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Sir William Vernon Harcourt made a vehement attack upon the policy that had been pursued by the present Govermem. in the management of Ireland, and supported Home Rule. LONDON, Feb. W- Tlxoums Sexton, Parnellite, resuming the debate on Parnell’s amendment, taunted the Govern- ment on their inability to rule Ireland without the assistance of an army as large as the one needed in India. Parnell’s amendment, Sexton contended, raised ques- tions of vital and practical importance. The whole policy of the Government in Irelandâ€"whether it was called reform of the criminal procedure law, or coercionâ€" hinged upon the relations between the Irish landlords and their tenants. All offers on the part of the tenants to arbitrate the question of rents had been spurned, and the tenants now stood with their backs against the wall defying oppression, even the oppression of the law, because their position was morally impregnable. The tenants everywhere in Ireland were willing to pay fair rents, but the speaker believed if all the deposits banked under the Plan of Campaign by the small farmers (and which represented the utmost they were able to pay) were put into a common fund, the sum would not suflice to pay three months’ rent on the basis demanded by the landlords, Mr. Matthews stoutly defended the policy of the Govamment. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach replied. He said it was the duty of the Government to enforce the law, and this they would do. It was intended to extend the provisions of the Land Purchase Act, and measures were in contemplation for the develop. ment of the industrial resources of Ireland. Mr. Sextonkdjourned the debate. Parnell‘s Amendment Defeatedv'l‘he De- bate. The division was then taken, and Mr. Parnell’s amendment was defeated by a vote of 352 to 246. Wilkesbarre, Pa., despatch : Henry Ed- wards, aged 20, joined the Salvation Army of this place last Christmas. He forsook his old companions in sin, and said he was going to lead a new life. For a while he was one of the most earnest workers in the Army, and secured many recruits from the society he formerly moved in. He went so far as to visit the mines and implore the young men to join the Army of the Lord. He continued his good work until last Friday, when he fell from grace and returned to his sinful ways. Sunday evening last he visited the Salvation Army barracks and soofl'ed and laughed at the exercises. All of a sudden he put his hands over his eyes and cried out, “ My God, what is the matter ;- I cannot see.” Edwards was taken to his home by two friends. He was totally blind. pension of the Evictions Bill. Could Par. liament hold that, as a legitimate conse- quence, the rejection of any measure left the people morally entitled to take the law into their own hands and do what Parlia- ment had refused to do ? (Cheers) If the plan of campaign was not illegal, if its enforcement was not stopped. there would be an end to all relations between landlord and tenant. It would cause an internecine war and result in the total destruction of the power of the landlord to obtain any rent excepting what the tenant chose to pay. The suppression of the “ plan ” was a necessity, if order was to be preserved. Mr. Parnell had referred to the probable recurrence of dynamite outrages, He admitted that Parnell was not in a position to control dynamite crimes, but he was in a position to disown them. (Cheers) They were not disowned. Mr. Parnell contented himself with warningParliament that ifa certain course were pursued the dynamiters might resume operations. As to Home Rule, there remained a stedfast. solid barrier of a hundred votes against Mr. Gladstone’s scheme. (Cheers) It was ‘ idle and useless for the Home Rulers to present a vague resolution to the House on the ground that they had the confidence of the Irish people, knowing that they must secure the approval of the British nation. Viscount AI-(ilcoursie (Liberal), Samfiel Storey (Radical), and Hy. H. Fowler gyibgral). spoke in fayog' of phe amendment. Cornelius Driscoll, of Lower Cove, N. S. is 101 years old, and hale and hearty. He eats well and daily does light work. Prof. Udson, a. violinist of Warren, 0., was engaged to Miss Jenny Thompson, of Copenhagen, when he quit that city for America. A few weeks ago he sent for her, and the day after Christmas she arrived in New York city with her grand piano and many trunks. She was met by her lover, who took her directly to Warren, where three days later they were married at the institution where the husband teaches music. Sam Temple, 3 colored citizen of Mont- gomery, sent his 8-year-old boy for a jug of whiskey. On the way home the boy thought that what was good for his father must. be good for him. and he took a. pull at the jug. Then he took several more and when he got home was stupidly drunk. His mother put him to bed, and he was undis- turbed until the next morning. Then when she called him he was dead. A yearling calf harnessed to a. good-sized hand sled, and trained so that it will obey every command of its driver, is one of the Iflnctionl at Sioux City, Iowa. The Marquis of Hartington said the Plan of Campaign was not the main question before the House. To vote for Mr. Par- nell’s amendment was to vote virtually want of confidence in the Government. The other questions raised, therefore, could not be discussed on their merits, but only with reference to the effect of the amend- ment on the fate of the Government. Ad- mitting that the relations between the land- lords and tenants in Ireland were far from satisfactory, it was no remedy to suspend or reduce or abolish the payment of rent. Such a plan would be found no boon to the poor tenant. Continuing, Lord Harting- ton said the real remedies for the agrarian crisis were to be found in providing larger productive employment for the people, or in voluntary emigration conducted and supported by the localauthorities. (Cheers) Still, where landlords existed the land laws must be enforced. It would never be possi~ ble to get rid of the ultimate re- sort of eviction. The course of the Government in prosecuting the authors of the plan of campaign was right and straightforward. It was the duty of the ‘ Government to attack men employed in an illegal conspiracy, and prevent their lead» ing astray tenants who were their dupes. Mr. Gladstone had declared that the plan of campaign resulted from the policy of the Government in refusing to adopt the sus. vigorous Speeches by Mr. Redmond and Lord Hartlngton on Pal-mall’s Amendâ€" meat. Mr. Redmond, Nationalist, resumed the debate on Mr. Parnell’s amendment this evening in the House of Commons. Hesaid he spoke as one soon to undergo, in com- pany with John Dillon and others, a trial which would probably endin imprisonment for assisting in the operations of the plan of campaign. So far as the plan had been applied, Mr. Redmond said, not more than twenty estates had up to date been brought under its operations, and in no case was it , proposed to deprive the landlord of his rent, but the aim was simply to enable the tenants to bank their money for protection in cases where the landlords refused to make fair reductions. In every instance in which the plan of campaign had been tried the landlords were finding it advisable to make concessions. It was mainly due to the plan that this winter there had been fewer evictions than for several years previous. and an almost total absence of outrages. Something for the Sills. THE PLAN OF CADIPAIGN. Cayuga. Berlin \Velland . Brnntford Simcne ..... Hamilton. Guelph ..... Stratford.. Barrie... . Owen So Ind Pembroke .. Perm ..... L‘Orignal. Ottawa, . Lindsay... Peterboro' . Toronto Goderinh“ Walkermn .‘ London ...... Woodstock. Stratford.... St. Thomas Sarnin. ,. . Sandwich. Chatham. Barrie .......... Owen Sound Braubford .. Simcoe.,,, Hamilton Gnel )h. \Vhit. )y, Cobonrg. .. Lindsay . , . . Peterboro' Belleville.. Kingston“ Brockville Cornwall .. Ottawa .... St‘ Thomas Sandwich... Sauna, ........ Goderich . .. Woodstock Chathnm London ...... Walkertun. - The Dominion and Provincial Govern- ments are to be appealed to to secure information relative to the early settlement of the country from old settlers are they pass awaz. Whitby ..... Rn“ nvi I] :- Nupauee. ,, Piston ....... Kingston ,. Brockville Cornwall” (Jobourg. .. St. (Influx-fines Latest. from the Northwest. The Masonic Grand Lodge met here to- night, when the annual reports were prejentgd. A Husband Shoots His Young \Vifeâ€"Her Babe Cries Itself to Death. A Boulder (001.) despatch says : Mr. and Mrs. Wendelin Mott, a young couple living eight miles from here, to all appear- ances had been very happy until three weeks ago, when their first child was born. Since then Mott has been very abusive and quarrelsome. On Monday morning Mott got up early, built a fire. made some coffee, drank it and sat down to smoke. His wife was still in bed with her child, and had fallen into a doze, when she was awakened by the report of a gun. She jumped up and fell to the floor unconscious, a ball having entered her shoulder and passed into her neck. In the meantime Mott dis- appeared. When Mrs. Mott regained con- sciousness she got into bed with great diffi- culty and sank into a stupor. When she came to herself again her child was crying, but she, having become paralyzed, was unable to reach it. The fire went out and the babe cried until midnight, when it died. Mrs. Mott’s plight was not known until Tuesday night, when a relative called at 1‘ the house. She cannot recover. Ofi‘icers , and a posse of citizens are in pursuit of the ‘ murderer. Toronto (Civil). .. Toronthrimin 1) Orangeville., Milton ..... Brampton. St Catharines. - James Corrigan, 9. farmer at St. Andrew’s, attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a. knife. His recovegx is Epprobable. WINNIPEG, Feb. 10.â€"â€"The two rebels, Chief Big Bear and Big Belly. recently released from Stoney Mountain, were sent oh from Regina. by Tuesday night’s train to Swift Current, en route to Battleford. A supply of necessaryprovisions was given to them. died in Burlington, N. JL, hgéfi'gé'Q'e‘A¥§, had not been out of her room for eighteen years. Coal is supposed to exist in Wnpella Disâ€" trict, Assiniboia, and tests will shortly be made to ascertain its quality and extent. If the tests prove successful, a. strong com- pany will be formed to develop the deposit. Hugh Barnett,of Edwardspoi‘t, 1nd,, was so amused at a pun made by a. neighbor that he laughed immoderately and fell dead. Miss Elizabeth Atkinslon, who recently J:-J .u. 1')..th, ,‘ . -_ Rev. Sam Jones. who intends to visit Minneapolis next April, has consented to come on to Winnipeg and deliver at least one lecture here. A resident. of Chester, 111., has apet crow that talks quite as well as any parrot. son is only 13 years old, and agreed to stand as a target, but Rivers failed in his part of the performance. He hit Jackson squarely in the forehead. The ball was a small one and had little force. It circled around under the scalp without penetrating the skull, but it disturbed Jackson to think how nearly he had been killed, and, with blood streaming down his face, he set up a most energetic yell. Rivers ran away and hid in the cellar of his house until Detective Madigan found him and took him to the Harlem police court. His excuse there was plausible enough. He said Jackson’s head ran up further into the hat than he had ‘ supposed, or he would not have hit him. Mrs. Rivers gave the required $700 bail for her son’s release. A New Turk Boy Shoots Another Boy‘s Hat With His Head in it. A New York despatch says 2 Frank Rivers, 15 years old, was in the street prac- tising with a. long~barrelled target pistol on Monday, when William Jackson, a colored boy, came along. Young Rivers wanted to fire at Jacksou’s dog for fun, but Jackson suggested that he try his skill on some of his neighbors‘ chickens instead. Rivers proposed a compromise. “ You stand over there,” he said to the colored boy, pointing to a. tree, “ and I’ll shoot through your hat. I kin do it, and I won’t hurt you.” Jack- CHANCERY SPRING SITTINGS. o ............ Proudfoot, J ...'I‘uesda.y,26ch April WESTERN CIRCUIT. Ron), 0. VOL XVIII THE Spring Assizes, 1887. ARMOUR, .1. MIDLAND CIRCUIT. PROUDFOOT, J. EASTERN CIRCUIT. FERGUSON, J A LIVING TARGET. A FOUL CRIME. AMERON, C. O'FONNOR, J. “ALT, J‘ ROSE, J ...Mond&y, 14th March "Monday, 2lst March Monday, 28th March Monday, 4th April Monday, 11th April Monday, 18th April . Monday, 2nd May .Monday,9t11 May .. Monday, 14th March Monday, 28th March Monday, 4th April ..Monda.y, 11th April ..Mouday, 18th April .Monday, 25th April Monday,2nd May .Monday, 9th May ....Tuesd&y, 8th March Monday, 14th March “HFriday, 18th March Wednesday, 30th March .Thursduy, 28th April .,'I‘uesduy, 3rd May Monday, 9th May ..... 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May NIondn. yongay, 131th March Mmldn y, 4th A) lmrsday, 7th April ‘Monday, 11th April .Monday. 18th April .Monday, 25th April .,.Monda.y. 2nd May Amongst our agricultural products, the exhibit of cheese and butter forwarded by the Ontario Department of Agriculture attracted much attention, and cannot fail to be of great value to this growing and already important department of agricul- tural industry. For the success of this exhibit much credit is due to the zealous assistance of the officers of the Provincial Dairy Associations. The splendid exhibit of Ontario fruit, collected mainly by the officers of the Fruit Growers’ Association, will do much to remove erroneous impres- sions in the mother land in regard to the severity of our Canadian climate. The Provincial Bee-Keepers’ Association also was enabled, through the liberal assistance voted last session,to make the honey exhibit which reflects credit upon the Province. I am glad to learn that the mineral resources of the Province are being steadily developed ; that new and valuable (lisâ€" coveries have been made during the past year, especially in our northern and north- western districts ; and that mining opera.- tions have made hopeful progress. The Commission for consolidating and revising the public statutes of the last ten years have nearly completed their work, embodying the same in two volumes, the first of which will be laid before you at once, and the second on an early dey.These volumes embrace amendments which the judicial or professional experience of the respective Commissioners has enabled the Commision to suggest, and I trust thatyou will find it practicable to adopt at this ses- sion the legislation necessary to give to the public the benefit of the work during the present year. For several years there has been much discussion as to the best means of pro- moting the higher education of the people, particularly in the department occupied by the Universities of the Province ; and it is gratifying to observe that, notwithstanding some differences of opinion as to the methods of attaining this end, there is no such difference as to the duty of placing within the reach of every citizen, who may wish to avail himself of its facilities, a course of University education equal to that furnished by the beat Universities of Europe or the United States. A Bill having this object in viewwill be laid before you. Amongst the measures to be submitted to you is a Bill for the gradual extension of the Land Titles Act to the whole Province as the public exigencies may render expe- dient and the local authorities desire. The report of the Master of Titles on the opera- tions of the Act in the county of York and city of Toronto will be laid before you. Measures will also be submitted for your consideration respecting the appointment and jurisdiction of Police Magistrates, and to provide amongst other things for scien» tiflc instruction in the Public and High Schools of the Piovince as to the nature of alcohol andits effects upon the human sygtem. I am pleased to notice ‘the prominent; place taken by this Province at the Indian and Colonial Exposition last year by the magnificent display there made of the manufactures and natural products of the Province, as also by the attractive and much commended exhibit of the Education Department, evidencing the advanced position which the Province holdsin educaâ€" binnal science and annliancea. ' Your attention is invited to the import- ant subject of prison labor, and therein to the question whether the present system of letting out the labor of prisoners confined in the Central Prison to companies or pri- vate persons by contract, may not, with advantage to the discipline and reforma- tory influences of the prison, and without disadvantage to the public, be abolished by law, to take effect upon the expiration of existing contracts. Since the last session of the Provincial Legislature, tenders were advertised for and received for the erection of the new Departmental and Parliament Buildings, and it Was found that the needed accomâ€" modation will require a somewhat greater expenditure than was expected. To avoid injurious dela'y,a contract has been entered into for certain parts of the work, subject to a. condition requiring your approval of the contract. Papers relating to the sub- ject will laid before you. The Dominion Government having declined to agree to any method of putting beyond question the proper jurisdiction to deal with the subjects embodied in the Provincial Factory Act of 1884, I 1hought it right to assume the jurisdiction without further delay and to issue a proclamation calling the Act; into effect. Some further legislation is found to be needed for the effectual and reasonably safe working of the Act, and will be brought to your attention. Soon after the last session of the Pro- vincial Legislature the Court of Appeal unanimously affirmed the judgment of the Chancellor of Ontario negativing the claim of the Dominion Government to the lands and timber in the territory within our boundaries as determined by Her Majesty in Council; but litigation has, notwith- standing, proceeded against the Province, at the public expense; and an appeal to the Supreme Court has been brought, which has been argued and now stands for judgâ€" ment. There has been some recent corres- pondence between the two Governments which will be laid before you. I regret that I am unable to announce to you any progress towards the final settle- ment of the boundaries of the Province. The legislation advised by their lordships of the Imperial Privy Council for the con- firmation of their decision has not yet receivedt-he concurrence of the Dominion Government; and my despatches of 1884 on the subject, and on the subject of our northern boundary, are still unanswered. The year on which we have entered is one of special interest throughout the British empire as being the jubilee year of the reign of Her Most Gracious Majesty, who for half a. century has so fulfilled the duties of her exalted station as to secure the devoted loyalty and affection of her people. The Speech from the Throne. I have great pleasure in welcoming you for the first time to your legislative duties as members of a. new Parliament. PI'Ospeclive Legislation on lnumrtnnt Public Questions. THE SI’EEFH FROM THE THRONE. "polling of the First Session of the Sixth l’arlimnent. With the view of giving effect to the ONTARIO LEGISLATURE. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1887. Dr. William A. Hammond said that a little girl was brought to him with St. Vitus‘ dance. In her school satchel were books on English grammar, arithmetic, geography, history, primary, astronomy, temperance, physiology and hygiene (“ whatever that may mean.” he interjected), French gramâ€" mar, French reader, and a book on “ Science.” He found the child had six and a half hours to study nine subjects; it was using itsbrain capital faster than its receipts ; it had intellectual bankruptcy staring it in the face. If a child should not look at a book until it was 10 years old it would read better at 11 than a child who had studied its letters when it was 3 years old. “ It would be much better if a child studied two or three subjects instead of twelve; grammarshould be banished until the senior year of a university course ; no child ever learned good English from a grammar. Grammar is the most ingenious device ever known for driving poor little brains into permature decrepitude. The only reason why it does not do more harm is because nine-tenths of the people don’t know anything about it.” Miss Mary E. Tate, Principal of Gram- mar School No. 45, defended the present system in this city. She said that ” over- work” wns due largely to mothers and doctors. ” A doctor knows there is no way to reach a. mother’s heart,” she said, “ so soon as by saying, ‘ Your child’s brain is too active.’ A physician said that of me, and my mother told of it with pride.”â€"â€" New York Sun. A young led in Kingston is the possessor of a tame pigeon which follows him wherever he goes. On Tuesday it followed him on his way to school. As soon as he saw it he carried it back to the house. After he haul been in school some time the teacher saw the pigeon making its way into the school-room, and the boy had to carry the bird home a. second timerâ€"Kingston Freeman. The following assignments are reported: Ontarioâ€"Bowmanvflle. J. R. Bradley, harness-maker; Brampton, Thauburn Bros., bnkers; Gravenhurst, Jos. Tner. saw mill ; Ottawa, Hugh Allan (t 00., dry goods; Toronto, F. C. Norris, crockery, eta; Thomas Houston & Co., woollens, etc. (failed). John Penzel, of Jackson, Mm, an aged German, has made two sound and service. able coflins, one for himself and one for his wife, and they stand in his house ready for use. When his own was finished he tried it on, and found that he hadn’t allowed for his left leg which is bent at the knee and stiff, so he made a new cover, which per- mits him to lie comfortably in the coffin after it has been closed properly. To unite the Toronto Baptist College and Woodstock College under the name of Mo- Muster University. To incorporate the town of Parry Sound. To incorporate the town of Gravenhurst. To incorporate the Niagara Tunnel and Water-Power Company. At its meeting recently the Nineteenth Century Clublistened to a discussion on “Brain-forcing in the Education of Children.” The blizzard in Dakota last week was the severest known for many years, and reports are coming in every day of lives lost on the prairie. The total of those lost in Dakota this winter can hardly be below the death figures of the Vermont railroad accident, while a. large number will sufier permanently from freezing of parts of the body. Troflincorpomte the 6"lage of Tilbury tentre and the towns‘ ip 0f Tilbury Wést. in Kent- arMn ies . 1x, .35. no gUVor uc nu Me” btmfva!‘ ! n: “.- ‘ '11) ~85. $116 ngarru‘Jnu 'Utm'flva' City Police in the Dominion Government To incorporate the town plot of Thorn- buiy, County Grey. To incorporaté the nwn of Sault Ste Marie. ‘- Tb amena theyAct 71’ the Gore District Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Respecting the property and control of Wgodspock College. > “ The following are the titles of some of the more important Bills to come before the House: 0 Company School of Infantry formed the guard of honor,and Col. Gray‘s battery furnished the saluting party. Smue of the Measures to be Brought, For- ward. Premier Mowat, who appeared to be in excellent health and spirits was the recipient of many warm congratulations. The new members are nearly all on hand and the old ones are fraternally looking after their comforts. The midwss in mph“ to the Speechr the Throne will be moved and seconded this afternoon. The Lieutenantâ€"Governor was then up- praised of the election of Speaker, and returning to the dais deliveredN the spgech. The motion was carried ufiahiméusly, and the veteran legislator was duly in- ducted into office. Election of a Speaker. Prior to the reading of the Speech, His Honor announced that as soon as the House had elected a. Speaker he would address them. His Honor then retired to the Speaker‘s apartment, and Premier Mownt moved, seconded by Mr. Pm‘dee, That Dr. Baxter, the representative of Haldimand, be the Speaker of the sixth Parliament of the Province of Ontario. I trust that the legislative labors of this first session of the new Parliament may be characterized by the same patriotic care and intelligence as in the case of previous Parliaments. The estimates for the current year will, at an early date, he submitted for your up- proval. They will be found to have been prepared with all the economy consistent with the demands of the public service. The public accounts for the past year will be promptly laid before you, and you will be pleased to learn from them that the ex- penditure has been less than was provided for by the estimate":, and that the receipts have exceeded the amount anticipated, patriotic sentiment of our people, and following in this respect the example of the neighboring State of New York, the pro- ceedings authorized by the statute of a. former session for ascertaining the cost of expropriating the land in the neighborhood of the Falls of Niagara. ha ve been taken and arenearlyemnpleted, and a measure will be submitted for your consideration dedicating to the public in permanence the land on the Ontario side of the great world» wonder, and containing provisions for ‘ securing that object without material cost ‘ to the Provincial treasury. A report from the Commissioners will contain all useful information bearing on what is proposed. Transmigrfltion of Mary’s Lamli. Brain-forcing in Children. The Terrible Blizzard. Business Difficulties. Court cith is are in a state of enthusias- tic expectancy with regard to the coming celebration of Queen Victoria’s coronation. The greatest social feature of the Jubilee will be a magnificent Stat-e ball in costume. The last State ball, which took place in J une,‘ 1851, more than ten years before the death of the Prince Consort, was a costume affair. The dresses \verein imitation of the time of the restoration of Charles 11., and it was the most splendid court apectacle of the present reign. It is hoped that this year’s ball will be quite as grand, and every effort is being put forth to make it so. It is stated that the Queen designs that the costumes to be worn at the June ball nhall be in the style of the middle of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, or about 1580. Sir Michael Hicksâ€"Beach, (Jhief Score» tary for Ireland, in the House of Commons last evening, in answer to inquiries, aflirmed the truth of reports that Moon» lighters had attacked the houses of three farmers in Mill Street, county Cork, and cut off the hair of every woman met in the houses. The only reason given for the outâ€" rage. said the Chief Secretary, was that the women had been seen speaking to the police. Sir Michael also said the Govern- ment would not release the Crossmaglen convicts. William Robinson, who was bitten in the lip by a strange dog on December 28th, died yesterday in the agonies: of hydro- phobia, at Greenwich, Conn. Thos. F. McGowan, a well known citizen of Lnluth, fell from a private box to the orchestra in the Theatre Comique on Thursday night and was killed. The Prince of Wales has notified the Governors of New South Wales and Vic- toria. that both himself and the Princess find it necessary to recall their acceptance of an invitation to “ visit Australia this year on the occasion of the centenary cele- bration of the two Provinces.” The letter says it will be impossiblefor the Princetmd Princess to leave England during the next twelve months. The Council of Dakota yesterday defee ted by an emphatic majority the bill giving incorporated cities the exclusive control of the liquor trafiic within their limits. The same body passed the Local Option Bill by 33 to 10. The coroner’s jury has returned a ver- dict that the death of Raymond R. 1361» mont, who ghot himself in the basement of his father’s house in New York, was acci- dental. Sir Charles Dilke has been left by a wealthy cousin the sum of £140,000. The cousin believed Sir Charles to be an inno- cent man, and changed his will in his favor after the trial. Adespatch from St. Petersbnrg states that the Russian Mediterranean fleet has been ordered to rendezvous in Japanese waters, where Russia intends at the earliest possible moment to assemble a considerable squadron. The proposition which has been put for» ward, that the Pope shall be accepted as arbiter in the Bulgarian dispute, is strongly opposed by Russia. Four hundred houses were destroyed by fire in Rangoon yesterday. The Anarchists threaten a dynamite campaign in France. Mr. John Lytle, of Amherst Island, while driving home to Amherst Island, accompanied by Miss ‘Vilson, broke through the ice. He managed to get out upon the ice, after which, with much diffi- culty, he seized the young lady by the hair and rescued her. The valuable team of horses were drowned. Miss Wilson is very ill from the effects of her wetting. Edwin Sales, a hotel keeper at Court. land fay vikfi‘frm“ \‘l‘nni .1;».v‘-J~-e-- 1n poofiealth and also‘hnancial difficul- ties for some time past, and on Thursday night he made a most- determined and suc- cessful attempt at suiuide. Taking a loaded shot gun and locking himself in his bedâ€"room, he placed the muzzle to his foreâ€" head and fired. The whole top of his head was blown off, and his brains scattered over the walls and floor. The report of the gun was heard by the family, and when the door was forced he was found lying on the floor dead. A razor was found in his pocket. He was about 45 years of age, and leaves a wife and four children. Mr. James Foot, who was taken from the second story window of his house at St. Thomas In a boat during the recent floods, while suffering from a. severe attack of inflammation of the lungs, died yester- day from the effects of the exposure. Deceased was 71 years of age, and had been aresident of that; city for the past. fifty years. At the meeting of the Kingston School Board on Thursday night it was decided to admit all Roman Catholic children to the Public Schools free whose parents are on the assessment rolls as supporters of the said schools. Heretofore 500. per month was charged for each plfinil. McGill Graduates” Society Executive Jommittee offer a. prize of $50 for the best ode in honor of the Queen’s Jubilee, to be read at the annual University dinner at the end of April. The competition will be open to all Her Majesty’s subjects, limnuseripfs to be in before the 15th April. An old gateman of the Grand Trunk Railway named John Woods lost his life at Montreal yesterday morning, being run down by a locomotive during the heavy snowstorm. He was an old employee, and attended the switches and semaphores. Miles Dempsey, wholived near Dcmorcst- ville, Prince Edward County, was instantly killed on Thursday by a. kick from a young horse which he was breaking. Deceased was 35 years of age and married. -A special meeting of the Tororto City Council was held yesterday afternoon, when the legislation to be asked from the Ontario Legislature at its present» session was con- sidered and adopted. Two Civil Service egiiIgloyeeg got well thrashed in the Windsor‘ Q'fiel, Ottawa, on Thursday night, by a stranger, whom they insulted because he would not shout for the Tory party. Mr. W. Peters and his family, of Kings- ton, came near losing their lives on Thurs~ day night by suffocation from coal gas. The members of the family are confined to bed. w. - Ottawa is likely to prove a formidable competitor with Kingston for the possession of the proposed School of Practical Science for Eastern Ontario. Owing to a. rumor that Dr. Abbott, of Belleville, who died suddenly recently, had come to life, an investigation showed that his remains are still in the vault there. There were 34 deaths in Kingston last month, eight of which were from consump- tion. TELEGRAPHIC SUMMAYR WHO-LE NO 1,491 NO. 39. It is reported from Maine that the Eng» lish sparrows are growing white, as n, result of the it becoming acclimated, White feathers have been often noticed thiswinter o 1 the sparrows. A bill has been introduced into the Ten- nessee Legislature offering to the United States the Hermitage farm, famous as the home of Andrew Jackson, as an asylum for disabled and invalid soldiers. The bill provides that Mrs. Sarah Jackson, the adopted daughter of Old Hickory, shall be allowed a home and maintenance upon the farm for life. SimpsonwVVell, Mugging, how’s business. Muggins (our “Misty-70h, ripping ! Got a. commission this morning from a clergy- man. Wants his children painted very badly" Directionsâ€"me in a. long breath and then repeat the above cure as rapidly as possible.-â€"Baxton Globr’. I tell you a. cure for dyspepsia that is neithgr pateptged por rqriginal : “ If the white hootbmck blacks the black hoatblnck’s boot, will the black boothlack’s hoot be blacked '2 If the white boothla‘ck b1 mks but one of the black bootblack’sbodts, what will the black bootblack do ?" The tuccessor of C&l‘dillal Jacobini will probably be Monsignor Rm-npolla, the Papal Nuncio at Madrid. Mr. Gladstone, writing in support of Mr. Slagg, candidate for the parliamentary seat for Burnley, made vacant by the death of Peter Rylands, says: “ For the last twelve months I have been telling the Eng- lish, and the Scotch, and the ‘V’elsh, that their Parliament will continue paralyzed and its business be neglected until it settles the Irish question. The Scotch and Welsh believed that, but the southern English did not believe it and they stopped the way. They will pay heavily for the delay. Be- fore we reach a certain conclusion we will have to pay with them, and after the thing has been done the Tories will begin to say and believe they have always been Home Rulers. Costly playing with national in terests seems to be the main purpose for which the Tories exist. They have played for a certain time with all great questions for the last fifty or sixty years. When they leave off playing with one, they soon find another with which to play again. I hope that Burnley will give them a lesson." Siinpson (with that pleasant way of his) â€"VVe11. my boy, you’re the very man for t11gjob. » “ How do you spell knee, mamma ‘2" said a small boy, looking up from his slate. “ K-n-e-e, Johnny.” Silence for several moments. while the letters were going down laboriously. And then he asked : More scratching with the pencil. “ Now I’ve got it l” Johnny exclaimed “ Kâ€"n-e-e, ne, g~r»o.w, grail-negro l" »â€" Your/1’s Companion. Italian position. There was (leremte fighting until 5 o’clock, when the enemy retreated. Boretti, applied for reinforce- ments, and Geire sent a. column under 001. Decristoforis. The column was delayed by difiieulty initmnsportation. Deeristoâ€" foris asked for more men and gunsi While the letter reinforcements were on the way, it was learned that the Decristoforis party were massacred after forming a square, defending themselves to the last man and cartridge. The relief party found the bodies lying in the order in which the men fought, and the enemy retiring. Many corpses; were mutilated How the Italians “’m‘e Cut up in Sodium; by tlw Abyssinianfl. A Home cable says : Gen. Geire, the Italian Commander at Massowah, reports as follows : Boretti, commanding at Saati, on January 25th, at 11 a. m., saw the heights occupied by thousands of Abyssin- ians, who disappeared on the firing of some shells. Boretti sent out a party under Lieut. Corno, who surprised and engaged the enemy: The lattgr advanged intrgpidly‘ Augustus Littlejohn was a great man among a generation now passed away. He was the Gough of the forties. Old settlers who have heard him repeatedly say that he surpassed Gough in the vividness of his descriptions and the wonderful and altoâ€" gether indescribable dramatic force of his utterances. He lectured repeatedly all through Michigan and Indiana on temper- ance, with enormous crowds attending his lectures everywhere. He was known also throughout the east as well as in the west. Thousands all over the country were re- claimed by him from intemperance. He was of the noted Littlejohn family, of Herâ€" kimer, N. Y., a family distinguished for its talent. Bishop Littlejohn, of Long Island, and the late Hon. De \Vitt C. Littlejohn, of ()swego, N. L. were nephews of his. New in picturesque, but nevertheless miserable, poverty the old man is obliged to ask for public alms. It will be startling news to most of those who knew him inhis prime, or those who are only acquainted with his splendid reputation, to hear that the matchless orator of nearly half a cen- tury ago is still alive‘ so long has he been hidden away from public observation and knowledge. A Great Orator Reduced to Beg for Alms in His Old Age. A remarkable and even pathetic incident occurred at Kalamazoo, in this State, the latter part of last week. says a Detroit despatch. A very old man, past 80 years, appeared in the office of the Superinten- dent of the Poor to solicit public assistance. He had no overcoat and was dressed in it thin, threadbare suit of Black. The silk hat on his head, like the whit-ehair beneath it, had seen the storms of many winters. He carried a small parcel and two canes with which to support his steps. It was ‘ with difficulty that the official, after the aged men had told his name, recognized in him the famous Augustus Littlejohn. an orator of Sllull splendid ability in his : firime, forty yean ago, that no one who heard him ever forgot the almost irre- sistible magnetism of his eloquence. Arrivâ€" ing from Niles Mr. Littlejohn had applied to the poor authorities for assistance to enable him to reach Schoolcmft, which place he desired to visit. The assistance was instantly furnished him, as one whose talents and past services to mankind entitled him to something better than miserable Loverty in his old age, and armed with a pauper‘s ticket he left for School- craft that afternoon. They flon’t speak n0w.-â€"-Ju<1y .866, Imlow do you spell grow FROJVI FAME TO PAUPERISM. ()NIEBOIHF BLUN DER El) Let the Children Try This. WMCMO C); Gladstone on Home, Rule. The Dian For the Jul). Jnhnny's Spelling. to n'iiiflu 33G yak-uh: m“ min: An Oregon huntress, Mrs. Lillie Prok. of Olallu‘, has killed seVen bears this Winter. There’s no danger of the young man who goes to see his girl striking for shorter hours. Daniel Danner, of Mattimn. Mich., lost a. pet squirrel over two years ago. The other day it returned and resumed its old relations. A Novelty in \Voxnen‘s Dress. A novelty in ladies’ dress has been brought out at the Proâ€"Cathedral. Melbourne, A118» tralia., and the originator is Rev. J. E. Bromby,the elergynmn'who oflicietes there. It is nothing more norless than n. surplice for the ladies in the choir who supplement the singing of the men and boys. The Church of England ilIosscngm‘ on the spot having criticised the innovation adversely, Mr. Bromby preached on the subject. The following is an extract from his sermon: “ It cannot be denied that, considering the extraordinary caprices of fashion in the matter of female attire, it would offend the taste to see the simple uniformity of sur.‘ pliced men and boys disturbed by the in- trusion of the grotesque andduily changing inventions of the Paris niilliner. \Vhet bet- ter solution. then, of the difficulty could there be than to clothe the female mem- bers of the choir in an ecclesiastical vest- ment of such a. suitable type as should harmonize well with the surroundings of their position 5?" For some time past experiments have been made in Germany with a. composition of cork, sand and lime molded into bricks for the construction of light parti- tion walls. This, it is said, excludes sound better than brickwork, and is also light and a good n9n-conductor of heatâ€"Neru' York Sun. “'oml “’oolâ€"Sowing Machine Improve- umnts-{Jork Bricks for Partitions. The best quality of that growineg useful urticlo.wood wool, is obtained from the Riga fir tree, by means of a machine specially adapted to the purpose. This ingenious machine consists of a cast~iron frame resting,r upon three iron supports, and car» tying a driving shaft, which is actuated by two pulleys. fast and loose to this shaft is fitted 1L flywheel, one spoke being pro- vided with a pin that receives one of the extremities of a connecting rod, the other extremity being connected with the knife- carrierâ€" â€"this hitter, which also rests upon the iron frame. sliding in iron guides, and carryinga set of peculiar knives, so ar~ ranged that the wood is cut in both the backward and the forward motions of the knife-carrier. The wood is held upright by the machine by suitable arrange- ments. permitting the introduction of blocks: of a few fractions of an inch long; the wood is shoved forward under the knives by means of a click, that causes it to advance the requisite distance at every revolution of the fly-wheel, every move- ment thus aiding in pcrfccting the result.â€" Lu Nutm'n, Paris. The new sewing machine contrived by (m Edinburgh inventor claims to be the simplest yet made for effecting the lockâ€" stitch. It is on the rotary shuttle princi‘ ple, the novelty of it lying in a circular saucenslmped shuttle, which is set up on edge and laid with ita flat side against the loftliand end of the lower shaft, which is held in position by it revolving cup. The axis of the shaft, the shuttle and the cup. being in line and revolving together, the result is an easy motion far excelling the old reciprocating shuttleâ€"New York Sun. to the whole crowd. The gentleman was Dr. Sims. who long ago retired from prac~ tice,and took up theorizingand investigating. In reply to my questions the doctor said : “ These chapsY I find.havc very smallheads and consequently small brains. They arenot Aztecs, of course, but belong to the mixed Spanish and Indian race of Mexico. The fact that their head is small is only another proof of my theory, or rather of my gene- ralization from long observation, that the largest heads are in the cold countries, and the size of the skull and weight diminish as you get nearer the equator. I have :measured heads from Lapland to Egypt, and from India to New Zealand, and the results prove the truth of the general state- ment. The Laplanders have the largest heads and the equatorial races the smallest. But the Laplander is by no means a prodigy of mental activity. In fact, he is inclined to be rather stupid. Now. I have discovered that the brain has nothing to do with the operation of the thought. The mind. as it is called. is not located in the brain. The brain is a vital organ like the heart, and supplies heat to the body through the nerves. Sever the nerves in a sheep’s neck and the heat of the body diminishes in regular proportion so many degrees a minute. The experience of Arctic explorers has shown that men with big heads endure the cold best. The braln is a lifeâ€" giving organ. It is the dynamo that sends heat and electricity along the nerves to all parts of the body. In cold climates more heat is required. and heart and brains are larger than in warmer climates. People living near the equator require little body heat, and their heads are small. But the intellect is not affected by the size of the head. Big men have big heads, but the smart men are by no means big. The big- gest brain that was ever weighed was that of a congenital idiot. The next heaviest was that of Ivan Tourgieneiff. The latter was Russian, and the Russians have big heads because their country is cold. I could cite facts b the hour to prove my thrmrg. a when»? ..:~_y the sumâ€"“Lasts will all agree with me that the old notion of brain power is entirely erroneous.” The doctor sighted another foreign head across the hall, and, whipping out his tape-line, he disappeared in the crowd. walking over small people wi1 hout noticing their pro- tests in his anxiety not to lose sight of the new specimen. An Investigator “'ho Says Size Has Noth- ing to Do “11:11 Intelligence. A tall, broad-shouldered man, writes ,a New York correspondent, with gray hair and whiskers, and the general air of a worldly innocence that characterizes the scientific person, visited the Aztec Fair. The matador’s swords and caballero’s spurs failed to attract his attention, and he was not interested in the frying of tortillas by buxom female descendants of the Monte- zumas. Adjusting his spectacles across his nose and taking a brief survey of the hall with his beaming blue eyes, he rubbed his palms together. and in a gratified way softly murmured, “Oh! this saves me quite a journey,” and drew a note-book and small steel tape from his pocket. Marching up to the nearest hombre, who was industriously fashioning silver wire into delicate jewellery, the tall man gently but firmly drew the tape-line around the astonished greaser’s head, carefully noting the measurement. and made an entry in his note book. Smiling blandly and reassurineg upon the exhibit he pro- ceeded to measure the Mexican’s head in various ways and make notes. Before the bewildered fellow could collect‘his wits the tall man had moved around to the next booth and slipped his tape around another skull, serenely oblivious to the sensation he was creating among the puzzled Mexicans. At last he tackled a vaguero who could talk English and wanted to know the pur- pose of the measurements. The investi- gator explained that he devoted his vhole time to travelling over the world measuring people’s heads. and some day he would write a book about it, showing what folks had the biggest heads of the lot, not count- ing promising young actors or newly-elected Congressmen. The vaquero was disap- pointed to learn that the tall man was not an eccentric American philanthropist with an amiable desire to present new sombreros NE‘V THINGS JUST OUT‘ BIG AND LITTLE HEADS.