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OUR EXPATRIATED COUN-
TRY J•I EN..
THEIR LIFE IN THE NEV ENGLAND_
MANUFACTURING CENTRES.
•<Peons a Witness Correspondent.)
Two years ago I visited the six
States of New England. that is,
Vermont, Maine, New Hanopshire,
Massachusetts, Connecticut and
Rhode Island. In every one of
these States I made it a point to
come in close contact with my
countrymen, the French-Canadians,
wherever they form a group of
some account, numerically speaking.
To the iut.nbitnnts of such groups
I gave lectures about our Restive
land, .its expectations and "aspira-
tions, etc. In the meantime I gath-
ered statistics and other informa-
1, tion about the social, position of our
• •xpatriated brethren froth the ma-
+Tial point of view, as well as in
ri't;ard to their mother tongue and
faith. It is the result of such ro•
searches which I ant going to lay be-
fore the refiners of the TVilncas- •
' THE MATERIAL ASPECT.
. First question -DO our Conutry-
inen succeed much better in the
United States than they do gaper
ally iu Canada ? Let us hero make
a distinction between the Canad-
ians of the East and those of the
West. We will speak first of the
,former. It is a well known fact
that the New England States farm
an essentially manufacturing coun-
try, in Fall River alone, we count
over a hundred cotton and wool
'manufactures. It is towards those
manufacturing centres of the }list
that the Canadians, with their large
faunilies, chiefly emigrate. They
do so in order tte•tteilize the -hands -
of their sons and daughters who
aro at home, not only useless, but
expensive rueuhbere of the family.
\1'he reasons for the ernigraftion en
rnasse of our people aro three in
number-lst, the love of tine clothes
camgng the ,prosentgeneration ; 2nd,
the inertia of the parents ; and 3rd,
the addiction to intoxicating liquor's.
Vtritlt these three unfortunate Lablits
it is no wonder if our farmers soon
get iuto heavy debt with the mer
chants of their respective parishes.
Spending more than he Can pro -
deice, the habitant soon sees himself
compelled to mortgage his property
and, finally unable to pay, after a
certain time, he,• with wifo end
children, Lakes the road that leads
to'the manufacturing towns of the
American East.
Heretofore ho. his wife asd child-
ren have had the pure and bracing
air of their fields, and now t hey
, will have to inhale the pestilence
of their now home and of the man-
ufactures. If this family wants to
make the two ends meet at the close
of each month every member has to
be very economical nud to work Len
times more than they do in Canada.
After time the children take a
strong fancy for amusements which
did not exist in their village parish
.-the dime show, the theatre and
concert saloons. To show himself
with advantage in those places the
boy trust have costly clothing, a
gold watch,' etc , and the girl silk
tlroeaoe, and' at least, a few jewels.
They go on this way so recklessly
that they live from hand to month.
There are a few exceptions, but they
ate wide apart. I would ask any.
one that would be tempted to doubt
the above statement to go to some
of the manufacturing cities of the
Eaetorn States, let us sly, for in-
stance, Manchester, N. H. This
beautiful sad flourishing city con•
aids from fifteen to sixteen thous
and of our countrymen, and how
Matey are to be found among them
*Ito cin be, I will not say, one two
?rr. three month#, but one or two
TRtilie.",'Without needlog. help from.tf 1e aoeiety of ATntual Roller .he ,tome
Iougf* to, at' \yirheet aiapl;yina l.o: the
!lite in viler to he.:sant to the poor'•
bootie 1oav amyl 1 OAP Cartit,y
lte*e thatthere are not one hundred
of the 'eilttaell tltoueand, 400°0
the sawn proportion, whi.oh is very
#null indeed, will vary alightly iu
the other manufeoturing. oentt•ee, .as
Lewist.on,l3runewiek,Lisban (Maine)
Saneso6k, Huuksett, (N, H,). Fall
River, . Worrell, Gardner (Maes),
Putnam, the two. Gro4venorcl'ales..
Ilanietsonville,(Conn.), Providence,
Pawtucket, Central ails, WOW
sonkot, Manville, (R. I.), etc, I
conclude by saying that nine tenths
of the Canadians whohave feo�lish
ly turned their backs on the`l•i.`na
tive land, ou the fields bequeathed
from father to son by their ances-
tors, could have lived• not tri{ well,
Mit better here than they do in the
United Sttateetif they had been
willing to wot•Ic des hard as they do
there, that is every member of the
family.
Another evil alluded to relates t1
hygieuo and morels. Iu all the
centres that I have spoken of, capit
alists have erected huge buildings
to be rented to the C.tuadireus;
hence a so called 'Petit Canada iu
almost every town and city,_
These lodgings have been built
without Etna consideration for:health,
cleanliness and comfort. \Vhet the
proprietors want is to refit their
blacks as ,quickly and profitably as,
possible. You will often see
some of these dismal structures con•
titin from 80 to 100 families packed
theaein like herrings iu a barrel.
No yard, no ground fur the child-
ren to play in. These, it ie true,
have the streets as a rendezvous,
but we know the morality of street
schools. This is why, I presume,
we Meet with eo many precocious
children in the Petits Canada# of
the Untte,d States.
There are also the corporations'.
buildings used as lodgings, These
are erected by the owners of the•
manufactories and reutad to their
employees, male and female. Oug'
may easily iia nine what schools of
morality are these lodgings, when,
after the day's work, young men and
young girls are thrown together,
without the least oversight or res-
traint. Put together these sleepless
nights, early rising, going out iu the
frosty winter morning, the breakfast
token in great haste in order to be
in time for work, the cold dittoes
taken by utaany in a corner of the
manufactory ; take an these circum-
stances into consideration, 1 sly,
and du not wonder if so many of
our countrymen have lived a very
short life, have died of consumption
who would be still alive and healthy
had they remained on their native
soil instead of (having become shaves
in the American manufactories.
Don't wonder, I pray thee, roader,if
so many Canadians, running, eagerly
after the American gold dust, have
found instant the dust of an Amer-
ican grave. Still, they could have
"boon happy on their farms, those
children of our dear Canada! Yes,
they have been happy as much' es
as ono can be in this world, had
they practised economy, contented
theulselves with the plain ciothiug
of our forefathers and shunned the
evil teachings of whiskey.
Oue million or so of our country-
-nlen are iest-toCanada,nehich pathetic
men, like Sir John A. Macdonald',
the great(urtier anclothers,wanted to
form into a great and powerful Dom•
Wien tit we could with pride call
our own. One Million Lost 1 Aud
will they Avow conte back to us ?
It is not likely, ns the young gener-
ation have, generally, taken a fancy
to 1 aukeeism and will stay where
they are: On the other hand, we
find many and many of the old
folks willing to come back tos,Cana-
da, but they aro prevented from do-
ing so by one of the two following
reasons :-As their children are un-
willing to follow them, hate they to
leave them behiud and will die on
the American soil. In the second
place, where the children could be
persuaded to follow their parents, -
money, the sinew of war as well as
of ►•epattiation, is wanting.
The next article will concern the
Canadians established in the Wes-
tern States, 1JN"VOYAGEUn,
CONSTITUTIONAL LETH-
ARGY.
COMMONLY KNOWN AS LAZINESS.
A visitor to the Brooklyn taber•
nacre Sunday morning would have
no difficulty in understanding the
secret of the attraction which fills
the vast building Sunday after Sun-
day with throngs of eager listeners.
Avoiding the abstruse theologte�al.
subjects, Dr. Talmage preached a
sermon on a practical topic, giving
shrewd common-sense lessons of in-
estimable'value to his hearers, es-
pecially to the young people. Hie
text was Proverbs xii., 27: "The
slothful man roastoth not that which
ho took in hunting."
David and Jeremiah, and Eze-
kiel, and Micah, and Solomon of
the text showed that some time they
had been out on a hunting expedi-
tion, Spears, lances, swords and
nets were employed in this service.
A deep pitfall would be digged.
In the center of it there was some
raised ground with a pole on lvhich
It►tiffs sw /1d ' Qtf(1tetted and tlt9
NOR hussy nous 0.k eing the pitfall,
but only eoeiug the leell1b; wottld
p111ngo
iitiie.oit' gaVpetrurieal.pre3yx14d 'test d•dao*»h.t,
gine, or pihrood
with prroW.$..
;lite .t.tiutete in pjdistl tittles had twu
missions,' ons .lti cleat' the land of
ferocious bpaste end. the other to oh,
tale meat for thumeelves end their
families,
Pie occupation and habit
ot hunters are a favorite Bible
simile. David said he was hunted
by his enemy like a partridge upon
the mountain. My text is a hunt•
ing scene,
A sportsmau arrayed iu a garb
appropriate to the wild ohne° lets
slip the blond thirsty hounds from
their kennels, and tuuuuting his
fleet horse with a hello and the yell
of the greyhound pack, they aro off
and away, through brake and dell,
over marsh and moor, across chasms,
where a misetep would hurl horse
and rider to death, plunging into
afire up to the haunches or iuto
swift streams up to the bit, till the
game •is trucked by dripping foam
and blood, and the antlers Brack on
the rocks, and the hunter bus jest
time to he 111 at the death. Yet,
after all the haste and peril of the
chusu,tny text represents this sports-
mau :es 180njl too indolent t0 dress
the game tied prepare it for food.
lac, fete it liH in the tfuorytud of hitt
haute and- become ,t portion for vers
Mitt and beasts of prey. Thus by
one maoter.etroke, Soloinou gives a
picture of laziness, when he says
"The ielothl'ut roan roastet.h not that
which he took in hunting." The
!emit of hunters have the game they
shot or entrapped cooked the Hume
evening or the next (ley, 1s,3 uot,so
with thin laggard of the text. Too
lazy to rip off the hide. Too lazy
to kindle the fire add put the grid.
iron on the coals.
But the world has had many a
specimen Hill1e Solomon's time of
theme whoa+ lassitude anti improve,
deuce and absurdity were depicter)
to my text. The most of these who
have tirade a dosed faflure of life can
look hack a:ld see a time when a
great opportunity opened, but they
did nut kiuw it. They were not us
wise dei George Stophenaun, ,"the
father of railways," who, when at
eixteed years of age he received au
appoizttil.'nt to work at a peeping
engine fur 12 Alining u week, cried
#rut : "Now, 1 ata a made man for
life." God. gives to most wen at
least one good opportunity. A.
great Grecian g -neral was Wdt by a
group of beeggar;+, and lie maid to
thein : "If you want boasts to
plow your laud, I will loud you
some. if you want land, I will
give you some. if you want seed
to sow your land, 1 will see that
you get it. But I will encourage
none in idleness." So Uod gives to
Most people an opportunity of ex-
trication from depressed circums
stances. As if to tl,•ente in us a
hatred of indolence, God has made
those animals which are sluggish to
Appear loathsome fu our eyes, while
those whii;h tire fleet and active He
has clothed with attractiveness.
The tortoise, the sloth, the snail, the
cr000dile repel us, while the deer
and the gazelle are as plen;;ing as
they are fleet, and from the swift
wings of innumerable birds God Ilan
spared DO purple or gold or jet or
crimson or snowy whiteuess. Be-
sides -all --this, [lis-.6.i1,1.e ia_c.Qn1tan1
ly assaulting the vice of haziness.
Solomon seems to order the idler
out of his sight as being beyond all
human instruction when he says :
"Go to the ant, thou eluggarel ;cone
shier her ways and be wise." And
Paul seems to drive hint up from
his dsning table before Ire. gets
through with the first course of food
with the assertion ; "If any man
will not work neither shall ire eat."
Satan makes Ilis chief conquests
over men who have either. nothing
to do, or, if they have, refuse to do
it. There is a legend that St.
'Phomas, years after Christ's resur-
rection, began again to doubt, and
ba went tb the apostles and told
them about Lia doubts. 'Rich
apostle looked at him with surprise,
and then said he must bo excused,
for 11e had no time to listen any
lodger. The St. Thomas went to
the devout women of hie time, and
expressed his doubts. They said
they were sorry, but they had no
time to listed. Then St. Thomas
concluded that it was because they
were so busy that the apostles and
the devout women had ego doubts.
Idleness not only leads a man into
associations which harm his morals,
but often -threats upon him the
worst kind of scepticism.
-In the Brucefield cemetery are
a couple of monuments bearing
these inscriptions : "James Mc-
Donald, aged 102," "Catherine Mc.
Donald, aged 102." The age to
which these persons, well-known
Huronites. lived was exceptional in
itself, but behind this were a few
facts that make their life a very ex-
ceptional one. Mr. McDonald was
only 18 years of age when he was
married, his wife being 16, and they
enjoyed 84 years of wedded'bliss.
We question if a period of continu-
ous married lifeZsimiler to this can
be found in America. Mr. McDon-
ald died two years before his wife.
Mr. James ROMS, a grandson, still
resides in Clinton.
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daily Bare ,•
But trot xil4 4@nwilt°ever show
Our tloedett amt ettr needed ra er• --
Then to the present be' thou true prey
ere,
that lot tltott ht and act be given
So shalt thou finds vigor new
To take the next #urs step to kieaveu.
rrffl PORPHYRY CASKET.
In the boudoir of the Signore di'Oarnese,
in asmall, beautifully decorated sh rine affixed
to the wall, is a eingnlar object which has
exoitd the curiosity of all who have seen it:
It is a small Porphyry, casket,. oblong in
shape and fastened with chased gold bands.
It was made, it is said, at the Signora's
order, by one of the most games artists ie
Rome, and is no less quaint in design than
exquisite in finish, On one side, cut into
the stone, is the Single word tuner, and a
date.
For what purpose it was made, what it
contains and why it is placed in the° shrine
as if it were a soured rclio,, few or none of
the Signora's acquaintances know. She bite
been asked these questions many times, and
her only reply ia--"Something more valu-
able to ate than all my other possessions
put together,"-uud the Signoraeis a very
21011 woman,
She has never been known to open the
c taket, ani, indeed, it is so banded and
bolted together that it would require extra-
ordinary effort to break it apart. No one
is allowed to touch it. Tho Signora dusts
and cares for it with hor own hands, and
it lute been observed that at such tunes her
ordinary haughty air gives place to one of
mournful humility, mingled with almost re-
ligious reverence.
This is the story of the Porphyry Casket.
The gosiips of society said that Olivia
Antiudi had resolved either to marry into a
royal family, or die single. S,ns of noble
Roman families, merchant princes, foreign
ambassadors, :diplomats and , soldiers had
sued for her favor and failed. Silo had re-
fused offers, the very thought of which had
embittered the soul of many a Roman
'beauty with the gall of envy. For all the
emotion she had exhibited at the passionate
pleading of her suitors, she might have been
a statue of iee.
She was the only daughter of an ancient
'ducal family of Rimini; and the pride and
beauty of her racy had desceuded to her un-
diminishotl. Her hair, slightly waving,
was of a glistening black, save when the
sunlight touched it, when faint coppery
tints and red gleams flickered in its glossy
depths. Her eyes, in her calm moments,
were dark violet, but changed with her
moods from cold steel gray to glowing,
dusk, like the sky in a moonless August
night.
In'the very height of her reign, when, to
use scarcely too extravagant a metaphor,
all Rome was at her feet, there carne tot he
city a poor student from the old university
of Padua, Marco Carnese had the dark,
handsome features, the brilliant black eyes,
the little figure and the fiery passion of the!
Sicilians. His fine talents had won hint I
seine fame and a fellowship in his college.
It seemed the merest iroey that Marco
should Meet Olivia Antiedi and fall -madly
in love with her. But so it was. She,
too; •had noticed the hrandeonhe student,
with his mournful expression 51111 reserved
air ; and had he been . of her own grade elf
life, it is possible that sl.o might have look-
ed upon his love with favorable eyes.
He was not blind to the wide gulf be-
twecn their respective stations ; nor to the
utter' helplessness of his passion. But he
dill not pause to reflect ; be could think of
nothing but that he worshipped her with a
worship that was like a consuming flame.
He could net keep away from her. It'
seemed as if he drew Ids life from her pros•
once ; and yet the sight of her beautiful
face, so near and yet sa utterly removed
from him, was a torture. '
Denied her house, he followed her at a
distance in the street ; always with the
same mute, imploring look. He managed
to introduce --himself iat.to._the dwellings
where she visited ; and often at night,
glancing about the drawing•r0om, she met
his dark, mournful eyes- resting upon her
in passionate adoration. "�
He had ventured to addeess her, in low,
trembling tones. She had replied with a
freezing reserve that would ]rave changed
the love of :nest 111011 into hatred. With
Marco t_a nese it Merely added fuel to the
flame.
Uue night he followed her into the orang-
ery of, ,a muusiml where they were both
guests, hardly knowing what he wished or
meant to (10. Stair; her nitre alone, he
approached her, 'aid auillcilly throwing
himself nylon his knees at her fc.rt he. poem I
out his passion in a torrent of words which
would have swept away the resistance of
many W011)e11. She only looked down at
him with a curling lip.
"You are mad, signor,- she said.
"Yes," he exclaimed, `.'I am ntul-you,
so noble, lith and honorer ; I so poor,
humble and unknown 1 It is madness.
13)11, ah, how gladly I would die for one
smile, one look of love from yeti, beautiful
0115T'."
"oa are offensive, signor," she said.
with exasperating calmness. "Either leave
me, or hermit the to pass."
He arose with flaming cheek, and stood
with bent head es she swept haughtily by
him as if he had been an impertinent men-
ial. He had made himself ridiculous ui her
yes ! She despised him !
Any other man would have been utterly
overwhelmed by such a rebuff. But as he
had said, he was mad. For a few days he
buried himself in the seclusion of his gar.
ret, suffering only as such natures can stif-
fer. Then he emerged, and again was seen,
with his melancholy eyes and appealing ex-
pression, haunting Olivia, Anfledi, like an
importunate and 1rreprssiblo phantom.
Everybody in Rome knew of the hopeless
passion of the threadbare Sicilian for the
noble lady. But it was little to him if they
made a mock of his love. Irl all the world
be saw only her, thought only of her. A
glimpse of her beautiful face, albeit cold as
marble to him, was food and drink, life it-
self to the, poor scholar. All •alae was less
than nothing in his thoughts.
He discovered that she went on foot every
afternoon to attend vespers at the Church
of St. Lucia, in the Via Trajano. At first
he contented himself with watching her
from the shadow of a pillar, and following
her homeward at a distance, In the church,
no,&4nt depl9ted upon, iGe wall,#, or eluillati
R1? v0 its altara .re.0eivedl :Bo
homage %rein
flops who Woroltipped these,, as did the
benutU'ut devotee froth tbo unhappy lover,
Whether go know it or not was iutpossible
to discover #rout tier imp,aseNe face; a hun-
dred thnoa more impaeelve than usual when
she detected the sorrowful eyee fixed upon
her aft she knelt.
One evening, when silo had lingered
longer that* usual anti the few worshippers
lied departed, leaving her al0110 With hull ht
the uhuruh, he accosted her. •
He began by a stammering appeal for par-
don far his boldness ; but surveying him
with a look of haughty surprise, she would
have passed out of the chureh without a
hword, had he not placed himself before
at',
"Ynu shall listen to me," he said, hotly.
"I love you. I ata dying for you. God did
not give you anull beauty that you might
destroy those who adore you with ort;elty,
Rev° you no word of kindness for ms, no
pity?"
"Allow mo to pass," was her reply, "or I
will call the sacristan."
".Slave you 110 heart ?" he cried violently.
"Am I to listen to the ravings of every
adventurer who crosses my path?" she said
in the same cold tone.
"Adventurer 1" he gasped, his face flush-
ing a deep crimsum with rage and shame,
"1 an adventurer 1"
"What also ?" she replied calmly. "flow
should you dare -a begs in rags -speak of
love to me ?"
If she had meant to insult and exasperate
him she lead succeeded but' too well. With
his eyes starting from his head, and the
foam on his Lips, he glared at her a mo-
ment ; then lifting his hand he struck her.
It was an act of frenzy, the cencetitration of
his long suffering and despair in one supreme
moment of utter abandon.
The next instant he was groveling upon
the ground,. kissing the heal of her garment,
bathing it in tears, and sobbing prayers for
pardon, self-accusations, curses upon 1hts
own brutality ; while. she, 'towering above
him in hor outraged pride, gazed down at
him with white face and flashing eyes.
"Coward 1" she said, in a slow, deep tone,
"coward 1"
"Yes, yes," he cried, still kneeling,
"worse than a coward ! a villain, a dog !
Oh, that I, who would have died for you,
should hare done this ! Blasted be the
hand that was raised against you 1 But you
shall be revenged. Yes, I inyself will t•o•
vengc you."
She made no reply, but pushing hint
aside with her foot, went out of the church,
leaving him kneeling upon the floor, weep-
ing and ceiling maledictions down upon his
own head.
The next morning."before she had arisen,
her maid brought her a parcel which had
been left, at the door by a messenger. Sup•
posing.it to be some article from a trades-
man, she untied the wrapping and found
beneath a small wooden box. Removing
the lid, she gazed within, and dropped the
box with a cry of horror.
There; at the bottom of the box, its fine,'
ers • contracted, as with the agony of the
blow, was a man's hand severe./ at the
wrist ! A bit of paper lay beside it, on
which were written these words :
"Tete infamous hand that desecrated love.
Your are rcveuged."
For a long One she lay silent and
thoughtful, with the strange part.c1 beside
her. Gradually the cold, proud expression
of her features gave place to a look never
seen there before. At last she arose, and,
gazing at the severed hand for some mo-
ments, lifted it froth the box and kissed
the lifeless fingers.
All that day she remained at home, in
the seclusion of her chamber ; and all day
a curious struggle seemed to be going on in
her mind. Now she passed to and fro in an
agitated way ; again, she sat in her chair
with her cheek resting upon her hand,
buried its profound meditation.
At nightfall she suddenly arose, dressed
herself in a ,plain walking costume, and,
putting on a thick veil, left the house alone.
There -Was no }ieadt':Won in liar step as siic
went along the darkened streets toward the
commoner quarter of the city.
Arriving before a largo, gloomy building,
whose'tenants were evidently of the poorer
class, she spoke to the conoferge
"Yoih have a•sick gentleman among your
lodgers ?"
"Signor Carnese ?" replied the man.
"011, yes, poor young gentleman. He is
badly wounded. He will not say how,
but—"
"Show me his room."
Whatever questions be might •have felt
incliuod to ask were effectually silenced by
the piece of gold thrust into his hand.
Leading the way to the very top of the
house, ho'pointed to a door ; and, saying,
"That is his room, signora," took himself
downstairs again,
She entered the apartment cautiously.
'l'Ihe poor scholar was lying upon his bud
with his face to the wall -she could sec,
even in the dal kened chamber, how haggard
and white it was. Outside of the coverlet
rested his right arm, bandaged at the wrist.
As she approached him he stirred and
manned :
"Water."
She found a glass upon the stand near at
hand, and placed it t0 his lips. She re-
moved her veil, and as she bent over him,
he saw her face.
"You 1" the said, striving to rise. But
she pressed hien gently back upon the pil•
law.
"Yes," she answered softly, "it is I."
"All," he sighed, "now I can die happy."
"On the contrary, she replied, "you
must live -for my sake, Marco."
Poor Marco's chief danger now was that
he might indeed dte of pure happiness. But
he did not die ; for seldom has a man been
pursed in illness and pain as he was nursed
Ay the woman who had once scorned him,
but in the sudden awakening of her own
heart had discovered the worth of such
love as his.
"Yes," she said, when he was convales-
cent at last, and able to sit up in his chair
by the window, "when I saw that poor
band, something in my heart seemed to
melt and give way, and I knew that I
loved you, Marco."
It is her husband's right hand, the hand
that smote her in the Church of St. Lucia,
the hand of the man she loved as few men
have been loved, that is kept in the por-
phyry casket in the boudoir of the Signora
Corneae.
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friends. that she has .eworn' Of the:
practice of puttfug hat 494 dut'lhty
w:odow silt at night When elle
to bed. Why womendiepote of '.:.
their foot wear iin that wanner ie:
one of those in:aeries that UQ mail,
will ever get to the bottom of. BO
tb young lady in gtlestion hoe re-
ligiously observed the, custom faom
Iter infancy, and would have cort-
tinned it for the remainder of hor
days only for the accident re,forrt;.d
to. It happened on Sunday Weill.•
ing, too. When the time oarne to "
put her boots on the fair enchantress-
disoovetod a green snake, as she
thought, quietly slurnbering in ons;
of her number 5's. She dropped
the boot with a shriek, and alar,.
a•lack•a day, it fell out of the .win-
dow onto the greensward that bor
dered that side of the house. Then
teere was a fishing expedition for
the boot'
with an old parasol handle
as tate lust bit of green lijlbon fell
out of it, anti, finally, after many
herd struggles and excitingslips,tho
fair fisberinaid lost her balance
and tumbled out of the window in
a heap of niuelin, fancy lace and
diehabelle generally. IIow she
skinned around to the back door,
and knocked until one of her broth-
ers came to the door, and the subse-
quent remarks made in the friendly
privacv'of ber'ow'n room ale trifles
that may well be omitted from this
veracities history,
A MADMAN'S DEED.
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IIE CHOPPED HIS wire TO PIECES AND
DROWNED ITIS CHILDREN.
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The ligheet,;eircles of St. Peters-
burg society have been startled by
the revelation of a horrible deed
coulnlittcd by one of the choir-
uastlrrs of the private chapel in the
imperial palace at Peterhof. While
in a deliriums frenzy he murdered
bis wife, after wliicl he chopped her
body into from tits, 'which he
threw in a stove He then threw
his three childr a into the river.
Peterhof is sixteen • utiles west of
that city. The crazy streak came on
Saturday night wide his wife was
in bed and he was preparing to re,
tire. He got an axe from the
woodsh, d and hacked up his wife
while she lay in bed. Then he
gathered the fragments in pans 'and
deintped them into the stove. Flis
three children, of eight, ten tied
twelve years, 18110 slept in the n,-xt•?r
room, awoke and screamed fob help.
The choirmaster hound and gagged
theta, (bagged them 'to the river
at the rear of his place and drown,•
ed theta, Neigh bore, who had been
roused by the children's Hcreatths
and had run to the river, but ton
late to Have their lives, tried to
catch the father, hut he eluded
them and plunged into the water.
He was dragged out and taken to
jail, A crowd gathered around the
building and tried to force an en.
trance that they might lynch the
prisoner, but they were driven oil'
by the watchmen. The choir-
nhaster'a insanity is thought to be
due to his fanatical zeal in church
work 'and his prolonged fasting.
Recently, after living ten days on
l.read and water, he showed signs
of breaking down, and told his wife
that he had committed an unpardon-
able sin.
COST HIM JUST £50 TO
LAUGH.
HE IS NOW. SORRY THAT HE DID NOT
nEwARE OF THE WIDOW.
At the Liverpool assizes Inst week
Mrs. Hannah Clough, a widow of
sixty-four, sued Samuel Southern, a
farmer, aged sixty, for breach of
praise.
The plaintiti, a homely and mat -
only lady, stated that she was sixty-
four, tun old to be rnnrle a fool of,
and that elle hurl bee: a widow
twenty six )PB'H whin sire mit de,
fondant, and he proposed marriage,
but subsequently wedded another
widow.
Three other widows, neighbors of
plaintiff. testified to their knowledge
of the promise of marriage.
Samuel Southern, the defendant,
who is known in his own district as
"Sir William," in allusion to his
Menefee to Sir W. Harcourt, laugh,
ed immoderately in the witness box
arid treated the whole affair as a
huge joke.
His lordship, summing up, asked
the jury why this respectable old
lady #Mould be made the subject of
the defendant's jokes ? Why should
he make these promises and break
them in such a contemptuous inso-
lent way, and then come into the
witness box and stand there shaking
and giggling with stupid laughter
about nothing, simply because he
does an injury to an old lady which
he thought was a good -joke for him-
self and everybody e' e? The de-'
fet,dant had had his laugh and it was
for the jury to tell him what that
laugh was worth.
The jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff with £50 damages.
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