The Exeter Times, 1891-1-8, Page 7Teemee for twenty-two ver a was lately,
The Euglish dinner hour has been getting
Ater -during the whole of the present cen-
tury. When the Queen married it Was Seven
'cloth. She now dews atnine, The Preace
of Wales's effort ta turning it back to half
feet seven is supplemented by au amp,' for ;
aiming to begin at nine, to be finished a
nes
Lath February the London Standard re-
etedseriously upon Lord Ifindlip, Chair -
it of the Allsop Brewing; Company, for
suing a prospectus which he knew to be
tsleading. Lord leindlip demanded
aetion, and,beieg refused, sued for £20,000
usages. The :Asa began, but Lord Hind -
gave it up last week.
At the 31st annual show a tbe Leeds
mithfiela Cattle Club OU. Tuesday, the
eon took the gat prize in the polled Seats
A child of three years, named Charles
enwood, son of a Ashmonger living at
burgh= Ewes, met with an extraoreln-
y death on Tuesday. Whilst playing near
Qum in course of erection a slate fell from
roof and struck -the ebild's head edgewise
th terries: force, a large picee of slate be,
broken in the wound.
A severe outbreak of cholera broke one in
2nd Battalion a the 34 Goorkhas while
route to the Chin hills. They are now en.
umed at Oteethit, where 60 came 'Ave om
• etl, includiug 30 deetbs. Many other
es occurred between Rangoon and Guatls-
olonel Seely, commendiug theRobinItood
nes, present High Sheriff of Nottingham,
d fermerly member of Parliament for the
rgleb as mem ten thousand pounds towards
tablishing convalescent homes and an hos.
for the poor folk in Nottingham,
locomotive driver and a fireman were
mantled ab Belfast on Monday charged
ith the murder a Agnes Soneatou on the
reanNorthern Railway of Irelaud. On Settee
ay evening the woman'sbody was found ou
e line ahoeltingly mutilated.
A net me pocketbook hearing the name of
Elliaon hl`Cartney, supposed to be the
other of Mr. M‘Cartney, M. P., have been
end fleatiag in the Shannon a Athlone.
earch is being made for the body. Vries of
urder are stated to bave boon el on Fri.
y night, and foul play is suspected.
Galvanized iron hersecollarsare tfl1 prat. -
ng satisfactory in their trials for London
draught horses.
Mr. Joshua. Dyson, proprieter of a dem.
ma at Rochdale, was ao much in red that
e losttlie sight of one eye by the explosion
of a gauge for testing the pressure of gas,
and he brought an melon against the Brins
Oxygen Company to recover compensations
Lor Ins injuries. The actin was tried on
Monday, before Mr. Justice Denman and a
jury, when a verdict was returned for the
plaintiff for se.3eii, the agreed damages.
A painful oeenrrence took place in $t.
Thomas's Parish Church, Weduestield, on
Sunday afternoon. The members of the
adult Bible class were assenabling for the
limpets of bolding their sveekly meeting
when Edwin Austin, (37), a padlock:nal:en
of Cheeks Street& Wednesfiold, who had
entered the etlifice, was seen to fall,
dear (the Rev. John Birch) and others
careinised the man, and Mr. Thomas Miller,
druggist, was mut for, when the unfortunate
man was prououriced to be dead. He leaves
ewieow and two cbildren.
An exciting incident took place on the
Liverpool landing stage recently. A well-
dressed young niely was observed walk-
ing about the —stage, in a state of
of great agitation. Watching her opportun-
ity, she walked to tho extremity of the
stage, and, stopping under the chain, leaped
into the river, She was being carried away
the tide, amid. a scene of greet mate.
ment, wben men put of from the Flat and
rescued lier in an insensible condition.
A. signalman on the Preston and Wyre
Railway at leirkhare bus had a startling en-
counter with a madman. .An hour after
midnight a wild:looking man ran up the
steps of tbe cabin and asked to be allowed
to stop all night. The signalman refused,
and with considerable difficulty ejected the
mysterious visitor, -who immediately went
to the waiting -room, smashed the windows,
end ripped open the eushions of the seat.
Thepolice on being summoned found he was
v. dangerous lunatic who had escaped from
the workhouse.
During sinking operations at a newpit at
A.bertilley, Monmouthshire, at midday on
Monday, a loud report was heard from the
workings. The master sinker immediately
descended the shaft and discovered that two
of thel° workmen were killed, while seven
" others were seriously injured. Ittranspired
that a shot fired accidentally when the men
thought all the shots had gone off. It is be-
lieved that G'eorge Barrister, one of the men
killed, accidentally struck the percussion cap
with his pick.
At York Assizes recently Robert Hitch-
ing, ;market gardener, was sentenced to
death for the murder of Police -Sergeant
Weedy at Leeming, near Bedale, Yorkshire.
Prisoner had a spite against the officer, and
in September last threatened to shoot him.
The same night he armed himself with a
gun and shot Weedy dead. He afterwards
obtained the assistance of his brother-in-law
to remove the body from his premises to the
reed.
An inquest was held at Nuneaton the
other day, before Dr. C. W. Iliffe, coroner,
, on the body of John Blower (78), who was
found on the previous morning lying dead
at the bottom of the stairs at his house. It
, appeared thatathe deceased lived alone, and
evidence waslkduced showing that he was
'in -the habit o)- walking in his sleep, and
that he had many. times awakened to find
-himself down stairs. A verdict of " Ac-
'cidental death" was returned.
The whole back part of Messrs. Kidd's
flour mills at Isleworth fell outwards on
Tuesday morning with a terrible crash.
.The building was seven storeys high, and
was erected three years ago at a cost of £12,-
1)00. The part has collapsed contained a
eeries of very deep silopies, which were full
f grain. Some adjoining premises were
eckecl and many thousand quarters of
...grain hurled upon them, completely filling
• the ruined rooms. A further collapse is
feared.
A terrible accident by which six children.
lost their lives,occurred at 6 o'clock on
Tuesday night atTipton,Sbuth Staffordshire.
A number of school children were sliding on
an old colliery pool when the ice broke, and
eiglit of them were immersed. Two were
rescued, but the:other six,Vehose ages ranged
from six to ten years, were drowned. As-
sitance was promptly at hand, and medical
men tried for an hour to Testae conscious-
ness, but without avail. All the children
resisle near Dudley
On Sunday evening theLondon city police
made a raid on a gambling club in the %Il-
ls; -the-Yead, Aldgate, EL, end captured 45
felled floating in it drowned.
.x4 who were present on a charge
mbling. Money, cards, etc., were
federetum poet and
„, ...takers in England is all bet established.
idle man who kept Hamilton Lock in the,
seized, and tlae prisonem were conveyed to
Bishopsgate Police Statioe. They are nearly
all Jews,
At tlae Maidenhead Borough Police Court
on Monday Joseph Hughes was charged on
remand with having merdered his wife by
throwing a lighted pazaffutlamp at her dur-
ing a quarrel. The prisoner, who is being
prosecuted by the Treasury., Was committed
tor trial on the charge of mantlarighter.
The fishermen of 131aeltpool have during
the last week been bringing to shore very
large numbers of codfish. Their lines are
set at the edge of the banks about a oouple
of miles from shore, and are visited at each
tide, Hundreds of large cod, in the best of
condition, are being landed naily, and after
being bestey packed are promptly des-
patched to Manchester and other markets.
A. man named Bernard M'Casin, 40, of
Randolph Street, Middlesbrougle on Mon-
day slipped and fell into a calcining kiln into
whith he was discharging iron -stone at the
Clay Lane lronworke. His mates at great
personal. risk jumped in amongst the fumes
on top of the roasting ironstone, and with
great difficulty dragged him out, but he was
'badly burned about the body, and was re-
moved to the IN ortleOrmethy College Hos-
pile], where he lies in a precarious con-
dition. Some of his rescuers were alto
burned about the hands and ailaa.
Late on Monday night a woman named
Martha Davies, aged 27 years, daughter of
John Davies, engine -driver, of Bryander,
aear Cardiff, was found dead in her father's
house under sufvpicioue eircumetances. no
lather left home for worn about five e'clock
on Monday evening, leaving his daughter
and her two•yearold child in the Louse.
Shortly after 5 p. m, ber brother called, anti
found her then in excellent health me
opiate. Inter In the evening a neighbour
foend her lying en her back dead in the
kiteben, liavIng apparently been murder.
oualy assaulted and outraged.
- Themes O'Neil, 23 eare of age, NM in -
dieted at Livs tempi, for having, at Widnes,
on the 2otli October, feloniously wounded
James O'Neil. Mr. M'Conuell prosecuted.
-
The prosecutor is the sou of the prisoner,
and is about tax years of age. On the date
in question, it was alleged that prisonerbeat
the boy (who had on hint his shirt only)
about the bead and boly with the buckle
end of a strap until be inflicted eeveral
wounds. The landlady, who heard the lad
screaming, ran to his aid, awl took him
away frem his either. Priaener Fannie was
corm ting the child for beggiug. His Lord-
ship said that the jurv wouli have to eon -
eider whether the prisouer exceeded the
Ilettetinsate rights of a father in this instance.
Prisoner was found guilty of uniewfully
wounding, and zentermed to four itiontles
imprisonment.
The nsagnificeut new stcamthip Dunotter
Castle of the Currie Line, arrived at Ple,••
mouth' at ulna on Saturday morning, and
notwithstanding that she encountered un-
usually strong adverse winds during the
greater part of the voyage, accomplished
the run in the remarkably short time of 16
days 14 bours 15 minutes. This, after de-
ducting 8 hours 15 minutes stoppage at
Madeira, gives the record run of IA days 6
hours.
• On Tnezaay the dress of a girl named e'arah
Morrizion' residing with lier parents at 1
CrawfordPlace, Farringdon Road, came in
contact with the fire, and site was immedi-
ately enveloped in flames. The girl rushee
out, and a postman who was passing wrappetl
his overcoat round the sufferer.It was
found that her iujuries were so serious as to
require her removal to St. Lartholoznew a
Hospital, where the died later in the even-
ing.
Dr. Churth, the eminent Dean of St Paul's,
died on Tuesday morning at Dover, where
he had been staying for the benefit of his
health. Although he bad been some time
delicate, his deeth was not at all expected.
Several guesses have from time to time
been niatle as to the totalnumber of deer of all
ago which feed in the Scottish forests, the
figirom givei. ranging from 90,000 to 100,000.
It bas been estimated by competent autbor-
hies that about 4000 tens are anuually kill-
ed in Scotland.
Elephantine Intelligence
One evening, soon after my arrival in
Eastern Assam, and while the live elephants
were being fed opposite the bungalow, I ob-
served a young and lately caught one Ctep
up to a baanboo fence, and quietly pull up
one of the stakes. Placing it under its foot
it broke off a piece with its trunk, and after
lifting it to its moutb threw it away. It
repeated this twice or thrice, and then drew
another stake. Seeing that the bamboo was
old and dry, I asked the reason of th% and
was told to wait and see what the elephant
would do. At last it seemed to get a piece
that suited him, and holding it in the trunk
firmly, and stepping the left fore -leg well
fouward, it passed the piati of bamboo under
the arm -pit, so to speak, and began to
scratch with some force. My surprise reached
its climax when I saw a /arge elephant leech
fall to the ground, quite six inches long and
thick as one's finger, and which, from its
position, could not be easily detached without
this scraper which was deliberately made by
the elephant. On another occasion, when
travelling at a time of the year when large
fifes are so tormenting to an elephant, I
noticed that the oneI rode had no fan or
wisp to beat them off with. The driver, at
my order, slackened peace and allowed her
to go to the side of the road, when for some
moments she moved along, rummaging the
smaller jungle on the banks. At last she
came to a cluster of young shootswellbranch-
ed, and after feeling among them and select-
ing one, raised her trunk andneatlystripped
down the stem, taking off all the lower
branches, and leaving a. fine bunch on top.
She deliberately cleaned it down several
times, and then laying hold at the lower
end broke off a beautiful fan or switch about
five feet long, handle included. With this
she kept the flies at bay, flapping them off
on each, side. ' Say what we may, these are
both really bona. -fide instruments, each intel-
ligently made for a definite purpose.
Singular Outrage.
From Essequibo it is reported that there
was quite a sensation reeently at Bash Lot,
paused by the discovery inc hut of the body
of a man named Lutchman, buried perpen-
dicularly up to the throat. Hands and feet
were bound and only the head remmined
above the bound,
of the earth. The police
unearthed the man, and he was conveyedto
the police station speechless, but after treat-
mentby Dr. Pentland he was somewhat re-
stored. Fiona what was tratispiree it is al-
leged that about midnight, whilst asleep
alone in his hut, seven men entered, and
after binding, measuring the height and
gagging Lutohman, proceeded to dig a, hole,
into which he was forcibly thrustand allow-
ed to remain helpless. The hole was tight-
ly rammed in with cord wood. Severalrer
sons have been arrested in connection with
this matter on suspicion. The unfortunate
man had within a recent period prosecuted
his neighbour and caused him to be sent to
gaol, which seems to .have aroused the ire
of his comrades.
NOT DARKEST AritioA.
Ctv�lzctlon wising some en -ogress Here
and There.
While the world is shuddering at the re-
vealed atrocites of civilization in the Congo
Valley, it is some poor consolation to know
that there are otherparts of Africa in wlaich
the European invaders have not been alto-
gether aecurse. Substantial progress ap-
pears to be making in Eat Africa in the
direction of opening up the country to trade,
pacifying the warrmg tribes, and mitigating
the evils of slavery. Especially is this true
in the territories along the Shire and around
Lake Nyasea, where many heroic British
missionaries have been long unselfishly Ian-
oring. The opening of the Zambesi to com-
merce, in spite of Portuguese obstreperous-
nees, was a meet important gain, and the
system of river steamers and land car-
riage which has been organized on the Zam-
besi, Shire, Lake Nyassa. and Stevenson
Road, now gives quick, safe and easy aeCeSS
to the very beart of Afrieas The most fey -
in work now is to undo the misehief that
the Portuguesetave done, so far as possible,
It never eau be all undone. The Portuguese
have so systematically degradedand debeuell-
ed the natives wherever they have eome
into contact with, teem that an ineffaceable
brand of evil now rests upon the whole re-
gion. It was tlae Portuguese who taught
the natives how to make Intoxicating drinks,
Asa result of thet pious instruction the
inhabitants of Nyasaaland and the Shire
Highlaeds are now almost univereelly drun.
karde. There is a perpetual orgie of in.
toxwzition therm from horntemaile grog,
wbich aa rapidly destroying the badiee as
well as
VIE SOULS OF TILE NATIVE%
Murders are of almost hourly oveurrence,
and wars between tribes never ceate, nil
eaueed by druekenness. And all this in
epite of the fact that no liquors have been
imported into that country for years. Per-
lieps t BMUS unfortunate to mention this re,
gum as ono where the advent of Europeans
bas been a leasing ; ectec, it is, despite the
mischief wrought by the Portuguese. The
British missionaries have done agreat and
noble work there. And now British com-
mercial and political agents arecarrying law
ane tinier and industry forsvani With rapid
strides', A. year and a half ants the seen -
known explorer end writer, Mr. H. H.
Johnston, British Consul at Mozambique,
was sent up to ,Nymealand to make neace,
it possible, between the Swahili Arabs" and
other tribes that were then waging w
structive warfare. In this mismon be was
successful ; and he performed much other
work and made many observations thet. gave
to bisexpeditiou more tbau orilinery Inter-
est.
Dr. Johnston describes the country
tint:legit which the Upper Shire passes as it
very desirable land, it broad, alightly undue
lating plain, magnificently fertile and well -
watered, it land enimently suited, for the
growth of coffee, cotton, sugar cane, tobac-
co, and other tropical produce. The inhab.
ztanta are, however, almost hopelessly de•
graded throughstrong drink. A still finer
country is that et the north end of Like
Nyassa. Here there are no fewer than nine
perennial rivers, some of them of consider-
able volume, which descend from the
Lorne seneeTein RANGES
of Bunten, Wultuinve and *Mange, and en-
ter the lake between Harelip, and Peruin-
bira Be • the inoisture which proaidatcs
from them through the soil giviug the Kende
plain an appearance of perpetual spring.
The land at the north end of the lake is a
veritable African Arcadia. You znay walk
for miles end miles through banana planta-
tions; than you may emerge on wide-
stretcbing fieldsof maizeiutd millet and ma-
mma. All the oozy water meadows are
planted with rice ; but, above all, the great
wealth of the country is in cattle, which,
elsewhere by no means common in Nyivssa-
land, thriee remarkably in the Kande dis-
trict, and consequently milk and. beef aro
deep and abundant. The inhabitants of
this happy laud aro it contented, plea:sant-
dapositioned folk, who knew no trouble
until the Arabs sought to subdue them a
few years ago.
Another beautiful region is the elambwo
country, toward the southern end of Lake
Tanganyika. Justbefore going thither Mr.
Johnston met a French explorer, Captain
Trivier, who had been travelling there.
Captain Trivier was deeply impressed with
the manner in which the hlambwe natives
had become Britannieized by contact with
the missionaries. Whores -or he went
through those lands the natives invariably
greeted him -with "Goody morning," a salu-
tation originally learnt from the mission-
aries, but which has now come into common
use among many of the people who have not
yet seen a white man. Still, however well
they behaved toward Mr. Johnston, these
A-mambwe are exceedingly cruel to one
another, and their fair country, blessed
with such a perfect climate and such a per-
feetsoil, is ravaged and laid waste by civil
war. One of the leading chiefs of the _Mem-
bwe country, namedKera,, had heard of Mr.
Johnston's travelling and treaty -making in
the land, and determined to give him a re-
ception which should at once impress him
with his magnificence and power. So he
RIMED TWELVE PEOPLE',
and stuck their heads on posts planted in
regular order, in such a way that they
formed a kind of avenue leading up to the
chief entrance to his town.
Further north in East Africa, the work of
civilization is being -pushed vigorously by
the Imperial British East Africa Company.
The territories of this gigantic concern com-
prise about 600,000 square miles with more
than 1,100 miles of coast lin?.Mr. George S.
Mackenzie, who has been the chief adminis-
trator of affairs there, gives a most hopeful
and gratifying account of what has -been
done and is now going forward. Within
the first twelve months of it existence, be
says, the company, with tht use of peaceful
means alone, was able to assure the absolute
freedom of all the slaves whet had run way
from their misters but were still resident
within, the sphere of the company's operas
tions, the number exceediug en estimated
total of over 4,000 souls. The naval cruisera
capture and free on an average only 120
slaves per annum. 4. syr.tern was established
whereby slaves desirous of liberation were
empowered to purchase emancipatien, but
although, in order to assist these renewer,
the company offered to provide there with
work and pay the ordinary rate of wages in
preference toemployiug otherlabor, scarcely
150 voluntarily came forward to avail them-
selves of the privilege to secure their free.
dom, which they could certeiety leeve deee
within a period of six months. Such was the
apathy of the enslaved in respeot to their
future. Mr. Mackenzie thinks it a waste of
tine end money to maintain a fleet oef the
coast.
TO CAtTUDE SLA.Vn•SIIIPS.
The proper pia» is to suppres,s slave -hunting
in the interior, and that is to be done by
building roads and opening up the country.
If a portion of the enormous sum of enemy
annuaely expended on slave -trade bows -
ties and thesubsidy to 3fiescat were applied
toward providing a inoderate ttuarantee for
a railway from thtv coast to the tweet lakee
of the interior (which couldthen be patrolled
and navigated by steamers), more would be
(lane, be thinks, intim coming Ave years to
suppress the slavedrade tban bed been ac-
complished, at enormous expeuditure, with.
in the pest fifty. A modest sum gmrauteed
for it railway from elombase. to Lake Vic.
terits for 4 few years would probably sufAce
to atanip one elavery in every form through.
out the extensive territory of Britieli East
Africa, and sucha result would relieve the
Britieli Treasury of much of the bevy bur.
don now iricurred in meiutainingslave cruis-
ers, which do but little, aud would at the
same time give an impetus to trade and Ad-
vance civilizetion in thole regime.
Besides what it has done for the auppres•
elm of slavery, the British commuly has
done an euormoue amount of good work slur-
ing tbe two years of its existoce. Not only
has it prevented outburste of hostilities
along isa coast, knit it bus uessotlitted friend-
ly treaties with all the chiefs Who haVOCOUIR
An VOUtaet with sts officers. It boa provid-
ed ocean steaniera to Maintain regular COM.
numinetiou between, and afford facilities to,
ite ports.' It has counected those ports by
it road and telegraple A light•drauglit
eteaner for the River Tana'was delivered at
Mombaso. in Juno last, and is now being put
together there. A steamer for Lake Victoria
is under construction iu Glaegow, and will
be ready for nbipment next mouth, The
company bas Mee improved the town, and
afforded many facilitiet for the harbor of
hlombaa.a. It has eetablithed it military po-
lice force of 400 Soudaiwais and British In-
diana, in additions to 900 native auxiliaries,
It has cut it road of 300 Mika into the inter-
ior and established stothaded stations along
that route. It has surveyed and provided.
plaut and materials for tbe construction of a
pioneer railway to the centime of the high-
land districts in the vicinitt 1 Taveta, and
' that work is being pushed forward by it
etaff of engineers with all practicable des.
retch.
Tbe West Coast of Africa le also receivbig
it share of attention, and is the objective
point of it curioua little ex edition, which
13 just setting out under t le lead of Com.
mender Cameron, the famous Atrican ex
plorer. Tho party consists of twenty-two
men, and goes in a little steamer 01 150 tons
with eighty toils of luggage, consistimeg of
m
seeds, laing implements, ate. Mostof
men are scientist.; and their object is partly
: to examine the country and partly to educate
the natives. The expedition will begin its
investigations at Gambia, continuing them
along 1,800 miles of cent
DOWN TO THE EQUATOR.
All the trade rivers will be ascended, and
palavers held with the chiefs and petty
kings, who have already been notified. b
Government proclamations of the company s
advent. Theee native potentates will be in.
struoted in the art of cultivating products
at present unknown to them, and also in the
utilization of those which grow wild and
which have hitherto been neglected.
Lectures in sanitation will also form an eaten -
tial feature in the programme, by which it
is hoped tbatthe bealthef the country maybe
materially benefited. The cultivation of
India -rubber, which can be produced in
enormous quantities, willbe impressed upon
thenative mind while, also, that of fibres,
coffee, cotton, indigo, dye -woods, tanning
cocoa, vanilla, gums, reins, spices, tobacco,
cola, beeswax, and honey will be pointed
out as yielding large returns to those who
will only take the trouble to raise them.
The mineral productions of the coast, whith
consist of coal, iron, antimony, tin, cinna-
bar and gold,will /nee twith special attention,
particularly the latter, and an attempt will
be made to educate the natives to employ
modern methods for its recovery.
Alexander III. is one of the greatest old
book collectors in Europe.
Lady lecturer on woman's rights (growing
warm)—" Where would man be if ithad not
been for woman ?" After a pause, and look-
ing round the hall—" I repeat, where would
man be if it had not been for woman." Voice
from the gallery—" He'd be in paradise
ma am."
Mrs: G.:—" What sort of person is Mrs.
Mildman, who has moved mto the next
house to you?" Mrs. C.:—" Well, really,
I don't think much of her. Between you
and me, I think she is next door to an
idiot. " Mrs. C. (innocently) :—" I think
so too, my dear. "
/0 m,,11 419
4..efres, • ..
CusTomen : Oi wan tu see some fur gloves.
Deeren : Any special fur
Ceseolune : Sor
DEALER : What fur?
Cuero:ken : Tu lope me hands warm, o' course.
STORY OF TUB ULA,, BOANDAL IN file LIFB
Murdered online rattet cauoan,s a embitter.
Seawall' ine Own SktP.
TbeThe fau-rigfted *well ship Decking. A correspondent diseuseesthe receet xnys
ham, of Liverpool, bound from peewee ee iterioue murder ot the. two bank clerics while
New York withse. general cargo, armed
there the other eventng in charge of the first
mate, wheat once gave information to the
port anthorities of the terrible murder of
the captain, which heel occurred on the voy-
age out, The murderer was a eoloered man,
a La3C4r, and as the Backinghem berthed in
the Brooklyn clocks he 3.VaS handed over to
the Brooklyn police. Theeastosnary deposi-
tions haveag ben made, the loin SKEW besy-
lly and preserveda very sullen de-
means:tun The tragedy occurred early in the
voyage, s, wigan ttlitieasrhilyp nwlommiovflg' tohiethOe tiatz
the first mate's watch having. ended, the
a4tarb°ardwattilidirag
failed
irTPut 14 an api*ar.
nceondeck,
ersteenese etz THE DISCOVERY.
tint no breakfast had been prepared by the
Lascar cook. The man was taken before
the first inate and asked te explain hie neg-
lect of duty. He replied, in a eullee man
nor that he could not get breakfast ready
became belied neither coal nor water.The
excuse WAS absurd' awl the mate sharply or-
dered the fellow to go ape get feel audwater
at once. The cook. reluctantly exeeeted the
order, and fivallsr prepared the meal, but he
went slowly about and maintained it very
iziorosedemeanour. At noon he fletly mks -
ed to do any more work, and as that amount.
ed to mutiny he was teeter( before the
ceptein, who et the moment 'WAR 14 the
officeret mese-room, Hoene left alone with
the captein, no one auppoaing that the teen
woe really dangerous. The first to go into
the masa-room was tbe steward, and be had
scareely set foot ie the piece wheu he
screamed oat 44 Murder," And refilled with a
pale and agiteted face en deek. He ran to
the Arst Mate arid cried, " Ood, sir, ,e0
to the meas -room." The Brat mate hurried
to the meas -room, and time feesiul
'rue CAVTAIN QUITX DUD
Inc kneeling poaltiou, with the fece down
werd, and resting againet. the side of tbe
cabin, which wa.s smeared, with blood. A
great 1 of blood also lay ma the Baer of
I/ae ca in. In another part of the room the
cook was found crouching down, and glaz-
ing in a :horrible manner at his victim, The
mate seized. the murderer mad menace him ef
the crime, and the aeamation was readily
admitted. The Leaver, who made not the
alighteut attempt at resistence, was at once
put in irons, and closely switched, for the
rest of the voyage. An examinegon of the
captain's tody proved that be beebeen done
to death inc moat determined and ferocious
runner. There were four terrible wounds
--one in the right eye, one iu the temple,
end two bs the back of the beed. All bad
penetrateato the brain, and eaeh was alone
suMcient to have caused death. The mate
is of opinion tbat the captain led the way to
his cebin, and was attacked from behind by
the ;smear with it knife, the two wounds in
the back of the bead beingfirat inflicted.
All this time the myelin's walhad remain.
ed in Ler cabin, entirely ignorent of
OE AWFUL erammen
which tas been euaeted only it few yards
from lier. The captain's body was covered
over where sbe could not see it, and it evae
not until three hours afterwards, when she
came on deck, that she became suspicious.
She asked where tbe ceptain wan, and, at the
same moment the Noticed that the ship was
ruriuinz close inshore ana mairine signale.
The made was, in fact, endeavoring to obtain
a boat from the shore, iu order to send the
captain's body ashore, but did not succeed
in obtaining answers to his signets. The un-
fortunate lady implored the znato to tellber
wbat had happened. Ile reluetantly did so.
The poor wide w 'Wee for a time al m ost crazy,
but afterwards she clamored to see her
husband s murderer, and was with diffi-
culty restrained.
THE MURDERER
Was kept out of nor siglit during the entire
voyage. The captain's body vas buried at
sea oft the Skerries on the day after his
death. A Dundeecorrespondentwritesi—The
man chargedwith theenme isa Lascarnamed
Bhagwan, a native of Calcutta, who was
shipped at Garden Reach. The Lascar ar-
rived with the vessel in Dundee, and during
the time shelves in theharbour he complain-
ed to the police that hehad been insulted by
the eaptain. While inquiries were being
instituted the Lascar disappeared, and no
proceedings took place. It appeared that he
went off to Liverpool, where he afterwards
engagedagain to sail with the Buckingham.
The crew were sent through and joined the
ship at Dundee. Captain Lyallwas a native
of Elie, Fifeshire.
The Strangelnok of Tour Whaling Vessels.
After a full two years' waiting unrelieved
by any news concerning the whalers Nau-
tilus, Kautick, Alexander, and Ben TenSon,
intelligence from all four vessels has been
received. Tbe Nautilus has arrived at one
of the Chinese ports from the Northern
Okhotsk Sea, after a six months' cruise.
She had a voyage filledwith incident. She
sailed up the Japan coast, passing through
the Tsugaru Straits into the Sea of Japan.
When off Cape Patience she fell in with a
series of icebergs. The Captain, disregard-
ing the danger in which he placed his vessel,
sailed along the very edges of the -bergs,
which threatened to fall every inoment On
Oct. 18, when off the mainland of Siberia, a
school of fighting whales was encountered.
The monsters fought one another with fury,
lashing the water into foam with their
struggles. Nevertheless both the Nautilus
and Kautick lowered boats, but the har-
poons were useless. The boats and the crews
in them had several hairbreadthescapes from
destruction. Not one whale was captured.
finding it to be impossible to catch any
whales, sealing was resorted to. The seal-
ing cruise was more successful, and 1,131
skins were captured by the Nautilus. The
Kautick also took several hundred seen.
The schooner Ben Ten Son reported 3,000
skins aboard.
The disappointing experiences of the
whalers were remarkable. The mate of the
Alexander, who had been whaling for thirty
consecutive years, stated that he had never
seen whales so scarce or wed before.
Woe to the Land 'Whose Ruler is a Oluld.
The American system seems to have placed
in absolute authority over the greatest
nation in the world a very weak and. foolish
person. President Harrison's message to
Congress is, if rightly aescribed, practically
a declaration of war against Great Britain
and Germany as far as he is concerned, and
that on the score of the most monstrous,
puerile and untenable claim ever urged by
an intellige.nt nation. Fortunately for the
world lie has not the courage of his convic-
tienn and refers the whole matter to Con-
gress. Congress, when there is no danger on
the horizon, can talk as much nonsense
about foreign affairs as any body of equal
size, but, when confronted with a critical
situation it acts prudently and wisely, and,
rtionsovererecent elections show that tail- We have more capacity than will ; and it -
twisting is at a discount with the American is often to excuse ourselves Batt we imagine
eeople at present. that things are impossible.
in a first-clase carriage on the Vienne fast
The victims were two treated ems.
glories' of it WarsaW basic, and theylsadbme
despatthed with 65,900 roubles on a special
and, secret errand to a distatst city. A re,
markablethory is mextected -with the trag-
edy. Seale Alent4 singe a sensation was
caused in local society by the imprimismene
of a well-known young MAU WiTeSe parent."
were sevoinoble and *0whose wine there
was royal bled. One night.,
A OREATtr'f 'ROAR
was beard in 4 fashionable streets The me
lice be.stened to the house from whence the
crie.s came and there found it well-known
member of thebigher circlee of the businem
community leases.% from bis windew and
shouting for help, white be held at arges
length a, by no means desperate -looking. in-
truder, whow he asserted heel breken eats
hie home, was in the act of robbing it when
he eetered, and heti bent caught red-handed
amid bisgatherea plunder, with it braeelet
of cliamondsbelonmeg totheladyof thehonee
in hie peeket. The young men was hurried
off te prison, and, when arraigned, peva *
actitions name that conveyed no illtUriatical
to the public of his trueidentity. This die -
guise he matntained until he was sentenced
to Ave years he prime and was locked up
beheld the brae of the Taeat dreaded place
in the entire kingdom, Thee it beaalne
t111(1011ic.d arouud that. the young man'a name
was not such as he pve it at ell, but if it
were known it would. be found to dueboute
that oi ono or the higheet officials in the
Emperem'eltemelveld, Auel yet there wee
nothing tangible concerning the eiewmpter.
ious prieouer. Periodically, paragraphs
weeld appeer in the newepepers suggesting
that the veiled prisoner, as be Mule Ise he
veiled, was of titled birth, or that he was
possessed of great wealth, er that every
effort, IVAA Wog made to compme het ea.
lease. Suddenly the nature of them para.
grapha cheeped, and it becanae keosen that
it lady, supposeely of high origin and cer-
tainly of most hououred muses bad waited
upon the Emperor, and in team had ramie
an appeal for the release et the housebreaker,
and gtven as her reaSOUS for the appeal
meet
STARTLING AND SRNSATIONAL
story. She admitted beiug the wife oldie
welleteown ftrieneier WhObill1OUSS had been
invaded, and who badehouted from the Win-
dow for help. She mid that she from an
aid' Wing mem had liettued to the auterlea,
hail been e witness in part of the sense-
tiouel incident; that had followed. She
declared that the young man who had been
seized le the house was there with herknow-
ledge and comma ; indeed, et her invite -
um, and he bad cone there not in the guise
of a burglr or it robber, but in the more
peacefel mate ole lover. 'In short, the ledy
had permitted him to caU upon her. and,
selecting an hour when the limband was
malty absent. he bad gone to the peeetiel
residence, and bad been received tn the
madmen boudoir. Here they plumed hour
after hour, and, before they were eware of
it. the sound of it key in the front door
warned them tbat the husharulliail returned
and it was UOW
TOO UTE FOR IUMURAT.
rhey9ung man pushed the lady iuto Lite
adjoining room, end emeising from the ale
prombiug footsteps on the stairs that tbe
husband was rapidly approaching and escape
was melees, he opened o, drawer of the
dressing cue and seize(' the Best jewel that
eame to hand. Ho stood with the spoil in
his baud awaiting the entrance of tho
husband. The result was as expected.
The husband mistook him for it burglar.
No defence was made at hie trial, and he
was duly sentenced. When the Emperor
heard this tale he was overwhelmed with
surprise, and at once gave an order for the
young man's release. There WaS no attempt
to suppress the particulara of the ease, and
everything possible was done to spume the
names of tho earty concerned, and thus far
this has been m a great measure successful.
The names are tmkuown, but tho circum-
stances have become public property. The
honour of the man who would uncomplain-
ingly accept imprisonment for five years in
order to spare the name of a lady was
too precious to be exploited in the news-
papers. But when the Emperor released
the young man there were other claims to be
satisfied as well The husband, by the
local laws, has an indemnity in such in.
stances that even the complaisantly of the
Emperor cannot override, and
THE PRISON AUTHORITIES
had other claims resulting from the ex-
travagance of the prisoner that altogether
footed up a trifle aver 50,000 roubles. It
was this sum that the messengers were con-
veying from the bank of which the young
man's father is a director to the place where
the final adjustment was to be made when
they were murdered and the money was
taken. It is known now that two fashion-
ably -dressed young men entered the same
compartment as that occupied by the
messengers and further that theyrequested
the guard •eo leave them undisturbed until
the end of their journey. They were,
according to the description of the station
officials who noticed them, dressed in the -
latest style, and had the appearance of
peasceableemeasse cloree rather than murder-
ous conspirators. These two travellers left
the train at Alexandroso, and no trace of
them has since been found. The bodies of
the cashiers were fonnd beside the track
out, gashea, and mutilated. They had been
stabbed to death.
Antos of a Baby Rhinoceros.
Mr. Stanley gives the followingaccount
which has been described as amusing, of a
baby rhinoceros, which his Nubians brought
into camp. " We tied the baby, whichWas as
large as a prize boar, to a tree, and he fully
sbowed what combativeness there was in
his nature. Sometimes he mistook thetree for
an enerny,andrushedto the attack, battering
it with his horny nose uatil, perceiving that
the tree obstinately resisted him, he would
halt to reconnoitre it, as though he had the
ii
intention of assaulting t by another
method; but at such times some wicked
Zanzibari boys prodded him in the hams
with ailed cane and, uttering a startling
squeal of rage, he woule dash at the offend-
ers to the length of his tether. He seemed to
me tobe the stupidest, most ireful, intra,ct•
ablelittlebeastio that ever Iliad met. Feeling
himself restrained by the cord, he felt sure
that it must be the tree that was teming
him, and he would make another dash at it
with such vehemence that sent him on his
haunclies ; prodded, pricked in the rear, he
squealed again, and, swinging round with
wonderful activity,he would start headlong,
to be flung on his back by the rope, until at.
last, feeling that it would be only misery to.
him to be carried to the coast, he was con.
signed to the butcher and his assistants."