EXTRACTS FROM HOME PAPERS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XVII, Issue 844, 16 June 1885, Page 3

EXTRACTS FROM HOME PAPERS.

•U a recent promenade concert in London there was a singular anti-Russian demonstration. One portion of the programme consists of the playing of the patriotic anthems of the world and the exhibition of the national flag. When the turn of liussia came the hissing aud uproar were so emphatic that the flag was furled, and the playing of the anthem discontinued. Among the extraordinary instances of recovery from wounds is that of Private Moore, of the Heavy Cavalry Camel Kegiment. Iu the break of the square at Abu Klea, Moore got thrown over, aud a dying or dead camel falling upon his legs as he lay with his face to the ground, he was pinned to the spot. He naturally struggled to free himself, with the result that every Arab passing by stuck their lances into him. Moore had no fewer than twenty-two deeply marked lance wounds on his back. The doctors state they never saw a human being so cut and hacked survive. The Japanese village, which has been on exhibition for some time past at the Albert Gate at Hyde Park, London, was destroyed by fire on May 2nd. The village consisted of nve streets of houses and shops, constructed and peopled by Japanese, who were to be seen engaged in their various occupations, as in their own country. The soldiers aided the firemen in their efforts to save property and in keeping back the immense crowd that filled the surrounding streets. The rpcent reports concerning Mrs Garfield s endowmeut of the Garfield Hospital, and other gossip about the widow of the martyr President, have created some curiosity about the lady's financial condition. An intimate friend of Mrs Garfield gives the following description of her estate : The subscription raised through the instrumentality of Gyrus W. Field aggregated, when invested in Government bonds, about §312,000. Gen. Garfield's life was insured for $50,000, the payment of which the companies, for the sake of the extended advertisement it would give them, if for no other purpose, promptly made. Congress also voted her the remnant of the salary which would have been due Gen. Garfield for the first year of service as President, which amounted to $40,000. The little estate which Garfield left aggregates some $30,000. This was all that he had been able to accumulate after a life of unusual activity. This makes her total estate, in round numbers, a,bout $450,000 in money well invested. From this an income of probably $16,000 is derived. In addition to that, she has from Congress an annual pension of $5,000, which is now voted to the widows of all ex-Presidents. The rumor that an attempt was made on the life of President Cleveland arose as. follows : When the President's train was nearing Mount Hope Station, Maryland, returning from Gettysburg, about 8 o'clock on evening of May 4th, three pistol-shots were heard in rapid succession as from a revolver, and the flash of the weapon was within two or three feet of the moving train. It is probable that some enthusiast had devised this method of celebrating the passage of the President and the demonstration was intended as a salute. It created some amazement, and gave rise to some jocular remarks among the passengers, but since the return of the train the rumor has spread through the city that the President was shot at. The President expressed himself, however, as having passed a pleasant day aud having been very much interested by what he had seen and heard upon the battle-field of Gettysburg. Of the three principal informers in the Phoenix Park trials—Carey, Joe Smith, and Kavanagh, the carman—Carey was murdered ; Smith died recently after a long illness, principally induced by the continual fear of being assassinated ; and Kavanagh has been driven insane by the same cause. In Minneapolis the young ladies have started Red Ribbon clubs with the motto, "The hps that touch wine shall never touch mine." The only result anpears to be that with the incorrigible men of that district beer is becoming very popular. Prince Bismarck's entire income is about £IB,OOO a-year. Of this he makes £IO,OOO out of extensive paper mills, which he originated and works himself. His official salary forms but a very small portion of the whole. It consists of £2,700, with allowances—his stipend as Chancellor—and a pension of £450 from a former office. The lord Mayor of London (Mr Alderman Nottage) expired somewhat suddenly at the Mansion House on Saturday morning, April 11th. His lordship, it appears, caught cold at the Brighton Volunteer Review on Easter Monday, and although he contrived, with a great effort, to distribute the Easter gifts to the . Bluecoat Boys on the following day, he was unable to attend the Spital service. The sad event cast a gloom over the whole city. A special meeting of the Court of Aldermen was held, when it was announced that the last time a Lord Mayor died during office was as far back as 1770. The story of a miser who faced death by burning rather than tear himself from his hoardings comes from New York. A fire broke out recently in one of the streets of that city, and soon a whole block of buildings was burning. The lives of most of the inmates of the house had been saved by the firemen, who, in the discharge of their duty, went up to the top floors; and here it was that they encountered the unusual spectacle of a man in danger of a horrible death who obstinately refused to escape from it. This singular person was a collector of curiosities, old books, and pamphlets , s , which, with accumulated wealth of years, he hoarded up in his room. While the fire was blazing fiercely around and below him he remained unmoved, and when a rescue was attempted by a ladder raised to the window the fireman who leaped into the chamber discovered him in the midst of smoke and flame sitting on the floor, with his treasures collected around him He positively refused to move. When the tire was subdued the man was fouud alive, but somewhat badly injured.