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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1890-03-07, Page 5t. DOMINION PARLIAMENT, Qr're lie, Feb. -- The 'Speaker took the chair at 8 o'clock. Mr. Bowed moved to have printed in the voted and proceedings of the $once the further correepondenoe iu the Rykert affair. fee proposed that the explanations made by Mt V0 ...`..'.:. xe. �..,, :'; �!_ u�� .•rt.,.,�d4.: written y the member for Liucolo to the almewsl,apersjeoently should be printed. He peepuerd this as a matter of belf•defeoce, beeautie be weeded the Heette to be 3n tree eeseion cf all the facts in coneecutive order upon the reoords of the House. Mr. Leerier said he noel r not consent to the letter by the member .fur Lincoln being placed u.l.ou the vutee•and proceedings until --.—he•-oouei-examine.it. --'fo-the--expla,nattene- beine; included he had no objections. The motion was withdrawn till to- morrow. The following bills were read a third time and passed Bespeaking the Port Art - Western Railway Company. With • reference to the Bill before the House, I wilp�ted before the edjottroment ate have given dna ooneideration to everything the hon. gentleman has said My own o judgment remains what it was, that the proper solution of this question is embodied in the statement I submitted for the oon- c.lderation Of the House. - P Mr. Cockburn—I do not, see why- the resolution of th hon ` mem r4 m u,.rx ,. til-sYiiiia'ii���aiLea`�o nrno7i a t3 Wbeu ' I" look through the preamble I e roust say that Ir cannot•fatboni it. It may tend to excite the animosities of our French members, and mauv have seen in it an at• ttn,pt to wreck their political and re'igious life in the Dominion. I am sure that it is Lot the intention of the hoe. member to do apy ouch thin. Mr. Chaplean moved the adjournment of the—debate. Mr. Chaplean; in resuming the debate on Mr McCartby'e bill, said : -At the begin nu g of this debate we heard a great deal about equal righte. I am only eorry that some• enactment was not passed giving • quad power to all the membere, and I would not be placed in a position to excpress in bad English my opinions of this bill. t have req.ueeted that English be spoken in my home. 1 have even asked prayers to be addressed to the Almighty in niy house in the English tongue. t want to point out abet there are four thousand French-Cana- dielis and half•breede in the Territories, or GI , about one• seventh of the English population up there. In Quebeo the Eng- hi,h uu:,oriiy constituted., only one-sixth the ueclaration made by the framer of this °t the population, ,and yet if any deme ol.,ne lilies the framer, of this. bill _ .itillonot-Duty while int -reducing. it, bnt-_ou several occesione previously, that he is not •wr r( t ask life majority in Qtiebeo to actuated by auy hostile feeling towards the abo.iah fiicial English I would be the first Frenoh•peopie in Canada, but that he hue to t• My no. . another motive, viz , the lendable and ►uyal Mc. Charlton—The term which my hon. one of preventing tutare iuterneoine ft uua friend has applied to me, �' demagogue," —=by removing causes of contention. I should has been ruled as unparliamentary. be sorry when the hon. member hereors Mr I oOarthy—It was applied to me. I each high fetliuge•.to disturbe hiro, but I would prefer that the word be not with. find he has a different motive, acid for hint drawn. to imagine that he is to secure the I ease Mr. Chaplean—I. call it a revolutionary, and harmony of the country by the plan he a demagogic measure, and I am sure that ro ossa is surelyante regioaa niidtnke. I these terms are not unparliamentary. We p .._e c t o ii i _ _ - -o., neriettemod ify-vvord-trio this iia i-meints• endaoain that ria present nrrnoi ld only what 1 sey. The Bill is contra, to the' endangering the peace and harmony which Y eprrit of British le ielation, wbioh respects exists now. He would not dare speak of g s Freeob nationality in this louse as e,• the righte of minorities. It ie contrary to btard nationality: In Barrie 'ate said at loyalty to the Crown, beoauee no man who the last election that the great det.grr is truly loyal would endeavor to create •which overohadu ed the eonntr was thea division amongst 'the Queen's subjects aetard ,nationa sty, an w • is • t, reit emu the dismemberment of Canada. Why, the days are not far distant, nor mora than five years distant, when this baetard nation-. 'almty--wateuuanimons in its support of the Conservative party. I venture to say, judgulg of the future by the past, lbat it the French-Canadians were 'to - become united and give the whole weight of 'their party to the Conservatives, not one word would we hear of thienatioual cry. Everythiug is tending to 'ti change t.f • affairs ; a great .'population is going .iutu the Territories. We -must take these fade into view, when it is the prop 'r time Lodes' with the question ; when we are preparece to ,ive them a more extended tom of it ea1 autonomy. When the tilne•comes we p.iuet. be prepared to deal with this question epou broad principles, with an eye to the wel- fare of the reajurity and the protection of the minority. Till then it is better to deter oonslderation of this question, anti deal with more timely ones. 'There is this remarkable feaienre iu the Bill : It is not' founded upon the expreusion of will on the part of the Territories. kt is a broad prin- ciple applying to the whole country. • 'Line is why. 1 object to the Bill. I submit to all :: parties in- this House, Frenoh, .English, Liberals and Coneervativ• s, that it ie bent . to defer the consideration of elite matter tial such a time •as we are prepared to eerie with nater questa:mai affect g the North-• west Territories. Let. all it member thee thatnoxace in-thiscountry had the ab:ee .^ lute right to invade the 'rights of the other :ice.' , After Mr. Lauriereat down there were orite of "Queatiori" from several members. Sir John'Madonald on rifting was loudly applauded. • He said Mr. Speaker, I go a great •way with ray, h -on. friend inhia-ree marks referring; to the principle of this bill. 1 syrepithtzi with his natural iindignatior, at: the'languege which has • been used Ili support of'ihis measures before the House' I Save no accord with the desire expreesed in some quarters. that by any mode what ever there ebould be an atteutpt to supt,reee one lapguage and make it `inferior to the other. 1• believe it would be-itatoseible ire do eo, and foolish and wiekid it it were poesiblo. In 1844 the Governafent here tinder Sir (Thanes Metcalfe hats a Coneerea• . true r i4irity, and with the exception of fojir •Bile+Preach•' anadiane were in the • Oppeettton. I was elected and tat in -that - . Perl'etm nt as a Tory, acid I supported . L .Metcalfe. There was a resolution mold in that House when the h'renoin (3anadiar s were poweelpes to. help 'them- selves. Whatdid this House do? A reso• . intim way paeeed, not by a Libi-rad Gruyere. .went, bgy be a Conservative Government, elected iu oppoeit.iun to the •in•tereets of the . Province of Lower Canada, cpithout a single. dissentient voice, to relieve the , Frenui Cauadiaue of .the ativion ceased by th• • Liberal Government - in England, at the . instrnctiens'of the Radice' Lord Durhatu. Sir John here • xead , from: the repo,, s of 'the proceedings showing that while the Liberals in Ecgland enacted that • only ; English shouid he spoken, the Tory Assembly in Canada , ,petitioned hat majesty for the repeal of the Aar, and had • it 're rated, and both' languages Were made ,Jeuuox), Yeo.—Total, a Tolal, U. , aqua xt•ept that the French wee not per- l . mit o be the legal language. Yon may Mr., Bvwell, in reply to Mr. Weldon (Bt. alto remember that when the Eton, George John), bald that the whole amount of duty Brower was leading the 'Reform party with uotleuted un Ingo exported during 'the year enormous ability, his whole aims vies op• ending 3.lst July, 1889, was $75,798,.divided pression of the French. Every speech he as foil.rws : Ontario, $56,737 ; ' Qaebeo, made, every article he'wrote, every revolt' $16,043; New Brunswick, $1,017. tion he moved wain antagonistic to the Sir Adolphe Caron, in reply to Mr. French language and the Catholics religion. Sutberland,eaid that the teneesion of fur. This kmende hogorable will quiet the ,insult naming. helmets to the aottve. 'Canadian felt by the Province of . Quebec and will militia waist under. consideration. satisfy „the people of .the Northwest, 1 Mr. Lanrier objected to 'the ;newspaper would ask the bon: gentleman froin West article by the member for Lincoln being Durham (t'1r 'Blake) to take the matter' put upon the journal of the House, but as it into bis consideration and see whether this contained some information' he would con- Principle carnet be adopted, and that after Rent bait being printed if it wilts not con. the ,next election, when the people of the sidered as a preoedeet. ' ' Nerthweet will have had a chance to speak,. Mr. Mills (Bothwell) Chid it wail' an nn - that it would not be right and fair that usual proueeaing. k their reptetnentatives should deal with it. " rir lid= Macdonald—I hope the 'bon. That settlement will even then be only gentlemen will rot press his olajeotfon. temporary. That territoxij� is,too large fir Mr Mille—1 am not pressing it. . . one province or Inc four provinces. It is a . Mr. Cook—Then I object. Thh statat matter for the future. '.Che question will went made by the member: or Linoolo in : 41irine to be dealt with as population goes in. the newspapers ire feriae. I object to a Wee ' !'Mr. Blake,. resuming the debate, said : t stetem'ent going in the journals of %hie ' n ,y Respecting the Goderidh & Canadian „ Paoific Junction Railway Company,and to change the Lame of the company to " The Goderioti & Wingham Railway Company." To, incorporate the Sault Ste. Marie & Mutton's Bay Railway. Company. iuoorporate the Ottawa, Iylorrisburgh ?New Ye, is Railway Company. if Mr. Lapriex, on resuming the debate on Mr. MuCarthy's Bill, was received with ap- • plause. ere said : I for one would acuept • 1 Mr. Mitchell moved the adjournment of the debars amid'cries of " Question " and " Lost "'from the Government benct es end " Carried " from the Liberals. Mr. Mitchel in sate:d on hie motion, end was seconded by Mr Conk . ' • • Sir John Macdonald finally stated that the Government would Dome down: Mr. Mitchell remarked that }ie was glad to s- e the Government come down graco- f•uily. • Sir John Mao.ionald,fleeaed the leader of the Oppoeition-if 1 division could Lot be reached at that section.. tIr Laurier promised'to do- his utmost to cioee. the debate tomorrow (Friday ),site -d', rthts'm'ndeertidinR—it"wasadjonrner. the House divided on the amendment to the amendment by the. Minister of Justice, which reads as follows : 'That all the words after resolved be expunged and the following he 'substituted : That this House, 'baying regard to the lona-continued use the French language in 01d Canada, and to the covenants on that subject 'embodied in the liritith North America Act, cannot 'agree to 'the d. (Aeration contained in the Bill as the basis thereof, that it is expedient in the •intrres of the natio,. at unity of the Dominion that 'there rt should be co.munitr of language amongst the 1•eople of Canada. That, on the coutrt;ry, this Houro declares its adherence. to the said coven - a , e,and its determicatiou. to resist an{ attempt toimp..ir the same, . That at the same time. thi. House deems it expedient and proper, and not ,ucousb-taut witu the covenants, that the Legislative A sembly of the Northwest Terri, tune,. should receive 'from the Parliament of Canada potter to regulate, after the next general. el ctiun of the Assembly, the proceedings of the Aesu.bly, an d manner of recording and publish- ing such proceedings. The result ot- the vote was that the erneeemeet was carried by 149"yeas to 50 nays. • Yeas—Messrs. Audet, Blain (-'oulanges), 'Bars n+,.-r<l; i3eclrari3 -13ergerun; Dorgirr; ht,Hier:lilalre; Bois yen' Borden, Bowen, Bowman, Brien, or own, Bryson, Burdett, Cameron, Campbell, Cargill, Carling, Carpenter, Cushy, Cas'oraio, Chapleau, Choquette, Chuuivard, Cimon, Coch- rane Cockburn, Colby, Cook, Corby, Costigan, Iuu him, Coulombs, Curran. Daly, Daoust, Lat,iu, Davis, Dawsun, De St. Georg -s, Desattl- icrs, Desjardrues, Des:ait, Dewdney, Dickey, Dwk.gsu , Duty n Earle, Edgar, Edwards, Eisen - i auur, Ferguson •Leeds and Grenville), Fer- ku fur (1toLirdw;, ;•'erguson (Welland); Fiset Fly it, Foster, Freeman, Gigault, Gir. uard Gor- dou, tirautlbois, (ivay, GuiUet, Llaggart,'tiessen, Hickey;_ Holton, • Hudspeth, Ives, Jamieson, •Jot. cas, Julies (oighy), Jones (Halifax), Keuuy, Kirk, hirkpatrrc.{, Labrot.se, 'Landry, Langelier, (cltuttuorency), Langelier (Quebec), Langevin (•ir Hector), La Riviere, Laurie eLieut:Gen.), tLaurier, Lupine, Lister, Levitt, Macdonald iSir J hn), Mecdowail, Willie,. McDonald (Victoria), .itcDuugald (Plctou), McDougall (Cape 13.etun), McGreevy, Molnty.e, McKay, Mehl eu, Me0 ihiu. (Vaudreuil) Madill, Mara, Marshall, }las-on, Ma•sue, Meigs, Mills (Annapolis), Mills(Ito.hwell), Mitchell, Moffat, Moncrieff, Mout- I,lasier, 1'erley, Pope Purser, Prior, Puree -1, Put - ..ani;. Bennet, Toadied, Itobillard, Ilooulo, Russ, liyr.ert, Scarth, lhauly, balmier. Small,. Smith ot, Donald), r-ini h (Ontario), Sproule, Steven - sou, Taylor, Temple, Tberien, Thompson (Sir John), i'row, Tupper, Tureot, Vauasse, Wal- lace, Ward,' Wbitu •(Cardweil), Wilrnut, Wilson (nrbeuteuil), Wood (erohkvllle), Wood (West- wurulaud), Wright;=--Total,140. NAYS—tvlbsr's. Amyot, Armstrongg Bain (L1 eutworth), Barron Beausoleil; Dell, l3ourassa, Ch..rrtou, .Couture; Davies Denison, .D yon, Ellis, Gauthi. r, .Gooil'riou, Gilinoy, Hale; Innes, LSnderktn; Lane, • Livingston;., Macdonald (Huron), McCarthy, McMillan, •Huron), ale- t4u.leu,- McNoii, • Mulock, heveux,. O'Brien, Patterson , (13raiit), Perry, Platt, I'refo, taiue, Robin uti. 1lowaud, Ste Mario, Soriver, Seth - pie, Somerville, Sutbe;laud, Tyrwhitt, Waldie, Watson, Weldon (Albert), Weldon (St. John),' We,sh,'White (Ltuntrew), Wilson ,(Elgin); Wilson $Daae. The Minilter of, Onatotilite ratty eha$e hie bead if he ,likes. It- rnakee no differenoe. I object on the grotmnd that the statement by the hon. gentleman is a false- hood, and T am prepared to prove it a taken hood. Writ's of " Order." )• The motion was carried. Mr. Charlton asked if the Government bad any information as to the white girl wh w lei llatir;e`tn lana. We. Dewdney said this matter was brought to hie attention last summer. lie believed he had seen the ebild who wee suppoeed to be a captive, and although she had some white blood in her,.ehe was not a white ohild. Her supposed; mother had another child three. years older, who. also appeared to have white blood in her. Further- engniries were being -made, --bat -h did not be'heee there was any troth in the story: r. EXellifa PI IO-SI}4d $ Ye Count Napoleon Daru, the French stated man, died yesterday. Three persons were killed and six wounded by the explosion of s boiler at Rutherglen, Va. John J Ashoroft, a Windsor bo , was on and therefore relieved- him few u all naLility •under the'apiaa. - Monzeuiob, the agent at Sofia cf the 131 - Pt t.•reburg Slev Charitable Committee, ries been arrested there. It ie reported that among bie papers which were -seized are documents which compromise General It natieff, President of the committee, and tnet members .. . see •'til izit�ji(e of the ttg qts taestan' Cunaals- Edward Clark, a one -arced man aretf 41 years, tiviog 4 mile south of `.Vtie, L.:tau committed, suicide Wednesday- vi,.b: ty teku.g Paris green mixed witlili,e .• .; oil, 1•ece•aeed wee en en,iaeer and the Weet Lorne saw mills, and being unni:trried. liven with his brother,, Wm. Clare. lie n a threshing machine- etnne years ago, and has had fits of despor:r'eccy • . occasionally, since. . Relative to the case of Dynamiter Daily, Horne Secretary Matthew's stated in Pttrlia- ment y eeeerddy that too much belladonna bad been put in a prescription intenaeu for the prisoner, but that the hitter bad etated he bad no eomplaint•to Make of his treat. menti. eayeeterev for horse stealing. Sir William Vernqn Harcourt will con- test the seat of the Marquis of Hartington at the general election. The result of the German elections yes- terday enrprised the Conservatives. The Socialists elected their candidates. Itis understood that the Quebec Gover D eat -intends providing -a000mmodationt immigrants at the port of Montreal, A thousand Socialists from Enpen,crossed the Belgian frontier to hold a meeting, but were expelled by the Belgian police. 0 - AS TO COLD . TOES. People Addicted to Rubbers are Usually .the. Worst Sufferers. ••-o Many people, especially women and chil- dren, suffer the whole winterthrough with cold feet. This is mainly due to the fact that they wear their shoes too tight. Un - lees the toes haye perfect freedom the blood cannot circulate properly, hence follow stif- fened and benumbed toes, cold feet and often a nnmbnese up to the limbs. People who wear rubbers the whole winter through generally suffer with their feet. Rubbers make them very tender by overheating and causing them to perspire. They sbotlld _.ordy_eleeworn.>during-estor-myear—slushy weather, and even then should be removed as soon as one enters the house, They draw the feet, keep them hot and wet with perspiration—then as soon as one goes. again into the air the feet are chilled.•_ In the country I have noticed that the farm- ers put some dry straw or pieces of news- paper in the bottom of their boots. I, my- eelf, have often tried the letter, and can assure you that it is a good preventive against cold feet. This is dont;ltlese bee cense the pa ter or straw absorbs the per - epee mon an • ceps t , e• feet dry. --Detroit News. Beware of Widders. But why is it that the widow is more popular than the maid ? I have asked the tion ver aml—r} e of the replies : That a pretty figure looks. prettier in brick ; that the widow is not as conservative as the maid ; that she has more " go" ; that she 'is always ready to help out az bashful attain ; that she doesn't generally reside under the parental roof, where the clock is won't to be wound at sharp 10 i that she very• often has life -in• sursumac.); that a man need not be sa good- looking so win a widow, neither has be to planate that aroh-fiend the'little brother ; that she has become used to vile tobacco and inferior cigars ;• that she assomee°the air -of bepelessnees which by way of con- trast makes a man appear strong and great, and men love ,greatness, even when it ie ;"thief, knowing the l� wiles she employed at captivating one man, she tries them again, and again succeeds (ibis was the reason given by an old bachelor) ; and lend me your ears, gi•rle, as: this is probably the true reason, she has, or is supposed to have, learned td sew — on but- tons.—,Edith Gray ive. Chicago News. An epidemic of typhoidelever has broken out at Inalterburg, in . ermany, and time found 'Many victims in the fhlan regi- ments. Dr. Harrison, a prominent medical man of.Sault Ste. Marie, Mich , bas been arrsted for smuggling from the Canadian " Soo.". _ . London Board of Trade want that .city to regain control of the Port Stanley•Railway as soon as the present (ease to the G, T. R. rune oat., The Montreal plasterers are, still one on strike, and it is possible they will be shortly joined by the,painters, who demand an in- crease of wages. No tidings have yet been found of the missing Magistrate of Area, Mr. B. E, SU - ton. • It is not believed that he :either aai- oided or absconded. Masers. R..,G. Hervey and W. H. Cole left Brockville for Europe yeaterebty to promote the scheme for , brid lug} `the St. Lawrence at Brockville:" S'' An English syndicate is trying. 'to par= Obese the wood workingemaohinery Manu factories of Cinoinnatii, which• are the largest in_the. United States. The dedication of the, Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny City took place last evening. The institution was declared open by President Harrison. • r •- . • a , 0 iia, •edea is he said that the call for toformation in regard to the militia in 18b7 had any refer- ence topossible trouble with Canada. . ' Isaac McMullen. living near Cap 'Vincent, Was on Monday °last froz-n t death while under the influence of leper eeee The Liberal Federation of England hie passed a resolution. Congratulating kIr_ Parnell on the report of the commission and regretting; that Forger Pigott and his abettors cannot be called to account ft thinks the Government should make „separation; • The English Divorce Court yestertt ' ze• fused °apt. O'iShea's application for ,evrita .of artaohment against. theilionden tar and 'rhe Eng;fish ition of"t, a revaYorkirefilide " for put tieh g certain comments relate to the action rot divorce brought by Capt. O'Shea, in which Mr. Parnell is named ad wo•respondent. :• It is proposede to erect. a Methodist Ladiet',College is Toronto. . -. • Rio•'nehine whiskeyeemnakere are noted for tnt,ir ." still " small -voices. •� - "Does it pay to gamble ?""alike am ' exchange. "To a casual observer it might perld on the-hand-yourehold. Lord Tennyson' is snffering.from a severe -attack' of influenza, Ind his oondition ie considered very serious. ' le seems to be a settled- fact. that tete Caetioian Pacific Railroad intends to build a Deo ie of lar:e elevators• i 1,1 eet The •ve'oman who .wants to ,hake garctelr always lives next door to the woman ';vho k• ens•ohickens. This is said to Never fail, and was sent in.by ti woman who lista a next door to a woman who keeps chielaece. ° A Missouri woman,who four 3 earn agonamed her twin boys Blaine and Logan, and during the last campaign nap. ore another pair Harrison and. Morton has just been defeated in a post -office contest in hoe town. . • 13e was a man in good circumstances. Fortyhree bodiee have been taken from the colliery at Deoize, in 'which an explo-. Bion occurred on Tuesday night. •Eught miners have been rescued badly injured.- , Martin and Hugh Brainerd, brother fell from a scaffold- 150 feet, to the bo • ' olor tom of the Mollie • Gibeon mine, t adia,` on Wednesday night, and were inetautly killed. , How to flake the Feet ,Look Email. "There is everything knowing how to dress • the feet properly," paid a lady of• fashion yesterday,. °' My feet are not small, yet I manage to get' credit for decidedly Cinder'eila•like ex- tremities. The trick is in knowing how to dress them. •Bee now, my foot is exactly as'long as a No. 3 thee, and a -C width. Do 1 therefore wear a No. 3 0, as most women would ? • Not a bit of it. I wear a 4i double A. The longer. a shoe is, the nar- rower it always looks, of course -=so that's the first gain •; and in the second 'plane; I' can wear a shoe that is narrower than my foot really e a with perfeetoomfort,.beoanse thele is so ranch room iu the length of the shoe. It just transforms the undesired width into the desired length, yon see. Most women have an idea that a short -foot ie pretty, no matter how wide and abape- lese it may be, and only a fewof.those who. really see the beauty of a long, slender foot know ho ei to eeonre it for themeselves.eatn old Frenoh bootmaker taught melba trick years ago, and my feet have been an inexpressible comfort to me ever since."— Chicago Herald. in • Belva'e Lb,ve1 Head. " They claim," says. Belva Lockwood, " that we have 12,000 miles of nnprooteoted coaste, and that any nation is liable to swoop down on ne and wipe, us off the fade of the earth. • Well,, I tell them that we have bad the country for 400 years, and that we do not need to spend 10 cents if we mind our own basiness, as vie alweets have done. We are too peaceable k nation to make any .preparations- for war, and . it would be a very foolieh outlay."' - It tie asn't a Change of Heatt. Mame—Why, only .last week you said that teething your father and mother could say would ever make you marry Rob Rob• bett, and now 'you've engaged yourself to him. Why did you do it y ' Lon—It was something Rob laid self. He hadn't asked me last week. —Jus▪ t at present the ice -man ie the individual who ie anxione to take the Dake. —A noticeable thing about advertising of late years is the gradnal inoreasein the truthfulness of• it. People are learning; that it doesn't papa to lie in an advertise. meat any better. than it does anywhere else. Tlid theleryr that " a sucker's born every ut ;land he's jnet ,ata Likely to dome ithereets. anywhere else," won't'do fdr a ieemlitoent thing. 1 think that ,there has been ntwtioeable improvement 'in this respeel•la efe', and that business men are rapidly learning that honesty is the best golioy in an advertisement as well as out side of it.—Roj, ere, Peet ,reCb'a: Advertising ;tanager. ,The Mieses.Emily and Georgians Hill, of Weatmineter Bridge, London, England, have opened a eobool for tvemen jonrnaliete The Mime Hill edit the,Weatmineiter and d Lambeth bPt Gazette and are among the verb Q few journalists Of their recta in Europe, in They intend to teach typesetting, abort- fad hand writing, proof reading and reporting I s Advices frc•m Morocco say' the• rebellion there has'assumed alarming proportions. The Royal troops, after hating teen de- feated, occupied Wasearf and are besieged there. •' o After shooting his v e yesterday thorn- ing early, as he supposed, fatally, Frank Trowbridge, of Big Rapids, Mich., shot and killed hilgiself.:.while under the Me.- ence of liquor. • ' , Bishop Walker, of North Dakota, has let the contract fcr. a Gospel car, which will be properly fitted for the conduct of religious services in the country where few churches exist. • Miss MoBrecze, of Bath, Mich., eloped .with Joseph Platt to Canada, but finding; hietroa.t to be an embezzler of $1,40Q, from New York, decoyed him bank to Bath,wbere he was arrested. A T. Trickey, formerly agent for Charge berlain & Co., Preecott, patent medicine manufaotnrera, has been sentenced to one .yearein-the•-Central Prison on-tsso-eharges of embezzlement. • An effort ie being made to ipdnoe the Grand Trunk Railway Company to 'con- struct elevators at Levis, Qaebeo, with theobject , of doing there a portion of the business now done at Boston. • The election on Wednesday to fill the' vacancy in the House of Commons for Middle Glamorganehire, caused by the death of Mr. Talbot; resulted in the return of Mr. Evans (Liberal) who was unopposed. John Hang, of Duluth, committed suicide yesterday' morning by swallowing a large quantity of carbolic acid. It is believed he was crazed by heavy losses in a, mining deal in Nova Scotia. His, estate ie worth $200,000. • • On Wednesday night, while an Amerioan travelling physician from Pennsylvania, named H. E J. Delion, was trying to moo..the track at Glencoe ahead of a fast freight train to Make' the mixed' express for London,,. be was etrook and ' instantly killed. The remains will be sent to hie relatives in Michigan for.interment. Whilst Mr. John Burton, meohanidal foreman of • the Grand Trunk Railway shops at Lorneville Junction•, was under a car repairing tt on Wednesday, he did not notice a train backingti on the same track. The oar was .shoved back ,some distance and Mr. Burton• dragged for 40 feet over the ties end broken ground. He escaped with onlya few braises. Bide for the privilege of oatohing seals in Alaska will be opened today at thetJnited,St�etes Treasury Department. The, eornpany now having the privilege pass .$317,000 yearly and is limited td 100,000 Beale .•year. With a limit of 60,000 the sew contract is expected to fetch half: a millio- dollars. . Martin Bl,ocliman name to Windsor with his wife and family from Cincinnati, 0., and started bneinees. It became known that he•Wateaelefaniter to the amount of $9,000 from•the city on the Ohio; and hit. Wien -twig fell off. r He became bankrapi and reokl'eae, and wad arrested in Detroit an 'G�+ednesday and ttelten to hie former home. Mr. Justice Faloonbridge on Saturday granted en order releasing.Harry Brown trona liability on hid bail, under the espies` issued at the instanee of A. E. 'peter,, for a ebt of over a $1,000. The ' ground of rown'e arrest wee that it was hie alleged tention to leave the-ennrrtry to ,inbrn} oi r. Ogler of this debt. kfrat,,,L rdetup. wee onvinoed thatBcown-had no snob intention kr 1 • yy,•..ril�edrl�":�' .,whits.,, There is a religions revival araeng ti e London oat's meet men. Those who live in the northern part of the town hate decided to trade no more on,Sundaye, and the owners of c: s are be 'ed to purrhati' pussy s . un t ay , inner on Saturday. Mr. Henry Campbell, member of ;the Bonne of Commons for South Fermanagh, anti private secretary to Mr. Parnell, yee- terday received £200 damages frons the Belfast News -Letter for publishing a state• •meat that Mr. Campbell had provided the knives with which Lord Frederick Caven- dish and Under•Secretary Burke were murdered in Phoenix Park. , By intelligence from , Mozambique, dated January 8th, it,itl reported that the Maim - loin, incited by 'the agents of the Eat African Lakes Company, had attacker the Portuguese. The natives . were snpplie'd ' with -arms and ammunition by the agents', The Scotch missionaries at Blantyre, who were opposed to the proceedings of the agedts, interfered, and arrester hostilities and restored ,peace etteeeee A terrible'story of wholesale infer ioide was revealed by firemen who were"at work • on the debris after 'the burning of a beast; located in Sienna street, Warsaw, yeriiee- day morning.-.._ Beneath- the floor-- of-- thee burned building the corpses of.fourteen infante -were found.. The ee.tablishineet w•'ie pretrieed over by a midwife • named Saoli tiro-ka, This woman, and her sister ant -me daughters Were arrested. Msrie Dogal, a native of France, ,hue hien committed to Longne.Point asylum under circumstances sadly romantic. • She entered some time ago ethe service of a broker in Paris ; both fell in love witheaoh oilier and fled to this country.. -shortly atter arrival in Montreal thebroker disap- peared, leaving the unfortunate gf4uttterly bel pleas After an effort to struggletigatiet circumstances age loot her reason: ' • • A fatal eeploaion occurred at 6',00 Rnnryd at .1 30 o'clook on Satnrea' in tile blab -Hoge of the Owen Sound Gas Cone poesy . .The employees were tusking gars, when tome escaped and took, fire; bite;eg ' the Whole north end of the building ''r,t 'seed killing a 'young man .named Jahn Nelson, The .building took fire, lent the flames were' dpeedily extinguished. The lose will be about $1,000, fully insured, AY The company are able to stipply gas' teii ttpnetMr,. l,• Williem'O'Brien hem weitten a letter ko•the Dublin Frreman'a-,tvurnal, in Which he seen be ecotone the report of the Parnell Comrni'e.ion as the woret that three hororthle Tories, restrained by the ohlies,• - times ( f jedioiali. propriety, da'n Pay swot-st$ the Nationalists,. yet the Times, he says, ?lueht td be placediet'the pillory of hiet.,ry beside the most heinous propagator of taiee ch•treee. 'Mr. O'Brien deniesthat hajoic,rd i he Leegco to secure the separation of 'lees land from England. He was oonvineed ' years before the League was formed that . ei paratinn,teas impossible.. , He Heed it because Mr. Parnell'e-aetion in Parliament it ducted Mr. Dillon and himself to b< hese that the aims of Ireland could be obtaiced by parliamentary method. Mr. 1 nnteford, the Colonial Seerotery, has advised the Queen to give the' Roe el atisen.t to the Divorce `Sill. The bi 1 at,cepte as ggronndn for divorce, detertieee f•., three years, either on the part of 0111 man or Woman, habitual drnnkeneeeo, coupled with druolty, or neglect of bonse- rod duties eat the wife's ,part, aenteKt.e f: r clime and violent assault, • , The air, i t entitled to divorce on the ground of intlde'- tte in aerie the offenoe ie committed tin rire anr•jneal rfsidenre, or coupled with Regre- t conditions, or in the event of the get' le in - repeated. . Thetne this i on a Dint �( g p h P tilt eel -reed with ri 1erence to an offs i, wife. • et w. ..., "L ..V.14- kt