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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-6-10, Page 2THE BATTLE OF LUNDY'S LAI\ Ei (Corriere= The Pennsylvania deteolunent, numbe Ines about 000 men, under Colonel Auto partioipated in the deecent upon Port Du, .and did not rrive et Butralotill late in Jun By the exertioine of the celebrated Serie chief, Red Jacaet, upwards of six handles Incliane were likewise assembled to share the expedition, tome of them owning fro dilatant St. Regis village on the borders Lower Canticle, under the command of Chief who was given the rank of Colon in the United States army. While these extensive preparations for an invasion were in progress, Durnmond was anxiously but fruitleesly urging Sir George Prevost to reinforee the British forces in that quarter without delay, His repeated 'warnings were to a very great extent un- heeded by the Governor, who had his titter]. tion fixed upon the numerous American army massed upon the shores of Lake Champlain. Pencilled upon the margin of Drummond's letter of June 21st, 1814, ex- pressing his firm belief that the main attack would be made on the Niagara, and that the movement of troops towards Plattsburg was simp/y a feint to prevent reinforcements from being despatched from Lower Canada to his assistance, there is a memorandum in the handwriting of hie irritable superior, which is very significant " Muoh obliged to Lieut. -Gen. Drummond for his opinion, but it is entirely without foundation." Thus Drummond was forced to rely for the time being upon the troops already in the Upper Province. As soon as navigation opened he reinforced General Riall with the 103rd regiment, and a small company of marine artillery. Even after the arrival of these troops, the strength of the right division ot the army in Upper Canada, distributed from York (To- ronto) to Long Point upon Lake Erie did not much exceed 4,000, effectives of all arms. It was deemed neeessary for the protection of York and Burlington against a sudden descent by water, to main- tain an entire battalion at each of those posts. Both flanks of the position on the Niagara were easily assailable by an enemy having command of the lakes, and the at- tack upon the settlement at Port Dover bad justly aroused General Riall's apprehensions lest a strong force ehould be landed there and gain his rear by the western road. Having undisputed command of Lake Erie, an invading army might also be lancleci at Point Abino, or Sugar Loaf, from both of which plooes practicable roads led to the Niagara, end che successful pursuit of Gen- eral Proctor the proceeding autumn, as well as the recent inroads from Detroit, had de- monstrated the possibility of the rapid ad- vance of a body of mounted men and light infantry by way of the Thames. Therefore it became necessary to watch all these routes to guard against surprise. Lieut. -Col. Ham- ilton, with the headquarter wing of the 100th, was stetioned at Dover, and detach. silents of light infantry and Dragoons were posted at Delaware, Oxford, and the cross. ittgof the Grand River (Brentford). Th actual force available for the defence of the Niagara was thus reduced to less than 2,800 regulareoldiers 300 and 150 Indians, distributed don a frontier of thirty-six miles, besides furnishing a gar - risme for Fort Niagara. Slight field -works has been constructed at Chippewa and Queenston, and a new redoubt built at Ni- agara to command the mouth of the river, at first named Fort Riall but subsequently known as Fort Missasauga When these works and Forts Erie and George, were prope;ly garrisoned scarcely sevenhundredmen remained available for field operations. Many of the soldiers, still nominally ef- fective, were so enfeebled by disease, ex- posure, and fatigue, in watching slash an ex- tended line, that they had really become unfit for active service. The surgeon of the 8th reported that the battalion of that regiment, then stationed at Chippewa and Niagara Falls, should be immediately re- moved, as the hospitals were full, and nearly every man in it, had been down with dysentery or intermittent fever within twelve months. The Royal Soots had suf- fered nearly a$ much in the same way. Writing from Kingston to Sir George Pre- vost, brummond thus summed up the mita- ation: "One of the best regiments is shut up in Fort Niagara, another decidedly in- efficient, and a third expected to be eo if compelled to take the field." Late in June Is determined to relieve the 8th by the 41st and send forward the hicorporated Militia to the frontier, hut was unable to remove the Royals as he desired to do. Deserters who came into the British lines agreed in representing that an attack was iinrainent, and reported that the ardout of the New York Militia has been excited by the distribution of handbills announcing that the Emperor of the Freneh had gained a great victory near Paris, in which he had taken the sovereigns of Austria., Prussia, and Russia, and 40,000 prisoners. A squad- ron of nine arrned vessels had been assem- bled at Buffalo, and the enemy were deserib. ed as collecting boats hi Tonawanda Creek, with the intention, it was conjectured, of oroseing the river below Grand 'Blend. A • party of Indians, under Captains Caldwell and Elliott, was sentout from Fort Niagara in the hope of penetrating their designs, but although they ranged the country for a dozen miles, and burned a huge new bar- racks upon Lewiston Heights, they failed to discover anything of importance, Owing to this uncertainty respecting his enemy' intentions, General Riall was obliged to re- tain the greater part of his field force at Chippewa and Queenston, andleave his right wing comparatively weak. In Fort Erie there wits a garriso of 125 men, very in. effective from sickness. Colonel Pearson, with a detachments of Lincoln militia, the light companies of the Royals and leOth, watched the riverfrom its head to Chippewa, where five companies of the 100th were post- ed. The 103rd was at Burlington, the Glen- garry tight infantryet York, and the 8th, had begun their march to Lower Caeada, inthe hope of regaining health. Both in the Seeond Bettahon of the 4Ist and the 103rd there were several companies of mere boys, and the majority of both °eras wereso youthful that they had been retainecain garrison during the whole of the previous year. Many of the disloyal inhabitants had fled from the Provinoe during the two preeed. ing years; others had been taken into ours. tody, and most of those who refused te take the oath of allegienee were sane into the United States. "Ibis but jestioe to se,y," Druminond reillarked, "that by far the greater part of the inhaIntents are well dice posed, and many have on various occasions znamifested their loyalty to the service by their actions in the field. Thcao chiefly who hove shown an opposite disposition aro such as from time to time hems °retie into the Province from the neighboring States and eettled on lender purchased fiam individ. Suds." A congicierable number of the Lincoln Militia had been paroled by the enemy dim- ing their oceupation of portions of tho dis- trait in 1813,- end could not be again regeir. ed to serve driving the Year. The general ' proposed to inerease the Inoorporeted Bat. r* whorl tu 900 Men by the cheat of ons -four - a, testi 01 the niole population capable of eV boxing %rine But be was deeidedla op- posed to the employment of the remainder ea in milititry service, unlese except when a forced to do so by the incise imperative neces- in shy, "I regret," be said, "Hurt our present circumstances should render it necessary to of the yernnaury of the country for their ser - vises in the field while their farina must be el ne cleated, espeoially when produce and pre- via one of every kind heve become very searce and extravagantly dear, and it is with difficulty the commissariat are able to Procure the necessary supplies. Theee con- siderations would induce me most willingly to dispense with the initiates, for the domes- tic services of the militia if our regular forces here were such as to enable me to do so." Of all these eiroumstancee the enemy were fairly well informed. A careful eetimate in April placed the British regularforce on the Niagara frontier 501,940 men. Since the opening of eavigation one of their armed vessels heal cruised day and night along the north shore of Lake Erie, constantly lauding rind taking off spies. At this opportune moment, the artny was skilfully disembarked under cover of the guns of IN brig of war and two schooners, without the slighest opposition, in two di. visions, one above and the other a short des. Canoe below Fort Erie, at daybreak on the 3rd July. Their movements were veiled by a heavy fog, and a piaket of the 19th Dm - goons had barely tine to escape. The reg. ular force of the invading army consisted of tbe fah, 110, 190), 21s0, 2.2nd, and 25111 United States Infantry, part of the 2nd Rifles, a squadron of cavalry, and four bat- teries of artillery, numbering be- tween four and fiVe thousand of ell ranks, and forming two brigades, under Generals Scott and Ripley. The militia and Judaism cornpoeing a third bra gade, under the command of General Porter, it is probable exceeded two thourand. The entire force was commanded by Major -Gen. oral Jacob Brown, formerly an officer in the New York Militia, who had gained much celebrity among his countrymen by his suc- cess, or rather his good fortune, in the de. fence of Sackett's Harbor the year before, and had been rewarded by a commission in the United States' army. His military knowledge was so slight that General Wil- kinson asserted that he was unable to post the guards of a camp correctly, and told a story of his planting a battery in a hollow for the advantage of elevating the guns to fire at the heights above. But he was un- doubtedly brave and energetic. Ripley was another active politician, who had been Speeker of the Massachusetts Assembly, but Scott and the most of the field officers were professional soldiers. Brosyn's instructions directed him to force his way to Burlington, leaving the forts at the mouth of the river on one side, and severing their communications with York. Having gained the bead of the lake, he was to await there the arrival of Commodore Chauncey's squadron, when ho was given discretionary authority to invest and reduce Ole British forts or move directly upon Kingston, as circumstances might seem to direct. The views and expectations of the Secre- tary at War are described in a letter to the President on the 30th April, in which he says :—" Eight, or even six thousand men landed in the bay between Point .Abino and Fort Erie and operating either on the line of the Niagara or more directly, if a more direct route is found, against the British post at the head of Burlington Bay, cannot be resisted with effect without compelling the enemy so to weiiken his more eastern posts as to bring them within reach of our means at Sackett's Harbor and Plattsburg." In the letter, June 10, which aotually put Brown's army M motion, be informed that officer that the Secretary of the Navy was of the opinion that Chauncey's squadron would not be ready to co-operate before the I 15 July, but lie added : "To give, how - 1 ever, immediate occupation to your troops and to prevent their blood from stagnating, why not take Fort Erie and its garrison, stated at three or four hundred nen? Land between Point Abino and Erie in the night; assail the lett by land and water; push for- ward a corps to seize the bridge at Chippewa; and be governed by circumstances in either stopping there or going farther. Boats may follow and feed you. if the enemy coneen- tratee his whole force on this line, as I think he will, it will not exceed two thousand men." Fort Erie was immediately invested, and although Drummond had confidently anti- elpated that an invading army would be de. tained several days before it, the command- ant surrendered the same evening. A bat- talion of United States rifles, accompanied by a strong body of militia, appeared simul. ta,neously upon Lewiston Heights, alternate- ly menacing Queenston and Fort Niagitra. Advancing to reeonnottre with his light troops, Pearson found the Amerioans posted in force upon the heights opposite Black Rook, and next day he was steadily pushed back by their advance, destroying the bridges upon the road as he retired. These were rapidly rebuilt by hie pursuers, who eneamped for the night within sight of the British field -works tie Chippewa. Gem Tarawa was apparently welldniormed re- specting the movements and number of his opponent, for he estimated that Riall could not bring more than a thousand men into the field, and his advance was conducted vitt' the confidenceengendered by consaione. noes ot an overwhelming numerical au. periority. Although the march was oontinu- al skirmish, his advance -guard wars pushed bolclly onward, and bruseed the opposing ight troops out of its path with ease. Major•General Phineas Riall, the British ommander, was an officer of twenty years tending, yet had seen little actuel warfare. fe is described as a short, stout, near -eight. a man, of an impetuoue temperament, mid ashly brave. Five oompaaies of tho Royals ere hurried forward by him to Chippewa, id a massage despatched for the instant scali of the 80h, Thee bettalion had M- iserly reaohed York before it was overtaken, nd did not arrive at Niagara until the orning of the 5th. Riall was accordingly oin vpelled to await tha approach of the in - adore at Chippewa, inatead of asimiling them pen their march, as ho had at first intend. d. Reconnoitering their position on the orning of the 501, he estimated their force sight at 2,000 mon, and the 8th having oine tp abbut noon, he determined 10st- oic them without further delay. Through. ut the morning the Britieh light troops ere buoy. They drove in a strong picket - lard, capturing 0 wounded man and bo• egieg the remainder in a farm house until Roved, Perties of SCoula passed quite bumf the American camp, and theft* re. rts induced the belief that the main body their army had riot yet come np, Riall a then three elcoleterie battalions of in. ntry, numbering 101,0 rank told file, a bop Of the 10th Dragoons, Six pieces of li W i r a ni 0.01 r 0 ta 51 sI re ar po of ha tr T13.51 BRUSSELS POST. .TrNit 10, 1892, field artillery, 300 Lichens and ;shout the same number of Lincoln MURIA, 10 the menutimo the Americaus in his front had been joined by Ripley's eetiets brigade and the greeter ptirt of Porter's, and now num. bored nearly five thousand combetants with nine guns. They hed encamped behind Streeta Creek, a Winnow etream less thitn twenty yards in width at ite inoeth, and everywhere easily fordable. A tricot of cultivated land in their front, divided into fields by ordinary log or brushwood formes, extended from the river to derma woods on the left, a distanoe of lose than hallo 01115. Near Ole Chippewa, a thin belt of trees etratched down Ahmed to the water's edge, Partielly concealing the m evements of either ariny from the other, Late in the afternoon, Riall provoked Li attention of his adversary by pushing for- ward a detachment of the 2nd and ard Lineoln, under Lient-Col. Diekson, and the whole body of Indians, led by Capt. John Norton, to occup_y the woods on the flank of his posibion. Brown promptly despatch. ad a portion of Porter's brigade to drive them bank. Finding that they offered an obstinate resistance, and were even gaining ground, he continued to support Porter with fresh troops until some 1,390 militia and Indians were engaged on his part. The skirmith had lasted ur, half an ho, in the usual Indian fashion, svith a great deal of firhig and very little blood -shed, when, perceiving themselves outnumbered, the British Indictee began to retire. The three light infantry companies of repliers were then sent forward to their assistance. Being well versed in tide kind of warfare from the experience of former oampaigns, they concealed themselves in the thickets and awaited the approach of the Ainericans un- til they arrived within a few raids. A single heavy volley, pealing through the woods, threw them into utter confusion. Thy were, at the same thne, tiercely assail- ed in flank by the militin and Norton's Tu - diens, and driven quite through the ranks of a compeny of regulars formed in reserve beyond Street s Creek, and did not rally until the 25th U. S. Infantry and a squadron of dragoons were sent to their support. Several prisoners, among them three field officers of the Pennsylvania regiment, and a Cayuga thief, were taken, and fifteen warriors and a number of militia, left dead on the eeld. Meanwhile, Rail had passed the Chippewa with his entire force, and ad- vanced three guns to engage the American artillery, which bad taken up a position to command the road in their front. Observ- ing this, Scottas brigade defiled morose the bridge, and deploying under fire with re- markable steadiness and preoision, formed beyond the creek, while Ripley forded the stream an higher up d peolenged their line of battle to the edge of the woods. The British artillery Was pushed gradually for- ward until Nvithin four hundred yards of their antagonists, and began the action with great spirit. Three guns of Towson's bat- tery replied, but one of them was speedily dismounted, and the others seemed in a fair way ot being driven out of action, when one of the British tumbrils was struck by a shell end blew up, disabling several men and horses, besides causing great confusion and depriving theni of much of their fixed am• munition. In consequence of this unfortunate event, General Rah was obliged to bring forward his infantry prematurely to the relief on the guns, which were then menaced from the right by a battalion of infantry. Forming six compenies of the Royal Scots and Eve companies cf the 100th Into two columns, parallel with each other, and plaehng a light field-pieoe upon each flank, and one in the interval, he led them in person against the centre of his opponent's position. The 8th, enfeebled by disease and wearied by its long maroh, was held in reserve. Eaoh of these battalions, their light cons. panies having been detached, numbered less than four hundred rank and file. Scott's brigade alone, thus very materially outnum. bered the force about to attack it. By the time this formation had been corn. plated, the whole of the American field - artillery had been brought into action, and the British guns were almost redueed to silence. Their pieces were then 'Mated with canister, and turned upon the advanc- ing columes, while the 9011 and llth regi- ments, forming the wings of their line, were wheeled inwards and overlapped them on either flank. .As soon as the British approached within musketry range they were metaled by a fierce and limes - sant fusillade, Losing heavily at every step, they moved eteadily forward until within two hundred yards of their adversaries, Nvhen they reoeived the command to charge. The field here was interesten by deep furrows, and oovered with tall grass, which greetly impeded their' movements anti rendered their footing un- certain. Lieut -Col. Gordon and the Mar- quis of Tweeddale fell desperately wound- ed at the head of their battalions. Nearly every field-QS:3er was struck down. The men fell in heaps under the scathing fire of the enemy. The survivors were involved in inextramble coufusion, and began to straggle to the rear when within about eighty yards of the enemy's positiou. Biel] exposed himself recklessly, end yet escap- ed unhurt, altbough his clothing was pierc- ed Nvith several bullets, but all his efforte to re-form the ranks in the face of that mur- derous fire were enamelling. The 8th was brought up to cover the retreat, which was .accorriplished in tolerable order, ae the Americans showed hale inclination to fol- low up their advantage. Most of the dead, and teeny of the severely wounded, were len eft upon the field, d the guns were re- moved only by the gallant exertions of some troopers, of the 19oh Dragoons, who attrushed their own horses to the carriages, and rode off with them in the teeth of the enemy. (TO BE CONTINUED.) AdVaneing Backwards. "Come here, Pat, you truant, andtell me why you come to school ao late this morn- ing," raid an Irish sehoolmaster to a. ragged and shoeless urchin, whose "young idea," he had undertaken for a penny a week to teach how to shook" "Please, your honour, " replied the ready -witted scholar, " thefrost made the wear so slippery, that for every step forward 1 took two steps baoltwerd." "Don't you see, Pet," was the rejoinder of the pedagogue, "that at that rate, ye would never hove reached school at all.' " Just what I thought to myself, your honor," replied the boy, "00 1 turned to go home and after time I found myself at se hor;1," Two Italian sevants believe they Nate die. covered the gearns of loakjew. A piercing shriek brought an agitated mother hurriedly from an adjoining room. " What is it, my daughter ?" she exotahned °stiltedly, "Hue thisperson from Now York been unoivil 7" "Nob inteutionally, moth- er," famtly replied the fair young Borden. fan, " lint it was a painful shook, " lie said hippopotemesee ' instead of hippo. potoani, " THE STRANGER'S OALL• I liar Interceded the Miners at ilemestek latgirtege. There were about 200 men °tercet Home- sick Diggings, and it Wits the Mem of noon on a summer's clay when big 111» Davis 0al110 oval* the hill with his peek on his back end staked out a Maim. He Caine alone, and that was why we noticed him so partionlar- ly, He Boomed to light shy of ne for three or four dap, isnd that wee why We wo»der. ed if he was all right. Big Jim had got n, squint ne the face of every man in camp be. tore lie thawed out end became eocsial. In a little time we found him to be a good fol. low, and so we gradually came to forget our first aramicions. We were still agreed, however, that them woo something queer about him. He appeared anxious and per- turbed whenever a now arrival was am eounced, and if a party of half a doeen came along, Jim would go hiding entil he lad sized them up. It was as if he suspected some one was trailing him clown. There were all sorts of men in the mining camps in those dap, and it was the rule to mind your own business. AS long as a, miner obeyecl the rules and regulations laid down for the government of a camp he was looked upon as all right What he had been in the past was nothing even to his tentmate. There was a big shanty in the centre of our village which wits occupied as a store, saloon, bank and general rendeevous after working hours. I was in there one after- noon just before the miners knocked off work, when a stranger quietly entered. He had come by the trail and alone, but no one had noticed him. He was a slim light- weight man, and though clothed in rough garb you could see at once that he wee not a miner. He was suriburned and unkemp, Out that WaS to be expected out there. HI e was talking with tho storekeeper as I en. tered—asking after just such a Mall as Big Jim Doyle. -His face struck me pleasantly enough, but there was a soinething in his gray eyes to remind you of a wounded beast, and a something in his voice to satisfy you that he would be a pitiless enemy. Ile went out before I did. Where he kept himself for the next hour I never learn- ed. The boys had knocked off, washed up and eaten supper, and about twenty of us had lounged into the store for a smoke and a talk, when the little man suddenly show- ed up. This, mind you, was time months after Big Jim's coming. Jim sat, on a box facing the door, whieh was open. I happen- ed to be looking at him, and I suddenly saw his face grow pele and his jaw drop. I looked over to the door and there stood the stranger. He had a leering sort of smile on his face, and was looking only at Big Jim. In ten seconds all conversation had ceased. We instinctively felt that the two were enemies, and that the little man had Snally trailed Big jim down. It was fully two minutes before the stranger moved or spoke. Then he stepped forward until Mose to Big Jim and said; " It has been over two years, but I've run you down et last 1" Davis looked at him as one who sees a spectre, but made no reply. " You have skulked awl dodged like a coward I" continued the little man in the same quiet voice, "but you'll be 01000 now, of course. The boys will see fair play. Shall it be pistol or knife?" If Big Jim's eyes hadn't been wide open we might hewe thought him a dead man. You never saw terror more plainly written on a human face. a little affair of our own gentlemen." explained the stranger, as he turned to us, "I've travelled thousands of miles while looking for Big Jim. I've been hunting him down, to kill or be killed. This world isn't big enough for both of no. Arrange the de- tails to suit the crowd." Not one of us had spoken. Just as the stranger finished Big Jim recovered from his stupor end made a move for bis pistol. Like a flash of lightning the little man had him covered, and then he laughed a hareh, dry laugh and said; "I ought to shoot you down like a dog, but I'll give you a show. Come out doors. Shall it be this or the knife?" Big Jim turned white again and relapsed into his former state of dumbness. The stranger surveyed him in disgust and con- tempt, and by and by he turned to us and said : " Back in the States this whits -livered coward betrayed my conedence and wreck- ed my home and my life. Even his dead body would disgrace your diggings. Come, Jim 1" He stepped back and beckoned to Davis, who slowly followed, staring like one who walks in his sleep, The little men backed to the door—out of it into the moonlight, and then started up the trail. Davis fol. lowed like a dog, never looking to the right or to the left—making not the slightest move to draw his weapon. It was as if he had been mesmerized. Somethiug of that same feeling was upon the rest of us, for we stood at the door, speechless and amazed, and looked after the pair until they were out of sight. It was like a dream, mid men eabbed their eyes as if heavy with sleep. Up the hill—around the great bleak rook —poet the tree on which we hung Taylor for murder, and then they , were out of sight. The stranger we never saw again. A. month litter a prospector found Big Jim's skeleton in a ravine two miles away. Crossing the R ed Sea, A Dublin bishop once engaged a painter to make a large picture for the cathedral, The subject chosen was the crossing of the Red Sea by the Israelites, After a time the picture was oonapleted and hung in the cathedral, covered by a heavy curtain, and a great crowd of people assembled to see it unveiled, All faces were turned in expec- tation to the ourtein. Buttel when it was drawn aside nothing oonld be seen but a vast expanse of water. In a rage the bishop turned to the artist, and exelaimed: I thought I asked you to paint a piastre of the Israelitee crossing the Red Sena "True for you; that's Plat it," said the painter. "But where aro the Israelites?" &eked the indignant bishop. "They're gone over," amid the painter. "Well, but where are the Egypeiana?" "They're gone under." He Reoognised It, First Stra,nget &rouse me, sir, but I notice that you are looking at me olemely., Is there anything &bout me that is faMiliar,' Second Ditto " Yes, there is. My umbrella." The wife of a certain lauded proprietor Was at one time eariouely 00, and a boy was sane up to ask at the lodge how the lady was progressing. Tho lodmakeeper replied, "Weed, I had aye hopes till to -day that her ladyslup Wad COMO round," "And why have you given up hope new?" asked the boy. "Because I riatV three dootors game up this martin'," ato•agirmezmilMilnlitaglO "Ntilleles1RMAIM6•110111.14.7M.XeleVall.WW.......".".! SPRING SMILES, ‘"That remains to he secni," as the boy said wheu he spilt the init on the tableoloth. Mrs. Witherby—II \nab did your cook do? Go off in a huff? Mrit Planklegten —''No, She went off in my telloomade gown," "Whenever 1 see a oharining girl cross- ing It muddy etreet I have to think of enakes." "That's envious." "No; I mean gartoosnekes," Parent—"Now remember, Johnny, Ask the druggist for pulverized rilum." Johnny (at the drug store)—"Ciimme somethieg for a paralyzed arm." Fsveddy—"Cholly, I'm feeling wooky. think I'll soak my head, ' afraid it wordt soak for anything deali boy, unless the hat goes with it., ' Deified°, with all his study in the art of gesticnlation, never succeeded in equaling Ole expressions of a dog's tail when his master puts on his coat for a walk. She islet an angel, she isn't a goddess, she isn't a lily, a rose or a pearl; she's simp- ly what's sweetest completest and neatest, dear little, queer little, sweet little girl. "So yon do not cherish any superstitions, deer?" "No indeed. Why, I have always made ita point to be married in black and have been lucky every time." Coed uctor—"Madam, I am obliged to ask fare for that boy; lie looks older than four years." Islother—"He isn't, at all; he has Itis father's head, but his mother's wears." Poultry dealer—"How did you like the goose's liver you had yeeterday?" Young Housekeeper—"It was very nice indeed. I want another one, and trom the same goose, please." Young Man (helplessly)—"Dootor, there any ours for the liquor habit?" Doc- tor (thorightfelly)—"Y-e.s, ono." "What is it?" "Marry a woman bigger than you are." "Sweet, 'must go; 'tis late," said he; She did not moan or shiver, Ent, looking at him smilingly, Said: "Better fate then never." School Teacher—"Whac little boy can toll me where is the home of the swallow?" Bobby—"I kin." School teacher—" Wel1, Bobby?" Bobby the home of the swallow is the stummick." Aelser—"I have seen Dr. Gouger call tav° or three times at old Nugget's house. De you know what he is treating him for? Tasker—"Certeinly. lie is treating him ifloirmstamps—for what he can leak° out of "The trouble with this family," blubber- ed Johnny, as he emerged from the wood- shed after a brief Int spirited interview with hie father? "is thet there's too blamed much paternalism in its form of govern. merit." Storeolothes —"I went to bear Patti sing and I had to pay 85." Recentjay,—"I wouldn't pay 85 to hear an angel sing." Storeolothes—"Well, my verdant friend, you can just bet your sloping forehead you'll never get there." Ile—"May I—I—have a kiss'alehit- able?" Miss Mehitable Beaconhill (from Toronto)—"If you see proper to bring abont a paroxysmal contact between the labial appendages of the superior and inferior max- illaries I shall not seriously obieet" Wife—"Henry, do you know that your bait is getting thin and that you will soon be entirely bald if you do not stop wearing lour hat in the house?" Husband—"That's 11 right, Anna. Have you never noticed that bald-headed men always get to the trent?" "John, you were talking in your sleep last night and you frequently spoke in terms of endearment to a certain Euphemia? Who is Euphemia?" "Why, my dear that was my—my sister's name." "John your sister's name was Jane." "Yes dear; but we called her Euphemia for short." "Yabsley—"Hello, Wickwire! Rheu- matism?" Wickwire—"No. I stepped on O spool just, before dinner and came down on the dining•room floor like a thousand of brick. My wife bas been crying ever since.' Yabsley (wistfully)—"It must be sweet to have such a sympathetic companion." Wickwire—"Oh sympethy doesn't figure at all. I jarred her best piece of china off the table." They rode together, nicely paired And, bolder, grown, at last he dared To plaoe his arm around her waist. Angry, she cried: "Your arm's misplac. ed I I can support myself." "You can?" Said he, with joy. "Then I'm Tier man. For years I've sought for such as you. Pray set the wedding day, dear, do." 'Origin of the Teetotal Movement. John King, a resident at Preston, in Lan. cashire, was the first man to sign the total abstinence pledge in England. King, who died a nonagenarian, was in early life rather fond of a glass, having, moreover, one of those temperaments which,while cam able of absolnte abetinenee, are not capable of " moderation." The early temperance sooietiee allowed the use of wines and alms. James Tearle, even then a praotioal teeto- taler, raised his voice against the distinc- tion thus made, Joseph Livesey had be- come similarly impressed, and on Thure- day, April 23, 1882, as John King WAS nam- ing Livesey's shop in Church street, Pres- ton, Joseph invited him in. Their talk was of teinperauce, and after shamming the question Mr. Livesey asked King if he wouldsign a pledge. They were both agreed upon the point. A pledge was rumordingly drawn up, and King signed first, Livesey's signature following. From these two signatures sprang the total absMnence movement as now understood in this country. A few days after the in. (lidera- recorded, a meeting on the sub. ject took lattice in the Cookpie of Preston, when Richard Turnerm plasterer's labourer, speaking against what be called " hawf measures," said, " 711 hay nowt to do with any moderation—botheration pledge—I'll be root clown tee -tee -total for ever and ever." "Welt done, Dick I" said the chair- man, "that shall be the name of our pledge," and the name it becatne and still is. Turner died in 1846, and in St. Peter's Churchyard, Preston, on 0 monument erect. ed there to his memory, may he read the following inscription : " Beneath this etone are deposited the remains of Riehead Term er, author of ehe word teetotal,' as ap. plied to abstinence from all intoxicating liquors." To complete theit growth, the nails for the left hand require eight eci ten days more then those of tbe right, It has often puzelecl the uftinitiated to give a reason why musicians tune their Metre- mente in public and not before they enter the orchestets. If they tuned their instru. manta before ordering the theatre or (mooed room the temperature is very apt to be dif- ferent in the place of performance, arid. therefore tho instruments would eof, be in tune, A piano that is ill Wile 11.1 o 001C1 room would get out of tune if the room were sud- notly heated. THE Q-014EN'S MESSENGER. hrItteli 011telal Moo noel to lie leery /Important on the Stand, 1 Vim a moweeiger retsina to London from foreign survive ae is placed at the bole tons ot the Het of those et home avolluble for duty, mill mey tails realm 011 pel'illipS 0 fortnight Wear ot his own dieposel, Bev the "Quarterly Review," It is not well, however, to count on any parielso period of leisure Willi too lunch certainty, as is shown by the following veracious tale, which has been repented many n, time and oft in Downing street 1 " Capt. A—, having jut returned from St. Petersburg, saw his name well pleased at the bottom of a goodly list of names ready for duty, and judged it ex mahout to spend his anticipated fortniga in the 'sunny south of France, About a week after his arrival at Monte Carlo he was stertled and annoyed by the receipt of the following strange and apparently Im- pertinent telegram : 'Chief Clerk, Foreign Officio, to Capt, A—: You are fest and dirty. Return at once.' Having puzzled O while over this enigma it occurred to him that, whatever might be the explanation of the first sentence, the last was an order which his sense of duty compelled him to obey. He accordingly packed up his traps and returned forthwith, to find on his arrival at Downing street that the telegram as originally dispatched ran as follows . You are firsts on dell. Rehm at) once,'" Thirty or forty yowls ago, perhaps even more than now, the queen's messenger was a personage of the first imporatnee on the mad, claiming the earliest attention from guards and porters, eivility and ex- pedition at every custom's frontier, and the best places in train and steamboat. In the present day, traveling always train among the ever-increasing crowd of tourists, the comfort and preetige of a journey with dispatches is somewhat on the wane ; and except in times of war, the adventures of the rjueen's messenger are reduced to the possible chance of n, railway smash. Only a few years have passed, however, since most of the habitues of the mail route between London and Paris must have been familiar with the bluff and burly presence of Maj. X --,the Ajax of the oorps of queen's Ines. Bangers and hero of a hundred tales. We ean seo him now, striding from the train to the boat at Dover followed by two porters bear- ing the dispritch bags. Passeneers scatter rightfand kilt as ho calls in, loud, commanding * tones : " R -room for her inajesty'e dis- patches !" and the little procession, headed by the major, steps across the gangway and finds its way to the proper reserved cabin. A Dakota Pioneer. " Winter pretty cold ?" ,, Winter? Don't have auy winter here, stranger." ''How's that?" " Only home three seasons—spring, sum- mer and early fall." He was a. Dakota pioneer, and lived, as he mild, "fifty miles from any place." " What do you do for a doctor when you're sick ?" "Never get sick," "Bub you can't help it sometimes, can yea ?" "Certainly, 'Taint possible. We iton't get sick, and there's no two ways about it." "How far is it to your nuareet neigh- bour's ?" "Fifty miles." "Ton don't have much society, then, do you ?" "Don't need it. There's five of us— mother 'n me 'n the kids. That's society enough, ain't it ?" "Row ter most you go to 011050117" "Have it right in the Amer every Sunday. Got an organette, Joe has, rind he turns a crank and grinds out any hymn you over heard tell °flint as nice as you please. Then Marthy and all the rest of no sing, then I read something from the Bible, then we rag egain, an' pray—an' church is out." There was something pathetic in this, and it went to my heart. "How ebout crops?" "They're big, I tell ye—that is, when we get 'am, Three years ago hart every prom- ise of a splendid crop. Had lots of snow that winter—ground was plenty wet an' the wheat was lookin' fine when, all at once, we had a hot south wind that burnt every - thin' up slick an' oleau." "Ansi the next year ?" " Things looked just as promisin'. Wheat was waist high, yeller as gold, an' I was ping to cut 101n a few days when along came a hailstorm and beat the whole field down." " Then tho next year?" "Got nipped by the frost," And the next ?" "That's tide year, stranger, and just look at the wheat around ye. Nothing could bo finer than the outlook. Guess Pil have a good orop this year, but if I don't--" He paused. " Well?" "Well, if I don't," he said with e quiet smile, "1,11 mortgage my horses to get seed and try again. It'll be hard pinchina 131101 didn't have anything when I came here, and Pll stick to the country as long as I arin live in it. A man can't hove hard hick al - wive, you know. Things are bound to turn, It's a long lane that hasn't a crook some- where." I wrung his baud warmly and rode away. A Kerry Parting Scene, On Thursday a lergenumber of emigrants, left Killarney by the dayanail train says a Kerry correspondent. A great majority of them were bound for Canada, From an early hour in the morniug lerge orowds of people from the outlying country paseed through the town on their way to the 'da - tion, eo that long before the train was due to arrive the platform was crowded with emigrants amd their friends, who dame to wish them God•speed on their journey. It was a most pathetic, scene, l'ears rolled down the furrowed cheeks of grey-haired men and women ati they clung to the child. yen, Who were the only hopes they had in the few remaining years of their life. Im. medineely the train arrived on the plutform there Wall a rush for the orwriages, whioh were almost already full of emigrants item North and West Kerry, many of whom wore the brighe-eolored jerseys of the Gaelic Athletic Association, wbile not a few of them carried their cammuns as a souvenir of ehe manly sports and pastimes of the Old Lend. As the train deemed out of the station, a wild cheer went up from the friends of the emigrants, which was heartily impended to by the poor fellowsiri thc trains who yawed hats end handkorchiefe through Ole windows until the train turned n curve of the lino, and they wore lost to sight. A number of strangers who witheased the scene were visibly moved. - - She : "Did von suooeed in mastering the French while abroad ?" He 1 " Nearly, I did nee seamed in making the Frotush. mon comprehend me, nor could 1 make one whet they were driving itt ; but I gob so that I meld -not undorstlud myself When I talked."