HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1890-03-28, Page 7The Princeton Tragedy.
(Woodstock Standard)
WItie,fpllowipg iitae8 were .written J.
memory of F. C. Benwell, murdered in the
township of Blenheim on Monday, 17th
'Felons:ay,1890 :
Oh. sad was the fate of a gallant youngstranger,
'Who came to tbis country from over the cea,
And never a moment was thinking of danger,
But in epizite light-hearted wee jovial and
free.
By promises fair from his home they allured
And told him the land withbriohee did teem,
And a fortune awaited him there they assured
And those fields so far distant were alway so
green. ' •
How afather's and mother's•a;fiections entwined.
•
F�4F..•Whim.
tarmw4tro 4111;{timito'1'9,"�.TAe,r,mT, i! 42,4* H
Ry.-7k1Fr!�+P
they Planned;
With moistened eyes ho loft them behipd-him
To tall by the &Bassin in a far foreign land.
s dear Old England, he left it behind him,
And its shores receded forever fit in view,
*Twits silently pacing tbe deck that we find him,
And bis thoughts were, dear mother, I am
thinking of you.
Then bis tear moiatened,eye
s again be would
dry them,
And -albite baela; his feelings of anglii®h and
pain,
And snake a resolve that new fields he would try
them
Then try,if he could, to be jovial again.
isuldedeelletee-ed-inesititennatie
eSinteateateety
`r 017 Y ri
rave.
" I will carve me
ocean,"
As their gallant
the wave.
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MOH FASHIONS AT SiICIL
What Is ' Vera by tits ladles et 'hie Chsrna-
Ing.W1ater &s ortt,
Nice, at the Raceme time, is full to over-
flowieg,.slid .etrabgeraleave time front all
pporta, And raratnrelly come of tine bbflt
dressed women, are to he seen every day on
the Proenade des Anglais. One or two
costumee I noticed ae being exceptionally
pretty. One woa'n. by 11 fair ArePo an wail of
dark olive green cloth thickly braided in
the same shade ; the bodice wax open in
front over a waistcoat of white sloth with
rows of gold braid narrowing into the
waist. Aoaftan of green cloth bordered
with brown fur was set jauntily . on the
pretty soft fair hair, which was worn in
the most beooming fashion, namely high on
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`. j nes ,�I 1 . -� �.il �av .f'7Gn ut �cT'L H ,3
One's eye pennon -tit preeent gat aoous.
tomed to the untidy and loose appearance
.^,,moot d by neeton anile.. l=.Gie—4e,r,fo tu-
new fashion of wearing the hair low down
on the neck ; and although it may suit a
few, it is probable the fashion will not be-
come geeetal, as English girls in particular
look as well again in the old way of dress-
ing the hair, and are not, likely to forsake
what "ie`-bea-Ming fie many fora tashion
that is onl for a few.
,Among group of Americans I noticed
one in particular wtioee dress of red cloth
with bands of black velvet fitted most ex -
TEA TABLE GOSSIP
•
Tun's UP.
Good-bye,'Old Whiter -your raee flii run,
Your time is up, for the apringtide run
Has bowled you .out -Bore se a gun,
And the blue birds soon 'raid the peachblows
sweet,
The tumble bugs and the grubs will greet,
While the new ,born lambs in the meadows
bleat ;
Then the baseball crank to the game will hie
While .the "kid" through e, bole in the fence will
epY--
Good-bye, Old Winter-good-bye-gogd-bye.
-The heaviest advertiser in the world is
a London soap man.
-4. street oar conductor, on $2 a day,
has been keeping two wives. This speaks
well for the wives. -
-Speaking literally, a jag means "•
a home far beyond thee, old
barque mounted the crest of
1A arent's fond' hopes, they were centred around
•}rim,
t, ob, blighted hopes whore are they to -day ?
e first news if their sou was heartrending,
astounding,
Was sLot by the man who allured him away.
In the " Swamp of D' ath," all rigid and frozen,
Oh God, is it true, can it really be so ?
Amore dit mal haunt it could hardly be Chosen,
And his pall, it was naught but a mantle of
One pile of old brushwood was thrown when they
found him,
And no friend near in his last dying hours ;
In afar distnt laud he died, while ar.•undhim
Stood thickly the swamp -wood, most diemalof
bowers.
In the cold at ins of death at first we behold him
The poor y& ung strat,ger excite,b a tear;
With no fond mother's arms to enfold him,
Somebody's darling is now lying here.
Oh cruel was the bullet that so deadly was,
speeding
To crush out his life on a far foreign shore,
cruel was the fate that so 'bhmdly did lead
him,
tune' the asratsin a thousand times more.
We will weep with thy dear ones -in feelings of
Borrow ;
Those dear ones at home now enshrouded n
gloom, ..
Tlnatoolace through tears we might for them,
borrow.
"---WrI 11 . e "Bntiwel , now a a
the tomb, .
JOHN STEVEN
Off With the Light Brocade.
Forty days, forty days,
Forty da s onward ;
Storming the churches' doors, -
See the Four Hundred.
" Off with the light brocade !
• In sackcloth ni.w arrayed,
Let u• prepare for death."
Cry the Four Hundred.
" Off with the light br• cade,
On with tt,e tailor-made 1"
Tho' every woman Knew •
The world looked and wondered
Theirs not to make reply,
Nor give the re -.son wily,
T'-helirs-leu-t,,-t-6--pr-ay-end-d4 ;
So to the churches high
Rush the Four Huudred.
Crosses to right of them,
Crosses to lett of them, '
Crosses in front of.' hem,
Crosses unnum ered
Summoned by solemn bell
Meekly they walk, and well
Sermons on death and bell
• Hear the Four Hundred.
No more with shoulders baro,
No more with powdered hair,
No more in jewel-. rare,
Nor Hower -encumbered ;
But with meek, reverent air,
- Itending in silent pr'.yer,
Far from the ball-rom's glare,
Keel the Four Hund:Md.
• rone-ii the7lgbt4inceade,
Honor. the change;;,tbo made,
Never can word he said
A tgoman has blundered.
To every church to -day,
Wh re all may kneel and pray,
Come they in plain array,
Lowry Four Hundred.
-Texas Sif g9.,
A Sigh for " Constant Reader."
Business Manager -Brown writes us to
stop bis snbetlripticn to the paper:
Editor -Dear me ; -that's bad!
Business manager -Well, what are you
looking so blue about ? I suppose we can
get along without Brown. a, -
Editor -Oh, yes ; but I was SOPA !thinking
how bard it would bo on Smith: He was
absolutely dependent on that paper.
the back and was short, the bodice was
tight fitting with high collar and full
sleeves of blank velvet, a scarlet beret cap
to match was worn with this dress and
looked very smart and in keeping with the
-costume.
One peouherity I noticed in many cos-
tumes, namely, the amount of black used
mixed with color, in particular with red ;
either the cloak or costume was of red,
trimmed with black, or of `red with either
black astrakan or. some other blank fur
used as a trimming, the high collar and
full sleeves--in.many _. cases, beteg. made _e_t
fur, and used in this way proving most be-
coming to the face and figure.
'The hats worn at the battle of flowers
were many and varions, ranging from the
large straw fiat hat trimmed with gar-
lands of natural flowers, to the light airy
looking white tulle or lace hat with (limi-
ters
as-
ters of flowers nestling among the eoft
fettle, and of which the shops in the lead-
ing streets have been fall for the last week.
'erfQtnly the French mediate-is---most-
daring in the combination of ecolors
she uses ; but with it all her good
,taste never , deems to be at fault, and
however glaring a -hat may look in the
window with- three or four different shades
cf velvet or flowers put together as a trim-
ming, yet when once it is on the head the
oolors seem to blend together, end the
wonder is how one could ever have. thought
e oom . ina ro' n hi$eons. Large l a s we e
more generally worn than email 'ones on
account of the protection, offered by the
former to the shower of bouquets which on
more than one occasion has been most dine
estrous to those wearing toques or'Belilxllr
bonnets. Many provided tbemeelvee with
palm heat
fane as a shield, ata a blow from
a well -aimed bouquet of roses or violets is
'to be avoided as mach ae possible, and in
many cases where only small head' gear
was worn and no fans were used, the recip-
ients of the bongnete thrown came off very
badly. Nice Gazette. -
Not„Qiving Away News. •
'He (cantionely)-What would you say,
ing, if I should ask you plumply to be
y'wife ?
Darling (even.' more cautiously) -Ask me
and find ont.
An Untiln9e1y Ouestfon. •
Spriggs -Ponsonby, do yon believe in the'
damnation of infante ? '
Ponsonby Sgniggs, you ought not to
have- -asked m- that gneetion juet now. A
confounded little brat just bait hit mo in the
ear with a snowball.
Tho University of Pennsylvetnia wtil.
erect a theatre which, with ' ft $25,1100
•organ, ie to cost $100,000.
Something too English for Englishmen
ev n is the sparrow and English farmers
ee beginning to offer rewards for its
motion.
The property of the Young Men's
Christian Association in Columbne, Ga.,
has been sold as emotion to satisfy its
debt S...
In China the man who livesnearet the
scene of a mnr'der'is accused of•the' crime,
and he mast prove his innocence .or dee,
stand the punishment., Consequently, if
he ie innocent, ho hnetlea around ' pretty,
lively to discover the criminal.
White Hearses.
'"-dila-Wheeler-Wilcox- as writ4 n-a-poe
about " The Little White Hearee." This
is to suggest that she ought not to have
done it. Those little white hearses belong
to the liet of the intolerable appurtenances
to civilization. They ought not to exist,
and it is piling on the agony to write about
them. All hearses are disagreeable things,
but plain blank ones, with an air of austere
necessity about them, are convenient,
though ugly, and the feelings are not out•
raged by their nee. But the white hearses
have a simpering compound of paradise
and sentimentality about them which is
hateful. If there is a baby to be buried,
and it is too little to go in a black hearse,
parry it to ite_greve in your.arms or across
your knees. Have as little of the machinery
of burial in the ease as you can. Make
sure not to have one of those detestable
little, glaring death carts always crossing
your mind's path as it goes back to a
baby's grave. When babies die it is sad
enough, without •anything that tends to
aggravate woe. There is no need at all?of
snoh reminders that babies .play in the
shadow of death as those hateful little
hearses. Paint them black, the odious
things. -Union and Advertiser. '
The prayers of a wicked man amount
to something when he pray6 for pardon.
„Tho caned across the Isthmus of Corinth
appears destined to share the fate of that of
Panama. For the civil tribunal at Pattie
,has just issued es judgment ordering the
'winding up of the Corinth Canal Compan y
They Acquitted Him.
Gentlemen of the Jury,” said the
Arizona (IJudge, " if you find frgm the testi-
mony that the prisoner (who, Iunderetend,
intends to set up a . free lunch at the con-
clusion of this trial) really stole the•barrel
of 10•yeer-old whiskey (which it appears in
evidence' be , expeoted to open at his saloon
this afternoon), yon will bring in a, verdict
of guilty. Otherwise, gentlemen, you'll
acquit him."
In precisely two minutes and eleven
seconds the jury were getting acquainted
with the contents of that barrel. '
An Idulgent Parent.
Mamma (looking up from her novel) -
Jane, whet ails Freddy now ?
Jane -He's crying for the moon,
mamma.
Mamma (absorbed in her reading) -01i,.
the dear .
well, lethave it.
Perhaps ShemDoes.
tine -Oh, Mamie ! I've a big seoret‘ for
yon. Fred and I are going to elope.
Mamie -Does your mother know your
route ?
•Ahead atf tier Years.
r;.
Mr. Rowne de Bont-Mies O11un talks
like sixty, •
Blies Vinnie Garr --That's queer. She
says she ien`t forth yet.
It's' wonderful, how mach women can
stand until you See them doing it in a oar
where all the men are seated.
We would rather meet a man with a
wry face than one with a rye breath.
The 'preferred veil is a strip of tulle.
Chicago earpentere have leaned a cironlar
declaring they will de'm'and, on April 7th,
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Kincaid war yesterday indioted for the
murder of ex -Congressman Taulbee.
Lady Stanley will leave for England on
March 26th, brit will return in timo to ro-
oeive the Duke of Connaught in May.
The Conservatives of Colchester have
abandoned a meeting she which ... jinni
Randolph' Churchill was announced to
speak. e -
Owing to inoeseent rains the river has
overflowed and inundated the town of Brie -
bane, Australia. The damage is estimated
at £300,000.
Twenty thoneand engineers in the north-
eastern part of England have gone on
tr-4t! alas -res. _� 1 . R 4'rr
honre of labor.
It is now considered probable that the
Manitoba Looal Legielature will not press
the bill for the abolition of church tax
exemptions this session.
M. , J. Yonle, pommercial traveller, :whine
• y ing beyond Eganville, was chased
adk'of half-etarved wolverines. Hie
ree'Saved him from injury.
The French gunboat Emerende hes bom-
barded Abomey-Kel*ny, a village of
,ahomey, near the ooeast. The Dehomians
`era panic-stricken by the attack.
mean a very large one.
-All advertisers want to be at the head
oi: see column, but the drum -major is the
chap who generally gets there.
The world is coming to an end. ,
On this you safely may depend ; •
Slur M. P's. all, with right good will,
CriedAut, A -dam Brown's Pigeon Bill.
-Q philosephereeays marriageca•.1ike
town besieged. Those who are outside
wish to get in, and those who are within
desire to get out.
-When a New York sparrow goes off to
Q_Qnulbtry nil Qct toot thw eill`_os r
i t s announce • e arrive o
" the first sprriig yobin."
-Englieh,av"•iseotionists age ilpiir-
eated in an ad- meat of " live 41sle,
dressed ream% ljor king," that his watt -
peered in
t religious weeklies.
--Lovbr onnt withhold, -.0tir consent
on account of my income; ails ; I can sup-
port your daughter on $25 a .week. Pater
-Then you are a jim dandy. I never
could. •
-Barnstormer-Did yon see me last
night ? My impersonation • ofd>Hanaiet
completely carried -the andienoe'Iltvay zn
the fifth act. Victim -Yes.. r noticed
most of the people left at that jinn.
-A man at Wimborne, -"England, 66
years old, ma ` iiia 25 -year'• old servant
a .week after Mitt .ret wife died, and on
their way tram the register's office the
couple were pelted with rice, flour and peas
by a mob.
- " Excuse me, sir, but haven't we met
ofore4---Year ince-is-strsYgely-faihiliar-."
" Yee, madam ; our boat introduced ne to
each other juet „before dinner." " Ah ! I
was positive load seen you somewhere. I
never foil a face."
-A banquet was recently tendered Mr.
T. J. Stewart, of Kinloss, on the occasion of
his removal to Hamilton. About sixty of
)ria neighbors• and friends presented him
with an address and valuable gold watch and
chain -London Free Press.
- Miss Timidite (who has been invited
.to the piano) -Really, I think you "will
have to excuse me. I rarely play in pnblio.
Hostess (encouragingly) -Don't be afraid
of ns, my dear. Neither my husband nor
myself has any ear whatever for music.
-Mies Minnie Leaoh married Lubg Poy,
a." washerman," in Boston,day before yes-
terday. The minister said his venal fee
was $5. " Twoee dolia all givee," said the
Chinaman. Tlie clergyman did not fanny
this out in rates, but he took' it: all the
samee.
-Warden Keating, of Ltedlow street jail,
New York, has stepped down and
out. The ew - t era dngbt
him in a • bribery trap and he
resigned ander charges Wedoeeasy.
Dennie F. Cray was appointed in hip,plaoe
yesterday. Cray litre been a keeper: ,ie the
jail under Sheriff Flack. Be is a Tammany
man. -
Here oomesanother story of two promin-
ent and wealthy -. but honest Illinois
physio e -failing heir to a fortune of 351,-
000,000 left • them by an old baron in
Germany. ' -Those $51,000,000 windfall
storieil' are a trifle fishy, although this
lstee* tale bas the .semblance of
trutb about Ito in that the correspondent
did not say that the lucky men were work-
goisin-5 tjtion-ioaz;ds fur 27-uer.trerdayi-
Chicago Nws. •
YA A9, WHAT's USE?
What'tlie use in worrying,
Of hurrying
scurrying;
.-, Everybody flurrying -
And breaking up their rest?
When every one is teaching us,
Preaching and beseeobing us ,
�To settle Qwn and end the fuss ; -
FotTldiet ways are best.
•
Never Cross to Kia Wife.
In en Omaha oharoh recently, Som
Jones iihout'bd : Ie there a man present
who never epoke a oroes wordto his .wife ? "
The silence was becoming. oppressive
People looked here and there. 'Every hus4
shoed -wanted to get up but, did not dare to.
'lint the . sadness het had possession: of
Joeaea' .taodi'aniehed a moment later when
a round-faced, good-natured man rose in
hie seat. "Thank God !," exclaimed Sam,
" there ie' one man who never spoke a oroee
'word to his wife' " The good-natured man
sinned blandly and said : "No, sir, I never
did. I'm* bachelor." , 0 hen he put on
hie hat and calmly walked elft the door.
A Bien is now before the New York
State Legislature to compel the employ-
ment of women physicians in the State
hospitale for the insane, where . women are
confined. The idea is a good one. But -in
Canada there would scarcely be enough ;of
lady doctors to supply the demand, were
such a law in force here. '
Tbe new French Cabinet will probably
be : President of the Council and Minister
of WAr, M. de _Freycinet; Minister of
Foreign Fffairs, M. Constans ; Interior, M.
Bourgeois ; Finance, M. Bouvier ; J uetice,
M. Brisson ; Commerce, M. Roches Public
Instruction, M'. Fallieree; Agriculture, 11?.
Develle ; Pnb]ieWorks, M. Guyot;Marine,
M. Barbey.
Tbe young Dna d'Orleane has forbidden
the circulation of a petition for hie release,
saying that a prison on French coif is pre-
ferable to freedom in a foreign land.
Judge Andrew J. Davie, probably the
richest man in Montana, died at Butte,
Wednesday night, aged 71,1eavieg an estate
of upwards of $1.0,000,000.
At Batesville, Ark., the White River rose
33 feet in 24 hours, and all the lower part
'of the town is flooded.
The output of wheat on the' Portage
40 cents cin hour piped eight boars a day's Plaine, Manitoba, tbie year is estimated at
work. They 'ex dote have to etriko.j' 1,291,000 buehele: •
by Klnpaid. • Kiaoaid was ocmmitteyd for
the grand jury.
A•triie bill for murder has been found at
the. Winnipeg A leizes.aaainstt. Morton,, the
Miami mnrdeser.
Mr. David Porter, of A.mabel, was
chosen by the Liberally of North Bruce to
contest the riding at the Provincial elect
tions.
A1; a meeting in Montreal yesterday the
Grey Cotton Association decided to; ad-
vanoe prices in certain light weight samples '
of goods.
It is now known 88 persona loat their .
lives by the explosion in the Moises colliery.
An unlocked lamp beside the corpse of ,
workman explains the explosion.
Tbe plane for the proposed bridge ovet
e� w
reEt
exits
rai
like 1 hattjust c om feted' osier the F h offalt: r''4
.L' orIh.
The young man James McIntosh, r
ported in telegraphic despatches as be
drowned at Spirit Lake, Iowa, in l upp
to be the son of Mr. David McIntosh
cattlwelle known c e dr v o er of Bt. Thomas.
A . waterspout at -Ulan, 111„ idbmer
the tracks of the Illinois Central Rai
to a depth of five feet. No trains- h
come in on that road since yesterday afte
noon. The Ohio river continues to rise
The, body of Rowland Leaoh, a New,
York drummer who has been mysteriously '!.
missing for several days, vas fished out s'
of the river near Market -street, Chicago,
yesterday afternoon. He was no doubts
murdered.
Last Sunday,. the two year-old child of '•
John Blunt, a farmer near Stockton, gas-,
found- a bottle of laudanum and drdnkaorne
of it. The child died The next dip Mrs.. -
Blunt, crazed by the death, of het child,,:
drank the rent of the poison. She cermet•
recover., Mr. Blunt ie prostrated` apd',bis
-friends- fear -he too may commit satcide. }
There is now ,a strong probability the$'
the divorce snit of Captain O'Shea agairiet
his wife and Mr..' Parnell will not reaok
trial before the fall. Mr. Parnell hes asked '
and obtained further and faller 'details of
the times and pieties of the alleged adultery.
He is entitled to three weeks in which to
fyle an answer, and will="probably ask for
an extension of time.
A fat&Lannident_oncnrre'd this afternoon
at Keldon, a point nine miles from Shel.
borne. Mr. Thos. Appleyard, who ownsa
saw mill there, was removing a Blab from a
log while the mill was running. By some
means the . slab touched tbe saw, and .the
old gentleman was so thrown against the
saw that both lege were out off in the upper ,
third of the thigh. He survived his
injuries &couple of hours.
Mills,Arley, Wis„ was declared off yester-
day. T 3000 strikers- returned to Work
exoept. the leaders, who were dieoharged.
The five young men who burglarized the
residence of the Bishop of Ontario at
Kingston have been committed for trial.
Other burglaries will also be charged
against them.
Ilii stated that Prince Bismarck lias
asked Dr. Windthoret to giye his support to
startling financial and military proposals,
which the Government will soon, lay before
the Reichstag. • . -
Lord Salisbury, in the House of Lords
yesterday, gave notice of a motion approv-
ing of the Parnell Commission's report and
thanking the .judges for their just and im•
palatial conduct. `
B, boy name Holmes, employed .in a
paper -mill at Heywood, England was
drawn between the press and rollefd until
hie body reseed through an opening tneas-
uring four inches.
It is proposed that the French-Canadzioi
in Kingston meet and adopt a congratula.
tory resolntionto Premier Mercier, of Que-
bec, for hie proposed generous grant of
$10,000 to Toronto University.
Mr.. Tupper, Minister of Marine ar}d
Fisheries, returns to Ottawa to -day from
Waehingten. It is understood ,that his in-
formation touching the Behring Sea ar-
-getnentit-lie-notee ties t"orY•
eIn consequence of the masters avoiding
a direct reply to the demands made upon
them- for An advance in miners' wages, the
miners' federation has resolved to imme-
diately inengurate'`aStrike throughout the.l
United States. '
Mr. tae. y. Loyst, of Hay Bay, adopted
a yon le frgm a city oharity, and the first
thin ,he did..xvas to fire tke straw stack.
Hard Work was required to save the build-
ings. Then the youth fled and hail not.
since en seen. -
Secretary Windom yesterday executed a
lease with the North American Commercial.
Company, of New York and San Fran-
-msec; far the-taling-of-faireesle-oa-isla de -
of St. Paul and St. George, Alaska; for 20.
yeepq from May nexte: •
A number of unionists, armed with be -
14%4 pine, made tai' savage attack yester-
day•uron the non -unionist employees on
the British steamer Bostonian, at London.
The police quelled the distnrbanoe and
made a number of arrests.
James R. Pole, who resides on Clarence
street, London, had one of hie arms fright-
fully cruehtld while coupling care in the
Grand Trunk yard about 3 o'clock yester-
day afternoon. He was taken to D.
Moore's office, and it is quite probable hie
arm will have tobe amputated -just above.
_.
'Tho remains of Alex. Brodie, jun., son of
Alex. Brodie, of Kintyre, were found after
9 o'clock Tuesday night oil the Michigan
Central Railway track one mile .mast of
Rodney, horribly mangled: On the person
of the deceased were found two whiskey
bottles, which no doubt accounted for the
manner in which- he met euoh a horrible
death. Hie father is a well-to-do farmer.
Itis officially senonnced that the King of -
Dahomey, accompanied by bis female war-
riore, has retired to Lama atter remaining
at Godcmey four days and not daring to
attaok the French poste. The rest of his . '
army remains at Godomey, where it is' •
erecting fortifications. During the campaign
anthaneand D'3r ahomane,-inolnding a-fentale —
general, wore killed: It is stated. the French
oeptives taken by the Dahomane are safe at.. ''x '
William Arnett, Belleville, • was corn -
Milted for,trial yesterday by Magistrate
Flint for the murder of Hannah `Dole on
February 18th last. He took the decision
iof the Cyurt with indifference and, seeing
an fold 'acquaintance in the crowd .outside
the rail, extended his hand -for a friendly
slake* ' He was,immediately conveyed to
the' county jail, where he will awe it hie
trial at the Spring Assizes before Judge '
Armetrr.
What ie known as the Ellie,jewel robbery
case wine concluded in Montreal yesterday.
Phillipe and Maloney, of Montreal, were
'accused of having won in a game of poker
314,000 worth of jewellery from Von
Reinoltz, traveller from the Toronto firm
of P. W. Ellis & Co., not J. E. Ellis
•& Co., ,knowing that it• did not belong to
him. This vital point was not established '
by the Crown, and the two prisoners were
acquitted. "
A mysterious epidemic' has appeared at
Solavonish Eezek and Freyberg; near
Dresden„ Three -deaths have takenplace
in two days at Eezek and two at Freyberg.
Those who have been' attacked rettred to
bed in good spirits, and slept in some oases
20 to 48 hours. All efforts to awaken the
patients were unavailing and their bodies
appeared to have decomposed daring sleep.
Great fears are entertainedthat the malady
ious.' ,., •
A litticontage follow named, David Alexander'
Rolland,. living oe Anderson street; Mon -r,
treat, was paseing a butolier's stall ink
that neighborhood yesterday afternoo$tt
when one of the men who was chopliing
some meat missed his mark,,,t►nd _th4-
glanced off the block .and hit the
severe blow' between the eyes.' •
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profusely, and on the ambtelanoo %r
he was removed to the Genertatl`,llosp
where the wound was dressed. ee.
John Lee,. a Toronto man 'approaching
middle ago, tired of a world that had dealt
with hien so unkindly as to deny him evert
the shelter of home, took a dbeeof ieech+,,-
num on Wilton venae ; on Saturday even -
ii to end hid tr ethics. Somebody saw him •
swallow the' drug, and told Obnd%bble
reatherstone. The constable led him off to -
the police station, where Dr. Burne admin
istel'ed an emetic, and caved his life.• Lee is
nowtetained to answer a charge of attempt-
ing to commit naiozde".
Rioherd Wiokett; eon of John Wickett;
Orwell, aged 17, arrested some days ago ons
severe- charges of obtaining goods from
merchants by falee representation, yeeter- -
day at Stt- Thomas pleaded guilty to three'
indictments and was remanded for a week
foeseatence. On March 4th, he obteint'd
two lettere addressed 10 Joseph Marlatt
Abd one letter-'addreased to Alex. Douglass •
frotn the Yarmon •', to i'ost•oflioe.
The lettere were t_ " .o by the lad
ost.theartiee they
Thursday night a fire boke- out in a
building at bridge No. 6 on the .Pennsyl-
vania Railway, six miles east of Johnstown,
Pa. ' Tho building was 000tipiectias a sleep
ing apartment by the laborers ngaged in
rebuilding the viadnot dedlf"oyed by ,the
flood. Two men were limned to death and
several were injured. -
At a meeting held at Norwich yesterday
of the County Board , of Direotore of the
South Riding of Oxford Agricultural
Society, ilrlr. Gordon H. Cook, the Presi-
dent, in the chair, it was decided to hold
the fair permanently at Norwich. Hereto-
fore it hes been held in rotation at
Tileonbnrg,.Ingersoll, Otterville and Nor-
wich.
The sessions of ,the International Labor
Conference will be held in the, large hall of.
Prince Bismarck's palace, where the con-
gress of 1878 wee held. Baron Von Ber-
epsch, Prnesian Minister of Commerce, will
open the proceedings. He will welcome
the delegates irk the name of the emperor,
and will explain the objects of the con-
ference. „
A Portage la Prairie despatch says
The man held'"on suspicion of being mur-
derer MacDuff, wanted in Tilbury, Kent
county, Ont., was remanded, until Monday,
17th, E. Ferris swore he knew MeoDnffw
for five Sews, had been with him for
hours at a stretch before the mnrder,
and that this man held is MacDuff with-
out a doubt. There was a great sensation
in court. '
Mr. G. A. Mountain, chief engineer of
the Ottawa & Parry Sound Railway Com-
pany, assisted by Mr. J. A. Simpeon and
Mr, A. H. N. Bruoe, oivil engineers, with a
nn tber of portagenrs and guides, have
Muted from E anvilke, and will work their
way through to Parry Sound. It is the
intention of the railway company to com-
mence 'conntraotion as soon as possible
after the tinrveyors complete -their work:
The line will be eonatruoted from Renfrew
to Eganville first.
The Manitoba Legielature sat from Tnee-
day everting to yesterday • morning, the
subject under disonesion being the School
Bill. The long sittin, . was. caused by the
effort of a Freilob, member to force an
adjbarnmWash-
Wigton,'
An inquest was held yesterday, at Wash -
Wigton, over the remains of ex -Congress-
man' Taulbee • The jury found Taulbee's OA
-el was due to a wound infiioted
and read and bot 1 •
pm�q�+ inspector
Barker has beef�,notified, •,an:fir lad will
likely, be prosecuted on thiil.charge.
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