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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-08
rl'sb'p Wheeling Direr'cs
THE II. E. PHILLIPs CUT DOWN

In tho leo at Matamoras and Totally
Destroyed Sunday Night-SistersviIIs
Wharfboat Sunk.
A special dispatch from Friendly, ".
Va, opposite New Matamoras, Ohio,
brought the news Of tho cutting down
Of the Wheeling and Parkersburg
packet R. E. Phillips. in the ice there,
at IL o'clock Sund ay night. The boat
was harbored in what was supposed to
be safe place. but the ice that filed
the river Sunday night after tho break
ing up of the Moundsville gorge quar-
tered In on the Ohio side OF the river,
and the Phillips being Of rather light
build, her hull was unable to withstand
the terrific blows Of tho ice. A big
cake struck the boat amidships Just at
II o'clock, smashing in the hull timbera
and tearing hole ten feet long.
The mate. John Suiter, and the
engineer, Sard Canard, who were aboard
at the time. and had steam up, were of
course unable to do anything aud the
boat soon settled to the bottom. Her
entire lower deck was covered aud the
water soon entered the cabin floor.
Suiter aud Canard secured assistance
aud most OF the cabin furniture was
removed to the bank. The boat, how.
ever, is q total loss. The ice crashing
into her throughout the night and yes-
terday together with the rising river,
played havoc with her upper works.
Last evening the cabin was almost en-
tirely gone, and when the river declines
not very much OF the old Phillips is OK.
pected to bo found.
1he Phillips was owned by Captain
Harry Mendel, OF this city, and was
commanded BY Captain Fred Kline,
who was in Wheeling at the
time of the disaster. He went
down there yesterday, but of
course was not Rble to do anything to
save his boat. Mr.. Mendel is now in
Texas and WAS telegraphed to yestsr-
day. Tho Phillips was not very old
boat, having been built seven years ago
by Jonn Sweeney. She was bought
about four years ago by Mendel. who
put her in good snape. She was worth
$4,000 and was partly insured.
Tho loss OF the Phillips was surely
enough bad luck for Mendel in one day,
but he was fated to suffer more than
that, for within an hour after the
destruction Of the Phillips, the wharf.
boat at Siatersrille had hole stove in
her hull and went to the bottom. The
river came up and covered the wreck
yesterday, and with the damage in.
tiicted by the ice the Whartboat will be
total loss; valued at $1,000, partially
insured. The craft was also owned by
Harry Mendel, of this city.
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PIrrSBURGu, Jan. Tho latest news
Is encouraging aud indicates that the
flood ha. done its worst as far as Pitts
burgh and points above on both rivera
arc concerned. What further damage
may be done will be below. At 10 p. m.
the Monongahela here registers 90 feet
and rising very slowly. The be,t river
authorities agreo in placing the hiGhes.
stage at e6 feet. Advices from oil Of the
up river points show that tho water i.
either recedine or about stationary.
At Morgantown it reached twenty.
five feet without doing much damage,
and at 6 p. m. had receded to twenty.
four feet. Kittanning, on tho Allegheny,
reports an eleven foot stage. rising very
slowly. The rainfall has stopped and a
freeze is expected tonight.
The heaviest Individual loss 80 far re-
ported was that at McKeesport, where
fifty coal barces were carried from tho
docks down the river, entailiug aloss OF
between $50, 900 and $4,000.
Beaver, Penn, rspor.a tonight,
that the Golfer dam at the new
government dam just below Vanport
has been. swept away with considerable
money damage and the loss Of one life,
John McSweeney. a stone mason. who
had gone out on the dam to get his
tools, was caught in the crash and
swep. away. Joseph, Ledlie was res.
cued without much difficulty.
Now that the danger here aeems to
have been avcrted. coal men are making
preparations to get large quantity Of
coal to southern ports as soon as tho ice
has thinned sufficiently, which will pro-
badly be about Thursday.
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PROMINENT CITIZEN
Commits Suicide ut Bclington-Finnncial
Matters the Cause.

Commits Suicide ut Bci,ngton-Finnncial
Matters tho Cause.
sptcid! Diipdtch 10 he lniei'issnoer.
PnILlPPI, W. Va, Jan. ~. A. Will.
hanson, former sheriff and prominent
citizen OF Barbour county, cut his
throat last night at about 0 o'clock, in q
room OF the Hotel Luzerne at Bcling
and died few minutes aiterward from
the wound inflicted by his own hand.
The deed was done with a penkniie
tina! severed the jugular vein, and when
discovered tho man was found on his
hands aud knees leaning over a wash
bowl into which tho llfo.blood was
flowing from the ghastly wound that he
had gashed on himself. Death soon
followed.
The cause OF his self.destruction 10
attributed to financial troubles incurred
during his incumbency OF the Office OF
sheriff from lSSS to 1893 at tho e1pira.
ton OF which time he had become in
volyed to the extent OF $4,000. His
property was to have bcea sold to-day
on an execution, and on Friday and Sat.
urday he had been heard to say he in
tended TO end his own life. 1t is said
his life was insured for about $4,000.
The deceased leaves o vile and six
children and was about forty five years
OF age,
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PORT ARTHUR ATROCITIES.
English and American Military Attaches
Were Witncsscs

English and American Military Attaches
Were Witncsscs.
LONDON, Jan.7.-Tho Times publishes
latter from Kobe, Japan, describing
tho Port Arthur atrocities. Tho writer
SAYS:
"The English and American mill.
tary attaches witnessed tho .eceno
from Boulder hill. and woro
equally amazed and horriiied as my.
sell at what they described as n
gratuitons ebulition OF barbarism. Tho
atrocities werc not confined to Wednes.
dny. Four days woro spNnt by tho sol.
dicrs in murder and pillagc, in mutila.
tion OF ovory conceivable kind and in
namcless atrocities until the town bc.
camo 4 ghastly inferno. Tho corpses Of
women, children and men wore strown
in the strcots by tho hundred, perhaps
thousands, mutilated in oil conceivable
ways.
II saw n junk'strandod on tho beach
filled wi tn iusilivcs OF both sexes aud
all ages, struck by volloY after volley
until ! can say no more Of tho awful
sights oi those four days"
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BRIEFS FROM THE WIRES.

Postmaster Frank NJ. Doll and wife,
OF Alma, ARIZONA, woro killed Inst Fri.
day night by robbers.
took his seat on the bench as presiding
Judge OF tho general sessions court, OF
Now York county, n. y.
Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop, state president
OF the Michigan W. y. 7. u, WIS buried
Yesterday at Jackson, Michigan. Tho
funeral was the largest ever held in the
city.
A collision on the Wheeling & Lake
Erie railroad noar Smithville. O.. yes.
terday, resulted in tho death OF two
men and three moro werc fatally in.
jurcd.
In fight at Salvis. Ky, Sunday, be.
tween Sylvester and Seymour Jordan
and VIII Wright and Jim Crosby, tho
two Jordans received injurie. which
will prove fatal.
A reduction Of 10 pcr cont has been
oadered Mt tho iron works OF John
Mullen and Son, Mt Shamokin, Pa. on
account Of depression aud close compe.
,ition in business.
Governor Brown, OF Kentucky, ls on.
in q strong statement denouncing tho
action OF Judge Buchwaltor, Of Cincin.
natl, in dismissing Hampton. for whom
reqnisition had boen issued.
An explosion occurred on nn excur.
sion boat In Rio Janeiro bay and tho
boat caught fro. A larpe number OF
passengers jumped overheard to avoid
tho flames and 125 persona woro drowned.
Tho Friendly Sons OF St. Patrick. OF
Now York city, through Mr.. I. /;
O'Conncr.. NJ. p. yesterday presented
Mr. Gladstone, with sot OF resolu tions
thanking him for his efforts in relief OF
Ireland. Mr.. Gladstone replied In
speech in which ho pledged his support
to Irish nationalism.
The workmen thrown out Of employ
ment by tho financial collapse in New
Foundland parndod tho 'treets Of 81.
John Yesterday to tho number OF 5000.
Tho pollen prepared 10 qnell tho disor'
dor. but as the mob was peaceful moth
inr was done. Tho want oxis'ing is
somo.hing pitlinl, and tho relief meas
ures Rro Insufficient.
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Yesterday there was ono all-absorbinG
topic with tho people in Wheeling-the
river. Tho reports from headwater
points. tho interior and even from be-
low, had been SO diacouraging that fears
OF repetition Of perhaps the worst OF
floods in the Ohio Valley. wero OK
pressed. The newspaper bulletin boards
were the centres OF interest during the
day aud the telephones to all centres OF
information including the wharfboat
and newspaper offices were kept busy
almost continuously far into the night.
Weather Observer Stewart had been
approxinating each days stage at Pitts.
burgh with unusual correctness, and
much faith can bc placed in what he
says. In q telegram to Wharfmaater
Crockard received last evening he said
that the top.notch Of the rise at the
Smoky City would be twenty.si1 feet.
Rivermon at Pittsburgh, before this,
had been predicting that thirty feet
would bo reached there, and as that
would meau disastrous amount OF
water at Wheeling, some alarm was folt.
However. as will be seen in the preced-
ing late dispatch from headwaters, the
river people have finally come to tho
same conclusion as tho weather OBJ.
scrver-that tweuty-siX feet will be the
high water mark nt Pittsburgh. This
stage will be reached at an early hour
this morning.
What Wheeling people, especially,
want to know is, what twenty-six feet
at Pittsburgh is going 10 amount to
here. From all the information re.
ceived last night, it seoms likely that OF
loast. thirty-ive, and perhaps. thirty
nine or forty feet will bo seen here at
an carly hour Wednesday morning.
The least OF the stages mentioned will
do no harm in this vicinity, but. II
either Of tho latter becomes TACT,
some OF tho business houses on Water
street will have water in their cellars
and housoholdors in the lower portions
OF tho city would also hsve to contend
with the water. Wharimaster Crock
ard, when seen last night. said that he
thought thirty-six or thirtv-eiGhs feet
would bo MS high rs tho river would 20.
Throughout tho day tho ice continued
to come down tho river. Tho wharf.
boat caught tho worst oi it yesterday
morning, about $3.50 o'clock, when the
leo from tho La Grange gorge, just DO.
low Welsburg. passed hcre. The cakes
wnr0 worry big and heavier than had bo-
fore boon experienced. The barrier OF
ice, however, that bad before formed at
tho bows OF the wharfboat, protected
her from tho huad.on blows OF tho ice.
and no damage was inflicted at this
point.
During the morning, while very little
ice was passing tho big packet Scotia
raised steam and won't down to tho Bel
mont coal works below Bellaire, whore
she sccure1 II quantity Of fuel and 70.
mained hurbored there.
The river remained about stationary
during tho morning, but at 3 o'clock in
tho afternoon it commenced rising and
kept 1t up at tho rate Of nboul inches
m hour. until at o'clock. whom tho
water from above began to bo felt in
eurnoat, tho hourly ratio increasing to
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DO hold responsible for the execution of
economic principles. There was much
confusion when tho cross.iirO between
Mossrs. Springer and Cochran proceeded
md the chairman, Holman, tried vainly
10 preserve order md quiet.
Speaker Crisp said tho caucus was to
tost whether tho currency bill would
pass. Information on this subject was
necessary. tho situation being grave
and important. Representative Bland,
Of Missouri, opposed the resolution.
"Wo have now reached tho point"
ho said, "whon for tho. first time tho
Democratic party Is asked TO become
tho advocate OF state banks"
Mr.. Springer urged unanimity Of ac-
ton for the sake Of the party and tho
country.
Mr.. Cochran, Of New York. thought
tho question was M economic ono, not
political, and ought not to DO settled In
tho party caucus.
Brief speeches wcro made by Repre-.
Hcntatives Cox, (Tonn.); Coombs, (Nsw
York;; Bailey. (rexas); Swanson, (Vir-
Ginla); Coileon, (Wyomihg); McRae,
(Arkansnsl; Washington, (Tenn); Bry.
an. (Ncbraska), and Sperry, Comm.
They showed very wide divergence
Of individual views.
sPERRY's AMENDMENT.
Mr.. sperry closed his remarks by Of.
foring an amendment to the pending
resolution by which tho Sperry bill for
an issue OF bonds TO refund tho groen-
backs was to bo substituted US tho ono
on which the caucus was 10 express its
approval.
Mr.. johnson, OF Ohio, member OF
tho banking and currency committee,
followed in oppositian TO the resolution,
and 10 the Carlisle bill.
Mr.. Terry, OF Arkansas, also submitted
an amendment proposing as the sense
OF tho caucus q bill authorizing each
state to buy silver bullion to tho amount
OF s, for each inhabitans aud send the
same to the United States treasury to be
coined and returned to the several
states.
This closed the speech.making and
the submission OF amendments and
voting began.
The Terry amendment was voted on
first and was defeated b4 to 81.
The sperry amendment woe also de-
fcated-l3 to 70.
The last vote was regarded ns signif.
cant in showing the limited strength OF
the plan TO issue bonds TO retire the
grecnbACks.
The question then REQUIRED on the
original resolution to endorse the Car.
Isle substitute bills.
/, was decided to divide the resolu-
ton go rs to hnvo separate votes on the
endorsement OF the bill and on the in
structions to the committee on rules.
The first port endorsing the bill was
carried by vote OF 81 to SO. The sec
ond par. directing the rules committee
to bring in n rule tomorrow was adopt
ed without division and the caucus ad-
iourned.
Those interested in the bill expressed
satisfaction in the result as it gave the
prestige Of caucus endorsement to the
Carlisle bill.
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DOWN AT BELLaIRE.
Industrial Establishments That May be
. Affected by High River. .-s}I-


q Affected by n High Rlver.
There was much alarm felt all day
yesterday and last night at Bellaire
ovor the prospects OF a flood. The ice
had foated out without harm to any.
thing in this vicinity, but the contin.
ued rain and the reports Of tho rive,
rising at Cincinnati and at Pittsburgh
caused all who live in the lowlands to
prepare for tho worst. There are, two
hundred families that will be more o,
less affected should should water reach
the height it did in 1891. Beside,
the old window cnss works, Rode.
fer Bros. factory that is all ready
to start up next week and the
bottle works at the .Etna now ready tc
resume will be flooded. That depth ol
water, too. will affect tine steel plant
But the manufactures arc prepared as
woll n. thcy can DO for it. As,to the
private families and merchants that
may be affected it is noticeable that
they always 1.-Two in hope that tho flood
will cease till the water nours in at the
front door, and even then they pile
thinga on q table and move upstairs and
continue to hope that the water hat
reached its limit till they are taken oui
in A skiN.
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WAsHlSGroS, D. c., Jan. The
senate adjourned shortly after 8 o'clock
to-day as mark OF respect to tue mem.
ory OF Representative Post, OF ILL
noia, VINO died yesterday. A speech
by Mr.. PETER (Populist. Kansas
in support Of service pension law
for the benefit OF soldiers and sailors
OF the late war and another
by Mr.. Mitchell. (Rep. Oregon), in
behalf OF tho Nicaraguan Icanal bill,
occupied mos: OF tho time OF the ses-
sion. Mr.. Lodges resolution regarding
the withdrawal Of American ships from
Hawaii, was taken up but was laid aside
until tomorrow, whom 1t will be further
debated.
Mr.. Ransom. Dem. n. o., was elected
president pro TEN OF the senate to act
in the absence Of Vice President Steven
son and Mr.. Harris.
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New YonE. Jan. The public com.
ment on the proposed trial OF Police
Captain schmit'ocrger, charged with
bribery, who was supposed to have
received immunity BY reason OF his
confession and the evidence he gave
before the senate committee attracted q
crowd tha. quite filled tho court OF
oyer and terminer, wherc the case was
on the calendar to-day. When the case
was called. Colonel Fellows said he
wished the special prosecutors, Mes.rs.
Fox and Rollins, to have an oppor.
tunity to look into the matter and be-.
come familiar with tho evidence. Fur.
ther consultation was desirable. An
adjournment OF several days was. re-
quested and granted. Colonel Fellows
said that as far as he could tell at
present, the case would not be dropped.
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TWO BRIDGES GONE
On the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheelinl
md Trnfic Suspended.

On the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling,
md Trnfrc Suspended.
A trestle on the Cleveland, Lorain 4
Wheeling railroad, west OF Bridgeport,
together with five cars Of iron ore that
were run upon it to hold the trestle
firm, were all swept into Wheeling
creek by the food Sunday night or early
yesterday morning.
Another bridge on the Cleveland.
Lorain & Wheeling limo at Bruce, six
miles beyond Bridgeport, waa also
washed ont. and as consequences traffic
on this road was suspended yesterday,
the passenger train due at Bridgeport
having to be abandoned out the line.
Traffic will be resumed as soon as the
necessary repaira eau be made. i@FE
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WASHINGTON, D. G., Jan. The
house, after passing suitable resolutions
on the death OF Representative Post, OF
Illinois, adjourned out Of respect to his
memory.
Mr.. Johnson. OF Ohio, also presented
n memorial from Samuel J. Richie, OF
Ohio, asking for the impeachment OF
Judge Augustus ]. Kicks, Of Ohio, and
tho committee on judiciary was in.
s,ructed to investigate the charges con-
tanned therein.
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TO DO hold In this city February 10. Tho
call contains nothing except tho sitna.
ton Of constitutional provisions regard.
Ing tho convention.
A secret call has been Issued 10 tho
local assemblies for tho meeting OF M.
!ional trades assembly 1855. Knights OF
Labor. tho secret branch Of tho United
Mine Workers, to be hold hore Febru.
ary II. Tho call deals with tho sup.
posed attempt Of the general executive
board OF tho Knights OF Labor 10 reor.
ganizc national trades assembly 1876, and
appeals TO tho melnberu 10 stand by tho
United Mine Workors.
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"THE WORST IS OVER. f"
That Is the Word That Camo
From Pittsburgh Last Night.
7WENTY-SIX FEET is THE STAGE
That VIII Mark the Top-Notch OF
tho Big Riso In the River.
THIRTY-FIYE TO FORTY FEET HERE

fs tho Amount That is Expected Late
Tonight or Tomorrow Morning.
Tho leo Docs no Damage OF Moment
at This Polnt-The Packet II. L.
Phillips Cut Down at Matamoras
and tho Sistcrsvillo Wharfboat Also
sinks-Iscports From Up aud Down
tho OhiO-Loss at Park crsburg.
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New YoRK, Jan. THE estate OF Jay
Gould has been appraised in its per-
sonal property ior the purpose OF taxa.
ton in the supreme court.
Appraiser David 1IcLure has pre-
pared a report in which no finds the
estate is worth exactly sS9,934. $50 40,
aside from its TWO million dollars In
realty.
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DUBOIS, Pa, Jan. 7.--Tbo strike aitu.
ation remains unchanged. At q meet.
ing OF miners and citizens hold at the
opera house this morning, committee
was appointed TO draft resolutions for
publication in local papers, aeklng tho
company to roinstato the men die.
charged last week,
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BERLIN. Jan 7.-On New Years Day
Emperor William telegraphed 10 Prince
Bismarck rs follows:
l hope, honored prince, that during
1895 you will recover from the bitter
loss with which you were recently
afflicted and that you will continue in
good hoalth and spirits.
Your ArFEcrloNATE EMpERoR.
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Change of Reserve Agent.

Sptcid, Dispatch 10 he Intei1encer.
WASHINGTON, D. O.. Jan. THE
comptroller OF tho. currency has ap.
proved the Seaboard National Bank OF
New York city i'll place OF tho Fourth
National Bank of the same city, as n
reserve agent for the Traders National
Dnnk at Clarksburg.
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MINE WORKEIsS
To, Decide Regarding Their withdrawal

To, Decide Regarding Their Withdrawal
From tho Knights of Labor.
PET1snU RGH, Pa, Jan. Tho delo.
gates TO tho Columbus convention OF tho
United Mine Workers Union and Ma.
tional Trades Assembly No. 135, X. OF
l., will go instructed rs to who.hor
thoy desire 10 Withdraw from the
Knights Of Labor. This instruction
was conveyed by circular issued to
INC locals by the general executive
ooard at ita session ct Columbus last
Saturday.
IL is probable that all the dslegatcs
Hlli be instructed to secedo from the
hnishta OF Labor In view OF tho shabby
reatmont which thsy received at the
meeting meeting Of the general assembly at Now
Dt.ean'. D,n'. So far as the minors OF tho
a.s an''ohrph district arc concerned they
are 1lmost unnnimomly in favor Of
"''nofa"ing from tho Knights OF Labor.
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leo prcnk. at Martins Ferry.

Tho buck river leo and ice in front o
Martins Eorry which extended elear ou'
TO tho channel pier Of the Union, bridge
ran out yesterday afternoon at 4:S0
doing very little damage. just attel
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Senator Irby. who has not boon pros.
ont at this session OF Congress, is 70.
portc,l i'll with heart trouble ut his
South Carolina home.
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TuE only way TO euro catarrh is to
purify the blood. Hoods Sarsaparilla
purlics tho. blood aud tones UP the
whole syslem, G
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For West Virginia. fair preceded by shower,
IN the early morning: colder; noFIherlv winds
For Western Pennsylvania, tnir colder north
crlv winds.
For Ohio. fair; colder; nor,bcrly winds.
THE TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY.
Ms furnished by c. ScnSgrr. druggist, corner
Market mud Fourteenth streets
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THE DAY IN WHEELING.

The River Commenced to Come Up IN No
Uncertain Way Mt O'Clock Last Even
ipg-Sineteen Feet of Water at Midnight.
between Thirty Ave and Forty Feet Ex.
pectel.
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NiHr WDrk.r.fn .Jn,i.

COLUMBUS. O.. Jan. IA call has
uee. 'asuod ior tho annual meeting OF
'ne United Mine Workoru, Of America,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-18

shadow Of death, where venomous sers
penis writhed about my body and bit
my hands and face.
Fiery reptiles tore away my clothes
and flesh, and needles danced madly
In my lungs and thoat and nostrils.
Down, down, down. Ha! ha! This IL
the ladder by which devils descend into
hell.
"Allahw Ha! IL that the wall Of the
doomed?
Something grew and expanded inside
my head. 1t strained against my skull.
It exploded with a laundering crash,
and l sank into sweet oblivion.
1 am now blinded and crippled, yet Is
the cup Of my happiness filled even to
overlooking. Nina and l cannot realize
that there was a time when we were
sundered.-London Sketch.