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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1881-10-06, Page 3Oct. 6, 1881. Our Sister, •Cold and pale our sister Iles, Hidden are her laughing eyes, And her restless han4l! are folded and white -like motile moulded. On her brow hot tears fall, But they move her pot at alt; O n her lips fond hisses rain, None are given ba gic again, _ Never more the robbin's call •On our sister's ear shall fall, Nor for her the April showers, Nor the waking of the flowers. Who can know oe understand liow death lays hip icy hand On a heart so warm and light? or a throb it gives to -night. But our hearts are sad and sore, For her 131ithsoine voice no more Ringing out so glad and gay • Shall the shadows chase away. Days of suaering long and weary, Nights of pain so sad and dreary, Laid the lightseme spirit low, Left no strength to meet the foe. So her young ute passed away With the waning april day All her patience and her pain, All her yearning hopes -in vain. God is good -He knoweth best - fie bath given our sister rest;. in his loving arms we leave her', Grief like ours shall never grieve her, AN EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL. An -running 13reaont of Proinise Case' in 'Toronto, . • THR LADY WORS.TED, "Because She Wanted tip Have, the Money but Notothe Hun. Tonna°, Sept. 27.—The breach of pro- mise case of Tillson vs. Faulkner westried in the Assize Court tontay before justice Cameron and a jury. Plaintiff, who is k widow and resides in this eity, sues defendant, a nioh old Etobiooke fermer, for alleged refusal to carry out his promises of marriage. TJp to the time of trial it was understood she haa a pretty good case against the_ Granger, but the •evidence turned out different. Her case rested on a written agreement of marriage. The couple went td a clergyman to have the knot tied, but for some reason or other the fair one backed out, and had the ceremony postponed. Another date was agreed upon; and. Faulkner and his betrothed visited a large dry, goods' house in this city to buy the trousseau. While in the store they quarrelled as to the number of yards Airs. Tillson shmild have fon her dress. She wanted enough for a train, but the old man coula not stand it, and called her a clutch and addressed her very offensively. he left him in a nirtuounstate of indignanon, and tango:then they seldom met, but now seeks damages for failing to carry out his agreement. The case was heard with much amusement in Court. Neither plaintiff or defendant was called, but the latter kept:the ourtin — ' fintatininTin brfitinenne trionionaineinnifif frequent intertupttons, and the Bench more than once threatened to pAxt •Iiim under lock and key. Faulkner ,frequently stated he was ready to •marry her at any time: His counsel pointed • • out that he bad never refused to .• fulfil his :agree- ment, whiCh contention was 'contained in • evidence. His Lordship, too, told the jury that once the _plaintiff. sigoed- the tig_ree- men n she nifint tate him with aninnif aults and said that shehad not signed the•cen- tract to marry the property, but thenean, • including his foul menth. •The .jury was not long out and gave a yeraiat for defend- • ant. • • • - • • Deli; the Girls.•. • . (Montreal Star. ' It is a. misfortune for some girls tn have been reared 44 respectably." The desire to dress and to avoid, remunerative employ- meut, follows them, if overtanen by financial disaster, and they wear their lives away in moaning over misfortune when they should be putting their shoulders to the wheel. They fret and sigh, and knownot what to do, for they are debarred from their early associations by their irripeetutiosity; and they cannot muster the courage to face the world in their sorrow. They spend •their lives in dark seclusion, knowing tot' and not known by many. They become an incumbrance to themselnes, and they frown at a fate which oamonly be remedied by their nenrn resolution and . energy. They may be worthy, but worth rime slowly when depressed by , poverty. They may be good, but their goodness is hidden' under a bushel when it is hidden in the darkness of despair. Employment , for respeotanle girls is scarce. Bot few places. will take them as clerks, and the openings in telegraph and other °fame are not many. School teaching is about the only recoerse, and so the girls who are reared respeetably are between the •twe extrepaeshanpy competency and industrioult 'labor. There is no class of girls to be more pitied than girls who hone been reared respectably but who have been obliged to abandon their old haunts and their eta mutton:a and take • to the new life consequent on their poverty. The men, or the assciciation, tnat can • devise means for the employment of ,sueli girls will deserve well Of the • World.' We have charitable .associations without number for servant girls and orphans, but girls who have,been reared respectably attract little attention, no .niatter how much they suffer by their surroundings. No ono feels the shaft of poverty more than they'd°. • Then. are not accustomed to it. Their early lives were inn, different channel. • Poverty to them is additionally cruel because unexpected. They probably had 110 hand in their own misfortunes'but they are the principal sufferers. Theylmve to bear ;the weight, because others bore the pleesure. And they , are the most helpless of oreatares.' They nifty - be willing to work, but they do . nonknow what to work at, or how to get seitable employment. There are no institution nix help them, and so they live on, pining t lives away, growing old in idleness an sorrow; and sinking demi the typica maids of life, whose misfortorte has to have been reared unfit :to make own way in the world, and not able to port the style t5 which they may have been accustomed. But there. should be a remedy for all this. There should be aome means of assisting Guth girls, just as there is of assisting those who are perhaps less deserving. We see no reason why some sooiety should not exist to help gine who have been reared respectably to get situa- tions as clerks, as societies exist to provide for the destitute atid often for the unfortu- nate. We slionld guard virtue) by enabling it to struggle against tettiptatica, as well AA endeavor to raise it when it *rubles and falls. A, gallant oapture of a tramp by a lady is reported from Sheernese. A Birs.Percivel, finding a man on the staircase early in the morning with his boots off; at once Reined him, and held him till her husband came. The tramp„ who gave the 'MUM ifif jarnei Daly, Was sentenced to Ohe rdonth's bath labor. IPRESIDENTIAL MATTERS inInei on Me own loefeeetnennettoseane Eortheontinn• nnton--Tne Expected • cabinet Chronic.. • LONDON, Sept. 29.—An American writes to thel'imea suggeating 'that 'Ainerloan residents in Loudon woula gladly join, if permitted, in placing a slab of ,Ainernizin granite• -in WeStmlneter Abbey -with the • words, " In gratitude 'for the common . Borrow of the English people with the. Americans in • the death of President Oar- eld." The correspondent likewise sup- gested that Arthur snould mane this permits, mon his drstaot, and permit a atone from the Abbey with similar woras to.be brought to Washington. The rumor of a plot to assassinate Arthur arose lrom the sworn otatement of Bayley, an attache a! the Army Medical Mnseum of the Surgeon-Generat's Depittn mann to the effect that while in bed in a room in house No, 461, Missouri avenue, on - Monday:night, he heard two men standing in front of the house plot the ameassination of the President. Oe asked the other if be would swear th do A, and the enter answered that he Would kill him within a Month. Bayley says Le saw the men aa they Walked off, and he can fully recognize them. No arrests have been made. New Yonx, Sept, 28.—Theprojeetor of the Garneld •fund • states. that under the: terms of subscription not a cent can be diverted to any other uses than those specified, Viz.: that the fund is for the late, President's Wife and children. tie this - afternoon received oneques for n500 and 4250 for Garneldn mother, which he will 'forward, with any other sums received, to her to invest as she may prenen. The fund for Mrs, Garfield now reathtes 0320,000, , Lowell telegraphs Blaine as followe z nhave-neceithathnlello-wieg- telegram-fret:A the Queen: "Would you express my. sincere conatalenee to the late President's. mother, , and inquire after .her lietath.ae well as after:Mrs. Garfield's,". Her Majesty adds " "1 should.be thannful if you would procure • me a good' photograph of Gen, Garfield." • ' Aoting-Seeretary Hittnepliea as followe " Your telegram e.xpreseing the compassion of the Queen for the mother of the late. President *as duly forwarded to.Mrs. Gar. field, at Mentor, Ohio. I have, just 'received ;bite fonowing reply ; 'Please regeeet Lowell to express to Her Majesty the Queen the grateful aoknew/edgnients of the. mother of Gen. •Garfield and my own for the tender womanly sympathy she has been pleased to.send. Also; that. }.Ter Majesty's wish Will be °emptied with at an early day: .(Signed) LucBETIA R. GAnnaLn,' . Yon will please inane a fitting communicationof this reply to Her Majeety.". • ' . • New Yoan, Sept. 29.—The Women's Exec- ntive Committee . of the rtotee Missions of the Presbyterian. Chureh here, decided to raise p, subscription aniong the women and children a AmerieLfer: :the. _purpose a establishing a inission church.. iu Utah in memory of Garfield, ' : • : • MiLwAuann, Sopt. Seovil;Giutteatt's brother-imlaw, has not 'decided to defend the aspapsin, negninnlinikanitntimuld.he. tinentnintintentrintlittne%inenteititanntnientarn the ease in the lianas ot the Gonerninent and let them anpoint counsel ler the deferiCen Ile,says there .won't be any great effoit ,made to defend him. It I app,ear at all I' will simply put before thenury Matters relating to .13.1s•.mental conditi�n. Whether theindictment is guilty or net, &sena is firmly convincenthe assassimitndemented; mid thinks henvill be adjudged insane and antarinitli amen:IMO. • • • ' •An etainentorimthal lawyer orNewYork has offered to defend Guitte'aii without fee. • WAsnmanon, ,Sept, 29. -There is need authority for Saying that Arthur has not • yengiven the 'reconstruction of the Cabinet . hie serious consideration. The indicatiene• new are that -the present•Calinenwill con- tinue intact till 'after the regular Meeting of Congress. The position of .all the mem- bers of the • present Cabinet is identical' with that of ManYeaglin • • • The investigation Of the .ntar Routei has. put in the hands'of persons conducting the case such a nethid of venality. in. public .life that it will now be impossible to sup - Sit. While MettiVeagh says be .would• not hesitate to prosecute, • regardless of the heiglits, it • •would be more 'proper for an •AttorneynGenenta Of Arthur's seleotion to. 'eel:neve this honor.. • ' • . If any one knows, Who Will be the nue- nessor, or probable anon:neon .of even one the retineg menaiere of the Cabinenle knows mote. thaniArthur himself: , :•• Dr. Power, Garteld's paptor, explains that he die -not-call:QM the late piesident' during his. prostration because • the physi- eians-wiihed to keep the patient as quiet as possible, and were: all the tithe expecting him to.recover sixffieiently • to see 'nis per- sonenfriehds. Power. says the misun- deritanding was 'of the • pnysioians: If they thought the Preeidennniable to die would have been called.' I . think I weelld have been called had I gone with hini to. Long Branch." ' . . ' • . i • • It n 'likely there. will be a pretty full attendanee on the opening of the Senate on October 10th, •. ' • . Cnnvernian, Sept.. 29. -- The, Garneld monument fund has reached $2,500. The limit to subscriptionshas been removed.. •• • Nun,: Yettit, Sept.': 'Blies • is reportea as saying, "As the case was diag- nosed Gatteld should have. recovered. I believed in that diagnosis 'elite neat the time of his death. Ninety -nixie oases Out Of a' • hundied injured as we 'supposea 'inn to nave been should recover. If I had borciprehended fully the nature of the injuries, I should at no, period Of the ease have had the slightest hcpe of his redonery, for the Wounds were mortal, and under such: ••circumstanoes .1 should have told his. fatally he could not survive." Bliss said, " If the, halt had been located and • an 'attempt Made . to probe: for it - the President would net have lived a third of the•time he did. I think it was f orturiate for the country that the clutraoter of the wountl-Wits ensetite. . Every bour and day 'saved to him the country would' benefit by, as it would be better .prepared for the shock that was imminent, and I pit forth all ray efforts to preserve his life as long ae possible." . WAsuisomx, Sept. 29.—The Prendent .leaves for New 'York at 2 p. m., accoin. panien by 3anies, Hunt, Lincoln atel Windom. Arrivin.g at New York • it i. ,probable a programthe Will be arranged by the members of the Cabinet for a summer , visoatieh. Despite the rumors of changes' in the Cabinet it is 'authoritatively. stated that none Will be made before the seesion of the Senate, �u October 10th, , • On,a railroad in Nota Seotia where there are no +gain mails" a,nd thne really no °bled there was a somewhat irascible pas - Sanger, who *as in a good deal of- a hntry, and the following conversation occurred: The engineer Whistled " down brakes," "What is the trouble, conductor ?" COW .011 the track," coolly responded the con- duotor. The man was satisfied. Shortly afterward " down brakes" was whiatled again. "What's the trouble notv?" cried the 'same passenger. " Cow on the track," WAS the reply, it Great heityette," said the man, "haven't We casiklit Up With that cow yet?" ineVorlEnir m ini-DnOrnonui. Possihle Protection Against a 11Fourful ••- Malady* " Dr. Y. Gelder, a veterinary surgeon of .Lyons, Franoe, bas lately raaae a most remarkable and valuable discovery in regard to rabiee. It is wellknown that the virus by whiell rabies is ooronldnieated trOin One anintal to another, and which produces hydrophobia in the liuman sub - rot, is' contained in the saliva of rabid animale. Hitherto it has been eupposecl that in order to communicate disease this Virus must enter into the circulation, but Dr. Gainer has found that this is a mistake. The virusacts by being brought in contact with • the nerves, and when introduced into the circulation it Roth OS A Preventive of the disease. Astonishing as this assertion may seem, there ip apparently no rooiri for doubting it: Dr, Gainer injectthe saliva of A mad dog into the veins of ten aheep, and at the same time placed saliva of the same dog in contaet with the nerves of ten other sheep. • The latter all died 'with every symptom of rabies, while the other ten =named perfectly well, He also ascer- tanned that when the virus of rabies was hijected into the veins of theep it was impossible to produce rabies in them by any subsequent experiments. He haethus discovered that hydrophobia is purely a slisease of the nervee, and that to inject the virus of rabies iuto the circulation is a cm. Min protection against the disease, at least in the case of sheep. This sliscoVery ought to please the homcodpathists, for it shows that after all the ancient homo3o. patliiet who taught that the hair of a dog was the xiroper reniedy for his bite was right na principle and erred only in detail. We now know that the virus which' produces hydrophobia when. brought into contact -with. the .-ner•Ves prevents it -when intro - ducted into the eirmilation, and. we may regard -Was probable that even if the die, ease cannot be cared when it has once beoome fully developed, it can be aborted by a prompt injection of the virus into the veins of the person who has been bitten by a rabid animal. To say that it is extremely improbable-thansafety against hydrophobia oan be seourea by the•metliocl proposed by, Dr, Gainer is 110 argument against it. • Nothing could seem more improbable than • Jennern :insertion that to inoeulate a per- son with the cow-pex would secure for him immunity from -small-pox ; but experience has proved that Jenner vstis right. If Dr. Gainer has really found a sure proteotion againnt hydrophobia, he will deserve • to • rank with Jenner in the gratitude of man- kind.—N. Y 27ilies. • )(Attest Scottish News. A herring crew at Fraserburg caught a • young_ whale 15 feet long in their nets recently, end -sold it far n3. The Invent peon and Ayr have recently been greatly swollen, overflowed' their • banks, and dene great damage to the crops. The Tweed recently rose seven feet, and it and its tributaries overflowed the batiks, and caused great ,c1finame to the surround,_ A baker of Edinburgh, an Old Duinfries- sian, presented each of the men, of the London Scottish, •on: leaving Edinburgh after the review, with a largo tin Of oat- cakes, as a memento of their visit. . • In the perish of Deerness, Orkney, a meeting has been • held,' at which, it is reported, the conclusion was come to that there Was no certain cure for the increased rents in Orkney but a Land League, On Dryburgh • water, :Mr.- David Sohn - stone, fisherman to Colonel Forbes, The Holman °aught Inyellow trout weighing 7 lb. 10 oz., which was in fine °et:anion, and extremely well shaped. • the returnsi of shipbuilding oti the Clyde • show that during August seventeen vessels had beeu launched,of. a total tonnage of 28,- 400. ' Of that amount Dumbarton, Green- .ock and Tett Glesgonz contributed rtearin 20,000 tons. • , . IDuring the Royalreview; at Edinburgh • the statues of. Sir Walter Scott; Christopher North, *Lord Clyde and other Scottish notabites'were literally wreathed from head • •to heel in -bower garlands, which the rain kept as fresh as their memories will .aver. be in the nearts ef aU true' Soots:nen, • , *A biscuit manufacturer in Muting Park •District • Was :fined 50. • in eaoh cane fo employing 11 women for a period of 31 hours.' 'Continuously. • He admitted the breath: of Wen but said. the women had asked to be allovied. to Work the 31 hours in order then they might get aWay on Fair Friday., • •• .` Three 'English ladies spent a. night in Afigust. on Ben Nevis,the highest mountain' hi Scotland: They Went • im • witho.ut a guide, missed their wan, and had to remain •on the suniinit all through it night of heavy rein: Two guides were sent in search, and found the lost ones greatly exhatisted at the top of a steep ravine. The King of the Sandwina Islands • was •entertained at a banquet in Glasgow on Sept. 7th by the Lord Provost and magis- trates: . In replying to the teent of his health, En Majesty' stated 'that in. tne •eoustruction of his kingdom they had been 'benefitted by the .advice of -the people: of Scotland. , The Y had Seotchmen in the administration of the Government and at the head of: their j•ndieial work. 'Besides their political 'connection', with Scotland, 'they had been ninth indebted to the people of &attend • for supplying tbertr with, machinery, whith had been the means of adding greatly' t�. the prosperity.- of the ziountry. . • ' _ , •An ocourrerne of a toost singular charen, ten has taken. place in- one of the swim- ming ponds in codnection with the Dundee •publics baths. The water is let,off into the riser at low tide, .and 'the princl is refilled froni tntenk on the premisee. While the. pond was being emptied the other day a ha .named Johnston; contrary to the rules of the establishment, sprang in feetforemost to have a bathe. • To the consternation of those present he did not returnto the sur- face, and his next appearance *as at the door of the baths, naked Dna bleeding. The El:lotion of the water had drawnhim through the pipe a distance • of between 201 b. and. 801t.nand had shot him as if froirl a Cata- pult, into the River Tay. The'pipe in only 12in. in diameter. Johnston says On leap- ing into the pond 'he felt LLS if some one .had seized him firntly by the foot; the next moment all was dark, and he Was pro - yelled into daylight and the river. Althoughthe Queen has had the royal apartments of Holyrood rehabilitated for her reception, the chapel remains roofless. It is a beautiful structure, and its vault are still the burial place of many. histerie Scoteh families. In these days of rester:), tion, it is somewhat remarkable that it should be permitted to remain thus dilapidated. The-Brih Conmil at' Xiukiatig, China, says that tile Chineee ate to much wedded to their ,*added cotton dross ea to • Make their ctuintry a geed market for imported Weell las. But the Govertutent have recto nized the desirability of Woollen °loth. 1or ing/ the troops, and have started a mill where coarse blue °loth is illnde at a tate lower than it Mild be inipOtted. THE TERRII3LE DROUGHT, LOCOMOTIVE SPEED, rte. Lonornio. nsOPOrtions • inchri.04e, anO. th.e States. SOME TELLING STATISTIOP. A. statement obtained from the Meteor°. logical Office, Toronto, allows the enormous extent of the late drought. In the Minis. eippi Valley, and over most of the United States affected by the drought,the rain - faille usually much i greoter than n Cana* and if the average deficiency for the four , months be aseumed to 'be only ten inches, the lath of rain on the area of 1,600,000 miles reaching horn Texas to Montreal would equal the total area of Lanes Silperior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario, and eeveral of the mallet lakes added, with an average depth throughout of fifteen feet, or auffinient to ilioat the largest veriliel that navigates the lakes, If gathered together With a depth of 120 feet—the average depth of Lalse Erie—a lake would be formed some. what larger than that lake, which is 240 miles in length , by from- 30. to 60 broad. If the deficiency over the Province at large be estimated at four inches for July and August, the definiency in. the Province of Ontario from Lake Nipiseing southward would equal a lake 40 miles long, 25 miles wide, and 20 feet deep. The limits of the drought are net precisely known, but the area may be roughly deseribed • as an immense ,ova1 extending frota Central Texas in the southwest to a little beyond • Montreal in the northeast, and from Kangas and Iowa, to Georgia on a north- west and southeast line. This includes a territory 1,000 miles long by over 900 miles wide, embracing nearly 1,500,0'00 square miles—eight-times-aantargentr-Frintinnniin thirteen tiniee es lawns -Great Britain and Ireland. In Georgia, nind also in Virginia and other central parts of this area, the drought was intense for between three and four znonths, whilenngenerally else where it was only in July, August Ann; September that the effects of • tbe dry Weather were at all marked. The total deficiency ever • the area referred to was 1,100,000 oubio miles of, water. Niagara Falls at flood height, din charging at the rate of one million cubic feet df water per second, woula require one whole year to pour this vast quantity of water over into the raging chasm below, Dryer monthshave been known before. August, 1876, was warmer than the pant August, and no rain whatever fell, but the drought was by no means so extended as this:season nor of so great duration; The punamer of .1868 was hotter—except in -September—and July in Hamilton averaged 80° in the ehatle, with a maximum of 106.3 0 , or higher than it has bean known in either New Orleans .or Calcutta, but the rainfall of June, July and August was uiteenuanto that of the same.monthil this year, and the drouglit. was preceded by a May in which at Toronto 7467 inches of rain fell, and followed by a September with 4.24 • niches. ', This year September has only -heen-anceeded . in dryness.- by. April- and - August', Neither -the• summer, whirl p0/11,. meneed • about May .8rd, Mor the -drought nainyet ended.iii Ontario, nteugn in Ohio, Kentucky and the Western .Statett heavy rains have fallen, •• •• Of previous years in this century 1854 is most remarkable for: Widely ektended. ana. prolonged drought, but the 'rainfall was greaten:than in this. sumMer. •The year 1819 wasexcessively dry over a. Iizriited area, ER' in -fact every fewyears there have been parts of the continent more, or •lesinaffected by h daroaging Holt .of rain. 'An -extended drotight; such an hes•been ex-. eerier:cad this summer'may•not be isnown aganion this tontinentfor a century. G.reedy Curiosity, . . • On the very day after that on which they announced to the world the death of Presn dent Garlield, the New York papers an; flounced to hid whom it might concern pre- cisely what kind of Monnung Mrs. Garfield, Bliss Mollie Garfield, Mrs., Rockwell ,.aud Miss Rockwell were going to wear. Ono would have -thought that poor Mrs. Gar- field at leant might hate been allowed to suit nerself in the Matter of mourning with- out her•choice of style and material being trumpeted abroad to the public. Is there nothing Menthe great American pe.pens will • allow prominent personages to do in private and to keep to themselves? Talk of .n the fierce•light that beats ppm a throne," but it is nothing to the ardent blaze of notoriety • in which.Ih� great denaticracy condemns its leaders to live. This mad craning for idle personal details in really.a, •weak point. It • betokens a lack of seriousness, and even, we may say; a lack of rationality. Speak- ing generally, those who are. most greedy nig facts of little significance are those who -take' least interest in general prinetples, or, in other words, 'those who exercule their • reasoning or generalizing Jaunty least. • Their lives rnuat be always effervescing with incident Or they flan it flat and insipid. —Montreal Star. • Retunvicable Cireumetinee. The St. Marys Argus says: A ease of loss of sight occurred in this town during .the paid week, which is something very remarkable. :On Saturday morning last Mks. Laming, nee Miss Hannah Cash) and who was naarried but a month ago, sud- denly, and without any premonitions, lost the entire use of her eyes; Medical aid could do nothing for her, and as might be, expected the sudden visitation caused the unfortunate young woman and, her•friends the greatest anxiety. The eyes did not: change in appearance, but remained sight - leas until Ttiesday :nothing, when the vision came bath again jinn as suddenly as it had gond. Mrs. Lanaing's „joy may be imagined. ' Dr. Hall, who was innttend- ance, says that the loss of sight wasloaused by paralysis a the nerveo et the eyes." , . ,The Cluderin Surgery. • Lett week a remarkably delicate surgical operation was performed in a, manner extraordinarily sizigular, Last fall, is the •result of a cold, an uloer appeared on the right eye of a young gentlenaiin of this city. •The ulcer was removed, but a gear -was left on the corner directly over the pupil, oom- pletely obsoaring the sight. While riding in the oars last week the young man inet with -the customary fortune of travellers, and for several days suffered froth' the evil effects. of a large oinder in the eye.. When the bandage was removed, ranch to the sur- prise of the patient, he found that he could see almost as well as before the growth of the ulcer. The rough edges of the cinder had removed the soar, a feat which sur - goons had in vain attempted to perform.— Cleveland Leader. • Ex -President Hayee has afarm near Bis- marck, Dakota, which he obtained at from 60 to 75 cents an sere. It is now. worth $15 an acre 'and is so rioh that Mr. Ilayes tbaped from his 500 aores,of wheat last year a profit of $15,000, nnith, says: It is probable that the Marquis of Lorne, Governor-General of Canada, Will return to England next sea. on, when he will be called to the House of Lora." Opinions of One Wo Cxxs:ect,rri ati Aloottt nt, BO= FALLACIES OORRL'OTED. A. representative of the Tines called on One of the moat experienced locomotive engineers in the city of Hamilton with reference to the speed of railway trains, and the following is the gist of the inter- view : I lia,ve, invariably thought the record as published of the performantie of the run- ning of epeeist trains upon some of our Canadian lineto be beyond the capacity of our ordinary express engine to attain. It was asserted that a distance of 100 miles had been run In 107 minutes, between Ainherstburg, and St. Thomas and that a Credit Valley train had runt, distance of seventy.eight miles in seventy-five minutes, beating even the other record,. Now, a few facts concern- ing the speed= engine must attain to pass over this long distance in the time said to be occupied in performing the journey causes me to have grave doubta of whether any engines ever run in Canada could make 100 miles „in 107 minutes with three oars attached, The mond express engine has a driving. wheel 5i feet in diameter and four wheels coupled; length of stroke 29 in,; and a boiler pressure of • about 130 lbs, to the square tncli—an admirably adapted engine topull a beavy load, But when tholle driving wheels have to time 316 times in 60 seconds, and the piston speed of each en. gine has to travel 1,264feet,. or an joint piston speed of 2,528 feet,neupposingthere is '„no slipping," it would require the live •now -the pistens-632- feet -to -ea-, able the engine to get sufficient power • to - pull three oars onemila. in sixty eeconds after the first mile has been attained, with the further fact to remember that We have no appliance for filling tenders when run- ing In this counnyn and as it would require about twenty-eight gallons 9f water to be evaporated to supply the steam front a pressure of 180 lbs, per square inch. •Tbe train must be stopped at the end of about 80 miles to get a supply of water. To stop a train from such a speed, fill the tank and regain the same speed would involve a loss. of not less than. 7.minutes.. Now, how tine tirae can be made up, with otber 2 minutes' loss fen running the first and last mile has always remained to me a puzzle, • For it Inn to be remembered that the speed of the engine :would have to be increased- to run a consecutive rate of 65 • miles per hournirer nearly the entire .jour- ney te reach the terminus in the time stated. I am aware from personal knowledge that a piston speed for eaoh engine of 1,450 feet can be attained for a short distance under' • favorable Conditions by many locomotive •engines, but those ' conditions no railroad • can offer for•the long distance of 100 -miles. And no boiler attached to an ongiee upon a 4 foot 8i inch gauge can supply the steam• to n follow:. each •piston 6 inches at this high szed. :.atteMpt 11011. 15000 daTdbirxg this • Slimmer..., be- tween Philadelphia- inn Nevi Yein----th- run the 91 miles in ,01 minutes, having. • special machinery and all known' modern appliances Upon thole engines, but it has • not been attained as yet, se far an 1 con learn. . • ?!tright on rime .trade nod lopir Wrude. . . • The Sheffield buleirtittent bolbowing letterovhiola has been received by: a gentleman in Sheffield from Mr. Bright: As to the new and silly doctrines 130 - pounded among weikingnien, thenhave sprung up partly e.hd chiefly owing to depression -in Many trades; and . more esp,ecially among. interests directly con- nected with land. The land suffers from want of sun, and for this Parliament has no re ea edy.• A member of Pailiantiennanre at authority on all matters Of land,' whether as respects farmers or land owners said to meabout three Months ago: don't complain of pricen—prices are high enough and,good. enough; what we want is sun- shine and more heat, and about that there is no remedy." But if the:want of sun and. of genial summer affects mitt impoverishes the •farmer, it is the iimpdventhinent df those•conneoted with land Which eating a general falling off fir our home trade, and- deniession more •or -less severe, is fat through almost, all the industries of the -cowitry. It ,is not foreign- tannin it 4s • nob commercial treaties, it , is pot • what resists on is done by • foreign govertimente whith in now or has recently been doing ns henna; it is the' diminin • non in the wealth of the country, owing to the redwition in the produce Of the ,soil, and this only, which is the cause of the depression that has prevailed •for ' the last four or AVE' years. The .best authorities 'calculate that during :the harvests of the last three years a sum of probably not leis thau g268,000,000. sterling had been lost to the country as compared with the result if we haa the blessing. of genial summers and of average harvests. If :our workingman will accept this . statement, which no well-informed man .Will dispute, he will be little disposed to :run after the red herring which • some • Of the lower _and "baser sort" ' of the 'nary party are trailing across his :path. He will. be rather thankful: that thing e are no worse, and will, I hope,agree with me in the' assertien and belief that the way in whith our great industries—eicept that 01 the land, winch hasbeen and is peculiszly inricken—and our •great and.growing Popu- lation hare paseed through the recent time lineal is even a stronger proof a. the wisdom of. net ,free -trade policy :than was the great priki-pelity which we enjoyed in %the yeam which immediately preceded the seasons of deflaient Sidi, re- opeCtfully yotus, join: Timm.. Lady Smokers. • Asiatic nations," Lennon World writes, "consider the use of tobacco asa substitute or the use of intoxicants. It fills the hours of idleness, when lieople who have nothing better to do would drink if they could not smoke. It is a quiet and pleasant mode of soothing the brain. Women who have travelled in Egypt generally come home cc:armed Smokers, and find to their din comfort that they must, keep their JAW tante very dark indeed or else be looked at askance by tha virtuous of their set. If they,dare to Smoke friendly cigarettes with their Mena, especially if those Wanda be male, they -will find themselves ranked among the rapid woraen who are danger- ous. Now, the question is, by what 'pro. miss do,English women arrive at a tsonclu. sion se strange? The Chinese lady smokes from childhood, and one of the elegancieti of her attire is a silken tobacco pouch. Yet the English lady who learns to smoke when • away from our prejudiced little island would be daring indeed if she had a tobacco pouch slung round her waist, with her fail, . in London." A messenger was sent from'Muskegon to a Michigan lumber &tiny to inform a man of the death pf hie child ) but he used the money given himin getting drunk, and did not perforni the errana. He never got sober, for lumbermen. hanged him before be had time. 1441,EsT mom IRELAND._• , The IghtorgollOY Committee nt Work • .naerione 1'A111.311ft0 Denierlitrilli0114 4 Dublin advioes state that the Ebiergency Committee have upward of two hundred • laborer e engaged in saving the crops various parts of the youth andwest. Many thousands of pounds worth of valuable crops have already been saved. The Property Defence Somety have over three hundred laborers' similarly engaged. Father Sheehy complains that the sanitary cOndltiOn of Hilmainham jail is conducive to blood -poisoning. He nye the food is:unfit for MM. He strongly condemned - the Land Act. A. prooess-aerver was probably fatally attacked at 13allybannon, gounty Kerry. Similar violent attacks on evicting parties of police are contineally reported. I Boy - canting" has rather increased. Esther Sheehy, just released from Zit - =Wham: jail, visited Naas lately, where be was received with enthusiarim, Reply - lug to addresses fromvarthus public bodies, he said Mr. Fainter's name would go clown With the hate of future generations of Irish- men. M Cork bands playea through the streets . in honor of the release of Father- Sheelly. Demonstratione were also 'held in different parts of the °witty. Roman .advices atate that the Extra. - ordinary Congregation, whidh for it long time hap been. making an examination to , ascertain What aotion the Vatican cam take in regard to the disturbed state ef Ireland, has concluded its labor& The report remains secret, as it comprises many cane of conscience, but the general result le that there is nomeans of accommodating the differing.=yiews -of the Irish bishops, iiikialfielhe7Congrii-glitaTlies n9 way of • interfering in 'strictly political matters, The bishops of Xneland have adopted a resolution that the Land Act is a great • • benefit' to the tenants,. for which. the gratitude of thecountry Is due to the.Gov- • ernment and all who helped to carry the . measure. The bishops summon:the clergy • to guard their fleas against all secret agencies of violence and Intimidation, axid aPPeal to the laity to prove their patriotism and faith by seconding the olergy in remov- ing the stigma which 'their enemies have souglit to oast upon the people that they will not pay them just debts. The bishops urge thenelease of, the suspects. THE GOVItitNORADENKRA..L. lZe Purdom1it NuMber of Desertere and )(Korea !thieves. IgelJE0D, nept. 20, via FORT SnAw, Montano, Sept. 28.—This morning Lord • Lorne, ion the exercise of the royal • clemency, pardoned the followninprisoners who were, confined at this post charged with desertion from the Mounted Police, : and with stealing .the horses with which they attempted lb reach- the 'American lines: Combrey, Crosser,Morton and Scott.' Travelled Out, a Surcee Indian, tharged with horse stealing, was also' pardoned. Then- petition-- -vyas-- presented.- tinnntlre - - •Rev.----$.-n.Trivettn—Episeopallan Min ' sionary on the Need. Indian reserve, • eighteen miles from . Fort McLeod. A k general order has been written, thanking the Mounted Police for their wort and efficiency. To -day His Ethelleney earth for a visitt O the Police and Indian Supply Farms, 31 miles west of this paint. It had. been intended that he should go to Kedah- . Ms Lake. from . the farms, and thenc-e to Fort .Shaw, :but, as:the monntain made proVe to be much Worse than was. antion patted, it probable that the trip to Koot- enai's Lake will be abandoned. • • • A ltlurdeier nt Thirteen. ' .• • New York Sunday papers have aocountn Of the murder of julius,Haefner; a boy Of 14, by Johnleescher, jup., a lad one • year his -junior.: • • , - • • The two boys had knOwn each other fpr several years, and were almost insepo.r- able,corapanions. On Wednesday evening they were eating some pears together., when, for some unknown reason, they quarreled for the first time in their livee and . threw the pears at each • other. Friday evening they • met• again and renewed. the quarrel, but did not come to blows. „ Last evening they again came together • in Dominick street,, • when, accord- ing to., Loesoher's' story, • Haefner • suddenly struclt himin the •• mouth. Loesoier had a common -jack. knife •with it - blade two inches long in his hand,' andad soon as he felt the blow he plunged the blade into Hetefnern body up to the hilt. • Then he turned and ran. The wounded boy staggered to ' the doorway. of No. 34 Dominick street, and, With a gasp, fell dead. The street wan full of people in Et moment, Four men picked up young' Haefner and carried him hastily into a drug 'note tit Varic and Broome streets, just as they -entered the store Mrs. Hanfner, the dead boy's mother, was met: • coming out of the store. he swooned as she saw the bloody corpse of her murdered son, and was taken home by some of her neighbors. , Officers found the • young murderer . at • his own home, crying and wringing his hands. He was taken to the station home 'where the body of his•viotim lay, and its he sett it he burst into tears and said he did not mean to kill . his playmate. • In the cell he repeated the statement, and hearing it man crying and moaning in the room above he said.: "Oh, that is my -father Don't let him werry ! Tell him' not • to worry! When Mr. Loescher was allowed ,to see his boy the ' two burst into tears. • "1 would give 010,000," said the father, "1! A was yott inetead of that boy who is lying up there." Then the hedvt-brokim roan: left -the -place • • and thereell door was dosed again on the • young murderer.. • ' • The New °Cenci Steadier. The Liman steamer City of Rome made her trial trip on the Frith of the Clyde yesterday morning. The vessel, which hi of 8,000 toile and 1,000 horse pewer, with it • passenger and Crew "accommodation for 2,400 persons; oarrled it large and din tinguiehed company, inaluding the Earl of Shaftesbury, Sir James Ramsden,Mr. • 13irley, of the Inman Company and Mr. John Burnen'of the Cunard line. Owing to the engines getting ever -heated it was found impossible to din more than a por tion of the intended trip. But the steamer, when taken ova Measured mile, attained a speed of 15 knote, with h 45 tevolution. Mr. Birley expressed satisfaction at the results of the trial • so far as had been ascertained. The vessel afterward pro- ceeded to Liverpool via Kingston. She takes her place on the New York route Book • A few days since a tumor Was rani:wed from the back of the hand of Mr. Pelona, of Penetatiguishene. It was Mond to con- , • thin a piece of slate pencil, which was accidentally driven into it finger by &School mate twenty years ago. Working men are Sonia of the ministers of the Lutheran ministerium, of Penns* veal°, where 2 pastors serve 8 congregations • each, 8 pastors 7 congregations, 5 pastoran oongregationa, 12 pastors 5 congregations, 15 rakers 4 congregations each. Forty- three of the pastorates are German, 25 are English, and 85 are Getman -English.