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The Exeter Advocate, 1894-10-4, Page 6call Subscribers who do not reeeivethetr paper promptly will please notify us at once. Advertising rates on application. THE EXETER ADVOCATE THURSDAY, OOT. 4, 1891, Webk'e Commercial Summary. The grain standards this year will be almost the same as those that prevailed last year, A"firm in Augusta, Me., sends to pot- teries abroad photographs of pieces ['of note, and these views are artistically re- produced on pieces of china. The Mark Lane Express says that Eng- lish wheat is an average crop this season, but inferior in quality, Sales made at 2s. 8d. below the mean. price for August.. The total number of passengers carried by the Toronto Street Railway Company during the Industrial Exhibition was 1,986,119, as against 1,797,877 last year. An English officer has discovered a working telephone between two temples of Patti in. India. The system is said to have been in operation for over 2,000 years. The New York State Convention has adopted an amendment restraining any public officer, elected or appointed, from accepting a pass or any other favor from any person or corporation. The deep waterways convention at To- ronto discussed the question from many standpoints during the last two days of the session. The arguments brought forward in favor of the scheme were very strongly put by some of the delegates, and the question was thoroughly thresh- ed out before the convention closed. The total number of life insurance now in the world is $9,S31, 777,000. The an- nual premiums upon this are $388,818,- 09,), and the policy holders number 5,187,- 667. America leads with $4,949,995,000 insurance in force, and 8,687,778 policy holders, the English figures, which are next, showing $2,461,620,000 insurance and 1,095,867 policy holders. The failures last week in the Dominion show a slight increase, there being 48, as against 44 the previous week and 40 for the corresponding week of a year ago. Ontario had eighteen failures, only one of whom had a rating of $10,000—the bal- ance had our lowest rating or blank rat- ing. Quebec with seventeen had one rat- ing above $8,000 ; one for $2,000, and the others had a blank, or no credit rating. Manitoba conies next with six, Nova Sco- tia and New Brunswick three each, and Prince Edward Island, for the first time since June 14th, contributes one. No failures in British Columbia last week. During the coming winter, says a re- cent despatch from London, Australia will go Into the business of competing with Canada for the live cattle trade. A recent steamer from Australia brought nineteen bullocks of three different grades, fat, partly matured and stores. Tie cat- tle, which are now at Deptford, were ship- ped. from Sidney, and although they have lost weight are in fairly good condition. The meat,is excellent, having cost in Sid- ney 4d. per pound. The herd. have been sold here at sufficient profit to induce reg- ular shipments. It is the opinion of ex- perts that cattle can be imported equal to those of the United States or Canada, and sold at a profit. By a recent despatch from Ottawa we learn that a rich petroleum deposit has been discovered at Athabasca Landing, near Edmonton, N.W.T. A Government test well has struck splendid signs of an immense deposit of petroleum inthat dis- trict. A natural gas spring has also been found. The despatch goes on to say ; "If the oil is found in large quantities, as there is every reason to expeet, Canada will own the largest oil fields in the world, and we will be able to supply oil from Athabasca to Manitoba, British Colum- bia and all the Pacific States of the Un- ion, and to the islands of the Pacific. The greatest market for oil not yet ex- ploited is Asia, and if we have the oil in Athabasca it can be exported from there to the millions of Asia cheaper than from any other oil field." Dun's Review on the business situation says : "Plenty of material for encourage- ment, and also some for discouragement, can be found by those who seek that and nothing else. But business men who want to see the situation exactly as it is find accounts so far eonfiicting that it is difficult to strike a balance. In the ag- gregate business is about a tenth larger than last year, but still falls about 25 per cent. below a full volume for the season. The iron business, after its great increase of output last month, shows disappoint- ing weakness at all Eastern and central markets, with consumption not large enough to keep fairly employed the mills in operation. The demand for woollen dress goods is better, and will occupy some mills until December. Breadstuffs are weaker, possibly because the Govern- ment official report went so far in pre- dicting short crops as to cause a reaction in opinion. While lower estimates of corn are commonly accepted, the price fell 8e., and men are reasoning that if the official estimate of wheat has been found 100,000,000 bushels out of the way its corn estimate may err 400 or 500,000,- 000 bushels. While corn declined neither pork nor lard yielded in price here, though lower at Chicago." The increasing activity ou the stock exchange is a good indication of a better feeling, and eventually this will lead to a restoration of confidence in the commun- ity. Money is a very sensitive commod- ity, and is usually first in showing any ehange in the business outlook, either for good or bad. The unusual strength of Canadian securities of late is therefore a hopeful sign, and denotes that capital is gaining confidence, which is the chief thing needed before any general improve - went takes place in commerce, the return of confidence will be slow, but each suc- cessive wave of depression will be less ap- parent than its predecessor. The large accumulation of deposits in the banks are conducive to a further expansion of trade and a guarantee that money will continue cheap for some time to come. The grain crops of both Ontario and Manitoba are satisfactory, and in the latter province the yield, according to the latest esti- mates, is larger than the most sanguine had anticipated a month ago. The price of cheese is unusually high, and its man- ufacture will bestiniulated. thereby. This industry is the mast important one for Ontario, the exports in 1893 aggregating the enormous figure of 188,946,000 pounds, valued at $18,407,000, or nearly double the value of the exports of the United States for the sante period. We aro prepared to da job printing of every description at the shortest notieee. HERE ANI) mum The wife of an English elergyinan has been sentenced to twenty-one days' im- prisonment for being a professional'. beggar.. xxx; An iron box containing a metal plate has been unearthed among the ruined temples of Upper Egypt which scientists declare wag a camera and lens, X X x An absolutely y saw proof metal is made', of three layers of iron, between which is placed alternately two layers of eruoible steel, and the whole then welded together. xxx The British Government has begun to export young women to Western Austra- lia for wives for the settlers there. Those who wish to go are sent free of all ex- pense. xxx If Li Hung Chang continues to lose his regalia with each succeeding Jap- anese victory there will soon be a case for investigation by the Morality Depart went. x x X An old proverb says that "thunder in September indicates a good crop of grain and fruit for the next year." We may therefore expect same pretty big harvests in 1895. xxx One of the customs of ancient Babylon was an annual auction of unmarried wo- men. The proceeds of the sale of the beautiful women were used as a dower for the ungainly ones. xxx The Pueblo Indians have resisted all at- tempts of traders to introduce whiskey and playing cards into their midst. They are about the only tribe that have not taste for the "firewater." xxx The latest use of woodpulp is to adul- terate woollen yarn, and a process of spinning the mixture has been devised so that hosiery can be made of one part of wood and two parts of wool. xxx Miss Willard says that in future the policy of the W.C.T.U. will be less ag- gressive than it has been. It will not spend so much energy in striving for governmental prohibition of the liquor traffic, but will devote more attention to the amelioration of the home life of the poor. xxx Somebody who wants to explain what the editorial "we" signifies, says it has a variety of meanings, varied to suit the circumstances. For an example : When you read that "we" expect our wife home to -day, "we" refers to the editor-in-chief; when it is "we are a little late with our work," it includes the whole office force, even to the devil and towel'; in "we" are having a boom, the town is meant; "we received 700,000 immigrants last year " it embraces the nation ; but "we have the hog cholera in our midst," only means that the man who takes the paper and doesn't pay for it, is very ill. xxx If we need any evidence that the dis- honest man has no place to floe to where he will be secure from detection, it is fur- nished by the case of Percival Neale. He was formerly a Dominion official in. the Northwest. He embezzled$6,000 and dis- appeared. He selected London as a safe place of hiding. In that hive of human- ity, where millions come and go daily, one would think that a man could lose himself so effectually that he could not be found, yet right in the Strand, where he probably thought he was a total stranger, the police took Neale and apor- tion of the stolen money. The world is very small, after all, and justice has no difficulty now in reaching into the far therest corner of it. xxx An editor describes his four -day-old daughter as being about three-quarters of a column in length, and very attract- ive display. and entitled to the best posi- tion, top of page, every issue. The fond parent is a practical printer, but this is• his first "ad" since he became a benediet. The infant's "form" has already begun to call for a night "chase," but as it "lifts" like a charm the p. p. (proud pa- rent and practical printer) has made it a "rule" to 'stick" it outlike a man at the "galley," to "coin" a new phrase. It is evidenced by the editor taking a week off to celebrate the happy event that he is "locked up" in the sweet little six -pound miss, and his friends are unanimous that he is fully "justified" in his joy, as every printer should be over an "O.K. proof." That Open Letter. The particulars of a remarkable cure of consumption, after the patient had reach- ed the last stages, related in the article published in our issue last week under the heading "An Open Letter from a ProminentPhysician," has caused much comment. It is well known that physi- cians, as a rule, are averse to speaking words of praise for an advertised medicine, however meritorious it may be, and when one casts this prejudice aside and gives in plain unvarnished language the particu- lars of a case that must take rank among the most remarkable in the practice of medicine, it is not only a noteworthy triumph for the medicine in question, but also reflects credit on the physician who has cast aside his professional prejudice and gives the result of his use of the med- icine for the benefit of suffering humanity.' In the articles published from time' to time, vouched for by reliable newspapers, the public have had the strongest evidence that Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People is a medicine of remarkable merit, and now to these is added on the author- ity of a well-known physician, over his signature, the particulars of a cure of consumption thropgh the timely use of Dr. Williams famous Pink Pills. It can- not be too widely known that a remedy has been found that will cure this hither- to deadly and unconquered disease, andif any of our readers have not read the ar- tiolo to whieh we refer we would advise them to look up last week's issue and give it a careful perusal. The facts re- lated may prove of valuable assistance in a time of need. A story comes from Stamford, Ont., by way of Niagara Falls, N.Y., that Mr. Nel- son Stolts, while climbing over a pile of rock on the Canadian side, ran into a den of rattlesnakes. He made his escape by climbing a cedar tree, and when the snakes had retired to their den he came home with one of the reptiles which he had killed which rb3sasured five feet in length and had eleven rattles, Dr, Parkhurst, of New York, is still after Tammany Hall, and says, "1 think we can thrash Tammany out of sight on eleetion day." NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS.. THE WEEK'S HAPPENINGS. Interesting items and Incidents, IYnport- ant and instructive, Gathered from the Various Provinces,. Graveuhurst's tax rate is 35 mills, A 2i0 lb. bear has been shot at Milver- ton. Windsor's new school building will cost $12,500, The new G,T.R. bridge at Sterling is completed. filenwilliams' forty - three : year- old goose is dead. Ottawa had over 100 vacant houses the past summer. Monoton, N.B., had a $17,000 fire Mon- day afternoon. A defective sidewalk cost Walkerton a $8,200 law suit. Kingston's health officer is testing milk delivered there, Burglars cracked J. H, Helm's safe at Port Hope for $4. A movement is on foot to build a $30,- 000 30;000 hotel at Digby. Raccoons are abundant in the country districts of Ontario. A. Tilsonburg farmer has just sold his apple crop for $700. Winnipeg's new Conservatory of Music has just been opened. The C.P.R. sent 300 cars of wheat east in one day last week. A new depot is to be built at Frederic- ton, N.B,, next year. Mr. David Goldie, a prominent citizen of Ayr, died Monday. The new free library building at Lon- don will cost $12,000. A new lodge of Oddfellows has been in- stitilted at Winnipeg. General Booth, of the Salvation Army, has arrived at Halifax. Thirty-two pound. eauli$owers are grown in Penetanguishene. Cornwall is infested with tramps, and the gaol is full of prisoners. John Rhodes, a tram?, was killed by a G.T.R. train at Collins' Bay. Fresh water turtles for the Eastern market are bred at Chatham. St. Thomas has put out $157,950 in building operations this year. Renville and Mountain Station will soon be connected by telephone. Galt young men are thinking of organ- izing an old-time minstrel show. An Orillia S.O.E. lodge will run an ex- cursion to England next summer. Evangelist Hammond will conduct spe- cial services at Chatham this winter. Goderich will soon have an incandes- cent electric light and power system. Wm. Hardy, aged fifty,''was drowned in the St. Clair River at Port Huron. The Northwest Assembly elections will probably be held about November 15. • Jake Gandaur intends opening a bil- liard parlor and cigar store in Orillia. Mrs. A. Lawrason died Sunday in Lon- don, Ont., at the age of ninety years. Burglars have been operating inInger- soll lately, but without much success. The Montreal Gas Company has bought out the new Consumers' Gas Company. The rate in East Nissouri and West Zora this year is 3i mills on the dollar. An electric railway from Arkona to the Michigan. Central Railway is talked of. Next summer the Iroquois High School will have been in existence fifty years. The Winnipeg Presbytery has just li- censed a number of students to preach. A twenty-three acre hop yard in Bath- urst, Ont., will yield eight tons of hops. The late Henry Yates, C.E., of Brant- ford, left an estate valued at $610,631.37. The Sabbath School Association will establish a training sehool at Brantford. The C. P. R. delivers 175 carloads of wheat daily at the Fort William eleva- tors. The Manitoba Patrons of Industry pro- pose shipping their wheat direct to Eng- land. A 100 -acre farm has just been sold. near Wrigley's Corners, Ont., for $6,550 cash. In two days eight carloads of silk pass- ed through Winnipeg in bond for New York. A consignment of 160 mail bags for Hong Kong recently passed through Win- nipeg. An Erin farmer had a squash which grew six feet in circumference in five weeks. The Stewart stables at Ottawa have been again destroyed by fire at a loss of $6.000. Evangelist Horner is said to have made $500 in his two weeks of service at Ches- terville. The car shops at Perth are almost shut downonly fifteen men being at work, on half time. Owing to the scarcity of school teach- ers in Manitoba many country schools are closed. Mrs. John Sutherland, of Boyd's Settle- ment, died recently at the age of ninety- three years. The annual midwinter show of the On- tario Poultry Association will be held at New Hamburg. The staff of the P.E.I. Railway will erect a monument to the late Superin- tendent Unsworth. There is great excitement at Bannock- burn, Madoc township, over the discovery of gold -bearing rock, Canada's total foreign trade has fallen off $4,500,000 for the first two months of the current fiscal year. It has been decided by the sharehold- ers to wind up the Canada Meat Packing Company of Montreal. Freight is being hauled by wagon be- tween Winnipeg and some distant Pro- vineial towns to save high railway charges, The new Knox Church, Mitchell,, was recently opened, the Rev, Dr. Battrsby, of Chatham, officiating. The body of Philip Powers, who was drowned in the Detroit Biter on the 16th Inst,, has been recovered. An American firm is negotiating with the C.P.R. officials with a view to estab- lish a creamery in Arnptior. Some one broke into the skating rink at Galt and stole a silver trophy belonging to the Granite Curling Club. Chief of Police Hughes, of Montreal, has entered actions for criminal and civil libel against The Herald newspaper ,for reports of proceedings in connection with the present troubles in the force. Eganville has a bunch of potato onions. containing seventeen separate ones all growing from one seed sown, Brampton races were not well attended, and the management is said to be short $200on the two days' sports. Truskey, who murdered Constable Lindsay, of Comber, has been sentenced to be hanged on Deoember 14. The eleventh annual fat stock show of the Province of Ontario will be held at Guelph on Dee. llth, 12th and 13th. City Treasurer Wilkes, of ,Brantford, who is eighty-five years old, has been superannuated by the City Council. Chief Justice Strong has been. gazetted Deputy Governor-General during Lord Aberdeen's absence in the Northwest. Charles Stewart, oonvieted at attempt- ed arson, was .sentenced at Windsor on Saturday to ton years in penitentiary. Hugh Whitby, a young meolianie of Parry Sound, walked off the wharf in the dark on Friday night and was drowned. Mr. Justine Osler on Saturday decided that a deposit of security is not neces- sary in the ease of a cross election peti- tion. A C.P.R, cattle train was derailed early Monday morning near Ottawa and great damage was done to rolling stock and freight. The barns of Mr. T. Jackson, West Gwillimbury, were destroyed by fire while a threshing machine was at work on the premises. An old bear and two cubs were captured near Lansdowne Station recently. They were driven out of the Blue Mountains by. bush fires. General Booth, of the Salvation Army, arrived in Halifax on Saturday, and was tendered an enthusiastic reception by the local corps. Joseph Clohecy, a sixteen -year-old Hamilton lad, died on Sunday from lock- jaw induced by stepping on a rusty nail some weeks ago. The Batt House at Port Stanley was burned down Sunday morning. John Denby, a lad who acted as porter, was burned to death. A verdict of accidental death has been returned by the coroner's jury in the case of Fred Austin, killed in a Hamilton sewer cave-in last week. Dr. J. H. Botts of Marysville, Wolfe Island, was found dead near his house on Sunday night. Death is supposed to have been the result of a fall. The customs duties collected at the port of Winnipeg during the last fiscal year were $150,000 less than the amount collected in. the previous year. William Ellerbeck, a Raleigh Town- ship farmer, was shot in the leg on Satur- day night by an unknown man of whom he had solicited a lift on the road. The claims of St. Louis, the Montreal bridge contractor, have been disallowed by the Exchequer Court, Mr. Justice Bur- bidge dismissing his case with costs. Mr. and Mrs. John Windle, two early pioneers near Pembroke, aged eighty-four and sixty-three, respectively, died, hus- band Saturday and wife Sunday last. Mr. Jos. S. Gill and wife, of Matche- dash, eelebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding recently. They have descendants in every province in Canada. Mr. P. Donovan, of Marlborough, Car- leton county, aged eighty-four years,who has been blind for the past nine years, suddenly acquired his eyesight last week. A letter has been received in Wood- stock from Mrs. Birchen, wife of Regi- nald. Birchell, the murderer of Ben well. She is living in London but is in poor health. The remains of Mr. William Glanville, a well known and respected resident, were interred at Mount Forest on Satur- day. Mr. Glanville formerly lived in Toronto. Mayor Stewart of Hamilton made for- mal charges of inefficiency and neglect of duty against City Engineer Haskins before the City Council on Monday, and a special committee of investigation was appointed. Louis Bradshaw, a young man, and Josephine Beauchamp, a little schoolgirl, were seriously, if not fatally, hurt at Port Hope Monday by a G. T. R. train crash- ing into the rig they were driving on a level crossing. A young man was debarred the other day from entering the military training school at Point Levis, Que., because he had poor teeth. He had been pronounced by the doctors as physically perfect in every other respect. Miss Mary R. Miller, formerly teacher in St. Mary's Public Schools, and a grad- uate in arts of Toronto University, has left for New Westminster, B.C., where she will take a position on the teaching staff of the Methodist College. The Grand. Trunk's financial report for the halt year ending 30th June, shows Dross receipts nearly $1,000,000 less than in 1893, but the working expenses out down $725,000, leaving the actual short- age a trifle over a quarter of million, or about $10,000 a week. CANADIAN S00 CANAL. Water was let into the new Canadian canal Tuesday, since which time it has been filling at the rate of nine inches an hour. The work is standing the test of water well. Among the prominent per- sons who were present were : Hon. John Haggart, Minister of Railways and Can- als; Engineer Collingwood Schreiber, his deputy, J. B. Spence, chief draughtsman, and Messrs. Hugh and John Ryan, the contractors, and a large crowd of local people. BBVINS FIRED !C'LIr SFSOT. The man who fired the shot at the El- lerbeck brothers on Saturday night on. the highway in Raleigh Township, near Chatham, and wounded Wm, Ellerbeck, has beon discovered to be Charles Bevins, the victim of the colored highwaymen. Bevins, after returning to town and re. porting the robbery, secured a revolver,. and had it all ready to use as he drove home. It is thought he fancied the Eller - becks were the robbers who bad attacked him a few hours before. The injured man is in a critical condition at the hos- pital and may lose his leg. It will de- pend on him whether Bevins is prosecuted for felonious 'wounding. There are said to be 80,000 stuttering Children in the schools of Germany. Th increase has been so great during the past four years that the defeet is considered+to be transmitted from the stuttering sehol- ars to the others. FROM TIIE UNITED STATES DOINGS ACROSS THE LITE.. 'crude Sam's Broad Acres Furnish Quite • l a Few Small Items that Ware ortb a Careful Reading. Rev. M. Carl Stoetter, a Jesuit mission- ary, is dead at Sterling, Ill. 0. B. Jones, a convicted criminal, sui- Bided in jail at LaGrange, Ind. Tho town of Leroy, Minn., was par- tially destroyed by fire last Friday, Thieves took $500 and $15,000 in bonds from State Treasurer Worth, of Raleigh, N.C. Additions to Yale University which have cost $1,000,000 were opened Mon- day, James Slattery, while confined in the Bounty jail at Pottsville, Pa., robbed it of 51,000. Ira Hurd of Allegan, Mich., was fatally shot by his wife, who mistook him for a burglar. A new peak 12,000 feet high has been discovered in Alaska to the east of Mt.. St. Elias. Roughs held up a horse car in New York on Thursday night and robbed the passengers. Edward B. Stirling, of Trenton, N.J., owns a stamp worth 51,000, for which he paid nine cents. Buck Harlan, a notorious counterfeiter, was captured by secret service men near Shelbyville, Ind. A runaway took place at a funeral at Alliance, O., on Friday and fifteen per- sons were injvred. One tree' recently cut down in Tulare County, Col., was thirty-three feet in di- ameter at the base. Wm. Blanford, an alleged forger, of Clinton, Ind., has been arrested after a search of two years. Fisher Crotzer, ofMontgomery County, Tenn., is seventy-five years old and voted but twine in his life. There are fully a hundred classified spe- cies of golden rod, of which eighty belong to the United States. The sovereign grand lodge of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows have deci- ded to admit women. The Lexington Hotel, in Chicago, val- ued at $1,000,000, has recently been sold for taxes for $6,410.78, There is a tree in Nevada so luminous from exuding phosphorescent matter that one can read by its light. The family and guests of G. W. Allen, Tampa, Fla., were poisoned by ice cream made from condensed milk. A clothes washing contest was a novel attraction at a colored church picnic at 1Vestminster, Md., recently. Fifty lives lost and much destruction of property is the record of a cyclone in Iowa and Minnesota on Saturday Harry Higby, of St. Louis, was killed in a quarrel over cards by Constable Streeper at Upper Alton, Ill. Wm. Enoehs, of Martinsville, Ind., has been driven from his home by Whitecaps for alleged cruelty to his wife. Geo. H. Nivers, editor of the A.P.A. organ, The American, has been indicted for libel in Stuben county, N.Y. A Trenton company has subscribed$1,- 000,000 to perfect machinery to run street cars by means of compressed air. Lynchburg, Vt., takes its name from John Lynch, a brother of the Judge Lynch who gave the name of Lynch law. Grave robbers at Indianapolis have sto- len the body of John Cline from the bury- ing ground of the insane hospital. Managers of eastern lines adopted a resolution to advance all rates to tariff and agreed to form a passenger pool. Railroad enterprise supplied a water- melon with each ticket on the occasion of a recent celebration in Southern Texas. Nickel 3 -cent pieces of 1877 are worth 75 cents each, while those of 1878, 1882, 1885 and 1886 are worth five cents each. Boycott against the Union Pacific is to bo lineslifted. by the transcontinental roads and a combine formed against northern Robert Wypere took an overdose of laudanum at Buffalo, N.Y., with fatal effect. He was a discharged R. N. boat - twain. Daniel M. Robertson, the wife mur- derer has been sentenced at New Bed- ford, Mass., to bo hanged Friday, Decem- ber14. Directors and officers of the Iowa Cen- tral were re-elected at the annual meet- ing. Not earnings for the year increased $45,500. The 14ladison (111.) Car Company, whose works have been closed over a year, re- sumed operations, giving employment to 600 men. Annual report of the St. Paul shows a net profit of 583,141 on the year's opera- tions, notwithstanding the business de- pression, J. H. Hanson, president of the Citizens' Bank & Trust Company. of Chattanooga, Tenn., was acquitted of the murder of J. R. Worts. Unknown negroes at Akron, Ohio, bound Mrs. Wahlhustur, put her in the cellar and set fire to the house, butt she was rescued. A bridge at Bradford, Pa., 2,000 feet long and 801 feet above the stream it crosses, is said to be the highest bridge Pennsylvania. The Standard Oil Company has pur- chased the great sulphur- deposits near Lake Charles, La. . The price is reported ed to be $175,000. A raftsman living in Antwerp, Ohio, dropped a penknife in the Maumee River five years ago, which was found recently by men working along the river. Rev. James Barrett, a Baptist clergy- man, who was arrested for drunkenness on the streets of Columbus, 0., feels his disgrace so keenly that ho has gone to bed and proposes to stay there till he dies. Irving, Montgomery, the strong man, who is in Cincinnati, wants to compete against Sandow either in a college ex- amination or in feats of strength. A couple living in Beaver Island Town- ship, North Carolina, have been married two years, during 'which time they have been blessed with two sets of twins. Gen. Longstreet, who is at his home in Gainesville, Ga,, is busily engaged upon his memoirs, which are expected to con- tain much of interest relative to the civil war. Many ponds and small lakes in Iowa utterly dried up during the recent drought, and the presence of dead fish has. threatened the health of regions about the vanished lakes, The Erie city ear shops were set on fire. Monday night and almost entirely de stroyed. Loss, nearly $250,000. James B. Cavort, general freight agent of the B.& 0. Railroad Company at Cleveland, was shot and killed by an un- known assassin on Monday night. The police are baffled. Nathaniel P. H. Willis, a deecenclant of the Puritan George Willis, and a. cousin of N. P. Willis, the poet, has been connected with a Boston business; house, for sixty-four years. Col. Moulton, who was buriedwith military honors at Springfield, Mass., will be remembered by old soldiers as the leader of the famous charge of Cold Har- bor during the civil war. A Boston genius has utilized as a car fender the revolving brush which is com- monly used for street cleaning purposes.• When a person gets in the way he is. literally swept from the tracks. Rev. Dr. Talmage, who recently com- pleted a lecture tour in Australia, had while at Melbourne an unhappy experi- ence with a pickpocket. The thief came off the richer by several dollars. General James Longstreet, the distin- guished. Confederate soldierhas asked Mexican Senate to increase his war pension from $12 to $50 monthly, be, cause of his present total disability. . Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, who was re- cently presented by his Philadelphia friends with a cheque for $1,000, express- ed his high appreciation of their kind- ness, but promptly declined to take the, money. Jim Allen, 'a full-blooded Choctaw, eon victed of murder, was shot by Deputy - Sheriff Robert Johnston at Caddo, I.T., Tuesday. He said a prayer over his coffin, bared his breast and died almost instantly, A young farmernamed Conklin rode to. the rear of the banking house of Bloom-. field, Skiles & Co., at Mount Sterling,. held up the cashier and his associates,. gathered up $411 and attempted to get, away, but was caught and the money - taken from him. It is reported that Miss Frances E. Wil- lard has decided not to advocate political prohibition any longer. She thinks that the best way to promote temperance among workingmen is to better their social condition. Secretary Carlisle has advised a Balti- more man, who wants to bring a team of English football players over, and who• asked that the alien contract labor law would interfere, that football players are not artists but laborers. There are now in. operation in the. United States alone more than 500,000. miles of telephone line, bringing into• speaking relations over 250,000 telephone subscribers, and employing in daily ser- vice over 600,000 telephones. Mrs. Alice Moore McComas, of Lo Angeles, who has already won the good opinions of political experts by her clear, logical and forcible presentation of the truths of Republicanism, is to take the stump in California during tke coming campaign. Stephen Meekins, of Williamsburg, Mass., who left by will 535,000 for a pub- lic library in that town, also willed to his. horse, for its time and its services, "a good dose of chloroform and a suitable burial on the farm•on which he so faith- fully served his master." Frank James, the once noted desperado,, is now tending the door of the Standard Theatre in St Louis. He says he has. abandoned the race course because it has ceased to be profitable, and he wants to get out of it for fear his son, aged seven- teen, will drift into the same line. A crusade is being started against the engagement ring in Boston. One of the reasons given for its proposed abolition is. that many girls become engaged for no other purpose than to add another ring to their collection and break off the con- tract as soon as it becomes convenient. At Portland, Oregon Sunday night fire• destroyed property valued at nearly $1,- 500,000, belonging to the Pacific Coast. Elevator Company, the Northern Pacific Terminal Company and the Oregon Rail- way and Navigation Company. The ele- vator contained nearly half a million bushels of wheat. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- men, in convention at Harrisburg, Pa., declared against the position of Vice - Grandmaster Hanrahan in advising mem- bers not to work with non-union men dur- ing the Pullman strike, and denounced the system of striking in sympathy with other workmen who were on strike. Prof. W. M. Ramsay, of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, will lecture at. Harvard University, the Union Theo- logical Seminary, and at the Auburn Seminary this fall. It is Dr. Ramsay's book on. "The Church in the Homan Em- pire Before 170 A.D.," which won for him the rare distinction of a gold medal from Pope Leo XIII. It is a cast-iron rule that when the head of the Astor family arrives at a certain age his photograph is taken and inserted in a frame which contains also those of his predecessors. These framed photographs stand in the head office, where the business of handling the vast, estate is carried on, and every day a bunch of flowers is placed in a vase in front of them. A Toronto street railway motor car on Saturday ran off the track while crossing the Gerrard street bridge over the Don, jumped over the eight -inch timber separ- ating the driveway from, :the sidewalk', snapped oft an iron post holding up the fencing of the bridge and came to a stop only when projected to an almost even balance over the bridge. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castor$. Whenshe became Miss, she clung to Castoria,, When she had Children, she gave them Oastoria. Ho Ato to Save Ills Friend. A. man was being tried for hog steal.. ing in a southwest Georis justice court. He had an acoomplice g in he theft, to whom the judge said : "You knew this fellow stole that hog?" "I did"And yet, youour p helped him eat it?" "1 did, your honor;lbut he was a sick- ly man, an' if he'd ha' eat that whole hog he'd' ha' died certain " Call at this office for neat job printing.