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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Sentinel, 1884-03-07, Page 6, e.1 Algimisrmaal _ • - ILate,t .fitoin, • Theejectniente eh:Out rry see . _ .. . . inoteatazig.. - 'Al new public library for Kilkenn e.xpeoted, will shortlyhe established.. ' _Mr. -Thomes Hamilton bat been pointed a resident magistrate for thecolt-.4 of - ann. . : , : ., 11. -•- - ,--: - - . On atinttetY27th the _police ,Protieedtt - It yfotan,- and united Michael Tat • ;Olin Nolan,: Thoratut !Kennedy: and . xence Hannon, all of Bellyforen,- d ohatge of hating tout !years ago rated Wm. Mahon, a ganiekeeper.; - 0_,ii January 26th, as a train from . to Lettetkenny_was slowly approaohin i .. latter. etation,yit was, withtheexcepti -the engine, blown off't e rails by the - 1. . , - falling on ite side on the face or aide' embankment -close to the tails. were only eleven ,passengere, some of sustained slight outs..I • A eiitAs. BonANCI. liftsgagement 'of One -q- Irvinies Cons . With a Toronto Belle:. - - ' Two- years ;ago MierLily Burton, t oo4iplishecl daughter of Mr. Justice '.:, -ton, was in England. - While stopp' . the house of Mrs. Ce - eron in. L�ndow h . met with Mr. Forbes ' itobertson - w y ng • actor by profession, known to the stag -as Norman ' Forbes. 'Their acquaint,f, ce •. ripened into friendship, and their fr 'ltd. shipintomutual love - In the mean • 4811 Button rettirncid to Canada,' . Robertson advanced in his profs tilt he was enrolled seta regular memb Mi. Henry Irving's Lyceum Conipany, • with them came out to America on present term Mrs. Burton and the y• , lady Went down to NOW York to meet tl orirather him, when. -they landed, but • *beds= was .so --il Ithat _ they couldi see hint.' He soon- got, round, and hes pl . regularly With the company till To - was reached, when he twee again taken 114 BO ill that he was net able to atte • patty in his honor given ,at the • Ju w. ed. V he of d, an re of eir ng m, r. Lot ed to ry a e's • bonito, Wellington street west, on Pray ht, -when and where( the engagement to have been announced. -Mr.Itying unable to attend, but leeveral. nternbe the company and the friends of the la were there, and a p1easantveningpaE 'Every one is in earnest in: their hope . . the young gentleman Will recover his wo lieelth; and the- Ycning hearts their desire.--Tetonte World. • A TEBBIBilie Two Persons Perish In a Burning ID , ing at Woodstock) N. B. A dreadful aticidentlis reported fro village of Bridgewater, N. -B., whi situated -between Centreville and boundary. Mr: Burns' home and al contents were burned. Mrs. Burn : her daughter made` their escape fro burning biiilding by leaping from the u window. • Mr. Burns andan w ado da ghter about 14 years old -ere una eso pe, and were :birned to death it con agration. ThirJngh the .Flood I Cincinnati limpet says: A l000m 11- _ on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad 0,eight , coaches- -three miles and a • •,, through Water water from two to four feet : Ov-er 250 passengers were on. board train. As the locomotive entered .e - : --ie'eal iron bridgis spanning the Hogan it as - . eighteen inches in watek. -. The ticene as • intensely interesting.I : ' As the train**. ed • through the. btidge the *rater was haif ay up :the - second step. Once - out of tjie bridge, for 400 yards. the Water. -BPI - upon,the tops- of the second steps. -A • time the train. was hardly kept Mov untilfinelly it stopped With watet on - trait+ 'one foot - deep., The engines Welt 13topped . to rekindle, the fires.-• tLJie . wt tie to Conies- er. dietetic* was one--thil accomplished the orst and:deepes standing for .fifteen minutes the given and the train Moved- again s1c1y through the Murky water. Now the cin. der of the locomotive iehtilf under ;tv . • Water isagain on the Op of the second P of bitch Coach, and is slowly ascending - .thirdiand last step.- The water is two id • whoa! feet in the fire -box, and still the t .in moves- slowly along. Finally,just otip te 7 Spiedell's hone% - thel. cylinders- of - e - engines are out of sight, and the side • :cannot be seen. The water is- now, tl e • feet in -the firebox. ' The bottom bottoin Sill f . the -coaches are two inches tinder w , and the Men standing on the the pilitt-beent. Itontethe engines clearing the drifteVy are- , kle-deep- in Vatter._ -So slow is ie motion _ ' of • the train-- that it stQs. "•Stuok,". ' says the i engineer,. • sen thus* But now mimes the rear eec . of the : -train with another en . slowly moving down upon us. - .The'engi s fite-bOxis arched, and an generate Id Oni •, -in 4 filet 10 inches -Of water, and WS ar ,In .- only 4ifeet 2 inches. Its pusher is attaclit-41, • and with one loud ingnalbatifetigines beleitn . -to mo a:again, but the movement is aIw. : The doorways and . windows of the f house. on either shot* of . the sea titre' h whiok we . are passing are crowded - people waiving- their handkerchiefs • _ oheetingthe hold -• engineers on. - We o steadily on until we are -once more ow 'y ground, after-havingbeen in the water iTo. • limits and a half, -. and travelled only t e. miles and a, half, .one-hilf of the- wa 1n- • water four feet two inches deep. Carta - this is the most - remarkable feat exit 41ithed-oni railroad in the 'United St gt side-1de , of.. a ItociOeitirdy...... . .. . At West Bromwich _yesterday an Wit • Was held -on a boy ,aged 12-, named Ja -Welsh,twhit committedstnoide by Om ' hiniself with..:a. strap -from _a hook in - - ceiling of the.kitchen Of his Parents' ho The i'evidence ' showed -- that. deceased • - been troubled in hismindabout not -, able to pass the examination of the So • Board. Be had -also -13e n punished b Of the -assistant- teachers, although ag _ _ the regulations Of the Board. Ha. -6 - • plained•that the work set -him at school too hard, ha0,-btit thentaste denied that he •-.. been et harder - tasks than other boyi; _ his age, _ He had passed the fourth and. . preparing- for the fifth Standard; bit - ..not abfight lad,:- Several jurors cordp . -of the extent to *bleb corporal pntiislim tt - was practised at some of the schools; t- id- requesiled the COrtinet to bonitaunicate Voi:12 the So ool Beard on the subjeet. • A verc - t of suicide by wa returited.4- 4mM- . • It • 1, - 'et? the:- -z&ntetre4wilik •i the Poitticia. and Other :poses. ; . - •• • . X4iPACIW °Ate stepia1ilay0 : It has been aiming -ea that the Queen will dart for the Continent the first week in April, The 'eittrittidate win -be kepte secret, as also the totittaywhich she goes, . as the Queen is stili troubled with fears of a• peesible, out. rage. • She Will make the V0/140 in the royal yacht -Osborne,. whith will have the ships Alberti -Enchantress :and -Galatea as an etiaort.: - The Queen Will be: away ' from England a Month, the greater part' -of the time at Darmstadt, where she goes to_ at- tend tbe Wedding of her nista, the Princess 'Victotialit Hobe. - . • -• •. The re-election of the Prince of Wald; as Grand Mister of the :Freemasons, Which will -occur on the 5th of:March, Will be, the occasion of a great.MasoniecereniOnial. • - It is a -notable sign, of the -times that Lcird.Eriteit Hamilton, an aristootatic ten, didate for kpopular Constituency, had last - week to:pledge-himself. againet any allow - ante to the Queen's.: -grandchildren.; His Lordship added with a aigh that Her -Majesty'e finilly are oettainly Sty prolific. - The N. Y. Out:Says the throat of -Scandal is hoarse with ugly -comments -on •the late so - Celled -"peasant festtval.'! The universal -*diet of the !moiety journals is that there was never such a 'diiptay of paint and powder, of doting Old .Duchesses aid of ricketty old : • Marchionesses„ tight-laced, -powdered,- and painted, down , to giggling youthfulnesai.vihile- the yoUng and pretty -women are denounced:for the too:. wanton revelation -:.which they are said to have made of their • chatme. Lad.* Woleley, tormerlyMist-Mutphy, was dressedi n the most magnificent peasant oostunie ver dreamed Of,. and *rent :about_ selling corn and giving WO risbange: . Mary :Anderson, with chareatiterietio, diseretion, promised to go, and. then pleaded.aickneas, though she was able ic) visit the Speaker's gallery "in the Commons ,on, one of the _nighte of the festival. The -epitome of the whole business is that charity has become the • °leak for _the %display- by fashionable ladies of the manners of an- thinientionatile section of, their set. - • - • z The report. that :Leigh Smith was to Make 'an Arctic expedition in the aim:liner in a teasel built for the purpose is untrue: :The report originated front the • feet that Mr. Sniith• -recently went to 'Aberdeen to ,seleot a whaler for the -Atterittati.Govern-. Montt.• The, Brussels -African. Association has decided :to Maintain Henry Stanley in command: of the Congo . country. Gen. Gorden will be sent On an independent 1i:dation. . • The King :of the Belgiatts has sent Mr. Stanley &letter filled -with expres- sions of satisfatition and °diffidence in view of Oita results. of his labors. , - • • • - The: -Prince of . Wales' maiden'speech in the. House of :Lords last night Created ii- lintter Witting the Tory Peers. • The Mar- quis of Salisbury intended to Unlit, the in. quiry to -dwellings in town?. :The Govern - Ment, doubtless keying in- mind- ciertain references to the • Marquis of SaIisburre -cotton property in Hatfieid, extended_ the inquiry' to rural populations. The Prinoe't3 .epectok: justifies theta by. desoribing the condition Of his Norfolk peasantry When he acquired Sandringham eetate. • . A sensation .is reported from St. Denis, the capital -of the French - inland -Reunion, in the Indian Ocean. A duel With swords WaifOught-between an Englishman mune& Winter and an officer of the marines; by the • name - of . - Orosjean.. Winter. was pierced to the . heart, and fell dead upon the spot. :;,: • .,• . 4 London wine nietohaiits - are -.badly• off owing to the decrease in the consumption of all wines ettiepo claret and: champagne, but the ivhiikey.trade flourishes. A Scott% train the other day .consisted .. of 24 cars 'laden- entirely With:Whiskey. • 'The Parisians intend to name _a street :after Darwin, and Tyndall is.denotniced as • veering in potitios from Liberal to Conserva- tive and vice versa- with •nnphjloSophic self- contradietion and auspipious frequency. The.peOple of Brighton, Which was prtio-. tioally made by _George ;V.; have s a statue without an inscription, - .abd I..titiduchere suggests an extract from Greville'iidiary, in whichthemonarchii mita"contempt- ible, cowardly, selfish and unfeeling." - :Arthur,.the absconding money-ohanger of Paris, has been traced to Havre en route 10 'Atneritta.1-Wartant$ hate been issued for his arrest, under instance Of -caniplaints to the BritishEmbassy, Col. -Villier, military . attache- to the. embassy, -deposited-220,000 with Arthur the day before he -absconded. The other losses are by Anglo-American residents. . • . . • . The friends of Pripet, KrapOtkine have renewed their appeal to.Ptesident Gievy to. release the Prince from prison. The Prince,: writing from Odeon at Clairvanx, says: "'My last forces :are failing under „ the ectitryy,'-which Locintiected in the St. raw prison at • St. Petersburg: .1 ant :se feeble that I can hardly write." . : ' Sit genii,- -Brand, on resigning the Speakership of the House of Comrctons, was -offered•a peerage, tint declined the honor. It his been the. rule 'ter' the Speaker on :retiring to 016 the House of _Lords. Sir fienty's•rea-eini for refusing is that the heir:" -dem Of the -4 Wed -barony OUDittire- would. be Merged in the -424W_ title. "He .'-aciiepts: the: petition of £2,000'Yearly...: • • . Mr. Gibson -(Hamilton) presented the. fifth reportof the Standing Committee on Private - . • The follciwing Ellie Were read the first time: .• . Mr. Pard -es --Bill protecting .„ the publio interest in rivers, streams and creeks. - Mr. Mowat—Bill to amend the election law, for the better prevention df corrupt practices. , • Mt. MoCraney-73111 ,to amend the Act respecting Public,- Separate and High Schools. - • . • The House. in Conimittee of the Whole, ftli. Baxter in the chair, considered the Bill. -to furthel amend :the AO intorpratitt. gthe Roman Catholic) Bishops of Toronto and Kingston in Canada in each Diocese. The Bill is one dealing chieflY with the poivet to acquire and convey land. ' . The following Bills werereada second irO0 • To incorporate the Sarnia &Latta ton Southern •Railway Company, , to incorporate the 'Brockville, Westport & Sault Ste. Marie -Riiilway Company; to incorporate.the Midland Junction Railway. Company; respecting the Toronto & Nirseing Eastern Extension Railway Com- pany. - - - NOTICES OF The Attorney-General—On Wednesday nett—Bill IL) consolidate and emend the Acts respecting life policies for. the benefit of wives and children. • Mr. Waters—On Wednesday. next—Bill to amend chap.. 11,43 Vice,'being Act- • respecting coroners' inquests: - • Mr. ROM (Huron) —On Wednesday next —Bill to authorize the substitution of ter- minable -annuities for railway aid (*.dill- °stet.- - - Mr. Pardee -0,n -Wedneaday next—Bill to amend the Railway Act of Ontario: • Monk—On Wednesday next—Order of the House for a return— (1) Copies of all contract% ,for the erection of additions to the Lunatic Asylum: at Hamilton, or for any pert of the work connected therewith; -(2) a statement showing what changes have been made in_thit plans and specifications for said. _additions and the effect .of them uponsaid contracts; (3) a etatement of the 'amount paid offeccount of such additions; (4) copies of all: reports of the architect in charge with reference to KWh charges. - Mr. O'Connor—On Wednesday -next— Bill to, abolish distress for rent. -The ' -Attorney•psneral—On. Wednesday next --Bill to amend the law as to property of married -women. . . Mr,-,:Gibscsn (Hamilton)—On Wednesday. -next—Bill to amend "The Pali° Health Ant. 1R82." • : : • -' :Mr.. pardee presented the . fourth report _cif the -Standing Committee on Railways. - The followingBills were read itrat time: -Mr. O'Connor—Billto amend the -Ontario Tree Planting Act; , - • - . -Mt.•Mowat—Bill entitled Ant respecting the territory in : dispute between this ?ravine() and the ProvInce. of Manitoba. • [- Mr. Gibson—Bill to amendthe Consoli- dated Munieipal Aat.• . - . . -. Mr. Pardee said, he proposed to give the. Bill an:tending thelliiiiway Act -of Ontario t its firs ;eliding, as it was .a Magee in. - Whinh. he Bill should be printed . and dis- tribute ainengthe railway men, promoters of railways, and railway companies who had mist- built their .roads, in order that they might:be preeent•and give their views Aided : - that no ; -.Mines or 'minerals. regardiing the Bill; The Bill *fitly- pro-- ehall pais to railway companies unless . _ specially mentioned in the charter.: . It also - provided that if • - a • -mine Was passed • by a: railway conipany, and the owner was desirous of -working,the mine. •himself, he would require give the rail - Way company notice Of etch -desire, and then- nn.leati the railway company purchased the Mine the owner had the right to work the mine- himself. -', In cage therailway com- pany! &tided' to putt:base the., mine, and theretWas a differenceas to •ther Price to be paid, that price shall be settled by arbitra- tion, Von, as provided by the Railway Act. The Bill further provided that if a'railway 00M - pug does not pnrohase the Mine the party working itshall notworkit in such a man- ner -at to injury the railway. If a mine is Worked it shall beeonie necessary to ex- amine the -manner in.'whigh it is Worked, and the railway company shall have power to enter a Mine with the viewef making an .examination.-- He i exspleined that the pre. sent Bill. was nearly a transcript of the English Bill, except where it Was changed in BS points : as were peculiar. to this country. In England they had a Minh* .A.ct. All the mines had to •be worked in - accordance with the'Atit,.andin this tioutt• try there Was no snob, provision at all. .He moved; sectinded' by Mr.-. Maser,: that the Bill be read a firettibie. ' • ' . -,- ,. .' Air. Meredith had - no objection tt the hen. gentlenitin reading the Bill of whit% - notice was given on tildhday, but he thuught the hon. member for North Haektings- (a: Wood) Was entitled to '. the &edit of pro- raoting,and,securing Such legislation.. The motion was carried.r- • . , - : • Mr. Mowat called :the attention of the Speaker to. the fiat of cvacancY .exhiting in :the, representation' of East Grey by reason of _the death of Mi.- Lauder.- - - - Mr. Buo1116, the new editor of the Times, is only 83. He owes his appointment to an Oxford friendship with young Mr. Walter. The Times Will be managed by Mr. Walter, sett., Mr. Walter, jun., and Mr, Macdonald, with Mr. Buckle as a figurehead. He won plenty of prizes at Oxford, wrote the prize poem, acted for some time as Mr. Cheney's „assistant, and is generally regarded as an extremely bright fellow. Vice -Regal Disnestie Lite; 1- - - The Canadians, says the New York Tri. bune, " haveltegun to pick flaws in Lord Lansdowne,' their new Governor-General. The first thing they have feund out is that be is not dignified enough. On a recent occasion he was sitting in his carriage in front of the Windsor, at Montreal, waiting for the Marchioness. When she made her appearance, he &mit his head- out of the window and said; 4- Come along, my -dear. Hurry up! ---Hurry.uP I • We haven't any time to lose.' The crowd of people watching the departure were oh -cared,' and said to each other as they turned away: Imagine the Marquis of Urns -speaking that way' m public to H. R. H. the Prineleali -Louise " And yet the remark Wait quite natural and human -like - - • ,AriT11011., siaimi Bowie; Author of The Passion „ Pit? PoundBead itie Hudson.: •*A IV -a' York • telegram says t The body Of a. niett.found in :the Hudson.•,River to- day has been fully identified asthat of Itahni Mcirse;:the author of the . "Passion play." -1 When found the body wa still warm. It is thought to have . been in the -wateiless than an hour. His Bilk fiat, in whioh was a tract entitled. "God loves you," was foinitlen the Irailrcitid tratik neat the plsCe. " -It is thought the tiese was one Of, deliberate aniitide. There are no marks of violence upon this body; and nothing was ,foillid_upon him which w- ould -indioate his .tacitite of suicide: It is - thought he : was angering from temporary . insanity. Was 58 y ears ki and a native Of an , Ct - • " • The person in -the suite of the Marquis -of -Lansdowne who heti made the most decided impression on the Canadians, says the New York Tribune, is Lord Melgund. HisLord- thin,* Spout 35; handsome-, and wear* a gorgeous tmiforin.' - The only drop of bittet- nets in the oup of the Canadian belles that he is married.' -• • , --Thomas 'Garrett, of tiaten-litland; who lived o stiniulants for ten year, died the other.d y it the age.Of 00. • • NI 11111111115T. IttlAMENSECONO SESSION. following Private Bills • were passed thrit. At committee and read a third time: Tamen& the charter of the Ocean W Marine Insurance Company.—Nr. -.TuP;Ity (Piotou). - : = , :- - p incorporate the Provincial Bank.— aomillan (Middlesex). ',:„. bittOrperate the Commercial Blink of M.,:akitibti.—Mi. McCarthy'. t '-urther amend the charter of the Soie . Saskatchewan Talley RailwaY , Co Asny.-,-Mr. Kilted.• . , -‘,.73111 respecting the Kingston & Pero.- brek.1"Railway was, on the 'otion .of Mr. G referred back to the Itailyvey -- Com- mi ,p. . • •• f;lIowlngBillswerete. read ti;daeierreatothepropercon. af. pthacentralontsrioRaii:ai.!Iatt.. . - • tiveoting the Manitoba Colonization . R ay Company.—Mr. Ross. • --„ - !i further amend the charter of the .. 0 & Rocky Mountain Railway Corn- - pap land change the tame to "The Bat - tie'? d-dt Rowe River Railway Cittopany.!' _ J, .0 Woodworth. : , • - - - tnoorporatelhe San Tram:moo, Win, ni ed.' & Hudson' Bay.Vailltay•Company. —..4 Royal: . - - • ' -. s ' incorporate tile Niagara Frontier 130:01801ponVany.7-111r, Cameron (Victoria). - 'P,f- "4 incorporate the Traders' . Bank of • C'el•zit'lae_Mr. Beatty. -'14 Wallace (York) moved the - neon& ri3 K-1 g of the Bill to legalize the.a,gree- ni A betvieen the 'village of :Parkdale and Trunk Railway and other railway betrAanies and for other purposes. T :44 Mitchell asked whether the Bill made Sovision for the families of the thirty- tw-Opoplewho were slaughtered in, the so- cik.:-4 on the Grand Trunk on the *2nd Jarry. • ., • Wallace (York) explained that the: i A :,as intended- to catty into effect the ' ent as to the Parkdale subway. •, Mitchell was sorry the Bill'did not ✓ (le for compensation Out of the fund of 4r: yeat corporation which tried to grasp ev(p.ii . hing An the country that the Cane- d:it:4 with) 'did not get. Between these twtElbey owned nearly everything. The cottiftny had now the audacity to come to t ouse:and ask for legislation tegard- in i-Ais very locality without providing for co '42,:itsation.' • • , Beaty said the city of Toronto did _Amid to become•a, party to ,the :agree - A and would oppose" the Bill so far as t • ty was concerned. If. the bon. gen- tlOom wiehed to introduce a Bill for mini -- net iltion to the .families, he was quite at litil-'.1, ' to do so. . • • Mitohell-r-I am aware of that: (Cries - . of der.") -,. , r theHouse had passed on tdother bu iss, Mr.- Mitchell roseagain and said tete is no -provision in the Bill for t . . iliee,(cries of " order") I would :.4i e hon. gentleman to state hie point of pr elseshut up. • -- , .: Amyot said no gentleman:shot:ad be ada , Bed directly in the Moan. . . . --' Mitchell said he had not -done Sp: As t lal made no provision for the families f men slaughtered On the 2nd of Jan- y the mismanagement of the com- a, he hoped the gentleman introducing t ill would Also introduce 'e Bill pro - vi -for such compensations. Billwas read a second time ttild re- fer:.to the Railway Committee. : '-,,,i,,john Btacdonald, ' replying to Mr. I - said the Minister of Inland Revenue 184 r to leave that task to the Cotamis- blob and their impactors. - -• -. • wo - be left to the Coinmispionets. • eff „ al operation of the License Act of tion der its own control -to seeure :the esteiloes to have the tents -required for the th out -the Dominion a police organizer (Big t), said a sum ' had been pla,cedin the t o - of the Government -.to establish. John Macdonald said the Matter' , . _ Caron, in reply - to Mt. SOmertille •----, ed .his resignation on the 19th inst., :.: , Coursolasked whether it is the inten- thdrewit on the -21st. • . • " a a Mi ' ..;r:4 manufactured in Canada..: • :41 John - Macdonald, replying to Mr.' o . ., villa *(Brant), ' said-. a "Government hetk f .oattle numbering 599 head 'were. sokCp-- July 25th to Col. PeWinton at 635 a with-tt,000 additionalfor any stray bat 7 -of • the herd which be Might find.;. pa -F1,4 e as tollows : $5,490 cash; the. same pa tit . on October 23rd ; -the same on Jan ;: ty• 23rd, and the same to be paid pril.. ' • ' John ' IttacdonaId*, replying to Mi.* tonne .(Brant), -said the only buildings n ) dercontract at Tort McLeod were t trrackt, tb. acoommodate a hundred- :nd a hundredliorses. - .The oontiaot a 4,art awarded to the Northwest Coal & tion Company.. No tenders were t • ; . - -fr - - Leonard Tilley moved -the second rea : PI% of the Bill to define cettin Offences 4O4 :as e•-••4 So , Elie . t persons employed in *Wiles. 'Blake sake whethei the Bili differed, l at introde ed and amended' last ) - and if so ow? . • , -, ' eonard. Tilley replied that the only C 8: Was in reducing the hours during children under" 12 or 14, he forgot. could be employed during the week. Bill was read a second -tithe.- - -1 Zan Illacdenald moiead- that all st of the Bill founded on ' the reselu.- tio dyed by Sir CharlesTupper respect - in Canadian Pacific shall have tirece- denkr evert, day after routine proceedings .untitithe Howe otherwise orders. Prplake—We are now arrived at the sec % , , stage of the proceedings which, the lioniSntientan hopes will result inlegiSla- tiopi7.11ire have beewmaking demands until we'ile weeded • for information which. has nob fro sesi:L yth proof out. matt n supplied. It is now proposed to Ibis measure onfrom dayto day with- • pplying that information, without g tithe to deliberate upon that infor- when supplied. It is proposed to do so - On more rigorously than by the bon... 1 gen an Liftt'S last motion; for whereas for- me,* gave us the opportunity to .ques- tim e Government, we are not now to hal4 vim- that 'Opportunity of inquiry. -I do doubt the hon. gentleman's motion carried, Mit I desire to take the the House on this question, and . e re ask for the yeas and nays: motion was carried,by 112 yeast() 47 . Mr. Blake—I don't believe the Eon. Minister of Railways has voted. Sir Charles Tupfter here entered amid - cries of 44 Here he is." . The Speaker declared the motion carried, having -first iiaid" lost," innistake which ,ocoasioned great laughter. Mr.valake—Before the orders of the day are called I would like to have an explana- tion with reference to the resignation of the Minister cf Inland Revenue. , Sir John Macdonald—I am asked for particulars of the *resiguation and . with- drawal of the resignation of the Minister of Inland Revenue. I ha ve answered this twice, and dondt intend to answer' it again. •.4%. -POL. I.C1011.AN,A SAD JEND4 - At ' -He Dies While His ;Wks:4e Family Prestrated—The ,Poor Man Itetsssed Leave ot Absence to Nurse Sp Wile. and Children. Policeman Patrick McGuiness, attached to .the Agnes street police station, died in the general hospital at 11 Okilock yesterday morning under peouliarly Sad cirdum- stances. Mrs. McGuiness, who bas been\ gradually waisting away With ooneupption for a number p.. years, lies at the point of death. She Wak confined three weeks ago and her infant is momentarily expected to expire. • Add to this list a child tuffering :from inflammation of the Jungs and two others down with scarlet fever and --croup, and a cup overflowing with sorrow and affliction rarely found in one family com- pletes the lamentable picture. . The dead polieeman wason dut last Tuesday: Completely worn out by att ing to -duty and ,watching over his sic family, he bit a victim to scarlet fever himself., Dr. Spragge, the physician of the pollee force 'attended him tili Saturday morning, when he ordered his removal to tlie hospital; where he died the following day. , . • If tumor be true there is 'something re- prehensible in the management of the police force in connection with this sad, affair. Some days before McGuiness was taken ill ,heapplied for leave • of absence to urse his family. • Ile Was refused: Owing to his straightened circumstances through re. peatecl sickness in the famuly he was not m a position to absent himself without hie MIMI pay. He was allowed but one night off. By doing duty under the circumstance a great danger was inflicced upon the rest of the men who were compelled to consort. . in the dormitory with poor McGuiness the police station. He came among them with the germtrof s virulent fever about his, cl°theregae. Ded. was a niembe.r. of the farce for ten years, and for about the same period he was attached td the Irish oolistablilary. Ke was 42 years of age. He yanked as a first: °lass constable. •- Chief of Police Draper is in Florida ihoot. ing alligators on a three months' leave of absence on full pay. The health of the chief is of more import thaiethat of the en- -tire force.—Toronto World. . An Old illaisra Eccentric WIlI. . 'Miss Rezkah B. Blackburn, an elderly spinster, who mined a scanty livelihood by sewing for charitable disposed persons), and -who Was generally supposed to be very poOr,. occupied for a -long time a small room -on thetop floor of a house in: Brooklyn. She was recently found dead in her room, and her will, which had been depositedwith her spiritual adviser, showed her to be possessed Of $1,200, and its provisions made it compulsory With her executor at _ her death to dress her body in white, place, it in a solid rosewood -casket, having six. silver handles and a Silver plate, on which should be inscribed her name and age. The hearse at her funeral was to be drawn by six black horses, and there were to be Six.pall-boarers, wearing white gloves and white ties. Her body was to be buried in the Diergreent cemetery beside her parents1 and a tombstone bearing the ,inscription : • Blesised be be who.rceerses time rEtOfles, -• LiAnd cursed be he who moves these bones. Was*, he erected over her grave. Any money remaining after the expense of these numerous behests had been defrayed she desired her executor tO place at interest, to be paid to .a man to keep her grave in •order. • SPRING Tlig NECESSITY OF taking a tonic to i!inity the blood and. restore conatitutional.vigor 18 uniyersally experienced by the young or old, -the Indication arising from depraved nutrition, caused by the depiesOing effects of protracted cold vieather Upon the nervous system, want of out door life, exercise - and „pure sunshine: Constitutions enheebled by . age or disesese are especially influenced. by these causes, the appetite becoming poor, digestion feeble, the blood impoverished andthe vital powers depXessed. To restore nervous force and. muscular energy, Da. WHEELER'S COMPOVNI› ELIXIR OF PlIOSPHATES AND assitsityA is aroll- aablndetIetithligleed1413 rhea°. "bodyy,vitalizing all: 1411 ° ails Fox }hinters have so frightened the sheep in -Chester Co., Pa., that ;the poor brutes are Pining sway for lack of exercise and Mod. On the other hand, the foxes are laughing atthe hunters and giowing fat. 4, sat- Nothing so, simple and perfect for -coloring as•thii Diamond Dyes. For carpet rags, better•, - and cheaperthan any Other dye stuffs. ,In open weather plant opring flowers, and even bulbs still. Make trellis work building arches -the more rustic -looking: the better—for eteepers' to grow over, and flOWSr boxes, eta. An old cask sawn in two: and elevered with tree bark makes a pretty; • flower pot, .**" Mean people lake advent tlfeir•* neighbors' difficulties to annoy them., Mean - diseases, such as piles,rhuematism, constipation, dyspepsia,malaria, lame backs, etc., take advan- tage of people's exposures and attack tlaein. It is then that Kidney -Wort appears on the field ageligputs tG rout this flock t ailmejits. It is a friend in need and. therofore a friend indeed. . e,• In tlie part of Africa kilOWn RS Nubia there growee speciesof acacia, that whistles so loudly that it May be head miles away •1 • A good Beggist clergyman of Bergen, N.Y.„ .strong temperance manesuffixed with kidney trouble, neuralgia and dizziness almost to blind- nesa, over two years after he was told that Hop Bitters ,weidd 'ewe hiM; because he was afraid of ad prejudiced against 41 Bhters.". Since his cure he says none need, fear but trust n Hop Bitters. . •Gen.. Gordon, when at :the Belgian -Court, just 'before reSSIVITIO Ilia commission to•the -Soudan at thalami& of theEnglish Govern, inent, hadieborrOw frb131 the King to - carry -him to London.' He had -absolutely emptied his pockets, as uaual, e,n .some needy persca. A ill .