The Sentinel, 1882-04-28, Page 6THE CANADIAN NORTHWEST.
Latest aix&seet of News- by Mail
and telegraph.
A Winnipeg aespaeon, dated 1,4th
Bays tha, the east span of the bridge over
the Red Xiver at Emerson_ has been carried'
eff by an ice jam. A team crossing it barely.
escaped. Fears are entertained for the
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remainder of the bridge. .
Martha:Reid, one of sufferers by the
Meadevtlei calamity on. March 4th, had the
fingers and thumbs-- of beth hands ainpri-
-tatedthie morning. An appeal is made to
assist. her.
an& fenced on the *Am, besides's, alien
and stable. - • '
Flour. is plentiful now, but prices r n
from $10 to 015 per sack for wheat and 6
to 08 for baileyflour. Wheat is $2.50 to 3,
barley 0L25 to 01.50 and potatoes 01.50
$2. Oats almost out a market. •
The Battle River and Bears', Hills
Indians are returning from the plains
the newe."`tto buffalo -but plenty of sta
tion." A. A great Many of them are suffering
ora consumption. They are -living p
oipally on rats and jack fish from Buff
Lake. , • , •
, A rumor ourrent that the Orego: et.
Trans -continental Conipany are neeot.ot-
'Defer selling out - their interest in bho
The :water in the riVer is 'rising taPidly; Manitoba.Southwesternto the Syndicate,
and ice . beginning to break op. and that the directorate are here in this
Steamers and barges are being moved iiit oonneotion. The C.P.R.: officials are v ry
_places of safety and gotready for the reticent about the.* matter.- but know:.g
opening of navigation. onesbelieve the -story.
Migratory birdslrom the -south haveput THE COST OF A BIG WAlt -
in an -appearance at.Neleonville.
CornPlaints are made f5f parties shooting What Germany and ivraile-mPem-Pu ig:
•
deetreut of season on the:Boyne. - -•- the Campaign ot1S70-1.
The recent. snow Morin extended. from The twentieth and coneluding volum4 of
Lake Superior to the loot of the Rooky
Mountains.
.Chartes Nolin, T. P40! QU'Appelle;Wes-
recently fined 040 for having liquor in his
possession. '
Potter, a. Gateway otirler„ Won the Presi-
- dents media, and McDonald the "bonnet"
at a bouspeil there the other day. •
A syndicate of- Stratford beyi-living in
ErnersOn have putchased forty acres north
of St Vincent, paying therefor 01001'
Crowds of settlers are -reported as pass
ing through Brandon to the setithancl
' southwest: to. settle in the Turtle Mountain
and. Souris 'distriote. •
• The Sum. of $3,000 has been 'r aised in
West Lynne and ,Emerson for the benefit
of Mrs. John Turner, of the Marais, who
lost her house alew Weeks ago by fire in
the recent blir.tatd.
Rev. Thos. MeGuire, the popular poker
of the Emerson -.Presbyterian Church, is
building hiniself Ohandsomebrickresidence
at the Gateway Suspicions have been
•
..arouse cl in some quarters and gossip has a
fieaday. •
_
• -A report from the direction of Qu!
Appelle says that owing to the Scarcity of
hay along the - trails and among settlers -
many cattle are dying. The Syndioate hay-
- stacks as well as those. of Mr.. McLean,
-who- has the coptrant for the conveyance of
the mails, have been used. Or drawn away,
and it is impossible to procure food. for
stock.
A Winnipeg correspondent writes : The
real' (*ate market continues very dull.
most desperate efforts are made to keep up
the ".France -German War. of 1870-4 by
the Staff of the German Army,", has jast
=been published, nide years after the Opp
since of the • first volume. The wor
illustrated with -207 maps. The donplu
volume is mainly devoted to the auxili
ar-
• is•
ng
ry
Services of the army -field telegraphs a.nd
posts, Commissariatand sanitaryerredk e-
ments military law and the -care of , souls.
The cost to Germany of the war was 6,247
officers, doctors and army 'combat, of
13,-
453 men -placed hors- de combat, of wh
40,081 were killed or died; 14,595 horses, �ne
stand of color e and aix guns. - The mini ber
of men placed in the field was 1,451,944,
commanded by 44,420 °Moats, Of these
33,101 officers and 1,113,254 mew Aetna Ily
took part in the camp . aign. Within se
months 290,000 perSons were nursed in
field .hospitals and . 812;021 -patients
oeiveiLinthe-resetlie hospitals. _-i.'he
post service was performed by 5;900,
with 466 vehicl&k and. 1,933 horses: It
transported 89,650,000 letters and, postal
'tiViA1.1A0WitriG s1IGILL1140X.
A .Peculiar Medical Theory.fiat in
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Practice inau Institution tor
-" Are these children vaceinated ri.BB,i4
a PhYsieiaa of thn.health depuirtinent'ir
*Laminating corpe tihe elderly doetor in
charge of inetitution he was vieiting...
"They ate,"- responded *the elderly man
. .
of physic.
But. where' are :the marks on their
aPns - •
• "There are none.", .
"'You Vacant/tie them on their legs ?"
"No, they swallowed it," said the elder
with a bland smile.
• Then the dootereiregezded each other, on
one Side with arnazement,-on the other with
a .defiant consoiousnese of vitt* and in -
upright mind. ,The vaccinating 'Voter Was
harrowed Up byawfulthoughts of children
•lunching on quills and ivory points. But
the swallowing doctor . Canis' to his
aid- by producing O bottle of White
lozenges. . "These are what give," he
said. "They ogotefin a very high -attenua-
tion of the metterfroni a smallpox pustule,
and; if swallowed., -they not only cure but
pre -vent striallpex," . .
The speaker was Dr. 11 Swan, who is -in
charge of the " HOuPeof the Hely .Fainilye
in Second . avenue, near - Eighth street.
This a ROinanCatholio oharitible insti-
tution for =: children • whose parents • are
unable or unfit to candor:, aunt: .It On -
tains 'at present about 200 'Young .girls,
between the. ages of :and; 17. Ashott tiMe
since it tvai. reported to the Health Board
that there was a case of smallpox - the
hemp. A- physiciaa 'WM sent up, and
friend that the sickness was net a- cage of
smallpox., :He also found that both Mrs.
Starr, a, Wealthy lady who is intercededin
the institution, and Dr. Swan were stronglyopPosedtethe ordinary' method Vaccina-
tion, - and were . firm believers in the
efficiaey Of sinallpex virusta,k0 internally,
SubsequentlY, Di. Day. went there; but
filled to; see Mts. ;Starr; and .finding that
many of the Children were absolutely un-
vaccinated- and Without pretecition from
Smallpox, Dr. J. B. 'Taylor,' the 'elitet of the
vaccination bureau, Visited the ''horee.„.and
vaccinated tiventyfive - children,
Swenceurteensly consented, but held te- his
theory. theory -ahis lazenges„ how;-.
ever, were better for ornament than for use.
In 'every :case the:vaccination took thor-
oughly,. showing - that these little ;girls
would have fallen -victims to Einiallpror had
they been etposed: Swan, although
nominally a homreopathio physiolan, is not
considered a regular- horomopath, if the e*-
pression is alloWahle and he carries the
extremest views of 'Hahnemann in --- his
last, daya .to the farthest . point. • His
process of preparing the lozenges showed
the attenuation doctrine carried out to its
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•last ,Heobtained one drop Of matter
feore-ii, pustule on a person ill: with the
smallpox. This was diluted.. with one
hundred drops of Water. Then . drop of
this ablution was diluted with one hundred
,dropsof water, and the Process z continued
antil about the millionth attenuation' ,Waii
reached: Then, procuilegliitleesiigat
lets.or lozenges, he placed drop . of . this
very bench Weakenedweter withaglassrod
on each lozenge... It is needless to. say that
neither :in take, smell, appearance or:
effect de these lozenges differ from- .pow:
dieted edger. . Dr. Swan said 'that -any -One
taking these lozenges - would be goon
afterward with a very mild form of vario-
loid. A
bottle of them has --been procured
at the 'Health ,Departmerit,:apa they have
been freely swallowed by various persons
without effect. There have been strong.
expressions of opinion; however, regard
to the danger of .leaving children exposed
smallpcix through the mistaken. ideas of
their, guar York Tribune. • ,
•
cards,- 2,351,310 newspapers,2,379,
packages of money, 1,853,686 parcels, -
126,916 official packets, eto. Of the mot
carried; amounting to • 59,865,920 tha
(one thaler--:-75 cents nearly), only one
5,000 thalere miscarried. The volunt
contributions amounted to.48,000,000 in -
(one mark -7-21 cents pearly), 'While f
Getraane abroad;: especially • in -
United • States, were received .7;500
marks. This did not include the *or
the South Germa,n .- organizations. The -
seine service. also carried 5,000,000 fr 'nos
to French prisoners in Geriminy.. The
French prisoners taken numbered' 21,508
officers and '702,094 men. - Count. Moltke
20
ey
ars
um-
ks
om
the
000
of
the boomin paper towns, and that bladder. thus sums up the campaign: "After s'aVen.
• is full of pinholes. The latest dodge is to Months' fighting -the great -struggle bet ben
v
. go across the line and handle American, the two =Mane was _thus ended. he
border towns Which exist in reality and not sons of Fatherland, like :their anees ore
Merely in the skill of the, draughtsman. -half a century earlier, had -fought and led
But this dodge, tea, fails to draw- the for - the independence of their •coun ry.
• dollars out, og the pockets- of those whet. are Germany, with undiminished frontiers,
- not yet loaded up. 'Even farm lands. are her eon up -trodden ,by the strangerie foot,
. Moving off very slowly. • was restore &to the blessings of peace; achlev.
A despatch from Winnipeg dated Sunday ed by honorable conquest. Great asFere
.. nighiseys : Rev. Mr. Bridges- arrived here the sacrifices exacted by the warwipe ple
this evening at 6:- o'clock with -nearly. 500 couldhave offered them- up- With a niore
. English immigrants.. • -_ cheerful willingness. ' At the corarnence-
It is stated here. that the, linithweet„ ment of the war Gatlin/my, in grave eern;st,
;Navigation- Company will run steamers
from Brandon to Fort Edmonton on the
Saskateliewan, and that the company will
. test the navigation of Qa'Appelle during
the coming- summer. The company. will
also put on two new steamers and several.
•in
on the Saskatchewan to meet the
nicreised freight Coming dowri.the.Red
-Rivet.
• A cheese factory is to be started atClear-
water. •'
A fire brigade has been organized in Min
-nedosa.
A private bank will shortly be opened in
Rapid City.
. R. Hughes has been appointed. Treasurer
of the municipality of, Brandon.,
There are fears_ of a woodfamine in
had given to it the best of all she
penetrated by a sense of duty,she bore
cruel losses in silence: But that which
victorious host had won on French ha,
fields outweighed the high stake she
set Upon - the contest. Both Metz
Strasburg; provinces wrested from
many in the days of her weakness,
regained to her; and the nation, thanks to
the valor and 'endurance of its children,
achieved its long -yearned -for unity. C m -
pliant to the unanimous sting:tons o all
the Gerrnarc princes : and free ci iee,
the. Conquering Prussian Bing mini' id
imperial rank and dignity in Germany."
The Germans took twenty-six fortress a of
all sorts, 'Bitche and Belfort alone hel Reg
out until the preliminariet, of peace had
been concluded. Of these two, :Metz and
-Pfalzbiarg, felt becausethe provisions of the
d ;
Ler
er-
la-
ad.
nd-
'Ter;
ere
Norris, owing to the recent snow storms. •
. garrison -and inhabitants were exhausted ;
Rev. R. Shorts, late of Morrill, hasgone hunger And the deiastation wrought by
to California for the benefit of his health.
Rev. lir. Hewitt has resigned his charge
of the C. M. Church in Portage la Prairie.
The farmers in. the vicinityof Tiger Hills
are asking 00 per pair for pigs tone wealth
-old. . • ;
Tenders are asked for the erection of a
• stone echool house in Minnedosatwostories,
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' 40'60 feet. •
V..Lyons is .erecting a • 02_0,000- hotel I on
Main ;street,. Portage la Prairie, near the
• P. R. depot.
- Badgers are . reported. to be mining
'. _around all winter in the territories.. Sign
of an early opting and. good summer.
partial bombardment caused one -Pa
tooapitulate thirteenwere reclined by
-bardment, 'namely, Liohtenburg, M
Se dan;Toul, Soissons, Schlettstadt, 'Per
New 'Budge°, -Diederthofien, Li Fere,
-citadel of Amiens, Montrnedy,Mezieres
Peronne ;. One, Strasburg, was taken
regular siegei,while two, Vitry and 'X,
surrendered ,,upon a hombardinent
:threatened. The longest resistance
:Made by .Paris, the siege of whiolila
for 132 days, While the eke of Metz
'continued for'.68 days, of Strasburg fo
idays andof Verdun for 45 days.
According to M. Villeforts " Rectueit
ITraites," the 'following Was the -00S
!Frame of. the, war
Bran is scarce at Edinonton and. worth .
_ -0.50 per bandrec,4,-,eil gond wheat a:with 'Outlay •excess of wartudgete '3 382-4 „000
. . . , German indemnity with interest:- 1,063,00p,000
into. a pound. : . Occupation by German troops. .... , 68, 000
A Board of Trade. has been organized : 'Compensation to corporatiene and • • Y 1
rjo duals and cost of loins' gin, o,oco
• at „Rrinee-Mbert, andit-iesaid-the--Govert-
a- port . o -Alsace, capitalized - • • gm wpm
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• entry. - • .- - • . :-
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• BEAVT1F, FOWBOSA.
Bev. Dr.-ItielKay, the Devoted Missionarv,
on Ma Field of Caber.- -
, The lollotving letter just received from
ReV; Geo. L. McKay, D.D., of Formosa,
will be read with interest:
8131,47 -Many of your - readers may like to
know Something of -Chinese enterprise in.
Formosa. Travelling around the world, I
heard from a theusend lips that enterprise.
and Chinese could not be -associated
-
together. Froni, such an opinion I -claim
to differ, leaving facts to speak -straight
out. Note the change since I landed here.
ten years ago. Now there is a coal pit
worked where hundredsoftoes are turned
A MONTREAL TRAGEDY.
:Gress -itlistarrhiae Of .4 netice Queer-
' Conduct oil Coroner - and -BOetor-A,
• Reporter- Ea-poses...a Snits'
Montreal despatch says.: There has
probablynever been: a more outrageous
tontine' of . justice. in - Montreal -and very
many are On. ..record -than appears from -
the strongest -evidence to have been
brought to light by the aid l of the Evening---.
.Post neVipaper in the case of the late * -
4delezd Mallette,. - whose death was '
attributed, after an abortive investi-
• gation, - conducted _ by the coioner, to
the excessive use : of ardent 'spirits._
There is . not - 'a shadow - of deubt.
out &AY- There are only two Enflhel:!• from the evidence. collected by the report -
men now -all the work from the anvil ars and whieh-the police engaged in the
to the engine in done by Chinese. Chinese
steamers built by themselves in their own
arsenal take , the most of the cioal'awey.
Four days' journey south they are at work
With an English engineer-. snaking a shaft
for petroleuni ; another day further south
and the Lieutenant' of this :Province is
*carrying on a, gigantic Work with fully
50,000 men. There- is a bed several miles
wide covered with stones about the size of
a man's head. In dry weather I travelled.
over without getting my feet wet (they are,
blistered, however); but when the rains
descendand the mountain torrents swell,
the whole place is like-, a sea fretting:
foaming .1 and.: dashing along, carrying
houses, logs, trees, ete., Out into the
. 18 Ofl
tt le4 nsgp o St e a.sUP thi ne t etv ei nrgn9trh liosrek4-
with-
out any foreign aid : He has iron bridges
made by tly? Chinese themselves to be used.
Now there is a little ;steamer running, be-
tween this and Kang Eel -three and four
times every- day.: We. can so up in an
hour. This is alt Chinese from first- tolast.
The owner is -going to build another, Out of
a wrecked schoonet-.Which he bought at
Ke -lung, - Last year the Hing -Shing,
Chinetie merchant steamer, appeared in
Tamsui as: the first Movement in that line:
-
The = foreign nierchadts put 'on -several -
steamers at Once, and the Chinese left,
but it is only 8 'Matter of time, and that
time will not be so long as some imagine.
There jet), telegraph line in the south of
the island, and they are contemplating,
nuttin-it 'cable across to the n2ainiand.
• remit intend to make that place rt f 88 °I taX88 and c)f revenue bi
II
War means,' to be replace& ..... 428,800,000
Pensions, .1ban through change of
• The Birtle Dominion land 'sale -resulted frontier 262 0,000
in the disposal of 153,896 acres, realizing Suppression•of Commune • 36,4,oso
• .0548,521. At: Saskatchewan 24,000 acres
32,943,600,000
were Sold, realizing 4233,00. .
To this should be added the leases. ilif-
Winbir has lieerunild at the Rid' Deer- hired by private individuals, - by manufac-
forks. Owners of cattle, have not been wirers and traders, and by :the paitial
obliged' to teed since the let of Oebruary.• suspension of labor for ten months. The
There_ was scarcely 'any snow, dto k
a-- °--- loans to cover the cost of *the war involved
were doing well on the Veins. ; an it:tore-ailed annual charge of 0126,360,
Humberstone & Robertson, havie, Wien M. Mathieu *Bodet,., in his book, "
" about 50 tons of coal out of the seam the •Finances FranciaiseS de 1870' a 18
width side of the riveroppositetheEdmon-
ton mill for use in the furnace. They
ran the, drift, in seventy feet without- any
Umbers. •- - .
_ Hardisty • ct Wood brought- excellent_
specimens of oats and tobacco with them
• from Lac 1& Biohe to Edmonton: lately.
The tobacco was grownand inside°-
, tnred there last. Season at the CathOlio
' mission.
for /LIAM is to bebuilt across,
oireuratmliatchevian at Rapid City at at a. wet of
- refused to The olbject the oompany ,has in
the Little
I
• -*shallot, " _te lease Water power to parties who
ment E.:31.'13a' ;ivied inills-in-triapi4 _City. It is
candidate for ' he dem Will listlifolficient head
is expected. he 4, LOMB With. SiX run Ofstones
opposition.
".""
sea seld bis olsdri‘ near the
+0 1Bugh B.unsrma
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es
records -that for the first loan. of $400,(T00,-
000 the offers were $4,000,000,000, w ile
for the second, half as large again. they
amounted to $8,600,000,000. According to
Frenerick Martin's figures the co of
the war and the foreign .accupatioh was
$1,857,476,400, but the items included are
only those of direct expenditure. .111:17 lle-
fort'a*i. compilation,- already mentioned,
shows that the Germans received 1
France In all 81,050,800,654:54;of w
almost • 8468,800,000 went to the sicipir
for imperial purposes, tlie remainder bc
divided among the States. •
!Om
jioh
or
ing
P,30.-Taland Leg's' lattire was prorogsed
on Saturday bait. Durisg thesession
twenty -live :Bills were passed.- An it in
the Lieutenant-Governortii apeech "tre-
e
lett
tted in the interest of ,ixtor t3., that
- •
• India in Mot. Went
case strongly,correl3orate, that the unfor-
tuttate;Young man met with la violent death
it the hands of -a gang of :ruffians of the
very Worst type, According to thechs,raztera..T:
given then2 by the officers iri -whose precinct
they. reside. The fasts connected with the .
case • are Mottling. iYoung Mallette,. who -
was 21 years' of age, left his patents'
resideece on Thin:8day, alteinoon in his „
usual health and spirits,' and about 19,•
o'clOck- in • the evening his almost .
lifeless body was carried back: : by
-three •nien. Dr. Pelletier was sent for
and promptly arrived: He found, however, "
that his services were of , no avail; as in. a;
-few minutes the heart of the injured youth
had ceased M. beat.: A ptieSt had also been
:sumtnened, and arrived isimultaneously
with the physician.- The doctorexamined
the young mail on entering to ascertain if
_ _ . .
he had been drunk, but found no indica-
tions to that effect. After carefully view-
ing the body he pronouncedthe opinion that _
-death was due to asphyxio; produced by a,
grip: on the throat of deceased. The.
reporter suhaeqiiently,examined- ,
body minutely, and _deseribed its appear.: .
once' as follows: The face," he -Says, -
" was partially covered with blood; a large -
-Wound was on the forehead, another on the
right cheek, and -a sinall one MO the. neck;
There Were marks- of three large finger
nails whioh had been buried deeply in the
flesh,. and Which spoke of a desperate grip- --
that Would: have - suffocated the strongest...
The neck- was discolored,/ and behind- the
ears the darkest blue tint prevailed; The -
The Governor of his own accord issuell, a collar and bosom of the shirt the deceased -
had
on had completely disappeared, and
there was • ample _ evidence of the life
of = the poor ;victim . having terminated .
by fearful- Choking!! ,Five men. . •
whe : had been seen in company
with victim previous to his death were.:
Afterwards arrested by the polka on the
charge of murder,' and now Owe their
acquittal of the foul .to the inibeoil-7-
ity of the coroner in not eliciting the full
very good proclamation regarding Chris-
tians.
- Let ,the World know .and believe it
that this mighty empire, hoary with age, is
nieVing; and her destiny is in the hands of
GO', not in - the few narrow-minded, pre-
judiced, selfish met who candet see beyond
their ovhi miserable shadows. - Once.. the
heart will be filled with the glorious gospel
it will vibrate -it will roll on thundering
doyen through ten thousand streets and
into 400,000,000 homes., driving tablets and, facts-ef the case from the medical witness;
gads- into- the flames. Imagination, I bear.
someone say: -.Nci,ier never 1 Hold! and.
let the mighty God of natiOns epeak. Man,
stand back and beat the voice of JelioVah
"'Beheld, these shall Come from *fail. and
lo r these from the north and from the west,
and these from the land of Sinirn."
. .
I:Will briefly indicate the theridonietrie
features, • say,- at a. central pesition, like
Allahabad. January the indoor tem-
perature Will roach its minimum, perhaps
standing at fifty-four degrees. The rietit is
very gradual, and gets into the "eighties"
toward the middle of March': when steady
at eightynfive degrees punkahs- - become
decessory. Above ninety degrees the heat
ie.'opppressife„-and at ninety-five degree's
horribly : This is . _generally ; the
temperature daring the hill between
the niconsoona. In exceptional • years
I have known pilloWs and sheets
to be uncomfortably hot, requiring sprink-
ling with.water ; and I similtirly retired to
rest in drenched nightolothes. But the
hot weather is mercifully interrupted by
two remarkable neeteorelogical phenomena.
First, at its eornmencenient we have almost
always -violent • hailstorms, which hem-.
ftoially cool the air,- and then at its acme'
we have these very remarkable eleetrical
.duststorme, which impress fresh life and
vigor all= -around. Let, MO describe .one.
Nature :: seetris *brined udder the.
-great -heat, and is in absolute repose.
Not the faintest breath is there to coax the.
faintest movement in the leaves; silence
:prevails, for even the garrulons.otows can't
caW-becanse their beaks are wide open to
amidst respiration. Stiddenly- the Welcome.
cry is heard; " Ttifa,n ata 1" (A storm is
coming 1) and the, house Servants rush
in to clime Anxious to. witness
the magnificence. of the approaching
Morro, you remain out to. breve it,: and
seen feel its appreacthing, breath on your
-cheek. Looking to windward yeti see
a blank cloud "approaching, and before it
leaves. and Sticks, kites and crows circling
around in wild confusion. You now: hear
its roar while rapt in admiration you
are enveloped in its grimy mantle
and, have to look to your footing
in. resisting its fury; and this. is no Joke,
for eyes, -nostrils- and ears are cloud.
ed with dust. As the blast approachesyou
may see a flash of lightning and hear its clap'
of thunder and then feel the hea,yy, cold rain-
drops whir* sparsely fail around. Darkness
black as Erebus surrounds you,. darkness_
which literally ntiey be felt, for clouds Of
dust occasion it; and if youarewithin
doors night prevails, the lighting
of 'lamps. The 'storm passes, lightraturns„
and you find everything -begrimed with
dust. 'Eistry_cloorls- now thrown Open to
admit the cool,- bracing, cizcine-Oharged
Which you eagerly inhale with dilated nos-
trils, and feel- that You have; seoUred a
fresh lease of .existen0e.
G L. MAcisy
• • - •
•
The peetnployed ot 'London to be Assisted
, . ,
, to Canaan.
London cablegram, dated yesterday
sari:- The question of assisting the uneth--
ployed workingmen et Engle,nd, and more
especially of the 'greet- Metropolis, has
awaked general interest. number of
rneetiOgilin connection with the matter.
has been held, and the question has . neer
taken a practical turn by the issue by the
Lord Mayor of, an appeal to the public for
assistance neneisery - to: enable two Inn -
died deserving ternilies; numbering one
thousand souls, to emigrate to Canada. In
hie-address:Hie Lordship expresses himself
s.atiefied, that many of the unemployed.
men at the_present moment in London are -
suitable for emigration, and are also desir-
ous of seeking their fortunes in the colonies
but are unable, to furnish the necessary
funds for their -passage. He also assured
that it is beneficial • to the mother
country as well' - as to the colonies_ that
emigration; so long it . terrains-- within
reasonable limits, kta clifected to retain,
emigrants beneath_the British -flag, shenld:,
be .encouraged, and "" that the emigrant is
fairly hopeful of A„ better. . opportunity of
success in a colony tfian he is at present at
home. The kin asked for this purpose -is
$35,000; and of this mini a grant. of $8,000.
has been assured by the Canadian Govern-
ment. If properly organized, His Lordship
is confident that scheme will • be ann,
paratively self-suPporting in the &tine- by
the aid rendered by friends at by
the emigrants' themselves. The norms of
the 4:imp:dates formed to arrange for emi-
gration are: The Lord Mayor of -London,
Bishops of Rochester andBedford;Cardinal
Manning, Sir A. T. Galt,- Sir R.. Totrens,
M. P BaronessBuidett-Coutts, the Master
Mereeri' Company, .Mr. McArthur, M. P.,
'Revs: Billing, Kitts,illonsarcl, Penekridge,
,Herring and, Tomlinson, the Marquis of
Bath, Sir, Henry Currie,Col. SirE. Hender-
son, Mr. Rivingten, Mr. Holy and Mr.
Colmer.
and getting all the independent testimony
that was available to lay before the jury.
The paper gives reports of -interviews
with several witnesses, including the doctor
who made the post snortent, Which ,fully
substantiates the exposure already made.
Preservation og the Federakrzintiptc.
Where the law and thelgeneral interests
of the Dominion imperatively demand it,
then, and then only; the power of •
disallowance he .exercised. But It would
impair the federal principle and.iiijiitionsily.
affect the autonomy of the itistitutions of
°Mc several Provinces Were this to
be exercised on: subjects Which are Within
the ' exclusive . Competence. of the Local,
Legislatures on the ground that in the •
Opinion of His Excellency's advisers, or of
the Canadian Parliament, any such
tion is wrong. The phrase may perhaps be
objected to. I see a mark in the -resolution
just opposite this passage. I do net know • ,
Who made it. -There is sometimes an advent- " •
age in borrowing your language front an
authority anal will teed the obetervsition,-
which seems to indicate that this . was
°nee the opinion of the- great authority to
,which I lately referred. In the debate on
the New. Brunswick School question; the
hon. gentleman the leader Of the present
Goverliment,uses precisely the.same phrase.
:He points out that it Would: be impossible_
to interfere in these matters, for otherwise .
this Legislature,instead of being *know the
-general court of Parliament Mr the, decision
.of great Dominion questions, wouldbecome
simply a Court of Appeal to .try whether
the Provincial Legislatures were right, or
*tong in the conclusions et Whieh,they had
*rived. Then he says that the question is
undertheconstitutien one: whiph • ought to
he decided exclusively byl the Local Lgis-
lature on its responsibilityto the, peop of
the Province, who are -sole jail
such action. --,Hon: Edioard Blake on Dis-
allowance., - - .
[Oedipus Qnestion.
. *The; difficulty :of proposing to the young
lady is not always the most serious one a
suitor has to encounter: Poking the
question to one's prospective -mother-in-law
or "asking papa" is frequently the more
arduous undertaking of the two. - -When
Professor Aytoun was wooing Milia Wilson;
daughter of Professor - Wilson, the
femme "Christopher North," he - ob-
tained 'the consentcondition-
ally on that of her father's being secured.
This AYtoun was much too shy to ask, and
he prevailed upon - the young lady hereon
toconduct the necessary negotiations.
"We must deaf tenderly With
said glorious old Christopher.' "I'll write
My reply. on a idipof _paper init pin it to
the back Of your frock." - Papa's -Viewer
is oirthili'liacir of My .4itess-,' said Mies
Jane; as shd entered the; drawing -room.
TUrninglier, round; the delighted Professor
readthese words: "-With the ',anther's
•- -
compliments.' -Chambers Journal
CfOoderliam, :President of the
Toronto .c% Ottawa Railway,'has presented
to Miss Lillian O'Flynn, of -Mado-cc.-Who
turned thelitat sod Of the 'alieVO'intanied-
,
railway on the of 3.141Y -last; the
miniaturesapiide With*hieh-that operation
wafisPerferined.-- The tool has-been hand -
W14. J. Hampton, of Toronto, „, has °mob' mounted In allver•
entered an action for 010,000 damages for --=England had to import 750,000,000 eggs
libel against the proprietors of the Montreal last year to come, out even. English hens
put on too many airs
Wedding Festivities 1-Ettritordindry.
.
—
The wedding of Princess Mariaof Sehtia
to the Crown Prince of Abyssinia, which
took place e few weeks ago in Ankobe.r was
a gay affair._ The nuptial festivities lasted,
a fortnight, during w14612 period a long
programme Of banquets and balls, rabes
and hinting parties were Carried out to
the letter. Threughoutithe Marriage•cere-
mony Princess Maria wore upon her head
the most precious heirletem-of her family --
a massive golden diadem, enriched With
twelve huge rubies, which was :Once the =
property : of King Solomon the Wise.--".
The Bohol, dynasty' is ....the oldest
royal - house in existence;. and. -
-Menelik claims unbroken descent frorifthe .
Queen of Sheba; whose visit in-state to the•
Court of Jerusalem is recorded in the
Scriptures. Princess. Maria's illustrious
ancestress, whose charms are -supposed to
have inspired the Bong Of - gongs, received
the diadem in question as a gift froin her
-enamored host during hersojourn in the
Jewish *capital, and it has ever "anal her -
death been worn by her female descendants
at their Weddings, 'tom generation to gen, •
eration, down - to the present time. As
soon las the Archbishop of Gondar, efi the ,
occasion above _alluded to; 'had - pronounced
thenuptialbenediction Upon the royal pair
.this relic was - removed from the bride's
brow by her father, and restored to its reetz
ing place among the regalia of Schott. •
The method of Dr. Orton's committee, to
_inquire into theeffect of.the N. P. on the •
farmer, is to send out tquestions to par. -
tisane and to parade the kas the sen- •
BP
timent of the country.'It
however, that farmers
ally,and the man who para de&
sentative of a section will have lue
ballot. -London Advertises..
Frogs' legs make a delicate and re
Jive soup for invalids.
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