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CANADA TO .MER COUSIN.
The men of brawn the ardtles truly bald,
Areborn In climes tompparatively cold.
Ileum in her glory fell by northern Huns ;
France left her fame in Russia, and her sora.
Albion admonisbed France In sultry Spain ;
Scotland, the' strong, did scarce disperse the
Dane;,
Thy Northern hosts dissevered slavery's chain,
And we victorious, were at Lundy's Lane.
There thou 'gaiust peaceful neighbors and all
law+
Bidet make thyself a foe wit 1 t rt s
Except the wolfs sophistic faded one,
To blame the lamb howe'er the river run—
And thought to wrench—it was tby only
chance—
While Albion battled with infuriate France,
This brightest gem In her tiara large.
But could not. stand before a British charge.
, while they rtghte•to which thou art untrue
Were bought by her for thee at. Waterloo.
WhoAave 41913,,I.e.P fthgir;, . P, r,to i r�neTM-
'A,l`txnii3iifi'4on
I i Gaul thy sire ? or Spam ? t•r'by bis health
Did the Russ rock thy crib.? Who gave the
brth ?
Great Brllianlfrom her blood imperial rolled
The power thine envy hates, .as once of old
Rash Brutus envied (.m+ar, not could bear
One equal the wide world, of Rome to share.
Who carved thy corner -stones?- Who framed
the sills -
thy proud citiee ? Many .a man who•fllla
.A grave more honored bere than in that land,
Built the first tares, thy Pet,nsylvantas planned,
.�t41a1.:t . _
•- ._T_-1- ,�
Leaving their lands, their learns, their homes to
• thee,
Who neve : paid, and ce'er intend to pay
For th Joh is thy boast, thy power, thy
pre
Thou art at fabled tree whose branches high
Scorn the strong roots that bold them in the sky.
Bu, let it pass ; perchanoe,'tie by God's will
England should aid thee thus, as we do still,
Sty laws more free, by loyalty unfeigned;
For all republics are by thrones sustained.
If George the First did err, proves theta sight
Por thee to rob whue'er refused to fight
•Glait,st F,eedo u's throne, which, tho' that in-
stant wrong,
• Has braced the world and helped to make thee
strong?
That time thy revolutionists awoke. -
tAnd, as they phrase It, brake the British yoke,
Three times a thousand loyal subjects left
The land rebellious'gainst its king, and cleft
Their way tbro' tyranny by swords aflame.
Miro' want for which no history has a name;
Harassed by hungering wolves, by human
wrong- ,
'flow long the way, how slow the anaroh along]
RIB in the liberal shelter of, these hills
They hewed them homes begirt by woe's worst
ill
Andsubso' subsequently that vile war which rose t
aii1t ate ms who are not, nor should be foes,
Bed >)ls were fought along Niagara's flood,
Aged gr of shed tears ; their son's, more freely,
blood.
'And yet, tho'.ott ill clad, an hungerect cold,
lUneurbed by thee, unconquered, uncontrolled.;
Still true to Freedom's ilag they heaped the
slain
dot grim Aegreesion high on Lundy's Lane.
Strait we to whom they left this goodly land,
Bright, tho' blood -purchased, with its record
grand.
Shall we all weakly yield without a blow
Those ih.lds so won in glorious war? - Ah, no.
There's a huge gulf of hindrance, and, of late
Thy acts h- ye magnified it into fate.
Dome not with annexation to repay
That which thy Fenian raiders filched away.
Thine Alabama surplus reimburse
Ern it . ieterylF y.tyor1d-and-thy-ewe,
Or dost thou mean to purchase all these scenes
With that sane surplus which is still the
Queen's?"
Thy bo . st is to be free—we too revere
All that is truly such, but find it here.
„Annex us not, nor with aggression woo,
Or by the tingling blood that still throbs thro'
Ourveins from theirs' who honorably bled—
A living witn-ss from the deatbless dead—
Th .0 shalt not own this land they grandly gave
Till each true bon adds to their gift a grave.
,Andrew Ramsay, N.17,
•
TIEN GllOS DANOE•
Wamore and 8gnaws Tread a Oirole Until
They Fa
A WEIRD SCENT
d Weromege Kinn CJtEEK, Via Pine Ridge
ty. B.D., to Rushville, Neb., says Q
Accompanied by Buokekin Jack Rumen,
the scoot, Major Burke, and a halt breed
named Half Eyes, • reporter witneeged one
of the famous ghost dances of the Sioux.
Mounted on oayuee ponies, the party
started •early last evening for the Wounded
Knee The trail lay ober a roc LroieliAK
,w
auurtllWri Suralriltase is pow
yellow and short and where snow lies in
the depression° in the earth. Half Eyes
wage in the -lead. The travelling was bard
and extremely painful, and it was: nearly
daybreak when the low, moaning chant of
the Biomeand the snarling of their dogs
were heard in the distance.
The camp of the eanatioe could not be
seen until the ridge of the low chain of
Your Choice of Girls.
Wilmington News :
There's the pretty girl
And the wi ty girl,
And the girl that bangs her hair
The girl that's a flirt,
And the girl that is pert,
And the girl with the baby stare.
There's the dowdy girl
And the rowdy girl,
And the girl that is always late
There's the girl df style,
And the girl of wile,
And the girl Kith the mincing grit.
There's the tender girl,
And the slender. girl,
And the girl that says her prayers ;
There's the haughty girl,
And the naughty girl,
And the girl that puts ou airs.
There's the tolu girl,
And the " fool you " girl,
And the girl that bet: on races ;
There's the candy girl,
And the hatdy girt,
And the girl that has two faces.
There s the well-bred girl,
And the well-read girl,
And the girl with the sense of duty
There's the dainty girl,
And the " faiuty"girl,
And the girl that has no beauty.
There are many others,
Oh, men' and brothers,
Than are n mad in this narration;
There are girls and girls,
And they're all , 1 them pearls,
They're the best thing in creation.
The Queer 'Noy.
W. H. S tn St Nich•las :
Se dot 't like study, "it weakens bis eyes,"
But th rigt,t sort" of book will insure a sur-
prise
Let it be about Indians, ,pirates or hear.
,And he's lost for the day to all munaano
aff..irs ;
By aunligbt or gaslight hie vision is clear,
Now isn't that queer?
At thought of an errand he's " tired as a
houte.,1
Very weary of life and of "tramping around,"
Brit if there's a band or a circus in sight,
He will follow it gladly from morning till
might
The ehuwman willicapture him some day, I fear,
For he is so queer.
If there's work in the garden, his head "aches
to split,"
And his back is so lame that he "can't dig a bit,"
. But mention baeodall and he's cured very
soon.
And h"'il dig fora woodchuck the whole after -
0o i.
Do think he "plays 'possum"? He `seems
qu ito sinvete ;
But—isn ho queer.
'I he 0 wo 'tt ays.
Manchester Grocer's .Review
Man td the plow,
Wtfe to the cow,
Boy to the mow,
Girl to ho cow,
And your rents will bo netted.
Man tally -ho,
Wife piano,
Boy Greek and Latin,
Girl anti and satin,
And you'll soon be gazetted,
Good IA ora For the Widow:
Cape Cod Item :'
If you marry a maid
And expect to find bliss,
You'll coufeep, I'm afraid;
That you've married amine.
But I'm curtain of this,
If to marry you're led,
Yoe} won't wed a miss
If a widow you wed.
A wholesale f xpaieion ct
Paris is expected.
IBIili LAND BILL.
Mr. Balfour Introduces' the Measure in
Parliament—Hr. ParnellVotesWith the
Government
iondon .cable oaya .. In the. House ,of
Qommona yesterday Mr. Balfour intro•
duped the Irish Land Bill. He said the
Government's polioy was the same se in
1889, but for simplibity the .bill had been
oat in two. Both portione, however, .were
practically the same as in the bill of 1889
One variation of the present bill from that
of last year was that it met in some degree
Mr. Pnenel e views. Mr. Perna! had aug.
Rested that privilege of pn�rohrsee be con -
250 valuation. Though he (Balfour) oonld
not swept exactly that limitation, he had
altered the, scope of the .bill by'exolnding all
purely grazing farms, and farms whose
tenants did not reside on them. Amongst
other ohaneee embodied in the new bill one
had reference to the objection taken at the
last session to a limit of twenty years' pur-
chase then proposed. That limit did not
_ , appear in the new bill. (Cries A_
w- - rf ctbid , , e • Ile
one con d see the fires burning. The trip Viceroy to extend the period of five years,
was hazardous, owing to the frenzy of the during which 8 per cent; of the purchase
hostile I-ndiens and their knowledge of the money was payable. In regard to inorese-
arrival of the troops. Half' Eyee tethered •ing the powere of local authoritiee,Mr. Bal.
the ponies near the ridge, and the rest of four said he considered that the original
the trip wee made on foot. The sky was proposals in the bill were the beet that
just flushing with the dawn when the expe- could be devised. Land purchase in Ire-
dition reached a clump of young cotton- land was not a local question at all. The
woods whioh skirted the 'banks of the government was using the British credit
Wounded Knee. From foie point„an excel- to oarry out this vital reform not primarily
lent view could be had of the dance, .which for this country or that, but for the benefit
was at its meet exciting stage. of the empire as a whole.
As near as Half Eyes could estimate, 182 p (Conservative
y cheers) Another consideration was the
bnoks and equawe were in the dance. A foot that the land question in Ireland was
big tree stood is the middle of the oirole of largely used for political objects. It would
Indiana. Squatted on the ground within a be, absurd, therefore, to leavethe oommuni-
redins of sixty yards were 409 other ties under the incitement of agitators to
Indians, who were chanting with the determine whether they should adopt a
dancers. Many of the redo were in war remedy going to the root of agrarian die.
paint. Some of them were naked to the content. (Parnellite laughter.) If they
hips, and across their big, mueoalar breasts were given a loose oontrol in any form It
were etreekeof red and yellow paint. Beads ought to be by a plebiscite of ratepayers,
tinkled from their poronpine.fringed lege enabling them under the 'safeguard of the
and eagle feathers hung from the orowns of ballot to vote upon the question of grant -
their lose heads. a contingent (portion of the guarantee
fnid for eaoh county.
Mr. Labouchere. moved an amendment
against. pledging the imperial credit
for the purchaee of land until the
country should have given ite concent at a
general election.
The amendment was rejeoted 268 to 117.
Mr. Gladstone, Sir William Vernon Har-
court and Mr. Morley walked out before the
vote wee taken. Mr. Parnell and all the
Parnellite members voted with the Govern-
ment. The Bill was then given its first
reading amid the cheers of the Government
f-eunportere.
When the Parnellites were flocking into
the division lobby to vote on the amendment
there was a sodden unnenel movement
seemingly instigated by Mr. Healy, who
with Mr. Sexton and a large contingent
turned' book and. abstained from voting,
while Parnell, . Mr. Power and about 30
others supported the Government.
glossy Some of the dancers
were robed in white cotton cloth, which
waspinned at the breaet and drawn over
the head in the form of a hood. Five
medicine men sat on the ground oateid° of
the oirole. They were old men, with
wrinkled, skinny faces, and ae the chant
rose and fell, according to the vigor of the
drumming, they waved medioine stioke
above their heads. These sticks were.
painted,green, with handles fashioned after
the shape of snakes. The denoers held one
another's bands end moved slowly around
he tree. They did not raise their feet as
high as th_-^_ey do ;n -the -gun donee oat --o
the time it looked as though 'their ragged
mocoseine djd not leave the ground, and the
only resemblance to dancing was .the weary
bending of the knees..
'I otind. and round the, dancers went, with
their eyes closed • and their heads bent
toward the ground. The chant was inces-
sant and monotonous. E ' " I see my father,
I see my mother, I see. my brother, I see
my -sister; '-woe Half Eyes rano ation of
the ohant, as the equates and warriors moved
laboriously about the tree. Half Eyes said
the dance had been going on all night.
Stretched neon, the ground close to the
tree were two warrior° and one squaw.
They were in a fit of a"oataleptio nature.
Their faces were turned to the sky, and
their hands clutched the yellow grass. One
of the warriors was a tromendoue fellow,
whose breaet was soerred and painted, and
whose ears were pierced with ringe. The'
dancers paid no attention to them. Their
eyes were closed. Suddenly one of
the warriors ,on the ground leaped to hie
feet end exclaimed : " I have seen the
Great Father but be will not talk to me."
Then the other warrior got up and orisd :
I have seen the Great Father but he will
not talk to me because I have no ponies."
The egoaw was the last to get up on her
feet. She was a yont g woman with belle
on her blanket, and a red oohre streak
marked the line where her ravenblack
hair was parted. In a shrill voice she
oriel out : -
" I have Been the Great Father. He sent
an eagle, which pinked me up and parried
me to a far -away mountain' The Great
Father told me that the whites would be
driven from the country ; that the Indians
would rule the land, end the buffelo and
deer would return."
The Indians now danced with greater
vigor, and their cries were louder and more
vehement, hut they kept their eyes closed.
Round and renin they danced, some of
them so fatigued that they pitched forward
on their faces on the grass. Their faces
were distorted with pain, but there was no
stop for food, drink or rest. One pby one
squaw and warrior fell unconscious upon
the ground, and as they did so they beat
their heads against the tree and on the sand
ones nntil the blood equirted from
their wounds. One big Indian, whom Half.
Eyes recognized me Big Roadrolled and
tumbled oia the ground until his splendid
face was a mese of ante and swellings.. Ae
each dancer fell the circle, was reformed
and the dance resumed. Nearly all the
dancers were covered with wounds from
previous exertions. One of,the bucks wore
a white hood and cloak smeared with blood,
and be danced in his bare feet.
The sun had been up two hours when
the dance closed from °beer exhaustion .of
the • Indians. ' They fell in . all kinds of
positions, and many of them were in oats.
leptio'fits. The fires, burned dimly and the
medioine men nodded over their wends.
The dance was over for en hour.at least.
A Football Rusher.
Week's Sport: "Clara," said old Mr.
Snmmet, "who ie that fellow that ie bang-
ing around yon every night lately ?"
"I don't think you ore to have much to
doith him, father," replied the youcg
lady`, with the air of repose which comes
from perfect trust. "He is one of the
rushers on football team."
Gold is worth $309.05 a pound ; platinum,
$123 63 ; eilver, $15 83; aluminum, $1 82 ;
manganese, 57 cents ; nickel, 54/. cents ;
tin, 23} oento ; copper, 12/ cents ; met
steel, 3 Dents ; iron, 2 oente. This is from
e table prepared by a French scientific
journal. But the (Recovery of new promisees
cheapened aluminum to about half the
figures given in the het."! I can't stand thestrain," remarked
Nihilists froth jthe nervone man an he threw a brick at the
hand -organ grinder,—BuPao Express,,
GOVERNMENT AID FOR HOOD.
Be Will be Remunerated Handsomely and
be Helped in his Discoveries.
A Berlin'cable says : Dr. Bergmann, in
a lecture last night, declared that the secret
of the composition of Prof. Kooh's curative
lymph wag the exclusive property of Prof.
Koob. Dr. Bergmann illustrated the de-
grees of fever after each injection, and ex-
plained thy, quantity of lymph required in
the various oases. The number of physici-
ans coming to Berlin to study Hooh'a
method hes not lessened. There were 132
arrivals yesterday: The Government of
Prussia will shortly introduce a bill in the
Diet providing for the establishment of an
institute of bacteriology at which Prof.
Kooh may pursue his studies. Connected
with the institute will be five infirmaries.
containing 150 beds. After, allotting to
Prof. Kooh an adequate grant for hie dis-
covery the Government will undertake the
work of producing the lymph.
Dr. John Perowne. '
Dr. Perowne, Dean of Petereborough, bas
accepted the bishopric of Worcester. The
new dean wee educated at Corpne Christi
college, Cambridge, where he had a veity
distinguished oareer, being Bell's univer-
sity eoholar, and oarrying off the Crosee
scholarship, the Tynwhitt Hebrew aehelar-
ehip, and the member's prize. He was
admitted to the desoonate in 1847, and,
advanced to the priesthood a year later. In
186.2 he went to Wales as vice-principal of
St. David's College, Lampeter, and it was
probably owing to hie ten years in Wales
that early last year he was offered the
biehoprio of Bangor. In 1872 he returned
to Cambridge, holding in succession the
offices of preeleotor in theology in Trinity
College, of Lady Margaret professor, and of
Huleean professor. In 1873 he took hie
D. D. degree, and in • 1874 was appointed
Cambridge preacher et Whitehall. In 1879
theearl of Beaconsfield appointed him dean
of Peteraborough; •where bhe bee greatly
improved the services, and succeeded in
Teetering the cathedral ander oironmtences
of unparalleled. difficulty: He hoe 'been e
proliflo and successful author.
The Government Must Pay.
A St. John's, N. B., deapatail says : The
ease of Robert B. Hnmprey vs. The Queen
was finished in the Exchequer Court to-
day. The plaintiff oleimed $5,000 damages
from the Dominion Government for can-
celling a contract for steamer services
between St. John, Dieby and Annapolis,
after he bad gone to great expense in eeour-
ing and refitting a vessel for the service.
Judge Burbidge deoided that the Govern.
ment had made a breach of contract, and
left it to A. 0. Fairweather to aesees,
damages.
Tired of Her Clerical Mate.
A Brooklyn despatch says : Maria Mo-
Guire, wife of Rev. Hugh McGuire, rector
of Christ Episcopal Church in this city,
bee brought an action for` a separation
against her husband on the ground of
oruelty and inhuman treatment. She
asserts that he has twine placed her in en
insane asylum for the purpose of getting
her out of the way, and on severed 000aeions
struck her. The couple were married in
1876-
-When a man goes npetairs late at
night and skips every other stair in an
endeavor to keep (inlet he always seems to ,
skip the steps that don't creek.
li[tDE NO CONFESSION.
Leathern, Who Heard Birchall'sTalk With
Bev. Mr. Wade, Says Se.
A Montreal despatlSh says : Md Arthur
Leathern, Birohall'° old college chum, re-
turned home from Woodetook to d-sy,,
Being asked regarding Birobsll'u alleged
concession, Mr. Leethem acid : ” I do not
think that Birchen ever made any eon-
teaaion to*. Wade. He may. indeed,
have recounted wh a knew of the crime
to Mr. Wade a little m re accurately or ex-
tensively than he did i his antobiography,
but that he made a co feseion that he was
the aotnal perpatrttt of the deed I de not
fora moment believe, nor do the prison
ilioj.4tehnur,tl? .fie, xndeeteteie a s,, .gip ;t,
it;� . , L � o. , ,.. � yam:.
o�ta1T�%eiteve that he made a confession.
For my part, I thoroughly believe that
Birohall did not do the somal killing him-
eelf, and 'hie, I may say, is the view of the
jail officials and rosily of the people of
Woodetook. If Biroball had made any
confession to Rev. Mr. Wade, the prison
authorities would know of it, as they were
always within hearing of what was said
between Birohall and Rev. Mr. Wade.
conversation between Rev. Mr. Wade and
Birohall, and-Birohall node no confession
at that time. The remark made by Mr.
Wade to a reporter that he might"' be called
upon to.make Birohall'° statements public,
I do not take to mean that he hes any
confession from Birohall. I think that Mr.
Wade meant that in case any one else was
amused of being implicated in the crime,
his evidenoe would be of value." -
TELEGRAPHIC SST•
Hall & Qo.'e private bank et Duluth M
Vended on Saturday.
The council of the Board of Trade 01
Toronto will visit .Sudbury..
There has been a great boom Novel
Bootie coal ahipments she pad season.
The November grand jury in Chicago
found 137 true bills against pool sellers.
The Northwest Aesemblji prorogued old
Saturday without passing the Supply Bill.
Several earthquake shooks were felt at
Genneredorf, Lower ,iustria, on etiuts+'
day.
1
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,Yi�l'E!�"�,O��ii�G''"Bf'`�.�iil1<flbl���F)'-'�Snt�t�J�I��D,Y'�L r �` .
rogued after refusing to pass the Supply
Bill.
Five persona have so far died in .
Berlin while being treated with the Kooh .
cure.
Navigation on the River Werner etween
Bremer and Bremerhaven has been closed 4
by ioe.
N
THE CORONER WAS IN A HURRY.
He Delays a Court to Get an Inquest and
Incurs the Judge's Wrath.
A Halifax deep/itch says : rt is now
definitely known that the list of killed in
yesterday's accident will number eight,
and little hopes are entertained for the
young man Adam Armstrong, of Carleton,
who wee so terribly scalded. Three men
died to-day—Hayes, Lynch and Galt.
Coroner Robinson is now holding an in-
quest. A number of those connected with
the mill say that when the water wee very
low in the boiler the pumps were turned
on, and the cold water coming in contact
with the red-hot iron paused the boilers to
buret.
Coroner Robinson, who is coroner in the
locality where the accident occurred, was
serving on a Circuit Court jury, and his
abeenoe from court canoed the delsy of a
case. The judge becamehighly indignant
and adjourned court. This afternoon
Robinson put in an appearance and the
judge delivered his charge. After the ver-
dict had been given the judge arose and
`demanded an explanation. Robinson
offered an apology, but the judge refused to
accept it. He said : " I will venture tomer
thea yon went to prevent any other coroner
holding the inquest: Your motion ie a com•
pieta contempt of court and an outrage of
the worst kind." Robinson was then dis-
mieeed from the panel and fined the full
penalty.
ATPiize for Drunkenness.
Montreal ,Herald : The correspondent of
La Presse who accompanies oar real estate
men in their sojourn in Chicago, sends the
paper he represents an amusing account
of what he calls a "Prize for Drunken-
ness," which is being competed for in a
saloon on. West Randolph street. He Bays:
A large sign board placed over the extreme
bears the words " A gold watoh is given
every month to the customer having the
largest number of tickets. One ticket is
elven with every glass of whiskey or other
liquor." -
'Willie's Question.
Washington Post r Pop," said Willie,
" our joggerfy says there ain't nothin' but
snow and ioe at the ,,north- pole. e
that to ?"
44 Yes."
" And is it- the same way at the south
pole ?"
'a Yes°"
" Well, then, that's why these men you
read about are constantly talking about
being frozen out at the polls, ain't it ?"
Testing the Young Lawyer.
Insurance Man—I don't know whether
to pay this policy or not.
Young Lawyer—What is the difficulty ?
L M. -The only proof of death I have
rezeived is a letter from the man himself
saying that he died ten days ago.
Y. M. (impressively)—H'm. That dyes
seem ouapioiouee What is the deceased's
reputation for veracity ?
He Was Engaged.
Brooklyn Life : Managing Editor—So
you're a distinguished Yalegraduate, are
you''?
Applicant—Yee, I was champion of the
football team.
Managing Editor—Ba hat can yon do•
in a newspaper office?
Applioant—I emu kiok poets down:stairs,
The Lady or the Mitten ?
Jack Hustle—Will you marry me?
Rita Hustle—This ie so endaen—give me
time. -
Jack Hustle—Yon can't afford td waste
any more time. Yon mast be 26 now.
Say yes, pita.° --Puck.
.Unsteady.
City Itirectdr§ Man (to boarding.honse
mistress)—glow many man bparders have
yon, madam, that are steady boarders ?
Boarding Mistress—Well, I've ten men
that board with me right along, but there'°
only one of them that I call steady.
Ike Right Ring.
Town Crier : He—I We you passionately,
my darling 1.
She— Ah ! Thst remark bas the genuine
engagement ring. '
The "Annond" and " Rose" gold mines
at Montagne, N. B., are yielding very rich
ore et present. Mr. Annond Cross of the
Halifax Chronicle, who is the owner of the
Annond mine, showed' a Globe repreeenta•
tive some very valuable specimens this
week. A scraggy lump held in the palm of
the hand was worth 9600. Mr. At M,o-
Quarrie, the manager ata the mince, pro.
dnoad a small brink worth $500.
The extensive silk mills of Bamford
Brosand the 'residences dof Joseph and
Walter Bamford at Patereon, N. J,, were
burned on Saturday. Logia, 9400,000,
oronto is costing the city evil. $350 a
eeeeion.
The writ for South Victoria hie been
leaned. Nomination, Deo. 11th; polling, a
week later.
The Canadian Pacific) Railway Company
is about to erect twenty grain warehouse,
throughout Mai:Oobs.
Major-General Herbert, the new com-
mander of the Canadian militia, arrived
at Halifax by the Sardinian yesterday.
Jay Gould bas, bought the works of• the
Hntohineon, Kansse, Salt Company, whom
plant is said to 1 e the largest in the United .
States.
Blanchard, who lies under sentence of
death, was baptized into the Romain
Catholic Church in Sherbrooke jail on °,
Friday.
Co). Tiedale and Henry A. Harmon have
been appointed receivers for the Potts
Lumber & Salt Company's estate in
Michigan.
The fund to place Major Wiesmann'a
steamer on the Victoria Nyanza amounts
to 200,000 marks. The sum required is
400,000 marks.
Eighty-seven bodies have been found in
the.flooded Anne pit .of the Bruex Mining
Co., Germany. Seventy-eight miners were
recovered alive.
The Michigan Central has finished
double -tracking the road between Welland
and Otteroliffe, and the trains will run on
it regularly henceforth.
A company is being formed in Manioh
under Prof.- Ziemmssen—with-a -capital-o¢
2;000,000 marks to establish a Kooh `sani-
tarium in the old Gumphan palaoe.
The steel mill of the Bethlehem Iron
Company has shut down, throwing 1,000
hands.out of employment. Offioiale . say
the shut down ie necessitated by laok of .
ordera.
There are ,1,350 members of the
Railway.-_Conductors'--Mutual—A-id and
Benefit Association, and during the pasts
year $41,000 was paid in claims for. 101
deaths.
Kenyon, the young man who stabbed
Loughead at Comber a week ago, bas been
released, the matter having been settled by
Kenyon assuming all costs and payment for
time lost.
Saturday evening a banquet was given
in honor of Joe T. Clark, retiring editolt•
of the Piokering News, on the eve of hie
departure to become editor of the Daily
Tribune in West Toronto.
A Chicago paper says the threshing
machine manufacturers of the United
States are busily engaged in forming a
trust, which will equal in magnitude the
recently formed harvester combine.
A Windsor despatch , says : The cattle -
stealing fiends of Colchester South now take
revenge on *tier enemies by 'poisoning
horsee belongft fo the latter. Wm. Parker,
who ie prosecuting Todd Qniok, is the latest
victim.
The German Reiohetag will be asked
for fifty million marks for the army, per,
of which .is to provide new munitions add
part to alter the color of the , uniforms, in
order to render the movements of the troops
less distinot when in action.
At the annual meeting of the St.
Andrew's Sooiety .in Montreal on Saturday
night Mr. MacKenzie presented the society
with a wicker trunk covered with blank
leather, which was in the poseeesion of
Prince Charlie at the battle of Culloden.
It is stated in Berlin that Lord Salle.
bury is expected to visit that oity shortly
on the invitation of Emperor William
to meet Chancellor von Caprivi and Count
Kalnoky, to bring about a closer adhesion
of England to the polioy of the Dreibund.
A veteran of the' war of 1812 and one of
the oldeet•residente of the oonntry, in the
person of Mr. Olendening, has just died
near Welland at the ripe old age of 97
years. Deceased had drawn a pension for
s great many years for hie share of the
war ,
Ab.of Douglas,1812a Guelph young man
while out shooting Saturday afternoon
nearly lost his life by the accidental dia-
oharge of his gun. He placed the gun on
the fence 'while lighting his pipe; when it .
slipped'and went off, the charge striking
him on the top of the forehead, carrying
away a portion of the skull bene.
Last night between 7 end 8 o'olook about
$4,000 was stolen during the absence of
Mr. Guillmette, gnerdian of the Charle-
voix, Que., court hoose, who was out with
his family for the evening. The door
sand -sate of the registrar are said to have
been opened by false keys. Up to the.
present hour there is no tram of the
robbers.
The Bret bill to come before the Reioh
stag on Tuesday will be ono providing for
reieing the etvenue from sugar from
60,000,000 to 93,000,,000 ,marks. This in.
crease in revenue, is to be- effected by
abolishing the tariff on raw and .increasing
the duty on refln d sugar. The preamble.
to the bill state that the export bonnty
system hes cos German ooneumere 815,000
marks annuals , 195,000 'marks being cash(
paid in bounties and the remainder being .
reckoned as the,,,Additional coat to-° .,cnuv
sumers.
Martin D. Lappy, a New 'York wife mur-
derer, hes been sentenced to die by oleo.
trioity during ills , week beginning Jann.
ary 12. •
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