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The Footman's Story.

The footman in the employ of the
Secretary is young man named II. G.
Turner. He gives an account of the
fire as follows: ut was about 7 O'Clock,
| had just dressed my myself, was in
the basement and was going up into
the dining room 10 clean the silver,
when some one rang the basement door
bell. The laundress went to the door.
In moment she called the butler. l
heard him run hurriedly up the stairs
and then rush down again.
My God The house is all on fire.
he exclaimed. Then we all ran out
into street
D.scovERING THE FIRE.
'It seems a colored man, a servant at
the Arno Hotel, was passing the house
and saw smoke coming from the first
floor doorway and windows. He rang
the bell and gave us the alarm. Then
he ran down to the engine. house and
turned in the fire alarm. The engines
were soon there. Just as they arrived
saw Mrs. Wilmerding and her little
daughter appear nt the front window Of
the second story. She was in her night
clothes and was screaming wildly.
The firemcn were trying to get
a ladder up waved my hands at her
and shouted to her to wait. A cloud Of
smoke burst out of the window behind
her, and, taking the little girl in her
arms, she sprang from the window, fall
ing upon the pavement. a dozen men
rushed forward and picked them up.
Mrs. Wilmerding's wrist was broken
and she and her little daughter were
both bruised" "
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soon as Secretary Tracy is able to
be moved from the residence of MIR.
Davis that he should be brought TO the
White House and Il large room on the
south front has been prepared for the
patient.
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Gas Light directors rleoted.

The annual election of board OF di-
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pany to-day resulted In the unanimous
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"34--9-10" will long be remembered
by the firemen of Washington, for 1t
sounded summons to one OF the most
fearful and fatal catastrophes the city
has seen for many years, and resulted
in the death Of two of the most loved
and popular ladies in society here.
Few people except servants were
awake in the fashionable West End this
morning, when a postman engaged in
collecting the mails from the boxes
walked down street. between Seven
teenth and Eighteenth. He stopped on
the corner and emptied the letter-box
there, and then continued his
way. He had gone but few
steps, however, when he reached
the residence of Secretary. Tracy.
Smoke was stealing from the bay win
dow of the house, and he stopped,
rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked at il
again. Then two other pedestrians
came along and stopped for an instant
to watch tiny tongue of flame creep
out of the window.
1T MIGHT HAVE BEEN AvERTED.
The men scattered, but unfortunately
none of them ran into the house to
awaken the sleeping people there, One
ran TO the station, while another went
to look for policeman, but in the
meantime the flames made better time
than they, and by the time the engines
arrived the front of the building was in
flames, at least that portion of it where
the long bay window ran up.
Chief Paris Of the Fire Department
was the first to enter the house, and to
his courage and self-posscssion Secre-
tary Tracy owes his life. His story Of
the rescue, as told by himself, is printed
below,
WHO WERE IN THE HOUSE.
Besides the Secretary, Mrs. Tracy
and their daughter, Miss Mary, there
were in the house Mrs Wilmerding,
daughter of the Secretary; her daughter,
Alice; the French maid, Josephine, and
half a dozen servants. No one but
the servants had arisen, and they
were in the kitchen and dining-room
preparing breakfast when the fire was
discovered. They made no attempt, so
far as is known, TO awaken the sleeping
people upstairs, but when the smoke
crept downstairs they fled out into the
alley and from there to the street, leav-
ing the family TO their fate.
Mrs. Wilmerding and her daughter,
Miss Alice, occupied the front rooms on
the second floor, and were the first to
discover the fire. They ran into the
hall, but were forced back by the
flames. Then they threw up the front
windows, and, with great presence
of mind. climbed out, holding on to the
sill, and dropped on the soft grass OF
the terrace below. This probably
saved them from severe injury, but, as
The Washington critic., 1890-02-03

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the best medical aid summoned to his


a WHITE HOUSE FuNERAL.
There has not been funeral at the
White House since December, 1873,
when Frederick Dent, the father of
Mrs. Grant, died at the age Of 81
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The other theory advanced is by one
of the servants, who says that the butler
filed the furnace with coal before re.
tiring, in order to save himself the
trouble of giving that early
attention to it which would
otherwise have been necessary.
This practice of the buffers has been
for some time source of unfavorable
comment and expostulation among the
servants, whose talk on the subject has
been Systematically unhecded until the
accident of this morning, with its ap.
palling catastrophy, has been the
result
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What Caused the Fire2

AS yet the cause of the fire has no,
been determined, and rigid investiga.
ton will be made by Chief Paris before
he makes his report to The Commission
crs. Two theories are advanced by
the Chief, but he will commit himself
to neither, though he inclines to the
idea that it was caused by the explosion
Of lamp which was left burning on a
table in the dining room,
There were callers at the
house last night, and it is
thought that the lamp was forgotten by
the family, and as the servants had al
ready retired there was no one to at
tend 10 it, This theory is borne out by
the condition of the drawing room. 1t
is burned more than any other
room in the house, and in the
opinion of the employe of the Building
Inspectors Office who was sent to in.
vestigate the causes of the tlrc, it orig
mated there.
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GENERAL. cArIIN COMING.

a dispatch has been received from
General Catlin, the father-in-law
of Secretary Tracy, saying he
will arrive in the city this evening and
take charge of the remains of Mrs.
Tracy and hcr daughter.
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Umi7, sUuUIng pIGeousIy TOT water, ana then
heard him groan at intervals till he died. At
least, the groans ceased, and the next day he
was found with his back against the cottage
wall, stark and dead.
Having pulled me inside, Joan's father must
have thought he had done enough, for on the
floor lay for hours and passed from oneSwoOn
TO another. Heand the cat had gone back to
the fire again, and long before evening both
were sound asleep,
SO there | lay helpless, till, at nightfaI,
there came the tramplimg of a horse outside,
and then a rap on the door. The old man
started up and opened it; and in rushed Joan.
her eyes lit up, her breast heaving, and in her
hand "A naked sword.
Church and King, Jack!' she cried, and
flung the blade with a clang on to the table
Church and King! o brave days work,
lad-O bloody work this day.
And swooned again.
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BLACK cat spat and bristled; while in the
middle of the room, bareiooted in the en-
bers, crouched man. He was half naked,
old, and bent, with matted gray hair and
beard hanging almost to his waist. His chest
and legs were bleeding from a score Of
scratches; aud he pointed at the cat, opening
and shutting his mouth like dog, and bark
ing out curse upon curse.
No way upset, Joan stepped across the
kitchen, laid me on one of the bracken beds
and explained:
That's feyther; he's drunk"
With which she turned, dealt the old man
a cuff that stretched him senseless, and gath
oring up the turves, piled them afresh on the
hearth This done, she took the key and
gave me a drink of it. The stuff sCalded me-
but thanked her. And then, when she had
shifted my bed bit to ease the pain of lying
she righted a chair, drew it up and sat beside
me. The old man lay like log where he had
fallen and was now snoring. Presently the
fumes of the liquor or mere faintness mas
tered me and my eyes closed. But the pct
ure they closed upon was that of Joan, as she
leaned forward. chin on hahd, with the glow
of the fire on her brown skin and in the depths
Of her dark eyes
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CHAPTER MI.


HOW JOAN SAVED TIE ARMY OF THE WEST.
But the pain of my hurt followed into my
dreams | woke with a start and tried to
sit up
Within the kitchen all was quiet. The old
savage was still stretched on the floor; the
cat cured upon the hearth. The girl had
not stirred; but, looking towards the window
hole, | saw night outside, and a frosty star
sparkling far down in the west.
Joan, what's the hour"
SUNS been down these four hours" She
turned her face to look at me.
"Ivo no business lying here"
"Chosc to come, lad; none axed thee that
knows by"
"Wheres the mare9 Must set me across
her back, Joan, and let me ride on
MARES in stable, VII fetlocks swelled like
puddens. Chose to come, lad; an choose or
no, must bide."
"Tis for the General Hopton, at Bodmin,
am bound, Joan; and wound or no, must
win there this night"
"Amd that's seven mile away; wi n bullet
in thy skull, and a peat quag thy burial. For
they went south, and thy road lieth more
south than vest.
"Thn trooorr,:'
'Ay, Ja'"' an WORK had this day WI
those same nooiy "aill'fA' hul take a sup
~ the -, '-'rL n''e LIS H"'i'"'t OF ont
cake Will" tell th1'.
And 80, having TED me- and set my bed
straight, size SIT on the floor beside me for
tn" "ett"r h"aIn-t ami IN her unr"Uth tongue
told how had been saved. l cannot write
her language; but the tale, in sum- was this:
When dronn"i forward into her arms,
Joan for moment was taken aback, think
ing me dead But TO quote herr no GOOD
sad |, IN cuddIn lad pom the hillside for
folks to SEE, though ne have a-got rurls like a
wcnch; an dead or live, no use to wait for
others to make sure.
So she lifted and carried me t" a spot hard
by that She called the Jews kitrhem;' and
where that was, even with such bearings as |
had, SIZE driird me TO discover. There was
10 tnno to tend me, whilst Molly stood near
snow IN" """rrI""ll's; 50 s"' LIT Inc lie,
'''."' 'oi ~. tI' ,'.r. 'oD.. 10 stable.
.!.r ha!.d VS. on t'n' n.'.,. WL"n she heart
{ .to' -. no me r"ad aI.l t:."r" Wri" half a
'.rErr 'ld.rs "I ;h' rr'-'. a'i earring down
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CHAPTER XIII.
! MEET WITH MR.. HANNIBAL TINGCoMl

BraddOck Down that 18th of January. For
! Sir Ralph HoptOn with the Cornish grandees
had made short business of Ruthen's army
| driving it headlOng back on Liskeard at the
| first charge chasing it through that town,
| and taking l,2OO prisoners Including Sir
| ShilSton Calmady), together with many
| COlOrs, all the rebel ordnance and ammun-
! ton, and most of their arms.
| AT Liskeard, after refreshing their men,
| and holding next day a solemn thanksgiving
to God, they divided-the Lord MOhun with
Sir RaIpA Hopton and Col Godolphn march
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| Exeter.
| Twas on this expedition that two or three
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| thank me for the part had in bringing news
| of the Earl of StamfOrd's advance. For
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HOW JOAN SAVED TIE ARMY OF THE WEST
But the pain Of my hurt followed into my
dreams | woke with a start, and tried to
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ones. The charge upon our camp had
been made by part of regiment
of Mississippi homeguards, partisan
rangers they called themselves; and
the sick and convalescent in camp
and regimental hospitals, our "home-
guards" as we used to call them when
we left them behind in camp, rallied
and repulsed them. Among the killed
was the major who commanded the
enemy, and the next morning we saw
his grave by the side of the road with
his hand sticking out $50 that his
friends could shake hands when they
came to see him." the boys said. 7
heard of such things at other times
during the war, but that was the only
thing of the kind I ever witnessed, and
I suppose the boys had liberal allow
ances of hospital bourbon or they
would not have done so inhuman q
thing.
"We went across the country to the
west until we struck the road from
Chewalla to Ripley, and followed this
after the retreating enemy to the lat
ter place, and there ended, on the 9th,
the last of our fighting and skirmish-
ing in connection with the battle of
Corinth. ."-ChicdgO Ledger.
Thomas County cat., 1890-08-28
THE BOOMING CANNON.
RECITALS OF STIRRING 1NCIDENIS
IN CAMP AND IN BATTLE.
Survivors of the Rebellion Relate ANUS
ing and Startling Incidents OF weary
Marches, Camp Life, FOraging Expen-
ences, and Battle Scenes.
The Army Overcoar.

He was idle as boy, he was shlltiesS aS
youth, ,-.ra
He was slovenly in dress, and his manners were
Uncouth
The neighbors looked their scorn when they saw
him passing by; ...u,,sad, IN
His father used to scold, and his motner USeo "
sigh; - .,
But he voiunteere the day he was old enough
to vote,
And they hardly knew the fellow in his army
overcOat.
For he braced his lazy shoulders with a m'h'afs
air, .,,
His aiInltss face grew frmer; said the neigh
bors, Il declare!' .
His father took his hand, his mother DeaAneo
her pride. ,.,
The winter day he marched away a foolish
maiden cried; -
Full fifty folks forgot their sneers, fun nifty
With friendly slap the back that bore his army
oVercoat.
He sent his parents letters they were long in
making out;
He was faithful as sentry, in the fight his
heart was stout;
The day he saved the Captains life, that day he
lost his own,
And spoke some manly parting words, and d1ed
without groan.
The Captain closed his eyelids, with choking in
his throat,
And sent him to his mother in his army over
coat.
Ihelmeet1n2-house was crowded full upon ms
burial day,
And scores and scores passed down the aisle to
see him as he lay.
The foolish maiden noticed on his hand ring
of bone,
The Union shield cut on it, and wished it was
her own;
And after prayer, and hymn, and speech, and
wartime anecdote,
The earth received the soldier and his army
Overcoat.
And now when Decoration Day comes round, q
flag they put
Above his head and deck his grave with flowers
from head to foot
And here his worn old father and his mother,
bowed with years,
Stand sadly by and listen to the haplain's voice
with tears;
And an ancient foolish maiden sees before her
memory float
The vision Of soldier in his army oyercoat.
George ArcI,ibald in Judge.
Thomas County cat., 1890-08-28

shows the endurance of poor old cav
airy horse, when mine went through,
from the morning of the Sd to that time.
@Late in the evening we reached
Chewalla and camped for the night.
Camping under such circumstances
meant getting some corn and fodder
for our horses if we could, some cof-
fee and fried pork for ourselves if we
could, and then lying down in line in
the woods, with our horses tied to our
ankles or wrists. We had only got
comfortably fixed when we were or
dered to march again, and took the
road to Corinth. There had been q
dash by the rebel cavalry on the
camps to the south of Corinth, and we
were needed in that direction. Our
march by moonlight was from Che
walla to Corinth, across the ground
that had been fought over two DAYS
previously. Soon we came to the
dead, most of them still unburied, and
we passed hundreds of them, the gray
and the blue-we could not tell the
difference in the moonlight and
shadow. They lay there stiff and
stark, under the trees and along the
fence rows-in all kinds of places.
They had got through their fighting,
but we, tired and sore and hungry.
and knowing nothing of the NOR
row, had to ride along until our time
should come and We should get
our plantation down South as
we used to call the graves. And the
stencil! Anyone who has been upon
q battlefield, especially ct night, in