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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1884-05-30, Page 8•-•3, May 30 1804. ° A SAD pALAMITY, Three Perrone, Roasted Alive at Sher -Pot Lake. • A GIRL FATALLY INJURED. A last (Monday) nighta Kingston despatch Bays: The details of .a shookiug tragedy, which °marred at Sharbot Lake this morn- ing, reached tide city to -day. Getup Petere, an old man who is addioted to drink, went to hie home heit night, and during a quarrel be threw a lamp down Maim, when a blaze inetently took place. He son then threw a pail of water on the flames, which only in- creased the danger, and in a few seconds the home, which was a small frame one, vtaa a fiery furnace. Upstairs was Peters' wife, his two daughter," and a visitor named Kies Bridgen. The mother and 'eldest daughter moanedto get downstairs and outside; Peters, his daughter and Miss Bridgen perished in the • fiaraes, and only portions of their bodies can be . found. The son and several boarders who were sleeping downstairs escaped minim their clothing, but when the daughter found • Alm youngest child was upstairs she attempted to get her, but fell exhausted at the foot of the stairs, and was dragged out by her mother. Both were badly burned, the daughter fatally., The affair has arrested consternation at Sharbot Lake, and the Kingston and Pembroke authorities are now more determined than ever to abolish the sale of liquor along the line of the rail. way. A eubsoription aiet has been started for the mother and daughter, who were lett without a stitch on theirliaoks. Peters had a narrow esciape from being hilted by a train same time ago while in liquor,but it proved no warning to him. His eon, wao got out cut of the building area says he heard his father's voice above the roar of • the flames cursing hit luck and those about him. STRANGE MARRIAGE. •illay and December. 'Wedding In High Lite. A London cable epeoial says: One of the most fashionable and strangely assorted marriages of the season was solemnized this morning in St. Peter's Church, Estee Square, Belgravia. The bridegroom was Sir John Lubbock, Bart., partner in the immensely wealthy banking home of Roberts, Lubbock & Co., M. P. for London University, a fellow of the Royal Society, land a well-known dilatant° soientist. He is a rioh widower, 50 years of age, tall and Shin, and has been for many years a mar. tyr to gout, which bonfines, him to his bed most of the time. Re managed to discard bis crutches; to.day, and marched bravely down the 'aisle of St. Peter's with his feet enveloped in litige oloth bootii. As he stood before.the altar be repeated the marriage ..vows in a troubled, querulous .voioe .to an etecompaninient easpasme of pain from Me „gout. ',The bride was Mies Fox Pitt, the • daughter of Gen. Rivers Pitt, Of the Iiiritieh "army, and, the granddaughter of „af, peer. lithe is both young and beautiful, and was auperbly droned in a robe of ivory man brocade, trimmed with orange blossoms . and lilies of the valley, and garnished with ipearl'and diamond stars, the costume being valued at £3,000. ' A LOVE TRAGEDY. atieellenieni Ju u kiff-Tho Irate Father and Lover Drowned. A Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, W. Vo., telegram says: On Thursday even. ing Ellen Perrier, the daughter of Joseph 11. Farrier, , eloped with John Biggs, who had for some time been paying attention to Mies Farrier, despite the strong opposition and threats of her father and brother. They fled towards Greenbrier River in a buggy, intending to cross the stream and be married at the house of a minister mine distance beyond, with whom they had an understanding. The father, accompanied by hie eon, atoned in hot pursuit. Biggs and his intended bride, unconsoious of the chase, arrived at the river, entering a skiff and started across. Hardly had they left the bank, however, when the pursuers dashed down to the shore. Jump. mg into another boat the young lady's father and brother followed the lovers, at the same tithe calling upon them to stop. When about half way across the river, the fugitives were overhauled, and dropping their oars the father and eon sprang into the beat. The former grappled with Biggs, oxid the eon took his sister into the other boat. A struggle ensued between the irate father and young Biggs, in the course of which the skiff was overturned, and the father and the lover sank and were drowned. alio Farrier and her brother reached the Shore in safety. A HORRIBLE DOOM. Bliteen Alen Crushed and Rooked to Death in a Railway Collision, A last (Wednesday) night's Pittsburg despatch says ' The west -bound freight and gravel trains were in collision near Connelleville this morning, meeting each other at a eharp curve. The freight train was laden with ore, and had about fifty men on board. Six men were killed out- right, and four others fastened down by the broken timbers and roasted to death, the oar taking fire from the overturned, Move. Officials decline to say who 18 to blame, but opinion puts it on the .train - runners. When the wreck was cleared away it was ascertained that twelve per- sons were injured and fourteen Missing. The bodies of ten of the latter hem .been recovered; others are supposed ' to be entirely consumed. Of those recovered only two are positively identified, One of the injured died on the•way to tlie hospital, making fifteen deaths, one being the fire- man of the freight train and the others laborers. . • ' Gladstone.'"•Mend in Danger. • A last (Friday) night's" Leaden cable- gram nays: Sir William Vernon Hat, 'court, Home Seoretary, has; agoin become COPIOUS over information whioh the polioe claim to have disedvered of Fenian plots to assassinate himeelf, •Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland, and other meinbera of the Government. It is stated that these threats are the cause of, the propeeed Cabinet conference on Irish affairs, to whioh Earl flesencer, Lod Lieutenant •tor Itelend, has been num- moiled from Dublin. Lord Spenetie will be guarded by twe special officers' through. • out his joarnea, and extraordinary preemai VMS ere being taken to mere the gaiety of the members of the Government. Last night no less than twelve Sootland Yard deteetivee, in titan clothe's, wereeounted in tate lobby Of the Houee of Commonti, waiting to ()Boort the different Ministers to thele homes• _James Stephens bat; invited O'DonoVan Beene to attend the preataiia iiontaiitien Of Irish and IrialvAmerioan delegotes S0011 to be held in Paris. Mt, Stet/18ne9'; conia .dent that BOOM will swept the ANOMIE/A MURDER 1111/11TE1I1. The Came of Poisoning Against a Newly Married Couple. An Otterville, Ont., despatch says: This village is still in a ferment of excitement over the eared of Roberti Pearce and wife on a charge ot poisoning. Their alleged viotim was Henry Vaneicklel, who kept 4 betel here. T44140140 Was 50 Yew of age and Mrs. rearm was his wife. Her maiden name was Lester, and her family live in Woodstock. A year or so ago Vansiokle married Mimi Lester, who was much younger than her husband and of an attractive appearance.. Pearce was bartender in Vansiokle' s hotel. • Inthe gouge of time he enquired such intimacy with the young wife that they in- dulged .in buggy rides and similar amusements together. On one ocsimion they were away for two days. Things went on in this way until November 19th last, when Vansiokle was taken suddenly ill and died. There were isuspielons at the time that everything was not exactly right, but no evidence was forthcoming to sub- stantiate them. The young widow con- tinued in the hotel Madness and Pearce kept his place as bartender. She appa- rently found much oonsolation for the loss of her husband in the young man's com- pany. The winter passed in lovemaking, the -result being that Mrs. Venerate be- came Mrs. Pearce on Wednesday of last week. In the meantime Nathan Vansiokle, brother .of deceased, had re- zewed hie suspicions as to the cause of the. hotel:keeper's death, whioh were strengthened by the statements of a young man named James Donaldson, who boarded at the hotel. Donaldson remem- bers hearing Pearce , and his wife epeak of the old man as a nuisance, and Pearce had stated they wanted to get him out of the way. On the strength of Donaldson'e statements Mr. and Mrs. Pearce .were arrested on Thursday last- just as they were about to start on a honeymoon trip. The charge against them is poisoning Vag - sickle -or, in other words, wilful murder. They are looked up in the jail at Wood- stock pending a preliminary hearing on Saturday next. In the interim an effort will be made to have the romaine exhumed and the stomach submitted to a chemical analysis. TAR SMOKE 1(0I1 DIPHTHERIA. „ Dr. DelthiPs Cure 'Fried with Success Vpon. a New Work Pailent. , A New Yorkdespatch says: Ruth Lockwood, the 9 -year-old child of Thomas Lockwood. a compositor in 'the Times office, became violently ill with diphtheria, on Tuesday night. She was so weak tnat it was deemed dangerous to try tracheo- tomy, or cutting open the windpipe. On Thursday Dr. Niehole, of 117 West Washington place, who was attending her, received a copy of the Paris Figaro, which contained a report made to the French Academy of Medicine by Dr. Delthil. Dr. Delthil said that the vapors of liquid tar and turpentine would dissolve the fibrinoue exudations which choke up the throat in croup and diphtheria. Dr. Delthil's prooees was desoribed. He pours aqual .ports of turpentine and liquid tar into a tin pan or oup, and seta fire to the mixture. A dense resinous smoke' arises, which obscures the air of the room. "Tho patient," Dr. Delthil says, "immedi- ately seems to experience relief; the chok- ing and rattle stops; the patient falls into 'a slumber and Deems to inhale the smoke with pleasure. The fibrinous membrane soon becomes detached, and the patient coughsup microbioicles. These when caught in a glass'may be seen to dissolve in the. smoke. In the course of three dears afterwards the patient entirely recovers," Dr. Nichols tried this treatment yester- day with little Ruth Lockwood. She was lying gasping for breath when he visited her. First pouring about two tablespoon. fuls of liqiiified tar on an iron pan,he poured as touch turpentine over it and set it on fire. The rioh resinous make which roso. to the ceiling was by.no means unpleasant. As it filled the room the child's breathiug became natural, and as the smoke grew dense she fill asleep. • • • WOMEN AND ALCOHOL: • 1 Not So Bossily Broken Up By It as Abe Men Are.. ,r At the coroner's inquest at London on the body of Ann MoCabeawitioli resulted in a verdiot of wilful Murder against her husband, George McCabe, all the dootore who exaniined the body testified that the woman had been poisoned with .stryebnine. Dr. Brown, of London, beingaciteti-exama ined, said -Ib• is a most extraordinary thing, and we can't explain it, that the organs of' a woman can Mend more alcohol than mon; I havenever known of a ' woman having the delirium .tremens; woman •might drink considerable quanti- ties of liquor and her organs not show it; women arink by starts, they are not con. dent drinkers; I do not think deceased was a confirmed drunkard; there was nothing to show, it; the appearance of the stomach was mused by aorid poison, not by strong drink.; I think a woman might have been drunk two or three times a week for a considerable time and not show it; there is resistance to the influence of liquor where the appetite remains and a person can eat web aelong as they can do that they are safe, . •001111110111 , .•••••• IlItsola,s pie of Morse' in C•1111104-014 lilletheds Ahandosted-No Isere Cav airy Charges et Squares. Wm. M. DAUM' aveli.known ranagariaa writer on Military.affaire, has just pub- lished in one of the yournele of Pathan in- teresting artlole on the pare that the Rus- sian cavalry is destined to play in any future European war. It appears that the Russian Government possesses a. ratl- ike' horses fit for military service, and that it it making preparations which will enable it to put 300,000 cavalry soldiers in the field. The Russian effacers have no faith bathe cavalry taotios now taught in European armies. The Germans, they , say, tire out their homes and ill-treat their tamen by teaching Mem a science that is useleee in bottle; for the cavalry general of the present day who would attempt to oharge mamas and attack ' mason of infantry would be considered a lunatic. Tbe deadly effect of mo- dern &email" /enders the old tootles utterly ueelees. Therefore it has pure Wane of time and money to train horses and instruct Men in drills that are without value. The cavalry charge, the mime and the lance have had their day; the horse can now have no further utility than that of transporting men with greater rapidity. The Russian cavalry of the future will use only repeating firearms of the most modern pattern. They will be simply mounted infantry and will tight on foot, the horses being employed for tramportation only. In the opinion of Russian- military .officers this method will facilitate the rapid concentration of fresh troops at a given • point. The Russian cavalry are now armed with the Barden rifle, and their drill is much simplified. The eoldier is onlytaught to • •be a good horsemen. Three hundred thousand men rapidly thrown upon the western frontier of Russia could interfere with the.- mobilization of the opposing armies, hinder their concentration, spread terror in the villages' and towns, capture supplies and destroy railroads. It will doubtless be some considerable time before Russia oan Shish her network of railroads which will be necessary for the complete execution of this project; but ehe already has 120,000 cavalry soldiers, while Austria has only 52,000, and Germany but 58,600. " And, continues Mr. Danzer, "although emperors, kings, grand dukes, princes, and diplomats may visit each other, enjoy each other's society, and °maraca each other on occasion, noth- ing can diminish the universal sus- picion which holds populations in non- sta,nt dreadof some horrible butohery. Thielear is the creation of Germany, this •work so eminently conservative this con- stant preparation of all e.gainat all, this terrible nightmare, this pacifies alliance." RVIN IN WALL STREET. • The Children of a Fernier Millionaire Working for a Dollar a Day-Thelevil of Reckless Speculation, A Silver Excitement: A despatch from Fort William nays: Latest advices from the Rabbit Mooatain Silver Mines received this after -Eon Muse great exeiteinent in town. Cakes of solid silver, ten inches long and an eighth of an inch thick and eix,ifichesewide, were bmught • from the mittes. Quite a namber of miners tram the Rookies have arrived and taken .up claims. - Many were in toWn teas* get- ting supplies. They state that the fine of eilver beats anYtaing ever seen in the Rook- ies). Several capitalists arrived to -day by train en route to the Mountaine. They ex,. peot 200 minors from the Western States to arrive in a few days. The Rabbit Moue, -Min mine, is 12 miles muth of Fort William. Men are teaming their work hare ankilook- ing ta the mines. Found Dead in a Bath -Room. A St. Paul, Minn., despatch saye : The funeral of Dr. John George Kittson, one of the 33 children of Commodore at W. Kitt. son, the well•known millionaire turfman, takes place -here to -morrow. Dr, laitteon was 88 years old and the Onof a handsome Indian girl. He was eduoated at MeGill University. In 1875 he was appointed Chief Of the Wadies' Department of the Northwesfain connection with the Mounted Police. His health failing, he'retruned to 'his fatherai home. On Saturday raoroing he was found in the both -room dead. A son of Lord Napier is learning to farm with Dir. adizeo Wellme, North Dun:Africa Few portions are aware of the eize of Devil's 'Jake. Mr. Ferland informs us 10 10 fourteen miles lag, ite banks are portion- dioular, ite depth, though nob yet • &seer. talnea, is very greet, it Is supplied with water from the Moiliteine, and hail no visible outlet. It bielr eapits1 fishing and hunting ground.--Oaleary Herald,. It has been frequently said that Wall .street is the pulse of the country, and as that pulse indicatesnervousness and extfite- ment, it would appear that the country at large should prove nervous and Molted. As it is, however, there is a, difterenoe between the country's saga' and Wall street's. The country is proaperoue, and there is no getting behind the fact ; but Wall street to -day shares the 'ono° popular fate of .the " quiet games," which, singularly enough, have gone out of business in oonseArlehoe of the persuasion of the authorities in Mul- berry street. They fell into bad repute, and sio has Wall street. THE ,QIIICKSANDS OF STOCKJOBDINO. . . " " id a prominent broker Mr. Andereon, of the 0.P. R. Hotel, Holt City, reoeutly discovered a nugget of gold on Canyon Creek. The new C. F. R. wellut Regina has just been finished. It iS 90 feet' deep and con- tains 70 feet dander. There are 10,000 cattle and 1,200 horses, or about 12,000 head of stook, in Fort Mc- Leod Dietrieb. The Dominion Government intend erect. ing court house and jail at PriII06 Albert, N.Vir.T., this summer. •• The Queen's birthday celebration at Emerson will have an international char- acter, Minnesota and Dakota taking part. • A Winnipeg despateh reports trouble inaminent between the Indians Under Chief Jack and Plapot. It statedthat the Dominion Govern- ment bas abandoned its original designs with regard to the enlargementof kte,nitoba • Penitentiary. • ' The incorporation of sections 11, 12, 14 • and 15 as the town of Calgary has been re- fused, and a petition is being' prepared to have sections; 14, 15 and 16 incorporated. Around Fort Qu'A.ppelle prairie ohiokens are back in thousancla They went away during the prairie dreg last fall. Fishing in full blast in the river and lakee. Sir A. T. Galt intends storing 30,000 tone of coal at Medicine Hat thie eeason. He is to ben_suocess as a coal dealer, but he was an utter failure as a High Commie,. sinner. • Every man,sa "conies to the conclusion, in the mime oi time, that he is an ass; and if. he is in- clined to dabble down here he will be proven an ass. Men who have nothing can come and try their luck; but those who have something to lose had better stay' away. Talk about quicksands, the quick - donde of stookjobbing will swallow a man with a million • or ten Jaillions -as easily as • the ocean a steamer. • There is Keene. He 00M6S here with a couple, of mullions, he plays, them and wins ten or fifteen more. Does he stop.? Oh, no I Howants. more, and now bb is cleaned out. • There's Villard. • He makes • several millions and wields a big house and -fails. Teri years ago I knew a man Who had eleven millions arid serail chil- dren. One day r asaed. him whybo did not retire. "His anewer was, have eleven minions,. I want jupt twelve, became I • have Bevan children. • My wish is to give them each &million and keep five for my- self.' ,That *man died in a tenement houee and his 'children are working for a dollar a day." •• •• • ammo THE TROUBLE LIES. A well-km:4n banker and fifianoier was standing this morning looking at the open- ing prioes when a man who knew him asked him what was the trouble with the market. Mamie "Why, it is ample as A B C. The trouble is not a new one in Minim by any means.. The whole eyetem • of building railroads and capitalizing them • is rotten. • Great railroads have been built long before they have been needtdaat an enormous expense, and .to that cost there has been added the prospective value which they may acquire in twenty years; to come. This prospective value' is antioipated and issued as stook, which is placed on the market as being worth so niany dollars a flan while irt actual fact it has post- -tively not the value of cream white paper. By jobbing the price is run up or rue down; -theacountey hag found that jobbing alone ha's sustained prices and withdraws its support, so that it sags and sage until it becomes worth its actual value, which absolutely nothing. During the reign of Annespeoulation had so injured Englahd that Parliament had to mine in. to • interfere, and I feel coadent that the day is not far distant when the National or State Governments willbe compelled to ,draft stringent laws to prevent the over bane of stook and also to make directors of railroads criminally responsible for the mismanagement of roads." --N. Y. Telegram. ° Late Northwest New*. 1 sale at aellary the other day for $1; no It is thought ihe Red River will be very btlYerti. low this 'Jammer. Abundance of water has beau found 40 feet deep ea Stonewell. The land in the vioinity of Holt laity, at the end of the tate*, is heovily timberect. There are 24 primness in thcaPeovinoiel jail of Manitoba, 21 male female. The Theatre Comique, Winnipeg, halo been closed, by the sheriff. The Manitoba PreabYtea9 has been divided into three Presbyteries. Dr. Shaw, of 13randon, hes temoved to Silver City. Calgary and points west of Meese Jaw will hale two mails per week hereafter. The Reginese are endeavoring to make considerable improvements' to the reser- voir. Mr. Geddis, aloneervative, will maim Major Walkeraor the representation of Cal - pry in the Northwest Council. Tea! hundred dollars' worth of Kootenay gold has reached Calgary, and has been forwarded to Montreal. Queer Iusurance Manoeuvre. innovation in life insurance comes from Pennsylvania where a man rushed panting into the office of a life insurance company and confessed that he had just committed a murder and had made his way to the Moe in Order to convince the insur. anoe men that it was to their interest to seake bin nook. Ho was insured in five own - panicle for $120,000. it he was hanged the coMpanies would have the Money to pay at once. Clearly it was to their interest to provide him with fint•Oliki30 Mined and nave hie life at almoet any mat. The oona, ponies oonSUlted and teak the Murderer's views of the matter. They provided the best legal talent and onemeded in getting the fellow off with a few years' Maprision. ment.. The Llama Of the oriminal ia not given but the otory mud be true. It mates turn a life inatirance liolioitor. • The eldeit daughter of Lord Lytton, though only 14, has telteti up the family pen and Written one of the most blood. curdling ghost stories . that have seen the 'light for many a day.• • The. first sale of Highland stook in the • Northwest has been recorded at Riding Mountain. Chief Factor McDonald, of tbe •Hudson's Bay Company, Qu'Appelle, is the first purcbaeer, at 000, of a 10-m0nthe- old bull. •' • Fresh vegetables and fruits are quoted in Winnipeg as follows: Tomatoes, 350 per lb., lettuce $1 per dozen, asparagus 250 per • bunch, cucumbers' 20o apiece, rhubarb 20o per lb., hems 300 tc 350 per lb., cabbage 350 to 40e apiece, radishes 60e per dozen.• . Those who have passed over the C. P. R. line sayahe summery around Castle Moun- tain is something gergeoue, espeoially in the lower Kiokinglorse Pass, and that the mil from Moose Jaw west to Calgary or Morleyville is immensely valuable. Whiskey is sold at Calgary by the name of "essence." Lately two Indians sent - word to the Mounted Police authorities •Oat Ewhite men were eellingtvliiskey to Indians in a tepee and close to the town. A detaohment of Mounted Police imme- diately raided the tepee and captured& keg of alcohol and two whitemen who are • now in custody. • Inspector Pierce's report has been con- firmed by the Minister of the Interior. The Government will charge 42 an acre for pre- emptions, even those takeb up twenty years ago not being exempt. The WU* and gable, and their °on- ion* Of R. Dunlop, Bid1e were burned on the Ord had. The Wiunipeg Street Railway Company's northern extension was opened on Senn - day. The Provincial Temperance Convention nieets ou Wednesday to commence an agi. tetioa fo thefloatt Act. Two hundred and forty crofters arrived at Wiunieeg on Saturday and left ham- diately for the west. It is understood the Government bas promised Manitoba $100,000 additional, subsidy per annum. Considerable oontral3and whiskey has been stolen at Calgary lately. The. polies are working up the case. Word has been received authorizing the building of telegraph lines from Edmouten to St. Albert and Fort Saskatoliewan. Mrs. Jude, who eloped with a man named Wheaton a few niontha ago, was deserted by him, and bas returned to her hueband. A quantity ot whiskey has been confis- cated at Ignites, in the disputed territory, but relemed. • W. Fitzgerald has discovered a valuable Iron ledge in the neighborhood of the White Mud. An excellent grindstone quarry exists on the bank of a oreek on the Pigeon Lake trail, not more than 20 miles from Edmon- ton. A collection of Northwest timber, vriah a settler's house and outfit complete,. Were tient yesterday to the Edinburgh Exhibi- tion. - • Mr. Wiltiam' Harder, late of the Carla - dim Paciifio Railway, bas been appointed general manager of the Northwest Transfer Company. •• • A gentleman who arrived at Toronto from Pioton, Opt., last night, reports that -two inches of snow fell at that place on Friday last. Fred. Stripp was , arrested at Calgary by , the Mounted Police yesterday for Oman - ing Canadian Pacific Railway passes un'. der false pretences. By representing himself as a contractor's agent be obtained eleven passes, which he sold at 4$5 and $10 each: A report from Winnipeg says : A despatch from Indian Head says Yellow Calf arid Pie -a -pot will reach here to -day, both hew. ing left their reserve. Theywill attend the Sun dance on Pasqua'!" reserve. • Both chiefs are reticent ea to their future plans. The citizens are very uneaby. The official at Regina have been telegraphed for. ' The high license advocates have achieved a victory in Winnipeg. At a recent meet. ing of the City 0011110ir a by-law was adopted fixing the rates for licenses for saloons or taverns at $500; hotels, 300;1) shop and wbolesale licensee, $250. An amendment • reducing these figures was voted down. — • An Ottawa despatch says : Ibis generally understood that the Manitoba deputation has beers eaceesettil in ite mission for better terms. Attorney -General Miller will go to England to look after the boundary ques- tion, while Mr. Norquay and his associates return to Winnipeg to meet the Local Legielature, which •re-aesembles the end of this month. • • Prospectors are busily engaged at Silver. City in getting their pack saddles and homes in order for the summer campaign. The destination of the majority is the Selkirks and the Columbia River. Bakeriareea will be thoroughly prospected again as soon. ES the snow lifts, which will not be for three • weeks yet. Twenty-five men left Holt City last week for the .Columbie. River to prospect, , • Dr. Orton, M. P., is at Calgary: • Port Arthur wants a new cemetery;- Mica has bean discovered near Edmon- ton. Fishing for frogs is fashionable at Rapid •City. • Winnipeg wants raore school accommo- dation: • The Winnipeg immigrant sheds areto be olosed. Prospectors are going to the mountains in. hundreds. • A. Win of 650 aoree, 150 imprbved, in the parish of St. Charles, about ten miles from Winnipeg, has been sold for $144750. The farm was stocked to the value of 14,000. • The bay at Rat Portage was clear of ice on Monday, the 5th inst., ita having gone out thirteen days sooner than last seaeon. • Several new •Catholic) missions are to be established among the Indians during the coming summer in the diocese of Assiniboia. A son of Col. Murray, ef Stonewall, has fallen heir to 1,500 acres of landin Ireland, and • ihe oolonel will mon leave for the Greenlet°. • It is eetimated that §2,000;000 will be expended in building operations in Winni- peg this year. This inoludes publio and railway works. •, • • Dan Rogers, manager of a variety theatre in Winnipeg, has leased his theatre to the Salvation Army, which will Meetly besiege • that city. Dan also signed a petition asking the army to some. A Rapid City hotel' serves frogs to ite guests a la Frame. A. valuable stone quarry bas been die. covered near Calgary. The W. C. V. T. B. of Brandon intend to Mart a coffee house. Wheat seeding was praotically over by May 1st at Edmonton. • A 19 lb. 00,103011 WES oaught in a °reek. near Edmonton recently. • , Three hundred imrsaigrente arrived in Winnipeg on Tuesday, via the lakes. Hon. andRev. Oanon Ansoa, of England, • has been appointed Bishop of Aseiniboine. It is expected Mr. Hoskin,. of Toronto, will be appointed Pulse° Judge of Manitoba. Two buffalo calves from the Simla/owl'. Min herd strayed; into Winnipeg last Sun - No 6.400 has yet been bend of Matlarty, Who perished in a Mona at Rapid City last winter. Mr. McLeod, of Little Maintain, near Edmonton, has fall wheat that looks 're- markably well. This is the third season in which Mr. MoLeoa has raised'fall wheat without damage. •• Two Icelanders were nearly killed on a hand -car near. Lasalle a pump handle striking one • and precpitating him out of • th,e" oar, which was overturned. ' The other ociamants of the oar were uninjured.. It is proposed to plant salmon spawn in • the many lakes with which the Provinoe • dotted during the present summer, and a petition is to ae . presented to the Depart. ment Of Marine and Fisheriee on the matter. Gilling nets for gold eyes and suckers are set at the mouth of spited every creek and in every eddy along the rivet thiough the settlement. If the catch of fish is good and the rabbits don't give out Edmonton will probably pull through all right until the new potatoes come in. . The Prince Albert Newa advocates the erection of a brewery in that town, and says it would be muoh better for the morale • and health of thep.eople of the Northwest to be allowed the manufacture of beer than to letthings go on as they are doing now under the present system. . 11. T, OIILD AT 101 COU141111€141, LOcit net WrIO14( *ceps die Safe' • closed Over AloittalY• ' The New Truk eganoy of the Bank Of Montreal has a burglar froore. Is a very good safe indeed. t fa toned by it time look of the latest design, and when onoe closed it defies human ingenuity to. open it again until this look gets ready to• declare what's o'clook. The time look °en be. set for piny period up to seventy two of the houreSaturdayaf tenoon the custodian safelwere Wan abeent-mindeed mood when the boor of °losing arrived, and set the look to open at 9 o'olook on Tuesday„morning. instead of 9 o'clock on Monday morning. When the beak was opened on Monday the Bate, instead of politely opening" as • was its wept, at the touch of the custodian, remained stubbornly shut. Laid° were the books and valuobles of the agency. No • business could be transacted until the doors were opened. What was to be done? The makers of the time 'look were sent for, and they smiled with keen joy to see how honest and faithful was the instrument made by them. It was neither to be cajoled nor forced. Their experts were mut for, and they came to the conclusion that Cm safe could be ruined About the time that the look would open of its own accord. This would happen, they said, when the °look ran dowa. When that would be depended largely upon the time it was not. Yesterday the safe was opened at the hour for which the °look was set, and , the bank got to work twenty-four hours behind time. Luokily business wan dull, the officers said, or the delay would boa° cost them trouble. . A Poor !Norman Orphan. "Why are you crying my little boy 2" mired the man. „ 'Causealada dead," answered the boy. " That's too bad. When.did he die ?" 11 Two months ago." • '1' Two months age. Why,' that is a very. long time; you ought not to be miring now. You must have been very fond of your father." "Well, no, can't Bay that I was, but you bee he was the only one I ever • "That's so; but you have a mother, , have you not a' No, they're dead, too." The mem report shows the curious fact that there are now only nine distilleries in Ontario, whereas in 1851 .there were 201, or mune than ten times as many. This re- duction in number dies not, however, indi- cate a reduction in the production, but rather a concentration of the business into few hands. , Ladies of the Women's Christian Tem- perance Union in Franklin, P., have found. rook and rye candy on general sale in that town with, other alcoholically flavored candy, three pieces of which, by an analysis, were proved to contain enough to intoxicate a boy. They are proceeding againeadealers for selling liquor without a license. • . The Indians of Edmonton district are getting an increase of rations during seed tune, so they will have no excuse for not puttihg in their crops. The rations are 1 Ib 'of flour and f lb of bacon per head. The practice formerly was to out off the general rations as soon as the ducks came, or at least only to feed the men at work. Reports from the west say the wheat is looking well. ‘At Mapple Creek, the blades in a forty -acre field were three inches high. The weather along the line is not warm, but the; farmers are eatiefied with it. In Southern Manitoba seeding is over. The wheat acreage everywhere has been largely increased and more land than usual devoted to roots and barley. -Sun. A Calgary report -says : ,George Winton, the Calgaay, Silver .Cita. and Columbia, river mail carrier, arrived from the Col- umbia, river this morning. He reports 'a i very heavy snow storm n the Columbia river country and the water very high in the Kioking Horse river, which he had to swim. Work has commenced on the tunnel. Rev. A. E. Stafford, of Winnipeg, pro- poses to raise a local Salvation Away. He nye that about the only work the church of to -day ie doing ia_adrioatingyouog men to Max:rine polished sweaty gentlemen.- The people of the Winnipeg Methodist .Churoh, he says, are afraid of compromising their respectability by entering into a revival weekend are gradually becoming extremely naturalistic. Poisoned by Rhubarb. • A St. Catharines report says: About two weeks ago a family of MX children were poisoned in this city by eating rhubarb,and Buffered greatly. They were all attaoked at the same time and Buffered extremely Without being able to guess the Muse. Be- coming no better a physician was called whose inquiry led to the discovery. For NNW time two of the older °nee of this poitsoned "family Were in * critical rendi- tion. One of them is still very ill. Rhu- barb is generaly a very healthy vegetable. Are there conditions under whioh 10 10 data gerorui to eat it, will some expert inform ne ? Heat very easy it le to be amiable in the midet ot heppilieM and suomege-Mete. , A young ,equaw offered a meow for aivekhnle` o. • • They P----!'-• . "Yes, yOu see," said the boy between his 2 2• nae; "we were all Mormons, living down in soatherti Utah, where dad was a bishop,. and, of course, had five wives+. Well, each. one of theta had a boy baby about the same age, and they were all named Brigham -aa "Isn't it strange to nate° them all alike 2"' •. ' " They always name the first one Brig- ham if it is a boy, and," said he; "wheu' we were about 4 years old dad unlit° drive „ the little flock of Brigharns' down to the farrn and make us weed °mote. The farra, • • was two miles from town, and one day, • when we were alone a band of Indians kid- • napped the.whole of -us and took us away down into Arizona, The other boys got • sick and all died, but they kept me with them • five • years before I could escape, which, I finally did and got • back • home.' Well, when I gob back, . I didn't knew' my • mother nor even hen number, and she aidn't know me, and they all claimed me as their little lost Brighem.. So they had to draw outs to see which one, would have me ; and I was hers till she died -then the next, and so on. My first mother died a year after I got home ; then. I became the BOO of anather, number two. She apostatized, ran &Way and married a. Gentile and got killed in a railway collision. • . I lived with this mother a year and a.half.. •• The third mother got hooked to death by a 00W Si% months after the had me. • The fourth one died when I was thirteen and mylast mothergot drowned six.. months , ago. And now • dad's dead: I tell you 'what's the matter, mister,' they don't • know.what real sorrow is till they've been • an orphan, like me, six times-a-,Satt Fran. • deco Post, . •- • • ' Potatoes a Dear Wood. At regards the nutritive value of the - potato, ibis well to understand that the cornmeal notion °Oncoming its cheapness as an article of food is a fallacy. Taking Dr.. , Edward Smith's figures, 760 graihe , of car- bon and 24 grains of nitrogen are contained in one pound of. potatoes; two and one half pounds of potatoes are required to , supply the amount of carbon contained in . one pound of bread; and three and one. half pounds of potatoes are necessary for supplying 'the nitrogen of one pound of bread. With bread at three halfpence per pound, potatoes should cost less than one halfpenny per pound; in order to be as oheap as bread for the hard-working man, who requires an abundance ,of nitrogenous,. food. My own observatiOns 10 Ito. laud have fully convinced me of the wisdom of William Corbett's de- . • nunciation of the •potato .as a -staple • article of foods The bulk that has to be. eaten, and is eaten, in order to sustain life, converts the potato -feeder into a Mere, . assimilating machine during a large part. of the day, and renders him unfit for. vigorous mental Or bodily exertion. If were the autocratic Czar of Ireland, my first -step toward the regeneration of the - Irish peotle woeldbe the intr.:auction,. acclimatizing and dissemination of the Colorado beetle, in order to produce a. complete and permanent, . potato -famine. The effect of potato -feeding may be studied... by • watchin.g the effeot of a potato.fedro"' , Irish mower or reaper who mines acmes to work upon an English farm where the, • harvest -men are fed III the farmhouse and where beer is not exoeseive. The improve- , ment of his working powers after two or three weeks of • English feeding is com- parable to that of a horse when fed upon. corn, beano, and hay, after feeding for a year on grate only. -l'. in June Popular Science Monthly. . .A Wontair at the Plough. . About two Years ago . Alex. Green or Malden, died, leaving a widow and one boy.. His widow, or Martha, as she ia called,. • instead of renting her farm and retiring, fronathe busy scenes of life, donned a coat,. and ploughed, Mama ,and harrowed in a' large aree, of , crops, hauled wood to town, broke in primly colts, went on the road with a spade and did her statute labor. When harvest eamea she shouldered a, cradle and out her grain, doing all kinds of manual labor inoulent to farm life.: She has also had the unpleasant tat4WO he.v- ing to ooriduot and defend several , and invariably , gained them all. a- The education of her eon is being watolifd over by her 'with jealous care. Aside from all . this, she has not been' unmindful of her domestic dogma but showatood exeoutive ability ha the management of her home - hold affairs,arid good taste in the deaora- tion of her home. Martha in a large degree pommel that fluency of speech and oast of manner peculiar, to her gm, and the transient visitor to.her Mime would Meer • imagine that she 'Could aticlomplish tio inuoh.-Anceerateure Echo. George Eliot, after mooting r Lord, then "a'a Sir Garnet Wolseley, deecribes him in one of her letters "as one Of those theh who ' hey° the power to coda/land by MAXIS of" • gentleness of character, ealmitesie of bear. . ing, end inflexibility of umiak:it:7 "