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THURSDA.Y, JULY 5. 1894.
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Week's etnamercial Snialnitry.
While the widenixig. awl deepening of
Pr Qenedieu waterway is receiving so
Mule thoughtful 9 Mehl era 'don , and while
something more thax this is belug dime
to bring the Atlantic, and the Pacific
weans together in Central America, it
should be interesting to note the earnings
of the Suez Canal, and consider not only
how it increaetes and facilitates commeree
between Europe and l Asise but also the
good. investment it 'appears to be. We
are anis:pally made aware of these facts,
The Suez Canal Company's report for
1893 shows that the profits which the
shareholaers of that corparation are
making were last year as large as usual,
and they present the strongest arguments
in favor of the highway provided. by the
water for commercial purposes. During
tb.e last four yews the Suez corporation
paid divideucls as follows: In
1890, 17 per cent, ; 1891, 21 per cent. ;
1892, 18 per cent, and 1898, 18 per cent.
This was on a capitalizetion of 197,125,-
000 francs, inclusive of a reservation of 5
per cent. interest. The canal according-
ly cost about $80,000,000. The com-
pany's revenue in 1898 was 7(3,579,992
francs, and the expense amounted t) 86,-
961,455 francs, showing a profit of 89,-
615,587 francs, or a little less than 88,-
000,000. The shareholders, at this rate,
could, after retaining 10 per cent., pay off
the whole indebtedness in twenty-five
years. The British Government bought
from. the Khedive of Egypt an interest in
the canal which in 1875 was valued at
820,000,000, but these shares are now
worth $85,000,000 ; and even so the pres-
ent cost of further improving our great
inland waterway system, either in con-
junction with the United States or alone,
would mot only pay in time, but prove a
great factor in peopling our great country
and assuring greater prosperity than can
miner any other cireurastances be pos-
sible. Every year shows how much the
St. Lawrence route deepened so as to ad-
mit ocean steamers as fax as Toronto,
Chicago and D iluth is demanded by com-
merce.
It is expected that the Canadian ship
canal at Sault Ste. Marie will be complet-
ed. in July. Work on this enterprise has
extended over five years, and in complet-
ing it this stammer the contractors are a
year in advance of the time origivally
set, and earn a bonus ef about 890,000
from the Dominion Gueeemnient. The
completion of the work will, according to
The Cleveland Marine Record, have an
immediate bearing on lake transportation
by giving a twenty foot channel throagh
the Suu " in place of one of from four-
teen to sixteen feet, according to the
stage of the water in the American canal
now in use; Hay Lake Chanel, which
the American Government is now deepen-
ing, will also be completed this year.
The new Canadian ship canal is about
one mile long, and the lock. is 000 fee' in
length by sixty in breadth. The channel
is twenty feet at •ordinary stage of water.
Two of the largest lake vessels can be
locked through together. The lock in the
canal now in use is 515 feet in length,
with sixty foot gates, and. from fourteen
to seventeen fe•et of water. The new
American "Soe" canal will be cempleted
in 1896.
The amount of foreign stocks held in
Great Britoin is estimated at $3,819,035,-
000, and the interest receivable upon
them is 8145,000,000 per annum.
The N. 2 salt well of the Canadian
Pacefie Railway at Windsor has again
beea started, ana the &Detractions whieh
got into the wells same months ago have
been removed. They now turn out about
700 barrels a day, and cannot fill all
orders. The productiou is said by ex-
pert to be about the best knotsm, and
there are four qualities.
The Journal of Commerce is able to an-
notuace, after footing up its tables, that
the total fixe bill of the United States and
Canada for the month of May- is 8,10,777,-
800, as compared with 810,417,100 in May
of 1898. For the first five months of the
year the loss is said te be 08,830,900,
agaiust isu9,637,560 in the same period of
1808, showing the loss to be $6,106,750
lese thau last year 80 far.
The Hali fax Board of Trade has pro-
nounced strongly ihi favor of an annual
subsidy to be paid by the Dominion Gov-
meut to a direct cable between Canada
and Jamaica. The preeent one from
Halifax to Bermuda would be utilized as
the fine stretch of the proposed. cable.
The Government of Jamaica has promis-
ed an annual subsidy of $15,000 for
twenty-one years; the British Govern -
anent is expected to assist, and. the Do-
minion is asked for an annual subsidy
equal to that promised. by Jamaica.,
The n.ainher of failures in the Domin-
ion the past week, in Provinees, ae com-
pared with previoue weeks, is as follows
Ont. gee. 113.11,13. P.E.e, Man, DM,
June 1.4. 11 ' 4 3 1 .. 41
hhe.4
May 31. 11 9 1 2 27
May 28. 15 0 2 .. 2 2 30
May re 9 7 2 2 2 2 24
May 10. 14 19 3 4 2 42
'May 3.. 15 e 2 1 2 2 31
Apr. 26.. 18 7 1 1 .. 2 .. 233
No less than 4,402 cattle loft the port
of Montreal during the week ended Juno
16; same/et/11 that date this season the
total it 22,5121c sable and 11,188 sheep. In
the same period of 1893 24,751 cattle and
1,001 sheep were shipped.
Althoegh it s aulds very intush like the
ad retailer adage of earr,ying octal to
Newcastle, it le
it fact that both. the
Auetralirtais and New Ze slaudere are sue-
eeeefully perfeetieg arrangements, by
means• of the steseuers we subsidize, to
supply Canetio, with mutton, dairy pro-
duce, fruits, etc. This is really praise-
worthy enterprite, and something worthy
of %Isolation seeing that Cauada is pre-
eminently an agricalbural conntry, and
thet the Domiuiou took each& higb stand
for the develtipmeat of dairying and
kind, ea resources at the World's Fair.
The aetipodeitus fully recognize these
facts, and yet, judging by the prepare -
dons being made on the Canadian-Aus-
tralien line, refrigerating accommodation
being pruvicled on the .Miowera alma for
about 11,000 carcasses of frozen mutton.
This fact makes it interesting to inquire
into the relative condition of the Can -
adieu sheep market in the deeede ended
1891. In 1881 the eensus showed that we
had. 8,018,1378 sheep in Canada, and in
1891 this number was only 2,518,977,
showing a decrease of 581,701, or 17.5 per
cent. Ontario makes the worst showing
in this respect, the redaction being froin
1,259,178 to 098,748, or nearly 27 per eenb.,
and Qnebete from 890,888 to 722,025, or 19
per cent. All the older Provinces show
a reduction almost iu the same ratio, a,nd.
Manitoba aud the Northwest Territories
are the ouly cities showing any increase,
the former from 0,078 in 1881 to 85,816 in
1891, and the latter from 840 to 64,920.
Canada is well adapted for sheep raising,
and the market is generally more satis-
factory thau the wheat market is.
In his speech at the ann.ual meeting of
La Banque cl'Hochela,ga, held last Friday,
Mr. Pendergast made some remarks very
pertineut to the times, and. which are
worthy of reproduction, eseecially those
with regard to the spirit of extravagance
which is so general. We quote a few
extracts: "Fur over a quarter of a cen-
tury our popalatiou, that of the rural dis-
tricts especially, forgetting the traditions
of frugality mei economy of the past, and
following the pernielous example set by
its neighbors of the United States, has
given itself up to a chase after luxury
which cannot be too much deplored. No
longer satisfied with enjoying in the
country, a modest but healthful existence,
attracted by the false charms and the
noisy pleasure,: or city life, our farming
people have blindly- flecked to the great
cities. The iuvasion has had at once the
effect of giving to the manufacturing in-
dustries a superabundance of labor and
that uf increasing. to aix alarming degree
the number uf desperates, who, having
nothing to lose, enter nehesitatingly into
the 111068 risky speculations. . . We
must recognize that there has been ex-
travagance in every sphere, in, the Cities
as well as in the country, in trade as well
ea in industry. What about the remedy?
I see no other than the observance of the
strictest economy in all things, of the
greatest pradexice in transactions, shorter
credits and a return to the sound ideas
whith make agriculture popular and.
had to our fer tile fields all those whom Pro-
vidence had lute/Riad to remain in the
country."
A GRATEFUL :31A.N.
Dis Expressions of Thzinks were not
well Received.
suppose yfiu don't remember me, do
you?" he asked. of the cashier of aJeffer-
son avenue restaurant the other evening
while bu.siness wee a little slack.
"Can't say that I do," was the com-
placent reply.
"I was here three years ago to -night."
it ye,»
"I had just got off a train and was rag-
ged, hungry and penniless."
"1 see lots of such."
No doubt you. do, and if you are as
kind to thein as you were to me heaven
will surely reward you. I was dying for
something to eat, but not one blessed
penny had I in my pockets,"
Yes, I know.'
" I stated my caee to a waiter and he
ordered me oat. I went out but return-
ed. Your kind and fatherly face attract-
ei my attenticni, and my heart beating
tumultaously I stepped forward and stat-
ed my ciremestauces. You told me to
sit clown awl eat my fill. Aye 1 with
your own hands you tilled my plate again
and again wibli the very choicest of
viands. Me bill wet seventy (seats. You
told. me to pay it wherc I could, and. when
I went out you gave me your hand and
wished me Ged-speed."
" Yes, I Istaree" growled the cashier.
"1 went away vowing that I would pay
that debt if I lived, anti thereby prove to
you, that all hainsei hearts had not lost
the feeling of gratitude. 1 an. here. I
have come from. Montane on purpose to
pay that debt aeal give vent to my feel-
ing. Sir, I----"
.. That will du," ;said the cashier as he
raised his finger.
.. What do you moan ?"
" No 010re talk, bat :skip right out."
" Bee I want to diseharga my debt of
gra ti tilde "
"
Discharge nothing. You have made
a mistake. .f remember you now. I am
the-sena/1 Who booted you &leer across the
ttreet, while you filled uo at a restaurant
above. The man failed next day and has
been dead a year."
" But, sir, cannot—"
"Oh, yes. yea can. If you don't skip
Pll crack your cocoanut, with this elu.b."
After the grateful man departed I ask-
ed the Gael -tier why he had been so brusque
with him. '
‘' Why, that game is ten yeare old," he
laeghed. The renew had a bogus bank
ehecque for me to eash, and ho figured on
making ,310 or $15. After 'being stile&
three
or four theme you'll get Agin au to
the 'fatherly kindness' and -human grati-
tude? busineee. Cost mo about e100 to
learn all the trielts, and I've got 'ern on
the toe ;el Merl:mot uow. 1'.ishI That
fellow do halt as well as some
othere MAD: he,v6 been here this week."
Quite the neVerSe,
,nYour chum Jenee meet have married
in haste," remarked young .9'1t2 -Allen to
his friend. DeTone.
"No, indeed; he married in PhiIadel-
plea," anewe,rod Der.Vone.
NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS,.
T1UR WEEKS' liCAPVLNIN618,
ntereating Itemand Isteldentet Imports
ant and Instructive, anttnered teem
the Various Prevenees from the eits
lantre to the P5o/11m
The hot wave has touched all parts of
the confitient.
The seveusyear-old son of Mtn Halpin,
blaeltsmith, was drowned at Peterboro'.
Th.e Grand Trunk workshops in Mont-
real and Loudon reopened for "work on
ju1Yra
M,John Turner, it farmer near Oxford
Mills, Ont., lost two ems by lightning aa
Sunday.
Conversation was held by telephone an
Thursday between London, Ont., and
New York City.
Forest fires have destroyed much.of the
finest timber in the leagle Mils reserves,
Battleiord distrait, N,'W.T.
Sir Charles Mille, one of the South Afri-
can delegates to the Entercolonial Confer-
ence, has arrived in Ottawa.
Word comes from London that Caned
ian cattle have been placed on the same
footing as animals from the United States.
Je B. Miller, formerly headmaster of
the Tiverton, Ont., High School, has been
arrested charged with seducing a pupil
aged sixteen.
Mrs. Martin, wife of Thomas Martin,
and their son, thirteen years old, of Chef -
fey Township, were instantly killed by
lightning Sunday.
Mayor Kennedy, of Toronto, sent a
cable to the Dake of York Monday con-
gratulating him upon the birth of a son,
the ;inure heir to the throne.
Mrs. Harry Thorner, arrested in Buf-
falo on a charge of being an accessory to
the murder of a man named Delaney, is
the daughter of a Eingstonian.
At a barn raising on the farm of Mrs.
James Mitchell, near Whitby on Satur-
day a bent fell, and aix old man named
Walter Bannell had. three ribs broken.
George Rice, about thirtee a years old,
who was at Port Colborne with a picnic
from Welland on Satarday, was drowned
whiae bathing. The body was recovered,
George Lush, a farmer living near
Maxwell, fell down stairs Monday and
broke his neck. He was in poor health,
and is supposed to have fallen while in a
1 aint.
Miss Pettigrew, of Norwood, Ont., died
at Peterboro Thursday, having beeu
taken ill while on the way to Clifton
Springs, N.Y., for the benefit of her
health.
The First Congregational Church, Lon-
don, decided Monday nightto invite REM.
Dr. Wild to act as non-resideut pastor,
Rev. James Adams will be offered the
position of assistant.
Lightning struck the residence of J.
H. Cryderma,n in Bowmanville on Satur-
day, knocking the top off the chimney
and tearing a hole through the brick
wall. No one was hurt.
Robert Kennedy of Protestant Hill. near
Bethany, had the top of his head blown
off by the discharge of a gun he was
carrying. Whether it was a case of sui-
cide or not is unknown.
While bathing Sunday two young
men named joseplms Lantz and J. H.
Lantz, of Halifax, were drownel in the
Shubenacadie River. Their bodies were
recovered a feet hours later.
The Globe's London, Eng., correspond-
ent cables that the cattle trade is very
slow, best Canadian. touching etcl, and
average mixed shipments 'Oil The
prospects are considered bad.
Arrangements have been completed by
the Postoffice Department of Canada for
an exchange of money orders between
Canada and Hawaii, and Hawaii and
Australia, Victoria, B.O., being the chief
exchange office.
Fifty stonecutters at Victoria, B.C.,
have gone on strike because tb.e contrac-
tor forewhom they were working deduct-
ed from the wages of one of them the
price of a stone which had beoken while
it was being dressed.
George Hambly disappeared from Win-
nipeg a short time ago, an.d Friday a
bottle was found in Red River which con-
tain.ed a letter from him sayingbe had.
drowned himself, being tired of life. He
had weighted himself with iron.
Oa Wednesday a man named Roderick
McDonald., who had been svorking at
Maxwell, Oat., and was going to his home
at Gem Robertson., lay down on the rail-
way track, went to sleep and was cut to
pieces by a train. He leaves a wife and
several children. :
j'araes Doyle, an employee of the
Natural Gas Company, was instantly
killed at :Belton Monday by a working
train on the Lake Erie & Detroit River
Railway. He jumped from the moving
train, bat his clothing caught and he was
drawn under, five cars passing over his
body. The unfortunate man was literal-
ly cut to pieces.
The mails from China and Japan,
which arrived at Vancouver by tb.e SS.
Empress of japan June 12, reached Qae-
bee Thursday within contract time, via
the Canadian Pacific Railway. , The Aus-
traliatt mails, whieh arrived in Vancouv-
er two days before by the SS. Areava, and
which were sent east, via San Francisco,
by the Postoffice Department, have not
yet reached Ottawa.
The land onwhich the munieipal build-
ing of Philadelphia stands is worth over
$1,0J0t000. It is animal to be owned by
the heirs. of Sohn Rosebrugh, °Jae of the
pioneers of Philadelphia. Among the
&rept heirs are :Joseph L. Hawkins,' Ot-
tawa; Mrs. William Fenger, Burford;
Mrs. W. Howard, Brantford ; Dr. Abner
Rosobrogh, of Hamilton, and Dr. John
Rosebrugh, of Toronto.
Monday morning the body ora yoaug
woman maned Jennie Graham was found
floating in the river near the Sister
Islands a short distanee below Kingetea.
She had. been working as a domestie
around town, and was last seen in town
Sunday night. She had taken &boat and
evidently rowed. down the river to the
island, where she either 1011 out or tn.-
tentionally threw hereelf into the water.
An inquest will be held.
The house of :Tames Posvley, of CAM,-
raqui, wee struck by lightning Monday
inoening. Mr. an.cl Mrs. Powley were in
the house when the accident oecurred.
The lightning canto down through the
chimney and shattered ono of the walls.
Lampe and glassware were brokore the
plester knoeked off the coiling in many
pieees and the carpebs Were burnad on the
floor. Mt. and bits. Powley were stun-
ned by the shock, end their dog, who was
rendered eneonsoisme foe an how. The
house, which is built of stone, is over
ninety years old.
Pnlest.OSIene AltRBSTD.
Saturday night Rev. A, D. Chandler,
an ex -pastor of the A., X. E. Church, of
Chethaan, but who recently left for De-
troit, was arrested oharged sunder the
Charlton Act with the seduction of a
colored girl, aged fonrteen years, daughter
of Mr. Nathan Murray, a respected resi-
dent of the east end. The preacher is a
young man who gained the affections of
the girl while pastor of the cherish. The
soandal has been quite a shook to this
community,
LOOK
• Citizens in towns where Cook & Whit-
by's drone is billed to appear are warned
to look out for sharps. They arrived in
Sudbury Friday from the American Soo,
and, amongst other exploits, one of
their followers " ai.d up" a resident for
$600. His seheme was to get a•n agent
for the Louisiana lottery who could, give
seourity for $1,000. The man who offer-
ed to take the agency said he couldn't
raise this amount, but could put up 8600.
The "agent" said this would be satisfac-
tory, so the $600 was drawn from the
bank to show that he had, that amount.
As soon as Mr. Agent saw the money he
grabbed it and ran under the canvas and
has not been. seen since. Iu North' Bay
the chief of police was offered $75 to al-
low them to play the nut shells for three
hours. Besides this they have the triCk
of asking people if they have any large
bills, stating that the manager wants to
make a remittanoe and would like to get
as many bills of the largest denomination
he could. When the large bills are pro-
duced mistakes are made in the change,
and, before it can be counted, the party
accommodated has disappeared. One man
lost $20 here in this way, and another $5.
YOUNG :CAIN WAS MOT. •
About 10 o'clook Saturday evening on
the Roman line, in Bidclulph, some youn,g
men were passing the residence of Edward
Bowers, amongethem a young man named
Wm. fain. It appears that the boys
halted in front of Bowers' house, and
Bowers came out and ordered. them to
leave. Ab th.e same time, he states, he
fired off a revolver in the air for the pur-
pose of making them move away. The
ball struck the young man Cain under
the shoulder blade, and he is said to be
dying. Bowers' assertion that he fired
in the air cannot be reconciled with the
fact that the ball struck the victim.
Young Cain resides on part of the Don-
nelly farm, of tragedy renown. He is
yet alive, but there are no hopes of his
recovery. Bo wers has been arrested., and
underwent an examination before three
magistrates in Lucan, the result of which
was lm was remanded by them for eight
days. He was taken to London jail in
ehaage of Constable 'Walden. The vic-
tim has made an ante-mortem statement
before Squire Casey, the purport of which
has not yet been made known.
LIVE STOOK EXTORTS.
William Cunningham, live stock agent,
Board of Trade building, Montreal, sup-
plies the following information for week
ending June 23, 1894: Steamers Hamil-
ton, for Bristol, 221 cattle and. 702 sheep;
Warwick, for Bristol, 268 cattle and 1,376
sheep; Gerona, for London, 656 cattle;
Stabbenhuk, for Loncloaa, 395 cattle; Ro-
sarian, for London, 446 cattle; Lake Nip -
igen, for Liverpool, 331 cattle; Oregon,
for Liverpool, 400 cattle; Baltimore, for
Liverpool, 391 cattle and 280 sheep;
Pomeranian for Glasgow, 887 cattle;
Hestia, for 'Glasgow, 445 cattle; total,
3,893 cattle and 2,358 sheep; total ship-
ments up to june 28, 1898, 2,8615 cattle
101 and sheep; total shipments up to
June 23, 1894, 27,087 cattle and 13,496
sheep. Cable advices from London and
Bristol received this week voted good.
cattle at 5d, and sheep at 7d.; trade very
bad on account of warm weather and
heavy supplies. Liverpool cable quoted
good cattle at 5ed to 5Scl. Glasgow cable
on 20th quoted market higher on account
of small supplies. Canadian steers, 6d.;
sheep, 71; prime sheep, Md.; prospects
point to an advance. Sheep are now be-
ing sold in the open. markets. Export
cattle pnrchased. in Montreal during the
week ranged from 434 to ge,; insurance,
per cent. Hay for ocean voyage, $9 per
bon; mouillie, 820 per ton.
GAVIS HIMSELF UP.
A young men of about twenty-seven
years of age walked into police head-
quarters, Toronto, about seven. o'clock
Monday night and surprised Detective
Burrows by saying that he wanted to
surreader himself for the theft of a large
sum of money from a London Eng:, dis-
tilling company. He was dressed in the
latest style, and carried a light summer
overcoat carelessly, on his arm. "I am
willing to go back to London and.pay the
penalty of my crime," he said when
saw the police officer's incredulous look.
When interrogated by Sere. Reburn he
told the following story: His name was
Alfred Buchanan, and he had been a
bookkeeper in the employ of Bishops &
Sons, of the Finsbury Gin.Distillery Com-
pany, of London, Eng. For some time
previa -as to his departure for Canada, on
June 5 he had systematically embezzled
from his employers by means of retain-
ing collections and making false entries
in the books. He thought that he had
embezzled about E200 in all, most of
which had been sunk in speculating on
the London Stock Exchange. Knowing
that his defalcations would be discover-
ed at the next audit of the books, he had
fled the country, and making Canada his
refuge had arrivrd in Montreal on Sane
19. About two weeks ago he crone to To-
ronto and lived in a boaading house on
Church street. He concluded his story
by reiterating hie former statement that;
he was anxious to be taken back to Eng-
land to pay the penalty of his eriene.
Buchanan is a rather fine lookingScotch-
man, and gives evidence of being well
educatedkle, says he left Scotland six
years ago, and that he had only worked.
for Bishops & Sons in London about fit-
toon months. While in London he claims
to have lived at 85 Woburn place.
SMALLPDX SURE.
Reports received by De. Bryce show
that smallpox has broken out in ten now
c,entres in Michigan during the last ten
days, and fifty cases have cleveloped,
No less than a dozen new eases have been
diseovered in Detroit. A telegram. from
Aneherstburg, received by the-- secretary
of th.e Provineial Board of Health con-
veys the information filet considerable
alarm prevail e on. the Canadian border at
the inCreaSe of the epidemic in IVIiehiga,n,
and instruebions are asked for as to the
best coarse to pursue to prevent ite
spreading to Canada, De, 13ryce has
wired back bo maintain a strict surveil,
lance on persons eoming from. Detroit,
who may visit the town, and to Carry oitt
lying ottbeide, was 20 affeetec as to be -4vacelnateen.
TRANSATLANTIC DOINGS,
ALL AROUND TILL GLoug,
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The French President Stabbed to Death
While Driving ia Lyons by a Young
Italian From. Milan.
The most intense exeitement has been
°teased everywhere in France and through-
out the continent by what has proven a
successful. attempt to assassinate Presi-
dent Carnet. The President was visiting
Lyons in connection with the Interna-
tional Exhibition. Upon his arrival there
• he was tendered a reception at the pre-
fecture, after whieh he visited the ex-
hibition. After spending some time at
tb.e exhibition he proceeded to the Padais
de Commerce, where a banquet was given
in his honor, At 9,25 o'clock President
Carnet started for the theatre, where a
gala performance was to be given because
of his presence in the city. Several car-
riages were in the procession., the first one
being occupied by- the President. M.
Carnet's carriage was driven slowly along
in front of the Palace of Commerce and
then turned into Rae de la Republique,
still following the facade of the palace.
When half way down. the street, 'which
was lined with enthusiastic crowds of
people, who were cheering louclly, a man
RUSHED OUT OF TIM CROWD
and sprang upon the step of the Preei-
dent's carriage. Just at this moment M.
Carnet was waving his right hand and
saluting with his hat in his left hand in
response to the ovation that was being
given to him by the crowd. The people
close to the carriage saw that the man
standing on the step Aad a knife in his
hand. By anaglare.of the electric lights
they saw the brig -ht blade gleam in the
air as tb.e assassm's arm descended, and
then President Carnet was seen to fall
beak in his seat, his face deathly pale.
One of his hands was pressed over his
heart where the steel had entered his
body. M. Rivaud, prefect of license, who
was seated by X. Carnet, immediately
struck the assassin a blow 1 all in the
face and knocked him from the step, thus
preventing the man from again stabbing
the President, which it was (xis intention
to do. Instantly cries of "Le President
est assassine," "Mort a la assassine,"
were heard on every side, and the crowd
in the vicinity of the carriage swelled to
enormous proportions, every member of
it seemingly intent upon. kitiing the as-
sassin. He was grasped by a dozen hands
and his life would have then and. there
paid forfeit of his crime had it not been
for several sergeants de ville, who seized
him and attempted to draw him away
from his captors. This was found to be
impossible, as the infuriated crowd were
DETERMINED TO LYNCH TIM MAN,
and the efforts of the sergeants availed
nothing beyond saving the man from in-
stant death. Blows were aimed at his
face and head over the shoulders of the
police, who had by this time received re-
inforcements, and many landed
At last the police succeeded in drawing
the howling mob back a foot or so from
their prisoner, but to get the captive
through the crowd was a physical impos-
sibility. In the meantime th.e news of
the attempted murder spread with lightn-
ing like rapidity, and mounted guards
were sent to the aid of the policemen who
were still struggling to preserve the life
of the assassin. With drawn sabres in
their hands the guards rode down the
crowds, heedless of whom their horses,
tx.ampled on. The crowd slowly gave
way before the horses, and ail last the
centre of the mob was reached. Then a
cordon was formed around the ten almost
exhausted policemen and th.eir captive,
and tb.e march to the police station be-
gan.
PROBRTG TIM WOUND.
After examining the President's wound
all the physicians in attendance upon him
agreed that an operation was necessary,
whereupon Dr. Oilier immediately probed
the wound. While this was being done
M. Carnot came to his senses and said
feebly but distinctly, 'How you aro hurt-
ing ane." The doctors, however, continu-
ed to attend the wound, the outward
bleediug of which had stopped. They
knew, though, that the President's con-
dition was extremely grave, and they
more thatt suspeeted that internal hem-
orrhage ha,d commenced.
SANTO, TIM ASSASSIN,
is a beardless young man twenty or
twenty-five years tile. , When arrestedhe
was attired in a brown suit, and wore a
peaked cap to match the suit in color. As
ho marched under his police guard from
the Rue de in Republic to the station he
held his head down, but his eyes glared
furitively around as though he was seek-
ing en opportunity to escape from his
captors. T9 have made such an attempt,
however, would have been the height of
foolhardiness Unless he desired to com-
mit suicide, feur there is not the slightest
doubt that had he got away from the pro-
tection of the police he would helve been
tom limb from limb by the crowd., whose
every action slao•wed that they were
thirster for blood.
Santo, who speaks French badly, when
questioned by Prefect Legine at the
police station in Rue Motiere, said he had
lived at Cotte, department of Herault, for
the past six months, and had only come
to Lyons to -day. He gave his ago as 22
years. His replies were given coolly, but
without any sign of bravado. He refus-
ed, however, to answer any of the many
questions pat to him regarding his motive
for stabbing the President, declaring that
on this subject he would speak only laofure
a tribunal. When he was aearchecl by
the police,a book was found in One of his
pockets in which it wag -written that he
had beeu born in a village in the Pro, -
vine° of Milan, Italy.
SADI °ARNDT
beearao President of the French. Republic,
in the closing days of 1887 011 the resigna-
tion of M. Gravy. Daring his terms he
has proved himself the best President
France has °vet Seen, and, oa ho signified
his intention of standing again, there
was little doubt of his remaining in the
Chief .Magistracy for fourteen years. M.
Casimir-Perier was the only man in Femme
who would have thought of dispating the
populari y of Carnet, but no one who has
studied. French affairs during the last half
decade could make any mistake in judg-
ing between them. Sadi Carnet had won
the gratitude and affeetion of the French
people as thoroughly as he had earned
respect and admiration in the outside
world. His assassination is 2, black blot
on Franco, and, as we have said, it will
bring shame and !sorrow to the heart of
the netion,
Mexico will suffer a corn famine this
rluiesraixifal871.
Tho Queen returned to W
indsor CastleZdayfr:raBalm:a:1
The Bank of Begland rate of discount
is unchanged at 2 per cent.
The trial of Sento, the assassin of Pre-
sident Carxiot, has boon fixed for J uly 28.
as. report that cholera, had again broken
out at Hamburg is emplaittiealls, denied.
M. Caeimir-Perier was °hooted President
of realm on Wednesday, to succeed M.
Cal'tis rfriund that 231 men perished in
the mine disaster at Troppeau, Austrian
Silesia,
The political situation in Peru. is 003/1. -
plicated, and a revolutionary oetbreak is
feared at Lima.
The Spanish Parliament has adjourned
for a week as a mark of respect to Presi-
dent Carnet's memory.
No farther trouble is feared in Corea.
The Japanese troops who were landed
have been resenibarked.
The Italian residents of Lyons, France,
were assailed by it mob and all their
places of businesa sacked.
The Pope's jabilee encyclical was is-
sued. Friday. It is substantially the same
as the forecast already published.
Rain has commenced to fall again in,
northeastern Austria, and the flooded
districts are in a worse state than ever.
Fifty-one aeditionad deaths frorn the
plaque, including that of a British sol-
dier, were reported at Hong Kong on Sat-
urday.
T wo hundred and thirty bodies have
been recovered from the Albion mine in
Wales, where the explosion took place on
Saturday.
.A. number of bombs and au infernal
machine are said to have boon discovered
in a cellar near the Imperial palace at St.
Petem b avg.
The negotiations between Britain and
Germany, itt regard to the Congo State,
are said to be progressing toward a satis-
faetory settlement.
The University of Oxford has oonferred
the honorary degree of D.O.L. upon. Capt.
Alfred T. Malian, commander of the U.
S. cruiser Chicago.
Mr, John Morley, who had a conference
with Mr. Gladstoue Tuesday, reports that
the ex -Premier's eyesigbt promises to be-
come as good as ever.
Santo, the assassin of President Carnet,
had the stiletto with -which he killed his
ideam concealed in a bunch of flowers
which he carried in his hand.
Itt a paper read at the Colonial Institute
in London Tueeday evening Bishop Sel-
wyn advocated the extension of British
proteution to -western Peal& islands.
Tho senate of the Dublin University
has decided to confer the degree of LL.D.
upon Judge Russell, of England; Bishop
Stevens, 01 Ohio, and Bishop Walker, of
Dalosteav.are
earthquake is said to have
taken place at Tokio s Japan. The Pro-
testant Episcopal church rniesion house
was damaged $10,000, but:all the mission-
aries are safe.
The sealing schooner T3ngo capsized in
a typhoon olt the coast of Japan and. all
hands were lost. Neves is anxiously
awatted from five other vessels which
were in the same locality.
BUSINESS LAW 'IN DAILY USE.
By rtementhering These Hints Trades-
men WM Save Mach Annoyance. *
Herewith are the most important laws,
succinctly stated, that touch the needs of
:the average. business man. An observ-
ance of them, says a tradejournal, will en-
able one to avoid many mistakes that
may be serious, and steer the innocent
from many pitfalls that may be calamit-
ous. They contain, itt few words, the
essence of a large amount of legal verbi-
age not always very intelligible:
Each individual in a partnership is re-
sponsible for the whole amount of the
debts of the firm, except incases of
"special" partnerships.
0oorn.o
ctrda.cts made on Sunday cannot be
eta
A con tract made with a minor is void.
A contract made with a lunatic (or
with one who has a gen.oral reputation
for weakmindedness) is void. (The lat-
ter case must, however, be clearly estab-
lished).
• The acts of one partner bind all the
other partners.
It is a fraud to conceal a fraud.
No consideratiott is sufficient in law
11 ±8 be illegal in. its nature. (Many
" failures " are upset because of this
law).
A receipt for money is not always con-
clusive.
An agreement -without consideration is
bviollide.
ehi8s. (This must bo constru-
law compels no one to do impossi-
ed).
n.orance of the law excuses no one.
Notes, especially the following, as
affecting the giving and taking of
notes
An
o
te made on Sunday is void.
A note made by a minor is void.
A note obtained by fraud from a per-
son in a state of intoxication cannot be
collected. (This it a corollary to the la,w
governing contracts with thetveakmind-
Notes bea,r interest only when so stat-
ed.
If a note is lost or stolen it does not
release the maker; he must pay it if the
consideration for whieh it was given and
the amou•at can be proved.
Signatures made with a lead pencil are
Prntei
in
nmawnaorsed in blank, is transfer.,
able by delivery, the same as made pay
able to bearer.
The maker of aix "accommodation ".
note (ono for which fie has received no
coneicleration, having lent his name and
credit for the accommodation of the
holder) is not bound to the person, a,ccone-
moclated, but is bound to all other par-
ties, precisely as if there was a good con-
sideration,
If the maker of a chorine or draft has
changed his residenee, the holder must:
use "due diligence" to flnd
Cheques or drafts must be presented
Lor payment "without unreasonable de-
lay."
'paranoia or oversight or of wilful in-
attention te these fundamental injunc-
dans is the frequent source of annoying
and expensive litigation.
An exiteeesting Corimumity.
'Don't you think society in Now York,
is improving ?'
"I den'b knew ebout that," was the
reply. "But I have certainly noticed a
marked and steady elevetion in the soelal
tone of Sing Sing."