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May 23 1884,
Canadian authorities cabled the home
authorities to be on the lookout was among
the steerage pagsengers on the 13tate ot
Florida, but it *not known Whether he is
among the saved. 'If he IS it is under un
TIRE MEAN HORROR. assumed name. Mr. Bethune, of Toronte,
Was last seen on board the boat which (*P-
oised. When the aurvivore got on to its
Wendy 'nulling Rurally° of One of
the Rescued Passengers,
DREAOFUL SUFFERINGS ON THE WATER:
A mother's Piercing Well ar Anguieb
tor Her most infant.
The following further detaild were ob-
tained from Mr. Bennett, of London, whose
experience was one a fearful, prtvation
nd hero* endorsees: • He was standiug
ao near the Bide when the collision took
place that had not a friend pulled him
away be- would have been killed on the
!pet. The ship's doctor alongside himWas,
injured by a broken epar. The orew all
rushed for tloe 'boats. The passengers
seemed paralyzed, SS did also the captain,
who waevarshed from the deck just before,
the vessel went down, within, twelve
minutes of the time she was. struck.
Allan, third officer, was first- to give the
alarm that the vessel was oinking. Mr.
Bennett says he pushed &number of friends
into one of the boats and jumped in him-
Belf. Jamt before it was havered someone
,eat the WM too soon, and the beet emptied
all the pasiserigere into theitea. He with
flv others, climbed on to the keel and eat
there all night. Underneath the boat were
a number of tbeir tomerciimpanionts,,all
of whom were found dead next morning.
The small number of passengers saved ha
attributed to the rapidity with which the
Florida went 'down and to the fact that the
captain, who apparently did not aettlize this
position of affairs, made' no endeavor to
get them into the boats. Though the sur-
viving officers are all very reticent as to the
responsibility for the accident, the iropree-
e ion seems to be that the steamehiP was to
blame.
" On the steamer,when the confusion was
at its height, I taw George Forrester, the
steward, go to a number of ladies who had
come on deek and provide thein with wraps.
There were Mrs. Shake% of Chatham,
Ont.; Mr. Woods, his wife and ohild ; Mae
Murray and- Mr. and Mrs. Woods and
family. Forrester urged them all to come
with him to the boat, but they refused and
said they must wait for the captain's ordets.
There is no time to lose,' said the steward,
but they were persistent and he then left
ahem. .
A MOTHER'S ANdUISH,, ' • '
"By this time Mrs. Colbaok,' with an
infant in her arms, came to one of .the
boats that was just °vet the side, and she
threw the baby toward the boat, but the
chlldi fell into tla sea. I shall never forget •
the awful oiy of that mother.; You may
wonder that people did not 'move. when
asked to save themselves, but they were
really paralyze& and they could not. I
wohld give you more incidents if. X had •
time to think, but really the remalleation
makes me shiver. '
BUFFERING IN THE•BoAT.
" Now, to return to the boat. [Hr.
Bennett, it will be remembered, escaped
by means of a boat, wbioli WAS overturned,
part of the passengers and orew going under
it, and part realiaging to get on top. Among
the latter was Mr. Bennett.] There we
Were. 'We could hot have been there moxe
than three or our minutes. •The stern of
the steamer had 'settled very deep, and
that was all that saved us from the screw
as it was revolving. We gazed anotiouely
at the port saloon , lights, and suddenly •
they sank very low and were quenched.
Then there was either a rush of steam or
an attempt made to blow the whistle, and -
the steamer's lights disappeared.
BTRUGGLING FoR DEAR LIFE.
keel he had disappeared. Mr. Ring was
the friend whom Mr. Bennett pushed into
the same boat. He also must have been
lost when the boat capeized. As for Mr.
Eddington, it is probable he wag also in the
fame boat and was drowned at the same
time, but none of the survivors interviewed
oan tweak with eau ctertainty as to having
seen him.
THE HTELMSHIP AND ITS OFFICERS.
The State ef Florida was commanded by
Capt. J. W. Sadler. He had been With the
company since 1873. ,He at first com-
manded the Virginia, but for nine years
had been in command of the State of
Indiana.. This was his first trip in the
State of Florida. He was au elderly man of
long sea experience. He belonged to Glas-
gow.
Mr. James Thompeon • was the chief
officer. It was Mee his firet trip on the
State of Floride. He was„formerly chief
officer of the State of Pennsylvania, and
had charge of her deck when Captain John
Campbell and seven men were saved from
the lumber ship Benefactress about 500
miles west of the coast of Ireland after the
;stern of the vees,e1 had been wholly broken
up and washed sway.
. Mr. George Younger was the second
officer Afr, James Allan, third officer. ;
Mr. John Babe, oldef engineer.; Mr. m.
Hislop, second engineer; Mr. Hill, third
engineer; Dr. Aa Steele, surgeon; Jeus M.
P. Kaurin, purser. '
The ship's cargo consisted ohielly of corn,
wheat and other grain, provisions and gen-
eral merchandise. 'Both ship and cargo
were insured
Capt. John Davidson, of the State' of
Nebraska, formerly commanded the State
of Florida. When she was off Fire Island
under his charge a number of years ago a
big schooner, the J. F. Campbell, atruok
the ship on the port side forward, carrying
away the rigging and doing- bonsiderable
damage to the bulwarks. The carpenters
and the steward of the ship were hurt. The
tiohooneee bows were ()rushed in, but she
did not sink. This was the only disaster
that ever happened to the State of Florida
before she was *et. The ttate' of Flolida
was built on the Clyde in 1879 for a -freight
steamer for the Queen Steamship Com.
pany, and wasaiamed the Queen Margaret.
When sold to the State Line she was
re -named. Two years ago a new deck was
put in, and she was fitted up in modern
'style to moommodate 100 cabin passengers,
60 second cabin and 800 Moorage passen-
gers. On her last voyege she was laid off
one month and overhauled for the summer
passenger boil:tees. She carried 2,800 tone
of freight, dead weight, on aedraught of 25
feet of water. She was 371 ft. long, 38 beam
and 28 death of hold. She was barquentine
rigged, but .did not oarry sufficient sail to
enable her ' to reach port without steam.
She wap considered a geed ton -day boat to
Glaegow. •
AN ORNAMEITIED LI:Pm:ton. .,
A correspondent writes : I learned that
a large metallic lifeboat, which was intended
to convey a ' large number of people and
which was located ondeok, was never used
at till. It had its ropers out and was thus
useless, as it could not be hoisted out. This
wasdone, it is charged, so that there could
be SU exam° for the commander or some
one. not going in her. • •
• lar.• Steele,' the surgeon of the State' of
Florida, says that the main cause of the
great loss of life was the continued pro-
gress of the steamer after the collision. It
was owing to ' this that more 'boats were
not safely launohed and that the passen-
gers were afraid to enter those floated. '
The chief engineer appeared to be pos..
eeesedf the same remarkable minim or
o
lethargy which distinguiehed the scaptain,
and a he was hurrying his friends through
the passage, which was already, knee.deep
in water, he met the chief engineer coolly
walk ng up and down with a life preserver
on and his hands in his waistcoat sleeves.
The steamer went down with her whistle
blowing, which he supposed was intended
'by 1 the captain or whoever' opened the
vs ve, atett, last farewell to the world' and
al in it. . • ,
".There seemed to be a 'dreadful wail
when the steamship went down, and then
all was quiet. We were in a wretched
plight, wet through and on a perilous perch,
but while we were watching for the Other
boats our thoughts reverted to hurTawn.
There were seven or eight men below our
tiPturned boat, and they were shouting to
us -to help them out, but We donld do
nohinggas mostof the fellows alongside of
me were useless, and I had all I could do
to make them keep warm.. „I induced them
to huddle together and lie close, so the
warmth in our bodies would be a universal
quantity. By this means was kept warm.
"Meanwhile we could see plainly enough
that there were three ,boats floating Omit,
and that they were 'obeying the orders
from a boat that had a light. The boat.]
swain's boat had six then in it, and wei
hailed it in most piteous terms. All night
we .kept calling for it,and once it risme
very near us. One of the men in our boat
called the boatswain by Ti4me, and •he
...answered, Whatdo you want?' There
are only five of us here,' was the reply;
come and take us off this boat.' Tao
answer was, Yes; wait, I am going to dee
if theta is any chance to piek up any, per.
son from the Mesmer.'
"The boatewaiti's boat then passed very
near'us, and the steward implored him not
to leave them. Had the ,boatawain's boat
, come to Ms then we 'mild have stood at
les.st eight more men that were under the
boat, and I think Mr. King was among
them; but the boatswain passed again and
never came near um
A PITIABLE MORT.
" g.very now and main the poor fellows
under the boat would ory out We would
answer that help wouldsoon come, and try
to keep up theiramurage, but one by .ono
they died, and at length we could hear
nothing. Our hearts sank within us later
when we saw the light go out on the *ea-
ing boat, whir& we afterward learned was
the third mate's. ,
" We remained ell night elope together,.
By and by the breeze freshened up and the
waves dashed upon um Mist we felt them
lap our ankles, then our knees; by and by
they reaehed highdr, and before Morning
the sea broke over ue and our misery was
errible.
DEAD LINDER THE BOAT,
"As morning dawned the third mate
ordered the boatswain to go to our midst.
mom and he cisme. We were taken off
then, and the suggestion Wall made to get
out the man underneath the boat, who We
believed -to be alive. A enter in the boat.
swain's boat said there was no one alive
there, and advised that the boat be allowed
to remain. At this the Norwegian /taint).
lighter airoped up with an oar and throat.
ened to brain the sailor unless he shut up.
He then jumped upou, the boat and corn -
maimed to better m the bottom. The man
Mitohell was then found to be alive, but
delirious, and he refueed to come out. At
this the boatswain ordered hina to be pulled
out. He had been sitting all night in the
thwarts of the beet and was nearly Ituffte
cated, all the rest being there, too, seven or
eight of theta. They were all deed, hew-
ever—suffocated, most likely."
TIM CANADIAN PASSENGERS.
p.
CALLING IN VAIN FOR HELP..
A limit (Sunday) night's Quebec despatch
a. ye The remainder of the survivors of
e steamship State of Florida disaster
ere landed here to -night from the
oaktie Therese. The hat has been
• heady published. All those whpSe DBMet3
appeared in it are wetland hearty.. Chief
Officer Thompson appeared much worn and
dejeoted. It appears the , names ofthose
saved from the barque wbich was in the
collision are Captein Heyburn, of Liver -
p001; Angelo Roes and Thos. Nicholson.
The names.of those lost by tide barque can-
not be ascertained to•night. The Pomona
was in ballast from Liverpool to Miramichi
and was a barque of 749 tons. The only
information derivable tanight is that from
the sailors of the Florida, the New York
agent of the line haviog Beetired control of,
the officers before they could be reached by.
newspaper then r to prevent them
being interviewed i. bis absence.
The 'Realms having m stly been "in
bed at the tinie of accident, •their
Mon/ does not a o o muoh, but they
seem to have an impre um that somehow
or other Tb.. .sn blame for the'
• cedlision. Before e survivors of
the Pomona were poke up • one of their
compeadons, a seaman of the barque, had
-died ihtheir beat from cold and exposure.
Captain Heyburbveent to a hotel in coM•
pane' with the officere of the Florida. He
fias lost everything and is destitute. One
of his men who is saved, Nicholson, was on
the lookout at the time of the collision,
and distinctly ascribes the fault of the
disaster to the steamship. '
All Natio were seen tchnight from the
Therese agree that the Cita of 'Rome, re.
fused asaistame to therm as previously re-
ported. She was so near that it watt im-
' possible not. to have seen and understood
the.signals. The lifeboat of the Pomona,
4in which the captain hie men
were phiked up,' was brought up by the
reaouing barque. •
LIRE RE'S LUCIE.
A. Servaat Girl Becomes a' WeidthY Wile
Land Widow in Two Mom hs.
A Milwaukee despatch says: S. P. Burt,
a wealthy Bostonian, who came. bore a few
years ago to take up his reeidence, dropped
dead in the Metropolita0 Hotel today. He
was Vice-Preeatent of the North Chicago
Rolling Kill Company, and one of the rich-
est men in the city. He Created a greet
email sensation by marrying Lizzie Thom p.
Bon, One of his servant girls, on March 26th
last, an had ant returned Ix= an ex.
tended bridal trip to occupy a new $100,-
-000 Mime. .His first wife died lees than a
year ago. .
Though we seem grieved at the shortness
Z1 life in getieral, we are wattling every
petted of it at an end, The minor longs to
be of age, then to be u business Mae, then
to make up an estato, then to tame at
• 11 19 said that a forger for whom the honors, then to retire.*Addiren. •
P1010810111L IVSBD MMES. '
Elharried Woman's Device her Getting OE
• the Old Love and en Me New.
A London cable .cleepateli says Afxs,
Anna Stutt was convicted to -day at
fold, in Rhenish Frussia, On cinema of
having rid hereon of two obnoxious hus-
bands by poisoning them. The first hus-
band became tiresome to her, when she
fell in love with Stutt, and Stutt, it is
charged, aided hr in her first Borgian
attempt. She won became weary of him
too, and beaming enamored of a third
lover, managed to have Stutt fall seriously
ill and die before he could make any die -
closures. In her emend effort to Weenie a
wiabw Mrs. Stu* acted .alone, nopa daring
to take her lover into her confidence. Ile
became alarmed at Stutt's 'sudden demise
and broke off his relations with the
woman. This attracted suspicion and led
to the inveetigation, whieli resulted in the
woman's trial and °David -ion. The prisoner
is ratherpreposeeesing in appearance. She
Was sentenced to fifteen years' peual servi-
tude.
HEAVY IBECPALIDATION.
4. G. T. B..Cashier Alleged se have Da -
camped with in.000 el the Company's
E."04t1s.
A, Buffalo deePateh to the London'
Advertiser Bap : Fort Erie (Ont.),
opposite this city, IS in a ferment
of exeitement over the disappear-
ance of Jeanie Phillips, cashier of the
Grand Trunk Road at that platen -with
nearly $2,000, of the company's money.
Phillips has been holding the position at
Fort Erie for eight yeare past, and for
twelve years before that was in their em-
ploy at Goderioh, Ont. He has been receiv-
ing but $40 a month in his position, but
spent fully $100 a month in this city, which
he visited frequently in order to have a
" good time." He was counted a
jolly good fellow, and as at hen*
he carried himelalf well, there was
no meek:ion of anything being
wrong. Last Friday afternoon he left
home, telling his wife that he WES coming
to Buffalo on. Wetness, but as he did not
return, ;Me on Monday morning sent the
kepi of the safe to John Phillips, the agent,
who, it seems, is no relative, although the
names are similar. On opening the safe
and examining the hooks it was Been that
he was short, and a despatoli was at once
pent to Robert Larmonr, Division Superin-
tendent at Stratford, who tient John Payne,
Travelling Auditor, to the station to ex-
amine the books. Although the examina-
tion' is not yet complete, enough is known
to show that the shortage Will amount to
$2,000. Nothing has been heard of Phillips'
whereabouts, but several officers of the road,
assisted by Detective Day' and d number of
other deteotives, are working on the case,
in order, it possible, to learn his where.
e,bouts. Phillips' wife is now confmed to
her bed hobo •the effects of the shook.
Phillips has four children who have an
interestineame property left by hislather.
• THE DUMB SPEAR.
Strange Stem" et a Repentant Lever'.
• liell•Impesed Penance.
A 14111dOn despatch says: The famous
deaf and dumb kniok-linack peddler, who,
during the past few yeare, attracted so
much attention, on London Bridge, has
died kith° Southwark Workhouse. Before
his death he beckoned to his cot ode of the
hoepital attendants and terrified him by
speaking 'te• him. When the •attendant
recovered from his astoniehnoent the beggar
confessed that his deafness and dumbness
had been' feigbed. Hassid he was a Sides
gentleman of fortune and belonged to one
of Am beet laminae m• the republic,. When
a yonng uuan hawas betrothed to a beauti-
ful and accomplished girl. He was porn
•Bossedef a most violent temper, and in a
lovers, • !panel over a trifle one
day he se wounded the girl by
the bitternessof hie invectives that
she fell ill. Hie'oruel conduct etung him so
that he became melanchioly,firom remorse
and left home. 'He then resolved to
punish himself; he vowed to become a
voluntary exile for twenty years, to earn
his own living, leave hiefortune untouched,
. keep hie relatiees and friends ignorant of,
hiswhereabouts, and go bareheaded and
baxefoeted inall wealthee'duritig-the MUM
time, and -to listen to no 'Me and speakto
ho human being during,the ten • hest years
of hiaexile. If he lived to, eomplete his
vow be meant to returnhome, and use his
fortune and the remainder of hie data iio
making his betrothed heppy,. providing she
The Brutal Slaughter of an Aged Couple
Near Chicago.
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thANADIAN ACCUSED.
A Chicago, Ill., despatoh says: a. murder
trial which premium to he e caws edebre
has lust commenced here; and it is not
without interest to Oanadialls as the
mowed is one Neil adoKeagne, the Hon of
a farmer who lives near Thorold, Ont,
James L. Willson and his wife—limaged 72,
she 82-ewere wealthy. They lived in
Windetka, 16 miles from Chioagm, On
Feb 13th *at they were found murdered,
really beaten to death, horrible bruises
covering their bodies. The heir of the old
maple called in the Beryfeell of Pinkerton's
detectives'and a clue was quietly followed
up, whiotiled to an arrest. At the time of
the murder there was snow upon the
ground. Tracks were found in the anew
leading to the front gate. • Exact plaster
oasts of these tracks were taken
by the detectives. In the rooms
where I.' the orime was committed
were found three rubber vest buttons
of peculiar make. The name of a Paris
maker was stamped on them. • ' All were
blood-stained. One had a piece of cloth
attaohed, as if rent from somebody's
clothes. These valuable links in the evi-
dence were naturally taken care of. The
day before the murder Willson had
received a. considerable sum of rdoney
through the sale of mime property. All this
• money, his gold watch, a memorandum
book and oilier valuable papers were gone;
but $350 in cash and 03,000 in village bonds
were found in an old trunk undisturbed.
They *ere probably'overlooked.
Among the. villagers who were fond of
discussing the murder was the young
Canadian butcher, McKeague. He repeated
conetantly, with varying details, a story to
the effect that the night before the murder
Willson came to his etore and said "shat he
expected a caller that nightand wanted an
extra nice steak." The constant reitera-
tion of this story made people whisper that
it might be , poseible there was an
objeot in his doing so. The whisper-
ing became loud talking. DfoKeague'a
modem- 'fell off. His store was
avoided. It became known that MoKeague
owed Willeon a large sum of money, but the
evidenoe of this •debt was ',taken in the
papers earried off by the murderer. Detec-
tives watched MoKeague. His olothes
were eeoretly examined and the three
buttons matched other buttons upon his
clothes. The microscope identified the
threads attached to one button as being the
sem° material as in ope or his vests. His
pistol carried bullets of the same =pore as
those in the old man's body. Despite his
protestations of innecence, this circumstan-
tial evidence was deemed sufficient for his
arrest.
The trial has been in. progress since Mon-
day, the viluile of that day being occupied
in challenging jurors. Tuesday and Wed-
nesday 'were spent in this eame way.
Nearly onebundred pertains have been re-
jected. McKeaguees counsel appears con-
fident of a Verdict of acquittal, and so do
'his aged Scotch father and mother, who
are here from Thorold. His sister, aunt
mod affianced, Belle Hagen, are in court
every day. The defenceconfidently assert
MoKeagne's innocence, and maintain that
Pinkerton's deteotive ageney, employed by
the prosecution to work the case up, knows
that he is guiltlese. It is expected that the
panel of jurors will be completed to -mor-
row.
BIG PIRICJES FON JERSEYS.
Sales from and Purchases for the Oahe
• lands Herd. -
A New York despatch dated. lest (Wed-
nesday) night mos At the combination
ealle• of Jersey fancy cattle here today,
pinety animals were sold for $70,000. The
number of imported cattle sold was not
large, those born on this continent exciting
the keenest competition. The °tittle from
_thafarmotadr-Valaticey E.Fuller,of Harnin
ton, Ont., were; especially favored and
fetched very high pneee. A beautiful silver
grey cow, Honeymoon of Sti. Lambert,
daughter of Stoke Pogia.3rd end Bryon of
St. Lambert, was bought by Mr Pierce, of
Boston, for 14,100, and • Cowslip, of St.
Lambert, from'the same fared, *as bought
by the same party for 1)3,000.. The highest
pima realized was for Bomb's daughter, a
2 -year-old heifer from Mr. A. B. Darling's
herd, 45,200 Mr. Fuller purchased Kadi,
an 8 year-old cow, for §20.09, and Albert's
Queen heifer for $850.. , , ,
were alive and unmerited. He had rigidly
kept' his vow, " but," lie ,oried before he
expired, " my time ie net Ault° tip end -1
must die before it ie. I have been punished
as I deserved." Investigation BO fir as 'it
has gone hap proven that the peddler's
story is .entirely true, and hie family in
Switzerland have been Made acquainted
with his death.
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'I'no Children Committed for Contempt
Ucco,,ec Ihev Refuse to TestUY,
Against Their Blether. •
A London cablegram myna , A Boma-,
tional Beene of an unusual kind even in
Irish murder trials occurred on •Saturday
at Carriok-on-Suir, county Tipperary. The
victim of the eurnecteed murder 'was
Michael Blaney, of Kiloash,' whoa° body
was:recently exhumed and found to show
traces of arsenic in sufficient quantity to
cause death. Suspicion rested upon the
widow, and she was arrested and placed on
trial at Carrick-on-Suir on Saturday.* Her
two chilaren of tender years were pro-.
timed as witnesses, but on beteg placed
upon the witness table they stubbornly
refused to utter a word. They were
threatened with imprisonment, and were
evidently much frightened, but threats and
persimmon alike foiled to elicit from them
a single morsel of tavidenee. They' were
therefore committe'd for contempt of Court,
and ordered to be kept in confinement
'until they purge therarielves of contain/it
by giving their testimony in open court.
The severity of the judge's action under
the peculiar circumetanoes has caused a
great sensation in the .neighborhood, and
has turned the sympathies of the people.in
favor of the widow,. whet has hitherto been°
regarded by most of the neighbors as
. .
Modesty is a bright dish cover, which
makes as fancy there is something very nice
underneath.—Douglas Jerrold,
Mr. Bell; of the Dundee Standard,
addressed a large meeting ip Collingwood
laet night against the Scott Aot.
¶1w� slaves, formerly owned by Jeff
Davis, now own his plantation, foe Width
they paid If200,000.
"1 atlas fee* sorry fur de young feller
what is smart befo' his time,' says Unole
Mose, "De flowere whut bloenul de soon&
toile soonest ter die."
Do not preps your yourtg children into
book learning, bat teach them pelitenese,
including "the whole °tree of Oharities
which spring -froth the coneoiousness of
what is due to their fellow beings.—Spur.
shein4
lirAnfellallate letlEiN0111$11UNNT,
Illrldegreens Shot and the 'Bride Nearly
' - • Itlinnentered to alietreit.
A last (Tuesday) nightie Wheeling, W.
Va., despatch says: A terrible tragedy has
been oommitted at Petersburg, Grant
county, this State, Another lynching may
follow, which will be the fourth In thus
State within ten days. Lawrence Spiller,
a farmer living baok of Petersburg, had a
handsome stepdaughter,to whom he played
the part of a Blintbend, keeping her Mout
up whenever practicable. The country
was full of rumors concerning their rela-
tions to each other, and it became a matter
of surprise when Edward Teylor, who
worked for Spitler, deinanded her hand in
marriage. Spitler refined point bleak,
and threatened to kill Taylor if he found
him again on the premises. On Friday
night the girl disappeared, having eloped
with Taylor and gone to Petereburg. Spit-
ler armed himself and followed, vowing
death to the man if caught. At
Peteraburg he learned that they
were married and were Waging with
a man named "Wilitams. Spilled:went to
Williams house, and was told the uewly.
married couple had retired and were asleep,
Forcing his way to theroom he entered,
awaking Taylor with the noise he made..
The bridegroom eat up in bed awl Spil-
ler levelled a reeolver at ban. Tlie wife
begged piteously for hie life, but "Spiller
fired, the bullet entering bier heart and
killing him instantly. Spitler than at-
tacked the wife, hammering her over the
head with the revolver, and bitterly
denouncing her for deserting him..Leaving
her for 'dead he rushed from the house,
mounted his horse and fled. Williams
gave the -alarm and an armed posse started
in pursuit. Spitler had returned home,
where he was arrested and taken badk to
jail. The news came ty messenger, and at
the time he left the town the indignation
and excitement were intense. Mrs. Taylor
wag then in a dying condition, and the
Courier feared mob law in the event of her
death.
•
THE 31011IGAINA.TIC WIFE.
— '
A Woman With's Hietory.
A London ca,blegrain BaYs : Mine. de
Kslamireathe deserted morganatic bride of
the ftekle Greed Duke Louis IV., continues
to occupy a considerable apace in the news-
papers, and many anecdotes axe' told Of' her
conquests and love . adventures. A few
years ago, and while she ,was Mill, the
Countess Cze.pski, she resided at Berne,
where Prince Gortsolutkoff was the-Ea.:Ikea
Minister. She was known there teethe
.Russian Venus; and her beauty and the
gracefukabandoitof her: madeher
the centre sif large circle of masculine; ad-
mirera; wilt= she flitted with and jilted
with Oast Aitb. and oomposure. Among
her viotims*was the son of ". the illustrious
Russian atatesmag, e.nd- he threatened to
blow his brains out when ihe rejected
• the offer ot his hand and fortune. Prince
Gortsohakoff, however, was too well•poeted
in 'the secret erebives of the • Russian,
nobility not to know that there was a page
in the past history of the fascinating Coun-
tess vetch would make- any honest man
hesitate before making,her his wife, and M.
Gortsehakoff thus became reconciled tosee-
ing her beconos the bride of the young dit310=
mat, M. Nicolas de Kalamire.
BA.D EXPIJOilON.
Disastrous' Blow-up at Sagismer City.
A Saginaw City • deepen:1h says: On
Saturday evening the boiler used to gener-
ate steam for those* block at the works of
Green, King Co'
• of this 'city, exploded
with terrific force, wrecking boiler house
and salt block., and doing de.mage to the,
extent of $5,000.. The fireman was taken
froin the ;ruins in a horrible plight. His
right leg was broken, hie head and face,
burned black, ()hest braised, and other
injuries 'sustained likely' to , prove fatal.
Frank Wilkin, who had charge of the boiler,
was severely hurt. Rudolph Neil and J. W.
Bacon were elightely injured. The boiler
was new, and the cause of thirexplosioni
unknown. Pieces of the boiler were thrown
700 feet.
PITCHED BATTLE
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At Emerson Mr Possession ot a Bridge.
• A Winnipeg cleepatoir says : • Advioes
from Emerson reporta sanguinary engage-
ment between the citizens and a party of
men headed by Dean--Weetbrooka The
latter built the iron bridge at Emerson, but
the town could not raise the 'honey to pay
them, whereupon. Westbrook and party
seized the bridge. The citizens opposed
their attempts to levy toll, whereupon the
draw was ,awung out, and the temtractors
retained possession. On ,Friday an attack
was organized, and all available beats eany
rafts were secured. The fleet bore down
upon the bridge. A fierce struggle ensued,
in wbiels the citizens were victorious.
Several narrow escapes f ram droning
occurred. The key was thrown ipto °the
river, and the draw remains open. , •
Vagaries ot a Deceased
A London oablegram seats : The will Of
the late William King was offered for pro-
bate to.day and.hffords another instance of
the vagaries of millionaire testators. Mr.
Kingwas for years the proprietor, of
London's most unique and extensive oin.
riosity, shop. He entered the shop a penni,
leas lad, and 'retired an exceedingly rich
man. His largest bequest was a cumula-
tive gift to his naedioal attendant, whioh
began with a sum of less than 01,000 eleven
years ego, with thee proviso that that sum
should be doubled evoay year that the
teetator should be kept alive. The lucky
praatitioner nowaotnes in for a bequest of
,over 1750 000. Another large bequest cote.
eiets of 4600,000 given to Se Goatee Hos-
pitel in the east, an immense establish
meat in the poopest and most Milady
populated part of London.
A Fat Womaii#a Crate°. •
Miss Loom*, known es " the fat woman,"
attempted suicide at the Elgin Isoorlaotxse,
near St. Thomas, on Wednesday evening,
by winditig a handkerchief around her neck
and attaching the ends to d dor. When'
she jumped from it ohair the handkerchief
broke, but she lies at the point of death
Zoom the effects of the choking. She Wei,ghit
815 pounds and is insane.
It costs $1 in Milwaukee in Fay that a
man personally a very fine fellow, bat
politibany a seoundret" The ratee was
fixed by a juatioe in a Slander BUR.
Thb Chicago Marts haa that a widow,who
wants to erect a tasteful aba mostly thellti-
ment to her &mailed htiabahd, must have
her way in spite of °Mete* rules and
regelations.
A \THE rib it TotAG ilieur.
Ail Om man *hews miss Wife, ChIIdnnd
' Hintsell'at 'New Work.. •
A New York despatch says:Isaac C.
&bell, cherniet, of this city,aged 60, who
for some time has been living apart from
his wife, called on her• ae evening and
asked her to come b ok/to him. She re-
fused, whereupon he draw a- revolver and
fired at her as she t ; ed toleave the room,
the ball taking eff of n her spine. He then
fired at his son, yearos old, shootiog him
on"the head aud killing him instantly.
Upon reaching e streethe put the pistol
to his own t •- plee,nd fired, falling dead on
the sideava /
. /11pers ot lialIMIIII shin.
A Syracwc, N. -Y., deepatch says:
Charlon T. Sobeeldt, a harnese maker of
this ti ty, attys his father recently tanned a
la7 piece of.humaaakin for a professor at
tli College of Medicine, but refuses to give
the professor's name, on the ground that it
is. a bUsingse secret. It trenepiree taday
/that a pair of slippers were made from the
ekin mid are worn by the Professor. A piece
of the tanned hide was ishown to your cor-
respondent thie evening by an undertaker.
It came from the body of Charlet) Welderly,
found drowned in the canal here Matoh
271b. The body was unclaimed and went to
the Medical College.
The Itarihquatie in England.
The .British newspapers have been dis-
cussing lately the earthquake on the eastern
coast of Eogland with an amplitude which
allows how the nearness or the novelty of
an event has often more to do with the
attention paid to it than its intrimie im-
portance. Hattorioal researches disolose
that in 1816' an earthquake " twisted -the
spire of Aberdeen ()hutch andthetin1843
a like camanity " damaged buildings," and
that in 1862 a, shook threw down some walls
at Shrewebury. Cawiauely, however, all
those disasters combified were not equal to
the trembling felt on the 23rd of April at
Coloheeter, Langenhoe and Wyvenhoe;
where chimneys and some other structures
were aotually.tumbled down. This, to he
sure, is not quite so bad as what has hap.
paned to Oasamiociola and Caracas,. but it
provokes even that scientific euthonty,the
Engineer, to say that "it needed but slightly
greater velocity of wave particle not enly 10
havo latd tote the towns in the eastern
counties, but to have made mountaineue
heaps of brickbats and rubbish ef London."
At the Workingman's house hunger looks
in but nitres not enter; n'or will the bailiff
or the oonetable enter. For industry pays
deldeos despair inereaseth thert.—/orank-
"Tux an ill thing td be ashamed of one's
poverty, but muoli Immo not to make Me
of lawful endeavors to avoid it.—Theey.
aides,
Bishop Disileyr of the 13. M. E. Church,
is expeoted to arrive in b. week or two Ha
has been absent hi England in conneetion
*itli a sobered for raising money to found
College hi the intermits of the B. M. E.
()hue& •
HIS 44DARLEVIA BAHL"
•
A Venturesome Lay Pops tile question and Manion
a Man, Tkough Told Js* Mae a Wirt,
NO FOOL LIKE AN OLD S'Ci0p.
A telegram from New York nye: Anna E.
Hawes Was OW/Wed of bigamy in Brooklyn
Yesterday. She istarrtedNathan 1.. newee know -
log he had * 'Wife 2lvin Elawea is ender
sentence fur the mho. arline• Atm Halle° i°
about 05 5,ettre ef en, &Vises very attractively,.
end* tae poSsessor of several alitteeS, 110.'4E6
been known as Anne Whitmore, Anna Walling-
ford, Anna Ttifuny, Anna Collier, Anna
hater sad alone Gentiles. In court ehe wore
brown kid glom,. a, beaded and lace hat,
brocaded silk basmie, a black eilk dress and
Solitaire diamond earkringe..
Mrs. Cecelia Hawes, the, first wife of Na-
than X., H. Hawes, testified that her
marriage took place on July 1.Ith, 1869.
Elhe discovered a letter from prisoner to
her husband, and then.wrote prisoner a note in
which she made these odd statements "What
does Mr. Hawes represent himself to be—mar-
ried or single ? I have made up my mind to
write and tell you that he its married and living
with his wife, and always has, 8b300 he was
married. We have been married laearly fifteen
years, and tile most of our trouble has been
about his going with other women: You are pot
the lint one he has gone with. There are three
to my anowiedee beside you. I have lived it
down so far, as I have &mays had too muck pride
to expose things to the public, but now
things are going too fax, I :cam stand
it no longer. He has told me more than onee
that you had offered him $10,008 to leave the
country with you. If that is the ease you mut
certainly know that he is a married man. I saw
one of your letters to hirer but kept it to myself
for a long while. It was a funny letter for a
married man to reneive from any one beside his -
wife." The following day the accused called on?
Mrs. Hawes, who produced her marriage
certificate and showed it to her; the prisoner,
-she said, looked at it andweut away. Forty-eight
lettere written by Hawes to tlae accused were
read. In one letter he called the prisoner
"My own darling baby," and'says, "On, baby,
God' alone knows how hard it is for me 10
pari from yhu. My own love, believe your boy
when he tells you that the time shall be short
until he can call you his own. I know my
sweet Annie would not harm her baby if she
knew it. liaby, I leave my, love in your bands,
and God forbid that vim should.be anything but •
the sweet, gentle, loving, true hearted little
woman 5 have: always found you. My darling, 1
may not be very outspoken an my love, but if
you could look into my heart you would he con-
tent." In another letter ho said he had
cramps in his stomach, and longed for her to
come and cure him.
The last letter read was the follOwing
• NEw Yonx, Nov. 101h, 1883.
My Darling Baby -Love:
DEAU ANNA, -1.011r boy has I30 much to do that
he does not know what he is about Can his pre-
cious baby come down to -day about half -pat 4
to see him? My own precious t no, you are
remembered by Lu, and you will forgive him for
this short little note, won't you, pet? With e.
rtnissfoetrmbyoybaby, I am her own dear little hubby
acih-
rat.
Hawes testified that the letters were dictated
by the act.used -that,she told hiui what he must ,
write to her, and in fact compelled him to sweet—
heart and marry her.
!!!),cottilishJottiap.
The Earl of Resebery will probably suc-
ceed the late Duke of Bucoleuch as Lord-
Lieumnart of the county ef Mid -Lothian.
The DUohess of Bucoleuelo, *who was a
daughfer of the second Marquis of Bath,
Is a fervent Roman Catholic. All her Mill-
dren, however, have remaiued Protestant:.
Sir R. A. Mackenzie Douglas, the min
of whose death at Wanganui, New' Zealand,
has just -been received, was the .o y our-
, •
viving son of the late Major ir R. A.
Doughtmuf Glenbervie.
General Gordon's fether iis a. Scotch -
man, but his mother wa nglish. His
grandfather la said to have -been a loyal
Highlander, who .fou t aginat Prince
-Charlie at Prestonpau . .
Thera died at Cornwall Cottage, Hain:
meramith Iondpd, on 4pril 110, Sarah,.
daughter of tho tete John Clark, °collard.
House, Old Abdrdeen, aged 104 years and
1 mouth, hVing been born on March 710,
1780.
The in Maga of Elize; yolingest daughter
of Sir Fater Coats, to. Mr.„ 3: L. A. Hope,'
Londpii, son of the late Hon. James Hope
We litoo, of Featherstone Castle, was cote-
br ted on the 2410 Ult., in the memorial
arch erected by Sir Peter at Minnishant.
Mr. Low, manufacturer, Dundee, resided
in Belmont Castle before at was destroyed
by fire oh. the 21s1 ult. In. Belmont Park
is a tumulus calledBelliduff, whieh tradi- .
tion assigns as the spot on which Macbeth
fell in combat with Macduff.
Mr. Kilpatrick, Smithaten, one of the '
oldest taxmen; RI Ayrshire, died on April
22nd. He was over 80 years of age When
he died. His wife, who was a sister of Dr.
McCosh, of Princeton, pre deemed him by
several yearsebut he is eurvived by a large
amopg, his. sons . being Mr. Wm.
.Kilaietrick, Provost of Ayr.
News in a Nutehell.
A commercial traveller makes the as
statement that a few evenings ago
he was fleeced out of $120 by a member of
the Dominion Cabinet at a game called
" draw poker." The truvelier halls from
Belleville. •'
At Oliver's wire mill, Pittsburg, Pa., yeti-
teeday Fred Hogan. attaokeet Simon Rice
Vele-use he allowed the wire to become
tangled. 'Hogan pounded Rieear face to a
jelly, with a hammer. He omanot live
Hogan has been arrested.
The London Advertiser circulates the
report that a manufacturer of erica*, ad-
...fee,.eto,, tamed Min Cozens, has levanted,
leaving I 0 We to the tune of several • '
thousand dollars iti the handeof noerohante_
and others there.
• A Milwaukee pantie records the arrival
at that city, en route to Minnesota, a an
immigrantfamily of Danes, consisting a
father, mother and 15 ob1ldrenv-13- of
whom were tied together aith a rope.,
They had come allthe way from Dennis&
in thie way ; thus saving the parents, math
of whom bad a baby to carry, the trouble
of keepieg.them togethen
Bite OR a Dna Dog not Alv.rovs Fatal. '
The bite of a mad dog, it would .appear,
is not eo fatal as it; generally euppoeed. A.
report upon the subject for the Department
of the Seine issued by the Paris Prefecture
of Police fot" the pan three years, shows
'that of 10 pereons bitten by rabid doge in
1881, 80 died; in 1882, 9 Out of 67 bitten,
died; sod in 1883, 5 only oat of 45. (- With
regard to the treatment of the . bite of a,
rabid animal, the experience of the Fran&
dootors shows that the billy remedy which
Mtn be depended upon to destroy the virus
is the pronapt application to the wound of ,
cautery by reci.loot iron. Twenty persons
died of hydrophobia in the Department of
the Seine in 1881, 9 in 1882, and 4 im, 1883,
as twee the offloini returns show. Prim dee
oreasing number cif deaths from this mimeois attrzbuted to the etriotet immures
adopted with reword to ownerlese dogs.
Daring the throe pars mentioned, 11,561
tartly doge were captured in Paris and the
Department and destroyed.—St. James''
gazette,
Tp restore gildiag to picture frames, eto `
reams all duet with a soft,brush, andwash
the gilding in warm water, whioh an ottion
has been boiled; dry quickly with soft rags
Obedtenoe is the crowning grace, that
principle to which polity owes its stability,
life its happicess, faitb its acceptance,
creation its opetinnance. Extiotly in pro-
portion to the majesty of thine in ;the
male of being is the couipletenese of their
obedience to the laws that ate set over