HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-10-2, Page 3IRISH LEADERS IN ITAIL,
Particulars of the Arrest of Messrs.
Dillon and O'Brien Yesterday.
THE CAUSE or TEE TROUBLE
„el. last night's Louden gable nye :
Teeter information showthat Air. Dillon
wee arrested at Ballybrack, where be Wae
entitling hia unole. He wee hurried teener
o etrong guard and with the utmost
seamy, to the railway station, where a
special or wee in waiting. Ae soon se he
entered this the train eves etarted for
Dublin. Only a brief stop was made here,
when the prieoner we carried 011 to Tip,
pantry, the tenente of which town he is
o harged with having incited to refuse pay -
event of rent to their landlord, Smith-
Batry. The arrest of Wm. O'Brien WILS
made at the Glengariff Hotel. Mrs.
O'Brien was preeent. The charges against
'O'Brien are based on speeches made by
hiM at Limeriole and Tipperary, in which
ia alleged he advised his auditors not to
pay rent. Prom Glengeriff O'Brien
wee immediately taken to Cork. A
warrant has been issued for Mr.
Dalton, who has been active in the work of
the Land League. The police are keeping
a strict watch on the headquarters of the
Lend League in Dublin. Persons entering
Dr leaving are subject to dose eorutiny.
Despatches from Tipperary report that the
=wizen of the local branola of the league
ore under close police surveillance. 'The
reetivity of the police indicates that the
authorities contemplate further arrests. It
ie ooneidered probable that warrants are
tieres.dy out against many leaders in the
Mend League of secondary rank, who have
made themselves obnoxious by the aotive
part they have taken in recent antnrent
campaigns, This eudden notion of the
Government has fallen like a thunderbolt
from a clear sky. The Irish Nationalists
had no snepioion of the impending blow,
and are at a loss to know what it means.
Mingled inarpriee and indignation are the
• predominant feelings. Despatches from
various parts of Ireland show that the
'nationalists are everywhere greatly excited
at the arrests.
There was no abatement of interest
shroughout the day in the Irish arreete.
Up to 7 o'olook this evening no definite
information has reached London of the
speeified utteranoes of Dillon and O'Brien
on which the warrants for their arrest were
based. Neither had the Government given
out any official explanation which would
throw hg,ht upon the sudden and unex.
pinned resort to a vigorous Irish policy. It
es commonly supposed to might that the
ostensible grounds for O'Brienni arrest are
to be found in a very, plain speech that he
eseade last Sunday to an assemblsee of
peasants at &hull, in County Cork. He
Await upon the failure of the potato orop
and spoke of the gloomy outlook for wide-
spread distress which Ireland must face
this winter. Warming to the theme, he
For tens of thousands of smell
farmers through Ireland it will become a
unestion this winter whether they are to
have food, or their landlords." Confronted
with snob an alternative, he thought
there should be no hesitancy as to
a choice. He advised the tenants on every
estate to meet and consult as to what
proportion, if any, of their rent they could
honestly pay. When that question had
been determined they should all abide by
lite decision. If the farmers, he said,
S hould give to the landlorde money whioh
was needed to buy bread for their children,
the Irish leaders would not dare to appeal
to the world to come to the rescue of such
a -nation of sieves; but if tenants would
absolutely refuse to pay a penny of rent
until every family that tilled the soil waS
placed beyond the reaoh of starvation, then
if the Government evioted starving people
from their poor homes it wonld be swept
ant of existenoe by a torrent ot English
indignation, and the whole civilized world
would send money and assistance for the
benefit of the tenants.
Michael Dewitt was interviewed this
afternoon in regard to the arrests. He
look a very hopeful view of the eituation
mend thought the effeot would be entirely
avorable to the Irieh cense. " If Messrs.
Dillon and O'Brien," he eaid, "had
deliberetely set out to devise plane for in-
creasing the popularity of the plan of
campaign and heightening the preetige of
the Land League they could not have
acoorapliehed their purpose in any way
more sacoessfully than by inducing Mr.
Balfour to take precisely the step that he
has taken of his own volition. It is just
what they wanted. There had begun to be
a haling in Ireland that the plan of cam-
paign has been carried far enough. These
arrests will be sure to rouse public sena-
Ment in its favor again. Mr. Balfour has
not made a greater mistake since he has
bean in chief authority over Ireland."
A Dublin table says; Mr. O'Brien and
wife arrived at Tipperary at 9 o'clock to.
Bight. The publio lamps were not lighted.
'The couple were enthusiastically cheered
during their passage through the town.
Canon Cahill and other friends met them
tat the Court House.
In the Far Southwest.
Mrs. Colt (wife of Col. Colt, of Texas)—
As I was going by Turner's this morning,
John, I heard Jim Bluff say that if justice
lad its due you'd hays adorned a telegraph
pole long ago.
Col. Colt (springing up from dinner table)
—Jim Bluff, you say? Let me--.
Wife—Now, John, please finish your
aintier. The shooting will keep.
A Secret That is Safe.
Toronto News : Mr. Handsome—Oh,
you know, mother, women can't keep a
*met.
His mother—Yee they can my son. Yon
have been industriously conAing that Miss
Ilightly for a year, and you don't know her
zeal age yet.
From the same Catch.
Boston Commonwealth : At table—Hi,
'waiter, this bluefish is not quite as fresh as
the one yon brought me last week.
Waiter—Exouee me, sir, it is one of the
very same lot.
He Could Pleatie Himself.
Grip: He—Shall we marry, darling, or
shall we not?
She—I shall not You can do as you
!please.
No Rest.
" IS your father in ?"
'No; he is in the country."
"Ah! gone away fcr rest I suppose?"
'No; he bas gone away on a vacation."
—Roston Courier.
'First Mate—Well, sir, thinge are going
tsmoothly now, sir. Captain—Yee that is
because several 0! the sailors }lime been
drorted.—Toronto
.A. kioking gun is rarely discharged cured.
—Texas Siftings.
Edne Lyall, the English authoress, int a
plain -looking young woman of 30, who
impends much of her income in charity.
litsr real battle is Ada Ellen Bayley.
A RAILWAY HORROR,
Between Forty and Fifty Killed and
Many Injured.
THREE TILIAINS IN . A, HEAP.
A Reading, Pa., despatch of 'Friday
night says: A wreak occurred on the
Beading Railroad seventeen nailed Above
thie place at about 045 to -night. The train
which met with the disaster left thie city
at 6.05 o'clock, ten minutes tete. It is
known as. the Pottsville express, and was
running at the rate of at least 38 to 4Q
miles an hour, It had on board possibly
from 125 to 150 paeeengere, and it con -
slated of eneine, tender, mail and express
oars and three passenger oars. Near nhoe-
makersville, about fifteen miles above this
oity, there is a curve where the railroad is
ttimut 18 to 20 feet higher than the &hued -
kill River. Here shortly before 6 o'clock
a freight train ran into a coal train, throw-
ing several oars on the opposite track,
and before the train hands had time to go
bath to warn any approaching train of the
danger the Pottsville (mimes came around
the curve and ran into the wrecked coal
oars on its triune. The engine went down
the embankment, followed by the entire
train with its human freight. The scene
was one of great horror. ' The cries of the
imprisoned passengere were heartrending.
Some of the pessengere managed to crawl
out of their prison and arouse the neigh-
borhood. Word was telegraphed to thia
city, and help summoned, but all intermit -
tion was refused at this point by the rail-
road officials. Physicians and surgeons
and 300 workmen were taken to the epot
by the company, and with the aid of a
travelling electric light plant the work of
clearing away the wreck was at once pro-
ceeded with. The work was slow, and the
dead and dying were taken out witia greet
difficulty. Up to 10 Gaeta& to -night some
thirty wounded had been taken out. Of
the latter some were brought to this city,
and °there taken to the Minerre Hospital at
Ashland. The dead so far recovered aro
still on the ground.
THE NIIMEER Or TEE DEAD.
The Assooiated Prue agent has just had
direot communication with his representa-
tive at the scene of the wreck, and the
latter says conservative estimates place the
number of the killed at 40 to 50. It is
almost impossible to estimate the exaot
number, and the full horror of the situa-
tion will not be known before morning. At
11 o'clock Mail Agent Greenweldia' body
was taken ont, followed by the horribly
mangled bodies of two Mahoney City fire.
men on their way home from the Chester
convention. There is a rumor at the scene
of the wreck that George R. Kaeroher, of
Pottsville, was in the wrecked parlor oar.
Whether this refers to Geo. R. Keeroher,
the famous lawyer of this place, is not
known, but it this is so, the State loses one
of its brightest legal ornaments. The
scene in this city was one of great excite-
ment, whioh was not allayed until long
after midnight.
ACCOUNT OF A PASSENGER,
Tl,eAccia1d 1sIputblih
just bad an interview with a passenger who
went down in the wreck and who was
but slightly injured. Sixteen of the injured
were brought on a special train to the
Reading Hospital at 11 o'clock. 1 his
gentleman says that when the passenger
train left Reading the oars were all
well filled. Among them were many ladies.
He sat in the front part of the last oar.
This is his gory "The train was going at
a lively rate of speed. The passengers
appeared a happy crowd, many of them
ladies, chatting and laughing after a day's
pleasure at the Berke County Fair. I was
viewing the lovely country through which
we were passing when euddenly
there was a terrific orash. I
was hurled from my eeat, while the
ears rolled down a twenty feet embankment,
and I was thrown from one side of the oar
to the other, when splash one end went into
the water, and I was thrown against the
side of the oar with a, force that partly
stunned me. I quickly recoverea and
managed to climb upon the seats on that
side of the oar which lay against the
embankment. I was a prisoner, and while
I was nursing my sprained ankle and wrist
I realized that I was in a scene of veritable
norror. Around and about me were human
beings struggling in the water, screaming
in their fright, and some almost dragged me
back into the water. A few saved them-
selves as I did, and the remainder struggled
in the water and then quietly sank oat of
sight."
a Chess -Flaying village.
In the Gartenlaube is an account of the
village of ntrobeck, near Wernigerode, in
the Harz, where every five years einoe 1885
a chess congress is to be held, and it was
this year, at the end of June. The child.
ren of the village for many centuries have
been taught chess in their homes as soon
as they could understand the moves, and at
the present day they show what progress
they have made every Easter in the
presence of the pastor, school teachers, and
village authorities. The three girle
and three boys who remain victors
receive each a ohess • board made
in the village and inscribed with
the words " A reward for preseverence."
There are regular obesinclabe for men and
women, end on Sunday afternoon people
pass the time in playing chase in the inn
" Z am Schacheinel," where, if a tourist
heppene to come in, he is invited to play,
and is generally beaten. The inhabilante,
about one thousand two hundred and fifty
in number, are almost all farmers, and in
easy oircumetences. The appearance of
the village is pleasant. -solid houseo, clean,
paved streets, a church with a weather-
cock in the shape of a chess board, wheelie
inn, and an old square brick tower which
plays a part in the history of the place.—
London Daily News.
The Trust of the Democracy.
Washington Post: The Maine canmeign
can be summed up in a nutshell Th
Democrats trusted to Providence, whil
the Republicans depended on Joe Manley.
The Sly Minx.
Philadelphia _Record : "I'm so glad
those big neeves are in fashion again," said
Miss Flerty. "1 do so enjoy a laugh in my
sleeve ocoseionelly."
The talleet member of the British peerage
is the Marquis of Drogheda, who tands six
feet five hushes in his Finn:hinge. He is one
ot the jolliest men in the Kingdom.
A French scientist, Viotor Mennier, has
calculated after careful inquiries that
American dentists insert about $450,000
worth of gold annually into the teeth of
their °gatemen. The Scientific American
says, that making allowance for the Marcos'
in population, in less than 100 years Amer -
ken cemeteries will contain a larger
amount Of gold than now exists in Pram.
The death is announced of Mr. John
Archibald Cousine, of London.
St. Gothard tunnel ie nine and one-half
miles, Mont Clenis eight and one-third,
Room abed fottr miles. .
4. BLOODY THAOEDY,
A Portemouth Cooper Shoots His Three
Daughters anti Then Soielded.
.A, Portsmouth, NB., despatch oeye: A
terrible tragedy occurred here toninglet, and
there is great exoitement. A mon of elev.
eral hundred people surrounde the house
vshere the bodies of three dead persona
partly attest the extent oe the crime.
Fred El. J. Hein, aged 45 years, a cooper in
the employ of the Eldredge Brewing Com-
pany, has a family of three daughters. The
eldest, Carrie, aged 15 yearn keeps house
for him, his wife, who it is mid was un-
faithful, having left him several months
ego. Since elm left it is reported the girl
Carrie has neoonae wayward. Hein'e
trouble preyed upon his mind until he
resolved to end the matter and remove from
temptation the three female members of
his houeehold. Two of them and the mur.
derer himself lie dead in his home, while
at the hoopital the third daughter lies
dying with a bullet in her neck, and at his
home 0. W. Taylor, a welleknown hard.
ware merchant, whose name has been con.
neoted with thet of Mrs. Haim, lies with
two bullet -holes in his beak. Before the
discovery of Hein's deed a body of officers
and citizens were scouring the oity in
search of him, and had he fallen into the
hands of the mob he would have been
lynched.
The story of the murder is : Charles W.
Taylor, while entering his residence about
7.30 tonight, was ruehed upon by the
murderer, who fired two shots, both
of which took effect in the small of
his back. He is still alive, but will
hardly live. Shortly before 8 o'olook
people in the vicinity of Hein's house heard
five pistol shots fired in rapid stiooesaion,
and Maud, the 13 -year-old daughter
of Hein, ran out of the house and
down the street. She proceeded but a
short distance when elm fell, saying,
'Father has shot me." The girl was taken
to the hospital, where she now lies in a
critical condition. Three shots were fired
at her, all taking effect.
The lower part ot Hein's house was the
scene of the murderer's most horrible
work, and it ehowe evidence of a desperate
struggle. The kitchen was covered with
blood, and everything wee in great disorder.
Just outside the bank door of the house lay
two bodies. Carrie. the oldest girl, lay
with her face covered with blood, the bullet
having entered the left side of the faoe,
passing upward toward the brain, death
resulting instantly. Across her prostrate
form lay Berths, the youngest daughter.
When found she was unconscious, and
expired in tifteen minutes, the bullet that
caused her death having entered her head
just behind the left ear. e In the front
chamber was found the dead body of Hein
on the floor. A bullet had passed through
his head from the revolver which lay by
his side.
A 9,ueer Mania.
The Standard reports a strange case that
was heard in a Vienna Police Court yester-
day. A monomaniac, who was formerin'a
well.to-do master baker, and ruined him-
self by a mania for otalleoting handkerchiefs
which had been used by ladies. At the
commencement of this singular hobby he
used to buy the coveted mom:emirs, some.
times paying as ninth as £4 or £5 for
what was intrinsically not worth as mem,
shillings. His devotion to this fad brouglai
him to poverty, and then he fell to stealing,
in order to enrich hie already unprecedented
collection. At length he was apprehended
at the recent choral festival, when as many
as fifteen ladies' handkerchiefs were found
upon him. On a search being made by the
police in his apartments there was found
in one room a collection of 1,434 of these
articles, all classified acoordiug to the
special perfumes with which they heine i'qt7eV'
scented. The magistrate ordered the un-
fortunate man to be teken to a lunatic
asylum.—St. James' Gazette.
Do Them Both Good.
Light: Mrs. Tawker—"How do you do,
Mr. Prey? What are you going to preach
about to -morrow morning ?'
Rev. lentils Prey—"Well, to tell the
truth, I haven't quite finiehed my sermon
yet, but—"
" Oh, I'm so glad; because then I oan
persuade you, I am sure, to say something
about the practice of talking about one's
neighbor's. is will strike right home to
Mrs. Nextdoor, you know, who is always
saying things against my children and
me ; when if she would stay at home once
in a while and attend to those horrid, dirty -
faced little imps of hers it would be a great
deal better for every ono! Now, you will,
won't you, dear Mr. Prey ?"
When They Will Burn.
It requires 1,000 Sege. of heat, Fahren-
heit, to induce coal to emit fire.
When sulphur reaohee a temperature of
500 degs. it will begin to flame.
Wood will resist heat up to 800 dege., at
which point it loses its resistance and the
fire shows itself.
The phosphorus on a match is raised by
friction to a temperature of 150 degs.
Fahrenheit, at which it ignites.
Too Warm.
First Editor—What ! Your building
burned downed ?
Second. Editor (eadly)—Yes
" How did it happen 2"
" 0, one of those eratio poems by a
yonng lady was sent in and I foolishly threw
it in the waste basket along with a lot of
other paper and it set fire to everything."—
Exchange.
Be Took the Hint.
Father (at midnight)—Sorry to disturb
you, but I thought I would show you my
new dog.
Daughter—Oh, papa! How kind of you.
Ien't he cute, Harry?
Harry (who takes the old man's hint)—
Just in time, sir. I was going to go, any-
how,
The partition of Africa gives to British
dominion and proteotion 880,000 square
miles ana 5,650,000 population. Within
the sphere of British influence are 1,650,000
square miles and 30,000,000 people. The
figures for France and Germany are se fol-
lows: French dominions and influence,
2,720,000 square miles; population, 17,000,
000. German dominions and influences,
650,000 equare miles; 250,000 population,
with two large regions containing an area
of 458,000 equetre miles not even guessed
at as to population.
The best reason alleged by hortioulturists
for the growing of the daffodil is that the
flowers last well when out. With ordinary
care in puking they travel eafely, and they
are exceptionally well adapted for arrange-
ment in vases or bouquets.
The Gas Department of the Birmiig.
ham, England, Corporation have tinder
considerstion the " pennenin-theonot"
scheme for the enpply of gee in small Vane.
menta The idea hes been tested and
proved feseible. The system would involve
the fixing of a rnaohine in the home Of
erioh mummer and doling out gas by
pennyworths. The price now oherged,
email oonsuthere is 6 cents per 100 feet.
Unider the new principle the proposal is lo
supply 25 feet for one.third of that.
THE rx.00llt.mr.tpLitit,
1,•••••••••••
The Multifarious Duties he is Called 'Upon
to Disohaemn-Qualttles Necessary to
Make One Successful.
A mite needs to ne something of a
judge of nunattn clutraoter, something
little above tbe average, to thoroughly fulfil
the duties of the noor-walker," said wee of
those tireleee beings who stand in the front
of ail large stores and sewer innumerable
questions all day.
" Yes, I feel eaN in saying that a man
has to posses more then ordineey intelli-
gence to be a competent floor.walker.
Every man can't do it. It takes years of
the hardest kid of work to maguire that
insight ,into the business thet will make a
man almost unerring in his jadgmente of
men, goods and prime. And ouch a
knowledge must the floor -walker have if
he aims to satisfactorily perform his work.
He meet have at his tongue's end the exact
location of every department of the store,
no matter how Newt the emporium may
be. He must be able at et glance to deter-
mine the °erred value of goode sold, and,
without hesitation, be able to settle dis-
putes. Saab are the incidents whioh make
up the day in the life of the aversge floor-
walker.
" A floor -walker's position," continued
he, " seems to the unobservant to be a nice
one indeed. The orowds notice the well-
dressed man standing around giving dire°.
tions here and there, and apparently
enjoying rather an easy time compared to
the clerks. That is as far es the elegem
anoe of the orowd goes, and, as is many
the case with opinions formed by the pub.
lin is incorrect. They don't see the daily
hardellipe and trials we are compelled to
endure, the aotual work we do, and the
responsibility that rests upon us. Over-
looking the hard things, they see tie es we
occasionally stand on a dull day having
nothing to do, and foolishly imagine that
that is a fair example of the way we work.
"The average floor.walker is an ordinary
sort of person. Commenoing life probably
se it cashboy, he has, by assiduous applica-
tion to work, raised himself to something
better. But he has spent years in the
business, and knows nothing else. Com-
menoing work at 8 a. m. and finiehing at 6
p. m„ he finus the day long enough. He
has many things to look after, and, if he
attends to his duties, is thoroaghly tired
out when night comes. Let me show you
what a head floor -walker has to do. He
has charge of the cashboys—no light work,
that. He hires and discharges tlaem, and
is aupposed to attend to them properly.
Beeictes that he must stand at the head of
the aisle or floor where he is placed and
direct customers to any department they
may ask for. This -necessitates the floor-
walker being thoroughly acquainted with
the entire location of the house.
"Then he must, in a sort of way, be the
head of the department in which he /3
placed. It is true tbe clerks are not under
bim, but he is, nevertheless, supposed to
keep an eye upon them. If a customer is
not being waited npon he is to see that she
is attended to as soon as possible. Very
often a disagreeable person will insist on
getting into a row with the clerk over the
sale of some article. The floor -walker is
supposed to be diplomatio enough to settle
the affair up without letting it go any fur.
ther. Suppoee the row is about the price
of eome article. The floor -walker nauet be
discreet, enough to make a satisfactory ar-
rangement without hurting the interests of
the house or losing the easterner. It is the
floor -walker who is appealed to in all such
cases, and he must be able at all times, no
matter what may be the trouble to afford a
solution of the problem. And then some-
times a olerk will become impudent to a
customer, and it is then the duty of the
floor -walker to report the olerk to the
nienager. If he fails in this and the
customer makes the complaint the floor-
walker is held responsible. So it goee, one
thing end another, to keep the floor- walker's
wits active.
"Otto of the greatest tests that marks the
successful floor -walker is hie thorough
knowledge of bueinese. That is, in every
Genoa of the term. Beyond fulfilling the
duties assigned him he should be a praoti-
cal business man, and aot juet as though
it was his own store and he was doing all
he could to promote the growth and wel-
fare of the ooncern. He must be thorongbly
acquainted with the prices of anything in
his department, and able to tell
at a glanoe whether or not the clerk is
dealing fairly with the customer and the
house. Now, for instance, this oashboy
brings me this pair of gloves that has just
been sold ; I will sign the check, and then
the money, gloves, and oheok will be sent
to the wrapping counter. It was my base
nese to know positively before I signed that
check that the proper amount had been
charged for that pair of gloves.
" This is a business that requires a cool
head, a mind adapted to baeiness, and
nothing else. If the floor walker attends
to his business he picko up e list of
acquaintances that are invaluable to him.
He ehould be able to have hie particular
customers, and be able to reoogiaize them
when he sees them. These are the points
which constitute a good floor -walker."
Polly's Poor Opinion.
Texas Siftings: Polly sent us a joke the
other day. It was in a daintily scented
envelope and carefully inscribed, with all
the little dotlets over the i'e, on e small
portion of one page of a large, expensive
sheet of elegant linen paper. This was the
joke:
Some men are born great; some achieve
greatnese, end some have greatness because
they cannot avoid it, but the great majority
of men do not know a polonaise from a
dustpan.
To Clare Consumption.
Dr. Koch, the German physician who
claims to have discovered a method of cur-
ing consumption by inoculation, is about to
begin experiments on people who are Buffer-
ing from the disease, and we may, there-
fore, soon expect a wordy war amongst
scientists over the professed discovery. The
matter is, however, one of great interest to
the world, and it is such researehee that
aid in bringing about a clearer oompre.
bension of the principles of life, and advance
the art of healing.
There were heavy rains and consequent
floods in Nova Scotia yesterday.
The dancing pump no longer incases
"the light fanteatio toe." Patent leather
oxforde have the cell.
An earthgnake shook was felt yesterday
in Eakdalernair, Dumfries, Scotland.
The manifold ogee to which a woman
clan put a hair.pin is a revelation to some
people.
The "slang -box" occupies a prominent
place in many homes, and into it a penny
or a niokle is dropped by the offender for
each slang expression used. It ie a very
noticeable faot that the women 0Ontriblite
the greater part of the slang money.
There is so =oh talk about the right of
Woman to earn her own living, one fOrgete
the gratifying fact that she hes had it for
the beet ten years. The gneiltion noW is
Whether elle has the right to earn the living
Of her huebend also.—Judge.
VilLIEGRA.PRIO StrIVIMARTf
Advioes from Labrador say the nebery
Catch this season will be the best fo
twenty Years.
M. John Ott, of Selhirk street, Chat-
ham, hanged laimself in his barn yesterday.
He was 55 years old.
A commission of inquiry has been ap-
pointed to report on the defective water
eupply system at Toronto.
James and John Gladstone, father and
eon were killed yesterday by a wild engine
on the East 'Tennessee Railroad near
Doltewan.
The Portuguese residents a Bombay
have resolved to appeal to England to
annex Goa unless the Portuguese Govern-
ment redresses the grievenoee of its sub-
jeote.
Rev. T. Simpson, a native of Victoria,
ninscoe, and a graduate of MeoMaster
College, now resident in lientuoky, has
been appointed president of Liberty Female
College, Glasgow, Ky.
The funeral of Dion Bouoicault was held
from the Little Church Around the Corner
in New York yesterday and was attended
by a large and distinguished assemblage of
friends and fellow -artists.
It is stated that the me against R. N.
O'Brien, Dunlap's agent at Montreal, on a
change of libeling Prince George, has been
abandoned at the request of the Queen and
members of the royal family.
A coroner's jury returned a verdict of
socidental death in the case of John Hel-
lackey, killed by a waggon being driven
over him in Toronto, and W. J. Elliott, the
driver, was diecharged from custody.
The villege of St. Ruth], in the Canton
or St. Gall, Switzerland, is un fire. Three
hundred houses have already been de-
stroyed. The loss of one life is reported.
All the people wheat) houses have been
burned are in a destitute condition.
Chief Justice Doran yesterday sustained
the judgment of Judge Wurtele, dismissing
the action of the Great North Western
Telegreph Company against the Montreal
Telegraph Company for a reduction of
the former's annual payment to the latter.
Mr. John Ott, of Chatham, banned him.
Bel! yesterday. Deceased was about 55
years of age, and leaves a wife and family
of five children. About two years ago he
had a ennetroke, and never seemed thor-
oughly possessed of his right senses since.
Peter McQueen, a farmer near Guelph,
who came to Canada in 1837, fell from a
load of wood on Friday evening and his
neck was broken. Death was instenteneons.
He was 78 years of age, a native of Stirling.
ehire, Seetland, and brother of James Mo.
Queen, postmaster, Fergus.
Napoleon Richer, an Ottawa cabman,
appeared before the Police Magistrate yes-
terday accused of an outrageous attack on
a girl named Mary Ann Gosselin. The
girl says the hired Richer to drive her to
Britannia, where she lives. He drove her
to a lonely road and then assaulted her.
She resisted until he felled her with her
umbrella. She was found insensible on
the road by two men. Richer WAS re-
manded.
A Profane Blatherskite.
From Senator Ingalls' Pitteburg epeech
If a man is a Democrat, in God's name let
him be a Democrat. He that is filthy let
him be filthy still. (Great laughter and
prolonged cheering.)
The Republican party has always been
right and the Democratic party has always
been wrong, and it will continne to be
wrong, world without end, amen. (Pro.
longed cheering.)
Tbe worst Republican that ever lived is
better by far than the best Democrat that
ever lived. (Great applause.)
There was one who betrayed his Master,
and there was one less wicked, but weaker,
who, when interrogated as to the Master,
denied Him; and I have no doubt thet all
the brutal, savage, sensual soldiery of the
army of Herod and the entire democratic
party onJernealem (laughter) and Pontius
Pilate and the independents (laughter) and
all the civil service reformers of Pelestine
inveighed against Christianity and appealed
to their false and abominable idolatry; but
Christianity survives and the sun still
shines. (Howls, laughter and tremendous
cheering.
The Democratic party is the street. walker
of the nineteenth century. (Laughter and
applause.)
Light the itiver.
Why not utilize the rapids and create
the power to light the Sault River by
electricity? Will not somebody stir up
Congress and the Dominion Parliament to
ewaken to the immense loss vesselmen
annually stiffer from delay at this point
through the absence of proper lights along
the river? Old Superior is shouting at
the Rapids, "Harness my long wasted
strength and I will sweep darkness away
from the Sault River." A cable can be
made to convey sufficient electrio current,
and the rest of the job is child's play in
these days. Wake up, men, wake up !—
Sault Ste. Marie Pioneer.
He Forgot Himself.
Parson Bluett— Brother Richard will
please take up the collection?
Deadwood Dick (the converted road -
agent, reaohing for his hip-pooket)—Throw
up yer hands, gents! Er—hold on—I
mean, be liberal, brethren, for the good
CatISO.
A Stayer.
Tonawanda Herald: The carnation is
e cheerful little blossom that lasts for days
with its stem in a glass of water, and
smiles frankly end contentedly all day long
when thrust in a buttonhole and uncheered
by a drop of moisture.
AN attempt is being made in Utica to
solve the servant girl problem. Four or
five families helm adopted what they call
co-operative honsekeeping with a view to
esosping some of the tribulations incidental
to housekeeping. Chief among the trials
and vexstione of the housewife are pro-
viding for the viotusling of the family and
the maintenance of e suitable table. The
omoperative plan is said to ba an improve.
ment on hotel life, as it permits of a
private residence and secures a table laid
to one's taste and the choosing of one's
company. A oirole or club hag been
formed, into which only those approved of
by the originators of the scheme will be
admitted.
The " Noon Rest," is the title of att
institution devised for the benefit of the
business women and girls of Indianapolis
by the Young Women's Christian Temper.
&nee Union. It is a sort of woman's dab,
the rooms of which are open eaele day from
10 to 3 p.m., where all young women
who work in stores and shops are invited to
spend their noon hours. Tables are pro-
vided for lunches, and milk, tea, coffee, and
chocolate are served for three cents per cup.
"What was the secret of the power of
the ancient Greeks?"Slow scholar,
desperately—It came from their knOwledge
tif Greek. People who are able to learn
that language could accomplish anything.
4 itostoueso Lullaby,
Vadgen
13etbre brain is tired of thinking
On the wherefore and the Whence:
Baby's precious eyes are blinking
With inoipient soninelenee.
Little beetle are wee re tUrlliP8
Heavy leaves of Imo=
Little nose 10 fretted lemming
nfow to keep its glasses on,
Baby knows the laws of nature
Aro beneficent and wise;
nis medulla ohloneat..
Bida my darlieg elo.o his eyee.
And his pneumogastrics tell him
Qefetude is always beet
When his little cerebellum
Needs reouperative rest.
Baby must have relaxation,
Let the world go serene or right—
Sleep, my darling, leave creation
To its chances for the night.
Brazil's National. Anthem.
London Star: The following is a transla-
tiOn Of the national anthem of the new
Brazilian republic:
"The eyes of the Dy God never more will See
The slave in his chains pine and die;
We are brothers who'd die for our liberty.
Tyrants all, we your power defy.
All are free in our glorious nation,
In the future united are we,
While our ilag waves with wild exultation
We will sing of our land of the free.
From the Yperanga, bark ! 'Tis the ery sublime
Of faith and of hope for our land.
Come, arise, 0 Brazil! 'tie the holy time;
Forward, all—'tis your country's command,
From thy minds the royal purple banish
And in glory advance to the fore.
Then, Brazil, all thy foemen will vanish,
And triumplumt thou'lt be evermore."
The " spooney " Couple.
(Chicago Times.)
It doesn't matter whereyou stray,
Go where you will by night or day,
Sly Cupid's over" mahing bay
He doesn't waste a minute,
Between the daylight and the dark.
In railway trains. hotel and park,
There's not a epot you cannot mark
A spooney couple in it.
At church or play, there, too, one spies
Some couple malting honeyed eyes,
With sweetest smiles and softest sighs—
They're certain to begin it,
Until at length you gravely doubt,
If you should search the world about,
That you could find a spot without
A apooney couple in it.
And who would have it changed? Would you?
I love to hear the lovers coo,
And in their softest lisping woo
Some gentle heart and win it,
In all of life there should not he,
From Eden to eternity,
A place without—it seems to me—
A spooney couple in it.
An Australian National, Anthem.
Maker of earth and sea,
What shall we render Thee?
All things are thine—
Ours but from day to day
Still with one heart to pray
"God bless our land alway
This land of Thine."
Mighty in brotherhood,
Mighty for God and good,
Let us be Thine,
Here let the nation see
Toil from the curse setfree,
Labor and Liberty
One cause—and Thine,
Here let Thy peace abide;
Never may strife divide
This laud of Thine.
Lotus united stand,
One great Australian band,
Heart to heart, hand in hand,
Heart and hand Thine.
Strong to defend our right,
Proud in all nations' sight,
Lowly in Thine—
One in all noble fame,
Still be our path the same,
Onward in freedom's name,
Upward in Thine.
AN OLD HtfliTER
Tells of the Trials of the Early Devi ot
Agriculture in Alberta District.
Sam. Livingstone, one of the oldest and
best known men of the Northwest Terri.
tory, is with the Calgary E X13 ibit
,at the Great Central Fair. Sam
never saw a locomotive or train of care
until he took this trip east. He emigrated
from Ireland when quite a young man,
epent e considerable time in the California
gold diggings, then joined the sarveying
parties that were engaged by Government
to locate the line between the two coun-
tries. He was the "hunter" of the sur-
veyors, and had to keep them supplied
with food clueing their trying travels
through unexplored regions. Sam. had
many a narrow escape from being gobbled
up by wild beasts or tomahawked by In-
dians. In 1862 he struck away from these
pursuits, and crossing the Missouri River
settled in Altee. a, a few ranee from
Calginy, where he hes liveever since.
" For three or four years," said Sam to a
IDLES representative last night, "1 was
the only white man in that territiner who
lived outside of a Hudson Bay Comnany'a
stockade. I settle3 on lend and the Sarcee
and Blaokfeet Indians did an they could to
dislodge me. For the first few crops they
led me a patty lively damn I swear to
you that the first ploughing I did was
with a, Winchester rifle on the
plough, and my wife (poor area-
ture, who was too nee eons to
stay in our hut) carrying the baby by
my side. We lived exclueively on Buffalo
meat and I felt better then than I ever
felt in my life. Buffed° were very runner.
cue; there was a perfeot wall of them. I
have got up in the morning and found
them rubbing up against our shanty.
What a cleaning out et this noble and usefel
brute has there been. In our exhibit we
heva with ne the heed of the last buffalo
that can be found in the great Canadian
northwest. Livingstone has 400 sores under
cultivation, and 800 more ready to be
broken up. He has a wife and twelve
ohildren.'
The Swedish Cure for Drunkennes.
The habitual drunkard in Norway or
Sweden renders himself liable to imprison.
ment for his love of strong drink, and dur-
ing his incarceration he is required to sub-
mit to a plan of treatment for the cure of
his failing which is said to produce marvel -
one results. The plan, says the "Family
Doctor," consists in making the delinquent
subsist entirely on bread and wine. The
bread is steeped in a bowl of wine for an
hour or more before the meal is served.
The first day the habitual toper takes his
food in this shape without any repugnance;
the second day he finds it less agteeable to
his palate ; finally he positively loathes the
sight of it. Experience shows that a period
of from eight to ten days of this regime is
generally more than sufficient to make a,
man evince the greatest aversion to anything
in the shape of wine. Many men, after
their incarceration, become total ebsteiners.
It Cheets Honest Men.
Chicago News : At the very bast the
personal property tax is etas on COnS0101100#
and es soon it puts a premium on lying and
beconaes a special burden to the honest and
the unsophisticated.
The brunette who bleached her hair to
please her young man is going to be exhi:
bited in a dime museum as "the girl wit°
dyed for love."
The girl who takes care of the claioken$
knows all about the shoo business.