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Lucknow Sentinel, 1892-03-11, Page 3E. ABBOTT'S SP,EECII. o Promise of Reciprocity With the GERRYMANDER BILL BILL PROMISED. Parliament Ooened With Much Pus '. Feathers by the Governor. His Excellency opened the second s of .. present Parliament of Ca J attending the opening are of the Although the proceedings and cerem stereotyped character year af UT year event is always looked forward to by . citizens of Ottawa with a conside degree of interest. Among the crowd assembled in front of the main tower o Parliament buildings and who lined drive oleng the grounds thereto so as able to get a glimpse of, the Regal carriage as it rolled past migh seen many faces which were there last for the same purpose for which they out to -day. The invitation list to the of the Senate chambers contained not a . of the names which have been seen ' t tor years past, yet each time as the ope comes round they are as eager to atten ever. The gentleman usher of the B Rod, Mr. R. E. Kimber, was entru . Lwith the arrangement of the progra ....to -day, as he has been for years past, as as with the sending out of the invitatio those specially favored to a seat on the of the red chamber or in the dress gall There was no lack of demand for ticket the gallery this year, and long before to -day all were disposed of. The nur printed was only limited to the seating . commodation of the gallery. The in tions to a seat on the floor were in num equal to past years. The boom of canons from IsTepean Point, detachment of the Ottawa Field Bat being assigned to fire the Royal sa shortly before 3 o'clock, announced Lord Stanley had lett Government H for the Parliament buildings. Here there along the route knots of people sembled and gazed with interest as carriage drove past. An escort un Capt. Gourdeau was supplied from Princes° Louise Dragoon Guards while Guard of Honor in command of dant Hogins was from the. Governor-Gener Foot Guards and was drawn up in front the main entrance to the Parliament bu ings. The arrival of the Vice -Regal c riage was greeted with a salute from Guard of Honor, music from the gua O band and a cheer from the crowd. L Stanley then .proceeded to the Sen Chamber where he delivered the followin $yEECH YROM THE THRONE. - Honorable Gentlemen of the Senate: Gentlemen of the House of Commons: Waffords me much gratification to •m you at the commencement of the Pari mentary session. and to be able to congra late you upon the general prosperity of t . Dominion and upon the abundant harv with which Providence has blessed all pa of the country. The lamented and untinrly death of H . Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence a Avondale has aroused a feeling of profou sorrow. The sympathy with Her :Manes • and Their Royal Highnesses the Prince a Princess of Wales irn their bereaveme which has prevailed in the Dominion . this melancholy occasion has found expre sion in respectful messages of condolen from my •Ministers, from the Provinci Governments and from many ether repr sentative bodies. The nevotiations with respect to seal fis ing in Behring Sea have been continu ' with a view to the, adjustment by arbitr tion of the difficulties which have arise between Her Majesty's Government an that of the United States on that sub* Commissioners have been appointed by bot Governments to investigate the circum stances of seal life in Behring Sea, to repo • thereon, and to suggest the measures, any, which they may deem necessary for it protection and preservation. The Com missioners are proceeding with their deli , eratisens in Washington, and the resul ' will shortly be communicated to Her Ma jesty's Government. I trust that thei • • investigations and the determination of th arbitrators who are to be 'appointedma . lead to a just and equitable. settlement o 1 this long pending difficulty. The meeting which had been arrange • with the United States Government for day in October last for an informal discus sion on the extension of trade between th • two countries and on other international mat ters requiring adjustment, was postponed a their request, but in compliance with f more recent intimation from that Govern ment three of .my Ministers proceeded t Washington and confetred with representa tives of the administration of the , United States on those subjects. An amicable un derstanding was arrived at respecting the steps to be taken for the establishment of the boundary of Alaska and for reciprocity of services in cases of wreck and salvage. Arrangements were also ' reached for the appointment of an Inter- national Commission, to report on the ii, ilerngiultenne State which d Canadabe fadoptedort1 epbreyytebn 1e - tion of destructive methods of fishing and the pollution of streams and for establish• ing uniformity. of close seasons, and ,other , meankfor the preservation and increase of fish. A valuable and friendly interchange of views respecting other important matters also took place. - In accordance with the promise given at the close of the last session, a • commission has been issued to investi- gate the working of the . Civil Ser- vice Act and other matters connected with the Civil service generally, and the report of this commission will be laid before you during the present session. The con- elueione of the Commission on the Manufac- ture of Beet Root Sugar wilt also be laid , before you. It is desirable that the fishery regulations in Britieh Coluinbia should be examined and revised, so as to adapt them better to the requirements' of the fisheries in that Province. A comminsion has been issued evith that object, e An important measure respecting the s and ession nada. onies same , the the rable who f the the to be Vice - t be year came floor few here ning d as lack sted mme well ns to floor ery. s to noon nber ac- vita- ber ing a tery lute that ouse and RS - the der the the aim al's of ild- ar- the rds ord ate g: eet ia- tu- he est rts is ud nd ty nd nt on 5 - de al e- h - ed a- t. rt if b- ts a t • a • as a result of the expressien of views elecited by its presentation t� Parliament, and will be submitted to you. Your attention will also be directed to 'measures for the redistributiou of seats consequent upon the census returns the establishment; of the Bounda0es of i the territariesneendeetheentnealgannintron 'non& Departmente of Marine and Fisheries. Bills will alai) be presented to you for the am- endment of the Civil Service Act, the Acts relating to real property in the Territories and of those respecting the fisheries. Gentlemen of the House of Commons: The accounts for the past year will be laid before you, as well as the estimates for the ensuiag year. These estimates have been prepared with a due regard to economy • and the requirements of the public service. Honorable Gentlemen of the Senate: Gentlemen of the House of Commons : I cornmeod these important subjects and all matters affecting the public interests which may be brought before you to your best consideration, and I feel assured that yon will addrese yourselves to them with earnestness and assiduity. „ The Common!! then returned to their chamber; and both Houses ad ourned. Amongst the Ministers present were Premier Abbott, Sir Adolphe Caron, Sir John Thompson, Hon. Mackenzie Bowen, O. Patterson, Dewdziey, Haggart and Ouimet. Col. Lay, the American Consul, and •Mr. VonBuyssell, the Belgian Consul, were also present. The following new members were intro- duced and took seats amidst the ap- plause of their friends : Mr. Arthur R. Dickey, Cumberland, N. S., introduced by Sir John 1 hompson and Mr. C. H. Tupper. Mr. R. R. McLennan,. Glengarry, intro- duced by Sir John Thompson and Mr. Hag- gart. kr. John A. MacDonald, Victoria, N. 5.,iit, roduced by Sir John Thompson and Mr. Tupper. Mr. Coatsworth presented petitions re- specting railway works in Toronto. Sir John Thompson—I regret that the leader of the Opposition is not able to be in his place this afternoon, and in view of that circumstanee I ask the House not to pro- ceed with the orders of the day, but to ad- journ. The House Adjourned at 3.30 p. m. • WIEDDED IRIS noaslr LOTE. Romantic Marriage of a Poor Minister to a Wealthy Toronto Lady. A New Brunswick, N. J., despatch says e - A romantic atory has been disclosed in connection with the sudden, marriage of Rev. C. J. Wilson, of George'sRoad Baptist Church, to Mrs. Emily F. Getty, of Toronto, Canada, in ' New Brunswick, on Monday evening, after a week's courtship. In an interview, Mrs. Getty told the story of her life and how she had met her husband twenty years ago, refused his handand 'ac- eepted another, and how the 'clergyman meanwhile proposed to a second and /was eccepted. About a year ago the life -part- ners of both Mrs. Getty and Rev. Mr. Wil- son died. , The romantic story leading lir to the sequel was teld as follows : Toward the close of the late war there appeared in the city of Montreal, Canada, an aspiring young clergyman whose genial nature soou made for him a warm circle of friends. Among the acquaintances •of those days was the daughter of James Elliott, Major of the Sixty -Fourth Regiment of the British Army. • He pleaded with her to take him in mar- riage. But the • young lady. had a social ambition, and the young man went his way. A dashing young Southerner fell madly in love with the fair Canadian girl with more, success than the clergyman who was none other than Rev. Mr. • Wilson. Through many years of sunsnine and cloud he and his Canadian girl, walked the path of life together; then death broke the tie that bound them. • During the years that intervened between the meeting of the Canadian girl and Rey Mr. Wilson and the. meeting now being4 recorded be found and married a woman whose virtue and many excellences of character qualified her to be to hiin the valuable assistant and loving wife that she was found to be. But death had sun- dered the ties that bound them lovingly together, so that for the last year he had been al ne. Fortune now smiled again upon ,the clergyman, 'and after a brief correspondence he was permitted- •to meet a few days ago in New Brunswick his "first love," the handsome Canadian. The first fires burned again, upon the heart's altar and again he said, " Will you be mine ?" and she sweetly answered "Yes." - On Monday evening at the wedding the bride was handsomely attired in the richest of silks, while sparkling gems decorated her ears fingers and dress. It is said that Mr. and 'Mrs. Wilson will occupy the parsonage of the George's Road Church. - • Mrs. Wilson.has impressed all who have met her as being a woman of cultivation and-ffire social qualities. She is the Presi- dent of the St. Luke's Branch Women's Auxiliary, Toronto, Canada. Mrs. Wilson is a woman of.wealth and is able to provide herself and spouse with every luitury. • • Ms Life Given in Vain. A Berlin cable says': .Lieut. Kebnitz lost his life yesterday at Frankfort -on -Oder, while attempting to save that of workman who had fallen into the river. The officer, seeing the man's danger, sprang into the river and swam to his aid. He Was ham- pered by the weight of his clothing and also by the struggles of the vvotkman, who clasped his arms around his would-be rescuer's neck and could hot be induced to release his drip, The result was that after a brave struggle the lieutenant became ex- hausted, and before help arrived from the shore both men were drewned. ?raking Down the Stove. In taking. down the stove, if any soot should fall upon the carpet or rug, cover qUickly with dry salt before sweeping, and not a mark will be left. " He may be a good lawyer, hut there is not much sense to his talk." " VVell, that isn't noticed, you know, for he talks mosily to juries," —The New York World insists that the theatres of that city should be pennitted to erimival whielt was laid before yon open- our Sunday g IT npon grounds of last session, has been revised and itnproved morality alone. •, THE RUIN OF MANY M EN. GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER, wife has a moral, If not se legal, right to know her husband's financial condition. It is not necessary for him to continually " tank shop" to her; but he can tell her in Mre. Montagu. Tied Her Little Gisl to general terms what money he has and how much he can afford to pat, ant loregenerale Foolish Extravagances of Their Wives and Fanailies Oilen Make Them Detaultors—A floinfIy Wkleh Every 'Wile and Mother Should Read. • ('rank Phelps, in Baltimore nanericane It is the habit of the unthink ng who never care to look below the surf things to argue learnedly, when de tions, embezzlements and the like o about "epidemic rinancial dishonesty,' morbid craze for speculating," the in desire for wealth," and so on, as if passions, and these only, were the causes of the evils which theydeplore.- to the thoughtful few another reason sents itself, which will, in the man* cases, account for those breaches of t and that is found in the immediato bos a man's family. There are not many men who,for the of gratifying their own selfish desires, • ply will run the risk of Staten prison life-long dishonor. Man, taken by hi alone, is usually,' inclined to be rathe honest sort of animal—if not by instinc leant by a fear of the possible conseque of his being otherwise. When he ha one but himself to eonsider, his second s judgment shows him that in the long ru pays him to be upright in his dealings his neighbors; and. being a very se creature, he does what it is easiest for to do. It is only, then, when some appeal is made t6 his nature, when natural ca,ution and common sense are o tiled ty the affection, that he is fali himself and false to those who have heir trust in him. It is, indeed, the old story Of Adam Eve over again, only in this caee Eve— resented ofteu, not only by a man's w ut also by his daughters—is not her onscioos of tempting Adam to sin ; imply does not think, that is all ! W man, respected by the community olding a responsible position of tri ails, it is the habit of the press to heral s the ease of "another good 'man g roog,"and his former friends marvel, retend to marvel, at his likirace, alemnly aver that they cannot understa eur he could have done such a thing; a hat, as for themselves, while they in aye a great many sins of •omission a °remission to aeocunt for, they do hinent possible for them to ever sink w as to beceme thieves. Now no n an, particularly a married m ught ever to make an assertion like th hero is not a man living to -day who ' c ate absolutely what he might or might n o under certain circumstances. One m rst feel all the inducements to commit t, and then resist so doing before he c eak authoritatively On such subje very properly constructed man holds ife and children in the holiest poseil ection. There is no Sacrifice that ould net make for them, no luxury th • would not deny hirnsell to make the ppy. But in this very forgetfulness lf, and love for eis own, in terrib mpation, unless his own help him to ue to himself. Let us take a case in poin A is the cashier of a bank ; he comes od, clean, unpolluted stock; he is natu y an upright and honest man ; and a sition that he holds, he has held wi nor for many years ; he is married, and h fe and two daughters, the latter just e lug society, and a son half way threug rvard, represent all that makes life wort ing. His salary and the sincorne• that h rives from a little property of his own uld, with economy, have enabled him t perly educate his son and give to h ugliters such an introduction to the eoci rld as they desired. But Mrs. A is wha, alled a Socially, ambitious woman ; sh es her husbund, but she knows nothin the value Of money, aria Mr. A doe believe in troubling his famil ut such things. As a natural result p., A, although she ia fully aware tha y have but $10,000 a year, does no why they cannot live like the B's; wh e $25,000! Elinor and Helen must, b ught up • as Mrs. B's daughter's ar dant up, and are, in fact, treated and in ged by their mother as if they were heir ectant to large fortune. Tons must join Poreellian at Harvard; and when Mr emonstrates a little at this extravaganc is effectually squelched by his better by the remark thatehe "surely mus t to make the college life of his only happy." And see for a while poor A ages to get along after a fashion, gradu- • encroaching all the time on his little cipal until, one fine day, a panic in the ey world comes along, as panics have a mecomfortabhe way of doing, and the ains of A's property are swept away, he has nothing left but hip salary to ncl on. ow ceines the crisis of this man's life. If ere alone in the world he would simple his garments according to Ws cloth, and se expenees ; but can he bear to make e whom he loves unhappy 1 , Can he ask to give up all the luxuries which now to them like necessities while a chanch ins to him to retrieve himself? No, he ot do that. He, who has always dely ulation in holy horror, putli a mortgage is house and rushes into Wallis Street. markenis against him; every step that km; drags him deeper and deeper in his ruin. At last he is irretrievably in - d there seems no hope of escapeopen m ; and then it is that the love for his y becomes the. temptation that ends in isgrace. The bank has certain funds he could have use of without detection. only could have the use of this money short time, and make one final plunge e stock market, all may yet be well with He tells himself that he has gone too o retract now, and he yields, and be- e a defaulter. Gime again he tries his in speculation, and again he loses; and again he uses the bank's funds for his purposes, with the same tesult. Then s the usual sequence in euch cases—dis- y, dishonor, suicide ! exceptional case, you say. Not a bit ; it is the history of hundreds of un - y men Who have been driven to crime gh no other caese than the sinful vagances of their own families. . They honest for themselves ; they were dis- t only for Others. Ina such a case es e ontlieed suggeste its own remedy, Is perfect confidence between line- feed wife on all money ?macre: A many ace of falca- ccur, ' the sane these real But pre- ty of rust, win of sake aim - and mself r an t, at nces s no ober n it with lfish him reat his oer- e to put and re- ife, self she hen and 1st, d it one or nd nd nd ay nd not so an, at. an ot ust an an ct. hie ele he at of le be t: of r- he th is is e. • a a lo st fi ac sp aff se te tr go all Po ho wi t er Ha liv de wo pro da wo is c ov not abo Mr the see hav bro bro dul exp the Ar he half wan son man ally prin mon very rem and depe he w cut redu thee them seem rema cann spec on h The he ta own • volve to hi fawn his d that If he for a in th him. far t COM luck still Own come cover An of it happ throu extra were hones 1 hav NV 11 rell band family expenses. And a real womanl woman will appreciate such confidence on husband's part and be a source of strength, and not of weakness, whea the family purse is cramped. NEW WEAPON OF DIERDER, Brown's New Segmental Wire Gun Sub - milted to a Severe Test. Ring in the- Wa-11-. a 8HE WAS STEANEfLED WITH Hat 13TOOKING When the hearing was ref -Med to -day Coleraine was in a state of the wildest ex- citement and a number of extra constables were on duty. Mrs. Montagu was placed in the dock. The first witness called was Miss Dosell, the governess. She repeated the evidencea she had given before the coroner's jury; to the effect that the little girl had committed some misbehavior for which she, the governess, had placed her in a bare dark room. She afterwards in- formed Mrs. Montague of what she had done, whereupon the latter, who WWI evidently much incensed at her daughter's action, went to the room and tied the little girl's,arms behind her back with a stocking. She then tied her up with a cord to a ring in the wall and h. ft her. At the expiration of four hours, m hen Mrs. Montague went to the room to releaee the child, she found that the stocking in- ine unaccountable manner had slipped up amend the child's neck and she had been strat ;led to death. After the hearing of further evidence Mrs. Montagne was found guilty of manslaughter. The trial of Mrs. Mord gue 6n theetecond count, cruelty to children, was thentlfoceened with. A Belfast cable says: After the convic- tion of Mrs. Moatagu for manslaughter, the hearing of the second count, charging her with cruelty to children was proceeded with. The first witness -called was Mize 'Wellaee, who had formerly been in the em- ploy of Mts. Montagu as a governess for her children. She testified that Walter Mon- tagu, the 4 -year-old son of the defendant, was upon one occasion tied to a tree in the morning and allowed to remain until late in the afternoon. His dinner was taken from the house and put on tlie grass before him. On another occasion Miss Wallace missed the boy from his usual place in the house, and she saw nothing of him for eight days. When she saw him again the back of his hands were puffed up, and looked as though the blood had stagnated. He had bruises on his face and neck. Mrs. James formerly a nurse in the Mon- tagu househol'el, testified that she had peep Gilbert Montagu, 5 years old, with the marks of a cord around his elbows andwith pieces of flesh cut out of his toes. • Austin Montagu, another son of the accused, had also been locked in the dark room. Mrs. Montagu had sa,R1 to her that this was her way of punishing her children. She did it to save their souls; she did not mind their ' bodies. Mrs. Montagu was attired in deep mourn- ing, and a heavy veil concealed her *Ice. • Her husband and brother eat beside her through the whole proceedings. The nurse, Mrs. James, deposed that she once saw the amused dragging her son Austin along the corridor his feet, his head trailing along the ground. This testis ' mony caused a sensation. A housemaid named Campbell deposed that she saw Gilbert • Montagu stripped naked and beaten with a scourge until his whole body was lacerated ; that he was then thrust into a dark closet, where he lay moaning all night, and that she was unable to sleep on account of the moaning, out of the closet. - and pleaded with the accused to le, Gilbert Mrs. Montagu was committed for trial on the second charge. A Budeboro', Pa., despatch says': A test of the Brown segmental tube wire gun, made here on Friday, produced a pressure of more than fifty-three thousand pounds to the square inch in the cylinder made to represent the powder chamber of the gun, and the cylinder not only withstood this enormous strain, but afterwards showednot the slightest trace of having been subjeated to it. The lining tube, the breech plug, the segments, the wire, winding and the gas checks were entirely uninjured, and careful start gauging showed there was no enlargement of •the bore whatever. The test was made with a cylinder sixteen inchee long, having a diameter inside of five inches and an outeide diameter of fifteen inches. The five -inch walla were composed of a thin lining tube, twelve . segments three inches thick, and about two incbes of wire wound in thirtyrone layers. The cross section of the wire was one-seventh of an inch square. As the re- sult of this experiment the strength of the Brown system of wire gun manufacture has been definitely settled. There was no de- fect found in the cylinder. The five -inch gun now under construction is nearly ready to be assembled and wound. It will be finished and fired in May. -As it will have a length of 44 calibres and can be safely given a chamber pressure of 25 tons per square inch, an initial velocity of at least 2,700 feet a second is expected. STREET CAR STRIKE RIOTS. -7-- Indianapolis the Scene of Much Disorder— Clubs Trumps. An Indianapolis despatch says: No less than a dozen riots took place here since yee- tenray morning at 6 o'clock. At an early hour and by pre -arrangement with the street car company Mayor Sullivan ordered out the police to assist in the running of the cars. The strikers and sympathizers fought every inch of the ground, and at 7 o'clock three cars had been Overturned in the gutters. By 8 deock the mobs on the different streets numbered fully 10,000 men, and business generally was interrupted by the violent proceedings. Nearly 50 arrests were made,and a dozen cars were injured by stones. The police force is composed only of 100 men, and is almost overcome, and would be utterly,defeated in caseoha battle. So far clubs have. been the only weapons used, but the fever of the mob is increasing' and a bloody encounter is probable. Last night the Board of Public Safety 'de- cided to swear in 250 special officerp for ser- vice on Monday, and Mayor Sullivan issued a prodlamation closing all saloone until the strike is over. Spring Fashion Notes. Coats of all kinds will be cut longer_ and trousers smaller. In over garments the fly -front overcoat reaching to or below the knees will be a leader. While the bob -tail Covert " will not be in it " with the fine trade to any great extent. In fabrics there is quite a tendency to again introduce finea light -weight worsteds. And grey twills will be quite, freely used for overcoats. The long -tail frock, however, will be mostly made of half -rough goods, eommonly known as half -vicunas. Gray will be a predominating featutre of the season's colorings, • While tans will still be freely cut in some sections. • The finish of garments will be severely plain, the sirgle narrow stitched edge on coats beingthe favorite. The breaat-pocket will, with some en- ceptions, be finished with a welt, the flap having "run to seed" in the ready. made trade. Vests will be cut V-shaped ; the " open- ing " in this respect cannot be to pro- nounced. Imitation cub's will, as a rule, be the fin- ish for sleeves, though the real, two or three buttoned variety will be a choice With many. —Journal of Fashion and Tailor- ing. Was Homer a 1Voman Simnel Butler is lecturing in England •on the question, "Was Homer a Woman ?" He believes that the Iliad was written by a, man, but he regards the Odyssey as the pro- duct of a woman. The reasons he alleges for his belief are not complimentary to the fair sex. He says the poems show almost incredible ignorance of the detail of common every -day matters. The author evidently knew nothing about ships and displaTed ignorance in other ways!. ships, ventures to say, that if the Odyssey were to appear anonymously for the first time now there is not a critic who would not say it was the. product of a woman. A man who failed last week, on Ridge avenue,. Philadelphia, had eight horseshoes • hanging on the walls of his store. A Fourth street saloon has a sign in the window whioh reads : gnA,bichloride of gold sandwich with every drink." TO FANN V. Sweet syiphicle, sylphinc, s3.1p1iic sylph • Thou queen of shrinking modesty, Whashrinke:st frarn the brazen booth Where church fair patrons stare n t thee, I'd fain put•suc thee to thy b•‘wer. And_plend my snit with vehemence, Were I not foal ful I mig.ht Shock Thy tender,footlight diffidence. • The Queen has appointed that the Chief Magistrate of Dundee shall in future be known as the Lord Provost of the city. Clara Morris no longer enjoys bad health. —Talmage's Brooklyn tabernacle is to be sold by the sheriff to eansfy Is Mechanic's lien for $52,216.59, eubject to Russell Sage's mertgage. The trustees have been enable • • THREE BOERS A. WIFE. Both Bride and Widow in a Single Day. Pretty 17 -year-old Conception Sylva, is Portuguese maiden of Contra Costa county, was a bride at 4 o'clock yhsterday after- • noon, in West Berkeley, and three hours later she was it widow. She was married to Frank Bispo, a young Portuguese dairyman, and after the ceremonte, and reception the wedding guests repaired to the station, where the young couple were to take the train for San Francisco.. Whilewaiting for the train Bispo took a little nephew in hia arms and trotted up the track, while several others walked along the •railroad. Suddenly the shriek of the over- land flyer was heard, and a moment after it. awepl around a curve. It disappeared in an • instant. On one side of the track was Riven dead. In his arms lay his little nepheiv, alive) but badly wounded. One the other ide of the track lay the Indy of MTS. Sylva. All three had been struck by the train . The grief of the „young .bride was heart- rending.—San Francisco despatch in Chicago Herald. • The Widow 'of splargeon. .Apart from her intense piety 4id great energy, Mrs. Spurgeon is a woma , of some accomplishments. She has something of the, poet's faculty, and although very rarely read- ing any work of fiction, has told her friends, innumerable little anecdotes indicating the brightness of her imagination. She will re- late, for instance, now walking one day with her husband in their grounds at Norwood, she came across a skylark's pest in the thick grass, much to their delight. Next day she went to the field again to look anthe bird and its tiny eggs. What was her distress to find that the cows had been let loose into the - field. "Surely," she thought,. " the little nest will be trampled upon and destroy the young." .Approaching the spot with trepi- dation, Mrs. Spurgeon was overjoyed to find that the neat was unhurt ; the cows had eatenth e grass all around, but as if with some divine instinct had left this spot untouched. Upon such an incideat Mrs. Spurgeon would base a sermon as powerful in its way as those of her hUsband's Then in herreports • of the "Book Fund'," in miscellaneous con- tributions to the "Sword and Trowenn Mrs. Spurgeon has shown some literary gift, scarcely less marked than the homely taste, the modest art with whicn she has made the inside of Westwood as beautiful as its out- side, and its surroundings as beautiful as to all her husband's adherents appear a thc character of its m istress. —Fred(rirk Dolman in the nfarch Ltidif q' Home Joirmtl. The first consignment of peaches from - South Africa has just been sold in Covent Garden inarket, London. Every peach was separately wrapped in copon Wool for the long voyage. 'the best specimensold at 50 Cents each.—encu, York Evening Pon. The Church Army, in connection with the .Established Church of England, now has to raise tho money for the debt, an income of £15,000 ea year. A cable have is hard struggle to pay running cx- fts "WY. says this large amount COMES in the shape of pennies, et penny being the snendard corn penses. tninution. e