The Clinton New Era, 1880-05-20, Page 2HON. GEORGE BROWN
AIS DEATH ON NWT MORNI1110.
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SAD END or A USEITX.
wuncral nipa(i other Arsualacwafilt'''
It is now oix weeks and our day p since,
Senator Brown was attacked, byan el and and shot. 'The wound was at first
regarded as plight, but as tirne
_wore. on the symptoms became
---a-worser-sand. for -several--
patient lay at death's door. . Three weeks
ago, the hon. gentleman began to suffer
from delirium„ and after that, except for a
few luoid; Intervale; he was unconscious,
• although his system, fortified by nourish-
ment artificially administered, held mit
7 marvellously well. Hie nervous-Isystem
became very much deranged, inflammation
• set .in, the thigh {welled, and abscesses
were famed in the region surrounding the
wound. Three incisions were made; and
the discharge was copious and continued
till nearly the end of the illness. In •the
meantime the giving way of the nervous
system becainemore marked, and the
• body, though carefully nursed and well sus-
tained by food;conotantly became weaker.
There Were, however, no (symptoms which
showed .death to be inevitable; It was
- rather a queetion ofstrength, and even
. forty-eight hours ,before his death there
was hope. Oen-tinnedsupporation of the
' wound; however, thoroughly exhausted the
patient,notwithstanding the united
- endeavors his physiCians. Ile Was at-
-- tericledaValth-siiritiringsleVotionalintieuee
and 1(1w:bow8e by his family physician; Dr,
MI/orb/mils and by Drs. J. T. Alkali/. and
Daniel Clark (lunatic asylum); Dr.
• Campbell, of Montreal, and Dr. H.
Wright, of. Toronto, were nailed for con-
. imitation, and Dr. Henry Lesslie latterly
spent every nightin attenaance. poring his
illness his wife and Miss. Brown aged .17i
were his faithful attendants. The. latter a,
stew dive age became therenghlyproptrated
and was reltactantly eompelled to 'eat* the
bedside of her father. On Thursdaylais
family were called together, as it was
feared the end was near, and a Most
affecting scene, took plane. On Fri-
day, after a few hours' rest, there
was a glimpseof belie. But that was all.
On Saturday the telegraph.broughtthe
intelligence that Mr, Brown -had anather
relapse, . and that he lay at death's door.
.With the incoming dawn of Sunday his
life's stream ebbed'away, and at 2 /Mock
/awes over. tinconseiousltia& free from
pain, surrounded by those he had so dearly
loved, the great statesman and. journalist
passed away to his eternal rept, Although
death had been expeeted for many hours-,
publics excitement over the event. was in-
tense. Universal regret • and indignation
were expressed that a norm who liaddone so
-raueli for his countrY.-Ishiffild: haare'''`iMet
• hip deathat the handl/ :*of an
•. assassin, wlicilad not eten,the eannite Of a
legitimate grievance ,as an...incentive to tbe.
dastardly act.A heavy gloom overspread.
-;--theacityrandZkindlyisynapathizing:.hearta
-throbs went *Out' for the affficted.and sera.
• rowing relative, Flags were floated to.:
• half-mast. from all the public buildings, out
of respect to the memory of the honored
dead. • . Mention was made of the sa,ct event,
!mini the pulpita of the city churcheeaancl
prayers were offered 'up. for those who
claimed :him as a husband and a father.
During the day the streets loading to kr.
Brown's 'holise were dentely thronged by
• pedestrians. Those Who called were prin-
cipally clergymen and intimate friends of
the deceased. The sorrow expressed in
-universal-aaThestelatiVeswere- in. hourly
recant of eyrepathiiinga messages from
• those high in eines, both in Canada and the
'old country. • .
•salTE-401tTk11 =PORTION. '•
It has been ascertained from a trust-
• weithat source that the deceased, . on the
29th of April, made an ante-mortemdepo-
sition in which* briefly- set forth the cir-
cumstances conneeted. With the shooting.
The statement does not materially differ
• from the facts already known to the public.
. ,
The document, it is said, will be4inquest
roduced
• whentheproper time
• is being held by Coroner..johnison, of York-
ville; to -day • .
• .Ttus amass/Ws rasamon,
. .
to be. put in by his counsel, Mr. N. F.
Davin, will he that :Mr. Brown,. 'through
wilful carelessness; .was the cause edshie nwri
death;• that he utterly disregarded the in.
struetione given: ' by •his doctors, Messra.
Thorborn Aiken arid Clarke, and. that he
jeopardized, hio life • •by. hiding business
• meetingein hionliamber. •
. carman's' aura. .
Toanaro, May 10a -At 10 o'clock this
.morning a special jury was summoned and
. Met in the library of the Iton.Geo.13roWn's
• honse, . The following are the names of .the
jurors; Messrs. W. H. Howland (foreman),
George Hodgetta; Alexander Henderson,
anhrt. •Iivaixt, Charles . Page, • Patrick
• Hughes„ Jamee • McGee, • A. Irving,
Walker, ...William Wilson, C. S. Gzowski,
P. G. Close, H. S. Nara, Wm. Themsen and
• Geo: N. Yorker.. The •jurors with- Dr.
Johnston as coroner then went to thebed-.
room of deceased where the 'body. was
endased in a rosewood refrigerator. The
features of the 'deceased gentleman wore a
natural expression and gave no indication
as to his sufferings. .Aiter viewingthe
romaine, the jury again met inthe library
and fOrmallyadjournea till this (Waning at
8 o'clock, when they will open • the inquest
in the police •court. , • :
• BECE1011 Or VIE LIFE AND CABEhli mil riot&
ezoiton nowi. ' •
The late Hon. George Brown was the
.eldest Bon of Mr. Pettit Brown, and, was
born in 1818 in Edinburgh, Scotland, where
• hie father; ate also at .one time held a
public trinit,' was a merchant. ; When
• thirteen . years efaage, Le left hOine and
beeatne connected with some pursuit in
• London: A business reverse through the
miscoodud of an agent having over-
taken Iiito, the father of the subject of
our sketch determined to leave •Scot-
land and, with hie. growing family,
try hie fortunes ho the new world.
In 1838 he arrived. in New York and or
several yearo found tongenial employment
foi. himself and son George. Having
become Valued contributor ter
the local press; Le resolsed to Make
tiste Of his abilities and (stem of inforriation
ptibliehing q neWspaper, Ito aceordingly
started n weekly jeurnal, Which waS naMod
the British' Ohroinote. . The torte of this
aahlieation Was de •thortitiglfly British as
itis title. It is said to have been Mtn far
More 13ritish in character than any other
paper edited. by Britoris on foreign territory.
Wo briefly dwell upon this fact because the
BOO soorng to lave imbibed, Lis father's
strong gong/Innis ot love for has native
country and loyalty tO the institutions of
England: The Cloroniele Was more than an
advocate of everything British in Opposition
to everything American, and it never cotteed
to eritionle, eetnetiinee farstately, the pee&
amid whom it Was published. While XL -
Peter Brown was in New Yorkhetookupthe
cudgels in favor of his nativeland by reply-
ing in a pamphlet entitled, 'Fame and
Glory of England Vindicated,' to one
Leslie's attack labelled Shame and Glory
of England.' Owing to the competition of
the Albion another English paper pub-
lished by the Britioli consul in Now York,
the Chronicle: did not -succeed very Well as
a business venture; and in 1843 Mr. 13rowa,
was ready to listen to very protioing pro-
posals made by the Canadian Free Church
party to come over to Canada, and found
an Organ in its interests, the Chronicle hav-
ing stoutly • defended the seceding
• element. The period was a critical
sonosieratliataorganizationawhiciaaathrOug
withdrawal from the main body, added
another to the list of Presbyterian
Churches then in this country, , Mr. Peter
Brown accorngly disposed of the Chron-
icle and on arrival. at Toronto started the
Banner as the organ of the Free Chureli
party, he being editor and his eldest son,
George, nominal proprietor, A short ex-
perience of newspaper life in Canada
sufacedato7prove to the Messrs. .Brown
that thealianner could, not hope to get a
wide circulation as a Political paper while
it remained wedded to the interests of a
small section of the religious conimunity.
Accordingly in 1844111(i. Reform, party
being in need of an ably conducted news,
paper which would he more immediately
under the control of -the leaders than was
any journal of that clay -the Toronto
Globe was projected. The first number
appeared ip March of thatyear, and took
the shape of • a weekly, Staxiess seemed
,to attend the enterprise from its incep-
tion, though it had two weekly coutem.
poraries-the Mirror and the. Examiner,
the latter' edited by Mr. (now Sir) Franois
ail/mks-and four semi-weekly competitors,
viz., the Patriot, the Herald; the British
Colonist (Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie's
cad-organ)....and. the -Star, all -which -are
now dead. In 1846 the Globe_ became a
semi-weekly, in 1849 a tri -weekly and in
1853 a daily. The indomitable will which
would not be discouraged, and which made
the,. Globe a. greatand powerful paper
frOna its inauguration, has continued. in
full play, through ever -varying periods of
;Prosperity and • depression, until a few
days .before lave for the recovery of Kr,
George Brown was 'aba•ndened, ho had the
no doubt. intense .-gratifications.tcr-see,--as;
the culmination of long years of industry,
Unwearying • enterprise and successful
management, the issue in the meet noodern
ferm of a journal with whose :future and
fortunes his name . as founder Will be
indelibly associated. .. • • • .
• As was perfectly patural and as was to
have .been exnecited, flaP Mate for political
life kindled and nourished • by political
writing, together with the importunities" of
Reformers who detected in Mr. George
Brown the elements whibli go to .make
up the orator, writer and states-
man, ; grcultially inspired . the subject of
this too imperfect sketch to hope that he
might yet take • a .not .uniroportant plaeo
• among.the'pliblic. Men of the. conntry. • As
he and his father becarne better and better
acquainted: with the OHS:clef their adopt-
ed land and the parties . of the .day, their
writings, became snore and more .pithyand
:forcible. Attention was. attracted.to them.
sand-tostheir-newspaper, • which, as Anne.
.pa,ssed, took a lasting hold, on the. public
.and _gained the .reputationef, -beingaa'
staunch exponent of 'Reforin principles,
:though; at times, both editor and journal
found themselves in serious oppositiini to
thoseavho were leading the party in Parlia-
ment. There was plenty Of material in
those days for vigorous pone. The Family
Compact was dead it its true, but the state
of•affairs it had begotten Was by no 'means'
rooted out The political etnaosph.ere Was
far from poresanclit required plain speak-
ing ankaningent. *riling, such ziaa would
searcely • be. aceeptable now,. to clear' it.
The man and the hour had come, and Mr,
. Brown sheared hiwas e ual to the emer-
gency. rzi11348; after a perfad7Ortiitier*
party • struggling, the ' Baldwin -Lafontaine
envernffientsias restoredto power and was
supported by him generally until ,1851,
• :when it Was defeated. -• In 1849.1ffr. Browp,-
in
conjurzettftswith' two othersa. was ap-
• pointed a commissioner to inyestigate cer-
tain long standing abuses in the.provinciab.
penitentiary. •That .coranaisOion sat several
:months. The investigationwas thorough
•and; as a result, 'secured ,Very considerable
changes. for the better in the management
of that institution. About 1850 Mr. lareati
became one of the recognized leadensof the
Reformers inthe province. „ TO obtain for
binaself.the necessary influence in the coun-
cils of the Country that he must possess to
• Weenie the leader; he, with a laudable
ambition, beganto seek for -a sediaPar';--
liament. April; 1851, be. was offered a
nominatiem and...tan for llaldinianda
-Which had become -vacant bythe death of
Mr Thompson, father of the present
Commons roeinber. Ite. was opposed
by a,- • Mr. Cases . ' by the •late
Mr. • Ronald McKinnon and by Mr.'
William Lyon Mackenzie,: who had been:
pardoned and had just returned to the
country after the troubles of 1837-38. Mr.
'Mackenzie Was onacessful in the triangular
contest, Mid sat for lifaldinsand for eight.
yeara; but, attached himself to no party,
.40, though -fie generally acted- with the
Reform. Opposition,' declined :to have any-
thing to do with the formation of the two
days' Reforin. Govern/tent formed in 1858;
the -Year Le -retired finally from pUblie life.
The Papal aggression agitation,' . which
was at its hei.ght in England, bean to exert
an iiilluence inCanada about the 'year 1850.
Xi...Brown • with all his forte and zeal
threw himself into th.e rank Of the 'party
which wad resisting the aggresision,! and
even went so far as to declare .in favor of a
political policy .based upon broad Protes-
• tant principles: This course . torned the
Globe out of its path as an acceptable. !Sup-
porter of the Reform Governtherita who()
strength Was largely French Roman Whe-
lk. True to the diet:desof hie eonscience,
howevetiMr. Brown oat hie whole weight
and influende into the Protestant Scale, and
there is no doubt his writings and epeed,hos
had a .very. powerful effect upon 6e :coun-
try, Whether felt good or evil' we shall not
hero undertake to . say. There. are,, how-
ever, many, oven among his admirers, who.
grieve that he followed with such vigor the
policy he elected to support oil politico.
religious questions, tat there is ne
man wild deny that he Was
thoroughly conscientions in what lie did,
.or that ho believed he was Wing for the
best interestof thewoontry. The iheident
was no doubt One °Rho most unpleasant in
his long and active: donor, but sueli as it
Was- it may be left to be judged in the light
of the events of the day. In December,
1851, Mr. Prowin Was returned by Kent to
-the Legislative Assembly and took. his seat
in Parliament for the first time in Quebec,
Where the House Wap then sitting, Na-
tUtally, lid occupied a somewhat peculiar if
:not painful pOSitiem HO Was not in closeYmpathy With hie tartY. Though he at
and generally acted with the Opposition, ho
found himself unable to agree tipon all
queetions With Some of its leaders, Whom
lie had in the course of what sho deemed to
bo hia duty, critioisoll • Sharply,
• For this reason, he was oceasionally
founc1 voting withthe' Government
'Which there ie ?keen to holistic(
ho, • had little relish fog :doing.
The Oppooltion, with hip assistance, was,
however,: very vigoroue, though perhaps
not always conducted. with the greatest
wisdom. In 1851 3*. Brown was elected
for Lanobten, after whioli he moved for
Committees to investigate a series of
charges he had preferred againet some of
hip oppenents. The effect theexposures
had was felt in the subsequent general
election, which re/stilted in A change of
Government, In December, 1857, he had
the great satiefaction at the general elea.
lion held that year to be returned sim-
ultaneously for Istorth .0xford and. Toronto.
At that time party feeling was running
high over tbe so-called 'seat of govern-
s! mot tquestionoven_wllichdaltortly after
the new House assembled, the Macdonald -
Cartier Adminiotration was. 'defeated.
Mr. George Brown was reluctantly -am.
trusted. by Sir Edro.und Head, the Gov-
ernor-Gleneral, With the duty of forming a
Govern/tient. This Mr, Brown promptly
did and with singular tact, because he had:
to smooth away some serious differenbes
and reconcile g_entlemen who. did not agree
with hina about tlie propriety of everything
he had done. His. Government was com-
posed of himself as :Premier, Mr. (now Sir)
A, A. Dorion Mr. Morris, Mr: J. .Sandfield
Macdonald, *r, Drummond, Mr. Lemieux,
the late Mr. Holton, Mr. Foley, Mr, Mowat
.(now Premier of Ontario) and Mr. Thibau-
deati, wlicr were duly sworn in. In
view. of the faet that the new Minis-
ters had to go • back at once to the
country for reeleotion, Ilr„ Brown asked
for the prorogation of the. zarliarae;it,
which was then, of course, in seesion. This
was refused by the Goveruor-General. The
consequence was that the Assembly met as
ausual, and .on the second, day after the
Cabinet had been (sworn lin the Opposition,
Ied by Mr. (nOW Sir) John A., Macdonald,
' the late Preritier, succeeded in carrying a
vote of want .of confidence in the Govern--
nt-thesamalmaority Kr: Brown bad
having disappeared when the seats of him.
sell and colleagueis were vacated owing ' to
the aeceptance.of office. Mr. Brotan then
' very properly went to the Governor-General,
and stating that the House did not represent
the sentiments' of the nation, asked for a
dissolution. Sir Edmund Head declined to
:accept his advice and therewee
nothing for it but resignatieu, Mr..
•Macdonaldas Cabinet returned to power,
but Without. going .back•tosthe.' people for:
re-election. • They took advantage in an
infamous manner of- an Act which at that
time permitted Ministers to resign their
portfolios and take up others without being
re-elected, provided they did do within one
month after resignation. _ The Macdonald
• Cabinet simply; .swapped portfolios, , Mr.
(afterwards Sir) George Cartier becoming
Premier.. , The nett day they all resigned
and swapped 'again which gave them -the
portfolios theyheld before they were
'defeated. Thus reconstructed, they went
on with the government. This 'double -
shuffle' created intense indignation in the
• cotintry, and was the subjeotof two fruitleee
actions which were taken to unseat Mr.
Macd.onald-and the late Mr. Sidney. Smith.
The Governor-General became exceedingly
unpopular:. Not el:intent • with defrauding.
Mr. • Brown Of', his. rights ;• Era John. A.
,Macdonaldput up'Mr. Hillyard Cameron
againsthiman Toronto in the hope that
:he wotild beat him, aodkeep him. out of •
Parliament. Mr. Bream, however, to the joy
of; all his. friends, Was' victorious:amid re-
tained Iiiiaseet Pali Mr.. -Pleaiii5iiii tallair
last session • of - that Parliament he was
seized•with a VerYievere illness which Pie:
vented him taking an active part in publie,
affairs for a year, . He Was defeated at the
-
general election in 1861, but succeeded in
being retarded bySouth Oxford .in • 1863.
In.1864, at .the wisb of his friends -L -who.
were anxious. to get rid of 'Trench donii:
'-nation' and of a Parliament wherein the
• majorities were nearly 'always of the slen-
derest and most uncertain ..claracter,abe-
cause.both•province's haa the same number
'of representatives -he entered the Govern-
ment witli-Mrs-MaeclozzaldInsordersta form-
a coalition powerful enough to carry Con-
federation. Having accomplished this he
resigned from the Cabinet,' .but • on that
question supporte.d the Government until_
the Union. He . war defeated in 1867
in South Ontario and retired :bite private
life until elevated in . 1873 to...the. Senates
We have thus dwelt upon this portion of
Mr. Brown's life because the-oventa spoken
.01 have passed out of the memory of many
people or are not familiarto the younger
portion of the community. :Whether in or
out ot Parliament, Mr. Brown always was
• active at a journalist and his great influence
was felt everywhere. ;Hewes a most vig-
orous,indefatigable and trenchant Writer
;and speaker; . to was eiceptionably.gifted-
_with a sound mind and body; -and... an
'indomitable Will and perseverance:- When
'he, puthis' hand- to the plough, his heart
'Sayer failed him nor did he look book.' . He
Was first and last tlie very- embodiment of
„conviction and duty: . Clear-headed and
Clear-sighted` and resolute; he was a giant
&tieing his fellows MO was an unsparing
enemy to.that he'dedniecT tobeintolerance
and wrong,. and the vigilant exponent and.
elminpicio - (ffi that ishigh . he deemed
to be ' right. • ' Among the leading -
events connected. with his public career
wore these: in '1,864 he , was chosen
member of the .conference ' which'
met at Charlottetown, P. E. I„ for the pur-
pose ef Mapping out confederation. In the
same year similar duties took him to Que-
bec,. wherche did great service.- . /n.1865 he
was appointeda member of the Confederate -
Council of • the ' British North American
Colonies„ which met at Quebec for the hir.
theranee of the same objeetswhich was of
ceiirse; the question of the day. The Sairie
year he went to England upon public busi-
ness also connected with cenfederatiom In
1874 he • was appointed to net with Sir
,Edward Thornton,- British . Minister. at
Washington, as; joint plenipotentiary to
-negotiate with the Governnient of the
United States fdr arenewal of the reciPro-
city treaty' of 1854,' in which lie was
unsuccessful: . . The ammo :year he
refused • the Lieutenant -Governorship
of lOntario, which hio friends would
hoar° 'been gla..to have ,seen him accept,
and just a year- ago lie declined the honor
,of . knighthood; -which was pressed
upon 'him: by . the 'Queen; . With
regard • to . his parliamentary reeord it
may hi said his career .as a Reformer is
indissolubly connected withsucli Measures
for the public good as the secularization of .
the clergy reserves, thepromoticax of public
instruction, the extension of the municipal
system, the abolition of seignorial tenure,
representation of the people according to
population;.\ and many other matters
which helped tooccupy an active political;
life. X.Tp to the day of his'atssassination he
was busy in exe eising \Ant intnience he
could • for. the bet flt: of the eountry. to
which he was go tho oughly atttalied and
for whoselnetitution ho possessed ouch
deep rooted acfirtirati n. and affection,
Stilthefound time to ind go his tastes for
other ptirsuite. His eusoogs.for instance,
eat a iitook raiser ' was grstt and highly
Oatisfactory in We* of the fact thab ho was
one of the pioneers in that line ofprogress.
lasso enterprising men Would\ have
heen. discouraged • by the dif6 Wes
til,
*which he had to encounter. In his pia to
life he was a roost (Minable and lovabis
Mani.. HO had eertainly • strong preju.
dices and likeii and dislikes, but that, if
, .
a fault at all, was the fault of a sterling
character cast in the mould from which
only manly characters come. Ile was
frank in manner, candid in epee* and a
true friencl. Hewes decidedly aggressive in
dispositien and true to lois convictions. This,
in public We, made him many enemies and
at times unpopular, but he outlived all
that, and now that he is no, more, many a
tear will be shea by his old antagonists
over his too gad tato Canada cannot afford
to lose eueli men as he was. More faithful
servants than he she never had, Well may
she weep over the bomb of George Brown,
who was a loyal son, a devoted patriot, a
never -failing friend to the people, a states-
man, and lastly but not least, a nobleman
in private life and friendship.
GEORGE ELIOT'S MARRIAGE.
The Eanums Novelises Strange spend,
isebattonships.
There will be no deubt in the future as
to the 'status' of. the gifted George Eliot.'
She is now Mrs. Cross, the cable tells us,
though as to whether or not she was Mrs.
George Henry Lewes there have been as
many, as authoritative and as absolutely
irreconcilable stories tad as puzzle the
simple-minded reader who cares to learn
when, where and how Napoleon In, first
met Eugenie. The ordinary books
of reference say positively that Mt.
Lewes an Miss Marian 'Evans were
married. Social tradition has it that
Mr. Lewes married an uncongenial wife
who eloped from him., returned and was
forgiven, and then abandoned him again.
He declined to receive her a seeond time,
and having once condoned her flight lis
geoid got obtain a divorce; so he and, Miss
Evan's, who had formed a close intellectual
friendship, resolved, after consultation
with their moot trusted friends, to live'
under the same roof and admit no impedi-
ment to the "marriage of true minds.'
Mr. M. D. Conway finally maintains that
the original and legal Mrs. Lewes never ran
away at all, and that Mk. ,Lewes and
Miss. Evans - never asked any one's
advice as to their living together.
The mystery has been further. darkened
by reports that the original Mrs. Lewes
-died in 1874, and that Mr. Lewes shortly
afterwards married, the real wife of his
heart; but these reports were contradicted
at the time of Mr, Lewes' death, and the
original Mrs. Lewes is now said to be still
Hying. That George Eliot' was univer-
sally known, spoken of and addressed: as
Mrs. Lewes seerns to be one solid fact in all
this business, and yet, whatever theeicaCt
truth •may have been as to the' conjugal
episedes in Mr. Lewes' life, it is sufficient to
say that when the lady Who is now Mrs.
Cross 'made affidavit as executrix of Atra
Lewes ' will she styled herself 'spinster'
and signed herself Marian Evane.'
The New"177_11_sh PaAliament,
• _ (From the liondon Times.)
Of the 237 new members returnealimartlie-
recent dissolution; no less than 150 May be
classed generally as merchants, niantifac-
turerli, or eiannected with commercial: pur-:
snits ; 59 are lawyers, .44 , belong to the bar
and 8 practicing, or having -practiced. as
solicitors; 30 belong td this army, 2 to the
navy, 3 havebelonged to • the diplomatic
profession, 6.fiallow or have followed, the
profession of journelists, 7 are cifir or agri-
-cultural engineers, Farelankersa 2 'are- con -
fleeted with the breWingtrade, 3 belong to
• the Medical profession; 6 are tenant farmers
Or in other ways' 'connected: with labor; 4
are eihave• been ,printeas, publishers, en -
&avers, etc.; 1 is a member of the Royal
Academy of Scotland ; 1 is a civil and
militaryAntOr ;„lis a Presbyterian minis-
ter, and 2 are extelergynien of the Estab.
lished Cluireb, Who have relieved them-
selves of their orders under the provisidne
• of Mrs Mouverie's Relief Bill. • The above
enumeration . includes 172 members; the
reit are country squires, • magietrates,
. deputy-hen:tenants, • chairmen of searter
sessions, ex -high sheriffs,•baronets or sone'
of peers. The oldest of the 'new members'
is Sir Harry Verney, aged 78; the youngest
appear Ei to be Mr, Richard Fort, M. P, for
Clithero, who was born in 1856. • • •
A. Wrench Esthuate of Gladstone.
Cignetes'.hi ParniFigaroa
PUB father,. a Scotchmtn, Was• a corn
merchant;' and afterward a shipowner at
Liverpool, The king knighted him. The
-son has not inherited thetitle. He ha e pre-
ferred to remain ono of the people. It Swa-
the pride ofM. Thiers;whom Mr, Gladetene
in some reel/eats resembles. His first budget
speech Was not only applauded. by the usual
Hear, hear,?- but also by stamping. sof
feet. * * *. When in • office he .is con
servative and is with the Catholies; :taboo
in opposition he is liberal and is against the
Catholies. * , -* Ho retired to his seat
at Plawarden, Whiels belongo to his second
• son. Mr. Gladstone's son is 'vicar of 'the
adjoining pa,rislis, *Mr. Gladstone leads the
life' of gentleman farmer. He rises early
and is very abstentious( He .chiefly eats
fish, because that diet,etironlates the brain.
He takes twoalasses of Bordeaux, because
that :Wind: is a tonic of the cervi-
cal matter. He take o •ons glass nf. port,
becanse that is the orator' o wine. Mr. Glad-
stone, it will be een; is logical, even in hie
rondos' vivendi. • On Sundays he reads, the
lessons of the Presbyterian.xite at churen.
People go from five "leagues round to hear
his fine, sonorous vciice. Afterward he pute
• on his stout wooden.aoled hoots, with nails
as big as those on old Church doors, fakes
an axe and the ex:Prime Minister beconaes
a woodeuttera
Theobau is reported to be inconsolablefor the death of his 7 -months! old. son.; The
child was aleelared heir apparent, Ain -
Shay -Min, befere he WAS 'Week (Ad, a most
uncommon thing in Burmah, where the
suecessor to the throne is not list/ally,
named till the king is . in hie last illness,
Vast suisaaysere spent upon him. Ile was
rooked in a cradle incruated with diamonds,
rubies, sapphires ,a,nd emeralds of incredible
value, His ontfit-ahe was to be dressed d'u
Anglais-eost 5,000 rupees. All the people
living round the palace stockade had. to buy
new eobliing pots, lest the smell of rancid
oil frcart cad &abbess° might offend the
tender nostrils. And now the poor little
thing is dead. • . •
The following is the way the newspapers
in the mining regions talk to -their readers:
A. Man at Duteli Flab picked up a rock,
the other day; to throw at a cow. , The
weight of it attracted his attention, and on
examination it was foztaul to contain over a
htuffired dollars in gold.'
lames Oook, a well-known circus per:
former, and for the peat three seasons
egnestriandireetdr for P. T. Bgraittin's
show, mod on Wedneeday of pneumonia,
Ilo was a native of Ireland, and was 50
years old, Itis real tam Was Patrick
Hay.
The Princess .01 _Wales, notviithstanding
sterna and winds, insistedon reaching
Copenhagen for papa's birthday,' eta
papa prettily said that he couldn't have had
any birthday gift which gave him so muoli
pleasure as a sight of his daughter's eharm-
Itgfaeo,
The Tilsonburg branch of the G. W. 1.
AO recently been doing a big biz in timber.
FARM AND. GARDEN. •
seasonable information for
'Those Intexestedu
- The Crops in Western Outario.-The
-winter wheat west of Toronto has a , very
promioing appearanee ; the plant is in a
line, healthy conditioo, anal should ne
fortune in the way of insects, frosts or rust
overtake it, we shall have .oue of the largest
crepe ever harvested in western, Ontario.
The reports east of Toronto aro not quite
as favorable. Froth the western states the
accounts are most encouragingfrom present
appearances, although there are reports
front some, of thestates that insects. aro
already committing depredations. Insects
will most probably be unusually destructive
this year, as the winter has been so mild.
Late spring frosts may check their opera-
tions th some extent, Tne spring seeding
lute been, pnigressing•finely,.. and the ground
has been: in good, tilth. The clover
hass been very badlyinjured, which will
necessitate* the sowing of mere than the
•usual quantity of corn and millet, and
should cause a moreextensive growth of
root crops*: A. liberal' use of eat; plaster
and other artificial Manures might prove
profltable this year. The fruit trees show
a, good set of buds, and many are increas-
ing their plantations, small fruits especially
• having been very remunerative the past
season; and the price that apples lia,ve
i
Bold at n England has given. a stimulus to.
their cultivation. Drying estahlishments,
aretebe erected in Canada • this season.
The great Northwest znust be supplied,frona
the east, as the winds and frosts of thab
section are such that they Will never bo
able to raise fine fruit. They may supply
us withavheat, bnt. we • in Ontario will be
able to pay for what We avant of it in fruit,
manufactured goods, etc,-FarinersaAdye-
cate.
Butter. „andaaBlitier.-The visit.„: ...of.
the Agricultural Committee of Con-
- gress to New Yorla• pays a contem-
porary; was the occasion of a protest from
the dairy interest against its new and
ineneeing enemy, oleomargarine. - This
commodity has stolen -we might more ap-
prepriately way slipped -into the Market
almost unawares and now disputes it even
with honey -sweet,. golden Philadelphia, but.
ter; Two or three Mullioned persons an&
millions of dollars are interested and, in-
vested in the making of butter within (1,'
certain area; and this great interest is en- •
dangered by 'half a dozen namifactimers
of oleomargarine' and twenty such roams.
facturersa coold put as , much !imitation
butterupon the market as the present
supply of "natural . „butter.' . 'Happy
they who eat no 'butter and theeescap.e
all counterfeits!: •Pure -oleenatirgarine
the product of milk charged:with an excess
of beef fat. But who shall insure 'its
purity? The dairy interest insists that as
adulteration of manufactured :food and
drink is universal, as . chicory is passed off
sfor-coffeerand-agronnd-starch for flow, an&
Newark eider for (shampoo:1,e of lthellns, so
• milk is 'charged with grcasee of low degree,
and the horrible praduct sold, not for what
it is, but for !butters Affrighted epicures
are informed that they are eating their old
candle-ends'and. resonarate in the
guise of butter, as unnamable animals are
Served: as hare and ••venison ragouts in
Parisians:cafes, . One gentleman at the
„meetingsaf_protee declaredswith a kin,dasf
grim satlifaction, that•;S•the first manufac-
turer of this article is now languishing, X
"ib c a Chilian jail.' The1 act
seems to be thatsoleornargarine is new an
article �f trade and 'consumption. It 'can bo
:found at the grocers',and if it lo Old by some
as'butter,its iii, to . our knowledge, field by
others as oloemargarine. One person whq
had -adventured upon tasting it told :us that'
it was not so good as geed. butter, but bet-
ter than batter at the same price.. There
is 11, petition, however, art& largelysigned,
asking Congress to probilsit !the admixture
of fats. With butter, milk or crop/nate tore-
-hibitthossale . of - oleomargarine as-buttera
and stlso its exportation, and to place the
manufacture of • all admixtures: of 'fat .or
grease under the control of the National
Board of Health, and in general tO make all
enactments necessary to protect all dairy
producers and consumers.. The congres-
sional committee wereinagnificently dined'
by the oleomargarine companies, and in-
spected the manufaaturea • Their report
will . be -awaited withinterest, and .mean".
while let every doubting better boyer ascer-
tain what he is buying -if he can.'
• To Cure Feet Bob in Sheep. -The pre-
paration of the footle just as eesential as
the remedy; for if every part of the disease
is net laid bard the reinedy:will not 'effeet a
cure. A solution of blue vitriol. as jitrOng
Eta cai be noado and as hot as you 'can bear
your liand;:in, even for a moment,. having
the liquid three or four inChes deep, or
deep enough to cover all the affected.parts;
then held.the diseased feet lo, this liquid,
teaminutes, dr long enough to penetrate to
all; the .diseased parts.; put the.
sheep • on a dry barnfloor for
twenty. hours to give it it chance to•
'effect. In every ease where X have
tried. it, it has .effected a &me, and I have
never given -a sheep medibine internallyfor.
foot rot. This reraedy I call a 'dead. shot
when the foot is thoroughlyprepared, but a
mors expeditiousWaY, and where you don't
hardly hope to -exterminate the disease, but
keep it in Subjection, is this: After prepar-
ing the feet BS for . the vitriol time, take
•butter of antimony,. pour oilsof vitriol into
it -slowly nail the heating .c.in4 boiling pro-
oesseeases, and apply with a swab.. This
. remedy works quicker, is Stronger than the
vitriol and is just as safe, but its mode of
applieation renders it less sures-Eicchaoge.
The Philadelphia Wool Exhibition.The
International Exhibition of sheep, wool and
wool products, under the auspices of •the
Pennsylvania- State Agrieultural Secietys
will be hold in ' the Permanent Exhibition
Building, Fairmount Park, in • September
The aggregate of prizes to be:offered
is ' $40,000, Moluding a8,500 .for 'cattle;
07,000 for lacirses (racing prohibited), 06,5.00
for elieep, 03,000 ler swine; 01,500 for poul-
try,. 02,000 fer dairy, a4,000 for. tools, imple.
ments, and. sniachinery, 13,000 fer.. state,
county,' club and individual exhibits of
farm, orchard and garden products, and
04,000 • for wool and weol precincts. and
other manufactured geode. The sheep
prizes are, for flocks WO arid 0250; and for.
rare and fite of hie get, 1a50, 0900, etc,
eed for Istorsos.-aThere are'sundry. n
Tron-
dition; powdero and, tonics whip aro often
fed. to-lismses and produce an increase of
flesh, but they must be kept up or tlie
horse will run (tato, and in the end they
will do an injury. Kegular feeding, faith..
ful grooming, change of diet, salt alWays
aecessible, exercise, even if it be hard work,'
• With sufficient rotation Water, pure air in
tho stable, and comfort and quiet, will
cause almost any horse properly fed to lay
on flesh, if not to beeomo fat, A writer
upon this subject, who appears to bo well
posted, says: 41Ittiv ..good horses devour
large plantitios of grain and hay, and sfill
continue lean and poor. . The food eaten is
not properly assitnilated. If the usual
food -has been • tnaground hay and grain,
lathing but 0 change . will effect
n,, desirable alteration in • the apnea:r-
anee of the animal. In daSO Oil inetil coo -
not be obtained readilso, Mingle a, bushel of
flax seed With er 401101 of barley, ono of
4
otansaalsotheasossaass
oats and, another hoalal of Indian *VP?,
awl let it 1e grOUtJ. i uo meal. Tina.'
will be a fear props/al.-1 i'or all his feed'a
Qi, she meal of ha saa,„ osta and corn, in
equal quantities; T.i4% 11,7 first procured,
and one-fourth part la; Oa. oil cake mingled,
with it, when the aprinide4 on enft
feed. Feed two or throe times daily,
mingled with a pool, 01 I la hay and etraw.
If the horse will eat that amount greedily,
let the quantity be inoroased. until he eattEt
four or stir quart:- t (awry feeding three
times a day. So lass as the animals will
eat thie allowanca; r's• snantity may be
increased a little ov.a.s. lay. 1.3nt •tiveid
the practice a allow Mg a Jana to stand. at
a rack well filled with hay. fli order to
fatten a horse that inki rot down in flesht
the groom 0:we1d be very narticule,r to feed
.the animal no more than he will eat up
clean and lick the, manger for more.-
litiffalo Express. "
Tuberoses and How to Cultivate Them,
-For oue bulb get a fonr.' licit pot or a, bop:
six inches deep airl foor inches across tlm
top. Place a tow llama, of broken crockery
or brick irithe bottom, then fat with ono
part fine manure to tv, parts sandygarden
sell. Place the -bulb in this and cover one
ineh deep ; give but little water at first,
but when they are ,up alive water when the
soil looks dry on top. ;tor danger of frost
is over dig a hole an the garden or yard,
throw in a few stomas thau set the not on
them and fill in with Ottawa'', 'Give a little
manure water onea in rtro weeks, and do
not water them in Ow morning or middle
of the day, but water ow hour before sun-
down, If ,thoy do not 14,, -mom before frost
eontea take there low {hr. house and ,they
will blossom there. Tito bulbs 1 lame
all blossom this summer. .
- . ; , Atisom.i..,.N:aws •-{{yrsS. .
- America has now n,•arly 100 varieties of
,native grapes miclar eultavatien, and More
than 800 varieties of yeara. • •' ,
• - Barley and all othor strwAl grains ao beet • .
when -drilled: The'plastar and •salt.should-
be-sown.,broarlm4t,,,,Ikang_land_li.t -....
'sown on a damp -day, they natty be spread
over eyenly:. '
. The Rural New Yrn-Iter states, from.. .
...trials, that young tulip twos may be -easily
and safely, removaa by cutting back the '
entire stem withit, two or. three inches of
-the neck, leaving OM), osek and toot§ to he
• "set out,. Hundrdell ortress thus treated
mostly grew vigorously, sending up from
near the roots nn
e: il:.1.:4i1t:t.tr.eigelirtor.
stems. -
.
It is rem* kable that tlai num usually •
,rt
selected. for .„, he- orlie:t ,, of Viceroy of .
Iteland atve . lose who 'do not pos.
seas an , sore of 'Irish property: This •
was 'thecase with tha Duke of Marl- aa.
berougha• with Lord also/icor, .auct is so
now with laird Cowper. Lord Cowper
proniiites to prove . an iitleollone selection,
and Mr. Gladstone, iiii- Very • fortunate in
getting him to take; the pooition. He isthe . .-
son of the late • Lally l'ainaeraton's old*
son by her first marriage, is 45, and gradu-:
atedsat-O-Aurdattliratsitlimain-timaSchool of
liari and. 1VIddern llisOry.The °owners .
• owe air as o a laa s ea who became Lord •
Chandelier, and was geand-Unete of, the
poet Cowper, but thy ;had long befere that
been a family of good standing. Lord ..
Cowperpossesses an agglomeration Of wealth
.whieh has devolvsed ou him largely through
accident. Both ;his . acreataunclesasucces-
,
sively Viscounts- Mellaimaies having died....
• childlessrtheir propertya poste $100,900 a.- • •
:year, devolved on their sister, Lady Pal-
merston, and -passed at her death to Lard -
Cowper, who will, besides,: inherit a great
. estate in riglit.of his mother,' co -heiress ef
her father, thelate EarlDe Grey, and con-
sequentlysfirst 'cousin to the new Viceroyof . •
India; Lord.Kipoii. Lord Cowper is mar- •
ried to. a, clanghter of Cord Northampton,
but has niiehildren, whieh, in the case of -a
viceroy% avife,•ia Ms nitaiortune, inasmuch . .
as:she can devote all the More time to the
representative functions t.d the epee, which
fall quite , as nitieltoli her as on her -
.huShand..' A- rontantie story, attamhea to _
MidY COviiet;;iliiiill 8, mcia- attralliie '
character. . The late Lord St. Maur, eldest
son
�f the DA° of Somerset; fell 'Passion':
ately in love with her, but the' sentiment
was not reciprecitted, laltiniately.he ferreted
relationo with a -perseii. benealli him in
position; entirely ca account of her. extra.
ordinary resemblance to Lady Cowper, and
• dying., under very. bainfal.circumstances, •
his children by this . lady are ;understood to
have • been 'adopted by - his Mother, ; the .
.:whiloni. ” Queen of Beauty,' and ' only /um ,
vivor of the famous Sheridan sisters. Lord '
• Cowper, who was .made a- Knight otthe --
Garter by his step -grandfather, has Ettleeet •
•0g50,000. a yOg,r to /Tend, so that Dublin
eociety May look forward to seeing 'the ,
-thing 4euced well- done.' The new viceroy 1,•,.-
ia 4.1kdoptiaindly-Well-read, well:informed s ;'
'man.' . His' ohief itbode is iri Hertfordshire, •
where his neer neighbor is lair& Salisbury,.
and,:notwithstanding pelitical divergences,
these '.lfertfordshire magnates are on very . ...
friendly ternss: • ' . n. .
•
Texan& seene ha 0 Thentie.
.(London 1. e e„ph.)
.A. terrible scene took place in the Teatrei
del Circe at Madrid a few days ago. During' '
-the'performanont Madman foiced his way
inte the house, maned with a hatchet, and •
contriVed to climb from the auditorium
upon -the stage, where, brandishing his.
Weapon ftiriouolys he announaed himself,
tb the terrified audience as The avenger •
of mankind.' 'Upon ono Of the attendants
approaehing him with tho, object of 'per. •
minding him.to withdraw from the stage '
he smote We -unfortunate man to theiarth
with one deadly blow' and he managed
to keep the polite off when they
atteinpted. to arresthim, by '
whirling his /fatithet round his ffead with
Ouch force tuna sailtness that none of the
agents of authority ' dared to rush in linen
him. Presently, however, a party' (if eel-
diers made its appearance in the theatre,
under the conarciatd of an offieer, who' slim:
moiled the ra,ging maniac to give up his
weapon and surrender himaelf,butin vain ;
whereupon the detachraent received orders
to fire • at him with -blank cartridge, in
the hope of frightening him into submis-
sion. All this while he was yelling at the
top -of hie voiceallourishing his hatchet and
threatening to +Ill anybody who should
approach him, Recognizing the irapossi-
bility of overpowering him without risking •
the soldiers' lives the officer in command
gave the order to load with ball and fire • '
upon him, 'A' roinute later the wretched •
anon lay a, cerpso upon the stage,
three bullets liming passed through his
head ; and this highly sonsiaional.dramatie .
episode having boon thus brought to a close
the audience returned to their plizees,lrbrci
which they had flea in terror when the
madman made his first and hat appearance
tion the stage, and the evening's perform -
macs were rostuned at the 'point at which
they had been interrupted by Mankind's
Avenger: •
'There aro mon Hee on gr0vestonet4,
believe, than on anything, else in thio world,'
remarked a sceptic of human goodness.
Yes,' replied Ins wife, scarcely over saw .
& gravestone 'which aia not have en. it
Here lies.' She had him there
A. writer in. the Detroit Evening News
makes a comparison between the educe."
tionel systems of Ontario and Michigan,
very tench to tho advantage of the forrner