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The Wrisouer's Thrilleug Addrese to the dodge and Jury—nrotests Ate lune- eenoe—ereomen Sob and CrY la the court Room, " William Walter MadWherrell, the sen- tence of this court upon you, for the murder of demes Williams, is thet yon now be taken to the place a your confinemeot, there to remain until Friday, the 1st of June next, when yoe, Shall be taken to the place of ex- ecution and hanged by the neck until dead, and may God have mercy on your soul." These, the culminating words of the great Williams merder trial at Brampton last week, were delivered %mid the shrieks and moans of hysterical women, the breathlesa sighs of anxious men and the distraught ravings of a convicted murderer. And MacWherrell furnished an antis climax such as has never before been heard in a Canadian court room, "AU right, your lordship, hang me, I'm an innocent man, and L gums I'll have a better chance of getting to Heaven than some of you here. Pll be five teet higher anyway." With this brutal allusion to the form of his death on the dawn of summer, one of the most brutal morderers ever known made his exit from the eourt room where he bad been tried et such great length. He would have said more had he not been silenced by a mighty shout end 'a mighty clap on the ahoulder from Censtable Hurst. • MACWHERRELL COLLAPSED. After the jury came in with the verdiob of guilty MeoWherrell collapsed into the corner of the prisoner's box. Hie face was of ashen hue and when Walker was removed from the court at Judge Ferguson's com- mand, he seemed altogether limp, and, crouching, awaited leis sentence. The jury entered at 6.30 p.m., but 25 minutes, devoted to formalities, elapsed be- fore County Oroven Attorney MeFedden arose and moved the aentence of the convict- ed prisoner. In achordance with the law his lordship asked MacWherrell if he had aught to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. The delay had given the prisoner time to collect his faculties, and he at once arose with the words.: "Yes, my lord, I have. I am an inno- cent man. I can look anyone in the face in this court roorn and say that. I couldn't do that if I wasn't telling the truth. I'm just going to tell you how it all was so that everyone here will know that I am an in- nocent man and speaking the truth, and maybe MacWherrell won't hang yet." The peroration which followed was prob- ably planned, or at least suggested by Mr. Robinette with the hope that the reiteration of one of his former stories, under such solemn circumstances, would lead to the commutation of his sentence. In a case where the conviction was on circumstantial evidence, this was a good move, but the prisoner, by his foolishness' his inability to tell the troth, or to stickto one story, shattered the hopes of those who would as- sist him.. He started out with the view evidently of demonstrating that THERE HAD BEEN A VAST CONSPIRACY among the 55 witnesses for the crown and some of his own witnesses who helped the crown catte to lie and to hang him. He starte 1 off by saying that aftewhe left Stableford's on Wednesday, December 13, he went to Fitzgerald's hotel on York Street. Therehe met John Cory. He gave what he says are the exact words of Cory to him. Cory sad: "Are you looking for a job ? 1 know a man named Williams, and he wants a man." MacWherrell maintained that Cory did not tell him that he worked for Williams, but that he ascertained the fact on passing the place. This was the first lie told, he thought. On that Wednesday night, he told the court, Walker was in the bar, and he offered Walker $4.50 for a set of Dickens' works he had. Thus,in the very stari, of a speech intend- ed to establish his innocence he lied, for Walker was in jail on that night, and the set of Diokens' works had been in the hands of the police for a week. These statements were punctuated by commands to judge, jury and publio to listen to an in- nocent man who was telling the truth. He admitted going to Credit, but said that Pat Doherty lied in his statement that he claimed to be Williams' nephew. He said that on Doherty's asking the question he said he might be. "Mrs. McKay has not told the right story yet," he said. "What 1 say is true, so help me, God. I wish one of the Vktillilienses was left to tell you so." AT WILLIAMS' PLACE. • He said he -went into Williams' yard and met Mrs. Williams carrying a pail of water or slop. Old man Williams was in the barn. He walked upend said "Good even- ing, sir, are yon wanting a hired man' Williams replied: "I did want one, but I' got one coming for hie board. I cart go any amount of men for their board." 'Wit. liams had on a bleak curly cap with a peak on it, had a black coat, a black vest, a white shirt and a black tie. He had a stick in his -hand. "I never went into that house, so help me Ged," cried the speaker. He was only in the red 'he— e•-• 'des, he said, and than left, o the Lake Shore road Fowl t ,oete, etie electric car. It was 20 minutee to 1, when he left the Williams' Plaee. ng WAS NOT ABRAID. "I am not saying this in the hope of get- ing off. I know what's going to be read to me. I'm not afraid," he cried again.. In the electric car he said he zaw two men, one with a black moustache, the other with -.a steady moustaebe, who were on the car when he got on firet, and got off at 1Vlimice. It will be observed that thia description is the same as that be gave in his &molts- „gMPIRE statement of the two men who sold him the horse at &holes' hotel. He was still harping on the old string, and a curl. ous thing it at brought out rit the trial, although notallocled to by counsel, that the nussiog peak cap and brown overcoat, etolen on the night of the orime, are the same ea those described by hint as having been worn by one of the two inen. It would go to show that Mat1Wherrel1 dole these thieve, as the crown maintained, tenet he Wag a:entre of their exietetoe and worked them in on the fables he told. IVIaeWhere, rell salel also in his smooch that there Was a Immo) on the eleottie car. Ile said that he never void Detective Davis the story of perehasing the home on Thuretley nigh t, and then went on to relate the old tale of his going out on the stortnieet night known in 10 yeam to &holes' hotel, toit, he said, to see the etthway, but to eet the eentiatiori of goieg tinder it in & eteeet car, At Scholee' he got his drink, ena the boreemen drove rim ale lie related before. The lead& Wit - led him, he old t "Rollo, old sport, you're a horseman,” and they made the deal, 3E/c) tlaid that eince being in jail, in thinking over the matter he hed thought thu't the men 'was one with whom he had worked on the Exhibition grouods but before be de'parted from hie eubject, on which he dwelt a considerable length tif time, he offered another explanation of the inen'e identity and AnnzAvounn To exPX,WATe e, 0. (eLese .... in the grime. He ettid that when Crom came to the jail three weelea ago to idene tify him he had remarked to the turnkey, although quite oblivious of the fact thet °roes vets one of the erown's chief witnese. es: •" That leeks just like the man 1 bought the horse from." After driving away from Scholes', the speaker said his horse was frightened by the electric ears, and be stated a pircuenetance of which the street railway company is unaware, that the oars were running all right on that terrible night. There was no whip in the cutter, moreover. He then went en to relate in a tireaorne mariner the whole history of his sale of the horse to Lowrie, the Parliameut street botcher, and his acoount did not differ from that told in court. He gave the following account of his vari- ous abodes on the days succeeding the crime On Sunday he slept at Tobin's, on York Street; on Monday at Wilson's, corner William and Queen streets; on Tuesday at Dorsey's, on York street; on Wednesday at Mr, Brown's house'Price street; on Thursday he went to Stableford's at NVo- burn, In speaking of the knob found there he protested that he left it on December 71 and it did not go out of the house until Mrs. Stableford gave it to a reporter. As to his trowters, which the crown said were missing, he maintained that they were the black pair found in his trunk at Woburn and which:eters. Stableford swore were lying in her house ever since Eovember 24 hest. MR. ROBINETTE INTERRUPTS. MateWherrellwas just entering on a fierce denunciation of Mrs. Stableford when Mr. Robinette got up and gave him a hint to cut his address short. He had spoken for an hour and all in the court room were feeling drowsy. He looked around him, and saw that he had made no impression, that the people present looked on him as a blatant boor' and *ere only weitin g beeause they wantedto hear him aentenced. He would 0 PRODAI3LY HAVE TALE= FOR HOITILS. He was,as it were, wound up. Perhaps he was postponing the dread moment when the sentenbe of death should be passed upon him. His own words had given him confidence, and he had grown less ashen as his speech progressed. But when the general apathy of the judge and all assembled dawned on him he became enraged. He woke the peeple up. He made wild accusations and seemed to have lost his nerve completely. "I've been in Gibraltar, Malta„Burmah," he cried. "I'vecrossed the Punjab, I've been, in East Africa. I' vefought in Afghen- istan. Yes, I carried despatches between the lines in Afrthanistan with the bullets whizzing around ears. No man can say I am a cowaed. /never struck art old man or an old woman. No man can say Pm a coward, and the man who killed those old Williarnsee was a dastardly coward. Teen look anyone in the face and say with the last breath 'MaeWherrell's innocent.' I wasn't on the Williams place three MinDteS." HE GROWS EXCITED. The man's face had grown iivid ; his eyes burned like coals ; his movements were wild and hysterical. He ,turned around and faced the gallery. "Here's an innocent man before all of you. Two months I've been in jail with a charge of murder overdmy head. I've been dragged through the country down at Cookeville with the people shouting 'Lynch him' behind me.'' • "Face his lordship," shouted Mr. Robin- ette. The furious man turned; his wrath took a different aspect. He was snapping and snarling like a fox run to earth. He commenced to drag in the names of other people. ':Your lordship, there's something wrong about that old man Moody. You want to look after him. A perfect stranger couldn't do that deed ,• it was some one who knew the place. There's that old John Cory. Ivlany's the time John Cory said to me in jail "God --those old Williams, I wish they was cut to pieces long ago.' "1• say, and I will say, I am innocent. Do I look like a man who would do a cow- ardly thing? You and the jury are my mur- derers." He turned towards the jury, his voice, which had been at a shrieleing pitch,chang- ed. In what were evidently intended for bogey tones he said, deep down in his throat, pointing his finger at the jurymen: " You are the murderers of MacWherrell I" IN A LAST POSE and posing has been always on this dandified man's foibles, he raised a mock picture of martyrdom. It was a penny dreadful style of ma•tyr- erti, but it was very dramatic. The audi. elute was wdought to a high pitch as he cried : "1 forfeit my life for another man. I have laced death in foreign lands; I've heard the bullets whiz: I can force eleath ; senteece me, your lordship I Don't make any sympathizing speech about it; 1 jnst want to be sentenced." Judge Ferguson, in a very calm voice, without donning the black cap seized the opportunity for which he had evidently been waiting and read the death sentence. As has been said, there was much shriek- ing and moaning of women, and Mao Wher- rel is said to have cried on being taken from the court room: "Don't cry, ladies; I can face death; I'm an innocent enan." THE neuter OF HIS SPEECH on the audience was varied. It was one of those stupendottely dramatic moments that come to us once in a lifetime. ' To matiy of those present the speech had the effect of confirming his guilt in their minds. The early part of his epeech, with its slap at Cross and its evident lack of veracity, had disgusted them with the man, and his finel exhibition of epleen, in whicili he charged Moody and Cory with tho crime, showed the quality of the man's mind so thorough.. ly that they lost, sympathy for him. The mem who could hope to demonstrate his innocence by such reekless and cowardly eyeertie Seemed likely to have committed the murder. There were others to' veh ant hie sepulobral words to the jury, "You are the murderers of MaoWherrell," were convincing proof of his immune°. They were in the minority. Mr. Robiliefte was ihterviewed on the Metter, and stied that althoogh he had eontemplated making Aet APriXAL IVA =ICY, in the hope of securing a aornmatation el the nenteime, he dotibtful of the effect of thio lost epeech, and it Wee by no Omen certain that he would melee • ;fudge Ferginton 'Wee interviewed end maid that aa appeal for merey mut come through him, • It being a me of einem- stantial evidence he had allowed the ex, treme limit of the law as the time of hang, ing —the term of tyro end a hill months. He had A repore to make on the vaee and he cold pot say yet what its tenor would be, It wee it very peouliar tome, and he would have to ponder it well before making bis report. However, if the prisoner's cotiosel started it petition it was bound 'to be littera, It was the peoplehi privilege that all petitions to the crown, be reepeet- fully coneidered, BRIEP AND INTERESTING. Altura/mem does not rust or tarnish. Glasgow barbers have denounced lady shavers, Dyn,amite is 'mod for killing fish in many treame of California. The diadem of the Russien empress .Anna cont/41ns 2,536 large (Eamon& and a ruby valued at $600,000. Great Britain's seventeen battle ships of the firet class cost sfio,000,000, and her en- tire fleet about $175,000,000. The early Egyptian paintings were em- ployed as subordinate to sculpture, the statues being painted in life colors, Three-fourths of the earth's surface is unfit for cultivation on account of moun- tain ranges, desert, swamps, and barren grAmuld. Oowgill, Mo., man got despondent and pleaded guilty when he was put on trial for larceny. He was more aurprised than any- one else when the jurymen acquitted hina without leaving their seats. He had. been stealing coal, and the local coal dealer was unpopular. The philosophical faculty of the Univer- sity of Heidelberg has resolved that women students can be adcnitted to the degree of doctor there. In Gottingen also similar. facilities are permitted, and two English ladies, who have already studied mathem- atics at Cambridge, are attending lectures there. Dew is the greatest respecter of colors. To prove this take pieces of glass or boards and paint them red, yellow, green and black. Expose them at night, and you.will find that the yellow will be covered with moisture, that the green will be damp, but that the red and the black will be left per- fectly dry. France will soon adopt an interesting in- novation in the postal card system. The cards Will be issued in the form of chec k books, with stubs; 'the sender can make memoranda of its contents on the stub, and can have this stamped at the postoffice before the card is detached, so that a veri- fied record of the correspondence may be kept. • Florists say that the cyclamen, which bears those marvelous winged blossoms that sewn to hover over theplaat rather than to be part of it, produces finer blossoms when raised directly from the seed than when the bulb is planted and allowed to germinate. Amateurs, when they attempt the cyclamen, usually buy the bulbs. and a single bulb sometimes costa nearly as much as a small blooming plant. Some idea of the number of New• York men who get their clothes in London may be gathered from the fact that this week there are twenty-three agents for English tailoring houses in that town. Most of the goods are brought into this country free of duty and cost the wearer a little leas than the same clothes made here. All the big London houses have places in, New York City where alterations are made free of oharge. The weight of different kinds of wood is exceeding variable. White pine is the lightest of the common woods, a cubic foot of it weighing 34 pounds; willow wood weighs 36, red pine 37, yellow pine 38 and pitch pine 43. Poplar weighs 46 and hick. ory 52. Logwood weighs 57, mahogany 66, live oak 67, and lignum-vitte, the heaviest of all, weighs 83 pounds to the cubic foot. A block of lignum-vitm, thrown into the water, will sink like a stone. Little .Addie Cunningham, of Fall River, haspassed through a remarkable experience. On the 16th of last September she was eat- ing watermelon when a seed lodged in her windpipe. She was seized with a terrible fit a coughing, and for Weeks her life was diapered of. Physicians could do nothing for her and she wasted away to a skeleton. She was seized with a terrible -fit of -cough- ing a few days ago and the melon seed was thrown out. It Wee three times the re- gular size of the ordinary seed and contain- ed it long 'Trout, which was evidently growing in her windpipe. She was imme- diately relieved and can now breathe easily. Cholera in Persia. It is easy enough to understand why Persia is a hotbed for cholera. The only wonder is that it should ever be free from that plague. Here is an extract from it recent report of the British consul at Resht, a town of 40,000 inhabitants "The cesspools that exist in each house are mere wells, more: or less deep, whieh have no exit. Drinking -water is obtained from wells sunk within ten to twenty yards of these cesspools. There are no sewers, and although gutters exist in some streets,they are worse than useless, for they have no means of carrying away the accumulated water, and coneequently they are oftener than tot full of a stagnant greendiquid. The rubbish out of kitchens'and atuffthat goes into the dust -bin at home, here is thrown outin certain corners of streets and open spaces, where it is allowed to aeon - mutate. Ponds have been artificially made where water out of the gutters accumu- lates, and when in winter it freezes this filthy muddy water is turned into ice and collected in the ice-housee for consumption the following summer ." 77ben Baby was sick, we ottve her 'Cutest!, • When she was a, Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Viss, she °Mug to Crusted/J. When Mae had Children, she gam them Castorit; Lord Reeebery hart become it milkniten, one of the most extettaive in London but) he doest not.have his name on his milk:wag- 0i15, Ohl Lord Raleigh doe ,s preferring to cerry on the trade infeier the names of hie menagerie Two other petal Who turn an hooette penny in the same way are Lords Londonderry, retailmoele end Portemouth, fruit arid garden. truele. Haile -tie) the eenaineey of all her Metall. Lions. 's Children Cry, foPitbhcj Oatorta • IN' A MANITOBA BLIZZARD, A Wravelleer's Itleldwletter EXperteneet Oit the teretirte. It Was in the month of February, 1883, that I Auld my first tilt with it fulietrown Memitobe. blizzard. 1 Wes soneewhet of a tenderfeet, at the tinie, hot still, in the light of it resideuee in the Northweot of the several years immediately following, I do not reeollece Oily blizzard that *rite equal, led Mile one. At the time of which I write I was lia• terested in some supply Contracts with Langdon, Shepperd & 00., who were en- gaged in pushing the Cemecliate Paeitic Railway across the continent. We had buyera plaeed et different pointe through- out the country, to secure the produce *Ida we needed—mainly oats—and es there were no bauking fttoilities outeide ef Winnipeg at tlae time, is was ueceesary to tens these partiea from time to time, and fernish them with the funds necessary to carry on the busioess. It was while on cite of these errends that I found myself at the end of the 0. P. R. eouth-western branch at 1 O'CIOCII On thae bitterly cold Tuesday morning, with the person I wished to see still five miles further on. The trains ran on this branch only twice a week during the winter, mid I had the alternative of either walking that five miles in time to get back again to the train before 7 o'clock in the morning, et which time she was due to leave for Wiunie peg, or of spending the next four days in the wilderness. I chose the walk. So, between 3 and 4 &clink, I gave my moccasin striugs an ex- tra tie, drew on my overcoat with the hood well up over my head, and started out into the darkness. I had been over the trail be- fore, and as it was fairly well beaten, by feeling the ridge of snow left in the middle between the runners of the sleigh with my feet, I had no difficulty in following it. The blizzard, which had been getting worse all night, was now in full swing with the thermometer, as I found out later on, be- tween 47 autl 50 below zero. As is usual with such low ternperaturee, there was very little wind, but the air was full of little par- ticles of frost, which bit like needles where - ever they tottohed the skin. I soon found it advisable to cover my face with a ailk handkerchief, and after that I had to go it Before I had covered half the distance I been to realize that it was nether a. 001 (1 morning, and I had no trouble in decidin g just how far down my overcoat reached. However, there was now no way out of it. There was no settlement at the end of the track at that time, nor were there any houses between there and the point for which I was making. So on I pushed, carefully follow. ing the ridge in the centre of the trail, for had I missed it by so much as five feet, the chances are that this tale would never have been written. The last mile or two of the tramp are somewhat hazy to me. I remember that I seemed to get extremely cold, and that I swung my arms and stamped my feet, and did everything that 1 could think of to warm myeelf. Towards the last it was a question whether to lie down or push on a little farther. However, at last I reached the house, and by some means or other found my way in. The place which I had reached was.what is known in the West as 0. "stopping place"—half farm -house and half hotel, and was kept by it man named Harmer. It was a huge log structime, standing with the kitchen, which was also the sitting -room, towards the trial, and it was into this room that 1 had found my way. The first thing that I got my hands upon was a large square bottle of gin, which had btett left standing upon the table. I helped myself liberally to this, and then proceeded to rouse the' people of the house. I had explained my errand to Harmer on his first appearance, and his team was im- mediately brought out to get me back in time for the train. With the assistance of the driver,I managed to reach the sleigh and off we set, but the forepart, of the drive is quite as hazy to me as the latter part of the walk. The effects, however, were not lasting, and long before we sighted the train I was quite myself again. On reaching the train a rather unpleasant aurprise awaited me. Standing on the open track for seven or eight hours in the teeth of the blizzard had been too much for our engine, and she had become what is tech- nically known as "dead." It seems that the intensely hot fire which is necessary to keep up steam in such weather as we were experiencing is very trying on boilers, the •effect being to loosen the tubes, thus allow- ing the water to escape and put out the fire. Once the fire is extinguished the numerous valves and pipes freeze up and the machine is useless. The news was wired to Winnipeg, and word came back that an engine would be sent out at once to bring us in, so we pre- pared to wait with as good a grace at pos- sible. The car we were in was not uncom- fortable, if you did not get too far frem the stove, and, as there were only a dozen of us passengers, we each managed to get about our share of the heat. As the dining hours came round, we ad- journed to a large havvies' boarding car which atood close by, and which also served as station. Here we were regaled with the regulation lumber-eamp cookery, consisting mainly of pork and beans, followed by pie, all served up on tin. The term of asking us whether we would have tea or coffee was regularly gone through with, but, bless your heart I yen couldn't tell the differ- ence. No engine arrived this day. -• • . Just about bed -time one brilliant genius made the discovery that the space between the car seats was just the width of the cushioes, so that, by removing the cushions from unoccupied seats and placing them in the spaces between others, we could make a tontinuoue row of cushions, then, by tying up the backs of the estate with the bell rope, we could stretch out at full length and sleep very comfortably. Early in the'moruing we were out looking for the train, and away off itt the distance we could discern the smoke. We hurried through our breakfasts, expecting that we would soon be en our road for Winnipeg. .8ut not so. The engine was in sight fully three houre, making its way slowly over the prairie, but when it had come within half a mile otos, it atone to a dead stop, disabled in the game wity as our own. It wati &sad ditiappointment, but the walking was not good obough to start out ou foot. On the following efternoon at a o'clook the third engine reached utt. It was badly rcippled, but was still able to move. They lost nehiirie, but coupled en to one of the dead engines and the passenger coed, and started hack. We dragged Moog slowly the red of the afternoon and all nitride end when We woke in the Morning wo had only eovered it little over 30 mike. Then the engineer fourid (het he would have to loam, the engien and car on the twick and push on to Morrie, the next station, light, as his supply of weter Was failing. Severe' of tie decided to go with the elle may be inherited; not Consumption. Thin, n chested children are the • ones to look out Everybody with a tendexicy' toward Weak u should take cott's I3niulsion of Cod-liver Oil, with hypophosphites of lime an4 soda. It builds up the system. Cures Coughs, Colds and Wasting Diseases, Physicians, the world over, endorse it. Hereditary Weakness and all Blood Diseases are cured by SCOTIPS EMtfl SION. It is a food rich in nourishment, • Prepared by Scott & Bowne, Belleville. All Druggists, 00 cents and $1. 17 WILL QUICKLY CURE DIPHTHERIA 9 QUINSY, COLDS AND COUGHS_ gfne, sad we reached Morris about 10 la clock. Here we had our dinner while waiting for the rest of the train. Then we dragged on again at the same rate of speed, arriving in Vv innipeg at 1 o' clock on Sotur- deer Morning, having taken in all 34 houre to cover 104 miles, making on my opinion the slowest time on record in railroading. On summing up damages the C. P. R. Company found that out of 52 serviceable engines which they had on that division at the commencement of the blizzard,they had only 13 which they could use when it was over. • 25,000 PERSONS FOOLED. Thsylilssel the Blarney Stone on the Midwase But it was only a Limestone Paving Bieck. A Washington despatch says:—Colkotor of Customs Clark, et the port of Chicago, has made an interesting report to the Tree.- sury Department the other day,one chapter of which concerns the Midway Plaisance of the World's Fair. This part of the great exposition was under the direct charge of Deputy Collector J. E. Ralph, who makes public some curious facts as to how the the people were fooled by the so-called "Blarney Stone," throws out a warning about the growth of the haaheesh habit, and incidentally refers to various tricks of the foreign fakirs to draw out the money of the gullible Americans. Mr. Ralph says : "At the openiug of the Irish village, there was one essential thing lacking to make the "Blarney Castle" a counterpart of the original structure in Ireland, and thatwas the "Blarney atone.' The mana- ger, desirious of endowing the visitors with an opportunity for becoming famous spouters, took into his confidence James Riley, a contractor, and requested that he produce a "Blarney stone. Mr. Riley secured the services of Charles Thompson, an employee of the village and these two men ON.A DADE NIGHT in June, repaired to the corner of Fifty- seventh street and Portland avenue in the city of Chicago, and there dug from the street e limestone paving block about 18 inches by 8 inches by 10 inches in dimen- sions. • They carried it to the village a.nd placed it in a case which had been received that day in bond—Case No 97, serial 4,029 —addressed to Thomas Baker, Irish Indus- trial Village. This case contained a model of "The Bells of Shandon." Invitations were issued to the representatives of the Chicago papers and to Mayor Harrison, the latter accepting the invitation to officiate at the opening of the case containing the famous "Blarney stone," "On the day set aside for the ceremonies Mayor Harrison could not be present and Customs Inspector E. W. Matlock was sent for to open the case. The inspector arrived with the invoice for Case No. 97, serial 4,099, which stated that the case contained a model of the Bells of Shandon,' valued at $25. He opened the case and found it checked 'ono stone over.' After properly labelling both model and stone, he made his return on the invoice : One stone over, estimated value 3500.' This stone was then placed in the walls of the castle, where it remained during ehe balance of the Faiwand was kissed by at least 25,000 people, a fee of 10 cents apiece being charged. At the close of the Fair,the manager of the village desired to take the stone and exhibit it in a store in the city of Chicago, but was in- formed that be could not do so unless he made a consumption entry on same and paid the duty. Thie was done, and on Nov, 24, 1993, I delivered the stone on a. duty-paid permit. Both the inspector in charge of the village and myself remained in ignorance of the history of the Blarney stone ' until Ian. 23, 1894, believiog up to that time that it was imported in "Case No. 97. serial 4,099." The invoice on which consumption entry was paid read as follows: 'Ono piece of stone from 131arney, county Cork,Irelane, value $500.' "I wish to call the attention of the de- partment to the fact that large quantities of hasheesh ' were bre-tight into this country by the Egyptians, at least 300 pounds being coneemed and dietributed on the Midway. I made a report ef this to the special agents, but never heard the re - stilt of their investigation:3. Hasheesh,' which means herbs in Arabic, • PuostisES TO strronewer OPTUAI, and is it narcotic drug having the Mime ef- feets as opium. It 10 made from an Wien hemp which is cultivated in Aela Minor. It is used very extensively in Asia and Tor - key for the purpose of produoing a partici'. bee kind of inebriety. Ite yahoo being high, oely the • aristocratie olttes enjoy It. itt otder to get an exact idea of the gteat con- smnption of "hasheettle ' itt Egypt, if is only net:0808,1,y to knew that the average quattity titled per month by small cafes is too to twelve pounds, one grain being sufficientefor a dose or smoke. The Egypt. iab Government hat absolutely prohibited ehe introduction of thasheesla in Egypt, but smugglers aro see clever and expert Celt they suceeed in introducing immunize (Inane tities of Itt another put Of the report lir, ltalph says: "There were consumed, in the Gere man village and Old Vienna 5,000 oases of imported wine and 6,000 kegs of beer, end 100 oases of merchandise, for alt of which consumption entry was mede in the city. Hence, you will see the Midway Pleasance was a large source of revenue for the Treas- ury Department. • Goods received and accepted as exhibits in the Midway com- prised every known variety of xnerchandiee, comprising wild and domestic animate antiquities, rugs, jewelry, fancyem ibroider- ies, bric-a-brac, works et art nstatuary and paintings. In addition to concession- aries there were 1,650 foreigners who took part in the eancessione, as natives, sales- ; men, or musicians. It has been estimated 11 by several of the moat important concession - arms that over $7,000,000 was spent by the public in the attractione of the Midway. Nearly,if not all, the exhibitors in Midway were loud in their condemnation of the existing tariffs on woolen goods, rugs, and manufactured glass. The largest commune '41 er of foreign goods was Robert Levy, r' concessionary of the Turkish village, who at the close of the fair received over $10,000 refund for goods re-exported. The eecond ' largest was the Irish lndustrialAssociation, of which the Couutess of Aberdeen was concessionary. This village has opened a, large store in the city of Chicago, and promises to be e.large factor in the importae tion of Irish woolens, laces, and jewelry. To some one connected with this village should be credited one of the greatest jokes , ever perpetrated on the Customs force, if not on the public," e.• Two young ladies, Miss F. Marie Imancit and Miss Bessie Maxwell, have recently left Dundee en a journey round the world. They are sent at the instance of the pro- prietors of the Dundee Courier and Dundee 2, Weekly News for the purpose of gleaning information as to the condition of female labour in various countries, They will also enquire into the operations of women et missions religious and ohari table,and study social life, in which women are especially interested. 11 PUREST STRO CEST9 BEST,. 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