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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1890-10-03, Page 6a IRISH LEADERS IN JAIL. Pa rtiaalars of the Arrest of Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien Yesterday. THE OAUBB OF THE MIME. A last night's London , sable says : Leto information shows that Mr. Dillon was arrested at Ballybrack, whore he was visiting hie nnole. He was harried under Ts strong gtitrd and with the utmost ueoreov, to the rbilway station, where a apeOial oar. wsa in waiting. As soon as he :entered this the train was started for Dublin, Only.a brief stop was trade here, when the prisoner was carried on to Tier pantry, the tenants of ?vhioh town he is nhtrged with havix:g incited to refuse pay- ment of rent to their landlord, Smith - Barry. The arrest of Wm. O'Brien was emacs nl the xi 1 lGu+n y oh to en A r. of he ng he he he It re e ve ve t e It sII� 0.l e d t 0 e n n d t e re e e e e 1 a 0 d t 0 Y t d Y h O'Brien are based on speeches made b him at Limerick and Tipperary, in whi ail t'iedidlogirrhe advised'Sis auditor`s not pay rent. From Glengariff O'Bri was immediately taken to Cork. Warrant has been boned for M Dalton, who has been active in the work the Land League. The police are keepin a ettriot watoh on the headquarters of t Land League in Dublin. Persons enteri or leaving are subject to close eorutin Despatches from Tipperary report that t organizers of the local branch of the leagu are under close police surveillance. T activity of the police indicates that t authorities contemplate further arrest:. ie considered probable that warrants a already out against many leaders in th Land League of secondary rank, who ha wade themselves obnoxious by the anti part they have taken in recent anti -ren aampsigns. This sudden action of th (Government has fallen like a thunderbo from a clear sky. The Irieb Nationalist had no eueple:on ot the impending blow care at a loge to know what it mean led eurprise'and indignation are >th bunt- feeling:. Despatches fro various parts of Ireland show that th Nationalists are everywhere greatly excite 1 the arrests. 'There was no abatement of interes ronghout the day in the Irish arrests Up to: 7 o'clock u this evening no' definit information has reached London of th specified utterances of Dillon and O'Brie on which the warrants for their arrest wer based. Neither had the Government give out any official explanation which' wool throw fight upon the sadden and unex peoted resort to a vigorous Irish policy. I in oommonly supposed to -night that th ostensible grounds for O'Brien': arrest ar be found in a very . plain speeoh that h made last Sunday to an assemblage o peasants at Sohnll, in County Cork. H dwelt -upon the. failure of the potato oro and spoke of the gloomy outlook for wide spread distress whish Ireland mnet fie ##hhiiee winter. Warming to the theme, h said :. " For tens., of thousands of smal farmers through Ireland it will become question this winter whether they are t have food, or their landlord:." Confronte with such an alternative, he though there should be no hesitancy as t a choice. He advised the tenants on ever estate to meet and consult . as to who proportion, it any, of their rent they Doul honestly pay. When• that question had been determined they should all abide b the 'decision. If the farmer:, he said should give to the landlords money whin was needed to buy bread for their children the Irish leaders would not dare to appeal to the world to come to the rescue . of such to nation of slaves ; but it tenants would absolutely refuse to . pay a penny of rent until every family that tilled the soil was placed beyond the reach of starvation, then if the Government evicted starving people from their poor homes it wobld bs swept out of existence by a torrent et English indignation, and the whole civilized world would send money and assistance for the benefit of the tenants. Michael Devitt was interviewed this afternoon in regard to the arrests. He took a very hopeful view ofthe situation and thought the effect would be entirely favorable to the Irish cause. 't If Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien," he said, " had deliberately set out to devise plans for in- creasing the popularity of the plan of campaign and heightening the prestige of the Lend League they could not have accomplished their purpose in any way more successfully than by inducing Mr. Balfour to take precisely the step that he has taken of his own volition. it is itat what they wanted. There had begun to be a feeling in Ireland that the plan of cam- paign . has been parried far enough. These arrests will be sure to rouse public senti- ment in its favor again. Mr. Balfour has not made a greater mistake since he has been in chief authority over Iceland." A Dublin oable Says ; Mr. O'Brien and wife arrived at . Tipperary at 9 o'olook to- night. The public lamps -were not lighted. The couple were enthusiastically sheered during their passage through the town. Canon Cahill and other friends met them M the Court House. • An Explosion in a ]nine. A Wilkesbarre, Pa., despatch saps : An exelosion of gas took plane in the Murray Hill shaft of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre colliery this ' afternoon. The body of Anthony Jennings was soon taken out, badly burned. There were only five men in the shaft. Their names are : Lawrence Casey, James Sullivan, James Boswell (fire boss), Edward Bulbeen and Anthony Jennings. The shaft is one of the gasiest in the world. At 3 o'clock a rescuing party, consisting of Supt. Scott, Foremen James .Ford and Morgan and Mine Inspector Williams, entered the shaft in search of the men. They returned at 4 o'clock and reported that all were dead except Edward .1Btilbeon, who was ,serionely burned. The dead were brought from the pit to the eurfaee, a distanoe of 600 feet, and taken to their late homes. TIie British census will be taken in 1891. The cost of the census of Great Britain in 1881 was £1723000 for a population of 26,000,000.• For England and Wales the cost per 1,000 of the population was £4 151 lid. in 1861, rising to £5 5s. 7d. in 1871, and £6 12s. 63. in 1881. Tho number of enumerators was nearly 85,000 an in 1891 the number will not be far short of 40,000. It isein the 000li dolicioas'e-tatmen-tbat- fhe oyster gets into a stew. A BLOODY TRAGEDY,. A 'RAILWAY HORROR .�.�t�:.}. sum n+Yi�LDjyi��;�u�lCili'iY'�'�=i�ii�iki—L�IY'ii%larr , �'•rr,::, ��{ ,..,��: Daughters and Then Suicides. A Portsntonth, N.H., despatoh says : A terrible tragedy 000urredhero to -night, and there is great exoitement. A mob of sev- eral hundred people surrounds the hoose where the bodies of three dead persona partly attest the extent of the prime. Fred R. J. Hein, aged 45 years, a 000per in the croploy, of trio F,ldeedge BrewingCowt- pany, has a family of three daughters. The eldest, Carrie, aged 15 years, keeps houee for him, hid wife, who it is alai¢ was un- faithful. having left him several months ago. Since .she left it is reported the girl Carrie has become wayward. Heir's trouble preyed upon his mind until he resolved to end the matter and remove from temptation the three female members of his household. Two of thein and the mur- derer himself Iie dead in hie home, while dying with a bullet in her neck, and at his home O. W. Taylor, a welleknown hard- ware.merohantrwhose-nameohas-beenroono neoted with that of Mrs. Haim, lies with two bullet -holes in his back. Before the discovery of Hein's deed a body of offioera and citizens were scouring the oity in search of him, and had he fallen into the hands of the mob he would have been lynched. The story of the murder is : Charles W. Taylor, while entering his residence about 7.30 to -night, was rnehed upon by the murderer, who fired two shots, -both of whish took effect in the small of hia bank. He is still alive, but will hardly live. Shortly before 8 o'clock people in the vicinity of Hein'shouse heard five pistol shots fired in rapid succession, and Mand, the 13 -year-old daughter of ` Hein, ran out of the house and down the street. She proceeded but a short distance when she fell, eaying, " Father has shot me." The girl wee taken to the hospital, where she now lies in a oritiuei condition. Three shote were fired at her, all taking effect. —The-lowwer--peat nit-Hein's-honse-wart the scene of the . murderer's most horrible work, and it shows evidence of a desperate struggle. The kitchen was covered with blood, and everything was in great disorder. Just outside the back door of the house lay two .bodies.. Carrie. the oldest girl, lay with her face covered with blood, the bullet having entered the left side of the face, passing upward toward the brain, death resulting instantly. Across her prostrate form lay Bertha, the youngest daughter. When found she was unconscious, and expired in fifteen minutes, the bullet that caused her death having enttred her head just behind the left ear. In the front. chamber was found the dead body of Hein on the floor. A bullet had passed through his head from the revolver whish lay by hie side. THE STRANDED BARCELONA. Capt. Boyle and Two Officers Remain on the , Wrecked Vessel. A Quebec despatoh says : E. C. Fry, Lloyds' agent at this port, returned from the stranded steamship Barcelona Wednes- day evening. The Drew and cattlemen of the stranded vessel, 34 in all, also came up leaving Capt. Boyle and his two officers in charge of the wreok. The Drew will be paid off here. Mr. Fry states that he found the Barcelona in a bad position. She is lying on the south edge of Red Island ehoaI;with a list to port, andheading south- southwest. She is on the •rooks forward of the engine room after bulkhead, and the bottom of this part of the steamer is be- lieved tobe badly crushed, as it' was com- pletely filledfifteen minutes after she struck. She is tipped by the stern ten to twelve feet, and at high ice the water is about eight feet above :the main deck aft, whish tie submerged as far as the forwardhatch, the forecastle being the only place on the main deck free of water. The captain and all the officers have been compelled to take up their quarters on the upper bridge, and they had very little food and no water,for two days until obtaining some of the latter from Red Island lighthouse. To reach Red Island lighthouse the only boat remaining had to reoeive a canvas bottom to rephase a large portion of the . wooden one broken and with this and baling the water out with buckets, the captain managed to reaoh Green Island telegraph, and afterwards Red Island for water. On the 3M September, while on the passage out, the Barcelona encountered a terrible hurricane,, during whish three of her orew were washed. overboard. The Barcelona is undoubtedly a total lose. THE TRAIN WRECKERS. A Choice of Versions as to the Story of Their Confessions. A Troy, N. Y., despatoh says : It is stated today that the oonfessian of John Reed, Thos. Cain and Arthur Buett, throe of the men engaged in wrecking the Mon- treal express on Tuesday, Sept. 4th, has been placed in the hands of counsel for proseontion, and that besides these three men the statements implioate John Cordial and John Kieman. It is said details of the plot are given. The confessions, it is stated, will bo, presented to the grand jury now in session as evidence on which to pro- cure the indictment o the prisoners. At the adjourned examination of Kieman and Cordial to -day, W. J. Litdden stated that be was counsel for all the defendants, but it was said bythe counsel for the prose- cution that Cain, Brett and'Reed had said they did notdesire compel and did not desire an examination. Mr. Ludden said he bad conversed with the prisonersyesterday, and they denied making any confeaeion, Reed, Mr. Ludden said, had told him he would bo ready for examination this morning. The Trust of the Democracy. Washington Post : The Maine campaign oan be summed up in a nutshell : Th D emoorats tr ted to Providence, wbil tho Republica dee depended on.Jco Manley. • The Sly minx. Philadelphia .Record : " I'm so glad those big °leaven are in fashion again," said Mins Flerty. " I do so enjoy a laugh in my sleeve occasionally." -The kid glove -darner, a small stick -with--u knob -on the end; b"out. It 9a Oh the principle of the stocking ball. Between Forty and Fifty Killed and Many Injured. THREE TRAINS IN A HEAP. A Reading, Pa., deepetoh of Friths night sari: A wreok occurred on t Reading - 'a-:,t»srs woventeen =ilea Wbo this place at about 6.45 to -night. The tra which met with the disaster left this of at 6.05 o'olock, ten minutes late. It known as the Pottsville express,.and w running at the rate of at least 38 to nineteen hour. It had on board possib from 125 to 150' passengers, and it co Wined of engine, tender, mail, and expre oars and three passenger oars. Near litho makereville, about fifteen miles above th oily, there is' a curve where the railroad a l t o 18 to 2Q feet b-lylliir than t1 L ainiftiViifirntrenhno dht her 'y a ore b o oo a freight train ran into a coal train, throw ngoseveraL,,.garlt, on__Ihe._opposite_.trao and before the train hands had time to 'g back to warn any approaching train of th danger the Pottsville express name aroun the anrve and ran into the wrecked coo oars on its track. The engine went dow the embankment, 'followed by the entir train with its human freight. The seen was one o! great horror. The cries of th imprisoned passengere were heartrending Some of the paeeeegers managed to ore out of their prison and arouse the neigh borhood. Word was telegraphed to thi oity, and help summoned, but all informs tion was refused at this point by the rail road officials. Physicians and surgeon and 300 workmen were taken to the apo by the company, and with the aid of travelling electric light plant the work o clearing away the wreck was at onoe pro oeeded with. The work was slow, and th dead and dying were taken out with grea difficulty. Up to 10 o'clock to -night some thirty_ wounded had -bean taken out. 0 the latter some were brought to this city -and-others tante e-#.Yss--ir.Iinerahnfoepite - Ashland.' The dead so far reoovered are still on the ground. THE NUMBER OF TIIE DEAD. The Associated Press agent hue just had direst communication with his representa- tive at the scene of the wreok, and the latter says conservative estimates place the number of the'killed at 40 to 50. It is almost impossible to eetimate the exaot number, and the full horror of the situa- tion will not be known before morning. At 11 o'clock Mail Agent Greenwaldis' body was. taken out, followed by the horribly mangled bodies of two Mahoney City fire- men on their way home from the Chester convention. There is a rumor at the scene of the wreok that George R. Kaeroher, of Pottsville, was in the wrecked parlor oar. Whether this refers to Geo. R. Reacher, the famous lawyer of this place, is not known, ..bnt_if.this is -so, the State loses -one of its:, brightest legal ornaments. The. scene in' this city was one of great excite- ment, •which was not allayed until long after midnight. he 73 in ty is as 40 ly h- as. c. is is 0 e d 1. n e e e w1 e s t a 1 e t !. i-�� ACCOUNT OF A PASSENGER. The Associated Yltte ]tortktrtet:tt h just had an interview with a passenger who went down in the wreok and who was but slightly injured. Sixteen of the injured were brought on a special train to the Reading Hospital at 11 o'clock. This gentleman says that when the passenger train left Reading the oars were all well11ed. Among thems. , were many ladie He Fat in the front part of the last oar. This is hie story : " The train was going at a lively rateof. speed. The passengers appeared a happy crowd, many of them ladies, chatting and laughing after a day's pleasure at the Berke County Fair. I was viewing the lovely country through which' we were passing when suddenly there was a terrific crash. I was hurled from my seat, while the cars rolled down a twenty feet embankment, and I was thrown from one side ot the car to the other, when splash one end went into the water, and I was thrown against the side of the oar with a force that partly stunned me. I quickly reoovered and managed to olimb upon the seats on that side of the oar whish lay against the embankment. I was a prisoner, and while I was nursing my sprained ankle and wrist I realized that I was in a scene of veritable horror. Around and about me were human beings; struggling in the water, screaming in their fright, and some almost dragged me back into the water. A few saved them, selves e.s 1 did, and the remainder struggled in the water and then quietly sank out of eight." IN DEATH :UNITED. An Artist and an Actress Suicide Together by Agreement. A New Ydik despatoh says: About day- break this morning Gustave G. Koch, a young German artist, aooended . to ' the elevated road platform at Canal street, and exchanged a few words with Emile Rodsio, an actress, 19 years of ago, who lived at 140 Canal street, her room overlooking the elevated station. Koch said : " Yes, I have come, Emile. Aro you ready 2" The answer from the window was not heard. The man turned, and the next moment shot himself through the temple, falling dead on the platform. Before the report had died away another abet was heard in the girl's room, and it was soon found that she had also committed suicide by shooting herself throngh the heart. The couple were engaged to be married, but the girl's', mother opposed the match so strongly that they decided to die together. Emile Rossie was a member of Amberg's stook company. 1She bad been on the stage since babyhood. Her father and mother lived in Berlin. Her father was an Italian singer of note, but died some years pgo. Tho girl's mother is a German writer and novelist, and ebe was ambition: for her child, and hoped elle would make a good match. The Editorial "We. New York World : As Artemuo Weed says, the man with a tape -worm is justified in saying " We." It is noted in the Now York stores that the now silks for dinner and evening toilets aro magnificent in design and coloring. Flowers and sprays of the most delioions tints almost cover the most exquisite grounds of rich brooadon. -Pride Pike £he Bummer gir good Before the fall. A LITTLE WAIT. �Vlydinls Omcers and Italian Navvies Have a Battle. On Twelve Pole Creek, near Wayne Court House; Va., on Friday, a terrible 'fight occurred between a sheriff's pose and a gang of Italian railroad laborers. Several Italians were killed and a number wounded. Some weeks ago a contractor on the Nor- folk & Weetern Railroad named Keough went away, leaving numerous creditors, among the number being the Italians. A new contractor took possession of the abandoned works, and put a number of laborers to work in a out formerly. worked by the Italians. The Italians refused to allow any one to work on the out until they had received their pay, and proceeded to suet the new laborers. Three times the new laborers were run mit by the Italians, who used stones, clubs, knives and pistols. The oontraotor then applied to th I THE TEMPERANCE WORLD „r.-^, h _' ,•u.7. ,oy ,::rug: :r,, n-; ,;4,:t The Ram' Curse in Africa- Tationsl W. II^ T. U. Convention—A Neglected Child.. ren's Act—Missionary Work. in Japan. Mrs. Varooe, of Melbourne, Australia, a popular and powerful temeeranoe speaker,. who is eepeoially interetied in juvenile work, has been gazetted as a constable under the " Neglected Children's Aos," and now has. authority to arrest destitute children or those found in immoral places, and to have them committed 15 her charge by magistrates. These children are kept in a home, established by her, until foster parents are found them. Miss Jessie A. Ackerman, the emend " round the -world -missionary" for the W. C.T.U., lately addressed a Congregational Conference in Japan, composed of about forty native ministers, and. a religions gath- ering of about 600 Buddhist atadenta. The students were trying .to cry down a man '1 posse of a dozen men, headed by the sheriff of Wayne county. 'On Friday the sheriff 'attempted to arrest the Italians, who fiercely resisted, and a combat resulted, with forty or more Italians on one side, armed with stones, knives and revolvers, and the sheriff's men on the other. The Italians . fought from behind trees and rooke. The firing became .general, and ladted some minutes. When the smoke had cleared away several Italians were - found in the last throes of death, and several more were wounded. The sheriff's men escaped with a few sovere bruises. About twenty Italians were arrested and jailed. The remainder escaped. A SUNDAY SIIRASH-IIF. A Freight Runs Into an Excursion Train With Disastrous Results. A Sunday's Chicago dispatch says : At 8 o'olook to -night a switch engine on the Ohmage, Burlington & Quinsy Railwayran into age rear of an excursion train on the 111' VIr veiled, but they listened to Mies Acker- man, and frequently applauded. The license system is acid to be a great • failure in Winnipeg, where there is hardly one saloon closed on Sunday andjpo pekoe are worked harder than ever. �7 Nebraska with 600,000 less population, has 71 more boys in prison than Kansas. Convention of the National W. C. T. II. By 'invitation of the Governor and his Council, the Senate and the House of Georgia, and the Mayor of Atlanta, the National W. O. T. U. convention is to be held in that metropolis of the south this year. All the States and territories and the District of Columbia will be repro- eented by delegates duly elected and having • - book of them a constituency larger than in any previous year. October 29th is set apart as a day of prayer for the conven- tion. It is expected that William T. Stead, of England, will be present and make an address. A new feature will be three minute epeeohes by the forty-four. State and ._Territorial -Presidents, giving the outlook in their respective fiel 'Td The Soni Curse in Africa, Commerce is growing with great rapidity. Already fifteen steamers run regularly on the lower Congo, and ten river boats also navigate the stream. Four European mail steamers call each month at the mouth of the river. A railroad has been surveyed, and will soon be built, 275 miles long, to connect the lines of navigation, half of the money to construct which will be advanced by Belgium. All nations have an oppor- tunity to furnish the other half of the needed capital. This will go far toward the development of Africa and the suppres- sion of the infamous slave trade. But there is a terrible evil connected with thin commercial enterprise. It is the trafilo in strong drink. The' cupidity of so-called civilized nations, linked to the terrible appetite for liquor, especially strong ih the natives of atrium, has been developing the ,linger, -kini_oese to .alarming__ proportions. One of the worst features of this is the groat impediment it puts in the way of ,Christianity. Islam claims jade- -diction over nearly the half of Africa, and it has been estimated that the adherents of Mohammedanism number about 50,000,000• -more than the followers of all other religions combined. It is true, the Arab- ians tolerate and carry on the treffio in claves, but their -religion absolutely prohib- its the use of intoxicating drink. Africans with any degree of 'intelligence must see ,. that it is only a question of time when the, "slave -trade shall be destroyed. The devel- opments of civilization, with their co-oper- ation, will inevitably. accomplish this. But they must also observe the terrible havoo wrought by strong drink. Cupidity and the strong appetite of the people make a gloomy onticok for the suppression of the liquor traffic. We can see ;;that the. natives must bo bewildered as to which i& bettor -Islamism or Chris- tiaitity. Little help is to be expected from the natives in the suppresehon of . tho liquor business. The great reeponsibility must, therefore, devolve upon European nations and the United States. It is to our disgrace that vast . quantities of fiery rum are shipped every month from Boston to Africa, and the most or it is made in Massachusetts. We know the deadly power of strong drink among the aborigines, especially in the case of our own North A.merioan Indians. Hence Congrees hes put the ban upon the trade among the Indians. -Ex. Illinois Central near 18th street. At this hoar-40-people-are--repolkeiritiii i and large number injured. For a time the con- fusion was so great that even an approxi- mate idea of,the loss of lite was impossible to obtain. First reports from the police had it that 40 people probably hadmet death, while the railwayofficials said only two or three persons were certainly known to have been killed. Within half an hour, however, four mangled corpses had been dragged out of the heap of broken timbers and twisted iron that marked the spot where the collision took plece. By this time it had also been ascertained that at least three other persons were seriously in- jured and six others slightly. The collision took place near Douglass Park, and the vic- tims were Sunday exoursionists returning to the city. The freight train crew assert that they passed Millard avenue under a clear, signal. Millard avenue is only a short distance from where the smash-up -occurred; _.- -� . - _..- A Cute Sharper. Several California papers, recently con- tained a matrimonial, appeal signed by a " young and beautiful Hungarian maiden, an orphan without means, but well edu- cated and with domestic tendencies, who seeks a companion for life." The answers were' to be directed to Paris, , where the young lady was employed as a nurse. Incredible as it may seem a dozen offers from marriageable young 'Frisconians came over the sea. A lively correepond- onoe ensued, and finally each of the wooers received an exquisite photograph and an affirmative answer from the beautiful Hungarian maiden, with the request that the lover should send the necessary' cash for a transatlantic, passage ticket. The swindler, or the syndicate of swindlers, netted 6,000 marks in all by the trick. And now the prospective bridegrooms, among whom are some well known names, dare not whisper their Misery. To California and Florida Free. The Fireside Weekly, the popular Canadian story paper, is offering subscribers such tremendous prizes asa free, trip to Cali- fornia and return, first-class ; a $200 seal- skin mantle; handsome Shetland Pony ; return ticket to Florida, first-class ; silver Tea Set ; Lady's Gold Watch ; , china Tea Set ; Mantel Clock ; silver Watch ; Dickens' Works; Waverly Novels, and many more. These prizes are for persons sending the greatest number of words constnoted from the letters " Fireside Weekly." The son. tort is open to everyone sending in with their list $1 for Tho Fireside Weekly for Six Months, whish also entiltes them to a handsome premuim. The competition will be open for sixty days, but an additional prize of an elegant silver water pitcher is offered to the largest list received daring September. 'Send five one -cent stamp] to 9 Adelaide St. West, Torontoi for sample Dopy and premium supplement. In the Far Southwest. Mrs. Colt (wife of COI. Colt, of Texan - As I was going by Turner's this morning, John, I heard Jim Bluff say that if justice had its due you'd have adorned a telegraph pole long ago. Col. Colt (springing up from dinner table) -Jim Bluff, You say ? Let me—. Wife -Now, John, please finish your dinner. . The shooting will keep. A Secret That is Safe. Toronto News : Mr. Handsome -Ob, you know, mother, women can't keep a mord. His mother -Yes they can, my son. You have been industriously courting that Miss Highfly for a year, and you don't know her real ago yet. From the Same Catch. Boston Commonwealth : At table -Hi, waiter, this binefieh is not quite as fresh as the ono you brought me last week. . Waiter -Excuse me, sir, it is ono of the very same lot. �_ Garibaldi's widow is about to contract a marriage with a Dr. Gabriel Tanferna, who is engaged at the naval academy in Leghorn. Signora Garibaldi made his ac. gnaintance on the occasion of the illness of her son, Manlio, about two years ago. LastJune, wbon staying at Maddalena, she was visited by Admiral Tabrani and his wife, and in the of other visitors, officers and friends, in 'educed Dr. Tanferna Wien Tutor() ¥nebsn The weddin 'da i fixed yet. g y ]not An Interesting Masonic Dlecovery.- . The. Rev. Mr. Haskott Smithicar of Brauncewell, in Lincolnshire, said to have made a discovery of opeaial interest to freemasons. Mr. Smith has been sojourn- ing for some months with the Druses of Lebanon; by whom he has been admitted into the most intimate relations, in cones. quenee of the service rendered by him in moiling the vemon of a deadly snake from the body of a popular young member of their tribe. Among other marks of favor, Mr. Smith was initiated into -a number of mysterious rites, and among these, accord- ing to his narrative we are quoting, his hosts startled him, as a freemaeon, by pass- ing the most . characteristic of maeonio signs. Hence Mr. Smith argues that these strange people, who by some aro believed to be lineal deeoendanta of the noient Hittites, aro a branch of the great Phoenician race, whose ancestor a plied Lebanon cedars to the -builders of Sol- omon's temple. -London Daily News. The Average Length of Life 6entences. " Fifteen year] is about the average life- time sentence," says a prison physician. " Very few oonviets, though sentenced for life, serve more than that period. They die or are pardoned. " In the Missouri prison there are five holiday pardons every year granted by the Governor. One white and ono negro con- viot are pardoned on the 4th of July, and two white and ono negro convicts are par- doned on Christmas. The long•termers get the benefit of this clemency. Thisnl heartily endorse. If fifteen yearn does not reform a man fifty years will'not."-Glove• Democrat. The Man Wanted. Now York. Herald : " Manager --What is your name ? Applioan't-Mull igata money. Manager -You are engaged. Wo need all the exporienotd snpes we oan get. .:,.-bunclha-of fano -gy arpes-thatyb oan - hold in ono 'hand brings $2 25 in Phila- delphia.