Connecticut western news., 1894-11-29

were performed without ohIoroforn All the anRsthetics were exhausted. A fracture that in other climates and un- der other circumstances would have come to easy oonvalescence here proved fatal Wonder was Dr. Fayrer's house, who was surgeon of the place and Is now Queen Viotoria's doctor. This up- per room was the officers room, and there Sir Henry Lawrence, our dear commander, was wounded. While he sat there shell struck the room, and some one suggested that he had better leave the room, but he smiled and said, Lightning never strikes twice in the same place. Hardly had he said this when another shell tore of his thigh, and he was carried dying into Dr. Fay rer's house on the other side of the road. Sir Henry Lawrence had been in poor health for long time before the mu tiny. He had been in the Indian service for years, and he had started for Eng land to recover his health, but getting as far as Bombay the English govern ment requested him to remain at least awhile, for he could not be spared in such dangerous times. He came here to Lucknow, and foreseeing the siege of this residency had filled many of the rooms with grains nswithout which the residency would have been obliged to surrender. There were also taken Sby him into this residency rice and sugar and charcoal and fodder for the oxen and hay for the horses. But now, at the time when all the people were look ing to him for wisdom and courage, Sir Henry is dying"
 Our escort describes the scene, unique, tender, beautiful and overpowering, and while I stood on the very spot where the sighs and groans of the besieged and laoerated and broken hearted met the whiz of bullets, and the demoniao hiss of bursting shell. and the roar of batteries, my escort gave me the partic- ulars.
 Tried to Do His Duty.
 '..As soon as Sir Henry was told that he had not many hours to live he asked the chaplain to administer to him the holy communion. He felt particularly anxious for the safety of the women in the residency, who, at any moment. might bo subjected to the savages who howled around the residency, their breaking in only matter of time un- less re-enforcements should come. He would frequently say to those who sur rounded his death couch: Save the la- dies. God help the poor women and childrenr He gave directions for the desperate defense of the place. He ask ed forgiveness of all those whom he might unintentionally have neglected or offended. He left message for all his friends He forgot not. to give direction for the care of his favorite horse. He charged the officers, saying: By no means surrender. Make no treaty or compromise with the desperadoes. Die fighting He took charge of the asylum he had established for the children of soldiers He gave directions for his bur | ial, saying: No nonsense, no fuss. Let me be buried with the men He die tated his own epitaph, which read above his tomb: Here lies Henry Law. renee, who tried to do his duty. May the Lord have mercy on his soul He said: I would liks to have passage oi Scripture added to the words on my | grave, such as, ITO the Lord our God be- long meroies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him. Isn't | it from Daniel?' So as brave man as England or India ever saw expired. The | soldiers lifted the cover from his face and kissed him before they carried him out The chaplain offered a prayer. Then they removed the great hero amid the ratsling hail of the guns and put him down among other soldiers buried | at the same time.' All of which state | for the benefit of those who would have us believe that the Christian religion is fit only for women in the eighties and ! children under 2. There was glory enough in that departure to halo Chris | tendon.
 Water at . Life's Risk.
 "There, ' said our escort, Bob the Mailer did the work" 'Who was Bot the Nailerf' ''Oh, he was the African who sat at that point, and when any one of our men ventured across the road
 he would drop him by a rife ball Bot
 was sure marksman. The only way | to get across the road for water from
 the we'll was to wait until his gun fash
 ed and then instantly cross before ht
 had time to load. The only way wt
 could get rid of him vas by digging {
 mine under the house where he was
 hidden. When the house was blown up
 Bob the Mailer went with it" I said
 to him, Had you made up your minds
 what you and the other sufferers would
 do in case the fends actually broke ina'
 "Oh. yesp' said my escort. We haG
 1t all planned, for the probability wa,
 every hour for nearly five months tha
 they would break In. You must remem
 Der it was 1.600 against 60, 900, ant
 for the latter part of the time it wal 900 against 60, 900, and the residency and the earthworks around 1t were moi put up for such an attack. It was only from the mercy of God that we were not massacred soon after the besiege. ment- We were resolved not to allow ourselves to get into the hands of those desperadoes. You must remember that
 we and all the women had beard of the
 butchery at Cawnpur. and we knew
 what defeat meant If unable to hold | oub any IouEor, Wo WOulu uaNo pioWL
 ourselves up and all gone out of life to
 gether.
 "Sbow me, said, "the rooms where
 the women and children staid during
 those awful months " Then we crossed
 over and went down into the cellar O,
 the residenoy. With shudder of hor
 TOT indescribable I entered the cellar,
 where 622 women and children had beer
 crowded until the whole floor was full
 I know the exact number, for I counted
 their names on the roll As one of tn,
 ladies wrote in her diary-speaking o
 these women she said, ''They lay upor
 the floor fitting into each other like bit,
 in puzzle" Wives had obtained iron
 their husbands the promise that the hus