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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-4-7, Page 6TEE BRUSSELS POST. APRIL 7, 1R99 The News Briefly Told THE WORLD'S EVENTS OF INTEREST CHRONICLED IN SHORT ORDER. Intoreeting happenings of Recent Date—The Latest New% or oar Owll Country—Doings in the Mother Lend—What Is Going onto the netted 5tatee—Notes prom the Warid Over, CAN ADA, Novo Scotia's estimates are $874,- 828. S74;828. Kingston Lire department witl have an aerial truck. London's city sce,uers show a de- ficit of $21,000 for 1898. The Plains of. .16rehnm have been surveyed into building lots. The wrecked steamer Castilian ie re. ported to have broken in two. The City Engineer of Hamilton .says that all the mute thoroughfares in that city need repairs. Tee stove manufacturers of Mxuil- ton will inoreaae the pay of their moul- ders 10 per teat. on May 1. The Sawyer -Massey Company of Hamilton have inrreused their em- ployees' wages ten per cent. Complaints are being made of the urgent need of an inspector of weights and measures at Attie and Dawson. The McOlary Manufacturing Com- pany of Loudon hove advanced the wages of their stove beads loner cent. A bigMontreal 111 treat oo>npanr has advance. ed the price of cottons, and it is expect- ede ill 1 advance v will beoumH general. The Quebec By-law Committee has decided to impose a tax of. 000 au ped- lars residing in the city and 4100 on pedlars residing outside. Representatives of the Bank of Bri- tish North America and the Bank of Commerce are eu route. to Arlin to open brane 8a. p b there. It is rumored that the controlling interest of the Hamilton Street Rail- wayhad1 Co. been seeurad by a New trust company. Steps are being taken at London, Ont., to quash the city by-law recently • passed authorizing an increase in the number of liquor licensee. throughout England, varying from Lo 20 degree of frost. There hev been heavy falls of slimy in the nort and several deel.11s from exposure ar reported, Similar leather prevails the continent. Lord aliebnry and aT. Pati Qa 11011 hare signed 11 ennventiou derinin the Angto-French hounderiee in Ctnl Africa. Britain retains the f3nhr-e Ghazal nod Darfur, while Preece ge I11e territories north and west of Lek Tubed. IL is proposed Ln stare a mn5'enla for a uulional tesllmonial to Mae burno, the English chess player, i honor of his vit•tnr>v Dunt Ptlahury i the recent lnteruntional chess tourn meat, and in rerugnition of hie sere iee8 to the British Chess Club, In reply to a suggestion by Si Charles Howard Vincent that nn in qui.ry be held into the conditions o British trade., Mfr, C. T. It.itehie, Pr sident of the British Board oe Teed said that there. was no reason to r gard the condi:ton of nettle as Mho than satisfaelory. Considerable dissension is reporte between the Chancellor of the E. chequer, Sir Miehasl Hicks -Retch, an the Secrotury of Stale for (lie Colo les Mr. Joseph Cbumberlatu, the for mut pposing aid the latter favor- ing 511e Atricau schemes of lir. Cecil A millionaire, maimed Alfred Stern, 8011 of the late .Baron Stern, Iles been declared insane. He is said to be worth $15,000,000 and recently created a dis- turbance at Marlborough house, the town residence of the Prince of Wales by at.temptiug to force an entrant there under the hallucination that h is the Prince. Meade Riu ar soa u h d n the alleged wdf g of Wm. Johnson, known as 'Htarry, 111 Valet " o wa cu c. d wh s t> erne in the rob- bery of :he Du r Suth 1 'agar I)u hers of S th erlend's jewels in Paris last 0otober intends to personally serve the Duchess with a writ to recover the reward offered for the recovery of the stolen jewellery, she baying betrayed John- son to the police. Special significance attaches to the appointment of Commodore Gifford to command th* British squadron in New- foundland waters during the coming fishing season. His selection is re- garded as indicating a d .e i i get 5110 oat as on the part of Greet Britain to enforce a settlement of disputed questions in this quarter by strengthening the squadron, 10 The influenett is raging at $orcin, 0 and 111e death rate is heavy, It, The story of the finding of Asulree's Ie balloon and three bodies pruvee to have >u I,eeei a talseltood, Germans :ire •buying liipling's bouke m- as the result of the Emperor's ret'ent p;' message to the poet. ral It. le reared that the cattle plague 1. which is raging at duakim, wilt spread is to Egypt and the Soudan, e .Larporor'William milts bis naval of- ficers and men to either be oloan nt I shaven or grow full boards. k- I It le reported that: 95 lives have been O lost by the bursting of it wetter- u spout neer Oaxaca, Menlo°. tt- Emperor \VilLiam, it is said, will eon- "f8r the Order of L1* Crown of P1•usela upon 1lr. Ceoil Rhodes. ✓ 'Clic Frenoll Chamber is centemplat- - Lag ate increase of .Deputies' and nethe- r salaries from 0,0110 to 15,000 francs. PStarving Cretans, to the ntunher of 0,000, pillaged Ureek and Turkish quttr- ,• tars in Smyrna. Many immune were kt I Lad. In 14. municipalities in A1s.toe-Lor- d mine, insects have destroyed the vine - d yards. 1he growers went slot•k from Colon Americ11 Introduoed. The Clerman battlesidp Oldenburg broke her aneh=r and went aground near ilial on Thursday duriug a heavy snowstorm, Paris is suffering from the emerge of influenza. The deaths during tb* Iasi seven days have been 238 above the average. A Rome despatch says Baroness Von Douovkberg has been robbed at Pica of ' jewels valued at $.11,100 and 9780 cash.' eHer servant is missing. 1 An Anglo-Egyptian expedltia> will he undertaken next ttutuma, to final- s Lr dispose of a 'hali[a Abdullah Io.o the Ii It h e anct other Dervish leaders is the; Soudan, d , Out £ abouto ' li >+ su Js. u o one mil on t1 > i ' who during the year have beounse lia- ble to milLtary service in Russia, 284,- 500 have been added to the standing Prime the Manitoba young farmer, who shot Richard Boulten three weeks ago with murderous intent, was sen- tenced to three years' imprisonment. Mr. P. W. St. George, City Surrey - or of Montreal, has reeigned in conse- quence of too much interference by Aldermen in the work oC his depart- ment. J. R. Booth, the Ottawa lumberman, says that with the exception of a slight advance in boxwood, lumber Prins trill be uncbanged this year. Major-General Hutton is Investigate a ing a charge preferred by Lieut. -Col. Roy, D.O.C., Montreal, against Lieut.- f Cul. Cooke of threatening to thrash his i superior officer. Guszezak arid Czubv, tam Galicians d round guilty of the murder of a emu- pairiot and four children ulStuartburn 1 last fall, sore senteemed at Winnipeg to hang on May 20. It is said that the population of Muni- p Wet has reached the 260,000 mark. The last census taken in ib01 gave the pope- I t lotion as 153,000, This is an increase t of 1(18,(1110 in nine years. J A. Metcalf of Chicago, who has 0 had much experieuee in the building I of elevators, has been in Quebec in t. eounection with the erection of a mil- 11 lion -bushel elevator there, M. In. Reeves bas been sentenced to 1 a one mouth's imprisonment and a fine S of 9100 at Dawson fur attempting to b bribe H. H. Martin, the inquiry clerk at the Gold Commissioner's office. The fees at Queen's University for pass examinations in sole/tee and grtsIIe hare been raised from 'J3 to 90, and in f p honor examinations from S4 to 98. This is done with a view of raising mores B funds. C UNITED STATES. The Cuban army numbers 13,219 Jaen Tien mea were killed In a fight with 1Vlexieens at Laredo, Texas, the result of a discussion over smallpox. California newspapers must now at- tach the name of the writer to all local news referring t0 individuals. United Stales capitalists will spend 9265,000 in trolley lines about Niagara Falls this summer in connection with the Pan-Aeriean project. Bedford Beale, died of hiccoughing t Norfolk, Va. Fifteen days ago he began to hieoough intermittently, and or eight days he hiccoughed unceas- ngly. Over 2,)i00 pounds of smokeless pow- er exploded at the Dupont Powder Yorke at Carney Point, N.J., instanL- y kiflimg three work s o and injuring number of others 'slightly. It is said taut iba Passenger dee artment of the New York Central vitt run an independent line to oppose he Richelieu & Ontario Company for he 81. Lawrence tourist traffic, It is proposed to raise a fund of 910,- 00 fur the family of Warren Onion, 1e elevator man at the Windsor Ho - el in New York, who refused to leave is post and lost his lice in the fire. At San Francisco, Mme. Melba had narrow escape from serious injury, he was hit un the head by a heavy ronze statue, which fell from a ped- estal, and was unconscluus for 15 minutes. The Central Vermont Railroad was old on Thursday under fm•eolosure rueeedings and the entire property vas purohasecl by Ezra EL Baker of odea, Chairman of the Bondholders' tmmittee, for $7,030,000. Joh. T. Shayne, the millionaire Chi- cago furrier, 55148 611o1 three times by 1•i. H..Elammund, a merchant tailor, while the two were dining en a hotel, Shayne will live. Hammond is u11dee arrest Domestic troubles. New Yorke. Board of Aldermen tabled u resolution calling on the Commissioner of Public Buildings to bolst the national. city and state flags 011 all public buildings on May 21, lu honor of Quern ', ictoria's birth- day. John T. Graham, of Denver, who owns extrasive gold and silver minus in Culer'ado, acid New Alexic0, has made he suit HMV II/ that the fleet see ode by the new trust would be the denten et the price of silver 1,111 1113r 6111 A despatch from Omaha reports the burning of a building in whish it lodge of lady llclocabeas was meeting, They weir oompelted to jump from the win - dines, and two were killed mud several badly injured. One fire(atn wets prob- ably fatally fnjufed. John Moura, of Ilamillon, Kan„ whose house was burned and his five children found dead In it, hag been ar- rested charged with murdering the children. The bodies were not badly burned, but molt skull was indented, and all but one had been stabbed in the neck, .Morn tells a very bums etery. Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, who is serv- ing a ten years' soutanes for murder in the Lndtana wumen's prison, has been paroled by Governor Mount, but declines to accept iter freedom un- til the Judge and jury w11i011 bled bar acknowledge that ehe was inno- 0en1 and that they were in error when they passed judgment upon her. In an interview hear Admiral Samp- son, of the United Stales navy, ex- pressed the hope that the good feel- ing between Great 'Britain and the United States would be permanent. Ile says the United States bas more to gain by a defensive alliance Gann Great Britain, and he. rejoices that the re- cent oliange of sentiment )las taken place. The Woodstook, N, B., Town Coun- cil has abolished the tax of from 93 to e5 on commercial'travellers visiting that place, it being the only town in Cauude where the tax was made. The tax affected Toronto and Montreal houses. Dates to Dawson 11ave been out in two by the formation of a transport- ation combination, including various steamers running between Seattle and Skagway, the White Pass & 'Yukon Railroad, and the steitmers on Lake Bennett and the Upper Yukon. The Court of Appeal of Quebec has confirmed the judgment of the Superior Court awarding 91,999 damages to the parents of the late Alias Alphunsine, m Thibadeuu against Sir W. C. McDonald e of Montreal, 10 whose factory the girl was trilled at the time of the fir* in April, 1805. Cheese -tankers of RRusseil county are forming au assoeialiun with the object that all cheese purchased from manu- facturers by produce morehants shall ba guaranteed before being taken from the hands of makers, They also in- tend advocating the appointment of en official weigher, to weight the cheese before it is delivered. GREAT BRITAIN. W. H Millais, the ertist, and brother of the late Sir John Everettt. Millais president of the Royal Academy, 10 dead. Rev. James A, Spurgeon, brother of the late Rev, Charles Hadden Spur- geon, was found dear( to a railway me- nage at London, I4nquiryisLo be made into the suf- ficiency of exile in the large hotels and mausio116 is London, suggested by the Windsor horror. English lemperauce societies are de- nouncing rnouncing Sir Thomas Lipton for hay- ing applied for licences to sell liquor at hie tea stores. Lloyds has decided to bestow the silver medal upon the captain and thief engineer of the Cunard line steamship Pav0nht, for, bringing the ship safely into port alter she had been disabled at sea. At the banquet et the 135111al' Eco - amine Assooiution, Prof. Asb18y aafd the trusts were plainly the outcome of en attempt to gert rid of the cUsas- Irous &Teets of - cut-Uzroat oompel:f d tion.. Exceptionally Cold weather continues p1 GENERAL, Munkaesy, the famous painter., is cad. Mauritius is now free from the a gu8. army. Js'or photographing Prince Bismarck on his death bed, two Gorman phuto- grap11ers and an attendant have been sent to jail for six, three, and five months. A French engineer is said to have perfected au improvement ess to the tele- phone, 1 - P m m L ee P phone, by which eonversatioo may be carried on several yards from the in- strument. MESSAGES WITHOUT WIRES. Luudoh Tithes Prints a Unsolved Word Telegram Sent tinder the Nest System, A despatch from London, says:—The cross-channel tests of Metrooni's Bytom of wireless telegraphy, which began on Monday, will be 5Autillued for solve time. The French station is at Wim - cretin, near Boulogne, and the English station is at the South Foreland ligbt- huuse, the distance between the two being 32 miles. Thus far t he experiments have been entirely sueoess£ul, the messages passing with the greatest ease. Signor A'Iar°uni is personally superintending the tests. The times on Tuesday prints a hundred word despatch, the first press message by the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy, describing the ex- periments between the South Fore- land and dieulogne-sur-liter. The ex- periments were conducted witch the 'Morse code, whiolt wag rend ua (tial inot- ly as it the termini had! been Dunned ed by wires. Thr South Foreland is the most easterly land in England, ounsisting of a chalky oliff about 200 feet in height projecting into the North sett, and having two lighthouses with an elevation of 372 feet. Signor Marconi, whose system of wireless telegraphy has been in prantioal operation off the English coast fur several months be- tween the Smith Fnretand lighthouse and the East Fwodwltl lightship, 3 dis- tenee of 12 miles, bad considerable dif- ficulty in obtaining the 00085lt of the 11'rench Government to his proposal to establish etonmunit>ativn of this na- ture between .English and french coasts, About a month ago, however, M. Lookroy, Freineh Minister of Mar- ine, consented to a test between Dover and Calais, or ]Folkestone end Cape Grimm the distances in each case be- ing aleett 20 miles. CRUELTY TO A'LITTLE GIRL. 111110. A1/0111041 Forests Pat /ler /►*1 ra 11,' CBI 15 hili* 58 ittirJeut 5' 33d0µ. The Kingston News says:—"A thril- ling story coined from Sherbet lake that a girl about. six years old, named Neddo, was subjected to areal treat- ment by half-breed Indians who adopt- ed her, For offending she was brutal- ly punished, and on 8 oold night put outside, without gloves or mitts on, and a veru light covering for bar feet. The result 50(15 ilial hoz' feet were Queen. No physician was oonsulted, uitwithslanding that this occurred about a month ago. Her fool got worsu until mortification eat in, and it Is supposed her feet will have to be amputated." ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. Fellow or %British Royal Iiaoaraphiten Soelety Sub,erlhe, S1mm,aoe, Mr. L. W. Longsiaff, a fellow of the Royal Gtxngra.phieal Society, has donat- ed 5121,000 In the society for 10* pur- pose of equipping a British Antarctic expedition, In nnnounting the gill at a meeting of the society, in Landon, Sir Clements Markham, the president, Intimated that the vessel to he fitted nut would 00 -operate with the German expedilinn, 111.\51.10 TREES iAPineri 1, A, despatch from Chester. Vermont, says:—The nvrple sugar harvest: in 1' Vermont is b(.x,v(rl Lu he n total fail- ure title year, and it 1ho worst. team of the st>gnr-motet's are. 5'1111lizorl, the in. dustry will be crippled for many years t b cr>lnu. Th c i n jury t,> :sup r orchis rcls nes done leis enm1rt*rr by an army of eaterpillare, and this ;spring the trees are found to be septette, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 9. "'rhe .l 'minting In Ilk, lin ay,. John 11. 3.11, 1305,35111 11x5. Mirk 1,5, S. '1tACrIGAL NOTIO,'. Worse 1. Jesus, six days before the Passover, And therefore sixdays be- fore this owe detail, IL was probably the evening of $iturtlay, .April 1, A.D. 30, after sunset, and tllerefore after L11e close of tit:. Sabbath ; the triumphal entry into Jeruscllent wets made the noel: rnolmiug. The pass>ver, the geed hardly reinfect the students was the groat itILO L111I 5'aI of the .1ews, "tee feast of unleavened breast," be- gun tvitlt the formal pusehei1 meal, and lashing seven dugs, Came to Bethany. On bis way to the feast, 2.rum l'ai'rs by • way of Jericho. lie 1:reliably reached Bethany ioEal.e the Subbuth began. )Where Lazarus was w•hielt had been i dead. Vnlil env Bet haity has beau described us the home of .11art1>,t and Mary, whom Jesus lured, but this tat est and greatest of wonders crowds other things from the hillotiuu's a0 ti(5*, 2, Ther/ tltty made 114.10 u supper. This supper was hill, as Matthew and ; Murk tell us, in the house of Simon the leper, whom we may suppose to have been a kinsman of Lazarus, Star - Lha stirred. Quite agreeably to her' bustling, meanie]. nature. Leziu'us was one nft m -'a' 110 li l sest at .11e taW o 4 This s6 garts that the feast wasi n beam of the inhale worked (puri hiss, I We vetch here a glimpse of the easy household mateams of the Jews of Pal- estine, with %thorn mon and women mingled inure freely than in other' antique nations. Verse 2 tells what Martha did and what Lazarus did. What did Merry do'l 3. Than took 0 Mary a. pound of oint- ment of spikenard. Matthew+ and Murk tell of the anointing without naming the woman, and their ac counts, supplemented be' that of John, imply that her coming with the spike-. nerd was unexpected and startling. This "ointment" was really u distilled perfume. The word indicates a particular kind of perfume) what kind cannot now be certainly said. Very costly. To other incidental indications or the wealth of the family of Lazarus the costliness of this perfume may be added. Mark tells us that it was carried, in an alabaster flask, su that the rasa 5vnf3 quite as valuable as its contents; for this "alabaster" is a deli - late and beautiful stone, quarried near Thebes, and of high price. Anointed the feet of Jesus, According to Mark, she broke the flask over his head. It was the part of servants on special oc- melons thus to aztoint the heads of guests. As hoslees, rind to slow pecu- liar reverence, Mary did it herself, and apparently took occasion, also, to per- fume her ltetster's whole body, even to his feet. We etre out to think of any such heavy oils as come into Lrequent domestic use among ourselves, and which would make clothing unocanfort- able and unolean, but of a light, vola- tile perfume 5vhio11 would perved0 the whole room almost: as soon its the flask was broken ; the !muse was fill- ed with the 11801' of the Dint- meal. +0 4. ,Judas IsoarioL, Staten's son, I ft is generally wiped cid that Iseariol means Iteriuth, Jude's native town, and "Simon's sun" is added to distinguish him from another (lis - e 0fp1* named Judas. John fixes this euntplaitit on Judos; but others else t grumbled, (See note on verse 11),) c Whioh should betray him. Who after- a ward was a traitor. 5. 554'ity was not this ointment sold I a Suoh a question, it has been suggested, would astonish Mary, and very likely t make ber feel guilty. Three hundred t perm, 5I'he 51510.4 "penny" here stands for the dennrius of the Romans, "the °0010100 suet paid for !t workman's daily wage." It Is not unlikely lhetl 11>e penny' of the early English was' of the some ;relative value, hence was used by our translators as an elute:Ilene But there was 110 certain ° value he old English attached to the l word "penny.' Three hundred shill- ings—from forty-five to fifty dollars of our money, with a pureh:esing power , u five or six tiles *8 great—.wtuld fair- a 1y rePresaenl 41151 5115(51 11 ,51 rusrtiouad, (liven to the purr. While 01111 VS - meridiem h that :ludas wee neither pay- ing• for nor spe'nrliug thus In:curious perf1111*, One 11(11.4 art Huhu of his words in 11]11011 modern talk. "Wiry in not this collection taken for horse missions instead of foreign misslons4" tasks a man who gives nothing to eith- er 5 611513'. •'The running expenses of our , (htu'ch etre extravagant; better by far put up a new town, pump, or endow a bed iu a hospLtal, and economize churl))) expenditure," But whoa tate n5t91 pu511> Ls pat tip +111(1 the hospital bed is endowed we find that. it was not the grumblers who eontributed the money, but the people who had (lone their financial duty toward the church. 0. Not that he oared for the poor; but because he. was a thief. Any motley that he could possibly embezzle he wanted to have within his reach. Had the bag. Het kept the chest or bag in which the treasurer of the lit- I.le company of twelve was stored. flare what was put there- in. Revised Version: "Having the bag, took away what Wes put ihar*in," Why' did Josue permit ludas to ba I r('itsurer l 1•I* neve to ,7udae, its +10 cath of the °Ihers,the heel °ppoetunf. lies for spiritual growth, Judas's flnnnniu1 cele ities were al tante his 11(181 me0n• or grace an,t his must dee- ge.rous temptation, 1t is niways so, (.lpr>nrlunity 0(1055e peril, 7, Than Haid J'ssns, :(t i her ahem. Thin was addressed not only t o .5>,la*, 0(115118, 'Mtn of>er•iehed no covet nesness end planne(1 nn theft, had, nevort.bu- less, "Mormurett„' against. 4.10.17 be- 513U$)e she •pent 80001')' on meth hewn, Matt.. 211, e, t • Hark 1•i. 1, 5, for they also, Ilk'. . : r tin fnik nowadays, thought such expenditure . crime. Against the day of 111y' burying hate shit kept this. Or, "Suitor her to keep it agtlinst the al , of my bitrylug," ns if only a Part of 1118 ointment. had been used, and Ihe rest was to be re, sowed frit' the harlot. 1'rueably Bilary knew no mum about the W1(1it1g deet.11 of leaps Hiatt did the resk, bus, na true lovers are 8nra 10 do, she bulkiest better than site knew, Tliela WWI no micul5tioe in whet she (Ltd. 11 was .ludas, not 1dary, who lettew the value of the Weinmat, She only knew that It wits sir BIS hr>d 10 give, There are titans 3105+' of the 81011,1 mind as teal of 11,e guests at Bethany, who asked in 111:11 purpose is them waste 1'liey see hese cunt there a lifo wholly given lU Christ, end cannot help 00aul- ing it a'4istake, a waste, a loss• The divine an55rer is, "1'erltops such a 511(511.151*, judged by worthy prudence,' is injudicious, but these have done iamb they eouid," 13. Fee 11111 poor al5vnys y5 1111 VO 5v1111 1011. Nut, the!. ' to relieve dims is a duly that ... . any time attend- ed to; but therefore to relieve I item one should not Sepe0d upon excaptiunel gifts or emotions; they are (emi ently trlth yrou, and you a:huulil be cunstnnlly relieving theta. the gift of. a fifty - dollar flit* of perfutue for their relief would be as availing as the gift of a Christmas dinner to all the 1100r 1n 8 great metropolis, such as ie annually' proposed by S:1tue well-meaning 0rg'u- izat:ions. Celtrlstnia» dieners ere well enough, but the poor get hungry throe times each day, three hundred and sixty-five days ill the year, and what they need is nppol•ltt.nity 10 support themselves, Me ye have not allays, How soon tbev were to loan bin> none of ,l'bem surm;sed—ant even, probably, the 37111 tor. 9 Po> . A le of l Jl` d � our, 1he w SPU note in the fast lesson on John's use of the phrase •'JaSa"—. drslt to 1 J g residents ofdud f•> en tint Galilnaus like himself and hundreds of others who now crowded to the feast, and partly 10 make the story plain to readers who, Gentiles themselves, knew little about (he Jews, They came not fol' Jesus' sake Daly. They came L•om a poor reason, (11831; nuvertlleless, it was better the cam ) y e. Cariosity is sol. the best of God's angels, but it has beckon- ed many u. soul to the Saviour; even those who h Duna Co scuff sometimes re- main. a main. to pray. 10 Put Lazarus also to death. " We read of no such deep malignity as this toward the other recipients of 01r Lurd's mercies. 'Was it a °rims to have rec>eivecl such a sur5u@siug bete - fit '1 Was it ,sere envy and rage that one should live to bless so great n benefactor' Not al together so; but their object was, as We have seen en the case of the blind beggar, John 3. 24, at all risks to destroy the credit of our Lord's miraoles. The poor beg- gar's testimony they might affect to despise; but Lazarus was a person of consideration, as is evident from the history, John 1l. 10, etc.; so that they saw- tie means of effecting their pue- pose but by destroying whose liv- ing evidence could not be sot aside." —Churton. NINE PERSONS DROWNED. 3. Plenaure 8100p wrecked On' Y>uteeetvef aslant A despatch from Vancouver, 13. 0., says:—Just a mouth ego to -day u party consisting of nine; people left Alert bay for Hornby Island, w•hioh is on the east coast of Vancouver Island, on 111e sloop J'histl*, eommanded by its owner, William Ford, and up to date tutee nut been men. Wreckage has been picked up south of Alert bay vhie11 has been recognized es n portion f the craft on which the party sailed for their homes on Hornby Island and :aalioum. - Joseph Fletcher, a farmer or Quati- um, ar•ris'ed dere on• Sunday bringing ntelligence of the digester, which has ort the lives of WlLILalu Ford, his gel Mother, and two ,sisters, mend 18 nd 15 respectively, 111111 Mrs, harry Thames. her daughter of. 11) yearn, and hre* other children. Another woman, bought to be the daughter or a CO. max farmer, also emharked' on the raft. WERE RP'I'IY1ININII 12051]4. The party left Qualicuni, 13.C., Iwe 1(0511hs, ago, then dooiding to rat urn n March 1. The run from Alert ).sty o Hornby Island should, under fu- voural,le oircumst a noes, take but three ✓ tout' clays. A severs( wind and nowslvrm apreglg up, and residents et 1s little settlement warned Ihem not 0 leave, but being anxious to rearil ome they started out 0) their la•ip. WLllinm Holed is Ihe. sun of William lford, sr., 1z wealthy fawner of Hono- lulu, and his mother was 1111 north un a visit 0, her old ltnriestowl, The Themes family were a progressive farming family, and neighbours of el r..I,Well,r. residing at Qualicum. the husband and father of Thema eorrtmitted suicide a shorn time ago, tied this accident completely >vipee out the famil . n y THE MARDI'S TOMB. The. Ytrlllsh *10rrrn,nrnt Fdiylre*ers pima proval or Ili IMvw•tvttIon. blr, Brodrick, British Part iamenutry 005181gn Secretary, announced in the House of Conations on 1''.ricla.y that the Government did not Uahraidee that far - thee action was neeessery in the mat- ter or the desecration of the Mandi's tomb than to expr*se its disapproval oC the removal or Lite betty from the tomb and the trtslilig of it into the Nile. IRISH ELECTION RIOTS, atony Persons llt;lnr*d--•illemncl i)avltt. Monad, A despatch from Cork, says: --During a fierce election riot al Charlevilie on Sa(11rday, many persons were injured, and Miel>aol Davitt, lil,1?., for Souti> 1layo, Who Ives preeent in the interest of ant: of the catulidetes, was stoned, The police had Cho groat*st difficulty in restoring order, James A. Bell, of Beaverton, Ont., brother of the ltev, John Wesley Bell, B,D., prostrated by nervous headaches A victim of the trouble for several years. South American Nerrtno effected complete ,cure. In their own particular field few men are beteg known than the Rev. John Wesley Bell, B.D, and his b105110r Mfr. Jaynes A, Bell. the former 1111 be re. cognized by his thousands of friends all oyer the country as the popular and able tuissionary superintendent of the Royal 'I'emplars of Temperance. Among the 20,000 members of this order in Ontario his connect is sou"ht on all sorts of oc- casions. On the panic platform he is one of the strong teen of the day, tattling '1�"alnot 1110 01415 of hrtempernnee, luqualle well known.Ls Mr. Bell in other provinces of the Dominion having been ter years a member of the Sianitobe Jlethodlet Conference Clad part of this time was stationed 111 Whlulpeg. His brother, Mr. James A. Pell, is a n'ghly respected resident of Beaverton, weans lie influence, though penmen more eir- etunseribed than that oe his eminent brother, to tone the less effective and productive of good. Of recent yearsemw. ever, the working ability of Hr. James .L. Bell hashoer sadly marred by severe attacks of neryoue (1e83aclla, accom- panied by 2rtdigrstinn. Wbo esu do tit Work when tele trouble taloa hold of them and eepeeieily when it becomes ehroule, as was, seemingly, the ease with Mr. Bell? The trouble reached amen lin tensity that last Juue ho was complete- ly prostrated. 111 thea conditiou e, friend recommended South American Nervino. Ready to tryanything and everything, though he ought he had overact the list of proprietary medicines, be seamed a bottle of this great discovery. d second bottle of the medicine was tiskee and the work was done. Employing hie own language: "Two bottles of South American Nerrine immediately relieved my headaches and hay* bun% up my ai ynt em h a wonderhd manner." Let Int not deprecate the good our clergymen and social reformers are doing in the world but how ill -fitted they would by for their work were it not the relief that South American Nervine brings to then, when phyelcal 111s overtake them, and when the system, es a re. salt 02 hard, earnest sod continuous work, breaks down. Nervine treats th6 system as the wise reformer treats the evils he is battling ngainet. It atneee at Lilo root of Lila trouble. Alt Ala+ ease uomes from disorganization of the nerve centers. This is a edentific fact. Nervine at once works on these nerve ecnters; Ire' to them health and vig- or; end then there coarsen through the eyetem strong, healthy, life-mnlntelning blood, and nervous troubles of evory variety are things of the past. Sold by G. A. Deadman. GUNS FOR RUSSIAN ARMY. 51035* in Prareeding 11'535, Unusual 15*s*e to (int Ahead of 511e roller renrrrrurr, A 310apateh from London, sass: — A despatch to the Morning Post from Ports says that Russia had practically resolved to supply all her urlillnry with a new quick -firing gun, the. prin- ciple of which is similar to the French weapon, It is slated Ilial a buttery has already been ordered from a French firm, though guns of other patterns will be trier. "tussle is proceeding iu I.he matter wild rather unusual haste, her reason, it is believed, being her desire to de- cide what gun ((11)1. be used, told then to order i.hem within two 1110111118 Ur HD hat if any iluextiun is raised at. I he poste cunferenee it may be said that the order. hits 11(33111 placed tinct 03113- not be withdrawn. The proposal hes beau' undine dis5us. Sion for a long Limm. The (111112 01/- 5115a1e to carrying it out has boon a lack of motley, which difficulty has noir yet been removal, it is tietieunted that, the cost of Ihe change will be !9'10,000- 000. THOSE ORDERS FOR ENGINES. 4;nnunr>i1 0* 5ngmed 0a unitrand 5'313.' Intel PS' .let 1141*. A deepateh from London, says:—The order for I'.went y l000tn>tives given by the Great Northern Railway Company, (o OM ilitIslwin Conpnny, of Philodeh. phut, is (111115111g 11401(11 (0>31Uleinl til I'D, gineer'ing and official circles here, The contract stipulates the dell very of the locomotives in four months, and it seeme 1110E the British manufnetutors neiddad 18 months to do the work, Mr, II, J, IvaLte, chief loemnotiv8 superintendent of the Groat Northern railroad, weo le 00W in the United Slates with other English railroad men studying the Amoriaan automatic coupling says ho Is surprised at the great capacity of the American works, Ii. is learned that furlhez' orders from the Indian and Aual:ralian Govern - meets have been given le the Baldwin Company,. SENSE SHOULD REPLACE GUSH. A Loudon Neer on anate.Amerhean ler laUau.h3p. A despatch front l,ondon says :—The Saturday Review, published on Friday evening, discusses the future relation. ship between the United States and Great .Britain in et long artielo entitled "The Rivals." After pointing 'nut than "nothing material Lets yet been the outcome of the passing wave of sentimental hypnotis>n," it proceeds to blame the A1a1e1101n trusts fee 5l>e failure of the 11r11ish-Antorican-Dams- clime Commission, spying: — "Thome trusts may ho omelette to >neuane British irntle supreineen with the Ymune unsorepulons rivalry in the far ,least a8e is now sliuw'5l 111 Cann(18, anti ulti- snLLely' eve(5501u a it> 111* 45110'1(1, and as the trusts control Amerman matinee Mich immedinto advantages as Eng- land might juin ft•om an all 1(1nee would. be lorgoly overshadowed by Lhe dangers into which the I.rttsls are like- ly to force America by insisting upon an indefinite motley of expansion:" The article eonoludl>s by advising England to pursue her own way, 013585ing Anuli e0a with the sante 002(1- tesy which she. extends to Cnflineetal nations, no less and n0 more." PENSION 100R AN ARCTIC HERO. 001411'10 Nett 11'110 87,'uf to 13(•,15* of rennet be. A. dentate:b fieee Orono, snysl--Soma w'lniti 1.g0 lies. 5V, It. ,chins, 01 this teen, applied to Ihe liigltl. lion. Joseph Chamberlain .for the award of a pension to Kr. Henry Gauen, et Ivanhoe, Ont, who is, sn frlr os known, the only survivor of 111e crew of. If, MS. Invosligitlor which sailed lroils Plymouth, January 3010, 1360, in search of Sir john 1f:rn.nkl.in, Thurs. day morning 1>e is in templet of letters from the Lards of Ihe Admiralty and from Ottawa, which slate that a po1n- sion of oto shilling a day for life. wan awarded Mr, Gauen on the first day of the present. Month, and that the necessary steps will be taken to on. able 11135 to draw this pension,'