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Cottrit Szegyenlei ttod Cone tictor Waiter,
Vienusi have the Milt/epee.
Mild influenza prevails, in Athens.
ebtte' oflanials in the Duelin pose eface
hive the iefinenea.
Bareardtae bomee for destitute and
orphan ohildren, et Stepuey, are 'sleeted
With. greet severity by the lefinenee. ES ie
also the Jewett College at Canterbury.
The iefluenza is spreading ittitaiy it
luppere at Verotia, adestina and
lloaexta. The pupile of the inilitera E011001
at Modena have been emit home.
The rapid int:Mese in the number of
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HaSOS a nfluenza at Wautzburg, Bevaria,
has rendered neoeseary the erection et
aeyeral temporary laospitals. Thee are
40,000 oriset3 of tae dizease in aluniola, The
epidereio is spreading in Dresden.
The iefluenza has appeared at Peterboro,
Ont. Mr. James Kendry, nianager el the
Auburn woollen mills, is nursing an atteck
of la grippe, which he bronght home with
in from a recent business trip to New
York.
A Madrid telegram seys : The mortality
here from influenza is great, but the
malady seems to be deorettebag. Gayarre,
the tenor, is not expeoted to reoover. The
dims° is spreading in the Provinces, and
heat a8Surand a severe form at Barcelona.
A New York despatoh says; The num-
ber of grip sufferers among the " fineet '
reached high-water mark yesterday, when
204 of them were laid up for repears on
half -pay. Capt. Garland, of the Pladieon
Street Station, is the only high official who
iB sick, but he was out for a few hours,
although not on duty. During tbe trial
sixteen complainants or defendants were
reported to be ill. The sick list includes 3.•
captain, 5 sergeants, 8 roundsmen, 8 door-
men and 270 patrolmen, oat of an available
force of 3,423. men, a fraction over 9 per
cent. The fact is, the prevalent malady is
spreading in all directions, and yesterday
two more names were added to the list of
:those whose attacks of the grip, being fol-
lowed by a more serious indisposition, ter-
minated fatally. They are Mrs. Horace A.
Iludeins ated Da Pleads M. Helm.
Two fatal oases a pneumonia, which
were developed from "la grippe," were
those of the Rev: Dr. W. W. Patton, Presi-
dent of Howard Univeraity, Washington,
D.C., who died at Westfield, N.J., and
&hie A.. Osborn, of Brooklyn, a United
States Commissioner.
WEE IT limns BMW,.
It is from the tenement dietriots, how-
ever, and from the dispensaries and hospi-
tals that the most harrowing accounts of
this meaady reach the public ear. Every
hospital in the city is completely filled with
aufferers. Within the past twentytfour
hours upward of two hundred patients have
been sent to the °barite, Hospital from the
medical department of Bellevue. Over a
hundred have been accommodated in the
hospital itself, and till they come. Word
has been sent from the Island that there is
no room for any more patients in the insti-
tutione there, every available bed being
already occupied. Yesterday morning
there were folly three hundred people
assembled without the doors of the dispen-
sary on East Twenty -siseh street prior to
the opening at 9 a.m., and nearly every one
was more or less e.ffiested with grip synap-
, tome. Some were pitifully ill, with feverish
faces, haggard eyes and hollow cough.
The Board of Health does not seek to
disguise the fact that Is grippe bolds the
town, but declares its entire inability to
check the spread of the malady. Disinfect-
ants and isolation are powerless to prevent
the progress of this epidemic, which is
atmospheric. Dr. Edson said yesterday
that there are probably 100,000 oases in this
city, but that the Board of Health can
only attend to the contagious diseases re-
ported.
WHAT TO no.
The heelth authorities advise all people,
no soon as they perceive the alight-
ed indications of a cold de-
veloping to shut themselves up in-
doors, avoid getting chilled and send
without delay for a doctor. With
proper precautions against taking a fresh
cold, bronchitis and pneumonia may be
avoided, and without these complicatione
44 the grip" is not deaaly.
Yesterday a cablegram was received
from a very eminent French physician, who
has been most successful in treating the
disease in Paris, to the effeot that the
happiest resalte have followed the nee of
male= in every instance, and strongly
recommending it to the medical fraternity
in America.
A Paris cable says: The serious nature
of the influenza epidemic hrshown by the
mortality etatistios. During the past week
2,334 deaths occurred against 1,033 for the
norrespondizig week last year. This is due
'to an increase in the diseases of the respir-
atory organs. The ravages of these coin.
planate are oleerly shown in the following:
significant table; The deaths in Paris for
December, 1889, were 5,969: for December,
1888, 3,911; increase, 2,058. Pneumonia
last vveek caused 346 deaths againet 67 for
the wane week lest year, and other diseases
show a similar terrible increase. M. Bertin,
chief cashier of the Bank of France, is
among the late -t victims. The mortality
here 18 still abnormally great. On Tuesday
there were 389 deaths, and on Wednesday
WI. The reopening of the eohoole already
oloaed is postponed.
The St. Sulpice Seminary, the greatest
school inFrance, is closed.
After Many TOUTS.
A Sault Ste Marie despatch says: A
little girl hes been Irving here with an aged
couple as their adopted child. She wee led
to believe her natural parents dead. The
child aome years ago teethed her true name,
and has since ineded herself writing to
•every one of the same name. She has juet
received a letter from her mother, Mrs.
Anna Bradbury, Council Bluffe, Iowa, who
informs her that the couple with whom she
es living hed abducted her when 3 years of
Age. She is now 18, and very happy over
Ithe outcome of her correspondence. The
mother is nave on her way bare.
Joemeia nit,Igeolt‘
Semethina About the nstilwaa Magnate
Yff hpia the 4;33teeu Hue Honoree,
A Iteoritreel despel nye: There wet)
a teeth* of wide rad eetteteetion in rail-
way and busineee eitelete generally to -ay
over the report that• the (allecli intdi 14QO
•pleasteatte confer tile healer at anielethoOti
upon Mr. joeeph Htokeennigenereil hcenfOker
of the Gland Tfunk BallwaY 00031AWO•
Bach en antionucentent leas been long ex-
pectee by Mr. Hickson's triends, 'Mule it
was acknowledged that no honor however
high ould add to the general eeteenein
HiOn Mr. Hioloon is peretnially held,
classes of the commuility in which be bite
lived for meey years, the feeling wee gen.
erta that both on aoteetint of hie high pee -
stoned character and the distinenielled sera
vices he hes rendered in the corumeecial
life of Canada, he was entitled to some
eignal mark of honor. The Grand Trunk
system is the oldest railway system in the
Dominion, and was proving of incalculable
benefit to the country when other enter-
prisee, of win .111 the public has good reason
to have some knowledge, were not even
dreamed of. In the eueeessful building up of
the Grand Trunk Railway ayetene no one
has taken a more active part than Mr.
Jewish flicksou. He has been the heart
and soul of the company, and by his
sagacity and farsightedness the Grand
Trunk has reached a position second to
none on the aoneinent of America. Mr
Hiakson hag for years led a quiet, un-
ostentatious life, 'Mending to his
multifarious and. trying railway duties
with the regularity of clookworke and
has not sought public notioe.
honor ot knighthood will thus be all the
more appreciated in that it has been un-
sought and eomes as the well -merited
reward of long and diatiugnished services in
the railway and commercial life of Canada.
The nevss was received at the general
offices of the company here to -day with
the utmost enthosiesra. Mr. Hioksonhas
always been popular with the officials and
employees of the company, and the
knowledge of the honor conferred upon their
chief has been received as almost a per-
sonal pleasure. Mr. Hicknon's distinguiehed.
career from 1862, the year he came to
Canada, up to the preeent, is too familiar
to our readers to require any extenaed
notice here. tills life for the past twenty.
eight years has beau the history of ' the
Grand Trunk Railway Company, to which
he has devoted himself with untiring devo-
tion and ability. The company, in its on-
ward march, lute had what seemed almost
tuasurmountable obetacles to overcome, but
through them all Mr. Hickson's sagacity,
experience, and tenacity of purpose have
carxied them successfully. Thousands
throughout the Dominion will join with
Mr. Hickson's personal friends and ad-
mirers in wishing long life and prosperity
to Sir Joseph Hickson.
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D. Cronin's Long,uelayed Funeral. '
A Chicago peper says: The mutilated
• smoothes of Dr. Cronin still repose in the
• iblack coffin in the dismel vault of Calvary
eemetery. No date has yet been decided
'etpon for the final interment, but it will
probably take place eerly in the spring.
ere will be a demonstration on tbe
actiattion that will probably exceed in mag-
nitude the great outpouring on the (ley of
•the funeral. Delegations of proulment
Iriehreen from the leading cities in the
• weantry will parrticipete in the ptodeediege.
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4* Itheiaattri KS a Stroree of Water SupPly.
Teenton, Mich., deppetele says: The
*via epreati of scarlet fever in thie town
suggested that a temple of water front the
only' well furnishing a supply for the town
be mot to Ann Aber or an analysis. The
iemls gave a POrtiedi of the sample to
21thhiti, ma it died elniost inetteatly, An
3severdigetiOn elicited the fed thet the*ell
elreire ite Supply from the Cemetery.
WITH A CRASH.
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Two Trains Tdeeeon a Single Track with
Frightful Results.
An Indianapolis deepatoh of Tuesday
says: A frightful and fatal wreck occurred
at Komoko this morning on the Panhandle
Railway, one mile north of the depot.
Train No. 13, north bound, Condnotor
Thomas Lamb, left the junction at 2.15
a. m., sclaeaulti time. When about a mile
north it met No. 14, south bound, in care of
Conductor V. S. Noland. It was running
about 50 miles an hour. The two trains
crashed together, totally demolishing the
engines ane burning the baggage. car and
coaches of the south bound tram, which
tumbled on top of the engines. The injured
were confined to engine and express and
baggage cars. George Cummings, engineer
of No. 14, was buried in the wreak, and
died immediately after being extricated.
Tom McCullough, engineer on No. 13, lies
at the Clinton House, Komoko, with bis
head crushed, and cannot live Baggage.
master J. Kerlin, injured in the head, was
taken to Galveston, where he died at 9
o'clock. Thomas Herber was hurt seri.
oualy. These men all lie d at Logansport.
Adams' Express Messenger Giant was seri-
ously, though not fatally, hurt about the
body. Two men, named Woods and Webb,
were badly bud in the general immesh up,
but not fatally. A number of passengers
in the coaches were shaken up badly, but
the Pullmans escaped. many of the passen-
gers not being wakened. The cause of the
wreak is a mystery, as the engineers of
both trains are unable to testify, but a
general opinion is that the north 'bound
engineer was trying to make a" sneak" to
the side track at Jewett, four miles north,
to pass, No. 14, which was slightly behind
time. - •
A DASTARD'S REVENGE.
A Rejected Suitor Poisons the Family
Coffee—Two Deaths.
A Joliet, Ill., despatch of Thursday says:
John Dail, a single man, lived on a farm
near the ofillage of Molten& with hie
mother, Mrs. Amelia Dall, 70 years old
Connected with the household were a
hired man named Sohnffier and a girl
named Mina Schenek. 'Yesterday the girl
prepared dinner, and when the coffee watt
served eaoh of, the family noticed it had a
strong, bitter taste. The stuff was thrown
away and a new lot made. This was also
bad, but not enough so to prevent tbe
family partaking freely of it. Soon after
dinner they all became alarmingly aids
The hired man and girl drank freeh milk,
which caused vomiting and asved their
lives. Mrs. Dell died after a few hours of
exorucisting pain, and Itist evening John
Dalt breathed his last. The pbyeicians
called in meld not, determine the character
of the poison. A •white powder was
notioe in tbe first pot of coffee. John
Schaferee former emOloyee of Dell, and
a rival suitor for the hand of the servant-
msid, was enspected as the guilty person.
When the 'eheriff arrested him at Woken&
to -day he tried to commit mini& with a
razor. • '
•'wedding in High Life.
A London oable says: The wedding of
Hon. Lancelot Douglas Csrnegie, second
son of the Earl of, Sotheek, with Mise
Marion Alien de Cournay Barclay, second
&tighter of Henry Ford Barclay, of Monk -
bans, Woodford, Essex, wag solemnized
yesterday at the Clanrola of All Sainte,
Woodfotd Welke The entire place wig en
fete. Flags Were'displeyed, and there was
a tritinephal aroh at the entrance to the
park The church could only accommodate
one-fourth the People , present. Lord
Carnegie, the bridegrOoni e eldest brother,
wee the 1etman. Mregarclay, thebride's
father, gave her avhey. She wore a • white
satin belittle andfront draped with Betusitele
lace, lotiped with orange aletiElOMe. The
bodice and 'Weaves were edged , with envoi*,
drop fringe. She had a long mind 'train;
embroidered with seeing of white VelVet;
shaded with silver. • The tulle veil Covered
a wreath of orange blosetexte and a tiara of
dammed% the gift of the Countess of
Southeth. She were a diaMond necklet*,
the gift of the bride'e father. Hee bouquet
WW1 eirstige Weakens and white lilies. She
was attended by tWo little pitgee.
TWENTit.felae laidEPOQATED.
D1Baetrou5 Ileealte of a Etre lo a ?evertor
Scheel.
, A Loodon alma o, Nsreaueaday say;
•The bey& Section ot the 'Penpoes' schoul txt
'the dietriet of Foreet ..Gate, in cettueotien
with the'Whitechepel and Poplar ViliOnS,
took fire last ntglit while the inotatee were
teeleeP and was burned. Twenty-six hoe%
who were tie OA eloper eteeies, were seffo
• cated. Fifty-eight other boys were eidely
taken from the bniidivg' timid terrible
exciteertent, Two ioaetrots qf the inetitu.
tiop eseapedby sliding, down the water
Pipe% and seveeal boys escaped llethb eefoe
way. The euperiatentieet of the • sohool,
repeatedly rushed through the flameand
brought out a number of inniatee. , There
were 000 pereone in the institution. The,
bodies ef those who were suffocated were
earried to the •main hall of the building,
whiotewag still profutiely deoorated with
Christmas greens. Thil ftimale depart.
ment, inewhich' were 250 girls, was net
touched. lite boys retired last evening'in
the highest spirits, having been promised
presents and a New 'Year', fete to -day-'
The muss in the main hall, where the
bodies of the dead boys lie, are harrowing.
Relatives and achool.felloWe cif those who
perished are loud in their lamentations.
The fire was °tweed by an overheated
stove. It originated in the olothingqoom
beneath the boys' dormitory. The smoke
and flames laming here the' stove -title
shinned those Sleeping on the tep floor,
and they made their esospee • The fire
engines were ,proraptly on the spot. The
employees of an adjacent., railway etation
rushed to the scene and rendered valnaele
asaiateince. The cries of the boys who Were
unable to esettee Were terrible, be liocliee
of two boys were badly burned, but it is
believed they were enifooaeed before they
Were burned. The ages of the deadereoge
front 7 to 12 yearn •'
It is reported that Rda heel ordered
itt Franca one Million end half repeating
LICENSED YET
A Hind of City Licenses Texas Law WU
• , Not Respect. • •
A San •Antonia, Texas, 'diSpatah of
Thursday says: Since yesterday,tlae City
Clerk has issued licenses, in accordance
with a new ordinance, to proprietors of
gsmbling eetablishments and keepers of
houses of prostitution and inmates of the
latter. The fees thus far aggregate 67,000,
and not more than a third of the persons
required to secure such licenses have yet'
done so. Dietrict Attorney Pasiehal*
declares he will prosecute all parties pro -
'curing such licenses, despite the city
ordinance, which will cense a confliot
between the city and State offioials. A
woman, who a few days ago paid 4250 to the
city for the privilege of conducting a house
of prostitution for pis months was to -day
arrested by a deputy sheriff and fined $100
by Justice McAlister. The woman had to
pay the fine or go to jail. Mayor Callahan
this afternoon instruoted Chief. of Felice
Shardine to raid all places to -night and
arrest all persons found therein who have
not procured a license.
INSATIaHLB ENGLISHMEN.
It Looks as if They Intended to Buy up
the United /States Piecemeal.
A New York despatch says: An English
eyndicate, it is said, is trying to purchase
the famous Granite Mountain Mine, of
Montana. S. M. Rttmsey, of St. LtaliS,
Preeident of the company, according to a
despatoh from that city, freekly admitted
Ibis when &eked. He said that some time
ago he received a letter from a New York
broker seking if the mine or a controlling
interest could be booght, and replied that
it probably could if enough mane was
offered. There was some correspo slice,
and, finally, the New York beekeraraadean
offer of $45 per shoe for afa or, a con-
trolling portion of the 400,000 shares,
placing the value of the mine at 313.000,-
000. This offer has not been rejetited, but
Mr. Rummy said he very much doubted
jt e acceptance. The present negotiations,
so far as can be learned, are being con-
ducted by a New York finencier's agent.
He has had personal conferences on the
subject, and is very well kuown to Presi-
dent Ramsey and othere of thee:in:many.
Contracts With Book Agents.
. A Montreal despatch eays : The value
of printed condition contract Jonas, ouch'
as used by agents soliciting subecriptione
for 'books, pictures, etc., hes been mtge.
lished in the Circuit- Court by Mr. Justice
Gill. A number of people along the (Num%
Valley subscribed to " Pioturestine Can-
ada.' The plan adopted by the agent avas
to obtain the signature of the subscriber to
a printed -form: In inany cases the sub.
scribers learned for the first time what
the purport of that agreement was when
they received a letter 'frothe
firra' of ' Belden m Bros. 'the proprie-
tors of that publication, taitit snit would be
entered to collect $21.60 from them unless
they paid the amount at once.The pub-
lishers had inserted among the conditions
one to the effect that the city of Montreal
was the place of making the contract, and
that therefore'all the legal Proceedings for
the breach of the same were to be taken here.
Messrs: Trenholrae, Taylor & Buohan, for
a number of subscribers, contested such a
'proineding and asked Meesrs. Belden Bros.
to take a teat case. After hearing the evi-
dence the Court held that a oobdition such
as, that in question in the peasant case wies
governed by the same prinoiples as the cone
ditions on the back of a railway ticket or
bill of lading, that it did not bind without
abeolutis proof being made by ,the plaintiff
that the condition had been pointed out to
the subscriber,, and the , latter bed
expreesly agreed to the condition.
ritBrABISO Fon uswilemext.
zipeetroontiog 'With. the inurderers,
Rapid -rianttit apporatue,
An A.uborn, N. Y„ deepateli ef Wednee
,day eays Yesterdey afternoon the epeoiai
commiesion• Appointed to, teat the meal:duo
tle be need for executton by eleataiaitr Par'
cheteed an old home and a four.weehgeole
calf and took them Pete the prison. The
enimals were aubjected to tote, and last
evening Dr. aluedoneld demeibed the re.
stilt to the reporters. He 'said that they
were eucteeettful, and had demonstrated that
the alternating ourreet poeseeeed the power
go °acute death instentaneouely, Tne old
horse was killed first. A quantity of cottoe
waste wee huddled to his head and around
his right hind leg just below the gambrel
joiot ; then the wires were tidal:wed and
the current turned On. The cooled of the
ourrent with the horse's body was lees than
half a minute; he was killed inetantly,
The current regietered eirout 1 1,000 volte
The house aid not etruggle. In the case of
the calf, Dr. Macdonald Wel that the cur-
rent was of the same voltage es the one
used on the horse ; the contact on the pall
was lese than ten seconds. As soon as the
can fell over Dr. Fell went to work on its
body to see if animation had simply been
suspended. He performed the operation
tracheotomy, opening the windpipe, and
applied his patent reaueoitatiog apparatus
and artificial respiration was kept up for
hell at hour, but there was no eign of re-
turning life. The heart of the calf could
not be amnia to beat again, and the mem-
bers of the oommiesion were in high glee,
because Dr. Felt's apparatus had been used
with succem iu five cases upon human
patients. Dr. Fell Was brought bere by
the cemmission for the special purpose of
making the test. The machine in Autinro
prieon oan generate a current of 2,000
volts.
Investigating the 'West End scandal.
A London cable says: The trial of
Arthur Newton, the eolioitor, Frederick
Taylorson, his clerk, and Adolphne ,De-
• Galls, the interpreter,, charged with
oonspiring to defeat` justice in conueotiOo
with the Wed End emends!, was continued
yesterday. An ex postal messenger named
Perkins testified that after he gave testi-
moue, to the police against Newlove, who
took the witness to the house in Cleveland
street, and against' Veck, who assieted in
the- management of the house, Newton
tried to induce him to go to Australia.
'Newton said he knew gomebody who would
give ;20 doWn nde'porina a Week coat for
tbree yeere to Perkin% and the other °dye,
Wright,- Swinnow arid Barber, who had
&leo given information to the pollee, if
they would all emigrate together.
plunged Through the Bridge.
. A Wellaborto Pa., despetth of Monday
night says; Yeaterday, a conetruotion
Wein with about twenty men on board was
oroseing Sherwboil Bridge, When the der-
rick caught the bridge cover and the next
ifititant the bridge broke down, plunging
the train into the creek. Grant Milliken'a
neck wad broken. Daniel Howard was
silently killed; Conrad Ditienhoffer hat)
hie Ieg °Melted eda is fatally iniired, ' The
reintitinder were teken out more or lath
badly kart, but it is likely ell will Wooed.
• `i-l-Seid the GOVertior of North Dekoteto
thieGoverribt Of Setith Dakota: "Istfit
rather a long time between blizeardli I"
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FALL OF THE PLAZA. weee
collapse of areCorpre idrjure
e dPform—Many
A City of Mexico duvet& says':' • Tele-
grams from.Villa• Lerdo give full particu-
lars of the fall of the Plaza. Last Tueeday,
while a bull fight wee in progress, about
10,000 people were crowded into the build-
ing. When the second bull was being
killed nearly every person preeent rose and
etood applauding and staraping their feet,
when suddenly one side of the Plaza cora-
menced to give way. A rush followed and
the extra euovement of the thousands of
speotators helped to bring about the fall of
the structure. It bulged out rapidly and
collapsed, precipitating the unluoky in-
mates to the ground, the distance of fall
ranging from ten to twenty-five feet. Many
were buried beneath the debris. Among
them were many ladies of the best 'families
of the town. In that' desperate situation'
many fights ocourred among the men, and
many were stripped of every stitch of
clothing. The crowd on the opposite aide
of the building, numbering several thou.
sands, beosme panio-strioken and fell and
trampled on one another in their attempte,
to reach the outside of the Maze. The
bull -fighters were also seized with fear and
made their exit with the bull closely fol.
lowing. The trampling of the helpless and
the agonized cries of the men and women
made the place a scene of pandemonium.
It was not until outside help came to the
people pinned down by the planks and
umber that the unfortunate victims were
released from their painful positions.
Many physioians were called and the
wounds of the people were sttended to. The
number of wounded will reach into the
hundred% but while the injuriea of a great
many are serious and painful, it is not
thought that any will prove fatal.
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AN OLD MAN'S CHIME.
Crazed with Drink He Murders His Two
Grandchildren.
A Haverhill, N. H., despatch of Sunday
says: Stephen La Plant, a Frenchman,
whose home is in Benton, has been
spending a few days with his eon's family
at Centre Haverhill. Yesterday his son,
accompanied by the mother of the child-
ren, went to Warren, leaving Ls Plant and
wife in charge. There were four children.
The two eldest went skating, leaving the
unfortunate victims alone with the mur-
derer and his wife. There was some dis-
pute in regard to tbe children, when La
Plant left the room, returning with a ham-
mer, with whichhe dealt the boy tanner -
dint and heavy blows on the skull, scatter-
ing the blood upon the ceiling and the
floor. The girl, interrupting, engaged his
tittention, and drewirig a knife he cut her
and also dealt heavy blows with the ham-
mer until she fell to the floor 'insensible.
At thie point a paeser-by Was attraoted by
the noise, and Le. Plant was seized while in
the act of murderously assaulting his wife,
whose life, doubtless, he would also have
taken. Officer Weeden, of this place, was
summoned and had the murder in jail here
at 8 o'clock. La Plant talks freely and
says he meant to kill the children. He was
addicted to the use of liquor, and in all
probability was tinder WI influence when
the crimes were committed. The boy was
instantly killed; the girl will die.
MISCALLED RELIGION.
Disastrous Results or a So-called Revival
in Kansas.
e A Leavenworth, Kee., despatch nays:
The vicinity of High Prairie, ten miles
from ibis city, bap lately been the scene of
a religious revival that has greatly excited
the people. In some inatences persons
have gone crazy with enthusiasm. About
two weeks ago a brother and sister—Frank
and Minnie Boland—became eo enthusias-
tic and excited over religion that they lost
their reason. As they were living alone no
one noticed their condition. Thursday
evening two persons who were passing
Boland's house noticed smoke leaning from
it, and on gaining entrance found a well-
Itindled fire on the floor of one of the
goome, with the brother and sister in an
ahnoat nude pandit= singing religious
songs and dancing around it, seemingly
getting, ready for cremation. The fire was
finally put out and the brother and sister
Were overpowered. When questioned,
Minnie said the Lord had made the fire
and they would not put it out. Late yee.
terday afternoon they were placed in jail,
where they will remain until a Method of
treatment for them has been deoided upon.
Disease Has mar.y Shapes.
• .A. Baltimore despatch of Thursday says
A patient received this evening at •Yohne
Hopkins Hospital has ettimele id the shape
of snakes living in hie blood. He ie from
Oharieston, a.C.. and has Obffered from his
diseases for twenty yeare. Many time his
blood hes been examinedamder the micros.
cope and the enakeothaied paraeltee hate
atways been found. The 'bleed has gener.
ally been drain from a finger tip. It is
said thet'only 25 easels eof this disease haVe
been reported in tliitt conntry.
A TRiElat TRAGEDY.
Awful Crime or a Demented Brooklyn
Ittittrchist.
A Brooklyn deePatc'h of Sno4Y rays
now informed the pollee yeeterdity that
eethieg heel been Been of the Frio:Ain
family, fixing in the rear o 180 Monger
4teeet,aixice 'Wednesday. Two oftleere Wt'SW
40 Ow house and effected au entrance
through a window. All was amid in the
house, but paesing into the b6dMonn
Frankin was found sitting on the edge tea
tae bed with a revolver graeped in hie right
hond. Aa the officer was Omit to enter
Lhe maoelrotte him out of the room at the
point of the weapon, Then a pistol shot
meg out. 'The officer ruebeat in and found
Frankio bed shot himself through the
besrt. He was pot yet dead, but hie wife
and 3 year-old child were lying dead in the
same bed.. Free:11We died Boon afterward%
The wife and child had been thet through
the head. From appearalecee they bad been
.dead two or three days. Frankin was pro-
bably itwane.
Frankin was an Anarchist artist peal
assistant to his wife in laundry work. For
'years he had done no work other than to
help his wife ocoadonally. filialiness was
hie excuse for this. At taxies he suffered
from epileptic fite. Frankin left a number
of letters. One of these states that when he
iseid the entire family would be better off
deed than alive his wife agreed with him,
but she wanted to die easily. She suggested
that he poieon her. 'With this end in view
he purchased Paris green. In another
letter he says be if3 insane, driven so by
poverty and the prespect ot never being
able to better his condition, only death
would release him. It appears that
Frankin and his wife discussed this matter
calmly, and flnallyeigreed to go out of this
world together. 'The claild, a pretty, blue-
eyed thing, not quite three years old, they
decided to talce with them. On Tueaday
the wife lay down upon the bed in the rear
room. She had previously cleaned up the
zooms. The husband brougbt her a dose
of Paris green in water. Elbe drank it.
When she began to gaffer, rolling on the
bed in intense agony, she begged piteously
for relief Frankin hurriedly loaded bis
revolver, placed the muzzle against her
rigbt temple ,and shot her dead. Frankin
then strangled his child with a olothesline
and laid it beside the dead mother. Ite
'clothing waa stained with the mother's
bleed. Frankin seems to have been too
much of a coward to kill hinaseif there and
then. He remained in the house with the
bodies, cookina his own meals. It is prob-
able be might nbt have killed hibeself for
some time yet. had it not been for the
appearance of the police He feared pun:
ishment, and, this prompted snioide. De-
compouition had already, begun in the
bodies of Mre. Frankin and her child and
the stench was fearful. Frankin left a
letter requesting that all three bodies be
oreixteted: He enclotted $85 for that pur-
pose. '
The will 01 the /ate Mrs. Elitabeth
Bloke, a wealthy quakeress of Weatbury,
L. I., bequeath') 1)25,000 moth to the Boole -
Mee for the Preventible of Cruelty to
Animals and Olitideen anti's° Swathreete
°Wage, Pennttylvaniabought for Mr. tiorneliniltendethilt.
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Notes Front Scotland.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, New, York, is
willing to contribute towards establishing
a free public library at Stonehaven.
The value has been sworn at £525,291
3a. 4. of the personal estate of the lateEarl
of Leven and Melville.
The death is announced of Sir William
Dunbar, Bart, of Mochrum, ' who repre-
sented the Wigtown Burghs in Parliament
from 1857 to 1865.
The Peers of Scotland are to meet on
the 6th inst. for the election of two repre-
sentative peers in room of the Earl of
Leven and Melville and the Earl of Orkney,
deceased.
The Forth Bridge is to be opened on
Tuesday, 41h March, by the Prince of
Wales, who is to be accompanied by hie
brother and son, the, Duke of Edinburgh
and Prince George.
The ClYde shipbuildieg returns for 1889
show extraordinary prosperity, even ex-
ceeding that of the unusually successful
year of 1883. The tonnage exceeds the
previous year's by 55,000.
The Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie, brother
of Earl Radnor, died in London on the 16th
ult. The deceased, who was in his 72nd
year sat in Parliament for the Kilmarnock
dietnot of burghs from 1844 to 1874.
The estate of Dumnagless, near Inver-
ness has been mid to Mr. Sopper, the
-shooting tenant, and the ancient name of
Macgillivray disappears from the roll of
proprietors of and in the Highlanda It
was Alexander Macgillivray, of Dumna-
gla SS, who commanded the Clan Matt= at
Culioden, where he fell leading the desper-
ate charge of his clan in their attempt to
turn the left of the Royal army.
The deathais announced, in his 78th
year, of Sir Charles Farquhar Shand, LL.
D. He was the son of the Rev. James
Shand, of Marykirk, Kuicardineshire, and
was born in 1812. Be wee educated at the
'Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh
and on -the continent. He was admitted an
advocate at the Soottieh bar in 1834, and
was subsequently called to the English
bar. Bewas et one time counsel for tbe,
Lords of the Treasury and Commissioners
of Woods and Forests, and was Chief
judge of the Mauritius from 1860 to 1879. ,
Ex Piovoat Swan, of It irkcaldy, Fife -
shire, died on Dec. 17th at his residence in
St. Brett:Gael% after an illness of several
weeks. He was in his 82nd year. In 1834
Mr. Swan was first elected member of
Kirkcaldy Town Council, and after serving
seven years in the Council, was elected
Provost of the burgh. 'He wee reelected
Provost in 1843, but three years after
retired. .In 1860 be was onooanore eleoted
Provost, which office he held till 1886, when
he resigned.
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He Clang to the Rocks.
A. San Francisco despatch of Saturday
tight says: The man who was seen cling.
ing to the rooks at Point Bonito Light-
aouse, at the northern side of the Golden
'Gate, laet evening, was taken off several
boom •later by the crew of the tug boat
which was sent to hie anietance. He
proved to be Antonio Nicholas, a Ruesian
fishermen. He had been on the rooks six
home, and Was nearly exhausted when
rescued. He Bata that he and font corn-
panione were retnerdog home in a fiebing
boat late yeatercley, nd wheri off Point
&alto the boat capsized. His companionte
were all drowned, but he succeeded in
reathitig the retake, where he remained no.
til taken off. One of the Men drowned was
George Mitchell, a Russian; the other
three were Greeke, names Unknown.
Aistibutelied and Murdered.
A Fort Davie, Tex e. dettpathh of Monday
e&3*t A band of lilezucen horse thieves
ambushed a campieg party of three men,
two women and four children in a (ration
near Chihuahua, on Seturday, and kitIsd
two � the men. The staurderees teld the
remainder ot the petty they supposed thorn
to he officers. A wintery guard wee
tei street the Mesh:snit, end if oatitured they
will be sanimerily dealt With.
TUOITOMMO ON 014o *OE
By elle et tee ItZtotoathiti," 01 Azaer101ot
tOliven Weneell Hoboes in ettautte eienthly.)
I tine' afratktliat old people found life,
'rather a dull buoireees itt tbe tiPla o Icing
4141rdh:i4haaubj6ettna:iendl.
a11Wtpoolntn. csutnohave
told a teal Opal a caove santoli, norenjoyed
syrephony concert, If they had had thecae,
luxuries in hie day. There were no pleall-
ant lareeiclee,' tor there were no chinmeye.
,lliere were uo daily newspapers for the old
teit.baenretowreerea,d,witinthd iirodtleOytretZetinothe
rhmeal
them read, very probably with hie dulled
ears. 'Ther'e was no tobacco, a soothing
drug, which in HS various ferms is a great
suleoe to many old men end e0 some old
wemen—Carlyle and bis mother used to
smoke their pipes together, you remember.
Otte age is infinitely more obeerful, for he-
pteePle at leapt, then it was two or
throe tboueand yeare age.It is our duty,
so far as we can to keep it so. There
will alwaye be,. enough about it that
is eolemn, and . more Peep enough,
alas 1 that is saddeniog. But how
much there is in our times to lighten its
burdens If' they that look out at the
windows be 'darkened, the optioiani ie
happy to supply them with eye -glasses for
nee before the public, and specteolee for
their hours cif privacy, If the grindere
cease because they are few, they can be
made many again by a third dentition,
which brings no toothaohe in ite train.
By temperance and good habits of life,
proper clothing, well warmed, well drained
and well ventilated dwelliogs, and suffi-
cient, not 'too Imola exerceae, the old man
of our time may keep his modular strength
in very good condition. 1 doubt if Mr.
Gladstone, who is fast nearing his 801h
birthday, would boast, in the style ot
Caleb, that he was es good a meet with his
axe as be vsas when lie was 40, but would
back him—if the =that were possible—for
100 shekelte, agaiest • that oVer.:confldent '
old Israelite, to out doten end chop up a
cedar of Lebanon. I know a meet excel..
lent clergyman, pot far from my own
time of life, whom I would pit against any
old Hebrew. rabbi or Greek philosopher of,
his years;and weight, If they mild return
to the flesh, to run a qtterter of a mile on
a good, level traole. •
We. must not mike toe much of such
exceptional oases of proloeged activity. I
often reproaobed.my dear triend and class -
Mate, James Freeman Clarke, that his,
ceaseless labors made it impossible for hie
coevals to ,enjoy the luxury of that repose
which their years denniaded. :wise old
tn.an, the late Mr. James Walker, Presi-
dent of Harvard University, said that the
great ,privilege of old age was the getting
rid of responeibilitiee. These hard-
• working veterans will not lei one get rid et
them until he drops in his harness, and so
gets rid of them and his life together. How
often has many a tired old nian envied the
superannuated family cat, stretched upon
the rug before the fire, letting the genial
warmth tranquilly diffuee itself through
all her internal arrangements ! No more
watching for mice in, dark, damp cellars,
no more awaiting the savage gray reit at
the mouth of his den, no more scurrying
up trees and Jaren-posts id avid the neigh-
bor's our who wishes to make her acquaint-
ance 1 It is very grann to" die in harness,"
but it is very pleat:lent to hey° the tight
straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted
from the neck and elaCulders.
---The, Earl of Dndley has Sold Turner's
"Gtancl.:0enal, Venieee •, formerly in the,
Manle';Gallery , in Eng1nd, ft)f 6 Price'
triceeding 050,600. `It itt seld to heree been
How to Treat Children.
Don't deceive or frighten children into,
obedience by bugbears.
Don't tell the faulte or cute ,sayings _of
your child in hie presence.
Don't manifest a spirit of partiality.
Children are sere to deteot this.
Don't encourage in a small child that.
for which ,you will punish him e when
older.
When you piomise & child eoneething
don't,forget to fulfil the promise to the
letter.
Don't be constantly menacing a child
with " I'll Whiy yeti, or " I'll put a etiok
over you."
.Don t ever Id biro see in you: a trace -of
tit e " I'm -bigger -than -3? on. and -y ou've-got.-
to-mind " spirit.
Don't pun,ieh a child in anger, but let him
know that you dislike the teek and perform
it for his good.
Don't do and say things for the sake of
causing him to show anger, and then scold
because he does so.
Don't trample mercileeelyeinder foot the,
wishes of a ohild, but respect them as far
as possible.
Don't say, "Oh, do hush up!" or "Don't
bother me with so many queetione " when
a child questions you.
Don't feel it beneath your dignity to give
a child the reason for a refusal, if practie
°Able zo do so; if it is not, your former con-
duct should have inspired such confidence -
toward 34:in that he will cheerfully submit,
though he dors not understand your
motives —New England Farmer.
coacine Halincinations.
MM. Magnan and f3aury report three
-
cases of hallucination de to the cocaine-
hsbit. One patient was always scraping
his tongue, and thought he wee extracting
from it little black wornee; and the other
made his skin raw in the endeavor to draw
out cholera miorobes ; and a third, a,
pby sioian, is perpetually looking for coaaine
crvetals under his skin. Two patients
suffered from epileptic attacks and a thirdt
from cramps. It is important to notice
that two of these patiente were persons who
had reeorted to coseine in the hope of being.,
able to cure themselves thereby of the
morphine habit, an expectation which had
been disappointed. For more than a year
they had injected from one to tvvo grains of'
coacine under the thin, without, however,
gtvIng up the morpbine injeotions w
were only reduced in qtzantity. The possi-
bility of substituting coosiniene in the en--
deevor to cure morplsinornania is a danger,
therefore, which must be oseefully held he
view.—B,iesh Medical At1711al.'
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Order of the Garter.
Honi Boit qui mal y penee," said the, e
gallant English monarch Edward lit
picked np a oaken bad of blue, cheeped
with silver, which the beentiftil Cionotess
of Saliebury lost as she eteppel atatelY
IdeablitO with hie majesty at the great
(Wort ball more than 500 yetire ago. " Bove
twit anal y pense," and he trimmed the ribbed
ebont his left leg just below the knee, thus,
creating himself the first knight ,ef
()Mee of the Garter, whostaionblenhe lark
blue, gold'hOrdeeed band*ildr btibkle and
pendant'tf silver, bearing the old motto,
has been and is still wore bY ell the great
knighte and farnotog Wen itt England. —New
4 -•••-The • MeGiutY joke is dojnwith the
i—Tetteheretifter, nadiog stood the Story'
of Jonek iantle'alek evbale4-," And, now my
littlo Wen:00i yee..iill ote'tsille tellnioto the
Sea ThOkidtge Class to a Man biter-
rtipt,nkee y1' •••