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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Sentinel, 1883-03-02, Page 32,* • 4 • • — < f. DOMINION PARLIAMENT, e - 1tpitome-9nd Week. - _ OTTAWA, Feb-118.—Th the }rouse of CoM- -mons to -clay BilisWere intiocinced. by Mr: ' Dalton McCarthy respecting torticedure in fcrineinat,eases and other matters „relating to grin:Heat law, and for conatituting a Court Of Railway Commissioners . -•.: " 1 ...-In reply ta a question, Sir john replied . _ , -that the Court: wits now considering the queetion of introducing a measure depriv- . Mg the Supreme. Court of all jurisdictien . over mattere.&vered by the Civil Code of • :the Province of Quebec. - • - • : - In introducing N:rnogon-ifor eorreepond- enaseend relating to the. 'disasters -oh the , -great- lakes, Mr. Dawsen epoke. at length, I urging the necessity of greater precautions by iawagainst such disasters.' - . . ' • , Hon. Mr. bleLelan, Minister of Marine, - said the attention of the Government had . oeen• called.to, these matters, and the #0\eeeeessak/ precautions wouldife taken. . i . e _ NOTyiES. ' Mr. McCarthy -has given notice of his .• intention to introduce two bills; One rata.; I ing to carriers:on land and another -reepect- e nag the calleetion of seamen' wages e Mrfarrow will ask whether it ' is, the „intention of the Government, to redognize the services of the Yoh:into re of 1887-88. - , Mr. Landry will inquire e Govern-, Went have tome to any tending with i the present proprietors. • the Q., M., Oe& - 1 O. R. R. in relationto the construation of _ j-ferky boats to ply betWeett Quebec and the. i. terminus of; the antercolonial ilailivay at - f Bt.. Charles. • . e . .:,,,,e ..... • CRIXEctiL:.PROGEDURE A.M.RNDMENT. I -- On the motion for the.first reading of his .., , . • r, Bill to amend- theActsrespectingprocedure t in, criminal cases Mr. McCarthy to -day , t explained that - it was proposed to enact 1i that every tiers= Onarged. with an offence , ! wtio_ propotsed to do so might- give eVidence i - on his awn behalf. This provision,- how- ever, woUld- only extend to persona:charged .i with misdemeanors It was also proposed . t to de away with the right of the OrOW/I to i peremptorily challenge jurors, and tiemake 1. provision- for cases where the judge. was- :. •,' Unable to present on theopeningdays of ' Assize Courts, --such Courts should he con-. -. Seltited, as adjourned. - This clause, Mk._ : McCarthy says, has been inserted at the suggestion of :scene. Ontario judge?. who : have been inconvenieneed through neglect of sheriffs to '-.•-e• formally - oaljourh the - . , Wait on. , the' ' failure. ' of the - 'judge to attend:- The Bill hOwelier, is the ! same as that introduced- last session ' •by,ate. Canaeroneof Huron, and referred to - a - select ocanniittee. 1 The committee. . reported the Bill back with certain amend- ments, and Mr. McCarthy his taken charge : :of it as amended, although- Mr.-Cameton - his given- notice.- of his -intention to re- , . • ,introduee. his Bill,- Mr, McCarthy, how- ever f has: got the start an may possibly ''- obtain:credit for Mr. Cameron's labor .z Itt ' ispossiblethat - the, Bill may pas this- seseion, though defeated last year.- A,,ptce• Vision xeepecting formal adjournment of assize courts is -Tegarded -as wh011ysuper- . •,,,fluous. - RAILWAY COMMISSION., . Mr. McCarthy to -day introduced his Bill to establish a Court of Railway COMMW- SiOIlerk Which was read a first time:. . This is the third t time an. attempt has been made to pass this measure, and already 'representatives of a num_ber of railway companiek have arrived•in the city to work up opposition to it, so that there are gray°. "doubts respecting itspassagethis session. In ' the Hou e of . Cominoos to- dayi among-th • bills introduced were •one by Mr. Robertson (Hamilton) to - enable those who -havedoubts about the reijistence Of a personal Gad to give evidence :in criminal eases ; one by Mr. Cameron -,(Iiutony-to =provide that persons charged :With 'Misdemeanors shall be competent as witnesses, another by Mr. Cameron to ' - Make' incest a crime, and one by Mr. Cas- . grain-fok the prevention of fraud in relation' td eputraets involving the expenditure of ,publict moneys.' - - • , The led -named Bill makes the giving or. , offering of money for influence respecting a public contract a misdemeanor, and it - alsa makes the - receiver of such- money as -guilty as the glier. By its provisions con- ' tract broking is a Misdemeanor punishable .- by a fine of not' less - than $100 or more d than $1,000and. by _imprisonment for a ' -ter .2 , at iess than one month 'or,more than :-five .. oaths. Public officers receiving '-raonerfor assisting -persons in the transac- tion of -business with the Government are by it, made guilty of . misdemeanor: Pun- ishable by fine. and . imprisonment. Con- tractors of - public works who suhscribe or give money towards the election of secandi- , date for Parliament • are by section four also.: guilty- - of ei:_misdemeauer, and are liable to piniehment equally severe. . . .- Sir Leonard Tilley has given notice that he will Move that the House :resolve itself - ;into e Committee of the Whole to consider the following proposed resolutions : le That it is expediefit to authorize the Governor • inCouncil to raise.by way of loan, in addition to the sums nOvir reraaming unborrowed and negci- tiable of the Icians authorized by Parliament, such sum Or sums of money as may be required to pay a • .schane.,the Canadian consolidated :5 per tent 1 ..sn, raised under the 14th chapterof the 'Consoli • ted Statutes of the late Province of Canada, after dedticting the amount held as a sinkiug fund -for 'laying off the _same, the rate of !interest on the sums so to be raised by loans not . to exceed 4 per cent -per annum. - ; - .In the House of Commons • to- day • thitie, Were laid on the table ,; the reports of the Inland Revenue Depart- - !went, a the ikaiilteration of FOod;---of Weights and Measures, Of the Public Works •Departmen‘ of the Secretary of State, and • .of Indian AffOre._ ' Mr. Beaty, Charman of the Standing :Orders Committee, - presented. their first, ' repart,, and *bye& that the time for reedy- ing petitiona for Private Bills be extended to the 1st of March. Mr. Blake pointed out the disadvantage of having thismotion ' for the -extension of time moved, for as a matter of Cour* every SGSSiO/t, as it led to pe.ople taking no notice of the first limitation If ethe present limit Was too- . • . • . ,short —two Weeks after the opening of Parliament—let the time be extended-, and whets& limit -was -fixed upon . no One •: should be suffered - to-*eXceed-it except for :good cense. Sir , John conoutred in this 'view; and, Said be thought_ three or eau ttour weeksafter the opening should be allowed.. The reconsideration of the 2 etanding- orders in this regard was well. -worthy theattentionof Parliament-. Oa the motion. of .Sir John Macdonald• for conourren,citin the report of the Special Committee appointed to "strike the Stand." leg, Coramitteege Mre Blake Called, attention tothe reduction in numbers of the menzlier- Ship of the Public) Accounts Committee. He dld not objeetto that reduction, but desired that it should kla consideredonly experi- mental for the present session,.. so that if. it was found towork td the disadvantage of members of the Opposition he enight ask to have it -changed.. Committees of the House were -very liege; and leading men on both- sides had • More than. they could properly. da to attend their duties if on two dr more irop'ortant committees. The English Sys tern involved • the appointment :of . small • qummittees Of men - speciallychosen. for their-knowkdge of matters to be brought before th • , and wOrk was more sub- ditided the, with is. He suggested, the appointment of a special coniraittee ta;con- eidee the committee system of the House, pot with:a vie* . to adopting the •English system in its entirety, but-tot:finding some improvement on the system in this House. Sit •=John ,seemed _ inclined to postpone .action in this regard -till next„sestion„ as in England Parliateent was going hack to, a system of grand Winmittees. but by nett year they would know 'how the. changes made there had worked. He acknowledged, however, the value of Mi. Blake's:sugges- tion. • • • . Mr. C. .11: Tupper introduced a Bill to allow the ainalgamation- of the Bank- of Prince • Edward" -)sland -with the Union Bank of Noya.Sootia. •- The Bill was read. a. -first time. Public : Bills ,for various objects passed the game stage, among them -Mr. _Charlton's Bill to, make . seduction•a Mr.tMcCerthits Bill to - impose conditions- upon - railwaye and express companies -and • other carriers by., land, fixing their- responsibility in. the; case of loss or damage_ to goods-, While in heir charge; Robertson's (Hamilton) : f Bill. to prpvidellor the • summary theta:- of certain criminal 'tag* and to amend procedures in the criminal warts, and one by _Mr.. Mulock to amend the Consolidated Railway -Act - by removing the -.present right of companies to amalgamate or make • Funning arrangements at willeend.tO Com- pel: -them- to Submit _each- eases to' the- Governor-inCouncil. • - _sir Leonard Tilley brought ut, his teeolu." tien:regarding the propesed.lcitui to meet five -per cents falling due in May„and on his motion! itwag. resolved that: the House sliCnild 'Consider it in _poremittee Tues- day .next. , - : - - - . • - Mr. Ilesson,in moving for the corres- pondence between. the Dominion Govern- ment and theaovernments of Ontario and • - Quebec from. lst June, 1882, relating to the land improvement fund, said the Dominion Government had beeeri charged with delay iu theeettlement of this claim. The Onta- rio Government had made paymeutain his own 'county ' (Perth), and, he supposed in others, showing that they had always had money in their:posseasion belonging to. this .finict He had it on good 'authority' that - payments had. been made on this abcount by the . Dominion Government,. and:. he Understood this Government -was _ready at any time to, settle account, _ and that the delay was the fault of the Plaitncial Gov- ernments. Sir. Leonard Tilley. -said there had been delay.froni time to time because the 'Provincial Treasurers ,were not ready " tie proceed to :a settlement. The necessary statements had been prepared, aIld:9.13- S6011 seethe Provinces were ready the accounts could -be settled. The motion passed now Ile Must Move Lo:red His Wife. . Mr. Levi Farnsworth, . Of Jonesboro, -,who left Machias NOV. 4th; -1849, in ,theibrig Agate, for: the Pacific ociast,-arrived home Jan. 9th; after an -ebtsence of 33 years. ' He - stopped at -the home of his son, Mr, J. El Farnsworth, where his . wife and childrenasseMbled in less than two _boars after his arrival. There were twenty friends at tea—his -wife, children and Some of his grandchildren, and Mrs: H. C. Hall; a-eister of Mrs. 17arnsworth—aild they had a• very pleasant meeting: The old gentleman said, "This is the happiest -hour of - my - We." Mr. Farnsworth is wellknown in. Vancou, vet, Washington Territory; Ellisburg;", and many other towns, on the Pacifictomest;and is respected wherever knoWn. He has had many prominent • pesitionsin Vancouver; has been Mayor- of the•city ; also Sheriff' for several years. -- :He was elected. several` times ,member of the -Territoriel•Legisla- ture. He ie 78 years_of age. The journey home was about 5,000miles, yet he was -but little fatigued, and is looking younger and stearterthan bfiefriendis expected.' When Mr:Farnsworth left home he parted with wife and six -children. On his return all were alive to greet him - butone daughter, who died about twenty yeareago.--MaOhias. Union. — .t. ..:.• '1_1 • - : . ' .1 - Confessing lin-.01d MUrder.- t . The_LendOn Standard saps that at i the DevisberrY (West Riding) police court 'a married - woman - named -Minna- -Bruce, • middle-aged,living at Heckinondwikeiand a member of , the , Salvation Army, was charged-, ,On her own confession, - with having "murdered a - woman on Mayikth, • 1871, in High street, Glasgow. She Says that on that . day three other women , and herself were in a public- house,.when a gene demon came in and asked her if -she was a good hand at lifting." She. said "-yes," and afterwards robbed him of 50.,elpIliegs and his watch. A quarrel aroSe for the possession Of - the watch, and cinte,cit the women Made.f. a . grab at it, and prisoner struck her With a brick, -killing_ her. She, -made her esca, pe, and at Newcastle heard an account of the inquest, and said the jurtereturned,a,-- verdict of wilful murder. Although cautioned, prisoner_ said.: "1 havedelivered myself up.- !I have been a Sig sinner, and all that -I have confessed I. have done; both before _God and. man. -I have given it all up for:Jests, whether His life or &Olt for me." The prisoner, was remain ed. 1 - '• • - .- - 1 i ' Dan ice, the king of clowns and peerless old' jester, is at -present. in New York. • ,t - . Belle Jaolisen„ the "Ditisii Bronm of the "-Professor 'i ; Company, - was formerly a ballet -girt in Philadelphia.' : - _ ". ' - :—Rev. - Joseph Cook admits 'that, his knowledge WOO the time that the soul quite .-the body is not exact, and his state- ment that it remains for hours after death' 18 partly a surmise. But he knows for a positive fact that there isnOprobatipp.ifter death. -- i - - ",_ . - t • Cincinnafi and Louisville In4n. ed on ail SideS. I.'13 POLICE . . Business , -A last deepatch, ea the Wester broi. hoodi.• occupied b teen personl occupants terrdr folk) ,OF .111E -.SCENES ' - : 17)iase a,nd.Dei.a,th on sidee._ ATROLLINO-, IN - _SKIFFS. • sprnded ' and Over IfeAllio en thrown Idle. - hersday) night's Cincinnati o'clock this morning, in part: of the city,. a . loud ex; e the windows in theneighbor-. hree-gtorey brick building, tour families, numberingaeven• - , was found in ruins and all the ried in the debris. A scene of ed. The people in the neigh - borhood tlii, king the e*PlOsiciti was.' caused by the pieSflure.ot the water in the sewer, and that = 'Other explOsiOns. would fellow, fled' thinly clad ,t9--: places of safety.' .The arrival Of the. fire_ departmentitdded to the _generalIco? 17sternation: "- _ The "firemen by 5 ',M.. had. ,taken out .all the. occupants -of " the. h _litse. A policeman, . flamed Mack, and is Wife; and. a daughter of Wm: Miller, !agika 2, ate.. dead. • -.. John -Henry -Brown att -one Rockamann are perhaps fatally litir -'. Jacob and : Miller Brown and. ,. .... • - . his wife ;ar severely hurt, and the -others only slightl injured. . The Brown brothers.. and Rokatiaun Were building a raft, and Went into t -le cellar to get lumber,tarrYing a candlepai len an explosion of firedamp Or sewer gas , warred, ' The adjoining house is damaged .• , . , ING PRON. THEIR BEDS. . • TrciiaiL isville—The scene list night beggared• -d cription.' The people Who were blissfully slt eping in the foolish confidence thatthele elienkreente would protect them were -rudely.awakeried the flood coining into their ouses.- Some were even Sure prised in be). When the .stroke came it was like lialttnine " . In - the darkness and • , P . ' the cold the peoplee fled from e watery death, halfirtlathecit and Carrying, nothing Withtheinsave the children - . and the helpless. -r! o scene - of ' e _broken -.dyke . i in - Hollan/qcould be more terrible -t or ,. . more - 'tlittl ing.- The _ -panic -- was inclesetibabli-it. _ •With the -- awful . roe* and the rieks of the - terror-stricken people as t , ir Warning, 'theY.• harried tie. the higher ground, leaving. their,: homes,: their birth " e,:and." their all to the mercy of the waters. - ' '-' - • -.-.• . -, e . . . . ea. IIICTURE OF DESOLATION. *.. * * ' .1111-*.-- ' - . ** The enti • northeastern ,:ka corner of the oityle a ipie' are of utter desolation. There are thirty-five "squares' under "Water. _The outlook .,is :appalling. Houses are over- turned, s�n' cs.. On their sides and . others ,aleilosto , t ..,eir-roofs: Other buildings are broken in pieces. Most Of the *meets sub- merged larel Si:cud' cottages of frail • COn- ) -stroction'-- et, d perhaps-a:third of -*Loge -in the flooded IF ocality have been swept from. theirfound Aimee Doors, windowS,sashee, pieces. 0 futrnittire;' lumber; driftwood and Eihinglewarel all_floating about in confusion. In the lOw•liollovis of the"--bottoM lands the -water twithin a foot or two; ..of the roofs of lbegionies;- . " ' • 1 . . - i -pill PENSION OF Bustfing. • . . _., . 1 - • . 'Business 2s :entirely „suipended on the „Wharf- frohet street around to Portland. avenue. Tie river last year reached its highest 1 nsgrk - at thirty -Wien feet. ten inches in the. canal; but this year it has reached thigty-nine feet, withanadditionat; hichoritvd4 *The. houses alongthe wharf are in a -mi arable -cendition„ as the water is in the second storeys at Fourth street, and thet p . ple - are moving, higher 410 escape theflood. Sheds,- barges, wooden pavementsjlt. counters, : shelving& - dealt& buckets,btpels; „kegs and other floating Matte; are 0- be seen in the river. II ' ' - " . • o E PATROLIONeilN sem& .. .- The„;polie0 are •Wilitehinr, their beats on.- . . Water, PottOth and Third streets in skiffs to keep. Ibirateis fiObistealing what • is left after- Tobvitg, The • life savers . are busy transferrin.._ passengers -from the United StatesMaikLine wharf -boat tothe shore. The river hp,re ig..as high -now as it Was i,n 1847, WO prospects of its getting a great i . re - deal higher People People along Were- Third - and Fourth streets have Supplied.the ISelves.with tines to drati-up their drinking water.and- rovisions to. the second and third storto from the river.. - •• *-• •,- Iteseunee A 1411ELGY.' • • • . . The niOst;distressing case heard of from the overflow: on - the Point last night was that of the 1 lkesfamily. After looking for abousejall day - and finding none Mr. George Willies concluded:to risk staying till night, bittal3otil 11 o'clock the' roaring of the wateks i',eas heard, and soon.they o breakinglinfitheircint ' doors and wind° s and rustied0Jhrough, tearing Off We kitchen and carryiilk 4 away. carpets, .chai*t• ables- and:bureautwith what . little_ Money the.7 family' had itt the bureau drawers.- -By waving 4 - lantern they attracted the'atien- tion of.the,, life .savers, who Oelne to the resoge. '" 0 muck- praise- cannot be awardedithre men. They let down the • - - screaming behildren and fainting mother. i .. into the boat and encouraged them amid. the roaringwaters and landed them solely • in Story avenue. ° •7 -Pittsburg Cairo, there is: hardly.a . town or oitynot From Crinnati--FrOmPittsbutg to *holly. or pkttly submerged. The tannery of the Amtican Oak 'Leather Co., the largest in Olt World, located in Mill Creek _Valley, hurt:teen flooded. For thirty miles . beginning with the upper :suburbs of Cin oinnati and'oirding with - Lawrenceburg, twenty-five '' eslielow the damage,the des- titution Ito,* distress are unparalleled in American history. At Patriot and 'Vevey the river to- e or eix miles, wide. At all other por it extended from the 'Ohio the , Ken hotty bills. The average - width is one 0 11V70 miles.- „ It.- is estimated that Aye tundra& thousand - people are homeless-niprisoned by the flood; The. Governmen0 steamer starts to -day up. the' river to reliftTe oases of -distress along the shore away rorn the -towns and villages; The moat!) the large pactking bowleg in- , Mill CreitkrVallett.'SI% Itahmerged.: One packer Ouse million pcitunds i•if ftrelit -under:, wa u, and from ten . to fifteen .5Erti rnhllion Penn& . of dry' salted,meats in the same condition. On Wednesday night the tiseleftikundrediof shop girls, Avvrkuien and school Children in the city without money for a- meal or a•night's lodging.. In many cases telegraph. offices Oat night did the heaviest business since Garfield's death, mostly in personal messages from detained travellers or in despatohes oduntermanding orders for goods. Provisions are going up at a fearful rate. • A. dozen eggs- have been oldM places for 75 cents, 'Meats advanced . 29 per cent. - The supply is very • short. Flour is scarce and high. " • •.", - - ftrusiO AND TUB JiltlIABIA. The " filbatUden PIOT." : • knew "Passion Play" is in rehearsal in Nevi York. We readthatibe : "Material of the company appears to he very goad.. The part of the' Virgin Mary is played by a handsome young aftWese, who seems to be pettly suited. to it. .The Salome dances gtee fully and with entire simplicity.. The High P.riest has a _good baritone voice and has the unusual merit of distinct •enuncia- ton. Joseph and one of the Magi were well enough done, and though they, like the rest. of the solo singers, seemed to be2eanategis, they showed evidence ofcareful drill and natural ability.- Many of the principal characters—the -Saliiour, Herod . and Herodioys and .Pontine Pilate for instance -e were not employed in , the east, sO their Merit remeins doubtful... The Chorus, especially in the female voices, is trained, and will no doubt render efficient service: . The orchestra,:numberscabout thirty."- . The _LotteryCraze. _ - • , . The suggeation that lotteries should -be legalized -and made pophlar is put forward by the LondonFree Pre ta It .thinks that every church in debt shotild getup -a lottery i - and itselfset-free. This s one of the .1 •evidences of the demoralizing :effect of lotteries. We only .- require to carry the lottery idea one a ep farther to show how utterly immoral i is. Let every pewholder raffle for the price of his pew, -i and let the pastors take their chances whether they get double ' their presen§ salaries !Ortno salary at all. Let us play poker with the butcher and baker for the . amount of our bills, and- throw dice with _the undertaker for his ,a.caleunt.. By this means everybody -would ..hav-e a ohancaof winning something substantial, or if he -.lost 0;day On his doctor's bill he could buoy 'himself up with the lope that he would probably win the next day When he came to gamble with his tailor. In this *a.y life would be made enjoyable and there would be a- dash of excitement about it.:---TorontoJe ram: • . , A. Touching Ina' dents ,At Wigan; in .England, there -twee a Young lady; now king With oonatuitptioie who for several years has desired to Make Mr. Gladstone a birthday present, lier own birthday occurring on the Same day as his own, but -she never ventured to dceiii0. until last December, when she madea book- mark, worked in silk, and bearingthe,wordi; "-The:Bible Our Guide," which some friend Of , forwarded with her explanatory nate. • Some days' afterward she received kfj- tail from Himarden a boi.containing a very Choice geletstion Of camellias and ferns, and some filo English grapes, with notes from Nr. and Mrs: Gladstone inclosed, Mr. Gladstone's wee as ft:Aiwa : ." I atn greatly 'touched by your kindness in_haVing Worked a bookinarkfor Me under the oiropmatanoes at whioh you glance in such -feeling: and simple tering.. • May the .guidancte which you aregeod- enough to deem on my behalf avail you fully-onevery step -of that journey in which, if I do not precede, I ortnnot but !shortly. follow you." • • z Iroreordinntion. -Congressman E. John Ellig;of the United States, who was Eb rebel prisoner during the war, was imprisoned at Kelly's fsland.' While there a Confederate. chaplain, a believer in foreordination, was brought in. He was in_ the prison one night when a tornado tore off the roof with a terrible uproar. There was a great panic. No one ran harder or yelled louder than the chap- lain. He was asked afterwards Why .he made so much fuss.- If it was fore- ordained that you were to be killed you could not lave helped yourself," Was the remark of one of the prisoners. The chaplain -had a reply to this. He said: "1, reckon it was foreordained that I Should run and howl." The Ways and Means Committee of the New York Assembly has reported' !favor- ably on the Niagara Falls park eroject. 7 177=7ernor Stephenson died., suddenly on Saturday at Dubuque, Iowa, of, -heart disease. - ' : -. 1- e. I -- ".kaninitt," asked little Edith, "be . all grown - folks •.- hateful 7" "Why, Edith," replied herinother, -" what put that _idea inte your head ?L' "Nothing, mamma, only -I knoti everybody Who -comes here is hateful, 'cause I've always heard you say . so after they -went out". : - • • !' - ' - , . . • 0 , An Irish' gentleman9 who had been petid- - m.4 - • .- - g the evening with a few friends, looked at his witch just after midnight and said— "It is td-morrOw morning; 1 must b:d you- .geod:night, gentlemen." ' - I Two persons in a Nithsdale village - were discussing the death. of a man well-known to both, When one, of them remarked, "Robert had the makin' of the qoffin-." The other,: after . le 'moment's lieditation said, "11 I'm spared an' Weel, he'll no get the makini‘o! mine, at onyrate." . ._ - t • - . . When a _woman *anti Jet get ridlof her husband for: an hour she sends him upstairs to -get 'something from the _pooket d.one of . . . her dresses.. ': -. - - - - , - 1. - Dion Botioicault-says that it -was he who took Henry Irving from the English -pro- vinces to London, but that Manager 'Bate- man risked the Money to bring him out successfully.' . Being asked whether Irving -wOuld probably SuCceed -here, gr. Bondi - °suit replied: : 'If by smog you 'mean great lieuges, there is no doubt about that; .but if you mean What rank the people will Resign to ,him -in the 'hierarchy of i great tratedians, it is impossible to . determine. You -hive types before you ofthe leonine in Forrest, and'of the _panther in Booth, ..and-, some , may -_ remember. the ursine litabliady- ;,- but Irving is like none of these, -nor. can he be characterized. He resembles absynthe. :Some people may make &Nast Wit first; but the taste grows lira you, and at last becomes an eager appetite," T , - V.• 'a • 4 enolannows .k OPITAliptCflIANGER. . They Dismiss llerkits' Wages? Taxotioni . Boater eirll TetoPerante. 1 At Thursdity'li-eteasion the Legislative.' Committee reportiq, making the following • reoommendationeit ) That the -Masters:and Servants .A.ot be Amended so that • the -servant shall bailiff he 'first lien on the property.of his nr)C.,1r,-)r for his wages; that the Assessment be-. changed so thatr the assessments A' made once in three years 'instead of early, and:, that it be ade -in . the sultmer time; that 'al1 preperty-eboth fsii. and.' persons41,itt - mortgage, bonds, stacks—be equally assessed; and thiftiphe present system of grading barley ii7K-'ot satisfactory. These recommendationCfitere adopted. The - Cominittee on Aqii_Aglture reported, mak- ing suggestions a better system ' of farming than is ierally adopted, urging 4 the keeping of a-1,*iifer class of stock, aigi the fattening of 30.4.:ie cattle for the market as a means of- impOving the farms. The . report was athipteet Sister Nelles moved- 4 - that the questiorA:b?f .butter making be discussed m the "4,P.-* ?Juges until some con- • • . °Vision be resaheki- they to report to Ole Division'Granges4)41 theDivision Granges to the ProvinoiatIA-ranges. The motion • was -adopted. .soofet Nelles moved that. the respective - Ilallway companies be requestedsto prov414 cars, suitable for the. . eenvekance of freOittruits. _Carried... - The Conimittete* Temperance reported, recommending 04' the habit of treating be discountenance; that -there be.further ri3strictiens placettlAn.- the sale 'of liquers 2.- ‘1 */ that the Provuuna- range give -its support tei the total separOn of the sale of liquors -from all other burs interests; and that the members...of t ,Granges rise above all rt Party lines on the:40,10A of temperance. - The report was acct -ed. During the evetle45 session the only bug- ness transaoted the electionofofficers; .The following waie e result: Master, R. 3. Doyle; Owen 'ee,nd; Overseer, I'. W.:, Noicon, Bloomfiel,. ' wintery, A. Gifferd • Meaford.; Lecturt obert Carrie, Wing- . ham; Treasurer,t'„ Wilkie, Blenheim ; Chaplain, ood; 'Smith's Fails; Steward, Levi Vett, Camp, Bowinanvilles Assistant-StewartfitB. A. Nolles, Grimsby; Gate -keeper; Wint.iirock, Adelaide; Ceres, Sister -Lethbridg4470trathburn ; _Pomona, Sister S. ; Fl -ora, Sister Garbett, Peter _Stewardess, Sister O'Neil, . Lindsay ixecutive 'Committee— Jesse .Trull, OS, ; Robert _ Motaurdy,- John •Tolmie, T erton ; -G. -B. Miller, , Moine lou t3 • cts Things. • A family of w4.0 negroeswith Ye11°*1 kinky, hair lives 'Oconee county,-Ga,.. Mrs. Mary- Aurr, of. "Washington, Geo, djed recently. S. iad been the mother a forty-four ohildry, including six Bete of: • 4. ktriplets.,younyears of .,Bayou TerrebOunne, La,, „aes a light brown beard, two inches long at). very heavy except t e upper hp. i• .11 e • A .,12 -year-old Holmes county.; Miesissippi,• whos_4, &tents are ' as bleak. as native Africano' is white ears, cheeke and nose, and thetiolor 1.0. spreading over A her whole body;- ' - The analeps, e'peiparous. fish of eastern Aka, has a singt4r ete.- it is divided-- horizontally intalDWO hemispheres by a - -t 4 menibraneous bov; Each half ia a perfect organ of vision. inte two upper halves are long sighted, ant1,14tie two Imam- ones IVO -near sighted. It •. • . - In SpottaYivanlei county, Virgiuia, Mrs. Ann Tolley, aged') years, and apparently in robust- health,"Vormedher friends that hertime had -cone' Soinipressed was she with theidea thatAehe arose one morning at an early- hour, shed, dressed and pre. pared 'herself. 19-Xthe anticipated event: She began to weli1,49 breakfast and drOpped dead. -, • • A hen in Chioa#44 refused to prattle' for. a brood' of t• chickens.. They gave her great troublete ,flew to the top of e.., fence one day, pai er head between the pickets and dropptt• if, thereby committing suicide. • The te bans were adopted by a pullet only a fe months old which had never laid an oggi She is taking oare.of the family with as UttgO, OM as a tough old hen could displa0 Ilileets' of Diet onLIabiiiiy to Infection. Professor Fes LI of Munich, had been making experbnezi ? on animals with a vie to establishing thIfeennectioia which mils between distend tOility to infection. the trials hehas fre4e on rats iztotsulateii with the poison t-.1 cattle distemper, he 'demonstrated the 4:aet; says the Lancet, .that the ealimals whier*ad been fed on veget- able diet were Vekly attacked by the disease, while thotl-whioh had been fed ex - elusively on meat+anisted the effects of the inoculation. Invitilding this fact a lead- ing jeurnal, 4ronnection with the .Continental leateelprade'attributes to the greater amount vegetable diet, in the shape of bread, e etc., taken by - wool - sorters between day and Monday, the -greater feequeno cases of outbreak and the aggravation 9 disease during that period. - The late Lord 4 igan believed that all the -world wig an riny, and everything therein Was r ..,ttlated by military -precedence. One4pladay, at Deane, after the usual servi0 ',Tee sent for the' local 7to him: I wish to clergyman, and '.:opinion, the singing, of tell you that, in the children to dp ..*as disgraceful." The r clergyman replie, Ejdth due humility, that be WU sorry t41,Aiffer from his lordship, but that he coulefrA agree with Win. "I repeat, sir,?' said Cardigan, "that the einging-was disgrAltglful 1" "And I," said the clergymen-:gret to repeat that I cannot agree .wit u." "1 tell -you,, sir," repeated Lord Chi .,. an .! that the singing was infamotti I ' been an Inspector - General of oavitlk- for five years, and I -suppose I.ought tiriow something about ' „- Edwin Booth fee,eared'at Hatt:thug on Saturday evening: g Haslet, and was re- ceived with unbor 4ed applause. „ Whit a provik -ttal thing it is that, as 3. 'general rule, brle tune the eldest girl gets old enough tot-ibvea'beau the youngest : child is old enoug*.tp sleep quietly. A cross -baby yelling aptlire would ,be a fearful damper on courttrin, • ' It is reported Lottaieloiing her We oar ;tap .her voice better than her Idols.. 1. . 7-7 r . • 1 a ,