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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1884-07-18, Page 6A ,mprgos OREAP CONFESSION' NO TO the Itery 01 Ow 111141111Ps Illirdtr, li Width Sk� Itlibled., THE CORM THROWN IA A WELL A detloatola from -Ionia, Micah., eayEr Sheriff Derrick retried irom Edmore lazing*, with him the body of Soott, the Murderer and mioide. Au inqueet was held after the arrival of the antler. At it MO. Vanderburg made a (tinplate confes- sion, implicating both hermit and Scott in the oold.blooded murder of her husband. She stated that the awful deed had been committed on the night of April 20th. Vonderburg came into the house, and not being offered &Mat sat down on the oor. The wife had some impatient worde with her husband about the children, and the quarrel Was continued till Soott, tOce became incensed, and ' suddenly dealt Vanderburg several blows on the head with a club, causing death almost inetantly. The two, Mrs. Vanderburg and Scott, then took the murdered man by the heels, dragged him out of the house and wage the yard until an old well was reeghed, into which the lifeless body was pitched head first. Scott filled up the well wtili'dirt and rubbish, went to bed, and it is itippbeed fell asleep. Hispartner in the crime eat up taillight. The mother of Mrs. Vanderburg is under arrest as well BB her daughter, but she denies all complicity in the murder. Vanderburg's body was buried at Edmore yesterday, and there is great excitement there and threat e of lynching the woman are heard. A LONDON SWELL'S COLLAPSE. Engaged to Marry Pleven Girls, he Steals to Keep up Itis A Londcin-f Ont., telegram says: A young man who has been painting the town red for some time has at lad come . to grief. He was employed ha a monetary, institu- tion and spent money freely, giving out that he was in receipt of a, handsome salary. His extravagance came to the ears of the manager of the inetitution, who on investigation found that he had been spending money to the extent of. five Ulnas the amount of his salary. This Made the ma4ger suspicious, and by keeping a strict watch he, ascertained that the young fellow had been in the habit of pilfering from the till 9,9 much as §10 at a time. On being accused of the thefts, the clerk owned up to everything and signed a written ootifession, leaving town on fifteen minutes' notice. After the fellew had gone •the manager commenced lookingthrough hie. drawers, and in one found a lot of cuffs, collars and a big bundle , of love letters. Reading the lettere, he found that the y,pung man had been corresponding with no less than seven girls -two in Vittoria, Ontario; three in Pontiac, Michigan, and two in London South. To all of them he was engaged to be married. The letters domed that he bad been giving jewellery to the girls in Vittoria and Pontiace_and to one of them,he had promised to send money to come mid meet him. The Manager wrote to these girls and also to their parents, informing them that the jewellery was purobeeed with stolen inoney, and telling them if they turned it over their letters Would be re- turned intact. In response he got three rings, a watch, and a promise that Smother ring would be returned as soon as one'cif the Pontiac girls could be communicated with by her sister. Albert Griffith is the name of the youth, and, he wasin the employ of the English Loan Company. O'BRIEN The Jury Believe in his Stories Regard.. ing Leading Dublin Men With Name.., less Offences. . . • A Dubhn cablegram says: The jury to- day rendered a verdict for Mr. William O'Brien, in the suit for 26,000 damages for libel, brought against him by Setiretary Cornwall, of the Dublin. P. O., for an article charging him with namelese offences against decency. • The Judgeoccupied three hours in summing up the case, and his charge to the jury was greatly in falter of the plaintiff.. The jury . was absent one hour and a half. Cornwall atel O'Brien both were present. Soon . after the trial your correspondent aatv • O'Brien at his hotel. He said: "1 have been oonfident throughout this trial that I Would • win ; but now I naturally feel elated. It is glorious to have been enabled te expose the odious gang who have degra,ted this beauti- ful city of Dublin by bestial .crimes.' Your correspondent aim had a brief inter-- viewthMr-Cornwall. ,He is a large,' distinguished.looking• then of About 65, and his hair and beard are Almost .completely white. He seemed astonished, dazed and crushed by the verdict, • and deolared repeatedly that he"wite innocent. . He said that the jurors were all friends. of O'Brien, and that he would at once move to have the .verdiet set aside and a newtrial ordered. • . A teRteoeC milt. Child Saved trom Drowning by His Eight- year-old Brother. A Red Bunk (N.J.) despatch says: An instance of heroism seldom seen in 'a young person is related of the 8.Year old, Ran of Thomas Wise, a maimed ,veteran of, the late war, and who himself beciame arbero, several year(' ago by saving a long excursion train from being daehed from the high bridge spanning the Shretilibury River at. this point. The boy and a younger' brother,. who is about 3 years old, were .out on tho Shrewsbury River, when the latter fell overboard. The elder boy 'attempted to grasp his brother and draw him into Cie boat, but, finding that irap'occeible, he plunged boldly into the river and' rescued the little fellow just as he was going .down for the last time. AN ICE CREAM HOG. A Policeman Dliposes 'ot Tvvelve DIshe and is Dying in Hospital. Fifty-one =bribers of the Church of the Covenant, Brooklyn, made up a picnic party at Prospect Park on Saturday. It was a very exolusiVe affair aid included a number of well-known fernlike. After a bountiful lunch a geed thinge, 40 members of the party Ate freely of icie cream, and in less than 20 minutes after they were all writhing in agony on the grass, while the Park ambu. legit hurriedly gathered up a dozen physi- cians and took them to the sufferers. The policeman detailed as a guard to the party. ate 12 dishes of the cream, and be is now dying in the Yrospeot -What is claimed to be a valuable rust protector is among the recent German inventions. It consists of ordinary oil paint mixed with 10 per dent. of burned magnesia, baryta or arc:Intim, as . well as mineral oil. Thie neutralizes the free acid of the paint, old the alkaline reaotion pre - toots the iron from rust. THKILIJWG 1EXPISINIE10Ep Boat COP.Dtear DitrWtting Three Chilitresa Turd Save0 Xenon by Ciellahog so the Boat all filaillat A Detroit despatch says:: A terrible disaster vamped on the river! near Sand- wich Springs, on Sunday evening, in which three Moons were drowned, and One bad a thrilling experience, oliogiug to a mall boat for twenty hours before being rescued. News of the aceident'did not reaolithe city until last night. Sunday evening a 12 -year oldgiel, Mary Money, went over to the epringe in company with another girl named Millie Beech, aged 18. After arriving there they took a walk, and ma4e the acquaintance of two boys aged 17 and 18, The boys invited them to take a -ride in a hmall boat. They accepted the invita- tion, and eller they had been on the water a short time three of the party went down to death. The boys pulling the oars evidently did not notice the approach of a steamer. The email boat caught in the heavy wells and Wail capsized. Millie Bosch sank to rise ne more. One of the boys eank soon after, and the other attempted to catch hold of the small boat, but could not reach it and drowned. Bliss Blaney, after struggling in the water some time, eucceeded in reaching the boat, which was rapidly floating down the stream, and crawled on the overturned boat. Het experience was moat remarkable. During the lonkhight which followed she made a heroic' struggle for life. There wee no one within reach who could render any assist* anoe, and the was too far from ober° to enable her cries for help to be heard. She balanced herself on the bottom with her feet hanging over one side and her arms on the other. In this position she lay two hours'when a heavy WaVO washed her off. The boat was tweed aboulain the water, and she was washed off, but she managed to reach it again, and again climbedon the bottclin. About midnight ateamere' smells again washed her off and although nearly exhausted she succeeded in catching hold of a rope attached to the boat, to whioh ohe clung until:Potomac]. The boat drifted to weeds in front of the rest, clone° of Joseph Duroobes a farmer living at Petite Cote, where it became fastened. The girl cried feebly for hop, which at- tracted the attention of Duroohis at work about the premises about 2 o'clock. When he heard the ory from the water, he first thought it came from his chil- dren, wee were in the habit of playing on the river bank, and, feeling no appro. henaioo, he paid but little attention. An.. other ory was soon after heard, when he made an investigation. On' going to the river he found the girl still clinging to the rope, and set out to rescue her. She was very weak, and-badto be supported to the house, where she was oared for. After she recovered sufficiently to be able to speak, she told the farmer her terrible experience, and what happened during the ,previous night. She mid she did not know the boys with whom she and her friend went out boating, but was positive they were drowned. The girl was quite comfortable last night,' and returned home this morn- ing. Up to a late hour last night none of the three bodies had been recovered. The boat was nearly in Mid -stream when cap- sized. A singular feature of the dieaster ia that it was not„witnessed by any one, and nobody knew anything ofit until after the girl, wee rescued. She saye she tried to hail a passing steamer during the night, but was not noticed. , SIDENE IN A CHURCH. A Madman attacks the Altar, "MOPE' • Himself Almoit Naked and Smasisteli' **Mpg. Generally. ,• • ' A • London cablegram says : '" London- derry, Ireland, is greatly exeited over the most , scandalous affair which has yet dropped outfrom the Orange national -feuds: During vespers in one of the Catho- lic churches and while the priest --was chanting the Magnificat, a man wild with 'excitement entered the church door and yelled at the top of his strong voice, 'Look out, your— pcipiets.% Then he ran with. all his might down the centre aisle, howl- ing and coming as he went. He reached the sanctuary rail before any of the frightened people could intercept him. With a bound he passed over the rail ,and ran up the steps to the altar. Thie he attsoked and succeeded in breaking to fragments the benediction Omit standing outside the tabernacle. He then leaped on the altar and cursed the people and priests. Dis- ,robing himeelf of his coat, vest and pante,- loons, he danced upon the altar and then snatched up the Communion oloth and tore it to tatters with his teeth. The edene in - the church was one of -terrible exeiteraent, and during the panic several women swooned. Finally the officiating priest and several of the men reoovered their self- poseession and rushed upon the intruder. He was hurled from the altar, and would have been torn limb from limb but for the interference of the priest. 'The, man made a desperateiresistanoe,- and was not overcome until some police arrived and he was handcuffed. He had taken sudh a firna hold with his teeth upoh the Communion cloth that it had to be out away from his mouth. It was aseertained that he Was of weak, mind, and had become hopelessly demented during the recent exciting poli - teal events in Derry. He was removed to an agylum. flexwEa Rueter. How a Il1uch41arried Ilan 'Attempted to Escape IMMO 11148%1IttplUB Wives. • A Richfield Bpringe (N.Y.) despatch says: George Crocker is nordead. At a public house to -day at Three Mile Point, Otsego Lake, were a large humber of guests from Richfield Springs, and during converse. tion with the host about George- Crocker, who was supposed to have tied ti,..large boat anchor to his leg and, jumped over- board into the lake, a statement was made by a stranger, suppoeed to be Walter Liv- ingstone, hie companion in the boat, to the effeot that the supposed suieide, having three wives mod expecting a lively time in a few days, hired Livingstone to cross the lake in a boat with bun at dark and re- turn late in the evening with the story Of the euioide. The statement that he left four letters is verified, but it is ins- poseible to verify the story of the spioide, as the lake at the place pointed out bY Livingstone is over three hunneed feet deep. Great efforts have been made to find the body of Crocker, five boats having been employed in dragging the lake. The Me* of the stranger, who refused to give his name'is that Crocker, who has for some time been expecting wives Nos. 2 and 3, decided to have a plausible etorietold of his act and hired this man to tell A, The stranger was slightly intoxicated vilien he told the BO*. Croaker evidently did net jump into the lake, as repoited, but was rowed norms by Livingstone' and left on the opposite side, whence he camped Into the country. Every effort will be made to verify the Wry of the suicide by the RM. field Springs and Sharon Sprnage &Whorl - flea New York was a BlaVe State until' July 4th, 1827. On that day all Plans then in the State beanie free. • NIX nillikaiNIS LONG. Each WhJs i'veouty Thousand flasks liswilhadt ta lane the Sturietem. " They fish with lines six miles long in Winnebago Lake,Wisoonein and use twenty thousand hooks on every him," mad* New 'Cork flehernaan who has been therei " and if they don't haul "up two thousand Rah every time they ea it indifferent luck. And every fish will weigh from twenty to seventy pounds. ThaVe the way they fish for 'Surgeon out there, "One of theme lino will reaoh half way across the lake. It is a rope an inch in diameter. It ie carried out in the lake, large buoys being attached to hat Intervale to keep it on the surface, The twenty thousand heoke, baited with Pieces of Most or Ash, are lowered to the bottom of the lake by 0 onoode of the proper length, 'Method to the line. It takes twenty boats, with two men in each, to look after this big Ash line. Eaola boat has one thousand hooks in Ha chargee The hooka are placed eighteen inches apart, and to bait all the hooks once requires not lees than one thousand pounds of meat. It takes the forty men and twenty boats ten hours to set the line for the first time. After that the fishermen are constantly employed in going to and fro over the line, hanling In the sturgeon that have been oaught on the hooks and rebaitieg where it is necessary. "To haul in a seventy -pound othrgeon from the bottom of the lake is an exciting pieoe of work, but requires more strength than skill, as the llell always has the hook several inches down his throat, having sucked the bait and all down without any regard to consequences. There is nodanger of losing the fieh unitise the snood or the hook break% When the �rh.is hauled ,to the surface a gaff, like a meat -hook, is thrust into the side of its head, andthe sturgeon is drawn into the boat and - knocked in the head with a mallet. The hook is out out of its throat, rebaited and thrown back into the lake. "The average catch of sturgeon is one every ten hooks. When a boat is loaded with all it will carry of sturgeon, the fibber - men row back to the shore, where °there, take the fish and dispose Of them. The fishermen know 'the particular seetions of the line on which they work by the arrange. ment of he buoys'. These are placed ten feet apart, and every, 150th one is red. The ewe between Jim red. buoys con- tain one thomand hooks. The sec- tions are numbered, and each boat has its number corresponding with the Bee- , floe it fishes. While -floe average °atoll ia -line sturgeon to ten hooks, it is no unoom- mon thing for the fishermen to find but one or two on an entire Election of one thousand hooks. " The Lake Winnebago sturgeon ie highly Prized among the lumbermen and other in the region. Its ileth is finer and of better flavor than the salt water stiargeon's. The lieh hells for 6 cents a pound at retail. Large quantities are salted and smoked, for sole in the lumber camps." Books and Authors. The trustees of the British Museum have just purchased Milton's Bible. It (=tains, in the poet's handwriting, the dates of the birth of his children• . General Gordon's letters, papers and fragments, which Mr. W. H. Mallook is preparing for the peat itisee of the Fors - nightly .Reviero, are reported to be very interesting. • The memoirs of the late Imbed Moffat, the African missionary and traveller, are :being prepared by his only surviving sop, Mr. John Smith Moffat, now residing at Graham's Town, South Africa. Thegerman Government, now that the official narrative of the war of 1870-71 is, completed, and in order that the people may better' understand.the history of the concentration of their natitm from it military point of view, have determined to prepare an official chronicle of the story ot The Ware of Frederick the Great." Thif 'work is to be carried on under the super- vision of Count Von Moltke. . . • Murder Sentences in Eugiaed. • In the year 1881 twenty-four persons were sentenced to death for the crime of murder in England and Wales: In 13 Cases the sentences were commuted -11 to penal servitude for life and 2 to confine- ment at Breadline:ix. In 1882 the capital sentences numbered 22 114 of the criminals were'exeouted, 6 are undergoing penal ser- vitude for ,life and 2 are at Broadmoor. Last year 23 persons received sentence of death ; 5 of theee sentences were commuted to penal servitude for life, 2 to removal to Broadh000r, and in one cage the death peealty was conimuted to ten years' penal servitude. The ages ef the persons sen- tenced ranged from 14 to 70, the former being the age cf Margaret Measenger, who is now undergoieg penal servitude for life, and the latter that of Charles Gerrish, who was executed on the 301h of January., 1882. . • shaker Inventions. Mort than hall &century ago the Shakers first originated -the drying of sweet corn for food, and they first raised, papered and vended garden seeds in the present. styles. From their first• methods of preparing medicinal roots and. herbs for market sprung the immense pitteniSedioine trade. They began the broom -corn business. The first' buzz saw was qinadedby the Shaker at NetteLsbation. , The Shakers invented metallio pens, first Made of brass and silver. All; distilled liquors were aban- doned as a beverage by the Shakers sixty years ago, and during the past forty pima no fermented liquor of any sort has been used except as a medicine.' , Pork and tetra= are ale° numbered eiriong the " for- bidden articles." Though the Shakers are 'bob strict vegetarians, the amount Of meat and grease used as food is reduced to it mininiuM. , Royal Menageries. , The popularity of raenageries has always been great, Yet they Were formerly the luxury of princes. *In Russia, for instance, 150 yenta ago, the grand menageries at Bt. Petersburg were kept solely Id the court. Many of the animals were caught alive to be need at the hunting festivitiee'of the im- perial court. The Empress Anna Ivanovna was passionately fond of hunting; the kept 319 houndeand was a capital shot. On one moasion (Aug. 26th, 1740) she killed 1 wolf, 4 wild boars, 9 stage, 16 turkeys, 374 rabbits, 68 duck, and several large herons -a magnificent bag even for an empress. The humerotia elephants in her menagerie were expelosive pets, for they were on sugar, butter, wheaten flour, wine and salt. One of . them requieed a large daily portion Of brandy, and the keepers were sent to Siberia If a aingle gill was abstracted from the elephant's portion. Me. H. Irving has engaged for the Lyceum Company Vise Rose Leolereq, an excellent actress, with whom the play -going public will gladly ream acquaintance. Miss Leolereq will also join the company on ,their tour with Mr. Irving to the United States and Canada. "1870 is the title of a new play seemed by Mum Ada Cavendiehr and with which she propose to make a feature An her tour, which ebe will commence in USIA. WILIP IffellaTIIIPMST e•-••••••• Tatra *ad War Pawnee -Same add ineetecies. The Edmonton (N. W. T.) Bulletin, of Juno 14th, NIS :„ *0 0-pe-ta-quan, or the Pound's eldest daughter, was very siek last winter with lung complaint, and at one Unit' was not expeeited to receiver. Her tether, in order that her life might lie spared, vowed to make a dance n honer or the Thunder God or bird. Thie dance commenced Thursday evening of legit week and was kept up till Saturday at euneet. Pound was direeter ; his daughter book no aotive part in the cerelliontee, not hang strong enough yet. There were between sixty and iieventy families present, some coming from Egg Lake, Victoria Bear Hill and other points, also it number of the re, doubtable Big Bear's men -in all about forty-two tents. The dancers numbered twenty women and eight men. There were six clitunomere, Dal3413g was kept up Thursday and Friday, night and day, unomeingly, without anything of note occurring, On Saturday Tongue - MOH was hung pp to, the centre pole, as also was Ts..koots, of Pa-pas-ta-yo's band, and sumeeded in brealciug loose, Tongue - master also had two guns tied to his HOU by cords through the akin and creased on - his back, with which he danced till he shook them loose: About 6 o'clock Satur- day evening speeches were delivered by, Wape-ta-quan, ;or Whitehead, Ma-me-na. wika, Pa-pas.ta.yo Pound. Shtning Elbow and others. The first -mentioned said they were poor now, but the Good Spirit still remembered them, andthese danoee were a good thing to bring them more directly under His notice. Shining Eibiiw wished the Indian agent to show hie affection for them by giving them something to eat. Ma-ine-na-wa-ta, wished the white men to -give money or provisions, go that the old and poor pight have a feast after the dame was over. After the speeches were • concluded ,Pa -pas -tis, of Big Bear's band, attended by twelve warriors, clad for the Dion • part in nature's veStmenth, fantasticially orna- mented with paipt and feathers, numbed to the tent to the MUBi0 of drums, sleigh bells and fire -arms. ThlaY formed a oirole, around the piles and began it war dance, whink resembles the famed Red River Jig, except the noise; A more perfect repre- eentation of pandemonium cannot be imagined ; the leader going around shooting off hie rifle and the rest dropping down one by one as eaoh shot, representing the. men he had killed in battle. Each of the twelve apostles told of his valiant deeds, amid loud ones of approvalfrom the onlookers. One old buck had his daughter brought out-, and she danced on his blanket in, his honor. Numerous presents were thrown into the ring, whieli were distributed by. Pound. Pa-pas-ta-yo told his equew to bring in a horse, which he presented to the noble lady, Big Mary Ann. He gave an account of his brave motions, the principal being the killing of seven Blaokfeet in one battle a few years ago. Others of the braves made speeches of similar import. BLOWN VP BY 1110 OWN GAM. Sad Death of a Scientific- Investigator. Binghamton, N. Y., was disturbed on Sunday at the church -going hour by the crash of an explosion that threw windoW sashes andglacie e,oress the street. 'Paha°. men &eked -to Firemen's Hall, the some of the explosion, where Professor H. A. Clum was..19und dead upon the floor, which , was strewn with the debria of °hairs, it de- molished etove and his gas-feherating ap- paratus. He had been generating oxyhy.. drogen gas for use in a stereopticon exhi- bition - that • he was to give in the Baptist Churoh onSunday evening, and the stopcock to the gas being turned off, and unnotieed by him, the explosion occurred, bemuse there was no room to store the gas except in the heater. The right side of his face was crushed in, and he Was killed instantly. Rev. Dr. Haynes, whose °hutch he was to ocenipy this evening, on hearing -of the 'explosion had the preliminary ser- vices conducted by a layman until he could view the seem, •and, then returned and preached an eloquent Barmen upon the ace oident. . Professor Clum claimed to be the in- yentor of the machines now used in the signal service of tne United States for reg. istering meteorological observations, and considered himself the father of the science ih this country. Mr: Clum's ottani was adopted under Chief Morey,who, he claimed, agreed to make the ip-overnment remuner- ate him largely for his patents. Mr. Morey died and Clum has never beep able to get the present Administration to prop- perly interest Heell in getting him the royalty that he says. he W9•9 to have; consequently 'he con- tinued his study of science until he perfeoted an instrument which is • in the hall here on 'exhibition, and which, he claims, is a vast maprovemen t ovei anything ever used and has often foretold the approach of storms. This, he averred, would perform the whole signal service -business of this Government with the help of 25 men, where 1,500 are now employed at a large expenee, thus saving over 21,000,- 000 annually to, the Government. He travelled in Germany, France and England, to perfnerhir-leilo-w-leergia of meteorological mince, and held British lettere patent for important inventiens.• • East Living, !Speedy Endiog. That our financial methods result- itt over -cerebration and•nervoue exhaustion is a painful fact universally recogniaed. We sleep too little, eat too hastily and , keep ourselves on the verge of financial 'delirium tremens all the time. There is 1OSS serene enjoyment and less of really healthy exer- cise in tbe career of the Amerioan merchant than in that of the ordinary hod -carrier. Our bueiness life is characterized first by reatleambes, then by reoklessness and last by a premature decay of physical energy. The race for wealth keeps US strung to' the , highest tension every day, and when any- thing unusual moure the strings snap sud- denly, and there is nothing left us but "six feet of mother earth. We can hardly be called sebaPPY people, and very seldom do we thoroughly enjoy_the Money we make, To our mind it is a serious question, 'Dom it pay ?-N. l, Telegram. The Meteor Bursts. The recent meteor appears to have been rather too close to Belleville for domfort, it having NUM when over the northweetern part of that eity. The intelliginter says t Pieces fell in the Coleman flat, where some bays wen. playing (Weise, and Borne of those fragmente ware eickei up. 'ionic' of which are in poesession o Ald. Davis and Dr. Bell. Mr. ,Tames Byrne, maohinist at J. M. Walker ck Co.'s, also found a piece aB large as a mart's hand near the city limits, and of this we have emnt. a small portion. The material is that of which mob beam are usually canoed, bamely iron and other materials Weed by every strong heat. The „death is announced of Miss -Sarah Garrick, a pensioner of the Royal Drained° College, who olaimed reletionehip with the great David. 4111A6011*1flailli Oft 01111SOL1* f Iftensairlusalle Vests Performed ller the 44iftaiPIOSIC OM. A Saturday night's despatch fr002_,,,__N,,fw York fkiityli Tito RIblige W4uill.F° Theatre looked for a time this afternoonas if a °Moue had etruck Hall a dozen men swinging te. Me chair Welk CaPilia)ng spinet theiipthleitere on th9 UPAttilig flfraituret and ?lunging wijdly thrfu8h**130 491MM% Pga gtiffnli the alleged us =patio girl," was at the bottotn • of the - storm. A spore- of golenin-looking men sat in a minetrel.like circle aroundthe stage waiting for the phenomenon. The girl is a fair type of the middle -claw young lady of the far South.* Above the medium height, magnificently formed, apparently without an mime of superfleue ileeh abont her, ehe would be taken for an atblete,.buir for the' soft, peaohy complexion. Her hauds are rather large and the wrist and foreerra are beautifully moulded and thoroughly developed, A olose-fitting bleak Folk dress made the girlish fatie look older than the 16 years she pleads guilty to, but the fluffy bangs that strayed down ever the fair forehead served mean offset to the too mature dreee. Her manners are as pimple as those of any farmer's daughter, and the high keyed tone has &plaintive cadence peouliar to country villages, Throughout the experiments aloe laughed 111 a good-natured way as though the entire affair wog a huge joke. The " phenomenon's" . r> manager an. wowed that the force exerted by the girl was inexplicable, and then called for an umbrella. The owner of the umbrella rained it and stood under it with the young lady. Both had hold of the han- dle. The borrowed umbrella yanked itself downward, hit the owner under the ear, pounded about the head, and finally as he struggled to bold it steady passed him over before a dozen grave -looking editors and landed him in an ash heap just off the Meg°. To the onlookers it seemed as though the phenomenon was pushing the man around by force' of muscular, strength. Several muscular men tried to hold it billiard cue, but the athletic maiden was too much for them. A 200 -pound scientist sat down upon it ohair•'Wise Hunt Placed the palms of her hands against its sides and lifted WM clear off the floor. As the chair began to rise the observer could not fail to note how the fine muscles in:the forearm grew rigid and stood out in little cords. Half a dozen men tried in vain to press to the ground a chair which eke held aloft. Back and forward oyer the stage they ethiggled, but she was too strong for them and mine out victorious. The young lady up to eight months ago lived in the back woods in the most benighted part of Central Georgia. The girl is extremely pretty and seems honest in her -inability to explain her power. Pearls ot Great rile°. The most expensive collection of pearls on record is that evened by the Countess of Dudley, which is far more valuable than the celebrated, pearls belonging to the Queen. The Countess has a coronet of pearle. The top is composed of pear- shaped pearls. There is a very large one in the centre, and the others are graduated in size down to the mealiest. In order to get them) pear-shaped pearls in the requi- site sizes and • colors ' the jewellers were obliged to buy mob an enormous quantity of pearls that when the famous necklace was completed, with ear -rings, brace- lete, brooch and finger -ring , to match, they had £76,000 worth of odd pearls left. A pair of matched pear-shaped pearls, weighing 110 grains; were recently sold for £1,250. When the Princess Royal of Engtand married IP aced& William of Prussia she received a necklace of; thirty-two pearls costing 222,000. In 1789 the French government possessed pearls valued et 250,000. One that 'weighed 108 grains was valued at £9,000. Two that were pear-shaped were valued at £14,000. The black pearls bring very high prime at present, but genuine pearls may be bought that are white, pink, or grey. The peouliar color whieh is called pearl is a aort of transparent drab. There is at present a greater demand for pearls, as there is, in fact, for all kinds of jewellery, than there has been known for a long time. The , plentifulness cif imitations • does not appear to destroy the value of the genuine artiole. , . . • Pinkerton and Fugitive Slaves. • . ThereAre probably living in Canada at this day some colored men and women who owed their liberty, when elavery prevailed in the South, to Mr. Allan Pinkerton, the noted deteotive, who has just died. By his efforts and energy many a famished and hunted negro who, guided only - by the glimmering light of the north star, had broken away from the bonds of slavery and made his way to Chicago, on the terrible journey to the .welcoming borders of Canada, had been fed and clothed and passed safely on his way,-oftentirees under the very eyes of the officers of the law, who were ready and anxious to send them back to Servitude and ,puniehment. In those days it was not an uncommon thing to see Mr. Pinkerton's doors beeieged by numbera of prayerful negroes, seeking his aid in behalf of gime trembling fugitive whom the law was about to consign to a physical coe- dition worse than death, 'and it is needlese to say these appeals- were never made bn vain. , . • - Belle Boyers Exploits., 6 Belle Boyd, whom father hold a place, under the Federal Government at Washing- ton before the warlbeotome noted early in the oonfliot as.a female spy. She was a sharp - featured, blaok-eyed woman of '26, With a. Di "PUMP dash of mariner, a quickness of retort, and an utter abandon of manner and bearing which often carried her over the boundary of modesty. She carried a revolver in .her belt, rode a spirited horse, and easily ingratiated herself intothe attentions of young Union officers, from whom she would extraot valuable military information. She also had in the valley of Virginia, it. siaterhood of coadjutora, who reported to her frequently-. ladies who had the good sense not to make themselves so conepiououe as she wee, and whose services were unknown, except to her, and were therefore effeetive.-Boston Journal. Rebind. • " Give me your hand," said a young gentleman td a young lady wheen he was teaching a game of made, and I "01', please, don't say any more," she hastily interrupted, "1 am engaged to 'ray cousin, and we are to be married next summer." , The young man gasped three tithes, then fainted deed away. The Byron Memorial Fund makes qood proton. Me. J. L. Toole has subsorthed 200, and Mr. Irving, Mr. T. Thorne and Mr. David James £100 each. Rirr. 0. E. &mem, the distinguished Baptist preacher, promises to be unselfish to the end. Ho has resolved te devote the 222,500 presented to him on the 50t1' an. aivereary of hie birthday to religious and philanthropie inatitutione. CANADIAN PACIFIC IVAILWAr .1,•••••.•11•4,* 17,000 Men at Work on Constrilction East and West. elOOD P,6,11stIOlek PROSPEOTtl THIS TRAIL OnWednesday Mr. Colliugwood Schrei- ber* Chief Engineer mai General ?demagog of Government Railways, limited in Toronto on bis return from a visib to the Northwest. In conversation with &reporter be stated that there were now about 18,000 men at.work on the mete= motion of the Canadian, Racine Road. 4toont 9,009 of these ere et week between Port Arthur and Dry Lick, and 4,000 between Bannerman and StidbuO Junction. The contractors are making very mid progrese, and have already completed over two-thirdof the heavy rook -work. Cut of the five tunnels on the section four will have daylight ,through them in about another month, and the other very ehortly afterward. Traok has been laid 67 miles eaet of Port Arthur to Nepigon and 14 miles of track construoi- MI at Gravel Bay. In addition to this, 140 miles of, road las been completed and track laid between Bannerman and Callender, If the eame rate•of progress is continued dur- ing this Bummer and winter, as in the past, the whole of the track on the Lake Superior seotion will be laid by Pila.y let, 1885. On the Rooky Moiintaiq motion of the Cana- dian Peoifie there are now about 4,000 men at work, and traok has been laid and come plated five miles west of the summit of the Rooky Mountain range, and grading COM. plated an additional distatice of ten This makes a completed track 968 miles weet of Winnipeg. On the Pacific section there arcepow 170 miles of track laid, and within two menthe the whole track will be completed on what be known as the °oder- donle Contracts, leavieg a break of &tomb 276 miles yet to be completed. Mr. W. C. Van Horne, Vice -President and General Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway, arrived in Toronto on, , Wednesday on hie return trig%from Win- nipeg. In oorivers4tion with a reporter last night he statecl•that the so:called arid' region west of Moose Jaw has turned out to be the best watered of the( whole'weatern section of the road. This season the rains hem been frequent and copious, more so than in the region() supposed to 'be more highly favored. The ten experimental farms ownedby the.Cenadian Pacific, Rail- way in this yery seetion are all doing mag -i(' nifieently. Grain in that region is nui°12 much farther advanced than in Manitoba, and there will be tt.: surplue of at least 10,000,060 bushele of wheat for shipment • - this fall from the Northwest. The progress of construction on the road was most satis- factory, and there was now no room to doubt but that the road on the north shore of Like Superior -would be opened for through truffle by an early date in next year. c_ Cost cot a nova 'W editing ;Dress. A Paris' eorreepondent of . the Daily • :Telegraph, writing on fitehions, says: Five guineas looks, in .plain Engliith, a 111%0 ,sum for silk to oost the yard. The prom is quoted as that'which Was paid by Her Majesty, for the -dress she wore as her grauddaughters weddiug, and exoites time astonishment. It says much for the sim- plicity of Euglish•wome.11-even the highest in the land -that such speoial mention • should be made of this fabric) and its money's worth. . I am • afraid a Parisian fashionable would fail to exhibit the least astonishinent at the Royal expenditure. Moat likely she would have stored' up, either iu the file of paid or that of unpaid bills, some record of a similar character belonging to•hereelf. Three Or feu; pounds a, yard Is a legitimate plias tb pay, accord- ing to her tariff, for rich Lyons -woven Mike.' Monsieur Chose meets, gently worded cora- ' plaints against toilettes that cost more than four figures in Freneti money, with argu- • =eats (mob de these -and they were nob vain arguments, 'es a visit to the Lyons. warehouse will prove,the proprietors . whereof depend entirely open the great couturiers • for the sale of their moat reelserelid goode. When 4he exorbitant: charges of French dressmakers are quoted this must aLwaya be remembered. Note only bas each gown a (damp of its own, but .it is oompoiecl of the very beat materials, sometimes eepeoially woven for the pur- pose, and in almoot every otoee the trini-• . ming, at least, is made to order. If, besides, this, long oredit, tho loos oecaeffined by bad debts, the expense of keeping up a luxurious establishment, be thrown into the balance,, it will not be found that the profits Etre BO large as might be expected. It is admit( to onside(' what is obtainable for £4 or 25,, a yard. Broeaded compo -ed of fancy Bilk 'and satin, or. of satin and 'velvet, both' textures being of one color, need not omit more than £2, but by iningliug Ottoman with velvet mid openwork', mud by working • over the thiek parts inter(' relief, ibis seep,. - to increase the 22 to -g3. or £4, even with- ""' • ' out going to the length of a special pattern,. as the case with the particular royal robe in question.- Every additional color in a brocade adds coteiderably to- the expense of the weaving, and the materials ((old cur- rently at the marahande de nouieautes- Louis ,XVI. silks, Genoa velvets, Renais- sance brocades -are seldom marked les. than 50f or 601, and eve() then they may be in their second season, and have com- manded a higbet pride on their first intro- duotion to -the world. Some of the jet - woven tisanes are extremely expeneive -those whero. the beads predominate, and which, tire like coats of mail: (me thee() whereat the bugles .form a more or less intrics.te pattern. Three.guinete is a very ordinary price•topitya yard for such, fabrics. Even to the Parielan roilliner it is ' hot all profit. Her material( are costly in ••the.fitrat plioce, she being careful to-testriot, hercheice to the boot of things, BO that, by the time she has conjtired them into fairy form, they are worth something approach- ing to what she ()bargee for them. It is, wonderful how many y&rds of fine lace • may be ruched into a capote, the quantity of ribbon needed te construct a handsome, °mule is perhaps double what an outsider .„/-1 would take it to be, all gold trimminga mount up to a good round aim, the pieoe velvet -velvet out up ruthlessly on the oross-is generally worth twenty franca e. yard, the best artifinial blossonas mounted, on flexible Heenan are fat clearer than real flowers at Christmas time, and, in ,spite ot Algerian ostriola farms, the feathers of these• ungainly fowl " usually add a caniple of guineas or so t6 the cost of the bonnet or ha they adorn. ln Milford, Mase., bout 1760, George " Washington tied his ho to the trqp while( he went into the house get hie inner. The tree hasil"))1 to.01 few iv eke ago when it was ontd i wu, no was in the way of travel, and We 1 :to memorial blOoke. Hon. Robert Lead on, sixth sou of the late Lord Lyttelton, is t be married to Miss Edith Bantle, dest daughter of Mr. Charles Bentley, on the h The census of Mexico gives t epopnlation at 9,686,777. No State has 1,000,000, two States have leas than 100 000, and several States have less than 200,000 inhabitants. But Senor Romero thinks that the propuls- ion le really not far from 12,000,900.