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Lucknow Sentinel, 1890-10-24, Page 6di 1; • y '• i• • • 10.:. WORK OF A FIEND. Two. Little Girls Horribly Ontraged and Strangled WHILE RETURNING. FROM SCHOOL of life that his first stunning blow had not quite extinguished. Both were then violated by the'incarnate eaten who had tracked them to death. LAROCQiE'S ARREST. When tareogUQ'e n'bnio was mentioned it was at once proposed that he should be seen and questioned. Conettaable8 aoL ren and Dooitte Lavergne proceeded e hoose where he lived with his aunt. He was not at home. He had gone to the hens') of one Laurent. The constables went to Laneent'e. Be bud not been there, ----+-- , but could be found at Hamilton's. Fede lace to �.�t� offioere went from p place . ....,,: eat k1 *h.,_..rr^i!�s•,r�4:"�,lr.:�•n.;.2!!'�r:�4�.1{d.R.l-l�;��r a baIaam `tree, and render which he teat down And lit bis pipe,,, and smoked f9 ibout twenty minuted. He, then resumed hie walk towards his cousin's house. The officer and bis three followers went over this route equally carefully.' They found no treroe that a man had within any recent time passed along there throughout. the whole dietanoe. They found no balsam tree. Not a single particular supported the prisoner'')story. NEEDS A STRAIT -JACKET. The Fiendishly Cruel Deed of a Crazy Farmer. ,ger false qh ea•yePl month ill his ooaintg; oYl`iri:utniay ra, ae scene of one of the most fiendiefi deeds that have occurred in Minnesota in many years. Charles Hoppenrotb, a German farmer, and his wife did not live happily together, and last Saturday after a quarrel she left him with the whole family, going to her own folke. This angered Hoppenrotb, and this morning he took a heavy chain and fastened his three horses to poste in the barn, brought in all the valuable property near by, and kindling the pile with a om a- •mei hborin v ., , r. , .m .,-L,..y,.� r-+ . .... -_ . . he ed c onbli fid emeh Foul Urines Janette tent, and rnd...he, found 'h 1 d t9 A Cumatoobb ethe following fulRussell ler par- ticulars gives of the horrible murder of the Mo. Gonigle girls near there on Tuesday last .: This quiet hamlet on the bank') of the Ottawa River is the scene of the blackest crime that has ever etained the annals of this Province: Two girls, Mary and Eliza lldoGonigle, school children, were found in a little patch of maple woods neer the za� devilieh instincts ' a' e, _ im a e r his lust at the eaorifice of the lives of two innocent children. Mary and Eliza Mo. Gonigle were the children of James Mo. Gonigle, who lives about two miles by the pnblio road from the'viUage of Cumber- land.. He earne a livelihood working for the farmers about, and is a steady, in. dustrione yeoman. He has four children, Mary, who was 14, Eliza, who was 12, a little boy comes next,- while the youngest iu a little thing who has not yet learned to walk. Two years ago four of the ohildren were•oarried, off by diphtheria, and to -day ° the family is again to stiffer a o`elsmjty amore awful even than that. Mr. MoGonigle is a poor men,but his two gide were bright, and he struggled manfully to keep them at Scheel and give them a fair- ohanoe in the battle of life. So it was that the two Mo- Gonigle girls were the cleverest soholare' in their classes. THE FIRST ALAI I. vr.• When their father found,`as described in as: night's Tniss,.that the children- had not arrived home on Wednesday evening, he told his simple neighbors his story, end atter oanvaeeing the matter and learning, that they had been Been to enter the woods, - _. parties were organized with 'lanterns to sour the bneb. They started at 10 o'clock, about thirty men. One of the parties was accompanied by, a dog, 'whioh a farmer breed from its chain to aid in the scarab:' and was on his way back to Camber an . They finally ran him to earth at an nnole'e, Francois Larocqqu'e, some five miles from Cumberland. He accompanied the officers without a word exoept to declare hie innocence. The prisoner was born in this vicinity. He is an abbreviated her- onles. Only five feet three inches in height, he has yet the sheet and barrel of a giant. His head is large, and betrays n all its lines the largely predominant animal in. minutes' chat with him tonight. • e a witted, in reply to the reporter's salute=' tion, that he was in a pretty bad scrape. " I am not guilty," be said. " I saw the children. They were ahead of me for a short distance, but I did' not catch up to them. I went off to the left and went over Gamble's hill. I don't know who mur- dered them. All I know is . I didn't. I never touched them." TAW STORY OE A SWINDLE. Arrest of Bejewelled Women Sharps on their Arrival at New York. A. New York despatch Bays : Mrs- Cor- nelia Miller and Mrs. Priscilla Field were arrested in the Fifth Avenue Hotel to -day, and looked lip at pollee headquarters. They were arrested on a cable deepagh" from London, and were charged with being fugitive° from justice, who . had a large smouht of money unlawfully in their pos- session.' Their arrest created a sensation at the hotel. The ladies are both beautiful and refined. Mre. Miller is a blonde, very tall. In her ears she wore magnificent n t dia• with and her hands blazed w th the The oircumetanoee which led to their arrest are as followe : About two years ago a new banking firm was established in Lon. don under the name of James H. Field & Co., the partnere being James 11. Field, William Wadsworth Miller, and the letter's 19-year.old son, William Yates Miller. The firm advertised largely, and promised that investments of money in their hands would realize an interest of from 25 to 30 per sent. every three months. Many per- sons invested. The s romisee of the firm i payments began to be delayed, and custom- ers were put off with plausible exoneee. Six weeks ago the concern was closed, and no trace of the partnere could be found. The depositors, many of whom were ruined financially, put the matter in the hands of detectives. They learned that the part. nere bad fled to the continent, and that Mrs. Field and Mrs. Miller bad taken a steamer for. New York, with the latter'') 7 -year-old daughter. On the 30th nit. they arrived here. At the Fifth Avenue Hotel they registered as Mrs. Miller and child, while Mrs. Field had adopted the name of Mrs. F. Browning. Both became cue- tomers of Brown Brothers, the Wall street bankers, where Mrs. Miller at various times presented drat be on Brown, Shipley & Co., of London. . These drafts ranged from $10,000 to $25,000,, the total amount being 1195,000. Mrs. Miller always insisted that the drafts be oaehed in $5,000 and $10,000 Treasury notes. A week ago Brown Brothers, learned that the drafts Mrs. Miller was presenting were the pro- ceeds of a stupendous.swindle. The next day Mrs. Miller galed again and pre- sented a draft for $35,000, which the firm refused to honor. Shortly after• the women reached this city they engaged the 'services of Mesere. Howe & Rummell. To them the last;, draft was given in hopes they would be more successful in oasbing it. The law firm -also failed. A writ of habeas' corpus was obtained by the women's ecoonsel=returnable^n Nronday before Judge Barrett. When the writ is disposed —�0�d of the women will be immediately arrested by the United States authorities upon warrants charging them with bringing stolen money into this country. It hone thed 'hire mot alms rem the s is fe It w the to A °AD HoniE. is needless to Bay that the scene at the e, where the two children are laid in offins side by side, wee heartrending. . McGonigle, who'will soon become a her, is se may naturally be enpposed st out of her reason. She had to be oved from the bonen to be away from ight of her terrible sorrow. Indeed, it ared that the awful shook will kill her. as inde ' a house of mourning, such as writer Woo he may never have occasion enter again. LiT1tR DEVELOPMENTS. A con dial lit tl The oen this wit eho Cumberland deepatoh says : The whole ntry side is still horror-stricken at the olioal outrage and amu>lderof the two e girls, Mary and Eliza McGonigle. prisoner doggedly asserts hie inno- oe. I obtained an interview with him afternoon. He. is a chunky little man, h his head :ssunken between hie older'), closely cropped blank Bair grow - also:,"eeCO 0. burn to ashes. He next set lire to his new house, and in half an hour the house was levelled to the ground. The flames seemed to goad him on to further desttuotion. Building a rude fence about the steaks he drove his stook into the enoloenre and again applied the firebrand. The flames drove the rattle wild, and they broke ee Rime the wn the enclosure and esoeped. By neighbors arrived and he was arrested. A second party was compoiied of four Glen,; ing well down on bis forehead; small, dark es -scud -a -dark 'rnmuatrehe. He !a Rn - son of low intelligence, with a furtive glance. A TALK ITH THE PRISONER. In answer t a remark that this was a serious matter, Larocque said, " Well, I'm not guilty. " What do you think of a man who would do euoh a deed?" "Well, it ain't me," Larocque said. Asked how it was that he started out to see O'Toole knowing be was not at home, Larocque-Larocque--he_ tne-w_the►t, bnt,it would have eervedihia pgrpoee to have.lett word with O'Toole's wife, as it was work he was looking for. He mid' he knew the two girls very well, but did not oatoh up to them on Tuesday or' speak to them. He. woe not nearer than 100 yards to them. He went on alter losing sight of the girls, and set down to smoke under a tree for abent twenty minutes. Ile thought it, was between 6 and 6.30 when he reaohed his oonein's, where he stopped over night. He changed his pants but no other clothing. PRISONER'S BOOTS FIT THE TRACKS. Mdward-Parevuet Doaitt° Le.vsrgnes_Ano Laeoelle, and Hyacinthe Laeoelle. These men went down a by road, which runs off the road the gide usually took. Lees than 200 yards down this road they stumbled on a sight but half revealed by the dim. light • of their lantern which they will not soon forget. There, almost side by side, were the bodies of the -two ohildren. One of the finders, with rude pathos, said to -day : " When I saw them, I thought at once of that picture in the second book df the babes in the wood." Yee, they were veritably the babes in the wood.T'There"-the autumn - leaves lay thiok about . them, although not above them. They. rnthlese�; hind ' that, quenched their lives did not give them that leafy sepulchre that the little birds so- oorded to the ohildren of the fable. The dog, whioh, true to its seneee, had smelled the blood afar off and oame on the scene almost simultaneously with the: original finders, set up a mournful howl which Curdled the blood of everybody within hearing. , THE DREADFUL DEED. This was a signal which brought the 7vbole. of . the _ searchers together. , In a. minute or two . thirty .horror-stricken men pi stood, about and looked at the work of low death. As I have said, :the bodies were ne almost side by side. The arm, of little ,Bev Eliza was under the body of her sister. th The latter lay on her back, her face damp as with dew, and her clothing still wet from wo the rain that had been falling during re Tneeday night. .It needed no pradtised eye ex to see that the younger, sister had been t strangled by the murderer. There were ve no, contusions on . her -face,• but her eyes wi stared and projected from the sockets. pr Her sister,'on -the other heind, presented th evidence of cruel ill -usage. Her slalp wee lin cut as if 'with a knife. Jnet under the "o right eye was a contused wound, and on hi the right cheek another abritaion, but, fo in the case of the younger child; the -te protruding .eyeballs, the extended tongue T almost out in .two by her clenched teeth, 00 the mangledi•throat, all told of the deeper- th s% ate' energy with whioh the ghoul had o gripped the throats of hie viotime until all li evidences of lite were stilled. It was indeed • sorry eight. Examination showed that a desperate struggle had taken place be- tween the murderer and the girls. All about the few weeds that grew in the forest were beaten down,.the loaves' were turned np into little drifts, where they had been pressed by the feet of the lusty animal and his tender quarry. The finders did not disturb the. bodies, but messengers were deapetolied for Coroner Ferguson and Itfagistrate McDonald,' who soon arrived. In the meantime the whole village was alarmed, and many hurried to the scene of death. " Who hes done this ?" was at once the question on every man's lips. , TRACKING THE BRUTE. .Then neighbor atter neighbor began. to contribute their quota of information. Wm. Gamble and Ben. Barnard recounted that when they met the children in the woods they also met one Neroiese ,Larocque about a`hnndred "'yards in their wake. Then others remembered that when the ohildren passed, Windsor's hotel Larocque, who was in the door, fol. lowed sham np and entered the gate a short distance in their rear. It was subse- quent to this, a •little further on the road, that he was Been by Messrs. Gamble and Barnard. The ohildren knew Larocque well. He hese been known to them eiuce childhood. It is probable Chet he Celled the elder girl eeneeless by a blow on the; -heed. Then he turned on the younger sister. She screamed lustily, so lustily that her outcry was heard at least a mile away. ' She m de a Spartan fight, for the man who in a far. off field heard her pitiful Dries says they seemed to him to last nearly fifteen min- utes. Soddenly they maned as the pitiless fingers closed like a vice on her throat. When the quivering limbs were stilled, he then turned his attention to Mary, and de- liberately strangled the remaining vestiges - Bow Serpa Pinto Gets Revenge. A London cable says : The English Government is preparing to deal with Portugal in a summary manner should that oonntry refuse to carry out the demands of the Anglo•Portagaese conven- tion and also to make redress for' injury done to the property of British subjects. English merchants and manufacturers are very Bore over the lose of Portuguese trade and the boycott in that country upon all things English. Maj. Serpa Pinto, the noted African explorer and enemy of Eng- land, noes a spittoon in the io fm of an Englishman's head, and in every way pos- sible ' the Portuguese are, showing their hatred of Great . Britain. The British Government is becoming irritated at this state of affairs, and it is reported that the little kingdom will soon receive an ulti- matum. a 1` RED JIM" AGAI1 British Consul, Charged With Sending. him to Montreal TO FOSTER 'DYNAMITE OUTRAGES. Innocent Men Said to be in Jail Through Similar Circumstances., s to ince 9. lm lla day asserts that Mr. Hoare, the J iitrel�-- Ooneul at New York in 1883, sent James McDermott from Now York to Montreal for the purpose of getting up a dynamite agitation in that city and 'mulled him with money and means to parry out his purpose. Mr. Hoare communicated with Dublin aaetle about the time stated and seised the home Government to request the Canadian t te p rformanceG of. the nwork owhiohiliMc ce►rr out. Our Lumbermen Will Bleed. slbington de$natah cf Thursday says : The Treasury department is in re- ceipt ot a letter from the, Surveyor of Cus- toms at Albany enquiring as 'to what rate of duty should be imposed on sawed lumber imported from Canada on and after the 6th inst. The department, in a letter to the collector, says it is understood that tinder the laws of Canada now in force an export duty is charged upon spruce, pine, and cedar logs, and shingle bolts of pine or cedar, and that, such being the oaserit would seem that under the provisions of ragrap -218; sollednlu"Di"-of-the-Act-oi October let, pine, eprnoe and cedar, sawed lumber, wonld`be dutiable at the rate .pre- soribed.by the Aot in force prior to the 6th inst. That is under echednie "D" of the Act of March 3rd, 1883. Grier brought Larocgne's boots along th him. '`A Drubber of the -villagers#ol-. ed on foot, but were forbidden to come ar the spot, with the exception of Docitte ergne,one of the four who discovered e bodies on Wednesday night. He acted guide. When the little hollow in the ode where the bodies had lain was ached, Detective Grier went to work and amined every inch of soil in and around he place. At one plane, where the black getable mould had been torn up as if th the eouffiing of feet, be discovered the int of a heel, which ` had been dug into e soil. There it was, as 'strongly opt- ed as if oast in " plaster of Paris. He alled-the attention of the gentlemen about m to it, and taking the prisoner's boot he onnd that it fitted in neatly to the inden- tion. It coincided in every particular. his piece of evidence wee then carefully vered up. Since the night of the murder e autumn leaves have been falling, and n the plaoe where the bodies were found ght coating of them ley. d t w t r t e i d 0 d f b t c t r WHAT THE LEAVES HID. Carefully lifting these off, the detective inclosed the foliage and earth stained with he blood that had run from the elder girl's ounds. Where her head' lay. there was he distinct and deep impress of the ounded globe of the eknll, showing that he bead had struck the mould violently or ad been trentibelly driven into it, by the trangler. Where the younger girl lay the imprint made by the head was less marked a rt nd there was no blood. ON THE TRAIL. After a oareinl warming of the imme- iatevicinity of the grime, the officer started n the track whioh it is believed the mor- e rar must have taken in making his escape rpm the woods. So tar as known, or could e ascertained, no other foot than his had readed ite mazes since, the fateful evening until to -day. The detective ldd the way, ronohing along like a red Indian on the rail of hie foes, seeking to read from the very bosom of the earth the name that ono. aged justice desires to know. Following him were Dooitte Lavergne, the bailiff; Leonard Cummings and the writer. The fallen leaves had pretty well covered the trails and the rain doubtless helped tp obliterate to a great extent the murderer's traoke; but bit by bit it was spelled out patiently and carefully, until at the point whore the path is lost in the trees the searchers were able to declare that al man had passed along there within a day or' so, the footprints leading from the scene of the crime. A Double Suicide at Chicago. A Chicago deepatoh says : Last evening the body of Annie V. Dense was found in the lake at the foot of Peck Court. This morning two fishermen found the body of Lawrence MoBeth floating near the ieame place. Both bodies had been a week in the. water. The woman was of questionable character. The man's real name is said to be Beath, and his home was in Sarnia, Canada. He had been an actor. A week ago the couple had. a quarrel, and left the house 'where they lived together about mid- night. Nothing more was heard or seen of them until their bodice were found in the lake. Ele tricution Approved. An Albany despatch says : In his report to Governor Hill on the Kemmler execution, Dr. -Carlos F. McDonald says that despite minor defect's in the arrangement and operation of the apparatus, the first execution by eletrioity was a successful experiment. He considers execution by electricity infinitely preferable to hanging. The report recommends that there be but one plant for the execution of criminals by electricity, located in the central part of the State, in a building specially constrnoted for that purpose, and that the voltage be not lees than 1,500 nor more than 2,000. AGAIN THE TRACKS. • One other heel -print wee so plain that they were enabled to fit the left shoe into it ; and, again, the outlines of the print coincided. The next task was to follow the track whioh the prisoner says he took. His story is that he branched off to the left,, the Smithson, eeconntent of post office depart.( girls being at that time a couple of acres went, eon of Rev. W. Smithson ; Judgo I at the Object Leeson Temperance Hospital, ahead of him. He went on till he oame to Rose, son of Rev. Samuel Rose. only 5 per cent. die. the reply w' es' •`e an sent to the request from Dublin Castle and Mr. Hoare was that the Canadian Govern- ment considered it its duty to prevent and not 'to encourage or abet it While Mo- Dermott was in Montre • endeavoring to ensnare Irishmen in that .1y in dynamite plots he was supplied with fands by Mr. Hoare, and encouraged by him to keep up communications with O'Donovan hoe= and each men in New York. We will prove by sworn testimony, it required, that James McDermott was ex- posed and denounoed in Montreal by a cable sent by Mr. Devitt to the editor of the Montreal Evening Post. Mr. Hoare supplied Mr. McDermott with money to travel back firm -Montreal and sent him from New York to Liverpool. We farther charge him with leaving at the preeent moment in his employment Bob Pinkerton in New Yord and Willie Pinkerton in Chicago, together with the - notorious MoPerland agents, who, at a costly sum to the secret service fund, mannfaotnred any number of eeoret oonspi aoiee against England in America. vVe further . charge Mr. Hoare with having in 1883 employed Matt O'Brien to enter the service of the poet office in New York in, order to tamper with letters going. through that poet office, and that through Mr. Hoare's influence with a federal post office' official named Newcombe, O'Brien bed ohargo of the keys and stamps which ens a bi to open what-boxes.�he-pleacte n the building and use the State stamps of the department for the pnrpoee° of the British secret service. We -Oen prove that O'Brien opened. lettere by the score and wrote lettere to Irishmen in New York, which purported to come from Fenian') and dynamiter') in California, St. Louis and Chicago, .and that he stamped the bogus letters so as to make the recip- ients believe they were communications which came through the postoffice. The mento whom these letters were addressed were invited by the writer to oczne-to-4be= general postoffioe to get the other lettere, which were written by O'Brienae if coming from Fenian') and dynamiters from other cities that would be represented by the etamps which he put upon the en- velopes. T tie was done in order that O'Brien should see anti know the men who were suspeoted by Mr. Hoare and himself. of being enemies of the English. All this was done by Mr. Hoare's Oireot and. ex- plicit instructions, and we charge that this flagrant outrage upon the law and State ot; New York and the Federal authorities of the United.States was peforformed by Mr. Hoare'') instrnctians and by the aid ot the secret service fund of England. We are , prepared to prove that the beginning and the end of the • Cork, Liverpool , and London dynamite conspiraoies of 1883 was James McDermott, and the money ex- pended by him for the purchase of nitro- glycerine was given to him for that purpose from the Secret Service Fund. Several men are now undergoing the horrible fate of penal servitude, not bedause of the actual deeds done, but because the agent of Dublin Castle put dynamite and documents into their hands, which were accepted' as proofs of their guilt by the judge and jury. We demand in the name of justice and fair pay that these men be released. THE THE Ear° GROUL WRECK. Particulars of the Loss of a Turkish Vessel and 343 Men. A San Francisco deepatoh says : The steamship-Bel'gie_ha°_artived from Yoko- hama. The lose of the Turkish fa -RI -al Ertogronl, Japanese papers say, was due to the explosion of -the boilers during a gale. According to the reports of survivors brought to Kobe, the frigate left Yokohama September 15th for Kobe. On the 15Th a gale sprung up off Kiehnoski, 250 miles from Yokohama, and a heavy sea was.run- ning. Suddenly a terrible noise was heard and all was oonfueion.. The men and officers were mostly below in their berths. Those not in their berths immediately rushed up to find what remained of the vessel foundering. Capt. Ali Bey was seen on the bridgefora moment with a lamp in his. band, and was heard to Ory, " Save yourself." Then he disappeared and was seen no more. Navigation Officer Menai Bey also perished. The chief engineer was almost the first to die. He went from the cabin to the engine -room just before the explosion, and was literally blownto atoms. The sea was soon full of debris in which the men fought and. struggled for lite. Osman Pasha, the admiral, was swimming toward the shore when he was struck on the bead by a spar and Banka Out of a total of 600 souls only 6 officers and 57 of w the crew reached land. The veesel as old and was formerly need as s training ship. The engines were of English make and bore the date of 1855. Up to Sept. 21st, 130 corpses had been recovered, and most of the aurvivore had been removed to Kobe for medioel treatment. Bad Visitors. A Rochester, N. H., ,despatch says : Charles W. Wiland, a farmer, living about three miles from the village, on returning to his home from work last night found his wife bound and gagged, and in an unconscious condition. Cash to the amount of $200 was gone from the house. Mrs. Wiland has not yet been restored to conscionenese so es to be able to'give an d`cconnt of the affair. and there is no clue whatever to the perpetrator of the outrage. Ministers' sons came. to the front in the great criminal trial at Woodstock. Mr: Osler igason of the Rev. Canon Osler, formerly of Dundas. Mr. Blackstock is the son of a retired Methodist well- knownr. Episcopr. alelQ vine of is thatson nme.o The old Blander that• ministers' sops never amount to anything is not true of Ontario. It never was true anywhere.—Canada Presbyterian" Sir Charles Tapper is a son cf -the late Rev. Charles Tupper ; Sir Richard Cart- wright, son ot the late Rev. R. D. Cart- wright ; Hon. J. J. C. Abbott, leader of the Government' in the Senate, son of the late Rev. Joseph Abbott; Judge Strong, of the Supreme Court, son of the late Rev. Dr. Strong; Judge Gwynne, sone of the late Rev. Wm. Gwynne, D -D. ; Hon. Wm. Hume Blake was 'a son of Rev. Dominick Blake : R. N. Hall, M P. for Sherbrooke, is a eon of Rev. R. V. Hall; J. 0. Patterson, M. P. for Essex, son of Rev. Tames Patter. son E. G. Prior, M. P. for Victoria. B. C , son of Rev. Henry Prior; Hon. W. H. Richey, late Lieut. -Governor of Nova 8'iotia,son of Rev. Matthew. Richey; Deputy Minister of Justice Sedgwick, son of Rev. Dr. Sedgwick ; Alfred Selwyn, director, of geological .Survey, son cf Rev. T. Selwyn ; Robert 13e11; iteaiatant director geological enrvey, nen of Rev. Andrew Bell ; W. H. The U. 8. Crops. A Washington " despatch says : The Ootober estimates of the yield per acre for the entire breadth of cereal crops as con- solidated by the Department of Agriculture are : Winter wheat, 10.8 bushels per sore; spring wheat, 11.05 ; the wheat crop in general, 11.1; ?bats, 19.8 ; barley, 21; rye, 11.8 bushels. The condition of corn is 70.6 insteau of 701 last month ; buckwheat, 90.7 instead, of 90.5 ; potatoes, 61,7 instead of 65.7; tobacco, 85.4 ineteed of 82.4. The returns report a material decline in cotton prospects and a fall in general percentage from 85.5 t0 80 00. The canee is too much rain. The value of the crop will be some - whet reduced by discoloration. In the more southern districts there is some com- plaint of the boll worm. Says Davttt Lies. A New York despatch says : When showu the charges made against him by, Michael Devitt in his paper the Labor World, Mr. Hoare, the British Consul in New York, to -day said the whole story wan a tissue of malignant falsehoods. He declared he never eaw McDermott in his life and never had any connection with him. in any way. He denied that he ever saw or comm'nnicated with Postoffioe Inspector/ Newcombe, and said he never employed Matthew O'Brien to enter the cervico of thepostcffice nor was cognizant of his being so employed. He stated that the papere as the time explained McDermott's presence in Montreal was due to his fear of being aeeaseinated by enemies in New York. The theory that whiskey is neceasaryin the treatment of pneumonia has received a blow from Dr. Bull, of New York City, who discovers that in the New York hospitals 65 per rent. of the pneumonia patients die with alcoholic treatment, while in London, Interesting Lake Ontario. We venture to say there is no body of water on the American continent so inter- esting and so striking in ate various changes and -developments as Lake Ontario. In case of a Morin the waves run almost as high, and seem almost as majestic, as the weeps of the ocean ; but ar4rn the winds rest, the waters of the lab r, ' settle down gently and quietly, and a surface is pre- sented as smooth, ap calm and me beautiful as that of the smallest pond. A striking feature of this lake is the change of hues, passing through all the colors of the .rain- bow in a few minutes—now as green as the • ocean, then a light, feeble green. and again red, brown, blue and violet. These hues are caused by the shadows of clouds and the reflected light of the snn. The white caps; on a pea green surface, are exceed- ingly beautiful and interesting.—Newark Courier. The Pastor and the Deg. • Rochester Herald :. The report in .the paper was as follows : " So th, congrega- tion resolved upon a Euro ie n trip for their beloved pastor, end. Saturday made him acquainted `"with the delightful feat. Accompanying the report of the committee wasa nicely filled parse, which Was placed at the diepoeal of the pastor,. wild, after thanking them, made a turn down South Mountain street as far as Planet, then up Planet to 13enefit street, "where he was caught by some boys, who tied a tin pan to his tail. Away he went tip Benefit street and down College, at the foot of which he was ehot by a policeman I" It ie a curious fact that every watch ie a cote -apses. Point the hour band to the sun and the south is exactly half way between the, hour and the figure XII on the watch. For instance; suppose that it is 4 o'clock.. Point the hand indicating; hoar to the stiff and II on the watch is exactly south. Nature has been hind to the negro. His worst foe cannot pull the wool over his eyes.—Life.