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The New Era, 1884-09-05, Page 8feloptExaber 5 ,1b84. WAR IN THE EAST. • • r • Admiral cloud:set signalled for nn ailVarobe in defiance of the feet that it stras. know the river had been laid with torpedoes. A tent= cannonade was kept up, bat the French 'ships steareedriasoltiteiy,en, and it Was soon mean that the Chinese squadxon was doomed. The French sellers, as soon as they came alongside of the Chineae vessels,sboarded them ia the old style, Beveled ships Enurendered , when disabled by shot and shell, and before evening the entire squadron was in the hande of the French. In the bold advance two French iron -clads 'were sunk by torpedoes. The loss of life is not stated, but it has been heavy on both aide. The great ereenal and ship- building yards are now at the mercy of the French fleet, but it le issued that the.Chi- nese on retiring will explode the aroenal. It is semi-offusially otated that inasmuch as France has not declared war, neutral Insesels going te Chine are not aubjeotto restriotione which would be impeeed in actual war. The French consul of this city lowered his flag. The, European 'settlement wile not die: tuibedThO toriaterdmentahitgan-eit7.11 p. in. and ceased at 8 ' p. m. Only one +Chinese battery replied. The retort that two French vessels were sunk during the engagement is uncon- firmed. The fleet oustaaned no damage. . The Frenoh ,Claief of Staff reports that the French lose is six men killed. It is be. /awed this eetimate is untrue. An English pilot was killed during the scare on Sena - day night, when the French opened their heavy fire, and it is believed dank one of their own torpedo beats. The bowbardmeut was ot the most iliokening character. The Chinese fleet lately on the Min River, with the +exception et two ships, have been blown up. No aurrender was allowed to the disabled and ainkiug ships. Their guns havingbeen silenced they were shelled for hour. Ad- miral Courbet opened treat 2 p.m., and the Chinese replied almost simultatemIely. The dookys,rd and arsenal were flredimmei ditttely, but with only partial success. The eleven vesicle forming the ,Chinese fleet were meetly light river fleet and trans- port, and really taye. The French had eight heavily armed ships—the Volta, Dugay, Trovin, Delauney, Aspic, Vipere, Lows. and Vinare: Several of the Chinese gunboats maintained bravely a desultory fire for about a quarter of an hour, when the survivors of the orews leapedoverboard. The combat was --practically finished in seven minutos'as the superior French artillery made the contest, after disabling the Chinese vessels, no fight, but a mas- sacre. This is the opinion of every spec- tator. Two 18.ton gunboats of the Chinese ileet fought well; one sinking near the English man-of-war Champion, while the other, Otationedaust above the junks, made_ a good stand. A London cablegram says: The situa- tion of the Franco -Chinese affairs ie (nue- ing great anxiety to London men:bents Leading with the East. Ignorant of the precise present poeition pending an-actual- deolaration of war, they are uncertain what course to take, and trade is paralyzed. Should hostilities become a certainty, there will undoubtedly be large shipments of goods not contraband of war. Some China houses still continue to think that actual war will be evoided. They reason from the fact that there are no signs of panic 011 1110 spot, and only one solitary instance , 3- fa reported in win= a merchant from Fee. ,‘„„„a•Chow has fled to Shanghai. If there is no panic they argue is is because the Chinese know that there will be no war. The Paris, alournal known to represent M. Ferry's views, comes out with a bitter artiole against England, which it compares to the, assassins of Neuilly in the treachery of ite designs, pretending friendohip only for the purpose of betraying and mieleading France, but, says the writer, England is declining rapidly. Its sun will soon set among the universe of nations. This artiole, whioh is undoubtedly inspired, is regarded here rather as a oign of weakness, intended to appease the Chenvoniatio spirits of France. should the Freuch Government after all retire without actual hostilities, by arousing the latent hatred between the two nations. X.Ferry may have an excuse for not carry- ing things so far in China as to engroes a, large division of the French. A member of the Chinese diplomatic" corps says' the Pekin Government never recognized that it owed France a son.. The bombardment of Kelung would only serve, to intensify the resistance to France. Le Paris denies that reinforcements have been ordered to China. For the present France will only occupy Foo•Chow and Eelung. Le Temps believes that France has no idea of blockading the open porto of 'China. If found necessary those will be chosen that will least interfere with inter. national commerce. Berlin newspapers liege the despatch of ships to China to protect German subjeots. A FATHER'S HORROR. • ,” His Ghastly Discovery of a Bear ltathigs Ms Daughter. A terrible story comes from Shrewsbury, Province of Quebec, which will long be. remembered in that village. A short dis- tance from ' Shrewsbury there resides a farmer named Loblanoa, a Frenoh-Catie- dian. On leaving home a few mornings ago to Work in the woods he told his wife to send their daughter, who was 12•years old, with his dinner at noon. After waiting until 3 o'olook in the afternoon he con- cluded to go home,- as no dinner had arrived. He shouldered his gun and started, but before he had gone far he notioed an immenoe bear apparently eat- ing something. He watched it for a mo- ment and fired, missing his mark. While reloading he could see that it was a human being the bear was devouring. He then rushed up to within easy gunshot, dii- nharging hie rifle into the bear, whish rolled over, to reveal the body of his little daughter, disfigured and almost beyond recognition. The flesh had been torn off her legs and face while she still held in her little hand the tin can containing her father's dinner. 'Terrific Gale and Loss of Life. A St. Johns, Nfld., despatch patio During a recent thunderstorm at Carbonear two houses were deatroyed. .At the outer cove fifteen fishing snaaoks were lost, and the schooner Betsy wreoked. The schooners Petrel and Elizabeth were lost in White Bay. A fishing smack with four men and two lady passengete were loot off Cape Broyle. It is reported that a large lumber ship was lost in St George's Bay. The irig Emulation was run down last night off Petty Harbor by an unknown ;barque and *rooked. Some seamen were injured. When a girl begins to take an interest in the condition a it young man's wardrobe it is a eign that they are engaged. When she loos all interest in it, it is a sign that they \Ire parted—or are married, according to °Philadelphia Call. TOMIEDY • IN A SCHOOL. Dreadful ecurrenee in the fluid* £iJilicSchool. ' FEMALE TEACHER SHOT BY THE HEAD MASTER Suicide of the Perpetrator -Unrequited Love the Cause of the Crime. A deopatob from Markdale, dated last (Monday) night, ego: Abut llo'cilookthis morning, when the school woos -dismissed for intermieeion, M. Norris, head teacher of Markfiale school, shot Mites Ford, emend teacher. Three shots took effect, one in the face below the cheek bone and two in the oide of the head. Those in the head glanced off the sidall end out again; the one in the face is still ledged in the side of the upper maxilla. lle then shot him, self, the ball entering the okull over the right eye and lodging somewhere in the bruin. Mr. Nome expired in about an hour. Mies gord, although very low, iS quite conscious, and hopes are entertained of her retioOkry. PARTICULARS OF THE TRAGEDY. Mr. Norris is an unraarried man, of about ala, years of age. He beme to this place from Lien's Head, County of Bruce, on the' lob of January of the present year and be- gan teaching. He has always conducted himself in a very ordexly manner, and gave .universal satisfaction as head -0940 in the Markdale _put*sohool,yahere three teachers are engaged. aDueingthe. oarly - part of the present summer he paid his at - tendons to the unfortuno.te young lady, Miss Ford. • For some weeks past he paid but little 'attention to her, because she dis- couraged him. This 'nothing the teachers were all on duty as usual. At the forenoon intermiseion Norrio went from his room into the roora.of Miss Ford and they were engaged in ourrerinttion for over half an hour,when Miss Ford gradually approached hor desk, and while leaning with her . elbow on the desk and her hand oia her face, Norrie approaohed- the other side of the deek. He then e • ASKED HER TO MARRY 'MAI, and the refused. He then drew a revol- ver from his pocket and fired at her, the ball going between her fingers and into her face. She immediately dodged down under the desk, when he caught her by, the arm with his left hand and dragged her out and fired two more shots, Which struck her in the head as before stated. She then ran out screaming, and ran to the first dwelling, about one hundred yards. . Dro. Sproule, of Markdale, and Barnhart, of Owen Sound, are attending the young lady, and up to the present time' hve not extracted the ball wl=li entered her .face. She ilea in a very weak condition, having laat a large quantity of blood. Nord& before moving from the plsoe where he shot her, fired one shot at hirmelf, the ball entering his right temple. He dropped to the floor ineensibleoanever -spokes-and-died in about an hour afterwards. Two or three child- ren were in the room during the time of the tragedy. . Miss Ford is an exemplary young lady, sunder 20 years of age. Her people live about a mile out of the village, her father having a large grist mill. Mr. Ford and family are very highly etteemed, and they have the deepest oympethy of the whole community. The greatest excitment pre- vails. A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. Four Members of a' Family Found With Tatar skulls Crushed. A Philadelphia telegram sayea, Among She laborers at work on the Ridgeway as Clarfield Railroad, near Dubois, Pa., were Stephen, Luke and John' Soovitah. With their wives and eight children they lived in a log shanty near Falls ureek station. Near by is a similar hut occupied by negro laborers. At 5 ceolook this morning one of the negroes heard a feeble knocking at the door. A little Hungarian child stood outside in great distress and stammered something and pointed towards Soovitoh's .eabin. The ilegroes, went to their white neighber's hut, the door of which was ajar. On the floor in one corner lay- Stephen Scovitch, covered with blood from a hideous gash in his head.- Near him lay his wife, her black hair stained with her own blood, which had gathered in a pool beneath her. In the centre of the room law the body 'of Lake's wife, also 'book- ingly beaten . about the head. All three' were dead, and on investigation it wari found that their skulls were fraetureda Luke was found still alive, tut was , too severely injured to give any account of the tragedy. On the floor was a pole -axe, such as used byminers; clotted with blood and human heir. The ohildrenwere uninjured. • HER LAST PLAY. Sad 'Death of a Child" on the Hallway' • Track. • A St. Thomas telegram says When it little this side of Ingersoll this morning, Engineer Phipps, of the -Credit Valley ex- press, notigedson object onahe traok,which he at the time took to be a dog. As he drew, nearer, however, he was horrified to behold a little girl eeated upon the track, He yelled, but she could not or did not move, and the cowcatcher struck her on the head, killing her instantly. The whole train pasted over the body. As soon as the train could be brought to a etop the men went back and pioked up the Melees remains of the little one and conveyed them to her home near by, only to discover that there 'was no one in the =me, the childremother having apparently left her alone with ,the dog to take care of the home while she went.to visit Ingersoll. The child was 3 years of age, and a daugh- ter of Mr. John Minard, a farmer. 111.1C/Ili Effects on the Foor and Effects on the Crops. A Landon cablegram says: The terrible, heat of tlie last few days has again drawn attention to the homing of the poor in London. Unbearable as the teMperature has been at the west end, with large and airy rooms, at Bethnal Green and Seven Diala the effect has been little ahort of suf- focation. The prams' of Mr. McCullough Torrens, M.P., to extend the area of build- ing ground byremoving the pajama and asylums to the country, has again &Waded attention. The proposal, if carried out, would not only free many acres of hied within the Metropolitan district, which might be used for workmen's dwellings, but would also vastly increase their value in ground rentals. The weather is now fine. Wheat is drooping; foreign and domestic) desorip- dons declined 1 to 2 shillings; .00rit id. te lower; market flat. ' Franklin married at• 21, Mozart at 25, Byron, Washington, Wellington and Bona, parte at 27, Peel aii32, Wadsworth Oa 38, Wilberforce at 38. Luther at 42, Addison at 44, and Old Parr, for the third time, at 102. a • 1 CANADIANS FOR EOYPT. •—•---- I 600 French-Canacilens to Join the Cordon Relief Sxpeditioa. •••••••••• I IMPORTANT PROPOSALBY GENERALWOLSELEY• An Qbtowa telegram Bays: The Gover- nor-General bite received instructions from the Imperial War Office to furnish 600 voyagers to go up the Nile to the relief of General Gordon et Khartoum. Lord Wolseley's experience in the Red River expedition leads him 'to believe that our Canadian canoe men are just the ' men to lead tbe relief expedition. The engage- ment of the volunteers for this service has been entreated -by -lard Lansdowne to Mr. J. T. Lambert, lumber agent, of this city, who has already it intnaber ot offers from persons willing to go to Egypt. The alms of men required are those who have been engaged m running timber on Canadian rivers. They will be needed in taking the flat-bottomed boats up the Nile and making portages around the rapids. Lord Melgund is awaitteg i struotions from the Governor-Generet i b fore issuing an advertisement calling for v lunteere. The men will be required to sail from Quebec about the 15th of Sep- tember, BQ as to reach England in time to join the Gordon relief expedition, wlaioh leaves about . the firet of Ootober. It is expected that three months will be cam. pied in the trip, and that the cost of each boatman sent from Canada will be about 6700 in addition to passage money,olothIng, feed, equipment, etc. An effort" wilr be made to get qualified foremen to accom- pany the voyageurs, so that there will be no peceseity for placing them under mill, tory dieoipline. It ia proposed to take 300' men from the Ottawa distrust and 300 from the Quebec, and St. Maurice regions. Soule Indians will be aompted. THE SITUATION IN EGYPT. ' ' • * LONDON, Aug. 25.—SeventhousandtroOp Bail to Egypt this week. • CAIRO, Aug 25.—Soldiers from Berber report that 636 Egyptians and soldiers are in the hands of the rebels, who treat them es slaves. Rebels pray for the Mahdi instead of the Sultan, and dolma that the Turks are heathens to be killed or expelled. . • WADY Mtn, Aug. 25.—Two thousand natives are oolleoted here preparatory to hauling the steamers through the cat- aracts. Tho food supply presents a diffi- culty, weft must mainly come from lower Egypt. • • , Cam, Aug. 25.—The mounted infantry for the Gordon relief expedition has started for Wady Haifa. They will ascend the river to Assiout, and go from there on camels to Khartoum. , General Sir Evelyn Wood has gone to Korosko. , GIGANTIC 'LAND FRAUD, 'Encroachments of Cattle Nen on lUalted States Lands-111111lons of Acres Fraudulently °trained. A Washington ' despatch save , Some time since the Commiesioner-Gentral of the land ad= ordered a survey of certain 'public lands m Colorado and Nebreaka, with the view of bringing suite against cat- tle companies that have illegally ionised in large tracts of land. A special agent reports that eight cages have been found in Colorado against the Prairie Cattle Com - pony, composed of ficotohmen. An exami- nation bas been made of tracts containing 100 square miles, 25 square miles, 16 square miles and 75 square miles, and the agent is now examining a tract con- taining over 100 square miles. All these are under the control of the Prairie Cattle 'Company, and the age= says are illegally fenced in. The officials of the land office !say the practice of We; gaily fencing large trams of land and making fraudulent entries has been greater the past year than over. They claim that between five and•six million acres are new illegally fenced, and that several millione are fraudulently entered. Settlers say cattle men are driving them away and taking their lands. If the practice is continued the oattle men will have control, of . the best publio lands in the United States -within 20,years.. The land agent in Mexico reports that 90 per main of the entries in that territory are fraudulent. The agent in Dakota says 75 per ceiat of the entrters there are frandulent.'' Entire counties are reported as -being fenced in in Kansas. In Wyoming more than a hun- dred cattle companies . are reported as having fencing on public lands.s• flome of these companies ate reported to be English, others Scotch. Ceinpiaints from settlers corm from nearly all Western States and Territories. The disreputable methods by which these lands are obtained are gener- ally well known. • and.the Northwest. Fanners in Grasmere are pestered with prairie wolves. They are playing havoo . with the hen roosts. Ia the garden of A. Magwood, at Rock- wood, may be seen some very fine apect- nuns aof . toba000. . Seine of the plants measure 40 inches • in ,Iteight..pitd have leaves a•focit across. ' • The M.& N. W. Railway Company have signified' their intention to come to the town of Birtle, and ask for a bonus of 040,000 from the municipality; A by-law granting this amount will be submitted and voted on the 23r0 of September. A Winnipeg cleopetch says: The rumors of grave irregularities in the oity finahoes have been corroborated by the publication of the auditor's reports. The chamberlain resigned on Saturday, and the chairman of finance will resign his position at Monday's Council meeting.. It is apparent that a heavy loss will be sustained in the oinking fund, which has been invested on loans and real estate, whikh has since depreciated largely. ' Thegreat Bell Farm has 5,000 acres of wheat arid 500 acres of flax under crop. It is expected that the Yield of the former will be from twenty-five to thirty' bushels pet acre. The total area under crop is 7,500 acres, and this will be increased next year 10 10,000. An elevator is being erected by the company at Indian Head which will have a capacity of 50,000 bushels, and storage will be granted in it to all who wish to avail themselves of it. • A Lover's Berke. A young Man in Shushan, N.Y., fell deeply in love with a yoting lady of Hoosiok Falls. She, alas! did not reciprocate. What did the young Man do/ Did he mope around, and get thin, and rediMe hie father's meat bill 10 per cent.? Nob he; he went and set the gide father's house on fire and then Raved her from the Ilitmes. BUCCOSB rewarded his bravery and devotion, and now he is hard at work helping the old gentleman build another thanty. In some parte of Oregon fanners are oompelled to proteet thole crops from the ravagingblaolthirds by the MO of ahet•guns. An Englishman attributes the memos of Moody, the evangelist, to hie obstinacy of Method and purpose., + SACELICIA BATH. One Dip in the Waters itf the Ganges Stare Parepors to Heaven. ' In the middle of january, when the receding waters leave it broad expanse of sand between the stream and the fort, it vast number of Hindoos seisemble from every part of the empire, pays the Eclectic. They come, weary and footeore and heavily laden, to bathe in the dirty, eaored river, and (simpler than children in holding the faith they have been taught) they here !leek cairn of spirit, pardon and relief, as the re- ward of their hard and weary pilgrimage. Some have come on foot from such far- away places that they have been months on the roads. Perhaps Home who started with them have died by the way, from the hardships they have undergone. But these reaolaed their bourne and one dip in that sacred flood is a eure passport to heaven. So there is great gladness among these myrieds, though many faces still look sadly haggard and anxious and careworn, None may venture into the river till he haa committed himself to the oare of some of the innumerable pragwallahe or priests, whom three -cornered flags flutter all along the shore. One of these men kindly re- ceives his offerings, andosecorts him to the river _bank. But first he must be com- pletely shaven from head to foot, leaving only. one celestial tuft at the back of ,the head. He has abstained from visiting Ms barber for some time previously. BO the sand is literally strewn with fine eilky black hair, of which, at the close of the day, we saw piles five Biz feet in height. This ought tobe oast in the Ganges ; but in- these • moderff days, when all ' things are utilized, we ob- served men going shoot with sacks, col. looting raw materials for chignons and [tisanes. Men, women and children a,11 bathe together with the utmost solemnity, at the, same time washing their clothes, so that.they may come forth altogether pure; and very clean and free's they certainly appear, in spite of the filthy' conditio,n 10 whioh they/have reduoed the water. It certainly is ourioue t� see the Hineoo women thus composedly bathing, in mixed company, clad only in a single fold of the very finest media, whereas, if you meet them ohland they will at once turn their backs and drag their cloth quite over their head. Certainly, in so doing they display' a great deal more than their ankles, but Shat is quite a trifle so long as the face is hidden. ,friinding One's Own Iftleblete• The little boy who allowed another Tittle boy to drown because by endeavoring to save him he must have lost his gillip0t, metes to have been the founder of a race whose masterly' inactivity it is often trying to read of. The other day a gentleman wrote to the . papers to complain that he had been hustled and robbed near' Bt. Giles' Church in broad daylight. There were plenty of people looking on, but .they declined to interfere. Last week a elergt/- man well known in the East End for his, philan'throphy had ,a siriailar adventure in Bethnal.Green ; and on Sunday an unfor- tunate-manswasceeri-flying but-of-RegentIa_ Park ' and in vain appealing to crowds of bystanders to resoue him from home in- furiated woman who dieliked hie religious opinions The persons who suffered this gentleman to be beaten must have regulated' their conduct on that doctrine of non- intervention which finds so much favor with -a certain political school, but without denying that =oh neutrality 0511 be pushed too far, one may ouppose that Englishmen are more often deterred from, meddling in a brawl for fear of taking' the wrong side than from poltroonery. The man who can eee no wrong done without hurrying to the rescue is apt to meet • with adventures as. lamentable as Don Quixote's. He may generalltobe known by • a black eye. He has interfered in au altereation between husband and wife, and the lady has turned upon him, saying, like Molierete heroine, " And what If it pleases me to be beaten 7" He stopped a father from chaatising his son, and the boy has . jeered at him. He hits protected the dog, against the master, and the dog has bitten him in the leg. A few such expenegoes lead a man to ponder with deep feeliiir over Solomon's -saying-a- " He that passeth by and meddleth with strife not belonging to him is like one that taketh a dog by the ears." . Of =urge we would rather not have to mike such an excuse for those who too stringently mind their own bueiness ;but we Offer it because • there appears to be no other. ' A Big Bridge in Scotland. , One of the greatest pteces of engineering' work in course of construction is the canti- lever bridge over the Forth in Scotland. The London Times describes the operations, and supplement's the written account with an illustration—a new departure for that old and respeoted newspaper. Although from 900 to 1,200 men are employed in the • work of preparing the steel, laying founda- tions for piers, eta., and the capital In- vested in plant amounts to half a milliod Of dollars, the contractors will consider them. selves fortunate if they can complete the bridge within six years. . Immense work- shops for preparing the metal work have been erected on the ground, where the workmen also reside, and work is carried at night and •day by: the aid of electiic, lights. The cantilevers ere so long that, inetead of attempting to carry them through the workshop where the parts are put together, the -Workshop itself is move- able with all its ponderous maashiner.y. Hydraulic presses ore employed to make steel tubes out of plates over twelve feet in length, four feet in width,- and an inch and an eighth in thickness. Ten of these plates, bent to form and riveted together,. make up a steel tube twelve feet in diame- ter. Each cantilever is to rise to a height of 350 feetabove the immense stone pion, and will stretch out arms 650 feet in length, right and left of the centre. A novel feature ef the construction of the viaduct piers, which form the approaches to the, cantilevers, is that the girders are put upon them 14/1 IMOD as they are built above the water level, and the whole upper structure is then carried up gradually cos- tbe masonry is built Underneath, until it has been raised one hundred feet higher than at present. The completed bridge will be high enough above water to permit the passage of ships underneath, and its upper worke will tower More than 350 feet above the water level. Honors for Prince Geotat• Prince George of Wales (Who was in Hamilton last year) halt arrived at Cowes in the Canada from the West Indian end North American stations, after an absence of nearly a yew. The young Prince will have leave of absence till the Middle of Oateber, and is to moon:many the t rime and Prineeos of Wales to Newcastle, and thence to Scotland. His next foreign service will be in the Mediterranean. The Queen, who last year created Prinee Ed- ward a Knight of the Garter, is going to give Prince George•the Grand:Cross of the Batli, an honor which she conferred on her other sailor grandson, Priem Henry of • Pruseia, When he was a guest, at Osborne throe years ago. There are 1,652 elerka in the -11. S. pensiOn A STRANGE OLD CUBAN CITY. There is no Changes in giantism° De Calaa. Though Three Hundred and fieventy Wears Have Rolled Around Since It wait Founded by VelingdCz•-,A. Lund of Constant Summer. The Santiago de Cuba is nearer to New York than BOMB of our big western cities, but it fo more curiousand-outlandish than any place of ins size outside ef Asia or Africa, =cording to the New York Sun, It is g time -worn, stained, deorepit old town B1101:1 as one might expect to find in the moon. It is a piece of bric-a-brass among the cities of the earth. New Yorkers reach it in a five or six clay& 'sail by the ' steamer Santiago or the Cienfuegos, both of which blush there after leaving Ne•seitu, then go on to Cienfuegos, and there turn and go back to New York. New Yorkers should feel an especial interest in Santiago, because that is where nearly all the coins with hales in them went from this city. When the storekeepers united tit drive mutilated money out of town, bags and Chetts full of it were taken 0/1 every• etearder that went to Santiago. Now • seven -tenths of the change in use there is of this sort. A San- tiago otorekeeper looks with distrust on an 'American dollar, and much pretense, Mead - can, Chiller; or Peruvian one, but he will =rape and bow at sight ot a handful of five and ten cent pieces fun of 'holes. It isjust eti in , Cienfuegos, but in Matanzas and Havana the currency is paper money, and gold is quoted, at 250; The tirtit view of Cube, at its' eastern end is &atomising to therie who Isepw that Wand only from hewing been to Havana Or from having heard or read of the Western end on which Havana is situated.. It rises out of the sea, an enormous rock, winise front is terraced and whoue apparently flat top aupporto Wee chains of ,grant moan. .tains. It moms utterly -wild and uninhabit- able, coated with woods and leading from, the bare and vitaant sea to the quiet blue mountrtbas thatreselt into the clouds. For many hours the steamship passenger will scan the rooky coast and the slopes of ver- • dare without perceiving any further sign of laumau oonneotion with ,the vast tern, tory betore him than an ocioasional sultry. box, put upfor and used by the boast guard during the ten years' wary . Cuba is bigger than Maine or Virginia, and is mid to be more valuable than any• twelve States in the Union, but two-thirds of zt is un,oultivated, and more than half of .it, the eitetern half, is uninhabited, wild and without roads. In the forests that one sees from the ship's dealt are mahogany, rosewood, ebony and even more valuable woods, and in the -rooks lie gold, silver and =taper in plenty. Cuba ie 760 miles' long, and .125 miles of its southern coast is 'paesed before Santiago is reached. Just to the east of die lovelyseaport of Guanta- namo some Clearings are seen,. and the tro- pia shanties of herders, small farmers and fishermen appear. A little further on one 'Beeralocomativessrattling-toaand-frorand- hears the sounds of hammer,•adze and saw, besides distinguishing huts,' sheds, and many humau forms. All this, so unlike anything elm .in. 'Cuba in the extent of the , bustle, and evident enterprise there; is at the railroad and works of the Juntgua, Iron Company, a Pennsylvanian oorporation which has wrung or coaxed eivah guarantees from Spain as to make it safe for the stocik- heleers to invest millions in working their minafor a peoulialy excellent, ore, capable of being worked into Bessemer steel. It is said that if they do their utmost in mining their property the supply. of , ore will last 300 years. • The old original Morro•Castle, compared to which that at Havana is an intent in 'care, guirde the berbor of Santiago. ' The entrance to the harbor is about half as wide again ae the Morris Canal Where it passes through NO ark. It lookei like a river that hae eaten its way through a Mountain range, and tittleburst forth into the sea. The old Morro Castle stands, or rather °tinge to the steep eastern side of the gorge. It is the color, of !sun baked and is deoked with,nunaerous little towerS, belfries, winding stairs, • battlements, ravellue and other eccentricities Of military arehitectUre Peculiar to the time when Uncle Tobyfolight, in Flanders. Little bronze popguns, such as Santa Anna relied On to Whip Scott With, still ornament the walls. At the . fait of the bluff and•on neiglaboring, points are detached bite of this ancient scheme of defence, Re slender and hensensensicial that it is difficult to believe they could ever' have been of any me. Old sailers Rai -tlieke works guard the most beautifpf hither in the world. The narrow waterway winds between high hills, a erooked • emerald sheet reflecting the waving/pelme, 'huge -leaved bananas, low, white one-story residences, cagelike hathiug enclosuree, -tropical woods, and giant blue • mountains on • either side. Cuba is . everywhere beauti- ful, but this is its prettiest portion. Pelican's float on the smooth sur- face and flamingoes hang in the air over. head. Manes of gorgeoua flamers perfumo. the air and startlethe ' eye • with • their colors. "Men in suits of white duck book upon this beauty spot • from • under otraw hats, and find it a natdsuminer scene; though in New.York only a.few.days before the streets were blocked with snow. Hetes Velliequez Came to found the oity 111 1811, and down thistortuous channel Cortez sailed to conquer Mexico; taking with bitia the first horses. ever seen in our easter repu , • • a Suddenly the' strait widens into a data. nel. Straight ahead liee the city, a breed, low ORBS Of blue, • yellowared, and white houses of limestone or plaster, painted to rival the imea of the Sewer's, the water, and the sky. Thetwin domes of the old cathedral rise. -above !the low level of the reefs. On the one hand, the shore rises toward the mountains opposite, the bank is low and level. A•log or two sticking out are all that remain in sight ofthe great war - hip St. Paul, the one •member of the in- vinoirde armada Which got away from Nel- son's gun's, and afterward Was 'wreaked In this harbor. • When you see Santiago, who. will not 'minder that nothing hes been done with this interesting relic? It will -Beare hat nothing is done with anything, and that ibat cannot take . ere of itself is not deemed worth taking asoxe of. Near the sunken hull on the shore is the eked where the victims of the old Virginius affair were shot. Thi city is so full' of curious things that it mama to a, Neve Yorker like one great ourioisity. Xi is the oldest place of Consider- ablesize in the New World, and it has changed so littleas the centuries have relied by drat it is mid that Cortex or V.e1-4 aequez would feel mote at home there, and would find, less to surptise them, than any, where else. in this hemisphere. The main street is a narrow and dusty way, with sidewalks on which two persons cannot pass. At its feet in the =stem house shed, it slight etruotare weighted With a roof of enotmous yellow olay tiles, under which swarthy Men and negroes roll and Smoke on beteg on boxes. Half way up the street is the Market, which look's a little like the FOrty.second street reservoir bearded aver and leaped up with vegetables, fisb, fruits, fowls shd isleat, attended by colored WOmen, and .0abans squatting under um- brellas and trying lard to eell the lottes7 tickets, which every fifth man, Woman and child ua Cuba vends, than to get rid of their more substantial commodities. At the further end of the street is a plaza, or park, a dusty, hot little ectuare.eontaining a few trees and bow [dein Walla that wave as benches. On one side is the Govetnment House, where the Governor lives, Soldiers in blue ticking and Orate hats, and who home.siots looking boys ELS 5,P1110, 'MSS up and down in front of the huge arched win- dows. Opposite is the cathedral, the church of the bishop who rules the Roman Catholics of Cuba. It is a Jaime old otruoture, marked off in blocks of poorly done imitation marble. 'Within, the great floor is bare, except for a few • hsetteesonnueshe affi d ,andthaipp by the Govweranroahrar iana stand when the serviced do 1301 require them to kneel. Some carry mats to kneel on, and others use their handkerchiefs. The continued clatter of a chime of cracked' bells makes life in the neighborhood almost unendurable. In the Ave principal cities. of Cuba the cholla in the cathedrals are cracked. Over the altars, against the walls of the Santiago • Cathedral, thee figures of our Saviour, the Virgin and the sainte are dressed in gorgeous clothing. ,Even the tiny waxen and wooden angels. wear light but 'showy clothing. Some of .the more expenaively olad figures wear crowns set with jewels, which look liko glass and are kept in glum ogees. • A New Yorker eau tnrnMn head in no direction in tlie streets without seeing Soraething 'strange. Volo,ntes,,with wheels. • taller than a men of Ordinary height, rumble by ; priests in black stalk along, under greet•shovel bets ; the most entrano- ,. Mg vinous of female loveliipse are mete, a through the big grated windows; long ' chains of mules or homes, half hidden un- der the burdens they aye obliged to because there are few waggon roads out of • ' town, clatter by; ranohmen, with huge. knives; lassoes and hideeue big spurs sliocitt along on'small Cation ponies, whose sleet twinkle as they-patter_onward ; soldier'', innumerable shuffle to Mad lye in squads, and little boys with long fluttering 1ehoets. of lottery tickets in one hued, and B it3E4kit -in the other to.out the sheets with, sihg of' , luck and 'chances, while other boys -orr ' that they have sugar cakes for sale \to those would rather, sweeten ' water then drink it raw. • • .`. .1 . , - Anywhere off the main streets acenee.„of decay and destruction meet the eye. Walls. 1311:4 fell in earthquakes a century ago 'y,eV' clutter the lanes, and • ravir es • made by earthquekes even faither back in time still. yawn in the way of travellers.. All the streets are. as narrow as Thames street in the first ward of this oity, and few ,of tho. sidewalks are more than a foot and a halt in width: Some streets are impaseable. bet:eine of this. ' Houses • half buried on • shaken almost to pieces stand as .fate left . them, and other houses with the plaster • gone and the Cuban lathwork of emelt' tree boughs exposed, are inhabited by . families whose members seem not to care as long as the roof remains 'overhead. • "Peffellfnans are free to loole-luttr-any or all . of . the' houses,for the windows • ,are fronted with open iron screens, And • the big wooden doors are ajar. Pretty little domestic views we had; partiaularly • • when, in the afternoon, the family circlet' surround the dinner' tables either under ' the tropic trees in the open court or in the main rooms with the • green. garden's to. serve as background's.' The big white and gold apartments of the three club houses . . wherein one sees the tastefully and. thinly clad Cubans . at cards and billiards', or sipping acid drinks and smoking, .are reminders of what ' Asiatic:. • travellers • • . la describe. And at night, when the stores, which seem to have no fronts, but are ' wide open on the streets, are ' brilliantly , 'illuminated, the . view -down the main . shopping thoroughfare is . a • gay and a • strange one. It is like walking.down Vesey ' street on a Saturday night, except that the • • stores are.very neat and often expensively . and handsomely appointed. The saloons. ss . • aro equally wide open, and one merely steps. . e ant of the sidewalk. prooesition dr ins El, • r . . glass •of c000anut.water and gin and, step-' . . ping baokagainf moves on with the throng.. At this time the dark -eyed, languid. creole, women are in the crowds with a oleic or it relative to look after each 'one of them, and • the Cuban youths are walking in pairs be -- hind them, exactly an doe Sees 'the . young. men •do alike on Murray Hill or in Avenue A. • • ,. , Two Scotch stories. A respectable minister, who was also a, . Peebleshire laird, told me the following. story illustrative of the matter-of-fact, manner of the people. There was an °kV invalid man On the Tweedside who was attended by afaithu1 Abigail. Like many frail persons, he was always anticipating' • his own speedy demise. "I'm thinking, Nancy," he said one day, "that it canna bs. tang noo. I feel as if this verra nicht the, end wud COMO." "Indeed, laird," amid the • attendant, "if it were the Lord's will, it wad be real 'convenient, for the coo's gaen to oalve, and I dinna weel see hoo 1 am to• tend on ye baith I" • ' This, however, oan be matched, I am bound to say, by another storylately told • • • • to me, the scene of whiohlay in the Perth-. tor shire Highlands. The nsinister had gone to . eee a dying parishioner, and when he, reached the cottage he found the family bathed in tears. " Is he worse 7". he asked.. "011, sir, he's just doein'," was the reply given in an agony- of Borrow. Looking: toward the "box bed" where the safferer • lay, be was aetonished to see two men • bending over it. "What are they doing there 2" "Eh, sir, they're just shaving him 1" "Shaving ideal" said the.minister, in amazement, " oan they not let the poor man die in peace?" "It's far easier noo 1" W55 the strange answer which mingled • with the sobbing.—Donala McLeod, D.E.,. in Good Words. • , • Getting Oat of Sight. . Last Sunday morning, says the Somer. ville •Tournee, as a family were about to start for church, a button was found to be Missing from one of the garments of a . • little 6 -year-old miss, ancl..the mother of the little one, as many a mother has often , to do, went about to sew it on. While the •" • mother was engaged in the task, the little one asked : • , "Is it wrong to sew on a button On S day, mamma 7"u*, "1 suppose it is, darling." "Will God punish you for doing 11 11 He sees you 2" • "I'm afraid Ile will." •" Do you think Fie sees you now?" • "Yes, He sees all things.;' • "Well, come over into this dark corner.. He'll forgive us this time, I guess," A novel way of presenting the aged . "Pinafore" opera heti been adopted by ans opera troupe at ,Aabuty Park, N. J. Aiti. "man 0! war" has been built on Sunset Lake, nOrth of dairy Park, and the play to given on ib, the audience witnesaing the performance from the shore. Butteroup comes aboard in it row.boat and oviOthing is as realiatio as poseiblAi