The Clinton New Era, 1880-01-22, Page 7741r
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Ata Alarm* Jurla
(New York World.)
I holies de alarm tan de =saber one box,
Listen, sinnahs, listen
Hark how earebaly.de angelknocks
lae are is not an'bissina
atagel'e teppin' on de coneclenee bell,
, • neah it, heith itbangin't
a area big ere dere a ;labiate in hell
Date way the earra.beteeclangtnt
A. fire slat de ingines nebban gito around;
leinnabs brainn, fryne.-
Waits do Babootia acting share kain't be fituna
ma' dey aint no use 0' tryint
Flames it; a burnite up higher an' higher-.
nurpriete, ob, surpriein'
Yon has an intrust in dat tire,
An' de name!: is still tarisitia
Jump when you beah det warnint chime ;
Jump up, einnane. jump up I
Do your do Ina berry gilled time;
Nov 18 40 time to hump up. '
Ease yen knitadat sQl1 kaint afford -
nail with I be singne-
To resk yce s ins, for dey mut fathered;
Listen at de fire -ben. tingin't
AN Errit.tonDINArtY Datatitie.
_
"TIie leantrina'a Progress" on the
Iogc, 7S
The dramatic reprpiai*tiOn of Bunyanas
greatest work by kIr. GeNge MacDonalit and
family is, a very !mime performance. It
• consist: of a series of episodes of the nature
of thope which form the•groundevorkamany
Ws:tort:sal plays. The scenery is of the
aimplest and most rudimentary character. At
the City Temple a stage was extemporized at
• the pulpit, end of the building, Dr. Parker's
enstrum being concealed from view by a White
•-screen, wham also gerved for background.
'When the eintain rises Christiana and her
;ions are discovered engaged in conversation
••about the decetteed Christian. A •heavene
and
then appears, and invites the family to Bet
• out on the journeyenceessfully accomplished
by their °lief. Having resolved to do -so,
theyake visited by those symbolical' pertain-
' ages, Mrs, Erase y es. Mr: • Timorous and
Mercy, the firet named in crimson gown, blue
spot:oleo, and a flxon wig, - being very
huntomus. After some more convereation
they eeparato, Christiana awl family getting
.out on; thanway t -a hymn tune. Beene
ehows the witeket-gate, at which the party
knock for a while unavailingly. At length
77 the gatekeeper, in a still more yellow coatume
than when he appeared as the heavenly
memenger, admits:them all but Mercy, who
is shut out. She thereupon knocks on her
•own 'account, and then, stretehee herself
before the gate, so that • the' audience
experience a horrible fear that•the gatekeeper,
coming out untxeseteilly,„ will. fall over
her in the manner that the polioenian falls
•over the clown in a pantomime. • This, hap- ^
pily, he.. does not do, but rases Mercy and
77 takes her in. Scene 3 °bows the House
a•--Beentifula-itespeeprietrestais-disolosedenteres
'Mining the pilgrims with oranges and cake.
Zak Mr: George MacDonald as Greatheart,
, in a suit of polished tin, and a helmet very
anneh at the back of his head;'and enter also
various other emblematical characters, such
as Peeblemina, in whom ate not difficult to.
.discern the heavenly messenger and the
gatekeeper of provioue scenes, but who, in his
present disguiee of limping gait, whitened
face, and stick held before him in both bandit,
• has a ludicrous maemblance toper old friend
• pantaloon. • They talk together for a while,
,of course giving utterance to the pima Benti-
•-anente of Bunyan. Presently Mrs,. Prick
•(heavenly' messenger,. getekeeper. and
Yeeblemind in., another dressy games
• . In and makes love • to Mercy,'. who
;puts hie affection to the tett by inviting him
asks Captain Haistree to hold the kettle. Tao
to carry her bundle, much as Polly Eccles'
next mane is in the Valley of Humiliation,
•through which the pilgrims pasta escorted by
the valiant Greatheart. Scene 5 shows the
• land of Beulah with a pretty baokground of
•;glowing eky and -bright-leaved trees. Hero,
after much convene, another heavenly mes-
senger appeare, armed with a .peacookas
• leather, with which it beckons the more
elderly pilgrims (including Mr. Honest, in
- whom we see- onee again, and for the last
time, the ubiquitous first heavenly messen--•
ger) to owes the river, which -they -do behtnd
the :screen. Then the curtain comes down
npon-Greatheart solus, (sleeping hie 'sword to
bis breast. It will be men from thisa sketch
of the entertainment given by Mr. George,
MacDonald and_fainity that the performera
have bttlittle scope for displaying their ability
except in dialogue; buttin this most of there
,oertainly shine. The lady • who played
,Christiang did so with an earnestness of
:manner and purity ot speech that was
• .admirable, and nearly as much may be said
,•of the other principal character& The Musk,
mutation was unfortunately very feeble.
which has no unimportant part in the repro.
The onlyinstrument used was a piano, which
was both inappropriate and badly played.
The [meet tones of an organ, or the eugges-
,• tive notes of a harp, with: a finablast or two
-from a heavenly-trumperaswouldahlistesgiven
eolor to the proceedings. And a few vocal
• eingers might have been engaged, in -order
that the hymns ming might have been in
tune and more audible. But probably the
audienee which inconveniently crowded the
••City Temple oared little for artistic awes-
eories.-Truth.
A CLE RACAL LOTRARIO.
Grave Charges Against a New Jersey
Clergyman.
or.
JEWRY CITY, N.j., Jan. -.-A great scan-
dal leaked out in the City of lforrietown
yesterday. A clergyman named Brine and
Mies Leonard, an attractive brunette of
thirty, are involved. The lady was a member
of the gentleinan's pastoral flock, and for.
3820117 played the organ at the church over
which he presided. She was absent from
home some days past, and returned in a
-doable oonditionand hag eines been confined
to bed. A short tiine ago a etage-driver found
a pack:Igo addreseed to her and Mid town-
s tam medicineand instrumento for the par-
pon of malpractice, also a note declared tobe
in' Brieco's writing. • Mies Leonard lA the
• .danghter of a very reepeotable farmer. Erin
has a wife and child, Three years ago he
was reported rie lming too intimate With a
young and preposseeisigg Widow of Pena
•,phany: •
„ At the sale of Lord Danniore's wines in
, „Edinburgh recently, Magnurao of Leoville
1844, realized £3 10e, each; Reholmani's of
Chateau Latotir,),34,3,,bottled In them:sem
-
of £10 each; agnmg �fLa-
lilte, 1855,223 a dozen ; Magnums of Leoville
.1851, Went for 1E2 each. A bin of Latina; 1864
bottled in Rehoboames, fetehed-£42 a dozen,
and sherries and Madeiras also brought high
Trine. Scotland watt always !among for its
appreciation cif fine claret, and the liking fer
:It doles not mimeo be ()Minot, •
Advertisement from the tendon Times, in
whiob 11 amine just Abby° a notice of The
Church Preferment acezefte:-" Advowlion
•for sale, by private contract, in the best part
,of Dlortit Essex; inoorhe upwards Of 4500, in
cagy collection; good family 'Ileum, with
-coaoh-hemee, etables, excellent gardenia chi.;
Meilen within half a mile; present mount,*
bent in his sistiettecond year ; no swain."
One of the eons of the tete Charles Dickens!,
Francis J. Dickens, is' an inepeotor in the
Oatiaahill Ntirthweat Mounted Polite, and is
now stationed at Fort Walsh,
rept fella early this year; there will WO
to be a great deal or:gayety crowded into the
bat Month. '
THE DISTRESS IN IRELAND.
Cellisione Between the C011eta•
Plordary and the People,
WOUSOU Wounded with Hayonets amid
•'Swords.
LONDON, an. --In the collision which
took plaea on daturday at Knochvioard,
County Mayo, several women were wounded
with bayonets and swords. The men had
incited them to resist the serving of procaine:1.
A large force of conetabulary is now &amen-
trated at Hum, ()minty Galway, to protect the
men who aro to -day to eerve ointments over
the property of the late Earl of Leitrim. The
people are reported to be deoided to resort to
extremes. The district le most exciteand
dieturbed. The pence and people are daily
growing more exasperated with each other.
Correspondents report the distress in
Ireland is increasing. Five hundred inhabi-
tants of the Skate bog 'dietriot, County of
Limeriok, are on the brink oe starvation.
They proceeded to -day in a body to Croom
and obtained four cartloads of bread by
urgent representation of their extremity.
The streets of Cork are panelled by
mounted police. The magistrates of that
city have passed reeolutione urging greater
activity in suppreesing demonetrations par-
taking of the nature of bread ripts, and
asking for the appointment of additienal
police.
A meeting in Birkenhead yesterday, the
Mayor preeiding, reeolved to raise a sub-
scription tor the Duchess of Marlborough's
fund. •
Davitt, Daly, Killen and, Brennan to day
received notices commanding them to appear
before the Court of -Queen's Bench, Dublin,
on the 103. A Dublin despatch says that
although the Government has summoned
Davitt, Daly, Killen and Brennan to appear
Wait the _Owed ot Q,1190alts .13eneheeitek_uot
expected farther proceedings will be taken
against them.
The interposition of the priests prevented
much bloodshed at Ma= to -day, where three
handred.peasente surrounded a farm house
and refueedto permit the serving of a process.
The Riot Act was read, after which the police
°bargee mashie crowd, but without firing or
bayonetting the people, who fled in all
directiono. The whole country is aroused and
trouble is feared.
TIIE LOAN SOCIIICTIEft.
--
suite-at-Law tor Failure to Rinke the
Required Government Returns.
LONDON, an -.-Suits•at-law have been
instituted against the following loan and
savings societies for datnegea for failure to
make the required return to Government:
In London -Ontario Loan & Debenture,
Huron & Erie, Agricultural Loan & Savings,
London Loan of Canada and Royal Standard
Loan. In Hamilton -Hamilton Provident &
Loan, Landed Banking & Loan and Anglo.
-thilordinn Mortgage. ItreToamitb-Cafffida
Permanent Loan stz Savings, Farmers' Loan
6: Savings, Canada Building & Investment,
London a tUnterio Investment, Western
Canada Loan et Savings, Building & Loan,
Union Loan lit Savings and Imperial
Building and Investment. The actions are
entered in the name of Thomas Johneton, of
London East, through regular counsel; The
penelty claimed an eaoh case is about
$75;000. • It tei not probable that [moms of
this kind will be attained, but rather that the
whole matter -will be remedied by legislatien."
A ISURLIE CIUTRUIL -
A minister's:int/rely :ratable Sainte to his
Congregation. .
Brietteroan, Jen. -.-Last evening the
Congregational Church was thrown into a
Mate of great exeitement. On Sunday, the
4th of January, the Rev. S. P. Barker resigned
his pastorate of the ohuroh, and last evening
he preached his farewell sermon to a crowded
house. Before eommencing his sermon the
rev. gentleman.gave as big reasone for resign-
ing that his congregation were guilty of
duplicity and meanness towards him, and,
turning on the choir, he made a rather per-
sonal attack on thein, when -Immo retired.
This • caused- one of the, gentlemen in, the
choir to Mend • up and request the rev.
gentleman to stop his insult. The rev,
gentleman a.a-eIstiested the segeaket- toalt
down; when the gentleman threatened to
Mart the organ and drown hie voice. At this
deice a lady in the congregation fainted. The
rev. gentlemen continued his attaok, and
when a' number were leaving ho requested
them to be Bested, as the objectionable part
of the mermon.was over: He then proceeded
with his sermon. _
-7- Vice -regal Charley,
OTTAwa, Jan. feiv days ago a men
went into 'Bavaria places on Sussex street
begging, and stating ,that he had a wife and
five children at home on the verge or Marva -
tion. He did not mooed in collecting any-
thing, but a wag pointed out to. him the
Governor-General .going into the building
--about 10 be - occupied -se tho -Geological
Museum, Winch His Excellency was about to
inspect. The half.famiehed man bolted
post-haste after His Emotion:3y, and, address-
ing 'him, told hird hi eirounietances. He
was relieved with aedollar for present neces-
sities, and told to be at Rideau Hell that
night at Ewen o'clock. The maa_received
the invitation somewhat inoredulouely ; but,
however, he went, and was gladdened by
receiving a reoonimetidation for himself and
Iwo sone to be employed on Flom° public
works. •
' . A Buffalo Professor of Chemistry, who 'has
examined Edison% new eleetrio lamp, is very
fevorahlypepond towards it, provided it can
be made and kept lighted at a oufficiently low
cost. The Profegeor says that, practically,
nothing More is znannisary to illuminate any
email or largo room but to pass two parallel
wires through it connoted with generators,
and snspend from them as many lamps as
are needed. Chandeliers are not needed. A
lamp may be taken off and replaoed as often
as one pleases. One can carry about a lamp
in hie pooket, e and, so he enters a room'
where wires are placed, hang iteupon them,
'find instantly it givea him the light of a
gits jet.
Li the number for Jan. 3, 1880. 1183 Scien.
title American has on illuetration showing a
snake after having been more than half mai-
lowed by a larger • [make, escaping alive
through a wound in the gide of the latter.
The editors say that the melee 'were found
as represented, in a hay field near' Collinsby,
Canada, by Ma. john Filmsr. " is Mr.
es
Filme:opinion," they (=thine, • " that
while thrusting a fork into the hay, ho naust
have struckthe body Of the larger make,
making the opening through whioh the
°nuttier one wee partly liberated. Both
makes were alive' The larger one is familiarly
known as the garter Brake, the mailer' ono
cos the common brown anake."
The leap -year privilege of ladled ehooeing
their husbands is thuo. explained in a • work
entitled "Love, Couttship and Matrimonie,"
Louden, 1606: "Albeitit has nowe become
a part of the Inanition have in regarde to
imolai relations of life that, as often as
eve* blesextile year dothe return, the ladyee
have the Bole privilege during the time it
continueth of making love unto the Men,
which they doe, either by worde or lookee,
as to thetn it 'etiemeth proper; and,
moreover, no Man will be entitled tre the
benefit 'of eleagy who doeth in any way
treat() her propose' with alight Or contemn
RAILWAY BRINE STRUCK
BY A HEAVILY LADEN
VESSEL.
Nearly A Terrible Disaster.
$013TON,711/3* -.-.--By a peculiar combina-
tion Of oircumstanore the midden breaking of
the bell wire on board the etearaehip .Lancas-
ler in the harbor yeoterday morning came
very near resulting in a terrible disaster
to a paeeenger train on The New York
ft New England Railroad. The La/l-
ooter, a large iron veinal, heavily
loaded with col, was approaching the rail-
road bridge wben the pilot rank to stop the
engine.. The wire broke and the engineer,
failing to receive the signal, kept on, striking
the bridge with great force. The timbers
were badly twisted, the bolt whicn looks the
• draw was broken, and the railroad tracks
upon the bridge were bent about
eighteen inehes from their proper posi-
tion, No one was • neer the Beene
at the time, and on Sunday morning as the
inward passenger train wags approaching,
and when but a train'e length from
the bridge, the ongineee annieed ebse
dieconnected mile, He immediately reversed
his engine and applied the air • brake,
bringing his train of five oars to a stop:fifteen
feet from the bridge. Had the train passed
over it would have plunged IMO tile -water at
Ode of the track, The lose of life Would havo
been great. The engineer is deserving of
great credit for his watchfulness in discover-
ing the accident almoet at the instant of its
occurrence, and for his prompt annotator the
protection ef the lives of the passengers.
The oars were unloaded and the passengers
walked to the depot.
TUE`
The 'Union Plea Growing Desperate and
• Itssaulting Non-union Den - The
Police Regard litM 'Situation! as
Critical.
OHIOACIO, Jan. -.-There was aoneiderable
excitement at the bieck Yards this morning,
owing to an assault by Union men; who,
being unable to secure *their old places, are
going about the yards abusing non -Union
men etoning them and striking them with
etiolt. About 400 wore engaged in these
outrages. Several were arrested and marched
to the police station at tho muzzle of revolv.
ersafollowed by a hooting crowd of friends.
Should the arreete continue it is leered that
all the strikers will join in the trouble and
cause bloodshed. The' polioe regard the
situation as critical,- and a large tome has
been transferred to the Stook Yards.
While the Union men were atteolting
Andrew Deitibmso, a workman, this Mornisag
he drew a butcher knife and stabbed Frank
Gough, a tender of the malcontents, wbo is
alargelysneeponaihialoratheexeitementainniet-
ing serious and prebtibly not fatal injuries.
Deichmen. was arrested and taken into a
street oar by the police, whereupon the mob
nearly demolished the car with sticks and
atones. The Superintendent of tho Police
ordered the [lateens in the vicinity of the,
Stook Yards closed. • .At last amounts all was
quiet, and nb farther trouble is anticipated.
TB' GA11.1
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• .
A 'Peamster. with Three Wives on Trial
• at There'd.
,
•
THOBOLD, Wan. -.-George Clark, a
teameter and resident of Thorold, was arreited
this morning on a charge of' bigamy, the
charge being made by Mr. Taggart, a shoe
merohantand father of Clarkes third wife. It
was stated Clark had been niarried three
times and that the three wives are dill
living. During the examination by •Ille
Worship Mayor Grenville, Clark stated be
hatemarried a lady now living; in the State
of Ohio. II. Ele but had obtained. a divorce.
He stated nothing about hie first wife, think-
ing her existence was unknown, but when
asked said she was dead. It appears his first
wife is still alive, and lives back of Toronto,
is eeeond being in the States and his third
n Thorold. The prisoner 'will be sent te
the County jail, Welland, to await his trial.
Another Social Reform. • '
!Amnon, JAIL, Prince of Wales
has•just inaugurated another social. reform.
Every year the dinner hour has been growing
later. Half-paet eight Was the faehionable
time during the past season, and as nobody
came or wee expected to come till nine, all
opera going waseout of the question, People
• still talked about dropping in for the fourth
act of the " Huguenots," but no matter how
late the curtain rote at Her Majesty's or
Covent Gorden their boxes generally remain-
ed empty all the evening.' The. Prince of
Wales has'now determined to introduce
annealing approximating • to the Frenoh
eyetem. Dinner is served at Sandringham
at seven o'clock. It hal:loped this will work
at change during -the -next -seasons -for -nothing -
can be more destructive of ,theatrioal proa^.
perity and social enjoyment than the hours
which are prescribed by mode. Many of the
balls and parties are now over at midnight,
owing, no doubt, to the swarms of yopngsters
home for the holidays. lint the• vogue once
darted will probably -endure, and if the Prince
--
Wads the way society may yet return t0.
dinner at six, and -to what is now regarded
810 81 relic of mediaaval barbarism -a late sup-
per. Mayfair at this tirae of par is some.
what dull.
A Public School baa been removed from
Angleeea Square because small -pox has Wizen
Out in the housee of ill -fame by which the
educational institution is surrounded. ' The
disease up to a few weeks ago was confined
to Lower Town; it is now spreading In Upper
Town. As an illustration of the injurious
effect the :Tread of this disearie is having On
bush:ego in tide cityit is elated that two
theatrical companiee booked to perform here
have cancelled their engagements on monist
of its -prevalence. Tido afternoon s
Meeting of the medical profeeeibn took
place, • and it was deolded to take
active ' measures to stamp out the' dio-
cese. It WAS admitted that sixty ' eases
existed in the city, but a medical nitin
privately otated this afternoon that the Milli-
bar was underestimated to allay public
excitement; There are nearly that number
of small -pox cards exhibited in one !section of
the oity alone The great difficulty in tamp.
ing out the theme in this oity is that the
Board of Health is composed of Aldermen
eleeted by the -suffrages- eofroitizeme of edema'
a large number are opposed to vaccination.
It hail been meld that the reporte sent to the
outside press are exaggerated, but the truth
is that correspondents have for obvious
moons been under -stating the numbete.
Besides owing a duty to the City of Ottawa,
representatives of outside' jottrnale also owe
it duty to the general publlo.
4 Ono of the life saving statione On the
California coast has been °Ed:daily named
the Maggie Geddes, Thin is a recognition of
the bravere, Of Maggie Gabe, of San Antonio.
She its only 9 years old. Seeing a younger
playmate fall down a hit[la embankment into
a mill raw, she instantly itthaped after her. Tho
water was deep,and ran swiftly toward a largo
hoot; but Maggie wee a good evzimmer, and
by it desperate struggle got ashore with her
playmate, Suoh (mime and courage Were
400144 worthy of epedilbonor.
The liabilities of D, Cult, (is Co., paper
tatunifiteturers, are tietinuited at 4100,000.
, ERE ROYAL PRINCES.
To visit Mclean Hall thie
Winter.
, Lennon. Eng., Jan, -,.-A letter from an officer
on board H. m. snip Bacemante, OD wLilob reBBeI
the Friucem Albert 'along and George Frederlek
are DOW serving,. states that they are wider
order:: for a cruise in the West Indies, and will
in altprobability be ableto make Halifax, N. ise
by the time 11. 11. E. Fanciest: Louise arrives
ere, about the tatter and. of January; and, in
event pf this, the young -Pewee will be
anted Ietive abeence to pay a visit to then
noyal relative at Tilde au Bali, Ottawa. •
Tun cAlirOtitelAwAtalas,
•Irhey Agitate the question et Expening
lIntruders.
MaTssere Jan, Oka Indians
generally are the only bravos who have a
grievance, but quite recently the -Indians
upon the Cauganaivaga • reserve, opposite
Lachine, have shown considerable
*minty to the "Canadine," aa they call
the egnatters open their land of French
origin. A reacting of Indium was to have
been held that, evegieg at Caughnawags
upon the subject. It seems tbat of the
whole 36,000 acres whioh constitute the
• reserve the squatters occupy about 15,000.
While the tribe are almost unanimous se to
the coukse to be adopted, the °Wefts are
equally divided. Chiefs Thomas Mem:ease,
Louis Satekarenton and Louie Tioralsonange
the immediate departure of the intruders.
while Chiefs Joseph Wilitame, Theme's
Karatoton and Peter ItairotOne favor their
remaining. The reeolutions considered to.
night are threetin number lat. The wish on
the part of the tribe that the equattera vacate
immediately ; the secona prging the depoel-
non of the three chide, whom they [Allege,
are too much under outside a:flumes, and
are prepared to merifice the interests of the
trine, Me third provides that a balance
of about $3,030 arieing out of the pur-
chase by New York State 014 asportion of
the reserve of the tribe Many years ago,
and now in tho hande of the Febrique,
:should be withdrawn and divided among the
members of the tribe equally. At the meet.
ing fats proposed to read the original 'deed or
a copy whioh granted, in 1714, this reserve
to the Indians-, the confirmation of this deed
in 1762, and the Aot of the Dominion Gov-
ernment in 1876, which provided, for the,
removal of intruders by the Superintendent -
General. or such officer or nerson as he maY
thereunto , depute or authorize. As the
village is out of the way so far as com-
munication is concerned, it is almest
impoesible to learn the movements of the
braves. . ,
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A TDRUIRLD END.
•
Tirvirt of Life and indisposed to Work. a
Don Resolves on ISelf-distruction.
As already briefly etated in our telegraphic
doittrano, a18. inquest was held at Toronto
yesterday on the bocittof Thomas Lane, found
• lying in a mutilated condition IlD011 the rail.
way track at the foot 'of Peter street on
Thursday night. The following letter tells
the entire taloa
Lam tired of my life and have been for a long
Gino. I shall only bring my wife and children to
beggary if I live. My mind is gone. I cannot
work, and I never shall again. I don't know
edust_L am doing, a have been living -for the last
-
twelve months or more in misery of mind. The
Lord will help my wife and children buttie won't
-help me anyeceore;a4 have tried to make myself
contented, but I can't do it. My wife is as
good a woman as ever was born. She has been a
kind . and loying,wite to me, but I have allowed
myself togoso-fat-that I cannot love or Yeslaber
her, or any one elte:. I -cannot take an interest
in anything -my life Is a complete source of mis-
ery to me, so I have resolved to destroy nay tife.
I know I am doing wrong, but 1 cannot live in
such a state any longer. I am powerless to do
anytlaing. " My Wife and children will be, better
oft without me. I have prayed to God to make
zee81 new man with a loving heart and right
mind, but all to no purpose. Me will answer ray
prayers. He has blessed me with plenty of tem-
poral things, but never rightiy enjoyed spiritual
things. I never had &heart that was tight. I
am not lit to live or die. God help met God
help my wife and children! I know He will do
that. God himself knows that I am hotplate
and useless. T. Lamm,
40 Nelson street..
Every day I think of rayattifealliiddess' and
patience, and I have tried every day to make a
resolution to work hard to make my home happy.
I" done" it, but-orm do it no moro. Everybody
seems happy but me. I am miserable and make
every one blse the same. wherever I go I can't
heft. it. I have nothing to soy to any one; nothing
to live for. God have mercy upon me! •
The Jury returned a verdict to the effeot
that deoeased, being Of unsound mind, had
thrown himeelf before a locomotive, causing
himself to be killed.
•
A ourionsPase of the liability of a father for
his eon's debtarose recently in the Edin-
burgh -Small Debt Court. A tobacConist sued
a man for $5.50, being the amount of an
account incurred by his son for tobacco,
pipes, lights, ginger beer, eto ," during a
period of thtee weeks. The parent appeared
and denied liability, on the ground thgt the
articles specified in the 'mount
were not necessary for the maintenance of
his -son,_ whowas- eixteeneyeare "-of eager- and -
lived apart from him. The Court held that
the goodie supplied were not neoemarieri and
therefore absolved the 'father, and gave
deface egainet 1180 8011.
London World-" Jack Horner has ceased
to be a ohubbyfaced urchin with a_cake,___Iaut
-ists pretaphaelite youth, with sickly face
and long hair, toying effeminately with a
wafer biscuit. Jill is no "longer a giggling
girl in worsted hose who falle down with a
broad grin, but a pallfd paw:ion-spent
damsel, prostrate on the bottom of earth the
mother, beneath the intolerable burden of
the over.flowing_pail. exietence is to be
-Si anll. anul nielanefiViler tho present race
of children ae the expreseion whioh modern
art stamps on the faces of familiar nursery
heroes and heroines, it is a sorabro lookout
indeed." '
Mr. Valiquet, a well known bee rain; was
eomewhat eurprieed a day Or two ago by the
receipt of a letter all the way from Battleford,
700 mike northwest of Winnipeg, for a hive,
which will be tient Oil supplied with honey
andprovisions for this long and tedioue trip,
thejourney from Winnipeg to Battleford by
dog train alone ocoupying from twelve to
fifteen date. Hives are being made that
can be knothed about without doing the bees
injury.
A'olloon BEQUABT.--n. Galion, an aged and
much reepeotied pettier in Puslinoh, near
Guelph, died lately. In hie will there ie a
bequeet of $2,000 to be placed in charge of
the bishop of the dieerent, the intermit to be
devoted -to the support of the clergyman
_safiloiating, at Arlan', Apart ixona What the
congregation are in the habit of giving for
that purpose. This will come into effect one
year from the death of the testator.
The population of our globe, estimated at
aboutjthirteen htindred rnul1ion, ie ruled by
12 emperors, 26 kings, 47 prineee, 1/ Kahane,
12 khans, 6 grand duke!, 6 dukee, 1 viMishig,
1 Meanie 1 radia, 1 imam, 1 bey and 28
preeidente, besidon a largo number of chiefs
of -Wild tribee. Of the repiffilloa, nineteen
are found on Anaetioan soil, leaving only
nine for the reek of the world.
The Duke of Argyll, who ;stiffen from gout,
Will go to Oatinee, where the Duo de Nemours
has !settled for the winter, with his daughter,
the Princede Blanche,
The kind of wife who hae a smile for her
hneband When he etnaleil into the Inane, Will
not drive hiba to a ealoon to get one.
The Matiwho nape more for shop rent than
for adveftieing doesn't Understand hie
binsiiiese.--HOfeted Ofeetey, _
r)
JEDisonps guEcTitic
11. PALICI$011 Suceess....iphotoniraphsug at
Night byft. Ald-41Cftiolts war It ven-
ue; )ftaccesetiaily Compete with Other
Lights.
Of the durability of Edieonal electric lighte
at Menlo Park $he Sun, of Saturday, says-
" Some of the lights have now been burning
about 400 Ikon. Supposing that Artificial
illtunination is required six hearts per day,
on an average, it has thus been dentonetrated
that these lights would have remained unim-
paired for two menthe. Nice tem have
shown tbem to be yet aq bright as when first
set up. On several 000103i01211 in the last few
weeks, however, the engine has been etelmed
for a short time -once when the supply pump
for the boiler e gave oat, and at Other timee
for experimental purposes. At each times,
of course, the lights cease to glow."
The same paper on Friday said: Prob.
ably the first exlaibition in thin country of
photograpLing at night by electric light wao
seen at Sixth avenue and Fourteenth street
last evening. The exhibitor WAB Mr. Dena,
tile photographer. The light was produced
by atFuller machine of 3a horse power; The
lamp was set in a bright metal funnel like
that whiebeambeelos the headlight Of a 1000.
motive, opening widely outward.' A flood of
light was mot upon the person sitting to be
photographed. A sbeet of ground glees, held
close to the funnel, tempered and diffueed tho
light.- A gentleman Was photographed in -
thirty-three seconds, as ehore a time ins would
have sufficed on a bright ; day, and 'the
negative when subjected to a bath of
chemiode in the photographee'e dark closet,
wae ea distinct as though it had bean taken in
sunlight. Completed photographs weld be
prepared from it, Mr. Dana said, by to rater.
row morning. Mr. Dana says that photo-
grapha by electric light may be made as
faithful likenesses as any others and cost DO
more than those taken in sunlight."
The MilwaukeeSentinel has interviewed
Prof: U. H. lilICkinhi, General Superintendent
of the Northwestern Telegraph Company.
The Professor does not believe Edison's light
oesa be Fh sumees, and sums up his reasons as
follows: •
1. It is impoesible to prevent the entranoe
of oxygen into his globe; the glees will con-
tract and expand by the heat of the current
and the colder external atmosphere, and air
will enter whore the globe is eealecl and cause
corabgetion of the carbon aainleas a diaphragm
is need, Ail ill the Sawyer -Man lamp, which
Edison does not use.
2. The carbon will have imperfect !mots in
it; it will crack and splinter.
3. The radiating power of the oarbon can-
not be increased so as to materially increase
the Halt from a given force.
4. Tho. apparatus cannot be improved Bo he
to provide toe a much larger per cent. of a
given force to be converted into electricity,
heat and light.
Tbealivieilaility ofaelietricitysisalitniteda
if it is divided beyond a certain point it will
give AO light, and unless it is divided beyond
this point the light will be too great and.too
expensive for reeldence moue.
•-6. It all opines back. to thie proposition,
namely : that the cost is not mainly in the
lamp, in the me of oarbon for incandescence,
but in the cost of the fuel Which runs your
engine. With the electric llgatayeitiennot get
merely as much *shier gas jet- emelt give
-to get this numb you Mint uo power that
will giveyote a mtash greater lial_Wpaget
any light you must get a great deal (about 200
candle power) and this omits too much.
• The :cold weather in England has had a
singular effect on the birds. , A woodcock was
recently,found in Albemarle etreets London;
and it eingular incident is related from
Surrey. A butnane lady in that county has,
since the frost get in, opened' her bectromet
window each morning and thrown out a sop
of all kinds of good thinga to the feathered
tribe: Otte severe morning recently Elie
opened her window as mush but there was
considerable delay by her servants 111 bringing
the food to her. The lady returned to her
bed, 'leaving the window open, and fell
aeleep.-Presentlyethe.Whole. household were
aroused by her Boreame and on going to her
room no lase than nineteen poor, half-eterved
rooks wero. found in it: Eleven of them had
entered the bed and had'oommenoed pecking
violently at -the bed-clothea .coverbeg the
alarmed ledy.
:0 German journal • publishee 81 etirlOGB hiet
-of the decorations conferred upon Prinoe Bis-
-marok, forty-seven in number. Among them
May be mentioned the star of the Grew'
Commanders of the H011B0 of Hohenzollern,
with brilliants; the cross of the Knights of
St. John; the order of Fidelity of the Grand
Daolty of Kaden, with brilliante and a chain
of gold; the grand arose of the Hanoverian
order of Guelphs; the grand erose, with brils
Hann, of the Austrian order of Bt. Etienne;
the order of the Annunciation of Italy; the
grand arms of the Legion of Honor; elm
order of the Seraphim! or Sweden; the Lion
and the Bun of Panda eethe White Elephant
with-IT:Hit-anti, and
the Toison d'Or. • •
• Two English printers named Head and
Mark have been fined twenty-five dollars for
printing the notorious Town:Talk libels on
Mrs:. Langtry and Cornwallis West, and been
nitilotedin costs to the amount of $3,000;
although -the charge on which they were
oonvieted was merely that of inadvertence,
not of knowingly offending. Rosenberg, the
editor 01 1110 Tart Talk, ile in jail. "For
the'preeent, at any rate," nye Inc London
News, "thio plague of scandalous .and
unclean gutter literature whittle afflicted
London -some -few- menthe- ago- seemlo-have
been stayed, and should it bMak out again
the mean° of stayina; it are now. known and
proved." ' •
Mary Brennan, genteneed to death at the
aarrioloon•Shannon melees for the murder
of her child, has been reprieved. She had left
the Sligo workhouse to walk sixteen miles
across the . country in weather of intense
severity, thinly clad, and having with her her
little daughter, her little eon, and an infant
in . her arms. She ithowed her maternal
fooling by taking off part of her own clothing
to wrap the little boyashen he cried with
cold, and. at leni
gth, n despair, when the
night came on, leaving the boy and girl for
a while at the way sides one went into a field
with the infant and put an end to its life.
s
vinvezon's It/Min.-M. Nemo 'publishers
the following 'regarding the weather: Such
ups and downs have oharaOterized January
up tto the present date, and as title present
feature is likely to:mini:ma, we' May look for
very -Irregular weather, with sudden and not
always agreeable changes, op to the close of
the Month. In February I shall not be sur.
p81880 should the mercury from a zero stand,
point take a thirty degree plunge in a t
uncomfortable direotlen, but this I do t
anticipate during the remainder of the preeent
month.
Dean or A Men: Cranna -One of the
°ideal railway mail darks in the Weak. Mr,
Albert G. Sentient, died at his redden:se on
Talbot retreat inthie city On Monday. Deemed
had been over tvrenty years in the eerrioe
ot the Poeheffiee Depettnient and hold the
position of a firet-olase clerk, He wan known
from one end. of the Great Western Iteilway
to the other, anclowati highly eilteentealsy a
Dirge circle of atquaintteinleta-Zondon dcl•
nertiser.
Venn Soaia-Mr. 11. Ditie hats gold the old
homeetead farm of 100 Wes, near Rattle-
snake Point, Moon, to Mr, Thodail BMA
ef_Natiliagieweya, for 47,000,—
A rAsormAyrno Immo Now.
• LINELL
nee Captivates and Invoice With• IC
Wealthy Estipostr,
Berzermax, Jan. '-a-Iteport hu It OW
a well-known and wealthy farmer of Thurley.
a little outside of this tiny, hao disappeared
under eireumstanon that cause his friends
much pain. It appears that as usual in emu
there hi a woman concerned. Although the
absconding Lothario Is well over the impul-
dye yeare of youth, a fatIC!nating young
milliner, who had service in the :armee*
house, succeeded in winning his affections,
In order to carry out his evil intentions ha
raised money by diehienorable means. It is r8.
ported that he mortgaged, hie farm for alines
amount, forged a deed to property not his
own, and by other Koh disreputable means
succeeded in getting together a large amount
of money, it is reported as ranch as 414,000.,
With thie .um in his pocket,he quietly ;Inn
j
away, his lady love having oined him by:a
pre -arrangement. The unfaithful hasbend '
leaves a wife and family, who, owing to his .
dishonest proceedings, will be placed
etraightened cimumstanoels.
A „LITTLE WAIF
•.,
Abandoned and Left in a car on thes
Great western izanway.
On Wednesday evening as tho traiII 012
-the-Great 1Vestern Railway, -which arrives' --
here at 7 o'clook p. m., from Detroit, was
returning to Clifton, after having left 11.
passengers at the Central depot" at this,
place, Peter Flynn, the bridge conductor,
discovered in one of the seats a basket
containing a baby. Them was no one elms
the etie andvearoh of the train rendered
it evident that the infant had been abau- •
cloned. The train returned to this side and
conductor Flynn brought the baby to the •
• depot policeman, John Janney, whe at first
refused to receive it. While these two were
parleying as to -who should take the baby, it ,
was discovered that there was a card on the •
basket with thane words on it. "Michael
Nolan, care of Elizabeth Nolan, Lockport.
N. Y." The baby was placed in charge of
poor -master Mahoney, whose wife oared for
it until Thursday afternoon, when ehe took
it . to Lockport to be turned over to the
poirtieo to whom it is directed if theyavill
receive, it and 11 not to consult the authori-
• ties as to what disposition shall be made of •
it. In case no claimants for the baby can
be found on this ide, it becomes a question - •
whether it shall be returned to Canada or be
oared for 187 0811 poor authorities. On Thurs-
day fotenoon Mrs. Isaacs, wife of the pro..
prietor of the Prospect House, Clifton, came '•
over and offered to take tho baby and Aare
for it, but poor -master Mahoney, under
adviee, oent the infant -to the poor house '
where it was left on Thursday night. Its 'fu-
ture will hereafter be determined.--Suspen-
One of tie moot claimd objects in Edison'a
laboratory is an electric light that has been
completely oubmerge.d in a bath pi water for
!leveret weeks, It is designed for submarine.
work and as an eminence to divers in prose-
cuting their work •in recovering entiken •
treasure, and in pstohing up ounken [Mips so
that they may be raised: -
It hi not what we earn but what we owe
that makeo usrich. It lo not wheA we eat
ip.btbi shottrTannetinnhowmoteehh.ofwaovihtexawt_etiwode_iwgierseseta.-dtht blatut -timakes
wwItreewtienirgii-be3naIrt '
betwhat we do _that makes us useful. It is•
not a few faint wales but a life.long Woggle .
that makes us valiant. . .
' On Wednesday last 818 18 nephew of larJohis .
Colbaok, and concession, Townehip of Brant-
ford, lately from England, was experimenting
very foolishly with a Musk of powder at flan
stove, the fink exploded, cutting of hbo
thumb and lacerating his hand in a fearful • .•
Manner.
The village °Masts of Niagara Falls maks
the extraordinary announcement that . the
hackmen there are " civil, orderly, anommo- •
• dating, and perform service, for lase money
• than is done et any other place in the known
wol'Ilheio' oheme of building a railiv.i.iy to Bay.
• 'field hi' being agitated pretty strongly just
now. The Grand Trunk -hat 'offered to
build and run the road if the necessary •
amount. of money io raised by way,. of
Bowing lo a tran• elation of a renal
itticism : • " I owe that your eon hall
grown into. quite a young man. What are
you.going to make of him? What are his
inclinations ?" "He has a decided taste for •
• trivial." " Then make him a nobler 10 .
• An 'Engliali /fervent girl win recently held --.
for trial for holding a child, fifteen months
old; belonging to her employer, before a fire
'and roasting it alive, for no reason that ohe ••
• could give except that she was diesatielled
with her "situation and. wanted to lest% it. •' •
-- atAschatimionekaterateays an Englishman.-
-"Ishould be a man who can skate faster
than the rest of.the world, and not one who
combines with fast skating the otill more
unneceesary knack of turning rapidly rotund •
a P0e,ertIcle"s handking haa. rani im. patient.
°room and flourishes, but his manuicript ia
,patiently punctuated and paragraphed. The
late Horace Greeley wrote a very bad hands
but there was no comma or letter misaing in
• his "copy." - ' -
PLOUGHING re jintremr.- The I sigh of
patio hard at work ploughing in this season
is 'not- common, but -me. Thomms-:11Offit.
near Galt, had three tomtit at the work oat •
his WM. on -Monday last. Wm' ground .wari .•
In good condition.-.Refornier. .
• At the meeting of the Toronto Presbytery
yesterday, Rev. J. McIntyre, of Orangeville.
banded in the reeignation of hie pastoral
charge, A committee was appointed tootaa•
fer with Mr. McIntyre on the matter.
• a -
A Government agent 'le at work in Mon-.
heal, feeling for ,bottont, • in ,lhe annexation
movement. The leader of it promiseo to.
take the people into hie confidence by means
of a pamphlet. •• •
The inmates of the Lambton County JaIL
will ehortly be set to work cutting 125 cords
of wood, which hap been purchased for the
use of the county. They will an by the board
and for the board, 810 it were. • '
Edmund Yates thinks that Pullet:toy fo a
mental dinaile which ohould be ruined as
• earnestly as hyeteria er it note for aloe-
hol, and he adds that It is an ungraceful
vice:
st,
• To give an idea of the rAvagee of diphtheria
in eouthern Ennio it may be mentioned
that in the one Province of Pultava about ,
7,000 persons have died of the disease in each •
of the not three yew.
Sir Evelyn Wood's mother liveil just. long
enough to witnen his Maness in thiuth
Africa. She died Dee. 15118: Lady Wood
wao the author of (mural novelof conoidera-
ble power.
Large guantiiin Of American turkeyomeise
and ether fowle have been eeized lately on
arriving at Liverpool, because deeoinpoeition
had Bet in and kendered them unfit for rood.
British iron mestere are logking for an
increased trade with America:- Twentyone
vemele, five of them armored, are now in
Prr Bli
aerPlinZbululiiatlinot of the Peace Ian &We
" headkose roister" ;showman 45 „and Mk
for cruelty.