Huron Record, 1881-01-14, Page 9•
ARCVOTD THE WORLD. ninth and last vory andel toilet for v. select
little 'IMPPer and Ord party. But thii
fashionable lady might havo done worth
things at Troutiile. She might have spent her
time reading new novels from Paris or trifilog
with susceptible young neutron norm's the
Channel.
—Patti lae bren singing with greet .suo.
raise at Berlin. After the bat perfetmence.
the Emperor of Germany prenent,ed to her hilt
liae-sieed portrait. With ltdedication Whig irfni
handwriting,
—Queen Victorie. has platted Osborne cote
lege at the .disposal of the Empress Itugrade
for a few weeks, Thu Riviera,' will take up
her abode at her new reeidatoe in Berth
Brants thie spribg,
the horded-001Mo eetakeie coal
th
into e courts, tie ie. now threatened, to tee
the validity of the. clause in the will About
marriage with e foreigner, even that colossal
fortune may dwindle like a thew matt tinder
the sun.
—The .Frenols of New Orleans are a third
a the whole population. They almost ea-
elegively occupy all the thwer or Older pitrt'of
i
the city, speak French in their daily nter-
Course, and have little to do, in trade or wi-
eldy, with the rest of the people.
—It is now settled that Oxford University
. than endow Professor Monier Williams's
Indian institute with 61,250 %year on °antra
conditions, No site for the building-haa yet
been selected, and nobody oeems to know
wbat the Instituteis really lobe. •
• —Mei. BraeseY the welt known writer, is
going to take another cruise In the Sunbeam
early thie month for her health. The
yacht has been undergoing an elaborate refit
in the Mersey, but will sail from Cowes.- "
—McCook Hail importuned, Esnier Poster'
to marry him, at .Pittsburg, Pa., and the per,
',latently relbeeci. Another and more fevered
miter WAD Lin the house, and Hall taw Berner
kiss him at the door on parting. Wild with
jealous rage, he called the girl book into the
parlor and shot he. mortally.
—The Duo de Persigny's widow Writes to
•the Figura., excusing herself for not laving
helped her daughter, Madame Friedland, now
in prison for forgery. She says she is in
meet narrow cirounistanties so long as her
mother, the Primulas de hfukowa, lives, and
that she han offered to "Igo any amount on
the strength of her reveraion, but that the
creditors of her daughter and huaband will
not accept her offer. - -
^740 of the growing industries of Aug-
' tralia is the making and oannrag of rabbite.
The Colas Preserving Company near ?del.
bourne had on an average 7,000 of these agile
rodents brought in every night at the begin-
ning of the past bosom], and the supply in.
oreaeing, orders were given to timid the daily
quantity to 2,700 pair. During the season,
which lasteO for 25 Weeks, 675,000 rabbits
were canned by this emtablis.liment alone.
—Felix Platt has produced Many random
statements, but his last eurpasoes all yet nre.
ceding from hie fanciful brain. Scotland is
not Pepsi," he .remarke,' "like that Other
Cleltto nation, Ireland. Al Glasgow, for in.
stenos, the largeet Satoh town, the affinity
of the race With Paris is trret7wheze to he
sem. in the architecture of the city, and in
resumer appearance and costume of the in-
habitante. , Nothing nameable* Pais more
than Chaegow and Edinburgh, where leughter
is heard in the Ovoids, where the *omen wear
caps and chat like Fool* womere and where
the bowies are Az dories high, like those on
the Rue St. Honore. Thue it is only natural
that the Roundheads should fraternize with
the Socialists, and the Puritans with the
ditcoblia,"
—With the exception of Patti and Nilsson
both foreigners. and Judie, who earns some
two hundred thousand francs a yearin France
and in Russia, there ere Out few millionaire
among the mannish' of Patios. Croieette le
rielt.through her marriage, and lives in eem-
fortable opulence, and is, moreover, an excel-
lent mother. Mile. Moissett, too,has become
rieh through her recent marriage; Leonide
Laden° poseesees a handsome fortune in
Money' • and objecte'. of art. Angelo, Adele
Courteis and Delval peace's each their mil
Hon. Valtesee, is intelligent and well advised
and Elluini is tit& both in jewels and landed
property. Mlle. Krause, Mlle. Miran*, Rosinr
Bloch, Etangs/li, lime. Pages, and Sohneidy
may be put down es -hating a fair income, as
twenty-five thousand frame ayear.
Piano and Bode of the Atheuee are likewise
well to de, and live °comfortably.
s—Some time ago; when Prof, Idomnisente
library. was•destroyed, a movement was sot
afoot itt England among the admirers of the
historian forth° purpose of indemnifying him
to some extent, as far, as money could do so,
for the great literary lass Ito had suffered, but
the Profeeser, from mingled 'motives, no dotrat
of patriotieni and pride, gave it to be under-
atood that he would rather not be put in the
way of accepting tenth a favor from a foreign
nation. His owe countrymen, however, did
not receive a similar intimation; and it is now
announced that it sem of 106,000•marks ($25,
400) has been collected throughout Germany
and presented to the historian of Rome, os-
tensibly in recognition of hie hiving on the
30th of November last reached hie 64th
birth-
day. Otte . banking firm in Berlinis said to
have alone oontributed 10,000 marks.
some Of the islands of the South Pa..
oifio where the elana attains a great simadiving
for claims is cone of the ". Occupations
of the • natives, The diver thrusts
*sharp iten,rod into the mouth of the olani,
which oloees jts abelhwith swill, tenacity that
it eatabe pulled out Of its bed. Oceamodally
_-dtlieteettselierhinethehrolemartilloyeetItheineelyee
toe be- caught—in-the-otrip-of too-powerful2a.
clam have only saved their lino by °Mirage
their fingers, and leaving them at the bottom
of tho spa. . . • . '
•—A. Bamberger is Chicago's largest furni.
ture manufacturer. His eon -fell in love with
an Oshkoeh girl, while visiting that eity;lind
arried_herdwath_out_partintaldooneent. The
father went to Oshkosh take a look at her
anti his decision was that she Would not do
for introaection into the family. The son
would pot give hee upOtiowever and has 4ot
only been cut off pecuniarily,' !hid the angry
permit has had hire arrested on it obotge of.
stealing SOD30 trifling articles in order to gap.
anite him from hie
—The Ametionii colony in Dresden had a
bazar on Dec. 14, the proceeds Of which are
to go toward beading an American ehuriffi:
The ladies who had stalls _wen dressed in
costume% mostly as Turks; While' one ep.
peered as an Indian, :The bazaar wait a great
_emcees, and' -among . the visitor,' was the
'Queen of Saxony. Some 'people, .however,
• think it would be better to insure an Mame
to the present Albertan olergyinatibefore set.
ting tibotit building it new chureh.. • •
there were 1,900 British troops and *bout
2,000 of the local' militia under *anus,to
options whom the invader only had 700 men,
then& he skilfully managed to conceal the
atoratneesof his farad A desperate engage.
raent ocotin•ed in the maket place, the Ben.
Joh ttwoln being led by Major Henan. Bull°.
ennui wait killed, and more than half hie lace
ohared the lame fate, the reat being taken
peisoneth, and, in the moment of yietory,
Mater Pierson, too,was shot dead. But for
the gallantry of this young offieer; who was
only 23- zeal' of age, the *lands would not
now belong to England.
--Texas, with au area of more than 274,000
square miles, has a great variety of soils, but
until recently but little bas • been known of
the countres between the Brazos and Itlo
Grande and north of the thirty-first parallel
of latitude. ' Formerly it embraced the hunt.
Mg grounds of the Apaches and Oorimobes.
The wild horse, the banal°, antelope, bear,
deer and turkey feasted and fattened upon
the 'doh grasses, and were found in vain num-
bers. When the Fort Yuma stage line was
started, and forts were located and occupied,
adventurous stockmen eatablithed ranches.
Then the'superiority of this vast area was
manifest is s grasaproduoing and tattle.
graying • district. The gnomes were vastly
better and the water more Abundant and last-
ing than threat of the other parts of the
State. 'W.hest in 1878 it beembe known that
the Peel& Railway Company were Enraging
10 puah ;heir road to 4 speedy oomPletion,
enterprioing grangers began their encroach-
ments upon the gook ranches. They found
the land most sightly to the eye. The wheat,
corn, cotton, oats, rye, barley, millet and
vegetable,' yielded far better oropit than they
had anticipated, and in 1879, when drought
had eausedi the great grain and cotton fielde
of eouth anti central Texas to wither and
dwindle away, they, with poor tillage, reised.
fair oropo ; the ram fell in setholi, the grass
grew, and the country that hail heen deemed
worthless as arable land soon became known
as the beet in the .htates. This knowledge
has extended, the notion ii rapidly filling up
and this year's crop far exceeds that of 1879.
—The turquoises of Now. Mexico are
worked at Mount Chileliniti (the Indian name
for turquoise) about 22' miles' southwest of
Saute Fe. The rocks inwliith they are found
aro distinguished by their white color and de-
composed appearance, somewhat resembling
*china, Mays giving evidences, according to
Preliddillinuors•ohnnatoalterationraineste-the•
e scifin throughthom of linittaiap &Of iditteid:
and perhaps of other. vapor and gases, by the
aotions of which tlie original crystalized (drac-
hma of the mass has been. completely decom-
poied or metamorphosed. The turquoise ia
found in little veins and nuggets, .00verea on
the exterior with it white tufatmous crust; but
stones of great commercial value are compare
liaterinderand-many-tone-of`thedrack—may
be cruthect without coming to o single specio
men. The blue peter of the turquoise,which;
'chemically, is a .htierene alitalinum.phos,
photo, is due to.00pper oxide derived•front the
associated rooke, of which the Mexico,
Die= contain 5.81 per omit: . •
--Sanely less rare than a black tulip of
the amazing natural cariosity now being ex-
hibited in the Berlin Aquarium. A milk -
white raven, with pale pink eyes and red legs,
recently received adnaissimeto the great" con
tral aviary, but his,presencethere Ennead such
'general panic among the' inmates that it has
been .fourth neceiniery to renieve him- to a
separate age, The Other birds instinctively
recognizedthat this Corvine Albine was ab-
normal, and therefore -terrible. Many of
them became total abstainers from feed end
,drink, through' sheer fright, whilehe shared
their quarters, and hudd cd together, . shiver:
ing, at AO gaat a distanee from the fearful
ttuomtily-as the Halite ef their prison would
permit them to attain. In all retipeoth, save
his extraordinary lines, tbe raven is as
other ravens: His appetite is apparently
inatieble and he ministers to it with a for
midable beak. He was bound, with a coal -
black brood of brothers and sisters, in a nest,
built by his parents, on the topmost branch.
of an old tree in the Georgenthal, a volley in
Theringee. ' Thissnow-white raven is itt
present one of ,the lions of the German
cietp syrapithy whiali. actors Oiler:
ish for sorrow. and 'suffering; deepite all the
friction with implearant sides of the 'mad
which most of then: undergo has jai been
shownin Leaden.' A member of' this body
died some weelte ago iron :injuries .reaeived,
on the itage and tett .one 'little daughter, a
friendless. ()refund: All the principal pantie
tonnected with 1.110 stage in London 'gave a
perterniance at Drury Lae° to assist the
and betweeo monSy taken at the adore and
subscribed 610.09 were cobectod. - • *.
—A •Galvesteh applied to by
his friends to allow his naine to be put up for
theDniced Ststo to Senatorship, said he aimed
at enotlair .effiee. A ' eat ite.the Cabinet,
eh?'" No, not that.' do Foreign Weldon ?"
" Nor that. Golden:ten, 111 he candid .trith
you, Pot teen Politiye beentrying tOget the
city authorities so lieve.the slopbarrel at dav.
back, gate emptied .onoe' it math, and have
failed.. Late tetinitied to have that barrel
emptied, to X have applied to' the City . Conn -
oil for the piedtion of driver to seavenget.
cart."
-dprepatetiensao .making for the amnia-
: pai ("tech/int.: itt Paha of Jan: 9,
artuallh-confeasen the hopeleseneas of
the Comintioiste it, this trial of strength by.
advocating the nomination of . dead Men and
of weenie Theftwill be, she says, the mite
Idea Of the serial revolution, dominating
withourindividuality ; the idea that de die
etreiy is impossible ; the idea, invincible and
implacable likh death. Meanwhile the mai.,
band mutable:hit, has expressed. an °Mehra
in favor' of petment OVinembere,' and has
voted 300;000 francs for the reirabursenuot
of °agar& tainted by thepreeent councilors
in the distharee of their duties, . •
—Boycotting 1 hreatens to !Mame it die
Weary wcord. There are many eimilar in.
gnomes in the English language. All Eng-
lishmen ..siteek, Of. trannveye, but half don't
knew that hit Woad ia short for OutramWays,
-Mt-Outride, having invented Bora improved
method of locomotion by aid of seat mans,'
Nor is the boy who sings, "7! .1 had it &they
What Wouldn't go, ',wouldn't I wallop him,/oh,
no, ne," omisaieus of it refetenee to Admiral
Walt:Mee hi to smite of Lord Lyiniugton ; Whose
dietary over a rreneb mittralrort won him great
popularity among hie countrymen.
—Mrshathouthere, the obeening editor of
the Letelon /tete' noticed the number Of
drensesavorn by it Pais lady at 'Vanzetti° in a
'Angle lat. They Were nine. First the don -
Mid it bt easfee( govni, then it walking dress,
then e bathine oottumesthen another walk,
irig dress, atut after that it yachting toilet,.
That mace five. The four others here a tan
•
gown, it diouer drag, a casino esteem and it
ARFAIRS IN 111.1314ND
LONDON., Jan. 5.-,A epeeist earesPondea
writhe trent Ireland to the Glasgow Evening'
Voce, ming an soorant of an interviewheld
by him with* Sentient= who might not un-
fairly be dethribed as ci Paden • heed-oenter.
So intimate is he with all the prooeedinga of
the fraternity, OA he pthtes when the lend
agitation was inaugurated, a determined re.
Mantua was me& to it by the.supportet1 of
the Fenian nroPsgarrda. That organization
then had 63,900 membera paying it emelt
weekly orontrraution. ficarmilY bad the land
League movement commenowl when the
Fatten agitation aa an organisation bollapeed,
and there was an almerit immediete transfer,
ace of the mei:abate to the League. The
correspondent adds that there were included
in the leadership of the loud movement men
who speedily developed into more thorough.
going Young Irelanders than ever before lived.
The writer then proceede &sten:owe : 44 Since
the extreme party began to have greater
weight in the councils, Fenian principles
have had freer play. The distribution of
arms, whioh was never entirely suspended,
hag eince been prosecuted with vigoro «mci the
number of Sniclers now 'mattered over the
country cannoothe well oalottlated: Stay man,
I understand, Who puts down' one pound in
the proper quarter, can .be provided with a
Snider rifle and 100 murals of ball and car-
tridge, with waist 'belts, shoulder belts and
cartridge pee*, a sword and :bayonet for the
ride. It ie unneeessery to state that the one
pound doer' not cover the expenses, but, the
difference is made good from a fund; contrib.
ated to by sympathizers with the prodded -
i nage th Otto
tohrepublic
t w°P er air lat
e weho "aa
go n azultheeo h an: ea
bnbo
credited with *fleeting
/MINNIE PALMEE'llt PRANKS,
Everyone hae a kindly ieeliog for hotith
and beauty iu Petticoat% and . sem to find
the shapely herili fillecl with 'wittily and ob-
otinttay. Mee Minnie Palmer is an eremite
of the unpleasant ,00mbination. Poring her
starring career Miss Plainer has been treated
with much kindness by: both public and
press, critics generally: having been more
complimentary than severe. Without „ stop-
ping to consider Whether ohe had cause to
be.greteful undo,' the eiroometances, looking
upon the kindliness shown her as ab meek
encouragement toward the accomplishment
of better.results, Miss Minnie became puffed
up in spirit and esteemed desert, perhaps be.
gond the -measure of Merit. Her first demon-
stration was to oast off all maternal restrict.;
ion and take heir affairs , into personal con.
Md. .NtoxVillie medeanatters to very enema -
*Ole that Mr. hoothoosalth hest Want(' et
'fiehoOratituit'-dedidd;ditotneverniedittddthid4ning,
-Other,
eegagement..in Chicago, 'which closed last
evening, ehe suneeded itt perranning a num'
ber of featsthat indicate hot temper and
great self-eeteem, as Well as stragolioaded-
nesti. She summarily evioted Mr, Hugh D'Arey
front hie poeition as.basiuess agent, end as,
..eignedoutoelegesonfor se doing that he was
ineoropetent. It took.fier a year to.fiiinhis
out.. Next s•he. brought about the defection
of Mr -George •Daveripert, who has quit the
company. SThe latest evidence of " self.man-
agereent was ' developed yesterday, when
Mr. Marcus Moyer Wrattto the little Maly cle-
otinin'g to he -further intereetediri her welfare.
At the beginning of the Beason Mr. Mayer, at
the solieitation•of Mrs. Palmersiindertook to
fill elate!! for Mies Palmer,. and did so lin to
the presunt time. Yesterdey the little actress"
in conversation with. Mr. Mayereinfortitho
him that she had filled eight weeks after Jan.
22, with some Chicago party. This eensider.
ably surprised Mr. Mayer,' atid he:reran*.
strateawith her. Miss Palmer pertly in.
formedbit thet she thought: ,herself quite
'eatable of managing her.townaffairs.. She
was told that ehe could -do asshe pleased in
fuiere. 'Mr. Mayer declared he 'would have
nothing more to de with fixing dates'for her,.
end should cancel all•thosehehael made !tub.
sequent to Jam, 22, in Order to obviate chance
of litigation. Mist Pattuer seems now to be
wholly .without. proper management. Mr.
D'Arer has Wean suit against her for injery
to reputation in, publiithing. in it deity, paper
the statement that he Was incompetent to
menage a theatlical entertnise. . The /Mit it
set for. oath January : 3; at which time Miss
Palmer will be in St. Louis.-:-Chieapo Inter -
Ocean, •
—Some further details respecting the
Morganatic marriage of the Emperenis of
Resell* are publiehed itt%the' Figaro. The
ceremony took. plies last summer at the
Cattle of Tsarkoe Selo, during the manteuvres
at the Entanof tamp, The Witnesses were
Count Alexander Alderberg, Minister of the
Court ; Gen, Ryteef, one of tbe Czar's indee-
d° camp, and an iritinaate friend of his
Majeety ; Count Milutine. Minister ;
and Gen: Loris Idelitioff, now Minister of the
Interior. ThOre, 10 it . appears no
truth • the repor:t that the :Czar
asked hikuttcle, the Etriperor William, to
grant the Princess Dolgorould a high •title.
The itecona with itt styled the princeth
Yourieff, one of the titles belonging to , the
liornonoffs. At first, as is Well known, the
Marriage wee weil received by the different
members of the imperittlfotmily, eome of what,
the Cearivitch for example, apea thetiuminer
at Om baths of Repeal, while others, of the
Grand Dukes Constantine andlhadimar, came
toPrance. ,03ut, little by little, a spirit of con-
ohiatioe has gained the upper hand, thanks
in a groat nierature to the initio.due of the
Duchess of Edinburgh. The same change is
noticeable among the ether classes of Meehan
society. „
*atm States of the Isle of Jersey will aide.
biate On the 6th of January - the centenary of
the battle in which the last attempt made by
t/ae French to obtain pasession of the ielarid
was foiled: On the date named, in 1781.
Baron de ItelIecourt, it Month& adventurer in
the pay of the French Goverment, managed
to land about 700 troops Without being ob-
served. The Orman were able to march te
the market place Of St: Helier!, before an
alarm was given, mut durpriad the Lietiten.
ant -Governor, Major ilorbet, Who, in it me.
Anent of weakness, signed it Capitulation and
mdered the eomniandant of Elizabeth Castle
to snirendet that forttess, Which that cater
tefused to do. So far, however, Rralecourds
enterpria hod succeededtaed had it not been
for the courage and decision of Major Pierson,
of the Ninety.fiith Itegintent, the bland
would oertainly loom been taken, hough
but in the Time* mid: Dotty Nees thie
lugs that the Government will
Wong intsaintrea to Prevent farther fihibui
Mg. It is announced to -day that they
prolong the debate en the address to
uttnat
Deems, Jan. 10.—A latge land meeting
been hetet at Armagh. The lament are for-
cibly hunting over theaandlorffie property -In
county. Galway. Three arteete have hew
made In oenneotion with the attempt to 'Mur-
der a polioiimin near Iteadford laat week.
A deepende attempt was made on Banda
therder a sehterd teacher at Tulla ;maned
Donee. He was under the protection. ot the
polka, between whoxn and a party of On
lensed men a ,regular fusillade was main-
tained.
Yesterchado meeting of the English end
hish Liberate to express dissatisfaction at
the incompleteness of the change neoeinted
in the land systera is attracting Much ratan.,
tion. The Time; says: A body of petitioning,
English as well as Irish, are oonveying the
menace that unless eweeping changer, in the „
land system, going far beyond the line, of
the mit of 1870; axeproposed it stand will be
made against coercion.
It ie rumored that Berl (lowher desires to '
resign the alio° of Lord Lieutenant of Ireirma.
LONDON', Jan, 11. --Tile Fenian -scare hes
extended to Portsmouth. The authorities
have reoeived varieue anonymoue warping'
of a contemplated attack on the Government
eetablishments. --Vey do not attach much
importancie to them. . .
More than fifty-five members of Parlia-
ment attended the meeting of the
English and Irieh Liberals yesterday, and poly
about oye represented lrish constituencies.
It ia idated that none Of theme at the niating
couldhe classed as Whigs. All were situate
Janitors and adherents of Gladstone.
The Ghanae in the Land Aititaidon. The Joint deputation of Home Rule and
whioh it has recently nsiebned—I mean the taboret members which is to watt on Glad -
change toward tile repeal movement—have stone en Wednesday will urge that it is
been partieularly active in distributing UM% easential in order to secure unity and enthu-
and the strategies 'resorted to for carrying out damn among the Liberals in Parliament and.'
this purpose would be worthy , of .1% better contentment in Ireland that the Land Bill
ODUDO. Though mattersare taking this turn shall inalude a doomprehensive scheme of
tlie Fontana are not hopeful that the riehtg peasant proprietory, accompanied, by the
eau be effeatuatly carried out in Ireland. three F's. The bill, as hitherto sketehed by
They acknowledge that a great portion of the the Government, would annihilate the ramie
people of the country are not disposed to run party in treianch •
the risk that will attend a feting, anxious as LUBLIN, Jan. 11. —In the Court of Queen's
they STO to secure eelf.government, therefore Bench to -day the Crown announcedtheir
rib reolienagd etrhee jorf et yhoeseti anainzoattihoutu hdaiver eoltoionng,bann
of one witness now on the way from London.
onee complete, With the exception, of evidence'
have come to the conolusion that the blow Deemer, 'Jan. 11.—The property' defense
must be struok at home and at the English association urge persona of all creeds and
Parliament. Another Olerkenwell outrages politics to join instemming the tide of ortine
they iroagtne, would go a. great way to the and -outrage.
furtherance of Home Bute: They -pray that The English and Irish inembere of Pailia-
Britain may be entangled in sorne motive. ment arranging for a deputation to wait on •
foreign controversy, for then their opportunity Gladstone in regard to the Irish land reform,
will some. •In that emergency they conceive held a numerously attended meeting to -days
that ail that will be needed in eider to para- Shaw (Home Ruler) depreciated the idea of
lyze the country smith° Governm,ent, will he British members forming part of the depute.
the destration ot a few publics edifice% Par- tion, for fear Gladstone might °entailer it an •
tionlarly about the dock -yard towns." Two attempt to dictate. ' It was arranged, how-
l:nine bottles of petrelmun 'were found yestee. ever, that Gladstone should be inforraed of
day, one -at Carrier's dock .and. the other rale their desire for -6 street land bili.-
_...s. •
"r•T.;
The effect of such an anomaly anci. satire
epee the constitution aa the continuance ;of'
a orirainel trial in the absence of the accused
canhardly.he favorable, to the admipietta-,
tion of justice. The people will only see that
Mr. Parnell' and his associate,' oiire as little
for the :Queen's -Bench es .for the law it.
dielf;-Eind-ignore-its-autharity—whenditsinters.
fares with the pursait of their political eh
AN EVENING : WITH CflIJESE
• SPOOKS..
The Woman whei Sees and Talks with the
Murdered.
The strange powers of the beclailed Ohiteese
woman whose astounding walks and talks with
ghosts' have been already chronicled have been
put to a severe test. Lest evening Sergt
Bloomfield eonducted the Chinaman who has
been in. 'custodyfor more than a year upon
ouispicion of having chopped- to death an old
Chinaman and a young Ohinaweinan on Gpv-
ornraent street a year ago, to the "den" of the
seer. The Seinant WAS 'accompanied by it
medical gentleman. The ghosts. were veil
aceomthodating. At short • hence they ap-
peared, seized the woman, threw her on her
Mick en the beds and straightway , she began
to tell the ghastly story. They identified the
prisoner we it murderer, detailed with'raiente•
nese the mintier ' in which the crime
wad 'committed, described the axe with
which they were done to death, the Etr.
tioles the murderer had ',stolen and their die
peeition. All eye", werettirneden the prisoner.
In tocordiince with the orthodox rule he should
have trembled, turnea pale Mid aunk through
the earth of confessed his crime. Bat the
Obeitinate creature, teethed of doing either,
laughed and jeered at the woman and her
familiar spirit,' and remarked, " You aabe
that Wotan. She lazy. No goad. 'Hoop tell
lies. litimeby; epos° she die ;she goto allee
same Amelican Man's hellee," The Medioal
gentleraan, meanwhile, had not been idle.
He felt the woman's paten and arrived at the
oonolusion that Olio and her ghoate were
abates. ida'under his A/reel/lone a tub of
water vote turned over the woman atel in „a
trice—in the twinkling of an optic—she came
'out of • the trance and agiliounced that the
spiritio had dioappelred. Leaving direttione
to sense her well" in case of it return of
the • trance the visitors( Withdrew, itupresesd
with the 'belief that the woinan is a vile hunt.
bug.—Victoria Colonist. • •
—The high Canadian has new areas, atid
look!, extremely well. But it still persists- it
Wing 'Welt outside in.
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Trai London correspondent. of the Man-
chester Guardian says thee Kama to the
issue of the War Office circular direoting that
a strict guard be kept over the antorias of
the volunteer, mune than one hundred rifles
.viere stolen from ODO plan near London.
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• LONDON, Jam 7.—The 110M0 111110 tarty
yesterday resolvecrpot to discuss the land
. , , „
ing. ' I remember Walking down the avenue
have ranch snow but it did some tall sleet- d
question•in-the debate on the address in reply
to tlae Queen's speech. '
Tanen. Jan. 8.—The, examination' ot the
officers' of the Treks igen& of the Land
League continued to -day in the jail in con.
segenoe of informatIon received by.the pollee 'No a toppmg p"
_
WeaSthliaPPwierYee atsimbeetieriptrhote'reniarked Mr.d
Mr. Yarnopin_
ner at a enaildi pace, on the avenue yesterday.
"Slippery time!, "—and Mr. Weatherwise in-
continently Eat upon himself, se to speak.
"
he ice is it little smooth," mineedeelltr. • ,
Yarnsiitunerehelpiog-hiefriendsupoeithainase-o/
nothing to wliat it was aback in the war. iirhy
we bad a eleet in 1864 that Was to slippery
that rubbers were discarded, and a Marl' who
put ton it 'pair of nutmeg .graters slipped up
and brae bit neck."
You don't sityra
"
Yes; it's *fact. ' But that's nothing to ,
What it was in 1857. In that winter we didn't I
with Beau Hickman, and at the corner of First
street a friend handed -him a $5 note. Bean • ' •
readied forward to 'take it, when he' gem.'
raeneed to tilip an slide, and right up Capitol
Hill he went.d •
that "there would be
a dangerous riot if the floundered i
• along lke a wo.
prisoners were taken through the towe.
tLoNothe, Jan. 8. --In consequence of the
report that a number of thencanbers of the
Land League in Cork wofild be mooned to.
day all the members of the organization and
it greatOrowel of spectators were preseut at the
meetieg, but there were DO arrests. A reso-
lution Was 'pawed that in the event of the
committee being arrested fresh offisers of the
League should be elected. '
' Demme Jan. 9.—A laud meeting whith
was to have been held near Trolee, today,
was prohibited. A 'large crowd, however,
were aosembled. Four hundred troops were
on the ground. The local magistrate ex-
plained the reason for the probitation and
the people quietly dispersed. Devitt suit-
aequeutly addressed, a largo assembly from a
hotel in' Tralee:• ' , • .
Looroote Jan. '94—Englfeh Radicals are
diseatiefied with the tote of the *Queen's
speech reference to Ireland, • atid consider
the Government too conservative. It is be-
lieved that the Dutch Republic in ' South
Africa will yet he re-established.'
The best attainable information job:ides
that Mr. Forster will piopose'on Monday the
re-ratootment"of the main provisions of.the
West Meath Act, with a nermiesive auspen.
shin of the Habeas Oorpue Act. In answer
to a letter from the' Vedas' Union Cominit-
tee, thanking the Government for its promise
of legislation on the land question, and en-
deavoring to extract a pledge in favor of
peasant proppietorshin, Mx. 'Gladstone
ilo-
olitnc-s that it would be premature itnd Moen.
%entrant to state the 'data° • of the intended
proposale until they are 'explitinect in Par.
helmet.
Rome, Jan. 8. --The oondition•of again in
/rebind continues to be a Matter of mutat con.
cern *0 the Pope, who, it is reported;hae sent
fresh instruotions to Bowe Irish hisitopihwith
a *tem prothoting the re-establiehment of
order.. •
Nita( Yong, Jan. 8.—A Load- on' (vestal cor-
reePondent telegraph!!: The increased activi.
ty of secret gossietiea of various fiats in Eng.
Maui already excites nine uneasiness, more
perhaps than Meat people are willing to con-
cede; During the put few We' eks frequent
attempts have been made to throw rattsvay
trains from the traok, and outrages of a
mysterious character have been oommitted itt
Birmingham, Oldham, • Sheffield, and other
places. Some of these attempte and outrages
are suspeoted to be the work of men (mention.
ed with the Irish Leta League, while others
are ascribeul to foreign agetit•O layering in the
came Of Nibiliten and Sootolism, %hen is
dearly a necemity existing for a strong and
vigilant Govertment at ouch a metnent, and
the Ministry must feel that theyeannot afford
to be made epOrt of by Efr. Parnell and the
olostruotiva, .
madden a roe, thesteam pouring out of Ins
mouth likeit locomotive, end aa. he rounded
the crest of the hill, his Oat hipping like it
signal of distress in the breeze„ he repre-
sented it living example. of . things slippeios •
He didn't wind up*entil he resched the navy
• Bat here Mr. Weittherwise, who bed been
reclining against the damp.post, began, de-
spite all his efforts, toslide up it, and was
only rescued after great exertions on the'
part of Mr. Yarnopinner. "1 !dick to
remarked Mr. Weatherwise, as they proceeded
oric their journey, " that these be etippery•
times.d
• FATAL EXPL'OSION.. '
Thrashing heetonine Aimirlent—.Loss of
Llfe
•. Leath Jan. 12—A eteam threshing ma-
chine at wore on the llth concession of Lon.
don toe nehiri, at the nigh:len,* of Mr., Iron -
side, blew out the end of the fire box, drawing
the truoks and engine into the bern, and
makhag a total wreck of the separator and
cleaner. . Quite a number of ph•sons were in '
the barn at the tires, bpt all escaped without '
injury except one youeg man, second son' of
George Bolton, whod was killed. , The whole
thrashing apparatus id a complete wreck.
Another Account,' •
•„. Lenox, Jan. 12, --By the boiler explosion
on the eleventh conceesion of London town-
ship yesterday Alexander Bolton was killed.
The force of the exClogion was tereifio, send-
ing the boiler gamily or eiahty feet throegh
the barn, where the steam separator was et
work. Some fifteen men and boys were at
wait in and about the place, which was
owned by Mr. Alexander Ironoides, but au
fortunately escaped saving Bolton, who was
instantly killed. The belief passed over the •
heads of some id the MOD. The machine
Was made by the Joseph Hall company of
Oshawa. The cause of the expleston ik
attributed to gnarl eareleasness on the pat cot
the attendant in charge in leaving his post.
The pressure ou at the tune or thevexplosion
must hnve been about 115 panda. An- in-
vestigation is probable.
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TFIE GENEVA AWARD.
XJ4W Vote Jan. 6.—The Chamber of Cora.
entree to -day passed a resolution favoring the
distribution of the balance of the G0t1OVA
award to pereons who lost vessels and eargoeel
by the depredation', • of the Oordederate
titulars and to those whowere obliged te
proteet their Commerce under the American
flag by the payment te the tracterwritoth of .
extra 'neurone°, .
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