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Exeter Times, 1898-7-28, Page 6IS IN it NMI ME VERY LATEST FROM L THE WORLD OVER. interesting Mins About Our Own Country, °teat Britain, the United stem), and MI Parte of the (Hobe, Condensed nod Aseerted for 141sY Reading. C.A.NADA- Mame leatieehe is dead et Thre Fewere. A Hamilton (Aileen has invented emoke cansumer. Hamilton is alreedy talking a the xiet atimeary alayora,lty ,otest. Bananas are growing in the open alx be Major's Hill Park, Ottawa. (Bush fires are doing considerable damage in the vicinity a Belleville. The Manitoba temperanee party vein raise 510,000 tor the plebiscite cam- paign. • Soleil Midwinter, of Hamilton, eigh- teen year .% old, was badly crushed in a gravel pit, W. H. Dailey, of Rockport, has been appointed bursar a the Brockville A.salum. As a. result of the visit a warships, a naval brigade is being formed looal- ir at Vancouver. The C.P.R. has granted, northwestern fermiers the weloome boon of loadiag cars direct from. waggons. „. Ernest Lonagby, an Ottawa lad, died from injuries received by being run over by an express waggon. The R. & 0. Navigation Ccatipany will build a sister &rip to the Toronto. The Bertrams have the contract. William Atkinson, a, fourteen -year-- old London boy, lost a leg at Chat eel while stealing a ride on the C.P.R. Tbe Hamilton School Board, has de- cided to discontinue the teaching of domestic science in the Publie Schools, Track -layers on the Crow's Nest Pass Railway have reached the orossing of the Elk River, 150 miles from MeLeod. A vein of rich goldebeazing quartz has been diseavered on Seymour Creek, near Vanconver. It assays $467 to the ton. Capt. McLean, who acted. as A.D.C. to lfajor-General Gaseoigne, has been appointed. to the permanent corps at Toronto. W. Coleman, the St. Catharines iceman whose head was ru.n over by his, waggon died on Friday, lockjaw leaving set in. There is an uneoufirmed report of the drowning of Rev. Walter L. Lyon the First Cburch of England mission- ary to the Klondike. George Moore was sent to prison for foure months at Toronto on Monday, having beem convicted on a charge of Picking pockets. Ala. Grant, of Ottawa has very little doubt but that that city will be chosen as the headquarters of the 10th Regi- ment, Royal Canadians. 1 The first shipment of 250 tons of gal- ena. ore passed through Ottawa en route to Belgium yesterday. Fourteen cars were required to transport it. Alm Judge CBosse, of Quebect was' killed. at River du Loup through her horses running away and the carriage colliding with a telegraph pole. The Hebrew residents of Lower town, Ottawa, have complained to the Chief of Police, because they are abuse ed by their French speaking neigh- bors. The discovery of a genuine placer is announced from the Michipicotea dis- trict. It is said to be located on the shores of one of the many lakes in the district. The United States ship Lake Lemen, reported lost, has arrived at Vancou- ver from Panama, She was seventy- three days at sea without sighting any port. W. H. Bertram, solicitor, London, has sworn out information against Judge Edward Elliott, charging him with having disobeyed au act of the Legislature in a Division Court case. A ahlpment of galena from Calumet Islan.d. to Belgium assayed $22 to the ton. This the mine owners anticipate will yield them a good profit. They will shep 1000 torts to 13elgiu.m at an early date. The Ontario Government has sent Mr. T. 13. Speight, T.L.S., to explore that section of Algoma. 'running from the head waters of the Sonlais river to the line of the C. P. R. It is about 100 miles in extent. Howes are very scarce in Ottawa, and. the building trade is lively. For repairing arailn-ay bridge near , Ottawa on Sunday a number of labor- ers were summoned. One was fined a10, and the case will be appealed. The Toronto City Council has adopted a by -lave providing that hereafter all bread. offered for sale in the city must be in loaves of from one and a half pounds to three pounds in weight. Of course, this does not restrict the manu- facturers of biscuits, buns, fancy rea , etc. Tim laboratory staff at the Experi- meutal Parra, Ottawa, are now engaged, Beading out queetities of tuberculine to Lhe various Government veterinary came:lieu's throughout the Dominion. Tbere are no special outereaks of tuberculosis, but there is always a demand for tubarculine for. test pur- • poses. GREAT BRITAfele The 'English artillery team cannot visit Canada this year. Fifty thousand dollars toward the minion needed by the London Hospital were indeed by tem recent bazaar held by a number of the London journals, A new type of fast. torpedo-boat de- seroyer has been. ordered of the Fair- field Company at 'Glasgow by the Brit- ish Admiralty, It will bays aspeed of 38 knots„ like the 'express, but evill have forty tons less displacement,. A eritical surgical °perm km was per. formed in London on Friday morning up= Lady Salisbury, wife of the Prime Minister. The operation waa emcees- eal. Six doctors assisted, including Sir William 11. Broadbent, physician in ordinary to the nrinee ot Wales, and. Dr. Chat -lee Theodore Nealliaras. phy- sician extra ordinary to the Queen, Lady Saliebury has long been afflicted with dry. Te ()Moen wee ileme- diately intermit a the remit at the °per:1,1,km. 'UNITED STATES. Fifteen van were aillea by a New 'Thrsee" Vowiler mill explosioa. Major William LI. Moore, for telie Past 12 year superintendeut of police at Waeltiagtori,Is ased. Mre, Marilee M. Placa of New yorlc, emanated of murclering ber etep-claughe ter, has been sentenced to the electric chair. Lieut. Jolla ,r. Lelandin, who was offi. eel, of the (leek on the night the United States battleship Maine was blown ap to Havana narbar, died in a Baltimore basin t al. The steamer Xaiser Wilhelm der Gressa has again broaea the record. be- tweeu Sandy Hook ana the Needles,. hav- ing covered 3146 knots ba five days, aneeteen hours andt thirty-five nain- ;etas, an. average speed. a 2e.56 knots, 1Wrs. George 11. Pullman, in =owl- ance with her intention expressed some time siege, has tiled in the Probate Court at Chicago, her formal renuncia- tion a eenefits wader her late leas. band's will. This is preliminary to making attire to her share ot the estate under her dower rights. GENERAL. Major Comte Ferdinand Itstorhazy, a Dreyfus case fame. and his mistress are under arrest at Paris, It is reported from feh.angleat that a Freneh. priest has beeu captured by brigauds at Slaain-Ching-Pu, who de - amen a heavy ransom tor nis release. Two shipwrecked French fishermen arrived at St. Joan's, Nfld., having been adrift for 22 days in a dory on the Grand Banks, 14 days without food, Prince Alm -led Safeddin of Egypt has been sentenoed to seven years' iraPri- sortraent for trying to marder Prime Fuad. He has been ordered besides to pay over $9,000 for the victim's doe - tore' bill. M. Chauvin, the barber Deputy a the last Parliament who failed. to be re-elected, has excited surprise in Paris by going back to Ids trade and setting up a barber shop is( the Tivoli passage, where he shaves and outs hair himself. The British warship Columbine arriv- ed, at St. John's, Nfld., on Wednesday from a fishery -protection cruise along the French shore, and reports that there is no friction just now between the French and English fishermen on that coast. The British cruiser Cordelia, Commo- dore liourke, sealed from at. John's, Newfoundland, for the French shore to settle a series of dispetes between the owners of British and French lobster factories, A. number of British settlers lave had their huts torn date -n by the crews of warships for illicitly packing lobsters. Bulgaria is going to Wee effective means to inerease its population. For every son born beyond a, minimum number 20 frame will be paid not only to the father, but to the mother also. soldier showing a, dozen sons will re- ceive a pension large enough to sup- port him, and besides a decoration, The same reward will go to his wife. Paris is emulating Chicago. The horse car running from the Champ Elysees to Vatives was held up just outside the city gates by a gang of six men, who, after taking the conductor's starbed' to rob the assene gars. They resisted and two men were shot. The pollee succeeded. in arresting roux of tlae robbers, who were all boys of eighteen years of age. KNOWLEDGE NEEDED. The Ameer of Afghanistan takes great pride in his gun factory at Ka- bul, aver whieb Sir Salters Pyne pre- sides, says an exchauge. He. insists that his khans shall visit it. Amra Khan, who controls a distant mountain region. came in one day, and after seeing the works, asked Sir Sal- ters. Now tell me in words just how you make guns. le is quite easy, replied Pyne. You make a hole first and. then wrap some Iran around it. Ah, said Amra Khan, sorrowfully, there is plenty of air for the hole in ray country, only no one there knows how to wrap the iron around. it. HER HOME-MADE BREAD. Young Man—Doctor, you have been attending me for a week, and. I am worse than. I was at the start. Physician—I will be frank with you, sir. Being unable to discover what was the matter with you, and being amain -- mg to risk inter smug with the aura- tive powers of nature, .1 have given you no raediciate at all. In fact, my treatment has not commenced yet. iBut you have given. me pills right along. They were only a sham. They were made of bread. Where did you get the lerea,d.? • Your young and charming. wife made it. No wonder I ne worse. MANY il3ARS REST. Daughter—Paw, this piano is horri- bly out of tune. Nervous Parent—Y-e-s, ray dear, it is. I guess you'd !niter not play on it any more until it has been tuned. Well, L won't. NI hen will you have it fixed.? Ole in a year or o. CHEAP FARES. To populate the section of country te.rough which the new Siberian Rail- road rune the Russian. Government of- fers the cheapest railroad fares over announced. A. througb ticket for 1,- 200 miles, will' he furnished for $1.50, or, for over 4,000 miles, $3.50. CLOUDED LIFE, Mrs, Bliffers—Your old friend has swat a sad -face. Why is it? Mr. Bliffers—Yeare ago he propos- ed to a, very beautiful girl, and -- Mrs. Bliffers—And She refused him? Mr. Bliffers—Ne. nhemarried han. QtrEEN A MUSICIAN, The Queen of Priumania pinere the organ in the Protestant Church of Ab- bazia, where elm is now staying. She IS teaming to play the flute. note fea data natters/ Of " CaealeneeneenalVeZnan 00, D_ISPPATE ITAVALBATTLE IN WHICH THE AMERICAN AND BRITISH FOUGHT TOGETHER, eren Mood is Tilleiter Titan teeter," Seta the • Anieinetot tapianianeseriptien or the Peteitie ntein —Chinese Treateliery— nwitixtou or WO toratisb. Were Waled suet 'wounded. This is the atory of a naval battle, uotable, not because it was one of the meat, deeperate la modern warfarnbut becauee 11 revealed. as in a flash. of white light, the kindred tie e that bind the two miglaty nations of Anglo -Sax - op. blood. On June 24, 1859, tweaty- one ships of war, the allied, fleets of England. and Frame, rode at anchor in the Gulf of Pe -chi -IL off( the mouth of the Pel -bo River. They lead, come bearing the uewly appointed minis- ters to China wise were to ratify the treaties negotiated in the preceding yeer. According to agreemeat, they were to proceed up the Pei -bo River to Tientsin, where the, &platelets were to receive safe esoort to the imperial eottre at Peltia. Upon their arrival, however, they found that the Chinese had blocked the fairway with booro.s and the sunken bulls of fat old junks and fortified the shores with seveu formidable forts, so that a Captain's gig could not have passed in safety. Admiral Hope of the, British fleet sent? a born ashore arid demanded the in- stant rero.oval of the obstructions. A gigaatio coolie, the officer itt oommand, grovelled and expostulated, but the fairway was not cleared, For such offences England. knows only one remedy. "I will give you until June 25, to open -the river," wrote Admiral Hope. "If the work is riot done' by that time I shall blow up your forts." A bar five miles wide filled the river mouth like the stopper of a bottle, preventing the passage a the larger vessels. On Tune 24. Admiral Hope and the Freneh Commodore marshaled thirteen of their smaller gunboats in line of battle and steamed boldly up the river. While they were preparing ta make a ;demonstration, Capt. Jo- siah Tattnall, flyiag the blue flag of an Asliaairal in the United States Navy, came up across the bar On the unarm- ed. stemner Toey-wan. He had left his flagship, the Powhatan, in the bay out- side. •The allied fleets parted to let him by. His purpose was to demand, instant passage in the name of the President of the United States. When he was almost under the walls of the first fort the plucky little Toey-a-an rammed. her nose into the mud. and HEELED OVER HEAVILY with the falling tide. Capt. Tattnall sent messengers ashore, but they were hardly allowed to land, the gigantic coolie still refusing passage. Admiral Rope now saw the danger of the Am- erican ship, particularly in her ex- posed position under the forts, and he sent the gunboat Plover with his com- pliments to drag her oft But the chain parted and the Toey-wa,n lumina still further on. At this the gallant, Ad- miral despatched another vessel. "Tell the American commander," be said, "to hoist his ensign aboard and keep her as long as he desires." But a favorable wind having arisen, Capt. Tatenall declined the courtesy, and during the night he was able to clear the shoal. Shorely after 2 o'clock on the follow- ing day the allied fleets cleared for action. The gunboat Plover ran up the river under a full head of steam and drove headlong into the first boom. It snapped like a cotton cord, and the Plover spun shuddering into the clear water beyond.. All this tiro.e tne seven grim forts had given no sign. Not a man had shown himself above the ramparts. No flags were displayed, and the gun em- brasures were webbed with matting. The tootle commander had assured the English that the forts were quite empty. Of a sudden, while the Plover was trimming for a plunge at the second boora, the ramparts above swarmed with gunners. An instant later a hundred guns, trained with merciless cunning, blenched out a stream of fire and solid shot. Nearly every ship in the fleet was hit. The little Plover staggered and fluttered, riddled with shot. A. ball carried away a gunner's head and mortally wounded three oth- er men. This was the beginning. The Admir- al drove las little fleet close in where the fire was deadliest and poured broadside after broadside beto the en- emy's forts. But, the Chinese beat their tom-toms and continued to fire frantically. At 5 o'clock two of the British ships had been sunk and four others were aground, hopelessly wrecked. Admiral Hope and three of his Captains were wounded and the Deg bed been twice changed nod now flew from the masthead of the Cor- morant. Capt. Tattnall had seen all this from the bridge of. the Toey-wan. Hie masts had Warmed with seamen, cheering the British gunners, but the law of neutrality forbade any interference. .suriset three smell boats shot, out from =mg- the English ships and made atroes the river in A &roam toti‘ SHOT. I3efore they had gone halt way two boats event down, pierced througbavith all their crews. The third, bringing an English midshipman, ran alongside the Toey-wan, The officer leaped on board and reported that out of a crew of thirty-seven men on the flagehip only six remained, and that Admiral, Hope ley desperately wounded on the quarterecleole—and the little midsbip- man looked wistfully down acrose the bar where the larger ships of the fleet swarmed with reserves. Small boats had put: out, but, owing to tbe swift current and the recedieg tide tbey could not arose the bare "Tell your Admiral," said Capt. ll bring up WS Sbbs trI(A4 $14 Wi Tetuan, "that znereiIetwhe t:oi:LIteithlie:eere lawslel1ftn 4unlmieriu:t $ ; slups v010eit-trlet" being battered to pieces under the went. Tattuall looted -aortae the river 40,1'd13.1ood is thicker than water," he 144.h)104. tIvihiebs teseeor;$, .;13‘Ltb, e„ct endom _ the Amerleana answered elieln bbs tast hweordkr,eve 1.4s vessel across the river ele as,rteolag•Nvalldroppeddeiivereb diheraeoi,butlncfeiaceineartplat th. tbrougle whirlwiad of shot and shell. Tanned wee not yet satisfied with his • "After authoring," he said in bis report. "I thought or the Maitre' arid las chivalrous kindaess to me on the day before; which, from, an unwill- roripnuri;iiiiegdoafleUoditir,a,accitela0u11, hPnhavktillin6lInioisAV't.tays Having' decided that it Was bis duty to oignoyt b haisoxu'estotehem ets, itleendgraeltemingtC:still ri thaudering from the forts. Twenty seamen manned a barge and, ((cootie.' panted by Flag Lieatenant Trench- arclehe was rowed across the shot -swept river. As they approached. the Eng - lisle flagship a Chinese shoe struck one of flee oars, mashed through the boat, and tore its way out below- the water fine. Flying splinters mortally wouncl- ed Coxwain Hart and injured the Flag Lientenaat. The crew scrambled from the sinking barge and were dragged aboard the gunboat, Rein they be- held A. TERRIBLE SCENE of earnage. More than halt the gun - tiers lay dead &ad the decks were slip- pery with blood. While, Capt. Tetuan paid his respects to the British Admire at the Aineriean eearaen, quite eoatrary to orders, sprang to tae British gnus, ramnaed home the shells, end the flagship spoke again to the enemy's fart. The exhausted. gunners set up a wild cheer of approval and with renewed hope, worked side by side with the Americans. On his retura to the Toey-wan Capt. Tattnall called tlee smoke -grimed gem - Imre to aces:mat tor disobeying ora- ers and taking part in actual aostil- iti;seg pardon, sin" said one of them, "they was short-handed at the bow gun, aar6.n sly-5giv'd 'era a help les t And for the first tirae in Capt. Tett- esdervice disobedience went 'un - The Toey-wan now returned to the task of bringing up the British re- serves, continuing far into the night. • At eight o'olock a storming party of 600 marines were landed on the mud- dy shore. They waded three terrible trenches sown with caltrops and cheer- ed half waar up the einbankmeut in the fate of murderous fire of jungals and Mete balls. Hours later 400 of theni came straggling back, a full ot hr Irwounded,a°itheforce having been killed Again the American ship came to the rescue. It gathered. up the inalm- ed, mangled and muddy bodies of the English marines and, with its own dead coxswain •dropped back across the bar in the gray of the early morning. In the meantime Capt. Tattnall had. sent Lieut. Johnson with the Powhatan to the aid of the British ships outside the bar, and all night of the '26t1a he serv- ed under the Union Sack, carrying the defeated marines and wounded sea- men to places of safety. Of 1,850 inen of the allied, fleets who went into action 450 were killed and wounded, including awenty-nine offi- cers. Tn the course of the battle the British. Admiral shifted his flag no fea-er than three taxies, "evincing an indomitable valor," reported Capt. Tattnall, "under very disheartening and ahnost hopeless surroundings." Capt. Tattnalns act was a distinct violation'of neutrality, but the Ameri- can people receive& him on his re- turn from China with honors such as have seldom fallen to an officer of bis rank. enter be was formally thanked by the English Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the naris of her Majesty, and by the Lords Com- missioners of the British Admiralty. "Gallant Americans!" apostrophized a writer at Blackwoodes Magazine. "You and your Admiral did more that day to bind Bnglana and the United States than alayour lawyers and petti- fogging politiciaros have ever done to part use' VISITING A SHRINE. 'cotenant Italy) insoles Visit to tbc Sacred City of Teheran. Mum., a, walled city of Persia, ranks second to Mesbed in sanctity, on ace tount of the famous shrine of Masume, Fatima, sister of the Imam Riza, 0. faraou.s saint of the Mohammedans, While Lieutenant Rawlinson was on his way to Telaeran he heard. much of this sacred city and the glories of the shrine, which, it was said, no European had. ever entered. Death, so rumor whispered, would be the portion of tbe audacious infidel who should be dis- covered -within its precinets. To a young and ardent spirit a dan- gerous adventure is an irresistahle at- traction. Young Rawlins= determ- ined to visit the ,shrine. Disguised as a Persian pilgrim, thousands of wawa, annually journey to the sacred city, he joined the erowd of pilgrims, His knowledge of Persia,a and of the ous- tome at the country enabled him to pass undetected through the temple gates, and to make bis way to the tomb of the saint. The guardian gave him the customary form ot words and ne repeated theme But his curiosity -almost caused his deteetion. Attracted by magnificent sets of steel armor whicli hung on the walls, he was gazing at them, when suddenly he !mind thab he had turned his back upon the sacred shrine where- in the saint was entombed. A tlarill of attain atartled him; but the, discourtesy, impossible to a "eagle believer," had not been noticed. If it had been, there waned probably have beea no ntextber career for the young lieutenant, echo subsequently became the defeat -here(' of Assyrian caul Baby - Ionian itiettriptions and texts, and died the renowned Orientalist, Sir Henry iftawlinaon, • ITEMS QV INTEREST, A raw Pereiteineee 'Mitch Teltil be Wound Welt Wading. Eight thousand. ca rriereeigeona a li welletrained are itt use in the GerMan. army. Nearly all the bread. Wee( by the Chinese is first boiled alai then brown- ed. by baleing. In three years the expense of ran - fling' an Atlanta) steamer, eaceeds the cost of coastruetion. • The buildings, tvalke and oreatnene tatioae of the Paris Rithibition of 1900, will cost V0,000,000, Sheep thrive eeet in a Nature ahem xualee are numerous, The male -bates serve to draiu Lae laud. Sinethe beginning of the present war lobstere have become unaccount- ably scares on the Atlautie °met, It is the habit of Arotio dogs to burrow ander the snow, ourl up in- to the smallest 'possible bulk, and thus sleep. - In the United States regular army, about 25 per cent, are foreigners. itt the navy, 52 per cent, of elm petty offieers, and. 42 per cent. a the men ars are foteign horn The right leg a x. 11, Twirs, of Inde- pendence, games, was amputated four years ago by surgeons. A. few days ago, the surgeon took off his left leg. His age is 7e. Artificial teeth made of paper are furnished by the dentists of Germany. They are very comrortable, retain their color, are much lighter than &bine teeth, and deoidedly low-priced. A novel cure for coneumption, it is said, has been foe some time in use by Dr. S. 13. Murphy, of Chicago. The remedy .consists in the hypoderraio in- jection of pure nitrogen into the lungs, United States war vessels of the fiesteelass ave named after States, those of the second-olass, after rivers, those of the third, after the principal cities anti towns, and those of the fourth, as the President may direct:. Ths tip of the tongue is chiefly sen- sible to pungent, and. iusid taetes, the ratddle portion to sweets or bitters, while tha back is confined entirely to the flavors of' roant meats and fatty substances. Spain is so muole in. need of funds, that any person entering her lades wearing gloves or boots nearly new, must pay a tax on them. This, rule al - SO applies to a hat or necatie which seems new. An early Anglo-Saxon custom, strict- ly followed by newly married conples, wa.s t hat of drinking diluted honey for thirty days after marriage. From this eustom comes the word honeymoon, or honeyeaouth. It costs 25 cents a word to send a • cablegram from New York to London, and 02:35 a word to send it to Manila. In the latter case it -must be receited ancl transmitted a score of times be- fore it reaches as destination. Thin bamboo tubes are fastened. to carrier pigeons in China, to protect them from birds of* prey. When the bird is in raption, the action of the air through the tubes, causes a whist- ling sound, whieb alarms predaceous birds, and keeps them at a respectful distance. The glories of war bad no attractions for Private Mapes, of Co. A., Eleventh Infantry. Whiee at Mobile, Ala., he attempted to secure a discharge by hooting off one of his fingers. Army laws make this a crime, and he has been sentenced to two years' imprison- ment. A humiliating misfortuaa befell a man in Pratt County, Kansas, on his honeymoon trip. He has a wooden leg, and on the train, be was arrested for so -me fraudulent transaction. The of- ficer was considerate enough not to handcuff him, but he preventea the prisoner from running away, by remov- ing his artificial leg and storing it in the baggage car. • A. monastio confederation or Greek Christians has existed. since the twel- fth eentury, in the Peninsula f Acta, in the Grecian Archipelago. The we. federation numbers over '7,000 per- sons, they occupy 23 nionasteries, all built prior to the thirteeneh century, a,nd no female is ever permitted there. Not. even acme-, mare, hen, duck or goose is allowed on the grounds. David Walter, a farmer of Lititz, has a tbrifly wife. On his thirty- eighth birthday, she presented to him a carriage, a gold. watch, a herd of ten Holstein cows, and. 63,000 in cash. Dar - big her fifteen years of married life she had. saved the money which enabled her to raake these presents, and. he knew nothing of her thrift until he re- ceived the gifts. les a strategetical point falba is consid,ered of great inaportanoe by Cap- tain A.. T. Mahan, the naval expert. He says, ''So far as position goes, Cuba has ao possible rival in her tonamand of the Yucatan Passage, just ae she has no competitor, in point of natural strengtb and resources, for the con- trol or the Florida. Strait., which cote. fleets the Gulf of Mexico with the Atlantio." AUGUST iST THE DATE. COM11115;49011 WM "Oct in Sitssebee About That Time. • A. despatch from Washington, D. 0„ says:—Mr, Kasson and ex-Seeretary Sohn W. Foster Jaa,ve returned to Washington to attend a meeting of the committee apaointecl bythe President to meet a. Welsh Commission and treat for the settlement of questions now at issue betweea the United States and the Dominion of Canada. • This meet- ing will be held in the coarse of a, day or two, for although no formal plans have yet beee announced, it is the pax -pose of the majority of the members to basteia the woek 01 pree paraLion, so that the first session with tat( Britisb commissioners may talM place at Quebec about the 1st of Auguste ARE HUGE% FOR FOOD, SOLDIERS AND POOR IN HAVANA IN GREAT DISTRESS. Etillilor Drift* Consulate Clerk Deseeiees the littliVring--Otlieial (Reports !al tike litnalber or Deaths Prima "Marva. Goa at Soven-illoeitade soneetimee Jona. A deepecti from Kingston, Seneca, eanen—Startration and dieease are work- ing dire bavoe wieb Inanco's solitiere in Havana. Refagees from Havaue male - Mg on eloaday by Wee British ((miser Talbot reiterate and confirm the tale of suffering. Food for the, poorer Peo- ple le scarcely obtainable, deaths from starvatioa mow dally, wane the Spell- eoldiere stalk famished through the streets, going from house Lo bailee of the wealthieet ()lasses begging for food - The Talbot took anelaorage ittFart' Ronal, and the paesenaers • were brought up to Kingeten in the dock- yard launch, in an interview with Albert Henderson, an Englishman, and late elerk at the English Ctusul- ate, Havana, he says:— "I arrived at Ila.vana 00. Mar= 9, anct ea elow returning owing to ill - Imelda When the Talbot left Havana manly 6 the town was quiet, and hue Lor the presence of the Spanieb soldiers in the city and. tete Amerloan bleekad- ing fleet outside, one would scarcely have known a war was on. Tbe town is gay, and the ordinary annisemeats still go on; but this serves Merely to veil the real misery arid despair of the people. "Tim condition of the lower classes as :amply fearful. Starred e Pinched faces, etanapeci with hunger and de- spair, are seen on every side, Harems skeletons with their clothes imaging loosely round them prowl about the markets and wharves gathering odds and sada from rubbish aeons to serve as food - SOLDIERS IN RAGS. "The soldiers themselves are 15 lit- tle better plight, The majority are in rags, without boots, uapaid, and bungry. I have seen many come to the English Consulate begging a peseta in order to buy food. They are =half rations now, and. expeot soon to be put en quarter rations. A great deal of fever axed dysentery exists a,t present, and, living as they tire on bad and in- sufficient food, mush eickness must soon prevail. They are utterly dis- heartened, and any fight they make will not be from courage, but despair "The majority of the .soldiers reside in the barracks, but • large numbers are quartered in private houses, scat- tered throughout the city. As an illus- tration of Spain's treatment of her soldiers, I will tell you an incident. The residenee of Mr. Serene°, the pre- sent 13sitish Vire-Consul, is situated in the suburbs of Vidado, three miles out of the city, and directly opposite to the mansion of the Spanish grandee. This Spaniard was requisitioned to give up his house in order that it might be converted into a barracks for troops. He at first refused, but had to give W0. y on an imperative order from Blanco to yield possession, or go to prison. Seven hundred soldiers were quartered there. "en a few days' time there were twenty deaths from dysentery. I saw the bocliest of several unfortunate mea in their raggea regintentale dragged out by . ropes to an adjacent common and left there without baritel for the buzzards to feed on. may is the man- ner in which Spain looks after her dead soldiers. MANY STARVING TO DEATH. "I know it has been dented, that actual starvation exists in Havana and, the British Consul -General has stated such reports to be exaggerated. Be- fore I left Havana I saw an official return in the office of the 13ritish Con- sulate showing an average death rate of seven per day froni actual starva- tion" TO ANNEX PORTO RICO. The nutted states Government Hes De elated to Retain That Island Per. ntanently. A. despatch from. Washington, says : -- Permanent annexation ot Porto Rico to tbe United States is the avowed poliey of the Adixtinistration. What: ever -may be the ultimate disposition of Cuba, the Philippines, the Ladennes, and the Carolinas, Pored Reco is to be held, It is to be made a strong milit- ary and naval station, connaianding the entire West Indies, and controlling the approacaes to the Gulf of allexica, the Caribbean. sea, and the future canal across the isthmus. When the United States undertook to drive Spain from, the Island of Cuba it followed as a logical consequence that the Spanish flag would be swept from every paint in whioh 11 floated in the Western herai. ph ‘re, and, tlasugh some of the inhebi tants of Porto Rico raay not. like the change, there is little doubt they will sooa learn that lbe Government of the 'United States is preferable to that of Srinen. Members of the Pert° Rican anemia New York oily who have been work- ing for the formation of an indepen- dent form of government for the island btxve reeelved 113 Lle • enco arage Men t trona. iM Admen'. anti ea Gene; at N.- itae late agreed to accept the services of Dr. Julio etenta and several other members Of the junta, 8.8 guides and in- terpreters in his coming campaign, but the, Administration has been very care- ful not to make any promises about re- eognizing the junta when Porto Rite baCsolfin. .aldoahnJacob Astor is on his way back from Santiago to Washington. be- ing .the bearer of the terms of capitu- lation agreed upon 1)y the eorianiseion. ere of General Shatter and General Toral. dun adage)' 18 tio1 aneco .os$ eleareaWCee ore ernerfne toNortANT SPANISH. Two-thirds of Spaitns population can neither read nor write, ..........,_„,_.............,___:„... 4.11.4914morolimm,,,„we , odesty I, il Makes thousands Of women seer : of jityriOnlaig, Alld rellaerS life forth 0 a - ' ' i in eating°, rather than tell their 9 ' tr.oubles to auyone, To 00511 ' Indian Wouitues Dalin. is a per, e fed boon. It oures all woinb et`e tiarrojirieless, , aeboorruezehteso inuottealeiglyolideory Qui a ehilel-birth, rialtos weak women e ,Acto -$siest9.-m,,ie,.—ozi,**A.- V PILLS r' FO WEAK PEOPLE' At all Druggists. • Price 60 cents per Bo* or 3 for $1.o. Sent by Mail on receipt oi Mice. T. MILBURN & CO., Toronto. THE . . EXETHES :Et • . A '3,: OF Awry TIMI& & l&Tr & , 01,43141re..)).411-0...134-90leil.:erA45.1,0 i i I . ,.,,t - D 4. o' * . i . ..y-,.. ., • THE DIETZ 6 DRIVING LAIVIR - Is about as near perfection as 50 years X of Lamp -Making can attain to. It b burns kerosene and gives s powerful, 1 clear white light, and will neither blow •" go nor jar Out. When out driving with a a the darkness easily keeps ebout two •' I hundred feet ahead of your smartest horse. When you want the very best ,. Driving Lamp to be had, ask your dealer tor the "Dietz." We issue a special Catalogue of this ' Lamp and. If you ever prowl around, , after nightnall it will interest yen ' , 'Tis mailed free. R. E. DIETz co., i 6o Itaight St., New "York. • Special terms to Canadian customers, a WILL FIGHT TO THE DEATH, Despatebes Front Dm Governors or Dan, intllippines RIO CUM to Madrid, desaatch from Madaid says :—Senor Sagasta land General Correa, Minister , of War, [declare .thiet the latest news from the Philippines is of the /nose favorable character. Geaeral Correa's advices indicate that the insurgentsone now displaying "only a lukewarna hos• - tility towards the Spanish troops," Oeptain-General A.tegusti sends an of- ficial deepatcb, asserting under date ,of Slily 14th, that while the blockade is becoming very strict, the enemy has lost heavily in the several :recent en- gagements, "by which the maiale of the /erne:lean farce has been weakened. and the Spaniards have been greatly encouraged." Tho despatch alleged also that the garrison is ready to fight to the death, and that General Moret e and severe officers who had escaped from IVIatabebe nave arrived there. Cantaiu-General Augusti cowhides as follows :—"Modestly and without • exaggeration, which is contrary to my 1r/ charaoterr, I have described with loyal candour the situation, to which I am e Ira r it my efforts for my, a country and. my King." .An official despatch from Captein- General Blanco announces that the greatest enelatsiasm prevails at Ra - vane, and. the.t the feeling in favor ; rif resisting the Yankees is universal. It further asserts that i he commenders of the volunteer farces at a,coxifer- ence under the presidency of Gleam -al Arolas, Military Governor of Havana, resolved to "exhaust their .resources. and' die rather than surrender." The American wee -ships, the despatch says, are off Man zenith): -apparent] y a wa it- irtg instructions, but the bombardment he snot bora resumed. 1, 1?03C Infants and Children, 71:0 04 dgatture 144, 0I0l1 01 ltrappOr. WALKING LIZA.RDS, The remarkable "frilled lizard" of Australia, which rens ,about ;cm its , hinds lege in a partially erect attitude, , has beeni often written about. It •, is now asserterl that; some other ards practise the salmi manner of lo- comotion, A resident, of the West Indies in a letter published by Nature, avers that all the lizards in that part of the world, inoluding even the tree iguana which attains a leagth of five feet, run ereee on their hind legs sviirrt hurried. It le suggested that these animals may have desoended from some remote aneestor la the Age rit the Great Reptiles, which was able to walk and run on its hind lega; bat the sight-, of one at the monsters of those days in such an altitude whorl jiava insPire ed more terror than arausemeat,