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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1881-01-13, Page 6.• IRELAND. No Danger of a Rising in the Country- Enwitt on Proclaimed lileetings-Illob Charged with Bayonets -Four Persons Fa*ully lajured-.Arress of League Officers-Patal Servitude for Life. _ Lennon, ran. 6. -The military commie - donor who has been investigating the re. ports Bays there is DO danger of au or- ganized easing in Ireland, and that if the Government takes strict measures for the repreinsion of lawlessness a peaceful sane tion of the present difficultiee may be oked for. Deniren, jam 5.e -At the weekly meeting of the Land League yesterday Michael Devitt said, it was understood that several more meetings would be proclaimed this week, and he • counselled all the branch leagues to give the authorities no pretext for the suppression of the meetings in con- sequence of the wording of the placards. He said branches of the League would be summoned to meet fortnightly, and if these meetings were also prohrbited the only remedy would inevitably point in the direc- tion of illegal meetings. If the Habeas Corpus Act were suspended be was firmly convinced that violence and outrage would usurp the restricted influence of the League.' At the trials of the tra,versers the defence suggested that the short -hand ifews by Con- stable Stringer had. been.. telterecl aline it was takendeut failed to shake the witnesses. It is evident that one point of the defence will be that nearly all of the meetings at 'which the traversers spoke were sanctioned or presided over by the Catholic clergy, Messrs. Parnell, Dillon and Sullivan were net in court to -ay, having gene to attend • the opening of Parliament. Laat night some people near Olaremorris thig a ditch acrose 'the road to prevent the passage of a precess-server, who, with a police escort, was proceeding to serve writs of ejectment. The mob threw stones freely. The Riot Act Was read and the Police charged the mob. Four persons are believed to be fatally bayonetted andseveral injured. The president, treasurer, secretary and two other members of the Tralee•lerauelnet !more readily obtain what she desires from the Government, in whose political ability he expresses coniidenee,if she keeps within the stnot limits of legality. The gunmakers are doing an enormous business, principally in revolvers. jolan Ray, who WAS a fellow -prisoner with Denial O'Connell and a rneneter of O'Connell's Old Guard, is dead. A despatch from Kilmacow, county of lialkenny, announces that the Rev, Cody, President Mullinavat of the branch Land League, and twelve members of the committee havorbennehraeferetrial on a charge of Boycottieg farmer. „ A caretaker named Collins has been mar - dem]. neer Parsontown. A monster land meeting was held. at Kin - vans, county Galway, to -day. The court to -day decided to admit the report of the Nation (newspaper) as evi- dence in the trials, in spite of the objeoe tion of the traverser& counsel, - Lemon, Jan. 7.--ADublin despatch says the prosecutiou of the Land Leaguers and the prospect of the adoption of repressive rger.surea by Parliament have not had any. quieting effects in the west of Ireland. A. bailiff and his wife and the wife and son of a, tenant were recently serionsly assaulted at Ballinmore by armed men. For ;the last math no petty sessions have been held .at Ballinmore, but the Leagne court sits regu- larly. The three Lend Commissioners, in their report to the Government, recommend the adoption of the " three F's,". fair rents, free eales and fixity of tenure. They admit the principle of free contract, but intimate that practically such freedom, does not exist. They propese.that the rent be fixed by two arbitrators,one representing the tenant and the other the land court, with power to summon an umpire' and that the rent ie to teintein unchangedfor 21 years. They would take •away the power of evic- tion, except for non-payment ef rent, sub- letting, or Waste. Ocoupying tenants are not to be -allowed to °entrant themselves out of the act, but non -occupying tenants will be allowed to do so except to a certain limilation. Corporations and' owners should be enabled to sell to the :revenant of an annual payment notexceed. the Land League were arrested at the ing the present rent. The commissioners .weekly meetingto-day on 8. charge of sedi- tion, in having resolved at the last meetnag to "Boycott"one Canes. They have been remanded, bail being refused. A large force of police escorted. the prisoners to jail. The crowd threatened -the police, but the military with fixed bayonets Joined the officers. - At the Omagh assizes to -day a farmer, named Graham, convicted of shooting the bailiff Melhedland, near Qookstown, county of Tyrone, in December, 'was sentenced to penal servitude for life. One of the tioters.wounded in the en. counter with the police near Claremoreis died last night, - ' Gniseow, Jan. 5.-A special correspond-, ent writes from Ireland to the Evening Times, giving an account of an interview held by him with a gentleman who might not be unfairly.described as a Fonien head - centre. So intimate is he with all the pro- ceedinge of the fraternity, that he states when the land agitation was inaugurated a determined resistance was made to it by the supporters of the Fenian propaganda, That organization lio,d.thert 63,000 members •paying a small-, . weekly contribution. Scaredly had the Land League inovement. Parnell at the moment when. he has to ecommeneed---when-the-Fenetunegetationease eseexideebee. Lae' 83 .„.e....„emenee_energerevea.... an brgo,nizaAion collapsed, and there was au whet he has challenged not only -the British. almost immediate transference of the Government but the Imperial Parliament members to the League., The correspond- to comlat, may find popular support an ent adds that there *ere included in the Ireland crumbling under his feet. .. leadership of the land movement The Standard says that the Irish mem- •recommending the adoption of the t lee are Lord. Beesborough, Baron Dowse ,and Win. Shaw, M. Pe The dis- isenters are Mesas. Kavanagh and, the O'Conor .Uon. Tralee despatch Says in the ease of the. officers of the Troia° branch of the Land &Ignore, it was to -day decided -to hold their examination in the jail, as a riot is feared if they are taken to the court. The solieitor and witnesses refused to attend the examination in the town. A later despatch says the examination of the Land Leaguers was adjourned till Saturday, when the. defendants Will be brought td the court house, provided the escort is net molested. " The Government is actively and deter, ininedly suppressing the praotioe of " Boy. eating." The copstabulary have been in- structed to attend fairs and markets to pre-• vent it,. Several persons have already been proseented ner "'Boycotting." A. Dublin despatch say @ Fury and len other prominent members of the Aianagha-* .dbeen branch ofthe Land League have been _arrested. • • ' The Tiniei SeTri it le men who speedily developed into mere thorough -going Yeiung Irelanders then ever before liyed.. The writer then proceeds as follows.; "Since the extreme party began to have greater :weight in the councils, Fenian principles have had freer play. The distribution Of epee, 'which Was never entirely suspended, has since been prose- cuted with vigor, and the number of Sniders now scattered over the country cannot be well calculated. ;Any man, I understand, who nate down one pound. in the proper quarter, can be provided with a Snider rifle and 100 rounds of bell and cartridge, with waist._belts, shoulder belts and cartridge pouch, a sword and bayonet bets" have .decided to systematically eb. struct the progress of the Coereion thiOugle Parliement. • * Talbot, -a tradesmen of Tralee, and a tneriaber ofithe',LandeLeagne; has bagel are A Jity0MIEFi . - • . Douhle Executions to Phi1adelphia •and ; Pinee'enernee; Jan. 0. -Patrick Hayes, Who shot his,; wife fatally lest•March be- cause Of a disnnte. over sonic property, and who then attempted to kill himself, but recovered, was hanged according to sentence for themifle. Iis imneeessary to state that to -day. Dau21,1. Sullivan was also hanged the one pound does not cover the expenses, but the difference is made good from a • fund contributed to by theeeyrepathizers with the proceedings.- One or two persons whose names have been. before the public - - of hete;-and-whentre-Oredited-wit,h,effeeting THE_ CHANdE IN TIIE LAND., AGITAT/ON whibh it has recently tessumed,I mean thr change toward the repeal movemezit-have been partieularly active in •distributing arms, and the strategic ri resorted to for carrying out this purpose would be worthy of a better cause., Though matters .are taking this turn the Fenian's ere nee hopeful that the rising can be'effeetually carried out in Ireland. They acknowledge theta great. portion of the people of the country ate not disposed to run the 'H&c that will attend a, rising, anxious as they aro to secure self-government, therefore the lead- ers of the organization have loiagbeenturn- ing their ayes in another direction, and haeol'eome to the conclusion that the blow rciust be Struck at hemp and at the Eng- lish Parliament. Another Clerkenwell outrage.; they imagine, would go a great way to the furtherance of Home Rule. They pray that Britainmay be entangled in sone° active foreign controversy, for then their opportunity will come. In that emergency they conceivethat' all will be needed in order to paralyee the country and the Government, will be the destruc- tion of a few publicedifice, particularly shout the dock -yard towns." •Two • more betties of petroleuin Were found yesterday, . one at Carrier's dock and the other one at Husleiseon'e dock. • LONDON, Jan. .6. -Tho proposed' Land League meeting at Tully, county Galway, whore Canon Flemiag was shot at, has been prohed. • The officers and neembere of the Lind League arteeted at Tralee areNr. Harring- ton, proprietor of the Kerry Sentinel and President of the League ; Arr. Lyons ; the treasurer ; Mr. O'Rourke, the secretary ; Mr. Kelly, a draper ; stiidMr. Brassoll, tho proprietor of the Kerry Independent. They' . are charged, with other • evil disposed 'persons, with having on divers oecasions during Decerriber illegally held a court in Tralee, and exercised coercive jurisdiction ° Jeremiah Leahy, president of- the Firis braneli Of the Land -League, has been ar- rested. It is reported that the Land League will Summon,a nationg conventien at Diiblin to, decide the course to pursue with regard to the Government Land Bill. The London meresponderit of the Man - chanter Guardian says that pm/ions to the @nestle from the War Office of the eiretilar directing a strict gife,rd over the volanteer armories, over 100 rifles were stolen from one place in the vidinity of London. Large quantities of ammunition, chiefly &shot, ate being shipped•te Ireland. ia stet e Pope has addressed op of Dublin eyna- • s and de - this morning. He shot his mistress tor alleged infidelity hist March. Both men passed a calm,' though almost sleepless, might; and both Walkedfirealeeto theegen. lows, - Hayes atteMpted to speak in a wild, neeehereutemennenentid two priests en- deayeeed to persuade him not to speak,bt continued. lVfeantyliile, Sullivan: stood calmly kissing n -,, nol-listeningeta_ the exhortations of their priest. Sullivan struggled, violently, but Hayes died easily. NEWARit, N.J., Jan. .6. -Mrs. klierhoffer, convicted with Frank Lammens, her para- mour; of the murder of her hnsbo.nd, was limn; this morning. ,She walked te the gallows without assistance, and met her fate without confession. Lammens was hung from tho. same gallows immediately afterwards. He made no confession. his etated that Sohn P. Fromer, of Orange, the agedrover of Mrs. Mierhoffei, *who was hanged to -day, when it wasannounced on Monday that all hope otescape from death for the woman was •gone, ern:emitted suicide by hanging.' As it had been expected that one of the criminals might make a confes- sion at the lest element. exculpating • the other, the preeeciator, Mr. A. :Boll, wo,ein the oiateeroem under special instruotione from the Governor to act in ease of ether- gencen, HeWould not-divulgetthe nature of his orders. HE Boin wAR. Boer! Illeitlag llinfilro to I:rebellion- Deputations Favoring independenee -Weill/rely!' Wean neiereeeed to the Cape. Preeeitmeanezenee, Tan. 5, -Captain Lam- bert, 104ely a prisoner at Heidelberg, has just arrived Item. Ide Was released on parole witleCapt. Elliott. Both were sent to the Orange Free State unarmed, but when crossing phe Vaal River the Boers who accompanied them fired on them and killed Elliott. SieetY-two prisonera of the 94th Regiment, released bytheBoers, are on their way down. Capt. Lambert .gave the following account of the disaster to the 94th: On the road from Pretoria to Lydon., burg the detachment was met by two men with a letter, summoning the colonel to surrender in two minutes. The colonel re-: fused and formed his men, when fire Was • imniediplelY opened on all sides. The offi- cers were aimest instantly shot down, and the force disabled. The colonel then or- dered a surrender. Eignty.eix men were buried on the field, Twenty-six nave Melee died. Captain Lambeet estimates the num- ber of the Boers at Heidelberg at 8,000. He met it large number of Boers going in from the Orange Bree State. The commanding officer at Newcastle, Natal, reports that 300 Boers have entered Natal and taken up a strong pesition 05 the reed to the Transvaal, aboutenve miles within the harder. They are pushing patrols to points within sixteen miles from Newcastle. • Lennon, join 5. -Volunteers have been celled for from the infantry regiments at Aldershot to form a corps of mountedrifies. for service against the Boers. Mr. Gladstone, replying to a letter rela- tive to the Transvaal, Bays: Lam assured that when full information is presentedto Parliament the Government's desire to ant with impartial regard to:the :interests and rights -of all patties concerned will -be ap- preciated." Ilenvene, Holland, JR11. 5. ---Prof. Harting has announced that 5,000 porous lea.ve signed the address to the English people 'as regards the independence of the Transvaal. - Copies of .the ttddreas are to be sent to the 'United States and other countries. • " Demmer, Jan. O. -The Boers are organ- izing tne Kalfirs in the Thakkerstroom dis- trict. The Boers have the sympathy of the whole -Dutch population throughout Senth Africa, and ef some .of the Eng A Boer patrol has advanced to within ten miles of Newcastle. Four thousand Boers are reported about to atteckWaleltee- strooni. • • Lenoir; Jan. 6, --The London . corresPon- dent Of the Mattester Guardian says that previoneto Mr. Leonard Courtney's au. opting the office .of Under Secretary of State fof the Home Department, corres- pondence passed --between him and ,1‘.f4• Gladstone. •Tho hitter declared that . 'the Government would --adhere to thepolicy they had accepted in South Africa, and could. not enter. upon any but the Purely military phase of the question till the Boers ceased to ba in ineurreption against the Queens authority. ' • A 'deputation; of: Diitchmen in Londrnn. having presented to Mr. Leonard Catirthey, • Under Heine Secretary, re. copy01the -ad: -dress b.y..Prief.. 'keterting in . fever. pfeths in. dependence of the TransvaaleMr. Courtney - stated that his akPapathieein the Transveal etiteatIVII NY134!`1ffte1tered-.• . The Earl of Elixtborley; the' Colonial Secretary, in .receiving a deputation of French -missionaries yesterday to urge the. *Bettie/tient of the.Barinto war by. mediation; said he concurred 'With the main object of the deputation; namely; the " -epeedy con-, elusion alio wan". The instruetiona to. Sir Hercules Robinson, the' nevi 'Gbvernot: of the'Cape Colony, ,were, , he said, thatif , aneepportunity.occtirred he, should intsr- vene at the eerligit' possible 'moment, but &tech intervention could only take place with the. assent 'of :the CelOnial Govern- ment. It is to' beremarked that this tit- teranee of the Colonial -Seoretary shows the falaity of the recent statement that the Cape Government had : appealed to '• the, Home•Gevernment for troops.' • • • A meeting at Birmingham.to,day adopted: a resoliitieneendemning the annexation Of the Transvaal.. : • • General Sir EsLelyu ;Woad, , Who .Coln. mended a celninne during. the Zulte cane.: 'pram will proceed, tothe Cape intmediately as second in Command of 'the fere& under. ir Geotooll:-Colre-Sr. •, • e • .Penen4tertieMiene jap. (i.-Capt.-ain.bartstateethatelieBeenseentinned firing at him after killing Elliott. He .esicaped. by swimming,' and . subsequently walked three days, . The-Beere-of-the-Orange Ereee :State aro refusing assistance • to the Transvaal Boers. The &Adler& taken Prideiters by. the; Beers at Potchefstroom havebeen released - and arrived at Kimberley.. - -LT511613.3; Jan. 7.: -The Progresso- denies tho. report that England has asked Portugal to . permit reinforeements togo toe -the Transvaalty way of 13 -elegem Bay. DURBAN, Jan. 6. -The Natal Goyernteent has sent to Joubert, the Boer commandant, demanding an. eXplanatien .with regard to: the invasion of Natal territory. • .1-Sunken/ten Jan : 7.=Pfefessor Herting'a 'teddrees to the English people on behalf .of the Boers has aleetnly been signed by all the leading Men of Holland: The eminent astronomer Bnysballot will act as treastrer to reeeiye.contributione.in aid of the •ineve- rnent. • The Dutch press. vindicate • the rising in the' Transvaal' as a legitimate as, sertion of independence.. " •• •• Ceen TOWN, Jan 7. -.Sirtizerinan, the Kaffir chief, has joined theBeers. 'A largo number of Orange 'Free State Detchinen are also joining them.: • Denneet,---jan..1.----It is reported that the British camp at Potchefstroom has ebeon surrendered .66 the Boers, "-en : PA.ST.ALE11131.V OU'WEA.C1E. , Shot in his :own, Rome -A. Brother -1u- , • Law Arreoted. •. Meincuest, San. Monday. evening last about luelf-past. 6 o'elock,• Mr, James Knox, who resides on' lot .„21, 7th 'Conces- sion Markham, was :sitting by the stove in his -house, -nol.nan some •ono shot bina through th9 window. received a heavy charge of shot in his hand and fame, end a 'large leaden ball and it quarttity-ofe shot were found driven in the wall behind' him. Steve Wore at eta taken, to find the would-be murderer,.and yesterday Consta- ble Marshall arrested Thomas .Heatli, it brether.iiniew ofthe Wotinded'rean, and secured. an old Military musket and a bulletnnould, The /misled fitted an iron prossion in the snow neat Knox's house, where the party had evidently fallen, and. the bullet taken Out of the wall fitted the mould. • Heath Was 111.61441A before James Robinson, J. Crawford, II. IL Wales and A. Barker, J. P.'s, yestercley afternoon. He was to -day oommittod to stand his trial it the pteeerfteeeieions, and Constable Mar- shall eonveyoad. him to Toronto jail td.night, , • leiniattoiteePAirneitti-WILDS: , Fearful Experiencea Off a 'Western €oloit- izing ,,,PALUS, Tex., Ian. 6. ---Alfred Sampson, Pr oorge Berries, and joseph Portet, lighten - tial citizens of Madison county, Arkansas, wit -deem their way to joie Paytie's colony, teat their way he a storm. Sarepeon Was lly learned by a spark from the eainp before Width he 'was aleeping, Porter ere almost frozen to death Here Pt,T.BrieIC AccouNf.rs. Receipts and .Expendinaries. • OTHER FINANCIAL ITEMS. The Public Accounts of 'Canada for the fiscal year ending June 30th, MO, were laid before Parliament on Friday afternoon. The Deputy Finance Minister 'in his re- port says that the principal traninietion daring the year was the placing in July, 1879. of a 4 per eent.loan. on the Eligible market, amounting to three naitlien pounds sterling. The loan was taken up at about 295 is. 10i4., and out of the proceeds were retired rnaturing 6 per cent. debentures amounting to 21,208,000 sterling. Payments were neadeduring the year on capital account as follows, omitting cents Weilaxid Canat.. $1,252,924 13339,560 118,935 801,257 80,120 561 Lachine Canal fit. Lawrence Canals Ottawa Canal St.I.Oterel Canal Trent Elver a Total °flannels $2,123,300 Ottawa publics buildings:33,730 Intorcolonial railway $2,048,014 Prince Edward Island railway 16,639 Pacific railway 4,044,522 Total, on railway $0,109,077 Grand total . 813,241,133 The 6 per 'oent. stock bas been reduced 0,691),044, being from 64,121,167 on the. 00th of June, 1879, to 4422,152 on the 30th of June, 1880. Of this reduction 43,005,095 was converted into 5 per cents., and the balance 4693,949, was paid in cash.. The effect eithese ananges in the rates payable on the indebtedness of the Dominion has .been to reduce the average tate math° gross debt from 395 on July 1st, 1879, to 43 82 on the 30th of June, 1880,.; on to net debt for the same period from 44 51 to 64 37 ; and on the debt payable in London, from 44 57 to -64.45., • Between this date and the first of ijanu- Ivy, 1685, the amount of debt maturing is as follows ; •- year. Payable in Payable in. Total, Canada. London. • 0 1,321,300 13 1,1375,400 2,642,113 2,778,613 1,039,580 1,759,830 1,305,240 1,309,940 32,467,100 :3e,410,0ee 1881. ,,, ..... $ 5•1,100 1882 136,500 113333 • 129,250 1884... • 4,700 ntee 951,920 131207,470 1330,375,402 $40,942,672 Itiaddition to the above there is at loan' of Prince Edward Island, nominally due in 1902 and 1903, but which it is presumed will in 1882 be redeemed, 81,091,106; mak- ing a total of 441,733,979. Against theirs •amounts is to be placed the sinking fund of the large lean due in 1885, which on June 30th last stood at $5,489,073, leaving to be provided for from that date to - the 'first of January, 1885, 436,244,9,05. The liabilities of Canada increased from 8188;974,753 in the year preceding to 0199,124,323 last year. The assets for the corresponding period have increased from 430,493,683 to 842,182,852. In the same period the total funded end unfunded debt incteased from 8158,745,580 to 4173,673,- 929, being by millions of dollars the largest increase many year since Confederation. In thcsarne period the total interest on the debt hafeinereaeed from 87,281,018 to .4705,065, while the total interest oirethe' assets • has -increase lne from- .2046;765 • to - 4750,980; leaving a net increase from 66,664,2.52 to 06,868,084. • . • ' .. • . , nzenteas AND EXPENDITURES, An' .exatiination of the ' comparative statement of the receipts ,and expenditure of Canada for the fiscal ,yearts of 1878-79 and 1819-80 *bows an hieremie in the receipts froin 452479,165 to 3,i77,628, divided thus:: *. . • - • RESUREECTKONISTS. _ Eculy Snatching at seeley's Bay. Kteastoe, Jan. 5. -The body, of John Gilleert;'whieli was interred on thristmas day at Seeley's Bey, Was resurreeted and brought to this'city. The police this morn ing found the corpse in a shed in the rear of the old Medical College, Princess oitreet. The friends -of the deceased took charge of it, Monst& Of the robbed gtonoe was fotnid an envelope; Postmarked Toronto and addressed to a student at Queen's TIniversity here.' There is much excite ment al Seeley's Bay over the affair. elford Curry (colored) lives nearaoseph Duchatix;Moritreal, and the latter believed hiin to he too farniliar with his coal shed On Tuesday night Duellaux placed o. trona in the'sho,pe of half a pound of powder in atead pipe,. which. he placed. among the coeds. A few me -merits after he heard the colored man among the coals, and ton minutes afterwards there occurred„ an ex- plosion whieb shook tho.house and blew Carry's SUM to atoms. Then in rushed Duchitux with two constables, who arrested Curry. Yesterday peeping the recorder had to discharge lum for look of evidence, and the case fell through. • .,nifdtreirS. , .1878-79 1879-80. - Consolidated fund„ -$25:517,383 $23,307,460 'Loans -..........23,189908 - • 28,310,870 Open ,,, ,, „ 6,771,874 1,553,149' • , Total. .... $52,479165* $53;177628 • The following are the detailedthe above totals on account Of conscilidated fined alone t • . ,,DEEPTS. 1878-70. 1870-80. Cmitoins.t12,900,059 1314,071,843 Excise 5,300,750 4,232,427 Staines' 185,190 1.75,000 TELEORAPHIC SUMMARY. • Canadian. Tnnasnex, Ian. 6. Throe ladies exercised their franchise itt connection with. the recent school trustee election at Bowneanville. Eighty buildings, at a cost of nearly 0753000, have been erected in West Lynne (Nan.) during the past year. The St. John policemen intend to sue the corporatien to reconer the money deducted rrom their salaries in the general reduction in 1880. It is reported. in Brantford the% the body of Sage, the missing' man, ha e been found stabbed in it shed in .the north part Of that city. E, Metivier, of Buokland, Que., has lost four children in eight days from a disease which the doctor, it is said, appears uot to understand fully, The customs officers at Woodatoe•k,N,B, on Tuesday seized a team and a large lot of leather smuggled in from Houlton, Me., and valued at about 0250. A writer in the Montreal press claargea that there are hundreds of opium -eaters of both sexes in Montreal and calls on the pressto make' war spinet the praotice. Farmer's in °the Ottawa district; raped a scarcity of horses in the owentry,, the un- usual demand for -teams for the dimities and the good wages paid having drawn away a great number. There have been 100,000 bushels of wheat purchaded .,on the West Lynne market Nun.) so far this season, and about 25,000 bushels of flax. A large quantity of barley arid -oats has also been purchased. . • ' The girl Carrie Graham, wlio was Charged by Gee. Renwick at London with larceny, wits remanded for sentence. • She is only 19. e'ears of ago and came froxie England three menthe ago. She states that the has parents living, and expeests when she cornea of age to, inherit an estate worth 620,000 a year., She is rather pretty and accomplished, but it is thought•her mind is affected. ' Yesterday,: ale engine while crossing on the ice -bridge of the Southeastern railway, at Lettigitimil, Qele. • bloke' through, and is now submerged. in 25 feet of water. The driver end fireman hearing the ice a -melt- ing jumped off, and escaped uninjured. Horses will new be used in moving the produce, and the road bed will deviate around the hole into which the loComonve plunged. The proprietors of the -road be- lieve they will be able to raise the loco- motive, and steps will be inainediately taken to de so. • On Tuesdayapernoon e, little bey named. Alexander Camnbell, son of Mr. IL Camp-, boll, student at °Pine Hill College, Halifax, was Coasting down the bill which paper% that -institution, and comes to p, stopat the waters of•the Northwest Armi . It s Kip- posed- the little fellow was speeding along on his sleigh, when at the foot -of the street it struck . a rock, throwinghim inte the RI Water or into BOS thin ce, for when missed and search was Miade, his Melees body was found in -the water near shore. -Iire was but 8 yoatsold. . _ During Tuesday night the .Goneit West- ern railway, and dire Credit Valley railway stations- at Fergus were enteredby bur- glars.. At the Great :Western railway sta- tion they captured nothing, but did eensiderableedamage-in.:the way. of .breakee ing locks; and smashing furnitnee.__At the I Credit Valley railway station the leas amounted to about 41Q0 or .more, the bur- glars haring Oietried off several. things in • • Total • ' -18,476,612. $18,479,576 The expenditure side • of the account shows that the•expendinire in 1877.78. evas 441,041,919.-- In .180-79 it reached a total of 647,456,421; It was then Weeded. that there -had -been. eiceptioealeexpenditurerine that year which increased the Volume, but another increase of three, millions in, the sy880nI879e80riratkes it tutal expenditure -for - the fiscal year just closed of 450,879,241, In the last two years the chareee :for debt and subsidies haveinoreased from 811,952,- 041 to 412,659,667: The charges on revalue have decreased:from 05,501;162 to 45,227,e 113 -the decrease being maiuly on the item of Public Works, The ordinary, or control- lable expenditure has, however, increased" from 46,542,510 be '77-78 to 00;941,577 in '78.79,.and 46,963,852 in '79-80. .Therletails ef the controllable expenditure as corn- paredwtth 1877-78 are asiollows ; Drannentisem OF 107-78. .1870-80. OlviIgovernment.. . . .. ... $823;369 $805015 Afinuntstration of justice... 364,020. 574,311 Police 10,616 • 12,3633. Peniten hulas 308,111 , 270,381 . Legislation • 618,035 ' 593,105 Geological survey, eta.. .... 00,049 00,053 Arts, agriehlture, eto,.....;:.92,305 • 25,068 Immigration and quaran- tine •, , • . , 180,601 183,204 Marino hosPitaloin. 57,484 55,031 Pensions • 105,842 102,1388 ....... 100,058 127,702 Militia and defence 618,136 600,018 Public... 998,594 1,051,926 °peen and river steam ser- . vice 402,071 386,334 Lighthouse add coast ser- • o • vice .3 461,967 426,304 Fisheries " 93,202 ' 86,162 Steamboatifispection • 14,315 • " 11,854 Insuraneesuporintendonce 8,577 . 9;551 Miscellaneous 81,147 . 183,718 -Indian grants • 421,503 .. 694,612 Bominion lands • . 87,628 147,802 Mounted police 331,748 332,865 Boundary survey,. U. 8 43 005 Nil customs 714,527 716,126 Excisp 215,021 • 210,984 Weights and measures 96,484 , 60,565 'Inspection df staples 1,020 - 006 Adulteration of food 5,064 . 8,887 Cul ling.thnber ' 49,040 44,651 Past -Wilco 1,724,038 13818;271 Public worke 0 2,471.437 2,320,626 Minor revoeues 01,785 28,732 Thetotal revenue on account of coma - dated fund for 1870-80 was 423,307,400, and the expenditure 624,850,034, leaving it. &Melt of 61,543,228,e- e • , A very shocking ease of destitution at the Chaudiere. flats, Ottawa, has, been brought to light. A family, \villa has been deserted by its head, who suddenly _decamped three weeks ago, was actually starving. ' ;The mother and' fi.ve children live in a small hope, several of the elan- drenbeing 130(4, The .unfortunate beings wore relieved by private charity. Mr. Gardner, of Paisley, has in,the press something which will perhaps omit° interest among lovers *of Burns. About twenty years ago Mr. William' jolly, one of Her Me,jesitee inspectors Of athoele, met Willi4ni Patrick, 'once a herdboy one- ployed by the 17oet 01 Mossgiel, and took notes of his convoriettiobs'regotrding the poet. These notes he hae now put into shape, and the result should interesting to Burnsites, -The sketch will he entitled "Robert Berne itt Mosagiel, with It is reperted that thepoliee have Ws - Covered a now secret organization of Social- the way of baggage, besides Asking a quantity of (nothing belonging to the agent, worth about 475, and some 66 in change which had been left in the till. Entrantso. was gained by breaking the windows in each station. Vapety attn. 7. The body of Isaac Miler, who lately died in Nelallicle, is to be exlatmed for an in- quest, foul play being suspected by the de- . ceesed'a friends. The name of the Newington, peat -office, near London, is to be changed ou account of other' places being similarly named. The name of West London will probably be given. Kingstbn despatch says that an ex- tensive ONO has been discovered, near the Levant Iron Mines, Its passages willadmit of one walking Greet throughout them It is to be cerefully explored. George Sage, the man who has beeno missed from Brantford for the la at two weeks, has not been heard .of yet It is suspeeted that he has been murderednand it was rumoren, that his body has been found cut up in it box. e Andrew Barton is in Halifax with a. brick of gold worth over 41,000, and a number •bf.valuable specimens. He took out of the nugget lead at Tengier (luting the montInef Deceml e: 105 ounces, The lohoreetc., costs about half the amount of. • the proceeds. The grand and petit jnrors in the Bid- dulph murder case, to be tried on the 24th hist, have been all drawn. The petit jurors number 100, There are only fear or five persons from Luoan and Biddulph on both ' panels. ,& true bill having already •been found against the reisoners, the object of the grand jury on this occasion is not clear. • ne prisoners are all in geed health. - - 'So many of the Indy teethers in the Loa- " don public wheels have been ill lo,tely, and the bills paid. to substitutes hue been so , •Afge; that a narnathly tebern ekiench dick- RUSS has been ordered by the board. Some of the triesteea are'reported as eayingthe, the alarming items o of iliheee lately ha been the result ' of exceleivu party-goin and general scheming. Th,e members are . quite up inarms over thesubject.-. Willy Johnstone, aged 12, son of ohnH Johnotone, of Hanover, met with a serious accident yesterday morning by the"exple. siren bf a, dynamite cartridge, The lad was net aware of the' dangerous eliaracter of the cartridgewhich he struck with a ham.' merewlaen it instantly exploded, carrying . off Ins thumb and seriously Mutilating his hand. Dr. Landerkin was .summonecl and '• found ift necessary US manual° a pardon of bis hand. Sheriff Glass„ of . London, has received.' from Mr. Langreuir the decision of the . • Attorney -General upon the charge made by Abel.Hine against County Jailer Fysh 01 receiving 448 ad a bribe. te 'release* Mrs. .• Hine from jail. The charge is dismissed; but as regards the sum of 69 and the pre- . sante admitted by Mr. Fysh to -have been received from Hine in payment of .an old debt, the Attorney -General thinks Mr. Fysh acted indiscreetly in obtaining pay: =tent while Hine's wife was tinder his hares, and he is thereforo. directed to re- turn them. , ; . • . • Tnunsnev, ' An aecident on the Intercoloniett railway at Dabett is reported. Thirteen freight oars are reperted zar the , . The Weston. Woollen Mills, lately. de- stroyed by :fit°, are to be rebuilt at once. Irerk litterneetreomrnenced.. .•„,-- • Mrs. MG Kearney, ••of Eganville; - given birth ta her twentieth ohild-and , ' splendid specimen of 'Canadian child it is 1 r'1 4 • """ e, Z194,7 .1.: I --1 ; 1 ists, extending °vet the whole of Gotmoily tRerniniseoioe a of the root hying Ilerdboy., 44 A •-• 34 'se ONE. OF 711E 01,DEST' AND MOST RELIABLE REMEDIES IN THE WORLD FOR THE CURE. 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