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The Exeter Times, 1886-7-15, Page 7z The Thrifty Housekeeper, Cold bfeonite lett over from tea maybe made better then when first baked by dip• ping there into hot water and pleoing them singly on the hot grate in the oven long enough to let thorn get well warmed through. Lamp wok should be changed often enough to insure having a good 'light,, If they seem clogged they may be washed in atrong gads and put into the lamp again, 4butter 'stamp should alwa a be washed in cold Balt water before it ie awed, If welt- ed in hot water the butter will stick to it but never if soaked in oold brine. The malt abaerbed by the wood keeps it motet while in use.,. Ali ionpa are better made 'with fresh un- cooked meat rte that which has been cooked onoe has lost much of its flavor and toady ail of its juice%, ea Moat people dry their umbrellas handle upwards. This concentrates the moleture at the top, where it is close, mato the wire which secure the stretchers and rote the cloth, It better, after the umbrella ie drained, to ;Imply invert it and dry in that position. To save stair carpets nail several thick- nesses of old carpet or canvas over the edge of each etatr. It is a good Klan to buy more carpeting than is needed to cover the stairs and move it each season so that the whole will wear evenly. If stair carpets cannot be ohanged in this way.they, will not weeriong. To Get Bid of Cockroaches. A oorreepondeut write, as follows : " I beg to inform you of an easy, clean, and certain method of eradicating those loath- some hinds from dwelling houses, A few years ago my house was infested with cook - roaches (or ' olooke,' as they are palled here), and I was recommended to try cu- cumber peelings as a remedy. I according- ly, immediately before bedtime, strewed the floor of those parte of the house mos infest- ed with the vermin with the green peal, cat not very thin, ,'from 'the cuoumber, and eat up halt an hour later than usual, to watch the effect, Before the expiration of that time the floor where the peel Jay was oevered with cockroaches, so that the vege- table could not be seen, so voraciously were they engaged in sucking the poleonous molt • tare fres it. I adopted the same plan the following night, but my visitors were not so numerous—I should think not more than a fourth of the previous night. On the third night I did not dieoover ene ; but, anxious to ascertain whether the house was quite olear of them, I examined the peel after I had lain it down about half an hour, and perceived that it was covered with my- riads of minute cockroaches about the size of a flea, I therefore allowed the peal to remain till morning, and from that moment I have not seen a cockroach in the house. It is a very old building, and 1 can assure you that the above remedy only requires to be persevered in for three or four nights to completely eradicate the peat. It should be fresh oucumber peel every night. Hints, BLEAOHINI,SThAw HATS—Obtain a deep box, airtight if possible, plane at the bot. tom a stone ; on the stone a flat piece off iron red-hot or a pan of charcoal, on which scatter powdered brimstone ; there ahonld be hooka in the box on which to hang the hats ; close the ild and let the hate remain all night. Another recipe for bleaching straw is to soak the goods in caustic soda and afterward to use on them chloride of lime or javelle water. The excess of chlo- ride ahonld be removed by hyposulphite of sada, oalled anti.ohler. In the fiat method the hat should be meintcned, as a dry fabric will not bieao' * It is;y.to get rid of black ants, They live in a t bills and generally near the buildings. Open these hills with a hoe, scatter on a handfulof salt and sprinkle on a quart of water and the ants will leave Ina. mediately. Yesterday my house was over- run with these insects. I found eleven ant- hills within two rods of the building and to- day there is not an ant to be found any- where on er about the premises. Any gold jewelry that an immersion in water will not iajareMan ba beautifully cleaned by shaking it well in a bottle nearly half full of warm aoapsuds, to which a little prepared chalk jias been added, and after ward rinsing in clear, cold water and wiping it dry. To preserve goods from moths do not use camphor in any form. Pleoee of tar paper laid in fur boxes and in Motets are a better protection, Five oents will buy enough to equip all the peeking boxes and °leseto of a large house for a year. Gingham and prints will keep their color better if washed in water thickened with flour starch, Flour is very cleansing and will do the work of soap to ene or two washings In the starch water. This, with the rinsing, will be auffiolent and the geode will look fresher than if washed and starch ed In the old-fashioned way. • A good housekeeper in Bergen county, New Jersey, says that she adds a teaapoon- int of turpentine to the water she mixes her stove-blaoking with. She lets the stove be- con- almoat cold before blanking. Pretty Fair•Sised Hailstones. Specials from Elgin Manor, and Paige say that those places and the surrounding neigh- borhoods were visited, the other evening by heavy storms, inflicting great damage. At Elgin there was a terrifio thunder, rain, and hail storm, which deluged a part of the town. Nearly every building had windows broken and holes knocked in the roofs, Hail fell varying in size from a marble to a man's hand, and perforated iron and tin roofs. 'oe of hailstone was pinked up that weig d seven pounds. The Maths. dist church ends blown from its foundations' and demollshod, The Baptist ahuroh was moved elightly out of line. One man was struck down by a hailstone and seriously Injured. At Manor the storm did indescribable damage to orops, hailstones falling as large as hen's eggs, Three churches and many ether buildings were badly damaged. At Paige the storm was severe. There was a very heavy rainfall. Oilly slight dam- age was done to trope or buildings. At Mexia the stormreoked one church ' and several small hongee, unroofed others, and badly injured the cern drop. No lives were kit, the people hastily seeking shel- ter in storm houses when the gale rip proaohedi Mr, De Garmo : I snppoae about thin time ed the year you young ladies who aro going to graduate are engaged all the time in pre- Earing your (mays, UM—by the way, Miss es ugenia, what is youra going to be? Mies Eugenia : Pale blue, trimmed' with real laoo, An old maid, speaking about marriage, says it's like any other disease --while there is life there le hope. A..O.ATH'WLHT VOLCANO, llfnutere Hsve a lterxnrfcable Retnertenee 0n theMeniten (liver. A most startling story bee come to light, A party of five young gentlemen from the maritime provinces, under the guidance of an Indian guide left Ottawa a couple of week,, ago to hunt in the Manitou river die. triot. in the North -Welt torriterles, The five sportsmen have returned home, with no game, but instead they game burdened with a m out marvelous story of a burning moue. tain in their bunting district. The parties' flames are r genre, Sutton, Willian sen, Van Harne, Cribbs, and Alexander. The district in whioa they were hunting lies about fifty miles to the south of the Cana dian Pacific. railway Yl of ilwa iGe from Brute, ra on the high' land, just north off the Manitou river. bate iooality is just north of the United Staten boundary line, from Black Daok lake in Minnesota. They reported having left Brute together with their guide, and going south, when they met mountaineers fans - fig ' on the way into the town, with all their goods and ohatteis, peaked on a couple of lean -looking horses, The mother carried a SICK CHILD IS/ HER ARMS, and two little girls, whose tow heads wore fleece grown, toddled on bare feat after. The father, two sons and a daugh• ter led the way, Their appearance show- ed that they were loavisg hastily for some reason, and on being interviewed by the would be bnntera, they said thatthey were fleeing fromthe region In which they had lived on account of some teribie fire. They hah lived from hand to mouthen a patch of cleared ground, on a mountain's side whose base formed a portion of the Manitou river's. bank ; that the terrible fire was somewhere over behind or in under the mountain; that no smoke was visible, but that the air was stifling hot, and the river, at oertain paints, se hot that the fish died in it. The first in. thnation that the father, whose name is Malcolm, had of this strange •phenomenon was the unmoral sight of a great number of dead fish in the Manitou, whose foe had, ear- lier than usual, broken up this year in their vicinity, but to his supriee the he bad re- mained the normal length of time, both above and below the place they had lived. Stran rely hot winde also oame down into the valley, whilst elsewhere the atmosphere was of wintry' chilliness. The hunters in tracing the cause, found, evidently, that the reasons of the farmer's great excitement lay in the faot of the Bub- torranean' heat in the mountain's side, • which extended under the river's bed ; and about a mile up THE STREAM BECAME 00 HOT that it had heated the water, which runs slowly at that point, until tom rose from the 'surface near the bank". Tide was faint- ly noticeable for a short distance further up, and beyond which the water by degrees resumed its normal state. The atmosphere was found to be very warm, and the slight- est exertion brought out the perapiratlon. At a point near to where the farmer had lived the hunters found the air to be almoat stifling, and there also the earth was toe hot in places to lay the hand upon. Noth- ing else was noticeable, the mountains being bleak and bare from winter. But further back upon its sides the heat was absolutely unbearable, and after climbing up its thick- ly -wooded Bides for two or three hundred feet the hardy hunters were forded to re- turn, the air being unbreathable. Animals had left their retreats, birds steered olear of the locality, and not living thing was to bo seen. The earth was dry and cracked with the heat, Dead snakes without num- ber, and vermin, were discovered by the hunters. The heat, instead ef diminishing, was found to increase the higher they went up the mountain's side, and the °racks in the earth widened and new ones appeared, and the LOCALITY BECAME UNINHABITABLE, It was no wonder, they say, that the terror- atrioken family, depressed in the know- ledge that something strange and terrible was going to take plasm in the earth beneath them, and living in the midst of stifling hot winds, whose increasing heat brought to terrified and ignorant minds pictures of burning fields and volcanoes, had reselved to abandon the uncomfortable locality. The town of Brute is very much excited ever the extraordinary disoovery, and a party about half a dezen has started for the soene of the burning mountain, Itis about five or ton miles from any b abitatien at pre- sent existing. Men well acquainted with the geology of the province declare that the location of this volcanio area has been fixed to a nicety. and might be with reason ex- pected. Their theory Is that the bitum- mons coal, in whioh this mountain range is known to be rich, has by some phenome- nal moans become ignited, the vast and smouldering mass, far down in the moun- tain's heart, thus making a mighty cauldron ef the Manitou river's bed. Oddly Addressed. Many oddly -addressed letters daily pass through the post -office, Several of the rhym- ing kind are somewhat remarkable for the poet.oal skill displayed by the writers. A clever example is given in the following, addressed to Sir Walter Scott during one ef hie visits to London : "Sir waiter Scott, In London or elsewhere; He needs not ask, whose wide -extended fame. Is spread about our earth, like lightand air, A local habitation for hie name." Charles Dlbden, the naval•song writer, dent a letter to Mr, Hay bearing the follow- ing address : "Postmen bear this sheet away, And. parry it to Mr. Hay; And whether you ride mare or colt on, Stop at the Theatre, Bolton ; tI in what county you Moduli Merely mention Lancashire," A letter addressed as follows was mailed In the provinces, and was duly delivered in London: "Where London's column pointing to the skis Like a 1;41'1 bully, lifts Its head and lies, 0. There dwells a citizen of sober fame. A plain, good man, and Balaam is his name." The letter was delivered without delay to a Mr, Belem, a flehmenger near the Mon. ument, Turning from poetry to promo, we find the following vague direction : " r,'--, Travelling Band, one of the Font play• Mg in the street, t'oreha [Torshorol. Woroee- terahlre. Pima find him if poaolble." Another envelope bore the following . This is for the young girl that weave `peotaoles. who minds two bebfee 30 sheriff street, 01 Prince Edwin moron, Liverpool," ` Mr. J. Wilson' Hyde, in his book, "The Royal Mail," says that two letters directed as follows were duly delivered : " To my slater Jelin, Up the Canongetb, Down a Close, Edinburg, She has a Wooden leg." Tho ether wae addressed : "My dear Ant Sue as lives in the Cottsed by the Wood near the New Forest." "1n; tho latter oaso, says Mt. Hyde, " the letter had to feel its way about for a day or two, but Ant Sue ' was found living in a cottage near Lyndhurst." Why is there nothing like leather ? Bei ousel it be the sole support,;of man, ,A M . UAC'8 PHAW$l , A 3fysterloni /tortes er eutregeons lttackg upon Unattended 'Women, " Ie it the devil?" "If not the dovll, who or what le it r" Ten er twelve years ago the above inquir- ies were pealed around In it certain thriving Nova Scotia village, and while some man re plied with a sneer, °there looked troubled and anxious, Ae for the women and, child- ren, they epoke in whiepera, and looked about them, even in'daylight, ae it (aped - beg to be attacked; p There had been some ourfous doings and around the village for several week previous, The first alarm 000urred on certain Thursday night, There had been prayer meetingat a Methodist o t ohnroh, an among the people who attended wee a mid linger Marko plainly visible on her throat, her shoes and stockings bad been removed, her hair out oil, and tee rings tern out of her ears and Hang down, Ile only explan Mien elle could make was that a human band had 'suddenly grasped her throat, She had heard no footstep, nor had she oaught a glimpse of anybody. The deteotive at once visited the oometry, and in a brief time the enclosure was thoroughly searobod, but no- thing came of it. One aide of tt r. as border. ed by an extensive field not under oultiva- tion, and on the far side of this field was a that direction before a aearoh was inetitut. crest, Gale aeuld oaoily have maimed in. in ed, Aa may be supposed, public) pp , pu 1 indignation a was now at the belling point, The deteo- a tive and everybody else was hal1 ll ee, whenwoman made a ea etl . lien It w th gg , as at die -aged woman named Lee. She wan not feeling well, and she left before the service was over. She lived on a retired street half a mile away, and half an hour after she left the ohuroh a man passing over the route she had taken found her LYING SENSELESS OS/ THE PATH. Her bonnet had been snatched off and torn into fragments. Her shoes had been remov- ed and flung into the road. A set of false teeth had been taken from her mouth and. stamped into the ground and destroyed. When the woman revived she had but little to tell in explanation, Some ono had ebruok her behind the ear, making a great brute°, but not breaking the akin, She had not heard his approach, nor did she catch eight of any one, She was walking quietly' along, when, all of a eudden,'she lost con- soioasness, and she had been in that condi- tion about fifteen minutes when found by the pedestrian spoken of, The woman had ne enemies. No one had assaulted her for the purpose of robbery. She had not been assaulted beyond the removal of the artiolea mentioned. It was ouch a singular affair that it set everybody to talking and specu- lating, but no arrests were made, Indeed, it was impossible to direct suspicion toward anybody. In about a weak the public was further alarmed and mystified. The wife of a vil- lager named Parker stepped eut te the w ell about half past $ o'clock in the evening to draw a pail of water. She was working the handle of the pump when a hand olutohed her nook. Before she could soream out she was whirled around and flung down with anoh force that she was stunned, As near as could be figured she was senseless for four or five minutes, Daring that time her hair was palled down and out offehort, her shoes were pulled off and flung in the well, and a quantity of soft soap was taken from a kettle nearby and smeared over her cloth- ing, ' The hair whioh had been out off was left scattered ever the ground. Mrs. Parker er had not seen' her assailant, but she knew that a HUMAN HAND HAD CLUTCHED HER THROAT, !, The new onerage raised the pubilo pulse to fever heat, and the moot determined efforts were made to secure a clue to the identity of the perpetrator. Half a dozen arrests were made, but in each case the person was soon discharged for want of proof to hold him. A detootive woe sent for, but after working on the case far four days he was unable to pink up a single point looking to- ward the solution of the mystery, On the tenth evening after the assault on Mrs, Parker Mr, arid Mrs. Leyd were sitting to a summer house in their grounds. It had just grown dark when Loyd ran across the grounds, a distance of about 300 feet, to drive away a oow which seemed determined to brake in. He was not absent over seven or eight minutes, bet when he returned to the aummer honee he found his wife lying on the floor insensible. She had been struck a hard blow en top of the head. Her slip- pers and stockings had been removed aid thrown on the grass, and a lot of dry ashes had been sprinkled over her clothing and hair. When she reoovered consoteusness she had no information to give. She did not even know when she was struck. It now seemed apparent that the perpe- trator of these outrages must be a resident of the village, and that he moat be actuated by pure deviltry. None of the women ked been harmed beyond what had been stated, and the motive in going that far oould be noth- ing else than what a plain -speaking man would call cueeednees. The detective wax reoalled, and certain persons who had here- tofore escaped all suspicion were placed un- der surveillance. The Iast assault bad CREATED A REIGN OF TERROR among the women, not one of whom dared step her foot outside the house a's'ter dark unless accompanied by an escort. While the detective was still in the town, and a number of leading citizens were acting as spies and Wrote, the fourth outrage ow purred. The wife of a citizen named Warner drove to the cemetery in the afternoon, ao- oompanied by her son, a boy of 16, to deco. rate one of her children's graves, In trans- planting the flowers it became necessary to use considerable water, and the boy went to a creek about twenty rode away with a pail. The cemetery was thick with trees, and he lest sight of bit mother for five or six min- utes, When he returned he found her lying on the ground mtoonsoione, with the detective dreea himself in female attire and " lay low " for the mysterious. villain. The idea was carried out that very night, but it was a week before the climax Dame. One night about 9 o'clock the disguised of- ficer left a house where he had seemingly been vielting, and he halted at the gate to say good night and to have the people of tbo house hope that he would get home all right. It was on a retired street, thick with shed°, and unlighted, and the officer was as alert as a fox, He had not gong 500 feet when a figure. STEPPED JROM BEHIND A TREK and grasped his throat. The assailant was ehaken off and grasped in turn, and then a terrible struggle took place, Not a word was uttered by either, The one sought to get away, the other to handcuff his man. This feat the carer finally accomplished, and when he oonduoted hie prisoner to the village lookup the mystery was at onoe solv- ed. He proved to be a half-witted fellow named Oreon Taylor, living with hie father en a farm a couple of miles from the vil- lage. Orson was unmarried, about 30 years old, and known around the country as a half feel. He had never been known to commit an offense against the law, and for this reason was not suspected of any of the outrages above detailed. He preserved a sullen ellenoe when questioned, and when a commission of doctors had reported on his case be was sent to en insane asylum instead of being arrainged in court. He soon be- oame a raving maniao, and died in about a year, Not " Smart." Of all forma of bad breeding, the pert, smart manner affected by boys and girls of a oertain age is the most offensive and im- pertinent. One of these so-called smart boys was once employed in the office of the tree- eurer of a Western railroad. He was usually left alone in the office between the hours of eight and nine in the morning, and it was hie duty te answer the questions of all call- ers as olearly and politely as possible. One morning a plainly dressed old gentle- man walked quietly in, and aaked for the .oaahier. " He's out," laid the boy, without looking up from. the paper he was reading, "Do yen know where he is 1" "No.'' " When will he be in ?" "'Bout nine o'clock," " It's nearly that now, Isn't it 1 I haven't Western time," " There's the olook,'1 Bald the boy smart- ly, pointing to a °look on the wall, " Oh yes ; thank you," said the gentle- man, " Ten minutes until nine. Can I wait here for him ?`' " I s'pose so, though this isn't a public hotel -S' The boy thought this was smart, and he chuckled aloud over it. He did not offer the gentleman a chair, or lay down the paper he held. " I would like to write a note while I wait," paid the caller ; " will you please get me a piece of paper and an envelope ?' The boy did, se, and as he handed them to the old gentleman, he coolly said,— " Anything elle 1" " Yes," was the reply. " I would like to know the name of mash a smart boy as you are." The boy felt flattered by the word "smart," and wishing to show the full extent of hie smartness, replied,— " I'm one of John Thompson's kids, Will- iam by name, and I answer to the esti of " Billy.' But here comes the boas I" The " boon" oame in, and, geeing the stranger, oried oat,— " Why, Mr, Smith, bow do yon do ? I'm delighted to see you, We--" Bat John Thompson's " kid" heard no mere. He was looking around for his bat, Mr. Smith was president of the road, and Billy heard from him later, to his sorrow, Any one needing a boy of Master Billy's] pe - cellar "smartness" might secure him, as he is still out of employment. Mr. Woods who has been appointed Cana- dian agent -general te the Australasian co- lonies, was at one time a member et the firm of Carson & Woods, of Sydney, N. S. W. The Winnipeg Sen says that "Mr. Wood, during hie residence in Winnipeg, by hie publto spiritedness and courteous demeanor, has made many Mende. PERHAPS THEY WEBl TWIN%, A Singular Story of Nobber7 and Murder.. About twenty years ago a robber entered the farm house.ef .John Westin Ontario, and, being discovered while prowling around the house, he "bot Weet in order that he might make his escape, ma hour was midnight, and there wag a bright harvest moon bighting up the room in which the ohooting took place, West had a club beside his bed, and he gave the intruder a powerful blow with this Were thejehot wee; tired. The bullet en- tered his abdomen, an he lived about three dame and ,wee perfectly oonsoioue all the time, He declared en his dying bed that ,his murderer wail a young man named Salo men R1 0 axd Y, lewlees ahartote r who hung about the village two miles away, Mrs, West recognized him ae well, and when Richards wap arrested and, charged with the Crime he did not deny it, There wasn't the slightest doubt of kis guilt, and but for the firmness of the Seerlff the fellow would have bean , lynched. lie had been In jail two weeks before HE DECLARED HIS IN1gooENCE, As he had no money he could not engage a lawyer but he made a statement te the Sher- iff, which set that offioial at workto prove an alibi for him, On the night of the shoot- ing Rioharde had sat in the village tavern from 8 to 10 o'clock. Ilia could be verified, When he leftthe tavern he visited two saloon®, but this could not be verified, Sev- eral persona wire almoat sure of havleg seen him, but no one was positive.` At 10i o'clock he went to a livery stable and °limb- ed up on the hay to sleep. He claimed to have spoken to a hostler named Warner, but when Warner was consulted he could not be sure whether It was that night or the. one preceding it, On hit way from the sa- loon to the barn Richard's enoonnteda per- son who was droned like himself, and whose, general resemblance was very striking, Both halted and looked each other ever ae if as- tannded, but neither spoke. Not ono man in a hundred would have taken any stook in such a story, but the Sheriff,' singular as it may seem, believed' that Richards was telling the truth, Went. had STRUCK THE MAN WITH A CLUB, Rioharde had not the slightest wound or bruise. The pistol with which the shooting was done had been left behind. No one abent the village had ever seen it before. How could Richards who never had a dol- lar at a time have purchased it ? He was on the street, perfectly unconcerned, when ar- reetad. If he was guilty why had he wait ed right there to be taken into custody, when the farmer had called oat : " Sel Rich- ards, you have shot me, but I'll live to Bee you hung!" All these points were overlooked by every- body except the Sheriff. Mr. and Mrs. West declared that Sol Richards was the man ; that was eviaenoe enough, eepeoially when Sol was a good-for•nothing. Three weeks had passed when the Sheriff got track of a man who had passed a toll gate at an early morning hour, carrying a bundle. Further en he found that the man with the bundle had a bloody ear. Five miles fur- ther and he had entered a farm-heuae, al• leged he had met with an accident, and had a actin wound dreesed. He had jour neyed a hundred miles before the Sheriff overtook him, but here and there the bad sold fragments of his plunder, When finally overhauled and arrested he admitted hie prime almost before a question wae asked. He was a professional tramp, and robbery was nothing new to him, He was not only DRESSED PREOISELYLIKE RICHARDS, but he resembled him so closely in height, build, weight and faoial expression that peo- ple came to the jail and °ailed him Richards. He gave his name as Terry, but as he could remember little or nothing of hie childhood, and as thin was also the cane with Rtohards, it was .generally believed that they were twin brothers. The one was released as an Innocent man, and the ether was sent to prison for such a long term as praotioally assured his death within the gloomy walls. A Morgnito Story. " I was at Fort Keogh one summer not long ago when an explosion occurred In the boiler which blew it some distance from the fort into a swamp. The men started after it. When they got there the mosquitoes were so thick that it was found impossible to work. The men got imide the boiler and the moegaitoes punched their stingers right through the plated iron. The men clinched the bills on the inside and kept on clinching them until hundreds and hundreds of mos- quitoes were fastened to the boiler, The men built a fire inside of the boiler to scare off the other mosquitoes, and the latter started to fly away,1 " Of course those that were fastened tried to fly with the rest, and actually carried the heavy boiler and the men out of the owamp and on to the dry land. After that it was no trick to haul the boiler into the fort. How did they get rid of the mosqui- toes' bills l Why, they just filed them off close and left them there." Epitaffy—Tombstone inscriptions. ANXIOUS TO PLEASE. Aft. Dudlty (who writes poetry "just Jor relaxation, you know") : 'x HAvi rEM s lrG .' O1 ! YES, I ALMOST BNOw THEM BY HT!<ART, Mrs. G.ss written 1th1TEAD THELCBI/MUNN TO SLEEP WITH THEM It VERY NIGHT, ICS :Tot/ HAVE htv' VERSES, AIRS, Gituot LATE DOMZ1 IOH.14EW0, An illicit still with., a capacity of fifty gal. lone was enized recently, in the big swamp near Port Perry Mr, J, R, Neff of Meoaomn NW, , o i , , T,, has: 5Q0 acres of wheat in followed laud, and It ie reported to be one of the moat magnififoent °repo ever seen in the territories, The Stratford Police Magistrate has fined Daniel McMullen $50 and coats, the price of a portion of Dapald ;H raeor'o ear, which he bit off on the night of Inauguration Pay. Aooerding .to al'ort Perry paper,a oounel.. ler of au Ontario oonnty.mnniolpality, who Is very fond 01 euchre, recently would play from a oonstItuent all his loose change and the family pig. p g, Qn going for the pliew how- ever, he was so onergetioally received by the constituent's wife that he deemed it prudent to abandon' the enterprlae, The Scott A:ot Assoofation Executive of Wellingeog•Count have deoided to ems o a tto employ detective force Op•Operate with the in- - specters. An organizer is also to be seoared and kept permanently In the field nutil the approaching elections are over. The Arno - elation are taking steps to raise the sum of $3,000 as an enforcement and elaotion fund. Last week a party of Italians on their way to work on the new railread at Smith's Falls, passed through Winohestex, and while there one of them in the tot of " rob- bing a hen -roost was naught by the owner, who ordered him off the premises. The Italian, however, drew a knife and brandish- ed it in a menacing manner, and the owner fired hie gun in self-defence and killed th inverter. A Peterborough citizen owns a dog that has beoome ea old and .feeble that he decided to shoot lt. B e acooediegly invited the dog to the outskirts ef the town and fired abnllet into his carcase, The dog to* to his heels and disappeared, and the marksman thought bis bullet had failed, to find its mark. A day or two after, however, the dog returned home, and on examination it was found that the ball' had passed Mean through hie •body without touching any vital part. It has been decided that the dog WW1 be allowed to live, The other day a pair of pants that had evidently been oast off by a tramp were found in the barn of Mr, John Wiggingtoon, en the Bayfield Road, in Huron-ooanty,`' In the pocket was a leather pocket -book, in which were a dozen or more .olippinga from five dollar bllle. Moet of the pieces had ,been - clipped right across the bill, and had the;fulb figure five on them, It is supposed that the' balance of the bill was passed in the ordinary' way, and that the clippings were intendeda to be pasted over the figure 1, on one dollar bills, thus making what is known as a raised bill. The old Epiaoopal Church near Mouth Keswick, N. B., has just been tern down and removed. Tide was one of the eldest churches in New Brunewick, having been built 75 years ago. There to only one man now hying in the plane, Mr. George Danby, Sr , 80 years old, who bas any recollection of the time when the church was erected. Most of the early settlers who took part in its reotion are now buried in the yard which surrounded it. It is reported that the church was removed against the wishes of the church -wardens and a large number of the people of the place A DREADFUL DEATH. PerIshiv g from Thirst and Exposure on the Mojave Desert. James Satoliffe and Alexander Falconer returned from a trip to Cave Wella, en the Resting Springs road, Cal,, lately, whither they had gone to search for the person of George Anderson, who was lost a short time ago while traveling in company with A. Bateman, on their way to Wilson ranob, Lincoln, Nevada. It see.ns that Mr. Anderson while laboring under a fit ef men- tal derangement, jumped from the wagon and fled to the mountains, where he eluded puranit for four days in a country destitute of water. Occasionally sight was caught of him by Mr Bateman, who was in pursuit, am- oampanied by John BIack and Judge Califf. Once in the meantime Mr Bateman, was close enough to him to coax him into his wagon, where he gave him some water and liquor. He again became violent, insisting that some one was after him for the purpose of robbery, and threatening to kill Mr. Bate- man, who was at that time alone, trying to get at the firearms, which fortunately had been concealed, He then attempted to get the butcher -knife from the mess chest, but did not succeed, Mr, Bateman, at this became theroughly alarmed, told him to jump from tho wagon, which be did, fleeing to the hills like a deer. This was the last time any one got near enough to speak to him, Messrs. Curry and Winters, Doming along twe days later, found where he had laid down in several places, having by this time divested himself of his shoes. Numerous places were found where he had been digging in the hard ground, apparently 'for water. A diligent search was kept by Mr. Bateman, John Blank and Mr. Califs, and at last Mr. Bate- man found hie body on a rooky hill about six miles southerly from Cave station, lying,' en his face dead, His feet were worn to the bone from running lover the sharp stones barefooted, hie right hand worn out from digging for water, his arms lacerated so that that the bones and sinews :were exposed from falling, and hie body badii bruised. The searching party covered- him up care- fully, intending to Dome to Dagget for help to bury him, but Sutcliffe and Falconer, whe bad gone out, arrived, and at -midnight, with no mesio but the plaintive cooing of the turtle -dove and the oighing winds among the granite rooks near the base of old Iva - wash mountains, the friends of poor happy - hearted George dug a deep grave, and as the pale moon looked calmly down upon the mournful scene, ail that was mortal of George Andersen was oonsigned to'itsmother earth, In his delirium he hid the money and two gold watches that he was known to have upon him, and lost his coat and hat, whichhave not yet been found. Howas well known in this vicinity and in Nevada. He was' a man of warm and generous im- pulses, which endeared him tea host of friende, who deeply mourn his unfortunate death, He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, aged about thirty- eight or forty years, and a native of Dundee, Soot land, He had lived a greater portionof his life in Canada and Nevada, Mr, Bateman, John Black, Judge Califs, and others wore unoeae• ing in their endeavors to capture him, but their effforts were In vain for he could easily watch them and hide In the numerous caves and ravinot which abound in that region. "We're going to have a leotago, on Batten at thy house to•night," said Senator iTearst. j" Come around and hear it, f'nf sort o' kiokie at the idea of witching eff from literature to provisions, but these question of polititioal economy teen to be attraoting a great deal of attention now, Bo I gneea it's all right,"