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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-7-10, Page 2OLIMPBES OF AFRICA. IL Peep into Explorer 2tan1ey'S New Book. MOUNTAIN AND FOBST. A last (Sunday) night's London cable Bays: Stanley's book to -day dwarfs all other topics M the Englieli pepers. Long entracte are given, and for the moat part the comment on the work M eulogistic. The strong religious profeseions which he has Beaked on to the head and tail et his book bore their first fruit last night in a wildly crowded lecture assemblage at Exeter Hall at guinea tickets, and the clauroh organizations everywhere are com- peting to secure Stanley as a lecturer. Both here and in Germany publishers are hold- ing their best books back until the demand for Stanley's work has subsided. While the excitement Meta it is oonsidered that nothing else laas a chance. I dare say something of this ie felt in the Amerioan book trade. Mudie and all the lesser librarians have put their whole current capital into the Stanley volumes, taking up practically the whole edition'and until the rage for it eximeste itself they have neither the time nor the money to handle muola else. nhrowd observers, however, ifanoy that this furore will die out much Booner than the librarians have expected, and that slightly worn copies of the book will eoon be plentiful in the market. WONDERFUL FORESTS. The most impressive passages of theee -admirable volumes relate to the Central African forests, which are rivalled only by the Amazon woods. This belt inoludes a compact area of 321,057 square miles of prinaeval woods. Mr. Stanley quotes con- tentptuously Professor Drummond's de- scription of the foreste of tropical Africa as confirming that charming writer's own estimate of himself as "a minor traveller, possessing but few assets." Ho asserte hat the description given by the tourist in Nyassaland bears no more resemtlanoe to tropical Afrioa than the tors of Devon or the moors of Yorkshire or the downs of Dover represent the smiling scenes of Eng- land, of leafy Warwickshire, the gardens of Kent, and the glorious vales of the isle. The essential features of this wonderful orest area are vividly portrayed in the following passages: Now let us look at this great forest, not for scientific analysis of its woode and pro- ductions, but to get a real idea of what it is like. It covers such a vast arm, it is so varied and yet so uniform in :ts features, that it would require many books to treat of it properly. Nay, if we regard it too -closely, a legion of speoialists would be 'needed. We have no time to examine the buds and the flowers or the fruit, and the many marvels of vegetation, or to regard the fine differences between bark and leaf in the various towering trees around us, or to compere the different exudations in the viscous or vitrified gums, or which drip in milky tears or amber globules, or opaline paatils, or to observe the industrious ants which ascend and descend up and down the tree shafts, whose deep wrinkles of bark are as valleys and ridges to the insect armies, or to wait for the famous struggle •whioh will surely ensue between them and yonder army of red ants. Nor at this time do we care to probe into that mighty mass of dead tree, brown and porous as a sponge, for already it is a mere semblance of a prostrate log. Within it is alive with minute tribes. It would charm an entomologist. Pat your ear to it, and you hear a distinct murmuroue hum. It is the stir and movement of insect life in many forms, matchless in size, glorious in color, radiant in livery, rejoicing in their occupations, exulting in their fierce but brief life, most insatiate of their kind, ravaging, foraging, fighting, deetroying, building and swarming everywhere and exploring everything. Lean but your hand on a tree, measure but your length on the ground, seat yourself on a fallen branch, and you will then understand what venom, Airy, voraoity and activity breathes around you. Open your notebook, the page ;attracts a dozen butterflies; a honey bee Siovers over your hand, other forms of bees flash for your eyes; a wasp buzzes in your Bar, a huge hornet menaces your face, an array of pismires come marching to your feet. Sonia are already crawling up, and will presently be digging their missor.like mandibles in your neck. Woe! woe! And yet it is all beautiful—but there must be no sitting or lying down on this seething earth. It is not like your pine groves and your dainty woods in England. it is a tropic world, and to enjoy it you must keep slowly moving. Imagine the whole of France and the Iberian Peninsula cloeely packed with trees varying from twenty to 180 feet high, whose crowns of foliage interlace and pre- vent any view of sky and sun, and each tree from a few inches to four feet in diameter. Then from tree to tree run cables from two inches to fifteen inolaes in diameter, up and,down in loops and fes- toons and W's and badly -formed M's fold them round the trees in great tight coils, enntil they have run up the entire height, like endless anacondas; let them flower and leaf Inxurantly, and mix up above with the foliage of the trees to hide the onn'then . from *he highest branchea let fall the ends of the cables reaching near to the ground by hundreds with frayed ex. tremities, for gem represent the air roots of the Epiphytes; lot elender oorde hang down also in tasselwith open thread - work at the ends. Work others through and through these as confusedly as possi- ble, and pendant from branch to branch, witk absolute disregard of material, and at every fork and on every horizontal branch plant cabbage.like lichens of the largest kinds, and broad spear -leaved plants— these would represent the elephant -eared plant—and orchids and clusters of vege- table marvels, and a drapery of delicate ferns whioh abound. Now cover tree, branch, twig and creeper with a thick moss like a green fur. 177bere the forest is com- pact as desoribed above, we may not do more than cover the ground closely with a thick crop of phrynia, and arnorca,and dwarf bush; but if the lightning, as frequently happens', has Severed the crown of a proud tree, and let in the sunlight, or split a giant down to its roots or scorched it dead, or a tornado has been uprooting a few trees, then the race for air and light has caused a ratiltitude of baby trees to rush upward— crowding, crushing and treading upon and Etrahgling one another, until the whole is one impervious bush. But the average forest is a mixture of these scenes. There will probably be groups of 50 trees standing like columns tit a cathedral, grey and solemn in the twi- light, and in the midet there will be a naked and gauntpatriarch, bleaohed white, and around it will have grown a young community, each young tree Clambering upward to become heir to the area of light and stmehine once occupied by the sire. The law of primogenitiare reigne here also. There is also dedth from wotinde, sick; mem, decay, hereditary disease and old age, and various; aceidente thinning the fewest, removing the nnfit, the weakly, the unadaptable, es among humanity. Let tie euppOtie a tall chief among this giants, like an insolent soh of Anak, Byle head he lifte himself ebove hie fellows—the mon- arch ot all he Elifitey0 ; but hie pride attracts the lightning, and he becomes shivered to the roots, he topplee, deolines and wounde half a LIODOI1 other tree e in his faU. Thia is why we see SOO S many tumorous ex- crescences, great goitrous swellings, and deformed trunks. The paraeitts again have frequently been outlived by the trees they had half strangled, and the deep marks of their forceful preesure may be treeeci up to the forks. Some have eickened by iu- tenee rivalry of other kinds, and have perielied at an immature ago; some have grown with a deep crook in their sterna, by a prostrate log which had fallen and pressed them obliquely. Some had been injured by branches fallen during the storm, and dwarfted untimely. Some have been gnawed by rodents or have been sprained by elephants leaning on them to rub their prurient hides and ants of all kinds have done infinite mischief. Some have been peeked at by all birds until we see ulcerous sores mining great globules of gum, and frequently tell and short nomade have tried their axes, spears and knives on the trees, and hence we see that decay and death are busy here as with us. To complete the mental picture of thia ruthlees forest, the ground should be strewn thickly with half -formed humus of rotting twigs, leaves, branches, every few yarda there ehould be a prostrate giant, a reeking compost of rotten fibres, and de. parted generations of insects, and colonies of ants, half veiled with masses of vines and shrouded by the leafage of a multitude of baby saplings, lengthy briars and calamas in many fathom lengths, and every mile or so there should be muddy streams, stagnant creeks and shallow pools, green with duokweed, leaves of lotus, and Mlles, and a greasy green seam com- posed of millione of finite growths. Then people this vast region of woods with numberless fragments of tribes, who are at war with eaeh other and who live apart from ten to fifty miles in the midet of a prostrate forest, among whose ruins they have planted the plantain, banana, manioc, beane, tobacco, mimesis, gourds, melons, eto , and who, in order to make their villages inameseible, have resorted to every means of defence sug- gested to wild men by the nature of their lives. They have planted skewers along their pathe, and cunningly hidden them under an apparently stray leaf or on the lee side of a log, by striding over weich the naked foot le pierced, and the intruder is either kilIe from the poison emeimed on the tops of the skewers or • lamed for months. They have piled%) branches and have formed abattie of great trees. and they lie in wait behind with sheaves of poisoned arrows, wooden spears hardened in fire and emeared with poison. A GREAT MOUNTAIN EANGE. The Ruwenzori, the lofty mountain range from whose flanks the Nile derives ite first waters, inspires paseages of sincere reverence in the explorer's mind, emh as these These brief—too brief—viewe of the superb RaM Creator or Cloud King, as the Waconj a fondly termed their mist -shrouded mountain, fill the gazer with a feeling as though a glimpse of celestial splendor was obtained. While it lasted I have observed the rapt faces of whites and blacks set fixed and uplifted in speechless wonder toward that upper region of cold brightness and perfect peace so high above mortal reach, so briny tranquil and restful, of such immaculate and stainlees parity, that thought and desire al expression were altogether too deep for utterance. What stranger °entreat could there be than our own nether world of torrid temperature, eternally green, sappy plants, and never - fading luxuriance and verdure, with its savagery and war -alarms, and deep stains of blood -red sin, to that lofty mountain king, clad in its pure white raiment of anew, enrrounded by myriads of dark mountains, low as bending worship- pers before the throne of a monarch, on whose cold white face were in- scribed " Infinity and Everlesting I" These moments of supreme feeling are memorable for the utter abstraction of the mind from all that is sordid and ignoble, and its utter absorption in the presence of unreachable loftiness, indiscribable majesty, and con- straining it not only to reverentially admire, but adore in silence, the image of the eternal. Never can a man be so fit for heaven as during such moments, for how- ever scornful and insolent he may have been at other times, he now has become as a little child, filled with wonder and rever- ence before what he has conceived to be sublime and divine. We had been strangers for many months to the indulg- ence of any thought of this character. Our senses, between the hours of Bleeping and waking, had been occupied by the imperious and imminent necessities of each hour, ethich required unrelaxing vigilance and forethought. It is true we had been touched with the view from the mount called Pisgah of that universal extent of forest, spreading out on all sides but one, to many hundreds of mules; we had been elated into hysteria when, after five months' immurement in the depths of forest wild, we once again trod upon green grass and enjoyed open and unlimited views of our surroundings— luxuriant vales, varying hill -forms on all sides, rolling plains, over which the long spring grass seemed to race and leap in gladness before the cooling gale; we had Admired the broad eweep and the silvered face of Lake &Meet, and enjoyed a period of intense rejoicing when we knew we hed reached, after infinite trials, the bourne and limit of our journeyings, but the deeire and involuntary act el worship were never provoked, nor the emotions stirred so deeply, as when we suddenly looked up and beheld tha eleyey crests and snowy breasts of Ruwenzori uplifted into an inaccessible altitude, so like what our conceptions might be of a celestial palace, with dominating battlement, and leagues upon leagues of ten sceleable Twenty-two Drowned. A San Francisco despatch says: The steamer City of Rio Janeiro, from Hong Kong and Yokohama, bringe the following advices, "The steamer Paoohing, Capt. Place'which left Shanglai for Hankow, was barned near the Forked Tree, on the Yang. tem River, May 28th, and Capt. Place, Second Engineer Wilson, and some twenty natives were miming and are supposed to have periehed. A number of Chinese vessels did good service in picking upthe survivore, of whom First Officer Christiansen, the sec- ond officer, and 62 natives were found. The vessel was loaded with a general cargo, including several eases of matches. A widow in Miller County, Mo.. who !Wee on a farm, gave another woman $15 to moure her a hueband. The man Was secured and veitrranted all right in every reaped, but the next morning after the marriage he licked his bride, stole the $50 she had saved up, and in the night silently Abele away to No Man's Land. There Veer° f Ottr ingtunite held n Mord real yesterday. TUE RAILWAY STRIKE. knelt Perishable Freight Being meld by the Railway Company. A Chicago despatch gays ; There is danger that unless the Illinois Central strike is settled soon it will spread to other roads. The Big Four, which, has a rack. ege arrangement with the Minim Central, finding its brisinese obstructed by the Mi. ROW Central strike, has made an arrange - went with the Chiasgo ee Eastern Illinois Railroad to handle its Chicago businems. The etrikers suspected that the Illinois Central was also using the Chicago Ss Eastern Illinois tracks, and sent word to the switohmen of that road not to handle any Illinois Central oars. The request was complied with, and the Eastern Illinois switchmen refused to handle any more Big Four oars. Thirteen oars of perishable freight are side.tracked at Kankakee. Large quantities of fruit, berries, water- melons and the like are data -tracked at various points down the line almost to the oity limite, and are fast rotting in the broiling BIM. Freight merohants are send. ing caravans of transfer and express wag- gons all along the line of the road from Forty.third to Sixty-fifth street, buying up the perishable stuff. The order to sell these goods was given by the officials of the road. After an all.day session, the con- ferenoe between the strikers' committees and the Illinois Central officials ended with the positive refueal of the railway company to discharge Superintendent Russell. The ultimatum of the employees had been a demand for Mr. Russell's discharge. Speculation is rife as to whether a general strike throughout the Illinois Central sys. tem will be ordered. A FIENDISH ORTHE A Passenger Train Engine Deratled and the Fireman Killed. A Grand Rapids, Mich., despatch says: An ,attempt at train-wreoking occurred last night just before the Detroit, Grand Haven St Milwaukee west -bound passenger was due. Two men were noticed by two small boys carrying a heavy timber to the rail. road track, and before their purpose could be divined the train hove in sight around a curve and the men ran. The engine struck the end of the timber and was derailed, to- gether with the baggage car, but the two passengers and parlor remained on the raile. Engineer William Ritchie etuck to his post, but owing to a down grade and tre- mendous rate of speed could not stop for thirty rods. As he slowed up the tender tipped from the trucks and went over to the ground. Herbert Nesser, the fireman, had just reached the door of the cab, with the evident intention of jumping, when the tipping tender caught him. His left side was squeezed to a jelly, and he expired five minutes after in Conductor Sheeran's arms without regaining consciousness. Hia home was in Detroit, where he had a wife but no children. Ho was 28 years old. 'The coroner and police soon arrived on the scene and began an investigation. There is no clue to the perpetrators of the crime, the boys who saw them being too young to give any description of them. There were 40 passengers on the train, and those in the rear coaches knew nothing of the matter until informed after the train stopped. ESTELL NARROW ESCAPE. She Tried the Parachute Aet and Lives to Regret It. A Cleveland despatch says : Estella Leroy, a Cleveland girl, who real name is Hull, attempted to make h balloon ascension and parachute jump at Be le 'ete r 4' Park last evening. She failed, however, and narrowly escaped death. The benloon was inflated with hot air, and an employee, Ed. French, was sent ineide to keep it from igniting from sparks from the fire. He Was forgotten, and when the balloon was sufficiently inflated it was cat loose and shot up into the air. French was not pre- pared for the ascension, and began to ecrambled out. One of his feet caught in the ropes and he hung head downward. After a vigorous struggle he succeeded in extrioating himself when the balloon was about thirty feet from the earth, and after turning two somersaults in the air he alighted on bin face and was severely injured. The etruggles of French loosened the parachute from the balloon, and when at the height of one hundred feet it end. denly broke loose, The parachute does not open until a considerable distance has been naversed, and the woman descended with a rush. There was a cry of tetwor and a general stampede. Fortunately the aero- naut fell into the branehee of a large tree, and Was rescued without sustaining any injury. CHILDREN MARRY. A Boy of 15 Weds a Girl of 13 to' Get Control of His Fortune. A New Orleans despatch says : The youngest couple ever united here were married before Judge Price, of the First City Court, this week, the contracting parties being Annie Beery, aged 13, and Frank Martinez, aged 15. They were really boy and girl, looking so young fortheir ages that the Judge declined at first to unite them: But as they had a marriage license with them, and as their mothers were present and gave their frill consent to the marriage, no valid objection could be raised, and the ceremony was perforraed. The marriage seemed all the stranger when it was developed that the couple had known each other only a short time. Young Martinez is well-to-do in his own right, having -recently inherited some 625,000 from his father. The laws of Louisiana provide that a minor who owns property can be emancipated and obtain control of it when he is 18 by order of court or when he marries, marriage acting as an emancipator. To get possession of his fortune, therefore, young Martinez had to marry, whioh explains why he did not wait until his bride and himself had reached the High School. It Looks Bad for the Miners. A Dunbar, Pa., despatch says: The reaction had not succeeded in cutting their way into Hill farm mine up to noon, but they are expecting to break through at any moment. The flames in Hill farm mine burst from the month of the pit to -night and leaped 30 feet in the air. All efforts te extinguish them have proved fruitless. The buildings in the vicinity have been torn down to pre. vent the fire spreading. A. hole has been drilled in the Hill farm, and at 11 o'clock to -night the inspectore started on their perilous search for the imprisoned rainers. They have taken their live in their hands and may never see daylight sgein. It is feared the mine is on fire all throagh, o else filled with smoke. Walter G. Smith, Governor-General of the organized filibusterwho attempted a raid on Lower Calfornia, says the English Colonization Company Wad alone at the bottom of the schema, which was intended to be a revolution of the residente of Lower California. Coaching parasols of plain geode have a V of plaid materiel inserted in each gore. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. second Day of the Great International Convention at /Pittsburg. A Tharsday'a Pittsburg despatch says Upon motion 4,)11r. Peake, of Ontario, a Special Committee of five was appointed to oonsider the various recommendations of the Exeoutive Committee and report to the (invention. Rev. Mr. Armstrong, Superintendent of the Springfield School for Training Chris- tian Workers, and Rev. Dr. J. A. Worden presented the work of that institution. One of the most important reports pre. sented to the convention was that of the International Lesson Committee, which was read by its indefatigable eeoretary for the last eighteen yeare, Rev. Dr. Warren Randolph. Thiel report was of special interest from the efforts of the W. C. T. U. and others looking to a modification of the plan of the lesson scheme. This report will be discussed at a later seesion of the convention. Rey. Dr, A. E, Dunning, of Massa- chusetts, and Rev. Dr. Potts, of Ontario, delivered addresses upon the work of the Leeson Committee. The important duty of selecting a new Lesson Committee of fourteen members, to aeleot the lessons for the next terra of seven years, was entrueted to a special ooromittee, consisting of Messrs. L. C. Peakes, Ontario; Barnfield, Rhode Island; Rev. J. P. Barrett, Rev. Wm. Shaw, Florida; B. J. Loomis, Ohio; Rev. W. H. Black. Rev. E. G. Wheeler, Oregon; Rev. J. A. Bright, Kansas, end Wm. Reynolds, Illinois, to report later. Biehop J. H. Vincent delivered a most impressive address on the subject of eland culture. Other speakers were Rev. G. 13. Howie,of ()titmice and Rev. M. B. Wharton, of Alabama. The musie of the first two days has been conducted by Mr. and Mrs. G. Stebbins, of Brookle n, N. Y. The International Sunday School Conven- tion resumed at 9 o'clock, with President Harris in the chair. Devotional exercises were conducted by Prof. Excell, of Chicago, who will be in charge of the mueio until the end of the convention. The treasurer's report was read by Mr.J. B. Wight, and referred for audit. The report showed that the receipts for the year were e14,665, and the expenditures e14,622, leaving a balance of $43. The report of the Executive Committee was reported back by the Special Commit- tee and the various recommendations were considered and generally edopted. In view of the extension of the work it was decided to atilt for the sum of $10,000 a year for the next three years, and upon the spet between $6,000 and $7,000 per annum was pledged by the states, territories and provinces represented. The Nominating Committee reported the names of a vice-president and member of the Executive Committee from each state, territory and province. The Vice -President for Ontario is Rev. Samuel Houston, M.A., Kingeton and a member of the Executive Commit:tee Mr. Lewis C. Peake, Toronto. The new Lesson Committee elected is Bishop Vincent, of New York; Dr. Ran- dolph, Rhode Isleeid ; Dr. Hall, New York; Mr. S. II. Blake, Ontario; Mr. B. F. jambe, Illinois; Dr. Hoge, Virginia ; Dr. Cunningham, Tenneseee ; Dr. Broadus, Kentucky; Dr. Baugher, Penneylvania ; Dr. Potts, Ontario; Dr. Dunning, Meese. °lunette ; Prof. Hinde. Tennessee ; Dr. Tyler, New York; Dr. Berger, Ohio, and Dr. Stahr, Pennsylvania. The statistical report was presented by Secretary E. P. Porter. It showed that there are 108,252 Sunday schools in the 'United States, with 1,143,190 teachers and officers, and 8,643,255 scholars, making a total of 9,786,445. In Canada there are 6,689 Sunday schools, with 55,706 teachers and officers, 472,623 scholars, making a total of 528,379, and including Newfound- land and Labrador, giving a grand total of 115,255 Sunday schools, 1,201,058 teachers and officers, 9,138,695 scholars ; total, 10,330,753. The next convention is to be held in 1893 in St. Louis, the time to be decided by the Executive Committee. The Canadian delegates made a strong fight for Toronto or Montreal, but were out- voted. The subject of primary work was ably dimmed by Mrs. Crafts, New York; Mrs. Ostrander, Brooklyn; Mies Vitnnlarter, Miss Frances Willard, Evanston; Miss Lucy Wheelock, Boston; and Miss Babel Hall, Chicago. Prof. Harper, of Yale, in an able address, ettrnestly urged the importance of a sys- tematic study of the word of God. In an address of rare beauty, full of unique illustrations, Rev. Dr. A. F. Sehauffier, of New York, spoke upon the subject of "The Teacher and His Work." Fifty-four delegates are in attendance from the Province of Ontario. With the exception of Pennsylvania, with 97, and Illinois, with 62, this is the largest delega- tion sent by any association. Eleven dele- gates represent the four other Canadian Provinces. Close of the S. 5. convention. A Pittsburg despatch says : At to -day's session of the Sunday Sohool Convention the report of the Executive Committee was submitted recommending that the Second World's and Seventh Triennial Interna- tional Sunday School Convention be held together. The report was adopted and it was decided to hold both conventions in St. Louis in 1893. The date is to be Bet leter by the Executive Committee. A colleotion was taken np for the fatal/lea of the imprisoned Dunbar minere, and $366 was rained. France Must Not Interfere, A London cable says: Sir Edward Malet the British Ambassador, held an important conference with Chancellor von Caprivi on Friday on the subject of opposition of the French Government to the East African agreement. The note of M. Ribot, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, pro- testing against the establishment of a pro- teotorate over Zanzibar, affects the German claims to the littoral within the Sultanate, and also the proposed acquisition of Mafia. The conference resulted in an agreement to take simultaneous action in opposing the right of France to interfere. The English Government has prepared a reply to M. Ribot to tbe effect that if the Sultan accepts the protection of England or any other power, the treaty of 1862 gives France no right to object, and further that the Anglo -German arrangement does not attaok the independ- ence of the Sultan, protection not involving subjection. From semi-official sources it is given mit then Minneapolis will show ei population from 185,000 to $200,000, and St. Paul from 40,000 to 60,000 less. The charges against the local enumerators have fallen flat, and no one believes the came will ever come to trial. Diphtheria ie naming many deaths at New Liverpool, Cap Rouge and other adjacent looeilitiele in Quebec'. The job printers of the Montreal Herald have followed the example of the Composi- torand are Out on duke, HOPE ABANDolegie. The Dunbar Nine Victims Believed to be All Dead. A Dunbar, Pa, despatch says ; The rescuers dug through into the Hill farm mine at half -past 3 o'clock this =Blinn : but before they had one far fire and black damp was encountered, and the men, quickly made their way out of the danger - me pit. The fans were then started, and at 9 o'olook nine eelected men started in eearoh for the 30 entombed men. At 11 o'clock nothing had been heard from them. There is scarcely any hope that any of the imprieoned men are alive. lt is certain now that the Hill Fame raine is and has been full of smoke and the deadly black damp. There seems to be no doubt that the entombed miners are dead, and it 18 now a queetion whether their bodies will be recovered. The exploring party were driven back by smoke after advancing ten feet in the Hill Farm mine. The work of name has been abandoned. Two dinner buckets and mate were found by the resouing party. The 31 men are in the slope, and were undoubtedly burned to death. Fifteen and a half days have elapsed since the flash of gas set fire to the Hill Farm mine. Hope and work were aban- doned thie evening at 6 o'clock, and the dust and ashes of the thirty-one impris- oned men rev rest beneath the Dunbar hill till the last day shall come. To -night the caskets which were secretly carried to the mine were quietly brought back ; so were the stretchers, blankets an medicines brought to the grounds by the physicians. After being driven from the mine by smoke and black damp this morning, twenty-one brave men resolved to make one more attempt to rescue tbeir comrades, and at 2 onelook they again entered the burning pit. Three of the party ventured to within a few hundred yards of a burning subterranean fire, and satiefied themselves that themen were dead and that farther search was useless. The stench of burning fleeh sickened them, but they visited nine plaoes where the men were keown to have been at work. Two dinner peals were found with dinners untouched and two coats. The picks and shovels were all lying just as a man would drop them as he started on a dead ran for life. One mule was found dead and putrefied. Otherwise no trace of the men could be found. While prosecuting their search still further they ran into a dense cloud of black damp, which put out their lights. A struggle for life then followed, but they succeeded in getting back to the rest of the party. After a sad consultation it was decided to abandon the search. The company will now make an effort to extinguish the fire and save Boma of their property. All the resouers will be paid for their work by the company. PROLONGING THE AGONY. The Dunbar Mine Rescuers Misled by a Faulty Map. A Dunbar, Pa., despatch says: Again are the maniere and relatives of the 37 entombed miners doomed to disappoint- ment. The four brave men who took their lives in their hands when they went into the Alahoning it last night came out this morning without having pierced the Hill Farm mine. The hole drilled into what was supposed to be an entry of the ill- fated mine last night was only a crevice. The rescuers declare the maps are wrong, and they are as much in the dark now as at any time eince the search wen begun thirteen days ago. The regular shatt started again this morning, and the brave but disheartened men are once more searching for an entry that will lead them into the burning pit. The work is very dangerous, but the men will not abandon the search until they have accomplished their purpose and found their comrades or the fierce fire forces them to give up the task. The fire in the mine is burning with great fierceness this Morning, and immense volnmes of smoke and flames are issuing from the month of the pit. PANITZA SHOT. The Chief Conspirator Against Blegaria Pays the Extreme Penalty. A Sofia cable says The sentence of 'death pronounced upon Major Panitza for conspiring to overthrow the Government was carried out to -day. On arriving at the place of execution he made a confession to the chaplain. With a firm step he walked to the poet alone and saluted the military officers present. He was then bound to a tree. Just before the order to fire was given the condemned man cried out in a loud voice, "Long Live Bulgaria." The eneoution took place at 10 o'clock in the morning at the camp near the city. All the military officers attached to the camp were present. Four regiments of infantry with a battery of artillery formed the hollow square in which Panitzs, met his end. He blindfolded himself, stood ereot in plain clothes and acted courageously throughout. Twentenone bullets pierced his body. The remains were given to his widow. A Train Tan es to the Water. A Troy, N.Y., despatch says: This morning the locomotive, baggage oar and two passenger coaches of a train on the Lake George branch of the Delaware & Hudson road ran into Glen Lake, about three miles north of Glen's Falls. The locomotive overturned. Most of the pas- sengers' were in the rear cars, which did not leave the track, and none were seri- ouely injured. The train connected at at Fort Edward with the steamboat trains leaving Troy and Albany at 7 o'clock this morning. The mile spread. The water WWI not deep. Forty Shtits Exchanged. A Thursday's Kanaas City despatch says: A mob of 40 persons gathered at 12 o'clock last night at the house of Walter Squires, 12 miles northwest of Cameron, Mo., to tar and feather his son Bud, who, it is claimed, ruined a young woman of the neighborhood. Forty shots were exchanged. Old. Mr. Squires was shot in the stomach, bet not fatally injured. Will Noland, in the crowd, was also shot in the stomach, and probably fatally wounded. Intense excitement prevails. ele Mr. IVInnderloh, the German Consul at Montreal, waa in Ottawa yesterday, and had an interview with Sir John Macdonald. He says' the Hansa line is building five new eteamers intended to ply between Antwerp, Hamburg and Montreal. Many children have eruption of the scalp. This can be cured by rubing sweet oil over it previous to washing. Use warm water and tar soap, lather the little head for ten minutes arid don't be alarmed if the soapy paste mains to disappear, Rinse with clear, cool water, and mop not rub dry with a soft towel. Have this toilet made jest before bed time. Repast every day for a week, three times the second, twice the third and once the fonrth week. At the end of a month the ocalp will be Clean and well. Soda with crushed violete if1 the Meat quinteseence. A eleeteeteln IN LIFE. Bob Burdetie's Pessimistic Views Human Existence. Man born of woman is of few d&I's and no teeth, and, indeed, it wonld be ramaey j. hia pooket eomotimee if he had leaa of either. As for hie teeth, he lead oonvul- done when he out them, and as the laid one comes through, lo ! the dentist is - twisting the rant ono out, and the laat end of that man's jaw hi worse than the first being full of porcelain and a roof -plate built to hold block -berry seeds. Stone - landau line hie reethway to manhood, his father boxes hie ears at home, the big boys auff him in theplay, ground and the teacher whips him in the Schoolroom. He bayeth Northwestern at 'six, and hie neighbors un- loadeth 'upon him Iron Mountain at sixty. three and five-eighthe, and it straightway' breaketh down to fifty-two and one-fourth. He riseth early and sittetn up late that he may fill hie barns and etorehousee, and lo his children's lawyers divide the spoils among themselves and say: "Hal ha I' He growl- eth and is sore distressed because it raineth, and he beateth upon his breast and sayeth, "My crop is lost," because it raineth not. The late reins blight his wheat and the frost biteth his peaches. If it be so that the sun shineth, even among the nine. tie, he sayeth, " Woe is me, for 1 perish," and if the northwest wind eigheth down,in 420 below, he cricith, " Would I were dead !" If he wears sackcloth and blue jean, men say, "He is a tramp," and if he goeth forth shaven and olad in purple and fine linen, all the people ory, " Shoot the dude 1" He carrieth insurance for 25 years, until he teeth paid thrice for all hie goods, and then he letteth hie policy lapse one day, and that same night fire destroy. eth his store. He buildeth him a house in Jersey, and bis first-born is devoured by mosquitoes ; tae pitcheth his tents in New York, and trenape devour his substance. He moveth to Kansas, and a cyclone carry- eth his house over into Missouri, whileoek,IL prairie fire and 10,000,000 acres of grasshopsyr pars fight for his crop. He settleth himeelf in Kentucky, and is shot the next day by a gentleman, a colonel and a statesman, " because, eel, he resembles, Bah, a man, sab, he did not like, sah." Verily, there is no reet for the sole of his foot, and it he had to do it over again he would not be born at all, for "the day of death is better than the day of one's birth." of The Turf. ThetOntario Jockey Club has signed an absolute lease for ten yeare at a fixed an- nual rental of the whole Woodbine Park property, buildings, stands, ete. It has not been found practicable hitherto in America for trotting and galloping associa- tions to use the same grounds, and the plan - has nowhere succeeded. A track scarcely hard enough for the trotters is too hard, for the gallopers, and it is likely the Wood- bine Driving Club will find other quarters during the coming winter. For the rest of this summer they will not be disturbed. It is the intention of the Jockey Club to fill up the space between Queen street and the Hendrie stables solid, and it is on the cards that they will construct a cricket ground, quoit ground and cinder path on the inside field. As the club's races must be run at the end of May, when generally the field is too soft, it is likely that hurdle races will be substituted for steeplchams and the crosemountry course abandoned. Great improvements are contemplated, and the gentlemen in charge are not likely to, be idle. Mr. Duggan hes offered the trot- ting people to construct a half -mile trade for them on the north side of Queen street, turning bie old residence on the bill, now (, occupied by C. Gates, into a club house, • The E C. R. Strike Ended. A Chicago despatch of last night says;. The Illinois Central Railroad strike has been declared off, and the men returned this afternoon. It is understood the men abated their demend for Saperintendant Russell'discharge to depriving that official of the power to hire or discharge M093. General Superintendent Sullivan said the strike was settled not upon the basis of any ooncessione on the part of the railway com- pany, but by the complete surrender of the men. Superintendent Russell's powers had not been curtailed. The strike lasted four - 505 seven hours. The loss to the company was over $100,000. The settle- ment of the strike has caused general rejoicing. Over Sixty Persons Poiaoned. A New York despatch says: Over sixty persons were seriously poisoned last night and to -day by partaking of iced cream from D.Brinlemann's store on Third avenue. Henry Meyer, employed in Brinkmann'e store, has been arrested on suspicion of t putting poison in the cream. It is said ' Meyer and Brinkmann had a quarrel. Meyer, it is alleged, shirked his work, and Brinkroann had decided to dieoharge him. Mrs. Brinkroann says Meyer told her yes- terday that if be felt disposed he could rain her husband's business. "Why all that I have got to do," he is reported to have said, to scrape off the verdigris from the freezer and put it into the iced cream." Not Too Drunk to Shoot. A Kansas City despatch of Thursdayseysi - In a drunken fury, and urged on by im- aginary wrongs, R. C. Meyers last evening went into the house of his wife's uncle. Benj. Tanhorn, a well-known resident, where his wife was, and attempted to kina the woman with a revolver. Mr. Van -1 k horn, in shielding his niece, received a probably fatal wound in the abdomen. A second shot struck Miss Carrie -Unborn and wounded her fatally. Meyers was not • captured until he had turned and fired at - hie pursuers. A ballet bit Nelson Gleason - in the leg. As soon as Meyers was ar- rested and taken to the station he fell to the floor in a drunken stupor. Ferdinand Coerced, A Sofia despatch says: Before his exe- cution Major Panitza confeseed he had acquired certain property by forgery, and expreesed a desire that it be reetored to the rightful owners. . Prince Ferdinand refused to consent to the execution of Panitza until the Cabinet threatened to resign. Panitza's wife wan kept in ignorance of the decision until her husband was already dead. Princess Cle- rnentine urged Prince Ferdinand to show meroy. Getting In On Him. Grand Street Dry Goods Nabob (who fail e to recognize his ealesgiri in street dress)—Won't yon have my seat, Madam? The Salesgirl—No; keep it, and give me, one at the store for an hour Or two to- morrow,—Puck. It itt reported that England has offered to cede to France Dominica, one of the Windward Mande, in exehange for a sur- render of her chianti to the fisheries on the Newfoundland (EWA. Garibaldi's tomb in Caprera is to be made a national monument, and the Wand is tce be devoted to the purposes Of a home for old seilore. A lighthOufte Akio will bo erected there.