HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-10-4, Page 3FOR MDR.
Mrs. Gray on Trial at
Peterboro'.
EXPERT MEDICAL TESTIMONY.
nusb and and Wife Being Tried Sepa-
rately -A Small Jury Panel Case
' May Conclude ToDay.
Peterboro', Sept. 26.-(Specia1e-The
Criminal Assize Court to -day has been
enea,ged with the trial of Bessie Gray
for the murder of old David Seethe on
February 28, 1894. Very great local
interest centres upon the case, and the
court room has been crowded to ex-
cess,. many taking their seats a couple
01 hours before the proceedings opened
this morning and holding them
throughout the day. The farmers and
their families for miles around have
driven in to attend the court, .and oyer
a hundred ladies were scattered
through the crowd. When Chancellor
, Boyd took his seat at 11.30 o'clock the
Grand Jury filed into their places and
handed in true bills against both
Thomas and Bessie Gray on both counts
• of murdex and arson.
The accused couple were at once plac-
ed in the box and arraigned, and both
pleaded "not guilty," clearly and dis-
tinctly. The intervening weeks since
the preliminary hearing have told on
both prisoners. Mrs. Grey, who car-
ried the ba,by in her axms, was very
pale and wan -looking. and had lost that
careless, flippant demeanor so notice-
able before, while her husband was evi-
aently fully alive to the serious nature
A SHERBROOKB MURDER.
Mark Saerborn to be Tried for the Etra-
tal Murder or a'. IL Hull -'A Plea Of
Insanity.
SherinaOlte, Sept. 25,-(Speciala-
MaSh
rk ellac/1% wili be put on trial for
his life at tat) next term of the Court
Of Queen's Benoit, Which opens bere the
first day of Oeteoer next, ale horribly
butchered H. Bull at Lennoxville on
June 26 last. Sherborxes trial will be a,
remarkable one. The plea will lie in -
Sanity. Mr. Justice Brooks will pre-
side. Crown Councillor Wm. White, Q.
C„ and leis assistant W. Maven&
will appear for the prosecutioxl, and Mr.
S. Broderick for the defence, No at-
tempt will be made to deny that Sher -
born killed Hull. The defence will en-
deavor to prove that erbern
was insane at the time of
the killing, and is now insane.
Sherbern and Hall had been Mende for
roars, and were in the habit of fre-
quently visiting one another. On June
26 Sherborn was at Bull's home. As he
had been ailing for some time past he
'wee invited to lie down and rest. He
consented on condition that Hull would
Ile down With him, The two had not
long been in the room when Mrs, Hull
was aroused by a loud shout of dis-
tress from her husband. She rushed to
the room'where she found him lying in
a pool of blood, with his throat cut from
ear to ear, and the accused on top of
him, also with a badly lacerated throat.
Before medical aid reached the house
Hull died. A razor, with which the deed
had been perpetrated, was found near
the bed on the floor, Sherborn did not
deny the act, and was remanded to jail
by the Coroner. alis counsel has ap-
plied to the Sheriff, under the provisions
of the revised statutes of Canada, to
have Sherborn examined by the Super-
intendent of a lunatic asylum, but, so
far, no examination has taken place.
'Up to a short time previous to the death
of Bull Sherborn lead worked inces-
santly day and night. He was a sort of
"Jack of all trades," with a genius for
mechanics. He was a hard-working
and induetrious fellow, and much es-
teemed by all who knew him, Since his
arrest he has to be watched incessant:
ly for fear he may do himself bodily
harm. He has been ton days without
taking food or nourishment of any kind.
during which period his strength re -
of the position they were in. j mained uninspaired. His mania is a sort
At 12.15 Mr. R. C. Clute, the Crown of melancholia. He refuses to speak to
prosecutor, opened the case, briefly lay- anybody, even to his counsel, His wife
ing the facts before the jury. He com- has visited him several times, but he
mented upon the distressing features in- did rfot seem to reeognize her no dia
cident teethe matter before them, the he speak to ear.
Hull was his most intimate friend -
fact that the prisoner at the bar was a '
woman, the mother of a family, and one The two men were like brothers. and
spent much of their time together. Upon
of these an infant of tender age, but
these circumstances must not deter them his arraignment on the eharge of mur-
der his counsel will apply to the court
from fearlessly doing their duty. Cone
tinuing, the learned counsel narrated to have the question of his sanity tried
and determined by a jury. Proceedings
the story of the alleged crime, told the
jury how the prisoner would be shown
will else be taken to have him inter -
to have often threatened to kill deceas-
dieted.
ed, how she was at home when the fire
started, and after it was subdued the A DELIBERATE SUICIDE,
headless eorpse was found in the ruin,
Mr. Alvin Jenks Takes Ris Life After
Notifying an Undertaker to. Call for
His Remains.
Allvin Jenks, aged 26, owner and man -
and concluded by painting out the „ad-
vantages which would accrue to the pri-
soner and her husband by the death of
the old man. At the conclusion of Mr.
Clute's address the court adjourned for
lunch. ager of the Toronto Paper Box Com -
John Graham Weir, one of the ohief pany, 73 A.delaide street west, took his
Crown witnesses, was the next to enter life some time Wednesday night in the
the box. He testified that he lived about "4 .
a mile and a half south of the burned mc,st deliberate manner. During Wed-
• building. He had known David Soon nesday deceased sent his will to his law -
lie for many years. He was a stout, yer, Mr. Charles Elliott, together with
heavy -set man, weighing about 180. some business papers, a,nd on Wednes:
pounds. He was a vigorous, healthy day night posted a letter to ivIr. Henry
man, about 60. or 64 years ot age. He Ellis, undertaker, on College street.
saw him about a week before the fire. The letter to Mr. Ellis had been drop -
Witness heard of the fire at about 7 ped into b. letter box on Spa,dina aye -
o'clock in the morning-, and drove over nue some time before 9.30 p. m. it read
to the place. The walls were aladown, as follows :-"Mr. Ellis come to 112
and the debris was burning up, being Brunswick. avenue as so -on as you get
piled about as high as his head. Mr. 1 this and bring a Coroner with you. The
Burnham had pointed out where he door will be unlocked." The letter was
thought the body was, and they had rneigned. Mr. Ellis immediately noti-
thrown water on the spot. He then dug fled Coroner Young, and tney proceeded
a trench around the spot till he struck to the address given. The door was
the floor. He thought it was the floorI unlocked, as the note indicated, and on
of the house. He did not think there opening it they were greeted with a
was any cellar under this portion. When strong odor of gas. They bad no diffi-
the body was removed, plaster, laths culty in tracing the esc-ape oe gas to
and bits of board were removed to the
depth of about eigfht inches. There was the bath room, where they found the
body of deceased. Door, fanlight and
as much covering over the spot where 1
the head should have been as over the' window of the room had .been closed,
rest of the 'body. The body was on a the blind pulled down, and the gas
straw tick. The straw was not con- turned on full. Deceased was in a sit-
sumed under the body. He understood • ting posture, his elbow an the wash,
that Scottie slept on the lower floor of stand and his head on his hand. There
• the house, and had not fallen from was no discoloration or distortion of
above. When the body was taken out the features, and the appearance at the
it was complete, with the exception of unfortunate man was quite natural. Pin -
the head, whteh was missing.
One foot, too, was burnt rife
as far s the et en. TT e bad
woollen socks on. The clothes were
Welted iti anneu hire. ae though he had
drawn them in on account of the chilly
weather. The arms were folded across
the clothes. The
ned on the lapel of his coat was a scrap
of paper bearing the words "ill -health,
A. J." A post mortem examination will
be held this morning, and if
the circumstances so warrant
Coroner Young 1,011 hold an in-
quest this evening on the body. The
the breast beneath hair
case is obviously one of deliberate sui-
on the breast was uninjured. It grew cide, presumably by asphyxiatiofl,
up to a point within three inches of though there are suggestions of poison
where the head was severed_ The neck in the appearance of deceased. De -
seemed to have been left longer behind ceased was an American by birth, a
than in front. When he saw the neck native of Rhode Island, and had resided
he at once felt convinced that the man's scme years in this city. He was mar -
head had been cut off. He did not see ried only three months ago to Miss
the body afterwards. Madden, sister of Mr. G. F. Madden of
The Crown next submitted the medi- the Incandescent Electric Light Corn-
eal testimony, and every one bent many. They lived together, to all
forward eagerly as Dr. John Caven of appearances, happily enough and were
Toronto entered the box, as it was cut bicycle riding together only on
thoroughly understood by all how vital- Sunday. On Tuesdey Mra Jenks left
ly important his evidence would be. on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Murray of
Little York. Word was sent to her ot
the death of her husband.
Mr. Elliott, the lawyer of, deceasetl,
received the documents that Jenks had
mailed him, and gathered from glancing
through them that something was
wrong with his client. He called on Mr.
Madden, the brother-in-law of deceas-
ed. and the two proceeded to Mr.
Jenks' house on Brunswick avenue,
where awaited them the startling in-
telligence recorded above. It was known
to the friends of deceased that he had
been for some time suffering from -aix'
abscess in the ear, vrhian gave him in-
tense pain and affected his general
health.
PHYSICAL FORCE.
New Society Formed for
Freeing Ireland.
A REVIVAL OF FENIANIS1VL.
Having stated that as professor pf
pathology and demonstrator of anat-
omy at Toronto University and in the
general course of his work during the
past six years he had handled probab-
ly 600 subjects, he proceeded to de-
scribe the condition of the remains as
he found them when the body was
exhumed in Little Lake cemetery on
June 1 last. The body was clothed in
two shirts and drawers, also socks. The
shirts showed evidences of fire about
the neck. and the head was missing.
Upon removing the shirts the chest
was found to be covered with a thick
growth of hair, which had been un-
touched by fire. Upon attempting to
lift the trunk by the neck two or three
sections of vertebrae came away in the
Itand. The collar -bones were destroy-
ed, the left shoulder blade was missing
arid the right shoulder badly burned.
The upper parts of both arms were
much injured, and one was almost en-
tirely gorte. The back and knuckles
of the left ha,ncl were burned and char-
red. All the ribs on the left side were
burned more or lees at the junction of
the spine, but the rite on the right
side were intact arida' Uninjured. .A.
three-inch nail was found partly pene-
trating the chest, having apparently
been driven in when the debris fell on
The Irish Parliamentary Party Repudi-
, ated-Ofacers and Constitution of
the New Society.
Chicago, Sept. 26. -The delegates to
the Irish National. Convention reas-
sembled at 10 o'clock, but the report of
the Committee on Resolutions not be-
ing ready a recess was taken
Talle STRANORD-
A Deminion Line Steamer From Mtnit-
real Reperted Fast in tae Straits of
Belle lele,
Father Point, Sept. 26, -Captain Auld
of, the steamer Duninorefiead, inward
6.45, p,m, reperts paseing at du* on
the 24th a three -masted Dominion Line
steamer asbore on Forteau Point,
Straits Of Belle lele, probably the
etearner Mariposa, bound for Liverpool,
that passed here outward at 9 a.m. on
the 22nd instant, with general cargo
an Passengers, An Allan Line steam-
• er was standing by her, probably tlx
steamer Austrian, from London, bound
for Montreal. The stranded vessel is
laying upright on a level bottom, and
is pot eubmerged anything beyond
What she woula be if afloat Captain
Auld reports that he passed through
heavy weather and thick sleet and
snow on the evening of the 23rd, and
this Weather probably caused the mai..
hap to the Dominion Liner.
THE VENEZUELAN DISPUTE.
Birth was given by the Irish National
Cenvention this af term= to an organ- Trouble Between England and the united
States Announced in a Buffalo News-
paper -The Prograinme.
Buffalo, Sept. 26. -The Evening News
prints the following sensational Wash-
ington despatch to -day :-We expect to
have trouble vvith Great Britain with-
in 90 days, and are preparing to get into
shape for it. This startling statement,
which at first seems to have a ring of
znents, is buried from sight, and in its sensationallsm in it, was made by a
place rises the Irieh National Alliance 'high offloial of the Government. It was
of the World. Incidentally the Irish in answer to an inquiry why work.
Parliamentery party across the At- upon Government vessels nearing corn-
lantic is repudiated, and henceforth reletion and in Government gun shops
will be deprived of the abundant and navy yards is being pushed to
revenues that have been continued Suoti aix unusual degree, It nas been
from this country for its maintenance known for the past two weeks to a few
and support. For the next two years officials outside the immediate oirele of
at least New York City Will be the the President and his Cabinet that the
seat of operations of the new move- relations between this Government and
ment, William Lyman, a wealthy Irish- ' that of Great Britain over the
American of that city, having been Venezuelan matter are rea,ching
selected as the first President of the an a.oute stage. It 15 now
alliance, witti the authority to appoint known that between this time and
a secretary of his own °Wee. The plan the assembling of Congress the Unitecl.
of operations adopted provides for a States will call an abrupt halt to Bri-
central council with authority to issue tish encroachment upon Venezuelan ter-
cbarters for State organizations. Mem- ritory. This will be done for the double
bership is limited to people of Irish purpose of enforoing the Monroe cloc-
airth or descent who shall pledge them- , trine and to protect American inter -
selves to aid in the liberation of Ire- ' ests. A syndicate of Americans from
land by any means "consistent with
the laws and usages of civilized na-
tions." The plan closely resembles that
of the old Fenian Brotherhood. This
evening the convention adjourned sine
die. Nothing was done by the conven-
tion at the morning session, owing to
the delay on the part of the Committee
on Resolutions in agreeing to the re-
port When the delegates re -assembled
at 3 o'clock the Committee on Ways
and Means and Plan of Organization
presented its report, stating that the
qualifications for membership shall be
good moral character, birth on Irish
soli or descent from Irish parentage
on paternal or maternal side, or both,
and the taking of the following
pledge:-
honor to aid by every means within FOREST FIRE: QUENCHED.
"1 - hereby pledge my word of .
statution and by-laws of the Irish Na- A Welcome Rain ia Quebec Stops
my power, in conformity with the con-
tienal Alliance, in securing the indepen- tLhoessResa.vages-Sorae Account of the
dance of Ireland." In subsequent
officers shell consist of a president, Arthabaska Station, Que., Sept. 26.-
paragraphs it is provided that the
vThe forest fires continued unabated all
ice -president and treasurer, a secre-
night and unt
tary to be appointed by the president il an early hour this morn -
in
and an executive council of nine. ge when a merciful rain set in, and all
d
The membership initiation fee was a,nger is now thought to be at an. end.
pie flames had crept up to uneo
fixed at $1, and dues at 50 cents per rnfoxt-
able proximity to the Village of Artha-
Its:carter, and it was pro-vtded that 75 batata. It raged fiercely beyond Buts
-
per cent. of the gross receipts of the '
trode and 200 men had to work un -
councils should be turned ceasingly to save that village from de -
subordinate
into the National Treasury. The report struetion. Thousands of cords of valu-
*was critized by John Fitzpatrick of able pulp wood and wood of other kinds
Illinois, who said that he ha,d tramp- were piled there, and were nearly all
destroyed. At St. Valiexe the fire did
ad barefooted while carrying messages
great damage
in his hat for the revolutionists df the following being some
'43, and who contended tnat the con- d
01!the sufferers :-Alf. Baril damage,
vention should _form a government It Le,.v dwelling Elo
e; rgn. e?dulvtieeiriusinhgo;e;barn and
and r rbaatrtne,;
then and there Ind establish a provi- house; A. Bouvet, mill; F. Blanchet,
ssolointal Irish Legislature on American
Laurent G. Gosselin, barns and con -
house; Joseph Provencher, dwelling;
The report of the Committee on Plat- tents; Alf. Gosselin. house and contents;
farm was presented by O'Neil Ryan Jcseph Morinville, barn and contents.
of St. Louis, and was unanimouslY , That village also ,reports that the rain
adopted, as follows :-"The people of ' is expected to put out the fires.
• Ireland are a sovereign people. Ireland ' St. Wenceslas. via Aston, Artha-
is by nature separate from every other ' baska County, Que., Sept. 26. -The
ccuntry, and liberty is the birthright of , heavy rain which began falling early
her people. Ireland was known this morning is a great blessing to this
throughout Europe as a nation long locality. The forest fires, to all appear -
before the dawn of Christianity,and was epees, are at an end, or will be in the
the home of civilization while England course of the morning. The damage
was still barbarous. England's in this village and surrounding district
claims to authority in Ireland cannot be definitely estimated or the
originated in force and nave been full extent of the fire fully understood
maintained by corruption and coercion ; as yet, as it would take days to cover
they have never ripened into a right to tlr thegrproperty ground destroyed, with esti-
been
Following is a partial list
rule; the title to the conquest has never o
been perfected, inasmuch as the Irish mated amount of losses :-Antoine
people have continuously, by constitu- Desilets, house, barn and crops, $1,000;
'Lionel agitation or revolutionary move- T. Richer. house, barn and lot of lum-
ments, resisted England's power, and bar, $500; Joseph Desilets, house, bann
eneeavored to destroy her unlawful and crops, $800; Denis Lamothe, house
supremacy. Ireland is deprived of al- and barns, full of crops, $900; J. Belly -
most every civil right which the Am- eau, house and barns, with crops, $900;
eriaan people most dearly cherish. Un_ Adelarde Rocher, house, $800; Dame
ization which has for its avowed ob-
ject the independence oa Ireland, a re-
public by a policy of physical force,
The ashes of the Fenian Brotherhood
are re -kindled, the National League,
with its trust in legislators and its re-
liance upon Parliaments and enact-
KINGSTON.
leingston, Ont.. Sept. 26. -Dr. J.
atcCeinnes Dupuis died to -day at Phila-
delphia, Pa. He was a graduate of
Queents College and son of Professor
Dupuis in that institation,
About 4.30 o'clock this morning a
had pitch -in occurred at Shannonville.
Three down trains were bound for
reingston, and the first one, in charge
Of Conductor Paisley, broke loose. The
second train, a mixed special, was flag-
ged and etopped in time. The third
i I nown as tem fruit train, Con -
William Jamee McGregor and his wife ductor Taylor, came tearing along and
e o y.
Mary, the latter being the prisoner's did riot notice the flag. It smashed
sister, were the last witnesses examined. t th mixed and the result was
McGregor's evidence was not as damag-
ing as Previously, inasmuch as his states
ment dealt largely with Thomas. Gray's
connection with the case, and weld not,
of course, be used hi this trial, though
if the case against him iel proceeded
with the Crown will no doubt use it
then,
He told, however, of the children com-
ing to his house in the night and giving
the alarm, and of his starting for the
fire and meeting arre. Gran the prison-
er, on the way. When he reached the
burning bouse there was no fire upstaire
at all, but it was so fierce below ths,t
he could do nothing* to Save Scottie.
Witness added that be had often heard
the prisoher say that she would polecat
the — old bruite, meaning decetteed,
To Mr. Stratton withese adreitted that
deceased was Well looked aftet and gen.
eralle happY With the Grays', and was rudder is shipped. Her Wheel is ali
Very kind to the Ohildren. right,
the derailing of the van and four cars.
The oars were badly damaged. Driver
Drown, who served on the suburban
engine, was in the cab of the first trent,
He and 'Fireman Corrigan were pretty
badly hurt. This is the third time
that Conductor Wilkie'S train lime been
pitched into,
Wreckage Reported.
Sault Ste, latarle, Mich., Sept: 26, -The
steamer Alberta reports passing, ten
nales off Caribou Island, yesterday afs
ternoon, the side or 'a vessel's cabin,
Painted white, There was near lin a
lead -colored raeat-bOX, natne eould
be detereaned an the Wreckage. The
whaleback Mather is detained 'With dis-
abled machinery, The steam.er City of
London evIll go to Bennie>, wheal a new
Faribault. Minn., has been granted a
concession from. Venezuela within the
territory dispated by Great Britain. The
syndicate will take possession of its
ccncession within a month and begin
its operations. If Great Britain objects
Venezuela will insist that tne conces-
sion is within her own territory and will
protect the syndicate. At this point our
Government will demand that England
submit the boundary dispute to arbitra-
tion or else the United States will act
on its own view of this dispute and
carry out the Munroe doctrine. It is
known that instruetions have already
been sent to Ambassador Bayard to
this effect.
exampied cruelty and brutal vin le- Peuve Desrosiers, barns, dwelling and
tiveness have been the distinguishing
features of English rule in Ireland. Eng-
land has destroyed Ireland's industries
and ruined her commerce; she has plac-
ed upon her statute books laws making
it a crime to educate an Irish child; she
burned Ireland's school houses and des-
troyed her churches; she has driven into
exile or left to perish in her dungeons
thousands of men whose only crime was
love of Ireland. Every measure for the
last century looking towards legislative
independence of the Irish people has
either suffered defeat in the Comtnons
or been arbitrarily rejected by the
Lards. England has violated every
treaty and broken every pledge, and
with almost every year of the eentury
she has imposed upon Ireland
trutal laws of coercion, and
one of the most dristic
character is now upon her statute booic.
To the pleas of the people for justice
and their prayers for mercy England
has responded with the scourge and the
Scaffold, and yet to -day Ireland, en-
thralled but not enslaved, crushed but
not conquered, is in spirit a nation. It
has become evident after many years of
earnest endeavor to obtain a measure of
independence from the English Govern-
ment by peaceful agitation that appeals
to reason and fax justice are futile. It
Is left, therefore, for the men of the Irish
race to proclaim again the truth record-
ed by all history, that the liberties of a
people and the independence of a mu
tion cannot be achieved by debate, bet
muethe won upon the field of battle, and
we declare our belief that the men of
Irelatd, who are being driven into exile
Or into the graves of Serfs in their native
land by English misgovernment, are
entitled by the laws of God and man te
use every means in their power to drive
from tbeir country the tyrant and usurp-
er, and we believe that Ireland hae the
right to make England's difficulty her
opportunity and to use all possible
means to create that difficulty. In view
of these facts the members of this con-
vention appeal wih confidence to their
American fellow -citizens and dal
lovers of liberty to co-operate
With them in aiding the people
• of Ireland in the achievement
Of the same measure at liberty
es enjoyed in these 'United States. Re-
solved, that we earnestly protest
against the continued incarceration In
English prieqns Of Irish patriots; that
we consider it a shame and against the
policy Of eitilized Mations to keep in
prison men who have acted only in the
interest nt tb ei r cowl try and hu m a n
11,borty, and that the reiegtee of these city has been received, 8.00 he will the delivery of hie epeena -newel tate
mem Is haperatively demaricled not fatly preach his first sernien on Sunday even- (Tented Fon sn ti on. se axi unexpected
by the Trish neonle hilt by claillentlea trig, October 27. and outspakee valedictory.
enentans.enee
crops, $1,000; Pierre 13rault, house,
barns, crops, mill and lumber, $4,000:
J. Lavasseur, house, barn and crops
MO; J. Allard, barn and crops, $350; E.
Beaulac, barn, $200.
Hall Caine's Views.
THE OLD DUKE.
Spirited Reply to Some
His Critics.
of
GOVERNMENT AND THE POPE.
Rebels Defeat the Chinese Tnpope-Jap-
ariese Victory in Formosa-Oltamleen
lain and the Carlton Club.
New York, Sept. 26. -In an interview'
at the Holland House, Hall Caine said:
"As I came to speak officially to the
Canadians regarding their copyright
law, it would be indelicate fox me to go
into details regarding what I am going
to propose before I lay the matter be-
fore them. but I can speak in a general
way regarding the situation. Caina,da
complains that we do not understand
her caseand by visiting her leading
cities and talking with her authors and
publishers I hope to come to an under-
standing of just how they feel upon the
subject. Canada is at present under
obligations entered into at the Berne
Convention, and desires to withdraw
from these. She claims the right to
legislate upon these matters for herself,
and of that right there can be no doubt,
so far as concerns herself. The question
is how far she can legislate as affecting
imperial rights. It has been said in
Canada that I am gotng there to look
after my own interests as an author,
but this is not true. If that were all,
the best course would be to use our own
inftuenee at home to keep things as they
are. To succeed in my purpose we must
make some concessions,"
London, Sept, 26, -The Daily Nees/a
says that the, name of Mr. Joseph
Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary, will
probably soon be submitted to a ballot
for membership in the Carlton Club,
and that the proposal has evoked signs
of revolt among the older members of
the club. This opposition, according
to The News, may be overcome, and in
any event the gentlemen whe desire
to propose Mr. Caamberlain for mem-
bership will not risk his being black-
balled, and will not present his name
if the opposition to him continues.
Among the saloon passengers who
will sail for New York on board the Am-
erican Liner Paris from Southampton
on Saturday are Theodore Thomas and
wife and the Marchez Malaspina.
Sir Augustus Harris -will sail from
Liverpool for New York on the steamer
laucania on Saturday.
it is reported that a cable despateh
has been received here from Ottawa
stating that a large number of Lee-
Metford rifles have been ordered for the
Canadian militia, but inothing is known
of such an order at the War Office.
The newspapers of both parties here
ridicule the National Convention at
Irish Societies in Chieago, which they
regard as being a part of the Presi-
dential contest, and as having little, if
any, connection with Ireland. The
Times, referring to the convention,
says :-"The performance will be re-
garded with contemptuous indifference
here."
Cartwright & Dana's management of
the Duke of York's theatre, formerly
the Trafalgar, was 'inaugurated to -night
with the production of Fritles play,
"Her Advocate." The work was well
received, and promises to be a success,
but the cast is hardly as strong as the
play demands.
Dublin, Sept. 26. -United Ireland, re-
ferring to the National Convention of
Irish Societies in Chicago, says it re-
joices that Irishmen have not aban-
doned the idea of -using physical force
to secure justice for Ireland. They will
have to put this idea into practice some
day, it adds, and the sooner they pre-
pare to do so the better.
PORT DOVER.
Poet Dover, Sept. 26. -This morning
about 2 amthe house of Miss Brown
on the western suburbs of this place
was broken into by burglars, and an
aged aunt, Miss Lonsboro, who was
sleeping down stairs, got up and called
for help to Miss Brown and threatened
the burglars when she almost im-
mediately fell over and expired, the
tright being too much for leer, as she
had been in rather feeble health
Lor some time. Dr. Hamilton,
her physician, upon his ar-
rival declared that life hail been ex-
tinct for eome time, and the Crown
wee notified, as several berglaries
bave taken place here lately, al-
thotigh not With such tragic results,
Dr. Talmage Accepts.
'Washington, Sept, 26, -Dr. Talniage's
formal acceptance of the call tendetea
by the First Presbyterian Church of Otte
FRANCE.
Complete Rout of the HOVE4 Force in
Madagascar -President Faure 111 -
Bouteilhe Sentenced.
Paris, Sept. 26. -Despatches from
Madagascar report a great victory for
the French troops. According to these
advices the French without loss com-
pletely routed the entire Bova force on
September 19, and captured the pass
across the Ambohimena Mountains.
The French advance guard had reach-
ed Antony, which is 70 kilometres from
Antananarivo, the Madagascar capital,
and the objective point of the French
expedition.
The Gauletis says President Faure is
in ill -health, and has been ordered by
his physician to take ten days' absolute
rest.
Victor Bouteilhe, who a few weeks
ego placed a bomb in the doorway of
Rothschild's Bank,was to -day sentenced
to three years' imprisonment, and fined
100 francs.
IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS.
•
Claim That the Italian Government's
Friendly Proposals Were Rejected by
the Vatican.
Rome, Sept. 26. -The Government has
published documents containing the
communications that passed between
Italy and the Vatican after the entry of
the Italian troops trito Rome in 1870.
Signor Blaine, who was then Under
Secretary, and who conducted the ne-
gotiations with Cardinal Antonelli, in-
stigated the publication of the docu-
ments, which show that the Italian
Govertnment througe.out was willing to
make every concession that would en-
sure the liberty and independence of
the Pope, while the Vatican apparently
in order to maintain a pretext for com-
plaining that the Pope had been depriv-
ed of his liberty refused to accept any
of the proffered concessions. The docu-
ments excite much interest.
LIVING ON APRONS.
A Gal in antsburgii Hes round a ,Luera-
ofession,
who has within the last tan) or three Yeare
tire Pr
A (clever young woman, handy twenty,
estaWshed a steady patronage Of her waree
among the $00ietY WOneen of the oity, eeti-
eessed to One of bar petrOne achi)" or two
since that her become lest year was over
$9,000, The comniodity ie aprons, says the
Pittsburgh Dispatch. Over 8,000 of these
were made and sold last year. The young
Indy bas been engaged in apron manliest:-
ture since the age Of thirteea. Left alp'
orphan, she antiertook this work as et
means of support. Ber neateess end deft.,
ness soon made the worle a paying ven-
ture, and now by her efforts she is educat-
ing tWo younger brothers, as well as pro-
viding for herself.
The woman formerly caavassed with
her aprons from house to bouse, now she
needs but to take orders, as her work is
known to be satisfactory. She manufac-
tures her aprons through the winter and
Spring, and usually devotes about six
weeks in the summer to the taking of
Orders and the delivery" of the goods. As
aprons are a necessity of the wardesbe and
in constant wear and tear, a market which
brings the same to the door has COMO to be
greatly appreciated both by mistress
and maid, and the clever canvasser is now
sure of a welcome wherever she goes.
She has her regular round of patrons,
The apron -maker buys her material in New
'York by the web. She makes her own se-
leetions--dimity and lawn for the fine
aprons, muslin for the maids and nurses
and lieavy linens and ginghams for the
kitchens.
No fano" aprons are mapufactured,none
With bibs and none for children. Me
largest business is dope in the nurse maid
apron, these of double breadths, full al,
most to dress skirt pattern. The lawn
aprons are handsome, with deep hems and
pretty ties.
Variety is assured bran occasional deep
ruffle or one or two pockets. The sewing
aprons have deep pockets, and in a few of
the dainty lawn aprons for the mistress a
jaunty pocket has place,
The young seamstress is still able to con-
trol the manufacture of her aprons herself.
To accomplish the amount of work last
year, however, the greatest system and
application were nceessary. Days were
spent in running up nothing but the ties
or strings. Yard after yard of this ribbon-
like work was neatly fashioned, hemmed
on both sides, then dtvided off in proper
lengths. Other days would be devoted to
nothing but the hemming, of the bottoms
of the Athens, and on other days the gather-
ing would claim attention. All work is
done on the machine.
The young apron maker has an eye to
color also, and in the selection of her ging-
hams and muslins mates choice of the
sweetest designs in checks or stripes, pink.
blue, brown or whatever tint may be the
choice at the time.
The aprons for the nurses, for the serv-
ing maids, or for the mistress, however, are
always of the regulation white, the meter-
ial only varied with the style. The little
apron vender confesees to the fact that in
an apron which sells for fifty cents, owing
to the reduced rate in her purchase of
material by the whnlesale, the actual out-
lay is but a trifle over sixteen cents.
DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.
The Old Commander -in -Chief Speaks
of His Retirement at a Luncheon
in Edinburgh.
London, Sept. 26. -The Duke of Cam-
bridge. whose retirement as -Command-
er-ineChief af the forces was recently
announced, and who was succeeded by
Lord Wolseley, made a long speech at
a luncheon which was given in his bonor
to -day in Edinnergh. He began his x
marks by by referring to the charge that
he had opposed all changes that had
been suggested in connection with the
army. This charge he denied, maintain-
ing that, on the contrary, he had al-
ways led in making changes that tend-
ed to add to the efficiency of the British
troops. He said he regretted to have
seen latterly that a strong notion ex-
isted that a member of the royal family
was not suited to the chief command
or the army. He herd that a royal per-
son could be placed, without necessar-
ily considering his high degree, in any
position for which he might be found
to be fitted. He would not say that he
Was particularly fitefor the position be
had filled for 39 years, He had filled
it as best be could. and had got more
than his share of creticiern that always
fell to great public officials. When a
member of the royal family was found
fit for his position, be continued, the
Public ought to be delighted to see birn
SO placed. If he had gone about for 39
Years twirling his fingers and smoking
cigars in the streets of London the peo-
ple would not have thought much of
him. He could have gone on much longer
working at his post, but it had been
thought advisable that others should
foliose him. He only hotled that his sue-
Geseers would end their careers feeling
such sentiments towards their offieers
ae he exaerienced at that moment. He
had been corieoled by the knowledge
that he had &Me his duty in such a
way that the army atid the Whole Coun-
try had been satlefied. A feature of the
monarchical 'principle -was that those in
the highest positions, beside doing
their duty to the atete, were bound ta
be usafill members of Society. Ire ac-
rotdance with this rule he had never
neglected the civil dutiee -raining to a
nereon in his positasn. The Dulte Wee
ereeuen tie interrupted by cheers (luring
Boston's Great Water Scheme.
An engneering plan of enormous pro-
portions, and one that will cost $27,000,-
000 to complete, is the metropolitan water
supply system which the Massachusetts
Legislature authorized at the last session.
It proposes to furnish au adequate supply
of water for Boston, Chelsea, Everett,
Malden, Medford, Newton and Somerville,
and to the six small towns lying nearest
to Boston. The population in this district
includes about one-third the entire popu-
lation of the state, and it is growing with
disproportionate rapidity. Manifestly,
then, the problem of furnishing the district
with good water is not a simple or inex-
pensive one to solve. The nearest source
where a sufficient quantity of pure water
can be found is the south branch of the
Nashua River, and this will yield 172,000,-
000 gallons daily, a supply adequate for
the wants of the district for some time to
come. By the terms of the measure Which •
the Legislature has passed, the cities o1!,
Woburn ana Quincy, with a cluster of
towns around them are to be allowed to
enter the districaiethey shall decide to do
so, and it is believed thatthe water system
which has heen planned will be able to
supply their wants, in addition to the cities
arid towns included in the original dis-
trict. .A. metropolitan water board has
been created by the Legislature to have
charae of this great public enterprise and
is empowered to issue bonds to the amount
of the estimated cost of the works,payable
In gold after a term of four years. A Sink-
ing funnwhich is to be increased by regu-
lar investments from the water rentals, is
provided for on a plan that will ecure the
payments of the bonds at maturity. Alto-
gether the enterprise is one that excites in-
terest by its magnitade and the methods
by whioh its object is to be secured.
rhysical Itegenerabon.
A seventy -seven-year-old citizen of Great
Falis Wash.. 15 undergoing a peculiar pro-
cess of physical regeneration. About a
year ago he contractedpneumonia and his
life was for some time despaired of, the
doctors saying that his right lung was
hopelessly wasted, He recovered, however,
but when just able to litibble around he
fell and broke his thigh bone, and was
confined to the hospital again for six
months. Since leaving, however, his
physical condition has improved remark-
ably. His lungs began to open up until
they became almost as well as ever; his
skin shed off and a new skin grew, and his
hair and beard, which were snow white,
are coming out jet black. His limbs and
muscles have limbered up, and he Started
a week or so since to take a herd of young
horses across a long trail to market. He
says if he continues to grow young he will
got married again and grow up with the
coubtry.
How to Save Boys.
Open your blinds by day and tight
bright fires by night ilituninate your
rooms. Haug pictures upon your walls.
Pot books and newspapers upon your
tables. Have 311 usi a and entertaining
games. Banish demobs of dulueee and
apathy, ard bring 111 mirth mid good
cheer. Invent occupations for yont sons.
Stimulate their ambitions in worthy direc-
tions. While you make hone their de-
light, fill Omni with higher purposes than
more pleasure, Whether they shall pilaf
boyhtiod and enter upon snanhotid with re-
fined tastes ancl noble ambitione depends
ori you, With exertion and right means a
Mother May have more influence over the
destiny of her boys than Any other influence
Whatever,
. Needed Beep,
" &eggs IS getting int," said Willetighe
be. '!He'S deeeleped a doable china'
"Well, ha needed said Patsona I
Onginal, chin vase eVerWerked, ane