The Brussels Post, 1894-12-21, Page 24 TallITALINQ TAT.all QV RILi STAN
CHAPTER. XVII.
nnualur a Via moors,
Night at the Foreland --and a dark night;
the moon not due for Ileur , and when she
rose net likely to be seen for the heavy
clouds which blotted out the eters. Lights
were out in the, great building, which abood
up by day gloomy, manywindowed, and
forbidding on the huge promontory, crossed
by wall and works, and with sentries be-
tween the convict establishment and the
mainland, The other three sides had the.
waves, which washed the nearly perpendi•,
cuter precipices, for warders, and it was
only here and there that an active titan well
acquainted with the cliffs could descend to
the sea, and such an acquaintanoeship was
not likely to be made by the wretched men
marched out, fettered and guarded, to the
great quarries day after day, and then care.
fully watched bank to their cella.
At times the sentinel duty outside the
building could easily be relaxed on the sea
aide, for the billows ohne thundering in,
smiting the polished rocks and flying high
in air with a deafening din; but on a calm,
warm, dark night, when it was possible for
a boat to approach close in, a stricter watoh
was kept, lent one of the more hardened
prisoners should contrive to elude the vigi-
lance within the buildings and make a des.
perste effort to win his freedom,
But, as a rule, attempts at evasion were
made when the men were marched out to
the quarries, when a dash would be made
during a sea fog, or a convict would crawl
into seine hollow among the freshly hewn
stones, and lie there, !toping not to be miss-
ed till he made good his escape.
On this particular night a young member
of the warder guardstootl,rifle on ehoulde r
looking out to sea front the mere shelf of
level rock near the top of the cliff.
A great steamer was making her way
down channel, and her lights shone like
eters away on the black waters.
"West Indy or South America ; and a
Dutch boat, I should say, muttered the
sentry; and be turned his eyes to where,
well up under the shelter of the great
promontory, the ligbte of a:veral vessels
showed where they lay at anchor.
"This is a miserable dog's life," muttered
the man, "and 1 get precious sick of it, but
I think Pd rather be here than there. One
can feel bottom and be sate—sailors can L
That one Highest in ie the little man -o' -war,
suppose, andyon's the big one. How
dark it is 1"
He stood there trying to pierce the
blackness, out of which the anchor lights
of the ships stood like stars, but he could
eo nothiog save a feint bluish -greeny gleam
cw and then far below, where the
phosphorescence of theeea washed gently,
hke so much luminous oil, over the bases
of the elide and played among the masses
of seaweed lying awash.
"Bow united the sea is of a dark night.
Fancy goiug sailing right away yonder,not
knowing what you may hit upon next.
Shore's good enough for me, even if its
being tet Foreland convict prison, with a
day off now and then."
He turned hie face shoreward, lacking
across the bay, dotted with faint lights, to
where the red lamas of the harbor shone
out with their lurid glow.
"That's better," he said as he followed
the curve' of the shore, with the faint gold-
en gleam sent up by the gas lamps which
dotted the bow like so meaty bright beads
strung along the shore, on and ou by the
line ot houses facing the sea front, till they
ran out for a short distance to see, and
ended in quite a cluster, out of which
fleshed one with a bluish glare, whose rays
cut the darkness, for it was the electric
light at the end of the pier.
"Band s playing, said the man, listening
intently ; but the distauce across the curve
to the town pier was too great and he
could make out nothing but a stray note of
a cornet now and thea.
"Come play up louder, old man ; can't
hear. Nothing lutea bit of music now and
then. That's one good in being a soldier
you do have a band, while we poor beggars
have to carry a rifle without, But there, a
man can drop this wbeu be likes, and a
soldier can't."
He took a turn or twit up and down, and
stopped again to look up the steep cliff
slope running ltiglt above him from the
shelf on which his duty lay, this being
over cue of the spots where it would be
possible for a daring cragsutan to get down
to the sea.
"Shouldn't mind a glass of beer," he
thought, "Salt in the air, I suppose.
Wa11 1 can get that by and by. Lord,
what's a fellow got to grumbleabout? How
would it be to do one's bit inside 1 Some
of 'em pays pretty dear for their little
games, and one can't, help feeling sorry for
one now and then, Bah 1 of 'em are
beet there. They'd think no ,note of oom-
ing behind mein the dark and chunking
me into the sea than kissing their hands.
Ugh 1" he ejaculated, with a shudder, as
he gripped Ms piece more tightly,and gave
a sharp glance round and upabove him ab
the, black crags. "What a fool 1 am to
think of ench things, only a chap can't help
it in such a lonely place. Well,oue side io
safe," he said with a laugh. "So are the
others, stupid. Poor devils 1 Not much
chance for any of then coming out for a
quiet pipe to -night."
A faint note or two from the distant band
on the pier floated to the warden, and ho
went on musing ;
" Now, I dessay if I was
Over yonder -having a smoke and
listening to that music 1 should think
nothing of it, and. be for getting back thine.
where to have a bit o' suppsr ; but because
'nt hero awl can't got noir it every tootle
of that old cornet eounde'meetly; and the
lights scene grand. It was just the sante,
dawn at home; there was our big oldapple
tree, the Gannet-dnyle, as I could got up
When I liked, ar knock ae many down as 1
pleaeod with mother's clothes props—good
apples they Was, ton; but they wouldn't do
—.one always Wanted to get over Thnmsmi s
walls to sting those old bard baklug pure,
which wee Bite nibbllog the knob,, OJ the
to of thebed•posto,"
He laughed until his shotedere shook,
" Poor old Thompson 1" he said half
aloud. "Said he'd have some of ne put i
prison roesteuling.-Wonder Whether eom
of these pour, beggars began that way an
then went on, Humph! maybe, . Well,the
should leave known bettor." •
He got:dime& hie march up and dow
for a while, and then stopped once mor1,,
grounded hle piece, mid stood there quit
invisible to anyone a few rattle away. H
went eft thinking about the town at th
head of the bay, and the mueio, and of bo
bine was going ; and then his thought
went back to the great body of clahgerou
criminals shut up in the. huge,, grim build
Muth inge, and of how mudepended an th
pare anddiligenoe' of those in charge—
mere handful compared . to those they
guarded,
"!Only we've of the law on ant' side and
they haven't,. he, thought; and as the
thought ran through his brain he felt the
blood pulsate sharply and there was a heavy
throb athis heart, for there was a peculiar
amid away to his right, high up the steep
elope of the cliff, as if a atone had been die.
lodged and bad slipped down a few yards
beforescoppiug in a aloft.
lie stood listening intently, but the
sound wee not repeated—all was still as
death; but tho man's pulsus had been stir-
red, and his Insert boat iu a manner that
was painful.
It was not that he was particularly
wanting in courage, but, shut in there. by
the darkness, it was impossible to ]seep
back the thought theta desperate man who
had stolen oat orhidden might be lurking
close by ready to spring upon him iu an
unguarded momeut, drive him off the eltif
shelf which formed his bout, and all would
be aver in an instant, h'or a fall there
meant death by drowning or the fearful
crash on to the rooks below."
" They shan't take me unawares," he
thought,and then beheeitated ee to whether
he should give the alarm by firing his
piece.
In an instant ho had raised it and his
fiugor wee on the trigger, bur he did not
make its flash" out the darkness for a
moment and its report run re-echoing along
,he cliffs.
"What for?" he said to himself ; "bring
the fellows here to laugh at me because I
heard a rabbit on the move. I should never
hear the last of it."
He again grounded his piece, but very
sof tly, and stood with his book to the sea
and straining his eyes in the direc-
tion from whence the sound had come, but
the stones that towered up were all blurred
together into one black mass, and though
he fancied several times over that he could
make out the figure of a man half hidden
by some pr'ojeation, he was fain to confess
directly after that it was all fancy.
"But fancy or not, "I don't mean to be
taken on the grand hop"—and he did not
stir from his position where he stood on the
very edge of the cliff shelf, but kept on
glancing to right and left along the atone
path, and sweeping the slope in front.
Ten minutes passed like thio—ten long -
drawn intervals of time—and then the man
threw up his rifle and stood ready, fully ex-
pecting anatteok,certain now that there had
been googoodreason far the dislodgment of
the stone. For from high up ou the top
of one of the ranges of prison buildings a
sound rang out which sent a thrill through
the watcher's nerves. '
It was the alarm bell, which might mean
the ;teethe of prisoners or an attack from
a deadly enemy ; bat it could not be the
latter, for there was no reflection of a
fire.
•' Now for it I" muttered the man, with
his finger on the trigger, prepared for the
rush of a man or teen, and he thought
over tate formula, he must utter before he
fired,
I don't want to hurt anybody," he
said softly, " but no one shall drive me
over without getting something first. It's
that Ratcliff Highway chap at his game
again. I wish they'd hang him or send
him somewhere else."
And he thought of a warder who had
been disabled for lite, and another who
was absent twelve months, both from in-
juries inflicted by a savage brute whom all
the men feared.
Another instant and all doubts were at
an end, for there was a bright fiash, and
directly after the heavy,reverberatiag roar
of a gun.
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"Sharp's the word r' said the man softly
as, taught by training, his finger involun-
tarily drew forth a loud clinking from the
loot of the piece he held ; and ae he stood
there, breathing bard, every nerve and
muscle was on the strain, for he could hear
steps Doming rapidly in his direction, and
they must pass him—there was no other
way ; and it meant a desperate attack made
by men armed with hemmers and bars,.
perhaps only stones, and on the warder's
part duty and self defense.
"Someone's number monad nut," he
muttered fiercely, for there was no feeling
of dread now.
Then a change came over hint as, with an
intense feeling of satisfaction, he grasped
the fact that the measured beet of feat was
that of their more diaeipliaed men,
Ide challenged, and there was the reas-
suring response.
Anyone been this way ?" cried a ser-
geant breathlessly as he halted four mem
No."
" Three of 'em got out and half killed
two warders. They carne along here we
think.
" Nobody been tide way."
" Keep a sharp lookout, then. We're
going on. Challenge, of coarse but, if they
don't stand lot them have it. They won't
epare you. Ready, there ; we'll go on to
the next poet. and COme back directly."
" Stop !" said the sentry huskily ; "
thought I hoard a stone roll down from up
yonder a few minutes ago,'
" They are there, then,' Dried the ear-
geant, "safe enough, Now, then," he
shouted ; " the game's up, my lade. Give
in. No stones, or Pl1 give orders to fire.
Ready, there ; present 1"
There was a dead silence,
"Nobody could get over the cliff hero,"
growled one of the men. "Monkeys might,
perhaps."
"Silence C' cried the sergeant. "They
,n000 be there. Now, then, will you come
down, or are Wo to molt you, oil?"
"Hirsh 1 What's that?"
The atttniotakable rattling of stones and
it ocrambliog Bound as if eon -mono had clip.
pe�h
"Rah i that's good ehough, Now, thou,
Ir 10 aurtondev 1"
Silence again, end the darkness iu front
Walker than ever.
"l'oh will have it, them" cried the ser.
geaut. "One and four, a Bogen pa000 right
and loft,
The ovohntlon was pperformed, and then
with a man on each aids of him the sergeant
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01140 41010 shouted to the convicts to givo
in,
"Iii, look out 10 roared one of the ward.
ere.
"In the Queon'e name, anrrend-,--n
A dull, heavy blow, and a groan were
heard almost together, cutting short the
sergeant's ohalfange, fora heavy piece of
rook etruck hint full in the face, while a
couple more blocks whizzed by the others,
to fall 'wavily far below where they stood,
Simultaneously three dark figures bounded
on to the edge and made atthe little group.
Tho attack was so sudden and' direful in
its results that the warders gave way right
and left, while the 0onviets stooped, liter-
ally glided over the edge of the path, and
began to deoend the horribly steep cliff,
".Don't keep together," cried a hoarse
vcfoe front below. "Every men for hiin-
selfnow."
"Fire t" shouted ono of the warders; and
almost together three rifles flashed out
their aontenta, ,cllowod by a derisive
laugh.
THE WEEK'S NEWS,
CANADA,
Huron County Connell has dooided to
erect a. botiao of refuge,
This year buildbege vesting $141,300 have
been erected in the proaperous town of
k3or11n.
The Chatham, Wallacoburg and Petrolea
railway ie a new project, beaked by strong
capitalists,
Mr, R. R. 'Waddell, a well.known bee -
rioter of Hamilton, Out„ died of diabetes
at his home on Friday, aged sixty years.
The farmers in the neighborhood of Pres-
cott have
ree-cott.-have had au unusually prosperous
smason, the outputbatter and cheese bo-
ing the largeet on r000rd.
Among the mail matter which arrived by
tate steamship $arnla at Halihtx on Satnre
day were packages to go by the Canadian
Then the warder who had been ordered route to Japan and CNtnn.
off to the right firett,imd an the shot echoed home of the extreme' Radicals of the
along the old/ there was a terrible cry, Whiteway party in Newfoundland propose
followed by ;te rush as of something falling. to mernorielize the Queen for the removal
"Now, then, surrender!" cried -oneof of Governor O'Brien.
the warders, who was reloading rapidly,
just as rapid steps wore heard coming along
the path.
"Where are they ?" shouted an authori-
tative voice as ten or it dozen more men were
now halted on the ahell.like path.
"Right down hete, air. One of 'em
down,"
"Halt, there! Do you hear, mon? Sur-
render at once; you can't escape."
No reply, but those above could hear the
scuffling noise of those descending and the
rattle of a heavy atone, followed by a dull
plunge. •
"Your blood be on your own heads,thou,"
said the otboer who had now come up.
"Once niore ; in the Queen's name, surren-
der!"
No answer, but the hurried rustle of the
deseendiug fugitives.
Sharp orders were given, and then came
the fatal word:
"Fire 1"
Several vires rattled out their deadly
challenge now, and as the warders peered
over into the darkness, up through the
heavy smoke came a peculiar anarl, more
like the cry of a savage beast than the ut-
teranos of a human throat, while directly
after, sending a thrill of horror through
the ,nen' who were looking down, there
was the oouud of the heavy plunge as of
something falling front a great height into
the sea.
Then silence, save that the heavy breath-
ing of the warders was audible as they.
listened for the cry, "Help 1" which they
expected to hear from the water when the
wounded man rose to the surface, not one
of the guard daring in his owe mind to think
upon either of the shots fired ae being fatal,
At that moment there was a flash from
off the sea a quarter of a mile away, and a
tow moments later another glare, both
sending a brilliant path of light acroea the
smooth water. And now, plainly Been in
the midst of a bluish halo on the black
night, there stood out the rigging and hull
of a ship, with figures moving here and
there ; two boats were lowered down, and
directly after the water flashed and spark-
led as oats were dipped, and the matt -of -
war cutters, with their armed crews, were
rowed in toward the rooks.
By this time there were fresh arrivals on
the cliff path,the firing having drawn there
men bearing lanterns, and the officer in
charge shouted:
"Got them?"
"No, afr," said the officer respectfully.
"Sergeant Lies is down badly hurt with a
atone, and aaddon'e shoulder is hurt."
"But the prisoners, man ?" cried the
newcomer, evidently one high in authority.
"I'm afraid, sir--"
"The prisoners?"
them -
°Below" here somewhere, air—two of
"Yee, and the °thert"
"We were obliged to fire, sir, asd there
was a cry, and we heard one fall into the
sea."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
WILL TRY HENRY !GEORGE'S IDEA.
A Wealthy German 0.nndowner to Give
Slagle Tax a Fair Trial.
A radical reform has been carried through
on the estates of one of the wealthier
landowners un Germany,' the Prince of
Furstenberg, why owns a large part of the
Mack Forest, in the states of Baden and
Wurtet1ttberg. The prince intends to givo
single tax a fair trial, and the magnitude of
his social.politioal experiments can only be
appreciated when we remember that the
tenants on his estates numbers more than
five thousand. The Abend Zeitung,
Augsburg, comments on these reforms in
the relation between tenant and landlord as
follows :
" The Furstenberg estate in future re-
nounces public taxes paid formerly by the
tenants. Thio inductee, county, church,
school, state, fire insurance and pariah
taxes. Special provision is made to relieve
holdings which had to pay separate contri-
butions for the assistance of the poor. Tire
estate, in future, pays all such dues out of
its own funds. Having noticed that eh
tenants, unfortunately, often n°gleet to
insure their fields against damages caused
by hailstorms, he euaattruges them to insure
their produce by paying 20 per cent. of all
dues on it recorded insurance. The estate is
sheeted in a part specially adapted for the
cultivation of fruit „toes, and the Persian.
burg administration has appointed specially
trained men to attend to the prepay treat-
ment of existing fruit trees, and to increase
the number of trees, wherever possible,
without additional expense to the tenant.
Tho obligations regarding repairs of build
ing ona leasehold havebeen largbly re
dnoed, as well ae those for renewal of suoh
buildings, and expellees of this kind, if
amnnnting to more than a year's rent, win
in future be borne by the estate. Theterm
of lease has been Increased by several years,
and, in order to insure to the tenant as
much profit as poasible, the leasehold will
bo offered for rent two years before the end
of a term, such tenants an fulfil their obliga-
tions having the privilege of renewal.
(formerly, at the death of a tenant, the
eetato hall the privilege to eanael the eon.
tract. Thio privilege the prisma foregoes,
and permits the hake of tenants to continuo
the occupation thereby a hereditary tenon,
try. Thoth are only the main teethed; of
the reforms by which the prince intends to
shield the economically weaker party to 'a
contract of ,lease from dnaneialloss of
ombarrasement," •
•
A Delicate Complirrtent.
Mrs. Goodfoed—". Will you ask a bless.
ingg,� stir, Guest 1"
Nlr. Guest (casting his aye admiringly
over the table)—" Really, my dear madam,
it doeau't need 14"
A new company will handle the news
business on Grand Trunk truffle after Janu.
ary 1, the company having secured an in.
ureaeed price for the privilege.
Owing to the expected large demand for
foe for the ice castle and forte iu Montreal,
and the open seasou, the price of ice for
cdomeseio purposes is advunoing.
On Monday last a daughter of Mr, :Tames
Smith, of Cuirass township, ran a thistle
into ono of her thumbs. Later on blood
poisoning set in t1nd death followed.
A motion introduced by Mr. Desjardine
in the Quebec Legislature to reduce the
sessional indemnity from $800 to $600 has
been given the nix months' hoist.
Sir William Van Horne and Mr, R. B.
Angus have left Montreal by way of New
York upon a holiday trtp to the South of
France and the Mediterranean.
The London Street Railway Company
will carrysohool children to and from Lon-
don West between 8.30 and 9 a,m. and 4
and 4.30 p.m., for a gent each per trip.
Montreal ie in a ferment now because a
boodle enquiry, similar to that in Toronto,
is talked of. The Good Government
Association is said to ,be back of the
movement,
Mr. A. L. Froward, of "Gutting gun"
fame, intends making application for
naturalization papers; as he intends resid-
ing permanently in Canada. He was born
in New Hampshire, Mass.
It was stated in Winnipeg on Friday
that the appointment of a Lieutenant -Gov-
ernor will be made within a month, and it
is believed that Mr. M. 13. Soarth will get
the position.
Major-General Herbert, accompanied by
his aide.de-camp, has loft Otoewa for
Victoria and Esquimalt, B. 0„ to inspect
the works of fortifiertion there. He will
be book in Ottawa by Christmas day.
The Rev.R.Y. Thomson, B,D., professor
of Apologetics and Old Testament Litera-
ture in Knox College, Toronto, died on
Sanday, after an illness of Six weeks' duree
tion, from asthma and lung trouble.
At a meeting in Toronto the other night
of the Canadian Cricket Association it was
decided, if a representative team can be
aeeured and satisfactory financial arrange-
menta be made, to send a Canadian team
next year to England.
The Parke and Gardens Committee of the
Toronto City Council, ]las granted a site in
the Queen's park on which will be erected
a monument to the volunteers who fell in
action during the North-West rebellion.
Mr. Robert Archer, ex -president of the
Montreal Board of Trade, has been present-
ed by the members of the board with his
portrait in oil, accompanied by a beautifully
illuminated address, in appreciation of his
services in connection with the new build.
fog.
In his speech on Friday night at Niagara
Fall, Ont., Mr. Haggart, Minister of
Railways and Canals, stated that the
Dominion general elections will take phos
within a year. This meaue that the
Government will go to the country by
December, 1S95.
In 1873 wire, J. E. R. Nelson, of Mont-
real, gave to McGill Untvereity the sum of
twenty thousand dollere to be used for the
endowment of o, chair of mental and moral
philosophy. Mrs. Molepn now sends
another cheque for a like amount to increase
the fund for the auetanance of the their.
GREAT nitITAIN.
Mr. Gladstone will go to the Riviera in
January.
Horatio William Walpole, fourth Ear
of Orford, died on Friday, He was 84 years
old,
Too Prince of Wales end the Duke of
York arrived in Loudon from St. Petersburg
on Friday.
Miss Victoria \'okee, who died in London
on Tuesday, Wie the last of the celebrated'
theatrical family.
In the last five years fees paid to counsel
for the Crown in England and Wales
amounted to $570,000.
In November the emigration from Great
Britain to Canada was :—English, 040 ;
Scotch, 25 ; Irish, 66 ; and for the eleven
months :—l.ngliah, 15,467 ; Scotch, 917
lrieb, 976.
The American lino steamer Paris, from
New York, wenn aground oft the omnpe.ny'a
docks at Southampton on Wednesday night,
but was floated oif shortly after noon yes.
terday.
The Freeman's Journal, of Dublin, says
that forged American heads to the yahoo
of several thousand pounds aro in the hands
of Selfaet investors. The bonds were bought
in the nsual way.
Donaldson Brothers, the Glasgow ship-
owners deny the recently circulated ru-
mour that they are about to transfer the
American terminus of their lines from
Montreal to. Boston.
Reginald Seundoreon, charged with the
murder of the woman Dawes, who was
found with bar throat out in London, was
arraigned on Saturday in Loudon, The
prisoner was remanded.
The Duchess. of Leinster, the moat noted
artetocratio beauty of floe generation, is
dying at Menton° of consumption, the re.
suit of a cold caught at the dupe's funeral
a year ago.
Two practical eolutions have been suggest.
ed for the problem of the unemployed of
Great Britain. Ono is the .roctanation of
tato waste, and the other the afforesting of
the waste'lands of England, Scotland, and
Ireland.
"'The Jenner relics, recently on show at
ring's College, London, aro to be gold by
auction, They include the diploma, ohm,.
term, and addresses which the great dootoe.
redoived, as well as a considerable number
of manuscripts and autograph lettere.
An important, step is to be made in mod.
eruizing Otto armatneitte of old, though net
obsolete, vessels of the British navy, All
the six'iuch breechloaders are Lobe replaced
by six-inch gniek-siring guns when the
slope are dooked again for repairs,
The managers of the Manchester ship
°anal are straining every uorvo to attract
trade, Negotiations are in progress for a
direct service between Manoliester and tate
Mediterranean ports, including Symroe.
A line to and from Bombay is also eon.
tempiated.
The cluution for the seat in the British
House of Commons for the North Lindsey,
or Jsrigg, division of Lincolnshire, made
vacant by the appointment of Mr. Samuel
fl. \Noddy, Q. 0„ to the Reeordorebip of
Sheffield, remitted in the return of Mr. J.
Mansell Richardson, the Conservative can-
didate, by seventy -coven votes over Mr.
Harold J. Reekibb, hie Liberal opponent.
'UNITED' STATES.
Capt. John Pridgeon, the millionaire
capitalist and vessel owner of Detroit is
dead.
Richard Cooker and M. F. Dwyer are
contemplating, the temperer of thele racing
interests to England,
Miss JoeephfneBrand, of Lawrenceburg,
Ind., was robbed of $10,500 inoash on the
streets of Cinoinnati just before dark Thera
day night.
The Denver grand j cry has begun a eeoret
investigation of the numerous murders by
etraoglih committed there in September
and Gotober.
A long continued drought has prevailed
in portions of northern Indiana, and such
is the scarcity of waterthaftbere has been
suffering in many places.
Four hundred oloakmakers, employed by
Strawbridge & Clothier, of Philadelphia,
went oit a strike ou Thursday rather than
submit to a reduction of wages.
The faculty of the College of Dentistry
of the University of Minesota has decided
t odiicontinne the use of hypnotic sugges-
tions in the: dental infirmary.
Sir ,Julian Pauncefote, the British Am-
bassador, accompanied by Lady Pauncefote
and the Misses Paunoefote, have returned
to Washington from England.
•
.1, M, Rapport has won $5,000 by walk.
ing from New York to San Francisco,
starting May 15, and to finish before Deo -
ember 31. He bad a month to spare.
President Cleeland has reconsidered his
decision, and has consented to send a
en
represtative to the Porte's commission of
lug uiryinto the Armenian atrocities.
Tne Rev. Conrad Haney, one of the most
prominent of Chicago divines; has eloped
with Mrs. Brandt, thewite of a wall -known
banker. Society ie stirred over the event.
The Chamber of Commerce, of New
York, has passed a reeoltition favoring the
extension of the Lexow Committee's
investigations to all departments of the
City Government.
The shipments of Mediterranean iron
ore to Philadelphia which have been
entirely suspended for nearly two years, in
consequence of the dulness of the iron
business, have been, resumed.
-'Dr, John H. Durlaod, president of the
Provident Bond and Inveetment Company,
of Philadelphia, has been found guilty on
rite charge of using the mails to further a
scheme to defraud.
The ' effort, to prevent anarchists from
Doming to the United States will be re-
sumed in the House of Representatives
next week, Itis said a large number of
anarchists are about to leave France for
America
Goodman Barnett, for 3C pears a member
of the Ohmage Board of Trade, has com-
mitted euioide. He went to the docks of
the Anchor steamship line, and, standing
as closely on the edge of the deck as he
could balance himself, swallowed poison.
Then he fired a revolver shot into his head
Judging from commercial telegrams,
there ie little material Change in the trade
situation throughout the United States.
There is always a .commercial lull towards
the end of the year, and what is oalled the
holiday trade is of little real importance.
The plaits affecting the new °errancy, and
opinion is =oh divided as to the ad.
vieabilityof the suggested change. There
has been no disturbance caused by pay -
manta for the bond issue, and gold is being
shipped to Europe. Cotton is now at the
lowest point for years. Proapeete are bet-
ter in the iron trade. Failures in the
United States total 385 for the week
against the same number in the correspond.
ng week a year ago, Usually the tend.
alloy of prices ie reported as, towards firm-
ness, and the outlook is generally considered
hopeful for business early in the coming
year.
GENERAL,
Most of the silk weavers of byous,France
are on strike.
Compressed air as a motive force ha
been adopted on three lines of tramways in
Paris.
A hugget of titi weighing five thousand
four huedred pounds has been found
in Tag -
manly.
Tho Lower House of the Austrian Viet
is considering a bill for the prevention of
drttnksnness.
King Christian, of Denmark, is suffering
from a cold contracted on the way home
from St. Petereburg.
Count Ferdinand de Leaaeps, the great
canal projector, who was born in 1305, is
oritirally ill in Faris.
Two transports with Turkish troops on
board left Conotaotinoble ori Sunday last
far the Black sea.
The Parse Eolair states that 15 mutt:
ablate, belonging to an organized baud of
thieves, have boon arrested in' Paris
Conventions have been signed be all the
Auetralian colonies for the dlreet inter.
change of money orders with Canada.
A local judge in Germany has aroused
general indignation by fining a workingman
for appearing in court in a.blue blouse,
Rev. Dr. W. J. Hall, aCanadian miooion.
ary, has died from typhoid fever at Seoul,
Corea. Ito wan born at Glen Buell, 'five
miles from Brookville.
A epeoial from St. Petersburg eaye : The
Rueafau prose nnanimoualy repudiates the
idea of intervention by Russia in the attains
of Armenia.
Zokki Pasha, who ie gold to have been the:
leader in the Armenian butchery, has been
decorated by the Sultan for "oapproosing
the Sidle revolt."
MBE 21,, 1894
realized thirtyeix.thoueend;}uarha, which
wtil be handed over to the building fond
of the William tits First memorial estho-
dral.
Connt Ferdinand de Laeaeps, the great
Frenolt engineer, who parried• out the
construotion of the Suez canal, flied
yesterday, Ifs wee eightynine years 0
age,
Gen. Condo, the Governor of Warsaw,
Inas received an order from the Czar not to
interfere with the Catholic clergy or to
Impose any orders upon them, Gen. Gourko
has resigned.
From a atutly of the death returns of
the States of Europe a Masoow statistician
estimates that at least 40 per sent, of the
inhabitants of that part of the world die of
preventive infectious diseases.
With 3,300 inhabitants the German town
of Orb, in the Spessart Mountains, has no
taxon except a dog tax, all expenses -being
defrayed by the proceeds of public saline
baths, forests, and a fund of 111600,000..
Japan would, it is said, accept 400,000,-
000 yen and close the war now if China
would knuckle down and the for peace in a
way to suit Japanesee ideas, It the war
is prolonged the demand will bo inarawled.
There was a disturbance in the new
Neiehstag palace in Berlin the other day,
nn the oecaafon of the first sitting of the
Roiohetag, owing to the refusal of the
Susialfet members to respond to the oall of
the President for three cheers for the Em*
parole
In consequence of the oold, wet season
and the consequent look of fiowers,the bees
in Franco have not been able to muse honey
enough to feed themselves. Bee oultivators
are supplying their hives with honey and
auger in order to keep the bees alive.
00 payment of $300 a young man is ex-
cused from military service in Spain. The
other day a man wrote to the Queen that
he had already paid $3,000 to exempt ten
of his eons, and begging her to excuse the
other fourteen from service, ae he had no
more money. The Queen granted„tlte re.
quest.
THE SULTAN'S GIFTS.
The order of the [nttfns for the oilmen nit[
'Prince of Wates—Cite Snlh,n Would.
Like Ole Garter in Return.
A despatch from London says :—Munir
Pasha, Grand Master of the Ceremonies of
the Imperial Court of Turkey, to 00 his
way to England to deliver to the Queen
and the Prince of Wales the order of the
Imtiaz, which has been conferred, upon
them by the Sultan, This order was
founded by the Sultan in August last year
and at present the only knights are himself
and the Gorman Emperor. He will, how-
ever, shortly confer it upon the Czar of
Russia and the Emperor of. Austria
thab is, if they keep their hales off the
American ldifficulty. In return for his
present to the Queen and Prince of Wales,
the Sultan expecte to receive'the Garter
from the Queen, There will, however, be
an outburst of indignation in England if
the Garter is conferred upon him while
the Armenian maeoueree are still neatened
for, The insignia of the Imtiaz is a star,
vet with brilliants of the first water, and a
gold necklace, from wniah is suspended a
gold shield, bordered in red and white
enamel, and bearing on each side an Arabin
inscription.
INDIA BREWING BEER.
British Beer no Longer imported for the
Army—it is Obtained .trent ludtan
Brewers.
A despatch from London Bays —Not
long ago almost every ship which left the
British Isles for India carried a quantity
of bottled ale and porter an a part of its
cargo. This exportation has fallen off
rapidly of late to the great disgust. of
British brewers, There is, however, no
consolation for the temperanoe people
in the fact. It simply means that In
dia, which is rapidly developing new in
dustries, is brewing her own beer. The
Government no longer impede it for
the army. The beer supplied to the troops
in northern districts is Indian beer, bought
of Indiad brewers under contract. In 1.
mute of the oontry where no contract exists,
regiments have supplied themeelvea since
1891. The quantity brewed annually
during the last five year has averaged
5,094,791 galiuns. Lase year the brew was
5,532 r25 gallons. Of this more than
3,000,1100 gallons were bought by the
army oommiesariat,the rest finding private
purchasers.
BORN IN 1786.
A nemar&able Old Man Who Is on a 'lith
to Ills Reya.
A despatch from Chicago says:—Wdllfam
Chambers, of Chatham, Ont., who is 108
years old,pasaed through thio city yesterday,
morning en route from Portage la Prairie,
Manitoba, to his home in Chatham. Ile
was travelling along and toddled around
the Dearborn street station as sprightly as
any young fellow of 5d or 60. He had beau
up in Manitoba to see his boys, who are 18
and 83. He was born in England in 1780.
When Napoleon was changing the map
of Europe he wan a sturdy young man. He
fenght with the Duke of Wellington in
Spain for several years, but left the service
before the Duke beat Nspoleou, eo Ito does -,
not alum to be a Waterloo survivor. He!
come to America eoou afterward and
settled in Canada.
ROBBED A LADY.
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Masked Men btrttthleie TWO Letts Women:
Into Painting and EeCape 10111, 'Their
!sooty,
A despatch from Niagara Falls says :-1.
Masked robbers entered the house of Mise
Serah:Hittie, near Sanborn, Friday eight, •
on the American aide of the river,and com-
manded blies Hittie to give up her motley
and valuables. The young lady's mother
fainted at'the eight of the then and their
throats, After rubbing the wotnen the men
attempted to make Miss Hittie go to rho
The German Bundesrath is considering barn and harness a horse for them. the
a proposition to increase the duty on cotton aid suooumhed with fright end was unable
seed oil by about 980 per cent, This will to shave. The men then bound and gagged
hit the United States another hard blow. her, and esoapod with her ltoree, whioit Nes
not been oaptored,
icer father-” What era your habits',"
Hor adorer--'" You ought to know, sir. I
butiooe, liavebeen ealliuq on your dal hter evot
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Emperor William's "Song to Aegir" has might fur three months."
There is a proposal afoot to area a
national monument over the grave of
Princess Bismarck, the funds to be raised
in all German cities by voluntary 'ooutrf•