HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-3-11, Page 6LATE BIIITISIE EWS.,1
Penethes front the Cape of Utastl Hope aro
anew being sold hi London.
A eon of Charlen Matthews, born in New
Yolk, is now, kit the age of 42, beeoming
oomph:nous at the Britiab bate
A Nom, Myhre is promised in a suit of
William George Hewett' to oust his alleged
4ons1n, the lead of Wicklow, from the es-
tates in Wicklow and Donegal.
Servants are growing scarcer and scarcer
in England, This country has itemized it
eensiderahly, and now the demand from
Australia i$ getting to be very troubleetnne.
A. bicyclist Wile riding on an English foot.
loath, obstructing pobutly, but far this, 011
being smomoned, he was fined as being on
. I the plith
The mortality from measles in England
is said to exceed anythiug that can thus far
be attributed to the influenza There are
13,000 deaths from meesles annually iu
:England and Wales, and the mertality has
mcreased greatly during the last decade.
More butter per head is used in England
than in any other country. There they use
t hirteen pound* per head per annum ; in
Germany eight pounds, Holley(' six pounds,
Italy one poun.L
.A, photographer has set up a studio in
Hyderabad, the great Mohammedan city in
Deccan, for the exelesive use of the Nizenis
Tenana and the local nobles. The trade is
is said to be immense.
There is a scheme for a communistic
axperitnent in Africa, in English territory,
near Mount Kenid, in the equatorial high.
lands, hi a region described at, an earthly
paradise. Most of the eolonista will be
made whenever suttleient capital can be
collected.
Prince 1 retion Bonaparte, who died in
-England a tew weeks ago, left to the eountry
of his doption his famous cabinet (21 chemi-
cal elemeets. some et the specimene are
exceedingly valuable. Among them are
gold, platinum, itedfum and germanium,
-which Is worth sixty thnes as notch as gold.
The Prince's collection wits one of the must
perfect in existence.
The statieties of the Loudon Fire Better t
ment, just published, show that there wore
mearly 3,000 fires hi London last year, and
during that timer.), lives were lost at tires
and 207 lives were saved by the firemen.
There were 337 more fires last year than in
1890, and (191 more than the yearly average
for the p2202 012 years. Of laet year's fires
200 are attributed to lights cerelesely thrown
down, 82 to explosions and other iteeiderts
with spirit lamps, and 62 to children play.
Mg with matches. There were more fires
in December than in any other month, and
Christmas week was a partiettlarly unfor-
tunate period.
.A. deputeeion waited on the Lord Mayor
of London the other day to obtain his aid in
securing a fair trial in London for anthracite
coal. They said there was a prejudice
against this coal in London on the part of
domestic servants, who complained that it
was very difficult to light tires with an•
thracite. The deputation said, however,
that nothing was easier than lighting or-
dinary fires, and that great etiouomy result-
ed from its use. They thought the intro-
duction of anthrecite would contribute to
abate the fog naisance in Loudon. There
are about 700,000 houses in London which
on cold days consume 40,000 tons of coal,
emitting 480 tons of sulphur. Anthracite,
they said, was being largely used in Paris,
Berlin, and other Continental cities. The
Lord Mayor said that, in public interest,
he would do everything in his power to
secure a fair trial for anthracite coal in Lon-
don.
Shocking Murders in Paris.
The neighbourhood of the Rue Rambuteau
was thrown into a state of great excitement
on Friday by the news that another Woo -
Mus murder had been committed in broad
daylight, and that the murderer had eseaped.
.A. woman, named Marguerite Foureant,
sixty-two, had lived for the past thirty-five
years in the Rue Rombutea with a man
named Guichon, a cook. The °maple oc-
cupied one room, anti were in great want
for some time owing to their inability to find
employment. Guichon went out ae usual at
two in the afternoon to seek work, and on
returning at five to his room at the top of
(N. the house found the woman's dead body
lying on the floor in ipool of blood. The
valise of death was at (moo appareet, as the
body was gashed in several places. Guichen
immediately called for aid, and a doctor
soon arrived, but he could only state that
the poor woman had (lied from seven wounds
inflicted with a knife. The murdered wo-
man possessed nothing worth stealing, At
Bow Street Pence Court, London, on Mon-
day, Constant Peschard and 301)0012
31Ioudescene, were brought up before Si
. John Bridge for extradition on a charge
murdering Charles Zancner, within the
enriecliction of the Freed) Republic. Th
prisoners, it will be remembered, were ar.
rested at Jersey, where they had taken re-
fuge, and were handed over to the Sootland
"Yard police, by whom they were 1 rought
to this court. The deceased, Charles Gaudi-
er, a man of 72, resided at La Pilatullere,
near Tresnes, 10 Om department of tho Seine
Relived in a most isolated hut, near the
granite quarry at which the aeonsed Con•
stara worked. On the morning of tho 8th
ult. he was found by his brother with his
throat out and a stab h2 the chest, Same
eats were seated on the nounterpane of the
bed on which he was lying, and had eaten
hie right cheek completely away. From
the position of the body and the wounds in-
flicted he had evidently had a terrible strug-
gle with his mtirderer, and the room and
bed were drenched with blood, and articles
of furniture were overturned and broken.
Be (Gaucher) had openly haimated his in-
tention of withdreaving 200 francs from
the bank a few days Wore, and this is sup.
' posed to have been the motive for the crime-
Buspienon fell on Pest:hard, who was Getich•
ere: nephew, and who was living with the
'Woman Hondeacear. He and the woman
absconded end went to Jersey on the 11 th
ult., and were arrested after a tovere Oreg-
. gle. The mitle prisoner mitt he lied been
greatly serprieed at hie arretff, and he could
prove that before the murder was committ•
ed he and the woman were living 122 22 hotel.
,1 The lamileely would prove that they bed
not gone out at the time the deed was done.
TLey 'teem retnanded,
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PAPER OCT or DIET.
A. Companye Odd teil.alitent,mrlso :Ma 0217051
The Refuse Diepesel Company,
hi imielen, al engaged in the manufacture
of paler 1010 the emi tents of the dust bin,
of whielt terve per emit, at least is paper
and rage, 1 i1e 11 he a quantity 9f :strew
and other 122411 material.
The proetee is thee deseribed 2 The duet
on its atrited at the worke is shot into a
laege revolt. leg riddle having 12 three-inch
mesh t ham elt which the heavit.r mid small-
er matter finds its way, w Idle the paper,
rags, lereer legatee ties, eta, ere resolved
at the aelivery end of the riddle, and are
duly ranted by hand, Tee heavier mater-
ials which pass through thia riddle ere re,
alive.' on a traveling baud and elevated to
a second rebIle havitig 21 une•andefatalf.inch
mesh ; at the delivery end of this second
riddle an air blast blowe the lighter moteri-
als away front the heavier the lighter per -
tion principelly consists uf material euitable
for making rough paper ; the heavier is
autometiodly delivered on to n, revolving
table, where it is overlooked by hogs, who
separate the bones, glass, et:2,, while the
clinkers mei organic matter are ground up
in 14 o'lergang.
This ground material is sent ont from the
works fee manure. Thu heevier and small-
er pieces tvilich pass through one.and.a-balf-
Mel) mesh .4 the seeend riddle are egain re-
ceived on a traVeling band andmechanieelly
sifted through a lialiduch mesh which
divides thent into two qualities—ashes,
Whioli are automatically delivered into
barges, and " breeze." 'Tide " breeze "
coesiets to 0 great extent of small pieees of
enal and other organic material, 0111 10 used
by the compauy as fuel, being burned in
their 'milers,
To prevent any disagreeable smell the
draft by the tires is (the:fined by exhituRtipg
Wit 111 22111 and the products of combeetion
linseed thawed: an ordinary " scrubber,'
thee avoiding all uttleanee, The limper -
making materials are Memo run into a
011111,0 brown baeingpaper in the premises.
Nevec was a paper mill with sixty -inch
machine .got him 12 smaller space. The
company 10 now 'nuking about 1,500 pounds
of brOW11 paper in twelve hours.
The refute received in the morning leaves
the work us finished paper in the afternoon.
Bits of Natural History,
'Parsley is poisonous to nutny kindof
lirds.
eirs. 13arriollud, a florist of San ;Mateo,
Cal., has a collection of chrysanthemums
including 250 vedettes and 18,000 plants.
The sapphire and emerald are malted
with properties which render them capable
of influencing oplahaltnio disorders, end
there is a superstitious belief that orpeuts
are blinded by looking 216 1110 latter stone.
Almonds are such near 0000100 10 peaches
that one tan be grafted upon the other, and
the analogy ia made plainer in this in-
stance, becettse the athlete' on the tree is
also covered by a pulp.
41.0 Oregon sweet potato weighing ten
pounds is said to have recently furnished a
meal for twenty people. 13ut, doubtleas,
there were accessories in the shape of meat,
pie and potatoes.
The tornado whirles at a rate variously
esti:nate(' from 500 to 2,000 miles au hour.
Though ephemeral and diminutiveit has
vastly.greater violence. To elm ie " cy•
alone ' is to belittle its terrors. True, ay.
clones are exceedingly some, while Lorna.
does are numbered by the hundred every
season.
To ascertain the prodnetive power of
weeds, the .meds upon a single plant of dif-
ferent speciee have been counted with the
following results : Wild earrot 1,200, dan•
delion 1,5000, chickweed 2,01.0, cockle 3,200,
compsion 3,425, chest; :3,500, dock 3,700,
ragweed 4,372, groundeel 6,500, ox -eye
(laisy 9,600, trallow 1631)2, motherwort 18,.
0(0 fox -tail 114,500, sow thistle 19,000, mils.
2125 13,000, Canadian thistle 42,000, red
p Tpy 50,000, hurtled( 400,328, pursaue
504,000 lambs' quarters 825,000.
Idahommedanism in LiyerpooL
Mr. Quinlan., of Liverpool, leafier of the
Moslem party in England, who last year
had an audience of the Sultan in refet ence
to providieg for the wants of the Mahout
medans in this couritry, confirms the report
thet 'Moslems in litumith, Britieh India,
and ostler large cevtres are aiding the Liver -
pont Mahommedans by suescribing to the
proposed building of a religious edifice to
supersede the temporary momme in Liver-
pool. It is also intended to build in Lit °e-
pee] a moslem college, to be under the im-
mediate tuperintenence of the officers of
the congregetiou, and levying for the princi-
pal Professor Karl Falkner, of the Universi-
ties ot Basle and Zerich. It is pointed out
that many :A alternmellans in Turkey, lndia.
Syria, Egypt, 50211 the British colonies on
the West Coast of Africa desire to give
their children a good education, but hesitate
to send them to Europe lest they should be
influenced in their religious views, The
college will edjoiu the new mosque, and re-
ligious oxerctses will form part of the pro-
gramme. It is also intended to purohese
land for a Moslem cemetery in Liverpool.
Pisa's Architectural Wonder.
The famoua " Lowing Tower" of Pisa,
Italy, $o celebrated in the annals of the
world as one of Lite greateut of its many
wonders, was begun in the year 11514, but
was not finiehed 215211 after two eenturies
had dime and gone. ft was erected as a
sort of triumphal tower tn celebrate the via.
tovy of Lho 2 -sons ind the Nortnaus over
the Saracens, the two former having allied
to drive the lat tet ota alttaly. The foot
(.bat this old relic ie now in the market, and
offered for sale to the higher leader makes
this item timely and ifppropriate. The ohl
tower is eirculer lebapo, 100 feet in diem.
eter, 179 feet high, and is of p00 white
rnuable, Itis divided into eight stories and
has galleries at each story which 50 1201 en-
tirely eround it, As above mentioned,
entire structure is of mateive marble elate
the weight of which git es it a decided over-
topplieg Look, the int) lianghig out, es it
(Moe, sixteen feet over the fonndation.
The Belling Sea is: eries.
Washingtnn, ed iroh 1.—The long pend-
ing (1)0522 15 as to the Reliving eea seal
fisber,es beset laSt, 5, for as the...omission
vhiell has had the matter undue cm:side:a
',lion aro comae nett, been settled. The
ogreemeet hes been signed on the part of
4teet terabit) by Sir JIM ot Poen efoLe, ley
0(03 wielt the consent of Lord Salisbety, on 1
Seeretary Blaine tor the United Sae es,
The terms (if the 6.05.237, which has yet to
lc submitted and approved by further
ineial acts nf the two Governments, con.
int lo learned, nor will ; hey be made Wm°
intil Thie, howeL Gr, on 1,0 said,
hat, the A r hit 2211 ,01) Conim sabsi w,1 I roii•
1s2 01 1:('22011 tneeilieve, t wo for the United
taloa one eaelt tor Canada tied Great
freed], wh la the retteeniete Moo tee! Le.
ntaent thn nonilal powers of lortuum,
An Immense Cargo of Wool,
The Arroyo (Ceptein lePtiowitn) loft
Sydney on the 10th 'December with what is I
believed to be the largest dap of wool that r
ver left Australia in oe nbre tom, Itemised,- 1
dorm) fewer than 11 750 bales of we& under
eaehes, Yalu tet at 000,000 • Tho A rroyo 14 1,
n 00022a1121 of Captain WM-1watt, for maity s
5000 Mast or of the ship Bettye:me,' whnee 8
Oyages to and from N'ew Zeal:led in 'the -I
ixtice mid Seventies arc fresh pi reeollen-
IIRSON ALB, A FAMOUS CRIME, ELE0 nu MARVELS AT BEA,
- —
Jeremiah Green, whet eied recently in
Ulster county, N. Y., aged eightpthroo,
%vas tlw pioneer distiller ot wintergreen oil
n the Statue. Hu matte a eomfortable 151'.
0110 in this busineae, and lie bought 0 Meet
of lend, which he haentled to convert. into a
mound for bolding temperance entimenwet•
tugs, 2121000M103 111 gethering together
3,01111 people tit hie first meeting, brit :titer 0
tveakett leher aniutig then:, anti only eueueed-
iug in inducing 1113 to sign the pledge, lie
gave up the temperance husinoss, sold his
lend, and became a sportiug man.
Jacob Primer Loos, the founder of tha city
01 34012 Francisco and "the pioneee of pioneers
of Lealiturnia," died in a hospital in San
Francisco few days ago. He was 82375000
old, lie built the first house in Sou Frau-
cisuo, in 1838, and killed deer and bear
1011500 some of Met eity's busiest streets aro
uow. He made a great deal of money dur•
ing his life, but lost 11 111 his later years.
Louis 'Mettler, " Monsieur do Paris,' who
is semi to relinquish his offiee because of old
age, has been for forty yenrs the chief
exoeutioner of leranee, aud thet time he
has decapitated not fewer than 200 murder -
erg. His trade has made him detested by
his acquaiutenace, bat he has had the prao.
tical conselatiou of it fortune of 6120,000
areaseed by it, and for the rest of his life a
pension will be paid him. Diebler is now
neventy years of ago.
'The Malidi's successor at Omdurman was
terribly angry when he found that Father
Ohrweider aud the two 41.11.triau nons had
tnatie their escape. Tbeir flight. was die -
covered the next day after they left the
city, A number of men on camels were at
once sent in pursuit of the fugitives, but
returned after two or three days without
having seen anything of them. it will be
remeitibeved that for three deys and nights
the 1591111 00 travelled incessantly. The
Khania accused his other 'European captives
of having aided the escape, and for a few
days he kept them in close confinement, but
O little later they gained the same freedom
they had previonsly enjoyed.
Paul MeCormick, a wealthy resident of
Montana who is known by the pron.' title
of the big white chief of Yellowstone comity,
declares in all sincerity that he will drive a
fourin•hand team of elk through the streets
and parks of Chicago at the World's Fair.
A Mr. Marshall of lateen:ma Mont., posses-
ses a fine herd of thirty•four elk, whiolt he
hag been exhibiting through the State. Mr.
McCormick bought; the entire herd last
\reek, anti two tame antelopes in addition,
paying 675 a head for the elk and $50 00.011
for the antelopes. The elk are very fine
specimens. 2.1r. McCormack will establish
a game park on his property at Fort Custer
and will train the elk for driving. It Leonid
be a rounding out of the idea for him to
train 2 be antelopes for carriage dogs, to trot
behind hie elk team in Chicago.
Eugland's favorite artiet of the present
day, L. Alina-Tadoma, is a IMO of Duteh
parentage, for he was born in Friesland, and
is the son of a notary, It is a fact of addl.-
tional interest that Hubert Redeemer,
another artist of great popularity in Eng-
land, 4121.5 born in Germany. Tatlerne is a
man of ru.01y cnniplexion, who effects the
51310 of mesauthe and goetee to which the
third Nepoleon gave its name. On Ms head
only partly hidden by the heir is a notice-
?
able scar, which he received in boyhood.
The artist is said to be email of remark.
able industry, workiee on his oanyas as
Trollope worked on his hooka with nn -
remitting toil, and frequently snatchieg 21
little extra time for his easel from his din-
ed hour.
The men who built what is claimed to
have been the first transatlantic etc:inner,
the Royal William, livesin North Evanston,
one of Lhe suburbs of Chicago. He is
James Goodie, 8110513' veteran of eighty-
three years, small of stature, but vigorous
and active. The Royal William made the trip
from Piaui), Nova Scotia, to Gravesend in
autumn of I,e33, and was probably the first
vessel propelled by steam to do so, the Sa-
vannah, which made the voyage fourteen
years before, relying mainly on her canvas
for speed, and tieing only in tine weather the
small eagine that, built on the deck, could
uot be relied on duriugstorms.
Professor Fowler, the phrenologist, is re.
ported to have said once Mitt elle great
mental and pitysical vigor of Gladstone's old
age is due meet of all to his ability to fall
asleep at any time and on any occasion, i
spite of the anxieties mid °area of the day.
It was mentioned in this column some time
ago that the only occasion when the " Grand
Old Man'' was aver worried into sleepless
nese was at the Lime uf the excitement in
England over Gordon's fate. Ilio also said
that d o dug protracted sessions of the House
of Coinmons Mr. Gladstone takes imps of a
few menace duration, just as duriug mine
some of the Virginia campaigns
Northern generals wore credited with lute.
ing taken short smaches of sleep while lean-
ing agninet their horses or a friendly army
wagon.
Pacts About Trees.
The butternut is tree that bikee best s
reeky, uneven soil, and in whom shade
neither eltrub nor herb wilt thrive. The
bark used as dyestuff for woollens.
Curled and hi rds-eye-maple is wood of
the same family that sotnethnes have cm-
ously arranged fibre, one with onrves, the
other with eyes, hence the name. White
ash is used in carriage works. It is poison-
ous to snakes.
It is sail srmite lb never 101111(1 111 its
shade. White oak timber is valued In ship.
building. Apple is excellent for food and
and fuel. Weaverte shuttles are made of
the wood.
Black birch timber is used M baeltet
works, and that tree is claimed by the fn.
dilute tte their notoral ittheritanoe. It emitAi
a pleasant odor when burning.
Slountitin laurel Lvood is used in making
combs. The leaves aro poisonous to mine
animoes. Black wild cherry timber is mud'
valued in ettbinet works,
The hark Is Mgt ly medicine], leaves
when wilted, al e potecnione to cattle, Of
dogwood, W011,VOIS' spools and handlea of
carotin Imra' tools ate made,
Witch hamil is a large and curions forest
shrub. The bruit:bee were formerly
usml for " diviping rods." And an oxtree
from it is valued hi unelioal prom( tee, Tile
WOW' of h A11101.101111 lumen or white pop
lar, is used 1 he me 2n fine tire of paper,
Hersefietth Dinnere,
The temple ot l'aris have consumee within
the year 21.'29 1 horsca 229 donkeys, aim
40 mules, the meat weighing, accordieg to
the returns of 4,6 15 tone. A t 180 shops
end etalle .vhere this kind of fond is sold,
the ill'ICA 11118 varied from t wet:Mice a pemiti
lo teupence, the hitter tieing the male of
importer hineees: take Hut only no. third
of the nivel., is eohl fresh and mulitieuistel
the rest, ia inuai in making inutateuea end it
811,, i 11111 4.02 liorwrs w••re seised
,
atm UOT111010111,11, kg 11 11(1 1. for feed' beferc els-
i Sweden, tied Hely.' 1 tering the sitimage rate,
1720101110 sr et ;let01, L'1.1?)rgW'ttyl ;low (g' alI tMvfiNe °lYmm•
imeliately heateneti to tell NI.2 Donald, whn
peeked ep all his toluablee and direeted
them to Majer George Mettle:ma Miro
peen Exprees 011iee, 'Sew york, .1 To
1w1111)2011111 tel7e110111..120fior,"; MeDonald removed till
his other alma; from his itperemont in St.
damee, Pietadilly, gathering up, as he
thought, every sorap whiell mild leave 11 111
trace of his nem' haviug inlutbited 11132 Awe
Ilta In thie, unfortunittely for 1, imself, he
was, ni istaittne A small atul netearontly ume.
less wrap of blotting paper, with one or two
other overlooked fra,ginent it of seemingly 110
importanee, became 01 1101,1 tif thn greatest
significance hi the establ idunen b of hie gri i I 1 ,
eluDonald hastily took a train for Liverpool,
end to throw the police off seent in entle
there should bo anyone upon his track,
doubled lipon his path of t revel lettetward
and forward until he at length made his way
to lievre, .where he embarked on 'he steam-
ship Thuringia, Meanwhile George Bid well
was arrestea, During the voyaue of letc•
Donald on the Thuringia tho dot eaten were
exceedingly busy, Letters were procured by
the Bank of England repreeentativott feom
the New York Poet -office, addressed toAne.
tin Bidwell, and containing bonds which had
bean pnrehasted with the proceeds of the
money procured upon the presentation 01 ,5
Memel draft. It was epparent, from com-
paaative exatni nation of the superscription
upon tho envelope of rine of these letter
paykages and of ibe improRtion left ripen
the lent ter which Mellon:lel had foegotten
that the scrapee oF blot tine paper picked up
in et cDonalirs apart mem L in St. Jainet had
been m.0.1 to 22l0te.12 the ink mien the enve.
lope addresael 10 5110210 11117011 Bidwell
found in Now York, mid eontaining pert of
the fruit of the forgeries. McDonald watt
therefore twrested when he lender' et New
York. lint this eine WII.5 not sufficient to
conned him With (118 crime.
'Phn trunk eldell he hail ferwardrel by the
;European Exprees to the address of 'Alai.
George M. 'Matthews, New York, "to be
left till called for," hnwever, still remained
in the office of the express company. For
weeks iL had been there awaiting the eall of
the person authorieed to receive it, with nn
°bated() as to its delivery. eleDonald, some
time before his departure for Enabled nr the
Continent, lied become enemoured of an OX-
tremely °aptly:ding and necomplished lady
living hi the vicinity of New York. After
the in void igation of his me had been pro
grossing for some tveeks in New York, and
the trunk had remained in the office 01 1-110
express employ for pearly a month, he ho-
tline suddenly aroused to the importance
of procuring its nossmion, To no one heel
I e given a Ryllable of information ne itR
entente, not oven to thOW0111all. He weote
to the butte however, tlittg her to proceed
to the office nf the express company, obtain
posse:mien of the trunk, arid store in some
secure and secluded place where its pre-
sence could not be traaed. rho linty obeyed
iristructions ; brit wee unable to give a sat ha
factory description of the trunk and so dbl
not secure it. Detectives, however, had
followed her. They entered tlie office
after and secured the trnnk in which
they found a quarter of 210111110,1 of Govern-
ment bonds, purchased in London with the
bank bills which were paid out npon the
forg,ed drafts. The trunk also contained
letters, documents, and irreintable evidence
of every enneelvable description, connecting
McDonald with the crime. The conclu-
sive testimony furnished by the contents of
the trunk brought the inquiry to a e -cry
speedy termination, and McDonald shortly
thereafter WAS transferred to the custody
of the English (dieters to be reterned to
the jurisdiction ageinst whose laws he had
offended. For the 'emelt he had to blame
alone his own carelessness and lack of fore-
th°Mneglitt-hile, Austin Biron Bidwell, con-
fident in his security, 4022.0 Sailina upon Ms " OVERCOMING Tim .TAT,TrilS CrItYATrnt."
Medal tour, end gradually Lending toward
the home of his prospective happiness in
America. In the course of the wanderings
of the hcpeymoon lie stopped for a brief
season of cejoyment at Hareem, of course
in absloute ignorenee of the net woven
armind him by Lhe circumstances which had
transpired in London stnee his departure.
'rho untiring ollieers of the 0120 Imo, how-
ever, in his wake, and the dreaded tap of
the English doctec Hee wee soon upon his
shoulder in the streets of the island capital.
A brief in Li ti
V08-.:4:1 -.011, 11 shorb spasm Of
reliance by A ast in upon the abeence uf any
trenty extradi firm its between Spain n1111
GI'Cat which directly antlioriectl
hie surrender, of the stabler) del ermintaion
of the Spanish Government, upon a principle
of internetMnal comity to deliver 111) Ate
Fol live to the demanding Governmene, and
snon Austin Bidwell, with hie unhappy
bride, crashed in spirit, was bound towards
London as a prisoner. On the 20th of Atte.
est. , 1872, the four conspirators eitt in the
dock of he Central Criminal Court, After
the trial hal proceeded for a day or two Slc•
Donald begged leave to address the court,
and, upon its lieine. granted, forthwith, in
choke language, evidently with great 0010.
tion, proclaimed bis own guilt, but begged
the jury to spare from the consequences of
their verdict Anetiti Bidwell, who, he 0011 -
tended, was innocent of the commission of
the crime for which he was npon trial, This
effort, however, was unsuccessful, and the
prisoner% were senteneed to life imprison•
meta, which sentence has just been comma-
od.
A Cheap Disinfectant.
How an Attempt W110 061141), 10 121511) 1.110
Bank or 111agland er a 1.0 44444 is,
'Plie release by 12,20,' Seeret ary elet.thews
of Austin Indwell, the American forger,
%elm lute been an inhabiten 1. of English pri•
none for upwards of eighteen yearn, lute re -
weakened interest in the remarkeble crime
uf 101:100 he was oonvieted —the greeted'
and meet ingeniona forgery of inedern times
a forgery upon that moat werefully man•
need. institutiou, the Bank of England,
whereby 1,000,000 WM freedulently nh.
tained, The ex -convict 18 now fedy.five
pars of ago, and ehorigh not in the boat of
health nifty live to do something to redeem
the pose, The plan by whieh Bidwell and
his coaonspirators, George Bidwell and
George Mt:Donald, operated seeme to have
been suggested by the daring forgery of
.1:20,000 upon the house of Jay Cooke & Co.
of Now York, some time back in the
sixties. In the early spring of 1872 Bidwell
and his associates concocted a scheme of
vast proportions promitang great results.
It was agreed that eapital approximating
$190,000 should be secured. The neccueary
prelim inaey to the aucomplishment of this
object, was a tour of investigation and study
of the defeotive methods of European bank-
ers in their detail, and the chevaliers of th
pet), upon the acquisition of the necessary
capital, started to explore the genie of tit
Continental banker. Holland was the ob-
jective point, Paris and tho Rothschild» the
centre upon which drafts wore to he
be purchased, and to which their
expellee -mute should tend, Austin B.
Bidwell was a man of 25 years of
age, of marvellottely captivating ealdreste
well react, and with extraordinary fluency
of speech. George Bidwell, 35 or 10 years
of age, keen, bright, el Molt of speech, was a
repeesentative of the typical American mei,
chant. George eh:Donald was 28 years of
age, and as handeome and as graceful as any
hero of 1•01111211CC, The Bidwells posed a
representative inerohants of 11111011 means.
and. purobased drafts, opened accouuts, and
sold exchange in all the banking houses on
the Continent, until, by the deposit of
large stuns with the bankers of Rotterdam
or at Hamburg, and the constant transfer of
sucit deposits from bank to bank—from
Holland to Belgium, front leelginin to Peri
—they seemed to bo dealing with nelimited
capitol, and nogni rod a reputation for enor-
mous wealth. George elcDonald, who pee
sessed beyond description skill in the imi-
tation of handwriting, in some quiet and se -
chided chamber prepared the forged drafts,
the signatures of the drawers and endoesers,
ond the explanatory correspondence noun-
s:try to them. For lneg time tho 011.11911.0.
tiUll£:1 'between the varinns haulting houses
were by genuine draft, George Bidwell
usually purelutsing such drefts either in
Berlin, in Lyons, in Paris, of the Roths•
ohilde, in Mussels, in Vienna, end other
6tAielsinut the time George elcDonald had
completed his portion of the wrirk he was
exceedingly annoyed by some superfieial
eruption upon his foreheard, which w. 2 a,
constant wound to his vanity, anti lee ,g
handeome young 1111111, vanity was hie 1.eset-
ting ein. The 0110 inillion pounds hegery
of the Balk of England was the direct result
of the eruptiou on George elcDonald's fore-
head. He had consulted various physicians
in Belgium and in Vienna, whose treatment
did not result enccesefully in removiug his
disfigurement. He, therefere resolved to go
to London anti consult a specialist, in outitn-
eon diseases to whutn he had been reouin.
mended. In Loudon he assumed the narno
of Edward Swift. He heel been there only
a few days when he received a cipher des-
patch which convoyed to him the fact that
Austin Bidwell, who, like all men of the
oriminal class, was of an extremely suspici-
ons nature, had, for some reason, become
dissatisfled wall the experiinent of present.
ing the first forged draft, end informed
McDonald that lie should immediately start
for London for tho purpose of consultation
with him as to futile° operations. MuDonald
vexed and annoyed at this unexpected mit-
mime, telegraphed not only Auetin B.
Bitlwell but, (Marge Indwell else to come te
London, In the conrso of the next day or so
Analin arrived, and George followed shortly
after. There was a bitter disagreement, and
it was determined to direct their efforts int -
mediately against the Bank of England.
Austin was introduced to Munch of the
bank as P. Albert Warren, one of the prin-
cipal owners and projectors of a syetem
which contemplated the nienufauture of
sleeping cars of the Pullman pelace cart type
and of their introduction into England laid
upon the Continent. He had empioyed as
confidential clerk, it 101211 by the name of
Noyes, .who attended to the details of the
transactions. :inertly after being intro.
deceit to the bank, Warren transmitted
genuine &efts for the western brandi of
the Bank of England with short, curt re -
(mesa; that the proceeds should be platted
to his credit, which invariably was done.
'Chose genuine 'hafts were purchased with
(Inc forger's capital, which, being deposited
.1nd redeposited and drawn and redrawn,
presented an apparent credit of trona/Lotions
which could scareely fail to confirm the
faith Bald confidence of tem lmilke. In the
meantime ender the name of Horton, Aus-
tin heel opened an account at the 1_,011tinon-
tel Bimk, on ember(' street. This W00 to
be the principal coneina through which the
proceeds of the forgeries were to be ponrod
when the eeheme WOO rime to lannoli them
upon the Bulk of England.
A torrent of forged paper was at length
poured in upon Lite hank. 'ran, fifteen,
twenty thousand pountie sterling it day MIA
paid without a moment's hesitation, The
great Aineriettn contractor." Ma Warren
had the implica confidence and boundless
teeth of the I3ank of England. Upon the
inert li or fifth day of tbe tide of forgery the
clerk whose duty 01 22(20 to melte tho proper
entre upon the books of bho bank discover-
ed that as to two of the instroments tbe
dates of the acceptance had negligently
1), en left, out. As the drafts wore payable
at sight, this omission it was impor tont to
have corrected ; but, reasoned the consider.
tible band officials. Mr. Warren tnust not
he annoyed and pnt to the tronble of cor-
roding this apparent omiesion, end there-
fore it (belt althe band WW1 at once dispetch-
ed with tho delfts to the onto of Mr Bly•
deed du, of fired. St. Helen's, to have the
siun eereected. Indeed of ramming to
the 11 ink of le:191.110 with )ho anticipated.
apology of Mr, Itlydonstoie fee Lite otnissinn,
the trembling clerk bore back to Ins impel,
kw officers tho etartling intelligent:0 thet
Mr Blydenstoin had indignantly refuted to
supply the missing matter and lied pro.
nouneed the itacepeanoes ho'th to be fared.
ism, Thie led to an immediate examina-
tion of the numerous other drafts, and
the 21,pp:ening fact presented iteslf that the
Mole oF 'England wee 110 180(101 of the:nest
sitenessitil forgeries ever areeooted, to the
extent perhaps of nearly .Z700,000. While
1120 benk WaS making this disonvory, Noyeti
wee on the wey to the Continental flank
vith 'a cheque eIgned :r, (3. itnnov with
Vhich le draw the But on reaell'ng tamale of soda, flavor wIth 00001100 01.10171011 4
he hank ho Wag by the lemlegee add milk enough to make oaks 'rather 03111,
if Ma Bank of England and an offied, and oa-at p„t 10 out,..ber tnitimg, .
SIgnaliAng Without idtrox.
ft ha eamou need teat Mr. Einem' hes rer-
ooteti arteiher w‘meorful elm:trio:a it:Yen-
:1nm (1 intended nob only to (nether tho
e ter 03I of oomrneree, bra 141 protect human
at eett. 36 2, in entettance systani by
whob telegraphic COMM 11 111011 1 1011 01211 bo
enreied on betweeu ships nt between
ihips end the Acme and between (Meant
pointa on land, The mott atrilting feabure
04 that title commitniesalon me) be maintain.
od absolutely without the 1120 01 wire/4.
stile-1'0,SW PAN nalliI,TO sTIORETar.guliArmy
Hero is 0110 of tho ways in wheal the in-
vention is maid to work I—Suppe° all the
shipa that sall the seas are fitted with tho
apparatus, An ocean greyhoued (flays the
CO of Pari8) breaks her shaft) and there
aro fears that she may sink if assistance
cannot be summoned quiekly. Not a sail
in sight, nor a sign of smoke un the horieon.
An operator skilled in the transmission of
Morse oheractere inauipulates a key located,
fax Mamma, in the chart-roone Away
down below the horizon is another ship to
fee distent that not oven her topumets are
visible. The biome signals are transmitted
to the other ship and ana Reeved. The dis•
aided ship gives ber position, and the
other speeds to her aid. The ether ship
!night be a email barque or brig proceeding
under sail and incapable of rendering
In such a ease the barque or brig would work
her signals, whiah would be ()aught up by.
aey ship within a radius of sa.y '10 miles.
Then they might, rouch another sailing ahip,
elm too small and too far away to give the
assistance rognired, but oho in tern would
begin signalieg covering another radius of
30 miles,
20111>8 Der or stone C01,611 SPEAK."
The signals might pass along to lielfet
dozen elope before ehey melted ono large
tinough to aid so big a vessel. When they
dill nitwit one, however, she would reply
that she would go to the disabled vessel's
assistance. The word of cheer would be
passed back from slvp to ship entitle, reach-
ed the disabled greyhound again. Suppose
the rescuing ship to be the Majestic, bound
westward, t 1 to Pane having been on her way
from New York to Liverpool. She takes
off the pitesengers and crew of the wrecked
vessel, and proceeda on ber wny to Now
York, keupiug her operator busy making
signals or calla A few hours after the rosette
an answer comes. It is frotn the Teutonic.,
bound for .Liverpool. A menage fliee from
ono ship to the other, they alter their courses
quickly eeine into Bight teul are in good
I inn! e cable king th of each other. The
Teutonic takes the City of Perim 11501)10 from
the Mitjustie and carries them on towards
Liverpoel. The divine' stellate sout from
the City of Paris may ilaVe first reached a
ship far 10 the north of het ; those
of the itecond ship inay have gone
to one well to the eastward ; the
ones repeated from her may have icaohed
another to the southward, have been paseed
us still further south, until the resetting
ship was reached. All this 1)001 be done
within a few minutes, so thee, surely Within
half an hour of the disaster a rescuing ship
would be found. Suppose (1011N0 fog pre-
vailed as the Majestic was nearing the At-
lantic coast, She :nay have become a trifle
uncertain as to her bearings. Should she
mine within :30 miles of land, hotvever, she
would be able to communicate with people
on shore, mid find exactly where she was.
Collisions would be impossible. Every ship
within a radius of 30 miles would. be able
to tell each other who, what, and where
they were. Ships out of eight of each other
at sea could speak and aelc to bo reported,
passeuger curried out to sea by a traria.
Atlantic steamer by accidenb could pass
word to shore that his Need might be noti-
fied of his safety.
A cheep pnrtable disinfectant is perman-
ganate of potash tit bottle full of thes0 crys.
tale, brought at the store of any chemist,
will 'set for yeavs. It can be usod NV11011
wanted by putting a pinoh of the pottteh
over night in jug of water ; in the morn•
ing it will pretent, a reddish appearance,
and can be used for drains, etc. A small
quantity of this liquid kept in a beein and
renewed daily keeps a room fresh and de
drivel disease gums, 9'ho only drawbaek
is that, if ton stvong, the liquid will stain
linen ; 1,11C 301110 time 16 1>80 the great
advantage of being easily (tarried ebout,
while it; can he prepared in the smallest
quantity at a moment's notice,
A Terrible Death,
News lute reached Kirkby Stephen ef 1 110
death, in torrilde eiramtstances, of a work-
man named Parkins, entittged at the Hu non
13nrytee 510108, on the Westmoreland Fells,
Parkins Wali eligaged alone in the engine.
house oiling the maehinery, when he woo
caught, by the driving•whoel. Half an
hour afterwards another workmen found
Parkins still Mitten:A to the whirling wheel,
with his limbs torn and poueded to pieces'.
Strange to say, lie Wag Still iiliVa When the
maohinerywas dripped, hut he anon efter-
wards expired, having probably seabed' ono
of the most terrible dandle over reoorded.
Sone Cawr.---One pound of flour, ono -half
petted of enemas, ono -fourth pound of
raisins, ono-fnurth pound of bet tee, six
memos a stigate two ounces eremite peel,
11) ouneee of almonde, nee ettepnimful oar.
The principle involved is that of induc-
tion. In his specifications filed at the
patent office in Washington, Mr. Edison
says 2.--" I have discovered tlmt if suffl-
cieta elevation be obtained to overcome the
curvature of the earth's surface and to re-
duce to the iniumnin the oarth's absorption,
electric telegraphing or signaling between
disLant points can be earned on by induc-
tion without the use of wires oonneating
such distant points. This discovery is
espeeially applicable to telegraphing across
bodlee of water, thee avoiding the use of
submarine retitle, or for communicating be-
tween vessels at sea or between vessels at
0e15 and point on land, but it is also applio-
able to 'electric communication between dis-
tant points on land, it being necessary,
however: on land (with the exception of
communication over open prair(e) to in-
orease the elevation in order to retinae to
the minimum the induction abaorhing effect
of houses, trees, end elevations in the land
itself. At Rea, from an elevation of 160
feet, Scan commenicate electehially a grata
distance, and since this elevation, nr ono
setliciently high, con be had by ubilising
the masts of ships, signals, can be sent an
received between ships separated a consider-
able distance, and hy reppating the signals
from ship to ship communication can be es-
tablished between points any (Helene°
apart or aoross the largest seas, and even
oceans."
001212 TO 1.02221:101/ WITTIOUT wrrtue.
If a balloon in New York shonld be sent
up to e. greet height, equipped with a met -
denser, and held to the earth by a rope cable
in which there was a strand of wire, and
another similarly equipped should be eent
up fvom London, a circuit would he fortned
through earth and air, without the aid. of
wires for tranemistion 1 though which mes-
sages could he flashed itt greater speed thab
has ever boon attained ly any other eystem.
All that itis necessary to do is to locate the
condensers at a suflicient hated, to overeeine
the curvature of the earth's surface. This
is similar in many respects to the train Iola..
graph system invented by 141r, Edison and
now in use on the Leigh Valley Railroad
by which messagee are tansenitted between
moving trains end ations, and from ono
twain to anobher. The new invention has
boundless possibilites, All that it can 110-
oompliah clan as yeb only ho conjuctursd by
Mt...Edison, who is reported to have unlina,
11501 faith in its efficacy,
A, Tariff Effect.
The rise in the price of beef and mutton
caused by the new Email tariff' has led to
an enormous demand for horsefleml. hi Paris.
According to a report of the police prefec-
ture the horses, mules and 211808 now alttegla
tered represent, over one-third of the whole
quatitity of nierut consumed. Prices current
(1.61ivt1111151110.1,x)of lo or donkey, 10 pence per
p011
Meek, ‚71)51100 per pound.
I 11 feriae parts, 2 peime per po1)511021.mont;
\Ver011111101e aro risini
g n value and
aro being bough1 altywhore width" it, radius
of 500 tidies of Perin
Plaids and shooks are very largo at
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