Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 25, 1889, Page 5

AL ABOUT A DEATH-TRAP. | Architect Myers and tho Commis~ sloners Having Some Fun. WEAK ARCHES AND ILL TEMPER. The Connty Hospital and Ita Alleged Liability to Take a Tumble —Who is Really at Fault. The New Death-Trap. There was an altitudinous old time out at the county hospital yesterday. County Commissioners O'Keefte and Mount, Archi- tect Meyers, from Dotroit, the contractors Ryan & Walsh, Superintendent Walsh and Dennis Cunninghum were the only partici- pants in the merry making. “The whole matter in a nut shell,” said one of the party, “is that the county is being obbed in an outrageous manner with the bailding of this institution, and all those who have a finger in the pie are twisting, con- torting and convoluting in a distracted effort to shift the blame from their shoulders to some one else's.’” “Tho whole building!” savagely and em- phatically vociferated Architect Meyers on ® half dozen occasions, ‘48 little loss than a death trap " But a few words of explanation. One ‘weck ago the brick archway over the main window In the east wall of the south wing eaved in, leaving @ vacuum big cnough for w0 clephant to walk through. The collapse nlso sprune the walls, and large cracks are yisible extending from this embrochure in the walls, both on the sonth and east, to the window panes below. Contractor ' Walsh laims that instead of the arches there should ave been iron beams, while Superintendent toss and Architect ' Myers assorvate that Valsh has prosecuted his work at variance with the official directions, In fa yest, day sent into_the county com rs a written protest and complaint, statin, it the congractors, KRyan and Walsh, would not obey his orders. Architect Moyers said the cause of the co- Japse of the arch referred to is because the ontractors had taken out the centers or sr:u't‘.s before the mortar had had one-third ime enough to set. He said this very thing was the cause of the recent fall of the ten ptory building in Chicago. He ‘said those nters should not have been removed before $ho lupse of a month or six weeks, and then should have been thoroughly tested by a radual lowering of the same before they vere entirely taken down, He aiso declares that an inferior cement, has veen packed in Portland cement arrels, has been used instead of the Port- nd cement itself, and the contract specific- lly calls for the Portland; that some of the mortar used was upfit for 'any purpose. He said further, that Mr. Walsh should be com- elled to go by the instructions of men who nderswood their business, or he would 18sue an order for his dismissal from the building. He peremptorally forbade the superin- ,fendent allowing any men to go to work in y part of the north wing of the building,as -:g apprehends a crash here at any time Should the least vibration. be given to the arches, The centers huve all been taken out of the lower arches, and the scaffolding for the upper arches rests directly on the cen- fer of each. With the unset mortar used, he Jeclares that they are apt to collapse at any oment. Consequently, Ross has ordered Fl- men, as they value their lives, to not ven- ure in hiere for anything. On the other hand, 1t is” claimed that the uilding is being constructed oo cheaply; hat the contract was taken at figures that will not justify first class job, The truth gvthi? assertion could not be readily ascer- ined, Commissioner O'Keefe is determined from this on out that the very letter of the con- ~gruct shall be carried out, and a competent uilder will be detailed to visit the scone of operations every day, and _report progress #nd the general condition of things. Commissioner Turner limbered up and de- vered himsclf of several opinions against e board’s action in the hospital matter that were anything but complimentary. Mr. Tur- or did 1ot get in from his farm early enough join the worning excursion, consequently felt in about the right mood to air himseif. ‘Mr. Myers has got the board whero it an't help itself,” he said. ‘‘He is not re- yponsible for any of this trouble. Certain embers have gotten themselves inton tight o0x; they know it, and for that reason dare ot say anything to Myers. As I look at it, 6 has had nothing to do with the construc- tion work. After recciving a picture of the building from him, they simply took the vhole matter out of his hands, and have een running contrary to contracts, agree- ents, rules and understandings, They se- ected a sperintendent and assistant without even consulting him. He should, at least, have had an opportu- nity to recommend a man for the place. But X suppose certain members had favoritesand wanted to put them in, They also made ghoiz own estimates, and have been going shend regardless of results until matters finally reached that condition from which relief could not possibly be had except through the architect, and not desiring to shoulder tho responsibility themselves they have attempted to saddle it on to him. But he has wot them where they can do mnothing. All the action taken at meetings amounts to nothing. Resoiutions were offered and passed, but that was the end of them. Nobody ever, called them up afterwards. The fact is thoy wera 4 blind to the newspapers, and were mever intended to be enforced. 1 have not akon part nor swid anything, for the reason hat T proferred to sce those members who have gotten into the hole work themselves out. You can’t bet Myers has got them.” #A Red Hot Meeting. Last Saturday afternoon the board of county commissioners, at its meeting, de- cided to hold a session, yesterday, for the purpose of appointing an architect for the completion of the new county hospital, The resent architect, £, K. Myers, had put a iy white elephant on the hands of the board, to use the term of one of the commis- pioners, Myers had neglected to perform nis duties, and would never come to Omaha rom Detroit to look after the building un- less ho thought he would be relreved of his sition. The board of commissioners had tood his ‘monkey business,’ to quote he words of Richard O'Keefte, as ong @s it could. The commissioners would not tolerate him uny longer pnd-held a session yesterday afternoon for tho express purpose of appointing a new ar- shitect. His services were to be paid for by M. Meyers, that was the board's idea of the matter.” * The moeting of the commissioners was hold. That was ail that wus done. It - was gmore of u furce than anything else, It wa disgraceful, and even old hayseed farme: who didn't know auything about parhiamen- ry laws, wore disgusted and_left; it. T ntire afternoon was spent and not a solitar ing accomplished. 70 wonder my predecessor went crazy, remarked the auditor of the board, “1f we have many more such meetings 1 may be in the same boay, " ‘The entire session was devoted to O'Keeffe and Anderson, both of whom had the floor at all times, and both had it togethor, It was othing wore or less than a personul fight tiveen them on uny matter that came up r wetion. Aftar the customary preliminaries Mr, 'K eeffe made a motion to proceed to appoint now architect for the hospital building to wform the work that nhuullnl be done by the resent architect. ‘The provisions of the otion were that the new architect was to Fecelve his pay from Myers or his services Bhould be deducted from Myers' account. Mr. Turner was of the opinion that Mr. yors would have to be paid every cent for 18 work whetker or not the board lppolugd alf a dozen architects. Myers had permitted @ board to appoint a superintondent and assistant, and muke other polntments the construction of .the building, Myors uld expect the new architect to be paid ¥ the hoard. After this declaration Anderson and 'iKceffe got nto - personal jght. Each one Dblamed the other r the bad work dome oo the hospital. 'KKeeffe held that it had been performed hile Anderson was in the board, and An- [erson claimed that O'KCeoffe was responsi- lo for ll'-n'hin‘( 0 a his name to a cont: a hospital rge enough for the state. t was & Whito elephant on the county and erson thought the board mI’ns as well oulder its sbare of the blame. He alluded the *“‘whi lephant” on sev: oucasions, L O'iKoofle gave him a sneering look thut meant as much as to say that they had taken the bull by the horns and it was not policy to get tossed over the fence. ('Keeffe statod that he was willing to shoulder his part of the blame, and to show that he was willing he wanted to_appoint_another archi- tect. Anderson said the board was as much at fault as Myers, as the board had not com- plied with the agreement and contract by not requiring the superintendent of the build- ing to give bonds. The contract was then read, and Architect Myers, who was at the Paxton hotel, was sont for, He came, but found the commis- sioners in a wrangle, The motion to ap- point a new architect was lost. O'Keeffe and Anderson got into another squabble over a little resolution which was paged at Saturday afternoon's meeting. It is as follows and was introduced by Mr. O'Keeffe. “Resolved, That hencnforth all resolutions appropriating any money for the payment of dobts of Douglad county shall bo read once only, the first time at any regular meeting of the board and shall then be plaved on file for inspection at the next regular meeting of the board, when they may be taken up, read the second and third times and passed. This rule shall not apply, however, to the approvriations for salaries ot county officials and employes, nor to the estimates given by the county surveyor on contracts, nor cer- titled cortificates for jurors and witness fees trom the clork of the district court.” Mr. Anderson had the measure recon. sidered and offered a substitute, He elaimed that the resolution conflicted with the stat- utes. He would not offer an amendment to the resolution. If the other members wanted to ignore the law they could do so, but his substitute was in accordance with the laws of the state. ‘The substitute was finally dropped, and Anderson and O'Keeffe engaged into another wrangle about steals and ‘“‘crookek bllls" which the resolution, if in force, would remedy. The question of adopting the resolution, was put to a vote, and it resuited in a tie. O’Keeffe and Turner for it, and Anderson and Mount against it. 8. I, Pope & Co., of Chicago, were allowed $7,000 for heating and steam fitting in the new hospital. Between 5 and 6 o'clock the board ad- journed to meet at 9 o'clock this morning. on the hospital muddle, Headache, fickle appetite, failure of eyesight, tube casts in urine, frequent desire to urinate, especially at night, cramps in calf of legs, gradual loss of flesh and dropsical swelling—any one or more of the above disorders are symptoms_of advanced kidney disense or Bright’s disease, and Warner’s Safe Cure should be freely used according to directions. Dr. Wm. H. Thompson, of the city of New York, says: ‘‘More adults are carried off in this country by chronic kidney disease than by any other one malady except consumption. The late Dr. Dio Lewis says, over his own signature, in speaking of Warner’s Safe Cure: “If T found myself the vic- tim of a serious kidne‘y trouble, I should use your preparation.’ Kauffman-Bean. Yesterday at 4 o'clock p. m., Miss Allie Bean, daughter of Mr. George L. Bean, 2215 Capitol avenue, was marriea to Mr. Edwin M. Kauffman, a rising young attorney of Wymore, Neb. The ceremony was presided over by Dr. Duryea and was witnessed by a large number of friends and relatives. The bride, who is a young lady of rare accom- plishmonts, looked very protty in her costume of pure white. In her hand she carried_a bunch of lilies of the valley and wore a bouquet of the same near the throat. After congratulations and @ general recep- tion, elegant refreshments were served. At 6:30' tho happy couple left for St. Louis, where they will spend the greater part of their noneymoon. The perfume of violets, the purity of the lilly, the glow of the rose, and the flush of Hebe combine in Pozzoni’s won- derful powder. Street Oar Permits, The board of public works yesterday granted the Omaha Motor railway permis- sion to buila a double track on Sherman av- enue from Ohi Permit was Railway company to build a double tr Twenty-fourth street from Binney to cer, al50 to lay a double track on’ Twenty- soventh street, two blocks north to Miani, one block west on Mismi to Twenty-eighth streot, and one block morth on Twenty- eighth to Maple strect. A positive guarantee is given by the manufacturers of Dr. Jones’ Red Clover Tonic that a 50 cent bottle of this rem- edy contains more carative properties than any dollar preparation. It promptly cures all stamach, kidney and liver troubles, Goodman Drug Co. Cost of a Broken Pipe. The waterworks company was put to an expense of about $1,000 for extra work on ropairing the damage done by the breaking of tho water pipe at Twenty-fourth and Farpam streets during the recent strike. The company now has about one hundred men at work at $1.50 per day, and does not auticipate any further trouble from the laborers. The company expects to have the new main laid on Karnam street to Twenty- ninth by the last of next weo k. Advice to Mothers. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup should al- ways be used for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, d colic. and is the best remedy for 25cen ts & bottle. 'y Assoclation, Thoe Law Library association met yester- day afternoon aud chose the following offi- cers: Judge Lake, president; C. 8. Chase, vice president; A, Walkeley, secretary; Herbert J, Till, asurer. ‘The following gentlemen were chosen dirbetors: J. L. Kennedy, C. W. Hall, Isaac Adams, James W. Carr, C. J. Smythe, Moses P. O'Brien and Frank’ L. McCoy. ‘The president will announce the standing committecs atthe next meeting of the association. For Nervous Debility Use Hesfora’s Acid Phosphate. Dr, H. T, Turner, Kasson, Minn,, “I have found it very beneficial in nervous deyility, from any cause,and for indigestion.” St. Barnabas' Officers, St. Barnabas church elected ofiicers as fol- lows: Senior warden, S.J. Rheini;junior wardon, tryinen, J. Ringwalt, . Ringwalt, R. Kasson, F. Pogue, and W. Browne; commiitee on snking fund, G, . . 1. Kenneay and M. Darlingg; dele- gates 1o diocesan council, G, I, Labagh, J. i. JSennody and TI. Ringwalt: aiternates, C. Weeks, M. Darling aud Dr. A, W. Nason. Pears’ soup sccures a beautiful com- plexion. The Distribution of Species, . 'Thoey say in the Pacific Islands, speak- ing of the distribution of species, that they never heard of our common house fly,which is now a great nuisance there, until it was distributed from port to vt by Europeun vessels. In the new Jslunds thot are occasionally discov- ered there is no such insect as our house fly, according 10 the New York Sun, Some years ngo a great mattod mass of living and decayed vegetation that had formed in the upper Paraguay broke away during a freshet and drifted 2,000 miles to Buenos Ayres, where the peo- ple were very much astonished by the sudden appearance of mavy wild ani- mals and reptiles that had taken vefuge on the floating island to escape the deluge, Stunley, in his last levter, gives and ioteresting in- stance of one means of disteibuting species when ho says that in the heavt of the great African forest, where no white man had proceded him,he planted corn, beans, tobacco and_other vogeta- bles, some of which have certainly never been seen therc before, though congo gardens for hundreds of miles up the river huve been greatly enriched by innovations from this country nud Europe. THE TWO CHIEFS OF DUNBOY. In its revitw of the novel just issued hy James Anthony Froude, entitled “The Two Chiefs of Dunboy,” the Globe-Democrat says: It is not gener- ally known that Mr. Froude began his literary career with the idea of being a novelist. He produced two works of fiction—nearly forty years ago—and they proved to be melancholy fail- ures. Then he turned his attention to history and biography, and achieved a reputation which is likely to be perma- nent. Those early stories are not now in print, and the author does not care, it is said, to claim them; indeed, his friends tell that he bought and de- stroyed a large part of the editions in order to escape responsibility for them, He has now made another attempt 1n that line, with a result which can only be called partially successful. That is to say, while the book is interesting as a picture of Life in Ireland at the mid- dle of the last century, it does not meet any of the requirements of a first-class novel. Ithas no plot, to start with; it is only a succession of quasi-historical incidents, in which the characters come | and go regardless of dramatic fitness and unity. There is nolove-making in it,and no heroine, and no happiness. It is romantic in a certain sense; but the romance is mostly of a criminal and forbidding nature—and the good suffer equally with the transgressing. One of the lending characters, Colo- nel Goring, is an English Protestant, who occupies Dunboy castle, in the south of Ireland, and has command of a hundred miles of the coast as a revenue ofticer; the other, Morty Sullivan, is an Irish Catholic, exiled in France, whose family has been ousted from the Dun- Doy castle estate, and whose friends are anxious to have him return to his na- tive land and organize an insurrection, he having won distinction as a soldier in foreign armies. “It is for you to save us il you can,” says Morty's cousin, Sylvester Sullivan, who .has sought him in France as a bearer of the latest news, “‘and if you fail us now and ill comes of it, you have had your warn- ing.” Morty’s face grows hard and stern; but he hesitates. He has lost faith in Irish insurrections. His service abroad has given him a disgust for local conspiracies and crimes, and for the cowardly patriotism which disguises disaffection behind perjury, and accom- plishes nothing save an increase in the general misery. But, after all, he knows himself to be chief of a race whose existence is now in peril. He is touched in his e by the fact that an English colonel is in possession of the castle of his ancestors. ‘‘The colonelis a crafty lad as well as a bold one,” says Sylvester, “and 1t is never so casy to reach him. He’s at the old deviltry again, bringing in_Protestants to live among us. The parliament changed the law, and they can stay now. worse luck! Heo has found copper in the mountains, and he has fotched over gangs of miners from Cornwall to dig it for him. Psalm- singing rogues they are; but they work as Sir Wiltiam’s people did, and theie 18 a deal of money going among them. And in the same way he has brought more of them Cornishmen, with boats and lines and nets, to take the fish; and they are making money, too. The country is going to the devil with them all, But what does the colonel care for that, so long as he is doing the Lord’s work, as he calls it.” Morty asks, ‘‘What ails Macfinnan He is older than mysell.” Syl- vester answers, *‘We age quickly in Treland, your honor, with the whisky and the broken heads; and Macfinnan has had his share in both.” Then he gives a graphie account of Macfinnan’s wrongs and sufferings, and implores Morty again to feturn to Ireland and resist the oppressors of his unhappy countryman, Colonel Goring was a faithful soldier and a religious man. He had no wish to injure in any way the Irish people of the district in_ which he commanded, but he believed in the enforcement of the law against smuggling, and his ef- forts in that connection soon made him very unpopular, novwithstanding his personal kindness and generosity. The ugly fact was brought home to him that the people were in sympathy with the smugglers, and with'all other violators of the revenue law. Moreover, general unrest prevailed, on account of the prospects of a French inyasion. Peace wasnot yet avowedly broken. but the I'ren and Bnglish were fighing in In- din and America, and the signs of appronching war were vis ble on all sides. Privateers were said to Dbe alveady at work, and Colonel Goring had information that muskets and powder in large quan- titics had been landed in his vicinity. ‘While he was straining his Jutmost to protect the coast, he was assailed by a hundred petty acts of persecution,which showed that a syster attempt was being made to drive him from the coun- toy. Again and agat he represented his situdtion to the government at Dub- lin, but his letters were not answered and he was left to take care of himself as best he could. At length Morty Sullivan appeared and stood face to face with Colonel ing. The latter said to the citizehs who were standing near: ‘‘Gentlemen, I must call for your assistance in the name of the law. The person whom you see before you is a proclaimed vebel, with a pricé on his head. He was with the Pretender in Scotland; was captured, and for a few hours was under my own charge. He is Morty Suilivan, I am ready to swear, I arrest him, and I require you all, ou your al- legiance, to prevent his escape.” Morty sprang to the top of a rise in the ground. **Arrest me, will you?” he cried. ““Arrest me, that you may set my head on your Témple Bar, beside Kilmarnoch’s and Balmerino’s! Then I must send for them who will put in bail for me!” He blew a sharp, shrill call on a whistle, and out or the woods ne all sides rushed bodies of seamen, armed to the teeth with cutlass, dirk and pistol—ruftians of all nations, ready for any service which their commander might require of them. *You see those men,” Morty said to Goring. ‘‘Let but one of you 1ift & hand to touch me and the soil you stand on shall run with blood, and not one of you shall leave these ground alive, Meddle with me now if you dare!” Goring saw that it would be useless to persist in the arrest. ‘‘You have taken us by surprise, Captain Sullivan,” he said, “and you have our livesin your hands if you please to murder us. I tell you none the less, to your face, and in the face of those villaing whose pres- ence proves you to be a rebel, a pirate, a murderer for all I know, that you have forfoited your life to the law as a felon, lund you will come to a felon’s end, I tell you if I leave here alive I will | bring an English frigate upon you be- | fore a week is out!"”" Morty bit his lips i1l the blood rai ntlemen,” he said, *‘Colonel Gorin lls me I ama | pivate, and my life is Torfeited. 1 will give ham a chance to take it. For what I am,and for what yonder vessel is which I have the howorto command, I will answer, if called on, to my own sovercign, King Louis of France, and 10 no other. y only quarrel is with Colonel Goring himself, Let us end it, | and then if my prasence on this coast is a danger to_the rest of you, I will go, and you shall hear' of me no more.” Ho tore off his glové and flung it in the colonel’s face. Goting caught it and tossod it gently back, saying, “It shall be as you please.” The preliminaries of the duel were soon adjusted. TwWelve paces was the distances chosen, and it was agreed that the combatauts should fire consec utively, and toss for the first shot. The ndvantage feltto Morty. Ho was to fire first anthiat his own time after the handkerchief was drur- ped. The signal was given. He raised his pistol, took delib- erate aim and let his arm fall slowly. Then he raised it again with a vicious smile; he drew the trigger, the hammer fell, and the pistol missed fire. He cooked again, pulled again, and again there was no result. “There is some- thing the matter with your flint, sir,”” said Goring, cool; ou had better let it be looked to.” ~Morty flung his woeapon to a second, who rearranged the flint and returned it to him. He fired instantly, but Goring’s calmness had disturbed his nerve. His arm shook. The ball intended for his antagonist’s brain passed through his hat and left him untouched. It was now Goring's turn. ‘‘Captain Sullivan,” he said, ‘it is not your fault that you missed me, for you were deliberate enough, I might now save the hangman trouble. But your life is forfeited; it belongs to your country, and to your country [ shall leave you. I shall not fire at you in return.” He paused a moment and seanned his pistol. “But,” he continued, “that you may know and that all here may know that your life is mine 1f T please to take it, do you see yonder bough at the top of the furthest elm, with a single yellow leaf at its extremity? Mark that leaf.” He raised his arm and glanced along the barrel; a flash, a shot, and the leaf, cut off at the stem by the ball, slowly fluttered to the ground. ‘‘Give us other pistols—load again! cried Morty} but the crowd objected, the seconds in- terposed, and the affair proceeded no further. Of this encounter with Morty Colonel Goring thought no more than if his horse had fallen, or any other ordi- nary accident had befallen him. But of Morty’s presence on the coast, in command of a piratical vessel, he thought long and seriously. He thought much also of Ireland and her people. The situation was at once both a sorrow and a mystery. He asked himself what it all signified. English rule had done it all, the priests snih. But it was not 80, Goring knew, for their own anoals told that at no time had the Irish chiefs and their followers been other than wolves, devouring one another when no sheep were left for them to devour. His conclusions were that the Irish as a race had disowned the facts of life, and the facts of life had proved the strong- est. 1t did not take Goring long to ascer- tain that Morty’s vessel was londed with arms and ammunition from France, to be landed for the use of the insurrec- tionists. So he colleécted a party of his English tenants whom he could trust, and proceeded to the point where the landing would probably be attempted. They were justin time to conceal them- selves and to pour ‘a voiley invo the ranks of the pirates as they rowed close to the shore. Thus the landing was prevented, and Morty guessed instinc- tively who it was that had baflled him, Moré_bitterly than ever he swore to have his revenge. But swearing would not help him now. His vessel, the Doutelle,could not move for not a breath of air was stirring. - He sent up a signal rocket for the boats to return. The answer soon camo in a loud explosion telling that the barge with the cargo of guns and powder had been blown up to prevent capture. At the first sign of wind the Doutelle got under weigh, headed for France. Two days later she was overhauled by an English frigate, and a sharp fight en- sued, in which Morty was vidtorious,and at the end of a fortnight he arrived safely at Nantes,there to prepave for fur- ther service in such direction as should seem most promising. Some time went by, and Morty did not return to Ireland. He was occasio ally heard of, however, in other qua ters, fizhting and plundering; and last he d his country anotaer t, ors from the king of France. nstructed to ascertafn how many men could be counted on if a French force should be sent there. It was as he had expected. The krish were not ready to fight for themsel “The heart is not in them,” he said bitterly. “Thoy will only bluster and boast, but when the time comes for action it will be which shull be first to be- the other. None are braver when s’ tails are. to be cut off, or the country’s eiemies to be shot from a hiding place. But to stand upand fight th xon in an honorable field, as Scots did with Bruce and Wal ) that is beyond them. And therefore we are what we are. No nation ever trusted us that they did not rue that day. Ask the French; ask the Span- iard We have made the name of Irish patriot a byword of contempt thl'ouglll IBurope. What curse is on us that only when we huve left our mise able country our o and manl ness come back to us?” sister that he said this, and she proached him for his lack of faith “God knows I have no love for the Eng- lish,” he went on, “but I will meet them only in fair fight, man to man.” His friends, and particularly his cousin Sylvester, urged that it was at least his duty to make a settle- ment with his personal enemy, Colonel Goring. “Bring Colonel Goring and me where none can interfere with us,” said Morty, **and I will thank any of you. We can then settle our differences once for all, and there will be an end. But he gave me my life once. and it shall never be said that I took him®t a disadvantage.” Syivestersaid he would bring about such a meeting; and he did—by luring .Colonel Goring away from home under false pre- tensos. It wag, _at & way- side blacksmith shop that the colonel unexpectedly encountered Morty. The latter was accompauied by his friend Conuell and by Syl\'béwr. As soon as Goring entered, Coinell stepped behind him and barred the door. Then Mort, said: “I have returned to Ireland, Col- onel Goring, only fora short stay. I am about to leave it, never to come back., A gentleman and a soldier, like your- self, cannot wish that I should go while bone, and hurling him back senseless, doubled over the anvil. Morty and Connell, neither of whom had intended foul play, hesitated. A second stroke of the hammer shattered the bar, and the door hung uyon the latoh. In an- other moment Goring would have been free and nway. Connall sprang forward and closed with him. The colonel flung him heavily on the floor. He rose ond drew a nife, which Goring wrenched from him, and was ut to drive it into his side. “‘Shoot, Morty, shoot,” he cried, “‘or I am adead man!” Morty snatched up a pistol, fired, and m d. The second shot was true to its mark. Goring’s arms dropped. he stag- o{emd against the door and fell. He was de The murder of a revenue officer in Ireland was a matter of slight import- ance: and the death of Colonel Goring would probably have gone unavenged but for another act of treachery on the part of Sylvester. b repulsive wrotch, stung by Morty's condemnation of his meanness, disclosed all the facts to the authorities, and a company of soldiers was sent to arvest the guilty parties. The house was surrounded and sot on fire, and ns Morty rushed out through the flames a dozen musket balls struck him and he died without a word. The body was given in charge of the soldie to be carried in a cutter to Cork. They lashed a rope around the account between us is still unset- tied. Our fortunute, meeting here pro- vides us with an opportunity.” Colonel Goring saw that a tpeacherous contriv- ance had brought him there. He be- lieved they intended to murder him. But his courage did not fail. He an- swered that he could not degrade the uniform he wore by stooping to measure arms with one who stood outside the pale of honorable men, Morty daid four pistols on the smith’s tool chest. *‘Take a pair of them,” he sald: “they are loaded alike. ILet us stand on the opposite sides of this hovel, and so make an end.” (Cioring glanced at the door, with a thought of escape. A bar lay across it, but of no great thickness; a vigorous blow might shat- ter both it and the staple into which it ran. Sylvester detected the glance and its meaning, and threw himself in the way. Goring snatched a heavy ham- mer, which stond agsiunst the wall, and struck Sylvester, breaking his collar~ “as Lo produce a constant and distres the neck and shoulders, and made it fast behind the cutter’s stern, and 1n this ignominious fashion they towed behind them all that was left of the daring pirate through the waters of which he had been the glory and ter- ror, At Cork the trunk was quartered, and the head was piaced on the castle battlements, and the comrades who were taken with him.when he was killed had a short shift, and the bloody drama was ended. By way of final com- ment, Mr. Froude says: **Colonel Goring helonged to an or- der of men who, if they had been al- lowed fair play, would have made the sorrows of Ireland the memory of an evil drenm; buv he had come too late; the spirit of the Cromwellians had died out of the land, and was not to be re- ved by a single enthusiast. Morty livan slew him, and when_slain in turn met his just reward. Yet, when the actions of men are measured in the eternal scale, and the sius of those who had undertaken to ruleIreland and had not ruled it, are seen in the full blos- som of their consequences, the guilt of Morty, the guilt of-wmany another de: perate patriot in that ill-fated countr may be found to bear most heuvi! those English statesmen whose reckless negligence was the true cause of their crimer.” For a disordered livor try Beecham'sPills, THE CENTENNIAL. A Pen Picture of the City of Demon- stration. Howard gives the following charm- ing picture of post demonstrations in New York, and what may be expected at the forthecoming centennial celebra- tion: : ‘We have had superb demoustrations here. Some of you can remember the de- parture of the Seventh regiment for Washington in 1861. Why, the very pavements stood on end and yelled with patriotic fervor. Do you recall the mag- nificent testimonial paid by the people of this city and adjacent regions to the memory of Horace Greeley? When that cortegé moved down Broadway it was not the procession in the middie of the street that made it notable, but it was the multitudinous, panoramic aggrega- tion of humanity that escorted it to the ferry gates that made itone of the most significant demonstrations with which the city of demonstrations is familiar. And when the honored name of Coopor was placed upon his c all that was mortal of him was borne with quiet, solemn ongo toward the cemetery, what an outturn, what acres upon acves of men and women—aye, and of little ones, too—were seen by close observers of that sentimental celebration of a good man’s life. So you see we are to a certain extent pre- pared for something great, and in the massive magnificence of this coming demonstration, how contemptible, how pitiful, how little will be the incidental disturbances here and there. A pick- vocket here,a rude fellow there, a push- ing policeman and an awkward horse- man, what will they be in comparison or by contrast with the wonderful dis- play? So, too, in looking back years hence to this great centennial senti- ment, whichh T honestly believe rests active and admirable in every New Yorker’s heart, who will cure to remem- ber the squables between the dogs at the corner, the scufiles between the po- licemen and the intemperate, the fall- ing of a horse, the tripping of asoldier, the squables of a Fish, the rufiled tures of a McAllister,the 1diotic egotis of a Gerry? Let us bury these things in a common trench, and massing our- selves in impetuous phalanx, move on irrespective of such demonstrations on this great occasion as will not only be memorable to us but will live in history, and inspiration to our children, and a glorious recognition of those who went before. Mr. Blaine's Pallid Face. Secretary Blaine came late from some dinner party and made his way down the rooms through groups of hand- shakers, says a Washington letter. Jie is, if possible, whiter than ever—snow- white hair and a pure marble-white, perfectly colorless skin, making him . a contrast with all the sallow-faced or ruddy people in the rooms. His re- markably quick black eyes animate the face in a way to rout all theories of in- validism, but the secrotary secms ab- sorbed and lost in mental worries. Whenever he is seen driving from his department to the white hou and back the vremier looks worried, and evidently the caves of the office are hard—or he tukes them hard. Catarrh to Consumption. 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