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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-9-3, Page 6Growing old. Growing old 1 The pulses' measure Heaven" even tenor still ; Eye and hand nor fail nor falter. And the brain obeys the will; Only by the whitening tresses. And the deepening wrfnktea told, Teethhwpaseedeway like vapor; Prime le gone, And I grow old. laughter. 4uettea &t my presence. Gay youugvo1eeee whisper lowor, III dare to linger by le, All the stream of life rune slower, Though 1 love the mirth of children, Though I prize youth's virgin gold. Who have I to do with either' Time le telling—1 grow old. :Sot eo dread the gloomy rirer lhst I shank trom eo of yore: All my fret of levee: 4 friendship Gather en the farther shore, Were it not the beet to rs;a thin. Ere I feel the blood run veldt Sea ninon s&id too harems-, "'stand beak from so—you ere old ,nM..,.. i..... PRUPLIS. Mr. Moody expects to be well enough to visit Newport this summer, either daring the present month or in September. A well-known. English women, Lady Qrsaa critic Gordon, has shocked matt of her friend; byopen£ngabennetshopinGroaveno $quem, Landon- Mins Elaine Abboth who visited Genus(' et Tarts, at►ye that the eminent Frexsol; oornpoe- er re#Ierdx Ennio and Rontctt and ,'waist as his best works. A a tegintion from the ,Literary World, ci Boston, thAtLongfeltow's honetsat Cambridge might be used, in a memorial sense, for the Hamra Annex, will commend Itself to ;nun demi*. .A new word hoe been lidded to WI Phenols dictionary, and will probably be :eddied to of Eagliehvocabulary. Itis"deoadentlsm," S. li►hiio t merits a kind of feebionelele pessimism, with it literary or artistic glove. s Thera ie only one portrait of General Ger, don related front life, That is now on ex- hibitien In London, and Is the work of Mr. Val Pelusep, who, Imelda being a *Ism ar- !Vitt, has dabbled itamowhat in p'tay.waiting. The two fe*hums of the .Peinous 131to, 1 =Oleo troate*n that„have attrr etod most4 attention are the Rubor: lace which wane `y down to her from her mother's wedding. and the abundance of :tont walking shoes end boots. Mr. George F. Watts, the Engl£*h artist. has begun work on It aerie* of life -sine paint - bogs illustrating the life of Cala at three st*ges--as an enemy of Buren and a mur- derer, as a fugitive from ju.tice, And en are- peutaut old man, The original manuscript of Byroa's papu- lar poem, Tho Siege of Corinth, was purchased et a moot *ale in tendon, for five hundred and seventy-five dollars. Twelve autograph otters of Cherie* Dickens' were *old for the all sum of eighty dollar'. Mr. Thomas 9.. Edison, the. electrician, is rextremely fond of music. He playa tolar- gibly well an the piano by ear, not being able to reed notal. Although he is troubled by eieefous, he hears mune without didlonity, Ind remembers with ease the intr Date airs of operas. )riles Emma Nevada will marry Dr. Paha iet the English Embassy, London, la the r utumn, end the civil marriage will be fel- ed by a religious acrimony at the Chitral, the Fusionist Fathers, where Miss Neve - took her first communion, two years age, The wedding dress hu been ordered, and ie to be sada of white =oat velvet. The late Temente Ln Cr.z&*'e portrait of General GIuatT, which has been bought by foe members of the Calumet Club in Chioago r $8000, was tbe last important work painted by that artist. The General used oome down from hie house and give sit- gs, and Mr. La Clams often spoke with Dial pride of the result that bis brueh obtaining, An observer of social contents ramarks Ines Princess Beatrice wan escorted up aisle of the church by the Queen, and enaway by her, it may become the fashion young brides -elect whose fathers are dead be given away by their mothers, instead heir brothers or male relatives, which is w the custom. This would, in one feature least, relieve the monotony of the present ding ceremony." Mr. Come HrttTSR, A.R.A., was in this ntry last year, and painted a number of ` dies of Niagara. The largest, a canvas elve feet by nix, he completed during the ter, and it occupied a conapionone psai- yon in the main gallery, at the recent Royal eademy Exhibition. Mr. Hv'man, who the first of English marine painters, is al - well known as an etcher, and has just, pleted a large and important plate of Niagara picture. The view fa of the ids opposite the Sisters islands, and it is oat impressive and interesting work. St, Jamea'a Gazette : "America, so fer- e in singers, has produced scarcely any mposera a and Mr. S.G. Piton, of Chicago, f, so far as we know, the only American rho has brought out a grand opera in five et.. Mr. PRATT has taken for his subject ne story of Zstnobia, Qaeen of Palmyra. fore beautiful, more perfect singing than fath. of Mina Goiania/DB GRISwoL1 and Miss loPE Gunn in the duet ' Peacefully we'll lander' could not be heard." King Lours of Bavaria is still extravagant ad in debt. He is building six oasnies multaneously. He spends hundreds of 'Dusands of dollars in having W.aoarnrs's ?eras performed for his own ears alone, id when remonstrated with, is in the Imh- of replying that the expense is not so eat as that of a wire would be,His *red- era are clamorous, and he is said to owe e public treasury $2,500,000. Amedeo Bream, whose family have long enjoyed the privilege of supplying Rome wide palm -trees in Holy Week, and who now de- pends upon that privilege himself, Is nearly eighty ymars old, and lives at San Remo. Be has`been a canon since his fourteenth year, And is the first priest in the Bruce family during three centuries. For the last swear - two Sears he has visited Rozne annually. Pope Leo increased his dignity by raising him front the grade of pontifical chaplain to that of private chamberlain, Mr. II. M. STA\i.nY on the late -General Goavok ; "Not only in one publio place, as the embankment near the l gypUin Obelisk, or in Trafalgar Square near tbet other pious soldier Rona/own, but within ons of the noblest cathedrals of the British Empire, or in its glorious Abbey, should some place be found who e:, inseribed on r marble pedestal or tablet, these noble words should be engraved: '1 have done the beat I could for the honor of our country, Goodbye, " Archdeacon FAnnaa in,Weetminater Ab• bey: '•Americabat two martyred Preen dente, both sons of the people. With thou Presidents America need not blush to mune the leatber•seller of Galena. Every true man derivee a patent of nobleness direct from God. Wes not the Lord for thirty Years a carpenter £n Nazareth'. lanoolat s and Gsrl ial.u's and Gitanr'st early °onsoiets. tious attention to humble duties fitted them to bureaus king* of mere. The year 1861 saw the outbreak of the moat terrible of modern were. The bour carne, and the man was needed, Within four years Goons cone - mended an army vaster than had ever been handled by run. It was not look, but the result of inflexible faithfulness, indomitable resolution, sleepless allergy, Iran purpose, poreletentt tenacity. Fie rose bythnupwrard gravitation of his setas' fitnes," Sir Viarles Dilice. Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke has traveled extenelvely in *AXIOM(' State* and Caneds, and other English epealkintg countries, and ha published hie obeervations, which are the *Med yet written treating of Col - entail reenters. While hero be made assay Mends, and impressed all who came in eon - tact with him by his ability and manly char - actor, Naturally, the a000unta of his, at leaat, temporary fall from the high poait'on which he hay attained lir Eng:iah political ifs, are read with extreme pain on this aide of the,A.tlentie, ,it co.respaudent in a di- vorce suit hrougbt by Mr. Crawford, an em- ploye in the amnia Department, after having it is nisi, pais; $12*,000 to the injured bus• band as a cure for hie wounded honor, he is under a cloud which Is intensified by a div feign in the council of the Liberal Aoseclation as to whether or not he shall be inked to re- tire from pit Pio life until after the trial of the divorce cane. Sir Charles was born in 1843, and Is the son of the late Sir Charles entworth Mike ani the grandeon of the literary arida who made the reputation of theAthenasum. Bit father alto edited,tbat famous periodical un- til the year of his death, when the present Sir Charles, who had been educated at the University of Cambridge, inherited the hon. or, along with the baronetcy, which is of smaller distinction. "Greater Britian; a Record of Travel £n English Speaking Countries Daring 1566, 1867," i* the literary work by which Sir Charles W. Dllke is best known. His aurin. enoe in polities is perhaps more than equal to his high literary reputation. He was first elected to the House of Com- mons by the constituency which he still rep- resents, in 1868. In 1872 he made hie great speech againatthe RoyalEatabliehment, and avowed himself republican in his politica views. He was Under-Secretary of State in the °bidetone Cabinet, lately ousted from power. Hie voice and vote have been freely bestowed is the direction of elevating the people by education, the enlargement of their political rights and the abolishment of all exclusive privilege. In his domestic relations Sir Charles bas been exceedingly unhappy. His first wife, whom he lost in 1874, after only two years of married life, was an Irish lady of super- ior beauty and attainments. She left on - child, a son, who is being brought up with the children of Mr. Chamberlain, Sir Charles, Radical associate and friend. The Iady with whom his name is linked in the present scan- dal is sister of the wife of his deceased bro- ther, Sir Ashton Wentworth Dilke, On learning of the scandal with which the name of her intended husband is connected, Mrs. Mark Pattison, the lady to whom Sir Charles is betrothed, and who is in India on a plea- sure tour, immediately telegraphed him to announce their engagement publicly. The list of wedding presents to Princess Beatrice occupies more than two columns in the London dailies. A tanner living in Arisona is *aid to hay discovered, two or three years ago, a;plsnt which yields a large proportion of tannin, and when used in the mannfaotnre of leather gives extra weight to the product The plant is an annual, indigenous to the deserts and dry uplands, and is known to the Mexi- cans and Indian* as " gonagra." It has a root somewhat longer and more cragged than the cultivated beet, though resembling It in appearance. Reading fills the lamp, and conversation lights it ; reading is the food of the mind and conversation the exercise. And, as all things are strengthened by exercise, so is the mind by conversation. There we shake off the dust and stiffness of a retired schol- astic life ; our opinions are confirmed or corrected by the good opinions of other', ; points are argued, doubtsare resolved, difij' oulties cleared, directions given, and fre- quently hints started which if panned, would lead to the most useful truth's, $ ASQN4RLE itECEIPTS.. ROLL,TELny OAA$. -+Four eggs, one'oup of sugar, one cup of flour, one teaapoonfal bak ing powder, a pitch of salt; mix all togeth- er end pour into a large tin, When baked a red. jelly en and roll up. Run Scorn Soma litemen, Tw* pounds of flour, one pound of butter, one half pound of sugar. Mix to a emooth paste and roll out half an °inch thick, cut into thick nquares, pinch the edges, and prick the top with a fork. Bake in a quick oven. Box= Tointooss,.,-.Toast six large ripe tomatoes end ant them in balvea ; remove the pips and stuff with bread crumbs; in the centre of each put a small piece of but- ter; put in a shallow pan close together, season with peper and salt ; cover the bot- tom of the pan with water to prevent scorch- ing ; bake half an hour. ToitaTo Sane». --Scald half a peck of to- matoee, skin them, cut in thin slices and set on ice to cool. When cold, drain and spread in a deep dish ; boil four eggs hard, mix the yolks of mustard and olive oil, three tablespoonfuls of cath, five tablespoonfuls of vinegar, pepper, salt and Doyenne to taste ; beat other two egge light and stir altogether. This is a delicious supper diet. Tostono Sands.—Chaos ripe tarelateas and bake them until tender, rub through a sieve till you have one quart of pulp, Add three -fourth* ounce of gull* and aitaiete, each ; boil with the pulp till e11 aro tender; rub through a :dove and put Into a itewpan ; to every *ix querns add one pint of tomato catsup ; boil twenty minutes ; when cold bottle and seal the cork carefully. TOMATO CATSCT.•---Qua pooh of ripe tome. toes, one cnp of salt, half cup of sugar, one quart of dregar, tableapooufnl of pepper, giuger, cloves and cinnamon eaob, ane ounce of inatard, a little cayenne pepper; stew the tomatoes four hours, strain thein, add all the other imgrediente ; mix well and boil fifteen minutes ; let tills stand till cold, then bottle end noel tightly, TOMATO Sorr.—Five ripe totatoon cut due; boll in a pint of waiter with a tem spoonful of nods; when tender add cum quart of milk, a little butter, pepper and *alt; thicken with two Founds of pounded cracker.. Serve very hot, Pi; lac hi ntnu.s.n n—Skin the pears and boil till tory tender; weigh thine; take belt their weight in sugar, put it in a sauce- pan with a little water and boil It, skim- ming It well; 1)011 011 a thick syrup is made ; add the pulp of the pears and alittle ossonce of clove, It le very Woe for tilling tart. lets. Arrti Suoaxq.& &,--Qac quart of sifted flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, half a teaapoonftdtof salt, quarter of a pound of butter, milk or cream enough to make a stili better ; mix all well; roll in one sheet ; bake it well ; when done split open, butter weal, weir with nicely seasoned apple sauce, some thick cream and nutmeg ; plass the other half of the cake on this, cruet aide down ; batter the top and epread with more applesauce And Dream, This is delicious either as a pudding or for tea, You may fila shorteake with any kind of fresh, fruit, peaches, cherries or hordes, and filled with well seasoned chopped sbicken it makes a very nioe dish. Wellington's Funeral. The magnificent funeral of Gen. Grant re- calls the obsequies of the hero of Waterloo, whose remains were acoordod national sep- ulture in St. Paul's. The Duke of Wellington died on the 14th of September, 1852, but the funeral was postponed until after the meeting of Parlia- ment, some weeks later. The 18th of Nov. was appointed for the obsequies, the body having previously Iain in state for five days, and the demonstration was the greatest that Mae ever been seen in London. The most note- worthy features of the occasion were thus de scribed in the London press of the following day so- " All "All the troops, all the civic docieties, all the foreign and home dignitaries took part in the procession. Spectators lined the whole route to St. Paul's. Such with num- bers have never assembled before in these timee. The avenues leading into tbe main line were crowded; seats were placed in all the windows and filled ;the house -tops were covered ; balconies, parapets, projecting ledges, lamp -poste, indeed, every available holding -place, had its complement of the crowd. The interior of the cathedral was at once grand and simple: From the area upward rose a huge circle of seats, extended in every direction. The floor was covered with black cloth, and in the centre was the grave. The old generals, with true mill - tory punctuality were among the earliest arrivals. The old admirals were equally exact, and every eye in the oathedral was soon directed to that quarter where orders, stars,ribbons, and Drosses, glittering on bright scarlet and blue, told Omen who had served their country and had fought by the side of the great warrior. Soon the whale area and the seats around were filled with persons in all uniforms. 'At last the coffin which contained the remains of the great Duke appeared in sight, preceded by the choir with measured tread, as they chanted the beginning of the burial service. When the coffin was borne in the wind, it stirred the feathers of the marshal's hat placed `upon the lid, and produced an indescribably sor- rowful effect in giving an air of light and play- ful life to that where allwas dead. • At each aide of the coffin were British generale who had acted as pall bearers. After the psalm and anthem, the Dean read with great solem- nity andiropressivennesethelesson, 1 olemnityandimpreasivennessthelesson,1 Cor. xv. 20, which was followed by the Nunc'Dimit- tis and a dirge. And now came the roll of muffled drama -and the wailing notes of horn tied cornets, and the ooffin sank eiowly into irypt amid the awful strains of Handers Dead March.' The ducal crown dieago peered, with its gorgeon. e support, and the centre of the group of generals and nobles was left a dark chasm, into which every eye glanced sadly down. Prof. Bell at Work. Prof. Bell fs actively at work upon pro - blame of sound and electricity in a way that promisee an invention of far greater import- ance, scientifically and prsotioally, and the telephone itself. Ria, laboratory is an old- fashioned two•atory house on Connecticut avenue, in the neighborhood of the British Legation, Washington. He also has a private and seorot laboratory over in Georgetown, whereat present he bus a Meet ahilful wok - man engaged upon the forthoouning Metro - mut. What is it, ie known only to the pro- fessor and, the man who le working at the idea. The inventor bas said to his friend that if he succeeds, the new idea will yield hint greater retnrne than the telephone has. It is suspected, however, by those who have given same attention to the course of Prof. Balla thoughts upon the subject that It is the pbotoplrone, or the use of electricity to reproduce over the wires the image of the person speakingbefore the instrument. Prof, Bell lea man of prodigious mental energy, and he ie constantly developing new idea* and new applicattona of cleotrical force far the produotlonofusefulmechinee. Hethrows thein off as Deadly and carelessly as you can. fancy. For instance, he ;nada not long ago an instrument called the audiometer, perhaps nit a dozen of which have been made. It oonslets al magnetla cylinders graduated to each other. These cylinders will indicate by measurement how much sound it le possible for a deaf person to hear, and if they hear any at all. ,r"rof. Bell hast also devised an instrument, which might be called the submarine telephone, by which on be ascertained, by the echo from a stone dropped upon the teethe= of the haler river in which the omit may be floating just what the depth is at that point. .Iia ha* also an Med the telephone to rsoord the echo at sae which nnay show the diatom oat of loo bergs and other obstructions. Even a buoy can be distinguished by its nee, Prof. Ball is grad- ually growing out of all buboes pursuits, and devoting himself to the improvement of the deaf. He fa constantly giving more and more time to Ids little school, where be has perhaps a score of pupils, moat all of them wholly deaf, to whom he Is teaching the ext of sight language, lie Is training these lit- tle children so that they can distinguish from the lips and face of the person .peak- iug what the say, and teaching them to im- itate the proper arrangement of the lips, teeth and tongue, so that they may artiou• late sounds. It ieundoratoodthat Prof. Bell is at work upon the problem of resolving heat at once into electricity, a reault, if it eau be obtained, that ;will greatly simplify and cheaper all use of electricity. rive Balton Weleomedthe Poet. The paper had gone to press and' the edi. tors were leaning back in their chairs fanning themselves and wondering if abeol conld be any hotter than terra when a seedy -looking man with a red nose entered the room, and said timidly "Here is a poem—." Instantly five editor,' sprang to their feet and five °tube were waving in the air. "Oa Beautiful Snow," oontinuedthe seedy man. " What 1" slmnitaneoualy fromfive voices. "A poem on Beautiful Snow," repeated the needy man, with deliberation. Five clubs dropped to the floor and five men crowded around the poet and shook him by the bands and patted him on the shoulder, and fairly overwhelmed him with attention. Then tits eaitor-in-chief led the poet to the beat chair, and said ; "Read it to us." The poet placed hie hat, with hie hand- kerchi.f in it, on the desk, put on a pair of rusty rimmed spectacles, and,,'nnfolding his manuscript, cleared his throat, and began to read. As bespoke of the fleecy flakes descending in soundless showers, of the whitened fields, the northern blast whistling o'er the world, the editors put aside their fans ; then they rolled down their sleeves, As he proceeded with his descriptipn of the terrors of the frost king, the fury of the storm, and the frozen corpse found beneath the snow next morning (a poem on .Beautiful Snow without a frozen corpse would be incomplete), the editors shivered and arose and put on their coats. When the poet ceased the thermometer' in the office bad fallen thirteen and one-half degrees. Then the editor-in-chief arose and said : "A poet who in the strength of the swelt- ering heat of a summer day brings into a li newspaper office a poem on Beautiful Snow deserves a monument. As you are not ap- parently in any special need of a monument'. at present, oome out and we'll stand up the beer for you." Then the glad procession took its way to the subterranean depths of 1 the nearest hostelry. This is the season when the mercury, as wall as the students, takes degrees. When anger rushes unrestrainedto action, like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way. Summer resort hotels are putting on big adjectives and otherwise keeping page with the season. Mosenbaum, who keeps the. "Boudoir," was taken to task for stretch- ing his advertisement too much. "Hi there, Mose," said a friend, "I see you - ad- vertise that your rooms have been enlarged." " So dey haf," "But there have been no carpenters at work on your place." " Wait tilt I tole you ; I haf ecral£ed der paper off dose wall. '. See I" tailleenMesa, A HEBO QP TSE COLLiERSF@, A. (lenient *mete or Miners atsrptdsoned 1x al Veal s*aft. A young Irishman, named James Nolan', performed a noble deed of daring in a sudden mining catastrophe, which happened at the coal -pits situated near the villagoa of Niddry and New Craighell, In the neigbourho :d of Newmills, Dalkeith. About two o'clock one afternoon the ranter was spread that the pita were filling with water. It was con- firmed by a gush and fall of water from a height of 130 fathom's, with a din which struck despair into the hearts of the weary miners. They ware just *bout to ascend the shaft, and the man at the pithead had discovered that aoreething had gone wrong There wore sixty-three men and boys at work, of whonn thirty-eight escaped to the neighbouring pit, while twenty-five who were onthe opposite aide of the torrent re- mained. These ran through a portion of the workings a* yet free from flood, but found their escape out off, tarn where they would, and exhaustion took the piece of despair. At last they awaited their fate in a level oommunlcatiag with another pit, measuring only five feet broad by five feet high. The shaft was nearly filled with water, and a volume of water wall ruehiog down upon them; but here they waited two mortal bourn, until, seeing no obence of the Hood diminishing ao as to give hope of their wapiti, *even of them dashed under the water, and through the hole whence It came, leaving their companions in thebeliof that were lost. They were, however, morel - fully saved, reaching the :haft where anxious friends were awaiting their. after battling in the dark with the seething waters. But what of the eighteen that remafued; Rte by one, twelve of them ventured their lives AA their comrades had done --braved the eaters and the dark hole, and were similar- ly rescued. But four men and two boys were still left bebind. Three more hours pseud, while friends above were vainly signalling and °allixg to them to follow their oomrades, example. They were the more hopeless' beoauso they believed their mates bed perished, and that each annals as reach. ed them from the roof wore warnings to re. mala where they were. The Imps were kept burning with difficulty. Throe more bourn passed, and the rescuing party saw that something meat bo dons to draw them from their living grave. Some one must force a pateage through the water, bat what "I will go if some one will push me throudz, for the current is so strong," vol- unteered our young Irish hero, lames No. lana; and at mate named Smellie put hie feet against hie beck, and he forced himself through the water. He reached his im- prisoned comrades, spoke to them cheerfully, bade them follow ou, and. pleciug the boy. $err, aged thirteen, an his back, dashed back again :laved I All but one 1 Where was the lad \Volker 2 Nolan. did not panic to confider, but ventured again through the waters. He found the boy in the dart:, alone, abandoned to death. "Eh 1 and may God bleu your were the words breathed in- to his ear as he took him aloe on his beak, and bore him safely through the torrent. It was eleven o'clock at night when this daring deed was accomplished, and cheers of welcome greeted our colder hero. 4-.111141110.-7 CANNIBAL BITES. lierribie Festivals atter Warlike Maids in lar Isomer. The system of "warfare " followed by the Delimits= is the usual barbarous ono of surpriae. When the king declares war—a formality which he carefully observes year after year—he rarely tells even the chief "caboceera" the name of the town he in- tends to attack. The army marches out, and when within a day's journey or so of its unhappy objective point silence at pain of instant death le enjoined, and no fires are per- mitted to be lighted. All stragglers are taken prisoners, and the army is led tbrough the bush, and not along the regular high- ways. The town is surrounded in the dead of night, exidjust before daybreak a rush is made, and every man, woman and child not killed in the melee is captured, if possible, and sent to the Dahomian capital, Abomey, where some grace the succeeding custom (annual sacrificial ceremonies), and others are sent as slaves to distant parts of the kingdom. Cannibalism, or something that approaches it very nearly, enters into the rites of the ninth or concluding 'cere- mony of the yearly custom. Four men, known as the menduton or cannibals, each furnished with sharpened sticks by way of fork and knife, are stationed in front of the platform from which the victims are thrown before decapitation. When the firat captive is beheaded they take the body and out off pieces of flesh, which they rub with palm oil and roast over a fire kindled in the square, before the platform. The human flesh is then skewered on a pointed stick and par- ried round before the crowd, after which these fiends parade before the State prison- ers, and go through the aotion of eating the sickening morsels. They chew the human meat before the terrified captives, but do not swallow it ; and when they have work- ed on the fears of the poor wretches for a sufficient time, they retire, and spitting out the chewed flesh, take strong native medi cine, which acts as an emetic ; and it is to be hoped that the dose is by no way stinted, Does it not neem hard to realize that in this day of grace 1885 so atrocious a monarchy as favours such horrors as these exists and has its being within a few miles of territory living under French influence, and constant- ly visited by onstant-lyvisitedby their representative fromLagos ? 1t takes a man with keen eyesight and a brain of much scope to see and grasp the Bolded opportunity before it turns the cor ner. THRBB BLEEDIJG} VICTIMS. setae orta.e YUilas of ]lira. sanders, New Boa and /tracker, The accident at St, Thornes by whioh Mrs. Fred Sanders, her am, a bright little fellow old years, and Mr. J. C. Dempsey, her brother, an employee of the Hamilton, Ont., poet offiee, wee one of the most appalling ever recorded in this dietriet, The accident, as is known, occurred on the L. it P. S. railway crosaing. Tho scene after the collision be- tween the buggy and the locomotive was a terrible one. The horse was thrown seven- teen yards and lay on the east side of the track with be spine broken. The buggy was thrown about twice the Matinee and wan a complete wreck, The body of Mrs, San- ders lay 54 yards north of the crossing on the out side of the track, her feet towards the ditch, Her head wan completely severed from her body and lying alongside of it with the mangled and bleeding neck pointing up. ward. Her body was horribly mutilated and presented a sickening spectacle. Her cheat and sides were crushed in, one arm torn from the body and the other broken and mangled. Horlegawerelikewiae bath broken in several places, and she presented the ap- pearance of being rolled and tumbled along the track, which for a distance of ten feet was strewn with the blood and brains of the victim. .4. gentleman picked up her cellar broken in two at the back and oovail with blood. Mr. N. Webb, whcae otic of the aooident has been published, found her locket with the monogram "F. C. 8." inscribed up. on it, in the sand between the ties. The body of Denpeey lay on the eau aide of the track as tint of Mrs. Saudere, about one hundred yards from the crossing, or twice as fares thatof Mrs. Sanders. He also lay with his head towards the track and his feet point. Ing outward, Hit skull was crushed in both at the back and front, and there was a gash across Ilia body, while blood gushed from his month and eyes. The child, it appears, wan thrown from the buggynpon the cowcatcher, and It was not until the train was stopped that the body wAt loud on the beam upped. bag the oowcatcber. There the little fellow lay upon bis Back, in bis neat and braided auk of blue, with ono band upon his forebead as if to protect himself from some approach- ing danger. lib *outcome* was calm and plaald, and be looked a* if in a quiet sleep, but from his neck and head the crimson blood flawed down the bourn upon the track. Many a roughand hardened heart among the ecoren of apect*tors who hurriedly crowd. ed to the swam was molted es his eyes ought the visage of the child, Mr. Sanders, the *filleted husband and father, le prostrated by the shock. No Inquest was held, as no blame attaches' to the railway employees. Back from the Nile. During the Red Riegle expedition under Lord 1S oleeiey to Manitoba la 1870, a num- ber of experienced Mitaieslppi pilots were engaged, Cert. J. Webber, of St. Pani, Minn., was one of these voyageurrs� When the Imperial Government, in 8ept,11884, en` gaged the Canadian contingentfor the Soudan expedition, Capt. Webber's cervices were ac- cepted. He left here last October lir com- pany with other steamboat captains engaged for servioe on the Nile. When his term of service expired, here -engaged for a term of six months and hoe jut returned too,pttawa from the land of the Pharaohs, Capt. Web. ber speaks very highly of the treatment he received et the hands of the Imperial au. tboritiea. Ho captained the mail boat "Water Lily" which plied between Assort - an and Wady Halle. Ho describes the Nile between these two points as being fairly navigable. Before he left Wada Haifa on June 29th he had brought down Lord Wolseley and ataml and a major portion of the forces from the front. He was person- ally acquainted with Lord Wolseley, having met him on the Red River expedition in 1870, and he describes the famous General as being "a 'first class fellow in every res. pent." Capt. Webber says the troops will return to the Soudan in the fall. Some of them have been detained at Cairo, AIexan- dria and other places awaiting the fall cam- paign. A few days before the swivel in Lon- don of Captain Webber one of Yara'a boat- ing engineers had left for the Nile to super- intend at the construction of a number of boats to be need at the fall expedition. The Imperial Government have ordered twelve Yara boats, ten of which have been built. A Glasgow firm have received an order for ten boats, and six of these have been finished at Cairo. The dimensions of these boats are 90 feet in length and 24 feet beam and are made of steel. Capt. Webber speaks high. ly of the work done by the Canadian voy- ageurs. A Legacy of the Slave Trade. Yellow fever is the direct result of the slave traffic, the dread scourge having en unknown in America till brought hereby that trade. The African disease, intensified by the filthy habits of human cargoes, Dame first to the port of Vera Curz, with a slave ship in 1699, and in like manner was trans- ferred to all the West Indies. In Vera Cruz, whenever an old wall is taken down or a street dug into, the fever is sure to break out with redoubled force in that locality, thus showing that the germs are always present, though sometimes dormant until disturbed. Among the numerous yellow fever stories with which„Vera Cruzana are wont to cheer visiting stranger's they tell that once a vessel drifted into port, apparently at random, and without hoisting any of the usual signals. Rumors ran through the town that a pirate ship had arrived, or some foreign embassy on a secret mission; but finally the strange craft was boarded by the authorities, ?who found it to be a charnel - house of decomposing corpses, for every soul on beard had perished of vomito.