
ty it was his duty to purchase ingots of the
precious metals which were uttered for
sale. The discovery of his frauds were ac
cidentally made in consequence of his de
lay in forwarding a bulk of 1000 English
sovereigns, fur which a customer had paid
in; 25,000 f. Upon his failure to reappear at
the bank, hie till and chests were searched,
and it was discovered that neither the 1,000
sovereigns nor the 25,000 f were there. The
police were immediately informed, and
succeeded in arresting Tassius, who is par
tially paralyzed, at the house ‘4' a relative.
A search was also made at his own resi
dence, and a sum of about 20,000 francs was
found, as also some correspondence which
proved that the prisoner had been concern
ed with a Prussian physician in Bourse
speculations which had not been profitable
'rho Prussian doctor has also been arrested
on a charge of complieity in the frauds
committed by Tasems, and both prisoners
awaited judicial examination when the
mail left.
A Lady Gray Xi - anker on the Pacific
The Sacramento (California) independent
sa lhe
caso of Susie Raper, indicted by the
Grand Jury of Elko county for grand lar
ceny for the stealing of a band of cattle, has
been up for trial for the last two days. The
court room has been crowded with eager
spectators ever since the opening of the case.
The defendant is a woman of about twenty
nine yeard of age, an Australian by birth, is
rather prepossessing in appearance, has a
passable face, graceful, and well-rounded
form and good carriage. She came to Hum
boldt county at an early day, and during her
residence there run many of its prominent
citizens a merry string. As a coquette she
has been successful in capturing the affec
tions and coin of many clever but 'spoony'
chaps all over the country. She has cheek
enough to put up an attempt to carry out
any kind of a job. Smart, bold, and of
winning ways, she seldom misses her
mark. She can shoot a pistol liken sports
man, ride a mustang with all the grace
and dash of a vaquero, drive a bull
team equal to any Missourian, and in
the parlor or hall-room, "get away" with
must women of style. She was ar
rested on the ISth of January last in Lan
der county, while attempting to escape,
and showed fight, nerve, and skill in the
handling of a six-shooter on the occasion.
She was incarcerated in the county jail here,
being unable to`procure bail. She has a hus
band and three hoys,aged respectively nine,
seven, and five years. Several attempts
were made to procure her release under writ
of habeas corpus, and when brought into
I court on these occasions she acted as if it
was fun. During the trial she has sat by,
her able counsel, rarely exhibiting any
concern in her fate, and in passing to and
from the jail has given tho coquettish swag
ger that generally characterizes her move
ments. When the keys were first turned
on her by the sheriff she gave way to her
emotions, and a flood of tears gush
ed freely from her hazel eyes.
This lasted but a moment, when
she gave vent to a tirade of abuse upon the
heads of those who had deserted her. After
eloquent and able arguments on both sides,
the case was submitted to the jury at five
o'clock last night, which, after being out
two hours, returned a verdict of "not
guilty." Another indictment for grand
larceny—stealing jewelry—is hanging over
her, upon which she will be triad next
week.
The Senate confirmed John L. Stev
enson, Minister to Paraguay, and the
following counsels : Horace L. Piste, at
Tampico; Adam Badeau, at London ;
Henry Ruggles, at Barcelona; John H.
Stewart, at Turk's Island ; William H.
Fenton, at Curacoa ; James H. Whallen ,
at Port Mahon ; and Isaac Johnson, at
Glasgow.
TITS RICHMOND HORROR
ran rUIIqiCUISIA of the rallasier
Terrible Seeries maid Incidents
RICHMOND, April 27.—At 11 o'clock the
gallery of the Court-room, which was
crowded, fell in, the floor followed, and all
therein descended thirty feet to the floor
below, which was the floor of the House of
Delegates of Virginia on which some few
of the members of a caucus were waiting
around There was a general crash of all
the timbers, and the falling of the inside
wall.
The killed are PA H. Aylett, a dis
tinguished lawyer; Dr. J. B. Brock. re
porter on the Inquirer and Examiner;
Julius A. Hobson, City Collector; S. Dieg
gar, member of the House of Delegates; A.
Brain, Commission Merchant of Alexan
dria; Samuel Eaton, clerk to Mayor Cahoon;
Captain W. A. Charters, chief of fire de
partment; N. P. Howard, lawyer; Ash
Levy, a Richmond merchant; Charles
Watson, of the Danville Railroad; James
A. Blaunare, of Berlin, Prussia ; S. E.
Burnham, of Syracuse, New York ; Hugh
Hutchison and Lewis N. Webb, of this city;
Mr. Schofield, a brother of General Scho
field; P. H. Maury, Jr., Senator Bland,
(colored), Powhattin Roberts, Thomas 11.
Wilcox, ex-rebel General; Samuel 11.
Houston, a wealthy land owner of Henry
county ; Charles J. Grimm, of Washington,
District Coltunbia ; Edmund Ward, of
England; William 11. Davis, coal merehant;
John Robertson, colored Baptist Minister;
Colonel Pichegrew ; T. Foley,
Deputy United States Marshal ; W. E.
Randolph, of New York; It. E. Bradshaw,
grocer; and thirty-one others, amotagst
whom wore ono captain, One sergeant, and
Valle privates of the police who were on
duty in the building.
Amongst the wounded were ex-Gover
nor Wells, ribs broken, and otherwise in
ternally injured; Mayor It. H. Ellison,
slightly ; Mayor Cahoon, slightly; L. 11.
Chandler, Judge John. A. Meredith, James
Neason, John Howard. Rush Burgess, Col
lector of the district ; William C. Dunham,
agent of the Virginia and Now York Steam
ship Line ; 1 Thomas S. Bocoek, ex
Speaker of the United States House of
Representatives, leg amputated ; General
M. 1). Come, ex-Major General of the Re
bel army ; Colonel George NV. Brent, of
Alexandria; Captain Geo. W. Allen, Port
Warden; W. C. Elam, newspaper corres
pondent and broker ; Thomas S. Baldwin,
merchant, from Newark, New Jersey; \V.
.1. Chesterman, of the Petersburg Index;
William If. Senor, merchant, of Baltimore,
and about one hundred sihete.
It is supposed that twenty MOM •
bers of the legislature are killed and
wounded. The Judges of the Court of Ap
peals all escaped unhurt. Ex-Governor
Wells was badly injured. L. M. Chandler,
counsel for the Cahoon mayorality case was
injured. James Mahone and Judge Mere
dith were also badly hurt. About two
hundred persons were hurt by the accident.
'Phe greatest excitement prevails. Hun
dreds of persons are on Capitol Square,
weeping and waiting as the dead and dying
are brought from the building. Governor
Walker escaped unhurt, although on the
court room floor at the time.
Directly after the disaster occurred the
tire alarm was used to give notice, and the
hook and ladder companies of the city re
paired at once to the scene. A cordon of
police was drawn around the building, and
the ladders were thrown up to the windows.
For three hours the scene was full of hor
ror. Minute after minute there appeared
swung out by a rope tied around the mid
dle, the body of some popular favorite, who
after being swung on the shoulders of one
of the fire brigade, was brought down the
ladder into the green of the public park,
where it was instantly surrounded by two
or three thousand of those who had gather
ed to recognize the slain.
The bodies of the dead having been sent
out, all the stores in the city were closed,
and placards put on the doors : " Closed in
consequence of the disaster at the Capitol."
To-morrow will be observed as a day of
general mourning.
FM=
WASIIINOTON, April :17.—A gentleman of
Richmond, now here, gives the following
particulars of some of the persons who
Were killed in the calamity:
Patrick Henry Aylett was formerly the
Confederate States District Attorney, and
since the war has beers one of the editors of
the V.ramihrr and Inquirer. lie Was a
great grandson of Patrick ifenry. Edwin
M. Schofield, is the youngest brother of
Major-General Schofield, was a United
States army officer during the war, and
was Assessor for the city of Richmond.—
Samuel A. Eaton t formerly of Boston, was
isti old member of the Boston Press; and
has been Mayor's clerk since the war.
Powattan Roberts, a native of Virginia, was
one of the leading members of the bar. J.
NV. D. Bland (colored), Senator from Prince
Edwards county, was a man of !Unreliabili
ty, and a leading man among his race.
Arming the wounded were 11. 11. NS - ells,
ex-Governor. lie was formerly in the
United States army; was appointed by
General Schofield, Military Governor of
Virginia, and was defeated at the late elec
tion by the present GoVernor Walker.-
Ifenry K. Ellison, one of the proprietors of
the Richmond Di.vatch, was elected by the
City Council, under the Enabling act, to
succeed Cahoon as Mayor of Richmond.—
George Cahoon, formerly of Pennsrlvania,
seas appointed by General Schofield, May
or of Richmond. L. A. Chandler, of Nor
folk, from Maine, was United States Dis
trict Attorney for Virginia until July last.
lie is now a practical lawyer, and is well
known at the North as a leading public
speaker in behalf of the Republican party
during the Presidential canvass. John A.
Meredith was formerly Judge of the Cir
cuit Court for Richmond ; was removed by
Gen. Schofield; was leading isninsel for
Ellison. .lames Neeson, formerly of West
Virginia, was a member of the Confederate
Legislature, and lately Assistant 'United
States District Attorney; was associate
[ counsel for Ellison. John Howard is
one of the leading lawyers of Rich
mond. William C. Dunham is a member
of the City Council. Thomas S. Bocock
was formerly a member of the United
States Congress, and an opponent of Sher
i Mall for the Speakership; Was Speaker of
the Confederate Congress; is now practic
ing lase at Lynchburg. Colimel If. W.
Brent, of Alexandria, Was 'Adjiltant thin
, cal to General Joseph E. Johnston during
the war. Rush Burgess is Collector of In
ternal Revenue for Richmond. Isl. D.
Chesteman is connected with the Rich
mond inquirer as reporter.
A Private telegram from Richmond says
that the Court was about to dcli var en
opinion in favor or Ellison, ono of the
Judges dissenting as the flour fell.
131=
RICHMOND, April 27.—Snch was the in
tense interest felt in the decision to be ren
dered by the State Court of Appeals in the
inavoralty case to-day, that by II o'clock
A. M. a crowd of eager citizens tilled the
court room, which is located on the upper
floor of the Capitol building., on the north
side, and immediately above the House of
Del( gates. The room is but 20 by 22 feet,
the judges' bench nt one end being con
fronted by a small gallery at the other.
'the entrance to the court room is front a
balconied gallery in the upper story, over
the Washington monument, on the lower
floor, and above is a skylight in the roof,
which admits the light. This balcony, or
gallery, was also tilled with people who
could not gain admittance to the court
room. At the time of the catastrophe it is
estimated that not more than three hun
dred persons were in the court room, but
these tilled it to its utmost capacity. A
large number of the legal fraternity and
members of the press were seated in the
room immediately in front of the bench and
the gallery. The opposite end was filled
with leading citizens, and,the centre of the
small room was thronged by a crowd, both
seated and standing. There was a general
conversation or discussion as to the merits
of the case going on among the assembled
audience, and all were eagerly awaiting the
advent of the judges. At length two of
their Honors entered—Judges Joynes and
Anderson—and took their seats, when the
conversation lulled among the people. and
fur the first Ulna there was a perceptible
silence.
Suddenly, and while awaiting the arrival
of the remaining judges, a report as of a
smothered gun under the floor was heard,
followed immediately by another similar
report, and everybody started from their
seats and looked towards the centre of the
room, from whence these ominous sounds
seemed to issue. People there stood up
and looked themselves for an explanation
of this strange and mysterious noise. But
they had not long to wait. There came a
crackling sound, as of small timbers break
ing, and then the floor was felt giving way
in the centre of the room. Simultaneously
everybody jumped to their feet, for all felt
that danger , was imminent, and self-preser
ration is the:first law of nature. But it
was too late. Down went the floor with a
terrific crash, with its living, breathingand
frightened human freight, dragging with
it the gallery and its living mass, and down
they went a distance of nearly twenty-five
feet to the floor of the House of Delegates.
Then, wittithe descendingmass, the ceiling
above, which was somehow attached to the
gallery also, came down with another fear
ful crash, smothering and crushing the
living and struggling mass of victims be
neath.
A ledge of about twelve feet, on which
the bench was located, did not go down,
and on this many lives weresaved, includ
ing the judges and reporters. As soon as
the fearful crash had occurred, those who
could clutched hold of the windows, step
ped out of the gallery, and ran out to other
rooms, and thus many others were also
saved.
The scene which followed is utterly
beyond description. Between the two
bodies of the floor and ceiling was the mass
of people, the force and power of the latter,
with the gallery falling upon them, forever
silencing their cries for help. It was a scene
of horror never to be forgotten by those who
witnessed it. To those who remained
about, and who ventured to look down into
the vacant space of the court room; nothing
was visible but a cloud of thick dust,
through which the frantic cries of the
victims yet alive could be heard vainly
appealing for help. The crash was felt in
every portion of the building, even to the
basement, out of which the officers ran in
precipitate haste, and soon the alarm of the
catastrophe was pealed through the city on
the bells of the surrounding churches.
This sound had the effect of bringing
promptly to the scene the fire department,
beside a large concourse of citizens, who
were under the impression that a conflagra
tion had taken place. Hooks and ladders
were at once brought into active requisition,
and the work of extricating the dead, the
mangled, the wounded and the dying was
.ionunenced.
Luckily it was an hour prior to the meet
ing of the Legislature, when the House of
Delegates would also have been thronged,
and hundreds of others would have been
added to the already immense list of killed
and wounded. As it was, some fifteen or
twentypersons are reported to have been in
the house,some of whom escaped and others
were killed, one of the pages among them.
An incident of the lamentable occasion is
that both trte mayors—Ellison and Cahoon
—who were the most interested parties
present, went down with the floor into the
yawning room beneath, Ellison escaping
unhurt while Cahoon seas slightly injured.
When the corpses were brought and ex
posed on the square, scarcely one of them
could be recognized, so fearfully disfigured
were they, and the broken hearted wives,
sisters and mothers of several even failed,
in some instances, to recognize the victims.
The faces of all the dead were fearfully
swollen and blackened, it. is supposed, 1 . 11,111
suffocation, and about the mouth and lips
was a sort of coagulated froth, tinctured
with blood, which was hardened mid stif
fened with dust. In the case of Dr. J. If.
Brock, reporter of tile Enquirer, it is said
Ids with failed to recognize him, and a
brother reporter only discovered his iden
tity by searching his pockets.
The Capitol building, which dates nearly
to the Revolutionary era, is dilapidated and
and is now but a wreck of what
it was, the whole northern side of it being
a mass of debris. While the dead and
wounded were being- removed many alarms
took plarai, and the people rushed from the
building repeatedly in terror of another
calamity.
Among the miraculous escapee are those
of the reporters of the Whig, the Dispatch
and State Journal—all of whom were seated
immediately on the edge of the parting
floor, poor Brock being so far back that he
fell into the fearful abyss and lost his life.
several others grasped or clutched hold of
floors, windows or benches, and saved
themselves by extraordinary exertions and
the Interposition of Providence.
His Excellency, Buy. Walker, whose of
fice joins the court room where the calain
ity occurred, had a narrow escape. By his
untiring exertion during the day he was
instrumental in relieving the wounded,
and having the dead !fishes removed much
sooner than would otherwise have been
the case.
With great promptitude Gin Governor
commanded the building to be closed, and
prevented the crowd rushing upon destruc
tion when it was certain their presence
could only embarrass the proceedings.
Some of the 'nob disputed the way, but
the Governor stood upon the steps, and,
single-handed, barred the way, keeping
them back until assistance arrived. Dur
ing the day he was constantly on the SOCIIe,
giving directions, and by his presence
stimulating those who were working to
further exertions in releasing the suffering
and dead.
Among those of the wounded whose con
dition was mostdoubtful were ex-Governor
Wells, Mr. James Neeson, Mr. M. W.
Cheslerman, Mr. Thomas S. Bocock, and
William C. Dunham, agent of the Old Do
minion Steamship Company. Thtjlirst ale
reported better to-night, b u t Mr. Dunham
is not expected to live.
A gentleman who narrowly - escaped with
his life, describing the scene, says:
I was seated at Ono of the tattles with the
reporters When the floor caved in, and the
crashing of ceiling, floors and timber fol
lowed. My chair thus half hill and I went
over the ledge, but happily, grasped the
door and was for a time suspended. I in
voluntarily prayed, and heard a clinging
compact ion say, "Lord have mercy upon
me, I tun gone!" It was a terrible mo
ment, which I shall never forget.
T e crashing of the floor, the shrieks of
the mass who went, down in their death
slaughter, and the frantic efforts of some to
escape, with my own slight chances of life,
were all fearfully presented in a single in
stance. When I recovered and got myself
kick on the plat form I had fainted, and was
'hurried by somebody from the fatal apart
ment.
Fifty-eight persons were killed and ono
hundred and seventeen whinnied.
're-day all the houses of business were
closed, flaying crape on the windows and
the inscription—" Closed in consequence of
the calatnity at the Capitol. The streets
are tilled with funeral corteges. In the
funeral corteges of the dead policemen both
sets of police joined. All late political ani
mosities seem to have been forgotten. The
hells of the env have tolled all day, and the
streets look like Sunday.
A crowd of about 7,060 people are 110 W
assembled in the park hearing addresses
of condolence from (My. Walker, Judge
Urr, Judge Crump, (My. Wise and others,
delivered from the southern portico of the
capita
Thomas P. Baldwin, one of the injured,
died to-day. Ile was front Newark, N. J.,
and owneil a large clothing house here.
Both I louses of the Legislature held in
formal meetings this morning and agreed
unite Ny ith the citizens in any general
irecedure.
The body ,pr,olored Senator Bland was
'out home this morning, the hearse hieing
"ii owed by white and colored members of
he Senate to the depot.
Ex-Governor \Veils is better.
A Mau Falls Down n Shall One Hundred
and Twealy-elighl. Feet Deep.
On Saturday afternoon an accident occur
red to a miner in this city, the extraordi
nary result of which challenges belief. A
man named Thomas Jones, about thirty
years of age, and weighing perhaps 150
pounds, felldown a shaft 128 feet deep with
out breaking a breaking a bone or receiv
ing any apparent serious injury. Jones is
a lessee Ma mine in Lander II ill, belong
ing to Manhattan Company, which he and
his companions have been working with a
vim. About 3 o'clock on Saturday after
noon Jones and a fellow miner stepped in
to a tub for the purpose of being lowered
down the shaft; they got into the tub in the
usual manner, each having his right leg
hanging outside to guide its descent. At
the moment they stepped in, the tub sud
denly fella short distance,: owing to the
whim being ungeared, then "brought up,"
but the men thinking that the break had
given way, attempted to get out of the tub
before it passed below the mouth of the
shaft. One of them succeeded in spring
ing out of the tub upon the ground, but in
his attempt Jones lost his balance find fell
headlong into the shaft. The shaft is
only four feet in diameter, and extending
through solid granite,prosenting rough and
jarred sides front top to bottom. At the
bottom of this uncouth pit there were sev
eral large picks and a ladder. It is believed
that Jones must have clutched and caught
the ladder, which "broke his fall" and
preserved his limbs and saved his life. Al
most at the moment of his fall, two men got
into the bucket and were sent rapidly down
the shaft, where, to their intense surprise,
they saw Jones alive, on his feet, sensible
and able to talk. Ile was hoisted to the
surface and carried home, where Dr. Wix -
on speedily attended hint. An examina
tion showed that not a bone was broken or
dislocated. There was a slight cut in the
scalp; one of his shoulders severely bruis
ed, the skin torn from both hands, and over
his body there were as many as sixty to
seventy - slight lacerations. This was the
SIMI of his external injuries. During Sat
urday his circulation was greatly disturbed,
but yesterday his pulse was becoming more
regular. Jones is bruised and painfully
sore from head to foot; but there is good
reason to believe that lie will be up and
moving about in a short time. That lie was
not instantly killed is marvellous ; but that
a man should fall 128 feet down a narrow
and rugged shaft without breaking so much
as a bone almost passes belief. Thereovas
an extraordinary case in this city several
years ago, in which a boy, eleven years old,
fell down the shaft of the South American,
Ifis-feet deep, and escaped with two broken
limbs, which, ill about ninety days, were
as good and firm as even—Reese River
(Cul.) Reveille.
Matrimony and Murder
A young lady who has been stopping
with Governor Randolph's family at Mor
ristown, New Jersey, was recently attack
ed by a young man from Brooklyn, who
attempted to kill her. It seems that she
was engaged to the young man, and had
received visits front hint at her father's
house in Brooklyn. Her father is a gen
tleman of high standing. Ile was a Gen
eral in the Union army, and gained an en
viable reputation for bravery. The
daughter and her lover moved in high cir
cles. The wedding day drew near, and
the couple were, to all appearances, hap
py. Apartments a ere fitted up under the
paternal roof at the cost of $4,000. Great
preparations were made for the wedding,
and invitations wero issued. Two days
before the day fixed upon, the young lady
discovered that hor promised husband, al
though a man of excellent family and high
reputation, was a person with whom she
could not consent to live, and she broke
the engagement at once, and ordered her
suitor never to appear before her again.
But he did appear, begging her to marry
him. Upon her repeated refusal ho at
tempted to stab her. She escaped, and
being again threatened with death, she left
the city, telling only her parents of her
destination, and went to Morristown to
visit the family of Governor Randolph.
Her suitor by some means learned her
NUMBER 18
whereabouts, and presented himself at the
door of the Governor's mansion a few days
ago, and demanded admission. having
seen him approaching, the lady gave orders
to bar the doors. He attempted to force an
entrance, finally, it is stated, fired at the
lady through the window. He is said
to have been soen, since this occur
rence, lying in wait for her near the house,
and a guard has been stationed on the
grounds to capture him if possible.
'rue Lancaster and Delaware River !tall
Engineers Report
OFFICE, EASTON, Pa., March 19, 1970.
In compliance with your instruction, I
have made a careful instrumental examin
ation of the country from Green Hill, on
Skippack Creek via Kulpsville, Hatfield
and Line Lexington, to Point Pleasant.—
On the Delaware river the ground is favor
able for long tangents, which can be con
nected by easy curves, in no ease of a less
radius than 1432. feet, except at Point Pleas
ant, where ono of 9.55 feet must be intro
duced to pass from Geddes Run to the riv
er front. The grades are favorable, as
shown on the accompanying map and pro
tile, the average grade being 30 feet per
Description of the line sorcc.ved fur the pro
posed route of..thc 1.,17t, , ,1ct• (Ind Iklrtr,til•
Ricer
This line begins it Green Ilill, about two
miles south of Skippackville, in Alontgoni
ery county, on Skippack Creek, at Si:LIMA
No. 155.4. r. It. K. Culver's line from
Point Pleasant to Phoinixville, a point i 2.e)
miles distant from the Delaware It, cr.—
After passing Green Ilill the lino learns the
creek and curving toward the east crosses
the Ridge at the lowest place, and Zachari
ah nut 41 feet above the order. It kstsscs
the Skippack mid a low rids east of ('as
set's store, and crossing Twamoneht crook
57 feet above the water, passes through the
east end of Kulpsville.
A eheaver line call lie gk , L by following
up the Sluplawk Creek, ,•rosssing the mouth
01 TOWaillellVill and pa,,lng Itnl psvillo at
the sante point by increasing the distmoo
about India wile.
•
From Kulpsville the line is ou the top of
lire Ridge until Within all
mile of Hatfield Station. There descend
ing on a 37 feet grade crosses the North
Pennsylvania Railroad with a si x teet Inink
at grade. Thence with very easy undula
ting gradients and light work, th•t hue
passes through the east end of Linn
Les
trtgtou and crossing tin heads of Neshand
ny Creek at a low level, tru encounter very
light work to the slope at North Branch of
Neshaininy and passing :Wont 40 rods to
the south of New Haltom, wo fidlow up
this branch to the summit ••1' the Itititto
which divides the waters of No,hakwihy
tioddis run. Tbk ,minwit is ,urnimmt
ed by a gradient ~fill feet to the lain f,,r
all mile and IL level la 1:Wil
foot, through a cut 3100 loot long ;mil
feet deep at the highest point.
Thence descending (ledd's Run with an
average gradient of 09 foot to rho mile, the
lino passes around the Ridge to the south
east above Point Pleasant and reaches the
Delaware River ono mile below that village
at Li - favorable point for bridging the river,
43 feet above the water level. The distance
on this line from the point of beginning it.
the Sk ippack to the Delaware Itiver shows
a saving of 5 39-luU wiles distance as rout
pared with the northern line by Skippdek
vino, Harleysville and Dublin, and thevn
the Tohickon Creek to the Delaware as rua
by Mr. Culver, and who reports "the
licddis'run lino is:impracticable on account
of the heavy grade, viz, 1% feet per stile."
Front this report the writer would infer
the object was to connect with the Belvi
dere Delaware Railroad, opposite to Point
Pleasant. A through lino from the city of
Now York via Flemington should cross
the Delaware River, at or near Bull's Is
land. Thenceascending along the hillside,
and over the Delaware Canal, following on
the south side of tho ii oddis Run, to its
head. A location can be made increasing
he distance very little Irvin au air line he
ween those termini points.
=II=
Tho distance from Lancaster t, NV,,t
'hiladelphia by rail is on) miles, and from
tore It, New I ark by Camden ,It. Amboy,
renton route, is t)0 unites. 'rota! distance
- 9 miles.
Estimating the distance from Lan
caster La Pitch I YVllia
Plitenixvllic via Kuipsville .4 Itat
tick! to Point ItivaNant ..
Point. Pleasant to Flemington
Flemington to Somerville
Somerville to New York
Saving 19 39-100 Milk,.
ESTIMATE Volt THE Ht:\ MA,/N ELY
AND BRIDGING, 11 1 j M
:161,0(N) ruble yards of tat. (I: liyo , and
solid ro c k ,ay' rage la, en !do yard 5(15 0 .51,4).5.1
377,0U0 cubic yds. borrowed rtntranli
Ment Ou .40
iIOU cubic yds. rectangular Cul Vert Ina
sonry 01,31
1,300 ruble yds. first class bridge mason
ry (g. Sic
200 ft. lineal Howe truss bridges ;Sin
Estimate fur short spans
•
Hight of any, be., Sc
F-iTIM ATE FOIL 1 3111.1, oe :
,3110 Cross- lICM ILL 511 evnt 1 41,1,0
CM)=Bri
SE=tM=
miles main track.
2!,, miles skiing track.
I'7 tulles superstructure s* SS, 5:27:,,E111
switches, eke :I ixxl
Engineering anti contingencies ,511,000
Witter statitni, &c
Or 5'29,071 per milt
All of which is respectfully submitted.
I'.lSitAuy, I.:111411)1, r,
'tt N.ll. A NDEtts.
J. C. ltuumm, Esq., Kulp,mille,
(4.1VERG.1 , 44,1c1i15, Line Lexington,
Committee en :.,iirvey
The Cronin,. of 1470.—H0n It Will Be
Taken.
The work of taking the ninth United
States census will cnwmrure ell the ISt it
June, under the provisions of the Act of
May 23, 1850, and the United Slates Mar
shal of each district will designate deputies
to perform certain proportions of the work.
The assistanCH are paid as follows: Two
cents for each name taken, tell cents for
every farm, fifteen cents for every produc-
tive establishment of industry, two (vats
for every deceased person and two percent.
of the whole amount for names enumerated
for social statistics, and tell cents per mile
tOr travel. 1t will be seen by the foregoing
Chat the compensation allowed :in assistant
or enumerator, provided the district allot
ted to him shall not contain less than twen
ty thousand persons Will be about six hun
dred dollars or more. 'the Marshal is for-
bidden by law to accept any bribe or ewl
sideration for an appointment of assistants
and is liable to a fine of one thousand dol
lars should he be convicted of so doing.—
The lute provides that each assistant, after
qualifying, shall perform his duties by a
personal visit to each dwelling house, awl
to each family in his subdivision, and shall
ascertain by inquiries made of some mem
bers of each family, if any one can be found
capable of giving the information, but if
not, then of the agent of such fmnil2,-, the
name oreach member thereof, the age and
place of birth of each, sex, color, etc.; and
shall also visit personally the farms, mills,
shops, mines, or other places, respeeting
which information is required, and when
such information is obtained and entered
in his blanks, then his memoranda shall be
read to the person furnishing the fists for
revision. There is a penalty for refusing
to furnish the required information to the
assistants. The aet provides that every
person more than twenty years of age, be
longing to any family, in the case of the
absence of the heads and other members of
the family, shall be an agent of stu•h fami
ly, arid is required to render a true state
ment of the information required, on pain
of forfeiting $3O, to be sued Mr and recov-
erect in all action of debt by the assistiint, t
the use uf the United States.
IVe find the following in a recently-pul
fished letter from Selma, Alabama:
There are sonic notable characters resi
dent here. General Joseph E. Johnston
resided here till recently, and still has an
office here, though making SaVailllall his
headquarters. Ile has the general agency
for the Southern States of the New York
Life, and Liverpool, London and Globe
Fire Insurance CompaMes. Ile he much
respected everywhere, and is building up
an enormous business. Stealing down the
road, last night, with an ex-Confederate
officer, I saw him touch his cap ;to a gray
haired, spare figure in nit old L sited States
officer's overcoat that rode past us on a
quiet little mare. " Who's that 7" "That's
Gen. Hardee." At once I recalled the man
whose tactics were wont to bore and per
plex us in early days of military life.—
Hardee's war record was notlvery
and lie is doing better ai n cotton ware
houseman than he did is a Confederate
major-general.
Were you to drop into one of our large
wholesale stores here, you might notice at
the bookkeeper's desk a dark-complexion
ed, very whiskeral, thin sullen-looking
man. A close look would show that he was
evidently . % poor health. Rarely speaking
to any one, bo, pursues his usual work with
a settled melancholy that leads you to won
der at his history. That mini's name is
Samuel Arnold, whose nanie will be re
membered as one of the conspirators against
President Lincoln. As you remember, the
result of the trial was to send him with Dr.
Mudd and Spangler, to the Dry Tortugas,
where an attack of yellow fever impaired
his constitution. He was pardoned and re
leased some two years slum, and leaving
Baltimore, his home, has secluded himself
•
here. Though loth to allude to the subject,
he still asserts his entire innocence of
design on the life of Mr. Lincoln, though he
did know of the plot to capture the Presi
dent, and was an intimate friend of the chief
con.pireor Booth.
RATE OF ADVERTISING
I344ta;Ess ADYEICTI4EMENTN, $l2 r year pee
squre of ten line.; $8 per year for each whit
tlonal square.
littAt EstATE ADVERTISING, 10 cent, a Ilne foe
the first, and 5 cents for each subeequent In.
❑u:ertlon.
first,
, 7 n line 1,.
and 4 cents forADVERTISING enchcents
subtlequentf or il
er
tion.
SPECTAI.NOTWF. 111herted 111 Local Col IMIA
16 cent+. per Hue.
SPEC/AL NOTICES preceding marriages an
deaths, 10 cents per line for first lusertn , ul
and 5 cents for every subsequent Insertion.
LECAL AND OTHER NoTtCE4—
EXecutors` notices 2 50
Administrators' make 2 50
Assignees' notices 2 50
Auditors' notices 2 00
Other " Notice.," ten lines,. or less,
three times ....... ....-_____. ........... -. 1 'A
More Egyptinn Reern lin from the toiled
State,
The ex.-Confederates, Titus. Ithett, of
Charleston, and George Pickett., "I Virginia,
arrived in New York, en route for ,the
army of the Egyptian Pasha. The thriller
WILY on Thursday sworn into the Eg,yptiait
serve as a full brigadier by the Pasha's
recruiting "Meer in that city. The Now
York San says:
Several utoutlts ago Gen. Loring, formerly
connected with the Confederate army of
the West, but at'oretinte an officer of mark
in the old United States army, lett this
city for Alexandria, Egypt, anti was soon
followed by the old veteran Gen. SibleS%
the inventor of the standard tent. General
Loring lost all arm la M10.1.1101'3,1, Willi('
vommanding the First Mounted Rifles, and
,luring the Rebellion served with distinct
ion. in fetid he settled In New York, where,
after a short career as a broker, he failed in
business, giving up to his creditors every
dollar of his property. Ile is an Intimate
friend of Gen..b.oinn, onnumnder-in-ehier
~f the patriot army of Cuba, who has
frequently urged Mtn to take a command
in the ever faithful isle. lien. Loring holds
the position of brigadier-general In the
V icen.y's service at a salary of len,onna year.
General siblev, whose income trout the
government Loire the war was about
oniVesigiusl his petition :It Has breaking out
of hostilities, and linked_ his fortunes with
those of the S, , iithern Cooilcilcracy, to Isdd
he cum,' to NCO' Yiirk, null seblrd lit Ito
b„kru with his htioily, OPT,
until in vitc,l to a,•cept a command in lie'
army of Egypt
Anowg tin
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dy, 141101. 1. 1 1,11114•1111 1 4411 , 11111 . , 111141 law-
It 01 Newark, awl Jennifer, 01 -
land. at one time a licuttwant in the .1,1
swiwn.l ca‘ :dry, the reginwni in schlep
Sinart 00 In+ t1.11141i111.111 , 4 it raider.
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I.wt night Col. .1101101'yr, Gen.
Ititett uu,l Utltral 5144110 \vont outer-
Ittltivti 111 1110 ri,idt.itee of James Nfolt, the
Italtinwro banker, 211 hunt Tliirt3•-seeontl
street, In thin city. Several promlitunt
inenthern tit the manimtua Chit, Iron°
present, and the occasion wtw an en10val)10
mil% 'no-day, at 12, the al I,gy p-
Gan 011Wers start. for Liverpo.l, ,m the
steamer l'ity of NVashinglial, and trill
there tali° pa,,age h,r Egypt.
I'ol. Jennifer, if
land, \vas fortliorely of ramap ,
nod (..vairy Cho kerviip,
ca. lowa orsaui, caroliatlVlLl4lllgratitiato
of \\'est Point, and an 0111ver of di,aaetioll
in the artillery turps of tho Cotifetleralo
antsy. Gen Stone \V11.441
alma graduate of West, Point, anil norcnl
with groat itistiniit ion in the lato soar. H o
was trophy in front iil.ll.innik.r, %olio 1 . 0111-
111alll1011 a brigailo at Looslairg, or, its they
call it here, nail's muff.
A NI range Story
lu of Ow 1111110111144 , i lhu
'all at Versaille4 of a Itassian lady N‘lio
ppo:u•rd in the draWing rooms In I . :11a ,, in
,v.IS and ISM, and Was the
'hullo a la Clef." SIX died, aged forty-11%a , ,
ii the Most romplide solitude. It IS Hailt
hat her Will , was alai older
111111 she, came to see her for a week or two
very six months, anti went away again no
me knew whither. All was mysterious
- -
about this Lady Of the Roy. Last
month the husband did not return Mt
usual, but a letter came announcing his
death. The widow survived hint a few
days only, and it is supposed she allowed
herself to the of hunger. Whether true or
not, title was the story that was whin cared
about her when she appeared in parts,
young and beautiful, tour,, than twenty
years ago. It is said that her husband r
,eieed her in a little country house which he
issisessed near Miisrow at the 1111,11101[ she
was !lustily shuttingsonichody up in a ward
robe. A servant hail betrayed her. Tile
Muscovite Othello turned the key twice in
the Wardrohe, h, ,it it Ina, and then told his
wife to follow hind A travelling britzka
stood a few paces from the villa. Moro dead
than alive, the uhappy woman obeyed.—
When the husband had placed her ut the
carriage, and given :1.11 .11,10 r in a low voice
to the coachman, Keep this key," he said
to his wife: ': 1 have iurgott•n something
Inid will return, - and
ion went hurl: to
the hou,e. Ile returned according to his
promise, but as the carriage descended the
hill, the poor Wl/1113.11 saw the :lames issuing
from tin: window, ul tlll` I,lllltryl.tisti and
taking hill 1/41,041,5i4i11.1i it. Sill' landed away
and on regaining her SellSl, perceived that
a gold rhaup was riveted round her neck
to - which the little key Of the wardrobe SOILS
attached. 8110 wished to kill herself, but
her husband threatened her that if she
committed suicide he would reveal her
nisvonduet and cover her ,uid her family
vith dishonor. She was therefore c,pll
- to live, and her strange neeklace
xeited much curiosity in Paris. At last
cr tyrant :Mowed her to retire into a quite
'treat, on the express stipulation that she
nut :Melilla to destroy herself dm
tig his lifetime. II is death released her
rl,lll this v 011,1164,11, hilt she had laligllish
d more than twenty years, having the
vitness of her guilt always before her eyes.
Crime In a Sew PlllOlO. —A Ship fired at
Sea for limo ranee Money.
The New York Times says a lire broke
out in the hold of the steamer George
Washington, about Gnu Gth inst., during
the voyage of the vessel front this port to
Now Orleans, with several passengers and
a valuable cargo Ino board. It was quickly
suppressed, although not until considera
ble damage had been Mine by water. Sub
sequent search as to its origin revealed the
fact that it first commenced in a large hox
containing explosive oils, of which the offi
cers of tine steamer previously hod 110
knowledge. On the return of the vessel to
this port the Captain communicated the
farts to NI r. Sellllll,ol, the. Ilgont of the line,
at No. Ott \Vest street. It tuns 01011 asper-
Mined that the contents of the Lox had been
shipped as machinery, and that tine bill or
lading had been used to secure an insur
ance of $l,OOO on the comlinstible stuff lentil
the Montreal Fire Insurance Company, the
insurance having been obtained by A.
Kemp, doing 1111,11111,01 XS an agent for sew
ing machines, Am., at No. 21.1 Centre street.
Thu littler was arrested on a warrant. by
Deputy-Marshal Crowley. Ile confessed
that he had shipped the 1/1/X, but denied
11111 t 110 was unaware ,n 1 its real contents.--
lie said he insured it in his own name to
oblige a friend named A. Lange, a picture
dealer, of No. 201 i William street. Lange
was subsequently taken into custody, anti
tVIL.41111(011.1011ed inn regard 1.0 the IX/X. Ile
admitted that. he hail packed the explosive
oils, and gave the !mine of another nun as
having assisted him. Ile Said that 111,1111,1
tint, oils, Ins had filled the box with straw,
tied With a small cigar box, inn which two
rats were outlined. lie furnished no rea
son for his conduct, but it WXS conjectured
that he wanted to destroy the box by lire,
in order to procure the insurance money.
It is said that if the plot had not been
frustrated by the prompt aetion of the MB
cers of the steamer, it would have probably
caused the loss of the vessel and of the per
sons on hoard. Lunge and Komp were
each committed to the Ludlow Street Jail,
by Commissioner Osborn, in default. of
;I:;000 bail, to await an examination on a
charge of having shipped explosive oil in a
manner contrary to law.
Strange Freak,. of a Maniac---A
Settle.
In Jacksonville, 111., on the 13th inst., a
thrilling scene occurred at the insane asy
lum. A Wunhin who has been in the asylum
for several years escaped front her ward
:mid went thrOugh the halls and up tho
stairway that leads out upon the root of
the building. Sulu wandered around upon
the roof of the building until she tunic to
the edge of the cornice. After looking down
for some time she swung herself over the
edge of the cornice by her hands,and swing
ing there she could Just touch with her toes
the caw above the window of the filth story,
which was just below her. Having gotten a
foothold thereon, she let go her bands and,
strange to say, preserved her balance and
stood upon the cap, which is about twelve
inches wide. Whole standing . there she was
discovered in her perilous situation. Im
mediately several men went upon the roof
and let down a ripe and tried to persuade
her to fasten it around her. She would take
hold of the rope, then laugh at them, but
refused to use it. 1%1 (=while beds were
brought out and placed on the ground live
stories below her, and in breathless sus
pense all who were on the ground awaited
her fall. Nothing daunted, after remaining
on.the window cap for nearly a half hour
alf of a sudden she grabbed the rope held
in the hands of the men above and Jumped
oil. They let the rope run through their
hands, and she held on until, when within
about thirty feet of the ground, she let go
and fell upon the beds unhurt. During all
this tulle there was the must thrilling sus
pense to all the beholders, and glorious
relief at her escape front such peril.
The coal Trade.
There is no 'narked change in the anthra
cite coal trade to notice this week. In the
Schuylkill real region the general strike
continues. Only four small collieries send
ing coal over the Reading It. R. are report
ed in operation, and in the Shamokin
region but half a dozen or so, and
the great bulk of the product of the
latter is sent West. The Philadel
phia Ledger says: "The total product
of all the anthracite regions for the week
as far as reported by the several carrying
companies, was 247,471 tons, against 217,-
985 tons the previous week—an increase of
19,486 tons—and for the fiscal year 3,380,-
972 tons, against 3,038,235 tons to the same
dates last year—showing an increase of 312,
437 tons. Tho coal market in this city, as
between sellers and buyers, is steady. Tho
general feeling is that prices cannot ad
vance, and aro very likely to go lower."