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The Huron News-Record, 1889-12-25, Page 2• pros; axa wo- vas. le newsmen. EV017 Wednesday Morning —I8 -- • A•E r KIR POWER PRESS P INTINO HOUSE, Ontario titre Clinton. $1.50 a Year -$1.e5 in Advance. The.peprietot•sol' TUE Gomm i0n NEW s, having parhasod the business and plant of THE Hull , REcoltli, will in future nblish the ams gamated papers in Clinton, oder the title of "T1E HURON NEWS - RECORD." Clinton is the most prosperous town in Western Ontario, is the seat of considerable manufacturing, and the centro of the finest grieultural section in Ontario. The combined circulation of TUE NEWS - RECORD exceeds that of any paper pub- lished in the County of Huron. It is, therefore, unsurpassed as an advertising medium. tiY'Rates of advertising liberal, and furnished on application. tarParties making contracts for a speci- fied tune, who discontinue their advertise- ment, before the expiry of the same, will oe charged full rates. 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Ont The Huron News -Record $1.te a Year -$1.-85 in Advance. tar The ,Ran does not..do justi a to his business alto spends leas in advertisingthan he does in ,,...: 'rent.—A. T. Srswea•r, the rniiooetaire merchant j Nes York. .a; aG Wednesday. Dec. 25th 1889 DEATH IN THE DANCE.- - THE EVANGELISTS' SWEEPING CON- DEMNATION. After prayer and singing of the opening hymns, Mr. Hunter first took up the subjects in his own peculiar way. He said : "There are five things which commence D which I want you to avoid. Che first is death -eternal death. The second dirt, and the third rink. This 'is au awful D. I tvouldu't bay 5 cents' worth from any man who sells liquid damna- tion, be he a grocer or anything else. If you spell " murder" backward you will get " red rum." The next D is the dance, and the last the devil., I will speak of the parlor dance only. Balls are out of the question, because no girl or wotnan who values her character would be seen at one of these. Girls allow „young men whom they wouldn't speak to on the stteet to hug them by the hour at a public ball. I wouldn't marry a girl who has been dancing ten years. Drink is one of the accompaniments of balls. You ladies, watch these fellows at a dance with one glass in their eye, who come into the ballroom smell- ing of cloves • they have eaten to .'ieguiso their breath so that it wo'lldn't knock you .down when ey come near you. These- spider- oged dudes are all dancing leen. Girls, never give your hand in rnar- riago to one of those fellows. Mothers send their innocent daugh- ters to lecherous dancing masters to be taught, I would as soon eeo the arms of an orangoutang around my wife's or sister's waist as the artns of one of those lecherous dancing masters. God have mercy upon a ore girl who makes a habit of o' g to balls! Yoh have heard of bachdlbi•s' balls. About the only time these men can come into cjn- tact with a pure girl is at a bachelors' ball. Yet you mothers let your daughters go to these travelers' and Masonic and bache- lor's balls. Now I will give you some Bible reasons why the sexes should not dance together. There is no mention auywhoro in the Bible of sexual dancing. The heath- ens and savages don't do it. You have to come to Christendom to find it practiced. Dancing even in your own parlors tends to late hours, to distraction from prayer and Christian practices, and is unbecom- ing in true Christians. But, some people say, the Bible says, "Tharp ie a time to dance." Now, if there is a time to dance I want to find out about it so I can dance. But when I examine all the instances gidon •of dancing in the Bible, I find that they were an expression of 'o in which the sexes did not come her: David danced before the with all his might. In the is it is enjoined to praise the in the dance, and so on. In g, I would say flint the duty of a flue •Christian is to avoid every- thing that 'night lead to evil, and danciug lots proved, beyond doubt to be of evil teudeucy." - Later on in the servile Mr.Cross- ley took up the subject, taking as 'his text : •' Cousider what I say, and the Lord give thee understand- ing in all things " (II. Timothy, ii., 10). " In years gone by 1 danced," he said, " but gave it up for the 6ar ae reason that I gave up the ab nnivable, sickish kissing games. I didn't wish to take liberties with other men's sisters that I didu't wish to bo taken with mine. One excuse frequently given for dancing is, 'What are we to do iu society if we don't dance 1' To such people 1 would say, Get more ilraius a\ud more accomplishments, and then you will not have to depend upon your heels for amusement. Christ- ians have uo disposition to spend their time in dancing, The love of Christianity drives away love of the dance. If I considered it right to place my arwnaround a lady's waist iu the dance, I would consider it right to do so in the promenade. Yet if 1 did so she, would likely slap my • face before we had gone two paces -and you wouldn't re- spect her if she didn't. Dance alone or. with your 'own sex as much a, you like. But you know that the attraction of dancing is not in the dance itself. When I was a dancer, to dance with gentlemen seemed to me like eating an egg without salt. The pleasure is in certain adjuncts of the dance, and I leave you to think what they are. All churches condemn daucing, be- cause it is the known cause of the ruin of thousands, body and soul. A VERY CURIOUS CASE. ST. CATHERINES JOURNAL. The following curious story was related to ars yesterday, and coming from a gentleman of undoubted re- liability in this city there is not a shadow of reason to doubt its ac- curacy; Without mentioning names, we may state that several weeks ago our informant says that, while in bed, towards morning himself and wife were awakened by the cries of their son, a little fellow between five and six years of age, who occupied a crib in their bedroom. On being asked what was the matter, the little fellow replied, "Oh, pa, Mrs. —'s baby is dead. I just•eaw it dead." On being told to go to 41Q.ep; he re- peated the statetnent, with the words "but I -saw it dead. I did,• sure." The little fellow afterwards went to sleep and nothing more was though t of the affair until that evening, when the notice of the death of the baby, to whom the child referred, appeared in the Journal. The Mtrangest part of the story lies in the fact that the home of the dead baby is over a dozed miles froin this city the little iloy,had not seen any of thIltfamily referred to for several weeks, nor did they .evepp-•know their baby was sick, be- cause it became suddenly 80, and was. dead when the child spoke. • Here is a nut for scientists to crack. -At the Division Court in Stratford, last week, before His Honor Judge Woods, Dr. J: G. Yemen sued Mrs. Deo. Rennie, of Milverton, for $15.00, the price of a set of teeth. It appears that Mrs. Rennie had her teeth extracted by Dr. Ahrens, when he was at Milver- ton,, some time before. Hor gulps being healed, she carne in to get the impression taken, and her new teeth made. On arriving' in the city site went by mistake to Dr. ..Yemen's office, and getting the impression taken, gave an order for a $15 set of•teeth. She never went back to Dr. Yemen, and ho brought suit to recover the cost of the tooth. After hearing the circumstances Dr. Yemen consented to throw off $5 of the amount of ,the claim, and the Judge gave judgment in his favor for $1q. -Solve days ago, a stranger arrived at Mr. Noali Z,avitz's place, Yarmouth township, Co. Middlesex, and proceeded to show his wire clothes -line. Mr. Zavitz said he did not want any, but the agent said ho was going to string some at his place anyway, so that the neighboring farmers could come around and see for themselves. After stringing the wire the agent presented a paper for Mr, Zavitz to sign, stating that it was a certificate that the wire was strung on, his premises. Mr. Zavitz signed this paper, and three days after another roan cattle along with some 3,000 fent of wird clothesline, which he said ?'fr. Zavitz had ordered. 11'Ir. Zavitz protested that he had not ordered the wire and would not pay for it, but the second stranger said he had, and ho ivould leave the wire and snake him pay for it, pro ducing an order which Mr. Zavitz had signed, agreeing to purchase 3,000 feet of wire per month for 12 months, at five cents per foot, or $1,800 for the whole order. The wire is said to bo worth about a quarter of a cent per foot. Mr. Zavitz consulted a solicitor, ivho advised him to fight the claim, but he evidently thought the easiest way was the best, and settled the claim with the wire men by paying thorn $135 in hard' cash. Father WeSi'ta in vel said Sptt'r- ious 'Version o the -Cum- powder °tete." Editor 11'eevs-Recur(l. SIR,—Before 1 peoee.•ei to'll•eview Father West's "Romance of the Gun• powder Plot" allow me to notice briefly the introduction to his letter in your issue of the 4th. that. He says :—"You have admitted that Catholic (Annan) laymen were per- secuted in Elizai•eth'a reign. You must also admit, that Elizabeth pass, ed penal laws eleven years before the Popeeexcommunicated be:, and that after the passing of these tyrannical laws it was upwards of twenty years when the Seminary - priests and twenty two yearn when, the Jesuits first appear(' in England." This might be aQmitted without weaken- ing the force of*our argument or ad- vantage to your opponent. I pre. surae he thinks the alleged tyranni- cal laws were uncalled tor, but if we consider that the Pope had refused to acknowledge Elizabeth's right to the crown and claimed for hi•nself tempurul and spiritual supremacy in England we must couclud that such ,lgyele, were necessary to withstand his arrogant pretensions and secure the stability of her throne. The question is not, were there any penal laws before the arrival of the Semi- nary priests and the Jesuits but was the death penalty for the violation of those laws enforced before Pope Pins 5. excommunicated Elizabeth in 1570 ? I leave the answer to Father Wast. Probably your readers would like to know something about "Bothwell" who supplied Father West with his facts of the "Gunpowder Plot " I am clad to he able to give the desired information. He is the Jesuit Father McKeon of Strathroy, who in Nov. 1855 -wrote a letter to the London "Free Press," using the name Both- well, where he then lived, anis giving a novel and spurious version of the plot which Father West copies verba tint witholding the writer's real name fort► reason best known to himself. 'l'o show Bothwell's total disregard for truth I give an extract from my first letter to Father Flannery, in the "Goderich Star" of Sep. 20th. "Dr. Littledale, an English divine fo the present day,says :—"No state ment however precise and circum- stantial; no reference to authorities, however seemingly frank ani clear, to be heard from a living contro- versialist or to be found in a Roman controversial book can be taken on trust nor accepted, indeed, without rigorous search and verification." I confess that I was slow to believe this sweeping charge until I saw it confirmed, a few years ago in a con- troversy on "Church Lotteries". be. tw'en the Rev. W. J. Taylor, C. E. Minister, then of Wardsville, now of Mitchell, and the Rev. A. McKeon, R. C. priest, then of .Bothwell, now of Strathroy. The latter stated, in one of his letters, that "a learned Presby terian, named McLeod, said to him,— "I would not believe Mr. Taylor on oafh." When challenged to produce Mr. McLeod; in propria persona he acted the Jesuit in perfection. He offered to bring him to Parkhill if his (McLeod') expenses were paid. Why not to Bothwell where the slan- der was fabricated,and published or to Wardsville and present him to Mr. Taylor ? 'ile could do neither, for Mr. McLeod, tha alleged "learned Presbyterian" was not in existence ; but he could easily find a brother Jesuit, unknown at Parkhill, to per- sonate McLeod, for Jesuits have a dispensation from their Provincial General to assume any name and any disguise they please, even to pro- fess the Protestant religion among Protestants, so that if asked "What is your religion ?" he could answer "Presbyterian," and if necessary swear to it. Father McKeon did not produce his informant and the peo- ple were satisfied that his statement was false. ft is evident that his object was to blacken his opponent's charaoter and destroy his usefulness as a Christian Minister. But his ac- tion was in accordance with the Jesuit principle, "tile end justifies the means," the end being to blast Mr. 'Taylor's fair fame and the means a wilful and deliberate,lie. And this is Father West's second champion. With such truthful and invinci- ible allies as Cobbett and Bothwell surely his"position is impregnable." I have never since accepted a Romish priest's controversial statement with• out "rigorous search and verifica- tion," and Father'West's reckless assertions need the closest scrutiny. Bothwell and his servile pupil deny that the " Catholic (Roman) Church " had anything to do with the Gunpowder Plot. "Deny eyerys thing and admit nothing" is a Romish maxim. Authentic history shows that the conspirators were all devot ed sons of " Mother Church," who bound themselves by oath and the sacrament to destroy Kings, lords and commons. The bull of Pope Pius 5. excommunicating Queen Elizabeth was'renewed against ,Tames I. which made it lawful and meritorious, ac- cording to the teaching of the Church of Rome, to put him to death, and mane that Church responsible for the plot. Bothwell boldly asks, " What man of note, then, ailed and abetted that execrable conspiracy ? Ane—" Sir Robert Cecil, a Puritan, who was then Pane Minister of Eng- land" (Reeve hist. p. 505). " What man of note detected and frustrated Witt conspiracy? A ns --"Lord Mont- eagle a Catholic peer" (Appleton Cycl,vol. 7. p. 100.) I willingly adrnit tli,,t Lord Montengle, while Ignorant of the nature of the danger, was in- rAtrumental in detecting and frustrat, ing the diabolical scheme, but main- tain that Sir Robert, Cecil neither aided dor abetted it. Bearing in mind Dr. l.ittledafe's caution, your readers should pause before accept. ing Bothwell'a quotation froin Reeve, contrary to the standard authorities of the past and present centuries, who agree in ascribing the plot to Catesby anis his nr.complices, all Romanists. garnet, the Jesuit, was a renowned casuist. Some Roman - late app;ied to hint to solve a nice case of conscience; "Whether for the sake of pronlating the Gatho-' lie religion it might be permitted, should necessity require, to involve the innocent is the same destruo. Oen with the guilty 2 To this he replied, " that if the guilty should constitute the greater number it relight." This answer led to the Gunpowder Plot. The Romanists had now two plots in hand. The one they called " the Main," the other " the Bye." The Jesuit Watson took" part in ''the Main." It was to mur- der James iu one of his hunting part• ies. They found they could not effect their object from want of numbers. " Much altercation ensued, and the design was abandoned as impracti- cable" (Lingard, a Rowan priest, [list. of Eng.) Robert Catesby de- vised the hellish scheme of blowing up the King and Parliament by gun- powder. Ile first opened his mind. to Winter, who was shocked, but Catesby overcame his scruples. Winter hastened to Ostend, where he met Guy Fawkes, who had studied at Douay. They communicated their designs to several.others, and ex- horted each other to hazard their lives, like the Maccabees„ for the liberation of their brethren `(Lingard). Catesby proposed the case to Garnet, who began to quake and falter. "The explosion presented itself to his imagination ; it disabled him from performing his missionary duties by day ; it haunted him by night " (Lingard). But he was too deeply engaged to divulge the scheme. The warning letter to Lord Monteagle prevented the destruction. The mine was discovered. Fawkes was there with his dark lantern. Garnet was tried and oxeeuted." He sc. knowledged that he had heard of the plot in confession, but amongst Catholics the secrecy of confession was inviolable " (Lingard). The Flo - man Catholic historian does not men- tion Sir Robert Cecil, Bothwell's Puritan, in connection with the plots It is not necessary to occupy your space with many quotations. One or two more will'sufffce.—" On the accession of James, great expects. tions had been formed by the Catho- lics that be would prove favorable to their religion, but their hopes were disappointed. lie expressed his in. tention of executing strictly the laws against them. A plan of re- venge was:now, therefore, thought of by Catesby. All the conspirators were bound by secrecy, by the most solemn oaths, accompanied with the sacrament" (London Encycl. vol. 10. p, 395) On the rack Guy Fawkes trade a confession, in which he nam- ed his accodrplices, among whom we do not find Sir Robert Cecil, the Puritan and chief conspirator accord- ing to the veracious Bothwell, Fawkes would have been glad to implicate a Protestant of note in the plot had he any ground for doing so. There is good reason for believing that Cecil was not a puritan, for if he was, the King, who hated the Puritans would not have made him Prime Minister, and raised him to the highest rank but one in the peerage. Father West is unfortunate in select- ing Bothwell, a convicted liar and slanderer, as his guide, counsellor, and friend. Collier, the historian says :—The discontent of the Catho- lics, when they found that James bad no intention of overthrowing the Protestant religion in England took a terrible shape. They resolved to blow up the King, Lords and Com- mons, by gunpowder. Robert Cates - by and Everard Digby were the chief conspirators. For eighteen months the preparations went on ; and al• though many were in the secret, no breath of it seems to have got abroad. A cellar beneath the house of Lords was hired ; thirtysix barrels of gum. ,powder were placed there; coals and sticks were strewed over these ; and the doors were then thrown boldly open. Still no detection. Only a few days before the appointed time, Lord Monteagle received an oniony.. •mous letter warning -him not to attend the opening of Parliament. The mysterious words were,—" The Parliament shall receive a terrible Wow, and shall not see from whose hand it comes•" The letter was laid before the Council,, and the king was the first to guess that gunpowder was meant. On searching the vaults, a Spanish officer Guy Fawkes, was found pre- paring the matches for the following morning. 'l'he rest of the conspira- tors fled into the country, where moat of them were cut to pieces fighting desperately" ([Iist. of the Brit. Empire p. 204). When Lingard and Collier, and other standard historians give the minute details of the Gunpowder Plot without implicating Sir Robert Cecil we may safely conclude that he was not an accomplice in the infernal scheme, much less the chief conspirator, according to Bothwell. It is too late for two obscure Ro. mish priests, without reliable author- ity, to shield their guilty co'relgioh. ists by accusing the Puritans of a crime in which they had neither act nor part. Bothwell's fictitious narrative, ac, cepted and recommended by Father West, will not he believed, in the last quarter of the nineteenth •cen- tury. by enlightened students of British history. I shall, with your ,permission, Mr: Editor, try my band at Father West's valedictory, next week. Yours faithfully 'I'irOS. ARMSTRONG, Goderich, ec. 14, 1:389. —On Friday last the remains of a man were found in tlio woods ahont a mile from Newbury, Mid- dlesex Co. On inquiry the body was found to be that, of a Mr. La - count, living near Rothwell. Ills horses were found a short instance froin where ho lay, having become tangled in the harness and kicked themselves to death. Lacount left home on Saturday, the 7th inst., and it is supposed on returning home his horeee wandered into the woods where he was thrown out and his neck broken. iso leaves a wife and and large family. THE IRRESISIBLE YEARN• INC A YOUNG CIil0A00 MAN WHO FAILED TO CATCH ON. "I t ul not in the habit. of smokiug Miss Chipperiy," said the youup man gallautly, "hut when a lady asks me to join her in u cigarette 1 cert - cannot refuse. 'Thank you. You were saying (puff)—" ' "I was spa akiug,Mr. Peduncle, of the false standards of (puff)civil- izatiou and refiueuleut that prevail in society. 'Too Much alteution is paid to externals. "It is true," respouded the young mall. "Our modern- society (puff) is in many respects a Iuer'e outside show, with nothing but hollow I'ortus and uteaniugless (puff) cou- veutionalities within. " It is this," said Mias Chipper- ly, speakiug with great earuestuess, "that prompts rue (puff) to defy the arbitrary and unreasonable ex• actions and impoeitious that aelt'- 01108e0 leaders of society prescribe for my guidance. Who made then' to be the judge of what is right and kwroug (putt'), proper or improper, good form or bad form 1 The in- dependent -soul spurns the shackles of (puff) a false creed of manners and forms and dares to stand up- right in its owu'uative strength of manhood and womanhood! 0, Mr. Peduncle !" she exclaimed, clasp- ing her hands excitedly, " have you never felt an irresistible im- pulse, a stern and relentless inward monitor, a 'deep and unconquerable yearning to go forth into the world and lay bare your whole soul—" " Miss Cilipperly," replied the youth, rising unsteadily to his feet! pale as a sheet, and Ringing, with a nervous, trembling hand, his cigarette into the fireplace, "I have, I -1 -vow -I think I feel it prompting me this moment! 1G -good evening !" . And with frantic haste Oliver Peduncle rushed forth into a cold, hollow, heartless, jeering world, in obedience to one of the mightiest impulses, one of the most relentless, unconquerable, irresistible yearn- ings that ever stirred the inmost soul of mortal 'man ! HOW NICKEL IS GOT In the Copper Cliff Mine, near Sudbury, Ontario,it is said, more nickel is being produced than the entire market of the world calls for, at current prices. A little branch railway off the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, four miles in length, leads out to the urine, which opens into the face of a crag of the brown, oxidized Laurentian rock character- istic of this region. The miners• are now .at work at a depth of about three hundred feet below the sur- face. As fast as the nickel aud""copper- bearing rock is hoisted out it is, broken up and piled upon long beds, or ricks of pine -wood, to be calcined, or roasted, for the pur- pose of driving out the sulpher which it contains. The roasting process is of the nature of lime -kilning, or charcoal - burning. Each great bed of ore requires from one to two months to roast. When roasted the rock goes to 'the' principal smelter, a powerful blast furnace, "jacketed "-in mitr- ing phrase -with ruuding water, to unable it to sustain the great heat requisite to reduce crude, ob- durate mineral to fluidity. The dross of the molten mass is first -allowed to fo,w off, and after- ward the nearly pure nickel and copper, blended together in an alloy -called the " n. %t/' . matte, is drawn off, at the base Of the fur trace -vat into barrow -pots, and wheeled away, still' liquid and fiery hot, to cool in the'yard of the smel- ter. The mat contains about"seven- ty per cent, of nickel, the remain- ing thirty per cent. being mainly copper. When cool, the conical pot'loaves of mat can easily be cracked in pieces by means of heavy hammers, Tho fragnie,nts are then packed in' parcels and shipped to Swansea in Wales and to Germany, where the two constituent metals aro separated and refined by .secret processes which aro very jealously .guarded by the manufacturers. So' jealously is the, secret kept that no 'one in America has yet been able to learn the process, although one young metallurgist spent three years at Swansea, vorking as a com- mon laborer in the refining factor - in order,to procure it. • At present there aro produced daily at the Copper Cliff Mine about ninety pot -loaves of mat, each weighing near four hundred and fifty pounds, an output which yialds an aggregate of lilore than four thousand tone of nickel a year. -&chanfle. -Tho three-year old record has been broken by CelestieThird,ownod by Powell Bros., of Newburgh,N,Y,, a Holstein heifer three years old. She gave 107 pounds in 24 hours. 714 pounds in seven days over 3,000 pounds in one month. MYR AS YOU LIKE IT. —The new Mayor of Birmingham, at a meeting of the L)iocessan 'Church of England Temperance Society, said that from inquiries he had wade at Somerset House he found that out of 65'8 shareholders in local breweries 115 (or more than osixth) were clergymen and W O'uenn.e -The New York Journal says that girls engaged to be married, and woman after marriage, are expected 10 wear tinge to wake the fact appar- ent to all, while nothine of the Hort is required of men. It sugges"te' a ring tor men and would even sdvo. cute a law to compel them to wear our,. It mentions the finger as the place, but would not object to the 12091. ate —President Harrison lore trnus- witted to the Senate the Ex. tradition Treaty with England re, ferred to iu his annual message. By its terms the number of extraditable offences is largely increased, the most important addition being that of embezzlement, so that if the treaty be ratified Canada and the United States will ceasd to exchange a class of undesirable residents who have hither to Hecuryd hue muity front punishment. —ln 1611 an English gentleman travelling in Italy made title entry in hie journal :-"I observe a cus- tom not used in any other germ. try. They uses a little fork when they cut their meat." He purchase ed one and carried it to England, but, when lie used it, was so ridicu-- ed by his friende that lie wrote in his diary, '-Master Lawrence Whi- taker, my family friend, called me i+urcifer for using a fork at feeding.' The little two -tined article of table furniture brought about a fierce dis- mission. It was regtrted as an in. novation, unwarranted by the cuss toms of society. Ministers, preach- ed against its use. One minister maintained that, as the Creator had given men thumbs and fingers, it was an insult to Almighty God to use a fork. -Dr. Dorchester, in Christian Advocate. -It is reported that the Jesuits will be expelled from Brazil, and. that their houses and lands will be sold. They own extensive tracts of the best land in Brazil. -Wm. McIntosh was fined $50 and costs or three months' imprison- ment for throwing stones at the Archbishop Walsh during the even• ing of the reception tendered that dignitary in Toronto, —New York Press :-Erastus Wittier, declares that fully$100,000,- 000 of English gold has cove to this country for investment in the past two yearn. Accepting bis figures as correct what a fine Gorse pliment the English free traders are paying to our protective system. -Laat week W. Fred Pettit was arrested at Columbus, Ohio, charged ith murdering his wife, who ad suddenly on July 17, her death causing a suspicion of strychnine poisoning. Her remains were interred at West Monroe, N. Y. On Nov. 23 her body was ex, hunted and an analysis of the stom- ach and liver was made, which show- ed a large quantity of poison. Pettit was formerly a Methodist minister, • ' He is a grand prelate of the grand • cerumandery of Indiana Knights Templar, and a 32 ° Mason. Ho will be brought to trial. -Henry Searle,' the champion oarsman, is dead. He was very ill with typhoid fever when the ship on which he sailed from England reached Australia, and in spite of all that wealth and anxioup care could do the disease resulted fatally. Searle's rise to fame was rapid i iU 1888 lie rowed his first race in a than boat, and in 1889'•lie was the . champion of the world. Searle was born at Grafton,^on the Clarence • river in New South `Vale's, 23 years sago, and when he sailed for home after winning the championship he fully expected to row another race in defence of his title within the next -few months. -Rev. Wm. H. 'Ramscjer, who keeps an alleged "home" for aged men, in Now Yprk, was placed on trial on the 'charge sof brutal- ly clubbing ono of the inmates; John Laverty, aged 72 years, ' The ,jury convicted Ramscar •of assault in the -third degree, and he was re:- mended e=mended for sentence. He may get a'year's imprisonment or u fine of $500, or both. =A case of premature burial has developed in Wisconsin. A month - ago diphtheria appteared in the home of "a prominent family. A young domestic was terribly fright- ened and desired to go to her home in the country. • The attending physican would not permit this, as her assistance was needed by the family. A child died of the dis- ease, and this with the horror•of the disease, caused the girl to take to her .bed. She apparently died in a. few hours, and -was at once buried by the authorities. A few days ago her parents obtained per- mission to remove the body to the country. Upon opening the casket they discovered the body was lying on its face and the hair was wrench- ed from the head, and the flesh torn from the face and hands.