The New Era, 1881-06-02, Page 3Juxe 2, 1881.
./Aur Wiedersehen,
Until we meet again! That to the meaning
Of the familiar words that men repeat ,
At parting in the street. .
Ab, yes, tiu then but when death intervening
EendsI1 asunder,.with tvinit ceaseleolt path
We wait Mr the Again
The friends who leave uodossot feel the sorrow
" Of Parting as wo feel it who must stay
Lamenting darbY day,
And -knowing, when wawa° upon the morrow,
Wo shall not find in it accustozne4 place
The one beloved face.
Were a double grief, U the departed,
Being rtdeaSed, from, earth, 13/1014d still retain
A sense of•earthly•pain; ,
It were a double grief if the true hearted,
Who loved us here, should on the further 6130r0
EIRDOMber Rs DO =WO.
Believing, in the midst of our afflictions,
That death is a beginning, not an end,
We cry to them, and send
Farewells, thatbetter might be called prealchons,
Being foreshadowings of the future, thrown
Into the vast Unknown.
Faith overleaps the confines of ourreason,
And it byfaith, as in old times was said,
Women received their demo
Raised up to life, then only for a season
Our_partings are, nor shall we vait th vain
Until we meet agalnl •
DOYAL'lfirA1 DierflE:
Haw the ronress pt Wales 44ees to the
winging- lElp of Iller Daughters -A
Family Group.
Every morning at 9 o'clock the three
daughters of the Prinoees et Wales take
their music lesson. They have "mamma"
waked uP, who, a few moments later,
a,ppears in her dretising-gown, and remains
with them till the lesson is over. Nothing
interests the Princess more than the edu-
cation of her daughters. In Musie
she can fully appreciate their progress,
being herself • a consummate musician,
Her delicate, dreamy, ;thoroughly Danish
• nature betrays itself in her
dotearabove-wil, on the melodies of Chopin
- and Schumann orad • she' 'playa' them with
vinap-erful talent: The three young Prin.
oesses, Lads*Antprispend Maud, dir. as
. greatly in Character an in-phylliognomy:
The eldest, Lodi* has -the fine features
and the grace of her mother; she. is gentle,
gay and affable; in short the. Parisienne of
the.three. VictOrla, the second daughter,
is the iinage of her. father. She is proud,
rather reserved, and attaches herself little..
topeople. Whenshe does grow fondof some
one, however, her affection never wavers.
She unitee to a thorough consciousiiessof her
own dignity a generous heart, easily moVed.
Her lntellea, which is greatly developed,.
only renders her the more engagipg. The
youngest sister, Princess 'Maud, can still
be called a baby. She is but ten years of
age. In appearance she bears a great
• likeness to her grandmother, the Queen.
She is good hearted, and at time even a,
• little serious. The privatea.partments of.
the Prince-siTef an ring -
ham and at Marlborongli House, are fitted
up completely in French style, One
would believe oneself transported to a nian-
gen in the Chtimpa-Elyseek. Scattered about
everywhere on .plush -covered table's are
an infinity of ktuek-knacks, such is small
poicelain dogs; bird cages with stuffed hirds,-
figuree in Dresden: china, tiny flower stands
of faience or Sevres, inkstands, kniVes and
• what not, ju,st .as lathe sbepaef tbeRpede.
laPaix. The Princese'wkiting paper always
comes frpra Paris, as well as.her dressing-
. tables and all theiatestfashionablebaubles.
'Her different pieces of furnittre are
sur-
rounded by low screens, which in many
mass she herself has embroidered'. Ilfaey
objects in ivory, enamel, sil yer and Mother-
of-pearl recall Prince't'Bertie'e " voyage to
India.
Bare Devlin.* in dm Circus.
Lucy Davene'is it mere child. Perhaps
when she comes to years of discretionr if
death or the law does not seoner interfere
with her foolhardiness, she Will -voluntarily
quit her business of liazardolis cirtus per-
formii3g. In leaping from ahigh •pedestal
to the arms .of a suspended athlete, in
Philadelphia:, a year ago, her head; struck
an iron • post and she was •almost killed.
• She performed the same feat again, „ how-
direr,as soca as she had recovered. ' The
Lizzie Davene who was Mortally 'hurt in
a, circue.at Wilkesbarre, recently, belonge&
to the same troupe of gymnuite, and Lucy
has taken her place on:the catapult. • She
planes .hereelf, lying fiat on her bitch, op a
lever, which, by the salon,' of.- springs,
.worked st.a, gitell:ligligilliPPEt from
horizontal to a perpendioular,Position With
such terrifiC auddenness and idea as to
• send' her whirling about seventy -live feet
through the air into a net. , ..Tbe ' Wilkes -
bane authorities have undertaken to pro-
secute those who had charged the Machine
when it injured Lizzie Davene,
FATAL „C)17TRAGE.
A Story Of Fiendish Actions From
Catharines.
St,
SAD PATI OF A. HAMILTON GIRL,
Sr, Canon:se, Ma.y•20.-Au Inquest was
held at the General and Marine Hospital on
Wednesday evening tonscertain the cause
of death of a young girl named Sarah Jane
Potter, who had died in the hospital on the
same dray after terrible auffering, caused
mainly by ill-treatment at the hands of her
employer in Woodotock, expoSure and
neglect, and by being outraged by eix fiends
in human shape at Merrittou while on her
way from -the railway station at Merritt=
to the home of her frienda in that place.
The story as bold in the•evidence reveals an
amount of suffering and neglect almost -too
horrible for belief, •
aohn Livingstone was swora and testi-
fled: The deceased, girl is between 14 and
15 years of age. She eame to ray plabe two
weeks ago last Thursday. She was very
sick, and arrived atter •11 o'clock at night.
She said she came from 'Woodstock, and
had for a short time before that been
staying at Dr. Thrall's, and was sick before
going there. She watt very sick and almost
gasping for breath when she came to our
house, Next morning / sent for Dr. Clark,
buths could not come, and'I sent for Dr.
Downley. He attended her for a few days.
I tried to get her int 0 the hospital, but could
not, owing to their being no room. A'week
ago last Sunday :the called my wife into
her room, and said she wanted to tell her
something. She paid she had been abused
and outraged by some youpg men, first
mentioning five, and• then Aix. One of
the men that deceased said had first rav-
ished her came toray house the net
Sunday after be came there and said he ,
'wanted something to eat. She did not
speak ..of it until the following Sundayl
after the men had been there. I never
eaw-thexcian before,- Lind 1, -don't know -his -
name. I have not semi him since. He
was a stout man, middling tall fellfined
and about -22' or. 23.Years of age..."...71. 0
was eating , deceased called my wife, and
while she got. pp to see what the girl
wanted the etranger went out of another
door. Deceiteed told us she had been living
in Woodstock with it Mr. Carlisle before
going to Dr. Thrall's. She said Mr.
Carlisle •had.. beaten her,and • Ma.
:Carlisle ,had told him. to do so. I had
ne particular confidence .in . what she
would say; as I believed her untruthful. I i
• get her nto the hospital. ou' Sunday
• evening a week ago. I did not 'botify the
police of what had taken place. •• I endea-
vored to find out who the parties were
who -had abused her. Deceased said she
had been sick before going to br..Thrall'e;
and he was geing to send her into the
country. Decea,sed, ' could read, -itud Was
as intelligent at most girle of her age. She -
was my wife's niece..
. Dr. Mach testified that he had given
permission for the admission nf• the, de-
ceased' into the hospital. The previous
wituese. brought- the deceased to •the
hospital in the midst '-of a, severe
•rainstorm, and jn nostate ' to be
removed. • The next•day, On 'visiting her
he Was. utterly 'horrified at the' state-
• ments slie'thade:•.' Ib ,appeared her lifeinid
been -one- - continued -misery ..from • the
• thpe she leftthe Home in Hamilton to:the
dine he saw her. She told, him: her sick,
nesswas caused by her baying been whip-
ped hy a Woman with v.v: hom she had lived
in Weedstoek. • She was subsequently.
taken :by Dr. Thrall, of Woodstock: .She
• was suffering great agony.
After bearing the evidence of Dro..Green•
• wood; DoWney, and Comfort, and sonie
the hospital nurses, the inquest was ad-
journed until Monday evening • next, at
THE HORRORS OF WAR.
Tex•rflale Scenes ora the Vielas of
Battle.
BOTH ETE AND NOSE OFFENDED.
Froeuring saddle .1nrees at Lima, the
writer and two compauiono rode out to the
battlefields., Befere we. reached the spot
we could Men the etenob, as the wind was
blowing from it towards us. The flies
began to bother our animals, and we soon
reached the first subject. It was it dead
• °hole, or Peruvian Indian, with his rifle
and forty gr fifty cartridges lying near,
also a bag of mouldy bread. lie 118.a
• bayonet stab in the breast, and hio skull
was broken by a blow from a musket
'fitock, as it is said the Chiliaus finish their
victints in that style. Benzine had. been
poured= his body and then set on fire.
The. flames had rats ewiftly over,
burning the clothing and •portions of
the body,, and then went out. So
there • he lay in it half.consuined con-
dition just where he fell it week before.
We soon found. others in the same condi-
tion and then groups cf. Ave and ten in a
pile, some on their backs,. others on their
faces, as they were dragged hp and filing
together bythe Chihart soldiers. All seemed
to be witli the legs and ii.FME5 spread out
and distorted, probablyby the action of
the fire. • In many places the head had
been burned off at the neck and the feet
and hands were gone, and the fingers and
small bonesof the feet would burn quicker
than the .larger znasa of flesh. We saw no
carrion -eating. birds, but the flies com-
pletelyeevered us and everything else. We
saw many:dead and wounded horses, often
• the lattter were standing around on three
legs, some 'unable to move and others try-
ing to crop • a few epears of grass growing
closeby. We noticed one large, fine fellow,
. with ..a hind leg ..almost severed- at -the
ankle. He was black with flies and
. slowly dying .with triortificatione-Pear-traf-
feting fellow I ., We tried. to fit a cartridge
into a Remington rifle for the purpose of
uttingbim reit of his. misery, but could
• not. At 'Mirafteree; ineuritkfcren
incahuaoa, :or tortib, we found aDahlgreen
eleven -inch smooth -bore of 1863, weighing
over16,00Q pounds. It stood solitaryand
alone out on the plain, with its 'dead. gun-
ners lying around. Arms were found all
over the valley, and cartridge -boxes nicely
filled,with. not a, single cartridge Missing,
showing that -they had been cast off and
thrown away before the firing of a shot: It
was. actually pitiable to pee the waote of .
,ammunition herd. Everywhere in . the
track of the retreating army the ground is
thickly 'sown with ib. Often we Came aCiess
cases of ammunition lying in the dust of
the pnblib roadthat had never been opened
-too Valueless to carry away. •In one
place, in a small graveyard,.where the•fight
had raged very -hot -the unburied••• -dead -lay -
•thick on. the graves, and, in, a receptacle
for a coffin .in- the thick wall
• -a sort . of large pigeon -hole -
we paw. , dead - soldier - With
• the feet protrUcling • from the aper-
ture. He bad been Wounded . and
araviled-- in -to • die7thaurburying litrnself
, befereteath :found him. Along the publie
highway we constantly came acroselbodiea,
some with •a little dirt, shoveled ovet` thlma,
time halt consumed; and thers just as.
'they:fell: They were on 'their backs, With
„back,
mouth wide alien and fade upturned, :in a
mute, appeal to the clear, unpitying skr:
The whole valley.is crossed in all directions
with adobe watts; breast and 'from
fifteen th eighteen inches; thick,, and id
many plaCes the •Perniiiane .hop. Tb,ig out
• loopholes with their bayonets and posted
field artillery' in different ;places..- •' Now,
..there *ere the Peruviansin. ppesession .of
these natural breastworkibretitiworks• so
close together that the fine Chilian eiliralry
corild not Operateand yet they failed to
hold • their excellent' position.' At • an
Juan, Where the first battle took .plaee,
the soldiers of the •Beineralda Regunent,
still encamped there, were collectingand
binning the dead. We stood near • and
istatelied the 'cremating until the exploding
cartridges on the bodies caused Us to fall
hack in sortie disorder. The soldiers would
fasten a rope to the neek or leg 'of the
corpoll and drag it carelessly along. the
sand, followed bra promotion of,flieS; •th
Ithe pyre,' They were latighing • and jeking,
and sometimes growling with each other
for hanging "back in the tract*" and hot
pulling the right share of the 1014 Obey
would, haul WIT on,the pile &nil...go lazily.
fOr. 'another, till they got the.place Cleaned
out, justas-we have seen a 'California far.
mor dragging out and burning logs' from
hi pleugh:land. ' These .heartsickening
scenes did not occur off on anisolated plain,
hut within fenr or five jumps of the batty
cornp. We found a'trooper sitting on the
bank of a. little • stream, • and saked him
for w drink of water. He 'handed' us his
canteen, which •he' had just filled, , from
whieh •we drank heartily. Riding our
horses.on up thestream, we found: 1:1 body
lying . slimyand bloated in a puddle of
water that oozed into,the creelf;. As we
had been acoustomed to horrible eightioand
smells *redid not,get sick; but felt rigneam-
lab the ;rest of the day, and dreamed of
that body. all night: hid said that the
•.Chiliane lost about 4,000. in killed, white
the Perlivians lostabout• 8,000: At Choi-
rillos the Chiliama learned that the canteens
of the enenar were filled with ruin,' so
every one they caught they killed as
quickly as pessible, and drank the liquor.
Soon -that part of the division were drunk;
and fighting like devils,. and many. Savage
deeds Were • committed at night. The
Peruvians had protected their lines by a
. ditch and Sandbags, and the Chinamen are
doing a good • business in plundering hags
and selling their contents.
It is reported thai six or seven men resid-
•ing in Merritton suddenly left there on
Wednesday afterneon, and is stppbeed
they are the parties who comfaitted. the
outrage.
. •
• THE PORT €01briogtsai trithridi.
Dying . Testimony et. me Victim,' Mrs.
•Young, Beitscute:d ;RD the Ingloest. •
despatch from Buffalo sityit the follow-
• ing wag given by Lawyer Donnelly As Mrs.
:Young's dying testimeny at Lockport. It
will- be rereembered.that Mrs -Young be-
longed to Port cplbotne, and died lately
from an *.attempt: to procure abortion:
DonnellY,Xre. nning,•what- caused your
sickneas ? Mrs..Young-7Abortion..• Don.
ifelly-WaS it. done With Medicine or with
Witt:intents'? Mrs.,Young--With inatra-
meats. • Donnelly -Who did it? Mrs.
Young -Dr. Fassett. Justbefore taking'
this statement Dontaelly'left: the room,and
returned to find Dr. Passed there.Don
nelly ordered him out of the chamber. The
dectorrefused to got saying that he believed
aconspiracy wae.being formed against him.:
Donnelly informed him that he would call
a police officer, whereupon the doctor went
out hate the hallway and did not return' te
the TOOD1 until Donnelly Was gone. The
inquest Was adjourned until Monday. Dr.,
Fassett is -ono of the oldest practising
physieians in Lockport, and stands high
• professionally.
liaise Economy. .
43, Many people think it'econoiny to buy
e.heap food, and save in articles which
really are more necessary than they
believe: There are people who really
grudge ten cents for 'vegetables, beca,bee
they say it is too dear; others will restrict
their children in milk; others will bey no
fish because there is nothing in it; other
will deny the little ones a refreshing
orange or banana, ankoothers Will never
have a pudding im the table. Meat and
bread, hot cakes,chops and Meals they
call cheap., because it is real food. .These
people forget that variety really nourishes
the body, and inakes up for that food
-which can alone supply our requirements.,
Besides that there is no real ecenOnay in it.
Meat and bread cost more than vegetables
and puddings combined ;with them. The
• former leave you, craving Tor :something
else, :which you have to satiefy, while a
good mixed diet oupplips all your,wants.--;
• Food mid Health.-
BaCoN Ann Ciftsf14S,-Dott3 Cook the
greens with the Bacon, ham, pork, or what
not. It makes po difference what kirid
of greens one has -whether spinach' from
the garden,: or " owslipa," or:dandelions
froni the treams or fields, clota • cook
either with fat/neat: - The act that vege-.
table food tends to correct evils from the
long continued use of salted meat has
given rite to the notion that greens, should
be winked with the meat.'^Cook the greens in
a separate vessel, with only, if need be, a
little salt. limn treated, every variety of
greens will not -only Etc mare acceptable to
the taste, hut vaittly mere digestible.
Most kinds of greens, after they are boiled
quite tender, should be thoroughly drained
upon a colanderthen turn them into a
wooden bowl and cluip*ery fine.
M. Gambetta is engaged to marry, it is
• reported, the daughter of M. Durand, an
iiitmensely Wealthy : • South Areerican
planter of French origin, The son of a
poor provincial couple, M. Durand started
out as -a boy to seek his fertune in Atherica.
Be• Went into the coffee and ceem traderi,
and is tordayone of therichest mini in the
Spanish tropics. ,
Lord Shaftesbury reeently preeided at
the opening of a 'Y. Bt, C. A. gymnasium in
Exeter Hall, when he congratulated the
association on the step they had taken,
praised " th•e noble art of self.defenee,Aand
anticipated the surprinewhichthe audience
expreseed when he told them that be had
himself been a•Yery good boxer,
•
Preserving • Fruits.
Few of the cookery books to be met with
will give' directions for the temperature
and .time required for boiling the various
fruits to bepreserved. An Araeriean con-
temporary gives the folloWing table, which
should be pasted into the day, book of all
wilt, keeps ,honse, whether ou a large Or
small scale;. Boil cherries, moderately, 5
minutes ; raspberries, moderately, 6;
,pluras, inederately, 10; strawberries, mod-
erately, 8; whortleberriee, 5; pie plant,
• sliced, 10; small sour pears, whole, 30;
Bartlett pearb, in halves, *20 ; peaches, 8;
peaches, whole, 15 ; pine apple, sliced half-
inch thick; 16; Siberiancrab apple, whole,
25; sour apples, quartered, 10 ; ripe cur-
rants, 6 ;, wild grapes, 10; tomatoes, 20.
The amount of sugar to a quart should be;
cherries, • 6 ounces ; raspberries, 4;
Lawtonblackberries'6;. field blackberries,
• 6; strawberries, /3: whortleberries: 4;
qUinces,10;.sinall sour'pears,whole, 8; wild
grapes, 9; peaeheO, 4; Bartlett pears, ;
pie appleS, 6; drab apples, 8 plums, 6';
pte plant, 19; sour,apples, quartered, 6;
ripeturrante, 8. ... • •
• Among the personages who are said to
have made it handsome • margin is Clain=
betta. He has prospered wonderfully since
1870; when he was a poor deputy, with
only an occasional suit in the ,courts to
enable him to keep &very modest bachelor's
apartment, in the Chats& d'Autin. After
the war he set tip the Acpublique .loraneaiee,
Which iitigew a journal of immense value.
For a long time he kept his apart-
ments in the same building with
'his journal, an lived in comparative
frugality. But in 1875 he took on the state
of a niillf�naire, . Hia breakfasts became
noted as the most delicate and Well -cooked
in Paris. Hanover appeared on the streets
Save in fine eqiiipages. The Opposition
press declared that the wherewithal came
from corrupt contracts during his dictator-
ship at Tours, but there never was aliY
Creditable proof adduced.
Latest Scottish Nates. '
The mysterious epidemie at A.berdeen
continues, and is %aid to be owing to the
water. •
At many of the collieriee a scarcity of
men is being severely felt, and . several
firms could find employment for iriany
more bands than they have at present.
The Beithinectainies are on strike, and
demand an advance of 10 pernent, on piece-
work prices, and a reduction on " time
wer4 from 57 to M bows per week.
The daughter of a miner at bylreload,
Lanarliellike, had a part of her head blown
off by a dynamite...detonator which she
diocovered near the ruing of a powder maga.
zine,
Trade in Paisley has assumed a brighter
aspect than it wore for some time back.
The thread mills are busier, and in 'other
branches of trade there is a decided change
for the better.
The Earl of Dalhousie; in conaideration
of the great loss by turnips and the pre-
vailing agricultural depression,will allow
his tenants 20 per cent. off their rents for
the past year. This willrepreeent a return
to the tenantry of about 412,000.: °
The Conservative party in the Free
Church of Sbotland are now sumMoned to
rally against the new Hymnal prepared by
direction of the General Assembly.. Sir
HetarrAtonereiff, who has a keen nose for
heresy, has raised the alarm. Some of the
hymns in the book he finds absolutely
ritualiatie, and others latitudinarian.
Another perturbed.stickler for the old way"
warns his brethren that, if the book is
adopted, itwill Open the way for liturp,ies
and organs.
The following is it description Of a eoulp.
tured atone found in the churchyard at
Papil inbhe .Island of West Burra, Shetland:
The atone is it sandstone slab, 5. feet 10
inches in height, sculptured on one side
only. ,It bears at the top an equal -armed
-nrossi formed:by; the.:intierseetion- of itteiCof •
cireles,. the inter -spaces' being filled with
laterlaced-vitork, 1.BeloW-Etre-the figurewof
few ecolegastics, with =osiers; two on
each side of the shaft of 'the cross, under-
'neath them it lion -like animal ; and lowest
Of aka gintip oftWo'. tgtores:,--sembhunortia
in ohmmeter, but having bird -like heads
• and lege. Their long bills, are inserted in
the eyes Of a human -like figure between
them.
. .
Bow Disease May Enter illionsess.
'A recently published circular prepared
under the direction of the National Board
of Health indicates the means by which
zymotio diseasee may be introduced in
bonsai: that are well plumbed and ap-
parently. well -situated 'as regards sblidity
and.dryness of foundation°. The statement •
is made, in brief, that no, earth can elinii-
nate the disease germs that may be held
by -the moisture of the soil.. If, for in,
stance, a cesspool, or a tiemeter Alt,
lithWiedeptrialiref -derifiyirig" orgamo mat-
ter has infected the ground in its'vicintty,
and this -oil becomee thoroughly saturated
with moisture ,by heavy rains ,or other-
wise, the bactiiriel infection may be
;carried directly to. and through the
celletr,-,Waliti, _and_ front thstnee threggh,
the ileum Tore ' are very; few conn -
try, houses :anywhere -that ' have .not
Some underground receptacles qf %filth
within easy • " leaching" distanoe.of the
haute, mbile.the Contents of -the sell that
underlies the pavements Of our city streets
'Irray• -1:te-iinagin-ed-frota- -the
arises whenever it is laid' bare and the
general outbreak of% disear:e along the line
of anew excityatien. there are tWe ways
of avoiding the danger of •infectien'thrimigh
'Cellar Walls: One Is to remove the cause,
whith is not always possible; the -other is
to make the :walls themkelves impervious'
to• moisture from the .outside; either by ,
backing them liberally with cernent*hile
• building and laying the floor alao iu cement,
or by applying the parne material enthe
inside in the case of ,thifidings already com-
pleted. Either coarse' is more inexpensive
than a first:claps funeral in the family.--
IIFRNED TO DE4JH.
In*
Enna Eire i Brantford aud Mich Lao
of Property.
BRANTFORD, May 27.-4t 5 o'clock this
eveuing a Are broke out in W. & liar-
risou's planing and eash factory., MTh°
East Ward. It was it frame building, it
storey and a halt high. A northwest wind
Was blowing at the time, and the whole
building was in it blaze before any aseist-
• ance arrived. The fire rapidly communicated
to a frame building to the west, occupied by
Atcheson Havill ao a carpenter's shop,
and to W. Harrison's dwelling /masa on the
east. The three buildings are a totiti loss.
Harrison's machinery, tools, etc., are a
complete loss. A•teheoon iHavill saved a
few things. W. Harrison's furniture is
partly saved, WV badly broken. Harrison's
lose is probably about 64,000. It is impoe-
Bible at present to ascertain if there is any
.sinsurance. Atoheson :St Havill's loos is
about 760;§tno insurance. The fire
originated in the engine -room, and
was discovered by the engineer, who
gave the alarm. jamee alarrigon and A.
Havill did all they could on the start to
stop the fire, but while Havill was after
water the lire made such: .headway they
saw it was impossible to 'save the building.
Havill went to his shop_to save what tools,
eto„ he could, and James rtarriaon went
up -stairs to throw his tords out, but,gae fire
spread . so rapidly that before he could
return be was so badly burned around the
head and body that he died during the
afternoon, • His eyes were burnt so' badly
that he could not see his way out, and, but
for his brother Beeing him at the up
stairs door and pulling him out on the street
he would. have perished in the flames. Wm.
Harrison is burned on the arm above the
'wrist. Dr. Griffin. , attended James
Harrison and did the bedtlae could for the
sufferer, The Harrieons had sold. out
their factory to a person bathed Batchelor,
andlutfl ediether....Week ,te-keefr.t:he,
place: They had quite a lot of tilatirial in
the shop to finish'before leaving it.
AII ISNI.11.70KE QUEEN'S
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•Gollapse of it Wharf at
Iltintireil Excursionists Get a Ducking
I -No Lives. Cont.:
• Barr:Emit, May 25. -One of the most
• unpleasant events of the 24th matured at
about 6 p. m. 'yesterday at Massassaga
Point, near , Belleville.' Some .300
nickers had assembled en the small wharf
at this point in anticipation of the arrival
of the steamer. Prince Edward, which was
to carry them to the city, when sudden1
y
the -timber/3 which support the gangway
that ,conneeta the piers began to crack, and
with but a moment's warning upwards of
100 people were- precipitated into the
water, which, - fortunately, is not more
than frorn•three to four 'feet in depth. The
scene which ensued can be better imagined
1111-n-driscrib-ed7-littrafter-a-great-deal- o
confusion all the unfortunates were safely
landed.
- • '
• Rev. Dr. Cochrane, of Brantford,preacheA
his 20th anniversary. Barmen on .Sunday.
During the twenty years of his pastorate in
Brantford1;400 members have been added.
to hisehureh, and'bis congregation is now
one of the largest in the country. Fifty-
five different ministers liave occupied other'
pulpits in Brantford' since Dr. Cochrane
assumed Charge of Zion Church,aild he has
-received-several-callirfrottrotherinfluential
&probes in the sante period. Nit onerous
as -are Dr. Cochrine's pastoral duties, they
are only a tithe of his labors. • He is con-
vener of the Home MiesionCoramitteethe
• Most important of all -clerk of the Synod
Of Hainilton and London., and till recently
Clerk of thePresbytery of Paris", and hardly
a new chinch is opened' at which he does
not conduct .the .servicea. Dr. Cochrane's
life.is'indeed it _busy one, and it is greatly
to be hoped, hitt-health may enable him to
• toontinue valnable labars•-•Sf.ratfora
Beacon.
• A, Towx .4- BAD • Pmerer.-:-Starvation
dares the • people Of Prince Arthur's
Landing in. the face. Unless the • beats
Boon arrive there will be considerable'
Shortage .of ratithis. No' meati3 . cif
any kind are to behind. No butter
of even the poorest • quality: Pots -
toes are all wanted for seeding. Lard is
all gone. Flour ia scarce. Eggs are limited
to 'the home supply, and are worth 50
ents per dozen, and will :Seep be worth 017.
Aorfat feed is equally' scarce. No oats to be,
nad 'at any price. • Feed, corn, and other
grains have all been used.up long ago, and
it is pretty hard to tell What horses have
been living on for sometime past.-Ses-
tinet.
t • Recent statieties togaraing the gold.
mining in Australia, furnished by the
Oovernment, continue to show the remark-
able decline iallfe amount produced hereto-
fore noted'. The quantity -rained in the
• A.iistralirm colonies since deposits of that
metal were first discovered in 1891 is esti;
Mated at 69,000,000 ounces, valeed at
19..,856,000,000. By far the largest propor,
tionhas cone from )7ictoria, where the
gold' -fields in 1870 produced gnly /58,047
eulices, which is lesti than half -,the aVerage
annual yield of the same colony during the
period 187040. • .
The underground military • wires. in the
dermal enipire, according to telegraphic
operators, corichict electritity far bettor
than the Overland wires, .
N. I'. lleald,. •: •
Perhaps no county iti Englandluts shared
more richly in the memories of its great
and interesting personages than Bucking
harcishire; the place of residence and btlnal
of Lord Beaconsfield.- Milton completed
"Paradise Loet "in ,one of its villages/1'
Gray, in 1i " Elegy," celebrated 'Stoke
:Pogis, and. Cowper wrote in Olney. Of
eminent statesnien,•Bucks we,a nne way or
• other connected vrith -Sohn • :Ilaropden,
Temple, George Grenville, Lord William'
Russell, of the Rye:Hamm plot, Lord John •
Russell, -buried at Chenieft; the burial place
of the Bedford, dueal hetise, and Edmund
Burk, who lived at Beaconsfield. At Slough
.Herschel erected his -telescope, and at'
Pitstone Abbey.. Queen ,Elizabeth spent a
• geed deal of her,youth. In. thesame. county
are Stowe, the splendid seat ofthe buke,of
Buckingham, • and the Abbey.. of 'High
Wvcembe, belonging to. Lord Carrington,
And close bywhere the Earl reets,is Bron.
denbara House, his father's house farm,
which he 'dated hie election addresses.
Instantaneous photography is apt to
'catch the amateur's affections, for it is
most interesting.. The use otelectricity to
lift the shield from theisside of the earners
tube by the pressure 4of a button enables'
the -operator -to take a picture while the
/subject of it. remains in ignorance. The
nse of the gelatine plate, which is highly.
sensitive, makes it possible to get a .photo-
graph While the operator counts three. The
amusement of photographing an oPpesite
neighbor, or a,caller, it pretty woman in
the park, or bathere at, the seaside, must
prove very great It is said that a New
York dentist -has a concealed camera by
which, for the amusement ,of his 1 riends,
he luis taken the pictures of a number of
fa,Eihionable young ladies reclining in his
office -chair under the influence of laughing
gas ;.but, naturally, he keeps his trick
very dark, or it would' ruin his Misiness.
In g urope.there „is said to , be • a detective
eamera hi use in one of the great banking -
houses,..
' Before the passage of the E nglish Ereploy-
ers'.. Liability Act, considerable linstility
Was inanifested to it on the ground that
the 'courts would be crowded with litigants
under its provisions, and that it was toe
comprehenaive, or, perhape, not: definite
enough; The Manchester .Guardiant
speaking of the operations of the law since
its paseage, finds reason for congrattilation
in* that butlittle litigation has thus far
arisen, and on acconntof the further fact
that decisions rendered in the cases already
tried have,so construed the Act as to leave
little room de doubt the wisdom end Suc-
cess of the Onaetment •
According to the Frankfurter Zeituna,
Nakkeo in the Island Of Lapland, an, eagle
Was Bildt ori the 15th Ult., which measured
64 feet between the tips of the wings.
Bound its neck it had a brass chain te
which it little tin box Was fastened. The
box contained a slip of paper, on which was:
written in. Danish,' Caught and sot free
again in 1792 by' N. 'and C. Andersen.-
,Beete8 in Fester, Dentnark. .
any pit -grime 'have' visif,ed Retie this
spring to pay their devotions at the shrine
of St. Peter's Chinch and to call on the
Pope, wile, hoWeVer,has been Oparing of
fipeochee; '
Pierre Aniyot was arrested by Moine ot•
the Montreal polies authorities on Sunday
night, charged with the death of hie 15.day
old child. It appears Afro. Anayot hart
found the child smothered and dead at het
side on Saturdaymorning. The cure,Ilev.
Father Dubuc, 'had written to the Coroner
asking an inquest, and the police, on, infer.
motion that Pierre had threatened his wife,
deduced that he might be connected with
the child's death. Suffocation, the Coron-
er's jury said, was the cause of death, and
Mrs. Aroyot Omitted that her arm might
have fallen Oross the child's nook and re-
duced etrangtilation. The -father was bimen ...
discharged, but what his feelinge were
while • under arreet for two days may be
easier imagined than described.
The Mormon religion has been Iiteadily
extending itself, "For several years;
says the San Francisco Chronicle " its mein.
bets have been swarming in large numbers
from the parent hive and establishing.
flourishing colonies in the adjacent State
and Territories. They are pouring in
steady streams into Colorado, Montana,
Washington, and Wyoming. They are
already sufficiently strong in Arizona and
Idaho to holdthe balance of politicalpower,
and wherever they go they act and vote in
implicit .obedience to their ecclesiastical
authorities." ,
The actual construction of the masonry
of the new Eddystone Lighthouse, now
being built eathe English .coast,10 all but
completed, and within a few' weeks the last
stone will be in its place. There will then
remain the fixing of the lantern and the
-fitting of the lighting apparatus, for which
the engineers have now the best time of
the year before them, There is not one of
the granite blooks inthe lightlaowie that
shOws the slighted speck of discoloration,
making it a very remarkable and beautiful
piece of workmanship. •
"This is a mighty nice ride," said Fen.
ner C. Clark _This wa,s, at_Messilla,„New,
Ire74ed`,' thFaticatirit 5ya tlThA the road " 7
,o, lay among giant cottonwoods and bright
"flOWers that "Perldinedthe air;" Yet it
was strange that Clark thought the ride
enjoyable, for he was sitting on a coffin on •
his way to be,hanged, •
There are renottinwin the Transvaal of
old mines, as to the working' ef which
neither natives nor whites know anything..
It is conjectured that theywere made by
the Portuguese, who early lied a footing in
'South Afrioa.
Paste is duly recognized among _crim-
inals. Forgers, bank -robbers and roar,
derers (When not of the vulgar type) form
the upper crust." .
A imgzr,y WARNING. -A correspendent in
the Winnipeg Times 'warns people *halo
out to the Prairie Province to find homes
against allowing thentselvei, to be "fleeced"
by • ever -enterprising. "proprietors -or
imaginary town sites, .placing too ' much
confidenee in certain much -advertised pro-
speetive C.P,R. towns. tie -says Wig pretty.
generally know* that the Canadian Pacific
Railway Company will in due time 'place
their town property'in the:market. 'When
this_is done Intending purchasers Can. act
to their advantage.. Meanwhile those who
inveirLin_speuulative Aowns may find' that
the' real towntwill be at leasthalf a dozen.
Miles, and perhaps More, from the poinCof
their investment- • •
'Bewmtn Drisore.-The Storer family,
of MillbrOok, have'reeeived word froth their
son, who, with' the' family of T. H. Storey,
left for Dakota in March. 'Young Storey is
delighted. (?) with his new home: He went •
out prospecting for it on horseback, having
to travel through two feet of water, and, as
the water prevailed, he was- under the
delightful necessity of rooitting all night on
his nag„in:that depth of water. Lately,
they have heard from hini again: He writes
that where there is not two feet of•witilir
there is two feet ofinud / Beautiful country.'
He has decided to get out .of -the place as
• soon aapossible.-Eitioton iews.
WARR CARD liONTEe•--404neR
or Templeton,' of Walsinghain, bad three
• 2-yeavold steers to dispose °fond bewent
to a tent oceupied by alleged cattle buyers
while the circus was in St. Thomas to
complete thp sale, a bargain having been
struck at 1/55 per head. The cards Were
here introduced, and When Templeton de-
parted he was minus $172 in cash and a.
silver watch. Ito failed to realize that he
had been cheated untildibout an hour sub.
sequently, but when he returned his friends
had, literally as well • asfiguratively,
"folded their tents like the'. Arabs; and
silently stole away."
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The DetrO.it,.. „Mackinac r - and Marquette. . Railroad Cogipau.....
. . . IOW OFFER FOE: SALE OVER 1;34400,4011ES • .
Of itie elioieest, VAIII/IING and TIIIIICERJPD. %ANDS in 'the •
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Destined to be the best wboolprodncing region in the world. These lands iirelliteated in the coun-
•ties of Chippewa, medullae, sehooleraft and Marquette, and emliraco many thousands of acres oe
the best agricultural landa in the State of michigath - .- •-•
Among those :in the counties of Chippewa, and Machina() are tra,eta Of What".aro known as tile
"burnt or cleared'' lands. These lands offer many ad -Vantages over the prairie lands of the west, as
the timber lands adjoining insure -a• supply of fuel at little cost. The son being a rich elay loam of
great depth, • The timber remaining upon the lozid being &Arany sufficient for the settiera use in,
building and fencing. . . .,
• These partially cleared lands are now offered at tbo low price Of from $4 to $4.5d per acre, ono.
teurth cash, -and the rernaindor at purchaser's (pion, at any time withionine years with interesh
payable annually at7 VOY CODt. ' .
"toads aro being opened througli these lands', and ne better •opportunity has eve; been offerml to :-
. DIOR of small Means to Secure a good farm, and intending purchasers Wili be Wit30 -by availing 'them
solves. of this ehance befere priees advance, afi. the lands artS being ra.plillY tItaaa and slattled firion.
The lands Mete Immediately on the lino oftho Dettolt, Maekinao it Mareuetto railroad, frOni the
Straits of mackinem to Marquette, are more he'avily timbered, and are,alreost universally good agri .
cultural lands, leaving splendid farms when the timber is removed. '
The irott and lumber Interests of the upper peninsula are of such' magnitude as to call for all the
charcoal and lumber that the timber andwood. upon .tlio lomda will produce--tbis will enable the • •
settler to Make good wages while elearing the land. - • •• '.,
Lumber millItand dhartoal kilns will be built at•Valioull points along the line, and furnaces ails ,.
now being erected along the lino of the road at Point Bt. Iguana .
The great demand and good prices for labor, both in winter and sulniner, make theta) lands var. •
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from 85 upwards, tteeording to location. Valutrof timber, etc. ThMn,
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