The Daily Tombstone., 1885-09-04
FlarnsSin Ro ssa's rays.

ss he caught ,! breath shouted tha: UDonoYan tIica was on fire. He begged the .iremen to e.: there h5Gorp the Gsrnes reached ODonoyan'a meaa- zine, Then h= took to | $ hrels toward the East EiYer.
 Th- hook and ladder and engine I'd. ted and charged up 'efor- k" l2 Cham Der street, where Rosa h;s office The alarm thg. haI be n sent out soon brought half a d' zen other engines there 100. Tie fir.men pushed their way through the crowds that had gath cred and began to put! their hose up ,hn corkscrew staircase.
 They reached the second landing on the stairs when four men jumped out upon it with sudden unanim;ty that made the tiremen think that the stored dynamite and nitr, -.lyc"r;ne were about to % of. Through the door that the men had left open black smoke was pouring that did pot altogether hide the red flames witLin.
 TAe four disintcrrsted patriots who bounded out If the office were Jere miah O Donovan (RosSal himself, Patrick Joyce, h right hand man; bi. Rocky Morntah O O'Bri.n and Edward L. Carey, who is prominent il, the An clent Orier or Hibernians and worth a quarter of million dollars. He had to stand out of the way just as ii h. was hot worth a cent, and his fellow. patriots had to get out of the way. too, while the tiremen brought the hose to h2ar upon the flames anu put them out within an balf hour
 While the fire lasted tt .lidinca!culs- ble damage to O'Dnnovan Kossa and to the cause of Irlsh liberty as seen through his glasses. When I;u.sa and his fellows bean to count up their losses they shook their heaus and sighed and said that the day that would see Ireland free was put of a. least 100 years. They did not t;,irl: that any plinion Cf tie accnrspd Brit isa Empire iad applied the torch. but they expected tLat London vou!i be Illuminated Hi honor Of the event, a,.d thas Queen Victoria would bold q special ievae to G irbrate 1t. They gnashed their teeth and swore choice Celtic paths AS they pictured tie c:e. light of ,he eEste raonarchies of Eu- rep.
 The tire had eaten up at least l, 600. 900 worth of iont,s os the Irish Rc.ruI,- lie. The bonds were engraved in ;hr highest style oi the art. There was q picture of $. Patrick driving red coated snakes cat of Ireland in one  corner of them and in anotlnr beau tlful drsign representing Erin blowing up S.. George with dynamite ocuh. Many poor servant girl has toiled and stinted herself for moashs 10 buy one of those very handsome bonds, and now the have gone up in smoke.
 Besides the bonds ten thousand cop- ies of Rossa's novel we, ruIned by fire and smoke and water, The novel IS entitled. Edward O'DonneIl-a Story of Ireland of Our Day" It is soul stirring book calculated to make 2 true Irishnan 50 ont and kick the first Engish bail pup he meets clean across th. street. Price in cloth, sl; paper, 50 cents. For sale at all nitro glycerinc factories.
 dts dark day for Ireland" re marked O'Donovan after he had sum- rned up his losses "HrreI I am ou, five hundred dollars by this fire, and uninsured at that"
 The origin ofthe fire, as become any thing dynamite, is mytreious S.me people thought they heard a slight ex- ,iosion when It started and :he rumor pread that Mrs. Dudly had escaped raro fLa acvlpr, ,pd .tX,otoJ p,eeo I