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There was a Miss Skinner, a governess, living with Mrs. Caulfield, who resided two miles from Shandy Hall, in 1886. Miss Skinner left the employ of Mrs. Caulfield in October, 1886, and went to Surgeon- Major Cross’ house, where she} lived three months. From the time Miss Skinner went to Shandy Hall the prisoner’s de- meanor towards his wife changed for the Worse. Miss Skinner was lost sight of until March 29th, 1887, when she went to the Northwestern Hotel, North Wall, Dubâ€" lin, with the prisoner, where they repre- sented- themselves as man and wife. Miss Skinner and the prisoner left the hotel on the followingmorning, andthey reappeared there again on April let under similar circumstances, and gave the name of Os- borne. On April 29th Miss Jefferson, a school-fellow of Mrs. Cross’, became an inmate of Shandy Hall, and she was present during the last fatal illness of Mrs. Gross. Miss Jefferson kept a diary, from which it would appear that on May 8th Mrs. Cross was at church; on May 9th she was visiting and on May 10th she was first attacked with symp- toms of the fatal illness under which she was to succumb in three weeks. The fatal symptoms of arsenic poisoning were present that day, and they appeared up to the 18th, when the effects of the preliminary dose were wearing away and on the following day, Ascension Day, she was able to go to church. Then on May 20th she was attacked with the same symptoms, and from that she was never able to shake herself free. On May 22nd she was a little better, and she crept into the garden to breathe the fresh air and hear the birds sing for the last time. On the 26th Miss Jefferson described her as being in a very dangerous condition, and on the 27th the well known symptoms of chronic arsenic poisoning were evident. On the 30th, when the woman was in a dying state, Dr. Cross asserted to callers that she Was pretty well, and refused on that day to allow the Rev. Mr. Hayes, their clergyman, to see her. He told people that it was typhoid fever she was suffering from. THE womN‘s SAD DEATH. Dr. Cross occupied a bed in the same room where his wife was dying. Three servants slept together in another room, and during the night of June let one of them was awakened by the screams of her mistress, and at 7 o’clock on the morning of June 2nd Dr. Cross told them of Mrs. Cross’ death. The conduct of Dr. Cross, it was alleged, was inconsistent with that of a humane husband. Mrs. Cross’ body was not buried with the customary funeral habiliments used in a lady’s coffin, and an analysis showed the presence of arsenic poisoning and stryehnine poisoning. There was positive evidence that Mrs. Cross had not died, as alleged by her husband, from typhoid fever or heart disease. The case presented a combination of horrors not to be found in the history of our criminal law â€"â€"a husband murdering his wife in his own house in order to fly back to the woman whom he had seduced and to place her in the position of the wife who had been poisoned. Dr. Cross married Miss Skinner fourteen days after the death of his first wife. The trial lasted four days, and the jury, after fifty-five minutes’ consideration, brought in a verdict of guilty. THE PRISONER IN HIS OWN DEFENCE. The prisoner, in answer to the question whether he had anything to say why sen- tence of death should not be pronounced, made a long statement. He had not seen arsenic, he declared, for over 12 months, and had been on good terms with his late wife during her lifetime. He was now 63 years of age. He had worked hard night and morning for his family; he might knock downaman, but he was no mur- derer. Once he poisoned a dog and was so affected at the si ht that he could not help crying. He coul easily have made away with his wife by putting a handkerchief over her mouth while she was in a fainting fit. By her death he lost an income of £40 a year. He comâ€" plained that unfounded rumors had been circulated about him, that he had been boy- cotted during the past Six years and boy- cotted even while in jail. He denied that he ever neglected his wife and said she was satisfied with his treatment during the eighteen years of their married life. He produced prescriptions of two Cork doctors who had prescribed for two of his children, ‘and in both there were arsenic and strych- nine. Was it not, he asked, possible that his wife took the medicine? Much had -been made of this going up to Dublin in January with Miss Skinner,but it was only a coincidence, as he was going up to attend the meeting of the Property Defence Asso~ ciation. The prisoner throughout conducted himself with great firmness. Dr. Philip Henry Eustace Cross, of Shandy Hall, Dripso, County Cork, was put on trial in Cork on December 14th, 1887, for causing the death of his wife by poisoning on the 2nd of June last. Great interest was manifested in the proceedings on account of the social position of the prisoner, and the court was densely packed. The facts which the prosecution asserted, and which the jury appear to have regarded as proven, are as follows: Surgeon Major Cross was a gentleman of means, residing at Shandy Hall, and many years ago he married Mary Laura Marriott, a lady of good social position and of a well known family. At the time he was in active service in the army, and the Marriott family were not very willing to accept the alliance, but finally the girl’s love for the man overcame their resistance, and in August, 1869, they were married in St. James’ Church, Piccadilly. Shortly afterward the couple went to Canada with the Fifty-third regiment, with which the prisoner was stationed. Dr. Cross {00.) left the army and they went to live at Shandy Hall. No settlement was made at the lady’s marriage. She was 28 years of age when she married and 46 when she died. The prisoner was now 63 years of age. At her father’s death in 1870 the late Mrs. Cross was left a fortune of $25,000, which was paid to the prisoner. of the marriage there werethree girls and two sons, the eldest girl being about 17 years of age. Two of the girls were not strong in their minds, and one at least was subject to epileptic attacks. The whole family, with four servants, lived in a comfortable posi- tion, receiving and visiting the surrounding gentry up to the time of the lady’s death. The love the prisoner had for his wife cooled to indifference; in the beginning of 1887 it changed into dislike and Willingness to be free from a hated and intolerable burden. Particulars of the Most Sensational Murder Trial of Modern Times. A Cork cablegram says : Dr. Philip Cross, formerly a surgeon in the British army, was hanged here to-day for the mur- der of his wife by poisoning. He walked to the scaffold without faltering, and made no remarks. He Doses His Wife With Arsenic and Marries th9 Governess Two Weeks After Her Death. It seems to have been recently discovered that threeâ€"fifths of the horses are bow- legged or pigeon-toad. In New York fifty- three differently-shaped horseshoes are required to fit the hoofs of the horses. N The Judge? in sentencing him to be hanged on Tuesday, January 10th, said the evidence was clear and convincing, and no intelligent jury could have come to any other decision. FINALLY HE IS HANGED. AN IRISH DOCTOR‘S CRIME. THE OTHER WOMAN IN THE CASE Extraordinary Record of a Rogue Arrested in New York. A New York despatch says : Henry Ben- son was arrested yesterday charged with swindling citizens of the City of Mexico, in 1880, by selling to them $26,000 worth of tickets toabogus series of operatic per- formances to be given by Adelina Patti, under the management of Henry E. Abbey. Benson represented himself as Abbey’s agent. The Mexican authorities have been notified and will begin extradition proceed- ings. The prisoner has aremarkable re- cord, having successfully carried on his nefarious work in many of the European capitals. He swindled the Lord Mayor of London out of $5,000 on the pretence that he was collecting money for the suffering Parisians during the siege of Paris. For this he was imprisoned for one year, but upon being released went into partnership with one Kerr and conducted a swindling publication, in which he pretended to give “tips” on sporting events. Finally the Countess de Goneault, of a French Pro- vince, who had lost $55,000 through the rascals, offered a reward for their convic- tion. They were apprehended, convicted, and received sentences of fifteen years each. Finding life too uncomfortable over the water Benson emigrated to this country, where he has carried on a successful busi- ness in the same line. A Story of the StreetaA Handsome and Refined “’aifâ€"One who Knows Sunle- thing About a Recent Suicide. A New York despatch says: At 11 o’cloek Tuesday night Officer Doyle, of the bridge police,found a neatly-dressed young woman huddled in a corner near the New York tower, almost frozen with the cold. When questioned, she seemed reluctant or unable to give an account of herself. She is hand some and her manners bear traces of refine- ment. The young woman was taken to the station, where she told a romantic tale. She said her name was Lillia Wilbur and that she was a resident of a place near Syracuse. Some time ago a young man, whose name she would not disclose,induced her to come to New York. He deserted her, and she was thrown on her own re- sources, being without money or friends. Recently she has stopped in the upper part of the city. Thoroughly disheartened, she walked over the bridge to where the officer found her. On being further questioned, she said she knew the young Englishman, Baldwin, who shot himself in a cab on the bridge a short time ago. He had been a visitor at her residence and had frequently threatened suicide. At one time he placed a pistol to his head in her presence and would have shot himself only she screamed aloud. Then he said he was only fooling. It was said of young Baldwin that he was infatuated with a young woman in New York, on whom he squandered all his money. When his funds gave out he was discarded, and this it is supposed drove him to take his life. The girl refused to talk further of herself and was transferred to the Cham- bers’ Street Hospital, as she seemed to be very weak. Terrible Accident to an Only Son Who Lost Control 0t His Sled. An Ithaca, N.Y., despatch says: H Braun, a. member of the Freshman class of Cornell University. in the Department of Civil Engineering, whose home is in West Chester, Pa., yesterday afternoon went coasting down East hill, which has a very heavy slope. While going down the hill at a great speed he lost control of his sled and suddenly saw that he was going over the steep embankment. To save himself he threw himself from the sled and was thrown against a telephone pole. When he was picked up it was discovered that his skull was broken and that the injuries were probably fatal. His mother, who was tele- graphed for, arrived here tonight. She is greatly prostrated over the terrible acci- dent that has befallen her son. The unfortunate young man was a very bright student, and is the only son of a widowed mother. A St. Paul, Minn, despatch says : The worst snow and wind storm of the season prevails in the Northwest to-day. Rsil- way travel is badly crippled. At Huron, Dak., the wind is blowing 50 miles an hour. The air is so full of snow that one is unable to see fifty feet at any time. Some unthinking teachers dismissed young school children, some of Whom have to go four or five blocks across the open land. Five or six children got lost. Whistles are blowing, bells are ringing and people turned out and took long ropes and walked fifteen or so abreast back and forth over the ground. They have just found two, the others not yet having been discovered. The mercury is 4 below zero and has fallen 26 degrees since 10 o’clock. In St. Paul the parade and other ceremonies attending the laying of the corner stone of the third ice pelace were postponed till Saturday. A lVIanitoba Prairie Tragedy. A Winnipeg telegram says 2 On Monday afternoon Mr. McKay, of Brandon, started out to go about fifteen miles north, accomâ€" panied by his wife. When within a mile of their destination Something became disar- ranged about the shafts. Mrs. McKay started on foot to procure a rope, and reâ€" turning, as she thought, to where her hus- band was, could not find him. She went back to the house and got a lantern and a horn. With these she once more set out, and after some time spent in searching found McKay seated in the cutter dead. The old Connecticut pilgrim known as the “darned man” is dead. In young man-1 hood his mind was unhinged by the sudden death of his affisnced bride, and for the rest of his long life he trumped through the State, always wearing his wedding suit. The great desire of his life was to preserve that suit, and the only articles he ever solicited were needles and thread or yarn to mend it. As years passed on the repairs to which the suit was subjected were so numerous that but little of the original cloth remained. But in the eyes of the poor old pilgrim it was always the sameâ€"New York Tribune. Major Pond has been corresponding with H. Rider Haggard in reference to his coming to America to lecture. The author of “She” has now cabled that his lowest terms will be £100 a night, and Major Pond thinks that he will have to postpone his visit until he revises his notion that the American lecture field is a sort of ” King Solomon’s Mine,” or until he finds a. manager who would like experience and willing to pay for it.â€"Eac. VOL XXX The Connecticut “ Darned Man.” Children Lost in a Blizzard TIIE FATA L COASTER. A NEW YORIK BIYSTERY. Looking for Another Mine. A BIG S‘VINDLER. {WEDDING BELLS AND A BROKEN HEART “ Madameâ€"really I can’t~I am very sorry if I cause you pain, but my affections have already been bestowed upon smother, and Madameâ€"I can’tâ€"I can‘tâ€"marry you.” She gazed at him in astonishment, and then said, indignantly : “ Who axed ye to marry me ‘2 The idea. of the likes of me, a. poor lone widdy, wid four children to sup- port by washin‘, axin’ ye to marry me. I was only goin’ to ax ye for that dollar for the washin’. In _the histéry of Scotland there is a re- cord of the killing of 8: man with an arrow shgt afflistgncgof yardrs. Sir Robert Ainslie, British Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, records that in 1798 he was present when the Sultan shot an ar- rogv 97_2 yprds. _ A _ He was a. nice young man, with cane, high but and patent leather boots. He strolled leisurely down Madison avenue, puffing daintin upon a cigarette, and oc- casionally twirling the waxen end of a moustache. He was accosted by a stout woman with a florid complexion : ” Tip of the mornin’ to ye, Mister Charley," said she. “ Good morning, Mrs. MoGwinn,” said the nice young man. “ Me darlint boy, would yeâ€"" and she bestowed a. bewitching smile upon him. He dodged out: of her reach. The recollection that it was leap year rushed upon him. He answered : He sighed and gave a dollar, and walked sadly away. The Sultan of Turkey about a century agg allot a_n ayrow 500 yards: “In Scotland two merl are known to have killed several McLeods with arrows shot 400 yap-ls. A'pillar standing on a. plain near Con stantinople records shots with arrows rang ing uprto yards} 7 In 1794 the Turkish'Ambassador shot an arrow, in a field near London, 415 yards against the wind and 482 yards with the wind. In the'daya when the buffalo was found in vast herds on the western plains there were Indians who, while riding at a gallop, could send an arrow through a buffalo’s body. in the death certificate some technical cause; but he said that in reality Miss Kane’s death was caused by a. broken heart. For many years her home had been with Mr. Shaver’s family, but for some unaccountable reason she thought that her sister’s death and her niece’s mar- riage would necessitate her making her home elsewhereâ€"«Elijah News. A Marriage and a Death in Mr. Shaver-’5 Family on the Same Evening. Perhaps one of the saddest marriages ever solemnized occurred at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. Jacob Shaver, in South Division street, last Wednesday evening when the eldest daughter, Miss Lizzie E. Shaver, was united in marriage to J. H. Barnes, a Seneca street grocer. The wedding was to have occurred nearly a year age, but owing to the death of the bride’s mother it was necessarily postponed. Three days before the time appointed for the wedding, Miss Matie Kane, a sister of the bride’s mother, was taken suddenly ill. She had been ailing for some time and it soon became evident that she could not recover. She insisted, however, that the preparations for the wedding should be continued, and accordingly at 7 o’clock on Wednesday evening, while she lay dying in an upper room, in the dining-room below her niece and Mr. Barnes were married. At the close of the ceremony the bride hastened to her aunt’s bedside and received her blessing. When Mr. and Mrs. Barnes reached Erie the same evening a telegram was awaiting them announcing Miss Kane’s death. On Friday Mr. and Mrs. Barnes returned to Buffalo to attend Miss Kane’s funeral. The attending physician assigned Mr. Dixon, in his history of Gairlock, Scotland, says that the MacRaes of that district were such skilful archers that they could hit a. man at the distance of 400 and even 500 yards. For some time past it has been rumored that a new method in the treatment of the Crown Prince’s illness has been adopted, and the Munich Neuestc Nachrichtm re- cently stated that the new treatment was based on a theory launched by Dr. Freund, of Vienna, who found that the blood of patients suffering from cancer contained an abnormal quantity of sugar, and that cancerous growth might be destroyed by reducing the sugar in the blood to its normal quantity. This statement is brought into notice by telegrams from San Remo stating that the Crown Prince began the new treat- ment on November 20th, and that since his condition has been steadily improving. Dr. Freund is no specialist, and is still a young man. He took his degree last year, but his name became known by a paper published in the Wiener Medicinishe Blultcr in February, 1885, in which he proved the connection between sugar and cancer. Another paper of his on the nonvcoagula- tion of the blood on oiled surfaces was men- tioned last year, and since then he has dis- covered that tuberculous growth invariably contains cellulose.-â€"London T (mes. There is one feature about ivy which is disastrous rather than romantic, and which must be guarded against. Give it time enough and it will unroof your house. In any very old house you will find it lifting the tiles, and through any small aperture sending a bright green shoot through the ceiling into the room. The writer of this well remembers reluctantly having to destroy a noble ivy, and having entirely also to reroof a. whole building it had over- ru11.â€"Casscll’s Magazine. Judge B. (with emphasis)â€"~“Clam, is that George fellow coming round here again to-night ?” Clam (hopelessly)â€"â€"“ I believe so, papa.” Judge B. â€"“Well, daughter, remember thisâ€"this house closes at 10 sharp, andâ€"” Clam (hastily)â€" “Oh, George Will be lxera before that, pupa, please don’t worry.”â€"Harpm"s Bazar. THERE are in Africa. almost as many dif- ferent burial customs as there are tribes of negroes, each having its own peculiar idea-s and manners. The majority of tribes, how- ever, bury the (lead and destroy all propel ty belonging to the deceased, even taking down the house. If it be a chief of high rank, the more barbarous tribes kill num- bers of slaves to serve him in the next world and bury his favorite Wife alive in the same grave with her deceased lord. Does Sugar Cause Cancer ‘2 Shooting with A l‘I‘OWS. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, JANU ARY 26, 1888. Beware of the Ivy. Leap Year Perils. No Need to Worry. Europe ’5 Armament. “The bloated armaments of the great military powers of Europe” display their proportions in a very striking manner in 001. Vogt’s work on “The European Armies of the Present.” The mobilized strength of France is set down at 2,051,458 troops, exclusive of the territorial army, which is equally large; that of Russia at 1,922,405 ; Germany 1,493,690 and Austria- Hungary 1,035,955. The military strength of Italy has now attained proportions that would have been Seemed incredible ten years ago. Including militia it is alleged to amount to 2,387,332 men. Compared with these figures the numerical propor- tions of the British army ought almost to satisfy the members of the Peace Society. Including our militia. and volunteers, as well as the Indian army, we can just muster 781,677 troopsâ€"London Court Journal. The State Board of Health, in Chicago recently revoked the license of a local M.D. specialist because he advertised. But the Court to which the case was carried ren- dered a decision against the State Board of Health. The Judge said that such an institution as the S. B. of H. must not be tolerated to exercise such a power in a free country. That Court’s head is level. While advertising is a boon to so many who do business to make money, why should a man be debarred from employing it just because he is a doctor ? A merchant is permitted to advertise “a great reduction in blan- kets,” or “ sheetings below cost, just for to- day,” and nothing strange is thought of it. Why, then, cannot a doctor employ the advertising columns of a paper to say, “ two emetics for ten cents,” or “ home- made liver pills at a big discount for cash,{’ or “bones set while you wait ?” It is a fool notion that doctors mustn’t advertise, and we hope to see it given up some day. “ Blessed are the uses of advertisements,” said Mrs. Partington, and we believe that doctors should be permitted to participate in those blessings same as other people.â€" Teras Siftings. The holidays bring a wealth of work for the cooks at Windsor. The kitchen, on the north side of the Castle, is fitted elaborately enough to delight the heart even of a Careme. The apartment is nearly 50 feet in height,and has an enormous fire at either end, with a system of spits, after the fashion of university kitchens. As an ordi- nary staff there are a chef dc cuisine, two master cooks, two yeomen of the mouth, two roasting cooks, two larderers, five scourers, one steam man and three kitchen maids, besides apprentices and serving- men. The number of dinners that can be cooked in this kitchen is simply marvellous. Every detail of the arrangements is worked out with the greatest care, the dishes being handed straight to the footmen from the cooks, and by them conveyed to the various roomsâ€"Vanity Fair. â€"Near Hawkinsville, Ga... the other day, 5,000 acres of good timber lands were sold ‘ for $88. The Truly Gentlemanly Laugh. “ There is always one sure sign by which you may know a. wellâ€"bred man,” says a. cosmopolitan who is just now in Philaâ€" (Kelphia1 A Company to Provide for Their Wants in Old Age. Schleswig boasts of an institution unique of its kind and well worthy of imitation. It is a spinster’s insurance company. Its purpose is to provide for the single lady members of well-to-do families. The com- pany gives them shelter, board and pin money. The method is the following: At the birth of a girl the father inscribes the child’s name in the books of the company and pays a certain sum every year. When his daughter reaches her twenty-fourth year, and is still unmarried, she is entitled to a certain income, and to a couple of well- furnished rooms in a house belonging to the company, which has a fine garden at- tached to it, and is inhabited by other younger or older spinsters, who have be- come members before her. If the father dies before his daughter attains her twenty- fourth year the girl enjoys the same privi- leges. In case she dies or marries all her rights are forfeited and the money paid in reverts to the company. These chances enable the company to make the provision named, while parents have the satisfaction of knowing the future of their daughters to be secured in case of the death of their natural providers.~Pm‘is American Register asked “ It is his laugh. The butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker, not to speak of the tailor, may do a. good deal for a man. But only thorough refinement can make him laugh like a gentleman.” “ And now, what is that laugh like ‘2” “ As with the quality We call style it cannot be defined; but, just the same, there is no mistaking the laugh of a. gentleman. Listen and note the next time you go to a. reception or dinner party.” A young man named Frank Surprise worked a couple of weeks at the Heaps’ factory, Oshawa, when he took sick with a spinal disease which completely deprived him of the use of his legs. The Mayor dis. covered that his relations lived in Lindsay and that he was a resident of that town ; he was, therefore, shipped to that place at Oshawa’s expense. What was Oshawa’s Mayor‘s surprise last Thursday to have the man delivered to him like an express parcel. The municipal authorities of Lind- say refused to care for him and shipped him back to Oshawa. On Friday. Chief Constable Halnan committed him to the Ontario county jail as a vagrant. It is said that a. teaspoonful of gunpowaer in ucup of tea. will cure rheumatism. It has long been known that even less than a. teaspoonful of gunpowder in a, pistol barrel will cure all the ills that flesh is heir to.â€"Topeka Capitol. Miss Ethelâ€"And so you are really en- aged to Mr. Sampson, Clara ? Miss Clara, blushingâ€"Yes, it: all happened last evening, Ethel. Miss Ethelâ€"â€"â€"W1mt a bless- ing leap year is, dear ? Woman is very appropriately called the “tender sex.” Man is the locomotive â€"shrong and noisy, but it is the tender meekly following in the rear that can-hm the coal and water.â€"Binghamton Rrpubli- can. )alfla street railroads will shortly be introduced in Edinburgh. They will a0 away with the cruel work to horses on the steep hills. ' And pray, what is that sign ‘3” he was The Queen’s Great Kitchen. A Human Express Parcel. An Efi‘ective Remcd y. Doctors Advertising. FO R SPINSTERS. I. What is to be done about it ? The authorities are bound to protect the rights of all citizens alike ;consequently the Governâ€" ment is at once drawn into this dangerous and difficult entanglement. A gunboathas been sent to anchor off Lewis. Troops will be despatched to the spot. If the crofters persevere they will be arrested. But it is impossible to arrest the whole population. scattered through :1 wild, mountain region. The Government would find themselves en- gaged in a series of hide-and-seek little fights and chases after isolated offenders, like those which followed the rebellion of 1745. Meanwhile the crofters’ case will be vigorously taken up in Parliament. They have many friends here, including all classes of Home Rulers. A Scotch night in the House of Commons is a rather dreary affair. The audience is scanty, the oratory longwinded. the subject obscure. Dr. Clarke generally represents the orofters. He is not a favorite, but the cause is too great and pressing to be shelved. Evidently the session is already arranging itself into Scotch nights and Irish nights, England being elbowed out of doors. That will not help the Govern- ment, for, to say the truth, England is getting impatient and thinks her case also requires attention. If any blood is shed in the Highlands, and that may happen A London cable says: Nobody likes the look of this insurrection in the Scotch Highlands. The actual outbreak has not extended very far, but people behind the scenes know that all is in readiness for a movement on a considerable scale. The agitation has been rapidly gaining ground during the last three or four years. Its leaders have acquired confidence. More than once they have set the law at defiance. At frequent intervals there have been de- bates in Parliament on the crofters ques- tion. They were long and dull. Readers of newspapers invariably skipped these re- ports. So far so good. But the question itself is here revolutionarywise upon us,and we cannot skip that. The crofters com- plained that small holdings had been de- stroyed to make roomfor large sheep farms and deer forests. The quadruped has driven out the biped. Mr. Ross R. Winan’s huge deer forests are a simple grievance. Men’s homes were broken up in order that sport might be provided for a wealthy stranger. But there is another side of the question. In many districts the crofters have divided and subdivided their own holdings and multiplied their families until it is utterly impossible for all to get a living out of the exhausted soil. They look around and see a sheep farm not far off. They go to the landlord and demand it shall hepar- cclled out among them at a low rent. He replies that they will soon bring it into the condition of their present holdings, and that their proper remedy is to reduce their numbers by emigration. They answer that they will not pay rent and yet will have the sheep farm, and they sally forth and drive the sheep into the sea, or otherwise destroy them. That is exactly what has just hap- pened in the island of Lewis. The Scotch Crofters’ Defiance of all Lawâ€" Dread for the Outcome of the Trouble. A London cable says: The conflict which took place on Monday between the crofter of Lewis Island and the police and troops was, it transpires, much more serious than at first reported. Hitherto the trouble with the crofters has been confined to a great extent to Skye, the inhabitants of Lewis, the largest and most northerly of the outer Hebrides, contenting themselves with mutterings of discontent and ex‘ pressions of sympathy with their brethren to the southeast ; but quite recently the police of Lewis have observed symptoms of concerted resistance to the laws protecting the occupants of what the crofters regard as common land. At the beginning of Monday’s battle the Riot Act was read, but no attention was paid to this usual awe- inspiring form of law. Included in the number of persons wounded in the ensuing fight were the procurator fiscal and the officer who was in command of the troops. Eleven of the leaders of the croiters were arrested. The police have been largely re- inforced and the military and naval forces in and about the island have been strength- ened. Intense excitement prevails and further conflicts are feared. at any moment under present circum- stances, a. terrible thrill will run through the country. Some of the London papers talk lightly of such a. contingency, but no sensible man can fail to perceive that the spectacle of troops shooting down the Scotch crofters would greatly shock the people and fill them with a dread of finding themselves with an Irish difficulty in a. new formâ€"n. source of present peril, a heritage for future disaster. A Sign of Insanity. An Irishman over the age of fourscore and ten, who by strict economy had ac- cumulated a modest fortune, and was about to die, called in the parish priest and the family lawyer to make his last will and testament. The wife, a grasping, covetous old party, was also in the room. The pre- liminariesof the will having been concluded it became necessary to inquire about the debts owing to the estate. Among these were several of importance of which the old lady had been in ignorance, but was nevertheless pleased to find that so much ready money would be forthcoming after the funeral. INSURREC’I‘ION IN THE BIGHLAN S “ Now, then,” said the lawyer, “ state explicitly the amount owed you by your friends.” “ Timothy Brown,” replied the old man, “ owes me fifty pounds ; John Casey owes me thirty-‘seven‘ Pguqu ;_and ” “ Gooa ! good-I” ejaculated the prospec- tive widow ; “ rational to the last 1” “Luke Bowen owes me forty pounds,” resumed the old man. h “ Ah I” exclaimed the old woman, “ hear him 7'avc!”â€"â€"Editor’s Drawer, in Harper’s Magazine for January. “ Rational to the last !” put in the eager old lady again. “ To Michael Liffey I owe two hundred pounds.’_’__ No Concealment. Early Morning Caller‘â€"Where is your auntie, Alice? Aliciaâ€"She is upstairs in her nightey, looking over the baluster. THE Siamese Women thoroughly under- stanfl home rule. The man, the husband, is -‘ lord of oreution ”â€"outside of the house he is quite a. superior person, and has a very great part to play in the universe. At home he represents the Workng outmouy of the family. but; is not regarded as an ornament to it. The wife dost nothing but smoke and think; the husband wn.s]ws the children, smears 11m.» bodies with yellow powder, and gives them and his wife their 1-106, and all goes as happily as it should in a well-ordered household. WHOLE NO 1,537 NO; 30. At Constantinople, or, at least, in Stam- boul, you feel that you, a Frank, do not exist in the eyes of the Turk. You may wear the largest check suit that a London tailor can produce, and yet the Turk will pass without deigning even to look at you. At the public fountains he will go through all his religious ablutions in your presence as if you were miles away. He will spread out his carpet, turn his face toward Mecca, and say his prayers while you are looking on ; and so mean are you in his estimation that he ignores you. For this dignity and stability of character I respect the 'l‘urk ; and I am grateful to him for procuring me a sensation which is not common in foreign travel, in Europe at any rateithe sensa- tion that I am an intruder, a contemptible dog, a person worthy only to be spat upon and killed. Happily the diplomatic rela- tions which the sublime porte still enter- tains with the western world guarantee the material security of the traveller in the Sultan’s dominions. But everything in Constantinople tells that the Turk, although he has now been living in Europe for centuries, is still a nomad in nature and a conqueror by inclination. In Constanti- nople the Turks camp rather than dwell. and were they to be driven out of the city to-morrow they would leave behind them no monument of their genius but tottering tombstones and tumble-down wooden buildingsâ€"Atlantic Monthly. A fineâ€"looking gentleman holding a whispered conference with a restaurant waiter attracted the attention of a neighbor at the same table the other day. With the gentleman’s dinner the waiter brought to him a cup of tea and half a lemon. The gentleman squeezed thelemon juice into his tea and followed it with three lumps of sugar. “ Do you drink that because you like it ‘2” asked the neighbor, “ or because you have to ‘2” “ It is Russian tea,” was the answer. “ I began drinking because my doctor, who is a Russian, recommended it, and now I have become as much a slave to it as a drunkard is to liquor. I was ill last spring. ‘ The doctor would not let me have champagne when I was getting well, and I would not drink water. I take the Russian tea three times a day with my meals, and after supper Ihave it brought to my room. I drink from six to twelve cups of it during the evening. I have gained fifty pounds since I began drinking it, but it is a dangerous drink,” he said, buttoning his overcoat up close. “ It opens all the pores, and I am tingling from finger to toe. I should catch cold now very easily, but it is the best thing with which to throw off a cold if you take it at night.” Miss Wilson,of Atlanta. The latter lady has no child, and believes Burton is a much-abused man. Besides these five women it is stated that Burton was inti- mate with a grass widow in Atlanta by the name of Susie Cherry, who says that he promised to marry her, but failed to make good his promise. He was living with both her and Miss Wilson at the same time, and they lived within a hundred paces of each other, neither knowing of his relations with theother. Finallyhe ran away with another Atlanta girl named Fannie Clarke, but was caught before he succeeded in marrying her. It was a strange sight and in some respects a pitiable one, to see the five wives as they sat in the court room, each of the four first named holding her little girl by the hand waiting to see the man who had deceived them punished. When they found out that he had escaped they arose en masse and left the court in high dudgeon, all ex- cept Miss Wilson saying they would make it their special business to find and punish him if the law could not do it. An Atlanta, Gm, despatch says: Ben. Burton, of Atlanta, has up to two or three days ago home a splendid reputation. Several days ago he was arrested for bigamy, which has proven to be polygamy. Since then he has escaped. It now leaks out that Burton registered a vow that he would have twenty-five Wives by the time he was 25 years old. This vow was made on the day he attained his majority. He is only 22 years old, and has, according to accounts, married five of the wives already, while it is thought that all the returns are not yet in. His five victims are Miss Lula Robinson, of Eastey, S. 0., who has one child, a girl; Miss Eolo Conklin, of Banks county, Ga“, who also has one baby, a. girl; Miss Tallulah Hall, of Oleo, S. C., with whom he left one little girl by which to remember him ; Mrs. Thompson, of Gainesville, Ga., who has a, souvenir of Burton in the person of a little girl, and Friend (to Widow mourning her third husband)â€"â€"“ I sympathize deeply with you, my dear Mrs. Hendricks, and was sorry not to be with you in your hour of afflic- tion.” Widow (sadly)4“Ah, my friend, you don’t know what it is to lose hus- bands.” A Young Man’s Vow to Marry Twenty-five Wives. Two yOung writers who were talking of their hopes, their ambitions. “ If I-have not made a reputation by the time I am 30 I shall blow my brains out,” asserted one. “Such a price for a. toboggan suit !” he declared, as though its dimensions would drag him away to his grave; but he smiled when she said,“ This suit, father dear, is to bag him.” Why do thousands of laboring men strike for higher wages when they can readily get them by means of the protec- tive tariff ?â€"Chicago Herald. “ My dear boy,” replied the other, ” you are as good as dead.” On Saturday night a shell fell at Gard- nerville, N.Y., killing three men and wound- ing Seven. THE London, Baptist and FreeChurch of Scotland foreign missionary societies have had a handsome offer made them. Mr. Arthington, of Leeds, who has already given large sums to the Central African Missions, has offered to the aforenamed societies $75,000 to enable them jointly to commence a mission to the tribes of the northern part of South America. Thepro- posal is to place the money at the disposal of a council, consisting of representatives of the three great missionary societies. part Of ,1“ 'U 1‘” “and in purcllasingasteamer which shall ply on me summon River fwd its effluents, and the remuinde; in be 07» pended on the working expenses of the mission. The offer is now underconsidera- tion, and the presumption is that it will be accepted and the work begun without delay. 'eefi A Cup of Tea and Half a Lemon. Sympathetic but Experienced. The Contemptuous Turk. HE DIARRIED FIVE A Mild Bit of Sarcasm. A Corpse Already. The Bagging Suit. NEW HAMPSHIRE presents a very sad case. Mr. and Mrs. Woedham, charged with the crime of incendiarism thirteen years ago, were adjudged to be both guilty and insane. They were locked up in an asylum, where they have since remained. It is now dis- covered that they were not guilty of the crime charged against them and that they were not crazy. They are to he turned Olit upon the world at the respective ages of 60 and 55, but the State generously pro- poses to give them a. joint' pension of $20Q per year. This is a poor sort of redress, but it is better than if the State should present them with a bill for thirteen years" board obtained under false pretences. INTRRNATIOML politics at Constantinople are somewhat complicated by the fact that all the Ambassadors of the great powers are married to very remarkable and strong- minded women, who, however, in each case are of different nationality to that of their husbands. Thus the wife of Baron Calice, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador, is an English lady : Mme. de Radowitz, the wife of the German Envoy, is a Russian Princess ; Lady White, the wife of the British Plenipotentiary, is ' a German, while Baroness Blane, the Wife of the Italian Ambassador, is an American. It is asserted that every one of these ladies pur- sues a line of policy on behalf of the land of her birth, and as such opposed to that of." her husband. FIGURES just published throw light on some of the old London Established Churches. In the immediate neighbor- hood of Billingsgate there are four city churchesâ€"St. Dunstan’s-in-the-EastY St. George’s (Botolph lane), St. Margaret Pat- teu’s and St. Mary-at-Hill. They contain, about seventeen hundred and fifty sittings and the population is only a little over a thousand. On Sunday, the 18th of Decem- ber last, the total number of persons pre- sent in these four churches was 194, of whom 95 were officials. The aggregate annual value of the four livings is about 810,800, and the combined annual income of their parochial charities is about $50,000. In one of these churches, on the day men- tioned, the audience consisted of one man and six women. GLADSTONE is a great linguist. V’Vhen James G. Blaine, the United States politi- cian, was recently presented to President Carnot of France the services of an inter- preter were required to make conversation possible. Mr. Gladstone, however, talked French glibly to an interviewer a few days ago, and responded in Italian to a demon- stration in his honor at Florence. If he should go to Athens he could chat with the natives in modern Greek. He could address the students of a German univer- sity in their mother tongue, or read to them from the Latin and Greek classics. Glad.- stone’s tongue is not alone equuent“â€"’it is highly cultured. THERE are in Paris thirty-six licensed vendors of horse meat. A St. Louie men who has cultivated a. taste for this kind of meat says he likes it better than choice veal, which it resembles. He also thinks that one of then-lost appetizing dainties’ that he can place on his table is a bit 3f well- reasted donkey meat. Soon the cry in fashionable restaurants may be, “ Roast ass for one! ” Among the Churches. Marriage with a deceased wife’s sister has been approved by the Presbytery of St. J ohn, N.B. It has been decided that Rev. J. Goforth, Presbyterian missionmy to China, is to start on Thursday next. He will sail from Vancouver on the 315k. Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, now at Rome, is trying to have one of his pre- decessors, the saintly Bishop Newman, of Philadelphia, canonized by the Holy See and declared a saint. A CHICAGO paper recalls an extraordinary piece of account work performed-by Cashier Henrotin, of the Merchants’ Loan & Trust Company, just after the big fire. The bOOKS of the bank were entirely destroyed by the flames, but with‘no data except the pass books of thedepo‘sitors and his memory, Mr. Henrotin restored all of the 1,500 accounts so successfully that every depositor was satisfied. The feat has never been paralleled. IT is said to be a common thing for a. Chinese merchant. when importing diamonds from Cuba to San Francisco,,to place the precious stones in his mouth when the Custom House officials search him. If the examination chances to be too rigid, he quietly swallows the stones 91nd when released follows them up with an emetic, which speedily brings them to light again. A decided improvement has within the past couple of days shown itself in the con- dition of Bishop O’Mahony, of Toronto, Administrator of the Diocese of Hamilton. The intelligence will be received with pleasure, not alone by the congregation of the venerable prelate, but by his many friends throughout this district. Rev. F. H. Wallace, late of Peterboro’, has entered upon his professional duties in Victoria. University. _ PROF. LANCIANI, in inaugurating ' thé new session of the British and Americhn Archaeological Society at Rome last week, delivered an intertsting lecture, in which he demolished the theory that Rome was originally an Etruscan city, and, it is announced, conclusively showed thstfi'lts origin had been due to migrations of shepherds from the Alban hills. “ Rev. Wm.” Carey has accepted the pastorate of the Wyoming and Calvary Baiptistthgches. Two religious vorders will shortly be established in Montreal, the Franciscans and the Dominicans. Rev. J. W. Bell, M.A., of Niagara, who has received a call from the Presbyterian Church, Newmarket, was for over thirteen years pastor of Knox Church, Listowel. Mr. Bell is a. distinguished graduate of Toronto University and of Knox College, and is known to his brethren as a. scholar of very high attainments. rl‘he call will come up at the first meeting of the Hamil- ton Presbytery. Rev. G. H. Cobbledick, B.A., of George- town, lms been appointed to the Gal‘s Methodist Church to take the place vacated by Rev. W. C. Hend_erspn. Rev. Dr. Sutherland, of Toronto, has received word that a serious outbreak of scarlet fever has taken place among the Northern Indian tribes in British Columbia. At the Greenville Methodist mission, Port Simpson district, about fifty children and young people died, including the 2-yearâ€"old son of Rev. A. E. Green, the missionary stationed there. The congregation of Zion Church, Toronto, is trying to secure us its pastor the Rev. Jackson W'my, the talented divine stationed at Whitfield Tabernacle, London, 151151., Who recently delighted several audiences in Hamilton and Toronto by his charming lectures no less than by his elo- ‘Illmt and thoughtful sermons. They have offered a. unlary of $4,000,but have not received a. deoislva answer. WHEN the recent. blizzard: struck; the State of Nebraska the temperature fell so rapidly that the creek at Papillion was frozen solid in a very few minutes. A calf that was in the stream at the time stuck fast before it could extricate itself, The animal was out out of the ice Twith axes and thawed out before a bonfire. At last accounts it was doing well. LEAP year has already shown its influence upon many entertainments, and the public balls soon to come may all be expected to show traces of the particular chameter of the year. Leap year parties, as such, are always rather tieklish affairs, but there is a good deal of fun to be extractedioutiof a moderate application of the rule reversing the position of the sexes. OURREN T TOPICS.