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HORRIBLE BUTCHERY.
Eight 'irltoistlautl Defenceless hen. Wo-
men and Children hacked to, Pieces
by Gen. Skokeleff. •
At the Stniing: of Geok Tepe on Jannaty
24th, after the Russian troops had blown
Up the outer wall by dynamite and entered
the breach, the enemy began to quit the
stronghold. and flee towards" the desert.
The horsemen being mounted, were able to
get away first, and then streamed out ten
or twelve thousand fugitives on foot -men,
women and children. Their path lay across
the ilatand open sands, without even a shrub
or dip in the ground to give them conceal-
ment. Against these Skobeleff sent the
whole of his, cavalry, a portion of his horse
artillery, and. as many bayonets as could
be spared. The pursuing force etarted at
4 o'clock and continued its work of massacre
till 10 at night, when darkness compelled
them to bring their operations to a close,
There seems to have been no resistance, at
least takobeleff's report, which is minute
enough in other matters, spealis of none
during the pursuit. There is also not the
slightest mention of any attempt being
made to take any prisoners. What appears
VP have been done was thie=the cavalry
went on ahead to cut off the retreat of the
foremost fugitives and cheek the progress
of the• other. The horse artillery fired
volley after Volley of grrape into the
dense masses of fugitives behind, and
then the infantry followed, with the
bayonet and massacred all .whoe wounds
or exhaustion left them powerless tei escape.
When darkness prevented any . more
slaughter the troops returned home and
Skobeleff telegraphed to the Emperor
triumphantly that 08,000 Tekkettlad been
hacked to pieces'?" This massacre of the
unfortunate Turcomansprovolted a certain
amount of adverse comment on the part.of
the English press at -the time, but it. wad
assumed that the fugitives were all of
them men with weapons in their hands,
and hence little was -made of the slaughter
by most. newspapers... It now appears, how-
ever, that.thie Was not the case...his,
official repottrfrom which we take this
" atrocity -s.' for it is nothing more than an
"atrocity," General Skobeleff pens calmly
the words: "In this pursuit by our dra-
goons and Cossacks, sustained by. the troop
of horse artillery, were killed upwards of
8,000 persons, of both sexes." Further on,
in recounting the triumphs of the siege, be
says: "After the 'capture of the stronghold
we buried inside it 6,500 bodies. Miring
the pursuit 8,000 were killed." There is
not,a word of extenuation for the troops to
sustain any assumption that theslaughter
of the women and children was uninten-
tional and done in the heat of pursuit.
Skobeleff treats the slaughter as a matter -
of course, as a thing of common occurrence
in Russian warfare, and to be rather
recounted with pridethan explained away
by excuses.
WARNING' TO GlIS/Lb,
--
Saved from a horrible Fate -A Rascally
0. Intelligence " Office eeper.
On •Wednetele,y morning last there vfent
to Buffalo from Lockport two working
girls, aged respectively 18 and 20, who had.
' three-rnenths ago -left -the SitrarcliattiVtir
Pennsylvania for the City of Lecke. The
girliftiere in search of employment. They
had heard of 'Smith's Intelligence
Office, Main street, • and soon after
arriving in Buffalo, by inquiry, succeeded
in finding it. Smith told them, the girls
say, that he would look up a place, and for.
them to cell again in the • afterneon.
They called, and were directed. to 82
Canal street, and'told that they 'wonlcl
there find a situation such as. they
desired. About 740 p.m. the girls sallied
forth to find the 'classic shades of the
street by the canal, whose unsavory'. repu-
tation had never. ri3e.checl their 'innocent
ears. Upon inquiring the way, and stating
what they were in search of, a gentleman
whom -they asked told them that they were
being led astray, and escorted them to the
Guild of the Good Shepherd, where they
were taken care of. The place to which
theyled been diredted:46 neither better
nor worse than the rest of the houses in
the immediate Vicinity, Which is correctly.
termed "the infected district," and a more
vile or degraded pbpulation than it contains
cannot ; it is to -be hoped; be found in any
'eityrin. the Union. • '
A Cow Disregarding use Law." .
The Lancet says: • At the recent•Doriet
quarter, sessions, on the diliotTision‘ of a
report 'from the county analyst, Viscount'
Portman brought before his colleagues the
case of acow which utterly disregarded the
provisions of the Adulteration of 'Food
Acts. The proprietor of the animal had
been convicted -by the magistrate e for 'sell-
ing milk deficient in cream, and,,had
appealed 'against the deoblion. After care-
ful examination the Inland ReVenue
Department Laboratory -fund that the
deficiency arose from no manipulation of
the milk, but was peculiar to the cow from
which it was obtained. The law has made
no provision for a contingency of this sort.
The milk as -normally abnormal, and we
presume .that cows no constituted will have
to be discarded for contributing to the
public milk eup.ply. •
On Friday afternoon as the Grand Trunk
express train going east was leaving Brook-
ville station BishopCleary -attempted to
get on while,t he train was in Motion. He
managed to Catch hold of the band rail, but
missed the footstep. ne was dragged a
considerable distance in thin manner, his
feet, touching the ground and his -robe
entangled among the wheels. Me was seized
by some persons who were standing on the
platform and helped ha:alibis perilOus peel,
tion unhurt. . •
Griscom, the 'Chicago faster, was very
jubilant yesterday evet the fact thathe
has :commenced the last dray Of his fast
He has made all arrangements to dine to-
day on the stage Of the Olympic theatre.
His weight it noon was exactly the same as
the day before and SaturdaY; '149 pounds;
Pulse, 60 ; respiration, 13; temperature,
Ex-Preeident Guillermo, of San •Domin.
go, has arrived at. Si. Thomas with Gen.
Perez, and is purchasing an armament and
.r preparing for an invasion of San Domingo.
He has two schooners of 400 men ready to
e•
start early in August, Reports from San
Domingo say the greatest commotion 'prb.
mils there over the threatened invasion.
The frost has done terrible Laved in
West Clare ;• beautiful potato' ;crops are
burned, in some cases to the ground' ; the
,• potatoes sown 'near the sea are not 'ail bad
as those inland, but in the vicinity of Kil-
rush the stalks are burned and shrivelled
up so much that it is feared' the. rota
• again rally.'
0, The Canadian Pacific Railway.Cempany
have procured the Site kir a town `in the
vicinity of Smuggler's Point, where it is
'proposed that si• branch of the Canada
Pacific Railway will tap the Dakota extort -
skin of the St. Paul, Minneappolis &Mani.
toba, road.
PARSON.
how he Gaven Burglar a hi urprise artv.
albaueapolis (Minn.) Tribune,
Probably the most peculiar burglary in
the criminal history of thie country
occurred shortly before midnight on Friday
in the peaceful home of Benjamin P.
Shuart, assistant pastor of Plymouth
Church, on the bluff west of Thos. Lowry's
residence. arr. Shuart was Bleeping in a
room on the east side of' the house, and at
11.80 o'clock was awakened. by a crash of
glass in the dininroona;, and was further
startled by hearing a volley of oaths
of the most shocking character. At
first lie imagined some drunken man had
entered the house, and so informed his
startled wife; but this theory was soon die
palled when a swaggering form entered
from the dining room and a strange voice
yelled out. "I'm a burglar and I want
money." By this time the position, of the
intruder, was defined, and the peaceful
clergyman picked up a heavy old-fashioned
chair and banged away at the burglar with
good effect. The two men clinched, and
thou followed a hand-to-hand combat.
Around the room, hugging the wall, went
the two men, at last settling near aWindow
in the sitting room, when Mr. Shuart called
to. his wife for help. She grasped a five- '
pound Indian club and madefor the com-
batants, dealiag two heavy -Idowar;but
unfortunately they fell on the head of the
preacher lastead of that of the burglar, and
she was compelled to desist. AU was dark
as pitch, and the uneven battle continued.
Finally, the burglar got the preacher in a
corner and kept banging away with a pair of
braes knuckles until the preacher Was forced
to ask for quarter. The burglar then let up
on his victim, pulled a match, and made a
light. in the student's lamp on the table in the
sitting -room, and proceeded ;to ransack
things. Meanwhile Mrs. Shuart went out
in the yard and vainly called for help. At
thie moment the' hired girl 'came- down
stairs, and the burglar, -nnsucceesful in
his hunt for booty,'started to leave the
house, going off with muttered curses. Twice
during the hunt 'for valuables the burg-
lar's back •:wys turned, aild-Mrs:---Slinentr
armed ''V'M 'a small, pocket knife, was
abblit fo'.""iise it. but didn't. And so the
burglar departed unmolested and without
anything to show for his exploit: eaVe a
bloody head, Mr. Shuart tore off 'the burg -
lees mask during the struggle, and is positive
he can,,recognize the Dion again. A. Triliune
reporter called at the house yesterclay„and
a sight met his eyeranever to be forgotten,
On three sides nf the,sitting-room the walls
and doors and the floor wete spattered
thickly with blood, showing plainlythat a
terrible struggle must have taken place.
Mr. Shuart is badly hurt about the head,
his left eye is cut terribly, and be,preeents
a sorry appearance indeed. • lie says the,'
burglar evinced no fear, and from the start
'was noisy arid careless. It will be several
weeks before the reverend gentleman will
be presentable for pulpit duty. airs.
Shuart is suffering-froni nervousness and a
kick 'received from the burglar on her left.
side. Could he be found to -day, that burglar'
would no doubt be free to confess his sur-
prise at the, warm reception. be received
from a messenger of peace.
AN !UNPARALLELED FEAT.
• • ,
A Thriiiing Ecletope from the horrible'
.Otiberlawinines; •
The Pelttieal refugee who hes just reached .
Switzerland after escaping from. Siberia
may fairly claim the credit of ail all but'
unparalleled feat. The only other man
who has ever maned with life from the
World-wide' dungeon Of Asiatic Russia was
Count Piotrowski, one of the Polish insur-
gents aonderened by the Czar Nicholas to
life-long exile after the ,abortive rising of
1880. Having succeeded in Obtaining a ficti-
tious passport 'and eluding the vigilance of
his guard, tibia, indomitable man ,• com-
menced his flight in ;the' 'depth of, Winter
amid a, series of hardships rarely equalled
and never surpassed.' Robbed, while he
slept, ot.his passport and,, the bulk of is
scanty funds, he was compelled to • aVoid
the beaten track by constant detours
through the frozen forests, often passing
whole clays without food, and finding no
shelter at night save the snow drifts in
which be scooped a britiont for himself like
a Wild beast On' one occasion he found
himself in the same more with several, of
his late guardians, who were luckily ten
ranch intoxicated to ,recognize him. At
another time, when every moment's delay
might throw him into the heeds of his.,
nureuers, be Was compelled to listen
patiently...to.. the mannderings of a half.
drunken Cossack; whose suspicions would
have been at once arcilased by shy attempt.
to give him. the slip, At length, having
joined the crew of a canal boat, he worked
his way by slow stages to 'St. Petersburg,
where, knowing the iniposeibility of, -passing.'
the frontlet undetected, he liersue.ded a
German•shipinieter to give him a passage
Dantzio. :The moment the ship was
Clear Of the Russian coast he fell asleep
from sheer exhaustion; and remained
unconsciotis .for a whole day, and night.
The narrative which he' subsequently pub-
lished in London 'was turned to good
• account by Alexander Herzen the famous
Nihilist editor, in his attack; Upon the
Russian Government. ' • •
'liar Works for Damian.
At the meeting of the I'hindesTown Coundil
on Monday evening last two proposals were
submitted, on beW Of a company, to
construct water *orks Jot Dundee. The
first was to build therworks, laymains and
hydrants on several of the principal streets
and supply, water for fire protection, for
the manufactories and for drinking put-.
poses, the total cost to .be 042,500. The
second was to furnish' water for fire pro-
tection and street watering in consideration
of an annual rental of $3,000, the company
to' retain the privilege of disposing of water
to the factories, private houses, etc: Mr.
B. B. Ogler, Q. C., spoke .in favor' of the
artesian' well system. The Council were
divided in their ideas, and a long debate
• ensued, which resulted in a committee
being appointed to consider. all schemes
brought before theist.
•
•
A Melbourne corresponeent writes :
The rabbits are inereasing in some parts of
the colony to an extent wholly incredible.
The whole country . appears one moving
mass of bunnies. ',The odor from them,
living and dead, is more then perceptible.
They eat up, eyery greea thing. Dogs Will
not touch them, or even deign to give
chase to them, after. a day or two's.
experience. They have been attacked in
dfferent Ways -shot, dug out, burnt out,
birched out, fenced oust; all has been found
tieeleits. The injection of carbonic acid
into their holes has been found effeetive
but costly. Lately the Government has
taken to poisoning them With phosphorized
oats, and they are disappearing from the
districts whore this is practised. They are
said to be killed by hundreds of thousands,
so there is hope that we May yetlive to see
the day when the rabbit pest," as it is
called here, will be got under. You may
imagine that it is not altogether a cheerful
thought that the rabbits you oat at table
may hoe come to their end' by poisoning
or suffocation,
a
TRAVELLING IUN01511$ TOE SRA,
The Etemlisla Channel 'Tunnel and Ike
Advantages to be Gained by ft.
(Loudon Telegraph.) -
Any amount of capital -a gigantic
amount if necessary -would be forth*
coming if the practicability of the tunnel
were brought to demonstration and the
Southeastern Railway Company, who have
borne all the risk of the .preliminary
experiments, would achieve the triumph
of supplying a long-naiesing link Ma Oyster°
of railway communkation which would
reach from the north of Scotland to
Brindisi, to Cadiz and to Odeesa. The
advantages arising from the abrogation of
' the short but miserable sea passage, from
Dover to Calais would be almost incal-
culably beneficial. The old diligence
journey, over Mont Cenie was full enough of
dieekonfort, and the oars on the Fell Rail -
Way, albeit a much swifter, were scarcely
an agreeable mode of conveyance.
Still the Alpine passes laboriously
clambered up and plodded down by
lengthy trains of mules dragging cumbrous
caravans full of travellers, the dust, the
flies, the snow in winter, the ill -supplied
and extortionate posting:houses, did not
deter English tourists from visiting Italy.
It may, on the ther hand, be jnstifiably
assumed that" the silver streak," se dear
'to poetry-and-topat-Haig-in'(3Very year
poetically prevents thouaands of English
people, especially Mien, from visiting the
continent: We eufferless, perhaps, from
Sea -sickness than any other nation in the
world; and for one' English lady who can
thoroughly enjoy a passage across the
Atlantic, and cheerily report herself at the
'captain's table atlreakfast, luncheon, din-
ner and tea, there are probably ten &Berl -
can ladies who pass their ten days and
nights on shipboard moahing and groan-
ing in their narrow. staterooms. Yet
is sea -sickness not unknown among us,
all hardy and seafaring, from our earliest
youth as we habitually are, and even ease
-
hardened travellers and old sailors by
profession 'dislike, if they do not 'dread, the
Channel passage. The railway companies
da-wholt-theraean.e,ttaisevrorthy "effort
have been made to improve the Steamers;
ampler harbor Accommodations may be
eventually provided on the French side;
yet the channel passage can scarcely fail to
remain what it is, and what it has ever
been -4- the most miserable di ordeals. The
embarkation and debarkation, the tranship.
meut-of the luggage, the hanging about the
atation until the train starts, are in them-
selves productive of .discomfort, annoyance
and irritation, and these are aggravated to
an intolerable degree when the weather.' is
tempestuous and the boats are itroefddd.
The constitution of the channel tunnel
would, again'lead to much. bet-
tor feeling " between the peoples of
the two countries now separated by
the silver itreak." The working-Olasses
of France and England at present know
comparatively little of . one another, but.
could the journey between Charing. Cross
and the Cam du Nerd be, accomplished in
.a, six hours' railway run, with ne dolorous
trial of a sea :paasage, immense numbers
'of tradespeople andworkingfolk in Loudon
and Paris respectively would be brought in
'frequent, and, it is to' be hoped, into
fraternal contact. Surely the final cause
of the channel tunnel should be the further:
anee of the interests of peace. Once corn -
pie ted th eu trality and. ty,Of • so -
thoroughly a cosmopolitan work should be
Acknowledged and guaranteed by -the whole
mivilized world; and it should be no more
internationally warrantable to destroy or
injure the chaimel tunnel than to bombard
the Parthenon again or pull down the
pyramids,' • •
• •••' tiale cosititt
,
From a "leathern Negro Point ofVie:W-11.1
•
Itstrait e Effects. ,
. .
Rininuonia Va., July 10. -The negroett
here ate greatly excited over a Beries of dire
events, including the attempt ‚to murder the
President, the illness of Rev. John Jasper,
famoutf for a sermon on the revolution of
.the sun and earth, ' and -the death of a
popular ,‘coloiedman, all of which they
attribute to the appearancethe comet,
which colored philosophers declare ,has
burst,' and its fiery contents are fest
approaching the earth, which will scion be
enveloped. 'Hundreds are being, converted -
at remarkable times and places. In the
tobacco factories the miraculous visions
and conversions seribusly. interfere „with
business; and the mania.has actually taken
the form of lunacy. : . •
Made 'him Drink Cow Medicine.
The vindictive spirit shown in some of the
cnitrtigesin Ireland aseumes a ludicrous form.
The practice of obliging bailiffs to eat their
processes has been exceeded in an instance
which is repotted from Moitte,County,Welit-
meath.. A farmer reeiding near' the town
hacrthe misfortune to find one of his cattle
very ill. A village veterinary' surgeon pre-
scribed a copious dose of easter oil, but,
unfortnnately, the only vendor of. the drug
in the neighborhood had been "Boycotted,",
The farmer had no alternative but to toile
his cower enter, the forbidden shop. • He
waited. until nightfall, when he ventured
into the shop and procured half a pint of
theta He was not unobserved, howeVer,
and had • net proceeded far on his way
borne when he was met by some' Land
Leaguers, Who asked him if he did not.
know that Reilly's shop had been "Boy-
cotted." • He pleaded dire necessity; but in
vain.' The bottle was taken from him, his
' mouth heldoperi; and the Whole contents
drained slowly down his throat. He isnot
likely to incur again the. penalties of the
unwritten law. " •
Better st et.
; a oanada Southern train the other
day a Detroiter had a seat behind & qouple
who got on at a little station near St.
Thomas, and be thought he" had seen the
man's face before.; Re was, leoltiog at him
sharply and trying. to remember where he
had naethim, when the mad turned and
asked
"Aren't you Thomas of Detroit ?"
" Yes ; and aren't yen William •—*L, of
R nuf tra lees!: „
I thought so when you mine in. And
ain't you running away with old Judge
Blank's daughter, of St. Thomas?"
1° I've got a better thing than that,"
whispered William, as he leaned Over the
seat, "I'm running away with his wife.".r-
Detroit Free Press.
Mr. -Archer has patented a. 'very useful
application" of Balmain's luminous paint: ,
This is a floatwhioh shines like phosphorus
in the dark, after it' has been exposed to
light. The Op of the float is a glass tube
filled with the paint, and all that is newt
-
nary is to strike a wax match and hold it
near the glass tae. This will make the -
float luminous, and, a bite can easily be
detected. Fish feed all nightlong in the
summer; in fact, that is why they feed so
little in the day tinae:, Fishing on & warni
summer's night is Very geed fun,•find is the
only time that many anglers can devote to
fishing.
Adelina, Patti has Signed& contract for a
season of concerts, in the United States,
beginning at New Yorkon NOMMber Oth,
A WRONGED WOMAN.
She Silently Follows Her Betrayer for
Twenty-three Years.
CLOSE ON AN EXTAAORPINANY OAEHEA-
A despatch from Louisville, KY., says:
Today came news of thedeath, in Missis-
sippi', of Major N.* R. Throokmorton, of
Louisville, a man of leisure and of style, a
bachelor of 65, a famous beau of a quarter
of a century ago, and the lover of the
beautiful Sallie Ward at the time when the
bewitching Southern girl captured the eon
of the Puritan Governor Lawrence of
Massachusetts. When Ow young bride
went to her New England home, Throch-
morton followed. It is asserted that
jealousy of Tbrockmorton, which Aire.
Lawrence wee' to. proud to resent by
explanation, was in reality the cause which
led to the separation of Lawrence and his
wife. Sallie Ward earee hack to her
father's house, and a divorce was
granted Lawrence- on the ground
of desertion. The lady gave no
explanation. Throokmorton still hov-
ered aroend devotedly, but "` was not
rewarded by the lady'e hand. She married
Dr. Hunt, and,.after his death, became the
wife ofra wealthy pork man named Arm-
strong. When this gentleman died, it was
rumored that at last Major •Throokmorton
was to be blessed for his lifetime devotion,
but the handsome widow drives about in
the finest private tnrnout the city affords,
and has paid no more attention to the
addresses of the Major than hi the days of
her girlhood. The beauty of the Kentucky
belle; Sallie Ward, made her fame world-
wide, and the persistency with which- the
Major followed, her gave him a „certain
interest in the eyes of the multitude, but it'
was another woman that held him up to
the gaze of mankind, a . woman who
:shadowed hina More constantly, than he
' haunted the path of the famous belle:
Throckmorton was a pleasing and
frivolous man of the . world when he first
ChidiVin- Rewas
about 80 years of age she was'15. Her
Tattlily was atleaet the equal of his, and to
an older Witter Its had been paying atten-
tion. The girl 'wail impulsive, interesting,
and innocent. He deliberately set to Weil<
to feign love and to gain her heart, Having
gained it, he threw it aside without concetn
and Went his way. 0 •
. Seen after a veiled figure appeared On
the streets of Louisville -a girlish form
that moved silently after theman wherever
he went. She never spoke to him, neither
upbraided nor 'reviled, When he entered
Abe:betel she stood at the door; when he
;emerged from his club house she was wait-
ing. In Nev York, in New , Orleans, -she
was at bia side, phantomlike. He. jocularly
snake of her to hie friends as his "Hell's.
Delight."
'Pen years paceted. Her old friends 'de-
cided her crazy for keeping the thing Up.
Fifteen years, rolled around, the police
knew her, they watched" her faithfully, as
some harmless, demented thing, and passed
her fforn beat to beat, as she ploughed. her
Way homeward in the wee-sin:AT liburd of
the -stormy night. No human, being' ever
offered her barna or insult; although she
• often stood all ,•night before • the places
ye,eher,gufltylevalvaalidden,
Twenty years were gone ;,,old friendeluid:
diedfather,-Inother, echoelmates. Her
hair had thinned'and whitened; her form
stooped, a cough pentad/A hollow nthe air;
her step was More feeble; yet.mine the less
it tracked a portly, gray -baited. fashiona-
bly attired:man from mansion to Mansion.
on New Year's Day., from theatre and. club,
room, night after, night.
' Twenty-three years „passed. Even the
children grew ! to knoti the.
shabby, black -robed wonian; • and :tiny
fingers pointed at .TliteCkmertop'e ghost.
Young biles lookect wonderingly after her
as she passed them silently. Wives sighed
or Smiled pityingly -they weMso secure
and sheltere&-when her garments
brushed. their own. Mothers grasped their
girls more closely -suppose- this woman's
wrong shonktbe the fate of their sweet
daughters in the days to come. So; for
twentY•three years, the phantom, silent,
certain, dogged the betrayer's' Steps. At'
last friends cf his had' her arrested as a'
lunatic, and; through -their Misguided pre;
'caution, the man and woman were brought -
face to face in the court -room' at Louie
-
vine. Then it wierthatall the city 'woke
up to ; the knewledge ':that this,
woman. was 'neither crazy nor a
fool.', Her language Was eloquent, ' her
manner refined, her facefirtn. The 'whole
sad story of her life Was • told -her vow to
folloY7 him until the hour of retribution,
het persistent' watching,. her silence andreVenge. Before the woman he had wronged
Throckmorton quailed, and his bravado
Was not equal to the: cross-quetitiening. to
which- he was exposed. 'At last, one even -
ink as I was walking on Jefferson street,
near the Court House, a great shout
ascended; cheer after cheer went up. The,
'old Court House rang With applause. Men
threw up their hats. Ellen Godwin 'was
acquitted and Throokmorton's ghost was
laid; for the Women, having • brought him
to the bar and having told the story of his
perfidy, saidthather'work Was done, and
she would,haunt him no more. •
Throdkmorton, conscious of his guilt,
had refrained froth, arresting her, greatly
she annoyed him, during all the twenty-
three. years, and the _story would have
been. untold,. and she 'would have lived
and died, ---regarded- by the present
generation as a monomaniac; « had not
the gallant Major's friends interposed their
well-meaning blunder. There never was ti,
trial it the city that equalled this in
inter-
est. At its °lege the entireroom was filled
with shouts, which those outside took up,.
until the whole city rang with the nevict Of
the . vindication. • The jurors crowded
arouiid and shook hands with the accused,
and persons who for years had passed her
without recognition asked pardon of their
old friend, •
After the trial, my friends tell me that
Ellen Godwin never in any way notiped or
spoke of:Major Throckmorton.'
Mr. Thomas Greenway, j3ECYFil the Huron
Expositor, has struck a good thing in 'the
NorthWest. About a year ago he located a
town 'near Rock Lake and called, it Crystal
City. It is'In the vicinity of 'this place
that most of the Stephen and Elity people
are'settled. Crystal City has recently been
-made the County town for Rock Lake
County, and the eonnty buildings are to be
tweeted there shortly, and recently over
now worth- of lots were disPosed of by
inetion, and the most of them are to be
built on. So that present appearances
seem to indicate that Tar. Greenway ie in a
'fair, 'way for inalthig an immense fortune
out of his city, This is a good deal more
profitable than representing South Huron
in the Dominion Parliament for 01,000 per
annum, with a certainty of having to
eXpend twice that much every five years to
get the position, and even then run the
chance of losing both the money and the
position.
john A. Appleton, of the 'Publishing firm
of Appleton ik Co,, died at Clifton, Staten
Island,11. V., yesterday, in his 05th year.
Personal.
• Archdeacon Lauder, of Ottawa., is ill at
09.001144.
Edward Trfokett, ex -champion oarsman,
is at the Queen's, Toronto,
Sarah Bernhardt is announced to give a
series of performanees shortly in Edin-
burgh..
Mr. BoyAlle.n has been appointed. travel-
ling agent of the Grand Trunk, with. head-
quarters at Buffalo.
Lord Elphinstone and Bir John McNeil
have gone up the Grand Riverhand will go
clown the Restigouche to Methpedia.
Mr. 0-ossph. Blackburn, editor-in.chief of
the London Free Press, left on Friday for a
month's trip in the upper lake country.
Rev, W. MoGregor, of Onondaga, has
received a call to the 'pastorate of the 1.4 -
bridge and Goodwood Baptist Churches.
While in Manitoba. the Governor-
General and spite will stay at "Silver
Heights," the reaidence of Ilen, Donald A.
Smithc
At the Botanic Gardens' eveningfete the
other night the London Truth says 1?riiieees
Louise looked "particularly well and very
young." •
Arr.:William Black is said to. have're-
delved from his English publishers $2,409
for -his -latest story, "" That' 13eautifill
'Wretch."
• Miss Richards, the daughter of Governor
Richards, of British Columbia, has returned
from Paris, where she had been studying
painting. .
Sir Samuel W. Baker, the African
explorer and author, has arrived in the
United' States ,for an extensive hunting
trip in the Rooky Mountains.
„ Rev. A. W. Nicholson, ex-Presideet of
the Nova 'Scotia Methodist Conference,
leaves in a few id aye for England to attend
the Mothodiet0JEcumenioal
Mr. H. S. Northeote, M. P.; Sir Staf-
ford Northcote's soo, is coming to Canada
with a view of inquiring ,into' the fer-
tility, and climate ef the- Canadian North-
• The Manchester Unity Odd -fellows insti-
tuted a lodge of that Order at Fall River,
Mails., last week. Tide is supposed to be
the first lodge of the kind in the 'United
States, ' •
Sir Alex, Galt, who. is now in ;Canada, it
is said, proposes to visit Manitoba and the
Northwest T.erritoriesduring the summer,
and Will probably return' to England in
October. a
Walter Savage , Lander said; feel
that I am growing old, fpr want of scene -
body to tell me that I am looking y'ouug as
ever. • Charming falsehood ! There is a
vast deal of vital air in, loving weeds.
John Pickard; L P.; has leaned invita-
tions to the Warden and members, of the
York Comity Council, New Brunswick; • to
a dinner at Fredericton, to meet the. Hen.
Edwaid Blake on his arriyal at that place.
Dien Bouoicault met with an accident to
his foot while playing in "The Colleen
•Bawn" at the. Crystal ,Palace, Loialdep, on
Saturday. He was miable to proceed With
his part, but 'became letter, in ,the evening.
Mr; A. M. Morrie, B'. A., Headmaster of
the -Ingersoll High School, died at a o'clock
.on Friday evening, after 0 Wick Mires of'
aeo,uple, of ,days' duration. The cause of:
his death was inflammationAt 11M bowels.
The man Leftoy, who' has been arrested
for the murder of Mr. Gold in the Baleprabe
tunnel, was' of Buell well-known romancing
tendencies. that all: round 'Wallington and
.Carshalton he Was known by the mine Of.
Ananias," • • • '
. .
.The will of Millionaire Burnside, 'late' of
New Orleans, written lit 1887,, has been
opened.. 'He ittakes bequests of- 050,900,'
and appointh Oliver ' 'kerne,. of Virginia,
universal legatee of the .resiene;.yalfied at
Million dollars. '
Rev; W. F. Kerr, B.A.., curate • of 'Grace
Church; Elm:street, Toronto, the newly
apPeinted Professer of Classics and Ancient
History in . the 'Western University 4 at
London, is about ..to, be Married to Miss
Daniels, daughter of Mr. Daniels, St. John,
-N. B. "
•
'It is iinderstad that BiShop Walsh, of.
London, intends spending the remainder of
theaiiimmernaontlis on the shore Of Lake
Erie.. A commodious. residence his been
'rentedfor his abeardinttdation; ashert die -
lance from Port Stanley, and 'immediately
overlooking the lake. • :
WhilstWilliam DOnnelliwai Bitting in
a waggon on the Clandeboye.road, near
14110911r on Saturday, he ,was startled, by
the report of a rifle . and a
bullet passing within a fen, incli.fia
of his breast. It appears • that- • a
'young, man had fired at a squirrel ' in an
apple tree. The bullet missed the squirrel
and came near killing Donnelly.'.
..
Mr. 'Bay, a merchant tailor et zuniheini,
Out., has a walking ,stick which was
„originally presented to Robert Burns in
Edinburgh, Scotia's greatest .pOet. At
death of • Burns the , stick passed to the
heirs and eventually to Mr. Rey. it is a
stout, well ,preserved cudgel, -.of curious
Shape, and would make a good defence even
against the witceies of " Alloway Kirk:Yard."
• Ibis a fall for SittingBull to ben° longer •
spoken of as a terrible chief, but as .6., °or-
ner-store loafer. A storekeeper at Qu''
Appelle• writes. to Winnipeg as follow:e
"We aredaily feeling trouble 'concerning
Sitting Bull. To -day he Called at my store
for sugar. It was given hifn, but he
temelned in the'. place, refusing to .go
until Thad given him something .to eat.
Subsequently I was compelled to hustle the
noble red Man out of the place," • •
' The death occurred at Meigle, Perthshire'
on the: 17th ult., of Sir. George, Kinloch,
Bart., of Einloch. He was the descendant
of a very ancient family; and: for nearly
half a century he exercised a powerful
influence: in the highest interest of Siete,
and the industrial clevelpment of the Coun-
try:.; He was the eldest ton' Of George
'who took eci active a part in' the
Reform Bill agitation that his estates "were
forfeited, and he had to take refuge in
France: Sir George was, created baronet
in 1878, •
When Imais Lessard', of Montreal, led to
the altar 'a -blushing hride of 51 yearn he
was in his 103rd year. He was horn: in
Paris, France, in 17770 and he recently did
the duty of a coroner's juror. When his
age vfas doubted he produced a silver snuff
box Which he Said was presented to hire by
Napoleon 1. after the, battle of Austetlitz.
He served under Napoleon in most of his
great battles, including Waterloo. He came
to Canada in 1880, and held a- commission
in the British militia during the F'rench
Canadian 'rising of 1837. '
Baron 'Blanc, late Italian' Minister' at
Washington, has probably filled more dis-
tinguishod Offices than any other living'
member of the European Diplomatic 'Corps.
He hem been ambassador to eight different
countries; three times a member of intet-
national arbitrations, twice a peacemaker
On'tha battlefield, twice Under Secretary
of State, and twiee an agent in .putting
kings on their thrones. Reis a Savoyard,
and commenced his .career as Secretary to
Count Cavour. lie married an American
Woman, and both are now living at Remo.
L.A.TEST IRISH NOTES.
OVer ten thousand itore$ of land wore
recently advertised for sale within a com-
paratively small portion of the Province a
Connaught.
After a protracted debate, the Irish Pres-
byterian Assembly, sitting at _Dublin,
decided to prohibit the use of instrumental
music in the churches under its jurisdic-
tion.
Over 100 armed police attended. at Laur-
encetown, lately, to proteotua process-
server in serving writs. On mitering two
houses the process•server was wet by
women and deluged with dirty water,
However, he served the writs in soveral
cases.
Rev, Dr. Hutch, in preaching one Sun-
day recengy on the occasion of the conse-
oration of a bell for a Roman Catholic
church at Ballymacoda, said it was dis-
tinctly laid down that a 'bell should not be
used for any secular purposes without the
express permission of the Bishop. The
observation had reference to the recent
,practice of using the chapel bells for the
summoning of the populace to resist
evictions.
44" Moate (cOunbi. Westmeath) Quarter -
Sessioiis more than, half the civil bills given
to process servers were not served, and
affidavits were made that non -service was
owing to attacks. The process Servers
were unable to attend from injuries, The •
judge said that owing to the open resistance
to the law, and the desperale state of the
country, he would, if applied to, hold pest-
ing writs on the court house door as service: .
The movement originated by Irish organ-
izations in London for enabling members
of the Irish .Constabulary to emigrate has
so far advanced that Communications have
been opened with the Irish American
societies. The London committee will
take no steps to solicit constables te leave,
but will receive applications from men who
have given the usual month's notice with a '
view to aisietieg them to emigrate, and the
-Arnetican*srletiee-will -undertake Le EAC.0
vide the with employment. No feuds of
the National Land League will be employed
for the.purpose.
Danger in Ice Watbr.' ,
AMedieal min writes : It is a safe rule
never to drink ice water, yet those who
are in the habit of drinking ice water .it
will not hurt so much as these wire only
occasionally use it. Another pernicious
habit which people have is to urink ice
water immediately after eating fruit. For
example a young fellow with, hie sweet-
heart goes to the ice-cream saloon and not
unfrequently they eat a diSh of stratv-
berries, a dish of ice-cream and then drink
a glasS of icewater. Swili violations of,
nature's laws will produce 'congestion 'of.
the stomich,. and the body becomes over-
heated by increased activity of the whole
vital organism in an effort to save life and
rid the syklaM---of the intrtid'er, and now
this feelink of heat is attributed to' the hot
weathor,ivhien it comes from a wantof
knowledge of physiology. •
" . •
'A marble statue of Byron' is shortly to
be erected at Missolonglti.-• Deinetrio
dernitelo, professor at the University
Athens, has just composed- an, inscription-: -
foithe base of the monument. It is, in'
Greek hexameter -.verse, and runs thus:.
a ranee' tra'v'eller,' eller, and look on Byron the'
glory ofEngland", aid .the. honor of
ve united in raising,
the
daughters of Mnernesyne who loved kim
well. In' memory of his noble acts,the
reeks of our dayha
this marble to him. , He it was who, when
game to per aid and.encontaged her heroes."
G
Greece Was in the agony . of the eonflict,
The death Is announced Of Mine. Cerne-
ranee:the wife of the Genefral of that name
trio was believed 'to 'have been murdered .
in' the garden of the Elyeee for -.having ,
refused to take part in the coup d' etat of
December, 1852. Mnie.. Coriternuse was a
Coligni by birth; and a granddaughter Of
the Marchioness de Minute, who. was so
celebrated for her beauty, and of whom
8Locpts e.Xj „ sa.said:" Cate minute eat. tans
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- A million bottles of Carboline, a deoder-:
ized extract of Petroleum, will produce ,.
nevi' hair on a million bald beside, which is '
something that no other- preparation ever
discovered Will do. • '
A latge number of peonle -attended the•
reaeption tri Miss Parnell at -the Quebec:
music' hill ott. Thursday night. An address
was presented- her by, the efficient of the ,
Land League, to which she-
moderate language, affording' it remarkable .
contrast to some,of the other speakers.'
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