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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1893-02-15, Page 7.*QW»Q 'TQTJ' XQ when, you buy shoes or cloth- ing P Don't you go to the 'ee place (if yon can find it) where they tell you that you mitwear the articles O u t, and then, if )'on;re not satisfied, they'll refund the Money ? Why not do tl)e same when. pit buy medicine? Dr. Tierce's Golden Medical Discovery et Is sold on that plainIt's the only blood - purifier so certain sane} effective that it bun be guaranteed to benefit or cure, in every. case, or you have your money • It's not like the ordinary spring medi- • clues or sarsaparillas. All the year round, it cleanses, builds up, and invigorates the system. If you're bilious, run-down, or dyspeptic, or have any blood -taint, noth- ing can equal it as a remedy. lelNo The Huron News -Record 1.50 a Year—$1.26 in Advance. Wednesday, February I5th, 1893. PORK PACKING IN BOND. A petition is in circulation among members of the. House for presents tion to the Guvernmeut requesting that the representatiuus of the pot k peckera-of Ontario for a relaxatiou of the quarantine regulations fur the ail• mission of hogs from the "United States to be slaughtered in bond,be not granted. It is pointed out tht if this privilege be allowed it will injuriously affect the values and business of the Canadian farmer in hug riiein.. ns well as destroy the reputation Canada now enjoys of producing hug product:, much superior to those exported from the United States, It is strongly urged that the reprosontations of the pork packers be not heeded. FOR GOD'S SAFE LET US ALO N F. MR MASON'S VIGonous LETTER TO AN OBNOXIOUS AGITATOR, J. Herbert Mason, of the Canada Permanent, has written this letter to Eraatus Witnan : " I have received a circular to which your name is attached on 'The Con- dition of Canada' accompanying a long letter from Dir. Farrer, of this city, both referring to ' ' the unrest' existing in this country. "Permit me to say that in my judg- ment this 'ninth magnified unrest is very much more attributable to you, Mr. Ferrer, and a few others of like tendency, than to all other causes com- bined. " I do not propose to discuss the question with you, but I take the op- portunity of, expressing the deep ro- gret I feel that one, whom in many • respects I esteem, can find no better Ir use for his activity than embroiling his native country in an .agitation which, if successful, means civil war, and the destruction of its prosperity. For God's sake let us alone." " \\'ILFITL MURDER." THE FREEMAN BROTHERS INDICTED BY THE CORONER'S JURY FOR THE MURDEROF CONSTABLE RANKIN. Chatham, Ont., Feb. 3.—The inquest over the murder of Officer Robt. Ran- kin was concluded here to -day after a long and tedious session, the whole wek. The most important witness to -day was Detective Alex. McDonald. He entirely corroborated the testimony of Officer Dezelia, and vividly showed to the court, with an axe in his hand, how he saw Alex. Freeman butcher poor Rankin's head. He identified William Henry and George Freeman as the two who in a fiendish manner ▪ afterwards cut the officer's face and head in the horrible way it was found. George, he said, used the cordwood stick to hatter in the skull, and Wil- liam Henry a grubhoe to complete the murderous work. He also identified Lemuel Freeman as being in the serape. The blood -bespattered club and axe found at the Freeman ranch were pro- duced and McDonald identified them as the instruments the murderers used. The other evidence to -day was un- important. The jury retired about 4:30 and after being out 25 minutes returned with a verdict of " Wilful murder" against the trio, George Freeman, Wrn. Henry Freeman and Alexander Freeman, and against Lemuel Freeman as being an accessory tanotike murder. The verdict has given entire satisfac- tion, and when the jury returned, the large court room was jammed to the doors, hundreds being turned away. The accused took the matter cooly, and never evidenced the slightest emotion. Lucinda Freeman, the mother of the murderous trio, was (10001ssc•c1, and JerryFreeman, her husband, released in $000 bail, to appear on Monday for his preliminary trial. The prisoners' preliminary trial before the magistrate is to be pushed on rapidly. They will appear before the P. M. on Mon- day morning, when they will be coin - milted to stand trial at the Spring Assizes, April 12th. TORONTO TELEGRAMS. With the sagacity of a true states- man, Sir John Thompson seems to have hit upon the happy device of allowing the Manitoba school difficulty to die of .,old age. Ages ago Great Britain lost the ase of the hand with which it. }riven terri- tories away, but at this writing the old empire is able to sit up in bed and grab for larger possessions -with both feet. Every time Farmer Mulock, lawyer M. P. binds a sheaf of law papers he is hit in the pocket by the tax on hinder twine. And 'tis when Farmer Cart- wright wright goes binding among his sheaves of mortgages that the tariff leaves him poor indeed. Every power that ever thrusts its ' hand Into the British Empire and rasped what it wanted was glad to get its hand out of the grab -bug with all its fingers whole. And the United States can learn this lesson cheaply from the . experience of other powers, 1 1' The lesby'e Heir. Deep bid away, the little bee ; Deep in my heart, the hey, 60 slight a thing von hold, it seems, So nitwit of misery. Te -ciao with loving hands, I kneel And lift the casket lid Weeping to eue,uy touch reveal The previous treasure hid. A ring of gold. --a baby's hair ! Silken and soft and fine ; No Jewels eau be half so fair As this oat curl of nine. Dear little head, sweet baby taoe, God's angels loved thee And I, wi.b bitter tear replace The baby's hair, and go. For hearts may break yet day by day We all some burden bear ; And more than one has hid away A curl of silken hair. Keep fast the gold where heaven gleams ; Deep ht my heart, the key, So slight a thin•• can hold, it seems. Such love, asci misery, —Good Housekeeping. HER SENSATION. "I wonder if I am never to have a sensor tion like other people ! The theatres are full of sensations and so are books, but I am exactly like one of Howells' heroines ; I do nothing but eat and tie my bonnet strings, varied by buttoning my gloves—of course one must wear glovea.' Miss Blenkinsop was speaking to "Dear- est," and "Dearest" was Sophia Higgin- bothem. She and Miss Blenkinsop wore just coining home from the )matinee one foggy afternoon. "Dear, if I had your bonbons and your checkbook and your roses, I wouldn't be sighing for a sensation," Sophia answered. "All the sante I get desperately tired of it. It's just what mamma did and grand. mamma did, and I shall have to do for ever and aver, I suppose. The heroine in the play this afternoon had a perfect pleth- ora of novelty. Of course I don't want ridiculous things to happen, but, on, for something besides Anstey Beverley's bou- quets and having to decide what dress to wear !" The two girls had reached the steps of the Jacquerie, an up town family hotel, de. servedly popular in San Francisco and somewhat informal. Here it was that Miss Blenkinsop had come when site bid mamma and papa good -by, They had sailed for the continent with her invalid elder sister, anti so the big house on California street was darkened and shut up.. "Dearest" could not be prevailed upon to enter, so they stood talking for a moment, Then Bliss Blenkinsop, with her unfailing regard for the conventionalities, thinking they ought either to come in or pass on, stooped and kissed Sophie ever so lightly on the cheek with that graceful, inoffen• sive and positive hint that she knew how to give to perfection and turned in at the doorway. Then the weary look settled down upon her face and. the tired stroll, so habitual with her, took the place of the un- usual animation she had shown a moment before. In the idiomatic dialect of to -day Miss Blenkinsop was "a thoroughbred" Miss Blinkinsop never dreamed every one was envying her her money and her lot in life. She'supposed people had everthing they wanted anyway. If they hadn't, why didn't.theyl,get it somehow ? She was tall, with R clean length of limb, a low sweep of bust. long lines to her back and a quiet dignity of carriage. Her features had that aristocratically pinched look which is the envy of the •'composite" American girl,and her small, well shaped head was set like a racing filly's. Tito noiseless fall of her skirts, the dull, old colors that she wore, the unpretentious yet faultless "fit" of her clothes were all characteristic of her. Mrs, Morgenstern had called her hands "clawy," but then Mrs. \lorgenstern's own were pudgy and broad—the trade hand—and were covered all over with sparkling rings for breakfast, and Mrs. Morgenstern dress• ed in green and yellow, like an omelet garn ished with parsley. Miss Blenkinsop stopped at the desk in the lobby of the Jackuerie and asked with her inimitable and slightly drawling accent, "Is there any mail for me, Timothy?" "No, ma'am," answered Timothy. And there was about this brief dialogue some- thing of the red tapeiness that there is about a court presentation. "If any comes for me kindly bring it to rry room," and Miss Blenkinsop lowered her tired eyes and passed on. She had reached her own room when she noticed to her surprise that her door was partly open. The key, too, was in, the lock, and Miss Blenkinsop was positive that she carried the key in her own pocket. It was just possible that the chambermaid was there, but the rooms should always be in order by 10 o'clock or half an hour after she was dressed and had left them, and it 'was late in the afternoon. Miss Blenkinsop's step was naturally noiseless, for the pile of the Jacquerie care pets was deep and 'soft. She advanced slowly at first without any thought of eau• tiousness, Then Miss Blenkinsop sudden- ly stood perfectly still upon the doorsill as her astonished eyes saw a Chinaman stoop- ing over a drawer in her dressing table. There was the brass buttons, the loops of braid, the dark blue blouse with its labs rinthine pockets so convenient for a thief, and the long, sinuous sweep of pigtail: It did not take Miss Blenkinsop long to make up her mind. She felt in some way that there was a judgment on her for hav• ing given way to that contraband thing, a desire for sensation. Bitterly would she have cursed her folly, except that she was not a bitter or a cursing person. She was only aware of a distinct repulsion for what was in store for her. She had a vague idea if she sprung to the door and shut it suddenly, violently, the thief would get up the chimney of let himself out of the window, as the robbers did in plays, and if she did it at all she wanted to clo it well. If she called for help out of this most disagreeable of situations he would shoot down the tangle of halls and vanish before she could be answered, and what was infinitely worse than all if she gave the alarm she might have to go into the police court. It was melodramatic and horrid. All at once Miss Blenkinsop made up her mind. She had never "crept stealth- ily" before in her life, elle had never am- bushed anybody, she had never done con- spicuous or dreadful things,but she must do this' She inwardly thanked heaven that she still had her gloves on as she reached in after the cue of the kneeling Chinaman. Then she picked it up deftly, softly pulled it out toward her and slammed—yes, slammed—the door upon it, turning the key in the lock, and gave a little hysterical laugh and wondered why her cheeks were so hot. There was a muffled, squirming sound on the other side of the door. "Perhaps it would he just as well if you kept still,' said Miss Blenkinsop. "Please don't say you don't 'Babe,' for you do, you know." An angry voice cried through the panels, "Lotee glo 1" "1 can't, really," said Miss Blenkinsop. It took all the presence of mind Mies Blenkensop could summon to her aid to hold the gre0ay half yard of braid in her hands. She was afraid to let go for fear it would slip into the room, where she had no doubt that the baf}ledChim,man was pulling Seteretelesee; with all his rnight ; to make it more secure betide obit of the bre.)'i l0).1* i, ".vll wt's tint 1 she tore off one of lien liontiet adage and poise? Is it Chrarley' , 1:•.' :,,,;—to.11 hillg?" • wound it around the knot end knob, act- Laughing he was, aii•t h"tr►ry it was, miring her own ingenuity With oomples-enoe. apparently convulsed e, , r ;, pi or little "Now I eau think," 0110 said. canvas which he had tieees died from its Thinking was nut swill an oast' matter hit -bug -plane buck ur t hie .i, uses in the with an oily Celestial and a predicament doeee oonfrouting her• . The awful couscquences of her succesful capture now begun to pre- sent thetnselyes fur the fleet tine. 1 -ler first feeling had been one of righteous ia• dignation to punish the offender, but she bogan to consider the cost to herself of such a step. She would be the heroine of the "Have we a Itui,ene aunon;; un `" he demanded, when he eotthi 111)1 culti:tent breath to speak. "Tull nue, 1'11 (.1 1, whose is this very extraordinary work --nut yours?' Patty stood, deep-dyed with blushes. e ha headlines of to -morrow's issue of the paper, 1 defense.d slut it word to utter in self. to say nothing of being the victim of end- "So you thought you could be au artist?" less chaff, though 010 one had ever yet been said he, -'You meant to euru1ise ale? found who chaffed Miss Bleukinsop. Well, 1 au) surprise,(—beyond all nhettsur'e. Could she endure these compound results? Look at that foreshortening 1 Look at the She who had never been ridiculous or con- green grass—so darkly, deeply, beautifully spicuous in her life ! She fairly wrung her green ! And the sky 1" gloved hands toed lee n.1 an agony of tile- I Once more he rela )sed into laughter, until cotton. Oh, why .i it ever happeued? Why had she givoit •av to an impulse and gotten bonsai into this mess? catching sight of Fatty's scarlet face, he took pity upon her. "It must have been a common streak in "Give it up, little girl," he said, with me somewhere," see murmured, sup -a sportive patronage which stung her to pose I wonted to do something heroic r Stickthheart. r prisets are burn, not made. l+ ' to tour preserve -kettle and needle. great, or something 1" sarcastically. "I 1 book, and leave the painting to me, wanted to do what was right, anyway." Now where are those gold beads of There was a bell just outside the door— yours? I want to sketch thein into my extremely easy to ring and have a crowd foreground." there in a minute. A crowd 1 Miss Blen• Patty silently reached thorn down. Her kineop shivered. After all, how did she eyes bi•irninsd over with tears, a great lump know that the Chinaman had really had had risen up in her throat, but not to save time to take anything? He would certain- her lite could she have spoken it word. Not ly not confide in her if he had. 'Then, too, until he had gone did she seize the tell-tale prisons were not the most delightful places canvas and cut it into strips with her eels - in the world, and even a Chivatmin might sora, have an [esthetic aversion to thein. Poor "He gave me no chance," she said to her - fellow, she would like to be spared the pain self, biting her lower lip with her small, of knowing that she had been the cause of t strong teeth. "He took it all for granted. making a wretch—of course he was a wretoh And now—n —mora unhappy than he really was, net to The "nioney•changer's" slid not sell well, mention the relief it would he to herself to not even though the picture -dealer gave it be rid of the responsibility of bringing the thelane d'houueur in his shop window, creature to justice, which was always hard on the nerves. and (hero was it worn, haggard look on Charlcote Willey's lace, as, late one day he Mise Blenkinsop unwound the ribbon, dune in to see what luck might have been untied the knot, of hair and opened the door. "You might as well go, I suppose. I shouldn't know what to do with you any. way-," she said languidly as sho held the door open, with a look on her face at once apologetic and affectedly indifferent. The Chinaman did not pause• to remark the nice shades of meaning on her counten- 11110e, but picked up his bundle of washing in store for him. "Any bids ?" he asked. The picture -dealer shook his head. "No one has even asked the price," said ho. Willey uttered an exclamation of vexa- tion. "Yon are rather dowd on your luck, old fellow," said the mutt of pictures. "But if and shuffled sadly away,giving IlfissBleuk- you remember, I've always told you your style was too bizarre for the general public. insop a glance so amazingly compounded of Now look here. 1)o you see those ::ower gratitude, cunnrug triumph, stolid stupidity and fruit pieces, and the little smiling and pained reproach that she mused about it probably for several moments eequent, only to come to the mortifying conclusion that "they" were too subtle for her. The fact, that she had let a criminal out at large on society did not sit with any great uneasiness upon Miss L'lenkinsop's conscience. The great thing was that affairs had been so beautifully simplified. Perhaps, too, this would teach him a lesson in regard to the mutability of human exist- ence, especially in the line of stealing. "lt certainly was rather nice of me to let him off," sho reflected with immense com- placence. "I don't believe I have any of those feelings of revenge and malice that are so disagreeable and low—and h t childrens' heads there? That's the kind of work that goes oft' well. Everything is sold the instant it appears in the shop I could find a market fur twice the work that artist does." ' "Who is it ?" Charlcote stopped to ex- amine the remarque in red letters in the corner. "Bellamy Bellaire? I don't know the fellow. But the things are certainly very spirited. I—might—perhaps--catch the idea. But a copyist never gets the real chic of the original,tu)d—" He checked himself at a motion of the picture•dealer's hand, and at the same time he percieved a slim, grey -clad figure vanish- ing at the door that led out on a aide e ex sus - street, ing," "The artist herself,"said the picture -deal - She passed on into her room and stopped er, half laughing, half vexed. at her dressing table. There were the open " Oh, it's a woinau, is it ?" cried Mr. drawers and everything in disorder, and Wiley. her carved gold jewel box was gone—a "It's a woman," nodded the dealer. small affair that she kept her lesser urea- " Do you suppose she heard what I meats in—the safe down stairs held her said ?" more valuable jewelry. "I don't see how she could have helped \Vhat was it? Miss Blenkinsop tried to it ; but it was nothing uncomplimentary, remember. Oh, yes, the opal necklace and fortunately, Only these artist, folks are one or two rings! sensitive.' The bonnet string was lying on the floor. "It's still more remarkable as ,. wo- Miss Blenkinsop stooped and picked it up man's work," observed \\Tilley, once more and threw it into the fire ; then she drew scrutinizing the canvass. "Are these all orf her long gray kid gloves and threw ordered ?" them into the grate also and raked the "Every one." ashes over them. Then she went and Willey sighed. washed her hands,—Genie Clark Pomeroy "Well," said he,"I'll send yousomething in San Francisco Examiner: in a different style next week. Peastsh I had staying power enough to bring the publicto i7 i.1) OWN \i. Cr L ! n' 111 my ideas of art; but as it is, I don't see but 11L1\ Y ,i tJI t RET. that I shall have to trim my sails to the public idea," He was sitting, sad and sorrowful, in his studio that evening, when the door softly opened 'and Patty carte in. He looked up. "The very person I was wanting to see !" said he. "What do you think, Patty, of our giving up this expensive studio floor and moving around the corner to the Cib- bals Flats ?" "Of giving up your studio, Charlcote?" "It's too expensive to Keep up, child," he said, impatiently. "Times are hard ; busi- ness is dull. I daresay 1 can manage in an ordinary room, with a respectable north window to it, and a few draperies." "Haven't you any money, Charlcote ?" He shook his head. "But I have 1" cried Patty, with a little, gurgling laugh. "A whole hundred dollars --enough to pay the rent awhile longer ; and there's a fair prospect of earning more. See 1" and she held out a roll of bills, "A hundred dollars !" echoed TVilley, looking earnestly, to make sure that the little greenish -grey things were not fairy money to melt away under the human gaze. "Why, where on earth, child, did you get a hundred dollars ?" "I earned it," said Patty, quietly. "I have sold some pictures." "Some of mine—without my know- ledge ?" "No—some of my own pictures,"said she. "I am Bellamy Bellaire. I have a little mite of a studio on the top floor of Mrs. Garuett's house, next door, where I have been secretly working and toiling, when you thought 1 was visiting my mother or shopping down town. To be sure, I made a bungle of it at first—you saw one of my 'early attempts' in the closet, a few weeks ago—but I kept resolutely on , and now I can sell the pictures as fast as I cut paint them, At good prices, too 1" He looked at her as if he were in a dream, "You 1" he repeated, "you Bellamy Bel- laire 1 Why, you insignificant little dar- ling 1—with a forced laugh—"I have even been talking of imitating your style—of copying your pretty mannerisms, to • catch that shy fish, the Public Taste ! You, the girl I laughed at—you, whom I considered barely up to cooking -stoves and crochet - work 1 Was ever )man such a fool before 1" He walked once or twice up and down the floor ; then he stopped in front of her. "Fellow -artist," ho said, formally bow- ing his head, "I salute you ? Dear little guardian angel of a wife," kissing her, ten- derly, "I thank you for this aid in time of need. Never before have I known how deep and how precious was w woman's heart 1" And happy Patty scarcely knew whether) to laugh or to cry. "Can you spare me a little money, Charley, dear?" Into the dim, artistic light of the studio came Patty Willey's head like a gleam of flax•gold sunshine. Mr. Willey roused himself with an effort and an impatient frown, "Money ?" repeated he with a mirthless laugh. "How strange it is, isn't it, that money should be such an important factor in the world? No, Patty; 1 haven't any this morning. The artist's wife came a step or two further into the room. "Hasn't Mr. Framer paid you for that 'Berry Gathering' yet? "Paid mo, child? He has concluded not to take it at all 1" ty Willey signed softly and creitt back into the kitchen. She would not buy the partridges now. Cold beef, with a salad, would do very well for dinner. And the oranges could be dis- pensed with. She would have liked to pay the fish man's bill, but there was no hope for it—he must wait a little while longer. Tap ! tap ! tap ! again at the studio door. Once more Charlcote Willey started from a reverie. "It's the model, Charley," said his wife. "Shall you want her to -day ?" "No; not to -day." "Tomorrow then?" - "No," with another impatient shrug. "I'11 let her know when to come. How is a man to afford models, at a dollar an hour, when he isn't selling any pic- tures?" Patty came back to the studio present- ly. She put her hand on the artist's shoul- der. "Charley 1" she hesitated. "Well ?" "Couldn't I pose for you ? I would keep very still." "Yost ! Well, upon my word," he jeer- ed, "a little chickadee of a woman like you ! \Vhat sort of a Roman empress would you make ? No, Patty, no. I'm obliged to you, all the same, but it won't work." "Charley," cried the little woman. in de- spair, "why did you marry me?" "Because I felt in love with you, I sup- pose." "No, but—why didn't you marry an au- thoress, or a designer, or a prima donna -- or someone who could help yon earn money ?" He smiled. "Run off', Patty, and rock the cradle," said he. "We'll have money enough and to spare when once my style of art is ap- preciated." Patty stood a moment, as if there was something else that she wanted to sat to him ; but he hon turned toward his easel, and her courage failed her. Half an hour afterward Mr. Willey went up to his wito's room. He was painting the interior of a money -changer's shop, and chanced to bethink himself of a string of old-fashioned gold heads which her grand- father had bequeathed her. "It will be the very gleam of old gold which I want," thought ho. He knew that she kept it in a Japanese box on the closet shelf, and— "Goodness me 1" cried Patty, taking her Not hail at Heart. "Your ease," said the police magistrate "perplexes mo. You are an old offender. You have been brought before this ooarll dozens of times tor being drunk and dis- orderly, and it doesn't seem to do any good either to find you or to send you to the workhouse. Yet you don't seem to bo a bad man at heart," "I'm not, Jedge," snivelled the contrite old vagabond, draws ing the back of his hand across his nose. "and I'm willin' to drop these proeeedin't1 right now if you are." r gliniummonommompamemnummairamminEisommiimmir A. PRIZE PQ.1 TRAIT' 'UZZLF. Find The Grandmother. The younglady in the above cut has a grandmother whoa0 picture is rmnlit/m(1 In the above portraiIf you can and the Grandmother in the above Portrait you may receive a reward which will pay you many times over for your trouble. TPlano 1 hequesof the forThreeaHuticltetdtDtoiIIftrcietl•t)ler 1(10!)erson who van first lltnd the grandmother. 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For the person who can find the grandmother that is receives( last is offered a Sl in- plexTypewriter, For the next to the last will be given n Solid Silver Watch. To the third, fourth, fifth and sixth from the 1051 received with 0011.0(1 answers will receive each a Solid Gold Brooch. If there should be as many ae two hundred persons sending correct answers, each, will be awarded with a valuable prize. Names f othose receiving leading prizes will be pub- wilBail d the subscription ie tion list of this upopular jouwill be rllal �d'1'hto e all lit offering this assistin Puzzle is to attract attention, and to introduce our publication. Perfect impartiality is guaranteed in giving the rewards. Answer to -day, and enclose 1(0 cents and you may win one of the leading prizes. Address, r (D) LADIES' HOME MONTHLY, 192 Ring St. West, Toronto, Canada. NEWS NOTES, — The Winnipeg grain exchange have petitioned the C. P. 11 to carry seed wain free of charge. — Wallace W. Holmes, the wife mute. )lever, wits hanged friday at Springfield, Mass. — During 1.92 there were 130,7750 deaths in New Yolk state, the rate being 2078 per 1,(x)(1 population. -James Mitchell, his wife and chili, were frozen to death in a frame house tient. Topeka, Kansas, on 'Thursday, -The safe in the Police Court at \\ten'stock was blown open by burglars on Thursday night and the total contents, $30, stolen. -The coronet's jury at Chatham have brought in a verdict of wilful sunder against four of the Freemans for the killing of Constable Rankin. --The President's message relative to bond transit over Canadian roads was read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Afiai:s in the House of Repre- sentatives Friday. -Morris Cohen, his wife Sophia and their ' any, est her, were suffocated hy a fire at. New York on friday. Annie (ioh"herg, aged 13, Jacob Cohen and Pauline Goldberg were badly injured. —The man arrested nt Bell River on suspicion of being Sullivan, wanted for the double murder at Durand, :\Iich,,has be en released. Officers from Durand have sten hint end state that he is not Sullivan. —Brandon, the Portage and Winnipeg will at this session send a,jeint delega- ti,.n to Ottawa to induce. the Govern• nient to remove the Assiniboine river from the listof navigable streams in order that its water power' may be used for manufacturing purposes. —Edward Fisher, a colored than, was charged in the Police Court at Toronto with committing an unmentionable offence on a boy named James Dobson, n n lane off Richmond street last \Vednesday eight. The evidence was conclusive and the prisoner was found guilty. He was sentenced to three years in the Kingston penile and to be given ten (ashes three months ifter going' in, and ten more three months before coming out. -R. D. McGibbon, counsel for the Canadian Binding Twine Company, writes to the newspapers denying that they are dependants on a United States combine. Ile says the consumers com- pany, which has always been controlled in Canada, is not at present increasing its capital stock, and aloes not propose to do so. Its directors, a majority of whom are residents of Canada, are offers ins to the public at par a portion of their stock. In conclusion he bases the company's claims for protection upon the tact that it employs 1,500 Canadians. -Charles Sullivan, a laborer residing in fort Huron, has been arrested for bigamy, on complaint of his third wife, whose name was Jenny Scott, whom he married at Fort Gratiot about three years ago, and having lived with her since in that city. Before this marriage he had been previously married to Dole lie Barrington, of St. Clair, and lived with her two years, while at the same time he had another wife living at St. 'Phomas. iVhen arraigned in the Police Court Thursday he pleaded guilty, and was remanded to the Circuit Court for sentence. A few days ago wife No. 3 made complaint to the police that her husband had turned her out of doors and refused to give her their baby's ward- robe. They referred ber to the Prnse. cuting Attorney, who upon heating her story, issued a warrant for Sullivan's ar- rest for bigamy. -The examination of young ilyacin the Latreruouille, the express car rob. her who stole a package of •$i 43 from the express messenger on the Grand 'l'rutik train, January 10, between Palmerston and linnlilton, was con- cluded last week before Police Justice Hill, at Niagara Falls. Detective Day, of the Grand Trunk, int.erce.l,.1 in behalf of the boy. 'l'6e policy, under Chief Tom Young's aid, hove secured some $200 of the money Latre s mouille squandered. The boy's father I put up an additional $200, leaving but $343 as yet not refunded. Judge Hill' t took a fair view of the case and Allow- ed .I.atrelnouille to return home to Hamilton, NEWS NOTES. -The Jesuit General has sent to the Pope 500,000 fi awes collected as Peter'A pence. -Jas. Yoe was convicted nt \Voo•1 stock last week of offering for sale a eancerous cow, and tined $50 and costs. -The Ontario Legislature will not meet till the first of March, as the new parliament buildings will not be ready till that date. -The Kinlough correspondent of the Kincardine Review rises to remark that "The snow is 3 feet deep and I0 degrees 1 elow zero" in the' Huh." -The little daughter of Dr, Morita - gut!, M. P., has been very seriously and dangerously ill at Dunnville, but is now improving. -There is talk in Chicago of a strike among railroad men, which will be the largest ever inaugurated. The ewitclis men of all the railroads are said to be at the bottom of it. --11 r. Cummings, a leading writer on the New York Sun representing a dis— trict in New York, introduced in the; House of Representatives at Washing - toil last week a bill to facilitate coins mercial union with Canada. "It is not generally known," says the Berlin News, "that a real freak re- sides in our midst, lir. Seibert, of Bridgeport, brother of the Seiherts, well known in Berlin, is the freak. Ile is remarkable for hie long white hair and moustache, and the extreme whiteness of both make hint a very pe- culiar sight to behold. When he re- moves his hat the long hair shoots straight up, giving his bead the appear, ance of being an enormous size. He also has small red eyes, and can see as well in the darkness as in the Ilgbt. He has been engaged hy a well-known dry goods firm to work for them at the World's Fair, merely to hand out ade vertising cards to the public. -In a recent statement published by Sir John Lubbuck, the well known British authority, it is shown that while the foreign trade of the United States, increased £29,000,000 and that of lj'rance £I5,000,000 between the year 1 88 and 1890, the trade of Great Britian increased £40,000,000 about as much as that of the other two nations put together. In the imports alone the increase was the more marked, the tit-'ures being: United States, £4,000,- 000; France, L11,000,000; United Kingdon(, £59,000.000. This does not hear nut the American boast that Britain's foreign trade is falling Off to a deplorable extent. -A sad shooting accident occurred at Waterloo, Ont., last week, whereby Mr. Jacob Huber lust his little son, 7 years old. A brother-in•law of Mr. Huber arrived on a visit from Milwau. kee, \\'is„ and in unpacking his valise placed a 32 -calibre self -cocking revol• ver in a drawer, remarking at the time it wits two dangcrons to have it lying exposed. Ten minutes later Mr. I-1ul,er's little girl of 9 took out, the same revolver, and pointing it at her little brother renierked, "I am going to shoot," when it went off, the ball passing through the little boy's thumb into his abdomen. 1Ie only lived a fete hours. -Word comes from Ottawa that a vonngg man named Eugene Coryiveau, who ie supposed to have relations at "1 he Castor ," county of Russell, has Been found frozen to death in one of the lakes of the Opeongo River, in the Upper Ottawas district, on 'Friday last. rho unfortunate man was employed as a teamster in the shanties, and while crossing the ice on one of the small beets of water in the vicinity with his (arses, broke through. The animals were drowned, but Corriveau escaped heir fate only to die later by frost., for when his body was found a short ristanen from the fisaure in the lake it vas solidly encased in ice. ,1