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Wynn iu' blu: "nappy nmn- in; lVlitulmllu town Mr. Gladstone had attacked him (Balfour) personally for not listening in silence to bitter attacks made on men who spent their lives in defence of the law. The demon of inaccuracy had pursued Mr. Gladstone even to his assertions on this subject. But it was unnecessary to enter into dutails in justifying the police. If, as the Nationalists and Mr. Gladstone de- lighted to say, the police were defeated and routed, could any one blame them if they fired ? (Cries of “ 011.") The truth was, the Nationalists, including Mr. (lladstorwy must choose upon which horse they will ride. If they choose to triumph in the defeat of the police, let them not blame the police for firing in self-defence. If they choose to say that the police were brutal butchers and they fired without cause, let us hear no more of this indirect triumph or their defeat. (Cheer-s.) Mr. Gladstone’s attack on the character of Constable Whelehan, who was murdered by moonlighters, was the most monstrous of all his assertions and ought to cause shame to his followers. The state~ ment that the police had paid an informer previous to planning theoutragc was totally untrue. In comparison the number of meetings proclaimed by the Conservatives was much less than during Mix Glads’.011e’s administration. Continuing, Mr. Balfour said he intended to stop speakers who directly advocated crime, but to toleratethose who only talked nonsense. Earl Spencer, he said, moved uneasily in the Parnellite livery, but Mr. adstone as if “ to the manner born.” He chided by predicting that a steady application of the present policy of the Government would result in the Irish beâ€" coming enthusiastic and loyal supporters of an empire which they by their virtues were titted to adorn. Curl Spencer, in a. speech at Scarborough this evening, said it ill became Lord Ilar- tingmn to make insinuations against Mr. Gladstone; that they were as underaervml and illogical as they were unfuir. The treatment of Ireland, without regard lobe]: national aspirations, was bound to fail. Mr. William Johnston, member of Par- liament for South Belfast, a. Conservative, made a speech toâ€"night at. Glasgow. In the course of his remarks he said that every Orangeman in Ireland was determined to take up and use his rifle] before he would allow the Empire to be torn up. Mr. Balfour addressed a large and enthu- siastic audience at the town hall this even- ing. He said he hoped that at the next ~ session of Parliament England and Scots land would get a fair share of legislation. Still, the Irish question would remain the foremost problem in the mind of every one who took an interest in the fortunes of his country. He had noticed that Mr. Glad- stone â€"»(hooting, cries of “ Chips," and laughter)â€"although he had mentioned his programme of legislation, did not appear to take a very lively interest in it him- self. Except as regards the offer of the plundering of the Scotch and Welsh churches, as a bribe for the dismember- ment of the empire, Mr. Gladstone dis. played little interest in anything except the Irish question, and no man had done more to make it impossible to ignore the Irish question. Therefore Ireland would be his (Balfour’s) topic to-night. The question was not whether Ireland was to be governed under her own or an English Par- liament, but whether she was to be governed at all in accordance with any of those principles which had hitherto regulated the action of every civilized State in the world. ((lheers.) Referring to the events of the winter of 188.5, he compared the Liberal party to those barbaric ancestors who got baptised because their king embraced Christianity. One morning Mr. Gladstone announced himself a Home Ruler, and forthwith alarge section of the Liberals declared themselves llomc Rulers. Some of them explained to a smiling public the reason for their conversion, while others, like Harcourt, evidently believed that “ Least said soonest mended," and that it was possible for men to utter their opinions ‘egarding Ireland and yet retain the tradi- ions hitherto governing their party. They might have allied themselves with the Par- ncllite part) so far as the question of Home Rule was concerned and rejected fusion. but they had instead rejected an alliance and accepted fusion, and their principal object now, as evidenced by every paragraph of Mr. (lladstone’s shameful speeches, was to render dillicult the government of Ireland. In condemning Mr. GladA stone’s inconsistency and his pre- sent tactics, Mr. Balfour declared that not one of the evictions now Occurring could have been prevented, even if the amendment which Mr. Gladstone wanted had been inserted in the Land Bill. Mr. Gladstone’s criticisms on land legislation were strange indeed, coming from a man who for sixteen or seventeen years had fruitlesst tinkercd with the question. In New York Chamber of Commerce on Inter- national Rolmions. A New York despeteh says : 'l‘hc (thinn- ber of Commerce yesterday adopted reso- lutions favoring the attempt now being made by British members of Parliament and others to have urged upon Congress the importance of having all disputes or differences between the United States and Great Britain settled by arbitration when not accomplished by diplomatic proceed- ings. Resolutions were adopted favoring the peaceful settlement of the Canadian fishery question between Great Britain and this country. and a. committee was: ap- pointed to investigate the possibility of a material expansion of our commerce in this direction by inviting arguments for and against Commercial Union with Cen- ade,aud documentary evidence as to the extent and prospects of the trade between the two countries, and to report to the Chamber such recommendation for its fiction as would enable it to contribute its influence, not only to the early adjustment of the fishery question, but to aid in proâ€" curing the extension of the commerce of this country, should such action be deemed. desirable. The Departmental Committee appointeéll by the Imperial Government will commence an inquiry toAday,with a. View of ascertaini- inghow far State grantscan be made to agri- cultural and daily schoolks. The question of horsevbreeding will be- éiscussed by the committee. A last (Friday) night’s London cable says: Mr. Balfour went to Birmingham to day and attended the first annual meet» ing of the Midland Conservative Union. He was accompanied by a detective and the chief of the Leamington police. At Birmingham armed detectives were posted at the depot to watch for suspicious char- acters. Mr. Balfour received during the day a hundred addresses from Conservative assocxations, and in thanking the deputa- tions which broughtthem he gave assurance that the Government was resolved to proâ€" ceed boldly and firmly with the work they had taken in hand in Ireland and bring it too. good conclusion. He admitted the task wasa difficult one, but held that it was perfectly possible and capable of suc‘ cessful accomplishment. Certain incidents in Ireland had caused some of their friends some misgivings, but those inci- dents were due, not to lack of resolution on the part of the Government, but to defects in the law, which had never contemplated the present system of organized popular rebellion. Ireland to be Scourged Into Submission and ' Free Speech to be Suppressed. ANA DA AND AI“ ERICA. BALFOUR AT BIRMINGHAM. GRANGER/[EN WILL FIGHT. , Aâ€"Washington Irving Bishop, whose lmind-reading tricks were exposed last season both in Boston and New York, has turned up in Sin] Francisco. He is at present slowly recovering from. an attack “ of epilepsy. to Death. A last (Wednesday) night’s Hebron, Conn, despatch says : John Hodel, a silk weaverY shot his wife last night and then set lire to the house. Two children were burned to death. Hodel fled, but was cap» tured. The murderer says he told his wife last night he was going to kill himself. She said she wanted to die, too. An agreement was then made that the whole family should din tngcther. There wore two small children "boys, aged 3 and (iâ€"rmd the mother exv peuted to be confined again in a mouth. During the night, Model says he brought the children from an adjoining room and placed them in the bed with their mother and set fire to the bed, but the smothering: process was too slow, so he got a shotgun and fired both barrels into his wife’s breast. The flames then spread and smothered both children. \Vithnothing on but a nightsliirt, lIodel ran down the road towardsthe depot crying “ Fire l” The neighbors gathered and put the tire out. Hodel wandered around. awhile and then returned to the house, where he was arrested. He was a silk weaver, earning good wages and had a half a dozen barrels of home-made wine and cider in his cellar. Drinking this made him crazy and prompted the crime. He is a Swiss and came from Lucerne eighteen months ago. He is 31 years old. A SM “110 Barter-ed Away His Flt-sh and Blood to Savages for ‘Vliiskey. A special to the New York World from Ottawa. ()nt., says : \Vliile 8. Victoria schooner was lying at the Wharf at Barcley Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, recently, the captain and crew were surprised to see two white girls running towards the vessel, closely pursued by three or four Indians. The girls sprang on board and begged the captain to protect them from their pursuers. The liidians demanded the girls as their property, but the captain refused to give the girls up. The Indians went away and returned largely reinforced. The captain than sur- rendered the girls for fear of his life. They are daughters of \Vm. Thompson, of San Juan. The father became dissipated. and all he earned went for the purchase of liquor. When he could no longer obtain money or liquor he sold his eldest daughter to a Wealthy Chinaman, to whom, it is said, she was married at the point of a revolver. His wife died of a broken heart, and in one of his revelrios at the Indian cam‘p, it is alleged, he agreed to barter two of his daughters for whiskey. The follow- ing night the girls were carried away by a few of the tribe Since their captivity they have been brutally treated. A younger sister. only 8 years old, was sold to another tribe. An Oakland, UL, despatch says : Yesterâ€" day Mrs, Samuel Nelson, who lives near Sidoll, game. birth to four bnbies, three girls and onelmy. Mrs. Nelson is aboutilfi years old and about two years ago gave birth to twinalnnh girls. The four children are doing well but the nmther’s life is dogâ€" pnired 0f. A Cmmjohnrie, N. Y.. despntch says : Fred. Smith, a farmerlivingnem‘Oriskany, who recently lost four children from black diphtheria, buried two more on 'l‘uesday. The two remaining members of his family are critically Ill. A Swiss Silk \‘Voavor Shouts His \Vife mud Fires Hi5 lluusei ‘wo Children Burned J CIiAumcs B. BRMVNFIELD. Charles B. Brownfield wasnbout 30 years of age and very dissipated. He caused his father, Squire Brownfield, anmgistmte and highly respected old gentleman, much trouble. He was a mechanic and worked in the Shops of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in this city. The following assignments are reported 2 Ontario-â€"(lhaflmm, \V. H. Crow, grocer; Guelpblflhns. Eumphrios. ten; Nupanee, “ To all whom it may concern,‘1, Charles B. Brownfield. murdered my dear wife and baby, also \V. F. Brunet, my brotlier-in~law. I killed my wife and baby because I was tired of life and did not want them left, penniless in the world and no one to cure for them. My cause of being tired of life is gambling. Now let my brothers and friends take warning. ] killed \V. l“. Bruner because I did not think he was fit, to live, and now I will make an attempt on my life, so goodâ€"bye my father, brother and sister, and friends and relations. All take. warning. Good-bye. P. S.‘ Hicks, grocer} Oshawa, Snfibh K‘ Adams, general store ; Toronto, \anter R. Over, hotel ; Woodstock, J. George Mason, stationery. A Louisville despatch says: At 10 o’clock yesterday morning“Y Mrs. Mary Bruner, the mother of Mrs. Charles B. Brownfield, who lives at 1,922 \Vest Chestnut street, called at the residence of her daughter. As no one answered her ring she raised the window of the little one~story frame (-otâ€" tage. The sight that met her eyes was a horrible one. In the middle of the door opening between the room occupied by her daughter and husband and thelr little daugli» ter of 8 or 10 years, and the one occupied by ‘ Wm. Bruner, a brother of Mrs. Charles Brownfield, who resided with the family, was the body of Charles B. Brownfield, her daughter’s husband, suspended by a strap, dead. At the suicide’s back and on a bed in a dark corner reposed the body of Wm. 1". Bruner with his throat out from ear to g ear. Facing the self~n1urderer in the other‘ room was another bed upon which, stiffened in their blood, were the forms of his wife and child. Their heads were almost . severed from their bodir s. Beneath Brown- 1 field’s feet lay the razor with which thei awful deeds had been committed. The bed clothing was drenched with blood and the faces of the victims besmeared so that they were almost beyond recognition. 0n the bureau in the parlor the following let. ter, dated (3.30 a. in., and written by the murderer in an unusually legible hand, was found : *Nellie King is an expert detective in Minneapolis. She is about 20 years of age. Nellie BlyY of the New York WorId, who has won fame in the same line, especially in showing up lunatic asylum scandals, is only 19. A Dissipatod Gmnbler M urdul's “in ‘Viffiy Child and I!rollmr-in-Law 21ml Com- lnita Suicide. Six of the Fan)in Dead by Diphllmri: VOL XXX SOLD HIS l)AITGHTEKS. A IKEN UCKY TRAGEDY. DRUNK AND CRAZY A Fruitful Vine. A ssignnwnis. A St. Louis despatch says : One of the most exciting scenes that ever occurred in this city took place at the Tlnion depot between 3 and 4 o’clock this afternoon, and for a time created not only a tremendous excitement, but the wildest kind of a scene among the people present. During the day a special train of passenger and flat cars bearing John Robinson‘s menagerie and circus people and their animals from Fort Scott, Kansas. came into the Union depot enrsz to Cincinnati, where they are to winter. About lialf‘past 3 the train pulled out to cross the bridge, and while passing over the “Puzzle switch” in the depot yard a flat car flew the track, followed by others, and ran into a freight train on the side track, demolishing two or three cars and killing George Squires, a can- vas man, and badly injuring two other circus men named Fulier and Isle. In the smash-11p some of the animals’ cages on the flat cars were broken, and a Bengal tiger, two lions, a leopard, an ibex and a vulture escaped. The wildest kind of a commotion followed. The depot officials and policemen ran frantically about shouting warnings, and there was a general and quick stampede from the yards to the streets beyond. The circus and depot men then made search for the animals. The leopard was found crouched undera freight car, and an attempt was made to lasso him, but it failed, and the animal rushed from cover, bit a man severely in the leg on his way out, bounded into the ticket oflice, and then jumped through a transom into the superinten- dent’s office, He was besieged by the circus men, and after several attempts to capture him and two or three shots being tired at him he was covered with a tarpaulin and secured. One by one the other animals were found, and after more or less trouble were captured and returned to their cages, but it was not until nearly dark that the work was over and the excitement was allayed. Thomas Newton, against whom a true bill for the murder of John Ingo has been found, was remanded this morning to the Spring Assizes, owing to the illness of an important witness for the Crown. The total number of immigrants arrived in this city this season to date is upwards of 143,000. The weather has taken a very mild turn. The river is open again and ploughing has been resumed. Marslmllsay, member of the North west Council for Broadvicw, is fiyigg: The tug; Dryberry, which has been mis- sing on the Lake of the VVOOds for the last 1011 days, was found yesterday. She was frozen in during the cold snap of last week. H Vricrtoria. special says : The Efigli‘s'h ship Duchess of Argyle has gone ashore on San Juan Island. opposite Nash Bay, W.T. lonsmbie Warren, who was sentenced at Lethbridge for refusing to clean an officer’s boots, has been released by order of Comv missinner lIerchmer. M. dbrdon leavesAKnox Church for his new field in Halifax weekafter next: Negotiations between the citizens of ‘Vinnipeg and the Manitoba Government for the construction of the Red River Valley Railway have been resumed, with reasonâ€" able hope of a successful result. 1‘ 1 Louis Over the Esvape of s from a Circus. Sensation at St. 1313' Mr. Scott is a son of Mr. Scott, formerly Surveyor of Customs of Toronto. He is about 48 years old, and had been with the firm of Vernon Bros. it Go. for twenty-live years. The New York Sun has the follow- ing regarding him : An intimate friend of Mr. Scott said yesterday : “ Mr. Scott’s private charities will never be known. He was generous, charitable and open-handed. There are three tombstones in Greenwood that he has had erected over young men Who had died friendless. One of these was the son of William Lyon Mackenzie, the Canadian patriot of 1837. Many men have told me with tears in their eyes of what Scott has done for them. He has been a changed man for a year past. has drank some and been to races, but I can’t under- stand what he has done with his money.” The Manitoba Methodist Mission Board has made the following appropriations: Winnipeg district, for home missions, i31,230; for Indian missions, $5,000. Mor» den district, for home missions, $1,000. Delomine district, $1,166. Portage la Prairie district, 3600. Burrel district, $1,444. Brandon district. $1,585. Regina district, 32,989. Saskatchewan district, $2,715. The grants to Indian missions in the West amount to 87,975. Mr. Scott was also President of the Lawrenceville Cement Company. The directors met in the company’s office in the Boreel building yesterday. Mr. Alvah Hall, one of the stockholders, said that the company held $10,000 in Mr. Scott’s notes, but they were fully secured and the com- pany would lose nothing. Mr. Hall added that he believed Mr. Scott to be temporarily msane. Mr. Thomas Vernon said in an interview yesterday : “ Mr. Scott has been with the firm for thirty years. He came to New York from Toronto, Canada, with a. letter of introduction, and was given a clerkship at $6 a week. He was bright and intelli- gent, and he rose rapidly in our esteem. After five years he was admitted to an in- terest in the firm.” â€"Never enter a. sick room in a state of perspiration, as the moment you become cold your pores absorb. Do not approach contagious diseases with an empty stomach, not sit between the sick and the fire, because the heat attracts the thin vapor. Mr. Scott disappeared on October 22nd, after he had had a long and exciting inter- view with Mr. Thomas Vernon, the senior partner of Vernon Brothers ii' Co.,in which Mr. Vernon obtained from Mr. Scott a partial explanation of his business en- tanglements. While Mr. Vernon then and since Mr. Scott‘s disappearance has been able to learn the amount in which Mr. Scott has involved the firm, he has not been able to find out where the money went. A New York despatch says : David Scott, one of the ablest and most successful busi- ness men in this city in the paper trade, a partner in the old firm of Vernon Brothers .V 00., and President of the Ivanhoe Paper Company, has mysteriously disappeared. The mystery is partly Solved by the dis- covery, since Mr. Scott’s disappearance, that he has withdrawn considerably over $40,000 in cash from the firm of Vernon Brothers ll’ (30., and that he has involved the firm with the Ivanhoe Paper Company to the extent of $60,000, and with the Lawrenceville Cement Company, of 115 Broadway, for 810,000 more. An vxâ€"Tm‘nntonian's Diipurture from New Yorkâ€"HI CHASING \‘VILD ANILVIALE; A CANADIAN DEFAULTER, [SINGULAR MATRIMONIAL ROMANCE. Latest [roux the Northwest. RICHMOND IIILL THURSDAY, NOVE’MBER '17, 1887. Draught-s. William Strickland, of Leeds, champion blindfold player of the world, died recently at Leeds. He was 38 years of age. There is no doubt that the strain of mental force he brought to bear on draughts shattered his nervous system, and made him fall early a victim to any disease which preâ€" sented itself. \Vyllie, the “ Herd Laddie,” in discussing blindfold playing, expressed the opinion that blindfold playing was injurious to the brain, and should never be indulged in. Besides, it was a useless test of ingenuity. Strickland was a splendid player and a genial man. He had many friends. Ontario Crop Kelort, 1887. The November reporl of the Ontario Bureau of Industries is jtst out. It states that the yield of fall wheat is 14,440,611 bushels, being 3,630,531 bushels less than last year, and 5,162,693 bushels less than the average of six years. The average yield per acre is 16 bushels Spring wheat may be se; down as a general failure. The estimated yield is 5,633,117 bushels, against 9,518,553 bushels last year, and 9,713,879 bushels for an average of six years. The barley crop was saved with scarcely any injury from discolorav tion, but the yield per acre is less than for any harvest of the last six years. The total product is 17,134,830 bushels, belng,r 2,377,448 less than last year and 2,031,583 less than the average of six years. The oat crop is below the average in yield. The estimated product is4‘.i,848,101 bushels, against 58,065,608 last year. The estimated yield of peas is 12,173,332 bushels against 10,043,734 last year. A New Sport. SHAVING AGAINST TIME. On Tuesday night, at No. 418 King’s road, Chelsea, says the London Telegraph, an extraordinary shaving match against time was decided, Teddy Wick, the chin“- pion barber, being backed to shave 50 perâ€" sons in 00 minutes for £15 a side. He actually shaved 77 persons in 59 minutes 53 seconds, and thus won the stakes. 1n the first quarter of an hour he disposed of 21 men; in the second, 14; in the third, 19; and in the last 14 minutes 53 seconds he put on & “spurt” and finished off 23. Mr. Sandford Fleming, originator of the ‘24 hour system, has received a letter from the Japam'se Minister in London stating that the 24 o’clock system will be adopted throughout the Japanese E mpire on January lst. Mr. Fleming is also informed that it is giving satisfactory results in Sweden, and expresses the belief that it is only a matter of a few years lefore the system will be universally adoptzd. Advices from Buffalo tonvey the infor- mation that Laura Pugh the 13-year-old daughter of Mr. Wm. W. Pugh, formerly of Hamilton. who disepieered from her father’s house in Buffalc six weeks ago, was found \Vednesday afternoon by her father. She was walking on the street in Buffalo with her husland, Fred. W. Adams, to whom she vas married in Toronto immediately after her disappear- ance. They have been ir Chicago during the interval and only returned to Buffalo on Wednesday. The law of New York makes it a felony to marry a girl under 16 years of age without the consent of her parents. The penalty is xiv: yenrs’ imprisonâ€" ment or $1,000 fine, or bcth. Mrs. Adams has her marriage certifimte, and it is not known whether there will be any prosecu- tion or not. Mrs. Pugh her mother, is very ill. â€"Mrs. Sachs, the St. Louis cook who threw the pancake at Hrs. Cleveland, is now on exhibition ina dine museum. From feeding stomachs, she has descended to feeding morbid curiosity Rather a notable wedding took place here the other day, with a romantic story attached. Young James Robertson Blaokie, of the great Glasgow publishing house, came over the ocean to take back with him in the guise of a helpmeet Miss Ellen Arthur Botts, of Savannah, Ga., who is a niece of the late President Arthur. He is a tall, blonde young fellow, who is an excellent business man, as the present prosperity of his house shows, and with a heart in the right place, as the following little story proves: His wife was a relative of his stepmother, and came as a school- girl to Glasgow to be educated, living in his father’s home. He fell in love with her promptly, and they were provisionally engaged owing to her youth. Upon her return to this country she was for some time the devoted nurse of her dying grandfather, and after his death was at- tacked with fever as a resdt of her fatigue. While still convalescent ihe great earth- quake that shook Charlestni to pieces came to Savannah, and the shod; and terror aet- ing upon her enfeebled nerves entirely destroyed her sight. The specialists here, when consulted, declareé the case was hopeless, and she must )esign herself to life-long blindness. Upm this painful verdict she wrote to her 1ancee, releasing him from the engagemert, and resigned herself to darkness and oneliness for the rest of her life. The many young Scotchâ€" man, however, refused to aibniit. He took the next steamer for this country, and on arriving declared that heloved and would marry her whether she o'er regained her sight or not. Stimulated by this unex- pected happiness she at once began to mend, and with the restoration of her general health her eyes began to improve, and now she has as hrighta pair of brown ones as are to be seen an'where, and no one can see further into a millstone than she. They were married on Wednesday and will return to Scotlani some time in November. In Company “’ith Ha' Husband Sh. Accords Her lather. _A privatelettor from Los Angeles,(1nliâ€" fornia, announces the presence in that- city one day last week ofBenjamin Cronyn, the missing solicitor of he Ontario Invest- ment Association of LOIdOI], Ont. Dr. Dawson, of the ‘eological Survey, has returned to ()ttawmfter an absence of six months in the Yuko country with the exploring expedition. The other members of the party will Winter 11 the country and resume their labors as urly as possible in the spring. Dr. Dawon has already secured much valuabl infornmtion re- garding the district, ant will be occupied 9.11 the winter preparingreports and maps. The New York correspondent of the Brooklyn Ic‘aglp tells a pretty story, as follows: A Young Sootclnnan \Vlmse Fuithfulnoss to His Promised Wife Could Not. Be Shaken. The Twmlty-Fuur Hour S LAURA PUG-u FOUND. “ ()h ! I wonder if our preacher thinks people are idiots enough to stir out of the house such a. night as this.”-()maha Il’orld. The Gr T. R. Tunnel. At the recent Grand Trunk meeting,r in England President Tyler stated that the cost of the St. Clair Tunnel would be about £480,000; the traffic that would pass thronin it would come partly from their ferry at Sarniu and partly from their ferry at Detroit; the traffic which passed over these ferries every day was eight passenger trains and twenty freight trains at Sarnia, and ten passenger trains and twenty-five freight trains at Detroit. Supposing this work cost £500,000, the interest would come to £32,000 a year, and they calculated there would be a saving of at least £10,000, as compared with the present working of the ferries. ManiMy gracious I We’ll be late. Get your things oq. Wifeâ€"My dear, it’s raining pitchforks and the wind is blowing a hurricane. “ We have strong umbrellas.” ” My dress will be ruined.” “ \Vem‘ your waterproof.” “ And you know you have a cold.” “ I can wear rubbers; I wouldn’t miss that opera for?” “ Opera? This is no opera night; it‘s prayer meeting night.” Mr. Robert J. Burdette has written as follows to a comedian who desired the humorist to write a play for him : “ Thought of it once or twice.but never got quite so far as the title. If ever I do com- mit the deed, however, I’ll tell you the first one. But, seriously, I couldn’t do it. It isn‘t in me. Play-writing demands a pecu- liar genius, for which I have searched all through my baggage a. hundred times, but it isn’t there. I think it must have been seized in the custom house.” The Minuedosa, Mam, 'I'rz'bzme had the following in a recent issue: A surprise awaited Mr. Campbell, of Merchiston, the week before last, that he little dreamed of. He had made arrangements to send his daughter, Miss Campbell, well known in Minnedosa, to Scotland, but on her arrival at Strathclair she and Mr. John Arch. McDonald, of the Hudson Bay Post, became one, and the trip to Scotland was indefi- nitely postponed, though Mrs. McDonald passed through Minnedosa the same day on a visit to friends at Rat Creek, While her husband went on a trip west. Although Mr. Campbell was much disturbed at the unexpected turn of afiairs, yet he has made up his mind that “ What can’t be cured must be endured,” and forgiven the couple. A Baltimore despatch says : The report that the beautiful Miss \Villiams, of this city, was at one time engaged to Mr. Her- bert, the owner of the Muckross estate, in Killarney, is slowly dying at her home here, recalls a romance. As is well-known the wedding-day was set, but the ceremony was forbidden by Mr. Williams because Mr. Herbert was a divorced man and hisestates were heavily encumbered. Subsequently the young lady fell from her horse, and since then she has been an invalid. She obeyed her father and gave up the man she loved, but the struggle was too much. She pined away gradually, and now they say is slowly dying. surrounded by all the com- forts of a luxurious home and the attenâ€" tions of a devoted family circle. It is not likely that the Government will adopt the proposal for a reduction in first- class railway fares to a uniform mte oftwo cents a. mile recently made by the French Chamber of Commerce, of Montreal. Pittsburg Chronit'le : “A prominent physiologist says that the coming man will be completely bald. Perhaps by that time some inventive genius will build a theatre with every seat in the front row.” At Dr. Springer's barns in East Hamilton is a sight really worth seeing. In one heap alone is a thousand bushels of apples (Rhode Island Greenings) and here and there are piles containing 100 or150 bushels of other varieties. The fruit is all good and sound and was raised by the doctor in his splendid orchards. It may not be generally known that there are on Dr. Springer’s premises apple trees which were planted in the year 1812. This season two of these bore fruit in abundance. The product of one was thirty bushels and of the other thirty-three bushels. The doctor has given great attention to fruit culture, and has been generally successful. A Mink and a Hawk Fight in a Barrel of “Water. A fight took place a few days ago on the farm of G. Hanshaw, lot 6, con. 6, West Nissouri, the like of which does not often occur. Mr. Hanshaw had a sunken barrel in a spring on his farm, where the water is very scarce. A mink thought he would go into the barrel to have a little swim, but when in he found he could not get out again. While he was struggling in the water a large hen hawk chanced to fly over, and it seems to have occurred to him that it was a good chance to make a meal of the mink. He Went for the barrel and a terrible fight ensued. The hawk, how- ever, succeeded in killing the mink, but during the combat his feathers became so \vet that ho, too, was unable to get out and was drowned. Both victor and vanquished were found dead in the barrel afterwards Apple Treen 0f1812 Still in Full bearing. l Keeping the Desperate Brutes at Bay “'ith a Lantern Tlll Help Comes. A Houghton, Mich.Y deepatch says: Dolphie Brunelle, a farmer near here, was called from his home on ‘Wednesday and left his wife and daughter, the latter aged 17, alone. Mrs. Brunelle heard a noise in the calf-pen late in the evening, and she and her daughter went out with a. lantern to see what was the matter. They found the barn surrounded by wolves, and before ‘the women had time to retreat the fero- (:ious animals surrounded them. The brutes were afraid of the lantern and reâ€" treated whenever it was swung toward them, but Mrs. Brunelle dared not swing the lantern violently for fear it would go out. With remarkable courage she worked her way step by step toward the barn, keeping the wolves at bay with the light. After ten minutes of the greatest ordeal she managed to reach a pitchfork, and while the daughter swung the lantern she attacked the wolves with the fork, finally ‘ succeeding in getting into the barn and closed the door. Then both fainted. The Heroine of 3 Romance Dying. \VODIEN FIGHT WITH \VOLVEH Opera \‘n us Prayer Meetings. A Father’s Plans Frustrated. A NOVEL COMBAT. ] NE Flt BIT. WHOLE N0 1,527 NO. 20. “ Is that all ‘2” I asked, as I entered the order in my pocket dairy. “ That’s all I know at present,” he generously replied, and kindly told me I might go home for lunch. This was the best order he had given and homeIwent. My wife kindly told me that if I couldn’t get home at the proper time I could get my meals ata restaurant as she would not be bothered keeping them Warm. I did not dispute her suggestion, for she had a peculiar way of arguing that is not by any means as pleasant as it is striking. My luncheon was cold. The chops were dried to a crisp, the muffins were heavy and the coffee all grounds. I did not dare complain, and after trying to eat in vain, I left the table, and throwing myself on the sofa tried to rest until dinner hour. My wife, as usual, noticed I had eaten sparingly, and ven» tured to suggest that I had been drinking, Out I went and in a very few minutes was poring over columns of figures. Now, if there is anything I detest it is figures, unless on a bank note in my own possession. Until now, I put down and carried over until nothing but figures seemed to exist. I turned in my story, had the pleasure of hearing it pronounced ” not what it should be," and sat down for a little rest. The city editor saw me do this and turning to me said : “ The police headquarter re- porter has sent in a story of a girl missing from Hoboken. Now you go over there, trace her up, and if possible, findher. You can get your lunch when you come back.” I am morally certain that a city editor is like an actor, inasmuch, as he never eats, but I do when it comes my way. Well, I went to Hoboken, and after two hours’ hard work trying to make the Germans under- stand English and listening to them try to make me understand German, I succeeded in tracing the girl to her aunt’s and finally bringing her home. Thinking I would be credited with a good piece of work, I re- turned, wrote a half column story and turned it in. The city editor read it, and when he concluded, handed it back to me and said, “Cut that down to ten lines. Anybody could have worked that ease up.” My heart sank. I wrote ten lines, handed it to him again and began to chew copy paper to prevent immediate starvation. I have worked on a half a hundred papers since entering the profession and I do honestly believe that it has always been my luck to get the mean assignments. Again the city editor saw that I was resting and he opened his assignment book. “ They are holding a poet-mortem in the morgue on a body they think was poisoned. Work your- self in and catch all you can, because the doctors won’t tell you anything.” A postmortem, an empty stomach, and the subject having been buried two weeks before being exhumed. It’s all in the busi- ness and out I went. For an hour I stood by the dissecting table carefully watching the tests made by the doctors, and when they put the stomach in a pail to be ana- lyzed I was happy and returned to the office. There was no result, so aside from the brief mention of the fact there was nothing to write. The forms were soon on their way downstairs and a moment later the boys were on the street shouting the Argus. I drew a sigh of relief, for there could be no more work for that day’s paper. Evidently the city editor saw the smile of satisfaction and as he drew a cigar from his handsome cigar case called me to his side. Oh, no. gentle reader, it was not for the pur- pose of giving me a cigar, but some more assignments. “ I have cards for a wedding toâ€"night. You take it in, and on your way drop in the theatre, and write up a notice. Before you go to the wedding see what the fire commissioners do, and when you return take a look in police headquarters and see what you can do for early copy,” were the orders as he tantalizingly blew some of the smoke from his reginawictoria in my face. At 7 o’clock this morning the little alarm clock on my mantel made a buzz and a whizz that fairly set my hair on ends, and with the alarm were several well-aimed rib blows inflicted by my wife and her pointed elbow. Every man when so sud- denly awakened longs for just forty winks more of sleep, but if he is a re- porter and has a wife who sleeps from 7 o’clock in the evening he can’t have them. I was soon turned out of bed and after going through my morn- ing evolutions, hurried down stairs to breakfast. Hastily breaking an egg, half of which I spilled on the clean table cloth, I seized a roll so hot that it could not be eatenY sipped my coffee which made me think a “ Bob " Davis torchlight procession was going down my throat, glanced lazily at a morning paper that was lying by my plate, but which lack of time would not permit me to read, seized my hat and last year’s overcoat and hurried to my office. "A little late this morning,” was the salutation from the knight of the blue pencil, as every city editor is dubbed by the reporters who have the pleasure of watching him make sheet music out of his copy. “I understand,” he continued, ” that there is reason for believing that there is crookedness in one of the city wards ; you go see the expert’s report, care- fully compare his figures and footings with the originals, and get in a good story in time for the first edition. Now hurry.” CityEditor. Now, had the last word been omitted, I might be soundly sleeping, but with that word in the order the column must be given, and in doing so I will tell the city editor what I have been doing, and at the same time let the Argus readers take an outside glimpse at the daily life of an aver- age newspaper reporter. Have a column of copyin the city desk by 6.30 to-morrow morning, lelpgrative. (Jersey City Argus.) There are few people who, as they sit comfortably by their firesides reading their daily papers, are aware of the amount of reporterial labor each column in that paper contains, and the worriment in many cases the never-tiring reporter endured. I can remember very distinctly when but a schoolboy how I tried to outrival my school companions in writing essays, and unfer- tunately for myself I made this a special study. I was always devotedly attached to newspapers, in fact, there is a streak of printer’s ink coursing through my veins, my grandfather at the time of his death being the oldest editor and publisher in the State of Pennsylvania. It is no more than natural that when I left schoolmwhich I did very suddenly to avoid being expelled for putting a rat in my teacher’s deskâ€"- that I should drift into a newspaper office. I did this, and now, as I look at the little clock on the mantel and my wife in bed soundly sleeping, I wish I had not. It is long after midnight, and before me is a note from the city editor, which reads : Not All Sweetness by Any Meansâ€"Good Advice. A REPORTER’S LIFE. be“ “ You see,” said Mr. Fred Grant to the electors of a New York town the other day, “ that, like President Cleveland, I have taken my wife along." Freddy is right. Most of the mistakes made in married life come from men not taking their Wives along. A man is never in better company or safer than when he takes his wife along. “B1117an Courier. It is stated in Ottawa. that Dr. Mc- Michael, Q. C., of Toronto, has been offered a position on the bench of the Queen’s Bench Division, and that Judge Armour will be made justice of that division. Steps are being taken by the Kamper syndicate to have the iron ore of Nova Scotia practically tested. in connection with the proposal to establish an extensive steel manufactory in that Province. Mrs. Ballantyne, wife of Rev. W. D. Bellantyne, Principal of the Ladies' Col- lege, Ottawa, has by the death of a near relative become the possessor of £10,000. The deceased gentleman was possessed of £200,000 which was divided amongst his relatives. Each of Mrs. Ballantyne's sisters received £10,000 and her brother £15,000. A Sleeping Beauty in Court. A Detroit despatch says : The Coroner’s inquest in the case of Mrs. Jane Hoag, of Adrian, who drowned herself on Saturday, was marked bya peculiar episode. Gertrude King, the principal witness, who is given to naps lasting from two to four hours, during which she cannot be aroused, fell asleep in courtroom, and the able legal gentlemen present, after shaking her, were perforce compelled to await the pleasure of the sleeping beauty. Finally the inquest was adjourned until to-morrow. The girl is 18 years old and the ablest slumberer in Lenawee county. Miss Gleason, teacher in an East Mid- dlesex school, has a. reading-desk in a corner of the school room, and on it keeps “Trea- sure Trove” and “Our Little Ones” on file. These are specially useful in stormy weather. During the time of any special event, such as a. war, she puts the Graphic or odd numbers of other illustrated papers on the reading-desk. The children at noon hours read in turns ; sometimes one will read to a. group of listeners. Widows of India, ‘of w-rhom there are seventy-nine thousand under 9 years of age. The suggestion furnishes a practical open- ing for the energies of ladies interested in Zenana work. Rev. Dr. Reid, agent of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, announces the receipt up to date of $2,670 as the result of the tour of the mission bands of Knox and Queen’s Colleges. Bishop O’Mahoney, of Toronto, who has been dangerously ill for some time past with rheumatism of the heart,was reported much better last evening. Prof. Mon Muller, in a. letter to the Times (London), suggests that an asylum or an institution should be opened at Bombay or. palcutta for the poor persecuted child- A London oablegmm says: We are threatened with a new craze, which, pro- perly worked, deserves to become as popu- lar as walking round the Agricultural Hall used to be. Napoleon Bird is astonishing the North of England with long-distance pianoforte performances. Last week this artist played at Stockport for thirty-six and a quarter hours without stopping, thereby beating his own best previous record by eleven and a quarter hours. Although much troubled by sleepiness dur- ing the last hour or two, he seems to have finished very fit, and wound up by singing “ Rule Britannia ” to his own accompani- ment. At present there seems to be no rival in the field. But when we get our two or three men playing against one another on different pianos the sport will become exciting as well as intellectual. when the truth was I had not tasted a glass of beer all day. She also noticed that my muddy feet were resting on a tidy that had been carelessly left on the foot of the sofa, and after telling me what she thought of men in general,- brought in my slippers that my mother had made and presented to me last Christmas. I put them on and soon fell into a doze, only to be awakened by my wife, who insisted u on telling me the number of creditors that ad called to see me during the day. While she was in the midst of her list the fire bell rung. Of course the fire was in that por- tion of the city for which I am held responsible. I jumped from the sofa, threw off my slippers and started to put on my shoes. I could find but one of them. but after a long search during which the entire city might have burned down I found it out in the back yard, where it had been taken by an ugly yellow dog that my wife‘s brother had given her. It did not take me long to put it on and as I ran to the fire I could imagine a large tenement house in flames, people jumping from the windows, others burned to death and I sending copy over for an “ extra." How I ran when Ipushed mysel" through the crowd and found the chief engineer he very kindly told me there was no fire. He added by the way of con- solation that file fellow who sent out the alarm thought there was one. Again I started homeward, and after walking two blocks a tough young fellow met me and wanted to know if I was not the Argur re- porter. I told him I was one of them and he seemed to be surpri°ed that I had front enough to say that I was a reporter. He wanted to break my face because his name had been in the paper for being drunk. I never saw him before in my life andamnot particularly anxious to see him again and besides I have but one face and though that is very nearly worn out, still I want to use it. It cost me fifteen cents to treat him, but I squared things. I arrived home in time to see Mary, that’s our girl, clearing ofi the dinner table and my wife had done as she said she would, let me go without it if I was not home in time. I was now thoroughly tired and my wife wanted me to take her to the theatre. All my reason- ing power fa-‘ed to make her realize that it was an impossibility, and when I hurried out to {he wedding, theatre, fire board and police headquarters, she was crying and saying something about going home to her mother. I wouldn‘t blame her if she did, for I have not a minute to devote to her. Why, honestly, at one time I had not seen her awake for so long, when I met her on the street I did not know her and actually tried to flirt with her, but my wife don't flirt, that is, not with me. Well, I covered all my assignments and when I came in, beside my regular copy, found an order calling for a column. I don’t know what time it came. My wife does, however, but I don’t think it would be healthy to wake her up to ask her. I am inclined to think I have written nearly a column and will submit it to my city editor, but just one word in conclusion to parents who have sons anxious to become reporters because they don’t have to pay to get in the the. atre. Should they ever express to you such a desire just tell themâ€" “ Yes, darling, in a minute." My wife’s awake and is telling me her opinion of a man who runs around all day and neglects his work to such an extent that he has to keep a light burning until morning to catch up. ” Yes: dear, I’ll [fut the light out so you can sleep. I‘m coming to bed right away.” Light out. The Latest Craze in England. Physician, Heal Thyself. To-day’s Church Notes. Heiress to a Fortune. A Hint for Teachers.