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Decision by J udRe Macdouirall in the Que- bec Case. The following is a full report of the decision given by Judge Macdougall, at Aylmer. in re the cancellation of crown lands in the Pro- vince of Quebec. In delivering judgment in the case of Holland vs. Boss Bros, on demur- rer filed by the defendants, be dismissed the de- murrer. reservingjudgment on the law answer filed by the plaintifi until after proof. In doing so is Honor said that the contention o the defendants that the location ticket under which Mr. Holland held his land is not a title giving rights of owner. ship, but merely a right of occupation or lease, was wrong, for the location ticket used in the administration of public lands was really a deed of sale when accompanied with possession. It would be held so if the trans- action was between private individuals, and _ if there was any diiference between a private individual and a government,,it would be .against the latter, because the Government had adopted a system of promises of sale, and it was sanctioned bya large number of statutes passed from time to time. He cited the case of Dubrielle vs. Lafonv taine, in which the Court of Appeals had held that Dubrielle's location ticket was a promise of sale. and being followed by posses- sion,was as good as a deed of sale. He thought, therefore, that the deed of sale in the case should be maintained if the allegations of the plaintiff should be sus- tained by the evidence. As to the demurrer that the plaintiff, not being proprietor, had no right to claim the lots, his , Honor said that the whole case turned on this very point, whether the plaintiff was proprietor of the lots or not. . If he sustained his location ticket be was the proprietor. lthereiore he had‘ the right to claim the timber. In nature it was the ground for a demurrer. As to the question how far the Province of Quebec represents the old Government of Canada in respect to the administration of the public lands, his Honor did not think this was just the time or way to raise the question. In his opinion the Province of Quebec took the position of the old Government of Can- ada with regard to the administration of the lands, but the matter would come up more regularly upon the pleas to the merit, and after proper investigation. The validity or invalidity of the cancellation would depend a good deal upon the proof to be guide in the cause. His Honor concluded by ying that there was another part of the se, a very important part tooâ€"the absence of notice given either by the Crown Lands agents, or the Minister or the Deputy Minis- ter. to the plaintiff before cancellation. The pleading did not show whether H01- and was ever notified that the cancella- tion would take place, or was called upon to show why it should not be made. Of course it was a matter that required proof, therefore the best way to dispose of the case at the present stage was to dismiss the demurrer and to reserve the answer in law. At theutime oi the explosion the men were supposed to have been eating their suppers. Johd, who had charge of the briler which ex- ploded. it is thought, was sitting beside his boiler, and his brother, who assisted in firing the boilers in the main building, was sitting outside between the mill and the boilerhouse. The remains of John Pickard were found about twenty~five feet from the scene of the explosion, with several pieces of lumber lying across his legs. When extricated an examination showed that his right arm was broken near the shoulder, and that: there was a large cut on his left leg. His body was so badly scaldsd that the skin peeled right off and his neck was broken. The remains of James Piokerd were discovered only a few feet from where he was supposed to have been sitting. An examination of the body showed that his left leg was broken just below the knee, the sole of the shoe or: the right foot was torn off and the foot cut. There was s gash in the back of the head shout four inches deep. He was scalded but little. The smoke stack wasoarricd some distance and fell across the roof of the our factory. The roof of the salt block was badly damaged, and the boiler house was shattered in pieces. while fragments of the boilers, Weighing several hundreds each. were hurled with ter- rific‘ force several hundred feet distant. The steam dome was thrown 125 feet and buried two feet into the ground. Another section was hurled through the air and, WhlIilDR in its flight. crushed through the roof of the oalhblock fully thirty feet high and twenty feet from the boiler house, and fell through the whole building‘ breaking in two an inch iron feed pipe in the salt block. and then crushing in the floor fell to the ground. Jamea and John Pickmd, firemen, were in- stantly killed. 80111 were warned men with lamilies and enme here a few months ago from Bronte, 0m. A youth named John Murphy, who was lining inside the boiler house of the main building, received 8. out on the head and another in the back, but neither were serious. Another boy who was also sitting in the same place was lilted several feet by the shock and stunned to some extent, but nothing selfioua. The damage will reach $9.000. 1 Another steam dome was carried half way over the salt block and, crushing thruugh the roof, fell into one of the salt tanks. Nomiâ€"The remains of John and James Pioknrd, who were well knewn to many oifizens. passed through Hamilton. en route for Bronte, yesterday. The Farmer and Fruit Grower, published st Anna, in the same county, says : The scene of this crime was in that rugged portion of Union county six miles exist of Dongole, at the house of a woman named Nancy Keller. The parties to the transaction were a. women ‘ by the name of Dalton, mother of the i murdered child, the womas Keller, William ‘ Hazel, a. brother of the murderer, and Samuel Bezel, the brute described above, who is said to be a. former inmate of the penitentiary. None of the parties mentioned bear the best of reputations. Wm. Hazel lived with the Keller women, end on the night of the murder, August 31. was there with his brother and the Dalton woman and her child. After 8 o’clock the two men went to the premises 01 _'8 neighbor, a widow, and stole (our chickens. r The woman came out and objected and was shot at by one of the men, the ball grazing her face. They took the chickens to the ~ house where the women were, and had some of them prepared for supper. Sam Hazel had ordered Little Mollie Dalton not to go to sleep, and she replied, " Me won’t.” After supper the child began to nod and the brute would slap her face to keep her awake. His rough treatment at last made the little girl cry, when he seized a cowhide and commenced beating her. This he kept up for an hour and a. half, and the efi'eot on a tender child of six years may well be imagined. He then sent her out to gather kindling wood for the fire, and after it short time shouted '. “ Mollie, â€"â€"-â€" you, where are you ?” EAST SAGINAW. Oct. 3.â€"Ac twenty-five minutes past 12 O'clock last night, three boilers expkodud' at the 331' factory and salt works of Dagraw, Aymer & Co , m Carrolton, operated by Laduedz Pn'mney. ‘" Three Boilers Explode' in a. at Carrollton, Michigan TWO BRONTE MEN KILLED. A Horrible Deed Committed in Southern Illinois, and the Murderer Allowed to Escape. The Sherifl of Union 00., 111., says : “ A liberal reward will be given by citizens, and doubtless $200 by me Governor, for the arrest of Samuel Hazel. for the murder of Mollie Dalton. a. child six years old. on the 13th day of August. 1881." FEARFUL ACCIDENT. ‘3 CROWN LANDS. SAM HAZEL’S CRIME Uhl‘ II in 3. Mill ligan. KILLED. l . twenty-five How Their Captors Turned an Honest Penny. LITTLE ROCK. Oct. 8.â€"A new and sense.- tioual phaae was made public today in the case of the hréin robbers. Ir will be rememA bared that a passenger train on the Iron Mountain railroad was robbed by three beardless robbers on the night of September 2. They were pursued and cuplured, one in Texas and one in the Indian Nation. They were brought to Washington and a special term of court ‘. eld yssterduy. when the robbers pleaded guilty to fourteen indictments each, receiving five years to each indictment. making the term of punishment seventy years each. The Elfin out in the dark replied: THE GUITEAU INDICTMENT, “ Here me." Hazel then went into the yard. and commenced kicking her. He brought her into the house and kicked her from one side of the room to the other like a ball. He stamped the little form until no sign of life was apparent, and one of the women said 2 “ Mollie is gone.” “Yea,” replied the fiend, “ to hell headforemost.” After a while, as if realizing the enormity of his crime. he brought some water and tried to ieatore the little one to life. Finding that. this failed. he took a burning brand and held it to her “ foot,” ssying with an oath that he would “ see whether she was dead or not." This brutal experiment also failed to restore OOUSGlOUBINBS. and at. about five o'clock on Thursday morning, September 1, Mollie Dal- ton died. Samuel Hazel, the perpetrator of this, thegmoet cruel and cowardly murder ever committed in Southern Illinois, was allowed to escape in broad daylight, a {not which does not speak wrll for the citizens of that portion of the country. Tardy information was furnished to the officers in this city, and all they could do was to strike the trail, but every efiert will he made to capture this de- mon. Wm. Hazel, the brother, who stood by and saw the life beaten out of the child, is in jail in this city. THE BEARDLESS TRAIN NOBBERS The pursuing party which captured Ste~ phens end Delaney consisted of four men, named Huddleston, Belvins. Moore and Dollshid. When arrested the robbers had about $9,000. After counting the money Huddleston proposed to the captors to divide the money among themselves. Belvins objected, claiming that the money ought to be secured to the railroad com- pany. The plan was finally agreed to. The money was equally divided among the {our in the presence of Stephens and De laney. In consideration of the latter keeping the matter secret, each of the four swore an oath that he would annually pay to the families of the train robbers 3100, and leave no means untried to secure their release from the penitentiary after conviction. The reason for not releasing them at once wss because the reward 0181,000 awaited their delivery at Hope. On the route Belvins con» tinned to menileet dissatisfaction at the transaction. Reaching the village of Min- eral Springs the party took quarters for the night. During the night Huddleston asked Bel- vins where he had his money. The latter replied: “Under the pillow.” Huddleston remarked: “We may be robbed. Mine in between the mattresses." He advised Bel- vins to place his there also. Belvina did so. When Huddleston asked him to go down town to get some cigars, he replied it was too late. Huddleiton insisted. Balvina turned to leave the room. Huddleston’a pistol was discharged. Leaping back Belvins inquired the cause of the shot. Huddleston replied that the pistol went 0!! accidentally. Noth- ing further passed during the night; In the morning the party continued we journey to Hope. Passing along the road Huddleston’s pistol was again discharged. the ball whistling by Belvins’l head. Quickly turning and drawmg a. revolver, Belvins re» marked: “Accidentally discharged pistols are getting monotonous.” At. the next village Belvins deposited his money with a friend, fearing he would be killed if be retained it. The party finally reached Hope and turned over the prisoner to the authorities. came to this city, and re- ceived the 81,000 reward ofiered by the State for the capture. All the captors appeared at the trial at Washington yesterday, when’ Belvins divulged the whole matter to Sum. Buchanan, of the Iron Mountain road. Huddleston, Moore and Dollahid were examined separately. Each made affidavit that he knew nothing of the whereabouts of any money. Subsequently Moore approached Buchanan and stated that the money could be procured. The train robbers, Stephens and Delaney. were interviewed. testified to the facts as given above, and declared they would not have divulged the aflair if the partiei themselves had not given it away. Huddleston, Siephens and Delaney were confronted with evidence, gave way, made a clean breast of the whole affair, promised im- mediate restitution and were permitted to go for the money. having secreted it along the road. It is not. known whether they will be prosecuted or not. It is supposed they will Dan Rice, who was the best known show- man in too country twenty-five years ago, has experienced strange vicissitudes during the last ten years, and has varied his professional career with occasional experiments in the line of religious exhortation and temperr nce cru- sading. Yesterday the Court of Erie county granted his wife a divorce on the ground of desertion, and thus terminated What was in its earlier days a very romantic union. In 1845 the (showman was exhibiting in Girard, Erie county, and his attention was attracted by a remarkably beautiful child in her nurse’s arms. He asked her name, and, subsequently fixing his residence in Girard, he kept up a lively interest in the girl, who was the daugh~ ter of a leading citizen, deacon in the Presby’ terian Church and President of the local bank. At that time Dan rolled in wealth and spent his money lavishly, not only in the erection of a magnificent house, but in adorning the town. He was married to an estimable woman, who had been on the stage, and about fifteen years after his arrival in Girard she sued for and obtained a divorce. Shortly afterward Dan carried off his youthful ina- rnorata, much against the wishes of the pater- nal deacon who disinherited his daughter, but when Dan failed in 1873 was reconciled and took them to his house. The showman’s extensive property was sacrificed piecemeal in unprofitable ventuns, and his life grew irre» gular. His professions of temperance and religion were looked upon as advertising schemes and his wife grew cold and finally declined to see him. It is said he refused to § oppose a divorce. Rice began his career as a ‘jockey boy for Henry Clay on his Lexington farm. and at one time was considered worth half a million, owning among other property | an opera house in New Orleans. VOL. XXIV. Dan Rice’s Romantic Marriage. â€"â€"I know by beautv's token. The crimson and the gold, The wayside aster nestling, Its silken purple gold, The radiance, amber-colored, In air and sea and sky, The dewdrop’a luster showing Her frosty lover nigh, The forest leaves now falling, Fast. thro‘ the songless airâ€" I know by all these tokens October’s everywhere. District of Columbia, County of Washing- ton, as. : The grand jurors of the United States of America. in and for the county and district aforesaid. upon their oath present that Charles J. Guiteau. late of the county and district aforesaid, on the 2nd day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. with force and arms, at and in the county and district aforesaid, the said district constituting a. judicial district of the United States, in and upon the body of one James A. Garfield, he. the said James A. Garfield, in the peace of God and of the United States of America, then and there being, feloniously, wilfully and of his malice aforethought did make an assault ; and mat the said Charles J. Guiteau, a certain pistol of the value of five dollars, then and there charged with gunpowder and one leaden bullet, which said pistol he. the said Charles J. Guileau. in his right. hand then and there had and held, then and there, feloniously, wilfully, and 01 his malice aforethought, did discharge and shoot of! to, against, and upon the said James A. Garfield, and that the said Charles J. Guiteau with the leaden bullet aforesaid, out of the pistol aforesaid, then and there by force of the gunpowder aforesaid, by the said Charles J. Guitcau discharged and shot off as aforesaid. then and there feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforeâ€" thought, did strike, penetrate and wound him, the said James A. Garfield, in and upon the right side of the body of him, the said James A. Garfield, then and there, with the leaden bullet aforesaid. so as aforesaid dis charged and shot out of the pistol aforesaid by the said Charles J. Gniteau. in and upon the right side of the body of him, the said James A. Garfield, one mortal wound of the depth of six inches, and of the breadth of one inch, of which said mortal wound he, the said James A. Garfield. from the said second day of July, in the year last aforesaid, until the nineteenth day of Sepv tember, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, at andin the county and district aforesaid, did languish, and languishing did live; on which said nineteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty one, and in the said county and dis‘ trict aforesaid, the said James A. Garfield of the mortal wound died. A Specimen of Legal Verbiaze. WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.â€"â€"-The following is the first. count in the indictment against Gui teau : In the third count the last clause is varied, as follows : ” Of which said mortal wound he, the said James A. Garfield. from the 2d day of July. in the year last. aforesaid, until the 19th of September, in mm: year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, m and in the county and (ii-trio: aforesaid did languish, and languishing did live; and on which said data and year and county and district aforesaid the said James A. Garfield of me said mortal wound died." The only variatlon in the fifth count. is tohange in the order of mention of the places where his demh is said to have oc- curred. The second count in precisely like the first, with the exception of the last clause, whlch reads : “ Of which said mortal wound the said James A. Garfield then and there in- stantly died.” The fourth oouns is identical with the third, except that it omifis the last twelve words of the final clause and substitutes the following : “ To wit 2 At and in the county of Washing- ton and dietrietlot Columbia the said J names A. Garfield of nhe mortal wound aforesaid died." The sixth count is like the third, except in reciting than. the offense charged was com- mitted “ in lhe Baltimore and Potomac depot. in the city of Washington, which building stands, and at that time stood on ground belonging exclusively to the United States.” The seventh counts repeats the recital of the sixth with regard to the place where the ofienae was committed, and in all other re~ spects is like the fourth. The eighth count also repeats the recital of the sixth with regard te the place Where the assault occurred, and is in all other respects like the fifth. The ninth count is varied by the introduction of the recital that the district in wh oh the offense is charged as committed constitutes a. judicial circuit of the United States. and the county, etc., where said Garfield died form part of a judicial circuit of the United States other than the judiciary circuit of the United States consisting of the District oi Columbia. In all other respects this count in like the third. The tenth count recites that the district in which the ofiense was committed constitutes a judicial district of the United States and the State of New Jersey, within the limits of which said Garfield died constitutes a judicial distrlct of the United States other than the judicial district 01 the United States consist- ing of the District of Columbia. In other respects this count is like the one immediately preceding. The lavst count is a repetition of the third, with an unimportant additiont _ Each of the eleven counts of the indictment closes with the following formal charge : “ And so the grand jurors aforesaid do say that the said Charles J. Guiteau, him, the said James A, Garfield, in the manner and by the means aforesaid. teloniouely, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, did kill and murder against the form of statute made and pro- vided and against the peace and Government of the United States of America. (Brooklyn Eagle.) _ “You were out late last night, dear,” said Mrs. Breezy, taking her seat at the breakfast table and fumbling nervously with her fork. “ Oh, 110,” said Mr. Breely. “ It wasn’t late. You see, darling. you were asleep when I came in andâ€"” “ No, Mr. Breezy, I was not asleep, but as you say, it was not» late for you. Nothing would convince you that the clock just struck three as you closed the hall door. Of course business detained you. my dear. It is won- derful how much business a man will find to transact after midnight, but of course we women know nothing about such things. We never can understand you men, can we, dear ‘2' We are always imagining all sorts of horrible things when you happen to stay a day or two without sending us even a line. Women are so nervous, are they not, clear? If we would only go to bed, and go to sleep, it would save a world of trouble, wouldn’t it, dear .9 We might know that you great strong men could take care of yourselves. If you are obliged to sit up until two or three o’clock in the morning talking business with your customers, it is really ungrateful in us to complain, for of course you have the worst of it, don’t you, darling ? How it must have bothered you and how tired you must get, and think it is all {or our sakes. When you come tottering home so tired that you can hardly get up stairs, and throw yourselves on I the bed without even the strength to remove 1 your boots, we should appreciate your devo- ltion in thus laboring to support us. Now 1 last night, dear, when you stumbled over the rocking chair, and found yourself obliged to Ii 15; to the head board to support your weary form you presented a really sad example of the overworked husband and father. When A MATTER OF BUSINESS RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, OCT. 20’ ‘1881, your shattered nerves caused you to upset my fresh bottle of cologne, and scatter the contents of my work basket over the floor, you really looked the typical martyr of mar- ried life. Of course you do not remember it, dear. You were too tired and worn out with that horrid customer to remember anything. What a dry, stupid time you must have talk- ing business no to three o‘clock in the morn- ing, and you look so sleepy and tired and used up this morning. I would renlly imagine you had experienced a severe illness if I didn’t know it was those terribly reckless business cases which pull you down so. I see you have quite lost your appetite, clear. You haven’t even touched your steak. Now, dear. this will not do. You must not apply yourself so closely to business. It is killing you." and Mrs. Breezy’s mouth curled into a. decided sneer. as she dug a tablespoon into the fried potatoes. No paper read at the late meeting of the Social Science association has attracted as much general attention in the press as that of Mr. Charles Dudley Warner upon the newspaper. This is due not only to the fact of Mr. Warner’s distinction as a literary man but to his long experience as a success- is] editor. He is at the head of one of the chief daily journals in New England, and his words are those of practical knowledge. Mr. Warner puts more clearly than it has ever been put before a point which is of vital importance in considering the question of newspapers. It is that a newspaper is a wholly private enterprise for the pecuniary advantage of the proprietor. The relation of the public to the proprietor is precisely that of the buyer to any other merchant. He pays a certain sum for a certain commodity. But he has no more right to undertake to manage the proprietor's business for him than to manage that of any other merchant. To ask a newspaper for an advertisement or for a notice of a private interest is as imperti nent as to ask the grocer to give his sugar and butter instead of selling them, to ask the baker to give his bread, or to ask the lawyer to plead a cause for nothing. The baker, the grocer, and the lawyer make their living by selling their wares. not by giving them away. and the newspaper is notb a public charity. of which the berzefi may 9 en‘oyed without price.'but‘/it"i's agm’husm‘éils, carried on for profit, not for pleasure. Those who think that the publicity which it offers to an advertiser is not sufiicient return for the cost of advertising will go elsewhere. But it they are satisfied to advertise, it is because they think the return is an equivalent. They pay to: that and they receive it. But they have no further claim. They have no more right to demand a notice because they advertise than to demand of their hatter a pair of gloves because they have bought a hat that suits them. “ But, iny dear,” said Mr. Breezy, making a heroic effort to swallow a little of the itealf,_“ it; was} most imporfignt epgageâ€"â€"â€"" “ Of course it was,” said Mrs. Breezy. as she poured out a cup of coffee with trembling hand. “ Of course it was, love. Your enâ€" gagements are always important. They will never keep over until morning, never. What if these engagements ~these very important engagementsâ€"do occur five or six nights out of the week. It is a sign of yous prosperity. Should I complain if you found yourself obliged to meet your customers at theaters and concert halls, and at poker parties in out-of the-way hotels? No, dear. you are obliged to adapt yourself to your customers’ mode of life. It is all in the way of business, and we short-sighted wives; are very unreason- able to suppose for a moment that you fre- quent such places out of choice, when even instinct would teach us that you would much prefer being home in the bosoms of your families. You dear abused husbands l How patient you are, to be sure, with us fidgety unreasonable creatures,” and Mrs. Breezy pushed back her chair with a jerk and left the room. The newspaper, indeed, from its nature, necessarily establishes a moral and intellec- tual relation with its buyer which the grocer and baker do not. It maintains opinions ; it argues and appeals ; it advocates or opposes public policies and measures ; and as buyers are naturally those who agree with it, the laws of trade make it seek to agree with them. Thus the newspaper is very much what its public wishes it to be. If the opinions of the paper are such as to repel advertisers and buyers. the opinions will be suppressed, be~ cause the proprietor will hardly care to pub- lish his opinions at a great and constant loss. This seems, indeed, to imply that public opinion guides the press, rather than the press public opinion. But the truth is that the influence is reciprocal. In every great community the general tendencies of politi- cal opinion, for instance, are already deter mined, and the newspaper which reflects any one of them ably and truly acquires by means of publicity and reiteration, added to ability, a natural leadership. This leaderâ€" ship it can exercise to the best results within i certain limits. Editorial ability. professionally viewed, is the faculty and tact which, in the first place. discerns what is really news, and condenses and presents it accurately and entertainingly. Obviously what is news in one place, and under certain circumstances, may not be news in another._ What is desirable in a weekly paper may be out '01! place in a daily paper. The faculty of distinguishing in such cases, and of adaptiveness to the situation, is a test of editorial ability. In the second place. that ability is shown in the skill with which the circulation of the paper is maintained and increased without compromise in the expns- sion of editorial conviction. It is, of course. essential to the weight and influence of such expressions that they be known to be perfectly honest. There is no leadership in echoes and imitations. When, therefore. the opinions of a great and prosperous paper are steadily maintained, it is a just inference that they are widely shared. Papers that “ wobble" infalli- bly betray either want of ability to discern opinion, or want of skill to maintain their own view. This is the reason that clever journals value consistency so highly that rather then appear to be inconsistent they are sometimes willing tobe unjust. Mr. Warner’s paper is certainly a very valuable contribution to a very interesting and continuous discus- sion. â€"Au odious comparison : One of the most disagreeable things in the world is the com- pariaon of th.) “ I will ” at the marriage cere- mony with “ I won’t " after that event. â€"â€"A merchant died suddenly just after finishing a. letter. The clerk added, in post- script : “ Since writing the above I have died. Tuesday evening, 7th inst.” â€"â€"â€"A very curious seal has been found on Waehcommon, the scene of the first battle of Newhury. September 20, 1643; near the spot where the Falkland memorial is erected. The seal is circular, and made of brass, measuring one inch and eight~tenthe in dia- meter. It bears the device of a skeletonmith the surgeon‘s knife in the dexter hand, and an hour glass on the sinister side. The legend with which it is insqribed is as follows: The Sosoiety ' and ' Loyalty ' of ' Ohyrvrgeons - Hall ' London. This seal is supposed to have been used by the surgeons belonging to the Chirureeona’ company of London, attached to the Royal army at Newburytand it was probably lost in the encounter. THE NEWSPAPER. As they went down stairs Mrs. Weeks, the housekeeper of the premises, caught a glimpse of their faces and recogniled them as Jim Walsh, Anthony Brown, a fellow known as “Lively,” and another as Dormody, tour ex- convicts, who ha. ong been a terror to the decent people 0! t e neighborhood. The infant had been trampled to death. When Mrs. Weeks entered Mrs. Lynch was lying on the floor, weak and exhausted, and her child was lying motionless by her side. When the infant was picked up it was dead, its life having been literally trampled out of its body. The police were at once apprised of what had occurred, and at once took every person who could throw any light upon the matterinto custody. Capt. Washburn sent out his officers to look for the four seoundrels, and instructed Detective Mc- Taggart to take Mrs. Lynch, who was still very weak. to the Jeflerson Market Police Court. A Party of Roughs Attack 9. Sick Wo- man in Bedâ€"Her Child Trampled to Death. New YORK, Oct. 5.-â€"Mrs. Lucy Lynch, the Wife of a sailor on a man-ofâ€"war, now absent on a long voyage. has been living since her husband left her with her uncle. Abraham Ayres. an aged cripple. on the first floor of a rear tenement house at No. 510 West Twenty. eighth street. She had two children, one 3 years old and the other an infant of scarcely 14 days. Mrs. Lynch is about 21 years old and a woman of prepossessing appearance. The locality in which she resides is notorious for the bad character of the persons who re- side there. and is considered by the police as little better than a nest of criminals, who prey upon the freight cars and shipping along the river front. Since her confinement, Mrs. Lynch has been weak and ill. and had been compelled to remain in her bed. Early yesâ€" terday morning she was lying in bed with her infant. at her breast, and her uncle sitting in the room trying to perform some household task. At about 1 o'clock the door. which had been left unlocked. was suddenly thrown open. and four young fellows entered without a word of explanation. They closed the door and two of them stood by it, while the two others went to the bed on which Mrs. Lynch was lying and seized hold of her. Their dastardly inten- tions were at once evident to Mrs. Lynch, and she tried to release herself from their rough grasps. The scoundrels, with loud curses, drew the bed clothing from her and dragged her and the child she clutched in her arms roughly from the bed and flung her on the floor. while their two companions stood at the door and prevented the old uncle from leaving the room and giving an alarm. Mrs. Lynch screamed at the top of her voice and fought the two ruflfians as hard as her feeble powers permitted. In the struggle the child was culled from her arms and the rufiians bent on accomplishing their hellish purpose. drag ged the unfortunate woman around, beat and kicked her and did everything to lessen her resistance. They paid no attention to the child, which was lying on the floor, and stepped on its neck and body several times in the struggle. At last Mrs. Lynch’s screams produced some effect. for neighbors could be heard coming to her assistance, and the rufiians fearing that they would be caught, released her and fled. She was taken there during the afternoon session and on her complaint warrants were issued for the arrest of the four men seen by Mrs. Weeks. Coroner Knox was also notified of the case. -'l‘he Edinburgh bakers have advanced the prise of bread from 8d to Bid for 4 lb loaf. â€"â€"'I‘he Princess Louise is at present at Bal- moral, whereit is understood she is paying her fairwell visit to the Queen before depart- ing for Canada. â€"The list of voters in Glasgow prepared by Mr. Campbell, city assessor, shows that there are now on the Parliamentary and municipal roll 65,123 voters, or an increase of 2,433 as compared with last year. ‘ â€"A company in being formed in Dundee to light the town with the electric light. ‘ â€"â€"An arched recess has been discovered in St. Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, during the restorations. It is intended to piaoe in it a. reoumbentmarhle figure of the Duke of Bothe- eay, who was starved to death in Falkland Castle in 1402. â€"The elopement of Martha Neally, the richest heiress of Olermont county, Ohio‘ with Dr. John McDonald, an already married man, was noteworthy from the fact that the glrl’slmother accompanied the couple in their flight. â€"McNeally reached across a. Texas gaming table and seized the stakes belonging to Phil- lips. His hand was instantly pierced and lastened down by Phillips’ knife ; but he quickly freed himself and killed Phillips with a pistol. â€"A negro went home from a Georgia camp meeting in a state of ecstacy, declared he was going to heaven by the way of a. tell tree \hat grew in the yard, climbed to the height of seventy feet, and then undertook to fly the rest of the journey. The fall killed him. â€"A meeting of Cleveland ironmseters has been held to consider the proposal of the Clyde ironmasters to reduce the production of pig iron. No decision was arrived at. but a committee was appointed to discuss the mut- ter with the Glasgow makers. -â€"It was reported at the ordinary meeting of the Glasgow School Board that 44 schools, accomodatmg 33,836 scholars, were in open- tion. There were 34,656 on the rolls of the day schools. with an attendance of 29,865, being an increase over last year of 1575 on the rolls, and 1654 in attendance. ~A hitter quarrel in the Roman Catholic church of the Holy Trinity, Chicago, is fol- lowed by a grave: accusatisn than is usually made in such affairsâ€"that of murder. Pas- tor Mielcuzny was found dead in his room, and assistant pastor Malek 18 under arrest on a seemingly unjust suspicion of having killed *Arthur Stan's wife disappeared unac- countably, in Chicago. and, after several days of unavailing search, the husband said he had murdered her. He described to the police a spot where her body might be found buried ; but they had only just began to dig when the woman appeared alive and well. â€"No more decay after daath now. A Ber- lin experimenter has produced an imitation stone cofiin which is said to be air and water tight, and but a trifle heavier than the ordi- nary wooden article. It is claimed for the new cofl‘ins that they are durable, and can be furnished at a cost not exceeding that of wooden ones, and that the bodies placed in them will become mummified. -â€"The forest fires which lately devastated eastern Michigan were not without compensa- tion. While they destroyed many human lives and much valuable property, they also swept clean of brush and scrub growth then sands of acres of good soil. which would otherwise have remained a wilderness, but which is now ready for immediate cultiva tion. -â€"A pair of steers sank in the muck of a Connecticut swamp, and a'yoke of oxen were set to pull them out bya chain around their horns. One was drawn to a firm looting, OUTRAGE AIVD MURDER. TWINKLINGS. â€"Fanny Glow found the ordinary diver- lions unsatisfactory, at Little Falls, N. Y., and so she amused herself, and grieved her friends by lying four days in a pretended trance. A watch was set, and she was caught eating on the sly, Her next fun was obtained by hiding herself, and lening it be supposed that she had drowned herself. This time she was detected in sending her own death notice to a newspaper. but the horns of the other were ‘pulfie: from his head. The agent of an anti-cruelty society is prosecuting the man who made the attampt to save the steers, on the ground that the humane action would have beeen to shoot them. â€"-’I‘here are two gay old printers in Her- risburg, Pennsylvania. One of them is 79 and the other 80, and the most of their life has been spent at the “ ease,” in the art preservative of all arts. A few days since they decided to go off on a. little sociable ex- cursion, and took a drive in company, the horse used on the occasion being twenty-five years old,the harness twenty years old and the buggy forty years. â€"The herring fishery on the northeast coast of Scotland has come to a close for the season. Though, compared with the extraor- dinary fishing at last season, the takes have been very disappointing, the quantity of fish caught has been larger than in ordinary sea- sons. Thus the total estimated catch on the east coast, 646,000 crane, while representing llttle more than two thirds of the quantity landed in 1880, is higher than in any of the four preceding years. The boats fishing from Wick show the poorest results. 579 craft bringing in an average of 9H crane, while last season 655 beats had an average of 173. At the neighboring stations on the Caithness coast, on the other hand, the fishing has been considerably better than that of 1880. The average for 728 boats stationed at Peter- head has been 133 orans, while last year 608 beats landed an average of 247 crane; and at Aberdeen 501 boats brought in on an average 155 crane, agaisnt 217 for 816 boats in 1880. â€"The explosion of twenty-one tone of gun powder in a burning freight car, at Council Blufis, occurred on the day of Garfield’s funeral, and therefore caused a panic among a part of the population, for when they heard the tremendous boom, accompanied by shak- ing walls and crashing glass, they thought something supernatural had happened. The accident had more literal causes for excite ment to those who were at work in the freight yard. They endeavored at first to extinguish the flames. but did not long delay their flight. which was wildly precipitate. After they had reached a safe distance two children were eepied walking unsuspectineg toward the car. A man named Maclintock ran to them,and had carried them a little way when the explosion came, tumbling him and the little ones violently over, but not seriously hurting them. â€"A lady who went bathing in the river put on a. pair of slippers With heavy cork soles to protect her feet from the pebbles. She had scarcely waded out to a point where the water reached her waist ere she was seized with a wild, untamed desire to stand on her head, but the conventionalists of society would be shocked by such an act. she knew, and by a remarkable exercise of will power, or some- thing of that sort, she managed to keep her feet under her. After wading out a few feet farther, however, the desire to indulge in a little gymnastic exercise overcame her samples and in a jifly her feet were pointing up to the north star, while her head was groping about for a good resting place in the sand at the bottom. A gentleman who witnessed her dilemma swam to her assistance, and holding her head above water, towed her feet ashore. When she next bathes she will probably wear leaden shoes. â€"-On an average, $200,000 in gold coin bullion, or jewelery is sent every day as third class mail matter through the San Fran- cisco post office. Half of this is shipped by the government; the rest is private remit- tances. There is no armed guard or other precaution against robbery, and private ship- ments are simply inelosed in ordinary wooden boxes. Before Secretary Sherman originated the present system of exchanges through the post oflice. gold was charged letter rates, or $3.60 per 91,000, and its transportation was profitable ; but now the postage and registra- tion fee amount to only 70 cents, and gold shipments are a lose to the postal depart- ment.besides ofiering temptations to criminal enterprises. Nearly $6,000,000 was sent across the California State line within a few days, shortly before the last tax levy, to escape ansessment. This state 01 things has been brought to public notice by the recent attempt to rob an east bound train at Cape Horn, in the Sierras, and the question is now asked why the government should compete with regular transportation companies in business of such a risky character. â€"â€"In a lecture delivered some time ago, Prof. L. W. Peck, to illustrate the explosive~ ness of a. mixture of dust and air, said : " I! a large log of wood were ignited it might be a week before being entirely consumed. Split it up into cord wood, and pile it up loosely. and it would burn in a con- ple of hours. Again, split it up into kindling wood, pile it up loosely, and perhaps it would burn in less than an hour. Cut it up into shavings and allow a strong wind to throw them in the air or in any way keep she chips comparatively well separated from each other, and the log would, perhaps, be con- sumed in two or three minutes; or, finally, grind it up into a dust or powder, blow it in such a manner that each particle is surround ed by air, and it would burn in less than a second." â€"M. Troupeau has lately made numerous experiments With heed gear, in its relation to heat from the sun. He reaches these conclu- sions. which may serve as useful hints : 1. Head coverings of conical and rounded form are cooler than those of flat shape; the helmet is therefore preferable to the kepi in hot cli- mates. 2. A thick body, formed of a sub- stance which conducts heat badly, protects effectually against the sun‘s rays. 3. No metal should be used in the construction of head gear. 4. A good ventilation, obtained by means of lateral sir holes at the top, and a. gallery at the base. isolating the head. causes a very sensible lowering of the in- terior temperature. A head cover of bad construction may be made cool by good ven- tilation. â€"A lamp giving light without heat. and hence termed the paychrophor, or cold light, has been brought out by Dr. Michael, of Hamburg. It consists of a glass globe ex- hausted of air and containing phosphorescent substances in the form of powder. The pow- der is rendered luminous by electrifying it from a wire of electrode of aluminum, con- nected to the pole of e Buhmkorfi induction coil. This is performed at will in holding the electrode to the powder by means of an ebonite handle. The intensity of the light is regulated by regulating the strength of the current from the Ruhmkorfl coxl ; but with a weak apparatus it is intense enough to enable a person to read small print when held near the eye l‘his contrivance will have its use in surgery, where the heat of incandescent electric lamps or other light is against their use. â€"~Those who have hot-bed sashes can dry fruit by the heat of the sun in a manner WHOLE N0. 1,212.â€"NO, 20, Teefy SCIENTIFIC NOTES. vastly superior to the ordinarv method. A box should be made like a hot~bed frame, but with a bottom, and it should have legs to raise it a few inches from the ground. The sashes should fit sufiieiently closely to keep out dust and insects. In the front of the box. at the bottom. make openings under the middle of each sash, and at the rear, at the top, make similar openings. ’ We do not recollect the exact size we used. but probably 12 inches long by three wide will answer. These openings should be covered with wire cloth, though in its absence mosquito netting or a similar stuff will answer. The fruit, or other article to be dried, should be upon trays or frames covered with some coarse fabric, and raised a few inches tromthe bottom of the box. The sash being so placed as to catch the full heat of the sun, the drying will go on in a surprisingly rapid manner. The air passing in at the lower openings will be- come quickly heated, and going out at the upper openings a current will be established, carrying ofi the moisture from the fruit. eto., in the most satisfactory manner. The pro- duct will not be so white as when dried by artificial heat, but for home use just as good, and it will be tree from dust and the soiling by insects. We have dried the finest sweet corn imaginable with a contrivanoe like this, and have no doubt of its efficacy in drying fruit. This Season’s Fishingâ€"Where the Gems are Found---Thelr Market Value. “ No," an expert said to a. reporter in an- swer to a question, “ finding pearls in fresh water is nothing new, but somehow the busi- ness has received 9. boom, and I should say that there were probably two or three hun. drod persons spending a part of their time collecting them. They are found from Texas to Ohio. St. Clair County. Ill., and Ruther- ford County, Tenn.. are good places for them, but the largest was found near Salem, N. J., a number of years ago. It was about an inch across and it sold in Paris for 82,000. Most of them are very small and sell in lots for small sums, but one large one pays for the time. Along the Ohio hiver all the boatmen and fishermen are in the business, especially boys. They wade along the flats and scoop up the unios with their hands, while others have regular arrangements for hauling them up by the quantity. The best are perfectly round and white, with rich orient. The next shape is the pear. Some are perfect all but one side, and this can be concealed in the setting. “ Small pearls for use in onyx need not be perfect, as they are half hidden in the set- ting, so the imperfect ones have a value as well. The best pearls, the round ones, are those found in the mantle of the animal. You see, the pearl, either in fresh or salt water, is merely the result of the animal‘l attempt to protect Itself.” “ Yes. The great naturalist Linnnus thought he had discovered a plan to cause pearls to grow, which was to imitate the par- asites already mentioned. The pearl mussels were taken from the water and the shells bored, then placed back and left for four or five years. The wedish Government paid him $1.800 for the idea. but it did not prove a success. The Chinese have done well with the pearl oyster. They sprinkle sand over the bed when the oysters or mussels are open and also put little images in the shells that soon become coated with a pearly luster. These can be seen at the Central Park museum. In Japan a similar plan is adopted with the unio hyria.” “ Is it possible to make spurious pearls 7” “ It would be hard to deceive a dealer, but they are made so skilfully that it is extremely difficult to tell them. For years a bogus pearl manufactory was carried on at Murano, a lit- tle town near Venice. The forms were made of glass, while the iridescence or_orient was produced by quicksilver ; but they were chiefly used as beads for the peasantry. Fi- nally, the French took up the business, and noticing the richness of fishes’i scales, they used them to produce the luster, and with great success. The discs and the roach were the fishes used. In Italy the smelt is take from the Tiber. and its scales yield‘an e -‘ tremely rich sedation or menus that can be used for the purpose: but to the eye accus- tomed to the real pearl these imitations are so much dross, and I can hardly better ex- press the diflerence than to say that the spurious ones seem dead and devoid of the blush and sparkle that is the beauty of the real pearl. The latter needs no artistic adornment to set it 03. Held in the hand and subjected to the closest scrutiny it appears the best.” l “ Hive éttempts been made to force the grovzgh of pgarls ? ” Every once in a while a newspaper breaks into declamation over the perils of arctic navigation. Referring to the tact that it is now two years since the departure oi the Jeannette and that nothing has been heard of her, the Springfield Republican remarks . “ The search for the golden fleece fades into flat prose beside the daring and futile senti- mentalism which sustains these repeated and perilovs assaults on the great mystery of geography.” In the first place it shows the weak head to assume yet that an evillate has befallen the Jeannette. She was provisioned tor three years and other supplies were cached at St. Michael’s to provide for the emergency of the abandonment of the vessel and the re- turn oi her crew upon the ice to that point. It is hardly to be believed possible that the vessel and her entire company shoull disap-. pear and leave no trace. Only once in modern times has a. whole expedition been lost, and the fate of Sir John Franklin’s companions was due to the fact that he had no steam power and that the art of traveling on the ice had not been reduced to the perfection which the genius of Sir Leopold McClintock after- wards developed. Indeed. under the improved condition of later day Arctic explorations, it may be questioned whether there is anything more perilous in undertaking a voy- age in search of the pole than in embarking in the fall oi the year on an overladen wheat- carrying schooner at Chicago for Buflalo. Nordenskjold made his great voyage from sea to sea without losing a life. Even on board the Polaris, a vessel ill-prepared for everything except mutiny and disorder, with two rival captains who were sailors and a commander who was not, the only man who did not come back safe and sound after all those romantic adventures was the chief. During the search for the Franklin expedition, which was carried on by a large fleet first and last and was kept up for many years, although several vessels were abandoned. very few lives Were sacrificedâ€"probably nomore than would have been lost in the ordinary naval service covering an equal period of time. Neitherthe ice, nor the snow, nor the cold, nor the sea has been the explorer's worst enemy, but the scurvy, and the progress of canning meat and vegetables offers an excellent means of de~ iense against this scourge. It is said that Nordenskjcld bids defiance to the disease. As it is too soon by a year to give up the Jean- nette,:so long as anything remainsunexplored, it is too soon to talk about the futility of ex- ploration. We know no more what we may find or to what use we may put the knowledge to be gained than Christopher Columbus knew of America when he sailed from Palos to find new passage to the East Indies. â€"-'1‘he barber’s children are little shavers; the upholsterer’a are little tackers; the but oher’s are young lambs; the carpenter‘s are chips from the old block; the baker's are cram baby tarts; and the angry man's are little pets. â€"“ This butter. Mr. Spencer," said the dealer, “ carried ofl the prize at the fair." and Seth spat out a taste of the compound and remarked: “Unless the prize was-a ship’s anchor and chain cable, I should think the butter could have carried it off easily.” â€"-Thers isn’t any fairness in this life. If 3 Woman wears a scant bathing dress she is so- oused of making a show of herself, and if she wears an ample one she is said to be trying to hide her bad figure. ARCTIC EX PLORATIONS‘ PH ARLS BOOMING.