The Advocate, 1887-10-20, Page 6HOT TIMES IN IRELAND
Dramatic Scene at the Trial of the Lord
Mayor of Dublin.
HIS WORF3111P AOQUITTED,
The Moonlight TraitorT ellsIfow Policeman.
Whelehau Wu Murdered.
A last (Thuraday) night's London cable
says : The Irish Bituation remains practi-
cally' unchanged. The Gpvernment and
the League are in deadly grapple, but as
yet it 1B uncertain which will win.
Although Lord Salisbury, Mr. Balfour,
Lord Salisbury and Lord Ashbourne are
ready to go to the utmost extremities, they
cannot possibly forget the restraint of
public opinion. Conservatives are coneoled
with the reflection that hitherto the Gov-
ernraent have done all they attempted,
while the Nationalist resistance is abortive.
The disappearance of Mr. Devitt and Mr.
O'Brien's escape produced a bad moral
effect on their followers.
A last (Thursday) night's Dublin cable
says : The trial of Lord Mayor Sullivan
and Mr. O'Brien, for publishing in the
papers respectively controlled by them re-
ports of meetings of suppressed branches of
the National League, was opened this
afternoon at the Mansion House Court.
At 2.30 the Lord Mayor was driven to the
court, followed by Mr. John Dillon, ex -
Lord Mayors Gray and Dawson and ex -
Sheriff McDonald and other. The city
rnarshal led the civic dignitaries, who
were all arrayed in the full robes of office.
Mr. O'Brien joined the procession soon
after it started. The streets through which
it passed were thronged, and the Lord
Mayor and Mr. O'Brien were the recipients
of a great ovation. Policemen wandered
singly through the crowds. A cordon of
police surrounded the Mansion House, and
prevented the crowd from approaching the
court -room. There were fifty municipal
officers in court. After the case had been
called a warm dispute occurred between
the police attendants in the court and Mr.
Sexton, M. P., end High Sheriff of Dublin,
arising from the desire of the latter to
place the city sword and mace before the
magistrate. The police attempted to pre-
vent the placing of the city emblems on
the table, whereupon Mr. Sexton and the
other municipal officers seized the sword
and attempted to place it there by force.
The police and municipal officers struggled
for possession of the sword, while the spec-
tstors in the gallery cheered Mr. Sexton
and exhorted him to "Hold on." After a
few minutes, both sides desisted, a com-
promise was effected and the sword was
placed on the magistrate's bench.,
Mr. O'Brien did not enter the court to
answer the summons against him. The
case of Mr. Sullivan was proceeded with.
Mr. Careen appeared as counsel for the
Crown and Mr. Timothy Healy appeared
for the defence. After hearirg the evidence
the Court dismissed the case on the ground
that the Crown had not proved that the
meeting reported in the Nation was a meet.
ing of a suppressed branch of the National
League. The spectators and the crqwd
outside were wildlyenthusiastic over the
decision. Mr. O'Brien's case will be called
to -morrow.
The Counsel for the Crown hasgiven notice
of an appeal against the decision of the
Court.
In the trial of moonlighters at Ennis for
the murder of Constable Whelehan, Calli-
nan, who turned State's evidence, testified
as follows:
On Sunday night, about dusk, we met in
quarry. Two guns and two revolvers
were brought by the Learys and were
loaded in the quarry. A council was then
held. Thomas Leary said that Sexton
should be shot dead. He did not believe in
scratches. One man shot had more effect
than twenty wounded. On leaving the
quarry we went through the bogs to Sex-
ton's house. Most of the party wore hand-
kerchiefs or white cloths over their faces.
When we got to the bog near to the public
road at Sexton's house, Thomas Leary told
the parties to stand. He then said: " If
we meet any police let nobody run sway.
Walk on as if we were on business, and if
the police stop us let us all turn on them
and mob them and kill them." Several
spoke at the time. Thomas Leary and
Michael Murphy were the chief spokesmen.
We then got on the road. Peter Murphy
was left in the field near the road, so that
in ease any police passed he could give the
alarm. We then proceeded up the
back yard to Sexton's house. I
put my hand on the latch and found it Plan of Campaign than they were by the
bolted. I then knocked, and some one killing of bailiffs. The deadliest place to
from the inside asked who was there. I hit them was their pockets. He hoped that
said "Police," as had been previously the mortgages of Lord Granard would not
arranged. The door was then opened. I leave him a brad farthing to bless himself
was the lint that stepped in. Thos. Leary, with. The Irish were strong enough to
Daniel Leary and MartyCurtis were subdue the paltry Loyalist crew.
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abreast behind me, coming n. Valor and
Hehir were behind them, and Michael
Murphy was to stay in the back yard to
give the alarm. Michael Murphy had a
stick. The moment I entered I wheeled to
the right into a bed room The visit of our
party that night was not to be confined to
the Sextons. We were to visit the house
of one Callaghan, who did not live far
away from Sexton's. The reason for the
visit was his taking or grabbing Kelly's
land. The particular reason for visiting
'Callaghan's was that Thomas Leary said
if he was not visited that night it cordd not
Catholic Church at Mitchellstown, has
obtained a suramone against Capt.Plankett
for trespass for entering the Dean's
grounds at the head of a force of police and
hussars and dispersing a crowd assembled
there on the 000asion of the conviction of
Mr. William O'Brien.
A last (Friday) night's London cable
says: In a speech at Abeerystwith this
evening Lord Spencer said he was satis-
fied that the League had nothing to do
with the crime in Ireland. Referring to
the trial of Lord Mayor Sullivan, he said
he would not advocate a breach of the law,
but in the present state of affairs he could
not expect anything different on the part of
the Irish people. He was convinced more
strongly than ever that Ireland needed
Home Rule.
A last (Friday)night's Dublin cable
says: The hearing in the case of William
O'Brien, who was summoned for publish-
ing accounts of meetings of suppressed
branches of the National League in United
Ireland, has been adjourned pending. a
decision of the appeal to the Superior
Court by the Crown in the case against
Lord Mayor Sullivan. Mr. Healey, Mr.
O'Brien's counsel, applauded the Magis-
trate's decision, and said the court had
shown itself fair-nainded in its disposition
of the case: Mr. O'Brien was not present.
The work of eviction at Gweedore was
finished to -day. There was no residence
or disorder.
A London cable says: The collapse of
the Government's prosecution of Lord
Mayor Sullivan and Mr. O'Brien involves a
great deal more than mere delay in the
enforcement of a single clause of the Coer-
cion Act. Since the Dublin magistrate's
decision and free construction of the clause
of the Act forbidding the publication of
reperts of •the proceedings of suppressed
branches of the National League, the mat-
ter has been submitted to the Crown law -
yeti in England and Ireland, and their
opinion thus far given supports Magistrate
O'Donnell's finding, making it extremely
improbable that the Government will pro-
ceed with its appeal from his decision.
The discussion of the case in the Dublin
court disclosed a road by which the League
may drive a coach and six through the
Crimes Bill. Judge O'Donnell dis-
missed the case against Mr. Sullivan on
the ground that proof was wanting that the
reports published were those of branches
that had been suppressed by proclamation.
The Crown Counsel pointed to the fact
that this decision implied that the Govern-
ment, in the event of subsequent charges of
illegal publication, must prove that the
meetings whose proceedings were published
were really meetings of suppressed brenches
of the League, and that the persona present
at such meetings were really members of
those branches. This construction, he
contended, was tantamount to permanently
disabling the prosecution, unless the
charges could be supported by the admis-
sion of incriminated parties, and further
than'this it would be impossible under such
interpretation of the Act to obtain the
evidence required to convict. The position,
therefore, is that if the decision of the
court holds good, not only will press prose -
cations be futile, but the Government will
have great difficulty in proving that meet -
lugs of suppressed branches are illegal.
The Scotland Yard officials profess to
have received information tothe effect that
a number of American Feniansare contem-
plating a series of dynamite outrages in
Ireland and England. Returning ships at
both Queenstown and Liverpool are closely
watched, and a sharp watch is kept upon
the American Fenians by trusted agents in
New York. All the special police precau-
tions that were in use during the troublous
twee of 1881 and 1882 have been revived
for Mr. Balfour's protection.
At Ennis yesterday the prisoners under
examination for complicity in the murder
of Constable Whelihan were, on the testi-
mony of Callinan, the approver, committed
for trial. Bail was refused. The populace
cheered the prisoners as they were led to
jail
The summons obtained by the Rev. P. D,
O'Reagan, Dean of the Catholic Church at
Mitchellatown, against Captain Plunkett
for trespass for entering the Dean's grounds
and dispersing a crowd which had assem-
bled there on the occasion of the trial of
William O'Brien, has been dismissed by the
magistrate on the ground of irregularity.
A League mass meeting was hela at
Longford to -day. During the proceedings
the platforna collapsed and a Government
reporter was injured. Mr. T. M. Healy,
M. P., chaffed the reporter on his first trial
of a plank bed. Continuing, Mr. Healy
said that there would soon be no landlords
left in Ireland. He would deal with the
landlords in securing their rights as he
would in driving rats from a haystack.
The landlords wore more bothered by the
Life in Toronto.
After a night of debauchery Thomas
Cunningham, a man about 40 years of age,
was found dead in his bed, at 16 Agnes
street, Toronto, yesterday morning. His
wife was lying beside him speechlessly
drank and could not be made to understand
what had taken place.
woman's Rights.
He—Now that we are married, we aro
one, and I shall insist that this be tho last
time you appear in ,a low-ne6ked dress.
be done for a long time, as the police would She—We raay be one, but you are only
be very busy in the neighborhood after half of us,, and I shall dress my half as I
filexton,Was shot, Thomas Leary was inside please.
the threshold of the door, and in the scuffle
that followed I saw him let go his rifle and The New York, custom house employe
*nee his way out of the back door. twenty-three women. Their duties are to
X saw the police run down and several examine the baggage of ladies arriving from
Arrests were made, Peter Murphy was foreign parts, and to search the persons of
.down in the field the last time I saw him. women who are suspected of attempting to
I had previously asked Thomas Leary to defraud the revenue. Their pay is 43
get me a stick to help me to walk through day.
the bog. When we got to the bog where A complete orchestra of Japanese instru-
the council was held. Michael Murphy said, 1 month has lately. been presented to the con-
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4' Give me the stick, as I have no arms and servatory at Pas by a Dutch govoinment
X must stay in the back yard." I then official.
gave it to him. I would know the stick. I Mit; Olive Barr, a wealthy young lady
Mr. Lynch, for the defence, gave him a of Odin, 111., fell in love with W. E. Arrow -
most searching cross-examination, but smith, a poverty-stricken youth. Iler
Callinan displayed the greatest coolness Parents chased the young man out of the
and nempeaure and proved- hiranif a capi, country,.,but Mise tan' followed him, and
tai witness the dear and mama a wedding was the result. The young
manner in which he anewered every woman 18 worth $150,000 in her Own right,
question.
The last of the British cavalry aro about
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The Refl. P. D. O'Reagatt, Dean of the to be withdrawn from Egypt.
IT BEADS LIKE A FAIRY TALE.
A. Georgia Farmer's Benevolence Be -
warded by a Ribs of money.
An Atlanta despatch Gays: A pretty
little romance has just reached an interest-
ing culmination in Retain county. At
the base of the Tiger Mountain, half a
mile off the main road leading to Clayton,
resides a sober old farmer named Geo. W.
Dillard, who has a wife and two sons.
Early last Bummer Mr. Dillard received a
letter from his wife's brother, whom he
had not. seen since 1849. At that time
James McCurrie was a young man, as was
also George W. Dillard. The news had
reached Georgia of the wonderful gold
discoveries in California. Among those
who were full of the excitement were
McCurrie and Dillard. They had perfected
all arrangements for going thither, and
were bidding the family good-bye when
Dillard faltered. The tearful eyesof
koDurrie's young sister touched his heart,
especially as she was weeping for him and
not for her brother. Throwing down his
bundle, he declared that he would stay if
the girl would marry him. To this she
cheerfully agreed, so Dillard remained a
Georgia farmer, while McCurrie jumped
into the stage coach and was borne away.
Since that time lashes never been heard of.
It was with mingled feelings therefore,
that Dillard read the letter from his old
comrade. McCurrie stated that he had
worked against adverse fortune, declining
to write to the folks at home until he could
strike it rich, but every year found him
growing poorer, and now old, feeble and
poor, his great wish was to look once more
upon his native hills. That he could not
do so unless he was sent money enough
upon which to return. Mr. Dillard read
the letter to his wife and eons.
" We must send him the money," said
the old man. So a cow and a innle
were sacrificed and the money went on its
mission across the continent. Several
weeks' time brought another letter, in
which the old man expressed his grateful-
ness for the kindness done him, but was
too ill to undertake the journey. After
that no more was heard from him.
On Monday Dillard received a letter
which recited that James McCurrie was
dead; that he wished to test the fidelity of
his sister's family; that their prompt
response to his appeal had moved him, and
that by his will his property in California,
valued at $1,600,000, was willed in equal
parts to his sister, her husband and their
two sons.
The two young men passed through Atlanta
tcanight en route for California to take pos-
session of the property, which they hope to
shortly convert into cash, when they will
return.
The Canadian Northwest,
Messrs. Hugh Johnston and W. Gooder-
ham, of Toronto, have addressed a letter to
the Victoria, B. C., Colonist, with a view of
explaining and defending the remarks made
by them which gave so much umbrage to
the people of that city.
The Home Land & Cattle Company, of
Wood Mountain, a•company composed of
United States citizens, have driven the
cattle they intended for this country into
the Mills River country in consequence of
the refusal of the Deminion Government
to give them conceal -one they desired with
respect to duty.
George Butterworth, a waiter on the C.
P. R. dining car Kensington, was dragged
to death at Gleichen yesterday by a run-
away horse.
There is already a grain blockade on the
Canadian Pacific Railway at Carberry.
Only 10,000 bushels have been marketed
out of a yield of 600,000 bushels in that
district, and the C.P.R. arennable to trans-
port it. They only supplied one car in the
last three days for the four elevators,
which are now blocked. There was a de-
mand yesterday throughout the Province
for 300:care and it could not be met.
The Dominion injunction case against
the Red River Valley Railway was begun
to -day before Judge Killam.
The Chief Justice yesterday gave judg-
ment in the application which was made
some days ago for an extension of time in
which to proceed with the election petition
against Mr. Scarth. He refused the appli-
cation. Thia, until reversed, insures Scarth
the seat. The judgment will be appealed
against.
Ten more cars of rails for the R.R.Valley
have arrived.
The first shipment of stock from the Cal-
gary ranches, coneisting of fourteen cars,
passed through the city to.night. Some
thirty-six cars are on the way. They are
billed to Montreal.
Detroit's Little Tragedy of Love.
A Detroit despatch says: Hiram Cor -
lies, foreman of the triniraers who look
after the street lamps, sustained a fatal
shock while workingon the orosetrees of an
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electric -light pole n front of the opera
house last night. The network of wires
caught him as he fell, and for nearly ten
minutes he hung suspended in the sir while
a great crowd gathered below, When
finally he was rescued there was a faint
spark of life, but five rainutes later he was
cad.
" Who is it ?" asked a girl, as the body
was being removed to the uudertaker'a. A
bystander told her. The girl broke into a
fit of hysterical weeping and fell to the
sidewalk. It was Emma Cook, who was
Corliss' fiancee.
In a sandpit near Omaha two enormous
teeth have been dug up. The naturalist
who tells the story of their discovery says
that they must have belonged to some
animal that was at least " six times as large
as the modern elephant," and that ate
timber as a steady sdiet. Maybe the OXiB•
tence of such an animal accounts for the
vast prairiee of the wost, and that he
starved to death 'when the supply of timber
gaIvsie out. FRIGID NORTIL—They have a cold
time of it in Arthur, according to the.enter.
prise, which this week has the following :
Perhaps somebody will call us an able,
bodied prevaricator when WO assert that
the frost on Sunday night last was severe
enough to burst iron pipes. It is a fad,
however, that the pipes of two threshing
engines wore buret by the water in thorn
becAnmainpfilecongealed."
e farm of Capt. T
J. Williamson, in Pleasant; county, Va.,
which has borne fruit for a number of
into nevor boon known mom.
This year the tree is again fall of fine large
apples, the etrangost thing about which is
that the fruit has neither core nor seed,
111QW OH* .414) WEIR .11.10REIM.1* IFIca•
Schofl Giri with a Decently! lren mud
au in4 Bottle tlxat Held tile Drug.
A Philadelphia despatch 680 : The in-
gennitY of morphine victims to hide their
vioe has never been better illustrated than
hi the case of a young girl at a fashionable
young ladies' boarding -school near this city.
who has just been taken away by her
parents. She said she learned to use mar -
plane from a young married woman, well
known hi society in New York, whom she
met at a watering place last summer.
The disclosure came about accidentally.
When the young student returned to the
school this fall she had periods of deep
despondency, and often asked theprivillege
of going to the room in the seminary set
apart as a hospital. There she would lie for a
day at a time, only rousingherself when any
one appreaohed the table, on which stood an
ink bottle and a stylographio pen. The
nurse having occasion to send a message to
the doctor attempted to write with this
pen, the y,oung girl at that time being
asleep. The pen not only refused to write,
but the practised eye of the nurse instantly
recognized in the point the punotaring
needle of a hypodermic syringe. This led
to an examination of the ink bottle. It was
four.ounce bottle, but there was no ink
in it. It was painted black on the outside,
and contained Magendie's solution of
morphia, enough for 128 one-half grain
doses, or sufficient to last until the Christ-
mas holidays. The principal of the school
was summoned immeclistely and the sleep-
ing girl's arm bared. It was punctured
from the .shoulder almost to the hand, and
the livid blue marks confirmed the suspicion
which was changed to absolute certainty by
the small abscess which had begun to form
in the forearm just above the wrist. The
habit had been formed about two months
only, and there is a possibility thiO a cure
can be effected.
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A CHILD'S FATAL SHOT.
A Young Man Instantly Killed by an
Eight -Year -Old Boy.
A Mattawa despatch says: Ernest
Aspect dit Desairne, a resident of Buoking-
ham, Quebec, was shot dead here about
half -past 7 o'clock on Tuesday evening.
The deceased, who was about 20 years old,
was in the employ of Mrs. N. Timmins,
and was sitting in the kitchen in converse -
tion with Mrs. Sutcliffe, a fellow -servant,
when an 8 -year-old son of the latter pioked
up a double-barrelled gun which was
atanding in the corner of the room, one
barrel of which unfortunately proved to be
loaded. Pointing the weapon towards the
deceased and his own mother, the child
cocked both looks, pulling first one and then
the other trigger, the second of which
caused the discharge of the piece, lodging
the whole of the heavy charge of shot in
the throat of the unfortunate young man,
whose death was instantaneous. Judge
Doran, stipendiary magistrate and coroner
for the district of Nipissing, was imme-
diately notified, and decided' that an in-
quest was unnecessary.
Animals as Doctors.
An animal suffering from chronic rheuma-
tism always keeps, as far as possible, in
the sun.
When an animal has a wounded leg or
arm hanging on it completes the amputa-
tion with its teeth.
If a chimpanzee is wounded it stops
the bleeding by placing its hand on the
wound and dressing it with leaves or grass.
A sporting dog was run over by a car-
riage. During three weeks in winter it
remained lying in a brook, where its food
was taken to it. The animal recovered.
A dog, on being stung on the muzzle by
a viper, was observed to plunge its head
repeatedly for several days in running
water. The animal eventually recovered.
When a dog has led his appetite he eats
that species of grass known as dog's grass,
which acts as an emetic and purgative.
Cats also eat grass. Sheep and cows, when
ill, also seek out certain herbs.
Animals suffering from rheumatic fever
treat themselves by the continued applica-
tion of cold water, which M. Dulauney con-
siders to be more certain than any of the
other methods.
Animals get rid of their parasites by
using dust, mud, clay, etc. Those suffering
from fever restrict their diet, keep quiet,
seek dark, airy places, drink water, and
sometimes plunge into it.
The warrior ante have regularly organ-
ized ambulances. Latrelle cut the antennas
of an ant, and other ants came and covered
the wounded part with a transparent fluid
secreted in their little mouths.
Many physicians have been observers of
animals, their diseases, and the methods
adopted by them in their instinct to cure
themselves, and have appropriated the
knowledge so brought under their observa-
tion in their practice.
A terrier hurt its right eye. It remained
under a counter, avoided heat and light,
although habitually kept close to the fire;
it adopted a general treatment, rest and
abstinence from food. The local treatment
consisted in licking the upper surface of
the paw, which it applied to the wounded
eye, again licking the paw when it became
dry. .
A despatch from Cooktovrn, Australia,
says that the German gunboat Adler, con-
veying King Malietoa, arrived there and
transferred the King aboard the Albatross,
which sailed, it is supposed, for German
New Guinea.
• Mr. J. j. McArthur, of Aylmer, who is
making a topographical survey of the
Rocky Mountain, this summer ascended
to the summit of Mount Stephen, the second
highest peak in the Rockies, 10,523
feet above the sea level. Mr. McArthur
was accompanied by an assistant.
Within the past 40 years numerous at-
tempts have been made to introduce the
English skylark into this country. Large
nurabere of the birds have been brought
over and liberated at various points from
Delaware to New England, but without ex-
ception the 'birds have disappeared at once
and never been heard of again, except do.
casionally, after intervals of years, reports
come of one being heard in some parts of
the country. Abroad they flourish from
the south of England to Scandinavia. Why
they die in this country no one knows.
Seine think that they do not die, but that
the country is so big that they abetter over
it as soon as landed, and are swallowed up
NO10016 OMB YGIt A ICANCEiti
A Connecticitt nun's Life Saved by Uwe
TOW&
The usefulness of total. has been a
debated question. While the gardener
has contended that the batrachian had its
place as a destroyer of insects, even this
has been pooh-poohed by doubting
humanity, and as a medical remedy—why
they have not even been dreamed of. It
has remained for a Connecticut man. to
discover a new field of usefulness for the
toad as a remedy for what has been
hitherto considered incurable—the cancer.
Thomas Gladden, a resident of New
Britain, Conn., tells the remarkable story
of his experience. Mr. Gladden is a vender
of tin, who has followed the occupation of
selling froni house to house for many years,.
and is one of the few specimens of Yankee
peddler still following his profession. He
is knotvn in many towns within a radius of
25 miles from his hoine, where he had beea
a regular visitor from time to time.
About five years ago a small pimple oa
the left 'cheek of Mr. Gladden developed
into a cancer. So he was informed by
various reputable physicians whom he con -
salted. He tried various remedies without
success, although some of them succeeded
in staying the progress of the deadly
scourge, which had increased meanwhile to
is great sore which covered a good part of
his face. But while the disgusting malady
did not increase it did not get ranch Netter.
and indeed Mr. Gladden was told that be
might eventually lose his life. It was very
painful at times. Finally, a neighbor sug-
gested a new remedy—live toads. W. S.
Campbell was the neighbor. Campbell
looks like a man who might suggest a
remedy of that nature. He gives the idea
of being a man whose ablutions are not of
ever-reourring frequency. Nevertheless, it
is said that there are a good Many things in
his head that other mortals have not
dreamed of in their philosophy! Ila
studied medicine years ago, but ha o not
practiced.
" Toads will cure it," was the constant
refrain of Mr. Campbell, who called often
on his neighbor. Finally Mr. Gladden,
who resented the theory at first, was pre-
vailed upon to try it. He thought it would
not kill him at any rate, and the cancer wag
sure to do that in time. So the neighbor-
hood was scoured for toads. The neighbors
were called into service. They captured
them by the dozen. Big fat fellows were
at a premium. When they had a large
nuraber of them penned up operations
commenced. This is the way it was done:
The legs of tho toads were secured to pre-
vent scratching and he was laid on the
centre of the sore. The operation was pain-
ful. The sufferer could feel every breath.
The toad lived for several hours. The first
first dozen who were applied lived perhaps
for five. When they bad absorbed a cer-
tain quantity of poison they would cease to
breathe. Thia process went on for several
days until over twenty toads were used.
The last one was not visibly affected.
The neighbors watched the case with
great interest, and it was a oonstant theme
of conversation in the vicinity. Many will
bear witness to the efficacy of the remedy
and the truth of the facts above stated.
As for Mr. Campbell, he shuffles about in
great glee, and will talk by the hour to
any one who will hear him discant upon
the case. Mr. Gladden was seen yesterday
upon his waggon, looking apparently well.
He is a man 50 years of age'and, while he
has always been a hard worker, has been a
man of good habits. The first appearance
of the cancer was 25 yeare ago, but it did
not develop until within a few years. It now
seems entirely cured, and Mr. Gladden
bids fair to enjoy many years. For the
present, however, there is a scarcity of
toads in the vicinity of South Main street,
New Britain.
SPORTS AND A STEEB.
Duncan C. Ross and Other Sports Arrested
at St. Thomas.
A St. Thomas despatch says: Dunean
C. Ross, the world-renowned athlete,
together with Robert Wood, the famous
cowboy, were arrested here yesterday after-
noon. Ross, Wood, Prof. Reid and other
noted sports were billed to appear in the i
Roller Rink yesterday evening n a grand
mounted sword contest, cowboy specialties,
etc. Yesterday afternoon Ross and Wood
procured a steer from Mr. D. McIntosh,
drover, for the purpose of advertising their
Ehow on the street. After running the
steer in a shameful manner and throwing
it a number of times by moans of a lasso,
they finally allowed it to stray away. Mr.
McIntosh, on hearing the state of affairs,
immediately swore out a warrant, on which
they were arrested about 4.30 p.m. They
were subsequently liberated on bail, but
will' appear at the Police Court this
morning.
Penalty of the Lash.
A Montreal despatch says: For the
f earth time in the criminal record of this
city the lash is Lobe administeredat Mont-
real jail next Thursday upon the person of
Damore Desormier, an alleged Catholic
clergyman, who recently attempted to
assault a young girl of St. Martin. The
cat-o'-nine-tails has been applied on three
conviots within the last twenty-five years.
On the 25th of Ootober, 1875, an Italian
named Catabria received thirty-five lashes
for indecent assault on a girl under the age
of 12 years. The punishment took such an
effect upon his physical and moral system
that, when he died within a short time
afterwards, his death wasgenerally ascribed
to the lash. The next onesubjected to that
punishment was J. Bto. Dubois'who re.
ceived twenty lashes in August, 1883, with-
out flinching, but when the last stroke had
fallen sank to the ground insensible, and
awoke to consciousness a maniac. On
September 281h, 1883, Ferdinand Verron-
neau received twenty lashes for rape. He
was the only ono who seemed able to bear
the severe punishment.
Mr, John Hamilton, proprietor of the
Kent Brewery, for thirty years a resident
of London, aka on Sunday at the ago of 63
years.
Mr, 3. C. Quiggle, the newly -appointed
United States Vice -Consul for St. Thomas
and Port Stanley, arrived at St. Thoinas
to enter urea the duties of his office yes-
terday.
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