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The Exeter Advocate, 1890-6-26, Page 6AWFUL DINING HORROR, Thirty -for Mon Perish Uy Explosion and Fire Damp in a Coal Mine - SOME GALLANT EFFORTS AT RESCUE. Father and Son. Die Trying to Enter the Fatal aline -A Blander or an Accident? Sad Scenes at the Pit's Month. A Pittsburg despatch says : An explo- sion in the Farmhill mine, near Dunbar, Pa., ooeurred about 10 o'olook this morn- ing. Only ten escaped. At least forty men are still in the pit, and it is believed they have been suffocated. A Dunbar deepatoh says : This morning at 11.10 a shivering roar shook the lowly miners' dwellings on Hill farm, in Fayette county, near this place, and affrighted hun- dreds of persone, who knew too well the sound intimated another mine disaster. In a moment the fearful newe had spread that the Hill farm mines, owned by Philadel- phia parties, had exploded. The low - brewed hill, from which the elope entered, shook from mouth to pit, and the snores of maniere' houses lining the hill poured out frenzied inmates by the hundred. A rush was made to the mouth of the pit, but ingress was imposeible, as smoke in dense volumes was issuing forth. Fifty-two miners had gone to work this morning and were in the elope when the explosion oc- curred. Of these fifty-two eighteen were in the left heading and thirty.four in the eight heading. Those in the left heading got out all right. All the others were out off and NOT ONE ESCAPED. At 7.15 the gang turned in at the mines, the, smaller gang drifting off to the left, while the larger one, some 35 in number, drifted to the right and descended some 800 feet from the sarfroe, and at least a mile from the opening. These two drifts are con• merited, but the connection is from the main stem, some half a mile from the entrance. The mine had been somewhat troubled with water, and an air•ehaft had been drilled from the enrfeee to the junction of the right and left shafts, where the water seemed to be the most abundant. As the miners branched off from this point they knew an air -hole had been drilled there, and that it had not yet been broken into the mine, but they did not know the shaft was to be broken into to -day. This shaft is a six-inch hole. A miner named Kerwinhad .been left in the right drift near where that branch joined the mine's exit, and in the coarse of his labors broke into the perpen. dionlar shaft. $IS LIFE GIVEN IN VAIN. The moment this was broken into a flood of water rushed out, and Kirwin and a man named Landy standing by yelled out for some one to save the men in the mine in the right drift. Young David Hayes, who had seen the affair, leaped forward at the call and turned down the left drift in a deluge of water to warn his endangered comrades below. Jnet as he passed the air, abaft that had been broken into of waters had changed to the flood, which blanched th men who stood behind light. The flow of wat deadly volume of fire d Hayes swung by, the light shed through t end. It seemed the an open burning min,, and he had hardly that roaring shaft w a reservoir: of the des already accumulated, a ten feet toward the m save, and whom he oerte oar of a eeks of the d towards the had changed to a p, and as young ash of the blazing shaft from end to ring youth carried 's lamp in his hat, ken a step beyond ai the spark ignited fire damp that had he sank a corpse he had hoped to y doomed. FIRE ADDS ITS st. DRS. In an instant an nnii`':;ohable fire sprung up in the nine foot v L`• just be- tween the main entrance and o he right drift, forever shutting out the t y -two men imprisoned there. Poor old + • vid Has '. the father of the mistaken h Hayes, the fate of bis only son, dash into the sulphurous smoke and strangling fire damp, only to fall blindly by the side of his son and to be drawn oat an hour later with James Shearn, both recognized only by their wives. The fire, fanned by air from the main drift and from the feta shaft, soon sprang into an awful conflagra- tion. Pat Kelly, w r • • riving a mine oar near the pia..', ' "•; . ,r ::e the explosion see strangling em a fiend to the poured out aft Or killed outright by the exploelon, or later by suffocation. Tl„a latter scene the more Probable, as the sonndinge were heard from the entombed as late as 1 o'elook this after- noon. These grew weaker and weaker, however, and half an hour later even the most hopeful of the resouere could hear nothing but hie own heart throbs. The mon say that bad they known the shaft was to be broken into they would never hada entered the mine, as either water or gas would sorely hays followed, semis in these regione gas always comes from the upper shale. 'Ile owners, however, and, some of the mon say it was an accident that could not have been avoided. Hope for the Entombed Miners. A Dunbar, Pa•, deepatoh says: Some slight hope was raised at noon by the return of Walter 11[eOleary, one of the rescuing party, who reported that far down in the slops he heard a male braying as if in great distress. This leads to the belief that the mon may yet be living. A Cathedral Unsafe. A London cable says : Great fears are entertained for the safety of St. Paul's Cathedral in consequence of the now underground railway to be constructed within a few hundred yards of the building. Christopher Wren left a memorandum to the effect that the founda- tions were not so good as he could wish, consequently it is feared that the vibration paused by the trains will endanger the dome, even if the preliminary works do not imperil the entire fabric. The promoters of the line say the underground railway near Westminster Abbey is not felt. I am informed on the best authority that in reality the trains shake the building considerably, but the foundations being ex- ceedingly good no damage is done. Different conditions exist at St. Paul's. Water- courses render the grimed uncertain. As the Cathedral stands higher than the sur- rounding localities, some shifting of soil in digging out for the railway is inevitable. The Dean and Chapter are in a state of great alarm, and will endeavor to induce the House of Lords to thro* out the Bill authorizing the line. ter. nothing, but the e and gas followed him 1 ery door of the shaft, and him to ascend to the top and wave a b1a«,. flag of woe and distress to this hitherto 1f4 pperous mining region. VAIN ATTE AT RESCUE. a.he miners from t left drift escaped blackened and bruised :` t safe, and they tell a fearful story of the Mia • mat beyond the blazing coal on the rig tj, where half imagination and half fact ehowe4,,them a score of terrible faces walled in hyltatsflame no man could pass and live. Willing'lide and hearts were not wanting, and CNA Cook, of the mine, with Mine Inspector E. Heagbley, headed a party of one hundred, who entered the mine shaft, and after groping on fo.3 iter of a mil at last were driven =ok • and agar •by the • deadly Kae only to ver bre ,� moment, " d again plus d in to' last that t right drift '. ` impenet and no m l could pass in .' live. fk finally ca e upon two bodic ,t: whic3h, brought?t the opening of th °•hninel the blank` ed corpses of Shear. nd$a the elder ;sere drawn into dayligr# S. • `.GENES AT THE PITS MOUT A moaent up from a few of the hun drede abo the pit, bat their anguish was nothing t' : he silent watch kept by the wives, oh '. ren and sweethearts of the thirty mo•still in the mine. Tho volun- teer corps; 4orked steadily from noon until late tonight, with no rosalt but the two dead above`;::, named, and each trip but brought a deeper despair to those above, and ehowedthere was no hope and no one alive below.: ;The corps of 100 was changed again and again as each exhatieted squad ataggered to the outer air, but all in vain. One man, Kelly, who had entered several times, finally from sheer exhaustion, fell into an open pit and was drawn out fatally injured. To -night falling rain increased the gloom of the situation. Children who bad lost their fathers and uttered desolate wails oonld be soothed, but dark-browed then who stood about with sullen, atony glare, and wivea, sisters and mothers with drawn, white faces could not be comforted. At midnight the 'smoke and gas from the tight shaft poured up the main exit in an unbroken velum°, and after trials almost beyond human endurance the rescuing party gave up all hopes of ever recovering Mee dead bodies from that entrance, and turned their attention to the Ferguson Imine, one and ono -half miles away. At this hour they are striving to penetrate from that mine, but the flames and smoke balk their every effort. NO NOEL The universal verdict of the old miners la that the entombed men were either ',for a d at ble, hey Fe n A Young Fiend Boasts HIa Sister. A special from Hazelton, Pe., says Nellie Dougherty, aged 11 years, was f a tally burned yesterday by her brother, who is about a year younger. The °bildre n had been fishing, and the boy built a fire to roast some frogs' lege. Becoming eraged at his sister for some trivial act, he =: egged her to the fire and held her over it until her clothing became ignited. He = bought he could eel inguieh the llama, u ithout seriously injuring her, but he del, .. d too long, and all efforts to put them cu failed. In her desperation the poor ohii i threw herself into the creek. Some men who were passing arrived just in time to save the life of the boy, whose clothing had also caught fire. The little girl died a few hours later. The boy is badly burned, but will recover. The Pope Prophesies Woes. A Rome cable says : The pope in reply to the congratulations of visitors at the Vatican expressed himself as strongly of sluaidief that great punishment was impend- "``' n society for its disregard of and in- ^ differleace, to the church. " The Lord," he said, 'likl.come no longer with a sweet and peaoe4." 7 face, but with an angry ono, to strike an k purify His Church. I am neither a pro but I feel in m menta. A sea o: the rook on wh and will leave horizon but t Prayer will not suffice to appellee the Almrghtaa" t nor tbe son of a prophet, heart sorrowful present - (evil is about to beat against h the church is founded, othing to be seen on the threat of the anger of God. British Men -of -War Ready. A San Francisco despatch says : There are many vague rumors afloat concerning the reported taking of Corea by the Rus- sians. There is some trouble in Corea, but the Government officials of Japan know All that is surely, -men-of-warkrup, and nder notice. vera( merioan aval elknap i14t1so Corea. rn said 'ch would nothing definite about it. known is that the Britie in the harbor with stea dere to sail at a momen ready gone. T force d expecting or.'ere to sail officer of the British ship 5 had Been despatches and order astonish the foreigners in Japan Westminster's Many Great Dead. A London cable says : Before the Royal ommission of Inquiry into the question oviding additional space for the inter- dietingniehed men in Westminster e carious facto are coming out. neath the Abbey in many with concrete of a very -mea rendering it flues - for the coffin. The erson were found de for Brown - teen hundred buried in e in the men Abbey, The spec parts is filled ancient date, so eery to believe out remains of an unkno when the opening was ing's grave. Upwards o bodies are known to have the abbey itself, and many cloisters. b Defog that not lo wife to Roy Shortly afterwards Roy lookedit- recently he assault on Mia $25 to settle, b, son afterward psi Leased His Wife. well, Mass., despatch says: soph Naroieee Roy were so fri ` dry oy proposed to lease,is ree years for $1 O. at to Cana a. n the matter ?`' • slake it p arrested obarged with efoy. He offered to pay Defoy refused. Roy's 100 to hush the matter up. At the tria 'sterday Roy was dis- charged, the judge of believing the evi- dence of the Defoyes ; ' oy is 77 years old. e b'. defence was that Valen 'i ie, who was a commercial traveller, had committed sur. cide by shooting himself in the head. To prove that he died from other causes the wife had her hneband'a body exhumed and the head cut off and brought into court, where it rested on her counsel's desk. Princess Wilhelmina, the future Queen of Holland, id a fair-haired, slender, incon- spicuous maid of 9 years. John Lemoinne, the French editor, says: " No people in the world are less interna- tional than the residents of Great Britain. They are inter•Englieh. Ermennd° rabiea;!ie reported to prevail at Dorohester, near London. On Saturday Last a farmer, several doge, ae well as °owe, p age and a horse were bitten. The pigs have eines then given evidence' of being affeoted, and the farmer, aithongh as yet physically well, is reported to be mentally' ill. , The Provinolal Board of Health has made arrangements to send the bitten farmer to the Pasteur Institute in New York for treatment. The Czar of Rulsia is said to be clever at tearing a pack of cards to pieties, 52 cards at a time. DWI, the aotor, can oleo do this, but he can't dodged bomb like the Czar. 0. Ghastly Pie A Yonugstown, O., n Valentine has be to recover $11,000 1 ter husband, who die Evidence. etch says : Mrs. defeated in her ineurance held year ago. The DEATH MOST HORRIBLE. Qorriveau Dies of Hydrophobia in. Ex- cruciating xcruciatin g Agony. HE SOUGHT AID TOO LATE. A New York despatoh says: No death mere terrible has ever occurred at Bellevue Hospital than that of Edmund Corriveau, of Harrisville, R. I., who expired of hydrophobia after a few hours of agony while bound tightly to his couch to prevent his intlioting injury upon his physicians or upon other patients. An idea of the horror of the man's condition may be had from this incilkent. Corriveau was intensely thirsty. He said he had not tasted water for twenty-four hours. It was brought to him but he could not swallow a drop. It was the most pitiful sight the doctors had ever experienced. He found that he could not drink and became agitated. "Take the water away 1" he cried. "Oh, take it away. It torments me' ; and he cried like a child. Corriveau talked nervously and finally asked for a priest. He received the last sacrament of the Roman Catholic Churoh and then said he was ready to die. Opiates strong enough to hill a horse were applied, but they only made the patient weaker. They did not lessen the agony. HIS HOPELESS CASE. Wnen Corriveau arrived yesterday morn• ing, accompanied by Dr. Boucher, of hie native town, at the Pasteur Institute, he told Dr. Gibier that he had been bitten four weeks since by a small terrier. He showed a email wound on the wrist. It was not inflamed, but still he complained of a tingling sensation, and he confessed that he was unable to swallow liquids, The wound, be said, was dressed and washed, and then he thought no more of it. " You are too late," said Dr. Gibier looking at Corriveau sadly, " h can do nothing for you." Corriveau reeled when he heard the man of science pronounce his death sentenoe, but he soon recovered and walked steadily from the house. He went directly to the hospital, lay down on a cot and never arose from it again. AGONIES THAT MADE MEN WEEP. Soddenly, without a moment's warning, the man became a raving maniac. The doctors had expeoted this, and had taken the precaution to tie hie hands to the side of the bed. He tore about in his awful agony, groaning, hissing, shrieking, crying and sobbing; now like a tender child, and then a sob that made the bystanders weep with pity for the human being that was suffering. Again he would tear away at the cords that held his hands captive, and it took the combined etrength of four strong men to hold him down. They found it necessary to bind his feet and fasten his body so that he could not move about. More chloroform was adminis. tered. Then morphine, and so on until it was found impracticable to give him more. It was retarding the action of the 'heart. Every time the doctors stopped adminis- tering the drug Corriveau had a frightful spasm. The slightest thing resulted in a spasm. And after all these horrible hours of suffering, like no man has ever suffered before, Edmond Corriveau sank back ex- hausted, gave a short agonizing gasp and died. NO FOAMING On BARKING. Corriveau did not "foam at the mouth." Neither did he bark and snarl. He did not, snap at anybody. Dr. Gibier said that if he had seen the man within a week or two after the biting he could undoubtedly have cured him, but after the symptoms have once set in he knows of no effective treatment. A treatment has been tried by some doctors in England, which is said to have oared patients after hydrophobia has appeared, but it has not been found to be absolutely effective in all cases, and Dr. Gibier does not seem to place much faith in - This treatment reinitiate in taking from n to100 ounces oes of blood. lent t from 30 the Engle is about the only place where this has been . 'ed with any probability of sue. cess. Deputy coroner Jenkins performed an autopsy on '' orrivean's body to determine (1; exsect o: ee of his death. The body Wag "remove from Bellevue Hospital and placed on a marble Blab in the room reserved autopsies in the morgue. It at the dead man was of unusually fine physique, sturdy and mneonlar. The face showed no trace of the agony whiah preceded bis death. The result showed That it was clearly a case of hydrophobia. A portion of the spinal cord was removed for future analysis and for experimental purposee. How Mary Was Dressed. A London cable says : Mies Anderson wore an ivory colored satin dress, the body of which was trimmed with figured silk, and the long train was borne by her little brother dressed as a page. On her head was a wreath cf orange, blossoms, over which fell a simple net veil covering tbe whole of the train and descending in front to the waist. In her hand she parried a small bouquet of lilies and marguerites. Blanche Griffin, who was the only brides• maid, wore a heliotrope dress with white sleeves and hat to match. No other mem- bers of the party wore bridal attire. On the left of the altar were ten Bove from Canon Puraell's orphanage, who carried baskets filled with rose leaves, and when the ceremony was concluded, they scattered the leaves in the path of the bridal pair as they walked down the aisle. The ceremony was a simple one, and nothing was added to the plain service except that twoboye from the Italian church sang Gonnod's Ave Maria." Evading the Bait Act. A St. John's, Newfoundland (special) de- scribes the newest evasion of the Bait Aot. A Newfoundland vessel procures a license to carry a cargo of herring to Boston. Under the false pretence of stress of weather she nails at St. Pierre. She is there attached under process of the French court for an alleged debt to a St. Pierre trader. This debt is fiotitions. Under order of the court the cargo of herring ie sold in St. Pierre at public emotion, and a large pride is realized, The ship is released from the attachment and the captain pockets the spoils. A devoted girl has her lover's name in initial stick pins distributed over the front of her waist. The commencementement of felling g in love is often traced to the sweet girl graduate's commencement season. ' of ea.Em rase )11110 d Albe, niece P Eugenie, at her wedding received gifts valued at $1,000,000. Handkerchiefs are beat perfumed by keeping them in paohete powdered with the favorite scent of the owner. ` Travellers from japan report that the antagonistic feelings recently developed bet Europeans in Tokio hew' not yet enoallayed GAMBIAN' GOSSIP. BiPmar0k Asked to Become a Candidate- Diplomatic -_rhe ex-Choncellor'a cun- ning. A Berlin cable says A deputation of Conservatives from the fourth district Potsdam, now unrepresented in the Reich. etag, on account of the death of Herr Malsbow, went to Freidrioharuhe yeeter. day to ask Prince Bismarck to aooept the candidature. He promised td give the proposal his favorable consideration, and this is taken to mean that he will stand. The members of the Reichstag already foresee that the Princes presence will produce the grouping of a new party under his lead, composed of Conservatives, old National Liberals, and a small section of the moderate Freisinnige party. The group will prominently represent the smaller landowners, manufacturers and bankers, who are opponents of the pro- f3ooialist policy, and is certain to secure the support of a number of Centrists, thus forming a strong combination. The leading diplomats at Constantinople have been recalled. Herr Von Rodowitz, the German Ambassador; M. Nelidoff, Ruesian representative and Sir William A. White, the British diplomat, are to be re- placed by Ministers who will work to. gether on a more friendly footing. The leading tendency of the changes is rather favorable to a renewal of the Czar's influ- enoe in the Balkans, but ae this would not restore anything approaching the former dominance of the Russians, Austria may be induced to aooept a solution that will add to the seoarity of the general peace. What- ever may be the issues of the meeting at Bt. Petersburg they will not involve a change of relations in the Dreibnnd. Signor Crisp goes to Freidrichsrnhe after seeing Chancellor Von Caprivi. Herr Krupp has been the guest of Prince Bismarck since Wednesday. The hostile reports to the effect that the Emperor is beooming more and more enraged over the revelations made by Prince Bismarck in interviews, and that he intends to muzzle the'ex•Chancellor, are laughed over in the Prince's circle. Another idea is dawning upon the unfriendly oritios,that is, whether the etatementa made to special correspond- ents were not arrsnged with the previous knowledge and oonourrence of Chenoellor Caprivi. It is now perceived that bis seeming frankness reveals little and cannot embarrass the Government. A DISASTROUS CLOUDBURST. A Dozen Persons Drowned and Much Pro- perty Destroyed. A St. Louis despatch says: At Bull Creek, six miles above Maysville, last night two dark clouds met and burst. The creek jumped over its banks and swept away several dwellinge and their frightened occupants. The stone culvert on the Chesapeake te Ohio Railway over Bull Creek was washed into the river, and about midnight, when the etorm was at its height, the west -bound freight train ran into the wash-out, causing a fearful wreak. The engine and oars were piled one on top of another, almost oat of eight in the creek bottom. Engineer C. C. Roadcap, fireman Honaker and brakeman Eaton were buried beneath the wreck, and their bodies have not been recovered. Condnotor Watts and brakeman Love jamped from the last car and escaped. The train was made up of 32 oars. A feet wrecking train on the way to the scene this morning ran over Frank Scott, a colored employee, and killed him. About a dozen persons living on the bank of Bull Creek are reported orowned. The following bodies have been recovered : John Ruggles, a well-known fisherman ; Lacy P. Estler, a widow, and her two daughters, Betty and Julia, and two sons. °Several hundred people from Maysville have gone to the scene of the disaster. THE PARISIAN STRANGLER. Byroad Growing Daily More Like a Wild Beast. A Havana cable says : Eyrand is be- coming savage through his suffering from the heat, and begins to show the effect of being watched by five men. At every motion of the prisoner the guards approach his cell door. He is awake all night, watching the guard with a savage glitter in hie eye. He is still ignorant of the detec- tives' presence in Havana. He is abso- lutely penniless, only one Mexican cent having been found on him when he was arrested. Since the murder he has led a varied life. He carries the mark of a bullet on his right side, fired from the pistol of a. Mexican husband who caught him with his wife. He mast have been shot in Mexico jest before his arrival here, the wound being fresh and the ball believed to be in his body. Since the murder Eyrand bas been living by thieving. The Oriental garment was one of hie thefts. M. Perchen insists still that his wife caused Eyrand'e arrest, but he will not show the Turkish garment, however, in proof. The authori- ties are nervous about transferring Eyraud to the detectives. A straight -jacket of wire is being made and extra handcuffs in the American style. Under a Curse. A Scotch oorreepondent informs me that the successor tc the late Miss Scott Mao• dougall, the lady who poured all the con- tents of her wine cellars into the Tweed, is by the irony of fate a.brewer in Derby. It a curious fact that the estate of Makele- ton has been fon some 200 years ander a corse, and that able hardly ever descended in the direct line. The curse was laid upon it by the wife of the laird of Raeburn, an ancestress of Sir Walter Scott. THE record of fire losses in the United States and Canada so far this year ie very encouraging, the figures showing a steady rednotion, as compared with past year. The following is a tabulated statement 1888. 1889. 1890. January............$16,040,000 $ 8,898,700 $9,179,300 February ......... 11,213,500 12,800,000 7,887,035 March 9,918,100 10,912,000 ,3,468,900 April 11,326,850 15,987,000 8,285,020 May 9,188,590 9,915,300 8,838,100 Total 'n7,686,450 $56,513,000 542,156,248 A g glance at this table will show how steady and great the reduction has been. Each month of 1890 is chargeable with less loss than any of the first five months of 1888 or 1889, except January, 1889, which was an exceptionally fortunate month as regards absence of burdensome fire lose. In May, 1890, there were 48 fires of from $10,000 to $20,000 in destruotivenese each ; 24 fires of from $x20,000 to $30,000 each ; 24 of from $30,000 to $50,000 each ; 19 of from $50,000 to x75,000 each ; 8 of from $75,000 to $100,000 each ; 13 of from $100,000 to over 2 0200,00000,000 each, and 5 of o v $00000. Altogether, during May there wore141 Brea, which involved a greater lose each than $10,000. The fire in the Singer Sewing Machine Works at Elizabeth, IC J., caused a loss of about $750,000, upon which there Was no insurance. The Laclede. Flour Mill property ett St. Louie, which fed flames last menthe at an expense of $125,000, was uninsured. The property burned at ittiddlesborongb, Ky., was very lightly insured. -11aDGB1d:MG DAt.FOVB. reationahiste Worry the Irish 4eoretary- Tho Land Dill Deferred. A London cable says In the Hoose of Commons to -night Mr. Balfour, replying to Mr. Dillon, denied that the police charged upon and clubbed the people of New Tip- perary for lighting bonfires to celebrate the marriage of Mr. William O'Brien. The police, be said, put out the bonfires beoauee they formed an obstruction fn the streets. Messrs. Gill and Olanoy, Nationalists, questioned Mr. Balfour regarding the Gov- ernment's syatem of " shadowing persons in Ireland. They, wanted to know bow shadowing could prevent boycotting. Mr. Balfour replied that no one was' shadowed unless he was known to be engaged in in- timidation. The Government would promise to reduce the system only on the. conditions that the Parnellitee promised to induce the persons shadowed to abstain from intimidation. (Cheers from the Gov- ernment members ) Mr. Dillon -If, after this brutal, abomin- able outrage, there is bloodshed it will be upon your heads. Mr. Parcell asked Mr. Balfour to adopt the English presumption that every person accused is innocent until proven to be guilty. (Cheers) Mr. Balfour -Will. Mr. Parnell under. take that these people shall not repeat their crime? This question brought out loud Par. nellite Dries of " What crime? " amid a tremendous uproar on the Parnellite side of the House. Mr. Dillon began an excited speech. He denounced Mr. Balfour, and demanded an apology for the use of the word " prime." A stormy scene ensued, in which Mr. Gill accused Mr. Balfour of lying, and Mr. Gladstone challenged him to prove his assertion that the Liberals re- sorted to the practice of shadowing. • Mr. Balfour eubsiituted the words " intimida- tion and boycotting " for " crime." Finally the Speaker appealed to the House and the matter was dropped. Mr. Balfour informed a deputation to. day that it would be impossible to pass the Land Purchase bill this session. Scientific Notes. Gearing for electric railways made out of rawhide is preferred to metal, as it makes far lees noise and wears better. Duplex telephony, it is now thought, will play an extremely important part in the solution of the difficulties in connection with long distance telephoning. At a recent meeting of a committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, a plant was exhibited, proving that a distinct etep' has been made in the cultivation of the deep bine prim/has. The kola nut, recently adopted as being extremely nutritious by the German army, is prepared as a beverage in the form of chocolate, and it is said to be more nutri- tious than either coffee or tee. A new red glass has been recently pro• dined in Germany. Besides its use for the manufacture of bottles, goblets, and vases of various kinds, it is applieable.,in photo- graphy and in chemists and opticians' laboratories. It has recently been shown by a series of experiments on dogs that while the alter- nating onrrent is distinctly more deadly than the continuous, its fatal superiority ie far hese than some former experiments would lead us to think. A bore hole sunk at Schladeback to a depth of 5,734 feet chows a remarkable uniformity in the increase of temperature, which rose one degree Fahrenheit for each 97.3 feet, the maximum at the bottom being 138.9 0 Fahrenheit. The piece of crown glace, 40 inches in diameter and two and a halt inches thick, made in Paris for the object glass of a telescope for the university of Southern California, will require two years' labor to turn into a finished lens. The use of the phonograph among oer- tain Indian tribes leads to the conclusion that the main charaoteristice of their lan- guage can be recorded and permanently Pe t preserved Dither for study or demonstra- tion with this instrument. M. Jablockoff, of electric candle fame, makes a etrong argument in favor of going back to chemical reactions for the produce. tion of electricity ae a motive power. The dynamo machine does not utilize more than 10 per cent of the feel, while more than 90 per cent can be obtained under favorable circumstances in electro-ohemi- cal combinations. A new method for ventilating railway carriages and preventing dust from enter- ing with the sir has lately appeared in France. The more quickly the train moves the more rapidly the apparatus works. The air is made to traverse a reoeptaole contain- ingrelieves water, which cool it and it of duet, after which it goes through another filtering•bofore entering the carriage. In some experiments lately made in England to test the merit of eleatrio weld- ing, a one and a half inch iron bar was welded both by means of electricity and by hand. The former stood a strain of 91.9 per Dent. of the strength of the metal itself and the latter 89.3 per oent. The electric weld, however,sbowed cracks when bent cold at an angle of 66 degrees, whereas the hand- made joint stood 138 degrees of bend. - New York Times. The Man Who Hanged Smith. The man who launched Smith into eternity was an Englishman apparently about 45 years of ago and of medium height. He stood 5 feet 10 inches, and on his ruddy face was a heavy growth of brown, curling whiskers. He is set down as a professional hangman and is thought to be the same man who hanged, Kane in Toronto. He carried himself with an air of nonchalance, and did not evince any repugnance to his occupation. Previous to the execution he was somewhat unnerved by Capt. Foster, who stood watching him intently. " Who are you looking at ?" he aeked, after a careful eorntiny by the Captain was finished. "Ob," replied Mr. Foster, "a oat can look at king, can't it ? At thie remark the hangman turned on his heel and walked away. To an idvertuer, reporter, provions to the execution, he denied that he had executed anyone and said he came to the city simply to show the hangman how the apparatus worked. - London Advertiser. He Rad 'Em All. It is said that after the aeneue question : " Whether enffering from sante or chronic diseases, with name of diocese," a sufferer wrote: "Consumption, heart disease, pleurisy, bronchitis, diabetes, softening of the brain llri ht's disease, tuberonlosia, g thirty-seven other complaints." He had been reading a p stent -medicine almanac, and thought he had em all. The Mae Dominle. "Why doesn't the Rev. Mr. Jones permit fishing in hie pond ? " "ie wants to discourage lying." THE SUPERIOR COURT. The AutumnAasizes and Autumn Chancery''' Sittings Open on the Dates Below, AUTUMN ASSIZES, 1890. AitMO'DIt, 0, T, Toronto, Olvil.,, 2uosday; Sept, 2.. o Criminal ....,.°Monday Oet 13. Milton Wednesday, Oot, 29. Brampton Svoduseday, Oat, 29. St. Catharines...,,..,, Tuesday, Nov. 4. Orangeville Tueeday, Nov 11. Simooe ItOSl J. StratfordGuelph -....•.,... Monday, Sopt. 18. Hamilton Monday, Sept. 22, ` elland Monday, Oct. 8, Monday, ace. 08. Mondayp, OotOot.. ,20 Cayuga Thursday, 29, Berlin Monday, Oct. 27. Brantford Monday, Nov. 3, FALOON0R10c E, .7. Barrie Mondays Sept. 8. Ottawa Monday. Sept, 02, hombroko Wednesday, 001.1. L'Orignal Tuesday, Dot. 7. Perth Monday, 0. t. 13, Owen Sound Monday, Oct. 20. Peterboro' Wednesday, cot, 29. Lindsay ..,..... ,,..»•Tuesday, 0►.4. S'XIIEUT, a, Kingston Monday, Sept. 8. Brookville Monday, Sept. 15. Cornwall .. Tuesday, Rept. 96. Belleville Monday, Sept. 29. Picton Monday, Oct. 0. Napanee Monday, "et, 13. Cobourg Monday, Oct. 20. Whitby Monday, Oct. 27. DIACILAEON, I. London ......: Monday, Sept, 8, Woodstock Thursday, fiept,18. Walkerton Mouday, Sept. 29. Goderich..,. Monday, Oct. 6. Sarnia Monday, Oct. 13. Sandwich Monday, Oot.00. Chatham Monday, Oct. 27. St. Thomas Wednesday, Nov. 5. AUTUMN CHANCERY SITTINGS, 18502 Y OnEaTooN, T. Toronto Monday, No'r, 17. - Born, O. St. Thomas Wednesday, Oct 1. London Monday, Oct. 6. Barrio Monday, Oct 13. Walkerton Monday, Nov. 10, Goderioh Friday, Nov. 14. Sarnia Tuesday, Nov. 18, Sandwiah Frid, Nov, 21. Chatham Wednesayday, Nov, 26. WhitbyMonday, Dee. 8. FEIiGIISON, J. Cobourg Monday, Sept. 16, Lindsay Friday, Sept. 19. Peterboro',..,.. Tuesday, Sept. 23, Ottawa Monday, Oot. 20° Brockville Monday, Oct. 27, Cornwall Friday, Oct.31° Tuesday, Nov° 4° Monday, Deo, l° Ron3EnxsoN, J, Simooe Tuesday, Sept. 16. Owen Sound Tuesday, Sept. 23. Brantford Tuesday, Sept. 30° St. Catharines .°,-. ....Monday, Oct, 6. Stratford ........................Monday, Oct, 13. Hamilton Monday, Oct. 20. Woodstock Monday, Nov. 3. Guelph Monday, Nov. 10. Belleville Kingston The Work of the Jugglers. The Philadelphia Press enggeets as - another name for the McKinley Bill, " Ann Act to prevent the reduction cf the wages, of American labor to a European basis." Wages are used to buy necessary sup. plies for the family. Now wages are to be " protected " by compelling wase earners to pay more for all they bay. Whether a man works in a factory or in the field is determined by the price of farm labor. The American manatee. tnrer bids, not against the European manufacturer, but against the American farmer. Why is it that today, after thirty years of a protective tariff, it is neceesary to go to Congress to get a law passed to " prevent the reduction of the wages of American labor "2 What influences are at work reducing. wages in America 2 Plainly the depreseion cf agriculture. When, in America, agriculture prospers, wages advance ; when it is depressed, wages in every factory in the land declines.. In 1877, 1878 and 1879 farm products commanded profitable prices, and every section hada " boom." But in recent years the tendency has been otherwise ; the chief agricultural Drop has been the orop of mortgages, with the result that wages have declined in all in. mistrial centres, and strikes have multi - p lied. N w we are to have a bill toreveal the reduction of wages of American labor to a European basis," How is it proposed to do this ? Simply by increasing taxa- tion. Here is an illustration : A farmer sends some early strawberries to hie city mer- chant and tells him to send in exchange twelve dozen tin cans for peaches, toma- toes, eta„ oto. Heretofore the Government would take for revenue 33 per cent., the farmer would get nine cans instead of a dozen. He finds this tax has been in- creased to five, leaving only seven cans in a dozen, or seven dozen in a gross. It does not matter what the farmer' asks in exchange for his products, the effect of the McKinley bill is the same. If he wants a suit of clothes, a carpet, household utensils, farming implements, knives,. guns, fertilizer, anything or everything, he finds that in exchange for his fruits and vegetables, for wheat or corn, for cotton or for cattle, by an increase of taxation he must accept lees or he must send more. This is the way farm wages are "in creased." Under the influence of the tariff, agrionitnre has declined, and wages in the factories and mills have followed. Labor bas been imported and is today imported tree of any tax, and so between the poorly paid immigrant and the poorly paid farmer, the laborer in the cities finds that the wages and the wages of the English laborers approach every year nearer and nearer to a level. Wages come not from capital; they come from the produote of labor. They are highest when and where production is highest per hand. Any natural or artificial impediment to the highest prodnotion any friction, any taxation, any tariff, lessens the productive power of labor and reduces its rewards. Taxation is always an evil; it is tolerable to meet the require- ments when imposeduire- . q ments of the government. When imposed to enrich the rich, to add to the accumula- tions of the Forty Thieves, it is an outrage to every person, and an especial burden upon American labor in the field or the factory. Deny it as our Republican friends may, the tariff is a tax. -Louisville Courier. Journal. -Certain Collingwood parties have re cantly received offers to sell them "green . geode," and one Thomas Roper was green enough to pay $200 for $1,000 of the stuff; He went to Thornbury and got by express an empty box. One Alex. Cline has been., arrested and committed for trial. Princes( Marguerite de Cbartree, who is to marry the Duke of Orleans, is said to be a particularly a000mplished gook. The freedom of the City of Dublin wet recently given to Lady Sandhurst, who bps made a reputation as a Liberal orator and organizer. She is the only woman upon whom this honor has been conferred in 800 700. Frederick Beer, the Anstrion soulptor,. now in Paris, bas discovered a process for makingmarble fluid and moulding it as i bronze s moulded. Tho new process ,in comparatively inexpensive.