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The Exeter Advocate, 1890-9-25, Page 2BABRUNDIA'R MADER, Au Outrage Most HumiliatinZ to the United fitates' Prestige STORY OF AN EYEtWITNESS. A London cable says :—The steamship Colon to -day brought trora the Istlanme some of the pmeengers who were oh the /steamship Acapulco when General Bar- rundia was killed by Guatemalan officers. An eyewitness of the tragedy says "When the Acapulco arrived at Acapulco, Mexico from San Francisco, General Barrundia, ex.lainister of War of Guate- mala, came on board from the Starbuok, a sister ship. He was known to be hostile to the present Government of Guatemala, and it was understood he was on his way to San Salvador. He was attended by two men as body guards. When the ship reached Champerioo, Guatemala, the authorities sent off two boat loads of soldiers and demanded that the General be surrendered to them. Capt. Pitts per- emptorily refused to accede to thisdemanch An attempt was made to coerce him by withholding olearence papers. But after a detention of 24 hours, Captain Pitts per. siding in his refusal to deliver Barrundia without an order from the Government, the vessel was permitted to depart, and on the evening of August 27th she arrived at San Jose. No sooner had the Acapulco oast anchor than two boats of soldiers were sent from shore to see that no one without proper credentials should leave the vessel for shore. Within pistol shot of where the Acapulco lay were two United States gun- boats. Captain Pitts had telegraphed to their commanding officer from Ohamperico requesting assistance, but his despetth was not delivered. Now he made a personal appeal to theta for help. The response was that TILE MEN ON.WAB COULD DO NOTHING without an order from the port captain. Next day the ship was invaded by the com- mandant of a special force of men, accom- panied by another boat load of soldiers. .This time the Guatemalan officers came furnished with an "order of arrest," signed by the American Minister Mizner. After being politely introduced to Capt. Pitt, the commandant produced his papers, and made a formal demand for the delivery of Barrundia. At the commandant's direc- tion all the cabin passengers were sent below. All the Guatemalan officers then proceeded to Barrundia's room, Capt. Pitts going with them. When the room was reached Capt. Pitts, after deprecating the necessity of surrendering his passenger, began to read the order for the General's arrest. Barrundia had quietly met them at the door, but, divining all was over, he reached into his room for his revolver, and remarking, " Very good," fired. The ball just missed Capt. Pats, who, with the com- mandant, ran to his room, looked the door, and RID 'UNDER THE BED, leaving the man -hunting to the special officers. Barrundia was short-sighted, and, being very nervous, was unable to do any damage, though he chased them in and out of the saloon, firing wildly. At last the officers got the drop on him from different points and riddled him with shot. He fell en the hurricane deck. The commandant thereupon came from his hiding place, walked up to the dead man, and fired into his skull. The body was rolled up in canvas, and, as the general was a very heavy man, the ghastly burden was bundled down the gang -way into one of the boats and conveyed ashore to be sent to Gaeta. male, where it was interred the next day. The other boat, carrying the perpetrators of the deed, their revolvers openly dis- played, made a detour round by the United States warships on their way to the shore. ADDED INSULT. As they left the ship some smilingly waved their hands, and one placed his thumb to his nose and extended the other .fingers. The ship was not allowed to pro- ceed until the baggage belonging- to Barrundia had been searched, presumably for evidence incriminating others. This was summitted to, the gunboats still silent and sleepy, not a hundred yards away. Indeed at the time of the tragedy an officer from one of them was aboarelthe Acapulco. Gen. Barrundia's body -guard at the com- mencement of the fighting had run below and been looked up for safety. About forty shots were fired in all. Finally theedisagreee able affair ended, and the steamer was allowed to proceed. She sailed away with drooping colors. The Americans on board :were full of indignation and shame at the whole affair. Many passengers openly expressed regret that the American flag was theirs. An Important Mail Intercepted. A Berlin cable says : A sensational rob- bery of the mails occurred at Stuttgart to- day. A post -bag containing 30,000 marks and twenty-one registered letters dimp- peered this morning on its way from Priedrichehe.f en. The Emperor is now etaying at Friedrichshafen, and the bag among the other letters contained docu- ments touching on the court-martial now in progress at the Military Casino at fatnttgart upon members of the Lancers. The scandals are similar to those of Cleve- land street, London, and have been con- nected with high army officers of the Wur- temburg capital. The bag wee subse- quently found in Lake Constance. It had been entirely rifled of its contents, and nothing was discovered anywhere about that would give any clue to the perpetra- tors of the deed. It is supposed to have been done by some one who had an inter- est in keeping these documents away from the court-martial. Wrecked by a Waterspout. A San Antonio, Tex„ despatch says : Last night at 9 o'clock passenger train No. 19, east bound from El Paso on the Southern Pacific Railway, was caught in a waterspout fifteen miles west of Del Rio. The water' ' some forty feet wide struck the forward part of the train. It took the engine, baggage car and mail car from the iracke and carried them forty-five feet, overturning them. The passengers knew nothing of the approach of the water until the tar occurred. The engineer and fire- men escaped drowning by swimming to high ground. The track was torn up for 200 yards, and a gully ten feet cut through it. The train is still standing, and a force of men are repairing the track, —Governor McKinney, of Virginia, says that it is not at all necessary for a public man to drink, as is often asserted. It has been his invariable practice to decline all "treats" in his political campaigns, and he believes that instead of losing he has gained Yoke by his dbatinetCe. Mist Elizabeth Bieland, who inede trip around the world, beating the time of the mythical Phileas Fogg, bat gone to England to live, it is mid. This is strange in view of the fact that the Was pro. /noted to a very feeponsible position on the Cosmopolitan aftet her return from her journey. PIZIEVERING AT SEA. TeVrible ExPerteaoco of the OreW of oiouceitter rishing Sehooners A Halifax despatch says Capt. Griffin and thirteen men belonging to the Glouces- ter schooner Lizzie Griffin, which was lost on the Grand Banks on August 20th, arrived hero to -night from S. John's, on tbo steamer Miranda, aud will be sent home by the steamer Woreesier on Saturday. They had a most startling experience, and their escape from death was most miraculous. The echooiaat was struck bya heavy sea about daylight on the morning of September let and turned completely over. A. terrific hurricane wee blowing at the time, and there was a very high sea. All band, except the two men on watch, were below in the cabin al; the time asleep. They were suddenly awakened to find themselves clinging to what had been the floor and the water rushing in on them, Death, they thought, would only be a question of a few minutee. Just when they were beginning to feel the effects of suffocation the vesEel righted slightly, coming up till on her beam ends when they all managed to climb on to the deck. The captain was badly bruised about the head, and several of the others were wounded more or less from being dashed against the inside of the cabin. When she capsized the mast had broken off, and the two men who had been on watch on deck were found clinging to the wreckage, both having been thrown into the sea when the schooner went over, but fortunately managing to grasp the rigging. One of them named Patterson, was found to have a leg broken, and the other, Hopkins, had. his hip dislocated. The vessel received a bad straining and was leaking fast, so that the pump had to be kept going to keep her afloat. In the afternoon another Gloucester schooner, the Siegfred, which was passing, observed the distress eignal from the sneak and bore down and rescued them and landed them at St. John's on the 3rd instant, where they were kindly treated and cared for by Consular Agent Malloy. The two inj aced men were left in the hos- pital at St. John's. THE DECOLLETE Some Plain Language from a London Writer. A London cable says: The tirade of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Mrs. Ward) on decollete dressing has called forth consider- able comment from the London press, much of which is far front complimentary to the thin•skinned American. One writer says, referring to Mrs. Ward's article: "People who talk and write in this style are either Lot very well informed on their subject or they are constitetioaally in- capable of believing that there is more cleanliness and sound health in the world at large than exists in their own minds and natures; Some of us are so unfortunately constituted that we must first create the vices we want to destroy, and there is nothing that does so much harm to society as this blatant crusading by prurient purists against evils that have scarcely the shadow of an existence outside of their own imaginations. Mrs. Ward is sorry that ladies who go to the theatre do not avert their glances, and blush when the ballet comes on. Well, there are some who dose, but they are the sort of women who make assignations with their lovers in church, ask French conundrums in whispers at the dinner tables, and read anonymous French vice between the covers of fashion prints. The woman who opens her eyes when the ballet comes on, finds a good deal less im- propriety in that entertainment than she would be likely to find in the occasional diatribes against them in the magazine articles by Britieh or American matrons." A BRUTAL PARENT Nails His Two Children in a Box, Where They Are Suffocated. An El Paso, Tex., despatch says : An Indian living some miles below Paso del Norte, Mexico, left home on business Saturday morning, but before leaving he put his two children, a girl and a boy, in a large box, and nailed down the lid, to pre- vent them from gettiog into the orchard and eating the fruit during his absence. The father did not return until Sunday evening, and on opening the box he found the boy lying dead in the bottom and the girl in a dying condition. The suffocating closeness of their prison, combined with hunger and thirst, had done its work. Frightened over the result of his brutal carelessness, the father endeavored to exonerate himself by concocting several stories, but was quickly arrested. The Indian intended to return to the children Saturday night, but he was delayed. Flion THE NORTHWEST. Wm. Mumford, of Adolphe, shot himself fatally in the heart on Monday forenoon. Unrequited love, accompanied by religious melancholy, is said to have been the cause. The jury returned a verdict that deceased shot himself during a fit of temporary in- sanity. Frank Hewson of McGregor, was before the court at Mod'McGregor on Saturday charged with shooting at D. Shipway, hie hired man. Hewson is held on heavy bail. The Count de Sainville, who spent last winter in the Arctic circle at the mouth of the Mackenzie, is due to arrive in the city within the next month. Nothing has been heard of him by his friends since last Onto- aer, but he is supposed to be working his way southward. The farmers' delegation from Waterloo county, Out., reached here to.night from the Calgary and Assiniboia districts, with which they were delighted. They go to Southwestern Manitoba to -morrow. Dressyman and two others, the last of the Riel rebellion prisoners, willtbe released to.morrovi froro Stoney Mountain Peniten- tiary. —The man who is small in stature never regrets the fact so much as when he is holding an umbrella over a pretty girl who is about fourteen inehee taller than he is. Miss Citified—Do you believe in the higher education of women? Mr. Rusticus —To be sure. I am tired of explaining to the summer boarders where the aliens of the oyster plants are thrown. —The newest beverage for lawn parties is hot tea with rum, in which slices of candied lemon have been thrown. Dark meat of cold roast chicken is the coolest lunch on a hot day, says a New York epicure, and gravely adds a word of commendation for the drum -sticks, in order to quote the comment of an irate restaurant cook who had just received an order for three chicken lege : " I can't help that," mapped the cook; " I can't cut more than too legs off one chicken. Ask them do they want the earth. Do they think fowle is centipedes ?"--Poston Transcript. Queen Victoria is very tenaeione of the tule that she shall hear at least once a week from membere of her family absent in other lands. She likee lettere. LO$DON TRAGSDE, A Son Stabs to Death his Mother's Vara - =war —MS centeeeton. A London cable says Plumstead is now the scene of a sensational murder ease, the developments of which are being followed by Londonere with much interest. This is the affair of young Walter Lyon, who, laet Friday night, stubbed and killed his metherte paramour, caught in jlaurante delicti. The coroner's inquest was held to.day, and resulted in a verdict against the young Inall Of wilful murder, extenu. sting circumstances, however, being urged. Young Lyons testified with great coolness and admitted everything. Having told how he found his mother and her lover, Stewart, in bed, and subsequently drove the latter from the house, he continued, amid a sympathetic silence : "Mother then came to the bedroom for her hat, which I took away. She then went to the street door and walked away with Stewart. Finding mother was so long gone I Went down towards Griffin road without my boots. Hearing the slight murmuring of a voice I looked through the fence, and saw "—here the testimony became unfit for publication. Continuing, while the ladies blushed scarlet, Lyons said, "I told him the beet thing he could do was to be off. Mother then caught hold of me, and I pushed her away three or four times. I and the man then got into the road. When the than said 'You haven't got the heart to do it,' I said nothing but stabbed him there and then in the chest with a bread knife. He staggered and fell down. He said, I am done for.' I then said to two young men who were present, ' Call a policeman. I shall have to be marched away.' Soon after, seeing a policeman came up, I said, I stabbed him, Here is the knife. Take me into custody.'" Surely it were hard to find a sadder case than that of this mad- dened youth who tried to avenge hie mother's shame. Police patrols have been specially employed to protect the house in which the mother of the accused resides, as it is feared the excitement and indignation which are freely expressed may culminate in some act of violence. DIABOLISM IN NONA SCOTIA. -- Unsuccessful Attempt to Blow up a Family and Residence. A Halifax despatch says : Acadia Mines Was the scene of a most diabolical outrage last night. An attempt was made. to blow up the residence of C. W. Totten with dynamite. On Saturday last Mr. Totten, who is a constable, with two officers, took two women and a man to Truro and placed them in jail under warrants for violating the Liquor License Act. Many threats were made at the time against the lives of the officers, and against Mr. Totten in particular, but no attention was paid to them. The fiend who committed the dastardly act last night first broke into the buildings of the Londonderry Iron Com- pany and stole a quantity of dynamite, which he placed under the cornet of the house, directly under the kitchen, where he thought no doubt the family would be about the time. Fortunately Mr. Totten's wife and little children, -who were alone in the house at the time, the father being absent in Truro, happened to be in another part of the house when the scoundrels set the ex- plosive off. The report it made was terrific and was heard all over the town. The house was badly wrecked, but the occu- pants, beyond being badly shaken up, were not seriously injured. Shortly after the explosion a mon was seen running from the house, but owing to the darkness he was not recognized. The greateet indigna- tion prevails in the town and talk of lynch- ing is freely indulged in. A reward will likely be cffered for the capture of the wretch. HIS TROUBLES ENDE O. Hobert Ray Hamilton's Dead Bady Found In Snake River. A Helena, Mont., despatch says: ' J. 0. Green son of President Norvin Green, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, returned to Helena on Friday, after a tour in the Yellowstone National Park. Mr. Green says that on August 23rd, while on his way into the Park from' the Union Pacific, he stopped at the ranch of Robert Ray Hamilton, the New Yorker Whose trouble with his wife caused such sense - lion a year ago. Mr. Green says Mr. Ham- ilton had bought a ranch about two months ago, and bad made it an outfitting place for park tourists. Mr. Green found that Mr. Hamilton had been gone on a hunting trip for five days. The next day Mr. Green and his party started to hunt up Mr. Ham- ilton. About thirty miles from the ranch Mr. Green discovered his body in Snake river, and his horse and dog a little dis- tance away. Mr. Hamilton was identified beyond all doubt by Mr. Green, who had the body taken to the ranch, and who noti- fied Mr. Hamilton's family. Mr. Green has been in the park, and was surprised that the above facts had not been published. The Mid -Steeple. Set squarely in the middle of High street, Dumfries, is one of the oddest old structures to be found in all Scotland. It is now called the Mid -steeple. When built, 200 years ago, it was known as the Tron Steeple. At that time, on the sale at auction of the onstome and excise of Scot- land, the Dumfries Town Council took a large share in the plunder, in turn sold it to re fellow burgher, one Sharpe,so by name and fine in dealing. The citizens revolted, and on compromise Burgher Sharpe was permitted to retain his "tack" on pay- ment of 20,000 merks, Soots, with which the outlandish structure was erected. In its upper uncouthness it contains the town clock and a peal of bells'and a complaining weathercock surmounts the spire.—Cor. New York Commercial Advertigr. A disastrous explosion occurred yesterday at the dynamite magazine at the rankle dock, La Rochelle, France. Ten persons were instantly killed and many wounded. The last fad of the fashionable women of Fifth and Madison avenues is a rivalry in obtaining the handsomest bedstead for their sleeping apartments. All these bed- steads are metallio.—New York Star. —Even a dead duck can claim that he died game Mrs. Langtry has made an an engage- ment to play " As You Like It" in Paris. Burglar" is repeating its success of last season and playing to packed houses every- where. Rosina Vokes has returned from her English trip and is pronounced in the best of health. Lawrence Barrett is going to do a little starring on his own account this month, before joining Booth. Margaret Mather's repertoire this season will include "Romeo and Juliet," "Honey- moon," "Leah " and "Lady of Lyons," Victor Capoul, the famous tenor, has become a dramatic author, and with M. Duprato, of Pans, has written a lyrical drama entitled "Le Prince Noir." Ft lends of the great artist have pronounced it meg- tittle-rd. A SWISS ItEvoliallION. The LAttle Republic Has a Constitutional Revision lineation. A Berne cable eays : The revolutionists in the Canton of Ticino formed a pro- visional government and convoked a popular aesembly, which declared the ex- isting Government and the Grand Council dissolved and ordered general elections for next Sunday. The insurgents hold Lugano. Mendrano, Claims° and Looarno. The Bundesrath was called in °atm session, and ordered Federal troops to be sent to the scene of the disorders. The populace sup- port the insurgents and the civil guard occupies the telegraph office, thus prevent- ing the supporters of the Cantonal Govern- ment from communicating by telegraph with each other or with the National Gov- ernment. The rebels arrested Counoillor Oreali, the Federal Commissioner, who re- ceived instructions to annul the orders of the Provisional Government and the popular Assembly. A Geneva cable says: A supplement to the Journal de Geneve says all is ohm in the Canton of Vicino. The revolutionists have still the upper hand. At Vicino they occu- pied the prefecture and the arsenal, ex- pelling the officials by force and they still hold them. No serious resistance was made by the Cantonal Government, who were unable to cope with the insurgents. The Federal Government has despatched 1,500 troops to Vicino to restore order and rein- state the local authorities. The official killed by a revolver shot last night was a councillor of State. The outbreak is wholly local. None of the other cantons take part or have any sympathy with it. The rebel- lion is condemned throughout the republic, and will be short-lived. A Bellinzona cable says : The Liberals occupy the town stations on the St. Gothard Railway. A counter revolt is feared. Later—The revolt has collapsed. The troops have been well received by the revo- lutionists. It has been agreed that the question of the revision of the constitution be submitted to a popular vote. HOT-BLOODED PORTUGUESE. The Anglo -Portuguese Treaty Provokes a Mill in the Cortes. A Lisbon cable says : The rearsembling of the Cortes to -day caused great excite- ment throughout the city, as a stormy debate on the Anglo•Portuouese treaty was expected. Shops and offices were closed, and thousands of citizens of all classes wended their way to the Parliament build- ings, which were besieged by an enormous crowd, clamorous for vadmission hours before the session opened. The authorities had taken precautions against disorder, but the crowd was good-natured and well- behaved. Soon after the opening of the Cortes Senhor Ribeiro, Minister of Foreign Affairs, moved the adoption of the Anglo. Portuguesetreaty. He began to read the modifications which the Government had adopted in order to assuage public hostility to the treaty ; but before be had gone far he was silenced by the Progressist minority hissing and hooting so vigorously that the Minister could not make himself heard. Amid the tumult Major Serpa Pinto shouted to the Progressists " Hold your tongues l" Upon this a Progressist priest named Brenda° assaulted Serpa Pinto and a lively pugilistic encounter ensued. The President was utterly unable to restore order, and finally suspended the sitting. When the Cortes reassembled Senhor Ribeiro introduced the English Convention with certain modifications which produced an excellent impression. The convention was referred to a committee and the sitting was concluded in an orderly manner. CRIME AT LONDON. A Child -Deserter Impersonates Birchen— Walker's Case. ALondon despatch says: Matilda Wat- son, of Stratford, and John Batson,charged with deserting the babe found near the Grove Church, London township, on Sat- urday, August 23rd, were cemmitted for trial by the Police Magistrate. It was shown in evidence that the woman resided oil a farm near Stratford with her parents. Butson was employed on the farm, and thus became acquainted with his com- panion. Mrs. William Baskerville, with whom Matilda lived while in the city, tes- tified that the girl called herself Mrs. Birchall, and that the prisoner Hutson, in the role of Mr. Birchall, was a frequent visitor. The child was born on August 10th, and a few days afterwards Batson called with a carriage and took away the mother and child. The child found at the church was the same one that was at her house. Chief Williams stated that when he arrested the woman Watson she con- fessed that the child was hers, and that she had protested against Batson deserting it, but that he would have his own way in the matter. Samuel Walker, who was sentenced at the Assizes to two years in penitentiary for seducing his sister-in-law, is suffering from heart disease. Jail Surgeon Smith will represent the facts to the Minister of Jus- tice, Judge MacMahon giving an order that Walker in the meantime be kept in the jail here. FLOODS IN OHIO. Much Damage to Houses, Railways and Farms. A Pittsburg despatch says: The tribu- taries to the Allegheny are all overflowing, and at Oil City the Western New York and Pennsylvania tracks are covered, while trouble is feared on the Allegheny Valley railroad. All the lower streets in Canton, Ohio, are flooded, and greet damage is being done by flooded cellars, while the small farmers are also sufferers. At New- castle, Pa., the Neshannock river is higher than it has been for years, and now com- pletely covers the lower portion of that city. A. hundred houses are covered on the first floor with from one to six feet of water, and the families have been obliged to move to higher ground. A washout has stopped freight traffic on the Newcastle branch of the Pittsburg and Western, while passengers must all be transferred. One mile of the Western New York and Penn. sylvania has been washed out near New- castle, while the Nypano is also washed out in a score of places. A more of mills and furnaces in Newcastle and along the Neshannock are covered with water and shut down. The deep Shenangae river is also rising, and danger is feared from that stream before morning. All reports indi- cate great logs on millet, housee, and to farmers, nothing extraordinary in any one case, but enormous in the aggregate. —"New York is a great place," said the tourist. "It has an Italian quarter and a Chinese quarter and a French quarter, but where is the American quarter ?" "Iii the pocket of the hotel waiter," answered his American cousin. —The total assessment of the city of London, not including the new ward, is given at $13,501,390, eXolusive of a reduo. lion of $143,840 by the °mart Of RevisiOns. The assessment of the now ward, No, 6, is expected to reach about.$2,000,000. itmalr SWITZERLAND'S TROUBLES, The Revolutionary Movement still Alive —Cmeervativea Appealed to. A Berne cable says : The general situa- tion in the Canton of Ticino remains serious. Col. Kuenzli, the Federal Com- missioner, meets with great difficulties in executing the Federal orders to re-establish the Conseryative Government, as the rem, lutioniste peem to be decidedly unyielding. In order to prevent a conflict, it is very probable that the Federal instructions will be slightly modified. Col, linenzli has demanded reinforcements of troops and dispositions are being taken to this :fleet. A 13ellinzona cable says : The Provi. eional Government his consented to resign, and according to fresh Federal instructions another Government has been constituted, with Col. Kuenzli, the Federal Commie. sioner, two Liberals and two Conservatives. The new Government has issued a mani- festo to the people, Whi011 hag been received with great eatisfaction. The Conservatives have held a meeting at Locarno, and have decided to resist the new Government. The Federal Commissioner has demanded re- inforcements from Berne. The late Provisional Government has issued a proclamation which informs the people of the canton of their resignation, and that the Government is now in the hands of the Federal Commissioner, who will proceed to constitutional 'revision, which will allow the country to vote with freedom for the establishment of a legal Liberal Government. Public opinion is favorable to the new Government, A Lugano cable says :—Resphoi, one of the imprisoned members of the Conserve. five Government, has just been released by troops and conducted to Looarno. The Federal Commissioner has distributed the troops under his command as follows :— Three companies at Ballinzona, two at Lacarno, three at Lugano. The troops are quartered principally in churches. All the Government employees at Benin - zone have resumed duties. Col. Kuenzli is exercising the functions of a governor. MM. Cenzi and Gabuzzi, Liberal deputies, MM. Galli and Solditti, Conservative depu- ties, have )en appointed members of the new Government by Kuenzli, who will pre- side over the Council, which, thus consti- tuted, the Conservatives are disposed to accept. A detachment of Federal troops has just left here for Messerete with orders to disperse the armed Conservatives who are assembling at that point. Col. Grieb, commander of the Federal troops, ordered the seizure last night of a number of the Credente Catholic°, for pub- lishing an appeal signed by Councillor of State Bonzanigo, calling on the Conserva- tives to rise in support of the legal Govern. inert. The Conservatives here appear to be exasperated. Their leaders have issued orders for them to take up arms again, because the Federal Council, after having dissolved the Conservative meetings, allow the Liberals of Lolarno to make demon- strations and parade the streets with banners and bands of music. STRANGER THAN FICTION. An Heir to a Large Estate Who Cannot be Found—His Relatives Will be Bene- fitted. Lawyers are sometimes called upon to listen to a statement of facts that resemble fiction. Mr. 'W. F. Walker, Q.C., lately petitioned the Surrogate Court, Hamilton, for letters of administration to the estate of William Seymour, who from his long absence is presumed to be dead. It appears from the statement filed that in 1839 a Joseph Polwlks, known otherwise as Joseph Seymour, of the 85th Regiment, shortly afterwarde stationed with his regiment in Toronto, died leaving a will dividing his property among his three children, then mere lads. One son, James Seymour, became the publisher of the St. Catharines Constitutional, and before his death was appointed to Her Majesty's Inland Revenue Office in St. Catharines, and was known throughout the Province as a prominent Free Mason. Another son is Joseph Sey- mour, now publisher in Elagersville; but the third son, William, was placed in the care of a Mrs. Joyce, of Toronto, now of Bronte (when about 3 years of age), at the time of his father's death. He was afterwards adopted by a farmer named Archibald, of Bolton town- ship, with whom he lived until about 20 years old. About that time the Ameri- can civil war broke out, and as there were agents throughout Ontario inducing young men to enlist in the Northern army, it is supposed that William enlisted. At all events he suddenly disappeared from Mr. Archibald's care and he has never been heard of since, although, as documents filed show, for years his brothers made every inquiry for him. The fund to which William or his representatives are entitled has been accumulating for about fifty years in England, and now amounts to a con- siderable sum. On these facts Mr. Walker asked the court to presume that William was dead and that letters o adniinistra- lion should be granted in favor of Joseph Seymour, and his application was granted. Mr. Walker expects, on the grant here, to receive the fund from 'England, which will be divided equally .between Mr. Joseph Seymour, of Hagersville, and Mrs. Sey- mour, widow of the late James Seymour, of St. Catharines. Poisoning by 'Wholesale. A London cable says Miss White, a benevolent lady residing at Fulham, on Wednesday evening gave a supper to 100 laborers who were out of work. Hardly was the meal finished when the entire com- pany was taken ill, many suffering intense pain. Doctors found the whole party had been poisoned. Antidotes were adminis- tered, but three persons have died and others are still in a critical condition. The poison has been traced toe corrosive deposit on the interior of the tea urns, which had not been previously used for a long time and were not properly cleansed by the ervants. —The very slim girl is fashionable. —Fried tomatoes are a good luncheon staple. —Oranges filled with jelly are a new confection. —A specialty for invalids is English &thee' foot jelly. —Housewives say the yellow freestone peaches do up best. —The russet shoe has gone out of busi- ness. —The latest thing in locks—night keys. —A half day's loaf is better than no holiday. —There it no relit for the weary, and nobody else needs it. --We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. —The most inflexible woman hater is usually some other woman. —When a man buys a new meersoheauto pipe, notice -the remarkable interest he be gins to take in the color line. —Women are longeraived than then. A women of 20 May expect 42 years more of life, tt Minot the tame age only 30 year& t,FfiretorayrAr*i ' ECHOES ear Wain STUCK Et An, Unsatisfactory latarview With DepeW Wxeekeo areeeted. A NeveYork deepateh says:,A. cone. etettee of five of the ex-employees of the New York Central Railway who went on strike called on Preeideut Depew at the Grand Central depot to -day. They were headed by Thomas Delleuey, eat old freight conductor, and M. Gaffney, another striker,. acted as spokesmen. Th e following con. versation between Mr. Depew and lir. Gaffney followed: Mr. Gaffney—We have come to talk over the strike on the New 'York Central Road. Mr. Depew—I'ro afraid there is nothing to talk about, The mace hi virtually over nowt Mr. Gaffney --The FAX ike is not over, be- cause all the men on the road who are members of labor organizations have quit work and are now out. Mr. Depew—They have chosen to resign their positions. Mr. td ebb, who was man. agingthe road in my absence, took new i men n their places when they quit work. His action has been sustained by the Execu- tive Board of 'Management Of the road.. The places of those men have now been filled, and that's the end of it, Mr. Gaffney then aeked Mr. Depew to wait until the committee had discussed the matter, and said that they would then re- turn and make their proposition to him. Mr. Depew replied: There is no use in making false promises to you. There is nothing more to be cloud: 1 do not care to. talk over back numbers. You have chosen to resign your places. Mr. Webb hat filled them and I have nothing more to say. The committee then left the office. A Utica despateh says : Pinkerton De- tectives have arrested Cain and Buett, who were wanted for wrecking a train near Albany. They were arrested in Northern New York or Canada. The detectives refused to say where. The detectives passed through Utica yesterday afternoon ei following a woman who was in communi- cation with the men wanted. They left for the east at 11.20. An Albany despatch of Friday says Th strike on the New York Central & Hudson River Railway eeems to be over as far as Albany is concerned. The closing scene was enacted to -night at the Lark Street Rink, when the men were advieed to go back to their places. Edward Bowan called the meeting to order, and was termed a liar by two or three of his auditors for saying that the strike was still on. John J. Hert was celled upon when the disorder had somewhat eubsided, but hie address called forth the wildest excitement, and it seemed that a riot was imminent. Mr. Hart said there would be money here by Monday, and he was celled a liar. One man asserted that the leaders were living high and paying the expense of wreckers' counsel instead of giving bread to hungry men and their families. Master Workman Dalin Net the floor and said: " You are a lot of wite-livered ours, and you will sneak back Co work because a number of dirty paid newspapers say the strike is over." During this speech it looked as though the meeting would break up in a row. Men were cursing each other and the leaders of the Order in a frightful manner. When Master Workman Dulin's voice could be heard above the tumult, he was beard to advise the men, in a voice choked with sarcasm and rage, to get back to their places. All the speakers spoke' harshly of the newspapers, The meeting broke up in confusion. An Albany despetcla says : Superin- tendent Bissell was sadly worried yesterday when he returned to his office from West Albany and found aged mothers pleading for their striking Nineand wives pleading for their striking husbands' reinstatement. With one accord they all said starvation was staring them in the face, and that they were themselves compelled to seek the indulgence of the company to give their sons and husbands work, as the latter were either afraid or eshemed to do so themselves, but even they oould not hold Mt much longer. Thos. L. Cain end Leather Buett, who were arrested at Prescott, Oct., by De- tective Price, one of Pinkerton's beet men, and Detective Dann, were brought to Troy from Albany yesterday afternoon. Arriving at Troy the prisoners was brought to County Judge Griffith's office and arraigned for the first time gime their arreet on Thursday. They pleaded not guilty to the Marge of being members of a party of five men who were engaged in the work of wrecking the passenger train on the Central road a few miles above Castleton on Thursday night, September 4th. They were committed to jail. The five men charged with the train wrecking are now under lock and key in the Troy jail, and their cases will he presented to the grand jury which convenes in the County Court -house in Troy to -morrow morning. During the past week, according to. a reinstated Enighaall of the road's employees in this vicinity have been asked to sign a paper, which exacts from them a pledge that they shall not go out on strike nor shall they belong to any labor organization which has the authority to order theme out on strike in a body. Nearly all the men now employed by the road have signed thee circular. Canadian Cattle for Dundee. Last week Dundee received the first cargo of Canadian cattle imported direct. On Monday the Thomson Line steamer, Gerona, arrived in the Tay, after a capital? passage, having on board 1,041 head of cattle, of which some 835 were consigned to - Dundee. On the following day, in the presence of a number of spectators, among whom wee the Earl of Ca mperdown,the work of discharging was gone through with com- mendable despatch ; and the cattle, On inspection, were voted a very fair lot, and likely, with good feeding, to fetch remuner- ative prices. A good deal of local interest necessarily attaches to this opening of the port for the landing of Canadian cattle, and the city authorities have been generally congratulated on the enterprise they have shown in assisting the development of the city as an agricultural centre by the pro- vision of excellent facilities for the live stook trade. The Gerona is to be followed in the course of the next ten days by the, Steimhoft and the Fremona, each of which, will have a consignment of 600 or 700 head. Meat Thrown in the Ocean. The quantity of meat thrown overboardi into the Atlantic is very great, says an Englisn paper. Out of 185 cargoes of animals sent to British ports in one year, from Canada, consisting of 61,092 head of cattle, 61,382 sheep and 75 pigs, 658 cattle, 1,170 sheep and 1 pig were consigned to the deep durinmthe voyage. Of the 432 cargoes imported from the United States to thie country, comprising 138,661 head of cattle, 30,317 sheep and 17 pigs, 1,570 of the first and 857 of the second Claes of this live stook were thrown overboard during the voyage, thus nnmbering 4,856 &nib:eels which Were pitched into the sea for the year. It it pleasant to hear the trtith —about other people.