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CANADA.. /
Ottawa building permits to date this
erear aggregate 3400,000.•
Fifty-three thousand pilgrims visit-
ed Ste. Anne de 13eavpre during Slily.
English capitalists will develop the
peat bogs at Ea,stmaree 12 miles from
Ottawa,.
The will of the late Mr. James Owrey
of London disposes of an estate valued
at e84,500.
A. Winnipeg eirm will shortly. ship
10,000 head of °tittle to Great Britain
via lVfontreal.
It is expected that the Montreal and
Ottawa Railway will be opened about
September 1st.
Farmer Louis Lambert, of St. Oath-
arines, is mourning the loss of $82
stolen by a feriae hand.
It is reported at Winnipeg that Chief
Justice Taylor, who is now in England,
may reside there in fixture.
• Hon.' Richard Dobell has been ap-
pointed Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of
the 8th Royal Rifles, Quebec,
Work has been begun on the foun-
dations of the new bridge across the
Niagara River at Lewiston.
Captain Francis joseph Amateur De-
mers, of Portneuf, Que., has been gaz-
tatted an inspector of the Mounted Po-
lice.
Three Ottawa firemen have been
fined $35 eaeb for throwing rotten eggs
at members of the ittaple Leaf baseball
team.
A large mail from Dawson: City
reached Winnipeg Monday morning,
lettere bearing dates late in July be-
ing among the number, received.
W. R. Rockefeller has secured in-
terests near 'Vancouver, having pur-
chased immense iron deposits on Tex-
acia island, B.C. He will stert shipping
at once.
The deposits in the Government sav-
ings banks during June last were $671,-
000, and. withdrawals $826,000, leaving
a: balance on the 30th of June at credit
of depositors of $35,307,000.
'A company ha& been incorporated
under the Ontario Act with a capital
stock of §50,000 to engage in the cold
storage and the general produce and
provision business in Port Arthur.
collet to quash the writ served oie
their London agent, on the grouncl thee
they are a toreten oorporatioe. $ir
Francis Ilenry..Tettne, president a t•,be
AdMirelte elinsioxi of the High Court
Q f justice, rulethee the service of
the 'write is good, and that the Eng -
Cort has. juriediction in. the case.
t UNITED STATES.
T
eusettecicaIdineSe.1111)1°YeSYr
•5' .a -
Adolph Entro, an ex -Mayor a San
Fra,poiso, le dead.
Governor Briggs, of Werth! Dakota•, le
dead from consumption. I
Ex -President Dole will be the first
Governor of Hawaii, and uot the "(fatted
States banister, leIr, Sewell, as recently
zeported.
Five men an& two women, colored,
were lynehed at Clarendon, Arkanse,s,
by a mob, being' euspeoted of mur-
der.
It iesaid that Mr. Hey, American
Ambassador in Loedon, Mill succeed
1351vaeshpaingytonaa,
.s S,eoretry of State at
Charles F. Adam, first secretary of
the British Embassy at Washingtom
has beela transferee& to Madrid. Ile
W1.11 be succeeded by Godfrey D. Bland,
secretary of the British Legation with
The Hague.
Hon. E. J. Phelps, ex -United. States
Minister to England, is quite ill. at the
residence of General G. McCullougle,
at North Bennington, Vt. though
physicians do not anticipate any un-
favourable result.
Mr. Frank P. Collins, • war corres-
pondent of the Boston journel, died at
Tanapa„ Fla, of typhoid. fever. Be
WAS on his way home from the front
and wee stricken with his fatal illness
while on board the transport Ar-
kansas,
Policeman Haney C. Hawley, of New
York while in a fit of drunken rage
on Thursday hot hi& wife, his mother,
his son, four years old, and his daugh-
ter, six years old,He thlen shot him-
self in the bead, Hawley and most of
his victims are dead.
George Sharp, aged 28, crazed by
drink, attempted to commit suicide in
Ames' Vestibule saloon, Ogdensburg,
on Tuesday, by cutting his throat with a
huge pooket-knite, inflicting a ghastly
wound. He was removed to his horne,
where he lies in a critical condition.
Rev, Father Paradis, of Doneremy, a
new parish in the district of Nipissing,
has entered suit for §6,000 against Rev.
Father Langlois, parish priest of Ver-
ner; Ont., for defamation of character.
A valuable seam of antiaramite coal
has been located at Macadam's Lake,
15 miles from Cape Breton. Dr. Gilpin,
Provincial Inspector of Mines, express-
es the opinion that there is a large bed
of hard coal, •
While a gang of 1VIeBurney's Crow's
Nest workmen were repairing a bridge
at the bottom of the loop the upper
timbers gave way, resulting in the in-
stant eeath of two men and serious in-
juries to several others.
The three -masted. American schooner
James M. Seaman, which was towedin-
to Halifax upsidedown several weeks
ago, has been righted after much diffi-
culty. It was expected that the bodies
of some of the crew would be found
on board, but none were discovered.
Lieut. W. L. Ross, one of the four
which represented Hamilton, Out., on
the Canadian Bisley teat% arrived laome
on Monday, Lieut. Ross is disappointed
at the poor showing made by the Canes
diens this year. Ile, himself, however
won two valuable cups, and was a big
money winner.
Deseronto having been condemned as
an artillery range, the officers of the
Militia Department are now booking for
a new site. A portion of the farm of
mn. John Luck, on the Eardley road,
above Aylm.er, has been inspected, as
also have sites at Chelsea and Iron-
sides.
A by-law will be submitted to the
ratepayers of Cornwall, Ont., at the
next municipal elections, asking for
their approval of the borrowing of $35-
000, of which $10,000 will be used to pay
off the floating debt, and the remaind-
er to purchase modern road machinery
and build good streets.
The Jacques Cartier Water Power
Company has been organized with a
capital of half a million dollars to de-
velop the falls of the Jacques Cartier
River, for elentrie light and power pur-
poses. The promoters of the company,
who are principally Americans, pro-
pose to furnish light. heat, end motive
power to the city of Quebec, and are
preparing already to enter into pro-
visional contracts for such service.
THE.:AURTJatOrE()Et:TIPOR
FALL WHEAT ORO? ONE OF THE
BEST ON RECORD.
Speing Wheat Exceilere--literley gotta thii,s
About iiti) to The ni•erage—Fruit ae
whete Not Cood—coneetteen of Yu're
Steen ententnenty otetabor,
The following is from the A.ugust
crop bulletin just is'sited by the On-
tatio Department of AViellitUre• The
figures of acreage and. yield will be
published in a few days:—
Vali Wheat.
The crop a fall wheat is one of the
best ever , harvested in the Province.
Both east and west the yields have
been large, an occasional smaller yield
being more than balanced. by a heavy
return cline by. The orop was out eare
Ly, axed was harvested in a good, eons
dition generally, although a few core
respondents complaiu of "bodging,"
owing to the heavy straw, and of "shell-
ing." The grain is described as being
Plerep, and in many cases goes consid-
erebly over standard weight. Occa-
sional reports of rust were received, but
little complaint was received regarding
insects, except in the case of the midge,
whith was injurious in Welland, Hal-
dimaud and Lincoln. Particularly in
the last-named county.
Spring Wheat.
Many correspondents in the eastern
portion of the Province report a consid-
erable inerease in the acreage devot-
ed. to spring wheat. This crop, like oth-
er cereals, ripened early, owing to the
b.ot weather, which in some neighbor-
hoods prevented the heads from tilting
well. The yield, as a whole, however,
will be considerably above the aver-
age, especially in eastern Ontario.
where a number of correspondents
speak of the crop as the best for many
years. The main drawbacks experi-
enced have been frost, and drouth, and
some slight injury from rust and midge
is also reported.
Barley,
A mob attempted. to rescue three
negro teamsters incarcerated. in the,
gaol at Tampa, Mae Monday, and were
fired upon from an upper story of the
building, several shots taking effect.
The wounded were carried away by
their comrades, and the raid was un-
succeseful.
Serious trouble in the interior of Al-
aska, is apprehended by the United
States Government. Food Tints ere
feared. at Fort Yukon ad other up-
river points, growing out of the failure
of the transportation companies to get
supplies in there on the prevailing low
water. A military Government will
be established at Fort Yukon as soon
as possible.
Mrs. M.angaret Fallon, who has just
died at King's Ferry, Cayuga county,
N. Y., at the age of 117, is believed to
have been the oldest person in America,.
It has been found from the records
that she was born in Misfuth perish,
Kings county,' Ireland, in 1781. She
has been a widow fifty years, and. is
survived, by four sons and five daugh-
ters. The oldest daughter is 80 and
the oldest son 75. She had two sons in
the civil war, one being in the Union
and one in the Confederate weeny. The
Confederate survived the war; the oth-
er died in Libby prison,
GENERAL.
Cholera is epidemic at Madras.
Corea, intends to adopt the gold
standard.
ILNE.S. Mohawk hes hoisted the
British flag on Santa Cruiz and Bluff
Islands.
Memorial services for Prince Bis-
marck were held on Sunday in the
Royal Opera House, Berlin.
It is announced that Lieut. -Col.
lYfac,ellum, Governor of Lagros, West
Africa, will succeed Sir Herbert Mur-
ray as Governor of Newfoundland.
Private Luke of the Second Wiscon-
sins, who shot and killed Private Staf-
ford of the American regulars inPorto
Rico, has been court-martialled and
shot.
The mine and towers of the great
na,ptha works at Wischau, Russian
Trans-Caucasia, have been destroyed
by fire. FOThrteeD people were badly
buened.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The rumour that •efforts are being
made to induee the Prince of Wale&
to visit the 'United States and Canade
is untrue.
J. W. Jag), chief °Meer of the White
Star steamer Britannie, as been ar-
rested at Queenstown on charges of
robbing the mails and smuggling.
Sir Henry Irving has decided not to
praceetl with hie libel action against
the Loudon Year Book, which recently
publethed an article alleging that the
larger part of the audiences in the
Lyceum theatre could not hear him.
A firm of solicitors in London, act-
ing on behalf of Senor Du Bose, has
eddressed a letter to Mr. Chamberlain
et the Colonial Office, saying that their
client does not claim, any converter),
tion but desires eu apology far the
illegality of hie expulsion from Can-
oda -
The Lora Mayer of London, Mr. Hare
etio David Davis, and his daughter,
Miss Davies, will sail for New York
from Liverpool on board the 'White
Star Line etearaship Teutcaie ori Aug -
dee 18, for a. short Vitae to Arriericie
Mr. Davies vill be the tree Loud Mayor
to visit Ai:eeriest, durihe hi incura-
teney.
seertage, anti blight has eppeared. in
a few eeetioes.
• Roots.
The large niajority ot reporte as to
the root orepe are encouragieg, the
ante drewbaek being the excessive and
lengeeentineied drouth whieh hes re-
tarded development in many localities.
'With a due amount of moisture dur-
ing the remainder of the season there
Will ben good yield, 'but othehvise the
temp will be a light one. Little 'injure'
has been done by insects, except that
two or three correspondents refer to
the ravages of the grasshoppers in
Muskoka end Manitoulin,
Flex.
Onene to a humber .of western MO(
mills having °lased downduring the
last two years the acreage oe flex MIA
fallen oft greatly: The crop will he
only middlingin quality, frost, rind
drouth having told upon both seed mad
talk. - •
Hops.
This crop is confined. to a few sections
and, while having suffered frem the
drouth, eppears to be freer than usual
froni the attacks if the aphis. ,
°13
The Counties TotEaslQ.
xand tent have
been experiencing a boom this year in
the growing of tobacco. A large area
has been given to the crop, and al-
though the early ,part a the season
was Loo dry for 'best results the
plants in many eases are quite prom -
lane. While many of the growers are
practically without experience, the gen-
eral opinion appears to be that the
°roe) will be a fairly saccessfal one in
that particular section. Grasshoppers
and the " Wor113S" of the sphinx moth
are reported to have done injury to
the plants. Correspondents also report
tobacco as being grown in the County
of Prescott and on Si. Toseples Island,
Algoma, and other sections are becom-
ing baterested in the crop.
, Fruit. •
The, crop is generally good, and, with
a few exceptions, the grain is bright
and, in fine oon.dition, though in some
places light in weight, owing to the
heat and lack of moisture. The frost in
July also inflicted some damage on the
crop. Slight losses from smut and
rust have been. observed, but there ap-
pears to have been a marked exemption
from the ravages of destructive , in-
sects.
t Oats.
There will be about an average yield
at oats as regards quantity,' the crop,
which promised splendidly during the
earlier part of the season, having suf-
fered considerably from the late frosts,
and to a still greater degree from the
hot, dry weather, which caused prema-
ture ripening. The straw is consequent-
ly shore, and the grain apt to be light.
The yield is better in the extreme
eastern counties, both in quantity ar
quality, than elsewhere. In a: num. er
of localities injuries from rust and mhe
attacks of grasshoppers are mentioned,
but smut seems to have entirely dis-
Appeared, being mentioned. by only one
correspondent.
American warsbips which ran in
close to Havana on Friday were pep-
pered with shot from the batteries.
The San Francisco was struck and
received. some damage.
Madame Charles Frederick Worth,
widow of the famous Parisian costum-
ier, who died in Meech, 1895, and his
successor in the superintendence of
the 'Worth establishment, is dead.
'Vigorous raeasums have been taken
to pla,ce tb.e sea forts of Copenhagen
in estate of railitary efficiency. It is
supposed that these"' measures are due
to fears of a conflict between Great
13ritain and letuseia.
As a, result of experimente at the
lest German manoeuvres, eager Will in
future be regerded as a reenter artiele
of German soldiers' eooa, especially cm
the march. The experiments prove
that the men salieected to a sugar diet
increased. in weight Mace suffered less
from hunger, thirst, exhaustion, and
sunstroke on long marches than the
men who were put on ordinary diet.
Rye.
The greater part of this crop is fed
green, to supplement pasture, and the
results this season have been sat-
isfactory. Where grown for the grain
the yield per acre will be slightly above
the average, except in the Lake On-
tario counties, in some of which there
was a small yield.
Beans.
Judging by the remarks of corres-
pondents, beans do not appear to be
increasing in popularity as a field crop.
The crop was more or less affecteci by
drouth and frost, but despite these
drawbacks it will be almost up to the
average for yield.
Peas.
The yield of peas varies greatly, even
in the same county or township. The
crop got a good start, but the con-
tinued. ()eolith thecked the growth and
caused the vines to ripen too early.
The frost of July 10 aAo• did consider-
able injury to this crop. The straw,
though short, is bright, and will make
good. fodder. The " bug" was frequent-
ly complained of in. the Lake Erie dis-
trict, but further east it did not ap-
pear to give much trouble. The yield
per acre for the Province will fall a
little short of the average and runs
all the way from 10 to 30. bushels to
the acre. •
In the enit tor demages broUght by
the owners of the Thetish ship Crain-.
tirtyelaire against; the La tottgogne's
OWIXerS as a, resnle ot the ooliisioie in
jute', the Compagnie General Trans,
etientique lute Milted the Adreireity
Daring the depagture from Lisbon of
Dr. Campoe Sidles, president of Brazil,
for America, by the Trans -Atlantic
hp-
er Themes, on Monday, two steamers
crerrying friends to bid bine farewell
come into collision, swamping two
small boats and drowning twenty per-
.,
SOW.
at MIGIIT NOT NEED IT.
The apple havvest will be a light one
this season the yield in most looalities
being considerably below the average.
This is attributable, among other causes
be heavy rain storms occurring while
the trees were in blossom, which in-
terfered with fertilization, and to the
prevalence in many neighborhoods of
the tent caterpillar and. other destruc-
tive insects, which have wrought much
damage wherespraying has been ne-
glected. Much of the fruit is small and
hard. owing to the drouth. Winter ap-
ples will be partieularly searce. Plums,
while yielding fairly in some parts,
have sustained a good.. deal of injury
in mane- places from the attacks of the
cumuli°, and the yield as a whole will
be below the average. Peaches as a rule
have done but poorly, and the prop
will be small. Pears have bee -n the most
successful of the larger fruits, and. are
likely to be abundant. There was a
good yield of cherries, tbough some loss-
es from black -knot are noted. Grapes
will also be elentitur The drouth prov-
ed injurious to stuall fruits, which pro-
mise'd an iramense yield. Straeferries
yielded fairly, but raspberries were
small an dry.
Pa t ' .
dt
- ura)and Live Stock.
AlitrUT THE ERLOF MINT°
THE MILITARY EXPOIIENCE OF OUR
NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL. .
Conies or Dee or the nest 'known Fulettellee
lft tleeinied,-1111is Wea11t1i-11es Former
lesit to Canada,
The appointment of the tart of
IVIinto as Govereor-General, to seeceed
the Earl or Aberdeen, is hailed with
satisfaction throughout Canada. It is
generally believed WO no more, fit-
ting appointment could have been
made by the Home Government. Lord
Minto will not assume hie official
duties under the disadvantage of be-
ing a stranger, for he is widely known
throughout the provinces. It might be
truthfully mid that he is already a
popular ina.n, and is sure to fall heir
to the general good -will which all
Canadians feel for the Earl of Aber-
deen. •
The arrival of the Earl and his
charming wife, the Countess of Minto,
is sure to strengthen the 'regard eow
entertained for them. They will be the
handsomest- couple ever occupying
Rideau Hall, and fully capable of main-
taitaing the social prestige of their
high position. With them will prob-
ably come three highly accomplished
and lovely daughters, and two sone,
forming- an exceptionally interesting
family. Lord Minto comes of one of
the best known families in Scotland,
and has a fine record in military and
civil life; He is the fourth Earl of
Minto, and' a descendant of Gilbert
Elliott, whose great-grandson, Sir Gil-
bert, was created Baron Minto in 1797.
His family name is Gilbert john Elliott
and he succeeded to the title in 1891.
He is very wealthy, owning an estate
of 16,000 acres, which includes the do-
main in Roxburgshire, near Jedburgh,
and property in Fifeshire.
The new Governor-General is 53
years old, tall, athletic and distin-
guished in is bearing, and one of the
mOst courteous and approachable of
men. He was educated at Eton 'and
Cambridge, and. took his degree at the
latter place. During his college days
he went in for athletics strongly, and
attested his prowess in rowing, scull-
ing and running by winning numer-
ous trophies. His love for outdoor
sports still continues to the extent of
bicycle riding, an amusement which,
the Countess of Minto shaves with him
very often.
One of the Vales tor eettiug richeis
to bay nothing unnecessary.
Were you able to tell old Billione
lot? asked. the /superintendent •Cit. the
cemetety.
The agent ribaok hie heed. He Was
afraid he might not get the full' value
of it, he explained.
Bet: a man has got to die soMe timel
excIaiMed the saperintendett.
Tbet's whet I told. him, but he only
ereewered, Suppose / should be lost at
see. )
Hay and Clover.
Correspondeets are almost, unanim-
ous in favorable coraraents regarding
this crop. ,While old. meadows did not
do so well, newly sown fields gave large
yields. 'Three tons to the acre are fre-
quently reported, and fou.i., and nee
tons per acre are also mentioned., The
average' will be about trivia tons, or say
50 per cent above the average. Many
farmers cannot find roonti in their barns
for the surplu.s crop. In addition to
the generous yield' the crdp generally
has been saved in first-class condition.
several eorrespondenes elairaing that in
this respect it is the hest for inemir
years. Cutting was earlier thanusual.
Alsike did not do so welt as red clover
ex timothy, and there wile be a remark-
able scarcity of. seed_ in' the case of
this variety, e Corn,• ..
This Promisee to be a fair crop in
the Lake Erie ootinties, but in the othe
er distriots inueh Willey heti been done
by the froet of the rseeond week el
Jelly. The drouth has also told against
the crop in every eeetioie of the Pro-
vince. Several Aliedlesex correspond-
ents refer to large numbers of eroivs
„erid blaelebirde haveng attacked the
young eerie .
Pasture e wee excellent during the
spring ren41 earlynnmener and the yield
if hay was large, an ieee recent dry,
parching tveather has /been seveitely
ielt, many farmers ben* compelled. to
feed hay to their, stock. The condition
of live stock' generally is good, though
they are inclined to be thin in locali-
ties where the pasture is exhausted.
There is very little serious disease, am-
ong cattle. The attacks of the horn -
fly are mentioned by only two or three
correspondents, and sorae herds in the
County of Gray are affected. with in-
flammation of the eyes, sometimes re-
sulting in blindness. The prospects for
fall and winter are highly encourag-
ing, as there are araple supplies to win-
ter the stock. The general lank of fresh
pasture has resulted in a marked tem-
porary falling off in the flow of milk
and a consequent slackening in dairy
operations. Recent rains have already
in some neighborhoods restored the fer-
tility of the pastures. ,
• The Apiary.
The season has been a good one for
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honey bees swarming early and in some
eteeplecliase i•ider, and in 1$71 he redo
in the grand national steeplechase at
Paris. Tie counts as one of his most
velu.ed possessiene a picture of the
animal be rode he this race, painted by
Baron Finoi,. He is a regular centre-
butor and patron a the border athletic/
organizatioes, and, with the Countess
ie. very frequently seen at their meet -
'Lora Nieto married Max Caroline
Grey in le83, just before coming to
Canada. She is the daagliter of Gen.
Charles Grey, who was private /Score-
tary to the Queen. She is a remark-
abl,y handsome and charming' woman,
and is as papillae in the border dis-
trict as the. Earl. Their mansion at
Minto, which is the' little village from
which the family' takes its name is re
,
nelleeketWiiSiieret,rieSte tP
odesty
neeseeen.,,stesett,„..ene
, Mfikes thoesauds of worte
ailence, rather thee tIllee.r•
..trooblpa'. to anytime
'easel Woman's Balm, itil.'1,0°„1
feet boon., It eures
teoubles, eorreete monthly
1), laritios, abolishes the agon
ohild-birth, mattes weak
etremg; and renders lite
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Palatiel struoture situated about six
railes from Hawick an. the Teviot.. THE
There are many historical associations ',.-7,v.ropyirpt.
cozinected with the- mansion. It has eteeee,„,'"e"
ftre meant' Year.% beep visited by men TaljeS
and women famous in art and science,
literature, poetry and politics. In days
gene by Sir Walter Scott and Thomas
Campbell were frequent visitors, the
latter writing "Lochiel's Warning"
while a guest of Sir Gilbert Elliot.
A CARLIST RISING.
eneurrection to be Postponed Unite the
Troops neon% tenni Cuba.
The London Daily Mail's Biarritz cor-
respondent says :—"The troops sent in
pursuit, of tb.e band of Carlists which
appeared Intently at Ale:11a de Chis -
vers, in Valenoia, failed to ca,ptuee the
members of the band. owing Co the
complicity of the inhabitants, who are'
ale Carlists, end feed and conceal the
fugitives end give their pursuers false
information. Many prominent Car-
nets have settled at Bayonne, Biar-
ritz, and Saint Juan de Luz, close to
the Spanish frontlet:, as many did
previous to the lase Carlist . Tieing,
their objeet being to establish easy
contact with the petty local leaders in
the Basque provinces end. Navarre.
S'panisb detectives have been despatch-
ed. by the Government to watch them.
The fact that all letters from Don
Carlos are now taken into Spain by
courierrx is regeraed as proof that they
neighborhoods excessively. The supply
of nectar wee profuse, especially from
clover, but basswood yielded little, and
latterly there has been a scarcity by
reason of the dry weather. The aver-
age yield will be nearly fifty pounds
per hive, and there has been a good in-
crease in colonies. The bees are said
to be in fine condition and very little
disease is reported.
Labor and Wages.
Petatoee.
The potate crop eiriel be rionsid.erablY
below' the average in most localities
owing to the late fra5tu iti nine and
July, Which Weree'Very destraceive
the northern ' totinties and* some low -
'lying lends elsewhere, and the more
retent drouth, the effecte of which,
leaves been, generally felt throughout
the Provitice. A, good yield is entice..
pate& he the St. Lawrence eounties,
where the Conditions have been more
favorable, and timely rains may, bring
some: improvement in th,e case of late-,
platittia drops. The ravages of the po-
tato beetle are noted by some Correa-
pondents as an additiOnal etteitie et the
The supply of farm labor as a.rule
has been fully adequate to the demand,
the conaplaints of scarcity in a few lo-
calities being inevitable in any condi-
tion of the labor market When the
tenaporar.y nature of harvest work is
considered. The tendency' to dispense
with labor outside of the farmer's fam-
ily by the increased use of mn.chinery
coritinues, and as lees help is needed
on the farin the ,supply adjuets itself
to the diminishing requirements. There
is e ver f wide .range of difference no-
ticeable in the wages paid for farm
labor. 'ehrough the greater part of the
Province, the -wages of harvest hands
rim from 75 tents to §L25 41.50
per day, -.with hoard. eVIonthly wages'
vary from e12 to $25 per month With
board, the largjr amdunts being where
erigagements are limited to a month or
two in harvest: season. De some east-
ern localities men are obtainable by
the day from 50 to 75 Cents and board,
or $1 without. , -Taking the Provirice
throuehout 01 or 11.25 with board
would probably be a, feir average for
harvest: hands engaged by. the day and,
$15 per Month,- fee engesenaents tor,
the eeatme.
HIS MILITARY EXPERLENCE.
Lord Minto has had a varied mili-
tary experience, and has seen • hard
serence in several campaigns. Upon
finisping his eduction, he joined
the Scote Guards' in n1867, and
served three years in that body.
This was his preliminary training
for a long and honorable mili-
tary career. He followed, the Carlist
army in Navarre and Biscay in the
north of Spain in 1871 as a correspond-
ent for a London newspaper, and in
1877 was sent to Turkey by the in-
telligence departraent as an assistant
o.ttache under Colonel Lennox, detailed
to follow the Turkish army in the Rus-
so-Turkish campaign. He was present
at the bombardment of Nikopolis by
the Russians, and witnessed the cros-
ing of the Danube by the vietors. He
was laid up in a hospital with fever
several weeks, during which the Rus-
sians pushed steadily toward the Ban
kans, and upon getting out again he
was fortunate in being the first to
notify England by telegraph of the
fact that the Russians had crossed the
m.ountains. The hardships of this cam-
paign compelled Lord Minto to return
home before the war was finished.
ln 1878 his Lordship went to India,
and, going to the front in Afghanis-
tan, joined Lord Roberts, He was with
Lord Roberts all threugh the campaign
in the Kurran Valley. When Lord
Roberts succeeiled to the vacancy cre-
ated by the death of General Colley
in 1881, he invited Lord Minto to join
his staff and become his private secre-
tary. Peace , was arranged, however,
Wore any active'service began, and
the next year Lord Minto went to
Egypt as a captain in the mounted
infantry remaining with his picked or-
ganization until it was disbanded at
Cairo. Most of its officers were either
killed. Wounded or invalided.
HA,D NVOIAN. TO BLANIB.
I have •dreadful luck, This Morn-
ing' dripped biy` spectneles and roy
wife stepped 'die them. •
Thetei What call 'good luck. If I
had (trapped' mine I Should have ste,p-
,
ppd. on them 'myself, ,
8*(1,13'611)3AX' 1,111/t/CtIVIVNTS, '
Row de you persuade, your took td'
'atae?
Well we toia hoe .$11,6 conleihreve the
front, i3o.rali ift-the eveniee • for her
friends; • and eve will take the, baok
porch.
contained orders to his followers, and
therefore must not fall into the hands
of' the Government. Cal list recruiting
agents in several parts of Spain are
offering nien two peseta,s a day.. A
Carlist colonel has 'been arrested. at
Barcelona. Accouats sell: to Spain by
visitors to Don Carlos at Lucerne have
occasioned the ereatest alarm, and de-
spite, public declarations it is
clear that everything is treacly for
a. Carlist rising immediately upon the
conclusion of the peace neg,otiations.
It, is "believed that Don Carlos will
wait until , the army returns from
Cuba before ordering an ineurrection,
as he hopes the Cuban army will et-
as he hopes the Cuban army will re-
turn discontented and ripe for revolu-
tion. -Carlist agents have been work-
ing Cuba for months past.
. .
NO INTERFERENCE.
inatencilons to General LftlVt011 IteSPeentlg
the Cubans. '
A despatch •from Washington says:
—The War Department late on Tues-
day afternoon posted the following in
reply to an enquiry from Major-Gen-
eral Lawton, commanding the depart-
ment, of Santiago, for instructions as
to the policy to be observed toward the
Cubans that are within his military
PLUNGED DOWii20 FEET,
TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN
WHICH SIX ARE KILLED.
The Colliery Coal nateway Bridge on the
Upper !earl, et Vancouver Island Gives •
Way Under a 'Frain.
de,spatch from Vaneouver says: --
News oe a terrible railway accident, on
HIS FORMER •VISIT TO CANADA.
Lord Minto came to Canada in 1$83
as military secretary to the Marquis of
'Lansdowne,. the Governor-General.
One of his first ants in a military ca-
pacity was the organization of 300 Can-
a.diati boatmen tor service in Egypt.
in 1885, when the rebellion broke out
in the North-west under Biel, Lord
Minto accompanied General Middleton's
Canadirenevolunteers to the scene of
the outbreak in the capacity of chief
of staff and took part. ba the hard-
est fighting. The conclusion of this
campaign closed Lord Minto's active
service, but he has taken a hearty in-
terest in military affairs ever since.
Upon his saltine to Scotland in 1887
ee took a prominent part in organize
leg the Border Mountea Rifles, and
when the Scottish Border Brigade was
formed the next, year his Lordehip was
aPpointed brigadier "general. This bri-
gade holds manoelvres every secend
year at Minto, and has won numerous
prime in ethapetition against the regu-
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department:
the upper part et Vancouver Island wee
received here from Union on Wednes-
day afternoon. Details are eataere up
to this time of writing, but it is defin-
itely known that six people were Jellied,
outright coed a number seriously in- ,
jured. The. aecident occurred on the
Union Colliery Coal Railway. A- span,—
of the Treet River bridge gave
when the first loaded train of twenty
cars crossed at an., plunging them
and. their human freight 120 feet into
the) river. Nine people were aboard at
the thne, five of these were killed,
three seriously hijured and one escap-
ed without 'injury.
Following are the killedne
Alfred Walker, engineer.
Alex. Malado, brakemen.
Win. Work, train hand.
Two jape, names unknown.
Richard Nightingale of Nanairao, who
was workbag uxider the bridge at the
time of the accident, was instantly
killed, being pinned down in slaallow
water with a heavy car. Hugh Grant,
wireman, had his leg broken and was
otherwise badly injured. Three pas-
sengers from Victoria—T. Grant, Miss
Horne and. Miss Grie,vee—were serions-
ly injured.
The accident is the most terrible 4 -
its kind ever experienced en the island&
Jiunes Dunsmuir, President of there 1
road, with a relief party le,ft by spe-
cial steamer for the scene of the dis-
aster.
Commanding General, Department of
Santiago de Cuba : •
Replying to your message for in-
structions the President directs that
you be informed that, the United States
is responsible for peace, and must main-
tain order in the territory sur-
rendered, and in your department, and
must protect all persens and their pro-
perty within said. jurisdetlion. Inter-
ference tenni any quarter will not be
permitted. The Cuban insurgents
should. be treated justly and liberally,
but they, with all others, _must recog-
nize the military occupation and au-
thority of the United States and the
cessation of hostilities proclaimed by
this Government:, You should see the
insurgent leaders and so advise them.
By order of the Secretary of War.
Signed, II. C. CORBIN,
Adjutant -General.
lars. •
. toed Mints is 'net a Military min
onty.„ Ile. takes a deep interest in
other' , affairs; and especiallyin agri
culture and 'stock raising.'
, I -le is one
ot the strongest supporters of the bor-
der agrieultetral societeee, and has con-
tributed teeny vaittableeprieeti towards
battering the conclitieme of the fe,r311,
uig 00/11/1111nity, Ile owns'AVO of the
hiegeSt' ' and most highly improved
farina in the' hoicieria.nd, and' is a
regelar arid Sue60882a1 exhibitor at
the shows. From his boyhood day& his
Lordship has been an ardent lover ot
ermine and eifletiori. Soon attet re -
bit degree' el Catebridge. he
became known as atiaceomplislied
LI HUNG'S DISMISSAL.
An Unconfirmed 1scport fiays Iltritatn. Ita
Demandeal it.
A despatch from London, says :—The
Foreign Office, it is reported here,
though the report as yet lacks con-
firmation, intends to demand that the
Chinese Governraient dismise Prince Li
Hung Chang feel:it poever on the
ground that he is responsible for the
The Foreign Office, it is also as -
recent ,anti-British attitude of •the
Tsung-li-Yeenen. ,
seined, has had under special, consid-
eration the question of seizing the
Taku foals on the Gulf of Pechin, at
the mouth or the Pekin river, and the
city of Tien-Tsin, tbe port of Pekin, in
the event, or China, refusing to eomply
with this deneand, holding all until
compliance is essured.
BURNING OF THE DEAD.
,
Task an'Awrul One and impossible .to -G(V
Men to Undertane It.
A despatch from Santiago says :—T
bodies of the dead Spaniarde continue
to be oremated. Over 700 have been
burned so far. Tuesday afternoon 71)
were to have been burned. Over tw
rails a, dozen bodies were stretc,hed,
aceoss them another dozen, and then
about thirty corpses are stacked in an
immense funeral pile, ten feet high.
The pile is then saturated. with keroe
• StiMIVIER REVOLITTIONS.
Hote doth the inery biking girl,
1:neproire each Shining minute,
As her tleitity feet the pedals whirl
For everything thaters in
• PRETTY WELL TYP.
sene, and. the torch applied. • A fall of
rain put out the fire, , causing the
bodies to be only half burned. -Around
the pile ley 22 coffins, containing corps-
es in a state of decomposition. Severat
naked bodies were strewn upon the
ground. in a stale of putrefication. Al-
together about seventy unburied and
unconeumed bodies , lay around. The
stenth Was terrible. This happened at
a cemetery within the city limits. Three,
authorities and the cemetery (Alicia
say it is impossible to get men to w
at the cremation. These 70 eorp
represent two days' dead from
Spanish came.
SPANISH BODIES CREMATED.
New arrevei, et fashionable resort—
Thisis about the height, of the season,
isn't it ••
MAO. Clerk—Yes, sir, gettin' mighty
°torte to the reef, Eroet 1 Show the
gentleMa,n to No, 999.
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•For rutanto Etta ehitateu,
Itt fat'
lid
giitaitra
Of
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?eika4:4?.' 1°11;10i,
Disease ItompaiNt in the Culian Camp anti
Mortality Great.
A despatch from Santiago de Cuba.
says :—The Spanish steamer Isle, de
Luzon, sailed Monday morning for
Spain, having on board 2,136 Spanish
soldiers. The Isla, de Panay will pro-
bably sail on Tuesday, and she will be
followed by the Satrustegui. Th
Montevideo arrived on 1VIonday mor
ing and will be loaded. at once. The
embarkation of the prisoners is being
puthed with great activity. This is
rendered imperative by their thorrible
condition. The inortelity is so greet
in the Spanish camp, wham disease i4
rampant, that no longer are the Lie
buried.. A funeral pile of 10 or •
1
bodies ie made, salueeted with kero
sone, and set fire to, cremating tlie
bodies in the open eir.
MOSQUITO BITE CAUSES DEATH.
Mary Conrad, of licriding, a Vtetilu �R
• Blood 'Poisoning. •
A deepen:1i from Reading, Pa., sayee
J-Satirrda,y night an ordinary house'
mosquito bit Mrs. Mary Conran, an
ageti woman) of al% city, on the left
erne above the elbow. Shortly" aftere
ward the meniber beerime teeei
swollen, and a pleyeitean pronoutte,
eierious caSe of blood. poison. In tent
of ca.reful treatraeut Mrs. Conrad dib
on Wedneedity.
S0111all114(4.
• Hetet and bee father end mot
Were dining in a hetel, /Ina Eden,
Was six years old, had never be
dined in a, public plaho.
The waiter WSS SO attentive and
teous that Ilelen's mother •said
he must be tipped at the end 0
meal. The word tipped wae one
had never heard used except
neetion With a dump-cett, du her It
wee premises. When they got up te
leave the' ailling-roota ehe said;
0 paps 1 papal te ou forgot to dun.1)
the waiter