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The Clinton New Era, 1880-07-15, Page 6, Condensed Telegraphic New. The Ring of Greece has lett London for The strike of cotton spinners at Moseley las been compromised. " At Lille the Jesuits sued the prefect for 30,000, frames for their'expulsion. . There is a commercial crisis at Bel- grade. Three important failures have occurred. There ha* been a severe shock of earth- quake in Brie, canton of Valoie. Many emeldinge were injured. At a meeting a the corporation a the city a Dublin, Lord Mayor Gray WAS unanimously renominated, • A Constantinople telegram says a tn61- tive slavo demanding asylum hae been re- ceived at the British embassy, Judge Clarke, a Cobourg, ba e been elect- cdchairman at the Canada Pacific railway commission. .Bradlaugh was yesterday served at the entrance a the House of Cornmons with another writ, for voting en the Irish dis- tress bill on Saturday. On °Sunday night a terrible• balloon ao- cident occurred neer Lemmas, France. The balloon beret in rokbair and two lives -were lost. • .A. Geneva despatch says a popular vote in this canton on the law for the separation of Church and State resulted in the rejec. Ilion of the measure by 0,306 'Otos against 4,064 for it. • A deapatch from Athens says, should the Torte raise difficultiee in regard to the execution of the decision of the Conference, Greece will ask the advice of the powers to ;lust in accordeuce therewith. . • Ald. lecLagan, chairman of the Guelph "Finance Committee, has closed a.sele of $10,000 twenty year six per cent. debentures, interest payable half yearly at two per cent.premium, • It is riimored at Constautiimple that Mr. 'Coschen, British ainbassador, will demand the.dismiseal of Abeddin Pasha, Minister of'Foreign Affairs, in eoneequence of inti. guea for fomenting Albanian resistance. The haying SOaS011 is. well advanced in the county of -Wellington. The crepe are army promising excepting wheat,which ill some motions has been seriously injured Jey the wet weather and the,Hessian fly, Active prepftrations are being Made for the reception of the Madonie Grand Lodge , of, Canada, which assembles • iu Guelph on the 14th and 15th inst. The chapter is to Meet also in .Guelph. • News has been received from Buenos Ayres that an arraugement baying been concluded, supplies and provisions are ad- mitted to the city: The troops are return- ing. The provincials have been disbanded. There is great rejoining. Dr. Tanner; the fasting &oder, passed a . pleasant and quiet day. yesterday. His physical condition is in no way changed for • the worse... His pulse is 80 and tempera- ture normal. It is thought he will last a. Considerable time, if net the forty days. A St. Petersburg despatch says the re- ports of Chinese vietories arndeseribed in official circles as mere gosiip of the eastern. litizaccrs:t'Eifteeir hundred. volunteersgeFto the.leicific to strengthen the cadres in the Amoor district. The czar has inspected the vessels or the Peel= at Crenstadt. Orangemen in Montreal will go out of town on the 12th, and will 'celebrate'• the day by pie-niCa to Lachute, Homniingford, mid Elsewhere.. Rev, C. A. Doudiet, grand • chaplaip ca the peovipee of Quebec, has been:invited to preach the eainiversary ger. --rade on the 12tleat Lachute. - - • The playsiciante of Chicago are puzzled over the case of a woman'fromWhese thigh they have just removed a: large tumor, which upon• beitg let open. was .found to -contain a skull with jaw perfectly formed, and containing. some. sixty 'teeth, some rudirnentary and soine metered, while not a few were partiallY decayed. • On top of, the skull' wes a growth of hair'over an inch long. •. • . • " An old man;named.NOrris ut d t b , , rep 0 0 e worth e40,000 in property in London, was firitind.on Sunday morning in a back room of one of his• buildings' on Dundee street al- most immersed in filth, and suffering from a gangrenous leg. • His surroundings were of the most miserable and beggarly kind. • Be ev,as removed to the hospital in dying state. He has•a daughter in Englpaid who inherit his Miserable savings.. e. A Rohm despatch says it. is stated in clerical circles that the rapture of relations 'between Belgium : and the Vatican muter poesiblylea& •to the resignation of Cardinal Nina., Secretary of State,to the Holy 'See, as the Pepe alloWedhineself to be influenced .ateregarderlebrattitade-towares-therBesigium- bishops, la a sense opposed to .the policy originally deterMined:upon with Cardinal. In the liaise of ,Cotamolis yesterdayIlie Margins of ' Hartington seated that full in- forneation had been received concerning the Indian finances:. The excess of war ex- penditure over tha. estimates its neve ascer- tained to be.£9,000,000, the greater part of which ..was disbursekbefore the, 31st of March, althouglenot brought forward in the accounts. The deficit to be met in a the year 1880.81 is £3,807,000. • in the House of Commons yesterday Sir Charles Mike, isplyitag to a question,stated that the Governmentwas in conimanica- tion •with Spain, Portugal, . Austria, and Italy relative to the duty on wine. Mr. Gladstone, in reedy to a question by Sir W. Lawson, said the Government had learned with great edicern of the frustration of the scheme fora:South African Confederation, but as regards the cam of Sir Bartle Frere it was necessary to await fuller despatches before coming to a decision.— . , Last eveiling, at about ten minutes past 11 o'clock, the residence of Isaite Giroux, at Petite Cote, two or three miles from Mon- treal, was. struck by lightning and: took fire. The prciprietor had retired to rest with his family •and was sound asleep tit the time, blis eyife hearing the ceeckling flames went to the top of "the stairs and -was horrified to find the smoke pouring up in volumes: She alarmed.. her husband and the latter seizing their child; eel Made their way through the smoke . and flames ut Of the front doorway into the street, in -which they found. themselves ciressed only as they hied horriedly arisen from bed. A man =mod Fraeacis O'Farrell, of William street, lVfontreal, was brought ba fore the police magistrete yesterdey morn. ingeharged with having stabbed his &weir- -tot Old daughter-indaw with a teble knife. • Their wounds are *net serious,. though pailiful. It eeenas that O'Farrell is a per. foot terror to his .family, and frequently ill uses them. On Saturday night late he bed en altercation with his datiehterein. law, and before her husband coald inter. fore she had received a severe gash. in the bead, He then earned his attentiou to his • &melted', who' raiseel her hands to protect beam% and. received it very bad cut from the descending blow. Tho police, who had in the meantime been sent for, arrived wet opportunely before • furthee damage resulted, and, Altera hard fight, secured the desperate mart and locked hire up. The debate.on Mt. Foreteres Irish Mild bill was rOBIlmed lase night in the Hots° of Commons. Lord Churchill Said he had ex. ceptiored meens of infotmation, and had to hesitation in saying that the dietrese • • nob wet:rant the hill. This &Arose might be great, but there Was also ulneh fraud end imposture. Mr. Gladstone seed the greater part of the opposition to the billwas a renewal of emouldering, hostility to the Laud Act Bill, and must be jueged from the standpoint of the Land Act, which created for the tenant an interest in the land and improved the vabee of the land, though it interfered. With the property. Kvictious, he FAIR', were increasing lament- ahlyt and it was necessary to employ a large number of police to enforce the processes. Such a etate of things nearly approached the danger of civil war, and it was therefore necessary to take measures to prevent a serious crisis. Thebest means to combat the anti -rent agitation was to remove the justification for agitation. Mr. Chaplines aeneudment to reject the bill was defeated by 205 to 217,and the bill was read the second time without a division. GAS EXPLOSION. Thirty People Killed and Wounded - Pour nundred Maw* Partly De. stroycd. • Lommx, July 5. -.ft terrible explosion of gas occurred this evening at 7 e'elock in a street in the vicinity of Tottenham court road. Por sInnetitne past gas had been noticed escaping in large quantities and a man was sent to examine the pipes. Ho applied a light and a. series of explesions occurred. Connecting at the upper end of Charlotte and Percy under Tottenham court road, there were six different explo- sions in various parts, each Working a cleep trench from eight to ten yards long. From the large Waffle provailinnein this cleusely populated neighborhood it is. surprising that the list of casualties is net larger thau eta:resent reported. There are two pea.' sons fatally Wounded and thirty more 'or less injured. From one trench sixteen per, sots were extricated. Four hundreci•houses are injured and •one demolished. Matey having ierge rents are rendered untenable. All the windows along the line ef the ex- plosions were demolished, the chipiney pots throwu Amu, and the shock was felt as far up its Hampstead road. • A dense volume of gas issued from the trenches, and the air was. charged almost to suffoca- eion. The -performance of Forgeteefe- Not ' at the Prince. of Wales theatre had to be suspended. The • streets and baild. ings in the neighborhood are in total dark. teas. • Vast crowds are flocking 14 the scene of the disaster, and a body of police and firemen are on duty. An eye witness„ whowas standing at his door in Charlotte street, says he noticed a cloud of bricks and stones shoot up a hundred feet into tlx air follewed 'her a loud report, Which rolled down tae street like artillery fire. He observed people stagger' and fall, and the ground shook as if there was an earth- quake. The workman who applied the lightin search of the leak was blown a great distance away aid, killed, The greatest excitement prevails in the neigh- borhood. • • , CLOSER. BELATIRRNS ill,91.TIff TELE A ITI.OleilWat General of Canada and Australia. • Loxpoee July 5.. ----The Agents -General of the Canadian and Australian colonies have • hold:one of • two:, preliminary Meetings to • promotei a movenleat for the purpose of establishing closerrelations between the colonies and the mother country. • The "chief Objeet will ba to direct emigratide to the colonies, teorgenize measure's _foe. de- fenceand to Arrange an intereolonial tariff, •designed tteeiremete the interests of the whole empire. .Tho moVetnent has just been initiated, but the details of the •plan of eperatiOn have ncityet been agreed upon. • • • , A. Bliser.'s liliscratble Experience. An old farmer living near Petrolia, Penn., having made. $109,000 in oil, refused to put- faith in banks or to invest his Itzoney. He kept the rolls of greenbacke in his larmhouse iockee up in boxes and trunks. The moneye became clanip, mil- dewed and'mouldy, - When he discovered the condition df his money be took the notes from their hiding places and spread them it the sun about his 'orchard to dry. The spectacle of a fortune lying loose on the ground Among the apple trees was Witnessed by hundreds who wee attracted to the farm :by the eingular proceeding. The' money -was:-.-thus...expefidl-for,kwo days; • guarded by the farmer, his wiee, daughter and , hired , men. Then it was returned. to. the boxes. • Three nights after the greenbacks were housed the far- weke-up-te-firidethree--thaskedemonein his bed -room. , They hound the old mat and his femely, and had discovered and al:Cured §1,000 of the hiddeatreasure whed. they were frightened away by:the return otethe hired man from Petrella. ..Stebsee quently his house was broken into by three men wearing masks: The old man and his wife fought them until they were un- conscious. • In the struggle the Masks were torn from the faces of twe of the men, and they were recognized. The neighbors went to the rescue, and the robbers were fol- lowed, but escaped to the woods. Thee° days afterward the two were captured. They have recently been seutenced to five years each. in the penitentiary: The farmer still • refuses to select any safer place of deposit for hitswealth than his own house. •, , • RAINFORTIES MISSING. CHILD. leer Skeleton Pound in the I;tcn ot Enormotto Muck Snake. (From the Now York Elute Ginger Ridge, a rugged, sterile upheld, about six Miles northwest of 'West lhaide Adams couzety, Ohio, is much excited over the killing of an enormous black snake which for aeveral years has played havoo •with the farmers flocks. Hogs, poultry, (Alves, sheep, etc., have mysterioesly disappeared, always at night: Two years ago a band of gypsies were camped in the ueighborhooa, and they were accused of stealing the 'missing preperty. John Bamford', a farmer, who greatly suffered from these depredations, swore out a war- rant before 'Squire Peter Anne and had several of them arrested. They bad a preliminary emmunition, but nothing was proved against them, and they woo : discharged. They went away. muttering . threats of vengeance. Mr. Ramforth had a'golden-haired little daughter, 4 years old, whose beauty and sunny temper were the pride of her parents. On the. day after the arrest of the gypsies little Nellie Bainforth was Wiese& She was last seen playing on the edge of a rocky ridge, a short distance from the house, Search was made for her, but she could not be found. The whole neighborhood was aroused and men seeured the field e and woods for miles eiound. Maellainforth suopeeted the gypsies of abducting her out of revenge for their arrest, and followed the party ecross the Ohio river into Lewis county, Ky. When he came up with them they indignantly denied all kuowledge ef the child's whereabouts, and a seerelt of their camp failed to discover his little daughter. Ho returned to leis hot= broken. hearted. Ono daylast week Mr. Rainforth was planting a field of ithout twenty-five acres, situated near his house. He had not been at work long when lie disecivered what at first seemed to be'a• fresh furrow across the middle of .the 'field. He stopped work aud followed the Week to a fence which separated the field from a dense thicket of underbrush. On the feu& he found blood mid some sheep's wool, which at once convineed :hire that the body of a sheep had been dragged across the fence, He wont to his pasture and found that a large Cotswold ram was miss- ing. Accompanied by• feur or five neigh- bors, Mr. ltainforth made search for the missing sheep: The track through the brush was marked by drops of blood and tufts of wool. "About sixty rods from the fence they canto to a ledge of rocks, form- ing one side of a steephill. Tho track led direetlyto this ledi ge, n which was fouled an opening of s.uflicient size t� admit the body of a large man. A laige charge of giant powder was•exploded in the 'opening, and the rock's were thrown asunder byllie blast, When the smokb eleared away the. farmers drew near and peered down the opening,: and there, among at least a waggon load- of• bones,lay a huge black snake, quivering' froin his hurt. The farmers waited until the snake was dead, and then ...aittakoliziA.914103.4,W8 b.°41.4And elelege'd the inoneter outof tho hole Iffitida,su,reir 15 feet 7 inches in longthrand the . biggest part ofhis body was over two 'feet in cir- cumference.. He had an ugly loeking head • and Opermous lunge; slue -Pas needles. 'The missing rem lay 'beside lum; crushed out of • shapeeneld covered with a sticker, glutinous' sobstatee: Lvisitecl the "'spottoday and 'saw the Monster. enake. WhileTives there -men w.exe-ateworl clearingethe. den ofe.the- ,bones. In a corner one pf them pieltecl.up skull. • •It was small,likeachild'ei mid he brought itioiward to the light, Mr. •Rainforth was . standing by ney,sicle when the -man came towerd us with the skull in his.hane: He glanced' at it, andeetagger. Mg against a trect, buried his face in his hands and burst inte tears. Poor•iittle• •Nellie,' he cried, 'through Jis. sobs, ' My - God, it is horrible .After a. time he eon-. • trolled hi* feelings and told me the story 'of his little. daughter's mysterious disap- pearance to years ago. The hones of the little one.were gathered together and buried in the.family•plot in the, cenietery, at 'West 'Union. The 'discovery was kept. froth Mrs.. Rainforth, fettle) poor woman has never boased to, mourn for her lost child, and her husband -feared that this in- tellignce:inight s'eriously.-affeet.-41er,she • being in delicate beelike 'There catbe no' doubt as to the:identity of tho skeleton,, for li:dold chain • Which she wore around 'ler' neck Was found among thebleachiugheneS: 'ey. I1r Elandford and his 'Admirers. • The Romance oi a Poor Ohl Man, About fifteen years ago a Scotchmen of 60 or 65 kept a cheap tailoring establish: tient ea a email scale, Melbourne, Ans.. tralia. Ile catered for it class of people,. clerks and others who: required decent, wellcut clothing at very low prices. elis setecess was limited, and he niacliaabout a living, Which, considering his age, was.; pethaps, all he eould bo expected :bp do, But it appears that thie man wee not satisfied with his progress in Australia, for in 1870 we find him in .New York in a poorer position that in Melbourne. Verg- ing ore three score and ten, this man took ti little store onthe 13owery, a mere pigeon- hole, and commenced the world anew with • nothing 'but an indomitable will and ides!. Tho. idea was that a Miler who would make clothing to order cheaply mud well, and whet Spent 13, large portieu of his profits in adver- tising, would do well .atiti attract a great anieunt of custom. He worked on a bench in: the window, mad o elething cheaply, ade- vertisee, got on by little and little until he druid employ °there, direct their labor and extend his premises. In the coutse of years the little Bowery store grew till now Th absorbs half a dozen houses and covers twelve 'wither's, Not satisfied with this, the insatiable tailor hes stretched himself out in every direction till to -day he has three stores Kew York besides the origi- nal oho and twenty.seven others throughout the country, ell doing a,prosperous business direoted and controlled from the parent store in New York; All this has been done in ton years by an aged Man who retielied. this city laerirly penniless and now cane himself worth half a million of,dollars. slxip- Pram° the au caps, Ife0TeelEleee ACOrsee. Tito narrowing Experience or One of the APnasengere on the Seittranheike... (Now York Tribune.) A. reporter of the Tribune called upou Mrs. W. W. B. Gray, at No. 034 Eighth avenue. She was seated in an easy chair in her bed.room, surrouuded by friends sympethieing with -lier in her misfortuue, and anclemvoring to alleviate her troubles for the time by coucealiug from her the fact, that her child was dead. She betrayed symptoms of great nervous prostration. Her eyes were in.' named by weeping, and hr utterancee were broken hycouvalsive sobs. She said: I was seated Intim saloon at the rear of the vessel when the explosion occurred. I was one of the fine to secethe boiler burst, and as soon as I recovered from the shock I received I screamed. A gentleman then ran up and eneeavorecl to quiet nie. I ex- claimed: 'Oh, my God, are my baby aud myself to perish?! Have you any one with you?' said the gentleman. 'No, I am alone,' I impedi:. ately responded. Ile at once said ;. '1 will save your baby; leave .it to MO and look to yourself.' The ilaines were rapidly approaching the place where I stood. X, stayed until the last moe meat, and taking a farewell look at nay baby I threw myself out of a state Foom window. As the water closed above my head 1 prayed for my baby. I have never :seen it since.' I cermet swim, and when I threw myself into the water Iliad no life preserver, I simply trustee in Providence, and as far as myself am concerned I did• not trust in vain. Whether My baby is lost or no I cannot • say; but I hope that Provieence which preserved me has also preserved rety child. When I rose to the sueeace after my. first piling, I sew close by me a woinan clinging to a lifepreserver. As it was within easy reacia also caught hold of it. She, however., seeing that I was en- dangering her chances of escape, struck nee violently several times, and I was obliged to let go. A.sI went clown, again Ftho kicked me in the breast, but when 1, came up again I was once woe° within reach of the life -preserver. Again I clutched at it, and this time I obtained a more tome:lolls bold, Site could tot shake Inc off, and in melee to prevent us both from sinking,- She caught hord,of the anchor chain: . To this .pey new companion held on =tit we wore rescued and taken on board the yacht of James A. Boyd One of her hands Was badly burnt by the flames in which the anchor .chain was frequently enveloped, When I was rescued e was perfectly exhausted, and my mind was teetered by the thought _that my little ono might be drowned or worse,..per- hape, be- burned to death. X suffered an tindoseribable mental anguish, but still was sufficiently collected to request to be taken to the residence of My husband's' 'Miele, De, Steinert, Who is the police stir- •,geon 'at Harlem. There, of ceurseeI was well cared for. This morning 1.--wite.sufill- • ciontly recovered to return home. X am hi hopes yot that iny baby is_saved 'If wo-. Won Could miry, she eontinued,,' ani sure they weuld be More courageous. ,tb,Jie eowar,der for the- most • of them wernetleilerelte; frenetereeteiVir Of the greater pertion of the-hfo-preservere' and left the "women and ehildren standing helplees on the clock. 1 ha1 hoped to haVe been- c-einfortably -settled in tiro"- country now. instead ef .being; here in: terrible sus - pence regardifg .the fate of my baby:. -We: were going to •Glen cove to spend .th.0 stun, mer and escape' thc heat. of the city. -Baby -ryas-616r; hall wai4:nfrajd it- rdelaieuce.-- cumb to -the ueesual heat we are experiene. ing.in the 'city.' • At thisemneture airiend .of . the family entered ..the robin rind intimated ' that he had seine ,iii - formation concerning • the . You may as 'Weiltell me the worst, George,' said Mrs. 'Gray.: .' '• Is °it dead ?' ' I cannot itay,' replied . the youngman. 'e A. baby has been fouted•witligehr pins in-' tbe frciut and back portion' of its dress.' That's my babY,' exelaimed Mrs.; Grey, ',and once more fell intoe. fit of weeping. Before:she Loomed, the young rpan, who had evidently' come for the purpose of 'breaking the sad intelligence, deportee: • When Mrs. Gray had stiificiently• recovered to continucithe conversationothe said: ,Aty husband has been.. Out, all • :day trying to find the body; but as yet he hae,,been une ;511Ecessful. .He has now gone to Randall's island,.011, I hope it's safe I' . Here Mrs. Gray direfully glanced over en evening pa. per' lyieg beside her. Suddenly.she threw it•from her; and burying her ' Mee' in her hands she again Sobbed. violently. .This timeall efforts to 'soothe her were fruitless. hei faiuud6.piCknC1 ug tile paper and. discovered that the cause of.this ,grief was brief account of the identification. of her infant the,mciegapeby her hush:line. •Ate Ail the Cheldeen en e The darkness falls, the wince bieh. Dense week clowns nu the western elsy; The storm win soon The thunders roar, the lightnings Sash. • 1 boar the great round. rain -drops datin- Are all the children in? • They're coining softly to my side : Their forms within my arms 1 hide - No other anus aro sure; The storm. may rage with fury wild. With trustiogfaitli each little child With mother fools Secure. But future days are drawing near- • TheY'll go from this werin shelter bore . Out in the world's wild. din ; Tlierain will fall .the cola windal3low. DI sit alone and long to know ArcieJlthe ehildreu "Will they have 1.belter then secure, where hearts are waiting zitroat; and sure, And love is true when tried? Or win they And n. broken, reed, Whoa strength of heart they SO ZutieLV tleekl • . To. help them brave the tide? • God:knows it all ; lils will is beat, rn amok). them now, and yield .he rest In His most righteous hand; Sometimes souls He loves are riven %tempests wild, and thus are ilrivelx '.• 'ocirer the better land. leaeoed from reliable authority that fifty young meta, strong aginairers of Rey. Mr. Handfeed, heve agreed among themselves to raise a sum of 02,600 per annual to be; paid to that gettlemen if he will preach it .Albert Hell. The offer as yet has not been accepted by Rev, Mr. }landlord, who, it is said, is awaiting further events in comiec- Con with the Bond street Congregational .chureh. Should the 'offer be taken it is more than likely that the popular &Moe would draw away from his old church fully three-foueths cif the members, therefore the deacons are anxious that he should leave the city. A. proprietor of a weekly news- paper made an offer to the iev. gee:that:Ian • of a half interest in tho concern for the nab of his name and literary ,talents. It was not accepted.' ' • • Kato Field says that George Eliot is about' CO years. with. sandy hair end blue eyes.. She is ueithergray nor wrinkled ; owing to hei high cheek -bones; she has an esoine look. She has no children, lives a very secluded life, is bashful, abstracted, losv-voicted,and lovable. She =eat indepon- dont fbrtune, and receives the world eyery. • Sunday afternoon. It is not. true that she peinted. the • portrait of Mr.: Lewes in Casaubon, as Mr. Lew* although 'ugly, Wan one' of the Most genial, warm-hearted; and brillienteof men. • : • • • ONE HIINI/1174) An; Six Miris A CANO.n. -Messrs, J. A. Mowat, Ceuelph • Hotter 'Watson, Doon ; Mullet and j;Forsyth, Berlin, left Breslau on Saturdayby a birch bark canoe on .the Grand river for lake Erie. They will leave the Grand river be- low 'Dunieville to take the feeder to the• Welland canal, and ' reacharg the canal' will follow it te the lake. Thedietence by this route is 11/0 miles. The: party, on reaching theie deetination, will canap out a ebeeuple of weeks. • The Dominioh Government offices at 31 Omen Victoria street ate to be closed • shortly, and the establishment removed to the High Commissioner's office at Westmit. seer. MreAnnahd 'alto =tits Sir Aelt. Galt's • chief gamete*, The eupeifluous furniture is to be sold, and there is only one year of the. lease to rum The'' Ontario agency is removed to Liverpool, and that of the province of Qiiebee will be Waled ain London. Some of the hunters kir old eleinewete •. aro beginning to believe that plates :look better on a toblethan on it wall, and aro ridiculing one. another. ••• Sudge Maguire, of the Silperier Cotert, o has been ailing Or sand mOntlia, died co yesterday, aged 70. . linefeed lexpoortor complains of Ili artiviuget11.130. • CHURCHES BD CLEDDIMEN. • The Georgetown Baptists have extended a call to Mr. Omits, a Guelph, which be has accepted, A. much larger Presbyterien church is to be built at Nairn, on the site of that lately destroyed by lightning. • Mr. Wetherald Pelham "baselleft the Frienee' end become pastor ...of the St, Catharinee Congregationalists. The oldest Presbyterian chinch iu the • British colonies . is at Bermuda, having lieen erected. in 1710. The congregation is about a century oMer, as if dates from the settlement of some Scottish emigeauts ia 1012. The Cluirch Times, theritualietic organ.' in.ehief, is gravely debating whether uncoil. firmed. children should take any part in, offering the 'Holy Sa.crifice ' ana., adoring the Presence,' e., whether they should be present during the celebration of the COilr• Fatherl‘fartin Marty, 'formerly abbot of St. Meinrad,Indiana, appOinted bishop of Dakota, and will, it is believed, ulti- mately be placed' in the agonizing position of remitting Peters pence with the siguetuee Bismarekieneu Kpiscopuse Bismarck boilig the capital :of the new see. A stroke Of exceptionally good fortune has brightened the nunisterial labors of Mr. .Spurgeon. A lady has just left 81,000 to his book fund, 8125,000 to be used in sup. poeting oto of his :orpiteneges, 82%1,000 to his Pastor's College and 15,000 to Mr. Spurgeon himself. Mrs.' Anna Tyson is her name. • , • • . -It is reported by well inforined Roman Cathelicalin Lancashire. that the Popeis about Weraise Preston to the . dignity of a • see, aud that the Roy. Mgr. Gadd, secretary to.the Bishop of Salford, and at present fa Rome,. 'will be noininated. to the .iiew amount in 1877. The amount of mission- ary and benevolent contribetions, through congregational agencies, wee reported to be $79,209, showing. a decrease of Ze,641 on the amount received in 1877,,. mid of 47,121. on the amount coutributed m 1878. The total income of the Cburch for the year 1879 was 4386,788, which is £80,040 less than the income for 1878, and less than the income of each of the years term 1872. The income exceeds that of 1874 by £5,- 800T.110 Church of God' wash the saints' feet. The ceremony is thus described; The pastor, after a few preliminary remarks, announced that they would now proceed, in. accordance with the ordinance, to wash the saints' feet, and requested the congregation to sing some familiar hymn, while those who were to thue give • testimony to their faith Came forward. Twelve or fifteen per- sons of both sexes rose and went forward, the women taking seats before the altar on one side, while the men tookeetaitiLopnwtihthe other. Two or three women basins in their lamas, come forward, while a like number of men on the other sale did the same thing, aud taking .0t1 the shoes of those before them, proceeded to gently wash their feet, women cloing this service for the woreen and mon for the men. The minis- ter then related the authority from which this ceremony was derived, and exhorted' the saints' to strive to walk, in the path of Hien who set tho example to them. As soon as the washing was completee the feet were dried with ordinary coarse towels, the stooldngs and shoes replaced, and in the • midst of another hymn, the eamts took their seats. Afterward the sacrament o the Lord's supper was administered. • ,4 - TREE VALUE OP 8111.A.DE ' An important Legal Dicision. An action of an miasma character has., been „pending for "sometime before the. Ontario Court of Common Pleats. The claim made is for damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff, in conse- quence of the defendant having destroyed shade trees on the highway adjticeut to the plaintifNi property ; the conteading that 'the existence of such trOes was bath an Ornament and an aotual benefit to elle. property. It appears that, by a Provincial statute for the protection of shade trees,. any me destroying them is subject to a, fine for So doing, on complaint being Made before a justice of the peace. ' (Fifty years ago the penalty for thia crime -for criine it then was -was death). It, was contended on behalf of the defence that the only , • redress -plaintiff had was -to proceed under this statute. The jury before whom the case Was tried awarded the plaintiff 8150 damages. The defendant moved against . this finding, but without success; the full courteniving eelivered judgment in plaintilre favor. The :mart holds that, notwitla ' standing the redress which is given by the statute, the owner of adjacent hennas a • right to bring an ordinary action to recoup himself far losses. eustained by hirn ih con- • sequence og the destruction of Such trees. The . judge refused to interfere with the, bishopric. •The (=enamel of the new,seeeeill fineinge of the jars', thinking_ the amount Iftfaltglyfoyliteantyr saterationsp4411-4the. 04gamkka.w...03 i; more : diocese Of Liverpool and Salford. than suffimout o cover fri6!"!'' Slifiter"-44'"4,'" • actuallY sustained. In 184, whon a deneus of coriVerts in • ,Macirsei I,ndia,_conneeted with the. Prelim- . • gation Society, was: th0 puinbered' • Ail , Steer;•• • 45,083, and those: ceeneatee with the • Once, 'due these bounclless• prairies, Church.-Miisienary • Society 00,114. Now the passeugar- said, 'ever these prai-:,• tho members'. With are fernier Are 80,000 : . . and with the hitter 191,000. And tine 'They call them' prarries ' over M Lie crease ee largely. due Mum& wcirk; • Bishop Fallows has adopted, a plan for , And down in Ilhnols,'• Said the 'ffleeltee the fat passenger said. - 'attracting attention -.io. his -.Reformed cross passenger, they call thern.,' perar:. Episcopal church in Chicago Whichiwill ries." • • • probably fill the hOpse during the7summer. And'up in the. braliesman He has engagee representatiVe men feom said; they pall theM the leading denominations to .deliver' dis- - And down in Kentucky,' the rnan on • courses, setting forth their reasons for hold- • the wood -box remarked, '., they call thorn . ing the dOetinies to which they .are at. cpereree • ' tached.. ' ' ' ' • • • .4 Well, anyhow,' sad paesenger re- . Out of 13,257 benefices in the:bleach of' once Over these plains -1 England there are 0,714 Worth between 6:You said prairies ? Mom,' said the• 01,000 awl e2,500 a year, 3,015 worthdroin passenger with the sandrgoatee. • 8500 to e1,000, 1,000 worth under .8500, e Yee, and started a vety proforind phila- 160 worth .less then 4250, 34 worth -under :logical discussion by it.' . 0125; Veeorth 050 and 1 worth 815 a year. e Well, once Over these verclanteprai- How anyman can be expected to minister reee-e • • to ,parishes a year.for the sniailer sums is a • 4.The first time,' said the erne passebger, you said • boundless peaieibeiee Mystery. e . • . Dr. Angus announces that the revised '1,Velle then, oyer these boundless pride edition of the.New Teetamett ries, once-' • . lylie ready by the end of the current year. Only onee. asked the fat passenger. "He gives some exaniples of the changes. 'The sad passenger . sighed, but went be : The word prove= e is to be turned into ' Once the painted Indian. roamecl-' " 4 go before,' tleough the most' popular of • What for ?' croaked the.Woman Who collects • hes kept its old meaning alive. talks bass. A11(1.01(1 sad passenger went into his -- Tufia.ticumus. .A.N. 1101M. • 8tal ACcideta. fon liewly • Pair in,liEddiesex County -Faint Fail . Out ot a Giteringe. • Loepoer, e'nne 80.-A. ' melancholy and fatal accident oecurred yesterday,afterhoou about eight milea frac; this city. Miss Annie Meredith, the daughter of a well -to- • do farmer.living on the towa line between • Delaware and Lobo, left homesearly M the morning to be Married st the residence oe Rev. Mr. Coiling, 'deo ' Methothet nein: •istee. A number of friends gethered at • the parsomige,. and in due time the cere- mony was performed making her Mrs. Tarlton. After the wind congratulations the happy couple left, with:the intention of delving over to St. • Thomas to stitch elle train and go on it tour.. eVlien about two mileson their jeurney the horse gave a lurela and the seat on which they were seatedtipped back into the road: The bus. bane, who wee pretty badly hurt himself; at once, helped lee wife to rise, . but • he found it was impossible to • aid her as she seiemed in great pain. Assistance was metered and the injured lady eemoved to the house of Mr. Davis close at hand; This was only done, however, aftee great trouble. As soon as possible medical. attendance was secured, when it was found that the ledees AO= weebroken.. All was done that mediae.' aid could do, bat Without evail, the .victim succumbing about, 10 &deck last night. The grief orthe. newly made bus, .ba.ya and Widower was heath -ending, as Was abs e that of. eeceasee's family. Her father wee in the city this morning making arrangements fot the benerel. , • . Although Lowell remarked' what soraro a day in rune it is to be said that 'Lane • yearthey wore not rare at all ; not only were there thirty of them, but they were roasted elder through, 1 would nob cense le elatelootpain To overspread that face so fair: Alt 1 no, dear girl, nor would deign • To add it mite unto your care, would not have that lovely hue Of features amide(' by a frown, But duty bids me say to you, Your hack hair's all a.coniing clown! A hog killed* mid ate emus of the Rev. Bryant Ransom's fine eltickets, Meant :Vellum, 0. The atnoyedelorgymat caught the brute and cut one of its eyes, He had intended to destroy its sight eetirely, so that it could Bee no more ohickena to data., Mit theough pity be left the job half dim. pletee. His congregetiou, however, do toe emelt hint with inuch mem, and...have re. contlemneee '. is likely to be • yew shell =4 said 'be would tell that, story ' • • dered either Gehenna or Hades. 6.11epentl he had to hire a hall to -Wilde in. -Bier - ii to be replaced by a stronger word, mean- lington Hawkers Man on his travelse ing, a tutn abOuteta do right.' e'Religion ' . in die place ie 'to be changed into ' wor, . This iff the seasein et thoyear when per - ship.' , 7 : , • sons suffer from complaints of the bowels.. . These ilineeses are frequenelyeaelsed from Dim York archdiocese leads alr-others in eating raw_fruits and vegetables, especially' . the union in Catholic. poPulation-e-000,000 ; those full elif mould or fungoids. . The Boston cornes next, with '310,000 ; Phila. transplantation of the .spores of this delphia .is third, with 275,000 ; , New , latteaclass of Vegetation to . the human Orleans follows, 250,00e e then Chicago system produces a species ef. cholera ; care , 230,000 ; Baltimore, Cincinnati end Brook - ought, therefore, , to be taken that fruit lyn rank net, each with .200,000. In the is fresh pieked, or; if full of mould, let it . with •.383, -and Baltimore stands second, entnber of priests New York. also leads, atroyed. ' ... e ' . be cooked teatime the fungoies may be de - with 261., The Roman Catholic -inemiera- e . . • don from 1820 to 1875 numbered. 3,150,232, ai.eAgmroawrilkadinvatrileetycoofuliii:yrd oaindElfossfiexwooIde . tma. the, present Catholic population of the :Wilted States -is 6,500,000: •. ' addition to vessel lotula of buttonwood • shipped to Virginia. and Keetucky, used, Miss Sarah Smiley, the evangelist, tells e we arc told, for 'tobacco and, cigar boxes, , mayetory of a . stiff-backed Scotch High - Mr; Torn Ouillette cuts and ellips from his . land minister, who diseeVeredtliee his cora Andernen mills Wain 80,000 to 500,000: gregation was falling into the now -very feet per 'week to Buffalo, to the Pullman common' habit in Charelies of sitting during Car Works, Detroit; to the Ontaiio Car. prayers and standing. cluritgehe singing of Works, ,London, and to the Massey., Agri-' lupines. He determined to cure them .if cultural Werke, Toronto. ' • he could, so one day, when preaching about • anti-Christhe shouted vehemently: • Soome One of the stories told. .of Mr. Garfield,. peeple say thot antee-Christ is the .Pope; Beepsuidbelincoayn, iessuitcililadtaatobfoola'iltiltiieftlAinyioteudiigStliatdeys . some say thot he is e:Roman imperoe ; but Pe I'll tell yo what antee-Christ is, It's when committed eincide on hie account. She ye sit dooh while ye pray to God and stead Was 'captivated, by' :his appearance and up when ye sing. That'S alltee•ChriSrl' • eloquence in ,the Ohio Legislatitre, con - That argument must have been a settler. teilluodefdito.tltiatofheiaxiliss amlimaretliiee4lorlifiendfxloettinrnirinigs A.ed yet it was net retieh. farther torn the truth than other' speculations concerning gmeontchees mother, usthaereactuvIlicleatioietisseuiriviiivi elatleienirtili. that mythical personage. . • • A new Compound to iniitete gold is re- . - ' judge Black,of Perateylvania, is an old- . fashioned orthodox Presbeeterim. He be- ported by the English journal Iron. It' is. lieves in the Bible and the • morality which niemanelegaonfe::,pp07,colnOlopirttsepx.tpauje0 ;tiftnni,, mi7of • it inculeates. Some one remarked to him recently that the linea which formerly di- ilia, 8•601 and chalk, 100. This is said tn. .. vided people in regerd to religious form e� close an. imitation of ,the . /wooing • yes,' said metal 'that it earl °tile be distinguished matters was fast fading out. ' -the judge ' and I notice that the Mee die- fie= it by the difference in .w, ight. The alloy dan also be worked into leaves elmost thictione between right and wrong are . going out withe-them. -Tinsels to lathier as those of gold. e One of the corcimenest oriznes in society to- •A crematory has been erected ewe mild) day is ,perjury -80 commoh, indeed, that north of Neshville, Tenn: The building is 'except n every groes cases the courte do not abate 14 by 18 feet square, and hats a door take eognizanee.of it. And as for ordinary and chimney for ventilation. • A furnace 9' lying mon Will practise it to sieve it postage feet bong, 6 foot wide and 6 feet high stande. stamp or it car fare, Te there not a marked about 40 yards from tho =Use. relation betWeen laxity in doetrine and in. , Statistics show that more shipwrecks ate Morals ? collisions ocenr on the coast of England At the ineetitig of the Synod of the Mailed than anywheee eltse, as the shipping and Presbtetiat Church at Edinburglain May, commerce of the world contra in the neigh - it was reported that the number of mein- borhoocI ; but they aro ten times lesi fro. •bers it full. cornteueion with the Church vent than twenty years ego. • was 174,181 as ageinst 175,066 ie. 1878. The. everage membership of each congregation uriGtIrtesetilOcPk"a etioaupbesitioluaviaorbpea swtrietiiiigtobrie 000, for a population of 820,000. ..— , .....--e ion,t1 is riovv 317. . The catmint of contributions for strictly congeegatiortal purpostee during PeeeleY and mint - 1870 wee reportea to have been 4225,402, Leede, (lenge has,187inieett of sewers:and • whieli was £14,352 less than the amount its whole drainage system has east $2,180,44 • wilted to put lint on Woe for the ceet. reeeivea ia 1878, and £25,321 less then the