Lucknow Sentinel, 1887-10-28, Page 7•
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4-.14,l1.12UY'r roliner tfamilt011iant
AdriellslY DiSaPPears•
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01'..'40ther 'fears She, is Wens, than Dead
• ..--She Started for Church, Vont Never
• Got There, •
The Saffalg, New,g, or 144 (Thursday)
night says: Detectives have been -working
for several days on a strange diseppearance
• in this city. It is the idory of a girl, pretty,
vivacious, interesting, who suddenly •
. dropped out of the routine of her daily life
and left not a trace to show whether phe is
living or dead • - . . •__
- -,-LaurwPuyi•two'lveek-ifitRO-hilif
started from her parents' borne at 100
•Swan died to go to • Rev. P. Cook's
ohurch the Fitch Institute; a bleak
stwaY. " Now,Litura,;" said her Mother, at
parting, 1' he sure to hurry badk from
church '; won't you?" •"
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".Yes, nia,moia, I will," replied the girl,,
and that was. the laet the mother ,saw„of
her child. • Laura is a medium blonde„ with
, luxuriant, curling; brown hair, which -that
_day,Waw-olasped'hehiod..---with---&-silver pin
holding a white 'stone shaped like a rose.
She hes a----griedconylexim, gray oyes, heavy
.daik brews- and--laiiheit,ta-.--mallTitraight-
nose,- mediumsized inoOth and full lips.
She ni straight,,Well-grown for ber age and,
,well -formed She were a blue eollutdot
print;yese, .bltie jersey pap fitting tightly
to th heed, and a sash of the !same,
material as the diese: A brown jacket, No.
3i• batten shoes, black stockings and Week
mitts, completed her costume. Her dread
reached scarcely to her sloe tope. She
was 13 lest birthday, but leeks older. The
missing girl's dress and appearanee arede-
, neribed thus carefully flo that if she has
been seen her parents May be comp.:MM-
. ceded with. _ -
'41 When Lauri did net return after church',
time her friends became uneasy and one of
:her yoUngersistete was sent to the roomsof
Mrs. Westfall, on Seneca street, Over Tif-
fany's picture Store, *to. inquire if..she . had
been' there. Mrs. Westfall .was Ileum:Es
' most iptimate friend. - She , was. not .Ett
home, said her litiebitocl„ a driver for Chas.
• W. Miller, andhe said Laura had not been
there. His little daughter .corrected • him,•;
. however, andsaid.olianra-..harlAdenthere
•snoc„..,tosog34,tdraerning...N.r.i.IVnattitil 4•17i3A hie(11
&Wait 32,Lt ziaW,--4-libUiteskinticir ;gam
Grein,Iseure's
•. Sunday !School, teacher, called at Mrs. Pny'S
house to know why Laura had not been to
!school.: On , the previews Friday . she had
•. promised ,to be there Then another
Inessenger was sent . to WestfaIrs.,
Westfall said that his wife was Atilt absents
• .that else had gone, to his cottsios .and that
• he had not seen, Isutra, Mr., Pay afterward
•. and , Was told by Westfall
. -that Laura ' was there •about 10
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o'clock ' on Sunday 'morning and had
,•stayed- but fevr minutes. . Mrs: West -
fall was emphatic in saying she had net
seen her since .and that.7Bhtr knew nothing
of the girl* whereabouts: Other friends
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in city Were sent to., Ind not trace
canild.he,found. The last knicWo of her
. was when after coining Out Of Mrs. Weld-
. fall's Laura 'stepped for a:moment to speak
to Mrs. Bryan, who 4:c/es-near Mrs.
Puy had gent Laura to aphOtographer's on
Seneca street for some pictures &beta 10
that Morning; and it, was during thiskyvalk
that she must bait() gone to Mrs. West.
,Wst:-
• , fall* The. next day detectives. were put
on thecesci, but so far net found the.
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. "Lauri wes An affeictiOnate ohild," said
. Puy to a News reporter, "and I do
' not know of any reason why she should go
away. I believe she is secreted somewhere
in the eity. I am sure Mte, Weetsfall knows
• Where she-ieL:-She has. been--Laura's-evil
Mrs. Puy bite:fiVe children, all girle Her
brieband ',works: for the Benedict' Paper
. ,CeMpany. ; The.family "eanie here from
Hamilton; Ont., ten ..months' age: '• The
oddest daughter, Aida, has it good position
is book-keeper With a Hamilten firm: • .ighe
' ., has con* On to Buffalo to help her parents
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find her.reissingsieter. ' , '. • • .', • •
went itni,h1ra.fpuy, "and . apre, eedf Mrs;
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. , " We knew tbe,Westfal in lle,milton;"
,Westfall,were always .great i churns. ,. They
.pame liere'two years before, we did and She.
. perenaded, us to let Leine go to live with
. .. her on Chestnut, street. I believe no that
. Mre.. Westfall taught ' ratite, 10 • 'Sad my
. ltuthoritYTat, defiance. I always had Bomb'.
• Misgivings, and When I Went totakeLaura
: home to send her to, school Mrs. 'Windfall
... Objected .and, Laura deliberately refused to
.'. Come. , 1.beited:' Laura's cars,and; since
eri'Mrs. Westtalrliss 'Fiala' that .r was a
el mother, and that she heti adviseEllsaura'
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to run "aWay': from • me. :I' .have been
',.told since my child's disappearance that
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Mrs. Westfall on that Sunday Wes. not id
-the ,plave where she told her husband She
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was going.- ---MPS:Lairn,..EiriTunt ' of . West.
hall's, went tb:ottli,Con her .that Sunday and
Iffeetfall said She was at his 'cousins. . ' I
will go there,' said, Mre. • Lann, but , 're;
-turned , shortly and reported • that. Mks.:
, Westfall had not been there. '..' When her
husband naked her shout it that night she
•• 1.- '' 'said she had gone there,' found the cousin.
away and ttad spent _tlie. cle4_,,with_e_drese,_
maker friend.at 74 Seneca street;
, 1' We have found that the COUsin was at
'borne. all 44i -that Mree.,Westfall did not
tall: and, WheVe mere,' We can't find that
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hie spent sPent.the day at 74'Seneca 'street: It
. Ltyes during this One; ,when' nobody knows
/Vhere Mrs. Westfall, was, that„ My :child
. • disappeared. ' lf She is not trying tohide
• soinething,.,Why does she:Make such state-
, tient& ?" • • ° ' • . • `
Mrs. Puy .further stated that ' 'sliaid
, . Made inquiries Of Old neighbors of .,tlie.
•: . Weetfelle on Chestnut Street, and ,oye
. some of theft statements, ' adding that ehe
feared her child had been led wrong:, ." My
poor child l" she eteleinied.„' "1 tun almost,
', afraid to find her alive," ' • . •
' l'bo yon know theWhereaboote of Laura.
Viiy ?" the Ness/ man asked DAM, Westfall.
" I do not." ' , , ,„ , . ;•
"-When aid yen see het last?" •
4.., Two weeks ago last: Sunday 'morning.
. ;SheWas at. My hoes° for St shopt, time" ...
, " You do not know whereshewenfthenr'', , The :annual i eoniention of University Went West.
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.n Nce. . ..., . . ... ' :• ,....'...._ ...LI.% • ' ' ....: 'College; Tororste, • took place Yesterday ! 4 OiendlY qtlit; 'CO setae the queetion of
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Was there anybOdYWith her that,day•?" afternoon in Convocation •Hall. President, .the right of the. ,Domiltion ' or British
:. `!..l.Wilinnin his addries dealt With the neede cirltikribia, to. jurisdiction in regard • to
"Did she tell you !die' was going to tint , of the college, Mid, Urged thet. tlio GOVeri troberels.ni the railway belt in the hitt
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Lima ro . • . \ • , ' ineht filtetild not expeditiously in Ocniferritif.
',1 VA biitI woubiii't blerne her if Phedia., the henefite Which he recent' legislatlo 1
rid7Minecnet If\ ans. 111)yoellettillgi iii'ege.ath eg Pdtpi6tan 4 it
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rnu7away. Met Mother abided her: Once ' authorized. expected in 0 few days.
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in my boose"ehe knocked Lana down and
stamped on her. Laura Often told me she
would run away, but I told her not. to. She
said she would •marry. the first one that
Relied her. Her mother took herhome two
'mettle ago, When *e lived on Oheettult
street last winter ,Mra. Hughsen lived in the
front of the house, , and some ' fest young
women stayed there. I went out • with
them ,once or twice at first,, until I found
What they were. One of them tOla Laura
one day. that she ran away from home
when she was 13, and had a good time ever
since. 1 knew Laura was greatly taken
with her fine clothes ind sprightly . ways,
and she told me she would like, to de. the
same thing." , • , .,„
'Where do you think Laura has gone?"
"1 think.shehae run away and got mar-
'ried. She used to tell,me ether_lovers."_
-01-Rather -Yoinig to be a wife, Waso't
she ? " •
"She was a well -grown child. From What.
,she told me several times I think 'she was
older than most girlie are at 13."
'Latest from the Northwest. •
',A Northwest, farmers' association, simi-
Iar•to the agricultural estieciations of other
provinces, has been organized at Regina.
Mr. G W Brown,of Regina was elected
President.
' _The yacht Nettie, of -Ps t Arthur, --hag
been wrecked pearWel
little doubt that the six men who
were on. board have lost theirliyes. Among'
those lost are Mr. MurraY, from London,
England, and Mr. McKinnon, and Mr. Fox
and his son, of Fort William. • ,
Conceited action is being taken to secure
the taking up of the 300,00Q of the bonds
issued by the Provincial Goiernment. The
proposition is for the City Council to lake
up $i5o,000. and the citizens ihe remainder.
Some of the moat substantial moneyed men
in the 'city arelo this new Movement. • The,
bonds will be taken up only on' the, express
understanding that the road. will be etnn-
pleted this fall, , .. • _-
Foley Bros., the contractors Who have
just completed a contract on the Didatli,&
atanitoba; Road, are in the- cityand have
made a propieitionto the Glovernment to
c,omPletethe road and take the Provincial
, bonds in payment, •
, Chief Justice:Wallbridge is seriously ill
of •kidney dimmed and is not expected to
Reports teceiVed frerrialljprtiointottlie„
"Wesiftnesaliniii.-11fat' She 'wheat 'epon is
siondlyanowtalcingzaterildstalff,vand.r3 %Wed
as ploughing' operations .are' suspended A
blocilrade May be looked ,for. " " • ,
The, Amerman Government has eptab-
fished' Et; customs office at Pembina and
placed an officer in charge to facilitate the.
trensportittion of geode to and from Mani-
toba on the Duluth •& Manitoba Railroad.
The Manitoba Gazette . contains the pro-
eleniation of disallowance by the Gevernor-
Genekal of certain :Acts of the Local Legte-
liture paseedeeVeral years ago; but which
were not 'properly :proclaimed at the time.
In tact, all disallowance Acta halm.. been
.prOblaimed-ct second time, • .
• Prairie fires have been prevailing in the
•dititrict between 'Lasalle and Boyne. , The
settlers, however, have escaped pretty well,
'exeepting James :Sutherland, who lost
almost everything. . •
• The total arrival of immigrants to date
*hie year is '15,000. • •
A :syndicate cf. NeW:York capitalists
in-
tend to eogage slaughtering cattle
from the Canadian Northwest, and a. repre-
sentative' will shortly visit the country for
the p.pese making preparations. It is
the intention slaughter . the cattle at
some point on the Canadian Pacitio ;Rail-
way, probably. Medicine Hit or Maple
Creek, and ship the drowsed. meat to New
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They
• Why, Mame; ie it really you ?," "Yes,
indeed, ' Sadie; when clid•you get. hoine
Only. yesterday, ,1! Where were
yen?! "'Oh; every PlaceNeWport, Sat
Harbor, tong 'Brannh'• and, -but . where
Were you?""Oh, : we went to—"
"Did. you have a good lime?" "Perfectly
lovely; "Oh, -pettedly; lovely; I,
declare, Melte' '" So did I; and
"I had. the 'best-tr So..did 1,
and oh, Maind--" DO tell Me all Oita
iit, for "I Willi some tinief just
had a perfectly splendid time every Minute,
and—""So did 1.;. but ien't it lovely to
beat lionie again.?" • " Petfedly
"I think ise, too Tie had a lovely : season
of it, but, "So have 1, but, as
you •," "There's , no , place
home, atter all:" "No, indeed; do come
scion . 0441011 me all about your Season,
and I -H" for , I ' have had 'the
loveliest=".. So. have' ,1-4.erfectly,
splendid l" They !separate -rid -Bits. .
' • • now to Make a Mitn."Yout Enetriy,
• have Ottientlismight that people hadn't
gid borrowing dewn to an exact science
When•Solemon wrote and when • Poor
Iti-Chard said, that goes a borrowing
goes a sorrowing," he. meet have ',Meant
that ono fellow aid the.borroWing and the
lender did the- sorrowing. 1 min older now,
My Children, than T . was when 1: was
younger, Avail have learned that there is:
nothing in the world that will inike a man
hate you so bitterly as to Owe You borrowed
-nuiney.that he cannot pay.; •
• " tut Why should. that make liim mad at,
YEW ?" , ' •
I 'cld not know, Children not knew.
-.7-Burdens. '
,Itev: Adirondack Murray, whose specialty
is fish *Aeries; croesed, the line into Canada
the other day and 'Caine back °retitle/len.
Of , the lying capacity. of the French Cana-
-dian-hesays : There is a childieh enthus-
iasm 'about it 'that eaptivatee you. ge
Smiles as he lies. He lays his hands on his
heert ; he lifts eyes Upward ; he ertibell•
fishes his little lig ;With Saintly allusions.; When Benjamin Disraeli married Mrs.
he lice self he believedhieoWp1103‘" ' Wyeanant ,1,etvls she Was his 'senior by 16
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tudemare Namboe,' of Japan, was years. Yet five years ..after Marriage
graduatedat Prineeton, in 1.878. ' it new he gave her •this character TA# meat
Court itstronOmeiat Tokio. When he aa. :severe of critics, lint a perfect „
waited. the court appointnient his name :Aaiun ,Darling's seddeh disappearance
was changed to Hidemaro Olteitha. Seeing treniuktontreal last year calmed's; sensation.
star's, rentiride bim! of the old college days His is'eaid to bo citizen of KariSed City,
When he-took'pert in cane rushes. end te have =dere heap of Money since lic
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Of ik X.4#10,•Vilildp 8112 AIM/St Re100 end, en
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The .followipg, jitssity sunbeimlaroin
the pen of CarrieMq&yva1 in Goocf. cheer
Flirting with the gide, sir? No, Indeed 1
That's something I never do; and as to
that lily Of a girl just, throwing kisses to
me, why, bless you, that's my daughter
May. And she's the dearest thing on earth
to me. .
Setnething Veda' alinut her -makes me
have a different' feeling toward her from
anybody else I ever knew, and if you'd like,
sir, I'll tell you about soniethingthat hap-
pened when she was a wee baby,•twelve
years ago.
It happened right. along this very road
hetween-Newburyport-Od '11ffeldWalicr r
was then. the engineer instead of conductor,
and was younger looking than I am new
with this white head of mine.
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Only 36 yearsold,, sir, and you see
haven't. a black hair in. my head. That he
longs to ray story,. too, as you: will find.,
You remember that hill with the cottage at
the foot of it, and golden 'rod and ' wild
clematis growing eking the stone wail?
That's where rye lived ever since I wap
:married.,0and it was en-thet-.'entbanknintit
around the bend that the most terrible
event -of -my -life °commas •
the month, and I will never forgot how the
sky looked, as deep, and blue as my baby's
eyes, nor how sweet and dill the air was
'that Morning as 1 walked over to the
station. The golden rod and ferns hung
heavy with dew; and there were; clusters of
purple gripes on the vines along the hedge.
The roses were, unusually /ate that year,
and as the fall came on. they were deep
crimson instead of pink, as they are earlier
in the season. I had one in.my buttonhole
thatmornieg.
'ffithirhad put it there ..when she kissed
me good -by. .
^". Pitty 'ose, papa, for . Ded 'inadeit,
mamma. tell me 00.. *Doti live up in 'ky,"
wife WWI a Christian, and although I
did not believe, in her -religion then, I have
learned to pit my trust in God since baby
lisped to the sherd the rose that morning.
Ever pleasant day when I Made my
down run at a o'clock in the Afternoon, my
wife and baby used to be sitting out there
on the, hill and . they :Would Wave their.
hands at .me; and -the.;_4s17_wenitl, leek se
Weir and innocent, waving her little fat
camplaissIttsmaTntiv,vott, denging fri 5sny
atelltithaterd ilattfluentihould 'Over :eente 'to
her; and 'I was 'such it strong «healthy
young fellow I felt that I, should be able to
protect and guard her always.
• Almost 3 o'clock and the old forty-nine
was puffing and deeming htio burst as we
,fleaked the tend. 1 was alreadY looking to-
ward the hill' and sure •enOugh there was
the baby's white dress; ,flo, 1 Was rnis
taken; it was only a piece of. newspaper.
They were:int there. Why, , 1 wondered.
Perhaps they would bother° befereltursied
,the curve. • Somehow , it seemed to inc
never soloriged tohave thenn thereas I- did
that day, and.I kept anxiously looking on:
til away in the distance on the track.1 saw
something that made every pulse in my
body give a great leap and then steed still!,
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There, just ahead of me, toddling along,
with. her yellow hair flying and her little
arms stretched out to balance herself, was
My baby -14 inethent more and the Wheels.
would be grinding' her body and her
preciousbleed would stain the track. I
lived ages in that moment ofagony.
waved mr &this, shouted, rang the bell like
a madman, -and as I was, pilling the rope
the rose fell from my buttonhole on to the
seat,' and baby's Worths, "Dort made it.
DWI live up in '14y," aline to Inc. For the
hist time 4n my life 1 poured out my .soul
in prayer. God save my child." At that
moment she stumbled and • fell down the
graseYeinbankment. As aeon as I could 1
ran back to find her, and there she sat in
the grass, lifting her 'blue eyes and 'dimpled
month to Me, and as- hogged' her to my
heart -she lisped: '
." I tied to climb On carepapa, n some-
bodY pushed Inc over and 1 fell dewn here.
Dort ky, papa,'" ' • • -
For I was crying and :thanking ,God at
the same tiine, and when 1 came alongside
of the train,'carrying baby on my shoulder,
alt -the •,men. threw up their hats and
chered 'and meat of the women were sob-
bing , That rose is in the locket .with one
Of her baby curls, arid.I have never failed
to pray for her dafety and happiness, as
well as for many. other things since that
day. Isn't she a beauty, too? Andyou
earn, blame 'me' for liking this time of year
hestaiidloralwaye wearing an August
rose whenever my darling girl pins one in
my buttonhole, as phe did.thisme two
hours ago. . • • '
4,*Orgettul Boy. •
]lobby was spending:the afternoon at his
aunt's, and for some moments had „been
gazing out out of the 'window in a painfully
thoughtful portlif way. • , '
you so' serious, ,Bobhy ?
asked his 'aunt. • •
," Why, ma told me that I must remern
ber not to ask for, anything to eat, end I'ni
trying to renumber it." .
All the 'big hotels in' this! hay are ri)4
under the striated discipline. The regu-.
lations require that ;the- help shall he
attended' by it physician employed by the.
hotel. .Under this system Dr. Sargent, for
theWindeok Hotel, yesterday vaccinated
thEi 287 employees of that house. :It Was
an all day's Job. -,,Ni. Y. Syn. , ,
Josephtlark, a boy sent fromi Kingston
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to Penetangnishene some years ago, eseeped
and arrived et his home yesterday, having
footed it all the way. •.•
. A steam launch' has been chartered: by
the Doroinien Government as a cruiser to
protect 1110 Bey of,Rmitty...fisheries 'during
the wieter,
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Spurgeon's Orthodeiy-The Pope's JnbIlee
r -A Little Meretoree
ThoughSpurgeon 'has deniediin
story of his probable 'withdrawal if the
Baptist Union failed to • punish certain
heterodox ministers, the Scotsman returns
to the charge with the accusation that Mr.
Spurgeon changed his rnind. It justifies
it e statement -. by quotations from Mr.
•Snurgeoit's magazine. The address of the
President of the Union was a reply td Mr.
Spurgeon. -Though no direct notice was
taken of Mr. Spurgeon's attitude, his recent
writings are the main topics of convetsa-
tion enitong ministers. ,
' The Pan -Presbyterian Council meets in
,Trinenext..-,-The-A.Meria*EX004ti'VEreW
mittee has been called to Meet, on Wednes-
day, 26th in/4-s at New York: -At the
meeting will be representatives from all
Parts of North America.. ' Among the dele-
gates will :be Rev. Principal Caven, of
Toronto; Rev. Dr. McVicar, of Montreal;
Rev. Dr- Cochrane, of ,Braotford, and
YOthers:
. A Sendai school hymn hook recently
issued at Salt Lake City, "to fill & long
felt- -want-y--(as- -the- preface- declares) in
the instruction of good little Mermen
!children, contains -the , ,edifYing
-stanzalr-•-z--- • .
with Jails for the standard,
A sure and perfect guide, "
And Joseph's wise example,
What can lined beide?
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fll strive frora every evil
To keep mv heart and tongue,
l'n he a little Mormon
• and•foliow Brigham Young.
The Pope has intrusted all arrangements
in .connection with his jubilee celebratioi2
to a cornmintsien of four cardinals. The
Empress of Austria's coininemorative gift
is .6 magnificent tiara valued at 70,000
trends. A pilgrimage of French workmen,
to the ntiml3er of 1,200, will shottlypet out
for :Rome for the purpose of offering how-.
age to the Pope. ' „, • _ _ •
Robertson,' Superintendent of
Missions for the Northwest, is expected to
return to • Ontario during the winter
months and will visit any congregations
desiring his services at missionary meet -
live. or otherwise. .Those 'desiring his
services should correspond, with the con-
vener of the .committee, Rev. Dr. Cochrane,
of Brantford. , _
Folks tiftenitiotisief i.e.-theirs-AWE; Sa,Yinit
,theY ,can't 40;dgi.(WL; knki1_41411,11W
things -in tradllightnshwilid %bat Ithey
couldn't afford to keep. -Mark •Guy Pearse.
The annual meeting of the 'Methodist
General Conference Sabbath School &Mid
'will be holdin the -parlor Of the Elm Street'
Methodist Church, Toronto.; on Tuesday,
October l8th„ at 2-p. ni.. • . •
Rev. . Dr. MacGregor, of 'St. Cuthbert's,
Edinburgh, •preached .' at Balmoral a
recent Sunday Morning, and had the honot
along With the Empress Eugenie, of dining
with the Queen in the evening. • , • •
• Dr. Alexander Paterecin, who: has been
appointed Medical miesignery to 'South
Amine, is 'grandam of bk.: Chalmers'
"Missionary Of Kilmany " and On Of the
Churoli's , first .medical, missionary to
?twists'. . • • .
Old Truthe ;1TevrIv Told.
How Many'readers.pt the,Cani_g_kt Presby,
terian see the ‘51andai•djihe new -organ .of
Henry George? Those who donot miss a
good, deal, iwbether they sympathize with
Henry George's ',theories or not. In an
age; When Many shrewd practical men seem
-driftingaWity from Christianity altogether,
and whenthe gulf, between the rich and the
peer seeing to 'be growing more and: more,
impassible, it is refreshing to . Mad each.
addresses as are weekly reported in that
paper -addresses spoken to crowded 'audi-
ences.; of workingmen in the city Of New
York, by such speakers as Dr. Pentecost and
the greathearted Dr. McGlynn-ari‘Arneri-
can Pere Hyacinthe-Who has sacrificed his
ecoleidestical prospects . that he might
preach, according to his conscience, tbe old
truths of theiSermon on the Mount. It is
this and no wildsocialism that he and
others ere . preeehing to,the crowds Stin,
day after Sunday, and that the crowds, too.
listen to,,even as the common people did
long ago, • when the '0 Galilean Gospel" was
first preached. It is in instance also of the
uniting power of the great prentical verities
of Christianity that Dr. McGlynn has been
.listened to with earnest and eympathetio
attention by an 'assembly of Methodist
ministers, as he explained the platform -of
the .Anti-Poyeity., Society. Has not the
Chinch allowed questions theoretical: tee
much.to. interfere with her practical unity?
and his she been as fethful to her "mes-
sage to nienof.wealth.". as she should have
be.efl ?-Canada Presbyterian '
An Accommodating
You complain', of having to pay your
pastor's salary," said an old muller. " I
will pay it for you •and yon offish not feel
it." At the, end of the year he 'brought in,
tt• receipt full. for the salary from the
pastor,and then he explained: 04 1 did it
by taking a little toll when you sent your
'grain to nay mill,'and 1 took so little that
none of you felt it: You •see how easily the
lipacertaoird. cue bo paid." -Richmond 1?eligioua
A Toronto Divorce case.
Messrs. Foster,, Clarke & Bowes, solici-.
tore, of Toronto, givo notice that applica:
tien will be rjaa to Parliament next
session on beha of Andrew Maxwell
Irving, of Toronto clerk, for it bill -of
divorce from his wif, Marie,Lortise
formerly oronto, now of. Buffalo on
the ground of adultery. This is the 'fourth
'divorce cage which theSeinete, will have to
deal With next session.
. The name, of Sir William"' Meredith,
ex -Chief Jestice,of. the Supreme • Court of
Lower Canada, is now mentioned in con-
nection With tbe Lieutenant -Governorship
of Quebec. It le- alf30 reported that it mite
Governor for Manitoba and the Northwest
Territories will be appointed within a ,f0W
Ata Meeting last night of -the Toronto
branch of the,Irish National eagusa corn.
mitted was appoirited tO telegr,eph to Arthur
, city which, will hold between4,000-and..n..,000v"
O'Connor, •, an Sir'11,mmas Esmond()
Wilting When it Would be convenient for
theto visit Torohto. The treasider Was
instincted to seed 8200.to the leasnrer, of
m*
the,Arnerican tea, -
A by-law to • iiivest 832,000 in a Holly
• Waterwokke. system was carried at Welland
yesterday by a Voto of 146. to L.
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AMONG WOG' 1.41.84 TIOTANTS.
:1,'Treveuer's DesnritsVem otOnenels And&
Stsitying root. .
Withem., 11.,ennessY, -Wes the Only Irish
Ersant.I nee met *Ito had no humor in
;an: hoitt rribly ya in reaa:nee5listrifnrso;t318hifewginaninn7.g!It:
end. "Look where he sleeps,' he almost
screained ; place more fit for a brute ' •
andbttst lat than
gfolae(their;therni6 motherisilente ni
share it between them." . 0',Gosadeits "
means "boys," and, etriding up to the dark
corner where the bed lay, he pulled it
roughly shout, dragging out the coarse '
sacke which served as blanket and coverlet,
then tossing up the. moldy, stale; broken -
straw.,-,--ltdid-notr-appear-to•oceurtoInnt7'
that in tossing about the things in that
,mannerhe was making work forJass Walsh '
when Wftlah returned home at night
from the Gembeen man's to cold -aa -
death praties. He was, as r have :said,,
horribly in earnest ; was too completely
possessed by theidea of the /mimeo misery
he. was depicting in it stormy way'.
"You see that, big stone". he' said in ft '
'gale*. time, when we went.' outside. The
stone was an enormous boulder, - weighing -
I .don't know how many tons, and he toia
me-a-story-about-itr-Under-thitt-trifflder,
Inuta,itl-a-noise-of -hammering had been
heard many •fttimi3 at midnight during it
period of forty years. The wise folk about •
the plea() said that treasure ' must be con-
cealed beneath the stone, and that sonie
ancient ghost was notifying the fact to hiv-
ing men; so five of the Corrigeen -tenants
Hennessy,amongthene-resolved. .
to rernevethe boulder: This they aia, in
the dead of night with the help of a lever.
Hennessyr was deputed by his fou
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associates to search the hole. He did' so,
and found a rusty ,kettle. All this was '
very superstitions cif Hennessy and his
• friends, but ram better educated • believe in
thing's,. as absurd as -ghosts - and-hiddert--- . - - -• -;
'treasures ; . besides, Hennessy : and life, ,
friends, in Spite of their 'superstition, are
perhaps pretty good judges of the Irish land
question • • ' • • : ;
Poor James Wali3h's plat' of potatoes
alooked s e very-ddeerriagegxect..aamn de d Ersoorliagngeybriy again;
"the
"the accursed deer 1" and. described
hew they came up at night and in the
and morning fromtettagithe
entetithe held ,and:IgeOen.,:plets 4and
gnz-mnoraggeedtlions=nyaittenatod"Crintateat
the dee,r were ' not coming; the 'Watchers'
retire to reit, only to find that the deer
have committed more ravages in an hour .
than the sleepers can replace by the wages
Of a week's toil. All the tenants tell the
same story, • "Irt„:,no-,--allowance made to .
you in.Your rent -irons all that damage?" I
ask. • , "No," is the , universal reply. --
London Daily News. • • .
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• Properly Rebuked. '
• 1 was told the richest thing about a Min-. '
neapolis girl. A:, certain'. Swedieh baron Of
floe family and education came to this
countryand, the 'old story, -found himself
obliged to; obtain-, any situation to • keep
from absolute want,. so he entered the -
Clothing store of Ar— as clerk. Well:.
this young lady,' hearing he Was a noble, ..
must have his autograph,' eo she came into
the store one deyand,irequested it, leaving
her album. It puzzled. him greatly. Why -L -----
should She want hie arttegkaph, a complete
stranger? Suddenly the trio hstruck him
and he.wrote his name, aodbeneatlr, "Clerk '
in 311—'8 store." " 0," said he tome, :
you should have seen her face lengthen, and
she said, '1 didn't Want that. I wanted
Your name and your title.' 'There it '
I answered'there's the name and, clerk
at M, -'s is the only title I wear ha this
dow4lry:' Pau/ .1?ioneer Press.
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ue Stood , Struck,
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A Buffalo man who was recently in Eng- ,
land tells the Courier of a 'remarkable ex.•
perience he had et it lair in a 'smell Village
on the outskirts of London;* He vvalk- '
nig,aiiiilesslyabout the grounds when ft .
men. waited up quietly and esid : Are
you working, or will •you etand " 111
stands" said the Buffeloniap, and he re;
mained'wherelio• was ,for , probably fifteen
nnnutee. ,During that period the stranger
came* him three times and handed him •
money'. At last he began to think' he had
enough of" standing," and struck out for •
his hotel, • Soon after his arrival there he ,
tumbled to„the tact that he had been doing'
".-stool-pigeon work for a ' ging of pick-
pockets, who had evidently wade a Mistake'
as to his identity, but he cleared about 810
by the centred,
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• • Very Liberally iipiliarded • • •
The engineers Of it heavy donlile-heisder
train saw a ehila,:oo the track near the.
Village Of ROck•Glen, Y:• ,:They whistled
for brakes, and when the train .Was abtost
upon the child one Of • the engineers leaped
from hislocomotive, and, running ahead,
caught the -intent, from 'the track. AE
reward, , the mother has recorded
engineer's nitmi3 in the family bible! Great '
Scott • , ' •
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• The death is announced of Sit 'William ,
,Miller, . who ' was largely. interested in •
Northwest land. ' , .•
.Re'v. David R. Kerr, r1.D., of Pittsburg;
editor' Of the United Presljyterian, and' oneo
the foremost preachers in his Church, . died •
yesterday moth* after prolongedllJ
:fleets, aged 70 years. .• •• :4\
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...At:the' opening of the fall aSt3i'26.4 ih
.Kingelon„ Tuesday, Sheriff Ferguson preo
sentedJudge O'Connor with. pair of white
kids; according to the old etagere when. the
sheriff.has no prisonersjor trial. The only
criminal case at the as re is. a °halve of
shobtingwith intent against Rowley,
who out on bail: His Lordship remarked
on the absence of crimeon the vvhold of his
eireint,Ilins far: ' , '
Evangel* Moody, who 'completed, two •
weeks' work in 'Montreal last ,night, ex-•
presses hinieelf as highly pleased with the.
success of his smeetitigs. He Will remain in
Montreal- until, Thuri3dar hext, and will
then go to Minheapolis to 'preside „at the, •
.Opening of 0, large Swedish Church ' tl '
people, This, Mr. Moody says, IS the first
imitation he hes received from the foreign
-popOlation of Anieriea, Or ha would not .
I think of going sg far' west at this time '•
The moiiey taken from therfacine, .e.,X .
...-s : --..,
press Company by Messenger Owen has all
been reeoVered. The ernonet 1 Wee, t33 opq.. ,
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