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MASSACRES.
Memorable and Bloody Events IN the His.
tories of Nations and Religions.
New York Mall.

History's page is metaphorically
speaking, written in blood. A single
event, at the record of which We may
carelessly glance, has perhaps caused
the death OF millions ere it has been
chronicled. This is particularly notice
able among the historic msssscres of
which we write, and while we shudder
at the dark deeds that have been perpe.
trated with and without apparent cause,
still we are irresistibly attracted to the
persual of the fearful tale and sympa.
thize with the unfortunate sufferers,
while the instigators of their torture are
forever branded with infamy.
Between the wears 397 B. G. and 20
A. d. occurred many of the scenes of
Slaughter in the former year all the
Carthaginians in Sicily We're murdered;
in 331 B. G. Alexander the Great showed
his revengeful spirit, by causing 1000
Tyrians to be crucified and 5000 to be
put to the sword for refusing to sur
render Tyre to him. Again in 159 B. G.
Demetrius Nlcanor, the tyrant of Syria,
stained Antioch with the blood of 100,-
600 people, because they did not capitu-
late on his demand. In AK (France)
in 102 B. c. 100000 Teutons suffered
under Marius, while in the years IS
b. c., by order of Mithridates, King
of Pontus, all the men, women and chill
dren throughout Asia were cruelty put
to death by the Romans. The tiendish
Marius, two years later, again caused
the death Of many mobiles at Rome. But
the most startling yetrecorded was that
at the
DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM
by Titus, in the year 20, A. D.; 1,1O0,-
000 were here put to the sword, the
great temple was burned and the city
laid waste. Forty-fve years later the
Jews, headed by Andrea, destroyed
10000 Greeks and Romans in Cyrene.
Seleucia in 167 witnessed the massacre
of 400, 900 inhabitants by Cassius Emp.
NJ. Aurelius, Alexander in 213 that of
many thousand citizens by order Of
Antonnius, and Gaul in 277 suffered the
loss of 100000 of her people through
the heartless Emperor Probus. At Mic
odemia, in $40, eighty Christian fathers
were, by order Of Emperor Gratian, put
in ship, set on fire and driven out to
sea. Theodosius in 800 invited 1000 to
circus and then put them to death.
Constantinople next attracts our atten-
ton as q field for atrocities, for in 552,
for revolt, impelled by the tyranny of
two rapacious ministers, $4,000 souls
were sent to eternity, and at the same
| city, in 1854, the Latins suffered severe
lv under Andronicus. In the religious
prosecutions of the Waldenses and Al
bigenses in Toulouse (1209) sword and
gibbet carried off tens of thousands.
On March 80, 1882, at the hour of
vespers Oh Easter Monday, the inhab-
itants of Palermo flew to arms and fell
upon the French, who were all put to
death. Women and children were not
spared, and even Sicilian women with
children by Frenchmen, were murder
ed. The furious instruction which
followed swelled the greater number of
victims.
In the Castle of Verdun, in 1917, 500
Jews had taken shelter from the peas
ant who aesailed them, and although
they made valiant defense, fighting
to the last, they were forced to yield,
and their death resulted. John, Duke
of Burgundy, reduced the population OF
Paris several thousand by the massacre
which he instigated in 141S. Christian
4 H., in 1920, invited the Swedish nobili-
ty to banquet in Stockholm. They
never attended another feast. And now
we come to an event which has forever
stained the history Of France. lreter to
the St. Bartholomew massacre on Au-
gust A. 1872, by Charles TX, of France,
Mt the instigation of Catharine de
Medicis, his mother. The causes, de-
tails and results of that horrible scene
are familiar to all; suffice it to say that
10000 Huguenots were martyrs to their
cause, while solemn thanksgiving were
offered in Rome, medals commemora-
tive of the event were struck in Paris,
and Spain applauded the butchery.
The English court as q mark of Protest
ant detestation put on mourning and re-
ceived the French embassy in solemn
silence,
Crotia, in August, 1892, Thorn, in
August, 1924, and Batavia, in October,
1740, were scenes of violence and rap
inc. In the first named place the Pro.
testants again suffered by order of the
chancellor of Poland; in the second,
10000 Chinese, on pretense of iusur-
rection; while in the last, the Turks,
with their characteristic brutality, took
the lives of 65, 600 Christians. But the
Turks themselves suffered at Ismail
December %, 1901 loss of $4,000
soldiers and 5000 women. BY the
proclamation of Dessalines, thousands
of whites were murdered at ST. Domin.
60 on March 90, 1904 A French mas.
sacre occurred in Madrid, May 2, 1905,
one Of Marmelukes in the citadel OF
Cairo, March /, 1871, and another III
May, 1915, by the Catholics at Nisme.
Vast numbers of people were put to
death March 6, 1920, by the ferocious
/ soldiery; 800 English mobiles met their
death at Salisbury Plain, May l. 474. In
$50 the monks of Bangor, to the NUM-
Der of 1900, were murdered. The
, most bloody massacre that ever occur
: red in London was that of Danes, No
, vember 10, 1902. A rather
peculiar case now attracts us,
namely, the massacre of York,
in England, 1859. Five hundred Jews
! took shelter in the Castle of York. and