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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-10-9, Page 2A GREAT BAB13EOUB. WoUST FEARS RRALIZED, A Keewatin Sitrvivor Rescued After Ton DayeDritting About—Two Lost. A Winnipeg despatch eays The worst fears regarding the etearaer Keewatin an °maw' have been realized. Qapt. Watts, a the eiteamer, woe brought to Selkirk toalay on the steetner Aurora. Ile tells a most affecting tele of the sufferleas and death of' hie oanapanions. The oreat belonged to Lieutenant - Governor Shultz, and was eent to Lake Winnipeg a couple of weilqi ago to havestigate reported oases of whieltey smug. gling. After cruising about ten oeys the steamer started to return to Selaii k Spider Island was left on the 16th. The craft was only outta abort time when a terrible gide came tip, and it was deinded to put into Swampy bland, but the sea WaS running too high, so the anchor was oast. The storm was suoh that the vessel broke away trona it. The gale continued with unabated fury, with the waves running high, so that the men were fearful a going outside the cabin lest they slaotild be washed away. A few minutes after seven o'clock a monstrous wave struck the yacht on the side, keeling her over. Corporal Morphy, eon of Lawyer Morphy, of Toronto, and Rene, nephew of Lieut -Governor Royal, clambered on the side of the boat, while Capt. Watts re. attained in the cabin, which was a water- tight compartment. Tho men remained in their respective positions four hours. The wind and waves showed no signs of abating, and Rene began to despair, and said there was no hope for them. He be- came desperate, and declared that he was so weak that he could no longer hang on. His companions tried hard to keep him on the Bide of the boat, but he slipped off and sank without a struggle, uttering au he went down, "good bye." This was an awful eight for Morphy and Watts, but with hearts of iron they clung to the drift- ing timber!! beneath them. Watts by this time had extricated himself with great difficulty from the cabin, and was with Morphy on the outside of the yacht, ex- posed to the cold winds and rain. The men were growing weak and realized that their etrength woold soon be exhausted, and as a result they would surely fall off uuless better secured. They lashed theme lees with ropes to the boat. In'this condition the men re- mained for two days and two pi 011 dark nights with neither land nor boat al sight. The storm abated at times, and jus, ad their' hopes were raised the wind would freshen into a breeze, and then the stoira finally broke. After two days of most intense suffering to both mind and body, poor Morphy fell off and was drowned. When going, he looked up into Watt:: face and said, "Matthew, I'm going. I hope you will sea,vive to tell the tale. Goa ease you," and never rose again. Watts, 'n,-1 was the oldest man of the three, being 66 years, held manfully on, though he never expected to reach shore alive in his weak condition. He took the line left by Morphy, and tied himself to the boat more securely; In this way he saw the sun set for ten days, and spent 240 yours without food. He was picked up in an elmost unconscious condi- tion at tlae end of the tenth day by Indians near Gladstone Island. He wae quite a distance from the shore when they found him. They cared for him until last Mon- day, when the steamer Aurora came along and brought him to Selkirk. The above experience v ae related by Watts. He is feeling better to -day, and will likely re. cover. He grieves over the drowning of his younger companions, Morphy and Rene. reviler Bros'. Great Fork Fucking %tab* lishment in riameS. derliAlddliDO 41' liddd OREMATEll A Sunday s Chicago . despatch pays rovsler Brothers' packing house at the stook yards was damaged by fire this as:awning to the amount of la700,000. The fire originatedat 1.30 o'olook in the peeking room or the engine room adjoining. The " cause of the lire is unknown. The firemen worked against obstacles from the start. Water hied little effect on the grease. Soaked floore, and the fire soon reached the tank room, where 32 tanks of lard were located. These exploded one after another with loud reports, and the boiling lard fed the flames, which burned more fiercely. The heat was so intense that the airemen were compelled to work at a distance. The packing room was about 50 by 150 feet, and the whole interior was blazing when the firemen reached the eoene. The flames spread to the cooling room adjoining. In this room were 6,689 encases of hogs freezing, and they burned like ail. Water was now useless in fighting the fire. The roof fell in about two hours after the fire etarted, and the fire became more furious. The blaze lighted up the 'entire heavens. Scores of firemen werd directimg a hundred !streams of water into the burning acres of lard and meat with 330 effect. About this time the flame!) reached a lot of ealtpetre stored above the packing room, and the fumes from the burning chemical were awful. It stifled the men and made them retreat. It entered the nostrils and eyes and almost anode the men wild with pain. The atmosphere was saturated with it. At 6 o'clock it was seen to be impossible to extinguish the burning pork, and water was thrown on it to keep the fire down as mulch as possible. It will have to burn itself ont, and it will probably be two days yet before it is entirely ex. lingaished. In the basement of the entire building was stored an immense amount of salt meat. This caught fire, and while the flames were not furious and were prevented from blazing high, they still kept eating the sides, shoulders and hams that were placed in solid cords, lsyer on layer. The roof and floors covered the smouldering mee.te and kept water from reaching them. The firemen were busy all day, using axes and hammers for removing the masses of debris that hindered their wank. The interior of the building was of wood and very inflammable. The cooling zoom was lined with a foot of sawdsuit similar to an isiehonee. This hindered the Sremen in their work and aided the flames. About 1200,men and 100 girls were em- ployed by the company. The lose is entirely covered by insurance, mostly in loreign companies. The plant was insured lor 51,500,000. The loss is divided about as follows: 5125,000 on machinery, 575,000 on dressed hogs, 3500,000 on sides, hams and shoulders packed in the cellars. While a part of the buildings are totally destroyed, the loss is !mall because the buildings were cheaply constructed. The tank build- ing and the killing house are entirely de. atroyed and warehouses E and K were badly damaged. The exact amount of the loss will depend upon the amount of meats !stored in the building and destroyed. The company conducting this business is com- 130Bed of Englishmen. It has been known us the Anglo-Amerioen Packing Company. Recently a new company was formed, to be known as Fowler Brothers (limited), with a capital stock of over 33,500,000. It was incorporated in, England and nroposed to acquire the , business of Fowler Brothers (limited), of Liverpool; Fowler Brothers, New York ; the Anderson -Fowler Com- pany, New York; the Anglo-Americsin Refrigerator Car Company, the Anglo. American Provision Company, Chicago, and the Omaha Packing Company, Omaha. One.third of the stock was taken by the old owners as purchase money, and the remainder was ordered for public sub- scription. The books would have closed September 30th after being open four days. What effect this fire will have on the new oompsny can only be conjectured. A HORRIBLE DEED. Young and Pretty Woman Brutally Mur- dered. A Camden,N.J.,despatch says: A horrible azime, resembling in details the murder one year ago of Annie Leooney, was brought to light late yestercley by the finding of the mutilated body of Mrs. John Miller in a &mete wood near her home in Delaware township, this county. Faang Lingo, the burly negro who was enspected of the murder of Miss Leconey, is locked up charged with causing Mrs. Miller's death. Mrs. Miller's pocket -book was missing and robbery is supposed to have been the object of the murder. Three of the woman's fuagers were bitten off by the brute in the struggle and her head was almost severed from the body. The murdered woman was 29 years old and very pretty. She leaves three children. Seamen Want More Pay. A Chicago despateh says : The con- trolling body of the Seamen's Union last might adopted an advance scale of wages to go into effect this morring. This action is of farreaching impoetance, 3,000 men in Chicago alone being affected, and simi. lea large numbere at Milwaukee, Sheboy- gan, Manitowoc, Cleveland, Toledo, D trait, Buffalo, Ashtabula, Fairport, K'ngston, Oswego, 'Welland Canal and other points on the great lakes. The scale adopted last night would advance schooner men's wages from $2 a day to $2.25, barge- s:um from 31.75 to 52, cooks 32 to 02.25, wheelmen 31.35 and 51.50 to 51.75, and would give mates an advance of 25 and 50 cents per day. A Great Relief. Hostler—What's the gusenor so out up about? Coachman — That telephone message /Omit Fairy Bell falling and breaking her meek. Hostler—G-oodnese me ! It wasn't the boree's nook. It was tho Coachman—Go and tell him quick. What a 'relief it will be to him The youthful king of Spain has not been out of the cradle long, but appears to have a full appreciation of his positiou in life. One day recently he was served for lunch with the breast of a chicken out into mall pieces. He at once began to help himself 'without the aid of either epoon dr fork. Sire," salable attendant, gravely, "kings never eat with fingers." "This king does," responded hie majesty, continuinghis meal. }tortoise are being ehowered think and fast upon Lad Aberdeen. The latest is the namingof a Toronto Camp of the Sons of Scotland after him. An old man named John Campbell, from ltewcastle, Ont., who hag been living with the Pierpont family it a cottage at the rear Of Ido. 46 Eiehmond Fared West, Toronto, dropped dead on Saturday afternoon from it,poplety, A 4. DE /1.R" COLLISION. Over a Hundred Deer Killed by a Train. A Duluth despatch says: Last evening the limited train left Mansfield, north bottled, 27 minutes late. Five miles this side of that station, while running nearly 60 miles an hoar, an immense herd of deer dashed across the track at the entrance to a cut. It was too late to stop and the train struck the herd, killing a great number. The train passed through the herd, throw- ing them right and bit, but did not stop. When the train arrived here a magnificent specimen of a buck deer was found dead on the engine's pilot. The engineer estimates the herd at over a hundred. Trouble in the British Iron Trade. A London cable says: Daring the past week business on the Stock Exchange was restricted; the general tone was gloomy. Dear money checked speculation and forced weak operators for a rise to elm aocotmte. The decline in elver assisted in opening the depression. Foreign securities alone were steady. American railways were largely gold until yesterday, when the bear move. ment appeared to be checked and a better tendency set in. A crisis is impending in the Scotch iron trade. The masters have given notice to the men of a wholesale look. out on the 4th of next month, melees an amicable settlement of the disputes is effected in the meantime, of which there is no prospect at present. The fires in a number of furnances are already out. The threatened stoppage of production has caused excitemett in the iron market here. A Long Fast. A Kingston despatch says : About a mile and a half from Elgin stands a small log house. It is in this house that Mrs. Robert Ross resides, and it is that lady's mother, Mrs. Morns, widow of tho lete Capt. Wm. Morris, who did not eat food or take nourishment of any kind for 26 or 27 days. Her inability to eat was caused by old age, she being over 70 years, Her sickness hag lasted for some time and her appetite gradually grew lees, till about one month ago she refused to accept anything but a few spoonfuls of water each day. Her etrength wag almost completely gone, when ate tbok a craving for hard-boiled eega, and has since been eating a little. Her frieude entertain but small hopes of her recovery. After the Unhappy Czar. St. Petersburg despatch says: Another attempt has been made upon the life of the Czar. This tirae the conspirators planned to evreok a train by which it was believed the Czar intended totravel from St. Peters- burg to Warsaw. An obstruction was placed on the track in the shape of five sleepers, which were tightly wedged in be. tweet the rails. The train which was sup- posed to be carrying the Czar crashed into the sleepers and was thrown from the track. No details of the affair have been obtained, and it is notknowei whether any arrests have boon made. Mi80 C. C. Lathrop, New York, author of "A Secret Institution," which details her long imprisonment in a lunatic asy- lum, and her release by the Supreme Court on the ground that she was sane and unlawfully imprisoned, will to.day publish a call for 6 national organization for the relief and protection of other vietims of such treetment. She) states he hes heard of several hundred such oases. The Methodia* Conference) to.day ormn !tomes heading three onions daily. 'Yes- terday some important reports were pre - suited and considered, ineluding those on the euperatirauttien fund and on education, TWO RAII.,WAY wweAty 1)ead Bodies Taken from One -- .eight Killed in Another. WRECKS. OKIISIONS IN BOTH OASES. A Walla, Walla WW1: despatch of San- dal says: Through a geotlemau from tPen- dleton news was reoived thie mornings of a fearful railroad disaster which occurred at Wanoteaze, alght miles east of Shoshone, on the Oregon Short Line, at 7 o'clock on Fri- day morning. This station,is the peeding point for the UMon Pacifie Mail trains. The East -bound train pulled into the eta. tion on tinae and side-tracked. A Miunte later the Wesabound train ran in. The switch to the main track was closed, and it ran head on lute the West-ltound, telescop. ing the train and wreoking both engines. The informant says the passenger oars were all mashed. The work of resone was at once commenced. When he left twenty dead leodies had been taken out, and it was thought that there were more in the wreck. Friday's trains were all abandoned. Pas- sengers from all points this side were delayed, as there was no train run out from Huntington that day. A Zanesville, Ohio, despatch of Sunday says: About 1 o'clock this moaning a most disastrous freight wreck occurred on the Baltimore & Ohio near Pleasant Valley, a short dietanoe wept of this city. Orders were given east and west bound freights to pass at Black Hand, but operator Reeky at that place failed to deliver the order to the eastbound train. Later he saw hie mistake and telegraphed the operator here that there would be a wreck pretty mon, and left his post. He is a mere boy. Both engines and a number of loaded oars were piled up in the greatest confusion. Eight men were killed as follows: John Buck- ingham, engineer; Wm. Friestoone, fire- man; Freeman Keller, brakeman; ,John Cochran, Ben Smart, Glen Bash, Geo. W. Stoneburner, Tom McCrary (body not found), one unknown. John Kemp, an engi- neer, had his left leg out off, and Fireman Wilson a hand smashed. Those not em- ployed on the train were beating their way to Columbus. The track was cleared at 8 o'clock this morning. There was also a collision on Barnesville Hill on the Baltimore & Ohio between an express and a paesenger train. Refits's. y officials state that no one was hurt, but that both engines and an express oar were ruined. A YOUNG WIFE'S SUICIDE. The Means She Provided to Accomplish Her Terrible Deed. A Kettleby despatch says .A. suicide ex- traordinary was comnaitted at Pottageville, in the township of King, on the 271h inet., by Isabella Rae, the seven months' bride of James Rae, a respectable mechanicireiding there. Their marital relations had been most happy, and the prospects of the young couple were bright. The report of the tragedy has caused an immense sensa- tion. The deceased ,conversed freely with her husband before his depareure for work at 5 a. m, narrating the plan of her day's work, and she hissed- him as usual as he left. She had not. breakfaeted when she committed the act, which was in a manner unparalleled. On the table beeide the corpse was found a gimlet, a pairjof large shears, a carving knife, a table knife a meat fork, a oat ot Paris green, a bottle of laudanum, and a shot gun. She had placed a l000kieg-glass on the table, and attempted with each knife to cut her throat, but they were too dull, only small gashes were made. She had taken some of the laudanum, and kneeling on the floor she had discharged the gun, which Jay across the table, with a poker. The charge passed through the heart, and the body fell forwari until the forehead touched the floor, in which posi- tion the horrified husband found it when he returned at 9 p. m. from his work. A verdict of suicide, while temporarily insane, was returned. MURBERED HIS DAUGHTER.' A Marriage Difficulty Ending in An Awful Family Tragedy. A Macon Ill., ddepatoh says : Charles Seifert to -day shot and killed his daughter Mary and then committed suicide. Mary last night married Joseph Baxter against her father's consent. Seifert today sent to Baxter's house for his son-in-law, and pretended to be reconciled, and showed Where he had made a record of the mar- riage in the family Bible. He then re- quested Baxter to let Mary come home. Baxter consented and after mach puma. sion Mary, who seemed to be very muoh afraid,went. She passed into the front room with her father, her stepmother remaining in the kitchen. Soon two shots were heard. Father andidatighter werefound dead within two feet of each other. A shotgun lay at Seifert's side. Mary, her father, and Bax- ter all worked in the woollen mill here. The cause of the tragedy is said to have been Seifert's anger at being deprived of his daughter's wages. , The Irish Nationalists. A London cable says: In the applica- tion today made before Judge Holmes, of the High Court, for a writ to prohibit the Tipperary magistrates from proceeding with the hearing in the case of the Nation- alists, on the ground of bias against the accused, Mr. Timothy Healy made an elaborate argument in favor of the writ. Judge Holmes postponed his decision on the application. At Tipperary the reading of extracts from speeches of the defendants was continued, to prove that tenants were incited by them not to pee, rent. Fenderson's Great Joke. Fenderaon heard a good joke the other day about a man who had two cork legs, the key of the same being that he was born in Cork. Fenderson determined to spring it at the supper.table. And this is how he did it: " I heard a fanny thing today. It was about a man who had two cork legs, and he got along just as well as anybody else, and he suffered with cold feet, too. They were cork legs, Yon know, because he was born in Dublin. Good joke, eh ? No? It doesn't seem to be mush of a joke, that's a foot; but eou'd ought to hear the fellows laugh when they heard it last night. I laughed rayeelf, but there doesn't aeene to be much in it, after all. I guess the fun was in the way that chap told Boston Transcript. He—All the world loves a lover. She, gently --Except sometimes the girl the lover loves. All the flour mill proprietors ne Lisbon have combined to °lode their mull a in order to try to compel the Government to allow them to import aa much wheat 60 they like and to repeal the recent la,w forbidding them to import more than one-half Of the wheat grottndt. Jane Dettenridge of Kingston, is an orphan and )140 31,000,000. She has refused 87 offers of marriage. A touching incident—Robbed by a piok• pocket, TI1E UNHAPPY laisit. John Morley Tells How They Are Cowed by the Pollee. •••••••••-.-111....* THE TIPPERARY ROW, No Wonder the Peopteare Dissatisfied With The Authorities. A London cable says: In hie speech at St. Helens yesterday Jehn MorleS, said Mr. Balfour would neither go to Ireland hina. self nor let anyone else go. He (alorley) went to Tipperary because he felt that the proceedings there marked the turning point in the great battle, and beoartee he felt that the Government was going to drive a good, strong nail into its own coffin, and he wanted to see the first blow of the hammer. When he arrived at Tipperary with hie political friends, he' walked peaceably to the crow] road with- out having any fear of disorder, when end. denly he was hustled, pushed and menaced by constables in a state of great fury. The gathering people were very few in number, and no kind of obstruction was offered, the nearest approach to a riot being a shrill Tipperary cheer raised on his 50. count. He never saw such an act of folly OS the attitude of the authorities. The two members of the House of Commons under arrest were in charge of a squad of conetables who had the right of guarding the prisoners from rescue, but through- out the day the Government offi- cers put the constables in an attitude that was calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. Col. Coddell stated in the court- room that their's was one of the most dis- orderly gatherings he had ever wit- nessed. Three or four English ladies who occupied front seats in the court -room LAUCIEED AT THE ABSURDITY of Caddelle' statement. Soon after this the colonel withdrew his men. These proceedings would have been ridiculous if they had not been so dangerous. Bat they were nothing to what followed. The court house was in a small enclosure, provided with strong gates. It had been asserted Shat he and his companions were followed to this entrance at noon by an immense multitude. This he absolutely denied. He believed that at no time did the armed men defending the Court House number less than three to one against the oiviliane. It was as insignificant and harmless a crowd as he over saw in his lite. Mr. Dillon, the epeaker, Mr. Harrison, M. P. and others, were admitted at the gates, but the police refused admission to the townsmen. He next saw a townsman, a solicitor, firing violently from the gates and aesaulted. Mr. O'Brien went out and protested against the exoltaion of the public. Dillon and Harrison joined O'Brien and their voices grew loud. With or without orders, the police drew their batons without a shadow of provocation and BLOOD BEGAN TO FLOW FREELY. He saw no stones thrown. He would un- dertake to say that a couple of English constables would have done everything necessary to guard access to the court. Mr. Harrison went °tit to the constables and expostulated but the only reply was an attempt to strike hinaon the head. Another officer then batoned Harrison on the head, after which Harrison, his head dripping with blood, was admitted at the gate. He (Morley) saw a constable strike Reporter Keating a murderous blow on the mouth, knooking him off the wall on which he was sitting, and causing blood to flow freely. Outside the gates there was another scene of violence, the police using their batone ferociously upon the heads and bodies of the defenceless townsmen, several of whom were brought in the gates dripping with blood. He (Morley) went to Col. Caddell and told him he ought to open the gates and admit the people. Then he went into the court room, but found nobody there, except the two resident magistrates and a few reporters. After' the gates had been opened and every- body who wished to enter had been admitted, the court room was not filled, while the tumultuous throng of which Col. Caddell had spoken was as quiet and as orderly as in church. These facts proved that the original closing of the gates was unnecessary ; that the statement that it was necessery to reserve for witnesses the space usually allotted to spectators was a mere pretext and afterthought, and thitt the rioting was wholly on one side. The whole thing was I CLUMSY BLUNDER. The resort to batons was a deplorable, law. less and cowardly outrage. Mr. Balfour's system was responsible for this scene. Through three and a half years Balfour had defended every act of the executive through thick and thin, right or wrong, from the odious and wicked slaughter at Mitchellstown onward. Balfour had always refused to institute an effective public inquiry. He had always denied the truth of charges made against the police, he had always refused to believe the word of an Irish member of Parliament, and thus the Irish people had been left wholly at the mercy of -the authorities, without any supervision, without any help and without any hope. No wonder the Irish people did not respect thdlaw, no wonder they hated a government whiola inspired such an abuse of executive force. UNNATURAL PARENTS. They Urge Their 10 -Year -01d Daughter to Jump From London Bridge, A London cable says : Little Alice Beaumont, aged 10, was a prisoner today at the Mansion House, charged with being a bridge jumper. The constable who testi- fied against her declared that yesterday afternoon he saw the diminutive prisoner climb upon the parapet of London bridge, and throwing off her clothes prepare to jump into the river. She was urged to at. tempt the hazardous feat, the witness de- clared, by a woman who turned out to be the child's mother, and to complete the picture of shocking and unnatural treat. raent, her father was waiting below in a Saab to pick up his daughter dead or alive, Taken into custody, the mother declared that they were it family of professional swimmers, and that 10.year-old Alice had already been in business six pare, and had dived from heights running up to 40 feet. This extraordinary and oriminel zeal to obtain notoriety was severely censured by the magistrate, who bound the parents over in £20 to keep the peace. The Humane Education Society of Boston offers $250 for the beet may in favor of vivisection and $250 for the best essay against it. --Igen make intoxicating &belie out of anythirig,",said Mrs. Slowgo. "There is corn whiskey and rye whiskey; and they have even invented a cotton mart News. TSB IRISH ARRESTS. Ruiners Meath° Queen WAR Recommend an Irish Government 13111, London cable of last (Friday) night soya The situation at Tipperary was more tranquil to -day than yesterday, although the streets were thronged. Soldiers assisted the police to maintain order. De. epite a vigorous protest by Mr. Timothy Healy, the oases of the arrested National - 'Rite were this morning postpdaed until this afternoon, as the judge of the County Court wanted the building. When the court reopened this afternoon Mr. Ronan proceeded with the statement of the Crown's ease. E113 read long extracts from speeches made at various Nationalist meet- ings since the inauguration of the Plan of Campaign and also quoted from resolta tiona adopled at these meetings. It op - Peered to be the object of the prosecution to prolong the ease ao far as Feasible. Mr. William O'brien chaffingly reminded Mr. Bonen that his (Mr. O'Brien's) ship was to sail for America on Thursday next, and he said there appeared to be a raoe algainet time ,between the Crown counsel and the ship. When the court adjourned Mr. Ronan was still speeltiog: 'Upon the adjournment being announced Mr. Timothy Harrington strongly pro. tested against the course of the prosecution. He said it was evident the Governraent airaed to protract the trial to the greatest possible length, and he denounced this as unfair. His protest had no effect upon the court. The present policy ot the proseou- tion will, it is believea, be maintained. Mr. John Morley departed for England tepday. - The Dublin Express asserts that the Queen has promised to recommend to Parliament in her next message the intro- duction and paeeage of an Irish Govern- ment bill. A FASil. EXPRESS WRECKED. Train Wreckers at Work on the Into mole- nial Railway. A St. John despatch of Tuesday says: A serious accident occurred' on the Inter - Colonial Railway last night. The fast express from Halifax for Montreal, in charge ot Conductor Gunn and Driver Carr, left Moncton 28 minutes late. In order to make the time up, speed was put up to 40 miles per hour. After leaving Petitcodiac, near Anaganee, a pile of sleep - ere, thrown across the track, was encoun- tered, and before speed could be slackened the train struck the obstruction. The locomotive was derailed and made a com- plete wreak, but the engineer and fireman were unhurt. There wenn), large number of paesengers on board; but all escaped unharmed. A wrecking train was sent from Moncton. The work of clearing was begun at once, and at 4 o'olook this morn- ing the track was open to resume business. Trains today are late. Scarcity in Ireland. Chicago News : Cold as well as hunger is in progpect for the unhappy Irish. Not only hes a blight fallen on their potatoes, but the ,unseasonable weather which de- stroyed the feed orop has likewise damaged the turf upon which the poor people of the island largely depend for fuel. .11. corre- spondent of the London Daily News gives this pieture of the situetion : "1 spent, with my family, the latter part of July and the beginning of Augrist in the west and southwest of Ireland, and wherever we went we were struck with the vast quantities of turf that had long been out and stacked in heaps to dry, but, owing to the constant rains, had become satu- rated and grown together in one mass, looking almeet like so many mud -heaps, and utterly useless for fuel. When we consider that this is the only means of warmth and fuel for tens of thousands of the poor Irieh toilers, one cannot but won- der, how, even supposing they had a crop of potatoes, it is possible for them to live throueh the coming winter; especially when we remember that multitudes of them are far, far away from wood or coals, commodities never seen in large districts in Ireland. I travelled with a farmer , from Killarney to Mallow, who told me he dreaded more a famine of turf than of pota- toes, for there was a greater passibility of getting a substitute for the potato than the turf. Another fact that struck us all, wherever we went, was the great lack of young, vigorourand ablehodied meia and woraen, most of whom had found homes in foreign countries, thereby leaving it still more difficult for the old and decrepit and the half-starved and halfmaked children to keep body and soul together in times of emergency and difficulty. If light railways are to be made they should be put in hand at once, not only as a means of furnishing employment for the people, who otherwise will die for want of food, but also as a means of transit for fuel, without whieh I fear multitudes will die ot cold. I fear Ireland is on the verge of another great and terrible crisis, and we must look forward for vigorous efforts on the part of the pain ple as well as the government, or we shall be greatly shocked before long to learn that our patient, long.suffering neighbors are being decimated by want while we are living at ease and comfort at home."• Meanwhile the Tory Government, backed by the Tory newspapers, goes on belittle- ing the distressful newe from Ireland, and Mr. Balfour amuses himself by throwing Irishmen into jail who dare to question the wisdom of Tory rule. But, happily, the reoeption which has been accorded to Mr. Davitt's Labor World indicates that the end of Balfourism and all that Balfourism implies is drawing nigh. The Destroying Sand -Wave, Born of the wind and the sea, on the sandy beaches of Capes Hatteras and Henlopen is a curious natural phenome- non. A mammoth wave of sand, that towers aloft like a sea -wave, oven curling over in places like a huge breaker, is roll- ing inland irresistibly, and lacking only the element of speed in its career to carry each terror to the hearts of the inhabitants as is inspired by tho sea-wavee that follow an earthquake, for the destructiveness of the sand -wave is limtted only by its scope. Though similar in origin, substance and motive power, there is yet so much differ- ence between the two waves in form, extent and speed of travel, and in the actual de- struction of property, that each is a !study in itself. Especially noticeable is the difference in the devastation wrought, for while one is laying waste a rarest of smell value, the other is burying inexorably a hundred lowly honaes.—From Sand.waves at Henlopen and Hatteras," by John B. Spears, in October Scribner. The British ship Gretna, from London to San Francisco, which was given np for lost more than a month ago by the under- writers, arrived at San Francisco on Fri- day evening. She enconntered heavy gales in the South Atlantic, and was blown go for out of her course that the captain de- oided to finish the voyage by way of Gape of Good Hope. She was Out 202 dap. Even the laziest of men can usually gee teoome,work that Winos other fellow ought do DIAHOMEDANS AT Tag DOCKS. Remarkable Proeession watt Ceremony in 1 aaneden. Tuesday loot marked the close of the laitthornedeo Mitharran °beer vetoes, which have been kept by the Inaiaa end African ae anitlar nean 13/7iat edi hlen dPi iset1 ,ot earamlhaiapd gOo rn- p a if a with due honors. The 1u/wren is a kind Of Mbelem Lententide, end is kept as a fast, lasting from waren to in days, in naernory of Matra and Husain, who enjoy the distinction of being oonsidered tho first martyrs in the faith of Mahomed. IA Bombay and all Bengal, as well as in other ports of India, in Persia and parts of , Africa, it is rigorously kept, hut certain tribes, especially among dee sarabs, pay little or no heed to it. Tiofvevert when carried out with the full ceremonies belonging to it, it is a most impressive rite, and includes the representetious of the animal on which the prophet woe taken up 'so heaven, the bier of the slain brothers,and it mosque. A priest ,aocompanies,5, reeiting how the brothers, met their fate, and, es he tells it,. his devout hearers exprees their' sorrow with much noisy laanentation and distress. Some details were now perht ps! wanting in the scene at the docks, which was never- theless a very remarkable oho, and one which, were it known bow strange and " oriental " it i, would certainly have drawn many hundreds of visitors to the• Royal Albert docks. From very early morning all the crews Sao been making final 'preparations, for through they have been hOldiU,V, Rraall pro- cessions and dances during dee last seven or eight days, this marked ilea climax, and was the first in which all tool: part with any organization. The P. and O. ships Rosetta and Bengal furnished a large con- tingent, who met close to the Albert Dooke Central Basin Statibn, arid etarteet to go towards the Viotoria Docks. They had with them it marvellous representation of an elephant, with a huge minarretted howdah upon he back, while Hs long blue and yellow striped trunk Was, deftly managed by a big Bengelee, who occasionally wriggled hinaeelf out of it to breathe freely. Prominent among its followers was a "padre," or "magistrate," clad in a sack, and furiously brandishing a formidable cane; a large paper boat, through which a slender lad, whose lithe movements were amazing, had put his, body; and a huntsman with braid to his knees, and carrying bows and arrowee but who seemed never once to look to the right or to the left. Beeides these were, some three or four hundred met clad in every conceivable blending of gays colors, and carrying deurer, tom-toms, and other rude instruments, minding an especially fiendish one made of empty condensed milk cane, with a few marbles in- side eaoh. Thus they walked and danced, a strange and unfamiliar sight so tear to London, with bright blae sky end eunshine overhead, till it smard shower sent them for refuge under an open bleed belonging to, the company, where "the padre," "the huntsman" and a " fisher tarl," whose face was colored a saffroo yellow, and who had a garland of flowers round his scatty green and vieux rose draperies, danced, until they were joined by another and ilheargaerocpkrao. cession from the other side of In this procession, which fell into place jast outside the New Seamen's Hospital, at the Victoria Dock gates were it camel con- structed of sacking, with a heed, of tinsel papers, a representation of e mosque, built of the gaudiest papers imaginable, and two Bengalees, who had made themselves the most hideous "tiger devils " conceivable. They had rubbed their liesom limbs with saffron, and painted upon them black rings and stars. They wore but the scantiest of clothing, and on their heads wore large olive and yellow coverings. These Were held int chains by attendants, and behind them oame Lamers, Cabulese, and natives of Mozambique, " Seedy Boys," as they are called at the docks, some wearing false beards, and all more or less brilliantly habited. The procession now numbered nearly 1,100, and it was most curious to watch them dancing along the flinty road, stopping occasionally to watch some grace- ful pas seul danced by an enthusiast, or a fight with "She demons," who moved about' upon their stomachs wish stealthiest grace, or bounded more than their own height into the air. They stopped outside the offices of the two companies, there giving some exhibitions with light bar- bells, which they wielded with great dexterity, as well as with flexible bars of iron. Meantime, there was an inoessani and maddening din of voices and instal - merits, It was after 5 o'clock before the long and now somewhat damped and wearied pro- ceesion reached the Galleons pier -head to perform what is called, in Anglo-Indian phrase, She" Hobson Jobson," or drowning the bier, which has been symbolic of their mourning. There a boat was in waiting, and amid appalling noise and lamentation; shrieks of" Allah," and the cries of enthua siasts who beat and danced themselves into something like frenzy, the paper elephant and caesque were weighted with stones, and cafrried out into midstream to be sunk. They were carefully puebed under with the oars; for it would be fatal to anyone to steal a fragment from them. The devotees then all took their respective ehips, whero the companies had provided them with welcome festal additione to their ordinary fare. To Let the Ffies Walk out. A fly always walks upward. Put a fly on a window, and up he goes toward the op; he can't be made to walk downward. I made a window -screen, divided in half. The upper half lapped over the lower with an inch space between them. As soon ea the fly would light on the soreen he would pro. oeed to travel upward, and world thus walk straight out doors. On reaching the top of She lower half he would go outside. Not being ablest° Walk down he had no way to return to the room. By this means a room cen be quickly cleared of flies.—Sehool Journal. Trenching vs. Practice. Snake Editor—What are you writing? Sanitary Editor—An article on the Evil Effects of Tebacco. Give me a match this pipe of mine's forever going out. There are thirty-nine tlecoephioal societies in the United States. RECIPROCITY They had a quarrel, and sbe gOnt His letters back next day; Rio ring and all his presents,went To him without delay. "Pray send my kisses back to me," Ile wrote. f' Could you forget timed?" She answered speedily that be dust come himself and'get thetnt telephone has played an inew portant part in tha rnanceuvres of the Swedish fleet. There fa a telephonic post on beard each vessel, and when lying at anchor they can telephone to one another means of inanlated conductors which are ran down the anehor chains Una sub- merged. --Maid—There is a ring at the tele- phone. Mistress--Yott go, Fanny; can- not be spoken to while I am not dressed to receive company,--24eaca8 siftino,