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THE STEINMANN DISASTER,
oeraphio Partioale.ree of the Great
Cata.stroptie.
STATEIBITS OF T31 311111Y0118,
Taal Atesny of the Last
broads Eseapes—Becoverfos 'Me Dead.
.A. last (Friday) niglons, Halifax (N.S.)
dempatola Bay8 '1 he bummer Daniel Stein-
mann, from Antwerp for this port, is re
-
period Bunk off Sombre, about twenty
neiles from thia port. She struth during
Le e night, Nioe men only are eta far
reported td have revs:Wed land out of 140 on
board.
Intelligence BO far from the wreck is very
mend. 1 ie [and the Captain and five of
she CrOW wers•the onlypersone sewed. She
lead ninety passengera and thirty-four of a
orew. Twenty ot her passengera were to
land here, all Germane, and seventy for
New York. She is supposed to have struok
on the Sistera, off Seater°, last night, and
'wooly after sank. The mast is now visible
/COM the shore. Intelligence did not reach
here until 2 p.m. today. Considerable
oargo was for here, the balance was "for
New York. Tee owners have gone to the
scene of the wreck. •
The tuge which left here for the seen° of
the wreck of the steamer neer Sambre,
have returned, being unitble to ;each the
neighborbood owing to the rough sea.
Another attempt will be made to reach
the wreck in the morning if the weather
moderates.
THE HALII;AX PASSENGER LIST.
Daniel Steinmann -Was an iron -vee.
lel oe 1,785 tons, built at Antwerp in 1875,
mid owned by Steinmann dr Ludwig, of
that Fame. She is eohooner rigged, has
engines of 183 horse power, and five bulk-
heads. The following were the passengers
to be landed here ; the New York hat was
not received by the Halifax agents: Hen-
dre, aged 32; Cornelis, 30; Peter
11; ; Joanna, tee Jen, 4; and
Ariabravenboer: Also Paulus,
35M
.; aria,
33; Commie, 10; Hildegrunda, 8; Aria,
4eitund Aartkranadonok. Also Martiaus
beook, 60,.a11 laborers of iliddeokirk, Hol-
land. Also Sebastian Riedl, 28, of Wolf-
erdorf, Prussia, and George Stith', 23, of
Guntherhof, Prussia.. The lase two' were
for Montreal and all the former for Sher-
brooke, Que. _
CARGO FOR CANADA. •
The following is the het of oargo to have
been landed at this port: 120 bble. Port-
• land cement, Chipman Bros; 5 Ude.
. Geneve., 15 green climes do.„15 do. blue do.,
oder to St. John ; 3 oases,, library, Gernay
& Hamelin, to Montreal ; oases of nrinee
Ambell ; 10 casks .rolled zinc', 171 -ingots
speltzer, W. Stairs, Son de Morrow; 3 gases
skins, L. Gnaediner & Sone; Montreal; 287
oases window glass, to order, Amherst ; 44
packages merthandiee, 'John G. Weikel' &
Co., Montreal; 2 do. Cologne water, G.
Lomer, Montreal ; 532 oases wimple% G,
Lewis Montreal ; oases frames, Cobban
Manufacturing Company,. Toronto; 285
oases window glass, order to St. John ;,30
casks rolled zinc, 50 bins. zinc oxide, JamOki
Robertson ; 7 casks, J. Ja. Rolland, 'Mon -
treat ; 30 octeks Elbe, 14, casks, shot, Wood'
& Leggat, Hamilton; 170 oases window
glass, 2 casks zinc, '80 bags silvers and.
ordeal 23 make white lead, Henderson &
Pott; 2 oases ourils fil, Direr; 14 oai-ka
sheet zinc, order ; 3 oases plate glass, Name,
Rhanine & Bros., Montreal; 3,320 oases
window ,.glass, order to Bt. John ; 2 octeke
steel wire, Cleft, Kerr et. Thomas, Sea
John ; 91 .pdokages merchandise, 1,812 do.
steel wire, order, Montreal.; 51 Oases Odle,
Houiser, Montreal; 10 Oases white wine,
J. 0. Wight; 3 owe hats and felt, S.
Sokeyer, Montreal; 175 paokages window
glass, Hobbs, Oaborn & Hobbs; London; 1
ease polished iron wire, H. Deugless,
Montreal.
TIM LATRBT PARrICULARS:
The very 'latest. information regarding
the wrecked steamer Daniel Steinmann - is
that out of aorew of 39 and the captain
and 90 passengers only nine reached shore,
the oaptain, five of the (mew and three
passengera, who are now on Sambre island,
a short distance from the mainland,
Owingto the heavy sea that prevailed in
the neighborhood of the island it is unlikely
thatahe survivors will be able to reach the
mainland till noon to morrow, or until the
sea becomes oalrner. No particulars tan
therefore be learned in regard to the disiti-
ter at present. , .
EPPORTS TO REACH THE WRECE; •
The Government steamer Newfield left
. the city at 3 o'clock this afternoon for the
scene of the wreck. but the fog. was so
thick it was impeseible to reach the fatal
spot, the oaptean considering it net safe to
hunch a surf boat on account of the rough.
nem of the sea, and imprudent.to go nearer
than five miles to the wreok becataie of the
density of the fog. Another effort will be
made by the Newfield to morrow :to reach
the spot where the unfortunate vessel was
lost. Three steam tugs, also endeavored to
make- their way to the aunken ateamee, but
were compelled to turn bath, beieg unable
to get further than Herring cove; some ten_
miles trim the wrecked ship. A wrecking
schooner, with a well-equipped crewof
divers, will leave here in the morning for
the wreck to raise the remains of the
drowned, and whatever portion of the cargo
on be saved.
LOCALITY OE THE DISASTER.
A number a reports are in circulation in.
gard to where the vessel struck, the 'moat
laueible being that she sunk on White
Horse aleoal, within a short distance of
Sambre Island. The exceeding roughness.
of the Elea will probably cautie the rapid
breaking up of tbe wrecked vessel, , The
• captain of the Steinmann having only been
in this port three times, it is net ,at all
probable he was aware of the dangerous
coast around Sambre, or of the awful peril'
he was in until tog lets to avoid the,
disaster. •
An Unfortunate Steamship Company.
A Boston t legrata sive The Daniel
Steinmann, which dunk on Thorsday night
off Haeitax,ire the fourth steamer of the
White Crosa Line loet since 1881. The
" Ludwig" sailed in 1881 on a voyage to
Halifax and was never heard from. She
was built by an Englielo compeny, and
named the" Hansa," but weal -old to the
White Cros.s • Line, the • name
being ohanged to "Ludwig." She had
made but four trips, three of them to
Boston. The Henry Edye was lost in
December, 1881. The Plandn, chartered/
by this line, sailed frora New York on
November lltb, Igo, for Antwerp, with
fiftootwo paseengete, and was abandoned at
math December 6th in e.sitekieg condicion,
her paasengers being takeh off by- the"
Dritish brig G. D. T. and landed at Oporto
Deoember 26th, The Daniel Steiernann
sailed from Antwerp on Mai& 2let
for Halifax and New York nutlet command
of Capt. .Sehoonliaver. She pateed St.
Cathode°, in Eke Englieh Channel, the next
day. Her ravage rone that point to the
piece where she sank is considered a,
very remarkably quick eine for her. She
was built in 1875 by an English company
and named the Xhedive, but was sold to
her present owners, 13Minrnann & -Ludwig,
in Antwerp, later in 1875, when her name
was changed to Daniel Steinmann.
A last (Sunday) night's Halifax despatch
says Government eteanier Newfield
left the city at 5.40 thie ;morning for Sam-
bre Island for the purpose of getting off the
orew and of securing all poseible infornsa-
don- Running at 7 °Week within a few
hUudred yards of the island, she oast anahor
between it and Bull rook, and proceeded to
make the neceesary preparation for getting
the survivocs from the island, A boat was
soon 18,uuthed with an enxioue crew, and
the men pulled for the spot where the sue-
vivors were awaiting rt lief. Upon landing,
the weather-beaten sailors and passengers
who had happily escaped the horrors of a
wateey grave were interviewed by the
rescuing party, and the following details
of the dreadful catastrophe were elioited by
a reporter. The aurviving paseengers and
seamen ot the ill-fated steamer are as fol-
lows Henri Sohoonhoven, Antwerp, cap-
tain ; Eugene Niokola, Mutford, Liaxern.
burg; Luxe) Nicola, Vluoeuzo, Salome,
Italy; John Mederman Ethenhoten, Ober
Bayen ; Otto Kranz, Wittchendorf, near
Solewarzburg ; Freels Florentine Disseri,
Charles Von Louis, Petro Perigee, Ant-
werp; Fritz Vick Stralsund, Prusvia. • •
THE CAPTAIN'S STATEMENT. . •
The captain's statement is as followe
" On the 3rd of April, after a voyage of 1$e
days trove Antwerp, at 6 p.m., the 'bearing
of Ohebucto, by dead reckoning and the
poundings, was west half Floutb, by campus
distance 25 miles. Owing to the fog and
heavy rain we steamed dead elow, steering
west quarter south and sounding every hour.
About 9-15 I saw through the inlet a faint
light about two pointe on the starboard boWe
disappearing out of sight at times for four or
five minutes. Taking it for Chehuoto I
steered for it, sounding thirty fathoms and
ten inches. Twenty minutes later I saw that
it was the fixed light of Sambre appearing
clear, and at the same wee seeing it faint
show of what I took to be Chebucto light
about,fouiponete on the starboard how. • I
etheded 26 fathome. I thou putthe beim
t ard sport, but it was foci late, just before
the ehip 'etruok on the rook.. I at no. time
heard the fog whistle off Sanabro. The &st-
ele* Was light, the second heavy, carrying
away the steering grate. After this we
could not get Glee engines to work, but
drifted over the rooke and anchored, the
hip iying too pretty quiet; and there being
littie sea, I ordered toe chief and second
metes to lower the boats and get the chil-
dren and female passengers in first. While
I saw' this going on, having already one
boat in the water, the crew working with a
will, I saw the ALE) coming nearer to the
breakers again, when I ran forward to gee
it the obtain cable was not broken. Before
getting there it monetrous sea broke over
stircepeepawashing overboard everypassen-
ger, children and women, who stood on
deck. This Was icamediately,followed by
- AN AWFUL main;
and the ship went down as quick aslight-
Ling, first oarryiug every one down who was
on deck and those who ran up the fore
rigging. I was washed out before getting
half way, but afterwards aucceeded in
catching the topsail yards, which stood just
above the water. A .13:lenient after a
passenger was able to join nee. The night
wae foggy and rainy and vve saw nothing
more. The next morning we were gallantly
rescued by three men upon Sambre Island
about 5 o'clock in oae of our own boats,
there being no life or rooket apparatus on
the island: Some of the crew had already
.succeeded in reaching the land through the.
serf. The riumber of passengers drowned
was ninety; the number . of the, crew
drowned thirty.three. The saved passengers
were three, and the crew six. We load it fine
voyage till we reaohed the bank, which we
crossed in 44.33, and where we saw
enme patches of field icie. Thence we had ,
almost continual fog with rain till we
rationed the Neva Scotia coast. • Our laet
observations were taken on the morning of
the 2ad. ' We had it full general cargo of
about 1,400 tons. The etetuner Was drew:
ing twenty feet six inches aft and nineteen
fees forward. The ship is now evidently
broken with make through her bottom.
Tne storm was from •the eastward when
we streak, with dense fog and rain. It was
impossible to save any passengers whot-
ever. I stayed in the foretopsail yards,
but having to go further' up to clear the
break of the sea I mantained a position in
the, redlines for eight houreein 'ocimpany_
with orient the surviving pasemegers. We
were afraid to lath ourselves for fear the
mast would break away, so 'nee jud held on,
-all ready to jump, from 10 p.m. to 5.00 a.m.
A heavy line was thrown to us, and we
jumped into the water and were pulled
through the surf into the but.
.ACCOhNT OP THE RESCUED 'PABENGERS.
The eurviving three passengers of, the
steamier Darnel Steinme.un are now in this
city. They state that the vessel struck but
-lightly twice, The captian- then summoned.
them all on deck, and directed' them to
prepare to enter the.boate, if mob 'amnia
be necessary. One boat was launched arud
all made a rush for it, though 'good dia.
Menne was maintained among the ship's
orew. The boat was well filled, and at.
Welled to the Mesmer by a rope. 'When
home of those on board were about cutting
-the line the steamer suddenly sunk,draggiug
the boat and its unfortunate occupaete with
it. The boat 'turned over and over, and
every pawn in it was thrown out and
drownee: When the stern of the vessel
earik, the cries and screams. of the women
and children were heartrending for ti few
iainutee. Cepa Soloobnhoven made bis
way up the fore rigging. , Two men (Aught
the rigging of the msiamitet and endeavored
to climb along the stay between the beads
of the two masts. In this perilous passage
one lost his grasp and was washed away;
the oileraJohn Neidermann, succeeded by
it desperate effort, in the °three of which
his legs were seized by thine one drowniug,
in reaching the fore -rigging *when he .was
about Otchaueted, gad pulled into it coin.
paratively safe . potation by the captain,
who then took is position Mame him on the
mad.. One of the wire update of the
fore topgallant yard was basalt,
and this gave play to °the yard, whiah.
worked back and forward with the action
of the wimp, and threatened to tear out the
maat-at eachticourrence of the motion,
making the mast quiver and crack
ingly. The oaptuan, fearing he would be
obliged to abandon his dangeroue refuge
and betake himself to Swimming, pulled off
his booth.
firt TWO uerouTerums
from time to time Cried °id together for
help, but the roar of the wind and waters
drowned their feeble velem], so that even if
assistance bad been at band it is doubtful
if they could have been heard. They were
doomed companions tn suffering and in
misery to, painfully watch • the peeping
of the enmities and hours throughout
that weary night, till the light of
dos broke" upon their. despairing 0 yes.
In Ode diemel Videli they could feel thet
teue vowel was drifting nearer and nearer
to Sambro bland. To add 10 the horror
of their Ott:laden; they saw blue lights burn-
ing on shore and signals to guide the boats
to safety, while conscious they were beyond
essistanee or relief. At last daylight
appeared, and the lookout on the island
noticed one man on the rigging and then
the head of the other annealing behind the
mast. Soon after a boat put out from the
cove manned by tive men, who approached
them. The captain was by this time so
benumbed that his companion Ntidrnann
had to use force to clieengage him from the
elm and asaist hirci into the boat. He
then followed and both were landed and
taken into tbe lighthouse, where their needs
were promptly attended to.
AMONG THE curoope INCIDENTS
connected with the escape of the seven
persons landed in the boat during the bight
cow of the most thrilling was that of the
Celiac', ha haviag grasped the boat just
after she left tbe &earner. Her occupants
refused to take hicn in because it nuneber
of other drowsier{ persons bad tieizad his
lege and body, and it was certain that the
boat could not take them all without
swamping, as she was already half full of
water. The Galiiin lit once dived, and
tbue eluded those holding bine. He soon
reappeared at the surface and again caught
the boat. He was then taken in, but he
was so exhausted that for a time be was
helpless. The boat was in danger of Rain-
deriug owing to the water that waa con-
stantly coming in, and those in her took off
their boots to hat' her oue, The Callan
at first refused to midst in this work, bat
on being threatened with being thrown
overboard again unleas he assisted to keep
the boat free he mhde an effort to do so.
Another singular escape was that of Nio-
kola, it lad of 19 years. Juet as the boat
left tloe sinking steamer he jumped frcm
the bridge, falling into the boat on his
head. He unstained no innary except
having one leg bruin&
TEM NUMBER OP AD'ULT FEMALES
on board cannot be asoenained ea present,
but it hi estimated to lave been almost
twenty. The youngest person on board, eo
far aeis known, was an infant three months
old. Among those drowned was a young
couple married juet before the Eiteinmunn
sailed and who had experienced only
eighteen days of wedded life. Several
large familiee perished all together.- Oae
was a Swiss family ventilating of the father,
mother and eight children • another a
'Dutch (Holland) family of about the same
BiZIL
RIMOVERING THE BODIES. .
Reports from the wreck up to this even-
ing state that the wreck remains in the
same poeition. The water was &impera-
tively smooth to -day, and a large number
of boats were about the water greppling.
They only secured three bodiell to -day,
Making eleven altogether so far recovered
from the water. ' None • of the
oargo has drifted • ashore or floated.
Capt. Sohoonhoven arrived in town
this seeming. • The first body recovered
thieinorning was that of a little girl, 5 or 6
• years old. The body was conveyed to the
shore and placed beside the others pre.
,viously laid out in a temporary dead -house.
The% fettnire,s were ditfig,ured, one of the
• eyes being almeet torn out by coming in
contact with something. She- Was com-
fortably dreased, and evidently the ohild of
'respectable parente. Another girl; appar-
ently a few- years older, makes tbe only
females recovered, none of the women hav-
ing yet been brought to the •oedema.
Beside the youngest girl in the dead•houee
is the body of a boy about 16, supposed by •
the people of the island to be a brother. • A
man picked up had the letter " in
India ink on his left wriet, with two
orosseeon each side of it. On the right
wrist were the letters " A. V.," and below
them immediately over the thumb an
anohor and heart and two °rodeo. The
body was Moat of it man about 25 years
old, of medium ' size and build.
Near him is the body ' of a heavy
built man of about 40 years, with it black
moustache. Nett a little boy about 11
years, whose black hair•is thickly matted
with blood. The body is clad in a brown
suit of good material. Then comes the
body of 'a man with brown curly hair, the
face clean shaved, about 35 years old. The
remaine of Wm. Limper, thief nude of
the Steigmann, recovered on Saturday,
come next. •Then thecorpse ot. it small
man, bald headed, dressed in moleskin
pants and vest and. heavy cloth overcoat,
apparently between 40 and 55 years'. op
him were found the only valuables on any
of .be bodies after being bronglat to the
island. In his pocket was a silver watch,
twenty-seven franca in gold, and a package
•f-papersritroong-the-latter.a-ticket-for-his;
passage by the Bummer to New York, hear-
ing the name August Richter, of Dussel-
dorf, and there is no doubtethis is the name
of the man from whose pocket •ib was
taken. The body of it man about 50 years
is laid out next. The eleventh and lad
corpse's° Inc reaoveledia the Steinmann's
lamp -lighter; Mamie name is not known.
ge was about 50 years old, with heavy grey
whiskers and moustaohe.
_ , • •
THE BoDIEs ;TERRIBLY MUTILATED.
All the bodies -recovered are terribly
mutilated, gee features in some 09,808 being
so completely destroyed that they oould not
he reoegnized by their nearest relatives.
Facies are • smathed in, eyee torn out, itnd
-otherwise disfigured. About fifty boats
were engaged today grappling, but no more
than the three bodiee mentioried above
were recovered. Three schooners with a
'diving crew will go to work to -morrow it
the weather is favorable. Capt. Jae'. Far-
quhar, formerly of the'Cronewell line, will
represent the owners of the 'steamer at the
wreck'
An official investigation into the loss of
the Ismael will, it is expected, open here on
Tuesday, under Capt. Scott, of the Marine
and Fiaheries Department.
WHAM 3/ COMMA
A 'Prize Fight Results fit the Death of
Three LB en.
Pittsburg, Pa,, telegram says: A
Cumberland, ,Md , eriecial says: A prize
fight came off at Hynclman, Pa., near the
Maryland State liue, at an early beer this
morithag, between a Hungarian named
Nioliveat, formerly it Sr. Louis Aped, end
an unkhown, alleged to be Kilraam, a Bon.
ton pugilist. The fight was arranged it
abort time ago and the party left Pluming.
don, Pea last night in octal °eta, arriviog LLI
tlyndinan at 8 this morning. During the
-trip a melee °marred on the train in which
several persona were injured. Arriving at
Elyndman it ring was pitched, and a fight
begun. Fifty -throe rounds were fought with
the talvaptage about even, Whet' the eiy of
"join "'was raised. A. terrible riot rimmed
in which pistols and knives were freely need.
The riot lasted some time, and at the con,
elusion three men, including Niokveet,
were stretched on the ground dead, . while
several °there were badly wounded. Nick -
vest was shot through the heart. khsarreatd
reported.
Mr. Horning, it retired farmer, has been
eleeted Librarian of the Brantford Tree
Library.
The office of 'mentor of Constabulary
for Scotland is now vacant. °consequent on
he retirement Of Mr. Ohealei Oaltsgle.
LORNE AND IIDINE•111LE.
'The marquis proposer is cave Ireland a
Four•Elarreiled Parliament,
WILL THIS SUIT THE AGITATORS P
The Marquis of Lorne is treading in his
' father% femme:m*8a a sensational dootrin.
sire. Re has come out as an advocate a
um Home Rule, with a brand-new panacea
for Irish ditoontent. He has elaborated it
in a long article juet published in tbe Apeil
number of the Contemporary Review. Ire.
land, he Bays, is clamor log for a Perhament
of her owu, but at the same time the
English stateemen dee& it insoleable that
the imperial sway of Eogland ehould be
removed from ODO of her fairest posseseione,
or that the vast interests of Englislatren
ebould be left to the naeroy of an indepen-
dent and.perhape hostile legieleture. He
therefore' proposes as a 00iliprOMin what
he calla "Provincial Home Rule in Ire.
land" He would have four pp:willow
Diets—that of. Leinster, eto kit at Dublin;
of Munster, at Cork ; of Ulster, at Belfast,
and of Connaught, at Galway. These Diets
should each °maid of an upper house or
mate, and a popular, branoti Or ohataber
of deputies. ,The term of service in the
upper house he would establish, at six
years,. one-third of tne membera being
elected every two years, white all tloe
mambas ' of the lower house should be
elected bienniaily • all the members of
both houses to be eleoted by popular
sobject to the same regulations
and the same qualifications ler eleo.
tore as now prevail for Pe.rlisanent.
The powers and duties of thew Diets the
Marquis would have confined etrietly to
local purposes, mob as tha imposition and
collection of the poor rates, school taxes
and assemements for toast publio inaprove-
mend and the maintenance of public
oder within the provincial limits. He
would leave undisturbed the adrninietrative
machinery a the island, oompriaing the
Lord Lieutenancy, the County Lieuten.
anoies and all other Cro.wri-effioialarand
would leave to the Imperial Parliament the
levying of the Queen's tax and the enact -
meld of all general laws for the government
of the blend as RV present. •.
The Marquis argues that the -Irishmen's
pride in their local assemblies would sup-
plant their desire for a central' Parliament
at Dublin; that thein taste or electioneer-
ing and for enjoying the power of the ballot
would be amply gratified by the frequent
elections provided, and that those functions
of goverument of wbioet they see and feel
the results most dire'otly, being exercised
by their own representatives, they would
have the feeling of governing themselves;
while in regard to all things vital to Eng-
lish or imperial interests, matters would
remain the way they are at present. -
LAUGHING. AT LORNE'S STAT.ECRiPT.
A correspondent this evening asked Mr.
A. M. Sullivan, the eminent Irish pub -
!joist, for bia- opinion Of thOMarquis' article.
'" Bosh I" exclaimed Mr. Sullivan. ".1110
Lordship doom's know' what he is writing
about.• His proemial shows that his ignore
ance,of Irish affairs is ,eimely dealorenie.
The Matquis is fresh from Canada. The
Canadians are-peotiliarly loyal and at the
same time-extremely.jealous of their local
righte. They poesess local legislatures and
are contented with the general domina-
tion Of England: Lorne thinks it would be
eolution of the Irish queetiou. to apply
the Ca,nadia.n eysteni to Ireland. )3at the
Irish situation is the very reVerse of the
Canadian. The people of Ireland are con-
tented witlo their district governments and.
are at yearsageinat the general domination
of Eugland; ,The Canadians don't wish to
be a nation ; the Irish do. ThoCanadians
,protest against independence.; the ,rrieh
•ere rebels- against allegiance. •The main
source of • trouble in securing .desirable
legislation for. Ireland is that tholes Who
control British opinions and•Perliament are
all at least as ignorant of Irish affairs
as Lorne. • His proposal to. and. Irish 're-
bellion against 4oglish Government by
giving the Irishmore local rights and less
nationality is like an ettenept to -quench a
beead- stuffed beggar's thirst by giving him
more dry. bread. Perhaps, however, I
should give Loroe credit for the intelligence
of the malignity his article appears to con-
tain. His idea seems to be to set the. Irish
people by tke ears by reviving the four hos-
tile kingdoms ; in other worde, to- conquer
the Duni bydividing them against One
another. His scheme is BO ridiculous that
in the London clubs it is already -dubbed
' Lorne?,, Irish Home Rule (Limited).'"
• A DOUBLE 11ANGING.
The Stevenson Brothers Expiate Thefr
Crime at Regina. .
A. last (Thursday) night% Winnipeg des-
patch says; John and George Stevenson
were hanged at Regina this morning for the
atrocious murder of John. McCarthy at
Troy junction. McCarthy formerly lived
in Perth county, Ont. The half-breeds
made it full confession of their guilt and
admitted • the justice of their' sentence.
They met death with cheerful, expectant
fume, Fether.Laroche Hugonent &derided
to their spiritual welfare. The ecaffold and
appliances were complete • and Worked
admirably. The drop was ten feet. Both
died instantaneously. The execution Was
private, and no demonstration Was made by
the hall breed Indian population. The
execution will have it salutary effeot.
ocinfeenion of the pritioners is very long. .
atagnineent Wedding Dress.
oablegram from Paris says: The
marriage of Prince Carlo Poeiatowski. to
Miss Maud Ely Goddard yeeterday wae the
great &gnat event of the week, •The
Protestaneneremony was solemnized in the
Ametican Episcopal Church, Rue Bayard.
The Catholic) ceremony occurred inn
mediately afterward, in the Church of 8.6,
Pierre de Chailot. The toilet of the bride
&waisted of it dress of raised velvet freize
-upon white Haan ground, a petticoat riohly
worked with Bead pearls, a bouquet of
orange blossom at the side of the blurt and
another cluster looping up tloe train of the
petticoat. She wore it neolilace of a triple
row of pearls fastened with it diamond
snap without pendants, the • gift' of
the bridegroom, a tulle veil, end
a bridal wreath of orsege blossoms.
Among the prebend were it diardond nethe
lace from the mother of Prince Poniatow-
ski, a corbeille comet:need of white and blue
• forget nee,nots forming upon the licl a
teoronet of pansies, a diamond aecklace with
interlaced diamond chain, a bracelet, it
gold watch with monogramin diamonds,
a carnation loaded with brilliaide and
sapphires, a bracelet compoeed of a mosaio
of jewels, it diamond arrow sheath forming
broeolo, a 'vinaigrette sot with brilliants, it
set of alabaster yaw from Lady Itionoul
and Lady Muriel Hay, it fan of grey Math -
ere with duffed birde,. presented by Mme.
Da Bronte, it silver gilt coffee service from
Mme. Beltheif, sister of the Duo De
Mom and an antique Pforenoe vase froth
Count Bentivogli, The happy couple left
Paris by the mail train at 7.45 p.m., en rout,
after a short stay in Eugland, for the United
Statile.
Sweden has °law while& nye' that a Marl
drunk thrioe loges it right 40 vote
•LO1V LND EMIGLITION.
ola.a.--01111•••••••
The Torento Trades Council Orders the
., Marquis to Halt.
NO ROOM FOR PAUPERS IN CANADA.
To the Right Honorable pir John Douglas
Sutherland Campbell, K. T., G. O. M. G.,
P. 0., Margeis of Lorne ;
Me Lone —The Legihlative Committee
of the Trades and Lebor Council has had
its attention drawn, on several oecnteione
since Your Lordship's departure from
Canada, to cable notices of speeches and
Iiieures delivered by you m Variety:I pla.ose
in Great Britain, and reopen tally regueet
your most clarinet coneideratien a the fol-
lowing with rage/ranee thereto
The committee is not in possession of.
the text of any of these speeches or leo urae,
but in nt the prose deepatohes you are
represented as brooklet; highly of Canada
and its various resourcee, and lauding this
country ae it paradise, so to speak, for poor
. people to emigrate to. No doubt
• wens IS a rum commas,
and its resources are not a few, but that it
is at the present time—aye, or for some
years paet—ab advitable field for poor or
pauper immigrants to come to, to oue,
caria g for reputation as to reliability, or
praotiottllyl acquainted with the over.
crowded state of the labor market and
consequent low rate of wages will •dare
assert. D Your Lordship‘had, before taking
leave of Canada, noediutted or determined
upon speaking after arrival in England on
the subject of Canada as a field for the
surplus poor of Great Britain, it is much to
be regretted that you did not ,deem it
eedvisable to communioate with Toronto
Trades and Labor Council, it being,the only
body capable of importing authentic in-
formation an to the status of the working
classes in Canada, and all that pertains to
the improvement ot their condition, socially
and otherwise, because had you done go you
would have been furnished most willingly
reliable data as to demand for labor, rates
of wages, 00et of living, price of fuel, house
rent, eto. This information would be un-
questionable, as has been all that has
emanated from the Trades Council on thie
very important. eubject from time to time
during the past year. The committee doee
not believe that Your Lordship intentionally
misrepresents in the prerniees, knit that delete
not alter the faot that many have been, and
are still, to their
•
GREAT DIPAPPOINTMENT,
led by your advice, welnintentienea, doubt.
lese, but not sustained by actual fact,. into
leaving fairly good situatious in 'Great
Britain and emigrating to Canada, and that,
too, ,even inthe depth of our
always severe w, inter. Governor Gen-
erals of Canada . in the past have
not been remarkable in obtaining correct
information as to bete -,the mechanical or%
laboring Waimea .exisited, nor were they
conspicuous in anxiety RS to whether these
.clasees received a living 'rate of wage for
• their labor or k kill. .Your Lorclehip wae no
exception totbe rule, and in this these
game °lessee were not in any rope& dis-
appointed. Your Lordship will allow that
those who have to find employment, for
themselves, itt well as earn a livelihood at-idprevide for families out of 'the wage :paid
for their work, are mulch better judges of
theasituation in Canada, both in detail and
in general, than can be any mere theoriat
—even though the latter be reasoning from
the vantege ground of exalte,d Citation and -
unlimited means. Can any 'poised With.
thousands of dollars—not to say pounds
sterling—at command from the cradle to
the grave oaticeia low a man with a
yearly income ,of, , say, -three or
four, humired • donere—aaua taborer
. .
, RARELY AVERAGES.THE PIEST NAMED
min manage to keep an average family in
anything like comfort? • The answer is
evident. The oommitteewould have wished
that Your Lordsbip had perused their
various' /epode to 'the Trades and Labor
Council during the past mix or eightmonths
on that subject, and away% adopted by that
body. Had these reports tome under ehe
notices of Your Lordship, ' the committee'
feels assured 'the neceesity for this letter
wind not have arisen, because • you would
have read the' appeal of Hie' Worship the
Mayor of Toronto, in 'hie inaugural address
to the Council of 1884, in which' he hoped
the Council would -petition Parliament
against pauper and assisted passage"
immigrants, and that the matter would be
urged uponthe.attention of the oity par-
liamentarY ' representatives; . the ap-
peal of the St. Vincent de Paul
Charitable incenety Soliciting oast.
off • clothing; old furniture and fuel
for the use of poor .and destitute Perna
grante ;- the amounts of the large numbers
of involuntarily idle men who daring the
daytime besieged the sonp-houriee--thise•
landmarks of recognized destitution and
-pressing' want—and who • at eight sought
the shelter of the police station ; of the
numbers who applied through the winter
months to the Police Magistrate for com-
mittal to the OOMMOD jail as vagrants that
they ,might get fetid and shelter; of ac-
counts of like oirouinatances in Hamilton
and other centres of popu'ittion in Canada,
at -id, as if to cap the climax you would
have read the statement of' one of the
relieving officers of the St. George's Society,
who, a short time ase et/id. that he .
NEVER BEFORE IN CANADA ,
withessed-thoh_destitution as existed dur-
ing the past winter, and' fervently prayed
that he niay.neven, again see its repetition.
With all tbeee „facts before it, the com-
mittee has no hesitation in saying that the
numbers of mechanioe and ordinary labor,
ere at present in Canada are many more
than oan find. employment at living wages;
that the winter wagon averages four Mid It
half menthe; that during these month-, al-
though being the most expensive, very little
work is to be had or can be done ; and that
the wages paid, even in the best of times—
e,nd the present is not one of these—during
the summer months, &re rarely, if ever,
sufficient to carry the earner through the
utioeeding winter. Under the oiroumetancee
the idea of buying farina or homesteading
is preposterous, as eithPr prawn.
calves more or less capital. Under these,
and many other cogent reasons, the Legis-
letive Committee of the Trades and Labor
Council of • Toronto enters its most
vehement protest against any and all state.
manta to the effect that Canada is at the
present time a good place for poor people
to be sent or emigrate to, and in concluding
it respectfully loopes that Your Loedalup
will not lose right of the matters set forth,.
perhaps somewhat crudely, but none the
lesslruthfully, in .this communioation, and
the apology for which ie to be herald in the
gravity of the question whioh called it berth.
--With sentiments of respect, I remain,
reepeodully y more, joist; Ammon,
Chairman Legislative Coleiraittee of the
Toronto Trades and Labor Clouneil.
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The late Mr. James White, of Overtoun,
has left a number of legaoles to charitable
institutions' in Glaogow, and also to varioue
funds in Onibection vv,ith the Free °berth,
the tatal amOtilit thin bequeathed being
about £85,0004
PRINCE LEOPOLD'S FUNERAL
An Impressive Ceremony Attended•by the
Queen and Royal Femily.
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GOLDWIN SMITH ON THE PEINOE.
•A London cablegram last (Friday) night
Bays: The Dean p1 Windsor awaited*.
funeral procession at the entrance to the
Memorial Cbapela Conepicuous among the
wreaths of flowets was one from Ex -Ems ,
press Eugenie. After abort eetigione
'ornate the royal personates withdrew,' A
second funeral eery* waa celebrated litter,
with none preseira we've the Queen, the
Mamie of Albany, and the Dean ol Wind.
bor.
A last (Saturdaa) afternoon% telegram eus
as followe: The funeral services over—the
remaine of Prince Leopold were held this
morning in St. George's Ohepel. The
Queen, Peirce and Princess of Wales,
Princesses Charlene!), Lowee ana Beatrice,
Crown Pewee' Frederick William and other
royal, persculagee were present. The Prince
of Wales followed the ocffia an ehief
mourner. The meatus were depoeited in
the vault at Froginore.
Prof. Goldwin Smith refers to the death"
of the Prince in this manner:- A mere
amiable dieposition or pleasituter manners
there could'not be. Prince Leopold'a hfcr
seemed likely to be it happy one. Is had,
at leaststhe prime element of all happi-
Meth, union With ti woutin wotthy of love.
Clareraont, tha pelime which wad built by
Clive out of the beetle of , Indian conquest,
in which his last dark years were paused,
and where the wild story of his fierce aud
towering ambitton came 10 110 tragio close,
had become, by a writhe turn of deiainy,
the joyous home of the young Duke and
Duetted, with their little demean° court.
•One large room had, • according to
tradition, been built by special order of the
imperious proconsul - to accommodate a. •
carpet of vast dimensious the gift of an
Indian prince, which eta covers the floor.
thot roomeandeorrathat carpet gathered
round the piano the bright little circle which
seemed to have the promise of many year's
of domestic happiness. But the gentle clad
graoious young wife, who'vras the centre of
the circle, is a young widow. Perhapensifter
all, as these are not good times for royelty,
the Prince who had such a high ideal ef
royal duty may have been taken from evil
to come. His aspirations might have been
disappointed, and disappointment might
have brought a cloud even upon the sunny
life of Claremont.
TUE PaRNICELI ries •
•
To be •SupeMided by a Bore Irfacrsots
• • organizatio.n-asim Stephen the Combeg
Dian. •
•. A London cablegram says: A revisit'
against Mi. Parnell is being organized
among the ultra, Irish Nationaliets. Its
originator is Mr. James Stephen, the venter -
able ex -Head Centre of -the Fenian ;
Brotherhood, who has been living quietly
in Paris 'for thepast few years, taking no
active part in Irish affairs, The -new party,
which he proposes to organize will tie ep.
poke equally to the doctrines of the Par-.
nellitee on the ,one hand, and thoke of the
dynarniters °lathe miter. He hopes to ete-
• tiure the co-operatfon of the best men in
both parties. He intends to call a Cotoimil
of Irish • Nationalists to neeet •at
Paris during • the • present month to
fornplate a platform and decide upon
the imethode of • organization and
subeequent operatioes. Amoilgthorte whom
be wiil invite to this conference will be
Gen. Maoadaras, John O'Leary. John
Sevige; and Sir Charles Given Duffy. Mr.
Stephens -has also been recently in oorre-.
spondence with some of the Irieh leaderEi
in the United Suttee, and is saidto have
received pledgee of the adhesion of several s
influential .s1riebeAmericen eocietiee. He
saye the young men who should be fighting
Ireland's battles aggressively and mute-
• lessly are either too slow and timorous or
fatally reckless, and are accompliating
nothing. The existing organizations are
antagonistio and neutralize each other.,
What is needed is a new party with a plat -
,form broad enough to admit the etrorgest
menin all existing organizations, and a
con centration of all efforts for Ire-
land• through _ the .maohinary at this '
new party which will be irresistible s
• He objecteteParnellism because it ohoosen
a wrong field for the engagement. The
battle for freedom is not to be fought in St.
Stephen's. Neither the present Parlia-
ment,.nor any. Parliament likely 110 emceed
it, will do metice toe Ireland.. Sterner,
methods than Mr. Parnell% are [needed.
And besides, he is not so imphoitly trusted
by his own party as is commonly believed.
There are serious defections setting his
follower. Some of the ablest among them .
are in favor of the proposed new departures. •
They complain that he is too autocratic
and that it outrages their manhood to be
compelled- to render the degree of sub-
servienoy that he demands': „They nsy also
that in grasping for parliamentary, semen
impetty details he loses sight of the great
object tor which he ie pledged to fight, but
which he really jeopardizes by .entangling
deals and alliances with the Government...
EATING SIXTY EGGS A DAY.
Pearsall's Eive•day Mich More • Tbat
Half Over and No Siam ofFiuIlln.'
•
A New York despatch says: All Felton
fish market ie deeply interested in the •
ghee' ion whether Charles Pearsall is going
tO kill lumeelf or win a•small pile of poen..
bathe. He goes to John Ross' -restaurant.
at 206 Front street, and eats eggs cte if
they were oysters. about as feet as it MMX
can open them. He does thin twice it day,
and a considerable body of Melo from the
fish market steed around a.nd look at him'.
He is not fond of eggs now, but up to a day
or two ago he liked them BO much that he
boasted of the number it. Wok to satisfy
him. He said he could eat 60 eggs it day •
for live day. John Rose bet that he could.
not, and it match was made for Pearsall to
start in'on Tuesday and eat 30 ego at e
Bitting twee a day for five clay& Pearsall
fa to get 1i25 if he succeeds. HO is a good:
looltiag, light -cum' lexioned yoabg maze of
about 140 pounds weight. He worke in
the Al market. The Liebman all bet on
him, and outside 'Torte have been betting
againet him. He hue his eggs soft bolted
and emptied into Insole water glessee.-
Three glaseee hold thirty eggs. The fish -
men jibe him while he este. He epee not
appear to be at all ineonIenieneed by
his unixaual meals, and no one doubd that
he will win on Saturday. laseen.--Peareall
on Saturday ate the lad one of his SOO eggs
and won the weger.
A gentlemen who has just returned from
Washington Teriitory was asked how he
liked the wander. Well, sir," he replied,
"every bunch of willows ia it mighty foreefa,
every frog pond a sylvan lake, every water,
fall it -second Minneapolis, every ridge o
rook o it gold -mine, every town it count
1
Seat, any every man a - liar. .
Eris Imperial Highness Prince Ham, the
only eurviving child of the Emperor of
lapse, having almost reached the age of
7 years, is having it separate palm°. beat
for his 000ttpapey.