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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-12-27, Page 6IN THE SOUTH OF RUSSIA •••••••,... STAII'VATION, DISTRICT AS SEEN FROM A TRAIN. Peasants Hungry, .but Business Dupree.- ..it:a - Home of the (loses. see • ol the Don, I have met trawlere Whe tested Ilizalon 1,y express tra*ns, es they jour- neyed violently from held to land -their ludgillent was. guided by the cemfoet of the carriages, writes Mr: IL W. Nov- in'ten from Vledikavkas, teottlhern Rue, eta. If tho cusleone wein seft„ the bed- ding elan anl the corking good in the restaurant oar, the people ct mong whom. the tra:n PaSSad Win'e happy tele pre- etreesive, they hed reached a high pitch of civilization, tied could give lesemes te the Englieli race. If the carriages were unemnforlable and had no electric, lighttliat country was nu the dawn grade; aud its popula- tion tay steeped in ignertulee. vice elle superstition. I have known books en the Ceelny of empires written with very little fleeter 'basie than that. But it was nrit'willi a view to estimat- ing Ruseites social and intellectual ed- etincement that I entered the train de luxe at Moscow, on my way to the Caw cages. It WaS beCalin the Met thee I took n. ticket rot, tent j0tuney,1 never sterhel at alt, he wee left sitting in the earl*!ase \vitae .the s'e kerS. Ptiehed away the engine mut lel the- sWin thie, time I thought I would try a ceange, Mid I believe the train de luxe ens as good a train as most of its kind. I mean. the electric light could he switch- ee on bright fee evening and shaded for night, the' meals did not make the paesengers morc sickly than is usual in train, I oLserved that the first class hall Inoking-glass panels in the dome, and what with Moves and double win- dows, the warmth would have THAWED A POLAR BEAR The train goes once a week and leoe-- me the full journey to Tiflis in four days and four nights. I don't know the miles, but it looks a good long way en the map, especially as the passengers have to be carried around by the Cas- pian Sea and Dieu, instead of dashing. barges of coal and weed, and as ,dark- ness fell we entered the big town ef Restuff, 80 close io teat Veer 111140 Sea Azof eve used to 'teed about in the geography Wet hooks. In the iiteelY 'Morning the. Searle had rompliqely changed _again, and the !Jain de laxe was now moving till'Ongil a \Vat!, gressy prairie, dotted with little hayettteke. In places stood great flehle et reeland the peasants were cad gene- crieg the orange cobs into. Wicker carts, Mr we Were approaching the :stattle Ry many little signI knew, too, that were enproaching the mountains. Rivers reeled 'clown, gray and turbid with the washings or the glaciers. Each pecteant at week wore a decorated lite, two feet long, steel: in his giedle. Our train had Miceli up a gutted of soldi- (net with fixed beyonels, feet t0. each carriage, to protect its luxe', and stel- denly on the horizon SAW .A LINE OF LOW HILLS, All tbretigh tee journey the gleom"f Russia hadhung over the lend without a ray of sun. In front uf us new 1 saW a sleeper gleone but it was purple, In- stead of gray, and 1, knew it was .the tuouittaie gloom of the higheet etteges. Just in one place was a gleam of•yel- low light, and high up In the air I saw 4 line of precipice and a. faint glimmer of, enow, telling of the go 108 of the hills. The tenet stepped, and with joy I loft its luxury foe the mountain air, and watched it pass upon ite way to thesheil Caspian, leaving me amneg a mentetain herd of shaggy forms -black wool caps, while wool cape, leather •coats,. goate' hair blankets, every teed of rag, end every kind of gleaming orals. A lane .traht look me fifteen miles Nether, and now' I am in Yladikavkae ---the gate of the Caucasus. Up that glimmering pass the clouds -are lifting in longbars of mist, revealing high peaks of snow and cliffs too steep ler SR= to rest upon. And up that pass runs the old. road to For various reasons the Government has closed it now and removed the post- ing stations, But I have bribed a ruddy *Tartar to take me across with the same horses in four days and three nights. It will 'not be exactly a train de luxe; thank heaven. MILLIONS OF LETTERS.. Brin's:Foreign Postage Has Grown to mercies .the mountain cham, as 1 'tai hoee to do, if the brigands wilt be so Enormous Proportions. obliging fur the next lour days. A return which the British Postmaster - We left Moseew in apparent calm. General hasfurnished at therequeet of Tioe merchants were rejeicing at trade* Mr. Henniker Heaton, ALP., shOws the renrwsd; the "Cadets' were making speeches ln their new club m prepare - trill for the elections; the revolution- ists were colleciing arms. Outside the city came the plots and gardens and .dairy farms which feed it. Then we entered one of tht? starvation France disertee. The wide, bare land stretched Germany away on every side, almost without a Austria ripple. Here and there the hovels of a Holland Avretehed viliogo stoed huddledtogether in the dirt, from which they serung. Peasants could be eeen creeping listless- ly about. Hell Russia is starving. What accounts, then. for the extraordinary inceenee of trade? ,Centiks are selling 40 per cent. more than ever before, so -is vodka; .so is 'ev- erylling, and nO one knoeee why. Mer- chants puzzle over it in vain as they rake in their bewildering profits; some say the foreign loans nnist. have -filter- eu. down to the people; some that the metiers returning from the war are sending their wages; some that the peasant 1108 gained a wider nullook on lire from the Duma, some that in de- spair he is lavishing hLs lilibe hoardings on a merry life though a short one. NO ONE KNOWS. enormous increase 111 the foreign pos- tage of Great Breath since 1877. The following was the number of let- ters and postcards despatched in the years given: - 1877 1005 6.730,000 14,937.0ne 5,056,000 15;725.000 573;000 242,000 1g55,0e0 8,097.000 1.322400 3.859,000 We accepted the fact, gazed at the starving villages edged wen drifts 01 early 60 W, and the train de luxe passed on. Toward evening we entered forests rif biro!' and fir that warm the cities and make the engines go. A flight uf wild thick paeeed over a reedy pool. Wild duck was*a course in the dinner of the train de luxe, and the Colonel condes- cended to be amused. Next morning we were passing through the broad telt of the Black Earth, whose eorn goes to feed England; Germany -in fact, most European coun- tries. except Ruesia. Peasants were out seralching the soft, dark son with their teams of thin oxen and .111.11e hors ?8. The surface of the land was now more broken up, more fretted into slopes and valleys by the crozing treruns, and gra- dually it merged bito the steppes of the. C.oseicks of the Don -vest, sweeping plains. with Mr distant, blue horizons, giving a stem of space such as I have only keown on Ilie Orange River veldt. No rocky kopjes break the surface, but the c.. ['Mess, muddy roads are the serne, tee carts jest making a new track. when 1,1te nid one grows impassable. The isolated little graveyards ere the slime, too. but the people are 3oosely gelherce into Implies:11rd villages of huts, whitewashed and thatched. These are the houses of the Cossacks, so dreaded in the streets. en ussless in the war. As we passed through one of the Cos - 884k stalions a train stood drawn up on e seling Mose by. It ems Jt mixed hien of all three classes, artd some irtuics. But in the centre were three lorge vans with heavily grated windows -grated 1 y iron, bare in squares -and through the bars the feces of men, women and at- : t lc children were peeping out: They ,vere prisoners with their', families on their way lo Moseew, \vivre they will join the thousarele who are being constant- ly urafti•d Off to THE SIBERIAN EXILE. The other dee 1 met a great Siberian tree claret, „veto Itas known 1110 country up end dowii fer forty years. 111: fula , me thel the averege of inielligenre mot; so fee higher in Site -rein then in nuesie that it eeemed like et different .ritilion. He .attributed. this to the vast, numbers ei "Irdelieettues" who have Liere in ex - Ile there for their' views on politics and he thinks that, in the future it will le e lending 'country in the worild. The Colonel was saying that the Eng- lish like a dry Champagne, but ail Rus- elans drink it sweet, end the teeth de bee passed on. Soon ofterwerd we ran along [ho btt de et the slowly mm - ng Dan itself bearing heavy Belgium The following were the number of lettersand postcards received from the same countries in the same yearse, 1877 ' 1905 5.848:000 1.5.379.0en France Germany . ... 4,860,000 14,409,000 it or a: cobbler, 110 18 just at tidy, should Holland 1;117.000 3.051,000 407,000 1,447.00g he repair an old pair of slices for. you Austria * Belgium 1.2.18,000 4.570,000 . The United States returns for 1877 are not available, and so the year 1881 is contrasted with 1905. The figures. are: - 1881 1005 • Despatched 7,795,000 18,506,000 Deceived 7,465,000 18,631,000 In some waysnt wculd seem that, the The postag.e le all foreign countries Taslanese are too precise. For example, was 3d. per half -ounce in 1875; it was a " several days after the the the ;Japanese penny less in 1005. driver of a florist's wagon, with some flowers for a funeral, attempted to go through Octavio. street. on the western cantina. of the burned district, but was THE BLACK ROOD. held up by hoodlums,' who threw 'aeh- es and ellarred wood at the drisee and — - Legend That Explains flow Tiblyrood. bcat the horse with sticks and stones. All undaemicd, the Japanese dreg, a ,e- volver, . and, scaring the crowd cI roughs, be whipped, up his horse end escaped, But, instead of delivering the flowers at the house just around the corner' to which they were consigned, TIIE tiAPS IN CALIFORNIA NVORIESING PEOPLE OF TiLeT STATE AS TilL,P CIIINESE 011). bps Are Born fleshless Men, and are Displacing While Men in Many Trades. The Japanese aro worrying CAlifornia � s much to -day as did the oChinese 11 quarter of a century ago, says the Washington Star. They are immigrat- ing into that State in such numbers that it now regards them as a, menace, and \iv!, oll1sakts etoallethdo.trhaecLattention 01 11)0 whole In dealing with the 'Japanese, 114w - ever, the peeple of California have a problem far different from the old-time Chinese- question, The Chinaman an- tagonized chiefly the unskilled laboring class. He worked on the eaneoade, dug the sowers, picked fruit, and followed the plow, and he was willing to accept wages which put' the European immi- grant out of' business. But the ;Mitten see is wholly different from his Asiatic cousin. ' He is more versatile. Ile Critics himself that he is every bit as smart and quick-witted as the Caucasian. He believes himself able to enter ani hine cf business in which the whiteanaii-can make money, mid he has done so. Not only are ;Japanese picking the fruit rf California orchavds, but they aro keep- ing shops in the cities, and not a few hove offices on the doors of which are written beneath their names "DOCiOr Medicine' or "Altorney-at-Law." 'About mushalf of the Japanese who enter the United States begin as Tann leborers, but even in this closs of work they are unlike the •placid, °balled, Chineee. They are not, content, Meg to work for ' a white master. It is their emblem. to go into business for them- selves. • Alany ef them have become florists, end in certain peels of Cantor - Me. they have monopolized this business. In San Francisco and the neighboring cities, such as Oakland and Alameda, nearly all the flower shops at the pre- sent time are kept by Japanese. They have big hot houses, near •Stanford Uni- versity which vie with that institution in their attraction for tourists. The Japanese is a befit .gardener. He is peculierly skilled in the use of ferti- lizers, and can Make his flowers grow larger and more luxuriantly than the, average white man who cane himself' a "floriculturiel." He is constantly intro- ducing new varieties, to which he•gives mer in the value 01 1110 "Ilrelleg5". for a garment, yet he appears unwilling trial eletheeshall, lettve his ehop unless thee 'hang witheut a wrinkle, • As seevsnts the 'Japanese do not. give anYwhere near as good satieractien :eS their More methodkeeousins from China. Tile majority of them wile do house- work tegard.this labor . MERELY' A MAKESHI.FT, to enable them to earn a livelihood' un- til they learn enough English to earn more. money at Something ,else. In- deed, the japariese who have been ex- cluded from the wittte scheOls 01. Son Francisco are largely of the 'servant, • Because of their willingness to do menial work for lite sake' of Obtaining 00 ea/tea:don Japanese servents are I a. ten more learned than the people for wham they work. One of the super- • visors or San Franciseo meetly gaVe 'an elaborate dinner to what ho regard - ell as a most said circle of political -friends. He employed a French caterer., who in (Urn secured it staff of welters .from japancee employmene 'agency. 'Priem \vas much to eat end much more (o drink. Speeches followed, the host Acting. as toastmaster. As the evening wore' on, the supervisor ,rose to higher levels of thought, and finally called. 00 a.paeing contractor to soy a few words 16;allsoeutasGheeorwgaes \b\liclas,1.11)11g:taolln'thaTtilliee egoouelsdi \svaay \Lresf: T1:170101) 1\svacsounnllir y, all righI-tf2e, th'`Geocaolitior,ct"estohro,uttoed.nt110110asseiiiblage, and by turning the occaelon intiollSacsjoelalpe, 131111 hold of a Japanese waiter standing 00 - hind WM, pushed 'him up to the table, and' ordered bum to make 010 speech for him.' And the servant did. Ile gave the exact date when 'Washington was berm 'told of his service- in the French and Indian war, reetted his ex.„ periences as head of the patriot army, and. would have contioued on intteh leager had not the leostmast,er told him that he "had better cut it off." MASQUERADING CRIMINALS. Clever Thieves Who Elude the /entre Eagle Eye by Artful Dodges. The clever .Germart thief,. Who, mes- wresting as a Russian officer of the Guards,' recently arrested the •Butgre Master of Koepenick, and looted:the city casli, has had his predecessees in Eng - band, although nothing quite et) auda- cious has ever been attempted' as the holding up of all entire staff of muni- cipal officials. strange Oriental names, and when he Still. those who laugh so loudly el unmet gen the capital to run a flower the gullibility .of the Teuton, would do ehop of his own, he is content, for a well to remember that only 'few time at least, to work as a gayclener for months back a bogus railway inspec- $1.50 a day, going from house to house tor walked away during several weeks with a shovel and pick on his shoulder. with some thousands of poimds' worth of passengers' team?. And not only ARTISTIC NEA.TNESS. did he impose upon the public, the real One important characteristic •about servants of the company were equally tbe Japanese. which has c.ontributed to deceived. He travelled up and down his success'. as a money-maker Is his the lino without paying . exacting ea - scrupulous neatness. Nol only is it lutes from his supposed' subordinates, evidenced in his own personal appear- and robbing right and left the while. ance, but in his stores, his• delivery It was a sham pests= and -a sham wa.gons, and the grooming and harness- telegraph Tnessenger, again, who ren, ing or his horses. Whetherhe is a flor- clered possible the femous Hatton Gar- den Post-olhee robbery, when £20,000 worth of diamonds were stolen. Kent. the notorious "King ef the Coiners,"1\rai arrested in the uniform' of the Royal In- niskillen Fusiliers, which 'he had don- ned in order to try and elude the vigi- lance. of the Scotland Yard detectives. The burglar who, on the night. of Feb- ruary 11th, 1881, shot and killed Lieut- enant Roper of the Royal Engineers, in his quarters in the Brampton Barracks, Chatham, passed the sentries, in it similar disguise, and his identity se - mains unknown to this very day. .Then, too, there was that astute ad- venturer e -ho some little time back daz- zled.and.victimized, in the uniform of o Feld -Marshal, the local bigwigs of East Molesey. Ile stayed at the best hous- es, and even became engaged to the daughter of a county Magistrate. Later on, in the dock at lhe Old'Bailey, he still wore the crimson 'tunic and gold -braided inexpressibles which had enabled him t) carry out his fraedulent, schemes. he will not wrap them Up in an old newspaper, like hie competiter, but put theris in a white pasteboard box, do up the package as neatly as drug clerk, and then, to give the' finished .product a peculiar artistic touch of bis own, he will paste on a little cameci pic- ture of a Japanese tea garden.. Should the King grant pernlission for the restoration of the ruined chapel that stands beside Holyrood Palace -practi- cally all that remains of the splendors of the ancient abbey -Edinburgh will have; he turned back to the store, changed another show pla.ce of no Small Interest,' his uniform for one that was spotless. says the London Chronicle. . harnessed into the shafts a fresh steed There is a legend that explains bow , in the place of the bruised and jaded Holyrood came by its name. It tells of brute that`had survived the attack the rescue of David I. of Scotland from a the rowdies, and then drove off again stag by the miraculous interven- With his consignment. When he arriv- lion of n black rood, 00 crO_Ss. The King rd al hie destination he was told that therefore dedicated the abbey, which he, the funeral for which the floral offerings founded to the Black flood of Scotland, I were intended had already been held, a casket shaped cross of gold which had, and the corlin was on its way to the earlier, containing what was. supposed Scotland a. century cemetery. been brought lo to be a portion of the true cross set in an ebony figure of the Saviour. • The Black Rood went through ninny adventures. IL was preserved in Edin- burgh Castle along with the royal regalia, but was seized by Edward I. an.d carried into England for the purpose Of making more sacred the oaths of alle- giance which he exactecl from the Seat- lish noble -S. The nobles, hewever, ap- Pear to have regarded their oaths with less. eeruple then King Edwavd expected. The last we hear of the Black Rood comes from the shrine of St. Cuthbert, in Durham Cathedral, at the time "of the fieforniation. Since that shrine destroy - Ing era all is silent as to the history of the Black Boort. • e-+ LOCAL OPTION IN TRANSVAAL. A Vote Can he Demanded by One -Tenth ,01 the Voters. , The' Cape Times' announces that regu- lations havebeen issued iii Pretoria by comniond of the acting ,Lieliterund- Governny for taking it vote es 10 whe- ther 1110 solo of illIONietilhig liquors be prohibited wilnin any municipality in the Trensvaal emene. The regulations ptovide that whenever. a tegnisition started by:pile-10111h ,ot the persons 00 the latest VOterS roll for the purpose of municipal electiene 0 vole Shall be 'taken for the VarpOSe Of determining \vhother the sale of liquor be peohibited in such municipality et W11 111 es lee case may tee l'he new vegetations thus give effect to local veto In restore' to the prohibition of the eale of liquor in a monlcipality or watele Of municipalities 1n the Trans - "Yes, yrs, I ennw," Said the Japan- ese; "but it is better that I come nice and late than early and dirty." "But you could have delivered the flowers " the undertaker's assistant ex- postuled. "They were all right, weren't they?" "Yes, yes," said the Jepanese; "but they would not be beautiful. if net de- livered by one thatwas beautiful." FAVORITE OCCUPATIONS. The Japanese farm laborer has -also gone into the fruit business, much ere the Italian in eastern ces: You will find him aL the street corner stands, and when not attending, te customere he is busy polishing up his wares to make them as attentive as possible !o the eye of the passerby. As 'tailors the Japanese have ever been able to crowd.'the *Tows to an un- comfortable degree. One-tenth or the 3apa11ese inskilled occupations cat le be found in this business, and they have been accused of resorting to sWeate shoe methods in order to cut prices and gain custom. Officials of San Free- d:scot bone(1 of health have invaded col- let% einderneath ,Tapanese tailoring es- tablishments, where workmen worked and slept in the some room. At one end of. the chamber there would be a ;stove, where a cook Would prepare rice and fish. And when the tailors lied :hash- ed their wore they would lie down and sleep on the, VerY 'clothes upon which they had been tellating. Yet these eleces. were all kept remarkably clone The lapanese tailor has become especially mintier among tlie women of Son , Francisca, for the reason that he seems far more conscientious abeut "meking a fit" Man the white mon. Though he is frequently charged wilh trying to work off shoddy etoth in place of "all 'weolf" and to cheat, his eusto- . , REBUKING THE EMPEROR. • Doctor °snore of the University of Toeyo, tells a story of the Chinese Em- peror 'Tel. The favorite horse of the emperor died througe negligence on the part of the 'Royal Master of the Horse. The emperor was so, enraged .that he clreW his sword and would have run Ole offender theough the body. • • The learned mandarin, Yent-ie,. struck ,the emperor's sword and said, "Sire, this men has not yet been formally ac-' cused of any crime. He deserves to die, but the accusation should come first. It is the law." • "Well," said the emperor, "tell him what he has done." "Listen, you eogue," said the man- darin to the Master of the Horse, "listen to arCaccount of your offenses,: First; you have alloved a horse to perish that his majesty' entrusted to your care. Second, it is on your account that he was about to sleY You with hie own hand: Filially, through*yoUr fault, our sovereign was on the point Of disgracing himself in all his- people's eyes by kill- ing a man for the sake of a horse." . "Enough," said the emperor. "He' is pardoned." HIS ONLY WANT. A commercial was receptly advised by a brother ambassador of commerce n to call oa certain traclesman with whom he had no account. fie took the hint, called on the man, and was re- ceived most genially. , "elay I show you 013' 88109108?' in- quired the commercial. The tradesman had no objection, and from an. insignifIcant-looking bag the leaveller produeed quite a surmising quantity of specimen goods. "Well," said the affable shopkeeper, when the bog was ot last emptied, "there's only one thing I want to -clay." Out came the order -book. • 'Thank you, 51r.----," remerkecl the corimiercial, delighted' opening a stew account; "0.011 what Is dude' "Why," wee the teen., "I ward to 8£0 how Deere going In gel all thoee steep- les into that little bag again!" $501000 FOR A SQUEEZE ••••••••••••. TIIB, LIVIVIQRS OE SOME INTEREST. ING. LAW CASES. „--- Chronicles or the Law Courts Contrite Much Teat Is Amusing, and 'Curious That is 4, singular enee which wilt shot:it-1Y be 'heard 1.11 the Supreme Cam'. of King's Comity, in which. Mrs. Apne Richardson is 'charnels, heavy tofoiiO (1 tiattnagnerisosfror. 1.110,..bolesssorft 111 janitl, ce, ago Mor Richardson Was attacked in Bested& arena, Coney Island, by ".a 0011i -tin wlIc and ferocieres 0010101 known as e hyena," which bit off hell of the frelese anger 01 the lady's left hand, On the whole finger Mee. Richardson places u value of $30,000; and as hall of it hat; been .appropriated by the defendantee hyena 'she is claiming te moiety of .1111e sum-e)r, $15,000 , A short time ego: George A: Lovejoy. of Spokane, Washiegton, who furnisher: nel;letrebe. (161 ys '11)7rnitl,Fssi\Netqctle'a : ttieWevdoctor's'‘ielli. .s1101.!:. 8m1001,000(0.1 dnalomtaeges0,1 alhil his g shit& 1 till reY hraed stipulated. " MORE REMARKABLE STILL iwts the aCtiOn recently brought by Fanny E. Doelator against. the Chieagc and West Michigan Railway Company. Mrs. Dextelor's husband Woe a sweetie man employee by the mammy, and in the course of' hie dety-'he had been eue over by cars and soseriously injured that both of .his legs had to. be ampu- tated.: The limbs 'were promptly cre- mated; and. Me diseonsoleto wideer, who contended that her husband's legs sheuld have boon given tq her for de- cent tiurial, teed the company eed Wet awarded $2,750 damages. • In Paris, recently,a most curious no- tion Was heard. A young lady hadmet a gentleman in elantmertre who so aa - mired her pretty teeth .that he Made her an offer of 601e, for three of them; • The lady accepting the offer, teeteeth werc extracted and handed: over -lb the. de. fendant, who dedined to pay the pre. mised 60fr., \vith ,the result that: the aggrieved pleintiff • set het, remairene teeth and called in'the law. Still greater was *the earievance .cf Airs. Houghton against Mrs. Gervaise Graham, will Avenue (Chicago) beauty -doctor, whom she sued for $200 Inc wages. Mrs. floeghton had consented to have ' one side of her face made beautiful, while the other 'side Was allowed to remain vwerritnkoled and unlovely, In order to ad is- TUE BEAUTY -DOCTOR'S SKILL in her shop;wiralow. After the' 'opera- tion -a painful one -had been under- gone, Mrs. Graham, according to the - plaintiff's stery, refused to 'employ her, and hence the action. • A carious ins -drama case was heare not long ago in the Supreme Court of Kentucky. Mrs. Amberg, of Loaiseelle. had .been mild° a widow throiigh the bite of a mosquito, MIMI had cpused her bustRourS death.-. The insurance comH .pany dontended that a moSquile bite was not an accident for which they had any eespoesibiley; but the law :decided dif- ferently, for Mrs. Amberg was consoled for the loss of heinhusband to the extent of. As 'the result of a sneeze Mr. G. L. dry. salted long clear bacon, VAC to. Foley Sued lir. 0. H. Davidson for $50,- 11%e; barrels plate beef, $12 to -$13; half - 000 damages, 'a few inonth8 ago, in Chi- barrels do, $6.50 to $7; barrels hettyY ewe. Mr. Foley, it seems, was 111 a mess beef, gill; halD-barrels. do, $6; cum - 'Laurent when Mr. Davidson asked for a. pound lard. 8Xc to 9c; pure lard; 12%0 match to light a cigar. Mr. Foley polite- ly produced the match, bet unluckily eneezed violently ..just, as Mr. Davidson .had struck it, and extinguished the light • High words ensued; Mr. Foley was arrested for riotous conduct, and on his liberation claimed $50,000 damages agaiest the gentleman whose request L.& a matebeled to such_ . STARTLING CONSEQUENCES.. LEADING MARKETS 13READSTUFFS. , Toronto, Dee. 24,-Wheat-Ontaria-- Winter wheat, No. 2 while, 09c bict, .slceti; No. 2 red, Of)c 111(1, 71e asked No. 2 mixed, 700 asked outside. Spring,: o. 2 loose( .65e bid caSt, 08e asked, north; 60%0 asked east. Wheal--Alimitoba, No, 1 eortherne eteeee bid, Owd; ee Seun$.1.c asked, Point i•idNvard. ilarley--No, 2, 510 bid C.0:11.; No. 3.• :xtra, 50e asked outside. 0eas-No. 2, 79%e bid outside, ata Qats--No. 2.white, 36ge risked 5c rate - lo Toronto; 30y2c bid for 5 cars January :..hiprnent. No. 2 mixed, 353(10 bid 5c 0110'11) Toronto, 35%o asked. Iluckwheal-No. 2, 55e asked out5i Dran-7-Very scarce, $17 to $17:., borts, $1.8 to $1.9, Flour --1)1111; Ontario, $2.70 asked for, 10 per cant, patents or export, bityCrs'' ags, outside, $2,05 bid; Ilanitoba firSt. eatents, $4.50; second, $4; bak,rs', $3.90,.. COUN'IllY PRODUCE. Butter -'--Tee market for good butter is: -,.ery steady : Creamery 25c to Vie do, solids ......... . . ..„24e to 25c - Dairy .prints 22c to 23e lee to 2001 1Sc to 20c. do, pails do, tubs :nferior 15e to 18ec Meese -Prices aro holdieg firm at 1.3%q for largo and 14e for twins. 23e to 24e; limed, 22c. New -laid are quoted at130c. Poultry -Prices depend ' on quality,, which is very varied : 1:hick6ns, dressed lo to 'Yowl .6c to 100' Ducks Sc to 10c Geese , 70 to' 06 Turkeys ... . .... lic to 13o .Potatoes-zOnterio, 55c to 60c per bags, :11 oar lots here; eastern, 05c to 70e. Baled Hay -$11;50 to $1.2 for No. 1. ;inlet:11y and $9 for No. 2 in.car lots; Sere. Baled Straw -Firm at 80.50 to 37 in. ear lots here. MONTREAL, ISIATIKE'rS, Montreal, Dec. 24.-A firm tortepre--- veils in the local 110111(01, but vele, little. eusinese being dune. • Buckwheate-56e 56Mo per bushel,: exestore. Corn -American No, 2 yellow, 55c; No.. mixed, 54c ex -store. . Otits-On spat, No..2 while, .42eee wh No: 3 ite, 41,34c to 42e; No. 4, 40%ct o 410 per bushel. Peas -Boiling peas, 3110 carload. lots,. :31.10 in jobbing lots. Flour--1\limitoba spring wheat, 14.25, Lo 84.60; strong bakers', 83.00 to 34.10; 'inter wheat, patents, $4.10 to $4,25e * straight, rollers, $3.60 to $3.70; do, hi bags, 81.65 to $1.75; extras, $1. 50 tot e1,55. Millfeed--Manitoba bran, in bags, $20, *0 822; shorts, $21.50 to $22; Ontario, itran, in begs, $18.50 to $19s shorts,. $21.50 to $22; milled mouillie, $21 to ' 525. straight grain, $28 to e.10 per tone nolir.a. Oats -Per bag. $t.'95 10car' lots, $2.10 in jobbing )ots. • • Ha -No. '1,313.50; No. 2, 312.50; Ne 3, $11.50; clover,. mixed, 811; pure clover, $10.50 to $11 per ton in car lots. Provisions--eliarrels, sheet -m cut ess*, $22 to $24; half -barrels, 1311.25 to .$11.75; dear fat backs, 323.50; long cut heavy mess, $20.50; half -barrels do, $10.75 ;. An equally singular action wee that brmight by a ,Miss Edith Room of Phitadelphict, against Frederick Farrow. It appears 'that ,Wilell Mr. Farro\v was introduced to .AlisS Milne he gave her dainty hend such a hearty and vigorous shake that he broke one. of her fingers. Necrosis enSued and the hand became useless; and the victim of such mis- guided, if . Cordiality re- covered' 310,900 damages. • • Among other amusing law -cases of recent.days, Mrs. Hosier, an Indiana lady wits sued. for $5,000 damages for "less of thirst" by 'her brother, into whose food she had introduced ieme preparation to cure him of his 'love of intoxicants ; a Boston. lady brought a suit to recover $300 darrtages, the result an egg thrown from an upper \Inn- ClOW which struck her as she WEIS Pass- ing underneath, with dire consemiences to her dress and bonnet; and Mr. Arther Grissom claimed 3100,000 damages from hi'. father-in-law for alienating his wife's affections. MONSTERS ATTACK A BARQUE. lItindreds Seize Der Sides With Terrible Tenacles. The Perie, a largo fishing barque, C:a.ricale, France, while 'fishing recently Id the 13ay of trquy with a drag net out, metlikvith. oxciting adventure. . Finding groat difflculty getting in the net, the craw set the windlass to wore, and, to the astonishment 'of the fishermen, instead of fish a Inige num- ber of octopeses-at least 1.500--appear- ecl. The horrible squirming mass shot out hundreds of arms, at least site feet in lengthd.' , winbegan to fasten on the sides of the barque, thieatening to cap- size 0 by Bich, weight. Two fishermen were badly stung by the tenteclee, and the melt wore' only prevented Morn being dtagged over- board by the prompt use of 'hatches. The eicipper ithmediately cut the cable and the entire mass plunged ba.elc to the bottom of the see. Still some 50 hot' m - rible Onsters clung to tho Side of the barque and had to be ehopped away Says a wornan:-1 care itot, who does the 111101<13111 so leing aS ann permitted Lo do the talking." io 13c; kettle rendered, 13eec to 14o; hams, '.1110 to 1434c, according 'to size;' breakfast bacon, 15c to ,10c; hacon, 1.5c to 16c; fresh' killed abattoir ' dressed hogs, $9 to $9.25; alive, $0.50t 36.75. Eggs -The market is in a very quict condition. A good local:trade hats been done; new -laid, 35c; late fall Selects', 250 to 25%c; cold storage. and limed, 20c to 20%c. • BUFFALO MARKET. . r3tiffa1onDec...2.4. - Flour - Steady. . Wheat -Spring, quiet;. No.',1 nortilern,. 87c. Corn -Strong; No..2. yellow. 4;i,3.4c; •No.' 2 while, 47%c., '13arley-Ve1y strong; Western, in store, quoted 52c to 02c.. Rye -Dull; nothing done NEW YORK WHEAT MARKETS: Ne\v-"Yetrk, Dec. 24.- Wheal -Spot . easy; No.'2 red, 70c in elevator and 81Xe - f.o.b.,. afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth, sitgo c.i.f. Buff:116; NO. 2. hard whiter, 78%c ail Buffalo.. '4- JAPAN'S MERCHANT FLEET. , New Shipping Company With a Capi- tal oi .$10,600,000. The London 'Pintos'. Correspondent.31 Tokio sends tile following cabic dcO- patch :--A view shipping cornpIthy has. been farmed in japan. :it already pos- sesses .a fleet of 150,000 bons. Its capital is .£2,000,000,of which half represents the vahie of the existing fleet,the re- ruain,cler to be`devoted to thc blinding of new ships. The company intends to ee- Lablish e.rviccs lo Fon-1105n, flelemiclo, Java, Vladivristok, North China, ifong Kong, manila, 1:Tawaii, Aillerica, the South Seas and India. A flOfitLESS CASE. -"•• "fudge," said the prisoner, "1 wOuld,- 11115 to ask 4 few' questions berme I en- ter my plea." "You have the court's, permission.". said the judge. . "If I go on trial," Said the prisoner, "do I have to sit here and hour all the hypothetical questions asked by the lawyers?" "Certainly," said the "And hear all the perts?" "Of course." "And follow the' reasoning of the chemistry and insanjy experts 7” "Very protethly," said Me judge, "Well, then, judge, I will enter my plea." "What ls it?" atked !he judge, "Guilty • judge. handwriting ex-.