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It is further stated that Judge Dawson issued an order to the marshal to release the vessels, but afterwards withdrew it, and the vessels are still beached at Oun- alaska, while the seal skins found upon them were sent to San Francisco. The Secretary, after reading carefully the article referred to, said he could not believe an officer of the Govern- ment, located at Alaska or any other point, would wilfully disregard an order issued upon the authority of the President, based upon the laws of our country, and therefore there must be a mistake in the statement telegraphed from Ottawa. He then went on to say that as soon as the international point growing out of the cap- ture of the British sealers was brought to his attention, he promptly consulted Attor- ney-General Garland and from him learned the legal points in the case. There are several law questions involved, which can only be decided by the courts after due deliberation. In the meantime the vessels and crews are not detained by the United States authorities, and the owners can have them if they will go or send after them. The vessels in question are deckless boats, or fishing smacks, of but little value, which probably accounts for the lack of inclina- tion on the part of their owners to go after them. They are beached in a rough, rude region, about 200 miles from any settle- ment, and the}; owners PLULJLIJ do not consider them worth going after. One of the main points which led to the discon- tinuance of the proceedings with regard to these vessels was their trifling value, and up to the present-time the United States has not been asked to pay a single cent of damages. The ques- tion growing out of the catching of seals is the most important one the United States has to deal with in this connection, and while it is the purpose of the Adminis- tration to defend the right of American citizens in all parts of the world, it is also desirable to know and respect the law on the subject. Seal catching isa valuable industry, in which more than 13,000 per- sons are actively engaged, and the Alaska Seal Company is doubtless anxious to pre- serve its rights according to its understand- ing of the contracts it has with the United States and Russia. This company pays so much per skin for every seal killed, and its contract, which terminates in 1890, is for twenty years. Under the terms of the contract they are permitted to kill seal on two islands only, and it is proba‘rly their desire that the seal-skin market shall not be overstocked. This company naturally exerts some influence in Alaska, and it may be that they were instrumental in raising this question with a view of having it disposed of. Since the three smaller ves- sels were seized larger 'ships have been drawn into the controversy, and the whole subject will be considered together. There has been no unnecessary delay so far as the State Department knows, and the case is now awaiting its turn in the courts. I am instructed by the President to instruct you to discontinue all proceedings in the matter of the seizure of the British vessels Caroline, Onward and Thornton, and to discharge {L11 vessels now held under such seizure and release allpersons that; may be under arrest in conâ€" nection therewith. (Signed) A. H. GARLAND, Attorneyâ€"General. The controversy between the United States and the British Governments grow- ing out of the capture of certain British vessels engaged in seal catching in Behring’s Sea. is still being agitated. Secretary Bayard was to-day shown a statement recently telegraphed from Ottawa to the effect that certain instructions to the United States District Judge and District Attorney in Alaska from Attorney-General Garland, promul- gated on J anuary 26th, 1887, have not been carried out to this day. The Attorney- General’s instructions on the subject were as follows: Secretary Bayard comes of a. family of statesmen and lawyers. He is in his 60th year, and was admitted to the bar in 1851, after having spent some years in com- mercial pursuits. In 186'.) he was elected to the U. S. Senate from his native State, Delaware, and since then, until his selec- tion as President Cleveland’s Secretary of State, has been one of the leading Demo- crate in the body. He is reputed to be a. man of broad views and is a. thorough American. Mr. W. L. Putnam is a Maine lawyer who has been attorney for the United States in all the fisheries disputes, and is thoroughly versed in the American side of thg dispute. _ Mr. James Burrill Angel] was born at Seituate, 13.1., in 1829, and is son of Joseph K. Angell, a. distinguished writer on maritime law. He graduated at Brown University and subsequently became Pro- fessor of Modern Languages there. From that position he went to edit the Providence Journal, which he did for six years. Then he became President of the University of Vermont, and in 1871 President of the University of Michigan. He has since re. signed that oflice. He is a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian In- stitute. In 1880-81 he was United States Minister to China. An Old \Voman Waylaid in Ottawa muli Relieved of$1,000. 1 An Ottawa despatch says : Mrs.Mullens, an old woman 75 years of age, was chloroâ€" formed on Theodore street about 7 o’clock last evening and robbed of $1,000 she had drawn from the savings bank to take to Scotland, whither she expected to go in a few days. She was proceeding along Theodore street alone when a buggy with three men in it drove up to her and alighted near her. One of them oflered to see her home, but she declined. The men then spoke together in French, and one of them put a handerchief to her face and held it there till she lost consciousness and did not recover it for several hours, when some of her friends found her lying in a field near her own house. She is in a dangerous condition and is not expected to live. She says the men had their faces blacked. They were evidently well acquainted with her and her movements. No clue of the ruffians has yet been found. Pedigree of the American Commissioners â€"'l‘ho Alaska Difficulty. A Washington despatch says : The following is the pedigree of the gentlemen appointed by the President on the Fishery Commission : She Successfully Conceals Her Sex Until She Confesses in Court. A Princeton, Md., despatch says : Five burglars were sentenced to the peniten- tiary yesterday. One of them astonished the court by announcing that the name Charles Kelly, which was read in the indictment, ought to be Clara King, and that she was in male attire. She said she was 22 years old, had been thrown on the world helpless and alone ; that she took to male attire a year to get along better, and had thus far escaped detection. She was sent to the reformatory. A Columbus, 0., despatch says : James Leslie, a farmer of Ads, 11th called the at- tention of the State Board of Health to a disease which he has, and which has been pronounced to be glanders by the local physicians, with the result that his neigh- bors and relatives have as completely ostracized him as if he were a. leper. He cannot even sell his farm. Advices from Tangiers say that the Sul- tan of Morocco is dead. CHLOROFORDIED AND ROBBED. THE FISHERIES TROUBLE. THE BEHBING’S SEA TROUBLES. A Farmer’s Peculiar Hardship. A GIRL BURGLAR. One hundred cars of wheat passed through the C. P. R. yards yesterday en route to Port Arthur from points in South- ern Manitoba. and between this city and Brandon. The railway company reports the Wheat movements brisker every day, and their locomotive power will shortly be taxed to its utmost. The Moosomin Fair ended last night in a. banquet to the eastern press representa- tives, whichlns ed till 2 in the morning. l’rof. Saunders was present and made favorable comment on the Moosomin dis- trict. To-day the eastern pressmen were driven here across the prairie to Wapella. There were 260 entries at the fair there to- day. The party leaves for Whitewood by to-night’s train to attend the Whitewood Fair. A municipal election in Emerson yester- day resulted in a. small riot. C. S. Doug- lass, M.1’.P., a candidate for mayor, tore up the official voters’ list at one of the polling sub-divisions because it was incom- plete, he claimed, and a. row ensued. In consequence there is no election of mayor. \Vhen the Nelson Valley Railway Com- pany was dissolved by Parliament some years ago the Hudson Bay Company was directed to pay theNelson Valley Company $10,970 for surveys, etc. This has never been paid, and Mr. S. Drummond, of Mon- treal, has applied in the Courts here for an attachment of the line of the Hudson Bay Road in order to liquidate the debt. At a. meeting of the Council of the Board of Trade this afternoon a. report was pre- sented by the Secretary in which the total yield of Wheat for this year in the Province is placed at 11,000,000 bushels, giving 7,000,000 bushels for export. This, with the surplus of other products, will realize about $7,000,000. The average yield of wheat for the Province will be about 25 bushels to the acre, and may probably reach 30. A carload of anthracite coal from Banff has been received by the NavalDepartment at Esquimalt. If the results are satisfac- tory a large order is expected. It is stated that Mr. Somerset Aikins, son of the Lieutenant-Governor, is to be married in ten days to Miss Colby,daughter of the member for Stanstead. All the bridges on the Red River Valley Road are now completed excepting the one at Morris, and the construction of the sta- tions have now been begun. i A London cablegram says: Mr. Labou- i chere, M. P., in this week’s Truth records the following: There was another death ‘ in the Royal Family last week. Poor Noble, the Queen’s favorite collie, passed away full of years. Noble got so many luxuries forced upon him in consequence of his being high in royal favor that his decease is without doubt due to the exalt-ed position he occupied. He was the Queen’s inseparable companion when walking and was often favored with a seat in her car- ‘riage. The Queen regrets the loss of her favorite all the more keenly because he was in one sense a relic of the late lamented John Brown, who was responsible for Noble’s early trainng and who taught him that alphabet of all pious dogs, namely, how to behave himself indoors. In politics Noble was a strong Conservative, for it is recorded of him that he once stole Mr. Gladstone’s breakfast. Mr. Gladstone, who was at that time Prime Minister, was on an oflicialvisit to the Queen at Osborne. He was to leave for London immediately after his breakfast, which had been preâ€" pared for him in the sitting room set apart for his use. This room communicated with his bedroom. On Mr. Gladstone’s opening the intervening folding-doors, he was startled to see the Queen’s pet quietly trotting off with a mutton chop in hisi month. With praiseworthy economy the‘ royal servants had only sent up one chop, ‘ and as there was no time to cook another the Prime Minister had to breakfast on toast and butter. A collection of Manitoba. exhibits has been sent by the Canadian Pacific Railway to Charlottetown, P.E.I. Four mounted policemen arrived at Ed- monton last night w1th a. half-breed and his son from Lesser Sleve Lake charged with the murder of the wife of the former and the stepmother of the latter. The woman became insane and was inciting to cannibal- ism and murder. Therefore, in accordance with Indian custom, her nearest relatives killed her. European Footlight Gossip. A Paris correspondent telegraphs: I met Mine. Gerster today on the Boule- vard. She is living at Auteuil, a suburb of Paris, seems in excellent health and talks most rationally. She is busy pre- paring for her concert tour in the United States, which will open in New York about the 20th of October. Among the artists engaged to support Mme. Gerster are Miss Nettie Carpenter, violinist; Mme. Has- treiter and Miles, Anna Navaro and Car- bone. The tenor and contralto are yet to be engaged. Should the season prove profitable New York may hear Mme. Gerster in opera in spring. A Death in the Royal Familyâ€"How Glad- stone Lost His Bxeakfast. Mrs. James Brown Potter has decided to appear in the “ Lady of Lyons ” in New York. She will wear a gown copied from one of the Empress Josephine, taken from a. painting at Versailles. f ” I say. waiter, this beefstenk is at least i three weeks old I” “ Can’t say, I’m sure ; K only been here a fortnight.”â€"Pa7~is Esm- ’ fettc. ALondon cable says: The (Jo-operative Wholesale Society of Manchester, an influential association, discussed at its annual meeting a proposal to build or rent a. cheese factory in Ontario, to supply the Manchester market. The society’s last year’s importations amount in value to £1,126. The proposition was fully discussed and strongly supported. The discussion was ultimately adjourned for a year. ’Twould Preserve Something. Irate old gentlemanâ€"You are a. regular fraud, sir; my hair s coming out as bad as ever.‘ The gtuff iisn’gyvoyth a. soap bpbblg. Polite barberâ€"4 didn’t promise that it would keep your hair from coming out. I said it would preserve your scalp. Your scalp’s all there, isn’tit ‘2” True, but Rather Odd. Tell a girl she’s pretty and she’ll always say she doesn’t believe you. Tell her she’s homely and she’ll always get mad.â€"â€"â€"S0mer- ville Journal. According to the Washington Star, Secretary Bayard is unable to find suitable men who are willing to take places on the United States section of the Fisheries Com- mission. VOL XXIX The Canadian Northwest. Cheese for Manchester. CROSSED THE STYX. The Nizmn of Hyderabad’s Gift for the iiDefence of the Indian Fronter. A London cable says: His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad has addressed a letter to the Indian Office which is subjected to great congratulations in English official circles. The Nizarn says in the outset of his letter that he has for some time noticed that the Indian revenue has shown but little increase, while the expenditures have been steadily gaining. He finds that these expenditures have been steadily increased by the necessity of expending large sums for improved defence of the Indian frontier against the advance of Russia and Central Asia. He says in this letter that he believes that entire . India. benefits from these measures, and he there- fore as the oldest ally of the English in India. deems it necessary to show in some open way that the interests of all the inhabitants of India. British and native, are identical in this matter of frontier defence against Russian aggression. He therefore offers the English Government a free gift of £200,000 annually for a period of two years for the purpose of strengthen- ing English resources along the line of de- fences of the northwest frontier. The 4 mm udiwrially speaks 01' this contriâ€" bution and says that it is absolutely with- out precedent in Indian history of any such step being taken in time of peace, and that it is significant of the great distrust of the East Asian potentates against Russia. The Nizam is the foremost Mohammedan potentate in the English quarter of Asia, and in the substantial attribute of power he is superior to the Shah of Persia. Two Ohio “'oodchoppers Discover $10,000 in a Tree. An Akron, 0., telegram says 2 Washing. ton Reichard and William Snyder yester- day while chopping trees at New Portage opened a. log in which they discovered two shot bags full of gold and silver coin, be- sides a roll of bills containing not less than $5,000. The bills were badly moulded. The men at first kept quiet about their treasure trove, which amounts to fully $10,000, but were so happy over their sudden fortune that they went to town and bought grand suits of clothes throughout, and then returned to New Portage, a coal mining and manufacturing village, and set up drinks until the population of the place was drunk almost to a man. l A St. Paul de Loanda cable says: Ac- ‘ cording to the last news received at Boma from the Upper Congo Stanley waspushing forward, and the only difficulties he met with were the natural obstacles of the country. About July 25th the expedition had ascended the Aruwhimi to the elevated country belonging to the Mabodi district. The river becoming too narrow, they left the rafts, and the men for several days had to carry a double burden of provisions. The steel whaleboat was carried. past the narrows and again launched. Stanley cal- culated that upon arriving at the summit of the tablelands giving shape to the basin of the Aruwhimi, the expedition would halt two days for a rest and would estab- lish a. camp there, to be garrisoned by twenty men with a European officer. The districts traversed were tranquil, and little difficulty was experienced in obtaining provisions from the natives. The progress of the expedition averaged twenty kilo- metres daily. Tippoo Tib, in his last message, wrote that he was still at his post at Stanley Falls, awaiting reinforcements. He had gained the goodâ€"will of several neighboring chiefs. Owing te the disturbed state of the country Tippoo Tib could not, as he had agreed to, organize a. revictual- ling force to despatch direct to Albert Nyanza, but he intended to do so as soon as possible. Disquiet continues between Stanley Falls and the confluence of the Aruwhimi and the Congo, and many vil- lages have been pillaged. It is believed that the garrison which Stanley left at Yambunya has been forced to interfere to maintain order in the neighborhood. The source of the money becoming known, older citizens recalled the fact that about fifteen years ago Jacob Trackbach, a miser, died at that place. He was sup- posed to be wealthy, having done a big business in land speculation. After his death his house and land were turned over to find his cash, but all without avail. It is now claimed that this tree had been the miser’s treasury. The tree was cut down to-day, and about six feet from the ground a good-sized hole was found which gave evidence of a plug having rotted in it. The silver dollars rolled out when the log was opened, and the treasure which had for years been searched for was laid before the eyes of poor and now almost crazy men. Major Phipps Free. The term of imprisonment of Major Ellis P. Phipps, the defaulting superinten- dent of the almshouse, expired last mid- night. His season of mental and physical depression, which invoked the solicitude of his physicians and friends,was followed, as the time of his release drew nearer, by brighter spirits and his old physical vigor. \Vhen he left the prison he was as vigorous- looking as when he was first arrested. He has yet formed no plans for the future. It was announced some time ago that he would tell all he knew about almshouse irregularities when he was released, be cause he fancied that his quondam friends had deserted him in his hour of need. The Major the other day denied any intention of making any statement. Stanley Well and Pushing Rapidly For- wardâ€"Only Diet by Natural Difficulties of Travel. â€"â€"The Paris Figaro says that those who must but cannot take quinine should mix the dose prescribed with a. very small quantity of fresh butter and spread it under the armpit. The absorption will be as perfect as if introduced into the stomach. The Greenhorn mountains in Oregon are covered with six inches of snow. â€"â€"A witness in a Scott Act case at Paris, describing what he had got to drink at one of the hotels, said: “ There was not much whiskey in it. I could arink twenty glasses of good whiskey and never feel it, but I call the mixture I got in the Windsor just rot-gut.” â€"-There is one free railroad in the world Within the limits of a city. When Oakland, California, gave the Central Pacific Rail- road Company the right of way throughits streets the grant was made on the express condition that fare should not be charged Within the city limits. The company has always acted up to this condition, even to the extent admitting additions made to Oakland within the privilege. People for five or six miles get on and off the cars and ride without money and without price. PREFERS BRITISH RULE RICHIAON D HILL THURSDAY, 00 I’OBER 13, 1887. OUND A FORTUNE. AFTER EMIN BEY. Periodically the public have a craz thrust on their notice ; at one time it is a gold-mine, at another a lead company that seeks to draw the hard earnings from the people‘s pockets. In ancient times it was the South Sea. bubble that turned the heads of kings and senators, who were ultimately engulfed in one grand maelstrom that ruined them by thousands. Montreal just now is quietly being flow? with tele- phonic schemes as fiighty 1n imagination and as dubious in results as the black angel companies floated in the States, to the financial ruin of those who once prided themselves on being in affluent positions. It is against investing in these imaginary companies that we desire to caution our readers. But yesterday a new scheme was afloat to wipe out the Bell Telephone Com- pany by reducing its tariff to $35 per annum for subscribers ; to-day another bubble company which wishes to reduce the price to $12 is floating in the air. It is needless to say there is little room for the next fifty years for any competition such as is perhaps intended or intendcdfor sale. From personal inquiry we find that no person, director or otherwise, in the Bell 00., has ever received any bonus on his stock, and that that company has never sold a share below par for stock gambling purposes. It is not to be supposed there- fore that any of the new concerns can place the shareholders in a. better condition. Again the Bell Telephone 00., with its 4,000 or 5,000 miles of lines, connecting cities and towns, offers to _its subscribers facilities which'nogthei' _ ’ e ‘ our ‘f‘gpan I furnish. The bell Telephone Uo.‘s div'ifl dends, with the practical monopoly of the past eight years, average about 5 per cent. Therefore it is certain that with its econo- mical and conservative management it has been no special bonanza for its share- holders. Its stock sells to-day at about par. W'ith two or three competitors in the field, and the consequent rate cutting, what prospect is there for dividends from any of them, since it is not to be supposed that the Bell Telephone Co. Will retire from the field? This then is a fair financial view of the matter as to the prospect of a new, poor and untried company paying any divi- dends. Knowing the large number of our subscribers, who are shareholders in the Bell Telephone 00., we should be base to our trust did we not try to protect their interests as well as prevent others from losing large amounts of money by invest- ing in new bubbles which cannot by any possibility pay a fair dividend, if any at all. We find on still further inquiry that the Bell Telephone Co. to-day has about 14,000 sets of instruments in use and owns between 4,000 and 5,000 miles of line, con- necting cities and towns in Canada and the , United States. It has also the exclusive ‘ right to connect with the system of the American Bell Telephone Co., in the United States. Any person at all familiar with the business and the cost of construction can readily see that no company could duplicate this construction without a very large capital. Opposition may be a good thing. and where it has a chance of success a creditable thing, but where in common sense is there anything to be made with three or four companies in such a small population as we have in the Dominion of Canada? We have, therefore, two desires in this matter, the first to protect our friends who have already invested in one company, and the second to protect those who may be solicited to invest in certain losses. Finally, what is there to prevent the Bell Telephone Company, with its wealthy and paid-up organizationâ€"in case of a doubtful success of their rivalsâ€"re- ducing the price of their subscription to such a point as would wipe out all and sun- dry who opposed them by a tariff on which none but themselves could subsist 7â€"1’he Shareholder and Insurance Gazette. A Fireman’s Exciting Ride on the Wabash Road. A Des Moines, 1a., despatch says : Fire- man Roberts, of the Wabash road, arrived yesterday on his train, telling a thrill- ing story of his experience with a mad engi- neer. When the train drew dut of this place Tuesday night Engineer Botsworth appeared all right, but before they had gone far Roberts noticed that his compan- ion acted queerly. At Harvey he should have stopped for water, and the fireman backed the train down to the proper place while the engineer acted in a dazed manner. Once on the road again, Botsworth began to travel faster, until the train was run- ning 50 miles an hour. Then Roberts realized that Botsworth was deranged, and just in time grasped the lever and saved the train from going tlmugh an open switch. Faster flew the engine, Botsworth standing by witha vacant. look, and as they thundered through Bacon the maniac gave a yell and started to spring from the cab window. The watchful fireman caught him by the legs. While he balanced him on the window ledge he managed, with his feet, to stop the train. The conductor helped get Botsworth back to the baggage car, Where he was carefully guarded until the train reached Ottumwa, when he was handed over to the authorities there. It is belived to be paralysis of the brain that ails him. l A case of a somewhat remarkable charac- ter is at the present time in the London Temperance Hospital, under the care of Dr. R. J. Lee. A girl, aged 15, had the last molar tooth in the lower jaw on the right side removed about six weeks ago. No anmsthetic was administered. She was in perfect health at the time. Half an hour after the operation she began to yawn, and has continued to do so since. One yawn succeeds another withoutinterruption and with an interval of two or three seconds. Galvanism had been tried with- out effect and other remedies previous to admission into the hospital. Three days afterward the yawning changed to sneezing and recently she has suffered from con- stant and rapidly succeeding fits of sneez- ing, each of which paroxysms appears to begin with a yawn. She seems to have no power of controlling herself, or only to a very slight extent, and if she attempts to do so the next sneeze is more violent. It is understood that the new Exchequer Court provided for by the bill passed by the Dominion Parliament last session is to be started immediately, Mr. Burbidge, Deputy Minister of Justice, being spoken of as the Judge. A witness in the recent convict inquiry in Georgia said it was necessary to Whip the men to get any work out of them. If they were whipped in time, however, it was not necessary to whip them much. The Illinois State Board of Agriculture declines to recognize the Galloway breed of cattle as a breed, but classes them the same as the Aberdeen-Angus. What Came of Pulling 21 Tooth. WITH A LIAD ENGINEER. The Telephone Craze. A Jackson, Mich, despatch says: Levi M. Brott, a State Prison convict, sentenced a year ago to three years for larceny, began seven months ago to develop symptoms of paralysis. He would suddenly fall to the ground while at work and could not eat for long periods, all of which ended by his taking to his bed. The muscles of his face became rigid, the eyes fixed and he ceased to speak or eat only as food was fed him with a spoon. He was apparently deaf and could not see. Physicians from all parts of the State examined him and all pronounced his malady paralysis. Prison Physician \Villiams, however, has been satisfied all along that Brett was feigning all his symp. toms, but at the same time he deemed it nearly impossmle for him to do so. ’ The doctor yesterday determined to play a new card. He called the attendants into the hospital and toldthem,in the presence of Brott, that the case was a peculiar one and that the convict could not live heyonda few days, anyway, and that the next day he should proceed to chloroform Brett, saw the skull and see What the disease was. The doctor then left and very shortly Brott began to move, and calling the hos- pital attendant to him, he told that official that he had been shamming from the start in order to get a pardon, and did this for sympathy. Brott was rooted out of bed and was put to work today in the paint shop. Dr. Williams says he has heard of one similar case in this country. A A mass meeting, which was attended by 10,000 persons, was held today at Tower Hill. The police seizcd the placards an- nouncing the meeting and demanded the names of the promoters of the demonstra- tion. Speeches were made from six plat- forms. The speeches condemned the Government’s Irish policy and the conduct of the police at Mitchellstown. Appro- priate resolutions were put and carried. A strong force of police was present, but their services were not needed, as the proceedings were orderly throughout. A Very Artful Convict Finds Bis DIatch in the Prison Doctor. l Declare in Favor of Gladstone and Home Rule and Condemn the Police and Government. A last (Sunday) night’s London cable says : A great Liberal demonstration was held at Templecombe, Dorsctshirc, yester- day. Twenty thousand persons were pre- sent, Somerset, Hants and Wilts sending contingents. Mr. John Morley, who was the chief speaker, replied to Mr. Chamber- lain‘s recent speech at Birmingham. He denied that the Gladstonian position was not perfectly clear. The Liberals, he said, stood with their feet upon a rock. Mr. Gladstone had announced his assent to modifications of his original Home Rule plan, and every one of his colleagues who had been concerned in preparing the Bill had also cordially assented. What more did anybody want to know? , He was amazed that Mr. Chamberlain did not pro- duce his own plan. Was Mr. Cha ain against Home Rule altogethe‘hfi, he Gladstonians wanted to kn also what Radicals like Mr. C iambé’r- lain thought about the doings at Mitchells- town, Ennis and other places. As for Chamberlain’s urging a postponement of Irish for English legislation, the position of Ireland, the speaker said, would not allow Parliament to deal with other affairs. The ship of State was in a storm and was surrounded by tumultuous waves. There ‘ was only one way of making portâ€"to sum- ‘ mon back the old pilot. (Cheers) Reso-1 lutions were passed expressing confidence‘ in Mr. Gladstone and demanding justice ‘ for Ireland. ‘ The Magnificent Cars in Which President and Mrs. Cleveland Travel. A Washington despatch says: The special train which is conveying the Presi- dent and Mrs. Cleveland through the west and south is a marvel of tasteful elegance and seems to lack nothing which money could purchase or human ingenuity devise and construct to make travelling comforta- ble. Its three Pullman cars are so con- nected as to form one continuous car, traversable from end to end without open- ing a door or suffering exposure to the weather. The private quarters of the Pre- sident and Mrs. Cleveland are in Mr. Pullman’s private car, which contains a parlor, bedroom, dressing-room and a com- modious “observatory,” the walls of the latter being almost entirely of plate glass. This was the rear car till after the train passed Baltimore, affording its occupants from the observatory and the wide safetyâ€" railed platform behind it an unobstructed view of the country. The middle ear is in general features patterned after the fami- liar Pullman sleeper model, but embodies in its details all the later improvements made by Mr. Pullman. The first car con- tains the smokingroom, library, barber- shop and bath-room. Room is found in corners invisible to the passengers for an engine and dynamo which are to furnish electricity for lighting the train and ringing its bells and for the cooking range and 1 entire outfit of afirst-class kitchen. An English periodical says that coal ashes have proved a valuable substance in which to pack apples for long keeping. The ashes are thoroughly sifted, so as to give a soft material, and the fruit is then placed in alternating layers With the ashes. There appears to be one great advantage in the use of this material when kept fresh from the fireâ€"the absence of all dampness. It absorbs any moisture of the apples tending to decay. By using plenty, changes in‘ temperature are avoided, and the outer cold may be excluded, and freezing pre’ vented. Eggs placed on end may be safely packed in layers in the ashes. An Interesting Diary. A. Bronson Alcott has kept a. journal ever since he was a. boy. Among the earliest entries are the following : “ ‘Vent in swimming today. Read Plato while dryin’ off and got awfully sunburnt.” “ To- flay began kriticle study of the Greke tra- gedise, but Ralf Emerson come rouna and we conclooded to go after Chipmunks.”â€" Burlington Free Press. Little Nephewâ€"“ Uncle, you must be a. sort 0’ cannibal, 1â€"” Uncle (on a. visit) ~â€"“ A what, sir ? Wha’d’yer mean, sir ?” Nephewâ€"“ ’Cause ma. said you was always livin’ on somebody!”â€"New York Graphic. Dark ngs : Lookingfor & matchwhen aroused at 1 o‘clock in the morning. Monkeytown is the name of a. new post- ofiice in Yazoo County, Mississippi. CAUGHT AT IVIALINGERING, TRAVELLING BIADE EASY. MONSTER DIASS MEETINGS Keeping Apples. A Cannibal. WHOLE NO 1,522 NO. 15. When once in the carriage the sentimen- tal bridegroom pressed her hand and said 2 “ At last the prize is mine.” She said the same thing as she kicked the dreadful petticont under the carriage seat. It was the woollen one.~â€"Plziladclphia Press. “ It’s my-petticomt Tm lésing,” returned malady, pettighly. A Queer Profession Followed by the Young ltIen in the Quaker City. Two young men who spend the day and alarge part of the evening on Chestnut street are paid to do so. They are both well known figures, and generally travel together. They are piofessional window- gazcrs. 1:110 youn'r_rgon, in commo) with everybody else, know that to att aht a crowd to a window all one has to do is to stand and gaze into that window. In a short time ten or a dozen people will be gazing with him. They were down to hard panâ€"on their uppers so to speak. One of them went to the proprietor of a. men’s furnishing house on Chestnut street and told him that for so much a week he would guarantee to attract more attention to his window than all the dis- plays that could be laid out. The proprietor was struck with the idea and gave it a trial. As a consequence, there was a crowd at his window nearly all the time. The young man would walk up to the window with his friend and stand gaz- ing there untila crowd of a dozen or fifteen were standing ,with them. To keep the crowd moving he would walk away, and that started the break in the crowd. The performance was repeated every ten or fifteen minutes. The young man went to other stores along the street, unfolded his plan and pointed out the success of it. In a short time he had the whole street from Ninth to Broad on his boat, and he had to take his friend into partnership, and he makes plenty of money. If other window- gazers do not get on to the idea and get into the business, these two originators will shortly establish branches of the ‘Gazers ’ in other citiesâ€"Philadelphia News. The perspiration started on her pallid brow as she hurriedly made the responses, and, half-fainting, made her way down the aisle. Overwhelmed by :1 Complication of Acci- dents on the Day of Marriage. It was reserved for a bride lately to suf- fer a complication of accidents which for- tunately could not occur more than once or twice in a life time. The young lady left the house and got ten blocks away when she discovered that she had not put on her bridal veil. This was no fool of a veil either. It was not the regulation square of blonde lace, but a lovely Brussels net, ‘ richly wrought by the nuns in the convent of the Sacre Occur, in Montreal. Back went the bride for this gorgeous portion of her raiment. It was thrown over her in the carriage and the wedding procession again started. This time a breath of air produced an inclination to sneeze. The poor bride repressed it, but it escaped at last, and oh ! horror on horror’s head, her white satin waist split from belt to shoulder. Here occurred ahalt, this time at a little shop Where thread and needle were obtained, and the gaping space with difficulty was covered. At last, much too late, that unfortunate woman reached the church. In stepping nervously from the carriage the lace bot- tom of an under petticoat caught on the step and she felt the fastening give way. Every step up the aisle she could feel that cruel skirt slip, slip, till she feared she would have to step out of it at the very altar. She took a grip on the side and on she went. During the entire service she clung to it like grim death. She let go for ‘ a moment to get her glove off for the ring, and when she resumed her hold she felt ‘ that it had gained on her. Like Florence ‘ Wallack, she might have been married with the catechism for all she knew. She had these thoughts: “ Will that petticoat be dropped in the aisle, or will I shed it on the sidewalk before the mob as I climb into the carriage? Is it the lawn skirt, with three ruffles of valenciennes, or is it that little blue embroidered cashmere ma made me wear so I wouldn’t take cold ?” “Don’t lose your presence of mind, dearjfl whispered the ypung husband. Transformation of a Young Girl Into an Old W'oman. A Cleveland, 0., despatch says : Mary Harmon, daughter of a farmer, was engaged to be married to Jacob Eberlein, who followed the Harmons from Pennsylvania 9. short time ago. About six weeks ago the young couple came to the city. One of the young man’s friends worked in one of the electric light establishments, and they went to see the machinery. While passing through the shop Miss Harmon received a shock of electricity and fell to the floor. In a few minutes she recovered sufficiently to be removed from the place, and was taken to her home. Medical aid was summoned. For four days the girl lay paralyzed. Then she regained the use of her limbs, but immediately began to lose flesh. The hair on the left side of her head turned gray and began falling out. After four weeks she was able to be about and able to attend to most of her house- hold duties, but in that time she had been transformed from a young, handsome girl into a feeble old woman. Her form, which had been plump and rounded, is thin and bent, and the skin on her face and body is dry and wrinkled. Her voice is harsh and cracked, and no one to look at her would imagine that she was less than 60 years of age. The physicians claim that the electric current communicated directly with the principal nerves of the spine and left side of the head, and that the shock almost destroyed her vitality. A madman entered Elgin Place Church, Glasgow, on Sunday, Sept. 11th, and tak- ing off his coat ascended to the pulpit, and endeavored to embrace the pastor. He declared he had a. message from God which he wished to deliver. Another “big syndicate ” in J ava. sugar has been ventured on in Greenock, Ren- frewshire. The purchase is about £400,000, and some 20 vessels will be needed to carry the cargoes. PROFESSIONAL \VINDO‘V-GAZERS. The death is announced of Francis William Clark, of Ulva. He died on the 13th ult. at his mansion in the island at the advanced age of 87 years. He was the father of Francis W. Clark, Sheriff Princiâ€" pal of Lunarkshire, who died a few months ago. James G. Fl-ood has resigned the presi- dency of the Nevada Bank, and (ax-Senator Fair has been elected his successor. A REDIARIKABLE CASE. AN UNHAPPY BRIDE. Late Scottish News. A sad case of suicide has occurred at Chelsea, Ont., under singularly distressing circumstances. Minnie Allan, an attracâ€" tive girl of 19, daughter of a respectable farmer living near the village, died on Thursday evening from the effects of poison, administered, as subsequent events proved, by herself. She was ill on the Wednesday, and on Thursday morning early medical assistance was summoned as she seemed very ill. Dr. Davis, who was sent for, on arriving found that her re- covery was impossible. She would have become a mother in a few months. After the girl‘s death letters were found stating that she had been betrayed under promise of marriage. A fortnight ago her lover married another woman, and this had such an effect on Minnie Allan’s mind that, as the girl herself stated, she preferred death to the disgrace which was about to over- take her. Detective leir on Saturday night arrested John H. Stuart, a. London town- ship farmer, on the charge of threatening the life of E. J. Harris, a well-known dentist. Stuart states that his wife was induced to desert him by Harris, with Whom she went to live, although Harris has a wife and child of his own. Stuart has been looking for his wife lately, sus- pecting that she was staying with Harris, and on meeting the doctor threatened to shoot him. Hence Stuart’s arrest. The woman is over 40 and Harris is more than 50 years old. The Kingston assessor is nearly through with his work. He states that the change in the law regarding taxable income will make a difference in the assessment of about $200,000, which, however, is more than made up by an increase in the assess- ment of real estate. The census does not show the increase of population to be such as it is generally believed, but it is never- theless very material. Between 300 and 400 houses are in course of erection. Four Englishmen recently captured by brigands near Smyrna. have been liberated on 133,334th of a ransom of £750. The Brennan torpedo, purchased by the late British Government for £115,000, is to be submitted to a. test in secret at Ports- mouth this month. Grave doubts are entertained among torpedoists as to its success. Complaints are still made of the depre- dations of French fishermen on English smacks in the North Sea. The Imperial Government are being urged to send superior vessels with electric light to afford naggumte_protectio_n._ There is no truth in the statement that the Prince of Wales will open the cathe- dral at Truro. While in Cornwall he will make several visits and show himself amongst the Cornish people, to most of whom he is a stranger. It is believed that the object of the com- ing conference between Prince Bismarck and Signor Crispi,the Italian Prime Minia- ter, is to renew the military convention be- tween Italy, Austria. and Germany and to establish a. central European Zollverein. ‘ Messrs. J. Milligan and L. McGill, St. Thomas bondsmen for Alex. Perry, the book agent who jumped his bail, were on Saturday compelled to pay sureties of $100 each. Perry represented the house of Bradley, Garretson & 00., Brantford, and was charged with obtaining money under false pretences by sending in bogus orders to the firm, on which he received commisâ€" elon. The Hygienic Congress that has been sit- ting at Vienna. approved of the English method of thorough disinfection in pre- ference to quarantine for the prevention of the spread of epidemics. The Congress also favored cremation for the disposal of the dead. Friday was the Empress of Germany’s 76th birthday. The buildings in Berlin and Potsdam were decorated with flags and bunting in honor of the occasion. King Leopold of Belgium, the Emperor and Empress of Brazil and the Baden Princes presented their congratulations to the Empress. Advices from West Africa. state that the British Consul has caused the arrest of King J aja. of Operbo, for secretly prevent- ing the access of traders to the interior. King J aja ordered the natives not to do any trading except through his agents, and enforced his order by beheading 150 of his subjects asst warning to others.- The Committee of the White Cross Guild, who have been making inquiry into the statements as to the debauchery of children at Ottawa find that there is much truth in the statements made, and propose to ask assistance of the Attorney-General of Ontario with a. View of stamping out the evil. Edwards’ lodging house in Detroit was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning and three of the lodggrs bu_rned to death; Willie, the 8-year-old son of Henry Stanyer, foreman of the Empire Oil Works, London, on Friday evening was sent to call his father to tea. The lad, when in one of the rooms where lshe oil is pumped into the agitator. became over- powered by the fumes of the liquid and died before medical aid could be proourde The total decreasevin the United States debt last month was 314,247,969. Three men afid two boys were suffocated and thirteen others partially overcome by gas__in a. mingat AshlanQJfaflon Saturdfiyr It is reported that Dan I’mult, who received terrible injuries to his leg owing to a draw-bar breaking while coupling cars at Amherstburg a. few days ago, is dying from the effects of blood poisoning. U Three deaths from cholera. occurred at Swinburne Island, New York harbor, on Saturday, and five new cases were taken there. A report has reached Brookham, Miss, that serious trouble is brewing between negroes and whites about twenty miles southeast of that place, near Lime and Pike and Lawrence counties. About 300 men of each color are said to be under arms and a collision is feared. Several white men have left here with shotguns for the scene of the trouble. V Thousands of people were turned away from Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, yester- day, when the place occupied for forty years by Henry Ward Beecher was filled by his intimate friend and possible suo- cessor, Rev. Joseph Parker, D.D., of Lon- don. With Dr. Parker in the pulpit was Dr. Beecher’s former assistant and the present acting pastor, Rev. S. B. Hulliday, I).D. In the pastor’s pew sat Mrs. Beecher and Mrs. Parker. An unusual scene occurred at the Metro- politan Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, last night, when Rev. John P. Newman, in a sermon on “ Infidelity," alluded in severe terms to the Anarchists. “Could any American citizen,” he said, ” ten years ago have imagined the circula- tion of a petition to pardon those Whose hands are red with the blood of the de- fenders of the public peace and safety? What is back of this anarchyâ€"this dare. devil movement on the part of these villains, who ought to have been hung long ago?” At this point many of the audi. ence rose to their feet, clapped their hands. and with loud demonstrations announced their approval of the minister’s words. The three nutshells and a bean which one fukir successfully manipulated at the King- ston fair have cost some of the citizens a. great deal of money. Their experience cost all the way from $5 to $50. The Bank of London on Saturday began the redemption of its bills, a considerable number being presented. When the deposi- inors will be paid is still a. matter for specu- ation. The contractors have stopped work on the Red River Railway until their back claims are paid. TELE GRAPHIC SUMMARY.