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York Herald, 11 Jun 1885, p. 1

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A Charlottetown. RE I , despatch says : (“The community was startled this afternoon the news of the murder of the keeper of Sherwood Cemetery, four miles from this city. The murder is the most atrocious ever committed in this Province, the victim being Patrick Callaghan, aged 67, who lived alone at the cemetery, and was not missed until his dead body was discovered to-day by Brenton Longwortb, who was visiting his father's grave and Wanted to see the keeper. Longworth entered the keeper's house from the rear. The stench from the decomposed remains was horritle. Entering the bed-room Longworth found the corpse concealed under the mattress and bed clothes. He reported the matter immediately to the police. Coroner McLeod summoned a jury and viewed the body, and will hold an : inquest. The body was found lying face: downward in a pool of blood on the floor. l One arm was around the leg of a table, the 1 other twisted round on the back, and the body was stretched towards the bed. V’There was a ghastly out across the wind- pipe, evidently inflicied by some blunt instrument. The eyes and fans were con- siderably swollen. The head bones were completely shatlered, exposing the brain. II‘he scalp was separated from Lhe back of ‘ the head to the extent of three i. c‘m 5. 0n the left side of the head was a l urge wound. There were no marks on the body, thew murderer having evidently only attacked a vital part of the head. The appearance of the Victim was shocking, and the jurors sickened when viewing the body. The walls of the room were thickly bespattered with blood, and the entire surroundings indicated a terrible struggle. The instru- ment used besides a butcher’s knife is sup. posed to be a large iron gate bar. The victim was a mlserly old man. having four thousand dollars in the bank. It is be- lieved be had money in the house, ad that that was the object of the brutal murder. This is one theory. Another is that he was murdered by two roughs whom he had had imprisoned in the penitrnliary for breaking Into the cemetery. The murder must have been committed four days ago, judging item the state of the body. _ A St. Louis, Mo , deepatoh eeye : Flora E. ily Downs, who claims to have worked ; a .a newspaper writer in England and , Tionto, deliberately broke the Window 0! & jewellery store here last night and I abstracted several valuable articlee,meking 1 no attempt to escape. When arrest-ed she told a pitiful story of poverty and despera- ; tion. She went from Toronto to Chicago a short time ago. but not getting employment ‘ came here and was no more successful. ‘ Having exheueted her means she became - desperate and determined to commit a ‘ crime to obtain shelter and food. She first . attempted forgery by signing the name of aprominent broker here to 9. chc’que and ‘ presenting it to the bank, but was not arrested. She then determined to commit - the act above described. She appears to i be a woman of education and culture. A Philadelphia deaputoh says: Three explosionsin rapid sucoeasion were heard this evening in a five-awry building occupied by H. Valium} 81‘ as a» f'Jlelllll‘e wureroom, corner of Swain and Market sheath. Immediulely alter the wall on the Seoo d stream side of the building lcll. The sidewalks were crowded M h pedeaziinna, who ran affrighted in ali Climatic” Mary Culhcurb, of Palmyra, N. J, was buried under a. porbion of the filler: wall. 114:: head was crushed in and (we of be: 311114 nearly cunufi. She died 1w; hours luter Her sinner was alighbly in advance of her and escaped uninjured. After the wall fell flames bunt from LLB building, and a man suddenly bppmred at n. L-lJlld-t'uil‘y Window on the Market nlieab ride With his clothing and hair on firp. Hz: was renrxgmzld m1 Hear} Vuhmtger, mu of uhe propriewr. and was about L0 leap to tha grouid. Aladder was placed ugnlunb the wall, but being to short to reach turn a. number 01mm; held it at mun.s lEL‘gllJ, hid the huflf bliadud man uoured 2L iioyhold and oommeuxed to dew nri When hunt way down he awouncd, but his limbs chught between the “211de and he was Bfildly lowered. Biz; muk, Land and lung; were badly burned. The flannel-3 made rapid headway and oommumoaned to the adjoining building, but an 8 o‘aluok were under comm-cl. The corner buildings on Markefi and Second streets was badly damaged. Vehmeyet‘s loss on stock is estimated at $50,000 The losses on the various buildings aggregate 380 000 and other losses $13,000. TllAflll’S BELIZE A (n. ’l‘. R. TRAIN. Riding lo Detroit bv 0w-rnniug the, Brain-men will: Btvolvrrn ADetroit (Mich) deepvitch Buys: Last night at 10 o’clock, at Fort Gruliot, the south bound Grand Trunk freight train was boarded by five armed men who kept p084888i0n of the train u1tll u. vhort dis- tance till]?! side of the Frvzer, when they left, be ing the truinmen would receive reinformomenm. At Mount Clomeue two deputy uherifis boarded the train, but were quickly overpowered and dimrmed. At Frazer the conductor managed to leave the train and telegraphed to Detroit fir help. Early this morning an engine and caboose with e posse of officers started out and met the captured twin at the Detroit and Mil- weukee Junction. No trace of the men has been discovered. The tramps told the trainmen that they wanted to get to Detroit in time to catch the circus. Grenynamnge in Northeastern Kansasâ€" [Vlnny Persons anlly Injured. An Atohieon, Kim.l deepatoh says: Cyclones visited Nortonsville, Gaffe and Frankfort, Northeastern Kansas, yesterday afternoon, doing great damage to property. At Nortoneville, the Atohison, Topeka 8: Santa Fe Railroad depot was liftnd from its foundation and set squarely across the track. Adwelling house was completely demolished and a women seriously hurt. At Gofls the Missouri Pacific depot was badly wrecked, and a car lifted up and turned over twenty-five feet away. Pieces of wrecked barn were carried several miles. Many residences were levelled. No one was killed,but some were very seriously injured and will probebly die. AGED MAN MURDEBED FOR HIS MURDER IN A GRAVEYARQ. Ghastly Discovery in a Cemetery Keeper’s House. The death rate of Dublin has jumped to 39 8 per 1,000, the highest since 1883. 3 The report of five cases of typhus lever seems to show that the city is in an unsani- tary condition. The Paris (Texas) Tribune prints the story of the murder of Prof. J. W. Youmsus at a. boarding house in that place. The murder is slljged by the Tribune to be the not of a. jealous husbsnd named S. P. Homes. who was separates from his wife and was jealous of Youmans. Homes also stabbed his sister fatally and wounded his wife at the same time. Prof. Youmsns was 65 years old,ws.s a native of Toronto, and was a clever musician. For a number of years he lived in Belleville. He was born in Prince Edward pounty, .Ont. Wareroom Wrecked nud Burnedâ€"A Girl Killed and a Young Mau'l‘errlblv Burncd. A Toronto Man murdered in Texas. DES'I‘BUUTI VE UYULONES. FEARFUL F XI’LOHIOA‘ A Sad Unue. NS. MONEY. The Ulster papers of the last mail con- tain long accounts ;ot the case of Mr. William Johnston, of Ballykilbeg. one of the Fishery Inspectors for Ireland, who has been called upon to resign by the Gladstone Ministry. Mr. Johnston. who was formerly M.P. for one of the Ulster constituencies, visited Canada some years ago, being at that time chief of the Orange Order in the Old Country. Some years ago he was appointed to a fishery inspectorship by the Disraeli Government. Shortly after thi~, complaint was made in Parliament of his conduct in addressing public gatherings on Orange questions ; and at length an order of the Treasury Board was passed expressly prohibiting him from doing so. It appears that he broke through the regulations once more, and the Chief Secretary, reminding him of his obligation to abstain from participating in party demonstratiors. asked him to resign. Johnston denied that he had done anything wrong, and declined to resign, whereupon he has been dismissed. A Canadian Storm Prophet on lhe Weather 01 Next Menus. Mr. Walter H. Smith, of Montreal, Pre- sident of the Astro-Meteorological Asocia- tion, has issued a tornado and storm warning for the last eight or ten days of June. His principal reasons for expecting disturbed conditions of the atmosphere at the above dates are primarily the peri- helion passages of the planets Mercury and Venus on June 24th and 26th respectively. Past recuer have taught the Montreal astronomerwwho, it will he remembered, succeeded the late Mr. Vennor. pub- lishing the Vennor’s Almanac for this yearâ€"that some of the worst tornadoes and cyclonic storms have occurred in sum- mer seasons, even when but one of the inferior planets was nearest to the sun. These posit/101w, he says, electrically iiiflu. ence the earth's atmosphere. With Me:- cury at perihelion on August 3rd,1882, a cyclone wreched Snowflake, Mam; adam- aging waterspout fell at Shelby, Ohio, on the 3rd, and a heated term, With auroral displays, lasted from 4th to 7th, followed by high winds and a cool reaction. On July 21st, 1883, with Mercury again at summer perihelion, a terrible tornado wrecked Minnesota, doing $130,000 worth ot damage in Dodge County alone, with iornadoes as far north as Sorsl, Que., houses being wrecked near there on the 22nd. On August 22nd, 1883 (one month latir), Venus came to her perihelion poiit, and great he it was felt over the Eastern States and Canada; sunstrokes were numerous on the 20th and 21st, with heavy storms west ; great tornado on 215m at Rochester, Minn, which tore up 135 dwelling houses and killed twenty-six persons; 22nd, hurricane at Ottawa, Oct. July 7th, 1884, saw Mercury at perihelion, with intense heat prevailing on 5th and 63h; heavy storms broke over Iowa, Wisconsin and New York State; on the 7th a waterspont fell on Madison county, Ark.. sweeping away houses and crops. Mr. Smith’s “ general forecast ” for the last eight or ten days of June, 1885, reads as follows: “Oppressive heat, high winds, thunder showers and unsettled weather in Canada and the Northeastern United States; tornadoes probable in tor- nado sections, notably the Western and Southwestern States, near the Mississippi Valley, followed byareactionery cool to very cool reriod of high barometric pressure. with local frosts in northern and middle sections, Juno ending cool. Tornadoes occur most frequently between the hours of 2 and 6 p. m." This correspondent’s pre- dictions have been singularly correct thus far, he having told to a day the lowest thermometer reading of the winter two months beforehand; forecast the great storms of January and Februaryjust as accurately, as well as the cold weather of April and the backwardness of the fore part of May. JOHNSTON OF BALLYKILBEG. The Chief Secretary for Ireland Demands His Restgnation. Fear-ml Destruclion by 8 Furious Rain and \Vlml Slormâ€"‘Vholo Families Washed Awny and Drowned. A Waco, Texas, telegram says: The fiercest storm ever known in this Vicinity raged on Wednesday night, almost with the fury of a tornado. Rainfall in great sheets for several hours. completely deluging this city. Daylight revealed a distressing pic- ture,tor, in addition to great damage to property, a number of lives had been lost. By 9 o’clock yesterday morning Waco Creek had overflowed its banks, the swift current sweeping away a number of houses along its course. A building just south of the city limits, occupied by T. H. Deminghoff, a German, with his wife and three children, was overwhelmed and the entire family drowned. Another building a few feet awayI occupied by a family named Cameron, was lifted from its foundation and completely de-‘ molished. The family narrowly escaped,‘ but lost everything. Two dwellings were carried down the stream some distance before their occupants escaped. Lower down, on Waco Creek, over a dozen other houses were swept away. Five of eight bridges spanning the creek within the city limits are washed away, The wind blew with tremendous velocity, unroofing ware- houses and other buildings. The water last night was within two feet of the great Missouri Pacific iron bridge, and the sus- pension bridge belonging to the city was threatened. Six miles south of the city a family of six negroes was washed away and drowned. The damage to farms and crops along the river and creeks is enormous. All the railroads leading to the city are badly washed and traffic is suspended. A German chemist advertises that he will furnish Koch‘s coma. bacillusâ€" the sup posed infective germ o! choler&â€"" ready mounted on slides for popular use in microscopes,” As there seems to be some foundation for Prof. Koch’s statement that these germs, though harmless when dry, recover their activity when moistened the “ popular” microscopist will do well not to tool with these slides during this summer at least ; he might accidentally drop one 0! them into a pitcher of drinking water. It is commonly thought that Germany has the largest consumption of tobacco, but the Hamburg Journal shows that this is an error, for both Turkey and Holland sur- pass, relatively to their population, the German consumption. Even in Switzer- land the consumption has risen to 2 8 kilograms per head, while in Germany it is only 1.8, and in France 1.3. GREAT EXCITEMENT IN ULSTER VOL XX VII. THE YORK HERALD. TORNADO \VA RN INGS. TORNADD IN TEXAS. So far as the great mass of humanity is concerned, their chief aim and purpose are the support of their families. From one end of the world to the other the peoples spend their time, rack their brains, tire their muscles, to make money enough to keep the wolf from the door, so that the bread and butter man may have free and unimpeded access. The great mass of man- kind live their lives like a tale that is told. In the morning they rise to labor. Through the day they toil and strive, and with the night they sink to sleep, drawxng the drapery of forgetfulness about them and theirs, sickness avoided, sturdy health enjoyed, the doctors. stranger and police- men afar ofi. What is the use of talking, to them about purpose in life? As you walk through your streets, look at the delvers, the men who dig your trerches, with begrimed faces and dirty hands and dirty clothes, standing knee-deep in the mud and water laying pipes, packing stone, cementing this, that and the other, up at 5 o‘clock in the morning alter a sound sleep at night, hastily dressing, feverishly eating, picking and shovelling by 6 o’clock in the morning. Now don’t come any nonsense over yourselves and say, “Why, the pur- pose of such men as these should be to dig the best trenches, to lay their pipes in the very best manner, to see that their mortar is mixed better than the mortar at any- body else, to take pride in the regularity of the lines of stone." The fierce sun beats down upon their heads, lilerally tanning their skin until it turns to hide. Then- faces, By A. E. Bowers, City Editor, New York Tribune‘ are rigid and furrowed and seemed. Their hand», once dimpled like those of your children terey, are like gnarled Boole ol oak; their nails shortened and stunted, Lhe Knuckles BWOlan and distorted, their everlasting eensuiiou that horrible gritty feeling which muhew you and me hurry lo the washroom, where, Wlth soup and water and ztmmuhia. and a. good stiff brush, We get Well the litile grime from our rkin. At noon they roet,eaiing a chunk of bread and a hunk of menu, washed down With OLffeu or with wuler or With beer, their single solace the savory odor and the beeulming influence of their blackjack, emoked in a short oley pipe. Another long stretch of dirty work, which could be done just 841: well by a. million other people he by them, brings them to their evening hour, when they trudge home, their becke fairly creaking with wearihees, end to whet? Nine hundred and ninety- nino in every thousand of them to dirt, to squalor, to an atmosphere so vitieted that even a. dog’s stomach would be turned, to weary women and to crying babies, to an ill-furnished apartment, to a meagrely spread table, and then, after another smoke, to bed, to sleep, to weke, to repeat, and who are these? Why, these are not the poor ; they are the happy, happy work- men. They have got something to do, they have steady employment. The years roll round, bringing them every day $1.50. SYMI’ATHY WITH THE SORROWFUL Good-will to Lian the Highway to Success. A Lay Sennon on the Chief End of Man. HAPPY, HAPPY WORKINGMEN. But are they the great army of the world’s ‘ inhabitants? Not much. They are the select few who literally ride upon the horse of prosperity, looking down upon their follcwmen, millions upon millions who have nowhere to luy their heads and never get a. piece of bread even, save from the ash barrel of charity or the garbage box of accident. What purpose can these people have in life, save a crust. I was standing in the pension office this afternoon witness for e childless Widow as she drew a. pittance paid her by the Government in lieu of the strong-handed support of a. loving son, one of those martyrs who taught during the lite war of the rebellion, to whom Grant has just dedicated his memoirs of the war. A man stepped up to me and asked my attention for a moment. He said he came here from the West with a wife and two children, thinking to find work, and wanted something with which to buy bread for his fumin that night. Now, there stood the Widow, a woman 75 years of age, in feeble health. to whom the Government pays $12 a month, and on the other hand this man, about 45 years of age, WITHOUT A CENT IN THE WORLD, but with 8. wife and two children waiting at home for the possible crust " Pope.” was to bring. I wonder whet they would have said to Bro. Bowers when he asked what should be the chief end of man. Do you euppoee that it would be the immediate answer of that bereaved mother, literally tottering on the edge 0! the grave, and pro- bably a. pauper’e grave at that, “ to glorify God.” And what would be the response of that mun, strong, Willing to work? Would it be “ to glorify God ‘1” And i! it were, what would they mean by the term glorify God? The chief end of man, no matter what it ought to be, is to get enough to out and a. place to sleep in. Whose fault is it? Ah, that I don’t know. Why are not our ends and aims and nepiratione and purposes of a more elevated nature. That’s a. conundrum. I don’t answer it; you don‘t anewar it. If we are willing to narrow the circle and say what ehould be the chief end of a young newspaper man, a starting physician, an aspiring lawyer, a budding artist, a. boy in nature, or or a bank or in the employ of a corporation, it would be much easier. In my judgment journalism affords a wider field, a. more ferlile opportunity for the glorifying of God, as I understand it, than any other profession. Writers are born, not made. Style may be formed, improved, but a. men with quick perceptive faculties, a fair edu- cation, 8. tnoile hand, the whole leovened With true sympathy for his race, can do more in journalism to extend the horizon of human endeavor, to build up the good, to pull down the evil, to eradicate corruption by hearing away its covers and exposing it to the sunlight of publicity, to saw the seeds of honesty, to brand dishonor,to inculcate a. truly catholic spirit toward all, then all the ministers, doctors, lawyers, reformers bunched together. Journalism has many Bub-divi- alone. There are men in journalism WHOSE SOLE THOUGHT IS MONEY. When Emma. Nevada was leaving New PRESS AND PULPIT. ONCE WREATHEI) WITH BABY SMILES, RICHBIOND HILL THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1885. TO ELEVATE MANKIND, oi the noblest names in literature have been, and are, and always will be, identified with this particular form of popular educa- tion. A man whose thought is always in the interest of his fellows, who is coura- geous and willing to brave contumely, hiding his time, who never writes a word he doesn't mean, and ah) is bright enough to keep the words he means until the times are ripe to sow the seed the harvest from which will be for the healing of the nation, is certain to gain the respect, the good- will, the honor of his fellows, and, as a rule, to reap also THE SUBSTANTXAL anwsnos WHICH ATTEND INDUSTRY, diligence, sobriety, and faithfulness in all the relations 0! lite. It seems to me that good-Will to man is the highway tolsuccess, and that the purpose guiding the lite of every one 01 us might very well be a‘fiesire and determination to better the rsnel, to leave it a little higher than we found it. If our ministers were less solemn, it they knew more about the men to whom they preach, if they understood the ears and trials and tribulations at his not only, but the pleasures, the successes, ihs joys of life as well, it they paid more attention to to day, and let the dim tu-mori‘ow look out for itself, if they thought more of the creature, and kindly allowed the Creator to continue His successful career uuuldvdfihtly might in time hope, for they are a powerful bony of men, to stand shoulder to shoulder with the great journalists of the time. 1 am certain that in the pulpits of this country especially there are great and good men who are doing all they can to better their race, although they are held dowu by conventionality, by prejudice, by disinciuation to make stills, unu content themselves too mung With goody-goody adee, reserving what 2hey are pleased to call the more ambitious flights of thought for poppyowk considera- tion oi things of which ihey knew no more than a babe unborn. T06 tact of the business is, we now nothing beyond the fact that we live this particular - York the other day she said, “ I have been very fairly treated by the press. with one notable exception, that of the critic of a large morning paper, who called upon me and beid that for money he would take care of me, them his criticisms should be favor- able. I declined to pay him. and the con- sequence was he attacked me right hfil’flighfi along.” Miss Nevada. should have given the fellow’a name, for, although ineidera are tolerehly Well informed as to whom she referred, her assertion was sent broad- cast through the country, and all the New York critics must suffer in public opinion until lhe name It! given. Thero are men in high places of jaurnaliam who do nothing except for money. For money they will write on either side, or refrain from writing on any. There are editors, writers, publishers who have no more idea. of the true mission of journalism than they have of the doctrine oiinepiration. 0n the other hand, some WE HOPE 1‘0 LIVE Full YEARS 'l . «Halli: in this beautiful eurth,a.ndit would be u most grateful met if in some way it could be chOWu to be a. fact that hereafter we were to go on through the countless ages of eternity, but all that is epeouluiion. It is very much like a. men keying, “ if I had a. million dollars I would do no and so.” He hasn’t got a. million dollars. Re any have a hundred in his pocket, and he might say very properly, “ With this hundred dol- lure I will do so and so.” What under heavens isthe use of saying, “If 1 had 8. mil- lion dollara Iwould do no and so? " Phy- sicians have been groping in the dark for centuries, and nothing more amply typifiso their everyday action than that eignifloant word practice. The great majority of physiciane are practiemg all the lime, and, considering how little they really know, the aid and comfort they are to the rude is marvelloue. As a. matter of feet, they are of more comfort than aid. A phyhioien who nnderetande human nature, who plays With the baby, makes friends With the children and listens to the woes and tribulations of the good wife and mother, in the fellow to whom the master of the house moat It isn’t the medicine that’s bottled up, but it‘s the comfort, the consolation, that are unbottled, that marks the broad line between an unsuccessful and a popular physician. But a. doctor who studies, who Keeps abreast ot the times, who is familiar with all new discoveries, who applies tests and educates himself, not that he may keep six or eight horses, not that he may live on this, that or the other avenue, not‘tnut his family may shine in scciety, but that he may he a. man murked by hie lellcws by resume of his helpfulness to hln" kind. surely he may expect to stand side by side With the most advanced, the most useful oi the children of the earth. What are What are they remembered for? Which of them are taken by intelligent teachers as models for the young men and women of to-dey? Not the warriors, but the lovers of their kind. Go back and back an far at) record takes us, penetrate even the gloom of tradition, bring out the tombstone: and read the names most indelibly cut thereon. Every one of them rises before your memory in a moment, and coming down through the later ages when imperiehable print puts in never-tauing reuord their names and achievementst it not a. fact that he who is uourteons, thoughtful], considerate, helpful, standing up for the oppressed, fighting tue battles or the poor, grasping With a strong head of love the infected body of a fellow-man by the flow- iug heir of wailing uietrese, is most re- garded, most respected, most revered and 1 really beet known? Prince Albert Victor. sun of the Prince of Wales, is to be called to the harm London on June 10m. The Princess Beatrice is a tell. lxght- haired, slender girl, not at all like her mother, and much prettier than the other Royelohildren. She has (is many people have said) “an American look," small, dehoete features, a nose a trifle “ tip-tilted. nke aflower.” and very fine brown eyes, sweet red lips, and luxurious brown hair. Altogether I thought he: adorable.-Cor. Boston Traveller. The Princess of Wales, by accepting the degree of Doctor of Music conferred upon her by the Royal University of Ireland, and wearing the aesdemieal costume on the occasion, has snnenionedmnos for all, the much discussed question of the pro- priety of lady graduates appearing in aesdeuieal robes at their presentation to the Chancellor. The Irish Artisans’ Exhibition is to be opened in Dublin on June 24th. CHEERFULLY PAYS THE LARGEST BILLS. THE GREAT NAMES IN HISTORY? Royalty Notes. An opening in a. Wall of rock took us at length into a. long, winding fiord or arm of the sea, with green, bure fields on every side, and wild, weird-like sheep, that gazed on us for a moment, then bleated and fled. Right at the end of this rock stood my friend’s house, comfortable and solid- lookiug, but unsheltered by a single tree. “ I Egan’s stay long heré," I said to my- self, as I landed. An hour or two afterward I had changed my mind entirely. I was seated in a. charmingly and oozin furnished drawing- room, upstairs. The windows looked out to and away across the broad Atlantic. How strange it was 1 lot the looh that had led me to the front of the house, and the waters of whiuh rippled up to the very lawn, was part of the German Ocean, and here at the back, and not at stone's throw distant, was the Atlantic. Beside the fire. in an easy-chair, set my gray-haired old relation and host, and, not far off, his wife. Presently Cousin Miggie entered, smiling to me as she did so; her left hand lingered fondly for a moment on her father’s gray locks, then she set down uubidden to the piano. On the strength of my bloodtelntionship, distant though it was, for we were really only third or lourth cousins, I was made a. member of this family trom the first, and Maggie treated me as 9. brother. I was not entirely pleased With the latter arrangement, because intu days had not pussed ere I concluded it would be a. pleasant psetime for me to make love to Cousin Maggie. But weeks went by and my love-making was still postponed; it became a sine ole kluul of n. probability. Maggie was constantly With me when out of doorsâ€"my companion in all my fishing and shooting trig 8. But she carried not only a red but even a rifle hex- self ; she could give me lessons in casting the flyâ€"and (lid ; she often shot dead the seals that I lied merely Wounded, and her prowess in rowing astonished we, and her during in venturing so far out to sea in our broad, open boat often msde me tremble for our safety. The steamboat landed me at Lerwiok, and I completed my journeyâ€"with my boxesâ€"next day in an open boat. It was every cold morning, with a. gray. cold, choppy sea. on,the spray from which dashed over nbe boat, wetting me thoroughly, and making me feel pinched, bleur-eyed, and miserable. In the early summer of 1860 I went upon avisit to a distant relative of mine, who hved in one of the Shetland islands. It; was early summer with myself then ; I was a. medioalsbudent, with life all before me. One day Maggie and I were together in a cave date by me oceanâ€"u favorite haunt ot ours on hot: afneruoona. Our boat was drawn up close by. The day was bright, Mid the Ben was oakm, its tiny wavelets making dI‘OWEy, dreamy music on theyeL law Hands. .She had been rendfng 8.10mi, «nu-J I was‘ gazmg cut. to: 2am.“ ” I begin to think you are beautiful,” I said. Sue looked down at me where I lay with those innocent. eyes 0i hem, that always looked into mine as frankly as a child’s Would. “l‘m mt sure,” I continued. “ that. I ahau’u commence muklng love to you, and perhaps I might marry yotfi Wham would you bhmk of may ? " " I (lure say," I Eesumed, pretending to pout, “ you wouldn’t marry me because I’m p005” “Luvs! ” she laughed. as musicaily as a sea-nymph, “love? Lave betwnxn a cousin '7: and a. couam? Pfeposberouu . “ Poor! ” she repeated, looking very firm and earnest now; “ it the man I loved were poor I‘d (mer a creel for him; I’d gather shells for hm Baku; but; I don’t: love anyâ€" body, aud don‘t mean to. Come! ” Sblthun was the beginning and end of my love-making with ACoggig Maggie. And Maggie had said she 11516: meant to love any cue. Well, we 02w never tell what may berm on; imqumw iuburq. Hardly had we left the owe that day and put off from the shore ere caba’-paws began to ruffle the waver. They name In from the west, and before we had got half-way to the distant headland a. steady breeze was blow- ing. We had hoisted our sail and were running before it: Wihh the speed of a gull on the wing. Once round the point, we had 9. beam wind mill we entered Che flord, than we had to been: to windward all tha way home, by which time in was blowing quite a gale. In wenn round more to me norm about sunbet, and than for the first; time We noticed a. yacht of small dimensions on the disbunt lurizou. Her intention appeared to be than of rounding the island and pro- b3.ny anchoring on the lee bide of it. She was in an ugly position, however, and we ull watched her a; xiously till uignmll hid her from View. I retired early, but sleep was out of the question, for the wind raged and howled around the house like Wild wolves. About 12 o‘clock the sound of auguu fell on my ears. I could not be mistaken, for the window rattled in sharp response. I sprang from my couch and began to dress, and immsdimely aft-er my aged relative entered the room. He looked very aerima. r “ The yacht. is on the Eu," he said, solemnly. WThey'wete words to me o! fearful signifi- cance. The yacht, I knew, must soon break up gm: guthiqg could guy‘e me crew. I qulckly followed my relative into the back drewing-room,where Maggie was with her mother. We gazed out into the night, out; and across the sea. At: the same moment, out: there on the terrlble Bu, 3 blue light sprang up, revealing the yacht and even me people on board. She was leaning Well over to one side, her masts gone, and the spray dashing over her. “ Come,” aria-d Maggie, “there is no time to 1089‘ We can guide their boat to the cave. Come, cousin 1” I felu dazed, thunderfibruok. Was I to take an aotlve parh in a forlorn hope ‘2 Was Maggie-how beautiful and daring she looked now lâ€"to assume the role of a modem Grace Darling ‘I So it appeared. We pulled out at the fiord, Maggie and I, and up under lee of the island, then, on rounding the point, we encountered the whole force of the sea and wind. There war; a. glimmering light on the wrecked yacht, and for that we rowed, or rather were borne along on the gale. No bout save a. Shetland skiff could have been trusted in such a sea. As we neared the Ba, Bteadying herself by leaning on my aheulder, Maggie stood up and waved the lantern, and it was answered from the wreck. Next: moment it seemed to me we were on the lee side, and Maggie herself hailed the shipwrecked peo- ple. ” We cannot come nearer,” she cried ; “ lower your boat; and follow our light) closely. Take the tiller, now," she continued, addressing me, “ and sheet to: the light you (By Gordon Stables, M. D., R. N.) FOURTH .COUSINS. WHOLE NO 1,403 NO. I . We beached our boats, and here we remained all night, and were rescued next morning by a fisherman‘e yaohb. The yacht's peeple were the captain, his wife and one boyâ€"Norwegians all, Briueter by name. What need to tell of the gratitude of nhose whom Maggie’s heroism had saved from a. watery grave? But it came to pass that when, a, few months afterward, 8. beautiful new yacht: came round to the fiord to take those ship- wrecked mariners away, Cousin Maggxe went with them on a. cruise. It came to pass also that when I paid my next; visit to R â€", in the following summer, I found living at my relutive’u house a. Maj. Brin- sner and a Mrs. Brineter. Mrs. Brinsner was my cousin Maggie. and Maj. Brianne: was my oouexn Maggie’s " fate.” “ Shandy: now,” cried my brave cousin, and next: moment we were round a point and into smooth water. with the yacht’s boat oloee beside us. The place was partly 08.19, portly " pass.” 7 I-limd- Still Abounding with Classic customsâ€"Tho Nymphs. The Cyclades are the isles where every vuricty or human life has left its mark and its descendants. From the prehistoric villages, under the pumice and lava. ot Them, to the historic Greek settlements, to the Venetian, Persian, Turkish and French settlers, all the various couches of humanity have deposited their traditions, material relics and superstitious fancies in Cycladeun soil or Cycladeun custom, says the Saturday Review. The ancient Greek re-igion is not extinct. The Nereide are in lull fume, and an extent “Mrs. Gsmp ” :5 Known to have practiced on an interesting occasion in Nereid domestic life. The volcano is called the HepLaeitue. Birds and goats are sacrificed when a new house is built. The old popular games are played, the old popular songs are chanted. The VOlOELlllO forces at Them have raised a. rock in the shape of a ship out of the Sea; precisely what must ane occurred in the harbor of Schema, where the thiciens explained the event by feigning that Poseidon turned one 0! their vessels into a. stone. The offices of the church to drive out mice and rats, instead of trusting to Appoilo Smintheus. At Seriphos the old coins with Meduss’e head are still dug up, and the people __ .Ar“ “legume see on the cliff. Keep her well up, though, or all will be lost.” We wmtedâ€"and that with diflioultyâ€"for a few mmutes, till we saw by the starlight that we yacht's boat was lowered, then away we want. The light on the cliff-top moved slowly down the wind. I kept the boat’s head a point or two above it and on she dashed. I‘he rocks loomed black and high as we neared them, the waves breaking 1n terrible Lurmoil beneath. Suddenly the light was lowered over the cliff down to the very water’s edge. Park-11': Madman r317 {he m: IiJLull vino dwelt in the ruined castle. It 18 a more modern faith that a baaketi‘ui of good thinge is let down out of heaven on the day of our Lord’s transfiguration. Still, when you sacrifice to the Nereide, you must leave the offering and hurry away without looking back, as in the Theooritean mi on the first exploit of Her- cules. Still, the Nereide kidnap chil- dren,fly in the currents of windâ€"though not to die cry of “horse and buttock”â€" etill, like Peleue, a man may win a Nereid bride it he has skill and courage to hold her through all her transformations. In short, the Nereide retain all the qualities pos- aeeeed by their kindred, the Scotch fairies, the Apseras of India, the eky maidens of Maori and Red Indian fancy. The Siph- mot spotters yet toil at their wheel in the very attitude or the craft as represented on Greek vases. The Width of the people takes the classical form of riddles. “ What sort of chicken is that which they scrape and out, and then the shoemaker uuee hi; feathers in his art ‘1’" Answer, no one need give it up; “ A pig 1” The rustice cut their own ehoon out of rough pig‘s hide, like Eumwus whom Odysseus found thus employed ; “Now he was fitting san- dale to his feet; cutting a rough brown oxhide." KILLED B0“ FOR'1‘Y DOLLARS. Alroclous I'llll‘lll'l‘ of :1 Night Clerk in a New York Drug store. A New York telegram says: When the day clerk entered Crawford‘s drug store, Hudnon street, this morning, he found the door open and the dead body of the night clerk, Richard Hands, in a. sitting posture h, u, A -_,, rvu-u-w on the fine: of the aiming-room. He enm- moned the police and in wee found thet Hand’s skull had been crushed with a. heavy iron peenle which lay near by, his phroet cut from ear to ear, and other marks of Violence on his face. Thirty-five or forty dollars had been taken from the hill. The crowd, attracted by the news of the mur- der, beunme so great in the vicinity that the entire police reserve of the precinct had to be called out to restrain the people until the coroner arrived. The doctor found three great gaehee on the back oi! the head. The entire righb side of the skull was crushed in. The gash in his throat presented & aiokening sight. There is no clue to the murderer. file (Jame tor Ills Bride and Found “or Dead. A Cleveland desputoh says: William Skaley, a. handsome young sailor, wrote Nellie Hoffman, his intended, that he would be in Cleveland on May 29th to claim her as his: bride and take her to the little cottage he had rented. “ Where’s Nellie ‘I " asked Skaley, as he entered the house of Mr. Carpenter, on Canal street, where Nellie boarded. “ I came a day sooner than I wrote her I would, bunâ€"J’ “Why, didn’t you know? ” said Miss Carpenter, turning pale. “Nellie is dead. She was found drowned last Sunday in the foul water at the river.” When he learned that the girl had already been buried at the city’s expense Skaley sank down overcome with grief. He learned that she went on Saturday after the expected letter from him, but it had not come. It was at first feared that disap- pointment caused her to commit suicide, but even that would have been less terrible news to the lover than the story that she had started home under escort of an old captain, and was never again eeen alive, and that foul play is suspected. A Persian paper states that Russia. is negotiating with Bokhara. for the cesaion to the former of all the towns on the left bank or the Amudaris River. Ex-Preaident Arthur’s French cook at the United States White House has been discharged. President Cleveland has installed in his place a young Iriahwoman named Katherine Keenan. Ills CYULADE 5. M Teefy Lord Granville’a Secretary has written to the News thot its statement of the status of the Anglo-Russian negotiations is in- correct. and that negooiations are still pro- ceeding. The News maintains that its statement is substantially oorreot. During practice with & twenty-ton gun in the harbor at; Queeustown Saturday a. ball, by some unexplained reason, went in dangerous proximity to the Roche’s point lighthouse, which had anarrow escape from destruction. So immense has been the demand to: flowers by admirers of the dead poet. Hugo, for tributes at; his funeral than? there is a. flower famine in Paris. Tennyson has sent a. diedem composed of Irish lilies. Politicians of all shades of opinion in Eng- land are sending floral tributes to the deaf poet. It is reported Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt is the chief stockholder of the new Metropole Hotel on the Thames embankment, which is the largest hotel in London. France, supported by other European powers,propoeee that offences against the press laws in Egypt shall be tried by international tribunals. Turkey and Eng- land oppose this proposition. Some of the Berlin papers are very war- like in tone over the Zanzibar trouble, and hint that England and Italy must be punished for inciting the Sultan of Zanzibar against the German Trading Company. A special says that while it is probable members of the Royaltamily willmake tours in Ireland during next autumn, the Queen will nob visit the island, the osten- sible reason being that: her health is not robust enough to stand the strain. EsrlSpenoer has failed to convince Sir Charles Dllke that amnewal of the Crimes Act in Ireland is necessary, and the proba- bility is that the Government will be com- pelled to back down, and will get out of its dilemma by the introduction of a harm- less renewal bill to remain in force about a year. The Right Rev. Richard Gilmour, D. D., Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Cleveland, arrived at Liverpool yesterday on the City of Richmond. Thousands of laborers are being for- Warded to hasten the completion of the Russian Central Asian Railway. The 'Vicdomosn' wants Russia. to insist that a limit] be put upon the Afghan armaments supplied by means of Euglieh money. It urges that a strong Russian fortress be built opposite Herats. The Marquis of Hartington, who wasill at Dublin during the past few days, has returned to London. A letter has been received from Dr. Schweinfurth, the German traveller. stat- ing that a. schooner which was pursued recently threw overboard a. quantity of contraband destined for Osman Digna’e rebels. Schweinfurth urges the necessity of keeping strict watch on the African coast line to prevent the Mahdi and his followers from obtaining supplies. The official bulletins announce that the Emperor William of Germany has recov- ered from his recent indispoaition. While he has taken a turn to: the better, his condition is far from authorizing such hopeful bulletins. He is still confined to bed. It is true there is no longer danger from his, intestinal complaint, but the Engnmr‘a persistent insomnia. is causing his medical attendants great alarm. Volcanic eruptions of Mount Vesuvius are increasing in activity. RUSSIAN WAR PREPARATION S. A London cable says : The report of the spread of cholera in Spain is causing a. feel- ingot alarm here. Sixty oases occurred within the past week at Valenma and seve- ral cases are reported at Merseillee. The disease has appeared in this city in the neighborhood of the docks, undoubtedly imported in French and Spanish ships, and though it is stated to be only of a. mild type there is reason to fear more than one death from genuine Asiatic cholera. has taken place. Asiatic Cholera Said to have Broken Out in [01141011. NEW WORLD TELEGRAMS. A Dilne Novel Hero Sent to the THE TYPHOID PLAGUE AT PLYMOUTH. Kingston has demanded a license fee from the Book-room held a. few days in connection with the Montreal Conference. Donald Ross, of Nairn, father of A. W. Ross, M.P., of Lisgar, died on Saturday. He had been aresident of Middlesex county since 1832. Baum, the Texas cotton swindler, who was awaiting extradition in Chanham jail pending the decision of the Superior Courb on a motion for his discharge. died on Saturday of heart disease. - Privates Showcross and MoConaghey, who left their sentry posts at Kingston Fort», have been sentenced to six and seven months respectively. Sergeant Goodfellow. formeer of Ganancque,for being insolenfi to an offiuer, was reduced to a private. A boy named Hedging, whose parents reside in Belleville, stole some money from his mother to purchase a revolver, and started on the road ma 8. dims novel hero. He was arrested at Trenton and sentenced to three years in the Reformatory at Pene- tanguisheue. Hon. Oliver Mowat and Mrs. Mowafi arrived in Ottawa. on Saturday night. It is understood that the Provincial Premier’s vieit; is for the purpose of obtaining infor- mation as to the nature of the Dominion Government’s claim upon Ontario territory in connection with the Indian title. Detective Cnddy, of Toronto, left {for Niagara Falls late on Saturday night in company with Government Detective Rogers to bring the prisoner arrested there for killing a. Toronto policeman to Toronto. Yesterday morning a despnteh was received at polica headquarters to fibe effect that the man arrested was not Little. The prisoner has been released. On Friday evening a. young man named Georgie Gerdie, aged about 22, and married about six months, who lived in the town- ship of Herschel, near Faraday town line road. left his home in the evening to visit a neighbor on business, carrying with him his rifle. He was found next morning lying dead, having been shot through the body. The accident was evidently caused by carelessness in crossing the fence with thg gun. r _ _ M m Detective Tracey. acting as State agent, started from St. Louis, Mo., on Saturday night: for Auckland, New Zeelend, to receive the murderer Maxwell, who killed Preller M the Southern Hotel. A Plymouth, Pa... telegram says one death is reported since last night, and many patients are dangerously ill and beyond recovery. The doctors believe the danger of secondary infection is becoming greater every day by contamination of the wells. The Grand Jury has indicted the Borough Council to: criminal neglect of duty for not; keeping the town inagood sanitary condition. Decoration Day was observed on Satur- day in a. fitting manner in the South, as well as in other portions of the country. The Grand Army celebrations at the national cemeteries were on an elaborate and impresslve scale. ULIJ WORLD CABLEGBAMS. Beformatory.

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