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About twenty years ago there lived on the Cedar Swamp line a man named Dunigan. He had a falling-out with some of his neigh- bors about an oak tree that was stole off his farm. Dunigan and his neighbors met at a bee where whiskey was plenty, and what oc- curred ? Nine or ten men stripped poor Duni- gan off, and then put red hot irons all over his body, roasting the flesh on his bones. They then put him behind what was called the back log of the fireplace, and afterwards took him out and threw him in a mud hole, one of the party striking him with a mall used for splitting rails, and making the remark, “ What about the oak tree now, Dunigan ?” They next went to cut off his ears but were prevented by a woman, who risked her life to save the man from any further torture. On the following day Father Crinnon (who is new Bishop of Hamilton) came to see Dunigan, and when the Priest turned him in the bed the flesh actually fell off his bones. The good Priest, horrified at the sight, looked to Heaven and said he was afraid the hand of God would fall on Biddulph.‘ The whole afiair was hushed up for a few dollars, Dunigan being a lone man among a lot of savages. and doubt- less afraid to send them to the penitentiary for their doings. fl‘he Donellys were not blamed for this. Father Crinnon then said he wanted all of them to come in presence of all the congre- gation and ask God’s pardon. But how many came ? None but one who was looking at the crime being committed. He asked God to pardon him for being in such company. So, since he prospered and is well off today, when the rest are marked by either poverty or drunkenness. And now, dear sir, need I wonder at those menâ€"some of whom are still 1 living in Biddulphâ€"coming at deadof night ‘ calling my family out of their honest beds and murdering them and then roasting them to a cinder? In a recent letter to the London Free Press Wm. Donnelly says that an article which appeared in the above mentioned paper was incorrect, and that crime does ex- ist in Biddulph now as much as it ever did. \Vm Donnelly says:1‘ll here endeavor to write you a short account of the crimes that have been committed in Biddulph and its sur- roundings for the last thirtyâ€"five years, none of which Were ever laid at the Donnellys’ doors. , "i About thirty-five years ago all of the farms around the'Snuble’hill were taken up by col- ored people, Some of the folks who now call themselves law-abiders of Lucan lived at that time convenient to the Sauble hill, and, being eager toget the lands out of the hands of the poor Africans, were willing to use any means to accomplish their ends. Accordingly the plan was laid, and in the middle of the night, and in the depth of Winter, those poor colored folks, with honest hearts into them, Were rooted out of house and home. Where this occurred is about half a mile from Lucan today. One thing certain none of our fam~ ily‘ were born at that time, except my father and mother,and they were never blamed for it. About twenty-five years ago an English- man moved in on a. Canada. Company lot ad- joining Biddulph, and built a house upon it. A gentleman, who now uses more of the side- walk in Lucan than he pay staxes for, coveted this farm, and took a gzr gyof Biddulphers and threw a lot of trees on he house, smashing it to pieces and frightening the poor strangel. so that he ran away with his life. This noted bush-whacker then erected a shanty on the farm, and remained on it for a number of years, until the Canada Company put him- self and his furniture, which amounted to a. table and an ox-yoke, out on the road. The Donnellys were not blamed for this. Twenty-three years ago a man named Brinigan, from near St. Thomas, bought a farm in Usborne, adjoining Biddulph. A gentleman who is now living in Biddulph,and is by the way a Vigilant magistrate, and figured conspicuously in the law suit between my father and Ryder for the burning of the barns, was Brinigan’s next neighbor. Brini- gan had a bee, and some one insulted this newly-appointed J. P., whereupon he swore he would be revenged on Brinigan. In a short time after, this poor honest man was moving his effects on to his new farm, but was met on the Roman Line by a man and was killed. A friend of the murderer found Brinigan dead, and drew his body across the track with a view of making the people believe he fell from his load and was killed. The murderer and the man who got it done were both ar- rested. One escaped from prison to the States, where he remained until the excitement blew over. The other stood his trial, and, of course, got clear, the Key of Heaven being chewed to pieces by are Roman Liners. The Donnellys were not blamed for this unpardon- able crime. About this time the building of the Grand‘ Trunk Railway was being let to contractors. 1 There was a large contract of cutting on a farm owned by a man on the Roman Line. ‘ This man had eight sons, who were noted for, their treachery and rascality, and they at; once dared any man to take the contract of cutting through their farm, wanting to1 get the job themselves at their own price, ‘ However, Andrew Keefe, who is respectably known in your city, took the job and com- menced working. At this time Mr. Keefe kept an hotel at the Catholic Church corners. and kept his horses stabled there at night, and also gave accommodations to the taavel< ling public, but, on the following July, 1857, Mr. Keefe’s stable, which contained seven working horses and a valuable stallion, was set on fire in the dead of night and all con- sumed. His hotel was also set on fire, but was seen in time to be saved. 1 might here remark that there was two kegs of blasting powder in the hotel, which, no doubt, would have had the desired effect had the fire not been put out. Were the Donnellys arrested for this? No ; but there were nine or ten arrested for it. Including the Ryders and Tooheys, but as usual they got clear. Twenty years ago a man named William Cohalan. living on the 11th con. Biddulph, had some words with his next neighbor, Mike Cain, better known as “Butt.” Cain at once attacked Cohalan and held him until Cain’s son came and killed poor Cohalan with a piece of board. Young Gain made good his escape. The old man stood trial, but, of course, got clear. In 1860 a strange man named Mitchell came in on the Roman Line with a threshing machine, but this not suiting .some 01 the in- habitants they went in the night and cut his machine to pieces. The Donnellys were not" blamed for that. In the fall of 1867 my father had his barn full of grain unthreshed, but about three o’clock in the morning we were awakened by the barlkbeing in flames. Who did that job ? In the harvest of 1868 old Mr. Toohey, liv- ing on the Roman Line, had some trouble or other with his sons, and they would not take off the crop nor allow anyone else to do it. About half the crop rotted. His son Pat, who was a married man, at last took some help and saved the balance of the crop; but on getting out of bed a few mornings afterwards 10 found his apple trees broken and a fine mare he had minus her tail and ears. This was the first case of horse clipping we had in Biddulph, and Mr. Toohey did not blame the Donnellys for it. In thetallof the same year a man named Thomas Hodgins moved on the Roman Line with a tn1eshing machine, and this not being eatisfactory to the law- abidem. they went in the night and clipped his horses in a shameful manne1.M1. Hodgina did not blame the Dannellys for this._ About this time Alex. Armitage was living in that far- famed town Lucan. He was Town- ship Treasurer,and on coming £10m church one pSunday he found his house had been en- 691 ed and lobbed of all the Biddulphers 2% cents to the dollm. :l‘he Donnellys did not do this, but, like Mr Parson 5 pork the thing was hushed up About. the year 1870 Mr. Thomas Morgan’s barns were burned on the Snuble Line. The man who set it on fire was seen running away, but no one sufiered for it. THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF BID- DULPH LIFE- \Vm. Donnelly, the flintorlau In the winter of 1875 my- brother and J. Watson were running stage in partnership. They had Mr. Collins’ stable in Lucan rented. but one night the stable was set fire to and one of the horses consumed in the flames. The following spring our new stage was set fire to and burned at the Montgomery House, in London township. The two men who did it drove from Lucan. We afterwards got another new stage built, but -on the following 4th of July Eitzhenry’s Hotel and stables, in Lucan, were set on fire and burned to the ground, together with out new stage that stood in the stable. The Donnellys did not do this. In the fall of the same year Royoraft, who lives on the 11th concession of Biddulph, had all his buildings and crops burned by ineen~ diarism. Mr. Reycraft did not blame the Donnellys for this job. Now, dear sir, I will pass on to the 4th of February last, at which time your special correspondent intimates the doers of all evils were removed from this earth, and that peace and quitenez-fs have re- turned after years of turmoil ; but, dear sir, who committed all the above mentioned crimes, that have no equal in the history of Canada, or who have committed the crimes that have been done since the memorable 4th of February. In about a. month after that date Mr. Car- ter’s grain store in Granton was set on fire and consumed, together with its contents,and afew nights after Mr. Timothy Collison’s barn ami contents were reduced to ashes. Mr. Collison has always been a. good friend to our family, and surely my father’s and mother‘s roasted bones did not go across from the churchyard and destroy the pro- peryy- Now, dear sir, Mr. A. B. Z. says the Free Press never deals in anything but facts. I have no doubt of the truthfulness of those words, and as this history of crime is com- posed of facts that cannot be contradicted, I trust you will give it a place in your valu- able paper, and give the' outer world an idea how long and deep the hands of Bid- dulphers (outside of the Donnellys) have been steeped in crime. I also trust you will excuse my grammar and spelling. I have no big words to give you, but will use my own name, and defy contradiction. By so doing, you will greatly oblige (Buffalo Express.) 'The great cataract seems to exercise a strangely inviting influence upon people who, weary of the burden of their mundane troubles, rashly resolve to shuffle off the mor. tal coil before nature’s appointed time. There have been many shocking, startling suicides at Niagara Falls,but none more determinedly effected than that of George W. Knapp, of Utica, this State, on Monday evening. He was apparently about forty-five years of age, and arrived at the Falls that afternoon by the 5.30 train from this city. After dispatch- ing a telegram, to some person in Utica as is supposed, he proceeded to the International Hotel where he had supper. What he did from that time until he went to the river is not known. About nine o’clock Mr. C. C. Misener, a resident of Drummondsville, 01115., and his cousin. Miss Florence M. Evart, who had been viewing the Falls from Prospect Park, went to Tugby’e Bazaar, just south of the bridge which spans a portion of the rapids to Grand Island. The young lady sat on a bench on the balcony which extends along the river side of the bazaar. Her companion went into the building and entered into «on- versetion with a lady attendant. Shortly after this Knapp dame along, and what folâ€" lowed was thus related yesterday to a re- porter of the Express by the lady herself : 'l‘he lleliherale and Determined Suicide 0! George; \V. Knapp ol [Juanâ€"The Cause :1 leslery. “ Mr. Misener, with whose family I am at present visiting, across the river, and my- self came over to the American side. and after spending a short time in Prospect Park we went over to Tugby’s Bazaar. He and I sat down on the seat along the balcony. My cousin went into the bazaar and stood in the door with his back toward me, engaged in con- versation with Miss Mary Haney. I sat there about three minutes when the man came along. It was rather dark at the time, and I did not take particular notice of him. However, I should say that he was a big and rather stout man of middle age, wearing a dark suit of clothes. He had full whiskers, which seemed to be slightly tinged with gray. He sat down about ten feet away from me, and appeared to he in deep thought. He re- mained about three minutes. and then went to the extreme corner of the balcony, some ten feet further away. He sat down, pulled out a diary, hastily scribbled a few words, tore out the leaf and pinned it inside his coat on the right side. He then took ofi the coat and his vest. He did not seem excited, and I thought probably he had been walking and being heated was trying to cool himself. However, I continued to watch him. He stopped a moment as if holding com- ,munion with himself, and then removed ‘his cuffs. He laid his hat on the clothes ‘and mounting the railing stood there a mo- ment and with his right hand drew a pistol ‘from his pocket. He then raised both hands above his head and fired a shot. Just as he did this he bent his knees and gave a leap into the rapids. I turned just then so frightened I knew not what to do. I just managed to scream, and Charley and others came rushing up." Those who appeared immediately upon the scene say the man was drowned before he reached the Falls, about eighty rods away, and that the body shot into darkness and is now probably lodged in one of the rifts of the rocks below. No cry or shriek was heard. A crowd soon gathered, and Police Officer Ralph Bailey took possession of the effects of the deceased, which were found neatly folded and piled up on the seat. - ., 1-“ The note on the coat read: “ Please ex. press these to E. F. Emery, 29 John street, Utica," and was signed in a plain, bold hand, “ G. W. Knapp." .. .. 11 In a vest pocket was found a plain gold English lever watch, and elsewhere were the following articles: Memorandum book con- taining bills and $4.16 in money, a. spurious trade-dollar, eyeâ€"glasses, a. knife, and match and tobacco boxes. On a. bunch of keys was a tug inscribed with the residence of the de- ceased, “ No. 10 Cooper street, Utica." uunuuu, nu. LU vvvyu. mum”, Vuw“ The cause of the suicide is, at the time of writing, involved in mystery. Just after the fatal act was committed a telegraph boy pre- sented himself with a message, evidently in reply to one sent by the deceased, and which it is surmised concerned business matters. The President of the village, Mr. Peter A. Porter, telegraphed to the address given by the deceased, but up to the time of writing it had elicited no response. The body had not been recovered. â€"Miss X. is telling Mrs. Y. about her visit to the Concord School. “ It was delightful,” she said. “ There are so many lovely drives and walks about Concord, and such quaint old houses.” “But what. of the lectures?” Mrs. Y. asked. “ Ah !" Miss X. replied, “of course I didn’t understand them ; hut it was charmng to sit in that quiet little chapel and listen to the crickets outside.” Biddulph, Sept. 6th, 1880‘ VOL XXIII. THE OVER 'l‘llE FALLS Yohr humble servant, WILLIAM DONNELLY -â€"In a deaf mutes’ convention at Boston there was a pantomimic row over the charge of their President that soliciting agents had kept back 40 per cent. of 54,500 collected for a. proposed home. The scene was a strange oneâ€"400 persons earnestly and excitedly gestieulating at each other without an audible word. â€"Robson and Crane, the comedians, are members of an old church at Cohasset,Mass , which was built in 1713. Mr. Robson had been moderator for nearly ten days and Mr. Crane is one of the newly-elected deacons. â€"â€"'Envious of the great success of Cincin- ati’s annual musical festival, Chicago now aspires to a great musical festival, and ii: is prop posed to invite Theodore Thorium; to go there and place himself at. the head of a lival musical enterprise. â€"â€"-Koster & Bail are finding it a wise policy to engage soloists of an eminent type. Lieb- Iing, the pianist, in conjunction with the splendid orchestra led by Rudolph Bail. fum- ish the best music New York has had since Theodore Thomas left there. â€"A new symphony, in three parts,called a Jewish Trilogy, has been written by Mr. Osger Hammerick, director of the musical school attached to the Peabody Institute of Baltimore. â€"Buffalo Bill in his new play made it hot for the boys at the Windsor Theatre in New York last Monday night. The mercury siz- zled at 85 degrees, and there was an audience of 4,000 people present. â€"The mints of France belong to private corporations, but coin moneyunder the super- vision of the national authorities. Any one possessing sil'Ier or gold can have it coined. A five-franc piece in silver is the only standard national silver money. the other pieces being mere bullion for market con- venience. â€"â€"The famous dry goods establishment of the Louvre, Paris. is a heavy loser by shop- lifters, who conduct their operations with such skill as to generally defy detection. A fortnight ago, however, twenty-six articles were found in possession of a young woman who proved to be the keeper of a small dry goods store. â€"A magistrate at Stockport, England, stated under oath that he overheard a woman tramp say to a sister : “ How much has thee got to-day ? ” “ Fifteen shillings (nearly $54), after a deal of rambling about. How much has thee got?” “Five shillings, but I have not been about much." He saw a. man who had been begging on one of the bridges at Stockport enter apublic house, where, after refreshing himself with liquor, he got his cop- pers changed into silver to the extent of seven shillings and Sixpence, boasting that he had collected that in two hours. â€"Such is the strength of brigandage in Italy that 8,000 rural policemen are kept on duty in order to make the principal routes safe for traffic. â€"An eccentric Englishman, long a resi- dent at Paris, has just. committed suicide, after having devoted twenty years to a strange mania. Every six months he had a coffin made for himself. Each was too long, ton short. or uncomfortable in some way. until the last proved perfect. Having no further object in life, he killed himself. â€"In some foreign countries certain bridges and monuments, if not consecrated to suicide. are largely used for that purpose ; and a similar setting apart is evidently sought by some people for Niagara Falls. Mr. Knapp. of Utice, who both shot himself and plunged over the Falls, took needless precautions. for he could not have survived the plunge alone. â€"Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of New Zealand, who has been appointed to succeed Sir Bartle Frere at; the Cape, is one of the numerous sons of an Irish clergyman by the daughter of Sir Hercnlns Langrish. He has an Irishman’s love of horsefleeh, will never missed an Australian race of any importance. Of conciliatory disposiâ€" tion, he has always got along very well when Governor, and is deemed a safe man by the Colonial Office. He now goes to a. different post. â€"â€"The whole-souled John McCullough speaks in the following way of the hospitality of London actors : “ I must say that I was never treated better in my life than by the members of my profession in London. They were just as whole-souied, generous and hoaâ€" pitable as any people whom I ever knew, and it is owing to them that my stay in London is among the pleasantest events of my life. I believe that any other actor who has ever been in London will tell you the same thing. If he does not, you can rest assured that it is his own fault.” â€"It matters little to some church goers of what words a sermon is composed, for the effect of a “pulpit discourse:’ is to them pro- vocative of slumber. Dean Ramsay relates that one of the Earls of Lauderdale was once alarmingly ill, one distressing symptom being a total absence of sleep, without which, the medical man said, he could not recover. His son, who was somewhat “simple,” was play- ing on the carpet and cried out : “Send for that preaching man frae Livingstone, for fayther aye sleeps when he’s in the pulpit.” One of the doctors thought the hint worth attending to‘ and the experiment of "getting a minister to him” succeeded, for sleep come on. and the Earl recovered.â€"Chambers J our nal, â€"â€"The writer of the words and music of “ God Save the King ” is now unmistakably known to be Rouget de l’Isle, the author of the " Marseillaise.” It is true the sovereign for whom the Frenchman invoked divine pro- tection was not one of the four Georges, but Louis XVIII., at whose first restoration, in 1814, Rouget wrote a hymn with the title and refrain of “ Dieu preserve le Roi.” The French “ God Save the King,” the words of which were a bold paraphrase of the Han- overian anthem, was republished, and is now resuscitated by the Paris press for the pur- pose of showing that Rouget de l’Isle was not a Republican. â€"-Bonaparte died in his military garb, his field-marshal’s uniform and his boots, which he had ordered to be put on a short time pre- vious to his dissolution. Augustus Caesar chose to die in standing position, and was careful in arranging his person and dress for the occasion. Siward, Earl of Northumber- land, when at the point of death, quitted his bed. put on his armour saying. “ that it- be- came not a, man to die like a beast.” A more remarkable instance is that of Marie Theresa, of Austria, who. a short time before she breathed her last, having fallen into a slight slumber, one of the ladies in attendance re- marked that her majesty seemed to be asleep. No,” said she, “ I could sleepif I would indulge in repose, but I am sensible of the near approach of death, and I will not allow myself to be surprised by him in my sleep. I Wish to meet my dissolution awake.” Such are the efforts of poor expiring mortality â€"still clinging to earthâ€"still laboring for the breath of prosperity, and exhausting itself in efforts to rise with “ gracefulness to the last." ~0n one occasion. at the court. of Henry VIII., the French ambassador vapored about the beauty of his own language, and the glut- tony of the English ; and looking at the Earl of Sbrewsbury, the Frenchman pitied his inability to speak or understand French. AROUN D THE WORLD. RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, SEPT. 23, 1880, A report just issued by the Board of Trade shows, says the London Globe, the develop- ment of the railway system during the past decade, in spite of the depression of the past few years. The broad facts are an increase of mileage between 1869 and 1879 from 15,- 145 to 17,696 miles, or about 17 per cent. ; an increase of capital from £518,779,000 to £717,003,000, or about 38 per cent. ; an in- crease of gross receipts from £42,696,000 to £61,776,000, or 45 per cent., the increase of receipts from railway traflic proper, excluding “miscellanfious,” being from £41,075,000 to 1559395900, or 2147} per cent ; an increase from £20,780.000 to £32,045,000, or 54 per cent. in the total working expenditure, the increase in the railway working expenditure only, exclusive of certain miscellaneous items, being from £20,263,000 to £31,050,000, or 53 per cent. ; and.-_ an increase of total net receipts from £21,916,000 to £29,731,000, or 36 per cent, and of the net receipts from railway working only from £20,812,000 to £28,345,000, or also 36 per cent. ; the proportion of the for- mer to the whole capital falling from 4.22 to 4.15, and of the latter from 4.01 to 3.95. It appears on the face of these facts that the in- crease of mileage is much less than the in- crease of capital, which would imply, making all allowance for the r ummal increase of capital by conversion openitions, a constant expenditure of capital on lines open for traffic; but at the same time that the in- crease of receipts is muc'} greater than the increase of capital, being no less than 45 per cent., as compared with an increase of 38 per cent. only in the capital. The final result is, that in spite of this large increase of capital, and also of the still larger proportionate in- crease of working expenditure, amounting to 24 per cent., the return per cent. on the in- creased capital is just about as great in 1879 as the return on the small capital in 1869. iRailway shareholders are, on' the average, 11¢) worse on the cc of th "- "me than the, were in 186%, , We tngml’es themsc" 0:; When this; was interpreted to Lord Shrewsbury, the old earl raised his bent head, got painfully to his feet, and put- ting his hand to his dagger, exclaimed that if he thought there was a word of French in his Whole body, he would dig it out with his dagger. As for gluttony, he remarked, if the English did not eat their beasts, their beasts would eat them. Altogether, he “ dumbfounded ” the ambassador. This sounds something nndignified now, but it was frankness then. That most flippant of diplomatic asses, Prince Schwartzenburg, was so grossly imprflient as to remark sneer- ingly to Lord Ward ihat English diplomatists spoke shockingly bud French. “Ah,” said the English nobleman to the Austrian satirist. “you must remember that we have not had the advantage of having our capital cities so often occupied by French troops as some of the continental nations.” This sharp com- ment on the German’s text was as creditable to Lord Ward as a reply of an English am- bassador to Napoleon, at the time of the rupture of the peace at Amiens. “ I will make an attack on England," said that most imperious of muscular gents, the First Cone- sul, in a burst of fury, to Lord Whitworth.~â€"- " That is your affair, sir,” was the reply.â€"“ I will annihilate you," rcared the consul.â€" “ Ah, sir, that is our affair.” was the calm and noble reply of the representative of ,a great people. were in 1869, me themes“ themsciwf: allowing for the increase of nominal capital only and for the circumstance of trade haw» ing begun to revive from a previous depres- sion in 1868, while 1879 was the lowest point of the depression. may be held to denote a real improvement. She offers lo Sell flex- Chllll to n Guelph Lady. Wednesday morning an occurrence of a rare nature took place in the exhibition grounds, Toronto. A well known stock breeder from Guelph, named McRae, has been in that city, for the past week making preparations for the exhibition of his cattle. He took his wife and family with him to give them a treat by a visit to the Exhibition during the whole of its progress. The parties boarded with friends in Parkdale, and next door to him with a va- cant lot between. lived a colored family. The little children, who are nearly white. played on this vacant lot right under the windows of the house first mentioned, and Miss McRae conceived a strong desire to have one of them for her servant. She is an exceedingly attracâ€" tive child, pretty, talkative, and in every way lovable. She was a novelty to Miss Me- Rae, who had lived all her life in the country and had seldom seen colored children. The more she saw of the little one the more deterâ€" mined she was to possess her, and finally de- termined to adopt the child. She made her wishes known to her father who did all he could to dissuade her from her strange in- fatuation. but she would not hear it. The mother was delighted with the idea of plac~ ing her child in such good hands, and the father at first seemed very much pleased also. but when he saw how anxious Miss Mc- Rae was to secure her prize his demeanor changed, and he hinted broadly that they ought to pay for her, and demanded $20 for the child. offering to sign away all claims to it if he got the money. Miss McRae was de- lighted with the idea, feeling that by paying the money she would be relieving herself from all sense of obligation, and also that the child, when it grew up, would be relieved from any annoyance from people who would in every respect be inferior to her in educa- ion and station. She made known the cir- cumstances to her father, who easily fell into her views, but on mature deliberation felt that such a. purchase could not be legal, and 1 that the man would. undoubtedly, ask for more money from time to time and would, in all probability; blackmail the girl when she grew up. He sternly forbade his daughter having anything more to do with them, and thus the matter rests. Miss McRae is infatu- ated with the child, and will certainly do her best to get possession of it. ENb‘rl‘lSfl RA] [13"Au PRUGRESS â€"â€"A South End man asked a. one-armed organ grinder if he was a survivor of the late war, and the organist replied: “ Hang it, do I act an though 1 was killed in it ‘2” â€"An Omaha negro nearly killed with an axe the policy dealer who would not pay on a winning slip. In court he said that he was willing to apologize ; that he had miscon- ceived the law, and now understood, to his great surprise, chat a homicide under the cir- cumstances would have been illegal. -â€"A New York paper speaks as follows of Neilson’s death and burial :â€"Miss Neilson had no home. All the surroundings of her death and burial were inexpressibly sad. She died on an old green lounge in a public restaurant, frequented solely by people of a fast class. Her last sight floated away in the presence of two strangers. Thence she was taken to the morgue and cut and quar- tered, no portion of the once beautiful frame escaping from the scalpel of the curious men of science. Mutilated and almost falling apart, the body, but two days before that of a bright particular star among women. was placed in a temporary coffin and taken to London. There it was placed in an oak casket, but no one was permitted to inspect the dead, as the sight was found to be too horrible. and repulsive. AN INHUNIAN IVIO'I‘IIIER. â€"What mode of eating oysters reminds you of a New Jersey town ‘3 The Rah-way, to be sure. â€"â€"It is difficult to become familiar with the wheels of a watch, so many of them travel incog. â€"The older a sparkling coquette or a fash- inable belle grows. the more matchless she becomes. â€"â€"There have been 1,40 duels in France within eight months‘ without the loss of a single life. -â€"~A1awyer"s daughter calls her numerous suitors sundry plaintiffs. â€"The Philadelphia Record knows a bogus doctor even in a. dark night. â€"“Stradella." in English will be the strong feature of Carl Rosa’s repertoire this year. ~â€"“ Fruit is very high this year," said the tramp wistiully, as he passed the ten-foot wall of a garden. â€"-Clothes don’t make the man, but they have ninety-eight per cent. to do with a street car stopping at; his whistle. â€"â€"When it is announced that a politician is in the hands 01 his friends it is understood that théy. will take him home all right. _And hmn mm want vmn- wife tn nink m1 â€"Bonds that are hard to redeemâ€"vaga- bonds. â€"'I‘he most- charming bridal veils are of illusion. â€"An onion, like a laborer, works best with its coat off. â€"A Troy paper charges Detroit girls with Carrying slung-shots. â€"The leaves will soon begin to color up at the advance of J . Frost. â€"Barefooted boys will soon have to step around lively to warm up the frosty spots. â€"A compositor who cannot agree with his wife says he must have taken her out of the wrong font. â€"The spring chicken changes to the fall hen. but the transition makes no change on the bill of fare. â€"-Wind lifted all the tents of Barnum’s show, at St. Louis, and tore them into pieces too small for patching. â€"There is a man in Aurora so thin that he had a row of buttons put on his umbrella covers and wears it for an ulster. the axe split her own lings ju hint â€"An time yau want your wife to pick up to her ti? ilyou (an see 9 * grow 9"le â€"Stmw hats and straw drinks depart. hand in hand. â€"â€"If you wish to take care of your health, take air. â€"Thcy have decided to put the obelisk on a knoll. Very appropriate place for a. knolled thing like that. â€"â€"The latest; news from the West is a herd of buffalo forty miles long. That‘s the big- gest we ever herd of. -â€"â€"We know a carriage-maker who has a sulky wife and a gig-gling daughter, but they are rather hansom for all that. â€"A good prophetâ€"190 per cent. â€"The latest thing in boots.â€"â€"Stockings. â€"The trout is often ” caught on the fly.’ â€"Have yeu decorated your (all horse- shoe? â€"No /’tha.t fall 13 here mild Winter 1101 far away it seems our duty to say that biything before bzeakfast is very injurious to the gen- e1 a1 system. â€"A worklady out for a holiday goes into ecstasy over the roses. “ Oh how lovelyâ€" hoW beautiful! One would almost think they were artificial." ~The Rev. Father O’Rielly, a priest of Osage City, Kan" is undergoing an investiga- tion by the church authorities. He is accused of Beecherism. â€"Grandpaâ€"â€"“ Now, Tommy, can you tell me where port comes from ‘2” Tommyâ€"“ No, sir; but I know where it goes to.” The ques- tion is not pressed. â€"An Indiana editor says : “ Coal oil rubbed on the neck and head will cure hog cholera. ; we have tried it." Who can dispute testimony llke that ‘3 ~â€"A lady who took a ride on an elevator was asked how she liked it She said she enjoyed the: ide ever so much but she didn’t think the scenery was vely nice â€"The three brothers Littlefield were all killed at Gonzales, Texas, in a fight with three members of the Martin family, one of whom was badly wounded. -â€"A Brooklyn man has commenced an atâ€" tempt to go w1thout food for forty-two days, and there is every prospect that his stomach will be as hollow as his head. ”The only bridal tour taken by Neil Bur- gess and wife was a walk around the public square and a moonlight ride in a. street car. Widow Bedott couldn’t spare them longer. â€"â€"â€"A Southern artist has painted a romantic picture of an illicit Whiskey maker’s camp in the Georgian hills. It is called “ Moon- shiner‘s Mountain.” Of course it is a picture of still life. -Women have cheek enough to wear men‘s Cthats on theii heads, but there is one thing they dme not do Not. one of them dares remove her hat in public and dust off the bald spot. -â€"A California convict who was about to be hanged coolly sang a song to the Sheriff, but the local journals do not know the name of the song. It. must have been, “Break the Noose Gently.” “ In what condition was the patriarch Job at. the end of his life?” asked a Sunday- schoolteacher of a quiet-looking boy at the foot of the class. “Dead,” calmly replied the quiet-looking boy. â€"A maiden lady, aged seventy years, was on one occasion asked at what age the feeling of love became extinct. To the questioner’s surprise, however, she replied, "Well, I am sure, you must ask some one who is older than â€"A debtor’s treeâ€"willows.â€"Whitchall Times. A boarding-house keeper’s treeâ€"’ash. â€"â€"Yawcob Strauss. A tree that everybody would like to beâ€"poplar.-Whitehall Times. A tree that resembles fashionable young menâ€"spruce. â€"“ The Aquenuckaquewauks” is the name of a social club at Danbury, Conn. Most of the time of its members is taken up in pro- nouncing its name ; but they might as well do that as some other things such clubs de- light in. â€"The shiver which gallops up and down a. man’s legs as he rises to parade around and look for burglars is: another warning that summer has faded and fall is here. â€"â€"A coasting vessel was tossing about in a heavy storm, when one of the sailors, hang- ing on a rope, thoughtfully observed to a. companion similarly employed, “Think of the poor devils caught at a picnic in such weather as this I" â€"-Mr. Edison says that he has completely solved the problem of electric lighting. In the October number of the North American Re- view he will state the advantages of electhâ€" ity over gas and explain how the new light Is to be introduced. ~â€"“ Sit down," said a handsomely dressed and vivacxous young lady to a companion at COHIIC BUDGET. «“Every politician isn’t a statesman,” ret marked John Lay, in a Texas saloon. This expression was regarded by Den Moore, the town constable, as a. personal insult, and he shot Lay at once. â€"The daughters of present European rulers do not support the common theory of the novel and the stage. that aristocrat blood causes delicacy and refinement of face. They are, as a. rule. rather eoarse and common as to fea- tures. â€"â€"-Count Arnim has applied for a suspen- sion of the sentence of eight months’ im- prisonment for retaining diplomatic docu ments, in order that he may return to Ger- many and take his trial on the charge of high treason, for which he was condemned by de- fault to five years’ imprisonment. v“ Define agentleman." you say 2’ Well, yes, I think I can! He‘s as gentl', as a woman, and as manly as a, man. “The Jesuits have had a, hard Lime of it. They were expelled in 1507 from Venice, in 1708 from Holland, in 1764 from France, in 1767 from Spain, in 1820 from Russia, in 1829 from England, in 1872 from Germany, and in 1873 from Italy. They have been ex- pelled from several of the South American reâ€" publics, also from Mexico, and have now been pronounced outlaws in the French Republic. Their political intrigues have brought down vengeance upon them in all countries. The brovin nuts of the turnip tree ; The cashmere heifer skips and plays To the tuneful bloat of the feathery bee, 0n tall bought; ’mid the buckwheat buds We hear the low of the tinny plover, While the bay bull hitched to the rumbling Husks out the golden clover.” [scythe â€"â€"George Austin spat at Libby Steele, in a St. Paul street, and wasinsmntly killed with a knife by Robert Barton, her escort. â€"â€"Londovb Truth. â€"Toddlekins is a very small man indeed. but he said he never minded it at all until his three boys grew up to be tall strapping young fellows, and his Wife began to cut down their old clothes to fit him. And then he said‘he did get mad. â€"0ne of the most charming evenings we ever spent at a theatre was in company with a dear old lady who has never before seen the interior of one. In the course of the play there was a little ballet. When the girls came on attired as usual the old lady blushed and said in 9. loud whisper: “They should be whipped and sent to bed. Take me home.” That species of old lady is rapidly dying out. â€"â€"Cmmm r'cial Advertiser. â€"“Gentlemen of the jury," said an Irish barrister, “it will be for you to say whether this dciendant shall be allowed to come into court: with unblushing footsteps, with the cloak of hypocrisy in his mouth, and draw three bullocks out of my client’s pocket with impunity." a fashionable watering place ; “sit down ; it’s the only thing you can do here without being obliged to pay for it.” â€"-Even in Massachusetts the clergymen be- lieve that the boys should have extra license along about watermelon time, and that it does not follow that a melon-stealer will necesâ€" sarily become a. robber. A '1‘: me that has Risen to Great lmpor . ("are in I Country. h“ froml'ghe Uificmziti Unrnn’ieimaz 1 " The egg g traffic of this country has risen to an importance which few comprehend. The aggregate transactions in New York city alone must amount to fully $8,000,000 per annum, and in the United States to $18,000,000. A single firm in that line of business east han- dled $1,000,000 worth eggs during the year. In Cincinnati, too. the traffic must be propor- tionately large. In truth, the great gallina- ceous tribe of our country barnyards con- tribute in no small degree to human subsist- ence, eggs being rich in nutritive propertiesâ€" equsl to one-half their entire weight. Goose, duck, and hen eggs are the principal kinds produced in America. We have nothing, how- ever. like we are told used to be found in Madagascar, or have been found there, the gigantic \voa egg, measuring 13 1-2 inches in extreme length, and holding 8 1-2 quarts. One of these birds, with a single effort, might supply a. modern boarding-house with omelets for a day. â€"A Green Bay,Wis., politician who wants to stand well with the grangers, sings. “ T133 hipkory beriy “31.9 entwines The perishable nature of eggs has nat- urally detracted from their value as a standard article of diet. The peculiar ex- cellence of eggs depends upon freshness. But lately the process of crystalizing has been resorted to, and by this process the natural egg is converted into a delicate amber tint, in which form it is reduced to seven-eighths in bulk compared with barrelled eggs, and re- tains its properties for years unimpaired by any climate. This is indeed an achievement of science and mechanical ingenuity, and has a most important bearing on the question of cheaper food, by preventing waste, equalizing prices throughout the year, and regulating consumption. In this form eggs may be transported without injury, either to the equator or to the poles, and at any time can be restored to their original condition simply by adding the water which has been artifi: cially taken away. The chief egg desiccating companies are in St. Louis and New 'York. ‘ No salts or other extraneous matters are in- . troduced in the process of crystalizing; the‘ product is simply a consolidated mixture of the yolk and albumen. Immense quantities of eggs are preserved in the spring of the year by lining. Thus treated they are good for every purpose except boiling. It is a com- mon trick for some dealers to palm off eggs so treated for fresh, so that Imposition is easily practised. In the desiccation process, however, the difi‘erence becomes apparent, as from four to five more liined eggs are re- quired to make a pound of eggs crystalized than when fresh are used, and eggs in the least tainted will not crystalize at all. Some of the most experienced egg dealers declare that there is no profit in raising poul- try to compare with roducing eggs. A single hen will lay from 2 to 15 dozen eggs per annum, selling at an average of 18 cents per dozen, and the birds thus occupied can be housed and feel for less than 50 cents for the ‘ whole period. In the East the price per dozen 1s much higher. Here we buy them by the dozen. Step into an eastern produce establishment, and they will sell so much for a quarter of a dollar. There is no reason why the crystalizing process should not become quite general, and egg production stimulated as never before, and the food supply receive large accession from this source. The already great and increasing consumption of eggs in England and France shows growing apprecia tion for this kind of food compared with any other. In Lima, Peru, eggs sell at $1 per dozenâ€"equal to $4 per pound crystalized. It is thought that this new process for preser- ving for utilization the industry of our hens and pullets may be very acceptable, as well as beneficial, in a business and domestic point of View. â€"“Why,“ some writer asks, “is a. brilliant man less brilliant with his wife than with anyone else ?” Well, we suppose she asks him for money oftener than anyone else. You take to borrowing money regularly and con- stantly of your dearest and most brilliant friend, and see what will become of his bril- liancy in your presence. WHOLE N0. 1,160.â€"â€"~NO, 17. â€"â€"-A highâ€"handed outrageâ€"five aces CBYS'I‘ ALIZED EGGS' 96f, The wind had fallen and the smoke hun :5 heavily over everything, while the sun seeme 1 without effect upon the air, which was cold and raw. A heavy due fell, and the new;- paper men who had ordered their teams for 6 a. m. for an early excursion in the dry anrl dmrning district were ill-provided for cold an 1 damp weather. The horses were in readi11e::4 and so were the drivers, and there is no bet ter appetizer than a driveJoefore breakfast We took the direction of the Charlotte real that runs north-westerly out of Upton, and 11:1.1 not gone a half-mile when we came to th» black grey' fringe of smouldering ashes anl embers. For several miles upon eitherhand a 1 we drove over the road there was nothing 1m 3 a. devastated waste with the fringe of burning: woods beyond, smoking and cracking. Thesu sounds were relieved occasionally by the sound of a falling tree. Not a living thing was in sight except a few birds. A couple 01‘ spairows seemed to stick closely to the hedges, and looked as if they had been rolled in soot. They doubtless had been very badly scorched. Further on we arrived at a house, and in it there were a couple of women who could tell us nothing. except that they were very hunv gry, and that they had been COMPELLED To LEAVE THEIR HOMES and flee for their lives, with only the clothes they stood in. The fire was in the crops, except in one or two places where ditches had been cut. The earth was one fire, the black sods being burned completely, until the surface of the earth seemed to have been sprinkled with yellow sand. For nearly eight miles we continued on this road, and found that half a hundred dwellings had fallen a prey to the flames. At the end of our journey were three or tour houses that had been spared by the flames. Each of them had to supply lodging for from sixteen to twenty fugitives. Noticing the absence of the men we asked where they were, and were informed that they had gone to St. Liboire for bread and meat and raiment. We had gone to the end of the passable road, and as we peered forward saw What appeared an im- penetrable volume of smoke with the red glare beyond. We had already passed over eight miles of the burning corduroy, and had to go back the same way we came. There was no other alternative, as the intersecting roads through the woods had been destroyed long ere we arrived. MoNTnEAL, Sept. 8.â€"Most of the inhnbi ~ tenets of Upton and the surrounding distric: z spent a sleepless night, and at an early hour this morning were afoot, the reddened eyelid z bespeaking the effect of smoky air and lack (V rest. In some cases men had not closed thei ~- eyes from Monday afternoon, and were utter]; fatigued. '- 0n the way back we came to a bridge where occurredthe most thrilling adventure of the century. It appears that Edward Roi was escaping with hie fri-xVilv and two other women. The lad were druiu “‘1d the flames were close upon them, r' ' at once the horse gavea sudden jerk .tthc women off, along with Roi and Le ‘ rer bed upon which they had heen ,rgeclminai The horse could not he stopped ove'L if ttm. driver had tried to stop him" and death terrible and fear- ful stared them in the face But Roi had his wits about him, and they stood him in good stead, for-,picking up the ieather mattress he called upon the Women to follow him, and all three entered at one end of the three feet square tunnel at the end next to the fin and then caged in that small space all tit-rec waited further results. The fire came 1pon them, and set fire to the woodwork of the bridge. Happily for them it burned very slowly, and when the fire cat into their refuge Roi would stuff the opening with some mud. The fire attacked the feather bed, but feath- ers will singe, and will not burn. Thus they remained, tl'junan fighting the fire and the women praying. They were there for five hours, and stifling and warm the atmosphere , came during their enforced stay. At length A'ey heard approaching wheels and ventured it. They had to walk over twining wood; Brit they thanked God. and in view moments rejoined their friends and relatives, who had given them up for lost. Is‘ull Account oflls De-u'uclive Kavugew Retracing our steps, we arrived at the hotel between eight and nine o'clock, and after breakfast we started to try and get through the burned district by the north-east road. that of St. Germain. We passed some very rocky country before striking this road. and at length arrived at the woods, or what had been the woods. Here the scenes we had witnessed in Ste. Helene and Ste. Charlotte roads were re-enacted, except that there seemed more difficulty of escape in the face of a high wind than was the case in either of the other places. Wagons, furniture, and occasionally stoves were to be seen as though abandoned to accelerate flight. After travelling for half an hour over the devastated country we came to several houses which were still intact, although the barns and other build- ings had been burned. We met a number of inhabitants who had been driven away on Monday, but \ who had re turned and were trying to save something from the wreck. They furnished the list of losers as well as they could. and to all inquirâ€" ies if any of them were insured answered in the negative. We were congratulating one old patriarch upon having been saved with life at least, when he replied, “We are not saved yet. See that !” (pointing to the woods so dangerously near). From this point, as at the Charlotte-road, there was no egress. We drove forward as though to press on, when the old man called after us that if the wind got high we might be in danger. He might have spared his advice. We had no intention) of going thither, and after trying vainly to see through the smoke, we turned the horse’s head and drove back again. We learned on this journey that the fire had assumed propor- tions that no one had imagined previously. The sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth ranges of Acton had been burned badly, the two latter losing every house except three. There was no means of getting at any further particulars of this terrible affair, and taking: the 10.30 train the representatives of the press bade good bye to the smoke and flames. The funeral of the Currier family will take place to-morrow at, St. Helene. whither the most of the refugees from the road of that name had fled. The latest news from Upton to-night says that the Wind is rising. No news of fresh disasters had been received, except that in the case of a young man named Tessier, who had been so badly burned that fears are entertained that he cannot recover. It appears that he heard that a. family named Christie on the St. Germain road had been burned in by the flames, and he gallently went to the rescue. He had to go through a swamp and make his way almost a. m: 1e 1n the face of the flames He accomplished the distance only to find that the family was not in any immediate danger. His face and shoulders are badly burned. the skin coming off in rolls. The most lamentable part of the whole affair is that Dr. Gauthier, who attends him, believes that he cannot recover from his injuries. -â€"-The Irish correspondent of the Londo Times writes : “ The potato crop is simply magnificent. What a few men can recollect seeing is now seen on all handsâ€"fields beâ€" ginning to Wither naturally, Withut a. sign of disease. This is chiefly owing to the change of seed, the “ Champions ’ being planted on all hands from east to west, and fully bearing out the good things spoken of them. The price of oats and cattle has doubled since last year, that of pigs more than doubled. Oats are a good crop, and turnips and mangolds never looked better.” â€"The Elmira Free Press says: “The greatest objection to cigarettes, we take it, is that there is too little smoke for the amount of labor and trouble required. If :1. man wants to smoke, it’s a good idea to smoke." CI‘IIE NIURDE [£0 U8 El“ A VISIT TO THE BURNING DISTRICT. A, THRILLING ADVENTURE. AN ACT OF HEROISM