Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 19, 1880, Page 6

6 * THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1880—TWENTY PAGES. BURNED AND MAIMED. - Heart-Sickening Details of Fri- day’s Fire Horror in Buffalo. Fifteen Persons Known to Have Perished in the Mill Ruins. Statements of Several of the Youths Rescued from the Flames. Many of Them Seriously Maimed, and, in Some Cases, Fearfally Burned. Record of Minor Fires Elsewhere Yesterday. THE BUFFALO HOREBOR. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Berraro, N. ¥., Dec, 18—The terrible conflagration of last night was, from the standpoint of the loss of human life, the most horrible calamity in the history of this city. Full investigation to-day establishes almost beyond doubt that fifteen persons were killed of burned to death by the destruction of the paper factory. Two men were killed by jumping from the fifth story. Two bodies have been recovered, and eleven boys are re- ported missing. The highly inflammable con- dition of the contents of the structure proved excellent food for. the fierce flames, and in fifteen minutes after the fire began the entire building was a burning: mass. It started in the third story, and the efforts of the employés on the two stories above to eseape were heartrending in the extreme. Faces with horror depicted in their every feature rushed from window to window, looking down upon tha ground such a fearful distance below. Shrinking boys jumped from all sides of the building, some descending the whole five stories, others alighting ou adjoining buildings. The scenes in and around the fire were heart- sickening. The heat was sor terrific that it was almost impossible to rescue ‘the boys when they had escaped. Several who had Janded on the sidewalk, breaking their legs and arms, z= LAY WRITHING IN AGONY in the intense heat, and others crawled to Places of safety with dislocated limbs and sadly burned bodies. In twenty minutes after the alarm was sounded the walls of the huge building fell in with a great crash, and thus was ended the last chance of saving the lives of those who hud not escaped. When the details of the fire had spread through the city the pa- rents of the missing children hurried to the scene, and their frenzied search in adjoining houses and places of retreat added greatly to the awful scenes. In saloons and parlors lay the wounded and dead, with twisted limbs, blackened faces, and bloody clothing. The poor boys yelled with pain as the sur- geons sct their broken limbs and dressed their wounds. Thousands of peovle visited the ruins this morning, and stood around for hours watch- the firemen at work, and eagerly listening to whatever anybody had to communicate. * The scene of the disaster was cold and deso- Jate in the extreme. Four engines werekept at work throughout the night and the fore- ! noon, and four streams wet down the débris | which were still smouldering. The water | froze wherever it struck, and the slippery- coating gave a frigid aspect to the broken walls and blackened timbers. All the loose bricks were frozen together, and it was ex. tremely dangercus to climb over the piles, Patrolmen had more than they could do to keep back the crowd. About 11 o’clock a report spread that two charred bodies had been discovered in the débris, and immediately there was a rush by the men and boys to . SATISFY THEIR MORBID CURIOSITY. One of the streams was turned on the mob, and had the desired effect; but as soon as it was turned in another direction, back the crowd came in spite of the efforts of the po- lice. Streams were used frequently and effectively until ready hands were enabled to dig up two unrecognizable trunks. They were recovered by firemen and others. A sheet was procured, and the shape Jess masses placed in it and carried into the engine-house until the Coroner should order their removal. It was impossible to recognize the bodies further than that they were portions of human beings, one the re- mains of a little boy, and the other of a youth. It grew exceedingly cold toward noon, and the continued playing of water on the ruins rendered them so hard that further efforts to Search for bodies was rendered impossible. ‘The remains found were taken to the Morgue, but at last accounts had not been identified. “Some of the statements of the boys who escaped clearly show thattheir predicament must haye been EXCEEDINGLY TERRIBLE. = Moses Lane, whose brother was killed, said: “ About 5:20 o'clock in the afternoon Jimmy Brady, a division foreman, ran to the rear part where I was and sai4 that the building Was on fire. Iturned around and saw the smoke and fir coming up the stairway near by. Lran with several others toa door near at hand and stepped upon a shed which was even with it. From there we all jumped down about thirty feet to the pattern shed of ‘Tiffts’ founary, I being the last, because I was barefooted and was afraid. When I struck I spraited my ankle and could not move, but: help came, and Iwas taken over to the Marine drug-store, where the doctors examined my foot, and. finding that it was not broken, sent me home iu acarriage. My brother Edward worked in the front part of the fifth story, and car- Tied sticks for hanging the paper. 1 did not I two children. Sustained severe injuries, hurt internally. Both bones of the left fore- arm fractured, also wrist; badly contused Wound on left temple and spine hurt. . Fitzgerald, Patrick, aged 14, jumped from the fourth floor and had a leg broken. ig Fords, John, jumped from the top window, but escaped with sprained ankle, Griftin, John, aged 13, right arm dislocated at wrist and Jeft severely burned. He stated that when the fire broke out he was just go- ing down-stairs from the fourth floor, where he was employed, to eat.his supper. The smoke and flames drove him back. He kicked out the window and jumped to the roof of the shed. He Jay stunned until a man fcom the malt-house came and picked him up and carried him to the engine- house on Perry street, where he remained until Patrolman McCortaick carried him to the offiee of Clark & Brown, whence he was taken home. He said there were 100 or 150 .at Work in the building at the time of the dis- aster, and about twenty-five were on his floor. He saw nor heard nothing, as he was too badly frightened, and was bent on escaping from danger. * Gering, John, jumped from a window, and had an arm and leg fractured, and the other arm burned severely. Kohl, George, jumped from the fifth story and sustained serious injuries. Malone, Moses, aged 16, received sprain of ankle. ~ McGraw, Thomas, arm broken by jumping from an upper window. McCormick, Edward, aged 15 years, sus- tamed an ugly scalp wound, but walked home, He was at work on the fifth floor when the fire broke out. He TRIED TO GO DOWN STAIRS, but was driven back. He then ran to a rear window and dropped to the roof of a shed. -From there he. reached the ground by a ladder. There were twenty-five employés on: his floor, and nine got out the way he did. Madden, John, aged 15 years, had both arms badly scalded or burned; afterwards jumping from the fourth story window. O’Brien, Patrick, jumped from the third- story window, after being badly burned about the arms and face, and had his leftarm broken. O’Brien, Michael, aged 14 years, jumped from the fourth floor and nad his right leg broken. Aman employed in Jewel’s stove works, near by, stated that he saw a little fellow at one of the fourth-story windows on Perry street, and heard hin cry piteously for help. He called to the lad to jump, and in an in- stant the face and form disappeared and was seen no more. The Coroner has impaneled a jury, and will investigate the case of Fields, the fore- man, who was killed, as a test. LOSSES AND INSURANCE. The following is a statement of the losses and insurance: M. H. BIRGES & SONS’ INSURANCE. Stock. Machinery. $2500 $. severo People’s Fire, New York, Montauk, New York.. ys @ Es Lafayette, New York. 2,000 Lenox, New York. 1.500 Firemen’s Trust, New York. 2,500 New York Fire, New York... 7,000 Firemen’s, New York. 1,000 Hamilton, New York. - BS Long Island. New York. [ o Northern, Watertown, > HO Continental, New York. 750 Firenten’s Fund. Culifoi 1,000 Orient, Hartford 000 000 National, Hartford. - 1,000 1,000 Auantic, Providence. . 0d 500 Firemen’, Baltimore. - 500 500 Phoenix, London, Englant + 1,000 1,000 3echanics’ Mutual, Bostor 500 500 ‘Prescott, Boston. 500 500 People’s Fire, Ni 500 Fin United Firemen’s, Philadelp'a. 750 750 Fire Association, Philadelphia. 1,250 1250 Hamburg and Brome 2.500 New York City... 2,000 Meriden, Connect 1350 Queen’s, England.. 5,000 3250 Liverp'l, London & 3,000 F250 Providence Washington, Prov. 1,250 1250 | Total....... seeseeee se BISL50 250 There is also $5,000 additional insurance placed in New York, which makes the grand total of theamount of Birges’ policies $63,500. Members of the firm stated this morning that their loss on stock and machinery would. be double the amount of insurance, ar, in round numbers, $125,000, The ‘Messrs. Birge & Sons wo-morrow morning, With an organized gang of men, will commence the work of recovering the bodies of the victims who reniain in the ruins. The firm will also voluntarily pay the expenses of the burial of the victims. G. W. TIFFT’S INSURANCE. ‘The hpilding occupied by ML IL Birges & Sons, and owned by Mr. Tifft, was insured a3 follows: is London & Lancashire. ‘Tradesmen’ Transatiuntic. ‘Bianbatta Guardian. Total. Mr. Tifft’s insurance o1 ery same building is placed as follows: Long Island.. State of Pennsy British American American, New Pacitie. of Q CITY MALT-HOUSE. ie insurance on the building of the Queen Malt-House was placed in the Tolowine companies: Guardian, England. National, Battimoro. Ne Hampshire. erican.. German, Battimore. ‘Total......2. 5,000 ‘The building is estimated to be damaxed Beat eT ees stek totet insurance held y Mr. Tift is $42,5 and it is iis losses will be $85, co Delleved Bas 3. B. MANNING'S INSURANCE. ie stock of malt in the Queen Cit) House is insured for Suen divided following agencies: Malt- in the London Assurance... North British & Meret £ 100 Imperial Northern . 1,000 Luncaghire..4.-.. 1,000 Citizens’, New York 1,000 North German. . Star, New York. Lion, Engiand... National, New ¥¢ 5 12 35 39. see him during the fire. There werea good many boys on the fifth floor, put I don't know how many. They were divided off. Those who jumped out with mie—there Jmight have been ten or fifteen—escaped un- hurt. We were employed at the back of the building.” ONE OF THE SADDEST INCIDENTS of the fire was the death of Edward Malone. Edward was 14 years old, and had been em- ployed at the factory only two days, He worked in the fifth story, carrying slats, The first known of him after the fire was when he came into Clark’s distillery, bleed- ing profusely. He told them there that he had jumped from the frontof the fifth story. He bed then arisen without assistance and walked across the street. He told them that his brother Moses was on the fifth floor, and he was afraid had been killed. After mak- ing this statement he died. Following is the latest list of missing and wounded: i MISSING, Burke, J., aged 14, Builder, James, aged 16, Chalman, Ctiarles, aged 27. Eckert, William, aged 15, F Graham, George. Hackett, Stephen, aged 13, McCoy, Thomas, aged 12, McGee, Martin, aged 14. 3 Mayhew, M., aged 15. + Mahoney, James, aged 16. * Madden, William, aged 17. . Quinlan, Thomas, aged 14, ~ Byan, Levi, aged 15. - Schwander, Peter, aged 19, Shelter, C., aged 15, tout, James and John, aged 15 an 4 spectively, 1a. 17, re- ‘WOUNDED. Berry, Jobn T., aged 23 yearg; wit and Totaliesicsisse, a Mr, Manning says his EXCITEMENT, ‘The excitement incident to the fire is still very great. Grave censures are passed upon the municipal authorities for want of fire- escapes. A searching investigatic demanded. © eae Pes, _ ‘THE Cause. The fire is supposed to have beon caused by an overheated journal over which the pa- per passed, and becoming ignited communi- cated to: the chemicals, varnishes, paints, and ‘colorings used in the manufacture of wall-paper. The loss will be a severe one to Me: i 'SSTS. qtee ce all the goods to be manu- re y them up to March contracted for. ena had been The badly-charred remains of two of Th the victims discovered to-day are supposed to be oe oF the Sone brothers from the size of he bodies. The remains lay next sidewalk. eae a? CHICAGO. The alarm from Box 355 at 3:50 yesterday afternoon was caused by a fire in the second story of 8 brick dweiling at No.9 Jolinson. street, owned by Jacob Alt, and occupied by Louis Keahl. Mr. Keahl and wife were absent from home at the time, and their children, while playing witha lighted candle, accidentally set fire toa cane-bottomed chair. ‘The fire was extinguished by the peighbors before the arrivalof the engines. Damage, AT QUINCY, ILL. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Quixcr, IL, Dec. 18—This morning Clark & Morgan’s bakery and confectionery es- tablishment was damaged by fire. Insured for $5,000, equally divided between the Ger- man-American of New York and the Amer- ican Fire-Insurance Company of Phil- adelphia. : AT 8ST. LOUIS. Sr. Lours, Mo., Dec. 18—The extensive wire-works known as Harrison Wire-Mfill, occupying the block bounded by Gratiot, Papin, High, and Twemnty-second strects, took fire just before midnight and the pud- dling and_ rolling departments were destroyed. Loss estimated at $50,000, cov- ered by insurance. Six hundred men are thrown out of employinent. A BELLE OF JACHSON’S TIME. The Romantic and Eventful Life of Mrs. Elza M1. Smith, New York Sun. Krnosron, Dec. 14.—There was another hearing of the Eliza M.‘ Smith case before Surrogate Parker yesterday in this city. ‘The case is of unusual interest, not so much on account of the property involved, which is not much if any over $10,000, but on ac- count of the curious career and characteris- tics of Mrs. Smith. She was born in 1783 at Gibraltar. Her father wasa Scotchman, an officer in the British service, a member of the Ganneclifft family, whose estates there was some chance that the girl might inherit. Her parents were carried off by an epidemic when she was 4 years old. She was.a bright, pretty, and precocious child, ana was readily adopted by a wealthy Spanish family, who treated her with all the tender- ness of a daughter. In that southern cli- mate the little one developed fast, and when but 13 years old was married to José de Samanos, a Spanish gentleman of consider- able wealth, Within a year the young wife was a mother, and when, four years later, her husband died, she had given birth to four children. Don José was killed in a duel, and it was said that his: pretty, dark-eyed young wife was tlic cause of it. ‘The widow of \7 was Jeft with but one relative,—her little daughter Inez,—for her other children had died. In aécordance with the written request of the father. penned just before he Went out to the duel, inez was sent to the care of a Catholic sisterhood in Paris for in- struction and guardianship until she should grow to womanhood, His large property was all left to this little daughter. So handsome young widow was left quite alone. Her property was enough to support her in ease, and there was noone who could be in any way a restraint upon the young woman. She had not been prudent when a wife and mother, and was: now less discreet than ever. Garrison life at the fortress was gay. ‘he young officers quar- tered there were constant visitors to her house, and scandal was busy with her repu- tation. 1n 1815 Capt. George W. Walker, the owner and commander of an American trading vessel, and the brother of Com- moore Walker, of the United States Navy, arrived at Gibraltar, Ata ball given by the American Consul, Capt. Walker, who was a handsome and gallant young sailor, met the beautiful young widow ot Don José de Samanos. “He fell in love at once, was deaf to warnings, and courted her withsuch favor that when, in two weeks, he sailed away, he took her with him as his bride. Capt. Walker’ occupied an excellent posi- tion in American society. He was well con- nected and wealthy, and did a flourishi trade between New York, Philadelphia, an Southern ports. For some years Mrs. Walk- er seemed to bea devoted wife. She sailed on many a voyage with her husband. She afterward boasted that she became so pro- ficient in the art of navigation that on one occasion, when an accident disabled Capt. Walker, she safely navigated his vessel througt a Guif storm, ‘There came a time when Mrs. Walker tired of life on shipboard, and so while her hus- band sailed she shdne in society at New j York, Philadelphia, and Washington. She gained the reputation of being 2 brilliant, at- tractive woman of the world. She w: handsome, with dark hair, bright brown eye’ a perfect form, and all the ease, tact, and thorough style of one whose whole life had been passed in society. She used, in. after years, to tell with ap- parent pride of her triumphs in Washington. “More than one Senator,” she said, *has prayed me tonotice his cause. Martin Van Buren, time and time again, singled me out in crowded drawing-rooms, imploring ine, to hear him. I knew Clay and Webster, and Benton and Calhoun, and’ Randolph, and all the great men of the day. I knew them very well.” And then, to corroborate her stories, the old lady, for she would tell these things in her later years, would produce a package of letters, some of them signed by men noted forty years ago. She crossed the Atlantic seven times before she was 40, aud apparently made conquests wherever she went. But she was very farfrom happy with her husband. Their married life when he was ashore was anything but peaceful. . In 1834 Capt. Walker died, and she was again a widow. She was’ thought to be wealthy. She had speculated in Wall street, and so shrewdly that she had doubled her fortune, she said, When, three years later, Abijah Snith, of this city, a local celebrity, whose home was at “Golden Hill,” offeres himself in marriage to Mrs. Walker, she ac- cepted him. She thousht that he was Wealthy. He thought that she was rich. Both were lovers of money, and both were disappointed, it is said, for, with character- istic shrewdness, she had tied up her little fortune so that Abijah could not touch it; and ht had litle to tie up. ‘They lived very unhappily together untila few years ago, when an explosion in his sawmill nearly killed‘her husband and made him a cripple for life, She was not the one to kindly pear with a‘sick man’s whims, and the home was broken up. A year ago Mr. Smiti died. His wife still made her home here, with Mrs. Josephine Peters. She lived in the past, and uothing pleased her betterthan recounting the triumphs of long ago; how a leading French artist begged her to give him a sitting; how her arm had been cast in plaster as_a model of perfection; how her beauty had been the theme of poets and the envy of other women, —all this, with the garrulity of age, she would relate to-any good-natured listener. There was little remaining to denote tne chamns of youth save the eyes, which to the last were bright and flashing. She became very stout, and with age grew morose and very penurious. She would on occasions dress with elegance, and, taking from the Kingston Bank her jewels, would appear in splendor. Her diamonds were fine, and she had a remarkably curious-braclet set with precious stones that was evidently of great value, A year ago she became ill, and grad- ually failed. Two weeks previous to her death she fell and cut her head badly. On Saturday, Sept. 18, it was evident even toher thst she must die.’ She sent for the Rev. -C. W. Camp, Rector of St. James’ Episcopal Chureh, and received the sacraments of the Lord's Supper. At sunset she died. After her death what purported to be the Jast will and testament of Mrs. ElizaM. Smith (for thus she signed her name while living here, though she had said that asa baby she was christened deabella) was offered for pro- bate. It was made on Sept. 18, 1880, and be- queathed to the Rector, Wardens, and Vestry- nen of St Jolin’s Church, in Kingston, the sum of $500; to Walter S. Hamilton, of' the City of New York, all the Lake Shore Rail- road stuck possessed by the testatrix at the time of her death; to Mrs. Josephine Peters $500, for care and attendance of testatrix during her illness: to George L. Lawton $2,000; and the rest, residue, and remainder of the estate to Willam Lawton, of the City of Kingston, who was appointed executor, Mrs. Ellen Jane Hamilton of New York contests this will. ‘he will ander which she claims is July 13, 1880, and bequeaths to her the sum of $8,000; to Josephine Peters, of the City of Kings- ton, $2,000; to St. Joseph’s Catholic Church of Kingston, $500; and the rest of the estate to Eliza Jane Hamilton. William Lawton is also appointed executor in this will, The xrounds of the contest are that Mrs. Smith was unduly influenced, and was not capable of making a will after the will of July 13, her fall and the injury to her head having affected her mind. Four other wills have been Produced, pearing, date in July, August, and September, and others still aré said to be in existence. One of them gives all the propezty to Josephine Peters, with Whom she lived. None of the jegatees are relatives of the dead woman. i B a wen A Queer * Ad.» New York Heruld (advertising columns). To Christian womea: A gentleman, stranger in the ae wishes to correspond with some lady whose relizion is intellectual rather than emo- onal, who will reason him out of the {abyrioth of doubt into which modern skeptical thought hos drawn him. The gentleman tinds nothing in sermons or the stereotyped ideas go constantly paraded to bring him back to the religion of bis lead mother. For men to urgue with cach other is to desire victory~ rather than conviction or conversion, Men naturally ecept defeat yrnee- fully from a woman in matters of religion, which is of the heart. An irreligious woman is an anomaly. au irreligious mun common enough; without the intluence of woman religion could scarcely have extended. The advertiser does pot seek the acquaintance of the lady who will kind- dy reply, He wishes her ideas simply, Asfaras . he personally is concerned. he has uo objection to beiuy known, his charucter and antecedents, but he is sick of Ingergoll, Voltaire, and Epicu- rus. Hels sick of Talmage and the Church champions generally. He does uot wish to be an atheist, but his mind also recoila from a _re- Igion which fs purely emotional, as {t docs from that which stitles emotion and makes of the hu- man heart a Dead Sea. REVENGEFUL RECRUITS. - Massacre of a Vesnel’s Crew at the Solo- mon Islands. San Francisco Chronicle. AUCKLAND, Nov. 1.—News from Fiji re- Ports a horrible massacre aboard the Auck- Jand brigantine Borealis, owned by H. D. McKenzie and Capt. Anderson. ‘fhe partic- ulars are most horrible. On the 13th of September the Borealis was lying outside a small island called Uru, situated ih a deep bight formed by the mainland and separated from it by a channel about halt a mile broad. At 7 o’clock in the morning a boat with Capt. McKenzie, Hankin (Government agent), one European, and two Fijians as a boat’s crew, left the vessel for the purpose of recruiting, leaving on board Daniel Creamer, First Mate; James Malher- ward and William Kershaw, _sea- men; William McKenzie, the Capt- ain’s son; William Edward Huntley, an apprentice; George Ward, Steward; and Johnny, a Kijian. The Captain states that when he left the vessel there were but six isl- anders aboard. He gave strict instructions to the First Mate to Beep 8 sharp lookout against susprises, After belng ashore about three-quarters of an hour he heard screams, and immediately returned to the vessel, the recruits and the interpreter at once nm ping over from the boat. On getting within hail he found the ship in possession of natives, who saluted him with a shower of arrows and spears. Could see none of the vessel’s people. Having made efforts to retake her until his ammunition ran short, while at the same time canoes were rapidly ap- proaching from the mainland, he decided to pul for Sua Bay, about forty-five miles to leeward, where he hoped to tind other ves- sels anchored, Found the schooners Flirt, Dauntless, and Stanle; there, Ran” alongside the Flirt, which quickly communicated with the other vessels, aud all made sail for the scene of the disaster, Halt a gale of wind was blowing dead ahead at the tine and progress was sfow. The Stan- ley arrived first, on the afternoon of the 15th, and found Ward, the Steward, terribly wounded) but still alive, in the’ Captain's cabin. No bodies of the other men were seen, but the decks showed evidence of san- guinary work. A portion of an arm was tound in the scuppers. The ship was gutted from stem to stern, and chopped and hacked ! db about in every direction. Everything lying on the deck had beem'thrown overboird and the stores and provisions were broken open and scattered about the decks. As the Stan- ley’s boats came alongside natives were seen attempting to escape from the island. ‘They were ut once pursned and four were cap- | tured,—two m one woman, and a boy. ‘They ure now on board the Stanley and will be brought to Levuka. The Steward’s narrative is as follows: ! “After the Captain left the vessel all hands ! were engaged in setting up the rigging and butting the shiv in order after the bad weather. He was occupied with the galley, | and saw some people arriving, but paid no attention to them till, while he was stoopmg, he hearda signal given and a rush made on the other men, A native aimed a blow ‘at his head with a tomahawk. He partially dodged the blow, but receive a fearful gas! on the side of the head. It staggered him, but before ft could be repeated he pointe his revolver and shot the man. He then tried to fire another shot, but found that some one had emptied all the other cham- bers. He then seized a large knife.and fought his way outside. where he found about eighty men on deck, who had evi- dently dispatched the crew, as_he saw none of them amongst the crowd. He defended himse(f with his knife untit he received a cut froina tomahawkon each arm, which com- pletely disabled him, and was knocked down the main hatch. He contrived to creep into a half-empty water-tank, where he remained for upwards of three hours, until the natives deserted the vessel.” He then crawled on deck, where he saw. the bodies of all the murdered men, except Young and the Fijian, both of whom, he supposes, were Killed in the fore’ part of the vessel. He managed to crawt into. the Ceprating cabin, where he bolted himself in and remained for three days (until relieved by the people from the Stanley). During the interval the natives | repeatedly visited the ship and broke in the head of the tank which formed his first hid- ing place, They also actually smashed in the skylight in the roof of the Coptain's cabin, but itbeing a thick-light it stil¥ hung together and prevented their discoverin: him.” His escape was nothing short o: miraculous, since had they broken in the cabin door nothing could have saved him, Hiappily when the door is closed it, appears part of the main cabin, and to this fortunate circumstance he owes his preservation. No reason whatever beyond thirst for blood and plunder can be assigned for the attack. rom the island 900 recruits have been en- gaged during the present year, and that place has been looked upon as the safest of cruis- ing grounds. The Dauntless and Flirt ar- rived soon after fhe Stanley. and each lent hands to bring the Borealis back to port. George Ward, whose life was so miraculous- ly preserved, is rapidly recovering. BRITISH NOBLEMEN IN AMERICA. Specimens of the Fictitious and of the Gennine Article. New York Hour, The most distinguished as well as the most bewildering foreigner who has enjoyed the hospitalities of New York City is clearly Mr, Charles Pelham Clinton, otherwise Lord Courtenay, otherwise Sir Harry Vane Tem- pest, otherwise Capt. Uugh Fortescue of her Majesty’s Sixty-seventh Regiment of Horse, otherwise Lieut. Dennison of the Royal Navy, and at presenta denizen of the Tombs. This talented person, after making" a very comfortable living in mogt of the principal cities of the United State by pre- tending to be British ‘‘nobleman,” was called upon to prove his actual quality by an accident that must strike” every cynical ‘observer as being at least grotesque. It seems that a gifted necro- mancer was prevailed upon by the gentle- man of many aliases to give him lessons in clairvoyance. Unhappily, the mystic gift of second sight appears to have been irregular- ly developed in the case of this particular magician, for, when his pupil borrowed some money of him on the pretext of being a Cap- tain of the Sixty-seventh Regiment of Horse in the British service, he blindly stepped into the trap, and failed to discover that the soi- disant attaché of Lord Lorne’s household was an unnitigated swindler. But, though Mr. Goldberg was either too profound or too inexpert a clairvoyant to detect the true racter of his pupil when. the latter ap- ! plied for the usual Joan, the gift of second sight must have rushed upon hiin the mo- } ment he found that the money wasnot repaid | on the promised date, and that there was no } such regiment of British cavalry as tae gal- lant Sixty-seventh. The most successful, as he was the most audacious, of these arraut knaves was the extraordinary person who feloniously mas- queraded in New York, sowe years ago, as Lord Gordon Gordon. He was 2 man of edu-~ cation and culture; and the cynicism with which he flaunted in the face of his dupes a title and attributes which the most trivial in, vestigation would have exploded was a proof that he was also a humorist. He differed from other swindlers of the sae variety by playing for gigantic stakes. Ilis was no idle ambition to bask in society, or make an easy living out of the credulity of shopkeepers or the obsequiousness of landlords. He went in for an immense prize, and all but won it. It certainly was no ordinary man who ; Questionable Baronet. kept three such distinct types of intel- ligence simultaneously on the tenter-hooks as Jay Gould, Horace Greeley, and William M. ‘Tweed. It is, however, a fact generally forgotten that one afternoon, in the Metro- politan Hotel, Jay Gould, Horace Greeley, and William M, Tweed all three dance attendance on the small, thin, sinister, red- haired Scotchman, who all but ‘achieved a monumental featof chicanery on the strength ofaname which he did not bear and of title which could never exist. Up to the very last, ‘Lord’ Gordon Gordon was a mystery. Nobody ever demonstrated who or what he really was, or explained his scheme, his ultimate object, and the singular cireum- stances which eonspired to help him. But when, hot pressed by English detectives, he blew his brains out in Manitoba, the curtain fell upon a career which was both a tragedy and an unsolved enigma. Perhaps, after all, it is hardly fair to con- temn and deride the good-natured credulity which inakes the existence of sham “‘ nobie- | men” like Mr, Pelham Clinton so easy and AO profitable. .It was not so very long ago that a gallant officer of the Tousenold Brig- ade, one of the best-born men in England, had, under stress of the-Queen’s personal dis- Pleasure, to take an abrupt leave of his friends and spend some years of exile ou Staten Island. Nor will his riotous escapades, his downright ruffianism and brutality, be easily forgotten by his simple neighbors. ‘In her good time it pleased her Most Gracious Majesty to pardon hisoriginal offense against public decency and tne morale of the House- hold Brigade, and, to the delight of Staten Island and Bay Ridge, he went back to the Horse Guards. 2 Then there was another hereditary legis- lator of the British Empire who fied from oné set of creditors In England only to create another in ,America, His memory still lingers in winy a New York tradesman’s profit-and-loss account, if not jn more tender and romantic volumes. His inseparable companions were a bear and a valet; and how he managed to support either during his period of transportation beyond the hig! seos, Was a Problem: which everybody but himself gavé up. His favorit residence was the cottage of.an estimable old gentleman of New London, upon whom he preyed with an effrontery that was almost delicious. He had had two equal characteristice,—his ignoraace of and his contempt for the country which harbored his fugitive impecuniosity. He abominated Americans, and once took the Hudson. River day-boat with the hope of arriving in New Orleans ‘via Albany, the next night. When his-noble father die his relatives compromised with his creditors, and at the present moment the wandering and penniless Viscount is a rich and respect- able Earl. Then, again, there was another british Peer who attracted a good deal of attention to himseif in New York and elsewhere two or three years ago,—a Peer of a severely me- chanical’ turn, who dressed like a navvy, wore the cap of a costermonger. and spent most of his time in foundries and machine- shops. It is true that extenuation was found for these eccentricities in the fact that hehad been a civil engineer or something of a sliui- Jar degree before the Earldom dropped into jis lap like an unexpected cherry. But even upon that indulgent hypothesis it was not easy toexplain his Lordship’s too evident passion for strong drink and rioting in the streets, as_in Chicago, where, so runs the le- pend. under the pseudonym of John Smith. his Lordship was amerced in the sum of S10 for his misplaced hilarity. if manners and morals were to be the sole criterion, the facility with which fictitious “noblemen” impose upon American credul- ity would be quite pardonable, and, indeed, natural, For, alas! the genuine article is, in actual worth, no better than the counterfeit. About two years ago, Mr. Andrew Dai, of the Union Square Hotel, had for a guest a well-behaved young rerson, of unwholesome complexion and an unreasonable appetite for randy, but quiet and decorous withal. ‘This young person was also addicted to distribut- ing cards, on which was inseribed the legend, “Lord Clyfford of Leigh.” An English triend of Mr. Dam, observing one of the cards, felt it his duty to caution Mr. Dam that the well-behaved — youn; man was a} Te { i swindler; upon which Dam cour- teously besought the well-behaved young | man to seek other quarters. Shortly after- wards, his English frlend-introduced to Mr. Dam a genuine Enelish Baronet, whom, for | obvious reasons, it were better to veil under the imaginary name and title of Sir Tump- } kyn Smith. “Mr, Dam, in the course of a j month, met his English friend, and with a curious smile on his face inquired: “Sir Tompkyn Smith is a real, live, no-mistake British nobleman, isn’t he?” ‘fhe English friend said that Sir Tompkyn was an un- “And Lord Clyffgrd of Leigh was bogus?” pursued the relent- less Mr. Dam. The English friend regretted the fact, but Lord Clyfford of Leigh was un- doubtedly an impostor. ‘All I can say,’ retorted Mr. Dam, “is, that Sir pompkyn didn’t pay his bills, and Lord Clytford did. Nlereafter always’ give me a bogus British nobleman in preference'to the real thing.” ae SOUTHERN CIVILIZATION. ‘How Political Chickons Come Home to Hoost in South Carolina. Charlestun Correspondence Baltimore American. Said another gentleman: ‘Before the War, when I went toa Northern hotel and registered as from South Carolina, I was looked up to as presumably a gentleman of character and intelligence. When I go North now,and register from this State, the people look down on me contemptuously, as if to say: ‘That's one of the cheats.’ Itell ! you when the President of the United States { has to send the census enumerators down here three several times to satisfy the coun- iry that we have not been making a false re- turn, itshows that our population is about as Jow as it can well be.” Said a tnird citizen— a straight-out Democrat like the others: “There was a time, right after the War, when prosperity was within the reach of | Charleston. Northern men were coming } down here, real estate was going up, | and capital was seeking investment. What | did we.do? Instead of welcoming immigra- tion, we turn our backs upon it, and even to such men as William B. Astor refused social recognition. Itis the curse of our civiliza- tion.”” Still another gentleman remarked: “Yam and have never been arything else but a Democrat, but.we have got to get rid + of the notion that the State is bigger than the Nation. I don’t won that Northern | men won’t come down he! Snowing what j Ido, I couldn’t ask them to come.” During : a chat on the same subject, one of the | mostactive business-men in the city said: “T have been here almost constantly since 1859, and yet these people regard me still asa, carpet-bagger. I want you to say that we ostracize each other just as_persistently as | wedo your people. My family is a hundred times better than any here, and I have the entrée to all the society I want. but, with a very few exceptions, I haye no in- timate friends.” Equally suggestive was a remark made by a railway official who holds a prominent position on one of the roads Jeading out of the city. Said he: “I came to Charleston over twd years ago, and I have done my utmost to foster the interests of the Charleston inerchants, yet the very men who come to mefor favors, and talk as cordially as if they had known me all their lives, pass ie on the street without recognition, and sometimes have to be introduced over again.” Imight multiply instances of this sort indefinitly: A gentleman who has re- sided here for half a century, and has never committed the crime of voting the Radical ticket, tuld me that he made the greatest mistake of his life when, instead of going North after the War, he allowed himself to believe that the immigration of business-men from other parts of the country was about to restore the city’s prosperity, and remained to Jend a helping hand. > REYOLUTIONIST AND BANDIT. Cota and His Career of Plunder in Low- er California. San Franctsco Chronicle, Mention has already been made of the ar- rest, on a warrant issued by Gov. Perkins, upon a requisitign from the Government of Lower California, of Clodimero Cota, and his incarceration upon the Mexican man-of-war Democrata, now awaiting departure for Mexico. Cota was once an ambitious man, of great influence in Lower UValifornia, and has had an adventurous career. He isa nephew of Gen. Emanuel Markes, of the Mexican army, is about 50 years old,‘ tall and well built, and of handsoine and intelligent ap- pearance. His career as a bandit is perhaps, due mainly to circamstances which defeated his ambitious projects in affairs of State. He aspired to be Governor of California, which he proposed to govern as a province of his own. With this scheme in view, he was a taithful follower of Lerdo_and an uncom- promising enemy of Diaz, Upon the acces- sion of the latter to the Presidency of the Republic he lost most of his followersand all hopes of success asa revolutionist. He re- fused to surrender, however,. and be- came an outlaw. From this it was but a step to the life of a bandit, and he be- came a terror to the merchantssand the peaceable and wealthy people all over Lower California. He frequently kidnaped wealthy persons and held them for ransom, after the manner of Italiin brigands, and pillaged a great many small towns along the coast, retreating to the mountains when the opposition became too strong for him. His band, which six years ago numbered about 200 men, by losses in his various - predator incursions and desertions became reduced, until abouta month anda halt ago he dis- banded the remnant, and with two of his more trusty Ifeutenants, fied to San_ Francisco. A published sensational story, Which charges him with stealing and carrying away a wealthy Spanish-lady te the mountains, is said by well-informed Span- jards to be untrue. His operations have been directed principally against the wealthy, and he has many friends among the poor people. Although he made a great deal of classes wds the beau ideal of a bandit chief. i However, the reigning powers in Mexico and the business , portion of the State are very bitteragainst’him. People who are familiar with his standing in Lower California ex- press the opinion that if he reaches there he will be speedily tried, convicted, and shot. Upon being transferred to the Mexican man-of-war Cota was recognized by the officers as the leader of what is known as the Marquez Revolution in Lower Califor- nia. In his bandit career, at the head of about 250 filibusters and guerrillas, flourish- ing towns, villages, and haciendas were burned and destroyed. During one raid on the town of Loretto they tied an old man to atree, and some of the gang are said to have outraged the three daughters of the helpless victim. ‘Bhe gang was fiually broken uP, what was left of it, by a strong force o! Government troops, and some of the surviv- ors are said to have fied into Arizona prior + to the departure of their Jeader for San Francisco. STRANGE BURIAL SCENE. Dykes, the Checker-Player, Heads a Panegyric Over the Grave of His Wife, and Is Stopped. Detroit Free Press. James Dykes is perhaps the most cele- brated checker-player in Canada. His wife died recently, and he attempted to supplant the clergyman and conduct the services himself. Then followed an unseemly scene at the grave, the bystanders forcing Dykes to stop reading. The case attracted considera- ble attention in Canada, and Dykes himself sends the following account of the scene to the London Free Press : He claims that it was his wife’s request that any remarks made at the grave should | be made by himsejf, and accordingly he spent | a great amount of time in preparing the fol- lowing panegyric: Hi Myx Frienps: Wo hare assembled to-day to | Perform the last sad rites to the dead. Isuy ; ny friends, for I verily believe there are none | resent who have cume here simply to measure | yy the tears he shall shed the anguish that | After a while the gentleman wi the window ‘and, Warae te examine a Sof ‘Very fine pears," he suid: *it is a variery Ta e about here, too.’ ‘They look first Fate,’ Doo a swered, “though I've not tasted there ‘¥ou'lt find them very ood, I ussure got Father Packard observed blandly, as ha myst toward the door, ‘very good, indeed. T took Sreat pains with’ that graft. Good dayr 4°k poor. never had a chance to explain’ thane ‘Was not the man who purloined them,” ee ABE WALLACE. Manner eg A Story of the Went Arter the Bret Harte. Wh ts er matter id § ” al atter wid yer?” dey Abe Wallace, with a not unnatural acti lance under the circumstances. “ What er yer lingerin’ around that visage er mine for p Can’t yer rasp that countenance 2” Obviously he couldn’t, For nearly an hour he had strapped his razors and mowed dilp Rently, but barber though he was of a thou- sand, barber extraordinary to Leaping Ante lope Run, he seemed to make no headway against Abe’s bristling badge of manhood, “Ef yer razors won’t cut, shoot ’em off, Ye’ar me. 5 Shoot ’em off,” and the hang some, sunburned miner compo: imself for the novel operation. pesed ih a : the barber at homer asked a low, sweet, musical voice, enter! Ne sated. Ni : 7 be ao le starter o yellow water from his pan had ever looked as one te him as that voice. It percolated him, and he arose from the chaira newman. The Tough life passed away from him. The crust formed by his habits and hardened by his surroundings was broken. “*Permit me, madame, to assure you thas fois dndivadaat before. act. is the barber,” sal is new sat him and Seemed a part of hia. easily upon ‘Tam on my way from Boston to the Sang. | wich Islands,” said the young ern gully, “and our carriage broke down. 1 thought would iinprove the opportunity and have my hair banged. Qh! no, no,” she exclaim Abe gallantly drew forth a thousand dollar wrings the heart of an afflicted husband and fa- er. ‘Tho kind and affectionate wife, the tender : mother! at an age when the ‘shadows were ! still falling towards the West.” death touched ; her tired heurt, und she fell into that dreamless : sleep that ‘kisses down the eyelids still.” She bas embarked on the dark, misty ocean of | eternity, whence no breeze ever blows hither- | ward. But if there be a Heaven and if there be | 8 righteous God, His breath must swell the sail | and direct its course to that beautiful shore | where sorrow is known no more, and where hap- Piness reigneth forever. O sorrow! how lose thou treadest on tho | heels of enjoyment. The rose has its thorn, tho | Peach its worm, and decay lies conceuled in the | Chulice of the Hower. All earthly things are | doomed to pass away. Death is a dé-bt of nature | we all, ricb and poor alike, soonerar later must { pay. When that grim messenger on the pule horse shall call for us we must We see the grave open to-day to receive its tenant, and the withered turf and the cold clay fold ber in its bosum to sleep the sleep that knows no waking. Born of pour but respectable parents, ber heart was none the less pure, ber mind none the jess nob In the janguage of the poet, Be “gave tommsery ull she bad, 2 tear.” Possessed of a superior education, an insatiable thirst for knowledge, and u tirm determination to examine into all matters for herself, she eagerly devoured the standurd works of science and_philoso- pay, and formed for herself tho basis of a relig- fon purely her own, No, not purely her own. She venerated the name of Him who said, “The world is my country, and to do good is my re- ligion.” Although rocked in the Calvinistic cradle, she abhorred with ull her heart and soul that infamous doctrine of forcordination. She could not believe that the mother could be bappy in Heaven and look down upon her litte falr-halred buy writhing in the red-hot agonles of Hell. At this point he complains that the mur- murs of dissent which had followed the reading so far broke out violently. Some of the bystanders, vexed at the turn of his re- marks, went up to him and snatched the paper out of his hand and tore it in pieces, vowing that such sentiments were utterly in- tolerable jn a Christian community. After | this rude interruption the burial was quietly | proceeded with. Dykes claims that there was | hothing objectionable in the paper. ———— MATRIMONIAL. Ladics with Many Husbands. | Correswandence Louisriste Courier-Journal. Wasuinoton, D. C., Dec. 16.—The last | scandal in which this eity is interested comes ! all the way from Persia, though neither of i the parties belong to this city, and only the gentleman was in any way connected with ! our immaculate society. . In the Kingdom of the Shah there is a } young Englishman named Haggard, who, five years ago, was one of the Secretaries | of the British Legation in this city. His | tastes must have run toward fast womem, and those who were divorced from one or more husbands. Aithough his position in Sir Edward Thornton’s family gave him access to our best circles, yet he preferred the society of a lady who |! had had a career and was still young enough + and with all the inclination for many more. This lady was the divorced wife of Col. Kin- | ney, and the daughter of a Mr. Carroll. who for many years was Clerk of the Supreme Court. Miss Carrie Carroll*was the subject of constant gossip during her girlhood, and |. those who attended her wedding (a grand | affair in 1873) predicted that she woukl not maintain for a month the entente cordiale | with Col. Kinney. fs ‘The newly-narried couple sailed for Eu- | rope, and upon the return of the lady to her widowed mother’s home she began proceed- | ings fora divorce. Qur courts are very ac- | commodating to handsome women, and_ Mrs. ! Kinney again resumed the role of Carrie | Carroll, Old friends of the family kept : quiet, and the lauy entered society once | more in the réle of belle. Mr. Haggard was | anew member ot the British Legution, a was too infatuated to listen to or take advie from friends who knew something of the ; lady’s career. 3 Another splendid wedding ahd another trip to Europe. The whereabouts of Col. Kinney have not been known since he left here with his bride. Mr, Haggard became attached to the Lome Office, in London, but | his wife was not presented at court, nor well reccived in England. In less than two years, at his own request, he was sent to Persia, | and his wife returned again to her mother. | For the third time Mrs. Haggard entered so- ciety, and last wiuter captivated Mr. Bolles, a young Lieutenant of the navy. He is ten years her junior. Mrs. Haggard for the | second time sought release from matrimonial | bonds, and, as Haggard made no protest, she j was divorced a second time. z granted | The same that the divorce was she and Mr. Bolles and a few friends went ; over to Baltimore and were married there. ‘This was in July last, and Mr. and Mrs. Bolles are now ‘stationed at or near San PPS following Mi € following in regard to Mr. Haggard is the subject which octal is now discussing. It is reported that be has just married a lady with five husbands; a majority of them now living. In the attempt to emulate his first Wife he has taken a partner_who exceeds er by two husbands. Mr. Haggard evidently gives the preference to Ameri- can women, for his last venture was originally from New York City. Her name was Holbrook. The first man’ sheemarried Was Mr. Colville, and it is said he died a mys- terious death and his friends demanded an examination. The widow, soon married Frank Du Barry, a brother of Col. Du Barry, United States Army, Mr. Du Barry was at. tached to the Lost Cause, and was drowned ‘while attempting to run the' blockade. Ars, Du Barry next married an Italian photog- rapher, who had no social position, and she bore the name of Mine. Ribiera. She soon aroused the jealousy of her husband, and after many quarrels she eloped from New ork and went to Europe with some obscure man, whose nameis not remembered. In Europe she met and married Baron Von Hock, a Ger- man nobleman of good family. Sne had not taken the trouble to procure a: divorce from Ribiera. She and the Baron had a stormy honeymoon, and finally separated, — she, however, tuking his name. Then she eloped With an English officer, and traveled with him to the East. Meeting Mr. Haggard, she cast off the new lover, and now, under the name of Mrs. Haggard, is livl with the unfortunate man at Teheran, at the Court of the Shah of Persia. No doubt she will wind upina* Seraglio,"—that if she can turn the tables on the Shah, and have one of her own, men only being admitted. ith abe Professor and the Pears. e_ Bowdoin Colieye Orient has begun a series of “Bowdoin Stories,” written in a pleasing style. The following is purtieutarly bnppy: “Dr. C. told mea story the other duy,” Percy observed, trimming bis pipe, “that plewsed mea good deal. Dr. C. roomed on the southwest cor- ner of Main H&li,and hada very sunny place. Gray, who was just across the entry, came in money in bis raids, he alwa: ttered it with alavish hand, and among the cripinal one day with a lotof pears not ite asked to leave them in Gs windols to ripen ene few mornings after Prof. Packard calledon C, j dratton New York. “Not for the world, Jve $6,000,000, not only in my own right, bug in my pocket. I will pay for any service.” As the barber proceeded with his task, Abo walked the shop nervously. A presage of danger oppressed him. The chestnut curls on his forehead grew damp with anxiety, He knew life, in his rough way, and he knew barbers, The fair young girl would beno match for the frontier hair-dresser, if the worst should come. And why should it nos come? Had she not millions in her pocket? Ue glanced at the tiny feet planted squ: and firmly on the stool before her, and recog- nized character. He knew nothing of Bos- { ton, but he understood feet. “And do you live in this funny place, te he?” asked the girl, smiling at ‘Abds retien, tion in the glass. “Ido,” sighed Abe. ‘“Misfortunes have cast my- bark of life high upon this barren shore and left me with only the shelter the sea-weeds afford.” “Te he! how odd. Ouch!” But Abe grasped him and laid him upon the floor. ‘The barber had made a dive for the dainty pocket and had faile Leaping Antelope Run was aroused. Such an attack found no apologists among the wild, rough miners. Whatever they might be inherently, they would tolerate nothing of the kind in the barber. “ Away to the dull thud!” demanded one more intelligent than the rest. And they echoed the cry till the moonlit air was shiv- ered and the beams crept away convulsively. They may have expected him to beg, but he eyed thein sternly. “Oh! my! what will they do with him?” asked the beauty with one Br. She had no need to spenk. The thrill of that eye struck achord in Abe Wallace. “They'll sprain his neck, darling,” mur mured Wallace in tender accents. This feeling. was new to him, but he under- stood it. “Gracious! and may I see him?” whis- pered she with the other eye. Abe’s answer was lost in the sullen roar of the crowd. ’ Out under the grand old tress that fringed the mines. Out under the whisper of the leaves. Out through the, shadows. The wind swept down from sie velvet winds, but pitiless. They shook sweet voices out of their satin garments, but not a plead- ing tone tor that human barber, soon to be neither barber nor human. : The rope was around bis neck. ‘Willing. hands were ready. A cloud floated across the face of the moon, but she struggled from behind it, held by the horror of the scene, “Hold!” commanded Abe. And then ad- dressing oe barbers he asked: ‘You are 'ustice of the Peace, are you not? “ a responded the condemned, in low, steady tones. “Then marry us,” said Wallace, drawing the Boston girl’s arm within his own. cs “You do lake this woman for your weddéed wife?” asked the barber, with a strange glitter in his eye. “Ido,” responded Abe, “You do take this man for your wedded husband ?” inquired the barber, with a pecu- liar smile. “Te, he! I suppose so, te, he!” whispered the matisical voice, and wife: 66 en I pronoupee you man and w! to the devil.” ae z The rope tightened, but as he went up the barber uttered a wild, demoniac laugh. Then, with the shadow of the sierras gathered around him, he hung dead. om Try as he might. Abe could not shake ‘off - the influence of that laugh. It was a ghost in his life. “My God!” he screamed as he sprang from his seataday or two afterward. “ understand it now.” “Gnderstand what, love?” psked his beautiful bride, looking up from the bite of an apple. know why he laughed. I know why the barber laughed with his dying breath,” be moaned, “Graclous goodness! What was it for?” he demanded, with dimpling smiles, .” Because he died without giving uss mar- riage certificate.” With a wild shriek the Boston girl sank dead at his feet. ‘The barber was avenged.—Brooklyn Eagle. ee THE CALIFORNIA MARQUIS. Something About the Charitable Mer chant Who Has Been Honored by the Pope. se New York Sun. Daniel J. Murphy is the wealthy senior member of the dry goods importing and job- bing firm of Murphy, Grant & Co., of San Francisco. Mr. Murphy in his boyhood was aclerk in the dry goods house of Eugene Kelly, then established in San Francisco. After attaining his majority he became & member of the firm. After Mr. Kelly came to New York, Mr. piurphy organized the firm of which he is the head. He was very successful in business. His charities were notabie, and as his wealth increased the sphere of his charities was enlarged. Besides all the local Catholic charities of San Fran cisco, to whieh he contributed liberally, bis was recognized in map, other charities of California. I Roman Catholic orphan asylums in San Francisco and Sacramento, the Sisters of St. Dominic, and the Nuns of the Presentation having charge of the free schools of San Francisco, and the Broth- ers of the Christian schools have been re cipients of Mr. Murphy’s bounty. In this city, which he visits two or three times 3 yan on his way to Europe to meet the mem ers of his family who are traveling abroad, he is well known. In his trips abroad. Mr. dturphy has received many attentions from the Pope. He carried with him the intro- duction of the Rt-Rey. Archbishop Ale many, of San Francisco. Upon his second trip to Rome. some_tive years ago, he was decorated by Pope Pius with the Order of St. Gregory. A year afterward he was madeaCount. Yesterday a cable message was sent to him informing bim_ that Pope Leo XIIL had issued a bull making him & Marquis. Some months ago Mr. Murphy caused a somewhat remarkable icture to be painted for him. It represented the preseDr tation of his family at the Papal court. ‘The title of Marquis is the highest honor to which the Catholic laity may aspire There are only two persons in this country holding this title, and both of them live ed San Francisco. ‘Mr. Oliver was ennobl some time ago. He is not so wealthy 33 air. Alurphy, but ‘has been equally charitable, Their title enables them to take preceden over the lesser clerical dignitaries at alle ligious ceremonies of the Catholic Churc! a Rome during Holy Week. ‘The dignlty is hereditary, and falls to the oldest son ue the death of hisfather. ‘These titles were one time much sought after in Europe. Since the loss of his temporal power Te Pope has been sparing in their distributio’ Both of the Marquises have the. right | ous represented at the Papal Court. No rel ioe saa ceremonies accompany the bestowal 0! tof, peryhich will reach atent of nobility, Francisco in about three weeks