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The Sad Ending ef a Youteng aied
Pretty' Viretretan.
DEA• TII 8TRUO6LE AND' MORDEREn MAK.
•
1.11; to the present there are ebsbinteity
no oluel to the murder of Iteee• Arable;
who eagle to her nod in *Most remarkable
and tuyeterleus manner near Bridgeport.
Coen. At the inquest yesterday an expert
mieroseepist testified that the examination
Of pertielee found under the dead girris finger
121410 showed the •traoes of the skip of a
eiendmelied. pereoe, XS a 'Deere., ("' The
• eXiiMination of the bodyindicated an
attempted outrage,
Rose. Ambler wadi the pretty daughter ,of
.a thrifty,fieherman named Clark, and mar-
.% year or .two Sinae,, to Norman
iner—a weak, but not essentially vicious,
chartioter, addicted, to much apreenicand
*he frequenting of a. PriZO-lightorti sa10011.
He teased vegetables •for the neighboring
tempi and cities, and employed,'Williane
Lewis as an assistant, Lewiti was col**
indhatrioue; thrifty.; andvvhile his employer
wasted hits time loafing and ,c1rinking, he not
only made AO Hayed money for himself,
-but made love to, and was loved by, the
• =gloated and • naturally indifferent wife.
3,lieconsequenee. of -which wad the disnais-
sal .of Lewis, the departure of Ambler's
' *06 for her tether's home, her divorce,
Lewis' eucceesful eroploy remit elsewhere,
::Ambler's tote' failure and disappearance
frene the town, and the expected Marriage
• , of Lewis and Rose Ambler, A week
ago Sunday night these two stood
talking neer the hones of Lewis' employee.
• Lewis epee every morning at 2 o'clock to
prepare torMarketdind had to retire early.
So Bose declined hie motet _home, and in
ten Minutes Lewis, according to the testi-
Molly of hie employer's family was in bed
•and asleep. There is no proof that he went
.out of the house'age?. , until early. next
Mottineee
AVg#74:-'4'istlivreatiordugOrWhioh had
been wakened at +Midnight by a seritam
'Whit% they mistook for the soresitiling of
wk. Suspioion was at once turned toward
' her divorced husband; 'Ambler, who had
freenentlydeelared thatLewie should never
mirrY Bose. 'After threeor four -days- he
•• wee found at a town twenty mil" away,
wherohe had been living for SOME( time.
MS elegy proved, however, that he wae
.titot in or neat Stratford on ti that
Sunday •night. A colored rowdy and a
_ 2=nillige rough were also cionneoted, but no
evidence justified thembeing held.. Where
ibe body 'watkiirst found %there were no
• gaiegs of a etruggle ; • even the tall grass in
'Which she lay was not trampled down.. It
:Ai believed that she was bent 'backward
. amiss the stonewall nearby, and strangled
: to death. As soon as, the discovery • was
• Made known the Whole village came troop.
• ,
Ing See the bedy. The ground, the
•• grabs, the .nuderlorattle !and .'highway ' were
trodden and -tratiked inevery direction,
effaeing every tritee and Vestige:Of evidence
serving • to point •te-the guilty party. The
authorities movedelowlY. With provoking
delay. the selectmen 'offeted ilgOn reward.
The gteateat efforts were made to cenceal
e• verything by taking *tidbit:My in fieereoy.
Theunitioeisfal deteetives in the Hayden
cage were eniplerldx,:441eeervices. of • the
reporters WerterellUditeted. and apparently
nothing • &Me and everything omitted likely
to throw light 'npon the midnight murder,.
• Ofthe, fi*Ipergione thus far ,Busfitioted
..;.everlr ode seoWeittehave seeitilled the Con.
.neeeteiit authorities that at the time the
• emeleder must have been committed heeetild
• not possibly have been at the placie Where:
• .!toS0 Ambler was kifled.
Up to this time the,'deteotives appear to
..have beenthoroughly baffled: Perhepethe
increased reteardef41,000-ratty stimulate
*theu, feoultieci and deadto seine real
• .dishOYERY YOultiCgeta the PhyPelriet..tie of
• ethie remarkable murder ;e Iia °wheel-
• holly a base, however, in whibh, the tepee
ofAd vastly autditeneltthhl ilifahaitY of
Vont:let:tient. '.within the past four yeiri
has had. no fewer than: folic murders .of
• *tog -Women, .under myaterious.
oiroum-
stanees, and in tiomazabargtheanSrdereti,
oon brenelo,•-,ot%-?.-4,6,04-„lattray -
notorious me' scarcely inenienleneentioningr
Tharof Mary-...Stannardeof-- whosemurder
the Bev,,Hayden was acquitted:4, of .Jenn
Mllboys; �f
heaSSfithNiiheli girl, Phoebe Brush,
' ' found deed in a bar -room• a few weeks ago
near Stratford, whose diamonds.weretailliett-
• wird, st discgoverek AlewthleadSof , Persons
not her •lee ele :WM InqUiry into
which- • z led; witb._a,:_ciertifioate
- death ein a Medical eXaMiner and without
a coroner's inquest; and finally the recent
; murder of Rose. Ambler, as has been
• ehoWti, whieh i even more mysterious. than
any preceding it. .,
The immediate result Of the testimony
• given at . the inquest, on the body 'of '• the
murdered woman Beim .Alnlilet, at Bridge-
,
. pore, COnn.i. • is to strengthen'. the. -.pre-
• suroption that: has been been constantly
growing agai • Lewis, the
roan • who • see ' have been un -
Willingly • . engaged to , ItOtie Ambler,
' 'and • who • was responsible for • her
divorce from her husband; Norman
'Ambler. Unfortunately for Lewis, much
of his condi* since the murder indicates
a degree of 'natural brutality, if net Motel
•.ciallotistiees,,that is not inconsistent with
the theory cif his perpetration of can awful
• orittie. " • • '
.EXPEDITION4.-
Aneether. ItTrisucoessfeel. Vovaese of
. Discover*.
St.. JohntN*,fic1.114espetcla. saye, The
'Waited Steees Cleoley eelief steamehip
„.. . .
Tenth,. heseneet en.ohered.. •The tidinge.are
lamentable., No emed was received '.from•
Greeley or ti.pny .of hie party. The, tateareer
Xtrotedewas cruelied au. toe flos. at the
entranceto el eettlete Sehild
Capt. Pikg,. hie Ore*, and .the
party • are passengers by theYeutio. The
-
brat intiniation•a the -Proteutedisaster was:
found on August. .$rd at Littletonlelaud
Or the. Teotio. Garlingtou, left a recOrd
there when. coining • eoutli„...deseribing .the
:shipwreck and ladieatiog the ,ineventeete
of the ship's Company.: .f,leerceewas insti
'Wed. me the 4th along the,. Greenland coast,
;from Cape -Alexander to ,0apit. Robertson,
:Eyery ••peintlikely to brit*" un the . ,retreat,
ing party was eearolted till September 2nd,
when Tfpernavik was reached, teed the
. .whele,of the Proteus party found., They
had been, •exposed 'for thirty-one :days
and nights,. in boats,.. making some
stoppages at intermediate harbors.
The •••.. Proteus '-• was 'orushed in
*floe -of ice at e'olook on the evening• of•
the 23rd 01 July and sank, within four
IbtoWellingStisnips With Dinsaisife.
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The Sarnia Canadian SOS : Frani:tie
•Holt, a farmer on the lake shore,, Sarnia,
Township, sends UO the following aeetnint
• of how he Managed to deal with stunips by
means Of • dynamite eartridges "1 dom.
meneed on Thursday last, and in four
hours had blownforty•one stunape out;
'ebout the °Mirage of from 15 to. 80 inches
across the stunipe. The timber had been
.atit off them two years. . One was an •eire
tie°, about two feet through, • and about
forty feet high, that it blew out and splint-
eredinto rails. Il insert about a feet of
•'1U00 in a cap, and then insert the Partin
the Cartago. Making allele withba gouge
tinder the Ammo about two inches wide.
put the Cartridge in the hole and about a
shovel full Of .dirt; then Set fire to the fuse
and men away about one hundred yarde,
Ina few Hacienda, it gees off With a report
'like A cannon and ehatters the stumps, into
fitottii400V:
lours. There wee euffiolent time to pave
clothing* provisions, a Ceeehese, and other
neeeseerene On the 25thethe boats being
equipped., a. start was made. The disaster
:oecuired eight pillee north by northwest of
Cape Sabine. Over ild2t hundred Miles of
'ice and frigid Bea were, wised before.
-Cpernavik ;was -reached. The most un-
fortunate feature . ef the expedition was
that no provisions were landed. All the
stores intendedfor the ;Seed° colony' went
down in the 'steal:ger. While the Yantio
was at anther rn Daniiih Huber on the
12th of August the Governor came on.
board. He reportedthat the Danish
steamer Soehieehad arrived from ,a barber
shirty miles north of CapteVerkeetettðe:.•
05' 1l
witellid Greeley expedition had arrived
there on .. sledges last winter • and
'reported . the party allwell ex -
'Opting Dr. Pavy, who had died.
These natives went back to Lady Franklin
Bs*, Another Eseuiveaux .from Greeley,
Camp reported that all the 'offibers -had
been murdered ' by the men. Neither Of
these reports are considered reliable; as
the fondness of the Esquirtiate: for lying
and. Hensationaliem places -them in .the
category of fiction. • Oaptain EInikt_ittys
that as far north as (Jape Sabine there Was
nolracie of Greeley or his. party, and his
faihige to Cenie smith- to Littleton Island
to meet the relief steseners this SUMIUtg
eV0k6S grave • apprehensions as , t� their
fate; The was retreating home
when the Menip oierWhelnied her., 'She
got barely fifteen miles :mirth Of the scene
of the. shipwreck: The' prospects • of the
Gieeleyelcolony. encountering ' a fourth
winter iteneath the Arais climbe are mourn-
ful to Contemplitte:.Henry Wilson, gunner's
mate of the yantio,died of apoplexy during
the voyage,' • . • . .
The New York' Tribune'saccount of the
leis of the Protons says that while she. was
endeavoring to force her/ way . through to
dear water she was caugl'it between two
iniroenselleett ; these preemies on both sides
ouitikly•crushed her.. The, hold filled with
water, and it •Was 'soon evident -that' :•no
efforts would avail to keep her frani sink.
ing. Hitches Were , broken open and all
hands set to work throwieg• clothing,
pro-
viaions and '•other awes on the ice. .The
greater part of . the cargo.whiiiii was thus
unloaded fell into the waterand waslost;
but enough was -saVecttO emirs. the .coni-'
fort of. the party during the retreat, and
°Aso to make a not inconsiderable cache.
,tor the Greeley panty, should it, as uow
scented inevitable,- be forded to melte ite
'oevin•Way sMithtiard. • All. gciodi..,plaeed in:
.the docile were rendered . as seoure as pos-
aible, and, the spot marked so as be
readily disopierecl. • • •
; The Acting Chief Signal Officer at Wash-
ington says that everything possible will be:
•done to relieve Greeley!s party, if there is
lioiround for hoping that Garlington lauded
any of his attires on •Littleton. leland. If
he had ,dont. jpeAils...zterMe*,-5.1.%14 -
•inavewintered___ther
cieleyee-erhadA.I.r-Fe Buffioiont:---to-
-maintain his party, until next 'spring, but
thevgrelfit irtiefertUn'swila.„".the4-failiire---ta
rovidstiffpliellor himat Littleton Island
Under • iv • inetruetiens•' Greeley would -
o mpin fire letter • end of September,'
• tincleavetto tail& his way to Littleton
,Island,•where be would wipe', On finding
Owes. At sevOallytations on the way he
ytotildfind,supplies aittlitoahrthieuie where
open sheets of water were to be oroesed.
It lie found 1M suppliee ah'IaittletOn Wand.
hiesithation will be (whitish He might be
able to send back Wedging parties to pink up
provisionsdeposited along the route, °sped-
allya two menthe' supply leftby the Nores
expedition at Cape Elawkee; and in this
way 'maintain his party until relief Would
,be tient. He thought that a.sledging party
despatched from Upernavik Might reach,
Greeley at Littleton eilend if he got .there
'before his supplies failed. *. . •
. LATEST 'FROM, •IRELAND. _
'At Westport Market recently Potatoes
were sold. at 8d per atone . and. under.
.The ratepayers Of Dublin are to be
taxed for ,the rebuilding of Green Street
Court House at the mist of. £27,000, '
Mr. Peter O'Neill,- Secietary of .• the
Drogheda Steam Pocket C/o.e.died suddenly
of paralysis. • . • •
• The agricolturaletatistice for 1883i just
show that there is a decrease of 2 G
per omit. in the acreage. under Crop as coin-,
pared with Ittot year.
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101iD An LIL ROSFREIT.
The bistinguished Visitors Who Have
NOW Arrived in This Country.
A despatch fro M Ne* YOr4 Oar) Last
(11VednesdaY) night the Earl and Ceuntess
of Rosebery arrived by the steamer
Pavottia"from Liverpool. Archibald Pthiip
Primrose, the fifth Earl of Rosebery, suc-
ceeded hiegranoifethei; the fourth Earl of
Rosebery, who died Meech 4th, 1868. He
was born in London, May 7th, 1847, His
father,' Archibald, Lord Daltheney; died
°.January 23id,'1868, while the preeent Earl
Was yet a child. The young Bari received
his, earlyeeducatien at Eton, and later
weut to Christ Church, Oxford'.In' the
•House of Lords he took a, prOminent
part j 112 the debates on, the Liberal side.,
His fleet publio speech^4as -made ilk 187.1
at the opening of Parliament. Mr.„Glact,
stone otiose him to second the address in
reply to the eheeeltettina the throne.
In 1878 he Was elected Lord Rector
of the University of Aberdeen, and n
1880 he, was taimilarly honored by the,
University of , Edinburgh:: In the fal-
lowing year he was appointed Under Secre-
tary for the Home, DepartMent, which
office he resigned lett June. He married,
May .20.th, 1078,, Mies Hannah Rothschild,
the enIv, daughter of • his old friend,
•Raton Meyen'de Rothsobild. rwo girls
and a boy are the trait of this union. • He
has given great attention to the thtf,anci
his table, which is a fine one, has been
fairly successful. • Lady Rosebery was the
only daughter and sole heirees of the .late
Baron Meyer de Rothschild. In 1874 she
assumed control of the.vafit property that
same to her .at her father's death. She
inherited the keen . bueiness nature of
her father, as the showed by her
sole :and - competent • manageheent of her
estate. On March 20th', 1870, tithe was
Married to Lard Rosebery. There were
'4,,steeneteshereepoeitemeetlee. '
=reeler e2e,527.,reeetes,-,.--Writeeeeete
Anie&seelizerieretreralkeRhiscopal ritual.. In
face, a third ceremony was really per-
formed, for, when the Earl brought his
fair bride to Dalmeny, his Scottish estate,
his housekeeper broke an oatmeal benne&
over the lady's head. This ceremony was
field in 1801 by Lord Chancellor Cranwort
to constitute af legal -marriage in „,Scotland.
• • d
• Too Many For .
do .yOU •enjoy the cotillion ? " in-
,
quired an Austin lady of an awkward dam-
cier at a ball. - • •
"0, like the cotillion well enough,"
remarked Old Awkwardnetts, "but the act
is there zee so many people,a regular mob,
mixed up in it that they are . Ontinually
getting la my way. Three or four fellows
ran against- me, and X got tripped bp aud
tore ray olothet Next time I help to make
pp a cotillion go, out by myself all alone
and cotillion around on a prairie thirty
ludo sinutre."—Texe8 Siltin0s, .
•
ViTotnen are More economical then men.
You never catch. a man fiaihig the oomb-
hige from' bis hair to make it witch with
' ,• 'THE CA111T011 111011'. . •
The Poadslon of the Europeans 412 lake
Distuilised Cify—Devoiion of ChIssoie
siervanti.
A.Hong-Kong ,oablegram nye:, Tuesday
was a day of great anxiety. . A furious mob
iiiirrOunded- the foreign quarters of the
town; howling and threatening tne destiuo-
tort of all within it. -The Obinefie ; troops
were by no Duane to be depended on; and
had the mob attacked the settlement it
would prObably have, . been altogether
destroyed: A typhoon which raged On
Tuesday Morning hindered the arrival of
the gunboats, whigh did net anchor'. off the
settlement with midnight. 'Theft- itemiug
at one° restored confidence. At present the
residents have all returned to their houses,
and a themeand , Chin* - troops are
enearnped in the foreign- quarters., , There
is still greet •excitement ne..Canton. . Pl
'Ards are posted on the Walls applauding
the tuition of the , people in attaching the
settlement, and calling -upon them next
time , to destroy the European . devils
on • well as their .property e • Tne.
Chinese are awaiting the result Of the
trial efeHogat, the tidewaiter, aminfiedLof
having fillet down *levee natives in a quarrel
some time • If he is acquitted a
by no means'improbable. As the so/donee
againet hini is weak, further trouble is ex-
peoted. The CI:insult; all admit that the
situation IB Very serious and that the future
of the European colony erglooray in the ex-
treme. It is note -almeet-.- an open " With
between them and the populace Of Canton;
and it Will be necessary to have ships of
war here for their protection her along time
to ohm. • The Chinese' servants in the
'foreign concession behaved •:admirably,'
shoWing, the greatest -devotion. They saved
'much property -at the Tisk of theietelehethe
TliteefehimieneeleelVEirtreliegage
eCetliirWork (____tephinderingeenerdeether,
logeelin'reeidtliethe Portuguese whe watt. the
immediate cause of the Outbreak; are in eeeeee_putionecleeletookeetty as ook, as, I.
owitotly0,b_e_pritionentethe—Britielt sconT supposed; at the sun, . telt the white oaP
Isiirlite. •• ' • . drawn 9Ver My. face and begged the hang-
Fowc Tons HANGED.
Mr Jessie Watts Survives Varlous Attempts
to DisloonteeHis Verrtebrae.
• .
IS W.OND,ERFUL EXPERIENCE*
,
ha a short time gambling and drink left me
euet enough eaeh to return to the fields,
'Thin time Ientel'em money to buy *a claim,
so I had to Work for a percentage. Luck
favored me, and again was the possessor
• of eeveral tan] *oda, ea dent to join a
cotopeny, of ten in the purchase of * large'.
" There wee an -old Dutchman:10M the
setelenteet who sold. thenore and mining
it:elements- and other things to the diggers.
He. had a daughter, a 'handsome girl, the
oaly yog women for hundreett of miles.
She and I became intimate. The Dutch-
ansAhdtiedrr atrrothveeowf mayy_ainttenwthiesienhtoshbiee
favored Me roused the jealousy Of my- come
panioes- The •Dutchman determined to; •
• gee rid of me, 00e -day 48am:tend me of
lobbing him and, certainly, a package o1.
boose stoneee'belengieg to inrci, were lo.und •
'in my Oat pocket. " I had been talking to
• Gretchen and had thrown off my goat .
because of the heat, and the devilish-.
Putcliman placed the plant on inel. There
hi not ranch justice in raining .earneet •
As I . said, I , was .dialikecl ' be
Pantie of GretCheres " preference,. and .
my partners, no doubt, were Willing to.
have my share of the claim to divide ftmong
them; I was ,tried. and .000detnned to
be haugeden tees than AU -hour of the old
roan's acouliation by a lynch jury.- I was
allowed two hours to prepare for death, -
and then taken to the nearest tree, where
a rope ••=7aii placed-roundmy neck and I
Was jerked by a. dozen welling bands into
the air. But before strangulation ensued
I fell to. the ground with a thump. Gretchen
had not been idle. Her entreatiee brought
an oppositionorowd of diggers temy assist-,
ance, arid, though they permitted me to
be jerked in the air just to see how it
looked, they Would not allow thing; to go „
any further; lot, they squarely ak- •
Mesed the opinion' thatthe-Datchresteliethee.----e„
.47:"...-'447f111176114 iteltInTi;Teir t;;;Ititerly41"in114teart:ewirs:M*---.
mon and his daughter's tears,- Grefolien
jilted me, nevertheless,. shortly afterward, .
and, as I had next to no luck in my search',
for diamonds, I bit the fields. again for
Cape Towne -this time with only £200 or
1300 in my pocket. • I found a letter
awaiting me ;at the post -office, frgonl • :a ‘;
friend in Falmouth, telling me my • father :
,wats dying. ' '
"Alter again enduring the Miseries of , a
sea voyage, I arrived in England, only to
find my father, dead. and buried. He left
me a small limn of m'oney and his busineki. •
There was . no ,peace for roe in my native
city, however; blood. was on i;ny hands* .
and -coldness met me on all • sides. . I sold ---
mY. father's effeote at phblic auction, and
journeyed to London, Where my identity • •
was 'soon lost among the many , •
.Butthe brand of .Cain followed inc, I tried
several, kinds of busineee and empjoymente
but no, luck*, was *mine. I took to drink •
again; and a fight with apolineman landed'
Me once More in -a prison cell. I was •
committed to hard 'shier for fourteen days: •
Despair seizedine. twisted a rept:J.00.ot
'the *ramie I was given to convert into
oakum, made a new for,..rayeneak; secured
the other endelbthe bars of the.windevr;
kicked away the stool; and lost conseiouse
mess, ..TO: my dying day I'shall remember '
.the seneetions •of. My last hanging.
, • was trimeptiried.. to, a. , beentifol '
paradise of • meadows and ellowere,"
'where .• . forme of children,
greeted nee and deliciousraneic sounded in ,
my ears. It: seemed to lest.fee an age, but '
it pould only have been a lapse of , a few
momenta, for , gruff -mime succeeded ,
gentle-13*SM. sad the feces of the angelic
children ,faded.inte,the stern features of a..
pair of ptisoitivarders,..who•• out me down .
just in time. I was: 'Heintencied to thtee:
moathi. -longer her the. ,attempt Belie; ,
destruction and watched night and-dayetweee
•-preeint had, however, . no. •
Wisli:to end • my life* again ;.,on the con-
trary, the desire ferns*, Emmet and fresh' ,
adventure was full :On Me when My release
from prison' ;arrived: -. . still possessed •11.---
liteleneoney, so ;I. piirchased wtickee .foe
Colorado; and I leave l England,
.""7.1".'vCartirair"oripatttlir e. •
thOsoa yeergre trieame...terribly,thie, ;
-another'
ocean; of that I am determined. In thee
far evestewithameeenew---asiooi
-tioursaeldea ohave, for I are ,younger •
Thiele the story •teld by a !man named
Janes Waal to Cart, George Button,. of
the steamship British Pripoe "1 was
bore in the town. ef Felmouth, :Cornwall,
*father was -a .0thil-maker, ,doing e fair
beldame. I was an only child. My,
mothei I do pot remember. I was sent Ts)
the grammar school.; learned to read, write,
arrange books, and, other matters in keep-
ing with my station. At 15 my father took
nu. !too his store at; lesteetant. The Cornish
coast abounds in rooky where thou-
sands of gulls build their oldie I often.
used to goegg-hunting with ray bey friends.
There ihte plenty of eicitement in it. WS;
usedto fix a stink in. a knot of Tape some
tetentY feet long.: One. end ,weeild be
fastened:seourely to a stakein the ground
and then, we used to let ourselves slowly
down over the• cliff and swing backward
and forward, Seated OU the stick, along tne
face of tile rooks, frighten, the old birds
away. and 'fill Or wa4ete with eggs. It
was a little dangerous, as the -rope might
out any. time. on therough andel:to of the
rocks, but- we were g5Inerally in parties of a
d.ozen, and one dtvialoiif Of us kept a sharp
eye .01i the ropes while the rest hunted.
"1 loved .the Bea in those days. One
morning I started out alone with my coil
of rein). I expected to 'find some comradea
by the shore, but % none were there. How-
ever, thinking they would soon. arrive, I
let myself. down, not on the seat, as usual,
but with the rope in Ela slip knot •beneath
my shoulders. ' Directly . ray • full weight
was in the no:time, It began to tighten to an
un,rofort„.zlele---.744eettetateser-44 Ier-tiVicaol`eteereeZe,
•enteellerefleegeteeneyearm outand Was
gradually the rope over my body so
as to Sit in the 110080, when a dozen gulls
'flew out and began to attack Me. My foot
slipped' from its hold as the rope closed
• rapidly' around . my neck. had time to
place my right hand to my cheek;
8.31. act which saved my life, .for
although the' pain Was Severe, I .00uld
bre"albseh.o. uted for help, but no help Was
neer. 'hung there tor hours; to me it
seemed yeerp, losing consciousness from
time so time, and having the most horrible
visions.. Finally the , agony was eo great
that with an effort of despair Theed my
hand and suffooated. I recovered
newt() find myself.; on my back in a tithing
. ,
tent; with. two Men bending over, mee It
seeins they had diecoveied.. my- dileneme
and Were drawing Meng • within half a
minute after the rope nadelosed round my
neck. My windpipe, I have since had
• reason to discover, is pretty strongd. can
take a deal of hanging, My first
experience-, nevertheless, -gave . the ' a bed'
attack of .brain tater, during which I must
Ave acquired the fear and aversion for the
sea I haveleit ever since: • . •
"When I recovered my health I.bmiante
wild and diseipa,ted, and, although. I man-
aged to rernein on friendly terms With my
father; for the next -five: years I •was
regarded in my . native town ttaa quarrel.
some fellow, ferernost in etiity row and
ready to • get drink whenever I had a
chance. Lookingback, I belieete I suffered
in my brain several yea•re ,after my first
banging. One night • in.; a• general, row I
kihbed one • of My pet-hOime. companionsWithal:4won the heed delivered with a
heavy pewter pelter vessel. ',was tireetted, tried
and istenclemmid to be hanged; • The yeediet
should. have been 'manslaughter,- for the
deed. was done in a free fight; but had no
'friends on the jury: The foreman wee,
near relative of- the 'dead- man, and although
tne judge.- charged the twelvelood Men .and
title accordance with the 'lesser crime,
they. Mond .me , guilty; without even a
retiominendation to inertly. The judge put
on the blink cap, and 'hoped: God would
have mercy on my soul.'
•."The da aretypd,ftehenete eeeee-e-Heeeeeekeeere
• wan V-IiihefVeW p_ootAttualval3,
_inakingettenuousethr_rWto-have • my-senc,
_mace reversed; but up to the day fixed fat
My death, Withinit m14,308E30. ,111 •hande.
ANDITVERSAItY.,
Celebir.ation of tote Great nefainier;os
. ,
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--A-Wittenbergb1 '• Sa egr,am—i;ayil t bele-
man to pull the boa when,I edited at the
supplication in the Lord's prayer, 'Forgive
me my trespaefiese , I hadhardly finished
the fitat.words of entreaty to heaven When
alma tumult fell on my ear, and the word
Reprieve!' • sheutedefrem----mOutli"
gates, from England., Roamed andelteland- moment I was nabound
to attend the ofdebratieri ...IECKY Of the end the royal message of Mem read to inc.
qiiettseenteziary of• Martin Luther have The death Pane* Was conininted to ten
arrived. The celebration wasn, great mute years' penal servitude. . .
cihis. Colossal butita of Luther and . 46 Never mind how I passed the "text ten
.111elanothon had been planed on the balcony e;eara. They Were not altogether Unhappy.
et the Town Hall and stands throughout The, facts oe my orinecevrere known in the
the city. Portraits of Luther and mottos priion. I Was nota thief and my doeility
from his laying@ and. .writinge Were: die-. and intelligence gained nie favor with the
played at many whadows.- The number of governor. I Was Made messenger clerk,
visitors is estimated.at 00,000.. The Crown and the last two years of , my confinement
Prince, with prince Albeoht and Von Goss- schoolniasterjo my eellow-Convicts.-Zvery.
ler, Minister of Etioleeiastical Affairs, at thing Was oneethe . mode/ system then.
tended divine service at the Stadt•-leizolie, Teansportation. had been abolished shortly
when, dyer 1,000 clergymen filled the ofore I became a convict: Finally 1 was
church. Stiperintendent, General Chultz once more a free man. . England, however,
delivered the festival: Aermon., The is no place for a freshly released ;
:party then proceeded to Schloss kirehe, he tenet - live dawn things a year Or two;
where the Orciwn Prince placed o, eplendid and so my peer old father gave me 2200
laurel wreath upeifluther'e grave. A long and his ,blessing, and 1 shipped for, the
procession .marched to Luther's Afouse, Cape of Good Hive and the diamond fields.,
where the Crown Prinoe, in a large hall,, On the long sea voyage 1 Buffered like • a
fermerly Luther's lecture room, declared child in a dark mem who is afraid of
the Luther Hall open. In an addritiot the ghosts --an Mai:Oyler envie, and a relict
Crown Prince 'Raid "'May this festival of My first hanging. . • . .„
tweet) as a holy exhortation . to uphold the "Well," Watts continued, after a. drink
great • benefite• Of. the Reformation, and of whiskey, eI landed in Cape Town and
strengthen our resolution to • be read r found the City full of 'excitement. Dia.
always to defend the 'evangelical creed of monde had just been discovered afreelein
liberty of ooneeienee and religious tolera:. old fields,' and untold wealth, ad itiwas
tion. May Luther's anniversary help to supposed, was iii the grasp of everybody,
strengthen Protestant feeling and preserve To meth my -destination, the Kimberley
the.German,evengelioal Match from dis, Mine, I had to travel a distance of eight
Union'and lay the foundation of .everlast hundred Miles in a atage drawn.by oxen,
ing peacse," Lectures on 'Luther's life and it -journey which took up ten days _Sad
work Were delivered this afteroon. The *Wish:was full of adventure. I arrived at
evening was devoted to banquets • and fest the fields, and, in partnership With an
tree gatherings. . . • acquaintance I Mita° in the waggon, .I. put-
ohu,eed a share of a claitn, for Wee. . For e
• Tin t °carrying og cattle on Jong eteemehip
voyages has become a regular feature of
commerce, ' but we rarely, hear Of a vessel
being converted into an twisty. The arrival
at Now "York on Thursday of the. Comet,
from Temple°, with 1,400 parrotil, shows
that a 'floating aviary is as preoticable as a
floating cattle nen. • , • „
month we teen(' next to nothieg,' then
1311pee5Ei 'Crowned our work,and within.
six monthsof leaving • England I
was, worth X2,000, , returned to Cape , For Dianotott ate for ItOgiaer;si Sate Dia.
own, but could not null! 1113 MY ftta biles Cure.
OrOSS the ocean horde., so I took room, at ,r°r "hie by 460"0.
crack hotel and began to enjoy myself, 111.1WAR111Ellrat CO.,
Tk0.89 wholiod fortune easily • spend freielY ; !Tonto, Aidchester. N. T. IJCiadotii
than I look;Proyidence may yet send me
happiness and fortune."
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•
' Lord Carnarvon bas refused to accept an
address from the Masonic Chapter of his -
name atMentreal, but will receive them se_
fizens' on the 18th inet. • • •
f7/ h 1..4"4:11A-
01.
. 0 BE /
11011EY;i 'LIVER AND URINARY- ORGANS
14.1.000'11111tilF,1113ii.'
Thole Is °lily bus wa,y bywhicli any disease oat
be enred, and that is ,by removing the eatiaa-a.
Whatever it may be. The great .roetlioal author.'1
ities of the day declare that nearly every disease
is caused bYderanged kidneys or liver. To reetore.
thus h•3roforo the only way'by, whit% health
earl be scoured. 'lord is where 1Varaer9e Sate
Cake has, achieved itti great retnItl.tio el aete
directly upon the kidheys•and liver and by lilac.
them bettithytonilition eiBease
and pain froln tile systern. lOor Xidney, Livor
and Urinary troubles, for the distresairig dis-
orders og women, for IVIalatia and physiOal
troubles gerierallyil)thiri great rethedy has no
oqual.1,0tVato o 0,64-
etiting ha' I t
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