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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-2-13, Page 6TILE TR/WET TRAGEDY, o TUE sau.AND TKON ientE. lbartiotaars eg ehe ratal Fire Beeretair 2 rienee sir Joseph *Beason congreeuiatee by the Truok Railway CotnPany, held in the Acquired Dignity. °timers of the O. T. It. 11Pou Ills NevelY At &meeting of the officers a the Grand Traffic Manager's office at Montreal on /SAD SIGHTS AND BRAVE DEEDS. Ildondety, there were present Messrs. L. J. Seergeant W Wainwright Samuel Barker A Washington deepeteh gives the follow- George Macrae, Dr. Rodger, J. Stephenson, ing fuller details of the burning of the E. P. Haunaford, H. Weenie, R. Weight, xesidepee of Sec:rotary of the Navy TeeceY Jam Taylor, H. W. Weaker', C. Percy, T. and the 1900 Of life which reeelted there: B. Hawson, J. F. Walker, G. R. Nash, W. from: Chief Paris, of the fire dePartnierit, Edgar, T. W. Burden,' j. 3. Cuneinghana, 'toas llows : " I paid no W. El. Rosevear, Joseph White, H. A. at the id his story fo +attention to the lire when I heard there white ape N, e, power. , were people in the house. I fele my way Mr. Seargeant was requested to Rot as through the emoke to the tesoond floor, and chairman, and Mr. T. B. Fleenor' as sec. found a man in bed in a room. I tried to rotary of the meeting. Vick him up' but he was almcBt too heavy' The Chairman stated that severe' officers II managed to drag hire into a hack room, of the conmeny had desired an oppor. where there was more sir, and then I broke tunity of geeing expreseion to their setae° of the window out and called, to Love, who the honor conferred by the 'Knighthood a was in the alley, to run up a leader. Then the General Manager of the company. He ;hey took the man out, and it proved to be *had, therefore, taken the initiative by in. the Seoretary. I could not move him anY viting the officers to meet him to day for further, for I was exhausted and full up to that purpose, and asked the gentlemen the neck with senoke. Then I. went back present for an expression of their views. into the smoke and tire ageh3, and found a Letters end telegrams were read from young lady—Mise Mary TrieeeY, tbeY tell the following gentlemen, who all doeired to IMIS it was—and as I °aught hold of her Participate in any action the meeting naight wrists to lift her up the fie& came off her decide to take, namely : Mr. Sohn Bell, burning hands. She had been burned. I Solicitor, Belleville; Messrs. Meddaugh, got her out, but she was dead." Spicer, Reeves, Lou, Muir, H. Roberta, Dr. Ruth, at the solicitation of friends, Masson and Atwater,C, (54 G. T. R ; C. visited the undertaker's establishment, eind Stiff, Hobson, Domville and Qainn, Ham - identified Miss Tracey. He naade a hurried ilton; R. Lamour; London; A. H. Harris, examination, and found that she had died Detroit ; Riddell, Belleville, Mechlin, trona rupture of blood vessels. Peterboro ; E. Wragge, Toronto; Hon. A. A. Strout, Solicitor, Portland; G. N. Dale A. FEARFUL SCENE. Solicitor, Island Pond; W, A. Day,Wash A gentleman who saw the lire 'laid never ington; C. C. Sprague, Solicitor, Buffalo in his life did he see or hear of such a F. A. Howe, Chicago; E. P. Beach, New 'sight. "It seemed," he said, "as though York; F. L. Wanklyn and MoWood, Point hell had broken loose and sent its fiery so Charlee ; A. White and J. Earl, Tor - tongue to earth. The whole building onto; end A. Burns, Montreal. seemed one seething mass of flames, buret- After discussion it was ing frora every point. Scream followed Resolved, that it is the sense of this meeting scream, each one More horrible and blood- that a resolution, cordially congratulating Sir curdling than the other, from the interior Joseph Hickson upon the honor of knighthood ouferred upon lum by Her Majesty be pro- of the building. Only a few people were Pared ; . passing at the time, and they seemed be. That he be requested to sit for an oil painting wildered. The engines soon arrived. You of himself, to be presented as an heirloom to Lady Hickson; Inow the rest." That the chairman be requested to associate STOUT OF AN EYE -WITNESS. with himself Medsre. Wainwright,Barker,Hanna- ford, Wallis, Taylor and the soeretary, for the R. el. Turner is a footman at the Tracey purpose of drattmg such reeoluteon and of giving pert fe se se et dt ,o t h e wishes ot the meeting as herein ee.. xesidence. He was an eye -witness of part of the fire. He was up and dressed before The following resolution. was therefore 7 o'clock, and was prepared to go upstairs • to the prepared and approved: to alean the silver. He stepped in 'i -d. es rii= srolvoseedile tittle:omen eettsingodrgairlesantn stairs," esid he, 4, a colored man rang the teuolnIgratulations upon the honor of knighthood basement. " Just as I was starting up - bell, and told the butler who answered it recently conferred upon him by Her Majesty the tam ; that the house was on fire. T3ae butler ran Q uThat the meeting also desires to convey to upateirs and immediately rushed back; Lady Hickson the best wishes of the officers of ?shouting, , My God, the honse is on fire. the company, and the hope that both she and Sir tly be spared in health and happiness The entire first floor was in flames. We Joseph in for many years to enjoy the honor. ran out of the front door. MrsetVilmerding and her daughter were at the drone second After a vote of thanks to the chairman story window screaming for help. Both the meeting adiourned.—Montreal Gazette. the ladies shortly afterwards jumped. Neither struck on their feet, but fell on 'their sides." RECEPTION OF THE VICTIMS. The house of E. H. Rhiem, No. 821 Seventeenth street, itself almost captured by the fire, was thrown open for the recep- tion of the dead and dying. Mrs. Tracey, still alive, was brought in by a couple of firemen and was placed on a sofa in the dining-roora. Here she lingered her about an hour, fully conscious and apparently suffering bat little. It was a little after 8 o'clock when she spat up a little blood, hardly enough to be called a hemorrhage, closed her eyes, and without a moan ceased to breathe. The cook, scorched and black- ened until she had an Ethiopian appear- ance, but not seriously injnred, was the next brought is. She wasprovided with an Upstairs room. Secretary Tracey was the third sufferer to be sheltered under Mr. Ilhiem's roof. HOW MRS. TRACEEET HER DEATH. Mrs. Tracey endeavored to escape the raging element by dropping herself from her bed -room window, and in her effort to decrease the distance to the ground he grasped the narrow stone window sill, and lowered herself as far as she was able. Those who sew her in her perilous position ehouted to her to hold on, but either she aid not hear or her strength failed her, for after thus hanging a moment between life and death she fell 40 feet into the area- way before anything could be done towarde rescuing her or relieving her fall. She was immediately taken to the house of a a_eighbor, Dr. Rhiena, and placed upon a lounge in the sitting.room. She was perfeotly conscious, and did not seem to ogler pain. Occasionally she complained of an oppression near her heart, and found a difficulty in breathing. She talked awhile, coughed slightly, and then became silent. The physicians looked at eaoh other significantly, 'Mrs. Tracey waa dead. The Immediate cause of her death was supposed to be injuries to her heart, sustained in her fall from the window, which flooded her lungs with blood. It is said that had she delayed her movements a couple of minutes ladders and mattresses and other means of aide escape would have been at hand. Her body was soon removed to the residence of Attorney -General Millar. TIRED OF TEE Timis, Married GouPles Who Seek to be Divorced An Ottawa despatole gays The preli- minary movement's towards the securing of what may be termed melancholy legisia. tion were made today, four divorce peti- ions having been peesented. , The first is from Emily Welker, ?zee Herald, of Hamilton. She deposes that wlaen under the age of 21 she married at Dandas, Rev. G. A. Forneret being tlae celebrant, Alfred Percy Walker, who was also under 21. She adds ; • " 'Said mar• riatee ceremony was performed without the knowledge or consent of the mpthet of your petitioner, and your petitionee's father, who diee before the marriage tooe place, never approved of it, and the said marriage has never since been ratified or Ope THF ONTN1110 LEGISIATIIRE hitherto, be ebayacterized hy wisdom atad Etna prosperity of tbe Teeple. patriotism, and wet conduce to the "Amputees The addreas wait then, with the ueuel , formality, order( d to be engrossed and pre oh eented to Hie Hoaor the Lieut . -Governor. ried With the Lkat.townor's Spoe From the Throne Giadrtoue's chronologY. 1809—Deo, 29th, born in Liverpool. 1831--Grracluated at Oxford. THE TOPICS TOUCHED UPON . 1832—moerta parliamea. 1834—Junior Lord of the Treasury. ,---4.—....-- 1835—Thaiter Coloniel Secretary. etelastern Provincial eionndaries—Aeconuts --Reeigned, vent, the 1),.miniou—The ,a gricultural 1838-e-1Iarried. , Situaeloo—Frenchinthe school's—moony 1839—,,,The .State in Relation to the River 14ett1enoont —Our Oreat Mtnerai Church." . wainedelutnee„IiLaeltevoor_AfLteergiteiliaetiol..nunraotricee- 1.1884eftv" iCoebnprrtilederninteiopilesthCeonDeiodaerraisd.o'; shadowed. confirmed." After the merrtage it appears the husband went straight off to Guelph, Toemieo,—The Onterio Legislature was leaving his epouse as it were at the °Introit opened at 3 o'olook Wednesday afternoon door. He teen went to Texae, and is pow eupposed to be in Er toklyn. Walker has since ref ueed to live with his wife, and his wife bas no hope that he will come to her. Hence the application for divorce. The next petition is that of a husband to be divorced from a runaway wife. The petitioner, David Clapp, of Haeriston, mar- ried in November, 1870, Alice M, Macdon- ald, of Pioton. Rev. W. Lewin presided at the ceremony. The parties lived together happily until March 16th, 1887, or for nearly seventeen years, whenthe misguided wife went off to Detroit and lived an irregular life. There are two children living, one nineteen years old and the other eixteen. Hughes Forbes Keefer, contractor, of Vancouver, tells a similar etory in his peti- tion. He married Rebecca, Ann Tisdale of Strathroy, at Thorold, on March 2nd, 1871, and has two children, one eighteen years old and the second sixteen. He charges infidelity during his absenoes trona home in 1882 and 1883. The last ease is similar to the first, except that the husband lived with his wife three days. The petitioner is Christiana Pitman Glover, of Burlington. She married Chris. topher Columbus Glover on April 41h, 1874. After living with her three days, Glover sent her to her father's farm and went off with Harriet Glover, of Michigan, wherehe now lives. There is one child. A dissolution of marriage on the ground of desertion and of unfaithfulness is asked for. 21120.11( In the Great Explesion of Gas in a Wilkes- - barre Coal aline. Later despatches from Wilkeebarre give the following pertionlare of the great mine explosion of Setureley : A. fall of rock took place in the Nottingham shaft of the Lehigh ct Wilkesbarre Coal Company in No. 5 plane this meet:Ong which drove the accumulated gas into the gangways where ten men had been at work with naked lamps. An explosion soon followed. Peter Heim was cut upon the head and hie hands and face were badly burned. John Crosein with hie mule wars `buried beneath the falling rock. His body has not been recovered. Wm. Roberts, a driver boy, is also missing. John R. Humphries, a miner, died while being removed from the mine. His body wae burned to a crisp. Joseph Dunson, fire boss, was burned on the face and hands. His injuries are said to be fatal. Joseph Jones was fatally burned. John P. Tomas was burned on the face and hands. David Fox is seri- ously burned and his recovery is doubtful. Thomas Lake wae slightly cut on the head. It is learned also that five men are im- prisoned in the mine, aod there is little hope of their being taken out alive. When the fall of rook took place John Dunton, the fire hose, was on his way from the fifth to the sixth lift carrying hie naked lamp. This, it is said, fired a body of gas which exploded with great force, shattering the gangways and breaking the timbers, Caus- ing large quantities of roof, rock and coal to fall. The debris closed the ontlet for the miners, who weze in the interior of the mine making repaire entombing ' John Croesin, David J. 'Williams, John Davis, Edward Morris and an unknown man. It is not known when those outside will be able to reach these men. It is firmly be- lieved they are all dead. The Nottingham shaft, which was the greatest anthracite coal mine in the, world, is nearly a total wreck. It had at one time an output of three thousand tons a day, and netted the Lehigh ee Wilkesbarre Coal Co. a half million dollars profit last year. THE OTHER VICTIMS. Almost at the eame time two bodice were taken from the burning building. One was the Secretary's daughtenedissMary, a young lady, and the other was that of the French maid, Josephine. That of the former wee found by Chief Paris lying on the floor in the second floor hall at the head of the stairs. The body was not greatly dis- figured by the fire. She had evidently died from Bnffocation. The Chief lifted the lifeless body in his arms, and, though the stairway was ablaze, brought it safely out into the street. It is eaid Mies Tracy could have sewed herself if her strength had held mit a few minutes longer. She fell in the hallway of the second story a few yards from the bathroom, whioh, had she reached it and closed the door, would have intoned her spinet the fire and smoke until assistance could have reached her. Of the French maid little is known eaves that her deed body wee found in her room on the top floor of the harm burned beyond rec- ognition. Both the bodied of Mies Tracey and her maid were taken to an undertaker's establishment in the vicinity, He Married the Nun. A Sim Francisco despatch says: A romantic story of the elopement and mar- riage of a nun from Notre Dame College, in this city, has jut borne to light. Stater Mary Margaret was the name which Cora La Thanwle Assumed tWo year ago, when she took the black veil and became a tesober in Notre Dame College. Her un. married sister, 33ertha, wee recently en. gaged to Oharlee Perkins, an iron Moulder. Bertha and her betrothed paid several visite to Cora, end young Perkins mewed greatly struck with the nun. 33ertha noticed his infatuation, and stoked him to decide between them. He these the nun, and the younger sister acquieeced. Core obtained a disetenasticatt from the Mother Superior releasing her from her vows, and Wen Oriektetim the Arohblehop. She eloped Urfth Perkins, Weis married, and after a brief hotteymobtit returned to the house oati hsa been furnished for the younger The World's HarVOMS. Burtiaah in the month of December. Peru and South Africa in November. East India and upper Egypt in February and March. Algeria, central Asia, central China, Japan; Texas and Florida in May. The °omit territories of Egypt, Cyprus, Syria, Asia Minor, Persia and Cube, in April. Belgiuin, Holland, Great Britain, Den- mark, Poland, Hudeon's Bay territories, Lower Canada,.Columbia and Manitoba in August... , Scotland, Sweden, Norway and North. ern Bessie. in September and October. Australie, Argentina, Chili and New Zealand, are reaping their wheel in January: Turkey, Greece, Itoly, Spain, Portugal, Southern France, California, Oregon, Louisiana, Mississippi, Aletbaries, Georgia, Carolinas, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Kansas, Arkansas, Utah, Colorado and Missouri in June. by Lieut. -Governor Campbell, who road tub:. fAslielikwbeic.yagnSdPLencthicfmrcloarn otihethTehrnoengeieLtive It is with much plesemre that I again Meet you, assembled tor the discharge of the import- ant duties which devolve upon you as the people's represeutatives in the Provincial Legis- lature. I have special satisfaction in congratu- lating you on the pessing of an Act by the Imperial Parliaineet, ehice ytur last session, confirming and giving ellset to the derision of sEipeorotMintljetshtey!s Privy 4Jouncil in August, 1864, re- WESTEItleilpTINDAnY OP THE PROVINCE, Austria; Hungary, Danubian ,Pri pat- ties, South Rapala, South of England, Germany, Switzerland, France, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, New York, New England and Upper Canada in July.—St. Louis Globe•Democrat. A. NEWFOUNDLAND BORRort. Father and Three Children Devoured by Plaines. A Halifax, N. S., despatch says Details of a terrible affair were received to -day from Si. John's. Nfld., four lives being lost by the burning, of a dwelling house. The victim:18,35,6re John Gorley and his three children -r --two girls and EL boy—aged respectively 6, 6 and 15 years. The fire broke out at midnight in the lower part of the house Daniel Mulrooney, a fireman, hearing the alarm, ran to the scene with a ladder, and met Gorley outside the house. Gorley said that his six children were in the attic, and throwing of his coat and hat dashed into the burning house, despite the warning shouts of Mulrooney. A few minutes later he appeared at the attic window, and MnIrooney, raising his lad- der, mounted to the rescue. In the meantime Gorley's wife had reached the street. Gorley paroled three of the chtldren out of the window to Mulrooney, who assisted them to the sidewalk. By this time smoke was Pouring out of the window in dense volumes, and when Mulroonoy turned to receive the fourth child he could not SCO Gorley. He plunged his body half through the window, reached out hie arm and touched Gorley, but he fell forward with a merest° and disappeared. The heroic fireman could discern one of the rernaining children tangled in an iron bedstead, but was powerb ss to resole it. The bodies of the fnur victims were recovered horribly burned. The cause of the fire is unknown. Gorley went to St. Johns from Montreal, and was 95 or 36 years old. tr'd finally settling the northerly boundary as well a + the westerly in substantial aecerdence with the award of the arbitrators in 1878. The people of Ontario cannot but experience a foe, ing of relief that we have at last reached the final stage of this long protracted dispute be- tween the Province and the Dominion, and that the territorial limite &alined by the Province have been definitely secured for all time. DOMINION AND PROVINCIAL ACCOUNTS. I regret that owing to the attitude of the Dominion with respect to the question of interest there now appear' little probability of settlement of accounts between the two Goveroments being arrived at through negotiation, and propocals have accordingly been made on the part of the Province to refer to arbitration the poiets in dispute. The correspondenceon the eubject will be laid before you It is also a matter of disappointment that the Quebec Government decliues to concur in any arrangement for set- tling our differences as to the Land Improve- ment Fund, and steps have in cousequence been taken to have them settled through the courte. THE FARMERS NOT PROSPEROUS. I regret that the agricultnral industry, the most importaut in the Province, is etill in a de- pressedconchtion. Untoward climatic conditions in extensive sectiuns of the Province blighted the hopes that were entertained in the m-rly portion of the year of =abundant harvest. This, with the coatinued low prices of cereals and other causee,lies tended to prevent that improve- ment in the condition of those =gaged in this industry which had been hoped for. It is pleas- ing to note, however, that in the manufacture of cheese, our great agricpltural staple, Ontario holds a foremost place, the product of Ontario ranking in point of quality among the best offered on the English market, aud the Dominion trade tables showing that the yearly value of cheese exeorts,, whith are chiefly from Ontario, is far in excess of the aggregate value uf all the manufactures exportedby the Dominion. I rejoice to know that in every branch of agri- oulture, our farmers are evincing a growing 9,p - promotion of intelligent methods, and the con- tinued succese of farmers' institutes is one of the evidences of a strongly prevailing desire to profit by, ,prentical information on economic husbandry. ACTION oN THE SCHOOL commissIoNERsREPORT. It having been alleged that the regulatio, s of the Education Department requiring instruction in English to be given in ad the public schools of the Province were not observed in certain localities in which the French language pre- vails, commissioners were appointed to visit these sehool, ,to report on the facts and to con- sider in whatway the study 01 English might be most successfully pr !noted among the pupils whose mother tongue is French. 'The same com- missioners were afterwards directed to visit the German schools of the Province and to report in like mauner regardingthem. Their reports will be submitted to you, as well as certain regula- time for giving practical effect to the recom- moudations of the conamissioners, si f ar as this could be done by immediate executive action. You will be asked to make the grant which is necessary for the establishment of a training school in Eastern Ontario, as recommended by the commiesioners. Hissing Hoaxer. How many young ladies of to -day would laugh at the absurd idea, as they express it, of kissing mother; but you cannot, dear girls, imagine how it will brighten her dear face. Besides, you owe her a kiss or two. Away back, when ,youwere a little girl, she kissed you when no one .else was tempted by your fever -tainted breath and swollen face. You were not as attractive then as you are now. And through those years of childish sunshine and shadows she was always ready to cure by the magic of a mother's kiss the little, dirty, chubby hands whenever they were injured in those first skirmishes with the rough world. And then the midnight kisses with which she routed so many bad dreams as she leaned above your restless pillow have all been on interest those long, long years. Of course, ehe is not so pretty and kiseable as you are, but if you had done your share of work these last ten years the contrast would not be so marked. Her face has more wrinkles than yours, and yet if you were sick tbst face would appear far more beentiful than an angel'a as it hovered over you, watching every opportunity to minister to your comfort, and every one of thoee wrinkles would seem to be bright wavelets of sunshine chiming each other over the dear face.—Locomotive Firemen's Magazine. • What He Might Do. An enterprising meting man with a turn for stetistice might do a nice stroee of businese at the present time. He might buy himself a notebook end make a list of all the men in his toivn who stop smoking Immense business is dull. Along with them he might put those who stop. using liquor in any form became money le name. The number who stopped dancing or playing cards because the times ere hard might , els° be given. One page of a very small notebook will be quite large enough for all the namee.--Canada Presbyterian. No wonder She Was Surpriged. "Mr. arsysmith,if remarked that gentle - Mantel mother-in-law as ehe entered the offioe and drew up a chair, "my daughter WAS atirpeised and grieved at the condition you went home in !set night, or rather early this morning." "Yon," replied Jayernithf cheerfully. "She didn't know 1 was loaded." Un the Make. Effie's Brother—Do you love my sister Effie? Effie's Steady Company—Why, Willie, that is a queer querstion. Why do you want to know? Effie's Brother—She said last night she would give a dollar to know, and I'd like to scoop it in. An Effective Test. If one is curious to know whether a wire is slive or dead take hold of it firmly with the right band. 11 11 is alive the feat will appear at the inquest.—St. Paul Globe. Holders of the income bonds of the Alleg- heny Valley Beltway are petitioning the U. El. Circuit Court for the Bale of the road, became it is in default. A PATHETIC APPEAL. Ob, send us e, blizzard, A. bald headed blizzard, A busittesslike blizzard All wrapped up iu snow. For sure such a blizzard Would tickle the gizzard Of mud covered pilgriins Disgusted below. Mrs. Dolliver (to the new girl)—Noreena throw this water out of the window; but be sure you look ont. (Ten emends later) What's the matter? Noreena—I looked out, mum, and I leit the wetter go all over as fine a gentleman as you'd (sere to meet. —Self-erreeted prisoner --For heaven's sake, • gone honor, send me somewhere where I con do florae work. I'm dying from inaotivity. The Judge—Who are yon? Prieoner—I'm Chauncey Depew'e cook, air. He hasn't peen home to dinner for four years. The drat party Of °colonists of the season from Ontario passed throngh Winnipeg on Thureday, bound for Qu'Appelle. Three children were killed by a elm*. elide at Green Valley, Cel., on the Ameri- can river. One body was carried into the river and has not been found, Trade. 1842—Revise4 the tariff. 1843—President of the Board of Trade. 1845—Resigned. --Colonial Secretary. 1e46—Ilesig,ned. ' 1847—Advocated freedom of Jewe. 18.52-1 hencellor of the Exchequer. 1855—Resigned. 1858—Lord High Commissioner to the Ionian Isles. —" Studies of the Homeric' Age." 1859—Chanoe110r of the Exchequer. 1865—Leader of the Comnaons. 1866—In Oppositon. 1868—Prime Minister. —" Dace Homo." —" A Chapter of Autobiography." 1869—Carried Irish dieestabliehment. —" Juventue Mundt." 1870—Carried Irish Land Bill. . 1871—Unveiling of his statue in his native city. —Abolished purchase of army cone- missione. •-t-' Abolished confiscation in penal laws. 1873—Irish university reforms proposed. —Resigned, but resumed power. 1874—Dissolved Parliament. 1876—" Homer Synchronism." 1879—Mid-Lothian triumph. --,, Gleanings of Past Years." 1880—Prime Minister again. 1885—Resigned. 1886—Prime Minieter. —Irish home rule proposed. —Resigned.—St. Louis Post•Dispatch. IfOItM NN /GUT HODES. Bed -Chamber Toilets or A noient and. Modern Times—framous Gowns in Sillg and LaCO. (1eom New York world.) It hi related in the laiatory of toggery that Princess Mary, who was wedded in 1740, had a bridal night robe " that wall fifteen namathe a.weaving." The fabric% WaS woven silver lace, lined with satin the color of her lips and trimmed about the bottom, neck mid armholes with flouncee of Portuguese point laic. In the sarne history ri cord 1B made of a night dress made to order for Queen Isiebellit to pue in a birthday box for the King, made or Spanish lam every flower petal in whittle was brought out with gold wire. The tire - does loom was made over a robe of pale, green satin. The neck and eleeves Were trimmed with gold fringe, and the shelling of gold lace that made adrill down the front was afterwards Sent to the Vati- can mad need as a finish about the satin serviette that covered the Pope's gold chalice. Ir her imperial glory Eugenie. slept in lace gowns of old point that coat., the Empire 41,500 apiece, and lasted the Empresa an entire week. The coverlet on her bed was of satin de Lyon'magnifie oently embroidered with Ilene de lis and poppyblossona, apd fringed with gold ten. drile. When worn ont the dreseee were - given to the ladies of the royal bed -cham- ber, who oat there up for handkerciefs and lipg re irieee Pnee Alice at her wedding, received a ease of lace nightdresses from e famous., English factory, and one of the nuptiale gowns in the tronesean of Princess Bea- trice wae a hand-woven eilk time witb posies of colored threads and butteeffies, fire.ffice and humming -birds worked- in gold. I learn from a modiste to Her Majesty that on the roe" eaohts all the nightgowns, of the Royal Family are made of India, silk, with the collar, cuffs, pocket laps and., hem embroidered with the same pattern as the flowered chintz with which the ° sFoh b lur it9nepPha°81: ttewr two Years the Empress of India has been almoet crippled from rheu- matic) gout, and by order of the Queen's doctor the lady of the bedchamber lays out a flannel nightrobe as red as the flag of anarchy and as thick as a pine plank. Rumor .has it that the silk nightgowns, with their threadlace ruffiee e,nd Greek. bordere of bullion, ordered by the fiancee of Prince Murat, were insignificant oom- pared with the cost of marking them, every letter and crest beine first ioda with gold thread and then hatched with the °tiered' ' colors of the notorione if noble house. When Willis.m Tweed homed cardfor his daughter'e marriage one went to a- " ringeter," who cablea to a Lime, ick firm for a bridal robe de ntat to be delivered a fortnight from date. The gown came, and it was a dream in dimity. The foundation was of pure Irish lineo, as delicately spun and se glossy in finish as the finest of eilk. Sleeves and front gores were of solid embroidery. • worked in the beautiful web, and about the hem of the train was a border of con- ventionalized orange branch, with leaf, . bud, blossoms and fruit representiug the very acme of needlework. Nellie Grant received some very beauti- ful night robes, too, which she afterwards had made into baby clothes for the Sertoris children, and when Mrs. James Brown Potter played Juliet, and bad a real true- to-life chamber scene, with pillow shame . of applique embroidery and silk counter- pane, she dressed herself in a nightgown of point lace that cost her $400, and,- slice:lied J. H. MoYicker when she appeared. in.t. Biernha. rdt, the tragedy queen, has gowns of crushable silk, in dark colors—becauee the glare of white keeps her from gaing to, sleep at once—which are made with deep • pockets and full gores, and which she often wears the week through, day and night, in her carriage and at the theatre. Her taste runs to the Russian, and most of them fasten at the side. One night in Chicago, while ehe was playing "Theo- dora," her dress caught fire, her sleeve com- ing in contact with' it candelabra of wax. candles, in which light she always makee up. She had come to the theatre, then Hav- • erly's, in a pink silk night robe. The sleeve was too mnoh damaged to patch up, it was. her last performance, and the other dresses were packed for travel. " Give me the night Wrap 1" she screamed to Matiricia, and, donning it, rushed out on the stage with a Russian girdle about her waist and a branch of Egyptian lilies in her hand. Worth is famous for his night dresses„ and there inlet a austomer in New York. who hasn't had at least one robe from him. They vary in price from 5125 to e500,. but for utility gowns they can't be tear - passed, as s WOMaLl might with elegance and propriety dine in the delicate princess, in which she had dreamed the night pre- vious. Kate Reilly is another n time made farm= by her bed gowns, which are known in Paris, Rio Janeiro and the Union as well. Her simplest cambric cost 1t35, but they would make a bag beautiful in a half light, for tkiey are laced yoked, ribbon run, and through every hem a perfumed powder hi blown, as sweet to the senses as the breath of lotii to the men of Troy. One of the newest of the silekniirdhet: dressee is of white silk, with very roa signs in red ; it has a wide flat plaitm front and three narrow ones eaoh nide; these are all fastened by feather stitch in red Bilk. The collar is " sailor " shape, with a monogram of the wearer's initials em- broidered in eilk at one corner ; tinder the collar is a email cravat of plain white silk, feather stitched in red. The sleeves are full on the shoulder, with three feather- stitched tucks turning each way from the centre, and are set at the wrist under a cuff *a correspond with the collar. Women who °rose snd reorose the sea carry robes of eiderdown cloth, and those who brook the discomforts of Sir George Pullman's rolling coaches are never with- out a trailing pongee, prettily girdled and °oilseed, so that if anything should happen a good appearance will be made—in print. ' Nam Neesom When Dancing is Wrong. If you are wise, if you hope that the future holds much for you, you will learn to be particular as to our partner in damn ing. Dance with no Man with whom you have only a ball -room acquaintance, and.if you are really anxious to gain the respect of the people in your own set, you will. number among partners only your brothers, or some very intimate friends. It's all very well to say there is no harm in dancing. There isn't. But there is harm ID having about you'a sweet pure girl, kept as muoh as possible from the wickedness of the world, the arm of a man who may be, profligate, and not possess the firstinstinat of• a gentleman. He my, as you say, deuce divinely, bat even for a partner in a round dance, more than that is necessary. My little girl, dancing indiscriminately will teach you to forget hove to blush, and with that knowledge departs one of your greateet charms. Dance, sing and be merry, but, remember, not only, does the world judge tai by the company we keep, but just as you and I are made better and nobler by being with 'those who are true and good, so we are ineeneibly made meaner and poorer in heart and brain when we conteort with those of lees degree in morels. -Ladies' Home Journal. ouu NORTHERN TERRITORY. It affords me pleasure to state that the rev- enue derived from the timber dues and tho sale ot Crown lands considerably exceeds the esti- mate submitted to the assembly, laet session. In February last, 1 issued my proclamation declar- ing in force the "Rainy River Free Grants and Homesteads Act," 9,nd at a later peried of the year I approved of an Order -in -Council appro- priating under the Act twenty toweshipe hi that district for the purpme of free grants. I also issued a commission to take evidence and re- port upon the claims of settlers along the Rainy River. The commissioners examined into and took evidence respecting numerous claims, and pateuts are being issued to such settlers as have performed the conditions of settlement. A com- mission was also issued to investigete disputed claims to roiniug and other locations in Rai Portage and the territory contiguous thereto. Many claims wereiuquired into and much evi- dence was taken and patents are being.iseued to appiicants who have established their claims and complied with the conditions of eale. ONTARIO'S MINERAL WEALTH. The public interest in the mineral wealth r the province continues to increase. The immense deposits of silver, iron, copper and nicks), recently discovered or developed have attracted Ihe attention of capitalists and others interested in mieing in Europe and Ameri a. As a result large inveetments are being made in develming our mineral resources, and both cap- ital and labor are finding remuuexative employ- ment in that connection, Measures relating to the sale of mining locations and to regulate min- ing operations witl be presented for your consid- eration, PBOVIDING FOR LUNATICS. • I am glad to know that the completion of two of the asylum cottages at Mimic°, together with enlarged accommodation at the London am.lum, have pernutted the removal of all those lenaties temporarily confined in the jails of the province who have been certified to be proper subjects for asylum treatment &X cottages, providing further accommodation for 350 patients, are in course of coestruction, and will probably be completed during the present year. COUNTY POOR HOUSES. Public attention has of late years been directed to the inadequate provision by county municipalities for the care and support of ti a aged, helpless and oor within their boundaries, only nine counties having yet availed them- selves of the provisions of law authorizing the establishment of industrial farms and 110505 01 industry and refuge in connection therewith Organized philanthropy in the larger centres of population has provided institutione for the care of such persons in these localities, and Provincial aid to Many Of these inetitutions has been extended =der our Charity Aid Ant. With a view to encouraging tue erection of county houses of refuge in cmnection with industrial farms, and of thereby relieving the jails of tbie unfortunate class of their inmetes, e, .1 Gamins will be submitted for your considera- tion, providing for a grant from Provincial funds of a sum not exceeding' $4,000 towards the cost in every county or uniOn of counties availing it sod of the Act, the grant to be subject to such conditions as you may deetn fitting. The Bill will also provide for the 0080 of coun- ties which bay() already esteblished it house of refuge. TAXATION LEGISLATION PROMISED. Your atte, tion will be invited to the consid- eration of changes in the • law ,releting to the asseiniment of property for mu wipe] taxation. Steps have been taken to procure a general expreesion of opinion from the variom. Muni- sipal Councils 8,nd l3oarde of Trade throughout she Province on the vexed question of exenip- tiOns front WOO aBSOSSIHOIrb, and a measure on this subject will be submitted which will, I trust, meet with your appreval. OTHER MEASURES PROMISED. Oneida Community. , The annual report of the Oneida Com- munity, limited, jurit filed with the Secre- tary of State, gives the valuetion of the land, buildings and water power devoted to manufactures at $147,230; the goods, atock, machinery, eta., at 5432,164.il, mak. ing a total valuation on manufactures of 079,391 11. The land and buildings de. voted to agriculture are placed at $63,690, and the implements, stock, produce, ete., at $6,339.16, or e70,029.16 devoted to agri- culture. Besides this they have rents amounting to $90,000, personal property to the value of $9,086, 418,202 20 in cash, 1$332 82 in good mortgage, $1,800 in Com- munity stock held by the company, $11,- 895 42 in bills receivable, e137.105.20 in accounts receivable, making a grand total to the oredit of the Community of 11917,- 814,91. Among other measures there will also be call,- mitted for your consideration a bill to facilitate the speedy determination 'of important consti- tutional questions, a bill for the further iimprote- went of the liquor lici.rise latve, mad a bill relating to the license of cullers and the measure- ment of Flawless. rixiamo ACCOUNTs. Quandary of a Religious Editor. A correspondent calls our attention to an advertisement, the neture of which, he surmises, " must have been overlooked," and says:" While the discipline of the Methodiet Episcopal Church is opposed to, mad her ministers preach against, parlor and other kinds of dancing, it does look a little inconeistent for a Methonist paper to have an advertisement in it showing people where to purchase jig, waltz, polka and reel music." The point is well taken •, but how are we to serve time ministers whose chil- dren are lt tuning to play jig, waltz, pcilks and reel music and want to know where to find the best of that sort of thing ?—North. ere Christian Advocate. The public accounts for tbe past year Will be promptly laid before you. You wilt be pleased. to learn that the expenditure bah been kept within the anion n t granted, and that the revenue hair exceeded the amount arifiCipat0d, ESTIMATES. A Hopeless Case. First Officer—What's wrone Jimmy? Can't yer lift him 2 Second Officer—Not a hair can I move him. Party Who Hee Fallen—It's no nee, gentlemen; you might as well leave me. I've been at the Girls' Normal Cooking School dinner, and I ate four amateur doughnuts. The Master Painters' and Decorators' Union of New York State has decided that the apprentioe's pay for the first year shall: be e5 per week; for the second year, e7 per week; for the third year, $9 per week; for the fourth year, ell per week, and for the fifth year, $13 per week. —Adam Forepaugh was an illiterate man, but he never smoked nor chewed tobacco, nor did he nee intoxicating liquors. He was a lover.of animals. Allies Nita Shakeepeere will be queen of the carnival at New Orleans this year. She is the daughter of the Mayor of that city. • e—Mrs. Harrison tells an interviewer " Instead of making 22 the peeper age to marry I should make it 25. Au a rule a woman is married two thirds of her life, and she cen easily lend two or three out of those years to what ought to be a happy period with every girl, the years between schooldays and marriage." The steamer jersey City, from Bristol Jan. 6th, which arrived at New York yes- terday, had heavy solo from the west during the entire pasenge. On 'jemmy i9th elle encountered a terrific hurricane which larded 24 hOTIre, lOSIDg two bOatt'starting the funnel, mashing ventilators, etre Three seamen Were washed overboard a,hd drowned. Two wars badly hurt. The bricklayers of the ()pantry don't ee eiverage over $2 e day for t e w ve year, The Mitimittes for the current year f N early date, be presented for eoue approvai. according to the eleoretary,o the &Monter repir)trd to ecOrestoY and the tecessidea of the ttifen ilea 59,161 niembere, an ihorettele of They will be found to be framed with a dile Velma. The Bricklayers and Masons' I feel assured that your deliberations will int 12,400 in a year. pu do Service. In a Breach of Promise Case. The Court—Whet ie your age,' madam The plaintiff Must I answer? The Court—You must. Plaintiff—Why, judge, I thought peoplo. didn't have to testify againat themselves. A !Suggestive Name. George—What is your favorite pet name for your father, Luise? Louise (looking at George in a most pathetic and appealing manner)—Pop (Whey are now engaged,) —The Queen of Englend'e grand- daughter, the Draclaerlii of Fife, bag turned out to be one of the most demooratio eonng persona in Greet Britain. She wandisre about *be streetswit11 her husband, looking into the shop windows, arid when she (Mee to the threatre she sits with the common. on end rearm M the fun,