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The Clinton News-Record, 1899-12-07, Page 7.11 ATTLE FOUGII evidencing aiit'Peroor of itt Contention Meat of their Slelna tie tndepeUdentle# 14: i 1 ijis Ea that both foreign 61 ernMente and the Goverinnent of the TJnited Statea treated the Cettrederatee ea helliger- enta. TEE VERY LATEST FROM Mettileil'S Column. Drives 8,000 Doers Front Their Position Near Kimberley, Desperate Fighting for Ten flours Without FoOd or 4 Water,..British Losses Are Very ileaVy..Cone of the .114rdest Battles in the Annals of the British AS n1Y- Gen.' .51-ethtten reportei--eliecentorte red et. 5 en.e. on Timaday enemy's. post - Van. oo Bever Mohler, and found theM ;strongly entrenched end ceneettled. Meaaeof •ootfianteing, river being in fell' flood. • • . • e . • "Aetton, roMMexieed wtth artillery, .neounted tofantrye and cavalry at 5.30. Guards.on right, Moth. Brigede• on left. .-"Aetacesed pciiitiop in widety extend- ed ••formation. ae 0,80, and eupported by the: artillery, found. oureelvee in frent of the whole'Boer force, 8,000 with tete large • .guies,',Onie Krupps . .1 etc, "The Naval Brigade rendered great assistance from the railway, "After desperate hard fighting, whioli lasted ten hours, Mir Men, with - Rot water or fieed, one in the burning sun, made the enemy quit his posi- tion. ! General Pele-Oarew wan successful in getting A MAU party across the river, gallantly assisted by' 300 sape Pers. • . "I speak iriternis 'of high praise of the cenduct of all who were engaged in one of the hardest and meat 'trying fight*, in the annals of the British army.- If f can mention one arm par- ticteleely; it is two .batteries atif artil- lery."' • • RESULT OF THE BA.TTLE, '• As regerds- the actual. result' of tee ?attlee the London Morning Post Ataxy attic, who, it has been gezier ally'Proved ems heron foresight, says: " it does not -sewn too. ranch to pre- sume that it was Wen by the British, though the despatelli•reetains scrupule ottelyefrom referrieig. eo a vtetory. The enemy was forced to withdraw from his position, which May mean a falling back of' the advanee to the interim lines, or the abandooment a the bridge head defenciee." -The critic agtiumes that there was a bridge, and that the Boers at the out- set were defending ehe southern iile- proaelieir to• it. The former Is the. more plausilele, since Generall'ole-Carew was crossing With .the help of sappers, which would negative the hope that the Oridge was " in the •hands of the British, The sape epers were undoubtedly pontooning. Compeeint is beginning to be heard eigainet the employment of so many -sail° for purely soldier& Work so far fro the coaet. ,The complatiot' ie d on the ground tleat the nap, t afford to lose' men ir it, t k d are'ltiseweriaeletinaplaints that there artillery and cavalry, have not ,heen furnished to. Geneial..Methuen. It is arguee that ht the start of hia march he did not 'have suffiderit cavalry for • pursuit and to clinch the victories • gained, and that breech Meat none 'be. so Overworred m les • be Oractically worn out. The London Daily News says: -- "Whatever comes, we must. brace .our looks as if We had. before us a very nerves,- to meet it. Certainly. to -day stern and earliest struggle before we see our way clear to final viatory," . BOERS' RETREAT PROM ENSL1N. The London Daily Chronicle's cor- respondent at Orange river ' Says that after ,the engagement at Ensiin he ,..elimbed'ehe.kobje where the enemy's main battely has been, He fourel that a gup pit had been coristructe ed of ironstone boolders, 'oh peac- tically commanded the rai y. ;fig- ments of Britith shelle were every- . where. On the hills were a dozen horses; all of which had been killed hy Inside the fort there. wee evidence of a batty Boer retreat; Saddles, overcoats, rigs, arid cartridges were abandoned. ' A *aisle cavalry cap was touted in the fort on the next kepje where there were over a bundred dead horses. The correspondent., adds that it is - impossible to estimate the Boer losses, : as they carried off many Of theie dead; but there waa evidence that the British guns had done terrible execution; near- ly all the Boer wounded were injured by the shell fire. Packages of tium- dum cartridges were found in several places. The Daily Mail's corresporident saYs that the wetted caused by a dumedum bullet is email where therniasile enters but where it leaves the body the wound is the size of a five -shilling piece. t • -71-'41113c ,,A elites to the oonePeettioll of thet rest of his fierce are fount in the newspaper !It'd official despatchea. Apparently tz87,1uinvii Is made Up about as fel- • • IN FA.NTRY. , First Brigittle-Seeond end Third Grenailier Guards, First and Secend Coldstream Cuerds, First ' Scots Guards. Ninth etrigade - Second Yorkshire Light Infantry, First Northumber- land Fustiters, Second Northampton - shires, ,First Loyal North Larteashiree, Second West Yorkshires, ARTILLERY. Ae least three batteriee, inclu,ding the Seventh and probably the Four- teenth Ninth Lanci3OrABV. ALM% NAVAL BRIGADE, • Bluejackets irom Cape fleet, Royal Marine Light Infantry, NEWS PROM 51AF EKING, Colonel Baden-Powell, under date 'of Nafeking, November :10, has sent the following to the War Office through General Forestler- Walker at Cape Town :- • "All welt here, Cronje has gone with e comnaando, and with- about 00 wag- gons, to Richt:ere, Transvaal, leaving most of the guns here with the Marko and Lichtenberg contingents, with or - dere to shell us into submission. e "Bombardin,ent end sniping continue with very small kesints. "The enemy's seutiies drew us out Saturday by making a show of going away and leaeing a big gun ap,parently e state of being dismantled. Our scoute found the enemy hidden, in force, so We sat tight. • "Tee enemy's . 94-pciunder 'became damaged, and ees been replaced by an- -1 am daily pushing. outour advance Works, with good effect., "The health of the garrisorils geed. No casualties to report." • "GOING STRONG" ON THE 24TH. Capt. Wilson, in a message from Mateking, under.date of November 24, says "We are- going strong. . 'We are still beleaguered. There N intermit- tent tihelling."- - • DID SOME HUSTLING. : A despatch from Cape, Town says: e -While everybody is talking about.ebe good work of the Naval Brigade now fighting vi4th Gen.- Lord, Methuen, it may not bee amies te tell how they hustled to the front. During the train ,journey northward th e serious collision on the Victoria road. Conetclereleee' damage was done, and it was,eeeessary to transfer the baggage . . ygn a re e rain. the marines and bluejaekets went to work and made the transfer within four layers. Then they made another setert, and reached Belmont in time for the battle. ANOTHER BRITISH DIVISION. ' .• despatch, from London says: - Speaking on Thursday at a dinner givexa by the Scottish corporation, Field' •Maeshal Lord Wolseley Com- mander-in-chief of the British arllty, said he had no intention of maims- ing anything that had taken place in South Africa; but hi woulde say that this evening it was decided to call out one more division of the second atmy corpis. Perhaps hefore the week was out, certainly before rour or live days, it would be ien the way to South Af- rica ,„ RECEIVED WITH SATISFACTION. As men are:needed in all directions Lord 'WoLseley's announcement that a new division Wilt be embarked with- ottt delne has been received with the greatest satisfaction. The transports Will soon be returning front the Cape and it is hoPed that.the men will be despatched speedily. • On thia point the Morning Poet says: ' "The Boone. we can make up our mind as to the mageitude of the week on hand the mono. it *ill be accom- plished." BRITISH LOSSES REVISED. A despatch from London, says :-A revised list of the British•castatties at Belmont showis :-Officers killed, 4; wounded, 22; nonesommissioned offi- cers and privates killed, 46; wounded, 226; of which ntimber the Guards had 85 killed and 159 woended. TLC revised list of casualties sustain- ed by General Ilildyaed'a forces in their sortie froin Estcourt, Natal, at ,,,,-BeaeOn Hill shows: Killed, 13 ; wounded, 04; missing, 1 ; prisoners, 8. rieekER SHOT BY WOMEN. ' At despatish to the London Daily Telegraph from Emilio pays that on Sunday a petrol of the Ninth Lancers rode up to a farm, A number of wo- men outside the house direeted a heavy fire against the troops, killing one of thean, CA:SUALTIES AT MODDER RIVER. A despateh from Lennon saes :-The casualties in the Modder river .battle on Tuesday, cm far at; known, were four officets• killed and nineteen wounded. e The losses among the rank and file have not yet beim aneoutteed by the War Office, and no despatches concern- - ing the battle from war correspond- ents have yet Come through. LORD METH:TIEN WOUNDED. The War Office announces that Gen, Lord Methuen was slightly w•ounded at the hattle of Modder river. A. but - let struek him in the thigh, inflicting a flesh wound. The officiate state that the generaile wound. is very slight, and that he will `ntobably be all right in a few days: iii probable that the wound will prevent his being in the oaddle, end there is great anxiety to know whe- ther he will be compelled temporarily to ababdoli the persoeat direetion of affairs. His next in command is Col. Colville, cotainanding the Guards Brigade. /16 has a reputation am an eteellent dfficet, METEVEN'S PROD/LIME FOAM The original arrangement of Bul- ler's troops by dividions and brigaded hao been materially altered by the eX- 'Z0110164 of the military eituation. adcornith's early peril led to plans being made to send the whole first di- vision, under Lotd Methutio, to Dur. bah, wherme it should move northward to relleite Geneva White. For Borne than% poielibly the belated artival at Cape Town of some of the troopa corn. -Attiring tie first division this idor was given up, Lord Methil:nr was put in con:Wand Of the Kimberley relief ex- pedltion, mad Geterai Clay, who Wee OtigillallY intended am the leader of the World divlolon, went to Durban to di.. red operatiotia (Whored tA posh jou. 'bett'a army baek. Of the original flint division moirt Of the •neinntd brigade WaS tient to Dure WM, while the first brigade, compriel: Ing the Guardo, wont north to the Cape ColoUy border to form the nue. eue of Mothuen't cortinland. The' only A. WAVY. WAR CarRI40. A despatch team London says ;-The steamer Karame sailed on Friday for South Africa, taking one of the. betty - lest war cargoes onerecord. It includes 40,000,000 rounds of &mail arias annuitant- toon, 7,000 shrapnel! ahelis, 4,000 lyd- (lite shells, 851 boxes of fuses, 40 boxes of pistol. ammunition, and a Urge num- bee .of Star shells for discovering the enemy's Positioo at night, and for elg- nailing Each of these shells (mental six magnesium light eters which bur for 14 remade, and seven stars, whic burn from 34 to 86 seconds. • BRITISH LOSSES. A despatch Ikon( London, says :-A fell official list of the, British cas- ualties at Belmont has not yet bean re- ceived, and it is awaited with uneasi- ness as it is feared. that it will ex- ceidthe first estimate. ` The 'estimated losses at Belmont, with 196 eatsualtips at the "battle of Graspan, or as it isoftioially calted En- slin, brings the total numbers of 'Brit- ish killed, wounded, and missing sinee the beginning of the war up te 2,946 of all ranks. KRUGER'S PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. A deepateh front Berlin says :-The Deutsche Zeitung, claims to have re- ceived the followi.ng desPitch from a diplomatic source "President Kruger and President Steyn instructedGenerals joubert and Cronje, ithe commaneers of the Trans- vaal and Orange Ft.% State forees re* spectively, not to split the beleaguring forces, but to strike vigovous bloves. Gen. Joubert coneentratedihree corps, the first at Ladysmith, the amend at tbe Tugela river, and the third to the eastward of the Pietermaritzburg -Est- court railway to cut off the British retreat. "Gen. Cronje is operating at Kimber- ley and Modder river, and in General Lord Methuen's rear."' BOERS KILLED BY HOER& A despatch from London, Wedises- day, says: -The correspondmit of the Daily Telegraph cabling under date of NoVeMber 27 from Naauwpoort, says that a Dutchman living near the scene of the skirmish of November 23 declares that a party of Boers dress- ed in khaki, while approaohing their own position, were fired on by their comrades! who mistook them for Brie tish tendiers. Five or six of them were killed. RESE.KVES RESPOND WELL, A despateh from, London Soya: - Lieut. -General Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, it is reported, will be the coM- mender of the fith diviaion. The latest ohms et the mobilization of the teservee has proved as eatio. factory as ha,ve former °alio. Out. of 9,188 men summoned, 9,553 have rejoin* ed the °oleic. STATUS OR THE BOERS. The action of Lord Pauneefote andr other British Arribassailoto In notify. mg the powera that a State of war had existed since October 11 between Great Britain and the South African Republioa has prompted enquiries hy the various London, Embassies regard- ing the nature •of the hostilities. It is officially stated that the notifica- tion bas in no wise changed the Bri- tish views to.the Nero, status. The Government maintains that giving 'the Boers ' belligerent rights does. not conetitute an acknowledg- FRIENDSHIP FOR BRITAIN. Tery Pleashie American nemensirentan lenaion-Antliastotilee thecae Speaks. A despatch from London says le -The an u 1 th ke in b tiet of. th AMeelean *slaty in London Waq at- tended by 276 guest% and was marked by enthosiaatio demenstrations of friendship for England in the wax. againet the Been*. A striking iiPeeth by Ambassador Choate aloeg that linei and the presence of the uniformed ouraee And dootora of the American hospital ship Maine, Were the features et the occasion, Choate, in respontie to a toitet to his own health, whieti was receiv- ed with loud cheers, .said there could not be a better prelude to what he had to say than a remark that had -beep made to him: "Let England and Am- erica ohm, bands loaves the sea, and the peace of the world is absolutely secure." He referred sympatbetically to the losses sustamed by the British families throagh the war,- and went oe to say ie.* • "Fortunately, Englisbmenehave not far to ,-eaole for living peoots of this humar sympathy, Neutral as Ameri- ca musl: be, her women could not be neutral. To neutralize them woele' be Lo spoil them. Those -American wo- men in London who haye fitted up a hospital ship have done a deed that will live for all time as a ble.ssing to our common humanity." Atter declaring that the notion of the-. United States in • endeavoring to look after British interests in the Transvgal was raerely au endeavor to reeiprocate kinclness exhibited dur- ing the war with Spain, Mr, Choate "Unfortunately, the local authorities Peeteria seemed to think that this would not be quite the proper thing Yet,I caw bat hope that the prohibi- tion wilt ultimately be removed so that we nmy be permitted tie act in this strand, of mere humanity." THE KAISER DEPARTS: rondo and reniceiS •ar weirs Bid rseii 10 Their sialesii0,4.• - A despatch from London, says :-The Enaperer and Empress Of Germanyeleft Sandri h' T d f k train at Wolferton for Pore Victeria at 10' o'clock, The Prince and Peen-, cess pf Wales, the 'Duke and Duchess , of Yerk, the Duke of Cambridge/1,, and other members of the Royal „family, Preceded.' their Meeetties to the raile road statia; the approaches to which were lined by crewde of people assenie; bled,from the surronnding country. A streng force of constahulary guarded the route; The Emperor ane Empress affectienately bid farewell to the Prince and„ Princess of Wales in, the waiting-room of the station. The Prince of Wales conducted the Eraprees, who wore it lavender costume arid violet bonnet, lo the Royal saloon earriege, end tbe Duke cif York accompanied the Eneperor, -who wore plain clothes, a dark •overecuit. ahd a derby hat. • The graprsss acknoveledg- efoduath.e bows of tbe few, privileged p.ere sons whe were admitted to ,the ,plate After their Mejesties bad entered the train the prince and Princess of Wales :stood at the door of the car- riage repeating their farewells. Thee 4x:braced the Emperor and, Emprees d the train moved off innict the ac- ts inatioes of the officiate and-. ville agers. The Duke of York accompani- ed their Majesties to Port yietoria, wr Y yfi liobenz011:ern, • • • ' CANADIAN TROOPS ARRIVE. . . 'the Sardinian • Arrived:- at Tette ' en • • .• . A despatch from London says: - News was received Wednesday after- noon of the safe arrival at Cape Town of the Allan liner Sardinian with the Canadian contingent, under Lieut. Col. Otter, on board. All well. The citizens of Cape Town had been waiting for several daps for the com- ing of the Canadians, to show them, in common with the Australians and the detachment .from New Zealand, how much the British people of South Af- rico. recognized the importance offish; outwerd sign of the unity, cof the Mu - p' When the Sardinian was signalled from Table moontain the popular en- thusiasm became intense, and, many hundreds of people made their way to the wharf to be the first to cheer the bearers Of the visible helping hand front distant Canada. Details have not yet come to hand concerning the demonstration which 'will be tendered to the colonial repre- sentatives, but therenis no dottbt that it will prove an historical event In the history of the Empire and the world. TRIED TO BLOW UP A Hong. onwfirdie At•empt injure a Family Neene Widow tier, A. deepatch from Kingston, Ont., Bays t -A, dastardly and partially euc- ressful attempt was made on Senday night last about nine o'clock to blow up the residence of Fred. Kellar, About three miles northwest of Bridgeviater. The report of the explosion was plain. ly heerd in Bridgewater, and the con- custion wa8 so great that nearly every vvindove in the village rattled. The generat belief was that the powder worke in Tweed had exploded, and it wee not until the following morning that the villagere heard juist what had happened. One side of Mr. Kellar's house was partially blown out as the result Of the explosion, and a partition inside cora- pletely demolished. Mr. aedMrs.Kel- lar were eleeping upstairs, and, very fortunately, escaped without injury, M8,100 FOR HIS INJURIES. ' Parry Sound nonet.d weeny te. Damages by Ottawa dory, A deapatch front Ottawa says :-In the case at the assizes -of Richer againse the Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway Company the jury awarded the plaintiff 33,100, finding that the flagman had been negligent, that the proper warningir had not been given from the engine, and that the train was running at too high tate of speed at the time the accident occurred. Mr. Blither wear driving acmes the compenee tviteke when 'struck by a train. Els two companions were kill.' ed and he WO badly injured, , SIZE OF CANADA. Canada. laeltS only 237,000 Square miles to be as large as the whole Con. thient of 'Europe. It is nearly 30 timeo as. large as Great Britain arid Ireland, . and le 800,000 Square miles larger than i the United States, I; wannz stroxtrro ts A CRIME.. 1 Prance'o Anti -Tobacco &ratty is going to make Negus Menelik a Mehl- ber. The society hag learned that .smeking is almost unknown in Abyo. einia, end lo punished 10 a crime when 'practited, 'French explorers have to . smoke their cigarettes in secret, .,.1:ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interesting Herne About Ofir 0 Country, (ireet Britain, the United States, and Ail Parts of the (Bebe, Condensed and. A tdf y .Reading. • CANADA. daTteh.e wages of Winnipeg pelicernen have been advanced. manta will be commenced at' an early Pert Colborne harbour improve- catidide3ifteasttfaorra atnhde WAlidriniWpeieraMnayaorre. atty. Xing:sten will eeek legislation for the abolition of the ward system ot eleet- -itirlg'inataIdIearnTieltrOn Stook Yards ComPani has been given another year to cone. pieta. itti yards. - The Criteria Agricultural College at Guelph shipped. ten oars of dressed pouttry to Liverpool. Track laying on the Manitoba South. eastern road is now within 90 miles south-east of WI -waling, , The Kingston Locomotive Worke emote a cash bonus of 075,000 froni that city to rerciain there. Edward West Was,sentenced at Hail - fax on Thuesclay to 12 years' imprison- ment for plundering Mail bags. The St. Lawrence channel, between Montreal aied Quebec, is being ciredg- ed to a deeth of 25 feet in low water. A horse and wagen were fished out :of the bay at Hamilton, and the pelice think the driver was drowned, The wagon was marked :"Pierson," The Royal Trust Camp:any, with a capital of 3500,000, to be increased next year to35,000,000, has been formed at Montreal with Lord Strallicona Kest- ' At a meeting Of the Northwest . I dent. . Field Force Association, it Was re -1 solved to secure the khaki .uniforma now usee by the Imperial forces on Aervice. Patrick C. Clarke formerly connect- . , ed with the Theatre Royal, MOntreal; ' committed suicide. on Saturday by shooting himself through the head in a Jane near'Viger !square. A boom, above Grand Forks, B. C., containing nearly two'million logs, the preperty of the Granby Smelter Co., gave way, carrying with it a datn and two bridges. Trinity Church, et St. John, N.. B., was entered by safeesraokers, who blew epee the safe in the vestry and stole 345. They also eie a lot ot dam- age to • the eshurch propisrty. At a meeting of the . Kingston 'union .of -Carpenters'it Wes depided Chat after January next nine hours tvould constitute a day's work. T.he -rate of wages will. be ifixed at a later meeting. There is a possibilitY, when the trans -Siberian railway, is completed in 'about a year; of a direet•tine of steam- ers being established betWeen Van- courer and Viadivosteck, the Paoifio port of Siberia,. . • 'It is mid that arrangements are go- ing on on a new plan for A combin , S s Coln:table, and that- the peincipals the case are Senator. Cox end other easterri Cartadiana. : The smallpox ePidemic Which broke outeio the fear parishes of St. Pae: chat, Mount Cermet, Sete Helexrend Ste Germain, gime is. rici* -defetrelled, so that there is little -danger of a furth- er speed of the &Mese. • The carpenters of Hamilton are agi- -tatting' for a return to the *ate Of wages whicb • prevailed prior to the met during the hard times. The oid rate was 32.35 a. day, but for some time.lt ...been 31.76 and 62. Winnipeg has two her boys with ed. from him and married to another men. Mrs. Jennie Siicex*, or Minnetteiolle. anowerecl a inumnons at the trent door of her reoldenee, ouly, to be mhot own by an unknown man sitandthe darkrunie outeide. She cannot re- col1r.t; tteleiglyarldint;ealt :Wet to ?filial's OF THE WORLD, 'WU Price$ Of Grain, Cattle, Cheese, 8t0. IS RETREAT CUT FF. News Collies From Boer Sources That Methuen Has Been Halted 1,04,4* ht the Leading Marts, Toront4, Deo. 5. -About twenty cat hie wife of, the residence in Wash- ington presented to bim, and Mrs,. Dowey'a subeequent transfer to the Adliliral'S seri George, bas caused a loade of offerings were received at the Vireptern cattle yards this' motning, including A mall run of cattle, 2,000 great deal of 'annoyance to the sub, soribere, At Topeka, Rename, Elizabeth Hag- erman, 79 years of age, bus been granted 4 divorce from .her husband, 81 yeers old, In her Petition Mrs. Ha- . gernrou declared It was impossible for her to live boldly with her husband, because he chews tobacco. The identity of the man who coin - millet' suicide by jumping over Nia- gam Falls 'Monday has undoubtedly been established, Rev. A. Wickham, pastor of the Baptiat chinch at Imbue Cattaraugus eounty,. Ma been missing since Senday morning last, end a description of the minister tallies ex- actly with that of the suicide. The united States Seoretary of the 1 Treasury hail decided that' Canadian , 'settle ter sheep may be shipped througb the United S.atee for exper- I tation from Philadelphia, Haltimore and Newport News, as well as from Portland, Boston and New York, un- til th o t f Canadian cattle, and sheep have been limited to the last Oleo ports. liniited teehe last three ports. Tlae Willingham bill, providing for , State prohibition in Georgie. was pass- ed be the• }louse of Representatives after the most exciting debate the House has known In years. If the bill passes the Senate and becomes a law, it 'means the annihilation of the so. - Iloons. Every phint for the brewing of beer or the inanufacture -of whisky Must be closed. It will not interfere I veleta banquets or private entertain- ments but the Jaw wilenot allow any , , club to sell or, lorep for the use of merabers intoxieeting liquors, beers or wines. GREAT 'BRITAIN. The Earl ot Yatthouth has been de- clared a bankrupt, • Dixon Ken L•the neted English Y1144 dimigner, dead at London, '- The DuLe of Berl:land has dotated 410,000 to the Led Crosa Society:- _ Wallace Roes, the well-known Cana- dian oaraman, lied at the Charing Cross Hospital, London. • The wrecked British ateainer Coquet , from Quebec for Sunderland, has been , abandoned on Shetland Islauds. Mr. Michael Devitt was thrown frank is carriage yin a street accident in Dublin arid rendered uneonecions by thDeifolcalele.s. ' manuscript of " holiday Romance," 3t) pages closely written, brought 3500 at auctionein London oo Tuesday, of the ,Britishe troops tinder Gen.' White at the besieged. town of Ladysmith, They are sons of the late Mr. Rice M. Howard, formerly inspector of °Mope -for the Manitoba Government. • Mr. K. Hirati ormerly of the JUP- anese War rtment,, who is in Ottawa, says Japan will. unquestion- bogs, shout '800 *hoop and lembs, and a, few milhere and calves. A few odd tote of exPoet etuff were purchased, and repreeented the ohip- ping businees here to -day, Ail tered. Only the hest butcher cattle ape peare to be. really wanted, and what else sells is at weak prime. Tbe hose- Ity generally is poor, Stockers are a slow sale at from $2,25 to 03 per ewt, The Buffalo mar- ket is still off. Export bulls, 'feeders and springers are just about the same es on Tues. - day. Ewes were weaker toolay, and sold ' at from 3 to 3 1-40 per pound Lambs were steady at from 8 1-4 to 8 5-8o per 'mond. Bucks are unchanged in price. it few extra ehoice milkers are in demand. - Good veal calves are wanted. About 1,600 turkeys. were received. There is no change in the price o hogs, Choice hogs, scaling from 100 to 200 lbs., are selling at 34.25 per cwt.; thie hogs, Nell at 33.75; andfat hogs at 34, per mt.; stores axe nqt wanted.: - Following is • the range of cement. quota times :- ShiPrers, Per eivettle.,..3 4 00 3 460 Butcher, thin e 875 425 &eater, nied, to good, 8 00 3 50 Buteher, inferior. 50 2 75 Stookers, per cwt. 226 . 3 00 Ewee, perSchweePt. L."1813108. 830 Lambs, per (net, 3 25 8 65 Bueks, pe3rliolkwetr,s a.nd !Caelv2ees. 2 75 4•Ccoolvvyse.s,eae.ediaoh. 226 00op 5080000 • I Ens. . Choice hogs, per owt. . 400 4 25 Light hogs, per Cwt. , 000 9 76 . Heavy hogs, per cwt.. 8 75 • 4 00 Toronto, Dee. 5, -Wheat -European markets were about steady. There was no change here. Red and white On- tario, sold to millers 'at 64 1-2 to 66c, according to nearneas to the mill. Goose wheat enclainged at 70e, middle. freights, lied. 69c, north and west. Manitoba qrtiet ; No. 1 hard, g.i.t., 76 1-2c, and Toronto And .west, at 75 1-2e; and.track, Midland or Owen Sound 72c. Floe Dull and unchanged. Straight roller, in buyers.' bags, middle freights, 32,60 bid, with 32.70 asked. Same in wood, for local acceunt, 33 per• bbt aswkediffeaendd_352t.9e404b7i, sfotrivsittanguleghtsta!Bloratan. is (looted at 312 to 312,50, and shorts at $14 to 314,50, weal. Corn -,Easy and quiet, No. 2 AM - seder yellow, quoted .af 41o; asked, Toronto; aed ratxed at 401-2c asked; -Canadian corn -dull and easy, at 890 asked, track, Toronto. . ' . Peas-SteadY. Car lots 'Bola _at 67c north and Wok ; end '6.96 Met. . Barlay-A. trifle :steadier, especially , for sheltie malting barley. Car lots of •No. 2, middle freIghts, Sold at 980, and No. 1 :was quoted at 41 to 42e. leye-,Quiet. -Sold at '50e wistit and 510 east,. Oats -Steady :and in • fair, deinand. White Oats 26e, north and west; 26 1-2o, middle freights ; ,and 27o, east. • ithickwheat-Dull. Car lots, east, 49 le2o; and. west, at 48 1-2c. Oatmeal-e•Itolled eats, io bags, traek, bTboir.ent 33.35; und in: wetocLe 33..40 irr .MOntreal, Dee. 5.-Tbe getin market was quiet to -day; wheat was lower Mit: coarse grains are tincha,nged. No. hard Manitoba owbeat eivas quoted to- day at -65 le2c, afloat, Port William; No. 2 hard, 2 1-20, below No. 1; 'No. 2, eats are' held at 801-2; andNo. 3 at 800 in store, Montreal peas,' 66c; barley, No; 1 47 1-2c; rye, 58c; buckwheat; no enquiry, nomirially at 50c, Flour is quiet and vetoes steady, We quote Manitoba 'patents • at. 33.90 te 04.10e strong bakers, 33,65 to 33:75; winter wheat natents, 33-55 to 33.90;strdight rollers, 33.35 to 33.45; in barrels, and 3L60 to 31.67, in bags; Manitoba, bran, 115, in bags, arid Oetario bren, 315.50, in bolk; shorts, 317 to 3184, and moon- ily, elite° 220, per tone . The Scotch Oil Companies have is- sued a entailer he which the price of all lubrifiating oils is taisee. 20 shil- lings per •ton, ' • , visited Canada, reeenely; lectere I Jesse Collings, an English 5I.P., who on the big 'Colony, to hie conatituents; using limelight viewe, The •prelinainary. trial of the etirbihe torpedo' boat Viper tohk place Wed- nesday; and was successful. Sheik- veloped a speed 'of 82 knets. The Sutlej, the first- -of -four new arineured cruisers of the-Cressr now building 'for the Britieh• Govern,- ment, hes been launched •at Glasgow. :The Lakes of Killarney were "pee up" at auetion in Dublin on Thursday: The biddiog ireeched•225e,000, but was not considered enough. The property will be sold prieatelye ' ' • GENERAL. ' The Suiten ta dem:troth:1g ,the sup - premien of foeeign posteefeices in Tur- key. The Neva river and two „canals are on' the:rampage, causing great alarm in St. Pecershurg: IC is reported that 10,000 troops wiq soon -leave Odessa to reinforce Rue: sian garrisons in the far east. 'A 'special despatch frees Vienta re- iterates the Abort which was denied last week, that the Russians had oce . . . copied Herat. eventeen whop ers were' driven ably drive Ruesia out of China and asbore on ,the coast, of Newfoundland deprive her qe Vladivostock and Port Arthur and' her positiond in Manchu- ria. Ham Iton City -Council, re,alizing the need of additional water mains and also that the ratepayers will not Bene- tton a by-lle.*, will apply to the Legis- I lature for special permission- to issue debentures without a vote of the rate- payers. Deputy game wardens and hurirets from Muskoka and Parry Sound dig, trist report 'that most of the deer se- cured this year were shot in the wat- er.. They also report open violation of the -close season fishing laws on Moon River. The Canadian Department a Marine has forwarded to the British Govern- ment a haulm= binocular glass, which has been awarded by the Do- minion Government to Mr. 3. Shekle- , ton, master of the steamship Canto, of Liverpool, in recognition of his ser- vices to the shipwrecked crew of the brig Madelen, of 'Yarmouth, N. S., on March 20th last. It is, the general inepression that Lord Salisbury will pot remain in of - fire after the close of the war. His own health is far from rubuste, while this loss must certainly seriously at. feet his mental and physical powers, Already the matter of a successor is disclaimed, the choke lying between Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Romberg', the majority of the old-fashioned Tor - lee preferring the latter', who will have also a strorig Liberal as opposed to Radical backing. • UNITED STATES, . The White Star and Athilitie Trans- port lines have incremed passenger rates to Europe 56 per cent. Mrs: Evelyn Adame, author of the novel "Ts Marriage a ll'ailurel“ died in New.York on Tuesday in abject pov- erty, The mutilated bodies of a mother end her three children were found ae their home on a term riear port, Pa. "Brave Bill Anthony," the man who reported the exploeion on the Maine to Capt. Sigsbee, died from self ad-. ministered peison in a New Yerk hos- pital, American soldiers ie. the Philippines, discharged for had conduct, are tak- ing serviee ander Aguinaido es offi- cers and leading attacke on their dOtintrymen. At Joplin, Mo., Miss_ Laura Henley, a pretty young woruati of 10, was ar- rested and placed in jail, charged, with dealing a team of horses from South- weat City, Mo. he sa eo t X0 ange an o Brooklyn, MM., war/ blown to atdins.. early Tuesday morning, and between 35,0e0 and $0,000- was secured by three masked men who did the work. The ilohand submarine torpedo beat at NeW York has attraeted the attention of several foreign Etat:am- ides at Washington, and several naval Inttaches have vielted the vessel. Francis Dock, a jewelleri Of PrOVi- &nee,' R. I., and John Trehoni and S. G. Taller,. of the Cunarder Etteria, are under artist at isleW York for emungling merle -only 350,000 worth. The eoril miners' strike in Southern Indiana, has been imictieally settled About 1 000 miner h 6 in d create of wages to the Chicago scale The Washington Government Imo of 60 rents a ton by the strike. Insieted to the Transvaal upon the execution of the trust it itesumed to lOok after the Interesto of British citizens in the South Atrium Repub. lies, i After an absence of 30. years, jainaa Edwards, who'd homer Is WSW Den. ye, returrind to Philadelphia and dis-' coVered that big 'wife had, been, divot°. during the recent gillee, and all were wreeked. Aguincildo, Filippino leader, sayete Witt repay the 330,000,000 which the Potted States paid to Spain for the Philippines, to be alloWed to establish a IrtepiusbalLtiold. that arrangements are go- ing on on' a new Plea for a combine of the seine= orineeriee of British Columbia, heal that the principals in the ease are Senator Cox end other eastern Canadians, Ye -Chou -Fa, at the entrance of Tenting Lake, was formally opened to foreign trade on Monday. This is the first port opened in the anti-fereign province ot Hunan. . Mr. K. Hired, formerly of the -Jap- enese War 'Department, who is in Ottawa, gays Japan will unquestion- ably drive Russia out of China and deprive her of Veladivostock and Port -Arthur and her positionakManchu- ria. ODDS' AND ENDS Boer bread, butter and tea, or cot- Yee,- furnish many. a farmer's meal. The Transvaal is probably the rich- est country in the world so far as minerals are concerned., • The suprerme court of the state of Michigan has decided that wonlen dannot hold elective officiate . In 1848 England conquered and an- nexed the Orange Free State, and ev- acuated it six Oars later. Missouri chickens to the number or amount of 365,000 ibs. Stave been or- dered by the British War Department. A jury in Chicago lime given a ver- • diet of 321,000 against. a trolley com- pany to a boy who had; both lege cut off by a ear which ran over him. The southern part of Africa is tif volcanic origin, and the land In the neighborhood of Xemberiey its so iral- phurous that even ants cannot exist in it. Literary attainments are not in high favor in the Transvaal, the only book of the Boer being their beloved Bible, Letter writing Is ahnost to- tally neglected. Fewer deatha aft calmed by belting accident:3 now then in 1866, although at the present time there are two and One half times as many people employed underground. The forest fires devastated the Grampian hills of Scotland and burn- ed century old trees end the moor- lands of England during the. unpre- cedented drought legit eammet, ?CT A -BULLET IM HIS" HEAD. • Tieriter•ittilliedge, Sonde -law er elite lite I than e its sone' I A deopatCh from Montreal, sayee-A Cad oceurterme took place at George - %lilt, in the Modern Townahipe, Monday. Amongst the most promin. ent reeldentd of this stinlitter retiott were J". Turner Itoutledge, a young Englishman of good family, who cattle to Canada aevetal yed,ra ago and mar. tied the youngest daughter of Sir Hugh Allan, of Montreal. /toutledge rot a number of years was engaged hi ranching In the North-West, but had lately been living quietly at the tam- Ily'el mummer home at Georgeville. Monday he was found dead at his real. deuce, and it Was found that he had committed suicide by shooting himself through the iread. Ile leaves a widow and young child. . ABOUT CANADA. ciantriatilion or Ali•Sorts Concerning Tide. ' at onrs. - The rainfall in Ontario last year was 80.14 inches, the greatest since 1874. In the latter year 19.40. Inches of rain felL the smallest on record. The, great Laurentian lakes, with their connectini rivers, from the head of Luke Superior .te the Atlantic Ocean, cover a distance of 2,38t melee, They 'cover ac area of about 106,000 sq,uare ranee. Mason Bay has an area of 350,000. square miles. 'Including its two arms it has. an extreme length north and south of 1,300 miles, and A width across the bay proper of about 600 milea The total area of lands set out for settlement since 1873 is 80,040,976 acres, or 500,252 farms of 16 acres eadh, At the rate of 6 to a homestead of 160 acres, these lande would sustain an agricultural population of over 2,500,e 000. About 7,000.000 perm of land have been surveyed by the Government in quebec for sale. There are now in Nova Scotia 61014 1,500,000 acres of ungranted lands, a considerable quantity of which is un- suited for cultivation. itt estimated that there are about 7,000,000 acres of ungranted lands in New Brunswick. • Ontario last year produced 25.152,712 bushels of fell wheat to 1,048,182 amine 0,873,785 bushele of apring wheat to 389,206 acres; 12,663,6t8 bushels of bar- ley to 438,781 mem; 861,858,293 bushels of oats to 2,376,860 acres, 0.678,284 bush - 616 of rye to 165,089 .acres; 13,621,263 bushels of !peas to 866,961 acres; 2,278,- 646 bushels of buckwheat to 160,394 acres; 759,651 bushels of beano to 46,- 220 acrea: 14,368,025 bushelir of potatoeo to 169,916 acres; 4 ,063, tons of hay and clover to 2,463,6 aores. Manitoba Nat yea , produced 26,318,- 746 bushels of wheat to 1,488,230 acres, Ontario produced 10,660,590 pounds of tame last year to 7,871 acres. Of this 7,095,970 lbs. canie from Emelt and 3,913,120 lbe. from Kent County. Canada, in 1898, exported agricultur- al products, domestic, to the value of 375,834,858; the value golag to Great Britain being $66,O27,923, end to the United States $5,064,858. The breadatttffii experted by Canada test year were: wheat, 18,966,107 bush- "na4r4 &bit l''2494434 rge;1486,4 r e , 3, 1 , , bushels; peas, 3,780,131 bushels: Canada last year fm.ported bread - stuffs as. follows; wheat, 4,414,807 bush- els; flour, 40,741 barrehe ; 'melee, 103,303 laticheis; Indian oorn, 19,975,93i bushels; otner grain, 1,80,04 bushels; other breaestuffs, 68,890,249 Mo. A MIX-t/P. A dotreitio, newly engaged, present. ed to his master one morning a pair of booto, the leg of one, of which was mueh longer than the other, How ,00mes it, Joeepir-lohn, that these boota are not of the sante letigthf / really doe't know, Air; and -what bothere me more is that the pair down. etairs is in the, Seale fix, runglittxt EVIDENCE, There lo something, after ell, in the 'Idea of opals being unlucky. What new have ynu had on it f 'nun Ea. h opa rift 6 was westing it the evening ' he, ed to Mies Garlinghorn, And tie No. Ohs seoelitord London ilas Not Received Further Despatches. -.The. Long Silence is Causing Alarm-.8nemy Driven Back From Prere.-Oen. Gatacre's Difficult Task. defipatifih received in Lon- a deep railw. ay cutting, which could on Friday from Frere, dated Nov. 28, be effeettreir bleeked by ilTOPRing says that, wbile attempting to blow few big rocks, 11P 4 500 -foot bridge' oYer the Tugela maTabseesititoofrmirdriframtsOdunitiamielltoanree.gwreititht river, the Beers were driven back by few passes and many precipices. This rt bawl: thrByeriibt iestla. ta:eti 141 reirdyg ea nrde f me :le dn t e dt I ;es aTsh niidegolIycletnersayotei tsuSrtettleborfeoetrnehgti.17,aprabioecivntweisohniostlrellxaecii elowszueaeS: the one on 'the Weeneneliadranaith try will require neost careful and syn.. road, or at Celenso, is hitt in doubt, tematio ecouting. GEN, METHUEN'S POSITIoN. . DOER, AM:IMAM:ES, A despatch from Berlin, saysi-The ageot of the Transvaal, ehat Gen. Lord the l'y on the authority of Dre Leyds. the th'Aat 4oean Pallotve:mfbve°725L:reetThrzongMfao7eueeos; sars:-The Boers at Kimberley report Deuteche Warta anneunces, areParente river, and that his retreat is out off fighting assistance arrived for the tooagilanolfrraicLooattQamsm:raotleiCaFinieudr briLdfire a A.fiLr sharp Methuen is unable tO Cross the Medder abtyinCeomnemaranKciaanatirD,:lkaorpe.y, who is oper- Boers, and the Kimberley garrison re- ' NO NEWS IN LONDON. tired, covered by a • beavy artillery . A despatch from London, . fire, The Boers had, nine rifled and , 17 wounded. Several aMbulence day, sayse-There is a complete &we_ trains from Pretoria went in the dime , absence of recent news of the war, tion of the Orange Free State. It is eevdidiennt.thtahtat nh;itiivuybogrighhotoldingdizisrienxicpetehte- atanidne7ebny aoe t 1.3tItriLiihiieh cinasu,aTltui'eessdsallys,; cotrinergy irAki was quiet en' the'nortle, fighe at IVfodder river has not heen re- . wised. This caeses considerable pub- ern border of the Transvaal last week. The Boers are now preparing to attack' lie impatience, rt is learned that Gen, Lord Methuen has been 'reinforce Tu,t!, Rhodesia_ -; Where the garrison: is ed bY half a battatiOn of Highlanders, busy strenothening the fortification. %raffle between Bast London and and the Daily News nye a regiment, Stormberg is interrupted, owing to the also, The continued silence opncern- ' , of oeVelrY and a battery of artillery cleet.recti°0 • SEEN BY A TORONTO MA .. of the Steynoberg bNridge. ing his force suggests the possibility The Londone-:Daily ...News • comes - of a _hostile movement in his rear. „poedent at Cape Town cables•the views Nothing regarding the forward move- of Charles •Lewis Shaw, the Canadian ment. in Natal has been received later journalist, on the battle of 93elmont. than the date of Nov, 28, when, it Xi. Shaw observes: • i seeme,. tbe Boers held both the- rail- "How • the British 'sealed the steer/ The British were, then, still at. Frere.- way up yard by yard, Orders Prone 'the sion bas been reported,. way and waggon bridges at Colenso. kopjes le a mysteey. They fought their , No raovement of Gen. Gatacire's divi- officers were unnecessary. The last GATAcli,E•S -ADVANCE.' kopje ead been insufficiently shelled Gettecre's form. may be slow in be- when the Britisb reached the foot, BO ginning operations. The Coun'try in they . halted until the tirtillery 130111C - what elea,red the way. There we lost . close to-, colt and moat favore.ble .te...the_Boers• which it has to Work. is exceieively dif. 132°8 '116""Yo 40 droPPing gether Then, in the face Of terrific taetics, Mountains:to erld with bottle fire, the kopje waS climbed, After five dere, an admirable shelter for marks- minutes- taste of the bayonet, the tional epeort,unities for ' einbushee - ed. Had theee been at couple of eavalrei ,, Boers .fied. The Lancers started in pursuit, but the horses were exhaust - men, and river. beds, offering excep- this is th,e nature of•the ground. regiments. with fresh horses, the rout ' It is eighteen miles from Burghers- Of the enenter would. leave been turned' dere te Storinberg, end:for more than into a massacre. I ' was PrincitiallY lialf the distainee the road winds bee etre& by the deadly ,earnestnese.ef tween .preleipitous declivities:There is Temniy Atkins." A EST BRUTAL 111URDER WOMAN STABBED Hy: HER HUS - t :BAND AT NIAGARA FALLS. . : • " . A Bonnier %linesmen ihp ermae-msassin Crossed the Border :mit Was Liiter Captured -mile, rartIces ryere lianans • A despatch from Niagara Ont., etiys :-A cowardly murder was coinraitted here' On Wednesday even- ing about 6,30 o'clock, the scene a the .crime being id a dingy little frame building in the Italian settlement on First Cenceseion street, back of the Brundage stables, on Verry street, just outside of the town limitsi near the village of bruniraondville. Frank Weeke, Italie,n, labourer, sixty-two years of, age, ,who . is known to. be a worthless drunken ono' quarreleome -min, lived with his wife, 60 yeare age,, in the, above -mention., ed place. With, Mein lived another Italian as a Imaider. The husband spent most of his earnings in di ink, and would come heme in this Condition and Abuse his wife who was a hard- workieg, thrifty It'aliam womeri, and through her economy and hard work abounitilated• enough to buy the little home where she ;wait murdered. - STABBED WITILA CARVING KNIFE. It ta supposed Werke came home Weenesalay evening drunk and in his usual abusive Mood, and in the alte.roa, lion tittle* his wife with a keno in the forehead, inflicteng• two ugly gashes: She then screamed to the boarder to get up, shouting,' "He is killing ,me." The man, who was In bed asleep, jumped up and ran out to the room. where the man and his wife were. Ile found the•woman standing holding a towel to the wounds In her forehead,' from which blood 'was 'freely flowitig; Behind her stood her husband. As soon as he saw 'the boarder coming to his wife's assistance, the husband grabbed a large carving knife that laid on the supper table, and with a terrific thrust plunged it into the back of hie wife's neck. The woman, -with a scream, fell dead Open the floor, expiring in a few min- utes. -MURDERER CAPTURED, Werke, turning to the man; vvho was Completely paralyzed with. the horri- ble acene enacted before him. said, "If anyone asks you who did this,. tell them I did." Werke then hurriedly left- the house. The boarder ran to give the alarm, Tbe Ontario police were apprised of the crime, arid the two bridges were no - tilled by telephone. The teridge Lend- eeslield the man wben he attempted to erese the tipper steel arch bridge, Not let him go before the police got there. He walked ocrose to the AM - orient eide and Chief of Police Youngs, wtth, poise of Men went in hot pur- suit. ED was subsequently captured. Dr. McGarry, the coroner, was dell - ed, and found that the woman's jugu- lar vein was completely severed. The Couple had three giown-up child- ren, one son and two daughters, one of the girla being married to an Ital- ian named Frank in this toivne HEIR TO SIX MILLIONS. Atter ening hi Poverty for rievdoty Veers a Woman Cots a Farm 'h. This is a titorc of a womam who, af- ter a long life of hard work and pov- erty, had no reason to expect any hap- piness in the few remaining years ef her existence, but now, at the age of 70; after having heen poor from child- hood, she suddenly finds herself to be one ot the richest and Luckiest women in the States, says a despatch from :Bridgeport, Conn. She has tailor heir to six million dollero, She ie the widow of the late George Ellison, who died several years ago. Sh6 Is very modest in the permeation of her new- found fortune. ' "It 'teems comfortable." she eayo, fidently, "to feel in one's declining years that there is no hover any need tO worry for the future," Mrs Eilleon, It seems, is 0116 Of the dine'. helms Of Snobs Crove's11, an Eng- lishman, who, at Ine death, many years ego, laft au amount equal to $80,000,. OW in the Sank Of Wool. The in- terest which has accrued mince that time Imo inereaied the original nrinci. pal enormously. It has ,Ieben 1v1p08- sible thus far ter 446ertain the exact amount of the Watts There are about 160 heirs but as Mrs. iill111011 la ist the direct oneoution from, the al - gine millionaire, hen share le to be larger then thet of many of the others. Mrs. Ellison was born in Peimie Ed- ward Island, She was married early 1,n, life and has seven children still. alive. She is a motherly otd woman, and, in. spite of th,e years of coestant • selfedenial and poverty, she maintains a slight vivadionsnesS that one Would scarcely eXpeCt. The fact that she, Is now yeey rush has naturally cheered her, eo a considerable extent., but „if, has not Created eany appreciable rip- ple of excitement or induced' het to make the stightest change in the daily methods of' hme life, It would eagle. be ,possible for her to raise money ime enediately oil the strength ef the foie tune that is to come to her; ghe'stead- ily reftises, however; to do so, tut '000- tinues to live along in the sante old way on the top floor of a small, plain house, with her daughter and: her food grandcbi 'ann. 1 . SAVED BY A. SNUFF-BOX, 'neonate: Experstedein.1111, a: flier in • : • , A captain of the Bengal ..#4.ncera wes on it visit to a civilian friend in . :Rajpiite.na, and Went out for a walk in the ebuntry o.bout sunset. After go-, ieg four or •five miles, he found hime sell in. a narrow path .on the aide of a steep hill, . The path. was Mere ledge in e rink, with a deep chasm. on.o e side aed a wall pf. solid roekeei the other. or'as not a very pleestint place in which to 6Cme face tie face with abig tigress, but thait wt just what .hep- pened to the mote It was- too late to withdraw, so he determined, to brave it out. Tbe mal had Ceidently been asleep, for She continued for a few moments to liek herself into full. waketillnest. The cap- tain stood perfectly still,, with hie eyes fiXed upon her. Presently she took a few steps forward and made a dash at him with her teeth. Luckily she seiz- ed him by the flap of his coat; just over the breast, so that he was not • huet by the blow. Then the captain had a -chance to appreciate the feelings of a !noes° w,hen it is shaken by a eat. The Lig- ems shotik him till his senses left bine Perhaps it was as well they did leave him, for nis position as she held him over the deep ebasm was not an env'. able one. A fall would have been as fatal as the animal's, onslaught. When he recovered' coOselowiness a few minutes later he found himself ly- ing flat oia his back, with his feet thing; ling over the precipice. He opened his eyes to see only the blue sky above him. Ile dared not movee for the tig- ems might be close at his elbow. So he shut hie eyes and remained mo- tionless. Then he thought he heard a strange noise at a little distan0e, a sound as of somebody sneezing. His first thought was the some one had COMO to the reseue and beaten the tigress off, but this Was proVed to be wrong .by certain, low, disagreeable, tigeriSb groWls mingled with the sneezing. He turned slowly round. He could hardly believe his eyes. There was the tigress slinking off with her tail be- tween her legs and sneenng violent- ly as she went, her faee distorted by the most piteous grimaces. The truth dawned upon trim. In shaking him the tigress .had caused his onuff-box to fly open out of hie Waist:pee pocket, and had receivedthe conte.nin full in het face. THE QUEEN'S STOCHINGS. A little storyi quite int tbe etyle of Bans Andcreen, about the tineen oe Italy and a poor c.hila, is• told in the Daily Chronicle, of tIcaidon, Queen Margherite was recently walking in a .Roman oulburb When she noticed a pleabarit-frited little girl and spoke to Ler. There Wet a little, converse* tion, aid the queen asked the child what she could do in the way of needlewc,rit. "I eat knit 'stockings, eignora," replied the girl. "be yeti, killier who am 2" dentiatied tbe queen. "Yes, signora, yon are the queen," "Well, then, make M6 a pair of dock. ings end send them to the palace.' A few daya efteeward the stockings arrived, and Queen Margherita re- turn for the gift sent the child a beau,' Mut pair of tome -colored etockinge, tbe One' filled with liWeetii, tile Mime with money; Next dafthe queen re. solved A lAitiit from her little friend, touched in the follOWLitg words; "Sig. nora-Your gift has emoted Me Ile end of team M father whetted, the money, my el er brother grabbed the tweeter, and as tit the eteckinge, why, Mother put them on hermit,'