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The Huron News-Record, 1891-09-02, Page 7lotion AF Cod Liver 011 AND'rH( Hypopbosphites of Lime and Soda. No other Emulsion is so easy to take. It does not separate nor spoil. It is always sweet as create. The most sensitive stomach can retain it. CURES Scrofulous and Wasting Diseases. Chronic Cough. Loss of Appetite. Mental and Nervous Prostration. General Debility, &c. Beware of all imitations, Ask for "the D. & L." -Emulsion, and refuse all others. PRICE 60C. AND $1 PER EOTTL=. I The Huron News -Record $1.50 a Year -51.26 in .Advance Wednesday, Sept. 2nd, 1891. RECALLED BY DEATH. A SCOTCH VERDICT. The death at Lord Glencorse, bet- ter known as Lorci Inglis, Lord Justice General of Sootlaud, which was announced last week, recalls one of the most notable criminal trials of the country. The dead jurist was a noble and historic figure. The friend of Scott and Lockhart, and of Chambers and Blackie, he was as much at home in letters as in law. It ie, however, as John Inglis, of Glencorse, advocate and Queen's counsellor, that he will live in story, having earned his title to fame by his brilliant and suecese• ful defense of the young and beauti- ful Madeleine Smith, in her trial for the murder of her lover, Pierre Emily L'Anglier. Bracketed with the Yelverton and Tichborne cases in the history of British jurisprudence, the story of the lovely Scotch girl's trial is un - approached and unsurpassed in sen- eational and ; ronianTic inclda ni Even the passage of time has FAILED TO ROB IT OF ITS INTEREST. The details of the L'Auglier-Stnith tragedy are as fresh and vivid in the mind of the English -reading public to day as they were thirty- four years ago, when the world waited tiptoed for the verdict that was to give freedom to a young and accomplished maiden or consign her to a shameful death on the scaffold. The details of the famous trial here given were learned yesterday from a former resident of Glasgow by a reporter for The Inter Ocean., Madeleine Smith was the daugh• ter of one of Glasgow's most pro- minent physicians. Her family was among the best in Scotland. Wealth, proud lineage, beauty, and talent formed the heritage of the doctor's daughter. The family mansion stood in Blythswood Square, the moat aristocratic part of Glasgow. Perched high up on the famous Garnet Hill, close to the world - famed University of Kelvin Grove, the residence commanded a splen- did view of the glorious Clyde as it swept on amid lovely groves and fertile meadows an i hundreds of beauteous islets in its silvery course toward the sea. Madeleine, the only daughter, was the pride and hope of her I'aini• ly. Gifted and beautiful, her friends predicted for her a career of unparalleled social triumph. The father did everything within the reach of wealth and position to equip the clild for a HIGH PLACE IN THE ARISTOCRATIC WORLD. The best of masters were at her command from her earliest child - flood and no pains were spared in development and culture of her rare physical mental endowments. When only sixteen Madeleine Smith was regarded as the moat beautiful girl in the famous city by the Clyde. This was in the earlier part of 1856. She was then attending a first-class female college in the neighborhood of the university. Her walk every" morning lay through the picturesque walk of Kelvin Grove. Here, in her going and returning from school, the romantic girl was wont to linger amid the floral terraces and to watch the fountains play, or to read a book in one of the numerous arbors and grottos in which tho park abounds. tff`abfi if '' "I 9, while looking at the principal foun- tain as the eun of an early spring day danced in. its .silvery jets, a book, oaralesely held, dropped into the basin. A young man who chanced to bo passing recovered it and banded it.to the blushing girl. The yoqug man was a dry goode clerk named Pierre Emile L'Anglier. He arae tall, Blender, and noble look- ing, and notwithstanding bis hunt • ble avocation had patrician blood in his veins. His father belonged to one of the best families of Feria, and was forced to fly from France during the troubles of 1848. THE AOOIDENTAL MEETING of the young people was the old story of love at first sight. Both were young, educated, and romantic, and the simple incident at the foun- tain became the first chapter in the story of a delirious passion. Every morning and evening thenceforward they managed to come together clandestinely. Un- der the plea of visiting friends Madeleine managed to elude the surveillance of her family. Ex- cursions were made to the Falls of the Clyde and along the beautiful shores of Loch Lomond. Pilgrim- ages were also made to historic Ayrshire and amid the banks and braes of bonnie DooD, in a spot made sacred to love by the lyre of Burns, the troth of the French youth and the lovely Scotch maiden was plighted. When they could not be together they spoke to one another through the medium of letters. Afterward, when the love- ly girl stood in a felon's dock, the reading of those letters disclosed one of the most romantic love Ptories that the world has ever listened to. Among other things, unfortunately, they proclaimed that the par•sion of Madeleine Smith and Pierre L'Aug- lier was a guilty one. Whatever the cause, after a year, had passed over, there was h rep turn between the young people. Sorne assigned jealousy, others r'e• mune, and a few people mutual dis- like as the reason. Neither theory was satisfactory. The cause of the disagreeneut is still wrapped in mystery. MADELEINE MADE EVERY EFFORT to recover her letters, but in vain. She threatened, but still the young dry goods clerk was unyielding. Finally she made up friends—her enemies say insincerely and acting on the advice of her family—and at- tempted to obtain by casing and a show of love what she had failed to obtain by sterner methods. Meantime the girl's liaison had be come known to her parents, who forbade her to see the young French man. About this tittle, too, a pro rninent young architect named Marvin nought the hand of the doc- t or.'s._beau ti:i u 1 daughter-- �._ _- _- _...__,. During the early summer of 1875 the young people continued to meet surreputiously. The girl's parents were at a fashionable watering place called lieleusburg. Madeleine and Pierre met in the evenings at Dr. Smith's residence, in Blythawood square. Ono night, just before parting, the girl handed her lover a cup of chocolate. It was given him through a window, L'Anglier standing on the grass plat outside while he talked to Madeleine inside the window. This incident was witnessed by the domestics. NEXT MORNING PIERRE L'ANGLIER WAS DEAD. An inquest disclosed that he had died of arsenical poisoning. The girl's letters were found in his trunk. Scotland was thrown intoa state of ferment by the arrest of the aristocratic physician's daughter on a charge of wilful murder. The trial was one of the most sensational and dramatic on record. The highest legal talent was engag- ed. The late Load Delta led the prosecution. THE LATE LORD GLENCORSE, whose death recalls the story of the trial, was chief couneel for the defense. The most fomous medical experts .were examined. Among them was Sir Robert Christison, the famous poison authority, who was the first to discover the anaesthetic properties of cocaine. It was on the trial, dur- ing cross-examination, that Sir Robert swore that he wrs acquaint• ed with an alkaline poison, a very small quantity of which would pro- duce instant death without leaving any trace that could be discovered by the most skillful expert. The presiding judge abjured the Doctor never to reveal the oomposi• tion of the poison. The secret was never divulged by Sir Robert. The testimony in the case was as contradictory as it was sensational. The theory of the prooecution was that Madeleine Smith had tired of her guilty love and wished to si- lence forever the man whe could publish her shame. The defence was similar in many particulars to that set up in the recent Maybrick case. Advocate Inglis was able to prove that the dead man had been sick on two previous occasions, con- fessedly from arsenic taken for medicinal purposes. The arsenic found in Mies Smith's room tvae sworn to have been for toilet nee. There was' also some contradictory e wearing, asap •[hozprecise. ght.on.. whioh the cup of chocolate was given to L'Anglier. Witnesses could not agree whether it was ono, w or three eights before, his: death. T$& JURY was ownsaD. The counsel for the defense .wade goon nee of this confusion. Lord Inglis concluded a masterly speech by saying : "Gentlemen of the jury, I will demand of you that Which I shall not condescend to beg—I demand justice. Your judgment will be neither just nor true unless it leaves calm and un - vexed the tenderest conscience among you." The verdict was one of '"not proven," whioh in many respects is akin to a disagreement in this country. The trial lasted eleven days, an unusually long time for a criminal trial in Great Britain. Its result was differently received by different persons. When Miae Smith firat ap- peared in public after her release her carriage waaatoned by the populace. On the other hand she was at once restored to her social status and soon married happily. She is still living and has reared a large and interesting family. The story of the tragedy in which she figured thirty-four years ago continues to be numbered anioug the mysteries of romance. FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH. THE STORY OF A SERVANT GIRL WHO ALWAYS HEP'I' HER WORD.. 'Is she a good, faithful girl?' ask- ed the woman. 'Say,' answered the man, 'you just wait till I call my wife. This business is more in her department more'n [nine. I'll call her down and you and she can talk the mat- ter over.' Then the Tuan stepped into the hall and shouted, '111ariu ! Maria!' 'What's the matter now ?' answer- ed back a woolen's voice. 'Say, Maria, you just come down and toll this lady what you know about Julia. She wants to know if Julia is faithful.' Down came Maria so quickly that it seemed as though she must have slid down the balustrade. But, of course she didn't ; she Nes too old for that—sixty years if she was a day. She jumped iuto the middle of things as the old Romans used to say, straight off. 'Faithful !' Well, there is't no faithfuller horse girl in Brooklyn.' That is the way that she began. 'And it wasn't her fault that she left here neither, l'tn bound to say that,' contined Maria. 'It was all my fault, every bit of it, and I know you'll say so when you hear the "stogy:-" 1Vlaylre StoU'-r Frit lin awful" burry to get home ?' 'Oh, no,' answered the caller. 'I should like very much to hear the story. I'm sure it would interest me.' 'All right,' said Maria, apparent- ly very much pleased ; 'I'll tell you the whole business. it's a cat story. I'm a cat hater, I am. I didn't used to be, but of late years we've had so many of 'em out in our back yard that I've been forced to hate 'eru and to make war on 'em. I reckon I've killed a hundred cats inside of a year ; haven't I, Aaron ?' 'Well, yes, I should think so, Maria, 'a11 of that,' answered tho man. 'You're some ou cat killing, Maria, they's no use in sayin' that you ain't. 'I've a new method of my own,' continued Maria. 'I put the cat in the box and chloroform him to death, and throw his carcase into the ash barrel. I sent out all of a half a barrel of tats one morning. It scared the ash man so that he al- most fainted.' 'Well here the other day I caught a big yellow fellow that had been howling and yawling about in my back yard for over a year. lie was a monster cat and he had a voice on him like a steam cat's. The min- ute I caught him I yelled for Julia to come and help me put him into the box. We had to work I can tell -you, bat finally we did it. Then I put the big soapstone on the top of the box that I generally use to hold it down. But, Lordy, mercy 1 the stone didn't amount to anything. I never saw a cat thrash around so in all my life. Look hero, Julia,' said I, 'you'll have to sit on the box till I can give him a little chloroform to quiet him.' 'All right, ma'am' said Julia,and down she sat. 'I ran into the house for the chloroform, and do you know I couldn't find a drop? It was all gone. So I stepped up to the win- dow and call out, `Julia, you'll have to sit there awhile till I can go to the druggiat's and get sono chloro form.' 'All right, ma'am,'.said Julia. "Promise me, Julia 'said I, 'that you won't get off the box till 1 come back.' 'You know very well,' Julia an- swered, in a sort of grieved way, `that I wont get off the box till you come back. When I say 1'11 not slo,a_. thi.n.g Isgsnera 4yr-d'oeroVV-lt-- i t.' 'I didn't stop to say any more, but put on my bonnet and shawl and started for the druggist's. hadn't gone four feet from tl a house when -I met Mies Bartlett, an old friend of mind, and perhaps you won't believe, it, but We a feet juet. the same, I forgot what I was out on the street for, entirely forgot it. I always was an absentminded crea- ture, waen't I, Aaron'' 'Yee, Maria, you always were a little given that way.' `Miss Bartlett told me,' resumed Maria, 'that she was going, up town shopping, and asked me to go along with her and I went. Then I asked her to take lunch with me in a res; taurant and she accepted the invi- tation. We had a real nice lunch —chicken soup, lobster soled, ice cream and coffee. 'Won't you want something more ?' I asked Miss Bartlett. - 'Oh, no,' she said,'I couldn't. 'So I called for the check, and when the man gave it to me I put my hand into my pocket for my purse. 'rhe first thing I touched was the chloroform bottle. Then I thought of Julia at home sitting on ou the oat box. I knew that eho hadn't stirred, for she had promised that she would stick until I should get hack. And I had actually been gone four hours ! 'Of course I'hurried home. Whets 1 gt.t there I was forced to ring a dozen times, nobody came. All at once it occurred to me that Julia couldn't sit on the cat box and an ewer the bell cal[ too ; and then 1 decided to go into a neighbor's yard and climb the fence between his yard and our back yard, and I did it. I tore my petticoat awfully, though, before I gut through with the operation. 'I had to turn the corner of the house before I could reach tho place where 1 had left Julia ; but that was quickly done, and then I stood in her presence. She gave ole n look that made rue turn cold all over, but she said uothing, until the cat had been killed and deposit. od in the ash barrel. Then she told me that she should leave me and I thiulc she did juat right, and if I can ever say a word fur her 1 shall certainly do it. `Faithful']' continued \laria,al'tera brief pause, 'there's nobody any faithfuller than Julia. Just think of holding a yawling yellow cat down for five wartal hours without a mouthful to oat or drink, and without even as much as a book to read. If that ain't faithfulness I'd like to know what's lacking. RAISED THE CHURCH DEBT. HOW FORCE OF HABIT LED A GAM DLER INTO A QUEER 1'REDICA- µ.-.,._._ "Talk of raising church debts," the man who had been everywhere said to a Bafl'alo Express reporter : "I cleared up a debt for a for a church in Deadwood once in spite of myself." "Yes?" "It happened in this way : I had boeu playing poker the night be- fore in great luck. Carle out a cool $10,000 winner. Then a kind of remorse carne over me and I wade up my mind it would be a good time to reform. I resolved to quit poker and be respectable, and I thought a good way to begin would be by going to church. So I fixed myself up and walked into the big- gest church in the place. My in- tentions were really good, but I hadn't slept any that night." "The sermon was rather prosy and I went to sleep. After the ser- mon the parson explained that the church was a little in debt and he' thought this wopld be a good time to pay off. Ifroke up just in time to hear him say : 'We must raise $5,000.' " "Well you see, i was half asleep, thought I was still playing poker au' hearin, that put me on my nerve. The deacon with the plate was right beside me iu the aisle. 1 pull- ed out my roll and yelled out : 'I'll see that $5,000 and go $5,000 bet- ter.' \Vith that I put my whole -$10,000 on the plate." "-They were used to such talk out there. They thought I was a gam- bler that had got religion, and be- fore I waa well enough awake to know where I was the whole con- gregation was singing and the min- ister was praying for me. I wasn't going to back water then, so I let the money go. Got a complimen- tary notice in the Deadwood papers, posed as a philanthropist and all that. Good joke on me, wasn't it I" "First rate ; sntl did you really quit gambling?" 'Yes sir; quit for good and all." he said. And then he added , "By the way have you any tips on to- day's races?" THE ONE -BOSS SHAY. The peculiar feature of the "one -hose phay" was, that it was "built is such a wonderful way" that it had no ''weakest part." The "weakest part" of a woman is invariably her hack, and "female weaknesses" are only trio common. With the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip- tion, this may be avoided, and women may be'domparatively as strong as their brothers. Prolapane, inflammation, ul- caratiou, periodical pains, Ieuoorrhea, traggiagdrdown-sen;atiotut, dahlins one,_,, ousoee., sleepleaaness, despondency, are only a few of the symptoms of weakness of the female organs whioh tho "Favor- ite Prescription' is,,varran.ted to remove. A 4QUTlll[ERN 'Il'QTEQTIQ , IST. TIT Asa rule the people of the south, err States (lave hewn opposes to protection. Tint [bey are falling into line, There is no doubt that if with their other resources they bad combined manufacturing Induetriee their would have gained their.iu de- pendence, In the same way make Canadians the serfs of American or other foreign manufacturers and we would soon be on the highway to political serfdom. We commend the following to advocates of free trade or unrestricted reciprocity : Colonel' H. C. Parsons, of Natural Bridge, Va., was an officer of the Confederate army. He lately has written a letter to the New York World ou the subject of the tariff. He regrets that the traders, the manufacturers, the small farmers, the industrial classes, have had eo little to say, or have paid So little attention to politica, and specially to the economical divisions of poli - Colonel Parsons goes so far as to attribute the defeat of the so-called Confederacy to the adoption of a free trade policy by the -Southern "repre sentatives of the cotton fields and of the cattle plains." Ile writes : "For myself, I believe if the South had contained four cities such as Worcester was then, or as Rich-. mond, Atlanta, or Birmingham are to -day, rho would have es:ablislied the Confederacy. 'The Lack of the banking capital that grows about u,allufacturiug cities and of facilities fur supplying armies alone ,leads it impossible to maintain the cmitest, and 6,000,000 of people, milted mid brave, upon interior Inns behind rivers and mountains and .lefensi1)1e ports, 8111'• rendered because oleo cried from ex posuie waiting for English tents, blankets, and shoes, and because armies fell back when English gnus and trains failed to come in time. A STRANGE COINCIDENCE Detroit, Aug. 26.—A remarkable coincidence occurred at the Russell house in this city today in connec_ tion with the death of A. H. Whits ney, of Toronto. 111r. Whitney was suffering with consumption, and was ou his way to Mexico, accom- panied by his wife and C. K. Tho, mss, a relativo. They arrived here last ,right, but Mr. Whitney had grown very feeble since he left To,, ,onto Elf] )lad to be carried tto his,; molls. �EIe expired a few minute6 after lying down on the bell. This morning another A. H, Whitney, accompanied by his wife, arrived at the hotel. They were from Quiucy, 111. They registered and proceeded to a room, where ten minutes later Mr. Whitney was seized with heart disease and ex- pired instantly. The dead men were neither related nor known to each other. The strange coincidence caused a sensation at the hotel. OIC WOMAN MT i NOUG '' TO SATISFY IUM. .Anniandale', lIl(iva,,-...Charles \V, Windus, a barber hailing fron Minneapolis, has thrown not only this village but the whole of Wright - county iuto social fete. He ham eloped with two pretty women at the same time, both of them marri' ed to prosperous men and each of thew the mother of three children. They are both four or five yeara older than the gay Lothario who en- gineered the remarkable three - cornered matrimonial deal. The two women are Mrs. Samuel Weltd and Mra Leander Watson. Young Wiudus, who sails under the name of Charles W. Edwards, and two or three other aliases, came to Annan, dale a few months ago, and be'ng a good•looking fellow got on well with the ladies. One day in July Mrs. Watson came over from Smith lake to visit her friend, Mrs. Wells, and the former was introduc• ed to Wiudus by the latter. For several weeks afterward \Vindus was co❑stautly in the company of the two married women. The affair came to a climax late last week when the trio disappeared. The sudden going of the three soon became the subject of general goseip. The husbands of the missing women learned their wives had gone to Minneapolis and decided to follow thein. 'Die runaways were, how, ever, posted by some one in Annan• dale, and left Minueapolie. Upon returning to Anandale the two men caused a warrant to he issued for Win]ua' arrest. The village mar-• shat Went to Mlnneapolia anti Watt not lung in locating his loan. But the clever barber had not put up so hig a job to be captured so easily. He managed to slip away from the marshal, and was soon h id away in St. Paul, where lie has been living with the women. -ENGLAND'S WOOL M AN U. FACTU RIN G. Toledo Blade : The unpatriotic people iu this country who are en deavoriug to get free trade, ill order that Enelish manufacturers way STREET SCENES IN MEDIIEVAL LONDON. The street was noisy with the voices of those who displayed their wares and called upon the folk to buy. You may hear the butchers in Clare market or thecosters in Wlrite• cross street keeping up the custom to the present day. The citizens walked and talked ; the Alderman went along in state, accompanied by his officers ; they brought out prison- ers and put them into the pillory ; the church bells clashed and chimed and tolled ; bright cloth of scarlet hung from the upper windows if it was a feast day, or it the Mayor and Aldermen bad a riding ; the streets were bright with the colors of that many.colored time, when the men vied with the women in bravery of attire, -and -when all -classes spent upon raiment sums of money, in proportion to the rest of their ex.- penditure, which sober nineteenth, century folk can hardly believe. Chaucer is full of the extravagance in dress. There is the young;squire- "Embrowdid was he, as it were a merle Al ful of freashe flowuree, white and %eerie." Ur the carpenter's wife— "A seyut [girdle] eche werod, barred al of silk; A harm -cloth eek as whit ae mnrne mylk Upon her leudes [lions], ful of mauy a gore. Whit was hir amok, and browd al hyfore And eek byhynde on her color abcute, Of orale-blak silk, withinne and eek withoute." Or the wife of Bath, with, her scarlet stockings and her fine kerchiefs. And the knights decked their horses as gayly as themselves. Now the city notables went olad in gowns of velvet or silk lined with fur; their hats were of velvet with gold-laoe ; their doublets were of rich Bilk ; they carried thick gold chains about -their necks • ••and-.tnaseive- gol 1 rings upon their fingere.--From "London - Plantagenet," by WALTER BESANT, in Harper's Magazin: for September. o ,e made England the wool manufactur- ing nation of the world, in place of a pastoral country, growing wool for other nations to spin or weave. In that age, isle King's word was law, and there was no clamor among the people for a "removal of the duty." It would have been dangers one for any English subject to have raised such a cry. What was the result of this tariff? While in the first year;, of King Edward's reign mere than half of the woolen cloth- ing worn in England was imported, twenty-eight years_later-tire exports were the times the imports. The lesson which we wish to impress up- on free tra prs from this bit of his- tory is that the English supremacy in woolen manufacturing was due entirely to a tariff'. While this tan. iff at first added considerably to the burden and discomforts of the peo, plea in the end it gave them much better and cheaper clothing, and added enormously to the national wealth, the addition being distribut- ed among the fanners, the working• men and the manufacturers. —Nearly three years ago James Keefer, of Flesherton, was married in Toronto to his cousin Miss Nettie Bennett, of Tara, Immediately after the ceremony Miss Bennett re. fused to accompany her husband to their new home and left him at the church door. Every effort to induce the young lady to change her mind proved unavailing. She insisted on being called Miss Bennett and would not even utter the name of her husband. Mr. Keefer applied 'to-have:the'krmt'untied atihckprar ent session of Parliament, and he has at last succeeded in obtaining that costly luxury—a divorce.