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Home My WebLink AboutThe New Era, 1884-10-10, Page 2Octobel, 103884 111E.U0111 RECK. - 41. Wave Bog Loses its Life in Rescuing the Inmates ot a Burning Motel. A despatch from Olean, N.Y., to the talinoionati Tintea-Star nye : The large Newfoundland dog Heck, belonging to the on St. Elmo Hotel, Eldred. Pa,, eta 'dela' known for hie great strength an aintellia gene, The porter of the hotel, a kind', hearted but ipteroperate pereon, slept in a little room bath of the effice. The dog slept in the office. On . Tburedey night last the porter was very drunk. Some time in the night he was awake, ea by the loud barking of Heck, who wae jumping frantioally on the porter's bed a..ci Homing the pillow with hie teeth. He sprang from the bed, but was eo drunk that he4ell to the floor. The dog eeized him by the coat and dragged him out of the room and half way to the outer door of the office, when the man succeeded in getting to his feet, and unlocking the door staggered into the etre% Fire was rapidly *reading 'over the buildinga-and the hotel Was filled with bleeping guest). The dog no sooner saw his hatpins friend was safe than he dashed ban into the house and ran barking loudly upstairs. Ve firelaTt3 appall-FUT door of bis master's room, where he howled and scratched until the innaateswas aroused. The dog gave the alarm at every door, and in some inetances conducted guests dew - stairs to the outer door. In and out of the burning building he kept continually daeh- ing, piloting some half-dressed man or woman downstairs, only to return in search of others. Once a lady with a child in her arms tripped on the stairs while hurrying out and fell to the bottom. The child- was thrown on the floor of the hall some dis- tance away. The woman regained her feet and staggered in a dazed way out of the door, leaving the child in the midst of the smoke. The brave dog saw the mishap, and, jumping in through the smoke, which was now becoming almost impassable, and seized the child by its night-clothes . and carried it safely out. Heck had already brought the little one out, but it had not been restored to its mother. Beek saw the frantic rush of the mother toward the burning building and sprang forward, and as a dczen bands etrzecl the woman and held her back from her insane attempt to enter the house, disappeared with a bound over the burning thrtshold. The faithful brute never appeared again. His remaine were found in the ruins. But for the intelligenca and -activity of Hook the fire in the hotel would not have been dis- covered in time for a single inmate to have escaped. A VANDEBBILT SQUEEZE. Ws Sons Speculate His Wealth -Away. A Saturday nightai New York despatch says: The reigning sensation in Wall street to -day was the home of 610,000,000 debenture bonds by the New York Central: Not one of the Vanderbilte or the com- pany's officers will talk about the matter, although everybody knows that the bonds have been issued and the loan placed. It is an open seeret that W. H. Vanderbilt m a poorer man by many .millions than he was a few, yew eine. His sone -Cor- nelius and Willina K. -have speotilated heavily and kivariably lost, and William H. was compelled to foot the bills. Wil- liam /II lost 46,000,000 at one swoop last fall, and Cornelius dropped 62,000,000 duripg the panic in May. So heavily had the boys become involved in stooks that Wilham H. was compelled to form an alliance with Jay Gould in order tO save his colonel fortune: Iudeed, Mr. Vander- bilt was hard pinched for ready money when he sold Maud S. for a140,0Q0, and be was somewhat cramped beoause Gen. Grant couldnot repay the 4150,000 he bor- rowed and let Ferdinand Ward steal. The financial trouble of the Vanderbilts has been a subject for gossip in Wall street as well as up town, where it is said that the elder money king is in much trouble. Though the extent of his tones is simply a matter of conjecture, it is believed that they will resoh at least 030,000,000 and possibly $50,000,000. TUE DAUB. CONTINENT. A New. Book of Travel -The Biggest Sensation of Modern Days. A London deepatoh says: Mr. Joseph Thomson has completed his book of "Travels in Eastern Africa," and it is about to be published. Mr. Thomson was the gentleman who was sent by the Royal Geographical Society as the leader of an expedition to explore Zanzibar and the interior of Africa as isr as it was safe or expedient to penetrate. The expedition was unheard from for many montns, and grave fears rose as t3 the fate of the explorers. Last June, however, a despatch ° fr anzibar announced the safe arrival of omson from the interior, and a few weeks later he arrived in London. His book is now ready to be given to the world, and it is expected to prove the biggest sensation of modern days in the way of works of travel and adventure. From advance sheets of portions of Mr. Thom - son's book it ir3 evident that he has made some startling geographical and ethno- kgioal discoveries, which will equal or surpass those which Mr. Stanley gave to the world in his "Dark Continent." Be has explored thousands of miles of hitherto unknown country, has found a Winter and healthier route to the great Victoria Nyanza Lake and has dim:levered immense deposits of salt never before known of or utilized. -• The Wolt Comet. A Boston despateh says: From observe-, tions at Cambridge on Sunday and Monday nights, and the position cabled from Europe, Professors Chander and Wendell, of Harvard College Observatory, have com. plated the following orbit 61 the comet dis- covered by Wolf: Elements perihelion, pow Nov. 25th, 03, 1884; longitude of perihelion, 20 degrees 80 minutes; Tonga tide of node, 199 degrees 31 minutes; inclination of orbit, 31 degrees 22 minutes ; logarithm of perihelion, distance 02202. The comet is away visible in small tele, scopes. It is growing brighter, but is going south so rapidly tbat it is not likely tote very brilliant to the northern hemisphere. M. Ferry stated yesterday that Admiral Courbet had telegraphed that preparation for the resumption of warlike operation against the Chinese were Completed. The Cabinet resiolved to summon the Chambers to meet Ootober 141h. Margaret Rice, of Windsor, began a butt on Saturday by her attorneys! George IL Paine and 0. M. Leonard, against the oity of Detroit. On the 1011 of list Jaunty the plaintiff was walking on Woodward avenue, between Gratiot and Grand River avenue, and slipping on the ice fell and raotured her thigh. She lays her damagee at 620,000. he Toronto Street Railway COMpany e not intend to put eenductOts On the one owe • - A CHILD DVSS WHOM ALCOHOL Miss Gabrielle Greeley and Her Uneaten. station Work ot Xeres. The New 'York World game the foilowipg partioulare of a tragedy, the fads Of which appeared in the Tames despatehes the other day ; In the low, ,foul-odared pliant), of David See, in the woods on the aoarders of Chappaqua, Coroner Hyatt yesterday found Miss Grbrielle Greeley, the only surviving daughter of the late Horace Greeley, bending over the prime of the boy when strange death the nroner had come to ineeetigate. The body lay in g rude pine ehoebox about four feet long and eighteen* Inthee •wide. It wait the only cathete that the ehittlese parents oould procure. At Mies Greeleyai side on the filthy and oarpetless floor was a bunch of wild flowers and a pail of cracked ice. .:The younglady was packing the ke around the little body and arrangiug the wild' flowers at the edge of the shoebox in elm% an orderlyand tasty manner that when she had completed her task the spot when the body lay looked like a bower of flowers. The littlerbody which claimed her atten- tion .was that of Frederick See, the 4-yearold son of David and Emily See, who, with their four ohildren, occupied the shanty. . When--Cornner_liyatLiptroduced self Min Greeley. saiiT" strange that I am here. This little boy is Epeeiateharge. - I am his godmother,. and his little sister Emma, whom you see weeping, is a devout attendant at my Sun- day soliool in the Episcopal Church," e Lam told," the coroner said, " that this child° died from drinking alcohol, of which hie psteente had beendrinking. Is that 4 4' I am soray, to say that I believe the report is true," viasahe reply. The coroner took charge of the body and eummoned a jury, the testimony showing that the child had aotually drank a quantity of ea:robe', from the effects of which be had died, -The--father couldnot be found, having fled, but the mother, wen was just recovering from the effects of a protracted apree, testified, that she and her husband went to White Plains to get some,keronne, but instead they . had e4 half gallon of alcohol put into their can. When they arrived home they were both intoxicated. Sunday they continued their spree. The little 10 -year-old girl teetified " I took the can of alcohol and hid it upstairs by my bed to keep papa and mamma teem drinking any more. Freddy found the oan and drank a lot of the alcohol. I saw him come downstairs; he staggered and fell into my lap, and then I knew he had been drinking. He couldn't 'peak. I pulled him on My lap, and pretty soon he got down and lay on the floor and went to sleep. He never woke up any more. He slept all day Monday and Wouldn't wake up.- In the afternoon he was crazy. Pie butted his bead agajnet the wall and had Ste. ealleadiedathitemorhing,"-- - --- Dr. H. F. Patch, who was eummoned hut before the child's death, said the child was then in the litet .etagee . of alcoholic poieoning. The jury rendered a a -indict censuring the parents for criminal careless- ness in allowingthe child to gat the alcohol. Constable Lawrence has a war- rant for See's arrest.Mrs. See has beeu notified that she can 'sae longer have the custody of her 'children. 'Tetley she Will leave Chappaquea and go to her relatives and 'Pales Greeley will take charge of the remaining three children and end them to Hanoi. Last evening Mies Greeley sent an undertaker to remove tbe body of the dead boy to the old Greeley farm -house, and to- day the funeral will take plan .from Miss Greeleyei house... Tke Welland canni. A Welland deepatoh says it is stated that the announced determination of the Chicago dt Ogdensburg line to withdraw their boats from the canal trade and the fad that other American boats cat the larger class had deoided to follow suit because of the delay at the aqueduct heze, owing to low water on • oceasione, bas spurred the canal authorities into the gravity of the situation, and the danger of the Canadian water way losing trade which had cost so many millions of publio money to obtain. It is now said that the authorities propose during periods when the lake level is so low as to cause incon- venience at Port Colborne that the canal shall be fed from the Grand River feeder. This course would remove the dientiefae- tion which has arisen, as well as retain trade, which the preeent policy is driving away. • Another 'Raman GM A New York despatch sap/ "The Woods of Arden" is the name of .a new - resort which was on Friday specially deda tutted to the use of religious and moral arganizetions, snob ne churches, Sunday eohools andtemperance eooieties. The property is set apart for this exolueive pur pose by Mr. Erastus Winiau, who enter- tained 400 minietere, Sunday school superintendents 'and teaohere itt the grounds. •The location is on the sea, beaoh of Staten Island, and can be ree.thed in forty minutes from the eity. A great deal of satisfaction was expreseed as to the liberalityeof the arraugernents and the beauty of the location. Among the speak. ere were Dr. Deems, Rev. Clark Wright and other eminent divines. !Suicide of Nev Verk's Cite Engineer. A New York despatch says: Team New- ton, Chid Engineer of the Department of Public Works, oomn3itted suloide this moreing by cutting hie throat with a razor. It is believed the act was done in a, fit of dependency caused by long suffering item rheumatism and lung troublee. He was alto employed in the Canadian Gov- ernment oii proteesional work requiring experience and judgment. He made the plans for the drainage of Marge.ree Lake in, Nova Sootiaot-work-of-. great magnitude, requiring the management of an enormous quantity otwater, the daily overflow of the lake being over 62,000,000 of cubic ;eat.. JL Prominent Englishman's !Sad End. A Fort MoKinny (W. T.). dope& says the mangled body of Mr. Gillie Leigh, a member of the Britieh Parliament, was found yesterday at Baz, a precipitous cliff in the Big Horn mountains. Dlr. Leigh was here with a email English plenum party. Ho left the entrap en the 141h inst. for a stroll, and was not heard of till eight days' • search revealed hie body. His remains will be shipped to England. Anther • danger is added to modern housekeeping: Dr. Austen has discovered that water containing organic matter' will, when tinder pressen, dieselve Compounds of lead, zinc and comet mote rapidly and in muoh larger quantitin than when pure and under ordinary condition. /le claim that Many cane of dysentery remit trait drinking Buell water that has Mood all nightan lead or zinc pipeo. Sia giant or lion -killing baboons( froth. Skin Leone ieve arrived in Hew York, where they Will be placed in the Central Park Museum. They avetage our feet in ength A DOT/ISLE TRAGEDY. Two 1000111114 Levers Prefer neat.' to Sepniration• A Baturday night's Dallas, Texas, des. patebmaye A. shocking double tragedy was • developed this afeernoon by the diseovery in the wood,. just Impend, the: corporation limite, the dead odies of a man an4 woman on the wed fork of Trinity River. The victims when first dieeovered lay Bide by side. The man's Arm was extended and partly on that of hie love, as if in the agonies of death he ought- th' embrace her. She was, apparently, aged about 18, wore a diamond brooch, and was droned with exquisite taste. He appeared a few years her senior. Between them lay a revolver, with two chambers empty, telling the story of murder and suicide. Near by was found a note, written in a clear, bold hand, saying, "As we cannot be united in life, we be in death. -Geo. Fauttrick and Annie Mauler."' Appear- ances and an examination of the bodies lead to the conclusion that the note was written before reaching the fatal scene, and that after a final leave-taking he fired the pistol in her mouth, thus killing her, placed the weapon to his temple, and again pulling the trigger, fell close beside her. Beyond • the names on the bit of paper nothing 'further is known which might give a ohm to their identity. Zatere=The-leverertragedy-of yeaterdaye Geo. Hoaletech slew Min Nanny, aratthenneremitted suicide, has been the absorbing topic of conversation. Dating the day the bodies were visited by ourioua hundred. Further investigation of 'the idantity of the victims denied by,unrelenting pserents shows that they hailed from Fort Worth, and that their visit to Dallas wns to consuramate their reurderoue mats. Miss Nanny's body wasnlaimed by lit r brother this evening and taken to ]Port .Worth. Hoaletech will be buried hers. Later developments reveal the fact that Heal- stech was a young 'officer in the German army visiting America on a year's leave of absence. -Restate* and Mies Nanny had been , stopping at an °bemire hotel for several weeks'. s His parents in Germany refused to sanction his marriage. His leave -of absence having about expired, they concluded to die rather than be separated. es • NIAGARA'S POWEIR -- Utilized in a Wonderful Manner by a Buflaionlan. A Buffalo despatch says: The Commer- cial Advertiser says that one of its reporters made the surprieing discovery this morn- ing that the incalculable( water power of Niagara Falls is being utilized' in Buffalo, twenty-two miles from' the great cataract.: For many years the question how the force of -Niagara couldimput to peactioal use at dietance ila puezied inventers, engineers and mei' of science., The soliatiaia, cif the ,problera at last fell, toi& resident of title oity, who is toemodestab permit the use 01 -his-name.-- -The power, it may astateel, • has been in practical use for a week or ten daye, and gives perfect satisfaction. Dur- ing that time the electricity by which all the telephones in Buffalo „leave been run after dark has been generated at Niagara Falk by • water power, the magnetic current being conveyed hither over the Bell Telephone Company's wires. The posei- bilities of this discovery are unlimitect. The Heathen Chinee. • A. San Francisco despatch:dated last (Tuesday) night, nye': Justice Field, hear- ing the Chinese habeas corpus oases to -day, ruled that a wife aould not enter on her husband's certificate. She must have one of her own issued by the Chinese Govern- ment. A new and extraordinary feature, ha relation to'Chinese cd the exempt class, under amended Chinese Restriotions Act, bas been developed. The collector of Port Bears held, and his interpretation was cone firmed to -day by Deputy -Collector Jerome,that 'Chinese merchapts resident in the United States, who purpose visiting any foreign country, must first go to China and procure a oertifioete from the Chinese Government, or they will not be permitted to re-enter the United States. , Indians in comment_ A Lake Mohonk despatch says : The Indian conference here was devoted test evening to a discussion on the capacity of the Indian for citizenship, the beet way to secure his claim as a citizen, the subject of compulsory education, and the abolition of reeervee. Addresses were made by several members. To -day resolutions were adopted earnestly oppesing any recognition by the Government of Wibal relations, favoring the allotting of lands in severalty as speedily as poesible, the 'andel to be inalienable for not lees than ten nor more than twenty-five years,' the right' of suffrage to be given all adults. Two of the Board of Indian Comeiiseionere were present. • The University of Mississippi is free to all the world, and to both sexes. , A epeoies of rice has. been discovered in Mantehooria, which can be eultivated without irrigation, and oonequently with- out risk to the health' of the district. Whether it is equally productive with the common species remains an.ppen question. The French Government has resolved to retrench expenditure during 1885. The °etiolates will be reduced by fifty million francs. . • Mr. Justin McCarthy, in addresaing hie constituents at Longford, Ireland,yeeter- day, urged the necessity of an Irish Par- liament. The Duke of Norfolk is about to bdild a large Catholic thumb at Lewee. Within the past fifteen years it is said that he hae devoted.40,000 to ohuroh Uses. • Nuanerous demonstrations wen held yesterday in various English cities in favor/w of the Frehin Bill, At mime, 'effigies'of the Earl of Saliebery Were burned. An attempt was made yesterday to blow up the Council' House at Salisbury. A number of windows were smathed by the exploeion, but otherwise no damage was done. Thera were no arrests. On Saturday afternoon a Frenchman about 60 yeare of age, name unknown, was killed by a butting flaw in nddy's South Shore niilasome distance up the Ottawa. The untortueate man waeltnooked against the B&W by a slab, the saw coming in contact with hie chest. He received a ghastly and fatal wound from which he died in the course of a minute afterwards. Deceased was taken to his late residence. in Hull. The mill wae shut down for the season a abort time after the accident, as it was previously arranged it ehould. All action was instituted et Montreal on Saturday in the Superior Court by Mr. James Dixon, of the firm Of Dixen, Sone & Elaine, ship brokers and importers, against the Toronto Mail for 650,000 damages for libel. The grond of the tuition ie an itOM whiela appeared in the Montreal dorreepon. done of the Mail of the 24th int., and whieh, it is elainied, faleely excluded Mr. DiXon of naving abecondeff, leaving k nein, Iter of oredithre, of haying stolen money from hie wife, of being a fugitive from juatice, atid being risined by drink and bad oturipany. A iiiioseattiiiiiie TALE,' Child Lost in a Northwest Starlit'. Aitt man named Guerin, son -in- w of B. B. Laltiviere, of ,Wakops, in e Tuttla .MontainDietriolialoet 11,3 -year ld )3y the retain storm wider very dietressipg oire cumetanoes. It appears that the storm was very heavy in that section of country, and did a considerable amount of damage. During the afternoon itlre. Guerin was attending to ber garde, picking out the weed, etc., andher two caildren, one of 3 and the other 5 vitae of age, she left out- side the house playing. She continued working at the garden for a couple of hours, and during this time the Hamm Wite gradually inoreaeing. She did not pay any attention to her children'as she, of course, theught they would be ill right, but when she went to look for them, to her eurpriee she could only find one -the eldest. She searched around the housefor a short 'time, but saw no trace of the mining child. She went over to Mr, B. B. LaRiviere and apprieed him of the fact that one of her ohildren was lost. Thie alarm was soon spread, and the husband, Mr. LaRiviere and many other 'settlers etarted in search of the little one. They looked everywhere but met with no Emcees, Ealy in the morning, however, after tiavelling some three miles over the prairie, Mr, LaRiviere found the infant child covered with eaud, le /ace ntn_eyeliat bruisedettod, eaddeet of all watt that death stared him iiitheilace. There was a very heavy wind blowing that. night, and it mnetenve ntried „alte tibial before it. The grief of theparente at find- -Mg their child in this condition can be bet- ter imagined than deeeribed, but they have the sympathy of all the settler' in that neighborhood. -Rapid City (Man.) Standard. - THE BOSTON WAY. Which is Very Much More Diguttied Tend tbe [Neal WAS. When 1 Was itt Pbiladciphia, nye Robin - eon the Somerville Journal, ragged girl' approached me and said: My papa drinks, my ,ma ie sick ' with oon- sumpticin, please will you give me a penny ?'' It was the old plea and it was eucceseful. When I came on to Boston 1 was approached by Dandle girl of eimilar appearance, and as the was &mat to speak I said e " I know all abeut it; your father drii nks your mother is siek with consumption, and you want a penny." "Pardon me, sir," she observed, with great digmty, as she removed k pair of rusty, eteel.fre.med. spectacles, and carefully wiped the solitary glaes they contained viith a shred of her tattered Shawl. "Pardon me, sir, I 'was about to observe that it pains and humiliates me beyond measure to be obliged to confess that my pa is addicted to the habitual use of Alcoholic stimulant's, and is frequently, indeed, I may Bay, per- inanently, in • a • gonditiOn- of -helplese inebriety, While)), serious indisposition, due to a pulmonary affeotion, incapatetetee my ma from.every form of paysical labor, oon- nquently the only resource left to her -63 semen the asperity (if her own and my lot. is to send me out to importune etrangers for alms, hence I make an appeal to your generosity." As she oonelecied the held out her hand with agrees and dignity truly Bostonian, and I had no other resource than to put ray.hand in my pocket and give her a dollar. _ ' THE WitECHED WASP. . , • - Particulars at the Loss et the Veseel- .04 Assistance Sent. ' • A last (Tuesday) night's • London cable; gram says: The British, man-of-war Valiant has gone to Tory Island to render (moisten() and obtam details of tbe wreck of the gunboat Wasp. • The weather was hazy when she struck. -About 3 o'olook in the morning the officer of the watch ordered sail to be set for the purpose of steadying the boat, as a lumpy sea was on. The order 'was being carried out when the Wasp, which it is surmised was greatIy dut of her course, witheuttthe slightest warning struck upon a rook.' The vessel rebounded into the deep Water, and it was foun,d a gaping hole had been made in her bow, and 11 wea impossible for her to keep afleat. Six of her crew escaped by clinging to the the wreckage, from which they were picked up by*flehing boats.. The Wasp foundered about forty feet from the lighthouse. The masts are visible. The survivors waen rescued were terribly exhausted and were taken,to the lighthouse, where they Still remain. The sea between the lighthouse and the mainland was very riaugh and 00M- munioation was almost imp:Amble. A MURDEROUS TRAMP. He Fatally Shoots a Michigan Farmer in His 'Own- House. - A Detroit despatch says: A. terrible tragedy occurred on Wednesday night at the house of J. A. MeLsin, a farmer living eix miles north of Cooper -wane, Ottawa county, Mich. A tramp stopped at the house, and uhdereook to run thingtathere abouts according to his own randy. Mr. McLain and his son resented such action on the fellow's part, and drove .him from the lionse. The don then went for assist- ance, to protect the house from the tramp's violence, and on his return found his father dead, having been killed by a shot from a revolver. The officers and neighbors were aroused, and every effort is being made to (math the villain who did the shooting. Sbould he be caught he will undoubtedly be lynched. Such is the Mate of the public) feeling over the affair. dumber Georgia Wonder. Georgia is not through yet with her wonder'. A gentleman of' Gaineevillea a young man still in his teens, comes tO the front with -an- invention for vshicatee Baia, he has refused 612,000. t it a money. drawer so ingeniously arranged that by the simple pulling of a erring any piece of money, from e niokle to is dealer, can be eieouied at nee and alto any amount of. 'change one might wish. If desired to get ohange for any bill, in 'any possible way, embracing any number of mine of different denominations, it earl be obtained in a mond of time, and there 18 not a need of glanoing at 11 10 see if oorreot, for it can't be wrong. He has just eetablished a factory at Cinoinnati for the matitzfaCture of these drawere. ° The Parisian areived at Ilimouski shortly aftet noon on Saturday, and landed her mails and paesengere. . The Methodists opened a new church yesterday hall Williamsville, one of the suburbs of Ringston. Rev. Mr. Galbraith preached,, The beading cost 04.000. The Rfegston Chief of Police has a num- ber of counterfeitAftYcent pieces Which i Were in oiroUlation. It s almost itiapoesible to distinguish them from genuine, as they' have the same ring. They are the beet Counterfeit ever Been there. The Tretteurer of the Lendert Weetern Pair furniehes the following total ',ash renipts from the turnstile() and tiokets during the four days of the' fair Tuesday, 6410714 ; Wednesday, va,882,0al TIME - day, 8l,211.40;.Friday, $1,82.881 2tbtal from these Bourne, 10,524.55. Lcuityear's reoeipte trona eiitiler eounee were 410,446., tvi:46.1* 7tiroXtsi(4440. Experiment Wilk a Lifeboat at mascara eapiasited to. asleep. itt tbe 'ell/berlpool liaturday night); Niaora Falls, Oat, cleepatch sant --The M. -tight _lifeboat which Mr. B. F. Chapman, of Wiarton, brought here and trusted WI the turbulent water of Niagara,- at 3 p°, na. on Friday, Sept. 26th, passed euccessaally through the rapid. In making the passage to the pool the little craft was twice turned bctsom side up, but righted immediately and rode on as gracefully as a man, and entered tbe pool on the Canadian sidekbotit 15 minutes after 3 o'clock. The boat floated up and dawn with the current and eddyfuntil about 7 o'clock this morning, when the oame in near the lower turn of the pool and was caught by Mr. Chapman, who was early on hand to see how his boat fared. When brought to land she was found to be as sound as when put in the water at the ferry, with about 3 inches of water in the hold. Mr. Chapman again inane her out in the current, and for about an hour and a half she was toeeed about in the pool, triton, getting caught in the right current, she was °weed out of the pool. Going over the rook just ctiathe outlet, where there is a ledge some 5 or 6 feet perpendicular, she stove in her side and went to pieces, Mr. Chapman subeepiently went to Queen- ston and nothing Ism small pieces were to be nen. There ewas mat enitement at Queeaston when thWi4deabegan to arrrvea as it had got reported that several pitrties reetta .thie piece intended to °slob the boat at tlie pool and make the trip to fad eenston ante the people thought they had made the attempt and been lost. The enitement subsided when, 111r. Chapman arrived and it was found that no pen= were on the eat . sionter,E1 G-eiouotsetee. The Old Man's Biome Broken Up. A New York despatch says: A large Orowd assembled about °bickering Hall on -Saturday evening eapeoting that 'Mrs. Sahelling,. nee Morosini, would make her debut in a enema but the hall was not opened, as no rent had been paid. The Morosini furniture and brioat.brao erre sold at auction on Saturday. It drew teeneat 'crowd. Only the . medium and poorest of the goods were put under the Demmer, the remainder having been -dis- posed of. at private sale. Victoria's foot bath, a tin affair, with her name painted oa it, was bought by a. Bowery museum mana- ger for $7. Victoria's saddle and bridle wad for•46. Her toilet set was knocked down to a: blushing young man .for 411.8e. The family Bible brought 42.; parlor,orgen, 016 50; two grand pianos, $167 and 8140; silk plush parlor furniture, 8160; magnifi- (met mirror a:thrones, worth 4300, eold for $40 and a Borrento table; marvellously inlaid with quaint ivory figures brought cradle was sold foe $2 iiiivehuile all She Morosini children had been rooked, and, the Bowery man got it. , Every 0130 •ot the 600 peopleepresent seemed determined to secure a memento of poor old Morosinie3 wrecked horde. About 05,000 was realized at the sale. ' A New Volcanic island Near Iceland. sucviemmeut. AwirrnATION, here War bar been Averted by lt.reeatr.or to Arbitration. The "Jerald of Pace and Internationai -arbitration teeerai thenauttauces vsberein arbitratiou heel 640e.4tfibfl.Illy tried : Between Great Iia,taiu aulJ d the nited States in 1794. France an the United States in 1803. Spain and On,Ll.it1 States in 1818. Great Brawn Led ate United States in • 1826. Belgium and If elated iu 1834. France and Holiatal iu 1835. England and Amine a ha 1838, Portugal and the U tea States in 1850. England and the Uu, ed States in 1853, a' England and the Unit, d States in 1805, Chili and tbe lenitea States in 1858. Paraguay and. tat United States in 1859. Canada, Coats Ben and the United States ha 1860. Great Britain and Brazil in 1863. Peru and the United States in 1863. • Great Britain ani the United Blinn in 1865. Ecuador and the United States in 1864. , France andTruesia in 1867. Turkey and' Greece in 1867. ' England and Spain in 1867. • Great Britain -and the 'United States (on the Alabama) in 1871. . . Great Britain and the United States (the San Juan diepute) in 1872. • Italy a -aid bwitzerlaud 1B77r:" , Great Britain ant Portugal (about gee Bay) in 1875. Chin, and ateeen in 1876e" Persia. Red Afeeranintau (Seaton arl3itra- tion)ira 1877. • Spain and the United States (aboulCuba, in 1879. ,Great Britain (mil Nicaragua in 1879. Urated States vat Freame in 1880. • United States and Onto. Rica 10'1881. France tied Nicaragua in 1881: Chili and Columbia in 1881. „ Great Ilritain and Nicaragua (about Mos- quito Indians) in 1881.* Chili , end Argentine Republic , (about Straits of Megellota, elo. in 1881. Great Britain. -and "the United States• (about NOVit Scotia fisherief) in 1881. Ho)lapd end I:Nati ha 1882. On the 26th of July the . lighthouse keeper at Cape Reykjaties, the southwest peiut of Iceland, on softening the sea with his glass, "saw what he at. first took for a very large ship, but'which a closer inspect- ion shoe ed to be a new island. It had the form of a rounded flattened one, was of considerable sin, and lay, according to his •estimate, about •fourteen miles- northwest - of the volcanic island Eidey or the Meal- saok (iefeleekken), which lies eight miles off Reykjanes to the F30llthtvest. Several earthquake shooks had been felt during the preceding day, and they be,ve sine occurred' at intervals, lint no other volcanic mania festations heralded or attended the rise of the island.Owing •to the •danger • of approaching the island in au open boat, no one has yet attempted to land on it. The, light keeper has observed it from day to day when not prevented by foggy weather, and reports no change in RS appearance°, save that a large part of one side of the mile appears toliave slipped or fallen down into the Nem. From time to time since the colonization of Iceland voloanio Wenn have sprung up out of the waves'in the neighborhood of Reykjanes, only to disap- pear again after a brief period. In the end of last century an island arose at or near ,the same place as the present one noupiee, and was taken poseession of by the Danes under the name of Nyo3 (New bland) ; but. as 1.1 consisted only cif toes° voice= ash and pumice, the action of the waves speedily broke it down, and after little more than a month' it dieappeared.-St. James' Gaze*. The Yard Measure. • • A few months since a question was raised abont the measurement of land in vogue4.in the British An:fere:an Colonies before they beoame known to history as the United Statee. The English Board of Trade was apimaled to for information as to when the existing foot measure was established in America, and whether it might have differed at any time from the foot pleasure 'of Great Britain. In reply, the Board stated that the standard yard of Henry VIII. sail exists, and is probably of exactly the same length as the old Saxon yard. It is a solid brass rod, and was obn- stantly used for . the verification 'of °thee yards till the reign of good Queen Bess." After allowing for the eatiinated wear, it is found to be of the same length as the present standard yard. - Carpet Trade Review. - • nOW the Poor are Fleeced. • A. ease has int acme to light in Chicago .where a pawnbroker toaned. a poor woman with a sick husband $25 on a mortgage on her -furniture. The interest paid -was -63 per month, and the mortgage was renew- able every three Months, when $5.50 was charged for making out the papers. She • thus paid 058 per year for the use of $25. Another woman paid a broker 4171 in interest on a loan of $51, and then, after paying one-half of the principal, the wretches foreolosed the mortgage, taking everything she had, even to her' bed, out of the house. ' Friday, Nov. 4113, has been set for•the polling ott the Scott Act in Huron. • The Suez Cabal Company will rodeo° the tariff fifty centimes on January lst. The Czar and Czarina have returned to the 'Imperial Peladiain Peterebarge Emperor William haW' unveiled .the statute of General Vongoeben at Coblentz. The, Bisbop of 'Worcester Bent 210 towards the ereotin of a dissenting chapel. The Nationalieleametieg antiOuneed to be held at Ballynialla, Ireland, yeaterday, was suppressed by the police, • Lord Rosebery's eendition causes great anxiety. He 18 net making a good recovery from the midden. French operatione against, Phung and Itylitong have,been sucensful. The French are now masters along the River Day. 'Itt is underetood .that General Woleeley has positive Orders &meeting Guttered Got* don to hasten the evacuation Of EhartoUm. • The HIM* ot Bethlehem. Astronomers are leaking expectantly for: the reappeatance of libe star of Bethle- hem." The theory ooncerning the star ie based on a potticaa foundation, which has little to Ruppert it. Early in 1572 Tycho : Brahe diecoveted a minnte star in the con- etellation Caseiepea. It increased in bril- liancy until it beeame tia bright as Venus, and could eesily be iteen at midday! It •began to -grow -dim -in. a-month,Land,„ _ months had dies.ppeared from vie w. A search of astronomical records thawed that similar astronomical °nuances had taken . place in the years . 945' • and 1264, the stare in queation appearing, In the same regins of the sky. Brahe agured that the star was a variable . one with period of 308 years during which ; time it remained quiescenl, only to buret on at the eud of it with a brilliant light oaueed by eruptione iu its body. The star bits been due now eine 1889, and 11 11 ever appears again it will have te do so nen year. Hence the astronomical anxiety. Poison • la 'Dresses. It has been discovered that there hen. -a shade of green in silk velvet pluelaandea other fabrics which .is dangerous to the wearer's health. Theo:an al undoubtedly/ produced by .the no of some poison, prone ably arsenic. The effect it eau readily be imagined, is niore immediate and more , dangerous if the poison is contained in the coloring matter, of dress goods than if inhaled from the ordinary green ,wali papers. Among others who have suffered from wearing materials of arsenic green is - Miss Elsie Von Bluraen, the aioyolist . who • reeei3tly had a 'mit of green plush which undoubtedly -contelped poison. She wisely discontinued its use after disooveeiug the cause of repeated illness. A lady in this oity, _recently purchased a dark green silk dress. She wore it four times and each time she became quite sick. The sioknesa gradually passed away each time after the - lady bed taken uff the dread. • The itomantle to Order. The night was dark, 'cloudy and romans- tio as he stood under herwindow at the pareetal Mansion. A rope, chock full of . elopement, etretched from the windOw to the ground. Softly the BaSh was raised and her e.ngelio foam appeared at the ease- ment. " Is everything ready ? " she whispered in a third scene, box -set voice. • "Yoe," he . reepondea thp 811:1130 theatrical tones. . ' "Have you the horse and buy at the • corner, a dark lantern, two revolvers and a doublebarrelled thotitun ? " " Yes, yes," he replied ; " everything ia , arranged. Slide down." • And have yau hired two men to,obase us ? "-Pittsburg Chronicle. Coiti Climate Suitable. " It's 130 early to light the gas yet," she, bad just said eoftly. They were there alone in the twilight." • • She unooneciously bitched her chair a . little and a few moments later she unoon. sciously hitched it again, but there WWI 310 response. , • " George," shb suddenly remarked, "if yen had been couneeted with the Greely expedition I imagine you would have been a very robust survivor." e Why ? " he asked, "The climate would have agreed with you, and you could have feasted on ice- bergs." ' .As George couldn't pain eee the force of ,this.remaraaha got up andslighted the gas._ The het of eicepresidents of the council of welcome for the coming American Exhibition in London has just been announced. It includes Mr. Andrew Car- negie, Mr. Thomas A. liaison, Gen.- W. S. Hancock, ex. -Senator Thos. W. Ferry and Mr. Henry 115. Stanley' The whole of tbe Might% press concur in . urging upon the Government the necessity of immediate attention to the state of the navy. The question is attracting unusual attention. 'The foreign press considers that England has nothing to fear while Bhp continues to hold her coaling stations) in all plats of the world. Groceries itt England are 16 per cent. • elleaper than in the-Thaited-Statise ;Vat meat, butter, egge and vegetables are 23 per cent. dearer. House-reht in Provineial ' England 'le only about half what it IA in Boston; in London *118 about two-thirds. Altogether, the cost of living in England 18 17 per mot. lower than in the United States. The Coneordgrape orop along the Hud- son riVer promisee to be an =onion one. • Agents for wine,noaking houses in -New 'York and Canada are already on the j4round, making very large purchases at as, high' a price as $50 a ton for the fruit as 11 ie. Butibere itt no danger ef a limited - supply for table (lee. The yield is likely to be not only the largest, Mit promisee to b• e the fineet 0061 hipped !rote that region.. • *