Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-15

yesterday" says the Rsngooa Times
"that they were experiencing great hard
ships and receiving very meager allow
srce from the commissarist depsrtm mt
and il has come to our knowledge ths
these poor fellows, some wounded an
others in the last stage CT dysentery, ar
put on board the river steamers withou
proper attention, and, in fact, withOu
arrangements being msde with tn
steamers even tor their messing. Me-
/ who are mere living skeletons are to b.
! seen lying on the bare decks, and the die
! the medical authorities seem 20 thinl
! best for men wounded or suffering from
/ dysentery is that vile compound known
as Chicago beef, dry biscuits, and little
tea and sugar tied up in piece Of dirty
gunuy.n
One steamer On the Irawaddy, the Sc
cundra, carried 800 men, though she haC
only accommodation for GOO. They were
"pacsed ike sardlnes in box," wrote
one of the West Surrey regiment, without
sir 10 breathe, and several expired Of heat
and ep0plexy. Among them one man
who had struggled so far as the com
oanion-ladder 10 get little sir and sleep
was thrown into the river.
e
He has ever shown himself to be the in
carnstion OF greed, meanness and mis-
management, FOR though John likes glory
he is shabby enough TO like Is cheap.
LOlsdsle was q great dreamer during
his protracted and intermittent Illness ct
RaDgoCr-bOrn Of what he had undergone
amid the dewy marshes. He had almost
began to believe in mesmerism OF 3 cer-
tain kind, and 10 lhirk-to hope that
when he dresmt CT Melanie she was also
dreaming CT him Ii Wss ag1ild idea, out
the outcome ofallbe he'd undergone made
him q dreamer by right and day, who
ever saw 4 sweet face with pathetic eyes
raised TO his, and felt in his Il smsl
white hand, with the sound CT voice
ever haunting him, even SIS an old melody
fingers in the memory. But does not
Sir William Hamilton tell US that, chow
ever astonishing, ii is now proved, be-
You'd sll rational DOUBT, that in certain
abnormal states Of the nervous organism,
perceptions are possible through other
than Ordiusry channels"
Anon, change came over the dreams
Of Lonsdale, born pe1hsps Of these very
perceptions, for Waen at last he slept-by
sDatches-they were full Of hszy and
horfid visions of some great evil that
oyerhung him-something dim, dire, and
not to be encountered.
His good constitution prevailed over
his illness. He "pulled through" IS the
phrase goes, in spite Of 81 medical pre-
dicti0ns TO the contrary; and in few
weeks Yves able to ride about RAugoon on
@ native pony, one CT those stout and
singulsrly strong little animals that are
not more, usually, than twelve hands
high, but are ever rough-co&ted and un-
gro0msd. Thus mounted, he daily
traveTsed Merchant street, broad and
spacious thoroug h;srp, having lines Of
trees and grass plots before the double
rows Of varied mansions, some Of which
are CT European aspect, so far as COrnices
and pilasters go; others, native, built of
wood and BAMBOO, materials which do
not indicate poverty, but are used, being
light and portable.
Such edihces are all built on piles or
posts, in consequence OF the occasional
iDundatiOns that ToIl beneath the first
floor, and many have noble galleries,
graceful verSndGhs with ellipticaI arches,
above which are broad projecting roofs,
all Of AnglO-BurmeSe architecture, being
the residences chiefly Of Europeans, and
over all towers tne crest Golden Dsgon
PGgoGa, with It's new umbrella, erected
slice the war OF 1852.
As the Burmese women ere not smut up
MOhammedG fashion, but mix freely ia
all social gatherings, Lorsdale could see
them working g. their looms, with men
beside them, gossipiDg and firting-a
tue Burmese art-While their slender
fingers woye deity the stuff5 Of brilliant
silk or cotton. Elsewhere were diminu-
tive darnsels squatted IN the lower yeraD-
dahs, behind stalls CT fruit, betel nut,
cigsrs, with g British sailor or "TOmmy
Atkins" lingering near and "airiDg" his
"pigeon English"
Ole day-he was never to forget it
be came back from one of these rides,
and with an emotion Of thEnkfulness in
his heart, felt stronger, and had nsny
hopeful thought OF home. He sought the
mess bungalow 20 get some iced drink,
when he found that the mail had come IL
from Europe, and the last London papers,
then several weeks old, were being
conned with svidity-all looking first at
The latest news prior TO t. king the rest at
leisure.
He got one-the Times--.snd after ruu-
ming his eyes over the news vaguely for
some time, he a!ighted upon one thy
paragraph that gave him dreadful
shock, and for q moment or two the
power Of sight seemed to leave him, ere
ne could read it again and 6isentangle
one line from the other.
''The marriage of Sir Brisco Bray-
brooke, Bart, of Rsvensbour1e Hall,
Oxford, with Miss Melanie Talbot, only
daughter Of the late Captain Reginsld
Talbot Of Il. M. Bengal Army, will take
place tomorrow at Stokencr0ss Church.
The ceremony, We understand, will be
performed by Bishops near relation
Of the bridegr oom-assiSted by the vicar,
Or. BIendon. Oar correspondent adds,
that after thu ceremony the happy couple
will leave for the Continent, but return
TO Ravensbourne Hall before the meeting
Of Parliament
The paper dropped from his hand on
the floor, and he never looked st it again.
There seemed no doubling it. The state
ment was too circumstantisl; end by that
time the whole dark episode-dark to
him-must have been over long ago.
The world-the "penny liner" world,
he knew, WAS st times given 20 marrying
people with or without their consent.
But this notice was an important Journal,
and would be no mere "sccietY paper"
canard, and yith this conviction csme TIE
thought that he was SO far sway and so
helpless thst he could neither lesrn the
best nor worst.
In moment or two may seem 20 bEs
the sgony of Iifetime--sae
heart to receive its death wound, wlththe
knowledge that the world will never. and