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51 to 514c; NO, 2 Oaxaca 4,90; No.
do, 4.$1c, i3ae1ey, 07 to 70et Rye
No, 2. 701n.
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Prices of Grain Cattle de —+—.
In Trade centres. ONLY FOUR WERE LEFT.
ToroutoositSee. 81.-1Vlient—The do- Beare, Gained RoPje jot, Eu
nand for wheat Yam limited to -day, Were Driven Of.
Ad prices unollanged. White and red
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Winter quoted at 70Se middle freights A deepatch from London taws':
Lord Kitchener, in a despatcb teem
'and No 2 graaa° 08e micldlo Johaencalnins, sonde reports of sharp
aroight. lirenitobe wheat nrra; No.
1 hard saw at Roc all ran, Via sat,. fighting in the Orange River Oolony
Ma; No.1. Northera at 80c, and No. and Tranaaaai 1E3alanY'Tho
engag°
ments occurred at pointe widely
2 Naltnaralt811', all rail, Via Sal' apart. The casualties, so far a
Ma. Prices are lc, lower via. North
Bay. known, aggregate about 150, equally
divided; but, heavy British losees
Oatn—The market is quiet, with the total); of which have not yo
,pricea unchanged, There were oeles been reported, have occurred in th
,loeollY at Silac, but for export No. Traosvaal. In th! e last -mention&
2 axe quoted a 48e low freight, fighting, two hundred mounted in
Pomo—Tim market is taithanged, fantrY, in the neighbothood of Beg
with demand good, No. 2 (Noted at
85e middle freights, mid at 84c svest. inderni' Wel.° divid° into parties
and were eearching farms when they
Corn—The market la quiet, with wore !attacked by three hundrecl Boors
Pslees sasler• Clauesliall Yellow sold and forty armed natives, under Com-
. at Oile west. mandant Britz. The I3oers charged
Ilarley---Market is steady. •No. 1 determinedly in overwhelming aim
quoted at 57e, and No. 2 58 to 54e; tiers. The British casualties were
No. 8 extra at 52e, and No, 8 at 510 severe, but no details have been re -
middle feeight, ceived.
Itye—The market is steady at 50 Lord Kitchener also reports that
to 5Cfac middle freights. s during General Do Wets attack os
Buokwheat--Market quiet, with pri- the British force commanded by Gen -
000 steady at 051e middle freight. orals Dartnell and Campbell, at
Flour—The market is steady. Nine- Lengberg, the Boors charged bra.voly
ty per cents. in buyers' bags, quoted and
at $2.90 middle freights. Locally FOUGHT DESPERATELY
and for Lowe; Province trade choice for several hours, De Wet was drly.
straight rollers in wood, are $8.80 td
en off with a. loss of twenty men.
a3.440, alanitobefLours steady, with
There were twelve casualties on the
Hungarians $4.10 to $4.80, and
side of tho British.
strong bakers', et $8.80, Toronto DI. Botha, with." eight hundred
-freight. Boers, surprised Colonel Damara's
Oatoneal—Market unchanged. Car oalvance guard at Tarfel Kop, Orange
lots on track, $5.35 In bags, and River Cola ny. The Boers rushed a
$5.50 in wood. Broken lots, 25c per kopje conumusding the main body
bbl extra. and the guns, but Da.mant rallied
1,11111c4x1-13ran very scarce, and pri- his men and drove the Boers from
•Ces Ann at $19 to $19.50. Shorts, the kopjo. The British casualties
$21 to $22 outside. Manitoba bran, were heavy. Dement was daugerous-
.520, and shorts, $22, Toronto
freigitta, Including sacks.
PRODUOE.
Isotatoos—The market is steady.
Oiu,s are quoted at 70o per bag, on
track Imre, and tho jobbing price,
1350.
I.tried Apples—Market is steady,
with demand slow. Prices aro 41 to
50 per lb. Evaporated sell at 9 to
10c.
Hopa—Business quiet, with prices
steady at 13c; yearlings, 80.
Honey—The market ie unchanged at
10 to 1040 for strained. Combs,
$1.50 to P.50 per doz. '
Beans—aim market is steady; un-
picked aro jobbing at $1.40 to
and handpicked at $1.55 to $1.60.
Crauberries — Market =changed,
with Cape Cod at 58 to P' per bbl.
Canadian, 56-10 to K. .
Hay, baled—The znarket. is firm, below the Boers, and fought until
with good: demand. Timothy sold at all but four of thorn wore killed or
.9.50 to $10 on track for No, l., and wounded. By that time reinforce -
at $8.50 to 59 for No, 2.
• Straw --The market is .quiet and
fain. Car lots on track sold at 50.
Poultry --Market is firm, with good
.dernsaid. Turkeys, 9 to lec per 113:
frozen, scalded and hatafettecl stock
sold front 7 to 8e. Geese—Dry pick-
ed, G to 7c. Ducks -50 to 750.
Chirikeua, young, 5u to 55c; old, 8.
to ealos Rabbits, 25c per pair,
TIIR D.A.IRY MA.RICETS.
Ilulter—The market is quiet, with
prices unchanged. The supply of
Poor stag is too liberal, • and Sales
aro dlincult to mako. We quote:—
Selected dairy 'tubs, 10 to 17c;
choice largo rolls, 104- to 17c; fittest
1 -lb rolls, 18 to 120; packages show-
ing feed, 1 to •2c loss than above
ly wounded, two officers and tw, nty
mea were killed, and three officers
tied several men were. wounded.
The Boors left six dead on the field
and dispersed. Tho British pursued
the enemy and captured a number of
prisoners, ilicluding Commandant
Rosner. Later, the Boers, matter a
flag of truce, asked permission to,re-
move their dead. They admitted
having buried twenty-seven mon.
FOUGHT TO THE MEATH.
In the fight at Tarte' Kea the
Boers, dressed as British Yeomanry,
engaged in a splendid vac° with the
British in an attempt to be first in
gaining tho kopje. The Boers gained
the summit first, and opened a hea-
vy fire on the single troop of Da-
mant's Horse which took part in the
race for the kopje. These troopers
took advantage of all the small am-
ount of cover available immediately
merits of Ihunant'e Horse came up
and charged and captured the kopjo.
BOER SCOUTS.
Doing Excellent Work Capturing
Irreconcilables.
A despatch from Pretoria says:—
Tho burgher corps or National Scouts
raided Ls icum on Tuesday, capturmg
two Boers and is quantity of stock.
This Is a striking indication of how
tho enemy can bo roducocl by a small
but alert mobilo face without trans-
port.
Among the burghers in camp a
number aro offering themselves for
service in the field against the irre-
concilables, who they consider aro
uotatoons; creamery prints, 21 to proving themselves to be emenlieS of
st
22c; solids, 11.1S to 21c, the country.
Egg -'Tho market is firmer, with
recelpta light. !strictly /rush scarce,
selling at 25 to 213c; cold storage,
.19 to 20c, as to quality; limed, 17
to 180.
Cheese—Mnalcot firm. Wo quote:—
Finest Septembers, 104- to 11c; se-
conds, 94. to lite.
'HOGS AND PROVISIONS.
Decesed hogs -unchanged at 58 sin
car lots, with otterings fair, Hog
producas steady. Wo amote:—Bacon,
long clear, sells at 104--o in ton and
. ease lots; mess pork, $20 to 520.50;
.do, short out, 521.50 to 522,
Smoked meats—Hrous,lec; • break: -
Lust bacon, 110; rolls, 110; backs,
14c, and shoulders, 101c.
Lard—Market is unchmaged, with
fair demand. Wo quote:—Tierces,
am tubs, 114c; palls, 11Sc to
BUSSNESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, bec. 3L, — Grain—New
+stop No. 2 oats, locally at 4t3c; No.
2 barley, ritia to 57e; No. 3 extra
beeley, 080; buckwheat, 58o east;
freight; • peas, tine, high freight.
leloura-elanitoba patontS, 51.10, *Co
51.20; strong beicersa $51 straight
58.45 to 53,00; in bags,
5t.70 to 51.80; Ontario patents,
58.70 to 51. Feed--Matnitnba bran,
520 los 521s shorts, $22 16 528, bags
Included; Ontario bran itt bulk,
500.50 to 521.50; shorts, in bulk,
522.50 to 520.50. :Rolled ottts-1211-
ars' prices Lo jobbers, 52.75 in bags,
and 55.50 to 55.05 par bhl. Cheese --
Ontario Septembers tied Octobers, 10
to 1040; Eastern counties, 0 to 10m.
tatebeo, Buttor—Oholeo cream-
ery, cureent receipts 20Ses s000stes,
10 to 1.91c; \reeler:1 delay, 10 to
104e; rolls, lOn. EggsaaSolected
esno storage, 17c; Montreal limed, 17
to !Se; best selected candled, 22 to
14o. Provisions --Denary, Canada
awl, cut nark, 52:1.50; selected,
12.50; compound Yenned St to
pure, Unwell= lard, to 12Se;
st had, 12S to 18.10; hams, 111 to
• bacon, lilt to 150, roult.r4y—
eYsa fresh killed, 10e; froeon, le
e ducks, tic Co Pc; geese, 5 tit
deltene, 0 .to 71; old fowle,
per lb foe dry -picked bieda, and
1 stock front 1. to 2e less.
PALO al RAIN IStA
, Deo nt mour non,
wing easier; NO. 1 Northeatt,
Ler, No. 5 red, 004- to 010.
or; No. 2 yellow, Ilac to
'I do,, 71m NO., 2 corn,
Nino burghers have left Brugsprult
to take the oath of allegiance to
Great Britain.,
Gen, Cold Mackenzie has captured
seven, Doors cit Schaal; Kraal. •
Major Jennings Bramley, the now'
Collimander of the Second • Scottiah
liorse, was killed December 20.
Lieut Dow, of tlin same reghnont was
also killed.
The formation or a new burgher
corps. to be" known as "National
Scouts," has aroused great interest
among tho surrenclorea ourghers.
view of the numerous meetings and
applications, Gen. Kitchener has au-
thorized tho creation of a fresh wing
to operate in the ,Northern aral least -
ern Transvaal, under promMent 13m
leaders, elected by the burghers them-
selves.
It is stated that much of tho recent
success of the British is due to the
co-operation of Collier's and Oronjo's
conunands, acting under General
Bruce lIamiltou.
BOY SHOOTS HIS FATHER,
To Protect His Mother From 8e-
ing Killed.
A despatch from. Brazil, Ind., says:
—In defending hts mother from an
118'-
au1I by hee driulacrazed husband,
"Theodore Watkins, 13 years old,
shot and killed Ids fathots Itichard
Watkins, on Wednesday, at their
home .bore, Richard Watadas caine
home and began abusing his family,
Ile said that he W115 gOillg to MR his
wife and attempted to slink° her on
the head with a hatchet. Theodore
shot his father with a revolver, and
surrendered. Miasmal to tho police,
The boy says let shot his father to
keep hint from his mother: TTe
insisted that he was justified itt the
shooting.
REFI3RRED TO THE KING.
chni and .Argentina Agree to
Leasee Dispute to Hint,
A despatch front Washington says:
--Tito Matto Department bas beets in -
teemed by 11, 5. Minister Wilson,of
Settlings, do 01111, that the differ -
theca between Argentina, end. Chili
may bo regarded as settled through
the Signing on Wochiesday of a, proto-
col proVidleg Toe the submiaelon of
the boendaay litto eoul tho Ultima
It'speranea territory disputee to the
decision of the Kieg of Greet Brits
PRUNE OF 10114E3' ADVICE
WHAT PLE SAID AT TPPE GUILD"
HALL BANQUET.
Send Only the Beet Emigrants to
the Coloniee,—The Tder Re-
viewed,
"rho PrInce or Walesa In his net -
able speech at the- Guildhall ban-
quon saki, emong other tbings, tics
cording te the report give0 in the
London Daily Mall :-- • •
Sere, in tbe capitel of our greet
Empire, 1 would repeat bow pro-
fouladly touched and gratified both
the Princess and 1 have been by the
loyalty, affection and the enthusiasm
which invariably characterized the
welcome extended to es tb.roughout
our long and =minable tour, It
may interest you to know that we
travelled over 45,0u0 miles, 38 000
et which were 'by elm, and 1 think it
Is a matter of which all tiny feel
proud that, with the exception of
Port SEW, wo paver set foot on raw
land whore the Union Jack did net
wave.
Leaving England in •the middle ef
Marcia wo first touched at Gibraltar
and Malta, where, as a sailor, I was
proud ‘to moot
OUR TWO CREA.T FLEETS.
of tho Chaneel and the Mealterrartean.
Passing throne the Suez canal, a
monument to the geniusand courage
of a gifted son of the great friendly
nation across the Channela we en-
tered at Aden, • the gatowa.y of the
East.. Wo stayed for a short time
to enjoy the unrivalled scenery of
Ceylon whore we witnessed a gor-
geous display by native races, and
saw M what happy contentment its
various peoples lived and prospered
under British rule.
Perhaps there was somothin,g still
more striking in tho fact that the
government, commerce and every
form bf enterprise in this country
was under the leedership and dirge -
tion of but a heassi&I of our fellow-
counti:ymena and wo realized. tho high
qualities ofthe mon who have won
and kopt for us that splendid pos
session.
Australia saw the consummation of
the great missionaavhich was the
most, immediate object of our jour -
ray, and you can imagine the Joel-
ings of pride with which I presided
over the inauguration of the first
representative assembly of the now -
born Australian Commonwealth, in
whose hands aro placed the destinies
of that great ieland-continent.
A TRIBUTE TO CANADA.
After speaking of their visit to
Mauritius, New Zealand, Tasmania,
Natal and Cape Colony, the Prince
said :—To Canada was also borne
tho message already conveyed to
Australia and New Zealand of the
Motherland's love and appreciation
of the services rendered by her gal-
lant sons.
In tile 'journey from ocean to 00011/1
marvellous for its con:fort and or
ganization, wo were able to soo some-
thing of "its matchless scenery, th
richness of its soil, and the bound-
less possibilities of its 'vast. and ex
traordinary fertile territories. \Vo
saw also tho success which has
crowned the efforts to weld into one
community the people oS two groat
races.
Our anal halting place was, by the
express desire of the King, New-
foundland, the oldest of our colonies
and tho first visited by Ills Majesty
in 1850. Tho hard, seafaring popu-
lation of these islands gave us a re-
ception, the cordiality of which is
still fresh in 0110 memories.
LOYALTY, STRENGTH AND
t
If I werek
asrY
e:ItTospecify any par-
ticular impressions derived from our
journey, 1 should =hesitatingly
place before ally others that of loy-
alty to the Crown and attachment to
the Old Country. It was indeed
touching to her the invariable re-
ferences to "home," oven from the
lips of those who never had been, nor
were ewer likely to be, • in those iss
lands. 'Thisloyalty was .unmistak-
able evidence of thin consciousness of
strength, eonSeiousneSs of unity and
living membership In tho empire, and
the consciousness of power and media
noss to share the burdens and tho
responsibilities of that membership.
Wore I to seek for the causes width
have created and fostered this spirit
I should venture to attribute it in a
vory largo degree to tho life and ex -
envie of our late beloved Soteroign.
It would be difficult to exaggerate
the signs of general sorrow for her
loss and of love for hor memory
whieh we found amoug alt rem In
thrinost remota distelete which we
visited, Besides title, nuty It not
also bo largely attributed to the
wise and just policy which during the
last half century has beets con-
tinuously maintaitted towards our
colonies
No
one who had tho privilege of
enjoying the experience which We had
ring Mir tout' could fail to bo
reek with one all -prevailing and
*easing demancl—the wroit of popti-
Item Even in tho oldest of our
lollies there were abundant signs of
Is waist, There are great trade of
tuttry yot unexplored, hidden
lobilt co.Illag for development, vnst,
AID FROM THE COLONIES.
As the result, of the happy relations
thus created berweett the Mother
Country and the colonies, wo have
Seen a splendid rally round the old
(lag in the defence of the notices
honge. I have emple opportunity of
forming some estimate of the mint-
tu•y strength of Australia, Now Zea-
land and Canada, Intving had the
pleasure of reviewing uptenrds of
60,000 troops. Abundant nal excel-
lent materiel M there available, re-
quiring only that moulding into
shape which cat; be readily effected
by capable and experienced officers.
To the distinguished represent/a
(Ayes of the con:anemia haerests of
the empire whom I have the pleasure
of meeting hero to -day, I venture to
allude to the impression which eeem-
eel generally to prevail among our
brethren iscress the seas—that the
Old Country must wake up if the na
tends to meiatein her old position of
pre-eminence in colonial trade
against foreign Competition,
NEED ate' POPULATION
expos:owl if virgin 0°11 ready to yiel
profitable returns to eettlers, and al
thia can bp °Alloyed ender eonditien
of healthy life, liberai laws and free
!MAR.:Aloes; in exchange fer the over-
crowdeti eitie0 and ainsost hopelee
struggle for exhiteness .which, allte
too often is the lot el Many in th
Old Country,
Bet one condition, Mut oee Only, I
made by our colsmial brethren, au
that le "Send us suitable emigrants.
I would go further, end appeel t
any fellOw-eountrymen et home 1
Prove the strength of tho attaclunen
of the Motherland to her children b
Sending to them only of her best
By this mane we may atill rurtisel
strengthen, or, at all events, pass on
uninMaired, that pride of race, tba
eonunualty 01 sentiment and Purpose
that feeling of conmesa loyalty and
obligation which keit 'togothor and
alone elm maintain the integrity o
our Empire. '
DE WET RUSHES 'CAMP.
Takes Revenge for Recent British
Succe,sses,
cle.spatelt from London says:—
Gen. Do Wet has taken revenge for
tho recent successes of the Dritish in
rushing layers at night, and has
captured a British camp in the east-
ern part of the Orange River Colony
by the use of ta.ctice $1141110r to those
employed by the Biatish. 'rho scene
of the reverse is within Imo of the
ereas of the Boors' main resistance,
whore Gm. Do Wet has frequently
foiled tho BrIti.sh commanders. The
follosving likei despatch from Kitch-
ener tells all that is at present
known of the affairs -
"Bundle reports that 'Col. leirman's
camp at Zoolontein was successfully
rushed on tho night of December 26
by a considerable force of 130001 un-
der De Wet. 1 foitr the casealtles wero
heavy. Finnan's column consisted
of the 84111, 301.11, 86t8. and 58rd
Companies of • Imperial Yeomanry,
'ono -gun of the 7911t battery, and ono
pom-pom. 'they were guarding the
head of the blockhouse line from
Harrismith to Betitlehein. TIM First
and Second Imperial Light Horse
have gone in pursuit of the Doers."
Boer resistance has altva.ys been
very strong in that part of the Or-
ange River Colony which W5S the
scents of Gcn. Do Web's Christmas
coup. A great quadrangle of block-
houses is being built there, the four
points of which aro Vereeniging,
Volksrust, Harrisauth and Ramon-
stadt. At the southeast corner' of
the quadrangle is a long open space
from Bethlehem to Lindley, where
the square of blockhouses is still in-
complete, and here Do Wet made his
a.Ltack. Col- Firman -s force proba-
bly amounted to 400 mon, and tho
disaster, especially the loss of the
guns, the possession of which mo.y
enable Do Wet successfully to at-
tack athe blockhouses; croates•o, dis-
turbing impression.
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NEW MICROBE IN CANCERS
A Discovery That Kay Lead to a
Cure.
A despatch. from. Paris says:—Dr.
Doyen, a leading surgeon, has an-
nounced 10 a. lecture that ho observ-
et in cancerous tumors a, now mic-
robe) which he calls micrococcus mo-
torise:ass. Dr. Doyen as long ago as
1887 noticed in 05.11e000US 401005 cer-
tain diplococci and small chains that
wort; with difficulty distinguished
from cellular granuletion.s. 'When
examined at the ono of two or throe
months ho found those as active as
when in the tumor.
lexperinuntIng svith the new rale -
robe, Dr. Doyen found that he was
able to reproduce cancer, Later by
subcutaneous Injection of a steriltzed
solution of toxines derived from the
now microbe he succeeded in repro-
ducing in canceroas patients a reac-
tion resembling the enacts prod.:moil
in tuberculosis subjects '• by Prof.
Kocles tubereulosane, that is, tending
to prevent a return of tho cancerous
tri°)/7.t.DILoyen dOeS not assert Viet his
experiments aro conetusive, but says
that the results of trials earned on
for six months has been most satis-
factory. Ile proposes to continuo
Itis experiments,
4.
WOMEN FARMERS.
The Russian Gosornment Will Ed-
• unite Theal:
A de.spatth from St. Isetersburge
seys:—Long continue(1 agitation has
induced. the Government to authorize
the Moscow Polytechine efasettin to
open a course in agriculture Me wo-
men. This stop is vegetated as a vic-
tory for women in their strygle for
higher scientific education. It has
been won largely by the capacity wo-
men have 5110011 in the medicel pro-
fession and in cortnin departments of
ofilcialciona. especially as fzunine in-
spectors.
'rho frequent; anilines of the last fif-
teen years have impressed tho Gov-
ernment with tho necessity for rais-
Mg the national standard of agricul-
ture. Tho number of Russian mon of
fairly high education is comparative-
ly small.
Agriculture lute no brilliant future
in store for .such as thou, and most
of thein naturally prefer other emu-
pations, alid in eansequenco the
laonc:-to.nient started to permit women
10
beets endorsed by the Govern -
to engage in • agricultbee has at
engt
4"
TO CHECK THE DISEASE.
C oinpuls ory Vaccination By-law
Passed in Montreal,
despatch from Montreal &spa—
Compulsory vaults/Woe will soon be
vaccinated in Montreal in ordor to
eta& the ravages of smallpox. At a.
meeting of the Olty Cloancil this el-
ternoon a by -lase Was ittrodueed pro-
viding for the compulsory vaechuts
Lion of all employee of shops and
reetories, under' the penalty of a fine
and iMprisonetent:
SULTAN NEARING RIS ENT)
PRANCE AND RUSSIA INTENT]
• TO FORCE REFORMS,
Conditione 511 Armenia and Mac
Ostia Are Regarded as a
Menace to Peace.
There aro Inereatileg signs that t
great powers or Europe are eanco
tnating elefleite piens for action
Wards Turkey.
Early this week the Ruselan A
bassador in Constantinople Inform
Said Pashe, the new Grand Vizie
that the condition of Anneala a
Macedonia was regarded by Euro
as a disgrace to the Ottoman Go
(ailment and peril to universal peas
Thio significant announcement, w
foliowod almost immediately by
Presentation of notes by all the Am
baesadors with reference to the a
azing attitude adopted by the Por
in the matter of the mining regul
tiona.
UNDERSTANDING IS SOUGHT.
Franco and Russia are the leaders
in this latest attempt to set the Eu-
ropean steam roller in motion to
make smooth the rough places of
Turkey. What they are trying to
reach is the basis of "an understand-
ing for making representationa to
the Porto and for eventuany taking
action in order to oblige the Sultan
not only to carry out the clauses of
the Treaty ol Berlin relating to both
Macedonia and Armenia, but togiv°
gue,rantees'for the execution of these
and further reforxns and for the seta
tlement of the numerous questiens
pending." So atm the terms of what
is undoubtedly a steml-ollicial com-
munication from Paris.
Russia, it its said. Is discussing the
question with Germany, the co-oper-
ation. of Austria-Hungary and Italy
can bo taken for granted, and there
is no doubt that Lord Lansdowne,
the British Foreign Secretary, will
combine in any genuineschenso to
effect the objects which Lord Salis-
bury vainly endeavored to obtain
some years ago.
NECESSITY Ole UNITY.
There has never been the least
question that the , powers could
speedily solve the problem of the
Near East if they would speak with
ano voice and were animated by one
fairly disinterested nsotivo. But
right hero is the hitch.
France stau•tled tho world by her
independent course et Mitylene. Pa
pors now assert in Paris that French
action was not more dramatic sins -
ply because the whole fabric of Ot-
toman administration is so rotten
!that a heavy blow might pulverize
it. If this be so, all the moro credit
is due to M. Delcasso for forbear-
ance. Tho Turkish flag waves over
many rnillions of human beings, and
the !terrors that would follow the
overthrow of tho .regiese or Abtfu
/Timid until such time as an cilia
ent substitute was ready can be
more easily imagined than described
What would be the .attiteds of the
Sultan should the Powers come to
an 'understanding that would leave
him no room to question their earn-
estness ? No ono can predict with
certainty the course of this most
remarkable and miserable of poten-
tates, butthe opinion in London is
that, so long as the dread word
"partition" remelned unspoken, Ab-
dul Hamici would offer nothing more
than a conventional opposition to
the demands of Europe.
He is getting on in years. By de-
grees ha has drawn into his own
hands all the threads of administra-
tion throughout his vast dominions.
The Sultan is one of the hardest
workers in the world, but no physi-
que is capable of indefinitely sustain-
ing the. strain 110 imposes on both
body and znind.
As a natural result intervals of ab-
solute Inertness overtake him, and
the accupulated work, which Ile will
allow no ono else to touch, has fall-
en appallingly into arrears.
• ALIENATES HIS SUBJECTS,
Moreover, Abdul Harold trusts ao
one. 1 -Te haa alienatedthe whole
alussulman population of the capital.
Individual freedoni no longer exists
in the capital, oven for the faithful.
Secret arrests and suddert disappear-
ances increase. Within a fortnight
seventy Turks, including several
prominent 1000, have been denounced
by Spies and banished to Arabia.
The troops aro unpaid. If an Arabi
appeared to -morrow the Yildiz would
be sacrificed.
All this la known and fully appreci-
ated by the Sultan, It all predispos-
es lain to yiolcl to the powers. The
question resolves . iteol( into ono of
eintapd, and tho plan which finds
most favor ansolig "tlitillal-....e.ittea
Turkish reforins is tho opening of
the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus
to all tho fleets of the world. Truly'
a simple remedy, but its very sim-
plicity is the most formidable obsta-
Ole to its adoption.
SPECIFIC FOR DYSENTERY.
Michigan Doctors Make Important
Discovery,
A despatch front Ann Arbor, Mich„
says: Goneval interost has both anne-
al in Lilo medical profession here by
reports of a discovery of unusual
imperial:1106'ot the Imeterlologicol In,.
boratory of the University of Micht- '
gen. It is stated that experiments
by Dr. Frederick Navy rad Professor
Paul 0, Freer, a chemist, luevo pro-
duced what is believed to bo en anti- c
cholera, typhoid fever and dykes-
elio,era, typhoid fevee and tlysen- s
tory. The preparation hro been tried
with ;oncost; in experiments on t
animals, previously inoculated with
irilostisnl 1115e11505, nnd during the
past week fivo mailed elanients have b
been undergoing a tourse of expert- s
month with the preparation. 11, is s
stated that they wove reethicteci to n.
Wet of sterilizell milk, antT that, s
mated theistical analysis during the
periodshowed the 'aloe destruction
of the intestinal poisons,
DEAN BY CifILLOTINE,
rBENar PnAsANT vailitD2in=D
Ms CHILDREN,
IsTie Only Surviving Daughter Pro-
tested ais Innocence and
Begged, for His Life,
After a Week's trial
which 1)a,5at1retted 1,110 4411110C/lbriOtlAregi
the whole of France, the fer-
nier of that Vicinity, who, April 21,
Murdered four of his deughters, aged
resPectivelY, 14, 11, 5, and 4, and
his 00a, 7 3,001'41 of age, stabbing
and beating them to death whine
they were in bed, was Sound minty
on Monday and was condemned to be
decapitated by the guillotine. Brien
persisted in declaring himself Mao -
cent, and defended himself with the
hanabti,thBaul teulithnotgirc0ufmstattr echvidpenceeas-
was overwhelming.
A pathetic incident of tbe trial oc-
curred when Tirlere's SUrviving little
daughter, who, the pollee declare,
, only escaped the fate of the other
'childrea by not roopoading to
Briere's invitation to go to see him
went on the witness stand sobbingly,
and protested that her father was In-
nocent, and bogged the court to re -
Ettore him to her.
AN EXTRAORDINARY JUDGE.
This is the first time a man has
bean tried in Prance for murdering
his Jive little oink/eon, begamiess
With the eldest, by suet:user/01y out -
ting their throats while sleeping, in
order, as the judge helmett prouiaiitus,
to marry his mistress, a wonem of
reputed wealth, who did not want to
wed a man with a madly. Breve,
the accused, is a hard-headed, reti-
cent peasant, the owner of a small
tarm near the piuturesque village of
Corancez. De emphatically dot:taxes
his innocence, statiug that he Is the
viction of the hatred of his towns-
folk, who, at the iustigation of an-
other peasant, one Lubin, the father
of the woman he wanted to marry—
the man whom be accuses -of being
the real murderer of SIM children
—concealed in his stable the Wood -
stained blade of a ptow with which
the crime wa.s comntitted, and placed
other bloodstaiuen objects on the
premises, thereby providing 10 chain
of circumstantial evidence.
The judge refused to allow the jur-
ors to examine the promises where
the crime was committed and con-
ducted the trial as il he wore a pro-
secuting attorney, working tooth and
nail to bring home to the accused
one of the most inhuman crimes
h ecittsrodn..
of since Mhis
Medea. of Colc
slaughtered the children the bore to
Jason.
This extraordinary judge, whose
method would under almost any oth-
er judicial procedure than that of
France furnish grounds for a. new
trial, broke fortit in angry expletives,
saying:—"This is how this =adorer
entered the room; this is the way he
cut his children's throats. If you
don't believe it, why I do; and that
is enough for you to convict him."
And again: "010 Ohl Your pretended
robbers only wounded you, and did
not kill you, Well, had I been in
their place, 1 would not have missed
kiittug you; you may feel sure of
that." Strange to say, the conduct
of ,the judge caused great delight
e.niong tho townsfolk of the accused,
and when counsel for tho defence ob-
jected to the ruling oath° bench and
observed that his client had a right
to express his indignation, and that
he wept each time nhat his dead
children wero spoken or; the audience
in the courtaroom begets to yell with
fm -y at the prisoner, shouting: "Kill
himb kill him!" and a, venerable,
mild-mannered gentleman with white
moustache called out: "Enought
enough! Let him be guillotined
right away!" Judge Belat smiled,
rang his bell, and finally restored or-
der, and the trial was continued in
the stuffy little court -house within a
stone's throw of Chatres Cathedral.
A GHASTLY SCIENE.
A brief visit to'- Chartres, which is
only two hours by rail from Paris,
showed ono of tho most gruesome
and tragic Pentanes of French crintias
al procodure,413riete, the peisoner ac-
cused of unu•dering his five children,
was led frosts the court -room and
stripped; in an anteroom they re-
clother him with all the garreents
which he wore when found lying help-
less in his farmyard tho day atter the
crime. The wretched man wile
brought., with tears in his eyes, be-
fore the bench in blouse, sltirt and
trousers all besmeared with dried (tad
crystallized blood, while Dr. Dudeloy
and other chemical experts raisod 111.1
arms, bared his sieuna,aond disclos-
ed his bloodstained undershirt. At
last the judge himself walked down
from the bench, got 011 WS knees be-
fore the prisoner, and began finger-
ing hins all over and poluting out to
the jury what stains wore, ie. Um
opinion of experts, those caused by
the blood of his dead childeen, and
those which were supposed to have
beon made by his own blood in des
fendieg 8101900 from his alleged as-
sassin.
,rho smile tvas so appalling that 1111
eminent Parisian dramatic critic re-
marked:—"Good heavens] this is too
frightful! 11 such a scene wero put
on the stage of the theatre no l'011/8"
an audience would stand 11,"
OIiAbbflltR Ole 11011100118.
To snake Matters still amee
lugu-
brbous, a large table otood in the
ourt-roona upouo which wore ille-
nayed as in a eliminate oi horrors of
pine dime inusount, the blade of a
plow, with which tho judge deolaree
Ile prisoner cat him childrea's
heoate, and the huge mallet with
vhielt ho is cheesed with bfiving
eaten out their brains, Both were
Mattered with blood and hair. Al -
o en the (Mile were bloodstained
decoa ef wrapping paper and caller
loge properties ot this ealraortlin-
ry crania
The oxpeet evitioneo, as 1100101 Wes
NEWS ITEM
Telegraphic Briefs From All
Over the Globe.
• CANADA.
A smelter le likely to be lecated at
Massey, Ont.
The Guelph Board of Trade favor,/
making the city marlsOt free.
Montreal hoe advanced the pay of
civic laborers from 51.25 to 51,50 a
day,
Daniel McPherson, miner, Was kil-
led by the cage its a shaft strikiog
him on the head, at Sydney, N.S. -
The manager of the Windsor Gas
Oompany has been Anect for euPPIY-
ing gas below the etendard power,
The number of convicts at Kings-
ton has daily become less until there
are noio only 497 in itS peniten-
tiary,
Dr. Finn, of Halifax, who has been
atteudIng smallpox patleats there,
has communicated the disease to his
wife.
• Peter Peterson, miner, was Proba-
bly fatally injured by an explosion of a
dynamite- at Gold Moose mine, at
Dryden, Man.
Brantford has been presented with
Agricultural Park for a public gar-
den by the executors of the late T.
Cockshutt's estate,
Dr. Lambert, the Manitoba Health
Cancer, blames public gatherings.
such as weddings and dances, rov
the spreading of smealleass,
GREA.T BRITAIN.
Ring Edward has reconsidered his
intention to visit Ireland next
year.
Lawyer Arthur Stafford Francis is
under arrest in London, charged
with misappropriating 415,000 trust
money.
Emanuel ',esker, the ewes mhster,
hes been appointed assistant lecturer
In mathematics in Owens Colite,
Manchester.
assosao
During the abseace from how
the Prince and Princess of W. -
cables enabled them to re
nursery telegram every mornin
UNITED STATES,
It is thought that Mrs. McKinley'
cannot live much longer.
Louis Rock, a French Canadian,
died at' Ludington, lnd., aged 107
years.
There is an immense increase o
Lumber importations from Canada to
Michigan.
Losses in Pennsylvania from floods.
are estimated at from 53,000,000 10-
55,000,000.
There were eight deaths from bu-
bonic, plague in San Francisco in
the last three ;months. •
Carnegie will increase his Alters --
510,000,000 Per a nada-Sisal 1111/V021"
sity to 525,000,000.
Thirty locomotives intended for tho
Japanese Government railways, will
bo built in. Schenectady.
The steamer Karawha Bell was
wrecked at Charleston, W. Va., eight
of the crew being drowned.
A thousand children in the Sella -
villa Ill., public schools woz•e sus-
pended for refusing, to be vaccinated.
. At Holyoke, Mass., a company
capitalized for for 51,000,000 has
been formed to make brick from
sand,
0, BT. 'Worth, rs prominent attorney
of Cleveland, dropped dead frora
heart disease while purchasing holi-
day gifts.
Miss Jennie laitchner has beets ap-
pointed local manager of the baker-
ies of the National Biscuit Oornpauy,
at Pittston, Pa.
A colored ,nsass, .seloscoe Conkling
13rUM, 51314 04Arei Senator Bruce.
hasailaseeu saitonaciaessasnator
at Harvares . •
Dexter Knight, an insane ainelsinan
living near Bryan, Plano, killed his
5 -year-old boy and severely injured
two of his other children.
J. D. Rockefeller has made'
Christmas box of $1,000,000 to tlie
University of. Chicago, and other
Christmas boxeo amounting to
$875,000 bane been received.
L. Perlin, one of tho original
discoverers of quartz at Butte, and
to whozn Senator (nark indirectty
owes 1115 largo fortune, died thero in
,
poverty. • • - • • .
Senator Lodge has introduced a
bill into Congress to prohibit the
sale of firearms, opium and intoxi-
cating liquora to the natives of is- '
lands in tho Pacific 000011.
T110 11111dWill Locomotive Works of
Philadelphia 1105 11 contract for 18
locomotives Mr the West Australian '
Government: railways, and 80 foe the
New South Wales Government rail-
ways.
DINER AT,.
Norway will borrow 58.750,000.
Tao German iron tre110 fe int/troy.
11111.
An extraordinary flow of petroleum
has been found near Suess
11, is staled that flonnan;o will not
import American peek after this
month.
NEW IRISH LAND BILL.
British Government to Intrados:is
New Law,
The London 'Daily Neves ear.: it Is
et o led by well-informed poilticiatet 81
I tub: In tint I, t he Government is pre"
Paring att Irish Land 13111 11110ViI2i11/41
011 equivaleni to compulsory pur-
obese, the tenant buying at aevens
teen years' pUrchase, eltd •the
ford selling at 1We12ity years, the
tate provaling • payment, for the
here paint' difference, The prosecus
lots of nentibers of 110 U11110 lrisbt
neve regercied ns it 5000'hr:rid' "
Or i.einedial
ecent Agit:Ili= has anal
ion 411'(100(4111.7to 11,
gatave, but still created doubt in at
701' of the (001)1(8(1(1, witich in 1411 t
igliell court Lite prisonerat sanuniel
add have been able to turn to )I18 g
T.
11(1
Large A it:Mean lime 10111 work
Siberian mince, Mart fartories end 1,
sona•ally develop that country. c
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tient s ativentage, Not so, lieWevs
a at, the Chartrea AealSes.