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An English company has secured the coal seem at the coalhanke on Belly river, 30 miles below Fort McLeod. and has con- tracted to supply 150 tons a. day at; Medi- cine Hat during the comirg summer. One hundred and fifty Cornish men are expected to arrive shortly to take out coal. Coal ah McLeod is $45 a. ton, but during the March storm $20 9. ton was paid teamaters for hauling it from the coal banks, 30 miles distant. The past winter at Fort McLeod was more severe than usual. A snow storm came about the beginning of October, but the snow went away shortly afterwards. From that time until the latter end of March there was very little snow, but the weather during the latter part of November, the wholeof December and January, and the flrsthelf of February. was Very cold. During the latter'end of February and the early pert of Much the weather was fine and hke summer. I’loughing and sewing were commenced in March, but towards the letter end of the month a. ten days’ snow gtorm oocgrred,’ whin stopyed farming operations, and when the new went away, as it did shortly afterwards, it left the reeds muddy and the creeks high. The. Terrible Expcdences ot a Dead Lighthouse-Kceper’s Family. WITHOUT FOOD FOR FIVE DAYS. As the steamer Quebec, on her first trip of this season, was at Prince Arthur’s Landing, 8. man named Singleton, keeper of the lighthouse on Passage Island, was killed by the cars on the track of the C. P. R. The unfortunate man was walking on the wharf, and stumbled on the track in front of the train, which ran over his body, literally cutting it in two. He had started from his home in a small sail-boat as soon as navigation opened, and come to Prince Arthur’s Landing, forty miles, to pur- chase supplies for his family, the unusual length oi the winter having reduced his provisions to a. very small compass. When the Quebec passed the island, on her; return trip,\a. bellzwas rung in the“lightl~' house, which Was taken by the captain of the Quebec to be a signal for he] . The steamer was immediately toppe and a boat lowered and manned, Captain Moore himself taking command. When they reached the lighthouse they found the keeper’s wife and five children in a famish- ing condition. They had been without food for five days, end on short allowance for several days before. They were hardly able to stand. Capt. Moore ordered an ample supply of provisions from the Quebec for the family, but did not, owing to the weak condition of Mrs. Singleton, communicate to her the death of her husband, in such a shocking manner. ' IN A DREADFUL FLIGHT. During the month ending May 21% there were, at the Dominion Land Office, Regina, 430 entries for homesteeds, 343 [re- emptions, the joint aggregate of which represents 153.680 . acres. This is a. decrease on the preceding month, during which there were 453 homesteeds entered, and 418 pre-emptions, though this apparent diminution is accounted for by the closing of the office. The site of a city on the Saskatchewan, to be called Leopold, was fixed on the recent visit of General Manager Van Horne. The site occupies a. beautiful loca- tion‘on the east bank of the Saskatchewan, on splateau forty feet high. Graders are scattered west of the river for a distance of 120 miles towards Calgarry. Five thou- sand men and two thousand five hundred teams are employed on the construction. Release 01 the Noted purglarâ€"Ilis Weh Mm?" (3%)“?- The professional burglar known as “ Piano Charlie " has been released from the Kingston penitentiary, whither he was sent about three years ago for stealing gold watch chains £50m the jewellery store of Flood Davin, in the Regina. Leader, gushes forth in this wise: We are in a. new country, so rich we need no manure, and as for the nightingale and the thrush, listen to the prairie linnet, and then there are the frogs, which we can never see, but which sing like ten thousand girls of 16 all prac~ tising the same piece until the nervous mun next door tears his hair.” Mr. Morphy, Â¥onge street, 7 oronto. fie persists in his statement hat he was innocent of the burglary charged to him, and claims that he was merely unfortunate in being found in the company of Durand. the man who effected the robbery. To an acquaintance, however, he admitted being apartioipant in the Boylston Bank hur- glary, Boston, when $500,000 was secured, He also states that he had a saloopin Paris,Franee, and spent $40,000 furnish: ing it. He asserts that his wife, who lives in Toronto, is worth $50,000, and that she is anxious to secure a divorce from him. He says that he cannot live happily in Canada, cannot go to the United States, and that, therefore, he will go immediately to England. Governor Dewdney says he did not call the Council together because he found that its powers were so limited that it was not worth whiie incurring the large expense it: would entail. A policeman on his way from Stand-(ff to Whoop~up was lost in the storm, and when found both he and his horse were snow-blind. He was severely froatrbitten, but was recovering at last accoukaa. There was little or no loss amongst the cattle in the vicinity of McLeod during the Winter, but some cows and calves died during the March storm. Governor Dewdney says the Government will spend between $40,000 and $350,000 during the coming session in erecting pub- lic bu1ldings in Regina. Dr. Graham owns a. homestead and pre- emption near Brandon. He has always had an idea. there was gold in it. and the other day brought down two small frmb cans full of soil to Brandon for assay. The surface soil assays 310 of gold to the ton with traces of silver. The soil a-lso The Regina Leader now asserts that in the Long Lake district the Queen City will have one of the most charming Bummer resorts in the thrld. flA new book is called 1‘ People I Have Met." Another book might be called ‘{ Men I Have Been Out to See." Messrs. Imngdon (1' Sheppard will pay their men in cheques to defeat; the plans of a. gang from Missouri, who intended to ” go through ” the pay car. The police force at, McLeod is about 150 strong, with outposts at the Crow‘s Nest and Kootenay passes, at Whoop-up, and other places. The foundations of a. new joint hotel and court house at Swift Current, to cost $100.- Oflgure ugingput in. _ The Queén’s Birthday w-as very generally obgqrved througl} the Northwest. The O. P. R533 expected to reach the Saskatchewan about the 4th of June. gqntuinefit specks of micg. am} mgguetgo iron ore.’ ' ’ 7" V *1 5 Bortage la. Prairle iélmproving in morais and has dlapensed with a policeman. It is send that Ualgarry is to have a. post- magter at @1300 salary. The Severe \Vinlor ‘Vontherâ€"Drivcn Stone-Blindâ€"Coal m. Medicine llm. Emerson wants a broom brigade. Qu’Appelle is recovering from the fire. Regina. is exulting over a. steam plough. Morris is to have a. p ..‘_i:g and shingle mill. Charles Clarke, late of Ottawa, died in a. fit p.17 Winnipeg A Romafi \Catholic church has been erected at Fort McLeod. LATEST NWTHWEST NEWS. ‘9 PIANO CHARLIE.” The Brooklyn bridge received a dreadful baptism to-day. In the crush that occurred apparently by accident on the New York anchorage, a number of persons, mostly women and children,were crushed, some to death, some fatally, and still some others severely. Ascene of terror reigned for fully fifteen or twenty minutes that baffles description, When it was over cartloads of wounded and crushed 'liuman beings were taken out of the New York entrance to the bridge. Asmall mountain of torn and abandoned clothing was gathered up by the police. The accident occurred on the New York anchorage where the solid bottom of the middle footway ends, and two flights of seven steps each with an intermediate landing lead up to the plank- walk of the span between the New York anchorage and the tower. It'was shortly after 4 o’clock, and the bridge was crowded from one end to the other so that there was hardly elbow room. A woman who was ascending the lower flight of steps stumbled and tell bathe landing. The crowd pr'esrled upon her and she shrieked. The bridge othcer, Erederick Richards, who was on the piank walk above. seeing her danger elbowad his way to the spot and lifted her up. The crowd closed upon them both and they went down. With ades- perate eflort Officer Richards got upon his feet once more, dragging the woman after him. She screamed again in despair and fright, and the crowd above and below pressed toward the spot to discover the cause of the commotion. The crush im- medlately became fearfel: Those on the approach below the stairs were carried forward in a solid mass; many stumbled, and being unable to resist the pressure from behind the crowd passed over them. From above the crowd coming from Brook- lyn was carried to the edge of the steps and then fell over and down upon the struggling mass below. ' began; men and women fought with the strength of despair again‘kt each other. Escape was lmpoeeible with the pressure from both sides growing at every shout of anguish that went up from the dying and those who saw death before their eyes. Fear and despair on one Bide; curiosity ’on the other, fought for the mastery. The frightful crueh was denser when after nearly fifteen minutes a score of militia.- men of the 12:11 Regiment, led by Lieut. Hart and Sergeants Couldoek and Costello, marched up the approaeh toward Breeklyn.’ The yelle'of the crowd attracted their attention. At the foot of the steps a. wall of human bodies was piled up high, a. dense mixes surged about it! and in it the soldiers saw two policemen vainly struggling against it. Sergeant Couldoek took 11] the situation at a. glance. At his word of command his men scaled the fence and railroad track separating them from the foot walk, and wedging into the mass of people near the scene of the disaster drove back the crowd at the New York entrance It fell back slightly, and the militiamen following up the advantage gained, forced it back until the approach was .leared. Then forming {tout across the not walktthey prevented the crowd from passing back, while as many of their number as pould be spared ran toward the scene of the acgident to help in extricating the dead and saving the living. An alarm had meanwhile been given at the bridge entrance, 8. general call for all the hospital ambulance was sent out, and policemen were hurried over upon the bridge. From their tations beside the City 39.11 the fire- men 0 the hook and iladder company fol- lowed to assist. They iound the situation still unaltered on the 'bridge. The crowd on the foot walk above the steps was constantly receiving accessions. and still pressing on and over the heap on the anchorage. The bodies of the deed and dying lay here so firmly wedged together that to estrioate then; was next to impossible. To heat back the crowd was equally impossible. Relief was possible only by making room for the orowd to spread sideways. It was quickly done; willing hands tore sway the iron railing dividing the footway from the railroad‘ 1 track on both‘sid'es, and dragged those who were nearest in the crush through the open- ing. Room was made for the policemen to reach the frightful heap of human flesh, and the work of clearing it away began. As soon as a. portion of the obstruction was removed from the steps the orer was eased [had a portion was let through to the NM: York station. The rest was forced back until all the bodies had been taken away. Then it was let through, and "a body of policemen et'the point of danger kept it rem pressing there. Along the iron fences on the iootway, on the railroad track and onithe carriage way on both sides of the bridge the dead and wounded were laid. TEN OR FIFTEEN KILLED, but as yet it is impossible to say who, or how many. Of the seven wounded who are in the city hall station, one, B. Reiohera, a. cigarmaker, of Delancey street. is now dying. The excitement at the entrance to the bridge is intense. A last (Wednesday) night’s New York despatch says: A terrible accident occurred on the Brooklyn bridge at 4:50 o’clock. The bridge was crowded to its utmost capacity at that hour. On the platform at the New York tower the jam bee rue so great that many persons fainted. A cry of distress was raised. and a. dreadful struggle began between the panic-stricken crowds coming from the east and west. A number were, it is reported. crushed to death. In the end the crowd coming from the Brooklyn side prevailed and ruehed towzml the New York anchorage, trampling down every- thing in its way. Men, women and children were trodden under foot, and falling down the steps leading to» the tower platforms were buried under a. mass of struggling humanity many feet hlgh. A8 soon as the news of the disaster was conveyed to the‘ New York station by the onsetof the panic- stricken crowd the police were called and the bridge closed. The work of removing the crushed and wounded then began. A number were taken to the city hall‘polioe station and othere to the Chambers street hospital. The police report at least TWELVE PERSONS KILLED AND MANY HURT. A PANIC-STRICKEN CROWD Terrible Catastrophe on the Crowded Structure. Me, Women and Children Trampied to Death. A BROOKLYN BRIDGE TRAGEDY. A TERRIBLE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE AT THE MUZ/‘LE ( VOL. XXV. Tunm GUNS Those reported missing are as follows : Barwick, Henly, 17 years of age, of Seventy-sixth street and First avenue. His father is sexton of the Methodist church in Sixty-third street. He left home early in the morning, not sfiYing where he Was going. Carroll,';[ohn, age 14; lives in East Twolfth street. Cole, David, age 15 years; lives at No. 33 Eighth street, Jersey City. Englehardt, Richard, 15 years of age ; lives at No. 24 High street, Brooklyn. Golden, John, of No. 546 Canal street. Hassagen, George, 15 years ; lives at No. 157 Bleecker street. Marks, George N. He is married and has a. family. His Lhome is at Fourth and Thirteenth streets. Minley, Ads, age 19, living in Eighty-sixth street, a sister of Mrs. George Smith. whose husband was killed ; left her home in company with her sister Eflie for the purpose of walking across the bridge. Minlev, Eflie, aged 25, a sister of Ads. Minley, was in company with her and is also missing. O’Neil, Ambrose. Lives at 623 Washington street. O‘Neil, Francis. Lives at No. 271 West Eleventh street. Smith, Miles, of Forty- first street, near Second avenue, 14 years old. Strong, William Stillman, 14 years of age, employed at R. H. Macy‘s store, at Sixth avenue and Fourteenth street. He left home with the intention of going to Rockaway with afriend. He was inquired for by his father, W. H. Strong, at the Chambers Street Hospital at 9.40 p. m. Tammany, Edward. age 14, cf Morrisania.‘ He left home at 7.45 a m. to walk over the bridge. He had not returned at 10 p. m. Tobinski, Samuel, 8 years of age, of No.43; Eldridge street. He left home at on eerly‘ hour and had not returned at 1,0 p. m. Vetter, Michael, age 30 years. Lives at No.43 Oliver street. ' Traffic over the Broaklyn bridge yester- day was very heavy; Thirty-six thousand persons had crossed up to nd'on. "I‘wo policemen detailed from the steamboat squad assisted the brrdge guards in keeping the crowds in motion. When there was a. pause at any place on the footpaths the police promptly urged the crowd along. A steady stream of waggons and carriages is passing over. ‘ An Insane Woman Cuts [he 'l‘hroals of [Im- Three Children and Kills Home", A Harrisburg (Ohio) telegram says that Mrs. Susan E. Douglass, aged 27, residing in Cumberland county, during the absence of her husband yesterday morning out the throats of her three children, George, aged 5 ; William F., aged 3%. and H. A., aged 1. and then killed herself. Douglass lived in Huntsville, four miles from Curlisle. The children were found lying in their beds} with their threats out, and the mother A last (Friday) night’s New York despatoh says: The complete list of the dead, so far as ascertained, is as follows: Jerusha Bazzeriano, 45 years, 802 Ply- mouth street. Brooklyn; Wm. H. Craft, aged 60, of 430 Grand street, New York, leaves a wife and four children; Maud Crawford, aged 35, of West Thirty-seventh street, near Broadway; Sarah Hennessy, aged 22, of .190 Washington avenue; Eliza. Karten, aged 66, Jersey City; Ah La Ling, aged 60, Brooklyn; James O’Brien, aged 55, No. 88 Lalght street, leaves a wife and four children ; Ellen Riordan, aged 60, N0. 36 Montgomery street; Geo. Smith, aged 44, of No. 42 Watts street; Mrs. Emma Sherwood, aged 35, Bridgeport, Conn.; Margaret Sullivan, aged’13, of 115 Monroe street; unknown boy, about 14, light hair, dressed in dark suit. on the floor in the same room with a bloody razor by her side. Her husband, Who worked at- a furnace seven miles away, leaves home on Sunday evening and returns on Saturday. The parents and husband of Mrs. Douglass had been cautioned to watch her, as she showed symptoms of insanity. Her mother visited her Thursday evening and saw nothing to, arouse suspicion. The coroner's jury ’ returned a! verdict of in- sanity, ' ‘ At midnight the casualty list embraced twelve deadâ€"eleven of whom have been identifiedâ€"and twenty-six injured, some fatally, some badly, and others slightly. The list will yet be extended. It is re- ported that many of the wounded and perhaps some of the dead were driven straight to their-homes When they reached Chatham street. Of these the police have no account. A later account adds two more badly injured to the list at the hospital. Au Ottawa. telegram says: The Montreal Methodist Conference met this morning at 10 o’clock. The following resolution was carried: “That this Conference, having lerned with deep re, vet that our beloved Queen is seriously 1.], and feeling that her illustrlous character and reign have an- deared her to all her loyal subjects, offer earnest prayers to Almighty God for her speedy restoration to health and the con- Liuuance of her honored lifeE In the excitement of the crush William Oxford. aged 45, a. drunken man, deliber- ately jumped from the bridge and was fatally injured. The place on the bridge where the accident occurred ie the danger spot. in the structure. To persons who are looking out'over the scenery as they pass either way it is a most perilous trap. At the Chambers Street Hospital there were bodies of twelve who perished in the dis. aster. Of the twelve two men yet remain unidentified. There are tweIVe injured at the same place. The power of love ié emphatically shown in the casé of a. Bostonian, a. zealous Pro- testant.) who, Within four months of the death of his wife, has married his Catholic servant girl, joined the Catholic Church and taken his children to a Catholic Sun- day school. 0 e of the women had been seen in the cm 11 holding her screaming baby above the heads of the crowd es she herself went down. Some man haa taken the baby, and it was not found when the mother was dis- éovered in the charnel heap. It was said that the men had been seen carrying the dead baby away, but the police had no account of it. Baby clothing scattered about gave evidence enough that weak infants had been in the crush. The woman whom Bridge Ofiicer Richards had helped to her feet at the beginning of the crush was saved. Richards also escaped death by desperateeflorts. More than half a. score were dead when extricated from the throbbing heap; others were more or less terribly injured. They lay six, or eight, or ten deep, those in the lower tier long dead. The clothes were torn from the bodies of more than one in the attempt. to get them oufi. All were hatlese, many shoelese, and on others the clothes hung in rage. Five women were dead, and trampled into an unemper mess. They were taken from the bottom of the heap; he Melhmllsls and II TRIPLE MURDER MD SUICIDE LIST OF THE VICTIMS. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, JUNE 1 4.3 1883. . Next-Door Neighbors. It is simply frightful to think of what a great number of people sufier from can- tankerous and ill-conditioned neighbors, Just let anybody watch the reports of the Police Court and they will soon see. And better still, let a great number compare notes with each other and see what has been the state of things with themselves and their friends for the last thirty or forty years. Sometimes the complaint is that these neighbors are cold and reserved ; that they have lived next door for years without so much as exchanging the time of day; that they keep themselves to themselvas ; that they are proud, and so on, and so on. It is a matter for uses when this is the case. At least ten times better this than have the familiarity or the warfare with which many are tried. Think of the easy familiarity which leads a. neighbor to be continually running in and out, and still more, which leads servants to spend half their time in idle gossip over the fence. Think of the process of promis- cuous and continual borrowing extending to all manner of articles, from a garden has to a cupful of porridge, or a “draw- ,ing ” of tea 1" Those who know the terror and worry of such a state of friendliness will be the first to cry for perfect non- acquaintance, 'or at the least (are. condi- tion of armed neutrality. Oh, the awful- ness of a neighbor who bolts in at any time. and does not hesitate to make her way either into the kitchen or the bed- room on pretence of being “friends!” And they, what is to be said of neigh- bors who have a taste for monstrous and disagreeable pets? Who keep poultry in the back yard, and main- tain a continual cackle, the cock crow- ing under one’s window, whose dog con- tinually either bays the moon or mourns its absence ; whose cat has feline concerts every lawful evening, to which the oathood of the neighborhood are invited, or whose pigs-etc? Then think of a neighbor, musical but not melodious, howling like a flogged bound at all timely and uni-season- able hours, and their houses all so undeaf‘ enedl It sets one’s teeth on edge, and makes the heart sink down whether it likes it or not. malicious neighbor, the drunken one, the swearing, quarrelling, abusive one, the one with noisy, impudent, ill-conditioned child. ren, the one who thrashes his wife, or whom his better half chastises with her tongue. Be thankful for a passany quiet neighbor- hood, even for neighbors who, after many , ears, are “stran are at.” y great thankful- ' Then the absolutely, knowingly, ‘ Alice GMT, of Cuba, Mo., was killed by lightning. Her clothing and the walls of the room were set on fire. John English was struck by lightning in his house near Cadillac, Mich. He was not iniured above his waist,but his legs were pa‘mly zed. ' A man rode under a. large oak tree at Mound City, Kan” during a. shower. Lightning struck the tree and killed the horse, but: the man escaped with a slight shock. ' As John Lowder of Eureka, 111., was tying a’. horg’e' in his stable lightning struck them, kil‘ling the horse and giving Lowder such a. {shock that he died in a. few days. The three little daughters of Jacob Morowiz, of Winona, Minn., wereplaying in the street under anumbrella during-a thunder storm. A stroke of lightning kills; two of them and paralyzed the thir . ’ ' Lightning struck the house of Mrs. G. W. Jennings, of Greenville, Comm, making a hole in the roof large enough for a. man to crawl through. An oak rafts; was knocked to splinters, and the lightning mu down between the ole boards. and plaster to the waste pipe, T is it_ followed until it reached Sena Ell-attered thé inain. A Gibraltar letter says: Ihave received 1 a letter from Tangier giving a list of slaves sold during a week and some of the priges ‘ which they realised. Three female slaves were sold on as many successive daysâ€"one for $55,, about £111 sterling; the prices of the’other two are not mentioned. A negro boy, aged 69 years, was sold for $35 (£7 sterling). A woman aged 20 sold for $54 (£10 16s). All these slaves were sold in the public streets by anauctioneer, who assigned them to the highest bidder. It is not likely that the European powers will tolerate such a. traffic almost at their own doors and in sight of the residences of their Ministers, Consuls. and other ofilcials, who are con- stantly visiting the Sultan of Morocco, under whose authority these shocking scenes take place. I have seen the reply given to the question put in Parliament, but cannot think that in the face of the facts I have stated a plea of ignorance will satisfy the D_1‘ .muish public. A chaplain wns once preaching to a, class' of collegians about the formation of habits. “ Gentlemen,” said he, “ close your ears against; bad dioouraes.” The students immediately clapped their_ hands to their ears. ‘ ' ' Among ‘Vhom Is Amelia, Who “’ill Sh W'ith the Prophet in Glory. Eighteen of Brigham’s widows live here still, writes a Salt Lake correspondent. Ann Eliza (No. 9), the apostate, who took the lecture field; is said to be married and living in Chicago, but «I could not learn her husband’s name. Some of the widows live with their families in the “ Lion House ” â€"so called from the carved stones that cap the pillars of the entranoss~where they lived during Brigham‘s lifetime, but the main building in which he lived is now the headquarters of the Church. None of the widows have remarried. reports to the contrary notwithstanding. Amelia, it will be remembered, was the most attrac- tive of Brigham’s plurality, and was the recipient of his most conspicuous favors.‘ She was too good to live in the prophet’s, harem, and he built for her, across thel street from the Lion House, an elegant mansion of stone, similar to some of the residences that adorn Prairie avenue in Chicago. It was furnished by him with costly luxuriance, and here he abode during the last years of his life in the bosom of his favorite, while across the way in the old adobe structure, which was erected soon after the exodus from Nauvoo, the other 17 remained without a murmur. Courtiers came to woo her, and it was reported at one time that she had been “ sealed " to one of the apostles, a business man who lives at Ogden, but she rejected his addresses and still wears ‘a widow’s weeds. The Gentiles know little about her, but the Mormons say she is true to Brigham, and believes that she will sit with him in glory. She was the wife of his old age, and never had any children. The Price 01 Slaves m Tangier. BRIGHM’S EIGHTEEN WIMWS. Freak of Lightning. An interesting service was held at the Carlton Street Primitive Methodist Church. Toronto, last night. five young men being ordained into the fellowship of the Church, viz.: Revs. C. J. Curtis, J. A. Trollope, S. Fisher, J. Stonehouse and W. Walker. Rev. W. Reid delivered an admirable ordination charge. A disgraceful hoax has been, played on Rev. F. Metcalf, curate of St, Bartholemew's . Church, Claygposa, London. The Other Sunday morning, when about to’administer the sacrament, the rev. gentleman poured the contents of the wine bottle into 8; silver cup. 115 was then found that the wine had been abstracted and ink substituted. The trick was at once detected, and when another bottle had been procured service proceeded as usgfl: _ V An analysis of the voting to date in the Quarterly Conferences of the Methodist Episéopal Church shows that; out of 19 Quarterly Conferences held to date 16 voted for union, two against it, and in one the vote was a tie. Rev. Mr. Goodwillie, of Camlachie, and formerly of Hespeler, has accepted a. call from the Presbyterian congregation of Newmarkeb, and w111 be inducted op, the 12th of June. The new Baptist church located on Yie- toria Square, Brantford, is to be opened with three special servigea to-morrow. President‘CaBtle and Rev._ Elmore Harris, B. A“ of Toronto, are the preacheps for the occasion. Rev. C. E. WhitcomlboJato of Stoney Creek, the newly appointed assistant to Rev. John Langtry, rector of as. Luke’s Church, Toronto, will commence his duties and preach to-morrow morning. Sb. Andrew’a Qhuro‘h, Guelph, is now free of deb‘a, the mortgages amounting to $8990 havin_g began @ischmjged this week. Rev. Phillips Brooks writes from'the Himalayas that he has not seen anything so high as those mountains since he last visited a certain ultra-ritualistic church in Boston. Cardinal Manning is still in very delicate health. Suppressed gout isa. treacherous malady, and in the Cardinal's vase the anxiety of his friend“ in naturally in- creased by the fuel: that the eldest brother, the late Mr. Charles Manning, succumbed to this disease, Rev. B. R. Maitland, of Trafalgar Circuit, has received official invitations from three circuitsâ€"Washington” L'owville, and Nassa- ga'vyeya. ' ‘ ' ~ Mr. Walter G. Jones, who, nine years ago, gave the English Church Missionary So- ciety $360,000 for the work in China. and Japan, has’recently made a thank-offering of $400,000 for the recovery ofhis son from sickness. Four years ago he gave $1?5,000 to found the Indian Namve Church Mission- ary Fund, Rev.~ J. B. Clarkson, MA , at present stationed at Owen Sound, has been in- vited to become pastor of the Bridge Street Methodist Church. Belleville. At the meeting of the Primitive Metho- dist Conference, in Toronto,the Committee ‘ on Statistics presented a report, which was adopted. It said : “ The report shows a ‘ memberehip of 8,091. We have lost durmg the year by deaths and removals 915. We have also suffered a loss in membership from lack of ministers in our fields, Whose places we did not deem it wise to fill in View of Methodist union, but this Will involve no loss to our common Methodism. The reports show that the Church has not been forgetful of her missions during the year, as 862 have been gathered into her fellowship. The ordinary income of the stations aggregates $35,011, showing an increase of about $2,000 for the year. We are pleased to find our Church property is valued at $402,266,, showing a net increase of $13,920 for the year. This estimate is exclusive of furniture in parsenages, which is not valued.” Rev. James G. Kerr, of St. John's Protes- tant Episcopal Church, Delhi, has created much dissension among his congregation by hin ritualistic practices. He has the church open two days in the week to hear confes- sions, and, though his salary is only $1,20Q a. year, he employs three assistants, and expanded $1,700 during the Past year for music. He in‘ will to lie very weglbyy, . or the 923, Angliozm Bhum’hes in L956; V, wifiain a radius of twelve mile», there are thirty-seven in which Efiloharifitig vest. merits» in ten inCense, in gixty-four' altar light“, are used ; in fifty-one are'candles un- lighbed on the altar; and in 304 the clergy take the eastward position m ‘the commu- nion. The seats are free and} open at 335, 84an 128 _a._re cyan for grivate prayer. Rev. Mr. Deana Cowan. F.R.Gr.S., an English clergyman who returned to Eng- land about a. year and a’. half ago from Madagascar, where he had resided for exght yam-st about to set out again for that island with a. party of Scottish gentlemen and several natives who have been educated in England in order to establish trading stajionsvl Au Ottawa telegram says : At the M011» treal Methodist Conference this morning a. resolution was introduced for the appoint- ment of a. commlttee to determine what applicants for superannuation have been worn out In the work of the ministry. A lively discussion followed as to whether or not the discipline of 1882 13 really the law of the church. The reso- lution was carried. Monday morning is set apart for conversation on the state of the church work. Some time ago Rev. Mr.Allen, at Met; celfe, had trouble-With members of the congregation which resulted in the rev. gentleman entering an action for slander and claim of damagee. He was unsuccess- ful in the courts, and some grave accum- tiona having been made a. committee of the Methodist Conference, of which he is a member, made an investigation of the charge and today their report exonerated- Mr. Allen. The income of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Church of Canada. during the past year was $159,243.51, an increase of $524,400.69 over the previous year. Ex- penditure, $148,400.72. Amount raised within the bounflaries of the Men- treal Conference was $29,153,416. Of that amount $1517 22 was raised in the Ottawa. district. The society supports 322 domestic missions and 344 missionaries; 43 Indian missions, 27 missionaries, 12 nstive assistants, 30 teachers and 11 interpreters; 9 French missions and 9 missionaries; 6 foreign missions, 4 in Japan and 2 in Bar- muda, and 14 missionaries. Rev. Mr. Mouaedale has been appointed to take charge of Sb. Paul's Church, Mount Foreat. He arrived in the Dominion from the old country In April and since has been residing in Hamilton. ’ Methodist Clérgyman Honorably. Acquitted of a Serious Charge. The véstrquq (1.: Grace Church New MOVEMENTS 0F MINISTERS. CHURCH CHIMES. WHOLENO.],801 N0. 14. _ They Weren’t Sandwiches. Among the score of us who rushed into a. redhead eating house in Mississippi at the call of “ twenty minutes for dinner." was a. gimp who had his mind made up to say something unpleasant when he came to pay, for his meal. He was growling when he went in and he jawed all the while he was eating, and when he {slouched up to the desk to pay his seventy-five genie he broke out with: “ You haven’t? Well, I ahéuld like to know What you 09.11 them roasted brick- bats on that blue platter ‘2" “ You didn’t try to eat one of those 7”, “ Yes, I did I” “ Then, my friend, you had better go for a. doctor at once l~ Them are table orna- ments, made of terra-eotta, and were placed there to help fill up space 1 Land 0' cats I but you’must have lived in a oane-bteke all your life l” The traveller tuahed into the our and began to suck at a. brandy-flask, and he diQn’t‘i ggt over looking pglq f_or thrpe hours. And they were sandwiches after all-â€" real good ham sandwiches made that day. The landlord had adopted that particular style, instead of using a. clubâ€"Demon Free Press. “ What sandwiches ?” “ Why, them on the table." “ But we have no sandwiches on the table. air,” protested the landlord. The Sleep 01 Millionaires. Amasa Stone, the Cleveland millionaire who committed suicide, did so because he could not sleep. How many millionaires are there who would give one of their millions if they could sleep as well nights as Pet who takes care of their horses, or the poor man who works in their garden a. Every million dollars a. man accumulates after he has a. compe- tency is a. weight of lead upon his brain. He does not enjoy the money, and nobody else can. What does it profit a. man to gain a. bushel of money, and lay awake nights and see spooks, and roll and tumble on a soft bed until every nerve is on a. strike. A millionaire who can take a. fish pole and go off to a. pond and catch bull heads, and forget that he is worth a hundred dollars, has got an easy time, but few of them can do it. The spectacle of a men who has got six million dollars, blowing his brains out, ought to make thousands who are rich and who are rustling for more, stop and think, and then quit business and go fishing.â€"Peck’s “ Them nandwiohes are enough to kill a. dog 3:, The/death of Sir John O’Shannasy,ot the colony of Victoria, is just announced. No more remarkable colonial politician has ever lived. He was several times Prime Minister, and really was the founder of the Home Rule Constitution of the colony, for which service he was knighted. though for atime he was regarded as a rebel. He sprang from the Irish peasant class,and always identified himself with his Irish fellow colonists, having been for years the leader of the Catholic party, as it is called in Victoria. He was the promoter of the splendid contribution from Australia for the relief of the last Irish famine. Though a. keen "lover of his native land, he was, after the O’Connell type, ever loyal to Queen Victoria and the Imperial Govern- ment. ‘ A Bho wer of Birds. The most remarkable phenomenon re- lating to Iowa. storms occurred at Independ- ence not long ago, when the people at night were aroused by loud pelting against the windows, which could not be accounted for‘ until the next morning. when thousands of birds were found dead all over the city. }t had been a. literal shower of birds, and, stranger still, nobody had ever seen such birds before. In size they were a trifle larger than a. snowhird and their color much like a. quail‘ It is supposed they were drawn into a vortex way down South and rushed through the atmosphere those thousands of miles. Intelligence has been received at Berlin of the death of Dr. Gabriel Gustav Valen- tin, the distinguishedvGerman physiologist, aged .73, an Berne, Switzerland, from a lung affection, for the treatment of which he had gone south. Ex-Chief Justice George Sherwood, of Philadelphia, died yesterday. He was the author of several legal works. In Jury trials lawyers say he was the ablesn men who ever occupied the bench in Pennsyl- vania, and possibly in Amelie}. Sea-sick ptmflengera are most inclined to heme when the vessel heaven to. A despatch from Council Bluffs, Iowa, of last Suturdey’s date says: The rain poured down in torrents for four hours last evening. Indisn creek, which runs through ‘the heart of the oity,overflowed, domg ‘ $200,000 damages. Seven iron bridges and two stone culverts belonging to the city were swept away, also several dwellings and burns. ‘All the business houses on Main and Broadway streets are flooded and several losses of life are reported. The water in the streets is black from the creek.- It was deep with drift current. The Cries for help in the current could be heard in every direction, but the swiftness of the current rendered assistance impos- Bible. The flood rose so quickly that many business men found it impossible to reach their wives and children. and a. number narrowly escaped drowning in endeavor’ing to reach home. The gloom and mourning in the city are universal. All that part of the city lying between the Bluffs and Broadway on the north is inun- dated by rushing and boiling waters. The sight is awful to behold. At midnight it was feared the loss of life would be large. Numerous instances of drowning were reported as early as 8 o'clock. At 12 o’clock it was still raining, but the creek seemed to have spent its fury. The water in the western and southern portions particularly was rapidly rising, and ’msny people were compel ed to take boats and escape. The loss to the city alone will be hundreds of thousands of dollars, besides that of pri- vate individuals. An Iowa City Hooded and Immense Damage Done. RESIDENTS CARRIED AWAY AND DROWNED. PERILS 0F THE RUSHING WATERS. York, has filed specifications and plans for amarble spire to the church which will Weigh about sxx hundred tons, cost $60,» 000, and tower to a height of 219 feet from the street. The spire is to be of white marble, and will be surmounted by a. copper and glass cross, which is to be illu- minated by night. 'eefp Obituary. Brown in all shades. from the most deli< cute to the deepest, and particularly cigar or tobacco brown, is much used for street suits. Cat’s heads are the coming fancy. 81nd will soon rival spiders for orngmenca of all descriptions. - Black silk stockings are now worn alto- gether with white dresses, and indeed may be said to be de rigeur for all occasions. Short mantles and shoulder-capes of open work chenille in black are extremely elegant for summer wraps. Silk embroidered nun’s veiling in delicate tints is one of the favorite materials for young ladies’ summer costumes. Velvet ribbon varying in width from a quarter of an inch to an inch and a half is the fancy for trimming light woolen dresses at the present time. Long silk gloves come in all the fashion- able and desirable shades to match cos- tumes. Embroidery is need more profusely than ever on white dresses, and others are tnmmed with alternating rumea of embroi» Gary and lace. The tints known as Judie shades are seen in all fashionable fabrics. The name Judie seems to include all gradations of color, from the palest to the deepest pinkish purple or purplish pink, and promises to become more and more worn. The following figures, giving the contrast between the expenditure per head on war and education in the various European States, which have been compiled by M. Leon Donnet, a Belgian statistician. are very suggestive: Drake’s-neck green is one of the new summer tints for dresses and hats. A working women in Bow sends acos- tume of gray linsey, which consists of a continuous garment, or, as it is called, a combination vest and trousers, over which a loose, short tunic is to be worn. All the weight of the dress, it will be observed, is thrown on the shoulders; whereas, it appears, the better opinion amen the reformers is that the weight of the c othes covering the lower part of the body and limbs should be distributed round and not upon or above the hips. The tunic shirt is too full; but for one engaged in factory work it is evident that, with slight modifi- cations, such a costume might easily be made more comfortable and safer than the ordinary style of dress. Plain silk mitts for children promise to be quite popular for the summer months. Belg'iuin . 6 9 B 8 Austria.... .. .. 6 8 1 6 Switzerland ...... ...... .. ...... 410 I 2 This comparison, of nouns, takes no ac- count of tha frightful waste entailed by the sacrifice of the labor of able-bodied men during the period of military service. England .. Holland. Saxony;.... Wurtemburg. Bavaria. France‘ Eurasia. .._. which the Ling system is followed. If is a loose tunic, depending from what s, in dressmskere' phrase, described as a yoke and knickerboeker‘s. An attem t to meet the conditions of the competition by adress in a. different style from any of those noticed is made in a costume sent for exhibition from Florence to the Bar- oness Hilga. Von Oramm. It is intended for an evening dress, and is of fine white cashmere and satin, the long simple gown short waisted, or rather with no waist. but 1005er gathered in under the arms. is* cut on each side in order to show the full blue Turkish trousers. From an unexpected qusrter the association have received a proof of interest in their undertaking. Diabetes, Bright’s Disease Kidney, Urinary or Liver Complaints cannot be contrncned b you or your lamilv if Hop Bitters are used, an it you already have any of these diseases Hop Bitters is the only medicine that will positively cure on Don't forget thismnd don’t get acme pufle up stuff that will only harm you. The recent mine are said to have put an and to the bush fires which were ranging the county 0! Beauce, Que. Two costumes from the United States, sent by ladies who have for several years had the courage of their opinions and have worn such for their ordinary dress, are quite innocent of skirts. One of those, of navy blue serge, consists of loose jacket, vest, pegtop trousers and long cloth gaiters» Perhaps the best ally of the dress reform- ers may prove to be the tricycle, for young ladies who have learned to enjoy the free- dom of inevement necessary to the running of a machine are not likely to resume with- out some impatience clothes which restrict their motions and load them with a useless weight. The tricycle riding dress shown by Mrs. King seems to be suitable for its purpose, and the combination in ,it of the riding trousers and knicker- bocker effected by the use of a garterftrepnbelgw the knee is ingenious. V Dr. John-Holfin‘senda a odatdnié‘éfioh a; Sngiey lavd'iea wea._r in_ a_ gymnpaiqm! in An exhibition of the Rational Dress Association is in progress in Princes’ Hall. Piccadilly. The exhibition ismainly con- cerned with the improvement of woman’s attire. Attempts at the solution of the complex problem have been attended on the whole with somewhat indifferent suc- cess, few, if any, of the costumes fulfillin the conditions as these would be interprets by conventional prejudices. What is very much against the appearance of the new costumes and their chance of pleasingis that they are hung, scarecrow-like, on shapeless dummies or frames; but visitors who hap- pen to see the honorary secretary, Mrs. E. M. King, in the exhibition may form an idea of the effect of the new dress, though they would probably not suspect that the kilted continuations round the feet indi- cated thorough reform; or most of the costumes ent in competition it may be said, with the alteration of a word, that they are like Iolantlw‘s son Strephon, rational down to _the waist. There is, for instance, a demure Quaker gray merino costume, under the simple skirt 0! which one would never suppose there lurks the eleven or divided undergarment, but on nearer inspection the kilting round the bottom of the short skirt is found to be continued by a kilting on the lower part of the trousers legs. A vest following the figure easily and aloose jacket trimmed with silk form the upper part of this cos- tume, which is the design of a Parisian mediate, Mlle. Vital. She also sends a dancing costume of blue satin and figured silk, with lace waistcoat and jacket body, which, however becoming it might be to a well formed woman, would at present be considered. to say the least, advanced. Between these two costumes are several with baggy double continuations, which. it they really divide the cares, can hardly double the pleasures of the wearer. More uncompromising in boldness of design is a cricketing suit with a short, loose fitting tunic and trousers which seek no conceal- mentâ€"a dress like one which has been worn for some time, it is said, by a young lady who joins her brothers and friends in playing the game. Women’s R ATIONAL CLOTHING , EXHIBITION. DRESS FOR THE LADIES. Ladies’ Fashion Jouings. War and Education. Attire as Some Good Folks Believe It Should be. Can’t Get It. War. Educa’n.