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ravely h le Last 13attlie.
)e olsin of a Fourteen -Year -Old Buzler—The Boer Position
ou Mocl(ler River }las Been GreatlY Strengthened--Dis.
loyalty of the Colonists—Gen. Buller's Loss at Tugela
ght
despatch from. Pretoria, vie Lor-
ene°, Marques, ym-The following
aclvioes have been reteeived, from Mod -
der river regardieg the Magerstontein
battle: -
"Having reeved large reinforoe-
=elate, and his aralY having rested
sinoe Nov. 28, Lord. leeetlinen advanced
•egailist General Crone' a army, whioh
•0001ePied. a position on both sides a
•the raitway for many miles,
"The fighting opened with bevy
cannonading at 4 creilock in the morn,
Ing, Under ()over of which maesee ot
infentry advanced towardthe Boers
Theywere reeelved with a steady fire
which repolsed' the advance before th
English oane within measureble dis
u6e.
"Al seoond attack met the same fate,
elthough the hall
obarged bravely
egainan a hail of lefausert bullete.
"Abaut this time the men of the
Scaneliaavian corps, who had a grea
recoeta for reckless coura,g,e, °barged
• VOI.UNTEERING ENTHUSIASM.
deepateli from London, says -Te
War °Mee has issued the partioulars
ot the enrolment .of volunteers, The
mounted Infantry will be, named the
Thaportal Yeomanry,. The term of
enlistment will be a year, or not less
than the duration of the waa. The
peen will be drawn from the existing
yeomanry, into which others possess-
ing riding and shootingetualifleaflene
may be drafted for the' occasion. Each
man will provide his own horse, oloth.
Ina, saddlery, and aocountremerats, the
Government =eking a capitation
, grant therefore, and supplying arm,s
e and camp equipment. The pay will
- be at eavaley rates-
Ttegardiag the infantry, volunteer
corapaaies will be raised for attaeb-
meiat to each battalion of regulars
saring, la or ordered. to Soath Africa,
with a correepoading reserve come
t Paley at home. The terms of enlist-
, meat will, be the same es that of the
tinge were out ode o11 a seraabby koPie
Iti Is reported that they lost several
• killed and, wounded, and that many of
•them were ;made prisoners.
"In the afternoon all, the British re
serves were brou,ght into the attaok
which was delivered with sublim
courage. The plains north of Mad
ler river were black with the British
forties, who were deployed in the at
• tank. But no 'courage could( break th
13oers' defences, and late in the day tee
British retreated to aeodder river, leav
dead and dying.
"Tire Boers' losses were insignifi
mot, Exclusive of the Standioavians
18 were killed and 43 wounded.
"English prisoners say their killed
_and woanded numbered 2,000. TheY
aLso, say the Black Watela was out to
pietees."
This great news was rereeived her
with non,chalance.
A BUGLER'S HEROISM.
A deepen% from London, Thursday
wens :-Additional reports kr= Colen-
eo ecintinue to demonstrate the inter-
iority in range of the British axtil-
lery. The naval guns alone were able
to rea.eh: the enemy's trenobes.
• e.eabe Tines` coereemendent at Claieve-
ley says that the Boers have dammed
the river below Bridle drift, rendering
• It almost imaraseable The Dublin
leusiliers had four men drowaed while
attempting the passage. People who
• kaow the country consider the Boer
position to be the strongest possible.
• The Daily chronicle's correspondent
at Chieveley tells a story of the four-
teen -year-old bugler of the Dublin
Meddlers. Ho reeeived three woentis
in the ,chest and one in. the' Anne He
aelgjeretheattretesing sta-
tion unaide fateneply to the chaplain's
• guestion if he was suffering pain, the
• lad sald, "Only e stinging feeling in
ray hand,"
GREATLY STRENGTHENED.
IA. correspondent a the London Daily
News, telegraphing from Madder
river, last Saturday, says
"The Boer position, already formid-
a,ble on Dee. 11, has since been greatly
strengtlaened, extending for an area of
12 miles. It is entrenched ,according to
the raost modern methods throughout
its entire length; wire fenees have been
placed befote all the 'trent:hes at ev-
ery point ; guns have been got into
position, and therei is every evidence
that the Boers are well supplied with
annnuration. Only a powerful at-
tacking force can acme to make a suc-
cessful assault."
OPENLY EXPRESSED DISLOYALT
• A Cape Town despatch, dated Satue-
ay, says;
"Five hundred colonies of the Vic-
oria West district have perfected an
apparently anti-British organization
there and as individuals have openly
expeessed disloyalty, and have threat-
ened to attack the railroad station,
whicb is on the direct line between
Cape Town and De Aar- The Afrie
ander Bundites •at a meeting thine
seised a resolution asserting t at the
roope in the vicinity irritated) the
antlers danprously. The meeting
proclaimed its loyalty, but declared
the conduce of the troops forced the
people to use expressions and commie
acts whicsla were capable of be in -
,,s elieloyal,"
' KILLED, NUMBER 137.
,
A. despatch from Lond n sitys:-An
es .his num-
(Owlet report from Gene re3uller re-
ceived on Wednesday, pla
bel. of killed in the, batta of Tugela
river at 181. Buller's firs report said
• 1
'he had. lost 83 killed. •
Wednesday's despatch cis that the
naught Rangers suffered the heave
in the engagement, having 24 of -
s arid men kileeenai elle Dublin
•veg.\ ceeneeneat with 1 killed. The
e a. tteries, winch . la' I, d t
,e . , were Sa joe e o
particalarly neava tire, lost only 10
tiled. . .
J37 A FLANK MOVEIVeaaral.
e' le Buller is ordering the trines
w currying at Cape Town to proceeee
Durbaa to reinforce the Natal col-
. Absence, 01 neWs from him has
to the sarmise that he is tryiag
in Gen, White by a fienk move
-
t $7,500' F.ROM'ATEXI CO, .
t
A ,flespateh tram City' of lienxiera
ye; Tbe ettirecriptione etarted it
ie 1' elfish eolony here in behalf of
le' Wi lows on orphanri of British
idlers killed in the war in the Trees-
! hits already reached, the sum of
$5,000 leROM CHICAGO,
deimatela from Chicago, ea ye -
ler si e I, teeth all, of the J3ritiah-
Amerioon League of the Chicago 130ard
tor .Pre de, on 'Wednesday cabled $5,000
to the eleeirtenti of the Soldierse Relief
Commit t o In Loridote the moaelee o be
used or (he relief of the families, of
the Britieli montage killea la the Soutb ;
A.frieen war. •
yeomanry,
The volunteering enthusiesta con-
timaes everywhere, It is renearkably
strongdn Scotlan.d. A colonel in Ed-
inburgh says he (gruel icaata thousand
men out of that city in a week. Anfong
the 'prominent volunteers are the Earl
of Dudley and Lord Arthur Grosvenor,
eon of the Duke of Weaminater.
•The yeomanry are to wear neutral
tint cloth shooting jackets, not neces-
sarily uniform, felt hats, breeches, and
gaiters. All mast be goocl riders and
i:n'aaksmani
The Lord Mayor of London,: Mr.' Al-
erted; Newtoa, is raising and e'quiaping
a force of a thousana volunteers among
the city corps. The large city firms
are -contributing the necessary =taste
anee. Col. Sir Charles Howard Vin-
cent, commander of the Queen's West -
rams -tar Volunteers, has also offered
to raise a regiment of a thousand'
leaked marksmen.
GUNS BEING PREPARED.
There are being prepared at the
Woolwich arsenal, for shipment at
once, eight 5 -inch guns, on specially
designed. carriages. These guns are
adapted for the use of a flying col-
umn, in view of. facility of attack, pur-
suit, and retreat.. They are of long
range, and fire 50 -pound shrapnel or
lyddite shells, or common shells. The
arsenal is also furnisbing 18 more 5 -
heel" howitzers.
- QUEEN'S MESSAGE.
The Queen has sent a letter to Gen.
Lord Roberts, the newly -appointed
commander-in-chief of the British
forces in South Africa, warmly sym-
pathizing with him on the death of
his gallant son, and thanking him for
the great patriotism he has displayed
in putting aside his terrible private
grief in order to devote hirnmelf to the
aefairs of the nation.
THE FISH THAT FISHES.
Most reerdiar and interesting Denizen or
the Sc.
Most remarkable 01 strange fishes is
the angler fish, whose very name
seen= a paradox. Thefishing fish is
nevertheless a ren ity, and a stern one
to all that approach those awful, jaws
of his. With a body the color of mud.
he generally lies in the shadow of
some rook on the, bottom of the sea,
waiting motionless for the approach, of
his prey. • He is provided with an odd
i kind of fin jueee over the mouth, and
this is held out in front of him, to give
'warning of the coining of something
swallowed. One taken alive was ex-
perimented on and it was found that
if this projecting fin. was touched with
a stink, even though the stick dice not;
come near' the mouth, the jaw si olosect
convulsively. This shows that the
fin by some pi ovtsion oi nature, closes
the jaws as Soon its it is touched., The
mouth is tremendous, growing tot the
width of a root when the whole fish
is only 3 fee long. One of these
anglers was caught not long since and
though it was only 2e, inches long, a
fish 15 indite loag was found? sticking
in its throat. Tito angler is provided
with peculiar teeth set ire double or
treble row -s along the jaws, and at the
entrance of the throat Some of
these teeth are a fooL long. Ile is not
a pretty fishto look at, but he eittends
.strictly to business and will swallow
anything thai touthes bis warning fin,
whether it is meant for food or not.
All kinds of things have been found in
the stomachs ot anglers, from bits of
lead ana stone to Bahr almost as large
as the angler itself.This le without
doubt one of the most' peculiar and
interesting fish in thee whole ocean.
MOUNTED POLICE MISSING.
!three 'who Went Out Prom Damien to
feat -rat for Didmentesit Tra 61 ilinfortu
•Poti3tbiy Lost.
4. despateh from Seattle says t -Dur-
ing the latter part of last August,
CorPoral Skirving of the Northwest
Mounted Polite and two comrade
vstere sent old from ,Daivson. to soave',
for Ill-fated pariles on the Ettraonton
trail, Nothing has been heard from
the rescurers since, and fears are en-
Lertained for their safety,
CERTAIN.
Dashatvay-Now, if I Order any
clothes from you, I went to be sive
befetehand that you Won't dun nie,
want this understood, Caa yon sug-
gest may way io avoid this f
Tailor -Well, you rnight pay nite
depeeitt now, and the reit when they
are delivered
.44h:et:et.
flit NEWS IN 1
FOIL
THE VERY LATEST FRO
ALL THE WORLD OVER.
atatereating /tonne About Our OWla
• COlartareee Oreat Beitain, Oa United
• States, arid All Parts of etre Globe,
Candensed and Assorted fOr Haag
Reading,
'UNITED STATES.
The London water -works has had a
clear profit of $55,000 during the last
• yaar,
The National Cycle and Autorraobile
Coruna:ay has definitel' decided to toe
°ate in Hamilton.
• Philadelphia Qtakers are sending
food and clothing to the poor Doukho-
bore in the North-west.
Burglars cracked the safe in Thos.
Lawry & Sons', warehouse, Hamilton,
and carried off about e270.
Frederick Schaet, a prosperous Ger-
man settler of the Edmonton district,
coramitted suicide by hanging.
Two Claneseeofficials are at 744-
n:raver to look into the condition of
the Celestials in British Columbia.
Tottenham ratepayers have carried
the by-law 'to make a loan to the pro-
raoters of the furniture factory there.
Tete Perman-Littaehales Chemical Co.
with $50,000 capital, has been incorpor-
ated, the headquarters of the concern
being in Hamilton, and the works in
Syracuse, N.Y.
After sustaining the struggle for
seven months, the London, Ont.,
Trades and Labor Council has declare
wc
edaytheo. stortc
ike against the Street Rail -
Private Ayling is reported. to have
disappeared from Wolseley Barra.cks,
London, with $150 of the canteen
fuhd.s belonging to -privates and non-
commissioned officers.
'The Government has commuted the
death sentence passed on Paul Sa-
bourin, an Indian, sentenced to be
banged at Edmonton, Deo. 22nd, for
the murder of his sister-in-law.
Liquidators of the Commercial. Bank
of Manitoba, have issued checks to
shareholders for a third dividend,
making a total elf $156 per share re-
turned to the shareholders to date.
It is annouaced at Montreal that
there will be a general advance in
the official classification rates for
general freiglat traffic on the Ameri-
can railways at the beginning of the
year.
The C. P. R., traffic through Owen
Strand this season has shown a tre-
mendous development. The tonnage
of the westbound merchandise will be
double that oe last year, and, the down
flour and grain traffic has also largely
increased.
Mr. E. F. Hutchings, of Winnipeg,
has received an inquiry form the War
Office asking him for the price at
which he could. make one thousand
saddles and bridles, to be delivered at
Southampton, England, within a ewe.
tain date. .
Two memoers of tha McLaughlin
Carriage Co., Oshawa, were in Ganan-
ogue, looking over the plane of the de-
funct Thousand, Island Carriage Co.
The Gananoque Council is offering in-
ducements to the licleaughlins to es-
ta.blish there,
Some alaem is felt over the mysteri-
ous disappearance of a young Eng -
Rahman named. A. F. Downing, who
arrived in Winnipeg on. the 28th of
November, and has since been miss-
ing.
Mr. Lotlaair Reinhardt of the brew-
ing fir rct of Reinhardt & Co., Toronto,
is in Montreal, looking for a site on
which to establtsh a branch brewery,
for which a $100,000 plant will be in-
ate,Iled.
• A number of actions for damages
have been entered by members of "The
Sign of the Cross" Companyand other
passengers of the wrecked steamer
Scotsman, against the. Dominion Line
Company.
Edward Perkins, tenant, and Mrs.
James Maine, proprietress of the ill-
fated Webster Hotel, at Montreal, have
been acquitted of tae charge of man-
slaughter in connection with the de-
struction of the hotel by fire. .
Capt. Spain commanding the Can-
adian fisheries protection service, has
returned to Ottawa for the winter.
He states that little trouble was ex-
perienced from the United States fish-
ermen this year. Only one cruiser,
the Curlew, is now out.
It is announced that 80 per cent. of
the itnatorts into the Yukon this year
was Canadian produce. The season
practically closed on Deo. ist, and
at that time Victoria had shipped
goods to the value of 02,079,000, as com-
pared with $1,586,000 last year, and
853,000 in 1897.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The liabilities of the bankrupt Earl
of Yarmouth, are re.ported to be erne'',
The Duke of Westminster is some-
what seriou.sly ill with laryngitisat
the Earl of Shaftesbury's country seat
in Dorsethire.
The total wheat yield in Great Bri-
tain for 1899 is estimated at 65,529,3i5
bushels, as corapared with '73,028,656
bushels east year. r
The new Cunard Liner Saxonia was
launched in the Clyde, and the new
Hamburg -American' Liner, Potsdam,
was launched at Hamburg.
UNITED STATES,
An anti-trust meeting will be heed
in Chicago February 12,
The John E. Squire Co, of Boston,
hap failed for e8,000,000; assete 45,000,-
000.
!A scheme is on foot to consolidate
all the heat, light' power and. arena -
porta tion properties in New York.'
Chrietopher Columbus Beekman, a
miser, is dead at hie horao in Franklin
Peak, N. T. leaving+ an estate worth
$560,000.
• A bomb eagaodect in a theatre at
Murcia, capital of the Spanish pro-
vince of that amnia during a peafterm-
come. No one was killed, Tee build-
ing was, destroyed.
.Philitelelphia, firm is negotiating
With the Russian Goverameteti lot the
ear:strut:Lion of a large locomotive
Manutfaaory on the Siberian ;Ley, and
els° to build a steel foundry foe the
rannueeeture of rails.
Dr, Oliver T. Osberee, a profeasoa
T E R
in Yale Unigareity, is obarged with
aulawaal eteinterilient of a betty, 'The
doe to r la 011 bali.'
Jahn Au,eleto Stevene ot Newpoit,
owrie a4fl5dajwjiiiii eontaiae a lock of
hat: clipped, tram the head of Waela
ingtou jest 1.00 yeare ago.
The campaign of the Mt:began State
Board of Reaah to have corisitrapiron
reeoaaized as a vontaelocis disease has
resulted, in failure,
Rea, Honey 11. Keleey, of New York
advocatee the velepping peet for drunk-
ards, and W. 4,, Pinkerton, date:dive,
wants it for highway robbers,
• The Republieen National Convention
to nominate a candidate far Prost-,
deni of the United States will be held
at Philadelphia on June 19, next, ,
The War Department has arranged
to send a thousand recruits to Manila
to fill up the regiments whicai are
running short, i ; ;
Al new auger corapany, is being .1)1-
corporated, under the laws of Dela-
were, with a capital of 4100,000,000
to be a rival of the American Sugar
Refining Convexly.
a3ait Lake City despatch.es announce
the death of Emily Young. This makes
the seventeeuth death among the nine-
teen widows who survived the late
Brigham Young.
The Execartive Committee ref the
Brotherhood of Lecornbtive Engineers
has decided to select a site in Cleveland
for the permanent home of the bro-
t.colezetrle;304:00TchhGeEINat:RAanLd., building will
Newfoundland naval reserves at Con-
ception Bay, now numbering- 500, will
be in.creased to 1,009 men.
Yokohama advices say within, elew
days it is expected that Kobe will be
geciared free from trio plague,
Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of
the German Eraperor, has gone to
Bangkok to visit the .King at Siam.
The German Minister ol Finance,
Herr ,Von allquel, will resign. He has
lost the confidence of the Emperor
and the people.
• Ma Paris journal says that experi-
ments just finished show that soldiers
mounted on stilts can build telegraph
lines as quickly as cavalry. ,
The offient estimates of the wheat
area of New South Wales are 1,381,511
acres, with a probable yield' of 13,660,-
700 bushels, available surplus for ex-
port 90,000 tons.
It is offieially estimated that there
are 1,94000 tons of cargo rice this
year available for export from Bur-
mah, an increase of 17 per cent. over
last year.
Mine. Lacroix and her three ehild-
ren were found dead in their lodgings
in Paris. They were vera poor, and
lead killed theni-aelves by, Inhaling the
fames of charcoal.
• A STARTLING STATEMENT.
Premature Burials in the Proportion of
One to Two Hundred.
A despatch from New York, says
Members of the Academy of Medicine
were startled on Tuesday night by an
uncanny declaration made by Dr.
Henry 3. Garrigues. "Those wilt/ have
made a speeial study of the question
assert that out of every 200 coffins
put under ground in this! country' the
occupant of at least one of them is
simply in a lethargic state, and, is
buried alive." The pabinet raee to
discus the subject of premature
burial, and to witness the workings
of a graveyard life-saving appartaus
recently- invented by (Yount Michael
De Karnice Karnicki, Chamberlain to
the Emperor of Russia. Dr. Garrigues
asserted that decomposition of the -vit.;
al parts is the only irrefutable and re-
liable sign of death,
FRANCO-CHINESE WAR NEXT.
lialf a Dozen Frenchmen Wounded in a
Li vely swainish.
A despatch from Tacoma, Wn., says;
-Hong Kong mail advices state an-
other Franco -Chinese war is imminent
over the delimitation of French, "leas-
,
ed" ternary at Kiang -Chou bay, on
the Tonkin border. Marshal Su,
Mina's most famous general, and the
victor of the battle of Liang Shan in
the last Franco -Chinese war, was sent
to Kiang Chou bey with 3000 well -
drilled troops. • He bore special orders
from the Empress Dowager to uphold
the Chinese cause, and fight, if neces-
sary, without further orders from Pe-
kin. A skithaish between Chinese and
French troops followed his refused to
longer temporize over boundary nego-
tiations. Half a dozen Frenchmen
were wounded, and sixty Chinese. Mar-
shal Su is preparing for a big fight.
•'CELLULOID COMB EXPLODES.
Hrs. iirown Thrown! to the. Floor, Set
Afire and ila ily injured.
A. despatch from Cincinnati says
As well wear: an' explosive eartridge
,n your hair as a celluloid comb. Mrs.
Norah Brown, who lives in Colerine
street,wore one. Her husband had
beeninjured in the stockyards, and
she was cooking dainties for him.
She ,stooped low o'er an open grate
fire. Her 'comb -exeiceled with a °race
like that of a revolver, and she was
thrown to the flow' ten tea away. The
cellugold ignited, her hair and eye-
brows were burned off, and the car-
pets were set on fire.
• She will live, but her injuries are
serious. She narrowly escaped blind -
0088.
DUE TO EATING RAW MEATS.
cense er .nrevalence or Parasitical Ms
• en4191 aerniney.
,A despat eh from Bar lin, says t -Dr.
Leidy, of Philadelphia, who, under the
dieeetion of Professor Virchow, has
been investigating' clisetises caused by
animal paraeitea iri food, finds that
parasitical diseases are tar more, com-
mon here than in the United States,
Ile explains that, the prevalerme of
saoh desea,ses in Germany is date to the
popaler boa „or „eating. uncooked
mente. Iulcitiln throuah the preett-
fate eystioereet cellulose, whielt is in-
curable, is en eh' more frequent here
than in the TY ited States.
7'a
IABKETS OF THE WORLD
Prices of' Grate, Cattle, Chee3e, 8ze,
In the Leadleg Marts.
Toronto, Deo, 26,-Wheat-Oatside
markets were nosy, and ;local business
dropped into 4 dun eat again. Red ana
White Ontario 13 lii3Oted, at (15 to 67e,
aecordinis to nearness to the mill,
goose wheat at 74) to 70 1-2a, middle
freights, and 69 1-2e, north and west;
and spring, east, 6.5e, for export. Maui-
tobas easier ; Na. 1 hard, g.i.t., 77e; and
Toronto and west, 76e, asked; and
track, Midland and Owen Sowed, 73c.
Flour -Dull. Exporters were bidding
only §2.55 per bbl., fpr strongest roll-
er, in buyers' bap, middle freights.
They repeat cables easy.
Mill feed -Scarce. Bran le quoted at
12 to 012,50, and shorts at 414 to
$14.50 west. •
Corn -Dull. No. 2 American, yellow,
quoted at 41o, traok, Toronto; and mix-
ed at 40 1.-2c, Canadian cern dull at
39 1-2 to 40c, track, Toronto.
Peas -Unchanged, Car lots sold at
57e, north and west,' and at 58c, east.
Barley--Demiend quiet; par lots of
No. 2, middle freights, sold, at 384g, and
No. 1 was quoted at 40e.
Aye - Demand light Car lots, 490,
west, and 50c, eeet• e
Oats -Steady. -White oats, 25 1-20,
nortb, and west; 26e, middle freights;
end 2e 1e2e, east-
P:3uckwheat--Easy. Car lots, east, 490,
asked, and west, 48e, asked.
Oatmeal -Rolled oats, in bags, track.
Toronto, 03.25; and in wood, 43.86 per
Detroit. -Dee. 26, -Wheat -- Closed -
No. 1, white, leash, 70. 1-2c, No, 2 red,
cash and. December, '70 1-20;, May,
Chicago, Dec. 26,-A. slack demand
and small clearances at the seaboard
took the search met of wheat to -day,
May iclosing 240 under yesterday.
1-8. to 1-4e down, and oats 3-8c. lower.
Provisions ceased unchanged. New
York reported only ten boat loads tak-
en for export. Seaboard clearances, in
wheat and flour, were 46,000 bush;
primary receipts were 582,200 bush,
against 1,169,100 last year. 'Minnea-
polis and Deluth reported 353 cars,
compared witia 349 last week, and 918
a year ago. Local receipts were 75
cars, 82 of contract grade.
Chicago, Dec. 26.--F1axseed--C1osed--
North-West and South-West, 1.4.8 1-2;
December, $1e48 bed; May, a1.44. Du-
luth, to arrive, 01.38 1-2; cash, P.42
bid; December, $1.421 May, $1.43.
Minneapolis, Deo. 26. -Wheat -- In
store,. No. 1 Northern, 640; May, 66
1-2c; July, 067 7-8e; On track: -No.
hard., 66 1-4e; No. 1 Northern, 65c; No.
2 Northern, 63e. Flour and bran -Tine
changed.
Milwaukee, Deo. 26. -Wheat -No. 1
Nortberia, 66 1-2e; No. 2 Northern, 64
to 66c. Bye ---No. 1, 55 1-2c. Barley -
No. 2, 44e; santpee,1,361 to 43 1-2o?
atfalo, Dec. 26. -Spring wheat -
Very dull; No. 1 hard, spot, 76 1-4o;
No, 1 Northern, spot, 74 1-4c; No. a
Northern, 71 1-4o. Winter • wheat --
.Quiet ; No. 2 red, 71 1-2e; mixed, 71e:
No. 1. white, 70 1-2c asked, Corn -
Steady; No. 3 yellow, 35 3-4e; No. 4
yellow, 35 1-4e; No. 3 corn, 311-2 to
343-40; No. 4 corn, 34 1-4e. Oats -
Steady; No. 2 white, 28 3-1 to 29e; 'No. 8
white, 28 to 28 1-4c; No. 4 white, 27 1-2c;
No. 2 mixed, 26 8-4 to 27e; No. 8 mixed,
26 1-2e. Rye -No, 1, in store, 590; No.
2 do., 580. Flour -Firm.
Duluth, Dee. 26.--Wheat-No. 1 hard,
cash, 65 1-8c; No. 1 Northern, cash, 61
e -8c; December, 051-40; May, 68 1, -Bel
July, 69 1-80; No. 2 Northern., 81 5-8%
No. 3 spring, 58 1-8c.
Toledo, Dec. 26.--Wheat-Ne. 2, casb
and December, 69e; May, 73e. Corn
-No. 2 mixed, 31 1-2c. Oats -No. 2
mixed, 84e. Rye -No. 2 casb, 55c.
Oloverseed-Peime, cash, old, $4.95;
December, e5.70; March, 5.80. 011 -
Unchanged.
TRAGEDY IN. THE, YUKON.
Five People Caught in an ice Jan* and
Drowned.
A despatch from Vantrouver, In
says :-Advices from Dawson, dated
Dec. 14, recount a terrible tragedy
which took place near Ogilvie, by
which Mrs. J. Rumball, :Mrs. Dumbote
ton Henry Kelly, and. the two Mac-
Namara brothers, who had beea pas-
sengers on the wrecked stearner Strat-
ton. and hailing from Minneapolis,
were caught in an ice jara. Their boat
being small was crushed, and all per-
isbed.
Another tragedy is reported from
White Horse, where three -oleo named
T. Smith. Fred. Batty, and John Mc-
Intosh, were engaged. in salvaging the
cargo of the steam scow Linderman.
Being unexpeetedly struck by a heavy
swell, their bot filled nerd stink. The
men were not seen later the boat dis-
appeared, and it is supposed they were
carried under the ice.
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AUSTRALIAN WHEAT.
Crop TIMIS Tear Shows an Increaie of Fear
llflIJon itis4heis.
A. deepatel: from Sydney, N.S.W„
eays :-Official estimates are that this
year's wheat mate will show an in-
crease of e,374,184 blishels over 1898,
and that 90,000 tons will be available
ior export.
GENERAL SERVICE MEDALS.
.4.11 averiight le Not Forwarding the
l"ll.
A. despatch fiOttawa, says :-A
comenanteation was received irons the
War Office on Friday in reference to
the supply of ribbea for the general
servioe medal's. An oversight in not
eorevardina the ribbon has led to the
delay in the istue of the medals, but 1,-
122 yards of ribbon ate to be sent front
London to -morrow, so that in abeut
fortnight the loag exeeeted distribu-
tion oe madele will communed.
JOTTINGS ABOUT TEE IffAlit
rraas TIIAT WILL INTEREST
gYERYBODY AT TIIIS TIME,
Vie OM, on. Me =mien and Those on
Their Way to the Cape -All Britain
Loc/os 0 Deeds or Bravery,
dIr nhoae,s is very proad of hi$
Kimberley Light Horse, wenea Jae; has
provided with mounts. They are till
young colonials, whom buele ehootina
has made fine marksmen.
An army raan in Colonel Efore's Pro-
tectorate Regiment at NackIng says
that they get, as vahmteere, fie,
day and all found. • Colonel Hore's
regiment and Colonel Plumber's two
regemente form Colonel Braden -Pow-
ell a frontier field force, Nearly all
the men are old soldiers, and the rest
are some Jameson: raid troopers and
others who have been through the Ma-
tabele campaign.
British Ageing Greene, on his re-
turn from Pretoria to Londoo, said the
Boers had treated him with the great-
est respect, and courtesy. President
Kruger and he had parted in the most
kindly manner, and the President's
kindness to him awl Lady Greene had
been refleoted iri the conduct cri all
the Boers with whom they came la
contact Oh their way out of the :mune
try. He laughed at the starythat he
had be,en shot while crossing the
frontier.
13es1des the support of Lady Audrey
Buller and Lady Roberts, the Daily
Telegraph Shilling Fume receives the
approbation of the wile of the Corn -
pleader -in -Chief. Viscountess Wolse-
ley, in writing from Farm House,
Glynde, 1,ewes, forwards her contribu-
tion with math regret that "she can-
not send more to so good and patriotic
an object, as she is contributing to
other charities" with kindred aims.
Listen to the circus phrenologist on
Oorna Paul, "Mr. Kruger," says tbe pro-
fessor, "has a typical Boer head. The
lowei part of his forehead, is larger
than the upper. The religious region
of his head is large. He is well-meaning
and conscientious to the degree which
his race has attained. Phrenological-
ly we should say that the Transvaal
question is one of race, and race is
very mueh a matter of brain develop-
ment."
English residents on the Riviera
have subscribed a large sum for the
Mansion House fund.
Over 10,000 sets of military garments
are being turned out weekly at tha
Wbolwigh Clothing Depot.
At "Matron's" suggestion the South
Wales Miners' Federation has deter-
mined on a levy of 6d. per man to
assist the Patriotic Fund.
General Buller's old schoolmaster,
Mr. Penrose, is not surprised to see
him coming to the front, because "he
was always, in my opinion, an auda-
cious boy."
When Mr. Cecil Rhodes was under
examination by the House of Commons
Committee of Enquiry into the raid,
he. naively remarked that he had no
Mac De overthrowing President Kru-
ger in order to make way for Presi-
dent J. B. Robinson. The committee,
knowing that J. B. Robinson was Cecil
Rhodes' rival millionaire in South Af-
rica paid. due tribute of laughter.
• Bennett 13ar1eilgh, the London Tele-
graph correspondent in South Africa,
Is a native of Glasgow, and while
quite a boy he found hi sr way to Am-
• erica. at the beginning of the Civil
War, and joined the ranks of the Con-
federates. He rose to commission rank,
and was twicie. taken prisoner and.
condemned to death by the Federal,-
ists, but an both occasions contrived
to escape. His first experien'ee as a
war correspondent was as the repre-
sentative of the Central News in the
Gordon reitef expedition of 1884-5. He
had a whaleboat of his own in the
flotilla by means of which Lord Wolse-
ley conveyed his troops up the Nile,
but it was wreckedin the rapids above
Wady Haifa, and he narrowly escaped
drowning. Mr. Bo.rleigb afterwards
joened General Stewart's desert col-
umn and shared in the fighting all
the way to Metetaxricla, being twice
mentioned en despatohes. Since that
he has had marvellous adventures
duriing. the French campaign: in Made.
gascar, the Graeco-Turkish war, the
Italioao operations at Kassala, awl in
the. Atbara, na-Iiirman campaigns.
The Government sent an ilegege re:
finest to the Leeds barracks for spa/e,
ammanition, and in restponse some 94,-
800 rounds were forwarded to Wool..
wielt
Numbers , of people arreving at
Pietermaaitzburg from Ladyssmith
brought with them all sorts of relics
of the recent battlefields sueh as
pieces of the enemy's exploded shells.
Kruger drinks coefee, and "has not
eri exalted notion of those who indulge
in alcoholic stimulants." A gentleman
who was an official of Kruger's tells
a story that bears thts out; -On the
eve of the Jameson raid, which was
hourly expected to develop, be was de-
spatched tothe Kruger mansion aft: .
mideight to announce to the President
the report that the raiders were en
route, to Pretoria. He was permitted
to stand outside the door of his steep-
ing room and dleiver hismessage. The
gruff query comeback: "Well, Jae.veraet
they ruin with them?" I replied that
it was more than likely, whereupon
the interview wee eut shorb with the
growl from within. "Go back to bed;
tbey will not disturb us evhile, their
rum lees."
Of all the members of the Britten
go nos =awned egi SIM trogaena .xe
eptratritemo `041.810,1 5 ego? esaietto
ewe eaitisixoesa so alma aro 'entree age
ge eameoeuttoe crane eget eirearaseena
the late Acimetal the Ilon. Frences
Egerton, of St. George's Bin, Wey-
• bridge:' and Lady Louisa Egerton, sis-
ter ofthe priatent Duke of Davon-
shire. He was bera in 1869, and be-
• came a naval eedet in 1882, iniashate
mart in J8$4., sub-lientenant in 1888,
and lieuttaard in 1891, The last tveo
azicl a halt years were spent' by him
on the. China station es glIntery-
lieutenant Of the Powetettl,
• PROVED.
Yes; the Bible's all right ; all men
are hare.
What makes you think so
alive never yet aekea a geeel at
Mr -hot -tee wieether bit 'liked light or
eerie • =eat best, without heeng told
that had no prefevenee.
Dyspepsia
ccuarmrna:inthdl:rdea
• ey re
yield readily to Manley
Celery -Nerve Compound.
waWs
east, ileigitton, Ont., 1U8 -"
indigestion tors ona aro, ana
could gel cetrzryr.,Neueerivuenctlipotitroleord
m.atileyi
which cured me, and 1 caneet
speak (oo highly In itg
PATRIOTIC TRADESMEN.
In view of the war in the Transvarte
a London photographer announees hia
willingness to photograph sailors and
soldiers in nuiform free of caarge, and
to present a cabinet portratt to eveiv
one accepting tlie 'offer, while an in
atallexteneeplaa reurninheng anneunt
gives notice that it will suspend pae: ,
ro,ents for goods to all reserye )n�ij
°ailed' out, and that in the event
any rg its ouatomers being: killed dur
bag the war the oompany will foreg
the balance of the account and irialte
Present of the whole of the goods tie
the widow or children,
COTJLDN'T STAND PROSPERITY.
Littly Turkey -llama, where bail
papa gone? He seemed so happy bl
oause he was being fed so much and s
well taken care of.
Mrs. Turkey --Your aaps lost hie
bead, like many others who receive mei
expected attention.
Pilo, whether itching, blind Or
blooding, are relieved by one
application of'
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Dr. M. Berkman, Binghamton, N.Y.
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