The Carolina Watchman.
f0l. XXI. NO. 18. -THIRD SERIES.
SALISBURY, H. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1890.
J. J. BRUNER, Editob and Prop's.
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Life's Journey.
'All my trust in Thee Is stayed," m she trip
ped along the way,
Sung a merry-hearted maid on a happy, sum
mer day;
Then the world seemed glad and bright to
her frank and beaming ejes;
All the branches moved in light blue and
cloudless were the skies
On she sped with careless tread, and the rob-
bins hear ber sing:
"All my trust in Thee is stayed, all my help
from Thee I bring."
Once in after years a bride waited for her lov
er's feet;
Thoy had wandered deserts wide, they bad
roamed through storm and sleet;
By the sea she knelt and prayed, while the
night wind heard her sing: "
''Cover my defenceless head with the shadow
of Thy wing."
Toiling for her dailly bread in her narrow
cheerless room,
Weary, and with aching head, Bits a woman
in the room,
nay by day her needle goes, goes tbrouglfdays
weeks and years,
Summer's suns and winter's snows, moistened
oft times with her tears.
Now and then in dreams she sees shining
meadows far away.
When she played beneath the trees on some
by-gone summer day,
When the sunlight shed its glow on each bush
and shrub and limb;
When her heart was free from woe, and Ishe
sang a simple hymn
Now she sings in a tone not from tears and
sorrow free
"Other refuge have I none, hangs my helpless
soul on Tfiee."
In that hut a woman lies, old and weary, worn
aud gray,
And she waits with smiling eyes for her life to
ebb away;
There areenone to cheer her now; no one at her
be Isiile stands;
None to dry the death-damped brow, none to
f Ad the weary hands,
But tb-J has a Friend, she-knows though 'she
sees him not, nor hears;
When she trusted in her woes, who has mark
ed her falling tears;
And with dyiug voice she sings happy in the
midst of woe,
And the song in heaven ring, as the angels
look below;
Uu?ky, dying, though the toue, 'tis from pain
and sadness free:
'heave, an! leave me not alone, still support
and comfort me."
By Porte Strothtr.
To the Country.
THE
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMEN ISSUE
AN ADDRESS.
Washington, Feb. 3. Mr.Carlisle
has prepared for publication the fol
lowing statement of the present posi
tion of the Democratic members of the
House, which is to be signed by all of
them.
The present situation in the House
of Representatives is so anomalous
and the unprecedented decision of the
Speaker are so full of danger to the
iutegrity of future legislation, that we
consider it our duty to submit a brief
statement of the facts in order that
the propriety of the course we bare
taken may be fairly determined.
The House met on the 2d day of
December, 1889, and immediately or
ganized by the election of Speaker
and5 other officers. On the same
j day, by resolution of the House,
the Speaker was authorized to appoint
a committee on rules, and the rules of
the last preceding House were referred
to that committee. The committee,
consisting of the Speaker himself and
four other members, was appointed on
the 5th day of December, and on the
9th it made a report authorizing the
bwaker to appoint another commit-
tees and denning their jurisdiction.
The Committee on elections, to which
was referred all cases involving the
rights of meml)ers to their seats
was appointed on the 9th of Decem
ber, A 1 hough nearly two months have
elapsed since the Committee on Rules
was appointed, it has made no report
upon the matters referred to it except
a partial report made on the 9th of
December, and consequently the House
has been compelled to conduct its busi-
ness without any rules or system ex
cept the general parliamentary law as
constructed by the Speaker. There
' . 1 . 1 a
have been no calendar, no order of
business, no tixed time to receive re
ports from committee, or for the con
sideration of bills or resolutions, and
in fact, no regular methods, whatever,
in the proceedings of the House.
the American House of Representa
tives 4ias been during all this time, and
still is, so far as rules for its govern
ment are concerned, in precisely the
same condition as a popular meeting
or political convention, in which the
Chairman and his partisans absolutely
control all the proceedings. No meas
ure can get before the House for con
sideration unless the Speaker chooses
to allow it to be presented, aud the
members have no means of ktiowing
in advance what they are to be called
upon to discuss or decide. This is the
first time in our history that a legisla
tive assembly, or even a public meet
ing, has to transact business for any
considerable period without a regular
Coile of rules, prescribing the order of
its proceedings, and the inconvenience
ana injustice resulting from suchan
attempt have been forcibly illustrated
in the present instance.
The Speaker has repeatedly, during
these extraordinary proceedings, refused
to entertain parliamentary motions
that have been recognized as legitimate
ever since the government was estab
lished ami when attempts have been
made to . apjeal from its decisions he
has refused to submit the question to
the House. IJy his arbitrary rulings,
sustained ni some instances by less than
qiioraiu, he has subverted nearly
every principle of constitutional and
parliamentary law heretofore reo.
gnized in the House. This persona
and partisan domination of the House
was submitted to, though not without
repeated protests, until we became con
vinced that it was the deliberate pur
pose of the Speaker and his support
ers to proceed without rules, oust Dem
ocratic members whose seats are con
tested, and admit their republican op
ponents, whether elected or not.
On Wednesday, January 20th, the
Committee on Elections called up a
contested election case and the Demo
cratic members determined that in the
absence of rules it should not be con
sidered if they should prevent it by any
proper parliamentary proceedings.
Accordingly they raised the question of
consideration, demanded the yeas and
nays, nnd on the call of roll refrained
from voting. The result was that less
than, a constitutional qnorum yoted,
but the Speuker, in violation of the
uniform practice of the House for mere
than a century proceeded to count mera
lers who were present, but not voting,
and declared that the House had decid
ed to take the case up. From this decis
ion an appeal was taken and on motion
to lay this appeal on the table yeas aud
nas were taken and less than a quorum
voted, but the Speaker again counted
members not voting and decided that
the motion was agreed to and his rul
ing thereby sustained.
WHAT CONSTITUTES A QUORUM.
The Constitution of the United
States provides that a majority of each
House shall constitute a quorum to do
business, but a smaller number may
adjourn fiom day to day, and may be
authorized to compel the attendance of
absent members in such manner and
under such penalties as each House may
provide.
Another cause of the TJonslitution
requires each house to keep a journal
of its proceedings and provides that
when one-fifth of the members present
desire it the yeas and nays Shall be
taken on any question and entered on
the journal. . Since the beginning of
the government under the Constitution
more than a hundred years ago, the
House of Representarives and Senate
have uniformly construed the firwt
clause of the Constitution, quoted
above, to mean that a majority of all
members elected must be present and
actually participate in the trafs.ction
of business, and that whenever upon
the call of the yeas and nays it ap
peared fiom the journal, which is the
only official record, that
less than a
Constitutional quorum has voted on
any proposition, the vote was a uulity
and no further business could be done
until the requisite mini ber appeared and
voted on any proposition, the vote was
a nulity and no further business could
be done until the requisite number ap
peared and voted. Every presiding
officer of the House, except the present
one, has held that when less than a
i i ii i i
quorum voted on call ot the yeas
and nays, no matter how many Blight
be actually present, it was his duty to
take notice of the fact and declare that
the pending bill or motion had not
passed. When a vote is not taken by
yeas and nays it is not entered upon the
journal, but if any member makes the
point that no quorum has voted,
the
vote
proceeding is a utility and the
proceeding is a nulity
must be taken over.
The presumption of law is that when
nothing appears to the contrary, the
proceedings or ine legislative uaiiv are
regular and valid, and, therefore, when
the official record does not show that
less than a quorum voted, or attention
is not called to.the fact in such way as to
furnishle gal eyjdence of it, the ques
tion cannot be made afterwards. Many
hav b eu passed when. there was no bills
quorum voting, and it is equally true
that many have passed when there was
no quorum, actually, present; bnt this
does not prove that the proceedings
would have been valid in either case
if the official record had shown the
fact. In order to secure certainty and
stability in the administration of Jaw,
it is a rule in our jusisprudence that
when a particular construction of the
Constitution or a statute has beeD foi
i . tit
a long tune acquieseu in, not only uy
those whose duty it is to execute it,
but also by those personal and proper
ty rights are affected by it, Courts will
recognize it as the true construction,
aud inforce it accordingly.
Even if this were an original ques
tion, it would not be dilhcuit to show
that the practical construction of the
Constitution, which has rjrev ailed in
the House and Senate for over om
hundred years, is the correct one Speak
er Reed himself, when in the minority
on the floor of the House, statec
the true meaning ami the true phi
losophy of the Constitution when h
said:
...... a V. A
"Ihe constitutionality or a quorum
is not the presence of a minority of all
the mem hers of the House, but a ma
jority of the members present and par
ticipating in the business of the House.
It is not visible presence, but their
judgment and votes, which the Con
stitution calls for:"
General Garfield. Blaine, Haw ley,
Conger, Robeson, and other prominent
republicans have taken the same po
sition, and their arguments have never
answered. If any leg:il or political
ouestriou can le settled iu the long ac-
iiiileseriee of jurists and stat nieu
of
le-
ull parties, certainly this has p:issed
1 you J the domain of discussion. ,- j
When, therefore, the present Speak
er repudiated this settled construction
of the Constitution and decided that
when the official record, which the
Constitution requires the House to
keep, shows on a eall of the yeas and
nays that a quorum has not voted he
he can count members present and
thus by his own act, outside of the
recorded vote, -determine that a meas
ure has passed, we considered it our
duty, as part of the representatives of
the people to enter our protests in
every form available to use nnder the
circumstances. We are not contending
for the right of the minority to govern,
as the supp tjrs of the Speaker have
endeavored to make the country be
lieve. On the contrary we are deuy-
mg the right of the minority to elect J
from oeur seats or to pass laws for the
government of the people. Under the
Constitution a majority of members
of the House constitute a quorum to
do busiuess, and we are simply insist
ing that less than a majority shall not
do business. We are contending that
the majority shall take the responsi
bility which properly belongs to them
and shall come to the House, of Repre
sentatives and vote if they desire to
control its proceedings, and we are
protesting against their right to carry
their measures by couuting us when
we do not vote.
The claim of the majority that they
have the right to govern the House
without attending its rules and taking
part in the conduct of its business, is
too preposterous to require refutation.
It must be evident to anyone who un
derstands the position taken by the
Democratic minority iu the House,
that it cannot possibly result in any
injury to the country, or in anv injus
tice to the majority elected. Its onlv
effect will be to compel the Republi
can majority, elected by the people, to
assume tne responsibility imposed upon
them. Ln the other hand, no one can
forsee the evils that raav result from
he inaugration of the practice of
counting votes not cast in order to
make a quorum. Under it the mihor-
ty of members elect to the House and
Senate may pass more tvrahieal laws
or the opposition of the people and
most corrupt laws for the spoliation of,
the public treasury. Whether so in-
ended or not, its direct tendency is to
break down the barriers heretofore ex
isting for the protection of citizens
against the encroachments of power
and the spoliasisui of the treasury by
designing limitation which the Con
stitution has wisely eniposed upon the
egialative department. Constitutions
ire made to restrain majorities. A
majority ruling without limitations or
restraints upon its power is nure des-
, f s
pohsro, and is inconsistent with oar
ystem of government.
A Practical Reminder.
In the early part of the late Thad.
Steven's career in Congress, before ho
was known as the "Great Commo
ner," he was under obligations to a
young man in Lancaster County,
iJennsylvania, for important political
favors. lie had promised to reward
this friend by an appointment of some
kind, but forgot to do so.
One day as Mr. Stevens was seated
at his desk in Washington, examining
his correspondence, he opened a letter
in which was simply written, "Gen.,
xj, 1-4. .Beneath it the young man
had signed his name.
Mr. btevens took a 13ible from the
shelf, and found the verse in question.
lhe sentence: "&hew kindness 1 pray
thee, unto me, and make mention or
me unto Pharaoh," was a forcible jog
to his memory. It referred to the in
cident of Joseph and the chief butler.
It will be remembered that while they
were in prison Joseph had interpreted
the butlers dream, the outcome of
which was that the butler was restored
to the king's favor.
The Butler promised to remember
Joseph, but forgot his promise, and
allowed him to languish in prison for
two years. At the end of that time
Pharaoh had a dream, which none of
Egypt could interpret. Then the
chief butler thought of Joseph and
his neglected promise. He felt so
much ashamed of it that he said unto
the king, fc,I do remember my faults
this day."
Mr. Stevens had forgotten his pro
mise to his young friend for about the
same length of time. He felt the
force of the allusion, and wrote to the
young man as follows:
"T will not onlv 'make mention
of you to the President but I will
present yon to him. Come on immed
iately."
1 he voung man went on and re
ceived a pleasant and profitable posi
tion. He is an old man now, but he
has attained considerable distinction.
and is still well known at
Washing-
ton. Frank II. Staujfer.
Ipoch
The transition from long, lingering and
painful sickness to robust health marks an
i;noc h in the life of the individual. Such
a remarkable event is treasured in the mem
orv and the. agency whereby the good
lif:ilth liris listen attained is ''ratetullv bles
sed. Hence it is that so much is heard in
raise of Electric Bitters. So m my feel
they owe their restoration to health, to the
ftlioOronf Alterative and Tnie. N
voti are troubled with any disease of Kid
neys. Liver or Stomach, ot lon? or short
stan dim' will surely thai relief by use of
Electric Bitters. Stdd nt 50c and $1 per
boUle at Klultz &, Co. 'S Dru-storc.
FifU-inf Up the JTation.
HOW TBI OOXITUG CXK8UB WILL BI TAKES'.
A large proportion of the 175 Super
visors of the eleventh census provided
for ia the act of Congress has been ap
pointed, and Superintendent Porter has
instructed them in relation to their
most important duties and devised
plans for the subdivision of their re
spective districts into enumeration dis
tricts. The taking of this census of
the population, wealth and industry of
the United States, will begin on Mon
day, June 2, and will be closed, so far
as the process of enumeration is con
cerned within fifteen days in cities and
towns and within thirty days in rural
communities.
The country has been divided into
175 districts, tot each of which a Su
pervisor has been appointed, who in
turn has subdivided his district into
sections, each of which contains, as
nearly as possible, 4,000 inhabitants,
according to the figures of the last
census. For each of these an enumer
ator is appointed, and there will prob
ably be 40,000 of these assigned to as
many subdivisions.
The result of this census will be
printed in thirteen volumes. The first
volume will be devoted to population;
the second to vital and mortality sta
tistics, and physical conditions; the
third to education, religion, pauperism,
and crimethe fourth to trade and pro
fessions; the fifth to the supervisors of
the war; the sixth to wealth, taxation,
and public indebtedness; the seventh
to the indebtedness of busiuess corpo
rations aud individuals, including
mortgages; the eighth to agricultural
statistics; the niuth to manufactures;
the tenth to mines and miuing; the
eleventh to fish and fisheries; the
twelfth to railroads, navigation, tele
graph, and telephone, and the thirteenth
to insurance.
The first census of th United States,
taken in 1790, is contained in a volume
of fifty-two pages, and it cost $25,000.
Congress has appropriated $G,400,000
for the expense of taking this census,
exclusive of the cost of priuting. The
total population enumerated 100 years
ago by not very exact methods was
sometbiug less than 4,000,000. The
tenth census of the United States
taken in 18S0, showed a population of
over 50,000,000. It has been estima
ted by competent authority that the
present enumeration would indicate a
gain of something more than 15,000,
000 within the last ten years.
The machinery for taking the cen
sus is ceutred in Washington, aud is
exceedingly complex in character. Iu
the first place, Superiutendont Porter
has a number of chief lieutenants,
to whom is iustructed the especial
charge of the principal divisious of
the work. The chiefs of important
divisions are: Dr. John S. Billiugs,
Chief of Vital Statistics, a surgeon of
the army, known throughout the world
for his accurate knowledge and scien
tific attainments; the geographer of
the census, Henrv Etnmett, who has
the advantage of the experiouco he ac
quired in tne pertormance or ice same
duties in 1880; the statistician of pop
it J i . i
ulation, William C. Hunt, who bat
already made a reputation through his
tabulation of the returns of the Massa
chusetts ceusus in 1885: the chief of
the division of manufactures, Frank
It. Williams of Louisiana, who was in
control of the same department teu
years ago; the expert
on trausporta
Adams, who is
the Inter-State
tion, Prof, nenry j.
also the statician of
Commerce Commission and lecturer on
political economy iu the University of
Michigan, Cornell aud John Hopkins;
and in charge of mines and mining,
Dr. David P. Day, who is counected
with the United States Geological
Survey.
In addition to these chiefs ot division
there are employed as special agents, to
assist in the collection of statistics of
manufacture, Henry Bower, of Phila
delphia, for the chemical industry;
Edward Stauwood, of Boston, cotton;
S. N. D. North of Boston, wool, news
papers and periodicals; Henry T. Cook,
Newark, N. J., clay aud poltery, and
Henry C. Teft, Arkansas, shipbuilding.
Experts under the division of mines and
mining, are John tJ. Jones, ot rima-
delphia, anthracite; Charles H. Ash-
burton, of Pittsburg, bituminous coais:
John Birkinbine, of Philadelphia, iron
ore; Dr. William T. Day, of Philadel
phia, structural materials; Joseph D.
Weeks, of Pittsburg, natural gas, pe
troleum, and glass; Henry Kirchoff
Jr., of New York, copper, lead, and
zinc. Statistics of churches are under
the especial care of Dr. Henry K. Car
roll, the editor of the New York Inde
pendent, facts M relation to hsh and
fisheries will be collected ny captain
. . ti sit l i
Joseph W. Collins, and Prof. Charles
jL -ar 111 1 ' -II
W. Smiley. Local indebtedness win
lie the study of T. Campbell topeland,
while national and State indebtedness
will be intrusted to J. K. Upton, who
was formerly Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury. The mere enumeration of
these commanders ot divisions, with
the suggestion it conveys of the horde
of facts which most be sorted in or
derly array, gives some hint of the
vast expanse and comprehensive nature
of this the centennial census.
In the performance of the necessary
work there will he consumed tons upon
tons of paper. Every enumerator will
use two postal cards daily uxt June
in unking his report, sending one to
his district SupervUcr and one to
Washington, which means 80,000 pos
tal cards a day. Of one schedule sJob
family schedule 200,000,000 will
be used, enough to fill a room 108 feet
loeg by 38 feet wide and 12 feet high.
Tons of cardboard also will be con
sumed for classification and counting,
a work, by the way, which is to be per
formed by electrical machines, the in
vention of a Mr. Hollerith. The work
of an enumerator is by no means an
easy one, and any one who has under
taken it under the impression that he
will have an easy time next June will
find that he has been mistaken. Many
men ten years ago committed this
error and were so appalled when they
received their books of instructions
that 5,000 of them resigned. Under
the present law any enumerator who
has accepted an appointment is com
pelled to finish his work, and if he re
fuses so to do without giving a reason
satisfactory to the Superintendent he
may be hned and imprisoned.
lhe enumerator as a rule comes into
direct contact with only about one in
seven of the population. He carries
with him schedules of population, of
agriculture, of manufacture, of mortal
ity and vital statistics, and schedules
relating to the deaf, blind, the insane
and criminal. At the close of every
day's labor he must, as has been said,
report by postal card to the Supervisor
and to Superintendent Porter. He will
meet with many curious experiences,
and his most useful faculty will be
tact. Every citizen is compelled to
answer his question or pay a fine of
$100. An improvement this year over
the former methods of taking the cen
sus has been the distribution, in ad
vance, of several millions of family
schedules, so that the enumerator at
many points will find it already filled
out, and so will be greatly facilitated
in his work.
It is a curious fact, as shown by the
last ceusus, and in fact by all, that
while there are perhaps 1,500,000 wo
men of the age of twenty-nine or
thirty-nine, or forty-nine, there will
only be about 60,000 of the ag of
thirty or forty or fifty. The inference
is irresistable ; they do not like to ac
knowledge having turned the corner of
a decade. It would of course be un
reasonable to presume that ouce in
every teu years there is such an alarm
ing decrease in the birth of -girl babies.
Another difficulty which the enu
merators will encounter is the collec
tion of statistics of what are called the
defectiye classes those who are deaf,
blind, and idiots. Ten years ago the
i , i m ,11 Vfe
question was put net ore the head of a
family in Italy, "Are there any deaf,
dumb, idiots, or bliud in your house?"
This was often coustrued as offensive,
aud tended to increase the difficulty iu
at a As mi
ascertaining the true facts. 1 bis year
the enumerators have all beeu instruct
ed to ask at each house: "Is the spoeeh
all right, is the hearing perfect, is the
uiiud correct, can everybody see?
The ceusus, too, instead of calling
these classes udefodent, defective, and
deliaqont," will call them "special.'
and will not class thorn as criminals.
An especial feature of the census
will be a separate euumerutiou of vete
rans and their widows, which of itself
is a gigantic task, but it is hoped the
result will be a groat aid to the Pen
sion Bureau. The list of names of all
tne veterans m the laud will make a
large volume, for in the State of Wis
consin alone the returns of soldiers,
sailors, and their widows mude a book
three inches thick.
The cost of takiug, tabulating and
printing the census will be very great,
but it is impossible as yet to say just
how great. lhe chiet item of the ex
pense, of course, is the pay , of the
enumerators, which in 1880 exceeded
$3,000,000, and this year will doubtless
be more thau $4,000,000. In special
cases the enumerator may be paid by
the day, not to exceed $0. The great
body of enumerators will be paid as
follows: For every living person, 2
cents; for every death 2 cents; for
every firm, 15 centsi for every factory,
20 cents; ior each veteran or veteran's
widow, 5 cents. The appropriation
made for the eleventh census is $6,
400,000, aside from $1,500,000 appro
priated for printing, but it is estima
ted that $2,000,000 more will be needed
to complete the work. X. Y. Times.
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UTUCglStS..
The Kassacre of Exiles.
Mr. George Kan nan has given to the
Associated Press a resume of a volum
inous correspondence lately received by
him relating to the massacre of Rus
sian administrative exiles at Yakutsk
on April 3 last, the occurrence of
which has been hitherto strenuously
denied by the Russian government.
P1TITIOX A CULM B.
Under the Russian penal code it is
a criminal offense for political exiles
to unite in a petition for a redress of
grievances. Each exile, therefore, pre
pared a separate petition, and presented
it at the office of the provincial ad
ministration. The letters go on to tell how thev
were directed to assemble in the house
of one of the exiles, and when there
told that the Governor regarded their
individual petition as merely an eva
sion of the law and their action equiv
alent to open rebellion.
OATH BRINY) OF EXILES.
"At 10 o'clock the uext day," writes
one of the actual participants in the
dreadful affair, "we met again in Not-
kin s house to the number of thirty
three. Among us was Sergins Kap
ger and his betrothed Anna Zoanvas-
trova, the latter quite a young girl,
and a man who had come in from one
of the Yakutsk settlements to make
some purchases. These came to the
house to see their fellow exiles. At.
half past 10 the police overseer, Olesof,
brought a verbal order that all exiles
present wore to come to the police sta
tion. We thought that theremust he
some misunderstanding, as we were
waiting by the order of the chief of
police. Olesof turned on his heels,
saying: "Then I understand you
won't come." We said no such thing,
but they wanted to know from the
chief of police what hn expected them
to do.
ORDERED TO THE STATION;
"A company of Cossacks, u umbering
over a hundred men under command
of an officer named Karamzin, then ap
peared, battered-down the gates of the
courtyard and fifteen or twenty of
them entered the house, while the
others surrouuded it. The officers who
entered with the soldiers were Chief of
Police Souchakou, Captain Vaskef, the
local comuiander of the whole Cossack
force in the town, and Olesof, the
police overseer. Karamzin, in cojos
mand of the company, also entered anoi
told us that he had the Governor's or
ders to take us to the police station..
We tried to explain our side of the
case, aud said that we bad not assem
bled there for other purposes than to
receive the Governor's reply, but that
we would go to the police station, only
asking that Karamzin withdraw bis
troops. The Chief of Police thou said
to haramziu:
What
is tie use ef
your talking with them? Do what
you wore ordered" to.' Karamzin then
cried out to the Cossacks, 'Take them
VLSsVD 021 BY COSSACKS.
"We wore assembled in a room about
twenty feet square, and had gathered
iu one corner, from which position the
Cossacks endeavored to oust us by
striking us with their clubbed rifles
aud pricking us with their bayonets.
Some women, being wounded quite
severely, began to scream. Cartridges,
had been served out to the soldiers the
night before, and they fired point
blank into the miscellaneous crowd
of men aud women. Five of the exiles
had revolvers, which they had bougbtr
as a cueaus of protection on tbeir jour
ney, and not for the purpose of resist
mg the authorities. ixicolai Bulex
drew his revolver, sprung upon the
divan aud shouted, 'Stop, stop!v The
firing then became general on both
sides. After one or two volleys the
soldiers withdrew froni the house, and
the whole Cossack force outside then
poured in their fire through the doors
and windows. Schurf, one of our
number, rushed into the courtyard cry
ing, kWe surreuder,' but was shot dead
a short distance from the stairs. Pod
beski, who heard the firing and ran to
the house to see what the matter was,
was shot dead by the courtyard gateT
He was not implicated in the affair in
any way, and was within two mouths
of the termination of his exile. Joseph
Estrovish, already wounded, rushed
into the courtyard, fell, and was re
peatedly bayoneted as he lay on the
ground. As a result of this affray, six
of us, including one woman, were kill
ed outright. This- woman's stomach '
was all torn open by a bayonet. All
the rest t f us were more or less iu
jured.
THE OOVEKXOR WOUNDED.
"At the first lull in the firing upon
the house, Zolof ran out into the court--yard
y it does not appear for what pur
pose. There he saw Governor Os
tatebkin, who had arrived and whom
he doubtless believed to le responsible-
for the killing of his friends. He drew
his revolver and fired two shots at-him;
But for this there might have been no
more shooting. 5Colof, however,,
wounded the Governor and the soldier
recommenced firing into the house.
After two or threv volleys this firing
was stopped by Captain Vazhef. The
government easuullie! were one soldier
killed, and the Governor and a soldier
.-.lightly wounded. The exile killed
were Sergius Peik, Soidife Gnrvithv
Paui Potlelski. Pet r Mokahof, Greg
ory Shuru and Jacob Kotkju. Twelve-
oAlt
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