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ymmv.~__, , /Donglnas. James Rogers, Wm. Grant, Peter Hunter, John Drake. The following gentle men were challenged by the defence : Geo. Hamfimmeg Chas. Woods, J. W. Barber. N. qu,Ny:;N1wsoni nges Marsh. Jos. Miller For many years the township of Biddulph had been the scene of bitter feuds and lawless violoucu. Brulal assaults, barn-burning and even murder were included in the long list of ariuicq wnich Were continually recurring in that ueighlmhood, and peumable (LtiZeDS be came pnsitively afraid of their lives. The, Domielly family were most. active in disturb. ing the peace of the neighborhood, and tightly or wrongly, many outrages and crimes were laid at the doors of these people. Thr Donmllya drew with them a section of the people. and between thisfaclion and the anti Donneily paople the most bitter feeling and intense hatred obtained. The ami‘Donnelly {avian formed a vigilance committee. tue ob jecl‘. of which the Donnellys (and many others) believad was to punish them for their alleged atrocities. The burning of Patrick Ryder's ham, a few dltys before the tragedy, aroused the people to such a pitch of vmdictive excite; ment that but one thing could result â€"mur. der. And result it did, in the most fiendish and mercileis form, for the known innocent sufhrel alike with the supposed guilty. Oh the night of the murder there were sleeping in the house of the elder Donnelly, himself and wife, the Sen Tom, the daughter Bridget. anci little Johnny Connors. During the night all these were slain, with the exception of the lastmentioned.‘ They were murdered in the most bruttl and cold‘blooied manner, and tne house was fired. Connors. who concealed himself under a bed during the missacre. esc-tpel. The same night John Donnelly, another son. was called to the door of hlS brother William's house and shot deed. Loxnox‘ Oct. 4.â€"-R(=aders of the SPECTu‘OR need scarcely have their anemones refreshed inigexspect of the appalling Circumstances cou- nectAd with the most diabolical murder which ever disgraced the, fair name of our law abid- ing and order-loving countrxt n n~1§v~ The arrest of several members of the Vigi- lance Committee and the subsequent proceed ings will also be remembered. To day the trial of James Carroll for the murder of Judith Dmuelly was commenced before Mr. Juanita Armour. As the bout House was approached it was evident from the crowds of peoule stand'ng about the lower rooms. with intense excite merit visible upon their faces, that s3me extra eveht iv‘as ab wt to take place. ' Iusule the court-mum there was scarcely more than the usual bustle,and 9. small attendance, pwing, no doubt. to the system adoptei of all-lowing only such persons to enter as were really interested of them=elves or friends in the case. A full corps of barristers was present, and the press was fully repre sented. The Accused Prisoners a Jurv. Over the witnesa box was hung a well ex ecuted map of the township of Biddulpu, in which the murder wai committed, with r13»; grams of the place of residence of the Don- nellvs, as it was before the crime was com mitted. The names of the petit jury werethen read, as usual. A pmel of jury for the trial of James Carroll, Who was present, vies then called, and considerable difficulty was ex- perienced in getting a panel, the defence nearly exhausting their right to challenge. The Crown also challenged several, and re served others, and but for the solemuity of the occasion, in Woulvi have been highly amusing to see ihe alaority with’ which the persons challenged by either side left. the jury box. The panel resulted in the choice of the following gentleman : Thos. Hall. Alex. Ross. Wm. Nepton. Andrew Browulee, Wm. Cameron. Calvin Birch, Wm. Spence. James Ba'iefflesume 0! "w Whalesale Murder. mn, Bengaa‘gn ashram. Thog. ,M,» Thé £311aw1 pggentlamef were challeng y'the Orokvvn: Bani. Bryan, Thomas Km draws, W. i ockwood - - n u "A- ulyuu, The indictment against James Carroll was then re: d [is follows: Canada.“ Province of Ontario, county of Mid- diesex, to wit: ’ ‘ " A 7 ”ML. um“ um' .N . The jurors of our lady the Queen upon their oath {resent that James Carroll, John Ken- nedy, Martin McLaughlinJohn Purtell, Thos. Ryder and James Ryder, the younger, on the fourth day of Fcbrum‘y. in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty. at the township of BiddulphY in the couutv of Middleaex, aforesaid. feloniously, willfully and of their malice afotethought. did kill and‘ murder one Judith Donnelly against-the pencel of our lady the Queen. her crown and her (1 gnity. ZE .uelius Irving for the Crown. The witnesses for the Crown were then called, [inawercd to their names and left the Court room, after which the witnesses for th1 defence were called, answered to their namrs and were also removed from the Court room. James Carroll, who set in the dock during the whole of the proceedings, seemed very cool and self possessed, and, as might be ex pected, took great interest in the chuice of the gentlemen who were to decide the matter of his life or death. ,. 7‘ J .: BEDDULPH’S TRAGEDY. E. Irving. Q. 0., for the Crown, tth ad- dressed the jury. ably reviewing the evidence and lucidly explaimng the modem of the» Donnelly homestead and Wm. Donnelley‘s residence, and the. ans of Bidlulph town- ship and other instrumems for the enlight- ment of the jury. called for the Crown was Mr S. Peters swornâ€"Surveyor ; I prepared the map now hung up over Witness box, Which is curact witness descxibedlhe position of Douneily’s house, and distance bebWeen Whalen’s and Douneily’s premises ; from P, to J. Whalen’s 18L yards; £10m J_ Whalen‘s no the Don- nelly horn stead is 1“0 ; from Donnelly‘s to Thompson’s is 43 'L ., ards ; it is three miles, less eight. rods, from the Donnelly homestead to Wm. Donnelly’s house by the road. two miles and fiftyiwo rods in a‘ straight line ; Blackwell‘s house is twenty five feet from W. Dounelly‘s house; and \Valker’s house is fifty eight yards from W Dmnelly's a. b‘acksmnh’s shop was situated between Dounolly’s and Walkei’s ; Thi,mp- sou's house ; is 150 feet from the road ; the bedroom occupied by Wm. Dounelly was on the north side of the house ; he could not see the homestead from the Window in than room. Robt. Thompson was next exammed and testified to having built the Donnelly home- stead ten )ears ago. Ann Whalen was examined at some length as to Johnny Connor‘s arrival at. her house, and What transpired, but nothing new or im» portant was elicited from the witnesa. Sev- eral other members of the Whalen family also gave evidence as to the incidents con nected with the fire, but very little could be got out of them to throw light on the case. Their testimony showed that old Whalen and his two sons visited the fire when it was nearly over. when the burned bodies were reâ€" vealad to them. The Court adjourned till 9 o'clock to-mor row morning. The trial may last. two or three weeks. LONDON, Oct. 5.â€"The trial of James Carroll ms resumed ihis morning, and the following vide-noe taken: Ann Whaler], swornâ€"Am wife of P. Thileu; lived opposite Donuelly‘s place for ventetnor eighteen years; remember the ght belore the D vnnelly tragedy; Bridget 11 Jane McLaughlin were at my house that gin, and my sons, William wd Joe, were ”unua, a"... .1“. In... uu,nuu u... Wm, ”mam w" , , 5me, as a‘so was my husband; was the last go to bei. at about. eleven o’clock; the ters had already gone to bed; didn’t have Lback door looked; sometimes we never THE FIRST WITNESS Before minded bolting it; think I tried to bolt 1t and couldn‘t; the door was latched; James Feeley Went home about eight , had been there about half an blur; the McLaughlin girls went home with hm; thev left Wm. Feeley, and he stayed till a little after ten, and we went to bed soon after he left, in a room on the ground floor; there are two rooms on the ground flzor. occupied by my husband and myself, and one upstairs; at a little over half-past one I heard rapping at the don; [then asked who it wet, and he said it was Connors; he then came in. Witness detailed the boy's story to her and the fact of her hush md’s going over to the burning building She continued : I Went to bad about 11; didn’t hear anything before the boy knocked at the door ; was in the Donnelly house at Christmas, and also a little while after ; was in the kitchen and sitting room ; the last time I saw the old man’s bed there were valenciennee on it. which came down nearly to the floor ; it was a four-post bed and the posts Went nearly up to the ceiling; could not say how high the bed was from the floor; have been in the other bed- rooms- , never called Mrs. Donnelly by her Christian name, but was friendly with her ; the nartition between the bed-rooms was up to the ceiling ; never observed any opening between the two rooms. Thus. O‘Keefe and Robt. O’Keefe were ex- amined. In their evidence they said that on the night bef ire the murdert :ey new a horse- man pass by on the road whom they allege wai Pat Ryder. He had a. gun with him. Johnny Connors, swornâ€"My father lives at Lliean ; I went to schOLvl there; the family is c imposed of father, mother, two or three girls or boys; one boy olderthan I; my father is a laborer; I used to work for s mie people; I remember going to Donnelly’s one evening; I had been over sawing wood at a neighbor’s; one of my Sislel‘s came for me and we went home; there I found old Mr. Donnelly and I‘hornas Dininelly; mv in \ther told me to put on my coat. and I rode down to Donnelly’s in the cutter with those two. We left at about five o’clock: I had been at Donnellv’s before that to take care of things when they were in Granton; this was four or five days before; we got out to Donnelly’s about six o’clock ; the old man and I warmed our- selves, and John and Tom put the horses. in the stable; they came in, sat down. had tea and went to brd: John went out and got the harness and sadlle on the little pony, and rode off ; after he had gone Tom and I went out and fed the homes and pigs; we then went into the house; it was not long ifter I got there when John went away ; we went in and sat down alongside of the, stove ; I‘homas, the old man. and 1, Mrs. Donnelly ‘and Bridget were working round the home '. we Sit ab )ut half an hour, and the old man went 1: ) bed and said I was to go to bed with him: Tom said I was to no to bed with him, ‘ out I finally went to bed with the old man; I put one pair of my pants under the stove and undressed in the bedroom ; the old man siiii his prayers in the kitchen; the old man not in first, and I got over the old man in bed and got between the wall and him; I h td been in bed a little while (some five minutes) and I heard a man in the kitchen, who I took to ‘ be Jim Foheely ; I think he was there as I , went to sleep; didn’t hear him going out ; others were talking with him; the bed was a big, tall bed, four hiUh posts, the head to the road and the side against the house; there is another bedroom; 'after I had gone to sleep the first thing I heard Mr. Donnelly woke me, as he was getting up, and I saw a man stan 1- ing in the door, with a candle in his hand. ‘ optimum} onwthg, 13.3,. he ,be‘ won: in which he s ept, and w erexx.‘ M , with the‘Iight was st riding] N" Q. Just say what you saw. A. I saw this man : the old man got up, out on his pants and asked the man what he had against thank now ; he said he had another charge against him; the man was whistling about the room, and the old man went into the kitchen to put on his bo )lii ; he asked Tom if he was handoulfed; Tom answwed, “Yes, he thinks he's sm irt" ; than the old man came in looking for his coat, which he put on, and then went out into the kitchen ; then Tom asked him to read the warrant ; he said, “ There’s lots of time for that"; James Carroll said that ; James Car roll was the man who had the light standing in the door ; I see James Carroll now, he is the prisoner there in the dock ; Carroll had the lightin his hand and was going round the room when the old man was looking for his leoat ; the old man asked Mrs. Donnelly for it. Q. Did you hear anything being, done ? A. I heard Mrs. Donnvllv tell Bridget to get up and light the fire; Bridget was in the next room to me. You said Tom had the warrant read ? A. Carroll said, “ There‘s lots of time for that.” Q. You at this time wereâ€" A. In bed. Q. What took place then ‘2 A. Two or three seconds after there wasa lot of men rushed in. and I jumped under the bed. and saw Bridgon» run upsayrs, Wfigfioiéahipâ€"bid you sEe these men be- fore you ran aher Bridget ? A: No ; I only heard what was going on before that ; I followed Bridget upstaxrs, but she shut the door after her. Mr. Irvingâ€"How long was that from the time the crowd of men came in? "1‘ find just gm under the bed, but I seen her run up‘ and I‘m): fight aftef her. WW , L Q, When you hearti the noise you got under the bed. How ‘.7 A. Under the side of the bed. Q. Then as soon as you got umier the bed ? A I saw Bridget run upstairs and I ran after her, but she closed the door after her, and I went back and got under the bed again. What took place then ? A. Then I saw Torn run through to the front door to get outside. Q. Vvhere were you? A. Under the bed. His Lordship. Then you could hear ham- mering ? VOL XXIII. A. Hammering with sticks. Then they ran there and shoved Thomas on the floor in the front room; I could see his feel, how under the bed. Then they came in and asked “ where was Bridgpt? " Then one said, ‘th a shovel and crack this fellow’s skull open.”’ Then I heard \hem hammer him {out or five blows on the head with the shovel. Q. Did you hear that? A. Yes, sir. His Lordship. You didn’t see it? A. No sir. Mr. Irving. \Vas there a. light at at time? A. I saw them have a light there; they were looking in Tom with it; thenI saw John Purtell and Thos. Ryder. the-m? A. They were standing at the end of my bedroom. Point out ihe place on the plan. (Witness did so) and continued : They were standing side by side, facing toward the front. I was under the bad but could see throng}: “Om Q. What else was there under the bed? A. A clothes basket. it was nearer the head of the bed than the foot: I pulled it up and looked around” it, and saw the two ; I was looking from the side, and over the top some- times ;my head was toward the head of the bed . Kt this point; the prisoners Ryder and Pur- THE WEE were thiay standing when you saw Mr fling. Did you ever see these men be- fore ? m1 00111110» ‘gby the lump mu {*5 tell were brought into the Court room and placed in fullViAe‘vg of the witnes . A. Yes. sir. Q. Who are they? . A. Thoa. Ryder and John Purtell; they are the two men I Bpoke of. Q You saw alight. and saw them in the position you have described? A. Yes, sir. Q. Do you know how they were dressed? A. Thoa. Ryder had on a sort of gray cap, With lugs and peak; the lugs were tied up over the top of the cap ; I had seen that cap before ; had seen him wear it. Q. Had you ever seen Purtell before ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Do you know how Purtell was dressed '2 A. He had on black clothes. Q. Of the people who wez‘e there you saw two others ; can you give any description of them? facés ? A. I saw a man with a blackened face. Q. Have you any idea. how many men there A. I saw a man there. a. pretty tall man with a moustache and black whiskers; don’t know who he was; saw another man there who had on a brown dress. Q. What do you mean by a brown dress? A. A woman‘s dress; he was not very short or very tall ; 1 saw another man with one of those long overcoats. Q. What kind of a. man was it? A. He was a. short man with a. long over- coat ; I cannot describe any other man. _ Q. Was there anything on either of their A. Almost twanty I think. because of the way they were tramping; I heard a. tramping while I was still in Sbed. and I heard a ham- mering and some hallooing out. ‘ Q. Could you tell who was hallooing out ? A‘ When Tom passed the room where I was he was hallooing,and they were hullooing nut in the kitchen. Q. Y.Ou saiaréomebhing about some one ask ing abput Brifigqt; what. took place then? were A. They killed Tom. and one asked Where was Bridget; one said she was upstairs ; then they Went upstairs after her; I didn’t hear anything after they went up, only tramping ; they wexe not up there many minutes. When they came down, what was done ‘2 His Lordship. From where you were under the bed could you see the stairs? A. Ye4‘ sir, I could. Q. Could you see whether they brought any body _d_own: VVVJ A. No. sir; I kept under the bed when they were coming down and I didn’t hear any‘ thing; they came into my room and threw coal oil on the bed. , Q. How do you know that? A. Because one of them said, “ That coal oil will all burn off and won’t set it on fire." A. They then set fire to it. They had a lamp lit, and when they had poured coal oil 011 the bad they set the lamp on the window in my room ; it was not burn- ing then ; I hn-ard them set the lamp down and saw it there when I got out from under the bed. oilBut on the bed? A. They went out of the kitchen door; I think they all wen}: on}: that way; I then .u...“ -..~_, v... V go: out from liltfilitiirel’uthe bed 8.11:1 ' tried to quonchthe fire with my coat; Icould not quench it. Q. What was the last you heard of them ? A. I got my glothea under my arm after I mlgpuldn‘otfiuench the fire.f and ran; out Wthe‘kiteheifffio'm sh avenue m;- bedroom door I‘heard Tom he the. Q. How was the front door at that time? A. It was open. - Q. Then as you passed out the kitchen door you tremped upon-:â€" A. The old Women. Q. Wh» re was her body at that time ? A. Between the kitchen door on} the dining-room door ; there was the light from the burning bed-room in the kitchen then. ‘ Q. Could you open the kitchen door. A. I could only open it a. llttle ; not more than enough to let me get out. ‘ . m6. Waaoihre’rerlight Enough for you to let you egg all ground the kitchen ? . N 1 ,2,,,, “u___:l A. Yes, sir ; I saw some stuff lying around on the flour ; something like the head of a. dog ; I went. out. as quick as I could get out; when I tramped upon the old lady she was breathing. .. . 1'1 v- Yunnuc. Q. When you got. outside where did you go to ? A. I stnrted for Whalen’s; I heard some nniae up the road; I could not hear any words they were saving; when I got out I came to the road and struck the concession line and went to Mr. Whalrn’s, and ran away up near the barn; heard a dog barking at the house, and I turned and came to the house. (Witness pointed out on the plan the course he took in going from Donnelly's to Whalen‘s) I came to the back door of the house and found it jingling and pushed it in ; a voice asked who it was; I said Mr. Con- nor’s boy; Mrs. Whalen got up and I whis- pered under ear that Donnelly’s house was I. . u. AI.L r - *â€" ,,, . on fire; when I came in she said she thought I was young Carroll; I told old Mr. Whaler], and he asked me was I crazy or did I ever get up in my sleep; he looked nut of the window and said it was only a. lamp burning ; he put on a fire and sat down for ten or fif- teen minutes ; looked out again and said it was a. V fire ; put on his pants and coat and went down to John Wh-Llen’s ; he came back and was look- ing for his mitts ; I told Mrs. Whelen to call up the bays and go and quench the fire, and she said they’d be killed if they went owr there ; she asked me if I saw anyone. I said I saw James Carroll ; she told me to shut up or I Would get into trouble ; Joe and Teresa. were there at the time; the old man had gone out at the time; Joe was there anyway ; I told her that Tom’s body was in the house ; that I thought that Bridget and the old man went to the bush ; it was about half an hour before the old man Went to John’s; Mrs. Whaleu gave me some stockings and boots. and Joe and me went over to the fire; I walked through Whalen’s gets and climbed Donnelly‘s fence ; John Whalen and the old man were at the fire ; when we got there the kitchen was on fire ; the main buildings were smoking ; we did not stay there long ; the four of 11-} Wure the-re about ten minutes ; we saw a big blotch of blood in front of the house ; Mr. Whalen saw old Mrs. Donnelly ; DU , u“. VVAJIAAVLA u..." v-.. .--.,. _,\_ We, all went together over to Whalen’ a , they: said I was a meat fire-' nug to get out â€"The pinuisn. V0u buluw. Wuo performes in this country in the season ef 1875-6, had had a stroke at paraéysis. and the newspapers of Hanover report that the use of his rxght hand is gone. â€"-The Halton News. speaking of a. recent lacrosse match. alludes to one Galbraith as -‘ a cracked player from Shulboume.” The difierence between “ crack” and “cracked” is all in the ’ed. â€"~The Lobo postmaster has been caught Itealing cutlery from a Lonlon restaurant. There will possibly be another case of official dwapltation by the villainous Tory Govern- ment. â€"A gentleman was explaining to aFreneh railway station-master that the English had a system of allowing travellrrs to move about freely. “But.” said the station-master. “you do not. know the French. They would be all vet the place.” What did they do after pouring the coal RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, OCT. '14, 1880. ()OlYli'llslkt‘lAl. lN'I’EflES'l‘S IN S’I‘ (JAI‘IIAKIIVILS. In Bradstreet’s of September 25. the fol- lowing communication from St. Catharines appears: St. Catharines became a city in 1876. Prior to this date, and more especial- ly during the civil war in the United States, the place enjoyed great prosperity, and was accounted one of Canada’s most flourishing towns. The good times led to cheap credits, which enabled parties with but little capital, and still less capacity, to em- bark in various enterprises. with the natural resultâ€"failure. The general depression in business was for some years probably more keenly felt here than in other towns of like size. and this depression was intensified by the falling off in the canal trade. on which the town so largely depended. It is pleasing to note that the commercial atmosphere is now becoming clear, and that there are un- mistakable signs of returning prosperity. The producing powers of the various manu- tactories with few exceptions, are taxed to their fullest extent. One of the largest fac- tories has recently amalgamated with an American company. and the senior partner of the firm here has been appointed manag- ing director of the Canadian business. The shipping interest is looking up. The principal shipbuilder reports that While last year he employed frmu 15 to 25 hands, his pay roll this year numbers about 90. While the manufacturers are prosperous, it isworthy of note that the prosperity is not confined to them alone ; the storekeepers, many of whom in limes past have lost through crediting canal boarding-houses and others, are more cheerful and reporta substantial increase in trade. The first to engage in fruit drying in Can- ada by the scientific evaporating process is a wholesale fruit dealer here. The enterprise al- ready gives employment to about thirty hands, and promises to grow to large dimensions. Three evaporators are in full working order. The fruit is dried in a remarkably short space of time, after which it is pac‘red for shipment to Europe and elsewhere. Similar enter- prises have been found profitable south of the lines, and as there is abundance of fruit grown in this neighborhood, and also a duty on dried fruits of 20. per pound between Canada and the United States, there is no reason why the enterprise here should not be found equally profitable. . u All. Marielle-pa in this section have been Roodâ€"above the averageâ€"added to which they have been well harvested. ” I dosn see Whyrl’se allers in trouble,” said an old darkeymith a bed limp and a. green shade over one eye, as he stood in the Tombs Police Court yesterday. “I dean see why l‘se let be kicked aroun’ and toted all ober like if I wut a wild tagger or a tornedy or sumfin, when I ain’t done nuflin to no- body. Yere I is Wif a. ossifer on one side and heaps ob lor on t’udder, jes becus I'se got de roomaticks and can’t skip about like a buck goat. When I was down Boat 3 teller frowed me outen a. garrett winder. and no one said nuflin. 011 de kyars sum’un tuck away my walise and didn’t. lebe no address and nufifin happened ter him. Den when I comes ter dis yar town two or free niggehs onucks me inter a coal cellar and breaks my leg nigh ofien me and frown dust in my eyes, and clars away “if my eleben cents. No one says nuffin to dem nudder. Chillum, I’se in ehenp o’ trouble, and you’se a. pilin’ it onter de 016 men right aloifitg."“ ” What’s that W¢1 say ?" said his Honor, mun. ‘c; .‘a". to the prisoner’sreci- tel. "You ere as u (1 Mad rubbed 'uy some ET." on I5vere colored men ?" “ Dat‘ s jes it. " said the ole man. “Dey ’aaulted and robbed me. ’Sides suappin my 016 bones and kiverin’ me all ober wif brusies and bunyans, dey tuck ofien me dem elebcn cents." “ Is it the injuries they inflicted that dis able you so ?” ‘- Dem‘s dey. ssh." “ This must be looked ‘ into.” said his Honor sympathetically as he picked ups. war- rant and dipped his pen. “Where did this occur think ?” “ Oh' 189 lemme sot eyes on dem, aah doan lose no eleben cents for nuflin.’_ “ Well I’ll have this matter looked into,” said his Honor drying the writing “By the byLat whgtp’ pluck did this ocpur. ?’ , a _Aa-_ tively. “hi-ain’t shu‘ ’bout de o‘clock,” he said at last, “but I know it 'curred aumwhar along in degpring ob sebenty-two." -u . n , 7,4. «v Vrnvo , The warrant wasvconsigned to the waste basket. A list of amusing forfeits, which will make the company laugh and not offend the person called upon to pay them. are herewith given : 1. Put a newspaper upon the floor in such a way that two persons can stand on it and not be able to touch each other with their hands. By putting the paper in the door- way, one half inside and the other half out- side of the room, and closing the door over it. the two persons can easily stand upon it and still be beyond each other’s reach. 1 w... .w, ".3, ....fi _____ _ 7 2. To go out of the room with two legs and come in with six. Not difficult, if one thinks to bring a. chqir along on the return. 3. To act the dumb servant. The person who has the forfeit to pay must act out the answers to the questions put by the master of the ceremonies, as “ How do you make bread?" “ How do you eat soup ‘2” em. This forfeit will cause much merriment, if proper ques tions are put. 4. Put Brie hand where the other cannot touch it. One can get out of this difliculty by putting one hand on the elbow of the other arm. ”5â€"Plage a. pencil on the floor so that one cannot. jump over it. May be done by put- ting it close to the wall of the room. wi'h a. ”no!" This is not hard if one thinks to ask, “What. (flees y:e s seen ‘2” 7. Pulh a. chair through a. finger ring. This forfeit is made by putting the ring on the finger and pushing the chair-any other object will do as wellâ€"with the finger. rm- 8. Put yourself through a. keyhole. This was a great puzzle to us for awhile.but when a piruce of paper was taken wizh the word “yourself" written upon it, and pushed through the hole, it warI all clear. â€"To obese butchers: If you would lose flesh sell on tick. â€"The Emperor of Austria. had a. grand re- ception at. Cracow. One thousand Polish nobles 1n their splendid national costume met him at the station. At a grand ball in xhe evening twenty-four couples belonging to the Polish aristocracy danced the national mazurka. . m: wumu u u uun “A“ an A- ‘1‘!va The old darkey scratched his head reflec- â€"â€" Paris, too. is sniffing and complaining of bad smells. Some of these undoubtedly pro- ceed from the factories in the northeastern quarter ; but the 80000 cesspools of the city are not unreasonably suspected of counting for something in the affair. and the Munici- pal Council is going to try to so improve the sewerage as to make it possible to do away with them altogether. On Spring street, Bah.” And your assailants were colored men ?” So brack you cudu’l see froo dem." Could you recognize them do you A RESURBECTED ‘VRONG FoflFElTS FUR FUN. There was another case yesterday of a boy who couldn’t help it. A prominent and dig- nified citizen was looking through the third story window of a. block on Jefferson avenue, which he had thoughts of renting. when the idea suddenly struck him to look intothe alley in the rear. He raised the sash of 9. window and peered out upon ash boxes. coal scuttles and barrels of straw without number, and was about to close his observation when the sash came down with a thud and struck him behind his shoulders. In his fright he fell to his knees, and while the SOlld part of his body was all right. the lighter was over the window sill. In addition to the weight of the sash any movement of the body was accompanied by pain. The sash could not be reached with his hands freely enough to lift it. and it soon occurred to the prominent citizen that he ought to have help. He could not expect it from behind. for he was alone in the store, but as he looked nown into the alley a, boy came stumping along to find something worth lugging away. “ Hello ! boy, hello l” called the citizen. “ Hello yourself l” replied the boy as he looked up. . .. .1 1 'r “ Sgyifboy. come under the window here; I wanyito speak to you.” . 11“! “ Not much. yer don’t,” chuckled the ga- min. “You can’t drop no coal scuttles on my head." “ But I don’t mean to.” “ Mebbe not, but you’ve got a, bad face on you for all that. When did yeu get out of the Jug “ Boy, I want your help.” “ So does yer aunt I Don’t get me to stand in with no such duffer as you are ‘2" “ I am caught in this window and want it) get gut.” _._.- A. . \1 07‘ Sggvould I 1 Been prospecting for old junkLehl Â¥_ou'll get six {nonths for that 1” A Juun, cu: .lUu 11 50v ma luvuuuv .v. u”... . “ If you’ll come up stairs and help me out I‘ll givg ypu {1. dgllar." __ “ A dollar ! You can’t play no dollar store on me old man. If you make up another face like that at me I’ll hit you in the eye with this old lemon. I don‘t look starchpd up, but 1 don't. let any man insult me all the same " I; boflt you; know who I am ?" softly asked the citizen. "New. I don’t. but I'll bet the perleece'do. You‘ve got one of the hardest mugs on you I Aver saw, and In a gmd mind to give you one, just for luck. Look out, now 1” He made as if he would throw, and the citi- zen dodged. This was such fun for the boy that he kept it up for three or four minutes, and the offer of 32 had no effect on h‘m. Then he gathered six or eight old lemons and oranges together. and said : “ I belviefvewyrofi are the boss hyena, who knocked‘dad down at the circus, and I’m going to drive your nose back exactly an inch 1" 7 “ l'he soauer ye call the police jagged. Here's to hit you square nose 1” The opening of the back door of a store and the appearance of a. man disconcerted the lad’s aim and the lemon struck the cit'zen’s hat instead of his nose. His yells brought a. climax, but the air was full of tropical fmit even as the boy dusted down the alley and turned a comer. The boy couldn’t help acting that way. He was born 50. It Wouldn’t; have been a bit like a boy to run up stairs and release the man. He didn‘t g at a. fair show with his spoiled lemons, but boys soon get over disap- pointments.â€"Detroit Free Press. WI‘WIfV you throw at me I’ll call the exclaimed the citizen. A correspondent of the New York Herald says :â€"-Your excellent suggestion that “the permanent companies that we want on the edges of the Arctic world are al- ready there ; they are the Esquimaux mbes: and we want to develop our relations with them.” indicates W1thout doubt the most prob- able way in which the discovery of the North Pole can be made. Even turther than this, it may be held that this long sought for end can in all likelihood be accomplished, not in- direetly, but directly. through the Esquimaux themselves. Nor need they be used as mere aids to our expeditions ; we can make them do this great work alone, and ours will be the glory none the less because it will be shared with Americans of even purer American blood than our own. How this is to be done is not difficult to fotsee. Ethnologists have pointed out that few so- called barbarous peoples have attained a higher stage of real advancement than the Esquimaux. Even the comparatively civilized inhabitants of Mexico never constructed arched vaults of stone, as these Arctic dwellers have done. The Esquimsux travelled on sledgeslong before any oiher inhabitants of the American continent used means of convey- ance. and they harnessed dogs to them as draught animals when even the ancient Incas of Peru had never used llamas except as beasts of burden. This they did while they them- selves were in the stone age. They are in- . ventive and highly ingenious. No modern boat builder can compete with them in con structiug light boats for rough water. No modern oarsman dreams of such feats in the management of boats as they constantly per- form. No fur dresser can improve a job on their methods of preparing furs. They are mighty hunte.‘s. They invent weapons and means of making them from bones and ivory . in a land where wood is often as rare as gold. They are skilful carvers. as their children’s toys fashioned from walrus teeth have abun- dantly shown. They build ice huts and know how to warm them with train-oil lamps. Where materials are obtainable they have constructed wooden houses and furnished them in amanner indicating ideas of things far beyond the bare necessaries of life which the instinct of the savage leads him to pro- vide. They not only use furniture and bed- ding, but window lights of fine transparent sealskin. Besides all this they are faithful and peace- ahle. Hall, in his “ Life With the Esqui~ maux," describes them as the “ best hearted people on the face of the earth.” Nor are their attainments merely in the direction of mechanical skill. Another authority highly praises their intelligence, and says that they quickly learn the games of dominoes, draughts or even chess. Peschel, in his ad- mirable work, “ 'l‘he Races of Man," frond which I have taken many of the preceding facts, dwalls on their mapmaking ability. “ Sir Edward Parry,” he says, “ was indebted to a remarkable Esquimau woman, Iliquik, for a map which led to the discovery of the Fury and Hecla Straits." Hall speaks of copies which he made of two Esquimau maps, “ which could scarcely have been drawn more true to nature by Europeans.” Add to all this the records of such guides as Esquimau Hans, who accompanied Lieutenant Kane, and Esquimau Joe, who rendered such splen- did service to the shipwrecked crew of the Polaris during their terrible voyage on the ice-flee, and it can scarCely be questioned that the Esquimau race possesses capabilities which render its development by education a mere possibility. This becomes even more apparent when we remember that we have undertaken the task of educating and civiliz mg the Indian, who haslittle or no ingenuily, who detests fixed dwelllng and the restraints of even semi civilized life, and who is in- stinctively a savage pure and simple ; and that. furthermore, we are face to {ace c!” HE C“ULDN’T HELP I'l‘. THE ESQUIMAIJX. ye’ll be on your police I" with the great problem of edu- cating a. vast negro population hitherto kept ignorant. by law and sprung from a race which, in its natural state is still the lowest in the human scale. If we can drive the In- dian to school and not despair of making a useful citizen out of him ; if we can educate the former slaves, and even deem it wise and expedient to make them sovereign voters we do so ; if we invite the Chinese and the Japanese here and teach them Western civil- ization in our colleges, certainly there is no good reason why we cannot safelv undertake the education of at least enough Esquimaux to enable them to learn the objects of the quest for the Pole, the conditions under which science asserts the task can best be at- tempted, and what to look for: when the goal is reached. The valuable lives have been sacrificed of men who were as unfitted, physically, to cope with the hardships of an Arctic winter as so many visitors from an- other world, and vast sums of money have been expended not only in searches for the Pole but in searches for the lost searchers. We have just learned that it is barely pos- sible for a white man to “ live off of the country" with the help of the Esquimaux. Now, the Esquimaux themselves not only exist in this desert but contrive to do so probably according to their ideas of comfort, and besides this they have peopled regions in which, to quote Peschel once more, “ nature seems armed with all the horrors of one of the circles of Dante's hell.” These are the people to do the work. It is for us to show them how to do it. To reduce this idea, to practical shape needs the knowledge and experience of men who have closely studied the subject of the Arctic regions and the dwellers thereinâ€" perhaps of those who have taken part in the expeditions of the past. It would seem ne- cessary, however. to establish some kind of a school at an intermediate point, where the climate is such that Erquimaux could exist without being rendered physictlly unfit for the resumption of their former mode of life in high latitudes and where white men could live without material comfort. The next Arctic expedition sent out might be charged with the Work of inducing Esquimaux young men to go to this place. Once there, those showing the most intelligence might be specially taught with rrfereuce to the end in View ; the others would be instructed sufii ciently if an interest could be awakened in them. Eventually they should he returned to their people and left to their own devices It certainly seems reasonable to suppose that before many Esquimaux were thus sent back ‘news would be heard from them ; and so, perhaps. in this way might be solved 1hr problem which thus far has vanquished the energy and skill of the civiltzed World. The expense of such an experiment might not be so great as of fitting out a well equipped expluring expeditionâ€"possibly little if any more than the cost of such colonier as Captain Howgate proposes. It seems Worth consideration, if not trial. for its re sult even if not the achievement of the Pole. might at least be the implanting of the seeds of knowledge amid a race ittle cared for now. but chiefly thus because of the icy barrier which nature has interposed be- tween it and the sympathy and brotherhood of civilized man. The Queen’s Jenner Givc's [Ill ldeau ofa Good Fool. Mr. Wallett, the “Queen'sJester.” address ing his audience at Krinh’s Circus, Douglas Isle of Man, on the 18th iggt., delivered him character oifihé‘éreat mgro‘rnrer- drama so much misunderstood as the one I am endeavoring to protray. It is generally supposed that the clown or the fool of the olden time was a low illiterate buffoon, who delighted to throw his limbs into horrible contortions, to wallow out his tongue and roll his eyes, and as Shakespeare says, ‘com- mit such fantastic tricks before high heaven as to make the angels weep.” But such is is not the fact. The fool of the ancient day was a scholar and a gentleman when the Kings and Queens of his country could neither read nor write. Besides this, the clown or fool had a higher or holier province. He was the pioneer of human intelligence and manly independence. It was he who first stood up for the down trodden rights and privileges of the great human family. You see, the fool was kept by Kings, Queens and s courts to amuse them in their hours of L leisure ; and it was he who under the r garb of laughter, dared to tell those whole- ( some truths to the very teeth of tyrants that l greater men would have lost their heads for. 1 But now ‘ Othello’s occupation’s gone." It is V no use of being a fool nowadaysâ€" not it, in- i deed l Five hundred years agoâ€"that was the f time to be a fool! In those days fools were 1 great men, but things are altered now, for 1 great men are fools. In the olden time fools L were well paid; but now, like every other , trade. profession or business, thereis so much opposition, and so many people make fools ( of themselves for nothing, that the trade is i not worth followmg. Now, Shakespeare says: I ‘ Let me play the fool with mirth and laugh- , ter; let old wrinkles come; and rather let , my liver heat with wine than my heart cool i with mortifying groans.’ Now, there is a | reason for being a fool ; but the generality of , fools are fools because they have no reason. , But I am a fool, and I give you a reason for . being a fool. Consequently. being a fool and j having a reason I am areasonable fool. But there are so many kinds of fools. There are fools in there own right and fools in their ' own wrong. There are fools for nothing, and there are fools for interest. Now, I am a fool ‘ for interest~that is. I am a fool, and I find it to my interest to be a fool. Therefore. being a fool, and having an interest. I ought to be considered an interested and an interesting fool. At the same time I must be a fool for principle, because if I had no principal, I could have no interest. becausu interest is derived from principle. And when I show I have an interest. that proVes I have a principle ; consequently, I am a principled fool. But there are old fools and young fools ; satirical fools and drunken fIbUls â€"â€"who are the worst of all fools. Yes, it] had a voice that would echo from hill to bill. and vibrate through every valley. I would cry aloud, without fear of contradition, that drunken fools are the worst of all foolsâ€"ex- cept teetotal fools. That reminds me of what I saw in Manchester the other day. In one gutter I saw a pig : in the other the l semblance of a man. The pig was sober ; , the man was drunk. The pig had a ring ‘ ’ in his nose ; the other animal had one on his‘ finger. The pin granted ;so did the man; and I said aloud, ‘We are known by the company vse keep,’ and the pig heard me and walked away, ashamed to be seen in the company of the drunken man. Snakesueare says, ‘All’s well that ends well ;’ so I finish with the pig, because I think the tale ends B well when there is a pig at the end of it.” >0)â€"Iu~. WHOLE N0. 1,163.-â€"â€"-N0, 20. â€"â€"The first act of “Musetie," at the Academy of Music last evening, was con- iilerably marred by late arrivals. ~The Duke of Cambridge, with the Duke of Connaught and Sir Garnet Wolseley on his staff is in Brrlin. staying at the royal castle to view the autumn manoeuvres of the Pauesian army. The future Emporor o| Austria, the Grand Duke Rudolph, is at the Altes Sohloss, a. near neighbor. L‘EC TUBE 0N F00 LS. ,3 fashion : "There never was a be]; m “From stem to stem," said the editor, fix- ing a suspicious and threatening eye upon him, “ and tell how many tenet of water she draws. her breadth of beam, her tonnage, and all that sort of thing.” A Remarkable Floating Palace Whale Equal Never Exislrd. “ Go down to Pier 48," said the editor to the new reporter, " and write up the new English steamerjuet arrived. Give a. thorough account of her from stem to stem.” “ From what ?” said the young man re- cently arrived from a. far interior State. and to whom a vessel of any sort was a mystery and a. wonder. York. This was the young man’s first. mission. He was eager to distinguish himself. He had already done so on the village paper in a series of essays on “ The Cosmogony of the Universe." But that little town was a thous- and miles away. He wanted a wider field fqr Vhis aspirations and had come to New 4vln. Yet he went out of the office anxious and doubtful. “ I will go to the captain.” said he, “ he will explain to me the ship and its uses. He will tell me all.” ’ “ Captain};vsaga'he. “ I am sent to write up Your ship. Oblige me with stating how many masts she has.” ‘ Eighteen,” promptly answered the cap- tain. uuruu “ Do you sail nights when outside of land ?” “ Never; we anchor." “ What, in mid 01:0an ‘2" ” Of course, youland lubber. There’s docks to tie up to at regular distances 011 the way across.” , “ What is that hole there for ?” pointing to an open hatehway on deck. - A. ___ 1-..; " Where are they ?” “ We have sent them on shore to be paintad.” “ How much water does your vessel draw ?” “ Three inches." “ How do you draw it ‘2" “ By steam power [mm the well." “ Were you ever in a. storm at sea. ‘1’” “ Never.” said the captain. “ Are you ever seat-lick ?” “ Awfully ; can’t leave my berth from the time We leave New York till we arrxve in Liverpool.” - m , ,. _..J A-..“ u. - v.rvv-. *‘ Are the rest of your officers and crew seasick ?” “ Always; we ’16 only on deck and about in port." “ Why, who steers the ve=sel at sea ‘2" “ They cook; he’ s the only well man on board.” dark nights ‘2" “ We send out boats ahead with lanterns. who light up the road." " Are they there mm?” “ Yes; anchored in a line all the way across the Atlantic Ocean.” After geitmg much other information, which the captain said he was only too happy no impurito such an interesting young gentle- man, the reporter returned and wrote as fol- mu urn... . "J - "V ” That’s where an lcebefg ran into us last trip.” ~ . . 'v - A, L- .0." lows: “ The new steamer Crusader is a. splendid specimen of naval architecture. Her keel re- volves on hinges, so as to be readily unship- red in a storm when it is not wanted. The rudder. also, by a patent contrivance, can be drawn out of its sock t and deported on deck during the night, and in hurr canes. The Urnsader has folding decks. “h ch can be doubled up when she has but little cmzo, and her tonnage in this way can be decreased Irom 4 000 to 2,000 tons. The mainsail can, if necessary‘ be used as a. ski/sail or wiudsail, and the s wing of canvas efiected in this man- ner reiuces the wear and te II of her running rigging One half. The main brace passes from the end of the bowsprit ov~r the fore, main and royal masts. thence down over the Spank- s-r boom tothe taffreil and into the cabin win- dows‘ where it is secured by a double~banked sheepshank tothe head of the captain‘s berth S ie has compound engines, which boil water. a an extremely low tem eratm‘e. Her screws revolve at the rate of 10 000 times a. minute; and can, if necessary. be brought forward and. med as paddle wheels. The Lrusader is also constructed on the crab principle, and by bracing up everything sharp on the wind and wearing ship frrquently she can go as fast ; sideways as any other way. The engines are l furnishes ‘ ith condensers, whlch condense milk as wel[' as water. Her cabins are dds. structed on the French flat priuc iple, there being six stories, with kitchens, etc. for each family of paseengers. The Urusader also care vies her own docks, and fhus saves all expen- ses of wharfage when in port. She also car- riea her own quarantine, and so can never be detained if there is any malaria or measles on board. The pilot pilots her all the way across the Atlantic, and comes back with the ship each time. Her compasses in the bar- nacle give each day the direction of the wind The Captain s cow is milked by the boatswain in the foretop.”«-Graphic. 71-71:; msw puma-u: (:BUsAuEB The recent balloon contest and the discus, siou which has been carried on in regard to the best kind of gas for infltting these aerial machines, have suggested the 011 regions of Canada or Pennsylvania. as an excellent locality for future experiments in aeronautics. The gas which escapes from these petroleum wells, often at very high pressure, is exceed- inuly pure and light. and would be much pre- ferable to the comparatively heavy carbu-‘ retted hydrogen obtained from coal. The re- moteness of the oil country from the center of scientific investigation is, of course. an ob- stacle to the carrying, out of this idea ;and it would be out ofthe questlon to bottle up and condense a supply of the gas for use else- where. since pure hydrogen can be artificially produced at a less cost that )would be in- volved in the process 0t transporting the oil- gas. But by the adoption of balloons for surveying purposes in the outlying districts beyond Petrolia, scientific investigation anl practical explorations might go on hand in hand. Balloons, captive or free, afford an excellent means of surveying large areas of land, and the labor of those who are engaged in mapping out the districts in question might be materiallv lightened by the use of balloons, which might draw their supplies of gas from the superahundant natural supplies in the oil regions. BALLOI’INS AT THE GAS WELLS. Everywhere upon the coast of Eastern New England may be found. ten ieet below the water mark. the lichen known as carregeen â€"â€"the “Irish moss" of commerce. It may be torn from the sunken rocks anywhere, and yet the little s~aport of Scituate is almost the only place in the country whereit is gathered and cured. This village is the great centre of the most business in the country, and the entire Uuion drags its supplies from these beaches. Long rakes are used in tilling this maiiue farm, and it does not take longto fill the many dorien that await the lichen, torn from its salty rock-bed. The husbands, and fatheis gather the mo=s from {he see. and the wives and daughters prepare it for the market. Soak it in water and it will melt away to ajelly ; boil it in milk and a. delicious white and creamy blanc mange is the result. The annual product is from 10.- 000 to 15,000 barrels. and it brings $55,000 into the town, whieh sum is shared by 150 families. Its consumptinn in the manufac- ture of lager beer is very large, and the entire beer of the country draws its supplies from Seituate beaches, as the importation from Ireland has almost ceased. It is not generally known that the moss, as an article of food, is called “ seaside farms.” â€"Ca.1vin Phipps of Bedford, Ind... drank a gallon of whiskey every day for a. month and then died. â€"-An American recently sent his son to a Reform school, and the boy was so over. wuelmed with shame that. when liberated, ne shot himself. Parents should send their children to Conservative schools. Good gracious! How do you see to sail FARLVIING UNDER 'I‘IIE SEA. cre W